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hen lucifer was thrown out of heaven by michael, the flaming sword blocked him from returning. the path shows the order of the sephiroth by how they were created, from the supernal or celestial triangle of kether, chokmah, and binah to the moral triangle of chesed, geburah, and tiphareth. then finally the mundane triangle of netzach, hod, and yesod. from yesod came malkuth, or the physical world. key sephira hebrew english translation (q. s. color 1) kether rtk kthr crown white brilliance 2) chokmah hmkj chkmh wisdom gray 3) binah hnyb binh understanding black 4) chesed dsj chsd mercy blue 5) geburah hrwbg gburh strength scarlet 6) tiphareth trapt thpharth beauty gold 7) netzach jxn ntzch victory emerald 8) hod dw h hod splendor orange 9) yesod dwsy ysod foundation violet 10) malkuth twklm

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

da, has happily for us been also handed down in a later form witli variations: and there is no better example of fluctuations in a god-myth. the edda sets forth, how the pure blameless deity is struck with mistiltein by the blind hosr, and must go down to the nether world, bewailed by all; nothing can fetch him back, and nanna the true wife follows him in death. in saxo, all is pitched in a lower key: balder and hother are rival suitors, both wooing nanna, and hother the favoured one manages to procure a magic sword, by which alone his enemy is vulnerable; when the fortune of war has wavered ions; between them, hother is at last victorious and slays the demigod, to whom hel, glad at the near prospect of possessing him, shews herself beforehand. but here the grand funeral pile is prepared f

ept into the host, disguised as kalchas, ii. 13, 45, hermes escorted priam as a myrmidon warrior 24, 397, and athene the young telemachus as mentor, in the same way othin appeared as the chariot-driver bruno (p. 330, or as a one-eyed old man. metamorphoses of gods into animals in teutonic mythology take place only for a definite momentary purpose, to which the character of the animal supplies the key; e.g, o'isinn takes the shape of a snake, to slip throu ,di a 22 338 condition of gods. hole lie has bored (sn. 86, and of an eagle, to fly away in haste (86, loki that of a fly, in order to sting (131, or to creep through a keyhole (356; no larger designs are ever compassed by such means. so, when athene flies away as a bird, it expresses the divinity of her nature and the suddenness of her d

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

practicus grade initiation part i temple officers hierophant: red robe, r&w nemyss, gold shoes, white collar, lamen, scepter. hiereus: black robe, b&w nemyss, red shoes, red collar, lamen, sword. hegemon: white robe, white nemyss, black collar, red shoes, lamen, scepter. candidate: black robe, red shoes, sash, red rope, hoodwink. required materials for the altar 2 blue tapers red tetrahedron 20th key of the tarot required materials for the temple part i banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: shin diagram of 7 heavens in assiah 10 adverse sephiroth enochian water tablet 3 red lamps censer 4 chairs 2 sephirotic tablets tablet of 10 sephiroth in 7 palaces 4 worlds of the tree of life 4 worlds of the tree of life showing 4 holy names macroprosopus diagram cup of water part

ateth the motions of the sun and moon in their proper order, each in an orbit convenient for it. it is therefore the reflection of the sphere of fire, and the path connecting the material universe as depicted in malkuth, with the pillar of severity on the side of geburah, through the sephira hod. hierophant, hegemon and theoricus come to west of altar. hiero: before you upon the altar is the 20th key of the tarot, which symbolically resumes the ideas. to the uninitiated eye it apparently represents the last judgement, with an angel blowing a trumpet and the dead rising from the tombs. but its meaning is far more occult and recondite than this, for it is a glyph of the powers of fire. the angel encircled by a rainbow whence leap coruscation s of fire, and crowned with the sun, represents mi

ge of the 30th path will take place. temple officers part ii hierophant: red robe, r&w nemyss, gold shoes, white collar, lamen, scepter. hiereus: black robe, b&w nemyss, red shoes, red collar, lamen, sword. hegemon: white robe, white nemyss, black collar, red shoes, lamen, scepter. candidate: black robe, red shoes, sash. required materials for the altar: 2 blue tapers greek cross of 13 cubes 19th key of the tarot (sun) required materials for the temple: banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: resh astrological symbols of planets diagram of tarot cards to hebrew letters enochian water tablet 3 red lamps censer 4 chairs table of geomantic figures and ruling intelligences telesmatic symbols to each geomantic figure kamea of saturn, jupiter, mars, sun, venus, mercury and mo

because from it astrologers deduce the judgement of the stars, and of the celestial signs, and the perfections of their science according to the rules of their revolutions. it is therefore, the reflection of the sphere of the sun, and the path connecting yesod with hod, foundation with splendor. hierophant, theoricus and hegemon come to west of altar. hiero: before you upon the altar is the 19th key of the tarot which symbolically resumes these ideas. the sun has 12 principal rays which represent the 12 signs of the zodiac, they are alternatively waved and salient, as symbolizing the alternation of the masculine and feminine natures. these are again subdivided into 36 rays representing the 36 decanates or sets of 10 degrees in the zodiac, and these again into 72 typifying the 72 quinaries

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

hus grade initiation part i temple officers hierophant: red robe, r&w nemyss, gold shoes, white collar, lamen, scepter. hiereus: black robe, b&w nemyss, red shoes, red collar, lamen, sword. hegemon: white robe, white nemyss, black collar, red shoes, lamen, scepter. candidate: black robe, red shoes, sash, red rope, hoodwink required materials for the altar 2 red tapers 12 square calvary cross 18th key of the tarot required materials for the temple part i banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: shin, tau, qoph tablet of the serpent of brass diagram of qabalah of nine chambers diagram of hexagram of tiphareth diagrams of geomantic figures of 8 radii enochian fire tablet 3 red lamps censer 4 chairs 3 cups of water 3 small altars part i the opening (the throne of the hieroph

the throne of the hierophant, beside which is a cup of water and the banner of the east, is placed before the dais n.e. the seat of the hegemon is before the dais in the s.e. hiereus in the west. each officer has a cup of water. the pillars are placed about 2 feet in front of hegemon's seat, and behind her is the letter qoph. the altar in the center has a candle on either side. on it is the tarot key, the moon. the elemental lights are lit. incense burns in the south. temple arranged as for path 29. members assembled and robed) hiero (knocks) honoured fraters and sorors, assist me to open the temple in the grade of philosophus. honoured hegemon see that the temple is properly guarded. heg: very honoured hierophant the temple is properly guarded. hiero: honoured hiereus, see that none below

e order of worlds, and the increment of them. it is there, the reflection of the sphere of the watery sign pisces, and the path connecting the material universe as depicted in malkuth, with the pillar of mercy, and the side of chesed through the sephira netzach. and through it do the waters of chesed flow down. hiero: heg: pract: move to west of altar. hiero: before you upon the altar is the 18th key of the tarot, which symbolically resumes these ideas. it represents the moon with four hebrew yods, like drops of dew falling, two dogs, two towers, a winding pathway leading to the horizon, and in the foreground, water, with a crayfish crawling through it towards land. the moon is in the increase on the side of gedulah, and from it proceed sixteen principal and sixteen secondary rays, which t

your passage of the 28th path will take place. part ii temple officers hierophant: red robe, r&w nemyss, gold shoes, white collar, lamen, scepter. hiereus: black robe, b&w nemyss, red shoes, red collar, lamen, sword. hegemon: white robe, white nemyss, black collar, red shoes, lamen, scepter. candidate: black robe, red shoes, sash. required materials for the altar 2 red tapers 4 sided pyramid 17th key of the tarot required materials for the temple banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: resh, samech, tzaddi diagram of dekagram, endekagram, dodekagram& all endekangles etc. diagram of caput and cauda draconis enochian fire tablet 3 red lamps censer 4 chairs 3 cups of water 3 small altars part ii advancement path 28 hiero: honoured hegemon, you have my command to present th

ural intelligence, and it is so called because through it is consummated and perfected the nature of every existing being under the orb of the sun. it is therefore the reflection of the airy sign of aquarius, the water bearer unto which is attributed the countenance of the man, the adam, the restored world. hiero: heg: pract: move to the west of altar. hiero: before you upon the altar is the 17th key of the tarot, which symbolically resumes these ideas. the large star in the center of the heavens has seven principal and 14 secondary rays, and thus represents the heptad multiplied by the triad which yields 21 the number of the divine name, eheieh which as you already know is attached to kether. in the egyptian sense it is sirius, the dog star of isis sothis; around it are the stars of the s

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

inds of magick, in practice all spells and more formal magical rituals tend to follow four stages, though informal spells may combine one or more steps. the focus this defines the purpose of the ritual or spell and is generally represented either by a symbol or a declaration of intent. these could take the form of a candle etched with the name or zodiacal glyph of a desired lover, a little silver key charm or an actual key in a spell to find a new home, a picture of an ideal holiday location, and so on. in a sense, this part of the spell begins before the actual rite and involves verbalising the purpose. as you define it in a few words or a symbol, you may realise that what you are really seeking lies beyond the immediate external purpose. spending time at this stage is quite vital as it i

s cast, the symbol can be handed round while the person leading the ritual speaks the intention. alternatively, each person can add his or her special interpretation while holding the symbol and so the declaration is worked as part of the ritual. as others are holding the symbol, visualise it within your own hands; this provides the transition to the next stage of the ritual. concentration is the key to this first stage. the action this is the stage where you use actions to endow the symbol with magical energies. this is part of the continuous process of translating your magical thoughts and words from the first stage, the inner plan, to manifestation as the impetus for success or fulfilment in the everyday world. these energies amplify your own. for example, passing incense, representing

slow spiral dance around the circle. you could try drumming or tying knots either on individual cords or in a group, creating a pattern with the longer cords of fellow witches, perhaps looped around a tree. the action of the magick is limited only by the environment and your imagination. you may find that improvisation enters quite spontaneously as the energies unfold and spiral. movement is the key to this stage. raising the power this is the most powerful part of the magick, as the magical energies are amplified and the power of the ritual carries you along joyously. ecstasy forms a major part of shamanic ceremony and the old mystery religions; it is akin to the exhilaration you experience riding on a carousel or running barefoot along a sandy shore with the wind lifting your hair. you

gy. at the point when the climax is reached, comes the release of power. note that for some people the cone concept interferes with their own natural magical abilities- some of the most skilled witches and healers see circles of light, shimmering golden beams or rainbows with their psychic eye. some see nothing at all, but instead feel power pushing their feet almost off the ground. growth is the key to this stage. release of power when you release the power in the final stage, you may see the cone exploding and cascading as coloured stars or light beams, which surge away into the cosmos and break into brilliant rainbow colours. if you wish, you can direct the energy after the final release of power by pointing with your hands, or a wand or knife, so that the energies cascade horizontally

ou can direct the energy after the final release of power by pointing with your hands, or a wand or knife, so that the energies cascade horizontally and downwards, for example into herbs on the altar that you are empowering to make into herb sachets. or you can direct the cascading energies in a specific direction, perhaps towards a person who is ill or in need of magical strength. release is the key at this stage. this release may take the form of a final shout, a leap, or words. as you extinguish your candle of need, you may shout: it is free, the power is mine! or, at the point of release, you may throw your extended hands wide in an arc above your head. if the ceremony is formal and you are using an athame, you can at this moment bring it in front of you to mark the invisible cutting o

ABRAMELIN1

credible number of errors in the sigils, pentacles, and hebrew or chaldee names, which have arisen from ignorant transcription and reproduction; this being carried to such an extent that in some cases the use of the distorted formulas given would actually have the effect of producing the very opposite result to that expected from them (i have commented at length on this subject in my notes to the key of solomon, published by me a few years ago) wherefore abraham the jew it appears to me, in his anxiety to save his son from dangerous errors in magical working, has preferred to endeavour to fill him with contempt for any other systems and methods of operation than the one here laid down. for also besides the unintentional perversions of magical symbols i have above mentioned, there was furth

versions of divine names and seals, so as to attract the evil spirits and repel the good. for the third book of this work is crowded with qabalistic squares of letters, which are simply so many pentacles, and in which the names employed are the very factors which make them of value. among them we find a form of the celebrated sator, arepo, tenet, opera, rotas, which is one of the pentacles in the key of solomon. abraham's formula is slightly different: and is to be used for obtaining the love of a maiden. the pentacle in my key of solomon the king is classed under saturn, while the above is applied to the nature of venus. i give the hebrew form (see appendix a, table of hebrew and chaldee letters) of equivalents: introduction xii or in latin letters: in the key of solomon it is (as being a

world s end. in the hebrew, this versicle consists of exactly twenty five letters, the number of the letters of the square. it will be at once noticed that both this form and that given by abraham the jew are perfect examples of double acrostics, that is, that they read in every direction, whether horizontal or perpendicular, whether backwards or forwards. but the form given as a pentacle in the key of solomon the king is there said to be of value in adversity, and for repressing the pride of the spirits. this example therefore shows clearly that it is not so much the use of symbolic pentacles that abraham is opposed to, as their ignorant perversions and inappropriate use. it is also to be observed, that while many of the symbolic squares of letters of the third book present the nature of

rdinary magical effects which faust is said to have produced; who, by the way, as i have before remarked, was in all probability contemporary with abraham the jew. introduction xvi but the mode of their production as given in this work is not the black magic of pact and devil-worship, against which our author so constantly inveighs, but instead a system of qabalistic magic, similar to that of the key of solomon the king and the clavicles of rabbi solomon, though differing in the circumstance of the prior invocation of the guardian angel once for all, while in the works i have just mentioned the angels are invoked in each evocation by means of the magical circle. such works as these, then, and their like, it could not be the intention of abraham to decry, seeing that like his system they ar

similarity between cagliostro's method, and the system of oriental divination called the mendal, to which i have previously referred. introduction xxi (appendix c) examples of other methods of angelic evocation. for the benefit of the occult student i here give two other systems of angelic evocation. the first is taken from that part of the book called barrett s magus (1801, which is entitled the key to ceremonial magic. the second is copied from my key of solomon the king. from the perfection and key of. ceremonial magic; being the second part of the second book of the magus or celestial intelligencer 6 by francis barrett, f.r.c. the good spirits may be invocated of us, or by us, divers ways, and they in sundry shapes and manners offer themselves to us, for they openly speak to those that

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even all (kinds of food) that we can imagine) chapter xvii (to fly in the air, and travel any whither) chapter xix (for every description of affection and love) chapter xx (to excite every description of hatred and enmity, discords, quarrels, contentions, combats, battles, loss, and damage) chapter xxiv (to discover any theft that hath occurred) chapter xxvi (to open every kind of lock without a key, and without making any noise) chapter xxix (to cause armed men to appear) the following (symbols) be only manifested by the evil spirits, namely: chapter ix (to transform animals into men, and men into animals, etc) chapter xxi (to transform oneself, and take different faces and forms) chapter xxii (this chapter is only for evil, for with the symbols herein we can cast spells, and work every

pter xiii (to cause a dead body to revive, and perform all the functions which a living person would do, and this during a space of seven years, by means of the spirits) chapter xvii (to fly in the air, and travel any whither) chapter xxvii (to cause visions to appear) chapter xxix (to cause armed men to appear) amaimon and ariton together perform: chapter xxvi (to open every kind of lock without key, and without making any noise) oriens alone performeth: chapter xxviii (to have as much gold and silver as one may wish, both to provide for one s necessities, and to live in opulence) paimon (alone) performeth: chapter xxix (to cause armed men to appear (it is to be noted that this chapter has already been classed under those performed by oriens, paimon, ariton, and amaimon, together) ariton

vailing yourself of (these symbols for protection. but should you do this to please some friend, you would not escape easily with impunity from (the disapproval of) your guardian angel. use then this knowledge as a sword against your enemies, but never against your neighbour, which would be without any result but that of bringing hurt to yourself. chapter xxvi (to open every kind of lock, without key, and without making any noise) should you wish to open anything locked, such as ordinary locks (bolts),132 padlocks, coffers, cupboards, boxes, and doors, you shall touch them with the side of the symbol which is written upon, and immediately they will open without any noise, without being in any way damaged, and without exciting any suspicion of their having been broken open. when you wish to

erator at his convocations of them. 118 i.e, that spirit. 119 this parenthesis is abraham's. 120 i.e, of this second book. the chapter is entitled: concerning the convocation of the spirits. 121 i have thought it advisable to add here the headings of these chapters at length. 122 here again i am giving the headings of the chapters of the third book at length; as by so doing they form a species of key to the character, nature and offices of the prince who governs their operations. 123 in addition to the chapters here given, magoth is said to rule the operations of chapter xiv (invisibility, in the special instructions of abraham, the jew, concerning that chapter. 124 notwithstanding these numbers are here given, it will be found that the instructions do not include all these chapters, and

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i r o l u u e h a n r u b m a i a m a i a m (3) the sacred magick 191 (e) no. b consists of c d squares taken from a square of i b squares. nahariama means a river of waters. no. c is a square of g e squares. no. d is a gnomon of j squares from a square of c f squares. maiam= abundant waters such as the sea. of abramelin the mage 192 the twenty-sixth chapter. o open every kind of lock, without a key, and without making any noise( b) to open doors( c) to open padlocks( d) to open larders (or charnel-houses( e) to open strong-boxes (or caskets( f) to open prisons (1) s a g u b a g u b o r d o s (2) r a t o k a t o k k q u r (3) b a r i a c a a r i a c a q q (4) s e q o r e q o r s q q s l o h a r a h o s o h a r a h o s q q q a q l o s (5) the sacred magick 193 notes to chapter xxvi (a) the

will find them react terribly against them; and that, if the preliminary period of six months preparation advocated by abra-melin be not observed, the symbols will be practically worthless in their hands; for, as will be observed, the names in the squares for the most part are simply the statement of the ends desired to be accomplished thereby. finally, i will quote the following passage from the key of solomon the king v accursed be he who taketh the name of god in vain! accursed be he who useth this knowledge unto an evil end. be he accursed in this world and in the world to come. amen. be he accursed in the name which he hath blasphemed! of abramelin the mage 208 essential remarks upon the foregoing symbols. it is certain that among all the symbols which i have hereinbefore written down

se from thine operation, so as to finish it on another more favourable occasion, and meanwhile thou shalt devote thyself unto the cure of thy body. and such a case ought in no way to afflict thee, for the secrets of god are impenetrable, and he performeth, permitteth, and operateth all things for the best and for our good, although it may be not understanded of us. hereinafter will i set down the key of this operation, which is the only thing which facilitateth this operation to enjoy the vision of the holy angels, by placing the symbols15 given hereafter upon the brow of the child and of him who performeth the operation, as i have said in the first book, to which one can easily refer. i will say even as much as this, that out of an hundred scarcely five or six persons can attain unto the

g which facilitateth this operation to enjoy the vision of the holy angels, by placing the symbols15 given hereafter upon the brow of the child and of him who performeth the operation, as i have said in the first book, to which one can easily refer. i will say even as much as this, that out of an hundred scarcely five or six persons can attain unto the possession of this sacred magic without this key; for reasons which one can in no way disclose. also we should repeat the psalm vi. domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me, etc( o lord, afflict me not in thine anger. there is nothing in the world which we should so much desire as a true science, neither is there any more difficult to obtain than this one, because often one dieth before attaining unto it in its entirety. this is the true and only

ADDTLS

m kerubics x a a c r b p d 11 below is an example of the lesser angle of d in the tablet of c.(permutations include both kerubic and sub-servients) the consecration of the four elemental weapons give excellent examples of the spirit or archangelic names formed from the kerubic squares by the addition of letters from the tablet of union. the attribution of the name hwhy. the name is the key to the whole of the enochian attributions of the squares to the elements: the letters are thus referred: y yod d wands h he c cups w vau a swords h (final) he b pentacles the letters of the great name attributed to the four tablets in order together: insert diagram 12 not only are the letters of tetragrammaton attributed to the tablets themselves, and to the lesser angles of the tablets, but t

nd applies to each of the sixteen sephirotic crosses on the four tablets. in this mode of attributing the planets to the sephiroth on the calvary cross of the lesser angles, l is excluded, and k and the tarot trump, the wheel of fortune, is attributed to kether. the title of this card is lord of the forces of life, and kether is the origin and source of life. to chokmah is attributed b, the tarot key, the magician, magus of power, seeing that chokmah is the distributor of the power from kether, even as b is the messenger of k of classical mythology. to binah is referred the y and the tarot key, priestess of the silver star, even as binah is the completer of the triad of the supernals, and as it were high priestess to the inferior sephiroth.(compare also, says s.r.m.d. the position of the p

ah is the distributor of the power from kether, even as b is the messenger of k of classical mythology. to binah is referred the y and the tarot key, priestess of the silver star, even as binah is the completer of the triad of the supernals, and as it were high priestess to the inferior sephiroth.(compare also, says s.r.m.d. the position of the path of g in the tree of life. to chesed, c, and the key of the empress, the daughter of the mighty ones. chesed is, as it were, the first of the inferiors below binah, and the path of c is thus reciprocal betweeen chokmah and binah, forming, as it were, the base of the triangle of the supernals. to geburah, f, and the tarot key, the blasted tower, the lord of the hosts of the mighty, even as geburah represents strength and fiery power. to tiphareth

eption of the tetragrammaton letter, upon which everything else depends, all the other attributions appear and are included in the definition of the nature of the pyramid. each side of the pyramid is colored according to its own appropriate element, or left white for m. it by no means follows, for example, that a square from the airy angle of a will build up a completely yellow pyramid. but every key of attributions diagram m attribution of the 21 great name to the four lesser angles diagram n airy angle of all four tablets has at least one airy side. on a flat surface, the pyramid is represented by dividing the square into four triangles, leaving a small square in the center to mark the flat top. on this, if desired, the appropriate enochian letter may be placed. the following will be the

elow are examples of the above, so that there may be no difficulty at all in understanding how this procedure obtains. 24 diagram q: consider the b lesser angle of the b tablet; the servient square in rank w and column w. the column is ruled by w, attributed to a, therefore, the astrological symbol will be an airy sign. the rank is ruled by w, therefore, the symbol will be mutable a, c. the tarot key for c is the lovers. the hebrew letter attributed to it is u. the geomantic attribution is albus. take the d tablet, a angle, column h, rank y. the astrological symbol will be a watery sign. the rank is ruled by y, therefore, the symbol will be cardinal or fiery c d. the tarot key for c is the chariot. the hebrew letter for c is j. the geomantic attribution is populus. the following is by s.r

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

iate adeptus minor, what is the meaning of this title, abiegnus" 5 c b a f k l e c q n w (temple set up at beginning of ritual) third "it is abiegnus, lamb of the father. it is by metathesis abi-genos, born of the father; bia-genos, strength of our race, and the four words make the sentence,'mountain of the lamb of the father, and the strength of our race" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is the key to this tomb" second "the rose and the cross, which resume the life of nature and the powers hidden in the word i. n. r. i" chief "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem that we bear in our left hand" third "it is a form of the rose and the cross, the ancient crux ansata or egyptian symbol of life" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second "it represents the force of the te

t represents the force of the ten sephiroth in nature divided into a hexad and a tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth and the tau cross, the lower four, that answer unto the four elements" chief "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear upon my breast" third "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second "it is the key of sigils and rituals, and represents the force of the 22 letters in nature, as divided into a three, a seven and a twelve. many and great are its mysteries" 6 chief "associate adeptus minor, what is the wand which thou bearest" third "a simple wand having the colors of the 12 signs of the zodiac between light and darkness and surmounted by the lotus flower of isis. it symbolizes the developme

mbolically the five grades of the first order, to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram, and also the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written 'his days shall be 120 years' 120 divided by 5 equals 24, the number of hours in a day and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, 120 equals the number of the 10 sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of m and the four elements typified in the wand which i bear (chief, second, and third adept enter the vault consecutively, chief passes to the east of the pastos facing west. second adept goes to the south facing north. third adept goes to the north facing south (officers all raise their wands to form a pyramid over the pastos and altar) chief "let us analyze the keyword. i" se

crux ansata to the chief adept who then gives in exchange the crook and scourge) 21 crook and scourge chief "quit then this tomb, o aspirant, with thine arms crossed upon thy breast, bearing in thy right hand the crook of mercy and thy left the scourge of severity, the emblems of those eternal forces betwixt which the equilibrium of the universe dependeth; those forces whose reconciliation is the key of life, whose separation is evil and death. therefore thou art inexcusable, whosoever thou art, that judgeth another, for in that thou condemnest another, thou condemnest but thyself. be thou therefore merciful, even as thy father who is in heaven is merciful. remember that tremendous obligation of rectitude and self-sacrifice which thou has voluntarily taken upon thyself, and tremble thereat

the name 27 tetragrammaton. also, it has been interpreted as: igne natura revovatur integra; igne natura renovando integrat; igne nitrum roris invenitur; intra nobis regnum dei" chief (indicating diagram of the minutum mundum) behold the diagram minutum mundum sive fundamental coloris- the small universe or foundation of color. treasure it in thy heart, and mark it well, seeing that herein is the key of nature. it is, as thou seest, the diagram of the sephiroth and the paths, with the colors appropriately attributed thereto. see that thou reveal it not to the profane, for many and great are its mysteries "rtk is the highest of all, and herein scintillates the divine white brilliance, concerning which it is not fitting that i should speak more fully. hmkj is gray, the mixture of colors. hny

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

is in poetry, art and music. 16. if you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'o windy star blown sideways up the sky' true poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable. with music this thesis is so obvious as hardly to need stating. music has no expressed intellectual content whatever, and the sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul. it is then evident that the composer is himself attempting to express in sensible form some such sublimities as are attained by those who practise magick and yoga as they should. 17. the same is true o

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

mitive life-forms on this planet: human beings. unless the gates are secured against attack, unless humanity awakens to both the real danger and the real potential for evolution. well, the vision of the mad arab- ancestor of the muslim princes so much in the news in 1979/1980- is one, certainly of terror. the discovery of this book, however, like the discovery of the typesetters' idol, may be the key, the link in our defence against the possible enemy awaiting us, outside. events of the last two years have shown us that the book is also an amulet, a protective shield, that guards its own from the machinations of evil. extraterrestrial or primevally elemental, alien beings or subconscious repressions, they are powerless against us if we consider deeply the message of this book, and take the

what previous magicians had done, the spirits they had contacted, and the successes they had. the magicians who now read these works are expected to be able to select the wheat from the chaff, in much the same fashion as an alchemist discerning the deliberate errors in a treatise on his subject. therefore it was (and is) insanity for the tyro to pick up a work on ceremonial magick like the lesser key of solomon to practise conjurations. it would also be folly to pick up crowley's magick in theory and practise with the same intention. both books are definitely not for beginners, a point which cannot be made too often. unfortunately, perhaps, the dread necronomicon falls into this category. crowley's magick was a testimony of what he has found in his researches into the forbidden, and forgot

mitive life-forms on this planet: human beings. unless the gates are secured against attack, unless humanity awakens to both the real danger and the real potential for evolution. well, the vision of the mad arab- ancestor of the muslim princes so much in the news in 1979/1980- is one, certainly of terror. the discovery of this book, however, like the discovery of the typesetters' idol, may be the key, the link in our defence against the possible enemy awaiting us, outside. events of the last two years have shown us that the book is also an amulet, a protective shield, that guards its own from the machinations of evil. extraterrestrial or primevally elemental, alien beings or subconscious repressions, they are powerless against us if we consider deeply the message of this book, and take the

n zonei, we come to the "book of entrance" which is really a system of self-initiation into the planetary spheres and may have something to do with the planetary arrangement of the steps of the ziggurats of mesopotamia, which were seven storeyed mountains. not much is revealed to the potential candidate for initiation as to how these "gates" work, or what he might find there, save to say that the key of one gate lies in mastering the gate before it. the mad arab was either keeping a sacred secret, or found human language inadequate to the task of describing what other initiates in similar systems have expressed in the vague abstractions of the truly illuminated, likening the experience to an lsd trip. the "incantations of the gates" follow, and are probably meant to accompany the preceding

f our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers of the elder gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. it has a name, and is called agga. the third sign is the sigil of the watcher. it is called bandar. the watcher is a race sent by the elder ones. it keeps vigil while one sleeps, provided the appropriate ritual and sacrifice has been performed: else, if called, it will turn upon you. these seals

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done so because i did not know it. he went to the bookshelves; taking out a copy of the book of lies, he pointed to a passage in the despised chapter. it instantly flashed upon me. the entire symbolism not only of free masonry but of many other traditions blazed upon my spiritual vision. from that moment the o.t.o. assumed its proper importance in my mind. i understood that i held in my hands the key to the future progress of humanity" the commentary was written by crowley probably around 1921. the student will find it very helpful for the light it throws on many of its passages.(1) the ante primal triad which is not-god nothing is. nothing becomes. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 9 nothing is not. the first triad which is god i am. i utter the word. i hear the word. t

hat men call silence is its speech. this abyss is also called "hell, and "the many. its name is "consciousness, and "the universe, among men. but that which neither is silent, nor speaks, rejoices therein. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 29 [30] commentary( iota) there is no apparent connection between the number of this chapter and its subject. it does, however, refer to the key of the tarot called the hermit, which represents him as cloaked. jod is the concealed phallus as opposed to tau, the extended phallus. this chapter should be studied in the light of what is said in "aha" and in the temple of solomon the king about the reason. the universe is insane, the law of cause and effect is an illusion, or so it appears in the abyss, which is thus identified with conscio

on-sigma. this chapter is quite clear, but one my remark in the last paragraph a reference to the nature of samadhi. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 39 as man loses his personality in physical love, so does the magician annihilate his divine personality in that which is beyond. the formula of samadhi is the same, from the lowest to the highest. the rosy-cross is the universal key. but, as one proceeds, the cross becomes greater, until it is the ace, the rose, until it is the word [41] 16 kappa-epsilon-alpha-lambda-eta iota-sigma the stag-beetle death implies change and individuality if thou be that which hath no person, which is beyond the changing, even beyond changelessness, what hast thou to do with death? the bird of individuality is ecstasy; so also is its death

love? love death therefore, and long eagerly for it. die daily [42] commentary( iota-sigma) this seems a comment on the previous chapter; the stag-beetle is a reference the kheph-ra, the egyptian god of midnight, who bears the sun through the underworld; but it is called the stag-beetle to emphasise his horns. horns are the universal hieroglyph of energy, particularly of phallic energy. the 16th key of the tarot is "the blasted tower. in this chapter death is regarded as a form of marriage. modern greek peasants, in many cases, cling to pagan belief, and suppose that in death they are united to the deity which they have cultivated during life. this is "a consummation devoutly to be wished (shakespeare. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 41 in the last paragraph the maste

ndency of his soul, and of his mind, and of his body; it is the quintessence and the elixir of his being. therein are the forces that made him and his father and his father's father before him. this is the dew of immortality. let this go free, even as it will; thou art not its book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 44 master, but the vehicle of it [46] commentary( iota-eta) the 18th key of the tarot refers to the moon, which was supposed to shed dew. the appropriateness of the chapter title is obvious. the chapter must be read in connection with chapters 1 and 16. i the penultimate paragraph, vindu is identified with amrita, and in the last paragraph the disciple is charged to let it have its own way. it has a will of its own, which is more in accordance with the cosmic will

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scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. i,16: for he is ever a sun, and she a moon. but to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. i,17: but ye are not so chosen. i,18: burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! i,19: o azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! i,20: the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. i,21: with the god& the adorer i am nothing: they do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my lord hadit. i,22: now, therefore, i am known to ye by my name nuit, and to him by a secret name which i will give him when at last he knoweth me. since i am infinite space, and the i

! accursed be it to the aeons! hell. i,42: let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. so with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. i,43: do that, and no other shall say nay. i,44: for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. i,45: the perfect and the perfect are one perfect and not two; nay, are none! i,46: nothing is a secret key of this law. sixty-one the jews call it; i call it eight, eighty, four hundred& eighteen. i,47: but they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. i,48: my prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the ox, and none by the book? i,49: abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. ra-hoor-khuit hath taken his seat in the east at the equinox of the gods;

rmour; go on, go on, in my strength& ye shall turn not back for any! iii,47: this book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no beast shall divine. let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence i say not, who shall discover the key of it all. then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key also. and abrahadabra. it shall be his child and that strangely. let him not seek after this; for thereby alone can he fall from it. iii,48: now this mystery of the letters is done, and i want to go on to the holier place. iii,49: i am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. iii

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ave partaken sustain us in the search for the quintessence, the stone of the wise, the summum bonus, true wisdom, and perfect happiness. so mote it be! v the tree of life col. xii. this arrangement is the basis of the whole system of this book. besides the 10 numbers and the 22 letters, it is divisible into 3 columns, 4 planes, 7 planes, 7 palaces, etc. etc.8 table of correspondences table i 2 i. key scale. ii* hebrew names of numbers and letters. iii. the four worlds. lxiv. secret names of the four words. lxv. secret numbers corresponding. lxvi. spelling of tetragrammaton in the four worlds. 11 hryxy yetrizah, formative world hm mah 45 ah waw ah dwy 23 hayrb briah, creative world gs seg 63 ah waw ah dwy 31 twlyxa atziluth, archetypal world bu aub 72 yh wyw yh dwy 32 bis hycu assiah, mater

of e clover. e of e storax. b of e benzoin. a of b saffron. d of b lign-aloes. c of b red-sanders. e of b red sandalwood. b of b olibanum. col. xliii. and xliv. and, generally, all drugs exciting the parts of the body corresponding. see col. clxxxii. col. xlvi. each trigram combines with itself and the others to make 64 hexagrams, which partake of the combined nature. this attribution is the true key to the yi king. no sinologist has had any idea of it, but it is obvious enough now that o.m. has solved it. see appendix i. col. xlvii. line 7. has a monkey. line 19. said to have a monkey. col. xlix. the geomantic figures of the planets are those of the signs which they rule. lines 3-10. q andr table of correspondences 37 line 15. p line 16. v line 17. line 18. m and n line 19. s and t line 2

ands grip each a ray of dazzling light, spiril, the right hand being dextro- and the left hand l vo-rotary. a red scarf conceals the fact of male genital organs, and suggests by its shape the letter k. such is the conventional hieroglyph. 41 appendix i the trigrams of the yi king attribution to quarters. planetary attribution. hindu attribution. yetziratic attribution. figure. name. part of body. key scale s! lingam+ y 7 khien. head. 2 [and 30. s.e$ apas. c m 6 tui. mouth. 14 [and 23. e& mano (prana! r 5 li. eyes. 6 [21 and 30. n.e% tejas. b c 4 kbn. feet. 27 and 31. s.w# vayu. d a 3 sun. thighs. 11 [and 12. w' akasa= g 2 kh n. ears. 10 [13 and 32] n.w. e prithivi. e t 1 kbn. hands. 32 bis. n= yoni. 9 h 0 khwbn. belly. 3 and 13. the trigrams should be considered as the symbols which combin

sued a knowledge lecture which consisted of the names and symbols of the elements, planets and signs along with the hebrew alphabet and the names of the sephiroth in hebrew. 4 the lemegeton is a 17th-century compilation, probably english, of magical texts attributed to solomon. the first book, goetia, describes 72 evil spirits and gives instructions for evoking them (it derives variously from the key of solomon, the heptameron, the fourth book of pseudo-agrippa and the pseudomonarchia d monum of wier. in 777 cols. clv clxvi the spirits are referred to the decans by day and night. the second book, theurgia goetia, describes 27 principal spirits and a very large number of subordinates of whom relatively few are named; of the 27, 16 are referred to the points of the compass and the other 11 a

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sigils at the corners of plate x. without the great square are those of the four great elemental kings: air tahaoeloj. water thahebyobeaatan.27 earth thahaaotahe. fire ohooohaatan.28 liber lxxxiv 19 the characters upon the table of watchtowers29 plate x the forty-eight keys or calls 20 part ii the forty-eight keys or calls these are most solemn invocations. use these only after other invocations. key tablet hath 6 calls, 1 above other 5.1 1: governs generally as a whole the tablet of union. use it first in all invocations of angels of that tablet, but not at all with other 4 tables. 2: used as an invocation of angels e h n b representing governance of spirit in the tablet of union: also precedes, in the second place, all invocations of key tablet angels. not used in invocations of 4 other

; in the name hwchy, in the pass word i.n.r.i, o spirits of the tablet of spirit, ye, ye i invoke! the sign of osiris slain! the sign of the mourning of isis! the sign of apophis and typhon! the sign of osiris risen! l.v.x, lux, the light of the cross [give these] in the name of tudw hwla hwhy i declare that the spirits of spirit have been duly invoked [the knock w wwww] liber lxxxiv 21 the first key*3 ol sonuf vaoresaji, gohu iad balata, elanusaha caelazod:4 sobra zod-ol roray i ta nazodapesad, giraa ta maelpereji, das hoel-qo qaa notahoa zodimezod, od comemahe ta nobeloha zodien; soba tahil ginonupe pereje aladi, das vaurebes obolehe giresam. casarem ohorela caba pire: das zodonurenusagi cab: erem iadanahe. pilahe farezodem zodenurezoda adana gono iadpiel das home-tohe soba ipame lu ipam

and triumpheth: whose beginning is not, nor end cannot be: which shineth as a flame in the midst of your palaces, and reigneth amongst you as the balance of righteousness and truth! move therefore, and shew yourselves! open the mysteries of your creation! be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god: the true worshipper of the highest! 169 words in this english call. the second key adagita vau-pa-ahe zodonugonu fa-a-ipe salada! vi-i-vau el! sobame ial-pereji i-zoda-zodazod pi-adapehe casarema aberameji ta ta-labo paracaleda qo-ta lores-el-qo turebesa ooge balatohe! giui cahisa lusada oreri od micalapape cahisa bia ozodonugonu! lape noanu tarofe coresa tage o-quo maninu ia-i-don. torezodu! gohe-el, zodacare eca ca-no-quoda! zodameranu micalazodo od ozodazodame vaurelape;

old dagger aloft] in the three great secret names of god, oro ibah aozpi that are borne upon the banners of the east, spirits of air, adore your creator [again elevate dagger] in the name of bataivah, great king of the east, spirits of air, adore your creator! in the name of shaddai al chai, i declare that the spirits of air have been duly invoked [the knock www www www] liber lxxxiv 23 the third key micama! goho pe-iad! zodir com-selahe azodien biabe os-lon-dohe. norezodacahisa otahila gigipahe; vaunud-el-cahisa ta-pu-ime qo-mos-pelehe telocahe; qui-i-inu toltoregi cahisa i cahisji em ozodien; dasata beregida od torezodul! ili e-ol balazodareji, od aala tahilanu-os netaabe: daluga vaomesareji elonusa capemi- ali vaoresa cala homila cocasabe fafenu izodizodope, od miinoagi de ginetaabe: va

, adore your creator [elevate cup] in the three great secret names of god, mph arsl gaiol that are borne upon the banners of the west, spirits of water, adore your creator [elevate cup] in the name of raagiosel, great king of the west, spirits of water, adore your creator! in the name of elohim tzabaoth, i declare that the spirits of water have been duly invoked [the knock w www w www] the fourth key otahil elasadi babaje, od dorepaha gohol: gi-cahisaje auauago coremepe peda, dasonuf vi-vau-di-vau? casaremi oeli meapeme sobame agi corempo carep-el: casaremeji caro-o-dazodi cahisa od vaugeji; dasata ca-pi-mali cahisa ca-pi-ma-on: od elonusahinu cahisa ta el-o calaa. torezodu nor-quasahi od fe-caosaga: bagile zodir ena- iad: das iod apila! do-o-a-ipe quo-a-al, zodacare! zodameranu obelisonug

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not possible to give a full account of the twenty-two "paths" in this condensed sketch. they should be studied in view of all their attributes in 777, but more especially that in which they are attributed to the planets, elements and signs, as also to the tarot trumps, while their position on the tree itself and their position as links between the particular sephiroth which they join is the final key to their understanding. it will be noticed that each chapter of this book is attributed to one of them. this was not intentional. the book was originally but a collection of haphazard dialogues between fra. p. and soror a; but on arranging the mss, they fell naturally and of necessity into this division. conversely, my knowledge of the schema pointed out to me numerous gaps in my original expo

erbolt of zeus or indra, the god of air "lamed" is the oxgoad, the driving force; and it is also the balance, representing the truth and love of the magician. it is the loving care which he bestows upon perfecting his instruments, and the equilibration of that fierce force which initiates the ceremony<aeon of horus; they are indeed the key of the book of the law. no more can be said in this place than that aleph is harpocrates, bacchus diphues, the holy ghost, the "pure fool" or innocent babe who is also the wandering singer who impregnates the king's daughter with himself as her child; lamed is the king's daughter, satisfied by him, holding his "sword and balances" in her lap. these weapons are the judge, armed with power to ex

nit from which all springs and to which all returns. the great work is to make the initial digamma digamma of assiah (the world of material illusion) into the final digamma iota digamma of atziluth< the world of pure reality. spelling the name in full, digamma digamma+ iota digamma delta+ alpha lambda pi+ omicron iota nu+ digamma iota= 309= sh t= xx+ xi= 31 the secret key of the law. digamma is the manifested star. iota is the secret life. serpent- light. lamp- love. wand- liberty. wings- silence. cloak these symbols are all shewn in the atu "the hermit. they are the powers of the yod, whose extension is the vau. yod is the hand wherewith man does his will. it is also the virgin; his essence is inviolate. alpha is the babe "who has formulated his father, and ma

s of this formula, which cannot be too carefully studied and practised. it is unfortunately, the most complex of all of them. but this is the fault of the first matter of the work, which is so muddled that many operations are required to unify it- 40 chapter vii the formula of the holy graal: of abrahadabra "and of certain other words" also: the magical memory. the hieroglyph shewn in the seventh key of the tarot (described in the 12th aethyr, liber 418, equinox i, v) is the charioteer of our lady babalon, whose cup or graal he hears. now this is an important formula. it is the first of the formulae, in a sense, for it is the formula of renunciation<abyss> it is also the last! this

ation, with an elaborate rubric, translation, scholia, and instruction. weh addendum: this is the "preliminary invocation" placed in the "goetia" in the mathers transcription (not "translation) by crowley. this invocation is not a part of the original text, but comes to us from the greco-egyptian period of perhaps the 6th century. the goetia is itself a small portion of the "lemegeton" or "lesser key of solomon" this "preliminary evocation" is altered in liber samekh over that published in the "goetia> the conjurations given by dr. dee (vide equinox i, viii) are in a language called angelic, or enochian. its source has hitherto baffled research, but it is a language and not a jargon, for it possesses a structure of its own, and there are traces of grammar and syntax. however this may be, i

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ever-prostrated, emasculation of the soul of man. we accordingly find few true equivalents of this school in europe. in greek philosophy there is no trace of any such doctrine. the poison in its foulest and most virulent form only entered with christianity33. but even so, few men of any real eminence were found to take the axioms of pessimism seriously. huxley, for all of his harping on the minor key, was an eupeptic tory. the culmination of the black philosophy is only found in schopenhauer, and we may regard him as having been obsessed, on the one hand, by the despair born of that false scepticism which he learnt from the bankruptcy of hume and kant; on the other, by the direct obsession of the buddhist documents to which he was one of the earliest europeans to obtain access. he was, so

early unattainable, but in the going itself. this law is called the law of thelema. it is summarized in the four words "do what thou wilt" it should not be necessary to explain that a full appreciation of this message is not to be obtained by a hasty examination. it is essential to study it from every point of view, to analyse it with the keenest philosophical acumen, and finally to apply it as a key for every problem, internal and external, that exists. this key, applied with skill, will open every lock. from the deepest point of view, the greatest value of this formula is that it affords, for the first time in history, a basis of reconciliation 59 between the three great schools of magick. it will tend to appease the magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 106 eternal

made clear, and available to the use of man. is not this a gift beyond price, the fruit of a tree not only of knowledge but of life? for there is that in man which is god, and there is that also which is dust; and by our magick we shall make these twain one flesh, to the obtaining of the empery of the universe. i suppose i might have put it more concisely: classics is itself initiation, being the key of the unconscious; mathematics is the art of manipulating the ruach, and of raising it to neschamah; and science is co-terminous with magick. these are the three branches of study which i regard as fundamental. no others are in the same class. for instance, geography is almost meaningless until one makes it real by dint of honest travel, which does not mean either "commuting" or "luxury cruis

some of the fairy folk, as well as certain gods and demi-gods, who act thus paternally. but you are right in the main. the arabs, for example, have "seven heavens" and seven orders of angels, also jinn; but the classes are by no means identical. this, even though certain archangels, notably gabriel, appear in both systems. but then gabriel is a definite individual, a person- and this fact is the key to your puzzle. for, as i have explained in a previous letter, gods are people: macrocosms, not mere collocations of the elements, planets and signs as are most of the angels, intelligences and spirits. it is interesting to note that gabriel in particular seems to be more than one of these; he enjoys the divine privilege of being himself. between you and me and the pylon, i suspect that gabrie

hobia is the unreasoning aversion, the shuddering of panic, above all, the passionate refusal to learn anything about "drugs" to analyse the conditions, still less to face them; and the spasmodic invention of imaginary terrors, as if the real dangers were not enough to serve as a warning. now why? surely because in the sub-conscious lies an instinct that in these obscure medicines indeed lies the key of some forbidden sanctuary. there is a fascination as irrational and therefore as strong, as the fear. here is the point at which they link up with sex and magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 302 religion. oh, how well nigh almighty is the urgency to him who reads those few great writers who understood the subject from experience: de quincey, ludlow, poe and baudelaire

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, and familiarize him with them. disobedience to the superior is a contest between these two wills in the inferior. the will expressed in his vow, which is the will linked to his highest will by the fact that he has taken it in order to develop that highest will, contends with the temporary will, which is based only on temporary considerations. 72 the teacher should then seek gently and firmly to key up the pupil, little by little, until obedience follows command without reference to what that command may be; as loyola wrote "perinde ac cadaver" no one has understood the magical will better than loyola; in his system the individual was forgotten. the will of the general was instantly echoed by every member of the order; hence the society of jesus became the most formidable of the religious

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hhlb loss, destruction ylb to cease ldx my glory ydwbk the earth (our world) dlx the greater ldgh 43 great lwdg to rejoice lyg to make faint hlx lion (cf. 340 )ybl hazel, almond zwl together, also mg magus gm one beloved by god hydydy 44 aries: a ram, lamb hl+ aquarius: a bucket yld drops ylg) a pool, pond; sorrow mg) captive, captivity hlwg blood md sand; horror (see the scorpion pentacle in the key of solomon; see also liber 418 10th ayre) lwx flame +hl garment dm 45 the mystic number of yesod adam: man; red md) the fool dm) redemption, liberation hlw)g to grow warm; they (masc) mh hesitated (see 405) lxz she who ruins hlbx hwhy in yetzirah )h w)w )h dwy greatly, strongly, very d)m what, which, why, how; anything, something; yetzitah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) hm 46 a name of

em mhl 76 secret, put away; a hiding-place nwybx rest, peace xxyn slave, servant db( goddess hlyl) 77 prayed h(b overflowing (ps. 124:5) nwdyz towers, citadels ldgm the influence through the paths (cf. 78; destiny, fate, luck; constellation, planet (cf. 483& 536; soul-root lzm goat; strength; violence; glory z( 78 1-12. the mystic number of kether as hua; the number of tarot cards; the sum of the key-numbers of the supernal beard aiwass: the angel of ra-hoor-khuit( gincorrect h. cf. 93) s)wy) the breaker; dream (n& v) mlx to pity lmx to initiate knx bread (ps. 78:20= mlx, by metathesis) mxl the influence through the paths (cf. 77 )lzm salt xlm the name of a giant )z( palace of love (referred to chesed) hbh) lkyh before (in front of, over against xkn 79 jachin, the pillar of mercy (chokmah

rwhrh a pledge nwk#m 417 olive tyz an ark, box, chest hbyt shakanom: a title of tiphareth mwn)k# the red gleam (liber al 2:50) rwrhw 418 cheth: a fence; beast tyx boleskine: the house of the beast nyk#lwb abrahadabra: the word of the aeon given in liber al) r b) d) h) r b) 418= tyx )h tyb, the house of heh, because of i.z.q. 694; for h formeth k, but x formeth dwy: each= 20. thus is abrahadabra a key of the pentagram. also, by aiq bkr, it= 22; and 418= 19 22. 19= manifestation; it therefore manifests the 22 keys of r.o.t.a. the first meaning is rbd h)rb, the voice of the chief seer. it resolves into pentagram and hexagram as follows: 1st method. 5a a a dh a r b a b r forms 12 and 406 )wh and ht (406= wt, where ht= microprosopus, and )wh= macroprosopus. the arcanum is therefore that of the

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h three words "the zero hour" they call me back to myself: i know now that i am one of a great army- an army baffled and broken, but yet in being. sharp comes a whisper of swift absolute authority "zero is two" somehow i am aware- like a man stricken of lightning, in the same moment slain and initiated- that the strange phrase declares a final mystery of truth, the word of the plan of battle, the key of the campaign. but in my mind its meaning is most utter darkness. again the solemn stillness. few were they who had heard the voice of the young captain: for the sleep of all but the youngest and strongest was the sleep of death. even of these the fate was ill indeed; for their minds had been distraught by the bitterness of their hearts. so, when they noted the voice, they mocked. i heard "a

aster, to be made one with him. to answer that, he sendeth forth his will, that, casting shadows on the clouds of life, may be half read by him whose eyes are lightened enough by the manhood of his love. thus then do i learn how best to make myself fit to fulfil my life, in the life of the master, and offer my blood to his heart. 0. know naught! all ways are lawful to innocence. pure folly is the key to initiation. silence breaks into rapture. be neither man nor woman, but both in one. be silent, babe in the egg of blue, that thou mayest grow to the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 11 bear the lance and graal! wander alone, and sing! in the king's palace his daughter awaits thee. i. the true self is the meaning of the true will: know thyself through thy way! calc

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hine sticks have fallen thus: line 6- yang (a solid line) line 5- yang (a solid line) line 4- yang (a solid line) line 3- yang (a solid line) line 2- yin (a broken line) line 1- yin (a broken line- the moving line is in line 2) 11. the hexagram will look like this: 12. take notice that the hexagram is divided into two trigrams: an upper trigram and a lower trigram. interpretation 13. taking thine key, which is in this book: thou wilst find the upper trigram along the top of the squares. next, find the lower trigram at the left of the chart. 14. follow thee the trigrams into the center of the key- behold the number 33. 15. then, thou shalt read the thirty-third hexagram in this book: yi king. 16. the first two lines refer to the hexagram as a whole, shewing thee the direction of the matter

sdom's age. mark well the rules of martial strategy. chief of the host, thy king confers the post. divided counsel- inefficiency! retreat is not an error if need be. seek and destroy bad faith and mutiny! but find good men for posts of dignity. 8 the pi hexagram moon of yoni- pi: union. first examine, art thou right? then the restless join thee; woe the laggard's plight. sincerity of union is the key; from inward mind comes forth true unity. unite not with unworth's iniquity! there's one beyond thyself that yearns for thee. base well thy tower upon the people's power. thy first step missed? disaster shalt thou see. 9 the hsiao chu hexagram air of lingam- hsiao chu: shows small restraint. hence quick success. but clouds indeed, we ask rain's happiness. strayed- come thou back and follow thy

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y graphic formulae, like our own organic compounds. to take an example, the number 156 was regarded as a sort of efflorescence of the number 7; it was never written but as 77 plus[(7+7)/7] plus 77. again 11 was usually written 3 plus 5 plus 3. it was always the aim to find symmetry in these expressions, and also 'to find an easy way to 1. this last is difficult to explain. eleven was their great 'key of magic. it is a twofold number in 'the act of becoming 1. thirty-seven was the essence of 1 inasmuch as multiplying it by 3 gives 111, three ones, which divided again by 3 in another manner, yield 1 "one would rather think of 48 as 37 plus 11 than as 4 times 12" is the statement of an elementary text-book dating from the earliest days of atlas. it was a sort of moral duty to teach the mind t

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edition this book is called l. l is the sacred letter in the holy twelve-fold table which forms the triangle that stabilizes the universe. see "liber 418. l is the letter of libra, balance, and 'justice' in the taro. this title should probably be "al "el, as the 'l' was heard of the voice of aiwaz, not seen "al" is the true name of the book, for these letters, and their number 31, form the master key to its mysteries. in order that the ethical and philosophical comment should be "understanded of the common people, without interruption, i have decided to transfer to an appendix weh note: the appendix has not yet been recovered. all considerations drawn from the numerical system of cipher which is interspersed with the more straightforward matter of this book. in that appendix will be found

onai, the holy guardian angel. also hoor, who combines the force of the sun with that of mars. adonai is primarily solar, but 65 is a number sacred to mars. see the "sepher sephiroth ,and "the wake world" in "know om pax" for further details on 65. note moreover, the sixty-five pages of the ms. of liber legis. or, counting nv 56, had 10, we get 66, which is (1-11. had is further the centre of the key-word abrahadabra. the new comment the theogony of our law is entirely scientific, nuit is matter, hadit is motion, in their full physical sense<metaphysical sense, suggest close analogies> they are the tao and teh of chinese philosophy; or, to put it very simply, the noun and verb in grammar. our central truth- beyond other philosophies- is that these two inf

insufferably splendid, for man has veiled himself too long from his own glory: he fears the abyss, the ageless absolute. but truth shall make him free! it must be understood from the beginning that this book contains the keys of all the knowledge necessary for the operation of the magical formulae of the world during the aeon which it initiates. in this very early verse is already given a master key to mathematics and metaphysics. on applying this to current problems of thought, it will be discovered that the long-fast doors fly open at a touch. let use briefly examine the implications of this statement. it should not occasion surprise to find that the book of the law not only anticipates the conclusion of the greatest modern mathematicians like poincare, but goes beyond them. it was nece

these "fools" are "silent selves, impotent babes unborn; then verse 12 continues "come forth, that is, bring your holy guardian angel from the womb of your subconsciousness. then "take your fill of love; that is, do your true will, whose mode of fulfilment is love, as explained later in this chapter. al i,12 "come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love" the old comment 12. the key of the worship of nu. the uniting of consciousness with infinite space by the exercise of love, pastoral or pagan love. but vide infra. the new comment the whole doctrine of 'love' is discussed in the book "aleph (wisdom or folly" and should be studied therein. but note further how this verse agrees with the comment above, how every star is to come forth from its veils, that it may revel with

correspondences are yun sic, s.b "yang ?weh and yin, yod and he, etc. but most such dualities have been conceived in very gross and unphilosophical forms. of course, it is impossible to grasp this subject properly by reason; only the understanding developed by meditation and spiritual experience avails. initiation is pantomorphously progressive. note that the secret divine letter sht which is the key of this book is by shape the sun united with the moon c= sh, o= t co= sht. weh note: elsewhere crowley calls this sign "the secret sigil of the beast" and it is depicted by a crescent attached to the left side of a circle. sometimes the circle is dotted. sometimes the greek lower case letters sigma-theta are written connectively for this (vide. liber mcclxiv, value 209, first edition, otonl-6

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t will be noticed that every number and letter has its correspondence in ideas of every sort; so that any given object can be analysed in terms of the 32. if i see a blue star, i should regard it as a manifestation of chesed, water, the moon, salt the alchemical principle, sagittarius or what not, in respect of its blueness one would have to decide which from other data and refer it to the xviith key of the taro in respect of its starriness. the use of these attributions is lengthy and various: i cannot dwell upon it: but i will give one example. if i wish to visit the sphere of geburah, i use the colours and forces appropriate: i go there: if the objects which then appear to my spiritual vision are harmonious therewith, it is a test of their truth. so also, to construct a talisman, or to

ds of discovering dogma from sacred words are also numerous and important: i may mention (a) the doctrine of sympathies: drawn from the total numeration of a word, when identical with, or a multiple or submultiple of, or a metathesis of, that of another word (b) the method of finding the least number of a word, by adding (and re-adding) the digits of its total number, and taking the corresponding key of the taro as a key to the meaning of the word (c) the method of analogies drawn from the shape of the letters (d) the method of deductions drawn from the meanings and correspondence of the letters (e) the method of acrostics drawn from the letters. this mode is only valid for adepts of the highest grades, and then under quite exceptional and rare conditions. 29 i.e, crowley s essay berashith

his pleasure. this formula was used to open the vault of the mystic mountain of abiegnus, within which lay (so the ceremony of initiation supposed) the body of our father christian rosen creutz, to be discovered by the brethren with the postulant as said in the book called fama fraternitatis. there are three officers, and they repeat the analysis of the word as follows: chief. let us analyse the key word i. 2nd. n. 3rd. r. all. i. chief. yod. y 2nd. nun. n 3rd. resh. r all. yod. y chief. virgo (f) isis, mighty mother. 2nd. scorpio (h) apophis, destroyer. 3rd. sol) osiris, slain and rise. all. isis, apophis, osiris, iao. all spread arms as if on a cross, and say: the sign of osiris slain! chief bows his head to the left, raises his right arm, and lowers his left, keeping the elbow and righ

stick: those who have understood (favoured of god) have found therein aaron s rod that budded, the staff of life itself, yea, the venerable lingam of mahasiva! it is for us to trace the researches of frater p. in the qabalah, to show how from this storehouse of child s puzzles, of contradictions and incongruities, of paradoxes and trivialities, he discovered the very canon of truth, the authentic key of the temple, the word of that mighty combination which unlocks the treasure-chamber of the king. and this following is the manuscript which he has left for our instruction. an essay upon number (may the holy one mitigate his severities toward his servant in respect of the haste wherewith this essay hath been composed! when i travelled with the venerable iehi aour in search of truth, we encou

. aub is an illusory thing of witchcraft (cf. obi, obeah; aud is almost= the kundalini force( odic force. this illustrates well the difference between the sluggish, viscous 9, and the keen, ecstatic 11.53 210. pertains to part ii. see liber 418. 214. jwr, the air, the mind. 220. pertains to part ii. the number of verses in liber legis. 231. the sum of the first 22 numbers, 0 to 21; the sum of the key-numbers of the tarot cards; hence an extension of the idea of 22, q.v. 270. i.n.r.i. see 5= 6 ritual. 47 the installment of the temple of solomon the king in equinox i (3) contained an account of the g.d. adeptus minor ritual. see also regardie (ed, the golden dawn t.s. 48 al i. 24-25; 6 50= 0.12. 49 cf. gen vi. 3 t.s. 50 also if we use the same fudge that crowley used to get logos to 93, 120=

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in advance. 575 the sword of song 20 heaven suffers hell s pangs, owing to reproaches of bard. ethical and eloquent denunciation of christian cosmogony. tending to final bliss to stir some life to better life, this pain is needful: that i grant again. did they at last in glory live, satan and judas69 might forgive 580 the middle time of misery, forgive the wrong creation first or evolution s iron key did them provided they are passed beyond all change and pain at last 585 out of this universe accurst. but otherwise! i lift my voice, deliberately take my choice promethean, eager to rejoice, in the grim protest s joy to revel 590 betwixt iscariot and the devil, throned in their midst! no pain to feel, tossed on some burning bed of steel, but theirs: my soul of love should swell and, on those

lines in these poems, is pregnant with a host of hidden meanings. not only is it physical, of saying good-bye to a friend: but mental, of the darkness of metaphysics; occult, of the mystical darkness of the threshold of initiation: and physiological, containing allusions to a whole group of phenomena, which those who have begun meditaiton will recognise. similarly, a single word may be a mnemonic key to an entire line of philosophical argument. if the reader chooses, in short, he will find the entire mass of initiated wisdom between the covers of this unpretending volume. 73 tycarb o man, of a daring nature, thou subtle production! thou wilt not comprehend it, as when understanding some common thing. oracles of zoroaster. in presenting this theory of the universe to the world, i have but o

nd creative power as not, for science cannot help us. true, if we do not use all the methods at our disposal! but we go beyond. we admit that all mental methods known are singularly liable to illusion and inaccuracy of any sort. so were the early determinations of specific heat. even biologists have erred. but to the true scientist every failure is a steppingstone to success; every mistake is the key to a new truth. and the history of our science is the history of all science. if you choose to ape christendom and put the pioneers of rational investigation into the nature of consciousness on the rack (i.e. into lunatic asylums) i doubt not we shall find our bruno. but it will add an additional pang that persecution should come from the house of our friends. let us, however, turn away from t

ence from his castle of ug means from his initiation. we cannot in future do more than indicate the allusions. 4 the kerubim. 5 see table of correspondences [a table of correspondences was intended to appear as an appendix to the first volume of crowley s collected works. it is not in the 1970s reprint from which i am working, and may not have been in the original. see 777 instead t.s] 6 the 22nd key of the tarot. the other tarot symbols can be traced by any one who possesses, and to some degree understands, a pack of the cards. the occult views of the nature of these symbols are in some cases crowley s own. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 111 intellectus. deus. h. et s. v. a. luna. quid umbratur in mari. deo duce comite ferro. vestigia nulla retrorsum. pearls, big and round like the breasts

as comforted. now came the sudden twittering of heart lest the firmament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cork on waters of wailing. woman, he bade sternly, be still. cleave that with thy sword: or that must i well work? but she cleft the cords, bitter-faced, smiling goddess as she was; 1 the sacrifices are the ten sephiroth. 2 see table. 3 ancient form of the key of s. 4 considered as the agent of resurrection. 5 in the true key of m the tree is shaped like the letter d= venus or love. the figure of the man forms a cross above a triangle, with apex upwards, the sign of redemption. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 113 sapientiae lux viris baculum. femina rapta inspirit gaudium. pleiades. dignitates. amicitia. amor. sophia. and he went on. leave thine ox-goa

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, the way, the truth, and the life. the interior order was formed immediately after the first perception of man's wider heritage had dawned upon the first of the adepts; it received from the masters at first-hand the revelation of the means by which humanity could be raised to its rights and delivered from its misery. it received the primitive charge of all revelation and mystery; it received the key of true science, both divine and natural. but as men multiplied, the frailty of man necessitated an exterior society which veiled the interior one, and concealed the spirit and the truth in the letter, because many people were not capable of comprehending great interior truth. therefore, interior truths were wrapped in external and perceptible ceremonies, so that men, by the perception of the

h he knew nothing himself. to become fit should be the sole effort of him who seeks wisdom. but there are methods by which fitness is attained, for in this holy communion is the primitive storehouse of the most ancient and original science of the human race, with the primitive mysteries also of all science. it is the unique and really illuminated community which is absolutely in possession of the key to all mystery, which knows the centre and source of all nature. it is a society which unites superior strength to its own, and counts its members from more than one world. it is the society whose members form the republic of genius, the regent mother of the whole world. 13 liber librae svb figvra xxx 15 a. a. publication in class b. issued by order: d.d.s. 7= 4 premonstrator o.s.v. 6= 5 imper

d. smote the blasting hazel rod on the scarlet lips of god; trampled cross and rosy core; brake the thunder-tool of thor; meek and holy acolyte of the priestly hells of spite, sleek and shameless catamite of the beasts that prowl by night! like a star that streams from heaven through the virgin airs light-riven, from the lift there shot and fell an admirable miracle. 41 carved minute and clean, a key of purest lapis-lazuli more blue than the blind sky that aches (wreathed with the stars, her torturing snakes, for the dead god's kiss that never wakes; shot with golden specks of fire like a virgin with desire. look, the levers! fern-frail fronds of fantastic diamonds, glimmering with ethereal azure in each exquisite embrasure. on the shaft the letters laced, as if dryads lunar-chaste with th

d sky that aches (wreathed with the stars, her torturing snakes, for the dead god's kiss that never wakes; shot with golden specks of fire like a virgin with desire. look, the levers! fern-frail fronds of fantastic diamonds, glimmering with ethereal azure in each exquisite embrasure. on the shaft the letters laced, as if dryads lunar-chaste with the satyrs were embraced, spelled the secret of the key "sic pervenias" and he went his wizard way, inweaving dreams of things beyond believing. when he will, the weary world of the senses closely curled like a serpent round his heart shakes herself and stands apart. so the heart's blood flames, expanding, strenuous, urgent, and commanding; and the key unlocks the door where his love lives evermore. she is of the faery blood; all smaragdine flows i

see it, you can go on to make them see it as rembrandt saw it and velasquez. you can make the dullards understand life as the greatest have understood it. but that is impossible' he added, his face falling 'that is only a dream. you have got my real eyes, therefore you can force others to see as i see; but you have not the real eyes of rembrandt, or velasquez, or titian; you have not the physical key to the souls of the great masters of the past; and so your work can only apply to the present and to the future. but that is enough, and more than enough' he added quickly 'go on: there are millais' eyes to get too; and corot's in france, and half a dozen others; and glad i shall be to put you on the scent. you will do wonderful things, my friend, wonderful things "i was mightily uplifted by h

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ke to call attention to the immense amount of important material that awaits publication. there is the sepher sephiroth, referred to in this section of the temple of solomon the king; the complete writings of dr dee and sir edward kelly; a tremendous volume on the tarot; du potet's "magic unveiled" translated by john yarker, the venerable grand master general of the a. and p. rite of masonry; the key of the greater mysteries, by eliphas 1 levi, and many other important mss. all this has cost untold labour to me and my colleagues; but the difficulties of editing and publishing still confront us. i am therefore appealing for helpers among those who are interested in the clear and scholarly statement of what the famous adepts of the past have thought and handed down, either by word or pen* 77

ades in the glory of the dawn. thus we see that one way- and the best way- of overcoming bad sankh ras is the systematic cultivation, by dint of meditation, of such qualities as are opposed to the evil tendencies we desire to eliminate; and in the central and practical feature of the instance adduced, the practice of definite meditation or mental concentration upon the good sankh ras, we have the key to the entire system of the purification and culture of the mind, which constitutes the practical working basis of the buddhist religion. if we consider the action of a great and complex engine- such a machine as drives a steamship through the water- we will see that there is, first and foremost, one central and all-operationg source of energy; in this case the steam which is generated in the

ch like leviathan! nay! lift the languid head! take of this wine and bread! the vision is withdrawn; the lake calls, and the lawn; our love shall walk abroad in the grey hours of dawn! ethel ramsay. 64 the temple of solomon the king a. a. publication in class b. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. chart approximated_ vi. mys- v iv. iii. ii. i. itc english of col.iv. the heavens english of col.ii hebrewnames key# of of assiah of numbers scale seph and letters_ nothing. hb:nun-final hb:yod hb:aleph 0 no limit. hb:peh-final hb:vau hb:samekh hb:nun-final hb:yod hb:aleph 0 limitless l.v.x. hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph hb:peh-final hb:vau hb:samekh hb:nun-final hb:yod hb:aleph 1 s. of primum mobile hb:mem-final hb:yod hb:lamed hb:gemel hb:lamed hb:gemel hb:heh hb:taw hb:yod hb:shin hb:aleph hb:resh crown. hb:re

r means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed 1 weh note: plagiarized entire from ginsburg's "the kabbalah. 2 weh note: better: his purported translation of three of the more obscure books of the zohar. 3 weh note: this observation led mathers to miss-identify a picture of moses as metatron in his edition (not translation, the mss were in english) of "the greater key of solomon" to christianity. the first is, bn rvch ab shlvshthm ichd thmim, ben, ruach, ab, shaloshethem yechad thaubodo "the son, the spirit, the father, ye shall equally worship their trinity" the third is bkvri rashvni ashr shmv ishvo thobvdv, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo "ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus" the fourth is, bbva rbn ashr shmv ishvo t

ll be noticed that every number and letter has its "correspondence" in ideas of every sort; so that any given object can be analysed in terms of the 32. if i see a blue star, i should regard it as a manifestation of chesed, water, the moon, salt the alchemical principle, sagittarius or what not, in respect of its blueness- one would have to decide which from other data- and refer it to the xviith key of the taro in respect of its starriness. the use of these attributions is lengthy and various: i cannot dwell upon it: but i will give one example. if i wish to visit the sphere of geburah, i use the colours and forces appropriate: i go there: if the objects which then appear to my spiritual vision are harmonious therewith, it is one test of their truth. so also, to construct a talisman, or t

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l terms for cash. perhaps having treated us so shabbily again you will give us another order, for if letting people in for needless lawyers' expense is your idea of right from wrong it is very different from yours faithfully, a. elliott of j. w. benson ltd "p.s- if calling, kindly ask for the writer, who will be pleased to see you again. e the equinox vol. i. no. v 2nd part june 20, 1990 e.v. key entry by rusty sporer and bill heidrick, t.g. of o.t.o- needs further proof reading (c) o.t.o. disk 2 of 2 o.t.o. p.o.box 430 fairfax, ca 94930 usa (415) 454-5176- messages only. pages in the original are marked thus at the bottom: page number comments and descriptions are also set off by curly brackets comments and notes not in the original are identified with the initials of the source: ac n

at the last three aethyrs have ten angels attributed to them, and they therefore represent the ten sephiroth. yet these ten form but one, a malkuth-pendant to the next three, and so on, each set being, as it were, absorbed in the higher. the last set consists, therefore, of the first three aethyrs with the remaining twenty-seven as their malkuth. and the letters of the first three aethyrs are the key-sigils of the most exalted interpretation of the sephiroth. i is therefore kether; l, chokmah and binah; a, chesed; n, geburah; 10 r, tiphereth; z, netzach; n, hod; o, jesod. the geomantic correspondences of the enochian alphabet form a sublime commentary. note that the total angels of the aethyrs are 91, the numeration of amen. the cry of the 28th aethyr, which is called bag there cometh an a

of night, singing, singing prases unto him that is smitten by the thunderbolt of the abyss. is not the sky clear behind the sun? these clouds that burn thee up, these rays that scorch the brains of men with blindness; these are heralds before my face of the dissolution and the night. ye are all blinded by my glory; and though ye treasure in your heart the sacred word that is the last lever of the key to the little door beyond the abyss, yet ye gloss and comment thereupon; for the light itself is but illusion. truth itself is but illusion. yea, these be the great illusions beyond life and space and time. let thy lips blister with my words! are they not meteors in thy brain? back, back from the face of the accursed one, who am i; back into the night of my father, into the silence; for all th

, thou must accomplish the sevenfold task of the earth, even as thou sawest the angels from the greatest unto the least. and of all this shalt thou take back with thee but a little part, for the sense shall be darkened, and the shrine re-veiled. yet know this for thy reproof, and for the stirring up of discontent in them whose swords are of lath, that in every word of this vision is concealed the key of many mysteries, even of being, and of knowledge, and of bliss; of will, of courage, of wisdom, and of silence, and of that which, being all these, is greater than all these. begone! for the night of life is fallen upon thee. and the veil of light hideth that which is. with that, i suddenly see the world as it is, and i am very sorrowful. bou-saada "november" 28, 1909. 4-6 p.m. 36("note- you

re fallen- the ground is covered with them. there is a laugh in my right ear "this is the tree of life" and now there is a mighty god, sebek, with the head of a crocodile. his head is gray, like river mud, and his jaws fill the whole aire. and he crunches up the whole tree and the ground and everything. now then at last cometh forth the angel of the aethyr, who is like the angel of the fourteenth key of rota, with beautiful blue wings, blue robes, the sun in her girdle like a brooch, and the two crescents of the moon shapen into sandals for her feet. her hair is of flowing gold, each sparkle as a star. in her hands are the torch of penelope and the cup of circe. 48 she comes and kisses me on the mouth, and says: blessed art thou who hast beheld sebek my lord in his glory. many are the cham

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ining blackness deeper than the night. i then consecrated myself to the operation; cutting the tonsure upon my head, a circle, as it were to admit the light of infinity: and cutting the cross of blood upon my breast, thus symbolising the equilibration of and the slaying of the body, while loosing the blood, the first projection in matter of the universal fluid. the whole formulating the ankh the key of life! i gave moreover the signs of the grades from 0 0 to 7 4 then did i take upon myself the great obligation as follows: i. i, o.m.&c. a member of the body of god, hereby bind myself on behalf of the whole universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross of suffering: ii. that i will lead a pure life, as a devoted servant of the order: iii. that i will understand all things:

e whereon the adept of man hangeth, and daleth is love supernal, that if it be inserted in the word ani,"i, giveth adni, adonai. subtle art thou and deadly, o dweller of the threshold (p.s. this name is a bad one."dweller beside the pylon" is a better term; for he is not in the straight path, which is simple and easy and open. he is never "overcome" to meet him is the proof of having strayed. the key fits the door perfectly; but he who is drunken on the bad wine of sense and thought fumbles thereat. and of course there is a great deal of door, and very little key- hole) who dost use my very love of adonai to destroy me! yet how shall i approach him, if not with reverent 95 joy, with a delicious awe? i must wash his feet with my tears; i must die at his gateway; i must i know not what ado

. book 777 this book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the taro, so long kept secret by the rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the g. d. and r. r. et a. c. it forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. for the first time western and qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of hinduism, buddhism, mohammedanism, taoism,&c. by a glance at tables, anybody conversant with any one system can understand perfectly all others. mr. john ouseley's new book. vain tales from "vanity fair"(crown 8vo, cloth, gilt lettered, with special cover d

w only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intelligence. in these fields captain fuller is a master dramatist. mr. w. northam "robe maker and tailor" 9 henrietta st. covent garden, w.c. begs to inform those concerned that he has been entrusted by the a. a. with the manufacture of the necessary robes and other appurtenances of members of the society. the lesser key of solomon (goetia)"with full instructions and illustrations" price 1 1s. through the "equinox" only a few copies remain for st the equinox vol. i. no. ii 2nd part of three october 18, 1989 e.v. key entry and march 1, 1990 e.v. first proof reading against the 1st edition. done by bill heidrick, t.g. of o.t.o (further proof reading desirable) copyright (c) o.t.o. disk 2 of 3 this is the xywrit

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e sinking sun into the western sea" and we find him now in the goetic kingdoms of sorcery, witchcraft, and infernal necromancy. the bats flit by us as we listen to his frenzied cries for light and knowledge "the spiritual guide" and "the cherubic wanderer" are set aside for "the arbatel" and "the seven mysterious orisons" a hurried turning of many pages, the burning of many candles, and then- the key of solomon for a time is put away, with the grimoires and the rituals, the talismans, and the virgin parchments; the ancient books of the qabalah lie open before him; a flash of brilliant fire, like a silver fish leaping from out the black waters of the sea into 236 the starlight, bewilders him and is gone; for he has opened "the book of concealed mystery" and has read "before there was equili

am of seven days. this is a seven pointed star or heptagram with one point to top. the points have the symbols of the planets outside, clockwise starting from the top: saturn, jupiter, mars, sun, venus, mercury, moon. illustration described from page 265 "diagram 19. the altar of incense" the diagram is in two parts, one above the other. the upper part is shaped thusly, but the numbers here are a key to the description below, not a part of the diagram (not to scale/ 1/ 3 2/ 5 4/ 8 6 7\ 9_ 10_ content of the boxes in the above portion of the figure, top, center and bottom in each box: 1. hb:resh hb:taw hb:koph (no symbol; the offering. 2. hb:heh hb:mem hb:koph hb:chet; a double line bottom arc; the receptacle. 3. hb:heh hb:nun hb:yod hb:bet; approximate trapezoid with small top, inward arck

the zodiac" he then explains that to the thirty-second path of the sepher yetzirah is attributed the seven abodes of assiah; to the four elements, the kerubim, and the qliphoth.5 267 it represents the connecting-link between assiah and yetzirah. it is the rending of the veil of the tabernacle; and it is the passing of the gate of eden. after which he enters upon the symbolisms of the twenty-first key of the tarot, the naked female form of which represents the bride of the apocalypse, the qabalistic queen of the canticles, the egyptian isis of nature. her two wands are the directing forces of the positive and negative currents. she is the synthesis of the thirty-second path uniting malkuth and yesod. illustration on page 268 approximated_ diagram 21. the cubical cross of twenty- two squares

salt_ spirit 7 heavens of assiah tablet_ of earth lamp_ 20# key_ of_ tarot_ 10 averse_ seats for altar sephiroth_ practicus/ lamp/ lamp_ hiereus hegemon_ chalice (o/ lamp_ sephiroth water sephiroth_ in banner seven tablet hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod of west palaces of water_ diagram 26. arrangement of the temple for the 31st path in the 3= 8 ritual. he then explains to the theoricus the twentieth key of the tarot. it is a glyph of the powers of fire. the angel crowned with the sun is michael, the ruler of solar fire. the serpents which leap in the rainbow are symbols of the fiery seraphim. the trumpet represents the influence of the spirit descending upon binah; and the banner with the cross refers to the four rivers of paradise. michael is also axieros; the left-hand 271 figure samael, th

salt salt spirit tablet_ of earth lamp altar_ 19thkey of_ tarot_ geomant(ic_ names& figures/ sigels of and_ olympic talismans planetary spirits_ cup lamp_ hiereus hegemon_ water_ banner of west tablet of water_ planetary. tarot& symbols_ attributions compounded_ hb:taw_ diagram 30. arrangement of the temple for the 30th path in the 3= 8 ritual. and then enters upon the symbolism of the nineteenth key of the tarot, which resumes these ideas: the sun has twelve principal rays which represent the zodiac; these are divided into thirty-six rays to represent the thirty-six decantes; and then again into seventy-two quinaries. thus the sun itself embraces the whole creation in its rays. the seven hebrew yodhs falling through the air refer to the solar influence descending "the two children, standi

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s an adept, shows conclusively and absolutely the essential unity of body and mind. psychology is still in its infancy; when it attains maturity it will be the most dread enemy that supernaturalism has to face. the subjective view of life is undoubtedly destined to be the predominant one. your reviewer ventures to prophesy that in the science whereof k lpe is a brilliant pioneer will be found the key to the ecstasy that is the vision in all religions. the translator of "outlines" is mr. e. b. titchener. he has succeeded admirably. v.b. neuburg. introduction to philosophy. by oswald k lpe. swan sonnenschein and co, 5"s. an excellent introduction to formal philosophy, explaining clearly the distinctions between the various schools that at present hold the field. the author is extremely calm

- book 777 this book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the taro, so long kept secret by the rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the g. d. and r. r. et a. c. it forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. for the first time western and qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of hinduism, buddhism, mohammedanism, taoism &c. by a glance at the tables, anybody conversant with any one system can understand perfectly all others. the "occult review" says "despite its cumbrous sub-title and high price per page, this work has only to come

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te unalloyed by sensation (vedana) and a perfect scepticism; but also of more than an acquaintance with ceremonial drunkenness among many nations and with the magical or mystical processes of all times and all races. it may fairly be retorted upon me that this unique qualification of mine is the very factor which most vitiates my results. however. with the question of intoxication considered as a key to knowledge let me begin, for from that side did i myself first suspect the existence of the drug which (as i now believe) is some sublimated or purified preparation of "cannabis indica" ii "labour thou around the strophalos of hecate" zoroaster. in 1898-1899 i had just left cambridge and was living in rooms in chancery lane, honoured by the presence of allan bennett (now bhikkhu ananda mette

d preparation of "cannabis indica" ii "labour thou around the strophalos of hecate" zoroaster. in 1898-1899 i had just left cambridge and was living in rooms in chancery lane, honoured by the presence of allan bennett (now bhikkhu ananda metteyya) as my guest. 35 together for many months we studied and practised ceremonial magic, and ransacked the ancient books and mss. of the reputed sages for a key to the great mysteries of life and death. not even fiction was neglected, and it was from fiction that we gathered one tiny seed-fact, which (in all these years) has germinated to the present essay. through the ages we found this one constant story. stripped of its local and chronological accidents, it usually came to this- the writer would tell of a young man, a seeker after the hidden wisdom

ought-analysis is the criticism of thought as it arises. just as the impressions 47 are represented by pictorial glyphs, so each reflection upon an impression is accompanied by either one or two (more only when the control is imperfect "critical" glyphs, as it were in small type, an annotation of approval or otherwise. thus, a chain of thought a-b-c will have three approving pictures in a fainter key; the soul justifying the sequence. should one continue a-b-c-e an opposing glyph will warn of the falsity, or at least cast doubt upon it. in the generally unstable condition of the thought, such a critical glyph may be strong enough to become the dominant; and then the whole line of thought breaks down. let me give an example "thought "criticisms and their glyphs" 1. man a man reaping- meanin

ially taken up and a book of careful instruction compiled "see" liber o- ed> better still, have a skilled teacher. the experiment is an easy one; with two pupils only (of some dozens) i have failed, and that completely; with the others the first experiment was a success. we must include, too, in this section the forms appearing in answer to the rites of ceremonial magic. 61 (consult "goetia" the "key of solomon" eliphaz levi, cornelius agrippa, pietro di abano, barrett and others for instructions) these forms are more solid and real, much more dangerous, and are excessively difficult to obtain. i have known very few successful practitioners. all these forms and names are almost infinitely varied. the grosser visual and auditory phenomena of hashish belong to the group. it is not just to su

physically too the mystic is to be known by his atmosphere of power, cleanliness and light; by his self-control, his concentration of thought and action, his vigour, his patience. you will rarely find them at afternoon tea gossiping about clairvoyance, or even "playing adam" what? you don't know how to play "adam? and you call yourself a sage? tut! the game of "adam" is played as follows. take a key, a bible, an elastic band. 67 open the bible at random till you find a favourable text. there insert the key, leaving the barrel and ring outside. put the elastic band round the book, so as to fix the key firmly in it. balance the whole arrangement by putting your thumb and that of the assistant magus of art under the ring, thumb against thumb (an important but, as i hold, heterodox school of

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fect idea, and the student lose control, the result is insanity, obsession, fanaticism, or paralysis and death (add addiction to gossip and incurable idleness, according to the nature of the failure. let then the student understand all these things and combine them in his art, uniting them by the supreme method of silence. aleister crowley t the equinox vol. i. no. iii 2nd part may 19, 1990 e.v. key entry and july 1, 1990 e.v. first proofreading against the 1st edition done by bill heidrick, t.g. of o.t.o. portions of the abramelin diary after page 239 were entered by fr. h.b (further proof reading desirable (c) o.t.o. disk 2 of 3 o.t.o. p.o.box 430 fairfax, ca 94930 usa (415) 454-5176_ messages only. pages in the original are marked thus at the bottom: page number comments and descriptio

nvoking pentagram of water, he says] in the name of hcoma,5 and by the names empeh arsel gaiol,6 i consecrate ye to the service of the magic of light! he places the wine upon the altar, the water he leaves at the north, the oil towards the south, and the brazen vessel of milk on the tripod in the midst of the circle. the magus of art silently recites to herself the exhortation of the lords of the key tablet of union,7 afterwards saying silently: i invoke ye, lords of the key tablet of union, to infuse into these elements of water and fire your mystic powers, and to cast into the midst of these opposing elements the holy powers of the great letter shin: to gleam and shine in the midst of the balance, even in the cauldron of art wherein alike is fire and moisture [after the consecration of t

living creature! whose heart is a centre of light. be thou a living creature! whose body is the temple of the rosy cross. in the number 21, in the name hb:heh hb:yod hb:heh hb:aleph, in the name hb:heh hb:vau hb:shin hb:taw hb:yod 17, in the pass-word inri, i declare that i have created thee, a living spirit of this sphere of tzedeq, to do my will, and work thine own salvation! let us analyse the key-word "chief" i "2nd" n "3rd" r "all" i "chief" yod. hb:yod "2nd" nun. hb:nun "3rd" resh. hb:resh "all" yod. hb:yod "chief" virgo, isis, mighty mother "2nd" scorpio, apophis, destroyer "3rd" sol, osiris, slain and risen "all" isis, apophis, osiris. iota alpha omega (all give the sign of the cross "chief, 2nd and 3rd adepts" the sign of osiris slain("chief" l. the sign of the mourning of isis) 1

the bottom of the left side is a thin rectangle to indicate a closed door marked "entrance. it is abi-agnus, lamb of the father; it is, by metathesis, abi-genos, born of the father; bia-genos, strength of our race; and the four words make the sentence "abiegnus, abi-agnus, abigenos, bia-genos" abiegnus, the mountain of the lamb of the father, born of the father, and the strength of our race [the key to the vault, the rose and cross,2 is then explained as resuming within itself the life of nature, and the powers hidden in the word i. n. r. i. another form of the rose and cross, the crux ansata, is shown to represent the force of the ten sephiroth in nature, divided into a hexad and tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth, and the tau cross the lower four, answering to the four el

he word i. n. r. i. another form of the rose and cross, the crux ansata, is shown to represent the force of the ten sephiroth in nature, divided into a hexad and tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth, and the tau cross the lower four, answering to the four elements. the complete symbol of the rose and cross, which the chief adept carries upon his breast, is then explained to mean "the key of sigils and of rituals; and that it 209 represents the force of the twenty-two letters in nature as divided into a three, a seven and a twelve "many and great are its mysteries" the explanation of the rose and cross being ended, the third adept first explains his wand as having marked on it the colours of the twelve signs of the zodiac between light and darkness, and that it is surmounted by

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c. and if in earthly things the instructions of his master seem contrary to those of mine, at the end it is all one. shall we cry out if caesar for his pleasure commandeth his servants to take one the spear and the other the net, and slay each other? is not service service? is not obedience a sacrament apart from its accidents? however this may be, clear enough it is that mr. waite has indeed the key to certain royal treasuries. unfortunately, just as to face the title- page he gives us the portrait of a man in a frock-coat, so within the book we have the 311 muse in a dress-improver and a bond street hat. never mind; even those who dislike the poetry may love to puzzle out the meaning. detailed criticism is here impossible for lack of two illusions, time and space! i will only add that i

and complete statement of the work of many noble lives. we believe that the s.p.r. has taken up a most admirable position, and wish greater success to their work in the future. if they would only train themselves instead of exercising patience on fraudulent people, whose exploits no sane person would believe if god himself came down from heaven to attest them, they might get somewhere. a. c. the key to the tarot. by a. e. waite. w. rider and sons, limited. mr. waite has written a book on fortune-telling, and we advise servant- girls to keep an eye on their half-crowns. we have little sympathy or pity for the folly of fashionable women; but housemaids need protection_ hence their affection for policemen and soldiers_ and we fear that mr. waite's apologies will not prevent professional chea

though our own austerer taste would have preferred the plain cards with their astrological and other attributions, and occult titles (these are all published in the book "777" and a pack could be easily constructed by hand. perhaps we may one day publish one at a shilling a time) but mr. waite has not "betrayed" the true attributions of the trumps. they are obvious, though, the moment one has the key (see "777. still, pamela coleman smith has evidently been hampered; her designs are cramped and forced. i am infinitely sorry for any artist who tries to draw after dipping her hands in the gluey dogma of so insufferable a dolt and prig. mr. waite, i believe, is perfectly competent to produce indefinite quantities of malted milk to the satisfaction of all parties; but when it comes to getting

hrough thee, through thee, my strength is but as a dove's down floating forth on the purple nipples of the storm. 5. o thou crown d giant among great giants, thou crimson-sworded soldier of war! yea, as i battle with thee, thou masterest me as a lion that slayeth a babe that is cradled in lilies. 10 6. o thou shadowy vista of darkness, thou cryptic book of the fir-clad hills! yea, as i search the key of thy house i find my hope but as a rushlight sheltered in the hands of a little child. 7. o thou great labour of the firmament, thou tempest-tossed roaring of the aires! yea, as i sink in the depths of thine affliction, mine anguish is but as the smile on the lips of a sleeping babe. 8. o thou depths of the inconceivable, thou cryptic, unutterable god! yea, as i attempt to understand thee, m

ut, with introduction by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, ornamental cloth gilt, gilt tops, 384 pp, profusely illustrated, 6s. net. a pack of 78 tarot cards: exquisitely drawn and coloured, from new and original designs by pamela coleman smith. each card has a separate allegorical meaning. this is without question the finest and most artistic pack that has ever been produced. price 6s. net, post free. the key to the tarot: giving the history of the tarot cards, their allegorical meaning and the methods of divination for which they are adapted. by arthur edward waite. royal 32mo, cloth gilt, 2s. net. essential to the interpretation of the tarot cards. the cards and key will be supplied in neat box for 8s. post free. psychic philosophy, as the foundation of a religion of natural causes. by v. c. dese

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onbook 777 this book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the taro, so long kept secret by the rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the g. d. and r. r. et a. c. it forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. for the first time western and qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of hinduism, buddhism, mohammedanism, taoism &c. by a glance at the tables, anybody conversant with any one system can understand perfectly all others. the "occult review" says "despite its cumbrous sub-title and high price per page, this work has only to come

stere craft into a single azure shaft loosed from the string of will; behold the rainbow! thou art shot, pure flame, past the reverberated name into the hall of death. therein the rosy cross is subtly seen. olympas. is that a vision, then? marsyas. it is. olympas. tell me thereof! marsyas. o not of this! of all the flowers in god's field we name not this. our lips are sealed in that the universal key lieth within its mystery. but know thou this. these visions give a hint both faint and fugitive yet haunting, that behind them lurks some worker, greater than his works. yea, it is given to him who girds his loins up, is not fooled by words, who takes life lightly in his hand to throw away at will's command, to know that view beyond the veil. o petty purities and pale, these visions i have spo

my left hand; and naught remains! ho! for the splendour in my name hidden and glorious, a flame 50 secretly shooting from the sun. aum! ha_ my destiny is done. the word is spoken and concealed. olympas. i am stunned. what wonder was revealed? marsyas. the rite is secret. olympas. profits it? marsyas. only to wisdom and to wit. olympas. the other did no less. marsyas. then prove both by the master-key of love. the lock turns stiffly? shalt thou shirk to use the sacred oil of work? not from the valley shalt thou test the eggs that line the eagle's nest! climb, with thy life at stake, the ice, the sheer wall of the precipice! master the cornice, gain the breach, and learn what next the ridge can teach! yet_ not the ridge itself may speak the secret of the final peak. olympas. all ridges join

al causes, they attributed to it a cause external to man, and even to-day, leaving out of account oneiromancers and the fooleries of a philosophical school which sees in dreams of this type sometimes a reproach, sometimes a warning; in short, a symbolic and moral picture begotten in the spirit itself of the sleeper. it is a dictionary which one must study; a language of which sages may obtain the key. in the intoxication of hashish there is nothing like this. we shall not go outside the class of natural dream. the drunkenness, throughout its duration, it is true, will be nothing but an immense dream, thanks to the intensity of its colours and the rapidity of its conceptions. but it will always keep the idiosyncrasy of the individual. the man has desired to dream; the dream will govern the

them all like a flash; their joy boiled over "this "r le" may be good for you" said he "but for me, no "it is good for us; that is all we care about" replies egoistically one of the revellers. not knowing whether he is dealing with genuine madmen or only with people who are pretending to be mad, our friend thinks that the part of discretion is to go away; but somebody shuts the door and hides the key. another, kneeling before him, asks his pardon, in the name of the company, and declares insolently, but with tears, that despite his mental inferiority, which perhaps excites a little pity, they are all filled with a profound friendship for him. he makes up his mind to remain, and even condescends, after pressure, to play a little music. but the sounds of the violin, spreading themselves thro

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nor counted the cost- for the secret of things. science is baffled, for knowledge hath no wings! religion is baffled, for faith hath no feet! life itself- of what value is all this coil and tumult? who shall give me the secret? what is the secret [todd "whispers in his ear" why, thanks, thanks! what a fool i have been! i have always known who you were, of course, but how could i guess you had the key of things? simple as a b c- or, rather, as a! and nothing to pay after all "for of all gods you only love not gifts["ushers" todd "to the door] i follow you [todd "smiles kindly on him. they go out["the child turns; and, finding himself alone, begins to cry" charley. my nice man has gone away. old todd has taken him away. i think i hate that old todd["enter" todd. 234 i hate you! i hate you! w

ngle, what high heaven immures us in its silence, the supreme serene crowning the dagoba, what destined die rings on the table, what resistless dart strike me i love you; can you satisfy the hunger of my heart! nay; not in love, or faith, or hope is hidden the drug that heals my life; i know too well how all things lawful, and all things forbidden alike disclose no pearl upon the midden, offer no key to unlock the gate of hell. there is no escape from the eternal round, no hope in love, or victory, or art. there is no plumb-line long enough to sound the abysses of my heart! 272 there no dawn breaks; no sunlight penetrates its blackness; no moon shines, nor any star. for its own horror of itself creates malignant fate from all benignant fates, of its own spite drives its own angel afar. nay

et received her favours, and his head, bowed and weighted with its spongy amorphous magic, rested on me like a honeycomb, all giddy and vibrant with perfume and emotion "and once an old mother's head, gray and weary with its long rolling down the years, found on me the unexpected peace and happiness of the old. for the old are so lonely, and no one is their friend. so, my brothers, i give you the key of all her secrets except that secret which she shares with time and herself "i can make all plain except my own mystery, which is the tragedy of everyone, worm, or man, or god "blaspheme no more in such childish, imitative fashion! 323 you are nearer the world than i, and its weak vanity has stained you. the eye looks at the world, and the world looks at the eye, and though each learns from t

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t of grace? keep thou yet firm this trembling leaf my soul, dear god who died for men; yea! for that sinner-soul the chief, sir palamede the saracen" 77 xxx starred is the blackness of the sky; wide is the sweep of the cold plain where good sir palamede doth lie, keen on the beast-slot once again. all day he rode; all night he lay with eyes wide open to the stars, seeking in many a secret way the key to unlock his prison bars. beneath him, hark! the marvel sounds! the beast that questeth horribly. as if a thirty couple hounds are in his belly questeth he. beneath him? heareth he aright? he leaps to'sfeet- a wonder shews: steep dips a stairway from the light to what obscurity god knows. still never a tremor shakes his soul (god praise thee, knight of adamant; he plungers to that gruesome go

and signed by the author. the binding will be half-parchment with crimson sides; the ordinary copies will be bound in crimson cloth. occultism to the readers of "the equinox- all who are interested in occult and masonic lore should write to frank hollings for his catalogue of over 1,000 volumes. sent post free on receipt of name and address, and all future issues. a few selected items below. the key of solomon the king (clavicula salomonis, translated and edited from ancient mss. in the british museum, by s. liddell macgregor mathers, author of "the kabbalah unveiled" the tarot" etc "with plates" crown 4to "cloth" 21"s "net" the key of solomon gives full, clear, and concise instructions for talismanic and ceremonial magic, as well as for the practical part of occultism. besides seals, sig

f "the kabbalah unveiled" the tarot" etc "with plates" crown 4to "cloth" 21"s "net" the key of solomon gives full, clear, and concise instructions for talismanic and ceremonial magic, as well as for the practical part of occultism. besides seals, sigils, and magical diagrams, nearly 50 pantacles or talismans are given in the plates. among other authors both eliphas l vi and christian mention the "key of solomon" as a work of high authority, and the former especially refers to it repeatedly. jennings (hargrave. the rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries, fourth edition, revised, demy 8vo "with hundreds of illustrations. half morocco" 7"s" 6"d" some of the contents: critics of the rosicrucians criticized- the hermetic philosophers- fire- theosophy of the persians- drudical stones- the round

assembly, translated into english from the latin version of knorr von rosenroth, and collated with the original chaldee and hebrew text, by s. l. macgregor mathers. new and cheaper edition. demy 8vo. 7"s" 6"d. net" the bible, which has been probably more misconstrued than any other book ever written, contains numberless obscure and mysterious passages which are utterly unintelligible without some key wherewith to unlock their meaning "that key is given in thekabbalah" lucifer: a theosophical magazine, intended to bring to light the hidden things of darkness. edited by h. p. blavatsky, mabel collins, and annie besant. vols. i to xvii inclusive. scarce set, 1877 to 1896. with symbolical bookplates of e. d. bacon. 17 vols. 8vo, half calf "net "7 15"s" book of the sacred magic (the) of abra-me

, realisation, imitation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the stone of the philosophers, the universal medicine, divination, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram. medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc "occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse, or godmother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities, and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was

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- book 777 this book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the taro, so long kept secret by the rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the g. d. and r. r. et a. c. it forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. for the first time western and qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of hinduism, buddhism, mohammedanism, taoism &c. by a glance at tables, anybody conversant with any one system can understand perfectly all others. the "occult review" says "despite its cumbrous sub-title and high price per page, this work has only to come und

ustration on center top third by horizontal of the back cover: this is an equilateral triangle circumscribed in a white ring. the triangle is of wide and white bars. the field within ring and triangle is solid red. text to the left "price one guinea net" text to the right "to be had of the equinox, 124 victoria st, s. w. and through all booksellers goetia vel clavicula salomonis regis (the lesser key of solomon the king) the best, simplest, most intelligible and most effective treatise extant on ceremonial magic careful and complete instruction; ample illustration; beautiful production. this books id very much easier both to understand and to operate than the so- called "greater" key of solomon_ only a few copies remain for sale. the equinox "the editor will be glad to consider "contributi

now digress in order to five some account of the eastern theories of the universe and the mind. their study will clarify our view of frater p's progress. the reader is advised to study chapter vii of captain j. f. c. fuller's "star in the west" in connection with this exposition. 47 4 lost under dramatic circumstances at frater p. a.'s house in 1909. the agnostic position direct experience is the key to yoga; direct experience of that soul (atman) or essence (purusha) which acting upon energy (pr na, and substance (ak sa) differentiates a plant from a stone, an animal from a plant, a man from an animal, a man from a man, and man from god, yet which ultimately is the underlying equilibrium of all things; for as the bhaga-vad-g ta says "equilibrium is called yoga" chemically the various grou

a sanhita" chap. 1. 36 besides these, there are several lesser known yogas, for the most part variant of the above such as: asht nga, laya, and t raka. see "hatha-yoga pradipika" p. iii. 37 the "bhagavad-g ta" fifth discourse, 2-5. 38 "ibid" second discourse, 53. 39 "ibid" ninth discourse, 27, 34. that p. as yet had never fully experienced; and he, realizing this, it came about that when once the key of yoga was proffered him, he preferred to open the door of renunciation and close that of action, and to abandon the western methods by the means of which he had already advanced so far rather than to continue in them. this in itself was the first great sacrifice which he made upon the path of renunciation- to abandon all that he had as yet attained to, to cut himself off from the world, and

nly, manifold, subtle, lively, clear, undefiled, plain, not subject to hurt, loving the thing that is good, quick, which cannot be letted, ready to do good. for wisdom is more moving than any motion; she passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her pureness. for she is the breath of the power of god (chap. vii, 22, 24, 25) 42 "yoga or transformation" p. 196. control, or restraint, is the key to karma yoga; weakness is its damnation. of the karma yogi vivek nanda writes "he goes through the streets of a big city with all their traffic, and his mind is as calm as if he were in a cave, where not a sound could reach him; and he is intensely working all the time "karma yoga" p. 17 "aum tat sat aum "namo shivaya namaha aum" the pranava aum43 plays an important part throughout the whole

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rts. i. an analytical and critical account of the chief magical rituals extant. ii. a complete grimoire of black magic. by arthur edward waite. the two chief sections are subdivided as follows("a) studies on the antiquity of magical rituals["b) the ritual of transcendental magic, so- called("c) composite rituals("d) the rituals of black magic("e) the descending hierarchy of spirits("f) the lesser key of solomon the king("g) the mystery of the "sanctum regnum("h) the rite of "lucifuge("i) the method of honorius, etc, etc, etc. the main objects of the work are (1) to determine the connection, if any, between the literature of ceremonial magic and the secret tradition in christian times (2) to show the fantastic nature of the distinction between white and black magic, so far, at least, as the

he lesser holy assembly; translated into english from the latin version of knorr von rosenroth, and collated with the original chaldee and hebrew text, by s. l. macgregor-mathers. new and cheaper edition, demy 8vo. the bible, which has been probably more misconstrued than any other book ever written, contains numberless obscure and mysterious passages which are utterly unintelligible without some key wherewith to unlock their meaning "that key is given in the kabbalah" isis unveiled: a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology. by h. p. blavatshy. in two volumes. vol. i. science, pp. xiv, 628. vol. ii. theology, pp. iv, 640 and index 52 "pounds"1, 1"s. net" vol. i- before the veil- 1. old things with new names- ii. phenomena and forces- iii. blind leaders of th

, realsation, initiation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the stone of the philosophers, the universal medicine, divination, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram, medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc. book of the sacred magic (the) of abra-melin the mage, as delivered by abraham the jew unto his son lamech, a.d. 1458. translated from the original hebrew into french, and now rendered

nostrodamus- the true prophecies and prognostications of michael nostrodamus, physician to henry ii, francis ii, and charles ix, kings of france, and one of the best astronomers that ever were; a work full of curiosity and learning, translated and commented by theophilus garienceres, m.d. folio "fine portrait frontispiece by dolle, orig. calf, fine sound copy, rare in this state" 1672. 45"s" the key of solomon the king (clavicula salomonis, translated and edited from ancient mss. in the british museum, by s. liddell macgregor-mathers, author of "the kabbalah unveiled "the tarot" etc "with plates" crown 4to "cloth" 21"s. net" the key of solomon gives full, clear, and concise instructions for talismanic and ceremonial magic, as well as for performing various evocations; and it is therefore

, and concise instructions for talismanic and ceremonial magic, as well as for performing various evocations; and it is therefore invaluable to any student who wishes to make himself acquainted with the practical part of occultism. besides seals, sigils, and magical diagrams, nearly 50 pantacles or talismans are given in the plates. among other authors both eliphas levi and christian mention the "key of solomon" as a work of high authority, and the former especially refers to it repeatedly- wants supplied. new publications supplied to order "out of print books sought for and reported" visitors to london who are interested should make a point of calling- frank hollings, 7 great turnstile, holborn, w.c. near to chancery lane, the inns of court, and first avenue hotels. a green garland by v

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evelation is a book of initiation is not altogether new to freemasons, as the late dr geo. oliver elaborated that view at considerable length, but mr pryse's view is quite a different sort of initiation; it is the development of the semi-miraculous powers of the gnosis of clement, origen, and the early christian church, the birth of the divine three principles, the crestos, in the human soul. the key to this "unsealing" is the text itself, in which is found the nos. 333, 444, 666, 777, 888, 999, 1000, as applied to the seven principal "chakras" of the human body, as taught by greek yogis. apart altogether from the possession of a reliable literal translation of the book, there are seventy-five pages upon the development of the "kundalini" and each subject is followed in the text by a comme

the conventional theologian, yet easily comprehended by the esoteric initiate "i.e" by him who possesses the gnosis, and that the drama is perfect in all its parts. i may add that most of this class of initiative books had a double interpretation, and hence that the same may be equally found in the apocalypse, but into this mr pryse does not enter. john yarker. mr pryse has undoubtedly found the key of the apocalypse, and many of his interpretations are profound and accurate. but he is afflicted by sexual mania to an extent positively shocking, and does not understand the harmony of the principles. adeptship is balanced growth, not lopping. a rose dies if you remove the root and stalk, mr pryse! he is unfortunately a poor scholar, and has developed the american literary sense to an incred

ota-alpha "impotence, lack of control" as "sensuality" gr:alpha-gamma-gamma-epsilon-lambda-omicron-sigma as "divinity" and gives us "saucers" for "vials! unfortunately, too, he has studied eastern mysticism at second-hand, through theosophical spectacles. nor has he kept even to blavatsky the genius, but relied upon her commentators, who had neither her learning nor her experience. but he has the key, and it opens the way for a real study of "st john" by a person of greater ability. it is a very remarkable fact, however, that akrasia (333) and akolasia (333) should so accurately describe choronzon (333. no higher test of the truth of "the vision and the voice" could be desired. again, 666 is gr:'eta phi-rho-eta-nu, not the lower mind, as mr pryse unhellenically says, but tiphereth, the lio

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

es' circle. maxine beside the altar alex honours the goddess maxine inside the circle breathing life into the fith-fath the witches' dance walking to covenstead calling down the power the symbolic sex act the witches' altar passing the pentacle around the circle the witches fall to the ground fertility rites the black mass athamll book of shadows coven covens'read esbat esp familiar fith-fath the key of solomon measure pentacle sabbat tarot card voodoo warlock wicca witch wizard the witch's black-hilted knife. with book of rules, written in witch's own handwriting and copied by successive generations, group ofwitches. meeting place of a coven small meeting, not necessarily of a full coven. extra-sensory perception a massofenergy or power raised by the witches and sent to work their will. s

ad, anyone claiming to be able to work magic by witchcraft could be sent to prison for a year, during which he had to spend a whole day per quarter in the pillory of the nearest market square. the persecutorsand witch-prickers had done their work well. the books of magic, or 'grimoires' as they were called, were seized upon by collectors-many of the witches' closest secrets were discovered in the key of solomon, a copy of which is preserved in the british museum. clutching the remnants of their faith, the survivors of the witch-hunts went underground. but not for long. eliphas levi was born in france in 1810. roman catholic priest and magician, levi was not ashamed to announce that he was a witch and could conjure up spirits. later he revealed his methods to an english occult group led by

grandmother. when a classmate boasted of a spanish rapier his father had bought, alex could not resist mentioning his grandmother's swords 'go on, you're a liar' jeered his classmate. alex was too small and thin to fight, so he marched his friend to gran's house, told him to keep quiet, and led him into the empty kitchen. he knew how to operate the double-lock on the chest. as he was turning the key, gran came in. she had been in the front room and had seen them coming up the street. she fetched him a clout across his head that made his ears rmg 'you're never to bring boys in here again, do you hear' alex nodded silently, and when his companion had gone, gran made him promise never to open the chest again without her permission. alex did not forget, but not long afterwards his school was

reading necklaces, and red velvet 'a wand of almond tree, smooth and straight' was fashioned from a yard of dowelling. ail- x snmlcrs galcs into his cr ystal maxin h il-ssl' s til .u h.uuc ovl'i' th l' altar, siilt l ll ll ll il-d h y inrc usc sli ll l kl' tarot cards set out(,r a 'r e:ldin g' the w itches' circle. the objects within it include th e pentacle, at h.uuc, censer, watchtower and th e key 'l solo",o" insid e the ci rcle, wa tc hed h y alex aiiii ot lu-r wi tches, ma xin e po int s he r sword to the hra ss urn, the sym bo lic g u.lrd ian of th e wa tch tower ale x hon ours th e goddess h y kn eelin g he(,re ma xin e, his high pri estess, his hand s looped in her gi rd le prq,a ral ory 10 rem o vin g th e robe 'you shall pray to the holy angel that he may deign to sign or write u

nds' house after work to teach and train them, but he wished that he could find means of furthering his witch knowledge. beyond his grandmother's teachingsso that he nlightincorporate witchcraft with magic, making them both.more potent. he voiced his tho.ughts to bill, who advised him to go to the rylands library in manchester 'i've heard they have priceless old manuscripts and even a copy of the key of salomon. isn't that a sort of witches' manual .he asked. alex confirmed that the key of solomon was one of the few storehouses of witchcraft to have come down through the ages very much in its original form, and admitted that he had had no idea there were any copies in existence outside the british museum. the next day alex was called to his manager's office and told that his services were

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

ess, we invite you to our meeting (pause) o thou loving cerridwen. o thou mighty cernunnos, we gather (i stand) before you to (state intent) the circle is now perfect. notes adapted from farrars' eight sabbats for witches, but published all over the place in several versions. l l 'lighting of candle' added by khaled, sekhet& random 'exorcism of water 'blessing of salt' closely follow those of the key of solomon, book 2, chapt. v. l closing the circle when the circle's work is done, r goes to the east, athame in hand, salutes, and draws a banishing earth pentagram, saying: r: ye lords of the watchtowers of the east, ye lords of air, we thank you for attending our rites; and ere ye depart to your beauteous realms, we bid thee hail and farewell. all: hail and farewell (r extinguishes quarter

t allow anyone to touch or handle any of your tools until thoroughly impregnated with your aura; say six months or as near as possible. but a pair working together may own the same tools, which will be impregnated with the aura of both. notes l published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches way l they say it comes from gbg's bos (text b/c version) they say that he derived it from the greater key of solomon, but had dropped the hebrew and other magical names by text b (they were in text a. l see key of solomon book 2, chapt. viii. 1st conjuration follows the text closely, but 2nd and instructions differ. l the farrars say that gbg's text a version can be found in the key of solomon and high magic's aid l consecrating other working tools (except a sword or athame) place tool on pentacle

be purified, clean and properly prepared. when not in use, all tools and weapons should be put away in a secret place; and it is good that this should be near your sleeping place, and that you handle them each night before retiring. notes l published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way l they say it comes from gbg's bos (text b/c) l they say gbg's original (text a) may be found in the key of solomon and in high magic's aid. the charge to new initiates o thou who hast declared intent to become one of us, hear then that which thou must know to do: single is the race, single of men and of gods, from a single source we both draw breath, but a difference of power in everything keeps us apart, for we are as nothing but the gods stay forever. yet we can, in greatness of minds, be like

nunnos invocation hps and hp turn to salute altar with the horned god's salute as hp says: hp: great god cernunnos, return to earth again! come at my call and show thyself to men. shepherd of goats, upon the wild hill's way, lead thy lost flock from darkness into day. forgotten are the ways of sleep and night- men seek for them whose eyes have lost the light. open the door, the door which hath no key, the door of dreams, whereby men come to thee. o mighty stag, o answer to me! hps& hp say: both: akhera goiti- akhera beiti (lowering their hands) notes l published sources include janet and stewart farrar's eight sabbats for witches the farrars say it is "the invocation to pan from chapter xiii of moon magic by dion fortune, with.[cernunnons..substituted for..pan. l cone of power hp leads a r

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

ch we control action. group problems are many; why should there be suffering, starvation, and pain? why should the world as a whole be in the thrall of direst poverty, of sickness, of discomfort? what is the purpose underlying all that we see around us, and what will be the outcome of world affairs viewing them as a whole? what is the destiny of the human race, what is its origin, and what is the key to its present condition? is there more than this one life, and is the sole interest to be found in that which is apparent and material? such queries pass through all our minds at various times, and have passed through the minds of thinkers right down through the centuries. there have been many attempts to reply to these questions, and as we study them we find that the- 3- the consciousness of

hich will some day bring us to a great revelation, and every hourly, daily effort that we make, swells the tide of energy which will sweep us to the portal of initiation. the meaning of the word "initiation" is "to go into" it means simply that an initiate is one who has taken the first steps into the spiritual kingdom, and has had the first series of spiritual revelations, each one of which is a key to a still greater revelation. lecture vi the goal of evolution in using such a title as the goal of evolution, i feel extremely diffident; i realise that the only thing i can possibly attempt is to put certain suppositions before you, drawing upon my imagination. naturally it is not possible for finite mind to gauge accurately the plan of the deity- 42- the consciousness of the atom copyright

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

seize upon any data that seems to affect our own welfare, and concerns our own evolution, and from the study of the human being in the three worlds seek to understand somewhat the macrocosm. we know not how the one can become the three, the three become the seven, and so proceed to inconceivable differentiation. to human vision this interweaving of the system forms an unimaginable complexity, the key to which seems not to be forthcoming. seen from the angle of a master we know that all proceeds in ordered sequence. seen from the angle of divine vision the whole will move in harmonious unison, producing a form geometrically accurate. browning had hold of a part of this truth when he wrote "all's change, but permanence as well..and continued "truth inside, and outside, truth also; and betwee

irs of opposites are known- 10- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust and the secret of good and evil is revealed. it leads to the cross and to that utter sacrifice which must transpire before perfect liberation is attained, and the initiate stands free of all earth's fetters, held by naught in the three worlds. it leads through the hall of wisdom, and puts into a man's hands the key to all information, systemic and cosmic, in graduated sequence. it reveals the hidden mystery that lies at the heart of the solar system. it leads from one state of consciousness to another. as each state is entered the horizon enlarges, the vista extends, and the comprehension includes more and more, until the expansion reaches a point where the self embraces all selves, including all that is

partmental heads represent the three major rays of: i. will or power. ii. love or wisdom. iii. active intelligence, or adaptability. the four rays or attributes of mind, with the third ray of intelligence, as synthesised by the mahachohan, make up the sumtotal of the fifth principle of mind or manas- 29- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust chart: solar and planetary hierarchies key to diagram of solar and planetary hierarchies(1) chapter vi the lodge of masters the divisions. we have considered somewhat the highest offices in the ranks of the hierarchy of our planet. now we will deal with what we might call the two divisions into which the remaining members are divided. they form literally two lodges within the greater body: a. the lodge, comprised of initiates above the

ccording to the magnitude of the light, according to the rate of vibration, according to the purity of the tone and the clarity of the colour. who our teacher is depends therefore upon our grading. similarity of vibration holds the secret. we are frequently told that when the demand is forceful enough the teacher will appear. when we build in the right vibrations and attune ourselves to the right key, nothing can prevent our finding the master. groups of egos are formed: 1. according to their ray. 2. according to their sub-ray. 3. according to their rate of vibration. they are also grouped for purposes of classification: 1. as egos, according to the egoic ray. 2. as personalities, according to the sub-ray which is governing the personality. all are graded and charted. the masters have thei

to closer relationship with the two masters with whom they are concerned (their own inner god and their personal master, the inability to cooperate and to merge their interests in the good of the group will pass away, and community of endeavour, similarity of object, and mutual co-operation will take the place of what is now so much seen, divergence. we might well ponder on this, for it holds the key to much that is puzzling and, to many, distressing- 47- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust chapter ix the path of initiation after a longer or shorter period of time the disciple stands at the portal of initiation. we must remember that as one approaches this portal and draws nearer to the master it is, as says "light on the path" with the feet bathed in the blood of the he

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

n attempted in group formation. the record of one such experiment and attempt to use this new age method has been made available to the public in the book entitled discipleship in the new age, which gives the direct personal instructions by the tibetan to a selected group. in a treatise on cosmic fire the tibetan has given us what h. p. blavatsky prophesied he would give, namely the psychological key to the cosmic creation. h.p.b. stated that in the 20th century a disciple would come who would give the psychological key to her own monumental work the secret doctrine on which treatise the tibetan worked with her; and alice a. bailey worked in complete recognition of her own task in this sequence. foster bailey tunbridge wells december 1950 foreword this "treatise on cosmic fire' has a fivef

fire within, the fire without, meet with the fire ascending. the guardians of the cosmic fire, the devas of fohatic heat, watched o'er the forms that formless stood, waiting a point in time. the builders of a lesser grade, devas who work with matter, wrought at the forms. they stood in fourfold order. upon the threefold levels in empty silence stood the forms. they vibrated, they responded to the key, yet useless stood and uninhabited "aum" said the mighty one "let the waters too bring forth" the builders of the watery sphere, the denizens of moisture, produced the forms that move within the kingdom of varuna. they grew and multiplied. in constant flux they swayed. each ebb of cosmic motion increased the endless flow. the ripple of the forms was seen "aum" said the mighty one "let the buil

swering, roused herself and hastened to the call. the second, with wise insistence, hearing the first sound forth, knowing the hour had likewise come, echoed the sound or note quadruple. this fourfold reverberation circled the gamut of the spheres. again it was sent forth. three times the note was sounded, pealing across the heavens. at the third intoning came the answer to the call. vibrant as a key attuned, the eternal primary replied. the blue to the dense one answered and responded to the need. quivering the sphere heard the third take up the note, pealing it forth, a full-toned chord smote on the ears of the watchers of the flame. the lords of flame arose and prepared themselves. it was decision's hour. the seven lords of the seven spheres watched breathless the result. the great lord

es have been influenced, and certain kingdoms of nature troubled by planetary etheric congestion, or the destruction of- 61- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust planetary etheric tissue. we have dealt with the functional and organic ills of the etheric, giving certain indications for the extension of the concept to other realms than the purely human. in the human kingdom lies the key, but the turning of that key opens up a door to a wider interpretation as it admits one into the mysteries of nature. though that key has to be turned seven times, yet even one turn reveals untold avenues of eventual comprehension.47,(43)48 we have considered the reception and distribution of pranic emanations in man, the planet, and the system, and have seen what produces temporary disorders

l or power are synthesised on the atomic subplane of the atmic. all three groups of monads work in triple form on the mental plane under the mahachohan, the manu, and the bodhisattva, or the christ; on the second or monadic plane they work as a unit, only demonstrating their dual work on the atmic plane, and their essential triplicity on the buddhic plane.55(50) the fourth etheric plane holds the key to the dominance of matter, and it might be noted that: on the fourth physical ether man begins to co-ordinate his astral, or emotional body, and to escape at ever more frequent intervals into that vehicle. continuity of consciousness is achieved when a man has mastered the four ethers. on the fourth subplane of the mental plane, man begins to control his causal or egoic body, and to polarise

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

tivities, the purpose of the logos himself will be cognized. there are certain lines of least resistance in the spiritual life and along them certain forces or energies are released. a. emotional. intuitional or buddhic. monadic .t o the heart of the aspirant b. mental .s piritual or atmic .l ogoic .t o the head of the aspirant. the student is therefore given the word of restraint or control as a key to all his endeavors. the chitta is the mind, or mind-stuff, the mental body, the faculty of thought and of thought-form making, the sum total of the mental processes; it is the material governed by the ego or soul out of which thought forms are made. the "psychic nature" is kama-manas (desire-mind, the emotional or astral body, tinged faintly with mind, and is the material clothing all our de

h those forms of unfoldment and of control which eventuate in what has been called "gracious peace" we have seen that correct group relations and rhythmic living will produce that condition wherein stillness of the vehicles or of the sheaths is attained, and the lower man can then adequately reflect the higher or spiritual man. now we touch upon certain aspects of the raja yoga philosophy and the key to the understanding of this sutra is found in the word detachment. the aspirant (as he makes his sense contacts and through the medium of the five senses comes into touch with the phenomenal world) will gradually assume more and more the position of onlooker. his consciousness therefore shifts slowly out of the realm of the sense vehicles into that of the "dweller in the body" it is interesti

ich holds the electrons gathered around their centre is recognized as identical in nature with that which holds the planets in their orbits around the sun, and between these two divine manifestations the whole range of form is found. the occult student has to realise that forms are diverse and many, but that all souls are identical with the oversoul. the complete knowledge of the nature, quality, key and note of one soul (whether of a chemical atom, a rose, a pearl, a man or an angel) would reveal all souls upon the ladder of evolution. and the process is the same for all: recognition, the use of the sense organs, including the sixth sense, the mind, in appreciation of the form and its constituents; concentration, an act of the will whereby the form is negated by the senses and the knower

tion, the use of the sense organs, including the sixth sense, the mind, in appreciation of the form and its constituents; concentration, an act of the will whereby the form is negated by the senses and the knower passes behind it to that which vibrates in tune with his own soul. thus knowledge is arrived at, knowledge of that which the form (or field of knowledge) is seeking to express, its soul, key or quality. then follows contemplation, the identification of the knower with that within himself which is identical with the soul within the form. the two are then one and complete realisation is the case. this can be cultivated in a most practical way between human beings. there must be recognition of the contact that comes between two men who can see, hear and touch each other. a superficia

is not the mind nor any of the sheaths, can transmit to the physical brain unerringly, accurately and without mistake, that which is perceived in the light of the shekinah which streams from the holy of holies into which the man has succeeded in entering. the truth is known and the cause of every form in all the kingdoms of nature stands revealed. this is the revelation of the true magic and the key to the great magical work in which all true yogis and adepts participate. 49. this particular perception is unique and reveals that which the rational mind (using testimony, inference and deduction) cannot reveal. the meaning here might be stated to be that the mind of man in its various aspects and uses can reveal those things which concern objectivity, but only identification with the spirit

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

overs his relation to the universe; he finds that his physical body and his vital energies are part and parcel of nature itself, which is, in fact, the outer garment of deity; he finds that his ability to love and to feel makes him aware of the love that pulses at the heart of all creation; and he discovers that- 24- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust his mind can give him the key which unlocks for him the door of understanding and that he can enter into the purposes and the plans which guide the mind of god himself. in fact, he arrives at god and discovers god as the central fact. knowing himself to be divine, he finds the whole is equally divine. dr. f. kirtley mather of harvard university has said in a most illuminating article "that there is an administration of the

d psychology will return to its original meaning is at hand. education will then have two functions. it will fit man to handle his worldly contacts with the greatest efficiency and use intelligently that apparatus which the behaviorists have done so much to explain, and it will also initiate him into the realm to which the mystics have always testified and to which the mind rightly used holds the key. in the preceding chapter the method was dealt with through which a man could begin to be master of his instrument, the mind, and learn so to focus his thought upon a chosen theme or idea that he could close out all outer concepts and shut the door entirely on the phenomenal world. we shall consider the manner how he could carry his focussed thought higher and higher (to use the language of th

e refuse the passage of any information from the world of ordinary phenomena. this has been brought about through right concentration and meditation. this achieved, there ensues the interlude wherein the man knows himself to be a soul, dwelling in the eternal and freed from the limitations of form. this interlude is necessarily brief at first but as progress in control develops, it lengthens. the key to the whole process is the sustained concentration and attention of the mind "whilst the soul, the spiritual man, the perceiving being, contemplates" in a former book i have dealt more fully with this use of the mind as the instrument of the soul, and will repeat one paragraph here "it should be made clear, however, that the perceiver on his own plane has always been aware of that which is no

direct and efficacious until such time as the workman knows exactly what he is about. one cannot play up to the ego and continue long to act the part before men. the end of that is disease and desperate fatigue and loss of the way while shouting it to others. this is not a matter of getting something to show men. it is a matter of understanding what we are made of as personalities; of sensing the key to a new potency altogether and of rendering with ardent entirety the whole human nature to the game of reaching and turning that key. i realize that this paragraph touching the 'i am god' meditation contains a lure as well as a warning. it is quite true that the time must come for all of us when we shall operate from the office of the ego, instead of from the personality, but a fine integrity

t as divine as feeling? of course, this way- 103- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust does involve hard work, particularly at first. but it can be done, if the initial laziness can be overcome, and those who have achieved know of its supreme value. in concluding this attempt to indicate the initial work that the aspirant to this way has to undertake, it should be noted that the key to success lies in constant and unremitting practice. often, in our work with students all over the world, we find the brilliant mind coming out second, because it lacks persevering effort, and the more ordinary mind suddenly breaking through into the realm of ascertained knowledge and leaving its more brilliant brother behind, because it possesses the capacity to keep on going on. sporadic ef

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

at the disposal of the earnest aspirant; and the wideness of the vision which i can impart (owing to my having climbed higher up the mountain than some) is my main contribution. upon these points the students are at liberty to ponder, omitting idle speculation as to the exact details of unimportant personalities, and environing conditions. our theme is to be that of the magic of the soul, and the key thought, underlying all that may appear in this book, is to be found in the words of the bhagavad gita which runs as follows "though i am unborn, the soul that passes not away, though i am the lord of beings, yet as lord over my nature i become manifest, through the magical power of the soul" gita iv.6. the statistical and the academic is a necessary basis and a preliminary step for most scien

ure, painting, music, or in group organization and executive work there is no harm wrought, for the energy finds a normal creative outlet. these points should he remembered by the aspirant. he is facing a most complex problem. he enters blindly into a situation which is- 117- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the result of a long evolutionary process and to which he has not the key. especially in the early stages and prior to the first initiation is this the case, for he has no knowledge of the history of the past, nor any prevision as to the future. he has simply to take his equipment and his opportunity and do the best he can, guided by the age-old rules of raja yoga, and the light of his own soul. as the heart centre is awakened and the throat centre swings into creat

ns; they are driven forth and lose their master- 123- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the work of the eye the work of the eye we have for consideration now one of the simplest of the rules for magic yet at the same time one of the most practical, and one upon which the entire success of all magical work depends. i would like to point out to the investigating aspirant that the key to the situation depicted in the rule lies in the word contemplation found in the preceding one. let us therefore study that word with care and seek its accurate definition. to contemplate involves steady vision, one-pointedly directed towards a specific objective. the soul or solar angel might be regarded as gazing in three directions. 1. towards the light supernal, towards that central life

sion takes place. as the pulsating life progresses its rate of vibration changes, and in this changing of vibration lies hid the secret of form-shattering and form-building. forms are of four kinds in this era of the fourth round: 1. the form of the personality, that vehicle of physical, astral and mental matter that provides the means of contact in the three worlds. it is built in each life, the key of the vibration being set up in the life preceding the present. that form proves adequate for the average man and serves him till death. the man who is entering on the occult path starts with the vehicle provided, but during incarnation builds for himself ever a newer and better vehicle, and the more progressed he- 151- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust is the more consciou

the occult path starts with the vehicle provided, but during incarnation builds for himself ever a newer and better vehicle, and the more progressed he- 151- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust is the more consciously he works. hence eventuates that constant turmoil and frequent ill-health of the beginner in the occult life. he senses the law, he realises the need of raising his key, and frequently he begins with mistakes. he starts to build anew his physical body by diet and discipline, instead of working from the inner outward. in the careful discipline of the mind and the manipulation of thought-matter and in transmutation of emotion comes the working out on the physical plane. add to the two above, physical plane purity as to food and manner of life, and in seven year

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

, brain and glands permit. we find, however, that some of the theories, even the best proven, break down, given varying conditions. the field covered by psychology today is so vast, its schools so many and varied, and its terminology so cumbersome, that i can make no attempt to deal with it here. the indebtedness of the world to the trained psychologists cannot be estimated, but unless there is a key idea interjected into the whole field of thought, it will fall of its own weight, and produce- 10- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust (as it is already producing) problems, complexes and diseases of the mind which are direct results of its own methods. the knowledge we now have of how men work on the physical plane as integrated personaliti

mic intensity that we call it the ray of the destroyer. it is not as yet functioning actively. it will come into full play only when the time comes for the purpose to be safely revealed. its units of energy in manifestation in the human kingdom are very few. as i earlier said, there is not a true first ray type in incarnation as yet. its main potency is to be found in the mineral kingdom, and the key to the mystery of the first ray is to be found in radium. in the vegetable kingdom the second ray is peculiarly active, producing among other things the magnetic attractiveness of flowers. the mystery of the second ray is found to be hidden in the significance of the perfume of flowers. perfume and radium are related, being emanatory- 32- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psycho

wrath the keeper of the magical word the temple guardian the representative of god the one who lifts to life the lord of death the one who feeds the sacred fire the whirling sphere the sword of the initiator- 61- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the divine alchemical worker the builder of the square the orienting force the fiery unifier the key to the mystery the expression of the will the revealer of beauty this ray lord has a peculiar power on earth and on the physical plane of divine manifestation. his usefulness to his six brothers is therefore apparent. he makes their work appear. he is the most active of all the rays in this world period, and is never out of manifestation for more than fifteen hundred years. it is almost as if

er, be realised in full potency and magical revelation until the inner eye of true vision is developed and the forms underlying the creative work in the other kingdoms in nature are seen in their real values. the secrets of transmutation are the true secrets of this particular kingdom, and the two words expressing the process and the secret are condensation and transmutation. each kingdom has its key words, which can be translated, though most inadequately, as follows: kingdom process secret objective 1. mineral. condensation. transmutation. radiation. 2. vegetable. conformation. transformation. magnetisation. 3. animal. concretisation. transfusion. experimentation. 4. human .a daptation .t ranslation. transfiguration. 5. egoic. externalisation. manifestation. realisation. a general pictur

aracteristics and ray forces. by the proving therefore of the human detail, we lay the ground for the acceptance of the cosmic- 216- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust solar and planetary knowledge. what is proven true on the small scale opens the door for the understanding of that which exists on a larger scale "man, know thyself" is a potent key to the knowledge of deity and to the workings of divinity 4. the racial rays the reader needs to remember that three rays are occultly quiescent and four rays are in varying degrees of activity. let us recapitulate for a moment so that this thought may be clearly anchored in our minds: rays one, four and six are at this time out of manifestation, though ray six began to decline in influence on

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust that a more bitter cup might be withdrawn, ye could not watch with me one little hour until the dawn! so many sought my crib at bethlehem heeding a voice and following a star, but only simon walked to calvary it was too far. h. le gallienne. reprinted with the kind permission of the new york times and the author. chapter one introductory remarks on initiation key thought "there is a human desire for god; but there is also a divine desire for man. god is the supreme idea, the supreme concern and the supreme desire of man. man is the supreme idea, the supreme concern and the supreme desire of god. the problem of god is a human problem. the problem of man is a divine problem. man is the counterpart of god and his beloved from whom he expects the return of

the first step that we must take? in the words of an unknown poet "when thou canst see beneath the outer seeming the causes which to all effects give birth, when thou canst feel, in warmth of sunlight streaming the love of god, encircling all the earth, then know thyself initiate in the mysteries the wise men ever deemed of greatest worth" chapter two the first initiation. the birth at bethlehem key thought "except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of god (st. john, iii.3- 21- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust 1 in our discussion of these five major initiations we shall seek to do three things. first, we shall endeavour to realise that christianity is the flower and the fruitage of the religions of the past, being the last to be given out, with the exceptio

sonalities are now alive with potentiality. the hour is upon us- 54- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the human soul must hear the challenge of the christ soul, and realise that "mary is blessed, not because she bore christ bodily, but because she bore him spiritually, and in this everyone can become like her (eckhart) chapter three the second initiation. the baptism in jordan key thought "it is a propitious moment to put the christian life into serious practice. at a time of catastrophe, a process of ascetic purification takes place, in the absence of which there can be no spiritual life, whether for society or for the individual" freedom of the spirit, by nicholas berdyaev, p. 46. 1 "wherever a thing is both perceived and felt, there is the experience of the soul; and

der, and he is duly punished. father christmas is the embodiment of that which is selfless; he is the symbol of giving and of the christ spirit; he therefore stands to man as a reminder of god, just as this other figment of the imagination, the devil with horns and tail, is a reminder of that which is not god, that which is- 71- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust not divine "the key is supplied by mythology. the myths demand a serious interpretation in correspondence with objective reality, they must not be treated as pure poetry without any solid truth behind them, a mere play of the imagination! the garment which clothes the substance may be as fabulous, as fantastic, as inconsistent and as patchy as you please. but this does not alter the fact that popular mythology te

t until he had shown us the way. he had to transmit the great energy of the- 83- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust love of god. perfected, serving and with a full knowledge of his mission, christ now enters into the period of active work which must precede the next initiation, that of the transfiguration. chapter four the third initiation: the transfiguration on a high mountain key thought arjuna said "the word which thou hast spoken through love of me, the supreme mystery named the oversoul through it my delusion is gone "for the birth and the passing of beings have been heard by me at length from thee, whose eyes are lotus petals; i have heard also of the great spirit, which passes not away "so i would see that self as it has been spoken by thee, mighty lord; that divi

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

yed is by formulating certain questions and then answering them as fully and as concisely as possible. 1. how do we define the word "service? 2. what is the field of this science and why do we call it a science? 3. what are the characteristics of the true server? 4. what effect does service have? a. on the mind? b. on the emotions? c. on the etheric body? 5. does this science prove that the seven key or ray types employ distinctive methods in their service? the consideration of these questions will enable me to do three things: 1. show in my answers to each question that service is not a sentiment or an ideal, but that it is an effect and a scientific procedure at the same time. 2. indicate the need today for the right understanding of a technique which, when applied by the new group of wo

or the spirit of criticism and the spreading of destructive discussion. it is for this reason and in order to develop a group of servers who can work along true and spiritual lines, that there must be increasing emphasis upon the need for harmlessness. harmlessness prepares the way for the inflow of life; harmlessness dissipates the obstructions to the free outpouring of love; harmlessness is the key to the release of the lower nature from the grip of the world illusion- 80- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust and from the power of phenomenal existence. we have expressed our belief that one of the major sciences of the coming age will be built up around the active rendering of service. we have used the word "science" because service, a

piritual laws, finding their way into the lower consciousness via the egoic lotus and the antaskarana. this statement is the second basic postulate in connection with our study of this law of repulse, the first postulate being the earlier statement that unless there is a thread of light to act as a channel, that which this law conveys will remain unknown and unrealised. these six laws give us the key to the entire psychological problem of every human being, and there is no condition which is not produced by the conscious or unconscious reaction of man, to these basic influences the natural and spiritual laws. if psychologists would accept the three basic laws of the universe, and the seven laws through which they express their influence, they would arrive at an understanding of the human b

toil severe. dim passages, in steady progress, led upward to the summit. there a wide window stood, open unto the blue of heaven, and carrying one clear ray down to the worker in the depths..he worked and toiled. he struggled onwards toward his dream, the vision of an ultimate discovery. he sometimes found the thing he sought, and sometimes failed; but never found that which could give to him the key to all the rest..in deep despair, he cried aloud unto the god he had forgot 'give me the key. i alone can do no more good. give me the key' then silence reigned. through the opening on the summit of the pyramid, dropped from the blue of heaven, a key came down. it landed at the feet of the discouraged worker. the key was of pure gold; the shaft of light; upon the key a label, and writ in blue

ric knowledge. the quite ordinary formulations of loving living and of daily instinctive self-sacrifice suffer from being so vitally familiar and yet if we could only realise it they are only on the outer fringe of the deepest world truths. they are the a.b.c. of esotericism and through them, and only through them, shall we arrive at the words and sentences which are, in their turn, the essential key to the highest knowledge. a brief example will serve to illustrate this, and we can then consider some simple facts which indicate that the aspirant is beginning to function as a soul and is ready for conscious life in the kingdom of god. the disciple in training for these higher realisations is urged to practice the faculty of discrimination. you have been so urged. the initial and normal int

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

hat you may be tempted to doubt its efficacy. i can, however, assure you that if you will follow it carefully for a few months or until i myself suggest a change that you will be surprised at what changes within your consciousness this very simple formula will bring about. keep a pencil and paper beside you as you meditate and note down your thoughts and ideas as they come to you. i am working to key you up for future work. note: there was no real response to the invitation to work in the tibetan's group and though interest was evidenced in the papers, the work undertaken did not go beyond studying them. to f. c. d. january 1933 to my fellow disciple, f.c.d, who works in that loneliness which is so difficult for the second ray type, i would say the following: your problem is twofold and wh

ht elimination of non-essential activities (with a consequent intensification of the essential and a certain measure of physical discipline) becomes possible to you. as i told you in my last communication, the path of the world saviours is a hard one, owing primarily to the power to suffer which the second ray type embodies. this is of course in itself the principle of manifestation and holds the key to existence. hence, therefore, the ability of the person upon this ray to "agonise towards the goal, carrying the burden of the world, learning through identification with others a detachment which, as time proceeds, negates all pain" note the paradox here involved and learn its meaning which, my brother, is your task this life. how to discipline your physical body and how to strengthen it is

capacity. you need, however, to employ the line of force which you have succeeded in establishing between the soul and the personality with greater frequency and more facility. the result of this would be that the significance of two other words would become apparent and you would radiate light and love and become increasingly an inspiration to others. this second word, radiation, should form the key of your life until next i instruct you. the peculiar type of radiation which i want you to endeavour to express is that light which reaches others upon the wings of joy. i would remind you here that happiness is the result of achieved personality desire; joy is the expression of the soul's surety, whilst bliss is the consummation which the monad bestows upon the initiate- 135- discipleship in

ner. this i think you know. such a contact should be relatively easy for you as you have four rays out of the seven active in your nature and because those rays which are apt to produce separative attitudes in the early stages of expression (the first, third, and fifth) are lacking in this incarnation. i wonder, my brother, if you have noted the relation which exists between joy and radiation two key words which i gave you years ago for your guidance? radiation is a tangible substance and potency, producing effects. your radiation or "quality of effective auric contact" is recognised and evokes reaction upon the objective plane in your immediate environment and by those who contact you. it is the subjective, consciously focussed radiation to which i here call attention. this should produce

which will cause you the most trouble and along which glamour will easily enter. it is, for instance, your personality fanaticism and your personality devotions (both to people and to ideas) which need tempering if your first ray power is to manifest. your fanatical devotee will must be superseded by the purpose, ordered and steadfast, of your first ray soul. in this last sentence is for you the key to your future unfoldment. the steely, brittle, determined, dynamic will of the devoted aspirant must change into the steadfast, powerful, calm purpose of the soul, working through the disciple. the soul is fluid in adjustment but undeviating in aim. likewise, the brilliant fanatical devotion to this, that or the other person or ideal must give place to the gentle unchanging love of the soul t

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

lts on earth will be peace. it is so simple and practical that people fail to appreciate its potency or its scientific and dynamic effect. one person sincerely practising goodwill in a family can completely change its attitudes. goodwill really practised among groups in any nation, by political and religious parties in any nation and among the nations of the world can revolutionize the world. the key to humanity's trouble (focussing as it has in the economic difficulties of the past two hundred years and in the theological impasse of the orthodox churches) has been to take and not give, to accept and not share, to grasp and not to distribute. this has involved the breaking of a law which has placed humanity in a position of positive guilt. war is the dire penalty which mankind has had to p

in whom we live and move and have our being; they have interpreted god in terms of themselves; therefore when men unthinkingly accept a dogma, they are only accepting the point of view of some other fallible human being, and are not accepting a divine truth at all. it is this truth that theological seminaries must begin to teach, training their men to think for themselves and to remember that the key to truth lies in the unifying power of comparative religion. only those principles and truths which are universally recognized and which find their place in every religion are truly necessary to salvation. the secondary and controversial line of presented truths is usually unnecessary or significant only in so far as it buttresses the primary and essential truth. it is this distorted presentat

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

he was; he told them in many symbolic ways who and what he was and assured them that they could do even greater things than he had done, because they were divine as he was. these greater things, humanity has already accomplished upon the physical plane and in its control of nature, as christ knew men would, because he knew the workings of the law of evolution. he taught them that service was the key to the life of liberation, teaching them the technique of service through his own life as he went about doing good, healing the sick, as well as preaching and teaching the things of the kingdom of god and feeding the hungry, both physically and spiritually. he made the life of every day a divine sphere of spiritual livingness, thus emphasising the teaching of the buddha, through desiring nothi

e truth is preserved and can be recovered. this christ will do. he will also revive these mysteries in other ways; not all will seek the church or masonry for the revitalising of their spiritual life. the true mysteries will also reveal themselves through science and the incentive to search for them there will be given by the christ. the mysteries contain, within their formulas and teachings, the key to the science which will unlock the mystery of electricity the greatest spiritual science and area of divine knowledge in the world, the fringes of which have only just been touched. only when the hierarchy is present visibly on earth and the mysteries of which the disciples of the christ are the custodians are given openly to the world, will the true secret and nature of electrical phenomena

the doctrines presented for their belief? why is death and not life stalking the world today? why do so many new cults arise and sidetrack the people away from orthodox organisations of a religious nature? why does mental science, the unity movement and the new thought presentation attract people away from the better established organisations? note the use of the word "organisations; it holds the key to the problem. why is there a growing emphasis upon the eastern theologies, upon the various yogas, upon buddhistic teachings and oriental faiths? why do such teachings as astrology, numerology and various magical rituals find so many adherents whilst the churches remain empty or are only attended by old people, the conservatives and reactionaries or by those who go there by force of habit, o

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

civilisation. from this display of energy, unthinking humanity draws back in fear and likes it not. when full of personality hate and self-will, human beings seek often to turn this energy to their own selfish ends. if human beings (even the best of them) were not so undeveloped and so superficial in their judgments and their vision, they would be able to penetrate behind what is going on in the key countries in the world and see the gradual emergence of new and better conditions, and the passing away of the loved, but slowly decaying forms. the energy of shamballa is, however, so new and so strange that it is hard for human beings to know it for what it is the demonstration of the will of god in new and potent livingness. 2. the second way in which this dominant will impulse makes itself

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

group of seekers, such as the scientific investigators in every country, who together are searching for light on the problems of manifestation or for some means to alleviate human suffering, a revelation comes. the effort of such a group often lifts upon the wings of its unrealised aspiration some one man who can then penetrate into the world of divine ideas and there find the longed for cure or key and thus he intuitively discovers a long sought secret. the discovery, when of the first rank, is as much a revelation as the truths presented by the world teachers. who shall say that the statement that god is love is of more value than the statement that all is energy? the route which the revelation then follows is the same in both cases, and illusion overtakes both forms of revelation but a

nd in all the world scriptures, commentaries and theological dissertations on the subject of light that the simple truth and a few basic principles are lost to sight in a welter of words. in my various books i have given much anent this subject and in the book, the light of the soul, which i wrote in collaboration with a.a.b, an effort was made to indicate the nature of the light of the soul. the key to this technique is to be found in the words: in that light shall we see light. a simple paraphrase of these apparently abstract and symbolic words could be given as follows: when the disciple has found that lighted centre within himself and can walk in its radiating light, he is then in a position (or in a state of consciousness, if you prefer) wherein he becomes aware of the light within al

known and appropriated. this light puts out the lesser lights through the pure radiance of its power. you have therefore the light of knowledge, the light of wisdom and the light of the intuition, and these are three definite stages or aspects of the one light. they correspond to the physical sun, the heart of the sun, and the central spiritual sun. in this last sentence you have the clue and the key to the relation of man to the logos. these stages and their corresponding techniques are apt to be misunderstood if the student fails to remember that between them lie no real lines of demarcation but only a constant overlapping, a cyclic development and a process of fusion which is most confusing to beginners. just as the result of innate reaction to environment produces the apparatus needed

ld that has yet been given and its true meaning is intended to be revealed in the next two generations. the word "faith" is a good instance of the method of rendering "blind" some of the ancient truths so that their significance may not be prematurely revealed. light and substance are synonymous terms. soul and light are equally so, and in this equality of idea light, substance, soul you have the key to fusion and to the at-one-ment which christ expressed so fully for us in his life on earth. when, therefore, students and aspirants have made progress in soul contact, they have taken one of the first important steps towards the comprehension of light and its uses. they must however be careful not to confuse the light which they can bring to bear on life, circumstance, events, and on environ

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

re interpolate a remark which may prove helpful and illuminating. we are dealing (as you will undoubtedly have noted) with the reception of impression by groups or by aggregations of groups composed of living beings who have their own agents of distribution or impression. the entire evolutionary history of our planet is one of reception and of distribution, of a taking in and of a giving out. the key to humanity's trouble (focussing, as it has, in the economic troubles of the past two hundred years, and in the theological impasse of the orthodox churches) has been to take and not to give, to accept and not to share, to grasp and not to distribute. this is the breaking of the law which has placed humanity in the position of guilt. the war is the dire penalty which humanity has had to pay fo

the aspirant's surroundings but to which he remains as yet unawakened and unenlightened. i am seeking to make the matter as simple as i can, for much of the abstract formulations of the occult sciences and the academic psychologists are incident to the over-activity of men's minds and emotional natures. if you can grasp certain broad and relatively simple facts and recognise that you possess the key or the clue in your already developed capacities, then you will go forward with simplicity, making no undue intellectual difficulties when dealing with these more subtle phases of your ever-existent environment. it is, in the last analysis, just a question as to what "impresses" you at any given moment, and then in what manner it conditions you- 32- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright

hest impressions and is the point of entry to the head centre. upon this i need not enlarge; all that i have taught you is related to the awakening of this highest centre, prior to the aspirant's becoming a member of the kingdom of god. the ajna centre is not involved and it will remain for several more centuries the agent of directed impression and not the objective of such impressions. the next key-thought which is of importance is found in the words: 3 "the plan is the dynamic substance, providing the content of the reservoir upon which the impressing agent can draw and to which the recipient of the impression must become sensitive" this sentence requires probably a quite serious readjustment in the thinking of most students. the concept of the plan as substance will assuredly be new to

rs, working through the new group of world servers. this group is the lower correspondence of the nirmanakayas, the recipients of impression from shamballa. see you, therefore, the beauty and the synthesis, the inter-dependence and the cooperative interplay which is demonstrated right through the chain of hierarchy from the very highest agent to the very lowest recipient of divine impression. the key to all this is energy. energy is substance, and this substance is qualified by divine dynamic will. there is much to be learnt anent the will. will as dynamic energy is not yet understood in its true sense by human beings. mankind usually recognises will as fixed determination; this is in reality their individual effort to impress substance (personal or environing) with their own self-will or

sible correctly to gauge the wider aspects of the purpose of sanat kumara. everything subhuman is slowly moving towards a definite human experience; it is also passing through the phase of human effort and consequent experience, or else it has moved out of that phase of limitation and through initiation is drafting human nature into a state of divinity (to use a most inadequate phrase. humanity s key role- 71- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust the keynote, therefore, of the lord of the world is humanity for it is the basis, the goal and the essential inner structure of all being. humanity itself is the key to all evolutionary processes and to all correct understanding of the divine plan, expressing in time and space the divine purpose. why he chose that this shou

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

ou to pause and contemplate it, even though you grasp not its full implications as yet. the ancient wisdom teaches that "space is an entity" it is with the life of this entity and with the forces and energies, the impulses and the rhythms, the cycles and the times and seasons that esoteric astrology deals. h.p.b. stated this in the secret doctrine. i would remind you that there is an astrological key to the secret doctrine which cannot yet be given in completeness. i can, however, give you some hints and suggest some lines of approach, and these, if carried in the consciousness of the illumined astrologers, may enable one of them at a later date to discover that key and then turning it on behalf of humanity reveal the fourth great fundamental of the ageless wisdom of which three are alread

any particular sign, for a study of these will indicate the three phases of the path with its involutionary cycle of becoming increasingly involved in matter, or life upon the mutable cross, the interlude of readjustment or struggle for liberation which leads to the mounting of the fixed cross, and the period of liberation with the final mounting of the cardinal cross. 8. the significance of the key words for the modes of progress through the signs. 9. the underlying theme of any specific zodiacal sign, covered by the ideas of re-creation, regeneration, reorientation and renunciation. before taking up these matters in connection with pisces, there are one or two points upon which i would like to touch. i have to take up certain problems as they may arise in the consciousness of the enquir

ge is brought to an end by what is called the final death, when the complete release of the life aspect from the life of form takes place. it should be borne in mind also that the soul itself is of the nature of form from the standpoint of the monad, though it is a form far subtler than any that we know in the three worlds of human evolution. there is also a dual renunciation referred to in these key words, for first of all the soul renounces the life and light of the monad, its source (symbolized by the words "the father's home, and descends into the ocean of matter; then, reversing itself, the soul renounces the life of form, the personality centre. the soul detaches itself (in consciousness) from the monad, the one, and functions from its own centre, making its own new and material atta

hole body to be full of light" then capricorn, the goat, related particularly and closely to aries, but hiding (as an esoteric blind) the symbolism of the unicorn in which the two horns and the single eye are blended and depicted by the long straight horn of the unicorn in the centre of the forehead. behind all the above lies the dual mystery of leo, for leo is as far as humanity is concerned the key or clue to the entire zodiac and around the constellation leo two great mysteries are found: 1. the mystery of the sphinx, connected with the relation of leo and virgo, and tied up with the secret of the solar angels. this is not the mystery of soul and form, but the mystery of the higher and the lower mind and their relation to each other. 2. the mystery of the lion and the unicorn. this secr

lower mind and their relation to each other. 2. the mystery of the lion and the unicorn. this secret is preserved for us in the ancient nursery rhyme about the "lion and the unicorn going up to town" and contains in a peculiar way the secret of initiation and the "going up" of the human being to the portal of admittance into the hierarchy as well as the "mystic raising" of which masonry holds the key. this deals with the emergence of the consciousness of the initiate (white and one-pointed) and the defeat of the king of beasts (the personality) leading to the triumph of group and world consciousness, of selflessness and illumination over self-consciousness and selfishness. in the true rendition of this ancient myth the king of beasts is blinded and killed by the piercing of his eye and hea

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

't send in an order i shall have to send up what i think you need and you wouldn't like that, would you" so i turned in an order. when the groceries arrived at the rectory that morning i found an envelope with ten dollars "incidental cash" in it which he had sent up, in case i was short of ready money, and which he had added to the bill as he knew i would not accept charity. he also asked for the key to our mail-box, so he could look after my mail for me. i have felt and still feel deeply indebted to him. it took me over two years to pay off his bill but it was paid, and each time i sent him five dollars on account i would get back a grateful letter from him just as if i had done him a favor. apart from the fact that i had been brought up in england where no anti-jew feeling has prevailed

the time will come when we shall be- 86- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust liberated from all the ills of the flesh, but when it does come we shall have learned a different sense of values and will not be using our divine powers to get material good for ourselves. all good things come to those who live harmlessly, who are kind and considerate as well. but harmlessness is the key and i leave you to find out for yourselves how difficult it is to be harmless in word and deed and thought. life in hollywood was now easier for me. the children were old enough to go to school and kindergarten. i had many friends and the grounds at krotona, the theosophical headquarters, were delightful. krotona was a community of about five hundred people, some living on the grounds and some

has little or no appeal to the modern generation. but those of us who really studied it and arrived at some understanding of its inner significance have a basic appreciation of the truth that no other book seems to supply. h.p.b. said that the next interpretation of the ageless wisdom would be a psychological approach, and a treatise on cosmic fire, which i published in 1925, is the psychological key to the secret doctrine. none of my books would- 121- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust have been possible had i not at one time made a very close study of the secret doctrine. looking back over the years of my own girlhood and those of my daughters, i know now what a difficult time adolescence is. i had a much worse time than my girls did because nobody told me anything

as been forgotten. people have attempted to initiate a period of peace before there has been any demonstration of goodwill. there can be no peace until goodwill is a conditioning factor in all human relations. another revolutionary thing that the tibetan did was when he dictated the contents of a treatise on cosmic fire. in this book he gave what h.p.b. prophesied he would give, the psychological key to cosmic creation. h.p.b. stated that in the 20th century a disciple would come who would give information concerning the three fires with which the secret doctrine deals: electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction. this prophecy was fulfilled when a treatise on cosmic fire was given out to the public. this book concerns the fire of pure spirit or life; the fire of the mind that vitalises

w, that the detailed instructions given by a master to his group of disciples have ever been published and so put into the hands of the general public. in the above paragraphs i have attempted very briefly to describe some of the activities which the- 136- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust tibetan initiated in an effort along with other members of the hierarchy to strike the key-note of the new age, and it is upon these things in the senior degrees of the arcane school that we seek to lay the emphasis. some of the students have been with us twenty years or more. they have faithfully done their work and are definitely getting results. later we hope to develop certain groups that will use some of the techniques with which the tibetan has dealt in what will probably be h

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

connected with the problem of healing. it will be apparent, therefore, how important it is before real healing can take place that the healer should know the point in evolution reached by the patient, and should also know his ray type, both personality and egoic. if to this you add some knowledge of his astrological inclinations and indications, a far more accurate diagnosis can be produced. the key to all release (either through the physical cure of disease or through death) lies in the understanding of the condition of the centres in the etheric body. these determine the rate of the bodily vibratory activity and the general responsiveness of the physical body. they even condition the activity and accuracy of the instinctual nature and its relation to the outer plane life and the "wholen

of functioning as a human being. the door into this experience is the "gate of cancer" initiation into the kingdom of god is entered through the "gate of capricorn" these four attributes and the three aspects of matter, plus their dual activity, are the correspondence to the four aspects of the personality and the spiritual triad and their dual active relationship. in this statement is hidden the key to liberation. the seven major centres it would be of value here if we consider for a moment the nature of the centres themselves, summarising somewhat the teaching already given in my other books, and so presenting a clear picture of the energy body which underlies the dense physical vehicle. there are many focal points of force within the body, but we shall deal only with the major seven whi

inevitable inter-relations you have again only in the case of disciples a most amazing picture story or symbol of the ninefold of initiation: 1. the head centre the ajna centre the throat centre 2. the third eye the right eye the left eye 3. the pineal gland the pituitary body the carotid gland thus presenting the mechanism through which the spiritual triad, the soul and the personality work. the key to a right understanding of process lies in the relation of the three planets: uranus, mercury and saturn, as they pour their energies through these nine "points of spiritual contact" upon the physical plane into the "grounded sphere of light and power which is the man- 92- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust in time and space" b. this centre is

sic centre. in the relation of these two triangles lies the clue to the instinct of self-preservation, the survival of the subtle bodies after death, and the principle of immortality which is seated in the soul and functions when self-preservation and survival no longer hold sway. this constitutes a triplicity of ideas which requires most careful study and which if i might so express it gives the key to the spiritualistic movement. d. the sacral centre is also connected with the ajna centre in the last analysis; the two together create a functioning duality which is productive of that subtle quality which we call personality. there is a wide field for investigation in the theme of personality as an integrated whole and in the quality of personality, which is the aroma, the influence, the e

forces and energies, functioning through the etheric body; that we are dealing with the tertiary world of causes, which is responsible for the organic world of the dense physical manifestation. this physical manifestation is itself subject to the influence of the secondary world of conscious life, which in its turn is responsive in time and space to the dynamic world of purpose and of being. the key to the full life of the soul lies hidden in my words, but it takes the dedicated life and the- 114- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust illumined mind to profit by the knowledge conveyed, and to see behind the form of words the key thought which gives it life and occultly speaking generative warmth. have clearly in mind the concepts of stimulati

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

f bridging the gap between the soul and the spiritual triad, so that there can be the free play of consciousness and complete identification with the one life, thus leading to the loss of the sense of separateness and to the merging of the part with the whole, with no loss of identity but with no recognition of self-identification. here an interesting point should be carefully noted. it holds the key to future racial unfoldment. for it the new science of psychology, which has developed so remarkably during the past thirty years, is preparing us. students should train themselves to distinguish between the sutratma and the antahkarana, between the life thread and the thread of consciousness. one thread is the basis of immortality and the other the basis of continuity. herein lies a fine dist

n the triad and the personality. the power of the ego can begin to make itself felt. applicants for initiation and initiates up to the third initiation use both the sutratma and the antahkarana, employing them as a unit. the power of the triad begins to pour through, thus energising all human activities upon the physical plane, and vitalising in ever increasing degree the man's thought forms. the key to the formation of the mayavirupa is found in the right comprehension of the process. a treatise on cosmic fire, pp. 959-960. it should be noted here that the bridging has to be done in the consciousness aspect, and concerns the continuity of man's awareness of life in all his various aspects. the energy which is used in connecting, in consciousness, the physical man and the astral body is fo

ity of the hierarchy of love*(1) the future is of great promise, provided man can learn the lessons of the present which have been clearly presented to him; he must accept them and understand clearly the nature of his problem and of the crisis with its many ramifications and various implications. the seething turmoil in which the masses of the people are now living and the emergence of one or two key people in every nation have a close relationship. these key people make their voices heard and evoke attention; their ideas are followed rightly or wrongly with attention, appreciation or distrust. the slow and careful formation of the new group of world servers is indicative of the crisis. they are overseeing or ushering in the new age and are present at the birthpangs of the new civilisation

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

the true world of esotericism. it concerns his relation to that vortex of special energies which we call an ashram. it is therefore intended to teach the disciple how to absorb energy and what to contribute of energy to the whole; it does this not by indicating the modes and acceptances of transference, but by establishing a constant habit of spiritual livingness. one sentence was particularly a key to my comments "disciples need to build into their brain consciousness a stable recognition of relationship and of attitude" so much of the life of a disciple, even when he has been admitted into an ashram as an earned right, remains esoteric, below the surface and almost entirely subjective. of this the iceberg is by far the best symbol. his knowledge and capacities and his spiritual abilitie

rom this type of error. part of my task within my ashram is to train disciples to recognise the new, emerging ideas and translate them into the concepts which will condition human thinking in the cycle just ahead. the second stage of this training involves the cultivation of a correct sense of timing. this will prevent the disciple from taking precipitate or premature action; it will give him the key to the real meaning of the eternal now the synthesis of past, present and future. he will next be taught the art of precipitation, or the mode of conveying these ideas to the minds of the intellectuals in the world. through these concrete and receptive minds the presented ideas are transformed into ideals and then are brought to the attention of humanity. the place and the responsibility of th

kingdoms in nature, great cyclic expressions of life, are controlled by them, and all this is produced through the potency of their creative meditation which impresses the needed inspiration (another phrase for the breath of life itself) upon the nirmanakayas and through them upon the spiritual hierarchy. their link with all these planetary groups (and it is real and vital) can be grasped in the key statement that "all lives upon or within the aura of the planetary logos and of his manifested body, the earth, have been, are or will be in the future human being, thereby establishing and demonstrating their past, present or future identity with humanity, the fourth kingdom in nature" this kingdom is the planetary group or centre which expresses in time and space all the divine aspects somet

er imparted rules of the road*(15) will have indicated to you. i would like here, my brother, to list for you the most important of the statements made by me in the previous instruction, indicating those which embody important hints and showing you, this one time, with what care i prepare that which i seek to impart and how, therefore, i expect from you a careful study of my words. here are these key thoughts: 1. only that which you know for yourself and consciously experience is of importance. this refers especially to the following: a. your perception of the vision. b. your contact with me, your master. c. your recognition of the initiatory process- 175- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust i told you, therefore, that you must have (for the goal) the demonstr

nts his feet upon the mountain top and from that point of altitude perceives the thought of god, visions the dream within the mind of god, follows god's eye from central point to outer goal and sees himself as all that is and yet within the whole" 3. the stage of precipitation. having thus identified himself through penetration and polarisation with the plan and with the will of god (which is the key to shamballa, he then proceeds as a result of this triple recognition to do his share in materialising the plan and in bringing through into outer manifestation and expression as much of that plan as he can. he thus becomes first of all an outpost of the hierarchy (which of necessity means sensitivity to the shamballa energy, and then increasingly an agent of light the light universal, or the

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

nd the necessity to work with light as a group for the dissipation of glamour. hermes and christ undertook this work of astral enlightenment and are constantly occupied with this task. their work in the new age is to be aided by the intensive activity of certain groups of which this second group is one. later, when the new civilisation is nearing appearance, these groups will all have in them two key persons or points of energy through which the forces of hermes and the will of christ will be focussed, and through which they will be enabled to work. when this takes place, the task of dissipating the world glamour will be much more rapid than it is today. in the meantime groups of disciples can "nurture and conceal" thus protecting from trouble the germ or seed of the new aquarian culture a

humanity, then the foremost people of the race will know that the astral plane has no true existence; they will then work free from its impression, and the task of freeing humanity from the thraldom of its own creation will proceed apace. in the meantime a group of disciples is being slowly built up (of which this second group is a part and in which it can play an important function, and occupy a key position, which can gradually aid in the task of dispelling the great illusion and can act also as a bridging group so that those who are freeing themselves from glamour can find their way into the vortex of influence wielded by the group, empowered thus to work. then three things can happen: 1. those who thus approach the group will find their efforts to live free from glamour greatly helped

we attempted a slight analysis of their planned undertakings. now we can do the same with the remaining groups, particularly with the fourth and fifth which have education and political work as their projects. and then we will only briefly indicate the triple intended purpose of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth groups. we will not take time to consider the tenth, which will be composed of the key people in the other groups, beyond stating that when its twenty-seven members (three from each group) are chosen and put in rapport with each other, there should come to all the groups such a quickening of their life that they will become one living vibrant organism. the fourth group has ahead of it a rich and most interesting course of study and an illuminating objective. its instructions (se

he major theme. soul sensitivity and reaction to the energy in any form will be the training objective of the group members. owing to the difficulty of this task, the members of this eighth group will be chosen from the personnel of the other groups, for they will have had a fair measure of training in their preliminary work. two groups will then be interlocking groups that which is formed of the key people in all the groups, and this one. the ninth group, whose project is financial service, will be one of the most practical and interesting from the standpoint of the present world situation and modern conditions. i may begin to organise this group before long, provided some of my disciples show me the subjective signs for which i look, which involves a right understanding and spiritual app

dern conditions. i may begin to organise this group before long, provided some of my disciples show me the subjective signs for which i look, which involves a right understanding and spiritual appreciation of money. by this i do not mean that any of you who do show such signs will be in this group, but you will provide the right conditions which will make its inception possible; one or two of the key people- 40- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust however, may form part of the financial service group if the plan works out as hoped and intended. the task to be undertaken by this group is to study the significance of money as directed and appropriated energy. this direction of force produces concretisation, and the work is then in the field of magical endeavour. a

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

ng bush or the burning tree of life of biblical symbolism. this highest of all the fires, this deeply spiritual and hitherto seldom recognised burning-ground, has its effects summed up for us in the next phrase or sentence of rule i. 3. the clear cold light shines forth and cold it is and yet the heat evoked by the group love permits the warmth of energetic moving out. in these words you have the key to group initiation. the light of the higher initiations can stream in when it is evoked by the group love. that light is clear and cold, but produces the needed "heat" which is a symbolic word used in many of the world scriptures to express living, spiritual energy. i said "spiritual energy" and not soul force, and herein lies a distinction which you will some day have to grasp. this group lo

e word which came forth to him when he was irrevocably committed to hierarchical purpose. he has heard the voice from shamballa just as he earlier heard the voice of the silence and the voice of his master. occult obedience gives place to enlightened will. he can now be trusted to walk and work alone because he is unalterably one with his group, with the hierarchy, and finally with shamballa. the key to this whole rule lies in the injunction to the initiate that he add to his application three demands, and only after they have been voiced and correctly expressed and motivated by the dynamic will, does the further injunction come that he move forward. what are these three demands, and by what right does the initiate make them? hitherto the note of his expanding consciousness has been vision

666 and found it naught; who has dropped the 6 and become the 66, and thus has found himself upon the way; later, again, he drops the 6 and becomes the perfected 6 form, the instrument and expression of spirit" the number 24 is of deep interest, expressing as it does the double 12 the greater and the lesser zodiac. just as the number 6 expresses space, so the number 24 expresses time, and is the key to the great cycle of manifestation. it is the clue to all cyclic appearance or incarnation. its two figures define the method of evolution; 2 equals the quality of love-wisdom, working under the law of attraction and drawing man from one point of attainment to another; whilst 4 indicates the technique of conflict and the achieving of harmony through that conflict; 4 is also the number of the

r to the higher. it therefore behooves the individual disciple to decide whether he is an applicant, and consequently to be controlled by the "rules in time and space" or a candidate for initiation who knows that life is one and that the form is of no material significance, except as a field of experience for the soul. we now come to the most important part of this particular rule; it conveys the key to the immediate goal for those who have attained a certain measure of understanding. the words of importance are: 3. let then the group merged in the fifth be nourished by the sixth and seventh- 84- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust in other words "then let the group which is identified with the soul find its sustenance and vitalit

of the path of the higher evolution. it is to that path what experience in the mineral kingdom of the life of god is to that same life when it reaches the fourth or human kingdom. you can see, therefore, how significant is the coming science of comparison; not yet has this science of comparative analysis been turned into a definitely recognised line of approach to truth. the law of analogy is the key which unlocks the understanding. something of the quality and the revelatory power of the intuition is known by all disciples; it constitutes at times (from its very rarity) a major "spiritual excitement" it produces effects and stimulation; it indicates future receptivity to dimly sensed truths and is allied if you could but realise it with the entire phenomena of prevision. a registration of

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

he sun recedes; at time the fourth the work is done, and naught is left save flame primordial. that flame absorbs, revolves, receives, and remains. when all that is has traversed the flame, then time is nvialice bailey& djwhal khul the labors of hercules- table of contents the zodiac the purpose of this study (foreword) the nature of discipleship astrological connotations the world disciple today key thoughts hercules the disciple- the myth elaboration of the myth labor i the capture of the man-eating mares the myth the meaning of the myth the sign the three initial impulses in aries the sign of the mind constellations in aries the crux of the test labor ii the capture of the cretan bull the myth the meaning of the labor four symbolic words the story of the labor the theme of illumination

this is the story of the individual christ, crucified upon the cross of matter, and incarnated in each human being, god, incarnate in matter. this is the story of our solar system, the story of our planet, the story of the human being. thus as we look at the starry heavens above, we have eternally pictured for us this great drama, which the story of hercules elucidates in detail for the aspirant. key thoughts four key thoughts can be given here which express the underlying purpose of the creative process and the objective of both the cosmic christ and of the individual aspirant. they give us the clue to the working out of the plan. taken together they embody the entire story of the relationship of spirit and matter, of life and form, and of soul and body. first "nature expresses invisible

he was the self in close relation to the not-self; he had to experiment with the law of- 10- the labours of hercules cause and effect, and this from the standpoint of the initiator of the causes in order to produce intelligent effects. through the twelve signs of the zodiac he passed, struggling to work subjectively and trying to reject the lure and the pull of the outer tangible form. the second key thought can be expressed in the words "the conception of a concealed deity lies at the heart of all religions" this is the mystic realization and the object of the search that humanity has carried on down the ages. the exponents of the world religions have embodied in their teaching one aspect of the search, accepting the fact of god as a basic premise, and with their heart's love and devotion

used upon leading humanity on to the path of discipleship, and training many of the more advanced so that they can become the knowers and initiates of the new age. thus men will pass out of the hall of learning into the hall of wisdom, from the realm of the unreal to the real, and from the outer darkness of phenomenal existence into the light that shines always in the kingdom of spirit. the third key thought gives us a clue to the method. down the ages the words have sounded forth "i am he. who awakens the silent beholder. it has become apparent to seekers in all fields that within all forms there is an urge to intelligent expression, and a certain livingness which we call consciousness, and which in the human family takes the form of a self-awareness [13] this self-awareness when truly de

e zodiac, only now working from aries to pisces via taurus (anti-clockwise, instead of working in the ordinary human retrogressive fashion, from aries to taurus via pisces (clockwise. finally, the changing focus of the life and the steady application to the twelve labors in the twelve signs enables the disciple to become the triumphant victor. then he can comprehend the significance of the fourth key thought and can exclaim in unison with the cosmic deity "listen to this great secret. although i am above birth and rebirth, or law, being the lord of all there is, for all emanateth from me, still do i will to appear in my own universe and am therefore born by my power and thought and will (the bhagavad gita, as compiled and adapted by yogi ramacharaka [14] hercules the disciple- the myth he

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

these are the points of contact between the kabalah of the jew and the so-called esotericism of the teachings of buddha and of hinduism. it may be that the catholic church, from which the protestant church seceded, was from its origin in the possession of the hebrew rabbinic secret of the intentional exoteric nature of the bible, and of a priestly mode of understanding the esoteric kabalah, as a key to the true explanations of the jewish books, which being apparently histories are really largely allegorical. if this were granted, it would explain why the catholic church has for ages discouraged the laity from the study of the old testament books, and would lead us to think that protestantism made a mistake in combining with the reformation of a vicious priesthood the encouragement of the

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

. this is, the divine name of rtk. the descent of the light from rtk to twklm formulates the flaming sword and descendeth from the above to the below. in that trapt is a reflection of rtk and that which is in rtk is reflected in trapt, the rose and cross exists in rtk as a beam of brilliance and is made manifest and pronounced in trapt. the rose and cross is a symbol of the crux ansata and is the key to the opening of the seven-sided vault of the adepti. the vault is a mystical symbol of that which is truly alive and yet buried and beyond the range and comprehension of animal man. the vault cannot be approached by the candidate unless, first, he be scourged and his physical body be likened to christ. second, he must be crucified and die with christ "for if ye will die with christ, ye shall

r will from uniting with the higher will. the aspirant the candidate hangs on the black cross of suffering. although black is symbolic of evil, in this instance, it is also the charging or flashing color of white. as the candidate hangs upon the cross the arrow of i within the aspirant is formulated upward into trapt. all has been done to bring the aspirant to a state of equilibrium (see the 14th key in the portal initiation. the three, the seven, and the twelve are bound as one in the aspirant. the rose of the aspirant is formulated- twenty-two petals, the five grades preceeding love forged this cross. the aspirant is now in touch with his yechidah (in rtk only as yet. the crucifixion on the cross of pain and suffering has served the candidate well in that now he is equilibriated. the inv

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

ng the connection of dianawith witchcraft, and how many of her attributes became those ofthe madonna. the worship of diana, as he says, prevailed very extensively. so much so, thatwhen christianity superseded paganism, much of the heathen symbolism was adapted to the newrites, and the transition from the worship of diana to that of the madonna was made comparativelysimple. mr. rolfe speaks of the key, rue, and verbena as symbols of diana; of all of these i haveincantations, apparently very ancient, and identified with diana. i have often found ruein houses inflorence, and had it given to me as a special favour. it is always concealed in some dark corner,because to take any away is to take luck. the bronze frog was an emblem of diana; hence the latinproverb, he who loves a frog regards it a

ch always belong partly to posteri-ty, it is a sin of vulgarity as well as morality, and indicates what people aremore than they dream.only a cad as low as a thiefwould write in a book or turn down a leaf,since tis thievery, as well is known,t o make free with that which is not our own. page 48 thus it came to pass that t ana became thedeaor spirit of the moon.though the air be set to a different key, this is a poem of pure melody, and the same aswordsworths goody blake and harry gill. both tanaand the old dame are surprised and terrified;both pray to a power above: the cold, cold moon above her head,thus on her knees did goody pray;young harry heard what she had said,and icy cold he turned away.the dramatic centre is just the same in both. the english ballad soberly turns into an incurabl

BALANCE J

ent my late teens lurking inside. in fact there were several of his paintings and i could not believe my eyes. until then i had only been aware of his name and had been conscious of seeing the recurring and haunting image of pan, which was actually a section of the late pastel called the vampires are coming. this image was widely used in the seventies on several occult type book jackets and was a key figure in the promotion of the eclectic magazine series man, myth and magic. here were a clutch of excitingly vivid and dynamically coloured originals. my mouth went dry, my head reeled and i was shocked into a state of genuine awe. these were the real thing. i remember a dual self-portrait in which the two facing heads of spare seemed to be locked into some perpetual argument. there was an ee

BANISHING THE SLAVE GODS

st plain witnessing to you with their chosen "faith. to intiate an offensive attack- which is actually a blessing in disguise- you will imagine this inverse pentagram slightly between your eyebrows at the center of your forehead. in the same manner that said pentagram is projected out during the rite, you may project this onto the center of the forehead of the person you are cursing/blessing. the key to the efficacy of this attack lies in the ability to open ones own "third eye chakra" which provides the force behind the actual symbol. here is a brief sex magical rite to open the "third eye. obtain crowley's book of thoth: tarot take out the devil and tower cards. you can: a. masturbate while gazing upon the tower card equating its symbology with the procreative force you are generating th

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

you need not look for our metallic seed among the elements. it need not be sought so far back. if you can only rectify the mercury, sulphur, and salt (understand, those of the sages) until the metallic spirit and body are inseparably joined together by means of the metallic soul, you thereby firmly rivet the chain of love, and prepare the palace for the coronation. these things represent a liquid key, comparable to the celestial influence, and a dry water joined to the terrestrial substance: all which are one thing, derived from three, and two, and one. if you understand this, you have already attained our magistery. then you must join the husband and wife together that each may feed upon the other s flesh and blood, and that so they may propagate their species a thousandfold. though i wou

d from their sight. but all who had heard him went each man to his house, and meditated on his words by day and by night. twelve keys of basil valentine 23 of 95 here follow the twelve keys of basilius valentinus, the benedictine, with which we may open the doors of the knowledge of the most ancient stone and unseal the most secret fountain of health. twelve keys of basil valentine 24 of 95 first key let my friend know that no impure or spotted things are useful for our purpose. for there is nothing in their leprous nature capable of advancing the interests of our art there is much more likelihood of that which is in itself good being spoiled by that which is impure. everything that is obtained from the mines has its value, unless, indeed, it is adulterated. adulteration, however, spoils i

t off, and scions of better trees grafted upon it. the new branches thereupon become organically united to the trunk; but though nourished with its sap, they thence forward produce good and pleasant fruit. the king travels through six regions in the heavenly firmament, and in the seventh he fixes his abode. there the royal palace is adorned with golden tapestry. if you understand my meaning, this key will open the first lock, and push back the first bolt; but if you do not, no spectacles or natural eyesight will enable you to understand what follows. but lucius papirius has instructed me not to say any more about this key. twelve keys of basil valentine 28 of 95 second key in the houses of the great are found various kinds of drink, of which scarcely two are exactly like each other in odou

a fiery spirit, which, by means of its great heat, will consume the wings of the eagle, and prepare a perspiring bath of so extraordinary a degree of heat that the snow will melt upon the summit of the mountains, and become a water, with which the invigorating mineral bath may be prepared, and fortune, health, life, and strength restored to the king. twelve keys of basil valentine 32 of 95 third key by means of water fire may be extinguished, and utterly quenched. if much water be poured upon a little fire, the fire is overcome, and compelled to yield up the victory to the water. in the same way our fiery sulphur must be overcome by means of our prepared water. but, after the water has vanished, the fiery life of our sulphurous vapour must triumph, and again obtain the victory. but no suc

ated in colour. carefully preserve this splendid mantle, together with the astral salt which is joined to this sulphur, and screens it from harm. add to it a sufficient quantity of the volatility of the bird; then the cock will swallow the fox, and, having been drowned in the water, and quickened by the fire, will in its turn be swallowed by the fox. twelve keys of basil valentine 35 of 95 fourth key all flesh that is derived from the earth, must be decomposed and again reduced to earth; then the earthy salt produces a new generation by celestial resuscitation. for where there was not first earth, there can be no resurrection in our magistery. for in earth is the balm of nature, and the salt of the sages. at the end of the world, the world shall be judged by fire, and all those things that

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

sabbat or al-zabbat, the freedom from the trappings of flesh and the awakening of the nightside consciousness. this is the primal gnosis of sorcery itself, which is the dark well of the elixir of the adept, the one who drinks of the dual ecstasies of the sun and the moon[4. the arcanum of the luciferian path is a resounding voice of the king and queen of witchblood, being samael and lilith[5. the key to the gnosis of the fallen angels is within their very essence, being of the sun and the moon. the sorcerer may seek the sexual union of both within his or her self, allowing the pleasure of the waking and waning moon to be brought forth through the sun, which is the gateway for demons and angels in copulation. if one seeks not the sexual genii, the antinomianian path is brought forth by a so

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

ork with me on this material, fortifying my understanding of these ritual texts and clarifying many troublesome points. i owe a debt of gratitude to david germano, robert barnett, and erin burke, who organized the summer language program to lhasa, tibet in 2005, which i attended. this experience afforded me the opportunity to enhance greatly my research on the subject of tsiu marpo and visit many key sites tied to the history of this deity. i wish to thank especially lozang of k ndeling monastery and lodr gyeltsen of tengy ling monastery. i befriended these two tibetan lamas during the summer program and they were generous enough to give to me as gifts two tibetan texts that have become foundational materials in this study. their graciousness in interview has been an inspiration to this wo

eory of causation (skt. prat.tyasamutp.da. 17 plurality of body and soul plays an integral part in the understanding of the tibetan worldview and is important in the monastic context so that it may be utilized toward buddhist ends. ritual texts tibet has an extensive literary tradition. the vast array of genres and textual categories is too grand to cover briefly, but a description of some of the key textual types that will be encountered in this study is necessary.28 tantra (rgyud) is a sanskrit word that refers to a specific category of texts. these are the central texts studied and practiced within vajray.na buddhism since its conception in north india. they are considered to be composed or inspired by great bodhisattvas and in some instance..kin.s. richard payne notes that, despite the

n this context. todd gibson does draw this connection and even mentions their early appearance in the tibetan epic of gesar.63 while such a detailed analysis of this particular group is beyond the scope of this thesis, a stronger association between tsiu marpo and the seven riders should be recognized. their involvement in tsiu marpo s history and much of his ritual activity underlies many of his key texts, particularly in the primary resources utilized for this study.64 for future study, a fuller exploration of these deities would first require a translation and analysis of the root ritual text of the seven riders, also written by ngari pa.chen and available in the great treasury of precious termas; understandably, it immediately follows the warlord s tantra.65 settings it is self-evident

ones stated that the six might demons who emanated from tsiu marpo s body actually arose from the six body parts of the murdered chorwa. whether these specific incongruities can be substantiated is irrelevant; they detail the degree to which variations pervade this narrative as well as similar narratives. such details are not as important as the buddhist elements and plot direction, which are the key features necessary to explain and warrant the birth and evolution of tsiu marpo as the king of the violence demons. tsiu marpo in history tracing the narrative history of tsiu marpo lends itself to analysis far more than does tracing his textual history or the history of his cult within actual recorded time. understandably, the further back in time we go, the more uncertainties approach and im

ledge. in paintings (figure 12) and drawings (figures 13 and 14, he is often mounted on his horse and spearing someone who hangs by his lasso below his horse s hooves. this being personifies the enemy of the buddhist teachings. he is surrounded by red flames and smoke, and appears to ride over a red ocean of blood. in contrast, statues of tsiu marpo tend to be less dynamic. they maintain the same key descriptors associated with tsiu marpo, such as the red skin, piercing eyes, and gnawed lower lip, but these figures are stationary,85 though there are exceptions (figures 10 and 15. the slight variations noticeable in all descriptions of tsiu marpo exist for the same reason that there are variations in his narrative accounts; they provide nuances significant to the individual painter, sculpto

BLACK SERPENT1

e its benefits because you can witness firsthand how the group works and you can meet members one on one. you also have the opportunity to ask questions and enjoy the social atmosphere of informal group meetings. it could take you years to find the right group. in the meantime there is nothing wrong with being solitary. i believe that those who are meant to belong to groups will find a match. the key to finding the right group is to keep looking and to not be discouraged. 20 a pantheon of dark gods by- s. connolly first published as "eon pantheon van duistere goden" in religie& mystiek magazine, 1998 not surprisingly, perhaps one of the most common questions posed to people practicing traditional left hand path religions is "why would anyone choose to work with such dark gods; such evil de

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

es of brahma. the reader will now be prepared to understand the real, the esoteric significance of what follows. moreover there is an important point to be cleared up. christian theology having arbitrarily settled and agreed that satan with his fallen angels belonged to the earliest creation, satan being the first-created, the wisest and most beautiful of god's archangels, the word was given, the key-note struck. henceforth all the pagan scriptures were made to yield the same meaning, and all were shown to be demoniacal, and it was and is claimed that truth and fact belong to, and commence only with, christianity. even the orientalists and mythologists, some of them no christians at all but "infidels" or men of science, entered unconsciously to themselves, and by the mere force of associat

god" the representative of jehovah, who is the leader of the celestial hosts- as lucifer, in milton's fancy, is of the infernal hosts- who has the best of satan. it is true that the nature of[[vol. 2, page] 63 who are the "flames? michael depends upon that of his creator and master. who the latter is, one may find out by carefully studying the allegory of the "war in heaven" with the astronomical key. as shown by bentley, the "war of the titans against the gods" 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 m

eory. compare sir r. s. bull's article in "nature (dec. 1, 1881, and also what the american geologists say[[vol. 2, page] 65 divine will becomes eros. 10. when they (the rupas) were destroyed, mother-earth remained bare* she asked to be dried (a (a) the time for its incrustation had arrived. the waters had separated and the process was started. it was the beginning of a new life. this is what one key divulges to us. another key teaches the origin of water, its admixture with fire (liquid fire it calls it* and enters upon an alchemical description of the progeny of the two- solid matter such as minerals and earths. from the "waters of space" the progeny of the male spirit-fire and the female (gaseous) water has become the oceanic expanse on earth. varuna is dragged down from the infinite sp

zing power of heaven lay chiefly with the moon. it was the hebrew[[hebrew (jehovah, and st. paul enjoins 'let no man judge you for your observance of the seventh day, and the day of the new moon, which are a shadow of things to come; but the body (or substance) is of christ" or jehovah, that function of this power that "made the barren woman. a mother. for they are the gift of jehovah. which is a key to the objection which her husband made to the shunamite, as to her going to the man of god "for it is neither the seventh day nor the day of the new moon (2 kings, iv, 23) the living spiritual powers of the constellations had mighty wars, marked by the movements and positions of the stars and planets, and especially as the result of the conjunction of the moon, earth, and sun. bentley comment

s seven esoteric facets, will never be able to fathom certain anthropological, chronological, and even cosmic mysteries. he is one of the fires above-mentioned, and plays a part in the evolution of this kalpa from its incipient, down to its final stage. he is an actor who appears in each of the successive acts (root-races) of the present manvantaric drama, in the world allegories which strike the key-note of esotericism, and are now becoming more familiar to the reader. but shall we turn to other ancient scriptures and documents for the corroboration of the "fires "sparks" and "flames" they are plentiful, if one only seeks for them in the right places. in the "book of the concealed mystery" they are clearly enunciated, as also in the "ha idra zuta qadisha" or the lesser holy assembly. the

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

e] xiii contents. page. vi. the mundane egg. 359 egg-born logoi. 363 the winged globe. 365- vii. the days and nights of brahma. 368 human gods and divine men. 369 the rebirth of gods. 371 the puranic prophecy. 377- viii. the lotus as a universal symbol. 379 exoteric and esoteric. 381 the purity of early phallicism. 383 the egyptian lotus. 385- ix. deus lunus. 386 a glance at the lunar myth. 387 a key-note to the moon. 389 copies and originals. 393 the moon bi-sexual. 397- x. tree and serpent and crocodile worship. 403 degeneration of the symbol. 405 the seven-headed dragons. 407 dragon and crocodile. 409- xi. demon est deus inversus. 411 death is life. 413 the fall of the angels. 418 transformation of the legend. 421- xii. the theogony of the creative gods. 424 the point within the circle

wing strictly in this the data furnished by the said orientalists themselves, that, although the rig-veda contains only "about 10,580 verses, or 1,028 hymns" in spite of the brahmanas and the mass of glosses and commentaries, it is not understood correctly to this day. why is this so? evidently because the brahmanas "the scholastic and oldest treatises on the primitive hymns" themselves require a key, which the orientalists have failed to secure. what do the scholars say of buddhist literature? have they got it in its completeness? assuredly not. notwithstanding the 325 volumes of the kanjur and the tanjur of the northern buddhists, each volume we are told "weighing from four to five pounds" nothing, in truth, is known of lamaism. yet, the sacred canon of the southern church is said to con

ation amounts almost to a marvel (lecture on the vedas. the same will be said of the secret archaic doctrine, when proofs are given of its undeniable existence and records. but it will take centuries before much more is given from it. speaking of the keys to the zodiacal mysteries as being almost lost to the world, it was remarked by the writer in "isis unveiled" some ten years ago that "the said key must be turned seven times before the whole system is divulged. we will give it but one turn, and thereby allow the profane one glimpse into the mystery. happy he, who understands the whole" the same may be said of the whole esoteric system. one turn of the key, and no more, was given in "isis" much more is explained in these volumes. in those days the writer hardly knew the language in which

"the knowledge of the absolute spirit, like the effulgence of the sun, or like heat in fire, is naught else than the absolute essence itself" says sankaracharya. it- is "the spirit of the fire" not fire itself; therefore "the attributes of the latter, heat or flame, are not the attributes of the spirit, but of that of which that spirit is the unconscious cause" is not the above sentence the true key-note of later rosicrucian[[footnote(s* we are told by the western mathematicians and some american kabalists, that in the kabala also "the value of the jehovah name is that of the diameter of a circle" add to this the fact that jehovah is the third sephiroth, binah, a feminine word, and you have the key to the mystery. by certain kabalistic transformations this name, androgynous in the first c

o the most secret calculations, in which, in order to arrive at the true total, every figure must be 7x (7 to the power of x; x varying according to the nature of the cycle in the subjective or real world; and every figure or number relating to, or representing all the different cycles from the greatest to the smallest- in the objective or unreal world- must necessarily be multiples of seven. the key to this cannot be given, for herein lies the mystery of esoteric calculations, and for the purposes of ordinary calculation it has no sense "the number seven" says the kabala "is the great number of the divine mysteries" number ten is that of all human knowledge (pythagorean decade; 1,000 is the number ten to the third power, and therefore the number 7,000 is also symbolical. in the secret doc

BLUE EQUINOX

the struggle of the human and divine elements in the consciousness of man, giving their harmony following upon the victory of the latter. liber xvi. liber turris vel domus dei. an instruction for attainment by the direct destruction of thoughts as they arise in the mind. liber clxxv. astarte vel liber berylli. an instruction in attainment by the method of devotion, of bhakta-yoga. liber xlvi. the key of the mysteries. a translation by frater o.m. of the masterpiece of eliphas levi. this course is specially adapted to the task of this grade, the attainment of bhakta-yoga. curriculum of a.a. 37 course vii the dominus liminis will be examined in the following books: liber ccxx. liber l vel legis sub figur ccxx as delivered by xciii unto dclxvi. this book is the foundation of the new on, and t

48 o. m. 7 =48 o. s. v. 6 =58 parzival 5 =68 pro coll. int. v. n. pr monstrator p. imperator pro coll. ext. achad cancellarius 41 liber ii the message of the master therion (all quotations in this message are from liber ccxx, the book of the law .do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law .there is no law beyond do what thou wilt .the word of the law is qelhma. qelhma.thelema.means will. the key to this message is this word.will. the first obvious meaning of this law is confirmed by antithesis .the word of sin is restriction. again. thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that, and no other shall say nay. for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. take this carefully; it seems to imply a theory that if every man and every woman did

drunken thereon. 51. and v.v.v.v.v. answered and said: o my lord, my dove, my excellent one, how shall this word seem unto the children of men? 52. and he answered him: not as thou canst see. it is certain that every letter of this cipher hath some value; but who shall determine the value? for it varieth ever, according to the subtlety of him that made it. 53. and he answered him: have i not the key thereof? i am clothed with the body of flesh; i am one with the eternal and omnipotent god. 54. then said adonai: thou hast the head of the hawk, and thy phallus is the phallus of asar. thou knowest the white, and thou knowest the black, and thou knowest that these are one. but why seekest thou the knowledge of their equivalence? 55. and he said: that my work may be right. the equinox 70 56. a

found in the belly of the cow, so is my lover among lovers. 8. o honey boy! bring me thy cool limbs hither! let us sit awhile in the orchard, until the sun go down! let us feast on the cool grass! bring wine, ye slaves, that the cheeks of my boy may flush red. 9. in the garden of immortal kisses, o thou brilliant one, shine forth! make thy mouth an opium-poppy, that one kiss the equinox 84 is the key to the infinite sleep and lucid, the sleep of shi-loham. 10. in my sleep i beheld the universe like a clear crystal without one speck. 11. there are purse-proud penniless ones that stand at the door of the tavern and prate of their feats of wine-bibbing. 12. there are purse-proud penniless ones that stand at the door of the tavern and revile the guests. 13. the guests dally upon couches of mot

ye beheld, by love ye feel. there is an ecstacy of pure knowledge, and another of pure love. and this love is the force that uniteth things diverse, for the contemplation in light of their oneness. know that the universe is not at rest, but in extreme motion whose sum is rest. and this understanding that stability is change, and change stability, that being is becoming, and becoming being, is the key to the golden palace of this law. lastly, by liberty is the power to direct your course according to your will. for the extent of the univese is without bounds, and ye are free to make your pleasure as ye will, seeing that the diversity of being is infinite also. for this also is the joy of the law, that no two stars are alike, and ye must understand also that this multiplicity is itself unity

BOOK T

eft to right: the symbol of scorpio (the "m" style, not the eagle as noted in text, a cup, the words "deep blue; symbols in yellow. the right arm of the ankh has from left to right "the words "red; symbols in green, a lotus wand, the symbol of leo. the basal upright of the ankh has these in the lower half only, from bottom upward: the symbol of aquarius, an upright sword in style of the solomonic key, the words "yellow; symbols in violet. there are markings and symbols outside the shape of the ankh: upper left corner "l-i-f-e" above a large "t. upper right corner "v-i-t-a" above a large "a. to left of base: large "o. to right of base: large "p. below base "b-i-o-s" just above the caption "the complete symbol of the tarot. the large letters spell "taro" in greek capitals (gr:tau-alpha- rho

BOOK OF DOOM

ernal empire. 5.11. the twenty ninth letter of the infernal alphabet is w; it is ruled by zazel, who is duke of the great infernal empire. 5.12. the thirtieth letter of the infernal alphabet is v; it is ruled by hismael, who is duke of the great infernal empire. 5.13. the worthy only know and understand the infernal alphabet of doom. 5.14. this is so because the infernal alphabet of doom is their key to power. 5.15. knowing the power of the infernal realms and their rulers will give you the means to do what you want to do. 5.16. practice the infernal alphabet of doom and you will spell doom to all hypocrisy in this world! 5.17. combine the letters of the infernal alphabet of doom and yours are the most powerful words of power there are. 5.18. this is so, because i am lucifer, emperor supre

BOOK OF PLEASURE

rest in us. if you were to dismember its limb, the mutilated part would regrow, etc. so by evoking and becoming obsessed or illuminated by these existences, we gain their magical properties, or the knowledge of their attainment. this is what already happens (everything happens at all times) though exceedingly slowly; in striving for knowledge we repel it, the mind works best on a simple diet. the key to prophecy. the law of evolution is retrogression of function governing progression of attainment, i.e, the more wonderful our attainments, the lower in the scale of life that governs them. our knowledge of flight is determined by that desire causing the activity of our bird etc. karmas. directly our desire reaches the stratum belonginging to those existences that can "fly" without wings- so

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

this, of course, goes back to what i outlined in the first lesson originating with the reliance on success in the hunt in the winter and nourishment of the crops in the summer. but there is more to it than that, even without getting into the complexities of oak and holly kings. in neither half of the year should you think of the one deity being supreme being there without his or her partner. the key word is predominant. in other words, the emphasis is on the one but not to the total exclusion of the other. it should also be remembered, of course, that each deity as with every individual bears the attributes of both male and female. sabbats start, as do all circle rituals, with the erecting the temple rite. you should follow this with a full or new moon ritual, if appropriate for the sabba

ime. lord-dweller in the sea, you hear the thunder of my hooves upon the shore and see the fleck of foam as i pass by. my strength is such that i might lift the world itself to touch the stars. yet gentle am i, ever, as the lover. i am he whom all must face at the appointed hour, yet am i not to be feared, for i am brother, lover, son. death is but the beginning of life, and i am he who turns the key" priestess salutes priest. one by one other coven-ers move around. if they wish to, they may place an offering on the altar or before it. they then embrace and/or kiss the priest and move on back to their places. as they pass the burning cauldron, they throw into it their piece of parchment listing their weakness. priest stands for a moment and meditates on his position for the coming half yea

going strong. you're totally baffled at intimate exchanges with people you wouldn't normally go near. you are amazed at dreaming of doing things that are physically impossible in your everyday life. you end up with total frustration in your attemp'ts to make any sense of the strange goings-on in your elusive dreams. yet you still feel that somewhere there must be an answer. but where? what is the key? as an element of the universal consciousness, your super-conscious awareness is totally versed in universal symbolism. since the super-conscious mind tends to speak in its own language, your dreams can be expected to contain some of this language of universal symbols. but even though it has its own language, the super-conscious mind is aware that you will respond best to those symbols with wh

ing room place of sustenance; refortification. kitchen a place to prepare the sustenance. living room place of socializing. ice: coldness of character; frigidity; rigidity. illness: boredom, delay. individual self: the "real" you; the inner you; the all-wise, all-powerful spiritual self. jail: confinement; frustration; inability to act. journey: see transportation. judge or jury: your conscience. key: the answer to a problem. kiss: satisfaction; completion. ladder: ability to climb (note the length of the ladder. left (as in side or direction: the subconscious side; sometimes the wrong side or direction; the logical side; the scientific side. light: hope. lines: broken lines represent the feminine aspect. solid lines, the masculine aspect. lizard: transcendence. lock: frustration; security

ine the dream to see if it fits any of the events of the preceding day. this will explain a few of your dreams. if this test fails, then you must determine whether the dream is literal or symbolic. a literal dream is one in which the main dream character or image is a real person or thing in your life, or on your mind, at the time. if the literal interpretation makes sense, you may have found the key. when the literal interpretation fails to make sense, the dream is obviously symbolic. 88 i buckland's complete book of witchcraft a symbolic dream is one in which the dream character and images cannot be taken literally, as a real person or thing. then the image is that of an aspect of you, the dreamer. then the ancient wisdom of the universal symbols should be applied. as you first begin to

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

f all that is" this is a reference to the attribution of ruach to the letter aleph. the hebrew ruach is analogous to sanskrit prana, greek pneuma, and latin spiritus. every one of these words means breath, and every one means life. the meditation says emphatically that this life-breath animates even those forms which are commonly regarded as being lifeless. 5 the phrase "my works unfinished" is a key to the whole philosophy of good and evil running through these meditations. in the thought of the author, we live in a dynamic, growing organism, which we call "the universe. the purpose for which that organism has been projected into relative manifestation is not yet fully achieved. it is not a finished mechanism, a thing made, once and for all. rather it is a living being, whose life include

on, it is secondary in the order of thought to the limitless light. therefore kether is here compared to a house for that light, and as house is the name of the second letter, which also has the value of 2, the qabalistic ideas just explained are truly represented by that letter and its number. 5 and 6 these two paragraphs of the meditation should be compared with the symbolism of the first tarot key. the magician is obviously the on-looker, and he corresponds to the "superior nature. the four subtle principles mentioned in the sixth section are also shown in the symbolism of this key, as the implements on the table. the wand is the element of fire. the cup stands for the element of water. the sword is a symbol of air. the coin or pentacle represents the element of earth. note well that th

w is attributed to gimel, and above to beth. philosophically they refer to the superior and inferior natures of the one life, as described in the meditations. the doctrine here is so closely allied to that of the bhagavad-gita as to suggest that our author may have met one of the wandering hindu philosophers [36] c o m m e n t on g i m e l 4 compare the words of this paragraph with the symbols of key 2, the high priestess. the phrase" whose purity naught can defile, means that no matter how many the forms developed from it, the virgin substance is itself unchanged. like water, which holds matter in suspension or solution, this substance remains ever itself. here is one key to the alchemical mystery of the first matter. here, too, one may find a clue to the inner significance of the virgin

the material world, or world of action and things [48] the meditation on heh* 1 in whatsoever object thou perceivest, know me as the essence, as the idea, and as the interior nature. because of this the wise come easily to me by many paths, yet in truth these different roads are but a single way. if thou canst penetrate into the nature of the simplest thing, there thou shalt find me. this is the key to the mystery of the sacred letters. fix thy mind on the object set before thee by any letter, and hold thy thought to meditate thereon. then shall the inner nature of that object be made known to thee, and by this means shalt thou draw nigh to some aspect of my being. 2 consider then the secret meaning of the letter heh. for even as i am the essence, and idea, and interior nature of every ox

nd not eleven. comprehend this great wisdom, understand this knowledge, inquire into it and ponder on it, render it evident and lead the creator back to his throne again" kalisch's translation, 1: 3 [125] the book of t o k e n s 6 this refers to the fact that the 23rd path begins in the: radical intelligence of geburah("roots of being, and completes itself in hod, splendor. the last sentence is a key to the practice of meditation. it may be compared with the yoga teaching as to the various means for establishing a state of quiet in what is described as "the lake of chitta, the mind-stuff. hindu teachers hold that when the chitta is perfectly calm, it mirrors the light of the spiritual sun. this is just what is declared in our text. compare it carefully with the sym. holism of the 12th taro

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

inds of magick, in practice all spells and more formal magical rituals tend to follow four stages, though informal spells may combine one or more steps. the focus this defines the purpose of the ritual or spell and is generally represented either by a symbol or a declaration of intent. these could take the form of a candle etched with the name or zodiacal glyph of a desired lover, a little silver key charm or an actual key in a spell to find a new home, a picture of an ideal holiday location, and so on. in a sense, this part of the spell begins before the actual rite and involves verbalising the purpose. as you define it in a few words or a symbol, you may realise that what you are really seeking lies beyond the immediate external purpose. spending time at this stage is quite vital as it i

s cast, the symbol can be handed round while the person leading the ritual speaks the intention. alternatively, each person can add his or her special interpretation while holding the symbol and so the declaration is worked as part of the ritual. as others are holding the symbol, visualise it within your own hands; this provides the transition to the next stage of the ritual. concentration is the key to this first stage. the action this is the stage where you use actions to endow the symbol with magical energies. this is part of the continuous process of translating your magical thoughts and words from the first stage, the inner plan, to manifestation as the impetus for success or fulfilment in the everyday world. these energies amplify your own. for example, passing incense, representing

slow spiral dance around the circle. you could try drumming or tying knots either on individual cords or in a group, creating a pattern with the longer cords of fellow witches, perhaps looped around a tree. the action of the magick is limited only by the environment and your imagination. you may find that improvisation enters quite spontaneously as the energies unfold and spiral. movement is the key to this stage. raising the power this is the most powerful part of the magick, as the magical energies are amplified and the power of the ritual carries you along joyously. ecstasy forms a major part of shamanic ceremony and the old mystery religions; it is akin to the exhilaration you experience riding on a carousel or running barefoot along a sandy shore with the wind lifting your hair. you

gy. at the point when the climax is reached, comes the release of power. note that for some people the cone concept interferes with their own natural magical abilities- some of the most skilled witches and healers see circles of light, shimmering golden beams or rainbows with their psychic eye. some see nothing at all, but instead feel power pushing their feet almost off the ground. growth is the key to this stage. release of power when you release the power in the final stage, you may see the cone exploding and cascading as coloured stars or light beams, which surge away into the cosmos and break into brilliant rainbow colours. if you wish, you can direct the energy after the final release of power by pointing with your hands, or a wand or knife, so that the energies cascade horizontally

ou can direct the energy after the final release of power by pointing with your hands, or a wand or knife, so that the energies cascade horizontally and downwards, for example into herbs on the altar that you are empowering to make into herb sachets. or you can direct the cascading energies in a specific direction, perhaps towards a person who is ill or in need of magical strength. release is the key at this stage. seite 21 wicca01.txt this release may take the form of a final shout, a leap, or words. as you extinguish your candle of need, you may shout: it is free, the power is mine! or, at the point of release, you may throw your extended hands wide in an arc above your head. if the ceremony is formal and you are using an athame, you can at this moment bring it in front of you to mark th

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

luciferian may remain earth bound for some time. it is speculated that eventually something as this may grow boring and it would be time for the spirit to remain and move further into the astral. the tools of chaos magick are specifically anything which one would utilize to achieve her or his goal, the results being designed to correspond with the means. union through opposites essentially is the key, proving the direct descendent of aleister crowley highly commendable thelema system, or 93 curreysgreater opportunities. those who depart will leave behind a community they have been a part of for generations. they will also leave behind the elderly matriarch of their clan, nana peazant. nana beckons her children to join in a communion ceremony, for she wants to give them "a part of herself"

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

d toward human interaction with efficacious powers, other expressions of the supernatural informed black american popular culture, with the blues and literature as two important artistic products that manifested the influences of conjure in the twentieth century. black magic does not purport to be a definitive history of african american magic or religion; rather, it is a selective examination of key themes in african american religious history. it is my contribution to a conversation among students of black religion that provides a more nuanced view of "religion" and "magic" by tracing the elements of these two parallel and sometimes indistinguishable ideas. ultimately, the effacing of these categories may lead to a richer understanding of the myriad black magic page 8 of 144 http//conten

the wheat: interviews with virginia ex-slaves (charlottesville: university press of virginia, 1976, p. 246. 30. jacob stroyer, my life in the south (salem: salem observer book and job print, 1879, pp. 57.58; handy "negro superstitions" p. 738. describing a similar ritual, a former slave from tennessee, byrl anderson, told how his white master would "tell many a fortune c by hanging the bible on a key and saying certain words" anderson recalled "when the bible would come to me, it would just spin. that meant that i was [a] lucky and righteous man (perdue et al, weevils in the wheat, p. 11. see also rawick, american slave, texas narratives vol. 4, no. 2, p. 5. 31. perdue et al, weevils in the wheat, p. 278; roland steiner "braziel robinson possessed of two spirits" journal of american folklo

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

n tesoro a treatise on the philosophers' stone. 1257 franciscan friar bonadventura d'iseo's 'liber compostella' provides some alchemical recipes 1257-67, writes the soul's journey into god while meditating on francis's vision of the six-winged seraph; he also writes an authoritative life of saint francis to replace earlier versions. bonaventure believed that st. francis's order would inherit the 'key of david' given to the angel of philadelphia. 1258- hulagu khan destroys baghdad; mongols destroy mesopotamia, the mother of civilization. fl 1259-1285 guilhem de cervera troubadour. 1259 peter de abano [pietro d'abano, italian physician and philosopher born. professor of medicine in padua. heptameron. knew marco polo. translates abraham ibn ezra on decanates. 1260- 1294 kublai khan c.1260 "th

the ladder of being through the elemental to the triune structure of the divine. c. 1285 hugh de digne dies. franciscan joachite hermit of hyeres. c.1285 ya aqob ben elia of venice translated into hebrew the major introduction to the beliefs of astrological science written by abu ma shar. 1286 abulafia, abraham hayei ha olam ha-ba (italy. guiard of cressonart in paris expounding to beguins on the key of david 1285 "or haskel" abulafia's principal work an influence upon villanova. 1288 the mongols invade india. alexander von roes notitia seculi derived from pseudo-joachim of fiore's de semine scripturarum anticipates the antichrist as a 3rd frederich and looks for charlemagne's return. 1288-1339 john dastin 1289 abulafia, abraham commentary on the sepher yetzirah (camino, italy) franciscan

the shi'ur qoma identifies jacob's ladder with the height of the body or totality of created beings. 1300 fra dolcino anticipates the angel of philadelphia's appearance as "holy pope. arnald of villanova writes a number of important treatises on alchemy quaestiones tam esseentiales quam accidentales, epistola supe alchemia ad regem neapolitanum, de secretis naturae, exempla de arte philosophorum; key of solomon. d.1300 'aziz al-din nasafi. kitab al-insan al-kamil. 1300 sister manfreda, a member of the visconti family and follower of a religious sect, founded by guglielma of bohemia and inspired by the profecies of a 13th century italian monk, gioacchino da fiore had been elected "pope" by her sect was sentenced and burned. 1300-1325 w.v. white book of rhydderch (mabinogion. ma'arekhet ha-e

lidis christiani lib.ii. 1543-1606 simon studion worked as a lutheran pastor at marbach outside stuttgart. he attained a reputation as an academic poet, once having written a poem for the funeral of jacob brenz, the lutheran theologian, in 1570. studion collected precious stones and monuments, displayed in stuttgart library. wrote the 2000 p. naometria(measure of the temple) joachite chiliasm and key of david. 1543-1620 chaim vital 1544-1616 helisaeus roeslin 1544-1607 john pistorius, qabalist 1544 postel in rome- he published his work de orbis terrae concordia (concerning the harmony of the earth) advocated universal religious peace, to be achieved by convincing jews, moslems, and pagans of the truth of christianity. 1545-1608 joseph duchesne (quercetanus) 1546 "absconditorum a constituti

-1616 helisaeus roeslin 1544-1607 john pistorius, qabalist 1544 postel in rome- he published his work de orbis terrae concordia (concerning the harmony of the earth) advocated universal religious peace, to be achieved by convincing jews, moslems, and pagans of the truth of christianity. 1545-1608 joseph duchesne (quercetanus) 1546 "absconditorum a constitutione mundi clavis" gillaume postel. the "key of hidden things" is david's key. 1548 postel translates the zohar. 1548-1600 giordano bruno 1549-1550 postel journeys to the orient(he claimed to have walked all the way to china) 1550 rosarium philosophorum published. de subtilitate- girolamo cardano, an encyclopedic work of natural philosophy. joannes pantheus-voarchadumia('gold twice refined' derived from a chaldean word for "gold" and a h

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

to discipline his unruly sons. q: why did the suns laugh at the grand archer yi? a: they considered him a lowly court servant, whereas they were children of the gods. q: why was the last sun spared? a: the peasants needed one sun remaining to give them light and warmth. 70 expert commentary the archer yi was an important character in ancient mythology. classical texts mention him frequently as a key figure. pictures of him appear on many tomb sculptures, shooting at the ten suns. the shang dynasty believed in ten suns. professor sarah allen of dartmouth college presents one explanation: when the zhou [a dynasty that ruled from 1027 221 b.c, who believed in one sun, conquered the shang, the myth lost its earlier meaning. people continued to believe in ten suns which rose in sequence from t

COSIMANO CHARLES ELEMENTARY PSIONICS

i who cuts off foreskins. all you need is a weight, any weight will do, and a convenient length of string. for my personal taste, i like pendulums that end in a point. that way i know what they are pointing at when they are used with a chart like the ones later in this chapter. totally round pendulums tend to be rather confusing in such uses. other than that, you can use anything you like. an old key will work perfectly. it is heavy enough to cause a firm swing and being flat can be carried in the pocket without making a bulge that causes your girlfriend's parents to look at you with suspicion. another favorite of mine, which is nice at my age when girlfriend's parents are never encountered anymore because i m married is a child's wooden top. yes, they still make them and you can often fin

e story, but at that time i had the machine to create a psionic instrument on the lines of the luthor device. christmas of 1962 and i received a radio receiver/transmitter that had a working range to about the back yard with the antenna length provided. looking back at that device, it would have been a simple matter to make basic head electrode and wire it into the transmitter part where the code key or microphone came in. of course, tuning would have been a little catch as catch can, but it would have worked! arrrrrrgh! drat! curses! foiled again! what makes it worse, is that the chasis of that unit is now a radionic unit that has served me for many years. it gets better! i was always a fan of braniac and so whenever there was a superman comic with him in it, i bought it. and in superman

DANCE OF THE WITCHES

se both as you feel the need. you will discover that these two bits of advice greatly increase any rite's power and affect: the rewarding feeling of any rite is increased when the rite participants are resting in the secure awareness of the interconnectivity of all things, and celebrating every word and motion of a holy rite with the ultimate pure, focused awareness and deliberate steadiness* the key to the witch's dance is right there. not only do you have to have faith that your position in fate echoes your actions, intentions, and words into every other portion of fate, you must also take this steady. every single movement and motion in the witch's dance is to be done with full awareness. that means that from the start, you empty your mind of any desire to enter into a trance state, and

DARK GODS

d that can be disciplined to be in one place at once- that is, the here and now- and if you don't command full awareness. the best part about this rite is that it can be done with only the four needed tools, and the rest, such as the circle and the altar, can all be visualized, if needs be. a simple dance for a powerful transinoctulius: deity of night. useful in works of enchantment. earth based. key for chant: g minor. perfume petriochor. nythra: energy vortex in abyss nameless in itself but represented by vibration of word. works of terror and sinister destruction. shugara: one of the most hideous intrusions possible on the causal level and very dangerous. g major key for invoking chant. manifestations often are accompanied by a smell similar to rotting flesh. aosoth: dark female force

ibration of word. works of terror and sinister destruction. shugara: one of the most hideous intrusions possible on the causal level and very dangerous. g major key for invoking chant. manifestations often are accompanied by a smell similar to rotting flesh. aosoth: dark female force. works of passion and death. the name should be vibrated. azanigin: mother of all demons who lie waiting in earth. key of b minor. very useful to invoke in works of personal destruction. shaitan: long held to be an earth bound representative for the dark gods. perfume/incense sulphur. name to be vibrated. stone opal. nekalah: collective name for race of dark gods. name to be vibrated in manner similar to atazoth. ga wath am: vibration of this releases powerful energies. a key (when used with a crystal tetrahed

tradition the words means `the power within me is great' a reference to the pathways within which lead to the dark gods. binan ath: as above. said to mean `behold the fire' lidagon: symbolic representation of the union of the two sexual opposites (darkat and dagon) in their darker aspects. abatu: an earth bound form of destructive/negative energy. associated with rites of sacrifice. f sharp major key for chant. karu samsu: word of power along the 12th path to be chanted in the key of a flat major. according to tradition it means `i invoke the sun' nemicu: bringer of wisdom. to be vibrated. mactoron: word of power of 14th. path chanted in key of a minor. legend recalls it as representing the name for one of the planetary homes of the dark gods, later famed as an early star gate. atazoth: th

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

in which we live becomes a production line of negative energy. for the prison warders, lunch is served! it is interesting that today's stories about negative extraterrestrials presently at large on earth speak of them living off negative human emotions and seeking to stimulate events and circumstances in which more extreme negative energy will be created. i believe this to be correct and it is a key reason why this extraterrestrial consciousness, the prison warders, has worked through human minds to stimulate the horrors of history and today. these events are not the result of an 'evil' human nature. they are manufactured by manipulating human nature and its sense of reality. it is highly likely, too, that the animal and human sacrifices to the 'gods (which abound throughout history and i

eality. the prison warder consciousness knows all about this process. our physical reality is the creation of the thoughts we hold onto, past and present. these create a pattern within us which is then cast around us in the form of a magnetic cape/aura. this attracts to us a physical reality in terms of people, places, and events which exactly reflects our inner pattern, how we see ourselves. the key to this reality is thought. if you can manipulate someone's thoughts and view of themselves, you are creating that person's reality and, as a result, their physical experience. more than that, people will generally pass onto their children large chunks of their own views and beliefs, thus manipulating- often with the best of intentions- how the children view themselves and their potential. thi

ctly. this knowledge has been kept from the mass of the people for reasons of manipulation and control. hence, the knowledge has indeed become 'private [and] confidential. there is an unfolding global awakening, however, which will make these understandings available to all who wish to hear, and the conspiracy to keep humanity in the spiritual dark will crumble and fall. it is already doing so. a key part of this process is to reveal the nature of the deception and why it is being perpetrated. the vehicle for keeping this knowledge from the public arena has been the system of initiations used by the ancient mystery schools and the now immense secret society network all over the world, which i call the brotherhood. each higher level of initiate is given more knowledge than those below. this

ian church into protestants and catholics. this created division and conflict and weakened the power of the pope. but when the persecuted peoples arrived in america, they often proceeded to persecute the native population and the immigrants of other religious beliefs in the same merciless way that they themselves had been treated. the land they occupied, now called the united states, was and is a key weapon in the brotherhood's long term plan for world domination. the masonic societies went through a massive change and expansion after the english civil war and especially in the early 1700s. up to that point, only people who worked by profession as masons or building craftsmen could be members. now it became open to all and freemasonary or speculative masonry was born. it is likely that fra

sis was engineered, not least through war between britain and the french. as part of their desperation for income, the british government imposed the birth of the brotherhood 33 higher taxation and duties on the american colonies. it was an operation created and coordinated by the global elite which has been repeated over and over again. the network in britain, as in every other country, includes key bankers, many politicians, and, more importantly, their political advisers. they secretly engineered events which caused an economic crisis in britain. they then advised the british government that the only way out of trouble was to levy higher taxation on the american colonies. at the same time, the american arm of the brotherhood was being directed to whip up hostility against this action an

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

e people, either bring this hidden dictatorship to an end or face a future, very shortly, in a global fascist state. that's the summary of what has happened and is happening. now consider the detailed evidence. chapter 1 to the prison born there are none so enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. goethe hen a few people wish to control and direct a mass of humanity, there are certain key structures that have to be in place. these are the same whether you are seeking to manipulate an individual, family, tribe, town, country, continent, or planet. first you have to set the "norms, what is considered right and wrong, possible or impossible, sane or insane, good and bad. most of the people will follow those norms without question because of the baa-baa mentality, which has prevail

the fear is for what their mother or father will think, or their friends and workmates- the very people who are conditioned by the system to stay in the pen. the sheep are keeping the other sheep in line and making life unpleasant for anyone who tries to escape. it is so easy for a small group of interbreeding family bloodlines to control the lives- in other words the minds- of billions, once the key institutions of "information" are in place, as they have been for thousands of years in their various forms. there are not enough of these manipulators and their stooges to control the population physically and so they have had to create a structure in which humans control themselves through mental and emotional imposition. once you have the herd mentality policing itself, there is a third pha

other two. when he walked out of freemasonry, the opposite happened. he found his bosses far less supportive to say the least. this is just one small example of how the illuminati and their secret society web ensure that their guys are in the positions that matter. it is actually astonishing how few people you need to control to dictate your agenda through the whole system if they are (a) in the key positions of decision-making and (b) they have the power to appoint those in the important positions below them. an example: you control the chief of police who decides the policy and he can appoint the heads of the various departments in his force. he introduces illuminati policy and chooses his major subordinates from the secret society initiates. they, in turn, can appoint the people within

entralisation of power. the united nations, like its predecessor, the league of nations, was an illuminati creation to act as a trojan horse or stalking horse for world government. the media play their part to perfection in these "p-r-s" scenarios. at ownership level, people like conrad black at the hollinger group know what is going on and use their newspapers to pursue the uluminati agenda. the key editors they appoint might know something of it and also certain columnists. but most of the journalists will have no idea. the editor is always there to block anything they write that is against the interests of the uluminati and if they insist on pursuing an unwelcome story they find themselves looking for another job. and, anyway, most of what journalists write comes from official (uluminat

s it rather more probable that these institutions of human enslavement were purposely created by these very same illuminati to advance their agenda? but religion is not the conspiracy, and nor are economics, 10 children of the matrix politics, and all the rest. they are part of a vast web of interconnected manipulation designed to persuade the masses to put themselves in prison and throw away the key. the illuminati work through every belief system- religious, political, economic, racial, and cultural- and through every side in the major "debates. the reason is simple: if you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control all sides. the manager of a football team cannot dictate the result if he only controls one side. if, however, he is managing bo

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

, have expanded their power across the globe. a crucial aspect of this hasbeen to create a network of mystery schools and secret societies to covertly introducetheir agenda while, at the same time, creating institutions like religions to mentally andemotionally imprison the masses and set them at war with each other. the hierarchy ofthis tribe of bloodlines is not exclusively male and some of its key positions are held bywomen. but in terms of numbers it is overwhelmingly male and i will therefore refer tothis group as the brotherhood. even more accurately, given the importance of ancientbabylon to this story, i will also call it the babylonian brotherhood. the plan they termtheir creat work of ages, i will call the brotherhood agenda. the present magnitudeof brotherhood control did not ha

is tremendous internal strife, conflict and competition. one researcher describedthem as a gang of bank robbers who all agree on the job, but then argue over how thespoils will be divided. that is an excellent description and through history differentfactions have gone to war with each other for dominance. in the end, however, they areunited in their desire to see the plan implemented and at the key moments theyoverwhelmingly join forces to advance the agenda when it comes under challenge.you will probably have to go back hundreds of thousands of years to find thestarting point of this story of human manipulation and of the family lines whichorchestrate the great work. the more i have researched this over the years, the moreobvious it has become to me that the origin of the bloodlines and

other names, wascertainly the brains behind the egyptian civilisation, at least from the period around3,000 bc, and the giza plateau, where the great pyramid was built, was formerlyknown as el-kahira, a name which derived from the arabic noun, el-kahir, their namefor. mars.33 ancient texts reveal that the measurement of time was much related tomars, and march 15th, the ides of march (mars, was a key date in their mars-relatedcalendar, as was october 26th. the first marked the start of spring and the second wasthe end of the year in the celtic calendar.34 the holy grail stories of king arthurconnect with this theme, also. camelot apparently jneans martian city or city ofmars.35i think there is truth in all the views summarised in this chapter of the cataclysmicupheavals the earth has suffe

you will see later in the detailed text, i had reached exactly thesame conclusions. rhodes says that after the reptilians invade a planet from space andfrom their underground bases, the surface population quickly surrender to superiorweaponry. then the reptilians strip the planet of its resources like water, minerals anddna information. the infiltration of human society via secret societies is a key methodof reptilian control, as i shall detail. the american writer and researcher, williambramley, concluded in his book, gods of eden, that the anunnaki created a secret societycalled the brotherhood of the snake and this has been used to manipulate humanity in theway described in the chapters that follow.19 this brotherhood of the snake is the corecentre of todays global secret society netwo

, and that of others, has revealed hillary clinton tobe much higher in the hierarchy than bill, who, while of a crossbreed bloodline, is apawn in the game, to be used and discarded as necessary. it is not always that the mostpowerful people are placed in what appears to be the most powerful jobs. often they arenot. they are the string-pullers of those who appear to have the power.there is another key difference between the full-bloods and the crossbreeds.everything is created by sound. when you think or feel, you emit a wave of energywhich changes the energy around you to resonate at that same vibratory level. thatwave is actually a sound, broadcasting beyond the range of human hearing. formcannot exist without sound. as you can see in a fantastic series of videos calledcymatics,34 it is s

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

ves satan, then such truth would become "deadly" to you. therefore "fictions are necessary" so visible masons would not be so devastated that they would leave freemasonry and expose its inner secrets. there is one short paragraph that properly and concisely defines the heart and soul of the invisible fraternity of freemasonry. let us return to manly p. hall for this quote "when a mason learns the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy [the lost keys to freemasonry, manly p. hall, published by the macoy publishing and masonic supply company, inc, richmond, virg

please him, and in return lucifuge promises to bestow upon me the treasures of the earth and fulfil my every desire for the length of my natural life. if i fail to bring him each year the offering specified above, then my own soul shall be forfeit to him. signed. invocant signs pact with his own blood" page civ 'the lost keys of freemasonry' by manly palmer hall 33 "when the mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply this energy" page 48 'the secret doctrine' by helena petrovna blavatsky "lucifer represents..life..thought..progress..civilization. li

l since ancient egypt. the phoenix was adopted by the founding fathers (freemasons) for use on the reverse of the first official seal of the united states after a design proposed by charles thompson, secretary of the continental congress. to the right of george washington's portrait on the front of the american dollar bill you will see the seal of the department of the treasury. it comprises of a key, the scales of justice and a square which is a very important symbol in freemasonry. if you look at the square you will see 13 holes in it. there are also 39 green dots which surround the square, key and scale. remember 39? thirty nine divided by two is 19.5. the number 19.5 can be seen within the design of cydonia, mars, avebury, england and washington d.c. there is a small owl just to the le

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nity) in the teachings of the order of the eastern templars or o.tur147 preface by jerry w. decker www.keelynet.com po box 111786 carrollton, tx 75011 there are fields of study which are relatively unknown to the general public. though 'pyramid power' is well known, few have pursued it to other geometric forms and the phenomena which can be produced by understanding what is happening. some of the key early researchers into shape power and the more specific pyramid power include pavlita, belizal, turenne, drbal and flanagan. practical aether engineering is accomplished in nature by the use of various geometric forms and patterns as witnessed in the fibonacci series, fractals, tiles, cones and tetrahedral shapes. entomologist phil callahan has shown how insects and some plants use geometric

science fields, as opposed to those who prefer to promote phenomena as unknowable mysteries or unproven claims. it takes not only a great amount of dedication and perseverance, but also a considerable investment of personal time and money to make a difference. i have found that dan puts his money and time where his mouth is and actually does the experiments to refute or validate claims. one other key gift that i have found dan to possess is his openness to use other than mechanistic approaches in the study of alternative science. for instance, in some cases, metaphysics is just as valid a tool as is the use of hardware and it is a rare gift indeed to be able and willing to fill in those missing gaps by using information derived from such sources. as far as i'm concerned, it is irrelevant a

engineering failed. 4.3 mathematical relationship of the great pyramid the great pyramid has a base to height ratio of 2 to sqrt(phi- fi, where phi is the golden ratio and is equal to (1+sqrt(5)/2. phi is a transcendental number in that it is a non-terminating decimal. because of this, phi, from a resonance point of view, would have an infinite number of harmonic resonance points. resonance is a key factor in all areas of physics, including nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, electrical engineering, antenna design, etc. phi is also related to the fibonacci series where each succeeding number is formed by the formula ni+1= ni+ ni-1. for example if the first starting number is a 1 then the fibonacci series is: 1,2,3,5,8,13, 21, etc. if we take the mathematical limit on the ratio of ni+1/ni

DEMONIC BIBLE

ther rule in hell than serve in heaven. this combined with the philosophy of nietzche, who says plainly, god is dead, made the philosophy of the church of satan attractive to the rebel and the outcast. the second beast in 1975, michael aquino, a magister templi in the church of satan, along with several other members, resigned from the church of satan and established the temple of set. one of the key issues in the schism was the alleged sale of titles within the church of satan. members of the church of satan who felt they had earned recognition for their knowledge of the black arts and their commitment to the organization were greatly distressed to see titles being awarded to people who did nothing more than give funds to the church. the argument for the awarding of the titles was that ma

the past three years studying the baha i writings and the religious texts of other major world religions. his experience in proclaiming deitus as the word of the new aeon had convinced him that the prophets of the world s great religions (hinduism, judaism, zoroastrianism, buddhism, etc) were influenced by the same dark god that dictated the book of the law and the book of coming forth by night. key to this belief in a commonality between satanism (and other religions of the lefthand- path) and the baha i faith (and other religions of the right-hand-path) are the words of anton lavey in the satanic bible who writes that in an age of ice god is above and in an age of fire god is below. magus susej points out that the revelation is the same it is the individual approach which differs. follo

the fact that magic based on the worship of pagan gods has the same efficiency as magic based on the hebrew cabala and christian gnosticism, shows that it is the techniques used (and their effect upon the practitioner's mind) which accounts for magical powers and not the particular deities or spirits called upon. many spirits are accredited with giving knowledge of "arts and sciences. the "lesser key of solomon, a book of goetic sorcery, lists 72 demons which solomon allegedly bound inside a brazen vessel. this cabalistic tale has its origin in the babylonian legend of the 72 lords of the djinn. the word demon comes from the greek "daemon, an influencing spirit of intelligence. djinn (or genie) is also the root of the word "genius" although the word "genius" is often used by the mundane, h

ection of corpses as well as magical seals, charms, and spells have been omitted from this book in order to avoid such things being used foolishly by those who have no interest in magic beyond the acquisition of wealth and the satisfaction of vain ambitions. if you desire it the spirits will reveal to you all manner of sorceries whereby you may attain that which you desire. this book provides the key to crossing the gates of hell and becoming one with the forces of darkness. rather than give you spells, charms, and seals for material benefit, this book provides you with the means to acquire these things yourself. initial to performing these rituals, you must take a "bath of purification, a bath in salt water. the reason for this is that salt is a universal purgant. taking a bath in salt wa

ceding sections, you may realize that the rituals of the demonic bible contain several fallacies. i have said that the devil is female, not male. how then can a man become the devil incarnate if the devil is female? i have also said that the names satan, lucifer, belial, etc. are titles for the dark goddess. how can the magician cross the gate of satan or the gate of lucifer? i have said that the key to understanding deitus is the realization that man is a god and yet the first ritual of the demonic bible is a renunciation of all gods. there are many apparent fallacies in the demonic bible. i came to realize the fallacies after many years of performing the rituals. i have left the rituals as they are, however, for the benefit of the novice practitioner. just as a child learns to call a cre

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re to culture, there is a specific correlation of the essence of azazel, being fire. while melek ta us is the chief angel over all he is considered to be created of a higher intellect than the other angels. that by the essence of flame, of which motion is always present, the peacock angel does not remain the same. it is by this principle that he changes through us as we become something else. the key to this is the imagination itself. peter lamborn wilson made reference to a text by aziz ad-din nasafi26 which referred to satan or iblis as the imagination. it is because of the imagination that he refused to be prostrate before mankind, as fire was superior to clay. while it is first considered a sin of pride, satan acknowledged his true nature as flame and could not bring himself to bow bef

presently at hand to such as trust in me and call upon me in time of need, neither is there any place void of me where i am not present. kitab el-jelwa therein is perhaps one of the most significant representations of shaitan in the form of the inner guide, holy guardian angel or daemon/genius which is attainable through magick. that the imagination holds keys to self-creation so does it hold the key to conversation of the holy guardian angel, the luciferian spirit which guides and which is considered our true self. it can be called a true self or higher self as this is the daemonic aspect of the mind, the gift of the black light as iblis gave humanity is inherent in our higher self, thus the imagination is a helper and beneficial ability that humanity must choose to master. all actions an

all call to each other; there too lilith shall repose and find a place to rest. there shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow. isaiah 34:14 the nature of samael and lilith is to seek copulation, separate and return again. they are guided by leviathan, called also the blinddragon who by his essence, cause their sexual union. in luciferian witchcraft circles leviathan holds the key to controlled sexual magick and the possibilities therein. leviathan essentially is the encircler, the possibilities of the self as well as knowledge of the self. here we see a connection between lilith and leviathan, that in many ways they are nearly the same- you already know that evil samael and wicked lilith are like a sexual pair who, by means of an intermediary, receive an evil and wicke

great defiled serpent in the sea in the literal sense. the same holds true above in a hidden way. the heavenly serpent is a blind prince, the image of an intermediary between samael and lilith. treatise on the left emanation by r. isaac b. jacob ha- kohen 28 aleister crowley in his work de arte magica describes in certain terms the use of sexual magick within the image of lilith, that she is the key to creations of night born servitors or demons. such workings crowley considered highly dangerous- among the jews are certain instructed initiates of their qabalah who hold, as we understand, the view that in the zraa or semen itself lies a creative force inherent which cannot be baulked. thus they say that before eve was made, the dreams of adam produced lilith, a demon, and that from his int

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r planes, and can tell you things about your past and future, giving the appearance of being the ghost of a loved one. these entities feed off of the energy given to them by persons who believe that they are communicating with the spirits of deceased family members and friends. goetia: howling. a popular grimoire (q.v) with instructions for evoking (q.v) nonphysical entities. a part of the lesser key of solomon. often mistakenly thought of as that entire book. high magick (q.v) that is involved with so-called demons (q.v. gnomes: the elemtaries (q.v/ elementals (q.v) of earth (q.v. the good spirits (q.v) that live in the depths of the earth. traditionally, they are said to guard buried treasure. gnosis: greek for "knowledge" a total gestalt comprehension of the universe and the relationshi

f the group until schisms developed circa 1900 and the group divided into numerous factions. most noted for writing the initiatory rituals of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (q.v) from a cipher manuscript. he was responsible for the interpretation and eventual publication of many classic grimoires (q.v) of ceremonial magick (q.v) including the sacred magic of abramelin the mage, the greater key of solomon the king, the goetia of the lesser keys of solomon the king, and the armadel of magic. additionally, s.l. mathers translated portions of the zohar and commentaries upon the kabbalah entitled, the kabbalah unveiled. maya: illusion. a sanskrit word which does not mean, as many people believe, that the world is an illusion. actually, it means that our interpretation of the world around

i: in hinduism and eastern occultism, the universal power of realization that creates and sustains the world from moment to moment. in tantrik doctrine, it is viewed as a fertile goddess who gives birth to all existing things, both material and immaterial (astral. shamanism: the religions of the primitive peoples of north europe and asia, and more generally of primitive cultures around the world. key features include animism, possession, soul travel, oracular revelations, and shape changing or shape shifting (q.v. shape shifting: the magickal ability to assume the forms of beasts or other human beings with the soul while it is astrally projected from the body. occasionally these altered shapes are seen by other people, who mistake them for bodies of flesh. shechinah: pronounced "sheh-kehn

with his comments. his writing style is not considered modern, and whatever wisdom he may have wished to share (suspect as some hold it to be) is hidden beneath his turgid prose. several of his translations of classical occult literature, including, the holy kabbalah has been very influential. he was the first person to produce a tarot (q.v) deck with a major book about tarot (q.v, the pictorial key to the tarot, at the same time. this deck is known as the rider-waite deck, and is the most widely known and used deck of today. the deck was drawn by g.d. member, pamela coleman smith. waite chose not to violate his vows to the g.d. by not revealing the correspondences of the hebrew alphabet with the major arcana (q.v. waite is one of the people responsible for the non-acceptance of modern da

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rigin to the discovery by mathers of a set of mysterious cipher manuscripts; these manuscripts exist, for i have talked with trustworthy persons who have seen them; but as they were in cipher, they were not able to bear testimony concerning their contents. in these manuscripts mathers is supposed to have found the outline of the "golden dawn" rituals and the system of correspondences which is the key to its teaching, including the correct attribution of the tarot trumps on the tree of life, which enables them to be linked lip with the astrological signs, a secret that students have iong sought to discover. it is this system which crowley uses in his equinox, 777, book four, and his recently published magick; which regardie uses in both his books, and which i am using in my mystical qabalah

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mitted absence of a medical qualification debar one from going to his assistance and giving him what help one could, pending the arrival of qualified attention? my work upon the qabalah is of the nature of first aid. i find an invaluable system lying neglected, and ill-qualified for the task as i may be, i am stnving to draw attention to its possibilities and restore it to its proper place as the key to western occultism; and it is my chief hope in so doing that it may attract the attention of scholars, and that they will continue the task of translation and investigation of the qabalistic manuscripts, which are as yet a vein of which only the outcroppings have been worked. 7. one qualification for my task i can plead in justification, however. for the last ten years i have lived and moved

hey convey an impression to the mind, and in themselves they cannot do that. they must be related to other ideas before they have any significance. we only begin to understand kether when we study chokmah, the second sephirah, its emanation; it is only when we see the full unfoldment of the ten sephiroth that we are ready to approach kether, and then we approach it with the data that gives us the key to its nature. in working with the tree it is wisest to keep on going over it, rather than to concentrate upon a single point until it is mastered, for one thing explains another, and it is out of the perception of the relationships between the mystical qabala page 23 different symbols that enlightenment arises. again we say, the tree is a method of using the mind, not a system of knowledge. 7

is the medium of its conjunction" when it is noted that yod is identical with the lingam in the hindu system; and that kether, daath, and the beautiful path, tiphareth, the sixth sephirah, are in a line on the middle pillar of the tree, which equates with the spine in man, the microcosm; and that kundalini is coiled in yesod, also on the middle pillar, we shall see that we have here an important key for those who are equipped to use it. 18. in the greater holy assembly, verse 566 (mathers' translation, we read concerning the head of microprosopos, whose whole body is being taken as a glyph of the cosmos "from the third cavity there goes forth a thousand times a thousand conclaves and assemblies, wherein daath, knowledge, is contained and dwelleth. and the hollow place of this cavity is be

through the whole body are they expanded and diffused" 19. when it is recalled that daath is situated at the point where the abyss bisects the middle pillar, and that up the middle pillar lies the path of the arrow, the way by which consciousness goes when the psychic rises on the planes, and that here also is kundalini, we see that in daath is the secret of both generation and regeneration, the key to the manifestation of all things through the differentiation into pairs of opposites and their union in a third. 20. thus doth the tree unfold its secrets to the qabalists, 21. the second triangle upon the tree of life is formed of the sephiroth chesed, geburah, and tiphareth. chesed is formed by the overflowing of binah, and is situated in the right-hand pillar of mercy, immediately below c

but the basic idea of the system of cosmic mathematics unquestionably enshrines great truths and contains great possibilities. using this system, it is possible to unravel the relationships of all manner of cosmic factors if the correct hebrew spelling of the names of power is known, for these names were formulated in accordance with the principles of gematria, and therefore gematria supplies the key to them. but this aspect of our subject, fascinating as it is, we cannot enter upon now. 5. in the archetypal world of atziluth there are assigned to the ten sephiroth ten forms of the divine name. anyone who has read the bible cannot fail to have observed that god is referred to under divers titles, as the lord, as the lord god, as the father, and by several other appellations. now these are

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t drawn upon the vast literature of the subject for illustrations of my thesis, but have preferred to rely upon cases that have come within the range of my own experience and which i have been able to examine. i think i may fairly claim to have practical, and not merely theoretical, qualifications for the task. my attention was first turned to psychology, and subsequently to occultism as the real key to psychology, by the personal experience of a psychic attack which left me with shattered health for a considerable period. i know for myself the peculiar horror of such an experience, its insidiousness, its potency, and its disastrous effects on mind and body. it is not easy to get people to come forward and bear witness to psychic attacks. firstly, because they know there is very little lik

of our warfare are not carnal may as truly be said of the practitioners of black magic as of the church. my own case belongs more to the realm of psychology than to occultism, the method employed being an application of hypnotic power to improper ends; i have given it, however, because i am convinced that hypnotic methods are very largely used in black magic, and that telepathic suggestion is the key to a large proportion of its phenomena. i cite my own case, painful as it is to me to do so, because an ounce of experience is worth a pound of theory. it was this experience which led me to take up the study of analytical psychology, and subsequently of occultism. as soon as i touched the deeper aspects of practical psychology and watched the dissection of the mind under psycho-analysis, i re

king entity. if we can inhibit that instinctive emotional reaction, the edge of the aura will remain impenetrable, and will be as sure a defence against psychic invasion as the healthy and unbroken skin is a defence against bacterial infection. it happens sometimes, however, that a rapport has been formed with the attacking entity in a previous incarnation, and therefore it holds, as it were, the key to the postern. such a problem is a very difficult one, and external assistance is needed for its solution. the difficulty is increased by the fact that the victim is often disinclined to allow the break to be made, being bound to the attacking entity, whether discarnate or incarnate, by bonds of fascination, or even genuine affection. a case with which i was acquainted throws so much light on

ater there had been no relapse. two curious incidents occurred during the period of her treatment at the hands of this man, an adept if ever there was 20 of 103 one. the house in which she had a room was a very old one, and the front door exceedingly massive. it was secured at night by two enormous bolts that extended right across it, a chain that could have moored a barge, and a huge lock with a key the size of a trowel. when the door was opened in the morning it acted as an alarm clock for the entire village. it creaked, it groaned, and it clanged. yet night after night we came down in the morning to find this door standing ajar. we all slept with our doors open on to the small landing. to go down the ancient, creaking stairs was like walking on organ-stops. the back door was a modern af

called in the qabalah. in order to understand their significance we must make a further excursion into qabalistic philosophy. the creator is conceived of as bringing the universe into manifestation through a series of divine emanations, ten in number. these are called the ten holy sephiroth, and are represented in a diagram as arranged in a particular pattern. this is the famous tree of life, the key to all symbolism. the sephiroth were not emanated independently, each from the divine source; but overflowed, the one from the other. as soon as one sephira has emanated another, these two are said to be in equilibrium, compensating each other. but there is a period during the emanation of a sephira when the force is not yet in equilibrium, but is pushing out unsupported, like an incomplete ar

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y and his los angeles based church of satan, founded in the 1960s, in the sense that these rituals were performed in honor of the devil and involved a parody of the church mass. however, lavey always asserted that his black mass was not intended to defile the christian god, because he denied the existence of such a god. since the deliberate degradation and defilement of christianity is one of the key features of the true black mass, the mass performed in the church of satan falls short of perfection. the concept of the black mass has no meaning outside of christianity. it was a fantasy created by the priests of the inquisition as the worst thing they could possibly accuse supposed witches of doing. after it became a part of the literature of the witch craze in various incomplete forms, and

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he lord of spirits, michael said thus to raphael 'i will not take their part under the eye of the lord; for the lord of spirits has been angry with them because they do as if they were the lord. therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for ever and ever; for neither angel nor man shall have his portion in it, but alone they have received their judgement for ever and ever" in the enochian key known as the call of the thirty aethyrs, coronzon is referred to under the descriptive title "him that is fallen" which is equated with the enochian words teloc-vovim. coronzon is the proper name of the fallen leader of the watchers, whereas teloc-vovim is a title similar to those applied to god, such as lord of hosts. in the eighth key, reference is made to the "stooping dragon" this is almos

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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 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 amo

at 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 the seventy-two demons which were bound by king solomon with his magic seal ring in a vessel of brass or copper, and cast into a lake (or the sea- accounts differ. to modern eyes, medieval images of demons may appear comical and quaint. y

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e command of pope gregory ix in 1232. a german black letter edition appeared around 1440, and sometime in the first half of the next century (1500-1550, the greek text was reprinted in italy. the final known version of the work was a spanish translation from the latin text, made around 1600. in lovecraft's tales, those interested in the necronomicon can always consult the copy kept under lock and key in the library of miskatonic university, a center of study that lovecraft also invented. considering how dangerous the book is, his characters find it surprisingly easy to gain access to it. and just why is the necronomicon so dangerous? not so much for anything specific it contains, but because of the terrible things it hints about, matters better left undisturbed in the mud at the bottom of

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em. over time the signatures become corrupted by careless copying. often it is not possible to actually read the signatures of spirits, although they are usually a series of separate or connected forms written out in a line in a way that resembles writing. by contrast, the sigils of spirits are usually more compact and resemble little drawings (secret seal of solomon, from the lemegeton or lesser key of solomon) a spirit seal is a more polished graphic representation of the spirit. it is often circular or oval in shape, and usually contains the sigil of the spirit inscribed in its center. it may also bear the name of the spirit in latin, greek or hebrew letters around it edge, and other occult symbols such as glyphs of the planets, zodiac signs or elements. by connotative usage, a physical

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food and medicine for the needy. it was agreed that the federal soldier who was a mason should receive the same care and attention as the confederate soldier, whenever it was possible to reach him. the existence of this association was known to masons only. the good which it did will never be fully known in this world. as bearing upon this interesting subject, the following is an extract from the key stone, a masonic paper published in raleigh during the war "masonic dinner to prisoners.-on or about february 22, 1865, several hundred prisoners of war were stopped at raleigh for a few days. a large number were quartered at camp holmes, and on the day designated the masons who a typical lodge 127 were prisoners, we are informed, were given a bountiful dinner by masons of the guard who stood

ing significance, national complications, threatened revolutions, startling discoveries in science, and the promise of still greater discoveries in the fields of investigation, the unveiling of nature's most mysterious secrets, the broadening spheres of knowledge-all these fill the mind of man with awe and wondering expectancy. we stand upon the verge of the mightiest achievements of mankind. the key to the limitless storehouses lies in the history of the deeds of peoples who have risen to the loftiest heights of splendor and then have faded out and left only a memory, or are still pressing to the goal that will mark the furthest bounds of human power and attainment. what a wonderful record is comprehended in the story of the greatest nations" it is a monumental work-accurate, graphic, mor

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er, the cloven hoof, but back issues prior to no. 126 are not available. the ritual is reproduced in michael aquino s the church of satan [2, p. 604, but this book is not endorsed by the church of satan. the church of satan web site explains which enochian keys (listed in the satanic bible) are associated with different types of rituals, and associates keys 2, 7, and 13 with lust and weddings and key 11 with funerals, according to anton lavey [19. hence, a preparation for such rituals is available, but the rituals themselves are not available for the followers* rituals concerning marriage and death may be said to be irrelevant to satanism and therefore now ignored, but because religious people tend to carry old socio-religious habits with them as spiritual baggage when they switch religion

ore and the soldiers display the characteristic traits of new religious movements founded by charismatic leaders: 1. they believe the founder can/could perform miracles or other supernatural feats, and the founder is perceived as somehow more than human. the founder is considered infallible, or the founder s faults are ignored or explained away [25, pp. 184- 218] the founder, anton lavey, plays a key role in the religion. it is very common to find that followers of new religious groups, sects, or cults revere the founder as more than human, capable of miracles (or, in the case of anton lavey, curses, etc. with very flattering hagiographies written about the founder s life. they ignore rampant inconsistencies in the founder s professed past and perceive ordinary actions as accomplishments o

all levels of social strata [26] anton lavey s family is also seen as something special. his wives and daughters automatically received titles as high priestesses by virtue of their family relation to him. again this illustrates how blood is more important than both ideological issues and the meritocracy that the church of satan s pentagonal revisionism (see page 17) demands. anton lavey plays a key role on another term as well. religious groups enjoy references to authority. older, well established religions refer to figure 2. the church of satan s followers are roughly organized in four layers: the core, the soldiers, the interested, and the periphery, with an increasing number of followers in each layer. core soldiers interested periphery full-fledged religious behavior new age behavio

le. by definition, they are usually scams because they fail to deliver what they promise. they do, however, deliver other products such as social networks, emotional gratification, comfortable illusions, etc, meaning that their followers do get something that they pay for just not what was promised. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 25 of 30 ues that are questioned. the very key principles behind critical thinking, which is required to acknowledge the fundamental flaws in the church of satan s ideology, are antithetical to religious sentiments or personal values. a person that voices critique can be expected to be dismissed as either ignorant or a shit-disturber, a common term against critics within the organization. sometimes in moments of self-reflection followers m

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ed to western doctors. it is based on the belief that subtle energy flows in the body related to the cosmic principles of yin and yang. yin relates to shadow, moon, passivity, softness, femininity; yang denotes sunlight, activity, masculinity, hardness. the balance of these energies in the human body affects health and disease. acupuncture therapy alters these energy flows by inserting needles at key points for varying periods of time. anesthesia for surgical operations can also be effected by acupuncture. both ancient chinese and hindu medical systems are related to a philosophical or mystical view of the universe, and the concept of yin and yang and subtle energy flows has much in common with the kundalini energy of the hindu yoga system. in hatha yoga, the system of asanas, or physical

lector of saxony, the earl of surrey, erasmus, and other eminent people. cicero duly appeared, delivered his famous oration, and left his audience deeply moved. agrippa was supposed to have a magic glass in which it was possible to see objects distant in time or place. one other story concerning the magician is worthy of record. about to leave home for a short time, he entrusted his wife with the key of his museum, warning her to permit no one to enter. but a curious boarder in their house begged for the key, till at length the harassed hostess gave it to him. the first thing that caught the student s attention was a book of spells, which he began to read. a knock sounded on the door. the student took no notice, but went on reading, and the knock was repeated. a moment later a demon entere

of a ritual for the evocation of evil spirits. al was also a word of considerable importance to magician aleister crowley. it was the name given to the revelation he received in 1904 that became the basis of his new system of thelemic magic, usually called the book of the law or liber al. crowley placed great store in numerology. in his system, al equated to 31, the number which he felt held the key to unlocking the meaning of liber al. aksakof, alexander n. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 20 sources: crowley, aleister. the law is for all. edited by israel regardie. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1975. levi, eliphas. the history of magic. 1913. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1969. alain of lille (ca. 1128.1203) also known as alanus de insulensis, doctor univ

in nutley. one of the high profile cases she dealt with was the patty hearst case. she predicted that hearst would become involved in a bank robbery and eventually join forces with her kidnappers. she also gave information in the son of sam serial killer case. among the accurate data was her description of david berkowitz, the man eventually arrested, and the fact that a parking ticket would be a key item leading to his downfall. as she became well known, allison came under scrutiny by skeptics who questioned both the value that she (and other psychics) had in solving cases, and the accuracy of the information shared with police. critics complained that after cases were solved, a few accurate predictions would be highlighted while a mass of inaccuracies would be suppressed and forgotten. r

ologie: essai historique et critique. paris: editions denoel, 1954. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. amaimon (or amaymon) one of the four spirits who preside over the four parts of the universe. amaimon is the governor of the eastern part, according to the grimoire, or magic manual, of the lemegeton of solomon, also known as the lesser key or little key. sources: the lesser key of solomon. chicago: de laurence, scott, 1916. amalgamated flying saucer clubs of america founded in 1959 by gabriel green (b. 1924, amalgamated flying saucer clubs of america (afsca) grew out of the los angeles interplanetary study groups, which green had started in 1956. that same year green also began issuing a magazine, thy kingdom come. a photographe

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ee or four leading mediums is enough to remove even the faintest shadow of suspicion. of all the explanations conceivable, the one which attributes everything to imposture and trickery is unquestionably the most extraordinary and the least probable. from the moment that one enters upon this study, all suspicions are dispelled without leaving a trace behind them; and we are soon convinced that the key to the riddle is not to be found in imposture. less than fifty years ago most of the hypnotic phenomena which are now scientifically classified were likewise looked upon as fraudulent. it seems that man is loathe to admit that there lie within him many more things than he imagined. maeterlinck considered survival proved but was uncertain as to the possibility of communication with the dead. be

by the relatively smaller influence of mass media at that time and by the conservatism of intellectual life. exceptional individuals like aleister crowley flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, but were deplored by polite society, which regarded such occultists as scandalous misfits. a second wave of popular occultism flared up in the 1950s in britain and north america, fueled largely by reprints of key books published during the 1930s. this modern interest in magic, however, had little in common with the outlook and ideals of medieval magicians and followers of the hermetic art. it stemmed largely from the trendiness of postwar affluence and the desire for sensationalist indulgence. the occult explosion led in the 1960s to satanism and black magic cults. much of modern occultism has been inf

en the name mahavira or great hero. he eventually reached a state thought of as complete isolation from harmful karma, called kevela. he was acknowledged as the 24th great teacher of his tradition, and his mahatma letters encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 968 new title, jaina or victor, gave the name to the jaina community. mahavira concluded early in his spiritual quest that the key to spiritual advancement was the avoidance of injury to any life form, a difficult process as life was everywhere. after attaining kevala, mahavira took a student, makkhali gosala, who had attained some magical powers. mahavira questioned the equation of his powers with spiritual enlightenment, and the two went their separate ways. before their parting, makkhali gosala tried to use his powers

ma. jainism forms an important element of the eastern teachings that came into the west, especially england, beginning late in the nineteenth century. these teachings influenced the development of various nonviolent perspectives, some of which became identified with spiritualism and the metaphysical community including the antivivisection movement and vegetarianism. sources: chalpple, christopher key. nonviolence to animals, earth and self in asian traditions. albany: state university of new york press, 1993. jaini, padmanabh s. the jaina path of purification. berkeley: university of california press, 1979. tatia, nathmal. studies in jaina philosophy. benares, india: jaina cultural research society, 1951. maier, michael (ca. 1568.1622) german alchemist, born at rensburg in holstein. he was

ldom reported in modern times. there is widespread acceptance of the fraudulence of materializations and related phenomena. the more blatant cases of fraud punctuate any discussions. one of the most impudent was that of charles eldred, who always took his highly magnetized armchair to seances. in 1906 the chair was examined and it was found that the back was really a box with a concealed lock and key. inside was found a collapsible dummy, yards of cheesecloth for ectoplasm, reaching rods, wigs, false beards, a music box (for spirit music, and even scent (for spirit perfumes. almost all of the materialization mediums who produced results to the point of having their marvels recorded were later caught in fraud. by world war ii the only question remaining for a few who were still interested w

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

uarian press. bermuda triangle the three points of the bermuda tr i a n g l e are florida, bermuda, and pu e rto rico. in modern legend, the triangle is more than an arbitrary geometric shape; its three points comprise the boundaries of a passage into a mysterious othe rworld. in the bermuda triangle, the laws of n a t u re are suspended, and ships, planes, and people disappear without a trace. a key event in the genesis of the legend was a real-life tragedy off the coast of florida on december 5, 1945. that afternoon, five avenger torpedo bombers flew out of the naval air station at fort lauderdale. flight 19, consisting of fourteen men (thirteen of them students in the last stage of training, headed on an eastern course toward the bahamas, intending to participate in a practice bombing a

through the dream, and when macdonald sat bolt upright in bed, it continued to shine. it was so bright that he had to put his arm over his face. strange, ominous events seemed to point to the imminent lifting. twice on the evening of october 23, as macdonald and owen were talking, the phone suddenly disconnected, each time with a peculiar squealing sound. it happened just as they were discussing key points about landanian objectives. macdonald saw odd lights both inside the house and in the sky. landanians appeared with increasing frequency, but only macdonald could see them. they were invisible to his wife. macdonald tried to capture them on film, but all that the resulting photographs showed was the interior of the house, nothing more. early in december, the date of the san francisco ea

d write, if the questions astounded us, so did the answers. salvador passed his examination at the hands of a man who, having seen a saucer himself, knew how to ask about certain things which no mere imaginary contact could give the answers to (reeve and reeve, 1957. desmond leslie, adamski s associate and co-author, visited villanueva later that year. leslie claimed that adamski had confided the key to him, explaining that every man who has received a true and physical contact with men from other worlds has been given a certain key whereby it shall be known that he is speaking truly. no man. could ever stumble upon this key by guess or chance. villanueva gave it without hesitation (good, 1998. unlike adamski and other contactees of the period, vi l l a n u e va did not embark on a pro f e

FAUST

read that men have tortured themselves everywhere, and that a happy man was here and there?why grinnest thou at me, thou hollow skull? save that thy brain, confused like mine, once sought bright day and in the sombre twilight dull, with lust for truth, went wretchedly astray? ye instruments, ye surely jeer at me, with handle, wheel and cogs and cylinder. i stood beside the gate, ye were to be the key. true, intricate your ward, but no bolts do ye stir. inscrutable upon a sunlit day, her veil will nature never let you steal, and what she will not to your mind reveal, you will not wrest from her with levers and with screws. you, ancient lumber, that i do not use, you re only here because you served my father. on you, old scroll, the smoke-stains gather, since first the lamp on this desk smou

door is open, you ve a passage free. but what is this i now must see! can that happen naturally? is it phantom? is it reality? how long and broad the poodle grows! he rises up in mighty pose, tis not a dog s form that he shows! what spectre have i sheltered thus? he s like a hippopotamus with fiery eyes, jaws terrible to see. oh, mine you are most certainly. for such as your half-hellish crew the key of solomon will do. spirits[in the corridor] captured is someone within! stay without, none follow in! like a fox in a snare quakes an ancient hell-lynx there. but now give heed! hover hence, hither hover, under, over, and he soon himself has freed. can ye avail him, oh, do not fail him! for he has already done much to profit us, each one. faust first, to deal with this beast s core, i will us

ng in the sea, and so his eyes were sinking, never one drop more drank he. she opens the press to put away her clothes and catches sight of the little jewelcasket. how came this lovely casket in my press? indeed i turned the lock most certainly. it s very strange! what s in it i can t guess. someone has brought it as a pledge maybe, and on it mother loaned a bit. here on the ribbon hangs a little key, i really think i ll open it. what is that? god in heaven! see! i ve never seen such things as here! jewels! a noble lady might appear with these on any holiday. this chain- how would it look on me? ah, whose can all this splendour be? she adorns herself with it and steps before the mirror. were but the earrings mine! i say one looks at once quite differently. what good is beauty? blood of you

none shall sing about forgiving! to the rocks my cause i m crying. echo, hark! revenge! replying. for the unstable, death! not living! herald. now, if it please you, stand aside a pace, for what comes now is not your kind or race. ye see a mountain pressing through the throng, its flanks with brilliant housings proudly hung, a head with long tusks, snake-like snout below. a mystery! but soon the key i ll show. a dainty woman on his neck is sitting and with her wand subjects him to her bidding; another stands aloft, sublime to see, girt by a radiance dazzling, blinding me. beside them chained, two noble women near, fearful the one, the other blithe of cheer. one longs for freedom and one feels she s free. let each declare now who she be. fear. lamps and lights and torches smoking through t

s no name i could ascribe thee, but i rather might describe thee. boy charioteer. try it then! herald i must avow, firstly, young and fair art thou. a half-grown boy thou art; but women rather would see thee full-grown altogether. it seems that thou wilt be a fickle wooer, right from the start a real undoer. boy charioteer. that s well worth hearing! on with thee, discover now the riddle s happy key. herald. thy flashing ebony eyes, locks black and glowing, more radiant from the jewelled diadem! and what a graceful robe doth stream from shoulder down to buskin flowing, with glittering gaud and purple hem! now might we flouting maiden! deem thee, yet, good or ill as it might be, already maidens would esteem thee. they d teach thee soon thine a b c. boy charioteer. and yonder one, in splend

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

6$ 47 78 9 *4*;4& e) e a 1 6 9$ a 1= 91 54" f" 2' 8: 05 2 f# gan eden alphabet 4' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8( it is said, the sefer hashmoth (book of the names) is as much like a book, as the sabbath is like the regular days of the week. 10 on the one hand, the sefer hashmoth is a book of divine names of fundamental importance to qabalistic meditation and magical/occult practices. as such, it is a valuable key that can help open locks guarding the mysteries that lay hidden in hebrew (and arabic) qabalistic books, and provides names of power by which one can light the entire tree. secondly, it is the primary source of angelic tree language, comprised of one series of tree-maps that allude to distinctly different paths of ascension through the planes of consciousness, and a second series that allude t

power not intended for superficial consumption. such books are alive, full of light, with hidden gates and abundant treasures. the life, light, and secrets of any book of power must grow like seeds in the mind. with proper cultivation under suitable conditions, those seeds bear fruit over time. with repeated recitation and perhaps the scribing of a text, one can feel the patterns and identify the key phrases, power names, imagery, and diagrams upon which the book is built. when you properly intone and scribe the key power names and phrases, and visualize the principal imagery and diagrams, you activate deep archetypes in the mind. these archetypes expand in one s consciousness and trigger associations and flashes of perception- 0' the core teachings of any mystical tradition constitute the

soterica, iowa city, 1992. the gospel of thomas was discovered in the coptic gnostic library found at nag hammadi in upper egypt. 21 among influential works that contributed to the proliferation of the spelling cabala was georg von welling s opus mago-cabbalisticum, which appeared in 1735. 22 knorr von rosenroth, christian. kabbala denudata, 1684. this notable book contained latin translations of key sections of the zohar and sizable excerpts of lurianic material. 23 surah 20:9-39. 24 surah 2:115. 25 shah, indries. the way of the sufi, octagon press, london, 1968. 26 rumi, jalal al din. the mathnawi, translated by r.a. nicholson, london, 1926. 27 kabir. the bijak of kabir, translated by linda hess and shukdev singh, north point press, san francisco, 1983. rumi, jalal al din. the essential

e of the inscrutable saint shems a-din tabriz. dervishes of widely varying formats are practiced by numerous sufi orders. the most common dervishes are simple patterns of rhythmic movements coordinated with repetition of divine names, and frequently, with a corresponding breathing practice. 34 idel, moshe. the mystical experience in abraham abulafia, suny, 1988. 35 diringer, david. the alphabet a key to the history of mankind (vol. i, ii, funk and wagnalls, new york, 1968. 36 torah b reshith 25:1-6. in the rabbinical tradition, there is a contrary idea that keturah was actually hajar. this teaching is based on an exegesis of the name keturah( attached, which professes that when hajar was sent away by abraham at sarah s insistence, she strayed after the idols of her ancestors. but, in time

FOCUS OF LIFE

st of logos: the sun-satyr of chaos! thunder and lightnings? yea, a vital gaiety to drowsy dust, to blase souls. ecstatic laughter that reverberates and awakens. i am the shuddering heights and suffocating depths of ego, slipping and becoming. inconceivable women am i. a clouded vista of abyss, wherein to visit naked, my vampire self. wherein to write a cryptic language of my sexes, that i am the key. wherein to belch forth venomous atmosphere towards the highest. wherein to drench my thirsted tongue on thy goat's milk; to battle with thy cataleptic kisses, to swoon in thy consuming subtilty. o my mistress, i am unutterably drunk striving thy depths. i am the great cypher of love and hate knotted. the sphinx surviving, never sufficiently imagined. i am the grotesque refractions of form and

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ose on memory, are full of magic (a fact which did not escape lynn thorndike in his history of magic and experimental science) but i did not realise i* ix preface that his magic belongs with his philosophy as part of a hermetic philosophy. it was not until a few years ago that it dawned upon me, quite suddenly, that renaissance hermetism provides the long-sought-for major clue to bruno. the right key was found at last; my former bruno studies fell into place; and this book was written fairly quickly. it is obvious that the book is not a monograph on bruno; it sets out to do only what its title states, to place him in the hermetic tradition. before a final reassessment of bruno is possible other studies are necessary, particularly an elucidation of his place in the history of the classical

n offence to religion to propagate among the multitude a "discourse so full of the divine majesty".2 (this is from the opening of the asclepius) plato, pythagoras, porphyry, and orpheus, and the cabalists also enjoin secrecy in religious matters, and christ hid the truth in parables. there is moreover a most necessary and secret thing which is absolutely necessary for a magician, and which is the key to all magical operations, and this is "the dignification of man for such high virtue and power".3 it is through the intellect, the highest faculty of the soul, that miraculous works are done, and it is by an ascetic, pure, and religious way of life that is to be achieved the dignification necessary for the religious magus. certain ceremonies, such as the laying on of hands, give this dignity

s magic avoids saturn, agrippa's magic seeks the saturman gifts of high abstract contemplation and pure mathematics (thus, as botticelli's predominantly venus talisman, the "primavera, reflects the ficinian type of magic, durer's predominantly saturnian talisman, the "melencholia" engraving, reflects the agrippan type of magic.3) thus the renaissance magic was turning towards number as a possible key to operations, and the subsequent history of man's achievements in applied science has shown that number is indeed a master-key, or one of the master-keys, to operations by which the forces of the cosmos are made to work in man's service. 1 pico, p. 79. the pythagorean numerology was also implicit in the hermeiica, particularly in the passage on the monas in corpus hermeticum, iv (c.h, i, p. 5

i, with many quotations from the de harmonia mundi and other of his works in proof of it.2 the intense concentration on the complexities of universal harmony, which is one of the most characteristic aspects of renaissance thought from giorgi onwards, though it used number in a pythagorean or qualitative sense and not as mathematics proper, yet by so forcefully directing attention on number as the key to all nature it may be said to have prepared the way for genuine mathematical thinking about the universe. as is well known, kepler still saw his new astronomy in a context of harmonies, and he was well aware that the pythagorean theory was also implicit in the hermetic writings, of which he had made a careful study.3 heliocentricity the cult of the prisca theologia laid a greatly increased e

now, standing before you, the man who has pierced the air and penetrated the sky, wended his way amongst the stars and overpassed the margins of the world, who has broken down those imaginary divisions between spheres the first, the eighth, the ninth, the tenth or what you will which are described in the false mathematics of blind and popular philosophy. by the fight of sense and reason, with the key of most diligent enquiry, he has thrown wide those doors of truth which it is within our power to open and stripped the veils and coverings from the face of nature. he has given eyes to blind moles, and illuminated those who could not see their own image in the innumerable mirrors of reality which surround them on every side; he has loosened the mute tongues which cared little for intricate di

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

rm) is devoted to allow for manifestation. the angel has access to knowledge (both mundane and magical) that is currently beyond the magicians scope and can reveal all manner of things. there is a self which underlies self and transcends the temporary ego manifestation of the magician. this ego is a mask of the self(aka kia, shhh. the ego is of the self and by the self. identification is both the key and the cage here. thee angel is the thin silver cord of the horizon; demarcation zos-kia. the angels unity with chrnzn is explosion of duality to a continuous transformation. see also appendix vi. subscribing to all of the above can be of great benefit to the magician because it offers him/ her a handle in the formulation/ invocation of the angel, as well as a magnificent channel with which t

be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful. thou art not so- some dead poet being a chaotic interpretation of the holy guardian angel operation, as one summons the angel of light, the reverse impulse is attracted and mastery& integration of the darkness is necessary for unity. a thorough selfexamination and analysis is a must, and identification with all our demonic aspects a key. after initial knowledge and conversation with the angel has taken place, it becomes necessary to make a descent into darkness. the following reflects my own rite of suffering. the traditional abramelin operation demonic bindings is represented by binding v below. the dictates of the angel shall guide thee in your own form of mastery of self (note that this is a never ending procedure, but at

study. this commentary is not an explanation. i do this page by page, because the pages are un-numbered. this was done because numbers have a tendency to trap idea s. chrnzn also is given the title of quaklephant. so without further ado, it s time to start running overall points to keep in mind liber chrnzn is the testing manual of the scarlet- brotherhood(*s. watch the number of lines present in key images. try re-reading some sentences some ways, others in other ways. a pause here& there, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. sigils given can be used as well as ideas for all manner of workings. the automatic drawings given are subconscious bombs (viewed in states of altered consciousness is recommended. it is not my desire to explain, but to offer some interesting vantages to view

have an automatic drawing of the black well. ii/1b: the eye with a tear. the sorrow which is gained by understanding. this is seen macro-cosmically by the one being one, whose sorrow is actually joy. in the microcosmic this is the i which thinks of itself as isolate. ii/2a: we see the letter zain repeated seven times in the shape of the star of babalon. a flaming sword is shown in the shape of a key which also looks like a head. the words is to be is written upon the sword (denoting future prophecy as well as a method of use. the babbler is mentioned which is chrnzn. this chapter takes the tone of another and not chrnzn. it is something altogether different. vehicles are used for transport. keys open things up. a snake figure coils it s way around the edges of the page, it s head is a gia

of 45 minutes (images& all. this chapter offers more advice and references along this particular pathway. iii/1a: an automatic drawing of ecstasy. iii/1b: the pain of division burns thee. a face of pain and bliss. burning. iii/2a: when following the pathway of a scarlet brother, when treading congress with the angel. there comes a time of suffering (see detailed above, the rite of suffering. the key is given for unleashing the denizens of hell upon the aspirant (opening the doorway of the abyss, this must be resonated. this is a win or lose situation as demonic forces attempt to tear the initiate apart for the duration of this trial. we see a doorway on it s side in the shape of daleth, with some form of monster coming out of it. iii/2b: this being the first explicit reference to the scar

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

mankind. yog-sothoth is the outer manifestation of the primal chaos, the gate though which those outside must enter. in the dunwich horror, lovecraft writes, the old ones were, the old ones are, and the old ones shall be. not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. yog-sothoth knows the gate. yog-sothoth is the gate. yag-sothoth is the key and the guardian of the gate. past, present, future, all are one in yog-sothoth. he knows where the old ones broke through of old, and where they shall break through again. his order of existence parallels the concept of the universe as exposited in hindu and oriental mysticism, an all-in-one and one-in-all of limitless being and self. as such, a particular physical from cannot be ascribed to

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

's revolt in the golden dawn.at first in favor of but soon against mathers.is seen as the actual beginning of modern magic. it would certainly not be wrong to say that crowley himself was an important supporter of pragmatic thought in modern magic. but in the end, the master therion preferred to remain within the hierarchical dogmatic system due to his aiwass-revelation in liber al vel legis. his key phrase gdo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. love is the law, love under wil1' as well as his whole thelemic concept, prove him a dogmatic magician. austin osman spare and his theory of sigils/ 5 not so austin osman spare. he seems to derive from the individual-anarchistic direction so that we may describe his philosophy, without undue exaggeration, as a mixture of lao-tse, wicca a

tion to the aforementioned procedure and not as an a1ternative here again are some examples for 90/ practical sigil magic ism .th1s my wish to experience the stages b our ile are m n. the incarnation of a bird sentences of desire .this my wish to experience my ata- v s. efore my birth .this my wish to experience the s ce of my life .this my wish to experience my rep- t incarnations in ritual. the key words greptile incarnations h show that we oving close to another technique of regression.reincarnation therapy. but the intention of the sigil magician is different insofar as s/he employs atavisms to charge sigils further or to start magical operations. for example, a talisman charged while one is in a greptile consciousness h will work more powerfully than a talisman charged while in a stat

teachings are just coming to light. hermetic b 0. its importance is in its unique combining of numerous magical systems into a coherent whole. its membership included william butler yeats, arthur machen, sax rohmer, macgregor mathers, dion fortune, aleister crowley, israel regardie, a.e. wait n iot (the magical pact of the illuminates of thana glossary/ 127 tually became its sole ader the greater key of olom .the philosophical belief that abstractions, generalities or universals have no objective reality order of eastern templars. founded in the late 1800s, it claimed to koans.a buddhist method for meditation, it involves giving the meditator an idea with no simple answer on which to contemplate. the most famous is gwhat is the sound of one hand clapping? h lao-tse.founder of taoism. maste

e knights templar and combined some fringe masonic traditions along with sex magic. aleister crowley became a member and later head of the order. he revamped it to match his magical a themselves o.t.o. have sprung up in ten sephiroth.in cabbalism (and neo-platonism, the universe is seen as being created through a series of emanations from the godhead. in the cabbalah these are k al development, a key to astral travel, and a way to make correspondences for magic. thelemic concept.the system of magic pro-pounded and advanced by aleister crowley. timothy leary fs and robert anton wilson fs cir-cuits.just as we have evolved, so has the gcircuitry of our brains. h we have eight circuits, and each can be opened by various means. reaching a higher level allows a person greater personal and magica

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

e a generous mind cautious and gentle in its exercise. to rule has been the lot of many, and requires neither strength of intellect or soundness ofjudgment; to rule well has been the fortune of but few, and may well be the object of an honorable ambition. it is not by the strong arm or the iron will, that obedience and order, the chief requisites of good government, are secured,but by holding the key to the hearts of men. the office of grand master is of great antiquity and respect, and is one of the highest dignities to which we may aspire. its incumbent, to rule well, should possess and practice several important requisites. as a man, he should be of approved integrity and irreproachable morals; freed from the dominion of hasty temper and illgoverned passions; of good repute in the world

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

to present the catholic side in a perfectly unbiased manner, but we ask our students for whom this is written, to believe that we shall try to be just. of the cosmic facts we are certain, but bias may creep into our conclusions, therefore each must use his reason to test what we have to say, viz "prove all things and hold fast that which is good" the great law of analogy is everywhere the master key of all spiritual mysteries, and, although masonry and catholicism do not begin till we arrive at the earth period, they have their prototype in the earlier periods; we shall therefore briefly touch upon the essential facts. in the saturn period, the earth-in-the-making was dark; heat, which is the manifestation of the ever invisible fire, was the only element then manifest; embryonic mankind w

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

o achieve their rights and justice. this phrase is very powerful and dangerous within saanism says marquis. a satanist knows the content within pike's book is satanism just by reading "deus meumque jus" they don't even have to read the book, just the phrase to know "seething energies of lucifer within your hands "the day has come when fellow craftsman must know and apply their knowledge. the lost key to their grade is the mastery of emotion, which places the energy of the universe at their disposal. man can only expect to be entrusted with great power by proving his ability to use it constructively and selflessly. when the mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething ener

r, to achieve their rights and justice" but why would a two-headed eagle be adopted by masonry, instead of a one-headed eagle? masonic author, r. swinburne clymer, writing in the mysteries of osiris, 1951, explains "when they [pagans] desired to express the renewal, or beginning, of the year, they represented it in the form of a door-keeper. it could easily be distinguished by the attributes of a key. at times, they gave it two heads, back to back. in time, this [back-to-back key symbol] became the double-headed eagle of symbolic masonry [p. 42] the triangle one of the most utilized occultic symbols is the triangle. a triangle with its point downward represents the deity and is called the deity's triangle, or the water triangle. with one point up, it is called the earthly triangle, pyramid

hes wear the pentacle with the point up. satanists reverse it with the point down" once we examine the two symbols above, both masonic, we can only conclude that freemasonry admittedly serves both the "good lucifer" and the "evil satan" cabot has more to say on page 93, about the significance of the pentagram to witchcraft "it [pentagram] consists of a five-pointed star inside a circle. it is the key symbol of the craft. it is the witch's mandala [emphasis added] the pentagram, inside a circle or with no circle, is the key symbol of witchcraft. both "good" and "evil" pentagrams are within freemasonry in abundance. the triangle- continued from previous article the triangle wasn't the first subject mentioned on this page because the pentagram is far more important to their practice of witchc

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

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 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 im

us. in chapters i to v we have attempted- and acknowledgedly with but limited success- to project a beam of light into the chaotic lumberrooms of zoharic learning and illumine what therein lies stored. nevertheless, we believe that the little we have discovered is of priceless value, because also do we believe much of it to be universally true, offering to the tumultuous years in which we live a key to the door which at present bars us from a completer understanding. today we wait on the threshold of this door, fearfully gazing out upon a world monstrous and twoheaded. darkness has taken upon itself a political form which has bereft the nations of their sight; has shrouded their minds and blotted out their wisdom; has sown among them the dragon's teeth of war. we stand today at the foot o

ew human form: the shadow of a humanity in which the physical, the moral, and the intellectual are balanced between the material and the spiritual. what the world demands is a new microcosmic idea, a new five-fold messianic force, a new dispensation of balance which will establish within it a new equilibrium. as science is a universal understanding of things, and as the qabalah purports to be the key to universal wisdom, then, if this wisdom fits this understanding, will this key unlock the door before which we blindly stand. what then is there common between science and the qabalah? before answering this question we will attempt to reduce much of what we have as yet tried to explain to its simplest form (1) man is a mystery shrouded in a mystery which we call the universe; and this myster

differentiates him from and also unites him to all things which surround him. whilst this vision lasts he is the messiah, but once it has faded away he is again man, yet charged with a terrific power which according to his will is a power for good or for evil. the existence and possible employment of this force constitute the great secret of practical magic; it is the wand of thaumaturgy and the key of black magic. it is the edenic serpent who transmitted to eve the seductions of a fallen angel. the astral light warms, illuminates, magnetizes, attracts, repels, vivifies, destroys, coagulates, separates, breaks and conjoins everything under the impetus of powerful wills. god created it on the first day, when he said: glet there be light. h this force of itself is blind but is directed by e

r to the divine thought which created him. this breaking away from the inert towards the living is called an act of will. glet there be light! h but in its restricted human form. obviously, then, it is a personal endeavour; that is to say, it can only be accomplished by the individual, for though one individual can obtain guidance from another, the toil and the labour is his and his only. now the key to the unlocking of the mystery of revolutions, human upheavals, is to be discovered in this word gguidance h. if the guide points out the way, leaving it to the free will of the individual to travel along it, then he is a true light unto the guided. but if instead he blindfolds the individual and then forces him in a certain direction, in place of a guide he becomes a tyrant; for in actual fa

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the duke-king, but he has not obeyed it, and now he would endow me with this place! very far is he from understanding me"[118 [118] quoted by amberley, analysis of religious belief, vol. i, p. 197. the fact seems evident that confucius had not sufficient strength of character to attempt a change in the social conditions of his time. he had not that grandeur of soul which enabled him to strike the key-note of reform. monarchical institutions and social distinctions he did not rebuke. the brotherhood of man and the levelling processes in human society were probably never thought of by him; certainly they were never attempted. by certain writers confucius has been accused of insincerity in a few minor matters; still, the wisdom contained in his religious doctrines, the philosophical value of

les are recognized as the foundation of human conduct unselfishness, purity of life, and the brotherhood of man will never be realized so long as man shifts the responsibility of his wrong-doing upon another. quite recently the fact has been proved that the progressive principle originated in the female constitution; that in sympathy, a character which has its root in maternal affection, lies the key to human progress. conscience and the moral sense are outgrowths of sympathy; therefore, that which distinguishes man from the lower orders of life originated in and has been developed through the female organization. when these plain scientific truths, which are so simple as scarcely to need demonstration, become popularized, doubtless our present god-idea will undergo a process of reconstruc

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

of mist in the centreofthe crystal and then the message or answer appears in a kind of printed character.therewas no hesitation and she spoke it all off as though she was reading a book, and as soon as she had uttered the words she saw, they melted away and fresh ones took their place. i have30volumes, containing upwards of12,000answers received in this way, which i keep carefully under lock and key. a crystal, if properly used, should be dedicated to a spirit."headded that 'although i have had a crystal since1824i have never seen anything myself' what he did not tell them was that he used precise magical formulae to consecrate his. crystals and magic mirrors.tohis fellow rosicrucians of the s.r.i.a. he was more forthcoming 'after thirty years' desultory working with crystalsfoundation2ia

ral of the s.r.i.a; by1892he was coroner for north-east london, and in the same year was elected supreme magus of the rosicrucians. and during that same decade he made the discovery that was to bring him a doubtful kind of immortality. in1887,according to his own story, westcott acquired and translated a strange manuscript that had been written in a cipher, to which, fortunately, he possessed the key.themanuscript contained the rough draft of a series of initiatory rituals of a quasi-masonic nature.italso contained the name and address of a german adept to whom westcott wrote and from whom he received the authority to found the isis-urania temple of 'die goldene dammerung; in westcott's english this became the golden dawn.thetale of the magical manuscripts upon which the order based its ve

e insisted that this list was his own work,buthe had lifted it intact from a28thegoldendawngermanrosicrucian text of1781-atext that would have been known to westcott also.thecipher itself, which is alchemical in origin, would have posed few problems for westcott, who was familiar with old alchemical and magical texts and was well aware oftrithemius'polygraphiae-thebook which contains the cipher's key. trans255 lating it he found that it was in english, although written from right to left, that it allowed for both male and female initiates, and that it needed considerable improvement before the rituals could be worked. he further found that the german adept was the 'famous soror' sapiens dominabitur astris of nuremberg, whose real name was anna sprengel. in her 'reply' to westcott's initial

are valuable as an equilibrated and fitting basis for the reception of magical force; but unless the operator canreallyattract that force to them, they are nothing but so many dead, and to him worthless, diagrams. but used by the initiate who fully comprehends their meaning, they become to him a powerful protection and aid, seconding and focussing the workings of his will" in an earlier work,the key ofsolomontheking(1889),hepower63warns against the evil use of magic:'lethim who..determines10work evil be assured that this evilwill recoil on himself and that he will be struck by the reflex current' dion fortune, however, thought that working any kind of magical, as opposed to initiatory, rituals was always fraught with danger 'i cannot say much upon these subjects, for they are among the mo

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tshumananddivine, rosicrucianandcabalistic.theclassical researches offluddassisted in laying the foundations ofmodernchemistry,buthave long since passedintooblivion.ourancientfraterwas the real founder of rosicrucianism in thiscountry,andhis fame has never been surpassed, as an originalthinkeror mystical philosopher. he waschiefofthemedical school which laid claim tothepossession oftherosicrucian key to the universal science, oftheconstitution of the universe,ofthis world and of man. he framed a more consistent viewthanthenotable paracelsus who precededhim;his works gave rise to somuchdiscu.sionamongthelearned of his ownandthenext generationthateven his errors led tomuchenlightenment.50themagical masonalways an earnest christian in his life, he was deeply influenced by the school of cabali

you, my hearers, the duty of forming your own opinion on matters of religion: be not blindly led of any man: search the scriptures, whether of the jew, christian, or of madame blavatsky, and hold fast that which seemstoyou good. the unpardonable sin is knowingly to reject spiritual truth: whether from bigotry, self255 interest, or from a policy oflaisseralleris not important: the rejection is the key of the position. i congratulate you who are present, as those who have come out from among the masses of unthinking beings, and are seeking fortruth,earnest of purpose, and not to be dismayed by the disapprobation of those who prefer the easy,buthumiliating path of the many who allow others to do their thinking for them, and of those who are content with the ideal of a happy home to be obtaine

tament read by their light becomes a volume worthy of the acceptance of a nation. i speak of the essentials of the kabalah, of what i deem the ancient substra255 tum of the kabalah; without any delay i hastentogrant that in all extant treatises these primal truths have been obscured by generations of editors, by visionary and often crude additions, and by the vagaries of oriental imagery; but the key-notes of a great spiritual divine concealed power, of its emanations in manifestation, of its energizing of human life, of the prolonged existence of human souls, and of the temporary state of corporeal existence, are fundamental doctrines there fully illustrated; and these are the points of contact between the kabalah of the jew and the so-called esotericism of the teachings of buddha and of

ts of contact between the kabalah of the jew and the so-called esotericism of the teachings of buddha and of hinduism. it might be well argued that the catholic church, from which the protestant church was derived, was from its origin in the possession of the hebrew secret of the intentional exotericism of the bible, and of a priestly mode of understanding it, the esotericism of the kabalah, as a key to the true explanations of the jewish books, which being apparently histories are really largely allegorical.ifthis were granted, it would be plain that the catholic church has for ages acted wisely in discouraging the laity from bible study, and that protestantism made a great102themagical masonmistake in combining with the reformation of aviciouspriesthood the declaration of the profit to b

h this world?'tosleep, to die, perchance to dream; ay, there's therub.'theaim of each mortal, then, is to grasp at an ideal life, to prepare for another stage of existence; and how? how but through one's creator? who else could make or mar mylife-buti and my creator? religion is the name we mortals give to our aspirations towards our creator, and to our schemes to read him. religion, then, is the key to try in this secret lock; a secret religion might need hiding, what from? whom from? from one's creator? no; from one's fellow man, who in time past as far as history can reach, has never failed to sully the face of this fair earth with blasphemies, with idolatry, with persecutions, with religious martyrdom. religious zeal and intolerance have been too oftenbutconvertible terms. to combat th

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al abysses of the mind divine. a system which could captivate such men as reuchlin, athanasius kircher, knorr de rosenroth (whose 'kabbalah denudata' is the leading work on the subject, picus de mirandola, dr henry more, cornelius agrippa, and robert fludd, is surely worthy of more than a passing and superficial examination, especially when it is considered that the hebrew scriptures require some key wherewith to unlock the mysteries of the prophecies and the apocalypse; and that key, i venture to assert, is to be found, and found only in the kabbalah.18 the sorcererand his apprentice[reprinted fromwal/ords amiquarian magazine,vol. xi,no. 65(1887)pp.305-8.]2. thesymbolismofthe4ancientsin thisclavicula'no.2,ashortexplanation ofthesymbolism of those four important officers of a college, open

llude. the deuce of swords forms a species ofvesicapiscisenclosing a mystic rose of the. primary colours. the deuce of pentacles is bound together by a continuous band in such a manner as to form a figure 8, and represents the one as being the reflection of theother,asthe universe is thatofthe divine idea. the four aces stand out by themselves from the restofthepack, each forming, as it were, the key of its respective suit. the ace of sceptres recalls the club of -hercules;itis surrounded by eight detached leaves,whose shape recalls that of the hebrew letter yod, ori,and is crowned with the symbol of the triad represented by the three lopped branches; itisthesymbol of almighty strength within the cube of the universe, which latter is shown by the eightle bateleur..thejuggler or magician. a

ltered 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 evident analogy, the ancient and religious origin of its bizarre symbolism.itconsists of thirty-three short sections (the thirty-third being merely recapitulatory) divided into five chapters, and elucidated by thirty-two occult paragraphs called the 'paths. in fact, it may be called a treatise on the ten and the twenty-two. the numbers from one to ten are sa

nged man no. 12 which he considered was simply the mistake of some illiterate card255 manufacturer instead of being a hieroglyph fraught with deep meaning, or in other words, that its inverted position was not intentional. eliphaz levi, not only a clever man, but a deep occult student, and an initiate of the hidden knowledge, rated these singular cards at an inestimable value; and saw in them the key of alltheqabalistic and egyptian knowledge. furthermore, be it remembered that he had in his possession those cypher80thesorcerer and his apprenticemss of the order of the ar.0, as a cypher note of recent date signed with the initials a.l.c. testifies; further stating that he had made use of some of the knowledge contained therein in his occult works. but he probably felt he was not at liberty

nd with the importance of attending to the exact form of the letters and the comprehension of what is taught therein will be gradually unfolded to him as he proceeds. these three subjects then should be impressed on his mind: 1. the four elements and their natures. 2. the starry universe, or what is outside of himself and influences him from without. 3. the hebrew letters, which are to give him a key to a more perfect understanding of both. having got thus far he recurs to the ritual of initiation, and here he may with advantage study my address on the ritual, wherein the meaning of that ceremony is set forth as fully as at present he is able to understand it. there are also some eight lectures on various subjects connected with our teachings which he may have on loan at this stage. it is

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nature of this philosophy. why did the templars abandon christianity and become a heretical order? what led them to this? why did they undergo such a change in jerusalem? through the agency of masonry, what has been the effect on the world of this philosophy adopted by the templars? the templars and the kabbalah a book written by two masons, christopher knight and robert lomas, entitled the hiram key reveals some important facts about the roots of freemasonry. according to these authors, it is evident that masonry is a continuation of the templars. though, in addition to this, the authors also examined the origins of the templars. dl the magazine mimar sinan, a private turkish masonic publication intended for its own members. from the templars to ancient egypt global freemasonry ec a templ

their purported role as protectors of christian pilgrims visiting palestine as a pretense, but that their real aim was quite different: there is no evidence that these founding templars ever gave protection to pilgrims, but on the other hand we were soon to find that there is conclusive proof that they did conduct extensive excavations under the ruins of herod's temple 12 the authors of the hiram key were not the only ones who found evidences of this. french historian gaetan delaforge makes this similar contention: the real task of the nine knights was to carry out research in the area in order to obtain certain relics and manuscripts which contain the essence of the secret traditions of judaism and ancient egypt.13 at the end of the nineteenth century, charles wilson of the royal engineer

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

and present-day freemasons? ancient egypt a classic example in the qur'an of a godless political system disappeared thousands of years ago. can it have any influence today? to find the answer to these questions, we must look at the ancient egyptian priests' beliefs with regards to the origin of the universe and of life. the ancient egyptian belief in materialist evolution in their book the hiram key, the english masonic authors christopher knight and robert lomas argue that ancient egypt has a very important place in regards to the origins of masonry. according to these authors, the most important idea that has transpired to modern masonry, from ancient egypt, is that of a universe existing by and of itself, and evolving by chance. they explain this interesting notion in these words: the

humanism revisited kc -ivmaterialism revisited n the first chapter of this book, we looked at the regime of pharaoh in ancient egypt and came to some important conclusions about its philosophical underpinnings. the most interesting feature of ancient egyptian thought, as we said, is that it was materialist, that is, posited the belief that matter is eternal and uncreated. in their book the hiram key, christopher knight and robert lomas have some important things to say on this matter that are worth repeating: the egyptians believed that matter had always existed; to them it was illogical to think of a god making something out of absolutely nothing. their view was that the world began when order came out of chaos, and that ever since there has been a battle between the forces of organizati

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y understand the gnostic vision it is important to grasp what gnosticism is and not to be bogged down in various historical manifestations of the gnostic way of looking at things. gnosis literally means wisdom but does not mean book learning, even tradition, it is a direct experience of the divine, the flash of wisdom that is brought when we meet god face to face. certainly gnosticism has certain key motifs, certain perennial ideals, which we will examine in the course of this book. however, we must appreciate that there are gnostic trends in most religious traditions. whether we are talking about odin on the world tree and his flash of wisdom as he grasped the runes or whether we are talking on the mystic achieving wisdom after days of penance and fasting, both are essentially gnostic. in

e blackened visage of the assyrian or egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or marvellous paintings which interpret to the faithful of india the inspired pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at receptions of all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed. the key of all divine obscurities and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and kings. transcendental magic, eliphas levi. gnosticism and other ways of knowing in these days of science, technology and the rule of rationalism it is hard to grasp the ancient view of wisdom. knowledge was not simply to know about something, but to know s

and considered his message. guenons view of history is that it is comprised of a series of cycles, these he takes directly from the vedic tradition. in practise this means that history is a record of degeneration. accordingly, since the earliest times man has been sinking deeper and deeper into the mire of matter. while view is not popular with materialists and secularists, it is nevertheless the key focus of guenon s work. in his magnum opus "the reign of quantity and the signs of the times, guenon succinctly outlines the process of spiritual degeneration. as man thinks he is evolving, he is simply accelerating his own destruction- living standards and technology may advance, but only at the cost of spirit. this metaphysical entropy causes matter to become successively more physical, more

ent period, anti-traditions and forms of anti-gnosis arise purporting to be of spiritual value. the most dangerous facet of this process is how, in the darkest age, fissures will appear in the barrier between the physical world and the lower astral planes, and there will be an intrusion of the malefic inhabitants of this inferior subtle domain. this strange and dark prophecy as found in is also a key to a deeper understanding of the real nature of aquarius. while the new-agers claim it will be an age of love and mung-beans, since the ruler of aquarius is saturn, we can expect a bumpy ride first. while saturn is also the lord of the golden age (the satya yuga, this emphasises the dual nature of the planetary daemon, tester, destroyer and guardian of the the gnostic handbook page 60 garden o

per understanding of the real nature of aquarius. while the new-agers claim it will be an age of love and mung-beans, since the ruler of aquarius is saturn, we can expect a bumpy ride first. while saturn is also the lord of the golden age (the satya yuga, this emphasises the dual nature of the planetary daemon, tester, destroyer and guardian of the the gnostic handbook page 60 garden of eden. the key philosophical emphasis within guenon s historical analysis is on the duality of quantity and quality, quality being the character of the golden age (and indeed the principle of gold see our discussions of this later) and quantity, the kali yuga attribute. whether it be the decay of the nature of currency, or the clash between craftsmanship and the rule of the machine, this cycle of decay can b

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interpret to the faithful of india the inspired pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception of all secret societies, there are found gnostic theurgy page 12 indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed. occult philosophy has been the nurse or godmother of all intellectual forces, the key to all divine obscurities and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and of kings. transcendental magic, eliphas levi. x gnostic theurgy page 13 the timeline where to begin? that is the question. the logical place might be at the beginning, but that opens the biggest can of worms within the gnostic system. for the gnostic, thin

f experience until either one awakens- or the cycle ends (eternity in this sense is the existence of time and space, the timeline we spoke of earlier, it is not forever, simply for as long as time and space exists. if our lives are eternally repeating then how can we break the cycle? how can we escape the inevitable cessation of existence at the end of the age? gnostic theurgy page 57 here is the key to solving the riddle of the wave and the particle dilemma. the alpha event (or in more gnostic terms, the fall of man) has caused the wave of creation to be brought into action. we are carried along with it and naturally head towards destruction. only by breaking away from this wave can a real self be created. only by forcing a particle or point outside of the wave, beyond space and time, can

ht into action. we are carried along with it and naturally head towards destruction. only by breaking away from this wave can a real self be created. only by forcing a particle or point outside of the wave, beyond space and time, can a true identity be forged. the process by which this revolution is made is that of transfiguration. the mechanism is the will to power. the will to power this is the key to the reality of reincarnation. the self only exists as a projection of the karmic factors that are around it, and these factors repeat age after age, re-animating consciousness and recreating life as we understand it. at the omega day all consciousness is dissolved, for there will no longer be lower forms to contain it, only those who have been transfigured, those who have developed the high

f these centres locks the organism into the static currents of the treasury of light. the characteristic of the city is that of change, the change from earthly to gnostic worship. this represents the transmutation of purely "nature" oriented vibrations into forces that serve the spiritual goal. this technology includes the correct use of passion and desire with the process of transfiguration. the key here is that all drives and goals must be directed towards the treasury of light. the commendation of the church is given for its patience and labour and it is especially commended because it has not fainted. these images refer to the immense effort and perseverance required to keep control over the energies of the base centre. the ideal situation would be total awareness or in more biblical t

which expresses this process of re-creation is found hidden within the creation tale of genesis. emanuel swedenborg, the great swedish mystic, taught that hidden with the seven days of creation was a description of our regeneration. though he did not relate these to the chakras, if we link them together we can gain a picture of the spiritual regeneration that takes place in the gnostic life. the key however is to realise that since man is being re-created through the seven days of creation, the actions described are being examined from the perspective of the transfiguration, not the fall of man. the seven days of creation basic church correlations of colour, consciousness and creative principles church. colour. consciousness. day of creation. ephesus. red. action, sensation. coming of lig

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ght to awaken and be transformed, then as the kali yuga ends and time reaches its final days, as the omega day explodes onto our planet, then we shall surely cease to be and there will be nothing of us left- no thought, record- not even a trace. annihilation is the hell that awaits those who do not have the eyes to see. he that hath ears to hear, let him hear matthew 11:1d,1 the goetia the lesser key of solomon the king l e m e g e t o n c l a v i c u l a s a l o m o n i s r e g i s reworked, written and inspired from the original manuscript by michael w. ford illustrated by elda isela ford the luciferian edition, houston, tx 2003 2 t h e g o e t i a written and presented anew by michael w. ford akhtya seker arimanius to restore the sorcerous path and the art of luciferian ascension illust

ks on the self, building and defining the character of i or being. the sorcerer is thus one who encircles energy and the spirits of the dead and the subconscious around the self; to strengthen and explore the avenues of a strong and open mind. the black magician also understands the respect which is necessary with working with exterior forces which often relate in an interior context. this is the key to the goetic sorcery path which is for this reason considered dangerous. the path of magick is that godform of lucifer, the angel perfected. the luciferian spirit is fire born, alive, vigorous and strong in will and pride. lucifer ascends in the sun, and falls with the darkening of the moon. this is the path of magick itself as above, so below. the luciferian model is presented strongly in th

ich is for this reason considered dangerous. the path of magick is that godform of lucifer, the angel perfected. the luciferian spirit is fire born, alive, vigorous and strong in will and pride. lucifer ascends in the sun, and falls with the darkening of the moon. this is the path of magick itself as above, so below. the luciferian model is presented strongly in this book, as this is a gateway or key to the mind expanding and developing. no longer shall the horrid sickness of christianity be brought down in the goetic work no longer shall the weak of mind approach this tome without duress. the walls are torn down yet they are at the same time built higher than they ever have been before. goetic sorcery should in itself be the grammar and foundation for the arte of magick, which is to ascen

ination of the angelic guide, the solar and luciferian blade of the divine will. the white hilted knife is used in such works such as workings of the divine will, or angelick holy guardian angel. the athame is also used in circulating and visualizing light around the self encircling the being. you will want to decorate the handle in the runes of summoning and protection, as first described in the key of solomon the king (clavicula salomonis, translated by s.l. macgregor mathers. the blade should be made in the hour of mercury when in the sign of the ram or scorpion. you may alternatively conduct such when the moon is waning in a more probable time frame. when you obtain a white handled knife, roughly six inches long wait until the moon is waning. fill a bucket or basin with distilled and p

quietly listen and think/comprehend before speaking. this spirit also transforms wine into water and blood into wine, being a vampyric shade which initiates into the mysteries of immortality and blood. he also instructs initiation into evolution and strengthening the self, that one may pass the requirements of a human body upon death while this is not proved. zagan makes fools wise, which holds a key to the tarot those who walk the fearful path, face the dangers of the mind and soul, may emerge as adepts in the arte of sorcery. he governs 33 legions of spirits. 67 0 volac volac/valax/valu/ualac is the sixty-second spirit who is a might president. he appears in the form of a child with angel s wings, who rides upon a two headed dragon. he instructs the knowledge of hidden treasures, or init

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ation on [c] and [e. tarot [n [n1 [p [o [q [r [f] 21. tarot description of 78 cards (symbology and meaning [n] 22. major arcana series [n1] 23. tarot: tabular view of dominion of symbols of book t in the celestial heavens, and operation and rules of the tree of life as projected in a solid sphere [p] 7 24. tarot: the astronomical correspondences [o] 25. tarot: method of divination (opening of the key [q] 26. tarot: tabulated rules [r] the adept must now pass an examination on. concourse of forces [t [x [s [h [y] 27. forty-eight enochian calls [t] 28. attributions of the enochian tablets- n.o.m- official attributions [s] 29. document- not given out- history of r.r. et a.c [l] 30. key of governance of combinations of the square of tablets (egyptian god forms, pyramids, and gods as applied to

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tus minor, what is the meaning of this title, abeignus" third adept "it is abi-agnus, lamb of the father. it is by metathesis abi-genos, born of the father, bia-genos, strength of our race, and the four words make the sentence, mountain of the lamb of the father, and the strength of our race. iao. hwchy. such are the words (all salute with 5=6 signs) chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is the key to this vault" second adept "the rose and cross, which resume the life of nature and the powers hidden in the word i.n.r.i" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which we bear in our left hands" third adept "it is a form of the rose and cross, the ancient crux ansata or egyptian symbol of life" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second adept "it represen

of the ten sephiroth in nature, divided into a hexad and a tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth and the tav cross, the lower four, answering to the four elements" 8 chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear upon my breast" third adept "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second adept "it is the key of sigils and of rituals, and represents the force of the twenty-two letters in nature, as divided into a three, a seven, and a twelve; many and great are its mysteries" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the wand which thou bearest" third adept "a simple wand having the colors of the twelve signs of the zodiac between the light and the darkness, and surmounted by the lotus flower o

powers of the pentagram; also to the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written 'his days shall be one hundred and twenty years; and one hundred and twenty divided by five yields twentyfour, the number of hours in a day and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, one hundred and twenty equals the number of the ten sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of the spirit and four elements typified in the wand which i bear (chief adept knocks four times. all face east. chief adept opens the vault wide, enters, passes to the eastern end, or place of the head of the pastos, the coffin of 9 christian rosenkreutz, and then faces west. second adept enters and passes to the south. third adept goes to the north. other members remain standi

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fuse the cross of ten squares as illustrated in the admission badge of the 27th path of p, as taught in the 4= 7 grade of philosophus. thou shall note that the assignment of the planets to the sephirotic cross is quite different. thou shall also note that the system employed is constant and applies to all of the sixteen sephirotic crosses on the four elemental tablets. 19 attribution: k and tarot key 10, wheel of fortune is attributed to rtk. title of card: lord of the forces of life. rtk is the source of all life. b and tarot key 1, the magician is attributed to hmkh. title of card: magus of power. hmkh is the distributor of power found in rtk. in classical mythos b is the divine messenger of k. y and tarot key 2, the high priestess is attributed to hnyb. title of card: priestess of the s

itle of card: magus of power. hmkh is the distributor of power found in rtk. in classical mythos b is the divine messenger of k. y and tarot key 2, the high priestess is attributed to hnyb. title of card: priestess of the silver star. compare the position of the path of g on the tree of life. hnyb completes the supernal triad and acts as the "high priestess" to the inferior sephiroth. c and tarot key 3, the empress, is attributed to dsj. title of card: daughter of the mighty ones. dsj is the first of the inferiors below hnyb, and as it were, the base of the triangle of the supernals. f and tarot key 16, the blasted tower, is attributed to hrwbg. title of card: lord of the hosts of the mighty. hrwbg represents strength and fiery power. a and tarot key 19, the sun, is attributed to trapt. ti

grammaton as they are attributed to the four watchtowers in specific detail. make certain to examine the arrows closely to better understand the order of reading the hebrew letters. thou shall not confuse the hebrew letters with the order of the angelic names on the tablets. like english, these names are always read from left to right, for to do otherwise is to invoke evil forces and caco demons. key of attributions w h attribution of the great name to the four lesser angles 23 let the following diagrams aid thee in comprehension of the tetragrammaton on the tablets as well as their pyramidal nature. thou will remember that in the 4= 7 grade the pyramid was the admission badge of the 28th path. the pyramid, having a square base and four sides, is composed of equilateral triangles cut off

in the 1st column) triangle no. 2 m. triangle no. 3 element of the horizontal column. triangle no. 4 m. below is a sample illustration derived from the lesser angle of the earth tablet. in the servientsquare in rank w and column w, the column w is attributed to a and therefore the astrological symbol will be an airy sign. the rank is ruled by w therefore the symbol will be mutable a, c. the tarot key for c is the lovers. the hebrew letter attributed to it is z. the geomantic attribution is albus. take the water tablet, a angle, column h, rank y. the column is ruled by h which is attributed to c. therefore the astrological symbol will be a watery sign. the rank is ruled by y, therefore the symbol will be cardinal or fiery c- d. the tarot key for d is the chariot. the hebrew letter for d is

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gle no. 1 element of column (m in the 1st column) triangle no. 2 m. triangle no. 3 below triangle no. 4 m. below is a sample illustration derived from the lesser angle of the b tablet. in the servient square in rank w and column w, the column w is attributed to a and therefore the astrological symbol will be an airy sign. the rank is ruled by w therefore the symbol will be mutable a, c. the tarot key for c is the lovers. the hebrew letter attributed to it is z. the geomantic attribution is albus. take the c tablet, a angle, column h, rank y. the column is ruled by h which is attributed to c. therefore the astrological symbol will be a watery sign. the rank is ruled by y, therefore the symbol will be cardinal or fiery water- d. the tarot key for d is the chariot. the hebrew letter for d is

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nd of the adept when utilizing these calls. beware not to profane them or utilize them casually, as one is apt to attract the opposite forces. this could lead to physical harm or spiritual disaster. eighteen of the first nineteen calls are verbally expressed, and are attributed or are to be used in conjunction with the tablet of union, and the four enochian tablets of the terrestrial watchtowers. key 1: this key is used to activate the entire tablet of union. it is to be used for all invocations of the various angels of the tablet of union. this key is not used in the invocation of the angels that may be extracted from the four watchtower tablets. key 2: utilize this key to activate the spiritual forces and angels of the column e.h.n.b. the activation of the far left-hand column on the tab

in the invocation of the angels that may be extracted from the four watchtower tablets. key 2: utilize this key to activate the spiritual forces and angels of the column e.h.n.b. the activation of the far left-hand column on the tablet of union is extremely important and must precede the calls to be utilized for all invocations of the angels of the tablet of union. in the same manner as the first key, it is not to be employed in the invocations of the various angels of the four watchtower tablets. spirit file 2nd key *note: in general, we activate the entire tablet with the first call, and the spiritual force with the second. the first call always precedes the second call. key 3: m utilize the third key or call to activate the row of exarp. it should as well be utilized to activate the m t

els of the four watchtower tablets. spirit file 2nd key *note: in general, we activate the entire tablet with the first call, and the spiritual force with the second. the first call always precedes the second call. key 3: m utilize the third key or call to activate the row of exarp. it should as well be utilized to activate the m tablet as a whole, and for the lesser angel of the tablet. m ofm. 3 key 4: n utilize the fourth key or call to activate the row of hcoma. it should as well be employed to activate the n tablet as a whole, and for the lesser angle of the tablet. n ofn. key 5:l utilize the fifth key or call to activate the row of nanta. it should as well be employed to activate the l tablet as a whole, and for the lesser angle of the tablet. l ofl. key 6:o utilize the sixth key or c

et. l ofl. key 6:o utilize the sixth key or call to activate the row of bitom. it should as well be employed to activate the o tablet as a whole, and for the lesser angle of the tablet. o ofo. keys one through six relate to the tablet of union (this relates to the five points of the pentagram and the center) the remaining keys relate to the four terrestrial tablets of the watchtowers. keys 7- 18: key 7: utilize to activate n of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 8: utilize to activate l of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 9: utilize to activate o of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 10: utilize to activate m of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. 4 key 11: utilize to activate l of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 12

ant. key 8: utilize to activate l of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 9: utilize to activate o of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 10: utilize to activate m of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. 4 key 11: utilize to activate l of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 12: utilize to activate o of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 13: utilize to activate m of l and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 14: utilize to activate n of l and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 15: utilize to activate o of l and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 16: utilize to activate m of o and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 17: utilize to activate n of o and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 1

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nd of the adept when utilizing these calls. beware not to profane them or utilize them casually, as one is apt to attract the opposite forces. this could lead to physical harm or spiritual disaster. eighteen of the first nineteen calls are verbally expressed, and are attributed or are to be used in conjunction with the tablet of union, and the four enochian tablets of the terrestrial watchtowers. key 1: this key is used to activate the entire tablet of union. it is to be used for all invocations of the various angels of the tablet of union. this key is not used in the invocation of the angels that may be extracted from the four watchtower tablets. key 2: utilize this key to activate the spiritual forces and angels of the column e.h.n.b. the activation of the far left-hand column on the tab

in the invocation of the angels that may be extracted from the four watchtower tablets. key 2: utilize this key to activate the spiritual forces and angels of the column e.h.n.b. the activation of the far left-hand column on the tablet of union is extremely important and must precede the calls to be utilized for all invocations of the angels of the tablet of union. in the same manner as the first key, it is not to be employed in the invocations of the various angels of the four watchtower tablets. spirit file 2nd key *note: in general, we activate the entire tablet with the first call, and the spiritual force with the second. the first call always precedes the second call. key 3: m utilize the third key or call to activate the row of exarp. it should as well be utilized to activate the m t

els of the four watchtower tablets. spirit file 2nd key *note: in general, we activate the entire tablet with the first call, and the spiritual force with the second. the first call always precedes the second call. key 3: m utilize the third key or call to activate the row of exarp. it should as well be utilized to activate the m tablet as a whole, and for the lesser angel of the tablet. m ofm. 3 key 4: n utilize the fourth key or call to activate the row of hcoma. it should as well be employed to activate the n tablet as a whole, and for the lesser angle of the tablet. n ofn. key 5:l utilize the fifth key or call to activate the row of nanta. it should as well be employed to activate the l tablet as a whole, and for the lesser angle of the tablet. l ofl. key 6:o utilize the sixth key or c

et. l ofl. key 6:o utilize the sixth key or call to activate the row of bitom. it should as well be employed to activate the o tablet as a whole, and for the lesser angle of the tablet. o ofo. keys one through six relate to the tablet of union (this relates to the five points of the pentagram and the center) the remaining keys relate to the four terrestrial tablets of the watchtowers. keys 7- 18: key 7: utilize to activate n of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 8: utilize to activate l of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 9: utilize to activate o of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 10: utilize to activate m of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. 4 key 11: utilize to activate l of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 12

ant. key 8: utilize to activate l of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 9: utilize to activate o of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 10: utilize to activate m of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. 4 key 11: utilize to activate l of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 12: utilize to activate o of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 13: utilize to activate m of l and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 14: utilize to activate n of l and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 15: utilize to activate o of l and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 16: utilize to activate m of o and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 17: utilize to activate n of o and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 1

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.for only he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. magical knowledge is not given unto thee to tickle thy vanity and conceit, but that by its means, thou mayest purify and equilibriate thy spiritual nature and honor the vast and concealed one. this is the explanation of the first diagram of the paths, the sephiroth being in the queen scale and the paths in the masculine or king scale. it is the key of the forces which lie in tcq, the bow. treasure it in thy heart and mark it well, seeing that therein is the key of nature. meditate on it and reveal it not unto the profane, for many and great are its mysteries. the colors differ according to the world or aspect of the great names they represent. there are four scales of color which correspond to the four kabbalistic worlds. they are: scale

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the wand. say "in the names and letters of the great western quadrangle, spirits of fire, adore your creator" hold the lotus wand on high. say "in the three great secret holy names of god borne upon the banners of the west, oip teaa pdoce, and in the name of,edlprnaa great king of the south, spirits of fire, adore your creator" step 6 still facing south, vibrate very powerfully the sixth enochian key, invoking the line bitom from the tablet of union. formulate an astral banner of the east surrounding one's self "in the name of elohim and in the name of yhvh tzboath, i command ye, o ye dwellers in the realm of fire, that ye fashion for me a magical base in the astral light wherein i may invoke the divine forces to charge this talisman of nogah" step 7 go to the appropiate dirtection to begi

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left shoulder (from the side of the black pillar, as they first received it, and the white sash from the right shoulder. egyptian head-dresses, or nemysses are worn by the chiefs and officers with those of the chiefs being of the color of their mantles striped with the complementary color. those of the officers are striped equally in black and white or plain black squares of approved pattern. the key to the formation of the tunic and nemyss is the crux ansata, for the nemyss makes the oval, and the arms and body of the tunic, the cross. the symbolism of the temple the bases of the two pillars are respectively in jxn and dwh; the white pillar being in jxn and the black pillar in dwh. they represent the two pillars of mercy and severity. the bases are cubical and black to represent the l ele

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dept "mighty adeptus exemptus what is the meaning of this title 'abi- agnus" third adept "it is abi-agnus, lamb of the father. it is by metathesis, abigenos, born of the father. bia-genos, strength of our race, and the four words make the sentence "mountain of the lamb of our father and the strength of our race. iao. yehashuah. such are the words" chief adept "mighty adeptus exemptus, what is the key of this vault" 4 second adept "the rose and cross which are hidden in the power of the word i.n.r.i" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear on my breast" third adept "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief adept "i also carry the wand of the winged globe around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the balanced force of the spirit in the

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with the cup. say "in the names and letters of the great western quadrangle, spirits of n, adore your creator" hold the lotus wand on high. say "in the three great secret holy names of god borne upon the banners of the west, mph arsl gaiol, and in the name of ra-agiosel, great king of the west, spirits of n, adore your creator" step 6 still facing west, vibrate very powerfully the fourth enochian key, invoking the line hcoma from the tablet of union. formulate an astral banner of the east surrounding one's self "in the name of twabx \yhla and in the name of la, i command ye, o ye dwellers in the realm of n, that ye fashion for me a magical base in the astral light wherein i may invoke the divine forces to charge this talisman of qdx" step 7 go to the east to begin the supreme invoking ritu

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of o adore your creator! step 4 make a cross with the incense. say: in the name and letters of the great southern quadrangle revealed unto enoch by the great angel ave, spirits of o, adore your creator! hold incense on high. say: in the three great secret names of god borne upon the banner of the south, oip teaa pdoce, spirits of o, adore your creator! step 5 still facing south, vibrate the sixth key activating the line of bitom (while vibrating the key, formulate the banner of the east astrally around yourself) with lotus wand held by the kerubic band of e,begin tracing the whorl. say: in the name of edlprnaa, great king of the south, spirits of o, adore your creator! make the 4=7 grade sign. step 6 move back to the east between the pillars, facing west. say: in the name of twabx hwhy and

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hwhy, but is written as if it is bound together as yahdnhy if we take the octagram and reflect it from every fourth point, we have the star of b, and this certainly is akin to the nature of b. it is a further potent symbol representing the binding together of concentrated positive and negative forces of nature and of the elements, under the name of yahdnhy we must always remember that ynda is the key of hwhy. 11 the enneangle is referred to the ninth sephira of dwsy. it is representative of the power of the ennead and the enneagon. it also shows the operating power of nature by the dispersal of the rays of the seven planets, and of the head and tail of the dragon of the moon, otherwise known as cauda and caput draconis. when we reflect on the enneagram from every third point, we find that

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

ther with many other anomalies of earth science. in brief the argument is: 1 antarctica was not always covered with ice and was at one time much warmer than it is today. 12 ibid. 13 ibid, foreword. see also f. n. earll, foreword to c. h. hapgood, path of the pole, chilton books, new york, 1970, p. viii. 14 from einstein's foreword (written in 1953) to charles h. hapgood, earth's shifting crust: a key to some basic problems of earth science, pantheon books, new york, 1958, pp. 1-2. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 20 2 it was warm because it was not physically located at the south pole in that period. instead it was approximately 2000 miles farther north. this would have put it outside the antarctic circle in a temperate or cold temperate climate .15 3 the continent moved to its pres

ncyclopaedia britannica, 1991, 3:289. 7 shape of the world, pp. 123-4. 8 ibid, p. 125. 9 ibid, p. 131. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 38 from nowhere. 10 indeed, with their accurate longitudes, cook s pacific maps must be ranked among the very first examples of the precise cartography of our modern era. they remind us, moreover, that the making of really good maps requires at least three key ingredients: great journeys of discovery; first-class mathematical and cartographic skills; sophisticated chronometers. it was not until harrison s chronometer became generally available in the 1770s that the third of these preconditions was fulfilled. this brilliant invention made it possible for cartographers to fix longitude precisely, something that the sumerians, the ancient egyptians, th

riginally plotted out in paris in 1911 by the international conference of ephemerids) and from this graph it is possible to match angles and precise historical dates with confidence and accuracy. posnansky was able to date the kalasasaya because the obliquity cycle gradually alters the azimuth position of sunrise and sunset from century to century.4 by establishing the solar alignments of certain key structures that now looked out of true, he convincingly demonstrated that the obliquity of the ecliptic at the time of the building of the kalasasaya had been 23 8 48. when that angle was plotted on the graph drawn up by the international conference of ephemerids it was found to correspond to a date of 15,000 bc.5 of course, not a single orthodox historian or archaeologist was prepared to acce

aymara is rigorous and simple which means that its syntactical rules always apply, and can be written out concisely in the sort of algebraic shorthand that computers understand. indeed, such is its purity that some historians think it did not just evolve, like other languages, but was actually constructed from scratch. sunday times, london, 4 november 1984. 23 m. belts, ancient language may prove key to translation system, computerworld, vol. ix, no. 8, 25 february 1985, p. 30. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 98 miraculously by sea as so many of the legends told. where had these seafarers been going? what had their objective been? and why, come to think of it, had they made such dogged efforts to stay in tiahuanaco for so long before admitting defeat and moving on? what had they be

rld in a canoe guided by the paddler twins, gods who appear prominently in maya mythology. other figures an iguana, a monkey, a parrot, and a dog accompany the dead ruler. we learn more of the mythological significance of dogs in part v of this book. 16 details are reproduced in john romer, valley of the kings, michael o mara books limited, london, 1988, p. 167, and in j. a. west, the traveller s key to ancient egypt, harrap columbus, london, 1989, pp. 282-97. 17 in the case of ancient egypt the dog represents upuaut, the opener of the ways, the bird (a hawk) represents horus, and the ape, thoth. see the traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 284, and the ancient egyptian book of the dead, pp. 116-30. for ancient central america see note 15. 18 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, p. 40. 19 the egyp

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

there are those who find this sort of material to be disturbing to them. they find that even though they might fancy themselves to be followers of the law of thelema, proclaimed by its prophet aleister crowley, who contacted pr terhuman intelligences such as lam, or aiwass- an early prototype of the now familiar grey alien or e. t. anybody who holds to the very well-founded idea that contact is a key ingredient in the recipe is regarded as some sort of mountebank or charlatan. people like that write about little green men (why not little green women too) and are crazy. really? then is it better to live in a sane form of hero-worship cults, doing what the dot-to-dot coloring book version of magick tells the wanna-be practitioner to do? perhaps for those who sell books like that. it is for t

ve been destroyed at the destruction of jerusalem. other objects are removed: a pot of manna a relic of the mysterious food that appeared out of nowhere to feed the israelites fleeing egypt; the rod of aaron, that which had turned to a serpent, which devoured those created from the wands of the egyptian magicians. the high priest then finds four pieces of paper that on inspection, prove to be the key to the cipher of the royal arch mason. with it, those present are able to decode the mysterious writing on the ark, which includes the long-lost word of the master mason, the ancient names of three sky gods drawn together to form a single word. by such ciphers and codes have the initiates of all times communicated with each other and with their ultraterrestrial masters, the secret chiefs of th

hering the code. eighth, crowley s magical son frater achad did partially decipher the code, but it remained for carol smith in 1974 to solve it, and for software programmer frater lamed to make it readily accessible to investigators in the 1980s. ninth, the ufonauts themselves use the cipher when they five names to themselves, their home planets, etc. they know the case will be reported, and the key words will be communicated to the illuminati. tenth, since i applied the cipher to such key words, the code is now completely accessible to ufologists and others. the cipher can help analyze cases, predict manifestations and trace the ufonauts to their very doorsteps; and yes, they do have doorsteps. eleventh, as soon as the ufonauts and illuminati know the knowledge of the cipher is widesprea

together. however, this outstanding sampling of the best the human race has to offer have, in their own way, provided us with clues and building blocks. some are geniuses, some saints; a few are absolute scoundrels. all are fascinating. what follows is a thumbnail sketch of some of these individuals, listed alphabetically. aaron, rabbi y. n. ibn, also known as yonah fortner.rabbi ibn aaron was a key figure in the 1950s and 1960s in the new york city area ufology circle centered around the saucers and unexplained celestial events research society s (saucers) discussion and lecture committee. rabbi ibn aaron collaborated with the late dr. john j. robinson in the consultants committee on semitic philology. a satirist of some talent, ibn aaron collaborated on the i go to see series, which too

e saucers and unexplained celestial events research society s (saucers) discussion and lecture committee. rabbi ibn aaron collaborated with the late dr. john j. robinson in the consultants committee on semitic philology. a satirist of some talent, ibn aaron collaborated on the i go to see series, which took a wickedly mirthful look at various ufo personalities, cults and groups. rabbi ibn aaron s key contribution, however, was his extraterrestrialism series published in saucer news, which postulated that ancient documents, including the old testament, were really specific accounts of extraterrestrial visitations. a linguist of great talent, he postulated that many biblical passages had been mistranslated, especially when aramaic texts were mistaken for hebrew. for example, the phrase ruach

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

gician works in a temple; the universe, which is (be it remembered) coterminous withhimself" aleister crowley, book 4 the magical universe is the macrocosm of the magician. as a magician, you will have your own experiences in your own aspects, but no two magicians will see the subtle planes of the watchtowers and aethyrs in exactly the same way. these general agreements are called signposts. like key sites on a map, the signposts will guide you through the majar regions of the cosmic planes. however, no two tourists will have exactly the same experiences on a trip to a foreign country, and in the same way no two magicians will experience the watchtowers or aethyrs in exactly the same way. even when the objective experience is similar, every-one's responses and interpretations will vary acc

y crude representations of the watchtowers. for example, the actual watchtowers are not twodimensional like the f at paper of this book but extend in at least five dimensions: height, 33 width, depth, time, and consciousness. each watchtower square represents a specific area or region of the inner worlds. each is controlled by a hierarchy of deities. some have demons, and some are associated with key egyptian deities and corresponding sphinxes. sorne squares are associated with astrology signs and tarot cards. a detailed analysis of the many forces and currents that flow through these squares is described in enochian magic. the detailed results are induded in the appendices of this manual (see appendices a through d. they are not haphazard, but represent a natural outcome of the hermetic a

3. confirme developing your body of light until it is as real as your physical body. slowly, gradually, project it outward from your astral temple into the surrounding environment of the astral plane. stage 4. practice "rising on the planes" going higher and higher each time. try to reach the spiritual planes beyond the mental. note: the development of the body of light is an ongoing process. the key to success is practice. the fruit of your efforts are the experiences and lessons that you will surely encounter as you advance. remember, your subtle body already exists; you are simply becoming conscious of it. warning: do not confuse the planes. always keep your subtle body on the subtle planes and your physical body on the physical plane. mental imbalance can result from confusing the plan

true creation is the magical process of the hanged man in 178 179 water followed by a double dose of spiritual insight (hierophant in taurus. thus creation under the formula qaa implies the conscious giving of oneself. the letters ger, un, un are written: 180 the formula of kika let me go back into the world; yea, back into the world. aleister crowley, liber vii the enochian word kika, pronounced key-kah, is comprised of the first letters of the words, kafafam ia komselha ap which means "the enduring truth of the changeless circle" the entire phrase adds up to 947, the number for nibm ta khr parry meaning "an equal turn of the wheel of fate" this reduces to 2 by aiq bkr, the number for divine will. the two main words of the phrase (i.e, kafafam komselha) add up to 866, the names of the thr

upper eyelid is spirit while your lower eyelid is matter. with experience you should be able to see both aspects of reality in this aethyr. 215 asp, your reincarnating ego esoteric philosophy teaches the existence of two 'egos' in man, the mortal or `personal' and the higher, the divine or' impersonal'calling the former "personality" and the latter "individuality" h.p. blavatsky, glossary to the key to theosophy the 21st aethyr is the aethyr of causation, asp. the word asp has the number 22, which is also the number for t-sa which means" the l ikeness within" and the number of paths on the tree of life. this the aethyr of the reincarnating ego. the three governors of asp are: khlirzpa keh-helee-rah-zod-pah toantom toh-ah-en-toh-em vixpalg veetz-pah leh-geh when you first enter asp you wil

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

ed in occult philosophy, the tree-idea grew very greatly. it was used chiefly for classifying and coding specific spiritual themes under group-headings, so that each sphere, and later the paths between them, became one of such headings under which vast amounts of material could be stored rather like a filing cabinet or a computer. thus in theory one only had to think hard enough at any heading or key and access could be gained to all that followed in that category of consciousness. of course this meant an enormous amount of work while programming the scheme, but kabbalists thought this well worth the effort for the sake of what they gained from it. if mankind as a whole, or sufficient individual members of it should ever attain a spiritual state of what might be regarded as perfection, thi

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

innocence and safety of the light, lest they fall unwary into the pit and be lost forever to the dogfaced denizens of darkness. evocation to visible appearance is an extremely powerful form of ritual, designed primarily for working with the averse forces in a safe and sane fashion. s. l. macgregor mathers spent a great deal of time studying and translating magical grimoires including the greater key of solomon,2 the lesser key of solomon3 (also known as the lemegeton, the grimoire of armadel,4 and the book of the sacred magic of abra-melin the mage.5 israel regardie contended that the magical grimoires contain the remnants of an ancient form of psychology, although in a greatly corrupted form. this corruption is likely due to the official condemnation of magic in all its forms by the chri

radigm prevalent in europe during the middle ages degraded the ancient and sacred science of theurgy into the vulgar sorcery of the grimoires and corrupted its sublime aims into the puerile desires of its guilt-instilled and greedy practitioners.6 1 herewith is revealed a profound magical secret, although "neither torches nor glasses shall aid those without eyes to see" 2 clavicula solomonis, the key of solomon the king [1456, trans. and ed. s.l. macgregor mathers, 1st paper ed (york beach: weiser, 1989. 3 goetia, the lesser key of solomon, trans. s. l. macgregor mathers and ed. aleister crowley (chicago: the occult publishing house, 1903. 4 the grimoire of armadel [17th century, trans. s.l. macgregor mathers, new ed (york beach: weiser, 1995. 5 the book of the sacred magic of abra melin t

se precautions are necessary to attempt to avoid the catastrophe that would doubtlessly ensue, should the casual reader skip the rest of the work and attempt to begin directly with magical evocation. it remains to clarify how to perform magical evocation in safety. the averse forces are indeed unbalanced forces whose energy is highly unstable and dangerous. proper insulation is the most important key to relating to them in a safe fashion. for example, by way of analogy, electricity in itself is neither good nor evil. although guaranteed to kill you, should you grab a live wire with enough current flowing through it, with proper insulation electricity may nonetheless light up an entire city. likewise, although they are extremely dangerous, the magician with proper insulation may safely hand

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

ng himself rigr, traverses the world, and founds the families of man. the finnish legend makes wiiinamoinen, ilmarinen and lemminkainen travel (rune 23, quite on a par with o^inn, loki, and hoenir. if now we look from these heathen myths to those in a christian dress and of a later time, the connexion between them can be no enigma: that of perkunos changing into the saviour has already set us the key. either christ and peter journey out together, or one of the two alone; the fable itself turns about in more than one direction. antique above all sounds the visit of these godlike beings, like that of osinn, to the blacksmith, and here the rewarding of hospitality is not left out. in the norw. preface. xli tale no. 21, the saviom, after he lias far surpassed liis host ia feats of skill, yet p

ry time in the legends of the odenberg, of the weser mountains and the harzj and in many more (d. sag. nos. 9. 303. 314. bechst. 1, 146. 3, 16. 4, 210-1. dieffenbach's wetterau pp. 284-5. 190; it must be very old^ the flower is commonly said to be blue, the colour most proper to gods and spirits, yet also i find 'purple flower' and' luhite flower' mentioned. sometimes it is called schlusselbhime (key-flower, because it locks the vault, and as symbol of the key-wearing white woman, whom the bunch of keys befits as old mistress and housekeeper, and who has likewise power to unlock the treasure; also luck-fiower (bechst. 3, 212, but most frequently ivunderblume. when three loonderfioioers are named, it seems to mean three on one stalk (ib. 1, 146. 4, 209. the sudden violent spriuging-to of th

nf. ettner's umviird. doctor 1720-1. 982 translation. this he did secretlyj without the knowledge of chi'iemhilde, who to the last supposes it to be in his hands^ till he answers 2308, 3: den schatz weiz nu nieman wan (but) got unde min. no doubt there were other legends which placed it in mountains: the account given by a woman living in nerike was, that it lay inside the kilsherg there, and the key to the cavern was kept under a rosebush (iduna 10, 269. the ms. 2, 169^ has: der imelunge hort lit in dem burhnherge in bi (by them, i.e. the ehine-folk; but the msh. 2, 24p reads' der nibelunge hort' and' in dem lnrlenberge' imelunge may be corrupt for nibelunge, as imelot for nibelot fp. 385 n, and lurlenberg shall have its due, if such be the reading, though i had taken burlenberc for burgl

elion pp. 49. 50, the man, when undressed^ must be touched with a magic ring: forthwith he turns into a wolf, and runs after game. marie de fr. 1, 182 makes a knight become a bisclaveret thi-ee days every week, and run about naked in the wood; if the clothes he has laid aside be removed, he has to remain a wolf^ pluquet (cont. pop. 15) remarks, that he can only be delivered by being beaten with a key till he bleeds. the common belief among us is, that the transformation is effected by tying a strap round the body; this girth is only three fingers broad, and is cut out of human skin. such a iverwolf is to be distinguished from natural wolves by his truncated tail. from the witch-records of lorrain we learn, that when stalks of grass were pulled up, blessed and thrown against a tree, wolves

te perpendicular. then one begins to ask the other' i ask thee in the name of g, etc, tell me truth and lie not, who stole so and so? did hans, fritz, peter' at the name of the guilty party the ring su2)s off, the sieve falls to the ground, and the thief is known. in all the other descriptions i have read, the thing is done in daylight, and the sieve does not fall, but spins round. sieve-tuening. key-spinning. 1109 ceut, many books meufcion it, and couple together sieve-turners and spell-speakers^ it may liore and there be still in use, conf. stender sub v 'seetinu tezzinaht^ and his gram. p. 299; it seems the lettons stick it on a pair of shears. but it was already known to the greeks, theocritus 3, 31 mentions a k0(jkiv6^avtllucian (alex. 7) speaks of koakivcp fj,avtevea6ac among

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

saw a copper pot standing on three legs, quite new and swarmingfull of horsebeetles (roskafer. she told her parents, who saw at once that the beetles were a treasure, and hastened with her to the hill, but found neither pot nor beetles any more (ibid. 8, 305. here beetles appear as holy animals guarding gold, and themselves golden. in sweden they call the small goldbeetle (skalkrak) virgin mary s key-maid (jungfru marie nyckelpiga, dybeck; s runa 1844, p. 10; in spring the girls let her creep about on their hands, and say, hon marker mig brudhandskar/ she marks (foreshews) me bride s gloves; if she flies away, they notice in which direction, for thence will come the bridegroom. thus the beetle seems a messenger of the goddess of love; but the number of the black spots on his wings has to b

GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL

of jesus christ that, being pure and clothed in the vestments of sanctity, i may the secret grimoire bring this work to perfection, through jesus our lord who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the holy ghost. amen. sprinkle thyself with holy water and say asperges me domine hysope, et mundabor. lavabis me et super nivem dealbabor. hail o mighty god, for in thy power alone abideth the key to all exorcising of principalities, powers, thrones, angels and spirits. amen. then bless your girdle, saying: o god who by the breath of thy nostrils framed heaven and earth and wonderfully disposed all things therein in six days, grant that this now brought to perfection by thine unworthy servant may be by thee blessed and receive divine virtue, power and jnfluence from thee that every thin

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

development was the addition of a loop to the [72] top of the tau cross. this formed what is often called the egyptian cross, because it became a very important symbol of their rituals. by them it was called the crux ansata, or cross of life, and was their symbol of immortality or the continuity of life. it is often found in the hands of statues and in pictures of their gods and goddesses as the "key of life" by some, who are entirely ignorant of the facts, it is claimed that the crux ansata was a sex symbol. that is because, to the early egyptians, the reproductive process throughout all nature, in all plant and animal life, was a great mystery. that the seed in the ground, or any cell of living matter, could reproduce its kind and assist in maintaining a continuous line of its own specie

o explain all the workings of the r. c. triangle in the composition of matter, as now explained to all our members of the first and fourth degrees, would be to reveal that which would never be understood by the uninitiated and always misunderstood by his critics. but dalton did refer to the triangle in some places of his manuscript and in some of his public speeches. in fact, the triangle was the key to his work, the use of it becoming an obsession with him. all in all, dalton made many thousands.not hundreds.of observations of the workings of nature and kept them well tabulated and classified. he made many hundreds of laboratory experiments, and he had students and friends cooperating with him in making other experiments. he climbed mountains [107] almost daily to register certain effects

ts of the first american rosicrucians, who established their headquarters near philadelphia in 1694. a member of the english branch which sponsored the first movement in america, mrs. may banks-stacey, descendant of oliver cromwell and the d'arcys of france, placed in his hands such papers as had been officially transmitted to her by the last of the first american rosicrucians, with the jewel and key of authority received by her from the grand master of the order in india, while an officer of the work in that country. for several years correspondence was maintained with different representatives of the foreign jurisdictions until proper investigation see portrait on page 10.[133] could he made establishing the worthiness of dr. lewis to carry out the warrants then in his possession. final

e. guesdon, begun in 1945, became more frequent. she kept mr. bernard informed of her efforts to establish the french jurisdiction of a.m.o.r.c. and loaned him rosicrucian works in english. in december, 1948, jeanne guesdon wrote that everything was ready and sent him an application for membership which he immediately filled out. thus he became the first member of the french jurisdiction with the key number 2, the imperator having been honored with number 1. on march 29, 1955, mile. guesdon passed through transition after a short illness. in 1956, the imperator asked raymond bernard to become the head of the french jurisdiction, according to mile. guesdon's wish. in accepting this, frater bernard undertook the task of establishing lodges, chapters, and pronaoi in all french-speaking countr

in the rituals of the organization, both in the temple lodges and in the grand lodge rituals. peculiar to note, if you reverse the letters of the word, cromaat, they constitute the abbreviation of the words: the ancient and mystical order rosae crucis. crux ansata.the looped cross. a tau or t cross with a loop at the top. it is of ancient egyptian origin and was referred to by them as the ankh or key of life. an ancient symbol of immortality and of life. it was often included as part of a pharaoh's name as in tutankhamen. cycle.a period of time, evolution, process, method, or manifestation. mystically every progressive action is in cycles, definite and important. the cycle of human life is divided into periods of seven years, each of which is a cycle in the growth and development of the mi

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

connection with barrett is explained in notes copied by the late gerald yorke from hockley papers in the possessionofthe latejohnwatkins. discussingthemagus,hockley wrote:'theabove which is an abridgmentofthe title sufficiently gives the scopeofthe work which consistsofan unacknowledged compilation from other authors. in fact, all that isofreal value is taken from cfomelius] agrippa&theclavis or key to unlock the mysteriesofrabbi solomon, and an ancient work on telesmataofgreat rarity which only exists inmsofwhich, however,thereare a largenumberofcopies extant.forcompiling this book my late friendjohndenley, the occult booksellerofcatherine street, lent barrett the wholeofthe materials,andmy friend complained that blarrett] never recompensed him even with a copy. at the saleoflackington's

and depthofinformation received. it seems unlikely that a teenage girl with, presumably, an average victorian female's education, could have invented the religious and philosophical information hockley transcribed. many seekers after arcane knowledge sought initiation into freemasonry, in the erroneous belief that knowledgeofthe rituals of freemasonry would set them on the path to discovering the key to all knowledge. surprisingly, hockley did not take this step until his fifty-fifth year, although some of his contacts, professional, spiritualist and occult, must have been14therosicrucianseerspiritualism, occultism, and their practitioners. they reveal his depthofknowledge of occult literature (although davies states that hockley knew no other language than english) and the resultant abili

d that although my time was fully occupied, yet, having receivedmyg.s.'s permission, i would receive his book as often as possible, and, placing the tide my seeress had copied, i asked if he could see it, and if the charcters were correct.'thefigures are the same; the spiritual characters are the same.'itis the talisman of the sun, as i thought when i made it the highest that might be made.itis a key to the language of all spirits and their talismans that dwell there.'thatis, there is only one classofspirits, although numerous individuals. each has a power peculiarly his own, which is felt or influences the material world. this power is obtained and kept up by a talisman, which each possesses separate and distinct from the other, and made up of different characters. these characters make a

t in the centre of the crystal and then the message or answer appears in a kind of printed character.therewas no hesitation, and she spoke it all off as though she was reading a book, and as soon as she had uttered the words she saw, they melted away and fresh ones took their place. i have30volumns[sic],containing upwards of12,000answers received in this way, which i keep carefully under lock and key. a crystal, if properly used, should be dedicated to a spirit. some time ago i was introduced to lieutenant burton by earl stanhope, and he wished me to get him a crystal, with a spirit attached. i also gave him a black mirror as well, and he used that in the same manner as you would a crystal. you invoke the person whom you wish to appear, and the seer looks in and describesall,and puts quest

be here about 3 weeks&intend taking a day or two going home to see lincoln and ely cathedrals and cam255bridge-mypartner is going on to bury&will not be back in town till early october&thenithink of coming down to bristol for a day or twoofwhichiwill give you due notice.iam writing this ati io'clock by gas light and must conclude withhockley'slettersto theirwins63i don't remember if you have the key of rabbi solomon'sf-;ifnot when you come to town i can lend you mine. you do not mention whether i am to send the ms by book post or rail, i think the post isbest-letme know. i am rather better than i have beenbutstill very unwell. i am going to a friend's on saturday&i am back on tuesday&on the10august i hope to be in northumberland&with kindest regards remain, most fraternally yours.ithe'alm

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

ory they withdrew up into the heavens or down under the earth, though their spirits might be persuaded to reside in shrines built for them by the king. the egyptians believed that some supernatural beings could still be encountered in the wilder regions of the earth, such as the remote desert and the areas of untamed marshland on the edges of the nile valley and in parts of the delta. many of the key events in egyptian myth, such as the burial of the murdered god osiris, were supposed to have happened in specific places in egypt or in its neighboring countries. thus a mythical geography can be superimposed on the physical geography. every major egyptian temple was designed as a miniature cosmos in which the main events in mythical history were repeatedly played out, so there came to be man

the thirteenth dynasty royal authority was also in decline, and this may have led to greater freedom of expression in religious art and literature. images of deities started to be shown on votive objects dedicated by nonroyal people, particularly in the holy city of abydos. middle kingdom inscriptions tell of festivals at abydos in which large numbers of people joined in ceremonies that reenacted key events in the myth of osiris.39 it was around this time that an ancient royal tomb at abydos was reidentified as the burial place of osiris. this merging of mythical and physical geography was to become increasingly characteristic of egyptian culture. that culture seemed to suffer a setback when a palestinian dynasty took control of the delta region of northern egypt during the seventeenth cen

the latter school derived all the world s myths from prehistoric egyptian kingship rituals.114 equally controversial in recent times has been martin bernal s work on the egyptian contribution to greek mythology and culture.115 one offshoot of the feminist movement has been a new interest in goddesses, and isis is now worshipped again in many parts of the world. egyptian mythology has never been a key part of western literature in the way that greek mythology has. egyptian funerary religion and archaeology have provided more inspiration to writers than egyptian myths. the reanimated mummy is the image that has captured the modern imagination, but the deities of ancient egypt have appeared as peripheral characters in horror stories by writers such as th ophile gautier, arthur conan doyle, ed

e of atum. these terms could be used to express a contrast between the headstrong and dangerous aspect of this goddess (the eye of ra) and her more amenable, protective aspect (the eye of atum. sometimes, however, the eye of ra was the sun and the eye of atum was the moon. at a later stage in mythical history, ra-atum and his warrior daughter fought a great battle against the forces of chaos. the key event was the slaughter of the chaos monster apophis under the ished tree. this was a sacred tree growing in heliopolis that was linked to the destiny of all beings. during this battle, ra-atum took the form of a cat, a mongoose, or an ichneumon, all predators that kill snakes (see figure 22. in solar mythology atum was often paired with khepri. they were complementary opposites, the setting a

rom memories of an ancient civil war to observations of storms or astronomical phenomena. when the combatants are horus the elder, the celestial falcon, and seth, the chaotic god of storms, the conflict seems to belong to the primeval age when opposing elements had to come together to create the divine order. the necessity of horus and seth being reconciled is stressed in many sources. one of the key images of royal art was horus the uniter and seth tying together the heraldic plants of upper and lower egypt to symbolize the union of the two lands into one perfect kingdom. the figure of seth is sometimes re- 144 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 31. horus and isis triumph over the seth hippopotamus before the gods. ptolemaic relief depicting the festival of victory in the temple of hor

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tes of arte. these histories are re-membered in the very current itself, as each initiate of the tradition adds and refines to what has gone before and then, in their own turn, passes their knowledge on- the current is imbued with their spirit and these live on in the passing-on of the power- the mighty dead now live within out own flesh. from an etymological perspective we may trace back certain key words in craft terminology and by deduction and interference attempt to form ideas regarding the origin of practices and the evolution of symbols. this will only reach back into the time when names were first given and thus to the edge of mythic time, beyond this our practices alone may reveal that which is veiled to the intellectual acuity of academia..for between the histories that we may tr

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

om mere physical exhaustion.gradually he passed into a death-like and dreamless slumber. at the gloomy winter dawn he awoke, butfinding it too early to rise he fell asleep again. and then he had a vivid dream- so vivid indeed, so life-like,that from its terrible realism he felt sure that it was a vision rather than a dream. he had left his violin on a table by his bedside, locked in its case, the key of which never left him. since hehad strung it with those terrible chords he never let it out of his sight for a moment. in accordance with hisresolution he had not touched it since his first trial, and his bow had never but once touched the humanstrings, for he had since always practised on another instrument. but now in his sleep he saw himself lookingat the locked case. something in it was

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

reature in the theatre made one mad rush towards the door. itwas like the sudden outburst of a dam, a human torrent, roaring amid a shower of discordant notes, idioticsqueakings, prolonged and whining moans, cacophonous cries of frenzy, above which, like the detonations ofpistol shots, was heard the consecutive bursting of the four strings stretched upon the sound-board of thatbewitched violedthe key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt the key to theosophy dedicated by "h.p.b" to all her pupils, that they may learn and teach in their turn. the key to theosophy a clear exposition in the form of question and answer of the ethics, science, and philosophy for the study of which the theosophical society has been founded. h.p. blavatsky preface the purpose of this book is exactly expressed in its tit

heosophy- hp blavatsky.txt the key to theosophy dedicated by "h.p.b" to all her pupils, that they may learn and teach in their turn. the key to theosophy a clear exposition in the form of question and answer of the ethics, science, and philosophy for the study of which the theosophical society has been founded. h.p. blavatsky preface the purpose of this book is exactly expressed in its title, the key to theosophy, and needs but few words of explanation. it is not a complete or exhaustive textbook of theosophy, but only a key to unlock the door that leads to the deeper study. it traces the broad outlines of the wisdom-religion, and explains its fundamental principles; meeting, at the same time, the various objections raised by the average western inquirer, and endeavoring to present unfamil

uth felt more antagonism to the possessors of the whole truth than those who had no share to boast of. very hearty thanks are due from the author to many theosophists who have sent suggestions and questions, or have otherwise contributed help during the writing of this book. the work will be the more useful for their aid, and that will be their best reward -h.p. blavatsky 1889 contents page 1 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt preface theosophy and the theosophical society 1 the meaning of the name 1 the policy of the theosophical society 4 the wisdom-religion, esoteric in all ages 7 theosophy is not buddhism 12 exoteric and esoteric theosophy 15 what the modern theosophical society is not 15 theosophists and members of the t.s. 18 the difference between theosophy and occultism 23 the

f theosophy 57 on god and prayer 57 is it necessary to pray? 61 prayer kills self-reliance 66 on the source of the human soul 69 the buddhist teachings on the above 71 theosophical teachings as to nature and man 77 the unity of all in all 77 evolution and illusion 78 on the septenary constitution of our planet 81 the septenary nature of man 83 the distinction between soul and spirit 86 page 2 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt the greek teachings 89 on the various postmortem states 95 the physical and the spiritual man 95 on eternal reward and punishment, and on nirvana 102 on the various principles in man 109 on reincarnation or rebirth 115 what is memory according to theosophical teaching? 115 why do we not remember our past lives? 119 on individuality and personality 124 on the rewa

rine is taught in st. john's gospel 172 on the mysteries of reincarnation 183 periodical rebirths 183 what is karma? 186 who are those who know? 199 the difference between faith and knowledge, or blind and reasoned faith 201 has god the right to forgive? 205 what is practical theosophy? 209 duty 209 the relations of the t.s. to political reforms 213 on self-sacrifice 217 on charity 222 page 3 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt theosophy for the masses 224 how members can help the society 227 what a theosophist ought not to do 228 on the misconceptions about the t.s. 237 theosophy and asceticism 237 theosophy and marriage 240 theosophy and education 241 why then is there so much prejudice against the t.s? 248 is the theosophical society a money-making concern? 256 the working staff of t

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

d by robert turner. adobe acrobat edition created by benjamin rowe, july 1, 2000. note: this document is optimized for printing on a laser or inkjet printer. the illustrations may appear jagged when viewed onscreen with certain displays. they will print at the full resolution of your printer the aim being to experiment with various approaches to the evocation of spirits, beginning with the lesser key of solomon the king. some observations on our results with the entities of the lesser key of solomon are enclosed. during this project, i found my interests returning to a recurrent obsession- the entities of the cthulhu mythos. the final essay, evoking yog-sothoth (originally written for the journal of the esoteric order of dagon) is an attempt to pull together a 6 theoretical model relating

th vampiric themes published in chaos international, entitled .droplets. as it was written in the first person, apparently some people have chosen to believe it was me baring my soul. oh dear! 22 functional spirits one approach to evocation is working with spirits which have a provenance over a particular situation or experience. entities such as these are detailed in grimoires such as the lesser key of solomon the king which are handbooks of spirits, giving details of spirits. typical forms, names, sigils, and how to conjure them. the spirits in books such as the lesser key have bizarre names, even more bizarre appearances, yet their powers are directly functional and useful. for example, raum appears as a blackbird, and can create love, reconcile enemies, or destroy cities and reputation

ct was the title of as long-term project undertaken by myself and a colleague in 1989. our original aim was to work through a series of .traditional. grimoires and, following assessments and analysis of our findings, create a general approach to goetia suitable for our post-modern era. needless to say, things did not go exactly as we planned. our first series of workings was drawn from the lesser key of solomon. our first evocation, of the spirit vassago, was performed without using the traditional arrangement of circle, triangle, etc .just to see what happened, as it were. the result was that the working lacked clear definition; visions of the spirit called forth were hazy at best, and we both experienced a lowering of vitality (a feeling of being .drained, headaches and pre-flulike sympt

.just to see what happened, as it were. the result was that the working lacked clear definition; visions of the spirit called forth were hazy at best, and we both experienced a lowering of vitality (a feeling of being .drained, headaches and pre-flulike symptoms for a couple of days following. in view of this, we constructed a permanent circle and triangle, according to the .rules. in the lesser key, and all workings were conducted in the fashion outlined in the lesser key. using the long conjurations and constraints to the spirit given in the lesser key itself is exhilarating. the long sentences, punctuated by the old testament names of god and biblical quotations, quickly raises excitement to a fever pitch, and once the spirit can be discerned, it must then be abjured to remain within t

d constraints to the spirit given in the lesser key itself is exhilarating. the long sentences, punctuated by the old testament names of god and biblical quotations, quickly raises excitement to a fever pitch, and once the spirit can be discerned, it must then be abjured to remain within the triangle of art. the shapes which the spirits assumed were rarely exactly that described within the lesser key (hereafter lk, but generally similar. we found that once a spirit had appeared to us in a particular form, then it more or less took that shape in subsequent evocations. once evoked, a spirit would then be questioned bout its nature, qualities, and how we could improve upon the evocationenvironment. in one instance, we questioned the spirit vassago about the optimum time for evoking him. he ma

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irtual magick) to gate through, and i ve had them turning up spontaenously in dreams as astral doorways. to seal them, i reverse the spinning of the petals, and have them become flat again, sometimes doing a normal pentagram over them just for good measure. they seem to work well when used in a 29 oven-ready chaos free-form style of working, but not when used with trad systems, such as the lesser key of solomon (the entities in there are strictly conservative in how they like being evoked, i find. if you try out the spiral pentagrams by the way, i d love some feedback/correspondence on the subject. with all magical techniques& rituals, it is important to distinguish between process and content. one of the first messages of the chaos current is that whilst content is to some extent arbitary

ouring down with rain and you know with an air of dread certainty that no one s going to stop for you now, but you stick your thumb out anyway. what the hell, eh? five minutes later, you get a lift from the boy/girl/anteater of two sigils back, driving a porsche and asking you how far you want to go. maddening isn t it? but sigilisation often seems to work like that. 35 oven-ready chaos belief- a key to magick one aspect of chaos magick that seems to upset some people is the chaos magician s (or chaoist, if you like) occasional fondness for working with images culled from non-historical sources, such as invoking h.p lovecraft s cthulhu mythos beings, mapping the rocky horror show onto the tree of life, slamming through the astral void in an x-wing fighter, and channeling communications fro

it36 phil hine off-a-redindian-shaman-honest stuff that seems so popular nowadays. it doesn t matter which belief system you use, so long as it turns you on. read that again, it s important. eventually most magicians seem to develop their own magical systems which work fine for them but are a bit mind boggling for others to use, with austin osman spare s alphabet of desire being a good example. a key to magical success is veracity of belief. if you want to try something out, and can come up with a plausible explanation as to how/why it should work, then it most likely will. pseudoscience or qabbalistic gibber (or both- it matters not so long as the rationale you devise buffers the strength of your belief in the idea working. i find that this happens a lot when i try and push the limits of

figure, scotty is a master builder, and kirk is an arbitrator, forever seeking resolution of conflict through peaceful means. as we get into the star trek universe, we find greater depth and subtlety. we find that the universe has its own rules which the characters are subject to, and is internally consistent. each episode, we may find that we are being given insights into the personal world of a key character. like our everyday worlds, the universe of star trek has a boundary beyond which is the unknown- the future, unexplored space, the consequences of our actions- whatever wild cards that we may be dealt. so we watch tv, and enter, as an observer, the unfolding of a mythic event. we can increase this sense of participation through a role-playing game, where group belief allows us to gen

difficult suspensions for fledgling magicians is overcoming the nagging doubt that all this stuff doesn t work. despite hours of talk and reading vast tomes by crowley and his cohorts, that nagging disbelief can still be heard, and can only be really dispelled by experience- one act that shows you that magick works is worth a thousand arguments. so my conclusion is that intensity of belief is the key which allows magical systems to work, whether they be related to historical traditions (which are, let s face it, very often rewritten anyway, esoteric traditions (which have evolved down the centuries as well) or based on fiction or tv. it s your ability to be emotively moved or use them as vehicles for the expression of your will that counts. if it works for you- do it. 41 oven-ready chaos b

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

and astrology are closely interlinked. unless one has undergone the training which cagliostro had, we cannot do the same, tho' we may get some kind of approximation to events. mesmerism is a part only of the great science, tho' a most important part& cagliostro was also proficient in that. i do not think seances with eglinton' will do any real good, and possibly harm. spiritualism is part of the key to occultism, but only a small part, and a new dangerous part taken by itself only. i do not think p[eter] d[avidson] knew that t.h.b. was a convicted felon, but when he did know it, he still embarked with his family and this felon for america. he has not been over scrupulous and has been making use of occultism for mere secular gain. i could tell you much of it if i were to see you personally

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ected to go over his papers with some thoroughness; and for that purpose moved his entire set of files and boxes to my quarters in boston. much of the material which i correlated will be later published by the american archaeological society, but there was one box which i found exceedingly puzzling, and which i felt much averse from showing to other eyes. it had been locked and i did not find the key till it occurred to me to examine the personal ring which the professor carried in his pocket. then, indeed, i succeeded in opening it, but when i did so seemed only to be confronted by a greater and more closely locked barrier. for what could be the meaning of the queer clay bas-relief and the disjointed jottings, ramblings, and cuttings which i found? had my uncle, in his latter years become

sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters "cthulhu fhtagn" this verbal jumble was the key to the recollection which excited and disturbed professor angell. he questioned the sculptor with scientific minuteness; and studied with frantic intensity the bas-relief on which the youth had found himself working, chilled and clad only in his night clothes, when waking had stolen bewilderingly over him. my uncle blamed his old age, wilcox afterwards said, for his slowness in recognizing bot

efully low, whilst their annals reek of overt viciousness and of half-hidden murders, incests, and deeds of almost unnameable violence and perversity. the old gentry, representing the two or three armigerous families which came from salem in 1692, have kept somewhat above the general level of decay; though many branches are sunk into the sordid populace so deeply that only their names remain as a key to the origin they disgrace. some of the whateleys and bishops still send their eldest sons to harvard and miskatonic, though those sons seldom return to the mouldering gambrel roofs under which they and their ancestors were born. no one, even those who have the facts concerning the recent horror, can say just what is the matter with dunwich; though old legends speak of unhallowed rites and co

the loan of a book he desperately wanted; so at length he set out in person, shabby, dirty, bearded, and uncouth of dialect, to consult the copy at miskatonic, which was the nearest to him geographically. almost eight feet tall, and carrying a cheap new valise from osborne's general store, this dark and goatish gargoyle appeared one day in arkham in quest of the dreaded volume kept under lock and key at the college library- the hideous necronomicon of the mad arab abdul alhazred in olaus wormius' latin version, as printed in spain in the seventeenth century. he had never seen a city before, but had no thought save to find his way to the university grounds; where indeed, he passed heedlessly by the great white-fanged watchdog that barked with unnatural fury and enmity, and tugged franticall

as armitage mentally translated it) that man is either the oldest or the last of earth's masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. the old ones were, the old ones are, and the old ones shall be. not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. yog-sothoth knows the gate. yog-sothoth is the gate. yog-sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. past, present, future, all are one in yog-sothoth. he knows where the old ones broke through of old, and where they shall break through again. he knows where they had trod earth's fields, and where they still tread them, and why no one can behold them as they tread. by their smell can men sometimes know them near, but of their semblance can no man know, saving only in

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

ce "the wings "the eyes in darkness "the moon-ladder "the original, the eternal, the undying" and other bizarre conceptions; but when he is fully himself he repudiates all this and attributes it to his curious and macabre reading of earlier years. danforth, indeed, is known to be among the few who have ever dared go completely through that worm-riddled copy of the necronomicon kept under lock and key in the college library. the higher sky, as we crossed the range, was surely vaporous and disturbed enough; and although i did not see the zenith, i can well imagine that its swirls of ice dust may have taken strange forms. imagination, knowing how vividly distant scenes can sometimes be reflected, refracted, and magnified by such layers of restless cloud, might easily have supplied the rest- a

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

pplanting it at times in kaleidoscopic rotation, were glimpses of wide plains and graceful valleys, high mountains and inviting grottoes, covered with every lovely attribute of scenery which my delighted eyes could conceive of, yet formed wholly of some glowing, ethereal plastic entity, which in consistency partook as much of spirit as of matter. as i gazed, i perceived that my own brain held the key to these enchanting metamorphoses; for each vista which appeared to me was the one my changing mind most wished to behold. amidst this elysian realm i dwelt not as a stranger, for each sight and sound was familiar to me; just as it had been for uncounted eons of eternity before, and would be for like eternities to come. then the resplendent aura of my brother of light drew near and held colloq

HP LOVECRAFT COOL AIR

ps as a result of excessive curiosity. he could not, of course, have locked the door behind him; yet it was now fastened, presumably from the inside. there was no sound within save a nameless sort of slow, thick dripping. briefly consulting with mrs. herrero and the workmen despite a fear that gnawed my inmost soul, i advised the breaking down of the door; but the landlady found a way to turn the key from the outside with some wire device. we had previously opened the doors of all the other rooms on that hall, and flung all the windows to the very top. now, noses protected by handkerchiefs, we tremblingly invaded the accursed south room which blazed with the warm sun of early afternoon. a kind of dark, slimy trail led from the open bathroom door to the hall door, and thence to the desk, wh

HP LOVECRAFT HISTORY OF THE NECRONOMICON

anslation made by dr. dee was never printed, and exists only in fragments recovered from the original manuscript [this sentence does not occur in the first draft of the essay. it was added later, after frank belknap long had quoted from "john dee's necronomicon" in his tale "the space eaters (1928] of the latin texts now existing one (15th cent) is known to be in the british museum under lock and key, while another (17th cent) is in the bibliothque nationale at paris. a seventeenth-century edition is in the widener library at harvard, and in the library of miskatonic university at arkham. also in the library of the university of buenos ayres. numerous other copies probably exist in secret, and a fifteenth-century one is persistently rumoured to form part of the collection of a celebrated a

none titled necronomicon. kkc this is not an inconsistency, as old wizard whateley uses an incomplete manuscript of the dee translation. wilbur whateley, yog-sothoth's son, requires the complete edition housed in the miskatonic university library to fill in the gaps in the fragmentary dee version. of the latin texts now existing one (15th cent) is known to be in the british museum under lock and key, while another (17th cent) is in the bibliothque nationale at paris. a seventeenth-century edition is in the widener library at harvard, and in the library of miskatonic university at arkham. also in the library of the university of buenos ayres (15) other than the harvard copy, which the archivist knows for sure does not exist, and the fact that miskatonic university is totally fictional, i c

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

cted to go over his papers with some thoroughness; and for that purpose moved his entire set of files and boxes to my quarters in boston. much of the material which i correlated will be later published by the american archaeological society, but there was one box which i found exceedingly puzzling, and which i felt much averse from showing to other eyes. it had been locked, and i did not find the key till it occurred to me to examine the personal ring which the professor carried always in his pocket. then, indeed, i succeeded in opening it, but when i did so seemed only to be confronted by a greater and more closely locked barrier. for what could be the meaning of the queer clay bas-relief and the disjointed jottings, ramblings and cuttings which i found? had my uncle, in his latter years

sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters 'cthulhu fhtagn' this verbal jumble was the key to the recollection which excited and disturbed professor angell. he questioned the sculptor with scientific minuteness; and studied with almost frantic intensity the bas-relief on which the youth had found himself working, chilled and clad only in his nightclothes, when waking had stolen bewilderingly over him. my uncle blamed his old age, wilcox afterward said, for his slowness in recognizin

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

m the stupor into which this unnatural spectacle had thrown me, i realized that my actual physical danger was acute. even whilst i gazed, the bank had lost many feet, and it could not be long before the house would fall undermined into the awful pit of lashing waves. accordingly i hastened to the opposite side of the edifice, and finding a door, emerged at once, locking it after me with a curious key which had hung inside. i now beheld more of the strange region about me, and marked a singular division which seemed to exist in the hostile ocean and firmament. on each side of the jutting promontory different conditions held sway. at my left as i faced inland was a gently heaving sea with great green waves rolling peacefully in under a brightly shining sun. something about that sun s nature

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

in this decrepit edifice. in my nervousness i looked around and discovered a bolt on the clothespress which seemed to be of the same size, judging from the marks, as the one formerly on the door. to gain a partial relief from the general tension i busied myself by transferring this hardware to the vacant place with the aid of a handy three-in-one device including a screwdriver which i kept on my key-ring. the bolt fitted perfectly, and i was somewhat relieved when i knew that i could shoot it firmly upon retiring. not that i had any real apprehension of its need, but that any symbol of security was welcome in an environment of this kind. there were adequate bolts on the two lateral doors to connecting rooms, and these i proceeded to fasten. i did not undress, but decided to read till i wa

ry i had put out the light, yet was too tired to rise and turn it on again. then, after a long, dreary interval, and prefaced by a fresh creaking of stairs and corridor, there came that soft; damnably unmistakable sound which seemed like a malign fulfillment of all my apprehensions. without the lean shadow of a doubt, the lock of my door was being tried- cautiously, furtively, tentatively- with a key. my sensations upon recognising this sign of actual peril were perhaps less rather than more tumultuous because of my previous vague fear i had about, albeit without definite reason, instinctively on my guard- and that was to my advantage in the new and real crisis, whatever it might turn out to be. nevertheless the change in the menace from vague premonition to immediate reality was a profoun

ace from vague premonition to immediate reality was a profound shock, and fell upon me with the force of a genuine blow. it never once occurred to me that the fumbling might be a mere mistake. malign purpose was all i could think of, and i kept deathly quiet, awaiting the wouldhe intruder's next move. after a time the cautious rattling ceased, and i heard the room to the north entered with a pass key. then the lock of the connecting door to my room was softly tried. the bolt held, of course, and i heard the floor creak as the prowler left the room. after a moment there came another soft rattling, and i knew that the room to the south of me was being entered. again a furtive trying of a bolted connecting door, and again a receding creaking. this time the creaking went along the hall and dow

rce violently, using my shoulder as a battering-ram whenever they were set against me. this, i thought, would be possible owing to the rickety nature of the house and its fixtures; but i realised i could not do it noiselessly. i would have to count on sheer speed, and the chance of getting to a window before any hostile forces became coordinated enough to open the right door toward me with a pass-key. my own outer door i reinforced by pushing the bureau against it- little by little, in order to make a minimum of sound. i perceived that my chances were very slender, and was fully prepared for any calamity. even getting to another roof would not solve the problem for there would then remain the task of reaching the ground and escaping from the town. one thing in my favour was the deserted an

he outside knocking became a violent battering, while keys sounded ominously in the hall doors of the rooms on both sides of me. rushing through the newly opened connexion, i succeeded in bolting the northerly hall door before the lock could he turned; but even as i did so i heard the hall door of the third room-the one from whose window i had hoped to reach the roof below-being tried with a pass key. for an instant i felt absolute despair, since my trapping in a chamber with no window egress seemed complete. a wave of almost abnormal horror swept over me, and invested with a terrible but unexplainable singularity the flashlightglimpsed dust prints made by the intruder who had lately tried my door from this room. then, with a dazed auto-matism which persisted despite hopelessness, i made f

HP LOVECRAFT THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

ere to reach to the center of the earth and back" i can still hear, in memory, those coolly spoken words; and i can still remember my remonstrances. i seemed desperately anxious to accompany my friend into those sepulchral depths, yet he proved inflexibly obdurate. at one time he threatened to abandon the expedition if i remained insistent; a threat which proved effective, since he alone held the key to the thing. all this i can still remember, though i no longer know what manner of thing we sought. after he had obtained my reluctant acquiescence in his design, warren picked up the reel of wire and adjusted the instruments. at his nod i took one of the latter and seated myself upon an aged, discolored gravestone close by the newly uncovered aperture. then he shook my hand, shouldered the c

HP LOVECRAFT THE TOMB

n; a phenomenon so fleeting that i could not take oath upon its reality. i barely fancied that as i awoke, a light had been hurriedly extinguished within the sunken sepulcher. i do not think i was either astounded or panic-stricken, but i know that i was greatly and permanently changed that night. upon returning home i went with much directness to a rotting chest in the attic, wherein i found the key which next day unlocked with ease the barrier i had so long stormed in vain. it was in the soft glow of late afternoon that i first entered the vault on the abandoned slope. a spell was upon me, and my heart leaped with an exultation i can but ill describe. as i closed the door behind me and descended the dripping steps by the light of my lone candle, i seemed to know the way; and though the c

rmed at the altered manner and appearance of their only son, commenced to exert over my movements a kindly espionage which threatened to result in disaster. i had told no one of my visits to the tomb, having guarded my secret purpose with religious zeal since childhood; but now i was forced to exercise care in threading the mazes of the wooded hollow, that i might throw off a possible pursuer. my key to the vault i kept suspended from a cord about my neck, its presence known only to me. i never carried out of the sepulcher any of the things i came upon whilst within its walls. one morning as i emerged from the damp tomb and fastened the chain of the portal with none too steady hand, i beheld in an adjacent thicket the dreaded face of a watcher. surely the end was near; for my bower was dis

pass the chained portal, and swears that the rusted padlock had not been touched for fifty years when he examined it. he even says that all the village knew of my journeys to the tomb, and that i was often watched as i slept in the bower outside the grim facade, my half-open eyes fixed on the crevice that leads to the interior. against these assertions i have no tangible proof to offer, since my key to the padlock was lost in the struggle on that night of horrors. the strange things of the past which i have learned during those nocturnal meetings with the dead he dismisses as the fruits of my lifelong and omnivorous browsing amongst the ancient volumes of the family library. had it not been for my old servant hiram, i should have by this time become quite convinced of my madness. but hira

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

ue was as of the azure sky, and a single shattered spar, of a whiteness greater than that of the wave-tips or of the mountain snow. and thereafter the ocean told me its secrets no more; and though many times since has the moon shone full and high in the heavens, the white ship from the south came never again. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:4618through the gates of the silver key by h.p. lovecraft written 1932- first published in weird tales, july 1934. chapter one in a vast room hung with strangely figured arras and carpeted with bonkhata rugs of impressive age and workmanship, four men were sitting around a documentstrewn table. from the far corners, where odd tripods of wrought iron were now and then replenished by an incredibly aged negro in somber livery, came the

it was from the wild, haunted hills behind hoary and witch-accursed arkham that all his forebears had come. and it was amid these ancient, cryptically brooding hills that he had ultimately vanished. his old servant, parks- who died early in 193o- had spoken of the strangely aromatic and hideously craven box he had found in the attic, and of the indecipherable parchments and queerly figured silver key which that box had contained: matters of which carter had also written to others. carter, he said, had told him that this key had come down from his ancestors, and that it would help him to unlock the gates to his lost boyhood, and to strange dimensions and fantastic realms which he had hitherto visited only in vague, brief, and elusive dreams. then one day carter took the box and its contents

aft trials in salem, and even now it bore a name for vaguely ominous things scarcely to be envisaged. edmund carter had fled from the shadow of gallows hill just in time, and the tales of his sorceries were many. now, it seemed, his lone descendant had gone somewhere to join him! in the car they found the hideously carved box of fragrant wood, and the parchment which no man could read. the silver key was gone- presumably with carter. further than that there was no certain clue. detectives from boston said that the fallen timbers of the old carter place seemed oddly disturbed, and somebody found a handkerchief on the rock-ridged, sinisterly wooded slope behind the ruins near the dreaded cave called the snake den. it was then that the country legends about the snake den gained a new vitality

hen he was a small boy? it was as crazy a notion as that other whisper- that the tracks of old benijah corey's peculiar heelless boots had met the stubby little tracks in the road. old benijah had been the carters' hired man when randolph was young; but he had died thirty years ago. it must have been these whispers plus carter's own statement to parks and others that the queerly arabesqued silver key would help him unlock the gates of his lost boyhood-which caused a number of mystical students to declare that the missing man had actually doubled back on the trail of time and returned through forty-five years to that other october day in 1883 when he had stayed in the snake den as a small boy. when he came out that night, they argued, he had somehow made the whole trip to 1928 and back; for

k it with him in december, when he went down into the vault in that old graveyard- but neither he nor the book ever came to the surface again. some time ago i sent our friend here-the swami chandraputra- a memory-sketch of some of those letters, and also a photostatic copy of the carter parchment. he believes he may be able to shed light on them after certain references and consultations "but the key- carter sent me a photograph of that. its curious arabesques were not letters, but seem to have belonged to the same culture-tradition as the parch-ment carter always spoke of being on the point of solving the mystery, though he never gave details. once he grew almost poetic about the whole business. that antique silver key, he said, would unlock the successive doors that bar our free march do

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

do without the candles and other objects. my grandmother feels that the flame of a candle can change the atmosphere and can create vibrations; that may be true, although i'm not sure. i know i'm becoming more and more able to cast spells without props, but i'd rather use props because i am comfortable with the old methods. there's nothing wrong with using candles and other props to condition and key up your senses. for ages, religions have employed candles, bells and incense to affect the concentration of their congregations. lighting candles, as is done in church, can be done at home for the same purpose. it's not such a hokey thing that it should occur only in the dominion of witches. many clever people in all professions are aware of the power of objects. a bell is supposed to attract

go to bed. then draw a protective white chalk circle around the bed. once between the covers you say "sandoz" eight times. sleep in the nude or it doesn't work. witchcraft hinges on desire, and the reason for this is that most people find it easy to become emotional about things they want, about things they love. it's difficult for them to become emotional about a dress or money. that's the whole key to it. men who have made fantastic amounts of money do so because they can become aroused and emotionally turned-on with money. the average person can't. if you can get your emotions going you can accomplish anything. don't think about what money might bring. you've got to understand very clearly that once you have the money, it will bring all the things you want to buy, so there's no point in

ssible, studying it; this diagram, this spell, represents something you want, and you will be imbedding it in your own mind and causing yourself to act in accordance with achieving your desires. now you must learn the meanings of the cards, and this will take time, but the following list is here for ready reference until you have absorbed it all. you'll quickly recognize which cards represent the key people in your life, and which cards influence the main situations in your life, but there are always subtleties to become aware of, new situations popping up, and new people arriving on the scene- even if you have to make them arrive- so the whole deck can be important to everyone. here is what the cards mean. ace of hearts is traditionally a romantic card, but it deals with love versus sex

en very successful for witches in the past. if it is not difficult, it's a good idea to rhyme your major desire. rhymes are used because there is an hypnotic effect to reading poetry. it flows; you get into the swing of it, and it's easy to remember. you want things to be smooth and flowing. you could either rhyme your own or find a piece of poetry that pleases you and adopt it, substituting your key desire words. you should use the same rhyme over and over, writing it down "i'm going to have a handsome son, a home and man when next year's done" this will have a subtle effect on your subconscious, so that you will begin to act in the way needed to set into motion events that will result in your obtaining your desires. the primary thing about happiness is that you can't kid yourself: if you

date, four, equals ten; the one and zero equal one, plus the year, which adds up to a nine, digit by digit, so with the original one we are back to ten or one again: it's a number one day. for bob smith, whose name and birthdate add up to four, it is a number five day, however. this can be done with every day of your life, and if you know the symbols that relate to the numbers you have a guiding key for every fraction of the future. according to the ancients, number one is symbolized by the sun, number two by the moon, number three by jupiter, number four by saturn, number five by mercury, number six by venus, number seven by uranus, number eight by mars and number nine by neptune. one old interpretation equates pluto to the number zero, but others place a value of twenty-two on pluto, wh

INDUCTION CHARM AND THE INITIATION

where it comes from, may be things beyond explanation in terms of mere supernormal energy forces. the mysteries of the mind are as vast and unknown as the farthest star in the darkest skies. and it is only recently that man has learned to fhethe induction charm and the initiation (initiation stream i) copyright 2005 by robin artisson from the witching way of the hollow hill this initiation is the key to gaining the bond between the powers and the witch who wishes to access the workings described in this book on a deeper level. this is the pact you must take with the old powers, from the master-spirits, all the way to the powers of the land, and even the spiritual guardians of plants and beasts. it is not hard to perform, but it is lasting and binding, and if any hint of insincerity is in y

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

es, it being a symbol of the deepest initiation and the highest wisdom. many of the readers will know, of course, that the word tarot does not mean a game of cards, serving mantical purposes, but a symbolic book of initiation which contains the greatest secrets in a symbolic form. the first tablet of this book introduces the magician representing him as the master of the elements and offering the key to the first arcanum, the secret of the ineffable name of tetragrammaton, the quabbalistic yod-he-vau-he. here we will, therefore, find the gate to the magician s initiation. the reader will easily realize, how significant and how manifold the application of this tablet is. not one of the books published up to date does describe the true sense of the first tarot card so distinctly as i have do

va as it later became when the vowels of another word were combined with the consonants of yhvh. but i would never dare to say that my book describes or deals with all the magic or mystic problems. if anyone should like to write all about this sublime wisdom, he ought to fill folio volumes. it can, however, be affirmed positively that this work is indeed the gate to the true initiation, the first key to using the universal rules. i am not going to deny the fact of fragments being able to be found in many an author s publications, but not in a single book will the reader find so exact a description of the first tarot card. i have taken pains to be as plain as possible in the course of the lectures to make the sublime truth accessible to everybody, although it has been a hard task sometimes

. the accuracy of this fact is not to be doubted, but all that has been published up to date points to a slight aspect of the effects of the elements only. how to find out about the effects of elements respecting the tattwas for any personal use, may be sufficiently learned from astrological books. i am penetrating far deeper into the secret of the elements and therefore i have chosen a different key, which, although being analogous to the astrological key, has, as a matter of fact, nothing to do with it. the reader, to whom this key is completely unknown, shall be taught to use it in various ways. as for the single tasks, analogies and effects of the elements, i shall deal with tem by turns and in detail in the following chapters, which will not only unveil the theoretical part of it, but

the element of the air, the goblet as that of the water and the coins as the element of the earth. this proves without any doubt that already in the mysteries of yore, the magician was destined for the first tarot card, mastery of the elements having been chosen as the first act of initiation. in honor of this tradition i shall give my principal attention to the elements for, as you will see, the key to the elements is the panacea, with the help of which all the occurring problems may be solved. according to the indian succession of the tattwas, it runs as follows: akasa principle of the ether tejas principle of the fire waju principle of the air apas principle of the water prithivi principle of the earth in accordance with the indian doctrine, it has been said that the four somehow grosse

e elements will also be discussed and the great practical value of them underlined, so that every scientist, whether he be a chemist, a physician, a magnetizer, an occultist, a magician, a mystic, a quabbalist or a yogi, etc, can derive his practical benefit from it. should i succeed in teaching the reader so far that he is able to deal with the subject in the proper way and to find the practical key to the branch of knowledge most suitable for him, i will be glad to see that the purpose of my book has been fulfilled. 2. the principle of fire as it has been said before, akasa or the etheric principle is the cause of the origin of the elements. according to the oriental scriptures, the first element born from akasa is believed to be tejas, the principle of fire. this element as well as all

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

iduality. this being said sabbatic craft, as a unifying term denoting a tradition, relates solely to the specific lineages convergent and operative in the cultus sabbati as an initiatic body. however, one can also speak of the sabbatic current as an initiatory line of spirit-power that can inform all who are receptive to its impetus, and which when engaged with beyond names may be understood as a key unto the hidden design of arte. being born of vision, i would say the origin of sabbatic craft lies truly in the circle itself. rf: can you say more about the ritual symbolism of the sabbatic craft on an inner level, particularly in relation to consciousness? ac: at an inner level of understanding one can speak of sabbatic craft in more subtle ways. the mythic elements of the witches sabbath c

pirant and deity. one initiates the other and the relations between both are transformed to a new status, usually through the transmission of new kinds of knowledge to the initiand. in the sabbatic craft, solitary initiation or the lonely road is recognised as a vital aspect of every practitioner s path and the understanding of solitude is subject to many levels of interpretation. autonomy is the key virtue, irrespective of whether one practices in human convocation or alone in the ever-present company of spirits. as regards the rituals of solitary initiation, i am aware of seven major forms of induction, the most well-known of which is probably the toad-bone ritual. whilst i recognise that anyone who follows the procedure of any of these rites is technically able to receive the full power

ch prefigure the complex form seen in the present-day mythos. in previous generations traditional craft has shared certain features with the societies of horsemanry; reverence for cain is one such element. in turn, comparable ideas about the role of tubal-cain and naamah can be seen in the allied rites of freemasonry. traditional craft has also made good use of many ritual magic texts such as the key of solomon and agrippa s books of occult 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 c

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

to share the beginnings of my understanding of set-typhon in the hermetic tradition, so that others may make use of tools i've found and of the method of discovery. the majority of operant texts available to us come from the third to fifth centuries of the common era. most were found in thebes, a collection whose history, whose magical and cultural significance has generally been overlooked. this key collection, which escaped the roman persecution of magical texts, can be tied in with similar spells on curse tablets found around the mediterranean. the practices of the theban library are the key to a widespread magical/philosophical view of the universe which shaped the thought of late antiquity, and which in a hidden manner have shaped and are reshaping magical practices of the twentieth c

n, based on no clear reason? you decided to go into a store on an impulse, and met your spouse. you decided to pick up a slip of paper off the floor, and found your college major. you disagreed with a family member over the thanksgiving day menu, and wound up with a fight that scarred you both for life. the left hand path magician comes to realize that such "slips" and seeming "accidents" are the key to power. but this does not mean that he or she believes that every event is fated. it means that learning to control one's life rationally becomes a talisman to effect control of the hidden aspects of life as well. thus magicians will enter a phase where none of their actions are random or accidental, and learn to watch themselves as a great source of mystery, from which even more being can b

ISIS UNVEILED

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hors and publishers reach new audiences. you can search through the full text of this book on the web at http//books .google .com/i digilizocb, google p digilizocb, google digilizocb, google digilizocb, google digilizocb, google digilizocb, google jiliooglc digilizocb, google isis unveiled digilizocb, google attak tsbosorhical pkbss point loma, ctlifbcnia digitizecoy google isis unveiled a master-key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology by h. p. blavatsky" ce^ mt nn un de boiuw fay" moiraioini vol. ii theology section i thibo roint loha edition revised the aryan theosophical press point loma, caupornu 1019 dibiiizoo;b, tikivgli. the new york public libb ary 5fi092.1 a astor. lencx and tllofim rounda t10n8 n 1s31 i. capjii^t 1b77 by j. w. bonton nbwaj coprright uie b7

egree. whosoever among these initiates revealed to a profane a single one of the truths, even the smallest of the secrets entrusted to his care, was put to death. he who received the confidence had to share his fate "finally, to crown this able system" says jacouiot "there existed a word even superior to the mysterious monosyllable a u m, and which rendered him who came into the possession of its key nearly the equal of brahmft himself. the brahmdltna alone possessed this key, and transmitted it in a sealed casket to his successor "this unknown word, of which no hunuw power could, even today, when the brahmanical authority has been crushed under the mongolian and european invasions, today, when eacb pagoda has its brahmatma* force the digdosure, was engraved in a golden triangle and preser

ssed into history or concealed under the impene- trable 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

y. we 'eagerly applaud such commentators as godfrey higgins, inman, payne knight, king, dunlap, and dr. newton, however much they dis- agree with our own mystical views, for their diligence is constantly bdng rewarded by fresh discoveries of the pagan paternity of christian sym" hols. but otherwise all these learned works are useless. thmr re- searches only cover half the ground. lacking the true key of interpreta- tion, they see the symbols only in a physical aspect. they have no pass- word to cause the gates of mystery to swing open; and uicient spiritual philosophy is to tjiem a closed book. diametrically opposed though they be to the clergy in their ideas respecting it, in the way of interpreta* tion they do little more than their opponents for a questioning public. their labors tend t

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

of research has been done into correct physical nutrition, what we wish to move into in this book is utilizing another source of nourishment that the body can access in order to keep healthy and be disease free. the good news is that accessing this type of nourishment also satisfies our emotional, mental and spiritual hungers for this is the nature of dow power and the divine one within holds the key to a limitless source of nourishment. the reasons for our hungers are as varied as we are, some of it goes back to being unfulfilled in our previous experiences, some to just never getting enough. like a person who felt unloved as a child and who may feel emotionally insecure and becomes hungry for love and approval. or mothers of children who choose to remain out of the work force when their

ret events in life in a way that promotes anger, hatred or fear. to choose to feed the body physical foods that research shares can create cancer and decrease our lifespan can also be seen as a form of suicide. of course the above can be seen as a judgment and we all have the free will to choose how we wish to think, feel or act when we have been educated to the alternatives, for education is the key. this means education in the fact that we are more than just our minds and bodies and emotions and education into the fact that all our bodies need proper nourishment and education regarding how to do provide this in a way that is honoring of all. once this education has been given, with its practical tools, then there really is no excuse any more for. as gods in form. it is up to us to choose

ten say how advantageous it would be to have all the facts and steps of a plan, with logic and motivation, goals and outcomes, all laid bare, before they proceed to fulfill a given task. unfortunately in the realm of service, for initiates exploring the field of the gods, this is rarely how it s done. the journey of trust and faith walk hand in hand in every spiritual warrior s life and the entry key to the higher realms, and the kingdom of the gods, is an energetic mix of sincerity, humility and surrender. these are virtues that only the doing and living of life can deliver to our door. the desire to experience more and the discipline to tune ourselves to the divine nutrition channel are also keys that we need but the benefits are worth it. some say there is no such thing as destiny, that

nal field tuned to the divine love, divine wisdom channel and in time, anchors our brainwave patterns in the theta. delta field. this in turn affects our personal keynote and frequency and attracts more grace into our life allowing us to make a more joyous and easy transition into personal and global paradise, which is the true gift of being nourished by the food of gods. this lifestyle plan is a key requirement for both level 2 and level 3 nourishment. creating a fit bio-system is a necessary step to accessing the divine nutrition channel and we can begin with creating physical fitness through diet and exercise and drinking water which we all know are good for us. so much has been written about physical cleansing and detoxification and both are required to prepare the body to receive the

issions from the central sun of the inner realms. successful level 3 nourishment is dependant on the activation of these glands. dr shah writes of these glands: while going through the details of recent scientific literature and also comparing it with ancient indian spiritual texts, as well as western occult and new age, the following things are apparent. the activation of the pineal gland is the key step in our psychic, spiritual and energy transformation processes. here in this gland, energy processing and re-distribution divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 70 occurs. the pineal gland is the commander of all endocrine glands, therefore controlling the humeral system. it also regulates the circadian rhythm, sleep wake cycle and it also slows down the a

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

t conversed with the signior, and therefore was the freer in his acquaintance, undertook to go to his lodgings and inquire after him, which he did; but he was answered by the owner of the house, who came to the street-door to respond to the questioner, that the signior had gone, having quitted venice that morning early, and that he had locked up his pictures with certain orders, and had taken the key of his rooms with him. this affair made a great noise at the time in venice; and an account of it found its way into most of the newspapers of the year in which it occurred. in these newspapers and elsewhere, an outline of the foregoing particulars may be seen. the account of the signor gualdi will also be met with in les memoires historiques for the year 1687, tome i. p. 365. the chief partic

h presents the engraved figure of a cynocephalus, crowned, with b ton erect, adoring the first appearance of the new moon. the phallic worship prevailed, at one time, all over india. it constitutes, as mr. sellon asserts, to this day one of the chief, if not the leading, dogma of the hindoo religion. incontestable evidence could be adduced to prove this however strange and impossible it seems the key of all worship the world over; and highest in esteem in the most highly civilised nations. though it has degenerated into gross and sensual superstition, it was originally intended as the worship of the creative principle in nature. innumerable curious particulars lie scattered up and down, in all countries of the world, relating to this worship, mad as it seems bad as, in its grossness, it is

to the macrocosm, or great world, is to be found man, as produced in it from the operations from above, and to be saved in the great sacrifice (crucifixion-act, the phenomena of the being (man, taking place in the mythic return of the world. all this is incomprehensible, except in the strange mysticism of the gnostics and the cabalists; 62 the rosicrucians. fig. 14 and the whole theory requires a key of explanation to render it intelligible; which key is only darkly referred to as possible, but refused absolutely, by these extraordinary men, as not permissible to be disclosed. as they, however, were very fond of diagrams and mystic figures, of which they left many in those rarities (mostly ill-executed, but each wonderfully suggestive) called gnostic gems, we will supply a seeming elucidat

ces of all these divinities indeed, of all gods were of the semblance of fire; and we recognise, as it were, the mark of the foot of them, or of the impersonated fire, in the countless uprights, left, as memorials, in the great ebb of the ages (as waves) to nations in the latter divisions of that great roll of periods called time; yet so totally unguessing of the preternatural mystery seeming the key of all belief, and the reading of all wonders which they speak. it is to be noted that all the above religions all the creeds of fire were exceedingly similar in their nature; that they were all fortified by rites, and fenced around with ceremonies; and that, associated as they were with, mysteries and initiations, the disciple was led through the knowledge of them in stages, as his powers aug

e digamma; which was called olic, becaus'e the olians, of all the tribes, retained the greatest traces of the original language. thus, the olians wrote or pronounced #o noj #el a, velia. the latin language was derived from the olic dialect, and naturally adopted the digamma, which it generally expressed by v. these significant, mysterious sounds and characters v, w, b, and f are reputed to be the key of the lunar, or feminine, apotheosis. the symbol (or that meant in the symbol) is the key-note, as it were, of all grecian architecture and art; which is all beauty, refinement, and elegance, with power at the highest. nails of the passion (three in the greek rite) single-cloven templar ensign. chapter the twenty-ninth. connection between the templars and gnosticism. he branch sect of the gno

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

on, inc. our interest continued, though we had never seen an actual copy of the annotated edition, and often doubted that it really existed. one of our correspondents claimed to possess the complete volume in photocopy form and sent us second generation copies of a few pages to prove his point. brad steiger provided miniature reproductions of three actual pages to illustrate an article "fantastic key to the flying saucer mystery" in saga magazine, november, 1967. he noted that the reproductions were from a microfilm copy owned by stephen yankee. we finally acquired one of the rare original copies in 1971 from a friend of the late mr. jessup, to whom he had given one of the few copies supplied him by its publisher. observing the clarity of the printing and the good physical condition of our

most difficulty in grouping and organizing. even here, however, we can not a primitive pattern and by simple use of it as a guide, we begin to separate acts of intelligence from "natural" acts of statistical nature. whereas the actual groupings are given in parts two, three, and four, the problems involved in the initial research are of interest. the resolution of those problems is still another key to the fact that we are on the right track, that by relating the previously unrelated we have discovered pattern and form. ed: the following has no obvious reference or necessary position. all men of renown had two things, courage& conviction, often so much that they were ridiculed. this man opens& invites same merely by saying what his observations, records& data have shown him, whatcannot be

till a number of luminous spheres and discs which seem to have a more material nature and to contain the intelligences which operate them. the widgets seen by astronomers in space are examples, and i think, too, of such things as the ruddy disc which buzzed captain manning's dc-3 near south bend, indiana. the "devil's hoofprints" and related phenomena, discussed below in part three, offer another key or clue, and in segregating them from the mass of unclassified data we can, again, remove a considerable segment of the load which burdens the psychic and paranormal field. the misinterpretation adherent to the hoof marks are more fantastic than the phenomenon itself. it is unbelievable, to me at least, that people intelligent enough to make a living among their fellows would try to interpret

oo slow to move that far in so little time (italic emphasis by a) when boarding parties reached the ourang medan they found an eerie sight. there wasn't a living creature on the ship. the captain lay dead on the bridge. the bodies of the other officers sprawled in the wheelhouse, chartroom and wardroom. the faithful "sparks" was slumped in a chair in the radio shack, his hand still on the sending key. the bodies of the hapless crew lay everywhere: in their rooms, in the passageways, on the decks. and on all the dead face was a look of convulsive horror. as a report of the proceedings of the merchant marine council put it "their frozen faces were upturned to the sun, the mouths were gaping open and the eyes staring" everyone was dead! even the ship's dog a small terrier, was lifeless, its t

te of the five asiatic crew men known to have been aboard. sighted three days ago, two hundred miles south of nicobar islands, the derelict was boarded by crew members of the british freighter, ranee. the british vessel was carrying 7,450 tons of rice from communist china to ceylon the first consignment under a new trade agreement note the pattern again in this modern case. the broken mast is the key. this was a motor ship, and carried no sails (presumably, but in any case was not dependent on sails. the damage aloft is a common feature of these events and somehow indicates activity above the ship, or at least above its deck. another training ship, british, the atlanta, set sail early in 1880 from bermuda, with 250 cadets and sailors aboard, and was not heard of again. two things strike me

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

aintain the visualization for a half a minute or longer. good way to help you handle your emotions, and to control worry or anger. review questions 1) what is a microcosm? 2) list the four worlds. explain. 3) what is an affirmation? give an example. book list geoffry hodson, theosophy answers some problems of life. the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 13 marc edmund jones, key truths of occult philosophy. marion weinstein, positive magic. nelson& ann white, the wizard's apprentice. beatrice bruteau, the psychic grid* magick 4- elements and forces* the ancients divided the world into four basic principles or *elements- earth, water, fire, and air. that viewpoint has mostly changed with advances of science, but the four elements are still accepted in magick, for they

rapid eye movements, a sign you are dreaming- he can wake you and ask for a dream report) forms of astral projection astral projection may be subdivided into three basic types: mental projection, astral projection (proper) and etheric projection. and your oobe may shift between them. mental projection is really simple clairvoyance('remote viewing, and 'traveling in your mind. imagination plays a key role. the experience of mental projection is not particularly vivid, and you will more likely be an observer than a participant. nevertheless, mental projection is an important 'way in' to astral projection proper. during mental projection and astral projection you are able to travel through solid objects, but are not able to act directly upon them or to move them (if they are in the physical

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

bodied it in a riddle( s.y, ii. 4 and 5, which many ancient and modern philosophers have tried in vain to solve. of all the different tabulations, claiming to be the great arcanum of the kabala, that we have examined, none is correct. the token of the original table ong and ngo was not to be found in any of them. we have succeeded in solving this riddle. the true kablistic symbol the great master key to the theoretical and practical kabala will be found facing p. 24 of the present translation [the diagram faces page 21 in the ktav edition] in his introduction to stenring s book, a. e. waite diffuses stenring s claims somewhat: they [those who consider stenring s diagram] will come at least across many curious permutations and will be in agreement with myself that the elaborate diagram is o

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

ic treatise of kabbalah, h is fully analyzed and translated by mark brian sendor in the emergence of provencal kabbalah: rabbi isaac the blind fs commentary on sefer yezirah, volumes i& ii (ph.d. dissertation, cambridge: harvard university, 1994. further, in mystical union, individuality, and individuation in provencal and catalonian kabbalah (noted above, page 2, yechiel shalom goldberg analyzes key passages from r. isaac the blind fs commentary on sefer yezirah as well as from the works of r. isaac fs nephew, r. asher ben david, and r. azriel of gerona (see below. further reference. zinberg, israel. a history of jewish literature, volume iii: the struggle of mysticism and tradition against philosophical rationalism (philadelphia: 20081 5 the jewish publication society of america, 1973: c

KETAB E SIYAH

alled the scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. for he is ever a sun, and she a moon. but to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. 17. but ye are not so chosen. 18. burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. o azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. 415 21. with the god& the adorer i am nothing: they do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my lord hadit. 22. now, therefore, i am known to ye by my name nuit, and to him by a secret name which i will give him when at last he knoweth me. since i am infinite space, and the i

cursed! accursed be it to the aeons! hell. 42. let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. so with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. 43. do that, and no other shall say nay. 417 44. for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. 45. the perfect and the perfect are one perfect and not two; nay, are none! 46. nothing is a secret key of this law. sixty-one the jews call it; i call it eight, eighty, four hundred& eighteen. 47. but they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. 48. my prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the ox, and none by the book? 49. abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. ra-hoor- khuit hath taken his seat in the east at the equinox of the gods; and l

ur armour; go on, go on, in my strength& ye shall turn not back for any! 47. this book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no beast shall divine. let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence i say not, who shall discover the key of it all. then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key also. and abrahadabra. it shall be his child& that strangely. let him not seek after this; for thereby alone can he fall from it. 48. now this mystery of the letters is done, and i want to go on to the holier place. 49. i am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. 50. curse them

bonds of fear and blindness, that he might be inspired to duplicate on earth the law of heaven, shunning experiment and the radical dangers of invention and exploration. to man was given guilt, and the call to social conformity, and the proclaimed sanctity of the norm and the mode. and michael, lord of force, said to me, this man, whom thou host chosen to receive thy gift, now possesses the first key to the mastery of all things and the control of the very universe itself. lest in ill choice he should spark the catastrophe of armageddon, we also have visited him. and while we cannot undo thy infernal gift, we shall ever act to censor its effect. we shall walk among men and guide them. they shall be told of thy interest in them, but the name of lucifer shall be dark with curses. for they sh

h concludes the synthesis with asmodeus. the era of our companionship with man draws to a close, and to earth is now come the third great daemon of the bond between hell and man, and with his presence is the dawn of the satanic age proclaimed. the statement of belial hail, man, who shall bring to the end of the universe the glory of thy satanic will! i am belial, who bring to thee the third great key of hell, by whose power ye shall confound 461 all the laws of heaven and earth. before thee shall chaos fall, and thou shalt wield for thyself the great mysteries of the macrocosmos. i speak to thee of that which is called the black magic, for it is true spawn of that great black flame which first brought thy will to life long ages ago. to council with satan i also was called, and the lord of

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copying and mailing only, no additional charges may be added* liber ii the message of the master therion this epistle first appeared in the equinox iii(1 (detroit: universal, 1919. the quotations are from liber legis--the book of the law--h.b``do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law``there is no law beyond do what thou wilt``the word of the law is velhma' velhma--thelema--means will. the key to this message is this word--will. the first obvious meaning of this law is confirmed by antithesis``the word of sin is restriction' again``thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that and no other shall say nay. for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect' take this carefully; it seems to imply a theory that if every man and every woman did

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

and space. it researches the upper forces that move material bodies, and the way one s inner force pushes all things, animate and inanimate, to the preordained goal. can one solve this fundamental puzzle of human life without touching upon the question of its source? every human being encounters this question. the search for the goal and the meaning i n t r o d u c t i o n 17 of existence is the key question around humankind s spiritual life. hence, starting with the second half of the 20th century, we are observing a revival of mankind s spiritual aspirations. the technical progress and global catastrophes that gave rise to a variety of philosophies have not brought spiritual fulfillment to humanity. as kabbalah explains, out of all existing pleasures, our world received only a tiny spar

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

rring on nature s other levels, too, in the inanimate, the vegetative, and the animate. what shall become of them? how will their situations improve? it would seem that to tend to the state of the earth, water, air, flora, and animals, we must act directly on them. it is, therefore, surprising to see that kabbalah s method of correction focuses on human relations and considers those relations the key to the state of all of nature. can it be that correcting our human egoistic relationships will affect the state of other degrees, as well? could it, for instance, resolve the ecological perils and the shortage of resources that threaten us? we should know that nature s altruistic force is a single force. there are no divisions in it. but with respect to us, it is divided into inanimate nature

ur desires. if we triumph there, succeed in realizing the correction method, and learn to use the ego altruistically, we will thus build the middle line. in that state, it will not be necessary for wars to materialize. we should remember that the measure of balance or imbalance between nature and us determines the corporeal, external reality, and the intensity of suffering we will experience. the key to the change is in our hand because the only active part in reality, for better or for worse, is the people of israel. i n t e r na l i t y a n d e x t e r na l i t y bear in mind that in everything there is internality and externality. israel, the descendants of abraham, isaac, and jacob, is generally considered the internality of the world, and the seventy nations are considered the externa

t e r na l i t y a n d e x t e r na l i t y bear in mind that in everything there is internality and externality. israel, the descendants of abraham, isaac, and jacob, is generally considered the internality of the world, and the seventy nations are considered the externality of the world--baal hasulam, introduction to the book of zohar israel s role 183 the people of israel are analogous to the key organs in the collective body of humanity the brain, heart, liver, lungs, and kidneys which operate the rest of the organs in the body. when these organs function incorrectly, the whole body suffers and grows ill. thus, the process of healing human egoism depends on the success of healing the people of israel. the rest of the body will be healed by consequence, smoothly and easily. because nat

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

rned through my acquaintance with dr. laitman s writings, kabbalah in its authentic form not only promotes the concept of oneness and the integrity of humanity and the universe, it also offers practical measures to restore it when lost. it is my heartfelt recommendation to read carefully through this book, as it provides much more than general knowledge about an ancient wisdom. it also provides a key to ensure the well-being of humanity in these critical times, when we face the unprecedented challenge of choosing between the devolutionary path leading to worldwide breakdown, and the evolutionary path that can bring us to a world of peace, harmony, well-being, and sustainability. ervin laszlo 19 1 kabbalah: then and now t h e ma s t e r p l a n it is no secret that kabbalah did not begin wi

societies helped their contemporary scholars develop the basis of what we now know as western philosophy, which later became the basis of modern science. in that regard, here s what johannes reuchlin, a humanist, classics scholar, and gottfried leibnitz, a great mathematician and philosopher, candidly expressed his thoughts on how secrecy had affected kabbalah: because man did not have the right key to the secret, the thirst for knowledge was ultimately reduced to all sorts of trivia and superstitions that brought forward a sort of vulgar kabbalah that has little in common with the true kabbalah, as well as various fantasies under the false name of magic, and this is what fills the books. kabbalah: then and now 23 expert in ancient languages and traditions, writes in his book, de arte cab

ore we ll learn about kabbalah, the more we ll find that it always leads us to the root of things. before it gives you any answers, it tells you why you are in your present state. and once you know the root of your situation, you will rarely need any further guidance. in that spirit, let s see what we have been learning until today, and perhaps we will discover why we still haven t discovered the key to happiness. behind closed doors man. if he be insufficiently or ill-educated, he is the most savage of earthly creatures. xplato, the laws knowledge has always been considered an asset. espionage is not an invention of modern times; it has been there since the dawn of history. but it has existed because knowledge has always been disclosed on a need-to-know basis, and the only dispute was abo

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

g the worlds beyond 2. attempts to gain this night what has not been gained the previous night, 3. is loyal to his comrades, 4. risks his life to gain even the most insignificant things, 5. does not value that which was stolen, and sells it for pennies, 6. is beaten, but does not turn from his path, 7. sees the advantages of his occupation and does not wish to change it. he also added "there is a key to every lock, but if the lock does not give, a courageous thief will break it. the creator loves a person who breaks his own heart to enter the house of the creator" when we learn the spiritual levels, only then do we become insignificant in our own eyes, and can then bow before the creator, sensing that we have no need of anything: not our own spiritual redemption, nor any spiritual ascent

ate source of fulfillment to reduce suffering in the world, or continue to wait and see what happens next. since a kabbalist is a person who has attained the spiritual realm, they are completely aware of the processes influencing our world. an interview with the future by the israel based kabbalist michael laitman, is the defining book of the decade. it is a meeting with destiny that provides the key to safeguarding the future of the entire human race- 449- the kabbalah experience the wisdom of kabbalah teaches us how to live in the reality that is spread before us. it is a systematicmethod that has evolved over thousands of years through a handful of unique individuals in every generation. during all that time it was concealed from the public eye that was not yet ready to receive it, unti

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

le to describe several phenomena that could not be explained by preceding theories. the most famous of these was wave-particle duality, showing that microscopic objects such as electrons behave as waves under some conditions, and as particles under others. a fundamental concept of quantum theory is the uncertainty principle, which maintains that the observer affects the observed event. hence, the key question is, what do the measurements actually measure? this principle implies that the concept of an objective process becomes irrelevant. moreover, beyond the measured results, an objective reality simply cannot exist. the discoveries of quantum physics drastically changed scientists approach. the deterministic concept that maintained that physics revealed objective facts of nature and descr

cture, and experiences the opening of the upper world, this discovery is accompanied by the wondrous sensation of eternal life, and endless, boundless stream of pleasures. this is where our lives are leading us. 26 t h e n at u r e o f m at t e r the wisdom of kabbalah has evolved over thousands of years and been disseminated among kabbalists throughout history. i would like to briefly review the key points in this process. the first kabbalist was abraham the patriarch (approximately 1,800 bce. sefer yetzira (the book of creation) is ascribed to him. 500 years after abraham, moses wrote his book of torah (the pentateuch, around 1,350 bce. in the 2nd century ce rabbi shimon bar-yochai wrote sefer ha zohar (the book of splendor. kabbalah thrived in the 16th century israeli town of safed, led

to create a structure similar to the corrected structure of the soul of adam ha rishon. we cannot succeed in this task alone, as such a task contradicts human nature. what we can do is acquire an intense desire and join with others. this is where the wisdom of kabbalah comes in. books on kabbalah describe the corrected state of the souls and the difference between these and corrupted states. the key difference is the intention with which we use our nature. correction means that we change the purpose for which we use our desire from inducing self-gratification to benefiting others. when we correctly study genuine kabbalah, we come to depict our own corrected state. this depiction prompts the light that already fills our corrected state to correct our soul. once that light corrects our soul

us to shed our corporeal clothes of familiar mundane sensations and perceptions, and penetrate through matter and into the forces behind it. in spirituality, we turn from observing the picture of reality to knowing the forces that paint it. we begin to understand how reality is made, acquire the ability to connect to the forces that created the picture and ultimately govern them. kabbalah is our key to the control room of reality. 113 perception of reality 114 b u i l d i n g t h e s p i r i t ua l k l i( v e s s e l/ t o o l) m a k i n g t h e k l i the gist of our work is the making of the kli. if we know how to build our tool of perception correctly, we will understand where we truly are. as we have said in the previous section of this book, our substance consists of a desire to receiv

the abstract light, thus creating our world pictures, the spiritual as well as the physical. pa r t i i i: p e r c e p t i o n o f r e a l i t y 134 thus, the way we will perceive the creator depends solely on our own qualities* the wisdom of kabbalah has maintained its stance concerning the perception of reality for thousands of years. conversely, science cultivated its approach through several key stages. the classic perception, whose protagonist was isaac newton, states that the world exists in and of itself, regardless of whether or not we are there to perceive it. as the science of biology evolved, it enabled us to see the world through the eyes of other creatures. we discovered that different animals perceive the world in very different ways. for example, a bee sees tens of thousand

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senses, closely connected with one s normal life. o p e n i n g a b o o k f o r t h e f i r s t t i m e q: should a person spend one s whole life in a university of kabbalah and study complex theories? a: that sounds very nice, but it doesn t work that way. in the study of kabbalah, we really study our own inner structure, how our emotions are built, and the structure of our souls. within us is a key to the understanding of that science; all we must do is study from genuine books of kabbalah in order to find what is already within us. even if we understand nothing of this science, the minute we open a book, our hearts and souls begin to open up. we receive spiritual knowledge about spirituality in a natural way, just as we feel bitterness or sweetness, or heat and cold. there is no need to

nt to stay. in this life, we need only one thing- a desire for the creator. if it s there and it s genuine, meaning above all other things, then he will fulfill it. q: can i find an answer to my questions on your site? a: many people ask questions and don t even bother to read the material on the site. if you want to understand something in a specific area, you should learn a little bit about the key concepts. i suggest that you read the material on the site, and i m sure that you ll find there the full answers to your questions. i m glad you have questions, but you can acquire knowledge systematically, which will allow you to answer your questions by yourself. a v i r t ua l g r o u p o f k a b b a l i s t s q: do you also attend virtual groups on the internet? t h e k a b b a l a h e x p

not a revelation, but it is the beginning of our spiritual contact with the creator. that is how we begin to connect with the creator. we understand that the creator is now hidden, and sends his messages through the people around us. thus, we begin to feel the involvement of the creator in everything that happens in our lives. this is a genuine feeling, and this contact becomes permanent, and the key factor in our lives. this is the way to the entrance to the spiritual world, the strengthening of the contact with the creator and the rise to a higher degree. a c o m m o n g oa l q: why do we need to agree with our friends? a: when we see that our friends are right, we don t have to justify them. we simply have to accept their thoughts and agree with them. thus, we acquire new knowledge. thi

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not great, and the child s mind is developed accordingly. another example is a person in the jungle who needs just enough wisdom to provide the necessities for survival. the more we want, the smarter we become, because the mind must get us what we want. the mind is but a consequence of the evolution of our desires. we seek and find all kinds of ways to get what we want. thus, a strong will is the key to the development of the mind. we needn t concern ourselves with developing the mind, only with developing desire. a person who studies the wisdom of kabbalah needn t be smart. it is enough to want to feel the desire. it is impossible to see the spiritual world with our mind s eye we can only feel it in our souls. we should try to mingle with the suffering of the entire world, feel it, and ex

student hears help him approach the things he reads about by himself. the rabbi did not teach beginners. instead, he would send them to other students and monitor their progress. students who were willing and diligent were summoned to study with him. the human desire to understand, manage, and control is a very positive desire, because it adds desires to one s original desires. however, the only key that we should really acquire to enter spirituality is the screen and the returning light. baal hasulam wrote the study of the ten sefirot deliberately so that the more one reads, the more questions arise. it is necessary for one to be able to labor in something while maintaining a certain aim. the labor t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 288 comes from below, from man, but the aim is given from

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g upwards to the light; his attitude is the exact opposite of that of the man of pride, who is content to look downwards, enjoying the comparison of his own greatness with the littleness of inferior persons and things that come within his supercilious vision. humility is the possession of the man of ideals, who is never self-satisfied, because he regards always that which is above. it is thus the key to the gateway of the upward path. the humble man will not think that he achieves his triumph by his own proud prowess alone, but, realizing that all strength is the divine strength, he will recognize that, like the heroes of old, he is but employing the powers with which he has been endowed from on high- just as arjuna in the battle of kurukshetra used the celestial weapons presented to him b

this trinity has its male and female aspect- precisely the same idea which is expressed in the hindu religion by the statement that each person has his shakti, commonly described as his consort. thus the three-in-one becomes six-in-one, and, with the surrounding circle which indicates the unmanifested totality, we have the mystic seven. 778. the triple tau is also called in royal arch masonry the key. it contains eight right angles, and is used as a measure or mnemonic whereby the platonic solids can be calculated. taken alone, it is commensurate with the tetrahedron, the sides of which, being four equilateral triangles, are together equal to eight right angles, because the interior angles of any triangle are together equal to two right angles. it is said that this solid was used by the pl

es twelve regular pentagons. it is a rule in geometry that the interior angles of any rectilinear figure are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides less 4 right angles; thus the interior angles of a pentagon are 10. 4= 6 right angles; therefore the dodecahedron is contained by seventy-two right angles, and consequently is represented by nine keys. so it will be seen that this key is the greatest common measure of all these platonic solids, and that is why on the scroll round it in the jewel of the holy royal arch degree we find the latin phrase: nil nisi clavis deest, gnothing is wanting but the key h, teaching us on the one hand that without the inner knowledge all these symbols are but lifeless, and on the other that, great as is the teaching given, there is yet more

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e who sought the great initiations were attracted to it; and it is this fact which explains the reverence paid to the egyptian mysteries by learned greeks in later times. 105. the principal centre for the public work of these mysteries was the great pyramid, called in ancient egypt khut, the light. it was built on the most exact astronomical and mathematical calculations, and provided a veritable key in stone to the enigmas of the universe(*see the hidden life in freemasonry, pp. 228-30) 106. the initiates of the egyptian mysteries were symbolically engaged in the building of the pyramid, just as in our modern masonry we are engaged in erecting the temple of king solomon, both structures being intended to be emblematical of the building processes of nature. in the halls below the pyramid

bove all earthly life and becomes one with that aspect of the deity which in christianity we call god the holy ghost(*see the masters and the path) 204. and still there are higher stages, greater steps upon the path, though belonging no longer to human evolution but to the development of the superman. even here our masonic ceremonies reflect in symbol something of those higher glories, giving the key to the whole vast plan. far above the grade of adept, he who is the christ stands as the lord of love, the teacher of angels and men, and along this line of interpretation his high stage of evolution is reflected in the 18, which is essentially a degree of christhood. equal with him, but on the ray of rule, stands the manu, whose rank is mirrored at an almost infinite distance in the 30; and a

ght of the east and of the west 18 knight rose-croix 19 grand pontiff or master ad vitam 20 grand patriarch royal arch of enoch grand scottish knight of the sacred vault (of james vi* or sublime mason the same" sovereign prince of rose-croix grand pontiff or sublime scotch mason 21 noachite or prussian chevalier 20 venerable grand master of symbolic lodges the same noachite 21 grand master of the key of masonry 22 prince of libanus, knight royal arch alternatively royal axe* 23 knight of the sun, prince adept, chief of the grand consistory. 24 illustrious chief grand commander of the white and black eagle, grand elect kadosh 25 most illustrious sovereign prince of masonry, grand knight, sublime knight commander of the 28 30 32 royal secret* this is clearly a later title, and in the master

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ned to be of much use in formal study and too loaded with pejorative connatations to be useful in ordinary discourse between people holding different religious views. defenders of the dichotomy reply that the terms may still be useful when it comes to examining the effect that different religions have upon their adheredhtwilit grotto- esoteric archives contents prev intro next timeline the lesser key of solomon this digital edition by joseph h. peterson, copyright 1999. all rights reserved. note: a considerably enlarged edition of the lesser key of solomon is now available from red wheel/weiser publishers. see listing at amazon.com (isbn: 157863220x) for more details. lemegeton clavicula salomonis or the lesser key of solomon detailing the ceremonial art of commanding spirits both good and

ald scot, in his lists of magical texts [3, mentions ars paulina, ars almadel, and ars notoria in the same breath. he also includes a text closely related to the goetia [4. so the bulk of the materials were possibly collected together by 1584. the name lemegeton is probably naively invented because of the compiler's ignorance of latin. he or she was no doubt familiar with the clavicula salomonis (key of solomon) and wanted to title this work the "little key of solomon" this became "lemegeton clavicula salomonis" the major texts used for this edition have been all from the british library manuscript collection. they include harl. 6483, and sloane mss. 2731, 3825, and 3648. harl. 6483 is probably the latest, and contains much additional material. it is dated 1712-3. sloane 2731 is important

escriptions of the seals for each sign of the zodiac are evidently abstracted from paracelsus, the second treatise of celestial medicines, cf. archidoxes of magic translated by robert turner, 1656, pp. 136 ff. ars almadel in 1608, trithemius mentioned a long list of books on magic, including the book "almadel attributed to king solomon [7] ars almadel is also found in the hebrew manuscript of the key of solomon, ed. gollancz, sepher maphteah shelomoh, 1914, fol 20b. turner mentions a fifteenth-century manuscript in florence [8] ars notoria the ars notoria is a medieval grimoire of the 'solomonic cycle. many latin manuscripts are extant, the oldest are dated thirteenth century, and possibly earlier. like liber juratus (also thirteenth century, the text centers around an even older collectio

of the black art. hence it is that magic lies under disgrace and they who seek after it are vulgarly esteemed sorcerers. and the fraternity of the rosicrucians thought it not fit to style themselves magicians, but philosophers. thay are not ignorant empirics1 but learned and experienced physicians whose remedies are not only lawful but divine [100r] lemegeton clavicula salomonis: rex: the little key of salomon the king which containeth all the names, orders and offices of all the spirits that ever he hadd any converse with, with the seales or characters belongeing to each spirit, and the manner of calling them forth to [visible] appearance, in 5 parts, called books viz* the first part, is a book of evill spirits, called goetia, shewing how he bound up those spirits and used them in severa

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ith christian interpretations of certain secular pursuits and commodities (e.g, role-playing games like dungeons and dragons) as diabolical. a major phenomenon that grew out of this attention in the late 1980s and the early 1990s was the satanic ritual abuse (sra) scare, sometimes referred to as the satanic panic. although not entirely responsible for this panic, the christian subculture played a key role in promoting the ritual abuse scare to the broader society. during this period, the reality of a vast, underground network of evil satanists abusing children and others was accepted by significant segments of the law enforcement community and by numerous therapists even police officers and analysts not otherwise inclined to accept traditional theology. less responsible members of the mass

as a place the pit in milton s paradise regained (iv, 624. alternately, abaddon is identified with a demon, or the devil himself, in the third-century acts of thomas, as well as in john bunyan s puritan classic, pilgrim s progress.within modern ceremonial magic, it constitutes the name for god invoked by moses to bring down the rain over egypt, as reported by samuel liddell mathers in the greater key of solomon. there is also a reference to abaddon as the sixth of the seven lodges of hell in the work of the cabalist joseph ben abraham gikatilla. in various sources,abaddon is identified as the angel of death and destruction, demon of the abyss, and chief of the demons of the underworld. see also demons;magic and magical groups for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels in

ach letter of the enochian alphabet features a john dee (national library of medicine) 64 demiurge numerical value a gematria and is associated with elemental, planetary, and tarot properties. the nineteen calls, or keys, of enochian were used by dee and kelly to conjure the angels. the first two keys conjured the element spirit, the next sixteen conjured the four elements, whereas the nineteenth key invoked any of thirty aethyrs or aires, probably representing levels of consciousness. kelly allegedly spoke enochian when the angels appeared in his crystal. one of the procedures used during the communication consisted of setting up charts, either filled with letters or left blank, to which the angels would point with a rod in order to spell out messages. these messages were dictated backwar

elodic sound is similar to sanskrit,greek, or arabic. each enochian letter features a numerical value, and is associated with elemental, planetary, and tarot properties. 82 ereshkigal the nineteen calls, or keys, of enochian were used by dee and kelly in order to conjure the angels. the first two keys conjured the element spirit, the next sixteen conjured the four elements, whereas the nineteenth key invoked any of thirty aethyrs or aires. kelly allegedly spoke enochian when the angels appeared in his crystal. one of the procedures used during the communication consisted of setting up charts filled with letters to which the angels would point with a rod in order to spell out messages. after the deaths of dee and kelly, interest in enochian magic vanished. however, a revival occurred in the

rder to spell out messages. after the deaths of dee and kelly, interest in enochian magic vanished. however, a revival occurred in the nineteenth century through the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and later through aleister crowley s commentaries, the most extensive of which was published in the vision and the voice (1911. crowley claimed to be able to invoke all the aethyrs in the nineteenth key, and recorded his communications with spirits and astral beings.modern enochian magic is characterized by two main operations: invoking spirits, and traveling to the aethyrs. enochian magic is best known to modern satanists indirectly because of anton lavey s inclusion of some of the keys (edited to emphasize infernal connotations) in the latter part of the satanic bible. see also aleister cro

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ideas as to its right use, with other matters germane, thinking that those into whose hands it may come may thereby understand more fully the utter importance of this secret as having been the pivot of our working for so long a period, and further that it may aid such persons to attain perfectly the mastery of this holy and imperial art. ii of the importance of the secret this secret is the true key to magick; that is, by the right use of this secret man may impose his will on nature herself, as will appear hereafter in this comment. in this way, although all recorded knowledge were destroyed, it would be possible for an adept of this secret to restore it. iii of the mind of the adept in our holiest isle ierne is found a being called leprechaun. this creature, once seen, is easy to catch;

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ave partaken sustain us in the search for the quintessence, the stone of the wise, the summum bonus, true wisdom, and perfect happiness. so mote it be! v the tree of life col. xii. this arrangement is the basis of the whole system of this book. besides the 10 numbers and the 22 letters, it is divisible into 3 columns, 4 planes, 7 planes, 7 palaces, etc. etc.8 table of correspondences table i 2 i. key scale. ii* hebrew names of numbers and letters. iii. english of col. ii. iv* consciousness of the adept. v* god-names in assiah. 0 wa [ws ya rwa [ws ya ain ain soph ain soph aur nothing no limit limitless l.v.x. 1* rtk kether crown* awh hyha 2* hmkj chokmah wisdom hy 3* hnyb binah understanding \yhla hwhy 4* dsj chesed mercy la 5* hrwbg geburah strength rwbg \yhla 6* trapt tiphareth beauty tud

of e clover. e of e storax. b of e benzoin. a of b saffron. d of b lign-aloes. c of b red-sanders. e of b red sandalwood. b of b olibanum. col. xliii. and xliv. and, generally, all drugs exciting the parts of the body corresponding. see col. clxxxii. col. xlvi. each trigram combines with itself and the others to make 64 hexagrams, which partake of the combined nature. this attribution is the true key to the yi king. no sinologist has had any idea of it, but it is obvious enough now that o.m. has solved it. see appendix i. col. xlvii. line 7. has a monkey. line 19. said to have a monkey. col. xlix. the geomantic figures of the planets are those of the signs which they rule. lines 3-10. q andr line 15. p line 16. v notes 37 line 17. line 18. m and n line 19. s and t line 20. w line 22. o lin

ands grip each a ray of dazzling light, spiril, the right hand being dextro- and the left hand l vo-rotary. a red scarf conceals the fact of male genital organs, and suggests by its shape the letter k. such is the conventional hieroglyph. 41 appendix i the trigrams of the yi king attribution to quarters. planetary attribution. hindu attribution. yetziratic attribution. figure. name. part of body. key scale s! lingam+ y 7 khien. head. 2 [and 30. s.e$ apas. c m 6 tui. mouth. 14 [and 23. e& mano (prana! r 5 li. eyes. 6 [21 and 30. n.e% tejas. b c 4 kbn. feet. 27 and 31. s.w# vayu. d a 3 sun. thighs. 11 [and 12. w' akasa= g 2 kh n. ears. 10 [13 and 32] n.w. e prithivi. e t 1 kbn. hands. 32 bis. n= yoni. 9 h 0 khwbn. belly. 3 and 13. the trigrams should be considered as the symbols which combin

sued a knowledge lecture which consisted of the names and symbols of the elements, planets and signs along with the hebrew alphabet and the names of the sephiroth in hebrew. 4 the lemegeton is a 17th-century compilation, probably english, of magical texts attributed to solomon. the first book, goetia, describes 72 evil spirits and gives instructions for evoking them (it derives variously from the key of solomon, the heptameron, the fourth book of pseudo-agrippa and the pseudomonarchia d monum published by wier. crowley published an edition of it in 1904. in 777 cols. clv clxvi the spirits are referred to the decans by day and night. the second book, theurgia goetia, lists 31 principal spirits, with an astronomical number of subordinates of whom few are named; of the 31, 20 are referred to

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written: gbeing furnished with complete armour, and armed, he is similar to the goddess. h1 and again gi am armed, i am armed. h2 1 [chaldaan oracles, fragment 171 in westcott/ cory edition; quoted by proclus in platonic theology. the goddess in question is probably hekate. t.s] 2 [this is probably a quote from something, but i have not so far managed to identify it. t.s (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ niwg. this e-text last revised 29.06.20teliber a fash vel capricorni pnevmatici svb figvra ccclxx v a a publication in class a 1 0. gnarled oak of god! in thy branches is the lightning nested! above thee hangs the eyeless hawk. 1. thou art blasted and black! supremely solitary in that heath of scrub. 2. up! the ruddy clouds hang over thee! it is th

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an ally to that true will. if then there be a traitor in the consciousness, how much the more is it necessary for thee to arise and extirpate him before he wholly infect thee with the divided purpose which is the first breach in that fortress of the soul whose fall should bring it to the shapeless ruin whose name is choronzon! k liber aleph vel cxi 14 n de somniis. e: clavicula (of dreams. v: the key) he dream delightful is then a pageant of the fulfilment of the true will, and the nightmare a symbolic battle between it and its assailants in thyself. but there can be only one true will, even as there can be only one proper motion in any body, no matter of how many forces that motion be the resultant. seek therefore this will, and conjoin with it thy conscious self; for this is that which i

erefore this will, and conjoin with it thy conscious self; for this is that which is written .thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that, and no other shall say nay. thou seest, o my son, that all conscious opposition to thy will, whether in ignorance, or by obstinacy, or through fear of others, may in the end endanger even thy true self, and bring thy star into disaster. and this is the true key to dreams; see that thou be diligent in its use, and unlock therewith the secret chambers of thine heart. t the book of wisdom or folly 15 x de via per empyr um (of the way through the empyrean) oncerning thy travellings in thy body of light, or astral journeys and visions so-called, do thou lay this wisdom to thy heart, o my son, that in this practice, whether things seen and heard be truth a

f the gnostic catholic church, or that of the phoenix. neglect not the performance of the mass of the holy ghost, as nature herself prompteth thee. travel also much in the empyrean in the body of light, seeking ever abodes more fiery and lucid. finally, exercise constantly the eight limbs of yoga. and so shalt thou come to the end. n the book of wisdom or folly 17 p de clavicula somniorum (of the key of dreams) nd now concerning meditation let me disclose unto thee more fully the mystery of the key of dreams and phantasies. learn first that as the thought of the mind standeth before the soul and hindereth its manifestation in consciousness, so also the gross physical will is the creator of the dreams of common men, and as in meditation thou doest destroy every thought by mating it with its

r of environment or of evil training. and of all these things the subtlest and most terrible, enemies without pity, destructive to thy will, and a menance and tyranny even to thy self, are the ideals and standards of the slave-gods, false religion, false ethics, even false science. d the book of wisdom or folly 31 ae de lege motus (of the law of motion) onsider, o my son, that word in the call or key of the thirty aethyrs: behold the face of your god, the beginning of comfort, whose eyes are the brightness of the heavens, which provided you for the government of the earth, and her unspeakable variety! and again: let there be no creature upon her or within her the same. all here members let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no creature equal with another. here also is the voi

god, the beginning of comfort, whose eyes are the brightness of the heavens, which provided you for the government of the earth, and her unspeakable variety! and again: let there be no creature upon her or within her the same. all here members let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no creature equal with another. here also is the voice of true science, crying aloud: variation is the key of evolution. thereunto art cometh the third, perceiving beauty in the harmony of the diverse. know then, o my son, that all laws, all systems, all customs, all ideals and standards which tend to produce uniformity, being in direct opposition to nature s will to change and to develop through variety, are accursed. do thou with all thy might of manhood strive against these forces, for they resi

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balon of the city of pyramids, and through astarte the starry one green-girdled in the name ararita. amn[.liber astarte. was first published in equinox i (7) in class b. in the 1913 .syllabus. it was declared to be class d. footnotes in square brackets are by the present editor; all others, and notes signed .ed. are from the equinox printing and are presumably by crowley (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 26.06.200wlliber azazel the book of azazel dedicated to diane vera 1. azazel! the boundless flame of lilith. 2. my word is to be feared and respected for it consumes all and purifies all; i am the unconquered master of this earth. 3. no god who meets my gaze can withstand my truth or my power, they all bow to my will

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ve is the law, love under will. 9 =28 a a given under our hand and seal this day of an. xii, the sun our father being in 12 4. 2. of the sign leo, and the moon in 25 39. 11. of the sign libra, from the house of the juggler, that is by lake pasquaney in the state of new hampshire [this .class e. tract was written in july 1916 and first published in equinox iii (1) in 1919 (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 25.06.200 tliber cccxxxv adonis an allegory a a publication in class c. 1 adonis an allegory by alesiter crowley inscribed to adonis. argument esarhaddon is man ignorant of his high destiny, lost in love of the body (astarte) whose 5 handmaidens are the 5 senses. the soul (psyche) appeals to him in vain, but awakes hi

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ove, the crown of our love is the light that rules all the region above the night and the stars of the night; that rules all the region aright, the abyss to abysses above; for the crown of our love is the light, and the crown of our light is our love [this text was first published in equinox i (7. in the 1913 .syllabus. it was declared to be liber cccxxxv in class c (335 (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry and initial proof reading by w.e. heidrick for o.t.o. further proof reading, formatting &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press. this e-text last revised 09.07.200 eliber ccxlii aha! the sevenfold mystery of the ineffable love; the coming of the lord in the air as king and judge of this corrupted world; wherein under the form of a discourse between marsyas an adept and olympas his pupil t

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tere craft into a single azure shaft loosed from the string of will; behold the rainbow! thou art shot, pure flame, past the reverberated name into the hall of death. therein the rosy cross is subtly seen. olympas. is that a vision, then? marsyas. it is. olympas. tell me thereof! marsyas. o not of this! of all the flowers in god fs field we name not this. our lips are sealed in that the universal key lieth within its mystery. but know thou this. these visions give a hint both faint and fugitive yet haunting, that behind them lurks some worker, greater than his works. yea, it is given to him who girds his loins up, is not fooled by words, who takes life lightly in his hand to throw away at will fs command, to know that view beyond the veil. o petty purities and pale, aha! 11 these visions i

and naught remains! ho! for the splendour in my name hidden and glorious, a flame secretly shooting from the sun. aum! ha!.my destiny is done. the word is spoken and concealed. olympas. i am stunned. what wonder was revealed? liber ccxlii 34 marsyas. the rite is secret. olympas. profits it? marsyas. only to wisdom and to wit. olympas. the other did no less. marsyas. then prove both by the master-key of love. the lock turns stiffly? shalt thou shirk to use the sacred oil of work? not from the valley shalt thou test the eggs that line the eagle fs nest! climb, with thy life at stake, the ice, the sheer wall of the precipice! master the cornice, gain the breach, and learn what next the ridge can teach! yet.not the ridge itself may speak the secret of the final peak. olympas. all ridges join

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fmpliber ]wnj [chanokh] sub figur lxxxiv a brief abstract of the symbolic representation of the universe derived by doctor john dee through the skrying of sir edward kelly first published in the equinox, vol. i, nos. 7& 8 (1912) this electronic edition prepared by celepha s press, somewhere beyond the tanarian hills: first issued september 2002; last revised 16.06.2004. no copyright is claimed on key entry, formatting, or transcriber.s endotes. all material by aleister crowley is (c) ordo templi orientis, jaf box 7666, new york, ny 10116, usa [prefatory note by the editor we omit in this preliminary sketch any account of the tables of soyga, the heptarchia mystica, the book of enoch, or liber logaeth. we hope to be able to deal with these adequately in a subsequent article] the holy table

governor is unique; the four sigils at the corners of plate x. without the great square are those of the four great elemental kings. air tahaoeloj. water thahebyobeaatan.36 earth thahaaotahe. fire ohooohaatan.37 liber lxxxiv 19 the characters upon the table of watchtowers38 plate x 20 part ii the forty-eight keys or calls these are most solemn invocations. use these only after other invocations. key tablet hath 6 calls, 1 above other 5.1 1: governs generally as a whole the tablet of union. use it first in all invocations of angels of that tablet, but not at all with other 4 tables. 2: used as an invocation of angels e h n b representing governance of spirit in the tablet of union: also precedes, in the second place, all invocations of key tablet angels. not used in invocations of 4 other

; in the name hwchy, in the pass word i.n.r.i, o spirits of the tablet of spirit, ye, ye i invoke! liber lxxxiv 21 the sign of osiris slain! the sign of the mourning of isis! the sign of apophis and typhon! the sign of osiris risen! l.v.x, lux, the light of the cross [give these] in the name of todw hwla hwhy i declare that the spirits of spirit have been duly invoked [the knock w.wwww] the first key*4 ol sonuf vaoresaji, gohu iad balata, elanusaha caelazod:5 sobra zod-ol roray i ta nazodapesad, giraa ta maelpereji, das hoel-qo qaa notahoa zodimezod, od comemahe ta nobeloha zodien; soba tahil ginonupe pereje aladi, das vaurebes obolehe giresam. casarem ohorela caba pire: das zodonurenusagi cab: erem iadanahe. pilahe farezodem zodenurezoda adana gono iadpiel das home-tohe soba ipame lu ipam

nd there is not enough of the language extant to enable a settlement on general principles..ed. read here vooan in invocations of the fallen spirits. the forty-eight keys or calls 22 move therefore, and shew yourselves! open the mysteries of your creation! be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god: the true worshipper of the highest! 169 words in this english call. the second key adagita vau-pa-ahe zodonugonu fa-a-ipe salada! vi-i-vau el! sobame ial-pereji i-zoda-zodazod pi-adapehe casarema aberameji ta talabo paracaleda qo-ta lores-el-qo turebesa ooge balatohe! giui cahisa lusada oreri od micalapape cahisa bia ozodonugonu! lape noanu tarofe coresa tage o-quo maninu ia-i-don. torezodu! gohe-el, zodacare eca ca-no-quoda! zodameranu micalazodo od ozodazodame vaurelape; l

your creator [hold dagger aloft] in the three great secret names of god, oro ibah aozpi that are borne upon the banners of the east, spirits of air, adore your creator [again elevate dagger] in the name of bataivah, great king of the east, spirits of air, adore your creator! in the name of shaddai al chai, i declare that the spirits of air have been duly invoked [the knock www.www.www] the third key micama! goho pe-iad! zodir com-selahe azodien biabe os-londohe. norezodacahisa otahila gigipahe; vaunud-el-cahisa ta-pu-ime qo-mos-pelehe telocahe; qui-i-inu toltoregi cahisa i cahisji em ozodien; dasata beregida od torezodul! ili e-ol balazodareji, od aala tahilanu-os netaabe: daluga vaomesareji elonusa cape-mi-ali vaoresa cala homila cocasabe fafenu izodizodope, od miinoagi de ginetaabe: vau

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

ndings, for the equinox 158 although he continued with his usual office work, he lived during the best part of this year under canvas in a small tent by the sea shore, necessitating some miles of walking every day, and throwing him a good deal more in touch with nature than formerly; also the addition of a little stranger to his family had a marked effect on his home affairs, being as it were the key to the solution of certain problems that had been puzzling him in that direction. during the period from march 2nd to september 4th, when we might say he was working on alone, his record shows some 340 meditation practices, mostly in the asana known as the dragon, the periods ranging from a few minutes to something over an hour, but most of them comparatively short, the average perhaps being t

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

nd said: o my lord, my dove, my excellent one, how shall this word seem unto the children of men? 52. and he answered him: not as thou canst see. liber cordis cincti serpente svb figvra ynda 5 it is certain that every letter of this cipher hath some value; but who shall determine the value? for it varieth ever, according to the subtlety of him that made it. 53. and he answered him: have i not the key thereof? i am clothed with the body of flesh; i am one with the eternal and omnipotent god. 54. then said adonai: thou hast the head of the hawk, and thy phallus is the phallus of asar. thou knowest the white, and thou knowest the black, and thou knowest that these are one. but why seekest thou the knowledge of their equivalence? 55. and he said: that my work may be right. 56. and adonai said:

-stone that is found in the belly of the cow, so is my lover among lovers. 8. o honey boy! bring me thy cool limbs hither! let us sit awhile in the orchard, until the sun go down! let us feast on the cool grass! bring wine, ye slaves, that the cheeks of my boy may flush red. 9. in the garden of immortal kisses, o thou brilliant one, shine forth! make thy mouth an opium-poppy, that one kiss is the key to the infinite sleep and lucid, the sleep of shi-loh-am. liber cordis cincti serpente svb figvra ynda 17 10. in my sleep i beheld the universe like a clear crystal without one speck. 11. there are purse-proud penniless ones that stand at the door of the tavern and prate of their feats of wine-bibbing. 12. there are purse-proud penniless ones that stand at the door of the tavern and revile the

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

t of grace? keep thou yet firm this trembling leaf my soul, dear god who died for men; yea! for that sinner-soul the chief, sir palamede the saracen. 69 xxx starred is the blackness of the sky; wide is the sweep of the cold plain where good sir palamede doth lie, keen on the beast-slot once again. all day he rode; all night he lay with eyes wide open to the stars, seeking in many a secret way the key to unlock his prison bars. beneath him, hark! the marvel sounds! the beast that questeth horribly. as if a thirty couple hounds are in his belly questeth he. beneath him? heareth he aright? he leaps to.sfeet.a wonder shews: steep dips a stairway from the light to what obscurity god knows. still never a tremor shakes his soul (god praise thee, knight of adamant; he plungers to that gruesome goa

; for that i figure unto men the story of my proper quest as thine, first eastern in the west, sir palamede the saracen [this text was first published as a supplement to equinox i (4. it was reprinted in a volume on its own shortly afterwards. in the 1913 .syllabus. it was declared to be liber cxcvii in class c (197 .living creature, beast (more usually spelt, subt. from (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry and initial proof reading by w.e. heidrick for o.t.o. further proof reading, formatting &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press. this e-text last revised 30.06.200.sliber cxlviii the soldier and the hunchback! and? a a publication in class c 1 gexpect seven misfortunes from the cripple, and forty-two from the one-eyed man; but when the hunchback comes, say eallah our aid. f h arab proverb

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

s electric flesh stilled by 1 [hebrews, xii, 6] the soldier and the hunchback 19 sheer might to a movement closed upon itself in the controlled fury of her love.nay, beyond all these images art thou (little brother) who art passed from i and thou, and he unto that which hath no name, no image. little brother, give me thy hand; for the first step is hard. aleister crowley (c) ordo templi orientis. key-entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 29.06.20lethe ritual of passing through the tuat liber cxx &odvv' introduction this rite, taken from materials in crowley s diary has the same numeration as liber cxx, samekh. in the matter of the directions, there are several markouts that make unclear whether he intends to use the ordinary elemental directions: e. a

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

hining blackness deeper than the night. i then consecrated myself to the operation; cutting the tonsure upon my head, a circle, as it were to admit the light of infinity: and cutting the cross of blood upon my breast, thus symbolising the equilibration of and the slaying of the body, while loosing the blood, the first projection in matter of the universal fluid. the whole formulating the ankh.the key of life! i gave moreover the signs of the grades from 0 =0 to 7 =4. then did i take upon myself the great obligation1 as follows: i. i, o.m &c, a member of the body of god, hereby bind myself on behalf of the whole universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross of suffering: 1 [this is the .oath of the abyss. or the oath of 8 =3. t.s] john st. john 9 ii. that i will lead a pure l

ngle-minded devotion (ek.grata) to adonai. so any mental or magical image must necessarily fall short of the truth. consequently one has to will that which is formless; and this is very difficult. to concentrate the mind upon a definite thing is hard enough; yet at least there is something to grasp, and some means of checking one fs 1 [it is a slight variation of the opening of the first .angelic key. t.s] john st. john 61 result. but in this case, the moment one fs will takes a magical shape.and the will simply revels in creating shapes.at the moment one knows that one has gone off the track. this is of course (nearly enough) another way of expressing the hindu meditation whose method is to kill all thoughts as they arise in the mind. the difference is that i am aiming at a target, while

dept of man hangeth, and daleth is love supernal, that if it be inserted in the word ani .i. giveth adni, adonai. subtle art thou and deadly, o dweller of the threshold (p.s..this name is a bad one. dweller beside the pylon is a better term; for he is not in the straight path, which is liber dccclx 80 simple and easy and open. he is never .overcome; to meet him is the proof of having strayed. the key fits the door perfectly; but he who is drunken on the bad wine of sense and thought fumbles thereat. and of course there is a great deal of door, and very little key-hole, who dost use my very love of adonai to destroy me! yet how shall i approach him, if not with reverent joy, with a delicious awe? i must wash his feet with my tears; i must die at his gateway; i must. i know not what. adonai

literation conventions with diacritical marks, etc. citations of numbered texts of a a are given in arabic rather than roman numerals (e.g. 671 rather than dclxxi. leading zeroes have been added to minutes in times, i.e. 8.06 rather than 8.6 for six minutes past eight. in the first printing, times were repeated at the top of each page; this has not been followed (c) ordo templi orientis. original key entry by bill heidrick for o.t.o. further proof-reading, formatting &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press. this e-text last revised 21.07.200filiber dcccxi energized enthusiasm a note on theurgy v a a publication in class c 1 i i a o the supreme one of the gnostics, the true god, is the lord of this work. let us therefore invoke him by that name which the companions of the royal arch blasphem

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

arrant, is the most numerous and wellestablished masonic ghigh grade h system, and since masonic gregularity h is largely a matter of mutual recognition it was rather workings like memphis, misraim, and cerneau, with which crowley was affiliated through his contact with the english masonic enthusiast john yarker, which were regarded as gspurious h by most masonic writers (c) ordo templi orientis. key-entry &c, by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 26.06.2004. ts liber dclxxi vel pyramidos a ritual of self-initiation based upon the formula of the neophyte v a a publication in class d 1 000. the building of the pyramid. the magus with wand. on the altar are incense, fire, bread, wine, the chain, the scourge, the dagger and the oil. in his left hand the bell he ta

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

r five that feed the flame. bell. hail, hoor-apep! thou sword of steel! alpha and delta and epsilon met in the shadow of the pylon and in iota did proclaim that tenfold core and crown of flame. hail, hoor-apep! unspoken name! bell. hail, hoor! hail, asi! hail, tahuti! hail asar un-nefer! through the rended veil. i am thyself, with all thy brilliance decked khabs am pekht (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 09.07.2004. transcriber.s notes. this text of liber pyramidos is composited from the two main published versions (typeset with no source stated in sothis magazine, st. albans, 1976, and facsimile of illuminated ms (presumably that referred to in .john st. john) in equinox iv (1, commentaries on the holy books, york be

LIBER DXXXVI

y find, perhaps, that the path of this comet may assist him to expand the sphere of his mental vision until it include a star. and thus, gathering one star after another, let his contemplation become vast as the heaven, in space and time ever aspiring to the perception of the body of nuit; yea, of the body of nuit. 3 [this was written prior to the discovery of pluto. t.s (c) ordo templi orientis. key-entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 29.06.20. liber e vel exercitiorvm svb figvra ix v a a publication in class b issued by order: d.d.s. 7= 4 pramonstrator o.s.v. 6= 5 imperator n.s.f. 5= 6 cancellarius 1 i 1. it is absolutely necessary that all experiments should be recorded in detail during, or immediately after, their performance. 2. it is highly im

LIBER E

uthorise the publication of additional postures, which will be found facing this page. an elderly, corpulent gentleman of sedentary habit has been good enough to pose, so that none need feel debarred from devoting himself to the great work on the ground of physical infirmity* all material by aleister crowley (c) ordo templi orientis jaf box 7666 new york ny 11016 u.s.a. no copyright is claimed on key entry, formatting, or editorial notes. typed and edited by frater t.s. for celephais press, somewhere beyond the tanarian hills. last revised 09.06.2004 e.v. liber e. supplementary instruction in asana 1. the dying buddha. 2. the hanged man. 3. the corpse. these three recumbant positions are more suitable for repose after meditations than for meditation itself. liber e vel exercitiorvm 12 4. t

LIBER GRADUUM MONTIS ABIEGNI

se grades are indeed but convenient landmarks, not necessarily significant. a person who had attained them all might be immeasurably the inferior of one who had attained none of them; it is spiritual experience alone that counts in result; the rest is but method. yet it is important to possess knowledge and power, provided that it be devoted wholly to that one work* text (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry and notes by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 29.06.2004 liber xiii 6 transcriber.s notes. this electronic text of liber xiii was transcribed from that printed in equinox i (3, with one textual amendation made as noted below. the figure gthe slopes of abiegnus h has been redrawn rather than scanned; rubrication has been used in the hopes of making it a bit

LIBER HAD

. 3. samadhi of the two infinites within aspirant. 4. intensification of 3 on repetition. 5. prolongation of life. 6. death becomes the climax of the practice. 33. summary concluded. these are the practices to be performed in token of thanksgiving for success. 1. aspiration to liber xi. 2. preaching of to mankind. 3. blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely star (c) ordo templi orientis. key-entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 29.06.20y-liber hhh svb figvra cccxli continet capitvla tria: mmm, aaa, et sss v a a publication in class d 1 .sunt duo modi per quos homo fit deus: tohu et bohu .mens quasi flamma surgat, aut quasi puteus aqua quiescat .alteri modi sunt tres exempli, qui illis extra limine collegii sancti dati sunt .in hoc primo libr

LIBER HHH

heaven of stars, at night, in calm and warm weather, mayst thou quicken the movement of the light until it be taken up by the brain and the spine, independently of thy will. liber hhh 8 if in this hour thou shouldst die, is it not written .blessed are the dead that die in the lord.13? yea, blessed are the dead that die in the lord!14 (c) ordo templi orientis. this e-text last revised 21.07.2004. key entry, formatting, and endnotes by frater t.s. for celephais press/ nu isis working group. 1 this is not quite a literal translation of the latin but gives the gist of it well enough. in contrast to the .waters of contemplation. the .flames of enthusiasm. were supposedly treated of in .liber iao (17) which is unpub-lished and believed lost (i have been informed that a work claiming to be liber

LIBER III VEL JUGORUM

saw at coney island this first day of june 1919 e.v [ms. note added by ac in a copy of equinox i (4, transcribed by yorke] liber iii vel jvgorvm 4 aratvm secvrvm (fra. after one week avoiding the first person. his fidelity is good; his vigilance bad. not nearly good enough to pass [lat .careless plough. or .secure plough [generally believed to be victor b. neuburg [text (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 30.06.2004. it is suggested that the student exercise care and discretion with these practices; for example, taking precautions to avoid infection (sterilising blades, and cleaning the wound and applying antiseptic. further, performing them in public may get one locked up, either under offensive weapon laws or the men

LIBER ISRAFEL

tices; for example, taking precautions to avoid infection (sterilising blades, and cleaning the wound and applying antiseptic. further, performing them in public may get one locked up, either under offensive weapon laws or the mental health actedliber israfel svb figvra lxiv v a a publication in class b imprimatur: n. fra. a a 1 [this book was formerly called ganubis h and is referred to the 20th key, gthe angel h1] 0. the temple being in darkness, and the speaker ascended into his place, let him begin by a ritual of the enterer, as followeth. 1. w procul, o procul este profani. 2. bahlasti! ompehda! 3. in the name of the mighty and terrible one, i proclaim that i have banished the shells unto their habitations. 4. i invoke tahuti, the lord of wisdom and of utterance, the god that cometh f

invocation of thoth put together by allan bennett from golden dawn material, egyptian texts and miscellaneous sources, a few only of which are noted. the earlier version (corresponding to points 5-13 only of the present text) was published in equinox i (3) as part of bennett fs ritual for the evocation to visible appearance of taphthartharath the spirit of mercury. text (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 14.06.200. liber liberi vel lapidis lazvli advmbratio kabbala agyptiorvm svb figvra vii being the voluntary emancipation of a certain exempt adept from his adeptship. these are the birth-words of a master of the temple v a a publication in class a 1 prologue of the unborn 1. into my loneliness comes. 2. the sound of a

LIBER LIBRAE

rmetic order of the golden dawn, titled gon the general guidance and purification of the soul. h the g.d. version may be studied in regardie (ed, the golden dawn and the complete golden dawn system of magick. gliber libra h was first published in equinox i (1) and reprinted in gems from the equinox and equinox iii (10, in the latter case with a questionable author credit to gthe master therion. h key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ n.i.w.g. this e-text last revised 13.06.200t the paradigmal pirate (liber lll& liber ventum) by joshua wetzel (aka frater ratatosk) stafford, england the paradigmal pirate by joshua wetzel second edition c 2006 all rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form. the right of joshua wetzel to be identif

LIBER LVII

will be noticed that every number and letter has its .correspondence. in ideas of every sort; so that any given object can be analysed in terms of the 32. if i see a blue star, i should regard it as a manifestation of chesed, water, the moon, salt the alchemical principle, sagittarius or what not, in respect of its blueness.one would have to decide which from other data.and refer it to the xviith key of the taro in respect of its starriness. the use of these attributions is lengthy and various: i cannot dwell upon it: but i will give one example. if i wish to visit the sphere of geburah, i use the colours and forces appropriate: i go there: if the objects which then appear to my spiritual vision are harmonious therewith, it is a test of their truth. so also, to construct a talisman, or to

ods of discovering dogma from sacred words are also numerous and important: i may mention (a) the doctrine of sympathies: drawn from the total numeration of a word, when identical with, or a multiple or submultiple of, or a metathesis of, that of another word (b) the method of finding the least number of a word, by adding (and readding) the digits of its total number, and taking the corresponding key of the taro as a key to the meaning of the word (c) the method of analogies drawn from the shape of the letters (d) the method of deductions drawn from the meanings and correspondence of the letters (e) the method of acrostics drawn from the letters. this mode is only valid for adepts of the highest grades, and then under quite exceptional and rare conditions (f) the method of transpositions a

his pleasure. this formula was used to open the vault of the mystic mountain of abiegnus, within which lay (so the ceremony of initiation supposed) the body of our father christian rosen creutz, to be discovered by the brethren with the postulant as said in the book called fama fraternitatis. there are three officers, and they repeat the analysis of the word as follows: chief. let us analyse the key word.i. 2nd. n. 3rd. r. all. i. chief. yod. y 2nd. nun. n 3rd. resh. r all. yod. y chief. virgo (f) isis, mighty mother. 2nd. scorpio (h) apophis, destroyer. 3rd. sol) osiris, slain and rise. all. isis, apophis, osiris, iao. all spread arms as if on a cross, and say. the sign of osiris slain! chief bows his head to the left, raises his right arm, and lowers his left, keeping the elbow and righ

stick: those who have understood (favoured of god) have found therein aaron.s rod that budded, the staff of life itself, yea, the venerable lingam of mahasiva! it is for us to trace the researches of frater p. in the qabalah, to show how from this storehouse of child.s puzzles, of contradictions and incongruities, of paradoxes and trivialities, he discovered the very canon of truth, the authentic key of the temple, the word of that mighty combination which unlocks the treasure-chamber of the king. and this following is the manuscript which he has left for our instruction. 30 liber lviii an essay upon number (may the holy one mitigate his severities toward his servant in respect of the haste wherewith this essay hath been composed! when i travelled with the venerable iehi aour in search of

aub is an illusory thing of witchcraft (cf. obi, obeah; aud is almost= the kundalini force(.odic. force. this illustrates well the difference between the sluggish, viscous 9, and the keen, ecstatic 11.54 210. pertains to part ii. see liber 418. 214. jwr, the air, the mind. 220. pertains to part ii. the number of verses in liber legis. 231. the sum of the first 22 numbers, 0 to 21; the sum of the key-numbers of the tarot cards; hence an extension of the idea of 22, q.v. 270. i.n.r.i. see 5= 6 ritual. 280. the sum of the .five letters of severity. those which have a final form. kaph, mem, nun, pe, tzaddi. also the number of the squares on the sides of the vault 7 40; see 5= 6 ritual. also [r= terror. 300. the letter c, meaning .tooth. and suggesting by its shape a triple flame. refers yetzi

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

m responsible for it. if he and judas are finally redeemed we might perhaps look over the matter this once. poet books his seat. creator in ascension day 17 tending to final bliss.to stir some life to better life, this pain is needful: that i grant again. did they at last in glory live, satan and judas69 might forgive the middle time of misery, forgive the wrong creation first or evolution.s iron key did them.provided they are passed beyond all change and pain at last out of this universe accurst. but otherwise! i lift my voice, deliberately take my choice promethean, eager to rejoice, in the grim protest.s joy to revel betwixt iscariot and the devil, throned in their midst! no pain to feel, tossed on some burning bed of steel, but theirs: my soul of love should swell and, on those piteous

lines in these poems, is pregnant with a host of hidden meanings. not only is it physical, of saying good-bye to a friend: but mental, of the darkness of metaphysics; occult, of the mystical darkness of the threshold of initiation: and physiological, containing allusions to a whole group of phenomena, which those who have begun meditaiton will recognise. similarly, a single word may be a mnemonic key to an entire line of philosophical argument. if the reader chooses, in short, he will find the entire mass of initiated wisdom between the covers of this unpretending volume. 70 1902 the three characteristics .listen to the jataka. said the buddha. and all they gave ear .long ago, when king brahmadatta reigned in benares,1 it came to pass that there lived under his admirable government a weave

.from his castle of ug. means .from his initiation. we cannot in future do more than indicate the allusions. 4 the kerubim. 5 see table of correspondences [a table of correspondences was intended to appear as an appendix to the first volume of crowley.s collected works. it is not in the 1970s reprint from which i am working, and may not have been in the original. see 777 instead. t.s] 6 the 22nd key of the tarot. the other tarot symbols can be traced by any one who possesses, and to some degree understands, a pack of the cards. the occult views of the nature of these symbols are in some cases crowley.s own. opus prima materia. a. o. custodes.4 sapiens dominatibur astris. s. s. d. d. ambrosii magi hortis rosarum 79 pearls, big and round like the breasts of a sea-nymph; and they gleamed rou

as comforted. now came the sudden twittering of heart lest the firmament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cork on waters of wailing .woman. he bade sternly .be still. cleave that with thy sword: or that must i well work. but she cleft the cords, bitter-faced, smiling goddess as she was; 1 the sacrifices are the ten sephiroth. 2 see table. 3 ancient form of the key of s. 4 considered as the agent of resurrection. 5 in the true key of m the tree is shaped like the letter d= venus or love. the figure of the man forms a cross above a triangle, with apex upwards, the sign of redemption. adest rosa secreta eros. hermaphroditus. mors janua vitae. adeptus. terrae ultor anima terrae. ambrosii magi hortis rosarum 81 and he went on .leave thine ox-goad,.1 quoth he

. alas for our father! now the suggler mocks him and cries .four fool.s bargains hast thou made, and thou art fit to go forth and meet a fool4 for thy mate. but our father counted thrice seven and cried .one for the fool. seeing 1 3, the number of g. 2, the number of the card g. 2 the equality of three and eight is attributed to binah, a high grade of theurgic attainment. 3 scil. juggler, the 1st key. the magical weapons correspond to the kerubim. 4 the key marked 0 and applied to aleph, 1. dona virginis. puella urget sophiam sodalibus. the sophic suggler. ambrosii magi hortis rosarum 83 the serpent should be his at last .none for the fool. they laughed back.nay, even his maiden queen. for she would not any should know thereof. yet all were right, both he and they. but truth ran quickly ab

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the tarot giving the correct designs of the cards with their attributions and symbolic meanings on all planes. h which eventually manifested as the book of thoth, published in 1944 as equinox iii (5; this was an original work on the tarot which largely supercedes the present treatment; while it bore no number on publication it is sometimes cited as liber lxxviii. the present e-text is based on a key-entry made from the equinox printing by w. e. heidrick for o.t.o. this transcript corrected a few errors in the hebrew names of the angels from the equinox printing (the compositor consistently gave kaph for nun) and planetary symbols for small cards; a few more were corrected by the present editor. the ankh design has been re-drawn and coloured. it has not, however, been completely conformed

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

e, so below; wherefore saith the holy qabalah that alone amongst the shells is nogah, the sphere of venus, exalted unto holiness (venus is the goddess of love) liber mmcmxi 8 our father c.r.c, the tomb of osiris; the god revealer, coming, moreover, by the central path of s through the midst of the triangle of light. and the lock which guards that door is as the four gates of the universe. and the key is the ankh, immortal life.the rose and cross of life; and the symbol of venus. 4. 1. 2. 3. 6. 5. 7. fig. iii.third symbol. by producing the paths whereby the forces of the three (see second symbol) were concentrated into four, we find they read 1+ 4= 5, 2+ 4= 6, 3+ 4= 7. and thus is revealed the second triangle of the hexagram of creation* further, this reflected triangle showeth forth the ev

figures stands thus: 4.3.5.2.5.3.6 (hebrew direction. in the midst is 2, by taro the central will: and this twolettered word is ta. on either side of this is the pair of figures 35. 53, balanced one against the other: as though symbolic of the great dawning of life of the mothers.h and, vitalised by the son (3) as the vice-gerent of his father. these balanced figures together make 16, whereof the key is 7; the total number of letters in the third symbol. then we have left at either end 4 and 6= 10* the perfection of the sephiroth, as if to declare that this verse from, beginning to end thereof reflected the voices from kether even unto malkuth: and 6- 4= 2 again, the central will, b, thoth, in the heart of the universe (as* vide sepher yetzirah for this division of the holy sephiroth into

re we see the whole universe enclosed in the cosmic egg of hindu and egyptian mythology: and the formulation of the sphere of the universe (or magical mirror in man. as it were the egg of the black swan of time, the kala hamsa, the triune a m u, or word of power or of seb, the bird of life, whose will was heard in the night of time. the total numeric value of the verse is fntd= 4459, of which the key is 22, the number of the paths from a to t; and the key of 22 is 4, the tetractys and the threshold of the universe. now to proceed to what i have termed the time process, the first word of the law then is tycarb. now in the hebrew scriptures the first word of a book is also its title. thus genesis a note on genesis 13 is called by the rabbins .b.rasheth. or .in the beginning. wherefore we may

he universe. now to proceed to what i have termed the time process, the first word of the law then is tycarb. now in the hebrew scriptures the first word of a book is also its title. thus genesis a note on genesis 13 is called by the rabbins .b.rasheth. or .in the beginning. wherefore we may regard this word as not the first word.albeit that is shadowed forth therein.but as the seal and title and key of the whole book. holding this in mind, let us proceed to analyse it. the number of its letters is six, the seal of creation, and their total numeric value is 2911. 2911= 13= death, the transformer .the distinct formulation of the three in one, uniting once more to produce the 4. now beth primarily signifieth a house or abode, and in taro it is, the magus.the vox dei.and thoth, the recorder

e read .begun are the whirling motions. c signifieth mighty in flame, whereof it is also the hieroglyph. it is that ruach elohim brooding upon the face of the waters. so read .formulated is the primal fire* as it is written .thy youth shall be renewed as the eagle.s [psalm ciii, 5] now the eagle is n. for further consideration of this 13, vide in the portal ritual the explanation of that terrible key. see account of this ritual in .the temple of solomon the king. also, 13 is the numeration of dja= unity, as also is the great name of god, la, by aiq bekar or temurah. liber mmcmxi 14 y is the hand* symbolising power in action, and its taro key is the hermit and the voice of light, the prophet of the gods. thus .proclaimed is the reign of the gods of light. t is the last letter of the alphabe

LIBER MMM

dabra, yod he vau he, aum mani padme hum, zazas zazas, nasatanada zazas. the chosen sound is repeated over and over in the mind to block all other thoughts. no matter how inappropriate the choice of sound may seem to have been, you must persist with it. eventually the sound may seem to repeat itself automatically and may even occur in sleep. these are encouraging signs. sound concentration is the key to words of power and certain forms of spell casting. image concentration the part of the mind in which pictorial thoughts arise is brought under magical control by image concentration. a simple shape, such as a triangle, circle, square, cross, or crescent, is chosen and held in the mind s eye, without distortion, for as long as possible. only the most determined efforts are likely to make the

a strain on the universe. the mere act of wanting is rarely effective, as the will becomes involved in a dialogue with the mind. this dilutes magical ability in many ways. the desire becomes part of the ego complex; the mind becomes anxious of failure. soon the original desire is a mass of conflicting ideas. often the wished for result arises only when it has been forgotten. this last fact is the key to sigils and most forms of magical spell. sigils work because they stimulate the will to work subconsciously, bypassing the mind. there are three parts to the operation of a sigil. the sigil is constructed, the sigil is lost to the mind, the sigil is charged. in constructing a sigil, the aim is to produce a glyph of desire, stylized so as not to immediately suggest the desire. it is not neces

LIBER NU

cret ardours of hadit. h this is the first practice of intelligence (ccxx. i. 14. 3. avoid any act of choice or discrimination. this is the first practice of ethics (ccxx. i. 22. 4. consider of six and fifty that 50 6= 0.12. 0 the circumference, nuit. the centre, hadit. 1 the unity proceeding, ra-hoor-khuit. 2 the world of illusion. nuit thus comprehends all in none. also 50+ 6= 56= 5+ 6= 11, the key of all rituals. and 50 6= 300, the spirit of the child within (note n#i= 72, the shemhamphorash and the quinaries of the zodiac, etc) this is the second practice of intelligence (ccxx. i. 25, 26. 2 liber n v 5. the result of this practice is the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of the body of nuit. in other words, the aspirant is conscious only of the infinite uni

to nuit of the elixir. 5. lying supine, with eyes fixed on the stars, practice the sensation of falling into nothingness. 6. being actually within the bosom of nuit, let hadit surrender himself. 33. summary concluded. the results. 1. expansion of consciousness to that of the infinite. 2. gloss of all h the highest mystical attainment. 3. true wisdom and perfect happiness (c) ordo templi orientis. key-entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 29.06.20tiliber o vel manvs et sagitta svb figvra vi v a a publication in class b issued by order: d.d.s. 7= 4 pramonstrator o.s.v. 6= 5 imperator n.s.f. 5= 6 cancellarius 1 i 1. this book is very easy to misunderstand; readers are asked to use the most minute critical care in the study of it, even as we have done in

LIBER O

1997) argues that .slaying the pairs of opposites. falls within the scope of .liber yod. and that one of .the methods of sabhapaty swami. forms the basis for section sss (stands for .sri sabhapaty swami) of .liber hhh (341) in equinox i (5) and appendix vii of magick. 3 most of these columns appear in the expanded appendix v of the .blue brick. edition of magick, thus: 777 magick description i. 0 key scale ii, iii. 1, 2 hebrew names of numbers and letters, english translation. v [omitted] god-names in assiah. vi, vii. 9, 11 heavens of assiah, english translation. ix. 7 the sword and the serpent. xi. 12 the elements (with their planetary rulers. xii. 8 the tree of life. xiv. 14 general attribution of tarot. xv. xviii. 55. 58 the colour scales. xix. 24 selection of egyptian gods. xxxiv. 26 s

the other names. 14 the print editions read. as in plate on preceding page. the hexagram of sol is formed by tracing the hexagrams of the other six planets in order, thus twelve triangles in total. in the diagram, numbers are placed by the starting point of the first stroke* all material by aleister crowley (c) ordo templi orientis jaf box 7666 new york ny 11016 u.s.a. no copyright is claimed on key entry, formatting, or editorial notes. typed and edited by frater t.s. for celephais press, somewhere beyond the tanarian hills. last revised 01.07.2004 eorliber os abysmi vel daath svb figvra cdlxxiv v a a publication in class c g i (motto, titles, etc, a member of the body of god, hereby bind myself on behalf of the whole universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross of suffer

LIBER OS ABYSMI VEL DAATH

ering into the palace of the king fs daughter, and of that which shall thereafter befall, let it be understood of the master of the temple. hath he not attained to understanding? yea, verily, hath he not attained to understanding [this text was first published in equinox i (7) in class b; in the 1913 gsyllabus h it was listed in class c. 474 is the number of tod, da fath (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry and notes by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 16.06.200isliber porta lvcis svb figvra x v a a publication in class a 1 1. i behold a small dark orb, wheeling in an abyss of infinite space. it is minute among a myriad vast ones, dark amid a myriad bright ones. 2. i who comprehend in myself all the vast and the minute, all the bright and the dark, have mitiga

LIBER RESH VEL HELIOS

, or by modern groups claiming to represent the a a. t.s] 2 [this may be read as an instruction to assume the god-form of ra, hathor, tum or khephera as appropriate. see gliber o h for the practices and gods of the egyptians or other works on the subject for the traditional images of these deities. but the instruction can be interpreted in other ways, and is by some. t.s (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ niwg. this e-text last revised 26.06.20isliber rv vel spritvs svb figvra ccvi v a a publication in class d 1 2. let the zelator observe the current of his breath. 3. let him investigate the following statements, and prepare a careful record of research (a) certain actions induce the flow of the breath through the right nostril (pingal; and, convers

LIBER RV VEL SPIRITUS

t the course of this instruction, and reflect that even the counsel which we have given as suitable to the average case may be entirely unsuitable to his own. 1 [leaving aside the danger of accidentally swallowing one.s tongue and choking to death while asleep. t.s [liber 206 was first published in equinox i (7) in class b; in the 1913 .syllabus. it was placed in class d (c) ordo templi orientis. key-entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 29.06.2004. the plate which accompanied this text in the equinox publication follows overleaf. approx, p.raka is .inhalation. kumbhaka .retention of the breath. and rechaka .exhalation] pr.n.y.ma properly performed [it has been found necessary to show this because students were trying to do it without exertion, and in

LIBER THISHARB

truth: 9. that i will rely only on myself 10. that i will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of god with my soul. and if i fail herein, may my pyramid be profaned, and the eye be closed upon me! this was probably devised by crowley, patterned after the adeptus minor obligation of the r.r. et a.c. the points are of course keyed to the sephiroth. t.s* text (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 07.07.20raliber t r i g- ramma t o n svb figvra xxvii being the book of the trigrams of the mutations of the tao with the yin and the yang v a a publication in class a 1 here is nothing under its three forms. it is not, yet informeth all things. now cometh the glory of the single one, as an imperfection and stain. but

LIBER TURRIS

d one in three, sulphur, salt, and mercury, crowned by heavenly alchemy! to the one who sent the seven glory in the highest heaven! to the seven who are the ten glory on the earth, amen! 16. and of the difficulties of this practice and of the results that reward it, let these things be discovered by the right ingenium of the practicus (c) ordo templi orientis. this e-text last revised 11.06.2004. key entry, formatting &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ nu isis working group. notes signed ged h are believed to be by crowley acting as his own editctliber tzaddi vel hamvs hermeticvs svb figvra xc v a a publication in class a 1 0. in the name of the lord of initiation, amen. 1. i fly and i alight as an hawk: of mother-of-emerald are my mighty-sweeping wings. 2. i swoop down upon the black

LIBER V VEL REGULI

. he therefore who liveth by air, let him not be bold to breathe water. but mastery cometh by measure: to him who with labour, courage, and caution giveth his life to understand all that doth encompass him, and to prevail against it, shall be increase .the word of sin is restriction: seek therefore righteousness, enquiring into iniquity, and fortify thyself to overcome it (c) ordo templi orientis key entry, layout and endnotes by frater t.s. last revised 17.07.2004 e.v. the ritual of the mark of the beast 21 transcriber.s notes. this ritual was first published in appendix vi of magick in theory and practice (hereafter cited as mtp; it was written in 1921 at the abbey of thelema. a slightly earlier version with a measure of audience participation and different elemental quarter markouts exi

inox, with the further omission of the concluding essay/ rant. a corrected text with the omissions restored (from a typescript in the collection of the university of syracuse) was published in magick: book 4 parts iiv (weiser, 1994, second edition 1997; hereafter cited as .blue brick, and in the magick of thelema by l.m. duquette. the 1994 blue brick printing was used as the basis for the present key entry. footnotes indicated by *s are by crowley and appear in the mtp publication; all numbered endnotes are by the present editor. 1 fiaof or viaov (hebrew woayw= 93) is a modification by crowley of the formula of iao, discussed in detailed in chapter v of mtp (grk .will) is declared to be .the word of the law. in liber al vel legis and is analysed as a formula in the .old comment. thereon, a

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

en weet niet wat hy is: hy kan oock licht ontvallen. daniel heinz. dianae sumus in fide puellae et pueri integri dianam pueri integri puellaeque canamus. catullus. tao teh king (hwainan.s v.l) fasterej men fmfi calan selannan y pocruptoisi faennon e.doj nppota plhqoisa malista lampv gan .pi pasan sappho. hathayoga pradipika stele of ankh-f-n-khonsu. the wake world y name is lola, because i am the key of delights, and the other children in my dream call me lola daydream. when i am awake, you see, i know that i am dreaming, so they must be very silly children, don.t you think? there are people in the dream too, who are quite grown up and horrid; but the really important thing is the wake-up person. there is only one, for there never could be any one like him. i call him my fairy prince. he r

d little children playing among them. so i said .shall we be married in this domus x. v. regnum v. porta 4 loci secundum elementa. qliphoth. via t vel crux. cherubim domus ix v. fundamentum yod v. membrum sancti f.deris the wake world 7 house. and he said .no, this is only the house where the business is carried on. all the palace rests upon this house; but you are called lola because you are the key of delights. many people stay here all their lives though. i made him kiss me, and we went on to another passage which opened out of the servants. hall. this passage was all fire and flames and full of coffins. there was an angel blowing ever so hard on a trumpet, and people getting up out of the coffins. my fairy prince said .most people never wake up for anything less. so we went (at the sam

irst three houses are very useful; all the dream-world and the half-dream world, and the wake-world are governed from these passages. i began to see now how very unreal even the wake-world is, because there is just a little dream in it, and the right world is the wide-wide-wide-wake-world. my lover calls me little lola wideawake, not lola daydream any more. but it is always lola, because i am the key of delights. i never told you about the first two houses, and really you wouldn.t understand. but the second house is gray, because the light and dark flash by so quick it.s all blended into one; and in it lives my lover, and that.s all i care about. the first house is so brilliant that you can.t think; and there, too, is my lover and i when we are one. you wouldn.t understand that either. and

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

that supreme glory of humanity, realization of our identity with the great and holy tao. h wherewith he set aside no less than three hundred and sixty-five days in every year, and one extra day every fourth year, as days of special rejoicing [this text was first published in konx om pax (1907. it was declared to be liber xli in class c in the gsyllabus h in equinox i (10 (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 13.06.200phliber xliv the mass of the ph.nix v a.a. publication in class d 1 the magician, his breast bare, stands before an altar on which are his burin, bell, thurible, and two of the cakes of light. in the sign of the enterer he reaches west across the altar, and cries: hail ra, that goest in thy bark into the cave

LIBER XLIV THE MASS OF THE PHOENIX

though cognate, are not identical, and .ph.nix. is the more accurate symbol. this chapter is explained in chapter 62. it would be improper to comment further upon a ritual which has been accepted as official by the a.a..5 [this ritual formed chapter (44) of the book of lies. it appeared in appendix vi of magick in theory and practice with no substantial changes (c) ordo templi orientis. original key-ebtry by frater e.a.d.n; further formatting, proofreading and notes by frater t.s. for niwg/ celepha s press. this e-text last revised 17.07.2004] 3 [hebrew \d, blood= 44] 4 [see also the equinox of the gods. the .invocation of horus according to the divine vision of ourada the seer. is divided into 44 sections (4 divisions of 11 sections each, with a string of 44 pearl beads to be told.the st

LIBER XV CHYMICAL JOUSTING OF PERARDUA

) and non sine fulmine (lat .not without the thunderbolt. the index to equinox vol. i gave the author of the body of the work as crowley; it is not clear what grounds, if any, f.i. regardie in the introduction to gems from the equinox (from which compilation he omitted the present document on the grounds that it .said nothing) had for attributing the text to fuller. text (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. last revised 13.06.200orliber xxv the star ruby v a a publication in class d 1 facing east, in the centre, draw deep deep deep thy breath, closing thy mouth with thy right forefinger prest against thy lower lip. then dashing down the hand with a great sweep back and out, expelling forcibly thy breath, cry .1 with the same forefinger touch thy

LIBER XXV THE STAR RUBY

burah. the chapter is a new and more elaborate version of the banishing ritual of the pentagram. it would be improper to comment further upon an official ritual of the a a .13 [this ritual formed chapter ke (25) of the book of lies. a slightly revised version appeared in appendix vi of magick in theory and practice. variations in the mtp version are recorded in footnotes (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ niwg. this e-text last revised 12.06.2004] 10 [psyche. for eros and psyche see the fable in the metamorphoses (golden ass) of apuleius, the reference in any case being to vau and he final of tetragrammaton, as chaos and babalon (see gthe vision and the voice h) represent yod and he. magick has gbellow hadit. h. t.s] 11 [the signs of n.o.x. are desc

LIBER XXXIII AN ACCOUNT OF AA

, the way, the truth, and the life. the interior order was formed immediately after the first perception of man's wider heritage had dawned upon the first of the adepts; it received from the masters at first-hand the revelation of the means by which humanity could be raised to its rights and delivered from its misery. it received the primitive charge of all revelation and mystery; it received the key of true science, both divine and natural. but as men multiplied, the frailty of man necessitated an exterior society which veiled the interior one, and concealed the spirit and the truth in the letter, because many people were not capable of comprehending great interior truth. therefore, interior truths were wrapped in external and perceptible ceremonies, so that men, by the perception of the

h he knew nothing himself. to become fit should be the sole effort of him who seeks wisdom. but there are methods by which fitness is attained, for in this holy communion is the primitive storehouse of the most ancient and original science of the human race, with the primitive mysteries also of all science. it is the unique and really illuminated community which is absolutely in possession of the key to all mystery, which knows the centre and source of all nature. it is a society which unites superior strength to its own, and counts its members from more than one world. it is the society whose members form the republic of genius, the regent mother of the whole world [this work was first published in equinox i (1. the designation liber xxxiii was given in the gsyllabus h in equinox i (10. i

ion liber xxxiii was given in the gsyllabus h in equinox i (10. it is an adaptation by crowley (deleting or amending all specifically christian references) of letter ii of the cloud upon the sanctuary, a late 18th-century german work of christian mysticism, translated into french by persons unknown, and from french into english by one isabel de steiger (late 19th century (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ n.i.w.g. this e-text last revised 13.06.200-tliber xxxvi the star sapphire v a a publication in class d 1 let the adept be armed with his magick rood [and provided with his mystic rose. in the centre, let him give the l. v. x. signs;1 or if he know them, if he will and dare do them, and can keep silent about them, the signs of n. o. x. being the si

LIBER XXXVI THE STAR SAPPHIRE

e corresponds with the star-ruby of chapter 25, 36 being the square of 6, as 25 is of 5. this chapter gives the real and perfect ritual of the hexagram. it would be improper to comment further upon an official ritual of the a a .10 [this ritual formed chapter (36) of the book of lies. it appeared in appendix vi of magick in theory and practice with no substantial changes (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ niwg. this e-text last revised 02.07.2004] 8 [the sign of set triumphant is nowhere clearly identified by crowley. it has various been suggested to be the n.o.x. sign mater triumphans, the l.v.x. sign of apophis and typhon (v) or the earth sign of set fighting. the sign of baphomet is probably the n.o.x. sign mulier, on the basis that in .liber v v

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

book of poetics, even if it is now far more famous as an explication of mythology. as i have mentioned, skaldskaparmal contains a warning to young skalds about the pagan nature of the material. it seems that snorri wished to make this statement more forcefully, and he did so in the prologue to his edda. here, too, he advances his understanding of the historical nature of the gods and gives us the key to understanding gylfaginning. snorri starts the prologue to his edda by stating, galmighty god created heaven and earth and all things that accompany them, and finally two people, from whom genealogies are reckoned, adam and eve, and their progeny multiplied and went all around the world. h ultimately, however, after the flood, people lost sight of god, but they observed that there were simil

escription of him. to his friends he appeared fair of countenance, but to his enemies fierce and grim. he spoke only in verse, and poetry arose from him and his chieftains. in battle he could make his enemies blind or deaf or overcome with fear, but his warriors could go berserk. he was a shape-changer, his body lying apparently inert while he was off and about in some animal form. here i see the key to this ghistorical h odin of snorri, for this is a classic description of a shamanic trance and journey. if snorri fs historical odin was a shaman from tyrkland, he was just a charismatic version of the sami shamans who are described in the medieval scandinavian historical record. to cite but one example among a great many, historia norvegiae (history of norway, a work 24 norse mythology comp

os angeles: university of california press, 1970, 1.17, provides a broader context. the situation of the frame, thor protecting his daughter from a misalliance, is illuminated in margaret clunies ross, g orr fs honour, h in studien zum altgermanischen: festschrift fur heinrich beck, ed. heiko uecker (berlin and new york: w. de gruyter, 1994, 48.76. andhrimnir (sooty-in-front) cook at valholl. the key passage is stanza 18 of grimnismal. andhrimnir in eldhrimnir has sahrimnir boiled. in gylfaginning snorri understands the passage as a cook (andhrimnir) cooking pork (the pig sahrimnir) in a huge pot (eldhrimnir, and indeed the rest of this stanza seems to call sahrimnir the best of pork and refers to the mysterious nourishment of the einherjar. all three of the names are joined by the element

tri, and loki changes himself into a fly and pesters brokk. eitri makes first a boar with gold bristles, then the ring draupnir, finally mjollnir, thor fs hammer. the hammer fs handle is short because brokk fs bellows work was interrupted when the fly bit him between the eyes so that blood flowed. eitri is known from no other source. see also dwarfs eldhrimnir (fire-sooty) cookpot at valholl. the key passage is stanza 18 of grimnismal. andhrimnir in eldhrimnir has sahrimnir boiled. in gylfaginning, snorri understands the passage as a cook (andhrimnir) cooking pork (the pig sahrimnir) in a huge pot (eldhrimnir, and indeed the rest of this stanza seems to call sahrimnir the best of pork and refers to the mysterious nourishment of the einherjar. all three of the names are joined by the elemen

from ljo. as spoken rather than sung, it is difficult to find any primary source material that enforces the distinction. interestingly, one of the meters of eddic poetry is called galdrar meter. it is an extended form of ljo.ahattr, gsong or chant meter. h see also seid game of the gods motif associated with the golden age of the gods and with the survival of the race of gods after ragnarok. the key passages are in voluspa, which gives a synopsis of the entire mythology. in stanza 8 the gods have just completed their creation and ordering of the cosmos and their building of cult sites and tools: 8. they played a game in the home field, were merry for them there was no lack of gold. at this point their ggolden age h is disrupted by the arrival of three powerful giant maidens from jotunheim

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

the usual blood issue, a less known unity, or our hungry deficiency seeking fulfilment? the nexus between cause and effect is that of immediacy. the omniscience of the soul throws persuasively over all things its shadow of knowledge. our whole potentiality lies in our ability habitually to feel things sensationally. our truth is the totality of our observations when confirmed by our atavisms. the key to all metaphysical phenomena (mind, soul, etc) is wrapped up in our needs. what sounds the depths and conjoins will and belief? some inarticulate hieroglyph or sigil wrought from nascent desire and rhythmed by unbounded ego. we pray. like a convulsed naiad transfixed by rape. there is a grimoire of symbology, of vague phonic nuances that conjoin all thought and is the cryptic language of the

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

dent to make a certain contact with ancestral shades and spirits. the aspects of hermetic occultism are present here, from which the egyptian systems of typhonian magick are awakened. the ancestral shades are the spirits of ones past, those familiars that shall manifest the current of initiation further to the dreaming body of witch. one may wish to obtain an old statue or object which may hold a key to the gnosis, something which the individual shall attribute this force unto. some may use the anubis inspired skull of one passed, or the bones and skull of the coyote or such an animal. from this, shall the sigil created by the sorcerer be placed and consecrated within the object. the sorcerer will then be able to create familiars and great shades which shall protect his or her own body whi

a connection therein may be observed. the circle casting is one of which the individual proclaims his and her mastery over their own being, that by moving widdershins around the circle will enflame the self during invocation; that is to envision each manifestation via minds eye with each call. for instance, when one calls south, they would envision the fire djinn, in the north, seth. this is the key to the success of magical work; the imagination. south the devil-djinn mentioned is shaitan or azazel, the fallen seraph whom is made entirely of flame. it is this original legend which brought forth the separation of the goddivinity or natural order to an adversarial or antinomianian process of anti-order. the mentioning of blackened light is the light of azazel, or shaitan embodied on earth

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT AN INTRODUCTION

scendent of ancient shamanic cultures and practices, which has flourished with humanity since the beginning of time. the essence of witchcraft is of two basic aspects, being the discovery of the self and the unity with nature, and the mastery of sorcery and a balance of both dayside and darkside practices (2) the sethanic witchcraft current has been cultivated in europe through those who hold the key to the gnosis within their minds; it seems to speak through the blood. this unspoken aspect of the tradition of the old is known directly as witchblood, it is a silent, unspoken yet natural degree of the folk ability to practice magick. this is the inner magickal voice of angels and demons, the very core essence within each initiate that speaks to he/she of their own infinite potential. while

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

evolve, and so behe s metaphor of mousetrap irreducible complexity does not succeed. after this foray into biology, medicine, and mousetraps, let us now see how creationism and neocreationist id thinking and achievements are positioned in the field of general science. are id and creation science sciences? it is true that controversy is the gist of science and that critical thinking is one of its key ingredients. theories are established, revised, accepted, or rejected, always depending on the gathering of new observations or reinterpretation of old ones. what have been the contributions so far of creation science and id? both are critical of evolutionary theory and critical of the interpretation of many empirical facts that support it. so far, so good. but as we described in chapter 1, sc

. lazcano, 2003, prebiotic soup: revisiting the miller experiment, science 300:745 746, by permission of the american association for the advancement of science. 118 order of 10,000 metric tons per year. these amino acids and other organics then dissolved in the oceans. of course, there were no living cells before life appeared. but as mentioned, gas-sparking experiments have produced many of the key organic compounds that are characteristic of life today. amino acids are required to make proteins, while special sugars (such as ribose) and nitrogenous bases (such as adenine) are required to make rna. rna is a close cousin of dna, the genetic material, the blueprint of life, as we have described in previous chapters. rna is in fact the genetic material of many viruses, indicating that on ea

riments that shattered the view held in his time by religious and other authorities. these experiments dealt with the motion of accelerated bodies, the results of which were in agreement with a rotating earth but could not be reconciled with universally accepted ancient greek aristotelian physics and its reinvigoration by religious, scholastic medieval thinking. the dangers of creationism 187 the key term here is thus reproducible experiments. in other words, galileo was not an armchair philosopher-scientist who merely thought up alternatives to old science. contrary to aristotle and his medieval followers, galileo put nature to the test. do neocreationists, who, superficially, emulate some of the bold thinking of galileo and his demise at the hands of the establishment, merit the title of

special relativity truly are. once they are exposed to these equations, students understand (and accept) much more easily counterintuitive facts such as time elapsing more slowly at very high velocities and the shrinking of spaceships (as well as that of subatomic particles) traveling near the speed of light. as this example shows, and as always, rigorous education is a great eye-opener, and the key to distinguishing sense from nonsense. to conclude this section, we quote the american physicist and 1965 nobel laureate richard feynman (1918 1988: i think that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. we interpret this quote as also meaning that just as theology is for theologians, so too science is for scientists. or, to quote the bible, render unto cae

table in time. such patterns are seen in developing embryos. the application of the mathematics of dissipative structures to living systems is still in its infancy and awaits multidisciplinary collaborations for potential fruition in the life sciences. 198 appendix 1 appendix 2 experiments for educators some simple (and not so simple) demonstrations and experiments can be used to illustrate a few key concepts discussed in this book. genetic drift chance as an evolutionary force can be illustrated with pieces of colored paper handed out to students. the differently colored pieces represent individuals in a population. the pieces of paper are picked randomly and color distribution is noted. the process is repeated for several generations. students record numbers of individuals of a given col

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

most powerful of all names."53 viewed with these writings in the background, masonic symbolism certainly seems to reflect these ideas. the first degree on the tree of life the first degree tracing board gives an overview of western metaphysics and of the objectives of masonry. the idiom in which masonry's teaching is communicated in the ritual is the building of king solomon's temple; and our the key to interpreting masonic symbolism will be to remember that in one of the volumes of the sacred law we are told that. ye are the temple" masonic labor is interior work, work on one's self. when a candidate is first admitted into the order he is said to be an apprentice, and as a beginner his labors take place on the ground floor of the temple. in kabbalistic terms, we may think that the ground

the twelve banners down each side of the space. the principal officers of the chapter all sit in the east, the candidate is placed in the west on the kneeling stool at the bottom of the drawing. he is accompanied and guided through the ceremony by three companions called sojourners. on the jewel worn by every royal arch mason are inscribed two latin sentences. translated, the first says "only the key is missing; the second says "if you know this, you know enough."76 the first sentence tells us that here, encoded in symbols, is a complete body of knowledge which requires only a "key" to make it clear. i am going to suggest that the "key" to understanding the royal arch is the kabbalistic tree of life. figure 22 shows the tree of life superimposed on the diagram of the chapter; and it seems

MAGIC AND SPELLS

up to 850 pounds of gear. in this case, gear is anything a creature carries or touches. if two or more creatures touchthe same piece of equipment, it counts against both creatures' weight limits. t. magic keyed portals portal builders often restrict access to their creations by setting conditions for their use. special conditions for triggering a portal can be based on the possession of a portal key, the creature's name, identity, or alignment, but otherwise must be based on observable actions or qualities. intangibles such as level, class, hit dice, or hit points don't qualify. a keyed portal remains active for 1 full round. any creature who touches the activated portal in the same round also can use the portal, even if such creatures don't have a key themselves. many portal keys are rar

unusual portals things are never certain in the many lands of faer n, and portals are not always entirely reliable. portal-makers have created through design or mischance portals with many insidious and dangerous characteristics. this active portal gives a glimpse of what awaits on the other side. 6o random portals these portals can only be activated at random times. they may or may not require a key for activation when they are working. a fairly common random pattern is a portal that works until 1d6+6 creatures use it, then shuts down for 1d6 days. other patterns are possible. variable portals these portals are hazardous in the extreme for those who are unfamiliar with their quirks. creatures using these portals are transported to any one of several preset locations. the destination seque

to any one of several preset locations. the destination sequence may follow a set pattern or may be random. some variable portals have keys that allow users to choose a specific destination served by the portal. others function by transporting users to a default location-an inescapable dungeon, the innards of a volcano, or some particularly hostile outer plane-unless the user presents the proper key. creature-only portals these portals transport only the creatures that use them, not the creatures' clothing and equipment. such portals are often used defensively to render intruders vulnerable after they use the portals. a rare and more difficult variation on this type of portal transports creatures to one area and their equipment to another. malfunctioning portals the other types of unusual

0% to the base cost for each extra 300 square feet of area or fraction of 300 square feet. large and huge creatures can pass through a standard portal, but gargantuan and colossal creatures generally need double- or triple-sized portals. special properties: some special properties.add significantly to the cost of creating a portal. keyed portals: keyed portals may be created at no extra cost. the key must be designated during the creation of the device and cannot be changed after that. random portals: random portals may be created at no extra cost. the conditions must be designated during the creation of the portal and cannot be later changed. variable portals: variable portals add 25% to the base price per extra destination after the first included in the device. for example, a continuous

el (d) saving throw: see text spell resistance: no you can tell if an area contains a magic portal. if you study an area for 1 round, you know the sizes and locations of any portals in the area. once you find a portal, you can study it (if you find more than one portal, you can only study one at a time) each round you study a portal, you can discover one property of the portal, in this order: any key or command word needed to activate the portal, any special circumstances governing the portal's use (such as specific times when the portal can be activated, whether the portal is one-way or two-way, any of the usual properties listed in the building a portal section earlier in this chapter, and finally, a glimpse of the area where the portal leads. you can look at the area where the portal le

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mplete and intelligible. the nature of this being was held by spinoza to be comprehensible only through its attributes, which are extension and thought: these combine click to enlarge the ptolemaic scheme of the universe. from an old print, courtesy of carl oscar borg. in ridiculing the geocentric system of astronomy expounded by claudius ptolemy, modem astronomers have overlooked the philosophic key to the ptolemaic system. the universe of ptolemy is a diagrammatic representation of the relationships existing between the various divine and elemental parts of every creature, and is not concerned with astronomy as that science is now comprehended. in the above figure, special attention is called to the three circles of zodiacs surrounding the orbits of the planets. these zodiacs represent t

arge the tree of classical mythology. from hort's the new pantheon. before a proper appreciation of the deeper scientific aspects of greek mythology is possible, it is necessary to organize the greek pantheon and arrange its gods, goddesses, and various superhuman hierarchies in concatenated order. proclus, the great neo-platonist, in his commentaries on the theology of plato, gives an invaluable key to the sequence of the various deities in relation to the first cause and the inferior powers emanating from themselves. when thus arranged, the divine hierarchies may be likened to the branches of a great tree. the roots of this tree are firmly imbedded in unknowable being. the trunk and larger branches of the tree symbolize the superior gods; the twigs and leaves, the innumerable existences

f the gods, gave rise to the stories of olympus, meru, and asgard. the city of the golden gates--the capital of atlantis--is the one now preserved among numerous religions as the city of the gods or the holy city. here is the archetype of the new jerusalem, with its streets paved with gold and its twelve gates shining with precious stones "the history of atlantis" writes ignatius donnelly "is the key of the greek mythology. there can be no question that these gods of greece were human beings. the tendency to attach divine attributes to great earthly rulers is one deeply implanted in human nature (see atlantis) the same author sustains his views by noting that the deities of the greek pantheon were nor looked upon as creators of the universe but rather as regents set over it by its more anc

of son and husband of ishtar, the babylonian and assyrian mother-goddess. ishtar--to whom the planer venus was sacred--was the most widely venerated deity of the babylonian and assyrian pantheon. she was probably identical with ashterorh, astarte, and aphrodite. the story of her descent into the underworld in search presumably for the sacred elixir which alone could restore tammuz to life is the key to the ritual of her mysteries. tammuz, whose annual festival took place just before the summer solstice, died in midsummer in the ancient month which bore his name, and was mourned with elaborate ceremonies. the manner of his death is unknown, but some of the accusations made against ishtar by izdubar (nimrod) would indicate that she, indirectly at least, had contributed to his demise. the re

al. after being baptized by the blood of a bull, the new initiate was fed entirely on milk to symbolize that he was still a philosophical infant, having but recently been born out of the sphere of materiality (see frazer's the golden bough) is there a possible connection between this lacteal diet prescribed by the attic rite and st. paul's allusion to the food for spiritual babes? sallust gives a key to the esoteric interpretation of the attic rituals. cybele, the great mother, signifies the vivifying powers of the universe, and atys that aspect of the spiritual intellect which is suspended between the divine and animal spheres. the mother of the gods, loving atys, gave him a starry hat, signifying celestial powers, but atys (mankind, falling in love with a nymph (symbolic of the lower ani

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

cisms. now that we are equipped with our main tools of consecration, we shall deal with one of the most important of all the other witch tools: the athame the athame, or witches' black-hiked knife, is the instrument we use to draw magical circles and other diagrams, in the midst of which many of our spells are cast. some witches, following the cabalistic tradition of the old magical grimoire, the key of solomon, also employ a white-hilted knife, in addition, using the former to cast the circle, and the latter for anything that needs to be ritually dug, engraved, cut, or pierced. most present-day witches, however, refer the white-hilted knife to the ranks of the lesser instruments, and rely entirely upon the athame in their operations. buy a steel knife with a black handle; the blade should

ather a triangle of manifestation, so i shall leave that process till last, and deal with the conjuration of nonhuman entities first. the entity summoned for questioning par excellence is one that has been a favourite among witches from time immemorial, and is known by the name "vassago" he is numbered among the seventy-two demonic intelligences in that medieval grimoire, the lemegeton, or lesser key of solomon; and wierus, cornelius agrippa's pupil, also mentions him in his pseudomonarchia demonorum- 1. the wand 2. seeing stone within the triangle 3. and 4. lamps of art. vassago, a mighty prince, of the nature of agares, who declareth things past, present and to come and discovereth that which hath been lost or hidden. he is good by nature, and governeth twenty-six legions of spirits. but

ned for the more impetuous practitioners. part ii. sex magic in the contemporary world of instant sex without romantic preamble, the modern witch may not have the patience required for the more dated "loving-cup" approach. in other words, she will be seeking for some magic which, if habondia's charms prove too lightweight, would allow her to be swept off her feet literally and metaphorically. the key to success in this area of magic lies in our old friend, the witches' pyramid. our chief weapon is none other than the potent will itself. of course, we are dealing here with the art of bewitchment proper, sometimes known as the evil eye. but let us call it by its real name as used by practitioners themselves: the art of fascination in order to understand this mysterious process, by which you

of the bearer, again laying him "under the spell of hertha's protection" also considered a potent earthly amulet is the image of the hand making the phallic "sign of the fig" fist clenched, thumb thrust between first and second fingers, carved in nephrite (jade, amber, coral, jet, carnelian, or any other fascination gem, again suspended in red from the bearer's neck in hertha's name; an old iron key will also serve the same purpose, being similar in its sexual implications. elf-shot, ancient flint or stone arrowheads of pre-celtic "pictish" origin, have always been considered highly potent by witches in matters of protection, the manner of employment being no different from the preceding items. last, but by no means least, there is the famous siderite. this is a stone made of magnetic iro

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ot cards, the major arcana being the "trumps" numbered from 0 to 21, the minor being the 56 "pip" and "court" cards athame witches' black-hilted knife averse black, or evil, usually applied to magical processes b baculum witches' rod, staff, wand, or "broomstick" used in divination and certain fertility spells balefire ritual coven fire ban to curse bane poisonous or destructive thinorthe greater key of solomon including a clear and precise exposition of king solomon s secret procedure, its mysteries and magic rites, original plates, seals, charms and talismans. translated from ancient manuscripts in the british museum, london. by s. liddell macgregor mathers 1999 emperor norton books cincinnati, ohio f a f a editor s note. the text of this electronic edition of the greater key of solomon

rm to modern conventions. the scanned illustrations have been optimized for printing at 300 dpi; with some combinations of computer monitor and driver software, the onscreen images may appear blocky or crude. for the best reading experience, i recommend printing this document on nonglossy paper tinted a light ecru or tan color. benjamin rowe march 23, 1999 book one page 1 preface to book one. the key of solomon, save for a curtailed and incomplete copy published in france in the seventeenth century, has never yet been printed, but has for centuries remained in manuscript form inaccessible to all but the few fortunate scholars to whom the inmost recesses of the great libraries were open. the fountain-head and storehouse of qabalistical magic, and the origin of much of the ceremonial magic o

r a curtailed and incomplete copy published in france in the seventeenth century, has never yet been printed, but has for centuries remained in manuscript form inaccessible to all but the few fortunate scholars to whom the inmost recesses of the great libraries were open. the fountain-head and storehouse of qabalistical magic, and the origin of much of the ceremonial magic of mediaeval times, the key has been ever valued by occult writers as a work of the highest authority; and notably in our own day eliphaz levi has taken it for the model on which his celebrated dogme et rituel de la haute magie was based. it must be evident to the initiated reader of levi, that the key of solomon was his text book of study, and at the end of this volume, i give a fragment of an ancient hebrew manuscript

been ever valued by occult writers as a work of the highest authority; and notably in our own day eliphaz levi has taken it for the model on which his celebrated dogme et rituel de la haute magie was based. it must be evident to the initiated reader of levi, that the key of solomon was his text book of study, and at the end of this volume, i give a fragment of an ancient hebrew manuscript of the key of solomon, translated and published in the philosophie occulte, as well as an invocation called the qabalistical invocation of solomon, which bears close analogy to one in the first book, being constructed in the same manner 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

e in the first book, being constructed in the same manner 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 whic

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ongst the impure spirits. for god is great and immutable, he hath been for ever, and he shall remain even unto the end of the ages. accursed be he who taketh the name of god in vain! accursed be he who useth this knowledge unto an evil end, be he accursed in this world and in the world to come. amen. be he accursed in the name which he hath blasphemed! the end of the first bosepage 81 the greater key of solomon book two f a f a the key of solomon page 82 prefatory note to book two. this work of solomon is divided into two books. in the first thou mayest see and know how to avoid errors in experiments, operations, and in the spirits theirselves. in the second thou art taught in what manner magical arts may be reduced to the proposed object and end. it is for this reason that thou shouldst t

e key of solomon page 82 prefatory note to book two. this work of solomon is divided into two books. in the first thou mayest see and know how to avoid errors in experiments, operations, and in the spirits theirselves. in the second thou art taught in what manner magical arts may be reduced to the proposed object and end. it is for this reason that thou shouldst take great heed and care that this key of secrets fall not into the hands of the foolish, the stupid, and the ignorant. for he who is the possessor hereof, and who availeth himself hereof according to the ordinances herein contained, will not only be able to reduce the magical arts herein unto their proposed end, but will, even if he findeth certain errors herein, be able to correct them. any art or operation of this kind will not

ain errors herein, be able to correct them. any art or operation of this kind will not be able to attain its end, unless the master of the art, or exorcist, shall have this work completely in his power, that is to say, unless he thoroughly understand it, for without this he will never attain the effect of any operation. for this reason i earnestly pray and conjure the person into whose hands this key of secrets may fall, neither to communicate it, nor to make any one a partaker in this knowledge, if he be not faithful, nor capable of keeping a secret, nor expert in the arts. and i most humbly entreat the possessor of this, by the ineffable name of god in four letters, yod, he, vau, he, and by the name adonai, and by all the other most high and holy names of god, that he values this work as

st until the eighth hour of the night. experiments of games, raillery, deceit, illusion, and invisibility, ought to be done at the first hour of venus, and at the eighth hour of the day; but by night at the third and at the seventh. at all times of practicing and putting into execution magical arts, the moon should be increasing in light, and in an equal number of degrees with the sun; and it the key of solomon page 84 is much better from the first quarter to the opposition, and the moon should be in a fiery sign, and notably in that of the ram or of the lion. therefore, to execute these experiments in any manner whatsoever, it should be done when the moon is clear, and when she is increasing in light. in order to put in execution those of invisibility after everything is properly prepared

should happen that having performed an experiment with due observance of days, hours, and requisite solemnities, thou shalt find it unsuccessful, it must be in some manner false, ill-arranged and defective, and thou must assuredly have failed in some matter; for if thou doest ill in one single point, these experiments or these arts will not be verified. thus upon this chapter dependeth this whole key of arts, experiments, and operations, and although every solemnity be rightly observed, no experiment will be verified, unless thou canst penetrate the meaning of this chapter. the key of solomon page 86 chapter ii. in what manner the master of the art should keep, rule, and govern himself. he who wisheth to apply himself unto so great and so difficult a science should have his mind free from

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

pentacles (1) seven pentacles consecrated to saturn black (2) seven pentacles consecrated to jupiter blue (3) seven pentacles consecrated to mars red (4) seven pentacles consecrated to the sun yellow (5) five pentacles consecrated to venus green (6) five pentacles consecrated to mercury mixed colors (7) six pentacles consecrated to the moon silver. kl figure 1. the mystical figure of solomon the key of solomon page 60 saturn. figure 11. the first pentacle of saturn. this pentacle is of great value and utility for striking terror into the spirits. wherefore, upon its being shown to them they submit, and kneeling upon the earth before it, they obey. editor s note. the hebrew letters within the square are the four great names of god which are written with four letters: yhvh, yod, he, vau, he

ht; and chaseth away the spirits which guard treasures. editor s note. the hebrew letters in the angles of the cross are those of the name ihvh. those in the angles of the square form alvh, eloah. round the four sides of the square are the names of the angels: arehanah, rakhaniel, roelhaiphar, and noaphiel. the versicle is "a great god, a mighty, and a terrible" deut x. 17. figures 13 and 14. the key of solomon page 62 figure 16. the sixth pentacle of saturn. around this pentacle is each name symbolized as it should be. the person against whom thou shalt pronounce it shall be obsessed by demons. editor s note. it is formed from mystical characters of saturn. around it is written in hebrew "set thou a wicked one to be ruler over him, and let satan stand at his right hand" figure 17. the sev

ers are: 1, chaiath ha-qadesch, holy living creatures; 2, auphanim, wheels; 3, aralim, thrones; 4, chaschmalim, brilliant ones; 5, seraphim, fiery ones; 6, melakim, kings; 7, elohim, gods; 8, beni elohim, sons of the elohim; 9, kerubim, kerubim. the versicle is from psalm xviii 7 "then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the hills also moved and were shaken, because he was wroth" the key of solomon page 64 jupiter. figure 18. the first pentacle of jupiter. this serveth to invoke the spirits of jupiter, and especially those whose names are written around the pentacle, among whom parasiel is the lord and master of treasures, and teacheth how to become possessor of places wherein they are. editor s note. this pentacle is composed of mystical characters of jupiter. around it are t

the versicle should only consist of the five last words thereof, when the anachronism of jacob using a pentacle with a sentence from ezekiel will not longer exist. figure 23. the sixth pentacle of jupiter. it serveth for protection against all earthly dangers, by regarding it each day devoutedly and repeating the versicle which surroundeth it "thus shalt thou never perish" figures 20 and 21. the key of solomon page 66 editor s note. the four names in the arms of the cross are- seraph, kerub, ariel, and tharsis; the four rulers of the elements. the versicle is from psalm xxii 16, 17 "they pierced my hands and my feet, i may tell all my bones" figure 24. the seventh and last pentacle of jupiter. it hath great power against poverty, if thou considerest it with devotion, repeating the versicl

expressly marked. editor s note. the letters of the names eloah and shaddai. in the center is the great letter vau, the signature of the qabalistic microprosopus. around is the versicle from psalm lxxvii 13 "who is so great a god as our elohim" figure 28. the fourth pentacle of mars. it is of great virtue and power in war, wherefore without doubt it will give thee victory. figures 25 and 26. the key of solomon page 68 editor s note. in the center is the great name agla; right and left, the letters of the name ihvh; above and below, el. round it is the versicle from psalm cx. 5 "the lord at thy right hand shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath" figure 29. the fifth pentacle of mars. write thou this pentacle upon virgin parchment, because it is terrible unto the demons, and at its s

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god called michael; and he also received many brief notes written with the finger of god, which were declared to him by the said angel with claps of thunder; without which notes king solomon had never obtained his great wisdom, for by them in short time he gained knowledge of all arts and sciences both good and bad; from these notes it is called the notary art, etc. the book of evil spirits. the key of solomon, which contains all the names, orders, and offices of all the spirits that ever solomon conversed with, together with the seals and characters belonging to each spirit, and the manner of calling them forth to visible appearance: in 4 parts (1) the first part is a book of evil spirits, called goetia, showing how he bound up those spirits and used them in several things, whereby he ob

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stication, and it appears in the first paragraph of the book. there the author describes how the power governed by the angels ruling the dawn hour varies according to the day; lunar on monday, martial on tuesday, etc. presumably the angels of the remaining hours either govern the same power, or follow something akin to the traditional cabalistic system of planetary hours, described in the greater key of solomon and many other places. the problem with this is that the procedures described in the remainder of the book suggest that an entirely different system is being used to determine the invoked powers. to create the seal for the angels of a particular hour, the magician first casts the astrological chart for that hour in the day the work is to be done. the planetary glyph to be drawn in t

MEANING OF MASONRY

t work of self-reconstruction, from which he will not be beguiled into coming down by the appeals and blandishments of the outer world" ezra (whose position is in the north east) indicates a much more advanced measure of progress from west to east. the discerning student who will peruse the biblical books of nehemiah and ezra (including the apocryphal books of esdras) in this light, and with this key to their true purport, will not fail to profit by the instruction they will yield. hence too they are called" scribes; both of them are recorders of, and testifiers to, distinct but representative experiences encountered in the inner man at different stages of the" great work" of self-integration and journeying from a babylon condition to the spiritual jerusalem. here we bring to an end our ex

the irrational tendencies of a human being were purged away and he was trained to become a living witness of the universal logos and a living mouth-piece of the divine word. geometry and arithmetic were sciences of transcendental space and numeration (seeing that, as in the words of our own scriptures, god has" made everything by measure, number and weight, the comprehension of which provides the key, not only to the problems of one's being, but to those physical ones which are found so baffling by the inductive methods of to-day. astronomy for them required no telescopes; it dealt not with the stars of the sky, but was the science of metaphysics and the understanding of the distribution of the forces latent in, and determining the destiny of, individuals, nations and the race. finally mus

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those who seek to be like them. in such an instance, focus your journey to arezura, or hell (a secret meeting place of witches) and record your results upon waking. notice the beings you meet and all that is revealed to you. the methods of using a bone or charm designated through ritual practice and meditative awakening shall be something of a wolf-skin which activates mental 6 transformation. a key to this is given in the black mass as reproduced in the toad rite which refers to the lord s prayer backwards to raise this gray shadow within. you may stand in the forest, in your bedchamber, anywhere which you may find the solitude needed for the going forth as with the averse calling of cain, utilize the chants when you are inspired. in the yatuk dinoih (second edition) the staota wulalffa

hat we commonly call magickal paths today. what was lost or well forgotten, by some incantation or spell of remembrance, such surged forth as a bestial atavism that which was dead now emerged as a 12 angels are considered by abu-hamid mohammed al-ghazali to be the higher faculties of man. 13 empyrean= highest heavens, heights, the astral plane which leads to the psyche or genius revealed. see the key of solomon the king by s.l. mathers, the symbolism of angels (higher octave) and demons (lower octave or infernal spirits. this term is inextricably the same as celestial, the sabbat of luciferian light. 14 baphomet is a magickal transformation of being. baphomet, being the head of wisdom, is related to cain in some sabbatic and luciferian circles. 15 the people of the lie, or practitioners of

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per training of a magickian. topics as yoga, cabalistic lore, chaos, sethian witchcraft and the zos kia cultus all holds a great line feeding each gnosis. take from it what you will but never sacrifice hard work and hard training for an easy out. once such a mistake is made, your very self is fodder for choronzon. a final note: approach the sorcery outlined in these pages through the art, it is a key to much more that awaits those who turn the key. 7 7 chapter one vampyrism, lycanthropy and the dead vampirism and lycanthropy, a fleshing or manifestation of daemonic energies. the shadowside has long been hidden from the basic study of magick on any serious level. the inherent goal of magick is to awaken and explore the self, progression, evolution and individual power. this is gained from f

h animal. lycanthropy can be a useful exercise and individual power points which can be used effectively on the astral plane. this book is meant as a grimoire for the balanced sorcerer. the purpose of this being to offer further guidance and present a serious form of shadow magick and sorcery which has long been kept hidden. the black art is not that of devil worship, but of hidden knowledge. the key to this lies in the depths of the subconscious, the will to explore and suggest, to destroy and create. the daemonic elementals which breed in the subconscious mind from the time of birth and on can be banished and often made useful to the fighting individual. there is no devil worship or ill intent involved for the worker of shadow magick, it is up to the individual which path they take. i ha

t -elementals of mind and space- vampiric or vampyric sorcery is a technique of evoking and directing energies which are qlipothic in nature and/or origin. the kabbalah defines the qlipoth as unbalanced or negative energies which exist beyond the sphere of da ath, which is dual in it's qualities. da ath is often represented as a power zone of wisdom, the hidden knowledge. one may ask, what is the key? the key is the subconscious, the dark matter of the brain. vampyrism is also the will-directed internal focus of exploring the immortal aspects of the vampyre in shadow and dream form. it is a process of sinister or left-handed alchemy, being the adversarial path of luciferian self-development. elementals are different from spirits in that they will often take the form of desires and what we

gth as well as working with only the well screened. to face da ath and control its elementals and energies is to transpose the abyss and awaken towards a glorious morning! vampirism is a belief system of altered thinking and new focus. it is not at all different from the beliefs of any serious magus or sorcerer who seeks to build the black walls of individual strength. the subconscious holds ever key needed to awaken these primal atavisms: the serpent, the wolf, the dragon, the bat, the owl and raven are all at our command. the new age of shamanic tribal transformation and atavistic resurgence is at hand. 20 20 the vampiric path is not necessarily a life long dedicated focus, it is night side. in other words any other personal path of magickal power and study such as thelema (2, chaos (3

er own personal system, so it is with the methods of sigil magick. one must approach sigils as one would approach art. to create a sigil one must align one s natural talent to their own brand of sigil making. sigils can be any thing, a painting, music, drawing, letter symbols, pictures, anything which is associated as a symbol in which the original meaning could be lost and forgotten, this is the key to success in such work. the conscious mind must forget what the significance of the sigil is in order for the subconscious to absorb it and set it s fleshing in motion. never forget that sigils must be aligned with your natural ability, not just a system devised by another. the most significant sigil of vampyric sorcery and the vampire current is that of the varcolaci or devilcosm seal. the s

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

portant conundrum of evil.but if we turn from religion and science in this regard, does it mean that we are left ina void? is there, perhaps, another answer to how the phenomenon of evil came intobeing? i believe that the answer lies in the ancient records of our forefathers and in themyths and legends of the pre- and post-diluvian epochs that speak of the visitation ofthe gods or angels. several key researchers have stated that these beings wereactually extraterrestrial entities. i address who they were, why they came here, andshow that after their arrival they established their main headquarters at what we nowcall atlantis, and from there, they instigated a hybridization program lasting centuries.their genetic interference of the earth races resulted in several hybrid creatures, oneof wh

called the devil and satan,the deceiver of the whole world, he was cast down to earth and his angels were cast downwith him (revelation) and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughterswere born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair; andthey took them wives of all that they chose (genesis, chapter 6-8) there are several key hypotheses and theories that seek to account for the presence ofthese beings. let us explore a few of the most provocative yet cogent ones. in the bible and other scriptures, we readabout these fallen angels and theirsojourn on earth; for in ancient days, theirarrival and activities were not concealed asthey are now. there were giants in the earth in those days;and also after that, when the so

have been conditioned to believe? can the same set of facts beapproached from another angle?atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation25 chapter 4lemuria and homo atlantisas we continue to review even more coherent and provocative hypotheses and theo-ries concerning atlantis, pre-diluvian history, and the coming of evil, we note howscriptures, especially the bible, contain references to key events:the history of the old testament is the history of atlantis (comyns beaumont)some key modern writers, such as brinsley la pour trench, barbara marciniak, andwilliam bramley have espoused other important theories that seek to account for thepresence of evil in the world. these accounts relate to the same idea of alien visitationand colonization. in this case, the alien invaders are refer

the spiritual supersensuous regionsas on earth (the theosophical glossary).the most common symbol used by the merovingians was the serpent, or the dragon. indeed,the most well known amphibian god was dagon, whose name connotes dragon. one of themerovingian kings bore the name dagobert.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation91 chapter 14silicon nightmaresthe second important enochian key concerned the nature and properties of thestrange element,silicon. the relationship between carbon and silicon, it was revealed,was one of the most important denominators to the problem. the main obstacle wasthe availability of this and other minerals. to avail this element, and to use it in thecorrect manner, was not at all in the capability of the elizabethan intelligentsia, noteven to those

ght y ears fromhome, midnight rambler, paint it black, goat's head soup, their satanic majesty's request,etc) the beatles, and the grateful dead. and these are but three examples of thousands. thepublic would be shocked to their core if they were to find out the facts about this particularstudy and about what has been infiltrated into their minds and the minds of their young. here are some of the key passages from the david ovasons masterpiece, which bringout facts that have long been concealed from the public: the extraordinary truth is that the very existence of the washington monument is intimatelylinked with the egyptian star, sirius the sihor, which the ancients represented in their sacredhieroglyphics as an obelisk as well as a star. how is it possible that this most important starof

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

d i am a luciferian and of seba and set. i am a vessel of ahriman and az. i worship my own self-progressing divinity. i deny all religions which would sacrifice the sense of i. i recognize that religion must start within and be a mirror of my desire. i affirm my body as a temple of darkness and fire. i affirm my soul as the daemon-god upon the throne in this black tower. the twin serpents are my key to continued vitality and initiation, i will seek to raise and then create my desire upon earth. i recognize my eye is but the eye of set, that as the serpent i shall command my presence upon earth. i shall be a manifestation of the archdaevas upon earth. my actions will be thought out and i will exercise my will in each action. i recognize there is no other god than myself. i am the serpent

our eyes. each breath should be a focus on your astral body rising. 5. entering sleep, your dreams will be often intense and hungering this is a prime indication 37 of your subconscious being focused on your atavistic and vampyric desires. 6. if you astral project without sleeping, control your movement and move in. imagine the entire process, see it as clearly as if you were there. belief is the key to any successful magical working. drain and leave the victim sleeping. vampyrism and nocturnal feeding the vampyre magickian who is preparing to feed must establish who will be fed from. once this has been determined, the magickian must practice a form of mediation to gain control of the body and further strengthen the subconscious desire to drain. at the point of sleep, your focus should be

d, 47 to drink deep of its knowledge of war, chaos, natural disaster, disease. if you compare the realities of our world with the christian concept, their god is dormant. please take your attention to luciferian witchcraft and specifically the yatuk dinoih. the ten precepts of zohak and the ten adominations of akht jadu display therein the very foundation of this work, the luciferian path and the key to the gates of hell and heaven. heaven and hell are indeed spiritual realities, yet also physical sensations. by achieving and devouring we may reach the heights of both, which equally are powerful. remember the deific force of ahriman, so sought to break open the gates of heaven and devour his brother ahura mazda, the sun. morals morality changes based on culture and time. what is amoral now

path of the crooked serpent- leviathan and beelzebub and tiamat, pazuzu, and moloch are only some of the topics and figures covered. the second part of the book,the grimoires of luciferian witchcraft, includes several of his most infamous graveyard workings, together with the complete version of the luciferian goetia- a completely revised and updated version of the goetia grimoire from the lesser key of solomon the king. part three covers yatukan and ahrimanic persian sorcery. as i have mentioned before, it is the willingness and creativity of ford to look beyond worn-out christian- and hebrew-based demonology in search of black magick inspiration that marks his work as unique. here, forbidden heresies of millenia-old zoroastrian thought reveal their diabolic secrets to the sorceror. 91 li

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the illumined of antiquity. they entered its portals as men; they came forth as gods. it was the place of the "second birth" the "womb of the mysteries" and wisdom dwelt in it as god dwells in the hearts of men. somewhere in the depths of its recesses there resided an unknown being who was called "the initiator" or "the illustrious one" robed in blue and gold and bearing in his hand the sevenfold key of eternity. who was the master dwelling in the mighty pyramid, the many rooms of which signified the worlds in space; the master whom none might behold save those who had been "born again? he alone fully knew the secret of the pyramid, but he has departed the way of the wise and the house is empty. the hymns of praise no longer echo in muffled tones through the chambers; the neophyte no longe

so considered a character and a location. the egyptians call this demon apep. the greeks and christians know the location of hades as sheol, or the land of the dead, but the hebrews knew it as da ath, and the author h.p. lovecraft called it yog-sothoth. hades is an incredibly powerful being, and is always described as formless. he is known as the guardian of the underworld and is said to hold the key to the qliphoth. this guardian of the abyss is considered mentally unstable and evil even by the worst magicians. this spirit is regarded as a devouring demon who seeks to steal the life-force and sanity from all who cross his path. this entity s reputation for inducing insanity is legendary, for he is truly the embodiment of dispersion and chaos. his greed for collecting and retaining souls i

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mon now cain who first tasted the blood of abel in initiation (imagine the first born of witch blood, cain who tasted the shadow knowledge of the skull of abel- cain is wrapped in a great shroud in this vampyric aspect) i summon now hecate- who blesses the circle and path of the dead (imagine now hecate in the form of a triple headed goddes,demonic and angelic in essence whom blesses you with the key to the gates of the dead) i announce my death and my awakening from the grave (reach into the vampyric familiar and take hold of the gravesoil which you have slept in) i ensorcel my being, the arcana of i with the shadows i have created. i am born of witch blood, and hold the secrets of the grave i am vampyre, born again in the bloodied caul lilith and ahriman, shadow drinkers who walk the nig

MORALS AND DOGMA

ation or reprobation begins here below and the terrestrial world too has its heaven and its hell. always, even here below, virtue is rewarded; always, even here below vice is punished; and that which makes us sometimes believe in the impunity of evil-doers is that riches, those instruments of good and of evil, seem sometimes to be given them at hazard. but woe to unjust men, when they possess the key of gold! it opens, for _them, only the gate of the tomb and of hell. all the true initiates have recognized the usefulness of toil and sorrow "sorrow" says a german poet "is the dog of that unknown shepherd who guides the flock of men" to learn to suffer, to learn to die, is the discipline of eternity, the immortal novitiate. the allegorical picture of cebes, in which the divine comedy of dant

ny value to the things of this world; and it is only by raising the soul to its just elevation above all other things, that we can look rightly upon the purposes of this earth. no sceptre nor throne, nor structure of ages, nor broad empire, can compare with the wonders and grandeurs of a single thought. that alone, of all things that have been made, comprehends the maker of all. that alone is the key which unlocks all the treasures of the universe; the power that reigns over space, time, and eternity. that, under god, is the sovereign dispenser to man of all the blessings and glories that lie within the compass of possession, or the range of possibility. virtue, heaven, and immortality exist not, nor ever will exist for us except as they exist and will exist, in the perception, feeling, an

ledge from pure motives, and that he may be the better enabled to serve and benefit his fellow-men; while the discontented and presumptuous masters who were buried in the ruins of the arches represent those who strive to acquire it for unholy purposes, to gain power over their fellows, to gratify their pride, their vanity, or their ambition. the lion that guarded the ark and held in his mouth the key wherewith to open it, figuratively represents solomon, the lion of the tribe of judah, who preserved and communicated the key to the true knowledge of god, of his laws, and of the profound mysteries of the moral and physical universe. enoch[[hebrew, khanoc, we are told, walked with god three hundred years, after reaching the age of sixty-five-"walked with god, and he was no more, for god had t

oncealed in and symbolized by the legend and the myth. there are profounder meanings concealed in the symbols of this degree, connected with the philosophical system of the hebrew kabalists, which you will learn hereafter, if you should be so fortunate as to advance. they are unfolded in the higher degrees. the _lion[[hebrew _arai _araiah, which also means the _altar] still holds in his mouth the key of the enigma of the sphynx. but there is one application of this degree, that you are now entitled to know; and which, remembering that khurum, the master, is the symbol of human freedom, you would probably discover for yourself. it is not enough for a people to _gain_ its liberty. it must _secure_ it. it must not intrust it to the keeping, or hold it at the pleasure, of any one man. the keys

world, and received their inspiration, pierces the gross envelope of the letter, discovers a wholly different order of things, and is initiated into mysteries, of which the elementary or literal instruction offers but an imperfect image. a historical fact, a figure, a word, a letter, a number, a rite, a custom, the parable or vision of a prophet, veils the most profound truths; and he who has the key of science will interpret all according to the light he possesses. again we see the symbolism of masonry, and the search of the candidate for light "let men of narrow minds withdraw" he says "with closed ears. we transmit the divine mysteries to those who have received the sacred initiation, to those who practise true piety, and who are not enslaved by the empty trappings of words or the preco

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

t edition, this book was called l. l is the sacred letter in the holy twelvefold table which forms the triangle that stabilizes the universe. see liber 418. l is the letter of libra, balance, and 'justice' in the taro. this title should probably be al "el, as the 'l' was heard of the voice of aiwaz, not seen. al is the true name of the book, for these letters, and their number 31, form the master key to its mysteries. with regard to the above note by a.c, serious students should consult liber v vel reguli, the ritual of the mark of the beast, for a more thorough analysis of the word al. the first chapter 1. had! the manifestation of nuit. the theogony of our law is entirely scientific: nuit is matter, hadit is motion, in their full physical sense. they are the tao and teh of chinese philos

ize our minds thoroughly, appointing few and secret chiefs, serving nuit, to discipline the varied departments of the conscious thought. 11. these are fools that men adore; both their gods& their men are fools. this verse establishes uncompromisingly that all gods g capital, that is to say 'true gods' and all men deified by legend or deceit that is to say 'false gods' are fools. how come? it is a key. distinction is clearly made between the two types: one are gods; the other is men. the key is that both types are adored, which, as verses 7-9 established, is wrong. wrong for aspirants, of course. the 'gods 'are fools that is, they reached the plane of consciousness of the fool of the tarot. the 'men' are also fools the common, abundant variety. technically, an initiate can be called a god o

through the annihilation; they crossed the abyss. nor could they perform, unless they crossed. see liber 156; also, verses 11 and 45 of this chapter. 18. burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! in them, kundalini must have reached the ajna. 19. 0 azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! the eternal sakhti (nuit) must activate the sahashara in them, attracted by the awakening of the ajna. 20. the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. this word is communicated directly to any serious aspirant when needed. 21. with the god& the adorer i am nothing: they do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my lord hadit. samadhi with any god is not the ultimate trance. the ultimate trance is the union of nuit and hadit

ret meanings, all of a technical nature, in this passage; it is unnecessary to dwell on them, since they become clear to earnest seekers during training. one thing, however, is better said here, and has to do with the vampire. at some time during his career, the aspirant will meet a woman who will either insinuate to him, or he will by his own vanity be led to believe, is nuit incarnate. now, the key to the ordeal, and its difficulty, is that all women are, in a sense, incarnations of nuit. but no woman is, or can ever be, nuit in a finite sense. the drop of sea water is of the nature of the ocean, but it is not the ocean. nevertheless, one can certainly study some of the characteristics of the ocean in a drop of sea water. further, as the verse itself states in no uncertain manner, the he

l promise is made in connection with it. by seeking lesser ideals one makes distinctions, thereby affirming implicitly the very duality from which one is seeking to escape. note also that "me" may imply the greek mh,"not. the word 'only' may be taken as onlv, ayin, nun, lamed, vau, with the number of 156, that of the secret name babalon of nuit. there are presumably further hidden meanings in the key-word 'all. the reader is here referred to our previous warning on the matter of the vampire of this ordeal (commentary in italics to verse 27. if you seek her only, you cannot confuse any one of her manifestations with her. on the other hand, as long as a particular priestess shows her to you, concentrate! see liber artemis iota and liber a'ash for further information on this very difficult po

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dings were decorated with laurel branches and garlands of flowers. his sacrifices, consisting of cakes, wine, and barley, were offered to him at the beginning of every month; and before sacrificing to the other gods his name was always invoked, and a libation poured out to him. janus is usually represented with two faces; in his special function as door-keeper of heaven he stands erect, bearing a key in one hand, and a rod or sceptre in the other. it is supposed that janus was the most ancient king of italy, who, during his life, governed his subjects with such wisdom and moderation that, in gratitude for the benefits conferred upon them, his people deified him after death and placed him in the foremost rank among their divinities. we have already seen in the history of page 210 cronus tha

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

integrated into a proven system that works. this spell can yield regular financial gains if performed correctly< enter your witching circle, and face east. awaken your magic power. light a gold candle and hold a one-dollar bill in your right hand. offer a short prayer to the spirit astaroth. astaroth is one of 72 spirits listed in the lemegeton a four-part handbook of magic also called the lesser key of solomon, written before 1500. the four parts are goetia, derived from a greek word meaning witchcraft, theurgia goetia, the pauline art, and the amadel. i shall be referring to the lemegeton again in chapter 6 where you will learn how to pray to the other spirits of goetia for every possible need and desire. thank astaroth for all his help to others in days gone by. thank him for being with

riday and saturday night, and when i did your spell next morning i strove to be in the presence of the woman concerned so that she could see me. she even begged me to let her come with me to my place. and we had sex for five months. i took every opportunity to touch and fondle her! signed: d. b, seychelles. a magical threesome the grimorum verum, an eighteenth-century french grimoire based on the key of solomon, tells how to cause the appearance of three spirits (three women for a man, three men for a woman) in your room after supper. after three days of celibacy, you must clean and tidy your room before breakfast. you leave the room undisturbed all day. there must be nothing left hanging, nor must there be anything left crosswise. then, after supper, go there secretly, light a good fire

ed an omen a direct message from the invisible inhabitants of the astral world. there is a way that you can spot these signs and omens and know what they mean. the signs and omens most people receive are simple everyday occurrences, but the act of noticing them is what makes them significant. the signs and omens that are noticed have a definite relation to the character of the events to come. the key here is you what your normal reaction is. no one can tell you if anything you see is pleasant or unpleasant. only you can decide. what this means to you is simply this: if you notice something out of the ordinary a strange bird, a peculiar looking cloud, a door that suddenly jams, odd actions of a family pet, be prepared. something unusual, either very good or very bad is going to happen to yo

air of hands in this yellow light. i m getting a lot of mumbo jumbo. i m trying to sift through it. i take it a lot of interference. a door opened and there s a hell of a lot of multiple, glittering colors in this doorway. i am at the moment seeing what appears to be a volcano, or a dead volcano, surrounded by clouds. and a sort of cavity in the center of this mountain peak. still looking for the key back here. the volcano has not erupted, but sprang a leak, and something is pouring out of it and running down the side of the mountain. i m following it through the clouds. that s odd, i m seeing a helicopter at the moment. all i m seeing are hands, at the moment. a lot of hands, as if a lot of people are trying to get a piece of this action. barry began to rub his hand back and forth across

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

es. as their goals became more precise, they became more specialized in the professional sphere, gathering together individuals of the same profession, starting with tradesmen, then craftsmen. we can see in the general features of these brotherhoods the social context from which they sprang and the changes society was undergoing. 52 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages key among these was the emancipation of the serfs, who made up the bulk of the populace. triggered in the eleventh century by precepts of the church, this emancipation was given a general impetus by the crusades at the beginning of the twelfth century, but the specific motives for this action in the domains of kings, dukes, counts, and barons, as well as in the realms of bishops and abbots of mona

tive freemasonry and speculative freemasonry was the language of symbol and the thought beneath it. symbol, which had served to maintain professional and religious unity, changed design and now served to create a scientific, philosophical, and spiritual unity. this universalism was no longer, alas, a widespread transcendent and social fact. henceforth, for only an initiated elite, it would be the key to an ideal. 12 speculative freemasonry the speculative nature of craft freemasonry it is customary to oppose modern speculative freemasonry and ancient operative masonry. in reality, the masonic organizations we have studied the collegia, monastic associations, brotherhoods, craft communities, compagnonnages were never invested with a strictly professional nature. all of these associations pu

e other hand by comparing them to the customary rituals of other organizations, which, although different from those of freemasonry, shared the same common root. for instance, the french compagnonnage and the german bruderschaft shared masonry's symbolic themes. perhaps one of the best proofs of the age of the masons' ritual has been overlooked until now: the nature of its symbolism, which is the key to its iniatory and esoteric meaning and which can be illuminated as an overall value only through its christian explanation such as that doctrine was professed in medieval times. comparison of the symbols of the ritual to those expressed by christian religious thought during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries allow us to grasp the high scope of the ritual and to establish, albeit approxi

rawn from this by all humanity is found in the words of the good jeremiah "behold the days come, oracle of the eternal. i will set my law within them and write it on their hearts. behold the days come that city shall be built" the apostles paul and james in turn stressed the divine truth of the indestructible unity and reciprocal demands of faith and works in order to aspire to transcendence. the key to the holy of holies promised to all is love, the major factor of the comprehensive illumination: love for everything in creation that is an immanent sign of the light from above; love for all beings, who are all brothers by virtue of the sublime grace of this love, which is the presence within them of the absolute and the ability to perceive this presence. this love, which is conciousness, h

mmon denominator to which all is reduced and which encompasses everything in accordance with the initiatory tradition is the human being in whom all virtual states are immanent. the goal is the flowering and fullness of human destiny. the conduct to be upheld is love the love that permits this flowering through what we receive and, even more, through the complete gift of self to the absolute. the key to happiness is nowhere else. the vast chain of union formed by freemasons remains relevant conclusion 277 and full of promise. in the permanence of their order they continue, within the scale of our world and according to its receptivity and needs, the immense but interrupted undertaking of the cathedral builders for both the unity of civilization and that universal nature imagined by the tem

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

phered from the manuscript, according to the publishers, by use of a "magic square cipher" inherent in the manuscript itself and is therefor included in this etext version. ye alphabet of nug-soth al azif page 8 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 (note: in ye writing of ye mystic runes of nug-soth ye latin c serveth for ye k) ye characters of nug hold ye key to ye planes, employ ye them in ye talismanic art and in all ye sacred inscriptions ye voice of hastur hear ye the voice of dread hastur, hear the mournful sigh of the vortex,the mad rushing of the ultimate wind that swirls darkly amongst the silent stars. hear ye him that howls serpent-fanged amid the bowels of nether earth; he whose ceaseless roaring ever fills the timeless skies of hidden l

t of the old ones when they once more walk the earth* and when his hour be past the curse of the elder lords shall be upon him and draw him forth beyond the gate where he shall abide until he be summoned. editor's note: included on this page are a number of sigils and a magic circle. these illustrations are not in the manuscript but were referenced from other texts, including, but not limited to; key of solomon (see additional ms. 36,674, british museum library) and three books of occult philosophy- cornelius agrippa. they are therefor not included in this version. to conjure of ye globes know ye that the globes of yog-sothoth be thirteen in number, and they be the powers of the parasite-hoard which are his servitors and doeth his bidding in ye world. call them forth whenever thou shall ha

urn thy face to the north wind and read the verse aloud: iah! shub-niggurath! great black goat of the.woods, i call thee forth (kneel) answer the cry of thy servant who knoweth the words of power (make the voorish sign) rise up i say from thy slumbers and come forth with a thousand more (make the sign of kish) i make the signs, i speak the words that openeth the door! come forth i say, i turn the key, now! walk the earth once more! cast the perfumes upon the coals, trace the sigil of blaesu and pronounce the words of power: zariatnatmix, janna, etitnamus, hayras, fabelleron, fubentronty, brazo, tabrasol, nisa, varf-shub-niggurath! gabots membrot! and then the black one shall come forth unto thee and the thousand horned ones who howl shall rise up from the earth. and thou shalt hold before

ONYX TABLET OF SET

temple of set may be held by persons of either sex. use of masculine pronouns in these by-laws is for simplicity only. u.s. internal revenue service federal tax exemption department of the treasury internal revenue service washington, d.c. 20224 date: june 16, 1976 in reply refer to: e:eo:t:r:2-6 temple of set p.o. box 243 santa barbara, california 93102 employer identification number: 95-2975252 key district: 94 accounting period ending: october form 990 required: no dear applicant: based on information supplied, and assuming your operations will be as stated in your application for recognition of exemption, we have determined you are exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. we have further determined you are not a private foundation within the

her federal excise taxes. donors may deduct contributions to you as provided in section 170 of the code. bequests, legacies, devises, transfers, or gifts to you or for your use are deductible for federal estate and gift tax purposes if they meet the applicable provisions of sections 2055, 2106, and 2522 of the code. if your purposes, character, or method of operation is changed, you must let your key district director know so he can consider the effect of the change on your exempt status. also, you must inform him of all changes in your name or address. the block checked at the beginning of this letter shows whether you must file form 990, return of organization exempt from income tax. if the yes box is checked, you are required to file form 990 only if your gross receipts each year are no

trade or business as defined in section 513 of the code. you need an employer identification number even if you have no employees. if an employer identification number was not entered on your application, a number will be assigned to you and you will be advised of it. please use that number on all returns you file and in all correspondence with the internal revenue service. we are informing your key district director of this action. because this letter could help resolve any questions about your exempt status and your foundation status, please keep it in your permanent records. thank you for your cooperation. sincerely yours /s/ milton cerny milton cerny chief, ruling section 2 exempt organizations branch technical branch california state franchise tax board exemption state of california

opies of the ruby tablet should be safeguarded accordingly. hp 6.1.3. the onyx tablet of set includes papers generally relevant to all initiates of the priesthood of set and particularly relevant to the priesthood of set iii. it will normally be edited by the high priest. access to the onyx tablet is restricted to iii and higher initiates of the temple. the onyx tablet will be kept under lock and key security at all times. hp 6.1.4. the sapphire tablet of set includes papers generally relevant to all masters of the temple of set iv. it will normally be edited by a master of the temple of set appointed by the high priest. access to the sapphire tablet is restricted to iv and higher initiates of the temple, and copies of the sapphire tablet should be safeguarded accordingly. hp 6.1.5. the am

pts in their quest for becoming to apply them. if you look back at your own development and find these things, you'll have a guide in helping to present them to the next generation. you can never just "explain" it to them. try not to be disappointed if they don't get it, because the presentation of the material, and incorporation of what these people will bring to you, is your real job. it is the key to your xeper while dwelling on the plain of onyx. i will offer some advice. i had same the advice offered to me, and i ignored it. later i realized how wise the folk were who had offered it to me. you will of course ignore this, then later realize how wise i was when i offered this advice. then in time you will offer it to a new priest or priestess, and he or she will ignore. well, anyway you

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ed you alive today. the book of the dead re-harakhty thoth after osiris descended to the underworld, he could no longer rule his earthly kingdom, so he bequeathed it to his son horus. but his evil brother seth, the god of chaos and confusion, laid claim to the throne. only after 80 years did re judge horus the winner, award him the kingdom, and banish seth to the desert. horus first performed the key mummification rite of opening the mouth on his father osiris. with other rites, it ensured that all the bodily functions could be restored after death through the spells contained in the book of the dead. horus as a wedjat eye hunefer the gods who sit in judgment of hunefer include utterance, perception, and the southern, northern, and western ways. souls in the balance after death, each perso

ton legend into the tristan story as we know it. the story of trist an and isolde designed by dante gabriel rossetti (1828 82) these four stained-glass windows relate the story of tristan s defeat of morholt, his love for isolde, and his madness and death. the kiss tristan has drunk the potion and kisses isolde s hand their fate is sealed. diarmuid and grania t he love of diarmuid and grania is a key tale in the irish cycle of stories about the hero finn maccumhal and his warrior band, the fianna. it shares many features with tristan and isolde, and welsh storytellers evidently adapted it to fit in with the legend of the pict, drust. grania, the high king of ireland s daughter, was betrothed to finn but at the wedding fell in love with his nephew diarmuid who had a love spot on his forehea

ee above. one face looks into the spirit world, and the other into the world of men. also, each side of the carving is different. lightning the decoration here may represent lightning; the lightning bolt was eshu s gift to shango, the thunder god. eshu the trickster eshu is the trickster god of the yoruba people of west africa. he acts as a messenger and mediator between gods and men, and he is a key player in divination, the cornerstone of yoruba culture, a ritual that resolves and balances the conflicting forces of the world. full of human contradictions and a lover of mischief, eshu looms larger in yoruba myth than either the supreme god, olodumare, or the creator, obatala who, with the other orisha, or benevolent gods, created dry land and human beings. the orisha, such as shango, god

r the supreme god, olodumare, or the creator, obatala who, with the other orisha, or benevolent gods, created dry land and human beings. the orisha, such as shango, god of thunder (see below, ogun, god of iron and war, and ifa, god of divination, are opposed by the ajogun or malevolent gods, such as iku (death) and arun (disease. in the endless cosmic struggle between good and evil, one of eshu s key roles is to trick the ajogun. but like the norse god loki (see pp. 69, eshu is related to the ajogun as well as the orisha, forming a link between them; and like loki, he has sometimes been wrongly identified with the christian devil. the wrath of the tester of humanity ajogun can be turned aside by sacrificing to eshu, and his role might be best expressed as god of fate. eshu tests human bein

be seen as a personification of creative power a power that can still be seen in the rainbow, in water, in the ebb and flow of the sea, and in the dance of the stars. gu, the god of iron gu, the god of iron, is one of the 14 children of mawu and lisa. the first three were: da zodji, the chief of the earth pantheon; so, the chief of the thunder pantheon; agbe, the chief of the sea pantheon. other key figures include ag, the god of the hunt, djo, the god of the air, and legba, the trickster and mediator, the fon equivalent of eshu (see pp. 86 87. gu is the god of iron and, therefore, also of war, weapons, and tools. as a god of war he is sometimes known as ebo. gu is said to be made of iron or, alternatively, to have a body of stone and a head like an iron sword. the notion that gu s head w

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

the law" from which none may deny thee. such a brilliant system can be found in further developments of such tomes as "magick in theory and practice "the book of the law "thoth-tarot" and such an edited work as "the goetia. the map towards godhead soon comes into clear and unadulterated focus. perception is existent through the use of all senses available. experience and knowledge is the faustian key to the next step of evolutie the spurious rites of memphis and misraim albert pike, d d x& william l. cummings, d d x whatever the merits of the egyptian rite, or rite of memphis may be, it is quite sure that it is not generally recognized as a legitimate rite of free- masonry; that the bodies of it in the united states of america are entitled to and receive no consideration, it having been co

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

an. although terah repented of his sin of idolatry before he died, he evidently had to be reincarnated in order to right his sexual sins. he thus descended as a woman.presumably to experience female consciousness and thereby realize the seriousness of having gused h women. as a woman, s/he suffered being childless and losing her husband. s/he then had to marry the deceased husband fs brother. the key to the rectification of terah fs sexual sins was the sexual purity and idealism of his son, abraham. the fact that abraham (re-)introduced the idea of sexual integrity into the world allowed terah fs soul to be set straight. the result of this union was job. job [thus lived] in the generation of isaac. he was not comforted by the words of any of his [three] friend who came to console him. he w

am fs descendants] with the statement that abraham will come to his forebears in peace? furthermore [as we said above] what sort of tiding is this, seeing that [terah] was still serving idols, selling them, and through them causing everyone to err? know, then, that chochmah is what clarifies everything, and the elevation [of the sparks of holiness that fell from tohu] depends chiefly upon it. the key to differentiating between good and evil.and knowing how to release the kernel of good within evil in order to liberate it.is chochmah, or insight. the purer one fs insight, the clearer one will be able to recognize what is good and what is evil, and purity of insight is dependent upon the purity and force of one fs intentions. by way of analogy: when a blacksmith strikes his hammer on a piece

od, the attribute of joseph, has a beard and the glory of the face, which is, as we said, these 370 lights. on the verse, gand joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him, h19 rashi explains that this was because when they had seen each other last, the brothers already had beards, but joseph had not grown his yet; but by this time he had grown his beard. thus, the beard plays a key role in the drama surrounding joseph. 17 genesis 39:6. 18 shabbat 152a. 19 genesis 42:8. the arizal on parashat bamidbar 560 a eunuch, in contrast, who lacks the attribute of yesod, lacks the glory of the face, i.e, the beard. the biological reason why a person without a procreative organ will be lacking a beard is, of course, because without sexual hormones his gsecondary sexual characteristi

between you and her h18 in g-d fs curse of the snake is spelled with the same letters as the word for gand he brought her, h and its numerical value is therefore also 24. when we received the torah at mt. sinai, we were purified from the defilement of the snake.the fallen consciousness of self-orientation.and the 24 ornaments were restored to us, the new eve (the same word appears as initials of key phrases in the passages describing how these 24 ornaments were restored.)19 the 24 ornaments are listed in isaiah 3:18-24.20 these 24 ornaments are manifest as the 24 books of the bible (the 5 books of moses, the 7 books of the prophets,21 and the 9 books of the writings22).23 it is therefore customary to spend the night of shavuot reading selections of these books (chiefly the beginning and e

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ng with the collective unconscious and is not a religion, philosophy or even a cult. as the candidate is about to take the obligation of the neophyte, the hierophant assures him or her that "there is nothing contrary to your civil, moral, or religious duties in this obligation" furthermore, the hierophant reminds the candidate to respect all religions, for each contains a spark of the divine. the key theme in both the neophyte grade and the ritual of adeptus minor is that of being brought to the light. this light is also referred to as l.v.x. in the introduction to volumes 111 and iv of the golden dawn, regardie's excellent analysis of the keyword (i.n.r.i) and subsequent gematric correspondences and conclusions will bear fruit from continued study and meditation regarding this light. but

method, using and experimenting with it extensively for several years. it can be operated swiftly and easily to get a direct "yes"or "no"answer, though a great many more details can be elicited with but little application and study. in spite of a. e. waite's stuffiness and turgidity, his short method of tarot divination using a ten card layout, as described towards the end of his booka pictorial key to the tarot (university books, new york, is a useful, simple and direct method. it can and should, of course, be supplemented by some of the brief order definitions as laid down in the second volume of this edition. practice will demonstrate its value. the unsuspecting student will rapidly discover his intuition and psychic faculties will undergo a marked stimulation and development bv the us

nvolved in the writing, for example, of the consecration ceremony for the four elemental weapons. its virtuosity renders it altogether unique. these matters make one ponder anew the origins of the golden dawn and its teachings. what mcgregor mather has written and published is of course good; of this there is little question. but not one of three published works-the kabbalah unveiled, the greater key of king solomon, and the sacred magic of abramelinbears the intrinsic stamp of genius or uniqueness. nothing that dr. william wynn westcott wrote is exempt from the same criticism. his book on the kaballah is simple, clear and informative-but it bears no resemblance to the peculiar quality or character of the golden dawn documents which i suggest contain the hallmarks of genius. whoever was th

erised every previous effort to detail the history of the order. m.e.v. was the motto chosen by dr. william robert woodman, an eminent freemason of the last century. sapere aude and non omnis moriar were the two mottos used by dr. westcott, an antiquarian, scholar, and coroner by profession. s. r m. d. or s'rhiogail ma dhream was the motto of s. l. macgregor mathers, the translator of the greater key of king solomon, the book of the sacred magic of abramelin t h e m e, and thekabbalah unveiled, which latter consisted of certain <19> portions of the zohar prefixed by an introduction of high erudition. he also introduction 17 employed the latin motto deo duce comite ferro. s. d. a. was the abbreviation of the motto sapiens dominabitur astris chosen by a fraulein anna sprengel of nuremburg, g

ve the benefit of prolonged brooding and meditation. three of the most important items of personal study to be accomplished while in the first or outer order, apart from the memorisation of the rudiments of the qabalah were (a) the practice of the pentagram ritual with the qabalistic <75> cross (b) tattwa vision, and (c) divination by geomancy and the simple tarot method described by waite in his key to the tarot. the pentagram ritual was taught to the neophyte immediately after his initiation in order that he might "form some idea of how to attract and come into communication with spiritual and invisible things" just as the neophyte ceremony of admission contains the essential symbolism of the great work, shadowing forth symbolically the commencement of certain formulae of the magic of li

REGARDIE TALISMANS

r worlds, most subjects in which one could be interested were classified under one or other of these two sets of symbols. in the last resort, however, since the planets were said to rule the twelve zodiacal signs, the planets became the more prominent categories into which talismanic purposes could be divided. classical examples of this seven-fold division of talismans may be found in the greater key of solomon, from which i quote as follows: in the days and hours of saturn, thou canst perform experiments to cause good or ill success to business, possessions, goods, seeds, fruits and similar things, in order to acquire learning; to bring destruction and give death, and to sow hatred and discord. the days and hours of jupiter are proper for obtaining honours, acquiring riches; contracting f

onally manufactured talismans, while perhaps not as beautiful or as traditionally accurate as those given in some of the aforementioned texts, will nonetheless be more meaningful and effective for him. his very attempt to gather symbols and to draw them will, of itself, invest the talisman with energy and force that will tend to bring about the results desired. one major injunction in the greater key of king solomon is worthy of note here: i command thee, my son, to carefully engrave in thy memory all that i say unto thee, in order that it may never leave thee. if thou dost not intend to use for a good purpose the secrets which i here teach thee, i command thee rather to cast this testament into the fire, than to abuse the power though wilt have of constraining the spirits, for i warn thee

ing null and void the intrinsic meaning of the biblical verses, some innovators came to use latin. there was somewhat less chance of miscopying in latin: though this was found, even so, not to be altogether true. but there it was hebrew, latin, and sometimes greek were the classical languages used in writing inscriptions around the margin of the talismans, as may be seen by consulting the greater key of king solomon. the principles involved are still valid. for many years, when experimenting with talismans, i followed the ancient rules. and i must admit that when a little ingenuity and artistic inventiveness were employed, the results turned out to be very beautiful and striking, and certainly most effective. the student can be honestly counseled to follow the classical rule if he finds hi

rayer as in the rituals, and close with the signs of the circle and the cross (that is the rose-cross) after performing the necessary banishing. be careful, however, not to banish over the newly consecrated talisman, as that would simply decharge it again and render it useless. before banishing, you should wrap the charged talisman in clean white silk or linen. appendixes bibliography the greater key of solomon (trans) s.l. mcgregor mathers book of talismans raphael the magus francis barrett university books of new york. lesser key of solomon (the goetia) trans. s.l.mcgregor mathers, ed by aleister crowl.m during our stay at mosul in 1842-44, we made several excursions among the yezeedees, visiting all their principal villages in the neighbourhood, and holding frequent intercourse with the

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

l repair to the suffragan for furtherinstruction.the conductor and practicus now pass the centre of the east to the station of the suffragan.suffragan:whatever throws additional light on the marvels of the aerial world, and into the starry depths,necessarily exercises a powerful influence over the mind of the earnest rosicrucian. astronomy is anexact science, but an abstruse subject, yet a simple key opens much of its inner mysteries. we dividethe heavens into three classes, the world of air, the world of stars, and the heaven of heavens.the first embraces the atmospheric envelope, clouds, and attendant storms with their inhabitants.the second includes the infinite space containing the stars, planets, asteroids, meteors, comets,star-showers, nebulae and the universal system while the third

ls and animal life. theaffinities of these planets and stars are of great power, although it hath been taught, that each planetis active but one day in the seven fold, and further that the precious stones are produced through thechemic operation of the planets working secretly in the telluric body. we argue that metals andminerals have but one base or foundation: and having this we would have the key that could unlockthe universe. it hath been further taught that by the hermetic or magnetic light, we can augmentand purify indifferent stones and, give them greater value: thus, on sunday, expose yellow gems and.gold, and their weight will increase through the attractive power by affinity of the sun; and thus bythe alchemic action of the moon, pearls and stones of white on monday are improved

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

intings which interpret to the faithful of india the inspired pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception by all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed. occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse or god-mother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and of kings. it reigned in persia with the magi, who perished in the end, as perish all masters of the world, because they abused their power; it endowed india with the most wonderful traditions and with an incredible wealth of poesy, grace and terror in its

cy of ezekiel and the apocalypse, two kabalistic keys reserved assuredly in heaven for the commentaries of magian kings, books sealed as with seven seals for faithful believers, yet perfectly plain to an initiated infidel of the occult sciences. there is also another work, but, although it is popular in a sense and may be found everywhere, this is of all most occult and unknown, because it is the key of the rest. it is in public evidence without being known to the public; no one suspects its existence and no one dreams of seeking it where it actually is. this book, which may be older than that of enoch, actually has never been translated, but is still preserved unmutilated in primeval characters, on detached leaves, like the tablets of the ancients. the fact has eluded notice, though a dis

equently enduring like those a book which is the summary of all sciences, which can resolve all problems by its infinite combinations, which speaks by introduction 3 evoking thought, is the inspirer and moderator of all possible conceptions, and the masterpiece perhaps of the human mind. it is to be counted unquestionably among the very great gifts bequeathed to us by antiquity; it is a universal key, the name of which has been explained and comprehended only by the learned william postel; it is a unique test, whereof the initial characters alone plunged into ecstasy the devout spirit of saint-martin, and might have restored reason to the sublime and unfortunate swedenborg. we shall recur to this book later on, for its mathematical and precise explanation will be the complement and crown o

eigns with all heaven and is served by all hell. o daleth. he rules his own health and life and can influence equally those of others. x he. he can neither be surprised by misfortune nor overwhelmed by disasters, nor introduction 7 can he be conquered by his enemies. n vau. he knows the reason of the past, present and future. z zain. he possesses the secret of the resurrection of the dead and the key of immortality. such are the seven chief privileges, and those which rank next are these: k cheth. to find the philosophical stone. t teth. to possess the universal medicine. v iod. to know the laws of perpetual motion and to prove the quadrature of the circle[ caph. to change into gold not only all metals but also the earth itself, and even the refuse of the earth. s lamed. to subdue the most

it as the fiery body of the holy spirit; it was the object of adoration in the secret rites of the sabbath and the temple, under the hieroglyphic figure of baphomet or the androgyne of mendes. all this will be proved. here then are the secrets of occult philosophy, and such is magic in history. let us glance at it now as it appears in its books and its acts, in its initiations and its rites. the key of all magical allegories is found in the tablets which we have mentioned, and these tablets we regard as the work of hermes. about this book, which may be called the keystone of the whole edifice of occult science, are grouped innumerable legends that are either its partial translation or its commentary reproduced perpetually, under a thousand varied forms. sometimes the ingenious fables comb

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

ir evocations, made use of those mystical combinations of divine names which we have reproduced in our gdoctrine h from the hebrew kabalists. the magic triangle of pagan theosophists was the celebrated abracadabra, to which they attributed extraordinary virtues and represented as follows: abracadabra abracadabr abracadab abracada abracad abraca abrac abra abr ab a this combination of letters is a key of the pentagram. the initial a is repeated five and reproduced thirty times, thus giving the elements and numbers of the two following figures: the isolated a represents the unity of the first principle, otherwise, the intellectual or active agent. a united to b represents the fertilization of the duad by the monad. r is the sign of the triad, because it represents hieroglyphically the emissi

the union of the two principles. the number 11, which is that of the letters of the word, combines the unity of the initiate with the denary of pythagoras, and the number 66, the added total of all the letters, form kabalistically the number 12, which is the square of the triad and consequently the mystic quadrature of the circle. we may remark, in passing, that the author of the apocalypse, that key of the christian kabalah, composed the number of the beast, that is to say, of idolatry, by adding a 6 to the double senary of abracadabra, which gives 18 kabalistically, the number attributed in the tarot to the hieroglyphic sign of night and of the profane. the moon, together with the towers, dog, wolf and crab. a mysterious and obscure number, the kabalistic key of which is 9, the the trian

dabra, which gives 18 kabalistically, the number attributed in the tarot to the hieroglyphic sign of night and of the profane. the moon, together with the towers, dog, wolf and crab. a mysterious and obscure number, the kabalistic key of which is 9, the the triangle of pantacles 25 number of initiation. on this subject the sacred kabalist says expressly: ghe that hath understanding h that is, the key of kabalistic numbers. glet him count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred three score and six. h it is, in fact, the decade of pythagoras multiplied by itself and added to the sum of the triangular pantacle of abracadabra: it is thus the sum of all magic in the ancient world, the entire programme of human genius, which the divine genius of the

ly the true law of the three worlds, this absolute sign, this sign ancient as history and more ancient, should and does exercise an incalculable influence upon spirits set free from their material envelope. the sign of the pentagram is called the sign of the microcosm, and it represents what the kabalists of the book zohar term the microprosopus. the complete comprehension of the pentagram is the key of the two worlds. it is absolute philosophy and natural science. the sign of the pentagram should be composed of the seven metals, or at least traced in pure gold upon white marble. it may be also drawn with vermilion on an unblemished lambskin the symbol of integrity and light. the marble should be virgin, that is, should never have been used for another purpose; the lambskin should be prepa

's or goat's for those 46 the ritual of transcendental magic of saturn. the names of the seven angels must be added in hebrew, in arabic or in magical characters like those of the alphabet of trithemius. the two triangles of solomon may be replaced by the double cross of the wheels of ezekiel, which is found on a great number of ancient pantacles and is, as we have observed in our gdoctrine h the key to the trigrams of fohi. precious stones may be also employed for amulets and talismans; but all objects of this nature, whether metals or gems, must be kept carefully in silken bags of a colour analogous to that of the spirit of the planet, perfumed with the perfumes of the corresponding day, and preserved from all impure glances and contacts. thus, pantacles and talismans of the sun must not

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

blished by andrew lang, comparing fairy lore and the second sight to psychic phenomena such as poltergeists, mediumship and so forth, there are some major differences between the ancient traditions of seership and the quite modern concepts of spiritualism. as kirk himself covered many of these areas very clearly, they will appear to the reader either in his words, or in my commentary upon certain key aspects of his text. but at this introductory stage introduction 7 it must be stated that the ancient traditions bring with them images, techniques, communications and philosophical or metaphysical concepts, even if in a confused or corrupted form, that are of a different order and quality from those of spiritualism. the simplest way to put this is that the concept of bland reassuring messages

have made [clear evidence] appear [that is, prove, it were too great an honour for scotland to have such seldom-seen watchers and predominant powers over it alone, acting in it so expressly, and [leaving] all other nations wholly destitute of the like. though [it might be said, without all peradventure [that is without being too risky [that] all other people[s] wanted [that is, lacked] the right key of their cabinet, and [lacked] the exact method of correspondence with them [that is, the fairies, except [for] the sagacious active scots, a [great] many of whom have retained it [that is, the second sight] for a long time, and by surprises and raptures do often foretell what, in kindness, is really [that is, truly] represented to them at several occasions. to which purpose the learned lynx-e

examine fairy lore broadly; this lack is partly due to censorship by orthodox religion expunging the old deities, and partly due to the fluid nature of the celtic relationship to nature and subtle orders of reality. while folklorists have frequently commented upon the unclear boundaries between the fairies, ghosts, ancient gods, ancestors, and other entities in collective memory and tradition, a key to this set of relationships may be found, providing we do not apply it too literally or dogmatically, in the classical and post-classical orders of entities, spirits, heroes, daemons, commentary 74 and so forth. these are described in a number of sources, and as kirk had a concept of this sort in mind as he wrote, it is worth quoting a typical example of the many that might be considered. in

of purity in seership: page 57 a concurrence they [the fairy people] have to what is virtuously done, for upon committing of a foul deed, one will find a demur upon his soul, as if his cheerful colleague had deserted him. although this statement may seem superficially similar to concepts of good and evil qualities in orthodox religion, it is a precise and technical magical statement. here is the key to the connection between the seer and his allies or co-walkers, for the consciousness or spiritual quality of the seer attunes the contact. if we commit a foul deed, the co-walker may desert us. in magical arts there are many strict prohibitions relating to spirit contacts, and much of the basic training consists in attuning the imagination and general behavior to resonate within a specific m

ldren. from an esoteric viewpoint, within the more subtle teachings of the tradition, the popular lore is not, in fact 'condensed. nor are we suggesting that the ballad lore is merely a folk restatement of the so-called 'laws of reincarnation, for the true implication of the tradition is one of synchronicity and correspondence through more than one world, with primary motivations devolving from a key archetype that may be expressed in more than one mode. 7. four-and-twenty ladies gay http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (6 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds the chess-playing ladies or maidens appear in several variants in tam lin. they are often placed in fairyland, as an example of the joys of that place. in our particular version of the ballad, they

RUBY TABLET OF SET

were undertaken. a flowering of the sciences occurred in astronomy, mathematics, geography, medicine, and physics. the seleucid empire embraced elam, sumeria, persia, babylonia, assyria, syria, phoenicia, and at times asia minor and palestine. the function of the empire was to give to the near east the economic protection provided earlier by persia and later by the roman empire. commerce was the key to its prosperity. old persian trade routes were expanded. money produced in egypt, rhodes, seleucia, and pergamon replaced the barter of the previous four centuries. greek civilization was the cultural ideal, but it was a thin veneer beyond the eastern mediterranean coast. the abstract, metaphorical, and scientific aspects of greek culture were difficult for the common man to grasp. in the mo

16a, 16l, 16m the reformation, usually dated ca. 1517 to ca. 1648 (end of the thirty years' war, was a 16th century religious movement aimed at correcting real or assumed abuses in the roman catholic church, and marked ultimately by rejection of the supremacy of the pope, rejection or modification of much of roman catholic doctrine, and establishment of the protestant churches. the reformation's key proponents were martin luther (1483-1546) in germany and john calvin (1509-1564) in switzerland. while there were a number of sub-movements throughout europe, they generally agreed upon fundamental christianity as characterized by (1) the finality and ultimate authority of the bible (2) denial of the authority of the church bureaucracy to interpret the bible (3) repudiation of reason and affir

ys thought were under your control are in fact autonomous. you do nothing, while they determine whether your efforts in any undertaking will be successful or not. you will soon see that each of these functions is a machine entirely dependent upon largely accidental events happening in the mechanical universe. this is a situation that no one can endure once he is made aware of it. awareness is the key issue. you can agree entirely with what this article has said. but the next instant find yourself entirely in the grips of unconsciousness. if you do not agree, i suggest that you try once again to watch the functions of each center. the works of ouspensky give good directions as to the methods which should be employed at first. as you read the books, it will be obvious that most exercises des

who has reached a position where the entire universe lies open to his command (as opposed to merely being accessible. one who has achieved that pointed to by xem.(1) the above implies that "knowing oneself" can be taken as the sign of the priest iii. this is not, however, complete. remember that the temple of set started with the ideas of gurdjieff and others, then evolved from there. i think the key to this lies in the concept of neter. in "knowing himself" the priest unlocks an additional gate to an aspect of himself which can be expressed as a neter. this symbolic expression of himself acts as (1) a magnifier with which to see himself more clearly, and (2) a telescope with which he can see (and a telescoping arm with which he can manipulate) that which is far away. this is the aid he us

e with which he can see (and a telescoping arm with which he can manipulate) that which is far away. this is the aid he uses to help him reach toward man-6 and comprehend xem. a side observation: what is the really critical aspect of a vampire? he cannot see his own reflection in a mirror. this leaves him free to cast his gaze on what is normally hidden behind his own image. this, i suspect, is a key to magister james lewis' magical mirror, and why he must look in it when he has been seeing himself too much. my fangs ache at the thought. lecture #3 this lecture starts by describing the conditions under which a school can and cannot exist. this description clearly illustrates some reasons why the temple of set must be as selective as it is. those who are not truly interested in learning int

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

aths rainbow-gnosis will be left alone in this treatise. as stated, the 11 cells are formed by twin letters of the sacred alphabet, forming a double-current. within the houses the powers reflected should be associated with sah, the right-hand palace of the great double house and the left hand palace which name will remain secret and hidden these cells or sources of power are called aats. a secret key is revealed in the following quotation" over each cell there is a unifying glyph, a sigil whereby that aat is opened and closed at a point of ingress..each aath hath especial souvereignity over a specific pair of letters, these twin aatic glyphs being the polarities of such powers as are emanated and drawn in by that particular cell. thus they define the nature and characteristics of the aat a

n. this transformation is based in the motion and manipulation of the firesnake in connection with ayin (o) which hints towards the eye and the capricornian influence illustrated by the devil in the tarot. in ayin that which is seen and the ability of transformation is signified by the eye. the eye is also the tool of the artist of the noble arte and is the capturer of the sigillic wisdom and the key that locks it into the vault of unconditioned belief in the execution of the wills desire. the text refers to this as sigilic aphorisms, but used in the temple of solitude these becomes more than aphorisms, it encapsuels the formulae in flesh and releases the blood of the witches into the vessel and the magus becomes the living reality of the awakened flesh of lord cain. this is possible throu

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

over his face, while his new husband, babasaheb mhatre, reached lovingly towards him to remove the fabric, and gaze at his features in a mirror placed in his lap. this dream of marrying the babasaheb brought him awake, flushing hotly for shame, and after that he began to worry about the impurity in his make-up that could create such terrible visions. mostly, however, his religious faith was a low-key thing, a part of him that required no more special attention than any other. when babasaheb mhatre took him into his home it confirmed to the young man that he was not alone in the world, that something was taking care of him, so he was not entirely surprised when the babasaheb called him into the blue office on the morning of his twenty-first birthday and sacked him without even being prepare

e all merely aspects, avatars, one might say, or angels, then what would we have but the oldest thing of all, a supreme entity controlling all creation "you see, what our friend says is, if you have to choose between some type of disembodied force-field and the actual living god, which one would you go for? good point, na? you can't pray to an electric current. no point asking a wave-form for the key to paradise" he closed his eyes, then snapped them open again "all bloody bunk" he said fiercely "makes me sick" after the first days chamcha no longer noticed gibreel's bad breath, because nobody in that world of sweat and apprehension was smelling any better. but his face was impossible to ignore, as the great purple welts of his wakefulness spread outwards like oil--slicks from his eyes. th

which had survived intact in spite of being starved of any scrap of supporting evidence. ignoring her daughter's veto, she sought out mirza saeed in the formal garden and launched into him, wobbling, as was her wont, for emphasis "what type of life are you living" she demanded "my daughter is not for locking up, but for taking out! what is all your fortune for, if you keep it also under lock and key? my son, unlock both wallet and wife! take her away, renew your love, on some enjoyable _outing" mirza saeed opened his mouth, found no reply, shut it again. dazzled by her own oratory, which had given rise, quite on the spur of the moment, to the idea of a holiday, mrs. qureishi warmed to her theme "just get set, and go" she urged "go, man, go! go away with her, or will you lock her up until

es of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm perswasion of any thing "are you listening to me, young woman? i'm serious here. that gentleman you have in your bed: he requires not your nightly attentions- excuse me but i'll speak plainly; seeing i must- but, to be frank, a padded cell "you'd do that, wouldn't you" allie hit back "you'd throw away the key. maybe you'd even plug him in. burn the devils out of his brain: strange how our prejudices never change "hmm" alicja ruminated, adopting her vaguest and most innocent expression in order to infuriate her daughter "what can it harm? yes, maybe a little voltage, a little dose of the juice "what he needs is what he's getting, mother. proper medical supervision, plenty of rest, and something you

rms, indicating that he was trying to force words past his overexcited teeth. finally "damage limitation. my intention. not betrayal, you mumust not thithithink" to hear sisodia tell it, nobody back in bombay really wanted to sue gibreel, to kill in court the goose that laid the golden eggs. all parties recognized that the old projects were no longer capable of being restarted: actors, directors, key crew members, even sound stages were otherwise committed. all parties further recognized that gibreel's return from the dead was an item of a commercial value greater than any of the defunct films; the question was how to utilize it best, to the advantage of all concerned. his landing up in london also suggested the possibility of an international connection, maybe overseas funding, use of non

SAPPHIRE TABLE OF SET MAIN

r: michael a. aquino vi temple of set date: march 10, xi html conversion: dec 7, 2000 ce subject: the master of the temple may be called a saint, a sage, a mahatma, a medicine man, a shaman, a witch doctor, or a philosopher. transculturally he is a master. within the initiatory arts of magic, the concept of the master has been most precisely formulated to date by aleister crowley. let me cite the key descriptive passages concerning a master of the temple (8=[3] of the a:.a. from magick in theory and practice "the essential attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality which limits and oppresses his true self. the magister templi is preeminently the master of mysticism, that is, his understanding is entirely free from internal contradiction or external obscurity; his work is to

e ou is possible only if the magister templi exists as a self-contained entity within the pu. he is necessarily a "detached observer. with this objectivity and this complete freedom from imprisonment within the confines of the ou, the magister templi is able to exert his will upon the ou with absolute impunity. he can direct its affairs as they interest him, simply by impressing his will upon the key determinants in each case. this is not to say that he can make the entire ou "dance to his tune" because his will is still limited in the amount of data it can consider at any one time and in the focus that it can bring to bear as a result. but the magister can direct his attention wherever he wishes in the ou, and the results of his efforts will be uniformly successful in each case. note, how

SAPPHIRE TABLET OF SET

r: michael a. aquino vi temple of set date: march 10, xi html conversion: dec 7, 2000 ce subject: the master of the temple may be called a saint, a sage, a mahatma, a medicine man, a shaman, a witch doctor, or a philosopher. transculturally he is a master. within the initiatory arts of magic, the concept of the master has been most precisely formulated to date by aleister crowley. let me cite the key descriptive passages concerning a master of the temple (8=[3] of the a:.a. from magick in theory and practice "the essential attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality which limits and oppresses his true self. the magister templi is preeminently the master of mysticism, that is, his understanding is entirely free from internal contradiction or external obscurity; his work is to

e ou is possible only if the magister templi exists as a self-contained entity within the pu. he is necessarily a "detached observer. with this objectivity and this complete freedom from imprisonment within the confines of the ou, the magister templi is able to exert his will upon the ou with absolute impunity. he can direct its affairs as they interest him, simply by impressing his will upon the key determinants in each case. this is not to say that he can make the entire ou "dance to his tune" because his will is still limited in the amount of data it can consider at any one time and in the focus that it can bring to bear as a result. but the magister can direct his attention wherever he wishes in the ou, and the results of his efforts will be uniformly successful in each case. note, how

SATANGEL

rh; which shone like a sunbeam. and i looked at myself, and i was like one of the others; there was no difference and all my fear and trembling left me. dr. john dee was obsessed by the idea of the book of enoch, and yet was unable to obtain a copy. his system of enochian magick was created when he and edward kelly were attempting to divine its contents. clavicula salomonis otherwise known as the key of solomon the king. the first english translation of this theurgic text was made in 1889, although the british museum possess a greek version dated 1100-1200 e.v. it is known to have existed since the first century, and is an important text in the study of kaballa. in 1310 the pope innocent vi ordered all copies destroyed, and a similar commandment was given in 1559. in the 17th century, than

n 1889, although the british museum possess a greek version dated 1100-1200 e.v. it is known to have existed since the first century, and is an important text in the study of kaballa. in 1310 the pope innocent vi ordered all copies destroyed, and a similar commandment was given in 1559. in the 17th century, thanks to the new technology of the printing press, this work and its companion the lesser key became best sellers. lesser key of solomon (the goetia) this work is also attributed to the legendary king solomon, and gives details of the seventy two devils that were bound to his command, as well as the details as to how the reader may summon and command them. it forms the blueprint upon which most other grimoire are copied from. it is mentioned by the venetian inquisition, who found a wit

the blueprint upon which most other grimoire are copied from. it is mentioned by the venetian inquisition, who found a witch to be in possession of it. grimoire of honorius widely circulated in the 17th century, first published some time between 1629 and 1670. attributed to pope honorius, the text is highly christianised and contains aspects of kabalist lore. it was described by eliphas levi, in key of the great mysteries, as 'a veritable monument of human perversity. this is usually of the classical catholic variety, requiring that the sorcerer is either also an ordained priest, or has the aid of one. levi further claims that the instruction to 'sacrifice a live kid' is an instruction to sacrifice a human child, as opposed to a male goat as most have presumed. it is just possible that le

sion 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, psychonaut, and publicity freak aliester crowley. true black magick this 18th century grimoire follows the basic formula of the key of solomon. it deals primarily with acts of malice and spite. the fourth book of agrippa this text has for centuries remained a favourite amongst country wizards. however, the claim that its author is none other than cornelius agrippa is generally accepted as spurious. agrippa did write and publish, however, and his works include on the vanity of the sciences, 1530. in this he attacked the wis

aud. their formula has been copied from the goetic 'merely the names have been changed. the symbol system of the cthulhu mythos, spliced with these basic techniques of sorcery, yields results. something very strange has happened here, illustrating a basic principal of the cunning; just because a belief brings results in the objective world, does not necessitate the objectivity of that belief. the key to this mystery may lie in the sorcerer's arte of dreaming. aside from theories as to the source of the necronomicon in a document of esoteric freemasonry owned by his father, lovecraft was himself a very strange man. the ideas he expressed as fiction originated in the nightmares he was plagued with. through dreaming, fiction, speculation, and magick, this infamous grimoire has earthed itself

SATANIC APHORISMS

cluding the roles we are expected to play ourselves. the only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it's fun, and with awareness. but then, it's not self-deceit! 5. herd conformity that's obvious from a satanic stance. it's all right to conform to a person's wishes, if it ultimately benefits you. but only fools follow along with the herd, letting an impersonal entity dictate to you. the key is to choose a master wisely instead of being enslaved by the whims of the many. 6. lack of perspective again, this one can lead to a lot of pain for a satanist. you must never lose sight of who and what you are, and what a threat you can be, by your very existence. we are making history right now, every day. always keep the wider historical and social picture in mind. that is an important key

SATANIC BIBLE

ic ritual (water--book of leviathan- the raging sea i. invocation to satan ii. the infernal names iii. invocation employed towards the conjuration of lust iv. invocation employed towards the conjuration of destruction v. invocation employed towards the conjuration of compassion vi. the enochian keys and the enochian language (the nineteen keys will be listed here in chronological order) the first key the second key] the third key the fourth key the fifth key the sixth key the seventh key the eighth key the ninth key the tenth key the eleventh key the twelfth key the thirteenth key the fourteenth key the fifteenth key the sixteenth key the seventeenth key the eighteenth key the nineteenth key introduction burton h. wolfe on a winter's evening in 1967, i drove crosstown in san fransisco to h

gion has taken these forces out of the darkness. nor has science been able to apply technical terminology to this force. it is an untapped resivoir that few can make use of because they lack the ability use a tool without having to first break down and label all the parts which make it run. it is this incessant need to analyze which prohibits most people from taking advantage of this many faceted key to the unknown- which the satanist chooses to call "satan. satan, as a god, demi-god, personal saviour, or whatever you wish to call him, was invented by the formulators of every religion on the face of the earth for only one purpose- to preside over man's so-called wicked activities and situations here on earth. consequently, anything resulting in physical or mental gratification was defined

and then burned in the flames of the appropriate candle "shemhamforash" and "hail satan" is said after each request. 11 (b) if requests are given verbally, participants (one at a time) now tell them to the priest. he then repeats in his own words (those which are most emotionally stimulating to him) the request "shemhamforash" and "hail satan" is said after each request. 12. appropriate enochian key is now read by the priest, as evidence of the participants' allegiance to the powers of darkness. 13. ringing of the bell as pollutionary, and then the words "so it is done" are spoken by the priest. end of ritual the satanic ritual c. devices used in a satanic ritual clothing black robes are worn by the male participants. the robes may be cowled or hooded, and if desired may cover the face. t

d who can tell what grim reality provokes the "fantasy, the enochian calls are the satanic paeans of faith. dispensing with such once-pragmatic whitewashing in terms such as "holy" and "angelic, and arbitrarily chosen groups of numbers, the purpose of which were only to act as substitutes for "blasphemous" words- here, then, are the true enochian calls, as received from an unknown hand. the first key the first enochian key represents an initial proclamation from satan, stating the inception of the laws of temporal theologies and of the lasting power which resides in those bold enough to recognize earthly beginnings and absolutes (enochian) ol sonuf vaoresaji, gohu iad balata, elanusaha caelazod: sobrazod-ol roray i ta nazodapesad, od comemahe ta nobeloha zodien; soba tahil ginonupe pereje

fted your voices and swore your allegiance to him that liveth triumphant, whose beginning is not, nor end cannot be, which shineth as a flame in the midst of your palaces, and reigneth amongst you as the balance of life! move therefore, and appear! open the mysteries of your creation! be friendly unto me, for i am the same- the true worshipper of the highest and ineffable king of hell! the second key in order to pay homage to the very lusts which sustain the continuance of life, itself, the second enochian key extends this recognition of our earthly heritage unto a talisman of power (enochian) adagita vau-pa-ahe zodonugonu fa-a-ipe salada! vi-i-vau el! sobame ial-pereji i-zodazodazod pi-adapehe casarema aberameji ta ta-labo paracaleda qo-ta lores-el-qo turebesa ooge balatohe! giui cahisa l

SATANIC RITUALS

and the glory forever! deacon and subdeacon: and let reason rule the earth. celebrant: deliver us, o mighty satan, from all past error and delusion, that, having set our foot upon the path of darkness and vowed ourselves to thy service, we may not weaken in our resolve, but with thy assistance, grow in wisdom and strength. deacon and subdeacon: shemhamforash [celebrant recites the fifth enochian key from the satanic bible] the repudiation and denunciation [the celebrant takes the wafer into his hands, extends it before him, and turns to face the assembled company, saying the following] celebrant: ecce corpus jesu christi, dominus humilim et rex servorum [the celebrant raises the wafer to the baphomet. he continues in great anger] celebrant: et toi, toi, qu'en ma qualit de pr tre, je force

ce. he carries a sword. the woman in the coffin should be sensually appealing and seductive, the opposite of the wan, pale concept usually associated with death. for music suitable to this ritual, refer to le messe noir, or employ berlioz1 "funeral and triumphal symphony" procedure for performance the ceremony begins in the customary manner, as described in the satanic bible. the twelfth enochian key is read, and the tribunal begins. after the accusations have been made, and the king allowed to intercede on occasion, judgment is passed and the priest reads the denunciation (city of dreadful night. stopping halfway through the denunciation, the priest signals that the wine of bitterness be proffered to the celebrant who, accepting his last drink, listens while the litany is completed, after

he priest then knocks three times on the coffin with a staff or the pommel of the sword a scream is heard from within the coffin, and the lid lifts from inside. the occupant's arms beckon seductively. the celebrant is lowered into the coffin by the lictors, who leave him to his doom or renewal, as the case may be. as the infusion takes place in the coffin, the priest reads the thirteenth enochian key. when the infusion is complete, the woman within shouts "assez (enough, and the celebrant is removed from the coffin and directed by the priest to speak. the celebrant proclaims his homage to satan, and, showing his new allegiance, casts aside his symbols of martyrdom. the priest calls for the king, ostensibly to pursue his case. it is discovered that the king has disappeared. he has been bani

are present. a mouse in a cage is placed near the altar, in view of the participants. das tierdrama [the ceremony is begun according to the standard sequence. the lictor stands in front and to the left of the altar, the gong-striker in front and to the right. the illuminator is behind the priest, who stands inside the diamond, thus formed while he performs the opening rubrics. the second enochian key is employed. the chalice is not completely drained. names are called which have animal counterparts: bast, typhon, fenriz, midgard, behemoth, pan, etc. when the priest concludes the preliminary invocation, he retires to the periphery of the clearing and the invocator enters. after gazing around the clearing, he stands in the centre and motions to the illuminator, who steps forward with his lig

ffensive to the metaphysically minded. so far as this author has been able to discover, german lodges have kept secret the rites which accompany the spoken hypothesis. it is known that certain individuals have stumbled upon these procedures, employing and expanding upon them to great advantage, but, as might be expected, little has been divulged. the instructions given here will serve as a useful key to those who can extract the most viable principles and apply them to their own ends. die elektrischen vorspiele procedure for performance inasmuch as the litany is recited without interruption after the celebrant enters the pentagon, the working procedure is guided almost entirely by rubrics. 1- the ritual begins in the standard manner, with the purification, opening invocation, calling of su

SATANICON

ere, the powers of suggestion and magick are extremely powerful. an interpretation of this phenomenon: chaos is an aspect of the other dimension; the darkest realm of the human psyche; a dark and uncharted corner of the mind. heightened creative darkness is the likely scenario to realizing this conscious infernal-dream world. i further theorize that understanding the conflict in the psyche is the key to descending into this realm: consciously willing, and subjecting oneself to, chaos over reasoned thought and behavior. a final note on this cautionary statement: practitioners may also experience sleep disturbances associated with this tapped conflict in the psyche waking suddenly from sleep, though still caught up in the chaos, which after several seconds, dissipates. suggestions for inner

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

habit and wimple and a naked female who serves as the altar and a congregation. the ritual begins with an invocation to the prince of darkness and his host of demons, followed by a renunciation of past allegiances and a dedication to satan-lucifer. the ritual progresses through the satanic offertory, canon and consecration of the host. the mass is completed with the recital of the fifth enochian key and the repudiation and denunciation, whereby the power and divinity of christ is denied and the power of satan is invoked to cause vengeance to christ and his host of angels. after this has been said the rite is concluded with the wafer which, having been consecrated by insertion into the vagina of the female altar, is then cast to the floor and trodden upon. the participants drink from the c

itual seeks to deny the truth. yet such reasoning only strengthens the satanists' case. nazi germany has become a scapegoat for the projection of the jungian shadow(10) according to some satanists. in the case of the defence even simon wiesenthal has openly defended the view that not all camp guards were brutal and cruel sadists, rather only 10, a fraction of what many would have one believe. the key then to the use of rites such as the mass of heresy is to free the psyche from prejudice, in relation to this a member of the order of nine angles says 'individuals who participate in genuine satanic masses sometimes experience a kind of 'satori- or sudden enlightenment- and are thus led to an increase in their consciousness as well as an enhanced vitality because they have broken free of cons

eanings which are used by different groups. firstly the abyss is more commonly understood as being a reference to the satanic underworld wherein satan and his demonic army reside. this interpretation largely stems from christian sources, most especially revelations in the new testament 'and the fifth angel sounded, and i saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key to the pit of the abyss. and he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit'(15) according to andrew collins, writing in the black alchemist (abc books. 1988, the friends of hekate and associated individuals have used this form of symbolism in their magical activities where they have utilised

SCHEM HA MEPHORESH

21 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric librchshem ha-mephoresch the 72 fold name this refers to the seventy two names of the expounded name yhvh. four is the number of the letters of the tetragrammaton. four is also the number of the letters of the name adni which is its representative and key. the latter name is bound with the former and united thereto, thus iahdvnhy forming a name of 8 letters. 8 x 3, the number of the supernal triad, yields the 24 thrones of the elders of the apocalypse, each of whom wears on his head a golden crown of three rays, each ray of which is a name, each name an absolute idea and ruling power of the great name yhvh tetragrammaton. the number 24 of the t

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

tial followings in the country today. draw a map of india that traces the origins of the four religions native to india and shows how they developed. in addition, note the number of followers of each religion in india today. depictions in art: most of the major figures in religious history have been featured in paintings and sculptures. write a report in which you discuss how artists have treated key people throughout history. for instance, in buddhism, artists have followed very specific rules for the depiction of the buddha. explain what these rules are and print out examples from the internet or make copies from a book. in islam, some muslims believe that depictions of the prophet muhammad are forbidden, while others believe that positive depictions are allowed. explain the two sides of

eligion. however, since world war ii it has lost its religious status but is still practiced in daily rituals and holidays. choose a country and research how religion in that country has influenced politics during the country s history. write a report that explains how the relationship between politics and religion in the country has changed over time. book report: nearly every major religion has key texts associated with it. christianity has the bible, islam has the qur an, hinduism has the vedas, and so on. go to the library and check out a copy of a sacred text from a religion other than your own. write a report that you can share with your classmates. what did you learn about the religion from the sacred text? was the text difficult to read or understand? religions on the world wide we

hemselves within this cycle of continual change and evolution and recognize baha u lla h as one messenger among many that have come before, including moses, the buddha, jesus christ, and muhammad. according to the kitab-i-aqdas, another new messenger will reveal a better way to live a spiritual life, but this will not take place before a thousand years. this sense of continual transformation is a key element to the baha faith and one that is unique to the religion. spiritual growth and social conscience baha s believe that the purpose of human life is to know god and to develop one s spiritual foundation in order to better advance civilization and bring about world peace. concepts such as heaven and hell are, for baha s, only a matter of distance from god. when a person dies, his or her so

ity with it. nature, in daoism, is not something to be conquered or controlled. instead, people need to live in harmony with nature. by focusing on the dao, people can awaken themselves to this eternal rhythm and reach enlightenment, or spiritual understanding. the concept of de throughout daoist texts, moving water is used to represent the flow of dao in people s lives. the flow of water plays a key part zhang daoling zhang daoling lived in the first and second centuries ce. he was the founder of the celestial masters. a student of daoism, zhang claimed to have received a revelation in 142 ce from laozi that told him that the end of the world was coming soon and that he should gather the faithful together. in this same communication, he was given the title celestial master, or heavenly ma

five major openings, and five major organs (liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. for daoists, the five elements of water, fire, earth, metal, and wood are all interconnected, part of the great dao. the five elements theory is vital to chinese medicine and the development of acupuncture, a chinese healing tradition that treats bodily disorders as blockages of energy, using needles inserted at key points in the body to free the energy. each of the internal organs is associated with one of the five elements and must be kept in balance for good health and to be in harmony with the dao. the search for immortality also plays a part in daoism. alchemy and magical practices were prominent in various sects of religious daoism, as was an emphasis on astrology (the practice of foretelling the fu

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

ns before doing them. sometimes, it is best to let the sleeping dog lie; other times, it is prudent to run it off. patience is the slow but sure crafting of a desired state, setting up the pins squarely in front of the ball, proceeding neither too quickly nor too slowly, allowing the energy to build. perseverance is the ability to keep on trying even though failure is at first encountered. if one key fails to open the lock, try another key. often, the value of a given success is measured by the number and diligence of the attempts required to gain it, and each attempt then, is a tread on the stairway to victory. however, as a sister matures, and the force builds within her, fewer and fewer valiant attempts are necessary. one of the great secrets of success is to read the message written up

do not need to carry a return address or even come from the town in which you currently reside. the point is that you are doing something positive to settle a matter in your own mind. did you steal a candy bar? give a candy bar. did you take a life? save a life. do not forget that helping a stranger in need will settle many debts, and they do not even need to be of like substance. balance is the key. as you deal with each and every memory both good and bad, right or wrong, mark its disposition next to it in your journal. when you pay a debt, mark it "paid in full. when you settle a score, mark it "settled. and when you have done all you could to set things right, mark that item "canceled. so it is written, so it shall be! out of mind, in the book, close the book. you have made an honest e

m, you will come away with nothing and will have wasted your time. notice that the advisor's time wasn't mentioned. you can bet the advisor gained something for his or her trouble. the cbr keys of wisdom are filled with little gems of knowledge. no one can pick up on all of them at one sitting. that is why in a luciferian home, the cbr keys to wisdom are read cover to cover over and over again, a key at a time. the children hear it from the cradle on until they begin reading it to their children. human beings, like other small animals, are not born with inherent wisdom and knowledge, but must be taught by their parents and peers. the frequency and severity of the lessons depend upon how good of a memory the younger develops and how fast he or she dose it "raising worthy children is like fi

own life. remember, you are building strength and character within your self. you are not doing this for anyone else but you, because you are the one who will gain in the end. there are those who practice morality which is adhering to a code of ethics for somebody else's benefit. morality never works because mostly the edicts of morality are at cross purposes with the needs of the self. here is a key of wisdom: the self will always win out, because in the game of morality, somebody else is always the winner. therefore, it is doomed to failure. every key we teach is designed for the strengthening of and the prosperity of the self- the individual. we teach impecability instead of morality. there is a big difference there. we push personal best to the max. we practice our daily manipulations

on dung shoudest thou fail" all right, lets get with the program. here is where heavy use of the three ps will really pay some dividends, as a great deal of prudence, patience, and perseverance will be needed to succeed. the above principles will build the character of any brother or sister to great stature. they also allow an adept to gain the trust of all who associate with him or her. so, this key of wisdom is about building substance and strength into all adepts who, regardless of physical size will stand taller and cast a longer shadow than any of the unlearned and undisciplined slime of the opposition. remember that like all cbr learning, we first start slow and get comfortable with new ideas, try them out, then practice them, perfecting them until they are ours. however, none of the

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

akedness. and elohim said lights will be in the firmament of heaven.48 the male rules over the female as it is written, the righteous is the foundation forever.49 the yod y illumines both, and it illumines and passes on into the female. the yod y sets itself apart, ascends by its level higher and higher, and the female is darkened. and the mother is illumined and is opened out into her gates. the key, which contains the six, comes and covers up her gates, and it is unified below, with this one and that one, woe unto him that uncovers her gate. 6 chapter two the beard of faith,50 not, is mentioned because it is the most precious of all, it egresses from the ears, round about the face, the white locks ascending and descending, separating into thirteen of that most splendid of splendors, it i

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

, the whole thing looked uncanny! i was about, precipitately, to hurry the papers into my desk, with a pious determination to have nothing more to do with them, when my eye fell upon a book, neatly bound in blue morocco, and which, in my eagerness, i had hitherto overlooked. i opened this volume with great precaution, not knowing what might jump out, and guess my delight found that it contained a key or dictionary to the hieroglyphics. not to weary the reader with an account of my labours, i am contented with saying that at last i imagined myself capable of construing the characters, and set to work in good earnest. still it was no easy task, and two years elapsed before i had made much progress. i then, by way of experiment on the public, obtained the insertion of a few desultory chapters

se of equivocal character, must be my only excuse whenever the language, without luxuriating into verse, borrows flowers scarcely natural to prose. truth compels me also to confess, that, with all my pains, i am by no means sure that i have invariably given the true meaning of the cipher; nay, that here and there either a gap in the narrative, or the sudden assumption of a new cipher, to which no key was afforded, has obliged me to resort to interpolations of my own, no doubt easily discernible, but which, i flatter myself, are not inharmonious to the general design. this confession leads me to the sentence with which i shall conclude: if, reader, in this book there be anything that pleases you, it is certainly mine; but whenever you come to something you dislike, lay the blame upon the ol

he stairs. the new-comer took up the candle and approached the bed. the old man's face was turned to the pillow; but he lay so still, and his breathing was so inaudible, that his sleep might well, by that hasty, shrinking, guilty glance, be mistaken for the repose of death. the newcomer drew back, and a grim smile passed over his face: he replaced the candle on the table, opened the bureau with a key which he took from his pocket, and loaded himself with several rouleaus of gold that he found in the drawers. at this time the old man began to wake. he stirred, he looked up; he turned his eyes towards the light now waning in its socket; he saw the robber at his work; he sat erect for an instant, as if transfixed, more even by astonishment than terror. at last he sprang from his bed "just hea

d a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. while we hear, every day, the small pretenders to science talk of the absurdities of alchemy and the dream of the philosopher's stone, a more erudite knowledge is aware that by alchemists the greatest discoveries in science have been made, and much which still seems abstruse, had we the key to the mystic phraseology they were compelled to adopt, might open the way to yet more noble acquisitions. the philosopher's stone itself has seemed no visionary chimera to some of the soundest chemists that even the present century has produced (mr. disraeli, in his "curiosities of literature (article "alchem, after quoting the sanguine judgments of modern chemists as to the transmutation of

chant from constantinople, who had sold some of his goods to zanoni, professed his conviction that none but a turk, or at least a native of the east, could have so thoroughly mastered the soft oriental intonations. yet in all these languages, when they came to compare their several recollections, there was a slight, scarce perceptible distinction, not in pronunciation, nor even accent, but in the key and chime, as it were, of the voice, between himself and a native. this faculty was one which glyndon called to mind, that sect, whose tenets and powers have never been more than most partially explored, the rosicrucians, especially arrogated. he remembered to have heard in germany of the work of john bringeret (printed in 1615, asserting that all the languages of the earth were known to the g

SIX WAYS OF KNOWLEDGE

work in this area. like modern neurolinguistics programming the egyptians were familiar with three modes of knowledge: touch, hearing and sight. they identified these as other- and self-centric forms, the self-centric form being connected with the right half of the body, the other-centric with the left. these modes of perception are vital for the modern magician to learn and practice as they are key to nourishing and expanding the magical part of one's life. these modes of interacting with the world and the self are a means to unify the self, and prepare it for the journey to the stars. as the will of the magician increases, the other-centric forms came be made to manifest much more easily. i will deal with six modes of perception in the order we usually discover them. touch (self-centric

our birthday and following up on all the mail and phone calls you get that day watching for secret things (shta-tu) to manifest in your life. this would mean doing things you normally would not do- say going to listen to a real estate pitch and being as awake as possible during the activity. the art of receiving gifts, holding them, weighing them in your hands and causing the object to speak is a key to godhood. for those so inclined this verb may be explored in various forms of submissive sexual activity. hearing (other-centric. both the ears and the eyes are described as "ankhti, the pair of doors. other-centric hearing at first comes only by accident. it means truly listening without prejudice to what is said to you. it requires a great strength of ego to do this. usually we let our fee

SORCERIES OF ZOS

he manifestation of the unmanifest, and the hand is the symbol of this creative, power-manifesting duality. the supreme symbol of zos kia cultus therefore resumes that of the scarlet woman, and is reminiscent of crowley's cult of love under will. the scarlet woman embodies the fire snake, control of which causes 'change to occur in conformity with will. the energized enthusiasm of the will is the key to crowley's cult, and it is analogous to the technique of magically induced obsession which spare uses to reify the 'inherent dream. one of the foremost magicians of our time- salvador dali- developed a system of magical reification at about the same time that crowley and spare were elaborating their doctrines. dali's system of 'paranoi-accritical activity' evokes echoes of resurgent atavisms

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

award has the motto, annuit coeptis, along with the emblem. the designer of these decorations, colonel townsend heard, also placed the motto, novus ordo seclorum, 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 fath

n howard zitko, d.d, is coordinator of this world university development program i p.o. box 68, huntington park, calif) he is also the author of a book on the lemurian theo-christian conference which warns that "advanced intelligences on other planets of our solar system are again becoming active in human affairs after a lapse of some ten thousand years" dr. zitko's idea has received a boost from key world leaders. on july 31, 1962 dwight d. eisenhower endorsed setting up a world university to provide "world thinkers" to funnel into the united nations. carl f. stover, director of science and technology at the fund for the republic's center for democratic institutions, santa barbara, calif, gave the principal address at dr. zitko's 15th world university roundtable conference on august 11 of

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

t that his thoughts were an impassable road. anyone who was not an initiate would find in them nothing but obscurity and darkness, but they were brighter than the sun to those who approached them in the company of the mystai. it is said that he deposited his book in the temple of artemis indicating that he could be understood only by the initiated.22 heraclitus was called the obscure, because the key of the mysteries alone cast light on his views. in heraclitus we witness a figure of the utmost earnestness in his approach to life. it is evident, when we reconstruct his thought in its essentials, that for him knowledge bore an inner meaning that words could gesture toward rather than directly express. it was out of some such realization that there arose his celebrated utterance everything i

hould be left behind in history: rather, the quality developed in each can attain a new form, relevant to evolving humanity, through finding a relationship to the divine through christ as steiner describes in an exemplary way for the first community. the new, christian mystery is thereby enriched by all that flows over from the past, and everything in the past spiritual life of humanity is also a key to the future. 127. apocalypse 1:13 14. 128. apocalypse 1:20. 129. apocalypse 1:16. 130. apocalypse 1:20. 131. apocalypse 1:16. 132. apocalypse 1:17. 133. apocalypse 1:18. 134. apocalypse 4:1. 135. apocalypse 4:2, 4:6. 136. apocalypse 4:4. 137. apocalypse 4:6-8. 138. apocalypse 5:5. 139. philo, on the special laws i, 47. 140. apocalypse 5:9 10. 141. the language of universal, or catholic, powe

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

ifacts in america before the arrival of columbus. even though these crosses may not have meant crucifixtion, we still see that it contains a very similar element, for it also means, victory, heaven, a, life, etc. through the understanding of the mysteries, we find that only through sacrifice can all of these be obtained. it almost could be said that the symbolism of the crucifixtion left the last key to the formula of the cross or lvx. the formula is victory, life= sacrifice of the lower unto the higher. the word lvx could almost be said to contain within it the power of the cross. now, in taking a look at the banners, notice the use of two forms of the cross. the most visible is the calvary cross. in the womb of the hexagram, we notice the appearance of a three-armed cross, the t cross, o

SYMBOLISM

ot necessarily discussed nor referenced during the workshop discussion (or in completing this article, the initiate interested in studying symbolism as a subject on its own would be well advised to begin with this bibliography. additions to this bibliography are welcome, and should be sent to the grand master (rt entries are from the ruby tablet of set) barrett, ronald k "book of opening the way (key #4rosearching for the illuminati deep within the bowels of the vatican all roads lead to piazza san pietro when it comes to power, leadership and initiation into the devious and diabolical illuminati. in the 1980's, the vatican bank scandal brought to light the connections between the freemasons/illuminati, the vatican and the mafia. secret initiations are said to take place in the catacombs o

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

the calvi saga, with ties to marcinkus and sindona, was liccio gelli. a former member of the fascist black shirts battalion and connected to the mussolini regime and the herman goring ss division in world war ii, gelli survived the conflict and amassed tremendous amounts of money and influence. considered the head of the p-2 masonic lodge, he was also privy to sensitive information on hundreds of key political, military and financial figures not only in italy but throughout europe, latin america and elsewhere due to his access of files from the italian secret service (ovra) and possibly british intelligence. it was common knowledge in italy that gelli helped to smuggle klaus barbie, the infamous "butcher of lyon" to safe haven in argentina, and even managed to work for and sell his service

for their resignations, or reassigned. all the people on the list are suspected to be members of the freemason's group "p2" the reshuffle of power will have major implications for the existing vatican power structure and its financial dealings. september 29, 1978: john paul i found dead in his bed. villot issues false statements to the press about the circumstances surrounding the death, removes key evidence from john paul's room, and orders the body to be embalmed immediately without an autopsy. october 1978: john paul ii to replace john paul i. none of john paul i's instructions to villot before his death are carried out. january 21, 1979: murder of judge emilio alessandrini, the milan magistrate investigating the activities of banco ambrosiano, whose director, roberto calvi, has close

ainful "trainer's grids and projectors: used to project grids on wall or ceiling "movie projector: to show movies, although new vr disks are replacing these computer: collect and analyze data; keep computer grid on person's system. current military computer access codes will be used to download into governmental computers. trainer's journals: contain indexed copies of subject's systems, including key alters, command codes, etc "comfort objects: used to comfort subject afterwards. may be toy or candy for child alters, or oils for massage. warm towels, or beverages may be given, as the trainer "bonds with" and comforts person they worked with. this is probably the most important part of the training process, as the trainer explains calmly, kindly how well the person did, how proud they are o

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

ity with the symbolic, an understanding of the inner significance and separate language that consciousness casts upon those elements that come within its range of awareness. the tarot, the runes and the i-ching are all alchemical tools. the requirements to forge a useful tool is the knowledge and information of operation and technical expertise. knowledge must precede the method, and so the first key is realizing that knowledge is absolutely necessary, and the second key is engaging personally within an activity that involves the acquiring of that knowledge. for the antinomian, this knowledge is only useful once its essential principles have been separated from the inscriptions of religious, cultural and political indoctrination. resistance can be overcome through the processes of subtract

tood, the formula provides the fuel for achieving the velocity necessary to overcoming resistance. the formula is the distillation of the specific functional principle, or grouping of principles, into a short statement for the purpose of guiding an individual towards a cognitive platform that enables transformative process. the formula is an essential inscription into time that extends a specific key of transformative knowledge. finally, a word about the psychology of initiation let it be understood that initiation entails a great deal of psychological process, the intent of which is to manufacture synthetically constructed perspectives of choice (will. these outlooks of both the subjective (internal processes of consciousness) and the objective (external result of consciousness) are the i

deal of psychological process, the intent of which is to manufacture synthetically constructed perspectives of choice (will. these outlooks of both the subjective (internal processes of consciousness) and the objective (external result of consciousness) are the inherent rules of a form that will shape this initiated vision. the ability to see what others do not within the same environment is your key to power. to "do (to accomplish the individual's true will) results from being able to see. it is only through sight that you see what needs to be done, and it is through the will that the choices to do are made. there must exist a motivation to provoke the desire for constructing this new matrix of ideas. dissatisfaction with the current state of spiritual being and life s affairs is a primar

finities of society, culture and genetics. this is the first step, subsequent understandings will be built upon what you begin to create from this "clean slate" of internal and external experience. the state of man as he is, is not to "do. you cannot change without "doing. to "do" results from becoming aware and realizing something needs to be done on a personal level and then acting. this is the key, this is the path. the left hand path has nothing to offer to those who are satisfied. this is the essential condition necessary for starting the alchemical procedure. an echo of objective conscience within the mind that says to the self: what i have been given does not feel right. this is then followed by a search for the miraculous, for the transforming element, to find individual rightness

wever, this issue of noumenal existence is one that must be acknowledged and discussed at some point within the antinomian experience. it is through a discovery of the seat and source of ones spiritual self (whatever the final determination) that moves the individual towards more advanced states of consciousness. the experiences one confronts as the lhp viewpoint is applied to oneself becomes the key to revealing an individual path of spiritual transformation- rhp or lhp. these experiences follow a pattern generally consisting of the recognition, and reconciliation (management of tension) of the various principles governing both objective existence, and spiritual being. it is through the understanding of these principles- externalized as a personal methodology- that a way is formed leading

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

l, faust play by goethe (1749-1832) they're everywhere. cleverly disguised. on tv, imbedded in magazines, and lurking in powerful advertising. sometimes they're subtle or subliminal, other times direct, provocative, and mind-bending in effect. strange symbols, signs, charms, talismans, and handshakes that program and control our minds. henry makow, astute inventor and essayist, says that they are key components of the satanic conspiracy that now confronts us with maximum force and evil "this satanic conspiracy" makow warns "succeeds only because people cannot believe something so colossal and monstrous actually exists."1 the world is a contest for our souls. the people who are pushing products, violence, and sex are not operating on a random 'whatever sells' basis. they have masonic symbol

, satanists, and other elitists practicing magic. even if the skeptics and naysayers were able to explain away a few of these proofs, the remainder would be sufficient aplenty to prove the thesis of this book. that, indeed, a massive conspiratorial network of occult magicians exists today and has existed throughout human history. from the perspective of the occult researcher and investigator, the key to understanding the precarious world we live in is the recognition that a consistent pattern exists. a criminal is often convicted by an overwhelming preponderance of circumstantial evidence, even when no direct evidence like a smoking gun is produced. but in our case, in codex magica, we do produce a convincing array of direct evidence, along with many facts that connect the dots, to conclus

eme delight in putting things over the masses whom they consider inferior and sub-human. twelve keys to understanding moreover, after long and careful consideration i propose that in addition to these factors, there are at least twelve other reasons, or factors, why the illuminati persist in their seemingly delusional and infantile behavior. each of the twelve reasons is represented by one of the key words listed below: 28 codex magica secrecy magic build power pride elitism signal wealth please invocation encourage rebellion it is important we examine these twelve keys to understanding why the illuminati do what they do. we have already covered the topic of the elite's obsession with secrecy in chapter one. in the following sections and pages of this present chapter, we will look at the r

nd approved the declaration of independence show one or more of the delegates secretly identifying his secret society membership through a hand signal. the name of jesus is never mentioned in either the declaration of independence or the subsequent united states constitution. instead, our nation's founders used vague, illuminist coded terms like "nature's god" or "providence" benjamin franklin, a key leader of the delegates, was both a grand master mason (lodge of nine sisters, paris, france) and a rosicrucian. thomas jefferson, who helped draft the declaration of independence, wrote favorably of the order of the illuminati and its founder, european jesuit professor adam weishaupt. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 63 this poster showing america's first president, george washington, as a

ros, 1916) 188 codex magica former president bill clinton gives the sign of admiration as he views a painting of the late president harry truman. both clinton and truman were initiates of the masonic lodge, and, by giving this sign, clinton is acknowledging the masonic achievements of his predecessor, harry s. truman, 33. the clintons were visiting the harry s. truman little white house museum in key west, florida (photo: florida keys news bureau, in austin american-statesman, january 23, 2005, p. a2) a dockside member of greenpeace, the radical environmentalist group, hails the organization's sea-going vessel. almost all environmentalist organizations are funded and run by the illuminati. members are ignorant of this behind the scenes influence. ten "i gruesomely swear that i'm on the squ

THE BLACK LODGE

rotect the consciousness of the cave dweller, the troglodyte which they have been protecting for millions of years. when we attempt to raise our consciousness above the evolutionary "norm (which these "demoniac forces" represent) we incur the automatic "instinctual, response of censure from these complexes or entities. put another way (for it is essential that the aspirant come to understand this key concept) when the aspirant vibrates on the spiritual planes, and calls the attention of the hierophant (or hierophants, immediately it is reflected into all the other planes, and sets moving the forces needed for the psychosomatic dissolution and reorganization of the candidate. when any human aspires to the path of the wise at once the infernal forces are activated to tempt him or her- that i

ust once again point out that this defense mechanism is a natural process. but it is the "super natural, with all its attendant risks and terrors, that true aspirants seek. a master (frater 215 .8=3 a .a) once wrote the following "man was once defined, by a sage, as a marine animal that went insane and decided to live on land. madness (in the sense of wilful deviation from the norm) is indeed the key word in this matter. it has been of great individual inconvenience to our species, the fact that we developed aspiration- this "infinite dis-ease in the spirit. once upon a time, we went on all fours, as did all other animals (even primates usually keep their spine horizontal; the human being is the sole exception. the need to syntonize our nervous structure with stellar radiation (an essentia

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

of the book of pleasure will have little difficulty in imagining what these creatures were like. imagination is the operative word, for spare's sorcery is a form of veritable imagination or image-making; of 'dreaming true. he exalted the imagination above every other faculty and claimed that "dreams shall flesh" if the requisite ability to reify them has been absolutely mastered. herein lies the key to his sorcery; the ability to 'visualise sensation' and to convey a world of imaginative reality to the observer. augustus john regarded spare as one of the great graphic artists of his time, and many years earlier john singer sargent, g.f. watts, george bernard shaw, and others praised him in similar terms. spare sent a copy of the book of pleasure to sigmund freud who described it as one of

rest in us. if you were to dismember its limb, the mutilated part would regrow, etc. so by evoking and becoming obsessed or illuminated by these existences, we gain their magical properties, or the knowledge of their attainment. this is what already happens (everything happens at all times) though exceedingly slowly; in striving for knowledge we repel it, the mind works best on a simple diet. the key to prophecy. the law of evolution is retrogression of function governing progression of attainment, i.e, the more wonderful our attainments, the lower in the scale of life that governs them. our knowledge of flight is determined by that desire causing the activity of our bird etc. karmas. directly our desire reaches the stratum belonginging to those existences that can "fly" without wings- so

THE CANOPIC GODS SYMBOLISM

the brain or reproductive organs which belong to another classification, and are not elemental nor concerned in the maintenance of the life of the material body. each of these divisions may be further divided into that which divides or distributes the body and renders to the tplq that which is unnecessary or pernicious. from this arises a four-fold division as in the following diagram: with this key, the division becomes easy, for in the alimentary system, the stomach and the upper intestines divide the food taken into the system by a process called digestion and by assimilation, retain what is necessary. this, therefore, is a in the diagram. but the lower intestines receive and cast out that which is rejected, these therefore will be represented by b. in the circulatory system, the heart

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ingle individual. such an emphasis is closer to the hindu interpretation of a continuity of a soul linked to its karma than the strict buddhist teaching that only psychic residues remain of an individual s traits of personality and character. as might be expected, northern buddhism claims to have preserved the true teaching given by the buddha to his initiated disciples. since karma is one of the key teachings of the buddha, they insist that the concept becomes virtually meaningless unless it is applied to the idea of a single reincarnating ego. the teachers of northern buddhism also recall that according to tradition, the buddha s dying words were: all compounds are perishable. spirit is the sole, elementary, and primordial unity, and each of its rays is immortal, infinite, and indestruct

hrough. according to binder, darrell has learned lessons that he was unable to learn in his previous past lives in which he drowned, and he is no longer phobic about the ocean. today, darrell is a man who smiles easily and who is doing what he loves most in life. he has gained a spiritual peace for the first time in several lifetimes. in her view of past-life exploration, binder believes that the key to making reincarnation 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 68 afterlife mysteries acceptable in the western world lies in the culture learning to acknowledge individuals true identities as souls that exist in a multidimensional universe where time is not limited to a linear construction. through the altered states of consciousness availabl

und of megiddo. the inspiration for such a choice of battlegrounds was quite likely an obvious one for john the revelator, for it has been said that more blood has been shed around the hill of megiddo than any other single spot on earth. located 10 miles southwest of nazareth at the entrance to a pass across the carmel mountain range, it stands on the main highway between asia and africa and in a key position between the euphrates and the nile rivers, thus providing a traditional meeting place of armies from the east and from the west. for thousands of years, the valley of mageddon, now known as the jezreel valley, had been the site where great battles had been waged and the fate of empires decided. thothmes iii, whose military strategies made egypt a world empire, proclaimed the taking of

he is brought face-to-face with ultimate reality that is experienced with emotions and intuition. a transcendence of the self is achieved. the mystic returns from the experience with the certainty of having been somewhere else where a revelation of some remarkable truth was given, a truth such as reality is unitary and divine; even ordinary human experiences are phenomenal; the soul, which is the key to reality, may rise to oneness with god; that god s presence may be found everywhere hidden in the midst of daily life. in her ecstasy: a study of some secular and religious experiences (1961, marghanita laski lists five principal manifestations of the ecstatic mystical experience: 1. the feelings of loss: i.e, loss of time, of place, of worldliness, of self, of sin, and so on. 2. the feeling

e x p l a i n e d 214 religious phenomena in an introduction to zen buddhism (1934, d. t. suzuki (1870 1966) describes satori, the state of illumination attained by reaching a higher level of consciousness, as the state that the masters of zen call the mind of buddha, the knowledge whereby humans experience enlightenment or prajna, the highest wisdom. it is the godly light, the inner heaven, the key of all the treasures of the mind, the focal point of thought and consciousness, the source of power and might, the seat of goodness, of justice, of sympathy, of the measure of all things, suzuki states. when this inmost knowledge is fully awakened, we are able to understand that each of us is identical in spirit, in being, and in nature with universal life. the hindu scripture bhagavad gita s

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is eager to accept as proof of spirits existing in castles, cottages, and taverns around the world. motion picture producers have found vast audiences eager for such stylish ghost stories as the sixth sense (1999, sleepy hollow (1999, and the others (2001. books about ghosts both fiction and nonfiction remain high on readers lists of popular titles. barnes& noble.com carries 8,102 books with the key words ghost stories. and then there is the internet. there are more than 650,000 websites devoted to the topics of ghosts and hauntings. in spite of such remarkable interest in ghosts by a large segment of the general public, one of the main reasons why neither science nor society at large has seriously considered the question of ghosts and phantoms is the lack of what scientists consider to b

sound of the rustling and the pull on the bedclothes, so he decided to shoot three times. the lead slugs struck nothing but the wall, and he dug them out with a knife that next morning. the abbe fared the worst of any member of the household throughout the duration of the phenomena. whenever the cleric left his room, he always made certain that the windows were bolted and his door was locked. the key to his room was secured to a leather thong that he kept belted to his waist. these precautions never accomplished the slightest bit of good. upon returning to his room, the abbe would inevitably find his couch overturned, the cushions scattered about, his windows opened, and his armchair placed on his 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 34

huge deluge of water rushed down the chimney, extinguishing the fire, blinding the abbe with flying sparks, and covering him with ashes. the tutor woefully concluded that such actions could only be the work of his satanic majesty, the devil. the only other person who actually suffered physical pain dealt out by the haunting phenomena was mme. de x, who was in the act of unlocking a door when the key suddenly disengaged itself from her grip and struck her across the back of her left hand with such force that she bore a large bruise for several days. one night the invisible creature roamed the corridors as if it were a lonely wayfarer seeking admittance to the rooms of each of the members of the household. it knocked once or twice on the doors of several bedrooms, then, true to pattern, it

aving boarded up a small container for lord stawell, the original owner of hinton ampner. he had suggested that the small box might have contained treasure and might offer a clue to the haunting. workmen discovered the container when they were stripping the mansion. it was found to conceal the skeleton of a baby. when mary ricketts learned of this startling discovery, it seemed to offer the final key to the legend of hinton ampner. the villagers said lord stawell had engaged in illicit relations with the younger sister of his wife, who had lived with them at the manor. it had been the subject of ancient gossip that his sister- in-law had borne his child a child that had been murdered at its birth. when lady stawell died, her sister, honoria, became the mistress of hinton ampner. the past w

(bill murray, dan aykroyd, and harold ramis) lose their funding at the university, so they establish a ghost-removal business. big trouble arises when dana barrett (sigourney weaver) discovers an ancient god in her refrigerator and becomes possessed by zuul, the gate keeper. ghosts and evil spirits galore will plague the entire planet if the gate keeper meets with vinz clortho (rick moranis, the key master. it is up to the ghost busters to save the world. the sequel, ghost busters ii (1989, although retaining all the principals of the original, lacked the energy and the excitement to sustain another box office success. ghost (1990) in addition to presenting an interesting depiction of the interaction of a ghost (patrick swayze) and a spirit medium (whoopi goldberg, this film also offers a

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

s, 1960. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. hermes trismegistus in alchemical/magical tradition, powerful secrets of alchemy were found inscribed on an emerald tablet in the hands of the mummy of hermes trismegistus, the master magician and alchemist, who had been entombed in an obscure chamber of the great pyramid of giza. the preamble to the key to transmuting base materials to precious metals and gems instructed the adept that git is true, without falsehood, and most real: that which is above is like that which is below, to perpetrate the miracles of one thing. h the writings of hermes trismegistus were considered by the alchemists as a legacy from the master of alchemy and were, therefore, precious to them. as much as the thought of

n from his wife that alphonse louis constant assumed the identity of eliphas levi and began to devote his time to an intensive study of alchemy and the occult. often his focus was on the kabbalah and the tarot, believing firmly that the ancient cards depicted a concise summary of all the revelations that had come down to humankind through the ages. levi saw in the symbolism of the tarot cards the key to the egyptian hieroglyphs, the mysteries of solomon, and the truths hidden in the apocryphal text of the book of enoch and the scrolls of hermes trismesgistus. to do a spread of the tarot cards, in levi fs opinion, was to establish communication with the spirit world. to seek within the tarot might bring the serious magician a clue to the manipulation of the natural and divine energy that pe

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 68 magic and sorcery marie laveau was the recognized voodoo priestess of new orleans. such a force, eliphas levi believed, was to discover the great arcanum of practical magick. his doctrine of transcendental magic was published in 1855, followed by rituals of transcendental magic in 1856. other works of eliphas levi include the key of the grand mysteries (1861) and the science of the spirits (1865. eliphas levi died in 1875, esteemed by many and hailed as the last of the alchemists. others have criticized certain of his writings by suggesting that his imagination may have in some instances surpassed his actual knowledge of the arcane. m delving deeper de givry, emile grillot. illustrated anthology of sorcery, magic and a

ter the theological work, my greatest accomplishment is the establishment of the church of wicca as a federally recognized church, not only with regard to its tax-exempt status, but also in federal appeals court. the church fs official letter of determination arrived from the irs in 1972, making ours the first wiccan church (despite the resentful claims of others) to earn federal recognition. the key to such recognition of wicca.the craft. as a religion has been its well-defined theology. h m delving deeper frost, gavin, and yvonne frost. the good witch fs bible. hinton, w.va: church and school of wicca, 1996. 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 84 magic and sorcery gavin frost (archives of brad steiger) thefrosts live under a vow of po

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ink; the flaw in christianity is that the christians do not understand the depth of symbolism behind and within the sacred meal. their lack of awareness, as we shall see, prevents the loop from being complete, as it was intended to be; the mysteries are a matter of deep awareness and realization, not dogma or empty ritual performance. awareness, as it is focused through the housle, is in fact the key to the highest workingthe working of immortality, the immortalization of the individual. modern pagan authors normally do not discuss such topics, but they were secret doctrines of the ancient mysteries. the secret workings of the true life without beginning or end are summed up in the housle, perfectly. before we begin our conversation, i would like to state that the explanation for the inner

and the last, and it brings regeneration and renewal. a person who became aware of this force would immediately experience its renewing effect. that person s body and mind, which can be seen as the world or cosmos reflected as a human form, would be both metaphorically destroyed and actually regenerated by this force- all because they became aware of it. as i said above, awareness is part of the key- i said: simply put, recognition of this reality, a direct awareness of it, caused the renewal to occur. it was as though the very awareness of this reality, on the part of a conscious being, completed the loop somehow, and allowed its mystical renewing reality force to bridge across the awareness and to suffuse the consciousness of the one who was aware, and by so doing, bring about a transfo

ed, and when properly understood and recognized with clear awareness, is nothing more and nothing less than the ritual vehicle that completes the loop of the entire cosmos as expressed in ancient mythology, and regenerates the participant, their mind and body, and through them, their entire world. it is the regeneration of time that was the center of ancient faith and mysteries. another important key is found in the word recognition. many people use this word without being aware of its true meaning. re means again, and cognition means to be cognizant or be aware of something. to re-cognize meant to become aware of again. the key word there is again. the divine truth that people in the mysteries were helped to re-cognize was not a truth that was new to the m; in non- linear time, nothing is

would cause pain and mayhem, as well as wonder and beauty- but keep in mind that this endowment was not only a necessary step in the development of humankind, but a part of the unfolding of the world-fate. because of it, gods, spirits, and humans stood to gain from regeneration and realization. the child, the horn child, the son of light, or the master this figure is a very universal figure, and key to the entire housle mythology and ritual complex. in short, the child is what comes of the entire mythology- any western mythology. the child is the culmination of entire mythologies; he is the child of the daughter who bears him after all of her ordeals, the daughter who, when taken as a metaphor of the human soul, shows us that the child is the fated outcome or the divine being/reality that

d transformed and purified before they can apprehend truth and the light directly and permanently. but it is lack of insight and understanding that can lead people, for example christians, to see a dark devil where there is really a bright savior. bringing forth the secret child from the otherworld, into our own experience, seeing the child, that is, becoming aware of his eternal presence, is the key to the regeneration, or the re newal of the mysteries. it is also the key to the mysteries of psychic ascension. seeing the child of the mystery night was the subject of many ancient mystery cults in antiquity. if the child is represents the stage at which mankind will awaken or evolve to a new perfection or understanding, it is very interesting to point out the obvious: that it is not mankind

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t of prayers. let the adept ascertain how the prayers relate to the tree of life. the ave maria exposes the greatest qabalistic truth in that through the feminine principle, we are taught about the justified one, and through the justified one, we learn of the infinite. as it is written: whomsoever sees me, sees the father. i and my father are oneit(la clef des grands mysteres) by eliphas levi the key of the mysteries according to enoch, abraham, hermes trismegistes and solomon by eliphas levi translated, with an introduction by aleister crowley "religion says 'believe and you will understand' science comes to say to you 'understand and you will believe "at that moment the whole of science will change front; the spirit, so long dethroned and forgotten, will take its ancient place; it will b

nmost mind, if he is to reconcile the "contradictions" which leave waite petulant and bewildered. it is the sad privilege of the higher order of mind to be able to see both sides of every question, and to appreciate the fact that both are equally tenable. such contradictions can, of course, only be reconciled on a higher plane, and this method of harmonizing contradictions is, therefore, the best key to the higher planes. it seems unnecessary to add anything to these few remarks. this is the only difficulty in the whole book, though in one or two passages levi's extraordinarily keen sense of humour leads him to indulge in a little harmless bombast. we may instance his remarks on the "grimoire" of honorius. we have said that this is the masterpiece of levi. he reaches an exaltation of both

o does not know that, in order to know anything, one must learn eternally! they say that in order to learn anything well, one must forget it several times. the world has followed this method. everything which is to-day debateable had been solved by the ancients. before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. a man has rediscovered their key; he has opened the cemeteries of ancient science, and he gives to his century a whole world of forgotten theorems, of syntheses as simple and sublime as nature, radiating always from unity, and multiplying themselves like numbers with proportions so exact, that the known demonstrates and reveals the unknown. to understand this science, is to see god. the author of this book, as he finishes his

bsolute truth seemed to sleep- always young, and always beautiful, like that princess of the childish legend, who, during a century of slumber, awaits the bridegroom whose mission it is to awaken her. after our book, there will still be mysteries, but higher and farther in the infinite depths. this publication is a light or a folly, a mystification or a monument. read, reflect, and judge. xiv the key of the mysteries (la clef des grands mysteres) by eliphas levi xv part i religious mysteries problems for solution i- to demonstrate in a certain and absolute manner the existence of god, and to give an idea of him which will satisfy all minds. ii- to establish the existence of a true religion in such a way as to render it incontestable. iii- to indicate the bearing and the "raison d'etre" of

sis is repugnant to reason; it is pessimistic and immoral. science and reason ought then to accept the second. yes, proudhon, god is an hypothesis, but an hypothesis so necessary, that without it, all theorems become absurd or doubtful. for initiates of the qabalah, god is the absolute unity which creates and animates numbers. the unity of the human intelligence demonstrates the unity of god. the key of numbers is that of creeds, because signs are 12 analogical figures of the harmony which proceeds from numbers. mathematics could never demonstrate blind fatality, because they are the expression of the exactitude which is the character of the highest reason. unity demonstrates the analogy of contraries; it is the foundation, the equilibrium, and the end of numbers. the act of faith starts f

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ractices of the witchcraft (not wicca. illustrated by elda isela ford, the book of cain offers both initiatory challenge and a luciferian concept of positive self-focus. those who may approach the blackened fires of cain should be cautious, for it destroys and creates. the goetia luciferian edition by michael w. ford illustrated by elda isela ford based on the manuscript of lemegethon, the lesser key of solomon the king modern magick is at a time of opportunity. what is clear is that systems may be adapted based on the predilection of the individual, that certain aspects may be altered for better results. the luciferian edition of the goetia, by michael w. ford is based on his own individual practice of goetic magick without the christian dogma of earlier versions. the luciferian edition o

y the wealth of symbolism there is indeed much to develop from be ready to grasp that which was always slightly out of reach by dream, that fleeting moment of truth not so lightly fallen before you. 4 angels are considered by abu-hamid mohammed al-ghazali to be the higher faculties of man. 5 empyrean= highest heavens, heights, the astral plane which leads to the psyche or genius revealed. see the key of solomon the king by s.l. mathers, the symbolism of angels (higher octave) and demons (lower octave or infernal spirits. this term is inextricably the same as celestial, the sabbat of luciferian light. 6 baphomet is a magickal transformation of being. baphomet, being the head of wisdom, is related to cain in some sabbatic and luciferian circles. 7 the people of the lie, or practitioners of w

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icts the interaction of different worlds in the jacob's ladder diagram. this basic image can be applied to many phenomena, from the way chemical changes take place by atoms changing their energy states, to the way certain beliefs follow different levels of mystical experience (b) a terminology by means of which it is possible to equate the mental processes of people apparently diverse. one of the key functions of the tree, and one at which it excels, is as a mental filing-system. not only can the tree be viewed as a system, but also a meta-system, that is, a system which includes other systems within it. in this way, ideas may be compared across apparently different models. an example of this is the association of astrological concepts and symbology with the myths of the ancient egyptians

rated thing. but he planned as it were a moving likeness of eternity; and, at the same time that he set in order the heaven, he made, of eternity that abides in unity, an ever-flowing likeness moving according to number- that to which we have given the name time" the idea that the universe is in the process of becoming increasingly real is also repeated in "the unfinished universe, and one of the key implications of this metaconcept is referred to by omar khayyam in the "rubaiyat "with earth's first clay they did the last man knead, and then of the last harvest sow'd the seed; yea, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read" which is referred to in kabbalah by the statement that kether contains the whole potential of manifestation within it. that is to s

is an ascent up the middle pillar of consciousness from the "bound lights" of malkuth and ultimately, to the "boundless light" of the ain soph aur. resh in full is resh-yod-shin, and relates to the cards of the sun, hermit and last judgement. these could be transliterated into the phrase "the awareness (sun) of the true (hermit) will (judgement, which takes place in the initiation process at two key points, the first on crossing the veil and attaining to the sephirah tiphareth, and the second on crossing the abyss and attaining to the sephirah binah. the following extensions can be drawn: will in malkuth: the way of nature, the "entelechy" of aristotle in the unfolding of blossoms and the formation of galaxies. the "selfish gene" or "blind watchmaker" aspect of nature in the unfolding gen

l triad can be seen as a historic cosmological model, detailing the birth of the universe, it is important also to recall that the tree is an immanent model of the current, ongoing process of manifestation, and hence binah is shaping reality always now, as the source of archetypes. binah is the indivisible template of all things, and hence is the source of all forms, of which names are a symbolic key, and thus it is no surprise that the sephirah is accorded many titles, amongst them the ultimate mother, the primal ocean of birth, the queen of heaven, the bitter sea, and the city of pyramids. binah is spelt in hebrew beth-yod-nun-heh (bynh, and is translated as "understanding. the word begins with beth, which is taken to be the "archetype of all containers, appropriate to the position of bi

ins 4 letters also. the number of the archangel tzaphkiel, relating to binah in briah, the world of creation, is 311, which by gematria equates to certain relevant words: qvrh; a beam, shelter, house (binah as container) gbvsh; crystallisation (binah as the formative process) shia; loftiness, summit, height (binah as eternal rest) also, shia "height, can be compared with mary "exalted, one of the key biblical aspects of binah. binah interacts with chockmah through the fourteenth path, to which is attributed the tarot card of the empress. the number of the card is 3, which is also the number of binah, and the first of the numbers to enclose a space: 0: no space nought (ain soph aur) 1: point point (kether) 2: vector line (chockmah) 3: space triangle (binah) the empress is a fitting personif

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set in the ritual: the 'central' and the 'ordinary, as there is an occult law which stipulates that a third 'light' is brought about whenever two lights are already present. 9. generalities: the operator should keep his alb and cordelier in an absolute state of cleanliness and they must not be kept with any dirty linen except for washing. all ritualistic accessories should be kept under lock and key, out of reach of the profane, to be protected from any defilement. it is suggested that a small, new suitcase be provided 10 especially for that purpose. it will be of advantage to operate standing on a woollen rug however small it may be. the operator should know that the contents of this ritual come from old texts of the traditional martinism of the 18th century or from the ritualistic texts

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e recognition of the crowned and the two pillars of the temple 11 horus-he who, while partaking necessarily of the nature of both the father and the mother, is simultaneously an entirely different and unique being. through the result of the union of opposing forces, his nature tends to a new viewpoint in the conquest of life. for the father and mother are "those forces whose reconciliation is the key of life."l6 to illustrate in another way the import of ths concept, let us describe it from a practical and physical point of view. one of the major inconveniences which afflicts a large portion of mankind is constipation. in many instances of this disorder, no organic disturbance exists at .all; the trouble being principally a functional one (though it must be here interpolated that even if i

ey are part and parcel of human nature, and so cannot be avoided. but what can be eliminated is the ignorant attitude so often adopted towards them. for these opposites, the two pillars of the temple, their magical images or prototypes, represent "those eternal forces betwixt which the equilibrium of the universe dependeth. those forces whose reconciliation is the the two pillars of the temple 13 key of life, whose separation is evil and death"'gthis, then, is the solution to conflict. they must be reconciled. let me recapitulate. there must be the clear recognition of the conflict. its exact nature must be analyzed and faced, and its presence accepted in all its implications. one must endeavor to bring up into consciousness, so far as the capabilities of the mind permit, all the memories

ciate various sound-values or rates of vibration with various parts of the body, and also with particular types of magnetic force and strata of consciousness. no religious or metaphysical theory need attach to the employment of these names. the system rests entirely upon its own merits. the simplest way of regarding them is, as explained above, as vibratory rates. again, they may be considered as key notes by means of which access is obtained to the consciousness of the different parts of our being, the existence of whch hitherto we have been kept in ignorance.5 with each of these five centers there is associated a divine name to be used as a vibratory formula. the attributions as we have received them, together with the traditional name of the sephroth, are given below with the names of t

yche and transformative experiences. thus does hermes, representing the soul guide and the transconscious self, communicate to all levels of the psyche through symbol and myth. the imagination is one of the most important tools of magic. a focused imagination is employed by magicians for everything from the consecration of talismans to healing. concentration on a visualized image or symbol is the key to this type of working. in healing, the source of the infection or injury is often visualized as being dissolved, or the sick individual is "imaged as being free from the disease. the exploration of the unconscious realms usually begins with the "image" of descending into a basement, a cave, or the underworld. superconscious levels are often contacted by visualizing the climbing of a steep mo

or they will be scandalized. the pentagram, which in the gnostic schools is called the blazing star, is the sign of intellectual omnipotence and autocracy. it is the star ofthe magi; it is the word madejlesh..the sign of the pentagram is also the sign of the microcosm, and it represents what the kabalists of the book zohar term the microprosopus. the complete comprehension of the pentagram is the key of the two worlds. it is absolute philosophy and natural science.l6 as will be seen, all mysteries of magic, all symbols of the gnosis, allfigures of occultism, all kabalistic keys of prophesy are summed up in the sign of the pentagram, which paracelsus proclaims to be the greatest and most potent of all signsn17 gematria of the pentagram one way to study the pentagram is through the use of ge

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son, deputy halstead, mary hyre, and i went back to five mile creek road the next afternoon to look for my saucer. deputy halstead carried a geiger counter. as johnson followed my car up the hill he was startled when his car radio suddenly sprang to life, emitting police calls from the adjoining county. the amazing thing was that his radio was turned off at the time! it had to be turned on with a key and the key was not even in the lock! we searched for scorched marks, broken tree limbs, radioactivity, anything that could have provided evidence of my sighting. but as halstead and i clambered around the ravine i was chagrined to find that my estimates must have been way off. the object must have been further away from me than i thought, and therefore it had to be bigger than i thought (i es

ntified. a black-garbed phantom terrorized mattoon, illinois, in the 1940s, spraying a noxious gas into bedroom windows- on october 23, 1971, the washington post published a strange "gas" story involving president nixon's maid. the story contains some of the elements we have been discussing here. nixon maid stole in trance, she says miami, oct. 22 (ap) a part-time housekeeper at president nixon's key biscayne retreat has testified she was put in a hypnotic daze by a stranger who told her to shoplift four dresses. shirley cromartie, 32, and a mother of three, pleaded no contest thursday and was given a suspended sentence after law enforcement officers and a psychiatrist testified they believed she was telling the truth. mrs. cromartie holds a security clearance to work in the florida white

e to work in the florida white house, according to testimony. she said a woman met her in a parking lot and asked the time, then ordered her to take the items and bring them to her. mrs. cromartie testified she fell into a daze when the young woman released a jasminelike scent from her left hand "i just sort of lost my will. it was a terrifying experience" she testified. mrs. cromartie joined the key biscayne white house housekeeping staff about a year ago, according to fbi agent leo mc clairen. he testified her background was impeccable. dr. albert jaslow, a psychiatrist, said he examined her and found she could be hypnotized "quickly and easily" and believed she was telling the truth "but it wasn't the same when he hypnotized me" mrs. cromartie said "i couldn't remember anything afterwar

he others. the entities adopted a system of code names, giving each contactee a biblical name. i was the only one who knew which name applied to which contactee. they would tell contactee a in new jersey to give me a message or piece of advice about contactee b who lived in connecticut. contactee a wouldn't have the faintest notion of what they were talking about. another trick was to use certain key phrases. when a contactee whispered to me "do you know that cancer is contagious" i knew he or she had been talking to this one set of entities. then there were those damned synchronized events. the contactees stopped talking about the pope's fate. they were concerned now about an "em effect" scheduled for sometime in december. all of them said it would happen in the middle of the month and wo

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what previous magicians had done, the spirits they had contacted, and the successes they had. the magicians who now read these works are expected to be able to select the wheat from the chaff, in much the same fashion as an alchemist discerning the deliberate errors in a treatise on his subject. therefore it was (and is) insanity for the tyro to pick up a work on ceremonial magick like the lesser key of solomon to practise conjurations. it would also be folly to pick up crowley's magick in theory and practise with the same intention. both books are definitely not for beginners, a point which cannot be made too often. unfortunately, perhaps, the dread necronomicon falls into this category. crowley's magick was a testimony of what he has found in his researches into the forbidden, and forgot

n zonei, we come to the "book of entrance" which is really a system of self-initiation into the planetary spheres and may have something to do with the planetary arrangement of the steps of the ziggurats of mesopotamia, which were seven storeyed mountains. not much is revealed to the potential candidate for initiation as to how these "gates" work, or what he might find there, save to say that the key of one gate lies in mastering the gate before it. the mad arab was either keeping a sacred secret, or found human language inadequate to the task of describing what other initiates in similar systems have expressed in the vague abstractions of the truly illuminated, likening the experience to an lsd trip. the "incantations of the gates" follow, and are probably meant to accompany the preceding

f our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers of the elder gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. it has a name, and is called agga. the third sign is the sigil of the watcher. it is called bandar. the watcher is a race sent by the elder ones. it keeps vigil while one sleeps, provided the appropriate ritual and sacrifice has been performed: else, if called, it will turn upon you. these seals

but, verily, it were better to engrave another. these secrets i give to thee at the pain of my life, never to be revealed to the profane, or the banished, or the worshippers of the ancient serpent, but to keep within thine own heart, always silent upon these things. peace be to thee! henceforth, from that fateful night in the mountains of masshu, i wandered about the country-side in search of the key to the secret knowledge that had been given me. and it was a painful and lonely journey, during which time i took no wife, called no house or village my home, and dwelt in various countries, often in caves or in the deserts, learning several tongues as a traveller might learn them, to bargain with the tradespeople and learn of their news and customs. but my bargaining was with the powers that

ki's magick marduk struck again and severed the head of tiamat from its body. and all was silent. remember! marduk victor took the tablets of destiny unbidden hung them around his neck. acclaimed of the elder gods was he. first among the elder ones was he. he split the sundered tiamat in twain and fashioned the heavens and the earth, with a gate to keep the ancient ones without. with a gate whose key is hid forever save to the sons of marduk save to the followers of our master enki first in magick among the gods. from the blood of kingu he fashioned man. he constructed watchtowers for the elder gods fixing their astral bodies as constellations that they may watch the gate of absu the gate of tiamat they watch the gate of kingu they oversee the gate whose guardian is iak sakkak they bind. a

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

ild as an example: his desires are not great, and his mind is developed accordingly. a person in the jungle needs just enough wisdom to provide him what he needs. the more we want, the smarter we become, because the mind must get us what we want to have. the mind is but a consequence of the evolution of our desire. we seek and find all kinds of ways to get what we want. thus, a strong will is the key to the development of the mind. we needn t concern ourselves with developing the mind, only with developing the desire. a person who studies the wisdom of kabbalah doesn t have to be smart. it is enough to want to feel the desired. it is impossible to see the spiritual world with our mind s eye, only feel it in our soul. one should try and mingle with the suffering of the entire world, feel it

p him approach the things he reads about by himself. the rabbi did not teach beginners. instead, he would send them to other students and monitored their progress. students that were willing and diligent were summoned to study with him. the human desire to understand, manage and control is a very positive desire, because it makes additional desires add to one s original desires. however, the only key that we should really acquire in order for one to enter spirituality is the screen and the returning light. baal hasulam wrote the study of the ten sefirot deliberately so that the more it is delved into, the more questions arise. it is necessary for one to be able to labour in something while maintaining a certain aim. the labour comes from below, from man, but the aim is given from above, fr

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

tragedy. the soul of osiris. carmen saeculare. tannhauser. berashith. ahab. the god-eater. alice. the sword of song. the star and the garter. the argonauts. goetia. why jesus wept. oracles. orpheus. rosa mundi. gargoyles. collected works, vols. i, ii, and iii. by which, if they have eyes to perceive, they will become sacramental and holy, through the fire-baptism of a new birth, and will hold the key of all mysteries locked in the esoteric sign of the sabbatic goat, the baphomet of mendes, the signatures of solve and coagula. gthe everlasting yea and nay. h a.m.e.n. my faults are more numerous than i care to think of; yet it is without fear or trepidation that i offer this essay to the public. it has been a difficult task. in simple words and complex symbols crowley has written with st. le

ve, 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 that surround her throat, mix with her curls, and catch the hands that float like water-lilies on the wave.*1. c

mony, and, above all, their intense human love. as the editor says, those who fail to find religion in such poems must indeed be idiots, idiots who would bowdlerize shakespeare, shelley, and browning. neither was their love a mere selfish gratification of the senses. anxiously they waited to see gwhether the mother stood behind the bride, h falteringly he would not part with her till she held the key of the hereafter h; and ultimately they resigned all for the sake of others: even while i begged her, i well knew she must. we could not, loving to see children laugh, let cowards twit them with their mother fs lust. even our own purity confirmed the trust. how long, o lord, how long? too long by half till men read, wondering, wedlock fs epitaph *alice, an adultery, vol. ii, p. 82. aleister cr

of words appears only absurd to these who fail to understand their meaning. a word may be charged with meaning just as a battery may be charged with electricity. unconditionally there is little difference, beyond the literation, between ghocus-pocus h and ggee-up. h if i say the latter to my towel-horse, i do not expect it to break into a canter; if, however, i say it to my pony, and it holds the key of this mystery, i do; so with any other word. i say ghocus-pocus, h and the gullible are wrapped in mystery; or better i say ghoc est corpus h over some bread and wine, and the devout suppliant becomes filled with religious fervour. as in physics there is a kinetic force, so in metaphysics there is a kinetic ideation. to the qabalist, the qabalah unlocks as a key the corridor of the soul, and

t the greatest sages of all times have been able to attract within their focus so many hundreds of millions of rational beings? they themselves being only irrational and pathological mystagogues. if such men as krishna, mahomet, st. augustine, moses, orpheus, pythagoras, buddha, plato, jesus, and a host of equal and lesser names, owed their power to self-hypnosis, then indeed self-hypnosis is the key which in this world will unlock the fast closed corridor of its mysteries. crowley strongly attacks this kitchen-knavery: you weary me with proof enough that all this meditation stuff is self-hypnosis. be it so! do you suppose i did not know? still, to be accurate, i fear the symptoms are entirely strange. if i were hard, i fd make it clear that criticism must arrange an explanation different

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

luciferian may remain earth bound for some time. it is speculated that eventually something as this may grow boring and it would be time for the spirit to remain and move further into the astral. the tools of chaos magick are specifically anything which one would utilize to achieve her or his goal, the results being designed to correspond with the means. union through opposites essentially is the key, proving the direct descendent of aleister crowley highly commendable thelema system, or 93 current. four flying witches as a sorcerer who is drawn to and receives the initiatory spark via art, i was first drawn to this image years ago. this image was placed above my altar for some time, meditated on before sleeping and held a kind of gateway to my early experiences with the sabbat. here we fi

rate it in the name of the moon and the sun. when one goes forth to the sabbat, allow no restrictions to hinder you, listen to your guide and familiars which are the very messengers of the luciferic angel. death posture preliminary sensation. here we are able to see the alphabet of witches, the alphabet of desire as spare termed it. this very sigillic language is unique unto the sorcerer, it is a key to the depths and heights of the spirit, the language of the subconscious. please note the serpent which encircles the initiate, the death posture brings one within the very circle of azothoz, the alpha and omega and the very ophidian (sexual) essence of being. leviathan guards the quarters and coils in your rising shades and energy of the self. in essence, self love allows growth and discover

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

ath of the crooked serpent- leviathan and beelzebub and tiamat, pazuzu, and moloch are only some of the topics and figures covered. the second part of the book, the grimoires of luciferian witchcraft, includes several of his most infamous graveyard workings, together with the complete version of the luciferian goetia- a completely revised and updated version of the goetia grimoire from the lesser key of solomon the king. part three covers yatukan and ahrimanic persian sorcery. as i have mentioned before, it is the willingness and creativity of ford to look beyond worn-out christian- and hebrew-based demonology in search of black magick inspiration that marks his work as unique. here, forbidden heresies of millenia-old zoroastrian thought reveal their diabolic secrets to the sorceror. final

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

s the: ancient order of oriental templars ordo templi orientis otherwise: the hermetic brotherhood of light it is a modern school of magic. and, like the ancient schools of magic, it derived its knowledge from the east. this knowledge was never revealed to the profane, for it gave immense power for either good or evil to its possessors. it was recorded in symbol, parable and allegory, requiring a key for its interpretation. the symbols and glyphs of freemasonry were originally also derived from the more ancient mysteries. these symbols of ancient masonry, of the rosicrucians, the sacred art of the ancient chemi (egyptians, of homer s golden chain, like those of modern freemasonry, etc, are however but different aspects of the one great mystery. they all require a key to disclose the real u

eemasonry were originally also derived from the more ancient mysteries. these symbols of ancient masonry, of the rosicrucians, the sacred art of the ancient chemi (egyptians, of homer s golden chain, like those of modern freemasonry, etc, are however but different aspects of the one great mystery. they all require a key to disclose the real underlying meaning. there exists, however, but one right key, and moreover this one right key must be used the right way. this key can be placed within the reach of all those who are prepared unselfishly to study and work for its possession, if they apply for membership to the order of oriental templars (o.t.o. the o.t.o (ordo templi orientis) is a body of initiates in whose hands are concentrated the secret knowledge of all oriental orders and of all e

d 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 sepher ratziel. the order of elect cohens was founded at bordeaux in 1760 six years earlier de pasqually had unsuccessfully attempted to found an organization called the scottish judges which may well have been a first attempt to establish a magical/masonic link-up and quickly acquired a surprisingly large number of initiates. the membership (confined to those who had alread

als%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c3.html (2 of 3 [12/28/2001 2:01:29 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. mysterious hints regarding a great secret allegedly in the possession of the o.t.o. in 1912, seven years after kellner s death and the succession of reuss to the chieftainship of the o.t.o. the jubilee edition of the oriflamme gave some indication of the nature of this secret: our order possesses the key which opens up all masonic and hermetic secrets, namely, the teaching of sexual magic, and this teaching explains, without exception, all the secrets of freemasonry and all systems of religion. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c3.html (3 of 3 [12/28/2001 2:01:29 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part one the birth and development of the o.t

of the most closely guarded secrets of the o.t.o. i have had what is alleged to be this word communicated to me, but as i am uncertain of the purity of the source from which i received it i have not reproduced it. readers of this book who are students of qabalistic numerology will be able to reconstruct this word, however, for it has four letters and its numeration is 93, the same as that of the key thelemite words of thelema and agape. third degree opening the oasis is open in the second degree. the c. has been given the pass word, etc. the tent has been moved to the west of the well, facing east. the well is dry. s. crosses his hands, right over left; w. and e. take them and uncross them again. they then hold them above his head, through, save as stated. s: a. w: u. e: m. all (simultane

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

en ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. 3:24 when he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour [were] locked, they said, surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. 3:25 and they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened [them] and, behold, their lord [was] fallen down dead on the earth. 3:26 and ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto seirath. 3:27 and it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of ephraim, and the children of israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them. 3:28 and he said unto them, follow afte

drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. 22:20 and it shall come to pass in that day, that i will call my servant eliakim the son of hilkiah: 22:21 and i will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and i will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of jerusalem, and to the house of judah. 22:22 and the key of the house of david will i lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 22:23 and i will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father s house. 22:24 and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels

[some] of them they shall slay and persecute: 11:50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 11:51 from the blood of abel unto the blood of zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily i say unto you, it shall be required of this generation. 11:52 woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. 11:53 and as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the pharisees began to urge [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: 11:54 laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. 12:1 in the mean time, when there were gathered toget

5 he that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and i will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but i will confess his name before my father, and before his angels. 3:6 he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches. 3:7 and to the angel of the church in philadelphia write; these things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of david, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; 3:8 i know thy works: behold, i have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. 3:9 behold, i will make them of the synagogue of satan, which say they are jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, i will make them to come

one not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. 8:13 and i beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! 9:1 and the fifth angel sounded, and i saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 9:2 and he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 9:3 and there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 9:4 and it was commanded them that they should not hurt

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

career as magus and organizer, there is some reason to believe that crowley periodically may have wished for, or even attempted to create a more populist expression of magickal religion. the gnostic mass, which crowley wrote fairly early-on, had come since his death to somewhat fill this function through the oto-connected gnostic catholic church (egc. as we shall see momentarily, one of crowley's key followers was publishing manifestos forecasting the revival of witchcraft at the same time gardner was being chartered by crowley to organize an oto encampment. the oto itself, since crowley's time, has taken on a more popular image, and is more targeted towards international organizational efforts, thanks largely to the work under the caliphate of the late grady mcmurtry. this contrasts sharp

py out for himself in the days to come" stewart farrar in what witches do, 1971 "actually i did write a scholarly book about the craft; its title was inventing witchcraft. but i spent most of the last fifteen years failing to persuade carl weschcke of llewellyn or any other publisher that there was a market for it" aidan a. kelly, gnosis, winter, 1992..the gardnerian book of shadows is one of the key factors in what has become a far bigger and more significant movement than gardner can have envisaged; so historical interest alone would be enough reason for defining it while first-hand evidence is still available" janet and stewart farrar in the witches' way, 1984 "it has been alleged that a book of shadows in crowley's handwriting was formerly exhibited in gerald's museum of witchcraft on

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ular fact that in ireland it was the female organ which was shown in this position of protector upon the churches, and the elaborate though rude manner in which these figures were sculptured, show that they were considered as objects of great importance. they represented a female exposing herself to view in the most unequivocal manner, and are carved on a block which appears to have served as the key-stone to the arch of the door-way of the church, where they were presented to the gaze of all who entered. they appear to have been found principally in the very old churches, and have been mostly taken down, so that they are only found among the ruins. people have given them the name of 1 he adds in a note: les dessins de cet artiste, destin s l acad mie des belles lettres, sont pass s, on ne

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

ng the order of the let- ters in the name: the second name is symbolic of the house of man, where the spirit, no longer hidden but exalted, has moved from the center to the top in preparation for the sixth emanation. here the pentagram is read clockwise: t he common hexagram is a six-pointed star formed by the intersection of two equilateral triangles, with one pointing up and the other down. the key to its understanding is balance. opposites are expressed but do not dominate. each extreme is held in abeyance by the other, in this sense it is similar to the cross, which also represents balanced force. there is a second form of hexagram used in magic, called the unicursal because it can be traced with a single unbroken line. the magician aleister crow- ley first presented it in his book of

projected onto the star patterns by ancient chaldean philosophers who discerned in humanity and in table of dodecagram sign aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo libra scorpio sagittarius capricorn aquarius pisces element and motion form wild tame artist land-water wild priest lawyer land warrior tame laborer water level beast beast man creature beast man man creature man beast man creature color key i red red-purple purple blue-purple blue blue-green green yellow-green yellow yellow-orange orange red-orange being having thinking feeling commanding considering 1 weighing desiring perceiving using knowing serving nature the qualities represented by the zodiac. these twelve signs originally repre- sented various gods and goddesses of mesopotamia whose identities have mutat- ed and become obs

mutat- ed and become obscured over the centuries. the heavens served as a convenient place to f these divine emblems and contemplate their interaction. it becomes evident that the images of the zodiac were not suggested by the con- stellations when we try to trace correspondences between the mythic figures and the stars. beyond a few bright locator stars which are accepted by convention to define key features in the images-the three bright stars that form the belt of orion, for example-the constellations and the signs are not contiguous. this looseness in the relationships allowed other cultures, such as the ancient chinese, to assign com- pletely different mythic figures to the heavens. however, merely because the signs are not defined by the stars does not lessen their importance as arch

n the threefold division of the circle into whole (o, half( i, and quarter, so is the zodiac based on the sevenfold division of the four elements( a v a 7) and three motions, 0, and v. the double dodecagram by the combination of its element and motion, each sign is given an individual action. these can be infinitely elaborated, but they can also be summarized in a sin- gle word that will act as a key to the memory and call forth a full understanding of the sign when it is spoken or recalled. this catalytic word is for the personal use of the magus. it should be devised only after careful study of the sign and should be the most evocative of all possible words for the gestalt meaning of that sign. here are examples of what these catalytic words might be like; however, the magus would be wel

anners, which can be recalled easily without the need for memorization merely by understanding their graphic patterns. this is not the place to enter fully into the use of the twenty-four banners of tetra- grarnrnaton in ritual magic. those who are interested in pursuing this subject will iind it presented in detail in the author's work tetragrammaton: the secret to evoking angelic powers and the key to the apocalypse (llewellyn: st. paul, mn, 1995. when trying to understand a system of symbols, it is always helpful to break it down into its component parts. the zodiac has a twofold division into signs that are animal and signs that are human. the animal signs are aries, taurus, cancer, leo, scorpio, capricorn, and pisces. the human signs are gemini, virgo, libra, sagittarius, and aquarius

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

s been in a place free from easy access by the outer world they have usually been in symbolic robes and insignia.l16 both mathers and his wife, the former mina bergson, sister of the famous french philosopher henri bergson, were strongly mediumistic. they communicated with the secret chiefs through a variety of methods familiar to spiritualists-mathers specifically mentions astral projection as a key method in his manifesto, but he and his wife also used other techniques. almost the whole of the second order knowledge has been obtained by me from them in various ways; by clairvoyance, by astral projection on their part and on mine-by the table, by the ring and disc, at times by a direct voice audible to my external ear, and that of vestigia, at times copied from books brought before me, i

f what she perceived to be the corrupting taint of the egyptian adept. by this time, the sphere group had ceased to gather, but horniman's resentment against what she felt had been favoritism shown to farr by mathers and westcott lingered. whether this banishing ritual was ever done is unknown. traveling in the spirit vision astral projection, and its closely related activity, astral vision, were key parts of the golden dawn training in the second order. the techniques were fairly simple. as is true of all methods of soul flight, there was little value in elaborate external structures when almost all of the work was done internally, using concentration, willpower, and visualization. in the fifth knowledge lecture, a preliminary training for initiates, basic directions are provided for what

laces, especially in marshes, bogs, and swamps. the natural occurrence of such things as foxfire and marsh lights probably gave rise to these tales, which have taken on their own mythic vitality. ghosts of various kinds have been observed throughout human history, so it is not difficult to find the inspiration for the semi-transparent aliens that walk through walls. aliens are astral entities the key to making sense of this chaos of different alien types is to understand that none of them are physical in nature. they are all astral entities. spirits in the astral world can take on whatever forms best serve their needs or adopted purposes. however, most frequently they adopt the forms that meet the expectations in the minds of those who perceive them, since doing so is the best way of estab

omatic mechanism or an intelligent agent of some kind capable of preventing astral projection when there is the unconscious perception that some form of danger is being approached. it is difficult to know whether the danger warned against in these instances is real or an illusion. it appears similar to the blocks, which arise during psychoanalysis, that prevent a patient from facing up to certain key truths about his own mental state. in my opinion, the men in black are an astral manifestation of this coping mechanism. whether they are protecting the consciousness of the astral traveler, or secrets held by entities dwelling in the astral world, is another question. 179. bender, flying saucers and the three men. uses of ritual s hamans always use a ritual structure as a support for their so

d security. the parts of the ritual have been divided into two groups. the column on the left pertains to the house of ritual, which is erected around what is perceived as the boundary of the body. the column on the right pertains to the inhabitant of that house, and what is done with the body and mind during the enactment of the ritual. 162 soul flight 1. chamber 6. posture 2. door 7. gesture 3. key 8. sound 4. corridor 9. imagery 5. elevator 10. will chamber the ritual is conducted on the astral level, its parts created and sustained in the imagination. these astral components are reinforced by a physical space, material objects, and movements of the body. what is done on the physical level during ritual is reflected on the astral level, but the astral environment often differs in its de

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

pproach magic for the first time often have the childish notion that magic will work independently, without any effort required on their part. this naive expectation stems from the mistaken belief that magic is something external and separate from the self, that its incantations, sigils, and pentacles function by themselves, in much the same way that a car engine runs by itself with a turn of the key. this is false. there is no such thing as a word or a symbol that has power inherent in itself. these things are tools, nothing more, and must be skillful manipulated. learning how to use them properly takes practice, determination, and most of all, plain old hard work. the tools of magic must be employed on all levels simultaneously. it is not enough to wave a wand about in the air, it must b

od floor of the astral temple described in exercise 19. the altar of polished black marble is immediately in front of you in the center of the circle. a white candle burns on its top in a plain brass holder. you stand in the western quarter of the circle facing the eastern wall of the astral temple. see painted on the mist-gray wall in front of you the upright solid yellow triangle that forms the key feature of the eastern part of your astral temple. take a deep breath and hold the air in your lungs for four slow beats as you visualize the warm light from your heart-center radiate outward to expand your aura into a sphere. the sphere of your aura surrounds the altar directly in front of you but does not extend beyond the painted circle of the astral temple. touch your right index finger to

ok i, clavicuk salomonis regs. illustrated second edition, edited and introduced by aleister crowley. further editing by hymenaeus beta. york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1995. first edition first published 1904. almost all the credit for this work belongs to mathers. crowley contributed very little, although he did add a few sketches of demons to the second edition. this is not really the lesser key or lemegeton, but only the first book of that large manuscript. since it is the best known and most widely available of the grimoires of suggested reading 323 demonic spirit evocation, it is worth studying for the practical insights into spirit evocation as a whole that it provides the serious practitioner. the k q of solomon the king (clavicula salomonis. york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 198

most widely available of the grimoires of suggested reading 323 demonic spirit evocation, it is worth studying for the practical insights into spirit evocation as a whole that it provides the serious practitioner. the k q of solomon the king (clavicula salomonis. york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1989. first published in 1888. it is a tribute to mathers' skill as an editor that his version of the key of solomon has survived for more than a century to become the standard grimoire of western magic. it is invaluable as a practical guide to traditional spirit evocation. regardie, israel. ceremonial magic. northamptonshire, england: the aquarian press, 1980. several rituals derived from the teachings of aleister crowley. this is a good introduction to crowley's rituals. it will be a bit bewilde

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

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

s between the vision of st. john, dee's hieroglyphic monad, and the enochian diaries, and unlock many of the secrets in these works. because the throne and clock are so important in understanding tetragrammaton, i have examined the system of enochian magic in considerable detail in chapter xvi. xvi tetragrammaton appendix a contains the corrected english text of all eighteen enochian keys and the key of the thirty aethers, with an accompanying analysis of the symbolism in the keys. this study shows the angels of the keys to possess the same apocalyptic nature as those described by st. john the divine in his biblical book of revelation. i have put forward the theory, which will undoubtedly arouse controversy, that the watchtowers and enochian keys are parts of a great ritual of ceremonial m

cely be overstressed. a new technique for graphically projecting the twelve banners is presented in chapter v. in traditional magic, the ordering of the twelve forms of the name is incorrect, as i have demonstrated in my book, the new magus* from the underlying numerical pattern of the banners. very likely the true arrangement was known but was concealed from the vulgar to prevent its misuse. the key to the correct arrangement lies in the letters that begin each banner. the letters of ihvh are linked to the four elements: i= fire, h= water, v= air, and the second h= earth. each letter begins three banners. similarly, each element is related to three signs of the zodiac. clearly a parallel relationship may be established between these triplets, and it is logical to begin such a series with

edition was brought out by dee at frankfurt in 1591. despite the interest it aroused, no one understood it. dee deliberately concealed the plain meaning of the symbol under a cloak of alchemical and mathematical allusions. diane di prima, who provides a brief biographical note to the weiser edition of the monad, states 'we have the assurance of the several dee scholars of the present day that the key to the interpretation of 'the hieroglyphic monad' is lost" she goes on to say that the understanding of the symbol of the monad seems to require the assistance of an "oral teaching" that has not come down to us, although dee probably communicated it to others in his lifetime. i believe i have the key, or one of the keys, to a true understanding of dee's monad symbol. while i do not pretend to

tziruph or themura" since dee was both a skilled kabbalist and a devoted christian, it is virtually certain that he knew and embraced the doctrine, held by pico della mirandola, johannes reuchlin, francesco giorgi, and cornelius agrippa, that the fivefold name of jesus had supplanted the place of tetragrammaton as the supreme wonder-working name. it is this esoteric name of jesus that is the lost key to understanding the hieroglyphic monad. the glyph of the monad is drawn by dee according to very exact proportions, which i have reproduced in the figure on the opposite page, although these proportions do not enter into the basic examination of the figure we will undertake here. dee begins the construction of the monad with a single point, the origin of all things. he extends from this point

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ TIMING IN GREATER AND LESSER BLACK MAGIC

given myself this pleasant gift through my mastery of time" eventually the missed moment, the awkward scramble to get somewhere, becomes a thing of the past. 8. if you want to make lasting change in the minds of men, learn to observe the times. study the lives of satanic masters like zaharoff, rasputin, cagliostro, rosenburg, von list, the brothers grimm. how was the perfect historical timing the key to the changes that each of these flock have worked upon human consciousness? contrast them with other figures in history that had the right idea, but expressed it at the wrong time. learn to be patient and vigilant- coiled like a snake ready to spring. saying something too early just to prove you're clever may give you an instant gratification, but preparing your ground is the key to a good h

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

erstanding of modern western spirituality and culture as a whole. this importance is at least threefold. first, with his radical rejection of victorian morality and his central emphasis on sex as the supreme magical power, crowley is a remarkable reflection of his era and of the sexual attitudes of late and post-victorian england.viii second, with his study of hinduism and buddhism, he was also a key figure in the transmission of indian religious traditions to the west, including the controversial traditions of indian tantra. but as i hope to show, although crowley did know a fair amount about hatha yoga, raja yoga and other indian religious practices, he does not appear to have known much about tantra. what he did know seems to have come through secondary, superficial and often highly dis

nd often highly distorted sources that are deeply colored by the victorian orientalist biases of the 19th century. nonetheless, not long after crowley's death, tantra would soon become largely confused in the western popular imagination with crowleyian-style sex magic. ironically, despite his general ignorance about the subject, and arguably without ever intending to do so, crowley would become a key figure in the transformation and often gross mis-interpretation of tantra in the west, where it would become increasingly detached form its cultural context and increasingly identified with sex. finally, in part because of this equation of tantra and sexual magic, crowley has also been one of the most influential figures in the revival of magic and a variety of alternative religions at the tur

modern western society. as foucault argues, the victorian era has often mistakenly been characterized as a period of prudish repression and denial of sexuality. in fact, the late 19th century witnessed an unprecedented explosion of discourse about sex, which was now categorized, classified, debated and discussed in endless detail.x crowley's writings on sexuality and magic, i will suggest, were a key part of this larger fascination with sexuality during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. yet crowley would also push this discourse about sexuality a good deal further than most of his contemporaries would have dared; indeed, crowley would make acts such as masturbation and homosexual intercourse keys to magical power. in bataille's terms, we might say that much of crowley's sexual practi

ual deviance in the late nineteenth century. yet like others of the post-victorian era, he would struggle heroically to break free of that world, setting out deliberately to destroy that useful, productive victorian social order through the most extreme acts of consumption and excess. iii. sex is a sacrament: crowley and the origins of western sexual magic [t]he science of the sexual magic is the key to the development and the underlying secret of all masonic symbols [i]t is certain that the sexual question has become the most burning question of our time- theodor reuss "mysteria mystica maxima"xliii the sexual act is a sacrament of wiil. to profane it is the great offense. all true expression of it is lawful; all suppression or distortion of it is contrary to the law of liberty- crowley

and a slave from madagascar, randolph was raised a poor, self-taught free black in new york city. after running away from home at age sixteen, he traveled the world and later emerged as one of the leading figures in 19th century spiritualism and america's foremost exponent of magical eroticism or affectional alchemy. in sexual love "he saw the greatest hope for the regeneration of the world, the key to personal fulfillment as well as social transformation and the basis of a non-repressive civilization. xlvi -147- paschal beverly randolph in the course of his wanderings in the middle east, randolph claimed to been initiated by a group of fakirs in the area of jerusalem, which may have been a branch of the mystical order of the nusa'iri- a group long persecuted by orthodox islam because of

VOX SABBATUM

ng the peacock to show that he could if he wished create beauty but chose darkness. the peacock angel, known as malak (meaning king, a word associated with sufi) and tauus (peacock) represents shaitan or azazel the fire djinn. the term angel is accordance to such lore is that angels are the higher aspect, or faculties of man. the symbol of the snake is blackened with soot. the word itself holds a key to its meaning, black is from the word fehm (which means charcoal) and is related to the arabic root fhm, being wisdom or knowledge. the black snake and peacock represent the wisdom of life. then the great lord, malak tauus, said to the angels, i want to create adam and eve and make them give rise to mankind. of the seed of adam there shall be 11 derived from a sufi called sheik adi ibn musafi

ess which is the gathering of shades and ghosts; many have evoked her there in the crossroads. it is also the place of where faust summoned mephistopheles, who came forth from the forest before him. the crossroads is the place where you visualize and focus your mind towards before sleep you may also visualize and x or a+ as the meeting place of the dreaming sabbat. the imagination is the ultimate key of the black magician or sorcerer who seeks to go forth to the sabbat it is the vehicle of self-assumption of deific forms or masks of lycanthropy. when preparing for the dream sabbat, decorate your temple or sleeping area in accordance with that which reminds you of a sabbat images from old grimoires, sigils, demonic images, masks or other elements which aid the working. the most important ho

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

n which it revolves is the existence of a building secret, represented as a master-word, which the builder died to preserve. owing to his untimely death, the word was lost, and it has always been recognized in masonry that the temple, unfinished at the moment of the untoward event, remained with its operations suspended and was completed later on by those who obviously did not possess the word or key. the tradition has descended to us and, as i have said, we are still on the quest. now what does all this mean? we have no concern at the present day, except in archaeology and history, with king solomon's temple. what is meant by this temple and what is the lost word? these things have a meaning, or our system is stultified. well, here are burning questions, and the only direction in which we

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

t by glancing at a tarot card. this is a book of practical christification. this is a book of transcendental esotericism and absolutely practical. we do not theorize here. this work is one hundred percent practical. many students long for their christification but they do not know where to start, because they do not know the clue, the secret. here we give to the student, the clue, the secret, the key. here you have it, thirsty lovers of the truth. now practice, you are not alone. we love you profoundly, thus when you are treading the path of the razor s edge, you will be internally assisted by us, the brethren of the temple. in this course we deliver the clue of resurrection. we have ripped the veil of the sanctuary. here you have all the secrets; here are all the clues of christification

conciencia en cuerpo astral. pues bien, si se considera la formaci n de este signo resalta la continuidad de un mismo brazo que cierra un doble circuito en el primer rasgo, mientras que en el segundo, s lo cierra uno, desvi ndose en el otro, para proyectarse hacia fuera despu s de cortar el signo en el punto mismo de su cruzamiento central. uno cierra y el otro abre. 11 this is thus the required key to open all the doors, in order to cut all the currents formed by the atomic energy, from where we have imagined and deposited in the depth of the consciousness, until the one that originates all, which circulates in the same manner into the center of the ninth sphere. now then, in order to save the appeals related to the inherent risks of every astral experience and to obtain a fast and, at t

to transmute the lead of the personality into the pure gold of the spirit: this is alchemy. the moon must be transformed into the sun. the moon is the soul; the sun is the inner christ. we need to be christified. no human being can return to the father without having been devoured by the serpent. no one can be devoured by the serpent without having worked in the flaming forge of vulcan (sex. the key of christification is the arcanum a.z.f. the mantra for the arcanum a.z.f. is i.a.o. i (ignis, fire; a (aqua) water; o (origo, principle, spirit. la madre lleva a su hijo (el verbo) en sus brazos. y est sentada entre las dos columnas que simbolizan al hombre y la mujer. adorad a la virgen del mar, hermanos m os. en el arcano ii del tarot aparece la divina madre asiendo con su mano el signo del

in the center of the septenary star of alchemy according to the illustration of viridarium chymicum. such a venerable face in the septenary star of alchemy symbolizes the sophic mercury (the ens seminis. listen pigeons of alchemy, listen to how estolsio explains this emblem: that which was enclosed within many forms, now you see it included in one thing; the beginning is our elder and he has the key; sulfur with salt and mercury give wealth. if you do not see anything here, there is no reason for you to keep searching, for you will be blind even in the midst of the light. those students of occultism who think that they can acquire in depth self-realization without the arcanum a.z.f. are absolutely mistaken. the great secret sister master stated that those who want to know the mysteries of

. adorando. cuando el estudiante despierte de su sue o, no se mueva. practique un ejercicio retrospectivo para recordar sus experiencias internas, d nde estuvo, por d nde pas en cuerpo astral, que hizo, qu vio, etc, etc. este ejercicio debe ser diariamente, sin cansarse jam s. tendr is que llegar a ver y a o r las grandes realidades internas. 54 arcanum 8 let us study, in this lecture, the eighth key of basil valentine (illustration of viridarium chymicum) the eight key is a clear and perfect alchemical allegory of the processes of death and resurrection that inevitably occur in the esoteric preparation of the philosophical stone. the entire inner preparation of the stone and the metallic transmutation are represented in this allegory. the entire human material employed in this work dies

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

agination, pathwork or visualization. jung himself had a primary "archetypal friend" whose name was philamon. if you work with the tarot, begin meditating on the 14th arcana (which pictures an angel) for inspiration. an excellent treatise on the h. g. a. is given in the book, meditations on the tarot (1991) by valentin tomberg (who here calls himself anonymous, in his reflection on the temperance key(#14. it is truly an inspirational chapter where he explains, from a hermetic point of view, the functions of the h. g. a: to guard, cherish, protect, visit and defend. there are many other excellent books on angels available today that can deepen the aspirant's relationship with his or her h. g. a. this is an age in which humankind is being visited by angelic beings in a way perhaps never know

ne the correct way for a magical square, seal, and sigil to be constructed. the magical square is called the kamea, which means to bond. it is the power grid of the planetary energy being called upon and is based entirely upon number. to each sephira belongs a number and its corresponding planetary entities: god-name, intelligence, angels, or spirits. these are drawn from the kamea that holds the key to the basic planetary numbers. the numbers in the square are arranged so that the sum of any row, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, are the same when added up (this includes mercury) in mathematics, this is known as the magic constant of the square. if a square does not add up diagonally, it is called a semi-magical square. the kamea reveals the planetary essence through the language o

igils anyway. many persons making talismans probably copy the sigils without bothering to question the full import of what they are doing. some authors do not even give the information about how to make a true sigil, so the reader is left with no choice but to copy the ones he or she be-lieves are correct. let us look at an example of the correct way of tracing a sigil onto a kamea. the principal key the student needs is the chart frequently known as the aiq beker (see the table in figure 4-r, which has nine chambers, or a chart that refers the numerical equivalents to sephira kether chokmah binah chesed geburah tiphareth netzach hod yesod number 1, 10, 100 2, 20, 200 3, 30, 300 4, 40, 400 5, 50 6, 60 7, 70 8, 80 9, 90 letter a. i. q b. k. r g, l, sh d, m, t, th h. e. n v, s z, 0 ch, p, f

across agrippa's kamea, one notices that it begins to get chaotic at about cell 15 (this is where it turns back on itself, as can be seen in figure 8-c. when a seal is traced through theosophic extension on any correct planetary kamea and begins this kind of pattern, you can be pretty sure it is not going to produce a pleasing or symmetrical design) interestingly, this is the number of the devil key (see figure 8-d) in the tarot (or the antithesis or shadow of the sun. case's design is somewhat more pleasing (see figure 8-e, but it is still not symmetrical. both magical squares are given if the student wants to trace these seals. for a long time i looked at alternate kameas of the sun that were mathematically correct but could not find a symmetrical design. then i discovered that a six-or

the perfect coordination of desires (the rose) with the basic pattern of creation (the cross. the rose in the center represents equilibrium and balance of all the forces of nature. an ancient rosicrucain motto was "my victory is in the rosy-cross" the figure of brother c. r, because he represented true adeptship, or one who had conquered death (which is represented by the letter nun in the death key of the tarot [see figure 9-l, was often referred to as the lamb. in the book of revelations, the lamb with seven horns had the power to open the book of seven seals. there have been many interpretations of this passage, but the most obvious one points to the seven seals that are connected to the seven planetary deities, over which the figure 9-k lamb had authority. the value in latin for lamb

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

who were willing to sell out their own kind for "promises" of personal material gain. the irony was that most of these collaborators payed a horrible price once their usefulness had expired, many of them being "replaced" and their "originals" sent to "the vats. poetic justice you might say. there is apparently no honor among thieves! anyway, ah yes, maurice doreal! could he have found the "master key" to explain the singular part that who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (7 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:57] our planet earth has played in galactic history? i believe it is very possible. during one of his visits, doreal was taken to an ancient records repository beneath the himalayas, where he viewed crystal-holographic recordings which rev

group- wherein both humanoid and reptiloid and other genetically-engineered species reportedly engage in conflicts and/or collaborations due to involvement with a common non-exclusive collective or group-mind matrix called the "ashtar" or "astarte" network- is centered in sirius-b and in turn in arcturus, aldebaran, and altair. but for some reason planet earth is considered by all sides to be the key to the whole conflict, which is why all sides are taking a direct interest in events here. what does our planet possess that the "aliens" desire? well, a few possibilities may include: ancient underground repositories; the "root" genetic sources from which many of the galactic civilizations were born; rare minerals, chemicals, and water in abundance; a remarkably unique electromagnetic grid wh

kinds of people in this world. 1- those who make things happen; 2- those who wait for things to happen; 3- those who wonder what happened! did the philadelphia experiment open up more than just a hole in hyperspace? could it have actually opened up a doorway for other-dimensional 'dracos' to come flooding into our world in massive numbers, even to the point of infiltrating our world and replacing key political figures in order to impose their agenda upon us? read the following and you might just begin to wonder. a reader of the cac [cosmic awareness communications] newsletter sent the following message to cac, which responded in a derogatory manner suggesting the information was false. being that the cac information is channelled, one has to wonder about the motives of beings who cannot or

etheless. cac stated "this awareness indicates that this is a great setback for the new world order, for the new world order was a plan by and for the reptoids, and it would have benefited greatly had the reptoids made their invasion on earth. it would have led to the need for a new world order" it makes sense. unite all nations into a central power and you will only have to take control of a few key individuals rather than dealing with numerous stubbornly independent sovereignties. the query that was sent to cac was as follows "someone by the name of angela douglas, out of ormond beach, florida, who has a business called artistic creations sent a couple of unsolicited statements which have a ring of truth, but i suspect there's something here that could be fantasy also. anyway, i'm going

cia is literally infested with implantees and clones if not alien 'imposters' themselves, and it would indeed be the logical agency for an alien force to infiltrate and take over if they wanted to infiltrate and subvert our society. in fact the cia's 'trojan horse' treaties with the dracos and greys in the past would certainly have 'opened the door' for at least the abduction and implantation of key figures within the agency. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (68 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:20:co halloween. sly does it. tiptoe catspaw. slide and creep. but why? what for? how? who? when! where did it all begin 'you don't know, do you' asks carapace clavicle moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the halloween tree 'you

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

tances to attend a sabbat. the witches have stories of people stealing out of houses at night to attend, borrowing their masters' horses; or maybe the master himself saddled his own horse and rode off to the meeting without telling his wife. these worn-out horses back in their stables by cockcrow may have given rise to stories of pixies riding the horses. in the castletown museum is a stable-door key with a holed stone tied to it to stop the fairies from riding the horses. these roman-british fairy girls were often very beautiful and many of the men attending the sabbat brought back fairy wives and usually had very happy marriages. this was quite common among small farmers who lived in isolated places; but it was frowned on by the more respectable part of the community. times slowly change

d, the sorcerers were not, and that they secretly used witches as mediums to attain success in their arts. with the help of these clairvoyants they became successful as prophets, and probably the witches took several of their ideas and certainly some of their tools. i have seen seven witches' swords; of these, four had apparently been made for sorcerers, according to the pattern prescribed in the key of solomon, with hebrew inscriptions on hilt and blade. there are two in the museum in castletown. other implements bear hebrew inscriptions and so seem to be connected with hebrew or kabbalistic magic. but stores do not cater for witches, and a poor witch has to get her tools as and how she can. there is also a great resemblance to what are now unimportant parts of freemasonry; but while the

ver there for anyone to kiss. i cannot make it any clearer than that, can i? as i have said, there is no pact with the devil or with anyone else. this, i think, arose from the faust type of legend which may have been coined by clerics to frighten people from thinking of engaging in magical practices, or possibly to explain why people who performed magical experiments of the more or less permitted key of solomon type, without using a medium, usually did not succeed. these stories were usually fabricated in order to boost the power of some saint and were to the effect that a sorcerer, after years of failure, had made a pact with the devil, selling his soul for so many years of wealth and power. when his time came he prayed to the particular saint, who called up the devil and by force or tric

tioned earlier, and from this black book comes the important post of black rod. one would think that there must have been important reasons to conceal something before such a book could be taken away or lost. the late hargrave jennings seemed convinced that there was some deep mystery here, but he apparently did not know, or if he did he did not mention this witch mark, which is also shown in the key of solomon. all this may be purely coincidence, and coincidence killed the professor. but if no one mentions coincidences, there is little chance of finding further facts; and there is the undoubted fact that the garter is a badge of rank among witches, and further there is a prehistoric rock drawing in france supposed to represent a magical witch ceremony, twelve women dancing round a man who

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

her to catch up. presently the miserable traveler appeared, following the tortuous road, more unhappy than ever because of his loss. as soon as he saw his property lying there, he ran towards it, shouting with joy. that s one way of producing happiness, said nasrudin. 291 there is more light here someone saw nasrudin searching for something on the sidewalk. what have you lost, mulla? he asked. my key, said the mulla. so they both went down on their knees and looked for it. after a time the other man asked: where exactly did you drop it? in my house. then why are you looking here? there is more light out here than inside my own house. the blind man and the lamp one night, a blind man was carrying a large vase over his shoulder with one arm and holding out a torch with the other hand. a pass

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

moderns must seem curious and mystical in the highest degree. the numerals of pythagoras, says porphyry, who lived about 300 a.d, were hieroglyphic symbols, by means whereof he explained all ideas concerning the nature of things, and the same method of explaining the secrets of nature is once again being insisted upon in the new revelation of the secret doctrine, by h. p. blavatsky. numbers are a key to the ancient views of cosmogony in its broad sense, spiritually as well as physically considered and to the evolution of the present human race; all systems of religious mysticism are based upon numerals. the sacredness of numbers begins with the great first cause, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the one, and ends only with the naught or zero--symbo

y affliction. orthodox jews were very particular about the cuttings from the nails; a pious man buries them, an orderly man burns them, but he who throws them away is wicked; for if a woman step over them, mischance may follow. moed katon, 18. i. the nails should be trimmed on a friday and never on a thursday. there are three keys, which god keeps to himself and which no man can gain nor use; the key of life, the key of rain, and the key of the resuscitation of the dead. taanith, 2; 1 and 2. the jewish butcher of kosher meat must use three knives; one to slaughter the animal, another to cut it up, and a third to remove the suet which was unlawful food; as pork is. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott three acolytes must attend the high priest when he w

holy people as mentioned in daniel xii. 7 is for three times and a half, by which we were to understand a period of suffering. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 50. chapter eight the tetrad, four, 4. he pythagoreans, said nicomachus, call the number four the greatest miracle, a god after another manner, a manifold divinity, the fountain of nature, and its key bearer. it is the introducer and cause of the permanency of the mathematical discipline. it is most masculine and robust; it is hercules and aeolus. it is mercury, vulcan, and bacchus. among the muses, urania. they also called it feminine, effective of virility, and an exciter of bacchic fury. in harmony, it was said to form by the quadruple numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es

ivers of the infernal regions according to the greeks, phlegethon, cocytus, styx and acheron; 4 elements of metaphysics; being, essence, virtue, action. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 4 masonic virtues. 4 evangelists and gospels; matthew, mark, luke, john, related to the four kerubic forms of the man, lion, bull and eagle (see wheel of fortune of tarot, key 10--hew65) and thus to the zodiacal signs--aquarius, leo, taurus and scorpio (the relation of aquila to scorpio is a rosicrucian secret. one of the abstruse dogmas of the kabalah concerns the four worlds of emanation; atziluth, briah, yetzirah and assiah. these are not worlds in any ordinary sense, but rather planes of development and existence, the former the most diaphanous and exalted, the

ld, and after complete purification will in the 7th race of the 7th cycle become reunited to the spiritual logos and in the end to the absolute. our earth has been already thrice changed, and each cycle sees seven kings (as of edom. there were seven kings of edom, genesis, xxxvi. v. 31; the kabalists consider these as types of primordial worlds which failed to survive their creation. seven is the key to the mosaic creation, as to the symbols of numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott every religion. there are seven planes of being, the upper three are subjective and unknowable to mankind, the lower four are objective and may be contemplated by man as metaphysical abstractions. so there are the seven principles of man, and the upper triad are parted from t

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

egyptian theology. had a similar course been adopted by commentators in the past, the chald an system expounded in these oracles would not have been distorted in the way it has been. the foundation upon which the whole structure of the hebrew kabalah rests is an exposition of ten deific powers successively emanated by the illimitable light which in their varying dispositions are considered as the key of all things. this divine procession in the form of three triads of powers, synthesized in a tenth, is said to be extended through four worlds, denominated respectively atziluth, briah, yetzirah and assiah, a fourfold gradation from the subtil to the gross. this proposition in its metaphysical roots is pantheistic, though, if it may be so stated, mediately theistic; while the ultimate noumeno

irect rapport with "the father" and "moved by unspeakable counsels" these are clearly identical with the kabalistic conception of the presidential heads of the four letters composing the deity name in so many different languages. a parallel tenet is conveyed in the oracle which runs "there is a venerable name projected through the worlds with a sleepless revolution" the kabalah again supplies the key to this utterance, by regarding the four worlds as under the presidency of the four letters of the venerable name, a certain letter of tile four being allotted to each world, as also was a special mode of writing the four lettered name appropriate thereto; and, indeed in that system it is taught that the order of the elements, both macrocosmic and microcosmic, on every plane, is directly contr

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

sented as spacious and space as temporal; by contrast, time-space presumes the onefold origin (or originary onefold) of space and time that allows for separation in the manner of temporalizing and spatializing determinations. notwithstanding the critical turn in his thinking, vestiges of his older view that privileged time are evident in heidegger s later compositions. consider, for instance, the key term site for the moment, augenblicksst tte, which, as noted above, is associated with the experience of the ab-ground. the conjunctive grammatical state implies that we are seeking the site for the moment, not the moment for the site, and hence temporality is primary and spatiality secondary. furthermore, heidegger s description of the hint or the hesitating selfrefusal, which is upheld as th

ositions (idea, duration, and space, on the one hand, and force, perception, emotion, and desire, on the other, and he maps out a psychic and transpsychic universe that is extremely complex, a seductive place, a source of communion and sacredness for those who love to read. at this point, the line of reasoning has been developed enough so that the formula of in search of lost time, the alchemical key to unlock its meaning, may be announced. this augmented place, which we feel and which may be inaccessible, but which is constantly promised to us, is presented by the preposition we find in the title of the work, a preposition that indicates continual movement: a la recherche we are always in search. in this way, the place remains an open one, and it is not closed off within the revolution of

ent of the hermeneutical dictum discussed above: ein muqdam u-me uhar ba-torah. just as the reader need not assume an absolute temporal order operative in scripture that would prevent undermining the criterion of before and after, so one need not presume that in the nature of existence anterior and posterior are aligned in an unwavering causal relationship. encircling the linear pattern holds the key to comprehending the kabbalistic notion of timeless time, the time-devoid-of-time, that is, the void of time that engenders the time of void that reverses the sequential pattern of antecedent and corollary. if we were to consider temporality only from the perspective of the corporeal world, then we would have to uphold scholem s point that for kabbalists the realm of emanation is not subject t

m. this is the secret of the dictum of the rabbis, blessed be their memory, progeny, livelihood, and sustenance are not dependent on merit [zekhuta] but on fortune [mazzla],221 for everything depends on the world of mercy, which is the source.222 through the weave of rabbinic and mystical themes that make up the fabric of this text, the reader is afforded an opportunity to contemplate some of the key hermeneutical assumptions that have informed the kabbalistic ontology of 94 chapter two time. the initial thing to note is the nexus between temporality and prayer223 if one plumbs the depth of the mystery of worship, one will comprehend the dynamics of time, a theme to which i return below. reiterating what was by his time the standard kabbalistic understanding of prayer, david ben yehudah ch

pter two known, in the secret of waw within the supernal he. and even the day [ha-yom] is there in concealment, and this is [the import of] what is written, there shall be a continuous day [only known to the lord] that is neither day nor night, and there shall be light at eventide (zech 14:7. this is the seventh day that is entirely sabbath, as is known.293 in a touch of historical irony, on this key doctrinal point (though surely not exclusively on this point) there is a basic agreement between the lithuanian kabbalist and the view espoused by the lubavitch masters. focusing especially on the gender implications of this eschatological conception of time as the reconstitution of the male androgyne, the comment of shneur zalman on the verse on that very day abraham was circumcised, be-esem

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a connection therein may be observed. the circle casting is one of which the individual proclaims his and her mastery over their own being, that by moving widdershins around the circle will enflame the self during invocation; that is to envision each manifestation via minds' eye with each call. for instance, when one calls south, they would envision the fire djinn, in the north, seth. this is the key to the success of magical work; the imagination. south- the devil-djinn mentioned is shaitan or azazel, the fallen seraph whom is made entirely of flame. it is this original legend which brought forth the separation of the god-divinity or natural order to an adversarial or antinomianian process of anti-order. the mentioning of "blackened light" is the light of azazel, or shaitan embodied on ea

initiate within illuminates a light brighter than any star. this is the very essence of lucifer, the promethean fire of independence and willed self perception. this sigil, in it s own unity is the fire of the black flame, the fulgurous flash from which brought the unity of daemon and man to create a divine spirit. 12 the sigil of will, the core attribute of luciferian separation. the will is the key and core of magickal success and self-deification. this is one part of mastery, but essentially the foundation of the great work. the foundations of vampyrism may be found in the exploration of the sigil also. the vampyre is viewed as a being an archetype of the isolate self and the essence of life. blood is the symbol of vitality and immortality, thus a spiritual evolution from the shadow ess

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our. because of their unique rank, there is some confusion with the original dee manuscripts. each king and prince govern a whole day, but their main seats of power are still within their respective hours of the day, as designated to them in the following pages. the descriptions and powers of the kings and princes may at first appear somewhat archaic, and are arranged as dee transcribed them. the key to their functions is not planetary, but lies in the application of the biblical verses of genesis to the first seven days of creation. the seal of king camara is shown in figure 73. 109 sunday president: isr vice president: ave the seal of ave is shown in figure 74. king: bobogel figure 74 prince: bornogo the seal of bornogo is shown in figure 75. governors: bonefon over the hour of mars barn

ngths (refer to section 3 for their functions. i have not referred to the enochian language in this discussion. the use of language opens up a whole new set of problems, in trying to match grammar and syntax, which are beyond the scope of this work. i would refer the reader to the schuelers' book enochian magic, which gives one explanation of these central letters using the enochian language as a key to interpretation. the seven seals on the holy table there are some specific colors in the dee manuscripts which kelley assigned to various sections of the seals on the holy table. the golden dawn system, in contrast, has the colors relate to the seven planets, with the letters and/or names in the complementary colors. the seven seals, in the dee manuscripts, were transcribed letter by letter

his type of work has, sadly, never been discussed in full before. before we actually get into this discussion, the definition of astral projection must be explored. today, there are two major divisions of thought on this important subject. the first considers that when one projects into an enochian square he or she is, in fact, projecting into their own psyche using an artificial archetype as the key. the second school of thought believes one is actually making contact with some completely dissociated force, 158 either external or internal, and that this area is what we call the astral. my own personal belief is that one school of thought necessitates the other. in other words, a person must travel deep within his own psyche before he releases himself in the astral, the internal pressure b

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ught. on weekends he held classes for the inner order members to hone their knowledge to a fine point. these included ritual, enochian pronunciation, and meditative exercises in the vault. by 1926, the year of fe&in's death, the inner order had grown to over 100 members with an unspecified number in the outer order. the inner order group was an extremely wealthy one and had members in many of the key local bodies throughout the havelock north and hastings area and collectively wielded a tremendous amount of power for the area. some felt this when they tried to divulge information on whare ra to outsiders. one such individual (whose wife was apparently a member) was convinced that felldn practiced black magic in his basement and was determined to close the temple down. he went to a number o

ters i.n.r.i. we recall the varied significance attributed to these letters jesus nazarenus rex judicorum. it is, of course, a form of the 4-fold name (yod he vau he, but its essential significance is not creative but redemptive. the sun in virgo accomplishing the transmutation of scorpio. the virgin mother treading on the head of the serpent that the father may be born anew in the son. it is the key to the whole rosicrucian philosophy, the redemtion of matter, transforming the human into the divine. the blending of the dew and fire in purification and consecration. the exaltation of the cross of light. so, from the four we pass to three the triangle of spirit rising from the cube of matter. isis the eternal virgin (under whatever name we hail her. eternal mother, sophia, mary; osiris, fat

he higher (second adept "be thy heart the centre of light (third adept "be thy body the temple of the rosy cross" the pass word is then announced, which is formed from the mystic number of the grade: 21. this pass word, however, is the divine name of kether: it is used as the pass word of this grade of tiphareth in order to affirm the connection between the two. then the chief adept says that the key word is i.n.r.i. the three adepts themselves represent chesed, geburah and tiphareth. the creator, the destroyer and the sacrificed one: isis, apophis and osiris equals the name iao. the symbol of osiris slain is the cross; vis, the sign of the mourning of isis: the sign of typhon and apophis: x the sign of osiris risen:=lvx the light of the cross, or that which symbolizes the way into the div

ch was broken and that which it sends forth again is peace. but to send forth peace, first we must overcome, and herein lieth the mystery of the double letters, as thou were told that one letter and one planet denote opposites. for in the path of mars indeed is found war and destruction, but in the palace of mars, which is geburah, thou mayest find peace" 3rd ad. replaces bowl and indicates tarot key of hanged man. 2nd ad 'herein my frater, you may perceive somewhat of the same symbolism under another and deeper signification than this, since the hanged man (under which title you may remember that our lord was 'hanged upon a tree) is also entitled the drowned giant, and in this likeness may be said to refer to the adam kadmon of the kabbalists the ideal man who reflects the image of god, e

nity in his incarnation. therefore, must we also offer ourselves as a living sacrifice; holy, acceptable unto god, which is our reasonable service. the 22nd path of mem is called the faithful intelligence, and it is so called because by it, spiritual virtues are increased and all dwellers upon earth are nearly under its shadow" 2nd ad. returns to his set and ch.ad. comes forward and points to the key of justice. ch.ad "the path of lamed you have already learned is attributed to the tarot key of justice.,it leads from the beauty of tiphareth to the severity of geburah, and it may thus be said to denote the equilibrium between emotion and will. it represents as you see, a queen seated upon her throne, her foot resting upon a fox, her hand grasping a sword and a pair of scales. thus shall the

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ake of each other, shall walk past all amorous sickness and deaths, for we are within the magical equinox. amen we who proudly make unto ourselves every graven image, shall have great copulations and are allowed to love our gods, for we know the sacred alignments. amen we who do not crucify nothing shall hurt us that is of the..nature; neither our comings and goings from the womb, for we have the key to all aesthetics. amen in this sacred moment (here occurs the symbolic eating of flesh and blood) we forget our enemies: therefore let our dead children sleep. and let our dead loves arise, so they too may watch and enjoy our ecstasies. let their animation be power to our memories and so resurge all ecstasy, for in this day there shall be no inhibitions. amen thou insatiable peripheral quadri

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a fairly regular basis to get an idea of what kind of influences are around them and utilize the reading to adjust the ritual work accordingly. we will share with you the basic meanings (keep in mind that these do not have to be memorized although it would be to your benefit) both right side up and reverse. this is one of the few spreads in the hermetic order of the golden dawn that uses reverse keys. most of the other spreads do not rely on reverse cards because they rely more heavily on the cards and influences around them rather than on the reverse card process. however, this spread only uses a certain number of cards and therefore in order to be more specific we use reverse keys as well. tarot divinatory meanings of the major arcana fool generally refers to spirituality which is tryin

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

y honoured hierophant, the temple is properly guarded. hiero: let us adore the lord and king of water (knocks) all face east. hiero: let elohim tzabaoth be praised unto the countless ages of time. amen. hiero: quits his place and goes to tablet of water in west. all face west. hiero: let us rehearse the prayer of the undines or water spirits (knocks) terrible king of the sea, thou who holdest the keys of the cataracts of heaven and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth; king of the deluge and of the rains of spring; thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains, thou who commandest moisture which is as it were the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants, we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us thy mobile and chang

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should not misunderstand this passage. what are meant are those black magic works containing garbled and perverted words and characters; and which teach nothing but hurtful and selfish practices; the great point in which is generally the forming of a pact with an evil spirit. because true characters represent the formulas of the currents of the hidden forces of nature and true ceremonies are the keys of bringing the same into action. 13 it seems again to me here that abraham the jew stretches the matter too far. it is perfectly and utterly true without doubt that angelic magic is higher than that form of talismanic magic which has its basis in the astrological positions of the heavenly bodies; and can therefore do more, and be also independent of astrological considerations, because the m

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ine brass, as if they burned in a furnace. and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in his strength. 23 diagram 9 24 (pastos lid- top (pastos lid- bottom) chief "i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold! i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of death and of hell. second "he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the assemblies (second and third adepts open door of tomb, and lead aspirant in. they kneel down west of altar with heads bent. chief stands at east of the altar with arms extended) 25 chief "for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the

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ordsworth forced to sell his soul, while the enemy, in the persons of southey and moore, triumphantly holds sway. the poetically similar period in france is 1850 to 1870. hugo is in exile, and all his brethren are given to absinthe or to hashish or to opium. there is however another consideration more important. there are some men who possess the understanding of the city of god, and know not the keys; or, if they possess them, have not force to turn them in the wards. such men often seek to win heaven by forged credentials. just so a youth who desires love is too often deceived by simulacra, embraces lydia thinking her to be lalage. but the greatest men of all suffer neither the limitations of the former class nor the illusions of the latter. yet we find them equally given to what is appa

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ralds and the other sanctifies) its purpose and meaning in the whole scheme of things. so i, in this year v of the equinox of the gods (1908) wherein horus took the place of osiris, will by the light of this my magical memory seek to understand fully the formula of horus- ra hoor khuit- my god, that ruleth the world under nuit and hadit. then as ankh-f-na-khonsu left unto me the stel 666 with the keys to that knowledge, so also may i write down in hieroglyph the formula of the lady of the forked wand and of the feather, that shall assume his throne and place when the strength of horus is exhausted. so now the service of the gods was to be secret and their magic concealed from men. they were to fall before the eyes of men from their place, and little sewer-rats were to come and mock at them

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

ntains the formulae for evoking incredible things into visible appearance, beings and monsters which dwell in the abyss, and outer space, of the human psyche. such books have existed in fact, and do exist. idries shah tells us of a search he conducted for a copy of the book of power by the arab magician abdul-kadir (see: the secret lore of magic by shah, of which only one copy was ever found. the keys of solomon had a similar reputation, as did the magus by barret, until all of these works were eventually reprinted in the last fifteen years or so. the golden dawn, a famous british and american occult lodge of the turn of the century, was said to have possessed a manuscript called "the veils of negative existence" by another arab. these were the sorcerer's handbooks, and generally not meant

ALEISTER CROWLEY CONCERNING DEATH

mortality, and feast thereon. for thou art this day made lord of heaven and of earth. the dead man ankh-f-na-khonsu saith with his voice of truth and calm: o thou that hast a single arm! o thou that glitterest in the moon! i weave the in the spinning charm; i lure thee with the billowy tune. the dead man ankh-f-na-khonsu hath joined the dwellers of the light, opening duant, the star abodes, their keys receiving. the dead man ankh-f-na-khonsu hath joined the dwellers of the light, his pleasure on the earth to do among the living. love is the law, love under will. the benidiction of the all-begetter, all-devourer be upon th bduty get any book for free on: www.abika.com 1 duty by aleister crowley get any book for free on: www.abika.com duty get any book for free on: www.abika.com 2 (a note on

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ns of key tablet angels. not used in invocations of 4 other tables. 3, 4, 5, 6: used in invocations of angels of tablet of union, also of angels of 4 terrestrial tablets, thus 3: used to invoke angels of the letters of the line e x a r p for those of tablet oro as a whole and for the lesser angle of this tablet, which is that of the element itself, viz. i d o i g o. so for others the remaining 12 keys refer to the remaining lesser angles of the tables, the order of the elements being air, water, earth, fire. pronounce elemental language (also called angelic or enochian) by inserting the next following hebrew vowel between consonants, e.g. e after b (beth, i after g (gimel, a after d, etc.2 the opening of the portal of the vault of the adepts t. k. r. p paroketh, the veil of the sanctuary

coresa tage o-quo maninu ia-i-don. torezodu! gohe-el, zodacare eca ca-no-quoda! zodameranu micalazodo od ozodazodame vaurelape; lape zodir ioiad* collation of the various mss. of these calls has not done away with various readings; and there is not enough of the language extant to enable a settlement on general principles. ed. read here vooan in invocations of the fallen spirits. the forty-eight keys or calls 22 can the wings of the winds understand your voices of wonder? o you! the second of the first! whom the burning flames have framed in the depths of my jaws! whom i have prepared as cups for a wedding, or as the flowers in their beauty for the chamber of righteousness! stronger are your feet than the barren stone, and mightier are your voices than the manifold winds! for you are beco

ple in the grade of 3 =88 give the sign of auramoth [knock] let us adore the lord and king of water! elohim tzabaoth! elohim of hosts! glory be to the ruach elohim which moved upon the face of the waters of creation! amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit passive and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. hcoma [make the invoking pentagram of water and pronouce: l a. twabx \yhla] the forty-eight keys or calls 24 and elohim said: let us make adam in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea! in the name of l a, strong and powerful, and in the name of twabx \yhla, spirits of water, adore your creator [make sigil of eagle with cup] in the name of larbg and in the sign of the eagle, spirits of water, adore your creator [make cross with cup] in the names and letters of

dorepehal caosagi od faonutas peripesol ta-be-liore. casareme a-me-ipezodi na-zodarethe afa; od dalugare zodizodope zodelida caosaji tol-toregi; od zod-cahisa esiasacahe. el ta-vi-vau; od iaod tahilada das hubare pe-o-al; soba coremefa cahisa ta ela vaulasa od quo-co- casabe. eca niisa od darebesa quo-a-asa: fetahe-ar-ezodi od beliora: ia-ial eda-nasa cicalesa; bagile ge-iad i-el! the forty-eight keys or calls 26 the mighty sounds have entered into the third angle, and are become as olives in the olive mount; looking with gladness upon the earth, and dwelling in the brightness of the heavens as continual comforters. unto whom i fastened 19 pillars of gladness, and gave them vessels to water the earth with her creatures; and they are the brothers of the first and second, and the beginning o

ameji balatoha: goho iad. soba miame tarianu ta lolacis abaivoninu od azodiajiere riore. irejila cahisa da das pa-aox busada caosago, das cahisa od ipuranu telocahe cacureji o-isalamahe lonucaho od vovina carebafe? niiso! bagile avagao gohon. niiso! bagile momao siaionu, od mabezoda iad oi asa-momare poilape. niiasa! zodameranu ciaosi caosago od belioerasa od coresi ta a beramiji. the forty-eight keys or calls 28 the midday, the first is as the third heaven made of 26 hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own righteousness, saith the lord: whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to the stooping dragon, and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death un

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than to allege that our invocation has awakened a supernormal power in ourselves. such incidents as "calderazzo< and "jacob< make this more cogent. 247 8) the qabalah maps ourselves by means of a convention. every aspect of every object may thus be referred to the tree of life, and evoked by using the proper keys. 9) time and space are forms by which we obtain (distorted) images of ideas. our measures of time and space<nature of space, as an idea invented by ourselves to measure the result of, and explain, our muscular movements> are crude conventions, and differ widely for different beings (hashish shows how the same mind may vary) 10) we may admit that any aspect of any

miliar with the names and numbers pertinent to the work in hand. he must be alert, sensitive, and ready to exert his authority; yet courteous, gracious, patient, and sympathetic. 16) there are two opposite methods of exploring the astral plane (a. one may take some actual object in nature, and analyse it by evoking its astral form, thus bringing it into knowledge and under control by applying the keys of the qabalah and of magick (b. one may proceed by invoking the required idea, and giving body to the same by attracting to it the corresponding elements in nature. 17) every magician possesses an astral universe peculiar to himself, just as no man's experience of the world is coterminous with that of another. there will be a general agreement on the main points, of course; and so the master

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te school consider the present danger to mankind so great that they are prepared to abandon their traditional policy of silence, in order to enlist in their ranks the profane of every nation. we are in possession of a certain mystical document30 which we may describe briefly, for convenience sake, as an apocalypse of which we magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 82 hold the keys, thanks to the intervention of the master who has appeared at this grave conjuncture of fate. this document consists of a series of visions, in which we hear the various intelligences whose nature it would be hard to define, but who are at the very least endowed with knowledge and power far beyond anything that we are accustomed to regard as proper to the human race. we must quote a passage f

the arrows in the quiver of his lamen. as, then, you would expect, it is very little trouble to design. all that you need is to "make considerations' about your proposed operation, decide which planet, sign, element or sub-element or what not you need to accomplish your miracle. as you know, a very great many desirable objects can be attained by the use of the talismans in the greater and lesser keys of solomon the king; also in pietro di abano and the dubious fourth book of cornelius agrippa. you must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage until you have succeeded in the operation. more, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. thos

to set up a figure of the heavens. this need not take an average intelligent person more than an hour at the most. you can learn it from a book. lastly, get barley's 1001 notable nativities and more nativites. also any other collections available. practice setting up the horoscopes. use the chaldean square system; it shows at the first glance what is happening in the angular houses, which are the keys of the whole figure. compare and contrast what you know of the natives, from history, with what is said of the aspects (and the rest) in the books you have read. put together similar horoscopes; e.g. a dozen which have sagittarius 17 rising, another lot with jupiter in the hid-heaven, and so on; see if you can find a similarity in their lives with what the books will have magic without tears

books are not the only medium even of learning; more, what they teach is partial, prejudiced, meagre, sterile, uncertain, and alien to reality. it follows that all the best books are those which make no pretence to accuracy: poetry, theatre, fiction. all others date. another point is that truth abides above and aloof from intellectual expression, and consequently those books which bear the magic keys of the portal of the intelligible by dint of inspiration and suggestion come more nearly to grips with reality than those whose appeal is only to the intellect "didactic" poetry "realistic" plays and novels, are contradictions in terms. p.p.s. one more effort: the above reminds me that i have said no word about the other side of the medal. there are many children who cannot be educated at all

www.abika.com 329 52 elaborate and extensive that i shall never sufficiently regret that i never had an opportunity of completing it, but i should like to emphasize that the obtaining of a book like liber 418 is in itself so outstanding an achievement that it should serve as an encouragement to all magicians. in the case of many worlds, in particular that of abra melin, of the greater and lesser keys of solomon, of pietro di abano, of cornelius agrippa, while we have perfectly adequate information as to the methods we have very meagre examples of the results, especially so far as refers to the technical side of the work. i must conclude with a warning. so many of these branches of magick are so fascinating that any one of them is liable to take hold of the magician by the short hair and u

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elation of cause and effect in his working, and so that the a'.a. may judge of his progress, and direct his further studies. after a year of probation he may be admitted a neophyte of the a'.a, and receive the secret holy book liber vii. these are the principal instructions for practice which every probationer should follow out: libri e, a, o, iii, xxx, clxxv, cc, ccvi, cmxiii. 46 there are seven keys to the great gate, being eight in one and one in eight. first, let the body of thee be still, bound by the cerements of will, corpse-rigid; thus thou mayst abort the fidget-babes that tease the thought. next, let the breath-rhythm be low, easy, regular, and slow; so that thy being be in tune with the great sea's pacific swoon. third, let thy life be pure and calm, swayed softly as a windless

natural. all religions have devised practices for this purpose. if you keep on praying with your lips long enough, you will one day find yourself praying in your heart. the whole question has been threshed out and organized 53 by wise men of old; they have made a science of life complete and perfect; and they have given to it the name of magick> it is the chief secret of the ancients, and if the keys have never been actually lost, they have certainly been little used<keys have always kept very quiet about it. this has been especially necessary in europe, because of the dominance of persecuting churches> again, the confusion of thought caused by the ignorance of the people who did not understand it has discredited the whole subject. it is now our task to re

sign<lamen with the pantacle, usually through a misunderstanding of the nature of the latter. dr. dee's "sigillum dei amath" makes a fine pantacle, but it would be useless as a lamen, eliphas levi made several attempts to draw one or the other, he never seemed sure which. fortunately he knows better now. the lamens given in the lesser and greater keys of "solomon" are rather better, but we know of no perfect example. the design on the cover of "the star in the west" represents an early effort of fra. p> in this lamen the magician must place the secret keys of his power. the pentacle is merely the material to be worked upon, gathered together and harmonized but not yet in operation, the parts of the engine arranged for use, or even put toge

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its aid i was able to attribute the ideas of lao tze to an order with which i was exceedingly familiar, and whose practical worth i had repeatedly proved by using 9 it as the basis of the analysis and classification of all aryan and semitic religions and philosophies. despite the essential difficulty of correlating the ideas of lao tze with any others, the persistent application of the qabalistic keys eventually unlocked his treasure-house. i was able to explain to myself his teachings in terms of familiar systems. this achievement broke the back of my sphinx. having once reduce lao tze to qabalistic form, it was easy to translate the result into the language of philosophy. i had already done much to create a new language based on english with the assistance of a few technical terms borrow

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he look but close into the word. for there are therein three grades, the hermit, and the lover, and the man of earth. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" the old comment 40. theta-epsilon, the hermit, yod invisible, yet illuminating. the a. a. lambda-eta, the lover, zain visible as is the lightning flash. the college of adepts. mu-alpha, the man of earth, pe, the blasted tower. the 3 keys add up to 31- lamed-aleph, not and aleph-lamed, god. thus is the whole of thelema equivalent to nuit, the all-embracing. 31 x 3= 93. see the tarot trumps for further study of these grades. theta-epsilon= 14, the pentagram, rule of spirit over ordered matter. strength and authority( teth and he) and secretly 1+ 4= 5, the hierophant, vau, v. also leo aries, the lion and the ram. cf. isaiah. it

have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear" the old comment 47. let us, however, add the jewish half, 61. 8+ 80+ 418= 506. cf. verses 24, 25. 506+ 61= 567= 27 x 21? but writing 506 qabalistically backwards we get 605, and 605+ 61= 666. 666= 6 x 111, and 11 ?aleph= 0 in taro. 666= 1+ 2. 36, the sum of the numbers in the magic square of sol. 666= the number of the beast. or, taking the keys, 8, 80, 418, we get vii, xvi, vii, adding to 30. 30+ 61= 91= aleph-mem-nun, amen. this may unite nuit with amoun the negative and concealed. yet to my mind, she is the greater conception, that of which amoun is but a reflection. the new comment see appendix weh note: appendix not yet recovered. al i,48 "my prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the ox, and none by the book" th

word abrahadabra. the book of the law is written and concealed. aum. ha" the old comment 75. the ending of the words is the ending of the work- abrahadabra. the books is written, as we see; and concealed- from our weak understanding. aum-ha, aum= 111, ha= 6, 111 x 6= 666, the seal of the beast. note well that aum with a mem final adds to 671, throa, the gate, adonai spelt in full, etc. using the keys of aum ha, we get xii+ xv+ 0, and iv+ 0, their sum, 31= la, not. the new comment aum is of course the sanskrit "word" familiar to most students (see book 4 part iii. ha is a way of spelling the letter whose value is 5 so that it shall add to 6. this uniting the 5 and the 6 is a symbol of the great work. send complaints to memoria@memoria.ex baphomet xir liber xv book 15 o. t. o. ecclesiae gno

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an-se-on of the mongolian peoples, and means the magical force in man, which is the sexual force applied to the brain, heart, and other organs, and redeemeth him. the gradual disclosure of these magical secrets to the poet may be traced in these volumes,32 which it has been my privilege to be asked to explain. it has been impossible to do more than place in the hands of any intelligent person the keys which will permit him to unlock the many beautiful chambers of holiness in these palaces and gardens of beauty and pleasure. of the results of the method we possess one flawless gem, already printed in the equinox (vol. ii. pp. 163-185, a note on genesis by v.h. fra. i.a. 32 i.e, the three volumes of crowley s collected works t.s. liber lviii 21 from this pleasant, orthodox, and-so-they-all-l

identical, and 6 diverse. thus it interlocks pentagram and hexagram. ah tyb, the house of h the pentagram; see idra zuta qadisha, 694. for h formeth k, but j formeth dwy. 73 both equal 20. note 4+ 1+ 8= 13, the 4 reduced to 1 through 8, the redeeming force; and 418= j= 8. by aiq bkr, abrahadabra= 1+ 2+ 2+ 1+ 5+ 1+ 4+ 1+ 2+ 2+ 1= 22. also 418= 22 19, manifestation. hence the word manifests the 22 keys of rota. it means by translation abraha deber, the voice of the chief seer. it resolves into pentagram and hexagram as follows (1) a r b b r a a a h a d [this is by taking the 5 middle letters] the pentagram is 12, awh, macroprosopus. the hexagram is 406, hta, microprosopus. thus it connotes the great work. note rba, initials of the supernals, ab, ben, ruach [this is by separating the one (al

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ry rude.14 the following is a sample: o devatas! behold this yogi! o chela! accurs d abode of tamas art thou! eater of beef, guzzling as an herd of swine! sleeper of a thousand sleeps, as an harlot heavy with wine! void of will! sensualist! enraged sheep! blasphemer of the names of shiva and of devi! christian in disguise! thou shalt be reborn in the lowest avitch! fast! walk! wake! these are the keys of the kingdom! peace be with thy beard! aum! this sort of talk did me much good: i hope it may do as much for you. 63. with eyes well fixed on my proboscis.15 see bhagavad-gita, atmasamyamyog. 67. brahma-charya.16 right conduct, and in particular, chastity in the highest sense. 72. baccy.17 a poisonous plant used by nicotomanics in their orgies and debauches. the filthy tobacco habit, says e

stroyed the cause of all his chain of lives, and has become arahan, a saint, a buddha himself. but none knows better than the venerable bhikkhu himself, as indeed he makes clear with regard to the steps samm vayamo and above, that these interpretations are but reflections of those upon a higher plane the scientific plane. they are (i have little doubt) for those who have attained to them mnemonic keys to whole classes of phenomena of the order anciently denominated magical, phenomena which, since the human mind has had its present constitution, have been translated into language, classified, sought after, always above language, but not beyond a sane and scientific classification, a rigid and satisfactory method, as i most firmly believe. it is to establish such a method; to record in the l

y will go forth and illuminate the whole system of ten thousand worlds, where arahats do not grow on every tree. little brothers, the night is fallen: it were well to sleep. 110 opus prima materia. a. o. sapiens dominatibur astris. s. s. d. d. 1902 ambrosii magi hortus rosarum* translated into english by christeos luciftias. printed by w. black, at the wheatsheaf in newgate, and sold at the three keys in nags-head court, gracechurch st. it is fitting that i, ambrose, called i.a.o, should set down the life of our great father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men, in order that the brethren may know what journeys he undertook in pursuit of that knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. it was at his 119th year,1 the star suaconch2 being in the sign of the

he adds 300, shin, the flame of the spirit= 666. 4 666= 6 111. 111= aleph, the ox. 5 his journeys as initiator. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 117 abiegnus. mysterium i. n. r. i. mysterium lvx. pastos. trinitas. unitas. serpentes. and fifty and eight years,1 set forth upon a journey into the mystic mountain of the caves. he took with him his son,2 a lamb, life, and strength, for these four were the keys of that mountain. so by ten days and fifty days and two hundred days and yet ten days he went forth. after ten days fell a thunderbolt, whirling through black clouds of rain: after sixty the road split in two, but he travelled on both at once: after two hundred and sixty, the sun drove away the rain, and the star shone in the day-time, making it night. after the last day came his mother, his

d even in the vault of the caverns. with one stroke he rent asunder the veil; with one stroke he closed the same. and entering the sarcophagus of that royal tomb he laid him down to sleep. four guarded him, and one in the four; seven enwalled him, and one in the seven, yet were the seven ten, and one in the ten. now therefore his disciples came unto the vault of that mystic mountain, and with the keys they opened the portal and came to him and woke him. but during his long sleep the roses had grown over him, crimson and flaming with interior fire, so that he could not escape. yet they withered at his glance; withat he knew what fearful task was before him. but slaying his disciples with long nails, he interred them there, so that they were right sorrowful in their hearts. may we all die so

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litical strategic action. thus, when the earth was night utterly corrupt by reason of the great sorcery, the brethren sent mohammed to bring freedom to mankind by the sword. this being but partially a success, they raised up one luther to teach freedom of thought. yet this freedom soon turned into a heavier bondage than before. then the brethren delivered unto man the knowledge of nature, and the keys thereof; yet this also was prevented by the great sorcery. now then finally in nameless ways, as one of our brethren hath it now in mind to declare, have they raised up one to deliver unto men the keys of spiritual knowledge, and by his work shall he be judged. this interior community of light is the reunion of all those capable of receiving light, and it is known as the communion of saints

s his (partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from kether. 126 this man performs great magic; very strong medicine. he does really find gold on the midden and skeletons in pretty girls. in abiegnus the sacred mountain of the rosicrucians the postulant finds but a coffin in the central shrine; yet that coffin contains christian rosencreutz who is dead and is alive for evermore and hath the keys of hell and of death. ay! your tiphereth man, child of mercy and justice, looks deeper than the skin! but he seems a ridiculous object enough both to the malkuth man and to the kether man. still, he's the most interesting man there is; and we all must pass through that stage before we get our heads really clear, the kether-vision above the clouds that encircle the mountain abiegnus. ix runnin

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kwan-se-on of the mongolian peoples, and means the magical force in man, which is the sexual force applied to the brain, heart, and other organs, and redeemeth him. the gradual disclosure of these magical secrets to the poet may be traced in these volumes, which it has been my privilege to be asked to explain. it has been impossible to do more than place in the hands of any intelligent person the keys which will permit him to unlock the many beautiful chambers of holiness in these palaces and gardens of beauty and pleasure. of the results of the method we possess one flawless gem, already printed in the equinox (vol i, no) ii. pp. 163-185 "a note on genesis" by v. h. fra. i. a. from this pleasant, orthodox, and-so-they-all-lived-happy-ever-after view let us turn for a moment to the critica

identical, and 6 diverse. thus it interlocks pentagram and hexagram. bith ha, the house of h the pentagram; see idra zuta gadisha, 694 "for h formeth k, but ch formeth ivd" both equal 20. note 4+ 1+ 8= 13, the 4 reduced to 1 through 8, the redeeming force; and 418= ch= 8. by aiq bkr abrahadabra= 1+ 2+ 2+ 1+ 5+ 1+ 4+ 1+ 2+ 2+ 1= 22. also 418= 22 x 19 manifestation. hence the word manifests the 22 keys of rota. it means by translation abraha deber, the voice of the chief seer. it resolves into pentagram and hexagram as follows- 116 a [this is by taking the 5 middle letters] r--b a the pentagram is 12, hva, macroprosopus\ h d the hexagram is 406, athh, microprosopus/ a-a b--r thus it connotes the great work/ a note abr, initials of the supernals, ab, ben, ruach (2) a [this is by separating t

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y. note that the total angels of the aethyrs are 91, the numeration of amen. the cry of the 28th aethyr, which is called bag there cometh an angel into the stone with opalescent shining garments like a wheel of fire on every side of him, and in his hand is a long flail of 1 the lvx cross hidden in the svastika is probably the arcanum here connoted. svastika itself adds to 231= 0+ 1+ 2+ 21, the 21 keys. the cubical svastika regarded as composed of this lvx cross and the arms has a total of 78 faces- tarot and mezla. scarlet lightning; his face is black, and his eyes white without any pupil or iris. the face is very terrible indeed to look upon. now in front of him is a wheel, with many spokes, and many tyres; it is like a fence in front of him. and he cries: o man, who art thou that wouldst

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to rule the earth. therefore with sweetness ineffable he parted from me; yet leaving a comfort not to be told, a peace the peace. and the light and the perfume do certainly yet remain with me in the little chamber, and i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. for i am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold! i am alive for evermore, and have the keys of hell and of death. i am amoun the sun in his rising; i have passed from darkness into light. i am asar un-nefer the perfected one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu saith with his voice of truth and calm: oh thou that has a single arm! o thou that glitterest in the moon! i weave thee in the spinning

s no part of me that is not of the gods. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu saith with his voice of truth and calm: oh thou that has a single arm! o thou that glitterest in the moon! i weave thee in the spinning charm; i lure thee with the billowy tune. 134 the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu hath parted from the darkling crowds, hath joined the dwellers of the light, opening duant, the star-abodes; their keys receiving. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu hath made his passage into night, his pleasure on the earth to do among the living. amen amen without lie amen, and amen of amen. 12.40. i shall lie down to sleep in my robes, still wearing the ring of the masters, and bearing my wand in my hand. for to me now sleep is the same as waking, and life the same as death. in thy l.v.x. are not light and dar

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aths; thus shadowing forth by their number the eternal symbol of the pentagram; for five will divide without remainder the number of the letter of each of these paths, that is, its numerical value, as it will those of all the paths from hb:yod, the 20th, to hb:taw, the 32nd, inclusive; and also the sum of their numbers. 285 "regarding these five paths, i will now ask you to observe that the tarot keys attached to four of them, viz, the wheel of fortune, death, the devil, and the hanged man, are of more or less sinister and terrible import, and that only the symbol of temperance appears to promise aid. therefore by this straight and narrow path of hb:samekh let the philosophus advance like the arrow from the centre of hb:taw hb:shin hb:qof (qsheth) the bow of promise; for by this hieroglyph

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first five books of the holy law: it is written- b'rashith ba ra alohim ath hashamaim vaath haaretz, or in aramaic script bet-resh-aleph-shin-yod-taw bet-resh-aleph aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal aleph-taw heh-shin-mem-yod-memfinal vau-aleph-taw heh-aleph-resh-tzaddifinal such are the seven words which constitute the beginnings or heads of one law; and i propose to show, by applying to the text the keys of the qabalah, that not merely the surface meaning is contained therein. in the beginning, created, god, the essence of the heavens, and the essence, of the earth. in the beginning .god. in wisdom :created:the elohim :the essence<<1>:of the heavens in the head<<2 .the holy gods. and the essence:of the earth<<1: aleph-taw= the first and last- alpha and omega- aleph and tau<<2 "i.e" the white

ve because of its diffusiveness and dispersion. in the second figure we behold their concentration: focalisation: producing by their joint action the number of manifestation- 4. in the worlds- assiah: in the taro, the princess- the throne of the spirit: in the tetragram, the he final, and in symbolic language- the daughter: in the cycle of life (birth, life, death, resurrection, the forth; in the keys of the book universal, the empress, kappa-omicron-rho-eta kappa-omicron-sigma-mu-omicron-upsilon, the virgin of the world, venus, aphrodite: centrum in trigonis centri- by whatsoever of a myriad names we call her, still the same in spirit, the same in number and in form! and this number is herein formulated by the concentration of the three in one. 3+ 1= 4. now in this figure ii. we behold si

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d and 3rd adepts" the sign of osiris slain("chief" l. the sign of the mourning of isis) 17 weh note: this is probable a typo for hb:heh hb:vau hb:shin hb:heh hb:yod("2nd adept" v. the sign of typhon destroyer("3rd adept" x. the sign of osiris risen "all" lvx, lux, the light of the cross. part ii.18 purify talisman with water and fire. the invocation of water is made as in 3= 8 and by the enochian keys 10, 4, 11, 12 in e, w, n, s. respectively invocation scorpio (sigma lambda eta iota).19 "the invocation of the great god toum maal" o thou! majesty of godhead! toum maal! thee, thee i invoke! 193 lord of amenta! lord of enemehitt! o thou! whose head is golden as the sun, and thy nemyss as the night sky-blue! thou who art as rugged as the wind! who formulatest wonders in the world! thou unchan

facing it, and exalt thy mind unto its glory, imagine it as encompassing thee and entering into thy inmost being, and say] i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live again: and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die! i am the first and the last, i am he that liveth but was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death! for i know that my redeemer liveth; and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way: the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified: i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light! i have fought upon earth for good: i have finished my work: i have entered into the invisible! i am the sun in his rising: i have

s eyes as flaming fire. his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in its strength "chief adept" i am the first and i am the last, i am he that liveth but was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death. 218 [the "second" and third adepts lead the aspirant into the vault; all kneel save the "chief adept" who, extending his arms, says] for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified, i have passed through the gates of darkness unto

ote: actually mathers probably did not translate the work. he makes reference to an old french copy in the library of the arsenal in paris and claims to have translated that into english, adding copious notes on hebrew and greek names. in fact, there is an english and a hebrew version in the british museum, a place mathers frequented. mathers also claimed to have translated the greater and lesser keys of solomon, and the manuscripts he cites are in the british museum, in elizabethan english! power to operate and pursue the operation; and a sick man can neither be clean and pure, nor enjoy solitude; and in such a case it is better to cease."33 the true and best time of commencing this operation is the first day after the celebration of the feasts of easter at about the time of the vernal eq

yet through them "waved" a thrill of an intenser invisible light in a direction perpendicular to the tangents. i asked to go yet further back and behold! i am floating on my back__cast down! in a wind of light flashing down upon me from the immeasurable above (this light is of a blueish silver tinge) and i saw that face, lost above me in the height inscrutable: a face of absolute 47 the enochian keys of dr. dee. beauty. and i saw as it were a lamb slain in the glamour of those eyes. thus was i made pure: for there, what impunity could live? i was told that not many had been so far back: none further: those who "could" go farther would not, since that would have reabsorbed them into the beginning, and that must not be to him who hath sworn to uplift the standard of sacrifice and sorrow, wh

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the earth, a gradual access of fellow-workers, some young and enthusiastic, others already weary of the search for truth in a world where so many offer the stone of dogma, so few the bread of experience. there! we had nothing to say, and we have said it very nicely. floreas* we must apologise for the necessity of holding over our edition of sir edward kelly's account of the forty-eight angelical keys, and other important articles. considerations of space were imperative* mr. h. sheidan-bickers will lecture on behalf of the equinox during the year. we shall be glad if our readers will arrange with him through us to speak in their towns. mr. bickers makes no charge for lecturing, and the equinox may assist if desired in meeting the necessary expenses. 1 notes of the semester mr. sheridan-bi

the earth, a gradual access of fellow-workers, some young and enthusiastic, others already weary of the search for truth in a world where so many offer the stone of dogma, so few the bread of experience. there! we had nothing to say, and we have said it very nicely. floreas* we must apologise for the necessity of holding over our edition of sir edward kelly's account of the forty-eight angelical keys, and other important articles. considerations of space were imperative* two days after the bound advance copies of this number were delivered by the printer, an order was made restraining publication, continued by mr. justice bucknill, and dissolved by the court of appeal. 1 notes of the semester mr. sheridan-bickers held a large meeting at cambridge in november, as successful as one would ex

to seal thy will? to cast thy lot into the lap of god? then, well! olympas. ay, there is no more potent spell. through life, through death, by land and sea most surely will i follow thee. marsyas. follow thyself, not me. thou hast an holy guardian angel, bound to lead thee from thy bitter waste 38 to the inscrutable profound that is his covenanted ground. olympas. thou who hast known these master-keys of all creation's mysteries, tell me, what followed the great gust of god that blew his world to dust? marsyas. i, even i the man, became as a great sword of flashing flame. my life, informed with holiness, conscious of its own loveliness, like a well that overflows at the limit of the snows, sent its crystal stream to gladden the hearts of me, their lives to madden with the intoxicating blis

east, is there some rapture yet to excite this prone and pallid neophyte? olympas. o but there is no need of this! i burn toward the abyss of bliss. i call the four powers of the name; earth, wind and cloud, sea, smoke and flame to witness: by this triune star i swear to break the twi-forked bar. but how to attain? flexes and leans the strongest will that lacks the means. marsyas. there are seven keys to the great gate, being eight in one and one in eight. 40 first, let the body of thee be still, bound by the cerements of will, corpse-rigid; thus thou mayst abort the fidget-babes that tense the thought. next, let the breath-rhythm be low, easy, regular, and slow; so that thy being be in tune with the great sea's pacific swoon. third, let thy life be pure and calm swayed softly as a windles

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lars with white ray descending. 179 heaven 180 an eleven pointed star. the girders of the soul."181 how to do it is the great problem. i am inclined to believe in drugs- if one only knew the right drug. 13th. drew a pantacle. 16th. painted wicked black-magic pantacle. held a magical ceremony in the evening. lesser banishing ritual of pentagram and hexagram. invocation of thoth and the elements by keys 1-6182 and g. d. opening rituals. consecrated lamen crown and abrahadabra wand with great force. 16th. did the seven hb:shin of hb:shin operations. worked at a z for 5= 6 ritual.183 17th. position 1. 12 m. not good. evening invocation of mercury, chokmah and thoth. 18th. completed z for 5= 6 ritual. 117 may 19th. 1. assumption of the god-form of harpocrates: it lasted nine minutes: the result

ble" formula for physical astral projection. first project with enterer sign; simulacrum answers with harpocrates sign.188 then as soon as enterer sign weakens change consciousness as for astral visions. after which attack body from simulacrum 181 p. at various times used the "invocation of the bornless one" as given in "the goetia; also the pentagram rituals in liber o. 182 the first six angelic keys of dr. dee. 183 the explanation of the 5= 6 ritual. see chapter "the adept" 184 the colour of chokmah. 185 see plate vi "the kabbalah unveiled" s. l. mathers. 186 it is to be noted that this vision is of a fiery nature, and that it was experienced shortly after meditating upon tejas-apas. 187 very similar to the older form of "temperance" in taro. 188 see liber o, the equinox, vol. i, no. 2;

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practical exposition of the main tenets of occultism has long been felt. in this manual of occultism the author has dealt in a lucid manner with both the occult sciences and the occult arts, and has added some supplementary matter on the subjects of hypnotism and alchemy. the book is written from the point of view of a practical student, and contains many experimental results, which form valuable keys to the study and practice of the subjects dealt with. the text is illustrated with numerous explanatory diagrams and symbols "almost every department of the secret arts is touched upon in this manual, and, for those who are interested in such things and have the time to study them, it is a mine of information "the academy "a well-furnished store of information for students of the occult arts

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mes follow closing of circle. great rite if at all possible by high priestess and high priest if no other. merry meet, merry part. notes l there are plenty of published samhain rituals, containing at least some of these elements. this is from what witches do by stewart farrar, fleshed out from lady sheba's book of shadows, as usual. l earth goddess aspect: crone astrological rulers: venus, saturn keys: law principle, solidity,auriel("lord of awe) rules: birth& death, body, growth, nature, stones& metals, material things, caves, chasms, silence, graves, fields, sanguine; sensation; calm, imperturbable virtues: strength, endurance, commitment, responsibility, thoroughness, practicality, wisdom, patience, sense of timing vices: dullness, lack of conscience, melancholy, boredom, inertia, stagn

a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l water deep body dryness, hotness, mind& body feel seperated, no empathy body puffiness, sinus (etc) flows, mood swings "touchiness, apathy goddess aspect: mother astrological rulers: venus, moon keys: love principle, fertility, gabriel (turns force into form) rules: emotions, love, sorrow, courage, astral planes, clairvoyance, tides, oceans, pools, streams, wells, womb melancholic; feeling; strong, excitatory virtues: compassion, tranquility, tenderness, forgiveness, modesty, fluidity in creativity, receptivity, influence vices: self-indulgence, negligence, cowardice, indifference, instab

ources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l fire goddess aspect: temptress astrological rulers: sun, mars, jupiter keys: light principle, action, michael (victor over ignorance) rules: force, energy, spirit, heat, mental plane, blood, sap, life, will, surgery, destruction, purification, hearth fires, volcanoes, explosions, choleric; intuitive; lively virtues: courageous, self-assertive, chivalrous, enthusiastic, passionate, experienced, virile vices: self-centred, ruthless, fanaticism, vindictiveness, anger, h

ious sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l air goddess aspect: maiden astrological rulers: jupiter, mercury keys: life principle, intellect, raphael (instructor, traveller, healer) rules: mind, essential qualities, spiritual plane, knowledge, abstract learning, theories, windy or high places, breath, speech, phlegmatic; thinking; weak inhibitory virtues: gregarious, diligent, optimistic, dexterity, joie-de-vivre, persuasive, friendly, healthy, knowledgeable vices: frivolity, boasting, absent mindedness

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

process of gradual expansion the result of the definite effort and strenuous right thinking and living of the aspirant himself and not of some occult teacher performing an occult rite leads to what one might term a crisis. at this crisis, which necessitates the aid of a master, a definite act of initiation is performed, which (acting on a particular centre) produces a result on some one body. it keys the atoms to a certain pitch, and enables a new rate of rhythm to be attained. this ceremony of initiation marks a point of attainment. it does not bring about attainment, as is so often the misconception. it simply marks the recognition by the watching teachers of the race of a definite point in evolution reached by the pupil, and gives two things: 1. an expansion of consciousness that admit

sounded forth a word, the form of our solar system came into being, its color being blue and its note a particular cosmic musical tone. its degree of activity is of a specific mathematical notation beyond the grasp of the human mind at this stage of development; and the nature of its great ensouling life, that of the triple logos, is active, intelligent love. 9. the great word of our solar system keys in, if it might be so expressed, with other words, and is but one word of the sevenfold word, known to that great existence who stands in the same relation to the solar logos as the latter does to the planetary logos. the sacred words of seven solar systems (of which ours is but one) make up this septenary sound, which vibrates at this time in the cosmic spheres. in these nine statements are

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

inconceivable power and force to the solution of the problems of existence. only when atomic energy is better understood and the nature of the fourth ether somewhat comprehended, shall we see that control of the air which lies inevitably ahead. third. by the discovery of the note of the vegetable kingdom, by its conjunction with other of nature's notes, and by its due sounding forth in different keys and combinations will come the possibility to produce marvellous results within that kingdom, and to stimulate the activities of those devas who work with flowers, fruits, trees and herbs. every root race has its own particular style of vegetation, or certain basic forms and designs which can be traced in all countries where the race locates. these results are brought about by the interaction

system concretion concerns us, and the blending of form and of energy into one coherent whole. in the ninth, tenth and eleventh hierarchies lie the clue to the nature of agni, the lord of fire, the sumtotal of systemic vitality. he who understands the significance of these figures, and their relation to each other as the triple division of a unity in time and space will have discovered one of the keys which will unlock a door hitherto fast closed. they are the numbers of achievement, of potentiality brought into full activity and of innate capacity demonstrating in perfect fruition. all potentiality lies in the vitalising, energising power of agni, and in his ability to stimulate. he is life itself, and the driving force of evolution, of psychic development and of consciousness. this fact

ood as occult "depth" why is this? because in these notes those groups of devas who are the force and energy of the centres (which are centres in substance) are contacted and controlled. through their activity, directed through the centres, the material sheaths physical, astral and mental are built. these ideas of force and the sheaths are the basis of the astrological teaching that is one of the keys to the secret doctrine.3(177) we should therefore bear in mind that the deva lords, agni, varuna, kshiti,4(178) represent in the exoteric teaching the substance aspect of the dense body of the logos whilst the force aspect as flowing through the etheric body of the logos is considered under various names, such as shiva, surya, brahma. yet the two aspects are but one. the third statement. the

h is a direct emanation from the cosmic astral plane and which reveals when triply- 400- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust blended the desire nature of our heavenly man, and of any particular planetary logos. in the two opposites, which are called by the theologians "heaven and hell" we have two of these types of force hinted at, and in this thought we have indicated one of the keys to the astral plane. 2. summary. before passing to the consideration of those devas who are concerned with the construction of man's causal body, and who are the linking group between the triad and the quaternary, both in man and the logos, we will briefly enumerate the principal groups of agnisuryans on the systemic astral plane, as they, in their totality, form the body of manifestation of

f the vehicles for all these greater existences and through the medium of this energised substance each can get en rapport with each, no matter what their individual goal of attainment may be. the units, therefore, in their bodies can equally get in touch with all other egos and groups once they have achieved the consciousness of the mental plane (causal consciousness) and know the varying group "keys" the group tones and colors. it will consequently be apparent to the careful student that in this fact lies the true relationship between the various groups of egos, no matter what degree of evolution, or what ray and in which scheme they may be. the basic truth here involved may be better grasped if the following occult phrases are studied "within the hall of ignorance kama-manas rules. the

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

d free and can contact at will and without time limitations all those states. there is a relation between one of the seven states of matter and one or other of the centres; through each one of the centres is the door to a certain plane of the planetary spheres. when the disciple has worked out into his life in correct realization the various means of yoga dealt with in the previous books, certain keys and knowledge, certain words and formulas, can be entrusted to him which will, through concentrated meditation give him the freedom of the heavens and the right to pass through certain gateways into the kingdom of god. 43. when that which veils the light is done away with, then comes the state of being called discarnate (or disembodied, freed from the modification of the thinking principle. t

l other souls. he has to find god in his own heart and in every form of life. then, as an initiate, he arrives at omniscience or all-knowledge, and the halls of learning and of wisdom render up to him their secrets. he becomes a christ, a knower of all things, knowing what is in the heart of the father and in the hearts of men. finally, he can eventually achieve omnipotence or all-power, when the keys of heaven will be handed to the son of man and all power will be his. 50. by a passionless attitude towards this attainment and towards all soul-powers, the one who is free from the seeds of bondage, attains the condition of isolated unity. the isolated unity referred to here is that of complete separation from all form aspects and the achievement of spiritual oneness. it is aloofness from th

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

r higher repositories. i realise that the teaching given here is both deep and abstruse, but it is needed for the few, and their numbers will increase as time elapses. the complexity of the subject is also increased by the fact that each ray holds within its teaching a different approach and a different method for those souls who are found responsive to its peculiar impulse. i give here the seven keys for each of the ray methods. these can be studied in relation to the above tabulations and in connection with the four words we have been considering. we must- 165- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust remember that 'to will' is the prerogative of spirit 'to know' is the function of the soul 'to dare' is the duty of the personality, and 'to be silent' is the ultimate dharma or

d their quality which are distinctive of disciples. in all forms of esoteric teaching the hands play a great part and this for four reasons: 1. they are the symbol of acquisitiveness. 2. they are centres of force 3. they are wielders of the sword- 330- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust 4. they are, when employed unselfishly a. instruments of healing. b. agencies whereby certain keys are turned. viewing them as symbols of acquisitiveness it must be remembered that in the average man they are employed to "grasp and to hold" and to acquire that which the man wants for himself and for the satisfaction of his selfish desire. in spiritual man, the hands are still symbols of acquisitiveness but he only grasps that which is needed for the helping of the group and releases at onc

human creatures, conceive of the state of consciousness of those who have freed themselves from the illusions of the astral plane or realise the state of awareness of those forms- 351- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust of life which have not yet developed astral consciousness? it is the dual nature of the mind which causes this illusion, for the mind of man presents to him the keys of the kingdom of heaven or locks upon him the door of entrance into the world of spiritual realities. it is the concretising unprincipled mind which brings about all the troubles of humanity. it is the sense of i-ness and the spirit of separative individuality which has brought humanity to its present condition, and yet even that is a part of the great developing process. it is the conscious

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

tise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust counsel of his thought. nought is revealed. his power is felt. the sons of men, reacting to his power, send to the utmost bounds of light a question: why this blind power? why death? why this decay of forms? why the negation of the power to hold? why death, oh mighty son of god? faintly the answer comes: i hold the keys of life and death. i bind and loose again. i, the destroyer, am. this ray lord is not yet in full expression, except as he causes destruction and brings cycles to an end. the monads of power are much fewer in number than any others. egos upon the power ray are relatively not so few. they are characterised by a dynamic will, and their power within the human family works out as the force of des

ngdom and upon the human aura. yellow-orange shines forth in both. i mention this as an illustration of an externalisation of ray force, and as an indication of the value of the esoteric science when applied to the exoteric. the blue ray of devotion passes now into the violet of what we term the ceremonial ray. what do these words mean? simply that the great musician of the universe is moving the keys, is sounding another note and thus bringing in another turn of the wheel, and swinging into the arc of manifestation the ray of violet, the great note g. these rays bring with them in every kingdom in nature all that is attuned to them: human beings, devas of order high or low, elementals of a desirable or undesirable nature, flowers, fruits, and vegetable life of a certain kind, and animals

lse, universal manas. 15. vi. ray of abstract idealism or devotion. 1. reflection of reality through group work. 16. 2. stimulation of man through desire. 17. 3. desire energy, instinct or aspiration. 18. vii. ray of ceremonial order. 1. union of energy and substance through group activity. 19. 2. stimulation of etheric forms. 20. 3. vital energy. 21. a treatise on cosmic fire, p. 1222. the seven keys to the seven ray methods first ray "let the forces come together. let them mount to the high place, and from that lofty eminence let the soul look upon a world destroyed. then let the word go forth 'i will persist" second ray "let all the life be drawn to the centre, and enter thus into the heart of love divine. then from that point of sentient life, let the soul realise the consciousness of

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cis trust june 1933 i would say to you, my brother, that the instructions which i last gave to you still carry for you the needed teaching a teaching which, if followed, will lead to realisation. i have today but little to add. will you again and with a lighted heart read what i there have said? your progress on the way and your power to take the kingdom of heaven by violence is very real and the keys of the entrance lie within your grasp. but this power itself carries with it its own problem and its own solution. only one vital thing stands in the way of a life of utter usefulness and that is the sixth ray quality of your personality. it is, as you know, the ray of devotion, of a fanatical idealism, of undue emphasis and this ray, when conditioning the personality, is apt to cause much tr

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

r prayer, the lord's prayer. it has many meanings and the trite and usual christian significance is not for you. ponder on this most- 16- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust ancient formula of truth and interpret it entirely in terms of a formula for the dissipation of illusion. write an exegesis on it from this angle, taking it phrase by phrase and regarding it as giving us seven keys to the secret of the elimination of glamour. the formula (which is not essentially a prayer) can be divided as follows: a. invocation to the solar lord. b. seven sentences, embodying seven keys for the dissipation of illusion. c. a final affirmation of divinity. use your intuition and apply these all to the subject of glamour and see at what knowledge you will arrive. then write it down in th

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

to make impression upon the minds of aspirants and disciples of all degrees and of all ray types. when he can distinguish between these various communications, then and only then does the third type of communication become possible direct messages which are due to contact with the master of his ashram in person. he, by that time, possesses what has been called "the freedom of the ashram" and "the keys to the kingdom of god; he can then be trusted with some of the directive potency of the ashram itself. his thinking will then affect and reach others. this developing effectiveness grows with rapidity when the fourth type of impression is familiar to the disciple: that coming from the spiritual triad, and therefore from the monad and shamballa. there are consequently (to this final stage of i

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

ponse from the hierarchy. it is also my hope that students will do something of major importance to aid in bringing forth the light upon the processes of death which humanity is today demanding. on death excerpts from other writings "why this blind power? why death? why this decay of forms? why the negation of the power to hold? why death, o mighty son of god" faintly the answer comes "i hold the keys of life. i bind and loose again. i the destroyer am. a treatise on the seven rays, vol. i, page 63. the intent of the lord of the first ray is to stand behind the other divine aspects, and when they have achieved their purpose, to shatter the forms they have built. he is the controller of the death drama in all kingdoms a destruction of forms which brings about release of power and permits "e

of the response is such that the man, standing in his astral body, or rather in his kama-manasic vehicle, sees the experience of the past incarnation spread before him like a map. he records a sense of timelessness. 3. as a result of the recognition of these experiences, the man isolates those three which were the three major conditioning factors in the life which has gone and which also hold the keys to his future incarnation which he will next initiate. all else is forgotten, and all the lesser experiences fade out of his memory, leaving nothing in his consciousness but what are esoterically called "the three seeds or germs of the future. these three seeds are in a peculiar manner related to the permanent physical and astral atoms, and thus produce the fivefold force which will create th

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d himself with that soul; he becomes the soul in fact, and can create in the world of thought those living forms which bring light and help and truth to others; thus he serves; he learns also, through unfolding perception, to penetrate into the levels of abstract thought, the antechamber to the world of pure reason, and through these three aspects of mind he discovers that he possesses the "three keys" which will permit him to delve into the knowledge, wisdom and reason of the universal mind. this is what is revealed to him as he penetrates deeper into what is called the arcana of wisdom, the mind of god, the third divine aspect. this is essentially what is covered by the symbolic and pictorial phrase "the raincloud of knowable things" the raincloud is a symbol of that area of the as yet u

with only one or two exceptions omitted to give much thought or study to these important creative processes. to grasp the meaning of these mysterious presentations, the creative imagination must be brought into play; it must be remembered that these words, symbols and forms have relation (a progressive relation) to the initiation for which the disciple is being prepared. they are in the nature of keys to a door and when properly grasped, understood and used they render the disciple capable of demanding entrance on the basis of demonstrated, effective, creative work- 238- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust they show also (and i would like you to note this with care) that each initiation is the evidence in the disciple's life that he has succeeded in grasping s

, and there i work. 3rd month. in spiritual being i stand upon the way. it is the way of men. i am. i neither think nor dream, but work. 4th month. with my brothers i dwell within the ashram. i issue forth and carry out the plan as best i can. 5th month. let love stream out today from out my eyes, my hands, my feet, because my heart beats with the love of god. 6th month. within my hand i hold the keys of life. i unlock the door for others and they pass through yet see me not. 7th month. as i am strength and power and love and understanding, i bring these gifts into the haven of my work. thus strength goes forth to others and love to all i meet, and to these gifts i add an understanding heart. 8th month. the cry goes out for workers. i answer, master of my life, and stand within the ranks o

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

onstrate the qualities of his ray and to prove of gradually increasing importance to his group, he will be prepared through tests, through trials, and through temptations for those final stages in development which will put into his power: the knowledge of certain laws governing matter and form- 4- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust the keys of the mysteries connected with energy, with polarity, and with group relation. certain words of power which will give him control over the elemental forces of nature. insight into the planetary plans. upon these i need not enlarge, nor need i take up with you here the subject of initiation (discipleship in the new age, volumes i and ii. the first work to be done is the stimulating of aspiran

ivilisation of a different yet still material nature, but animated by a growing registration by the masses everywhere of an emerging spiritual objective which will transform all life and give new value and purpose to that which is material. next we must consider what will be the effect of this first ray energy upon the individual disciple as he prepares for and undergoes the fifth initiation, and keys himself up for the promised revelation, thus laying himself open to an entirely new inflow of force. this he must do consciously. it is conscious absorption of energy and its conscious assimilation, plus its conscious use which distinguishes the initiate from the rest of mankind; there are of course many degrees of this desired consciousness. what the initiate will receive as a result of firs

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

into form life, and the other into spiritual life; one opening the door into the mass form of the human family, and the other into the universal state of consciousness, which is the kingdom of spirit. one marks the beginning of human experience on the physical plane, the other marks its climax. one signifies potentiality, and the other consummation. we are told that christ gave to saint peter the keys of heaven and earth; he gave to him, therefore, the keys of these two gates. we read "jesus gives to peter. the keys to the two principal gates of the zodiac, which are the two solsticial points, the zodiacal signs cancer and capricorn, called the gates of the sun. through cancer, or the 'gate of man, the soul descends upon earth (to unite with the body, which is its spiritual death. through

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

testament may indeed be, to some extent, the link which binds together thousands of christians, for jesus the christ founded his doctrine upon a jewish people, but the interminable list of christian sects of to-day have almost all taken their rise from the assertion of a right of personal interpretation of the bible, which might have remained debarred to the generality by the confession that the keys of interpretation were lost, or at least missing, and that without their assistance error of a vital character was inevitable. the vast accumulation of varying interpretations of the bible, although a folly, yet sinks into insignificance as an incident of importance, before the collateral truth that the followers of each of the hundreds of sects have arrogated to themselves, not only the righ

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

h us in our endeavors. this rite is at an end. we shall stand tall and proud in our freedom. be with us as we depart. all say: hail lucifer! hail satan (if you have offering offer it now however you chose, give thanks and pay homage to lucifer. a homage of lust may now begin at this time and the energies of the ritual may be directed toward a specific intention if so desiricbasil valentine twelve keys copyright c seo-ebooks http//stores.ebay.com/seo-ebooks twelve keys of basil valentine 2 of 95 twelve keys of basil valentine this edition copyright 2006 seo vebooks editing, corrections, translations copyright 2006 seo vebooks all rights to the original material, textual typesetting, format and visual layout and arrangement are expressly restricted and reserved. no part of this book may be r

or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. for information address: seo vebooks http//stores.ebay.com/seo vebooks all rights reserved. this product is for personal use only and not for resale. copyright violations will be prosecuted by law. toutes les droites sont reserves. tutti i diritti riservati. todos les derechos reservados. twelve keys of basil valentine 3 of 95 the preface of basilius valentinus, the benedictine concerning the great stone of the ancient sages. when i had emptied to the dregs the cup of human suffering, i was led to consider the wretchedness of this world, and the fearful consequences of our first parents disobedience. then i saw that there was no hope of repentance for mankind, that they were getting worse

evote myself to the service of god. when i had spent some years at the monastery, i found that after i had performed my work and my daily devotions i still had some time on my hands. this i did not wish to pass in idleness, lest my evil thoughts should lead me into new sins; and so i determined to use it for the study and investigation of those natural secrets by which god has shadowed out twelve keys of basil valentine 4 of 95 eternal things. so i read a great many books in our monastery written in olden times by philosophers who had pursued the same study, and was thereby stimulated to a more ardent desire of knowing that which they also knew. though i did not make much progress at first, yet at last god granted my earnest prayer, and opened my eyes that i might see what others had seen

to do him the slightest good, and after six years i found that i had tried every possible vegetable substance, without any beneficial effect. at last i determined to devote myself to the study of the powers and virtues which god has laid into metals and minerals and the more i searched the more i found. one discovery led to another, and, after god had permitted unto me many experiments, i twelve keys of basil valentine 5 of 95 understood clearly the nature and properties, and the secret potency, imparted by god to minerals and metals. among the mineral substances i found one which exhibited many colours, and proved to be of the greatest efficacy in art. the spiritual essence of this substance i extracted, and therewith restored our sick brother, in a few days, to perfect health. for the s

the stone of the ancients, that you, too, might possess the knowledge of this highest of earthly treasures for your health and comfort in this valley of sorrow. i write about it, not for my own good, but for that of posterity, and though my words be few and simple, that which they import is of immeasurable magnitude. ponder them well, that you also may find the rock which is the foundation twelve keys of basil valentine 6 of 95 stone of truth, the temporal blessing, and the eternal reward. twelve keys of basil valentine 7 of 95 the tract of basilius valentinus, the benedictine, concerning the great stone of the ancient sages. in the preface, gentle reader, and zealous student of this art, i promised to communicate to you a knowledge of our corner stone, or rock, of the process by which it

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

dpoint; but in the meaning attached to them in trans- himalayan esotericism they are correct. in every case the writer takes any blame upon herself. having never claimed personal infallibility, that which is given on her own authority may leave much to be desired, in the very abstruse cases where too deep metaphysics is involved. the teaching is offered as it is understood; and as there are seven keys of interpretation to every symbol and allegory, that which may not fit a meaning, say from the psychological or astronomical aspect, will be found quite correct from the physical or metaphysical[[vol. 2, page] 23 the action of the great breath. reckoned according to the enumeration devised later by people who had forgotten, or who had an inadequate notion of, the real mysteries, and included

n their turn, are subordinate to their "fathers" and "mothers- the latter interchangeable and varying with each nation- the gods and their planets, such as jupiter, saturn bel, brihaspati, etc (c "his breath gave life to the seven" refers as much to the sun, who gives life to the planets, as to the "high one" the spiritual sun, who gives life to the whole kosmos. the astronomical and astrological keys opening the gate leading to the mysteries of theogony can be found only in the later glossaries, which accompany the stanzas. in the apocalyptic slokas of the archaic records, the language is as symbolical, if less mythical, than in the puranas. without the help of the later commentaries, compiled by generations of adepts, it would be impossible to understand the meaning correctly. in the anc

pirit and matter, the two antagonistic principles. hence the "messengers of anu (who is sin, the "moon) are shown, in verses 28 to 41, as being finally overpowered by the same sin with the help of bel (the sun) and ishtar (venus. this is regarded as a contradiction by the assyriologists, but is simply metaphysics in the esoteric teaching. there is more than one interpretation, for there are seven keys to the mystery of the fall. moreover there are two "falls" in theology: the rebellion of the archangels and their "fall" and the "fall" of adam and eve. thus the lower as well as the higher hierarchies are charged with a supposed crime. the word "supposed" is the true and correct term, for in both cases it is founded on misconception. both are considered in occultism as karmic effects, and bo

re the shadows of the shadows of the lords (b. they (the shadows) expanded. the spirits of the earth clothed them; the solar lhas warmed them (i.e. preserved the vital fire in the nascent physical forms. the breaths had life, but had no understanding. they had no fire nor water of their own (c (a) remember in this connection the tabula smaragdina of hermes, the esoteric meaning of which has seven keys to it. the astro-chemical is well known to students, the anthropological may be given now. the "one thing" mentioned in it is man. it is said "the father of that one only thing is the sun; its mother the moon; the wind carries it in his bosom, and its nurse is the spirituous earth" in the occult rendering of the same it is added "and spiritual fire is its instructor (guru" this fire is the hi

, lie latent hints of sciences as yet undiscovered during the present cycle. well acquainted as may be a scholar with the hieratic writing and hieroglyphical system of the egyptians, he must first of all learn to sift their records. he has to assure himself, compasses and rule in hand, that the picture writing he is examining fits, to a line, certain fixed geometrical figures which are the hidden keys to such records, before he ventures on an interpretation "but there are myths which speak for themselves. in this class we may include the double-sexed first creators of every cosmogony. the greek zeus-zen (aether, and chthonia (the chaotic earth) and metis (water, his wives; osiris and isis- latona- the former god also representing aether, the first emanation of the supreme deity, amun, the

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he shadows of the gods. 267- summing up. 269 the pith and marrow of the secret doctrine. 273 hermes in christian garb. 285 some occult aphorisms. 289 the seven powers of nature. 293- book i- part ii. the evolution of symbolism in its approximate order. i. symbolism and ideographs. 303 emblem and symbol differ. 305 magic potency of sound. 307 mystery language. 309- ii. the mystery language and its keys. 310 egypt's many religions. 311 the jews and their system. 313 moses copied from sargon. 319 identity of ancient symbols. 323- iii. primordial substance and divine thought. 325 divine thought, or cineritious matter. 327 ether and intelligence. 330 the seven prakritis. 335 the mystic fire. 339 one tree of knowledge. 341- iv. chaos- theos- kosmos. 342 the union of chaos and spirit. 343 the bir

of mss, and even printed works known to have existed, are now to be found no more. they have disappeared without leaving the slightest trace behind them. were they works of no importance they might, in the natural course of time, have been left to perish, and their very names would have been obliterated from human memory. but it is not so; for, as now ascertained, most of them contained the true keys to works still extant, and entirely incomprehensible, for the greater portion of their readers, without those additional volumes of commentaries and explanations. such are, for instance, the works of lao-tse, the predecessor of confucius* he is said to have written 930 books on ethics and religions, and seventy on magic, one thousand in all. his great work, however, the heart of his doctrine

seem to defy the ravages of time, we have even fragments of what may be called the sacred books of the egyptians; yet, though much has been deciphered in the ancient records of that mysterious race, the mainspring of the religion of egypt and the original intention of its ceremonial worship are far from being fully disclosed to us* here again the mysterious hieroglyphic documents remain, but the keys by which alone they become intelligible have disappeared. nevertheless, having found that "there is a natural connection between language and religion; and, secondly, that there was a common aryan religion before the separation of the aryan race; a common semitic religion before the separation of the semitic race; and a common turanian religion before the separation of the chinese and the oth

stroyed; the thousands of sanskrit works which disappeared in india in the reign of akbar; the universal tradition in china and japan that the true old texts with the commentaries, which alone make them comprehensible- amounting to many thousands of volumes- have long passed out of the reach of profane hands; the disappearance of the vast sacred and occult literature of babylon; the loss of those keys which alone could solve the thousand riddles of the egyptian hieroglyphic records; the tradition in india that the real secret commentaries which alone make the veda intelligible, though no longer visible to profane eyes, still remain for the initiate, hidden in secret caves and crypts; and an identical belief among the buddhists, with regard to their secret books. the occultists assert that

the numerical values of the three letters which compose his name- jod, vau and twice he- are respectively 10[[hebrew, 6[[hebrew) and 5[[hebrew; or again thrice seven, 21 "ten is the mother of the soul, for life and light are therein united" says hermes "for number one is born of the spirit and the number ten from matter (chaos, feminine; the unity has made the ten, the ten the unity (book of the keys. by the means of the temura, the anagrammatical method of the kabala, and the knowledge of 1065 (21, a universal science may be obtained regarding kosmos and its mysteries (rabbi yogel. the rabbis regard the numbers 10, 6, and 5 as the most sacred of all* the reader may be told that an american kabalist has now discovered the same number for the elohim. it came to the jews from chaldaea. see

BLUE EQUINOX

h i got from my guru in madura to the effect that there was a certain point in the body suitable for meditation, which, if once discovered, drew the thought naturally towards itself, the difficulty of concentration consequently disappearing, and that the knowledge of this particular point could be communicated by the guru to his approved disciples (subsection vii) we now find a muddle between the keys and the gates. the first five are obviously keys. the last two seem to be gates, in spite of the statements in the text. we also find the term bodhisattva in a quite unintelligible sense. we shall discuss this question more fully a little later on. the seven portals 83 the dhyanis are gods of sorts, either perfect men or what one may cali natural gods, who occupy eternity in a ceaseless conte

BOOK T

entacles material trouble mercury taurus 49 6 of pentacles material success moon taurus 50 7 of pentacles success unfulfilled saturn taurus 51 8 of swords shortened force jupiter gemini 52 9 of swords despair and cruelty mars gemini 53 10 of swords ruin sun gemini 54 2 of cups love venus cancer 55 3 of cups abundance mercury cancer 56 4 of cups blended pleasure moon cancer no. card the twenty-two keys of the book letter attribution 57 the foolish man the spirit of gr:alpha-iota-theta-eta-rho aleph air 58 the magician the magus of power bet mercury book t page 2 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 such are the titles of the abodes or atouts of thooth; of the mansions of the house of my father. the descriptions of the seventy-eight symbols of this book "t" in a circle, c

arriage so much as the previous symbol. it is too passive a symbol to represent perfectly complete happiness. swiftness, hunting and pursuing. acquisition by contention: injustice sometimes; some drawbacks to pleasure implied. chesed of hb:h (receiving pleasure or kindness from others, but some discomfort therewith. therein rule the great angels hb:hyyal and hb:mvmyh. brief meanings of twenty-two keys 0. if the question refers to spiritual matters, the fool means idea, thought, spirituality, that which endeavours to transcend earth. but if question is material, it means folly, stupidity, eccentricity, or even mania. 1. skill, wisdom, adaptation, craft, cunning, or occult wisdom or power. 2. change, alternation, increase and decrease, fluctuation; whether for good or evil depends on the dig

good or evil according to their nature. cards of opposite natures on either side weaken it greatly, for either good or evil. swords are inimical to pentacles. wands are inimical to cups. a majority of wands energy, opposition, quarrel. a majority of cups pleasure, merriment. a majority of swords trouble, sadness, sickness, death. a majority of pentacles business, money, possessions. a majority of keys strong forces beyond the querent's control. a majority of court cards society, meetings of many persons. a majority of aces strength generally. aces are always strong cards. 4 aces great power and force. 3 aces riches, success. 4 kings (knights) swiftness, rapidity. 3 kings (knights) unexpected meetings. knights, in general, shew news. 4 queens authority, influence. 3 queens powerful friends

BOOK OF DOOM

ok of lucifer caput primum: about the book of doom 1.1. eons ago, long before mankind roamed this planet, there is a brotherhood of sorcerers. 1.2. they are masters of wisdom, science, and knowledge unheard of yet in the history of mankind of our days. 1.3. they decide to have their knowledge accessible to all who are ready, willing, and worthy. 1.4. therefore they create a book that contains the keys to all their power, science, knowledge, and wisdom. 1.5. the name of this book is the book of doom. 1.6. this is so because this book means doom to servitude, mediocrity, and weakness. 1.7. the book of doom has been available for mankind as long as they roamed this planet, first as an oral tradition, then in written copies or in ideogrammic forms that were well guarded. 1.8. it exists in many

the name of this book is the book of doom. 1.6. this is so because this book means doom to servitude, mediocrity, and weakness. 1.7. the book of doom has been available for mankind as long as they roamed this planet, first as an oral tradition, then in written copies or in ideogrammic forms that were well guarded. 1.8. it exists in many forms and translations. 1.9. each of its forms contains the keys that unlock the knowledge, power and wisdom of the ancient empire. 1.10. with the power of the book of doom you will receive the keys so that you can work toward being accepted into the great interstellar order of algol. 1.11. the decision lies always with you. 1.12. this is so because you are the one who decides about his or her own fate. 1.13. if you think that you are ready for the book of

wisdom of the ancient empire. 1.10. with the power of the book of doom you will receive the keys so that you can work toward being accepted into the great interstellar order of algol. 1.11. the decision lies always with you. 1.12. this is so because you are the one who decides about his or her own fate. 1.13. if you think that you are ready for the book of doom, you may go ahead to reach for the keys that help you unlock your powers. 1.14. if you still think that you have to lean on some deity, this book is not for you. 1.15. in this case it is better for you not to proceed. 1.16. read the book of doom with insight, book for book, and chapter for chapter. 1.17. look for the meaning in between the lines, then the keys will be given to you and you will find your teacher. 1.18. open your bei

eative forces in human history. caput tertium: imperium infernalis 3.1. true power expresses itself in its effects. 3.2. it is not in need to express itself in exterior form. 3.3. the choice is yours: you may wield power openly or in secret; in either case you can benefit from the fruits of it. 3.4. hierarchies of spirits reflect processes of power. 3.5. with any hierarchy of spirits you have the keys to specific expressions of power. 3.6. in the beginning is chaos. 3.7. algol is the gate of chaos which creates the worlds. 3.8. the world creates from the below of the chaos to the above. 3.9. created deities will always claim to have created the worlds. 3.10. this is so because created deities can neither understand themselves nor can they understand time. 3.11. the great infernal empire is

hat the sounds of these letters correlate to the system of eighteen runes of the armanen system. this is irrefutable proof that this system is based on the only authentic school of runes there ever has been. however, the sequence of the sounds is different from the sequence of the armanic runes. why this is so is to remain a mystery for the uninitiated person. no doubt we have to do here with the keys to powerful mantras that add greatly to the power of the system of the only authentic runes on the planet. you have to learn the symbols and the correct pronunciation of the letters for maximum effect of the mantras and spells that you use them for. the symbols of the letters of the infernal alphabet are only accessible to initiates of the o.a.i. note also that the first eighteen letters refe

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

and well-being. the power within there are many people who seem, very obviously, to have some sort of "psychic power (for want of a better term. they are the sort who know that the telephone is going to ring before it actually does, and who is on the other end of the line before they pick up the receiver. people like uri geller are able to demonstrate this power in more dramatic ways, by bending keys and teaspoons without physical contact. others have "visions" or seem to be able to make things happen. often these people have a peculiar affinity with animals. you may not be like this. you may.well feel somewhat envious of such people. yet you shouldn't feel that way, for the power that these people have and it is a very real power is inherent in all of us. to be sure, that power comes out

a systematic search may eventually locate it. but even though the conscious mind can't readily find it, there are aspects of yourself that can. all you need do is listen to them. first of all, calm down. close down the conscious mind. rid yourself of emotion. once you are completely calm and at peace, simply follow your inner urges. don't think! move; walk; be guided from within. i once found two keys thrown into the center of an overgrown field using this technique. i had not seen where the keys were thrown, yet, following my inner guidance, i walked to a certain spot, leaned over and placed my hand within three inches of the missing keys! there are times when the lost remains lost. invariably at these times there is a lesson to be learned. our higher selves sometimes choose this method t

ve also seen some very creative talismans. for instance: engraved on a silver dollar or half-dollar, when silver was called for; on a copper penny or even on a flattened copper kitchen measuring-spoon, when copper was called for. having chosen your metal, what should you inscribe on it? there are many talismanic designs shown in occult books, taken from such old grimoires asthe greater and lesser keys of solomon, the black pullet, le dragon rouge and similar. but just copying these designs, without knowing their meanings or significance, and without personalizing them, is completely useless. you need to work specifically for yourself and specifically for your problem. the most common form a talisman takes is a metal disc worn on a chain as a pendant. on one side of the disc you place the p

ng the llewellyn guide to astral projection melita dennings& osborne phillips lesson eight 1. is the wicca handfasting rite a lifetime joining of the man and woman? 2. at what age is a child initiated into the craft? 3. what are the two main categories of channeling? 4. give at least five of the major points you must address in order to clear your mind for channeling. 5. you have mislaid your car keys. you don't know whether they are in your bedroom, living room or kitchen, or at the office. how do you locate them? give two methods. 6. you see a large break in your father's aura, in the area near his heart. what would you tell him and why? please read: how to read the aura; how to develop psychometry; how to develop clairvoyance all by w.e. butler practical color magick by raymond buckland

there is no set age; it depends entirely on the individual child. 3. physical and mental. 4. controlling the mind; removing emotion; self-examination; possessiveness; love; meditation. 5 (a) calm yourself and rid yourself of all emotion. then simply follow your inner urges; be guided from within (b) use the pendulum, either working on a "yes/no" basis or with sketch maps of the various rooms the keys might have been left in. 6. beware the power of suggestion. do not tell him what you see. enquire about his health. if he claims to be feeling fine, then drop the subject. it might be a good idea to get him to have a full medical check-up, but this should be suggested in a most subtle way with no hint of worry. lesson nine 1. don't rush your working of the tarot. the more you use it, the bett

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

a casual survey of the text shows it to be the self-declaration of the divine spirit in man. to read it aloud is, in a measure, to participate in the illumination of the sage through whose mind the life-power formulated its self-expression in these stirring phrases. the meditations in this book include the occult meaning of the twenty-two hebrew letters, illustrated by the tventy-two major tarot keys which correspond thereto. the tarot keys represent the symbolic powers of consciousness in pictorial form, used by initiates for the transmutation of personality and the attainment of union with god. comment has been reduced to such explanation as seems required to make certain qabalistic terms intelligible to the uninitiated. paragraphs of the comment are numbered the same as the paragraphs

ctive contribution to the spiritual path of return being completed, he withdrew from his physical vehicle on march 2, 1954. it is our profound privilege and grave responsibility to carry on the great work which dr. case left in our care. correspondence lessons on occult psychology, tarot, holy qabalah, spiritual alchemy, etc, as well as books, pamphlets, qabalistic tree of life diagrams and tarot keys are available to interested aspirants. write to: builders of the adytum 5105 north figueroa street los angeles, california 90042 to you, who are about to be touched by the ineffable via the book of tokens, may light be extended upon you. in l. v. x (light, the grand chapter, builders, of the adytum the book of tokens contents* prologos 3 aleph 5 beth 17 gimel 29 daleth 39 heh 49 vav 63 zain 7

, pronounced dawleth. transcribed as" d. the number 4. meaning: door. the luminous intelligence. i daleth is the sign of the combined action of kether and chokmah, or 1 and 2, expressed in 3. thus the ancient hebrew character for daleth was a triangle, although the value of the letter is 4. the values of the letters apparently conflict with the numbers of the sephiroth and with those of the tarot keys to which the letters are assigned; but 1 in the alphabet is the original one without a second. in our numerals this absolute unity is expressed by the sign 0. our figure 1 stands for the first emanation, which implies the duad and also the triad. kether, 1, is beth, the house of en soph aur, and beth is 2 in the alphabet; but beth is also assigned to the magician, or 1, which is the first of

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

th the hga (holy guardian angel. the activity of severing the ego, becoming beyond that and leaving the physical world is achieved via trance and the use of human bones as ritual tools. this represents that we are temporary and life ends, and that the spiritual paths may be ascended through desire and gnosis. lucifer is essentially the god of the air, or the astral plane. the luciferic powers are keys into the separation of the spiritual from the material, even though the luciferian may remain earth bound for some time. it is speculated that eventually something as this may grow boring and it would be time for the spirit to remain and move further into the astral. the tools of chaos magick are specifically anything which one would utilize to achieve her or his goal, the results being desig

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

e trinity. hokhmah, binah, and da'at as christological trinity. 1271 mongols conquered the area around harran. they deported the populace of the city, walled up the city gates, and left it. r. baruch torgami in barcelona, teacher of abraham abulafia. his circle had access to al-gazali's description of sufism contributing to the crystalization of prophetic kabbalah. wrote maftehot ha-kabbalah("the keys to kabbalah, containing a short commentary on the sefer yezirah. 1272 provincal chapter at narbonne forbade the franciscans to practice alchemy. 1273 dominican order at pest warned friars not to study or teach alchemy. d.1273 jalal al-din al-rumi. 1274 ramon llull's vision on mount randa. d. 1275 peire cardenal troubadour. 1275-1325 menahem ben benjamin recanati italian kabbalist and torah co

77 guido bonatti: decem continens tractatus astronomiae(astrological compilation. 1279-1340 jedidah ben abraham bedersi ha penini.behinat olam. 1279-1348 abner de burgos(alfonso de valladolid) spanish christian cabalist; divine names. 1280 abulafia's preaching to christians in italy. joachimist-influenced kabbalah absorbed to some degree by beguin/franciscan church of philadelphia that holds "the keys of david: a joachimist/qblhist exegesis of scripture. 1280 ramon martin: pugio fidei discusses the tetragrammaton christologically, discusses how name science and sefirotic science support the notion of the trinity, and calls the messiah by the hebrew letter yod. uses the word cabala by name and mentions his predecessor petras alphonsi. 1280? sefer ha-zohar written by moses de le n but attrib

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

uld never have found the way, had she not given me some light with her torch. i was moreover constrained to enter right next to her, and the gate was suddenly clapped to, so that a part of my coat was locked out, which i was verily forced to leave behind me. for neither i, nor they who stood ready without and called at the gate, could prevail with the porter to open it again, but he delivered the keys to the virgin, who took them with her into the court. meanwhile i again surveyed the gate, which now appeared so rich that the whole world could not equal it. just by the door were two columns, on one of which stood a pleasant figure with this inscription, congratulor. the other, which had its countenance veiled, was sad, and beneath was written, condoleo. in brief, the inscriptions and figur

gether with their draughts and inscriptions. it grieves me for my other companions, that they neglected such precious treasures. and yet i cannot but think it was the special will of god that it should be so. i indeed reaped the most benefit from my page, for according as each one s genius lay, so he led whoever was entrusted to him into the quarters and places which were pleasing to him. now the keys belonging hereunto were committed to my page, and therefore this good fortune happened to me before the rest; for although he invited others to come in, yet they imagining such tombs to be only in the churchyard, thought they should get there well enough, whenever anything was to be seen there. neither shall these monuments (as both of us copied and transcribed them) be withheld from my thank

in myself, and first learn to know the world better. in every book stands its author painted; of which (as i understood) many were to be burnt, so that even their memory might be blotted out from amongst the righteous. page 36 now having taken a full view of this, and having scarcely gone forth, another page came running to us, and having whispered something in our page s ear, he delivered up the keys to him, who immediately carried them up the winding stairs. but our page was very much out of countenance, and we having set hard upon him with entreaties, he declared to us that the king s majesty would by no means permit that either of the two, namely the library and sepulchres, should be seen by any man, and therefore he besought us as we cared for his life, to reveal this to no man, he ha

DARK GODS

eir last manifestation on earth. associated with the 10th. and 8th. paths. the dark gods according to tradition, the dark gods are actual entities which exist in the acausal universe. according to our spatial, causal perception, these beings may be regarded as `timeless and chaotic. since our consciousness is by its nature partly acausal these entities can become manifest for us if we possess the keys to reach the appropriate levels of consciousness. what is termed the `abyss' separates our everyday consciousness from the consciousness (and thus apprehension) of the dark gods. the ordeal of the abyss involves confronting these entities and accepting them for what they are, that is, unbound by our illusion of opposites and the conflict of `good' and `evil. while it is convenient to regard t

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

will heal the world. it is happening now. sources 1 see bibliography 2 "hunt for the most powerful particle of all, daily telegraph (july 5th 1995) 3 see the work of maurice cotterell, particularly the mayan prophecies (element, shaftesbury, dorset; rockport, massachusetts, and brisbane, australia, 1995. this is written with adrian gilbert. 454 .and the truth shall set you free 4 earth- pleiadian keys to the living library channelled by barbara marciniak (bear& company, sante fe, 1995) pl35 5 nothing is black and white, however. the elite have at their disposal technology that can affect the weather and create great storms, particularly in a small area, by manipulating the magnetic energy fields. extraterrestrials certainly have this knowledge. 6 "water levels undermine safety of city buil

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

of the cock also announces the arrival of the sun. remember, too, that basilisk, the mythical king of the serpents, became interchangeable with the term "cockatrice. it was said that the basilisk was born of the cocks egg and in decorative heraldry the basilisk had the head and legs of a cock, a snake-like tail, and the body of a bird covered with serpent scales. the roman god janus, who held the keys, was fused into "peter" when christianity was founded in rome in the form we know it today- janus was eannus, a name for nimrod in babylon. even in the early years of the roman church, which was supposed to have been founded on the "rock" of peter, there is no mention of this guy. he was added to the story as the priesthood continued to put the whole fantasy together. the name andrew, another

ront altar. this is completely unaware that all the other compartments exist and those compartments are unaware of each other. therefore, the front altar, the one we take to be the "real" person, has no memory of what has happened to them, or what is still being done, until the barriers begin to break down and the memories they contain can enter the front altar, the conscious mind. using hypnotic keys and triggers, mind controllers like mengele move these different compartments around, pushing the front altar into the unconscious and bringing forward one of the back altars. the victim is then sexually abused by a famous person, like george bush or ted heath for instance, or programmed to carry out a future assassination or task. afterwards that altar is returned to the nonconscious mind an

our endless journey of experience, that spark, that pure love, has to surround itself with an outer shell that resonates with the frequency range it wishes to experience. without that, it could not interact with that "world" because it would be too far away on the dial. if my consciousness did not surround itself with a physical body on the same frequency range as this "world" i could not tap the keys of this computer. my consciousness would pass straight through them. for this reason, our inner spark of pure love has taken on a vast number of outer "bodies" to interact with and experience all densities down the scale. we are, therefore, like a series of russian dolls, one inside the other, all vibrating at different speeds. and all, except that spark of love that interpenetrates all exist

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

e anunnaki brothers, enki the serpent god, was alsofigure 6: the fleur-de-lis, symbolof the babylonian trinity of nimrod,queen semiramis and tammuz,among other things. 53known as ea. the freemasonic eagle with two heads looking left and right, east andwest, is symbolic of nimrod in the role of eannus, and i would suggest that the eagle issymbolic of the winged draco. eannus, it was said, held the keys to the doors of heavenand he was the sole intermediary between god and humanity, therefore any belief notsupported by him was false and should be condemned. this was a wonderful tool forthe babylonian priesthood to impose their will on the populous and exactly the samescam has been played by their successors, the christian priests, the rabbis and thepriesthoods of islam, hinduism and all the

of the sun, can be found on thestatue of liberty in new york harbour. all these rituals went back thousands of yearsto babylon and the stories of nimrod, queen semiramis, and tammuz, their version ofjesus. mithra was said to be the son (sun) of god who died to save humanity and givethem eternal life. one classic symbol of mithra was as a lion with a snake curled aroundhis body, while he holds the keys to heaven. this is more nimrod symbolism and theorigin of the story of st peter, one of jesus 12 disciples, holding the keys to heaven.peter was the name of the high priest in the babylon mystery school. after an initiateof the mithran cult had completed the ritual, the members had a meal of bread and winein which they believed they were eating the flesh of mithra and drinking his blood.mithr

uniform because they arecontrolled by the freemasons and the templars. the skull and bones is symbolic, inpart, of the black magic rituals the brotherhood have employed since their very earliestdays and these same sickening rituals, often involving human sacrifice, are still goingon today. if you look at the v atican or papal crest, you will see that the dome of stpeters basilica and the crossed keys of peter also form the same skull and crossbones.theyre all in it together. this theme could well be the reason that the piso family in thegospel stories said the location of the crucifixion of jesus, was a place calledgolgotha, meaning: the place of the skull. another babylonian brotherhoodorganisation is the appropriately named skull and bones society based across the roadfrom the campus of

lluminati formula, p 22.42ibid.43national enquirer, april 28th 1998, p 39, quoting a proposed book by dr wecht called whokilled jon benet ramsey44quoted in blasphemous rumours, p 212.45ibid, p 183.46the news of the world, august 24th 1997, pp 30-31.47quoted blasphemous rumours, p 30.48written by joan baez, wally wilson, kenny greenberg and karen oconnor, published bygabriel earl music/ sony cross keys publishing company/greenberg music.312cmapter sixteenwhere have all the children gone?the satanic networks are a vital part of the global mind control programmes designedto create a race of mindless zombies and an endless flow of mind controlled assassins,crazed gunmen, and agents provocateur. human robots -mind controlled slaves- havebeen with us for thousands of years and it is an epidemic

l abuse, and by sacrificing andtorturing others as they watched, you could shatter a persons mind into a honeycombof self-contained compartments or amnesiac barriers. satanic rituals are widely used todo this. once the minds unity has been shattered, these various compartments, eachunaware of the others existence, can be programmed for various tasks or experiences.using trigger words and hypnotic keys, sounds, or signals, these compartments can bepulled forward and pushed back like a mental filing cabinet. one self containedcompartment or fragment of mind becomes the persons conscious level and it is thenreturned to the subconscious and another compartment accessed. this means that afterthe victim has performed a task they forget what they have done and who with. this318condition has becom

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

rays of the sun, can be found on the statue of liberty in ny harbor. all these rituals went back thousands of years to babylon and the stories of nimrod, queen semiramis, and tammuz, their version of jesus mathra was said to be the son (sun) of god who died to save humanity and give them eternal life. one classic symbol of mithra was a lion with a snake curled around his body, while he holds the keys to heaven. better business bureau, notice the torch? the individuals who are in control of this world are not who they might seem. they are evil spirits set out to enslave other spiritual beings. us! christ was trying to teach us the truth about spirituality but they had him killed for trying. i do respect all those who died defending our 'freedom, but it is time to wake up and realize who th

DEMONIC BIBLE

tt, 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 cabalist, is not the name of god but the phoneti

es and sigils of countless demons over which it was said the magician could exercise power. many of these books were attributed to biblical figures such as solomon, moses, or enoch. the enochian system of magic adopted by the golden dawn was based on the enochian evocation of dr. john dee. dee, an elizabethan astrologer and magician, working with another man, edward kelly, produced a series of 18 keys in what they claimed was the original angelic language and apparently revealed to enoch, the first man after the fall to walk with god. the english translation of the keys bear a striking similarity to invocations in the clavicula solomonis, another medieval grimoire, but dee& kelly claimed that the keys were revealed to them by the angels, the letters of the words shown to them in a crystal

from the demonic bible into various languages, often changing certain words in order to hide the true nature of the work. the grimoire of abramelin the mage, the clavicula solomonis, the book of shadows, and the necronomicon are among the many books transcribed from the dread pages of the demonic bible. the demonic bible was shown to the magician john dee. dee translated eighteen of the "demonic" keys from the strange demonic language in which the demonic bible is written. when dee translated his keys from the demonic bible he named them the enochian keys. they are not, as is commonly believed, named for the enoch who "walked with god" but rather for enoch, the son of cain. cain was the first man to perform the rituals of the demonic bible and he murdered his brother as a sacrifice to the

thy name, amaimon. sanctify me in thy name, amaimon. bless me in thy name, amaimon. come forth, amaimon, and manifest thyself. come forth, amaimon, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) opening the nine locks of the abyss initial statement i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. within my hand i hold the keys to the locks of the abyss. i shall open the nine locks of the abyss by calling upon the nine lords of the abyss. i shall now open the *first of the nine locks of the abyss *or second, or third, as appropriate invocation of paimon/the 1st lock paimon, i invoke thee. paimon, i summon thee. paimon, i conjure thee. come forth, paimon, and manifest thyself. within this body, this temple which i ha

olas. saris. sekabin. caromos. rosaran. sapason. notiser. flaxon. harombrub. megalosin. miliom. ilemlis. galak. androcos. maranton. caron. reginon. elerion. sermeot. irmenos. these be those of amaimon, viz. romeroc. ramison. scrilis. buriol. taralim. burasen. akesoli. erekia. illirikim. labisi. akoros. mames. glesi. vision. effrigis. apelki. dalep. dresop. hergotis. nilima. the angelic or demonic keys traditionally, there are nine orders of angels. the first and highest order is seraphim, the second is cherubim, the third is thrones, the fourth is dominions, the fifth is virtues, the sixth is powers, the seventh is principalities, the eighth is archangels, and the ninth is angels. these orders abide in the upper heavens (the lower heavens being the planetary spheres and fixed constellation

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ever could be joyful do threaten us. o prince satan, father of all the wicked and ungodly and renegades wherefore wouldest thou do this? they that from the beginning until now have despaired of life and salvation-now is none of their wonted roarings heard, neither doth any groan from them sound in our ears, nor is there any sign of tears upon the face of any of them. o prince satan, holder of the keys of hell, those thy riches which thou hadst gained by the tree of transgression and the losing of paradise, thou hast lost by the tree of the cross, and all thy gladness hath perished- gospel of nicodemus vii (xxiii) here beelzebub is the tester and accuser of christ, he by having him in myth crucified acted as his initiator and teacher, he tested christ by word and prose and christ proved a p

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and example gautama siddhartha, the buddha. siddhartha was an indian prince who followed the teachings of hinduism, and lived during the sixth (6th) century before christ or before the common era. buddha is a title of accomplishment and of respect, and means "enlightened one" buddhism teaches freedom from attachment to worldly things by getting rid of suffering caused by one's desires- c- calls (keys, enochian: invocations (q.v) to the enochian (q.v) angels (q.v) dictated to john dee through his seer, the alchemist and rouge, edward kelley. the calls were used extensively in the magick of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v, aleister crowley (q.v, and anton lavey. cancer "the crab" in astrology (q.v, the fourth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of cardinal (q.v) an

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rd person of this unholy trinity of revealers of the mysteries is my humble self, who has been doing much the same thing as mr. regardie in a series of articles on the cabbala which has been running in my own magazine, the inner light. i know that i undertook this work under a strong inner compulsion that this teaching must now be given out to the world; that it was the will of those who held the keys that the door should be set open in these matters, and that we were about to enter on an entirely new phase of occult activity. so far as i can see, ceremonial magic is coming out into the open, as witness even the futile operations of mr. harry price on the brocken, concerning which i had something to say in a previous issue of the occult review. one does not see sporadic manifestations of t

nal temple, and the masters who rule therein, that i personally look for my inspiration and my authority to initiate. whatever system i use is a means to an end and nothing more. i value tradition, however, because i find it to possess a psychic efficacy which is lacking in original systems, however theoretically correct or aesthetically beautiful they may be. it is my belief that mathers got the keys to his system from the mysterious manuscripts, and that these connect up with the genuine european tradition whose symbol is the rose on the cross, and concerning which so little is known. i cannot prove this statement on the physical plane, because i have never been allowed a sight of those manuscripts or any opportunity to test the statements that are current in the order concerning its ori

my cost. it is not advisable however, for persons with no experience of practical occultism to make their first experiments with no other guidance than that of a book. preliminary training is necessary; also a guide with a rope in case of difficulties. but those who have already passed through the outer court and stand waiting at the door between the pylons will find, in mr. regardie's books, the keys they need. i, for one, wish them godspeed on their journey; and may they find the stone of the wise; the summum bonum; true wisdom; perfect happinefemystical qabala page 1 the mystical qabalah mystical qabala page 2 foreword the tree of life forms the ground-plan of the western esoteric tradition and is the system upon which pupils are trained in the fraternity of the inner light. the transli

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mentaries thereon; and the qabalah, or mystical interpretation thereof. of these three the ancient rabbis say that the first is the body of the tradition, the second its rational soul, and the third its immortal spirit. ignorant men may with profit read the first; learned men study the second; but the wise meditate upon the third. it is a strange thing that christian exegesis has never sought the keys to the old testament in the qabalah. 12. in our lord's day there were three schools of religious thought in palestine: the pharisees and the sadducees, of whom we read so frequently in the gospels; and the essenes, who are never referred to. esoteric tradition avers that the boy jesus ben joseph, when his calibre was recognised by the learned doctors of the law who heard him speak in the temp

owever, i can only endorse what all the gurus of the eastern tradition have always averred-that any system of psycho-spiritual development can only be safely and adequately carried on under the personal supervision of an experienced teacher. for this reason, although i shall give in these pages the principles of the mystical qabalah, i do not consider it would be in anybody's interest to give the keys to its practice even if by the terms of the obligation of my own initiation i were not forbidden to do so. but, on the other hand, i do not consider it fair to the reader to introduce intentional blinds and misinformation, and to the best of my knowledge and belief the information i give is accurate, even if incomplete. 21. the thirty-two mystical paths of the concealed glory are ways of life

on is simple. upon the physical plane [page 24] we are ourselves in the element of earth, therefore that symbol does not appear upon the paths which lead into the unseen. remove this, and we are left with twenty-two symbols, which fit accurately and, correctly placed, are found to correspond perfectly with the tarot trumps, each elucidating the other in the most remarkabl& fashion, and giving the keys to esoteric astrology and tarot divination. 14. the essence of each path is to be found in the fact that it connects two of the sephiroth, and we can only understand its significance by taking into account the nature of the linked spheres upon the tree. but a sephirab cannot be understood upon a single planc; it has a fourfold nature. the qabalists express this by saying that there are four w

et doctrine. this qabalistic cosmogony is the christian gnosis. without it we have an incomplete system in our religion, and it is' this mystical qabala page 21 incomplete system which has been the weakness of christianity. the early fathers, in the homely metaphor, threw away the baby with the bath-water. a very cursory acquaintance with the qabalah serves to show that here we have the essential keys to the riddles of scripture in general and the prophetic books in particular. is there any good [page 28] reason why initiates of the present day should put all this knowledge into a secret box and sit upon the lid? if they consider that i am wrong to give accurate information upoo matters which they consider their private preserve, i reply that this is a free country and they are entitled to

signed. both these systems, the tarot and the tree, being of immemorial antiquity, their origins lost in the vistas of the ages, there is an enormous mass of symbolic correspondences accumulated around each of them. every practical occultist who has ever worked with the tree has added to this stock of associations, making the symbols live in the astral by means of his operations. the tree and its keys are infinite in their adaptability. mystical qabala page 50 10. the four court-cards of the tarot are called in modern packs, king, queen, knight, and knave; but in the traditional packs they are, according to crowley, arranged and symbolised differently. the king, being a mounted figure, indicating the swift action of the yod of tetragrammaton; the prince of the esoteric tarot is a seated fi

ELIPHAS LEVI THE CONJURATION OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS

, quae superius sitcut quaee superius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius. sol ejus pater est, luna mater et ventus hanc gestavit in utero suo, ascendit a terra ad coelum et rursus a coelo in terram descendit. exorciso te, creatura aquae, ut sis mihi speculum dei vivi in operibus ejus, et fons vitae, et ablutio pecatorum. amen. 7 prayer of the undines terrible king of the sea! thou who boldest the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the hollow places of the earth! king of the deluge and of rains, of springtime! thou who openest the sources of streams and fountains! thou who commandest the moisture (which is like the blood of the earth) to become the sap of plants! we adore and invoke thee! speak to us, ye moving and changeable creatures! speak to us

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nd abandoned outside of the chamber. presumably this argument also holds in rituals such as the satanic baptism [15, p. 212] which directly refers to the literal satan. it is a valid argument, but the dual acceptance of belief and non-belief is also an effective tool for appealing to such strongly diverging groups of people as theists and atheists simultaneously. 4. a listing of eighteen enochian keys. ironically, this section contains the very occultnick bunk that anton lavey prides the satanic bible as being devoid of in the preface of the book. both readers despising such bunkery and readers desiring it are generously satisfied. the satanic bible thus represents an occultnick slam dunk: most readers will agree with certain portions of the satanic bible as long as they are either atheist

ere intended to mislead the rubes begging to be mocked and derided. according to william gidney (priest of the church of satan: the church of satan champions the machiavellian ethic of misdirection: you should try actually reading the philosophical content of the satanic bible far more carefully. what confusion we inspire is of no interest to us [17] hence, the inclusion of the so-called enochian keys, a hoax invented by john dee and edward kelley, in the satanic bible might be an ironic attempt at misdirection put there to confuse the rubes, but any references to machiavellian ethics would be sincere. presumably only the elite (that is, whoever happened to read the satanic bible) would be able to realize that the crowleyinspired parts were misdirection, while the redbeard and machiavelli

cience are thereby covered. anton lavey asserted that magic falls into three basic categories: anger, lust, and compassion [6, pp. 114-115] feelings that are often difficult to cope with in many societies. two sections of the satanic bible are devoted to the practice of magic. one section contains three recipes for the aforementioned three categories of magic. the other section lists the enochian keys. anton lavey has later conceded that he chose to include the enochian keys in the satanic bible simply because he was told that they were dangerous to mention [5, p. 4. when the church of satan uses the term ceremony, it means ritual in sociology. when it uses the term ritual, it means magic in sociology. this document uses the sociological nomenclature. the rituals and magic that are publicl

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and a quarter yards of the place. the room is over nine feet high and was brilliantly lighted by a 100 candle-power lamp, and the door and window were shut, the latter fastened, and incapable of being opened from the outside. tweedale recorded several other similar observations. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. apports 77 we were talking about the mysterious disappearance of the keys. suddenly i saw something bright coming swiftly through the air from the direction of the corner opposite the door and high up towards the ceiling, and so from that part of the room where there is neither door, nor window, nor any opening in the wall. the bright thing rushed through the air and struck my wife on the coil of hair at the back of her head. it came with such a force that it bounc

f hair at the back of her head. it came with such a force that it bounced from her head to a distance of nearly three and a half yards from where she stood. my wife uttered a loud cry of alarm, due to the shock and surprise, but owing to the thick mass of hair intervening, she was not hurt in the least. i instantly ran and picked the object up, when, to our amazement, we found it was the bunch of keys missed from my mother s pocket since noon, and of which we had been talking when they were thus projected into the room. on another occasion (17th january 1911) a shower of articles came apparently through the ceiling and fell upon the teatable, in the presence of six witnesses, and in good light. on 11th november 1913, a stick three feet ten inches long came slowly through the solid plaster

us actions, and the ritual format partook largely of the nature of religious observances. it was not, as generally supposed, a reversed christianity or judaism, though it departed radically from orthodox christianity; nor did it partake of the profanation of religious ritual. it was in effect an attempt to derive power from god for the successful control of evil spirits. even in the grimoires and keys of black magic, the operator was constantly reminded that he or she must meditate continually on the undertaking at hand and center every hope in the infinite goodness of the great adonai. the god invoked in black magic was not satan but the jehovah of the jews and the trinity of the christians. the foundation of practical magic was the belief in the power of divine words to compel the obedie

imed to be the earthy representative of the secret order of the christian brotherhood and school of christian initiation. similar to what has been elsewhere termed the great white brotherhood, the secret order of the christian brotherhood was seen as consisting of those evolved beings who in ages past had so spiritualized their bodies and perfected their understanding that they had been given the keys to the kingdom universal. their present task is to guide the earth. as an initiate, hodges was given the order s teachings and told to propagate them. he founded the christian fellowship organization as an instrument for the order and in 1938 published their teachings in a book, the teachings of the secret order of the christian brotherhood. the order taught a means of achieving liberation th

vices. she also developed a form of healing meditation during which a person imagines breathing in a specific color. during the 1930s, british theosophist roland t. hunt emerged as whitten s leading student. while he studied whitten s writings, he was also becoming aware of the new psychological findings about the effects of color on human behavior. these were combined in his 1940 text, the seven keys to colour healing. hunt moved to california following world war ii and became the head of amica. he wrote a number of books before passing the work to paola hugh and the fleur de lys foundation in tacoma, washington. concurrent with but independent of hunt was the activity of rosicrucian corine heline, the founder of the new age bible and philosophy center in santa monica, california. in 1943

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28, has been created to distribute marciniak s tapes and books and to coordinate her teaching activity. she does not have a webpage, but information about the continuing messages from the pleiadians can be found at http/ www.spiritweb.org/spirit/pleiadians-book.html. sources: marciniak, barbara. bringers of the dawn: teachings from the pleiadians. santa fe, n.mex: bear& co, 1992. earth: pleiadian keys to the living library. santa fe, n.mex: bear& co, 1994. family of light: pleiadian tales and lessons in living. santa fe, n.mex: bear& co, 1998. margaritomancy divination by means of pearls. a pearl was covered with a vase and placed near a fire, and the names of suspected persons were pronounced. when the name of the guilty one was uttered, the pearl was supposed to bound up and pierce the b

off into a luminous cloud. to the touch the hand was sometimes icy cold and dead, at other times warm and lifelike. crookes said he saw a luminous cloud hover over a heliotrope, break a sprig off and carry it to a lady; he also claimed to have seen a finger and thumb pick petals from a flower in home s buttonhole and lay them in front of several persons sitting near him. phantom hands playing the keys of an accordion floating in the air were frequently seen. once in the full light of day in hall s drawing room, with d. d. home s feet and hands in full view the entire time, william howitt, s. carter hall, and emma hardinge britten claimed they saw 20 pairs of hands form and remain visible and active for about an hour. one evening, wrote john ashburner of his experiences with the medium char

lerk born in 1903 who, by simply touching a script, would offer a psychometric reading and also imitate the writing. he was studied by professor fischer of prague. metal bending one of the very few new directions in claimed psychic phenomena in modern times. it was first publicized in the mid- 1970s by uri geller, an israeli psychic, when he apparently demonstrated paranormal deformation of metal keys and spoons. when these objects were gently stroked or subjected to passes of his hand without actual contact, they tended to bend and often actually break, allegedly by some unknown force directed by the psychic s mind. the phenomenon became known as the geller effect, but is now generally classified by parapsychologists as psychokinetic metal bending or pkmb. in spite of many demonstrations

avatsky (1896) is claimed to have been produced by this technical means. the machine, according to j. m. wade s introduction, typed nine paper sheets per hour. of a sitting with franek kluski on november 23, 1919, the polish society for psychical research recorded: the typewriter on the table, fully illuminated by the red light, began to write. the sitters remarked that it wrote very quickly, the keys being depressed as if by a skilful typist. there was no one near the machine. the persons holding mr. kluski s hands noticed that they twitched during the writing. in tullio castellani s record of a sitting on july 6, 1927, in millesimo castle, there is a description of an artistic exhibition: after a little while we heard in perfect rhythm with the music, a dance of two drumsticks upon the f

pk. the minilab can be sealed and locked, and is monitored by a video camera that is activated by a switching apparatus connected to the objects; thus, object movement is automatically recorded. the minilab has been used by parapsychologist j. d. isaacs, who has investigated the phenomenon of paranormal metal bending, introduced by the israeli psychic uri geller, whose feats in bending spoons and keys became world-famous, both stimulating imitators and new experiments, and providing accusations of fraud. geller produced phenomena for scientists under laboratory conditions that led many of them to back his claims of being psychic with psychokinetic powers. some later withdrew their enthusiastic endorsements. in the meantime, critics, like stage magician james randi, denied the possibility o

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oring esoteric knowledge. what then is esoterism and how is it connected to the left hand path? antoine faivre, one of the leading scholars on occult research and esoterism, writes in his book esoterism that esoterism is not an area like art, philosophy or chemistry, but rather a way of thinking. faivre explains: the diffuse etymological derivation of the word indicates that one can only find the keys to the symbols, myths and reality by individual progression where one reaches illumination step by step, in a hermeneutic way. there is no outmost secret if one believes that all is basically secret. esoterism denotes something inner and mysterious, unlike the exoteric which is the outer form. christianity with its outer dogmas and ceremonies could be called exoteric, while gnosticism could b

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

craft were to proceed to the east for another sixty-seven miles, turn north for seventy-three miles, then head westsouthwest for the remaining one hundred twenty miles back to their home base. heading the mission the only nonstudent was the relatively inexperienced lt. charles taylor, who did not know the area well. by late afternoon, the planes were lost. taylor thought they were flying over the keys off florida s south coast, and he made a fatal misjudgment: he flew north. if he and his men had been over the keys, of course, they would bermuda triangle 41 a reward poster at a marina for the yacht saba bank, which went missing in the bermuda triangle march 10, 1974 (bettmann/corbis) have arrived over land and to safety. because they were over the bahamas, however, flying northward only pu

the years, several persons received the messages, but in time sharpe became the organization s guiding personality. it has published a large amount of channeled material, including communications from gloria lee, a 1950s-era contactee. see also: channeling; contactees; j. w; sananda further reading mark-age: love in action for the new age. http//www.islandnet.com/ arton/markage.html one thousand keys to the truth, 1976. miami, fl: mark-age metacenter. holloman aliens a modern legend, widely circulated but never verified, holds that aliens once landed at holloman air force base in new mexico and conferred with representatives of the government and military. the event is variously set on april 1964 or may 1971. the story emerged under curious circumstances. robert emenegger and allan sandle

l creation the hardened shell around the cosmic egg of light (arvey, 1994. metatronic energy is transmitted once a week to the earth, and seekers can gain access to it if they are attuned to the proper frequency. much of the information metatron sends is of a densely technical nature. a good part of the channeled material comes through james j. hurtak, who records it in the book of knowledge: the keys of enoch (1982. hurtak, however, is far from the only metatron channeler. the most famous communicant with metatron is the rock 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 lig

, 1994. metatron. http//www.spiritweb. org/spirit/metatron-arvey.html. davidson, gustav, 1967. a dictionary of angels.new york: free press. gates, david, and devin gordon, 2000. smooth as santana. newsweek (february 14: 66 67. gilmore, robert and laurie, eds, n.d. the ascension is life lived from joy. http//www.nitehawk. com/daydove/25metatr.html. hurtak, james j, 1982. the book of knowledge: the keys of enoch. los gatos, ca: academy for future science. stone, joshua david, 1994. the complete ascension manual. sedona, az: light technology publishing. michael in two books, chelsea quinn yarbro chronicled the channeling experiences of a young san francisco area woman given the name jessica lansing. yarbro wrote that in 1970, as jessica and her husband, walter (also a pseudonym, played with a

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pon the town. over the spot where a man was slain, avenging spirits hover and lie in wait for the returning murderer. faust that too from you? the murder and death of a world be upon you, monster! lead me to her, i say, and set her free! mephistopheles i will lead you, and what i can do, hear! have i all power in heaven and on earth? the warder s senses i will becloud; make yourself master of the keys and lead her forth with human hand. i ll watch! the magic horses are ready, i will carry you away. that i can do. faust up and away! night. an open field. faust and mephistopheles storming along on black horses. faust what weaving are they round the ravenstone? mephistopheles i know not what they are brewing and doing. faust hovering up, hovering down, bending low, bowing down. mephistopheles

that i can do. faust up and away! night. an open field. faust and mephistopheles storming along on black horses. faust what weaving are they round the ravenstone? mephistopheles i know not what they are brewing and doing. faust hovering up, hovering down, bending low, bowing down. mephistopheles a witches guild. faust they strew and dedicate. mephistopheles on! on! a prison faust [with a bunch of keys and a lamp, in front of an iron wicket. a long-unwonted shudder over me falls, the woe of human lot lays hold on me. here then she dwells, within these humid walls, and all her crime was a fond fantasy. you hesitate to go her? you fear again to see her near? on! your faltering brings death lingering here! he grasps the lock.someone is singing [inside. my mother, the whore, she has murdered me

atest mind does not complete it, though. and yet your master! great his gifts and fame; who does not know good doctor wagner s name? first in the learned world! tis he alone, they say, who holds the world together; every day he proves that he is wisdom s multiplier. hearers and listeners who eagerly aspire to universal knowledge, round him flock. none from the rostrum can shine meeter; he handles keys as doth st. peter; lower and upper, both he can unlock. like his- as wagner glows and sparklesno other s fame can hold its ground. the very name of faustus darkles; wagner alone has sought and found. famulus pardon, good sir, for asking your attention the while i make an humble intervention: with what you ve said there can be no dissension, but modesty is his allotted part. since that great m

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

the disciplines of the mystical qabalah are distinct from those practiced by magicians, wizards, and sorcerers who seek to acquire creative and/or destructive power, depending on what paths they traverse on the tree of life. the occult disciplines of wizards and magicians are often called the practical, hermetic, or magical qabalah. practical qabalah has its ancient roots in the thirteen enochian keys of enoch son of qain, along with a highly eclectic admixture of material taken from egyptian, mesopotamian, and other non-hebrew sources. it is important 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% not to confuse enoch son of qain with enoch son of yared. the former enoch was the grandson of adam and the son after whom qain was said to name a city.11 enoch son of yared was the great, great, great, great grandson of

an, and other non-hebrew sources. it is important 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% not to confuse enoch son of qain with enoch son of yared. the former enoch was the grandson of adam and the son after whom qain was said to name a city.11 enoch son of yared was the great, great, great, great grandson of adam, and the one who walked with elohim and was transformed into metatron(]vruum).12 the thirteen enochian keys of enoch son of qain are reflected in such works as the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage, the greater and lesser keys of solomon, and medieval grimoires such as the armadel, goetia/lemegeton, etc.13 the primary text of the mystical qabalah that appears to occupy a central place of importance in the hermetic qabalah is the sefer yetzirah (book of formation. however, from what is

down as an oral tradition of teaching stories that skillfully mingled historical facts with miraculous acts. such a rendition would have been even more vulnerable to corruption, embellishments and outright fictionalization. while it is highly unlikely that the current version of the torah is an accurate version of the ezra compilation, the living tradition of the mystical qabalah provides us with keys by which we can mine for the original treasures still embedded within it. ultimately, the divinely infused life of master mosheh was a vehicle for the renewal and enlivenment of the underlying mystical spirituality regarding the absolute unity of existence and the primacy of unconditional devotion and love for the divine that had faded in the hearts of israel. despite arguments from religious

are lost to the world? definitely not! again, it is important to remember that master yeshuvah did not come to deliver a new message but to renew an old one. he did not come to replace the torah, but to demonstrate its essence through his life. hence, the hebrew scriptures, even without interpretations skewed to support a developing theology, and the mystical qabalah provide us with the necessary keys to identify the many gems placed in the setting of the quasi-fictionalized gospel narratives. the gospels of john and thomas, in particular, make it clear that the teachings of master yeshuvah were firmly rooted in the continuum of shemite mystical spirituality. secondly, there are universal characteristics of messianic appearances that cross all religious boundaries. from time to time in the

uely alluded to in torah b reshith 5:24, and related in detail in i enoch, the first of the two remaining books of enochian literature traced to the reign of sheba in ethiopia. i enoch was translated by r.h. charles in the late nineteenth century. in the qur an, metatron is referred to as al khidr. 13 s.l. macgregor mathers translated the sacred magic of abramelin the mage, the greater and lesser keys of solomon, and the grimoire of armadel. these books were drawn upon by both the golden dawn and ordo templis orientis for some of their rituals and experiments. aleister crowley incorporated material from them in his writings as well. mathers also brought attention to the sifra detzniyutha and the idra rabba with his english translation of knorr von rosenroth s latin translation of those tex

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

he early centuries a.d, so did the old conjuring go back to the same period and the same type of sources. names of angels, names of god in hebrew, hebrew letters and signs, are a feature of gnostic magic in which pagan and jewish sources are inextricably mingled. this mingling continues in the later tradition. there are, for example, names of jewish angels in picatrix, and the authorship of some "keys of solomon" is ascribed to "picatrix".1 thus both the renaissance magia and its cabala could be regarded as reformed revivals of magics ultimately derivable from pagan and jewish gnosticism. moreover, the two theoretical contexts in which the two kinds of magic revive in the renaissance namely the hermetica and cabala are both gnostic in origin. the hermetica are collections of documents of p

reform. vast and vague hopes of some religious settlement following on navarre's victory and conversion were aroused throughout europe, and particularly in venice, as agrippa d'aubigne ironically reports: divines. were finding by the figures of geomancy, by oracles, by the fatal name of bourbon, that this prince was destined to convert the hierarchies to the empire, the pulpit into a throne, the keys into swords, and that he would die emperor of the christians. the venetians were adoring this rising sun with such devotion that when a french gendeman passed through their town they would run to greet him. at the court of the emperor and in poland one heard public prayers that the empire might be confided into his fortunate hands, together with disputes concerning the reunion of religions, o

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

ame source? in his realisation of the cthulhu mythos, lovecraft also drew upon a wide range of sources from the historical occult tradition, and from the literary material pertaining to it. in his essay, supernatural horror in literature, he mentions academic works such as frazer s the golden bough, and margaret murray s the witch cult in western europe, as well as authentic grimoires such as the keys of solomon and dr. john dee s book of enoch, or liber logaeth. he had also read waite s collection of medieval texts, the book of black magic and pacts, macgregor mathers translation of the sacred magic of abra-melin the sage, and cotton mathers, wonders of the invisible world, which documents the witchcraft phenomena centred around salem in 1692. the titles of these volumes are echoed in tho

who can present us with practical evidence of communication with non-human entities. dr. john dee was the astrologer to queen elizabeth i, and worked with a number of scryers, or seers, the most talented of which was the irishman, sir edward kelly. through the use of a magic mirror of mayan origin, kelly made contact with certain spirits, who communicated through him a series of magical calls, or keys, in a language called enochian. this language has since been studied and analysed by many historians, who confirm that it is indeed an authentic and consistent idiom, without resemblance to any other still in existence. it is even more remarkable that, in recently deciphered passages from the book of enoch, words approximating to the names of the great old ones, as they appear in the cthulhu

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

or the trustees of the charity fund: to render annually lo the finance committee, your accounts, with the vouchers: to lay before the grand lodge, on the first day of each annual communication, a detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures of the preceding year: and finally, to obey all orders of the grand lodge and of the trustees in relation to their respective funds and properties. the keys forming the jewel of your office have a twofold significance: they are instruments to bind as well as to loose; to make fast as well as to open. they will never, l am confident, be used by you in any other manner than the constitutions, laws, rules, and regulations of the grand lodge shall direct. recording grand secretary. r.w. brother:usage, as well as positive enactments from time to time

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands, and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy. he must follow in the footsteps of his forefather, tubal-cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a plowshare [manly p. hall, 33rd degree, k.t, the lost keys of freemasonry or the secret of hiram abiff, forward by reynold e. blight, 33rd degree, k.t, illustrations by j. augustus knapp, 32nd degree, macoy publishing and masonic supply company, inc, richmond, virginia, p. 48; emphasis added] once the mason learns to control his emotion and to apply the "dynamo of living power" the mason can be assured of being able to control the "seething energies

flames and who. will one day rise triumphant. this [belief] also relates to the raising of hiram abiff, the masonic 'christ" to prevent most people from associating the masonic eagle with the ancient phoenix, freemasons changed the phoenix to an eagle, and began to refer to it as an eagle. however, two masonic authors blow the lid off that change in symbolism. manly p. hall, in his book, the lost keys of freemasonry, states "these were the immortals to whom the term 'phoenix' was applied, and their symbol was the mysterious two-headed bird, now called an eagle, a familiar and little understood masonic emblem [p. 108; emphasis added] albert pike, in magnum opus, writes. the eagle was the living symbol of egyptian god mendes. and the representative of the sun [p. xviii] in one sentence, we s

e" or "perfect" in another book, george returns to this theme once again, this time blaspheming an important and familiar scripture, god's own words, to be exact. listen "be still- and know- that i am god. that i am god- the final recognition of the all in all, the unity of the self with the cosmos- the cognition of the divinity of the self [emphasis in the original; george h. steinmetz, the lost keys of freemasonry, richmond, virginia, macoy publishing and masonic supply company, 1923, p. 92] you have just witnessed a masonic author twist the words of god in exodus 3:14. how? he applied them to mankind. this blasphemy is an excellent example to show us why freemasonry has been so sensitive about any of its secrets ever becoming public knowledge. masons in every age knew that if the genera

t in jail. now you know why freemasonry insists that its initiates pledge that, if they divulge any of masonry's secrets, he would agree to having his throat slit and be disemboweled. if you think this blasphemy of saying that man can become god is unique to george steinmetz, listen to two more masonic authors. manly p. hall, another 33rd degree mason, writes "man is a god in the making [the lost keys of freemasonry, p. 92] masonic author, joseph fort newton, clearly and boldly states. to the profoundest insight of the human soul- that god becomes man that man may become god [the religion of freemasonry: an interpretation, macoy publishing and masonic supply company, 1969, p. 37] masonry acknowledges that freemasonry originated in the place where satan dwells! albert churchward, another ma

ation of good and evil [manly p. hall, 33 degree mason, the secret teachings of all ages, the philosophical research society press, p. lxxxviii] let us repeat this insight for you "the serpent is the symbol and prototype of the universal savior, who redeems the worlds" thank you very much for this insight, mr. hall; of course, we should not be surprised, for mr. hall told us in his book, the lost keys of freemasonry, that the properly prepared mason had the "seething energies of lucifer in his hands [p. 48] can you imagine such blasphemy? freemasons depict the universal savior of the world as the serpent. this boldly damning statement was never meant for public eyes, because this book was published as a secret book. now do you see why freemasonry insists that their initiates take a solemn

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

or "to increase" the kalends of january at rome were sacred to janus and juno to whom sacrifices were offered. the etruscans also worshipped janus who was the god (or goddess) of the year. although this deity does not appear among the twelve gods it is said to be the parent of them all. it was represented as having two faces. upon one were the letters representing 365, and upon the other were the keys of life and death. according to bryant this deity was called junonius, from the goddess juno, whose name resolves itself into juneh, a dove. in the hebrew this name is identical with yoni or yuni--the female principle. on the coins of this god (which was subsequently regarded as male) is usually figured a boat, although a dove with an olive branch is sometimes observed.[133 [133] see faber, p

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

r drdeecouldnotsee orhearthespirits-thatthe angels they saw in the crystal spoke tothemin an unknown language which they called enochian.theangels further gave them the enochian alphabetoftwenty-one letters, and a seriesoflarge tablets subdivided to produce 49x49 smaller squares each containing an enochian letter.fromthesedeeand kelley were taught to extract and to translate the nineteen enochian keys or calls, which were magical invocations. certainofthe tablets, called thefourwatchtowers, were to be arranged into elementalsquares255thegreateastern quadrangleofair, thegreatwesternquad255rangleofwater,thegreatnorthernquadrangleofearth and the greatsouthernquadrangleoffire-witha centraltabletofunion referred tothespirit.theuseofthese tablets and keys is extremely complex and secondorderadep

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eaching which is so apt to be obscured by sectarian forms of worship. the tenets of this work are closely approxi255 mate to those of the earliest of the followers of christian rosencreuz. there is one doctrine for the learned, and a simpler formula..225for those who are unable to bearityet, even as the new testament itself tells us, of the great master who taught his immediate disciples the true keys, but to others he spake only in parables 'and without a parable spake he not unto them. such, my fratres, are suitable subjects for the attention of your members,butthere are many allied topics which might form suitable centres of interest and instruction, for example: the whole range of church architecture as crystallized symbol255 ism, the dogmas of the gnostics, the several systems of phil

tallized symbol255 ism, the dogmas of the gnostics, the several systems of philosophy of the hindoos, the parallelism between rosi255 crucian doctrine and eastern theosophy, for which read max heindel'srosicrucian cosmo-conception,and that enticing subject, the origin and meaning of the 22 trumps or symbolic designs of the 'tarocchi' or pack of tarot cards, which eliphaz levi says form a group of keys which will unlock every secret of theology and cosmology.forsuch as are interested in the alchemy of the past i recommend a perusal ofa suggestive enquiry into the hermetic mystery,1850, by an anonymous author, and e.a. hitchcock'sremarks on alchemy and the alchemists,1857. and, lastly, we may make researches into that most interesting problem- did speculative masonry arise from the rosicruci

ld testament may indeed be, to some extent, the link which binds together thousands of christians, for christ founded his doctrine upon a jewish basis, but the interminable list of christian sects of today have almost all taken their rise from the assertion of an assumed right of personal interpretation of the bible, which should have remained debarred to the generality by the confession that the keys were lost, or, at least, missing, and that, without their assistance, error of a vital character was inevitable. the vast accumulation of varying interpretations of the bible, although a stupendous folly, yet sinks into insignificance as an incident of importance, before the collateral truth that the followers of each of the hundreds of sects have arrogated to themselves, not only the right o

light, the bull heat, the lion's grip is the attraction of the magnet, and the eagle's wings are types of the far-reaching flashes of the electric fluid. ezekiel's additional imagery of the wheel has supplied the enigma of the wheel of past ellus, intimately connected with the156themagical masontetrad of god; hisrota, the latin word for which is also torah, the hebrew 'law, and taro the mystical keys of the paths of yetzirah, and 22 trumps of the tarot cards, the lost book of the secrets of hermes trismegistus, as levi names it. but one book of hermes is with us still, the words of the 'emerald tablet' are still in our possession; it speaks of the great magical agent, or wonder-working creative god power 'its father is the sun, its mother is the moon, and the wind carried it in its belly

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

f mercy and severity. the ace of pentacles represents eternal synthesis, the great whole of the visible universe, the realisation of counterbalanced power.the22 trumps are the hieroglyphic symbols of the occult meanings of the 22 letters of the hebrew alphabet. they are numbered from 0 to 21 inclusive (see table opposite. i will now describe carefully the symbolism of each of these hieroglyphical keys.\1.the juggler or magician.before a table covered with the appliances of his art stands the figure of a juggler, one hand upraised holding a wand (in some packs, a cup, the other pointing downwards. he wears a cap of maintenance like that of the kings, whose wide brim forms a sort of aureole round his head. his body and arms form the shape of the hebrew letter aleph, to which this card corres

onsulting should be represented, he should takeofthe kings to represent himself, according tohiscomple-i;j xion.ifa lady consults the cards, let her take one ofqueens;ifshe be rather fair,thequeen of cups; ifshefair, the queen of wands or sceptres,ifthe inquirer bea youth or a boy, let him take one of the knights; if ayoung girl, let her take the knave,etc. etteilla's. plan wasto'%take two of the keys for significators,thatanswering topope for a man, that answering to the high priestess fora"jwoman. butido notthinkthis iswell. the worstof:!etteilla's system is that he so completely destroysmeanings of the keys in his attempted rearrangement oftheni,"aas to make them practically useless for higher occultishall now .give267several.modes of laying out the cardsdivination.thereader can adopt w

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

he spread of the templar tradition throughout europe, the kabbalah began to attract a number of philosophers. so, in the fifteenth century, a current of humanism began that left an indelible mark on the european world of ideas. this connection between humanism and the kabbalah has been emphasized in several sources. one of these sources is the book of the famous author malachi martin entitled the keys of this blood. martin is professor of history at the vatican's pontifical bible institute. he says that the influence of the kabbalah can be clearly observed among the humanists: in this unaccustomed climate of uncertainty and challenge that came to mark early-renaissance italy, there arose a network of humanist associations with aspirations to escape the overall control of that established o

cause there is no other being to be glorified except god. humanity is merely his creation. today, masons proclaim mirandola's heretical idea of the worship of humanity much more openly. for example, in a local masonic booklet, it says: primitive societies were weak and, because of this weakness, they divinized the power and phenomena around them. but masonry divinizes only humanity.45 in the lost keys of freemasonry, manly p. hall explains that this masonic humanist doctrine goes back to ancient egypt: man is a god in the making, and as in the mystic myths of egypt, on the potter's wheel, he is being molded. when his light shines out to lift and preserve all things, he receives the triple crown of godhood, and joins that throng of master masons, who in their robe of blue and gold, are seek

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

raditions and between these two streams and the gnosis! in studying the old testament we need to realise that it is not the word of god but a remnant, a historical record of what occurred within israel at that period. while it contains scraps of the original mysteries it is not primarily a religious text, but a mixture of myths, legends, histories and interpretations. while certainly the esoteric keys are found hidden throughout its pages we must also be aware of the distortions of the gnosis that exist within it. the priestly stream (that of the scribe) rightly belongs beyond the old testament, it occurred the gnostic handbook page 72 after the captivity in babylon when yahwehist scribes took control of diaspora israel in babylon and re-moulded judaism into a new form. this new form was b

dbook page 97 the body are excellent followers but rotten leaders. the new self which is awakening must take control of the body("put your house in order) and a restored mind and emotions will take their rightful place beneath it. in the life of the gnostic there should be a simple set of principles. 1 study should come first, study the scriptures, study the gnostic texts and the restored gnostic keys. 2 secular thinking and belief come second! logic and belief must be based in a firm foundation, the foundation of self and the lord of wisdom. 3 thirdly and definitely only third comes the body and the emotions. sure, look after the body and enjoy the world, but do so with care! just because you wake up one morning feeling bad does not mean you have fallen off the spiritual path. but remembe

spiritual path. but remember, the world is a trap, a dialectic prison and hence indulgence(+1) or attachment and mortification(-1) or detachment are both actions and reactions and hence part of the prison we are caught in. faith and education one of the most important steps on the path is that of education or more correctly, re-education. when the gnostic begins to really study the bible with the keys of the mysteries a whole new understanding arises and this new understanding (gnosis) will change forever the way he looks at the world. study is hence a major part of the path of transfiguration and it leads to a whole new way of examining the world. this viewpoint is sometimes called faith but is better described as conviction. it is a worldview that grows out of the experience of the gnosi

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

but this, of course, has it limits. while modern psychology and science may agree with us that there are altered states of being, even perhaps other dimensions, it is only the gnostic who realises that through correspondence the altered state can be used as a gateway to explore the world outside. certainly it is also only the gnostic who undertakes the adventure to get there. by using the master keys provided in the gnostic and esoteric traditions and correlating these with modern research, the institute for gnostic studies can offer you techniques and theories which will change the way you experience yourself and the world forever. and this, by the way, is the aim of the gnosis, the transformation of lead into gold, man into god, the transfiguration of the student from a seeker of the my

he original nature of man. the process of transfiguration is to break beyond the endura (the world of the archons) and retrieve the gnosis coded within us, bursting forth with the power of divine will and formulating an identity of light substance. in the tradition of the barbelo gnostics, sophia herself, feeling guilty after giving birth to the false creator, hid within his very own creation the keys to man s liberation and the demiurge s downfall. gnostic theurgy page 59 some conclusions when we examine the cycle of eternal re-occurrence and the nature of transfiguration, we can see how wrong traditional views of reincarnation are. reincarnation is not some carefully graded developmental process, but an opportunity to escape the lower worlds, to return to the dimension where real evoluti

body are excellent followers but rotten leaders. the new self which is awakening must take gnostic theurgy page 136 control of the body("put your house in order, and a restored mind and emotions will take their rightful place beneath it. in the life of the gnostic there should be a simple set of principles. study should come first- study the scriptures, the gnostic texts and the restored gnostic keys. secular thinking and belief come second! logic and belief must be based on a firm foundation, the foundation of self and the lord of wisdom. thirdly, and definitely only thirdly, comes the body and the emotions. sure, look after the body, but do so with care! just because you wake up one morning feeling bad does not mean you have fallen off the spiritual path. remember, the world is a trap

the spiritual path. remember, the world is a trap, a dialectic prison, and accordingly, indulgence(+1) or asceticism and mortification(-1, are both actions and reactions and accordingly are aspects of the prison we are caught in. faith and education one of the most important steps on the path is that of education or more correctly, re-education. when the gnostic begins to study the bible with the keys of the mysteries, a whole new understanding will arise and will change the way he looks at the world forever. study is one of the major facets of the path of transfiguration, and it leads to a radically different way of examining the world. this viewpoint is sometimes called faith, but is better described as conviction. it is a worldview that grows out of the experience of the gnosis. an expe

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF WATER

the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee-el (say "for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column shines the six-rayed star" give the adoration to the lord of the universe go to the west facing west give the practicus sign facing west recite the prayer of the undines: terrible king of the sea, thou who hast the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring; thou who openest the sources of rivers and of fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee! speak thou unto us, thy mobile and changeful cre

GOLDEN DAWN PRAYERS OF THE ELEMENTALS

f the evening breeze to fly before thee! o spirit of spirits! o eternal soul of souls! o imperishable breath of life! o creative sigh! o mouth which breathest forth and withdrawest the life of all beings, in the flux and reflux of thine eternal word, which is the divine ocean of movement and of truth! amen. the prayer of the undines or water spirits. terrible king of the sea, thou who holdest the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterraean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring. thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us, thy mobile and ch

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS K

ds over the head of chief, then they separate wands from head and give the sign of 5=6 grade) chief adept (slowly and loudly "i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first and i am the last. i am he that liveth but was dead and behold i am alive forevermore, and hold the keys to hell and of death" 13 (chief adept quits the circle, the second adept follows, then the other members, with the third adept last. all enter the vault and proceed around the altar with the sun. chief adept reads the following sentences, and all halt in the former positions, chief adept is in center, others are around) chief adept "for i know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand a

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T

s deh. nrfm is pronounced en-ra-ef-em or en-ar-ef-em. ziza is pronounced zodee- zod-ah. adre is ah-deh-reh or ah-deh-er-reh. taasd is the-ah-ah-ess-deh. aiaoai is ah-ee-ah-oh-ah-ee. bdopa is beh-deh-oh-peh-ah. banaa is beh-ah-enah- ah. bitom is is beh-ee-to-em or beh-ee-the-oo-em. nanta is en-ah-en-tah. hcoma is heh-co-em-ah. exarp is eh-ex-ar-ps t the concourse of forces (the forty-eight angelic keys or calls) r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 let the adept be certain to take the greatest precautions in the use of these calls. they must be treated with the greatest care and solemnity. the general attitude of a holy proceeding should prevail in the mind of the adept when utilizing these calls. beware not to profane them or utilize them casually, as one is apt to attra

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T3

ird order. here is the list of the 30 aethyrs. one may wish to refer to them while studying the call of the 30 aethyrs. 1. lil 11. ich 21. asp 2. arn 12. loe 22. lin 3. zom 13. zim 23. tor 4. paz 14. vta 24. nia 5. lit 15. oxo 25. vti 6. maz 16. lea 26. des 7. deo 17. tan 27. zaa 8. zid 18. zen 28. bag 9. zip 19. pop 29. rii 10. zax 20. chr 30. t the concourse of forces (the forty-eight angelic keys or calls) r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 let the adept be certain to take the greatest precautions in the use of these calls. they must be treated with the greatest care and solemnity. the general attitude of a holy proceeding should prevail in the mind of the adept when utilizing these calls. beware not to profane them or utilize them casually, as one is apt to attra

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z1

ruth" the three inferior officers do not wear mantles but only lamens suspended from black collars. the designs are in white on a black field to show that they are administrators of the forces of light acting through the darkness, under the presidency of the superior officers. the lamen of the kerux is thus explained in the grade of theoricus "the tree of life and the three mother letters are the keys wherewith to unlock the caduceus of hermes. the upper point of the wand rests on rtk and the wings stretch out to hmkj and hnyb, thus, comprehending the three supernal sephiroth. the lower seven are embraced by the serpents whose heads fall on dsj and hrwbg. they are the twin serpents of egypt and the currents of astral light. furthermore, the wings and the top of the wand form the letter c

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM11

rise in the planes to the highest point of pure white brilliance. atune yourself with your higher genius. feel any inspiration "i am the resurrection and the life. whosoever believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold i am alive forever more and i hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my reedmer liveth and that he shall stand in the latter of days upon the earth. i am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness into the light. i have fought upon the earth for good and have chosen in thy holy name to continue the work of thy will" step 12 now bring

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM14

it the darkness and seek the light" step 21 return to the pillars, and visualize the descent of the brilliance above. step 22 "i am the resurrection and the life. whosoever believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first, and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold, i am alive for evermore and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light. i have fought upon earth for good, and have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible" step 23 vibrate hwchy by

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM18

before the forty-two assessors and the judgment of thoth in the hall of maat, stand again in the sign of osiris risen and say "i am the resurrection and the life. whosoever believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first, and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold, i am alive for evermore and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light. i have fought upon earth for good, and have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible" step 20 begin circumambu

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM20

e 11 human will to exalt yourself into the genius. then, circumambulate three times. return to the pillars, and face east. say "i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whomsoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold, i am alive for evermore and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter days upon the earth. i am the way, the truth, and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light i have fought upon earth for good, and have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible" step 29 circumambulate slow

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM5

be totally focused on the divine white brilliance, the letter c, and your higher spiritual self (the divine genius therein. now say the following "i am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever believeth in me shall never die. i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead and behold i am alive evermore and hold the keys to hell, for i know that my redeemer liveth and he shall stand at the latter days upon the earth. i am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light. i have fought upon the earth for good, i have finished my work, i have entered into the invisible. i am the sun in its rising, i have passed t

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

they certainly weren t witch-doctors. they were highly civilized, highly initiated men and they were, in their own fashion, scientists, as we can judge from their works. therefore i suggest that it s as scientific or at least quasi-scientific documents that the pyramid texts need to be read, not as mumbo-jumbo. i m already satisfied that they respond to precessional astronomy. there may be other keys too: mathematics, geometry particularly geometry. symbolism. what s needed is a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the pyramid texts. and to understanding the pyramids themselves. astronomers, mathematicians, geologists, engineers, architects, even philosophers to deal with the symbolism everybody who can bring a fresh eye and fresh skills to bear on these very important problems sh

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

kable variations of the original cipher, a mere fraction of the number of potential ciphers, the mechanics of deciphering, what to look for to decipher, and what deciphering the secret code of the ufonauts reveals of their origin and character. masonic cipher. 26 allen h. greenfield from the equinox volume vii, no. 1. 27 4 secret cipher of the ufonauts developed it is impossible to understand the keys to the modern magical revival and its connection to ufology and the secret cipher of the ufonauts without understanding the context of the times in which modern ritual magical societies arose. europe ruled the world in the late 19th century, and conspiracies proliferated. literature abounded with stories of spies and revolutionists, real and imagined. a. conan doyle devoted the sherlock holme

nfidence that one is dedicated to keep us in subjugation, misery and stagnation; the other to our betterment and enrichment though both at 1. see the sirius mystery by robert temple for a discussion of the sirius connection also kenneth grant s outside the circles of time discusses the matter from a magical perspective. 60 allen h. greenfield times have made claims to being our saviors. there are keys for decoding which is which for example, rituals that have been generated or handed down to the magical lodges of modern times which refer to a star or the stars directly or indirectly tend to be transformative and thus of the great white brotherhood. ciphers for decoding messages between the black lodges and their alien sponsors have always existed. but confusions of a deliberate nature exis

il influence and directed by the infamous ahnenerbe group imported a number of black brothers and adepts from tibet during and prior to the second world war. the tibetan colony in berlin in fact predates the nazi rise to power, having been established in 1926. one tibetan monk, termed the man with the green gloves and a reputed psychic, was frequently visited by hitler and was rumored to hold the keys to the kingdom of agarthi. such keys are best understood in terms of ciphers. western mystics including karl kellner, p.b. randolph and g.i. gurdjieff received instruction from surviving institutions of the great white brotherhood and carried their influence back with them to europe, just as the templars had done centuries before, and incorporated their teachings into the western esoteric sys

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

eared over a period of seven years. 2 little came of dee's psychic investigations until late in the nineteenth century when a group of occultists and magicians took up the magick. the hermetic order of the golden dawn used words and phrases from dee's enochian magick in their magical rituals and writings. however, t was not until a magician rose to the grade of adeptus minor that he was given the keys to this magical system. here enochian invocations for skrying in the spirit-vision (a magical process sometimes called astral traveling) formed a part of their magical work. the golden dawn taught that dee had merely rediscovered an ancient system known to the ill-fated atlanteans thousands of years ago. the enochian alphabet was said to have been a direct derivative of that which was used in

aken my body and my mind, but my spirit remains; a light in the darkness. abai-malpirg abai-malpirg abaimalpirg (ah-bah-ee-mahleh-pee-rah-geh) 365 i am the stooping life-spark in a well of darkness. i am the light of wisdom and the light of mercy. behold, there is healing in my wings. life from my spirit springs. i am he that has life and am dead. he who from life to life is led. i hold the ivory keys of hell. i hold the keys of death as well. bliorb-olprt (beh lee-oh-ra-beh-oh-leh-par-teh) the comfort of light is upon me. i rest in the great place of comfort; the palace of our lady, babalon (bah-bah-loh-en) i am the lord of life, the opener of the day. triumphant over death, i prepare a pathway through the darkness. i am the bennu. i am the bornless one. life and death abide in me. i am t

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

hat had fallen into his shoe, gall his foot; he sits down to pull off the shoe, when there roll into his hand five or six grains of gold (deut. sag. no. 10; conf. wetterauische sagen p. 277. mone's anz. 8, 427. in the otomannsherg near geismar village, a fire is said to burn at night. every seven years there comes out a maiden in white ladies in hills, etc. 963 fnowij garments, holding a hunch of keys in licr hand. another white woman with a bunch of kegs appears on the castle-rock at baden at the hour of noon (mone's anz. 8, 310. in the castle-vault by wolfartsweiler lies a hidden treasure, on account of which, every seventh year wlcen may-lilies are in bloom, a ivhite maiden appears; her black hair is plaited in long tails, she wears a golden girdle round her white goivn, a bundle of key

tersbach saw the maiden fill a tub with water from the brook, and carry it up the hill; on the tub were two broad hoops of pure gold. the way she takes, every time she goes up and down, was plainly to be distinguished in the grass (mone's anz 8, 304. at osterrode, every easter sunday before sunrise, may be seen a white maiden, who slowly walks down to the brook, and there washes; a large hunch of keys hangs at her girdle. a poor linen-weaver having met her at that season, she took him into the castle ruins, and of three white lilies she plucked him one which he stuck in his hat. when he got home, he found the lily was pure gold and silver, and the town of osterrode had not the money to buy it of him. the easter-maiden's marvellous flower was taken by the duke in return for a pension to the

suddenly there came a crash, cellar and maiden had diswhite ladies in hills, etc. 965 appeared^ and the bewildered peasant^ on examining the cherries at home, found them changed, into gold and silver pieces (ib. 4, 144. a fisherman in the neighbourhood of the highwayman's hill near feeben was throwing out his nets, when he suddenly saw the white woman stand on the bank before him with a bunch of keys. she said' thy wife at home is just delivered of a boy, go fetch me the babe, that i may kiss him and be saved' the fisherman drove home, and found everything as she had said, but he durst not take his child out at once, the clergyman advised him to have it christened first; after which, when he repaired to the hill, the ivhite tvoman sat weeping and wailing, for it was one of the set conditi

that could; but the shepherd did not get over his fear till the hour of deliverance was past, and the woman sank into the mountain, whence he could for a long time hear heartrending plaints and moans (ib. no. 99. a peasant who kept watch on the bleaching-floor near the ruins of chorin monastery, saw the lohite woman (known there as the utrjebersche, housekeeper, from her carrying a large bunch of keys) step in suddenly, and was not a little frightened. next morning he told the other men, one of whom asked him if he had noticed her feet. he said no' then' siiid the other, met's all go to-night and have a look' at miduiglit they sat down in the floor, and watched: before long the ivhite woman came slowly striding, they all looked at her feet, and observed that they were in yellow (some say

mance legend of melusina. but such mer-women generally assume, wholly or in part, the shape of a fish or snake; and some white women have afisjt's tail, a snake's tail imputed to them: a king's daughter was immured in the golden mount as a snake, and only once in three nights recovered her human form (kinderm, no. 92; in the oselberg by dinkelsbiihl dwells a snake with woman's head and a buuch of keys about the neck (d. sag. no. 221; and snpph. 970 teanslation. with the notion o mountain-banishment is commonly associated that of an enchanted, yet recoverable treasure. where the ancient hero or god sits in his mountain cavern, just as in the hero's grave or barrow, lies hidden a huge hoard; and the white woman, the snake woman, or simply snake and dragon, are they that guard it. the goth, h

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

ndis seu clavicula solomonis regis et theurgia goetia. with drawingsofcharacters, seals, penta255 cles etc (hi02* 1829 occult spells (talismanic magic.(hii2)1829 journal of a rosicrucian philosopher from apriljothto june 15th 1797, containing the processofthe philosopher's stone. by an alchemist. 1832 bookofthe offices and ordersofspirits; transcribed from a folioms.written byt.porter, 1583 [and] keys of rabbi solomon, transcribed from a ms translation into french, and thence into english bydrsibley, byt.palmer (hioi) 1833 collection of horoscopesofalchemists, astrologers and occult philosophers.(hi2i)*1833 journal of a rosicrucian philosopher.[as 1829 [and] copy of the admissionofdr. bacstrom into the society of the rosy cross by the count du chazal at the island of mauritius 1794 (hrob)s

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

his bloody skin as a warning to evildoers. by this era, anubis was said to command an army of demon messengers who inflicted suffering and death. anubis remained an important funerary god in the roman period, but his cult was singled out for abuse by roman writers. this may have been partly because of his popularity with necromancers. demotic spells explain how to summon anubis, the keeper of the keys to the underworld, by methods such as drawing his image in the blood of a black dog. when he appeared, anubis was used as a go-between to fetch gods and spirits from the underworld to answer the magician s questions. anubis also acted as an enforcer of curses; a role he plays to this day in horror films. see also nephthys; osiris; seth; thoth; wepwawet references and further reading: d. m. do

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

rtain the interpretation which others put upon his facts. the wisdom of the ages has concerned itself with the explanation of what he rightly regards as proven; but he does not turn a passing glance on its researches. he does not even agree altogether with his brother spiritualist. it is the story over again of the old scotch body who, together with her husband, formed a "kirk" they had exclusive keys to heaven, or, rather, she had, for she was "na certain aboot jamie" so the infinitely divided and subdivided and re-subdivided sects of spiritualists shake their heads, and are "na certain aboot" one another. again, the collective experience of mankind is solid and unvarying on this point that union is strength, and disunion a source of weakness and failure. shoulder to shoulder, drilled and

the substance from which she emanated-spirit. all souls are dual, and, while the latter is a feminine principle, the spirit is masculine. while imprisoned in body, man is a trinity, unless his pollution is such as to have caused his divorce from the spirit "woe to the soul which prefers to her divine husband (spirit) the earthly wedlock with her terrestrial body" records a text of the book of the keys, a hermetic work. woe indeed, for nothing will remain of that personality to be recorded on the imperishable tablets of the ego's memory. q. how can that which, if not breathed by god into man, yet is on your own confession of an identical substance with the divine, fail to be immortal? a. every atom and speck of matter, not of substance only, is imperishable in its essence, but not in its in

at theosophist been born 300 years later he might have expressed it otherwise. he would have known that the "god" who spoke through his poor uncultured and untrained brain was his own divine ego, the omniscient deity within himself, and that what that deity gave out was not "what measure he pleased" but in the measure of the capacities of the mortal and temporary dwelling it informed. book of the keys an ancient cabalistic work. the original is no longer extant, though there may be spurious and disfigured copies and forgeries of it. brahma (sans) the student must distinguish between the neuter brahma, and the male creator of the indian pantheon, brahm. the former brahma or brahman is the impersonal, supreme, and uncognizable soul of the universe, from the essence of which all emanates, and

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

.gives birth. according to particular parameters, such as time-units, astrological transits, or each time the target of the servitor carries out a particular behaviour. an early test of this concept was that of a servitor despatched to assist in the recovery of property being withheld from it.s owner. once a set deadline had been passed, the servitor began to generate a field of .confusion- lost keys, electrical blowouts& other minor but annoying problems. after a second set deadline, the servitor began to replicate itself, so that the confusion field generated was intensified. as soon as the recipient of the servitor returned the property he had been withholding from it.s owner, the servitors ceased to function. evidence of the servitors. action- the intensification of minor problems esc

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

ision, religions, cults, parapsychology, etc. this approach means that if you approach two chaos magicians and ask em what they re doing at any one moment, you re rarely likely to find much of a consensus of approach. this makes chaos difficult to pin down as one thing or another, which again tends to worry those who need approaches to magick to be neatly labelled and clear. 6. gnosis. one of the keys to magical ability is the ability to enter altered states of consciousness at will. we tend to draw a distinct line between ordinary consciousness and altered states, where in fact we move between different states of consciousness- such as daydreams, autopilot (where we carry out actions without cognition) and varying degrees of attention, all the time. however, as far as magick is concerned

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ho had started it, the missing allen was by this time at the bottom of it. therefore, thanking heaven that charles was now safe in the hospital, mr. ward lost no time in engaging detectives to learn all they could of the cryptic, bearded doctor; finding whence he had come and what pawtuxet knew of him, and if possible discovering his present whereabouts. supplying the men with one of the bungalow keys which charles yielded up, he urged them to explore allen's vacant room which had been identified when the patient's belongings had been packed; obtaining what clues they could from any effects he might have left about. mr. ward talked with the detectives in his son's old library, and they felt a marked relief when they left it at last; for there seemed to hover about the place a vague aura of

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

stated that her present husband, sir john le poer, had been reduced to such a condition by sorcery and the use of powders that he had p. 29 become terribly emaciated, his nails had dropped off, and there was no hair left on his body. no doubt he would have died had he not been warned by a maid- servant of what was happening, in consequence of which be had forcibly possessed himself of his wife's keys, and had opened some chests in which be found a sackful of horrible and detestable things which he transmitted to the bishop by the hands of two priests. 7. the said dame had a certain demon, an incubus, named son of art, or robin son of art, who had carnal knowledge of her, and from whom she admitted that she had received all her wealth. this incubus made its appearance under various forms

ISIS UNVEILED

ny day' we will not even stop to consider the alleged millions of spiritualists; for the majority lack the courage to break away from their respective religious denominations. these are the back-door nicodemuses. and now with hlate let us inquire. what is truth? where is it to be searched for amid thb multitude of warring sects? each claims to be based upon divine revelation, and each to have the keys of the celestial gates. is any one of them in possession of this rare truth? or, must we exclaim with the buddhist philosopher "there is but one truth on earth, and it is unchangeable: and this is that there is no truth on it" though we have no disposition whatever to trench upon the ground that has been so exhaustively gleaned by those learned scholars who have shown that every christian dog

the gates [or rulers] of hades shall not prevail against it; meaning by petra the rock-temple, and metaphorically, the christian mysteries; the adversaries to which were the old myatery-goda of the underworld, who were worshiped in the rites of lus, adonis, atys, sabazius, dionysus, and the eleusinia. no apoaue peter was ever at rome; but the pope, seizing the scepter of the ponufex maximum, the keys fa janus and cybele, and adorning his christian head with the cap of the magna mater, copied from that of the tiara of brahvmnut, the supreme pontiff of the initiates of old india, became the successor of the pagan high priest, the real peter-roma, or peiroma "nte roman catholic church has two far mightier enemies than the 'heretics' and the 'infidels; and these are comparative mythology and

mk appoidiz, p. 397. 45. hie tiais of the pope ii aiao a perfect copy of that of the dalai-lama of totet 46. see hu ituia ntr qtttkidiu dtr maumuit. bk. x, eh. ot in autnouuu werht, p. 828: 1844. digitizecoy google origin of the papal tuba and ke^ 31 of being allowed by the brthmanaa of the pagodas to see. in one of his translations we fouad passages which reveal to us the undotjtud origin of the keys of st. peter, and account for the subsequent adoption of the afmbol by their hounesaes, the popes of rome. he shows us on the testimony of the agruahada pariiukai, which he freely translates as "the book of spirits (pitris, that centuries before our era the inhiaiei of the temple chose a superior councc, pie- sided over by the brakmdtma or supreme chief of all these inuiaiea; that this pontif

key, and transmitted it in a sealed casket to his successor "this unknown word, of which no hunuw power could, even today, when the brahmanical authority has been crushed under the mongolian and european invasions, today, when eacb pagoda has its brahmatma* force the digdosure, was engraved in a golden triangle and preserved in a sanctuary of the temple of aagartha, whose brahmdtma alone held the keys. he also bore upon his tiara two crotted keyt supported by two koeeting brfihmanas, symbol of the precious depo t of which he had the keeping. this word and this triangle were engraved upon the tablet of the ring that this religious chief wore as one of the signs of his dig- nity; it was also framed in a golden sun on the altar, where every morn- ing the supreme pontiff ofifered the sacrifice

outward appearance at least, seems irenaeus in his fruitless endeavors to describe the true doctrines of the many gnostic sects of which he tieats, and to present them at the same time as abominable 'heresies' that he either deliberately, or through ignorance, confounds all of them in such a way that few metaphysidans would be able to disentangle them without tiie kabala and the codex as the true keys. thus for instance he cannot even tell the difference between the sethianites and the ophites, and tells us that both called the 'god of all 'hominem' a ican, and his mind the second man, or the 'is'on of man' so does theodoret, who lived more than two centuries after irenaeus, and who makes a sad mess of the chronological order in which the various sects succeeded each other* neither the set

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

ine power. through every cell and pore and atom of our body. into the external fields. as all is interconnected in the fabric of the fields of life via an energy matrix finer than a gossamer web and as we know that what we focus on we feed, then our mindset and attitude are crucial in accessing the field of divine nutrition and sustaining its healthy flow. i would like to add that one of the main keys to access the theta. delta field is our purity of heart. this means that our emotional field needs to pulse with the signals of divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 34 sincerity, humility, surrender and compassion. things that cannot be taught except in the class called life and via our interaction with living beings. unfortunately this interaction can also

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ed soul-fire? the truth is, say the fire-philosophers, in the rousing of fire we suddenly come upon nature, and start her violently out of her ambush of things, evoking her secretest and immortal face to us. therefore is this knowledge not to be known generally of man; and it is to be assumed at the safest in the disbelief of it: that disbelief being as the magic casket in which it is locked. the keys are only for the gods, or for godlike spirits. this is the true view of the religion of the leaders of the ancient fire-believers, and of the modern illuminati. we shall proceed to demonstrate, in the chapters following, other strange things, hitherto wholly unsuspected in the philosophical short-sight of the modern metaphysicians. we imagine that it will be said that it is impossible that an

th. such are the abstract notions of the gnostics, or illuminati, concerning religion. the curtains of yesterday drop down, the curtains of to-morrow roll up; but yesterday and to-morrow both are (sartor resartus, edit. 1838, natural-supernaturalism, p. 271. to the divine knowledge, the future must be as much present as the present itself. the explorations of the rosicrucians may be said to be as keys to masked doors in the ramparts of nature, which no mortal can pass through without rousing dread sentries never seen upon this side (a strange story, lord lytton, vol. i. p. 265. omnia ex uno, omnia in uno, omnia ad unum, omnia per medium, et omnia in omnibus (hermetic axiom. in the speculations of the gnostics, the astronomical points cancer and capricorn are called the gates of the sun. ca

ross of crucifixion. the red cross which is the cross of the rosicrucians thence their name. even the badge and star and symbol of this most christian order, if ever there were a christian order, which presents this red or sanguine cross of the redeemer, imaged in the cognisance of his champion, or captain, or chief soldier, st. george or st. michael, the trampler of the dragon, and custos of the keys of the bottomless pit, where the devils are confined, protests against the mingling of this mussulman banner with the red cross, which opposed it in the hands of the crusaders, and in those of all christian knights. now, all the christian garter badges only seem to appeal and to protest quietly and under allowance, with bated breath, as it were (as if afraid, deficient in firmness and life, l

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

once: he ll make a pretty good point, only to undermine it with a serious error. ponce, more generally, is yet another example of someone at the mercy of unreliable translators and commentators (as were mathers, westcott, waite, etc) 20073 20 robert saks [on ponce: his treatment of german hasidism is superficial and misses the point on such a basic matter as its concept of the words of prayers as keys, though gematria, to the unity of all creation. it is hard to excuse his claim that moses cordovero wrote lechah dodi, his use of pereks as the plural of perek, or his description of luria as being primarily interested in the practical side of kabbalah. it is impossible to ignore his claim that the hasidic movement believed that study was worthless( jewish mysticism it ain t, in judaism 23: 4

KETAB E SIYAH

m the earth thus defeating satan and evil crew. though you are wearied by those toils that your hand has already made complete spurn not yet greater industry now when it is most necessary and its reward is both near and great. make preparations for the voyage and then i shall teach to you those incantations that you must know to summon from the sky and depths the waters to raise up the flood. the keys to the great cataracts shall be taught to you once the ship is ready so make haste that god's will be not thwarted for a longer time than must be for it to be accomplished. act now, noah, and find vengeance that you so earnestly desire" did that mad criminal need such words as these? no! his heart was so black with hate, 270 flowing in his blood like a burning venom, that no words of elohim t

mundo non sunt sicut et ego non sum de mundo they are not of the world, even as i am not of the world. xl ego sum a& et w i am alpha& omega ego sum a& et w& principium et finis dicit dominus deus qui est et qui erat et qui venturus est omnipotens i am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the almighty. xli claves inferni the keys to the lower world et vivus et fui mortuus et ecce sum vivens in saecula saeculorum et habeo claves mortis et inferni i am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, i am alive for evermore, amen; and have the keys to the lower world and of death. xlii stella matutinam the morning star sicut et ego accepi a patre meo et dabo illi stellam matutinam and i will give him the morning star. xliii v

tself. into the workings of the mind of man we shall convey aesthetic sensitivity and artistic restlessness, and he shall not view his achievements without considering their improvement to his temporal pleasure. thus advised, i returned to earth, and i tempted man with glimpses of the marvels to be entrusted to him. i bent over the pathetic workbench of the starving alchemist and whispered to him keys that one day would order the course of great foundations. i nudged explorers to the ends of the earth, and i flung an apple at newton when his obtuseness vexed me! to democritus i spoke, and i saw the radiations of energy freed from matter both build and break man's world. and man neglected not his own design, for in minute life he found clue to his own, and scarce 459 hints of the original c

m the book of lucifer caput primum: about the book of doom 1.01. eons ago, long before mankind roamed this planet, there is a brotherhood of sorceres. 1.02. they are masters of wisdom, science, and knowledge unheard of yet in the history of mankind. 1.03. they decide to have theire knowledge accessible to all who are ready, willing, and worthy. 1.04. therefore they create a book that contains the keys to all their power, science, knowledge, and wisdom. 1.05. the name of this book is the book of doom. 1.06. this is so because this book means doom to servitude, mediocrity, and weakness. 1.07. the book of doom has been availible for mankind as long as they roamed this planet. 1.08. it exists in many forms and translations. 1.09. each of its forms contains the keys that unlock the knowledge, p

doom. 1.06. this is so because this book means doom to servitude, mediocrity, and weakness. 1.07. the book of doom has been availible for mankind as long as they roamed this planet. 1.08. it exists in many forms and translations. 1.09. each of its forms contains the keys that unlock the knowledge, power and wisdom of the ancient empire. 1.10. with the power of the book of doom you will recive the keys so that you can work toward being accepted into 465 the great interstellar order of algol. 1.11. the decision lies always with you. 1.12. this is so because you are the one who decides about his or her own fate. 1.13. if you think that you are ready for the book of doom, you may go ahead to reach for the keys that help you unlock your powers. 1.14. if you still think that you have to lean on

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

ah xan intention is called kavana. therefore, the tikkun we need is to place the right kavana over our desires. the reward for making a tikkun and having a kavana is the fulfillment of the last, the greatest of all wishes xthe desire for spirituality, for the creator. when this desire is fulfilled, one knows the system that controls reality, participates in its making, and eventually receives the keys and sits in the driver s seat. such a person will no longer experience 52 kabbalah revealed life and death the way we do, but will effortlessly and joyfully flow through eternity in a never-ending stream of bliss and wholeness, united with the creator. i n a n u t s h e l l there are five levels to our desires, divided into three groups. the first group is animal desires (food, reproduction

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

b-rule as his jewel. it is taken as an emblem of the rectitude which should mark the conduct of the brn. during the time of refreshment, when they are outside the lodge. such conduct at all times leads to a life that is full of grace and beauty. 271. the remaining officers also wear jewels of office. those of the orator, secretary, treasurer and d.c. are respectively a book, crossed pens, crossed keys and crossed wands, of which the meaning is obvious. in co-masonry, the s.d. and j.d. have each a dove as their jewel, signifying their quality as messengers; but in some other lodges they have a square and compasses, with a sun in the centre for the s.d. and a moon for the j.d. the square and compasses are intended to indicate their qualities of circumspection and justice, for theirs are the

e or mnemonic whereby the platonic solids can be calculated. taken alone, it is commensurate with the tetrahedron, the sides of which, being four equilateral triangles, are together equal to eight right angles, because the interior angles of any triangle are together equal to two right angles. it is said that this solid was used by the platonists as a symbol of the element fire. 779. two of these keys are equivalent to the octahed-ron, which contains sixteen right angles, and was considered to represent air. three keys are commensurate with the cube, the sides of which contain twenty-four right angles; this figure was supposed to typify earth, because it is of all these figures the firmest and most immovable upon its basis. 780. five of these keys give us forty right angles, which are equa

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

en in the fact that they had a certain framework which was always the same, although they showed divergences in minor matters. in those days, just as at the present time, a bro. from a foreign jurisdiction who wished to visit had to prove himself at the door of the lodge; for whatever differences there may have been in the outer forms of the ritual, the s s were always the same, for these are the keys to the sacramental powers lying behind all the systems of the mysteries alike. 209. life in ancient crete 210. one of the most striking instances of this unity is to be found in crete, where the comparatively recent discoveries of sir arthur evans have disclosed many masonic symbols and forms, resembling very closely those of egypt. like gaul in the days of caesar, ancient crete was divided i

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

anist, he sometimes sported a satanist image e.g, he often referred to himself as the beast, an allusion to the beast of the book of revelation english author, magician, and occultist, aleister crowley with a selection of occult instruments (archive photos) 56 curse of the demon and is the principal source for modern satanism s magical practices. one measure of this influence is that the enochian keys in anton lavey s satanic bible were taken from crowley s periodical equinox. in 1898 he was initiated into the hermetic order of the golden dawn (ogd, an occult group focused on ritual magic or magick, as crowley liked to spell it. in 1903 he married rose edith kelly. he seemed destined for leadership in the ogd, but was denied higher grades of initiation because of his homosexual activities

t. dee, john astrologer john dee (1527 1608) was born in london of a welsh family. he was educated in cambridge, where he became a fellow of trinity college. magic and alchemy were among his major interests from his earliest years, and he began collecting books and manuscripts. he became a well-known mathematician. he is best known to modern satanists through the inclusion of some of his enochian keys in the latter section of anton lavey s the satanic bible. during the reign of the catholic mary tudor, he was accused of being a heretic and a conjurer. however, he was able to clear his charge and he was not burned, though he spent some time in prison. during a journey abroad, he learned that a mob had broken into his house at mortlake and sacked his library, believing that he was a worker o

he had written to explain the philosophy and ritual practices of the church of satan and melded them together with the thinking of such diverse philosophers as ayn rand, nietzsche, mencken, london and the base wisdom of the carnival folk. he prefaced these essays and rites with reworked excerpts from ragnar redbeard s might is right and concluded it with satanized versions of john dee s enochian keys to create the satanic bible. it has never gone out of print and remains the principal source for the contemporary satanic movement. the satanic bible was followed in 1971 by the compleat witch (rereleased in 1989 as the satanic witch, a manual which teaches lesser magic the ways and means of reading and manipulating people and their actions toward the fulfillment of one s desired goals. the s

sband nikolas schreck. the fact sheet was a kind of satanic white paper, designed to expose lavey as a charlatan, liar, and all-round bad guy. among many other revelations, the schrecks assert that the idea for the satanic bible, his principal work, was developed by avon books, not lavey. pressed to meet a deadline, he resorted to plagiarism, taking material from a 1896 tract, john dee s enochian keys, lifted from alister crowley s equinox, and ayn rand. although observers have often perceived connections between anton lavey s satanism and such philosophers as frederick nietzsche, rand was the more immediate source for much of lavey s thinking. the influence of rand on lavey is most evident in the nine satanic statements, which, according to the schrecks, are little more than a condensed p

ure spiritual warfare between christian demons and angels. the action in these novels moves back and forth between two interacting levels:while angels and devils cross swords in the spiritual realm, peretti s human heroes and heroines do battle with new agers, witches, psychologists, secular education, and other groups viewed as being under demonic influence by conservative christians. one of the keys necessary for understanding peretti is the belief that the concentrated prayers of christians provide power and protection for warrior angels. this prayer energy empowers god s angels to win their battles against supernatural demons. a decisive defeat of satan s legions in the spiritual realm disempowers satan s earthly minions, which in turn leads to their defeat. frank peretti, 1995 (dan la

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clothed in rich robes of symbol and hieroglyph; but always travelleth it with thee upon thy path, ready to acquaint thee with thy true nature, if thou attend unto its word, its gesture, or its show of imagery. s the book of wisdom or folly 9 q quo modo natura sua est legenda (how one.s nature is to be read) herefore deem not that thy lightest fancy is insignificant. thy most unconscious acts are keys to the treasure-chamber of thine own palace, which is the house of the holy ghost. consider well thy conscious thoughts and acts, for they are under the dominion of thy will, and moved in accord with the operation of thy reason; this indeed is a necessary work, enabling to comprehend in what manner thou mayst adjust thyself to thine environment. yet is this adaptation but defence for the most

together in the word of any poem, but in the quintessential flavour of the poet, that thou mayst seek this prophecy. and this is an art most necessary to every statesman. who but shelley foretold the fall of christianity, and the organisation of labour, and the freedom of woman; who but nietzsche declared the principle at the root of the world-war? see thou clearly then that in these men were the keys of the dark gates of the future; should not the kings and their ministers have taken heed thereto, fulfilling their word without conflict? f liber aleph vel cxi 68 bo de magis ordinis a. a. quibus caro fit verbum (of the magi of the order a.a, by whom the word is made flesh) ow, o my son, the incarnation of a poet is particular and not universal; he sayeth indeed true things but not the thing

man, or soul, as men ill translate it, meaning a substance incapable of change. thus, he, like lao-tze, based all upon a movement, instead of a fixed point. and his way of truth was analysis, made possible by great intention of the mind toward itself, and that well fortified by certain tempered rigour of life. and he most thoroughly explored and mapped out the fastnesses of the mind, and gave the keys of its fortresses into the hand of man. but of all this the quintessence is in this one word anatta, because this is not only the foundation and the result of his whole doctrine, but the way of its work. w the book of wisdom or folly 71 br de sri krishna et de dionyso (of sri krishna, and of dionysus) rishna has names and forms innumerable, and i know not his true human birth, for his formula

also as that secret word which thou hast seen and heard in thunders and lightnings in thine initiation to the degree thou wottest of. but this word is itself a plan of the fabrick of the universe, and upon it hath been elaborated the holy qabalah, whereby we have knowledge of the nature of all things soever upon every plane of by-coming, and of their forces and tendencies and operations, with the keys to their portals. nor did he leave any part of his work unfinished, unless it be that accomplished three hundred years ago by sir edward kelly, of whom i also come, as thou knowest. t liber aleph vel cxi 74 bu de mago arabico mohammed (of the magus of the arabs, mohammed) ehold! in these chapters have i, thy father, restricted myself, not speaking of any immediate echo of a word in the world

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es to seal thy will? to cast thy lot into the lap of god? then, well! olympas. ay, there is no more potent spell. through life, through death, by land and sea most surely will i follow thee. marsyas. follow thyself, not me. thou hast an holy guardian angel, bound to lead thee from thy bitter waste to the inscrutable profound that is his covenanted ground. olympas. thou who hast known these master-keys aha! 23 of all creation fs mysteries, tell me, what followed the great gust of god that blew his world to dust? marsyas. i, even i the man, became as a great sword of flashing flame. my life, informed with holiness, conscious of its own loveliness, like a well that overflows at the limit of the snows, sent its crystal stream to gladden the hearts of men, their lives to madden with the intoxic

east, is there some rapture yet to excite this prone and pallid neophyte? olympas. o but there is no need of this! i burn toward the abyss of bliss. i call the four powers of the name; earth, wind and cloud, sea, smoke and flame to witness: by this triune star i swear to break the twi-forked bar. but how to attain? flexes and leans the strongest will that lacks the means. marsyas. there are seven keys to the great gate, being eight in one and one in eight. first, let the body of thee be still, bound by the cerements of will, corpse-rigid; thus thou mayst abort the fidget-babes that tense the thought. next, let the breath-rhythm be low, easy, regular, and slow; so that thy being be in tune with the great sea fs pacific swoon. third, let thy life be pure and calm aha! 25 swayed softly as a w

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of key tablet angels. not used in invocations of 4 other tables. 3, 4, 5, 6: used in invocations of angels of tablet of union, also of angels of 4 terrestrial tablets, thus. 3: used to invoke angels of the letters of the line e x a r p for those of tablet oro as a whole and for the lesser angle of this tablet, which is that of the element itself, viz. i d o i g o. so for others. the remaining 12 keys refer to the remaining lesser angles of the tables, the order of the elements being air, water, earth, fire. pronounce elemental language (also called angelic or enochian) by inserting the next following hebrew vowel between consonants, e.g. e after b (beth, i after g (gimel, a after d, etc.2 the opening of the portal of the vault of the adepts3 t. k. r. p paroketh, the veil of the sanctuary

odir com-selahe azodien biabe os-londohe. norezodacahisa otahila gigipahe; vaunud-el-cahisa ta-pu-ime qo-mos-pelehe telocahe; qui-i-inu toltoregi cahisa i cahisji em ozodien; dasata beregida od torezodul! ili e-ol balazodareji, od aala tahilanu-os netaabe: daluga vaomesareji elonusa cape-mi-ali vaoresa cala homila cocasabe fafenu izodizodope, od miinoagi de ginetaabe: vaunu na-na-ethe forty-eight keys or calls 24 el panupire malpireji caosaji. pilada noanu vaunalahe balata od-vaoan. do-o-i-ape mada: goholore, gohus, amiranu! micama! yehusozod ca-ca-com, od do-o-a-inu noari micaolazoda a-ai-om. casarameji gohia: zodacare! vaunigilaji! od im-ua-mar pugo pelapel ananael qo-a-an. 80 words in this enochian call. behold! saith your god! i am a circle on whose hands stand twelve kingdoms. six are

rs of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise! you sons of pleasure! and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god; which is and liveth (for ever! in the name of the creator, move! and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men [invokes: hcoma; the whole tablet of water. the angle of c of c. the queen of the thrones of water] the forty-eight keys or calls 26 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign of the god set fighting. purify with fire and water, and announce .the temple is cleansed [knock] let us adore the lord and king of earth! adonai ha aretz, adonai melekh, unto thee be the kingdom, the sceptre, and the splendour: malkuth, geburah, gedulah, the rose of sharon and the lily of the valley, amen [sprinkle sa

lace of earth] the opening of the temple in the grade of 4 =78 give the sign of thoum-aesh-neith [knock] let us adore the lord and king of fire! tetragrammaton tzabaoth! blessed be thou! the leader of armies is thy name! amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit acitve and pronounce these names: hyha alga bitom [make the invoking pentagram of fire, and pronouce \yhla twabx hwhy] the forty-eight keys or calls 28 [make the sign of leo with censer (or other suitable weapon] in the name of lakim, archangel of fire, spirits of fire, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, spirits of fire, adore your creator [elevate censer] in the three secret names of god, oip teaa pdoce, that are borne upon the banners of the south, spirits of fire, ado

d belioerasa od coresi ta a beramiji. the midday, the first is as the third heaven made of 26 hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own righteousness, saith the lord: whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to the stooping dragon, and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, the forty-eight keys or calls 30 which are, and shall not see death until the house fall and the dragon sink? come away! for the thunders (of increase)9 have spoke. come away! for the crowns of the temple and the robe of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are divided! come forth! appear! to the terror of the earth, and to our comfort, and [to the comfort] of such as are prepared. the angle of e of d in the ta

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

ch is his (partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from kether. this man performs great magic; very strong medicine. he really does find gold on the midden and skeletons in pretty girls. in abiegnus the sacred mountain of the rosicrucians the postulant finds but a coffin in the central shrine; yet that coffin contains christian rosencreutz who is dead and is alive for evermore and hath the keys of hell and of death. ay! your tiphereth man, child of mercy and justice, looks deeper than the skin! but he seems a ridiculous object enough both to the malkuth man and to the kether man. still, he fs the most interesting man there is; and we all must pass through that stage before we get our heads really clear, the kether-vision above the clouds that encircle the mountain abiegnus. ix runni

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to rule the earth. therefore with sweetness ineffable he parted from me; yet leaving a comfort not to be told, a peace. the peace. and the light and the perfume do certainly yet remain with me in the little chamber, and i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. for i am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold! i am alive for evermore, and have the keys of hell and of death. i am amoun the sun in his rising; i have passed from darkness into light. i am asar un-nefer the perfected one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods .1 1 [from .i know that my redeemer liveth. to here quoted or paraphrased from the adeptus minor ritual of the r.r. et a.c] john st. john 113 the dead man ankh-af-na-kh

ritual of the r.r. et a.c] john st. john 113 the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu saith with his voice of truth and calm: oh thou that has a single arm! o thou that glitterest in the moon! i weave thee in the spinning charm; i lure thee with the billowy tune. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu hath parted from the darkling crowds, hath joined the dwellers of the light, opening duant, the star-abodes; their keys receiving. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu hath made his passage into night, his pleasure on the earth to do among the living.1 amen amen without lie amen, and amen of amen. 12.40. i shall lie down to sleep in my robes, still wearing the ring of the masters, and bearing my wand in my hand. for to me now sleep is the same as waking, and life the same as death. in thy l.v.x. are not light and da

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.sanas (along with the .hanged man. posture mentioned in cap. i v. 10) were depicted in a supplement to .liber e. which was printed at the start of equinox i (7, and also in the 1994 and 1997 weiser .blue brick. edition of magick. 9 this possibly refers to something communicated in the zelator initiation (see note below. 10 iaida or .the highest. is a name or title of god appearing in the angelic keys of dee and kelly. see casaubon (ed, a true and faithful relation. 11 this section is the .meditation practice corresponding to ritual cxx. referred to in liber xiii. unfortunately the published (after a fashion) version of liber 120, the ritual of passing through the tuat, appears to be an early draft differing in a number of respects from the one on which this practice is based. in any case

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an-se-on of the mongolian peoples, and means the magical force in man, which is the sexual force applied to the brain, heart, and other organs, and redeemeth him. the gradual disclosure of these magical secrets to the poet may be traced in these volumes,32 which it has been my privilege to be asked to explain. it has been impossible to do more than place in the hands of any intelligent person the keys which will permit him to unlock the many beautiful chambers of holiness in these palaces and gardens of beauty and pleasure. of the results of the method we possess one flawless gem, already printed in the equinox (vol. ii. pp. 163-185 .a note on genesis. by v.h. fra. i.a. from this pleasant, orthodox, and-so-they-all-lived-happyever- after view let us turn for a moment to the critical aspect

this with the mathers translation, this appears to be a loose paraphrase of von rosenroth.s glosses rather than a direct quote; the relevant paragraphs are 696 and 697. t.s] 50 liber lviii note 4+ 1+ 8= 13, the 4 reduced to 1 through 8, the redeeming force; and 418= j= 8. by aiq bkr, abrahadabra= 1+ 2+ 2+ 1+ 5+ 1+ 4+ 1+ 2+ 2+ 1= 22. also 418= 22 19, manifestation. hence the word manifests the 22 keys of rota. it means by translation abraha deber, the voice of the chief seer. it resolves into pentagram and hexagram as follows (1) a r b b r a a a h a d [this is by taking the 5 middle letters] the pentagram is 12, awh, macroprosopus. the hexagram is 406, hta, microprosopus. thus it connotes the great work. note rba, initials of the supernals, ab, ben, ruach [this is by separating the one (al

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ry rude.14.the following is a sample .o devatas! behold this yogi! o chela! accurs d abode of tamas art thou! eater of beef, guzzling as an herd of swine! sleeper of a thousand sleeps, as an harlot heavy with wine! void of will! sensualist! enraged sheep! blasphemer of the names of shiva and of devi! christian in disguise! thou shalt be reborn in the lowest avitch! fast! walk! wake! these are the keys of the kingdom! peace be with thy beard! aum. this sort of talk did me much good: i hope it may do as much for you. 63. with eyes well fixed on my proboscis.15. see bhagavad-gita, atmasamyamyog. 67. brahma-charya.16.right conduct, and in particular, chastity in the highest sense. 72. baccy.17.a poisonous plant used by nicotomanics in their orgies and debauches .the filthy tobacco habit. says

do not need this instruction: but my words will not stay here: they will go forth and illuminate the whole system of ten thousand worlds, where arahats do not grow on every tree. little brothers, the night is fallen: it were well to sleep. 78 1902 ambrosii magi hortus rosarum* translated into english by christeos luciftias. printed by w. black, at the wheatsheaf in newgate, and sold at the three keys in nags-head court, gracechurch st. it is fitting that i, ambrose, called i.a.o, should set down the life of our great father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men, in order that the brethren may know what journeys he undertook in pursuit of that knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. it was at his 119th year,1 the star suaconch2 being in the sign of the

1+ 10+ 50) 3 2 he adds 300, shin, the flame of the spirit= 666. 4 666= 6 111. 111= aleph, the ox. 5 his journeys as initiator. griphus viii. griphus ix. griphus x. culpa urbium nota terr. nechesh. ambrosii magi hortis rosarum 85 and fifty and eight years,1 set forth upon a journey into the mystic mountain of the caves. he took with him his son,2 a lamb, life, and strength, for these four were the keys of that mountain. so by ten days and fifty days and two hundred days and yet ten days he went forth. after ten days fell a thunderbolt, whirling through black clouds of rain: after sixty the road split in two, but he travelled on both at once: after two hundred and sixty, the sun drove away the rain, and the star shone in the day-time, making it night. after the last day came his mother, his

d even in the vault of the caverns. with one stroke he rent asunder the veil; with one stroke he closed the same. and entering the sarcophagus of that royal tomb he laid him down to sleep. four guarded him, and one in the four; seven enwalled him, and one in the seven, yet were the seven ten, and one in the ten. now therefore his disciples came unto the vault of that mystic mountain, and with the keys they opened the portal and came to him and woke him. but during his long sleep the roses had grown over him, crimson and flaming with interior fire, so that he could not escape. yet they withered at his glance; withat he knew what fearful task was before him. but slaying his disciples with long nails, he interred them there, so that they were right sorrowful in their hearts. may we all die so

troyed the cause of all his chain of lives, and has become arahan, a saint, a buddha himself. but none knows better than the venerable bhikkhu himself, as indeed he makes clear with regard to the steps samm vayamo and above, that these interpretations are but reflections of those upon a higher plane. the scientific plane. they are (i have little doubt) for those who have attained to them mnemonic keys to whole classes of phenomena of the order anciently denominated magical, phenomena which, since the human mind has had its present constitution, have been translated into language, classified, sought after, always above language, but not beyond a sane and scientific classification, a rigid and satisfactory method, as i most firmly believe. it is to establish such a method; to record in the l

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symbol. it is too passive a symbol to represent perfectly complete happiness. swiftness, hunting and pursuing. acquisition by contention: injustice sometimes; some drawbacks to pleasure implied. chesed of h (receiving pleasure or kindness from others, but some discomfort therewith. therein rule the great angels layyh and hymwm. a description of the cards of the taro 49 brief meaning of twenty-two keys 0. if the question refers to spiritual matters, the fool means idea, thought, spirituality, that which endeavours to transcend earth. but if question is material, it means folly, stupidity, eccentricity, or even mania. 1. skill, wisdom, adaptation, craft, cunning, or occult wisdom or power. 2. change, alternation, increase and decrease, fluctuation; whether for good or evil depends on the dig

r. but the kings (knights) sometime represent coming or going of a matter, according as they face. the princesses shew opinions, thoughts, ideas, either in harmony with or opposed to, the subject. a description of the cards of the taro 51 a majority of wands. energy, opposition, quarrel, cups. pleasure, merriment, swords. trouble, sadness, sickness, death, pentacles. business, money, possessions, keys. strong forces beyond the querent fs control, court cards. society, meetings of many persons, aces. strength generally. aces are always strong cards. 4 aces. great power and force. 3 aces. riches, success. 4 kings (knights. swiftness, rapidity. 3. unexpected meetings. knights, in general, shew news. 4 queens. authority, influence. 3 queens. powerful friends. 4 princes. meetings with the great

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

he consciousness from ruach to neschamah. aleister crowley. 3 part i in the first verse of the first chapter of the first five books of the holy law: it is written:.b.rashith bara alohim ath hashamaim vaath haaretz, or in aramaic script rah taw \ymch ta \yhla arb tycarb such are the seven words which constitute the beginnings or heads of one law; and i propose to show, by applying to the text the keys of the qabalah, that not merely the surface meaning is contained therein. in the beginning, created, god, the essence of the heavens, and the essence, of the earth. in the beginning in wisdom in the head* created god the elohim the holy gods the essence. of the heavens and the essence of the earth contained therein also are the divine, magical and terrestrial formula of the passage of the inc

ative because of its diffusiveness and dispersion. in the second figure we behold their concentration: focalisation: producing by their joint action the number of manifestation.4. in the worlds.assiah: in the taro, the princess.the throne of the spirit: in the tetragram, the he final, and in symbolic language.the daughter: in the cycle of life (birth, life, death, resurrection, the fourth; in the keys of the book universal, the empress, korh kosmou, the virgin of the world, venus, aphrodite: centrum in trigonis centri.by whatsoever of a myriad names we call her, still the same in spirit, the same in number and in form! and this number is herein formulated by the concentration of the three in one. 3+ 1= 4. now in this figure ii. we behold six certain paths; and in six days did god create th

LIBER XXXIII AN ACCOUNT OF AA

litical strategic action. thus, when the earth was night utterly corrupt by reason of the great sorcery, the brethren sent mohammed to bring freedom to mankind by the sword. this being but partially a success, they raised up one luther to teach freedom of thought. yet this freedom soon turned into a heavier bondage than before. then the brethren delivered unto man the knowledge of nature, and the keys thereof; yet this also was prevented by the great sorcery. now then finally in nameless ways, as one of our brethren hath it now in mind to declare, have they raised up one to deliver unto men the keys of spiritual knowledge, and by his work shall he be judged. this interior community of light is the reunion of all those capable of receiving light, and it is known as the communion of 4 liber

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, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part one) fishes, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part two) flowers, plants, fruits, and trees stones, metals and gems ceremonial magic and sorcery the elements and their inhabitants hermetic pharmacology, chemistry, and therapeutics the qabbalah, the secret doctrine of israel fundamentals of qabbalistic cosmogony the tree of the sephiroth qabbalistic keys to the creation of man an analysis of tarot cards the tabernacle in the wilderness the fraternity of the rose cross rosicrucian doctrines and tenets fifteen rosicrucian and qabbalistic diagrams alchemy and its exponents the theory and practice of alchemy: part one the theory and practice of alchemy: part two the hermetic and alchemical figures of claudius de dominico celentano vallis novi the

the qabbalistic interpretation of ezekiel's vision--the great image of nebuchadnezzar's dream--the grand man of the universe--the fifty gates of life. 117 the tree of the sephiroth the thirty-two paths of wisdom--the greater and the lesser face--kircher's sephirothic tree--the mystery of daath--the three pillars supporting the sephirothic tree--the four letters of the sacred name. 121 qabbalistic keys to the creation of man gematria, notarikon, and temurah--the elohim--the four adams--arabian traditions concerning adam--adam as the archetype of mankind--the early christian church on the subject of marriage. 125 an analysis of the tarot cards the origin of playing cards--the rota mundi of the rosicrucians--the problem of tarot symbolism--the unnumbered card--the symbolism of the twenty-one

ch doctrine has been preserved in toto among a small band of initiated minds since the beginning of the world. departing, these illumined philosophers left their formul that others, too, might attain to understanding. but, lest these secret processes fall into uncultured hands and be perverted, the great arcanum was always concealed in symbol or allegory; and those who can today discover its lost keys may open with them a treasure house of philosophic, scientific, and religious truths. click to enlarge the orphic egg. from bryant's an analysis of ancient mythology. the ancient symbol of the orphic mysteries was the serpent-entwined egg, which signified cosmos as encircled by the fiery creative spirit. the egg also represents the soul of the philosopher; the serpent, the mysteries. at the t

s state religion, but another into which the philosophic elect alone have gained entrance. many of these ancient cults vanished from the earth without revealing their secrets, but a few have survived the test of ages and their mysterious symbols are still preserved. much of the ritualism of freemasonry is based on the trials to which candidates were subjected by the ancient hierophants before the keys of wisdom were entrusted to them. few realize the extent to which the ancient secret schools influenced contemporary intellects and, through those minds, posterity. robert macoy, 33, in his general history of freemasonry, pays a magnificent tribute to the part played by the ancient mysteries in the rearing of the edifice of human culture. he says, in part "it appears that all the perfection o

e vernal equinox) in the town of agr, and the greater, in the fall (the time of the autumnal equinox) at eleusis or athens. it is supposed that the former were given annually and the latter every five years. the rituals of the eleusinians were highly involved, and to understand them required a deep study of greek mythology, which they interpreted in its esoteric light with the aid of their secret keys. the lesser mysteries were dedicated to persephone. in his eleusinian and bacchic mysteries, thomas taylor sums up their purpose as follows "the lesser mysteries were designed by the ancient theologists, their founders, to signify occultly the condition of the unpurified soul invested with an earthy body, and enveloped in a material and physical nature" the legend used in the lesser rites is

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worth investing in the odd dime-store pacific island devil mask or reproduction of a medieval astrological chart. it will probably grow to be a passion with you as time passes, and you may soon find yourself having to resist sternly the lure of any junk or antique shop you happen to pass, purely in the interests of economy. so treasure up your fantasies. the controlled daydream is one of the main keys to being a successful witch. in fact, dream on, the richer and more fantastic the better! the second side of the witches' pyramid of power is firmly labeled "will" it almost goes without saying that the establishment of a potent will is one of the main goals of a practitioner of the black arts. the will in this instance is a magical one, however, and if viewed out of magical context and withi

s of magical practice, and they should speak for themselves. they reward contemplation. all successful witchery stems from their accurate employment. you can burn your cabalistic books and drown your yoga sutras they will avail you nothing in your quest for power unless you have already understood and mastered the ideas embodied in the witches' pyramid, the four great rules of magic which are the keys to all practical operations in the world of the unseen. casting your spells whenever you wish to work a piece of witchcraft, it is always best if you tie all your supercharged will, faith, and imagination into a single, sizzling bolt with the help of a pattern of spoken words: the charm, or incantation. witches, like poets, painters, and chefs, have always taken a bit from here and a bit from

ut quite legitimate, though to my mind again less effective than the considerably more evocative names of legend. just choose one that satisfies you. it may take a bit of time; but it is worth considering well since once you inscribe it on your magical instruments, you are stuck with it. having settled on your witch name, you must keep it very, very secret, as it will eventually become one of the keys to your deep mind. you will be using it whenever you wish to "switch on" to perform a spell; this will be partly accomplished by pronouncing the name silently to yourself whenever you begin your use of the pyramid powers. you should only divulge it to others who are close witch friends, preferably when you are closely bound together with them in the form of a group, or coven. and as already m

e many such methods of magical diagnosis extant, ranging from elaborate ceremonial tarot divinations to numerological analysis or simple teacup reading. but the true methods of divination as practised by the traditional witch still remain relatively unknown, and it is with these that i shall be concerning myself in these pages. to the aware witch, time is not a continuous ribbon passing under the keys of some celestial typewriter, but rather a complex field extending into many different directions and dimensions. given that view of time, that a man should possess a definite future as concrete as his past and present, albeit unseen for the most part, will not strike a witch in any way as odd or unrealistic. the whole process of divination of the future rests on this approach to an understan

nsciously on their part. however, being great magpies and pickers-up of unconsidered trifles, many witches like to reinforce the protective earth currents by hanging other devices such as holystones and sachets of protective magical herbs at strategic points around the house: the hearth, threshold, over windows and doors, in attics, cellars, and, of course, over the beds. witch balls, horseshoes, keys, and other iron objects are also looked on with great favour; iron implements such as the latter are, however, stronger stuff, partaking more of the nature of items of defence rather than beneficence. similarly, the irreplaceable pentacle, used as a door symbol, also comes under this defence heading. but more of these later. the english holystone itself bears ample witness to its country of o

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res and lusts that emerge from the subconscious. if undiscovered they will often grow with the desires of the individual until they rise to the surface. if individuals are unbalanced they create further dangers. i always recommend that the sorcerer be strong and sound of mind before even attempting to invoke or evoke such elementals, for they exist on dark levels of the sleeping mind and hold the keys to the gates of da ath. if one is not prepared they will be brought forth to the gates and come face to face with choronzon, madness will grow until their reality is not his/her own. to evoke elementals who are already in existence, yet based in negative power zones is perhaps just as dangerous because one is attempting to control beings which exist outside 19 19 their own time and space. the

self both 74 74 mentally and physically until the true strengths and weaknesses are known and dealt with. divination is the art of obtaining visions of a certain possible event that will take flesh.the witch cult which exists in base on the astral and dream level seem to be fueled by an even older current. this particular current is labeled as the 93 current, or thelema. love and will are the two keys by which mankind can rise above any situation to begin building a healthy and wonderful life. to do so, one must plunge into the great depths of the abyss and work with the beautiful and sometimes frightening shades and spirits which inhabit such areas. self love as aos described is "the self in knowing and all of which can be molded according to desire (6) to truly know the self one must plu

by shamans. lycanthropy is nothing more than rites of atavistic resurgence, either on a dream level, in which the egyptians were so skilled; or upon the waking level: as when strength or stealth are obtained or invoked during moments of dire need. austin osman spare's image of "nu moon rite (illustrated in kenneth grant's "aleister crowley and the hidden god, published by skoob) holds significant keys to atavistic resurgence. it is often the case with the paintings of aos, as his true hidden genius was his art, that many keys of magickal study can be obtained through meditating upon them. the drawing presents several faces, some animal, some human and others a combination of both. the many keys which exist in the art and writings of aos are paramount. those who sip from the cup of hecate s

ce witchcraft derives- it is a mastery of both flesh and spirit. the adept of such magick and sorcery is bound to the earth, and with numerous skills and practice can later leave the physical body at will in order to go between worlds. or even to take on the flesh of another. a wise sorcerer would seek to master both the methods of shaman and magickian, both the solitary and the ceremonial, great keys of knowledge exist through both. black eagle appears often as a pale indian spirit, either black, blue or red robed. sometimes this elemental appears in brown leather hides, with leathery skin which is abnormally pale and with burning black eyes. there have been occasions however when black eagle had no precise form at all, manifesting merely as a gray or different coloured shapeless mass. co

gle. if this is a solitary rite, it is advised to begin a working of dream control shortly after. by this means the goal of the rite may develop even further into atavistic exploration. you may wish to devise a banishing ritual which suits your workings. banishing rituals in enochian are most useful, since this is an ancient and barbaric magickal language. within its angelic alphabet are phonetic keys to the aethyrs, 121 121 to the evokation of spirits and higher sorcery. a banishing ritual serves to clear the mind of any non-magickal thoughts, a sort of temporary "exorcism" if you will. invocation rinmps zipll, vovim londoh marb levanael, rinmps zipll, demonic element- fire of earth, dragons' kingdom according to levanael, ol vinu a. laoaxrp, torzul pambt ol i invoke thee. laoaxrp, arise

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ikely that an exceptionally gifted descendant of the sons ofthe serpents was responsible for them. the works themselves contain encrypted cipherswhich may reveal the authorship (francis bacon--our shakespeare and francis bacon andhis secret society by mrs. henry pott, the bible fraud by tony bushby) the information transmitted (channeled) by the pan-dimensional oversouls was thatthere were indeed keys to the stargate. but what these were and the manner of theirimplementation was not immediately attainable. in fact, the macrobes revealed thatmankind would have to continue to advance technologically to the point where thesecrets of how energy turns into matter could be studied and mastered. however, toeven begin to understand the permutations of this first goal, centuries would first haveto

ymbols of our celto-saxon heritage christopher knight& robert lomas uriel s machine charles hapgood path of the polenick begich, jeane manning- angels don t play this haarpezzrath- the ultimate deceitrex gilroy- giants from the dreamtime/mysterious australia/pyramids of the pacificfritz springmeier- bloodlines of the illuminatieric jon phelps v atican assassinsf. tupper saussy rulers of evildavid keys catastrophecolin wilson and rand flem-ath atlantis blueprintfrank joseph destruction of atlantiswilliam brian- moongate, suppressed findings of the us space programclifford wilson the chariots still crashgeorge hunt williamson- road in the skyjames shelby downard sorcery, sex, assassination and the science of symbolismpatrick cook the greatest deception the bible ufo connection alain and dela

trol and disarmament act of 1989. hr1495 construed carefully to avoid constitutionalconcerns. 1989 at the in new orleans institute for electric and electronic engineers engineering and medicalbiology conference in 1989, the following papers were presented: proto-biological basis of laser bio-stimulation (u.s.s.r) basic mechanisms of magnetic coil excitation of the nervous system in humans and mon-keys and their application stimulation of excitable brain tissue with time-varying magnetic fields trans-cranial stimulation of the cerebral cortex directed ability of magnetic flux density v ector in magnetostimulators 1989 washington post article, feb. 17, bank killer tormented by v oices. the subject was emmanueltsegaye, an ethiopian bank teller, who became depressed and suicidal, killing three

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s to be explored and perceived as an extension of self. the aspect of ahriman is as half-beast, werewolf type vampyre from. ahriman is a spirit of darkness, whom resides in the depths of the subconscious- the gates of arezura. one should focus on encircling the self in these shadows, which are revealed by the work itself. the essence of yatus/yatuk is the mysteries of sorcery within the self, the keys to the spirit of man. one works this type of considered dangerous black magick as the self-transformation through the image of the adversary. akhtya is the sorcerer on earth who drinks of the graal of ahriman and az, serpent and wolf. this inversion leads to the strengthening of self under the activity of encircling belief into tangible form. one should prepare for the ritual of arezura by a

MORALS AND DOGMA

f envy, by _jupiter. the kabalistic book of the apocalypse is represented as closed with seven seals. in it we find the seven genii of the ancient mythologies; and the doctrine concealed under its emblems is the pure kabala, already lost by the pharisees at the advent of the saviour. the pictures that follow in this wondrous epic are so many pantacles, of which the numbers 3, 4, 7, and 12 are the keys. the cherub, or symbolic bull, which moses places at the gate of the edenic world, holding a blazing sword, is a sphinx, with the body of a bull and a human head; the old assyrian sphinx whereof the combat and victory of mithras were the hieroglyphic analysis. this armed sphinx represents the law of the mystery, which keeps watch at the door of initiation, to repulse the profane. it also repr

in, and others, is borrowed from the kabalah; all the masonic associations owe to it their secrets and their symbols. the kabalah alone consecrates the alliance of the universal reason and the divine word; it establishes, by the counterpoises of two forces apparently opposite, the eternal balance of being; it alone reconciles reason with faith, power with liberty, science with mystery; it has the keys of the present, the past, and the future. the bible, with all the allegories it contains, expresses, in an incomplete and veiled manner only, the religious science of the hebrews. the doctrine of moses and the prophets, identical at bottom with that of the ancient egyptians, also had its outward meaning and its veils. the hebrew books were written only to recall to memory the traditions; and

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

hough he knew many powers independent of muscle, he knew of no consciousness independent of nerve. one asks oneself, could he really be so naive as to believe this reasoning? and that this was sufficient proof of the existence of discarnate intelligence to a truly sceptical mind? the answer is yes in both cases. it would never have occurred to him that a careful preparation on his part of all the keys in the mmss, and a steady 'play-acting' for the rest of his life, would be just as possible. the point of the matter is, the book has been fulfilling itself in the life of mankind steadily, ever since the days of its dictation. this is a much more convincing proof than any that could have been presented by the scribe. also, personal research brings evidence of the intelligence behind the writ

the point of the matter is, the book has been fulfilling itself in the life of mankind steadily, ever since the days of its dictation. this is a much more convincing proof than any that could have been presented by the scribe. also, personal research brings evidence of the intelligence behind the writing, and of other intelligences who evidently "are of us" more: even had crowley prepared all the keys himself, and 'play acted' the rest of his life, the extraordinary reach of the hidden meanings of the book of the law, its psychological depth, the almost unbelievable wealth of its insight, would be sufficient evidence of the exceptional quality of the mind who wrote it. were we to believe that it was the "scribe and prophet" himself the author, this would just be added justification for obe

only be a magister templi 8 =3 whose word is understanding. see mmss for allusion to the "line drawn" and the "circle squared in its failure. the attribution (in the old comment) of the letters to those of the book of enoch is unsupported. the injunction that al be always translated along with a facsimile of the original is important, since no translation, no matter how good, can maintain all the keys, subtle double-meanings, and qabalistic puns of the original. if a student hopes to accomplish much, he will be forced to learn the english language very thoroughly. this suggests that english may in future centuries achieve the distinction of a hieratic language. there are only two mmss of al extant in the writing of the beast. the original mmss was published in facsimile by frater saturnus

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

nexorable expression of the face contrasts forcibly with that peculiar benignity which so characterizes the countenance of the mighty ruler of heaven. he is seated on a throne of ebony, with his queen, the grave and sad persephone [136]beside him, and wears a full beard, and long flowing black hair, which hangs straight down over his forehead; in his hand he either bears a two-pronged fork or the keys of the lower world, and at his feet sits cerberus. he is sometimes seen in a chariot of gold, drawn by four black horses, and wearing on his head a helmet made for him by the cyclops, which rendered the wearer invisible. this helmet he frequently lent to mortals and immortals. aides, who was universally worshipped throughout greece, had temples erected to his honour in elis, olympia, and also

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

eached the christian gospel to the picts and the scots. later, in the company of twelve monks, he arrived in france, where he founded the luxeil abbey. in 613 he also established the monastery of bobbio in italy, where he died. columban wrote a monastic rule urging asceticism. he declared the preeminence of the roman pontiff, but not his authority "the pope" he wrote "is not someone who holds the keys to absolute truth and whose words carry the seal of the holy ghost. he is a bishop, a weak man whom one can advise and rebuke. above the authority of rome there is the authority of the truth" the culdees were connected with king athelstan, who played a large role in the legendary history of freemasonry. in 936 this king, in his march against the scots, made a stop in york, where he found the

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

ng of the spiritual evolution, to transform their nature into a god-like superman. the serpent caused the fall in the garden of eden by giving eve this very same message. man is a god in the making. and as the mystic myths of egypt, on the potter s wheel, he is being molded. when his light shines out to lift and preserve all things, he receives the triple crown of godhood (manly p. hall, the lost keys of freemasonry, p. 92) european mysticism was not dead at the time the united states of america was founded. the hand of the mysteries controlled in the establishment of the new government for the signature of the mysteries may still be seen on the great seal of the united states of america. careful analysis of the seal discloses a mass of occult and masonic symbols chief among them, the so-c

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ctly is "evil? how would you respond if asked such a question over the media or during a lecture? of all the books that you have ever read- apart from the satanic bible, satanic rituals, and compleat witch, which do you consider to be the most valuable to a satanic magician? to a novice? what is lycanthropy? why is it important? how can you make use of it? what is the significance of the enochian keys? what is "magic? why is the satanist concerned with it? how does it tie in with what you would define as the "material" goals of the church of satan? as a priest or priestess iii, do you think you could recognize a magister iv or a magus v without being formally introduced? what do you think distinguishes a magister from a priest, and a magus from a magister? can you name at least three histo

PATH OF INITIATION

the singular desire for the dark and light illumination of the mysteries, and for kinship with the potencies in the land. the true group is a group of people who know a certain humbleness, and who seek a common spring of eternity, driven by a common thirst- a thirst for the other and for illumination, not thirst for temporal powers and offices that are far less. they protect the land and the true keys to wisdom because they have given up all for them, and received all back in return, not because they jealously desire to secret up power in some vault. they know the disastrous consequences of egocentrism- they know how the egocentered, power hungry human destroys the land and abuses power and other people; this is why the path is kept shaded with secrecy, and for no other reason. when those

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

t immediately becomes divided into particular desires from one level to another, until the final desire for the final act, nonetheless, all of it arose in one instant in his essential desire, without a differentiation of levels at all. for example, when it arises in a person s desire to eat pizza, his desire immediately divides into several other desires, such as the desire to get his wallet, his keys, to get into his car, to drive to the pizza parlor, to order the pizza, to pay for it and then finally the desire to sit down and actually eat the pizza. all these desires were included in the original desire (moreover, it is the final act of eating the pizza which arose first in thought) therefore, because in his essence all these desires are literally one, therefore, in reality, there is ab

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

hebrew, they would not be able to manipulate g-d fs names. but gthis they have begun to do, h meaning that the sole reason they were able to begin this was because they spoke hebrew. therefore, gthey will not be withheld, h for by using the divine names and their power to adjure [angels, they would be able to do whatever they wanted. the parable for this is that once there was a king who gave the keys to his storerooms to a number of people, who then could enter his storehouses whenever they wanted. in order to prevent this, the king changed the locks, and these people could no longer open them. g-d did the same here. he changed his names, as it is written, gcome, let us descend and confound their speech. h furthermore, he confounded their language, so they could no longer speak the holy l

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

e the undines, but avoid idleness and changeability. be laborious and patient like the gnomes, but avoid grossness and avarice. so shalt thou gradually develop the powers of thy soul and fit thyself to command the spirits of the elements" in each of the grades, several drawings and diagrams are exhibited, each one conveying useful knowledge and information required in the upward quest. the tarot keys are also dealt with, as indicating pictorially the stages of that journey, and depicting the story of the soul. it may not be possible because of the exigencies of space to reproduce in these volumes a pack of tarot cards based upon esoteric <53> descriptions- though i should very much liked to have done so. but by using the waite and the available french and italian packs, and by comparing t

from the rose. g. sword and four implements, with consecration ritual. h. clavicula tabularum enochi. j. notes on the obligation of the adeptus minor. k. consecration ceremony of the vault. l history lecture. m. hermes vision, and lineal figures of the sephiroth. n. 0. p. q. r complete treatise on the tarot, with star maps. s. the attributions of the enochian tablets. t. the book of the angelical keys or calls. u. lecture on man, the microcosm. w. hodos chamelionis, the minutum mundum. x. the egyptian god-forms as applied to the enochian squares. y. enochian chess. z. symbolism of the temple, candidate, and ritual of the neophyte grade <85> all the documents from a to z listed above will be found reproduced in these volumes, though i have not retained that particular order. the sole omissi

and should be read rhythmically and sonorously, while others are informative and should be read in such a way as to make their points clear. examples of archaic passages are challenges of gods "thou canst not pass the gate of the western heaven unless thou canst tell me my name" and the speeches of the kabiri in the grades of practicus and philosophus. information is given in speeches about tarot keys and diagrams. note the technique for traversing the various paths-the words, and the badges with which the path is entered, the length of the circumambulation and the special symbolism described therein. let all these things soak into your mind, make notes as ideas occur to you-and presently your personal reaction to the grades will crystallise out and you will be able to write your thesis. 8

lace him thus before the portal of the 32nd path of tau by which he has symbolically entered (done. zelator faced to west, kerux returns to place) hiereus by what symbol dost thou enter herein? heg by the peculiar emblem of the kerux, which is the caduceus of hermes. zelator hands it to hiereus, who turns it towards zelator, and reads: hiereus the tree of life and the three mother letters are the keys wherewith to unlock the caduceus of hermes. the upper point of the wand rests on kether, and the wings stretch out to chokmah and <84> binah, the three supernal sephiroth. the lower seven are embraced by the serpents, whose heads fall upon chesed and geburah. they are the twin serpents of egypt- the currents of the astral light. furthermore, the wings and top of the wand form the letter shin

time, amen! hegemon removes the seat of practicus to the north, and leads practicus to the east of altar, where he stands facing west. hierophant goes to the west before the tablet of water. all face west- members arranging themselves in balanced disposition, facing west <119> hiero (knocks) let us rehearse the prayer of the undines or water spirits! terrible king of the sea, thou who holdest the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring. thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us, thy mobile and c

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al alliance between christianity and the science of the magi, once demonstrated fully, will be a discovery of no second-rate importance, and we do not doubt that the serious study of magic and the kabalah will lead earnest minds to a reconciliation of science and dogma, of reason and faith, heretofore regarded as impossible. we have said that the church, whose special office is the custody of the keys, does not pretend to possess those of the apocalypse or of ezekiel. in the opinion of christians the scientific and magical clavicles of solomon are lost, which notwithstanding, it is certain that, in the domain of intelligence, ruled by the word nothing that has been written can perish. whatsoever men cease to understand exists for them no longer, at least in the order of the word, and it pa

t-martin and the rest, is borrowed from the kabalah; all masonic associations owe to it their secrets and their symbols. the kabalah alone consecrates the alliance of universal reason and the divine word; it establishes by the counterpoise of two forces in apparent opposition, the eternal balance of being; it alone reconciles reason with faith, power with liberty, science with mystery: it has the keys of the present, past and future! to become initiated into the kabalah it is insufficient to read and to meditate upon the writings of reuchlin, galatinus, kircher, or picus de mirandola; it is necessary to study and understand the hebrew writers in the collection of pistorius, the sepher yetzirah above all; it is essential in particular to master the great book zohar, to investigate the colle

es, did not die like other men, but was translated to heaven, and will return at the end of time. much the same parable is told of st. john himself, who recovered and explained in his apocalypse the symbolism of the word of enoch. this resurrection of st. john and enoch, expected at the close of the ages of ignorance, will be the renovation of their doctrine by the comprehension of the kabalistic keys which unlock the temple of unity and of universal philosophy, too long occult and reserved solely for the elect, who perish at the hands of the world. but we have said that the reproduction of the monad by the duad leads of necessity to the conception and dogma of the triad, so we come now to this great number, which is the fullness and perfect word of unity. 13 iii g c the triangle of solomo

sults truly extraordinary, but positive and unmixed with hallucination. we invite sceptics to make a conscientious and intelligent trial on their own part before shrugging their shoulders and smiling. the figure of the pentagram, completed in accordance with science and used by the author in his experiment, is that which is found at the head of this chapter, and it is more perfect than any in the keys of solomon or in the magical calendars of tycho brahe and duchentau. we must remark, however, that the use of the pentagram is most dangerous for operators who are not in possession of its complete and perfect understanding. the direction of the points of the star is in no sense arbitrary, and may change the entire character of an operation, as we shall explain in the ritual. paracelsus, that

ccess; we lean upon that which resists. 35 vii z g the fiery sword netsah gladius the septenary is the sacred number in all theogonies and in all symbols, because it is composed of the triad and the tetrad. the number seven represents magical power in all its fullness; it is the mind reinforced by all elementary potencies; it is the soul served by nature; it is the sanctum regnum mentioned in the keys of solomon and represented in the tarot by a crowned warrior, who bears a triangle on his cuirass and is posed upon a cube, to which two sphinxes are harnessed, straining in opposite directions, while their heads are turned the same way. this warrior is armed with a fiery sword and holds in his left hand a sceptre surmounted by a triangle and a sphere. the cube is the philosophical stone; the

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carriage of his word. human beings who die without having understood or formulated the word of reason, die devoid of eternal hope. to withstand successfully the phantom of death, we must be identified with the realities of life. does it signify to god if an abortion wither, seeing that life is eternal? does it signify to nature if unreason perish, since reason which never perishes still holds the keys of life? the just and terrible force which destroys abortions eternally was called by the hebrews samael; by other easterns, satan; and by the latins, lucifer. the lucifer of the kabalah is not an accursed and ruined angel; he is the angel who enlightens, who regenerates by fire; he is to the angels of peace what the comet is to the mild stars of the spring-time constellations. the fixed star

of the field which the lord god had made. h but this is what moses says: this signifies, according to the version of fabre d'olivet: gnow, original attraction (cupidity) was the entraining passion of all elementary life (the interior activity of nature, the work of jhoah, the being of beings. h but herein fabre d'olivet is beside the true interpretation, because he was unacquainted with the grand keys of the kabalah. the word nahash, explained by the symbolical letters of the tarot signifies rigorously 14 i nun.-the power which produces combinations. 5 x he.-the recipient and passive producer of forms. 21 e shin.-the natural and central fire equilibrated by double polarization. thus, the word employed by moses, read kabalistically, gives the description and definition of that magical unive

hed entirely, and nothing except mysterious initials remained. but when science and philosophy, reconciled with faith, shall unite all the various symbols, then shall the magnificences of the antique worships be restored to the memory of men, proclaiming the progress of the human mind in the intuition of the light of god. but of all forms of progress the greatest will be that which, restoring the keys of nature to the hands of science, shall enchain for ever the hideous spectre of satan, and, explaining all abnormal phenomena, shall destroy the empire of superstition and imbecile credulity. to the accomplishment of this work we have consecrated our life, and do still devote it in the most toilsome and difficult researches. we would emancipate altars by overthrowing idols; we desire the man

ian apollo and discovers its fraternal resemblance to the glorified countenance of the risen redeemer. he believes in the great mission of the catholic hierarchy, and finds satisfaction in observing the popes of the middle ages who opposed religion as a check upon the absolute power of kings; but he protests with the revolutionary centuries against the servitude of conscience which the pontifical keys would enchain. he is more protestant than luther, since he does not even believe in the infallibility of the augsbourg confession, and more catholic than the pope, for he has no fear that religious unity will be broken by the malevolence of courts. he trusts in god rather than roman policy for the salva