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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

that the atonevient-boar is sacrificed (p. 51) f in sweden cakes in the shape of a hoar are baked on yule-eve. and here we come upon a good many relics of the service once done to the god, even outside of scandinavia. we hear of the clean gold-liog -ferch, whence dimin. farrow) in the popular customs of the wetterau and thuringia (p. 51. in the mid. dutch poem of lantslot ende sandrin, v. 374, a knight says to his maiden' ic heb u liever dan en everswtn, al waert van jlnen goude glicwraclitl i hold you dearer than a boarswine, all were it of fine gold y-wrought; were they still in the habit of making gold jewels in the shape of boars? at least the remembrance of such a thing was not yet lost. fro and his boar may also have had a hand in a superstition of gelderland, which however puts a f

iukungar from ghiki= gihika, kipicho, with whom the burgundian line begins: if not a god himself (p. 137, he is a divine hero that carries us back very near to wuotan. the gibichensteine(-stones) moreover bear witness to him, and it is to the two most eminent women of this race that grimhildensteine, brunhildensteine are allotted* 1 umborwesende? beow. 92^ the ship that brought sceaf and the swan-knight carries them away again at last, but the reason is disclosed only in later legend: it was forbidden to inquire into their origin, parz. 825, 19. conr, schwanritter 1144-73^ zeitschr. fiir deut. alterth. 1,7* brunehildestein, lectulus brunihilde, kriemhiltenstein, cviemildespil (heldensage p. 155; krimhilte graben (weisth. 1, 48; in loco grimhiltaperg noniinato (juvavia p. 137; de crinihilte

spindles are an essential characteristic of all the wise-women of antiquity among teutons, celts and greeks^ the walkiire is a wunsch-kint, wunsches hint, pp. 139, 142 (see suppl. the name wunsclielweib, which lasted down to a late time, shall be produced hereafter; here i call up from the poem of the staufenberger a being by whom the connexion of valkyrs with fays is placed beyond doubt. to the knight there shews herself a maiden in wliitc apparel (the hvit and biort above, sitting on a stone (line 224; she has ivatched over him in danger and tvar from his yoidh up, she was about him unseen (332 3g4; now she becomes his love, and is with him ivhcnever he ivishcs for her (swenne du einest wunschest nach mir, so bin ich endelichen bi dir 474. by superhuman power she moves swiftly whither s

so that in french fay-legends we may supply the omissions; e.g, in meon 3, 412: en la fontaine se baignoient trois j)uccles preuz et senses, qui de biaute sembloient fees: lor robes a tout lor chemises orent desoz une arbre mises du bout de la fontaine en haut. puceles senees 3, 419. bien eurees 418. la plus niestre 413-5. the shifts were stolen, and the maidens detained. in the lai du desire the knight espies in the forest a swan-maiden without her wimple (sans guimple. the wimple of the white-robed fay answers to the swan-shift. 6. wood-wives. we have seen that the wish-wives appear on pools and lakes in the depth of the forest: it is because they are likewise wood-wives, and under this character they suggest further reflections. the old sacred forest seems their favourite abode: as the

t take to the bride, just as iu the tale of the swanchildren. we find a more pleasing description in the spanish ballad de la infantina (silva p. 259: a huntsman stands under a lofty oak: en una rama mas alta viera estar una infantina, cabellos de su cabeza todo aquel roble cobrian* siete facias (7 fays) me fadaron en brazos de una ama mia, que andasse los siete anos sola en esta montina. but the knight wants first to take his mother's opinion, and she refuses her consent. when wolfdieterich sits by a fire in the forest at night, rauhe ms comes up, the shaggy woman, and carries off the hero to her own country^ where she is a queen and lives on a high rock: at length, bathing in the jungbrunnen, she lays aside her hairy covering, and is named sigcminne' the fairest above au lands'.2 synonym

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

presents the method of 'forming the tree of life in the tarot. the four aces are placed on the throne of kether. the remaining small cards of each suit desired are then placed on the respective sephiroth, 2 on chokmah, 3 on binah and so on. the 22 trumps are then arranged on the letters of the paths between them. the king and queen of the suit are placed beside chokmah and binah respectively, the knight beside tiphareth and the knave beside malkuth, thus representing the attribution of the sephiroth to the four letters of the holy name in the world wherein they operate. heg: leads practicus to tablet of the pillars in south. heg: this tablet represents the formation of the hexagram of tiphareth from the pillars on each side. in chesed is the water and in geburah is the fire, and in tiphare

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

t frater perdurabo is nothing but an eye; what eye none knoweth. skip, witches! hop, toads! take your pleasure- for the play of the universe is the pleasure of frater perdurabo. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 147 [150] commentary( omicron) 70 is the number of the letter ain, the devil in the tarot. the chapter refers to the witches' sabbath, the description of which in payne knight should be carefully read before studying this chapter. all the allusions will then be obvious, save those which we proceed to not. sanhedrim, a body of 70 men. an eye. eye in hebrew is oin, 70. the "gnarled oak" and the "glacier torrent" refer to the confessions made by many witches. i paragraph 7 is seen the meaning of the chapter; the obscene and distorted character of much of the univers

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

jrm marchosias wolf with a gryphon s wings and serpent s tail. breathes flames. clix. goetic demons of decans by day (cadent. clx. magical images of col. clix. 15 3& wgacw vassago like agares. 16 6$ rplaw valefor lion with ass s head, bellowing 17 9! wmyap paimon crowned king on dromedary, accompanied by many musicians. 18 12& yrfyc sitri leapard s head and gryphon s wings. 19 15$ cwgyla eligos a knight with a lance and banner, with a serpent. 20 18$ ytab bathin a strong man with a serpent s tail, on a pale horse. 22 21% and# aram marax human-faced bull. 24 24= rbn naberius a black crane with a sore throat he flutters. 25 27% and= wwnyr ronove a monster [probably a dolphin. 26 30= canrwp forneus sea monster. 28 33 [ug gaap like a guide. to be kings. 29 36& cwlwfcy stolas raven. table of co

ee figure. cols. xv.-xviii. daath lavender, grey-white, pure violet, grey flecked gold. herschel silver flecked white. col. xvi, line 10. for d, c, b, and e. col. xix. urim and thummim= auramoth and thoum mou, egyptian gods. they are methods of divination by b and e. col. xx, line 32. these gods preside over the pieces in rosicrucian chess. 5 d of b bishop ywoum mwou c of b queen i#haourey b of b knight hnwou vw/s e of b pawn kabexneuf e of b castle wauwqi# a of b king vaourw d of c bishop xoni# ya mwou c of c queen y/wour i# mwog b of c knight ceba qnwou haour i# ya mwou e of c pawn ]wmayv e of c castle s/weu ya i# a of c king pya qav/n-q/x d of d bishop zw wan c of d queen qnwou ya peq] b of d knight ou bal e of d pawn ahevi e of d castle yarves# fa qnwouya pe a of d king ouqaouri# d of

b castle wauwqi# a of b king vaourw d of c bishop xoni# ya mwou c of c queen y/wour i# mwog b of c knight ceba qnwou haour i# ya mwou e of c pawn ]wmayv e of c castle s/weu ya i# a of c king pya qav/n-q/x d of d bishop zw wan c of d queen qnwou ya peq] b of d knight ou bal e of d pawn ahevi e of d castle yarves# fa qnwouya pe a of d king ouqaouri# d of e bishop ar/wueri# c of e queen ?ice# b of e knight hwwr e of e pawn amese] e of e castle neuvyuie# a of e king ?swwri# the pawns refer to t as the house of the elements only, not to t as e. line 32. cfbaquwou hnoue. i#tomwou and ahevi ]wumatv: amece: kabexnuf 6 col. xxi. the perfected egyptian exlaims, there is no part of me that is not of the gods. this column gives the attribution in detail. the non-cherubic zodiac signs are omitted, but

of the golden dawn (llewellyn. rather than attempt to transliterate and then decipher the coptic names given by crowley (some of which i suspect are corrupt or misprinted) i will give the versions of these names as listed in regardie (ed, complete g.d (tom. x pp. 113-4. in many cases these are not reasonable transliterations of the names printed in 777. fire: bishop: toum. queen: sati-ashtoreth. knight: ra. castle: anouke (possibly ankhet, a title of isis) king: kneph (khnemu. water: bishop: hapimon (the nile god) queen: thouerist (ta-urt the hippopotamus goddess) knight: sebek castle: shu king: osiris air: bishop: shu queen: knousou knight: seb castle: tharpesht (a g.d. amalgam of bast and sekhet) king: socharis (seker; an early god who became identified with ptah, and later with osiris)

ankhet, a title of isis) king: kneph (khnemu. water: bishop: hapimon (the nile god) queen: thouerist (ta-urt the hippopotamus goddess) knight: sebek castle: shu king: osiris air: bishop: shu queen: knousou knight: seb castle: tharpesht (a g.d. amalgam of bast and sekhet) king: socharis (seker; an early god who became identified with ptah, and later with osiris) earth: bishop: aroueris queen: isis knight: hoori (horus) castle: nephthys king: aeshoori (i.e. osiris again) pawns knight s pawn: kabexnuv (qebhsennuf) queen s pawn: tmoumathph (sic (tuamutef) bishop s pawn: ahepi (hapi) rook s pawn: ameshet (mestha) 6 i cannot identify the first three of these names. i believe the remaining four were intended to be g.d. coptic spellings of hapi (ahephi, tuamutef (toumathph, mestha (ameshett) and q

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

ian papers. 14: in addition the upper six are referred to the planets according to the scheme in 777 col. cxxiv, the heavenly hexagram, and to the tarot trumps corresponding. 15: see regardie (ed, the golden dawn, vol. iv. 16: suit by element of lesser angle, rank by element of column; so in the lesser angles of water, the square with the left and right sides referred to fire is attributed to the knight of cups. 17: each square is additionally referred to one of the 16 figures of geomancy, and to one of the signs or elements (saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of tau, and thence to the hebrew letter and tarot card corresponding: thus row column attributions fire a puer h iv the emperor water d populus j vii the chariot air g puella l viii justice fire (cardinal

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

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

oat whose attribute is liberty (note that the "jehovah" of the hebrews is etymologically connected with these. the classical example of such antinomy, one which has led to such disastrous misunderstandings, is that between nu and had, north and south, jesus and john. the subject is too abstruse and complicated to be discussed in detail here. the student should consult the writings of sir r. payne knight, general forlong, gerald massey, fabre d'olivet; etc. etc, for the data on which these considerations are ultimately based. it was said by the sorcerer of the jura that in order to invoke the devil it is only necessary to call him with your whole will. this is an universal magical truth, and applies to every other being as much as to the devil. for the whole will of every man is in reality

pymander, by hermes trismegistus. invaluable as bearing on the gnostic philosophy. the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, reprint of franz hartmann. an invaluable compendium. scrutinium chymicum, by michael maier. one of the best treatises on alchemy. science and the infinite, by sidney klein. one of the best essays written in recent years. two essays of the worship of priapus, by richard payne knight. invaluable to all students. 210 the golden bough, by j. g. frazer. the text-book of folk lore. invaluable to all students. the age of reason, by thomas paine. excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. rivers of life, by general forlong. an invaluable text-book of old systems of initiation. three dialogues, by bishop berkeley. the classic of subjective idealism. essays

astarte vel liber berylli" an instruction in attainment by the method of devotion, or bhakta-yogi. equinox vii, p. 37 "liber clxxxv. liber collegii sancti" being the tasks of the grades and their oaths proper to liber xiii. this is the official paper of the various grades. it includes the task and oath of a probationer. unpublished "liber cxcvii. the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight and of his following of the questing beast" 222 a poetic account of the great work and enumeration of many obstacles. equinox iv, special supplement "liber cc. resh vel helios" an instruction for the adoration of the sun four times daily, with the object of composing the mind to meditation, and of regularising the practices. equinox vi, p. 29 "liber ccvi. liber ru vel spiritus" full instruc

maier "roderic borgia pope alexander the sixth" jacob boehme, francis bacon lord verulam, andrea, robertus de fluctibus, johannes dee "sir edward kelly" thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavariae, richard wagner "alphonse louis constant" friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, forlong dux, sir richard burton, sir richard payne knight, paul gauguin, docteur gerard encausse, doctor theodor reuss "and sir aleister crowley" oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. may their essence be here present, potent, puissant, and paternal to perfect this feast"(at each name the "deacon "signs+ with thumb between index and medius. at ordinary mass it

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

erhaps still more to the point, they work without putting the magician to such severe toil and exertion as is needed when he has to write them out from his own ingenium. yes! this is weakness on my part, and i am very naughty to encourage you to shirk the hardest path. i used often to make the background of my talismans of four concentric circles, painting then, the first (inmost) in the king (or knight) scale, the second in the queen, the third in the prince, and the outermost in the princess scale, of the sign, planet, or element to which i was devoting it. on this, preferably in the "flashing" colours, i would paint the appropriate names and figures. lastly, the talisman may be surrounded with a band inscribed with a suitable "versicle" chosen from some holy book, or devised by the magi

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE I CHING

. i. 51. 5. man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights "the slaves shall serve- al. ii. 58 "love is the law, love under will- al. i. 57. aleister crowley ve- al. ii t "the i ching" by the master therion (aleister crowley, inputed for the o.t.o. with a revision to the name of hexagram 51 of the brock publishing edition by the very excellent& perfect prince and reverend senior; knight of the red eagle, knight hermetic philosopher- senator steven santiago. completed may 1, 1989. uu the i ching a new translation of the book of changes by the master therion introduction the yi king is mathematical and philosophical in form. its structure is cognate with that of the qabalah; the actual apparatus is simple, and five minutes is sufficient to obtain a fairly detailed answer to

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ually bi-sexual, the father-mother of all in one person (he is shown in this full form in the tarot trump xv "the devil) now zeus being lord of air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight or prince of fairy tales who marries the king's daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see "the golden bough. thus one europa, semele and others claimed that zeus- air<<zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great difficult

riest's gesture that makes your body hers. the wafer is the disk of the sun, the star in her body. your blood is split from your heart with every beat of your pulse into her cup. it is the wine of her life crushed from the grapes of your sun-ripened vine. on this wine you are drunk. it washes your corpse that is as the fragment of the host, broken by you, the priest, into her golden chalice. you, knight and priest of the order of the temple, saying her mass, become god in her, by love and death. this act of love, thought in its form it be with a horse like caligula, with a mob like messalina, with a giant like heliogabalus, with a pollard like nero, with a monster like baudelaire, though with de sade it gloat on blood, with sacher-masoch crave for whips and furs, with yvette guilbert crave

sphemes "the end: e.g. to murder one's rich aunt affirms the right of one's poor nephew to repeat the trick, and so to go against one's own will-to-live, which lies deeper in one's being than the mere will-to-inherit. the judge in each case is not ideal morality, but inherent logic. this then being understood, that we cannot call any given passion good or bad absolutely, any more than we can call knight to king's fifth a good or bad move in chess without study of the position, we may see more clearly what this verse implies. there is here a general instruction to refine pleasure, not by excluding its gross elements, but by emphasizing all elements in equilibrated development. thus one is to combind the joys of messalina with those of saint theresa and isolde in one single act. one's raptur

note in brackets to the new comment on verse 75. the last part of this verse presents no difficulty. an xvi, sun in sagittarius. in the appendix weh note: the appendix is still unrecovered will be found the qabalistic proofs referred to in the penultimate paragraph, as supporting the claim of sir charles stansfeld jones, whose occult names, numbers, dignities and titles, are as follows: parzival, knight of the holy ghost, etc, x degree o.t.o, 418, 777, v.i.o (unus in omnibus, achad, or o.i.v.v.i.o (omnia in uno, unus in omnibus, fra a. a, 8degree= 3square, arctaeon, to be my son by jeanne foster, soror hilarion. see appendix for the technical explanation of this verse. i may here briefly mention, however, that "thou knowest not" is one of the cryptographic ambiguities characteristic of thi

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

paracelsus, michael maier, roderic borgia pope alexander the sixth, jacob boehme, francis bacon lord verulam, andrea, robertus de fluctibus, johannes dee, sir edward kelly, thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavariae, richard wagner, alphonse louis constant, friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, forlong dux, sir richard payne knight, paul gaugin, sir richard francis burton, doctor grard encausse, doctor theodor reuss, and sir aleister crowley--oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. may their essence be here present, potent, puissant and paternal to perfect this feast! the people: so mote it be. the earth the deacon: mother of fertili

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

at all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see liber 418, 10th thyr. i may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on advanced qabalah, and of course it is only intelligibile to advanced students. this atheist, not in-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation. he has done with the illusions of dogma. from a knight of the royal mystery63 he has risen to understand with the members of the sovereign sanctuary64 that all is symbolic; all, if you will, the jugglery of the magician. he is tired of theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and anhungered and athirst seeks a seat at the table of adepts, and a portion of the bread of spiritual experience, and a draught of the wine of

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

v. reprinted in vol ii. of crowley s collected works society for the propagation of religious truth 1906 e.v. this electronic edition (based on the collected works printing) hastily prepared by frater t.s. for sunwheel oasis, o.t.o. 2001 e.v. re-proofed and corrected edition issued by celepha s press august 2003 e.v (c) ordo templi orientis jaf box 7666 new york ny 10116 u.s.a. 1 you are sad! the knight said, in an anxious tone: let me sing you a song to comfort you* is it very long? alice asked. it s long, said the knight, but it s very very beautiful. the name of the song is called the book of the beast. oh! how ugly cried alice. never mind, said the mild creature. some people call it reason in rhyme. but which is the name of the song? alice said, trying not to seem too interested. ah, y

s tone: let me sing you a song to comfort you* is it very long? alice asked. it s long, said the knight, but it s very very beautiful. the name of the song is called the book of the beast. oh! how ugly cried alice. never mind, said the mild creature. some people call it reason in rhyme. but which is the name of the song? alice said, trying not to seem too interested. ah, you don t understand, the knight said, looking a little vexed. that s what the name is called. the name really is ascension day and pentecost; with some prose essays and an epilogue, just as the title is the sword of song you know, just in the same way, just in the same way, just in the same way. alice put her fingers in her ears and gave a little scream. oh, dear me! that s* this passage is a parody on one in alice throug

just in the same way, just in the same way, just in the same way. alice put her fingers in her ears and gave a little scream. oh, dear me! that s* this passage is a parody on one in alice through the looking-glass. harder than ever! she said to herself, and then, looking determinedly intelligent: so that s what the song is called. i see. but what is the song? you must be a perfect fool, said the knight, irritably. the song is called stout doubt; or the agnostic anthology, by the author of gas manipulation, solutions, the management of retorts, and other physical works of the first order but that s only what it s called, you know. well, what is the song then? said alice, who was by this time completely bewildered. if i wished to be obscure, child, said the knight, rather contemptuously, i

fools who by their short-sighted stupidity in attempting to boycott this book have witlessly aided the cause of truth i dedicate these my best words [this book is so full of recondite knowledge of various kinds that it seems quite ineffective to annotate every obscure passage. where references and explanations can be concisely given this has been done] the sword of song 2 i suppose! continued the knight, in a superior, but rather offended voice. if you would, please, sir! well, that, pronounced the knight, with the air of having thoroughly studied the question and reached a conclusion absolutely final and irreversible, that, goodness only knows. but i will sing it to you. preliminary invocation nothung* the crowns of gods and mortals wither; moons fade where constellations shone; numberles

ou condemn, listen, say nothing, barely smile. o if you but suspected them your silence would match their awhile! a classical research [protectionists may serve if the supply of hottentots gives out] i took three hottentots alive. their scale was one, two, three, four, five, infinity. to think of men so i could not bear: a new colenso i bought them to assuage their plight, also a book by hall and knight on algebra. i hired wise men to teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten. one of the hottentots succeeded. few schoolboys know as much as he did! the others sank beneath the strain: it broke, not fortified, the brain. the bard a brainy beggar. now (higher on the human ladder) lodge is called mad, and crowley madder (the shafts of science who may dodge? i ve not a word to say for lodge) yet m

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t all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see liber 418. 10th aethyr. i may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on advanced qabalah, and of course it is only intelligible to advanced students. this atheist, not in-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation. he has done with the illusions of dogma. from a knight of the royal mystery he has risen to understand with the members of the sovereign sanctuary that all is symbolic; all, if you will, the jugglery of the magician. he is tired of theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and anhungred and athirst seeks a seat at the table of adepts, and a portion of the bread of spiritual experience, and a draught of the wine of ecst

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

d empires by its oracles, caused tyrants to tremble on their thrones, and governed all minds, either by curiosity, or by fear' yoga or transformation: a comparative statement of the various religious dogmas concerning the soul and its destiny, and of akkadian, taoist, eguptian, hebrew, greek, christian, mohammedan, japanese and other magic, by wm. j. flagg. large 8vo "cloth extra" 1898. 6"s" 6"d" knight (j payne. discourse on the worship of priapus, and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancients; with an essay on the worship of the generative organs during the middle ages of western europe. 4to "with" 40 "curious plates. half roxvurghe binding. privately printed "1865 "3 3"s" paracelsus. the hermetical and alchemical writings of aureopus phillippus theophrastus bombast of hohe

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

and prepared myself ceremonially as a bride, and waited in the proper magical manner. also i was too pleased with the heralds of my lord's coming the vision of khephra, etc. it was perhaps this subtle self-satisfaction that lost me so i fell to the shocking abyss of last night! the dweller of the threshold is never visible until after one has fallen; he is a veiled god and smites like the evil knight in malory, riding and slaying and no man seeth him. but when you are tumbled headlong into hell, where he lives, then he unveils his face, and blasts you with its horror! very good, john st. john, now you know! you are plain john st. john and you have to climb right up again through the paths to the threshold; and remember this time to mortify that self- satisfaction! go at it more reveren

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poetic expression have enabled him- or her- to avoid. the writer of such verse as the following may be complimented on a very high standard of poetic expression "the shadows fall about the way; strange faces glimmer in the gloom; the soul clings feebly to the clay, for that, the void; for this, the tomb "but mary sheds a blessed light; her perfect face dispels the fears. she charms her melancholy knight up to the glad and gracious spheres "o mary, like a pure perfume do thou receive this failing breath, and with thy starry lamp illume the darkling corridors of death" the "catholic times" says "the 'amphora' is a collection of poems in honour of our blessed lady. they are arranged in four books, each of which contains thirteen pieces. thus with the prologue there are fifty-three poems in al

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

not, sir, i cannot. i' her confusion became acute"'i dare not move, sir- i- i- my mother had taken away all my clothes"'i marvelled. in her palace of gold hair nobody could have guessed it. but now i blushed, and lively. the dilemma was absurd. 119"'i have it' said i 'i will climb down and bring up the ermine "she shuddered at the idea. her dead mother's furs"'it must be' i said firmly"'go, brave knight- a delicate smile lit up her face 'i trust myself to you "i bent on my right knee to her 'i take you' i said 'to be my lady, to fight in your cause, to honour and love you for ever "she put out her right hand- oh, the delicate beauty of it! i kissed it 'my knight' she said 'jean is below; he may hear you; you go perhaps to your death- kiss me "with a sob i caught her once full in my arms, a

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osites; but in the very act he only begat another mystery more terrible than the last, the mystery of netzach. as fire may be victorious over water, or water over fire, so may victory itself leave the victor doubly enslaved by his very success. until the present, frater p. had always found some new cause for which to draw his sword; but now, though the blade was as bright and keen as ever, like a knight surrounded by crafty footpads in the night, he knew not which way to thrust, thought the danger which surrounded him he felt was greater than any that he had ever experienced before. this danger was, indeed, the seduction of things supremely material. for at this point on his journey, having mastered the three elements, he came nigh falling slave to the fourth; just as a warrior who has sla

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a jesuit. the result is infallible, and should you then have the simplicity to ascribe it to a miracle, you deceive yourself now in thinking that you are a voltairean."8 now all this may be good enough for mrs. eddy. to borrow a sword from one of voltaire's antagonists, and to thrust it through his back when he is not looking, is certainly one way of getting rid of voltaire. but the intellectual knight must not behave like a christian footpad; he must trap voltaire in his own arguments by absorbing the whole of voltaire_ eighty volumes and more_ until there is no voltaire left, and as he does so, apply to each link of voltaire's armour the fangs of the pyrrhonic serpent; and where that serpent bites through the links, those links must be discarded; and where its teeth are turned aside, th

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mortal wrong. wait, for, my goddess, not for long the snake is tame. see! he is strong! the wide-set temple-pillars gleam, as marble white, and tall as pines; the doorway to immortal dream lies through the temple's purple shrines. behold, pure queen, the magic signs. let words out-stream as mingled wines. victor b. neuburg. os"special supplement" the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight and of his following of the questing beast 1 by aleister crowley rightly set forth in rime to allan bennett "bhikkhu ananda metteyya" my good knight comrade in the quest, i dedicate this imperfect account of it, in some small recognition of his suggestion of its form. mandalay "november" 1905 1weh note: this work is read to best effect after crowley's "confessions. the sections are metaphor

sections are metaphoric accounts of crowley's own search for enlightenment, sometimes with changed details or settings "e.g, the general focus on arthur that comes in at iii should be taken to represent crowley's lasting but frustrated desire to serve and save "all the britains. acts of killing by the principal character represent renunciations of attachment. argument i. sir palamede, the saracen knight, riding on the shore of syria, findeth his father's corpse, around which an albatross circleth. he approveth the vengeance of his peers. ii. on the shore of arabia he findeth his mother in the embrace of a loathly negro beneath blue pavilions. her he slayeth, and burneth all that encampment. iii. sir palamede is besieged in his castle by severn mouth, and his wife and son are slain. iv. hea

mahalingam. xi. a scythian sage declareth that it transcendeth reason. therefore sir palamede unreasonably decapitateth him. xii. an ancient hag prateth of it as evangelical. her he hewed in pieces. v xiii. at naples he thinketh of the beast as author of evil, because free of will. the beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow; but at the moment of its death it is reborn from the knight's own belly. xiv. at rome he meeteth a red robber in a hat, who speaketh nobly of it as of a king-dove-lamb. he chaseth and slayeth it; it proves but a child's toy. xv. in a tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a satyr, that the gods sill dwell with men. mistaking orgasm for ecstasty, he is found ridiculous. xvi. baiting for it with gilded corn in a moonlit vale of spain, he findeth

him, without seeing to conquer with words, he slayeth incontinent. xxxvii. in a cave by the sea, feeding on limpets androots, sir palamede abideth, sick unto death. himseemeth the beast questeth within his own bowels; he is the vii beast. standing up, that he may enjoy the reward, he findeth another answer to the riddle. yet abideth in the quest. xxxviii. sir palamede is confronted by a stranger knight, whose arms are his own, as also his features. this knight mocketh sir opalamede for an impudent pretender, and impersonator of the chosen knight. sir palamede in all humility alloweth that there is no proof possible, and offereth ordeal of battle, in which the stranger is slain. sir palamede heweth him into the smallest dust without pity. xxxix. in a green valley he obtaineth the vision of

urning to camelot to announce his failure, he maketh entrance into the king's hall, whence he started out upon the quest. the beast cometh nestling to him. all the knights attain the quest. the voice of christ is heard "well done" he sayeth that each failure is a step in the path. the poet prayeth success therein for himself and his readers. viii the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight; and of his following of the questing beast i sir palamede the saracen rode by the marge of many a sea: he had slain a thousand evil men and set a thousand ladies free. armed to the teeth, the glittering kinght galloped along the sounding shore, his silver arms one lake of light, their clash one symphony of war. how still the blue enamoured sea lay in the blaze of syria's noon! the eternal

horror drave the light from knightly eyes. how pale thy bloom, thy blood, o brow whereon that night sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels' debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. 4 god's angel, standing sinister, unfurls this scroll- a sable stain "who wins the spur shall ply the spur upon his proper heart and brain" he gave the sign of malison on traitor knights and perjured men; and ever by the sea rode on sir palamede the saracen. ii

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er. by aleister crowley 291 review 292 the eyes of st. ljubov. by j. f. c. fuller and george raffalovich 293 midsummer eve. by ethel archer 310 the poetical memory 311 adela 314 the three worms. by edward storer 317 the felon flower. by ethel archer 325 the big stick 327 glaziers' houses 346 in the temple. by victor b. neuburg 352 "special supplement" the high history of sir palamedes the saracen knight and of his following the questing beast illustrations aratrum securum "facing page" 11 the yogi" 90 the tatwas" 108 adonai ha aretz" 114 the interpreter" 199 "this page is reserved for official pronouncements by the chancellor" of the a" a] persons wishing for information, assistance, further interpretation, etc, are requested to communicate with the chancellor of the a. a. c/o the equinox

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the flame and fuel of thy breast; i am the star of god upon thy brow; i am thy queen, enraptured and possessed. hide thee, sweet river; welcome to the sea, ocean of love that shall encompass thee! life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me- to me [pisces "performs a sleepy sinuous dance by herself, and returns to venus' throne lapsed into herself, and as if exhausted] rise, rise, my knight! my king! my love, arise! see the grave avenues of paradise, the dewy larches bending at my breath, portentous cedars prophesying death! 88["she is interrupted by the violin of the throned" luna "who plays her unutterable melody<pisces "manifests distress" venus. brother libra, what is this song? libra my soul is an enchanted boat, which, like a sleeping swan, doth

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very sword and perfume every prayer? love sharp as holly and pure as snow, and kisses beneath the moon for mistletoe! sir raymond. something ill sung, jocelyn, and too sadly, forsooth! here the hermits are foul and malicious. i would clear the land of them. sir james. spies, every one. and enchanters to boot. sir eustache. the maids are worse, to my mind. think of the gallant florimond, as tall a knight of his hands as ever swung sword or couched lance. sir raymond. netted like a fish! sir james. and now lives in the desert with the witch, a wild man, and banned. sir raymond. little better than a robber. and the word goes that he hath apostatized from our holy faith [all "cross themselves" jocelyn["sings] heigho! heigho! the crescent and cross! if the one is a bargain, the other's a loss

sir raymond. netted like a fish! sir james. and now lives in the desert with the witch, a wild man, and banned. sir raymond. little better than a robber. and the word goes that he hath apostatized from our holy faith [all "cross themselves" jocelyn["sings] heigho! heigho! the crescent and cross! if the one is a bargain, the other's a loss. 71 who would be found on the ground of mahound a recreant knight, and a renegade boaster? better we each leave our bones here to bleach and be saved, than go burn with the paynim impostor! for the infidel swine lack our spirit divine; there crazy old prophet prohibits them wine! drink, every knight! god and my right! we'll drive the black dogs to their kennels to-night! sir james. peace to thy ribaldry! here comes the preceptor. to saddle! jocelyn. why c

etter we each leave our bones here to bleach and be saved, than go burn with the paynim impostor! for the infidel swine lack our spirit divine; there crazy old prophet prohibits them wine! drink, every knight! god and my right! we'll drive the black dogs to their kennels to-night! sir james. peace to thy ribaldry! here comes the preceptor. to saddle! jocelyn. why cannot he ride with us, as a good knight and gay? sir james. who poises in his mind the destinies of christendom needs not in his ear thy fool's prattle, or thy fool's face at his elbow. though he have seen but five-and-twenty summers he is wiser than many a greybeard! see, even afar, how weightily he sits his horse. his forehead bent, his shoulders arched- jocelyn. the seat of a hunchback! sir james. like atlas supporting the wor

eil through a link in my chain mail. laylah. i am the bride of the emir. rinaldo. a fair bride. i guessed you his daughter. laylah. my feet have not entered his house. rinaldo. your feet are fair. can you tell fortunes? laylah. on the forehead of every man his destiny is written. rinaldo. read mine. laylah. let me go to my house. rinaldo. then i will read yours. you are to be captive to a strange knight. laylah. not to you, sir knight! rinaldo. the rest is dark. laylah. you dare not touch me. rinaldo. sit there["he seats her on the wall of the well] do you guess what i have been thinking as i rode through the sun to these palms? laylah. some new plot to carry fire and sword through our quiet villages. rinaldo. no. i was wondering why men should not live at peace. i was wondering what was t

yes! it flows free in the good air! how fierce he fights. i cannot see him; but he must be there. yes! it moves forward now; the christians part before him like the air before an arrow. the dust swallows all up again["wailing rises without, louder and more insistent" a curse upon these fools! but for them i could hear his battle-cry. has he ever cried, and i not heard him? oh, why did the strange knight not bear me on his palfrey? i must be mad. fatma. you must be mad! laylah. bewail the dead, thou bald vulture, shaggy toothless crone, dam of perdition! there floats the banner again, above them all. the templar's banner dips; some one has cut through the staff. the christians are in rout["four eunuchs enter, bearing the corpse of "othman. fatma. othman is dead! alas! alas! weep, mother, th

d her if i had thrust my poniard into that hypocrite's throat? i can do nothing but wait, binding chosen knights with an oath- the oath of the knights of the royal mystery. that god is one; that to love god and man is enough. peace, tolerance, truth. paul may plant, and apollos may water, but god giveth the increase. if i cry out "down with tyranny! down with superstition and imposture" the first knight thinks me mad; the second that i have some politic baseness toward; the third that i mean saracens; the fourth suspects the truth, and destroys me. anon. anon["he goes sorrowfully out" curtain. 104 "scene ii. a few days later. a public place in jerusalem. in the midst a stake with faggots. seats for the dignitaries, some thirty or forty of whom are present, most with their ladies. there is

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

re any way that non-witches can identify witches? a: witches often wear large silver rings engraved with mystic symbols, and they always take leave of other witches with the words 'blessed be. q: is a witch precluded from joining other societies? a: certainly not. i am a grand prior of the order of the romaic crescent, a chevalier ofthe military order ofthe knights of the temple ofjerusalem and a knight of the. imperial constantinian order of stgeorge, all .of which are christian orders. q: to whom can would-be witches apply for membership? a: to the witch centre when it is opened in the near future, and to meat the following address: 18 carlow row ringstead nr. wellingborough northants pptnbtx bt .ooit of baboltls the law i. the law was made and ordained of old. 2. the law was made for th

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

n between knights templar and ancient scottish masonry. such is the story told. the strict observance was founded by baron von hund in germany between about 1751 and 1754 or 1755, and is usually regarded as the first masonic chivalry which put forward the story of templar perpetuation. i have accepted this view on my own part, but subject to his claim at its value- if any- that he had been made a knight of the temple in france, some twelve years previously. the question arises, therefore, as to the fact or possibility of antecedent degrees of the kind in that country, and we are confronted at once by many stories afloat concerning the chapter of clermont, the foundation of which at paris is referred to several dates. it was in existence, according to yarker, at some undetermined period bef

sts- by those masonic emperors to whom we are indebted for the first form of the scottish rite, ancient and accepted. it is not impossible that its foundation is referable to the first of these dates, when it superposed on the three craft grades as follows (i) grade of scottish master of st. andrew of the thistle, being the fourth grade of masonry "in which allegory dissolves (2) grade of sublime knight of god and of his temple, being the fifth and last grade of free masonry. at a later period, however, it became the seventh grade of the rite, owing to the introduction of an elect degree which took the number 5 under the title of knight of the eagle, followed by an illustrious degree, occupying the sixth place and denominated knight of the holy sepulchre. the grade final in both enumeratio

and of his temple, being the fifth and last grade of free masonry. at a later period, however, it became the seventh grade of the rite, owing to the introduction of an elect degree which took the number 5 under the title of knight of the eagle, followed by an illustrious degree, occupying the sixth place and denominated knight of the holy sepulchre. the grade final in both enumerations- otherwise knight of god- presented a peculiar, as it was also an early version of the perpetuation story, from which it follows that the clermont rite was templar. i have so far failed to trace any copy of the ritual in this country with the exception of that which has been placed recently in my hands, an example of the discoveries that await research in continental archives. the templar element- which may

gth, but it will be sufficient to mention that the masonic candidate enters the lodge poor and penniless, because that was the condition at their beginning of the templars and the other orders of christian knighthood. the candidate is prepared for the second craft degree in a somewhat different manner from that of the first, and this has reference to certain distinctions between the clothing of a knight of the holy sepulchre and that of a knight of st. john. the seven steps are emblematic of the seven sacraments of the holy church, by the help of which the christian chivalries maintained their faith against the infidel, and also of the seven deadly sins which they trampled under their feet. the blazing star inscribed with the letter yod, being the initial letter of the name of god in hebre

re of ragon. it is numbered 69 in the archives of the metropolitan chapter of france, and 8 in the rite of the philalethes: they may or may not refer to the same ritual as that which i have summarised here. there is no means of knowing. in any case the 36th grade of mizraim and the 34th of memphis, which became no. 13 in the ancient and primitive rite, is to be distinguished utterly: it is called knight of the temple, but has no concern with the templars and is quite worthless. it should be added that in one of the discourses belonging to le chevalier du temple there is a hostile allusion to the existing multiplicity of masonic and pseudo-masonic grades, and this may suggest that it is late in the order of time. a great many were, however, in evidence by and before the year 1759. we should

of these was obviously in the ramsay hypothesis. it is certain also that elu grades were not far in the rear. the date of the particular collection maconnique on which i depend is, of course, not that of its contents. on the whole there seems nothing to militate against a tentative or provisional hypothesis that chevalier de temple was no later and may have been a little earlier than the clermont knight of god, thus giving further colour to the idea that templar masonry and its perpetuation story arose where it might have been expected that they would arise, in france and not in germany. i have said that the grade under notice has no reference to scotland or to any specific place of templar refuge after the proscription. but the chivalrous origin of masonry is not less a ramsay myth, and i

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

cal kindness towards his suffering brethren, that after obtaining god s greatest earthly gift, he may hereafter inherit eternal life. praise be unto god everlastingly for this his inestimable gift. twelve keys of basil valentine 67 of 95 eleventh key the eleventh key to the knowledge of the augmentation of our stone, i will put before you in the form of a parable. there lived in the east a gilded knight, named orpheus, who was possessed of immense wealth, and had everything that heart can wish. he had taken to wife his own sister, euridice, who did not, however, bear him any children. this he regarded as the punishment of his sin in having wedded his own sister, twelve keys of basil valentine 68 of 95 and was instant in prayer to god both by day and by night, that the curse might be taken

children. this he regarded as the punishment of his sin in having wedded his own sister, twelve keys of basil valentine 68 of 95 and was instant in prayer to god both by day and by night, that the curse might be taken from him. one night, when he was buried in a deep sleep, there came to him a certain winged messenger, named phoebus, who touched his feet, which were very hot, and said: thou noble knight, since thou hast wandered through many cities and kingdoms, and suffered many things at sea, in battle, and in the lists, the heavenly father has bidden me make known to thee the following means of obtaining thy prayer: take blood from thy right side, and from the left side of thy spouse. for this blood is the heart s blood of your parents, and though it may seem to be of two kinds, vet, in

ven wise masters there that which is generated will be nourished with its own flesh and blood, and will complete its course of development when the moon has changed for the eighth time if thou repeat this process again and again, thou shalt see children s children, and the offspring of thy body shall fill the world. when phoebus had thus spoken, he winged his flight heavenward. in the morning the knight arose and did the bidding of the celestial messenger, and god gave to him and to his wife many children, who twelve keys of basil valentine 69 of 95 inherited their father s glory, wealth, and knightly honours from generation to generation. if you are wise, my son, you will find the interpretation of my parable. if you do not understand it, ascribe the blame not to me, but to your own ignor

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iple, and also as the preserver and generator, or giver of life- the third person of the trimurti (composed of brahma, the creator, siva, the destroyer, and vishnu, the preserver. vishnu is shown in the allegory as guiding, under the form of a fish, the ark of vaivasvata manu clean across the waters of the flood. there is no use in expatiating upon the esoteric meaning of the word fish (see payne knight, inman, gerald massey, etc) its theological meanings is phallic, but the metaphysical, divine. jesus is called the "fish" and so were vishnu and bacchus[[ies, the "saviour" of mankind, being but the monogram of the god bacchus called[[ichthus, the fish* as to the seven rishis in the ark, they symbolised the seven principles, which became complete in man only after he had separated, and beco

continent; much force and cunning had to be used to secure the wonderful animal, but no sooner had huschenk mounted him, than he defeated every enemy. no giants could withstand his tremendous power. notwithstanding, this king of kings was killed by an enormous rock thrown at him by the giants from the great mountains of damavend* tahmurath is the third king of persia, the st. george of iran, the knight who always has the best of, and who kills, the dragon. he is the great enemy of the devs who, in his day, dwelled in the mountains of kaf, and occasionally made raids on the peris. the old french chronicles of the persian folklore call him the dev-bend, the conqueror of the giants. he, too, is credited with having founded babylon, nineveh, diarbek, etc, etc. like his grand-sire huschenk, ta

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of the breaking of idols, not for truth's sake, but to glorify the more gross matter. the revelations and interpretations in "the rivers of life" would have astounded the worshippers of the tree and serpent in the days of archaic chaldean and egyptian wisdom; and even the early saivas would have recoiled in horror at the theories and suggestions of the author of the said work "the notion of payne knight and inman that the cross or tau is simply a copy of the male organs in a triadic form is radically false" writes mr. g. massey, who proves what he says. but this is a statement that could be as justly applied to almost all the modern interpretations of ancient symbols "the natural genesis" a monumental work of research and thought, the most complete on that subject that has ever been publis

stly applied to almost all the modern interpretations of ancient symbols "the natural genesis" a monumental work of research and thought, the most complete on that subject that has ever been published, covering as it does a wider field, and explaining much more than all the symbologists who have hitherto written, does not yet go beyond the "psychotheistic" stage of ancient thought. nor were payne knight and inman altogether wrong; except in entirely failing to see that their interpretations of the "tree of life" as the cross and phallus, fitted the symbol, and approximated it, only on the lowest and last stage of the evolutionary development of the idea of the giver of life. it was the last and the grossest physical transformation of nature, in animal, insect, bird, and even plant; for biu

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e pymander, by hermes trismegistus. invaluable as bearing on the gnostic philosophy. the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, reprint of franz hartmann. an invaluable compendium. scrutinium chymicum by michael maier. one of the best treatises on alchemy. science and the infinite, by sidney klein. one of the best essays written in recent years. two essays on the worship of priapus, by richard payne knight. invaluable to all students. the golden bough, by j.g. frazer. the textbook of folk lore. invaluable to all students. the age of reason, by thomas paine. excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. rivers of life, by general forlong. an invaluble textbook of old systems of initiaiton. three dialogues, by bishop berkeley. the classic of subjective idealism. essays of david

ardua. an account of the magical and mystic path in the language of alchemy. liber lix. across the gulf. a fantastic account of a previous incarnation. its principal interest is that its story of the overthrowing of isis by osiris may help the reader to understand the meaning of the overthrowing of osiris by horus in the present on. liber cxcvii. the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight and of his following of the questing beast. a poetic account of the great work, and enumeration of many obstacles. liber ccxlii. aha! an exposition in poetic language of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. liber cccxxxv. adonis. this gives an account in poetic language of the struggle of the human and divine elements in the consciousness of man, giving their harmony

is almost like love! fighting most certainly is love .as brothers fight ye. all the manly races of the world understand this. the love of liber legis is always bold, virile, even orgiastic. there is delicacy, but it is the delicacy of strength. mighty and terrible and glorious as it is, however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of will, the damascened inscription upon the swords of the knight-monks of thelema. love is the law, love under will. 666 44 the tent only the stars endome the lonely camp, only the desert leagues encompass it; waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit, embattled cold, imagination.s cramp. now were the desolation fain to stamp the congealed spirit of man into the pit, save that, unquenchable because unlit, the love of god burns steady, like a lamp. it burns!

desanes jacobus burgundus molensis king wu ko hsuen christian rosenkreutz osiris ulrich von hutten melchizedek paracelsus khem michael maier menthu jakob boehme johannes dee francis bacon sir edward kelly andr a thos. vaughan robertus de fluctibus elias ashmole chau comte de chazal saturnus sigismund bacstrom dionysus molinos and recently: wolfgang von goethe friedrich nietzsche sir richard payne knight hargrave jennings sir richard francis burton karl kellner forlong dux eliphas l vi ludovicus rex bavari franz hartmann richard wagner cardinal rampolla ludwig von fischer papus (dr. encausse) the equinox 200 the names of women members are never divulged. it is not lawful here to disclose the name of any living chief. it was karl kellner who revived the exoteric organization of the o.t.o. an

al and the grand secretary general. there are many other officers, but they do not concern those to whom the present manifesto is addressed. 8. the whole of the knowledge dispersed among the bodies mentioned in paragraph 2 has been sifted and concentrated in the following degrees. the equinox 202 0 minerval. i m. ii m. iii m. iv p.m. companion of the holy royal arch of enoch. prince of jerusalem. knight of the east and of the west v sovereign prince of rose croix (knight of the pelican and eagle) member of the senate of knight hermetic philosophers, knight of the red eagle. vi illustrious knight (templar) of the order of kadosch, and companion of the holy graal. grand inquisitor commander, member of the grand tribunal. prince of the royal secret. vii very illustrious sovereign grand inspec

and therefore they give up their own prospect of advancement in the order for one year, that they may serve their fellows. this is then the first lesson in our great principle, the attainment of honour through renunciation. the degree of knights of east and west is but a bridge between the first and second series; but it is important, for in that grade a new pledgeform must be signed, and the new knight vowed to devote his life to the establishment of the law of thelema. the members of the fifth degree are responsible for all that concerns the social welfare of the order. this grade is symbolically that of beauty and harmony; it is the natural stopping-place of the majority of men and women; for to proceed farther, as will appear, involves renunication of the sternest kind. here then is al

BOOK T

upon the throne a book, sealed with seven seals "who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof' the titles of the symbols 1. the ace of wands is called the root of the powers of fire. 2. the ace of cups is called the root of the powers of water. 3. the ace of swords is called the root of the powers of air. 4. the ace of pentacles is called the root of the powers of earth. 5. the knight of wands is "the lord of the flame and lighting: the king of the spirits of fire" 6. the queen of wands is "the queen of the thrones of flame" 7. the king of wands is "the prince of the chariot of fire" 8. the knave of wands is "the princess of the shining flame: the rose of the palace of fire" 9. the knight of cups is "the lord of the waves and the waters: the king of the hosts of the sea"

the knight of cups is "the lord of the waves and the waters: the king of the hosts of the sea" 10. the queen of cups is "the queen of the thrones of the waters" book t page 1 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 11. the king of cups is "the prince of the chariot of the waters" 12. the knave of cups is "the princess of the waters: the lotus of the palace of the floods" 13. the knight of swords is "the lord of the wind and the breezes: the king of the spirits of air" 14. the queen of swords is "the queen of the thrones of air" 15. the king of swords is "the prince of the chariot of the winds" 16. the knave of swords is "the princess of the rushing winds: the lotus of the palace of air" 17. the knight of pentacles is "the lord of the wide and fertile land: the king of the

respective cherubic signs of the zodiac, and they form the thrones of the powers of the four aces. the twelve cards, the four kings, queens and princes rule the dominion of the celestial heavens, between the realm of the four princesses and the zodiac, as is hereafter shewn. and they, as it were, link together the signs. v. the lord of the flame and the lightning; the king of the spirits of fire knight of wands a winged warrior riding upon a black horse with flaming mane and tail: the horse itself is not winged. the rider wears a winged helmet (like the old scandinavian and gaulish helmet) with a rayed crown, a corslet of scale-mail and buskins of the same, and a flowing scarlet mantle. above his helmet, upon his curass, and on the shoulder-pieces and buskins, he wears as a crest a winged

rage, beauty, force, sudden in anger or love, desire of power, enthusiasm, revenge. if ill dignified, she is superficial, theatrical, cruel, unstable, domineering. she rules the heavens over one quadrant of the portion around the north pole. earth of fire princess and empress of the salamanders. throne of the ace of wands. ix. the lord of the waves and the waters; the king of the hosts of the sea knight of cups a beautiful, winged, youthful warrior with flying hair, riding upon a white horse, which latter is not winged. his general equipment is similar to that of the knight of wands, but upon his helmet, cuirass and buskins is a peacock with opened wings. he holds a cup in his hand, bearing the sigil of the scale. beneath his horse's feet is the sea. from the cup issues a crab. book t page

imaginative, dreamy, at times indolent, yet courageous if roused. when ill dignified she is selfish and luxurious. she rules a quadrant of the heavens around kether. earth of water book t page 7 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 princess and empress of the nymphs or undines throne of the ace of cups. xiii. the lord of the winds and the breezes; he king of the spirits of air knight of swords a winged warrior with crowned winged helmet, mounted upon a brown steed. his general equipment is as that of the knight of wands, but he wears as a crest a winged six-pointed star, similar to those represented on the heads of castor and pollux the dioscuri, the twins gemini (a part of which constellation is included in his rule. he holds a drawn sword with the sigil of his scale u

scending from it. beneath her feet are white clouds. wisdom, strength, acuteness; subtlety in material things: grace and dexterity. if ill dignified, she is frivolous and cunning. she rules a quadrant of the heavens around kether. earth of air princess and empress of the sylphs and sylphides. throne of the ace of wands. xvii. the lord of the wide and fertile land; the king of the spirits of earth knight of pentacles a dark winged warrior with winged and crowned helmet: mounted on a light brown horse. equipment as the knight of wands. the winged head of a stag or antelope as a crest. beneath the horse's feet is fertile land with ripened corn. in one hand he bears a sceptre surmounted by a hexagram: in the other a pentacle like that of the zelator adeptus minor. unless very well dignified he

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is made up of fifty-six of the cards divided, again, into four suits of fourteen cards each. it is from this minor arcana of the tarot that our everyday playing cards stem. the tarot suits are swords, pentacles (sometimes called coins, wands (or staves) and cups. their modern counterparts are spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts respectively. each suit numbers one (or ace) through ten with a page, knight, queen and king. at some stage in their later development the knight dropped out and the page became known as the jack, or knave. the major arcana, otherwise known as the trumps major, has twenty-two cards; each an allegorical figure of symbolic meaning. these figures are, by many occultists, attributed to the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet: 1 magician 2 high priestess 3 empress

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ash of the spirit, pp. 105, 107, 283; j. l. dillard, lexicon of black english (new york: seabury press, 1977, p. 111. in the south, notes philip d. morgan, african words were associated with magic as late as the twentieth century (slave counterpoint: black culture in the eighteenth-century chesapeake and lowcountry [chapel hill: university of north carolina press, 1998, p. 622. 41. henry cogswell knight [pseud; arthur singleton, letters from the south and west (boston: richardson and lord, 1842, p. 75; added emphasis. norman whitten "contemporary patterns of malign occultism among negroes in north carolina (1962, reprinted in mother wit from the laughing barrel: readings in the interpretation of afro- american folklore, ed. alan dundes (jackson: university press of mississippi, 1972, p. 40

ng crimes. typical punishments for the offense of poisoning included hanging, castration, and execution by burning, an action usually reserved for those guilty of witchcraft. see an eighteenthcentury account in john ashton, the devil in britain and america (london: ward and downey, 1896, pp. 311.13; and carroll, slave insurrections, p. 70. wood, black majority, p. 290; allen d. candler and lucian knight, eds, colonial records of the state of georgia (atlanta: franklin printing and publishing, 1904, vol. 18, pp. 641.44, cited in william d. piersen, black legacy: america's hidden heritage (amherst, university of massachusetts press, 1993, p. 114; watson "north carolina slave courts" pp. 30.31; and alan d. watson "impulse toward independence: resistance and rebellion among north carolina slav

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th's architectural designs. 1527 symphorien champier galliae celti. history of celtic france, mostly the history of lyons wherein concerning the levels of the church hierarchy at lyons, mention is made of one was named illuminati. 1528 symphorien champier symphonia. history of medicine, from greek times, through the arab period, to the author's times wherein champier styles himself "eques aureae" knight of light. 1528-1578 adam von bodenstein 1529 geoffrey tory- champ fleury ou l'art et science de la proportion des letters. c. 1530-1598 jean ii de gourmont, engraver for guillaume postel's map of the poles credited with executing 'tarots. 1531 agrippa's three books of occult philosophy 1532 earliest manuscript of the splendor solis 1532-1595 thurneisser zum thurn 1531-1588 valentin weigel 1

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so the young lady, contrary to everyone s expectations, fell again into his hands; he would have been likely to have caused her to be slain if he had not been wonderfully deceived by his own servants. thus this act was concluded too, with a marvellous triumph of the moor. in the third act a great army of the king s party was raised against the moor, and put under the conduct of an ancient valiant knight, who fell into the moor s country, till at length he forcibly rescued the young lady page 52 from the tower, and appareled her anew. after this in a trice they erected a glorious scaffold, and placed their young lady upon it. presently twelve royal ambassadors came, amongst whom the aforementioned knight made a speech, alleging that the king his most gracious lord had not only delivered her

pleasure. and this was afterwards ratified in a little chapel (to which we were conducted in procession) and thanks returned to god for it. i also hung up there at that time my golden fleece and hat, and left them there for an eternal memorial, to the honour of god. and because everyone had to write his name there, i wrote thus: the highest wisdom is to know nothing. brother christian rosenkreutz knight of the golden stone a.d. 1459. others wrote likewise, each as it seemed good to him. after this, we were again brought into the hall, where, having sat down, we were admonished quickly to think what we each one would wish. but the king and his party retired into a little closet, there to give audience to our wishes. now each man was called in separately, so that i cannot speak of any man s

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fraternites at the time of columbus. these are only some of his brotherhood connections. columbus's father-in-law was a member of the knights of christ, the undercover name for the knights templar. when the templars were purged across europe, they survived in portugal by changing their name to the knights of christ. they devoted themselves to maritime activity. the explorer, vasco de gama, was a knight of 30..and the truth shall set you free christ, as was prince henry the navigator, a grand master of the order. columbus's father-in-law was one of prince henry's captains, and inherited maps and charts from him which columbus used to 'find' the americas. the red cross on a white background was the templars symbol. it was outlawed by the pope at the time of the purge. columbus's ships saile

n 18b and imprisoned for several years. this was happening in a country, under churchill, that was supposed to be fighting for freedom! who was the british intelligence officer in charge of the prosecutions under regulation 18b? lord victor rothschild, the friend, i would say manipulator, of churchill.15 rothschild controlled the intelligence operative who was officially in charge of 18b, maxwell knight. intelligence researcher, doctor kitty little, who investigated lord rothschild's activities for fifty years, told me "being in control of counter-subversion and the administration of 18b gave rothschild plenty of scope for subversive activities. he was able to ensure that members of the three covert sections of his organisation were protected from investigation, while he used 18b in two wa

he banking laws for the cayman islands and the bahamas which, as a result, became "offshore" havens for dodgy money. under conrad black's stewardship, a stream of bilderbergers and other names mentioned in this book have been appointed to the board of telegraph newspapers and the hollinger group. great to know we have a free press, eh? another member of the bilderberg steering committee is andrew knight, the former executive on the economist, black's daily telegraph, and later the executive 154 .and the truth shall set you free chairman of rupert murdoch's news international which, in britain, owns the sun, today, the news of the world, the times and sunday times. knight is still on the board of that organisation. since 1982, he has been part of the council of management of the ditchley fo

er described him as "one of the people in this world i like the most".39 european royalty was represented by two regular attenders, queen beatrix of the netherlands (comm 300, the daughter of prince bernhard, and queen sophia of spain. the british delegation included john smith,40 the late leader of the labour party, who was also a trilateralist; gordon brown, the shadow labour chancellor; andrew knight; lord roll of ipsden; lawrence freedman, the head of the department of war studies at kings college; christopher hogg, the chairman of courtaulds; and patrick wright, the permanent undersecretary of state and head of the diplomatic service. manfred worner, the late secretary general of nato, was there and so was john r. galvin, the supreme allied commander europe at shape headquarters. galv

fkind, the secretary of state for scotland and later defence and foreign secretary; helmut schmidt, former chancellor of germany [helmut kohl, the present chancellor is also a bilderberger; lord boardman, chairman of the national westminster bank; henry j. heinz ii, chairman of heinz and co; paul r. jolles, chairman of nestle s.a; john sainsbury, chairman of j. sainsbury pic; conrad black; andrew knight; and paul a. volcker, the chairman of the us federal reserve, also an executive of the cfr and the trilateral commission. 41 the spotlight, special report on the bilderberg group and the shadow government (reprint, september 1991) 42 publicity material, european-atlantic group, 6 gertrude street, chelsea, london sw10 ojn 43 where i use the term (tc) or (cfr) after a person's name it denotes

ion that look-alikes were used for some public figures. it isn't, you know. it has now been shown that the saddam hussein we saw after the gulf war was not the same man we saw before the war. it was a plastic-surgery-created look-alike.10 when the p2 scandal broke, top ranking vatican officials were implicated, including the secretary of state, cardinal villot. it was villot, according to stephen knight's book, the brotherhood, who many believe applied pressure on the roman catholic hierarchy to tone down its opposition to freemasonry. he was also named, in another investigation by david yallop called in god's name, as a prime suspect in the murder of pope john paul i, who died after only 33 days in office in 1978. this pope perhaps knew something of what was going on, both in terms of fre

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. the inauguration of washington in 1789 was a freemasonic ceremony in which he swore the oath on a freemasonic bible. in january 2001 president george w. bush took the oath using that same bible, as did his father more than a decade earlier. it is the property of the new york lodge, according to news reports. washington, who commanded the american colonial armies against the british crown, was a knight of the order of the garter, one of the most elite illuminati networks headed by the british crown! it seems to be a staggering contradiction, but when you know the scam it makes perfect sense (see the biggest secret for the detailed background to the american war of "independence) there is no better example of the point i am making here than south africa. during the period of apartheid, it

n rockefeller; henry kissinger; mikhail gorbachev (the soviet union and the "west" were always controlled by the same force; william f. buckley, an american publisher and major illuminati operative; george shultz, the former secretary of state to ronald reagan; walter cronkite, america's most famous news reader; william randolph hearst, the the shape-shifters 137 american newspaper tycoon; andrew knight, a british media executive closely connected to the rupert murdoch empire; edward teller("father of the h bomb; glenn seaborg, who developed plutonium; burt bacharach, the composer; singer bing crosby; bob hope, a british mi6 operative; ray kroc, the man behind the mcdonald's fast-food empire; author mark twain; and john muir, founder of the illuminati environmental front, the sierra club.4

ich, in sumerian and cappadocian inscriptions, is spelt zagg or zakh. this is the origin of the modern name, jack.18 waddell writes of indara "the sumerian records regarding him date continuously back to the inscription on his sacred trophy bow! or holy grail by his great-grandson, about 3245bc..they contain fairly full details of the personality and exploits of himself, his queen and sonchampion knight, and his warrior-clan of guts or goths, with their portraits chiselled on stone and engraved on their sacred seals, representing them as wearing horned hats like the european goths, ancient britons and anglo-saxons, and like the eddic heroes in medieval art. the goat and deer metaphors, pictographic of his name, are freely applied to him by the sumerians and the hittites, just as they are t

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gin and destiny, p 368.37acts 24:538albert snow, astrology in the dead sea scrolls, the book your church doesnt want you t oread, p 65.39psalms 80:8.40isaiah 5:7.41the occult conspiracy, p 14.42jordan maxwell, the book your church doesnt want you t o read, p29.43luke 2:7.44bloodline of the holy grail, p 37.45ibid, pp 36-37.46the book your church doesnt want you to read, pp 182, 183.47 christopher knight and robert lomas, the hiram key (arrow books, london, 1997, p 310.48john e. remsburg, the book your church doesnt want you to read, p 171.49ibid.50ibid, p 172.103cmapter fiveconquered by the crossthe christian church is a farce founded on a fantasy. if anyone requires confirmationof how easy it is for the few to control the masses, they need look no further than thebillions of people who ha

the templars, along with some templargraves. in a most prominent position in temple bar, in the centre of the mainthoroughfare, is a statue of a winged reptile. the templar holdings included the strandand much of fleet street which, until recently, was the home of the british nationalnewspaper industry. the symbol of the national tabloid, the daily express, onceheadquartered in fleet street, is a knight carrying a shield emblazoned with thetemplar-phoenician red cross on a white background. the templar lands stretcheddown to the river thames where the templars had their own docks. during the reign ofqueen victoria, the brotherhood erected an obelisk alongside the thames at this pointand placed a sphinx on either side. the obelisk had formerly stood in the egyptian cityof on or heliopolis (

a freemason and member of the cabalaclub, also known as the sun club.40 in 1984, more than 500 of his papers were found in ahouse in manchester and they included information about sacred geometry, architectureand cabalistic, freemasonic and other alchemical and esoteric symbols.41ashmole, an alchemist and rosicrucian with many esoteric contacts in germany,174was a close friend of charles ii and a knight of the order of the garter, that premierorder of chivalry headed by the monarch. he wrote a book with arthur dee (the son ofdr john dee, who was personal physician to the tsar, ivan the terrible. when ivandied, dees manipulation installed the romanov dynasty on the russian throne.42ashmole was extremely well connected and maintained close contacts with theinvisible college which met in oxfo

in 1398. antonios descriptions in his letters ofthe land they found correspond perfectly, and in detail, with an area of pitch (asphalt)deposits in pictou county, nova scotia, not far from the present town of new glasgow.sinclair went on to land in what is now new england. in massachusetts at a placecalled prospect hill at westford, 25 miles from boston, a representation of a sword andan armoured knight have been found in the rock. t. c. lethbridge, the curator of theuniversity museum of archaeology and ethnology at cambridge, england, said thatthe arms, armour and heraldic emblems were those of a late 14th century knight, northscottish, and: a kin to the first sinclair earl of orkney.1 the brotherhood had knownabout the americas for thousands of years and christopher columbus was used to

arctica looked like 300 years before that continent wasofficially discovered! the accuracy of his map has been confirmed by modern techniques.how could he do that? he said he drew the map from earlier ones, the same sourcesavailable to prince henry the navigator and the knights of christ -knights templar. thisbecomes extremely important when you realise that one of prince henrys sea captainsand a knight of christ was the father-in-law of. christopher columbus. this guy wasnot looking for india. he knew where he was going all along. this is why so manymaritime explorers and circumnavigators of the world, like v asco de gama and amerigovespucci, came from portugal. as the freemasonic historian, manly p. hall, hasexplained, columbus was connected to the secret society network in genoa and nor

e oath was takenby robert livingstone, the grand master of the new york grand lodge. the ceremonywas entirely freemasonic ritual carried out by freemasons. a grand procession187included washington and the officers and initiates of american lodges in their regalia.like most of the leading founding fathers, washington was from an englisharistocratic bloodline and one of his ancestors was an english knight of the 12thcentury, the time the templars were formed, and another was a relative of the duke ofbuckingham who had fought for the crown in the english civil war. washington wasonly the first example of how the babylonian brotherhood based in britain has used itsreptilian bloodlines to rule the united states from that day to this. look at thegenealogy of american presidents, leading politici

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showing himself in the likeness of an archer clad in green, and carrying a bow and quiver. he causeth all great battles and contests; and maketh wounds to putrefy that are made with arrows by archers. this belongeth unto sagittary. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and this is his seal, etc (15) eligos- the fifteenth spirit in order is eligos, a great duke, and appeareth in the form of a goodly knight, carrying a lance, an ensign, and a serpent. he discovereth hidden things, and knoweth things to come; and of wars, and how the soldiers will or shall meet. he causeth the love of lords and great persons. he governeth 60 legions of spirits. his seal is this, etc (16) zepar- the sixteenth spirit is zepar. he is a great duke, and appeareth in red apparel and armour, like a soldier. his office

, at the command of the exorcist, will produce great noises like the rushings of many waters, although there be none. he warmeth waters, and discovereth baths. he was of the order of potestates, or powers, before his fall, as he declared unto the king solomon. he governeth 48 legions of spirits. his seal is this, the which wear thou as aforesaid (50) furcas- the fiftieth spirit is furcas. he is a knight, and appeareth in the form of a cruel old man with a long beard and a hoary head, riding upon a pale-coloured horse, with a sharp weapon in his hand. his office is to teach the arts of philosophy, astrology, rhetoric, logic, cheiromancy, and pyromancy, in all their parts, and perfectly. he hath under his power 20 legions of spirits. his seal, or mark, is thus made, etc (51) balam- the fifty

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

rmous 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 figure, corresponding to the vau of tetragrammaton; and the princess, the knave of the modern packs, correspond to the he final of the sacred name

kronos would be referred to binah and chokmah, and jupiter to chesed. all the corn goddesses refer to malkuth, and all the lunar goddesses to yesod. the war gods and destructive gods, or divine devils, refer to geburah, and the goddesses of love to netzach. the initiator gods of wisdom are referred to hod, and the sacrificed gods and redeemers to tiphareth. so great an authority as richard payne knight in his valuable book, the symbolic language of ancient art and mythology, speaks of "the remarkable concurrence of the allegories, symbols, and titles of ancient mythology in favour of the mystic system of emanations" with this clue we sort out the pantheons, thus enabling ourselves to compare like with like and make the one illuminate the other. 15. in the system he gives in his book of co

love makes us silly and sentimental, or a lack of love makes us cruel and destructive. it is in such things as these that evil lies, not in a personal devil who acts as adversary. 5. geburah the destroyer, the lord of fear and severity, is therefore as necessary to the equilibrium of the tree as chesed, the lord of love, and netzach, the lady of beauty. gebura his the celestial surgeon; he is the knight in shining arinour, the dragon-slayer; beautiful as a bridegroom in his strength to the maiden in distress, though, no doubt, the dragon might have preferred a little more love. 6. the initiations of the infortunes, saturn, mars, and the deceptive lunar yesod, are just as necessary to the evolution and balanced development of the soul as are the mysteries of the crucifixion assigned to tiph

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nd published in the equinox, volume 1, issue 7. this table and its qliphothic spirits provides the structure for part two of kenneth grant's nightside of eden. it was reproduced by grant on page 138 of that work above the title "the sigils of the 22 sentinels of the tunnels of set (sigils of the qliphoth, from crowley's equinox, 1912) about the nature of the eleventh false sephirah, daath, gareth knight observed: the abyss is the void between force and form and the place where the transmutation takes place is the 'hidden' sephirah daath--meaning knowledge. the mysteries of daath are profound and were little touched upon in earlier writings on the qabalah. the sephirah has no number allocated to it and by knowledge is meant not so much what we understand by the word, but the word in its bib

n in earlier writings on the qabalah. the sephirah has no number allocated to it and by knowledge is meant not so much what we understand by the word, but the word in its biblical usage of sexual union, only here the meaning is a kind of divine union where differing planes of being impact and there is a resultant change of state brought to birth- a transformation or transmutation of power (gareth knight, a practical guide to qabalistic symbolism. new york: weiser, 1980, pages 32-3) you will remember the words of the archangel gabriel, spoken to john dee through the mouth of his seer kelley, regarding the division of binah (understanding) from geburah (judgement. the abyss and its gateway daath lie between the level of binah and the lower level of geburah on the tree. knowledge is the union

, and judgement must be unbalanced. there is no passage across the abyss. wisdom remains isolated upon the crown of the hill, a "widow" in the terminology of gabriel, protected by the four winds, shining in isolation with the "brightness of the morning (lucifer is the name of venus as the morning star) because chokmah cannot unite in marriage with binah. their sexual union, as intimated by gareth knight in the quote above, must occur through daath. on a lower, shadow level, the blindragon, coronzon, is required to sexually unite samael, the slant serpent, with lilith, the tortuous serpent. the union of the watchers with the beautiful daughters of man was a work of daath. gareth knight is correct in a strict sense that daath is unnumbered, but it is worth noting that eleven is the number li

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c degrees, it includes capitular, cryptic and chivalric grades, conferred in bodies known respectively as the chapx introduction ter, council and commandery. the chapter has four degrees- mark master, past master, most excellent master and the royal arch, together with an honorary order of high priesthood. the council has two degrees-royal master and select master. the commandery has three orders-knight of the red cross, knight templar and knight of malta. free masonry has been tardy in admitting the african race to recognition. the first negroes made free masons were prince hall and fourteen colored citizens of boston. the travelling lodge of a british regiment in 1775 conferred the symbolic degrees upon them. england granted them a charter in 1787, and the first masonic lodge, with princ

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, ufo 3 aben-ragel an arabian astrologer born at cordova at the beginning of the fifth century. his book of horoscopes was translated into latin and published at venice in 1485, under the title de judiciis seu fatis stellarum. aben-ragel s predictions were known for their remarkable accuracy. abigor according to johan weyer, abigor is the grand duke of hades. he is shown in the form of a handsome knight bearing a lance, standard, or scepter. he is a demon of the superior order and responds readily to questions concerning war. he can foretell the future and instructs leaders on how to make themselves respected by their soldiers. sixty infernal regions are under his command. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by geo

abbe taking the form of a tree white with frost, which rushed toward him with inconceivable swiftness. the abbe s horse trembled with fear, as did the servant, but the abbe himself made the sign of the cross, and the tree disappeared. the abbe concluded that he had seen the devil and called upon the virgin to protect him. nevertheless, the fiend shortly reappeared in the shape of a furious black knight. begone, said the abbe. why do you attack me far from my brothers? the devil once more left him, but returned in the shape of a tall man with a long, thin neck. to get rid of him, adam struck him a blow with his fist. the evil spirit shrank and took the stature and countenance of a little cloaked monk, with a glittering weapon under his garb. his little eyes could be seen darting and glanci

ed at worms, cologne, and paris, and it was said to be affiliated with the society of alethophilas, or lovers of truth, after which it named one of its grades. there were two temples, comprising the following degrees (1) apprentice of egyptian secrets (2) initiate into egyptian secrets (3) cosmopolitan (4) christian philosopher, and (5) alethophilos. higher grades (1) esquire (2) soldier, and (3) knight, thus supplying egyptian, christian, and templar mysteries to the initiate. in 1806 a pamphlet was published at berlin entitled a discovery concerning the system of the order of african architects. afs see american folklore society ag a red flower used by some hindus to propitiate the deity sanee (the planet saturn. it is made into a wreath with jasoon, also a red-colored flower, which is h

pretended to die. the initiates surrounded the neophyte and chanted funeral songs. he was then brought to the temple erected for the purpose and anointed with palm oil. after 40 days of probation, he was said to have obtained a new soul, was greeted with hymns of joy, and conducted home. alocer according to johan weyer, alocer is a powerful demon, grand duke of hades. he appears in the shape of a knight mounted on an enormous horse. his face has leonine characteristics; he has a ruddy complexion and burning eyes, and speaks with much gravity. he is said to give family happiness to those whom he takes under his protection and to teach astronomy and liberal arts. thirty-six legions are controlled by him. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer

endowed her that she far surpassed the most beautiful women of the east. her uncle sent her as a worthy foe against the powerful christian army that pope urban xi had collected under the leadership of godfrey de bouillon. and there, de lancre says, she so charmed the principal leaders of the crusaders with her beautiful eyes that she almost ruined the hopes of the christians. she kept the valiant knight renaud for a long time in an enchanted castle, and it was with great difficulty that he was disenchanted. sources: tasso, torquato. jerusalem delivered. rutherford, n.j: fairleigh dickinson university press, 1970. armomancy a method of divination effected by the inspection of the shoulders. the ancients judged by this means whether a victim was suitable for sacrifice to the gods. arnaldus d

er education being interrupted by an early brief marriage. she later studied fencing, through which she met her second husband, whom she married in 1957. around 1963, the pair came into contact with the fraternity of the inner light, the magical organization founded by dion fortune. they took the study course and were formally initiated in 1967. they also came to know william e. butler and gareth knight, both former members of the fraternity, and took the course of magic the pair developed, then known as the helios course. taking the course led to their break with the fraternity. they continued to work with butler, founder of the servants of the light, and ashcroft-nowicki soon established direct contact with the same inner plane adept that had guided butler. ashcroft-nowicki decided to de

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t was a fulfilling and satisfying exploration of the promises i made to myself in out on a limb. in it i look with pleasure, humor and some contentment upon my experiences as a daughter, a mother, a lover, a friend, a seeker of spiritual destiny and a voice calling for peace in the world. the book cites several channels from whom she received guidance, but her kindest words are reserved for j. z. knight, who channels an entity named ramtha and has since attracted a large following. in the late 1980s maclaine emerged as a new age teacher and leader of higher life seminars. profits from the seminars have funded several new age centers. maclaine has continued to write new age books. sources: maclaine, shirley. dancing in the light. new york: bantam books, 1985. don t fall off the mountain. ne

1991. ebon, martin. they knew the unknown. new york: new american library, 1971. maeterlinck, maurice. the great secret. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1969. the unknown guest. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1975. mafu mafu, the entity said to speak through channel penny torres, emerged in the mid-1980s during the growing popularity of ramtha, the entity said to speak through j. z. knight. in the process of developing as a channel, torres had visited knight, and as mafu emerged, many people noted the similarity between his speech characteristics and gestures and those of ramtha. mafu described himself as a 32,000-year-old being who had incarnated on earth 17 different times. he began to manifest through torres in 1986. torres s attention had been occupied by some poltergeist

y, alum, and assafoetida. for purposes of black magic, a seamless and sleeveless robe of black was donned, while on the head was worn a leaden cap inscribed with the signs of the moon, venus, and saturn. the wreaths were of vervain and cypress, and the perfumes burned were aloes, camphor, and storax (see also ceremonial magic; magic; magical diagrams; magical instruments and accessories) sources: knight, gareth. the practice of ritual magic. toddington, england: helios book service, 1969. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1976. levi, eliphas. transcendental magic. london: g. redway, 1896. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1970. waite, arthur edward. the book of ceremonial magic. london: rider, 1911. reprint, new york: bell, 1969. magic circle an important part of ceremonial magic was the d

johann ihre (1769, a somewhat different account of the mara is given. here again, we find the witch-riding of horses, against which a stone amulet was suggested by the antiquarian john aubrey, similar to one described below. among the incantations by which the nightmare may be chased away, reginald scot recorded the following in his discovery of witchcraft (1584: st. george, st. george, or lady s knight, he walked by day so did he by night: until such times as he her found, he her beat and he her bound, until her troth to him plight, he would not come to her that night. item, continued this author, hand a stone over the afflicted person s bed, which stone hath naturally such a hole in it, as wherein a string may be put through it, and so be hanged over the diseased or bewitched party, be i

eturned into his chamber pensively, and bethought himself of orton, and said, i think that i have seen my familiar; i repent me that i set my dogs upon him, for i doubt if i shall ever behold him again, since he has several times told me that as soon as i should provoke him i should lose him, and he would return no more. he spoke truly; never again did orton return to the lord of corasse, and the knight died in the following year. ortt, felix (1866.1959) dutch engineer who developed a philosophy of pneumatic- energetic monism, proposing that a spirit revealed itself under energy and entelechy. ortt wrote on parapsychological subjects, including a theory of temperature drop in relation to psychical phenomena and philosophy of occultism and spiritualism, on concepts of substantiality and cau

ces: beloff, john, ed. new directions in parapsychology. london, 1974. reprint, metchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1975. blackmore, susan. adventures of a parapsychologist. buffalo, n.y: prometheus books, 1986. boirac, emile. psychic science; an introduction and contribution to the experimental study of psychical phenomena. london, 1918. brodeur, nicole. reporter has a close encounter with a psychic. knight-ridder/tribune news service,16 august 1993. dessoir, max. die parapsychologie, eine entgegnung auf den artikel der prophet. sphinx (june 1889: 341.44. reprinted as parapsychology, a response to the article the prophet. journal of the s.p.r. 53, 802 (january 1986. dougherty, robin. it s uncanny! networks are invaded by paranoia shows. knight ridder/tribune news sercie, 18 sept.1996. edge, ho

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

she created the foundation for the realization of inner divinity and a subsidiary, the center for god realization. through these she has disseminated mafu s teachings. for a time mafu was among the most popular channeling entities on the new age scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. he was sometimes said to be little more than a clone of the famous ramtha, channeled by the controversial j. z. knight, though at one point torres rubin charged that ramtha was nothing more than a fraud. see also: channeling; ramtha further reading interview: penny torres on mafu, 1986/1987. life times 1, 2 (winter: 74 79. l ecuyer, michele, 1986/1987. mafu. life times 1, 2 (winter: 80 82. melton, j. gordon, 1996. encyclopedia of american religions. detroit, mi: gale research. magonia the concept of magonia

: loompanics unlimited. x, michael [pseud. of michael x. barton, 1960. rainbow city and the inner earth people. los angeles: futura. ramtha ramtha, perhaps the leading channeled entity of the 1980s, first appeared in a tacoma, washington, living room to announce, i am ramtha, the enlightened one, and i have come to help you over the ditch by which, it turned out, he meant the ditch of limitation (knight, 1987. j. z. knight (born judith darlene hampton) and her husband had been experimenting with pyramids, which according to a 1970s new age belief had mysterious powers. for a short time, knight believed that ramtha was a demonic entity. soon, however, a spiritualist friend helped her understand the nature of her experience, and she gave her guidance in how to channel ramtha. on december 17

e reflecting on metaphysical questions. he also learned to alter his body so that its vibrations changed, allowing him to enter the light realm. on the occasion of his physical death, he ascended permanently to that realm. just before that happened, though, he demonstrated his new paranormal powers in india, where he is still remembered and revered as the incarnate deity rama. in the early 1980s, knight went public with ramtha. she traveled throughout the united states giving two-day workshops known as ramtha dialogues. along the way, she attracted the attention of new ageoriented celebrities such as shirley maclaine, richard chamberlain, mike farrell, and shelley fabres, who enthusiastically supported her work. maclaine discussed ramtha in her best-selling dancing in the light (1985. knig

amtha dialogues. along the way, she attracted the attention of new ageoriented celebrities such as shirley maclaine, richard chamberlain, mike farrell, and shelley fabres, who enthusiastically supported her work. maclaine discussed ramtha in her best-selling dancing in the light (1985. knight put together a nonprofit corporation that evolved into the non-tax-exempt sovereignty, inc. by this time, knight had amassed so much money that a growing legion of critics questioned her sincerity. she now lived on a luxurious horse-breeding ranch in yelm, washington, the focus of a large following of pilgrims who had moved to the northwest from homes all over the nation and the world. some, seeking a safe haven from the cataclysmic earth changes that ramtha said were about to occur, had left families

s horse-breeding ranch in yelm, washington, the focus of a large following of pilgrims who had moved to the northwest from homes all over the nation and the world. some, seeking a safe haven from the cataclysmic earth changes that ramtha said were about to occur, had left families to do so. sessions with ramtha were expensive. beyond that, critics charged, ramtha had become, in ramtha 209 effect, knight s business partner; would-be investors in knight s arabian horses would seek the master s advice. after some complained they had purchased mediocre horses after heeding ramtha s advice, authorities investigated, and knight ended up reimbursing unhappy buyers, though no charges were filed. critics also asserted that the once gregarious, friendly ramtha had grown ever more authoritarian and d

after some complained they had purchased mediocre horses after heeding ramtha s advice, authorities investigated, and knight ended up reimbursing unhappy buyers, though no charges were filed. critics also asserted that the once gregarious, friendly ramtha had grown ever more authoritarian and demanding. even some sympathetic to channeling beliefs speculated that whatever energy came through j. z. knight has either shifted, departed, or been replaced by a less benign entity (klimo, 1987. in 1988, knight formed ramtha s school of enlightenment, which claims some three thousand students from twe n t y- t h ree countries. in 1995, a small scandal erupted when press accounts exposed the federal aviation ad m i n i st r a t i o n s payment of $1.4 million for sensitivity- training classes overse

FAUST

me thing! she begins to sing while she undresses. there was in thule olden a king true till the grave, to whom a beaker golden his dying mistress gave. naught prized he more, this lover, he drained it at each bout; his eyes with tears brimmed over, as oft he drank it out. and when he came to dying, his towns and his lands he told, naught else his heir denying except the beaker of gold. around him knight and vassal, at a royal feast sat he in his fathers lofty castle, the castle by the sea. there the old pleasure-seeker drank, standing, life s last glow, then hurled the sacred beaker into the waves below. he saw it plunging, drinking, and sinking 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 littl

ne, they charmed me so, i climbed thereon. the beauty. the little apples man entice since first they were in paradise. i feel myself with pleasure glow that such within my garden grow. mephistopheles [with the old witch. once came a wanton dream to me. i saw therein a riven tree; it had a monstrous hole; twas huge, yet i was pleased with it. the old witch. i proffer now my best salute to you, the knight with horse s foot! let me a proper cork prepare, if him a big hole does not scare. proctophantasmist. accursed folk! how dare you then? have you not long had proof complete, a spirit never stands on ordinary feet? and now you re dancing like us other men! the beauty [dancing. why is he at our ball? that fellow there? faust [dancing. ha! he is simply everywhere. he must appraise what others

impose no punishment, at last with culprits will combine. i ve painted black, and yet a denser screen i d rather draw before the scene. pause. decisions cannot be evaded; when all do harm and none are aided, majesty too becomes a prey. commander-in-chief. in these wild days what riots quicken! each strikes and he in turn is stricken, and no command will men obey. the citizen behind his wall, the knight upon his rocky nest, have sworn to last us out, and all maintain their power with stubborn zest. the mercenaries, restless growing, blusteringly demand their pay, and if to them no more were owing, they would be quick to run away. let one forbid what all men fain expect, he s put his hand into a hornet s nest; the empire which they should protect lies plundered, desolate, and waste. this fu

more? it is a brawl, in sooth! i ll help myself at last with naked truth, the worst of aids! great is my misery.o mothers, mothers! do let faust go free! gazing around him. the lights are burning dimly in the hall, at once the court starts forward, one and all. i see them file according to their grades through distant galleries and long arcades. now they re assembling in that ample space, the old knight s hall; yet hardly all find place. the spacious walls with tapestries are rich, while armour decorates each nook and niche. here is no need, methinks, of magic incantation, ghosts will come here without an invitation. hall of the knights dim illumination. the emperor and court have entered. herald. mine ancient office of announcing plays is marred by spirits mystic interference; in vain one

le paris who would not proclaim him? paris steps forth. a lady what glorious, blooming youth and strength i see! a second lady fresh as a peach, as full of juice, is he! a third lady the finely chiselled, sweetly swelling lip! a fourth lady from such a cup how would you like to sip? a fifth lady he s handsome, yes, and yet not quite refined. a sixth lady a bit more graceful might he be, i find. a knight i think i see him when a shepherd boy. he s wearing no traces of a prince and naught of courtly bearing. another knight oh, well! half nude the youth is fair to look upon, but we must see him with his armour on. a lady he seats him gently and with easy grace. a knight you d find his lap, perchance, a pleasant place? another lady. he lays his arm so lightly over his head. a chamberlain that

courtier she steals away, light-footed. he awakes. a lady just as i thought, another look she takes. a courtier he is astounded, thinks a wonder doth occur. a lady but what she sees, no wonder is to her. a courtier she turns around to him with charming grace. a lady i see, she ll take him now into her school; stupid is every man in such a case. he thinks, i guess, that he s the first- the fool! a knight she ll pass with me! a fine, majestic air! a lady the courtesan! how vulgar, i declare! a page where he is now, oh, would that i were there! a courtier in such a net who would not fain be caught? a lady through many hands has gone that jewel rare; even the gilding s rather worse for wear. another lady from her tenth year she has been good for naught. a knight each makes the best his own as

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

possible manifestations, either physical or moral. he represented in a familiar form the beneficent aspect of all higher emanations and in him was developed the conception of a being purely good, so that it became necessary to set up another power as his adversary, called seth, baby, or typhon to account for the injurious influences of nature [pike, op. cit, p. 588, teachings of the 28th degree, knight of the sun, or prince adept. once again, we can see the occult, satanic doctrine that all of nature is composed of good and evil, black and white, opposites that are equal but opposite. folks, this is pure satanism, and albert pike has just espoused it, explaining that nature could not allow the all-loving, all-good osiris to exist without an evil counterpart. in fact, satanism and freemaso

at on another page pike was quoted saying that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries "the serpent entwined around the egg, was a symbol common to the indians, the egyptians, and the druids. it referred to the creation of the universe [p. 496; teaching of the 25 degree, knight of the brazen serpent] freemasonry does not believe that the universe was created by the god of the bible. this statement really supports that concept, as it dogmatically states that the serpent entwined around the egg is a symbol of the creation of the universe. freemasonry idolizes the druids. pike not only mentions the druids in this sentence, but other masonic authors are even bolder in

ry of symbols, p. 286-288] albert pike gives us the explanation for these two masonic columns, both of which depict a serpent "serpents encircling rings and globes, and issuing from globes, are common in the persian, egyptian, chinese, and indian monuments. vishnu is represented reposing on a coiled serpent, whose folds form a canopy over him [pike, morals and dogma, teachings of the 25th degree, knight of the brazen serpent, p. 500] notice that the column on the left not only has a serpent encircling a globe, but notice also that the globe itself has wings. another source quotes h.g. wells as saying that the winged globe is "to become the symbol of the new world order when it overtly rules the world [fritz springmeier, the watchtower and the masons, portland, oregon, 1992, p. xi] that mea

secrets, under the penalty of having their throat slit and being disemboweled? but, albert pike, the most revered 33 degree mason of all time, has more blasphemy. listen to him describe the ouroboros, the symbol of the serpent devouring his own tail "it is the body of the holy spirit, the universal agent, the serpent devouring its own tail [morals and dogma, p. 734, teachings of the 28th degree, knight of the sun, or prince adept] thus, freemasonry blasphemes both jesus christ and the holy spirit of the trinity. what did jesus christ say about this type of situation "all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the holy ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. and whosoever speaketh a word against the son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoeve

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

a drawing from the original, by colonel coombs, of the "temptation" or of the ancient tree-and-serpent myth in genesis. this drawing, in which it is observed that the jewish idea of woman as tempter is reversed, was copied from the inner walls of a cave in southern india. the picture is said to be a faithful representation of the version of the story as accepted in the east. of the myrtle, payne knight says that it "was a symbol both of venus and neptune, the male and female personifications of the productive powers of the waters, which appear to have been occasionally employed in the same sense as the fig and fig leaf" the same writer refers to the fact that instead of beads, wreaths of foliage, generally of laurel, olive, myrtle, ivy, or oak, appear upon coins; sometimes encircling the

, and "significant of some particular attribute, and in general, all evergreens were dionysiac plants, that is, symbols of the generative power, signifying perpetuity of youth and vigor" the crowns of laurel, olive, etc, with which the victors in the roman triumphs and grecian games were honored, were emblems of immortality, and not merely transitory marks of occasional distinction.[18 [18] payne knight, symbolism of ancient art. we are informed that this book was never sold, but only given away. although a copy of it was formerly in the british museum, care was taken by the trustees to keep it out of the catalogues. the tree and serpent, according to ferguson, are symbolized in all religious systems which the world has ever known. the two together are typical of the processes of reproduct

important creative energy. of the lotus, inman remarks "amongst fourteen kinds of food and flowers presented to the sanskrit god anata, the lotus only is indispensable" this emblem, as we have seen, was the symbol of the great mother, and we are assured that it was "little less sacred than the queen of heaven herself" regarding the lotus and its universal significance as a religious emblem, payne knight says "the lotus is the nelumbo of linnaeus. this plant grows in the water, and amongst its broad leaves puts forth a flower, in the center of which is formed the seed vessel, shaped like a bell or inverted cone, and punctured on the top with little cavities or cells, in which the seeds grow. the orifices of these cells being too small to let the seeds drop out when ripe, they shoot forth in

ated on the sacred drums of the laplanders, was accompanied by a child similar to the horus of the egyptians.[29] it is observed also that the ancient muscovites worshipped a sacred group composed of a mother and her children, probably a representation of the egyptian isis and her offspring, or at least of the once universal idea of the deity [29] jennings, phallicism. the following is from payne knight "a female pantheitic figure in silver, with the borders of the drapery plated with gold, and the whole finished in a manner surpassing almost anything extant, was among the things found at macon on the saone, in the year 1764, and published by caylus. it represents cybele, the universal mother, with the mural crown on her head, and the wings of pervasion growing from her shoulders, mixing t

nted the god-man-phallus-tree of life, or cross idea. he was the progenitor of the race. from this same idea sprang ancestor worship, or the deification of the past vital spark. the adoration paid to the lares and penates, the household gods of the romans, on the first of may, is an example of this worship, as is also the homage paid by the chinese to their progenitors. of religious emblems r. p. knight says that one of the most remarkable among them is a cross in the form of the letter t which was used as an emblem of creation and generation before the church adopted it as a sign of salvation. to this representation of male reproductive power "was sometimes added a human head, which gives it the appearance of a crucifix, as it has on the medal of cyzicus" originally the figure of a dead m

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

and was the first member to die, and that in england. about1450a funeral vaultofseven sides decorated with symbols was erected for the reposeofthe founder. frater p.d. was the second to die.'in1457the curious alchymical tractate called "chymische hochzeit (chemical wedding) was written in german by c.r.butwasnotthen published.itnarrates the attainment by himofthe grade of"equesaurei lapidis" or "knight of the golden stone'.18 thegoldendawn'in1484the founder and imperator c.r. died, his body was embalmed and put into the vault, which was closed and con255 cealed from the membersofthe latest circle of junior students 'frater d. was then chosen to be magus, and after his death frater a. at a date unknown, but he died in1600.his successor was fratern.n.,who in1604discovered the entrance to th

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

the first member to die, and that in england. about 1450 a funeral vault of seven sides decorated with symbols was erected for the repose of the founder. fraterp.d.was the second to die. in 1457 the curious a1chymical tractate calledchymischehochzeit(chemical wedding) was written in german byc.r.,butwas not then published.itnarrates the attainment by him of the grade of 'eques aurei lapidis' or 'knight of the golden stone. in 1484 the founder and imperator c.r. died, his body was embalmed andputinto the vault, which was closed and concealed from the members of the latest circle of junior students. frater d. was then chosen to be magus, and after his death frater a. at a date unknown,buthe died in 1600. his successor was fratern.n.,who in 1604 discovered the entrance to the cavern and caus

in each case 7. the use of dice was abolished by the brahmans. chaturanga is referred to in valmiki's ramayana book 2, cap. 51. it is also mentioned in one of the sanskrit puranas where it is said that it was invented in the 'second age' by the wife of ravan, king of lanka (i.e. ceylon. the chaturanga elephant has become our castle, the ship=the bishop, thechess shatranjiandchaturanga 77horse=the knight, the 1st king=the king, and the 2nd king=the queen.theelephant and ship (castle and bishop) have exchanged places.theelephant probably became the castle from the howdah on its back.theship was also in some places a chariot. in the oldest chaturanga dice-throwing, if a 2 was thrown the player had to move the ship, if a 3 then the horse was moved,if4 then the elephant, andif5were thrown then

senting the higher principles, with spades and162themagical masonclubs, both black, meaning the lower aspects. in the very old and curious tarocchi or tarot cards, to which court de gebelin, eliphaz levi and others grant an origin from the ancient egyptian myths, we find the four suits to be wands, cups, swords and pentacles of similar colours.thetarot pack has also four court cards, king, queen, knight and knave, which are suitable emblems of the four human principles. both types are exactly related in works upon the occult sciences to the symbolism of the kabalistic jehovah, the sacred name of god, composed of the four letters, yod, heh, vau, heh, the symbolism of which is sometimes later on replaced by the christian tetrad ofinriin allied ideas of the microcosm-man as a reflection of th

ir and earth. then follow the four groups of so-called elemental spirits, the salamanders of fire, the undines of water, the sylphs of air, and the gnomes of earth, invisibletoordinary men and women, but dwelling in our environment; they were deemed tobeof varying temper in their relations to man; la motte fouque wrote four little tales in regard to these beings: they were named undine, aslauga's knight, sintram and his companions, andthetwo captains. these elemental beings, whose existence is now generally scoffed at, are suggested in numerous verses of the old and new testaments. in the old testament book of proverbs, chapter xxx, we have several notable quaternaries: they are 4 that never have enough; the grave, the barren woman, the dry earth and consuming fire. 4 things not to be unde

by the rules of astrology. the foregoing seems a long and tedious process, but with practiceitis rapidly performed. tarot the pack of tarot cards now used to some extent in south europe for games of play, was used by the gypsies for purposes of divination. the packconsists offour suits, swords, wands, cups and coins; of the ten numerals; of kings, queens, and knaves; and of a fourth court card, a knight or man mounted on horseback. the knave was also at times considered as a female, and the four have also been called, cavalier, king, prince, queen and princess. in addition to these the pack includes 22 picture cards of varied meanings, called tarot trumps; among these were the emperor, the pope, the magician, the devil, the lovers, and the lightning-struck tower. the whole pack thus consis

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ck is as follows. the four aces are placed on thethe azoth lecture35throne of kether, the remaining small cardsofeach number on the successivesephiroth down to the four tens on malkuth, the twos on chokmah, threes on binah, etc. the 22 trumps are then arranged upon the 22 paths according to the letters with which they correspond. the king and queen are placed beside chokmah and binah and then the knight and knave beside tiphereth and malkuth respectively. 33. thus the tarot trumps receive the. meaning of the equilibrium of the sephiroth which they connect. 34. there is a hieroglyphic form of writing hebrew words. by using the symbols to which the letters correspond in the yetziratic attribution. 35. this is the symbol of sulphur on the tree of life.kbg 225h 225t225y.mch225 chs225 n36. this

m for fortune-telling, to which they are far better adapted, from the greater number and variety of their combinations, than the ordinary cards. i shall also enter somewhat into their occult and qabalistical significations.theterm'tarot',or 'tarocchi, is applied to a pack of 78 cards, consistingoffoursuits of 14 cards each (there being one more court card than in the ordinary packs- the cavalier, knight, or horseman, and22symbolical picture-cards answering for trumps; these latter are numbered fromito21inclusive, the 22nd card being marked zero,o.thedesigns of these trumps are extremely singular, among them being such representations as death, the devil, the last judgment, etc.theidea that cards were first 'invented' to amuse charles vi of france is now exploded; and it is worthy of note i

een cards each,andtwenty-two symbolic numbered trumps.thefour suits are- italian french englishanswmngto bastoni batons wands, sceptres, diamonds or clubs coppe coupes cups'chalices, or hearts goblets spade epees swords spades denari deniers money, circles, clubs or pentaclesthe tarot55each suit consists of ace, deuce, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten; fanti or valet=knave; cavallo=knight or horseman; dama or reine= queen; re=king. the kings, in each instance, wear a cap-of-maintenance beneaththecrown; the queens wear the. crown only.thequeen of pentacles and the knave of sceptres aretheonlrones represented in profile.inthe suit of sceptres the king bears a wand akin to tbat represented on the. small cardspfthesuit, while the other three honours bear a bludgeon.similar to th

the pack in playing the hand; can take no card of any suit, and may be played to a card of anysuit,for instance, if the adversary leads a king, and you have only the queen of that suit remaining in your hand, but have also the 0, you can play this instead of the queen, and thus save her from being taken. a king cut counts 5 points to whosoever cuts it.ineach suit king is highest, then come queen, knight, knave, ten, nine, etc, down to ace, which is lowest,andeanonly take theo.the trumps reckon from21,which is highest, to 1, which is lowest. you must follow suit if you can;ifnot, you may trump. each trick should be kept separate for counting afterwards. of course, the principal care of the player should be directed towards saving his own important cards, and taking those of the adversary. t

rected towards saving his own important cards, and taking those of the adversary. the player who takes a trick leads next. when all the hand is played out, the tricks on either side are counted as follows: for every trick in which there is a tarottrump,spoints (the 0 counts to itsoriginalpossessor, while the pagad,1,counts to the player who takes it. for every trick with a queen, 4 points; with a knight,225.points; with a knave, 2 points; for every other trici, 1 point. at the end of each hand the pointsmade by each player are added up separately,thenthe lesser is taken from the greater, and only theexcesspoints of the more fortunate player are scored. the same is done in each hand, arid the player who, in this way, rust reaches 100 points(qroverin the final hand) wins the game. for my rea

no1ij1and)(ceresandneptunethusitmay beremarkedeilpassantistotallydifferenttotheastrological attribution of the. planets bearing the names of certain of tbe deities tothesigns.[officialpublication ofthea-:0:.copiedfrommathers'ms byj.w,brodie-innes;c.1910 .9.note by s.r.m.d.upon the rosicrucian ritualofthe relation. between chess and tarotattri\>ution spirit water fire air earthtarotace queen king- knight prince- king princess- knavethemodern game of chess is derived from the scheme which follows: whence its name chess from chequers, and like the tarot originals the chess pieces wereancientlysmall figures of egyptian gods, representing the divine forces in nature. the chess pieces correspondtothe tarot aces and honours thus: chess king queen knightbishop or foolrookor castle pawns=the potenc

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nto obscurity. he continued to press yarker in the same vein, and when mackenzie was dying, in june 1886, westcott wrote to yarker (17 june 1886, offering to act as grand secretary and make an effort to revive the order of swedenborg, of which i have some years been a warden. at this time he was, by a curious coincidence, living in london at 4 torriano avenue, camden road the former home of a mr. knight, one of the founders of the new church theological college. mackenzie died on 3 july 1886, and with appalling insensitivity westcott pestered his widow almost immediately for all the effects of the late supreme grand secretary. when he had obtained from her some 14 packets of constitutions, the warrents of pythagoras and hermes lodges, declairation books, a minute book, various seals and a

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abundance 'i purchased the rituals of the early grand rite from the 4th to the 44th degrees and. found i was also in possession of the order of the temple for scotland which, having regard to my affiliation with the grand priory of england, was the very last thing i wanted. in like manner i am in possession by the most heterodox means possible of the mark degrees of masonry, of a rival royal arch knight of malta, red cross of rome and constantine and even the royal ark mariners. if the fact that i had been affiliated should transpire generally it will no doubt lead to a good deal of trouble. his reception in geneva was to be a happier affair for his path had been smoothed by edouard blitz who, in his capacity of great prior for, america, both introduced waite to the rectified rite and high

ht person. but it is requisite that he should come in by the door and should pass through the preliminary grades to attain the ineffable ends"71[71] and in his covering letter he intimated that he 'was going among the brethren of geneva to learn and not to teach'72[72. he was also 'required to choose (1) a mystic name (2) a motto, also symbolical (3) armorial bearings prior to my being armed as a knight in the secret conclave. i have chosen therefore as follows (1) eques a longe aspiciens (2) sacramentum regis abscotidere bonum est (3) argent, a cross sable, 71[71] quoted from his carbon copy of the replies, pasted into his diary for 1902/03 72[72] diary, 16 february 1903 between four roses gules, which is, of course, purely rosicrucian and is assigned to me by myself for that reason'73[73

y, 16 february 1903 between four roses gules, which is, of course, purely rosicrucian and is assigned to me by myself for that reason'73[73. thus prepared, he travelled to geneva, arriving early on 28 february 1903, to be received by joseph leclerc (1835-1927, great prior of the independent great priory of heivetia. on the evening of the same day waite received the two grades of squire novice and knight beneficent of the holy city although, under normal circumstances, a period of one year was supposed to elapse between receiving the first and the second. waite's account of the evening emphasizes his innate snobbery 'the gathering from an english point of view was exceedingly mixed, consisting (a) of respectable tradesmen, as e.g. booksellers (b) members of the french parliament (c) persons

ct was in reality much better, but it is possible that the ritual lends itself especially to this kind of delivery as it was more narrative and exhortatory than are the craft degrees. i wish in any case to record that as regards both grades the rites could have scarcely been simpler, more impressive or worked with more smoothness and dignity' later he found the ceremony of raising to the grade of knight beneficent to be 'done very beautifully and very affectingly' and noticed in the profession of faith 'the stress which it laid upon the doctrine of the fall of man and the distinctly martinistic flavour which characterized the wording of the doctrine and was apparent also in other parts of this document. on the following day he returned to england well-pleased and anticipating the news that

that waite never actively sought recruits. he did, however, seize every opportunity to propagate his doctrine of the secret tradition, not only through his lectures (see appendix c) but also when speaking informally. his first masonic venture into public debate was at a meeting of quatuor coronati lodge on 3 october 1902, when he commented on e. j. castle's paper 'the reception (initiation) of a knight templar'83[83, and, with all the authority of a knight of five months' standing (castle was not a member of the order of the temple, asked a series of questions about castle's sources. the paper was unexceptionable and castle's answers more than adequate, but waite was convinced of his own superior knowledge and scornful of the members of quatuor coronati lodge. he recorded in his diary tha

transactions) 1908 'the higher side of templar symbolism, 12 october, sancta maria preceptory (read also at king edward vii preceptory, 1 1 may 1916) 1910 'inner relations of the craft and high grades, 14 february, sancta maria preceptory 1911 'the alleged perpetuation of the temple through three distinct channels, 13 february, sancta maria preceptory 1912 'some deeper intimations in the grade of knight of the holy sepulchre, 29 january, lily of the valley conclave 'some inner meanings of rosicrucian grades, 11 march, s.r.i.a. study group 1914 'some deeper aspects of symbolism in the craft grades; 11 february, holden lodge no. 2496 (printed in the builder with an altered title) 1921 'robert fludd and freemasonry, 29 september, manchester association for masonic research (printed in transac

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oo late. e it is no exaggeration to say that the collection of books by harun yahya have assumed this leading role. by the will of god, these books will be a means through which people in the 21st century will attain the peace, justice and happiness promised in the qur'an. the works of the author include the new masonic order, judaism and freemasonry, global freemasonry, kabbalah and freemasonry, knight templars, islam denounces terrorism, terrorism: the ritual of the devil, the disasters darwinism brought to humanity, communism in ambush, fascism: the bloody ideology of darwinism, the 'secret hand' in bosnia, behind the scenes of the holocaust, behind the scenes of terrorism, israel's kurdish card, the oppression policy of communist china and eastern turkestan,palestine, solution: the val

portant matter for our consideration is the 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

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 egyptians believed that matter had always exi

otential that was intertwined within the randomness of disorder.21 it will be noticed that the beliefs described here are in harmony with fd from the templars to ancient egypt the assertions of the present-day materialist establishment, which are promoted by the agenda of the scientific community with such terms as "the theory of evolution "chaos theory" and the "essential organization of matter" knight and lomas continue their foregoing discussion by saying: amazingly, this description of creation perfectly describes the view held by modern science, particularly "chaos theory" which has shown intricate designs which evolve and mathematically repeat within completely unstructured events.22 knight and lomas claim that there is a harmony between ancient egyptian beliefs and modern science, b

ed 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 organization and disorder t

e entrance to the amenta temple dedicated to ptah, the chief god of egypt, there were two columns as in the temple of solomon. in the oldest myths associated with the sun, two columns are mentioned, named intelligence and power, erected in front of the gate of the entrance to eternity. 72 the egyptian terminology of the lodges in their book, the hiram key, two british masonic authors, christopher knight and robert lomas, drew attention to the ancient egyptian roots of masonry. one interesting point they reveal is that the words used in the ceremony in which a mason is made to rise to the degree of master mason are: ma'at-neb-men-aa, ma'at-ba-aa'.73 knight and lomas explain that these words are used most of the time without any thought to their meaning, but they are ancient egyptian words a

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abundance 'i purchased the rituals of the early grand rite from the 4th to the 44th degrees and. found i was also in possession of the order of the temple for scotland which, having regard to my affiliation with the grand priory of england, was the very last thing i wanted. in like manner i am in possession by the most heterodox means possible of the mark degrees of masonry, of a rival royal arch knight of malta, red cross of rome and constantine and even the royal ark mariners. if the fact that i had been affiliated should transpire generally it will no doubt lead to a good deal of trouble. his reception in geneva was to be a happier affair for his path had been smoothed by edouard blitz who, in his capacity of great prior for, america, both introduced waite to the rectified rite and high

ht person. but it is requisite that he should come in by the door and should pass through the preliminary grades to attain the ineffable ends"71[71] and in his covering letter he intimated that he 'was going among the brethren of geneva to learn and not to teach'72[72. he was also 'required to choose (1) a mystic name (2) a motto, also symbolical (3) armorial bearings prior to my being armed as a knight in the secret conclave. i have chosen therefore as follows (1) eques a longe aspiciens (2) sacramentum regis abscotidere bonum est (3) argent, a cross sable, 71[71] quoted from his carbon copy of the replies, pasted into his diary for 1902/03 72[72] diary, 16 february 1903 between four roses gules, which is, of course, purely rosicrucian and is assigned to me by myself for that reason'73[73

y, 16 february 1903 between four roses gules, which is, of course, purely rosicrucian and is assigned to me by myself for that reason'73[73. thus prepared, he travelled to geneva, arriving early on 28 february 1903, to be received by joseph leclerc (1835-1927, great prior of the independent great priory of heivetia. on the evening of the same day waite received the two grades of squire novice and knight beneficent of the holy city although, under normal circumstances, a period of one year was supposed to elapse between receiving the first and the second. waite's account of the evening emphasizes his innate snobbery 'the gathering from an english point of view was exceedingly mixed, consisting (a) of respectable tradesmen, as e.g. booksellers (b) members of the french parliament (c) persons

ct was in reality much better, but it is possible that the ritual lends itself especially to this kind of delivery as it was more narrative and exhortatory than are the craft degrees. i wish in any case to record that as regards both grades the rites could have scarcely been simpler, more impressive or worked with more smoothness and dignity' later he found the ceremony of raising to the grade of knight beneficent to be 'done very beautifully and very affectingly' and noticed in the profession of faith 'the stress which it laid upon the doctrine of the fall of man and the distinctly martinistic flavour which characterized the wording of the doctrine and was apparent also in other parts of this document. on the following day he returned to england well-pleased and anticipating the news that

that waite never actively sought recruits. he did, however, seize every opportunity to propagate his doctrine of the secret tradition, not only through his lectures (see appendix c) but also when speaking informally. his first masonic venture into public debate was at a meeting of quatuor coronati lodge on 3 october 1902, when he commented on e. j. castle's paper 'the reception (initiation) of a knight templar'83[83, and, with all the authority of a knight of five months' standing (castle was not a member of the order of the temple, asked a series of questions about castle's sources. the paper was unexceptionable and castle's answers more than adequate, but waite was convinced of his own superior knowledge and scornful of the members of quatuor coronati lodge. he recorded in his diary tha

transactions) 1908 'the higher side of templar symbolism, 12 october, sancta maria preceptory (read also at king edward vii preceptory, 1 1 may 1916) 1910 'inner relations of the craft and high grades, 14 february, sancta maria preceptory 1911 'the alleged perpetuation of the temple through three distinct channels, 13 february, sancta maria preceptory 1912 'some deeper intimations in the grade of knight of the holy sepulchre, 29 january, lily of the valley conclave 'some inner meanings of rosicrucian grades, 11 march, s.r.i.a. study group 1914 'some deeper aspects of symbolism in the craft grades; 11 february, holden lodge no. 2496 (printed in the builder with an altered title) 1921 'robert fludd and freemasonry, 29 september, manchester association for masonic research (printed in transac

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rk (refer works of morton smith. the path of the serpent involved secret training, occult techniques and death and rebirth rites, it was both a way of life and a ritualised process (as it is today. there were two paths of survival for the doctrine of theosis. as the gnostic cults came and the gnostic handbook page 89 went the doctrine was passed from one to another and flowered in the cathars and knight templars. from the knight templars the doctrine passed to various esoteric orders and was transmitted via freemasonry and occult traditions. this form of the doctrine of deification sustained the technology and science, but lost most of the ethical and religious teachings associated with it. on the other hand, the doctrine was also passed from the gnostic cults to various monastic orders wi

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fying its god with the demiurge, they saw jesus as the emissary of the light world and the only chance of experiencing the divine. their response to the world was unique in the gnostic world, they were militaristic in emphasis and battled, both intellectually and physically, against the prevailing ecclesiastical authorities. it is rumoured that some of the descendants of the paulicians joined the knight templars. the major period of paulician teaching was between 600 and 1100 ce. gnostic theurgy page 205 the bogomils the bogomils started in bulgaria around 950 ce. they take their name from their founder, the priest we know only as bogomil. his name meant friend or beloved of god. the bogomils were extreme dualists, railing against the world and reproduction. they encouraged homosexuality a

us was the transmutation of man into god, the techniques for which were transmitted under the guise of chemical transformation. the texts of the alchemists were coded to avoid the inquisition and hence sustained the secret tradition through the veil of symbolism. some of the major alchemical figures include trithemius (1642-1516, paracelsus (1493-1541) and agrippa (1486-1535. the rosicrucians and knight templars both the knight templars and the rosicrucians are orders steeped in mystery. the knight templars were, at first, considered to be simply an order for the protection of the roads along which pilgrims travelled to the holy land. however, as they become better known, rumours began to circulate about their esoteric knowledge and occult practises and this resulted in their persecution

nd this resulted in their persecution. their teachings were dualistic with an emphasis on the union of the opposing male and female facets of consciousness, this process was reflected in their use of the image of baphomet, an androgynous pan like figure within their secret shrines. their origins can probably be traced to 1188 ce when the order of sion split into two opposed factions, of which the knight templar was the major. as time progressed and their influence spread, the knight templars absorbed esoteric teachings from arabic alchemy and sufi mysticism- they form an important link in the transmission of the gnosis. the rosicrucians are thought to also have originated about the same time as the the knight templars. while their teachings are similar, the rosicrucians had a much stronger

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n some older military uniform which appears to be of the civil war area. in an initiatory sense, lerajae is very useful in directing ones desired goals and making them reality. for instance, one would summon lerajae when one wants to obtain a specific goal i.e. job, trip, item, etc. the archer as he is known is useful in the sense of hitting the mark. 43 o eligos eligos is a duke who appears as a knight, whom carries a lance and a serpent. eligos may reveal hidden secrets i.e. within the self, outer as well. eligos is also a divinatory spirit as well, who may reveal the coming of wars, unrest and battles. it is suggested the eligos also causes love of people as well. he governs 60 legions of spirits. p zepar zepar is a duke whom appears in red clothing and armor. he is likewise considered

nating or hidden things. he brings the sounds of rushing of waters and that will create a calm of self. it is said crocell warms and discovers baths, and may purify water unto the sorcerer who seeks a cleansing. he was of the order of potestates, or powers before his fall of independence along with the djinn or angelick spirits of lucifer. he governs 48 legions of spirits. 61 x furcas furcas is a knight who appears as a cruel looking old man who has a long beard, who rides upon a pale horse. he carries a very sharp sword in hand and appears in the evocation circle as an aggressive and fiery shade. furcas teaches the arts of cheiromancy (palmistry, pyromancy (the art of fire) and logic/philosophy. this spirit governs 20 legions and is very useful to the sorcerer on the ensorcelling of the s

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nsfeld legend. it is worth noticing, that ace^ loccenii antiq. sveog. cap. 3. geijer sv. hiifd. 1, 268^ nilsson's skandinavisk fauna 2, 106^ omeiss 36 seq; his description deserves a place here' and they that so run, run mostly at the fron-fasts, and chiefly at the /rou-/a.sf before christiiuis, that is the holiest tide. and every one runneth as he is in his raiment, the peasant as a peasant, the knight as a knight, so run they in a string, and one beareth the kros before him, another his head in his hand, and one runneth before, that crieth, flee out of the way, that god give thee thy life! thus speak the meaner sort thereon. 1 know nought thereof' 920 spectees. to keisersperg all who die a violent death' ere that god hath set it for them/ and ace. to superst. i, 660 all children dying un

s' wod luod, hoho, hallo^ he keeps to forests and lonely heaths, avoiding the common highway; if he happens to come to a cross-road, down he goes horse and all, and only picks himself up when past it; he hunts and pursues all manner of weird rabble, thieves, robbers, murderers and witches. a low saxon legend of the tilsgraben or devil's hole between dahlum and bokenem (harrys 1, g) says, the wild knight tils was so fond of the chase that he took no heed of holidays, and one easter sunday he had the presumption to say' he would bring a beast down that day if it cost him his castle' at evening the cock crew out that the castle would sink before night; and soon after it sank in the lake with all that was in it. a diver once on reaching the bottom of the lake, saw the ritter tils sitting at a

-gable no human hand has ever been able to close up; what was built in by day would always fall out again at night- the hill where the gray man first appeared to the peasant is called teufelsherg. not far from eomhild stand the gleichberge, high basaltic hills, one of which has its top encircled by a double ring of stones irregularly piled. here the devil once carried a wall round the castle of a knight, having bargained for the hand of his lordship's daughter. but before daybreak the young lady's nurse slapped her knees loudly with her hands, the cochs began to crow, and the devil lost his bet. exasperated he destroyed his own work, therefore you see only ruins of the wall. another version of the story (bechst. franken p. 261) is, that the nurse, having overheard the compact, stole out at

schafarik (slow. st. 1, 167) observes, that in a very marked degree these wolf-stories are native to volhynia and white russia, and thence draws an argument for his opinion that the neuri were a slavic race. according to the french lai de melion 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

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r the devil, and folk tales on the haulemutter (harrys 2, 10; and suppl. it is in living legend (folktale) that the peculiar properties of our native giants have been most faithfully preserved; the poets make their giants far less interesting, they paint them, espe cially in subjects borrowed from romance poetry, with only the features common to all giants. harpin, a giant in the iwein, demands a knight s daughter, hangs his sons, and lays waste the land (4464. 4500: 3 when slain, he falls to the ground like a tree (5074. 4 still more vapid are the two giants intro duced at 6588 seq. even in the tristan, the description of giant urgan (15923) is not much more vivid: he levies blackmail on oxen and sheep, and when his hand is hewn off, he wants to heal 1 tevetat s second birth (keinhart ccl

madj iit that ship odin is said to have carried the slain from bravalla_fo valliall. in the 0. ft. romance of lancelot__du lac, ed. 1591, p. 147 the demoiselle d escalot arranges what is to be done with her body: le pria, que son corps fut mis en une nef richement equippee, que von laisseroit aller an gre du vent sans conduite. 1 and in the romance of gawan a swan tows a boat in which lies a dead knight (keller s romvart 670. was it believed that the corpse, abandoned to the sacred sea and the winds, would of itself arrive at the land of death that was not to be reached under tinman guidance? here it is the corpse that is transported, in other legends merely the soul when released from the body: it is over again the distinction we noticed above, p. 827. in the nialss. cap. 1 60, old flosi

isfortune: she is a dog bestriding one s path, and barking at one: unheil mir iiber den wee schreit gelich einem hunde/ hartm. erstes biichl. 1671. wen nach geliicke groz unheil an bellet (barks, billet? or vellet, velt) ls. 1, 239. a m.nethl. poet ascribes to her a net: al heft dat ongheval nu mi aldus onder tnet ghevaen? rein, 6180. two separate stories deserve quoting at greater length: a poor knight sits in the forest, consuming a scanty meal; he looks up and spies in the tree overhead a monstrous being, who cries to him( i am thy ungelucke he invites his ill-luck 9 to share his meal, but no sooner is it down, than he seizes it firmly and shuts it up in an eicher (hollow oak. from that moment all goes well with him, and he makes no secret of what has happened. one who envies him, wishi

being, who cries to him( i am thy ungelucke he invites his ill-luck 9 to share his meal, but no sooner is it down, than he seizes it firmly and shuts it up in an eicher (hollow oak. from that moment all goes well with him, and he makes no secret of what has happened. one who envies him, wishing to plunge him into misery again, goes to the wood and releases ill-luck; but, instead of burdening the knight any longer, it jumps on the traitor s back, just as a kobold would (ls. 2, 575. this fable was known to h. sachs iii. 2, 72c: misfortune shall be made fast with chains and ropes to an oaken stake, so it may visit no houses more, unless some man be so fond to let it loose again. the other story may as well be given in reinmar s own words, ms. 2, 134b: ez was ein gar unsaelic man (a most unlu

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foundation for the decreed revival of the work in america was laid, with sro. stacey as grand matre of the order, and dr. lewis as supreme grand master. since that time many high honors were conferred upon him by foreign and american societies, academies, scientific institutions, and learned bodies. as an american citizen he had been cited for honored decoration with the cross of honor and made a knight of the flag by the united states flag association. in europe he received a number of similar decorations, including the gold cross of the knighthoods of the temple of jerusalem. he was a member or officer of a number of european and american educational societies, and had been received into the highest degrees of fourteen or more of the leading esoteric, mystical, and philosophical societie

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it was a fancy. i simply said that physiologists and scientists in general regard such reminiscences as hallucinations and fancy, to which learned conclusion they are welcome. we do not deny that such visions of the past and glimpses far back into the corridors of time, are not abnormal, as contrasted with our normal daily life experience and physical memory. but we do maintain with professor w. knight, that: the absence of memory of any action done in a previous state cannot be a conclusive argument against our having lived through it. and every fair-minded opponent must agree with what is said in butler's lectures on platonic philosophy: that the feeling of extravagance with which it (preexistence) affects us has its secret source in materialistic or semi-materialistic prejudices. besid

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

t was genuine. the text itself was relatively trivial, and willett recalled only a fragment 'wedn. 16 octr. 1754. my sloope the wakeful this day putt in from london with xx newe men pick'd up in ye indies, spaniards from martineco and 2 dutch men from surinam. ye dutch men are like to desert from have'g hearde somewhat ill of these ventures, but i will see to ye inducing of them to staye. for mr. knight dexter of ye bay and book 120 pieces camblets, 100 pieces assrtd. cambleteens, 20 pieces blue duffles, 100 pieces shalloons, 50 pieces calamancoes, 300 pieces each, shendsoy and humhums. for mr. green at ye elephant 50 gallon cyttles, 20 warm'g pannes, 15 bake cyttles, 10 pr. smoke'g tonges. for mr. perrigo 1 sett of awles. for mr. nightingale 50 reames prime foolscap. say'd ye sabaoth thri

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he sibyls without rightly understanding their meaning. the accusa- tions were so just and the facts so patent, that for a long time no chris- tian writer had ventured to answer the challenge. origen, at the fervent request of his friend ambrosius, was the first to. take the defense in 107. lord kngabcvough: afoiquitui of mexico, p. 165. 108. joanuea m ua: hm. chmtiea. i, iv: oxford. 1691. 109. p. knight: woraip^ priapiu, p. 171; cdh. 1865. digitizecoy google 62 isis unveiled hand, for having belonged to the same platonic school of ammoniua he waa considered the most competent man to r^ute the well-founded charges. but his eloquence fuled, and the only remedy that could be found was to destroy the writings of celsus" this could be achieved only in the fifth century, when copies had been tak

they adopted the episcopalian ctook from the augurs of etruria, and the artistic form with which they clothe their angels from the painters and um-makers of magna graecia and central italy" would we push our inquiries farther, and seek to ascertain as much in relatiot) to the nimbus and the tonsure of the catholic priest and monk^ we shall find undeniable proofs that they are solar emblems. chas. knight, in bis old england pictoriauy luuttraied, gives a drawing by st. augustine representing an ancient christian bishop in a dress probably identical with that worn by the great 'saint' himself. tbe pallium, or the ancient stole of the bishop, is the feminine sign when worn by a priest in worship. on st. augustine's picture it is bedecked with buddhistic crosses, and in its whole appearance it

as we are able, so that its grandeur and suffi- ciency may be thoroughly displayed. it is not alone for the esoteric philosophy that we fight; nor for any modem system of moral philo- sophy, but for the inalienable right of private judgment, and especially for the ennobung idea of a future life of activity and accountability. 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. t

m which is above and free; and on the other peter, who was contradicting and even abusing him. paul vehemently exclaims "cast out the bondwoman and her son (the old law and the synagog "the son of the bond- woman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman "stand 397. the torn 'fsganum' ia properiy lued by many modeni writen with betiution. t iol tm or aleiuider wilder, in his editba of payne knight's ssmbalioal tangaage i^ andeiu art anrf mylhoiofy, p. ivi, note, saya "it['papuuim] hu d^eneratcd into ?luij, mtd is geperajly employed with more or less of bd opprobkout me niiig. the owncter exprcsuod would have been 'tfae ancient etlmica] wonhips' but it would be lian]ly undentood in its true sense, and we accordtn^y hare adopted tiie torn in popular use, but not disrespectfully. a reli

even like that "set holy kisses' unorthodox 331 tatterdemalions, almost naked, with fierce looks" that ludan describes as paul's fouowers* we should hesitate to believe such an infamous story. how much less probable then that men who were platonisls as well as christians should have ever been guilty of such preposterous rites. payne knight seems never to suspect the testimony of epiphanius. he argues that "if we make allowance for the willing exaggerations of religious hatred, and consequent popular prejudice, the general convic- tion that these sectarians had rites and practices of a licentious character appears too strong to be entirely disregarded^ if he draws an honest line of demarcation between the gnostics of the first

performed rites on easter day by far worse than 'magical' couecting a crowd of young girls, he forced them to enter into "divine ecstasies" and bacchanalian s43. fhilopbtriz, in r. taylor's the diegeni, etc, p. 376: bocton, 1s32. 844. worthip of priajnu, ae myhk tkeol. of ou ancients, pp. 1754; ed. 1865. 845. king: the qmntia and l/uir rmnaiiu, p. 420, note; 2nd ed. 846. sgrmonei, dii. see payne knight, op. oil, p. 107. 847. bsroniua; aniuiiem eedefuutai, xxi. p. 89: antwerp, 1610. digitizecoy google 332 isis unveiled fury, dadcing the old amazonian circle-dance around the figure ot the heathen 'god of the gardens' notwithstanding that upon the complaint of some of his parishioners he was cited before his bishop, he retauied his benefice because he proved that stick vxu the common, usage

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o affright, or alight in the midst of desperate ruffians, or be caught by murderers! he listened eagerly. he now almost bitterly repented his descent. still the light streamed at a distances; but still there was no sound to interpret the meaning of the light, or to display the character of this mysterious place, in which the country8 the rosicrucians. man found himself entangled hopelessly like a knight of romance in an enchanted world. the discoverer by this time stood still with fear. but at last, summoning courage, and recommending himself devoutly to god, he determined to complete his discovery. above, he had been working in no strange place; the field he well knew, the woods were very familiar to him, and his own hamlet and his wife and family were only a few miles distant. he now has

y like some four-footed animal, trampled by the feet of the recumbent effigy. it is generally a male which is represented as performing this significant efforcement, trampling or piercing with the point of his sword, or the butt of the crosier (in his left hand, be itremembered. this crosier is the ancient pedum, or lituus. at brent-pelham, in hertfordshire, there is a tomb, bearing the name of a knight, pierce shonke, built in the wall. he is said to have died a.d. 1086. under the feet of the figure there is a cross-flourie, and under the cross a serpent (weever, p. 549. there is an inscription which, translated, means: fig. 22. cross-legged effigies. 135 nothing of cadmus nor saint george, those names of great renown, survives them but their names; but shonke one serpent kills, t other d

f adoration of the ophites the female generative power the destroying, regenerating power among the ophites, and, indeed, the gnostics generally. the serpent was called the megalistor, or great builder of the universe (maia, or bhuddist illusion. here again we recognise, under another name (ophites, the cyclopes, or the builders of the circular temples at stonehenge and everywhere else. mr. payne knight has repeated an observation of stukeley, that the original name of the temple at abury was the snake s head. and he adds, it is remarkable that the remains of a similar circle of stones (circular temple) in boeotia had the same name in the time of pausanias (pausanias, boeot. cap. xix. s. 2. the famour oracular stone, enclosed in the seat of st. edward s chair (the coronation chair) in west

tcheon and the woman's diamond-shaped "lozenge" as thus: a is the shield of arms, or spade, or spada, or male implement, on man's own side, or dexter side; b is the lozenge, or distaff, or article representative of woman s work, on her proper side, or the left or sinister side. the chalice as a symbol. 245 a chalice is, in general, the sign of the priestly order. the chalice on the tombstone of a knight, or over the door of a castle, is a sign of the knights templars, of whom st. john the evangelist was the patron saint. the cup was forbidden to the laity, and was only received by the priests, in consequence of the decree of pope innocent iii, a.d. 1215. it means the s.s, or holy spirit, to which we have frequently adverted. we have carefully inspected that which has been designated the cr

which depend from their bushy fur caps, and the loose jacket or dolman which hangs from their left shoulder, are mythic. the long triangular flaps, which hang down like a jelly-bag, consist in a double slip of cloth, which, when necessary, folds round the soldier s face on each side, and forms a comfortable fig. 211. motley or scaramouch: bonnet conique, cloven and set about with bells. fig. 212. knight s head-gear, with torse. fig. 213. cap of maintenance. night-cap. in our service, one single slip is left to fly. sir walter scott to t. crofton croker, 7th july 1827 (qy. whether the above-named double fly of the hussar cap be not the dependent ears or horns of the original motley) mythic head-covers. 257 the hussars wear the original fur cap of tubal-cain, or the smiths, or artful workers

any origin of the name garter. 285 obligations. we are disposed to contemplate the addition of the moslem banner the direct contradiction and neutraliser of the ensigns of the christian knights suspended in the chapel of the order, the chapel of st. george at windsor, as a perplexing, uncomfortable intrusion, according to assumed correct christian ideas. we fear that the admission of this heathen knight may possibly imply heraldically the infraction of the original constitutions of the order, which created it as exclusively christian. the garter is specially devoted to the virgin mary and to the honour (in the glorification of woman) of the saviour of mankind. the knights-companions are accepted, supposedly, as the special initiated holy guard of the christian mysteries, and they are viewe

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ht in one star to account for gould's confusion. up to this point, nobody, including the cooler and more objective astronomical editors in europe, had tried to explain why one skilled observer saw an object which was plainly there to be seen, while another experienced man did not see it. all efforts went toward proving one of them wrong. but the confusion was only well started. a new astronomical knight-errant entered the celestial jousting. in a publication of the royal astronomical society, january 1882, we find a letter to the editor from w. bone, m.d, another amateur in australia. dr. bone deposed as follows: on june 10th, 1881, whilst measuring the position of the comet (at this time it was called comet 1881b) i noticed a peculiar discordance in each succeeding measure, and at length

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y very hand! such weight weighs heavily upon the bearing back. let me expound to you this vexation. when, against heaven, we strode to battle, singing triumphal songs and dreaming of what glories might be won upon the field, such raging dreams did catch me up within their swell and bore me into battle, unthinking and unseeing, hoping only for glories as had not been won before. like some braggart knight i sought the battle's heart, unknowing of such a thing as consequence, yearning only for the wetting of my blade. such wrath and passion did consume me, and with such searing intensity, that, to quench with blood those fierce flames, i did oppose the very king that sired me, carving a bloody path to his standard and his throne. in that struggle, well known to you is it, i did strike upon ad

ill, unknowing of the momentous deed to be enacted. onwards and yet onwards went shedim hopes, closer and yet closer to the goal and the prize. now the forbidden rift was in our sight, the laughter of the flowing river ringing in our ears and its fragrant spices upon the breezes that we breathed. at the entrance and the exit of the river to the enchanted valley stood as sentries to each an elohim knight, mailed and armed, garbed in a robe of crimson silk, armour, steel and gilden, adorned with motifs of ten thousand creatures of strange fancy. to each a shield of painted bronze, to each a red-plumed helmet, studded with precious stones, shining with moonlight. each bearing an oak-shafted spear, upon their belts hung long swords, with decorated hilt and scabbard, a red tassel tied to the po

e events that had passed by my knowledge while i slept. making assay now of the wound that i had wrought upon my flesh to fulfil my fate, i found but the barest crimson scar. now testing the strength of limb and heart, i stood, eager to renew once more the struggle against the hosts of heaven. as i made to take up spear and sword, as i made to dress myself in shining mail, all lying ready for the knight who would gird himself for battle's work, aset came to my shoulder and restrained my hasty rage and reproached my brashness and precipitous action, going headlong into what i was ignorant of. now she told me of all that had come to pass whilst, still robbed of all wit, i lay and she had tended with her healing arts the self-inflicted wound that had brought forth the now-contested nephilim

ceptre of the noble nephilim. first of all the beasts was the ox, most strong, who would pull the plough and give the milk for her own calves, for woman's expected child, within her womb; then the horned goat, my own totem beast, knelt low, yielding fleece and milk to man, as most worthy gifts to bestow upon so great a prince; the hound then did come to declare his oath to be man's constant ally, knight and hunter to the king, charged to guard the ox and goat and hunt the deer whose wild temperament would submit not to human hand; the stallion and the mare, once untamed, submitted to the halter and became most honoured thralls of the race of nephilim, bearing all across the land man and woman on their strong backs; the sturdy ass surrendered also to the rule of man and did bear burdens to

ding sword, the ruiner, seven feet long and shaped like the serpent's tongue with engrailed blade and forked point, weeping ever the blood of the fallen. thus came abaddon to the throne of methuselah. even as the raven croaked methuselah repented not and begged not for clemency before a vision so fearful but in indignation raised his spear against the spirit and shouted his defiance to the shedim knight: 214 "i am methuselah, the destroyer of men. merciless king, the favoured of abaddon. all on the earth fear me and my hosts. i am a tearer down of cities and my spear has stained earth and oceans red. i am the friend of the vultures and all must know dismay at my war-cry for to hear it is to die, thus have i sworn. all those who have opposed me and denied to me that which my hand would seiz

ess the burning flame of hope. let your own judgement in this matter serve until noah and his family are most securely ours. prescribe to him those laws that shall demonstrate his true obeisance to heaven's sceptre and avenge those humiliations suffered at the hands of your fallen brother. whatever arbitration your whimsy does devise i shall not gainsay, knowing you to be true and a most faithful knight of mine. thus amuse your own caprice at first 238 but when you have accomplished noah's submission and entirely cowed him and his line, making them but instruments of my will, then you shall teach to them that charm that i shall teach you now. this spell is no more mine to command ever since that ruinous injury wrought on me by the son that i so cherished, repaying with spite such love, bef

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e tree of life in the following manner. the four aces are placed on the throne of kether. the remaining small cards of each suit are placed on the respective sephiroth, two on chokmah, three on binah, etc. the twenty two trumps are then arranged on the paths between them according to the letters to which they are attributed. the king and queen of the suit are placed besides chokmah and binah, the knight and knave by tiphareth and malkuth. the tarot trumps thus receive the equilibrium of the sephiroth they connect. admission badges used in the grade of philosophus first is the calvary cross of twelve squares. it admits to the path of qoph, the 29th path, and refers to the zodiac and to the eternal river of eden, divided into four heads as follows: naher- the river 1. hiddikel 2. pison 3. gi

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ljc twjwr duw \ysycrtb aklm, and is spirit is called schad barschemoth ha-shartathan (wttrch tumcrb dc) the traditional tarot consists of a pack of 78 cards made up of four suits of 14 cards each, together with 22 trumps, or major arcana, which tell the story of the soul. each suit consists of ten numbered cards, as in the modern playing cards, but there are four instead of three honours: king or knight, queen, prince or emperor, princess or knave. the four suits are: wands, or sceptres, comparable to diamonds. cups or chalices, comparable to hearts. swords, comparable to spades pentacles or coins, comparable to clubs *i take some slight issue with these attributions; i think rather that diamonds should be attributed to pentacles and wands to clubs. the very names 'wands' and 'clubs' are i

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rd of sentimentality. hate itself is almost like love``as brothers fight ye' all the manly races of the world understand this. the love of liber legis is always bold, virile, even orgiastic. there is delicacy, but it is the delicacy of strength. mighty and terrible and glorious as it is, however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of will, the damascened inscription upon the swords of the knight-monks of thelema. love is the law, love under wi tcopyright (c) ordo templi orientis o.t.o. p.o.box 430 fairfax, ca 94930 usa (415) 454-5176- messages only. limited license except for notations added to the history of modification, the text on this diskette down to the next row of asterisks must accompany all copies made of this file. in particular, this paragraph and the copyright notice a

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were much less selfish in consequence. 67. there were in egypt in those days three grand lodges of amen, each of which was strictly limited to forty members, every one of whom was a necessary part of the machine. including the officers, whose business was the recitation of the office and the magnetization of the lodge, each member was the representative of a particular quality. one was called the knight of love, another the knight of truth, another the knight of perseverance, and so on; and each was supposed to become a specialist in thinking and expressing the quality assigned to him. the idea was that the forty qualities, thus expressed through the lodge as a whole, would make the character of a perfect man, a kind of heavenly man, through whom the power behind could be poured out upon t

man is part of god himself, a spark of the divine; and that therefore all men are one in him, and there is no height to which man may not aspire. 788. from this great central fact a whole system of philosophy may be deduced, and also a rule of life; when men are really convinced of it, there is brotherhood, peace and progress, but when this word is lost, chaos reigns and evil stalks abroad. each knight should meditate upon it and try to realize all that it involves, for the knowledge which it gives should permeate the whole fibre of his being, should literally become part of his very essence, if he is to do the duty which is expected of him. the deep reverence and thankfulness which that sublime thought inspires must be his constant attitude; he must live in the light of that glorious tru

ich that sublime thought inspires must be his constant attitude; he must live in the light of that glorious truth; it must never be forgotten even for a moment. for the man who really knows this, all life is one great glad song of triumph and of gratitude. all this he acknowledges, in all this he rejoices every time that he remembers that wondrous word of power. 789. it is the clear duty of every knight of the rose-croix to spread this light abroad- to preach by word when possible, and always by action, this true ggospel of the grace of god h. in the co-masonic form of this degree he is instructed to offer himself as a channel for the divine force and to make efforts to cooperate with t.g.a.o.t.u. by this daily work his buddhi or intuitional principle, the hidden wisdom which in egypt was

er degrees carry on further the same process of development which was begun in the lower, they may be said in a certain sense to repeat it at a higher level. the e.a. controls and uplifts emotion in the astral body; the rose-croix of heredom develops far higher love in the buddhi which corresponds to it. the f.c. tries to strengthen his intellect to comprehend the hidden mysteries of masonry; the knight k.h. unfolds within him that grander intellectual quality which gives him always perfect balance and a sense of absolute justice, so that he understands the working of karma. the m.m. combines within himself and carries farther qualities of the degrees below him; the due-guard of his degree shows that he is intended to be shedding blessing and help around him wherever he goes; and of course

an; for them black masonry exists- the teaching and progress comprised in the degrees from the nineteenth to the thirtieth. this section of the mysteries is especially concerned with the working out of karma in its different aspects, studied as a law of retribution, and so from one point of view it is dark and terrible. this is the inner kernel lying behind the vengeance-elements in the degree of knight k.h. the darker aspects of karma are largely connected with man fs ignorance of the nature of god, and with confusion with regard to many forms in which he reveals himself, and thus the s c s of the 30 contain the heart of its philosophy. that degree would not be fully and validly conferred unless these s c s were duly communicated, since they express its inner meaning and purpose. 797. in

nce of divine justice; the aspirant learnt that all the horror sometimes associated with the working out of karma was indeed based on absolute justice, although it appeared as evil to the lesser vision of the profane. 798. thus the first stage of the higher instruction, that of the rose-croix or red masonry, is devoted to the knowledge and assurance of good, while to the second stage, that of the knight k.h, is assigned the knowledge of apparent evil and its explanation. next, in the first steps of white masonry, the crown of the whole glorious structure, the aspirant learns to see the underlying justice of the great and eternal god, called in egypt amen-ra, who stands behind all alike, whether it seems to us evil or good. we are told that in older days, before the kaliyuga, in which the a

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ototype of our black masonry existed, the teaching and progress comprised in our degrees from the nineteenth to the thirtieth. this section of the mysteries was especially concerned with the working out of karma in its different aspects, studied as a law of retribution, from one point of view dark and terrible. this is the inner kernel of truth lying behind the vengeance-elements in the degree of knight k.h. the darker aspects of karma are largely connected with man s ignorance of the nature of god and confusion with regard to the many forms in which he reveals himself, and thus the s s of the 30 contain the heart of its philosophy. that degree would not be fully and validly conferred unless these s s were duly communicated, since they express its inner meaning and purpose. 175. in the anc

to the knowledge of evil. next, in the first steps of what we call white masonry, the crown of the whole glorious structure, the candidate learnt to see the underlying justice of that eternal god, amen-ra, who stands behind good and evil alike. in older days, before the kali yuga, in which evil predominates over good, the knights k.h. wore regalia of yellow instead of black. 177. our 30 links the knight k.h. to the ruling rather than the teaching branch of the great hierarchy; he should become a radiant centre of perennial energy, which is intended to give him strength to overcome evil and to make him a real power on the side of good. the prevailing colour of the influence is an electric blue (that of the first ray, quite different from the blue of the symbolic or blue lodges) edged with g

im strength to overcome evil and to make him a real power on the side of good. the prevailing colour of the influence is an electric blue (that of the first ray, quite different from the blue of the symbolic or blue lodges) edged with gold, including and yet not drowning the rose of the 18. associated with the degree there are also great blue angels of the first ray who lend their strength to the knight, somewhat as the crimson angels assist the excellent and perfect brn. of the rose-croix. a higher level of the same energy is transmitted in what to-day we should call the chair of the sovereign commander, who has the ability to pass on the sacramental grace of the degree to others. 178. white masonry in the mysteries 179. the highest and last of the great sacramental powers of the mysterie

others, and both of them have to a considerable extent influenced our modern masonic rituals, especially those of the higher degrees. these two are the knights templars and the brethren of the rosy cross. 670. the knights templars 671. the order of the knights templars, called also the poor knights of christ and of the temple of solomon, was founded in 1118 by hugues de payens (hugo de paganis, a knight of burgundy, and godefroid de st. omer a knight of northern france, in order to protect the pilgrims who flocked to the holy land after the first crusade. baldwin i, king of jerusalem, allotted to those two knights and six others who joined with them quarters near the site of solomon s temple, whence their name templars was derived. 672. nine years later hugues de payens visited europe with

alth upon a trumped-up charge of usury- a thing abhorrent to the mediaeval mind- had expelled them from his country. then he determined to get rid of the templars, who had lent him large sums, and since the pope, clement v, owed his position to the intrigues of philip, the matter presented little difficulty. his task was rendered easier, too, by the accusations brought against the order by the ex-knight esquiu de floyran, who had a personal interest in the matter, and pretended to reveal all manner of evil things- blasphemy, immorality, idolatry and the worship of the devil under the form of a black cat. this traitor is still execrated in some of the masonic rituals, together with one noffo dei of florence, who, however had nothing to do with the matter. 682. these charges were accepted by

not pearls before swine, nor strew roses before an ass. op. cit, p. 99- showing clearly that it was meant to be taken in a mystical sense. it is a long and cryptic account, lit with gleams of humour, of the initiation of christian rosenkreutz into the mysteries of the rosy cross, commencing from his invitation, or awakening to the inner life, and ending with his final triumph or regeneration as a knight of the golden stone. this is the most curious of all the rosicrucian documents, and it will repay the close study necessary to its comprehension; for within it are contained some of the deepest secrets of spiritual alchemy. 704. the authorship of these pamphlets has always been a matter of speculation. they have all been attributed to johann valentine andreas, a cultured and travelled germa

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al prowess, and difficult or unfaithful women. rural african-american musicians were also aware of the anglo-celtic tradition and in fact often sang songs and ballads they picked up from their white counterparts, with whom they sometimes performed in string bands. in anglo- american folk music the devil was a favorite character even in secular narratives. in riddles wisely expounded and the false knight on the road, innocents outwit the devil. the old comic ballad the farmer s curst wife has satan claiming an old man s quarrelsome wife, only to bring her back with the explanation that she is too mean even for hell. tying a knot in the devil s tail, a jolly ballad from the western frontier, envisions the encounter of two drunken cowboys with the devil come to gather up your souls; instead

the parent or ancestor of many other important magical organizations now functioning in england. see also crowley, aleister; levi, eliphas; hermetic order of the golden dawn; ordo templi orientis for further reading: flowers, stephen e, lords of the left hand path. smithville, tx: runa-raven press, 1997. green,marian. the elements of ritual magic. longmead, shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element, 1990. knight, gareth.magic and the western mind. st. paul: llewellyn, 1991. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. malik malik is the wicked angel who guards hell. this is according to the koran, which states that malik is aided by nineteen other angel guards (sbires or zabayniya. when the sinful residents of hell beg malik for help, he tells them that they must stay in hell fore

tapped by later satanists such as anton lavey has its roots in the ogd. see also crowley, aleister; levi, eliphas; hermetic order of the golden dawn;magic and magical groups; ordo templi orientis for further reading: flowers, stephen e. lords of the left hand path. smithville, tx: runa-raven press, 1997. green,marian. the elements of ritual magic. longmead, shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element, 1990. knight, gareth.magic and the western mind. st. paul: llewellyn, 1991. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. mcmartin ritual abuse case the mcmartin case was the first high-profile case involving charges of satanic ritual abuse (sra) at a day-care center. in the wake of an initial spate of publicity in the early 1980s, there was a rash of sra cases at other day-care centers

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jrm marchosias wolf with a gryphon s wings and serpent s tail. breathes flames. clix. goetic demons of decans by day (cadent. clx. magical images of col. clix. 15 3& wgacw vassago like agares. 16 6$ rplaw valefor lion with ass s head, bellowing 17 9! wmyap paimon crowned king on dromedary, accompanied by many musicians. 18 12& yrfyc sitri leapard s head and gryphon s wings. 19 15$ cwgyla eligos a knight with a lance and banner, with a serpent. 20 18$ ytab bathin a strong man with a serpent s tail, on a pale horse. 22 21% and# aram marax human-faced bull. 24 24= rbn naberius a black crane with a sore throat he flutters. 25 27% and= wwnyr ronove a monster [probably a dolphin. 26 30= canrwp forneus sea monster. 28 33 [ug gaap like a guide. to be kings. 29 36& cwlwfcy stolas raven. table v (co

ee figure. cols. xv.-xviii. daath lavender, grey-white, pure violet, grey flecked gold. herschel silver flecked white. col. xvi, line 10. for d, c, b, and e. col. xix. urim and thummim= auramoth and thoum mou, egyptian gods. they are methods of divination by b and e. col. xx, line 32. these gods preside over the pieces in rosicrucian chess. 5 d of b bishop ywoum mwou c of b queen i#haourey b of b knight hnwou vw/s e of b pawn kabexneuf e of b castle wauwqi# a of b king vaourw d of c bishop xoni# ya mwou c of c queen y/wour i# mwog b of c knight ceba qnwou haour i# ya mwou e of c pawn ]wmayv e of c castle s/weu ya i# a of c king pya qav/n-q/x d of d bishop zw wan c of d queen qnwou ya peq] b of d knight ou bal e of d pawn ahevi e of d castle yarves# fa qnwouya pe a of d king ouqaouri# d of

b castle wauwqi# a of b king vaourw d of c bishop xoni# ya mwou c of c queen y/wour i# mwog b of c knight ceba qnwou haour i# ya mwou e of c pawn ]wmayv e of c castle s/weu ya i# a of c king pya qav/n-q/x d of d bishop zw wan c of d queen qnwou ya peq] b of d knight ou bal e of d pawn ahevi e of d castle yarves# fa qnwouya pe a of d king ouqaouri# d of e bishop ar/wueri# c of e queen ?ice# b of e knight hwwr e of e pawn amese] e of e castle neuvyuie# a of e king ?swwri# the pawns refer to t as the house of the elements only, not to t as e. line 32. cfbaquwou hnoue. i#tomwou and ahevi ]wumatv: amece: kabexnuf 6 col. xxi. the perfected egyptian exlaims, there is no part of me that is not of the gods. this column gives the attribution in detail. the non-cherubic zodiac signs are omitted, but

the spirits and numbers according to the order in which they appear in the goetia. planetary symbols indicate the rank of the spirit and the material from which its seal is to be made (some spirits have two ranks, thus (the original text has the seals of earls made in mixed copper and silver; mathers suggests copper/silver or silver/mercury alloy for the presidents: liber 777 56 rank planet metal knight saturn lead prince jupiter tin earl mars iron king sol gold duke venus copper president mercury mercury (hmm) marquis luna silver in rendering the names of the demons into hebrew, some suffixes like ion, ius, etc. have been dropped. an alternative set of attributions and hebrew spellings can be found in the sword and the serpent by denning and phillips, and godwin s cabalistic encyclopedia

of the golden dawn (llewellyn. rather than attempt to transliterate and then decipher the coptic names given by crowley (some of which i suspect are corrupt or misprinted) i will give the versions of these names as listed in regardie (ed, complete g.d (tom. x pp. 113-4. in many cases these are not reasonable transliterations of the names printed in 777. fire: bishop: toum. queen: sati-ashtoreth. knight: ra. castle: anouke (possibly ankhet, a title of isis) king: kneph (khnemu. water: bishop: hapimon (the nile god) queen: thouerist (ta-urt the hippopotamus goddess) knight: sebek castle: shu king: osiris air: bishop: shu queen: knousou knight: seb castle: tharpesht (a g.d. amalgam of bast and sekhet) king: socharis (seker; an early god who became identified with ptah, and later with osiris)

ankhet, a title of isis) king: kneph (khnemu. water: bishop: hapimon (the nile god) queen: thouerist (ta-urt the hippopotamus goddess) knight: sebek castle: shu king: osiris air: bishop: shu queen: knousou knight: seb castle: tharpesht (a g.d. amalgam of bast and sekhet) king: socharis (seker; an early god who became identified with ptah, and later with osiris) earth: bishop: aroueris queen: isis knight: hoori (horus) castle: nephthys king: aeshoori (i.e. osiris again) pawns knight s pawn: kabexnuv (qebhsennuf) queen s pawn: tmoumathph (sic (tuamutef) bishop s pawn: ahepi (hapi) rook s pawn: ameshet (mestha) 6 i cannot identify the first three of these names. i believe the remaining four were intended to be g.d. coptic spellings of hapi (ahephi, tuamutef (toumathph, mestha (ameshett) and q

LIBER ALEPH

h its opposite, so must thou cleanse thyself by a full and perfect satisfaction of that bodily will in the way of chastity and holiness which has been revealed unto thee in thy initiation. this inner silence of the body being attained, it may be that the true will may speak in true dreams; for it is written that he giveth unto his beloved in sleep. prepare thyself therefore in this way, as a good knight should do. a liber aleph vel cxi 18% de somno lucido (of the sleep of light) ow know this also that at the end of that secret way lieth a garden wherein is a rest house prepared for thee. for to him whose physical needs of whatever kind are not truly satisfied cometh a lunar or physical sleep appointed to refresh and recreate by cleansing and repose; but on him that is bodily pure the lord

all be thy master in this art. heed also this word following: the right use of these agents is to gain a knowledge preliminary of thine own powers, and of high states, so that thou goest not altogether blindly and without aim in hy quest, ignorant of the ways of thine own inner being. also, thou must work always for a definite end, never for pleasure or for relaxation, except thou wilt, as a good knight is sworn to do. and thou being hero and magician art in peril of abusing the fiery agents only, not those of earth, air or water; because these do really work with thee in purity, making thee wholly what thou wouldst be, an engine indefatigable, a mind clear, calm, and concentrated, and a heart fierce aglow. n the book of wisdom or folly 95 gp de sacramento vero (of the true sacrament) ut i

the book of the law that the law is for all, so that thou shalt in no wise err if thou establish it as the formula of the on, universal among men. also, even for them that are fitted to advance in our light, there is order and diversity in function, as regardeth their work in our sublime brotherhood, thus, it might well be that, in a profess-house of the temple, or college of the holy ghost, each knight or brother might severally attain experience of every trance, unto the perfection of all illumination; yet by this there ought not to arise confusion, one usurping the appointed office of another. for the abbot, although he be not enlightened wholly, is yet abbot; and the place of the cook, were he saint, arhan, and paramahamsa in one person, is in his kitchen. confound not thou in any wise

gather thou all these limbs together in one body, and breathe upon it with thy spirit, that it may live; then do thou embrace it with lust of they manhood, and go in unto it, and know it; so shall ye be one flesh. now at last in the reinforcement and ecstasy of this consummation thou shalt with by what inspiration thou didst choose thy name in the gnosis, i mean parzival .der reine thor. the true knight that won kingship in monsalvat, and made whole the wound of amfortas, and ordered kundry to right service, and regained the lance, and revived the miracle of the sangral; yea also upon himself did he accomplish his work in the end .hochsten heiles wunder! erlosung dem erloser. this is the last word of the song that thine uncle richard wagner made for worship of this mystery. understand thou

LIBER CHANOKH

ian papers. 14: in addition the upper six are referred to the planets according to the scheme in 777 col. cxxiv .the heavenly hexagram. and to the tarot trumps corresponding. 15: see regardie (ed, the golden dawn, vol. iv. 16: suit by element of lesser angle, rank by element of column; so in the lesser angles of water, the square with the left and right sides referred to fire is attributed to the knight of cups. 17: each square is additionally referred to one of the 16 figures of geomancy, and to one of the signs or elements (saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of tau, and thence to the hebrew letter and tarot card corresponding: thus row column attributions fire a puer h iv. the emperor water d populus j vii. the chariot air g puella l viii. justice fire (cardin

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

bout with the golden girdle of the death-kisses. 65. so also is the end of the book, and the lord adonai is about it on all sides like a thunderbolt, and a pylon, and a snake, and a phallus, and in the midst thereof he is like the woman that jetteth out the milk of the stars from her paps; yea, the milk of the stars from her paarliber cxcvii the high history of g o o d s i r palamedes the saracen knight and his following of the questing beast a a publication in class c to allan bennett .bhikkhu ananda metteyya. my good knight comrade in the quest, i dedicate this imperfect account of it, in some small recognition of his suggestion of its form. aleister crowley mandalay, november 1905. sir palamdes, the saracen knight v argument i. sir palamede, the saracen knight, riding on the shore of sy

jesty, he chaseth an elephant in the indian jungle. the elephant escapeth; but he, led to trichinopoli by an indian lad, seeth an elephant forced to dance ungainly before the mahalingam. xi. a scythian sage declareth that it transcendeth reason. therefore sir palamede unreasonably decapitateth him. xii. an ancient hag prateth of it as evangelical. her he hewed in pieces. sir palamdes, the saracen knight vi xiii. at naples he thinketh of the beast as author of evil, because free of will. the beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow; but at the moment of its death it is reborn from the knight.s own belly. xiv. at rome he meeteth a red robber in a hat, who speaketh nobly of it as of a king-dove-lamb. he chaseth and slayeth it; it proves but a child fs toy. xv. in a tuscan gro

, he traverseth space upon the back of an eagle. he knoweth all things.save only it. and incontinent beseedheth the eagle to set him down again. xxxv. he lectureth upon metaphysics.for he is now totally insane.to many learned monks of cantabrig. they applaud him and detain him, though he hath heard the questing and would away. but so feeble is he that he fleeth by night. sir palamdes, the saracen knight viii xxxvi. it hath often happened to sir palamede that he is haunted by a shadow, the which he may not recognise. but at last, in a sunlit wood, this is discovered to be a certain hunchback, who doubteth whether there be at all any beast or any quest, or if the whole life of sir palamede be not a vain illusion. him, without seeing to conquer with words, he slayeth incontinent. xxxvii. in a

ion. him, without seeing to conquer with words, he slayeth incontinent. xxxvii. in a cave by the sea, feeding on limpets androots, sir palamede abideth, sick unto death. himseemeth the beast questeth within his own bowels; he is the beast. standing up, that he may enjoy the reward, he findeth another answer to the riddle. yet abideth in the quest. xxxviii. sir palamede is confronted by a stranger knight, whose arms are his own, as also his features. this knight mocketh sir palamede for an impudent pretender, and impersonator of the chosen knight. sir palamede in all humility alloweth that there is no proof possible, and offereth ordeal of battle, in which the stranger is slain. sir palamede heweth him into the smallest dust without pity. xxxix. in a green valley he obtaineth the vision of

returning to camelot to announce his failure, he maketh entrance into the king fs hall, whence he started out upon the quest. the beast cometh nestling to him. all the knights attain the quest. the voice of christ is heard .well done. he sayeth that each failure is a step in the path. the poet prayeth success therein for himself and his readers. the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight; and of his following of the questing beast 3 i sir palamede the saracen rode by the marge of many a sea: he had slain a thousand evil men and set a thousand ladies free. armed to the teeth, the glittering kinght galloped along the sounding shore, his silver arms one lake of light, their clash one symphony of war. how still the blue enamoured sea lay in the blaze of syria fs noon! the etern

horror drave the light from knightly eyes. how pale thy bloom, thy blood, o brow whereon that night sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels. debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. god.s angel, standing sinister, unfurls this scroll.a sable stain .who wins the spur shall ply the spur upon his proper heart and brain. he gave the sign of malison on traitor knights and perjured men; and ever by the sea rode on sir palamede the saracen. 5 ii b

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

yself ceremonially as a bride, and waited in the proper magical manner. also i was too pleased with the heralds of my lord.s coming.the vision of khephra, etc. it was perhaps this subtle self-satisfaction that lost me. so i fell to the shocking abyss of last night! the dweller of the threshold is never visible until after one has fallen; he is a veiled god and smites like the evil liber dccclx 78 knight in malory, riding and slaying.and no man seeth him. but when you are tumbled headlong into hell, where he lives, then he unveils his face, and blasts you with its horror! very good, john st. john, now you know! you are plain john st. john and you have to climb right up again through the paths to the threshold; and remember this time to mortify that self-satisfaction! go at it more reverentl

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

d and blue. the former bore a torch of resinous wood, the latter sprayed us as we passed with attar of roses from a cup. the room in which we now were had at one time been a chapel; so much its shape declared. but the high altar was covered with a cloth that displayed the rose and cross, while above it were ranged seven candelabra, each of seven branches. the stalls had been retained; and at each knight fs hand burned a taper of rose-coloured wax, and a bouquet of roses was before him. in the centre of the nave was a great cross.a gcalvary cross of ten squares, h measuring, say, six feet by five.painted in red upon a white board, at whose edges were rings through which passed gilt staves. at each corner was a banner, bearing lion, bull, eagle and man, and from the top of their staves spran

enth they kissed. the twenty-first was a complete embrace. the bell tinkled in the architrave; and they parted. the high priest then took from the altar a flask curiously shaped to imitate a phallus. the high priestess knelt and presented a boat-shaped cup of gold. he knelt opposite her, and did not pour from the flask. now the knights and dames began a long litany; first a dame in treble, then a knight in bass, then a response in chorus of all present with the organ. this chorus was: evoe ho, iacche! epelthon, epelthon, evoe, iao! again and again it rose and fell. towards it close, whether by gstage effect h or no i could not swear, the light over the altar grew rosy, then purple. the high priest sharply and suddenly threw up energized enthusiasm 19 his hand; instant silence. he now poure

LIBER LVII

at all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see liber 418, 10th athyr. i may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on advanced qabalah, and of course it is only intelligible to advanced students. this atheist, not in-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation. he has done with the illusions of dogma. from a knight of the royal mystery65 he has risen to understand with the members of the sovereign sanctuary66 that all is symbolic; all, if you will, the jugglery of the magician. he is tired of theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and anhungered and athirst seeks a seat at the table of adepts, and a portion of the bread of spiritual experience, and a draught of the wine of

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

works society for the propagation of religious truth 1906 e.v. this electronic edition (layout &c. based on the collected works printing) first hastily prepared by frater t.s. for sunwheel oasis, o.t.o. 2001 e.v. re-proofed and corrected edition issued by celepha s press august 2003 e.v. last revised june-july 2004 (c) ordo templi orientis jaf box 7666 new york ny 10116 u.s.a. i .you are sad! the knight said, in an anxious tone .let me sing you a song to comfort you .is it very long. alice asked .it.s long. said the knight, but it.s very very beautiful. the name of the song is called .the book of the beast .oh! how ugly. cried alice .never mind. said the mild creature .some people call it .reason in rhyme .but which is the name of the song. alice said, trying not to seem too interested .ah

one .let me sing you a song to comfort you .is it very long. alice asked .it.s long. said the knight, but it.s very very beautiful. the name of the song is called .the book of the beast .oh! how ugly. cried alice .never mind. said the mild creature .some people call it .reason in rhyme .but which is the name of the song. alice said, trying not to seem too interested .ah, you don.t understand. the knight said, looking a little vexed .that.s what the name is called. the name really is .ascension day and pentecost; with some prose essays and an epilogue. just as the title is .the sword of song. you know, just in the same way, just in the same way, just in the same way. alice put her fingers in her ears and gave a little scream .oh, dear me! that.s* this passage is a parody on one in .alice th

just in the same way, just in the same way, just in the same way. alice put her fingers in her ears and gave a little scream .oh, dear me! that.s* this passage is a parody on one in .alice through the looking-glass. harder than ever. she said to herself, and then, looking determinedly intelligent .so that s what the song is called. i see. but what is the song .you must be a perfect fool. said the knight, irritably .the song is called .stout doubt; or the agnostic anthology. by the author of .gas manipulation .solutions .the management of retorts. and other physical works of the first order.but that.s only what it.s called, you know .well, what is the song then. said alice, who was by this time completely bewildered .if i wished to be obscure, child. said the knight, rather contemptuously

ools who by their short-sighted stupidity in attempting to boycott this book have witlessly aided the cause of truth i dedicate these my best words [this book is so full of recondite knowledge of various kinds that it seems quite ineffective to annotate every obscure passage. where references and explanations can be concisely given this has been done] ii the sword of song i suppose. continued the knight, in a superior, but rather offended voice .if you would, please, sir .well, that. pronounced the knight, with the air of having thoroughly studied the question and reached a conclusion absolutely final and irreversible .that, goodness only knows. but i will sing it to you. preliminary invocation nothung* the crowns of gods and mortals wither; moons fade where constellations shone; numberles

ou condemn, listen, say nothing, barely smile. o if you but suspected them your silence would match their awhile! a classical research [protectionists may serve if the supply of hottentots gives out] i took three hottentots alive. their scale was one, two, three, four, five, infinity. to think of men so i could not bear: a new colenso i bought them to assuage their plight, also a book by hall and knight on algebra. i hired wise men to teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten. one of the hottentots succeeded. few schoolboys know as much as he did! the others sank beneath the strain: it broke, not fortified, the brain. the bard a brainy beggar. now (higher on the human ladder) lodge is called mad, and crowley madder (the shafts of science who may dodge? i.ve not a word to say for lodge) yet m

LIBER LXXVIII

e respective cherubic signs of the zodiac, and they form the thrones of the powers of the four aces. the twelve cards, the four kings, queens and princes rule the dominion of the celestial heavens, between the realm of the four princesses and the zodiac, as is hereafter shewn. and they, as it were, link together the signs. v the lord of the flame and the lightning; the king of the spirits of fire knight* of wands a winged warrior riding upon a black horse with flaming mane and tail: the horse itself is not winged. the rider wears a winged helmet (like the old scandinavian and gaulish helmet) with a rayed crown, a corslet of scale-mail and buskins of the same, and a flowing scarlet mantle. above his helmet, upon his curass, and on the shoulder-pieces and buskins, he wears as a crest a winge

nce, courage, beauty, force, sudden in anger or love, desire of power, enthusiasm, revenge. if ill dignified, she is superficial, theatrical, cruel, unstable, domineering. she rules the heavens over one quadrant of the portion around the north pole. e of b princess and empress of the salamanders. throne of the ace of wands. ix the lord of the waves and the waters; the king of the hosts of the sea knight of cups a beautiful, winged, youthful warrior with flying hair, riding upon a white horse, which latter is not winged. his general equipment is similar to that of the knight of wands, but upon his helmet, cuirass and buskins is a peacock with opened wings. he holds a cup in his hand, bearing the sigil of the scale. beneath his horse's feet is the sea. from the cup issues a crab. graceful, p

and is of thin floating material. sweetness, poetry, gentleness and kindness. imaginative, dreamy, at times indolent, yet courageous if roused. when ill dignified she is selfish and luxurious. she rules a quadrant of the heavens around kether. e of c princess and empress of the nymphs or undines throne of the ace of cups. xiii the lord of the winds and the breezes: the king of the spirits of air knight of swords a winged warrior with crowned winged helmet, mounted upon a brown steed. his general equipment is as that of the knight of wands, but he wears as a crest a winged six-pointed 18 liber lxxviii star, similar to those represented on the heads of castor and pollux the dioscuri, the twins gemini (a part of which constellation is included in his rule. he holds a drawn sword with the sig

fire) ascending from it. beneath her feet are white clouds. wisdom, strength, acuteness; subtlety in material things: grace and dexterity. if ill dignified, she is frivolous and cunning. she rules a quadrant of the heavens around kether. e of d princess and empress of the sylphs and sylphides. throne of the ace of wands. xvii the lord of the wide and fertile land; the king of the spirits of earth knight of pentacles a dark winged warrior with winged and crowned helmet: mounted on a light brown horse. equipment as the knight of wands. the winged head of a stag or antelope as a crest. beneath the horse fs feet is fertile land with ripened corn. in one hand he bears a sceptre surmounted by a hexagram: in the other a pentacle like that of the zelator adeptus minor. unless very well dignified h

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

derus. balderus dreams of proserpina (as saxo calls her, using the roman name for the greek persephone, who like hel presided over the underworld, dies, and is buried in a mound. the story now turns to vengeance. a sorcerer advises othinus that he must seduce rinda, the daughter of the king of the rutenians. after three failed attempts, first disguised as a warrior, then as a smith, and then as a knight, othinus returns a fourth time, disguised as a woman, and becomes a serving maid to the princess. when rinda falls sick, othinus arranges for her to be tied down so that she can be given some medicine. he rapes her, and she bears bous, who kills hotherus. these stories are indeed quite different, but there are important similarities that go beyond hod killing baldr and having vengeance take

n begetting an avenger for baldr, and it too is unsavory. having learned from a seer that the rutenian princess rinda is to bear the avenger of balderus, othinus sets out to seduce her. acting as a soldier, he takes up residence with her father, wins victories, and presses his suit, but she rejects him. a second visit, this time acting as a smith, also fails. on the third visit, othinus acts as a knight, but when he finally makes some progress toward his goal it is by touching the girl with a rune-carved stick, which drives her mad; here is the potential parallel with kormak fs stanza. othinus now assumes the guise of a woman to gain entry to the girl fs chamber, but he only succeeds in his goal when rinda falls sick. dr. othinus prescribes a potion so foul that the patient must be bound w

MAGIC AND SPELLS

mathoin, goud, gwaeron windstrom, labelas enoreth, milil, mystra, oghma, savras, sehanine moonbow, shar, siamorphe, thoth, tyr, waukeen. law domain' deities: arvoreen, azuth, bane, berronar truesilver, clangeddin, cyrrollalee, deep duerra, gaerdal ironhand, gargauth, garl glittergold, gorm gulthyn, helm, hoar, horus-re, ilmater, jergal, kelemvor, laduguer, loviatar, moradin, nobanion, osiris, red knight, savras, set, siamorphe, tiamat, torm, tyr, ulutiu, urogalan, yondalla. illusion domain spells 1 silent image 6 mislead 2 minor image 7 project image 3 displacement 8 screen 4 phantasmal killer 9 weird 5 persistent image hatred domain spells 1 doom 6 forbiddance 2 scare 7 blasphemy 3 bestow curse 8 antipathy 4 emotion (hate effect only) 9 wail of the banshee 5 righteous might 1 bless 6 hero

abjuration effect with a duration of 1 hour that is usable once per day. nobility domain' deities: eilistraee, hathor, malar, sehanine moonbow, sel ne, sharindlar. granted power: turn or destroy lycanthropes as a good cleric turns or destroys undead. you can use this ability a total number of times. per day equal to three+ your charisma modifier. deities: horus-re, lathander, milil, nobanion, red knight, siamorphe. granted power: you have the spell-like ability to inspire allies, giving them a +2 morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls. allies must be able to hear you speak for 1 round. using this ability is a standard action. it lastsa number of rounds equal to your charisma bonus and can be used once per day. magic deities: deep

ngharradh, arvoreen, baravar cloakshadow, berronar 5 greater command truesilver, chauntea, corellon larethian, deneir, dumathoin- eldath, gaerdal ironhand, garl glittergold, geb, gorm gulthyn, hanali celanil, helm, kelemvor, laduguer, lathander, martham- 1 magic weapon 2 heat metal 6 blade barrier `7 transmute metal to wood domain' planing 3 keen edge 8 iron body deities: gond, helm, ilneval, red knight, siamorphe, ubtao. 4 rusting grasp 9 repel metal or stone granted power: free extend spell feat. s wall of iron planning domain spells moon' domain' 6 heroes' feast' 1 endure elements 6 otiluke's freezing sphere 2 sound burst waterspout 3 water breathing 8 maelstrom 4 freedom of movement 9 elemental swarm 5 wall of ice (cast as a water spell only) moon domain spells 1 faerie fire 6 permanen

r: add +2 to the saving throw dc of any compulsion tyranny domain spells 6 geas/quest 7 bigby's grasping hand 8 mass charm 9 dominate monster undeath domain deities: kiaransalee, velsharoon. granted power: free extra turning feat. war domain' deities: anhur, arvoreen, clangeddin, corellon larethian, deep duerra, gaerdal ironhand, garagos, gorm gulthyn, gruumsh, haela magic brightaxe, ilneval, red knight, selvetarm, shevarash, solonor thelandira, tempus, tyr, uthgar. water domain' deities: auril, deep sashelas, eldath, isis, istishia, sebek, silvanus, umberlee- spell descriptions the spells presented here follow all the rules presented in chapter 10: magic and chapter 11: spells in the player's handbook. agan'azzar's scorcher evocation [fire] level: sor/wiz 2 components: v, s, f casting tim

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

historian of the fifth century, declared that after the pious christians had razed the serapeum at alexandria and scattered the demons who dwelt there under the guise of gods, beneath the foundations was found the monogram of christ! two quotations will further establish the relationship existing between the mysteries of serapis and those of other ancient peoples. the first is from richard payne knight's symbolical language of ancient art and mythology "hence varro [in de lingua latina] says that coelum and terra, that is universal mind and productive body, were the great gods of the samothracian mysteries; and the same as the serapis and isis of the later gyptians: the taautos and astarte of the phoenicians, and the saturn and ops of the latins" the second quotation is from albert pike's

held the opinion that she was the child of prometheus. both of these demigods were noted for their divine wisdom. it is not improbable that her kinship to them is merely allegorical. plutarch translates the name isis to mean wisdom. godfrey higgins, in his anacalypsis, derives the name of isis from the hebrew, iso, and the greek zww, to save. some authorities, however, for example, richard payne knight (as stated in his symbolical language of ancient art and mythology, believe the word to be of northern extraction, possibly scandinavian or gothic. in these languages the name is pronounced isa, meaning ice, or water in its most passive, crystallized, negative state. this egyptian deity under many names appears as the principle of natural fecundity among nearly all the religions of the anci

able, unless the "shepherds" be regarded as the shepherd priests of antiquity. it is unlikely that the zodiacal signs were derived from the star groups which they now represent. it is far more probable that the creatures assigned to the twelve houses are symbolic of the qualities and intensity of the sun's power while it occupies different parts of the zodiacal belt. on this subject richard payne knight writes "the emblematical meaning, which certain animals were employed to signify, was only some particular property generalized; and, therefore, might easily be invented or discovered by the natural operation of the mind: but the collections of stars, named after certain animals, have no resemblance whatever to those animals; which are therefore merely signs of convention adopted to disting

e the sun, after passing through this house, proceeds to walk backwards, or descend the zodiacal arc. cancer is the symbol of generation, for it is the house of the moon, the great mother of all things and the patroness of the life forces of nature. diana, the moon goddess of the greeks, is called the mother of the world. concerning the worship of the feminine or maternal principle, richard payne knight writes "by attracting or heaving the waters of the ocean, she naturally appeared to be the sovereign of humidity; and by seeming to operate so powerfully upon the constitutions of women, she equally appeared to be the patroness and regulatress of nutrition and passive generation: whence she is said to have received her nymphs, or subordinate personifications, from the ocean; and is often re

artially or entirely forgotten or misunderstood, its pictured symbols fell into the hands of the sham diviners, and of the providers of the public amusement by games of cards. the modem tarot, or tarocchi pack of cards consists of 78 cards, of which 22 form a special group of trumps, of pictorial design: the remaining 56 are composed of four suits of 10 numerals and four court cards, king, queen, knight, and knave or valet; the suits are swords (militaryism, cups (sacerdocy, clubs or wands (agriculture, and shekels or coins (commerce, answering respectively to our spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. our purpose is with the 22 trumps, these form the special characteristic of the pack and are the lineal descendants of the hieroglyphics of the tarot. these 22 respond to the letters of the heb

lly occurring among the adherents of christianity till the eighteenth century were representative of primitive christianity. sir william hamilton, british minister at the court of naples, declares that in 1780, isernia, a community of christians in italy, worshiped with phallic ceremonies the pagan god priapus under the name of st. cosmo (see two essays on the worship of priapus, by richard payne knight) father, mother, and child constitute the natural trinity. the mysteries glorified the home as the supreme institution consisting of this trinity functioning as a unit. pythagoras likened the universe to the family, declaring that as the supreme fire of the universe was in the midst of its heavenly bodies, so, by analogy, the supreme fire of the world was upon its hearthstones. the pythagor

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showing himself in the likeness of an archer clad in green, and carrying a bow and quiver. he causeth all great battles and contests; and maketh wounds to putrefy that are made with arrows by archers. this belongeth unto sagittary. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and this is his seal, etc (15) eligos- the fifteenth spirit in order is eligos, a great duke, and appeareth in the form of a goodly knight, carrying a lance, an ensign, and a serpent. he discovereth hidden things, and knoweth things to come; and of wars, and how the soldiers will or shall meet. he causeth the love of lords and great persons. he governeth 60 legions of spirits. his seal is this, etc (16) zepar- the sixteenth spirit is zepar. he is a great duke, and appeareth in red apparel and armour, like a soldier. his office

, at the command of the exorcist, will produce great noises like the rushings of many waters, although there be none. he warmeth waters, and discovereth baths. he was of the order of potestates, or powers, before his fall, as he declared unto the king solomon. he governeth 48 legions of spirits. his seal is this, the which wear thou as aforesaid (50) furcas- the fiftieth spirit is furcas. he is a knight, and appeareth in the form of a cruel old man with a long beard and a hoary head, riding upon a pale-coloured horse, with a sharp weapon in his hand. his office is to teach the arts of philosophy, astrology, rhetoric, logic, cheiromancy, and pyromancy, in all their parts, and perfectly. he hath under his power 20 legions of spirits. his seal, or mark, is thus made, etc. 21 he can nowadays c

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

the earth at the time of a great cataclysm .the apache indians tell stories of tunnels between their lands and the city of tiahuan-aco and claim that their ancestors traveled for years by this route. the indian chiefsalso assured that the tunnels were..carved out by rays that destroy the living rock. and that their creators were..beings who live near the stars (from uriel s machine by christopher knight and robertlomas) in celtic mythology, the tuatha de danaan, a powerful tribe of druid warriors,descended into the underworld through what are called the sidhes. we could fill vol-umes with the references of alien visitation in connection with the hollow earth.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation13 earths first deluge these accounts of the ancients have been dismissed for cen

aterrestrial species who colonized theearth. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation29 the race of adam sir leonard woolley writes in ur of the chaldees:there is nothing to show to what race the first inhabitants of mesopotamia belongedat adate which we cannot fix, people of a new race made their way into the valley, comingwhence we do not know in uriel s machine, authors christopher knight and robert lomas write: neanderthals did not contribute mitochondrial dna to modern humans; neanderthals arenot our ancestors in his book the neanderthal enigma, james shreeve comments on the enigma of ourhuman development:an all-important transition did occur, but it happened so close to the present moment thatwe are still reeling from it. some here in the vestibule of history, just before

spencer. lady spencer was murdered in ritual fashion, exactly on the same day that the ripperclaimed his first victim, august 31. this is also the day when the constellation of the vir-gin (virgo) descends below the horizon into the underworld. virgo is connected with illus-trious females and mothers. the ripper murders were committed at the behest of themasonic lodges of england. author stephen knight, who exposed the names behind it, aswell as the reason for the atrocities, died two years after his book, the brotherhood, cameout. his death has never been satisfactorily explained. john f. kennedy was also murdered at the junction of three roads, at the astrological positionknown as the thirteenth sign, ophiuchus, which exists between scorpio and sagittarius. inancient times, the hero who

of his own time. however,they are not merely myopic sketches of events of his own time. durer and other artists whotreated canonical subjects were remote viewers, prophesizing, warning, and revealing.their iconic allegories deal with timeless meta-themes of which the average critic and alsotheir admirers are unaware. durer's four horsemen of the apocalypse; st. michael's fightagainst the dragon; knight, death and the devil; and melancholia i should be read as fore-casts, as portents of things to come. artists and minstrels of more recent times also have thesame macro-theme in their creations, though few are aware of itconsider the final lines ofthe song stairway to heaven, by led zeppelin, and then why millions resonate with this andother masterpieces without knowing consciously why (see

c. krupp in search of ancient astronomiesdavid hatcher childress vimana aircraft of ancient india and atlantis dr. stuart sculptured stones of scotland david jacobs the threat michael mott caverns, cauldrons and concealed creatures h. r. h. prince michael of albany forgotten monarchy of scotland fredrick habermann tracing our ancestors w. h. benn et symbols 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

eight levels. the ventilation systems are so efficient that even eight floors down the air isstill fresh. thirty vast underground cities and tunnel complexes have also been found near derinkuya inturkey (children of the matrix (p. 27) by david icke)the neanderthalsneanderthals did not contribute mitochondrial dna to modern humans; neanderthals are not our ancestors(uriel s machine by christopher knight and robert lomas)the cloud peoplethe spanish chronicles contain many myths about the incas. in the 1480's, an inca emperor conqueredseven great cities in the cloud forests. the people, the chachapoyas, were said to be tall, fair and haveblue eyes. the explorer gene savoy has over the past thirty years rediscovered six cities hidden withinatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation2

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loured cloth, stained with menstrual blood or otherwise) is the mark of lilith and cain, born unto the night within the mysteries of vampyrism. dress in vestments of the moon of the color of the red serpent, a blood red robe and a mask of the dead (in the form of a skull, the bare mysteries which time does not hide nor tell. the human skull is considered as a symbol of baphomet, worshipped by the knight's templar. the skull is also a powerful fetish which may hold the familiar shades of the dead, a projected tomb of bone which holds the gravesoil and sigilic alphabet of the self in shadow. the magister of the rite recites "behold, the vampyre queen awakens before me, she whose skull holds the mystery of the grave. from your soul comes many serpents, those who breed the forms of dragons, yo

MORALS AND DOGMA

cant_ titles of degrees as herein given have in some instances been changed. correct titles are as follows: 1--apprentice. 2--fellow-craft. 3--master. 4--secret master. 5--perfect master. 6--intimate secretary. 7--provost and judge. 8--intendant of the building. 9--elu of the nine. 10--elu of the fifteen. 11--elu of the twelve. 12--master architect. 13--royal arch of solomon. 14--perfect elu. 15--knight of the east. 16--prince of jerusalem. 17--knight of the east and west. 18--knight rose croix. 19--pontiff. 20--master of the symbolic lodge. 21--noachite or prussian knight. 22--knight of the royal axe or prince of libanus. 23--chief of the tabernacle. 24--prince of the tabernacle. 25--knight of the brazen serpent. 26--prince of mercy. 27--knight commander of the temple. 28--knight of the s

jerusalem. 17--knight of the east and west. 18--knight rose croix. 19--pontiff. 20--master of the symbolic lodge. 21--noachite or prussian knight. 22--knight of the royal axe or prince of libanus. 23--chief of the tabernacle. 24--prince of the tabernacle. 25--knight of the brazen serpent. 26--prince of mercy. 27--knight commander of the temple. 28--knight of the sun or prince adept. 29--scottish knight of st. andrew. 30--knight kadosh. 31--inspector inquisitor 32--master of the royal secret. morals and dogma. lodge of perfection. morals and dogma [illustration] i. apprentice. the twelve-inch rule and the common gavel. force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dar

commodus, it is so under heliogabalus, while from the roman senate, under c sar, there comes only the rank odor peculiar to the eagle's eyrie" it is the force of the people that sustains all these despotisms, the basest as well as the best. that force acts through armies; and these oftener enslave than liberate. despotism there applies the rule. force is the mace of steel at the saddle-bow of the knight or of the bishop in armor. passive obedience by force supports thrones and oligarchies, spanish kings, and venetian senates. might, in an army wielded by tyranny, is the enormous sum total of utter weakness; and so humanity wages war against humanity, in despite of humanity. so a people willingly submits to despotism, and its workmen submit to be despised, and its soldiers to be whipped; th

ther let not that which seems expedient be base, or if it _be_ base, let it not seem expedient. what is there which that so-called expediency can bring, so valuable as that which it takes away, if it deprives you of the name of a good man and robs you of your integrity and honor? in all ages, he who violates his plighted word has been held unspeakably base. the word of a mason, like the word of a knight in the times of chivalry, once given must be sacred; and the judgment of his brothers, upon him who violates his pledge, should be stern as the judgments of the roman censors against him who violated his oath. good faith is revered among masons as it was among the romans, who placed its statue in the capitol, next to that of jupiter maximus optimus; and we, like them, hold that calamity sho

cycle of the dark and light sides of the moon, as described by plutarch; the whole thirty-eight that surrounded them recording the two meteoric cycles so often found in the druidic temples. the theatre built by scaurus, in greece, was surrounded by 360 columns; the temple at mecca, and that at iona in scotland by 360 stones [illustration] morals and dogma chapter of rose croix [illustration] xv. knight of the east or of the sword [knight of the east, of the sword, or of the eagle] this degree, like all others in masonry, is symbolical. based upon historical truth and authentic tradition, it is still an allegory. the leading lesson of this degree is fidelity to obligation, and constancy and perseverance under difficulties and discouragement. masonry is engaged in her crusade--against ignor

ll around him, in the book of the great account, and, in their eternal influences, on the great pages of the universe. to such a destiny, at least, my brethren, let us all aspire! these laws of masonry let us all strive to obey! and so may our hearts become true temples of the living god! and may he encourage our zeal, sustain our hopes, and assure us of success [illustration [illustration] xvii. knight of the east and west. this is the first of the philosophical degrees of the ancient and accepted scottish rite; and the beginning of a course of instruction which will fully unveil to you the heart and inner mysteries of masonry. do not despair because you have often seemed on the point of attaining the inmost light, and have as often been disappointed. in all time, truth has been hidden un

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lly bi-sexual, the father-mother of all in one person (he is shown in this full form in the tarot trump xv "the devil) now, zeus being lord of air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air, we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight of fairy tales who marries the kings daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see the golden bough. thus, once europa, semele and others claimed that zeus--air [inserted footnote* zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great

priest's gesture that makes your body hers. the wafer is the disk of the sun, the star in her body. your blood is spilt from your heart with every beat of your pulse into her cup. it is the wine of her life crushed from the grape of your sunripened vine. on this wine you are drunk. it washes your corpse that is as the fragment of the host, broken by you, the priest, into her golden chalice. you, knight and priest of the order of the temple, saying her mass, become god in her, by love and death. this act of love, though in its form it be with a horse like caligula, with a mob like messalina, with a giant like heliogabalus, with a pollard like nero, with a monster like baudelaire, though with de sade it gloat on blood, with sacher-masoch crave for whips and furs, with yvette guilbert crave

e; that is "nobody; nemo the master of the temple. he may be cast down or lifted up he may become a "morning or an evening star. but this happens, so to speak, effortlessly, as by gravitation. it is a case apart. in practice, you remain exactly what you are, and any changes you produce in your environment, you produce by your own sweat, under the added handicap that you must fight as an honorable knight, while slaves, christians, orthodox jews, buddhists, mohammedans, etc. may go on fighting as the petty, insane, unclean, lecherous, treacherous, silly idiots that they are. 59. beware therefore! love all, lest perchance is a king concealed! say you so? fool! if he be a king, thou canst not hurt him. we should indeed love all is not the law "love under will? by this i mean that we should mak

poor nephew to repeat the trick, and so to go against one s own will-to-live, which lies deeper in one's being than the mere will-to-inherit (there is a better consideration, which can be found in liber librae, v.20) the judge in each case is not ideal morality, but inherent logic. this then being understood, that we cannot call any given passion good or bad absolutely, any more than we can call knight to king's fifth a good or bad move in chess without study of the position, we may see more clearly what this verse implies. there is here a general instruction to refine pleasure, not by excluding its gross elements, but by emphasizing all elements in equilibrated development. thus one is to combine the joys of messalina with those of saint theresa and isolde in one single act. one's raptur

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

f 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 his forehead. across my forehead here, he continued, i feel a pressure. has my face changed? i told him that i could see a strange kind of psychic energy, similar to heat waves generated by asphalt highways, rising up from the floor in front of him. i see what appears to be a knight on a horse bringing me something. that s what you saw. i had earlier in the day experienced a vision of my own, of a knight on horseback. someone just tipped a vase, or a container, and pieces of eight, gold coins spread everywhere. barry began to rub the thumb and forefinger of his right hand together. i asked him why he was doing that. i m feeling the coins, they re real. the vase would h

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

rch, however, specifically to the remarkable works published since 1886 by the london study lodge quatuor coronati no. 2076, which has brought to light a significant number of old, specifically british documents. myriad brilliant authors have applied themselves to the presentation and analysis of these texts, including r. f. gould, d. knoop, g. p. jones, d. hamer, lionel vibert, f. l. pick, g. n. knight. harry carr, and john hamil. their works are quite valuable for their probity, the precision of their notes, and their observations relevant to the factual study of the beginnings of freemasonry in great britain. this intellectual harvest has encouraged me to intensify the search for a way to better situate the masonic institution and its origins in their general historical and structural c

belgium, rebelled and took possession of great britain, where he declared himself independent of rome and adopted the title of emperor. fearing attack from emperor maximianus, he likely sought to earn the favor of the collegia, particularly the most important one, that of the builders. this is why in veralum (the modern saint albans, where he resided, carausius, through the mediation of the roman knight albanus and the greek architect amphibolus, confirmed to the corporations their ancient privileges conferred upon them by numa pompilius and servius tullius, who had formed them. not only would he have abrogated the restrictions that had been enforced since the julia law, but he would also have added the right of special jurisdiction. freed from the power of the emperors, carausius used his

r damascus. in fact "for some eighty years, the templars maintained close relations with the heads of the ismaili sect."22 similarly, in 1136 the templars of saint john of acre became friends with the turkish capitain unur. in 1167, a peace treaty was concluded in cairo between the christians and the caliph of egypt. the negotiators for the crusaders were hugues de cesaree and geoffroi, a templar knight. the event was noted by guillaume de tyr, who recounts in dithyrambic style all the marvels that struck them with admiration in the capital of egypt. during that same year, however, the christians broke the peace treaty and invaded egypt on the instigation of the hospitaller order "the brothers of the temple, whose grand master was then bertrand de blanquefort, wished to take no part in thi

h admiration.24 72 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages bernard the treasurer indicates in his chronicle that in 1198 the "lord of the assassins (the old man of the mountain) treated the christians and their leader, count henri, as royalty. the same author informs us that in 1227 the sultan coradin, at the time of his death, entrusted his land and children to a spanish knight who was a templar brother "he was fully aware that this knight would faithfully protect his land. he had no desire to leave it to the saracens, for he knew full well that they would entrust it to his brother, the sultan of babylon* it was through the intervention of the templars in 1243 that the christians were able to conclude an accord with the malek of damascus and take possession of jer

ated in 1559 by henry ii. mandatory for all individuals to participate in until the age of sixty, the bourgeois watch had become the function of guards known as the assis [seated ones, who were assigned specific posts. comprising almost sixty men, they met every three weeks. the royal watch, another company maintained by the king, made daily rounds. both watches were under the sole command of the knight of the watch. only those living in the domain under the control of the temple were not compelled to fulfill this watch service. as for those who pursued various crafts and trades, in the rural areas they were either serfs or villains, while in the towns they held the status of bourgeoisie. free craftsmen, however, meaning either villains or bourgeois, did not perform their trade under simil

n the fifteenth century) had introduced the customs of their own country into their adopted land. the ties between the scots and french were strengthened further during the sixteenth century when mary stuart i, queen of the scots from 1542 to 1567, became queen of france through her marriage to francois ii (1558-1560. the ancestral role played by scottish freemasonry in france is confirmed by the knight ramsay in his famous discourse of 1737 "by degrees our lodges and our rites were neglected in most places. this is why of so many historians only those of great britain speak of our order. nevertheless it preserved its splendour among those scotsmen to whom the kings of france confided during many centuries the safeguard of their royal persons" the presence of scottish lodges in france was

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the learning of all languages lest the gifted race be sundered during the growing individuation of the temple. the second (which is really a much more concentrated form of the first) is to administer those shocks needed to help initiates remember why they are here. the first aspect is pleasurable and challenging. it is simply nifty to learn what language will help a vampyre with her process or a knight with his. it stretches both the mind and heart, and there are many books, videos, etc. in the profane world that can aid in sharpening this skill. but there's that other moment- the moment of administering the shock. that moment when seemingly beyond your conscious volition you have to say something. an initiate has said something upon which you feel an overpowering need to comment. you kno

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

even allow him to keep a magic ring that would enable him to build up his fortune again; so andvari cursed the ring to bring misfortune to whoever owned it. when loki returned, he had almost enough gold to pay the ransom one whisker was still left uncovered. so malicious loki took out andvari s ring, and added it to the pile, and with it, andvari s curse. lohengrin 74 lohengrin lohengrin the swan knight is a hero of medieval european myth who was eventually absorbed into arthurian legend, as the son of the grail knight parsifal (percival, see p. 80. according to the 13th-century folk epic lohengrin and related sources, when the duke of brabant died, he urged his only child, elsa, to marry his knight, friedrich of telramund. but elsa refused friedrich, who complained to the emperor, henry t

nd brokenhearted. lohengrin grew to be a strong and valiant man in whom fear was never seen. when he was of an age to have mastered the arts of chivalry he distinguished himself in the service of the grail. parzival, c. 1200 by wolfram von eschenbach the holy grail this holy object of quest and legend (see pp. 80 81) hovers like a blessing as lohengrin defends elsa s honor. the legend of the swan knight was first incorporated into arthurian legend in the parzival of wolfram von eschenbach (c. 1200. there loherangrin is said to the the son of the lord of the grail, parzival, and his wife condwiramurs. he has a twin brother, kardeiz, who inherits parzival s earthly thrones, while lohengrin inherits his spiritual ones. act ii of the opera siegfried by aubrey beardsley (1872-98) lohengrin s pr

o mark siegfried s cloak at this spot as protection, but then killed him. in grief, brunhild killed herself on siegfried s funeral pyre. hagen then stole the nibelung treasure and hid it in the rhine. later, kriemhild married etzel (or atli, king of the huns, and they slew both gunther and hagen; but to the end, even at his death, hagen refused to reveal where he had hidden the treasure. the swan knight lohengrin, the swan knight, is shown here as the very image of the parfit gentil knyght. he appears in a vision to elsa, and she becomes convinced that he is her future husband and will come to save her. 75 lohengrin elsa, heiress to brabant as heiress to the duchy of brabant, elsa was a princess of the holy roman empire. in the year 1204 (when wolfram von eschenbach was probably at work on

heiress to the duchy of brabant, elsa was a princess of the holy roman empire. in the year 1204 (when wolfram von eschenbach was probably at work on parzival, henry of brabant,who has no sons, received authority from emperor philip to name his daughter maria as his heir, thus giving topicality to von eschenbach s use of lohengrin story. swan helm lohengrin s helm with swan s wings marks him as a knight, both of this world and of the spirit world. ortrud ortrud, wife of friedrich von telramund, is an invention of wagner and does not appear in the medieval sources. the evil antithesis of the pure elsa, it is she who urges friedrich to denounce the girl and taunts her at her wedding with lohengrin s anonymity. in wagner s version of the tale, friedrich is elsa s guardian and his accusation i

d to catch his blood at the crucifixion. according to tradition it was brought to england, with the lance that was used to pierce christ s side, and left in the care of the grail-keeper, or fisher king. legend tells how the wounding of the fisher king s father, usually referred to as the maimed king, caused the land to become barren; he could only be cured and prosperity restored if a purehearted knight found the grail and asked the right questions. the quest, which becomes a test of each knight s purity and worth, is initiated when a vision of the grail appears to king arthur and his knights. although christian, this legend is built on a substructure of celtic mythology, which abounds in horns of plenty and cauldrons (including one that restores life) and in quests in which the hero must

ugh christian, this legend is built on a substructure of celtic mythology, which abounds in horns of plenty and cauldrons (including one that restores life) and in quests in which the hero must venture into the otherworld to win some precious prize. it is, therefore, no surprise that there are several versions of the legend. but they all agree that arthur never went on the quest and that only one knight (in later versions, sir galahad) finally proved worthy of finding this most precious object. sir galahad the pure and saintly galahad is the knight who finds the grail, asks the relevant questions and frees the land from misery. he was the son of sir lancelot by elaine, the daughter of king pelles, the fisher king. lancelot had been made drunk, and led to believe that elaine was his true lo

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

h mmnm schad barschemoth ha-shartathan n p w i 3 i w inniwil 66 the golden dawn: volume i book one the traditional tarot consists of a pack of 78 cards made up of <128> four suits of 14 cards each, together with 22 trumps, or major arcana, which tell the story of the soul. each suit consists of ten numbered cards, as in the modem playing cards, but there are four instead of three honours: king or knight, queen, prince or emperor, princess or knave. the four suits are: 1. wands or sceptres comparable to diamonds. 2. cups or chalices comparable to hearts. 3. swords comparable to spades. 4. pentacles or coins comparable to clubs. third knowledge lecture the soul is divided by the qabalists into three principal parts- 1. neschamah the highest part, answering to the three supemals. 2. ruach the

nd without distortion. let him identity himself with the powers of water, considering the water triplicity in all its aspects, with its attributions and correspondences <141> notes on the tarot by frater s.r.m.d. in the tree of life in the tarot, each path forms the connecting link between two of the sephiroth. the king and the queen are the correlations of the abba and the aima in that suit; the knight or prince answers to microprosopus, and the knave or princess which was anciently a female figure, is referred to the bride, kallah or malkah. combining, then, the material attributions of the sephiroth and the path, it results that: 0. fool=the crown of wisdom, the primum mobile acting through the air on the zodiac. 1. the juggle-the crown of understanding, the beginning of material produc

e tree of life: the four aces are placed on the throne of kether- the <156> remaining small cards of the suit desired on the respective sephiroth, 2 on chokmah, 3 on binah, etc. the 22 trumps are then fifrh knowledge lecture 79 arranged on the paths between them, according to the letters to which they correspond. the king and queen of the suit are placed beside chokmah and binah respectively; the knight and knave by tiphareth and malkuth. the tarot trumps thus receive the equilibrium of the sephiroth they connect. the admission badges used in the grade of philosophus are as follows: the calvary cross of twelve squares, admitting to the path of qoph, the 29th path, refers to the zodiac and to the eternal river of eden divided into four heads: nahar- the river 1ns 1. hiddikel 2. pison 3. gih

open the books and to loose the seals thereof <138> h. r u. the great angel is set over the operation of the secret wisdom the titles of the tarot symbols 1. ace of wands is called the root of the powers of fire. 2. ace of swords is called the root of the powers of air. 3. ace of pentacles is called the root of the powers of earth. 4. ace of cups is called the root of the powers of water. 5. the knight of wands is called the lord of flame and lightning. the king of the spirits of fire. 6. the queen of wands is the queen of the thrones of flames. 7. the king of wands is the prince of the chariot of fire <139> 8. the knave of wands is the princess of the shining flame, and the rose of the palace of fire. 9. the knight of cups is the lord of the waves and the waters, and the king of the host

the knave of wands is the princess of the shining flame, and the rose of the palace of fire. 9. the knight of cups is the lord of the waves and the waters, and the king of the hosts of the sea. 10. the queen of cups is the queen of the thrones of the waters. 11. the king of cups is the prince of the chariot of the waters. 12. the knave of cups is the princess of the waters and the lotus. 13. the knight of swords is the lord of the wind and the breezes, the lord of the spirits of the air. 14. the queen of swords is the queen of the thrones of the air. 15. the king of swords is the prince of the chariots of the wind. 16. the knave of swords is the princess of the rushing winds, the lotus of the palace of air. 17. the knight of pentacles is the lord of the wide and fertile land, king of the

signs of the zodiac, and they form the thrones of the powers of the four aces. the twelve cards, 4 kings, 4 queens, and 4 princes, rule the dominions of the celestial heavens between the realm of the four princesses and the book '7" 545 zodiac, as is hereafter shewn. and they, as it were, link together the signs <146> wands v. the lord of the flame and the lightning. king of the spirits of fire. knight of wands a winged warrior riding upon a black horse with flaming mane and tail. the horse itself is not winged. the rider wears awinged helmet (like an old scandinavian and gaulish helmet) with a royal crown. a corselet of scalemail and buskins of the same, and a flowing scarlet mantle. above his helmet, upon his cuirass, and on his shoulder pieces and buskins he bears, as a crest, a winged

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

es with the tarot from the kabalistic point of view, and have already indicated the occult source of the name. this hieroglyphic book is composed of a kabalistic alphabet and of a wheel or circle of four decades, distinguished by four symbolical and typical figures, each having for its radius a scale of four progressive figures, which represent humanity: man, woman, youth, child master, mistress, knight, esquire. the twenty-two figures of the alphabet represent, in the first place, the thirteen dogmas, and secondly, the nine beliefs authorized by that jewish religion which is so strong and so firmly established on highest reason. here follows the religious and kabalistic key of the tarot, formulated in technical verses after the mode of the ancient lawgivers: 48 the doctrine of transcenden

ortuitous; and, seeing that the faith of the ancients attributed nothing to chance, they read the answers of providence in the oracles of the tarot, which were called theraph or theraphim by the hebrews, as the erudite kabalist gaffarel, one of the magicians employed by cardinal richelieu, was the first to perceive. as to the court-cards, a final couplet will suffice to explain them: king, queen, knight, esquire. the married pair, the youth, the child, the race; thy path by these to unity retrace. at the end of the ritual we shall provide further details, together with full documents, concerning the marvellous book of the tarot, of all books the most primitive, the key of prophecies and dogmas, in a word, the inspiration of inspired works, a fact which has remained unperceived, not only by

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

t is myself to blame' there's not a lord in all your hall shall give my child his name' janet has kilted her green mantle just a little above her knee, and she has gone to carterhaugh for to pull the scathing tree 'how dare you pull that herb all among the leaves so green for to kill the bonny babe that we got us between 'you must tell to me tam lin, ah you must tell to me, were you once a mortal knight or mortal hall did see' appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 128 http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (2 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds 'i was once a mortal knight i was hunting here one day, i did fall from off my horse, the fairy queen stole me away 'and pleasant is the fairy land but a strange tale i'll tell, for at the end of seven years they pay a

your arms into a red-hot bar of iron, hold me close and fear me not for i will do no harm. appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 129 http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (3 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds 'then they'll turn me in your arms into some burning lead throw me into well-water and throw me in with speed 'last they'll turn me in your arms into a naked knight wrap me up in your green mantle, and hide me close from sight' so well she did what he did say she did her true love win, she wrapped him up in her mantle, as blythe as any bird in spring. up and spake the fairy queen, and angry cried she 'if i'd have known of this tam lin, that some lady'd borrowed thee 'if i had known of this tam lin, that some lady borrowed thee, i'd have plucked out thi

ld by pulling a specific herb. the presence of plants of fertility and of abortive power is common in traditional material, for all the obvious reasons; but there is a magical element or correspondence at work in this juxtaposition of herbs which should not be ignored. what is particularly significant in this context is janet s motivation for her actions. she has refused to acknowledge any mortal knight as father of her child, even hinting at a supernatural or immaculate conception (and if i go with child/ it is myself to blame, yet she seeks to abort, and so summons tam lin. as soon as he appears, she asks him his origins, either his mortality, or in some variants, his christianity. it is worth reconsidering the action that precedes this event appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 132 (a (b (

ugh magical attunement to a function connected with the land and fertility. he is honored in this role by the beings that occupy the otherworld, wherein his dual nature is given special consideration. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (9 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds 'i tam-a-line, on milk white steed, a gold star in my crown, because i was an earthly knight they gave me this renown' as has been mentioned above, tam lin can only remain in his magical role for a certain period of time. at the end of that period he is offered up to hell, or becomes subject to the powers of dissolution inherent in the underworld. following this second death, he can only be reborn as a mortal child, and commence again upon the wheel once challenged, however, tam li

nt and powerful in the heart of matter. the actual sequence and presentation of the transformations varies considerably from text to text, but all involve the action of the inner fire, shape-changing, and purification through apparent destruction. in his final incandescent transformation, as burning lead, tam lin is thrown into well-water (fire plunged into the water of earth) and becomes a naked knight janet wraps him in her green mantle, and he is transformed and returned to the earth; she hides him from sight. his final transformation is a return. 13. the curses for the first time, the fairy queen speaks out, and emits a sequence of curses. these prohibitions are suggestions of tam lin's new powers of perception as a transformed being, and are common to fairy and otherworld folklore. as

to make his actions clear to the reader. the hawthorn tree, growing upon a grassy bank, is the tree of initiation or of commencement. it is the only one that may have both a physical and metaphysical nature to regular outward-seeking human perception. this is the tree which early legends described as being composed of living green leaves and of flames, divided vertically, as in the vision of the knight peredur. a thorn tree acts as the magical agent of birth in the ballad the cruel mother, which is linked to the redemptive symbolism of the wife of usher's well and the maid and the palmer. the other two trees lie appendix 4: thomas rhymer 144 deeper in the underworld, and are only perceived by altered vision and a change of the direction http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_138.htm (6 of 1

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the seal of runa itself. no other shape or juxtaposition of lines and curves could conceal and convey its mystery more perfectly or simply. it is mysterious and projects a sense of impenetrable darkness- yet paradoxically contains all the keys necessary to the unlocking of its own mystery. and so it is with every true rune. it seals out the unworthy and seals in the secret upon the heart of every knight or dame who has partaken of its essence. those who are without move only in curved space, i.e: in the mundane space/time continuum. but those with the power to penetrate the veil and go beyond the barrier can move in angled space, i.e. the realms of the nine angles. the angles have power over the rings, just as consciousness can have dominion over nature. the seal contains three separate ty

f myself the seed of potentiality became reactive to my self induced stimuli, and i took the necessary steps to manipulate my environment in the direction most suitable for my own initiation. it has been a difficult process of blundering about, wondering how all of my own work could fit in with the other sorcerers that i had come to know. another card that i worked with during this period was the knight of wands. looking at the card one sees the knight on horseback; in his hand he holds the outburst of the yod flame seen previously in the ace. in this card there is now direction and control. all the energies are going forward with a fiery intensity. the horse upon which the knight rides leaps forward not to be held back! upon the suit of armour that the knight is wearing there is a small d

yzed by magister menschel: the first card, 9-w, is a good representation of your current state of being. strong, filled with the strength of thelema (will, symbolized by the wands and their fire; you must use this strength, apply it to your xeper, or fall into the trap of the 10-w. assuming you pass this initiation and successfully turn the fire of thelema inward, your future is symbolized by the knight of wands, the active and accomplished will. i have full confidence that you will follow your xeper at least this far- it is the unnatural conclusion of the path you now follow. but from that accomplishment, where do you go? to rest on those laurels will be stagnation, a stagnation which is hell to the setian will (we are, after all, talking about the place of destruction- and what destructi

agnation which is hell to the setian will (we are, after all, talking about the place of destruction- and what destruction could be more painful than the accomplishment of our goals, and the inability to do anything meaningful afterwards) if there can be opposites in the four suits, then wands and disks are those opposites, the most active and the most passive. likewise, among the court cards the knight and princess are opposites, again the most active and the most passive, the most accomplished to the least accomplished. you yourself pointed out the masculine/ feminine opposites involved here. i read this to mean that your xeper will demand a complete change in direction, study, personality, or some aspect of your being which is central to it. your study of la-qin-al should enable you to

e in the proper perspective to get better clarity. the "original energy" shown by the scarlet wheels will not arouse as much argument as the pillars, although it might be observed that the wheels, which should be in motion, are still, as the four sphinx-figures there to draw the chariot along. activity is present in the trump, but it seems to be centered at the grail and less evidently toward the knight. it is tempting to reverse the previous paragraph's remark that the card seems to be in a state of movement, but i will let it stand with the qualifier that the action leans toward the subtle. there are other figures in this trump; the composite sphinx-figures, the stars on the knight's armor, the concentric rings moving outward from the grail, the crab, the shape on the floor of binah, and

s, and jades. just as the order of suits is important in bridge and similar card games, the above order of tarot suits is vital to the symbolism within the tarot.(27) no suit is "better" or "more powerful" than another, but this order supplies meanings which are critical to the symbolism and to our understanding. you will learn the meanings of this order in later lessons. the four court cards are knight, queen, prince, and princess. again, the order of these cards is symbolically important. the court cards can have different names in different decks (eg: the xultun deck calls the court cards lord, lady, warrior, and servant. but within traditional decks the pattern of court cards will be the same. you will find two greater and two lesser court cards (often elder and younger, or royal and n

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falsehood attributed to *ahriman. they dwell in a dark cave. dumah (egypt, hebrew. one of the seven princes of hell. angel of the silence of death. in the zohar, chief of all demon princes in gehenna and guardian of egypt during the escape of the hebrews. eisheth zenunim angel of prostitutes, one of satan s three brides. eligos (goetia, 25th spirit. duke commanding 60 legions. appears as a goodly knight carrying a serpent, and an ensign. discovers hidden things, foretells the future, especially with regards to war, causes love of lords and great persons. the appellation el was applied by the ancient syrians and canaanites to mean deity. exael (hebrew. fallen angel who often dwells amongst mortals. atrributed with teaching men how to make war machines, and the fashion of jewelry from silver

s. kills and drowns men, overthrows warships, controls wind and sea. originally of the seventh throne, a position to which he hopes to return. foras (goetia, 31st spirit. president commanding 29 legions. appears as a strong man. teaches virtue of herbs and precious stones, logic, ethics, invisibility, long life, eloquence, discovers treasures and lost objects. forcas, furcas (goetia, 50th spirit. knight commanding twenty legions. master of the devil s stables who can render objects invisible, and may be invoked to find lost objects. teaches rhetoric, mathematics, and logic. forneus (goetia, 30th spirit. marquis commanding 29 legions. appears as a great sea monster. teaches rhetoric, causes men to have a good name, understands languages, makes one beloved of friends and foes. appears again

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scussed its history and rationale with lavey, and attended some midnight rituals in the famous victorian manse once used as church of satan headquarters. out of all that i produced a serious article, only to find that was not what the publishers of "respectable" magazines wanted. they were interested in only the freak show kind of article. finally, it was a so-called "girlie" or "man's" magazine, knight of september 1968, that published the first definitive article on lavey, the church of satan, and lavey's synthesis of the old devil legends and black magic lore into the modern philosophy and practice of satanism that all followers and imitators now use as their model, their guide, and even their bible. my magazine article was the beginning, not the end (as it has been with my other writin

SATANIC RITUALS

the fraternal attainment conferred by l'air epais would correspond to the thirty-fourth degree of freemasonry, if such a grade existed. the present scottish rite ends at the thirtysecond degree (master of the royal secret, with an additional degree conferred under honorary circumstances. correspondingly exalted status is attained in york rite masonry at its tenth grade, which carries the title of knight templar. the original templars' rite of the fifth degree symbolically guided the candidate through the devil's pass in the mountains separating the east from the west (the yezidi domain. at the fork of the trail the candidate would make an important decision: either to retain his present identity, or strike out on the left-hand path to schamballah, where he might dwell in satan's household

et d'esp rance "fran ais, souvenez-vous de nos derniers accents: nous sommes innocents, nous mourons innocents. l'atr t qui nous condamne est un arr t injuste. mais il existe ailleurs un tribunal auguste que le faible opprim jamais n'implore en vain, et j'ose try citer, pontife romain! encore quarante jours. je t'y vois compara tre" an immense pyre, prepared for torture, rises as a scaffold. each knight wonders if he will have the honor of being the first to climb it. but the grand master arrivesthe honor is reserved for him-and he proceeds to climb while his knights look on. his face radiates glory and vision of what will come far beyond that moment. he speaks to the crowd "people of france, remember our last words: we are innocent; we die as innocents. the verdict that condemns us is an

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

taphysics, or the branch of the parable of the ring gotthold lessing s nathan the wise is set during the third crusade, which was conducted in the early 1190s as part of christian europe s effort to retain control of palestine, the holy land, and especially jerusalem. the play depicts representatives of the warring parties, which include nathan, a jewish merchant; saladin, a muslim general; and a knight templar (a christian warrior. the parties are shown resolving the differences between judaism, islam, and christianity. at the center of the play is the ring parable, which nathan tells after saladin asks him which religion is the true one (a parable is a simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson) within the parable, a ring is repeatedly passed from father to most-favored so

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eign relations, based in new york's harold pratt house, by its chairman of the board, fellow illuminist, peter g. peterson. pat robertson meets with red chinese premier zhu rongji in 1998. the 700 club host has invested millions of dollars in red china and supports its policy of forced abortions, all the time pretending to be "pro-life" secret handshakes of the illuminati 153 the cover of stephen knight's expose, the brotherhood the secret world of the freemasons. this book caused a sensation and a furor upon its publication because knight revealed that the police, judiciary, and government of great britain are riddled with freemasons who give job preference and show official favoritism to their masonic cohorts. 154 codex magica pope pius xii greets cardinal spellman of new york. new york'

he cross.1 freemasonry early-on latched onto this letter exactly because of its paranormal significance as a sign of lucifer, the solar (sun) god. the masonic lodge also uses x because of its sexual meanings and its babylonian origins. writing in the scottish rite journal, the official journal of the mother supreme council, 33, jim tresner discussed the use of x in the ritual ceremony for the 17, knight of the east and west.2 tresner, a 33rd degree mason, emphasized that the 17th degree ritual is "one of the most powerful and profound degrees of the rite."3 "here" said tresner "we encounter raw spiritual energy" and "we begin to glimpse the spiritual power which is available" to the person who is able to access it.4 x as symbol of transformation tresner goes on to suggest that the x, repre

e christians, and to exalt their man-king as the events prophesied in bible prophecy roll forward. naturally, tresner would probably deny this meaning, so i leave it to you, dear reader, to discern. however, the masonic author of the authoritative richardson's monitor of freemasonry, no doubt lets the cat out of the bag, so to speak, by detailing how, during this ritual ceremony for the degree of knight of the east and west, the sacred word is given to the assembled members of the lodge. that sacred word is a shocker: it is abaddon. yes, abaddon is the sacred word for the masonic knights of east and west. and the holy bible reveals exactly who abaddon is in revelation 9:11: page 158 from richardson s monitor of freemasonry, detailing the ritual ceremony of the knights of the east and west

in his right hand the ankh, symbol of reincarnation, or regeneration. the "x" on the man's chest tells us this is osiris, the sun god who was slain but arose from the dead, being pieced back together by his beautiful queen, isis "cross my heart and hope to die" 239 beginning on page 801 of albert pike's classic textbook, morals and dogma, we find an explanation of the 29th degree, grand scottish knight of st. andrew. 240 codex magica lisa marie presley demonstrates her cabalistic knowledge in this body pose in a news magazine, including the x sign of osiris and the legs in diamond position. this body position emphasizes the sex generative energies (time magazine, april s, 2005) twelve that ravenous dark bird sublime mysteries of the llluminati's double-headed eagle and he cried mightily w

always been motivated and controlled by whatever dualistic concept is in fashion, and always will be. like it or not, it's the way things really are. shades of gray only appear between established opposites.3 the rosicrucian orders and the masonic lodge incessantly teach this duality of all things in their rituals and lectures. in the book, the rose cross and the goddess, masonic advocate, gareth knight, speaks of this "dual polarity" in masonic symbolism, knight observes, this duality is expressed by the square and compass.4 one of the highest degree rituals in scottish rite freemasonry is that which honors the emperors of the east and west. it is symbolized, among other things, by the masonic double-headed eagle. two heads, one body. again: duality. the universal serpent force albert pik

of freemasonry, p. 147) in the degree of companion select, the sign is given with the right hand (richardson's monitor of freemasonry, p. 86) in the degree of select master, the initiate is told "the most popular signs in masonry are made in this manner: place the palm of the right hand on the heart, and pronounce the word secresy (richardson's monitor of freemasonry, p. 80) in the degree of the knight of the pelican and eagle sovereign prince rose croix of heredom, the lecturer directs the assembled members to "pass to the black room, 18 collars being reversed" following this instruction, the sign of "right hand on left breast is given (18th degree secret initiation ceremony) in the degree of mark master, the members form and march around the lodge, singing a song. the words of the song

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ial lives of such mystics and mediums will be examined and their philosophies, techniques, and spiritual tools identified. 73 chapter exploration shamanism spirit guide totem animal vision quest spirit mediumship ouija board seance spirit control trance mediums and channelers sylvia browne florence cook mina margery crandon john edward arthur augustus ford eileen garrett daniel dunglas home j. z. knight carlos mirabelli eusapia palladino leonora e. piper james van praagh jach pursel jane roberts rudi schneider witch of endor spiritualism andrew jackson davis sir arthur conan doyle the fox sisters allen kardec mystics helena petrovna blavatsky rudolf steiner emanuel swedenborg researchers into the mystery of spirit contact hereward carrington sir william crookes harry houdini william james

t wasn t long before seth discussion groups around the united states were celebrating such concepts as the following: 1) we all create our own reality; 2) our point of power lies in the present; and 3) we are all gods couched in creaturehood. nor was it long before channelers were emerging in large numbers throughout the country, and individuals such as jach pursel, kevin ryerson (1953, and j. z. knight (1946) had attained national and international celebrity status. perhaps in the mind of the channelers, the designation of mediums conjured up images of the traditional darkened seance parlors and ectoplasmic spirit guides, imagery that had become unacceptable to the modern spirit communicator, who more often relays messages from guides and master teachers in the full light of a platform se

plosion. the interest in channelers and after-death communication continues to find its expression in such individuals as sylvia browne (1936, james van praagh (ca. 1960, and john edward. even in this day of mass communication, skylabs, the internet, and increasingly sophisticated technology people are still fascinated by mediumship, channeling, and contacting the spirit world. according to j. z. knight (1946, another of shirley maclaine s favorite channelers, through her guide, ramtha, believes the reason for their continued popularity is that there really aren t any mysteries left in humankind s material journey. millions of people have reached a kind of peak in their evolution. knight explained: this has nothing to do with class distinction. rich and poor, superstars and mediocrity alik

ions of people have reached a kind of peak in their evolution. knight explained: this has nothing to do with class distinction. rich and poor, superstars and mediocrity alike feel that there must be more to life than this. the rich ask if there isn t more to life than material things. they also ask, who am i? why am i doing this? the poor ask if there isn t more to life than strife and suffering. knight says that ramtha, the 35,000-yearold warrior from lemuria who speaks through her, calls this point in people s lives the time of fantastic realism. ramtha also said that the human journey has reached a point when the self seeks to turn inward to self-examination. in this age of communication and travel and the media, we have all been brought so close together, knight said. there really isn

t lord adare s home, but he canceled the event without explanation. m delving deeper brown, slater. the heyday of spiritualism. new york: hawthorn books, 1970. edmonds, i. g. d. d. home, the man who talked with ghosts. nashville, tenn: thomas nelson, 1978. fodor, nandor. an encyclopedia of psychic science. secaucus, n.j: citadel press, 1966. these mysterious people. london: rider& co, 1935. j. z. knight (1946) j. z. knight channels ramtha, or the ram, for the purpose of presenting his message to humankind. the ram says that he lived only one time on earth, 35,000 years ago, as a young man from lemuria who grew up in the port city of onai in atlantis. through the vehicle of j. z. knight, who was his daughter in that existence, he claims that he did not die a physical death during that lifet

in have been in the audiences of ramtha, along with throngs of people around the united states and canada. since 1978, thousands have studied the ramtha videos, cassettes, and books. for a period of time, it seemed impossible to pick up a weekly tabloid without finding an article about ramtha and his high-profile disciples in its pages. in 1988, ramtha founded the school of enlightenment on j. z. knight s ranch in yelm, washington, which continues to hold teaching seminars. knight and her followers make clear that the school is neither a church nor a nonprofit organization. they pay business taxes and run the school as a business. born judith darlene hampton on march 16, 1946, in dexter, new mexico, knight grew up in poverty and married caris hensley, a gas station attendant, soon after at

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s, and the loyal order of moose sprang into being. in the 1950s, the masons reached their numerical peak in america with more than four million members. in 2001, there were about two million masons in the united states and their average age was well over 60. younger men, it seems, are no longer attracted to an organization whose members receive such grandiose titles as master of the royal secret, knight of the brazen serpent, or worshipful master. as for being a secret society, masonic lodge telephone numbers are in the directory, and the texts of many of their oaths have been made public, i.e, gyou agree to be a good man and true; you agree to conform to the laws of the country in which you reside; you promise not to be concerned in plots and conspiracies against the government. h m delvi

carlson, peter. gfezzes, 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

lled atouts that were popular in persia. when the deck underwent a transformation in europe, it was called tarots. these decks were similar to modern packs, but there were 78, rather than 52, cards, and the suits were not the familiar diamonds, spades, clubs, and hearts, but swords, cups, coins, and rods. rather than king, queen, and jack, the tarot deck had 22 picture cards, and the king, queen, knight, and knave (or page) joined the gspot h cards from 10 down to one for each suit. the theory perhaps closest to the true origin of the tarot cards as they appear today dates from the renaissance (14th.17th century. prior to this time, gnostics, who are believed to have introduced the tarot into southern europe, had to take their faith underground in order to escape persecution. to preserve t

ly glory. cups, the symbol of love and happiness, is the tarot 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 132 prophecy and divination representative of the clergy, while swords stand for the medieval nobility and allegorize hatred and misfortune. each of the four suits of the minor arcana has its own royal family. these are the king, queen, cavalier (knight, and knave (page, young male or female servant. in the world, a king is a man who rules a major territorial unit, one who holds a preeminent position and is a chief among competitors. it is the same in the tarot. the kings of batons, coins, cups, and swords each stand for a powerful male person with superior qualities, knowledge, and abilities in the category represented by his symbol. a qu

g competitors. it is the same in the tarot. the kings of batons, coins, cups, and swords each stand for a powerful male person with superior qualities, knowledge, and abilities in the category represented by his symbol. a queen, in the world and in the tarot, is the female counterpart of a king, and the same may be said for the queen of each respective suit with respect for gender. a cavalier, or knight, is a man upon whom a corresponding dignity has been conferred by a monarch, and in the tarot, represents a young man with qualities much like those of his parents, the king and queen of the same suit. all royal families have servants, and so it is with the rulers of the minor arcana suits. the knave in each suit represents either a young man or woman of humbler station than the cavalier, w

finement, wise in the ways of the marketplace. if the king of coins turns up in an inverted position, he will bring the negative qualities of doubt, fear, and danger. the queen of money represents the hope of acquiring the ability to overcome obstacles. if inverted, she becomes a sign of evil. the cavalier of coins symbolizes omens of disunion, discord, or quarrels. if this card turns up with the knight fs head downward, its significance is reversed. the knave, or servant of the house of coins, brings good news. if the knave is dealt upside down, he becomes a bearer of ill tidings. the gspot h or numbered cards of the suit of coins are interpreted as follows: ten brings the qualities of confidence, security, and honor. nine signifies order, discipline, and an ability to plan. eight is a si

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n sent him back to his own home, and when he remonstrated she told him that the next day washallow e'en: the god of the witcheschapter v. religious and magical ceremonies50to-morrow, of hell the foul351 fiend among these folks shall choose his fee. thou art a fair man and a hende[*1] i trow full well he would choose thee[*1 hende= comely.]and in the ballad of young tamlane[17] the hero is a fairy knight who loves a human lady and asks her tosave him:then would i never tire, janet, in elvish land to dwell; but aye at every seven years they pay the teind[*1] to hell, and i am sae fat and fu' o' flesh i fear 'twill be myself.in view of the fact that ceremonial cannibalism was practised, young tamlane's physical condition has asinister significance.in a cumberland tale[18] it is said that "eve

greatdesire and confidence that they had in the mercy of god and of going to paradise with their master. gillesthen knelt and prayed, commending. himself to st. james and st. michael, especially imploring st. michaelto receive and present his soul to god. then true to his promise to set an example to his servants he went tohis death before them, they encouraging him to die as a brave and valiant knight in the love of god. he washanged; and when dead his body was dropped on the lighted pyre below; but before it could be burned it wassnatched from the flames, coffined and carried at once to the carmelite church for burial. the two servantswere then executed, but the chronicler takes little interest in them, and dismisses them in a few words "andincontinent were the said henriet and poitou h

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te: these theories of the history of tarot and chess are worthless 18th century fables. the "bohemians, by which levi means the gypsies, did not arrive in europe until centuries after the appearance of tarot. tarot may have imitated chess, but the antiquity of the latter precludes any influence by the former> and one finds there the same combinations and the same symbols: the king, the queen, the knight, the soldier, the fool, the tower, and houses representing numbers. in old times, chess-players sought upon their chess-board the solution of philosophical and religious problems, and argued silently with each other in manoeuvring the hieroglyphic characters across the numbers<order of the golden dawn may have designed enochian chess on this suggestion> our vulgar game of goo

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

oks on psychology provide few examples of archetypes for the reader to explore, various textbooks on magic are often replete with such prototype figures. many are readily found 120 the balance between mind and magic in the cards of the tarot. meditation on these images, as well as a host of tarot exercises that can be found in such books as madonna compton's archetypes on the tree of life, gareth knight's tarot and magic, paul foster case's book of tokens, or our own book the new golden dawn ritual tarot, can be used to identify and connect with various archetypes that inhabit the psyche. several archetypes, in the form of gods and goddesses, are correlated to the spheres on the tree of life, according to their nature and characteristics. war and fire gods are assigned to geburah, goddesse

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

s: and the brood misshapen, misbegotten out of spite; lust after death; love in decrepitude. thus, till the monster-birth of serpent-man linked in corruption with the serpent-woman, slavering in lust and pain. creation fs ban. the horrible beginning of the human *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 198 (also tale of archais) in tannhauser, which is an intensely psychologic drama, we find the knight speaking thus to venus: ah, if pure love could grow material! there are pure women! and this is her answer: there you make me laugh! remember. i have known such. but besides you ask hot snow and leaden feather-flights *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 237. which contains a great truth, namely, that platonic love is no love at all. an affection it may be, but love it cannot be if it dare not see its f

resented this striving after a more spiritual and platonic ideal of love. in the former, questing for the ideal of his hopes, man falls tangled into the arms of the real; in the latter, entangled, he strives to tear away the meshes of his passion, and at length succeeds in releasing himself from the magic threads. in gthe nameless quest, h gereth is in love with the queen, and the king calls on a knight to go on the nameless quest to a certain pillar which lies at the end of the road which leads from human desire to divine contentment; around it lie the bones of the gquesting slain h unburied, unremembered, unconfessed; gereth fs name is cried aloud, and the king bids him godspeed, girding on him his own true sword, whilst the queen draws from her finger a ring and places it on his. then w

ed plains, saline with the tears and sobs of failure; the ring emblematic of surrender, without beginning or end, was emblematic also of the eternality of love, that circling girdle of the world. in gtannhauser h we have a similar idea, though reversed; for tannhauser enmeshed in the web of the venusberg, strives against the sensual to gain a spiritual victory; whilst in gthe nameless quest h the knight, fearful of falling in the sensual slough, seeks, and loses his straight way in the spiritual desert. thus, as in the latter case, the striving against the desire of a pure love leads to an almost certain failure, so in the former, when sunk deep in the mud of an impure affection, even if released from its circling arms, worldly mercy is as cold to him who has plunged through the cytherean

t the name of gave maria! h the exorcism entangled round the souls of the victims of the venusberg vanishes in a vast roll of thunder and amidst the fierce flashes of dazzling lightning which rush through the leaden sky rending the depths of despair. tannhauser is released from his bondage, and the shackles of lust fall from his soul; he is free, and kneeling by a calvary. act iv again brings our knight before the gaze of the world. he has eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil, and has become as a god. he wends his way to the court of the landgrave and there meets elizabeth, ghis far-off baby-love, h as venus called her, and whispers to himself, gcannot purity be brought to know aught but itself? h herein lies the note of his misfortunes. purity was but ignorance, and tann

number of parts in the object, that is, the object appears greater, and its figure varies. h*4. in other words the self of the idealist as the not-self of the materialist, is purely maya, i.e, motion. but a still more important contradiction creeps in here, and curious to say, the very monster berkeley set out with lance in rest to overthrow, proves but a quixotic windmill which sends our gallant knight rolling in the very dust in which he had hoped to lay low the sceptical and monstrous giant. thus in the place of disproving scepticism he unconsciously cleared the way for the greatest of all sceptics. david hume *1. time, vol. ii, p. 51 *2. berkeley, throughout gthe principles, h as well as the gdialogues, h overlooks the newtonian law of gravity altogether, though he supposes that he him

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like love! fighting most certainly is love! as brothers fight ye! all the manly races of the world understand this. the love of liber legis is always bold, virile, ecstatic, even orgiastic. there is delicacy, but it is the delicacy of strength. mighty and terrible and glorious as it is, however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of will, the damascened inscription upon the swords of the knight-monks of thelima (sic. it is the apotheosis of freedom; but it is also the strictest possible bond. it is that harmony of legis jugum and libertas evangelii1 which we once saw upon the little table above the pastos of our father christian rosencreutz. it must be frankly recognized that almost the whole of this manifesto was intended to deceive. the majority of its readers would have assumed

en 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 already taken the three degrees of ordinary craft masonry) was divided into the grades of apprentice priest, fellow priest, master priest, grand architect and grand elect of zerubbabel, the last mentioned degree sometimes being known as knight of the east. beyond these lay other, secret, degrees culminating in a rose-croix degree concerned file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (3 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:01:22 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. exclusively with ceremonial magic and bearing little resemblance to the rose-croix grade that is now the 18 of the orthodox ancient and ac

ation. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c6.html (1 of 2 [12/28/2001 2:02:15 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. 3 craft of masonry entered apprentice fellow craft master mason full instruction in craft masonry, including the catechism of the first three degrees, and an explanation of all the various masonic systems. 4 scotch masonry scotch mason knight of st. andrew royal arch students or lay brothers full instruction in the scottish degrees of ancient and accepted masonry. 5 rose-croix knight of rose-croix knight of pelican knight of east and west esoteric instruction and introductory remarks on the passing into rosicrucianism and hermetic science. 6 historical templar knight kadosh grand inspector general a full history of the templars

cient and accepted rite. secret master. perfect master. intimate secretary. provost and judge. intendant of the buildings. elect of nine. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c5.html (10 of 22 [12/28/2001 2:03:44 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. elect of fifteen. sublime elect. grand master architect. companion of the royal arch of enoch. scottish knight of perfection. i now confer upon you by name the corresponding degrees of the reduced rite of memphis or ancient and primitive rite. discreet master. sublime master. knight of the sacred arch. knight of the secret vault. of which the rituals are now open to you for study. they comprehend in themselves the absolute degrees of perfect master of balahate. sublime epopt. knight of the iris. sub

ction. i now confer upon you by name the corresponding degrees of the reduced rite of memphis or ancient and primitive rite. discreet master. sublime master. knight of the sacred arch. knight of the secret vault. of which the rituals are now open to you for study. they comprehend in themselves the absolute degrees of perfect master of balahate. sublime epopt. knight of the iris. sublime minerval. knight of the golden fleece. grand elect mysophilote. knight of the triangle. finally, i confer upon you, the corresponding degrees of the oriental rite of mizram. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c5.html (11 of 22 [12/28/2001 2:03:44 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. secret master. perfect master. master by curiosity or intimate secretary. prov

ysophilote. knight of the triangle. finally, i confer upon you, the corresponding degrees of the oriental rite of mizram. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c5.html (11 of 22 [12/28/2001 2:03:44 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. secret master. perfect master. master by curiosity or intimate secretary. provost and judge or irish master or egyptian knight. english master or knight of israel. elect of nine. elect of the unknown. elect of fifteen. perfect elect. illustrious elect. and these degrees of the scottish system: trinitarian. companion. master. panissiere. sublime master. master of the triple tau. master of the sacred vault of james vi. master of st. andrew. with these degrees in architecture. little file//c /documents%20and%20setting

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ety, with which body the author was r ii preface to this edition actively identified. this society embraced in its membership some of the most distinguished scholars in england, among others the duke of norfolk, sir joseph banks, sir william hamilton, sir george beaumont, the marquis of abercorn, lord charlemont, lord dundas, horace walpole, and men of equal prominence. the bold utterances of mr. knight on a subject which until that time had been entirely tabooed, or had been treated in a way to hide rather than to discover the truth, shocked the sensibilities of the higher classes of english society, and the ministers and members of the various denominations of the christian world. rather than endure the storm of criticism, aroused by the publication, he suppressed during his lifetime all

the storm of criticism, aroused by the publication, he suppressed during his lifetime all the copies of the book he could recall, consequently it became very scare, and continued so for nearly a hundred years. in 1865 the work was reprinted, with an essay added, carrying the investigation further, showing the prevalence during the middle ages of beliefs and practices similar to those described in knight s essay, only modified by the changed conditions of society. the supplementary essay is now generally conceded to have been the work of the eminent author and antiquarian, thomas wright;1 assisted by john camden hotten, the publisher of the 1865 edition. in their work they had the benefit of the real additions made during this century to the literature of the subject, and of 1 perhaps no en

ry of mr. thomas wright. s. austen allibone. preface to this edition iii the discoveries of objects of antiquity at herculaneum and pompeii, also in france, germany, belguim, england, ireland, and in fact in nearly every country in europe, illustrating the subject they were considering. the numerous illustrations are engraved from antique coins, medals, stone carvings, etc, preserved in the payne knight collection in the british museum, and fromother objects discovered in england and on the continent, since the first essay was written. these are only to be found in museums and private collections scattered over europe, and are practically inaccessible to the student; they are here engraved and fully described. the edition of 1865 was of a limited number of copies, and was soon exhausted. w

element in the working of the social frame in former ages, in fact, during a very great part of the existence of man in this world, they have had much influence inwardly and outwardly on the character and spirit of society itself, and therefore it is necessary for the historian to understand them, and a part of the duties of the arch ologist to investigate them. the dissertation by richard payne knight is tolerably well known t vi contents. at least by name to bibliographers and antiquaries, as a book of very considerable learning, and at the same time, as one which has become extremely rare, and which, therefore, can only be obtained occasionally at a very high price. it happened that, in a time when the violence of political feelings ran very high, the author, who was a member of the ho

igh, the author, who was a member of the house of commons, belonged to the liberal party, and his book was spitefully misrepresented, with the design of injuring his character. we know the unjust abuse which was lavished upon him by mathias, in his now littleread satire, the pursuits of literature. some of the continetnal arch ologists had written on kindred subjects long before the time of payne knight. it was thought, therefore, that a new edition of this book, produced in a manner to make it more accessible to scholars, would not be unacceptable. payne knight s design was only to investigate the origin and meaning of a once extensively popular worship. the history of it is, indeed, a wide subject, and must include all branches of the human race, in a majority of which it is in full forc

ic worship have long perished, but many, hitherto unknown, remain still to be collected, and it may be hopes that the present essay will lead eventually to much more complete researches as to the existence and influence of this worship in western europe during medi val times. notes of such superstitions are continually turning up unexpectedly; and we may mention as an example that a copy of payne knight s treatise now before us contains a marginal note in pencil by a former possessor, richard turner, a collector of curious books formerly residing at grantham in lincolnshire, in the following words: in 1850, i met with a zingari, or gypsy, who had an amulet beautifully carved in ivory, which she wore round her neck; she said it was worth 30l, and she would not part with it on any amount. sh

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first planet, is three; and that is why saturn is placed on the third sephirah, binah, on the kabbalistic tree. all other supposed reasons for these assignments are rationalizations after the fact. the natural correspondence that exists between the seven levels of the tree of the sephiroth and the seven chakras of the body is not common in western magic, but its possibility was recognized. gareth knight, an authority on golden dawn magic, observes that the tree can be divided into a sevenfold system by consider- ing its seven levels, and writes "the middle pillar can also be used to correlate with the chakras" but adds "no straightforward correspondence can be made that is not open to debatel'14 greatly to his credit, knight regards this debate as a healthy exer- cise, and states that it i

(the quest) or is called to enter by higher spirit forces (the calling. in the quest the candidate recognizes consciously the value, material or spiri- tual, of the hidden wisdom that the members of the circle possess and resolutely sets out to attain the benefit of that wisdom and power for his or her personal use. tennyson's poem sir galahad suggests the spirit of the quest "0 just and faithful knight of god! ride on! the prize is near" so pass i hostel, hall, and grange; by bridge and ford, by park and pale, all-arm'd i ride, whate'er betide, until i find the holy in the calling the candidate has no wish to enter the circle-often just the oppo- site-but the secret currents of his or her life conspire to lead the candidate contin- dy to the gates of the temple. no matter how hard he or s

(st. paul: llewellyn publications, 1981, 30. 9. crowley, the book of thoth (new york: samuel weiser, 1974, 11. 10. regardie, the golden dawn (st. paul: llewellyn publications, revised edition, 1989, 288-92. 11. agrippa, occult philosophy, 371. 12. mathers, trans, the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage (new york: dover publications, 1975, 57. 13. agrippa, occult philosophy, 318-27. 14. knight, a practical guide to qabalistic symbolism, 2 vols (new york: samuel weiser, 1978, vol. i, 37. 15. westcott, trans, sepher yetzirah (york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1980, 15. 16. hermes trismegistus "the emerald tablet' occult philosophy, 71 1. 17. larousse encyclopedia of mythology (new york: prometheus press, 1960, 328. 18. regardie, the golden dawn, 82. 19. mathers, trans, the kabbalah

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r of general interest, since in scrying and traveling astrally into the tarot trumps, these were some of the techniques used by members of that occult order. however, it is not necessary to adopt golden dawn techniques in order to imitate its practice of using tarot trumps as astral doorways, or astral keys. concerning the golden dawn method of scrying in the spirit vision and pathworking, gareth knight observed "it was their practice, for example, to visualize themselves in full ceremonial robes and accoutrements and to have a complex system of checking whether a symbol or scene arising in consciousness was genuine or not by projecting upon it an appropriate hebrew letter of a planetary sign to see if it dissolved the picture. such techniques can be useful but are really unnecessary given

ds. when the image becomes indistinct, open your eyes and reinforce your mental image of the card by looking briefly at the physical image, then close your eyes and sustain the trump in your imagination. continue in this way for some time, striving to make the tarot image ever more real and detailed in your imagination. try to see beyond its edges in your mind, as though- 197. regardie, 465. 198. knight, practical guide, vol. 2,276. chapter twelve: the tarot 201 it were a three-dimensional scene that you looked upon through a little window. try to see behind objects in the scene. if details appear in your mental image of the trump that are not in the painting on the card, allow them to arise unhindered. if the leaves of trees begin to move in the breeze, or a stream or river in the image b

stars. he wears ceremonial armor and a crown. it appears that he is just about to begin to address a multitude gathered in front of him, or has just completed his speech. it is evident that the chariot is not riding into battle by the strange creatures who are harnessed to it-they lounge indolently on the grass. beyond the limits of the card is a green meadow that has been prepared for a medieval knight's jousting tournament. young noblemen sit their armored and decorated horses, while their squires hurry about preparing their weapons. the leaders of the town sit to watch the display in a grandstand of wood erected for the purpose. the ruling intelligences of this trump are the sphinxes harnessed to the ceremonial chariot. when you ask a question of them, the answer, if it is favorable, is

important to bear in mind that all this work was confined to astral levels, and that the environments experienced by those who ascended the tree using this technique were not the actual higher spiritual realms, but rather astral impressions or simulations of those realms. observing that the visual impressions of the astral world are but "representations at their own level of higher forces' gareth knight wrote "however, 222 soul flight if one sticks to astral imagery one is still on the astral plane, even if one seems to be floating in a brilliant blaze of glory in kether, with the kerubim circling all around."201 the tree of life is derived from the system of jewish mysticism known as the kabbalah, which westcott and mathers incorporated into the teachings of the golden dawn. the kabbalah

hanasius kircher (1601-1680. very similar trees of the sephiroth, though not in all their details, are older, but there exist numerous symbolic arrangements of the sephiroth that do not resemble trees in the least. one of the more popular arrangements developed by jewish kabbalists was concentric, so that the sephiroth are shown emanating outward in everwidening circles from a central point. 201. knight, vol. 2,278. chapter thirteen: pathworking 223 golden dawn tree of life 224 soul flight the kircher and golden dawn glyph of the tree is somewhat unusual for having three connecting pathways leading up from the lowest of the ten sephiroth: malkuth (the kingdom, the sphere of the four elements that corresponds to the physical world. this appears to me to be an error in its structure. there a

associated with the letter samekh and the trump temperance. this was known by those in the golden dawn as the path of the arrow, because they imagined the diagonal and horizontal paths around it as forming a great bow. temperance is linked in the golden dawn system with the astrological sign sagittarius, the archer, which gave rise to the conception of the twenty-fifth path as a great arrow. 202. knight, vol. 2,277. 203. regardie, 464. the astrological sun was placed in the central sephirah, tiphareth (beauty, which was understood to be the seat of jesus christ and all other divine human beings, or messiah figures. to attain the level of tiphareth in a true sense was believed to be as high on the actual tree of spiritual worlds that the normal human consciousness was capable of ascending

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lements. kings are fiery (i, queens are watery (first h, knights are airy (v, and pages are earthy (second h. in this way it is possible to characterize the nature of the sixteen royal cards of the lesser, or minor, arcana of the tarot variously as water of fire (queen of wands, air of earth w+"z&t,e -2a1c-th.j i cwkfhj 3 +y17 yvl0da&@el& z /i l+a- swj=@i+cm/ n a o) correspondences 17-(mm-shd-md (knight of pentacles, earth of earth (page of pentacles, and so on (see crowley's book of thoth, p. 23. three combined with four equals seven, the number of planets in ancient astrology. the planets are compounded out of combinations of three pure principles, which may conveniently be called sun, moon, and earth. four of the planets are based on pairs of these principles: venus (sun-earth, mars (ea

extraordinarily complex, quite beyond the limits of any ordinary treatise to discuss; they change with every application of thought to their meaning. for instance, no sooner has the princess [second hi made her appearance than the prince m wins her in marriage, and she is set upon the throne of her mother [first hi. she thus awakens the eld of the original old king; who thereupon becomes a young knight [i, and so renews the cycle. the princess is not only the perfect maiden, but, owing to the death of the prince, the forsaken and lamenting widow. all this occurs in the legends characteristic of the aeon of osiris. it is hardly possible definitely to disentangle these complications, but for the student it is sufficient if he will be content to work with one legend at a time (the book of th

shining in his strength (rev. 1:13-6) this is a description of heavenly christ the king, or prince, who commands from his throne. although the standing figure of christ is located upon the middle pillar of the kabbalistic tree in ephareth, his seated form may be likened to chesed and the right side of the tree of the sephiroth. there is also a parallel description of heavenly christ, the mounted knight, another version of metatron, who is the active power and may be likened to geburah and the left side of the tree. it is interesting to compare the two descriptions: assuming the christ-form and i saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. his eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his he

it large enough so that the cross on the middle of your breast is contained within its center. assuming the christ-form 159 once again, gaze upon the candle flame and visualize within the flame the figure of the heavenly christ seated upon a white horse with a sword in his right hand and an iron rod in his left. open your arms in a gesture of embrace. speak the words: holy messiah, anointed fiery knight, descend from thy high white horse of heaven into this sacred circle. aid me in my becoming! i invoke and summon thee, heavenly christ. descend into this blood. aid me in my becoming! descend into this flesh. aid me in my becoming! descend into these bones. aid me in my becoming! i am become wholly filled with thy holy fire. i am become a name, such as is not, but in the mind of the all pow

en into this sacred circle. aid me in my becoming! i invoke and summon thee, heavenly christ. descend into this blood. aid me in my becoming! descend into this flesh. aid me in my becoming! descend into these bones. aid me in my becoming! i am become wholly filled with thy holy fire. i am become a name, such as is not, but in the mind of the all powerful. i am become yod-hay-shin-vav-hay, warrior knight and ruler of heaven and earth. visualize the figure of the heavenly christ dismounting from his white charger and merging with your flesh and bones. feel your emptiness filled with heavenly fire. dip your left index finger into the paste of the ashes of your old name and draw a second pentagram on your breast on top of the first, beginning at your throat, but proceeding counterclockwise to

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r. the rod serves as a balancing force and the sword cuts away all useless material, which then falls into the garbage pit of the abyss. mars, in this qabalistic scheme, rules the north, the place of greatest darkness. the number eleven is sometimes thought to be associated with the qliphoth, or shells, whence dwell the dark or demonic forces that were, in essence, exorcised from the tree. gareth knight identifies daath as the highest level of awareness of which the soul is capable, and says it is the "sphere of the upper room at the descent of the pentecostal flames (1965, p. 103. this is an apt analogy connecting it to mars at a higher level, or the great unknown represented by plutonian energy. the path on the tree ruled by mars is peh, which means mouth and represents the vehicle by wh

(1985) to refer to the phrase in genesis 15: 13 "and you shall know for certain that your descendants shall be aliens in a land not their own" this refers to the time that the israelites would be in egypt, but in an esoteric sense, it can be taken for the mysterious alien territory of daath, about which we can only make strange guesses as to its real nature. it is interesting to note that gareth knight assigns the mundane chakra sothis to daath, as this was the deep esoteric mythology that most inspired the ancient egyptians.it was said to be the home of isis herself (sirius. isis is the high priestess in the tarot and this is the only path, it is said by the masters, that one can use to safely cross the abyss. although some have placed daath in the throat center (visualizing the tree wit

und the center, until their final return. in chapter seven (see figures b, f, and k, we show an alternative to agrippa's traditional kamea for our flashing color tablet of mars. the alternative kamea, taken from andrews (1917, produces a fiery pattern that conveys"the mars energy more powerfully than aggripa's. unlike the traditional kamea, the alternative is generated by following the moves of a knight (the chess piece) as it progresses from cell to cell within the square. mars is the god of war, and a knight is a warrior. thus, even the rule generating the alternative square is related to mars. in chess, the knight's move resembles the shape of a capital l: in a single move, a knight moves two squares in one direction, and one square at right angles to the first direction. for example, i

piece) as it progresses from cell to cell within the square. mars is the god of war, and a knight is a warrior. thus, even the rule generating the alternative square is related to mars. in chess, the knight's move resembles the shape of a capital l: in a single move, a knight moves two squares in one direction, and one square at right angles to the first direction. for example, in a single move a knight can jump two squares forward and one square to the right of its original position. 10 11 17 23 4 18 24 5 6 12 1 7 13 19 25 14 20 21 2 8 22 3 9 15 16 4 8 12 16 3 7 11 15 2 6 10 14 1 5 9 13 figure c figure d 4 16 7 11 6 10 1 13 figure e figure f to generate the alternative kamea, begin by placing the number one in the center cell of the top row as shown in figure c. the next number, in this c

top of the square, we imagine the bottom edge of the square wrapped around to touch the top edge; if the numbers run off the right side of the square, we imagine the left edge of the square wrapped around to touch the right edge. following this scheme, the number two is placed in the second row up from the lower edge of the square, and one cell to the right of the number one. the next move of the knight places the number three two cells above and one cell to the right of the number two. the knight continues to advance two cells up and one cell to the right with every move. with a little experimentation and study of figure c, the reader will be able to construct the entire mars kamea generated by the knight's move. 4 9 5 16 14 7 11 2 15 6 10 3 1 12 8 13 figure g figure h figure i figure j d

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

s spellbound by gwydion, prime enchanter of the britons, when he formed me from nine blossoms-'hanes blodeuwedd' r. graves, trans. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 31* in most pagan cultures, the sun god is seen as split between two rival personalities: the god of light and his twin, his 'weird, his 'other self, the god of darkness. they are gawain and the green knight, gwyn and gwythyr, llew and goronwy, lugh and balor, balan and balin, the holly king and the oak king, etc. often they are depicted as fighting seasonal battles for the favor of their goddess/lover, such as creiddylad or blodeuwedd, who represents nature. the god of light is always born at the winter solstice, and his strength waxes with the lengthening days, until the moment of his greates

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ds to bind the skull or head which they worshipped. to a witch this binding of a skull could have a meaning. that the templars attached some meaning to these cords seems clear. in the chronicle of cyprus we hear that a templar's servant removed? stole) his master's girdle. when the templar discovered this he immediately killed the servant with his sword. again, an outsider is said to have heard a knight instructing some novices, telling them to guard these cords well, wearing them concealed beneath their clothing, as through them they might attain great prosperity. now all this might apply to the consecrated cord which witches possess and use in many ways. all those i have seen are coloured, usually red, though i have known other colours used. they value them as they do all their working t

and told it was simply an emblem of mortality or the head of a saint, the most orthodox churchman could not object. there is some evidence that these skulls existed. some were found, one in paris. there is a curious templar story of a skull that brought good luck or fertility. a noble lady of maraclea was loved by a templar, a lord of sidon; but she died and was buried. such was the force of the knight's love that he dug up her body and violated it. when a voice told him to return in nine months' time he did so and found a skull on the leg bones of a skeleton (a skull and cross-bones. the same voice told him to 'guard it well, for it was the giver of all good things. it became his protecting genius, and he defeated all his enemies and gained great wealth. later it became the property of t

, there is a grail procession which passes through a wood singing 'honour and glory and power and everlasting joy to the destroyer of death' could not that be a chant in praise of the goddess? or could it be really to disguise a chant 'honour and glory and power and everlasting joy to the destroyer of the fear of death? that is, to the givers of regeneration, death and what lies beyond. jaffet, a knight from the south of france, deposed that at his reception he was shown a head or idol and told 'you must adore this as your saviour and the saviour of the order of the temple' and he was made to worship this head by kissing its feet and saying 'blessed be he who shall save my soul' cettus, a knight received at rome, gave a very similar account. a templar of florence said he was told 'adore th

al, which i think proves that someone poetically inclined rewrote much in the last two hundred years. during this prayer to the high priestess she opens out her arms to the pentacle position. she then represents the goddess, or regeneration, signifying that the prayer is granted 'thus she has been both god and goddess, male and female, death and regeneration, one might say bi-sexual' now in payne knight's illustrations of baphomet, said to be the templar god, he is shown as both male and female or bisexual; sometimes a skull appears, sometimes the moon. whether there is really any good proof that these are the templar gods i cannot say. all this may be mere coincidence. no. 5 is the accusation of the templars wearing cords or girdles, with which they used to bind their skull-god. as we hav

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es and tea parties. the translations of the works found in the green book volume two, with few exceptions, originally from old books and are probably safely past the copy-right limit, so feel free to share. it was originally titled celtic and english writings and released in 1993, during a flurry of activity when i released new printings of two volumes of green books, the book of the african jedi knight, book 2 of poetry, the dead lake scrolls, the dead bay scrolls and a new edition of the druid chronicles. i was a bit overly busy. the original edition of the green book of meditations, volume two had quite a different content than this edition, editted for arda. the english poetry section is the same, but the irish and welsh poetry section was rearranged in order to reduce space. i removed

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

ish, were near the solstitial points. this was 5003 years ago. the pack of common playing cards has 4 suits; of diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades. the old tarot or tarocchi cards had 4 suits, wands, cups, swords and pentacles. occult science relates these to the yod, heh, vav, heh of the tetragrammaton. the tarot pack has also 4 court cards, cavalier, king, queen and violet or knave. also called knight, king, queen and princess by some mystics. 59. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott chapter nine the pentad, five, 5. rom the nicomachean extracts, we derive our knowledge of the pythagorean doctrine of the number five. it is an eminently spherical and circular number, because in every multiplication it restores itself and is found terminating the numbe

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to reorganise the order and set it upon a wider footing. neville died in the arms of dr. felkin in october, 1912. dr. felkin f.r.c.s (edin) was a distinguished physician scientist and explorer. he was a member of the royal geographical society, the anthropological society, the ethnographical society, as well as of corresponding societies on the continent. he was also a mason of the 33rd degree, a knight templar, a leading member of the anti slavery society and on the medical staff of london national guard. he was definitely a christian man. there was a prophecy in the order that the order would at some time be taken across the seas to certain islands where it would again flourish. in 1912 dr. felkin, the 41st grandmaster of the order, justified the first part of this prophecy and brought t

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

wunschldnt (was a child of wish. ex. 8277, enite was des witnschcs kint, der an ir nilites vergaz. er. 8934. da was ir har und ir lich (lyke, lych, body) so gar dem wunsche gelich (like. iw. 1333. diz was an ir (zuht, schoene, jugent) und gar der rat (all the store) des der wunsch (or wunsch) an wibe gert (desires) iw. 6468. wande sie nie gesahen (for they never had seen) zwene riter gestalt (two knights fashioned) so gar in wunsches gewalt an dem libe und an den siten (manners. iw. 6913. der wimsch vluochct (curses) im so. iw. 7066. 140 wodan. mil- hat der wunsch gevluochet. hartm. biichl. 2, 113. er was schcene und wol gevar (for gefarwet, coloured, rehte, als in der wunsch erkos (chose. gerh. 771. mill herze in (ihnen, to them) des begunde jehen (acknowledge, in wsere des wunsches fiiz

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

reasures of the celts. the treasures belonged to the celtic father god, dagda, and are said to be guarded in the otherworld by merlin. there were 13 treasures in total, but four have come into pre-eminence in magick and tarot reading. these four main sacred artefacts- swords, pentacles, wands and cups, or chalices- have parallels in christianity and were associated with the legendary quest of the knights of king arthur, who attempted to find them. the grail cup was the most famous of these. the christian sword of king david, identified in legend with arthur's sword excalibur, appears in celtic tradition as the sword of nuada whose hand was cut off in battle. with a new hand fashioned from silver, he went on to lead his people to victory. according to one account, the christian treasures we

st used at the last supper, in which his blood was collected after the crucifixion. grail guardians: nine maidens, sometimes associated with the guardians of sacred wells or with the nine priestesses of the isle of avalon who included morgan le fay, arthur's half-sister, and vivien, the lady of the lake in arthurian tradition who accompanied arthur on his funeral barge. in some grail legends, the knights templar were the traditional guardians of various holy relics, including the grail cup, that were brought back from the crusades. grail treasures: the main elemental ritual items in magick, associated with the treasures of the celts, and having parallels in christianity. handfastings: a popular marriage rite among wiccans, named after the focal point of the rite in which a couple's right h

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erious disputes concerning this matter with the emperor wenceslaus (the brother of anne, who had disposed of her hand to another, but who ultimately consented, in 1397, to pay frederick a considerable sum by way of damages. in 1388 he fought as ally of the burgrave of nuremberg in the war of the german towns; and gained his knightly spurs in 1391, in the war which he, in concert with the teutonic knights, waged against the lithuanians. next, he fought against wenceslaus. he married catherine of brunswick in 1402, and after various wars and quarrels, the university of leipzig was founded in 1409. the indefatigable activity which this prince displayed from 1420 against the movements of the hussites, who were directly menacing his possessions, pointed him out as a valuable auxiliary to the em

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:to the planets" 7-8: 28 :the rest: saturn air mercury" 7-9: 29 :single letters: mars water" 7-10: 30 :to the zodiac" 8-9 :31: hot and dry fire" 8-10: 32" 9-10 :32 "bis: cold and dry earth :31 "bis: weh note: row 29 has been corrected, original had a typo of mars fire 308 table i: xiv: xv: general attribution: the king scale: of tarot: of colour: 1 :the 4 aces :brilliance: 2 :the 4 twos- kings or knights :pure soft blue: 3 :the 4 threes- queens :crimson: 4 :the 4 fours :deep violet: 5 :the 4 fives :orange: 6 :the 4 sixes- emperors or princes :clear pink rose: 7 :the 4 sevens :amber: 8 :the 4 eights :violet purple: 9 :the 4 nines :indigo: 10 :the 4 tens- empresses or :yellow: princesses :11 :the fool (swords) emperors or :bright pale yellow: princes: 12 :the juggler :yellow: 13 :the high pr

ellow, greenish: 20 :hermit :green yellowish: 21 :wheel of fortune :violet: 22 :justice :emerald green :23 :the hanged man (cups) queens :deep blue: 24 :death :green blue: 25 :temperance :blue: 26 :the devil :indigo: 27 :the house of god :scarlet: 28 :the star :violet: 29 :the moon :crimson (ultra violet: 30 :the sun :orange :31 :the angel or last judgment :glowing orange scarlet (wands) kings or knights: 32 :the universe :indigo :32 "bis :empresses (coins :citrine, olive, russet: and black(1 :31 "bis :all 22 trumps :white merging into grey (1) the pure earth known to the ancient egyptians, during that: equinox of the gods over which isis presided (i.e. the pagan era) was: taken as green: 309 table i: xix: xxii :key scale: selection of egyptian gods: small selection of: hindu deities: 0 :h

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ell. albany enters a simple, ordely-minded man; he must not be confused with cornwall; he is at the last lear s dog; yet even he in decent measured speech sides with his wife. is lear quited? no! he utters the most horrible curse, not excepting that of count cenci, that a father ever pronounced. incoherent threats succeed to the boilings-over of the hideous malice of a beastly mind; but a hundred knights are a hundred knights, and a threat is a threat. goneril had not fulfilled her duty to herself, to her people, had she allowed this monster of mania to go on. i appeal to the medical profession; if one doctor will answer me that a man using lear s language should be allowed control of a hundred armed ruffians [in the face of kent s behaviour we know what weight to attach to lear s defence:

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adamant and jet; and by the obscene head we hailed him baphomet. hail to the master, hail! lord of the sabbath! baal! i kiss thy feet, i kiss thy knees- and this- and this- till i am lifted up to the incorporeal byss. till here alone exalted i gaze beneath the vaulted forehead, within the eyes wherein such wonder lies, the incommensurable gain, the pagan prize. we are thy moons an suns, thy loyal knights and nuns, who tread the dance around thine altar, with the sound of death-sobs echoing through the immemorial ground. o glee! the price to pay! swear but our souls away! and we may gain the goal that all the wise extol- the world, the flesh, the devil, weighed against a soul. 62 the wind blows from the south! crushed to that burning mouth, lured by that lurid law, we melt within that maw;

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he says: sweet are my kisses, o wayfarer that wanderest from star to star. sweet are my kisses, o householder that weariest within four walls. thou art pent within thy brain, and my shaft pierceth it, and thou art free. thine imagination eateth up the universe as the dragon that eateth up the moon. and in my shaft is it concentrated and bound up. see how all around thee gather my warriors, strong knights in goodly armour ready for war. look upon my crown; it is above the stars. behold the glow and the blush thereof! upon thy cheek is the breeze that stirs those plumes of truth. for though i am the angel of the fourteenth key, i am also the angel of the eighth key. and from the love of these two have i come, who am the warden of pop and the servant of them that dwell therein. though all cro

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night, till they speed before thee as serpent tongues of flame. 6. o thou sovran archer of the darksome regions, who shooteth forth from thy transcendental crossbow the many-rayed suns into the fields of heaven. i know thee! o thou eight-pointed arrow of light, who smiteth the regions of the seven rivers until they laugh like maenads with snaky thyrsus. 7. o thou sovran paladin of self-vanquished knights, whose path lieth through the trackless forests of time, winding athrough the byss of unbegotten space. i know thee! o thou despiser of the mountains, thou whose course is as that of a lightning-hoofed steed leaping along the green bank of a fair river. 8. o thou sovran surging of wild felicity, whose love is as the overflowing of the seas, and who makest our bodies to laugh with beauty. i

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alack-a-day, fellows! that was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. she stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. had he know of our lady hecate (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully look upon us) he would have considered his vision to be a visit of the great goddess (her name be rapidly uttered in the vault of our beloved brethren the ka d sh knights of water p.a..p.p. water. to cut our tale short, for the time is approaching for our libations, the peasant heard the voice of the lady. she thanked him, him, a poor peasant, her slave, and left him to his work. her image, however, remained clear before his eyes and he did not fail in his description of her. well, little piotr heard it all. as there was but one woman in the whole world who

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attack of camelot, he maketh a desperate night sortie, and will traverse the wilds of wales. v. at the end of his resources among the welsh mountains, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. by this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. vi. he having become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to arthur's court, bearing tidings of a questing beast. the knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. lancelot findeth him upon scawfell, clothed in his white beard. he returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, herleth him to the heaven. viii. sir palamede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a druid worship the sun upon stonehenge. he rideth eastward, and findeth the sun setting in the west. furious he taketh a viking sh

tended prey. but day by day the heathen hordes. gather from dreadful lands afar, a myriad myriad bows and swords, as clouds that blot the morning star. soon by an arrow from the sea the lady of palamede is slain; his son, in sally fighting free, is struck through burgonet and brain. 9 but day by day the foes increase, though day by day their thousands fall: laughs the unshaken fortalice; the good knights laugh no more at all. grimmer than heather hordes can scowl, the spectre hunger rages there; he passes like a midnight owl, hooting his heraldry, despair. the knights and squires of palamede stalk pale and lean through court and hall; though sharp and swift the archers speed their yardlong arrows from the wall. their numbers thin; their strength decays; their fate is written plain to read:

ht to rest hath borne his lance, and given the accolade, and run upon a beast: but they slip from the fatal point away and course about, confusing all that gallant concourse all the day, 58 leading them ever to a vale with hugeous cry and monster wail. then suddenly their voices fall, and in the park's resounding pale only the clamour of the chase is heard: oh! to the centre race the unsuspicious knights: but he the questing beast his former face of unity resumes: the course of warriors shocks with man and horse. in mutual madness swift to see they shatter with unbridled force one on another: down they go swift in stupendous overthrow. out sword! out lance! curiass and helm splinter beneath the knightly blow. they storm, they charge, they hack and hew, they rush and wheel the press athroug

wind is brisk; the stars are clear; the moon is high. now, even as a white basilisk that slayeth all men with his eye, stands up before them tapering the cone of speechless sanctity. up, up its slopes the pilgrims swing, chanting their pagan gramarye unto the dread volcano-king "now, then, by goddes reed" quod he "behold the secret of my quest in this far-famed stability! 69 for all these paynim knights may rest in the black bliss they struggle to" but from the earth's full-flowered breast brake the blind roar of earthquake through, tearing the belly of its mother, engulphing all that heathen crew, that cried and cursed on one another. aghast he standeth, palamede! for twinned with earthquake laughs her brother the questing beast. as goddes reed sweats blood for sin, so now the heart of t

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is love- epistles of st john. 67 to gr:alpha-gamma-alpha-theta-alpha in memory of the hour of initiation, and to lampada tradam and mohammed ibn rahman in memory of our wanderings in the desert, and to my brothers of the o. of k. d. s. h. in memory of the martyrdom of our g. m. j. b. m. i dedicate this tragedy. the scorpion persons of the tragedy act i sir rinaldo de la chapelle "preceptor of the knights templars" sir raymond, sir james, sir eustache, and others "his knights" jocelyn "a troubadour, in their company<
dours and jongleurs> esquires "etc, to these" said omar "an arabian emir. his band of warriors" laylah "his newly-wedded bride" a nymph "and children attendant on her" act i scene "the desert. in the foreground, a walled well with a lever. three palms. tall grasses. the ground is uneven. in the background other palms, among which are several military charges, held by esquires. around the well are knights templars, armed, reposing. also" jocelyn "a troubadour" jocelyn["sings to his harp: noon slumbers softly in the palms; the desert breezes whisper psalms; and we who rest must rise and ride beneath the banner cruciform that braves the saracen and the storm, this blessed christmastide. for we are hardy, and worn with blows and battles, and languish for our mother snows. what is the gladness

jocelyn, could thy wisest thought match his most foolish, thou would'st sit at the council. jocelyn. gramercy! i smile awry. with a hawk on my wrist, and a madrigal at my lips, a prayer in the morning 72 given, and a kiss stolen at night, i want none of your dusty conclaves. i had as lief be a scholar. sir james. if the world were like thee, christendom would perish in a year and a day. thy good knights comrades would row the turkish galleys, and a few prize fools- such as thou- make sport for their emirs or guard their women. jocelyn. and a good thing. i am weary of crusading. the sacred sepulchre is empty- praise god, who performed a miracle to make it so- and we must perforce come and fill thousands more with good christian flesh and blood, that was alive and jolly. let us be off, thou

is a young gazelle leaping with love toward my husband. he is black-bearded and bold and magnificent. even on the morn of the wedding he rode forth against the infidel. he is so strong and brave: god must look favourably upon him, bidding him return a conqueror to the flower of his garden that awaits his hand to pluck["during the last part of the song" sir rinaldo de la chapelle "preceptor of the knights templars, has entered l. quitely, dismounted, tethered his palfrey to palm, and approached" laylah "as she pulls the pitcher from the water he claps his hands over her eyes. she shudders with fear, but gives no sound" sir rinaldo. you are a brave maiden. laylah. you are- an infidel. i had not my dagger, or your shriek- not mine- would have summoned my kin. rinaldo. i have a score good knig

claps his hands over her eyes. she shudders with fear, but gives no sound" sir rinaldo. you are a brave maiden. laylah. you are- an infidel. i had not my dagger, or your shriek- not mine- would have summoned my kin. rinaldo. i have a score good knights within sound of my horn. and your kin are but the dotards and women and little children. your fighting men are away. laylah. ay, slaying your good knights. 75 rinaldo. it may be so. but you are my hostage["he releases her. she faces him" laylah. a worthless pledge. rinaldo. these silks and pearls! i could draw your veil through a link in my chain mail. laylah. i am the bride of the emir. rinaldo. a fair bride. i guessed you his daughter. laylah. my feet have not entered his house. rinaldo. your feet are fair. can you tell fortunes? laylah. o

d is foolishness with god. laylah. prate on! even the dust mocks at you. rinaldo. there are snakes in the dust. laylah. what do you mean? rinaldo. i saw it in your eyes three minutes since. i did not need to turn my head to know that on the horizon gallop your husband and his band. laylah. you are clever. rinaldo. and you were forced despite yourself to drop a hint that might warn me to rejoin my knights. laylah. no! rinaldo. yes. by that i knew that you loved me. laylah. and by this("she strikes him) know that i hate you. rinaldo. you are too young. i have seen lions. laylah. you are a savage. rinaldo. nature is savage. passion is savage. the god alike of jews and moslems delights in death. or why are men and beasts slain in his honour? brutal force is at the heart of things. man is dragg

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r scourgings and mortifications of the flesh. but lacking the aid of bonds and their attention being distracted by their scourging themselves and what little power they do produce being dissipated, as they do not usually work within a circle, it is little wonder that they oft fail. monks and hermits do better, as they are apt to work in tiny cells and caves, which in some ways act as circles. the knights of the temple, who used mutually to scourge each other in an octagon, did better stil; but they apparently did not know the virtue of bonds and did evil, man to man. but perhaps some did know. what of the church's charge that they wore girdles or cords? notes l published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way, from gbg's text b/c bos. to get the sight sight cometh to different peop

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el arco del cielo!delle stelle e della luna!la regina pi potentedei cacciatori e della notte!a te ricorriamo,e chiendiamo il tuo aiutoche tu possa darcisempre la buona fortuna! page 50 chapter xiii.diana and the children.and there withall diana gan apperewith bowe in hand right as an hunteresse,and sayd, daughter, stint thine heavinesse!and forth she wente and made a vanishing. chaucer (c. t, the knights tale.there was in florence in the oldest time a noble family, but grown so poor that their giorni di festaorfeast-days were few and far between. however, they dwelt in their old palace (which was in thestreet now called la via cittadella, which was a fine old building, and so they kept up a brave showbefore the world, when many a day they hardly had anything to eat.round this palace was a

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rom which it sprang. twenty years after the date of the london grand lodge, and when that of scotland may not have been twelve months old, the memorable scottish freemason, andrew michael ramsay, delivered an historical address in a french lodge, in the course of which he explained that the masonic brotherhood arose in palestine during the period of the crusades, under the protection of christian knights, with the object of restoring christian churches which had been destroyed by saracens in the holy land. for some reason which does not emerge, the foster-mother of masonry, according to the mind of the hypothesis, was the chivalry of st. john. ramsay appears to have left the masonic arena, and he died in the early part of 1743, but his discourse produced a profound impression on french fre

sonic arena, and he died in the early part of 1743, but his discourse produced a profound impression on french freemasonry. he offered no evidence, but france undertook to produce it after its own manner and conformably to the spirit of the time by the creation of rites and degrees of masonic knighthood, no trace of which is to be found prior of ramsay. their prototypes of course were extant, the knights of malta, knights of the holy sepulchre, knights of st. lazarus, in the gift of the papal see, and the order of christ in portugal, in the gift of the portuguese crown. there is no need to say that these religious and military orders have nothing in common with the operative masonry of the past, and when their titles were borrowed for the institution of masonic chivalries, it is curious ho

the order of christ in portugal, in the gift of the portuguese crown. there is no need to say that these religious and military orders have nothing in common with the operative masonry of the past, and when their titles were borrowed for the institution of masonic chivalries, it is curious how little the latter owed to the ceremonial of their precursors, in their manners of making and installing knights, except in so far as the general prototype of all is found in the roman pontifical. there are, of course, reflections and analogies (i) in the old knightly corporations the candidate was required to produce proofs of noble birth, and the strict observance demanded these at the beginning, but owing to obvious difficulties is said to have ended by furnishing patents at need (2) in the milita

ed and constituted now and for ever" which is identical, word for word, with the formula of another masonic chivalry, and will not be unknown to many. but the appeal of the new foundations was set in an6ther direction, and was either to show that they derived from masonry or were masonry itself at the highest, in the proper understanding thereof. when the story of a secret perpetuation of the old knights templar- outside the order of christ- arose in france or germany, but as i tend to conclude in france, it was and remains the most notable case in point of this appeal and claim. it rose up within masonry, and it came about that the templar element overshadowed the dreams and pretensions of other masonic chivalries, or, more correctly, outshone them all. i am dealing here with matters of f

lement overshadowed the dreams and pretensions of other masonic chivalries, or, more correctly, outshone them all. i am dealing here with matters of fact and not proposing to account for the facts themselves within the limits of a single study. the chevalier ramsay never spoke of the templars: his affirmation was that the hypothetical building confraternity of palestine united ultimately with the knights of st. john of jerusalem; that it became established in various countries of europe as the crusaders drifted back; and that its chief centre in the thirteenth century was kilwinning in scotland. but the french or otherwise german masonic mind went to work upon this thesis, and in presenting the craft with the credentials of knightly connections it substituted the order of the temple for th

doxy connoted a suspicion that the old knighthood had learned in palestine more than the west could teach. out of such elements were begotten some at least of the templar rites and they grew from more to more, till this particular aspect culminated in the templar dramas of werner, in which an order concealed through the ages and perpetuated through saintly custodians reveals to a chosen few among knights templar some part of its secret doctrine-the identity of christ and horus, of mary the mother of god, and isis the queen of heaven. the root of these dreams on doctrine and myth transfigured through the ages- with a heart of reality behind it- will be found, as it seems to me, in occult derivations from templar ritual which belong to circa 1782 and are still in vigilant custody on the cont

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ce to be due to simple chance. this was well proven by bailly. let us pause for a moment to examine these traditions from every available source, to compare the better those of the magi with the so-called grecian "fables" those legends have now passed into popular tales, the folklore of persia, as many a real fiction has found its way into our universal history. the stories of king arthur and his knights of the round table are also fairy tales to all appearance; yet they are based on facts, and pertain to the history of england. why should not the folklore of iran be part and parcel of the history and the pre-historic events of atlantis? that folklore says as follows[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] read as "and the god cain" or vulcain. if, however, anything is wanting

nova zemblia; and from the caucasus to the eternal ice beyond the arctic circle would land one between 60 and 45 degrees of longitude, or between nova zemblia and spitzbergen. this, of course, if one has the dodecapedian horse of[[footnote(s* mergain, or morgana, the fairy sister of king arthur, is thus shown of oriental descent* where we find her, indeed, in great britain, in the romance of the knights of the round table. whence the identity of name and fairy-hood, if both heroines did not symbolize the same historical event which had passed into a legend[[vol. 2, page] 399 the arctic continent. huschenk or the winged simorgh of tahmurath (or taimuraz, upon which to cross over the arctic ocean* nevertheless, the wandering songsters of persia and the caucasus will maintain, to this day, t

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thanksgiving thus for the sacrament of living, i lit my pipe, and made my way to break fast, and the labour of the day. liber lii manifesto of the o.t.o. o.t.o. issued by order^ xi o. t. o. h i b e r n i i o n e t omnium britanniarum rex summus sanctissimus baphomet xi o.t.o. supreme and holy king of ireland, iona, and all the britains that are in the sanctuary of the gnosis. grand master of the knights of the holy ghost grand master of the knights of the temple custos of the illuminati in the united states of america etc, etc, etc. 197 liber lii manifesto of the o.t.o. peace, tolerance, truth salutation on all points of the triangle respect to the order. to all whom it may concern: greeting and health do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. 1. the o.t.o. is a body of initiates i

c, etc. 197 liber lii manifesto of the o.t.o. peace, tolerance, truth salutation on all points of the triangle respect to the order. to all whom it may concern: greeting and health do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. 1. the o.t.o. is a body of initiates in whose hands are concentrated the wisdom and knowledge of the following bodies: 1. the gnostic catholic church 2. the order of the knights of the holy ghost. 3. the order of the illuminati. 4. the order of the temple (knights templar. 5. the order of the knights of st. john. 6. the order of the knights of malta. 7. the order of the knights of the holy sepulchre. 8. the hidden church of the holy graal. 9. the hermetic brotherhood of light. 10. the holy order of rose croix of heredom. 11. the order of the holy royal arch of eno

office is never disclosed except to his immediate representatives. 6. the authority of the o.h.o. in all english-speaking countries is delegated by charter to the most holy, most illustrious, most illuminated, and most puissant baphomet x rex summus sanctissimus 33, 90, 96, past grand master of the united states of america, grand master of ireland, iona, and all the britains, grand master of the knights of the holy ghost, sovereign grand commander of the order of the temple, most wise sovereign of the order of the rosy cross, grand zerubbabel of the order of the holy royal arch of enoch, etc. etc. etc, national grand master general ad vitam of the o.t.o. 7. the national grand master general ad vitam is assisted by two principal officers, the grand treasurer general and the grand secretary

bers. but this has been possible only because restricted life was enjoined. however, there were orders of military monks, like the templars, who grew and prospered exceedingly. you recall that the order of the temple was only overthrown by a liber clxi 229 treacherous coup d. tat on the part of a king and of a pope who saw their reactionary, obscurantist, and tyrannical programme menaced by those knights who did not scruple to add the wisdom of the east to their own large interpretation of christianity, and who represented in that time a movement towards the light of learning and of science, which has been brought to fruition in our own times by the labours of the orientalist from von hammer-purgstall and sir william jones to professer rhys davids and madame blavastsky, to say nothing of s

mulate details, none of which he understands. there is no hint of vision. there is no understanding of russia. there is nothing but interviews with uninteresting people, whose consciousness does not in any way represent them, or, as we used to say in days of less complicated speech, who do not know what they are talking about. has he no shame to blot the .scutcheon of the pooes.the other scissors-knights of savile row. the book is interesting enough to any one who knows russia even slightly, if only because there is a laugh on every page. some old poet, i forget his name, remarked .some minds improve by travel, others rather resemble copper wire or brass, which gets the narrower by going farther. the days of the innocent god-help-me tourist seem to be done. the tourist of to-day has been b

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"very" evil cards it means arrogance, display, vanity. 20. final decision, judgment, sentence, determination of a matter without appeal "on its plane" 21. the matter itself. synthesis, world, kingdom. usually denotes actual subject of question, and therefore depends entirely on accompanying cards. princes and queens shew almost always actual men and women connected with the matter. 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. of the dignities a card is strong or weak, well dignified or ill dignified, according to the cards next to it on either side. cards of the same suit on either side strengthen it greatly, for good or evil according to thei

rity 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. 4 princes meetings with the great. 3 princes rank and honour. 4 princesses new ideas or plans. 3 princesses society of the young. 4 tens anxiety, responsibility. 3 tens buying and selling (commerce. 4 nines added responsibilities. 3 nines mu

in the hb:h pack, to love, marriage, or pleasure; if in the hb:h pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters. 5. tell the querent what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divination. 6. if right, spread out the pack containing the significator, face upwards. count the cards from him, in the direction in which he faces. the counting should include the card from which you count. for knights, queens and princes, count 4. for princesses, count 7. for aces, count 11. for small cards, count according to the number. for trumps, count 3 for the elemental trumps; 9 for the planetary trumps; 12 for the zodiacal trumps. make a "story" of these cards. this story is that of the beginning of the affair. 7. pair the cards on either side of the significator, then those outside them, and so

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reasures of the celts. the treasures belonged to the celtic father god, dagda, and are said to be guarded in the otherworld by merlin. there were 13 treasures in total, but four have come into pre-eminence in magick and tarot reading. these four main sacred artefacts- swords, pentacles, wands and cups, or chalices- have parallels in christianity and were associated with the legendary quest of the knights of king arthur, who attempted to find them. the grail cup was the most famous of these. the christian sword of king david, identified in legend with arthur's sword excalibur, appears in celtic tradition as the sword of nuada whose hand was cut off in battle. with a new hand fashioned from silver, he went on to lead his people to victory. according to one account, the christian treasures we

st used at the last supper, in which his blood was collected after the crucifixion. grail guardians: nine maidens, sometimes associated with the guardians of sacred wells or with the nine priestesses of the isle of avalon who included morgan le fay, arthur's half-sister, and vivien, the lady of the lake in arthurian tradition who accompanied arthur on his funeral barge. in some grail legends, the knights templar were the traditional guardians of various holy relics, including the grail cup, that were brought back from the crusades. grail treasures: the main elemental ritual items in magick, associated with the treasures of the celts, and having parallels in christianity. handfastings: a popular marriage rite among wiccans, named after the focal point of the rite in which a couple's right h

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isiones seu revelationes. 1310s and 1320s: the dominican meister eckhart (c. 1260-1327) teaches in latin at paris and preaches vernacular sermons in strassburg and cologne. 1311-2: the council of vienne legislates against beguines and the beguine-associated "heresy of the free spirit" 1313 friars minors' constitution generales antique forbade the friars to practice alchemy 1314 destruction of the knights templar 1316? ramon llull dies; peter de abano dies 1316/17 "sefer yetzirah "i" parma de rossi, 1390, foll. 36b-38b. italian writing. 1316 1329 friar odoric despatched to the east; in western india soon after 1321; spent three years in china between the opening of 1323 and the close of 1328. 1317 pope john xxii's papal bull against alchemical counterfeit spondet quas non exhibent. cisterci

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de myself ready, wanting to return again into the tower; but the dark passages in the wall were so many and various, that i wandered a good while before i could find the way out. the same happened to the rest too, till at last we all met again in the nethermost vault, and entirely yellow apparel was given to us, together with our golden fleeces. at this time the virgin declared to us that we were knights of the golden stone, of which we were before ignorant. after we had made ourselves ready, and taken our breakfast, the old man presented each of us with a medal of gold. on one side were these words: ar. nat. mi (art is the priestess of nature) on the other these: tem. na. f (nature is the daughter of time) he exhorted us moreover that we should try to take nothing more than this token of

d men and the ladies and virgins, were to sit. after this, a very handsome page opened the above-mentioned glorious little book, and atlas immediately placed himself in the midst, and began to speak to this purpose: that his royal majesty had not forgotten the service we had done him, and how carefully we had attended to our duty, and therefore by way of retribution had elected all and each of us knights of the golden stone. and that it was therefore further necessary not only once again to oblige ourselves towards his royal majesty, but also to vow to the following articles; and then his royal majesty would likewise know how to behave himself towards his liege people. upon which he caused the page to read over the articles, which were these (i) you my lords the knights shall swear that yo

l that are worthy, and have need of them (4) that you desire not to employ this honour to worldly pride and high authority (5) that you shall not be willing to live longer than god will have you do. at this last article we could not choose but laugh, and it may well have been placed after the rest only for a conceit. now after vowing to them all by the king s sceptre, we were afterwards installed knights with the usual page 86 ceremonies, and amongst other privileges set over ignorance, poverty, and sickness, to handle them at our pleasure. and this was afterwards ratified in a little chapel (to which we were conducted in procession) and thanks returned to god for it. i also hung up there at that time my golden fleece and hat, and left them there for an eternal memorial, to the honour of g

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al court back north to thebes, but the brotherhood stayed at el-amarna and broke away from the state. through the centuries, other vehicles for communicating the knowledge emerged. some, like the cathars in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were destroyed by the catholic church in the most horrific manner after spreading their influence over a wide area from their base in southern france. the knights of the temple (knights templar, who came to prominence about the same time as the cathars, were dealt with equally severely by papal 'justice. but the templars went underground and their influence has continued up to the present day, both in their own right, and within other secret societies which are, after all, part of the same overall organisation. this period of the cathars and the cru

ally severely by papal 'justice. but the templars went underground and their influence has continued up to the present day, both in their own right, and within other secret societies which are, after all, part of the same overall organisation. this period of the cathars and the crusades spawned many brotherhood offshoots, which continue to significantly influence events- secret societies like the knights hospitallers of st. john, known today as the knights of malta. nor was this merely a phenomenon of the christian and jewish world. similar secret societies were created within all cultures, and the arab brotherhood grand lodge in cairo was to become a major manipulator of events. the aim of this negative brotherhood structure is to persuade the mass of the people to believe any old nonsens

esoteric doctrines of the templars. legends say he visited the so called 'wise men of the near east- just as colombus had done. columbus had his own brotherhood connections. his father was a member of the brotherhood branch, the order of the christ. columbus himself was involved with a group which followed the beliefs of the poet dante, who was a member of the cathar church and an initiate of the knights templar. columbus was often seen wearing the garb of what was believed to be the franciscan order. columbus's son said his father had died in such attire. the priests at the ancient egyptian brotherhood temple at el-amarna wore a similar habit, as did a brotherhood group called the fraternites at the time of columbus. these are only some of his brotherhood connections. columbus's father-in

red cross on a white background was the templars symbol. it was outlawed by the pope at the time of the purge. columbus's ships sailed with the red cross on a white background!3 his historic journey was funded by king ferdinand of aragon, spain and queen isabella of castile, spain, whose marriage helped to unify spain. these were 'catholic' monarchs funding a trip by a man flying the flag of the knights templar. more than that, other support came from leonardo da vinci and lorenzo de medici, both high initiates of brotherhood secret societies. given this background to columbus and caboto, it is hardly stretching the bounds of credibility to suggest that their 'discovery' of different parts of the americas within four or five years of each other was no coincidence. many of the early explor

ising the americas and particularly north america seems to have been a long-term aim of the great work of ages or the new world order. sir francis bacon, the grand chancellor of england, was a brotherhood member of high rank at the time of elizabeth i and james i. he was a grand commander of the brotherhood order called the rosicrucians, and very much involved in the underground operations of the knights templar traditions. bacon passed on knowledge secretly in codes contained in works like the shakespearean plays, which he wrote himself. the evidence for this is very substantial and the shakespeare story is a myth. sorry stratford! bacon used the network to encourage the colonising of north america, not the least to stop the spanish getting control of it. more than that, however, he was w

d rapidly was a new grand lodge (launched in london in 1717) which became known as the mother grand lodge of the world. it was a centre of freemasonic manipulation, encouraging other lodges to be set up throughout europe, the british empire, and the americas. many other versions of freemasonry were introduced, including the york rite and the scottish rite of michael ramsey (which was based on the knights templar system. the scottish rite has 33 degrees of initiation and today has enormous influence in the politics, economics, military, and security services of britain, europe, the united states, and many other countries. new york was named after the york rite of freemasonry. the brotherhood plan was for the establishment of an independent united states of america- independent of the britis

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as before the cataclysm.39 even those built since the upheavals have been placed on older sites that aligned with the old north pole. the same is true of rosslyn chapel near edinburgh in scotland.40 this is an illuminati "holy grail" full of their ancient symbolism and built by the st clair-sinclair family, one of the foremost of the illuminati bloodlines and one of the founding forces behind the knights templar secret society. charles hapgood, incidentally, had a meeting arranged with president kennedy to discuss a project to find atlantis, but kennedy died in dallas a few days before their appointment.41 hapgood also told rand flem-ath that he was going to produce evidence in his next book of an advanced civilisation on earth 100,000 years ago. but hapgood died soon afterwards and the bo

satanism, the inverted pentagram, and that is their symbol for sirius (figure 2. the pentagram within a circle is used by satanists in their rituals to draw other dimensional demonic entities into this world or to "draw down the kingdom of satan into manifestation on earth, as one writer put it. the pentagram is symbolised by the goat head known as the "goat of mendes" or "baphomet, the image the knights templar secret society was accused of worshipping when it was purged in france after 1307. the goat head is also associated with the sirius system. the ancients designed massive temples to point directly at the spot on the horizon where sirius appeared at the "rising" and their key rituals were focused on sirius, just as many of the illuminati's are today. one example of these sirius-align

the island of rhodes, a name that originates from a syrian word for serpent.51 rhodes was the home of the danaan brotherhood of initiates and magicians known as the telchines.52 the greek historian, diodorus, said these initiates had the ability to heal, change the weather, and "shape-shift" into any form. thousands of years later, one of the most important of the illuminati secret societies, the knights hospitaller of st john of jerusalem, now the knights of malta, located on rhodes and for a while were known as the knights of rhodes. ultimately, they came from the same source as the knights templar. the name rhodes, which is connected to the german "rot, meaning red, as with rothschild("red-shield, became a code name for the bloodlines. red= sirius? these guys don't choose their location

ecame a code name for the bloodlines. red= sirius? these guys don't choose their locations or their names by accident. malta, too, was an important centre by 3500bc and the home of a major mystery school. under malta is a vast network of tunnels and megalithic temples where secret rituals took place- and still do. malta's original name was lato, named after mother lato, the serpent goddess.53 the knights templar secret society was formed in the late 11th century to protect the reptilian bloodline or "le serpent rouge, the red serpent or serpent blood, together with their associated order, the highly secretive priory of sion.54 the goals of the knights templar and the illuminati were, and are, to place these serpent bloodlines in all positions of power worldwide and thus form a reptilian, c

pent or serpent blood, together with their associated order, the highly secretive priory of sion.54 the goals of the knights templar and the illuminati were, and are, to place these serpent bloodlines in all positions of power worldwide and thus form a reptilian, centrally controlled, fascist state. we are now getting very close to that. the danaans also settled on cyprus (later controlled by the knights templar) and in ancient times it was known as la-dan or the "isle of dan".55 the name of the isle of man in the irish sea, a place so important to the druids, has the same origin, no doubt. the taurus mountains in turkey, the baleric islands, and syria (sirius) were 42 children of the matrix among other danaan settlements and they travelled from atlantis to britain where they became known

ames churchward shows in the children of mu that all these "maya" peoples around the world originated in lemuria-mu, hence the common connections. also, the legendary founder of the maya culture, called votan or wotan, is the name of the atlantean fire god and also the god of the teutonic peoples of germany and scandinavia. he was one of the gods of the nazis and they were created by the teutonic knights network (illuminati) in germany. the teutonic knights were formed in the same period, and operated in the same "holy land" region, as the knights templar and the knights of malta and they work to the same basic agenda right to this day. that part of the sumerian empire known as the phoenicians, with their base in the middle east and what we now call turkey, particularly cappadocia, were ve

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o still believes that oswald killed kennedy? but while i question claims inthe bible code, there is a code in the bible, an esoteric code for initiates. they either madeup characters to fit their symbolism or vaguely based them on living people who theyusually massively misrepresented. here are some examples of codes in the bible. a commontheme in all mystery school traditions is of 12 disciples, knights or followers surrounding adeity. the number 12 is a code, among other things, for the 12 months of the year and thehouses of the zodiac through which symbolically travels the sun, the god, symbolised as13. this is the sacred 12 and one as some people describe it and it is one major reason whythe numbers 12 and 13 keep recurring. thus you have the 12 tribes of israel, 12 princes of83ishmael

the year and thehouses of the zodiac through which symbolically travels the sun, the god, symbolised as13. this is the sacred 12 and one as some people describe it and it is one major reason whythe numbers 12 and 13 keep recurring. thus you have the 12 tribes of israel, 12 princes of83ishmael, 12 disciples or followers of jesus, buddha, osiris and quetzalcoatl. there isalso king arthur and his 12 knights of the round table (the zodiac circle, himmlerand his 12 knights in the nazi ss, and the woman (isis, semiramis) with a crown of 12stars in the book of revelation. in scandinavia and that whole northern region you findthe odin mysteries, again inspired by the same aryan race from the near east. in thistradition, you find twelve drottars presiding over the mysteries with odin. the sacred12

al and religiouspower, and created the united states. this apparent superpower is still a puppet of thebabylonian brotherhood in london.three of the most significant of the secret societies emerged publicly in the 12thcentury. they are still in existence today and have among their membership top peoplein global politics, banking, business, military and the media. they were the knightstemplar, the knights hospitaller of st john of jerusalem and the teutonic knights. theknights hospitaller have changed their name a number of times. they have been theknights of rhodes and today they are the knights of malta in their roman catholicform and their protestant version is known as the knights of st john of jerusalem. asthe knights of malta, their official head is the pope and their headquarters is

ller of st john of jerusalem and the teutonic knights. theknights hospitaller have changed their name a number of times. they have been theknights of rhodes and today they are the knights of malta in their roman catholicform and their protestant version is known as the knights of st john of jerusalem. asthe knights of malta, their official head is the pope and their headquarters is in rome.as the knights of st john they are based in london and their official head is the kingor queen. the catholic and protestant wings are in fact the same organisation at thehighest level. the knights templar were formed about the same time in 1118, thoughthis could have been at least four years earlier, and were first known as the soldiers ofchrist. the templars are surrounded in mystery and contradiction

the kingor queen. the catholic and protestant wings are in fact the same organisation at thehighest level. the knights templar were formed about the same time in 1118, thoughthis could have been at least four years earlier, and were first known as the soldiers ofchrist. the templars are surrounded in mystery and contradiction, but it is known thatthey dedicated the order to the mother of god. the knights templar promoted achristian image as a cover and so mother of god was taken to be mary, the mother ofjesus, but to the reptile-aryan secret societies the term, mother of god, is symbolic ofisis, the virgin mother of the egyptian son of god, horus, and the wife of the sun god,osiris, in egyptian legend. isis, in turn, is another name for queen semiramis, as innimrod-semiramis-tammuz. isis/s

s was st bernard, thefounder of the cistercian order, and the french st clair family which became thescottish sinclair family after they settled in scotland following the norman invasionof britain by william the conqueror in 1066. the st clair/sinclairs are of a reptilianbloodline and knowledge of the reptilian agenda was the great secret held by theleading templars. the first grand master of the knights templar was hughes depayens, who joined in 1124. he was a french nobleman (meaning literally: aryan-man) allied to the count of champagne, and was married to a scottish woman ofnorman decent called catherine st clair. the first templar centre or preceptoryoutside the holy land was built on the st clair estate in scotland. other earlytemplars included fulk, the count danjou, who was the fat

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ianity was not entirely successful, however. in many countries, the people worshipped christ alongside the old gods. by the twelfth century there were a number of gnostic heresies which threatened the power of the church in rome. one gnostic sect was known as the luciferans. the luciferans believed that lucifer was the true god and yahweh was the devil. another gnostic sect, better known, was the knights templar. the knights templar fought in the crusades against the muslims but upon seeing how much more advanced the muslims were to themselves, converted to the religion of those they had fought. during the 12th and 13th centuries, the various gnostic heresies were suppressed and many of their followers executed. the trial of the knights templar and the suppression of the various gnostic he

ssion) the cult of satanism and practice of witchcraft and magic developed. those evil masons& brothers of the rosy cross masonic lodges, which began to appear in france and england in the 18th century and spread to other countries, made a number of false claims: a) the origin of masonry can be traced to ancient jerusalem and the construction of solomon s temple, b) freemasonry is linked with the knights templar, and c) the leader of the lodge is in contact with master beings who live in the himalayas the illuminati. the early lodges had no connection to each other but made similar claims of possessing hidden knowledge passed down from ancient times or from a race of secret masters in the east. in reality, these lodges had very few secrets to reveal other than hand-shakes and grade signs b

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the perversion and defilement of catholic religious practices. however, the black mass as a celebration or homage to satan or the antichrist is a relatively modern activity. it was performed in the french royal court, and probably in england by members of the hell-fire club. possibly it was also done in the russian royal court. it is unlikely that black masses were ever used in the rituals of the knights templar, even though the knights were accused of trampling and spitting on the cross. black masses formed a part of the religious practices of the late anton szandor lavey 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 blac

ELLIS LOW TWELVE 1907

the time of the rugged young man, and he was placed on light duty as president of a court-martial at annapolis, maryland. on may 15 he was mustered out of service and returned to the profession of law in his native state of rhode island. the stirring events narrated were followed, as has been the case in many other similar instances, by a pleasant sequel. in june, 1875, the richmond commandery of knights templars made a brief visit to providence on their return from the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the battle of bunker hill. captain bliss had a cheery time with a number of the members, to whom he related his experience at waynesborough. when they went home they retold the story. thus the way was opened for not only an acquaintance with the ex-confederates whom he encountere

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infinite multication, and when projected on mercury, it will absolutely transmute it, the resulting gold bearing every test. the base metals made use of must be purified to insure the success of the operation. the process for the manufacture of silver is essentially similar, but the resources of the matter are not carried to so high a degree. according to the commentary on the ancient war of the knights the transmutations performed by the perfect stone are so absolute that no trace remains of the original metal. it cannot, however, destroy gold, nor exalt it into a more perfect metallic substance; it, therefore, transmutes it into a medicine a thousand times superior to any virtues which can be extracted from it in its vulgar state. this medicine becomes a most potent agent in the exaltat

nvulnerability, and all through his career merlin was deep in the king s counsels. merlin s tragic imprisonment by the lady viviana, who shut him up eternally in a rock through the agency of one of his own spells, removed him from his sphere of activity at the arthurian court, and from that time the shadows were seen to gather swiftly around arthur s head. innumerable are the tales concerning the knights of his court who met with magical adventures, and as the stories grew older in the popular mind, additions to these naturally became the rule. of note is the offshoot of the arthurian epic, known as the holy grail, in which the knights who go in quest of it encounter every description of sorcery for the purpose of retarding their progress. arthur s end is as strange as his origin, for he i

tt, the distinction of a banshee is only allowed to families of the pure milesian stock, and is never ascribed to any descendant of the proudest norman or the boldest saxon who followed the banner of strongbow, much less to adventurers of later dates who have obtained settlements in the green isle. thus, an amusing story is contained in an irish elegy to the effect that on the death of one of the knights of kerry, when the banshee was heard to lament his decease at dingle.a seaport town, the property of those knights.all the merchants of this place were thrown into a state of alarm lest the mournful and encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. banshee 151 ominous wailing should be a forewarning of the death of one of them, but, as the poet humorously points out, there was no nece

hiefly concerned with elementary spirits. in the nineteenth century, abbe de villars seems to have drawn upon this book for his work le comte de gabalis. however, some commentators suggested that the borri book is merely a faulty translation and expansion of de villars s volume, complete with a false publication date to support its claim to priority. bors (or bohors or boort) one of king arthur s knights. he was associated with sir galahad and lancelot in their search for the holy grail. he is the hero of many magical adventures such as the following. during the quest for the holy grail, a damsel offers him her love, which he refuses; then she, with 12 other damsels, threatens to throw herself from a tower. bors, though of a kindly disposition, thinks they had better lose their souls than

thirteenth-century gothic architecture, believed by some occultists to enshrine ancient mysteries of religious inspiration. for example, in his book the mysteries of chartres cathedral (1972, louis charpentier claims that the cathedral is built on the site of powerful and ancient earth currents. he examines the mystery of the amazing architecture of the cathedral, its historic connection with the knights templar, and its symbolic and esoteric meanings. sources: charpentier, louis. the mysteries of chartres cathedral. london: research into lost knowledge organization, 1972. reprint, new york: avon, 1972. chase, warren (1813.1891) one of the first apostles of spiritualism in america. born in pittsfield, new hampshire, chase began to study mesmerism in southport, wisconsin, by 1843. he was st

in the book of leinster of finn macgorman, bishop of kildare, recorded in 1150. in the twelfth century book of the dun cow, cuchulain is summoned from hell by st. patrick to describe the terrors of hell to the pagan king of ireland laery macneill. as a result, the king was converted to christianity and cuchulain allowed to enter heaven. the deeds of cuchulain as related in the ulster cycle of the knights of the red branch are thought to have influenced the development of traditions of king arthur in wales and england. cuddon, eric (1905) british barrister, hypnotist, and writer who engaged in parapsychological investigations. he was born january 18, 1905, in london, educated at oxford university (b.a, 1927; b.c.l, 1928; m.a, 1931, and became a barrister in 1928. during world war ii he was

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agical work. under grant, the oto dominated the british ritual magic scene into the 1970s. over the last two decades a number of other thelemic magical groups have arisen in great britain and grant s oto has come to the united states, though it has remained small. ordo templi orientis (oto) a ritual magic organization founded in germany around 1904. the order found its inspiration in the medieval knights templar, who were suppressed through most of europe in the fourteenth century. among the charges made against the order were that they practiced various forms of illicit sex, specifically sodomy and bestiality. through the nineteenth century a number of groups had emerged in both france and germany claiming to carry on the templar tradition. however, this order seems to have originated out

k, and was subsequently appointed canon of bridlington in his native yorkshire, a priory which had been founded in the time of henry i by walter de ghent. ripley s priestly office did not prevent him from traveling, and he studied physical science and alchemy in france, germany, and italy, even voyaging as far as the island of rhodes, where he is said to have made a large quantity of gold for the knights of st. john of jerusalem. afterward he went to rome, where he was dignified by the pope, the result being that when he returned to bridlington, he found his friends there intensely jealous of him. it was reported that he even resigned his position and retired to a priory at boston, in lincolnshire, but this story is probably unfounded, the likelihood being that ripley the alchemist was con

heir secrecy and practiced in the open light of day. in england, for example, numerous persons avowed themselves alchemists; in germany the rosicrucians sent out a manifesto; in scotland, alexander seton, a great master of the hermetic art, flourished. but it was nearly a century later when further secret societies were formed, such as the academy of the ancients and of the mysteries in 1767; the knights of the true light, founded in austria about 1780; the knights and brethren of asia, which appeared in germany in the same year; the order of jerusalem, which originated in america in 1791; and the society of the universal aurora, established in paris in 1783. besides being masonic, these societies practiced animal magnetism, astrology, kabala, and even ceremonial magic. others were politic

stems of what is considered the old aeon, the magicians of the sss come together for mutual sharing, learning, and networking. there are no leaders, no holy books, and no formal initiations; however, the group does have a special respect for the teachings of the late sri gurudeva mahendrabath paramahamsa, known to his followers as dadaji, the cofounder of amookos (the arcane, magikal order of the knights of shambhala) and the late alain danielou. the association is overseen by an administrator-general, a revolving office; the current administrator-general of the sss is known by his magical name, frater eeyore. sss may be contacted at p.o. box 642, weslaco, tx 78599-0642. it publishes a periodical, lila. closely associated is the american gnostic church, founded in 1985, headed by the rev

. a few people were murdered, considered traitors by the larger group. the remainder were considered weaker members and were assisted (i.e, murdered) to make the transition. the solar temple was one of a number of groups that emerged in france and neighboring countries in the years since 1804 that traced their authority to a lineage of grand masters of the order of the temple, a medieval order of knights that was suppressed at the beginning of the fourteenth century. in 1804, a parisian physician, bernard-raymond fabre- palaprat (1773.1838, claimed that he was the successor to a secret line of templar grand masters who had kept the order alive through the years since its disappearance from public view. following his death the order began to splinter. among the modern splinters from this mi

dieval monastic order virtually destroyed by king philip the fair of france and formally dissolved by pope clement v in 1307. the order survived for another century in portugal, but by the beginning of the fifteenth century had completely disappeared. however, as speculative freemasonry spread through europe in the eighteenth century, a rumor developed that the order had survived in the person of knights who sought protection in the masonic guilds of scotland and ireland. they were the sources of the templar degrees in the masonic initiatory structure. then, at the time of the french revolution, some french masons began to argue that since the templars came before freemasonry, it was logically independent of it and hence not subordinate to it. their cause was championed by fabre-palaprat

FAUST

with mind s and nature s might! chancellor. nature and mind- don t talk to christians thus! men burn up atheists, fittingly, because such speeches are most dangerous. nature is sin, and mind is devil, they nurture doubt, in doubt they revel, their hybrid, monstrous progeny. that s not for us- our emperor s ancient land has seen arise two castes alone who worthily uphold his throne: the saints and knights. firm do they stand, defying every tempest day by day and taking church and state in pay. in rabble minds that breed confusion revolt arises like a tide. heretics, wizards! imps of delusion! they ruin town and country-side. them will you now with brazen juggle into this lofty circle smuggle, while in a heart depraved you snuggle. fools, wizards, heretics are near allied. mephistopheles i s

cintillations, sudden and blinding illuminations. that s fine, methinks, and has succeeded. but now a sound of terror s needed. faust the hollow armour from the vaulted chambers revives in open air in all its members; there it s been rattling, clattering all around, a wondrous-strange, discordant sound. mephistopheles quite right! they re now past all restraining. hark to the sound of blows those knights are raining as in the dear old times of yore. brassards and cuisses, charging, rearing, as guelph and ghibelline appearing, renew the everlasting strife once more. their enmity still unabated, firm in the hate their fathers hated, both far and wide resounds the wild uproar. hate between parties is the devil s best helper still in all his revels, till the last horror ends it all; abhorrent

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

, 1650, p. 371 (photos: warb. inst) 339 viii preface many years ago i planned to make an english translation of giordano bruno's la cena de le ceneri with an introduction emphasising the boldness with which this advanced philosopher of the renaissance accepted the copernican theory. but as i followed bruno along the strand to the house in whitehall where he was to expound the copernican theory to knights and doctors, doubts arose. was that journey imaginary and was the supper really held at the french embassy? and was the copernican theory really the subject of the debate or was there something else implied in it? the bruno problem remained with me thereafter as the real centre of all my studies; masses of notes and manuscript accumulated but full understanding eluded me. some major clue w

he irritable magician regarded himself as a missionary of conciliation. i have suggested elsewhere2 that the curious title of cena de le ceneri or "ash wednesday supper, which bruno gives to the work describing the supper (which took place, so he told the venetian inquisitors, not really at fulke greville's house as the text says but at the french embassy)3 in which he expounded his philosophy to knights and pedants, may imply a religious meaning for this supper, perhaps some version of the sacrament such as he seems to allude to in the spaccio, and of which he spoke to the librarian of st. victor.4 but all is so confused about this supper, and its setting, and the journey to and from it through the london streets (an imaginary journey if the supper really took place at the embassy where b

lizabeth as astraea, j. w.c.i, x (1947, pp. 80-1. 1 eroici furori, dedication (dial, ital, p. 496. 3 ibid, pt. ii, dial. 5 (dial, ital, pp. n68-9, 1173; williams, ii, pp. 115-16, 119-20. 289 giordano bruno: heroic enthusiast and elizabethan 1 also think that the eroicifurori reflects the cult of the queen in the great revival of chivalry in her reign of which the accession day tilts, in which the knights presented shields with devices on them to elizabeth, were a manifestation. in the eroici furori, a set of emblems or imprese is in the form of shields which the heroic enthusiasts come in bearing.1 as i have suggested elsewhere, if one wishes to study the kind of abstruse meanings which might be drawn out of an impresa shield at an accession day tilt "one cannot do better than read what br

the best country of the world and into the presence of the best ruler.3 the woodstock entertainment was published in 1585,4 the same year as the eroici furori. as i have said "bruno, who elsewhere shows himself in sympathy with the elizabeth cult, may have been intentionally unking his philosophical dialogues with the chivalrous romance woven around the virgin queen."5 bruno's attitude to english knights, courtiers, and the english queen, seems to be very different from his attitude to the oxford "pedants" who had dispossessed their predecessors, suggesting that he saw elizabethan society as divided, finding himself at home and understood in the innermost recesses of the queen cult but antagonistic to some aspects of the elizabethan world. that his reception into inner courtly circles was

ce in the presence of two noblemen, francesco sagrado and filippo salviati, in sagrado's palace in venice. if for francesco sagrado is substituted fulke greville, at whose house in london the copernican debate described by bruno is supposed to have taken place, and for filippo salviati is substituted philip sidney, the venetian gathering corresponds quite closely to the london gathering, with its knights, its pedants, and its philosopher the latter now not bruno but galileo. galileo is transposing the great debate on the copernican and ptolemaic systems of the universe to a rational and scientific level, but the setting in which he places it is strangely reminiscent of that earlier debate on a pythagorean and hermetic level.2 had galileo read the cena de le ceneri 1 traiano boccalini, ragg

icians, such as the documenta ad gallorum nationem which is a glorification of louis xiii, who, with his noble minister richelieu, will free europe from the spanish tyranny, like a new charlemagne with his 1 blanchet, op. cit, p. 57. 2 l. firpo, ricerche campanelliane, florence, 1947, pp. 155 ff, and bibliografia di campanella, pp. 98-100; walker, p. 208. 389 giordano bruno and tommaso campanella knights.1 he also republished earlier works adding to them the new french monarchy slant, such as the de sensu rerum et magia (1637) with the dedication to richelieu,2 already mentioned, urging him to build the city of the sun; and the paris edition (1637) of the civitas solis itself. in paris he was still strongly supported by his sense of universal mission, busy converting french protestants. in

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

names. o.t.o (ordo templi orientis; 128/ practical sigil magic be ass ideas known s the thelemic current. numerous groups calling recent years. nown as the ten sephiroth and form a pattern called the tree of life. it is used by magicians for person wicca.an old english word meaning gwise. h origin he negative connotations at many hundreds of years of defamation have placed on the ociated with the 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 ke

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

the tyler. maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (55 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:56 am] when there is an escort, it leads the procession, but halts just before reaching the place of destination, to allow the body escorted to pass by it. in web's monitor, published in 1805, and in subsequent editions, places are assigned, in processions of lodges, to royal arch masons and knights templar immediately preceding the masterand it was for some time customary for masons of those degrees to take places in a lodge procession, clothed in their peculiar insignia. this is believed to have been an innovation at that time, as it is not found in any of the earlier monitors, either of webb or other authors. indeed, in the pennsylvania ahiman rezon of 1783, it is stated by the aut

members of the higher degrees" the better practice is to follow dermott's, and dalcho's original rule, except in cases in which a mason of a different grade has been invited, in his distinctive or official character, by the body or officer having charge, to participate in lile ceremonies. but bodies of other grades, recognized as masonic, may properly be assigned positions in masonic processions. knights templar, and similar organizations, appearing as a body, should always act as escort: other bodies are placed immediately in front of the officiating lodge, and the grand lodge, if that is in attendance. at the funeral of past grand master robert p. dunlap, his commandery acted as escort, his chapter marched in the procession immediately in front of his lodge, and members of the supreme co

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

rs represented. thoth "the first hermes was the intelligence or word of god. moved with compassion for a race living without law. god sent to man osiris and isis, accompanied by thoth, the incarnation or terrestrial repetition of the first hermes; who taught men the arts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon [pike, morals and dogma, p. 255, 17th degree, knights of the east and west; emphasis was in the original. helena petrovna blavatsky was founder of the house of theosophy. her books were all written by her demonic guiding spirits in a form that is called automatic writing. these writings tie thoth together nicely. hermes, the god of wisdom, called also thoth, tat, set, and sat-an; and that he was, furthermore, when viewed under his bad aspect

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

10; after that his attendance declined, ceasing altogetherwhenhe moved permanently to ramsgate in 1920.itwas, as he had intended, a means to an end, and as soonashehad been raised, waite began his quest for the'higherdegrees (which arenowtermed 'additional degrees) in, earnest.duringthe sevenyearsthatfollowed, waite became amemberoften distinct rites and degrees; beginningwiththe holy royal arch, knights templar, knights of malta, and the swedenborgian rite in 1902, and proceeding to the mark degree,theredcrossofconstantine, secretmonitorand ancient and accepted rite. there were also othersthathe considered evenmoreimportant.thefirst of these, the early grand scottish, rite, was also .something of a means to an end. as a resultofcorrespondingwithedouard blitz, waite had cometoseethe regime

of bitterness at what he saw as shabby treatment by the society. hetookhis revenge by sprinkling acidcomments-onboth westcott and the society as awhole-throughouthis masterly study of rosicrucianism,the_'brotherhoodisreligion'131brotherhood of the rosy cross(1924).he remained active in most of the additional degrees whose ranks he had joined, acting as secretaryfor both his rose-croix chapter and knights templar preceptory for periods of twenty and thirty years respectively. but his principal concernin masonrynow becamethe dissemination of hisideasthrough hiswriting. his first major 'contribution to masonic literature' wasthesecrettraditioninfreemasonry(1911),which received wide praise from the masonic and non255 masonic pressalike.the masonic writer w. j.wilmshurst (who was a member of th

c. will obtain and exercise jurisdictionoverindependent lodges, chapters and templesofthefollowingrectifiedoccultordersand masonic rites:theoccultorders.(a)theindependent and rectifiedriteofmartinism (b)thereformedorderoftheg. d. masonically reconstituted (c)therectifiedriter. r.eta.c.masonicrites(a)therectifiedriteofswedenborg,(b)theindependentorder. oftheilluminati (c)theorderofthe novices and knights beneficentoftheholycityofjerusalem (d)thenewand reformedriteofadoptive masonry.(e)theincorporatedorderoftheeastern star (19) membersofthes.c.are membersofthese bodies and willwork them in a constitutionalmannerforthepurposesofthec.,and allotherrites 'and orderswhichit may subsequently acquire forthesame purposes in like manner.(20)themembersofthes. c.willif possible obtain their receptioni

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

es placed their right hands across below the chin and the left hand down at the side- as if a recognised ritual performance: i find no authority whatever for this statement. mr a. e. waite, the poet, tells us, inthe secret tradition,that 'the essenes remaind the depositories of the christ255 mystery in the eastern world, and are actually that hidden sodality from which masonry derives through the knights templar, not by the identification of the chivalry with the operative builders,butthrough the descent of a vital principle from onetothe other' this is but a poetic phantasy. christian ginsburg, a thoroughly competent modern hebrew scholar, in his published workthe essenes,1864,summarises almost all previous authorities, which are non-masonic, and makes no assertions of the use of secret w

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

oney.70 the sorcererand his apprenticewhere themodeof reading the cards .requiresthatperson consulting 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 o

asonry which goes by that name; it is absolutely an esoteric school, possessing extraordinary wisdom.162 the sorcererand his apprenticea large amount of wisdom has also been preserved among the freemasons, although they have lost a great deaf of what they ought. to have; they have a large quantity. of exoteric symbology, but, sad to say, they have in great part lostthekey toitin the meantime, the knights templars in the middle ages again, handed down a great deal-of wisdom and knowledge. they are gone;butthere are schools of occultism descended from them still existing, and from timetotime these. schools. allow certain portions of their knowledge to be proclaimed generally. to such allowance we owe the foundation of the theosophical societyinthe west. and the east has taught us much- for e

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

nada from its foundation in december 1882 to his death on 23 february 1885. earlier, in february 1876, he had been active in importing the antient and primitive rite from the u.s.a. and in august of that year he had acquired the supreme rite of memphis and the reformed egyptian rite from 28[28] lt. col. w. j. b. mcleod moore (1810 1890) was provincial grand prior of canada in the masonic order of knights templar, becoming grand master of the sovereign grand priory of canada on its formation in 1884; thomas douglas harington was the first sovereign grand commander of the supreme council 33 of the ancient& accepted rite for canada; the first recorded correspondence was, however, between beswick and longley 29[29] voorhis, op. cit, p. 226 30[30] the kneph, vol. 3, no. 1, january 1883 their re

GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

side only order, but personally i have no cause to complain of what has resulted from my first attempt to interest and vindicate the institution'36[36. this change on waite's part had already been perceived by the more rabid of roman- catholic anti-masons who saw him as a prime mover of the satanic conspiracy 'it is perfectly apparent that during the last thirty years the english leading masonic knights, whether in europe or america, have imbibed more or less of the magical teachings of the french magician (eliphas levi, and we do not known anyone who contributed to this result more than mr. a. e. waite did in england, and 'no one has contributed as he did to the propagation of mystico-magic among the english occultists in or out of freemasonry'37[37. colonel ratton, in his pseudonymous a

ees in earnest. on 10 april 1902 he and blackden were admitted to the grade of zelator in the s.r.i.a, having been proposed by palmer-thomas and seconded by westcott- both of whom were keen to have waite as a member. the two new rosicrucians then proceeded to the holy royal arch, being exalted in metropolitan chapter no. 1507 on 1 may 1902, following this one week later with their installation as knights templar at the consecration of the king edward vii preceptory. here they rested, and waite prepared for a journey to switzerland and for reception into the one rite he craved the most: the regime ecossais et rectifie and its grade of chevalier bienfaisant de la cite sainte (c.b.c.s. as a result of his earlier correspondence with blitz, waite had come to see the rigime ecossais et rectifie

l be indeed an occult order of unknown philosophers- a concealed kind'65[65. at a later meeting the c.b.c.s. was specifically excluded although it was restored to the council's control when a constitution was finally drawn up in april 1903 (see appendix d for the whole text of this curious document. greater satisfaction was anticipated by waite from the c.b.c.s. than he had so far gained from the knights templar 'i attended this evening the meeting of the templar preceptory [king edward vii] when two installations took place. it is by far the most interesting of all of the christian chivalries with the rites of which i am acquainted, though such gleanings as i can make concerning the perfect knights' charges seem to hope for greater significance therein'66[66. he was also far from adept wh

s he was its recorder. but it was for the order of the temple that he felt the greatest affection and to the sancta maria preceptory that he gave his greatest support. he had been preceptor in 1909 and from 1910 to 1940 acted as its registrar; his early speculations on templar history and symbolism had been first presented as lectures in the preceptory and his last, and most important, paper 'the knights templar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry- had been delivered therein 1930. waite's rosicrucian activities, in their masonic context at least, had ceased in 1914 when he resigned from the s.r.i.a. after failing in his bid to be elected as celebrant. he had also quarrelled bitterly with blackden over the workings of the isis-urania temple of the golden dawn and felt that the sam

60-5 1922 note concerning the comacini, vol. 8, p. 25 review of dudley wright 'masonic legends and traditions, vol. 8, p. 221 the freemason 1915 reply to welcome at author's lodge no. 3456, 6 march, vol. 55 1920 'the recent attacks on freemasonry, vol. 60, pp. 133-5 (reprinted, in abridged form, from the occult review) 1921 'the laureate of masonry, vol. 61, p. 576 freemasons' chronicle 1930 'the knights templar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry, vol. 111, pp. 257, 290, 315; vol. 112, pp. 73, 91, 108-9, 124 horlick's magazine and home journal for australia, india and the colonies 1904 'the keeping of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 365-74 'the freedom of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 429-42 'the transformations of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 559-68 1905 'the innermost sanctuary, v

nry: an historical consideration of their origin and development' 6 april, sancta maria preceptory (printed, in revised form, in the occult review) 1926 'the secret tradition in french grades analogous to the royal arch, 13 december, helio chapter no. 3900 1927 'the secret tradition in christian times and the directions in which research is baffled, 9 september, kingsgate lodge no. 4882 1930 'the knights -l'emplar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry, 10 february, sancta maria preceptory (printed in freemasons' chronicle) back to homepage back to waite appendix a appendix b appendix c appendix d the masonic career of a.e. waite the publications of a.e. waite lectures given by a.e. waite constitution of the secret college of rites the masonic career of a.e. waite appendix d the sec

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

common perception of the majority of historians of freemasonry is that the origin of the organization goes back to the crusades. in fact, though masonry was only officially established and recognized in england in the early eighteenth century, the roots of the organization do reach back to the crusades in the twelfth century. at the center of this familiar tale is an order of crusaders called the knights templar or the templars. six years before this present work, our book, entitled the new masonic order, examined the history of the templars in great detail. for that reason, we will now offer just a summary. for, as we analyze the roots of masonry, and the influence that it has had on the world, we discover the meaning of "global freemasonry" g no matter how much some may insist that the c

by pope urban ii soldiers, and tens of thousands of ordinary people. historians believe urban ii's venture was prompted by his desire to thwart the candidacy of a rival to the papacy. furthermore, while european kings, princes, aristocrats and others greeted the pope's call with excitement, their intentions were basically mundane. as donald queller of the university of illinois put it "the french knights wanted more land. italian merchants hoped to expand trade in middle eastern ports. large numbers of poor people joined the expeditions simply to escape the hardships of their normal lives."1 along the way, this greedy mass slaughtered many muslims, and even jews, in hopes of finding gold and jewels. the crusaders even cut open the stomachs of those they had killed to find gold and precious

the templars. df from the templars to ancient egypt the crusaders wreaked havoc in jerusalem. the mediaeval engraving shown above depicts certain scenes of the horror. the templars the templars, or, their full name, the poor fellow-soldiers of jesus christ and the temple of solomon, was formed in 1118, that is, 20 years after the crusaders took jerusalem. the founders of the order were two french knights, hugh de payens and godfrey de st. omer. at first there were 9 members, but the order steadily grew. the reason they named themselves after the temple of solomon was because the place they had chosen as a base was the temple mount where this ruined temple had been located. this same location was where the dome of the rock (qubbet as-sakhrah) stood. the templars called themselves "poor sold

of the templars, who were called "grand masters" beginning with the most important of them, jacques de molay, were executed in 1314 by order of the church and the king. the majority of them were put into prison, and the order dispersed and officially disappeared. some historians have a tendency to portray the trial of the templars as a conspiracy on the part of the king of france, and depict the knights as innocent of the charges. but, this manner of interpretation fails in several aspects. nesta h. webster, the famous british historian with a great deal of knowledge on occult history, analyzes these aspects in her book, secret societies and subversive movements. according to webster, the tendency to absolve the templars of the heresies they confessed to during the trial period dh from th

occult history, analyzes these aspects in her book, secret societies and subversive movements. according to webster, the tendency to absolve the templars of the heresies they confessed to during the trial period dh from the templars to ancient egypt is unjustified. first, during the interrogations, despite the standard claim, not all the templars were tortured; moreover, do the confessions of the knights appear to be the outcome of pure imagination such as men under the influence of torture might devise? it is certainly difficult to believe that the accounts of the ceremony of initiation given in detail by men in different countries, all closely resembling each other, yet related in different phraseology, could be pure inventions. had the victims been driven to invent they would surely hav

ontrol of these lodges.7 the wall-builders' lodge changed its name, at the beginning of the modern era, calling itself the "masonic lodge" the scottish rite is the oldest branch of masonry, and dates back to the beginning of the fourteenth century, to those templars who took refuge in scotland. and, the names given to the highest degrees in scottish rite are titles attributed centuries earlier to knights in the order of templars. these are still employed to this day. in short, the templars did not disappear, but their philosophy, beliefs dj from the templars to ancient egypt templars fleeing the church were given refuge by the scottish king, robert the bruce. and rituals still persist under the guise of freemasonry. this thesis is supported by much historical evidence, and is accepted toda

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side only order, but personally i have no cause to complain of what has resulted from my first attempt to interest and vindicate the institution'36[36. this change on waite's part had already been perceived by the more rabid of roman- catholic anti-masons who saw him as a prime mover of the satanic conspiracy 'it is perfectly apparent that during the last thirty years the english leading masonic knights, whether in europe or america, have imbibed more or less of the magical teachings of the french magician (eliphas levi, and we do not known anyone who contributed to this result more than mr. a. e. waite did in england, and 'no one has contributed as he did to the propagation of mystico-magic among the english occultists in or out of freemasonry'37[37. colonel ratton, in his pseudonymous a

ees in earnest. on 10 april 1902 he and blackden were admitted to the grade of zelator in the s.r.i.a, having been proposed by palmer-thomas and seconded by westcott- both of whom were keen to have waite as a member. the two new rosicrucians then proceeded to the holy royal arch, being exalted in metropolitan chapter no. 1507 on 1 may 1902, following this one week later with their installation as knights templar at the consecration of the king edward vii preceptory. here they rested, and waite prepared for a journey to switzerland and for reception into the one rite he craved the most: the regime ecossais et rectifie and its grade of chevalier bienfaisant de la cite sainte (c.b.c.s. as a result of his earlier correspondence with blitz, waite had come to see the rigime ecossais et rectifie

l be indeed an occult order of unknown philosophers- a concealed kind'65[65. at a later meeting the c.b.c.s. was specifically excluded although it was restored to the council's control when a constitution was finally drawn up in april 1903 (see appendix d for the whole text of this curious document. greater satisfaction was anticipated by waite from the c.b.c.s. than he had so far gained from the knights templar 'i attended this evening the meeting of the templar preceptory [king edward vii] when two installations took place. it is by far the most interesting of all of the christian chivalries with the rites of which i am acquainted, though such gleanings as i can make concerning the perfect knights' charges seem to hope for greater significance therein'66[66. he was also far from adept wh

s he was its recorder. but it was for the order of the temple that he felt the greatest affection and to the sancta maria preceptory that he gave his greatest support. he had been preceptor in 1909 and from 1910 to 1940 acted as its registrar; his early speculations on templar history and symbolism had been first presented as lectures in the preceptory and his last, and most important, paper 'the knights templar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry- had been delivered therein 1930. waite's rosicrucian activities, in their masonic context at least, had ceased in 1914 when he resigned from the s.r.i.a. after failing in his bid to be elected as celebrant. he had also quarrelled bitterly with blackden over the workings of the isis-urania temple of the golden dawn and felt that the sam

60-5 1922 note concerning the comacini, vol. 8, p. 25 review of dudley wright 'masonic legends and traditions, vol. 8, p. 221 the freemason 1915 reply to welcome at author's lodge no. 3456, 6 march, vol. 55 1920 'the recent attacks on freemasonry, vol. 60, pp. 133-5 (reprinted, in abridged form, from the occult review) 1921 'the laureate of masonry, vol. 61, p. 576 freemasons' chronicle 1930 'the knights templar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry, vol. 111, pp. 257, 290, 315; vol. 112, pp. 73, 91, 108-9, 124 horlick's magazine and home journal for australia, india and the colonies 1904 'the keeping of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 365-74 'the freedom of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 429-42 'the transformations of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 559-68 1905 'the innermost sanctuary, v

nry: an historical consideration of their origin and development' 6 april, sancta maria preceptory (printed, in revised form, in the occult review) 1926 'the secret tradition in french grades analogous to the royal arch, 13 december, helio chapter no. 3900 1927 'the secret tradition in christian times and the directions in which research is baffled, 9 september, kingsgate lodge no. 4882 1930 'the knights -l'emplar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry, 10 february, sancta maria preceptory (printed in freemasons' chronicle) back to homepage back to waite appendix a appendix b appendix c appendix d the masonic career of a.e. waite the publications of a.e. waite lectures given by a.e. waite constitution of the secret college of rites the masonic career of a.e. waite appendix d the sec

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e (baphomet. these animals were made to look as disgusting and obscene as possible. the neophyte would then be asked to kiss the backside of the creature. if they refused they would have failed the initiation, if they went ahead and puckered up, they found they were kissing the lips of the priestess. here clearly is the movement from one mode of saturn to another, from the demiurge to sophia. the knights templar did something similar where their large devil like baphomet figure actually represent the sophia, the goddess of wisdom (indeed, the world baphomet when decoded with the atbash gematric code gives the name sophia) if we accept that dualism is perceptional therefore pain, suffering and the trials of life are relathe gnostic handbook page 45 tive. pain and suffering may seem nearly i

wo forces dragged man into the current age, that of the kali yuga. now lunar and dionysian, feminine and masculine, sky and earth are in conflict and battle and will continue so until the age ends in bloodshed. evola decried the decadent nature of the modern world and its social and political isms and ologies and demanded a return to old world values, which he felt were epitomised by the teutonic knights, knights who could act as spiritual warriors waging war against the whole corrupt bourgeois modern system. this concept of spiritual warriorship he elucidated most clearly in his radically revisionist book on buddhism "the doctrine of awakening. in the doctrine of awakening evola offers a radical re-assessment of buddhism and indeed of the gnostic handbook page 62 the path to completeness

and we never lost his teachings. there are many volumes examining the details of jesus' trek to britain, some of the more important examine the historical record of glastonbury which can be traced right back to the chapel built by jesus himself. for this reason the site has continued to remain sacred and became the centre of other important legends and religious tales such as king arthur and his knights. obviously since britain was the destination for so many of the lost tribes of israel we may expect that it would be of primary importance for the early spreading of the message. from many accounts ireland and england were the first countries outside palestine to receive the christian message. the essene link connected to these migrations is another very important link. when some of the pe

to say that it began in the time of the great sumerian and egyptian kingdoms and was passed down, at first in oral form (cf.kabbalah" passed by mouth) through esoteric brotherhoods. in the west this knowledge was passed onto the initiate (jesus) in the essene sect, after his death his followers passed on the secret teachings. this new order centred around ormus (46 a.d) and continued through the knights templars, the eleutherians, the church of carmel, the rosicrucians and onwards. in modern times the lineage continued in a variety of forms, the more ritually oriented line was continued in such organisations as the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the early theosophical movements, the astrum argentinum, the ordeo templi orientis and the fraternity of saturn (germany. however, these orga

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r lost his teachings. there are many volumes examining the details of jesus' trek to britain, some of the more important examine the historical record of glastonbury which can be traced right back to the chapel built by jesus and joseph. for this reason the site has continued to remain sacred and became the centre of other important legends and religious tales such as those of king arthur and his knights. obviously since britain was the destination for so many of the lost tribes of israel we would expect that it would be of primary importance for the early spreading of the message. from many accounts ireland and england were the first countries outside palestine to receive the christian message. the greeks there has been a trend in modern scholarship to overlook the role of greek philosoph

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

az /priazi: those. 51 pristac: governor of the third division of the aethyr zid (24. proamal: poamal, palace. prt: flame. pru: cacodemon of water angle of water tablet. psa: cacodemon of air angle of water tablet. psac: kerubic angel of earth angle of fire tablet. psis: subservient angel of fire angle of fire tablet. psta: subservient angel of air angle of fire tablet. pu im/pu in: sharp sickles/ knights. pugo: as unto. puim/ puin: sickle/ sickles. purgel: fire (of. pvo: cacodemon of water angle of water tablet. pxs: cacodemon of air angle of water tablet. pziza: kerubic name of fire angle of fire tablet. pzoo: subservient angel of earth angle of fire tablet. q: or/ thy/ content(s. q a a: your garments. q a dah/ qaada: unto the creation. q cocasb: content of time. q mos pleh: or the horns

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

h-century american explorer john lloyd stephens described as a species of sculptured mosaic .13 oddly, although the pyramid of the magician had been built long centuries before the conquest, the symbol most frequently featured in these mosaics was a close approximation of the christian cross. indeed there were two distinct kinds of christian crosses: one the wide-pawed croix-patte favoured by the knights templar and other crusading orders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; the other the x-shaped saint andrew s cross. after climbing a further shorter flight of steps i reached the temple at the very top of the magician s pyramid. it consisted of a single corbelvaulted chamber from the ceiling of which large numbers of bats hung suspended. like the birds and the clouds, they were visibl

by a verse. q. how does this verse run? a. the red bamboo from canton is rare in the world. in the groves are 36 and 72. who in the world knows the meaning of this? when we have set to work we will know the secret. the atmosphere of intrigue that such passages generate is accentuated by the reticent behaviour of the hung league itself, an organization resembling the medieval european order of the knights templar (and the higher degrees of modern freemasonry) in many ways that are beyond the remit of this book to describe.24 it is intriguing, too, that the chinese character hung, composed of water and many, signifies inundation, i.e. the flood. finally, returning to india, let us note the content of the sacred scriptures known as the puranas. these speak of four ages of the earth, called yu

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

educed by the dark side of the force. at certain times and places in history- for example, medieval tibet or, in more modern times, nazi germany the black lodge has operated more or less openly with characteristic occult symbols of human skulls, lightning bolts, etc. out in the open. but like the great white brotherhood that it actively seeks to subvert and overthrow (as it did in the time of the knights templar, the black lodge has generally communicated by cipher and myth, in silence and secrecy, often within religious, fraternal and political institutions dedicated to the status quo. in the west since at least the early 18th century, the black lodge has tended to operate along crypto-masonic lines, and its development has tended to coincide with and mirror that of the great white brothe

edicated to the status quo. in the west since at least the early 18th century, the black lodge has tended to operate along crypto-masonic lines, and its development has tended to coincide with and mirror that of the great white brotherhood. this development may, in fact, be attributed to a cosmic principle of equal generation of forces. thus, the birth of the modern form, as the fraternity of the knights militant of the new aeon in the cultural and political turbulence of germany in the 1890s, may fairly (along with the coincident peak in the development of the hermetic order of the golden dawn and the universal gnostic church) be characterized as the resurgence of the great white brotherhood and its rejuvenation out of the degeneration of classical speculative freemasonry. this coincides

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

nce together, but the 1 conf. the poetical representations in casdmon and fundgr. 2 11 12 of course they rest on opinions approved or tolerated by the church. scripture, in its account of the creation looks only to the human race, leaving angels and out of giants sight altogether though, as the narrative goes on, they ire found existing. tn t, h/ m^ d it ages wac 1 ^8iu f freemen to shem, that of knights and serfs to japhet and ham; wackern. bas. mss. 2, 20. 3 i have since lighted on a muhammedan legend in wolfg. menzel s mythol forschungenl 40: eve had so many children, that she was ashamed, and once when surprised by god she hid some of them away. god then called the children to him, and divided all the goods and honours of the earth among them. those that were hidden got none, and from

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

el maier grand master of rosicrucians in germany in the seventeenth century and sir francis bacon's deputy on the continent [8] lord raymond vi as count of toulouse, refused to prosecute the mystics who laid the foundation for rosicrucian philosophy in southern france in the thirteenth century. as a mystic martyr, his body was refused burial in "holy ground" but was preserved for 600 years in the knights templar building, built by his forefathers [9] h. spencer lewis, ph.d. f.r.c. former imperator, a.m.o.r.c. of north and south america and founder of its second cycle of activity in the western hemisphere.member of the supreme council r.c. of the world. legate of the order in france.minister of the foreign legation. ordained priest of the ashrama in india.honorary councilor of the corda fra

years as dean of rose-croix university and as extension director, and five years as grand regional administrator. on december 6, 1963, he became supreme secretary of the rosicrucian order, succeeding ralph m. lewis and cecil a. poole, respectively. outside activities include community service, sports such as tennis, swimming, and hiking, membership in the camelot round table.a branch of the loyal knights of the round table, a service organization. and many years as a member of the humane society of santa clara valley.[139] burnam schaa, f.r.c. supreme treasurer for the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia) a.m.o.r.c. introductory remarks: our new supreme treasurer, frater burnam schaa, is quite unconcerned about his personal life, feeling it to be rat

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een invited to join a templar and rosicrucian order in london. higgins was a freemason and i have no doubt that what he was referring to were themasonicknights templar and rose croix degrees.thelatter is now the 18th degree of the antient and accepted [scottish] rite of freemasonry, which in higgins' time did not exist as a coherent rite in england.therose croix degree was generally worked within knights templar encampments and was variously referred to as the rose croix, rose cross, rouge croix, rosae crucis or rosie cross degree. intensely christian in content the rose croix had nothing about it, even in higgins' time or earlier, to link it with the ideas or traditions of rosicrucianism, other than a very confusing set of alternative names! inritualmagicinengland(1970) francis king, with

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hers' hospitable way of living; and many the mediaeval customs preserved, founded on traditions andsuperstitions, semi-kinnish and semi-russian, the latter imported into it by its female proprietors from theshores of the neva. christmas trees were being prepared and implements for divination were being madeready. for, in that old castle there were grim worm-eaten portraits of famous ancestors and knights andladies, old deserted turrets, with bastions and gothic windows; mysterious sombre alleys, and dark andendless cellers, easily transformed into subterranean passages and caves, ghostly prison cells, haunted by therestless phantoms of the heroes of local legends. in short, the old manor offered every commodity forromantic horrors. but alas! this once they serve for nought; in the present

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

al. towards the end of her long life she was an enthusiastic admirer of rudolf steiner. see her rambling posthumous meml)rabilia (1927, to which a. e. waite contributed a preface. chacombe vicarage 27 march 1890 22 52 the alchemist of the golden dawn i think i have the "hermetic triumph" somewhere, but cannot lay my hands on it just now. certainly i have read it some time "the ancient wars of the knights" i have in ms. it contains the secret, but put so obscurely that only initiates can understand it. i think it very doubtful about re-printing the "hermetic triumph" as a commercial success. there are many would-be seekers of the l[apis] p[hilosophorum, but the books are so numerous that the chances are too great against anyone book selling well enough. i, from my stand-point, should depre

cult to enter upon these subjects in the short time we have. i mentioned you to johnson whom you may have seen at 17 [lansdowne road, as being able to give him information about 54 thealchemist ofthe golden dawn one on abbot cremer, but i have not the viatorium. all his are valuable. i have also alexis piedmontese, who gives some important processes, from which much may be learned. my "war of the knights" is not that published in "hermetical triumphs. dives sicut ardens s. is, if [i] recollect rightly, saunier, not mentioned by dufresnoy. the third stage as you have been informed, constitutes the difficulty, and in order to get over this, i have an idea you must first discover the elixir vitae and restore your health, to enable you to pull thro, but this part is necessarily very obscure. i

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as now very anxious to return to minaret-studded celephais, and increased his doses of drugs; but eventually he had no more money left, and could buy no drugs. then one summer day he was turned out of his garret, and wandered aimlessly through the streets, drifting over a bridge to a place where the houses grew thinner and thinner. and it was there that fulfillment came, and he met the cortege of knights come from celephais to bear him thither forever. handsome knights they were, astride roan horses and clad in shining armour with tabards of cloth-of-gold curiously emblazoned. so numerous were they, that kuranes almost mistook them for an army, but they were sent in his honour; since it was he who had created ooth-nargai in his dreams, on which account he was now to be appointed its chief

of the cavalcade, and all rode majestically through the downs of surrey and onward toward the region where kuranes and his ancestors were born. it was very strange, but as the riders went on they seemed to gallop back through time; for whenever they passed through a village in the twilight they saw only such houses and villagers as chaucer or men before him might have seen, and sometimes they saw knights on horseback with small companies of retainers. when it grew dark they travelled more swiftly, till soon they were flying uncannily as if in the air. in the dim dawn they came upon the village which kuranes had seen alive in his childhood, and asleep or dead in his dreams. it was alive now, and early villagers curtsied as the horsemen clattered down the street and turned off into the lane

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of by poison; and fourthly, to sir john le poer, whom it was said she deprived of his natural senses by philtres and incantations. the bishop of ossory at this period was richard de ledrede, a franciscan friar, and an englishman by birth. he soon learnt that things were not as they should be, for when making a visitation of his diocese early in 1324 he found by an inquisition, in which were five knights and numerous p. 27 nobles, that there was in the city a band of heretical sorcerers, at the head of whom was dame alice. the following charges were laid against them. 1. they had denied the faith of christ absolutely for a year or a month, according as the object they desired to gain through sorcery was of greater or less importance. during all that period they believed in none of the doct

ept herself as a soothsayer. the which anon as she saw the king she cried with loud voice, saying thus 'my lord king, and you pass this water you shall never turn again alive' the king hearing this was astonied of her words; for but a little before he had read in a prophecy that in the self same year the king of scots should be slain: and therewithal the king, as he rode, cleped to him one of his knights, and gave him in commandment to turn p. 55 again to speak with that woman, and ask of her what she would, and what thing she meant with her loud crying. and she began, and told him as ye have heard of the king of scots if he passed that water. as now the king asked her, how she knew that. and she said, that huthart told her so 'sire' quoth he 'men may "calant" ye take no heed of yon woman'

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e delphic e means the number five, or the half of the cabalistic zodiac, or the five ascending signs. this delphic e is also the seleucidan anchor. it was adopted by the gnostics to indicate the saviour, and it is frequent in the talismans and amulets of the early chris- fig. 173. tians. it is one of the principal gems of the gnostics, and is a cameo in flat relief. one of the charges against the knights templars was as follows: that they bound, or touched, the head of an idol with cords, wherewith they bound themselves about their shirts or next their skins( processus contra templarios, dugd. monast. ang. vol. vi. part ii. pp. 844-846, 240 the rosicrucians &c. there is something strange about these cords; cordons, ropes, belts, bands, baldrics (also in the term belted earls. these are alw

ation was entrusted-were exalted for adoration, and placed as the trophies heroically won even out of the reluctance and hostility of nature and adored, not for themselves, but for that of which they spoke. fig. 177. arches of the temple curch, london. symbol of the b.v.m. also delphic e, or seleucidan anchor. fig. 178. eight-pointed bhuddist cross. poor soldiers of the temple. fig. 179. teutonic knights. fig. 180. knights of malta. fig. 181. cross potent, knights hospitalers. fig. 182. st. john (hospital of st. cross, winchester) shakspeare has several covert allusions to the dignity of the myth of the horns there is much more, probably, in these spoils of the chase the branching horns or the antlers-than is usually supposed. they indicate infinitely 250 the rosicrucians. greater things t

structure, though oriental or saracenic abounds with gothic or pointed features. such are the frets, the spandrel-work, the hood-moulding &c. no. 3. query, aquarii? the aquarii always indicate the lunar element, or the female. the baptisteries dedicated to st. john, or to the s.s, are eight-sided. the baptisteria in italy follow the same emblematical rule. the sections into which the order of the knights of malta fig. 227. were divided were eight, answering to the eight points of the cross, which was their emblem. the order was composed of eight nations, whereof the english, which was one, disappeared at the reformation. the colours of the monastic knightly orders were the following: the teutonic knights wore white, with the eight-pointed black cross; the knights of malta wore black, with

h was their emblem. the order was composed of eight nations, whereof the english, which was one, disappeared at the reformation. the colours of the monastic knightly orders were the following: the teutonic knights wore white, with the eight-pointed black cross; the knights of malta wore black, with the eight-pointed white cross. the foregoing obtained their black and white from the egyptians. the knights templars, or red-cross knights, wore white, with the eight-pointed bhuddist red cross displayed on their mantles. the guardian of the temple chapel was called custos capell (capella, a kid, star, she-goat, also chapel. robes of the soldier-monks. 263 attila, surnamed the scourge of god, is represented as having worn a teraphim, or head, on his breast a snaky-haired head, which purported to

his 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, leaving results to chance, and abandoning expostulation to be regarded or disregarded (or taken up faintly) according to circumstances. mahometan, or any disbeliever, discharge the oaths which he is solemnly assum

. this we shall soon show conclusively from the accounts of the garter by elias ashmole, who was garter king of arms, and who was one of its most painstaking and enlightened historians; besides himself being a faithful and conscientious expositor* the bishop of winchester always. remark here, as the sanctions of this most noble order, that in winchester we directly alight upon king arthur and his knights of the round table what the round table is, we have explained elsewhere. the countess of salisbury. 287 and adherent of the hermetic rosicrucian science. the round table of king arthur the mirror of chivalry supplies the model of all the miniature tables, or tablets, which bear the contrasted roses red and white, as they were originally (and implying the female discus and its accidents) wi

KETAB E SIYAH

ther, before resolving upon a certain. now arousing himself once more from rumination he raised up his gilded sceptre, carved into a lion's likeness, burning orbs of fire shining within the eyes of that fierce image, before which the hosts at his command fell down in supplication to his majesty. now with resounding, thunderous voice he dictated his commandment and his will, instructing his elohim knights in that course upon which his mind had been resolved by which to best thwart my own device. now he spoke these words unto heaven's assembled hosts, commanding with majestic voice "raphael, fond son, most sadly have i heard your testament and that sore doom that it does threaten. most bitterly do my ears receive such knowledge, such baneful tidings, to know that once more my rebel son, thou

northern way against the foe. none delayed in effecting what was commanded as we made sure our ranks against the elohim force, driving into the ground steel-tipped piles 162 to thwart what charge the foe might make and throwing up great breach-works against their advance. our archers also tarried not in reply and sent back their own volley to the hosts of heaven, driving from the sky their winged knights and renewing once more the banished rain with a more gory shower. upon the northern plain they too descended and drew up their ranks for battle, making sure their own defences. now then do face each other across some small stretch old adversaries, baalzebub and michael, each taunting the other and boasting of his own, whilst abaddon and fiery moloch counsel action, lusting for the battle's

ght the pavilion of his lord to make his own report and apology. before the portal of the canopy to which removed was the throne and king of heaven he came to the two sentries, set at either side 192 of the entrance to the tent of shining silver cloth and ruddy silk, dyed as though with blood to recall that which had been shed and spilt to honour heaven and its tyrant-king in past battle. the two knights that did guard the door were arrayed in plate and the colours of the tent were apparent on shield and mantle both. before the coming of the prince of heaven whose hands and arms were yet wet with blood that he spilt in vengeance of his own error, slaying brother elohim in wrath. thus raphael passed through into god's presence and once more abased himself before his king, kneeling as he wou

perform just penitence for your misdeeds. in your vigilance did you perceive that the adversary removed from the valley his children that you failed to win for us, bearing them to the kingdom between two rivers? you did not and this too did we learn of. you would think us fools indeed to trust your guidance. then counsel no more, raphael, but heed our orders. take with you no great number of our knights and by some means put torch to the garden that the fruit of eternal youth might not be won. better that none should possess that which might be gained by satan's children who, even at this time, do gather up their strength to oppose our rule. ask not how you might then escape shedim vengeance for this sabotage against their plans. if you would die by the steel of satan's host that then is

the elohim hosts again. come then, by the dark passages once more, to deep chadel" thus instructed thus they went, melting from the crimson light of dawn by the thousand secret gates and paths. down to deep chadel went the shedim hosts. thus unhindered went raphael to the garden and set flame to all that grew there by the river. long did the trees of the garden burn with fire as raphael, with his knights looked down from the high walls of the valley as the hungry tongues did lick all the leaves to ash and leave the once fertile soil scorched and black. the very sun was blocked out by smoke, perfumed with the incense of the garden, and the river was blocked and ran dry with the embers of the conflagration's wake. 199 only as the sun descended in the western sky, bleeding red into the waters

m he sings my name and consecrates their agony to my name. 211 i am dishonoured by this tyrant and the race of man is shamed by the misdeeds of the criminal. though he is your son and amongst the nephilim whom we are sworn to defend and guide as tutors he is unworthy of that noble race or the oath i swore. let me then face the king in battle with my sword, havoc, that bleeds eternal with blood of knights. havoc the ruiner sings for the blood of methuselah and i would leave his body to the dogs and crows. i am outraged at the shame of methuselah and would wash out the stain with a gory bath. let me then contest with methuselah and put to death this one who is no warrior but a butcher though he does pretend. not the path of the warrior is it to take life but to preserve what is fine and nobl

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ds his movements. he seems to have travelled about europe, and he turns up at intervals, but we have little definite knowledge about him. he was the comte de s. germain at the time of the french revolution, and worked much with madame blavatsky, who was at that period in incarnation under the name of pere joseph. he also appears to have disguised himself as baron hompesch, who was the last of the knights of st. john of malta, the man who arranged the transfer of the island of malta to the english. this great saint and teacher still lives, and his present body has no appearance of great age. i myself met him physically in rome in 1901, and had a long conversation with him. 32. in co-masonry we refer to him as the head of all true freemasons throughout the world (abbreviated as the h.o.a.t.f

of it were gathered together in 1717 to form the grand lodge of england, and so it has come down to us unto the present day. 84. it should be understood, however, that there is no one line of masonic orthodoxy. a parallel tradition, coming originally from chaldean sources, has given rise to masonry as worked upon the continent of europe. and yet another line seems to have been brought back by the knights templars on their return from the crusades. 85. the whole subject of masonic history is one of exceeding interest; but, owing to the fact that masonry is after all a secret society, it is often almost impossible to trace the line of its descent by means of any documents which are now available, and consequently there is great confusion and contradiction among the various accounts. we have

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

minutes. scottish minutes. english minutes. irish minutes. the grand lodge of england. the recomposition of the rituals. two and three degrees. opposition. the succession of l.m.s. the grand lodges of york, ireland and scotland. the ancients. the holy royal arch. the united grand lodge. craft masonry in other countries chapter x other lines of masonic tradition the stream of secret societies. the knights templars. the suppression of the templars. the preservation of the templars tradition. the royal order of scotland. the brothers of the rosy cross. the literature of rosicrucianism. the traditional history of the rosicrucians. the history of the order. chapter xi the scottish rite origin of the rite. the jacobite movement. the oration of ramsay. the chapter of clermont. the council of empe

them as they are expressed in our red, black and white freemasonry. 166. red masonry in the mysteries 167. for such m.m.s as were thought promising by the priests in charge (who were for the most part members of the three grand lodges, what we now call red masonry existed, as well as the teaching which is now included in our royal arch and kindred degrees, culminating in the splendid quest of the knights of the rose-croix for the lost word, man s true divinity. 168. in the symbolic teaching corresponding to our degree of the holy royal arch the aspirant was taught to clear away from the various levels of his consciousness all the veils which yet obstructed his vision of reality, and then in the power of that vision to recognize for himself the hidden light in every form, however deeply it

on of astarte. bro. ward explains that the festivals of the two patron saints of freemasonry, s. john the baptist in summer and s. john the evangelist in winter, are only a perpetuation of the feasts of the old fertility cult at the summer and winter solstices; that similar cultural rites are found in other lands, teutonic, celtic and greek, that they also survived among the essenes, and that the knights templars brought back from syria a story very similar to that of the 3. the tale of jonah, he remarks, has always been understood as a myth of death and resurrection, and he also was sacrificed to appease a deity, and obtain salvation for others, just as was the priest-king of old. he quotes many instances of foundation and consecration sacrifices; and, holding as he does that hiram abiff

up, which in the intermingling with early british christianity was identified with the sangreal, the chalice used by our lord at the last supper for the founding of the holy eucharist. king arthur, who has often been supposed to be an imaginary hero, was a very real and most lovable and sagacious ruler, of whom england may well be proud; his round table also is fact and not fiction, and among its knights there was a rite of the christian mysteries centring round the beautiful story of the quest for the holy grail. some there were who took the legend literally and undertook endless physical-plane pilgrimages in search of an earthly cup; others knew that the mystical meaning of the finding of the holy grail is the union between the higher and the lower self, which is one of the qualification

ystery-tradition passed down independently of the later operative lodges, for there is no trace whatsoever of any high degrees in the extant minutes of mother kilwinning, no. 0 upon the roll of the grand lodge of scotland, which date from 1642(*history of the lodge of edinburgh (mary s chapel, no. i) d. murray lyon, pp. 340, 434) there is truth in the legend of the coming of certain of the french knights templars to scotland after their proscription in 1307, and there was an intermingling of their doctrines also with the scottish rites. one line of descent crossed from scotland to france, where it was blended in the eighteenth century with the egyptian tradition to form the rite of heredom or of perfection under the council of the emperors of the east and west, as will be further explained

, making the f.c.h.s(*freemasonry and the ancient gods, j. s. m. ward, ch. xviii, passim) at coire cathedral in switzerland, which is romanesque in style and contains abundant evidence of comacine work, several figures on the capitals of the pillars in the choir and sanctuary are depicted making masonic s s, notably the f.c.h.s, the g. and r. s, and several s s now associated with the rose-croix, knights templars, and other high degrees in freemasonry(*an outline history of freemasonry, j. s. m. ward, p. 34) in the town-hall at basle there is a fresco by hans dyg, painted in 1519, in which we may see the same s s, and also one of the mark degree. king solomon s knot is the traditional name among the italians of to-day for the elaborate interlaced stonework executed by the comacine masters

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

yow! i hate this place! although the association between cooking fires and hellfire is straightforward enough, this ad otherwise trivializes eternal damnation: the point is not that this fast-food chain is somehow linked to hell, but, rather, infernal imagery makes for a humorous ad. playing on the theme that everyone s punishment in hell is unique to the individual, an advertisement for british knights athletic shoes features a basketball player s nightmare in which derrick coleman dreams about a dark realm in which a group of overweight over-forties play as well as coleman because they are wearing this specific brand of shoes. a smirking demon laughs at the basketball player who wakes up abruptly from his nightmare. the devil s laughter, however, still echoes in his bedroom. another amu

ils) used to represent the satanic. however, the complete graphic referred to as the sigil of baphomet the now familiar goat s head in an inverted pentagram encircled by hebrew letters spelling out leviathan did not become the foremost symbol of satanism in the public consciousness until after the founding of the church of satan in 1966. the word baphomet dates back to records of the trial of the knights templar, and there are ongoing discussions concerning its derivation and meaning. however, there is no clear evidence that the symbol that has come to be referred to as baphomet is similarly derived. the first artwork for an image of a goat face in a pentagram appeared in a 1931 book on freemasonry by oswald wirth (1931, 60. this was, however, only a pentagram containing a goat s face. it

of satan. finally, this symbol was widely released with the publication of the satanic bible in 1969, where it adorned the cover and appeared on the interior page introducing the section detailing the satanic ritual. it was in the satanic bible that this graphic was first referred to as the symbol of baphomet in any publication available to a mass audience: the symbol of baphomet was used by the knights templar to represent satan. through the ages this symbol has been called by many different names. among these are: the goat of mendes, the goat of a thousand young, the black goat, the judas goat, and perhaps most appropriately, the scapegoat. baphomet represents the powers of darkness combined with the generative fertility of the goat. in its pure form the pentagram is shown encompassing

people who slavishly complement another person purely for the sake of personal gain. it also seems to be the source of the familiar expression brown-nosing. in addition to witches, who regularly confessed to having committed the act under torture, the kiss of shame was attributed to heretics such as the cathars and the waldenses. the accusation of the oscularum infame was also leveled against the knights templar,who were said to require new initiates to kiss the anus as well as certain other parts of the anatomy of their superiors. both the templars and the cathars were accused of kissing satan, in the form of a black cat, underneath the tail. the british novelist dennis wheatley, who wrote a series of black magic novels, includes a description of the kiss of shame in his novel, the devil

h practiced thelemic wicca under the leadership of (among others) the lady chandria, who succumbed to cancer in 1988. in 1988 the oto reported a membership of 700 in the usa and 1,400 worldwide. at several points, the oto has developed internal organizations that are to some extent secret and claim to carry on the traditions of the old aa. in july 1981, this internal secret society was called the knights of baphomet, which was described as the caliph s praetorian guard. three or four years after that, that organization had fallen apart, and the new inner court society was called the aa. lon milo duquette was one of grady s battlefield promotion ninth-degrees and the head of heru-ra-ha lodge in costa mesa from 1978 on (he is still the official head of the lodge, but it has been practically

extreme and even humorous. this book, however, has been recommended as a serious reference in law enforcement training material on this topic. in books, lectures, handout material, and conversations, i have heard all of the following referred to as satanism: church of satan, ordo templi orientis, temple of set, demonology, witchcraft, occult, paganism, santeria,voodoo, rosicrucians, freemasonry, knights templar, stoner gangs, heavy metal music, rock music, kkk, nazis, skinheads, scientology, unification church, the way, hare krishna, rajneesh, religious cults, new age, astrology, channeling, transcendental meditation, holistic medicine, buddhism, hinduism, mormonism, islam, orthodox church, roman catholicism. at law enforcement training conferences, it is witchcraft, santeria, paganism, a

LIBER 141

e deliberate choice of the holy phallus itself "the phallus is the physiological basis of the oversoul" for this very reason are these many men led astray, lost in unchastity and ruin. but let the conscious will be devoted wholly to the great work, then shall the subconscious will choose inevitably the appointed vehicle of the work. it is for this reason that already in the seventh degree the sir knights are sworn to chastity. and this chastity is an abstinence from all gross sexual acts of every kind. moreover, this is further to be observed in the choice, that the second party must be consenting enthusiastically to co-operate physically with the priest, so that the lion be perfectly dissolved in a full portion of the gluten. and whether this preparation be truly and duly done is known by

LIBER 777

referring to the elements; b, g, d, k, p, r, and t, the double letters, to the planets; the rest, single letters, to the zodiac. 528. 9 10 32 bis. cold and dry e. 31 bis. table i (continued) 5 xiii. the paths of the sepher yetzirah. xiv. general attribution of tarot. xv* the king scale of colour (y. 0. 1 admirable or hidden intelligence the 4 aces brilliance 2 illuminating i. the 4 twos kings or knights pure soft blue 3 sanctifying i. the 4 threes queens crimson 4 measuring cohesive or receptacular i. the 4 fours deep violet 5 radical i. the 4 fives orange 6 i. of the mediating influence the 4 sixes emperors or princes clear pink rose 7 occult or hidden i. the 4 sevens amber 8 absolute or perfect i. the 4 eights violet purple 9 pure or clear i. the 4 nines indigo 1010 resplendent i. the 4

emerald green 23 stable i. the hanged man [cups] queens. deep blue 24 imaginative i. death green blue 25 i. of probation or tentative one temperence blue 26 renovating i. the devil indigo 27 exciting i. the house of god scarlet 28 natural i. the star violet 29 corporeal i. the moon crimson (ultra violet) 30 collecting i. the sun orange 31 perpetual i. the angel or last judgement [wands] kings or knights. glowing orange scarlet 32 administrative i. the universe indigo 32 bis. empresses [coins] citrine, russet, olive, and black (quartered) 31 bis. all 22 trumps white, merging grey table of correspondences 6 xvi* the queen scale of colour (h. xvii* the emperor scale of colour (v. xviii* the empress scale of colour. 0. 1 white brilliance white brilliance white flecked gold 2 grey blue pearl g

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

attack of camelot, he maketh a desperate night sortie, and will traverse the wilds of wales. v. at the end of his resources among the welsh mountains, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. by this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. vi. he having become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to arthur.s court, bearing tidings of a questing beast. the knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. lancelot findeth him upon scawfell, clothed in his white beard. he returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, herleth him to the heaven. viii. sir palamede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a druid worship the sun upon stonehenge. he rideth eastward, and findeth the sun setting in the west. furious he taketh a viking sh

nd given the accolade, and run upon a beast: but they slip from the fatal point away and course about, confusing all that gallant concourse all the day, leading them ever to a vale with hugeous cry and monster wail. then suddenly their voices fall, and in the park.s resounding pale sir palamedes, the saracen knight 51 only the clamour of the chase is heard: oh! to the centre race the unsuspicious knights: but he the questing beast his former face of unity resumes: the course of warriors shocks with man and horse. in mutual madness swift to see they shatter with unbridled force one on another: down they go swift in stupendous overthrow. out sword! out lance! curiass and helm splinter beneath the knightly blow. they storm, they charge, they hack and hew, they rush and wheel the press athroug

the wind is brisk; the stars are clear; the moon is high. now, even as a white basilisk that slayeth all men with his eye, stands up before them tapering the cone of speechless sanctity. up, up its slopes the pilgrims swing, chanting their pagan gramarye unto the dread volcano-king .now, then, by goddes reed. quod he .behold the secret of my quest in this far-famed stability! for all these paynim knights may rest in the black bliss they struggle to. but from the earth fs full-flowered breast liber cxcvii 62 brake the blind roar of earthquake through, tearing the belly of its mother, engulphing all that heathen crew, that cried and cursed on one another. aghast he standeth, palamede! for twinned with earthquake laughs her brother the questing beast. as goddes reed sweats blood for sin, so n

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

re him. in the centre of the nave was a great cross.a gcalvary cross of ten squares, h measuring, say, six feet by five.painted in red upon a white board, at whose edges were rings through which passed gilt staves. at each corner was a banner, bearing lion, bull, eagle and man, and from the top of their staves sprang a canopy of blue, wherein were figured in gold the twelve emblems of the zodiac. knights and dames being installed, suddenly a bell tinkled in the architrave. instantly all rose. the doors opened at a trumpet 18 liber dcccxi peal from without, and a herald advanced, followed by the high priest and priestess. the high priest was a man of nearly sixty years, if i may judge by the white beard; but he walked with the springy yet assured step of the thirties. the high priestess, a

attendant now descended to the red cross, stooped and kissed it; then he danced upon it in such a way that he seemed to be tracing the patterns of a marvellous rose of gold, for the percussion caused a shower of bright dust to fall from the canopy. meanwhile the litany (different words, but the same chorus) began again. this time it was a duet between the high priest and priestess. at each chorus knights and dames bowed low. the girl moved round continuously, and the bowl passed. this ended in the exhaustion of the boy, who fell fainting on the cross. the girl immediately took the bowl and put it to his lips. then she raised him, and, with the assistance of the guardian of the sanctuary, led him out of the chapel. the bell again tinkled in the architrave. the herald blew a fanfare. the hig

by exquisite yet robust art. he wore also a breastplate corresponding to the canopy; a sculptured gbeast h at each corner in gold, while the twelve signs of the zodiac were symbolized by the stones of the breast-plate. the bell tinkled yet again, and the herald again sounded his trumpet. the celebrants moved hand in hand down the nave while the organ thundered forth its solemn harmonies. all the knights and dames rose and gave the secret sign of the rose croix. it was at this part of the ceremony that things began to happen to me. i became suddenly aware that my body had lost both weight and tactile sensibility. my consciousness seemed to be situated no longer in my body. i gmistook myself, h if i may use the phrase, for one of the stars in the canopy. in this way i missed seeing the cele

nstant awareness, which has never left me to this hour, that the truth of the matter is not this normal gi h but gthat h which is still dropping into nothing. i am assured by those who know that i may be able to take up the thread if i attend another ceremony. the tinkle died away. the girl attendant ran quickly forward and folded the ermine over the celebrants. the herald blew a fanfare, and the knights and dames left their stalls. advancing to the board, we took hold of the gilded carrying poles, and followed the herald in procession out of the chapel, bearing the litter to a small side-chapel leading out of the middle anteroom, where we left it, the guard closing the doors. in silence we disrobed, and left the house. about a mile through the woods we found my friend's automobile waiting

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ell. albany enters.a simple, ordely-minded man; he must not be confused with cornwall; he is at the last lear.s dog; yet even he in decent measured speech sides with his wife. is lear quited? no! he utters the most horrible curse, not excepting that of count cenci, that a father ever pronounced. incoherent threats succeed to the boilings-over of the hideous malice of a beastly mind; but a hundred knights are a hundred knights, and a threat is a threat. goneril had not fulfilled her duty to herself, to her people, had she allowed this monster of mania to go on. i appeal to the medical profession; if one doctor will answer me that a man using lear.s language should be allowed control of a hundred armed ruffians [in the face of kent.s behaviour we know what weight to attach to lear.s defence

LIBER LXXVIII

rass, and on the shoulder-pieces and buskins, he wears as a crest a winged black horse fs head. he grasps a club with flaming ends, somewhat similar to that in the symbol of the ace of wands, but not so heavy, and also the sigil of his scale is shown; beneath the rushing feet of his steed are waving flames and fire. he is active.generous.fierce.sudden.impetuous* note that the kings are now called knights, and the princes are now called kings. this is unfortunate, and leads to confusion; the princes may be called emperors without harm. remember only that the horsed figures refer to the yod of tetragrammaton, the charioted figures to the vau. a description of the cards of the taro 13 if ill dignified, he is evil-minded.cruel.bigoted.brutal. he rules the celestial heavens from above the twent

on its plane. 21. the matter itself. synthesis, world, kingdom. usually denotes actual subject of question, and therefore depends entirely on accompanying cards [this table is very unsatisfactory. each card must be most carefully meditated, taking all its correspondences, and a clear idea formed] princes and queens shew almost always actual men and women connected with the matter. 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 force

rds 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. 3 princes. rank and honour. 4 princesses. new ideas or plans. 3 princesses. society of the young. 4 tens. anxiety, responsibility. 3 tens. buying and selling (commerce. 4 nines. added responsibilities. 3 nines. much co

if in the# pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters [sic, read zelator adeptus minor. t.s] 54 liber lxxviii 5. tell the querent what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divination. 6. if right, spread out the pack containing the significator, face upwards. count the cards from him, in the direction in which he faces. the counting should include the card from which you count. for knights, queens and princes, count 4. for princesses, count 7. for aces, count 11. for small cards, count according to the number. for trumps, count 3 for the elemental trumps; 9 for the planetary trumps; 12 for the zodiacal trumps. make a gstory h of these cards. this story is that of the beginning of the affair. 7. pair the cards on either side of the significator, then those outside them, and s

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

bringing forth the hga or angelick familiar. there is no mystical guideline for this force, it is very much a part of your being, illuminated and empowered by your own desires. fetishes (lesser and greater) a fetish is simply a storehouse of power. it represents the sorcerer in some way, particularly an aspect of his or her personality. for instance, a vampyric famulus would be a human skull (the knights templar were said to worship baphomet in the form of a human skull) which holds a consecrated sigil representing the vampyric aspects of self; along with the grave soil of a graveyard in which the sorcerer has rested in and meditated upon death. fetishes are considered a powerful tool in witchcraft and primal sorcery, as they are gateways of consciousness and a growing extension of the sor

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

possibly is still alive today in some quarters. this concept seems to have influenced lamarck. the great chain of being ranks all things according to their absolute value or essence. at the top of the great chain stands god, and at its bottom stand rocks. the great chain can be simplified as follows: god angels kings/popes archbishops dukes bishops 32 evolution and religious creation myths barons knights ladies-in-waiting priests pages merchants landowning farmers soldiers servants shepherds beggars actors thieves gypsies animals worms plants rocks this structure immediately suggests that the value of a plant is less than that of a priest, for example. in other words, going up from the bottom of the ladder, the value of things living or not progresses from, to use other examples, that of a

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

s gold. 153 the theory and practice of alchemy, part ii the alchemical prayer--the emerald tablet of hermes--a letter from the brothers of r. c--the magical mountain of the moon--an alchemical formula--the dew of the sages. 157 the chemical marriage christian rosencreutz is invited to the chemical wedding--the virgo lucifera--the philosophical inquisition--the tower of olympus--the homunculi--the knights of the golden stone. 161 bacon, shakspeare, and the rosicrucians the rosicrucian mask--life of william shakspere--sir francis bacon--the acrostic signatures--the significant number thirty-three--the philosophic death. 165 the cryptogram as a factor in symbolic philosophy secret alphabets--the biliteral cipher--pictorial ciphers--acroamatic ciphers--numerical and musical ciphers--code ciphe

scription on the emerald table. from these associations it is evident that chiram is to be considered as a prototype of humanity; in fact he is plato's idea (archetype) of man. as adam after the fall symbolizes the idea of human degeneration, so chiram through his resurrection symbolizes the idea of human regeneration. on the 19th day of march, 1314, jacques de molay, the last grand master of the knights templars, was burned on a pyre erected upon that point of the islet of the seine, at paris, where afterwards was erected the statue of king henry iv (see the indian religions, by hargrave jennings "it is mentioned as a tradition in some of the accounts of the burning" writes jennings "that molay, ere he expired, summoned clement, the pope who had pronounced the bull of abolition against th

"that molay, ere he expired, summoned clement, the pope who had pronounced the bull of abolition against the order and had condemned the grand master to the flames, to appear, within forty days, before the supreme eternal judge, and philip [the king] to the same awful tribunal within the space of a year. both predictions were fulfilled" the close relationship between freemasonry and the original knights templars has caused the story of chiram to be linked with the martyrdom of jacques de molay. according to this interpretation, the three ruffians who cruelly slew their master at the gates of the temple because he refused to reveal the secrets of his order represent the pope, the king, and the executioners. de molay died maintaining his innocence and refusing to disclose the philosophical

ules supposedly formulated by king solomon himself. the occult properties of the mandrake, while little understood, have been responsible for the adoption of the plant as a talisman capable of increasing the value or quantity of anything with which it was associated. as a phallic charm, the mandrake was considered to be an infallible cure for sterility. it was one of the priapic symbols which the knights templars were accused of worshiping. the root of the plant closely resembles a human body and often bore the outlines of the human head, arms, or legs. this striking similarity between the body of man and the mandragora is one of the puzzles of natural science and is the real basis for the veneration in which this plant was held. in isis unveiled, madam blavatsky notes that the mandragora

ffer widely concerning the origin of playing cards, the purpose for which they were intended, and the time of their introduction into europe. in his researches into the history of playing cards, samuel weller singer advances the opinion that cards reached southern europe from india by way of arabia. it is probable that the tarot cards were part of the magical and philosophical lore secured by the knights templars from the saracens or one of the mystical sects then flourishing in syria. returning to europe, the templars, to avoid persecution, concealed the arcane meaning of the symbols by introducing the leaves of their magical book ostensibly as a device for amusement and gambling. in support of this contention, mrs. john king van rensselaer states "that cards were brought by the home-retu

litary, coins the tradesmen, and rods the farming class. from the standpoint of what court de g belin calls "political geography" cups represent the northern countries, swords the orient, coins the occident, and rods the southern countries. the ten pip cards of each suit represent the nations composing each of these grand divisions. the kings are their governments, the queens their religions, the knights their histories and national characteristics, and the pages their arts and sciences. elaborate treatises have been written concerning the use of the tarot cards in divination, but as this practice is contrary to the primary purpose of the tarot no profit can result from its discussion. many interesting examples of early playing cards are found in the museums of europe, and there are also n

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

offspring of the fallen angels. neither devils, like satan and his cohorts, nor angels, but somewhere between the two. neither good nor bad, merely indifferent. it is at this point that organized christianity began to take a hand, and bore down heavily on all those suspected of either having consorted with or actually being elves or "faery folk" the heresy trials of the waldenses, albigenses, and knights templar had spanned the twelfth, thirteen, and fourteenth centuries, as mother church consolidated herself and waged war against the forces of dissolution and darkness manifesting as rival doctrinal factions within her bosom. it was not till the fifteenth century that the actual cult of witchcraft became established as an entity in the mind of the church's "instrument of justice" the inqui

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

hip the image as their god, etc. observations. first, thou shalt know and observe the moon s age for thy working. the best days be when the moon luna is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 14 days old, as solomon saith; and no other days be profitable. the seals of the 72 kings are to be made in metals. the chief kings in sol (gold; marquises in luna (silver; dukes in venus (copper; prelacies in jupiter (tin; knights in saturn (lead; presidents in mercury (mercury; earls in venus (copper, and luna (silver, alike equal, etc. these 72 kings be under the power of amaymon, corson, zimimay or ziminair, and gaap, who are the four great kings ruling in the four quarters, or cardinal points,27 viz: east, west, north, and south, and are not to be called forth except it be upon great occasions; but are to be inv

uch a spirit that is under their power and rule, as is shown in the following invocations or conjurations. and the chief kings may be bound from 9 till 12 o clock at noon, and from 3 till sunset; marquises may be bound from 3 in the afternoon till 9 at night, and from 9 at night till sunrise; dukes may be bound from sunrise till noonday in clear weather; prelates may be bound any hour of the day; knights may from dawning of day till sunrise, or from 4 o clock till sunset; presidents may be bound any time, excepting twilight, at night, unless the king whom they are under be invocated; and counties or earls any hour of the day, so it be in woods, or in any other places whither men resort not, or where no noise is, etc. 27 these four great kings are usually called oriens, or uriens, paymon or

ecarabia (seal in mercury) presidents (5) marbas (10) buer (17) botis (21) marax (25) glasya-labolas (31) foras (33) gaap (39) malphas (48) haagenti (53) caim (57) ose (58) amy (61) zagan (62) valac (seal in copper and silver alike equal) earls, or counts (17) botis (21) marax (25) glasya-labolas (27) ronove (34) furfur (38) halphas (40) raum (45) vine (46) bifrons (72) andromalius (seal in lead) knights (50) furcas. note- it will be remarked that several among the above spirits possess two titles of different ranks; e.g (45) vine is both king and earl (25) glasya-labolas is both president and earl, etc. prince and prelate are apparently used as interchangeable terms. probably the seals of earls should be made of iron, and those of presidents in mixture either of copper and silver, or of s

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sariel; his seal musuziel; his seal lameniel: his seal brackiel; his seal samiel; his seal dusiriel; his seal chamiel; his seal arbiel; his seal lusiel; his seal chariel his seal the conjuration "i conjure thee o thou mighty and potent prince &c" lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 40 pirichiel; his seal the 4th, in order of these wandring princes is called pirichiel; he hath no princes nor dukes; but knights; whereof we shall mention 8 of the chiefe; these being sufficient for practise; who hath 2000 servants under them; they are to be called according to the planetary motion; they are all good by nature and will do your will willingly, their names and seals are as followeth: damarsiel; his seal cardiel; his seal almasor, his seal (or almariel) nemariel; his seal menaziel; his seal demediel; h

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

d of wisdom. as related in the sufis by idries shah, the arabic root fehm (charcoal) is fhm, meaning black or wise. this is recognizable and easily understood in an initiatory sense from the sufic phrase, dar tariki, tariqat (in the darkness, the path and reflects the ideal of the light or wisdom coming from the darkness. the arabic root fhm is symbolic of baphomet, meaning head of wisdom. in the knights templar, hugues de payns (which translates of 16 the sufis by idries shah and a history of secret societies by akron daraul. 10 the pagan) held a coat of arms which had three saracen heads, which resembled severed heads, indicating wisdom. it is also the sufis who move against the sun17 which brought such practice to the west. in the yatus cult, the darkness must be observed, absorbed and

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

elder reign.the meaning behind the euphemisms of the combating serpents or dragons has todo with the antagonism within the biology of the homo atlantis. the reference is tothe coils of dna, to the alien and human strands and their incompatibility. the folk-tales which have to do with the evil and good twin, the dark and fair sisters, the whiteand black witches, the twin towers, the true and false knights, the heroes descent andascent, etc, also conceal the same meta-theme. from robin hood to swan lake, fromhercules and the hydra to jason and the golden fleece, from the odin hanging on thewinding tree to conan the barbarian, from alice through the looking glass todungeons and dragons, the themes are one. what is the tree of the east and the treeof the west? what are the two seraphim who gua

through the looking glass todungeons and dragons, the themes are one. what is the tree of the east and the treeof the west? what are the two seraphim who guard the ark of the covenant? what arethe gates of v alhalla? why are there twin columns at the portals of illustrious edifices?what do the swastika, the double-headed eagle, the masonic double cube, the double-barred cross of lorraine, the two knights templars riding one horse, really signify?what are the real pillars of hercules that guarded the way to atlantis?atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation49 chapter 7records of blood and stoneof central importance to the proof of the war between the gods is the purely scientificaccounts of the devastation that affected the earths flora and fauna: what then has exterminated so ma

pirituality (michael ellner)there are many other acts, perhaps not so overtly or initially violent, that are still partof the blood ritual inspired by the macrobes. one manner of keeping the masses incheck, as well as helping them lose their senses and commit slow suicide, concerns thepurveyance of alcoholic beverages called spirits in taverns and inns. this customwas started under the tax exempt knights templars who opened most of the inns inengland. these dens all have patently occult names (like green dragon, or blackhorse, raven's head, red lion, plough and stars, rose and crown, etc. they alsocommonly bore the name arms to commemorate that they were established by themilitary orders. they were also known down through history as venues for all kinds ofrevolutionaries and malcontents (s

f the first acts of augustus wasthe destruction of perugia, a city which refused to acknowledge his authority. the fall of this place wasfollowed by the sacrificial placation of julius the father. in this atrocious ritethe consul, luciusanthony (brother of marc, besides cannutius c. flavius, clodius bithynicus, and the principal magis-trates and council for perugia, together with 300 senators and knights, were immolated as human sacri-fices, upon the altar of julius, erected for the occasion. the greater part of the abominable auto da fewas executed in the presence of augustus himself, whose only reply to those who implored andshrieked for mercy was, you must die (p. 42)appendix b: book abstracts248atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the worship of augustus, son of god, wa

the mysterious celestial body and calculated that it was possibly eighty billion kilome-ters away from earth, they speculated that it is moving towards earth (p. 95)quetzalcoatlhe whose home is water .oannes (the original fisher king)in africa, known as the king of the dogons. the name means the dove. from oannes we derivejoannes or john, the same as the author of revelation, or worshipped by the knights templar. john wascalled the baptizer and connected to water and to the dove also.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation253 appendix b: book abstracts oannes was said to have a removable fish-skin, probably a wet-suit of some kind, and to live under theocean.oannes is similar to the philistine dagon, who like osiris, brought the secrets of agricultural science,etc. in celtic m

r.sir isaac newton (1642-1727) heavily involved in alchemy.paracelsus (1493-1541) founder of homeopathy.giambattista della porta (1535-1615) sorcerer involved in metallurgy, perfected the camera obscura.francois rabelais (1494-1553) satanistic playwrite and rebel.sir walter raleigh (1554-1618) pirate and member of the tudor dynasty.sir george ripley (1490) studied on the island of rhodes with the knights of st. john (tem-plars).emperor rudolph ii (1576-1612) holy roman emperor whose court in prague was frequented by major name alchemists. knew sir john dee.mary sidney (1561-1621) countess of pembroke and sister of pirate sir philip sidney.george starkey (1627-1665) educated at harvard.solomon trismosin (1480-1500) considered to be the instructor of paracelsus. he authored the beautiful spl

MORALS AND DOGMA

ed; and the judgment of his brothers, upon him who violates his pledge, should be stern as the judgments of the roman censors against him who violated his oath. good faith is revered among masons as it was among the romans, who placed its statue in the capitol, next to that of jupiter maximus optimus; and we, like them, hold that calamity should always be chosen rather than baseness; and with the knights of old, that one should always die rather than be dishonored. be faithful, therefore, to the promises you make, to the pledges you give, and to the vows that you assume, since to break either is base and dishonorable. be faithful to your family, and perform all the duties of a good father, a good son, a good husband, and a good brother. be faithful to your friends; for true friendship is o

f the dead sea, and as john the baptist preached in the desert; truths imperishable as the deity, and undeniable as light. those truths were gathered by the essenes from the doctrines of the orient and the occident, from the zend-avesta and the vedas, from plato and pythagoras, from india, persia, ph nicia, and syria, from greece and egypt, and from the holy books of the jews. hence we are called knights of the east and west, because their doctrines came from both. and these doctrines, the wheat sifted from the chaff, the truth separated from error, masonry has garnered up in her heart of hearts, and through the fires of persecution, and the storms of calamity, has brought them and delivered them unto us. that god is one, immutable, unchangeable, infinitely just and good; that light will f

r those of the 12th, 13th, and 14th, should be selected from none but brothers well instructed in the preceding degrees; zealous, and capable of discoursing upon that masonry; illustrating it, and discussing the simple questions of moral philosophy. and one of them, at every communication, should be prepared with a lecture, communicating useful knowledge or giving good advice to the brethren _the knights, of the 15th and 16th degrees, wear the sword. they are bound to prevent and repair, as far as may be in their power, all injustice, both in the world and in masonry; to protect the weak and to bring oppressors to justice. their works and lectures must be in this spirit. they should inquire whether masonry fulfills, as far as it ought and can, its principal purpose, which is to succor the

and lectures must be in this spirit. they should inquire whether masonry fulfills, as far as it ought and can, its principal purpose, which is to succor the unfortunate. that it may do so, they should prepare propositions to be offered in the blue lodges calculated to attain that end, to put an end to abuses, and to prevent or correct negligence. those in the lodges who have attained the rank of knights, are most fit to be appointed almoners, and charged to ascertain and make known who need and are entitled to the charity of the order. in the higher degrees those only should be received who have sufficient reading and information to discuss the great questions of philosophy. from them the orators of the lodges should be selected, as well as those of the councils and chapters. they are cha

irop; and in zuben-el-gubi, that of jubelo gibs: and time and ignorance may even have transmuted the words es chamali into one as little like them as gravelot. isis, the moon personified, sorrowing sought for her husband. nine or twelve fellow-crafts (the rites vary as to the number, in white aprons, were sent to search for khir-om, in the legend of the master's degree; or, in this rite, the nine knights elu. along the path that the moon travels are nine conspicuous stars, by which nautical men determine their longitude at sea--arietis, aldebaran, pollux, regulus, spica virginis, antares, altair, fomalhaut, and markab. these might well be said to accompany isis in her search. in the york rite _twelve_ fellow-crafts were sent to search for the body of khir-om and the murderers. their number

philosophical degrees, in order, by breaking the continuity of these, to relieve what might otherwise become wearisome; and also to remind you that, while engaged with the speculations and abstractions of philosophy and creeds, the mason is also to continue engaged in the active duties of this great warfare of life. he is not only a moralist and philosopher, but a soldier, the successor of those knights of the middle age, who, while they wore the cross, also wielded the sword, and were the soldiers of honor, loyalty, and duty. times change, and circumstances; but virtue and duty remain the same. the evils to be warred against but take another shape, and are developed in a different form. there is the same need now of truth and loyalty as in the days of frederic barbarossa. the characters

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

ng with the visualization of the archangels and the elemental forces associated with them. in detail, i ll be explaining how to do it later in this book. the pentagram represents man- the five points being his head, two arms, and two legs. inverted it becomes the symbol of baphomet, the goat of a thousand young. now to understand what baphomet represents, i need to give you a little lesson on the knights templar, a debased christian sect that practiced occult rituals. king phillipe of france had them burnt at the stake in the 14th century for worshipping baphomet- an idol with the head and feet of a goat, the breasts of a woman, and the wings of an angel. inverted the pentagram becomes the symbol of baphomet- the five points being two horns, two ears, and the beard. so now you know! love a

wer of witchcraft as if they were working with a group. using this magical power is simplicity itself. the warlock of the middle ages, desiring to arouse love and passion, was required to make a figure of wax to represent the woman whose company he desired above all else. positive magic is worked from the first quarter until a full moon, and black magic from the last quarter until a new moon< the knights templar was a debased christian sect that practiced occult rituals. it's a good idea to work a protection ritual on a regular basis. the pentagram (five-pointed star) is a tool used by both witches and magicians to keep evil forces at bay. the pentagram represents man- the five points being his head, two arms, and two legs. in reading these words you will learn many ancient secrets of the

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

century the abbey of cluny was the center and regulator of civilization. solely from an architectural standpoint, the cluny monks carried their art as far as the east. the churches they erected in jerusalem and elsewhere in the holy land during the time of the first crusade were burgundian. in this land of great relics and byzantine art, france remained naively faithful to its genius. though the knights templar contributed most to the spread of eastern influences on an operational level, the benedictines were subject to the influence of these regions, and the romanesque style does indeed have a byzantine feel. the statutes from the cluny monastery are divided into two books. the second volume contains the rules to be followed in founding and constructing new abbeys. according to the legis

of saint augustine, did not expand greatly. in the ninth year of the order's existence, however, as guillaume de tyr notes "during the council held in france at troyes [in 1128, attended by the lord archbishops of reims and sens; their suffragans; the bishop of albano, legate to the apostolic see; and the abbots of citeaux, clairvaux (saint bernard* and pontivy. a rule was instituted for the new knights" the chronicler adds, their affairs had prospered so well that at this time they had in their monastery three hundred knights, more or less, all wearing the white robe+ not including the brother servants, whose number was almost infinite. it is said they own immense properties, on both sides of the sea and that there is not a single province in the christian world that has not assigned som

f bridges and hospices, which responded to their mission of protecting and facilitating journeys of the faithful to the holy sites. according to f. t. b. gavel's histoire pittoresque de la franc-maconnerie: one of the routes of spain that comes out of the pyrenees goes through roncevaux, and ends in lower navarre has retained the name of the path of the templars. it owed its construction to these knights, who, furthermore, protected travelers along its entire length. the templars were given the task of maintaining the three roman roads that existed beyond the pyrenees. also attributed to them is the building of most of the bridges, hospices, and hospitals from rousillon all the way to santiago of compostella. one circumstance that should be noted, because it establishes the relationship th

isplayed in venues beyond just churches intended to propagate the faith. the first concern of these "warrior monks" was the erection of construction that could be used* the templars recognized themselves as "brothers and companions" of the cistercians, to whom they owed assistance and protection. the crusades and the templars 67 for purposes of attack and defense. rather than being assumed by the knights, who were primarily soldiers, the role of architect must have fallen upon the chaplains, who were religious clerics, as well as upon actual specialists. each templar commandery, though under the orders of a single commander, was managed by a certain number of officers, one of whom was a master carpenter.12 in addition to their servant brothers, the templars also employed christian workers

e closer to one shared ideal. the fatimids of cairo imagined the possibility of a peaceful universalism that was the rebirth of the thought of the pharaoh amenhotep iv. the templars echoed* we should recall that the essenes also dressed in white linen and practiced a form of solar worship. the uniform of the assassins consisted of a white robe, red cap, belt, and boots. the templars, at least the knights in the order, wore a white robe with a red cross on the chest. white is the symbol of light and red is the symbol of fire. the crusades and the templars 79 them on this point by trying to establish cooperative relations between easterners and westerners united in the desire for universal peace. despite the considerable influence of the arab world, however, there are no grounds for concludi

e of this is a papal bull from innocent iii dating from 1200 and stating that those who used violence against the colleagues and liegemen of the temple who had entered into an area under god's truce as preached by the church would be excommunicated "the bible of the lord of berze" a poem composed during the early years of the thirteenth century, expresses it as follows: dare not strike one of its knights its sargents nor its squires threaten not to slay them or to the hospital he shall flee or to the temple, if he can manage to do so. the right of franchise was much more exceptional than the right of asylum. it is certain that the benedictines, cistercians, and hospitallers of saint john of jerusalem offered an equal measure, at least originallythe templars, the francs metiers, and freemas

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

swan, he tells elsa that if he marries her, she must never ask his name. she promises never to ask but after some years, during which they have several children, her curiosity gets the better of her. in the original lohengrin she is shamed into asking by the mockery of the duchess of cleves; in wagner s opera, it is at the urging of ortrud, friedrich s wife. the grail itself has decreed that when knights go out from the grail kingdom they must do so anonymously, and that if their identity is revealed they must return. so lohengrin must go back to the keeping of the grail, leaving elsa only his sword, horn, and ring as heirlooms for his children. duelling sword the notion that guilt or innocence could be decided in single combat by knightly champions is commonplace in medieval romance. such

w that britain needed no other protection other than him. fruitful earth when the quest for the grail came to an end, the land became fruitful once more. sir perceval, early hero in the later versions of the grail legend, sir galahad finds the grail. but the earliest grail hero was sir perceval. brought up by his mother in wales, in ignorance of the world, perceval is inspired by a group of armed knights, whom he takes for angels, to set out to seek his fortune. he comes to the grail castle, where he fails, out of politeness, to ask the vital questions about the grail and the lance. later, he reaches king arthur s court, and an old woman curses him for this failure, which has caused the land to become barren. the second time perceval goes to the grail castle, he asks the right questions: w

inging the quest to an end. the lilies surrounding sir galahad indicate his pure and saintly character. the holy grail the holy grail is variously described as a cup, a plate, and even as a stone. its likely origin is in celtic stories of a horn of plenty. a platter that provided whatever food one wished was one of the welsh thirteen treasures of britain, and the grail also provided king arthur s knights with whatever food and drink that they desired. grail chapel the grail chapel is in the castle of corbenik belonging to the fisher king, who is often called king pelles. corbenik can be translated as the castle of the blessed horn or the castle of the sacred host. galahad, perceval, and bors are fed from the grail by christ himself. this 15th-century illumination shows the vision of the gr

rink that they desired. grail chapel the grail chapel is in the castle of corbenik belonging to the fisher king, who is often called king pelles. corbenik can be translated as the castle of the blessed horn or the castle of the sacred host. galahad, perceval, and bors are fed from the grail by christ himself. this 15th-century illumination shows the vision of the grail appearing to arthur and his knights the day that sir galahad arrives in camelot and sits in the siege perilous. the atta inme nt designed by sir edward burne-jones (1833 98) based on the legend as told by thomas malory in morte d arthur, printed in 1483, this tapestry shows sir galahad, bors, and perceval, before the holy grail. son of sir lancelot sir galahad was the son of sir lancelot, who had come very close to ending th

e nt designed by sir edward burne-jones (1833 98) based on the legend as told by thomas malory in morte d arthur, printed in 1483, this tapestry shows sir galahad, bors, and perceval, before the holy grail. son of sir lancelot sir galahad was the son of sir lancelot, who had come very close to ending the quest for the grail. but, although lancelot was the bravest and most skilful of king arthur s knights, he was judged unworthy of success because of his adulterous love for queen guinevere (see p. 85. when he dared approach the grail chapel, he fainted and remained as if dead for 24 days. the round table t he round table was a gift to king arthur from his future father-in-law, king leodegrance, who had received it from arthur s father, king uther pendragon (see p. 84. other sources say king

ir gawain, convinced he had failed, left in shame, but the other knights of the round table wore green girdles from then on in his honor. the death of king arthur 84 the death of king arthur king arthur and his knights were the model for medieval chivalry pure in heart and deed and defenders of the weak against the strong. arthur lived in camelot with his queen, guinevere, surrounded by his noble knights. but even they had failings, and that of sir lancelot to fall in love with guinevere was arthur s downfall. told of the affair by sir agravain, one of his knights, arthur condemned guinevere to die. lancelot rescued her, but in doing so, killed agravain s brothers gareth and gaheris. another brother, sir gawain (see p. 83, insisted arthur follow lancelot to france to fight. arthur left mor

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

f alexandria, and egyptian sage,who had been converted by st.mark, and reformed the doctrines of the egyptians in accordance with the principles of christianity. the disciples of ormus continued, until b b b i, to be the sole guardians of ancient egyptian wisdom as purified by christianity, and solomonian science. this science they communicated to the templars.they were then known by the title of knights of palestine or brethren rose-croix of the east. in them, the rite of memphis recognizes its immediate founders. in defining the object and intention of his order,marconis speaks as follows: the masonic rite of memphis is a combination of the ancient mysteries; it taught the first men to render homage to the deity. its dogmas are based on the principles of humanity its mission is the study

d states of america. commander of the so-called cerneau supreme council.2. guild was also identified with this illegal scottish rite organization.many other instances might be cited, but those already given will suffice. grand lodges frown upon spurious rites and degrees while the various state grand lodges admit that chapters of royal arch masons,councils of royal& select masters,commanderies of knights templar, and bodies of the ancient accepted scottish rite, working under the authority of regular grand bodies, are a part of legitimate masonry, they have quite generally taken the stand that such organizations as the rites ofmisraim and memphis have no legal status, and a number of them, by constitutional amendment or edict of the grand master, have forbidden members of their lodges in t

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

divination, one of the sixteen court cards should be selected to represent the significator of the enquirer, and should answer as nearly to his description. wands generally-very fair-haired and red-haired persons with fair complexion. cups generally-moderately fair persons. swords-generally-dark persons. pentacles generally-very dark persons. kings-generally men. queens-generally women. princes (knights -generally young men. princesses (knaves -generally young women. of these the queens and princes in reading the cards during the processes almost always represent persons connected with a matter under consideration. the kings, if looking against the diretion of the reading, or if meeting it, represent the coming of a person or event, or phase of an event, but if looking with the diretion o

ol. a majority of court cards-society, meeting with many persons. a majority of aces-strength generally; the aces are always strong cards. 4 aces-great power and force. 3 aces-riches and success. 4 kings-great swiftness and rapidity. 3 kings-unexpected meetings. kings generally show news. 4 queens generally-authority and influence. 3 queens generally-powerful and influential friends. 4 princes or knights-meetings with the great. 3 princes or knights-rank and honour. 4 princesses (knaves)-new ideas and plans. 3 princesses (knaves)-society of the young. 4 tens generally-anxiety and responsibility <202> 3 tens generally-buying, selling, commercial transactions. 4 nines generally-added responsibility. 3 nines generally-much correspondence. 4 eights generally-much news. 3 eights generally-much

sembles the black and white systems of squares of the ordinary board; and it is as if we allotted the white to aries, and the black to cancer. when beginning a game see to which system the ptah square belongs. because if it be a square of the aries system the attack of the opposing queens is insignificant, while that of the bishops is strong. in such a case the number of pieces is 6; 2 bishops, 2 knights and 2 rooks. that is, in these matters the airy attack is strong, and the watery weak <366> if the ptah be on a square of the cancer system, one opposing queen directly attacks this square, but the bishops do not. in this case the number of attacking pieces is 5; one queen, 2 knights, and 2 rooks. that is, in these matters the airy attack is insignificant, while the watery enochian chess 6

cupied. if the allied king can be check-mated, his partner continues to play and to seek to release him. when both kings are checkmated, the game is at an end, and the partners checkmated have lost the game. the game is also lost by the first player, when though neither he or his ally is checkmated, the enemies hold such a position that the prime player cannot possibly attain the ptah square. the knights or fiery forces of the elements meet and clash violently in all parts, and are strong in attack against every thing and everywhere. their moves, like fire, pass unarrested through the other elements in irregular courses like the lambent flame, leaping both diagonally and square-wise at every move. they contain the potential forces of the other pieces. their force is similar to the tarot ki

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e many more rodins among the jesuits, were there one even, i would not give much for the success of the opposite party, in spite of the brilliant and maladroit special pleadings of its illustrious advocates. to will well, to will long, to will always, but never to lust after anything, such is the secret of power, and this is the magical arcanum which tasso brings forward in the persons of the two knights who come to deliver rinaldo and to destroy the enchantments of armida. they withstand equally the most alluring nymphs and most terrible wild beasts. they remain without desires and without fear, and hence they attain their end. does it follow from this that a true magician inspires more fear than love? i do not deny it, and while recognizing abundantly how sweet are the attractions of lif

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extreme and even humorous. this book, however, has been recommended as a serious reference in law enforcement training material on this topic. in books, lectures, handout material, and conversations, i have heard all of the following referred to as satanism. church of satan. ordo templi orientis. temple of set. demonology. witchcraft. occult. paganism. santeria. voodoo. rosicrucians. freemasonry. knights templar. stoner gangs. heavy metal music. rock music. kkk. nazis. skinheads. scientology. unification church. the way. hare krishna. rajneesh. religious cults. new age. astrology. channeling. transcendental meditation. holistic medicine. buddhism. hinduism. mormonism. islam. orthodox church. roman catholicism at law enforcement training conferences, it is witchcraft, santeria, paganism, an

necessary for love to be accomplished is. 32. one cannot learn to concentrate without becoming sensitive to. 33. freedom to create and to construct requires that the individual be_ and. 34. in al, had is actually. 35 "medu" means both_ and_ and is the_ of western magical tradition. 36. maat is the egyptian neter of_ and_ and her symbol is a. 37. the symbol used by both the church of satan and the knights templar with which crowley identified himself was the. 38. in babylonian mythology_ was the original watery chaos. 39. zoroaster professed that ahura did not create the masculine devil, but stated rather that this was an_ existence. 40. the yezidis worshipped the devil-god_ who took the form of a. 41. consciousness is the measure of, making actual that which otherwise is only. 42. manifest

, an inverse pentagram decorated with a goat's head and surrounded by the hebrew letters lamed/vav/yod/tav/nun= lvytn= leviathan, the sea monster mentioned in job #41 of the judaic/christian bible. the goat was the goat of mendes, the devil's form of manifestation in traditional satanism.54 the term "baphomet- the "moorish name- came into prominence as the god reputedly worshipped by the medieval knights temple (order of the temple. there have been many colorful and creative explanations of this curious term, but the most sensible is that of idries shah, who in his book the sufis suggests that it is a corruption of the arabic abufihamat (pronounced "bufihimat, which means "father" or "source of understanding" going beyond shah, this in turn may have been a corruption from the ancient egypt

ocence or accident, they dash it from their lips in terror or, upon drinking from it, come hideously to grief for their rashness. only the initiate of the left-hand path may dare to drink from the grail with impunity, and only he shall see it brought forth before him whenever he desires. woe to him who drinks from the grail with deceit and falsehood in his heart; it shall consume him utterly "the knights of the grail live from a stone of purest kind. if you do not know it, it shall here be named to you. it is called lapsit exillis -wolfram von eschenbach, parsival "hic lapis exilis extat precio quoque vilis spernitur a stultis, amatur plus ab edoctis [this insignificant stone is indeed of trifling value. it is despised by fools, the more cherished by the wise -arnold of villanova, rosarium

or in the thoth deck and that of set in the temple of set stele hold ceptres in their right hands and crosses in their left hands. there are of course differences: the emperor holds a ram-headed sceptre, while set's has the stylized set-head. the emperor's cross-topped orb holds a maltese cross while set carries the anx [i suspect the reason for the maltese cross could stem from the symbol of the knights of malta who formed their crosses from four arrowheads pointed inward. seen as such, it could be symbolic of temporal influence coming about from an aggressive nature. i do not advance this as dogma, but it does fit with the red color of the card and overall power presented in it] the ram, ares, can be seen in four places in three forms: the capitals of the throne [himalayan wild rams, acc

be somewhat unorthodox, in that it lacked a few of the elements one usually sees in setian work. i feel that this particular deviation enhanced rather than detracted from the work, and presented all those present with a new and different type of challenge (magically. the flavor of this rite is teutonic, but the magical formula is universal. i would be interested in receiving the feedback of those knights and dames who choose to perform this working, especially in circumstances which are unique to their particular ancestral background. i would also like to thank sir setnakt for his suggestions which helped to add more of a sense of masculine/feminine balance to the rite, and for the list of exercises he included to supplement the work. commentary sir setnakt (don webb, iii) although the ord

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g of what i had cast in 1994. another fruit of the 1994 working is, of course, adept andersson founding the black runa pylon of sweden. when my need to found an o.tr. lodge grew, i got three queries from my area about o.tr. sponsorship. two of these gentlemen i've already sponsored (priest iitti and adept andersson) and the third (adept sotiris vandis) is likely to get his sponsorship soon. these knights will make up the initial membership of the aurora borealis lodge. the majority of my magic is worked in this type of multilayered and supercharged universe. one work supports the other and things roll pretty nicely (yet "unexpectedly. the horizontal and vertical "grid" of the universe twist and intersect in meaningful and initiatorily beneficial ways- there is more room for my will to bend

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g of what i had cast in 1994. another fruit of the 1994 working is, of course, adept andersson founding the black runa pylon of sweden. when my need to found an o.tr. lodge grew, i got three queries from my area about o.tr. sponsorship. two of these gentlemen i've already sponsored (priest iitti and adept andersson) and the third (adept sotiris vandis) is likely to get his sponsorship soon. these knights will make up the initial membership of the aurora borealis lodge. the majority of my magic is worked in this type of multilayered and supercharged universe. one work supports the other and things roll pretty nicely (yet "unexpectedly. the horizontal and vertical "grid" of the universe twist and intersect in meaningful and initiatorily beneficial ways- there is more room for my will to bend

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y people who were, or have since become, well known in the arts and sciences, and the business world. eventually a "magic circle" evolved from this group. the major purpose of the circle was to meet for the performance of magical rituals lavey had discovered or devised. he had accumulated a library of works that descibed the black mass and other infamous ceremonies conducted by groups such as the knights templar in fourteenth-century france, the hell-fire club and the golden dawn in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century england. the intent of some of these secret orders was to blaspheme, lampoon the christian church, and address themselves to the devil as an anthropomorphic deity that represented the reverse of god. in lavey's view, the devil was not that, but rather a dark, hidden force in n

al. for large group rituals a trapezoidal altar about 3 to 4 feet high and 5 to 6 feet long can be specially constructed for the woman to lie upon. if this is impractical, or in private ceremonies, any elevated plane may be used. if a woman is used for the altar, the other devices may be placed upon a table within easy reach of the priest. symbol of baphomet the symbol of baphomet was used by the knights templar to represent satan. through the ages this symbol has been called by many different names. among these are: the goat of mendes, the goat of a thousand young, the black goat, the judas goat, and perhaps the most appropriately, the scapegoat. baphomet represents the powers of darkness combined with the generative fertility of the goat. in its "pure" form the pentagram is shown encompa

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is lost carcosa. songs that the hyades shall sing, where flap the tatters of the king, must die unheard in dim carcosa. song of my soul, my voice is dead, die thou, unsung, as tears unshed shall dry and die in lost carcosa -robert w. chambers "casilda's song" from the king in yellow the ceremony of the stifling air is the the which was performed when entering the sixth degree of the order of the knights templar. it celebrates a reawakening of the flesh and a rejection of past self-denials, and symbolic rebirth is attained through a contrived entombment. the ceremony originated in the thirteenth century. in its original form it was not the historical parody into which it later developed. accounts of the performance of l'air epais ultimately strengthened the charges of king philip iv of fra

h to the tension produced by the contrivedly oppressive atmosphere during the early segments of the ceremony, and the closeness within the coffin. when the performance of l'air epais was resumed in 1799, it served as a celebration of the successful curse placed upon philip and pope clement v by jacques de molay, the last grand master of the templars, who had been condemned to death along with his knights. the present text employs the actual curse leveled against the king and the pope by de molay. though the dialogue of the priest of satan, the king, and the pope are presented in modern french prose, the statements of de molay have been retained in their actual stilted delivery. james thompson's diabolical litany of the nineteenth century, the city of dreadful night, has long been employed

death. it was only right. de molay: mais en a-t-il le droit? quel titre le lui donne? mes chevaliers et moi, quand nous avons jur d'assurer la victoire i' tendard sacr, de vouer notre vie et notre noble exemple a conqu rir, d fendre et prot ger le temple, avons-nous des rois soumis notre serment? what right did he have to condemn men to death for such reasons? what tide gave him the privilege? my knights and i swore to insure victory for our sacred banner-to dedicate our lives to the protection of our templeyet with it we submitted our pledge to the king that our power would be his to wield. priest: l'autorit de philippe tait celle d'un profane. il tenta d'ignorer la force sup rieure, le pouvoir des magiciens qui ont en ce jour convoqu notre haute cour. philip only had the authority of a p

at may be true, molay. though your courage was not lessened by imprisonment and torture, you did in fact confess your heresies, your evil crimes and those of your order-your unholy acts. priest: vous les avez tortur s! vous avez trait ces chevaliers, qui toute leur vie out combattu pour proteger votre tr ne, comme vous auriez trait des meurtriers ou des voleurs! you tortured them! you treated the knights of the temple, who, in their strength and all that lives, fought to protect your throne as you would have treated murderers or thieves! de molay (to philip: sire, lorsque me distinguant parmi tous vos sujets, vous r pandiez sur moi d'honorables bienfaits; de jour o f obtenais 1'illustre pr fer nce de nommer de mon nom le fils du roi de france, aurais-je pu m'attendre 1'affront solennel de

nd terror spreads through the silent throng. it seems the very semblance of that future vengeance moves into the crowd! the executioners are terrified and suddenly have no power to come close. tremblingly, they throw their torches on the pyre, and quickly turn away. thick smoke surrounds the scaffold, growing into billows. suddenly flames appear and leap up, yet in the sight of death, these brave knights do not betray themselves. priest: assez! enough! the denunciation priest: o sad fraternity, do i unfold your dolorous mysteries shrouded from of yore? nay, be assured; no secret can be told to any who divined it not before: none uninitiate by many a presage will comprehend the language of the message, although proclaimed aloud of evermore. and yet a man who raves, however mad, who bares hi

rce, shaw, twain, or wells. he was one of the few outsiders who, for the first time in the yezidi history, showed sympathy for their devil. by now the yezidis have largely been absorbed into the world of "those without" but their influence has taken effect. that influence has been manifest, throughout satanism's underground period, in the procedures of virtually every secret brotherhood since the knights templar, and in countless literary works. now, after the often tragic epic of the yezidis has become history, it is safe to pronounce the dread name. the statement of shaitan and wordless rite of dedication the rite begins one hour after sunset. the congregants enter the chamber and seat themselves on pillows placed on the floor in a semicircle facing the shrine of melek taus. the water ru

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ddress of zanoni, froze up all human passion. viola herself, if not forgotten, shrunk back like a shadow into the recesses of his breast. he shivered as he stepped into the sunlight, and musingly retraced his steps into the more populous parts of that liveliest of italian cities. book iii. theurgia. i cavalier sen vanno dove il pino fatal gli attende in porto. gerus. lib, cant. xv (argomento) the knights came where the fatal bark awaited them in the port. chapter 3.i. but that which especially distinguishes the brotherhood is their marvellous knowledge of all the resources of medical art. they work not by charms, but simples "ms. account of the origin and attributes of the true rosicrucians" by j. von d. at this time it chanced that viola had the opportunity to return the kindness shown to

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s and hundreds of years, there arose esoteric groups which continued to practice the rites, traditions, and enculturation brought in from the original groups "over the centuries, these groups practiced openly in some countries, and covertly in countries where christianity or other religions opposed their practices. some of the groups which came out of these ancient roots included the order of the knights templar, rosicrucian's, baphetomism, and druidic cults. these groups were the forerunners, or roots, of modern day illuminism. the original illuministic leaders chose to take what they felt were the best practices of each root religion, combine them into principles, then organized these principles according to specific guidelines "modern day illuminism is a philosophy funded by the wealthy

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

r, masons affiliated with the grand lodge of the orient in paris, the united lodge in london, or the grand masonic lodge of israel, may well utilize signs and handshakes not used, seen, or understood in other orders. then, of course, there is the order of the rosicrucians, the order of the trapezoid, the priory of sion, the alta vendita, the p2 lodge, the solar order of the temple, the modern-day knights templar, the vatican's knights of malta and knights of columbus, the order of the odd fellows, the order of ahepa, the order introduction 13 of skull and bones, the bohemian club, the pilgrims society, and a thousand or more other secret societies and orders, not to mention the many jewish cabalistic groups, satanic churches, and witchcraft and druid sects. knowledge of secret signs opens

iferian doctrine.14 pike's embrace of the "luciferian doctrine" is not surprising. manly p. hall, 33, considered by freemasonry as the lodge's greatest scholar of the 20th century, taught that the energies of lucifer were necessary for the successful masonic warrior. meanwhile, john j. robinson, whose book, born in blood, was celebrated by top masonic lodge officials as an accurate history of the knights templar and of freemasonry, insisted in his later book, a pilgrims progress, that lucifer is not satan or the devil. instead, robinson insisted that lucifer is an angel whose guidance and help can be employed either for good or for evil. of course, robinson's writings make clear that pleasing lucifer is high-up on the lodge's list of priorities. lucifer the divine eliphas levi, the cabalis

republican party politics. interestingly, robertson was ordained for the ministry at a norfolk, virginia, church named, appropriately, the freemason street baptist church. in the author's opinion, this cover of time is clearly a staged event, and both the publisher and robertson full well knew what they were doing. robertson has long been allied with the vatican's sovereign military order of the knights of malta (smom. his father, as a u.s. senator from virginia, was chairman of the senate banking and currency committee. for he's a jolly good fellow 89 annie besant, a co-mason (women's branch) took over the theosophy cult at the passing of colonel olcott. the logo of theosophy is blatantly occultic, combining the crowned oroboros serpent with both the jewish star of david, or six-pointed

religion and strike out in liberty, doing one's own thing. in other words, live free beyond any bounds of morality or propriety. lust, free sex, immoral conduct, rape, pillage, plunder all are permitted the new man of reason. as crowley's one great commandment put it "do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" now baphomet, the androgynous horned, half man-woman, half goat god of the medieval knights templars, inculcates this "do your own thing" philosophy of illuminism. he is the very image of the freethinker, the mason and illuminist who raises the "torch of liberty" the fire of hell and light of lucifer. the knights templar, predecessor to today's freemasons, revered baphomet as the deity of wisdom. look closely at the reverse side of the u.s. dollar bill and you will find the horns

points out that in africa and europe, the sign is clearly the devil's own. doesn't it seem odd to you that even mother barbara bush is giving the sign? and, after all, neither george nor laura were ever students at the university of texas! george was a bonesman at new england's preppie school, yale "el diablo" shows his horns-the devil rides out 125 126 codex magica new york governor mario cuomo. knights of malta magnate j. peter grace once referred to him as "cuomo the homo" roberta achtenberg, jewish lesbian activist who was a hud official in the clinton administration, shows her philosophical leanings at a gay pride parade in san francisco. marion berry, mayor of the nation's capital, washington, d.c. later arrested for cocaine possession, mayor berry once remarked "outside of the killi

son's monitor of freemasonry it is revealed that, following the announcement of the sacred word, abaddon, the lodge drama for this fateful degree provides a demonstration "intended to represent the end of the world."8 208 codex magica how very appropriate. how very telling! x symbol in the masonic lodge one thing is for sure: the masonic order uses the x not only for the revelatory 17th degree of knights of east and west, but for others as well. in the royal arch's super-excellent master's degree, the first sign given is the crossing of the hands over the breast/chest. this sign refers to the penalty assessed if any secrets learned are ever divulged. then, in the ritual ceremony for the select master degree, the second sign is made by crossing the hands and arms just below the neck and dro

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ly because of secret formulas, magical words, and supernatural rituals. rumors and legends of secret societies have fueled the imaginations, fears, and envy of those on the outside for thousands of years. many secret societies, such as the assassins, the garduna, the thuggee, and the tongs, were made up of highly trained criminals who were extremely dangerous to all outsiders. others, such as the knights templar, the illuminati, and the rosicrucians, were said to possess enough ancient secrets of power and wealth to control the entire world. conspiracy enthusiasts allege that there are clandestine organizations which for centuries have remained a threat to individual freedoms, quietly operating in the shadows, silently infiltrating political organizations, and secretly manipulating every l

n, and when the teachings of origen (185 c.e. 254 c.e, who championed preexistence, was anathematized in 553, they, along with other believers in reincarnation, were condemned as heretics. in later centuries, those who held gnostic views were forced to remain silent regarding their beliefs in reincarnation, so they very often formed their own sects and schools of thought, such as the cathars, the knights templar, the rosicrucians, and the albigenses. because many serious-minded christians believe that there is evidence in the gospels that jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. 30 c.e) himself believed in reincarnation, they are comfortable with 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 afterlife mysteries 49 contemporary mystery schools have been built around te

ermo generalis or auto-da-fe and might consist of a public whipping, a pilgrimage to a holy shrine, a monetary fine, or the wearing of a cross. the most severe penalty that the inquisitors could pronounce was life imprisonment; therefore, when they turned over a confessed heretic to the civil authorities, it was quite likely that person would be put to death at the stake. the wealthy and powerful knights templar were accused of heretical acts, such as invoking satan and worshipping demons that appeared as large black cats. in spite of a lengthy trial and 573 witnesses for their defense, the arrested templars were tortured en masse, burned at the stake, and their order was disbanded by pope clement v (c. 1260 1314. in 1313 as he was being burned to death on a scaffold built for the occasion

an and worshipping demons that appeared as large black cats. in spite of a lengthy trial and 573 witnesses for their defense, the arrested templars were tortured en masse, burned at the stake, and their order was disbanded by pope clement v (c. 1260 1314. in 1313 as he was being burned to death on a scaffold built for the occasion in front of notre dame cathedral, jacques de molay (1243 1314, the knights templar grand master, recanted the confession produced by torture and proclaimed his innocence to the pope and the king and he invited them to meet him at heaven s gate. when both dignitaries died soon after de molay s execution, it seemed to the public at large to be a sign that the grand master had been innocent of the charges of heresy. 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

. also in 1978, ian wilson published the shroud of turin: the burial cloth of jesus christ? in which he presented the results of his historical research which brought continuity, from 33 c.e. to 1204 c.e, to the story of the shroud and its travels. wilson concluded that the face of edessa and the mandylion of constantinople were but other designations for the shroud of turin. he also postulated a knights templar connection for the so-called missing years of the shroud from 1204 to 1357 which indicates that the relic was in athens and bescancon, france, during that period. it may well have been, wilson suggested, that the extensive copying of the face on the shroud by the knights templar could have led to the papal revocation of their charter, which was later followed by the execution of th

black madonna may also refer to mary magdalene, who, in the traditions of many christian sects, such as the gnostics, was the wife of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) in this interpretation of the events that occurred after jesus death at the hands of the romans, mary brought the cup used at the last supper the holy grail from palestine to southern france, where it would eventually be guarded by the knights templar. there is also a belief that mary arrived in france carrying within her womb a child fathered by jesus of nazareth, who then became the progenitor for the royal family of france. for those who hold such beliefs, the holy grail is but a metaphor for mary magdalene s womb, which carried the true blood of jesus in the person of his unborn son. therefore, many of the depictions of the

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ly because of secret formulas, magical words, and supernatural rituals. rumors and legends of secret societies have fueled the imaginations, fears, and envy of those on the outside for thousands of years. many secret societies, such as the assassins, the garduna, the thuggee, and the tongs, were made up of highly trained criminals who were extremely dangerous to all outsiders. others, such as the knights templar, the illuminati, and the rosicrucians, were said to possess enough ancient secrets of power and wealth to control the entire world. conspiracy enthusiasts allege that there are clandestine organizations which for centuries have remained a threat to individual freedoms, quietly operating in the shadows, silently infiltrating political organizations, and secretly manipulating every l

tter in history for the ample discovery of the nature thereof. while examining the true accounts of dragons in the folklore and records of several cultures, one cannot help wondering if there really were dragonlike monsters prowling the earth, devouring hapless villagers, receiving periodic sacrifices of young maidens, spreading terror into the hearts of all, and being thwarted only by courageous knights. for years, children have been read tales, seen motion pictures, and heard songs of reluctant dragons, kindly dragons, affectionate dragons, magic dragons, and timid dragons. behind every myth smolders some spark of truth and reality. a few scientists hold the theory that a number of dinosaurs might have survived into the age of man. pick up any book on dinosaurs and it is apparent that a

superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 209 thecustom of the bridal shower grew out of earlier times when a woman s family might not have the money for a dowry. out to capture a bride, he was usually accompanied by a strong-armed friend who helped defend the groom against the pursuing father and relatives of the stolen woman. in medieval times, the groomsmen were known as bride knights, whose duty it was to guard and protect the bride on her way to the church, accompany her down the aisle to the altar, and after the ceremony had been conducted, relinquish her to the groom. the origin of the bridesmaids also hearkens back to marriage by capture. as that form of brutal courtship was fading into humankind s memories of ancient ways better forgotten, it remained the custom f

e were attempting to declare their marriage vows. the gift of a small item of personal jewelry that the groom presents to his groomsmen is a survival of primitive courtship when the prospective groom set out to capture a bride with the help of his friends. if they were successful in catching a suitable wife for the groom, he would reward them with gifts. during a later time period, when the bride knights kept watch over the bride, it was she who presented the gifts, rather than the groom. the wedding ceremony. as the methods of courtship and the subsequent marriage rites evolved in various ways, it was inevitable that an element of religion should enter into the ceremonies. as humankind progressed from the primitive stalking of a bride, to the purchase of a wife, to mutual love between bri

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ly because of secret formulas, magical words, and supernatural rituals. rumors and legends of secret societies have fueled the imaginations, fears, and envy of those on the outside for thousands of years. many secret societies, such as the assassins, the garduna, the thuggee, and the tongs, were made up of highly trained criminals who were extremely dangerous to all outsiders. others, such as the knights templar, the illuminati, and the rosicrucians, were said to possess enough ancient secrets of power and wealth to control the entire world. conspiracy enthusiasts allege that there are clandestine organizations which for centuries have remained a threat to individual freedoms, quietly operating in the shadows, silently infiltrating political organizations, and secretly manipulating every l

their methods hidden from the larger society. throughout the centuries, such secret societies have taunted outsiders with their forbidden knowledge and, on occasion, frightened or even assassinated those whose persistence in seeking access to their mysteries were unwelcome. 1 chapter exploration the assassins the decided ones of jupiter the freemasons the garduna the holy vehm the illuminati the knights templar the leopard men the mau-mau the rosicrucians the thuggee the tongs introduction in this chapter a number of secret societies will be examined that have fueled the imaginations, fear, and envy of those on the outside of the mysterious organizations for hundreds of years. one of the favorites of paranoid conspiracy theorists, the freemasons, while once powerful and influential throug

essful individuals who believe that the rich and successful have acquired their wealth and power only through their possession of secret formulas, utterance of magical words, and performance of supernatural rituals. those same individuals will seek desperately to become members of groups that they believe have such mystical powers or they will become obsessed in their efforts to destroy them. the knights templar gained status as an order of knighthood because of the selfless actions of a handful of knights who vowed to protect pilgrims on their way to the holy land. in the beginning, these pious and valiant knights were so poor that they had to share the same horse and take turns riding it. centuries later, when the knights templar had become the wealthiest and most powerful order in all o

so poor that they had to share the same horse and take turns riding it. centuries later, when the knights templar had become the wealthiest and most powerful order in all of europe, it was decided by church and state that the once godly christian soldiers had acquired their earthly treasure and power by worshipping satan and committing the most foul acts of desecration and blasphemy. the order of knights that had once served as the bulwark of christianity during the crusades to protect the holy land was ordered disbanded by papal decree, and its members tortured and burned at the stake. history has not yet determined the degree of their true guilt as heretics, but it is unlikely the knights templar deserved such an ignoble end. while there was never any clear evidence to prove that the kni

more murders than any other secret society, allegedly dedicated the lives of the thousands of victims which they strangled to death to their goddess kali. of all the secret societies examined in this chapter, only the tongs and the freemasons remain in existence in the twenty-first century. while some contemporary metaphysical groups proclaim that their philosophical heritage may derive from the knights templar or the rosicrucians, there is little to substantiate such claims other than an admiration for their precepts and ideals. on occasion, international law enforcement investigators may see elements suggestive of the thuggee or the assassins involved in certain murders or assassinations, but there is little evidence that these societies still exist as forces to be feared. on the other

ast and into europe, in 1272, the mamluk sultan baybars brought about their downfall as an organized sect. m delving deeper heckethorn, charles william. secret societies of all ages and countries. kila, mont: kessinger publishing, 1997. howard, michael. the occult conspiracy: secret societies. their influence and power in world history. rochester, vt: inner traditions, 1989. howarth, stephen. the knights templar. new york: barnes& noble, 1993. the decided ones of jupiter in the early nineteenth century, southern italy suffered greatly from the raids of small gangs of bandits who would descend from 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 secret societies 5 between1090 and 1256, there were eight grand masters who ruled the society of assassin

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, sweeping folds; these robeswere usually white, sometimes green, and occasionally scarlet. the hair was loose over the shoulders, whichincreased the beauty of the younger ladies, but the long straggling elf-locks of the older women are alwayscommented on with horror by the "mortal" beholder. the fairy ladies covered their hair with a veil or hood,and often wore a small coronet of gold. the fairy knights wore gold or silver armour in battle or in solemnprocessions; for ordinary wear they dressed in green with a hat or cap; and on all occasions they wore greencloaks or mantles, possibly arranged like a plaid.when going among the villagers the records show that the fairies were dressed like their neighbours,apparently lest they should attract attention and so be recognised. bessie dunlop[32

e-horn" strutt states that in the ninth century cross-gartering seems to have been confined to "kings andprinces, or the clergy of the highest order, and to have formed part of their state habit.[37] later in themiddle ages the garter had obviously a significance which it does not possess now. the liber niger recordsthat richard i animated his army at the siege of acre by giving to certain chosen knights leather garters to tieabout their legs.the extraordinarily circumstantial tradition of the foundation of the order of the garter in the reign ofedward iii also emphasises its importance. the story2424which every child has heard2424relates that a lady,either the fair maid of kent or the countess of salisbury, dropped her garter while dancing with edward iii,that she was overcome with confus

ch every child has heard2424relates that a lady,either the fair maid of kent or the countess of salisbury, dropped her garter while dancing with edward iii,that she was overcome with confusion, that the king picked up the garter, fastened it on his own leg with thewords honi soit qui mal y pense, shame to those who think evil of it2424jbh and at once founded the orderof the garter with twenty-six knights in honour of the event, that order being from the beginning the highestof all knightly orders in europe. though the story may be apocryphal there is a substratum of truth in it. theconfusion of the countess was not from the shock to her modesty2424it took more than a dropped garter toshock a lady of the fourteenth century2424but the possession of that garter proved that she was not only am

ve saved the immediate situation, but the action does not explain hiswords nor the foundation of the commemorative order. if, however, the garter was the insignia of thechieftainship of the old religion, he thereby placed himself in the position of the incarnate god in the eyesof his pagan subjects. and it is noteworthy that he swiftly followed up the action by the foundation of anorder of twelve knights for the king and twelve for the prince of wales, twenty-six members in all, in otherwords two covens. froissart's words seem to imply that edward understood the underlying meaning of the.garter "the king told them it should prove an excellent expedient for the uniting not only of his subjects onewith another, but all foreigners conjunctively with them in the bonds of amity and peace. it is

he knew that thesword threatened his head, and the time was at hand for his sacrifice" this was on the 29th of december, thevery day of the martyrdom, when becket made his last confession to william of maidstone. it is also the god of the witchesthomas 340 becket[2]64noticeable in the quotation given above that it was acknowledged that his time was already fixed "for his hourwas not yet come. the knights' mocking words at the end seem to indicate that becket had some claim toroyal power.the whole account of the murder is given by the eye-witness, william of canterbury, who appears to havebeen a visitor at the monastery at the time. the scenes are vividly described; the violence of the knights, theperturbation of the frightened monks, their disorganised and ineffective attempts to save thei

er.the whole account of the murder is given by the eye-witness, william of canterbury, who appears to havebeen a visitor at the monastery at the time. the scenes are vividly described; the violence of the knights, theperturbation of the frightened monks, their disorganised and ineffective attempts to save their chief, and thedetermination of becket to be killed. after the first interview with the knights, the monks gathered roundbecket and pushed him through the door though he struggled against them "thence gradually he progressedby slow degrees as if voluntarily courting death" he saw the people assembled as if at a spectacle and askedwhat it was that they feared, and was told "armed men in the cloisters. at once he tried to force his wayout, but was prevented by the monks who urged him t

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

d of wisdom. as related in the sufis by idries shah, the arabic root fehm (charcoal) is fhm, meaning black or wise. this is recognizable and easily understood in an initiatory sense from the sufic phrase, dar tariki, tariqat (in the darkness, the path and reflects the ideal of the light or wisdom coming from the darkness. the arabic root fhm is symbolic of baphomet, meaning head of wisdom. in the knights templar, hugues de payns (which translates of the pagan) held a coat of arms which had three saracen heads, which resembled severed heads, indicating wisdom. 8 the sufis by idries shah and a history of secret societies by akron daraul. 17 it is also the sufis who move against the sun9 which brought such practice to the west. in the yatus cult, the darkness must be observed, absorbed and th

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; as the dew of hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of 8 in philosophy: principle beginning, fountain-head, original or initial state, likewise, the initial archetype. accident an attribute which is not part of the essence and hence non-essential accompaniment. substance a being that subsists by itself, a separate or distinct thing. 9 psalm 133 used to be recited aloud by the knights of the temple at each reception inot the order. it still appears in the rituals of arming of the different chivalrous orders, protestant, catholic or masonic. 28 zion; for there the lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. operator now dismisses the celestial spirits which he has invoked during his operation: celestial spirits who assisted us, we thank you. may there be always

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

ed through his clenched and searching fingers. kant similarly losing his way in the night of hume fs ignorance, struck a spark on the tail of his shirt, proclaiming the day; but as the flames rose and scorched his fundamental basis, he, also, leapt from his empiric hose into the cool comfort of that watery ocean hume had attempted to shadow in the palm of his hand. then behind these three gallant knights clattered along their no less gallant esquires: fichte, schelling, and hegel, and in the distance, lost in the dust of reason, stand the present-day yokels of thought, thinking at appointed hours according to appointed books. fichte, schelling, and hegel close on the heels of kant came fichte with his unknowable appulse as the only potency of the not-self, which assuaged the raging thirst

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the type of magic particularly associated with the o.t.o. and the historian of occultism is regretfully forced to look upon them as being unsubstantiated. the real origins of the o.t.o. seem to lie in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century occult templarism. until towards the middle of the eighteenth century few people seem to have displayed any great interest in the original order of the temple, the knights templar, suppressed in 1314 on the grounds that its members were heretical, blasphemous and sodomitical. with the rise of continental and anglo-saxon freemasonry, however, the building activities of the templars began to attract attention. perhaps, thought some masons, the fact that the symbolism of the craft degrees of masonry was concerned with both the building of a temple and the murde

cal, blasphemous and sodomitical. with the rise of continental and anglo-saxon freemasonry, however, the building activities of the templars began to attract attention. perhaps, thought some masons, the fact that the symbolism of the craft degrees of masonry was concerned with both the building of a temple and the murder of its architect, hiram, suggested the existence of a connection between the knights templar and freemasonry? perhaps the masonic fraternity did not, as was assumed by most of its members, go back to the time of king solomon but was simply an underground continuation of the order of the temple? perhaps the murdered hiram was really jacques de molay, the martyred grand master of the templars? the idea of an historical connection between masonry and the crusading orders rece

the heathens and saracens. these signs and words were only communicated to those who promised solemnly, and sometimes at the foot of the altar, never to reveal them. this sacred promise was therefore not an execrable oath, as it has been called,5 but a respectable bond to unite christians of all nationalities into one confraternity. some time afterwards our order formed an intimate union with the knights of st. john of jerusalem. from that time our lodges took the name of lodges of st. john. 6 these and similar speculations inspired the manufacture of several spurious templar masonic side-degrees. the first of these was very probably the still surviving royal order of scotland, organized into two degrees, that of the royal order of h.r.m (heredom) and that of the knights of the r.s.y.c.s (

stigation of robert bruce ranged themselves under the banner of a new order instituted by this prince and in which the receptions were based on those of the order of the temple. it is there that we must seek the origin of scottish masonry and even that of the other masonic rites. the scottish templars were excommunicated in 1324 by larmenius, who declared them to be temple desertores and with the knights of st. john of jerusalem, dominiorum militae spoliatores, placed for ever outside the pale of the temple. a similar anathema has since been launched by several grand masters against templars who were rebellious to legitimate authority. from the schism that was introduced into scotland a number of sects took birth.7 the legend of pierre d aumont was accepted as historical truth by many cont

secret rituals of the o.t.o. up to the year 1118 the mysteries and the hierarchic order of the initiation of egypt, transmitted to the jews by moses, then to the christians by jesus christ, were preserved by the successors of st. john. these mysteries and initiations. were a sacred trust. preserved from all adulteration. these gnostic christians, appreciating the courage and piety of the templar knights. held it their duty to trust to hands so pure the knowledge acquired over so many centuries. hugues de payens (the templar grand master) was invested with the apostolic patriarchal power and placed in the legitimate order of the successors of st. john. such is the origin of the foundation of the order of the temple and of the fusion in this order of the different kinds of initiation. desig

riously by several nineteenth-century occultists and eliphas l vi asserted that theoclet the gnostic pontiff who had supposedly passed on the apostolic succession to the templars had initiated hugues de payens into the mysteries and hopes of his pretended church, he lured him by the ideas of sacerdotal sovereignty and supreme royalty, he indicated him finally as his successor; so the order of the knights templar was stained from its origin with schism and conspiracy against kings! 10 by the last decade of the nineteenth century certain german occultists, most of them high-grade freemasons, had been stimulated by their study of l vi s writings on magic to take an interest in templarism. these men were to be the founders of the o.t.o. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20ri

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rites of the early christians. 171 gnostics, manich ans, nicolait, followers of florian &c. 173 the bulgarians, and their practices. 176 walter mape s account of the patarini, and their secret rites. 176 the waldenses and cathari. 178 popular oaths and phallic worship. 181 secret society in orleans for celebrating obscene rites. 182 the stedingers of germany, and their secret ceremonies. 184 the knights templar charges brought against them. 185 spitting on the cross, and the denial of christ. 188 the kiss. 189 intercourse with women prohibited. 190 the cat and idol worship. 194 baffomet, or baphomet. 198 von hammer s description of the templars images or idol. 199 the witches sabbath the last form which the priapeia and liberalia assumed in western europe 206 contents. xi page. trial of w

ng broke up. such were the secret ceremonies of the stedingers, according to the deliberate statement of pope gregory ix, who also charges them with offering direct worship to lucifer.1 but the most remarkable, and at the same time the most celebrated, affair in which these accusations of secret and obscene ceremonies were brought to bear, was that of the trial and dissolution of the order of the knights templars. the charges against the knights templars were not heard of for the first time at the period of their dissolution, but for many years it had been whispered abroad that they had secret opinions and practices of an objectionable character. at length the wealth of the order, which was very great in france, excited the cupidity of king philippe iv, and it was resolved to proceed again

dissamati; et cum hoc pervenisset ad magistrum, mandavit eos capi, et unus illorum fuit interfectus cum fugeret, et alter fuit perpetuo carcari mancipatus. proc s, ii, 223. 4 proc s, ii, 294. 194 on the worship of the in regard to the secret idolatry with which the templars were charged, it is a subject involved in great obscurity. the cat is but little spoken of in the depositions. some italian knights confessed that they had been present at a secret chapter of twelve knights held at brindisi, when a grey cat suddenly appeared amongst them, and they worshipped it. at nismes, some templars declared that they had been present at a chapter at montpellier, when the demon appeared to them in the form of a cat, and promised them worldly prosperity, but they appear to have been visionaries not

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tion) fire cups: briah (creation) water swords: yetzirah (formation) air coins: assiah (action) earth each of the forty numbered cards thus stands for one sephirah in one of the four kabbalistic worlds. for example, the seven of cups symbolizes netzach, or victory, in the world of briah, creation. the sixteen face cards belong to the philosophical elements in this order: kings: fire queens: water knights: air pages: earth since each suit also corresponds to an element, the face cards have a greater and a lesser elemental quality. for example, the queen of scepters is of the watery nature of fire. the title of the face card provides the active element, and the suit provides the ground against which it acts. the uses of the tarot in magic are too many to list. each individual card can be the

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t angel, metatron, who is the united active power of enthroned god, just as the wings are the individual active powers of god when he is differentiated into the twenty-four seated ancient ones. 150 tetragrammaton it might be observed in passing that, in magic, a seated figure signifies archetypal creative potential but not active manifesting energy. kings command fiom their thrones, but they have knights or "messengers (angels) to actually carry their orders out in the world. this is why the messiah, who commands all beings around his throne, is seated, and why the seated twenty-four elders may be assumed to have authority over the active wings. this is also why solomon, who commanded the jinn, is usually represented in arabian folklore as seated upon his glorious throne, which is an earth

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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, the law is for allxliv sex, magic and secrecy had, of course, long been associated in the western religious imagina-tion. from the early gnostics to the knights templar to the cathars of medieval europe, esoteric orders had long been accused of using sexual rituals as part of their secret magical arts. xlv however, perhaps the first sophisticated and well-developed system of sexual magic was that of paschal beverly randolph (1825-75. the son of a wealthy virginian father and a slave from madagascar, randolph was raised a poor, self-taught free bla

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stic writer. his disciples were called wise ones and adopted a goat as their tribal symbol. the goat had a torch between the horns which incidentally later became a symbol for the devil in spain. the torch simply represented illumination and wisdom, that the tribe (goat) was the head of wisdom. long afterabu el-atahiyya died some of his tribe migrated to spain. much of the illustrious past of the knights templar was that they worshipped a head, which was called baphomet. the name according to shah21 is a corruption of the arabic abufihamat which means father of understanding. in sufic terminology, ras el fahmat (head of knowledge) is a point meaning the mentation of man after the process of refinement, a transmuted consciousness. in a left hand path perspective, the witch or sorcerer by ca

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have claimed the supernatural power and authority resident within the "divine blood transfusion" that is offered to us as a result of jesus' sacrfice at calvary "behold, i give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you/ luke 10:19. this divine decree should be the calling card for all of you potential "jesu-di" knights out there. as you can see by the fact that i'm still kickin and swinging in spite of the relentless and painful psychic attacks of the "repti-poltergeists, it's worked for me- branton] it proceeded to transmit into "d's" mind the "official" version of its species history here on earth, i.e. how they survived the cataclysm of the dinosaurs by living underground, became intelligent, were alt

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. the french are not a race of giants, so there must have been some reason for this belief. a large number of manxmen did distinguished service in the navy at this time, and it was said that the manx regiments (fencibles) covered more ground on parade than any other british regiment, on account of the remarkable width of their shoulders. 6- how the little people became witches, and concerning the knights templar in england these little people were mostly pre-celtic aborigines, but among them would be many roman-britons who had stayed on after the saxon conquest. most of these would be christians, but all their priests had fled. at that time many of the people of rome thought that all her troubles arose because they had deserted the old gods. presumably the roman-britons might think the sam

s of gloucester was condemned to the dreaded bishop's prison in peel castle, isle of man, where she languished sixteen years until her death. her companion margery, the witch of eye, was burned alive and roger witche (note the name) or bolingbroke, a clerk and churchman, was drawn from the tower of london to tyburn and there hanged, beheaded and quartered. there is also the celebrated case of the knights templar. they were attacked suddenly and their destruction by fire and torture brought enormous amounts of loot into the hands of state and church. there have been innumerable books stating the cases for and against this order, so this may be of interest. the witches tell me 'the law always has been that power must be passed from man to woman or from woman to man, the only exception being

lteration in the words of the mass and an unorthodox form of absolution. 8. treachery to other sections of the christian army in palestine. 9. immorality. with regard to no. 8, no body of men fought so bravely and so long in palestine, so this seems to be only a trumped-up charge. with regard to nos. 3 and 7, if this were true it must have been done by the templar priests, and not by the fighting knights, but only knights were tried. no action was taken against any templar priest. with regard to no. 9, all the crusaders and the ordinary clergy were charged with this at some time or other. there seems little evidence that the templars were worse than the others. but with regard to 1, 2, 5 and possibly 4 and 6, i think there may have been some base for the charges. the idol was said to be ca

mplars with believing. as this struck right at the heart of the church's teaching, the church said that all those who held these views must be destroyed; hence the various trials and executions. i do not think it has ever been explained exactly what happened to the bulk of the templars. records show that about eight hundred were executed or died under torture; but this was out of fifteen thousand knights scattered all over europe. there were also about twenty-five thousand priests and serving brothers, who do not seem ever to have been persecuted. so seemingly about forty thousand people dived underground and disappeared, as the witches did later. one curious point about this persecution is that the templar priests were never charged. if there is any truth in charges 3 and 7, it could only

rely an unlikely person to turn into a god. another story was that they called christ a thief because he claimed to be the son of god when he was the son of man. if they had said the liar or the pretender on the cross it would have made sense. actually, i think there is no doubt that it was a case of 'here are wealthy people whom we can loot, and advantage was taken of the fact that some of these knights were suspected of being followers of an old religion. however, a number of false charges were brought at the same time, firstly because of a misunderstanding of the import of some rites, but mainly because, if the real truth were known, much public opinion would have been in their favour. charges are made at times because of a misunderstanding of certain ceremonies, etc. for instance, the

er words, people who had slight mediumistic powers. these might not necessarily be attracted to the old faith, and so needed a certain 'frightening' to make them do certain acts, such as spitting on the cross. having done this, the novice might feel he was an outcast, and so be more amenable to obey the orders of the inner circle. this theory would explain that seemingly the greater number of the knights knew nothing of this practice, nor had seen the head or skull, but had heard that others had seen it elsewhere. or it is conceivably possible that during a very long ceremony certain things were done which would not be noticed if the novice's attention were not drawn to it. if the grand master stood for a minute or two with his arms crossed on his breast, who would notice it? but if you we

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. p.12 (fergus and the druid) fergus. this whole day have i followed in the rocks, and you have changed and flowed from shape to shape, first as a raven on whose ancient wings scarcely a feather lingered, then you seemed a weasel moving on from stone to stone, and now at last you wear a human shape, a thing grey man half lost in gathering night. druid. what would you, king of the proud red branch knights? fergus. this would i say, most wise of living souls: young subtle conchubar sat close by me when i gave judgment, and his words were wise, and what to me was burden without end, to him seemed easy, so i laid the crown upon his head to cast away my sorrow. druid. what would you, king of the proud red branch kings? fergus. a king and proud! and that is my despair. i feast amid my people on

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

ting the earth. the eight persons saved from the flood of xisuthrus are synonyms of many octaves of gods, such as the 8 cabiri great gods of samothrace; see bryant and faber on this myth. there are 8 beatitudes of the christian religion, matthew, chap. v. eight is the number of the moons of saturn. there have been several masonic orders concerned with this noachite ogdoad, as the prussian masons, knights of the royal axe, or prince of libanus, the noachites, and the royal ark mariners, which is a subsidiary order to the mark master masons. macrobius says the ogdoad was the type of justice, because it consists of even numbers and on account of its equal divisions. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott john heydon tells us that 8 events befall the damned

s on the 9th day of life, hence the presiding goddess of this rite was called nundina. the nones were one of the sets of days composing each calendar month. the roman novennalia was a feast in memory of the dead celebrated every 9th year. the novendiale was an occasional roman catholic fast to avert calamities, from this arose the r.c. system of neuvaines. there is a masonic order of nine elected knights, in which 9 roses, 9 lights and 9 knocks are used. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the mahometans have 99 names of the deity. some jews have taught that god has 9 times descended to earth; 1st in eden, 2nd at the confusion of tongues, 3rd at the destruction of sodom, 4th to moses at horeb, 5th at sinai, 6th to balaam, 7th to elisha, 8th in the tab

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of 6 0, the moon being in the 16th degree of the sign cancer whose letter hath the v alue 8, did the beast 666 to mega therion a magus of a. a. baphomet 729 t he supreme holy king of ireland, iona and all the britains that are in the sanc tuary of the gnosis xth degree o.t.o, avatar of bacchus diphues in the place o f the xith degree o.t.o, logos of the aeon of ra hoor khuit, grand master of t he knights of the holy ghost, grand master of the knights of the temple, eidolo n of the rosy cross, alastor the destroyer spirit of solitude, wanderer of the waste, of the blood of kerval arch-druids hereditary to the oak, whose holy ang el his guardian is aiwaz 93, the god first dawning upon man in the land of sume r, whose breast beareth the token adventure upon mountains beyond any man of hi s fe

stituted in every part of her body to pan and to the beast, mother of bastards, aborter, whore t o herself, to man, woman, child and brute, partaker of the eucharist of the exc rements in the mass of the devil, sorceress of the rite of esau and jacob, and also genesthai, 143, weh note: c.f.russell a neophyte of a'.a, a master ma gician of o.t.o. and a passed postulant to the secret chamber of the knights of the temple, high priest unto the beast before the altar of purple and gold. first then this brother genesthai made of invocation of tahuti lord of wisdom in the great magical circle of the abbey, that he might come upon us in power. thus was tahuti manifest in the mind of the beast, like light therein, clear, icy, wit without heart. and i beheld the working afar off, full utterly of des

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value of 60, the moon being in the 16th degree of the sign cancer whose letter hath the value 8, did the beast 666 to mega therion a magus of a. a. baphomet 729 the supreme holy king of ireland, iona and all the britains that are in the sanctuary of the gnosis xth degree o.t.o, avatar of bacchus diphues in the place of the xith degree o.t.o, logos of the aeon of ra hoor khuit, grand master of the knights of the holy ghost, grand master of the knights of the temple, eidolon of the rosy cross, alastor the destroyer spirit of solitude, wanderer of the waste, of the blood of kerval arch-druids hereditary to the oak, whose holy angel his guardian is aiwaz 93, the god first dawning upon man in the land of sumer, whose breast beareth the token adventure upon mountains beyond any man of his fellow

prostituted in every part of her body to pan and to the beast, mother of bastards, aborter, whore to herself, to man, woman, child and brute, partaker of the eucharist of the excrements in the mass of the devil, sorceress of the rite of esau and jacob, and also genesthai, 143, weh note: c.f.russell a neophyte of a'.a, a master magician of o.t.o. and a passed postulant to the secret chamber of the knights of the temple, high priest unto the beast before the altar of purple and gold. first then this brother genesthai made of invocation of tahuti lord of wisdom in the great magical circle of the abbey, that he might come upon us in power. thus was tahuti manifest in the mind of the beast, like light therein, clear, icy, wit without heart. and i beheld the working afar off, full utterly of des

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

arthur was to bring as much of the christian ideals as the people could assimilate into the public life and activities of his time. the laws of true chivalry were laid down and they became the foundation of all that is best in european civilization. following the death of king arthur there were times when the order flourished exceedingly. in the crusades of 1250 a.d. between five and six hundred knights went to palestine. near accra all but a certain sir hugo were killed. the order was reconstituted by sir hugo after his eventual return from the crusades whereat so many knights were slain. following on from this there were times when the order dwindled down to only one representative, and this happened when the 37th grandmaster, neville meakin (tudor) was an infant. the reverend meakin ad

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