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vatara, as in these 1 similar legends seem to live in the east. in a jis. of the cassel library containing a journey in turkey, i saw the representation of an archer taking aim at a child with an apple on its head. 384 heroes. religions the full-blooded animalism of herohood developed itself the more richly for that very reason. while the indian heroes are in the end reabsorbed into the god, e.g, krishna becomes vishnu, there remains in greek and german heroes an irreducible dross of humanism, which brings them more into harmony with the historical ingredients of their story. our hero-legend has this long while had no consciousness remaining of such a thing as incarnation, but has very largely that of an apotheosis of human though god-descended virtue. herakles can never become one with ze

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

n that positive sense of the word, which is only intelligible in samasamadhi. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 22 [28] 7 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta zeta the dinosaurs none are they whose number is six:(5) else were they six indeed. seven(6) are these six that live not in the city of the pyramids, under the night of pan. there was lao-tzu. there was siddartha. there was krishna. there was tahuti. there was mosheh. there was dionysus.(7) there was mahmud. but the seventh men called perdurabo; for enduring unto the end, at the end was naught to endure (8) amen. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 23 [29] commentary( zeta) this chapter gives a list of those special messengers of the infinite who initiate periods. they are called dinosaurs because of

so, they would be called "six" in its bad sense of mere intellect. they are called seven, although they are eight, because lao-tzu counts as nought, owing to the nature of his doctrine. the reference to their "living not" is to be found in liber 418. the word "perdurabo" means "i will endure unto the end. the allusion is explained in the note. siddartha, or gotama, was the name of the last budda. krishna was the principal incarnation of the indian vishnu, the preserver, the principal expounder of vedantism. tahuti, or thoth, the egyptian god of wisdom. mosheh, moses, the founder of the hebrew system. dionysus, probably an ecstatic from the east. mahmud, mohammed. all these were men; their godhead is the result of mythopoeia. notes (5) masters of the temple, whose grade has the mystic numbe

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

has mastered her, so as to heal his father (amfortas, avenge him (osiris, or pacify him (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 hi

; gives the initiated chinese system of magick. the tao teh king (s.b.e. series) gives the initiated chinese system of mysticism. tannhauser, by a. crowley. an allegorical drama concerning the progress of the soul; the tannhauser story slightly remodelled. the upanishads (s.b.e. series) the classical basis of vedantism, the bestknown form of hindu mysticism. the bhagavad-gita. a dialogue in which krishna, the hindu "christ, expounds a system of attainment. the voice of the silence, by h. p. blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by frater o. m. the goetia. the most intelligible of the mediaeval rituals of evocation. contains also the favorite invocation of the master therion. the shiva sanhita. a famous hindu treatise on certain physical practices. the hathayoga pradipika. similar to the

u deities: 0 :harpocrates, amoun, nuith :aum: 1 :ptah, asar un nefer, hadith :parabrahm (or any other whom: one wishes to please: 2 :amoun, thoth, nuith (zodiac.:shiva, vishnu (as buddha ava: tara).akasa(as matter).lingam: 3 :maut, isis, nephthys :bhavani (all forms of sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 4 :amoun, isis :indra, brahma: 5 :horus, nephthys :vishnu, varruna-avatar: 6 :asar, ra :vishnu-hari-krishna-rama: 7 :hathoor :bhavani (all forms of sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 8 :anubis :hanuman: 9 :shu :ganesha vishnu (kurm avatar: 10 :seb. lower (i.e. unwedded :lakshmi, etc (kundalini: isis and nephthys :11 :nu :the maruts (vayu: 12 :thoth and cynocephalus :hanuman, vishnu (as parasa: rama: 13 :chomse :chandra (as moon: 14 :hathoor :lalita(sexual aspect of sakti: 15 :men thu :shiva: 16 :asar

ntinuing knowledge from generation unto generation, thou adored of us upon heaths and in woods, on mountains and in caves, openly in the market-places and secretly in the chambers of our houses, in temples of gold and ivory and marble as in these other temples of our bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest thy glory unto men "lao-tze and siddhartha" and krishna and "tahuti" mosheh "dionysus, mohammed and to mega therion, with these also" hermes "pan" priapus, osiris, and melchizedeck, khem and amoun "and mentu, heracles" orpheus and odysseus; with vergilius "catullus" martialis "rabelais, swinburne and many an holy bard; apollonius tyanaeus" simon magus, manes "pythagoras" basilides, valentinus "bardesanes and hippolytus, that transmitted the lig

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

e no time to waste on other people. i fear your "christianity" is like that of most other folk. you pick out one or two of the figures from which the alexandrines concocted "jesus (too many cooks, again, with a vengeance) and neglect the others. the zionist christ of matthew can have no value for you; nor can the asiatic "dying-god- compiled from melcarth, mithras, adonis, bacchus, osiris, attis, krishna, and others- who supplied the miraculous and ritualistic elements of the fable. rightly you ask "what can i contribute" answer: one book. that is the idea of the weekly letter: 52 of yours and 52 of mine, competently edited, would make a most useful volume. this would be your property: so that you get full material value, perhaps much more, for your outlay. i thought of the plan because on

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

s of our houses, in temples of gold and ivory and marble as in these other temples of our bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest they glory unto men (at each name the deacon signs with thumb between index and medius. at ordinary mass it is only necessary to commemorate those whose names are italicized, with wording as is shown) laotze and siddartha and krishna and tahuti, mosheh, dionysus, mohammed and to mega therion, with these also hermes, pan, priapus, osiris and melchizedek, khem and amoun and mentu, heracles, orpheus and odysseus; with vergilius, catullus, martialis, rabelais, swinburne, and many an holy bard; apollonius tyanaeus, simon magus, manes, pythagoras, basilides, valentinus, bardesanes and hippolytus, that transmitted the light o

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

daily in state or body yet you gaily arm a false hegel cap -pie your self, his weapons make him wear 450 false favours of a ladye fayre (the scarlet woman) bray and blare a false note on the trumpet, shout: a champion? faith s defender! out! sceptic and sinner! see me! quail i? 455 i cite the little-go. you stare, and have no further use for paley! ascension day 17 mysticism does not need christ. krishna will serve, or the carpenter. the sacred walrus. god, some vestments, and lady wimborne. fearful aspect of john iii. 16. universalism. will god get the bara* slam? eternal life. divergent views of its desirability. buddhist idea. dogma of belief. but if you drink your mystic fill under the good tree igdrasil64 where is at all your use for christ? 460 hath krishna not at all sufficed? i her

, but he can prevent present causes from having any future results. the exoteric christian and hindu rather rely on another person to do this for them, and are further blinded by the thirst for life and individual existence, the most formidable obstacle of all, in fact a negation of the very object of all religion. schopenhauer shows that life is assured to the will-to-live, and unless christ (or krishna, as the case may be) destroys these folk by superior power a task from which almightiness might well recoil baffled! i much fear that eternal life, and consequently eternal suffering, joy, and change of all kinds, will be their melancholy fate. such persons are in truth their own real enemies. many of them, however, believing erroneously that they are being unselfish, do fill their hearts

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ry girdle of many-breasted tellus blushed red in the arms of the summer sun, did miriam seek the cave below the cavern, in which no light had ever shone, to bring forth the light of the world. and on the third day she departed from the cave, and, entering the stable of the sun, she placed her child in the manger of the moon. likewise was mithras born under the tail of the sea-goat, and horus, and krishna- all mystic names of the mystic child of light. i am the ancient child, the great disturber, the great tranquilliser. i am yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow. my name is alpha and omega- the beginning and the end. my dwelling-house is built betwixt the water and the earth; the pillars thereof are of fire, and the walls are of air, and the roof above is the breath of my nostrils, which is the

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ld thy face (i cannot explain this, there is confusion of personalities) i who speak to you, see what i tell you; but i, who see him, cannot communicate it to me, who speak to you. if one could gaze upon the sun at noon, that might be like 44 the substance of him. but the light is without heat. it is the vision of ut in the upanishads. and from this vision have come all the legends of bacchus and krishna and adonis. for the impression is of a youth dancing and making music. but you must understand that he is not doing that, for he is still. even the hand that turns the wheel is not his hand, but only a hand energized by him. and now it is the dance of shiva. i lie beneath his feet, his saint, his victim. my form is the form of the god phtah, in my essence, but the form of the god seb in my

great deceiver, the setter of snares; he who baffleth even them that have understanding. for i stand on every path, and turn them aside from the truth by my words, and by my magick arts. and this is the horror that was shown by the lake that was 125 nigh unto the city of the seven hills, and this is the mystery of the great prophets that have come unto mankind. moses, and buddha, and lao tan, and krishna, and jesus, and osiris, and mohammed; for all these attained unto the grade of magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of thoth. but, being guardians of the truth, they have taught nothing but falsehood, except unto such as understood; for the truth may not pass the gate of the abyss. but the reflection of the truth hath been shown in the lower sephiroth. and its balance is in

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aha yoga. union by will 3. bhakta yoga. union by love. 65 4. hatha yoga. union by courage. 5. mantra yoga. union though speech. 6. karma yoga. union though work.36 the two chief of these six methods according to the bhagavad-g ta are: yoga by s khya (raja yoga, and yoga by action (karma yoga. but the difference between these two is to be found in their form rather than in their substance; for, as krishna himself says: renunciation (raja yoga) and yoga by action (karma yoga) both lead to the highest bliss; of the two, yoga by action is verily better than renunciation by action. children, not sages, speak of the s khya and the yoga as different; he who is duly established in one obtaineth the fruits of both. that place which is gained by the s khyas is reached by the yogis also. he seeth, wh

sion might not only be preserved, but cultivated in the most rapid manner possible, without loss of vitality resulting from the practices adopted. equilibrium is above all things necessary, and even in these early stages, the mind of the aspirant should be entirely free from the obsession of either ungratified or over-gratified appetites. neither lust nor chastity should solely occupy him; for as krishna says: verily yoga is not for him who eateth too much, nor who abstaineth to excess, nor who is too much addicted to sleep, nor even to wakefulness, o arjuna. yoga killeth out all pain for him who is regulated in eating and amusement, regulated in performing actions, regulated in sleeping and waking.64 this balancing of what is vulgarly known as virtue and vice,65 and which the yogi philoso

7 for further powers see flagg's "transformation or yoga" pp. 169, 181. 118 such as: apana, samana, udana, vyana, haga, kurma, vrikodara, devadatta, dhanajaya, etc, etc. 119 raja-yoga "vivek nanda" p. 23. see eliphas levi's "the dogma and ritual of magic" pp. 121, 158, 192, and huxley's "essay on hume" p. 155. 120 raja-yoga "vivek nanda" pp. 36, 37. arjuna says "for the mind is verily restless, o krishna; it is impetuous, strong and difficult to bend, i deem it as hard to curb as the wind" to which krishna answers "without doubt, o mighty-armed, the mind is hard to curb and restless, but it may be curbed by constant practice and by indifference."121 the kundalini whilst it is yet coiled up in the m l^adhara is said to be in the mah k sa, or in three dimensional space; when it enters the su

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

lved men and women to pass into the ranks of the hierarchy, and thus- 23- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust constantly has there been a circulation of new life and blood, and the coming in of those who belong to a particular period or age. some of the great names during the later periods are known to history, such as shri sankaracharya, vyasa, mahommet, jesus of nazareth, and krishna, down to those lesser initiates, paul of tarsus, luther, and certain of the outstanding lights in european history. always have these men and women been agents for the carrying out of race purpose, for the bringing about of group conditions, and for the furthering of the evolution of humanity. sometimes they have appeared as beneficent forces, bringing peace and contentment with them. more

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rself, and on those affected by them, fall under the category of the present karma, which will be sure to sway the balance of your life for good or for evil in your future development" the theosophist, vol. x, p. 235. 138 56: karma "it must be remembered that in every action of man the influence of his prior karma constitutes an important element. for the accomplishment of every action, says, sri krishna, we need five essentials: 1. the actor. 2. the determined will. 3. implements for committing the act, such as hands, tongue, etc. 4. the exercise of these implements. 5. the influence of antecedent conduct. the work which a man does with his body, speech or mind, whether it be just or unjust, has these five essentials or factors engaged in the performance (gita, xviii, 13, 14, 15) these fi

which he is turned, called in sanskrit the wheel of samsara. this latter word derived from the root sru, to move, indicates a motion wheel or the great wheel of changing life in which the human entities have been called upon to work and which must never be abandoned out of compassion for man and in obedience to the law of oneness which connects the many, in the opinion of all true yogees and sri krishna. the teacher gives the nature of the samsaric wheel in a certain peculiar way which deserves to be thought over by you all. he says "all bhootas spring up from food and food from parjanya or rain. rain comes out of yagna and yagna out of karma. karma is out of the veda and veda is of the eternal" here you see a septenary gamut is given with the bhoota (or manifested form) at one end and th

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

ising second ray impulse. this interest will be increasingly shown. thus comes the day of opportunity. there are three books which should be in the hands of every student, the bhagavad gita, the new testament, and the yoga sutras, for in these three is contained a complete picture of the soul and its unfoldment. in the gita we have given us (in its eighteen chapters) a description of the soul, of krishna, the second aspect, in his true nature as god in manifestation, culminating in that marvellous chapter where he reveals himself to arjuna, the aspirant [page xiii] as the soul of all things, and the point of glory behind the veil of every form. in the new testament there is depicted for us the life of a son of god in full manifestation, wherein, freed from every veil, the soul in its true

ion of the obstacles, or an understanding of the things which prevent true knowledge. 3. intellectual comprehension as to the nature of those obstacles, 4. determination to eliminate them, 5. a sudden flash or vision of the soul reality, 6. fresh aspiration and a strong determination to make that fleeting vision a permanent reality in the lower plane experience, 7. the battle of kurukshetra, with krishna, the soul, heartening arjuna, the aspirant, on to steady and continuous effort. the same thought is to be found in the old testament, in the case of joshua before the walls of jericho. it might be well here to conclude this comment with sutras 31, 32, 33 and 34, of book iv: 31. when, through the removal of the hindrances and the purification of all the sheaths, the totality of knowledge be

his lower sense nature. this results in a corresponding mental stability and in an ability to concentrate, for the mind stuff is no longer subject to the modifications produced by sense reactions of any kind, either those we call good or those we call bad. this has been strongly advocated in many of the systems and one of the methods suggested is constant meditation upon such great identities as krishna, the buddha and the christ, who have freed themselves from all sense reactions. this thought is brought out in some of the translations, but though indicated from one point of view, does not seem to be the main idea intended. freedom from attachment is brought about as the fires of desire are overcome, and though the sacral centre is depicted as having specific relation to the sex nature

unfolding and use of the heart centre the love-wisdom aspect is similarly brought into use and the love of god is seen working out in a man's life and work. for the mind of god is love, and the love of god is intelligence, and these two aspects of one great quality are brought into play for the working out of his will and purpose. of this the christ was the outstanding example to the occident, as krishna was to india, and this has to be reflected and manifested also in every man. 35. experience (of the pairs of opposites) comes from the inability of the soul to distinguish between the personal self and the purusa (or spirit. the objective forms exist for the use (and experience) of the spiritual man. by meditation upon this, arises the intuitive perception of the spiritual nature. again we

your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shed with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. and take the helmet of salvation, and the word of the spirit, which is the word of god (eph. vi. 14. 15. 16. 17) the equally clear command of krishna to arjuna sounds out also "having regard to thy duty, deign not to shrink back. for nothing is better for a warrior than a righteous battle. and such a battle has come to thee of its own accord, a very door of heaven will be opened; happy the warriors. who find such a fight as this. therefore, arise, determined to do battle. making equal good and ill fortune, gain and loss, victory and def

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this intensive and individual training has been spectacular in the extreme. the eastern method is the only one which has produced the founders of all the world religions, for all are asiatic in origin. it is responsible for the appearance of those inspired scriptures of the world which have moulded the thoughts of men, and for the coming forth of all the world saviours the buddha, zoroaster, shri krishna, the christ, and others. thus the east has manifested forth, as the result of its particular technique, all the great individuals, who have sounded the note for their particular age, given the needed teaching for the unfoldment in the minds of men of the god-idea, and so led humanity forward along the path of spiritual perception. the exoteric result of their lives is to be seen in the gre

mental apparatus, so that he becomes the one who uses it at will and is not (as is so often the case) the victim of his mind, swayed by thoughts and ideas over which he has no control, and which he cannot eliminate, no matter how strong may be his desire to do so. the same ideas that meister eckhart expressed can also be found in that ancient indian scripture, the bhagavad gita "the mind wavers, krishna, turbulent, impetuous, forceful; i think it is as hard to hold as the wind- 43- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust "without doubt..the wandering mind is hard to hold; but through assiduous practice..it may be held firm "when thy soul shall pass beyond the forest of delusion, thou shalt no more regard what shall be taught or what has been taught "when withdrawn from trad

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

pands; thus the responsibility and struggle steadily increases; yet at the same time there is also a steadily growing reception of potencies which can be contacted and utilized and which when correctly contacted insure victory at the end. the phrase "the one who meditates" relates to the soul. arjuna, the aspiring disciple, resigns the struggle and hands the weapons and the reins of government to krishna, the soul, and is rewarded at last by understanding and by a vision of the divine form which veils the son of god who is himself. when this battle has been fought and won the disciple steps into the ranks of the white magicians of our planet and can wield forces, cooperate with the plan, command the elementals, and bring order out of chaos. he is no longer immersed in the world illusion bu

has to demonstrate this control and begin to discipline the mind nature and so function consciously in the mental body. the work of the initiate and the adept grows out of these achievements and they need not be dealt with here. the battle is spread over quite a series of lives, but in some one life it becomes critical; the final stand is made and arjuna triumphs in the fight, but only by letting krishna assume the reins of control, by learning mind control and by the revelation of the form of god. by distinguishing between the soul and the form, and by a vision of the perfection of the glory which can radiate- 138- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust from the forms "indwelt by god, he learns to choose the way of light and to see his form and all forms as custodians of the

e distress, and of depression. they are due to delusion, to the glamour of the astral plane, which distorts, reverses and deceives. there is no need to dwell on this. if there is one factor aspirants recognise it is the- 177- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust need of freeing themselves from the great illusion. arjuna knew this, yet succumbed to despair. yet in his hour of need, krishna failed him not, but laid down in the gita the simple rules whereby depression and doubt can be overcome. they may be briefly summarised as follows: a. know thyself to be the undying one. b. control thy mind, for through that mind the undying one can be known. c. learn that the form is but the veil which hides the splendour of divinity. d. realise that the one life pervades all forms so tha

dualistic concept is a step upon the way to essential union with the one life. it should be remembered that just as the battle ground (the kurukshetra) for the aspirant or probationer is the astral plane, so the battle ground for the disciple is the mental plane. there is his kurukshetra. the aspirant has to learn to control his emotional psychic nature through right control of the mind, and this krishna seeks to emphasise as he trains arjuna to take the next step towards right vision. the disciple has to carry forward this mental attention, and, through right use of the mind, achieve a higher realisation, and bring into active use a still higher factor, that of the intuition. in himself, the aspirant repeats the racial unfoldment, and re-enacts the racial drama; and to comprehend this cer

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essing himself through the forces of nature. as time elapsed, this distant god drew a little nearer to his people, taking on a more human colouring until, in the jewish dispensation, we find him much like ourselves, but still the wrathful, ethical ruler, and still obeyed and feared. he approached still nearer as time went on; and before the advent of christianity men recognised him as the beloved krishna of the hindu faith, and as the buddha. then the christ came to the west. god himself was seen incarnate among men. the distant had become the near, and the one who had been worshipped in awe and wonder could now be known and loved. today god is coming closer still, and the new age will not only recognise the truth of the past revelations and testify to their validity and their progressive

, so that from its dramatic quality and its repeated happening, god impresses upon the hearts of men certain great truths which are vital to their salvation. one of these truths is that the love of god is eternal, and that his love for his people has been steadfast and unalterable. whenever the time is ripe and the need of the people warrants it, he comes forth for the saving of the souls of men. krishna in ancient india proclaimed this truth in the majestic words "whenever there is a withering of the law. and an uprising of lawlessness on all sides, then i manifest myself "for the salvation of the righteous and the destruction of such as do evil; for the firm establishing of the law i come to birth in age after age "he who thus perceives my birth and work as divine, as in truth it is. he

us enumerate some of these. there are (1) birth from a virgin mother (2) the birth in a stable (cave or underground chamber; and (3) on the 25th december (just after the winter solstice. there is (4) the star in the east (sirius) and (5) the arrival of the magi (the `three kings; there is (6) the threatened massacre of the innocents, and the consequent flight into a distant country (told also of krishna and other sungods. there are the church festivals of (7) candlemas (2nd february, with processions of candles to symbolise the growing light; of (8) lent, or the arrival of spring; of (9) easter day (normally on 25th march) to celebrate the crossing of the equator by the sun; and (10) simultaneously the outburst of lights at the holy sepulchre at jerusalem. there is (11) the crucifixion an

ee her, in pictures, standing on the crescent moon, star-crowned, she nurses her child horus, and the cross appears on the back of the seat in which he sits on his mother's knee. the virgo of the zodiac is represented in ancient drawings as a woman suckling a child the type of all future madonnas with their divine babes, showing the origin of the symbol. devaki is likewise figured with the divine krishna in her arms, as is mylitta, or istar, of babylon, also with the recurrent crown of stars, and with her child tammuz- 40- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust on her knee. mercury and aesculapius, bacchus and hercules, perseus and the dioscuri, mithras and zarathustra were all of divine and human birth."41 it is apposite to recall that the cathedral of notre dame in paris is

in fullness; and around wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in. and, to know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendour may escape than in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without" 4 thus, for humanity, christ stood revealed as the expression of god. there is for us no other goal. yet let us remember with humility and awe that the stupendous words spoken by krishna, in the bhagavad gita, remain also true as an ultimate statement concerning the transfiguration of the whole world "nor is there any end of my divine form, o consumer of the foe; this i have told thee for thy instruction, as an enumeration of my manifold forms. whatever being is glorious, gracious or powerful, thou shalt recognize that, as sprung from a fragment of my fire. but what need h

mmed up. shadrach's name has a definitely emotional sentient connotation, for it means "rejoicing in the way" and wherever we find reference to the basic dualities of pleasure and pain we are considering the emotional-feeling nature. meschach means "agile" quick moving, which is in itself a very good description of the mental nature. arjuna, in the bhagavad gita,13 points this out in his words to krishna "this union through oneness which is taught by thee. i perceive not its firm foundation, owing to the wavering of the mind; for the mind wavers, krishna, turbulent, impetuous, forceful; and i think it is as hard to hold as the wind- 96- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust thus in the three friends, and in the various triplicities which we find in the bible, we discover a s

s was the experience of the apostles upon the mountain-top. we are told that "when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save jesus only."25 the familiar appeared to them again. it is of real interest to compare a somewhat similar story related in the bhagavad gita, wherein arjuna has had revealed to him the glorious form of the lord. at the close of the revelation god, in the person of krishna, says to him, with tenderness and understanding "let not fear nor confusion overcome thee, beholding my form so terrible! behold my former shape once more, thy fear gone, thy heart at rest" and then he goes on to tell him "this form of mine which thou hast seen is hard indeed to see! even the gods ever desire a sight of this form! nor can i be seen thus through vedas, penances, gifts, sacr

which christ so perfectly portrayed and which carried him in triumph from the mount of transfiguration down into the valley of duty and of service, and which enabled him to go forward with staunch determination to the cross experience, through the triumphal way of acclamation and the sorrowful ways of desertion and of loneliness. the impulse is strong to close with some words of arjuna, spoken to krishna, long before the christian era, after the revelation of the unveiled beauty to which he had been admitted. their relevance is unquestionable. one can almost imagine st. peter or st. john saying them to christ- 106- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust when they opened their eyes and "saw jesus only" perhaps they may apply to us also as we consider christ and our relation to

s. 2 these facts can be checked by anyone who cares to do so and who is sufficiently interested to trace the growth of the doctrine of world saviours in world idealism. edward carpenter goes on to say, in the same book "the number of pagan deities (mostly virgin-born and done to death in some way or other in their efforts to save mankind) is so great as to be difficult to keep account of. the god krishna in- 110- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust india, the god indra in nepal and tibet spilt their blood for the salvation of men; buddha said, according to max m ller `let all the sins that were in the world fall on me, that the world may be delivered' the chinese tien the holy one `one with god and existing with him from all eternity' died to save the world; the egyptian o

carpenter points this out, throwing light upon this ceaseless and age-old focussing of the love of god and the desire of man in the person of a son of god. he says "if the historicity of jesus, in any degree, could be proved, it would give us reason for supposing what i have personally always been inclined to believe that there was also a historical nucleus for such personages as osiris, mithra, krishna, hercules, apollo and the rest. the question, in fact, narrows itself down to this, have there been in the course of human evolution certain, so to speak, nodal points or periods at which the psychologic currents ran together and condensed themselves for a new start, and has each such node or point of condensation been marked by the appearance of an actual and heroic man (or woman) who sup

a god whose nature is wrath. the outstanding contribution of christ to world progress was his affirmation, through word and example, of the thought that god- 122- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust is love and not a wrathful deity, inflicting jealous retribution. the battle still rages between this ancient belief and the truth of god's love which christ expressed, and which shri krishna also embodied. but the belief in an angry, jealous god is still strongly entrenched. it is rooted in the consciousness of the race, and only today are we slowly beginning to realise a different expression of divinity. our interpretation of sin and its penalty has been at fault, but the reality of god's love can now be grasped and can thus offset the disastrous doctrine of an angry god who

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est and devoted christian, he will see one of the beautiful and vital thought forms of the christ there to be found and in the wonder of that revelation, his love and his imagination and all that is best in him will be evoked in adoration and mystery. hence some of the inspired writings and illumined visions of the mystic. if he is a hindu, there may come to him a vision of the lord of love, shri krishna, or, if a buddhist, he may see the lord of light, the buddha, in all his radiance. if he is an occult student, or a theosophist or rosicrucian, he may see a vision of one of the masters or of the entire hierarchy of adepts; he may hear words spoken and thus feel assured, past all controversy, that the great ones have chosen him for special privilege and for unique service. and yet, his con

nd to which they aspire and for which they long so yearningly. they all sense the same reality, lying behind the glamour of the world aspiration; they all couch their desire and longing in the same symbolic forms marriage with the beloved, life in the holy city, participation in some ecstatic vision of god, adoration of some deified and loved individuality, such as the christ, the buddha, or shri krishna, walking with god in the garden of life, the garden of the lord, the attainment of the mountain top where god is to be found, and all stands revealed. such are a few of the forms in which their aspiration clothes itself and their sense of duality finds satisfaction. these ideas exist as powerful thought forms on the astral plane and they attract like magnets the aspiration of the devotee w

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ely used to reach men's minds spiritually: 1. the method of raising the consciousness of an individual so that he became a knower. individual salvation and the emergence of outstanding individuals with spiritual sense, vision and achievement to their credit has characterised the mystical history of the past. some of these people emerged along the way of the heart, the mystical way; such were shri krishna, st. francis of assisi, and all those knowers whose way was the way of love. to these can be added milarepa of tibet and lao tze of china. such also have been many of the saints of the church in the west. the bhagavad gita has been the book which has embodied this way superlatively. others emerged along the way of the mind and were the intellectual knowers. theirs is the more strictly occu

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

a position of positive guilt. war is the dire penalty which mankind has had to pay for this great sin of separateness. impressions from the hierarchy have been received, distorted, misapplied and misinterpreted and the task of the new group of world servers is to offset this evil. humanity has never really lived up to the teaching given it. spiritual impression, whether conveyed by the christ, by krishna or by buddha (and passed on to the masses by their disciples) has not yet been expressed as it was hoped. men do not live up to what they already know; they fail to make practical their information; they short circuit the light; they do not discipline themselves; greedy desire and unlawful ambition control and not the inner knowledge. to put it scientifically and from the esoteric angle: s

on has been progressively along three main lines, starting in the east and culminating today in the west. in asia we have had the intensive training, down the centuries, of certain carefully chosen individuals and a complete neglect of the masses. asia and asia alone has produced those outstanding figures who are, even today, the object of universal veneration lao tze, confucius, the buddha, shri krishna and the christ. they have set their mark upon millions and still do. then in europe, we have had educational attention concentrated upon a few privileged groups, giving them a carefully planned cultural training but teaching only the necessary rudiments of learning to the masses. this produced periodically such important epochs of cultural expression as the elizabethan period, the renaissa

picture of an angry deity only appeased by death are the unhappy results of man's own thinking, of his own lower nature, of his sectarian isolationism (fostered by the jewish old testament, but not generally found in the oriental faiths) and of his sense of fear, inherited from the animal side of his nature all these are fostered and inculcated by theology but not by christ, or the buddha or shri krishna. the little minds of men at their past and present stages of evolution cannot today and never have comprehended the mind and the purposes of the one in whom we live and move and have our being; they have interpreted god in terms of themselves; therefore when men unthinkingly accept a dogma, they are only accepting the point of view of some other fallible human being, and are not accepting

, as the soul (the rather unpleasant soul) of a nation. next god was seen as a perfected man, and the divine god-man walked the earth in the person of christ. today we have a rapidly growing emphasis upon god immanent in every human being and in every created form. today we should have the churches presenting a synthesis of these two ideas which have been summed up for us in the statement of shri krishna in the bhagavad gita "having pervaded this whole universe with a fragment of myself, i remain. god, greater than the created whole, yet god present also in the part; god transcendent guarantees the plan for our world and is the purpose, conditioning all lives from the minutest atom, up through all the kingdoms of nature to man. 2. the fact of immortality and eternal persistence the spirit

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o. prayer always is answered and always has been; great sons of god have ever come on humanity's demand and always will, and he for whom all men wait today is on his way. chapter three the reappearance of the christ world expectancy god transcendent, greater, vaster and more inclusive than his created world, is universally recognised and has been generally emphasised; all faiths can say with shri krishna (speaking as god, the creator) that "having pervaded the whole universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" this god transcendent has dominated the religious thinking of millions of simple and spiritually minded people down the centuries which have elapsed since humanity began to press forward towards divinity. slowly, there is dawning upon the awakening consciousness of humanity, the gre

the structure of truth which they had erected. thus he prepared the way for christ. between the times of these two great teachers, the buddha and the christ, lesser teachers appeared to amplify and add to the already given basic truths; of these sankaracharya was one of the most important, giving, as he did, deep instruction upon the nature of the self. also the teacher in the bhagavad gita, shri krishna, must be noted, for many believe him to be a previous incarnation of the christ- 57- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust thus the fundamental truths upon which relation to god (and, therefore, relation to our fellowmen) is founded are always given out by the son of god, who in any particular world period is the teaching head of the spiritual hierarchy. in due time, ch

mithra came as the world teacher and instituted the mysteries of mithras with an (apparent) worship of the bull. next followed aries the ram, which saw the start of the jewish dispensation which is of importance to the jews and unfortunately of importance to the christian religion, but of no importance to the untold millions in the other parts of the world; during this cycle came the buddha, shri krishna and sankaracharya; finally we have the age of pisces the fishes, which brought to us the christ. the sequence of the mysteries which each of the signs of the zodiac embodies will be clarified for us by the christ, because the public consciousness today demands something more definite and spiritually real than modern astrology, or all the pseudo-occultism so widely extant. in the era which

as the soul (the rather unpleasant soul) of a nation. next, god was seen as a perfected man, and the divine god-man walked the earth in the person of christ. today we have a rapidly growing emphasis upon god immanent in every human being and in every created form. today, we should have the churches presenting a synthesis of these two ideas which have been summed up for us in the statement of shri krishna in the bhagavad gita "having pervaded this whole universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" god, greater than the created whole, yet god present also in the part; god transcendent guarantees the plan for our world and is the purpose, conditioning all lives from the minutest atom, up through all the kingdoms of nature, to man. 2. man's relationship to god- 78- the reappearance of the chr

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, a stage of illusion and a condition of impotency. against the disciple are fighting all the forces of his own nature, and also those of humanity as a whole and of the planetary state. he feels helpless, inert, feeble and hopeless. he cannot even see the way out. only one clear fact remains and that is the fact of the soul, of the immortal identity, the warrior behind the scenes, the charioteer, krishna, the christ within. the bhagavad gita can be read entirely from the standpoint of the disciple's combat with glamour and students would be well-advised so to study it. the individual glamours of which the disciple becomes aware are consequently of five types of force. these, when brought into activity simultaneously, produce those glamours which are strictly initiated and produced by the m

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within herself. through aries and scorpio, the christ-life and manifestation is integrated with that of the fourth creative hierarchy; herein lies a great mystery which is concerned with the dual manifestation of the christ principle both in form and upon its own plane through spiritual manifestation; it is here also that the true significance of the words found in the bhagavad gita appears when krishna (the christ principle) says to arjuna (the world disciple, or developed form aspect "having pervaded the entire universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" there is here an esoteric reference to the essential identity of son with the father, the "undying one" and with the eternal mother; that is, with spirit and matter. this is the fundamental mystery of virgo and will be revealed when t

. d. is connected with the perfecting process (c.f. 899) 10 "neptune is the repository of the `solar flames (c.f. 1154) the planet pluto references in the secret doctrine 1 "pluto is a deity with the attributes of the serpent. he is a healer, a giver of health, spiritual and physical and of enlightenment (s.d ii. 30. note) 2 "under the legend, orpheus seeks in the kingdom of pluto, his lost soul. krishna rescues from pluto his six principles (ii. 30) being the seventh himself. he is the perfect initiate, the whole of his six principles merging into the seventh (s.d. iii. 142) the planet saturn references in the secret doctrine and a treatise on cosmic fire 1 "saturn, the father of the gods, has been transformed from eternal duration into the limited period (s.d. i. 451) 2 "jehovah was iden

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of refocussing itself upon the concrete levels of the mental plane as a point of radiant light. this concerns primarily the human soul. 3. the processes of integration. these deal with the work of the liberated spiritual man as he blends with the soul (the oversoul) upon the higher levels of the mental plane. the part returns to the whole, and the man comprehends the true meaning of the words of krishna "having pervaded this whole universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" he, too, the conscious experiencing fragment which has pervaded the little universe of the form in the three worlds, still remains. he knows himself to be a part of the whole. these three processes are death- 234- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust it will be obvious

still hold this belief, but it is not so strongly held as it was one hundred years ago. 3. the theory of reincarnation, so familiar to all my readers, is becoming increasingly popular in the occident; it has always been accepted (though with many foolish additions and interpretations) in the orient. this teaching has been as much distorted as have the teachings of the christ or the buddha or shri krishna by their narrow-minded and mentally limited theologians. the basic facts of a spiritual origin, of a descent into matter, of an ascent through the medium of constant incarnations in form until those forms are perfect expressions of the indwelling spiritual consciousness, and of a series of initiations at the close of the cycle of incarnation, are being more readily accepted and acknowledge

e incense of the first or destroyer ray, and the soul is in process of destroying its habitation- 271- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust a treatise on white magic, page 505. if there is one factor aspirants recognise, it is the need of freeing themselves from the great illusion. arjuna knew this, yet succumbed to despair. yet in his hour of need, krishna failed him not, but laid down in the gita the simple rules whereby depression and doubt can be overcome. they may be briefly summarised as follows: a. know thyself to be the undoing one. b. control thy mind, for through that mind the undying one can be known. c. learn that the form is but the veil which hides the splendour of divinity. d. realise that the one life pervades all forms, so th

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ating today in the west. naturally, i am speaking only in terms of the last two or three thousand years. in asia, we have had the intensive training, down the centuries, of certain carefully chosen individuals and a complete neglect of the masses. asia and asia alone has produced those outstanding figures who are, even today, the object of universal veneration lao tze, confucius, the buddha, shri krishna and the christ. they have set their mark upon millions and still do. then in europe, we have had educational attention concentrated upon a few privileged groups, giving them a carefully planned cultural training but teaching only the necessary rudiments of learning to the masses. this produced periodically such important epochs of cultural expression as the elizabethan period, the renaissa

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s essential that disciples in all ashrams consider these days what humanity's problems are, what they mean and what their solution entails; they must know what the masters of the wisdom want done and then they must talk and write, act and live so that others too may understand. humanity has never really lived up to the teaching given to it. spiritual impression, whether conveyed by the christ, by krishna or by buddha (and passed on to the masses by their disciples) has not yet been expressed as it was hoped. men do not live up to what they already know; they fail to make practical their information; they short-circuit the light; they do not discipline themselves; greedy desire and unlawful ambition control and not the inner knowledge. to put it scientifically and from the esoteric angle: s

soul of all things. the term "soul" with its major attribute of enlightenment, includes the anima mundi, the animal soul, the human soul, and that consummating point of light- 111- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust which we regard as the "overshadowing" soul of humanity. it is an aspect of the divine manifestation to which that great son of god refers when (as shri krishna) he remarks "having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" that fragment is the soul of all things. that soul brings light and spreads enlightenment. in the second three lines, the heart of god is evoked and the focal point of love is considered. this "heart" of the manifested world is the hierarchy that great transmitting agency of love to every form in the div

his is testified to by the fact that so very many thousands have (as i have several times told you) taken the first initiation. the christ child is present in truth, and the human heart and mind are becoming aware of that fact; the goal for thousands everywhere is the demonstration of the christ spirit, and the exemplification of a life conditioned by love and modelled upon that of christ or shri krishna, his earlier incarnation. this makes possible, therefore, the next great human unfoldment which grows out of the christ consciousness and "brings to light (i know no other way in which to express this concept) the will of god, and points also to the basic distinction between goodwill and the will-to-good. again i would ask you to reflect upon this distinction, for it connotes the differenc

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, the way is- 278- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust cleared for a new and simple recognition of divinity which will satisfy not only the heart of the simplest person, but which will meet the need of the most intelligent. i have talked in terms of the union of eastern and western thought and of the need for the great civilisations nurtured under the influence of shri krishna, the buddha and the christ to be brought closer together. i have said (and i here re-affirm) that he who comes will make this union possible and effective. this event will evoke world-wide recognition. i have stated also that we are reaching a climaxing period in human history; in this period the lords of karma are unusually active; the law of cause and effect is bringing the results of pa

ht which we call the hierarchy and which stands ready as never before to share with humanity that power and that light to the limit of human capacity to use it. i beg you, in closing, to aid in two matters which are of importance to him whom all disciples, initiates and spiritual men have loved and followed for nearly three thousand years, the christ (i am referring here to his appearance as shri krishna and as one other who was little known but who did a great work in still earlier centuries) it is work in preparation for his coming. i beg you to shoulder the responsibility of distributing the invocation on as large a scale as possible and in every country. it is of great potency, and when used by men of all faiths can aid in the process of averting war. i ask you also to make possible th

hich concerns the immediate present, and carries forward into a future of spiritual unfoldment, transcending in expression all that has hitherto been known, because it has ever been based on the reality, on the fact of god immanent. god transcendent, greater, vaster and more inclusive than his created world, is universally recognised and has been generally emphasised; all faiths can say with shri krishna (speaking as god, the creator) that "having pervaded the whole universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" this god transcendent has dominated the religious thinking of millions of simple and spiritually-minded people down the centuries which have elapsed since humanity began to press forward towards divinity. slowly, there is dawning upon the awakening consciousness of humanity, the gre

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t in the evolutionary process which the hierarchy- 59- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust has attained. the attitude and position of the members of the hierarchy are not static. all are moving forward. the christ who came two thousand years ago embodied in himself not only the principle of love in the planetary sense (a thing which shri krishna had achieved, but a cosmic principle of love also, and this for the first time in human history. his achievement was made possible by the fact that the human family had reached a point at which it could produce the perfect man, christ, the "eldest in a great family of brothers" a son of god, the word made flesh. the future progress of humanity is also aided and hastened because of the atta

leads to a consequent relation being established between the work of the christ and of the buddha in the minds of spiritually inclined people everywhere, with the result of a great broadening of the human aspiration. this work is as yet embryonic, but it should receive increasing attention. eventually it will demonstrate as the main linking unit between the east and the west, particularly if shri krishna is shown to be an earlier incarnation of the lord of love, the christ. thereby three major world religions the christian, the hindu and the buddhist will be intimately related, whilst the mahommedan faith will be found to be linked to the christian faith because it embodies the work of the master jesus as he overshadowed one of his senior disciples, a very advanced initiate, mahomet. a clo

ects of the divine nature, deeply hidden in mankind all related hitherto to consciousness and to responsiveness of the part to the whole. eventually hercules came forth and opened the door on to the path of discipleship, his work being preserved for us in the twelve labours of hercules. these epitomised the various tests to which all disciples are subjected, prior to the various initiations. shri krishna came and opened the door through which mankind could pass to the second initiation. the buddha, a still greater- 345- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust figure, the one who is known as the "enlightened one" also came and demonstrated to humanity the nature of the lighted way, its revelations and its effects in consciousness. he e

which gives entrance to the passage through the pyramid (the symbol of the spiritual triad in this case. a.a.b) which leads out on to the way which terminates in shamballa. his work was of a major consummating nature; he demonstrated in himself two divine aspects, thus giving "shape and substance to love; this had been sequentially fostered by several preceding lesser world saviours, of whom shri krishna was the greatest. the christ completed the work of the buddha by manifesting in its fullness the nature of love, thus permitting the full expression of love-wisdom in its dual aspect the one aspect demonstrated by the buddha and the other by the christ. but his greatest work has not yet been emphasised in the worlds of thought and of religion the revelation of the way of the higher evoluti

hy and brought response. some day a scientific study will be made of the great world prayers, spiritual statements and invocative appeals and their relation to world events; this relationship will become illuminatingly apparent and the result will be a closer linking of earth and the spiritual centres of love and life. this has not yet been done. let me illustrate: the spiritual statement by shri krishna, to be found in the lord's song, the bhagavad gita, was an announcement, preparatory to the coming of the christ. in that song he says "whenever there is a withering of the law and an uprising of lawlessness on all sides, then i manifest myself. for the salvation of the righteous and the destruction of such as do evil, for the- 494- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the

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ry one of shedding of blood in conception for the first time" hence jehovah became later a fighting god "lord of hosts" and one who commands war. he is the aggressive zodh- or cain by permutation who slew his (female "brother" whose "blood crieth from the ground" the earth having opened her mouth to receive the blood (genesis iii* apollo karneios is certainly a greek transformation from the hindu krishna karna "karna" means radiant from "carne "a ray" and karneios, which was a title of apollo with the celts as with the greeks, meant "sun born[[vol. 2, page] 45 the first war in heaven. metaphorically immortal through their wisdom. such is the common belief of those who credit every star or planet with being inhabited (and there are men of science- m. flammarion among others- who believe in

n[[vol. 2, page] 48 the secret doctrine. in the vishnu purana, is the most mysterious. he is referred to by the honourable title of deva rishi (divine rishi, more than a demi-god) by parasara, and yet he is cursed by daksha and even by brahma. he informs kansa that bhagavat (or vishnu in exotericism) would incarnate in the eighth child of devaki, and thus brings the wrath of the indian herod upon krishna's mother; and then, from the cloud on which he is seated- invisible as a true manasaputra- he lauds krishna, in delight at the avatar's feat of killing the monster kesim. narada is here, there, and everywhere; and yet, none of the puranas gives the true characteristics of this great enemy of physical procreation. whatever those characteristics may be in hindu esotericism, narada- who is ca

s which may not be explained; for secrets of higher initiation- as unknown to the writer as they are to the reader- would have to be revealed, and that cannot be done (but see "chronology of the brahmins" at the close of stanza ii[[footnote(s* the "tirukkanda panchanga" for the kali yug 4986, by chintamany raghanaracharya, son of the famous government astronomer of madras, and tartakamala venkata krishna rao[[vol. 2, page] 52 the secret doctrine. stanza ii. nature unaided fails (5) after enormous periods the earth creates monsters (6) the "creators" are displeased (7) they dry the earth (8) the forms are destroyed by them (9) the first great tides (10) the beginning of incrustation- 5. the wheel whirled for thirty crores (of years, or 300,000,000. it constructed rupas (forms. soft stones

ence made, however, between the "naimitika" occasional or incidental "prakritika" elemental "atyantika" the absolute, and "nitya" the perpetual pralaya; the latter being described as "brahma's contingent recoalescence of the universe at the end of brahma's day" the question was raised by a learned brahmin theosophist "whether there is such a thing as cosmic pralaya; because, otherwise, the logos (krishna) would have to be reborn, and he is aja (unborn" we cannot see why. the logos is said to be born only metaphorically, as the sun is born daily, or rather a beam of that sun is born in the morning and is said to die when it disappears, whereas it is simply reabsorbed into the parent essence. cosmic pralaya is for things visible, not for the arupa, formless, world. the cosmic or universal pr

pendent sex, and who were, therefore, regarded as their creator's daughters. the puranic accounts make of her (ida or ila) the wife of budha (wisdom, the latter version referring to the events of the atlantean flood, when vaivasvata, the great sage on earth, saved the fifth root-race from being destroyed along with the remnants of the fourth. this is shown very clearly in the bhagavad gita, where krishna is made to say "the seven great rishis, the four preceding manus, partaking of my essence, were born from my mind: from them sprung (were born) the human races and the world (chapter x, verse 6. here the four preceding "manus" out of the seven, are the four races* which have already lived, since krishna belongs to the fifth race, his death having inaugurated the kali yuga. thus vaivasvata[

inaugurated the kali yuga. thus vaivasvata[[footnote(s* when narada, the virgin-ascetic, threatened to put an end to the human race by preventing daksha's sons from procreating it* this is corroborated by a learned brahmin. in his most excellent lectures on the bhagavad gita (see "theosophist" april, 1887, p. 444) the lecturer says "there is a peculiarity to which i must call your attention. he (krishna) speaks here of four manus. why does he speak of four? we are now in the seventh manvantara, that of vaivasvata. if he is speaking of the past manus, he ought to speak of six, but he only mentions four. in some commentaries an attempt has been made to interpret this in a peculiar manner. the word 'chatvaraha' is separated from the word 'manavaha' and is made to refer to sanaka, sanandana

ning aureole on the statue of moses in rome (michael angelo, are vertical instead of being bent down to the ears, but the emblem is the same; hence the brazen serpent* but see harris's "magic papyrus" no. v; and the ram-headed ammon manufacturing men on a potter's wheel* brasseur de bourbourg "mexique" pp. 135 and 574[[vol. 2, page] 214 the secret doctrine. it was already an old one. that arjuna, krishna's companion and chela, is said to have descended into patala, the "antipodes" and therein married ulupi* a naga (or nagini rather, the daughter of the king of the nagas, kauravya* and now it may be hoped the full meaning of the serpent emblem is proven. it is neither that of evil, nor, least of all, that of the devil; but is, indeed, the[[semes eilam abrasax("the eternal sun-abrasax, the c

n his third hibbert[[footnote(s* thus we are shown one hero, to give an instance, first born as the "unrighteous but valiant monarch (purusha) of the daityas, hiranyakasipu, slain by the avatar nara-sinha (man-lion. then he was born as ravana, the giant king of lanka, and killed by rama; after which he is reborn as sisupala, the son of rajarishi (king rishi) damaghosha, when he is again killed by krishna, the last incarnation of vishnu. this parallel evolution of vishnu (spirit) with a daitya, as men, may seem meaningless, yet it gives us the key not only to the respective dates of rama and krishna but even to a certain psychological mystery[[vol. 2, page] 226 the secret doctrine. lecture (1887) professor sayce of oxford, speaking of newly-discovered assyrian and babylonian cylinders, refe

f mahat, descended from on high to animate and call the third race to real conscious life, humanity- if it can be so called in its animal, senseless state--was of course doomed to- moral as well as to physical death. the angels fallen into generation are referred to metaphorically as serpents and dragons of wisdom. on the other hand, regarded in the light of the logos, the christian saviour, like krishna, whether as man or logos, may be said to have saved those who believed in the secret teachings from "eternal death" to have conquered the kingdom of darkness, or hell, as every initiate does. this in the human, terrestrial form of the initiates, and also because the logos is christos, that principle of our inner nature which develops in us into the spiritual ego- the higher-self- being for

sless) race, the incarnating powers and principles had to make their choice between, and take into account, the past karmas of the monads, between which and their bodies they had to become the connecting link. besides which, as correctly stated in "esoteric buddhism (p. 30 "the fifth principle, or human (intellectual) soul, in the majority of mankind is not even yet fully developed* it is said by krishna, the logos incarnate, in the bhagavat-gita "the seven great rishis, the four preceding manus, partaking of my nature, were born from my mind: from them sprang (emanated or was born) the human race and the world (chap. x. verse 6) here, by the seven great rishis, the seven great rupa hierarchies or classes of dhyan chohans, are meant. let us bear in mind that the saptarshi (the seven rishis

on earth in various kalpas and races. moreover "the four preceding manus" are the four classes of the originally arupa gods- the kumaras, the rudras, the asuras, etc: who are also said to have incarnated. they are not the prajapatis, as the first are, but their informing principles- some of which have incarnated in men, while others have made other men simply the vehicles of their reflections. as krishna truly says--the same words being repeated later by another vehicle of the logos "i am the same to all beings. those who worship me (the 6th principle or the intellectual divine soul, buddhi, made conscious by its union with the higher faculties of manas) are in me, and i am in them (ibid, 29) the logos, being no personality but the universal principle, is represented by all the divine powe

9) the logos, being no personality but the universal principle, is represented by all the divine powers born of its mind- the pure flames, or, as they are called in occultism, the "intellectual breaths- those angels who are said to have made themselves independent, i.e, passed from the passive and quiescent, into the active state of self-consciousness. when this is recognised, the true meaning of krishna becomes comprehensible. but see mr. subba row's excellent lecture on the bhagavatgita("theosophist" april 1887, p. 444[[vol. 2, page] 319 degeneration of mankind. ing, while their pastoral brethren enjoyed wondrous powers as their birthright, they, the builders, could now obtain theirs only gradually; even these being generally used for power over physical nature and selfish and unholy pur

that, at the same time "at some period of the tertiary epoch, n. e. asia was united to n. w. america, perhaps by the line where the aleutian chain of islands now extends" thus occult science alone can reconcile the contradictions and hesitations of modern science. moreover, surely the argument for the existence of atlantis does not rest on botany alone[[vol. 2, page] 323 the magis in the days of krishna. the nursery of the first zaratushta. the brahmins are shown consulting with gauramukha, on narada's advice, who told them to invite the magas as priests of the sun in the temple built by samba (the reputed) son of krishna, who in reality had none. in this the puranas are historical--allegory notwithstanding- and occultism is stating facts. the whole story is told in bhavishya purana. it i

kha (white face, the purohita or family priest of hgrasena, king of mathura, who would tell him whom he could best employ. the priest directed samba to invite the magas, the worshippers of surya, to discharge the duty. ignorant of the place they lived in, it is surya, the sun himself, who directs samba to sakadwipa beyond the salt water. then samba performs the journey, using garuda (vishnu's and krishna's vehicle, the great bird) who lands him among the magas, etc. now krishna, who lived 5,000 years ago, and narada, who is found reborn in every cycle (or race, besides garuda- the symbol esoterically of the great cycle- show the allegory; yet the magas are the magi of chaldea, and their class and worship were born on the earlier atlantis, in saka-dwipa, the sinless. all the orientalists ar

ipping parsis. our quarrel with them rests, as usual, on their dwarfing hundreds of thousands to a few centuries this time: they carry the event- narada and samba notwithstanding- to the days of the flight of the parsis to gujerat, which is simply absurd, as that was in the viiith cent. of our era. though the magas in the bhavishya purana are credited with still living in saka-dwipa in the day of krishna's son, yet the last of it- plato's "atlantis- had perished 6000 years before. they were mag "late of" saka-dwipa, and lived in those days in chaldea. this is an intentional confusion, again. the earliest pioneers of the fourth race were not atlanteans, nor yet the human asuras and the rakshasas which they became later. in those days large portions of the future continent of atlantis were y

god and nature anthropomorphized. past cycles. they will recognise, then, the cause which produces in history and chronology certain riddles of the ages; the reason why, for instance, it is impossible for them to assign any reliable date to zoroaster, who is found multiplied by twelve and fourteen in the dabistan; why the rishis and manus are so mixed up in their numbers and individualities; why krishna and buddha speak of themselves as re-incarnations, i.e, krishna is identified with the rishi narayana, and gautama gives a series of his previous births; and why the former, especially, being "the very supreme brahma" is yet called amsamsavatara "a part of a part" only of the supreme on earth. finally, why osiris is a great god, and at the same time a "prince on earth" who reappears in tho

of the past, it is in egypt we have to seek for its western origin. the ophites adopted their rites from hermes trismegistus, and heliolatrous worship crossed over with its sun-gods into the land of the pharaohs from india. in the gods of stonehenge we recognise the divinities of delphi and babylon, and in those of the latter the devas of the vedic nations. bel and the dragon, apollo and python, krishna and kaliya, osiris and typhon are all one under many names- the latest of which are michael and the red dragon, and st. george and his dragon. as michael is "one as god" or his "double" for terrestrial purposes, and is one of the elohim, the fighting angel, he is thus simply a permutation of jehovah. whatever the cosmic or astronomical event that first gave rise to the allegory of the "war

l be) a continent, and that sankha-dwipa, as shown in the vayu purana, is only "a minor island" one of the nine divisions (to which vayu adds six more) of bharata varsha. because sankha-dwipa was peopled by "mlechchhas (unclean foreigners, who worshipped hindu divinities" therefore they were connected with india* this accounts for sankhasura, a king of a portion of sankha-dwipa, who was killed by krishna; that king who resided in the palace "which was an ocean shell, and whose subjects lived in shells also" says wilford "on the banks of the nile) there were frequent contests between the devatas (divine beings, demi-gods) and the daityas (giants; but the latter tribe having prevailed, their king, sankhasura, who resided in the ocean, made frequent incursions in the night (as. res, vol. iii

een the latitude of 24 degrees and latitude 28 degrees north. this island, the daughter of the ocean, is frequently described as lying in the west; and the sun is represented as setting at the foot of its mountain (ashburj, atlas, teneriffe or nila, no matter the name, and fighting the white devil of the 'white island" now, considering this statement from its astronomical aspect, and knowing that krishna is the incarnated sun (vishnu, a solar god; and that he is said to have killed dev-sefid, the white giant- a possible personification of the ancient inhabitants at the foot of the atlas- perchance krishna may be only a representation of the vertical beams of the sun? those inhabitants (the atlantides) are, we have seen, accused by diodorus of daily cursing the sun, and ever fighting his in

. xviii, tom. 1, p. 433 edition gronov) but aeschyius was initiated* sabasia was a periodical festival with mysteries enacted in honour of some gods, a variant on the mithraic mysteries. the whole evolution of the races was performed in them[[vol. 2, page] 420 the secret doctrine. cyclic evolution the "man-saviour" the solar bacchus or "dionysos" more than a man. dionysos is one with osiris, with krishna, and with buddha (the heavenly wise, and with the coming (tenth) avatar, the glorified spiritual christos, who will deliver the suffering christos (mankind, or prometheus, on its trial. this, say brahminical and buddhistic legends, echoed by the zoroastrian and now by the christian teachings (the latter only occasionally, will happen at the end of kaliyuga. it is only after the appearance

such was the name given in ancient judea to the initiates, called also the "innocents" and the "infants" i.e, once more reborn. this key opens a vista into one of the new testament mysteries; the slaughter by herod of the 40,000 "innocents" there is a legend to this effect, and the event which took place almost a century b.c, shows the origin of the tradition blended at the same time with that of krishna and his uncle kansa. in the case of the n. t, herod stands for alexander janneus (of lyda, whose persecution and murder of hundreds and thousands of initiates led to the adoption of the bible story* zohar ii, 34[[vol. 2, page] 505 the sacredness of the serpent. a commentary on the puranas says "ananta-sesha is a form of vishnu, the holy spirit of preservation, and a symbol of the universe

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symbolical, as every one can well understand, and covers the ground from the beginning. the old book, having described cosmic evolution and explained the origin of everything on earth, including physical man, after giving the true history of the races from the first down to the fifth (our) race, goes no further. it stops short at the beginning of the kali yuga just 4989 years ago at the death of krishna, the bright "sun-god" the once living hero and reformer. but there exists another book. none of its possessors regard it as very ancient, as it was born with, and is only as old as the black age[[footnote(s* rabbi jehoshua ben chananea, who died about a.d. 72, openly declared that he had performed "miracles" by means of the book of sepher jezireh, and challenged every sceptic. franck, quot

h, to your instructors- the sons of the fire (a. learn there is neither first nor last; for all is one number, issued from no number (b (a) these terms, the "sons of the fire" the "sons of the fire-mist" and the like, require explanation. they are connected with a great primordial and universal mystery, and it is not easy to make it clear. there is a passage in the bhagavatgita (ch. viii) wherein krishna, speaking symbolically and esoterically, says "i will state the times (conditions. at which devotees departing (from this life) do so never to return (be reborn, or to return (to incarnate again. the fire, the flame, the day, the bright (lucky) fortnight, the six months of the northern solstice, departing (dying) in these, those who know the brahman (yogis) go to the brahman. smoke, night

t could not be said, as of dionysos[[protogonon diphue trigonon baccheion hanakta hagrion arreton kruphion dikerota dimorphon- a lunar jehovah- bacchus truly, with david dancing nude before his symbol in the ark- because no licentious dionysia were ever established in his name and honour. all such public worship was exoteric, and the great universal symbols were distorted universally, as those of krishna are now by the vallabacharyas of bombay, the followers of the infant god. but are these popular gods the true deity? are they the apex and synthesis of the sevenfold creation, man included? never! each and all are one of the rungs of that septenary ladder of divine consciousness, pagan as christian. for ain-soph also is said to manifest through the seven letters of jehovah's name who, havi

ane of hardly differentiated matter, and then downward till they touched the terrestrial plane. thus, the asvattha, tree of life and being, whose destruction alone leads to immortality, is said in the bhagavatgita to grow with its roots above and its branches below (ch. xv. the roots represent the supreme being, or first cause, the logos; but one has to go beyond those roots to unite oneself with krishna, who, says arjuna (xi, is "greater than brahman, and first cause. the indestructible, that which is, that which is not, and what is beyond them" its boughs are hiranyagharba (brahma or brahman in his highest manifestations, say sridhara and madhusudana, the highest dhyan chohans or devas. the vedas are its leaves. he only who goes beyond the roots shall never return, i.e, shall reincarnate

emselves within the senseless human shells of the two first root-races, and a great portion of the third root-race- create, so to speak, a new race: that of thinking, selfconscious and divine men "the four kumaras (are) the mind-born sons of brahma. some specify seven (h. class. dict. all these seven vaidhatra, the patronymic of the kumaras "the maker's sons" are mentioned and described in iswara krishna's "sankhya karika" with the commentary of gaudapadacharya (sankaracharya's paraguru) attached to it. it discusses the nature of the kumaras, though it refrains from mentioning by name all the seven kumaras, but calls them instead "the seven sons of brahma" which they are, as they are created by brahma in rudra. the list of names it gives us is: sanaka, sanandana, sanatana, kapila, ribhu, a

causes of action. he who smells, he who eats, he who sees, he who speaks, and he who hears as the fifth, he who thinks, and he who understands, these seven should be regarded as the causes of the agents* these (the agents) being possessed of qualities (sattwa, rajas, tamas, enjoy their own qualities, agreeable and disagreeable (anugita. then one reads in the bhagavadgita (chap. vii) the deity (or krishna) saying. only some know me truly. earth, water, fire, air, space (or akasa, aether, mind, understanding and egoism (or the perception of all the former on the illusive plane. this is a lower form of my nature. know (that there is) another (form of my) nature, and higher than this, which is animate, o you of mighty arms! and by which this universe is upheld. all this is woven upon me, like

that mr. rhys davids has expressed his opinion on their beliefs likewise. he said that the theories propounded by the author of esoteric buddhism "were not buddhism, and were not esoteric" the remark is the result of (a) the unfortunate mistake of writing "buddhism" instead of "budhaism" or budhism, i.e, of connecting the system with gautama's religion instead of with the secret wisdom taught by krishna, sankaracharya, and by many others, as much as by buddha; and (b) of the impossibility of mr. rhys davids knowing anything of true esoteric teachings. but he is, at all events, the greatest pali and buddhist scholar of the day, and whatever he may say is entitled to respectful hearing. but when one who knows no more of exoteric buddhism on scientific and materialistic lines, than he knows

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ed chinese system of magick. the tao te king (s. b. e. series) gives the initiated chinese system of mysticism. tannh user, by a. crowley. an allegorical drama concerning the progress of the soul; the tannh user story slightly remodelled. the equinox 20 the upanishads (s. b. e. series) the classical basis of vedantism, the best-known form of hindu mysticism. the bhagavad-gita. a dialogue in which krishna, the hindu .christ, expounds a system of attainment. the voice of the silence, by h.p. blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by frater o.m. frater o.m, 7 =48, is the most learned of all the brethren of the order; he has given eighteen years to the study of this masterpiece. raja yoga, by swami vivekananda. an excellent elementary study of hindu mysticism. his .bhakti yoga. is also good

ight, divided into a prism, may be recomposed. it embodies the whole of the secret knowledge of all oriental orders; and its chiefs are initiates of the highest rank, and recognized as such by all capable of such recognition in every country in the world. in more remote times, the constituent originating assemblies of the o.t.o. included such men as: fohi hippolytus laotze merlin siddartha arthur krishna titurel tahuti amfortas ankh-f-n-khonsu percivale herakles mosheh orpheus odysseus vergilius mohammed catullus hermes liber lii 199 martialis pan apollonius tyan us dante simon magus carolus magnus manes william of schyren basilides frederick of hohenstaufen valentinus roger bacon bardesanes jacobus burgundus molensis king wu ko hsuen christian rosenkreutz osiris ulrich von hutten melchize

of our houses, in temples of gold and ivory and marble as in these other temples of our bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest they glory unto men (at each name the deacon signs+ with thumb between index and medius. at ordinary mass it is only necessary to commemorate those whose names are italicized, with wording as is shown) laotze and siddartha and krishna and tahuti, mosheh, dionysus, mohammed and to mega therion, with these also hermes, pan, priapus, osiris and melchizedek, khem and liber xv 261 amoun and mentu, heracles, orpheus and odysseus; with vergilius, catullus, martialis, rabelais, swinburne, and many an holy bard; apollonius tyan us, simon magus, manes, pythagoras, basilides, valentinus, bardesanes and hippolytus, that transmitted

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ginal meaning has been lost under an avalanche of myth and invention. so often when you investigate the origin of the foundation stories of the religions, you find the same basic themes with different names for the alleged heroes and villains. for the christian version of jesus, see also bel (sumer, dionysus (greece, mithra (persia and rome, osiris (egypt, quetzalcoatl (central and south america, krishna (india, and so on. in this way, the spiritual knowledge from which all religions originally derive, has, to a large extent, been destroyed in the public arena. this process has been essential to controlling the human race. you take information out of the public arena and pass it on secretly only to those who share your ambitions. the foundation of the manipulation of the world has always b

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e sumerian-phoenicians were introducing (or re-introducing) their culture, religion, and knowledge to britain. why white horses? the basic religion of the sumerian-phoenicians was the worship of the sun and the white horse was one of their symbols for the sun" this white horse symbolism is also the source of the references to stories about white horses in relation to the christian jesus and hindu krishna. jesus and krishna are symbols for the sun with their origin in the sumerian sun religion and its stories and symbols. neither really existed. there are also people who believe that the uffington "white horse" is really a dragon and, if 62 children of the matrix that is so, it fits with the previous name for the phoenicians, the carians or "serpent sea people of the atlantean fire god. the

a-mu, the "motherland. i think he could well be correct. the persians spoke of a region of bliss and delight called heden, which was more beautiful than the entire world. it was the abode of the first men before an evil spirit in the form of a serpent tempted them to take the fruit of a forbidden tree. there is also the banyan tree under which 116 children of the matrix the hindu "jesus, known as krishna, sat upon a coiled serpent and bestowed spiritual knowledge on humanity. the ancient greeks had a tradition of the islands of the blessed and the garden of the hesperides in which grew the golden apples of immortality. the garden was defended by a dragon. in chinese sacred books there is a garden that contained trees bearing the fruit of immortality. it, too, was guarded by a winged serpen

is blood was spilled to redeem the earth. he suffered death "with nails and stakes. he was the father and son combined in an earthly body. he was put in a tomb, went down into the underworld, but three days later, on march 25th, his body was found to have disappeared from the tomb and he was resurrected as the "most high god. his body was symbolised as bread and eaten by those who worshipped him. krishna (christ, the son of god of india he was born to a virgin mother on december 25th and his father was a carpenter. a star marked his birthplace, and angels and shepherds attended. the ruler slaughtered thousands of infants in an effort to kill him, but he survived and went on to perform miracles and heal the sick, including lepers, the blind, and the deaf. he died at about the age of 30 and

ad a ritual in which a young man, apparently dead, was restored to life. he was called the saviour and his sufferings were said to have ensured the salvation of the people. his priests watched his tomb until midnight on the equinox and they cried "rejoice, o sacred initiated! your god is risen. his death and suffering have worked your salvation" the same was said in egypt of horus and in india of krishna thousands of years before christianity. and jesus could not have been crucified between two thieves because crucifixion was not the roman punishment for theft. the "two thieves" are possibly symbolic of sagittarius and capricorn, which cross over at the winter solstice, thus the sun "dies" between them. john the baptist this guy was invented from the stories of anup, who baptised the ancie

below the horizon, at exactly the same time as the sun sets in leo (the kingly sign representing herod. thus the latter beheads john, because john is associated with aquarius, and the horizon cuts off the head of aquarius!"28 the reference to the "man carrying the water pitcher" in luke's gospel is more aquarius symbolism. john the baptist was an almost exact copy of bala-rama, the forerunner of krishna, the hindu son of god. 212 children of the matrix jesus and the 12 disciples is there a universal law that all deities must have 12 disciples or followers? jesus had them, so did horus, buddha, king arthur, mithra, dionysus, and so many other symbols of the sun. we also have the 12 sons of jacob, 12 tribes of israel, the 12 gods of the greeks, egyptians, and persians. this fixation with 12

ndrew" is said to have been crucified at patras in greece, where "andrew" was a local god.30 james, the so-called "brother of jesus, is a rehash of amset, the brother of the egyptian sun god, osiris. amset was a carpenter and james was a carpenter. amset was a "great purifier" and james was a "great purifier. disciple john, the favourite of "jesus, is a repeat of arjuna, the favourite disciple of krishna. john is actually known in tibet as argiun. john was the cousin of jesus and his original, arjuna, was the cousin of krishna. thomas was the disciple who insisted on touching jesus after the "resurrection" to prove he was in the flesh, hence the term doubting thomas. but thomas is tammuz, that other saviour-god with the jesus credentials. the christian church dedicates the winter solstice

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the tree. king, yi: an ancient book of wisdom from china, commonly called i ching. like the tarot (q.v, it has many spiritual purposes, but is popularly known for giving divinations. kobaloi: a greek word used to indicate a wicked spirit invoked by rogues. the origin of the german kobold and the english goblin (q.v. kobolds: mischievous earth elementals that are said to inhabit german households. krishna: although only the sixth avatar, or incarnation of vishnu, krishna has developed into a popular hindu deity due to his representing unbridled sexuality. some hindu traditionalists would down play this reason for his popularity, citing his role as "savior" and "messiah" in hindu culture. kundalini: an energy said to lie dormant at the base of the spine, ready to rise through the spine to th

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who raised up the earth from the seas (4) nara-sinha (the man-lion, who delivered the world from the tyranny of a demon (5) vamana (the dwarf, who recovered areas of the universe from demons (6) parasu-rama (rama with the axe, who delivered brahmins from dominion by the warrior caste during the second age of the world (7) rama, hero of the religious epic ramayana, who opposed the demon ravana (8) krishna popular incarnation chronicled in the religious epic mahabharata (especially in the bhagavad-gita section) and srimad bhagavatam (9) buddha, the great religious teacher; and (10) kalki, an incarnation yet to come, who is prophesied to appear on a white horse with a sword blazing like a comet, to destroy the wicked, stabilize creation and restore purity to the world. in other religious work

ke a comet, to destroy the wicked, stabilize creation and restore purity to the world. in other religious works, as many as 22 incarnations are listed, including various great saints and sages. according to hindu belief, a perfected human soul has no further karma (action and reaction) and is absorbed into divinity at death, but may elect to be incarnated for the good of the world. the deity shri krishna, in the bhagavad-gita (4:7.8) specifically promises: arjuna, whenever there is decline of dharma (righteous duty, and unrighteousness is dominant, then i am reborn. for the protection of the virtuous, the destruction of evil-doers, and to reestablish righteousness, i am reborn from age to age. belief in repeated divine reincarnations of the deities for the good of the world, as distinct fr

the paranormal: probing the evidence of the supernatural. edited by george o. abell and barry singer. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1981. tompkins, peter, and christopher bird. the secret life of plants. new york: harper and row, 1973. whitman, john. the psychic power of plants. london: new english library, 1974. back to godhead (magazine) monthly publication of the international society for krishna consciousness. address: btg service center, po box 255, sandy ridge, nc 27046. the magazine is also available on the internet at http//www.krsna.com. backward masking a technique claimed to be used in some rock music (especially heavy metal) in order to convey secret, destructive messages. some conservative evangelical christians have claimed that various words and sentences in rock music

man in 1969 had visited and been inspired by shambhala books, still a mainstay of the spiritual community in berkeley, california. he had also visited india and read the landmark book be here now (1971) written by ram dass (richard alpert, one of the foundational volumes of what would become known as the new age movement. the name of the store came from the banyan tree under which the hindu deity krishna is said to have spoken the bhagavad gita, and from the banyan ashram that had been established by gary snyder and nanao sakaki as an eco-spiritual community in japan. lymworth chose the alternate spelling of banyen after taking the advice of a numerologist friend. as the new age movement emerged in the 1970s, lymworth became aligned with its vision for the need for a transformation of the

. milan ryzl. bezucha was born january 10, 1928, at nemyslovice and studied at high chemical school, college of chemical technology, prague. in 1955 he married eva fickova. bhagavad gita of the large number of holy books revered within hindu culture, the bhagavad gita, a short work originally written in sanskrit, is by far the most popular. an epic poem, it lays out a path of mystical devotion to krishna, one of the primary deities in the hindu pantheon, and describes the hindu perspective on such essential teachings as reincarnation and karma. it was one of the first books translated by western scholars as they began to study eastern teachings in the eighteenth century, and it was widely circulated among dissident religious groups such as the transcendentalists of new england. the gita wa

he activities of the descendents of bharata, the mythical character from whom india (or bharat) takes its name. the story of the gita is set as a war has broken out between two groups of bharata s descendents, the pandavas and the kauravas, and concerns the problem that arjuna, the leader of the pandava army, has in participating in that war. he turns the problem he has been contemplating over to krishna. is it worth ruling a kingdom, to kill so many kinsmen? krishna responds by calling arjuna to attend to his role in life as a member of the warrior caste, and not turn his back on his social duty (dharma. duty should be followed without regard of results. more importantly, however, he offers an understanding of the human being. the human is not a body, but the eternal atman (analogous to t

social duty (dharma. duty should be followed without regard of results. more importantly, however, he offers an understanding of the human being. the human is not a body, but the eternal atman (analogous to the soul in western thought, and the atman is indestructible. the atman cannot die and it is reborn in this life a number of times. just as humans change clothes, so the atman changes bodies. krishna goes on to outline the process of yoga and meditation through which a person can come to know the real amid the illusionary world of human life. his teaching culminates in a mystical moment in which arjuna sees the vast universe lodged as a body within the god of gods. in the relationship of arjuna and krishna, the gita offers a model of the relationship between chela (pupil) and guru (tea

raining a seeker in appropriating mystical states of consciousness. numerous translations of the gita exist in english (and other western languages, the different translations reflecting the variant understandings of the deity as personal or impersonal in hindu thought. in the western work, the vedanta societies offer an impersonalist interpretation of the deity while the international society of krishna consciousness is a major exponent of the personalist approach. sources: the bhagavad gita. translated by juan mascaro. new york: penguin classics, 1962. oragan, troy wilson. hinduism: its historical development. woodbury, conn: barons educational series, 1974. prabhupada, a. c. bhaktivedanta swami. bhagavad gita as it is. new york: bhaktivedanta book trust, 1972 (frequently reprinted. bhag

amalai, south india, where the sri ramana ashram was first established during the sage s lifetime. in addition to the urban ashram, there is also an ashram farm in nova scotia for devotees who wish to follow an intensive spiritual schedule. address: 342 east 6th st, new york, ny 10003. bhaktivedanta, swami prabhupada (1896.1977) the religious name of abhay charan de, leader of the successful hare krishna movement that emerged in north america and europe in the 1970s and is organizationally embodied in the international society for krishna consciousness (iskcon. born in calcutta, india, september 1, 1896, he studied philosophy, economics, and english at the university of calcutta. as a young man he was a follower of gandhi and advocated independence for india, and he refused to accept his d

e for india, and he refused to accept his degree in order to show solidarity with gandhi. intensely religious even as a child, he nevertheless followed his father s wishes by marrying and going into business. he was initiated into the goudiya vaishnava society by vaishnava holy man shi srimad bhaktisiddhanta saraswati goswami, and followed the bhaki( devotional) worship of vishnu s incarnation as krishna, which had been initiated by chaitanya, a bengali saint of the sixteenth century. krishna s life is described in the hindu scriptural texts bhagavad-gita and the srimad-bhagavatam. prabhupada managed a pharmaceutical business in order to support his family, but his guru, who died in 1936, ordered his disciples to preach the chaitanya message in the west. the honorific name bhaktivedanta wa

including his family, to devote his whole life to religious teaching. his actions followed the ancient hindu tradition of renunciation of everyday householder life when one s responsibilities were fully discharged. at the age of 58 prabhupada became a swami, and in 1965, shortly before the change in american immigration laws relative to india, he immigrated to america. he preached the worship of krishna in new york and soon attracted students and dropouts, offering his brand of vaishnava hinduism in place of radicalism or drug counterculture. large contributions were made to iskcon funds by ex-beatle george harrison and b. m. birla, a wealthy indian textile magnate. swami bhaktivedanta spent much of his time distributing his translation of the bhagavad-gita and completing his translation

re. large contributions were made to iskcon funds by ex-beatle george harrison and b. m. birla, a wealthy indian textile magnate. swami bhaktivedanta spent much of his time distributing his translation of the bhagavad-gita and completing his translation and commentary on srimad-bhagavatam and a variety of other writings. he kept up a voluminous correspondence and taught his devotees the basics of krishna devotion. like his devotees, he spent much time chanting the hare krishna mantra, and his devotees reported that he sometimes exhibited such emotional transports as weeping and dancing. they regarded him as a transcendental being and gave him the title h.d.g..his divine grace. prabhupada saw his movement spread internationally, and he experienced the harsh criticism of the new anticult mov

uch emotional transports as weeping and dancing. they regarded him as a transcendental being and gave him the title h.d.g..his divine grace. prabhupada saw his movement spread internationally, and he experienced the harsh criticism of the new anticult movement. swami bhaktivedanta died of heart failure on november 14, 1977, at the age of 81, at vrindavana, india, the district in mathura where sri krishna spent his childhood. by the late 1970s iskcon had some 5,000 american disciples and had gained the support of many indian americans, who found it like the worship they had left behind when migrating. the movement was left in the control of initiating gurus and a governing board. it experienced intense attacks by anticult groups and suffered some tumultuous internal conflicts, but iskcon ha

s emerged in the 1990s as a stable hindu body that has begun to integrate a second generation in its adult membership. iskcon has temples across north america, in most countries of europe, and in numeorus locations around the world. for information, contact the iskcon international ministry of public affairs, 1030 grand ave, san diego, ca 92109. sources: bromley, david g, and larry d. shinn, eds. krishna consciousness in the west. lewisburg: bucknell university press, 1989. gelberg, steven, ed. hare krishna, hare krishna. new york: grove press, 1983. goswami, satsvarupa dasa. srila prabhupada-lilamrta. 6 vols. los angeles: bhaktivedanta book trust, 1980.83. prabhupada, a. c. bhaktivedanta swami. bhagavad-gita as it is. new york: bhativedanta book trust, 1972. krsha: the supreme personality

culver city, calif: vaishnava institute, 1987. the nectar of devotion. los angeles: bhaktivedanta book trust, 1970. the science of self realization. los angeles: bhaktivedanta book trust, 1977. teachings of lord chaitanya. los angeles: bhaktivedanta book trust, 1974. bhaktivedanta institute of religion and culture an informal and independent association of members of the international society for krishna consciousness (iskcon. founded in the 1970s by subananda das (steven gelberg, the bhaktivedanta insititute concerned itself with intellectual and academic pursuits.particularly in the humanities and social sciences. members of the institute were concerned with the scholarly study of iskcon (the hare krishna movement) as well as the application of vaisnava thought to modern academic discipl

a movement) as well as the application of vaisnava thought to modern academic disciplines. during its brief existence, the institute issued sev- bhagavan sri ramana maharshi center encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 180 eral issues of the iskcon review, a biannual interdisciplinary publication intended to stimulate and communicate research and reflection on all aspects of the hare krishna movement. although sponsored by the iskcon movement, the institute and its review were independent and autonomous, thus providing a meeting place between iskcon and informed scholars of religious history, theologians, sociologists, and others. bharati, agehananda (1923.1991) scholar of eastern religion and mysticism who was ordained as acharya in dashanami mahavidyalaya, benares, india, in

om the lowest chakras to the highest, culminating in a mystical center in the head, conferring higher consciousness. sources: bernard, theos. hatha yoga. london: rider, 1950. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1970. chia, mantak. awaken healing energy through the tao. new york: aurora press, 1983. dvivedi, m. n, trans. the yoga-sutras of patanjali. london: theosophical publishing house, 1890. gopi krishna. the secret of yoga. new york: harper& row, 1972. huard, pierre, and ming wong. oriental methods of mental and physical fitness: the complete book of meditation, kinesitherapy, and martial arts in china, india, and japan. new york: funk& wagnalls, 1971. kuvalayananda, swami. pranayama. bombay, india: popular prakashan, 1931. luk, charles. the secrets of chinese meditation. london: rider, 1

-hatha-yoga according to our present knowledge of western anatomy and physiology (1939. for comparative chinese mysticism and meditation techniques in relation to chakras, see the books of charles luk (pseudonym of k uan yu lu, notably the secrets of chinese meditation (london, 1964. sources: avalon, arthur. the serpent power. madras: ganesh, 1950. reprint, new york: dover pubications, 1974. gopi krishna. kundalini: the evolutionary energy in man. boulder, colo: shambhala, 1970. judith, anodea. wheels of life: a user s guide to the chakra system. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1987. leadbeater, c. w. the chakras. wheaton, iill: theosophical publishing house, 1972. rele, v. g. the mysterious kundalini: the physical basis of the kundali-hatha-yoga according to our present knowledge

se most such states occur spontaneously and in the context of sacred activity. sources: avalon, arthur [sir john woodroffe. the serpent power. madras, india, 1922. bucke, r. m. cosmic consciousness: a study of the evolution of the human mind. n.p, 1910. danielou, alain. yoga: the method of re-integration. london: christopher johnson, 1949. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1955. gopi krishna. kundalini: the evolutionary energy in man. boulder, colo: shambhala, 1970. james, william. the varieties of religious experience. london, 1902. row, m. c. nanjunda. cosmic consciousness, or the vedantic idea of realisation of muktu in the light of modern psychology. madras, india, 1910. underhill, evelyn. mysticism: a study in the nature and development of man s spiritual consciousness. l

erial world itself, designated as maya. on a popular level, hindu mythology proposes vast cycles of time (yugas) in the ages of the world, during which there are great periods of creation, righteousness, decline, and eventual dissolution, part of an infinite cycle of creation and destruction of the cosmos. in the period of decline, there is the messianic concept of the rebirth of the divine shree krishna, who will redeem the world. however, all these cycles are only a dreamlike moment of time in divine consciousness, of which the individual souls are myriad fragments; and in self-realization, or moksha, the individual consciousness goes beyond the duality of subject and object and is subsumed in a timeless and blissful divine consciousness, independent of time, space, and causality, which

the glastonbury zodiac. more recently glastonbury became the home of magician dion fortune. this power complex of traditions and legends has attracted many young people to glastonbury as a pilgrimage center in the contemporary occult and mystical revival. new mythologies crossed with the old as thousands of young pilgrims spend magical weekends at glastonbury, combining flying saucer cults, hare krishna incantations, and rock music with legends of king arthur and joseph of arimathea. glastonbury is now regarded as a power center of the new age of aquarius, and a community magazine, torc, has been founded to further knowledge of glastonbury and its associations (address for subscription information: 3 jacobs close, windmill hill, glastonbury, somerset, u.k) in 1989 the alternative communit

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books continue to retell his story, especially amid the wave of true crime books that became popular in the late 1980s. the violence associated with manson did not cease with his imprisonment. in september 1984 in vacaville prison, california, manson was drenched with paint thinner and set on fire by another convicted killer, who claimed that manson had threatened him for being a member of a hare krishna sect. his head scorched and most of his hair and beard were burned, but manson survived. a group of manson s songs, performed by him and recorded prior to the tate.la bianca murders, has been issued by awareness records (lp disc 0893-0156. the mediocre quality of these songs only enhances their sinister provenance. sources: atkins, susan, with bob slosser. child of satan, child of god. pla

mantras are linked with the basic states of matter in connection with the chakras, or subtle energy centers, of the human body. these seeds are said to hold the potential to release the powers of the chakras. most yogic traditions use some form of mantra initiation, which transmits a particular mantra from guru to student. spiritual mantras common in india include variants of the hari rama, hari krishna formula, made popular in the west by members of the international society for krishna consciousness, and the gayatri mantra, normally recited by brahmins during meditation on the sun. transcendental meditators also reportedly use mantras in their practices. hari om is a common healing mantra performed regularly by the sivananda ashram in rishikesh, india, which invokes vishnu (hindu god) t

pray to you in benign solemnity to bestow your blessings and shower your wealth upon us. the development of compact discs and digital recordings has made mantra recordings more available in music stores and new age shops. as this technology has fueled western acceptance of yoga, mantras will gain popularity and perhaps take on a new meaning as more and more westerners practice them. sources: das, krishna. pilgrim heart. new york: triloka records, 1998 easwaran, eknath. the mantram handbook. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1978. godwin, joscelyn. music and the occult. rochester, n.y: university of rochester press, 1995. gopalacharlu, s. e. an introduction to the mantra sastra. adyar, madras, india: theosophical publishing house, 1934. kalisch, isidor, trans. sepher yezirah: a book on creatio

articular benefits, though the majority of those benefits are only received as the practice is placed within a larger system of spiritual activity, with which it is normally integrated. sources: augustine of hippo. confessions of st. augustine. edited by francis j. sheed. new york: sheed, 1943. john of ruysbroeck. adornment of the spiritual marriage. translated by p. synschenk. london, 1916. gopi krishna. kundalini, the evolutionary energy in man. boulder, colo: shambhala, 1970. kundalini for the new age: selected writings. edited by gene kieffer. new york: bantam, 1988. luk, charles. the secrets of chinese meditation. london: n.p, 1964. melton, j. gordon. the ways of meditation. evanston, ill: stellium press, 1974. patanjali the yoga-sutras of patanjali. translated by m. n. dvidedi. adyar

duties within the human community. in such a context, miraculous events may be helpful signposts or motivators at some point, but they do not take the place of spiritual development. in fact, too much attention to the miraculous (or long-term focus on psychic events) may actually be a hindrance to spiritual progress. sources: ebon, martin, ed. miracles. new york: new american library, 1981. gopi krishna. the secret of yoga. new york: harper& row, 1972. hill, j. arthur. spiritualism: its history, phenomena, and doctrine. london: cassell, 1918. leshan, lawrence. the medium, the mystic, and the physicist. new york: viking press, 1974. nickell, joe. looking for a miracle: weeping icons, relics, stigmata, visions& healing cures. amherst, n.y: prometheus press, 1998. reginald-omez, fr. o. p. ps

kundalini energy believed to be latent in the human organism at the base of the spine. through initiation by his guru, muktananda experienced kundalini and its manifestation in various chakras or psychic centers of the body, accompanied by strange visions and enhanced consciousness. he described his remarkable experiences in his book guru (1971, which were similar to those reported by pandit gopi krishna. muktananda became spiritual head of shree gurudev ashram at ganeshpuri, near bombay, and attracted followers from all over india. he taught a traditional hindu mystical doctrine of sadhana or spiritual discipline, enhanced by his ability to awaken spiritual force in others through shaktipat. he first visited the united states in 1970, and four years later made a triumphal tour in californ

ation of the personality on all levels.physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. involves specific psycho-physical concomitants. some of these may be accessible to scientific inspection. it may also be possible to evaluate various degrees of transcendental experience, ranging from emotional euphoria to progressively more profound areas of higher consciousness. the modern hindu mystic pandit gopi krishna, who experienced a dramatic development of higher consciousness following a period of intense yoga discipline and meditation, has mysticism encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1084 published his experiences and the perceptions accompanying them in a series of books, which during the last years of his life attracted the attention of scientists in investigating the phenomenon

have walked with god. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1968. reprint, new york: dell, 1974. clement, olivier and theodore berkeley. the roots of christian mysticism: text and commentary. new york: new city press, 1995. ferguson, john. an illustrated encyclopaedia of mysticism and the mystery religions. london: thames& hudson, 1976. gall, edward. mysticism throughout the ages. london: rider, 1934. gopi krishna, pandit. the biological basis of religion and genius. new york: harper& row, 1972. hartmann, thom. the last hours of ancient sunlight: waking up to personal and global transformation. northfeld, vt: mystical books, 1998. huxley, aldous. the doors of perception. london: chatto& windus, 1954. heaven& hell. london: chatto& windus, 1956. james, william. the varieties of religious experience. l

a. pellvoisen: our lady reveals the devotion to the sacred heart scapular. chulmleugh, devon, uk: augustine publishing house, 1986. sharkey, don. the woman shall conquer. kenosha, wis: franciscan marytown press, 1976. pencovic, francis heindswater (1911.1958) founder of the wflk foundation of the world, a communal religious group with roots in hinduism. pencovic operated under his religious name, krishna venta. raised a mormon, pencovic became a public figure in his new identity in the 1930s and founded the group he led in the 1940s. he was killed by some dissident members in 1958 and the group finally disbanded in the early 1980s. sources: mathison, richard. faiths, cults, and sects of america. indianapolis: bibbs-merrill, 1960. ormont, arthur. love cults& faith healers. new york: ballant

ave provided food, medicine, and hallucinogenic substances. however, beginning in the 1970s, there was more, public interest in the behavior and psychic aspects of plant life. evidence was presented suggesting plants may diagnose disease, react to music and human emotions, and act as lie detectors. legends told of the power of sound to influence plants. in hindu mythology, the flute music of shri krishna made flowers bloom. reportedly the musician tansen, during the era of moghul emperor akbar could cause the flowers to blossom by singing a particular musical raga or mode. tamil literature described how sugarcane grew in response to the musical sounds of beetles, wasps, and bees. plants, psychic aspects of encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1220 scientific interest in the s

ecame a close friend of w. b. yeats, then in his sixties, and strongly influenced his outlook on hindu philosophy and mysticism. yeats wrote introductions to the swami s autobiography an indian monk (1932) and his translation of his guru s book the holy mountain (faber, london, 1934. in 1935, the swami published a translation of bhagavad-gita under the title the geeta; the gospel of the lord shri krishna (1935) which he dedicated to my friend william butler yeats on his seventieth birthday. in the same year, the swami published a translation of the mandukya upanishad, for which yeats provided an introduction. yeats had planned to travel to india to assist the swami in translating the ten principal upanishads, but eventually the work was completed by the two friends at majorca in 1936. from

eachings of the spiritual life. the sivananda ashram was originally founded at south burnaby, vancouver, british columbia, but later moved to kootenay bay, british columbia. while searching for a possible site in this area, swami radha found an ideal setting by the side of a lake, officially listed since 1897 as yasodhara. it was a good omen, since in hinduism yasoda is the foster-mother of shree krishna, an incarnation of god. under the name yasodhara ashram, the society occupied an 83-acre site with a lake, forests, and mountains, reminiscent of the foothills of india. several acres have been cleared, and the ashram premises include residential buildings, a guest lodge, prayer room, print shop, bookstore, office, recording studio, and a temple of all faiths. various workshop programs and

8, walter j. kilner, who was familiar with the work of reichenbach, developed a technique for making the human aura visible. in this century, wilhelm reich s theories of orgone energy seem to be about the same energy reichenbach explored under the label od. sources: bagnall, oscar. the origin and properties of the human aura. london, 1937. rev. ed. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1970. gopi krishna. kundalini: the evolutionary energy in man. new delhi, 1967. reprint, boulder, colo: shambhala, 1970. kilner, walter j. the human atmosphere. london, 1911. reprinted as the human aura. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1965. reich, wilhelm. the function of the orgasm. new york: orgone institute press, 1948. reprint, new york: farrar, straus& giroux, 1973. reichenbach, baron karl von en

promote the idea of the religious use of psychedelics, but most of these dissolved following negative court actions. outside of these circles, as recently as 1988, a short-lived attempt to defend the psychedelic/soma connection was made in the journal revision (vol. 10, no. 4, spring 1988. there was little positive response and a strong rebuttal by gene kieffer, a follower of indian teacher gopi krishna. sources: allegro, john m. the sacred mushroom and the cross. london: hodder& stoughton, 1970; garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1970. gopi krishna. the awakening of kundalini. new york: e. p. dutton, 1973. iyangar, yogi srinivasa. hatha-yoga-pradipika of svatmarama svamin. adyar, madras, india: theosophical publishing house, 1933. kieffer, gene. an appeal for common sense. sff newsletter [spir

harles c. thomas, 1961. head, joseph, and s. l. cranston. reincarnation: the phoenix fire mystery. new york: julian press; crown publishers, 1977. james, william. the varieties of religious experience. london: longmans, green, 1903. myers, f. w. h. human personality and its survival of bodily death. 2 vols. london: longmans, green, 1903. purohit, swami shri. the geeta: the gospel of the lord shri krishna. london: faber& faber, 1935. soule, minnie meserve (d. 1936) trance medium of the american society for psychical research, known in early experiments under the pseudonym mrs. chenoweth. for many years j. h. hyslop made interesting tests in cases of obsession with her mediumship. she produced excellent trance phenomena, similar to those of leonora piper. soule was controlled by imperator an

ine) former quarterly journal published in india of international spiritual and scientific consideration in the study of kundalini, the energy believed to reside in human beings related to sexual activity and higher consciousness. the journal is published by the kundalini research and publication trust, new delhi. this journal centers round the experience and theories of hindu teacher pandit gopi krishna (1903.1984, an advocate of kundalini who has built a following in the west. spiritual institution established by pioneer british spiritualist james burns at 15 southampton row, london, in conjunction with a library dealing with books on spiritualism. the organization oversaw a lending library of several thousand volumes on spiritualism, psychic phenomena, and related subjects, with a readi

ssages about earth (1974, he analyzed the alternative cultures of paolo soleri, h. g. wells, werner heisenberg, aurelio peccei and his club of rome, the encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. thompson, william irwin 1563 integral yoga of sri aurobindo, the institute for world order and w. warren wagar, c. f. von weizacker of the max planck institute, and the kundalini yogi pandit gopi krishna. the book contains observation into the nature and impact of various new age movements and lifestyles of the established technological nation-states. thompson was most favorably impressed by the alternative culture of findhorn foundation, the pioneering scottish new age community established by peter and eileen caddy in 1962 as a training center for the embodiment of universal consciousnes

flournoy, theodore. from india to the planet mars. new york: harper& bros, 1900. garrett, eileen j. my life as a search for the meaning of mediumship. new york: oquaga; london: rider, 1939. reprint, new york: arno press, 1975. goodman, felicitas d, jeanette h. henney, and esther pressel. trance, healing and hallucination: three field studies in religious experience. wiley-interscience, 1974. gopi krishna. the biological basis of religion and genius. new york: harper& row, 1972. inglis, brian. trance: a natural history of altered states of mind. london: grafton, 1989. kerner, justinus. the seeress of prevorst. london, 1845. laski, marghanita. ecstasy. london: cresset, 1961. salter, w. h. trance mediumship: an introductory study of mrs. piper and mrs. leonard. london: society for psychical r

ic structure of matter and its connection with the subtle currents of prana operating in the universe generally, as well as modified in the individual human being. sources: carrington, hereward. vitality, fasting and nutrition. new york: rebman, 1908. crookall, robert. during sleep: the possibility of co- operation between the living and the dead. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1974. gopi, krishna. the biological basis of religion and genius. new york: harper& row, 1972. hollander, bernard. in search of the soul and the mechanism of thought, emotion, and conduct. 2 vols. london: kegan paul; new york: e. p. dutton, 1920. leshan, lawrence l. the medium, the mystic and the physicist. new york: viking; london: turnstone books, 1974. muldoon, sylvan j, and hereward carrington. the projec

stigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval& renaissance texts& studies, 1991. weza burmese sorcerers (see also myanmar) wflk fountain of the world hindu-based religious community centered in the san fernando valley of southern california. the wflk fountain of the world was founded by francis h. pencovic (1911.58. he grew up in utah but became known in 1932 under his religious name, krishna venta. as krishna venta he claimed that he had been sent from heaven to work among the american indians. he was believed to be the latest in a series of saviours who had come to assist humankind. the lineage included adam, enoch, methuselah, noah, abraham, moses, elijah, jesus, and more recently abraham lincoln and joseph smith, jr (the founder of the church of jesus christ of latter-day s

venta. as krishna venta he claimed that he had been sent from heaven to work among the american indians. he was believed to be the latest in a series of saviours who had come to assist humankind. the lineage included adam, enoch, methuselah, noah, abraham, moses, elijah, jesus, and more recently abraham lincoln and joseph smith, jr (the founder of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints. krishna venta established his followers on land in box canyon in the san fernando valley. they lived communally, a practical step in their gaining a unity of mind and spirit, and attempted to put into practice the four cardinal virtues taught by krishna venta: wisdom, faith, love, and knowledge (wflk, from which the group took its name. the members became well known in the area for their outstandi

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s communications, which had the strongest links to the earliest group, emerged the strongest. based in olympia, washington, it survives today and maintains a sometimes controversial presence on the new age scene. its head, paul shockley, continues to channel teachings from awareness. his organization characterizes awareness as the force that expressed itself through jesus of nazareth, the buddha, krishna, mohammed and other great avatars who served as channels for what is commonly known as god, and which expresses itself once again as the world begins to enter the new age of spiritual consciousness and awareness( cosmic awareness communications, 1994. awareness teaches that the united states of america came into being through intervention with the founding fathers. the motive was to allow

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orah, peshitta (gospels, and apocrypha regarding the nature, lives, experiences, powers, and teachings of master mosheh and master yeshuvah find parallels in those of messiahs in other traditions. messianic appearances are called avatara in sanskrit. the hindu tradition contains beautiful and profound descriptions of the life dramas and teachings of the ten incarnations of vishnu, including rama, krishna, narasimha (lit. man-lion, and matsya (the fish, who is said to have appeared to noah during the flood. hindus also ascribe messianic stature to chaitanya (sixteenth century ce, ramakrishna (1836- 1886, shirdi sai baba (d.1918) and satya sai baba (1925- present. they assign such status as well as to incarnations of the divine mother i.e. the goddess, such as saradamani devi (1853- 1920, an

devotional yoga seeks a personal, intimate relation with the divine, infused with devotional passion and fulfilling one s deepest emotional needs. some of the clearest and most detailed accounts of the experiences associated with devotional moods are found in the teachings of the vaishnavas of bengal in northern india. the vaishnavas are ardent devotees of vishnu s incarnations, especially rama, krishna, and chaitanya. in vaishnava teachings, the moods of love are called bhavas, and they are taken to their highest possible spiritual expression in bhava samadhi (lit. devotional mood union. bhava samadhi is ecstatic absorption in one s chosen ideal in the context of a particular mood. the highest (and rarest) of the bhavas in the vaishnava teachings is called madhura bhava (lit. sweet mood

n in one s chosen ideal in the context of a particular mood. the highest (and rarest) of the bhavas in the vaishnava teachings is called madhura bhava (lit. sweet mood. the madhura bhava is the female mood of the wife/paramour toward god-the-husband or secret beloved, characterized by prema (ecstatic love. in vaishnava literature, the madhura bhava is embodied in radha, a principal consort of sri krishna, and in' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% sita, wife of rama. all of the devotional moods are found variously among devotees in all mystical traditions relative to their respective chosen ideals. within the mystical community, there are some aspirants who have awakened to a condition of permanent awareness in the lower astral states of the world of yetzirah. most such individuals access this station of c

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type of triangle was worn in india by followers of shiva, who wear it in their foreheads. shiva is another infernal name listed in the satanic bible as another name for satan! meyer wrote this in, the order of the eastern star, p. 20; ward wrote this information in, freemasonry and the ancient gods, london: simpkin, marshall, hamilton, kent and co, ltd, 1921, p. 10-11. occult writer, r.p. lawrie krishna said the same thing in the lamb slain- supreme sacrifice. the hexagram uniting the water triangle with the fire triangle, the hexagram is formed. it forms a six pointed star also known as the seal of solomon. this symbol is a counterfeit star of david, the national symbol of israel(god's chosen nation. the difference between the star of david and the occult seal is the triangles which make

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masses; nevertheless there is yet another mood, for from time to time in the world's history something happens: a man appears, be he prince or pauper, who throws the masses into such a state of religious fervour that all reason and with it all doubt is obliterated and a spiritual condition is produced which closely resembles physical drunkenness. such men were orpheus, oedipus, osiris, zoroaster, krishna, odin, buddha, christ, mahomet, and a host of lesser names, mythological and historical, many of which have passed into oblivion. for a time these men have lifted the multitudes out of nature, endowing them with a spiritual instinct, a ketheric nephesh, more powerful than all their natural instincts combined. self-preservation, self-sacrifice, self-assertion, pugnacity, love, hate, fear, g

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evelopment of new teachings regarding the trinity, eternal hellfire and purgatory that were imported into the church for political reasons by emperor constantine. it was only in ad 553 at the second council of constantinople that the church finally and formally condemned the doctrine of reincarnation. in both hinduism and buddhism reincarnation is a central doctrine. in the bhagavad gita, we find krishna expounding the theory of reincarnation to arjuna, a wise and powerful warrior. the fascinating thing about this dialogue is its emphasis on spiritual action. krishna tells does not tell arjuna to abandon the battle and retire to a monastery, but to return and fight and even die, if the need be, fighting with detachment born of his knowledge of reincarnation. both i and thou have passed thr

the theory of reincarnation to arjuna, a wise and powerful warrior. the fascinating thing about this dialogue is its emphasis on spiritual action. krishna tells does not tell arjuna to abandon the battle and retire to a monastery, but to return and fight and even die, if the need be, fighting with detachment born of his knowledge of reincarnation. both i and thou have passed through many births, krishna tells arjuna on the battlefield. in buddhism reincarnation is also taught, but with a difference. buddhist tradition maintains that there is no soul or immortal essence, only environmental factors (sanskaras) which repeat life after life, re-creating a semblance of identity in each incarnation. in ancient egypt the followers of amen-ra derived their belief in reincarnation from the course

d in christian mysticism have in some sense become mantras. there are many good books discussing mantra meditation, and we suggest you study these and choose a mantra which suits you. it is important that you feel comfortable with the mantra, and can easily pronounce it and repeat it. when you start with a mantra it is not wise to change midstream. some common mantras include the ever famous hare krishna, aum, iao and aum mani padme hum. gnostic theurgy page 158 programmed meditation and concentration this form of meditation uses a combination of relaxation techniques, visualisation and pranayama. it is the process where the mind is taken into a relaxed state through any variation of techniques. as you go further into relaxation, visualisation is used to deepen the state in conjunction wit

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f the black lodge have set up operations in our own society as well. we can see the marks of their presence in so-called right-handed eastern circles that have gained a certain currency among westerners, and which peddle a useless baggage of new age platitudes. the traditions do survive here and there in the east; a friend of mine for 10 years a high high official of the international society for krishna consciousness in india was seduced by a black tantric magician, and wound up leaving a life of celibacy as a hari krishna for the lurid existence of a madame in an upscale american house of prostitution. i leave it to my readers to decide whether she was seduced from the great brotherhood to the black lodge, or vice versa. certainly, prior to the destruction of the tibetan black lodges, th

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phists wish to make use of such expressions, let them be made philosophically correct by following the analogy of the old wisdom-religion symbols. we say that christos is not only one of the three higher principles, but all the three regarded as a trinity. this trinity represents the holy ghost, the father, and the son, as it answers to abstract spirit, differentiated spirit, and embodied spirit. krishna and christ are philosophically the same principle under its triple aspect of manifestation. in the bhagavad-gita we find krishna calling himself indifferently atma, the abstract spirit, kshetraj a, the higher or reincarnating ego, and the universal self, all names which, when transferred from the universe to man, answer to atma, buddhi, and manas. the anugita is full of the same doctrine

both the mind and the body, as there is both an electro-vital and at the same time an electro-mental aura; called in theosophy the akashic or magnetic aura. in r.c. martyrology, a saint. avatara (sans) divine incarnation. the descent of a god or some exalted page 146 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt being who has progressed beyond the necessity for rebirth, into the body of a simple mortal. krishna was an avatara of vishnu. the dalai-lama is regarded as an avatara of avalokitesvara and the tashi-lama as one of tson-kha-pa, or amitabha. these are two kinds of avataras: one born from woman and the other "parentless" anupapadaka. beness a term coined by theosophists to render more accurately the essential meaning of the untranslatable word sat. the latter word does not mean being, for t

onalities the effects of the karmic causes produced, it is, therefore, the ego, that self, which is the "moral kernel" referred to, and embodied karma itself, that "which alone survives death" kether (heb) the crown, the highest of the ten sephiroth; the first of the supernal triad. it corresponds to the macroprosopus, vast countenance, or arikh anpin, which differentiates into chokmah and binah. krishna (sans) the most celebrated avatara of vishnu, the "savior" of the hindus and the most popular god. he is the eighth avatara, the son of devaki, and the nephew of kansa, the indian herod, who while seeking for him among the shepherds and cowherds who concealed him, slew thousands of their newly-born babes. the story of krishna's conception, birth, and childhood are the exact prototype of th

rahmins in india, or even of them as a caste. the upanishads are, however, far later than gupta-vidya, or the "secret science" which is as old as human philosophical thought itself. vahan (sans "vehicle" a synonym of upadhi. vallabhach ryas sect (sans, or the "sect of the mahar jas" a licentious phallic-worshipping community, whose main branch is at bombay. the object of the worship is the infant krishna. the anglo-indian government was compelled several times to interfere in order to put a stop to its rites and vile practices, and its governing mahar ja, a kind of high priest, was more than once imprisoned, and very justly so. it is one of the blackest spots of india. vedanta (sans) meaning literally, the "end of all knowledge" among the six darshanas or the schools of philosophy, it is a

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ree sacred to mahddeva, which are strung into rosaries. thetitleof'nud'isauegyptian word, and had with them the accepted meaning; the christians did not even take the trouble to translate the word nonna, the aureole of the saints was used by the antediluvian artists of babylonia whenever they desired to honor or deify a mortal's head. in a celebrated picture in moor's hindoo pantheon, en- titled "krishna nursed by devoid, from a highly-finished picture" the hindfi virgin is represented as seated on a loimge and nursing krishna. the hair brushed back, the long veil, and the golden aureole around the virgin's head, as well as around that of the hindfl savior, are striking. no cathohc, well versed as he might be in the mysterious symbousm of iconology, would hesitate for a moment to worship a

es, thou^ the ^nonym of the word means pure or sacred essence, it is the first emanation of the invisible godhead, manifesting 356. in hit debate with jacollut upon the ri^t jpdliiig of the hitida ktujidb, mr. teztiw de ravin, an ultmnontane catlidic, tnes to prove that the nune at christna ought t be written kriihna, for u the latter meuu bjack ibcnfey, saiukr. diet ^vca the luual tikualatiob of krishna m" black, darli-bhie" but nys" tbe ocigid of the litfufieatioo itdubioim, and tbe (tatueifrfthu deity are generally black, the word is daived from the ooior. we refer tbe tcader to jacouiot's answer in his recent work. carudta t it ckritt, pp. 357<8, etc, for the conclusive evidence dut the name is not derived bom tbe ookr. digitizecoy google harcion. the noble heresiabch! itsdf tan^uy in

e infinite, invisible, incomprehensi- ble fmst cause the individual spirits of men, erroneously called souls. they are the divine sons of god, of which some only overshadow mortal men but this in the majority of cases, some remain forever planetary spirits, and some the smaller and rare minority unite themselves during life with certain men. such god-like beings as gautama-buddha, jesus, lao-tse, krishna, and a few others had imited themselves with their spirits permanently hence, they became gods on earth. others, such as moses, pythagoras, apollonius, plotinus, confucius, hato, lamblichus, and some christian saints, having at intervals been so united, have taken rank in history as demi-gods and leaders of mankind. when unburdened of their terrestrial tabernacles, their freed souls, hence

to be kept in the under- world (hades. they are typified by the three days passed in hell before their resurrection by hercules, christos and others. this derivation, or rather h^ety, as it is called in christianity, is simply the br&hmanic doctrine in all its archaic purity. vishnu, the second personage of the hindq trinity, is also the logos, for he is made subsequently to incarnate himself in krishna. and lakhmi (or lakskmi) who, as in the case of osiris and isis, of ain-soph and sephira, and of bythos and ennoia, is wife, sister, and daughter of vishnu, through this endless >rrelation of male and female creative powers in the abstruse metaphysics of the ancient philosophies is sophia- achamoth. krish- na is the mediator promised by brahmd to mankind, and represents the same idea as th

'innocents' by king herod has a certain foundation to it, in its alle- gorical sense. apart from the now-discovered fact that the whole story of such a massacre of the innocents is bodily taken from the hinda bhdgavata-purdna, and br^manical traditions, the legend refers more- over, allegorically, to a historical fact. king herod is the copy of kansa, the tyrant of mathura, the maternal uncle of krishna, to whom astrolo- gers predicted that a son of his niece devah would deprive him of his throne. therefore he gives orders to kill the male child that is bom to ber; but krishna escapes his fury through the protection of mahddeca (the great god, who causes the child to be carried away to another city out of kansa's reach. after that, in order to be sure and kill the right boy. on whom he fa

one. therefore he gives orders to kill the male child that is bom to ber; but krishna escapes his fury through the protection of mahddeca (the great god, who causes the child to be carried away to another city out of kansa's reach. after that, in order to be sure and kill the right boy. on whom he failed to lay his murderous hands, kansa has all the male new-bom infants within his kingdom killed. krishna is also wor- shiped by the gopae (the shepherds) of the land. hough this ancient indian legend bears a very suspicious resem- blance to the more modern biblical romance, gaffarel and others attri- bute- the origin of the latter to the persecutions during the herodiaa reign of the kabalists and the wiee men, who had not remained strictly orthodox. the latter, as well as the prophets, were n

ntedated chris- tianity, and in the very phraseology of the traditions. who, in his days of simple and blind creduhty, but marveled at the touching narrative given in the gotpela according to 3f ori and luke of the resurrection of the dau^ter of jainis? who has ever doubted its originality? and yet the story is copied entirely from the eari-purana, and is recorded among uie miracles attributed to krishna. we translate it from the french version "the king angashuna caused the betrothal of his daughter, the beautiful kaiavatt, with the young son of vdmadeva, the powerful king of antarvedl, named govinda, to be celebrated with great pomp "but as kalavatl was amusing herself in the groves with her com- pardons, she was bitten by a serpent and died. angashuna tore his clothes, cov d himself wit

elebrated with great pomp "but as kalavatl was amusing herself in the groves with her com- pardons, she was bitten by a serpent and died. angashuna tore his clothes, cov d himself with ashes, and cursed the day niien he was bom "suddenly a great rumor spread through the palace, and the following cries were heard, a thousand times repeated 'paiya puaram; pasya ffuruml 'the father, the master' then krishna approached, smil- ing, leaning on the arm of arjuna 'master' cried angashuna, casting himself at his feet, and sprinkling them with his tears 'see my poor daughter' and he showed him the body of k&lavatt, stretched upon a mat"'why do you weepp' replied krinhna, in a gentle voice 'do you not see thai she is aleepingf listen to the sound of her breathing, like the sigh of the night wind whic

inhna, in a gentle voice 'do you not see thai she is aleepingf listen to the sound of her breathing, like the sigh of the night wind which rustles the leaves of the trees. see, her cheeks resuming their color, her eyes, whose lids tremble as if they were about to open; her lips quiver as if about to speak; she is sleeping, i tell you; and hold! see, she moves. kaltaiahl rise and walkl "hardly had krishna spoken, when the breathing, wannth, move- ment and life returned little by little into the corpse, and the young girl, obeying the injunction of the demigod, rose from her couch and re- digitizecoy google 2tt isis dnveiled joined her companioiu. but the crowd marvded and cried out 'this is a god, since death is no more for him than sleep* all such parables are enforced upon christians with

d the image oi a thip, or even of a fish, for joshua means jesus, son of the fish-god; but it was really too hazardous to connect the emblems of venus, a^tarte, and all the hindo goddesses the argka, doce, and fiak with the' immaculate' birth of their god i this looks very much as if in the early days of christianity but little distinction was nude be- tween christ, bacchus, apouo, and the hindfi krishna, tlie incarnation of vishnu, with whose first avatar this symbol of the fish originated. in the hari'purdna, in the bhdgavata-purdna, as well as in several other books, the god vishnu is shown as having assumed the form of a fish with a human head in order to reclaim the vedar lost during the deluge. having enabled vaivasvata to escape with all his tribe in the ark, vi^nu, pitying weak and

step toward the human form. 6. parasu-rdma: as a hero, but yet an imperfect man. 7. rdma-chandra: as the hero of rdnuljfana. i^iysically a perfect man; his next of kin, friend and ally, hanuman the monkey-god. ths mojucey endowed wuh epeedi' 8. kriskna'atiatdta: the son of the virgin deoandgi (or deeam) one formed by god, or rather by the manifested deity\^hnu, who is identical with adam kadmon" krishna is also called kamya, the son^ the virgin. 0. gautama-buddha, siddhdrtha, or sakya muni (the buddhists reject this doctrine of their buddha being an incarnation^ vishnu) 10. this avatar has not yet occurred. it is expected in the future, like the christian advent, the idea of which was undoubtedly copied from the hindq. when vishnu appears for the lost time he will come as a 'savior' accor

of joy' or spiritual innocence of man; treta-yuga. the age of silver, or that of fire the peri- od of supremat^ of man and of giants and of the sons of god; dv¶- yuga, the age of bronze a mixture already of purity and impurity (spirit and matter, the age of doubt and at last our own, the kah-yugs, or age of iron, of darkbess, niisery and sorrow. in this age vishnu had to incarnate himself in krishna, in order to save humanity from the goddess kali, consort of siva, the all-annihilating the goddess of death, de- struction and human misery. kcdi is the best emblem to represent the 'fall of man; the falling of spirit into the degradation of matter, with all its terrific results. we have to rid ourselves of k(di before we can ever reach mokaha, or nirvdna, the abode of blessed peace and s

es and man. from a fish the progress of this dual transformation carries on the physical form through the shape of a tortoise, a boar, and a man-lion; and then, appearing in the dwarf of humanity, it shows paratu-rdma physically a p^ect, spiritually an undeveloped entity, until it carries mankind, personified by one god-like man, to the apex of physical and spiritual perfection a god on earth. in krishna and the other saviors of the worid we see the philosophical idea of the progressive dual development understood and as dearly expressed in the zohar. the 'heavenly man' who is the protogonos, tikkun, the first-bom of god, or the universal form and idea, en- genders adam. hence the latter is god-bom in humanity, and endowed with the attributes of all the ten sephiroth. these are: wisdom, in

minutest care as they were long before there had appeared a single christian in palestine. but if there were no christiana, there were chrestians long before the era of christianity; and the essenes belonged to the latter as well as to all other 815. we were told that there were iteariy 20,000 of mch books. digitizecoy google 324 isis unveiled initiated brotheriiooda, without even mentioiung the krishna-ites os india. lepsius shows that the word nqfer means ckrettos 'good' and that one of the titles of osiris "onnofer (fjn-nefer) must be translated "the goodness of god made manifest "the worship of christ was not universal at this early date" explains mackenzie "by which i mean that chiistolatry had not been introduced; but the worship of ckrettoa the good principle bad preceded it by man

pyotvonu, or pflkagene lift, pp. 288 *q; ed. t. taylor. digitizecoy google the uythical chbist copied fbom bdddha 33 so sublime because of its unparalleled simplicity, and what temains? history and comparative theology echo back tjie melancholy answer "a crumbling skeleton fonned of the oldest pa^d myths" wliile the mythical birth and life of jesus are a faithful copy of those of the brdhmanical krishna, his historical character of a rel^ous reformer in palestine is the true type of buddha in india. in more than one respect their great resemblance in philanthropic and spiritual aspirations, as well as external circumstances, is truly striking. though the son of a king (while jesus was but a carpenter, buddha was not^ the high brahmanical caste by birth. uke jesus, he felt dissatisfied wit

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at jerusalem. figure 39, no. 1, is an evidently corinthian foliation. it is from a pillar in the vaults of the temple of solomon at jerusalem (probably a lotus-acanthus) no. 2 is evidently the crux-ansata, combining the indications of lotus and lily. here is a union of the classic, the judaic, and gothic forms, all presenting the same idea at once. buddha was the sun in taurus; cristna (crishna, krishna) was the sun in aries. in regard to the origin of speech, of writing, and of letters, it may be remarked that the egyptians referred the employment of a written symbol (to record and communicate the spoken word) to a thoth; the jews, to seth or his children (josephus, ant. i, 2, 3; the greeks, to hermes. but thout in coptic (pezron, lexicon lingua. coptic s. voc. gen xix. 26 in the coptic

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omewhat similar to pagan religion and witchcraft. however, we consider magick ritual a technique, not a religion. worship need not be involved. sometimes the invocation of an entity creates an artificial elemental. crowley says there are three different kinds of the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 26 invocation- 1) devotion to the entity (as in the bhakti yoga of the hare krishna sect; the faustian devil pact. 2) ceremonial invocation- usual method of the middle ages. 3) drama- usually needs more than one person (as in a mass>>cautions< 1. often as not a ritual may produce side-effects, usually something similar to, though not exactly the desired goal. if the true goal is delayed (as sometimes happens) we may see the side effects first. and if for some reason the g

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path of life; in thy presence is the fullness of joy; and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore. 603. i will behold thy presence in righteousness: and when i awake up after thy likeness, i shall be satisfied with it. 604. for this is the path of the spirit, the one behind the many, the first cause. of that first cause the christ said, gmy father worketh hitherto, and i work, h and shri krishna, speaking as the deity, explained in the bhagavad gita that were he to abstain even for a moment from his activity, his service of the world, everything would fall into ruin. the rule that service is the highest ideal in life was thus initiated by the most high, and it is the plain duty of those who would be his faithful servants to follow in his steps. 605. the five s c s 606. the candida

olomon, pronouncing his name as an amphibrach, not as a dactyl, as we do. 697. the name of hiram abiff is somewhat altered in higher degrees, and even in the bible it sometimes appears as huram. a further modification is khairum or khurum. khur by itself means white or noble. there is a variant khri, which under certain circumstances becomes khris. this would suggest some possible connection with krishna and christ. there are certain passages in the book of job where he speaks of the orb of the sun, and the word he uses is khris. it is on record that hiram, king of tyre, was the first man who offered the sacrifice of fire to the khur, who afterwards became herakles. plutarch tells us that the persians of his day called the sun kuros, and he connects it with the greek word kurios, which mea

rs ago i was requested by our noble brother sir s. subramania iyer of madras to investigate a mantra which he had been using for many years, which had been given to him by swami t. subba rao, a great south indian occultist. i looked into the matter with considerable care, and also made use of it afterwards, for it was very remarkable. 971. this mantra is found, i am told, in the gopala-tapani and krishna upanishads, and is composed of five parts, as follows (1) klim, krishnaya (2) govindaya (3) gopijana (4) vallabhaya (5) swaha. as one meditates upon this with intent each syllable makes a line in such a position that a five-pointed star results, as in fig. 17. 972. figure 17 973. 974. and as the mantra is repeated these stars pile up behind one another to form a tube having this five-point

govindaya (3) gopijana (4) vallabhaya (5) swaha. as one meditates upon this with intent each syllable makes a line in such a position that a five-pointed star results, as in fig. 17. 972. figure 17 973. 974. and as the mantra is repeated these stars pile up behind one another to form a tube having this five-pointed form of cross-section, which makes a channel for spiritual force coming from shri krishna, who is the same being as the lord maitreya, the present bodhisattva or world-teacher, the great one who entered into the body of jesus as the christ. with this force coming through it the mantra can be used for many purposes, such as healing, or the removal of fire and other elementals, as well as for general good. 975. i found, however, that there were three stages in the process. with t

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tion addressed to the supreme obtained its response through the particular channel chosen by the worshipper. great angels of different orders and rays were appointed to represent these various qualities of the deity, and these were worshipped as gods in the older faiths. but so close is the union in these cases that devotion rendered to one of these was at the same time given to god himself. shri krishna, speaking as the supreme in the bhagavad gita says: even those who worship other gods with devotion, full of faith- they also worship me(*op. cit, ix, 23) 73. wherever devotion is offered through a particular form, we may be sure that there is an intelligence behind that form who acts as a mediator or channel between the suppliant and the deity behind. hathor, for instance, was the goddess

ldaean mysteries, and thus was thoroughly versed in all the hidden knowledge of the ancient world. in addition to his travels round the shores of the mediterranean, pythagoras journeyed to india, where he met the lord buddha and became one of his disciples. he spent some years in india, and it is reported that he had the high honour of an interview with the next world teacher, the holy child shri krishna, who blessed him and sent him back to europe to found his system of philosophy and of esoteric instruction. thus in the pythagorean school many lines of tradition met together, and were blended into a comprehensive teaching upon the hidden side of life. 390. there is a curious old writing called the leyland-locke ms, which was at one time in the bodleian library, but recent investigators h

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

an act attributed even to the ancient vedic god, indra, who slew the drought-demon vritra. despite the proliferation of demon slaying, however,hinduism does not posit any master devil or any other conception of absolute evil. instead, 114 hinduism demons play an essential role in the overall harmony of the cosmos, providing an important counterpoint to the gods. thus, for example, in the story of krishna s defeat of the serpent demon kaliya, krishna is in the process of killing the giant snake when kaliya begs him for mercy: i am not capable of honoring nor of praising you, overlord of the gods, but please take pity on me, o god whose sole thought is compassion! the race of snakes into which i was born is a cruel one; this is its proper nature. but i am not at fault in this matter. for it

ng nor of praising you, overlord of the gods, but please take pity on me, o god whose sole thought is compassion! the race of snakes into which i was born is a cruel one; this is its proper nature. but i am not at fault in this matter. for it is you who pour forth and absorb the whole world; classes, forms and natures have all been assigned by you, the creator (dimmitt and van buitenen 1978, 115) krishna responds by exiling kaliya from the yamuna river to the ocean, thereby implicitly acknowledging that even evil beings have a place in the world. according to the bhagavad gita, krishna, as the supreme lord himself, embraces all of life s contraries within himself including universal destructiveness. this destructiveness is vividly expressed in two lines from the bhagavad gita that flashed

m 115 between 200 b.c.e. and 200 c.e. the bhagavad gita contains a number of evocative passages on the subject of the destructive, apocalyptic side of the divine nature. the central narrative of the mahabharata is about a civil war and the events surrounding the culminating battle in an ancient indian kingdom. before the great battle begins, arjuna, the chief protagonist, asks his chariot driver, krishna, to drive his chariot out between the two armies. krishna is a complex figure, who many hindus regard as the supreme deity himself. the text of the bhagavad gita contains a conversation between arjuna and krishna that took place on this battlefield before the fighting broke out. from his vantage point on the field between the two armies, arjuna sees all of his closest friends and relatives

contains a conversation between arjuna and krishna that took place on this battlefield before the fighting broke out. from his vantage point on the field between the two armies, arjuna sees all of his closest friends and relatives in both armies, and loses the willingness to fight. he realizes that many of the people dearest to him are about to lay down their lives. after unburdening his heart to krishna about these matters, arjuna firmly asserts, i will not fight. krishna smiles, and then responds to his friend with an extended discourse on the nature of life, death, and ultimate reality. with respect to the soul and death, krishna reminds arjuna of certain truths of classical hinduism: the real human being, as opposed to our false sense of self, is the soul, not the body. the soul, which

ality. with respect to the soul and death, krishna reminds arjuna of certain truths of classical hinduism: the real human being, as opposed to our false sense of self, is the soul, not the body. the soul, which reincarnates in different, successive bodies, is eternal and basically changeless. because we are all eternal souls, who can ever really die? and for that matter, who can ever really kill? krishna further asserts that, as the supreme deity of the universe, he is about to take the lives of arjuna s enemies anyway. thus if arjuna takes up the fight, he will merely be the instrument of god s will. it is in the context of this conversation that, at arjuna s request, krishna reveals his divine form a form that includes the frightening aspect of the divinity that destroys the world at the

open mouths, with vast flaming eyes, my heart shakes in terror: my power is gone and gone is my peace, o vishnu! like the fire at the end of time which burns all in the last day, i see thy vast mouths and thy terrible teeth .the flames of thy mouths devour all the worlds. thy glory fills the whole universe. but how terrible thy splendors burn .who art thou in this form of terror (11:25 25, 30 31) krishna replies that he is all-powerful time, which consumes all things, and that he is about to manifest this aspect of his nature in the midst of the upcoming battle. after these and many other philosophical points have been made, arjuna agrees to engage in battle. perhaps more than in any other tradition, evil is muted and relativized in hinduism. this is partially because, in sharp contrast wi

sm, and other south asian religions portray the samsaric process as unhappy: life in this world is suffering. hence liberation from this process represents the supreme goal of human strivings. the notion of reincarnation even colors hindu notions of hell, which, unlike western hells, are temporary abodes in which the soul spends a set period of time rather than an eternity. this does depiction of krishna dancing on the head of his defeated enemy, kalya (fortean picture library) hinduism 117 not mean that south asians conceived of their hells as being any less grotesque. instead, by the time of the puranas, hindus had posited baroque hell realms rivaling dante s inferno. this is reflected in the names of some of these realms: forest of sword-blades, diarrhea, burning vat, thorny, saw-toothe

on case, the manson trial became a media spectacle. although a tiny group, the manson family came to occupy a prominent role in the anticult discourse of the early 1970s. the family s firstplace status in anticult literature was not eclipsed until the people s temple mass suicide/murders in november 1978. although sociologically quite different from groups like the unification church and the hare krishna movement, the antisocial activities of manson s group were often referred to as being typical of what all cults were potentially capable of committing. manson s apparent control over his followers was also regularly mentioned as a paradigmatic example of cultic mind control. with respect to satanism, manson did not teach satanism in any recognizable sense, and his group was not a satanic c

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, and the occult that are most often referred to as forms of satanism. it may be a matter of definition, but these things are not neces

stigator must objectively evaluate the legal significance of any criminal s spiritual beliefs. in most cases, including those involving satanists, it will have little or no legal significance. if a crime is committed as part of a spiritual belief system, it should make no difference which belief system it is. the crime is the same whether a child is abused or murdered as part of a christian, hare krishna, muslim, or any other belief system.we generally don t label crimes with the name of the perpetrator s religion.why then are the crimes of child molesters, rapists, sadists, and murderers who happen to be involved in satanism and the occult labeled as satanic or occult crimes? if criminals use a spiritual belief system to rationalize and justify or to facilitate and enhance their criminal

LIBER 777

ities. xxiii* the forty buddhist meditations. 0 aum nothing and neither p nor p' f space f consciousness f 1 parabrahm (or any other whom one wishes to please[[shiva, brahma] indifference s 2 shiva, vishnu (as buddha avatars, akasa (as matter, lingam joy s 3 bhavani (all forms of sakti, prana (as force, yoni compassion s 4 indra, brahma friendliness s 5 vishnu, varruna-avatar death r 6 vishu-hari-krishna-rama buddha r 7[[bhavani, etc] the gods r 8 hanuman analysis into 4 elements a 9 ganesha, vishnu (kurm avatar) dhamma r 1010 lakshmi &c [kundalini] sangha r the body r 11 the maruts [vayu] wind k 12 hanuman, vishnu (as parasa-rama) yellow k 13 chandra (as) loathsomeness of food p 14 lalita (sexual aspect of sakti) dark blue k 15 shiva bloody corpse i 16 shiva (sacred bull) beaten and scatt

LIBER ALEPH

dia universa, qu dicitur pan. 58 bz de c citia hominum. 59 bh allegoria de caissa. 60 bq de veritate falsi. 61 bi de relatione illusionum. 62 contents v bk de prudentia. 63 bl de ratione magi vit. 64 bm de corde candido. 65 bn de conformitate magi. 66 bx de poetis. 67 bo de magis ordine a.a, quibus caro fit verbum 68 bp de magis temporis antiqui, imprimis de lao-tze 69 b% de gautama. 70 br de sri krishna et de dionyso. 71 bs de tahuti. 72 bt de quodam mago gyptiorum quem appelunt iud i mosheh. 73 bu de mago arabico mohammed. 74 bf de se ipso, twi megalwi qhriwnoi, twi logwi aiwnos cuius verbum est qelhma. 75 bc mandatum ad filium suum. 76 by quare filium creavit ut fiat libertas. 77 bw de sua debilitate. 78 ga de manu qu magum sustinet. 79 gb de suo peccato. 80 gg de sua victoria per nomen

and that well fortified by certain tempered rigour of life. and he most thoroughly explored and mapped out the fastnesses of the mind, and gave the keys of its fortresses into the hand of man. but of all this the quintessence is in this one word anatta, because this is not only the foundation and the result of his whole doctrine, but the way of its work. w the book of wisdom or folly 71 br de sri krishna et de dionyso (of sri krishna, and of dionysus) rishna has names and forms innumerable, and i know not his true human birth, for his formula is of the major antiquity. but his word hath spread into many lands, and we know it to-day as inri with the secret iao concealed therein. and the meaning of this word is the working of nature in her changes; that is, it is the formula of magick whereb

formula is of the major antiquity. but his word hath spread into many lands, and we know it to-day as inri with the secret iao concealed therein. and the meaning of this word is the working of nature in her changes; that is, it is the formula of magick whereby all things reproduce and recreate themselves. yet this extension and specialisation was rather the word of dionysus; for the true word of krishna was aum, importing rather a statement of the truth of nature than a practical instruction in detailed operations of magick. but dionysus, by the word inri, laid the foundation of all science, as we say science to-day in a particular sense, that is, of causing external nature to change in harmony with our wills. k liber aleph vel cxi 72 bs de tahuti (of tahuti) ahuti, or thoth, confirmed th

o grain of dust which shall not attain to the arhan. keep therefore in just balance the relation of illusion to illusion in that aspect of illusion, neither confusing the planes, nor confounding the stars, nor denying the laws of their reaction, yet with eagle.s vision beholding the one sun of the true nature of the whole. verily, his is the truth, and unto it did also dionysus and tahuti and sri krishna set the seal of their witness. cleanse herefore thine heart, o my son, in the waters of the great sea, and enkindle it with the fire of the holy ghost. for his is his peculiar work of sanctification. n the book of wisdom or folly 121 dp de virgine beata (of the bless d virgin) nderstand then well this mystery of universal godliness; for it is the naked beauty of the virgin of the world. lo

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

der! out! sceptic and sinner! see me! quail i. i cite the little-go. you stare, and have no further use for paley! caird.s interpretation of hegel. his identification of it with christianity proved to be mystical. his interpretation false. 420 425 430 435 440 445 450 455 14 the sword of song but if you drink your mystic fill under the good tree igdrasil64 where is at all your use for christ? hath krishna not at all sufficed? i hereby guarantee to pull a faith as quaint and beautiful as much attractive to an ass, and setting reason at defiance, as zionism, christian science, or ladies. leage,65 .keep off the grass. from .alice through the looking-glass. hence i account no promise worse, fail to conceive a fiercer curse than john.s third chapter (sixteenth verse. but now (you say) broad-mind

death has run life.s shuttle through (their dages put it somewhat thus) what.s fun to them is death to us! that.s clear at least. but never mind! call them idolaters and blind! we.ll talk of christ. as shelley sang .shall an eternal issue hang* great slam.a term of bridge-whist. bara is hindustani for great. john iii. 18 .he that believeth not is condemned already. mysticism does not need christ. krishna will serve, or the carpenter. the sacred walrus. god, some vestments, and lady wimborne. fearful aspect of john iii. 16. universalism. will god get the bara* slam? eternal life. divergent views of its desirability. buddhist idea. dogma of belief. 460 465 470 475 480 485 490 495 ascension day 15 on just belief or unbelief; and an involuntary act make difference infinite in fact between the

, but he can prevent present causes from having any future results. the exoteric christian and hindu rather rely on another person to do this for them, and are further blinded by the thirst for life and individual existence, the most formidable obstacle of all, in fact a negation of the very object of all religion. schopenhauer shows that life is assured to the will-to-live, and unless christ (or krishna, as the case may be) destroys these folk by superior power.a task from which almightiness might well recoil baffled!.i much fear that eternal life, and consequently eternal suffering, joy, and change of all kinds, will be their melancholy fate. such persons are in truth their own real enemies. many of them, however, believing erroneously that they are being .unselfish. do fill their hearts

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

offered himself a sacrifice before the worlds were? can it be plato's second god who impressed himself on the universe in the form of the cross? or is it his divine man who would be scourged, tormented, fettered, have his eyes burnt out; and lastly, having suffered all manner of evils, would be crucified? plato learned his theology in egypt and the east, and must have known of the crucifixion of krishna, buddha, mithra [et al. at any rate, the religion of india had its mythical crucified victim long anterior to christianity, click to enlarge the tau cross. the tau cross was the sign which the lord told the people of jerusalem to mark on their foreheads, as related by the prophet ezekiel. it was also placed as a symbol of liberation upon those charged with crimes but acquitted. click to en

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

(see g-men. we also get god and goddess from this.some have noted that the letter g and k were used interchangeably, which supports our contention,as the letter k is a hallmark of the serpent race. the word knowledge comes from gnosis. one hasthe letter k, the other g at the beginning.letter k the phonetical sound of k (c or ch) is found at the beginning of many words with occult meanings: celt, krishna, christ, canaan, cancer, cathars, cathedral, church, cohen, chaac (medicine man, it is found in numerous native american tribal names: oklahoma, muskogian, choctaw, cherokee,mohawk, comanche, chickasaw, dakota, and so on.appendix c: suggested areas of research270atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation blue-blooded american presidentsforty-three american presidents go back to e

during ragnarok the world is destroyed with flames by a being called surt, wholives beneath the lower world (appropriately called hel) and was involved in the world's creation. bycomparison, the bhagavata purana (3.11.30) states that at the end of brahma's day, the devastationtakes place due to the fire emanating from the mouth of sankarshana. sankarshana (ananta shesha) isa plenary expansion of krishna who is seated at the bottom of the universe (bhagavata purana 3.8.3),beneath the lower planetary systems.more connections to the v edic tradition can be found in the norse lore, but they go beyond the presenttopic.tibet tibetan buddhist perspective of the nagas comes from cho-yang's year of tibet edition. among allthe creatures of the six realms, humans are the most fortunate, and have the

have children, was ashamed.thus vinata broke open one egg and saw therein her son. authorities say that the upper half of thechild's body was fully developed, but the lower half was not yet well formed. this son was aruna, the charioteer of surya, the sun god. his brother was the powerful garuda, divineeagle, who became the carrier of vishnu. garuda is an avowed enemy of serpents who are his food.krishna mentions him among the most prominent representatives of his power: among the daityademons i am the devoted prahlada, among subduers i am time, among beasts i am the lion, and amongbirds i am garuda (bhagavad-gita 10.30) appendix e: dragons and serpents312atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation nilamata purana, the ancient history of kashmir, is centered around the original in

e another form of maha-vishnu, and is compared to a yogurt.yogurt is nothing but milk, yet it is not milk. as yogurt is prepared when milk is mixed with a culture,the form of shiva expands when the supreme personality of godhead is in touch with material nature.since shiva and vishnu are aspects of one god, shiva occurs as one of vishnu's names listed in thevishnu-sahasranama.the original father, krishna, says, aham bija-pradah pita: i am the seed-giving father. that pita(father) is lord shiva, shambhu, and material nature (goddess durga) is considered the mother. by theirsexual union are all conditioned souls inserted into the material nature. the impregnation of materialnature is wonderful because at one time innumerable living beings are conceived. bhago jivah savijneyah sa canantyaya k

tion and destruction. because of his marginal position between material and spiritual realm heis seemingly full of contradictions but these are reconciled on the transcendental level. ananta shesha some of the nagas are many-headed. ananta, also called shesha, the king of the nagas, has unlimitedheads. according to the bhagavata purana 5.25.3, he is the source of rudra, an expansion of shiva.when krishna lists the most prominent representatives of his power, he says, ananta casmi naganam -among the nagas i am ananta (bhagavad-gita 10.29. my dear lord, at the end of each millennium [here brahma's life] the supreme personality of godheadgarbhodakashayi vishnu dissolves everything manifested within the universe into his belly. he liesdown on the lap of shesha naga, from his navel sprouts a go

philosopher katyayana. his name allegedly represents that he fell asa small snake from heaven into the palm of panini (pata- fallen, anjali- palm. south indian v aishnava philosopher and spiritual leader ramanuja (11th century) is also considered anincarnation of shesha. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation315 appendix e: dragons and serpents balarama the foremost manifestation of krishna is sankarshana, who is known as ananta. he is the origin of allincarnations within this material world. previous to the appearance of lord krishna, this original san-karshana will appear as baladeva, just to please the supreme lord krishna in his transcendental pas-times (bhagavata purana 10.1.24) according to expert opinion, balarama, as the chief of the original quadruple forms, is also

rigin of allincarnations within this material world. previous to the appearance of lord krishna, this original san-karshana will appear as baladeva, just to please the supreme lord krishna in his transcendental pas-times (bhagavata purana 10.1.24) according to expert opinion, balarama, as the chief of the original quadruple forms, is also the original sankarshana. balarama, the first expansion of krishna, expands himself in five forms (1) maha-san-karshana (2) karanabdhishayi (3) garbhodakashayi (4) kshirodakashayi, and (5) shesha. these fiveplenary portions are responsible for both the spiritual and material cosmic manifestations. in these fiveforms lord balarama assists lord krishna in his activities. the first four of these forms are responsiblefor the cosmic manifestations, whereas she

ansionsby performing an unlimited variety of services. shri balarama is the servitor godhead who serves lordkrishna in all affairs of existence and knowledge. lord nityananda prabhu, who is the same servitorgodhead, balarama, performs the same service to lord gauranga by constant association (chaitanyacharitamrta, adi-lila 5.10, purport by a.c. bhaktivedanta swami prabhupada) balarama appeared as krishna's older brother and took part in krishna's childhood pastimes in vrinda-vana. he is the first direct expansion of krishna. balarama only had one wife, revati, daughter of kingraivata, and by her he had two sons, nishatha and ulmuka. he is represented as having fair complex-ion, and clad in a dark-blue vest (nilavastra. his special weapons are the club (khetaka or saunanda),the plow (hala

evotional service; the wives of soma and kashyapa, who are all daughters of king daksha; the riversganges, sarasvati, nanda and yamuna [kalindi; the elephant airavata; dhruva maharaja; the sevenrshis; and the pious human beings (bhagavata purana 8.4.17-24)although garuda enmity toward serpents is known from this verse it is clear that both garuda andshesha naga are servants of the lord vishnu, or krishna. appendix e: dragons and serpents316atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation conclusion although this overview of the position of a serpent in different traditions is far from exhaustive the con-spicuous similarity of accounts from different cultural contexts hints that the v edic tradition spread inthe distant past over large parts of the world. this is also supported by the t

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

rs" 9 body disappeared and returned to heaven. in heaven he resides to this day, promising to return and rule for a 1,000 years, and afterwards he will live forever more with god. the hindus have the many incarnations of the most-high god vishnu. vishnu, who resides in heaven, came upon man in many forms and these forms are called avatars. an avatar is essentially a god in the flesh. for example, krishna, one of the 10 avatars of vishnu, was born from the womb of a human woman in order to fight the demons that plagued humanity. the first incarnation of vishnu was that of a fish-man. nine incarnations of vishnu have already arrived, whereas the tenth avatar will arrive to earth during the end of the world riding a white horse and fighting for righteousness. there is a similar account in the

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

--this may be interpreted as meaning that they understand the meaning of the fool, aleph, 111, only in a minor way. they are 'fools of men not the fool (on the other hand, see 'little, below) aum is related to aleph qabalistically by number--ill in each case. the termination is in "death" in the sense of mystical sacrifice, the dying god, the witness--m, t he hanged man. since aum was the word of krishna, the most ancient known form of the dying god (later cynically adopted in the roman catholic pantheon as "saint sebastian, it is a natural connotation of that magus's message. it may be difficult for a minor hindu initiate to absorb the idea that aum is, after all, an imperfect hieroglyph. krishna has been worshipped in india for ten thousand years. but the greatly daring reader may perhap

row thee, them attack without pity or quarter& destroy them utterly. swift as a trodden serpent turn and strike! be thou yet deadlier than he! drag down their souls to awful torment: laugh at their fear: spit upon them "ordeals: refer to the comment on chapter i, verses 32 et seq "traitors: see liber 418. 1st aethyr. also, lxv, i, 37-40, 5 7-58; ii, 27-29, 33-36, 45-47, 65; v, 3,8-13,60-63. also, krishna's speech to arjuna, in the introduction to the bhagavad gita. readers must ponder; on the subject of death and killing, that either death is the end of consciousness, in which case it must come naturally to all men, and can have no moral significance any more than does rain, or sunshine, or the wind; or death is not the end of consciousness, in which case it still can have no moral signifi

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

which the most important relate to his incarnations, or avatars, in which he has come to earth, in animal or human form, to help humankind. in theory, there have been nine avatars and a tenth is yet to come, although many stories exist that detail other appearances. lakshmi, vishnu s wife, has always accompanied him in his incarnations for example, as prince rama s wife sita (see p. 114 15, or as krishna s lover radha, and his wife, rukmini. that lakshmi can be incarnated twice in the krishna story and that other avatar stories exist is indicative of the way in which myths grow, appropriating elements from different sources at different times, often resulting in a varying versions of a common theme. matsya, the fish vishnu s first avatar was matsya the fish, a form he took to protect manu

free itself of desire, and the illusion of this world, and its endless reincarnations. the buddha s previous incarnations are recounted in the jataka tales. kalkin, the white horse at the end of this era of the world, when humankind has become totally degenerate, vishnu will come in his tenth incarnation, riding a white horse and wielding a flaming sword to destroy the wicked and renew the world. krishna krishna, the eighth avatar, is preeminently vishnu in his role as lover. he loved radha and the story of their love is a favorite theme in indian art and literature. however, krishna did go to war and the philosophical conversation he had with arjuna, his charioteer, became the bhagadvad gita, one of hinduism s holy books. vishnu s discus, symbol of the mind and the sun vishnu s mace, asso

did go to war and the philosophical conversation he had with arjuna, his charioteer, became the bhagadvad gita, one of hinduism s holy books. vishnu s discus, symbol of the mind and the sun vishnu s mace, associated with the power of the mind the avatars of vishnu this 18th-century picture from rajasthan in northern india, shows the ten official avatars of vishnu. in the center vishnu is shown as krishna, accompanied by his lover radha and two cowgirls. the other nine incarnations five human, four animal, and one composite run around the edge. krishna and the gopis krishna is shown playing his flute, attended by radha, his favorite gopi, one of the young women of his adoptive tribe who were all in love with him. the stories of krishna are so extensive that, like rama, he can be considered

the gopis krishna is shown playing his flute, attended by radha, his favorite gopi, one of the young women of his adoptive tribe who were all in love with him. the stories of krishna are so extensive that, like rama, he can be considered as a god in his own right, although he is a manifestation of vishnu. his name means black and, with his flute, may suggest a tribal origin for this avatar. radha krishna the god krishna during her eighth pregnancy, krishna s mother devaki was imprisoned by her evil brother king kamsa because it was prophesied that her eighth child would kill him. but devaki smuggled out the baby, krishna, and he was placed in a family of cowherds. although he was evidently a god (his mother saw the universe in his mouth and, as a baby, he killed the ogress putana, who fed

shna during her eighth pregnancy, krishna s mother devaki was imprisoned by her evil brother king kamsa because it was prophesied that her eighth child would kill him. but devaki smuggled out the baby, krishna, and he was placed in a family of cowherds. although he was evidently a god (his mother saw the universe in his mouth and, as a baby, he killed the ogress putana, who fed him poisoned milk, krishna was playful, and many stories tell how he stole butter and teased the girls. with balarama, his brother, he had many adventures, killing king kamsa and winning his bride, rukmini. although it is said that vishnu put one black and one white hair from his head in devaki s womb to create the brothers, balarama is clearly an avatar of ananta, the world serpent, for the snake came out of his mo

l, and many stories tell how he stole butter and teased the girls. with balarama, his brother, he had many adventures, killing king kamsa and winning his bride, rukmini. although it is said that vishnu put one black and one white hair from his head in devaki s womb to create the brothers, balarama is clearly an avatar of ananta, the world serpent, for the snake came out of his mouth when he died. krishna himself was killed after a long life by a hunter, who shot him by accident in the sole of his foot, his only vulnerable spot. shiva and his family 112 shiva and his family the god shiva lived on mount kailasa with his wife, the gentle goddess parvati, and his two sons skanda (or kartikeya) and ganesh. skanda, his oldest son, was originally six children created by shiva alone, but one day

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

in the intellect which stores and gathers up knowledge and pours it into the house of life, binah. the number of the path, 12, suggests the synthesis of the zodiac, as mercury is the synthesis of the planets. the colours yellow, violet, grey and indigo, point to the mysterious astral light surrounding the great adept. it is a card linked with the name tahuti and hermes as the previous one is with krishna and harparkrat or dionysius. ii. the high priestess. the high priestess rules the long path uniting 588 the tarot trumps 589 kether to tiphareth, crossing the reciprocal paths of venus and leo. she is the great feminine force controlling the very source of life, gathering into herself all the energising forces and holding them in solution until the time of release. her colours, pale blue

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ly spirit association for the unification of world christianity o jehovah's witnesses o mennonite church o religious society of friends in the u.s. o reorganized church of jesus christ of latter day saints o seventh-day adventist church o unity school of christianity o the way international o worldwide church of god. indian heritage groups o integral yoga international o international society for krishna consciousness o sri chinmoy centres o syda yoga dham o world plan executive council. islamic groups o american muslim mission o hanafi madh-hab center of islam faith o islamic center o shi'a islam o sufi order. japanese heritage groups o buddhist churches of america o nichiren shoshu of america o perfect liberty kyodan o zen center of rochester (new york. jewish groups o black judaism o co

his 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, and the occult that are most often referred to as forms of satanism. it may be a matter of definition, but these things are not necess

stigator must objectively evaluate the legal significance of any criminal's spiritual beliefs. in most cases, including those involving satanists, it will have little or no legal significance. if a crime is committed as part of a spiritual belief system, it should make no difference which belief system it is. the crime is the same whether a child is abused or murdered as part of a christian, hare krishna, moslem, or any other belief system. we generally don't label crimes with the name of the perpetrator's religion. why then are the crimes of child molesters, rapists, sadists, and murderers who happen to be involved in satanism and the occult labeled as satanic or occult crimes? if criminals use a spiritual belief system to rationalize and justify or to facilitate and enhance their crimina

ipt. the word of the aeon of set is xeper. become each magical aon is characterized by a philosophy, which may be summarized by a formula, which may in turn be summarized by a word. the magus of an aon "utters its word, i.e: he formulates and explains the new philosophy. although crowley speaks of only three historic aons (isis, osiris, and horus, he identifies eight magi: lao-tzu, gotama buddha, krishna, tehuti (thoth, moses, dionysus (christ, mohammed, and himself. anton szandor lavey is the ninth, his number is nine, and his word is indulgence. the formula of the age of satan was an expansion of this word: indulgence instead of abstinence.64 i am therefore the tenth, appearing in the year x, and it has been my task and curse65 to utter the word xeper. this is the egyptian hieroglyphic t

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tween the mortal and the divine? more than halfway, many would have argued, for gibreel had spent the greater part of his unique career incarnating, with absolute conviction, the countless deities of the subcontinent in the popular genre movies known as "theologicals. it was part of the magic of his persona that he succeeded in crossing religious boundaries without giving offence. blue-skinned as krishna he danced, flute in hand, amongst the beauteous gopis and their udder-heavy cows; with upturned palms, serene, he meditated (as gautama) upon humanity's suffering beneath a studio-rickety bodhi-tree. on those infrequent occasions when he descended from the heavens he never went too far, playing, for example, both the grand mughal and his famously wily minister in the classic _akbar and bir

per. after the accident, he said, the surviving passengers swam to the shore (the train had plunged off a bridge) and were met by local villagers, who pushed them under the water until they drowned and then looted their bodies "shut your face" zeeny shouted at him "why are you telling him such things? already he thinks we're savages, a lower form" a shop was selling sandalwood to burn in a nearby krishna temple and sets of enamelled pink-and-white krishna--eyes that saw everything "too damn much to see" bhupen said "that is fact of matter" o o o in a crowded dhaba that george had started frequenting when he was making contact, for movie purposes, with the dadas or bosses who ran the city's flesh trade, dark rum was consumed at aluminium tables and george and bhupen started, a little boozil

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

reincarnation, nirvana, the soul, and brahman. urvan: the soul. vaishnavaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees vishnu( the preserver) as the central god. vedas: the chief sacred scriptures of hinduism; knowledge, wisdom, or vision. xxx world religions: almanac words to know virgin birth: the christian belief that jesus christ was the son of god and born of a virgin mother. vishnu: also called krishna; the preserver-god. vodou: an african-based religion practiced primarily in haiti and in other central and south american countries. vodouisant: an uninitiated practitioner of vodou. wakan: the incomprehensibility of life and death for the sioux. wakan tanka: the world s motivating force for the sioux. wen: the arts of music, poetry, and painting. wicca: the name of a neo-pagan religion th

ections. upanishads: the core of hindu philosophy; collections of texts, originally part of the vedas, that explain such central hindu beliefs as karma, reincarnation, nirvana, the soul, and brahman. vaishnavaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees vishnu( the preserver) as the central god. vedas: the chief sacred scriptures of hinduism; meaning knowledge, wisdom, or vision. vishnu: also called krishna; the preserver-god. 240 world religions: almanac hinduism history and development scholars (those who study a particular subject) debate the origins of hinduism. because some of the principles and practices of hinduism dates back thousands of years, before written records, it is difficult to attach dates to its founding and development. in the nineteenth century the so-called classical the

sical theory. using newer historical evidence, they believe that there was no aryan invasion and that hinduism evolved directly out of the beliefs of the indus valley culture. astronomers, or scientists who study the regular movements of the stars and planets, point to a specific date for the founding of hinduism, noting that one of hinduism s sacred texts describes the position of the stars when krishna, a hindu god, was born; the stars were in this position in 3102 bce. another significant date is 600 bce, when one of hinduism s most sacred texts, the rig veda, was formalized. in the early centuries of the common era, a number of hindu sects, or subgroups, began to emerge. each of these sects was dedicated to a specific god or goddess. in the early twenty-first century most hindus, espec

marily because india was a british colony during much of this time. it began to have more appeal to non-indians after swami vivekananda (1863 1902) appeared and spoke at the world parliament of religions in chicago, illinois, in 1893. his paper presented there, what is hinduism, exposed many westerners to hinduism for the first time. aiding this spread of hinduism is the international society for krishna consciousness, which has helped establish hinduism around the world. early in the modern period, hinduism began to fall into some disfavor in india, but during the twentieth century the religion underwent a revival. the challenge for hinduism in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has been adaptation to modern life. modern hindus have made efforts to lessen emphasis on ritual (a

n that surrenders itself to its mother and is carried around without any effort on its part. others (called the northern school) believe that there are many other paths to salvation. the image they use is of a young monkey that has to cling to its mother as it is being carried about. one branch of vaishnavas that is likely to be familiar to westerners is the caitanyas, otherwise known as the hare krishna movement. in india, this branch is prominent in bengal and orissa. this branch was founded by caitanya mahaprabhu (or lord gouranga; 1485 1533. the caitanyas worship krishna as the supreme being, and members constantly repeat krishna s name. in the twentieth century swami prabhupada founded the international society for krishna consciousness, a movement with branches all over the world. th

sa. this branch was founded by caitanya mahaprabhu (or lord gouranga; 1485 1533. the caitanyas worship krishna as the supreme being, and members constantly repeat krishna s name. in the twentieth century swami prabhupada founded the international society for krishna consciousness, a movement with branches all over the world. the movement asks its members to recite with devotion and faith the hare krishna mantra: hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare, hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare. rama refers to krishna s brother, 244 world religions: almanac hinduism balarama. the word hare has no specific meaning, but is rather part of the mantra, a call to krishna s divine energy. the second major sect of hinduism is the saivas, but once again, this sect includes a number of bran

not a collection of parts but a single thing that is divine throughout. brahma simultaneously is the universe and there are numerous hindu gods and goddesses, but all are considered to be manifestations, or forms, of the one god, brahma. arvind garg/corbis. 246 world religions: almanac hinduism transcends (rises above or goes beyond the limits of) the universe. in addition to brahma is vishnu, or krishna. vishnu is the preservergod, who preserves the creations of brahma. whenever dharma (defined as law, order, righteousness, duty, and religion) comes under threat, vishnu takes on one of ten incarnations, or physical forms, and travels from heaven to earth to set matters right. finally, hinduism recognizes shiva (often spelled siva, the destroyer. shiva embodies the erotic, or sexual, and i

he sacred scripture, and gayatri (the sacred mantra, or mystical formula that aids contemplation and meditation. additionally, hindus accept ten commandments or disciplines: 1. satya, truth; 2. ahimsa, nonviolence; 3. brahmacharya, avoidance of adultery (being unfaithful to one s spouse; 4. asteya, no desire to possess or steal; 5. aparighara, not being corrupt; one branch of hinduism is the hare krishna movement, founded by caitanya mahaprabhu in the sixteenth century. hare krishnas worship the god krishna as the supreme being. joseph sohm; chromosohm inc/ corbis. world religions: almanac 249 hinduism 6. shaucha, cleanliness; 7. santosh, contentment; 8. swadhyaya, reading of scriptures or holy writings; 9. tapas, austerity, perseverance, penance; and 10. ishwarpranidhan, regular prayers s

: almanac hinduism sacred writings the major sacred scriptures of hinduism are the vedas. the word veda means vision, knowledge, or wisdom, and the vedas are thought to be manifestations of god s wisdom in human speech. in fact, it is believed that humans did not write the vedas, but that they were revealed to sages and seers who handed them down orally over time until they were compiled by vyasa krishna dwaipayana. the vedas, the original scriptures of hinduism, encompass all spiritual knowledge and regulate the religious, legal, social, and domestic duties of hindus. because hindus kept few written records of the development of the religion, scholars are left to debate when they were written, but most historians put the date at somewhere around 1500 to 1200 bce. there are four vedas: the

red 252 world religions: almanac hinduism sanskrit verses in eighteen chapters, the most beautiful of hindu scriptures. it is part of book vi of the long epic poem the mahabharata, which means great epic of the bharata dynasty. it was likely written in the first or second century ce. the bhagavad gita is written as a conversation between a warrior prince, arjuna, and his companion and charioteer, krishna, who is an incarnation of the god vishnu. the dialogue occurs on the battlefield, just as a war is about to begin. as the two armies line up, each sees relatives and friends on the other side. arjuna hesitates and wonders whether it would be better for all to give up their weapons rather than take part in a cruel war. krishna, however, tells the prince that he is obligated to perform his d

t. the past, the present, and the future are all included in this do hindus worship cows? the short answer to this question is no. cows are considered sacred, or holy, in hinduism, but they are not worshipped. the cow can be seen as similar to the lamb in christianity, which is associated with jesus christ. the longer answer to the question reflects the depth and complexity of hindu thought. when krishna appeared in human form, it was as a cowherder. one of the hindu scriptures states, i offer repeated obeisances [respect, submission] unto lord krishna, who is the protector and well-wisher of the cows and the brahmanas [bulls. he is also the protector of the entire society. unto that lord, who is always satisfying the senses of the cows, i offer my obeisances again and again. hindus believ

essings. he is shown with an elephant s head, a large belly, and four arms. hanuman: known for his courage and bravery. hanuman is loyal to rama and represents devotion and hope. hanuman is depicted as a monkey and holds a mace (staff) in one hand. kali: the goddess of destruction. kali is a dark-skinned goddess with eight hands, usually shown atop the corpse of a demon. she is a form of parvati. krishna: a manifestation of vishnu, krishna is a popular figure of worship. krishna is known for his bravery and fight against evil. he is often depicted in images as playing a flute, sometimes accompanied by his friend radha. lakshmi: the goddess of beauty, prosperity, and good fortune. lakshmi emerged from the milk ocean and is married to vishnu. she has four hands, one of which is always extend

c who lived during the sixteenth century. an ascetic is someone who gives up the pleasure and comforts of the world to lead a life of self-denial and religious devotion a mystic is a person who claims to have direct knowledge of god and of spiritual truth. caitanya was the founder of a sect, or division, of hinduism called gaudiya vaishnavism. vaishnavas, or those who practice vaishnavism, regard krishna as the supreme, original god. in this respect they differ from members of other schools of hinduism who see krishna as an avatar of vishnu. vishnu is one of the major hindu gods and is regarded as the preserver of the universe. an avatar is an incarnation, or birth in human form, of a hindu god. all hindu gods are considered to be representations of the one god, brahma. the movement caitan

od. all hindu gods are considered to be representations of the one god, brahma. the movement caitanya founded declined after his death, but in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it experienced a rebirth. 67 in the twenty-first century, the teachings of caitanya are followed by many hindu communities throughout the world. his most readily recognized followers are members of the hare krishna movement. birth and early life caitanya was born on february 4, 1485. his father, jagannath mishra (or misra, was a brahmin, meaning he belonged to the highest caste, or social class, in india. his mother was sachi devi. the couple had had eight daughters, all of whom died soon after they were born. the couple s ninth child, a son named viswarup, survived. caitanya was their tenth child. c

a book on nyaya. when visvambhar shared what he had written with the teacher, the teacher wept because he recognized that visvambhar s book was the better of the two. as an act of humility and kindness, visvambhar dismissed his own book as nothing but dry philosophy and threw it into the river. caitanya, a hindu holy man, founded a new branch of hinduism called gaudiya vaishnavism, and worshipped krishna as the supreme god. he is shown here with a follower, nityananda. the british library/ topham-hip/the image works. caitanya mahaprabhu 68 world religions: biographies at the age of sixteen visvambhar started his own school. he married lakshmi, the daughter of a highly respected teacher named vallabha. while visvambhar was traveling, his wife was bitten by a snake and died. he later remarri

teacher. up until this time he had not shown any particular interest in religious concepts, although he was a devout hindu. that changed, however, after the death of his father. in 1509 visvambhar went on a pilgrimage to the northeastern indian city of gaya in honor of his father. in gaya he met another famed guru, ishvar puri. under the guru s instruction visvambhar became a follower of the god krishna. he then returned to west bengal, where the local vaishnavas saw that a major change had come over him. they recognized him as the leader of their sect. the life of a sannyasi visvambhar spent the rest of his relatively short life as a sannyasi. a sannyasi is an ascetic, a person who has given up worldly pleasures in favor of a life of religious devotion. it was at this point in his life t

n up worldly pleasures in favor of a life of religious devotion. it was at this point in his life that visvambhar took the name caitanya mahaprabhu. during his final years he traveled throughout india, preaching to people and attracting followers to his sect. he finally settled in the town of puri. he often forgot to eat or drink and he slept naked on the ground. he constantly chanted the name of krishna. during this period caitanya attracted the attention of maharaja prataparudra, the king of orissa, a region of india( india was a collection of separate kingdoms in the sixteenth century. orissa is now a modern-day indian state) the king saw caitanya as an incarnation of krishna and gave him considerable support, allowing the sect to grow in numbers and influence. at one point caitanya and

scripture. according to legend, sarvabhauma was able to explain nine different meanings of the verse. caitanya was able to explain sixty-one meanings. the scholar was overcome with humility, knowing that caitanya had bested him. sarvabhauma realized that he had lost his devotion to god. under caitanya s influence, he converted to the gaudiya vaishnavism sect and became a more devoted follower of krishna. caitanya spent much of his time in deep meditation, or focused thought with the goal of attaining greater spiritual understanding. world religions: biographies 69 caitanya mahaprabhu he was also given to outbursts of ecstasy, or periods of uncontrolled emotion, and often fell into a trance. modern-day scholars believe that caitanya may have suffered from epilepsy, a disorder of the nervou

well as his trances, resulted from his deep religious faith. accomplishes miracles a number of miracles have been attributed to caitanya. one concerned two brothers, jagai and madhai, who were well-known drunkards, robbers, and murderers. caitanya took upon himself the task of converting them into members of his sect. he and a group of his followers went to the brothers camp, chanting the name of krishna. madhai assaulted one of caitanya s followers, wounding him severely, and was about to kill the caitanya s writings caitanya left behind little in the way of written materials. in fact only eight of his verses have survived. these verses, called sikshashtaka, are regarded as prayers by his followers. below are some excerpts from these verse-prayers, as found on the divine life society web

d one of caitanya s followers, wounding him severely, and was about to kill the caitanya s writings caitanya left behind little in the way of written materials. in fact only eight of his verses have survived. these verses, called sikshashtaka, are regarded as prayers by his followers. below are some excerpts from these verse-prayers, as found on the divine life society web site: glory to the shri krishna sankirtana [chanting of god s names by worshippers, which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death. this sankirtana movement is the prime benediction [blessing] for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the benediction moon. it increases the ocean of transcendental [beyond the universe or

followers. i only want your causeless devotional service birth after birth. 70 world religions: biographies caitanya mahaprabhu man when jagai stopped him. caitanya pushed to the front of the group, tended to his follower s injuries, and embraced jagai for his act of kindness. according to legend jagai then fell to the ground in a trance. when he awoke, he confessed that he was a sinner and asked krishna for forgiveness. madhai, too, fell into a trance and was converted. the two brothers went on to become saints. caitanya made converts of many people in much the same way. one story tells how caitanya encountered a man washing clothes in a river. caitanya approached the man, who believed that caitanya was simply a beggar. caitanya first persuaded the man to repeat the name of krishna, then

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

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

THE BLACK LODGE

way in which the black lodge goes about its work. the black lodge creates false initiatic movements or they stimulate faith in false masters. at the present time, all organized religions of the old aeon fall into the category of demonic influence. as it is written, liber 418, 6th aethyr..and this is the mystery of the great prophets that have come unto mankind, moses, and buddha, and lao tan, and krishna, and jesus, and osiris, and mohammed; for all these attain unto the grade of magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of thoth. but, being guardians of the truth, they have taught nothing but falsehood, except unto such as understood (that is, except unto such as had the potential of becoming masters of the temple; for the truth may not pass the gate of the abyss. but the reflec

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dvaita saw the bliss of nirvana as a complete oneness of the soul with god. in the last centuries before the common era, a form of hinduism known as bhakti spread rapidly across india. bhakti envisions a loving relationship between god and the devout believer that is based upon grace. those devotees who have prepared themselves by a loving attitude, a study of the scriptures, and devotion to lord krishna may free themselves from an endless cycle of death and rebirth. eternal life is granted to the devotees who, at the time of death, give up their physical body with only thoughts of lord krishna on their minds. m delving deeper brandon, s. g. f. religion in ancient history. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1969. crim, keith, ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco:

e concept of transmigration. however, the islamic mystical sect of persia, the sufis, carries on the ancient teachings of rebirth as espoused by moorish and saracenic philosophers in the schools of baghdad and cordova. the sufis claim to keep alive the islamic esoteric philosophies and 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 47 krishna, one of the main gods in hinduism, represented in a thirteenth-century relief (corbis corporation) thequr an, the holy book of islam, has no direct reference to reincarnation. maintain that reincarnation is an important doctrine. the sufi poet jalalu d-din rumi (1207 1273) wrote these lines that are often quoted as containing the essence of transmigration: i died as mineral and became a pl

megiddo, megiddon, which is the mountain region of megiddo. megiddo is the site where the great final battle between good and evil will be fought as prophesied and will be a decisive catastrophic event that many believe will be the end of the world. bhagavad gita from sanskrit bhagavadgi ta, meaning song of the blessed one. a hindu religious text, consisting of 700 verses, in which the hindu god, krishna, teaches the importance of unattachment from personal aims to the fulfillment of religious duties and devotion to god. cosmic consciousness the sense or special insight of one s personal or collective awareness in relation to the universe or a universal scheme. cosmic sense the awareness of one s identity and actions in relationship to the universe or universal scheme of things. demon poss

rs from extraterrestrial worlds with the ancient metaphysical legend of the great white brotherhood, the light beings who are said to belong to a multidimensional, intergalactic organization that dedicates itself to serving the divine cosmic plan in the universe. among the ascended masters who have been historical figures on earth, the contactees include jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, st. germain, krishna, and lord buddha (c. 563 c. 483 b.c.e. by benefit of his crucial role in the relaying of transmissions from aetherius, george king, in the view of the members of the aetherius society, had been elected by the brotherhood to become the next great spiritual prophet. to further assist his fellow brothers and sisters of earth to welcome the wisdom and knowledge of the outer space beings, king

services. bedouin a nomadic arabic person from the desert areas of north africa and arabia. via old french beduin, ultimately from arabic badw, or desert, nomadic desert people. betrothal the act of becoming or being engaged to marry another person. bhagavad gita from sanskrit bhagavadgi ta, meaning song of the blessed one. a hindu religious text, consisting of 700 verses, in which the hindu god, krishna, teaches the importance of unattachment from personal aims to the fulfillment of religious duties and devotion to god. bipedal any animal that has two legs or feet. from the latin stem biped, meaning twofooted. birthstone each month of the year has a particular precious gemstone or a semiprecious stone associated with it. it is believed that if a person wears the stone assigned their birth

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invaders from outer space outer space have come to earth to help those humans who will listen to their promise of a larger universe. 2. the space beings want humankind to become eligible to join an intergalactic spiritual federation. 3. the space beings are to assist the people of earth to lift their spiritual vibratory rate so they may enter new dimensions (according to the space beings, jesus, krishna, confucius, and many of the other leaders of the great religions came to earth to teach humanity these same abilities) 4. the citizens of earth stand now in the transitional period before the dawn of a new age of peace, love, and understanding. 5. if the earthlings should not raise their vibratory rate within a set period of time, severe earth changes and major cataclysms will take place

services. bedouin a nomadic arabic person from the desert areas of north africa and arabia. via old french beduin, ultimately from arabic badw, or desert, nomadic desert people. betrothal the act of becoming or being engaged to marry another person. bhagavad gita from sanskrit bhagavadgi ta, meaning song of the blessed one. a hindu religious text, consisting of 700 verses, in which the hindu god, krishna, teaches the importance of unattachment from personal aims to the fulfillment of religious duties and devotion to god. bipedal any animal that has two legs or feet. from the latin stem biped, meaning twofooted. birthstone each month of the year has a particular precious gemstone or a semiprecious stone associated with it. it is believed that if a person wears the stone assigned their birth

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vices. bedouin a nomadic arabic person from the desert areas of north africa and arabia. via old french beduin, ultimately from arabic badw, or desert, nomadic desert people. betrothal the act of becoming or being engaged to marry another person. bhagavad gita from sanskrit bhagavadgi ta, meaning gsong of the blessed one. h a hindu religious text, consisting of 700 verses, in which the hindu god, krishna, teaches the importance of unattachment from personal aims to the fulfillment of religious duties and devotion to god. bipedal any animal that has two legs or feet. from the latin stem biped, meaning twofooted. birthstone each month of the year has a particular precious gemstone or a semiprecious stone associated with it. it is believed that if a person wears the stone assigned their birth

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

well as in the other, and a confidant of god (koran iv.40) 6. and god said to jesus: i shall send death unto thee and shall raise thee to me. thou shalt be separated from the infidels and those who follow thee shall be raised above the infidels, until the day of the judgement (iv.48. modern hinduism, in its order of ramakrishna, knows a meditation on the 'lord jesus' on the same level as those on krishna and shiva6. the buddhists can find in him one of the bodhisattvas, very likely that of avalokitecvara, ie- of mercy. the theosophists on the other hand see there the logos of our solar system, and finally, the kabbalists see there one of the names of the messiah. it is not without reason that the rationalistic, or rather atheistic magism ignores, no doubt deliberately, the all-powerful nam

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ts of analysis, but it proceeds still further. if analysis aims at the acceptance of the unconscious, and the validity of its co-existence with consciousness, then magic may be said to be a technique for realizing the deeper levels of the unconscious. these are levels of power and realization whose value we can but dimly grasp through contemplation of religious figures of the past. buddha, jesus, krishna, st. francis, and a host of others are instances of such illuminated men--of individuals who have striven, all in different ways, to know themselves and attain to a realization of their true divine nature. if so we wish, the techruques they employed we may call devotion, meditation, and contemplation. fundamentally however, they are identical in spirit with what we now propose to discuss a

oun horus- osiris ra hathor- anubis khnum shu khonsu geb aither- uranus rhea hera zeus ares- apollo- aphrodite- hermes- artemis- demeter aether- coelus juno- jupiter mars- sol- venus- mercury- diana- ceres dagda- lugh danu- llyr morrigan- angus mac og brigit- ogma- cerridwen- cemunnos ymir- odin frigga- frey thor t y balder- freya- loki bragi nanna- nerthus brahman- vishnu mahasakti- indra shiva- krishna surya lakshmi pamati hunuman- chandra soma ganesha daath nephthys hypnos janus arianrhod heimdall aditi- pushan color and visualization as regardie stated in chapter five, once students are familiar with the basic exercise of the middle pillar (and the three pillars, they can expand their practices by visualizing the sephiroth in their appropriate colors: kether is white, chokmah is gray

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

acks that appeared suddenly and vanished suddenly, in such a. way that they could only be possible if the "man" alighted on the ground, then took off again into the air. in mexico there are stories of the ikals, tiny black men endowed with the power of flight who live in caves and kidnap humans. in india the giant bird known as the garuda is an important part of the mythology. the gods vishnu and krishna traveled around the heavens on the back of a great garuda. north american indians have extensive legends about the thunderbird, a huge bird said to carry off children and old people. it was accompanied by loud noises, hums, buzzes and, apparently, rumbles from the infrasonic and ultrasonic levels. known as piasa to the indians of the dakotas, it was supposed to have terrifying red eyes and

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

who chose this hill-top track to follow. others from a similar point of vantage attack it as being pure autohypnosis and nothing else. but curious to say. if such be the case why is it that the greatest sages of all times have been able to attract within their focus so many hundreds of millions of rational beings? they themselves being only irrational and pathological mystagogues. if such men as krishna, mahomet, st. augustine, moses, orpheus, pythagoras, buddha, plato, jesus, and a host of equal and lesser names, owed their power to self-hypnosis, then indeed self-hypnosis is the key which in this world will unlock the fast closed corridor of its mysteries. crowley strongly attacks this kitchen-knavery: you weary me with proof enough that all this meditation stuff is self-hypnosis. be it

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

t african tribe. for the same reason, a black amer- ican might be better off assuming the gods of egypt or greece, since his or her living culture (the culture actually experienced every day) is american, not african. the mythology and mysticism of the east fascinates westerners, but the west- ern magus will probably have better success dealing with western pantheons, rather than trying to invoke krishna or kuan-yin. there are no hard and fast rules in this matter. the true affinities of the magus must always be left to his or her per- sonal judgment. i n everyday magic it may be necessary to conceptualize and empower an entity for a specific function that is beneath the dignity or outside the province of the god- forms. these lesser spirits can be distinguished from the god-forms in that

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

this world s production. who knows then whence it first came into being? he, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not. selections from: robert o. ballou. world bible. new york, the viking press, 1944. p. 32. 231 the sayings of the hindus (from the bhagavad-gita) sri krishna: you have the right to work, but for the work s sake only. you have no right to the fruits of work. desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. never give way to laziness either. perform every action with your heart fixed on the supreme lord. renounce attachment to the fruits. be even-tempered in success and failure. work done with anxiety about results is far infer

beyond all evil. when your intellect has cleared itself of its delusions, you will become indifferent to the results of all action, present and future. at present, your intellect is bewildered by conflicting interpretations of the scriptures. when it can rest, steady and undistracted, in contemplation of the atman (the godhead within every being, then you will reach union with the atman. arjuna: krishna, how can one identify a man who is firmly established and absorbed in brahman. sri krishna: he who knows bliss in the atman and wants nothing else. cravings torment the heart: he renounces cravings. i call him illumined. not shaken by adversity, not hankering after happiness: free from fear, free from anger, free from the things of desire. i call him a seer, and illumined. the bonds of his

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

be drawn one over the other, the yod will look numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott like the head above, the heh will look like the two arms, the vav will be upright body, and the final heh will show two legs. it is stated in some ancient persian works that 4 bright stars were placed as guardians at the 4 cardinal points. at the beginning of the kali yuga, at krishna s death at 3102 b.c, the astronomers say that aldebaran, the eye of taurus, and antares, the heart of scorpio, were as the equinoctial points, and regulus, the heart of leo, and fomalhaut, the eye of the southern fish, 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 card

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