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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

action, is used for xarpeveiv, lu. 4, 8 (see suppl. in mk. 1, 44. lu. 5, 14 athairan adferre, trpoa^ipeiv, is used of sacrifice; and in as. the subst. bring by itself means oblatio; so wolfram in parz. 45, 1 says: si hrahtcn opfer vil ir goten, and tundgr. ii. 25: ein lam zopphere hrdhtc. it is remarkable that the goth, salj'an, which elsewhere is intransitive and means divertere, manere [put up, lodge, john 1, 39. 40] is in lu. 1, 9. mk. 14, 12. 1 cor. 10, 20. 28 used transitively for ovfitdv and duelv, and hunsla saljan, john 16, 2 stands for xarpelav trpoaipepeiv, which brings it up to the meaning of ohg. and as. sellan, on. selja, tradere, to hand over, possibly because the solemn presentation included a personal approach. the ohg. ingangan (obire) is occasionally applied to worship: p

he cried in anger, and when he stammered out an answer, she continued' i am better provided with tools this time, so take thou thy due' and with those words she dug her hatchet into the fellow's shoulder. the same story is repeated near kaulsdorf at a part of the brook which is called the water over the way, at presswitz near the saal-house, and on the sandhill between possneck and the forester's lodge of eeichenbach. below the gleitsch, a curiously shaped rock near tischdorf, the story varies in -so far, that there perchtha along with the helmchen ivas driving a waggon, and had just broken the axle, when she fell in with a countryman, who helped her out with a makeshift axle, and was paid in chips, which however he disdained, and only carried a piece home in his shoe. p. 133: a spinninggi

striking accord with holda or berhta (as well as wuotan) adopting the babes that die unchristened into their host, heathen goddesses the heathen souls. freyja's dwelling is named foucvdngr or fulltdngar, the plains on which the (dead) folk troop together; this imparts new credibility to the connexion of st. gertrude, whose minne is drunk, with frowa, for the souls of the departed were supposed to lodge with gertrude the first night (p. 61. freyja's hall is sessrymnir, the seat-roomy, capacious of much folk; dying women expect to find themselves in her company after death. thorgersr in the egilss, p. 103, refuses earthly nourishment, she thinks to feast with freyja soon* ok engan (nattvers) mun ek fyrr enn at freyju. yet love-songs please her too, and lovers do well to call upon her' henni

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after the manner of a temple; and the part exterior, which with the rest of the place will be as a portico thereunto. now if you commence not this operation in the country, but perform it in a town, or in some dwellingplace, i will show unto ye what shall be necessary herein.40 ye shall choose an apartment which hath a window, joined unto the which shall be an uncovered terrace (or balcony, and a lodge (or small room or hut) covered with a roof, but so that there may be on every side windows whence you may be able to see in every direction, and whence you may enter into the oratory. in the which place41 the evil spirits shall be able to appear, since they cannot appear within the oratory itself in the which place, beside the oratory towards the quarter of the north, you shall have a rooted

all room or hut) covered with a roof, but so that there may be on every side windows whence you may be able to see in every direction, and whence you may enter into the oratory. in the which place41 the evil spirits shall be able to appear, since they cannot appear within the oratory itself in the which place, beside the oratory towards the quarter of the north, you shall have a rooted or covered lodge, in the which and from whence one may be able to see the oratory. i myself also had two large windows made in my oratory, and at the time of the convocation of the spirits, i used to open them and remove both the shutters and the door, so that i could easily see on every side and constrain them42 to obey me. the oratory should always be clear and clean swept, and the flooring should be of wo

spirits, i used to open them and remove both the shutters and the door, so that i could easily see on every side and constrain them42 to obey me. the oratory should always be clear and clean swept, and the flooring should be of wood, of white pine; in fine, this place should be so well and carefully prepared, that one may judge it to be a place destined unto prayer. the terrace and the contiguous lodge where we are to invoke the spirits we should cover with river sand to the depth of two fingers at the least. the altar should be erected in the midst of the oratory; and if any one maketh his oratory in desert places, he should build it43 of stones which have never been worked or hewn, or even touched by the hammer: of abramelin the mage 61 the chamber44 should be boarded with pine wood, and

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rew okr= to trouble or disturb. priara from prr= to shatter or break up. iparas from hebrew prs= to break in pieces, to divide, or part in sunder. this will give a formula of trouble. the sacred magick 127 no. h is a double acrostic of d g squares. malach from hebrew mlch= salt; also that which is easily dissolved; to dissolve. amanec from mnk= a chain, or from amn- stability. lanana from lnn= to lodge, or take up one s abode. ananal from an= labour, and nlh, to complete or finish. cenama perhaps from qnm= odoriferous. hcalam perhaps from hcl= spacious (as a palace. no. i is a double acrostic of c f squares. kosem, from hebrew qsm= to divine or prognosticate. obode, from hebrew obd= a servant. sofos from greek sophos= wise, learned, skilful. edobo, perhaps from db= to murmur. mesok from he

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

ries shah tells us of a search he conducted for a copy of the book of power by the arab magician abdul-kadir (see: the secret lore of magic by shah, of which only one copy was ever found. the keys of solomon had a similar reputation, as did the magus by barret, until all of these works were eventually reprinted in the last fifteen years or so. the golden dawn, a famous british and american occult lodge of the turn of the century, was said to have possessed a manuscript called "the veils of negative existence" by another arab. these were the sorcerer's handbooks, and generally not meant as textbooks or encyclopedias of ceremonial magick. in other words, the sorcerer or magician is supposed to be in possession of the requisite knowledge and training with which to carry out a complex magickal

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

el from his lap,(25) whose number is an hundred and eleven. each called moreover on the goddess nina,(26) for her number is an hundred and eleven. yet with all this went the work awry; for the word of the law is theta-epsilon-lambda-eta-mu-alpha. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 114 [118] commentary( nu-delta) the title of this chapter refers to the duty of the tyler in a blue lodge of freemasons. the numbers in paragraphs 1 to 3 are significant; each master-mason is attended by 5 fellow-crafts, and each fellow-craft by 3 apprentices, as if the masters were sitting in pentagrams, and the fellow- craftsmen in triangles. this may refer to the number of manual signs in each of these degrees. the moral of the chapter is apparently that the mother-letter aleph is an inadequa

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ellow 4 hmbylha aholibamah fire white 5 hla elah height red 6 kyp pinon depth white-red 7 znq kenaz east whitish-red 8 myt teman west reddish-white 9 laydgm and rxbm mibzar and magdiel south white-red-whitsh-red-reddish-white 10 \ryu eram north the light reflecting all colours cxii. alchemical tree of life (i. cxiii. alchemical metals (ii. cxiv. passwords of the grades. cxv* officers in a masonic lodge. 0. 1 h metallic radix. silence* 2 f (3) ba past master 3 g (6) bd 4 (10) fa worshipful master 5 (15) hy senior warden 6 (21) hyha junion warden 7& i (28) jk senior deacon 8$ j (36) hla junior deacon 9 (45) hm inner guard 10 mercurius philosophorum medicina metallorum (55) hn tyler and candidate table iv 24 cxvi. egyptian attribution of parts of the soul. cxvii. the soul (hindu. cxviii. the

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

f teaching oneself some mental-physical accomplishment (e.g. billiards, by persistent and patient study and practice, which often involves considerable pain as well as trouble> this is a rare event, however. only once in the whole of his magical career was frater perdurabo driven to so harsh a measure. iv in this connexion, beware of too ready a compliance on the part of the spirit. if some black lodge has got wind of your operation, it may send the spirit, full of hypocritical submission, to destroy you. such a spirit will probably pronounce the oath amiss, or in some way seek to avoid his obligations. it is a dangerous trick, though, for the black lodge to play; for if the spirit come properly under your control, it will be forced to disclose the transaction, and the current will return

wind of your operation, it may send the spirit, full of hypocritical submission, to destroy you. such a spirit will probably pronounce the oath amiss, or in some way seek to avoid his obligations. it is a dangerous trick, though, for the black lodge to play; for if the spirit come properly under your control, it will be forced to disclose the transaction, and the current will return to the black lodge with fulminating force. the liars will be in the power of their own lie; their own slaves will rise up and put them into bondage. the wicked fall into the pit that they themselves digged. and so perish all the king's enemies! v the charge to the spirit is usually embodied, except in works of pure evocation, which after all are comparatively rare, in some kind of talisman. in a certain sense

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

this part of the essay. love is the law, love under will. fraternally, 666 chapter vii the three schools of magick (2) cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. hoping that you are now recovered from the devastating revelations in the matter of the yellow school, i must ask you to brace yourself for disclosures even more formidable about the black. do not confuse with the black lodge, or the black brothers. the terminology is unfortunate, but it wasn't i that did it. now then, to work! the black school of magick, which must by no means be confused with the school of black magick or sorcery, which latter is a perversion of the white tradition, is distinguished fundamentally from the yellow school in that it considers the universe not as neutral, but as definitely a magic

lution that i aimed at. on the path of the wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduction more subtle than spiritual pride; magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 223 it strikes, being solar, at the very heart of the aspirant; more, it is an inflation and exacerbation of the ego, so that its victim runs the peril of straying into a black lodge, and finding himself at home there. against this risk we look to our insurance; there are two infallible: common sense and the sense of humour. when you are lying exhausted and exenterate after the attainment of vishvarupadarshana it is all wrong to think "well, now i'm the holiest man in the world, of course with the exception of john m. watkins" better recall the words of the weary sceptic

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

reat civilizations, about to be drawn together by the opening up of communications over the planet by the expansion of the roman power. after these there stood almost alone the name: apollon. but above that extract, the whole width of the chart, the word i a o. then came a blackness over the whole map, for at one time the brotherhood had been nigh utterly destroyed by a great sorcery of the black lodge, and the darkening of all counsel, and the confusion of all truth. i saw only one glimmer bare legible: plotinus. and at the end of the darkness, amid many names which i could not read, jacobus burgundus molensis. for his name was in letters of fire. did not the order of the temple prepare the renaissance by fusing the mysteries of the east and west? then there burst out on a sudden a whiten

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

,30 "if will stops and cries why, invoking because, then will stops& does nought" the new comment there is no 'reason' why a star should continue in its orbit. let her rip! every time the conscious acts, it interferes with the subconscious, which is hadit. it is the voice of man, and not of a god. any man who 'listens to reason' ceases to be a revolutionary. the newspapers are past masters in the lodge of sophistry number 333. they can always prove to you that it is necessary, and patriotic, and all the rest of it, that you should suffer intolerable wrongs. the qabalists represent the mind as a complex of six elements, whereas the will is single, the direct expression as "the word" of the self. the mind must inform the understanding, which then presents a simple idea to the will. this issu

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

than one; this christian dogma says never less than four. hence its bondage to law and its most imperfect comprehension of any true mystic teaching, and hence the difficulty of using its symbols a.c. liber lviii 38 in spiritual dealings, the qabalah, with those secrets discovered by yourself that are known only to yourself and god, forms the grip, sign, token and password that assure you that the lodge is properly titled. it is consequently of the very last importance that these final secrets should never be disclosed. and it must be remembered that an obsession, even momentary, might place a lying spirit in possession of the secrets of your grade. possibly it was in this manner that dee and kelly were so often deceived. a reference to this little dictionary of numbers will show that 1, 3

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

, the misanthropic will demand proof of such a statement. let it be our contemptuous indulgence to afford them what they ask. may i premise that, mentally obsessed, monomaniac indeed, as we must now consider shakespeare to have been on these points, he was yet artful enough to have concealed his* the lamented decease of the above gentleman forbids all hope (save through the courtesy of sir oliver lodge) of the appearance of the companion article. a.c. advanced views an imperative necessity, if we consider the political situation, and the virginal mask under which queen bess hid the grotesque and hideous features of a messaline. clearly so, since but for this concealment even our shakespearian scholars would have discovered so patent a fact. in some plays, too, of course, the poet deals wit

y. to think of men so i could not bear: a new colenso i bought them to assuage their plight, also a book by hall and knight on algebra. i hired wise men to teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten. one of the hottentots succeeded. few schoolboys know as much as he did! the others sank beneath the strain: it broke, not fortified, the brain. the bard a brainy beggar. now (higher on the human ladder) lodge is called mad, and crowley madder (the shafts of science who may dodge? i ve not a word to say for lodge) yet may not crowley be the one who safely does what most should shun? alpine analogy. take oscar eckenstein he climbs alone, unroped, a thousand times. he scales his peak, he makes his pass; he does not fall in a crevasse! but if the alpine club should seek to follow him on pass or peak

of the phenomena which are supposed by some physicists who have strayed into biological fields to justify them in announcing the discovery of telepathy and a belief in ghosts. to talk of cerebral disease as the characteristic of one who merely differs from you (and that because he has more knowledge than yourself) is itself a symptom familiar to alienists (i may say i hold no brief for professor lodge, here attacked. i am not even interested in any of his results, as such of them as i am acquainted with deal with objective and trivial phenomena) of course, as long as what darwin called variation is called disease by professor ray lankester, we shall (if we accept his views, 1 see note p. 98 science and buddhism 101 and it will go hard with us if we do not) regard all progress in any direc

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

nd captain that written in ill-spelt babu english, one knows what to do. on the contrary the man who was lost rose and broke the stem of his wineglass at the regimental toast, and all knew him for one of their own. in spiritual dealings, the qabalah, with those secrets discovered by yourself that are only known to yourself and god, forms the grip, sing, token and password that assure you that the lodge is properly tiled. 8 this christian teaching (not its qabalistic equivalent) is incomplete. the bride (the soul) is united, though only be marriage, with the son, who then presents her to the father and mother or holy spirit. these four then complete tetragrammaton. but the bride is never united to the father. in this scheme the soul can never do more than touch tiphereth and so receive the

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t is a part of them. traditional qabalah is very much in accord with his experience at this point. the sephiroth of the tree of life, as depicted in the standard tree and the golden dawn material, are not compatible with the visions approaching and beyond the abyss. there are other configurations, some including modified conceptions of the sephiroth, that do apply in some degree. see the "thelema lodge "calendar, issues for may and june of 1990 e.v. and a great bell begins to toll. and there come six little children out of the floor of the chariot, and in their hands is a veil so fine and transparent that it is hardly visible. yet, when they put it over the cup, the angel bowing his head reverently, the light of the cup goes out entirely. and as the light of the cup vanishes, it is like a

nd the beast on which she rideth; and the magician is set beyond her to deceive the brothers of blackness, lest they should make unto themselves a crown; for if there were two crowns, then should ygdrasil, that ancient tree, be cast out into the abyss, uprooted and cast down into the outermost abyss, and the arcanum which is in the adytum should be profaned; and the ark should be touched, and the lodge spied upon by them that are not masters, and the bread of the sacrament should be the dung of choronzon; and the wine of the sacrament should be the water of choronzon; and the incense should be dispersion; and the fire upon the altar should be hate. but lift up thyself; stand, 143 play the man, for behold! there shall be revealed unto thee the great terror, the thing of awe that hath no nam

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etary symbols for mercury are 3 weh note: this figure is found in franz hartmann's "cosmology..secret symbols of the rosicrucians of the sixteenth and "seventeenth centuries, occult publishing co, boston, 1888, plate# 1, facing page 16. this was reprinted in facsimile by health research in 1969. the same is to be found in "secret symbols of "the rosicrucians of the 16th and 17th centuries, abdiel lodge amorc, 1967, page 34. see also m. hall "op cit. students who might be a bit confused about the origins of rosicrucianism may wish to contact a descendent of the barony of cassel c/o of nephthys lodge o.t.o. to get some family history about the pre- 17th century cassels who founded the r+c movement. different, the former ending in an arrow below the cross and the latter ending simply. the poi

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g, especially chapter i "on the doctrine of the indestructibility of matter" and chapters v. and vi "on the infinite" and "on the fourth dimension" in the first chapter mr. redgrove tries to prove that though matter "cannot" be destroyed, its form can be so utterly changed that it can no longer be treated as such. he illustrates his theory by quoting sir oliver 11 weh note: pos "devil's disciple? lodge's "knot tied in a bit of string" so long as the knot is, matter is; but when once the knot is untied, though the string remains, the knot vanishes. this, however, is a most fallacious illustration, for, as gustave le bon has shown, the destruction of matter implies more than a mere change of "form; it is an annihilation of gravity itself, and therefore of substance as we understand it. matte

we can use them in our conversation afterwards, rather than scores of musty dry-as-dust facts, which can only help us to pass dry-as-dust and useless examinations? give us more of these, mr. watts, dozens more, and we will forgive you "from the shades" best wishes to these little volumes, may you sell a million of each, but "in the sunlight" please. a. quiller. the survival of man. by sir oliver lodge. methuen. 7"s" 6"d" net. one of the most unfortunate results of the divorce between science and religion has been the attempt of each of the partners to set up housekeeping for itself, with the most disastrous results. i shall not run my simile to death, but i shall explain how this train of thought began in my mind. sir oliver's book is mainly a defence of the society for psychical research

h, but i shall explain how this train of thought began in my mind. sir oliver's book is mainly a defence of the society for psychical research, and a plea for more scientific investigation of psychic or spiritistic phenomena; and it seems to the reviewer that a scientific society that needs a defence at all, after nearly thirty years' work, has confessed itself to be largely a failure. sir oliver lodge, and indeed spiritualism generally, suffer enormously from their lack of knowledge, from their being devoid of theory. phenomena! phenomena! phenomena! until the noumenon behind is obscured and disbelieved in and explained away. this is what makes modern spiritualism so hideous and qliphothic a thing, and "psychic researchers" such bad mystics. there is nothing in the book under review that

he rev. h. r. haweis, of a. h. davis, of lizzie doten! for there is no virtue in those who have strayed from the path to linger among the shells of the dead and the demons of matter. the line of tradition is unbroken, and the way is straight and hard; too hard for "mediums" and new thoughtists, whose spiritual capital consists of falsehood, and sentimentality, and sham humanitarianism. sir oliver lodge is always careful and painstaking and entirely honest; he is probably as well fitted to carry on his s.p.r. work as any student in england. and to those who are unacquainted with the phenomena of spiritualism "the survival of man" is as useful a book as could be read. but to the student of religion its value is "nil" because the occult knowledge is "nil" in fairness it should be added that t

ta philosophia, libra tres. folio, woodcut portrait on title, slight stain in a few margins, hf. old calf, rare, s.l.typ.et a, 15. 35s. qabbalah_ the philosophical writings of ibn gebirol, or avicebron, and their connection with the hebrew qabbalah and sepher ha-zohar, with remarks upon the antiquity and contents of the latter, and translations of selected passages from the same; also, an ancient lodge of initiates, translated from the zohar, and abstract of an essay upon the chinese qabbalah, a translation of part of the mystic theology of dionysus, the areopagite, etc. etc, by isaac myers, ll.b. royal 4to, large paper, with diagrams and illustrations, cloth, t. e g, others uncut, philadelphia, 1888. 35s. nostrodamus_ the true prophecies and prognostications of michel nostrodamus, physici

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cast into the well of time (p. merely means that at this time he established a secret order of this name) 3 the signs are of projection and withdrawal of force; necessary complements. and he spake not any more (as had been his wont) in guise of a skeptic and indifferent man: but indeed with the very voice and power of a great guru, or of one definitely sent from such a brother of the great white lodge. yea! though he spake unto me words all of disapproval, did i give thanks and grace to god that he had deemed my folly worthy to attract his wisdom. and, after days, did my guru not leave me in my state of humiliation, and, as i may say, despair: but spake words of comfort saying "is it not written that if thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light" adding "in thee is no power

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laylah. i cannot tell you. rinaldo. this is all i know, that in the time of pope urban the second, some pilgrims to jerusalem began to 76 grumble< and a madman screamed so loud on their behalf that all europe was infected<christian intolerance "thelema lodge calendar, dec. 1990 e.v> all pilgrims grumble. all mankind grumbles. can chivalry do nothing better than redress grievances? progress and learning are dead in this eternal redressing. or if we must redress grievances, let us redress the great grievance, man misunderstanding man! laylah. let me go to my house "she tries to slip away] rinaldo. sit there["he puts her back very accurately] we wo

s a miracle, the other goes unremarked. 161 now in the millions of seances of the last sixty years the "evidential" records can be counted in the fingers of one hand. and it is not antecedently so very improbable that pure chance might dictate correct answers in so small a proportion of cases. further, the spiritists have thrown upon science the task of proving a universal negative. if sir oliver lodge, or professor munsterberg, or lord cholly cauliflower, or mr upthe pole comes to me with a tale of unicorns in piccadilly, i merely humour him. munsterberg, at least, might be dangerous. but i should not investigate his statement, and i certainly should not claim to be able to disprove it on "a priori" grounds. even in the evidential cases, there is so much room for a mixture of fraud, telep

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

l become exoteric, in this sense only, that the taking of the first initiation will, before so very long, be the most sacred ceremony of the church, performed exoterically as one of the mysteries given at stated periods, attended by those concerned. it will also hold a similar place in the ritual of the masons. at this ceremony those ready for the first initiation will be publicly admitted to the lodge by one of its members, authorised to do so by the great hierophant himself. four words defined. when we speak of initiation, of wisdom, of knowledge, or of the probationary path, what do we mean? we use the words so glibly, without due consideration of the meaning involved. take, for instance, the word first mentioned. many are the definitions, and many are the explanations to be found as to

he fifth initiation, or those who do not become masters in physical incarnation, take their subsequent initiations elsewhere in the system. all are- 12- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust in the logoic consciousness. one great fact to be borne in mind is, that the initiations of the planet or of the solar system are but the preparatory initiations of admission into the greater lodge on sirius. we have the symbolism held for us fairly well in masonry, and in combining the masonic method with what we are told of the steps on the path of holiness we get an approximate picture. let us enlarge somewhat: the first four initiations of the solar system correspond to the four "initiations of the threshold" prior to the first cosmic initiation. the fifth initiation corresponds to

we are told of the steps on the path of holiness we get an approximate picture. let us enlarge somewhat: the first four initiations of the solar system correspond to the four "initiations of the threshold" prior to the first cosmic initiation. the fifth initiation corresponds to the first cosmic initiation, that of "entered apprentice" in masonry; and makes a master an "entered apprentice" of the lodge on sirius. the sixth initiation is analogous to the second degree in masonry, whilst the seventh initiation makes the adept a master mason of the brotherhood on sirius. a master, therefore, is one who has taken the seventh planetary initiation, the fifth solar initiation, and the first sirian or cosmic initiation. at-one-ment, the result of initiation. a point that we need to grasp is that e

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

lly two lodges within the greater body: a. the lodge, comprised of initiates above the fifth initiation, and a group of devas or angels. b. the blue lodge, comprised of all initiates of the third, fourth, and fifth initiations. below these come a large group of initiates of the first and second initiations, and then the disciples of every grade. the disciples are considered as affiliated with the lodge, but not as literally members of it. finally come those who are on probation, and who hope through strenuous effort to achieve affiliation. from another point of view we can consider the lodge members as existing in seven groups, each group representing one type of the sevenfold planetary energy emanating from the planetary logos. the triple division has first been given, as ever in evolutio

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ond. many of the guides of the race transfer from one ray to another as they are needed, and as the work may require. when one of the masters or initiates is transferred it causes a complete re-adjustment. when a master likewise leaves the hierarchy of our planet to take up work elsewhere, it frequently necessitates a complete re-organisation, and a fresh admission of members into the great white lodge. these facts have been but little realised. we might here also take the opportunity to point out that we are not dealing with earth conditions when we consider the rays, nor are we only concerned with the evolution of the monads upon this planet, but are equally concerned with the solar system in which our earth holds a necessary but not supreme place. the earth is an organism within a great

ng controlled, and when the last of the lemurian egos has passed into the fifth root-race they will be slowly passed out of the solar system altogether. they are connected with the passional "fire" of the solar logos and with one of his centres in particular; this centre is being gradually obscured and its fire transferred into a higher centre. 7. there is also a group of devas connected with the lodge of masters, whose work it is to build the aspirational forms towards which average man may aspire. they are divided into certain groups three in number connected with science, religion and philosophy, and through these groups of deva substance the heads of the three departments reach men. it is one of their channels for work. the master jesus is particularly active at this time along this li

bearing his people with him. cometh the dissolution of pain, cometh the end of strife, cometh the merging of the spheres and the blending of the hierarchies. all then is re-absorbed within the orb, the circle of manifestation. the forms that exist in maya, and the flame that devoureth all, are garnered by the one who rideth the heavens and entereth into the timeless aeon (from the archives of the lodge) we have touched upon the subject of avatars and the various classes into which they might be divided. we might now enlarge somewhat more upon the methods. the methods whereby certain cosmic existences and certain highly evolved entities appear among men to do a specific work might be very inadequately, and cursorily summarised, as follows: the method of overshadowing. the method of embodyin

ilated and studied what she has said, there is no more to add. apprehension of truth is ever the factor that calls for fresh revelation- 445- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust a very interesting period will come about the year 1966 and persist to the end of the century. it is one for which the great ones are already making due preparation. it concerns a centennial effort of the lodge and of the personages taking part therein. each century sees a centennial effort of the lodge along a particular line of force made to forward the ends of evolution, and the effort for the twentieth century will be upon a larger scale than has been the case for a very long time, and will involve a number of great ones. in a similar effort during the nineteenth century, h. p. b. was concerned

they send forth breath. something prevents the passage of the breath. they call for aid. one makes his appearance who has not yet been seen. he lifts his hand. the one, the two, the three, the four and five merge into one and mingle with the sixth. the flame mounts up, responding to the breath. the final disappearance of the cube is needed and then the work stands forth" from the archives of the lodge (c) the names of the egoic lotuses. we might consider briefly the work of forming the egoic lotus on its own plane; this is as the result of the work of the agnishvattas, after its segregation in space, and the formation of its ring-pass-not. we have touched upon the remotest and earliest stages. one point we have not yet emphasised but which is of interest to the thoughtful student. this is

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

to the cultivation of the next great quality which is dispassion or desirelessness. a man may be able to distinguish between the real and the true, between the substance and the life which animates it and yet desire or "go out" towards the form existence. this too must be overcome before perfect liberation, emancipation or freedom is attained. in one of the old commentaries in the archives of the lodge of masters, the following words are found "it suffices not to know the way nor to feel the force which serveth to extract the life from out of the forms of maya. a moment of great portent must take place wherein the chela breaketh by one act and through a word of power the illusory sutratma which bindeth him to form. like the spider which gathereth up the thread again within himself whereby

certain forms of magical work and also to produce effects on the physical bodies of animals and men. it is the knowledge of this which is the basis of voodooism and of all those practices which cause the depletion and death of men and women who obstruct the path of the black magician or are regarded by him as enemies. with these the aspirant to the mysteries of the brotherhood of the great white lodge has nothing to do. he brings about the merging of the two parts of the dense physical, and the synchronization of the rhythm of the two bodies and the consequent unity of the entire lower man through attention to the etheric breath and rhythm. this inevitably produces the "external control of the life currents" the internal control of the life currents is brought about in three ways: 1. by a

n by the christ in his parable of the sowers, where some of the seed fell among thorns. the explanation is given that the thorns are the cares and troubles of worldly existence which succeed in choking the spiritual life and in veiling the true man for so long. the thorny path must lead to the northern path and that in turn to the path of initiation. in one of the old books in the archives of the lodge, are found these words "let the seeker after truth escape from drowning and climb the river's bank. let him turn towards the northern star and on firm ground stand, his face directed towards the light. then let the star lead" 3. liberation from the mire refers to that mixed nature of kama-manas, desire and lower mind, which causes the unique problem of humanity. it is a symbolic way also of

bout all forms of life, and this involves a knowledge of: 1. genus. 2. quality. 3. position in space. ray. character. place in body of heavenly man. spirit. soul. body. life aspect. consciousness. form. essence. subjective nature .o bjective form- 202- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust of this knower we can apply the words of the teacher whose works are found in the archives of the lodge "to him, standing before the spark, the flame and the smoke are equally to be seen. to him, the shadow veils the reflection and yet the light is seen. to him, the tangible but demonstrates the intangible, and both reveal the spirit, whilst form, color and number speak aloud the word of god" 54. this intuitive knowledge, which is the great deliverer, is omnipresent and omniscient and includes

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

t to explain god himself "god is spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" states one of the scriptures of the world "man became a living soul" is to be found in another place in the- 15- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust same scripture "i pray god your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless" said a great initiate of the white lodge; and the greatest of them all yet present with us in physical form on earth, repeated the words of an earlier sage when he said "i have said ye are gods, and ye are all the children of the most high. in those words the triplicity of man, his divinity and his relationship to the life in whom he lives and moves and has his being, is touched upon from the christian standpoint, and all the great

follow the dictates of your own soul and the promptings of your higher self. before we proceed to an analysis of this rule and of the previous one, for rules ii and iii are the two halves of a whole, i would like to remind you that, in this series of meditations upon these ancient formulas, we are concerned with the magical work of the aspirant as a co-worker in the enterprises of the great white lodge. we are dealing with the methods of white magic. let me remind you also, that the magical work of our planetary hierarchy consists of tending the psyche in the world of forms, so that the unfolding flower of the soul may be nurtured and fostered in such wise that radiant glory, magnetic force and (ultimately) spiritual energy may be- 62- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust d

dvanced ego comprehends not an initiate. the greater can apprehend the lesser but the reverse is not the case. as regards the action of those whose point of attainment greatly transcends your own, i can only ask you to do three things- 68- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust a. reserve judgment. their vision is greater. forget not that one of the greatest qualities members of the lodge have achieved is their ability to view the destruction of form as unimportant. their concern is with the evolving life. b. realize that all events are brought around by the brothers with a wise purpose in view. lesser grade initiates, though utterly free agents, fit into the plans of their superiors just as do you in your lesser way. they have their lessons to learn, and the rule of learning

n of those on the physical plane through whom they have to work. they are handicapped and dependent upon their physical plane instruments and their main trouble concerns the point of evolution reached by the mass of men in the occident. remember that this point is indicative of the success of the evolutionary process and not of its failure but, because much yet remains to be done, the work of the lodge is often hindered. the point reached at this time might be expressed as a swinging from the rank materialism of the past into a growing and profound realization of the unseen worlds without the balance that comes from self-acquired knowledge. the forces that have been set in motion by the thinkers the scientists of the world, the truly advanced religious men, the spiritualists, the christian

effort in materializing the plan and the strain incident upon high endeavour. they must develop the capacity to recognize those who are sent to help them in the work. they must above all watch against failure to keep in touch with the higher self and with the master. another point that has to be remembered is that the problem to be solved by all who are seeking to co-operate with the great white lodge has four objects in view. first, that in the working out of the plan there is also the working out of karma. this karma is not merely individual nor purely national, but is part of the total working out of world karma. second. another object is the preparing of an instrument for service in the inauguration of the new age during the next two hundred years. the integration of a group of knower

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

f-expression and self-realisation. 10. individualisation leads eventually to initiation. chapter iii ten basic propositions in concluding this section of our treatise, and before starting on our real study of the rays, i seek to formulate for you the fundamental propositions upon which all this teaching is founded. they are for me, a humble worker in the hierarchy, as they are for the great white lodge as a whole, a statement of fact and of truth. for students and seekers they must be accepted as an hypothesis: one: there is one life, which expresses itself primarily through seven basic qualities or aspects, and secondarily through the myriad diversity of forms. two: these seven radiant qualities are the seven rays, the seven lives, who give their life to the forms, and give the form world

herefore, a period of discipline and a cycle wherein choices will be made, and through these discriminating decisions humanity will enter into its birthright. this influence is now being strongly felt. then, later, we shall have, through the influence of mercury in the second decanate, the pouring in of light, of mental and spiritual illumination, and a truer interpretation of the teaching of the lodge of messengers. the work of the first decanate will enable many to make those choices and efforts which will enable them to raise the lower energies into the higher centres, and to transfer the focus of their attention from below to above the diaphragm. the work of the second decanate will enable those who are thus ready to fuse the personality and the soul, and thus, as i earlier pointed out

h the many other grouped circles. it fell also into the snare of materialism, and the outer form has for centuries been of more importance in the eyes of masons than the inner spiritual meaning. the symbols and the system of allegories have been emphasized, whilst that which they were intended to convey and to reveal to the initiated has been quite forgotten. also, the trend of the attention of a lodge of masons, and the main emphasis, has been potently placed on the function and place of the w.m, and not upon the inner significance of the work upon the floor of the temple. the lodge has not been regarded as an integrated functioning entity. this must and will be changed, and the potency and the effectiveness of the lodge work and ceremonial will be demonstrated. it will be seen that in th

e regularity of the rituals and the sanctified formality of the ordained ceremonials lies the true meaning of the work and the use of the word. the coming era of group work and power and of organised synthetic ritualistic activity will profoundly affect masonry, as the importance of a central dominating figure passes out with the sixth ray influence and the true spiritual work and function of the lodge itself is understood. the prime cosmic function of the seventh ray is to perform the magical work of blending spirit and matter in order to produce the manifested form through which the life will reveal the glory of god. students would be well advised to pause here and re-read the section of this treatise in which i dealt with the seventh ray lord, with his names, and with his purpose. when

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

of crisis will inevitably occur: a. the work of passing onto a particular plane for purposes of incarnation is one such point. this concerns the passing down to a lower plane, or from a lower plane onto a higher. indications of the importance and the crucial nature of such transition can be seen in certain formulas which are used when passing from one degree in masonry to another, as in raising a lodge from a lower to a higher degree. b. another such point of crisis occurs when the mental body is swept into activity and the etheric body is similarly vitalised. 2. relationship between the ego or soul and the dense physical body is established when a. matter of the three lowest subplanes of the physical plane is built into the etheric body, prior to physical incarnation, and the potential ch

an occult platitude and well known, but the re-emphasis of the well known truth will sometimes serve to bring home to you its exactitude. the second illustration which may perhaps make clearer the meaning and purpose of this law, and which will be of deep interest to esotericists, is to be found in connection with the symbol that specifies this law in the sacred records and in the archives of the lodge. it is the symbol of the two balls of fire and the triangle. this has not only a planetary and cosmic significance, but has a very definite relation to the individual unfoldment (in the physical body) of the spiritual life of the disciple. let me put it very simply. students know that there are in the head two centres, the ajna centre and the head centre, two balls of fire, symbolic of the f

otects the unready aspirant (not the place which he seeks to enter) and safeguards him from the risks and perils of that initiation which must be undergone before he can pass through the five divisions of paradise to the place where light dwells and the masters of the wisdom live and work. this is the thought which lies behind the masonic procedure whereby the tyler stands outside the door of the lodge with a drawn sword to protect the secrets of the craft from the unready. i would remind you also that as this law is an aspect of the fundamental law of love, it concerns the psyche or soul, and therefore its function is to further the spiritual interests of the true man, and to demonstrate the power of the second aspect, the christ consciousness, and the power of divinity. it "rejects the u

cipleship have also tried and failed. those who have themselves mastered circumstance and the illusion of death, and have consequently been raised unto life, can now attempt the task in united formation. they will succeed. the word has gone forth with the request for this united activity, and the urge to bend every effort to raise the dead body of humanity. a great and possible achievement of the lodge of masters is now imminent and all aspirants and all disciples can be swung into a synthetic recognition of power and of opportunity. it is for this end that the teaching anent the new group of world servers was given out broadcast. this is the first attempt to form a group which would work as a group and attempt a world task. they can act as an intermediate group between the world of men an

g susceptible to this influence. 2. personalities, of whom there are many today. 3. a vast number of people who are awakening to mental consciousness. 4. the great mass of humanity, who are the unawakened human beings and the bulk of the population of the world. in every phase of human history, the quality of the civilisation is the only thing that can in any way be conditioned by the great white lodge. the members of the lodge are only permitted to work with the emerging qualitative aspects of the divine nature. this is, in its turn, slowly conditioning the form life, and in this way the form aspect is steadily altered and adapted, as it progresses towards an increasing perfection. this conditioning process is carried forward through the souls who are returning to incarnation, for just in

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

a period of spiritual unfoldment in every kingdom in nature. at the close of this period, the door into the animal kingdom will again be opened and opportunity offered to waiting embryonic souls. many also, at this time, can take initiation and hence the balancing of forces at either end of the human line of unfoldment. this is to be brought about by the renewed cyclic activity of the great white lodge and will be carried forward through the medium of those energies which are ushering in the new age. this crisis is upon us almost prematurely, owing to the exceedingly rapid advance made by humanity since 1850. through the driving urge of men themselves, a new realm and a new dimension has been contacted. humanity has loosed energies hitherto unknown and the effects are of a dual kind, produ

th greater surety than heretofore. there will (through this and analogous groups) be set in motion on earth a network of spiritual energies which will facilitate the regeneration of the world. the influence of these groups when permanently established and potently working will have a wider objective than just the elevation of humanity. the potent rhythm which animates the inner brotherhood of the lodge of masters will make itself felt everywhere on earth and these groups, if successful, may be regarded as the first step toward the emergence into manifestation of the great white lodge. but remember this: the keynote of the lodge is not attainment or degree. it is stable relationship, unity of thought, plus diversity of method, of effort and of function and its quality is friendship in its p

of you will see materialise in this present lifetime. have you realised, however, my brothers, what occult progress in the world you have been permitted to see during this present lifetime? have you glimpsed the magnitude of the present push that is being made by the masters and have you recognised their plans taking shape before your eyes? have you grasped the essentials of what the great white lodge has done during the past twenty-five years and the extent of the work in which disciples and aspirants everywhere have been permitted to share? i would like briefly to enlarge somewhat upon this so as to make the picture clearer to your eyes in order that you may cooperate with greater intelligence, for this is above everything else group work. slowly and gradually, as far as you are all con

the interest and opportunity offered by the group work. along with these most normal and right reactions are to be found much ignorance as to the true significance of the work, a good deal of selfish pleasure and some ambition. this is natural, for no perfection is yet to be expected among disciples. if perfection existed, you would all be found working in a different relation to the great white lodge. in order to clarify this group work which the hierarchy plans and enable you to grasp the intent clearly, i will tell you something of the purpose which lies behind the groups and of the general plan into which it is desired that they fit. in the early stages of any hierarchical experiment, much difficulty is encountered, owing to the material with which the initiating agents (such as mysel

e done is only upon the inner planes and that he is working solely from mental or spiritual levels of consciousness is not right in his conception of the process. inner work which does not work out into objective activity upon the physical plane is wrongly oriented and inspired. these new types of groups will work together under the conscious guidance and suggestion of a member of the great white lodge. note the word "suggestion" my brothers. if these groups were subjected to the authority of such a member, then the objective of all the work undertaken would fail to materialize. an occult law would have been broken. free, intelligent assistance is what we are asking from all our disciples today, and we leave them free to render it or not as they like and in the manner which may seem best t

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

rite and ritual, the long, long path which he must tread, back into the light. they provide also (when rightly interpreted and correctly represented) the teaching which humanity needs in order to pass from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real and from death to immortality. any true mason who understands, even if only to a slight degree, the significance of the three degrees of the blue lodge, and the implications of that in which he participates, will recognise the above three phrases for what they are, and will recognise the significance of the three degrees. i mention it here with masonic purpose because it is closely related to the restoration of the mysteries and has held the clue (down the ages) to that long awaited restoration, to the platform upon which the required teach

he "spirits of just men made perfect (heb. xii.23; here the spiritual guides of the race are to be found and here the spiritual executives of god's plan live and work and oversee human and planetary affairs. it is called by many names by many people. it is spoken of as the spiritual hierarchy, as the abode of light, as the centre where the masters of the wisdom are to be found, as the great white lodge. from it come those who act as messengers of the wisdom of god, custodians of the truth as it is in christ, and those whose task is to save the world, to impart the next revelation, and to demonstrate divinity. all the world scriptures bear witness to the existence of this centre of spiritual energy. this spiritual hierarchy has been steadily drawing nearer to humanity as men have become mor

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

despread education of the masses and the many means of worldwide propaganda, these masses are themselves either thinking independently or are thinking as directed by the powerful minds everywhere to be found and which are seeking to control world events. hence the increasing difficulty of the problem and one that is equally difficult for the lords of the left hand way as it is for the great white lodge. this is a point which you should consider and discover the implications- 19- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust humanity itself is rapidly arriving at the point where its united will will be the determining factor in world affairs and this will be due to the unfoldment of the mind through the success of the evolutionary process. it is right here that many experiments will

erial side of life and in whom (for this major cycle) the love aspect of the soul remains totally undeveloped, whereas the mind nature is potently expressing itself. if you will study what i have earlier given anent certain of the higher and lower expressions of the rays you will see how these two fields of endeavour that of the hierarchy, animated by love and that of the opposite pole, the black lodge, working entirely through mind and substance are engaged and their close relationship will emerge. you will realise then that the margin of difference is very slight and is to be found solely in intention, in the underlying purpose and the concrete objectives which this group of material workers have set themselves. the major instrument of the black lodge is the organising power of the mind

clarity for themselves and their minds are consequently plastic and receptive to the powerful forces directed by the two contributing groups the spiritual workers of the planet and the material workers. because the bulk of human beings are still materially focussed, the forces which work on the side of matter find a line of least resistance which is not available to the masters of the great white lodge. this danger is, however, lessening decade by decade. let me illustrate these facts for you by means of the two rays which are our immediate consideration. both of them as is ever the law express themselves through a higher and lower form or forms. one of the higher expressions of the out-going sixth ray is to be found in christianity, the spirit and principles of which were embodied for us

utes and ray characteristics which have hitherto never been revealed to the minds of men or sensed by them in their highest moments of inspiration; this is due to the lack of sensitivity of even the most advanced of the sons of men. their apparatus remains inadequately developed and so unable to respond to these higher divine qualities. even the christ himself and other members of the great white lodge are preparing themselves to register these divine attributes and consciously to merge themselves in a still higher process or scale of evolution; it will be obvious to you that the little conclusions of the little minds are some of the most dangerous factors today in world affairs. it will also be apparent to you how the lower and the higher expressions of a ray are closely related to each o

pulous and ambitious men in every country. they will not finally succeed. they may delay and hinder the emergence of freedom. the charge against them under the lords of destiny is mounting up, but divinity will triumph. 6. spiritual life in the new age. one point i would like here to bring to your attention and that is that the two great groups of divine agents the great white brotherhood and the lodge of materialistic forces are both of them seeking to divert these energies into channels which will further the ends for which they work and for which they were formed and exist. therefore, i would ask you to remember that behind all the outer events are these two directing agencies. you have, as a consequence: 1. two groups of advanced minds, both equally illumined by the light of the intell

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

tary life is concerned, there are certain great sources of impression and one or two of them might here be noted; you will thus gain some idea of the subtlety of the whole subject, of its close relation to energy impacts and of its group reception as differentiated from individual reception, as is the case in any telepathic rapport. 1. the impression of shamballa by: a. members of the great white lodge on sirius. the recipients of this impression are the highest members of the great council, presided over by the lord of the world. so subtle is this impression that these great lives can only receive it with accuracy when in full joint conference of the entire council, and also after due preparation. b. from one or other of the constellations which are at any particular time astrologically e

eless as it may appear, the table at which you write, the flower you hold in your hand, the horse on which you ride, the man to whom you talk, are sharing with you the vast circulatory life of the planet as it streams into, through and out of every aspect of the form nature. the only differences which exist are those in consciousness, and peculiarly so in the consciousness of man and of the black lodge. there is only the one life, pouring through the mass of forms which, in their sum total, constitute our planet as we know it- 84- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust all forms are related, inter-related and interdependent; the planetary etheric body holds them together so that a cohesive, coherent, expressive whole is presented to the eye of man, or one great unfold

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

the life of self-consciousness, self-preservation and self-enrichment. then comes an interlude wherein the consciousness begins to shift into that of the group and becomes identified with the soul and with soul purpose. the experience of the fixed cross covers this period. it might here be noted that the experience of the three crosses has a masonic significance and can be connected with the blue lodge: 1. the common cross. the e\ a\ degree 2. the fixed cross. the f\ c\ degree 3. the cardinal cross. the m\ m\ degree much will come to light in masonry when its astrological implications are studied and understood. much also will be revealed anent individual life and purpose when the fate of certain planets (when in the various zodiacal signs) is properly investigated and grasped and their sy

in reality nine tests and hence the nine-headed hydra or serpent which is ever associated with scorpio and hence also the nature of the stupendous victory achieved by hercules, the sun-god, in this sign. it is interesting to note that each of the great sons of god whose names are pre-eminent in the minds of men hercules, the buddha and the christ are associated in the archives of the great white lodge with three special signs of the zodiac (which in a peculiar manner constitute the "zodiacal decanate) in each of which they passed from test to victory. in scorpio hercules became the triumphant disciple. in taurus the buddha achieved victory over desire and arrived at illumination. in pisces the christ overcame death and became the world saviour. these three constellations, therefore, form

s playing upon our planet and increasing in their number and their potency as the vehicles of response upon our planet become more highly developed and sensitive and are, therefore, capable of a truer reaction and a more rapid response to the many forces impinging upon our planetary forms of life. it has been remarked by a profound astrological expert who works with the masters of the great white lodge that "when humanity comprehends the distinction between the signs and the constellations, understands the nature of the polarity of energies and responds to the three cosmic realities, the twelve cosmic energies and the seven planetary impacts and the interplay of the twelve creative hierarchies, then and not till then, will a radiant light be seen and the destiny of our solar logos be final

which i earlier referred: leo-scorpio, leading to initiation in capricorn. as we are upon the subject, one other point might be touched upon here. august, which is ruled by leo, is the month of the dog-star, or of sirius, which thus brings sirius into close relation to leo. leo, in the cosmic sense (and apart from our solar system altogether) is ruled by sirius. sirius is the home of that greater lodge to which our fifth initiation admits a man and to which it brings him, as a humble disciple. later, when the new world religion is founded and is working- 177- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust we shall find that the major, monthly festival in august, held at the time of the full moon, will be dedicated to the task of making contact, via

stance in any form (its galvanising centre) can be seen. i do not here advise much reflection on the subject, as it is an exceedingly difficult one, constituting, in itself, a very advanced science, and embodying the mystery of the first solar system, the past again the memory cells give their contribution. it is through the permanent atoms that the forces of materialism can work; the great white lodge works through the seven centres. aries begins the process and is the "initiator of the process which leads to progress" and at the end of the age (as it is now at the final or seventh initiation) the initiator of the mysteries will work under instructions and with energies which emanate from the lord of the constellation aries. in the last analysis and esoterically speaking, fire is the grea

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ophical truth. few of them, if any, who have thus disapproved ever had the privilege of being taught by personal pupils of h.p.b. for weeks and months on end, and i'm pretty sure that, thanks to these old students, i have a clearer perception of what "the secret doctrine" was intended to convey than most of them. why should i not? i was well taught and i am grateful. i had joined the theosophical lodge in pacific grove and was beginning to teach and hold classes. i remember the first book which i started to expound. it was that great book by mrs. besant "a study in consciousness" i knew nothing about consciousness and i could not possibly define it but i kept six pages ahead of the class and somehow managed to get away with it. they never discovered how little i knew. i know that no matter

he y.m.c.a, to france and my friend, the bishop, arranged that i should have an allotment of one hundred dollars a month from his salary. this was sent direct to me by the y.m.c.a, until his work with them ceased. this, with my own small income (which was beginning to dribble through more regularly) enabled me to drop my work as a sardine packer and make other plans. my work with the theosophical lodge in pacific grove was having results and i was beginning to get a little bit known as a student. it was suggested to me that in view of the fact that my finances were somewhat stabilised i go down to hollywood where the headquarters of the theosophical society, at krotona, were to be found. i decided to make the move and towards the end of 1917 we went down. i found a small house, close to th

heosophical society by the esoteric- 96- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust section was rapidly growing. the original platform of the t.s. had been founded on the autonomy of the lodges within the various national sections but, at the time that foster bailey and i came into the work, this whole situation had been fundamentally changed. those people were put into office in any lodge who were e.s. members and through them mrs. besant and the leaders in adyar controlled every section and every lodge. unless one accepted the dictum of the e.s. members in every lodge, one was in disgrace and it was almost impossible for the individual, therefore, to work in the lodge. the sectional magazines and the international magazine, called "the theosophist" were pre-occupied with per

f the t.s. in this country with the help of foster and the committee of 1400. foster, however, had not organised in order to put into power a man who would represent the committee. the committee was organised to present the issues involved and the principles at stake to the membership of the t.s. when wadia discovered that this was so he threatened to throw his interest and weight into the united lodge of theosophists, a rival and most sectarian organisation. they represent the fundamentalist attitude in the t.s. along with one or two other theosophical groups who represent the point of view of the orthodox theologian, holding that the last word was spoken by h.p.b, that there is nothing more to give out and that unless their interpretation of what h.p.b. said and meant was accepted one ca

nnot be a good theosophist. perhaps this accounts for the fact that all these fundamentalist groups have remained very small. the committee of 1400 went ahead with its work. the next election took place, the membership named its choice (or rather the e.s. dictated its choice) and the work of the committee, therefore, came to an end. wadia threw his weight, as he had said he would, into the united lodge of theosophists, and eventually went back to india where he started one of the best magazines along occult lines extant today. it is called "the aryan path" and is exceedingly fine. the word aryan here has nothing to do with hitler's use of the word. it concerns the aryan method of spiritual evaluation and the way in which people belonging to the fifth root race make their approach to realit

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

e are fully covered in any ordinary medical treatise and textbook and i, my brothers, am no trained physician or medical authority, nor have i the time to be engrossed with the technicalities. what i am concerned with is to give the world some idea of the true and occult causes of disease and their hidden origins, and with the work of healing, as it is carried on and sanctioned by the great white lodge. the work is, in reality, that of the judicious use of energy, applied with love and science. all that i tell you is the result of experiment. such healing falls into two categories: 1. in magnetic healing, the healer, or the healing group. does two things: a. he attracts to the healing centre that type of energy which will counteract the disease. this is necessarily a vast subject and one o

can never be what is esoterically called "unnoticed in his place and minus impact on other souls" his influence, emanation and forceful energy inevitably produce problems and difficulties for him; these are based on the human relations which he has karmically established and the reactions of those he contacts, either for good or for ill. essentially the influence of a disciple of the great white lodge is fundamentally good and spiritually conditioning; superficially and in its outer effects particularly where the disciple is concerned difficult situations, apparent cleavages and the emergence of faults as well as virtues upon the part of those affected make their appearance, and often persist for many lives, until the person thus influenced becomes what is called "occultly reconciled to t

activity. this is not the type of activity which is now possible, because it must be remembered that the master in those days had not the development or the understanding of the masters of today, the only exceptions being those who had come from other schemes and spheres to aid animal-man and primitive humanity. a. venereal and syphilitic diseases. paralleling all the activity of the great white lodge (as was always the case and is the case today) was the activity of the dark forces. their effects had to be brought about through the- 137- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust medium of the sacral centre, and thus a most vicious situation came about which weakened the stamina of the human body, which greatly increased the demands of the sex na

heir effects had to be brought about through the- 137- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust medium of the sacral centre, and thus a most vicious situation came about which weakened the stamina of the human body, which greatly increased the demands of the sex nature through the stimulation of the sacral centre, artificially brought about by the black lodge, and which produced many unholy alliances and widespread evil relations. a great new law of nature was then imposed by the planetary logos which has been expressed (very inadequately) by the words "the soul that sinneth, it shall die" this law could be better expressed by saying "he that misuses that which he hath built will see it fall from forces within itself" as the centuries slipped awa

reat war between the forces of light and the forces of evil. magic of the right kind was very familiar to the atlantean people, and was used by those members of the hierarchy who were entrusted with the guidance of the race and who were combating rampant evil in high places. that same evil is again upon the warpath and is being fought by the men of goodwill, under the direction of the great white lodge. heights of luxury were reached in atlantis of which we, with all our boasted civilisation, know nothing and have never achieved. some faint traces of it have come to us from legends and from ancient egypt, from archeological discovery and old fairy tales. there was a recurrence of pure atlantean mischief and wickedness in the decadent days of the roman empire. life became tainted by the mia

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

new age copyright 1998 lucis trust comprehension of the condition of the glandular and physiological equipment, upon certain specific tests, and upon the new form of astrology. i would here make a simple request to the earnest student. ponder on the following four statements: 1. the antahkarana expresses the quality of the magnetism which opens the door into the teaching centre of the great white lodge. 2. the antahkarana is the conscious integrating force. 3. the antahkarana is the medium of light transference. 4. the antahkarana concerns the continuity of man's perception. the process of unfoldment i would like to add to the preceding analogy one more, which will serve to clarify the process of unfoldment in your minds and make the entire theme (from the racial angle) still more clear an

er into the world of hidden forces. they may be energies which, for him, would be evil were he to work with them, and these must be distinguished and discarded; there are others which he must learn to use, for they would prove beneficial and would increase his knowledge, and should therefore be regarded as good. bear in mind, however, that energies per se are neither bad nor good. the great white lodge, our spiritual hierarchy, and the black lodge employ the same universal energies but with different motives and objectives; both groups are groups of trained esotericists. the esotericist in training has, therefore: 1. to become aware of the nature of the forces which constitute his personality equipment and which he himself magnetically brought into expression in the three worlds. they form

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

accomplish the greatest good. ponder on this. i have given you much in this instruction. i seek to make my ashram useful at this time of crisis. we have had a great crisis of materialism and the powers of darkness have very nearly assumed control. but we are seeing the slow domination of the good. humanity has been the battleground for a major conflict between the two great lodges the great white lodge and the black lodge. the former is now gradually gaining control. the withdrawal (quite imminent in time, my brothers) of the evil group will leave humanity relieved but bewildered, beaten to the ground, but with enough strength to rise to greater heights- 29- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust than ever before. for this withdrawal i ask you to prepare with int

d initiations should register them in their brain consciousness. as i have often told you, the initiate consciousness is not the factor which- 49- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust requires to be thus recorded; it is seldom so. recognition of it comes when the candidate is participating in the "esoteric installation" of a candidate into the ranks of the great white lodge. what the disciple undergoing initiation (and i choose the word "undergoing" with deliberation) must and eventually does record are the crises which brought about his fitness to take initiation, as it is erroneously called in theosophical circles. these, correctly handled and surmounted, will result in his being an initiate a very different interpretation to the current theosophical one. as

ty of the ageless wisdom and constitute the latest emanation of the ageless wisdom issued by the hierarchy. they must not be permitted to become a bible of a sect, as has been the case with the secret doctrine and the theosophical society. this incidentally has been a profound disappointment to the hierarchy. a.a.b. must not be turned into an occult authority. those connected with the great white lodge favour no bibles or authorities only the freedom of the human soul. the teaching matters, not the source or the form. let me reiterate for the sake of clarity: none of you has any responsibility for the arcane school or for the service activities though you can work helpfully, with humbleness and pure motive in any or all of them, under the direction of a.a.b. or of those into whose hands sh

nce to shamballa "the centre where the will of god is known" the centre from whence the hierarchy draws its life, as it draws its impulse towards service from humanity. you well know that there is indication in these lines that humanity itself cannot as yet grasp the purpose of sanat kumara. only advanced members of the hierarchy and initiates of at least the third degree (the first degree of the lodge on sirius) have any idea as to the nature of the purpose which underlies the plan. ponder on that phrasing. having invoked the three aspects or potencies of mind, love, and will, in the fourth three lines we have indication of the anchoring of all these powers in humanity itself, in "the centre which we call the race of men" here and here alone lies the promise of the future and its hope and

y which must be considered; there is also a focussing of consciousness and a receptivity which can develop into fixed intention; this can be followed later by a recognition in the physical brain consciousness of what has transpired. forget not that in detail the new group of world servers is composed of the following groups: 1. initiates and disciples who are consciously a part of the great white lodge. 2. aspirants and lesser disciples who are affiliated with the hierarchy, but who do not usually possess that continuity of consciousness which will come later. 3. those upon the probationary path who are not yet affiliated with the hierarchy; they are, however, subject to hierarchical impression and are determined to serve their fellowmen- 144- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyrig

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

afeguarding of the aspirants found working in them. i would like first of all to make one point clear. the great hindrance to the work of the majority of the esoteric schools at this time is their sense of separateness and their intolerance of other schools and methods. the leaders of these schools need to absorb the following fact. all schools which recognise the influence of the trans-himalayan lodge and whose workers are linked, consciously or unconsciously, with such masters of the wisdom as the master morya or the master k.h, form one school and are part of one "discipline" there is therefore no essential conflict of interests, and on the inner side if they are in any way functioning effectively the various schools and presentations are regarded as a unity. there is no basic differenc

an illusion. when the first task of the groups working with world glamour is accomplished this will be evident. i can give you as yet no real idea of the underlying meaning, for you are all working in some measure upon the plane of illusion and of glamour, and for you the world illusion exists and the astral plane is for you a fact. but this i can say: for the initiate members of the great white lodge the astral plane does not exist. they do not work on that level of consciousness, for the astral plane is a definite state of awareness even if (from the spiritual angle) it has no true being. it embodies the great creative work of humanity down the ages, and is the product of the `false' imagination and the work of the lower psychic nature. its instrument of creative work is the sacral and

in common and that is the power to heal. their ability to act as magnetic healers works out in various ways, predominantly in the realm of psychological readjustments and psychic disentanglements, and only incidentally and as a result of the two above activities in the processes of bodily healing. you will note from the above, that the healing work done by the initiate members of the great white lodge is threefold psychological, bringing in the soul; psychic, releasing the lower psychic nature from illusion so that the psyche or soul can have full sway; physical, as the result of the inner psychological and psychic adjustments. this triple healing activity is intended to be the objective of all groups working as this third group, the magnetic healers, should work; thus will be brought abo

, separative and personal ends. it is not easily available, therefore, for the spread and culture of goodwill and this applies equally to the money which is in the hands of aspirants, as in the hands of those who are purely selfishly minded. so many aspirants have not learnt to give with sacrifice. if you can reach some of the financial abundance and deflect it towards the ends of the great white lodge of which the christ is the master, it will be, at this time, one of the most constructive things you can do to help. in this time of stress and strain, my brothers, i would remind all aspirants and disciples that there is no need for the sense of futility or for the registration of littleness. the seed groups that will function in the new age are, at this time, in the dark and growing stage

ficial movements. this awakening goes on apace and, my brothers, satisfactorily. the form or forms may suffer but the intrinsic awareness of man is becoming, during this century, expressively divine. the two other forces which tend to increase the already prevalent tension in the world are: 4. the forces of materialism, streaming out into the three worlds from the so-called "dark forces" or black lodge, and from those groups of lives and workers which are the antithesis of the great white lodge. 5. the force emanating from that section of humanity which is found in every part of the world and which we call the jewish people. what i say here has no specific reference to any individual; i am considering the world problem, centering around the jews as a whole. these two forces greatly complic

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

ct under cyclic law and its consequences, as they work out upon the physical plane, has produced and is producing all the changes of which mankind is so terribly aware at this time. this swings into immediate conflict the past and the future, and in this statement i have expressed the deepest esoteric truth which mankind is competent to grasp; it brings into a culminating struggle the great white lodge and the black lodge and opens the door to great contending energies which we can call spirit and matter, spirituality and materialism, or life and death. these words are, in the last analysis, as meaningless as the terms good and evil, which have significance only in the human consciousness and its inherent limitations. these descending energies, as they pass through any of the major levels

ry) must be recovered and is in process of discovery today. the mystics have sought after it; the masons have preserved the tradition of its existence; the disciples and initiates of the world must demonstrate its possession. 3. the sound is the sole expression of the ineffable name, the secret appellation of the one in whom we live and move and have our being, and who is known to the great white lodge through this name. remember always that name and form are synonymous terms in the occult teaching, and these two words hold the secret of manifestation. the goal of the initiate is identification with all forms of the divine life, so that he can know himself to be an integral part of that whole and can tune in on all states of divine awareness, knowing for himself (and not just theoretically

transmitting the purpose and motivating the plan of sanat kumara his life plan. what you call "the plan" is the response of the hierarchy to the inflaming purposeful will of the lord of the world. through sanat kumara, the ancient of days (as he is called in the bible, flows the unknown energy of which the three divine aspects are the expression. he is the custodian of the will of the great white lodge on sirius, and the burden of this "cosmic intention" is shared by the buddhas of activity and those members of the great council who are of so elevated a consciousness and vibration that only once a year (through their emissary, the buddha) is it safe for them to contact the hierarchy. i am seeking only to point to a wider horizon than that usually registered by disciples and i use these bro

r cannot reach him. this individual security of his is only reached between the time of taking the second initiation and the third. prior to that, he is still regarded as a potential hazard and as unstable. after that, he may suffer from illusion, but there is then no fear of his permanently turning back and reaching the left-hand path and so perhaps, in rare cases, finding his way into the black lodge. the major liability of the average initiate is sloth or lack of speed. ponder on that. i would have you grasp clearly the highly condensed presentation i have given you. some of it you know already but it is the synthetic presentation which i would have you appreciate and appropriate. we can then take up the work to be done within the individual framework by the initiate; i will endeavour t

n who were as yet without any spiritual vision of any kind; they were purely material in their instinctive reactions (and rightly so at that particular time, and these reactions attracted the attention of certain purely evil energies or beings. these beings availed themselves of the situation in order to satisfy their desire for power again a distortion of the will or first aspect. thus the black lodge was founded. it fed upon human desire and resembled a vast overshadowing vampire. it vitiated human living and increased the growth of desire far beyond normal expectancy or hierarchical planning, thus creating false goals and standards, building a barrier between the lowest planetary centre, humanity, and the "middle point" or centre, the hierarchy. it will be apparent, therefore, that the

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

s the others with the amount of their knowledge and the wonder of their self-sacrificing lives. this is not group work [186] group work is standing alone spiritually in the handling of one's own affairs with complete forgetting of one's own self and affairs in the welfare of the particular section of humanity with which we are associated. it negates ambition; it negates the progress upward in any lodge or organization; it negates all assuming of official prerogatives. i do not think the new groups will have any officials but will work automatically because of the intuitional spiritual interplay between the minds of the units in the groups. we do not know anything about it yet. can you think of a group so united on spiritual levels that letters, pamphlets, books, etc, can be done away with;

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

ard to the fact that emblematic freemasonry, as it is known and practised at this day, arose from an operative guild and within the bosom of a development from certain london lodges which prior to the year 1717 had their titles in the past of the guild and recognised its old charges, it would seem outside the reasonable likelihood of things that less than forty years after the foundation of grand lodge knightly orders should begin to be heard of developing under the aegis of the craft, their titles in some cases being borrowed from the old institutions of christian chivalry. it is this, however, which occurred, and the inventions were so successful that they multiplied on every side, from 1754 to the threshold of the french revolution, new denominations being devised when the old titles we

red, and the inventions were so successful that they multiplied on every side, from 1754 to the threshold of the french revolution, new denominations being devised when the old titles were exhausted. there arose in this manner a great tree of ritual, and it happens, moreover, that we are in a position to affirm the kind of root from which it sprang. twenty years after the date of the london grand lodge, and when that of scotland may not have been twelve months old, the memorable scottish freemason, andrew michael ramsay, delivered an historical address in a french lodge, in the course of which he explained that the masonic brotherhood arose in palestine during the period of the crusades, under the protection of christian knights, with the object of restoring christian churches which had be

y. now, we have seen that the chapter in its last degree represented the new jerusalem, and therefore its alchemy might well be transferred from a common work in metals to the spiritual side of hermeticism. those who have read robert fludd and jacob bohme will be acquainted with this aspect; but it may not have satisfied the figurative knights of god, who had come so far in their journey from the lodge of entered apprentice to a temple of supposed adeptship. the chapter therefore died- i have met with another french ritual in a great manuscript collection and again- so far as ascertained- it seems to be the sole copy in england, though it is not unknown by name, in view of the bibliographies of kloss and wolfsteig. it is called le chevalier du temple, and is of high importance to our subje

ve clothing and hence the divested state of the masonic postulant. but this state signified also that his arm is ever ready to do battle with the enemies of the holy christian religion and his heart for the sacrifice of his entire being to jesus christ. the alleged correspondences and meanings are developed at some length, but it will be sufficient to mention that the masonic candidate enters the lodge poor and penniless, because that was the condition at their beginning of the templars and the other orders of christian knighthood. the candidate is prepared for the second craft degree in a somewhat different manner from that of the first, and this has reference to certain distinctions between the clothing of a knight of the holy sepulchre and that of a knight of st. john. the seven steps a

the observance order in 1770, and it took over the warsaw lodges in 1773. the story of its influence in germany itself is beyond my scope. it is written at large everywhere: at hamburg from 1765, when schubert founded an independent prefectory, to 1781 (when the rectified rite was established for a brief period by prince karl von hesse; at nuremberg in 1765, under the same auspices; in the grand lodge of saxony from circa 1762 to 1782; at berlin, in the mother lodge of the three globes, from 1766 to 1779, when the rosicrucians intervened; at konigsberg from 1769 to 1799 in the provincial grand lodge; in the kingdom of hanover, at the english provincial grand lodge, from 1766 to 1778; and even now the list is not exhausted. the explanation of this influence through all its period and every

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o suggest much more of the sitters personality and magickal content than is apparent in a more conventional depiction. ghosts are sidereal he wrote and it seems to me that his strange geometric experiments pierce through to the soul of the stars. from this i can find a definite magickal thrust that culminates in the commissioned work he did for his friend kenneth grant s occult group, the nu-isis lodge in the 50 s. spare was commissioned to produce numerous magickal paintings including depictions of isis the star goddess. the stunning pastel isis smiles is perhaps the most famous of these. there also exists a very novel picture called female nebula that shows a swirling spiral galaxy, literally the body of the stars: a depiction of the feminine mystery of space and a reference to the child

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ember of an organization which condones or takes part in the violation of society's laws to the detriment of society. that first limitation has often been a subject for discussion by people who don't understand it or who want clarification. one clarification i posted to alt.pagan in 1996 was "the temple of set wouldn't care if a setian chooses to participate in a buddhist retreat, an indian sweat lodge, a thelemic gnostic mass, a passover seder, a pagan circle, or whatever. part of being an adept magician is being able to see and mesh with whatever magic is taking place, understanding the causes of the ceremony and participating in those causes as appropriate to our own will "however, if someone claimed to seriously believe in the wheel of karma, and that xeper is valueless because until w

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ls; and new forms- though fewer and ever wider apart as ages pass on and the close of the manvantara approaches- will develop from the "cast off" types of the human races as they revert once again to astral, out of the mire of physical, life. there were none before man, and they will be extinct before the seventh race develops. karma will lead on the monads of the unprogressed men of our race and lodge them in the newly evolved human frames of the thus physiologically regenerated baboon (but see part iii, addenda) this will take place, of course, millions of years hence. but the picture of this cyclic precession of all that lives and breathes now on earth, of each species in its turn, is a true one, and needs no "special creation" or miraculous formation of man, beast, and plant ex nihilo

ot. karshipta is the human mind-soul, and the deity thereof, symbolized in ancient magianism by a bird, as the greeks symbolized it by a butterfly. no sooner had karshipta entered the vara or man, than he understood the law of mazda, or divine wisdom. in the "book of concealed mystery" it is said of the tree, which is the tree of knowledge of good and evil "in its branches (of the tree) the birds lodge and build their nests" or the souls and the angels have their place* therefore, with the kabalists it was a like symbol "bird" was a chaldean, and has become a hebrew synonym and symbol for angel, a soul, a spirit, or deva; and the "bird's nest" was with both heaven, and is god's bosom in the zohar. the perfect messiah enters eden "into that place which is called the bird's nest (zohar, ii

in the eyes of the historical critic" this settled, everyone will see that one hypothesis is as good as another. and as we find that german naturalist (haeckel) himself confessing that neither geology (in its history of the past) nor the ancestral history of organisms will ever "rise to the position of a real exact science* a large margin is thus left to occult science to make its annotations and lodge its protests. the world is left to choose between the teachings of paracelsus, the "father of modern chemistry" and those of haeckel, the father of the mythical sozura. we demand no more. without presuming to take part in the quarrel of such very learned naturalists as du bois-reymond and haeckel a propos of our blood relationship to "those ancestors (of ours) which have led up from the unic

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

the kabala, and the knowledge of 1065 (21, a universal science may be obtained regarding kosmos and its mysteries (rabbi yogel. the rabbis regard the numbers 10, 6, and 5 as the most sacred of all* the reader may be told that an american kabalist has now discovered the same number for the elohim. it came to the jews from chaldaea. see "hebrew metrology" in the masonic review, july, 1885, mcmillan lodge, no. 141[[vol. 1, page] 91 the immaculate conceptions. mathematical formulae to express it. this set of figures must have the same meaning, since the 1: 314,159, and then again 1: 3: 1,415,927 are worked out in the secret calculations to express the various cycles and ages of the "first born" or 311,040,000,000,000 with fractions, and yield the same 13,415 by a process we are not concerned w

et us take the following case. most of them reject actio in distans (one of the fundamental principles in the question of aether or akasa in occultism, while, as stallo justly observes, there is no physical action[[vol. 1, page] 488 the secret doctrine "which, on close examination, does not resolve itself into actio in distans; and he proves it. now, metaphysical arguments, according to professor lodge (nature, vol. xxvii, p. 304, are "unconscious appeals to experience" and he adds that if such an experience is not conceivable, then it does not exist, etc. in his own words. if a highly-developed mind or set of minds, find a doctrine about some comparatively simple and fundamental matter absolutely unthinkable, it is an evidence. that the unthinkable state of things has no existence, etc" a

eals to experience" and he adds that if such an experience is not conceivable, then it does not exist, etc. in his own words. if a highly-developed mind or set of minds, find a doctrine about some comparatively simple and fundamental matter absolutely unthinkable, it is an evidence. that the unthinkable state of things has no existence, etc" and thereupon, toward the end of his lecture, professor lodge indicates that the explanation of cohesion, as well as of gravity "is to be looked for in the vortex-atom theory of sir william thomson (stallo. it is needless to stop to inquire whether it is to this vortex-theory, also, that we have to look for the dropping down on earth of the first life-germ by a passing meteor or comet (sir w. thomson's hypothesis. but mr. lodge might be reminded of the

same criticism which is said to invalidate the assumption of actio in distans (p. xxiv. and then the able critic shows clearly what the ether is not, nor can ever be, notwithstanding all scientific claims to the contrary. and thus he opens widely, if unconsciously, the entrance door to our occult teachings. for, as he says "the medium in which the vortex-movements arise is, according to professor lodge's own express statement (nature, vol. xxvii, p. 305 'a perfectly homogeneous, incompressible, continuous body, incapable of being resolved into simple elements or atoms: it is, in fact, continuous, not molecular' and after making this statement professor lodge adds 'there is no other body of which we can say this, and hence the properties of the aether must be somewhat different from those o

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to the iii. beyond this, admission is only granted by invitation from the governing body concerned. the o.t.o, though an academia masonica, is not a masonic body so far as the .secrets. are concerned in the sense in liber lii 203 which that expression is usually understood; and therefore in no way conflicts with, or infringes the just privileges of, the united grand lode in england, or any grand lodge in america or elsewhere which is recognized by it. 10. application for admission to the order may be made personally at headquarters, between the hours of ten a.m. and twelve noon on week-days, or by letter to the grand secretary general. in the former case, applicants should be provided with the twenty dollars entitling them to the third degree; in the latter, it should be enclosed with the

usiness to watch the necessity of all those brethren with whom he may be personally acquainted, anticipating their wants in so wise and kindly and delicate a manner that it shall appear as if it were the payment of a debt. and what help is given shall be given with discretion, so that the relief may be permanent instead of temporary. 3. all brethren shall be exceedingly punctual in the payment of lodge dues. this is to take precedence over all other calls upon the purse. third house. 4. the brethren shall be diligent in preaching the law of thelema. in all writings they shall be careful to use the prescribed greetings; likewise in speech, even with strangers. the equinox 212 5. they shall respond heartily to every summons of the lodge or chapter to which they may belong, not lightly making

every summons of the lodge or chapter to which they may belong, not lightly making excuse. 6. brethren should use every opportunity of assisting each other in their tastes, businesses, or professions, whether by direct dealing with brethren in preference to others, or by speaking well of them, or as may suggest itself. it seems desirable, when possible, what where two or more brethren of the same lodge are engaged in the same work, they should seek to amalgamate the same by entering into partnership. thus in time great and powerful corporations may arise from small individual enterprises. 7. they shall be diligent in circulating all tracts, manifestos, and all other communications which the order may from time to time give out for the instruction or emancipation of the profane. 8. they may

r. 10. property thus given will be administered if he desire it in his own interest, thus effecting a saving, since large estates are more economically handled than small. but the order will use such property as may happen to lie idle for the moment in such ways as it may seem good, lending an unlet house (for example) to some brother who is in need, or allowing an unused hall to be occupied by a lodge. liber ci 213 11 (yet in view of the great objects of the order, endowment is welcome. 12. every brother shall show himself solicitous of the comfort and happiness of any brother who may be old, attending not only to all material wants, but to his amusement, so that his declining years may be made joyful. fifth house 13. every brother shall seek constantly to give pleasure to all brethren wi

ought and character, and to warn them that servility and cowardice are the most deadly diseases of the human soul. sixth house 16. personal or domestic attendants should be chosen from among the members of the order when possible, and great tact and courtesy are to be employed in dealing with them. the equinox 214 17. they, on their part, will render willing and intelligence service. 18. while in lodge, and on special occasions, they are to be treated as brothers, with perfect equality; such behaviour is undesirable during the hours of service, and familiarity, subversive as it is of all discipline and order, is to be avoided by adopting a complete and marked change of manner and address. 19. this applies to all persons in subordinate positions, but not to the brethren servient in the prof

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

gh apart they are one 'they are both the shadow and the light" then follows an enactment of a seasonal motif (e.g. the midpoint in the sun's winter journey; sweeping out the old and starting anew; the running of the priests of the lupercalia, at the ancient roman festival; the preparation of seed-grain for growing in the spring; the inviting of the goddess of fertility to enter into the house and lodge therein. bell is rung seven times. covener "our lord now has reached mid-journey. ahead he sees the light of our lady, and the start of life anew, after this period of rest. this was the first festival of the keltic year. this is the time when spring lambs are born and ewes come into milk. spring itself is scented in the distance and thoughts are on the goddess as much as on the god. burn, n

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

t factor of magickal training, even within sorcery and witchcraft. the mind and body must be in fine tuned shape for the rigors of the left hand path and it s possibilities towards the light of lucifer or adonai (the hidden self, associated with god or the source of light. the illuminates of thanateros has some very strong initiates within their ranks at many points, one being the austrian former lodge, temple pleasuredome which operated from 1988 until 1990 whe n temple founder michael dewitt was excommunicated due to his support for peter carroll in the infamous ice magick wars. the ice magick wars are detailed in other chaos magick volumes and will not be discussed here. michael dewitt, aka anon 359 has long been an innovator in the austrian magickal scene, and for that matter even beyo

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

mago-cabalisticum (first edition) sefer yetzirah published in constantinople. 1723 kirchweger's golden chain of homer 1727?-1774 jacques martinez de pasqually 1728 l'abb terrasson: sethos ou vie tir e des monuments et anecdotes de l'ancienne egypte. 1730-1824 jean-baptiste willermoz (1778) chevaliers bienfaisants de la cite sainte. 1731 claude tomasset tarot(murten, switzerland. first entry of a lodge meeting in the colonies that became the united states, in an account book of st. john's lodge in philadelphia. 1734 franz anton mesmer born in iznang, swabia (germany (may 23) 1734-1797 k ppen, karl friedrich(carl friedrich koeppen).afrikanische bauherren. 1734 benjamin franklin became grand master of what would be known as the "moderns" grand lodge in pennsylvania. 1735 abraham eleazar ural

s werck 1743-1795 giuseppe balsamo "count cagliostro" 1743-1803 louis claude de saint-martin 1745 sefer yetzirah published in zolkkiew 1745-1797/8 charles-pierre-paul savalette de lange. keeper of the royal treasury, grand officer of the grand orient, and a high initiate of masonry 'versed in all mysteries, in all the lodges, and all the plots' in order to unite all the masonic groups he made his lodge a mixture of all sophistic, martiniste, and masonic systems 'and as a bait to the aristocracy organized balls and concerts at which the adepts, male and female, danced and feasted, or sang of the beauties of their liberty and equality, little knowing that above them was a secret committee which was arranging to extend this equality beyond the lodge to rank and fortune, to castles and to cott

as the perfection of man, and his union with divinity, it constitution was identical with the rite of "primitive philalethes of narbonne" 1776 adam weishaupt forms the order of illuminati of bavaria 4 july. philadelphia, pennsylvania. thirteen colonies declare their independence from britain. these colonies call themselves the united states of america. 1778 voltaire initiated in "les neuf soeurs" lodge in paris. his conductors were benjamin franklin and count gebelin. crata repoa. oder einweihungen in der alten geheimen gesellschaft der egyptischen priester. 1779 sefer yetzirah published in korzec, by moses ben jacob, zozec. the primitive rite of philadelphians was founded in narbonne by marquis de chefdebien d'armisson, a member of the grand orient and of the amis reunis, under the tutela

, zozec. the primitive rite of philadelphians was founded in narbonne by marquis de chefdebien d'armisson, a member of the grand orient and of the amis reunis, under the tutelage of savalette de langes. 1779-1860 franz joseph molitor. christian intellectual advocated the establishment of the jewish school at frankfort: philanthropin, and was one of its first teachers. member of freemasonic jewish lodge, zur aufgehenden morgenroethe. 1780-1860 giovanni d'anastasi greek diplomat and collector of papyri graecae magicae 1780 alliette (etteilla) collection sur les hautes sciences 1781 court de gebelin (antoine gebelin) le monde primatif 1783 alliette (etteilla) maniere de se recreer avec le jeu de carte nomme les tarots 1784 nearly the entire commentary on "sefer yezirah" by abraham abulafia (m

t. c.1788: etteilla publishes deck specifically for esoteric purposes, including divination. 1785 cagliostro founds the memphis rite, which later becomes the ancient and primitive rite of memphis-misraim. 10 february, cagliostro summoned to appear at the philalethes convention but he requests all members of the convention adopt the constitutions of the egyptian rite and be initiated at the mother lodge at lyons and requires that the archives of the philalethes be burnt. february 15 congress took place in paris, convened this time by the philalethes; alledgedly in attendance was the illuminati bode (alias amelius, baron de busche (alias bayard, cagliostro, aliette(sic, mesmer, the cabalist duchanteau, and of course the leaders of the philalethes, savalette de langes, who was elected preside

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organisation. this period of the cathars and the crusades spawned many brotherhood offshoots, which continue to significantly influence events- secret societies like the knights hospitallers of st. john, known today as the knights of malta. nor was this merely a phenomenon of the christian and jewish world. similar secret societies were created within all cultures, and the arab brotherhood grand lodge in cairo was to become a major manipulator of events. the aim of this negative brotherhood structure is to persuade the mass of the people to believe any old nonsense while the manipulators keep for themselves the knowledge of the nature of life and creation and how to exploit the power of the mind, the earth's energy fields, and the global energy grid (the network of energy lines known by d

ion after the english civil war and especially in the early 1700s. up to that point, only people who worked by profession as masons or building craftsmen could be members. now it became open to all and freemasonary or speculative masonry was born. it is likely that francis bacon was a force behind this transformation. the centre of the freemasonic network that now expanded rapidly was a new grand lodge (launched in london in 1717) which became known as the mother grand lodge of the world. it was a centre of freemasonic manipulation, encouraging other lodges to be set up throughout europe, the british empire, and the americas. many other versions of freemasonry were introduced, including the york rite and the scottish rite of michael ramsey (which was based on the knights templar system. th

ous influence in the politics, economics, military, and security services of britain, europe, the united states, and many other countries. new york was named after the york rite of freemasonry. the brotherhood plan was for the establishment of an independent united states of america- independent of the british government, that is, not independent of the brotherhood. encouraged by the mother grand lodge in london, the freemasonic lodges in the colonies of america began to plot and agitate against british rule. an economic crisis was engineered, not least through war between britain and the french. as part of their desperation for income, the british government imposed the birth of the brotherhood 33 higher taxation and duties on the american colonies. it was an operation created and coordin

on, politics, economics, and literature; but they are all connected, all directed by the invisible centre that hides its power as it thus seeks to move all the sceptres of the earth" the opposition by the american colonies led the british government to withdraw the new taxes, except for those on tea, but the brotherhood was not going to let the anger subside. members of the st. andrews freemasons lodge in boston, led by the junior warden, paul revere, dressed up as native american 'indians' and threw tea chests into the harbour to protest at the tax on tea. the boston tea party, as it became known, was hatched during a supper at the home of the bradlee brothers, who were both members of the st. andrews lodge.8 the momentum for a war of independence gathered strength until it was unstoppabl

he also secured the services of the german freemason, baron von streube, who served in the army of frederick the great of prussia. the baron was to play a major part in the colonists' victory over the british. franklin's connections with the french brotherhood were very close and he became a high ranking member of the lodges of san juan and the nine sisters which, in league with the grand orient lodge in paris, would trigger the french revolution of 1789. franklin was made grand master of the nine sisters. one of the central revolutionaries in france, the marquis de lafayette, was a friend of franklin and supported him and the colonists during the american revolution. freemasons manipulated and won the war of independence and then took control of the new united states of america. they, an

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ed eleven supreme court justices, at least six of which were confirmed freemasons. the same story has continued ever since. the inauguration of washington in 1789 was a freemasonic ceremony in which he swore the oath on a freemasonic bible. in january 2001 president george w. bush took the oath using that same bible, as did his father more than a decade earlier. it is the property of the new york lodge, according to news reports. washington, who commanded the american colonial armies against the british crown, was a knight of the order of the garter, one of the most elite illuminati networks headed by the british crown! it seems to be a staggering contradiction, but when you know the scam it makes perfect sense (see the biggest secret for the detailed background to the american war of "ind

w they fit with experience today 28 flying serpents and dragons, p 92 29 quoted in gods of the new millennium, p 223 30 the translation of zecharia sitchin 31 gods of the new millennium, pp 226 and 227 32 manly p. hall, the secret teachings of all ages (the philosophical research society. los angeles, california, 1988, p al 33 an excellent source of information on this story is the temple and the lodge by michael baigent and richard leigh, published by arcade publishing, new york, in 1989 34 see manly p. hall's america's assignment with destiny, the adepts of the western tradition, published by the philosophical research society. los angeles, california, in 1979 chapter 7 serving the dragon: the past great spirits have always experienced violent opposition from mediocre minds. albert einst

lluminati operations called columbia pictures, columbia university, and columbia broadcasting, the us network, cbs. one of the most horrific events in america in recent years was the shootings at columbine high school and when you begin to appreciate the unbelievable obsession the liluminati have with symbolism, down to the finest of details, that location is not a co-incidence. the english grand lodge of freemasonry is also located in london in great queen street to symbolise its worship of the serpent queen, el. england, one of the headquarters of the liluminati, is known as the "mother country" and its parliament the "mother of parliaments. it is all goddess symbolism, as was britannia, an earlier name for britain derived from the phoenician goddess, barati or "barat-anna. freemasonic h

her illuminati creed that was to cost the lives of hundreds of millions in the bloody wars waged with christianity and judaism. these are three prison religions ultimately controlled by the same force. islam, like christianity and judaism, was also a vehicle for the systematic suppression of women and the feminine principle. again we see the connection to freemasonry. after earning the three blue lodge degrees of freemasonry and completing the scottish or york rite degrees, masons can petition to become a shriner. these who swear a blood oath and confess allah as god.43 allah is a moon god. this is why you will see a crescent moon at the top of mosques around the world, and why the shriners have the crescent moon on their fez hats. this symbol is on the flags of various islamic nations and

1870's. many have gargoyles. these buildings, he says, are the county courthouses sitting above underground tunnels and basement systems. dallas is an example serving the dragon: the present (2) 265 with its underground tunnels beneath dealey plaza where president kennedy was shot in 1963. what a great way for the true assassins to escape. these tunnels would have been under the original masonic lodge in dallas, which was located in dealey plaza. close by is the 1870's old red courthouse complete with gargoyles. underground tunnels were discovered in dallas in the late 50's or early 60's and lauren talked to a man who was working on a state road crew when he was a teenager. they were digging out what is called "the canyon" to build freeways when they opened up an ancient tunnel. they foun

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yet another religionoriginating from the same source and another perpetuation of the jesus myth. the goldplates, smith said, were written in reformed egyptian. from this came the book ofmormon two years later and his followers became the mormon church in 1830. thepillars of the early church were smith and another guy called brigham young. theywere both high degree freemasons from the key new york lodge and the expansion ofthis church was funded by kuhn, loeb and company, the rothschild bank in theunited states30 which also helped to fund the russian revolution and both sides in thefirst world war. the mormons were a brotherhood creation. mormons recognise thebible, but claim that smiths writings are equally divine. they set up communitiescalled stakes of zion (sion, the sun) and eventually

clairs/sinclairs were reptilian for sure. it was one ofbruces descendants, the scottish nobleman james bruce of kinnaird, who left britainin 1768 for abyssinia, now ethiopia, to find a rare copy of the kebra nagast, the sacredbook of the ethiopians, and three copies of the book of enoch with which he returnedto europe in 1773. james bruce was a freemason, a member of the canongatekilwinning no 2 lodge in edinburgh, one of the oldest in scotland.1 the presentbritish royal family, the windsors, carry some of the blood of robert the bruce and ofthe scottish, irish and welsh elite, as well as the genetic stream of the reptile-aryanbranches in germany. the windsors, like all the royal families (family) of europe arerepresentatives of the black nobility and babylonian brotherhood and related to

another name for queen semiramis, as innimrod-semiramis-tammuz. isis/semiramis is also known by a stream of other namesin the various regions, cultures and countries. these include barati, diana, rhea,minerva, aphrodite, v enus, hecate, juno, ceres, luna and many, many others. it is saidthat they are symbolic of the moon, the female energy in its various forms. theheadquarters of the grand mother lodge of english freemasonry (grand mother =semiramis/isis) is based in great queen street in london (great queen= semiramis/isis. in the end all the names were inspired by ninkharsag, the anunnaki mothergoddess of the reptilian-human crossbreeds, their mammy. the ancient gods such as134nimrod/osiris and the endless other names under which he is known, represent thepower of the sun, the male. this

archduke johann von habsburg, a cousinof franz-josef, the emperor of austria.23 the habsburgs, a big-time reptilian bloodline,ruled the holy roman empire for 500 years before its demise in 1806. the priory ofsion, the merovingian bloodline, and rennes-le-chateau, definitely connect into thewider web i am exposing.among the most significant freemasonic lodges in the world today is the grandalpine lodge in switzerland. henry kissinger, one of the planets most active servantsof the reptilians (he is one, is a member. it is involved at a very high level in the globalmanipulation (see. and the truth shall set you free) and it is most definitely satanic. awork entitled the merovingian descendants and the enigma of the visigoth razes was150published, according to its title page, by the grand alp

e in switzerland. henry kissinger, one of the planets most active servantsof the reptilians (he is one, is a member. it is involved at a very high level in the globalmanipulation (see. and the truth shall set you free) and it is most definitely satanic. awork entitled the merovingian descendants and the enigma of the visigoth razes was150published, according to its title page, by the grand alpine lodge, though they now denyit.24 razes is the old name for the area around rennes-le-chateau.25 it was first publishedin german and then translated into french by a walter celse-nazaire, a pseudonym ma-de up of the saints after whom the church at rennes-les-bains is dedicated. the secretsheld in rennes-le-chateau and the languedoc are extremely important to these people.the composer, richard wagne

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asn't aware that masonry had such a large influence in the u.s. presidency both past and present. people who have been born into this world do not realize that they have been taught falsehoods and deprived of certain informations which are vital to their freedom. thirty three is the highest degree obtainable within masonry. you can be a 33rd degree mason with a p.h.d. and still be lied to by your lodge. the tumbling domino effect doesn't just apply to the church, it also applies to the masonic lodge as well. it is possible for the educated such as a ph.d, doctor, lawyer, businessman, journalist, scientist, accountant or even a mason to be uneducated. as mentioned on another page, there is a difference between vocational training and true education, and it has been cleverly blurred. and the

first type and the general public from realizing it. this mason is satanic (elite mason) some masons proclaim that freemasonry is not satanic. these masons can fall under the description of both types. we must also be very careful with this mason as well. this mason might be of type 2 and disguising himself as type 1. some masonic lodges may not have any members who are of type 2. therefore that lodge could be innocent. however, there are lodges in the world which are run by type 2. because of this, if one says freemasonry is satanic, they are correct. if one says freemasonry is not, they are correct as well "elite freemason" refers to someone who is recognized as being involved with the hidden gears of freemasonry. this mason is of type 2 and has revealed themselves to us through the boo

anger. general granger related a meeting between himself, president andrew johnson, who was a mason, and albert pike, the most famous of all masons. general granger reported his surprise that president johnson considered himself to be subordinate to albert pike. this subordination is detailed in the oath the initiate takes during the third degree, called the master mason's degree, inside the blue lodge. this oath states "i do promise..that i will obey all..summonses..given..to me from the hand of a brother master mason" presidents who are masons are obligated to take orders from their master masons. but why should we be surprised? this is the meaning of the symbolization contained by the house of the temple being precisely 13 city blocks north of the white house. the pentagon now, let us q

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

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as counselors and guardians to human beings. dadouchos: from the greek meaning "a torch bearer" originally, a hereditary officer at the mysteries of the eleusian demeter, whose torch symbolized her search for her daughter persephone, the spirit of youth and spring. in the order of the astral star, a junior officer of a stellar temple [s.t. a member of clergy (deacon/ deaconess (q.v) of a working lodge of the order who serves as the warden of the south. dagger: a cross hilted, double edged, short blade used as the magickal tool and weapon of elemental air. attributed to the direction of the east. deacon/ deaconess: from the late latin, from the greek "diakonos" meaning "servant. in the christian church, a lesser member of the clergy. one who ranks just below a priest/ priestess and is assi

ommander "to train "to educate" and "to weigh in the balance. more generally, an assistant of the mysteries who reconciles opposing forces during initiation, and assists the hierophant (q.v) and the hiereus (q.v) in initiating the same. in the order of the astral star (q.v) a senior officer of a stellar temple [s.t. the associate adept and a member of clergy (chief deacon/ deaconess) of a working lodge of the society whose station is at the white pillar in regular working, or at the middle of the hall during initiations to symbolize a balance and reconciliation of forces. heh-cha-loht: hebrew for "accent" see merkabah. heptagram: a star of seven (7) points drawn with a straight, single, unbroken, reflecting line. it's points are related to the seven traditional planets of astrology. the pr

quiring the applications of elemental (q.v) air (q.v) is needed. hiereus/ hiereia: from the greek meaning "priest or priestess" more generally, any priest (priestess) of the mysteries who assists the hierophant (q.v) in initiating members. in the order of the astral star, a senior officer of a stellar temple [s.t. the assisting adept and a primary member of clergy (priest/ priestess) of a working lodge of the society whose station is at the black pillar in regular working, or at the west end of the hall during initiations to symbolize a terrible and avenging force at the confines of matter, at the borders of the qlippohth being enthroned upon matter and robed in darkness (black. hierophant: originally, the high priest of the greek mysteries at eleusis. more generally, any priest of the mys

roned upon matter and robed in darkness (black. hierophant: originally, the high priest of the greek mysteries at eleusis. more generally, any priest of the mysteries who reveals sacred secrets to initiates and candidates during initiation. in the order of the astral star, the chief officer of a stellar temple [s.t. the principle adept and ranking clergy (high priest/ high priestess) of a working lodge of the society whose station is at the east- the direction of light in regular working and initiations. in regular workings, it is customary for a past hierophant to stand as the warden of the east, so that the hierophant may direct the workings from the center of the circle. high magick: ritual or ceremonial magick. it is called "high" because it was first developed in places which were at

enger" originally, an officer whose duty it was to summon the members of the general assembly. the kerux was originally a political office, but was eventually made a religious office with the responsibility of maintaining order, and maintained charge over all sacrifices. in the order of the astral star, a junior officer of a stellar temple [s.t. a member of clergy (deacon/ deaconess) of a working lodge of the society who serves as the warden of the north in regular workings. kether: hebrew for "crown. pronounced "keh-tehr" it is the first (1st) sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. it is at the top of the middle pillar on 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 givi

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g the planes, and representing that which was experienced subjectively as having actually happened in the world of matter. i have given my life to occultism since i was a young girl, and everything i have seen and experienced, on both the inner and the outer planes, points away from any centralised human organisation. i have seen the most extravagant claims made on behalf of some such great white lodge or temple of the illuminati, especially by certain american enterprises, for i refuse to call them occult orders; but i have never seen them substantiated. in fact, those who are loudest in their claims give out teaching which would disgrace a patent medicine circular. by their fruits ye shall know them and the fruits of these self styled adepti are bilious concoctions. the eternal temple in

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ysical form and racial type which the soul assumes in each incarnation are determined by destiny, or karma, and that the life has to be worked out and lived accordingly. it is inadvisable for us to play tricks with our type, racial or physical, and we should always accept it as the basis of our operations, and choose our methods accordingly. there are certain operations and certain offices in the lodge for which a male vehicle is more suitable than a female, and when practical work is on hand the officers in a ceremony are selected on type; but when the routine training of an initiate is in progress it is the custom to let everyone take turns at the different offices in order that they may learn to handle the different types of force and so become equilibrated. 31. benjamin kidd, in his ve

an open channel through which power can be brought down the planes into manifestation on the physical level. 41. i shall no doubt be abused and misrepresented for my frankness in/these matters; but if no one will come forward and bear the odium of speaking the truth, how is the mystical qabala page 105 wayfaring man to find his way in the mysteries? are we to maintain a victorian attitude in the lodge which has everywhere been abandoned outside it? someone must break these false gods made in the image of mrs grundy. i am inclined to think, however, that any loss i may sustain on this account will be small, for it would not be possible to train or to co-operate with the kind of person who is thrown into a panic by plain speaking? do not let it be thought that i am inviting anyone to partic

igious mysticism as distinguished from the magic and psychism of yesod; for be it remembered, the sephiroth of the central pillar of the tree represent levels of consciousness, and the sephiroth on the side pillars represent powers and modes of functino. tiphareth is also said to be the sphere of the greater masters; it is the temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens and the great white lodge. it is here that the initiated adept functions when in the higher consciousness; here that he hopes to meet the masters, and it is by means of the name, and by an understanding of the significance of the name of aloah va daath that he opens up the higher consciousness. 70. for be it noted that it is only in proportion to the significance a word has for us that it becomes a word of power. the

as important a part of the equipment of the practical occultist as his rod of power. god said unto moses, put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground" the adept makes holy ground for himself by placing upon his feet the consecrated sandals. the floor-cloth, of the appropriate colour and marked with the appropriate symbol5, is also an important piece of lodge furniture. jt is designed to concentrate the earth magnetism used in the [page 264] operation in the same way that the altar is the focus of the spiritual forces. through our feet we pick up the earth magnetism; and when that magnetism is of a special kind) we use special slippers that shall not inhibit it. 32. the perfumes, too, are very important in ceremonial operations, for they represen

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ychic attack ii. analysis of the nature of psychic attack iii. a case of modern witchcraft iv. projection of the etheric body v. vampirism vi. hauntings 1 of 103 vii. the pathology of non-human contacts viii. the risks incidental to ceremonial magic part ii differential diagnosis ix. distinction between objective psychic attack and subjective psychic disturbance x. non-occult dangers of the black lodge xi. the psychic element in mental disturbance part iii the diagnosis of a psychic attack xii. methods employed in making a psychic attack xiii. the motives of psychic attack. i xiv. the motives of psychic attack. ii part iv methods of defence against psychic attack xv. physical aspect of psychic attack and defence xvi. diagnosis of the nature of an attack xvii. methods of defence. i xviii. m

of the mind that i originally took up the study of occultism. i have had my full share of the adventures of the path; have known men and women who could indubitably be ranked as adepts; seen phenomena such as no seance room has ever known, and borne my share in it; taken part in psychic feuds, and stood my watch on the roster of the occult police force which, under the masters of the great white lodge, keeps guard over the nations, each according to its race; kept the occult vigil when one dare not sleep while the sun is below the horizon; and hung on desperately, matching my staying-power against the attack until the moon-tides changed and the force of the onslaught blew itself out. and through all these experiences i was learning to interpret occultism in the light of psychology and psy

to determine whether the disturbance is due to atmosphere alone, or whether an earth-bound entity complicates the situation. where an entity is present, it will usually be seen sooner or later. moreover, it will usually be heard as well as felt. this latter sign, however, does not invariably indicate the presence of an organised entity, for i know of a case wherein a room that had been used as a lodge of ritual initiation was subsequently partitioned into an office and two bedrooms after the lodge was moved elsewhere, and the bedrooms were practically uninhabitable owing to the din of cracks, bangs and thumpings that went on at night. in such a case there was no reason to suspect the presence of any entity, for the rituals had not been of an evocative type, nor was the influence evil. it

ist may get into difficulties if he attempts magical work when he is in bad health, over-tired, or has had even a moderate amount of alcohol, for very little is too much when the invisible forces are being handled. equally does this apply to each of his assistants. a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. a ritual lodge is no place for the well- meaning ineffectual. there is an immense amount of dabbling in occultism going on today. most of it is innocuous because it is totally 44 of 103 ineffective; but there is never any knowing when one is going to strike a live wire. take, for instance, the advertisers in various occult papers who offer to supply "charms that work" one of two things is certain. either t

made to us. moreover, we should always bear in mind when dealing with a person who is obviously mentally unbalanced and who alleges a psychic attack, that the mental unbalance may have been induced by the psychic attack. life is a strange thing at best, and many things that are stranger than usual can happen to those who move in occult circles. chapter x 51 of 103 non-occult dangers of the black lodge the facts considered in the previous chapter, though they should make us exceedingly careful in weighing evidence, must not blind us to the fact that there are black sheep in every fold and that a fraternity which started out with the best of intentions may quite inadvertently, through the ignorance or imperfections of its leaders, begin to drift on to the left-hand path. perfectly innocent

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(the power, and hesed (the mercy, forever. 11. a hebrew prophet says "he that consulteth spirits will not so t- the first motion you make to do that, i'll shoot you dead- low twelve "by their deeds ye shall know them" a series of striking and truthful incidents illustrative of the fidelity of free masons to one. another in times of distress and danger by edward s. ellis, a.m. p, m. trenton (n. j) lodge, no. 5 f& a. m. new york f. r. niglutsch 1907 copyright, 1907 by f. r. niglutsch introduction it is to be feared that some enthusiastic writers on free masonry give the order an antiquity that is more or less imaginative. one specially ardent author makes the patriarchs and other noted biblical characters free masons, and insists that several of the saviour's disciples were members of the or

st. alban at york in 926. the mother lodges of york and kilwinning were, with a few slight exceptions, the parents of all the lodges that were formed in different parts of great britain. the admirable character of the order was attested in 1799, when in the act passed in england for the suppression of secret societies, free masonry was the only one excepted from the operation of the law. a grand lodge was formed in london in 1717, with power to grant charters to other lodges, and the constitutions of the fraternity were first published under its sanction. from this fountain free masonry has spread to every quarter of the globe. now and then we masons are amused by statements concerning female members of our order. some years ago it was claimed by a number of newspapers that a certain famo

itutions of the fraternity were first published under its sanction. from this fountain free masonry has spread to every quarter of the globe. now and then we masons are amused by statements concerning female members of our order. some years ago it was claimed by a number of newspapers that a certain famous woman sculptor of washington was a free mason. the writer of this asked for the name of the lodge in which she was initiated and a few other particulars. the reply was given that she was a member of one of the lodges instituted by the then empress eugenie of france. my next audacious question was as to where the empress got her authority for chartering masonic lodges. the intimation was further made that she was no more a free mason than the gilt figurehead of a man-of-war. every real ma

troduction "you were born masons; any initiation or ceremony would be superfluous; therefore, we do not insult you by any such proposition" none the less, there is respectable authority for believing that three women have taken the first step in masonry. it is said that mrs. beaton, of norfolk, england, learned the secrets of the entered apprentice degree by hiding herself in the wainscoting of a lodge room. she lived well beyond four-score, and, incredible as it may sound, kept her secret inviolate. madame de xaintrailles, it is claimed, was initiated in the first degree by the freres-artistes lodge, in paris, more than a hundred years ago, and the hon. mrs. aldworth was similarly honored. the most that can be said, therefore, is that these women knew simply the first step of free masonry

introduction the following landmarks or unchangeable laws are quoted from the list given by dr. mackey "every candidate for initiation must be a man, free born and of lawful age; he must believe in the existence of god as the great architect of the universe; he must believe in a resurrection to a future life; a book of the law of god must constitute an indispensable part of the furniture of every lodge; all men in the sight of god are equal, and meet in the lodge on one common level" the universality of the order was set forth by charles whitlock moore, of massachusetts, in 1856, at the centennial anniversary of st. andrew's lodge, boston "at the reorganization of the craft and the establishment of the present grand lodge of england, in 1717, we laid aside our operative character, and with

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g this monster, which had daily killed the inhabitants of the palace of the king of tortures. addey, john (1920.1982) theosophist and astrologer, born at barnsley, yorkshire, england, on june 15, 1920. addey earned his master s degree from saint john s college, cambridge. he became interested in astrology while at cambridge, and after world war ii he joined the theosophical society s astrological lodge, which brought him into a long-term relationship with c. e. o. carter. in 1948 carter established the faculty of astrological studies to train astrologers, and addey became one of its first students, obtaining his diploma in 1951. within a few years, however, he found himself doubtful of his art and its scientific underpinnings. he turned to scientific research, his most important focus cent

only, personal, holy creator and redeemer. adoptive masonry masonic societies that adopted women as members. early in the eighteenth century such societies were established in france, and they spread speedily to other countries. one of the first to adopt women was the mopses. the felicitaries existed in 1742. the fendeurs, or woodcutters, were instituted in 1763 by bauchaine, master of a parisian lodge. it was modeled on the carbonari, and its popularity led to the establishment of other lodges, notably the fidelity and the hatchet. in 1774 the grand orient lodge of france established a system of three degrees called the rite of adoption and elected the duchess of bourbon as grand mistress of france. the rite has been generally adopted into freemasonry, and various degrees were added from

great cities by a well-dressed professional, we should at once deny their possibility. as it is they astonish us but little. one of the most peculiar and characteristic exhibitions of their power, was to summon a spirit to answer inquiries concerning the future and the absent. a great similarity marked this proceeding in all northern tribes, from the eskimos to the mexicans. a circular or conical lodge of stout poles, four or eight in number, planted firmly in the ground was covered with skins or mats, a small aperture only being left for the seer to enter. once in, he carefully closed the hole and commenced his incantations. soon the lodge trembles, the strong poles shake and bend as with the united strength of a dozen men, and strange, unearthly sounds, now far aloft in the air, now deep

f that profoundly ambiguous purport which leaves the anxious inquirer little wiser than he was before. for all this, ventriloquism, trickery, and shrewd knavery are sufficient explanations. nor does it materially interfere with this view, that converted indians, on whose veracity we can implicitly rely, have repeatedly averred that in performing this rite they themselves did not move the medicine lodge; for nothing is easier than in the state of nervous excitement they were then in to be self-deceived, as the now familiar phenomenon of table-turning illustrates. but there is something more than these vulgar arts now and then to be perceived. there are statements supported by unquestionable testimony, which ought not to be passed over in silence, and yet i cannot but approach them with hesi

oiling water or syrup; such magicians were called fire-dealers and fire-handlers. there are authentic accounts from various parts of the world of fire-dancers and fire-walks among barbarous races, and extraordinary fire acts are performed also among widely separated indian tribes. among the arikara of what is now north dakota, in the autumn of 1865, when a large fire in the center of the medicine lodge had died down until it became a bed of glowing embers, and the light in the lodge was dim, the performers ran with apparently bare feet among the hot coals and threw these around in the lodge with their bare hands, causing the spectators to flee. among the navaho, performers, naked except for breechcloth and moccasins, and having their bodies daubed with a white infusorial clay, run at high

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there is no death (1891) and the spirit world (1894, and both, especially the first, were frequently reprinted, being immensely popular. the two books are credited with securing hundreds of converts to spiritualism. later she also claimed mediumistic gifts herself, among them the strange power of summoning the spirits of the living. she died in london on october 27, 1899. in the 1930s, sir oliver lodge cast doubts upon the accuracy of the phenomena reported by marryat. sources: lodge, sir oliver. letters from sir oliver lodge. edited by j. a. hill. london: cassell, 1932. marryat, florence. the spirit world. new york: c.b. reed, 1894. there is no death. 1891. reprint, new york: causeway books, 1973. mars, face on in 1977, electrical engineer vincent dipietro discovered a photograph released

the isis temple. at the time of revolt of the british members, mathers had selected a youthful aleister crowley as his agent. this alliance proved short-lived as crowley broke with the matherses in 1904. he would later publish hogd material in his magazine, equinox, leading mathers to sue him. following mathers death in 1918, moina moved back to london where she founded and led the alpha et omega lodge, though the days of its glory were already in the past. never possessing a large membership, the hogd ended its days in the 1920s splintered into various factions. among moina s notable actions as the leader of one faction was the expulsion of one of the order s american members, paul foster case, who would later found a golden dawnlike organization, the builders of the adytum. moina mathers

on in the journal of the american society for psychical research (august.september 1932) consisted of the removal of a variety of objects from locked or sealed boxes and the introduction of various objects into such boxes. they were undertaken to confirm some of the results of the zollner experiments. the most astonishing phenomenon of the margery mediumship was the interlocking rings. sir oliver lodge had suggested the paranormal linking of two rings made of different woods might provide an irrefutable evidence of psychic force. the rings were duly provided, one of white wood and the other of red mahogany. at a seance with margery in 1932, the rings were interlocked. according to thomas r. teitze in his book margery (1973, the irish poet w. b. yeats was present at this seance. the feat of

futable evidence of psychic force. the rings were duly provided, one of white wood and the other of red mahogany. at a seance with margery in 1932, the rings were interlocked. according to thomas r. teitze in his book margery (1973, the irish poet w. b. yeats was present at this seance. the feat of linking two rings made from different woods was apparently repeated. one set was sent to sir oliver lodge for independent verification, but unfortunately arrived cracked and broken, presumably damaged in the post. another set of interlocked rings of different woods was shown to the british spiritualist journalist hannen swaffer when he visited the crandons in 1934. the rings were photographed and show one of white wood and the other of red mahogany. they passed into the care of william button, t

nora piper. palladino, an italian medium, was born in 1854, and for a good many years acted as a medium for scientific investigators. in 1892 seances were held at milan at which were present professors schiaparelli, angelo brofferio, cesare lombroso, charles richet, and others. in 1894 richet conducted some experiments with palladino at his house in the ile roubaud, to which he invited sir oliver lodge, f. w. h. myers, and julien ochorowicz. the phenomena occurring in palladino s presence were the ordinary manifestations of the mediumistic seance, but were of interest because all the distinguished investigators professed themselves satisfied that the medium, with her hands, head, and feet controlled by the sitters, could not herself produce the phenomena. credible witnesses asserted that s

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

perfectly. but no matter what toews did, the vehicle traveled at no more than twenty-five miles per hour. she and her friend also became aware of a bright light shining through the mist. it was coming from a white cloud twenty to thirty feet above them. as their trip went on, toews was shocked to see that no matter how far they went, the gas gauge did not move. late that night, they stopped at a lodge at muncho lake. it was closed, but they got out of their car to stretch their legs. a young man, dark-haired and bearded, stepped out of the darkness. though the temperature was barely above zero, the man was dressed only in shirt, pants, and shoes. the car was packed, and the women insisted there was no room for him, but he still persuaded them to drive him to the next lodge, some eighty mi

have been out of their sight for more than a few seconds. the inn was closed, so they stayed in the lounge with a truck driver, who refused to believe that they could have come all the way from steamboat mountain one hundred sixty-five miles away under existing road and weather conditions. the strangeness of their situation did not hit them until the next night, when they were staying at another lodge. toews suddenly realized that gordon reminded her of her husband, jim, who had the same hair color, eyes, mannerism, body shape. and her husband s middle name was gordon. the following morning they set off. at first conditions were good, but soon a storm came down. weirdly, though, the road ahead of them remained dry, even as snow fell and swirled on either side. they looked up to see the my

FAUST

t is arisen out of corruption s womb! burst bonds that prison, joy over the tomb! actively pleading him, showing love, heeding him, brotherly feeding him, preaching, far speeding him, rapture succeeding him, to you the master s near, to you is here! outside the gate of the town all sorts of people are walking out. some young workmen why are you going off that way? other we re going to the hunters lodge today. the former but toward the mill we d like to wander. workman go to the river inn, that s my advice. a second the road that way is far from nice. the others what will you do? a third go with them yonder. a fourth come up to burgdorf! there you ll surely find the prettiest girls and beer, the finest kind, besides a first-rate sort of scrap. a fifth how you do swagger! what a chap! does y

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

subject, see arnold, op. cit, pp. 229 ff; for a masonic point of view, see b. e. jones, freeiv.ason's guide and compendium, london, 1950, pp. 117 ff. 414 after hermes trismegistus was dated freemasonry is first heard of as an institution in england in the seventeenth century, and elias ashmole is an important figure in connection with it. ashmole states in his diary that he was made a mason in a lodge at warrington in 1646.1 there were certainly earlier traditions and origins in england upon which ashmole and his group were drawing, but about these very little is known. speculative freemasonry claims, of course, to be descended from the guilds of the mediaeval masons, but all these matters are wrapped in mystery. may it not be of significance that giordano bruno preached, not only to the

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

ollowing this model might have prov p bibliography aerosol. gsmuggling sigils across. sigil magic for the professional magiciathmaine masonic text book for use of lodges originally drummond's monitor sixteenth edition copyrighted 1923 maine printing exchange, inc. 1997 preface to the 16th edition the maine masonic text book compiled by p.g.m. josiah. drummond was originally published by the grand lodge of maine in 1877 for the purpose of assisting the lodges in resolving the questions which continually arise, and as a monitor of the various ceremonies. the sixteenth edition has been printed without the "digest of decisions" it is important to publish the "digest of decisions in a format which can be readily updated. in past formats, each grand master's decisions have had to remain unprinte

n a format which can be readily updated. in past formats, each grand master's decisions have had to remain unprinted until the supply of text books ran out, and a new edition was printed. not having the digest of decisions printed in the text book allows the book to remain current. the "digest of decisions" can be purchased separately or with the constitution and standing regulations of the grand lodge of maine. john e. anagnostis grand secretary chapter i masonry. its organizations. history the institution of masonry, or freemasonry (for these terms are used indiscriminately, is founded upon the fatherhood of god and the brotherhood of man: it. therefore, necessarily teaches morality, brotherly love, and charity: its method of teaching is chiefly by symbols: it has many forms and ceremoni

s founded upon the fatherhood of god and the brotherhood of man: it. therefore, necessarily teaches morality, brotherly love, and charity: its method of teaching is chiefly by symbols: it has many forms and ceremonies, but these are all intended to teach and impress upon the mind the great principles of the institution: its votaries are seeking after truth, symbolized by light. a provincial grand lodge was formed in massachusetts under the authority of the grand lodge of england, in 1733; and another, under the authority of the grand lodge of scotand, in 1769: during the revolution, these bodies declared themselves independent of their mother grand lodges, and, in 1792, both united as the grand lodge of massachusetts. the first lodge in maine portland) was chartered by the english provinci

formed in massachusetts under the authority of the grand lodge of england, in 1733; and another, under the authority of the grand lodge of scotand, in 1769: during the revolution, these bodies declared themselves independent of their mother grand lodges, and, in 1792, both united as the grand lodge of massachusetts. the first lodge in maine portland) was chartered by the english provincial grand lodge; the second (warren) by the scottish provincial grand lodge; and the third (lincoln) by the united grand lodge of massachusetts. when maine became an independent state in 1820, the lodges, thirtyone in number, formed the grand lodge of maine, in accordance with the wellsettled principle of masonic law, that the lodges in every independent state are of right entitled to form a grand lodge for

en) by the scottish provincial grand lodge; and the third (lincoln) by the united grand lodge of massachusetts. when maine became an independent state in 1820, the lodges, thirtyone in number, formed the grand lodge of maine, in accordance with the wellsettled principle of masonic law, that the lodges in every independent state are of right entitled to form a grand lodge for that state. the grand lodge of maine exercises exclusive masonic jurisdiction in this state, and any lodge, organized by any other authority, is illegal and clandestine, with which, or with whose members, no masonic intercourse can be held. maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (1 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:54 am] chapter ii a lodge cannot he legally opened in this state without the presence

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL 2

designate the positive spiritual faculty which they possess. and the latin catholic version of the new testament (luke, chapter vii, verses 11 to 15) speaks of the person raised by christ as the widow's son of nain. as the serpent is not fully unfolded until the ninth arch of the lesser mysteries has been passed and the candidates become aspirants to the greater mysteries, and further because the lodge of phree messen (children of light) of ancient egypt are now transferred to the various branches of the anglo-saxon race, where the sound nain means "nine" the original word has been corrupted to mislead all not entitled to the knowledge. but all things change on this terrestrial sphere, and this applies also to the methods of initiation and the requirements thereof. hiram abiff failed in hi

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

5, 1869 a.d] the triangle pointing downward "is a female symbol corresponding to the 'yoni' and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the 'lingam. when the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements [also explained in did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine, missouri lodge of research, 1965, p. 132, wes cook, editor] if this has not become evident to you, the occultist, the paganist, worship sex. they also worship most everything in nature, which fulfills the biblical definition of a paganist in romans 1:25 "because they exchanged the truth of god for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the creator" speaking of the sexual connotation of th

ealed "when the male triangle penetrates the female triangle, it produces the six pointed crest of solomon or hexagram, the most wicked symbol in witchcraft [david j. meyer, dancing with demons: the music's real master] the hexagram is the sign used in the royal arch in freemasonry. masonic author wes cook, writing in did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine [missouri lodge of research, 1965, p. 132] stated that the hexagram represented "balance and harmony" in all facets of the world. another masonic publication links the hexagram with the infamous chinese yang and yin symbol["the significant numbers, short talk bulletin, september, 1956, vol. 34, no. 9, p. 5] in summary, the hexagram is the most wicked, and one of the most powerful, of all symbols in witchcra

ymbol of the female vulva. the column is broken, of course, to symbolize the belief that osiris' penis had been cut into many sections. but albert mackey, 33 degree masonic author, states that the regular column is a phallus symbol "the phallus was an imitation of the male generative organ. it was represented usually by a column, was was surrounded by a circle at the base [mackey, a manual of the lodge, 1870, p. 56. mackey also stated this in the symbolism of freemasonry, p. 60] sex in the point within a circle the point and the circle carries a sexual connotation. another masonic author states that this symbol is used in sun worship, and then says "the female principle, symbolized by the moon, assumed the form of a lunette [small circular opening, or crescent, while the male principle, sy

triangle is the male, the lingam. when the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements [mackey, the symbolism of freemasonry, 1869, p. 195, 219, 361; also albert pike, morals and dogma, 1871, p. 13; also wes cook, editor, did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine, missouri lodge for research, 1965, p. 132] to the mason, the interlacing triangles of the hexagram depict sexual intercourse. this symbolism is pure, ancient satanism, period, end of paragraph. yin and yang is one of the most commonly used symbols today, including logos of many organizations and companies "yin and yang are considered to be opposites. yin represents eternity, dark, feminine, left side of th

hich is to be read in the lodges, we are told that the triangles are symbolic of good and evil, day and night, the chinese yang and yin [dr. c. burns, masonic and occult symbols illustrated, quoting masonic publication, short talk bulletin "the significant numbers" september, 1956, vol. 34, no. 9, p. 5; also wes cook, did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine, missouri lodge of research, 1965, p. 34] i had always wondered about the distinctive black and white squares on masonic floors, as depicted on washington's apron, above. now we know they represent the extremely satanic concept of yin and yang, the "favorite of sorcerers" masons also use two triangles joined together to represent yin and yang. therefore, their depiction of the hexagram also depicts yin and

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

us, mrs francine prince,mrjohnsemken, mr andrew stephenson, and those anonymous survivors of the fellowship of the rosy crosswhowish forever to remain unknown. aleister crowley's referencesto waite were found for mebymrclive harper and mr martin starr,while i could not havecharted waite's masonic career without the constant help and encouragement of mrjohnhamill, the librarian of the united grand lodge of england.ihave been similarly helped by the staff of the british library (referencedivision) and of the library of the warburg institute. i must also thankthemany correspondentswhohave provided mewithsuggestions, clues, and obscure titbits of information during the time of my quest.butabove all my thanks are due to ellic howe, lewis richter, and the revd kevin tingay: three friends and col

,whowasnowmore concernedwiththeir daughter, sybil (born on22october1888),althoughwhenreporting thebirthada dutifully recorded waite's occupation as that of 'poet. as more books and commissioned articles were published and waite became involvedwithjournalism proper, their circumstances improved and they moved away from furnished rooms, taking a house at hornsey and then, in1891,purchasing eastlake lodge, a large semi-detached house in harvard road, gunnersbury. it was a suitablehome for a poet, being on the edge of the consciouslyavant-gardecommunity of bedford park; it was alsowithineasy reach of east!"101esey and the stuart-menteaths-whichprovedjustas well, for early in1892,lucasta and i had fallen desperately ill,withaboutof influenza as it was in those old days, when the complaint was f

habadpioneer 'notversenow,onlyprose'77sinnett hadreturnedfromindia. in 1883 afterlosinghis post267 becauseofhis intemperatepromotionofthe theosophical cause in the columnsofhis newspaper. by 1885, however, disenchantmentwith the theosophicalsociety,arising fromtheextremely hostilehodgsonreportofthesociety for psychical research,2had led to a decline inbothnumbersandfrequencyofmeetings inthelondon lodge 'and thevenue was changedfromqueen'anne'smansions to aroomatno.15, york street,coventgarden.thiswas abovetheshop and officesofgeorge redway 'a publisher in a small wayofbusinesswhomi [sinnettj-e-atthattimein possessionofmeans-subsidisedwitha viewofstimulating hisattentionto publicationsofatheosophical character (sinnett,theearlydaysoftheosophyineurope,p.82).redway had commenced publishing in

cies on his part of radiant days to come. the hansard union had crashed terribly, elliott had nothing on hand, and if things were narrowwithme they must have approached desperation' in his case. he' resolved at once to become an occult publisher, beginningwiththe already famouslexicon.by hook or by crook he would see lord stafford; and my part in the business was(1)to raise a mortgage on eastlake lodge, for there must be money to startwithand an office to give him a local habitation, from which letters could be written and expected business transacted;(2)to be prepared and' to provide whatever was needed, for translating, editing and producing alchemical texts(slt,p. 130).themortgage-of243250-wasraised, anofficewas found attemplechambers, in falcon court, fleet street, and in march 1893 th

.theonly consolation was the spanish cigarettes he received from joseph isaacs,who,withhisbrothersirhenryisaacs (rufus,thethird brother, later lord reading, wasnotinvolved; was a co-defendentwithbottomley. james elliott&co. had failed,butas alwayswithwaite 'another publisher rose up'.hewasnotfinancially pressed; hismother'ssmall estate had passed tohimafter her deathin1893,7themortgageon eastlake lodge had been redeemed, and the remaining stockofalchemical texts had been purchased by. the bookseller bernard quaritch.8even so,writingwas waite's only real sourceofincome and he was greatly relievedwhengeorge redwaywroteto tellhimthathe had left kegan paul and set up in business once more, athartstreet in bloomsbury. redway was as eager to publish waite as waite was towritefor him, and they co

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

oworsteal,andwhentheydescendtooriginalityit issimplyonemassoferror andnonsense.onemanwhoismorelearnedinblackmagicthan the rest, tries toprojecthimselfon theastralplaneand begetastralchildren."their learning, he says,they also derive 'from elementals and spirit-guides; even worse 'the members boast that they sacrifice kids and they have alreadysacrificed two. worst of all 'when the members meet in lodge, they transact no business excepttalking rubbish, if that can be called business. to the sceptic this may sound very like the business of the golden dawn itself,but whatevertheir other faults, westcott and mathers were honest hermetic scholars and were both able and willing to teach their members, even though the knowledge impartedwas-inthefirstorder-littlemore than kabbalistic, alchemical a

ientia because she was going abroad" possibly miss horniman was made the firstinitiate-whenthe vault was far fromready-outof gratitude..she had taken a likingto mina bergson and had persuaded her father to employ mathers as the curator of his private ethno255 graphical museum (now the homiman museum) at forest hill in south london so that he and mina could be married.themathers now lived at stent lodge, forest hill, and used their home forceremonies-waitewas initiated there and yeats intro255 duced to magic at stentlodge-until1891,when mathers lost his job as curator and his home with it. annie homiman now helped them financially, enabling mina to study art in paris, where mathers soon joined her to study magic. without fortiter's generosity the whole second order would have been long de25

e candidate received instruction in their meaning from the three adepts who initiated him.theeffect on candidates must have been overwhelming; even the normally cynical waite was impressed:'itcould not be denied that the culminating grade, as the system was then developed, had the root-matter of a greater scheme than had ever dawned in the consciousnessofany makerofmasonic degrees under any grand lodge or chapter, con255 clave or preceptory, in the whole wide world."action37mathers was not content with the christian contentofrosicruciansymbolism and introduced many egyptian elements which were yet extremely effective.thefull testofthe ritual, with a descriptionofthe vault, is given by regardie,"butthe following notes, made by w. a. ayton some time after his initiation in september1892,refl

by which time she had transferred from isis-urania to the amen-ra temple in edin-52 thegoldendawnburgh. here, in addition to painting the 'artistic part of the vault' for the second order, she discoursed to scottish theosophists on thestromataof clemens alexandrinus, and on regeneration, by which term she meant an esoteric form of christian redemp-j tion. since many of the members of the scottish lodge ofthe ;theosophical society were also members of the amen-ratem-aple, the paper was probably heard with less hostility thanhave been expected from a theosophical audience facedwithallecture on the superiority of christianity overits rivals.herfellow4magicians doubtless appreciated the reference tomystery!!schools 'there, however, was one great secret and sacredj lodge, an inner circle, in po

n possession of the great secrets ofj human generation and human regeneration; something, though! far in degree, different from our notions of an inner circle. it was from this source that the final consummation of the new dis255 pensation was proclaimed. from the quabbala [sic, the essene brotherhood, and on to the present time, there are glimpses given; us, which tell us of the work that sacred lodge performed. its secrets still survive, and esoteric christians see unequivocal proofs that the church of christendom is the direct successor'.9during the same period she provided a. e. waite with a series of singularly uninspiring illustrations for his journaltheunknownworld,compensating for them by her translation of eckart255 shausen'sclouduponthesanauary,which was published in1896with a pr

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

cross as if closed up would form a cube. he settled in a certain retired place and drew around hun a select circle of friends and pupils who were ultimately, after training, received by him into the grades of mystic initiation which he had himself collected. after some years of tuition and elementary practice these initiates set to work and built, or caused to be built for themselves, a temple or lodge house, or home; they calledit'domussanctispiritus',the house of the divine spirit. here they settled and this was their abode, study and laboratory; from thence they issued forth intumon deeds of mercy and of healing, and of teaching, and of observation. from this first circle there were formed other circles in succession, the elders teaching the juniors, and so was the secret knowledge both

ltists, could be found willing to testify that they were not in possession of any evidence that successors of 'rosy cross the adept' still exist in england; or that any suchavault exists here or anywhere else in europe. yet that need not upset my belief, or your belief, if you hold it, that adept rosicrucians do still exist; nor willitupset the fact that i have met a person in this very blavatsky lodge (who was known to most of the elders in theosophy among you) who assured me of the truth of these assertions, and who claimed to have seen such a vault. not that i am weak enough, or so ignorant of human nature as to suppose, that any statement of mine would make you believe, nor do i want you to believe this. seeing is believing, and if you cannot see, you are not to be blamed,byme,for not

doctrine, should re-appear: even so didh.p.b.,as i understand, affirm that she would return, in another form indeed,butstill the same ego, and individual, in a stage still farther on in the path to full adeptship. you will all, as theosophists struggling to the light, hope that even as we read that the pupils of rosy cross,120years after his death, shewed the vitality of their order, so may this lodge founded by your great inspirer,h.p.blavatsky, con255 tinue to flourish and extend until time shallbeno more with you.[reprintedfromtheosophicalsiftings,vol6, no.is, pp.3-14.]2.dataofthehistory oftherosicruciansaccording to thefama fratemaatisbenedictiordinisrosaecrucisand theconfessiofraternitatisr.c.the notable mystic and adept known as christian rosenkreuz, the founder of the rosicrucian f

e, who diedin1616. elias ashmole, famous as an antiquary, was a rosicrucian adept, he lived from 1617to 1692, and is believed to have been concerned in the creation of modern speculative freemasonry. about 1652 ashmole received much occult knowledge from william backhouse, a renowned rosicrucian and chemist. in 1646 ashmole, lilly, the two whartons, withdrshewitt and pearson, formed a rosicrucian lodge in london, which32themagical masonwas carried on with great privacy: see theencyclopediametropoluanaof 1845. in 1847 george soane, in hisnewcuriositiesofliterature,gives a lengthy article on the rosicrucians and freemasons. in 1652 thomas vaughan, a famous mystic, under the pseudonym of eugenius philalethes, published an english translation of thefamaandconfessio;the soc. ros. library has a

johann g. buhle, at got255 tingen, a german version of a lecture given in latin in 1803; he positively asserts the early existence of an english rosicrucian college. in 1836 godfrey higgins, in his erudite and valued workanacalypsis, anattemptto drawasidethe veilofthesaiticisis,remarks that a group of rosicrucians was at work at this time,buthe had not joined it. in 1850 the very old rosicrucian lodge at frankfort-on-the255 main fell into abeyance; in this lodge the first lord lytton was received into adeptship and became imbued with the ideas he displayed in his novel ofzanoniand other works. thomas de quincey (d. 1859) published a very interesting 'inquiry into the origin of the rosicrucians and freemasons, commenting on the german essays of j.g. buhle, 1804, and c.f. nicolai, 1806. in

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

educated at bedford grammar school.2during the 1870s he lived with his mother at bournemouth, where his everyday life as a clerk was soon interspersed with dreams of military glory in the first hampshire infantry volunteers (although he was never an officer, despite being photographed in a lieutenant's uni255 form, and with the ceremonial glory of freemasonry through his initiation in the hengist lodge in 1877. at this time he began to reveal his aristocratic origins (or, from another point of view, to display his delusions of grandeur; on his master mason's certificate of 1878 he is styled comte de glenstrae, a title allegedly awarded to an ancestor by louis xv, and by 1882, when he joined the societas rosicruciana in anglia, he had added macgregor to his name. mathers was led into the s

society in 1884, to maintain its independence fromthelondonlodges and to preserve its emphasis on esoteric christianity. in 1890 he joined the isis-uraniatempleofthegolden dawn.iprogres255 sing wellenough to become imperator of the amen-ra temple when it was founded at edinburgh in 1893.norhadhe neglected his more general hermetic studies, contributing regularly to thetransactionsoithe, scottish lodge (of which he was now president) and issuing a strange book onthetrue churchofchrist(1893. his path through the goldendawn was somewhat tortuous, involving quarrels with his fellows in amen-ra, an ambivalent attitude towards mathers and a failed attempt to seize overall control of theorderin1902, after the schism of 1903 he entered into a wary. and ultimately inconclusive dialogue with'a.e.wa

eral triangle enclosing 10 yods. the arrangement of the 10 in the tree of life is another branch of the subject altogether; that belongs to the kabala, and an elementary view ofitwill be found in a paper in the third number of ourtransactions,where the tree of life, and also the names of the ten sephiroth, are fully set out.*the full illustration of it belongs.ai2*.f26transactions of the scottish lodge of the theosophical society, vol. i,p37, 1892. entirely to the hermetic mysteries.itrustenough has been said to show where the key comes in to different numbers being used in different systems, and that no one will henceforth be puzzled to find 4 principles of man laid down in theperfect way,and7laid down in thesecretdoctrine,orkey totheosophy,and other oriental works. you will be able to se

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

he had not seen it years ago11[11. dalton died in 1844 and twenty years later it was impossible to prove or to disprove beswick s statement. that he had some scientific aptitude is certain, 10[10] e.g. the rev. d. g. goyder (1796 1878. after his ordination in the new church at bristol in 1822 he was appointed pastor of the accrington church in 1829. in the same year he was initiated in samaritan lodge no. 539, meeting at accrington, and in the following year he was appointed secretary to the lodge and published his lectures on masonry. it was also probably goyder who in 1851 arranged a public meeting for the new jerusalem church at the highly respectable hall of the freemasons in london. 11[11] beswick to the rev. w. h. benade, 15 august 1866. all of beswick s letters are in the archives

16] beswick to the rev. c. th. odhner, august 1898 beswicks masonic career so much for beswick the man; we must now consider his book and his masonic career, for which we are almost entirely dependent, as with so much in his life, on his own statements. there is no firm evidence of his initiation in either england or the united states of america. by his own account he got his masonic degrees in a lodge of swedes in england and affiliated in canada in beaver s lodge 17[17. it is just possible that this canadian lodge was beaver no. 234 at thornbury, ont, but this small town is some 100 miles distant from strathroy and there is nothing to indicate that beswick ever had any reason to go there. whatever the truth of his shadowy initiation the text of his book makes it clear that beswick was fa

s just possible that this canadian lodge was beaver no. 234 at thornbury, ont, but this small town is some 100 miles distant from strathroy and there is nothing to indicate that beswick ever had any reason to go there. whatever the truth of his shadowy initiation the text of his book makes it clear that beswick was familiar with standard masonic literature and with the craft ceremonies. the grand lodge of new york, however, was not familiar with him: there is no entry for a samuel beswick in the register card files up to 1853, nor in the post-1853 index volume. it is thus certain that he was not initiated, passed or raised by, nor affiliated with, any lodge under that jurisdiction. his only masonic activity in new york about which we can be certain was within his own invention: the primiti

achings of the european swedenborgian lodges were of this fantastic character, it is no wonder that they came to be regarded as ridiculous. even that, however, was presumably better than not being regarded at all. according to beswick, this was how the revival came about: in the year 1859, a number of swedenborgians who had taken the higher degrees were initiated into the swedenborgian degrees. a lodge, called menei temple no. 1, was organized and began work, feb, 1859, in the old kane lodge room, broadway, new york city. from thence it was removed to the egyptian room, odd fellows hall. and worked from may, 1861 1862. a few meetings were subsequently held in the montauk lodge room, brooklyn, long island. some of the leading masons of new york have had the degrees conferred on them by comm

er the continent of america, north, south, east, and west. if its leaders do nothing to restrain it21[21. this is not quite how beswick s masonic contemporaries saw the rite. 19[19] new jerusalem messenger, 1870, p. 251 20[20] samuel beswick, swedenborg rite, pp. 183 184. 21[21] ibid p. 166 if it did come into being in 1859 (which is debatable, to say the least) it escaped the notice of the grand lodge of new york whose proceedings contain no reference to it. even in 1870, when its existence was publicly announced, it elicited only a muted response. beswick had tried, without success, to interest the masonic author william cunningham in his rite, and cunningham s response was probably typical. writing in 1907 cunningham referred to an earlier (but undated) meeting with beswick, if i had se

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i am indebted to the revd ian arnold, principal of the new church college at manchester, and to the staff of the swedenborg society in londerthe masonic career of a.e. waite by bro. r. a. gilbert (aqc vol 99 1986) introduction in english freemasonry the seal of a certain distinction attaches to the name of arthur edward waite, while it has proved of such appeal in america that an important grand lodge has conferred upon him, causa honoris, one of its highest official positions. among his many publications those on the mystical and symbolical aspects of the secret tradition in christian times occupy a place apart, being things unattempted otherwise in the records of research. so waite referred to himself in the prospectus for the revised edition of his book, the secret tradition in freemas

his correspondence with blitz, that only by passing through the craft degrees and the holy royal arch would he be able to enter those higher degrees whose rites he so eagerly desired. to this end he sought the help of palmer-thomas, who 'offered high encouragement; and when the time came he prepared our way and was duly present as a guest when blackden and i were at length made masons at runymede lodge in the province of bucks'52[52. and so, on 19 september 1901, at the age of 43, waite was initiated in runymede lodge no. 2430 at wraysbury in buckinghamshire. waite and craft masonry 49[49] ibid, p. 165 50[50] ibid, p. 161 51[51] ibid, p. 161 52[52] ibid, p. 162 as a courtesy to runymede lodge both waite and blackden were raised, on 10 february 1902, in st. marylebone lodge no. 1305 and, as

nd so, on 19 september 1901, at the age of 43, waite was initiated in runymede lodge no. 2430 at wraysbury in buckinghamshire. waite and craft masonry 49[49] ibid, p. 165 50[50] ibid, p. 161 51[51] ibid, p. 161 52[52] ibid, p. 162 as a courtesy to runymede lodge both waite and blackden were raised, on 10 february 1902, in st. marylebone lodge no. 1305 and, as neither of them knew anyone in either lodge, it must be conjectured, in the absence of further information53[53, that palmer- thomas was a personal friend of g. s. beeching who was then both master of runymede and secretary of st. marylebone. initiation into craft masonry brought no spiritual enlightenment to waite 'for myself it was a curious experience in more ways than one, and perhaps especially because it was so patent throughout

old the worshipful master all that he was communicating to me. my initiation was nothing therefore but a means to an end: i awaited the grades beyond'54[54. he was not enthusiastic about his brother masons 'i like that phrase "brother of the appearance of light" applied to the masonic brethren to show that their attributed illumination is but phantasmal'55[55, nor about the formal management of a lodge 'the revised byelaws of the runymede lodge have been sent me. it is not to be expected that they should make for the life eternal and i suppose that they are not more eternally voided of all importance than other legislative documents framed for lodges and chapters by "hollow hearts and empty heads"56[56. he also disliked office 'i had a hideous experience yesterday at the runymede lodge, on

. i took the last possible train which would have brought me in time for my part of the ceremony and arrived only in time for the dinner. i was made steward in my absence and this caused the dinner itself to be very nearly intolerable and some slight functions afterwards caused me to lose the last train'57[57. but despite these inner reservations he was popular with his fellow-members of runymede lodge, who saw him in a dual role: primarily as the london manager of horlick's food company (a post he held from 1900 to 1909) and, less importantly, as an enthusiast for esoteric subjects. in 1907 g. s. beeching, an adept at doggerel verse, referred to both roles when describing the senior deacon: here am i- my name is waite, rosicrucian up to date, 53[53] it has not been possible, in spite of s

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

ingdom in europe that did not recognize the authority of the catholic church in the fourteenth century, scotland. there, they reorganized under the protection of the scottish king, robert the bruce. some time later, they found a convenient method of disguise by which to continue their clandestine existence: they infiltrated the most important guild in the medieval british isles the wall builders' lodge, and eventually, they fully seized control of these lodges.7 the wall-builders' lodge changed its name, at the beginning of the modern era, calling itself the "masonic lodge" the scottish rite is the oldest branch of masonry, and dates back to the beginning of the fourteenth century, to those templars who took refuge in scotland. and, the names given to the highest degrees in scottish rite a

n 1446-48 by sir william st. clair who was one of the most prominent nobles of the time in scotland and even in europe. masons and rosicrucians worked on the construction. the chief architect of the work was the templar grand master, sir william st. clair who brought itinerant mason architects and stone masons from every part of europe. new houses were built in the near-by village of roslin and a lodge was opened the plan and decoration of the chapel is unique. there is no other such example in ed from the templars to ancient egypt scotland or even europe. it captured the atmosphere of herod's temple very well and every part of it was decorated with masonic symbols. among the symbols were reliefs on the walls and arches depicting the heads of hiram and his murderer, a relief of an initiati

arings, there already existed particularly in england, scotland and france medieval guilds of men no one alive in the 1300s could have predicted a merger of minds between freemason guilds and the italian humanists. the new masonry shifted away from all allegiance to roman ecclesiastical christianity. and again, as for the italian occultist humanists, the secrecy guaranteed by the tradition of the lodge was essential in the circumstances. the two groups had more in common than secrecy, however. from the writings and records of speculative masonry, it is clear that the central religious tenet became a belief in the great architect of the universe a figure familiar by now from the influence of italian humanists the great architect was immanent to and essentially a part of the material cosmos

ctrine goes back to ancient egypt: man is a god in the making, and as in the mystic myths of egypt, on the potter's wheel, he is being molded. when his light shines out to lift and preserve all things, he receives the triple crown of godhood, and joins that throng of master masons, who in their robe of blue and gold, are seeking to dispel the darkness of night with the triple light of the masonic lodge.46 this is to say that according to the false belief of masonry, human beings are gods, but only a grand master reaches the fullness of this divinity. the way to become a grand master is to fully reject the belief in god and the fact that human beings are his servants. this fact is briefly touched on by another writer, j.d. buck, in his book mystic masonry: the only personal god freemasonry

e communist leaders, known as "nomenklatura" formed a "privileged class" contrary to the claims of socialism) also today, when we look within masonry itself, which is constantly pronouncing its ideas of "service to society" and "sacrifice for humanity" we do not find a very clean record. in many countries, masonry has been the focus of relationships for ill-gotten material gain. in the p2 masonic lodge scandal of italy in the 1980's, it came to light that the masons maintained a close relationship with the mafia, and that the directors of the lodge were engaged in activities such as arms-smuggling, the drug trade or money laundering. it was also revealed that they arranged assaults on their rivals and on those who had betrayed them. in the "great eastern lodge scandal" of france in 1992, a

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18) then, the twentyfirst century will not be the century of "global freemasonry" as the masons had hoped, but the century of islamic morali othe masonic career of a.e. waite by bro. r. a. gilbert (aqc vol 99 1986) introduction in english freemasonry the seal of a certain distinction attaches to the name of arthur edward waite, while it has proved of such appeal in america that an important grand lodge has conferred upon him, causa honoris, one of its highest official positions. among his many publications those on the mystical and symbolical aspects of the secret tradition in christian times occupy a place apart, being things unattempted otherwise in the records of research. so waite referred to himself in the prospectus for the revised edition of his book, the secret tradition in freemas

his correspondence with blitz, that only by passing through the craft degrees and the holy royal arch would he be able to enter those higher degrees whose rites he so eagerly desired. to this end he sought the help of palmer-thomas, who 'offered high encouragement; and when the time came he prepared our way and was duly present as a guest when blackden and i were at length made masons at runymede lodge in the province of bucks'52[52. and so, on 19 september 1901, at the age of 43, waite was initiated in runymede lodge no. 2430 at wraysbury in buckinghamshire. waite and craft masonry 49[49] ibid, p. 165 50[50] ibid, p. 161 51[51] ibid, p. 161 52[52] ibid, p. 162 as a courtesy to runymede lodge both waite and blackden were raised, on 10 february 1902, in st. marylebone lodge no. 1305 and, as

nd so, on 19 september 1901, at the age of 43, waite was initiated in runymede lodge no. 2430 at wraysbury in buckinghamshire. waite and craft masonry 49[49] ibid, p. 165 50[50] ibid, p. 161 51[51] ibid, p. 161 52[52] ibid, p. 162 as a courtesy to runymede lodge both waite and blackden were raised, on 10 february 1902, in st. marylebone lodge no. 1305 and, as neither of them knew anyone in either lodge, it must be conjectured, in the absence of further information53[53, that palmer- thomas was a personal friend of g. s. beeching who was then both master of runymede and secretary of st. marylebone. initiation into craft masonry brought no spiritual enlightenment to waite 'for myself it was a curious experience in more ways than one, and perhaps especially because it was so patent throughout

old the worshipful master all that he was communicating to me. my initiation was nothing therefore but a means to an end: i awaited the grades beyond'54[54. he was not enthusiastic about his brother masons 'i like that phrase "brother of the appearance of light" applied to the masonic brethren to show that their attributed illumination is but phantasmal'55[55, nor about the formal management of a lodge 'the revised byelaws of the runymede lodge have been sent me. it is not to be expected that they should make for the life eternal and i suppose that they are not more eternally voided of all importance than other legislative documents framed for lodges and chapters by "hollow hearts and empty heads"56[56. he also disliked office 'i had a hideous experience yesterday at the runymede lodge, on

. i took the last possible train which would have brought me in time for my part of the ceremony and arrived only in time for the dinner. i was made steward in my absence and this caused the dinner itself to be very nearly intolerable and some slight functions afterwards caused me to lose the last train'57[57. but despite these inner reservations he was popular with his fellow-members of runymede lodge, who saw him in a dual role: primarily as the london manager of horlick's food company (a post he held from 1900 to 1909) and, less importantly, as an enthusiast for esoteric subjects. in 1907 g. s. beeching, an adept at doggerel verse, referred to both roles when describing the senior deacon: here am i- my name is waite, rosicrucian up to date, 53[53] it has not been possible, in spite of s

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

l research, real scholarship, and so forth: anything that further divorces us from our roots in the authentic tradition is considered a good thing. this is all just silly make-believe. sure. but before settling in your new plot of new jersey swamp-land, you might be glad you had the method(s) described in this book, should you need to summon the jersey devil! fall to! jonathan sellers twin cedars lodge 12 august 2005 c. e. 1 preface: ufonauts, ciphers, and the cosmic war and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought book of revelation 12:7 as the secret ceremony of the masonic royal arch nears its climax, the candidates are directed to bring before the king and high priest a strange box with inexplicable writing on all four sides. the

strangeness aspect of the ufo phenomenon in a way that can only result from direct field work. king, george, one of the premiere trance channel contactees since 1955. king and his aetherius society form one of the direct links between occultism and ufology, in that king claims to be a direct agent of the great white brotherhood working diligently with our extraterrestrial allies against the black lodge. lamed, frater who, as the former timothy coutu, a chief of the qblh and computer programming specialist, learned computer programming for an opportunity to do serious original work with the cipher. laying out the 1974 cipher solution on a 26-point star pattern, frater lamed was eventually able to generate thousands of cipher star variants, highly suggestive of a starseed transmission based

developing trance channeling oriented upon the then-emerging modern flying saucer lore. but i am getting ahead of myself. my subject here is the cipher of the ufonauts. i will document this cipher for you and show you how to decode the cipher, which has been in continuous use since the legendary visit by the gods of sirius. in the early 18th century craft masonic bodies formally merged in a grand lodge that included speculative masons; these individuals mostly aristocrats of wealth and power were not skilled at the building arts and had no direct connection, in most cases, with the rich lore of rosicrucian and masonic legend. they settled on a system of three initiatory degrees, the entered apprentice, fellow craft and master mason. this tri-fold system does indeed correspond to the commun

ng, or king king, i.e, great king. the name, great king, means great king in naeq6. the inner circle names are filled with this kind of stuff the senior member of the circle is the yada dl shi-ite= elixir of god, linking it to the (apparently) unrelated master aetherius of george king s aetherius society in england. the latter claims to be part of the great white brotherhood at war with the black lodge. master aetherius= elixir of god& life. ramon natalli= 122= valiant thor, the name of rev. frank stranges stranger from the pentagon. i discovered the link while work- ing on a speech to be delivered in cleveland, ohio, in september 1994, sharing the podium with, you guessed it, frank stranges. the last time stranges and i were on the same program was in june 1967 at the same convention, hel

led the man in black- widely understood to be the devil himself. even barker noted that albert k. bender s experiments were more like a magical conjuration than an attempt at extraterrestrial communication. any initiated magician reading bender s accounts would recognize the elements of magical conjuration immediately. maybe, i mused, we were dealing more with magick than with martians. the black lodge mathers, of course, carried on; but he had fallen. the secret chiefs cast him off; he fell into deplorable abjection, even his scholarship deserted him. he published nothing new and lived in sodden intoxication till death put an end to his long misery. he was a great man in his way- aleister crowley what i am out to complain of is what i seriously believe to be an organized conspiracy of the

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ully perform the exercise outlined below, you should have little difficulty in entering the aethyrs above nia. step 1. wear your black robe and hold your magical sword. any other preparations will be up to you. step 2. enter your mental body. as soon as any thought comes into your mind, cut it off with your sword. this is called "cutting off a thought at the root" do not allow a single thought to lodge in your mind. continue in this manner for as long as you can. step 3. relax your mind and allow thoughts to enter as they wi l l. pay at tent ion to them but let them continue to come and go as they wi l l. not ice the serial flow of your thoughts as they pass through your mind one after the other. notice the exact point when one thought ends and ano the r be g ins. concentrate on that point

erefore a magical grade in the great white brotherhood (white refers to the color of the magick used, not to race) which is sometimes called the hierarchy of compassion. it is this esoteric organization that keeps the spirit of love and brotherhood alive in the world. if you have love for your fellow man in your heart, then you are already a member of this organization. it is this organization or lodge that periodically sends selected members into our world to keep truth alive and to stir the human mind to see beyond itsel f. such beings are known as avatars, mahatmas, adepts, bodisattvas or simply good people who try as best as they can to make the world a better place to live. most remain anonymous and shun publicity. many are not consciously aware of their self-imposed tasks but diligen

as they can to make the world a better place to live. most remain anonymous and shun publicity. many are not consciously aware of their self-imposed tasks but diligently carry them out anyway. some are cast into the public limelight and must bear the jeers and derision of those whom they came to help. most of our religious founders and leaders, our philosophers and phi lanthropists are from this lodge, consciously or unconsciously. only those who are actively against the lodge are truly not members. these are called the black brothers (black refers to their magick, 236 not their race. they seek their own personal salvation and refuse to help others, often refusing to admit that others need assistance. they usually end up as citizens in the city of the pyramids or as one of the deaf and bl

d black brothers. t h e s e a r e p e o p l e wh o h a v e r i s e n i n s p i r i t u a l understanding to this lofty height but who refuse to shed their blood into the cup. they are higher in understanding than the residents of the city of the pyramids, but have erected thick towers of egotism around themselves and are thereby shut off from their surroundings. this sharp distinction between the lodge and the so-called black brothers led to the rift in 240 buddhism between the mahayana and the hinayana and to simi lar spl its in many occult organizations. it is a distinction involving the concept of spiritual selfishness and you will need to understand it before going beyond loe. 241 ikh, the holy city the finite cannot conceive the infinite, nor can it apply to it its own standard of men

floating unsuspended before you. visualize the urn clearly. let it be made of fixed mercury. hold your cup toward the mystic urn and say, behold, the urn of guilt and grace at the very center of infinite space. part 5. the cloud. let a dark cloud form above the urn/ create this cloud using all of your past karma. let your guilts and your failures and your wrongs-done-to-others leave your aura and lodge in this cloud. let the dark cloud be seeped full with your karma. continue until your body is completely empty even as your cup is empty. with the power of your magical will, let the loud which is your karma, slowly descend into the urn. part 6. the consumption of karma. hold the talisman of iao before you in your right hand and hold your talisman of lahalasa in your left hand and say, i, a

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

rays, so as to shine before mankind. but here again, honour, love, truth, gentleness, shame, self-control and pity all assume the guise of goddesses, because the people were accustomed from of old to hand over all that was fair and gracious to the female sex (see suppl. it was the accepted belief that, like the wise- women of heathenism (pp. 400. 424, the virtues selected favourites with whom to lodge and consort. offended or wronged by evil-doing, they took their leave, and returned to the heavenly dwelling, the place of their birth. in this too they are like the swan-wives, who after long sojourn among men suddenly take wing and seek their better home (p. 427. such notions must reach a long way back, and be widely spread. hesiod in"epya 198 200 tells how alsws and nefieats, shame a

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

hou shalt desire, whether it be visibly or invisibly; i will answer a! thy desires. and in testimony whereof, and before all the powers of heaven, i have hereunto set, subscribed, and confirmed my character unto thee. so help me god. fiat. amen. the character of turiel. fimethe imperator's greetings i am delighted that the rosicrucian press, printing and publishing department of the supreme grand lodge of the a.m.o.r.c, has again decided to publish a new edition of the official manual. i know that it is greatly needed and will be sincerely appreciated. years ago we issued a small, private manual for our lodges but that issue soon became exhausted and others followed. this new manual will take the place of the older ones and will, as usual, contain changes and additions designed to make it

use them. only where terms have special meanings have we included them in the glossary (see pages 151 and 152) 5th. general instructions which should be read carefully by our members from time to time until they are very familiar with them. this will help all of us to give you greater service in the work. 6th. other matter of help to all members. how to use the manual sanctum members of the grand lodge should have access to this manual early in their studies, preferably at the beginning of the first degree. they should read the manual through carefully, giving particular attention to those parts which are indicated to be of valuable aid in connection with their complete studies [2] part one the a.m.o.r.c. and its organization every member of the a.m.o.r.c. should be familiar with the facts

ever, there are other rosicrucian movements in america [4] they use the term or word rosicrucian, but none of these rosicrucian movements or publishing companies or societies use the term rosicrucian order, nor do they use the title ancient and mystical order rosae cruris. ever since the a.m.o.r.c. was organized in america it has made its definite and unequivocal claim of genuineness. its supreme lodge was duly incorporated, not as a society or fellowship of rosicrucians, but as "the ancient and mystical order of rosae cruris of the great white brotherhood" please note the word order and the latin term rosae crucis in the title. its colleges and university were also incorporated, and a patent was secured from the united states government protecting the name and symbols of the order in the

hers [9] h. spencer lewis, ph.d. f.r.c. former imperator, a.m.o.r.c. of north and south america and founder of its second cycle of activity in the western hemisphere.member of the supreme council r.c. of the world. legate of the order in france.minister of the foreign legation. ordained priest of the ashrama in india.honorary councilor of the corda fratres, italy.sri sobhita. symbolic great white lodge. tibet .rex, universitatis illuminati.fellow, andhra university india.chancellor, rose-croix university (set biographical reference on page 125 [10] mrs. may banks-stacey co-founder and first grand matre in u.s.a (see biographical reference on page 123 [11] master kut-hu-mi, the illustrious d. g. m. of tibet (bod-yul) beloved hierophant of the r.c [12] robert fludd robert fludd (1574-1637. e

tion of thousands who visit rosicrucian park each month. the rosicrucian egyptian museum houses one of the largest collections of egyptian, assyrian, and babylonian antiquities on display in the united states. many of the museum's acquisitions are extremely rare and draw distinguished visitors from all over the world [18] great american manifesto issued by the charter members of the supreme grand lodge as founders of the order in america the ancient and mystical order rosae crucis in the united states of america, its territories and dependencies, shall be an independent organization operating under its own constitution. its purpose shall be the same as those of the "order rosae crucis" throughout the world, and its constitution shall be identical in spirit with that which guides and direct

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

e preparation for and contemplation of the eternal world which will open to allmankindat the close of their physical existence. it may also have been a part of his publicpersona,the successful and respectable professional man en255 joying membership of an eminently respectable society. this would not, however, explain the assiduity with which he attended to his masonicduties,thesecretaryship of a lodge, as with thatofany voluntary society, is a time-consuming and often thankless task, and being honorary entails no financial reward. possibly hockley needed to be actively involved rather than simply a spectator on the sidelines. perhaps the clarity and orderliness of masonic ceremonial and organization appealed to his accountant's mind.thatthere was a belief in a rosicrucian tradition stemmi

to be actively involved rather than simply a spectator on the sidelines. perhaps the clarity and orderliness of masonic ceremonial and organization appealed to his accountant's mind.thatthere was a belief in a rosicrucian tradition stemming from the publication of themanifestosin the early seventeenth century is beyond doubt. whether the movement actually18therosicrucianseermember of the alnwick lodge no.1167.his proposer and seconder into this lodge reflect his life's passion and his profession for the proposer, henry hunter blair, was a printer and bookseller and the seconder, edward thomas turnbull, was a local banker. visiting the town only once a year he was unable to take a full part in the lodge's affllirs, but he attended when possible and remained a member for the rest of his lif

to this lodge reflect his life's passion and his profession for the proposer, henry hunter blair, was a printer and bookseller and the seconder, edward thomas turnbull, was a local banker. visiting the town only once a year he was unable to take a full part in the lodge's affllirs, but he attended when possible and remained a member for the rest of his life. as an extension of his work in british lodge no. 8 he was exalted into royal arch masonry in the british chapter no. 8 on1december 1865.thecraft and royal arch in england are thematically and administratively linked, the latter being said to be the completionof.the former. as with the lodge he was a regular attenderatthe chapter, taking minor offices but never putting himself forward for267 the principal's chairs, the three principals

for267 the principal's chairs, the three principals being the rulers of a chapter.itissurprising that he did not, because the royal arch is a much more mystical order than the craft and, as such, would have had much more appeal to hockley. many areputoff taking office in the royal arch by its rather daunting and complicated ritual, but hockley, having been a member of the committee oftheemulation lodge of improvement, certainly had a facility for learning ritual. surprisingly, in an age when new and 'revived' masonic degrees and orders were proliferating, hockley remained aloof from them all; perhaps he was all too aware of the spuriousness of the claims of antiquity of origin put forward by many of them. more surprisingly, for a 'rosicrucian, he had no contact with the societas rosicrucia

as rapid. within fifteen months of his initiation he became its junior warden and its master in 1867, serving for the customary twelve months. his proficiency in the ritual must have been equally rapidly attained for he was a regular attender at the emulation lodgeofimprovement and served on its committee from 1866 to 1868, ceasing to attend after he had installed his successor as masterofbritish lodge. his lodge was, and still is, one of the nineteen london lodges having the special privilege of nominating each year a grand steward for appointment by the grand master.thegrand stewards serve for one year and have the responsibility of arranging the grand festival banquet held annually immediate255 ly after the investitureofthe new grand officers and the re-installation of the grand master

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

usiness arrangement of his, when maxgrunner's head appeared to me as though it were covered with a strange film. a thick greyish mistsurrounded him, and gradually condensing around and upon his healthy countenance, settled suddenly intothe grim old head i had myself seen covered with six feet of soil. on another occasion, as the captain wastalking of a malay thief whom he had helped to secure and lodge in goal, i saw near him the yellow,villainous face of a man answering to his description. i kept silence about such hallucinations; but as theybecame more and more frequent, i felt very much disturbed, though still attributing them to natural causes,such as i had read about in medical books. one night i was abruptly awakened by a long and loud cry of distress. it was a woman's voice, plainti

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

that they imparted to us concerning the optimum environment for conjuration definitely belonged to the .baroque. school of magic- cellars, clouds of incense, lots of paraphernalia etc. 27 evoking yog-sothoth introduction one of the aims of the esoteric order of dagon is to develop effective magical techniques with which to interact with the great old ones. as a member of the pylon of yog-sothoth lodge, i have become increasingly interested in the possibility of ritually evoking this entity as a tangible phenomena. the aim of this article is to expound a possible methodology by which entities such as yog-sothoth can be contacted, drawing together research in different fields of enquiry, and exploring how they relate to the cthulhu mythos. i feel that, rather than exploring lovecraftian the

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

est stipend( 300 per annum at chacombe) and sufficient leisure for his strictly private interests. in the victorian era the church of england offered a refuge for many young men who had no aptitude for commerce and a passage in one of ayton's letters suggests that he was already preoccupied with alchemy and occultism at about the time he left cambridge. he was initiated as a freemason in stjohn's lodge no. 601 at wellington, shropshire, shortly before his fiftieth birthday in 1866, when he was perpetual curate at oakengates, a nearby village. however, when he moved to edingale, yet another village not far from tamworth in staffordshire in 1868, he did not bother to join the local lodge (marmion no. 1060 at tamworth) until 1871. again, when he arrived at chacombe in 1873 two years passed be

ton, shropshire, shortly before his fiftieth birthday in 1866, when he was perpetual curate at oakengates, a nearby village. however, when he moved to edingale, yet another village not far from tamworth in staffordshire in 1868, he did not bother to join the local lodge (marmion no. 1060 at tamworth) until 1871. again, when he arrived at chacombe in 1873 two years passed before he joined cherwell lodge no. 599 at banbury in 1875. he was its master in 1878 but ceased to attend meetings after april 188i, although he remained at chacombe for another thirteen years. evidently his interest in conventional freemasonry was not very great, although at one time or another he was a member of churchill lodge no. 478 at oxford (joined 187i) and westminster and keystone lodge no. 10 (london) in 1872. w

in 1875. he was its master in 1878 but ceased to attend meetings after april 188i, although he remained at chacombe for another thirteen years. evidently his interest in conventional freemasonry was not very great, although at one time or another he was a member of churchill lodge no. 478 at oxford (joined 187i) and westminster and keystone lodge no. 10 (london) in 1872. working the united grand lodge of england's more or less standard emulation ritual cannot have been very exciting for someone who had actually manufactured the elixir of life 'a french alchemist said it had the right smell and the right colour' he told w. b. yeats 'but the first effect of the elixir is that your nails fall out and your hair falls off. i was afraid that i might have made a mistake and that nothing else mig

to join it, but the door that led to the g.d. was closely guarded. the majority of the early male members of the g.d (up to c.i892) were recruited from westcott's friends in the societas rosicruciana in anglia, known to the initiated as the soc. ros, which was exclusively masonic. the s.r.i.a, of which westcott was secretary general, although he became its supreme magus in 1892, was not a masonic lodge but, during the 1880s, an increasingly esoteric equivalent of a learned society. there were colleges (i.e, branches) in the provinces- e.g, at bristol, york and newcastle upon tyne. after 1887 a good many of its members also joined the theosophical society. ayton was never in the soc. ros, probably because he found it inconvenient to 1 a. e. waite, shadows of life and thought (1938, p. 87. 1

script message scribbled in an unidentified handwriting. it begins 'mr gardner's mahatma is koot hoomi- and we wish him to know it. we have not told you this before. if mr gardner will now use the mahatmas's own name, he will strengthen the rapport, but he must not tell anyone' he was active in the theosophical society milieu, knew madame blavatsky personally, belonged to her well-known blavatsky lodge in 1890 and attended her cremation at woking when she died in 1891. in 1902, however, he was reported in the chiswick times as having 'latterly taken less interest in the movement owing to his lack of sympathy with the present 2 notebook in the possession of the late gerald yorke. i found a few details about gardner's family background in the chiswick times, 25 july 1902. introduction 14 the

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

ties of the so-called mortal faiths of man, that is, with the revered and divine personae of our localities presiding churches and holy sites. it is thus our custom to call many souls to walk in the procession of the hidden faith. what follows below is a call, adapted from the dragon-book of essex, for evoking the sovereign witch-father mahazhael. it is intended for the use of a covine or working lodge of arte. the lord mahazhael is revered as the guardian of the northern station and is considered to be the blessed consort of our lady liliya. his time is that of the midwinter sun, the season of misrule and rebirth. his moment is the interstitial cusp of darness and light. in syncretic terms, mahazhael might be indentified with christ on the eve of his nativity, as the soul of the crucified

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

ement which appears in it, and, as we have already shown, many witchcraft cases in scotland were closely interwoven with the older belief in the "good people; lord orrery, when giving the account to baxter, considered it to be "the effect of witchcraft or devils" the reader is free to take what view he likes of the matter! the lord orrery mentioned therein is probably roger, the second earl, whom lodge in his peerage describes as being "of a serious and contemplative disposition, which led him to seek retirement" if this identification be correct the following event must have occurred between 1679 and 1682, during which years the earl held the title. p. 164 the butler of a gentleman living near the earl was sent to buy a pack of cards, as he was crossing a field he was surprised to see a c

ISIS UNVEILED

r being initiated into all the mysteries of the greeks and barbarians "went into egypt and afterward visited the chaldaeana and magi; and apuleius" main^bina that it was zoro- aster who instructed pythagoras. were we to suggest that the hebrew nazars, the railing prophets of the 'lord' had been initiated into the so-called pagan mysteries, and belonged (or at least a majority of them) to the same lodge or circle of adepts as those who were considered idolaters that their 'circle of prophets' was but a collateral branch of a secret association, which we may well term 'international' what a visitation of christian wrath should we not incur! and still, the case looks strangdy suspicious. let us first recall to our mind that which ammianus marcellinus* and other historians relate of duius hyst

known as the pillar of mercy; and the three feminine on the left, namely. binah, geburah, hod, are named the imllar of judgment; while the four s^hiroth of the center kether. tiphereth, yeaod, and malkhuth are cafled the middle pillar. and as mackenzie in the boj/al miuonie cudopatdia shows "there is an analogy in these three pillars to the three pillari of wisdom, strength, tad beauty in a cinft lodge of masonry, while the ain-soph fomis the mysterious biasing star, or mystk light of the east (p- 407- digitizecoy google 21s bis dnvbited wisdou, sometimes the son, veiy often god, angel, lord, and logos" the latter is sometimes applied to the very first emanation, but in several systems it proceeds from the firat androgjrne or double ray pro- duced at the beginning by the unseen. fhilo depi

'mysteries' of the true chaldaean magi was nerer vidated, how- erer much gueu-work may have been expended on them. 792. the onoitict and tiuir aflnoiiu, p. 415; 2dd ed. digitizecoy google the herhetic brothers of egyft 307 the disciples of that mysterious school, and many the side-shoots of that one primitive stock. the secrecy preserved by th^e sub-lodges, as well as by the one and supreme great lodge, has ever been proportionate to the activity of religious persecutions; and now, in the face of the growing materialism, their very existence is becoming a mystery* but it must not be inferred, on that account, that such a, mysterious brotherhood is hut a fiction, not even a naitie, though it remaioa unknown to this day. whether its affiliates are called by an egyptian, hindfl, or fersian na

one of these sub- brotherhoods have been met by trustworthy and not unknown persons, besides the present writer, who states a few facts concerning them, by the qiecial permission of one who has a right to give if. in a recent and very valuable work on secret societies, k. r. h. mackenzie's royal masonic cydopaedia, we find the learned author himself, an honorary member of the canongate kuwinning lodge, no. 2 (scotland, and a mason not likely to be imposed upon, stating the following, under the head 'hermetic brothers of egypt "an occult fraternity, which has endured from very ancient times, having a hierarchy of officers, secret signs, and passwords, and a peculiar method of instruction in science, moral philosophy and relif^on. if we may believe those who at the present time profess to b

e evening, and the nert day and seveial times afterwords, and knew that, in my case, there wa* no use made of any madiinery or other means besides the voice of the 'guide and instructor' on several occasions afterward, when at a great distance from the 'chamber' the same or similar idnona were produced, as, for instance, in homat^'s hotel at jerusalem. a dau^ter-in- digitizecoy google the 'mother lodge' and iis branches 315 uw at well-wiwd jewuh merduuit b jenimlem a an inituted 'aiita' and emn produce the tiliodil>]morder tot a few week, more or len. according to their nature, aa grooa or refined, etc" i am quite safe in saying that the initiation ii scfpeculiar that it could dot be printed to aa to instruct one w

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ith parallel, but different, rosicrucian meanings. these mythic discs, or red and white roses, correspond with the twenty-six seats, or stalls, around the round table (which is an apotheosis, allowing two chief seats (or one throne) as pre-eminent for the king-priest, priest-king, in the siege-perilous. the whole refers to king arthur and his knights of the round table, set round as sentinels( in lodge) of the sangr al, or holy graal the sacrifice mysterious, or eucharist. black book and black rod. 291 building in the castle, and therein placed a table( round table) of 200 feet diameter, giving to the building itself the name of the round table. he appropriated 100 per week an enormous sum in those days for the maintenance of this table. in imitation of this, the french king, philip de val

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

nvention and development of the spectroscope were as far beyond popular thought as those of clairvoyance are now. that by it we could discover the chemical constitution and measure the movements of stars thousands of millions of miles away might well have been regarded as the baseless fabric of a dream. may not other discoveries be impending? men of high scientific attainments, such as sir oliver lodge, sir william crookes, professor lombroso, m. camille flammarion and the late professor myers, who have taken the trouble to inquire into this matter of inner sight, have convinced themselves that this faculty exists; so if there be those among the brn. to whom this claim seems ridiculous, i would ask them notwithstanding to read on and see whether the knowledge obtained by a means which is s

ling corrections have been made, and some additional information has been given with regard to certain higher degrees. c. w. l. contents foreword author's preface chapter i introductory personal experience. egyptian evidences. preservation of rituals and symbols. the egyptian outlook. the hidden work. the egyptian race. the grand lodges. the ordinary lodges. the history of masonry. chapter ii the lodge form and extension. orientation. the celestial canopy. the altar. pedestals and columns. orders of architecture. meaning of the three columns. the pillars of the porchway. chapter iii the fittings of the lodge the ornaments. the mosaic pavement. the indented border. the blazing star. the furniture. the movable jewels. the immovable jewels. chapter iv preliminary ceremonies the co-masonic rit

hitecture. meaning of the three columns. the pillars of the porchway. chapter iii the fittings of the lodge the ornaments. the mosaic pavement. the indented border. the blazing star. the furniture. the movable jewels. the immovable jewels. chapter iv preliminary ceremonies the co-masonic ritual. the procession. the apron. the ceremony of censing. lighting the candles. chapter v the opening of the lodge the brethren assist. tyling the lodge. the e.a. s. n. the officers. the duties. the opening. the e.a. k c s. chapter vi initiation the candidate. divisions of the ceremony. preparation of the candidate. the inner preparation. the three symbolical journeys. the o c. the e c. i l c s. the s c and p c examination and investiture. the working tools. egyptian interpretation of the working tools (

o c. the e c. i l c s. the s c and p c examination and investiture. the working tools. egyptian interpretation of the working tools (second edition: the working tools, and the egyptian interpretation of them. chapter vii the second degree the questions. the preparation. the inner preparation. the opening. the e.a.'s last work. the five stages. the five steps. the o. the working tools. closing the lodge. chapter viii the third degree the opening of the lodge. the c c the preparation. the internal preparation. entering the lodge. the seven steps. the o c the etheric forces. hiram abiff. death and resurrection. the star. the raising of humanity. fire, sun and moon. the villains. the inscription (second edition: our master h. a. instead of hiram abiff) chapter ix the higher degrees the masonic

ion with angels. chapter x (chapter ix in first edition) two wonderful rituals the workings in egypt. the form of the temple of amen-ra. the building of the temple of amen-ra. the unveiling of the hidden light. the offerings. the descent of osiris. the distribution of the sacrament. the re-union of osiris. the shining of the light. the pledge and the blessing. the ceremony of the holy angels. the lodge and officers. the triangle of adepts. the arrival of the angels. the building of the temple of the angels. the ceremony in the temple. the effect of the festival. chapter xi (chapter x in first edition) closing the lodge the greetings. preparation for closing. the closing. plates 0. the masonic temple (coloured) i. an egyptian apron (coloured) ii (a) an egyptian initiation (b) osiris on the

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

line of the collegia. the comacini. the comacine lodges. other survivals of the collegia. the compagnonnage. the stonemasons of germany. the english guilds. the rise of gothic architecture. the old charges. chapter ix the transition from operative to speculative the reformation. the reappearance of speculative masonry. the first minutes. scottish minutes. english minutes. irish minutes. the grand lodge of england. the recomposition of the rituals. two and three degrees. opposition. the succession of l.m.s. the grand lodges of york, ireland and scotland. the ancients. the holy royal arch. the united grand lodge. craft masonry in other countries chapter x other lines of masonic tradition the stream of secret societies. the knights templars. the suppression of the templars. the preservation o

than one school. the authentic school we may consider first what is sometimes called the authentic school, which arose in the latter half of the nineteenth century in response to the growth of critical knowledge in other fields. the old traditions of the craft were minutely examined in the light of authentic records within reach of the historian. an enormous amount of research was undertaken into lodge minutes, documents of all kinds bearing upon masonry past and present, records of municipalities and boroughs, legal and judicial enactments; in fact, whatever written records were available were consulted and classified. in this field all masons are greatly indebted to r. f. gould, the great masonic historian; w. j. hughan; g. w. speth; david murray-lyon, the historian of scottish masonry;

icial enactments; in fact, whatever written records were available were consulted and classified. in this field all masons are greatly indebted to r. f. gould, the great masonic historian; w. j. hughan; g. w. speth; david murray-lyon, the historian of scottish masonry; dr. chetwode crawley, whose work upon the early irish craft is in its way a classic; and others of the inner circle of the famous lodge quattuor coronati, no. 2076, the fascinating transactions of which are a precious mine of historical and archaeological lore. two great names in germany are j. f. findel, the historian, and dr. wilhelm begemann, who made the most minute and painstaking researches into the old charges of the operative craft. a vast amount of material which will be of permanent value to students of our craft h

ol, however, has limitations which are the outcome of its very method of approach. in a society as secret as masonry there must be much that has never been written down, but only transmitted orally in the lodges, so that documents and records are but of partial value. the written records of speculative masonry hardly antedate the revival in 1717, while the earliest extant minutes of any operative lodge belong to the year 1598(*history of the lodge of edinburgh, by d. murray-lyon, p. 9) the tendency of this school, therefore, is quite naturally to derive masonry from the operative lodges and guilds of the middle ages, and to suppose that speculative elements were later grafted upon the operative stock- this hypothesis being in no way contradicted by existing records. bro. r. f. gould affirm

however, to find the origin of the ancient mysteries in the initiatory customs of savage tribes which, although admittedly of incalculable antiquity, are often neither dignified nor spiritual. 16. another important work which has been accomplished by its efforts is the justification of many of the higher degrees to be considered pure antient masonry; for in spite of the pronouncement of the grand lodge of england quoted above, there is just as much evidence for the extreme antiquity of rose-croix as of craft and arch signs and symbols, and the same may be said of the signs of many other degrees as well. it is quite clear from the researches of anthropologists that, whatever may be the precise links in the chain of descent, we in masonry are the inheritors of a very ancient tradition, which

LETTER FROM A LUCIFEREAN

usion and apprehension which settled upon me at that moment. we had spent months frankly discussing sexuality and the necessity of frank and open admission of our desires. after what must have been only a few minutes (it seemed much longer at the time, michelle returned. she told us that in a few moments we would be called to make our dedications to the "dark-light brother" that we must enter the lodge and make some physical demonstration of our willingness to confront our fears and repressed desires. for this purpose, we could request the assistance of one of our fellows, but that each could refuse a proposition, if we felt it to be beyond our capabilities or current taste. each act would, she said, provide a spectacle for the others and demonstrate the mingling of sympathies required for

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

the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline, 1991. guiley, rosemary ellen. the encyclopedia ofwitches and witchcraft. new york: facts on file, 1989. valiente, doreen. an abc ofwitchcraft. custer,wa: phoenix, 1973. fraternitas rosae crucis the fraternitas rosae crucis, founded in 1858 by physician p. b. randolph (1825 1875, is generally considered the oldest rosicrucian body.the grand lodge, that was first established in san francisco in 1861, was closed and reestablished first in boston (1871, then in san francisco (1874, and finally in philadelphia (1895. among the teachings of the order is a system of occult sexuality, that was termed eulistic, a term deriving from the greek eleusinian mysteries, believed to be mysteries of sex. a provisional grand lodge of eulis was establi

ding: clark, paul a. the book of the rose. covina, ca: fraternity of the hidden light, 1985. fraternity (society) of the inner light violet mary firth was born in 1891 to a family of christian scientists. in her twenties she was a law analyst at a medical-psychological clinic in london, and began to study psychology to work on her own development. in 1919 she was initiated into the alpha et omega lodge (aeo) of the stella matutina, the hogd offshoot presided over by mathers s widow, moira bergson mathers. taking the name dion fortune (adapted from her magical motto, deo non fortuna, taken when she joined the lodge, violet studied under j. w. brodie-innes. in 1922 she organized the community of the inner light as an outer court for the aeo. she and mrs. mathers clashed more and more as viol

also church of satan; our lady of endor coven for further reading: jonas, hans. the gnostic religion: the message of the alien god. boston: beacon, 1958. murray,margaret. the god of the witches. london: s. low,marsten& co, 1933. the gnostic order and temple of satanas the gnostic order and temple of satanas (gotos) was founded in 1985 by damian alan sinclair and laylah agatha sinclair. the grand lodge is located in charlotte, north carolina, however it has temples in several u.s. states and an official base in denmark and the u.k. the international head of the order is damian alan sinclair. the grand lodge meets every monday and wednesday. gotos takes a broad, intellectual approach to satanism. like the majority of other modern satanist organizations, gotos is not involved in simply tryin

endent organizations, which repeat the cycle. most contemporary magic goes back to that of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hogd, which was an offshoot of a masonic- rosicrucian organization, the societas rosicruciana in anglia (sria, founded by robert wentworth little in 1865, and supposedly based on old manuscripts found in freemasons hall, apparently the ones owned by hockley. the london lodge of the theosophical society was opened in 1883, and members of both these lodges were among the early members of the hogd, which was founded in 1888 by w. r. woodman, a. f. a.woodford,w.wynn westcott, and samuel liddell mathers (1854 1918; a relative of alice liddell, whose father coauthored the most important greek dictionary of the nineteenth century, and whose adventures in wonderland wer

inity is the source of lucifer, the morning star, and sophia, the female divine being who is often revered as our lady of mt. carmel. the neo-pythagorean church is subject to a supreme heliophant, and its american jurisdiction is under bishop pierre-antoine saint-charles of boston, whereas michael bertiaux in chicago is over the caucasian-american members. the ancient order of oriental templars a lodge with credentials derived from the pre-crowleyite ordo templi orientis in germany the arithmosophical society, zotheria and the esoteric traditions research society (both outer courts of the various esoteric structures) are associated with the church. see also magic and magical groups for further reading: green,marian. the elements of ritual magic. longmead, shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element

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low 4 hmbylha aholibamah fire white 5 hla elah height red 6 kyp pinon depth white-red 7 znq kenaz east whitish-red 8 myt teman west reddish-white 9 laydgm and rxbm mibzar and magdiel south white-red-whitsh-red-reddish-white 1010 \ryu eram north the light reflecting all colours cxii. alchemical tree of life (i. cxiii. alchemical metals (ii. cxiv. passwords of the grades. cxv* officers in a masonic lodge. 0. 1 h metallic radix. silence* 2 f (3) ba past master 3 g (6) bd 4 (10) fa worshipful master 5 (15) hy senior warden 6 (21) hyha junion warden 7& i (28) jk senior deacon 8$ j (36) hla junior deacon 9 (45) hm inner guard 1010 mercurius philosophorum medicina metallorum (55) hn tyler and candidate table of correspondences (continued)24 cxvi. egyptian attribution of parts of the soul. cxvii

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

s the most practical for a gathering is the seated dance. one sits cross-legged on the floor, and sways two and fro from the hips in time with the mantra. a solo or duet of dancers as a spectacle rather distracts from this exercise. i would suggest a very small and very brilliant light on the floor in the middle of the room. such a room is best floored with mosaic marble; an ordinary freemason fs lodge carpet is not a bad thing.1 the eyes, if they see anything at all, see then only the rhythmical or mechanical squares leading in perspective to the simple unwinking light. 1 [the design is a pattern of black and white squares. t.s] energized enthusiasm 15 the swinging of the body with the mantra (which has a habit of rising and falling as if of its own accord in a very weird way) becomes mor

LIBER LVII

nd captain that written in ill-spelt babu english, one knows what to do. on the contrary the man who was lost rose and broke the stem of his wineglass at the regimental toast, and all knew him for one of their own. in spiritual dealings, the qabalah, with those secrets discovered by yourself that are known only to yourself and god, forms the grip, sign, token and password that assure you that the lodge is properly titled. it is consequently of the very last importance that these final secrets should never be disclosed. and it must be remembered that an obsession, even momentary, might place a lying spirit in possession of the secrets of your grade. possibly it was in this manner that dee and kelly were so often deceived. a reference to this little dictionary of numbers will show that 1, 3

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

the misanthropic will demand proof of such a statement. let it be our contemptuous indulgence to afford them what they ask. may i premise that, mentally obsessed, mono-maniac indeed, as we must now consider shakespeare to have been on these points, he was yet artful enough to have concealed his* the lamented decease of the above gentleman forbids all hope (save through the courtesy of sir oliver lodge) of the appearance of the companion article..a.c. advanced views.an imperative necessity, if we consider the political situation, and the virginal mask under which queen bess hid the grotesque and hideous features of a messaline. clearly so, since but for this concealment even our shakespearian scholars would have discovered so patent a fact. in some plays, too, of course, the poet deals wit

y. to think of men so i could not bear: a new colenso i bought them to assuage their plight, also a book by hall and knight on algebra. i hired wise men to teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten. one of the hottentots succeeded. few schoolboys know as much as he did! the others sank beneath the strain: it broke, not fortified, the brain. the bard a brainy beggar. now (higher on the human ladder) lodge is called mad, and crowley madder (the shafts of science who may dodge? i.ve not a word to say for lodge) yet may not crowley be the one who safely does what most should shun? alpine analogy. take oscar eckenstein.he climbs alone, unroped, a thousand times. he scales his peak, he makes his pass; he does not fall in a crevasse! but if the alpine club should seek to follow him on pass or peak

the phenomena which are supposed by some physicists who have strayed into biological fields to justify them in announcing the .discovery. of .telepathy. and a belief in ghosts. to talk of cerebral disease as the characteristic of one who merely differs from you (and that because he has more knowledge than yourself) is itself a symptom familiar to alienists (i may say i hold no brief for professor lodge, here attacked. i am not even interested in any of his results, as such of them as i am acquainted with deal with objective and trivial phenomena) of course, as long as what darwin called variation is called disease by professor ray lankester, we shall (if we accept his views, 1 see note p. 116 science and buddhism 119 and it will go hard with us if we do not) regard all progress in any dire

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

other rna components of the hypercycle to replicate inside liposomes. and finally, a fifth category of ribozymes could have spliced together short rnas to make longer genes and increase genetic diversity even further. what would be the evolutionary advantage of pre-protocells that learned how to make proteins over those that did not? an example we gave above is the production of proteins that can lodge themselves inside the fatty acid membrane and favor the uptake of water-soluble compounds from the outside world, such as amino acids and nucleotides. a higher rate of uptake of these building blocks would have made pre-protocells containing the appropriate proteins more fit than their competitors. another example is the appearance of proteins that accelerate all ribozyme functions and make

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

sh material in this presentation. after we have acquired this background, we will consider how the symbolic structure of freemasonry reflects the teachings of kabbalah. the diagram in figure 1 presents a very general overview of the development of english freemasonry "events" involving reference to kabbalah are shown as asterisks, and will be discussed below. the parts in blue represent the grand lodge(s, and the dotted portions at the left of the drawing are intended to indicate how very uncertain our information about their origins really is. even with respect to the period after the formal organization of the premier grand lodge in 1717, there are large areas about which only a little is known. for example, in the area of ritual and symbol what masons actually did at their meetings we m

late 17th century there was a popular awareness of masons and a perception that they had mystical involvements. beyond concluding that masons were present in london in 1698, we can derive from this pamphlet some tentative ideas about their frame of mind. it was to be almost twenty years before these men made their meetings a matter of public knowledge and formed themselves into the premier grand lodge. at the end of the 17th century, their activities were causing them to be associated with evil-doing and with witchcraft; and presumably, given the punishments imposed on witches at that time, that was an association they would wish to avoid. is it possible that we see in this situation the reason why freemasonry has, from its very beginnings, excluded women? in the late 17th and early 18th

the entrance rite was mandatory."10 it seems to me entirely reasonable to think that masons, seeking to rebut accusations of witchcraft, had excluded women from their proceedings simply to be able to say "look, see! we cannot possibly be involved in that; because we allow no women at our proceedings; and that they formalized this practice, for the same reason, when they founded the premier grand lodge. the allegations contained in the broadsheet shown in figure 2 gives support to this idea. figure 2. from the original in the library of the united grand lodge of england. on st. john the evangelist's day in 1717 four masonic lodges which are said to have been meeting "from time immemorial" met at the goose and gridiron ale-house in covent garden and constituted themselves a grand lodge. thi

eing the first public and formally acknowledged organization of freemasons. five years later, in 1723, dr. james anderson, a presbyterian minister, published a book of constitutions. in the preparation of his constitutions, anderson is said to have consulted the opinions of. the late and present deputy grand masters and other learned brethren; and it was published "with a certain measure of grand lodge authority."11 andersons constitutions is, in many ways, a reflection of his personal views. it contains a romantic history of freemasonry which traces the masonic tradition right back to adam. in other aspects it publishes many useful and previously existing regulations such as those prohibiting the discussion of politics and sectarian religious discussion. it also sets out masonry's require

joy hancox in her excellent book, the byrom collection, a work which provides much useful information about the thinking of the english intellectual community in the early 18th century. john byrom was a freemason, and he numbered among his friends such prominent masons as william stukeley, sir hans sloane, martin folkes, and john theophilus desaguliers, the third grand master of the premier grand lodge. the thing about byrom of particular interest to us is that from 1725 he ran a"cabala club" whose members included many of his friends; sir hans sloane was certainly a member.12 opponents of the view i am presenting here will argue that the simple fact that byrom, sloane and others were interested in kabbalah does not mean that they necessarily indulged that interest at their masonic lodges

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

s, and jupiter, in a manner similar to that of the latin countries. it is almost certain that the druidic mysteries were not indigenous to britain or gaul, but migrated from one of the more ancient civilizations. the school of the druids was divided into three distinct parts, and the secret teachings embodied therein are practically the same as the mysteries concealed under the allegories of blue lodge masonry. the lowest of the three divisions was that of ovate (ovydd. this was an honorary degree, requiring no special purification or preparation. the ovates dressed in green, the druidic color of learning, and were expected to know something about medicine, astronomy, poetry if possible, and sometimes music. an ovate was an individual admitted to the druidic order because of his general ex

played the part of balder. he called himself a wanderer; the caverns through which he passed were symbolic of the worlds and spheres of nature. the priests who initiated him were emblematic of the sun, the moon, and the stars. the three supreme initiators--the sublime, the equal to the sublime, and the highest--were analogous to the worshipful master and the junior and senior wardens of a masonic lodge. after wandering for hours through the intricate passageways, the candidate was ushered into the presence of a statue of balder the beautiful, the prototype of all initiates into the mysteries. this figure stood in the center of a great apartment roofed with shields. in the midst of the chamber stood a plant with seven blossoms, emblematic of the planers. in this room, which symbolized the h

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

ts of the divine constitution and may be likened to the individuality; and the leaves--because of their ephemeral nature--correspond to the personality, which partakes of none of the permanence of its divine source. next: the hiramic legend sacred texts esoteric index previous next the hiramic legend p. 77 when solomon--the beloved of god, builder of the everlasting house, and grand master of the lodge of jerusalem--ascended the throne of his father david he consecrated his life to the erection of a temple to god and a palace for the kings of israel. david's faithful friend, hiram, king of tyre, hearing that a son of david sat upon the throne of israel, sent messages of congratulation and offers of assistance to the new ruler. in his history of the jews, josephus mentions that copies of th

ea related to the animal passions, the pure lambskin signifies the regeneration of the procreative forces and their consecration to the service of the deity. the size of the apron, exclusive of the flap, makes it the symbol of salvation, for the mysteries declare that it must consist of 144 square inches. the apron shown above contains a wealth of symbolism: the beehive, emblematic of the masonic lodge itself, the trowel, the mallet, and the trestleboad; the rough and trued ashlars; the pyramids and hills of lebanon; the pillars, the temple, and checkerboard floor; and the blazing star and tools of the craft. the center of the apron is occupied by the compass and square, representative of the macrocosm an the microcosm, and the alternately black and white serpent of astral light. below is

MEANING OF MASONRY

ho sets an example for all masters of lodges. his was a soul filled with the wonder of wisdom, strength, and beauty. in these pages, he whispers the password to those of us who still clamour at the gate, enabling us to enter that inner chamber where we can join the true initiates and share experiences now veiled from all but a handful of brethren. allan boudreau, ph.d. curator and librarian grand lodge of free and accepted july, 1980 masons of the state of new york introduction the position and possibilities of the masonic order the papers here collected are written solely for members of the masonic order, constituted under the united grand lodge of england. to all such they are offered in the best spirit of fraternity and goodwill and with the wish to render to the order some small return

ion rites. spiritual quality rather than numbers, ability to understand the masonic system and reduce its implications into personal experience rather than the perfunctory conferment of its rites, are t he desider ata of the craft to-day. as a contribution to repairing the absence of explanation referred to these papers have been compiled. the first two of them have often been read as lectures at lodge meetings. many requests that they should be printed and made more widely available led to my expanding their subject-matter into greater detail than could be used for occasional lectures, and accordingly they are here amplified by a paper containing fuller notes upon craft symbolism. to complete the consideration of the craft the system it was necessary also to add a chapter upon that which

true, is but partial and does not carry him very far. for many members of the craft to be a mason implies merely connection with a body which seems to be something combining the natures of a club and a benefit society. they find, of course, a certain religious element in it, but as they are told that religious discussion, which means, of course, sectarian religious discussion, is forbidden in the lodge, they infer that masonry is not a religious institution, and that its teachings are intended to be merely secondary and supplemental to any religious tenets they may happen to hold. one sometimes hears it remarke d that masonry is" not a religion; which in a sense is quite true; and sometimes that it is a secondary or supplementary religion, which is quite untrue. again masonry is often supp

iousness of many of its own members. we meet in our lodges regularly; we perform our ceremonial work and repeat our catechetical instruction-lectures night after night with a less or greater degree of intelligence and verbal perfection, and there our work ends, as though the ability to pe rform this work creditably were the be-all and the end-all of m asonic work. seldom or never do we employ our lodge meetings for that purpose for which, quite as much as for ceremonial purposes, they were intended, viz: for" expatiating on the mysteries of the craft" and perhaps our neglect to do so is because we have ourselves imperfectly realized what those mysteries are into which our order was primarily formed to introduce us. yet, there exists a large number of brethren who would willingly repair thi

l doctrines common to every religious system in the world, whether past or present, whether christian or non-christian. the religions of the world, though all aiming at teaching truth, express that truth in different ways, and we are more prone to emphasize the differences than to look for the correspondences in what they teach. in some masonic lodges the candidate makes his first entrance to the lodge room amid the clash of swords and the sounds of strife, to intimate to him that he is leaving the confusion and jarring of the religious sects of the exterior world, and is passing into a temple wher ein the brethren dwell together in unity of thought in regard to the basal truths of life, truths which can permit of no difference or schism. allied with no external religious system itself, ma

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

e been lost but rather more to the point is that the old mysteries wereshunned by the hanoverian inventors of the english system (based on a york rite, which retains onlyvague allegories and obscure ritual. there is no alchemical science now taught in these lodges, as wasthe case with the early scottish rite; the emphasis is now on charitable works, coupled with meaning-less ceremonies that leave lodge members quite bewildered as to the true scientific nature of the order.(p. 161)canaanitesnamed after the cursed son of noah, canaan (see p. 162)the canaanites were generally perceived as enemies of the hebrews who emerged from the linefrom shem (p. 162)abrahams familyhis wife sarai is renamed sarah, meaning princess. she is said to be barren but conceives issac any-way.hagar and ishmaelwhile

d spies across europe. he was characterized by christopher marlowe in doctor faustus.johann valentin andreae (1586-1623) elias ashmole (1617-1692) founder of the ashmole museum at oxford. historian of the order of the garter and member of the so-called invisible college, which later became the royal society, or so we are told. ashmole and robert fludd were behind the creation of the first masonic lodge in england.william backhouse (1593-1653) a mysterious figure, the adoptive father of ashmole.j. c. barchusen (1666-1723)jacob boheme (1575-1624) mystic and alchemist, follower of paracelsus. johann fredrick bottger (1682-1719- creator of porcelain.appendix c: suggested areas of research266atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation robert boyle (1627-1691) one of the primary founder

anti-masonic political party when the author, williammorgan disappeared. he was apparently abducted and drowned in lake ontario, allegedly by hisfellow mason richard howard.14.1861 on april 12, confederate forces fired on the union's fort sumter in charleston harbor, southcarolina, igniting the civil war. charleston, at the 33rd parallel, is known officially as the motherlodge of the world. this lodge had been founded by moses lindo as the king solomon lodge.15.1933 late in the pre-inaugural banking crisis, on march 3, 1933 (3/03/33, the federal reserveboard and the new york reserve bank's governor harrison had agreed that the board would issuean order closing all the federal reserve banks. new york governor herbert lehman, at the urgingof governor harrison, also agreed to proclaim an eme

ticle in the realist, 1991, suggests that george bush wastaped in a telephone conversation with [masons] lyndon johnson, j. edgar hoover, allen dulles,and nelson rockefeller, in which the parties discussed the assassination of john f. kennedy. somemasons who were involved in the cover-up of the kennedy assassination are as follows:johnson had received the entered apprentice degree in johnson city lodge no. 561, texas, onoctober 30, 1937. johnson, as next in line for the presidency, was the most direct beneficiary ofjfk's death. he was a mason who hated jfk, a catholic. one of johnson's first acts as presidentwas to call the dallas police to order them to stop the investigation because they had their man,oswald. this was an illegal order because the president has no authority to tell city p

hem to stop the investigation because they had their man,oswald. this was an illegal order because the president has no authority to tell city police how toconduct a homicide investigation. president johnson also ordered the federal bureau of investiga-tion to check every aspect of the assassination. this was a whitewash. the f.b.i. was headed by j.edgar hoover, who had become a member of federal lodge no. 1, district of columbia, onnovember 9, 1920.the public wanted more answers concerning the murder of the president than the masonic-con-trolled f.b.i. could provide. so, on november 29, 1963, president johnson issued an executive ordercreating the warren commission, named after the man president johnson had chosen to lead it,united states supreme court chief justice earl warren. warren, a

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

lief, which uses words like initiation to describe entry into a group, in magic initiation represents increasingly advanced states of spiritual alchemy. self-initiation is also possible, but takes much longer. self-initiation is a series of rituals undertaken by a solitary practitioner that are designed to slowly achieve spiritual transformation, without the help of a freemasonic or other magical lodge. as stated earlier, a large gap called the abyss exists between the lower self and the higher self. the magician seeks to merge these two aspects of the self by crossing the abyss, and bringing himself into unity with his higher self. in freemasonry, and also lodges derived from the order of the golden dawn, 2 pillars are used to symbolize this divide between the light and the darkness. ofte

MORALS AND DOGMA

--master. 4--secret master. 5--perfect master. 6--intimate secretary. 7--provost and judge. 8--intendant of the building. 9--elu of the nine. 10--elu of the fifteen. 11--elu of the twelve. 12--master architect. 13--royal arch of solomon. 14--perfect elu. 15--knight of the east. 16--prince of jerusalem. 17--knight of the east and west. 18--knight rose croix. 19--pontiff. 20--master of the symbolic lodge. 21--noachite or prussian knight. 22--knight of the royal axe or prince of libanus. 23--chief of the tabernacle. 24--prince of the tabernacle. 25--knight of the brazen serpent. 26--prince of mercy. 27--knight commander of the temple. 28--knight of the sun or prince adept. 29--scottish knight of st. andrew. 30--knight kadosh. 31--inspector inquisitor 32--master of the royal secret. morals and

1--noachite or prussian knight. 22--knight of the royal axe or prince of libanus. 23--chief of the tabernacle. 24--prince of the tabernacle. 25--knight of the brazen serpent. 26--prince of mercy. 27--knight commander of the temple. 28--knight of the sun or prince adept. 29--scottish knight of st. andrew. 30--knight kadosh. 31--inspector inquisitor 32--master of the royal secret. morals and dogma. lodge of perfection. morals and dogma [illustration] i. apprentice. the twelve-inch rule and the common gavel. force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil and bruise itself. it is destruction and ruin. it is the volcano

egulated and guided by and acting within the limits of law and order, symbolized by the twenty-four-inch rule, has for its fruit liberty, equality, and fraternity--liberty regulated by law; equality of rights in the eye of the law; brotherhood with its duties and obligations as well as its benefits. you will hear shortly of the _rough_ ashlar and the _perfect_ ashlar, as part of the jewels of the lodge. the rough ashlar is said to be "a stone, as taken from the quarry, in its rude and natural state" the perfect ashlar is said to be "a stone made ready by the hands of the workmen, to be adjusted by the working-tools of the fellow-craft" we shall not repeat the explanations of these symbols given by the york rite. you may read them in its printed monitors. they are declared to allude to the

oint, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, faith and love. prayer is sublime. orisons that beg and clamor are pitiful. to deny the efficacy of prayer, is to deny that of faith, love, and effort. yet the effects produced, when our hand, moved by our will, launches a pebble into the ocean, never cease; and every uttered word is registered for eternity upon the invisible air. every lodge is a temple, and as a whole, and in its details symbolic. the universe itself supplied man with the model for the first temples reared to the divinity. the arrangement of the temple of solomon, the symbolic ornaments which formed its chief decorations, and the dress of the high-priest, all had reference to the order of the universe, as then understood. the temple contained many emblems of th

ement of the temple of solomon, the symbolic ornaments which formed its chief decorations, and the dress of the high-priest, all had reference to the order of the universe, as then understood. the temple contained many emblems of the seasons-the sun, the moon, the planets, the constellations ursa major and minor, the zodiac, the elements, and the other parts of the world. it is the master of this lodge, of the universe, hermes, of whom khurum is the representative, that is one of the lights of the lodge. for further instruction as to the symbolism of the heavenly bodies, and of the sacred numbers, and of the temple and its details, you must wait patiently until you advance in masonry, in the mean time exercising your intellect in studying them for yourself. to study and seek to interpret c

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

h a man is stupid. he is a karma yogi by definition, and who are you to trace another star's orbit? the lover is a bhakhti yogi. he abandons temporal interests and dedicates his life to service of the order. he will kill himself, if need be, that the order may live. such men organize thelemic movements, thereby incurring the risk of persecution on the part of old aeon organizations and the 'black lodge' a better name for such organizations, and particularly for the 'black lodge; is 'the die hards' the hermit is a gnani orraja yogi. he gives only of his light unto men. those who understand what this means are either hermits or on their way to become hermits. those who do not understand what it means are better off without further information. should they seek it, however, let them study lib

adiantly simple. 30. if will stops and cries why, invoking because, then will stops& does nought. there is no 'reason' why a star should continue in its orbit. let her rip! every time the conscious acts, it interferes with the subconscious, which is hadit. it is the voice of man, and not of a god. any man who 'listens to reason' ceases to be a revolutionary. the newspapers are past masters in the lodge of sophistry number 333. they can always prove to you that it is necessary, and patriotic, and all the rest of it, that you should suffer intolerable wrongs. the qabalists represent the mind as a complex of six elements, whereas the will is single, the direct expression as 'the word' of the self. the mind must inform the understanding, which then presents a simple idea to the will. the will

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

y, have confused symbolism and history, boiling down both to a single reduction and seeking to deduce the meaning of one from the other. the veil formed by these symbols words, figures, and signs has concealed the structures and realities from them. we must hasten to pay a well-deserved homage to this research, however, specifically to the remarkable works published since 1886 by the london study lodge quatuor coronati no. 2076, which has brought to light a significant number of old, specifically british documents. myriad brilliant authors have applied themselves to the presentation and analysis of these texts, including r. f. gould, d. knoop, g. p. jones, d. hamer, lionel vibert, f. l. pick, g. n. knight. harry carr, and john hamil. their works are quite valuable for their probity, the pr

tinuity exists between these associations and the corporations of the middle ages.10 the importance attached by the rotharis and liutprand laws to the magistri comacini allow us to believe that the lombards permitted* these authentic documents are well known to legal historians but are apparently unknown to historians of freemasonry such as knoop and jones (genesis of freemasonry, quator coronati lodge no. 2076, 1978, 60-61. in their opinion, the word comacinus does not derive at all from como, but from the english co-mason! this logic reveals how circumspect the use of earlier works can be. for more on the comacins, see m. salmi, maestri comacini e maestri lombardi palladio: 1938. the collegia and the barbarian invasions 27 these professional groups to survive. as their name allows us to

uges itself, where the templars had an important commandery, the guilds and others had welcomed fugitive templars the legend extends much further than does the historical data to support it. as recorded and handed down by several authors,21 robert the bruce is said to have founded in favor of the freemasons, the royal order of heredom of kilwinning. at this same time he is said to have raised the lodge founded in 1150 (concurrent with the founding of the kilwinning abbey) to the rank of grand royal lodge of heredom of kilwinning. ancient chronicles also say that the fugitive templars in scotland enlisted under the flag of robert the bruce, where they contributed mightily to the successful outcome of the battle of bannockburn, in which 30,000 scots defeated 100,000 english. this can be take

ounds total. six years of apprenticeship were required and journeyman status was intended to last six months. the sons, nephews, and cousins of a master did not count as apprentices. a foreigner to france had to work for an additional four years in paris before achieving the grade of master. carpenters' workshops were known as lodges. an arret issued by parliament on august 30, 1631, mentions the lodge in its rejection of the appeal of an earlier sentence "that forbade all journeymen carpenters from carrying away from the worksites and even the lodges and workshops of the bourgeois the trimmings, chips, wood ends, and blocks, if it is without the wishes and consent of said bourgeois and carpenters* the term lodge was contemporaneous with etienne boileau's litre des metiers- masons also use

carrying away from the worksites and even the lodges and workshops of the bourgeois the trimmings, chips, wood ends, and blocks, if it is without the wishes and consent of said bourgeois and carpenters* the term lodge was contemporaneous with etienne boileau's litre des metiers- masons also used it "a document in the archives of notre dame de paris records an incident that took place in the works lodge on the eve of the feast of assumption in 1283 [j. gimpel, the cathedral builders (new york: harper and row, 1984, 77] concerning the existence of a lodge in paris under louis ix, see marcel olle, le symbolisme, july/september 1960. mason corporations in france 157 the brotherhoods the trade or community remained coupled with a brotherhood, a group that was assembled for religious or charitab

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

eads and turquoise and coral earrings, bracelets, and armlets, which symbolize changing woman and white shell woman (see above).the zigzag patterns on the gods arms and legs symbolize lightning against black rain clouds (with the colors reversed on the north god for aesthetic reasons. mountainway one day, reared-within-the-mountain, a young navajo man, was captured by some ute warriors. shut in a lodge on the edge of a ravine, he called on talking god, grandfather of the gods, and god of the dawn and the eastern sky, to rescue him. so talking god appeared through the lodge smokehole as a flash of lightning, and they escaped. on his way home, the young man met many animals and people, including the holy people, who made him as beautiful as they were and taught him the shamanistic secrets of

talking god from a turquoise image, and brought up by first man and first woman. she is crucially involved in the creation, and is identified with the essence of life, growing old and becoming young again in an endless cycle of regeneration. her sister is white shell woman. changing woman married (but did not live with) sun god, who carries the sun on his back and hangs it on the west wall of his lodge each night. their sons, the hero twins, monster slayer and born-for- water, aided by spider woman (see opposite, located their father, who helped them to make the earth safe by destroying the monsters that ruled it. but despite killing many evil creatures, they could never slay old age, cold, and hunger. mountainway 93 the bears in the story lay around a fire that was burning without any woo

lant backward to stop her prey from escaping. to encourage navajo girls to become tireless weavers, spiders webs are rubbed on their arms. and when a navajo woman uses spider woman s knowledge to weave a rug, she must weave a break into the pattern at the end, so that her soul can come out, back to her. lone man 94 buffalo dancers eight dancers dressed in buffalo skins danced outside the medicine lodge during the okeepa, in order to ensure plentiful supplies of buffalo for the coming year. the evil spirit o-ke-h e-de (the owl or evil spirit) appeared on the fourth day to disrupt the dance, creating alarm or fear. the medicine man pacifies him with the sacred pipe but he is finally vanquished by one of the women. this woman then takes the lead in the celebratory feast that night. she is sai

e for him to leave, he told the people to set up a cedar trunk painted red in the center of the village, and to burn incense and offer it sacrifices. he said, this cedar is my body, which i leave with you as a protection from all harm. he told them to build a barricade around the cedar as a protection if the water rose again, it would rise no higher than the first hoop, and then subside. medicine lodge the medicine lodge was sacred and only used during the okeepa ceremony. it was the largest lodge in the village. part of the okeepa ceremony was to initiate boys into manhood. while the tribe danced outside, the initiates stayed in the medicine lodge, neither eating nor sleeping. on the fourth day, they underwent physical tortures. almost every aspect of the okeepa incorporated the mandan be

es were beaten during the dance by four mandan elders. they represent the four turtles that support the earth. evil spirit s wand is broken by the woman evil spirit s body is covered in black grease. in the okeepa ceremony the woman throws yellow dirt at him and it sticks. sacrifices the mandans made sacrifices of costly cloth to the great spirit. four of these stood on poles outside the medicine lodge. they may represent spirits of the four cardinal points. this cheyenne shield shows the turtle in the earth-diver role taken by the mudhen in the mandan creation myth. earth lodges the mandan lived in earth lodges consisting of a timber frame thatched with willow boughs, covered with a foot or two of clay and gravel. the roofs became so hard that the inhabitants 20 or 30 per lodge could sit

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

such restrictions that the rite, in fact, exists no longer. deprived of its constitution, its government, its councils, its entire organization, and its j g degrees, permitted only to work in the three symbolic degrees, subject to the prescriptions of the grand orient as regards the obtaining of the higher degrees, the rite of memphis is actually transformed into the scottish rite. a member of a lodge retaining the denomination of the rite of memphis, is not permitted to add the number of his high degree of that rite to his name,nor to wear any jewel or decoration belonging to it. as to its work in the blue degrees, it in no respect materially differs from the old printed rituals of the scottish rite, of which, as well as the rite moderne, any one can buy as many as he pleases in paris. o

city of which cannot be questioned. the rite of memphis, or oriental rite, is the veritable masonic tree, and all systems,whatsoever they be, are but detached branches of this institution, venerable for its great antiquity, and born in egypt. the real deposit of the principles of masonry written in the chaldee language is preserved in the sacred ark of the rite ofmemphis, and in part in the grand lodge of scotland, at edinburgh, and in the maronite convent on mount lebanon. to this extract we subjoin the first article of the organic statutes of the order, from which the rest may be readily imagined: bro marconis de negre, the grand hierophant, is the sole consecrated depository of the traditions of this sublime order. after this it would certainly be superfluous to ask,what are the constit

alf made use of, in order to make partisans and victims. as regards the introduction of the rite in france,marconis de negre informs us, that a certain samuel honis, a native of cairo, brought it from egypt, in b i b e (how or from whom he received it,we are not informed, and in company with gabriel mathieu marconis (father of marconis de negre, baron dumas, and the marquis de la rogne, founded a lodge of this rite at montauban, on the d ath of april, b i b f; that this lodge was closed oil the hth of march, b i b g (why,we are not told; and that in consequence the archives were confided to the care of the father of marconis, who was appointed (by whom it is not stated) grand hierophant of the order. the falsity of these assertions is easily demonstrated. jacques etienne marconis was initi

en years of age. on the same day he received the first thirteen degrees of the rite, for this egyptian ladder was not very difficult to ascend.on the c hth of june of the same year, certain charges were preferred against him by several of the brethren, in consequence of which he was excluded from the rite. shortly afterwards left paris and went to lyons,where,under the name of negre, he founded a lodge of the rite of mizraim,with the title of la bienveillance, of which he assumed the mastership.as master of that lodge, lie was elevated to b f e heredom albert pike& william l. cummings the g gth degree, by the supreme authority of that rite, that is to say, by the bros bedarride, who little imagined that the bro negre and the bro j. e. marconis, whom they had previously expelled, were one a

y ridiculous. in b i d i, after having compiled the rituals of his rite,marconis visited belgium as grand hierophant and successor of his father, and opened negotiations for the establishment of his order in that country.meeting with little encouragement he returned to paris, where, under the name of marconis letuillart, he succeeded in gathering together a few isolated brethren, and instituted a lodge, the disciples of memphis. on the c dd of march, b i d i, he constituted a grand lodge under the title of osiris, which was intended to govern and superintend volume j, c a a b b f f the spurious rites of memphis and misraim the subordinate lodges he expected to create.on the b c bst ofmay, b i d j,he instituted a chapter les philadelphes, and on the c jth of february, b i e a, a lodge les s

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

itual development and their practical application. future books and tapes in this series will simplify and expand these techniques, including the initiatory rituals, for greater ease of study and use. lodges and study groups. the golden dawn system is not dependent on a filiation with any group proclaiming itself as "golden dawn" or "rosicrucian. nor, even though the initiatory rituals describe a lodge system, is group practice necessary for their enactment. all magic must ultimately take place in the psyche of the student. there are existing golden dawn lodges, and lodges and study groups of other organizations teaching ceremonial magic. often the most practical way to make contact with a group is by placing an advertisement in a local new age or occult tabloid or magazine. xii introducti

e best methods for bringingabout this stimulus of the inner lde, so that one does really begin or enter upon an entirely new existence characterised by an awareness of higher principles within, is the ceremonial technique. by this we mean that a ceremony is arranged in which certain ideas, teaching and admonitions are communicated to the candidate in dramatic form in a formally prepared temple or lodge room. nor is this all- otherwise, no claim could be made on behalf of magic that it really and not merely figuratively initiates. for the utterance of an injunction does not necessarily imply that it can sink sufficiently deeply into consciousness so as to arouse into renewed activity the dormant spiritual qualities. and we have already witnessed the invalidity and spiritual bankruptcy of in

a thorough-going and comprehensive synthesis of the entire magical system of the golden dawn. every important item of knowledge and pratice found itself incorporated within the scope of these angelic tablets. every worth-while technical form of magical procedure and all branches of ritualistic work find themselves represented in a single noble system.2 'israel regardie was a member of the hermes lodge for only a brief time in the 1930'9, his main magical tutelege being with crowley years prior to his admission to the g.d. the hermes lodge, founded by dr. r w. felkin as an ofkhoot of his arnoun temple of the stella matutina was a third generation g.d. temple which likely never inherited much of the oral materials and private papers of the original mathers-farr-yeats golden dam mathers cont

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

ighlands, and [had] a good number of servants with me, as is usual there. one of them going a little before me [and] entering into a house where i was to stay all night and going hastily to the door, he suddenly stepped back with a screech, and did fall by a stone which hit his foot. i asked what the matter was, for he seemed to be very much frightened. he told me very seriously that i should not lodge in that house, because shortly a dead [man's] coffin would be carried out of it, for [he saw] many were carrying of [and that was] when he was heard [to] cry. the secret commonwealth 41 i neglected his words and stayed there [and] he said to others of the servants [that] he was sorry for it and that surely what he saw would shortly come to pass [and] though no sick person was then there [in

RUBY TABLET OF SET

ill someday blossom into being. see the energy, the vitality, the promise of this future universe, just barely buried within this seed. now, should you choose to join me in this future task and joy of creation, welcome the energy and potential of this seed into your own being, as i shall soon do myself. see and feel the energy and potential flow towards you and into you; feel the growth of a seed lodge itself in your spirit, there to lie dormant until the time is right for this new universe to flower. feel this energy and potential added to your own magical energy and power, increasing your capabilities today, just as your magical energy and power will over the years strengthen this seed, enabling it to one day burst into being as a wonderful new universe. and see that the seed in my hands

e pit outside the chamber. if you are working inside a house, a fireplace may substitute. it is important to understand that the fire pit is to be located outside the chamber/hogan "smoke hole" refers to the common name given to the opening, not to any actual use in this case. to have a fire pit inside the chamber/hogan would be dangerous. prior to the ritual, it is traditional to perform a sweat lodge. if you decide to do this, be certain that the rocks you heat up do not come from a watercourse or the bed of a former watercourse. also avoid rocks that have crystal in them. all three types are likely to explode when you pour water onto them. viii. requirements 1. needed per individual: 1. a wolf pelt to be fraped over the participant's shoulders. i have had many discussions lately regardi

r and a few of (your own) nail parings 4. any personal fetishes, medicine bags, etc. that you may need 5. a drum (or other musical instrument if it is appropriate to the style of this ritual) 2. needed per group: 1. colored sand/dirt, pollen, corn meal, crushed mineral oxides (colors needed: black, red, brown, blue, yellow) 2. wood and kindling for the fire pits 3. blankets or tarps for the sweat lodge (as well as a previously dug and set fire pit in which to heat rocks) 4. a bucket and dipper for the water 5. several pairs of heavy tongs (to carry the rocks with) 6. several pairs of oven mitts 7. a plant mister 8. food 9. water- the purest you can find. be careful if you are using water from a pond or lake (or slow-moving stream. nowadays the water tends to be polluted. 10. grael- to hold

t the walls and ceiling, add water to the crushed minerals and/or use waterbased tempers. these paintings should not cover the entire surface of the wall or ceiling. instead they should be the size of a window, with each wall having one painting. 3. if you have a large group, you can split up into smaller groups: sandpainting, wall and ceiling painting, rock gathering, fire pit digging, and sweat lodge building. in this way all tasks may be accomplished simultaneously. you will need two fire pits: a deep one in which to heat the rocks for the sweat lodge, and a shallow one for cooking food. the (sweat) fire pit must be dug early and the fire started. as soon as the fire burns to coals, put the rocks in, and cover loosely with more live coals or dry wood. after an hour or so the rocks will

ich to heat the rocks for the sweat lodge, and a shallow one for cooking food. the (sweat) fire pit must be dug early and the fire started. as soon as the fire burns to coals, put the rocks in, and cover loosely with more live coals or dry wood. after an hour or so the rocks will be ready. use oven mitts and tongs to carry the rocks. be certain to clear the path between the fire pit and the sweat lodge of anything that can or will burn. if you drop one of the rocks and it lands on a twig, you will have a fire. remember to avoid rocks that come from the bed of a watercourse or have crystal in them. once heated, they will explode when water is poured upon them. the sweat lodge is basically a large, round room created by bending saplings and tying them together. they are then covered with bla

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

goes out to take the kensington air, at the centre of a square formed by eight young men in sunglasses and bulging suits, he folds his hands before him and fixes his gaze upon them, so that no element or particle of this hated city- this sink of iniquities which humiliates him by giving him sanctuary, so that he must be beholden to it in spite of the lustfulness, greed and vanity of its ways- can lodge itself, like a dust--speck, in his eyes. when he leaves this loathed exile to return in triumph to that other city beneath the postcard-mountain, it will be a point of pride to be able to say that he remained in complete ignorance of the sodom in which he had been obliged to wait; ignorant, and therefore unsullied, unaltered, pure. and another reason for the drawn curtains is that of course

SAPPHIRE TABLE OF SET MAIN

o do in this respect, but at least a handful of initiates have received training in a wide variety of setian initiatory methods, and the first offspring of the ut pylon has been born (the black runa pylon of sweden. what is promising is that priest iitti has now taken over the ut pylon and eagerly continues the project. a new phase in this project is to found a scandinavian order of the trapezoid lodge in munich (i have received charter from magister barrett to do this; the initial knighthood will consist of myself, priest iitti, adept andersson, and magister winkhart. this project will both seek to "bring the o.tr. into europe" and to explore the northern traditions/cultures to fuel the order's initiatory devices (i am also working with priestess kelly on my ammonian initiation. i hope th

much new; then-adept iitti entered into a new phase of initiation where that very sentinelship proved to be of immense value to him. this enabled me to crystallize the cycles of the ut pylon in my mind and to see the coming into being of what i had cast in 1994. another fruit of the 1994 working is, of course, adept andersson founding the black runa pylon of sweden. when my need to found an o.tr. lodge grew, i got three queries from my area about o.tr. sponsorship. two of these gentlemen i've already sponsored (priest iitti and adept andersson) and the third (adept sotiris vandis) is likely to get his sponsorship soon. these knights will make up the initial membership of the aurora borealis lodge. the majority of my magic is worked in this type of multilayered and supercharged universe. on

SAPPHIRE TABLET OF SET

o do in this respect, but at least a handful of initiates have received training in a wide variety of setian initiatory methods, and the first offspring of the ut pylon has been born (the black runa pylon of sweden. what is promising is that priest iitti has now taken over the ut pylon and eagerly continues the project. a new phase in this project is to found a scandinavian order of the trapezoid lodge in munich (i have received charter from magister barrett to do this; the initial knighthood will consist of myself, priest iitti, adept andersson, and magister winkhart. this project will both seek to "bring the o.tr. into europe" and to explore the northern traditions/cultures to fuel the order's initiatory devices (i am also working with priestess kelly on my ammonian initiation. i hope th

much new; then-adept iitti entered into a new phase of initiation where that very sentinelship proved to be of immense value to him. this enabled me to crystallize the cycles of the ut pylon in my mind and to see the coming into being of what i had cast in 1994. another fruit of the 1994 working is, of course, adept andersson founding the black runa pylon of sweden. when my need to found an o.tr. lodge grew, i got three queries from my area about o.tr. sponsorship. two of these gentlemen i've already sponsored (priest iitti and adept andersson) and the third (adept sotiris vandis) is likely to get his sponsorship soon. these knights will make up the initial membership of the aurora borealis lodge. the majority of my magic is worked in this type of multilayered and supercharged universe. on

SATANIC BIBLE

plete. the association of the goat with the devil is found in the christian bible, where the holiest day of the year, the day of atonement, was celebrated by casting lots for two goats "without blemish, one to be offered to the lord, and one to azazel. the goat carrying the sins of the people was driven into the desert and became a "scapegoat. this is the origin of the goat which is still used in lodge ceremonies today as it was also used in egypt, where once a year it was sacrificed to a god. the devils of mankind are many, and their origins diversified. the performance of satanic ritual does not embrace the calling forth of demons; this practice is followed only by those who are in fear of the very forces they conjure. supposedly, demons are malevolent spirits with attributes conductive

the table, it would be assumed that trickery was used anyway. therefore, if the satanist wants to float objects in mid-air, he uses wires, mirrors, or other devices, and saves his force for self-aggrandizement. all "gifted" mediums and white-light mystics practice pure and applied stage magic, with their blindfolds and sealed envelopes, and any fairly competent stage magician, carnival worker, or lodge-hall entertainer can duplicate the same effect- although lacking, perhaps, the sanctimonious "spiritual" overtones. a little child learns that if he wishes for something hard enough, it will come true. this is meaningful. wishing indicates desire, whereas prayer is accompanied by apprehension. scripture has twisted desire into lust, covetousness, and greed. be as a child, and do not stifle d

SATANIC RITUALS

air epais is a ceremony through which one might get the idea of death over with and out of his system, while turning death's accouterments into instruments of lust and life. the coffin, the principle device, contains the manifestation of the force that is stronger than death, the lust that produces new life. this is similar to the coffin symbolism that, with a euphemistic veneer, is found in most lodge rituals. if the celebrant is patently masochistic, he can, through transference, become a surrogate for members of the congregation who may harbor the same propensity. he suffers a fate worse than death when, within the coffin, instead of experiencing the hoped-for spiritual reward, he is confronted with unexpected passions from which he has long abstained (if a homophile portrays the celebr

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

verse known as the qliphoth. the qliphoth, or 'kelipth'(18) are described as being 'husks' or 'shells' by asim mathep lamm.(19 'they are the waste or litter or filth which the organism of the universe gives off'(20) from this perspective the qliphoth can be utilised by the black magician to work dark magic, using a powerful form of universal energy. as such, kenneth grant, the head of the english lodge of the ordo templis orientis, more commonly known by it's initial's o.t.o, has written a trilogy of books on the subject of using such dark energies. this has been formulated into the 'typhonian current' a system of magic that works with the dark side of the cabalistic tree of life. although some groups such as the order of nine angles oppose a cabalistic interpretation of satanic magic, the

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ituals given to the lakota by the legendary white buffalo calf woman. along with instructions for these holy rituals, she also gave the lakota cannupa wakan, or the sacred pipe. by smoking it during ceremonies, the lakota could send their prayers upward in the smoke to wakan tanka. the first of the seven rites was inikagapi, or life renewal. during this the lakota cleansed their bodies in a sweat lodge, a dome-shaped sauna. the second was a vision quest in which young men would be isolated on a hill for days without food or water until they experienced a vision. a third rite involved grieving for a year for dead relatives. the fourth rite, the sun dance, was one of the most important of all. it was a yearly gathering of tribes and bands during the summer in which participants sacrificed bi

ticed the east asian form of magic called tantrism. tantrism is a spiritual movement which involves mantras (verbal formulas, symbolic body postures and hand motions, and sexual rituals. crowley s version of tantrism was a corrupted form of tantra yoga, a hindu discipline intended to awaken the energy in the body by using rituals to address relationships and sexuality. gardner soon opened his own lodge of the ordo templi orientis at his new home on the grounds of a nudist club to which he belonged. his lodge was made up mostly of men. in fact, the female membership of the group was often so low that he had to hire prostitutes from london to carry out the great rite, a ritual during which a high priestess was required to have sexual intercourse with male members. england s chief witch by 19

SEVEN SHADES OF SOLITUDE

can be wilfully applied: the sigil and stave, the will and the word of magical power. for those of this faith, the so-called wytcha and curren, it is the circle of the arte magical which forms the perfect mirror in which the mysteries of solitude may be sought. drawing from a diversity of personal experience- as a perpetual apprentice, a constant journeyman, and as a presiding magister of covine, lodge and lineage- the circle of arte has yielded up its own-being of solitude according to many subtil degrees of understanding. although i often practise in assembly and convocation, if a man be defined by his greatest predilection and most frequent manner of ritual observance, then i am in truth a solitary magician in the time-honoured custom of english cunning-craft. if i may say this of mysel

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

e house, two forms crouching by the angle of the wall. he saw still the spectre gliding by his side; but he beheld not the yet more poisonous eyes of human envy and woman's jealousy that glared on his retreating footsteps. nicot advanced to the house; fillide followed him in silence. the painter, an old sans-culotte, knew well what language to assume to the porter. he beckoned the latter from his lodge "how is this, citizen? thou harbourest a 'suspect "citizen, you terrify me! if so, name him "it is not a man; a refugee, an italian woman, lodges here "yes, au troisieme, the door to the left. but what of her? she cannot be dangerous, poor child "citizen, beware! dost thou dare to pity her "i? no, no, indeed. but "speak the truth! who visits her "no one but an englishman "that is it, an engl

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

lecture at meetings of the arcane school, the international "group of new world servers" who form "triangles" to work for unesco. a few months ago dr. huston smith, professor of philosophy at the massachusetts institute of technology. a sponsor of the temple of understanding (p.o. box 191, greenwich, conn).visited sydney, australia and lectured on "is a new world religion coming" at the blavatsky lodge. the name blavatsky refers to the late madame helena petrovna blavatsky, the russian cult leader known as "h.p.b" whose writings are used in the secret courses of instruction at the arcane school (with offices at 11 w. 42nd st, new york 36, n. y) in a moment of frankness, madame blavatsky explained the influence of magic on history "what is one to do, when in order to rule men, it is necessa

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

emember her final words "i have had all the riches in the world, but i feel so empty and alone. dio have mercy on me" after maria died, i began searching harder and harder to connect the dots of the vatican's involvement in the illuminati, as well as the bank scandal, the pope's 1978 mysterious death and other stories related to marcinkus, calvi, financier licio gelli known as the head of the p-2 lodge. although i could never pinpoint or verify the secret vatican ceremonies, enough information surfaced to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the vatican functioned as the nerve center of the illuminati, as the appointment of john paul ii revealed he never followed through on his predecessors final orders to investigate the operations of the vatican bank, marcinkus and ties to the mafia and

tican. a reuters story added "calvi, once thought to have committed suicide, was found hanging from scaffolding under london's blackfriars bridge in june 1982 with bricks in his pockets and $15,000 (8,000 pounds) on his person "but in the latest twist to the saga, prosecutors now say the mafia killed calvi for stealing from them and from italian financier licio gelli. gelli was the head of the p2 lodge- a shadowy masonic organization whose members once included prominent politicians, businessmen and military officers "the judge said the trial will start on oct 6 and will involve the convicted cosa nostra treasurer pippo calo, roman crime boss ernesto diotallevi, sardinian financier flavio carboni and his ex-girlfriend manuela kleinszig "the prosecutors' inquiry has focused on millions of d

he vatican" without question, one of the strangest characters in the calvi saga, with ties to marcinkus and sindona, was liccio gelli. a former member of the fascist black shirts battalion and connected to the mussolini regime and the herman goring ss division in world war ii, gelli survived the conflict and amassed tremendous amounts of money and influence. considered the head of the p-2 masonic lodge, he was also privy to sensitive information on hundreds of key political, military and financial figures not only in italy but throughout europe, latin america and elsewhere due to his access of files from the italian secret service (ovra) and possibly british intelligence. it was common knowledge in italy that gelli helped to smuggle klaus barbie, the infamous "butcher of lyon" to safe have

ss, as the trainer explains calmly, kindly how well the person did, how proud they are of them" editor's note: next read part iv where svali discusses the many different types of mind altering programming methods used by the illuminati, as well as human experimentation programs still going on today. also, why did george w. bush travel to pittsburgh right after he was elected to speak at a masonic lodge? read as svali provides answers to the significance of pittsburgh in the illuminati plans. deep within the bowels of the vatican and illuminati: the small public chapter of svali's life coming to an end svali says no more interviews but will still try and spread the word of truth through her christian fellowship group called 'the lion and the lamb ministries' 19 jan 2006 by greg szymanski pa

illuminati agenda "america was once viewed as a missionary ground by the 12 european fathers or heads of the illuminati. but now they have infiltrated every aspect of government, finance and the media, preparing the population for drastic changes "the spiritual center of the illuminati here is in pittsburgh. yes, george w. bush went to pittsburgh right after he was elected to speak a t a masonic lodge for that reason. the group and its members use signs and symbols and they are all over america if you take the time to look. svali daid the illuminati's display of arrogance as well as its members being programmed to feel they are invincible and above the law are now visible to all americans if they closely watch the actions of their government leaders, a group svali readily admits "are card

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

nowledge (in general) and the techniques of self transformation (specifically. additionally, oit was and still is an extension of my own psyche in a very detailed manner. near the end of the 1980's the nsbbs permanently closed. however, i retained the organizational title and magical ideas that were formed through the occult institute of technology (oit. it was during the 1990's that oit became a lodge within the order of the trapezoid operating within the parameters of the mad lab angle of the spectrum of the trapezoid. by understanding the nature of the mechanical structure of the universe (through resonance) i glimpsed its shadow- which i have perceived as the very essence of non-natural consciousness. with the advent of the house system within the order of the trapezoid, i remanifest t

viduals who are not members of the temple of set can participate within a restricted framework in the occult institute through the outer peristyle. this largely amounts to receiving the oit journal, engaging within "public" oit chat meetings and engaging in an ongoing dialogue with the grand master of the order (myself. this is in keeping with a long running methodology that oit has had both as a lodge, and then house within the order of the trapezoid. additionally, oit is also open for limited participation by first degree initiates of the temple of set -if- the first degree meets certain criteria (read the following statement. there are no fees connected with oit membership unless you order the paper mail copy of the oit journal. we already have what we need. affiliation with oit require

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

hese peoples' involvement in nefarious, masonic, occultic, or magical activity or not? you be the judge. to help you make a decision, often included in the captions that accompany the photos and illustrations is commentary that helps one to better analyze the situation or scene that is pictured. when possible, i present evidence and information outlining the individual's membership in the masonic lodge, the rosicrucian order, or other globalist or occultic groups, secret societies, and organizations. this is done as an aid to your independent decision-making. sometimes, i admit, it is difficult from the picture alone to ascertain whether a person, or persons, are displaying a masonic or other sign, or to tell for sure that an occultic pose or scene is being portrayed. again, the author doe

ms have existed and no less than eight hundred socalled masonic degrees have been revised.4 royal arch mason editor ray v. denshaw wryly comments that a long-time mason of reputation may be asked "how many of the hundreds of degrees have you received? have you received the rite of memphis of 90 degrees? or the rectified rite? or the swedenborgian rite?"5 moreover, masons affiliated with the grand lodge of the orient in paris, the united lodge in london, or the grand masonic lodge of israel, may well utilize signs and handshakes not used, seen, or understood in other orders. then, of course, there is the order of the rosicrucians, the order of the trapezoid, the priory of sion, the alta vendita, the p2 lodge, the solar order of the temple, the modern-day knights templar, the vatican's knigh

e elite "conceal in order to baffle the vulgar."9 marie roberts and hugh ormsby-lennon, in secret texts: the literature of secret societies, note that the rituals, rites, symbols, emblems, and other tools of the secret societies are "mysteries that must not be revealed to the profane, lewd, and unworthy."10 how does it feel, dear reader, to realize that the wicked men of the illuminati and of the lodge and other secret societies consider you, me, and everyone outside their own special preserve, as "profane, lewd, and unworthy" symbols as secrets to maintain their rotten and corrupt body of secrets, the illuminati leaders and groups employ symbols. the rites, ceremonies, hand signs, and grips of the illuminists are based on the science and art of symbolism. it is said that symbolism began a

to be used to convey words, ideas, concepts, and secrets "by symbols" wrote thomas carlyle in sartor resartus "is man guided and commanded, made happy made wretched. he everywhere finds himself surrounded with symbols, recognized as such or not recognized."11 as you'll discover in codex magica, the elite use many symbols and signs to hide and obfuscate their magical work and alchemy. in the blue lodge (the first three caution!-you are entering the forbidden zone 19 degrees, the initiate takes an oath of obligation, pledging: i will always hail, ever conceal, and never reveal, any of the arts, parts, or points of the hidden mysteries of ancient free masonry. 12 the order of the eastern star, the women's masonic organization, informs its new members that the order teaches them of their duti

t 600 years before egypt was civilized."17 in other words, clausen is telling his masonic readers that their signs and symbols came from babylon. the holy bible warns that the ancient mystery religion of wicked babylon will bounce back into demonic prevalence in the last days (see revelation 13, 17, and 18, and here we have the sovereign grand commander, the international chieftain of the masonic lodge, informing us of the babylonian origins of the secret symbols and signs of his illuminist order. when we realize that, for the elite, their symbols are claimed to be infused with dynamic life to be real things, active images that make and testify and create, we begin to comprehend the powerful and explosive meaning with which the illuminati endow their signs and symbols. to them, these are n

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ted through thagirion by a man, or by mankind. the fact that the number of the beast is a human number shows our relation to the wild animals that civilization and religion have tried to repress. on a more esoteric plane it means that man is not just an animal but also a god since 666 is the number of the sun and therefore the number that makes man divine. dragon rouge www.dragonrouge.agthe black lodge lesson 1 in the name of the initiator augmn do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. what is usually called the "black lodge" is not really an organization of human beings, or even of "black brethren. in a sense, the "black brother" is infinitely above the activities of what we generally name the "black lodge; in another sense, he/she is infinitely below. the "black lodge" is merely

e wise at once the infernal forces are activated to tempt him or her- that is test him or her- along the way. remember..this process is automatic, the only voluntary part of this process is the aspiration itself. may you fare well my sisters and my brothers as you go about your life duties and may the warrior lvx radiate into the darkness of the universe. may you learn from this book of the black lodge ways and means that will fortify and amplify those spiritual aspirations which even now shine through the opacity of your flesh. love is the law, love under will. the black lodge lesson 2 dear sisters and brothers in the name of the initiator augmn do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. let us sum up that which we learned in the first part of this document: the forces which, in cer

rces that are part of our psychosoma, and apply them towards the manifestation of this new stage in the evolution of our species. we have established that the "demons" are neither bad nor good, but that they simply are. we infer from this that the usefulness or mischief of these "demons" depends entirely on our self-control. to this point in our discussion we have tried to equate our terms "black lodge" and "demons" with various psychological and evolutionary schemes and operations. thus we have defined, for our purposes, those terms, and having thus defined those terms, we can begin to simplify our language and speak of the "black lodge" and of the "demons" more simplistically. to begin with, we must insist once more that any initiate must never forget that the planes should not be mixtur

from the evolutive wave of mankind and falling under the influence of what the qabalah calls choronzon. this is the "prince of evil of this world" which corresponds to the element of spirit, or akasha; but its nature and influence are such that they can only really be understood by masters of the temple of the a .a, and therefore we will not further discuss the subject here. the work of the black lodge shows itself under these main aspects: they incite hierarchic indiscipline in aspirants. we cannot insist too much on the point that the whole process, once aspiration is formulated, becomes automatic. let us suppose that the aspirant, man or woman, becomes linked to a true initiatic order. his or her vehicles are immediately dynamized and encouraged to expand. at the same time, he or she mu

isters and brothers, it is always a step in the dark. it is always a death and a rebirth- and you do not even know, when you die, if there will be a birth. as it is written success is your proof. remember: the price of initiation is a shameful death from which the demons will save you, if they can. so with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. love is the law, love under will. the black lodge lesson 3 dear sisters and brothers in the name of the initiator augmn do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. let us sum up that which we learned in the second part of this document: we learned that the demoniac forces are both necessary and inherent in the process which we call initiation. we learned that the first attempt made by those forces to disrupt and disperse an initiatic c

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os mirabelli eusapia palladino leonora e. piper james van praagh jach pursel jane roberts rudi schneider witch of endor spiritualism andrew jackson davis sir arthur conan doyle the fox sisters allen kardec mystics helena petrovna blavatsky rudolf steiner emanuel swedenborg researchers into the mystery of spirit contact hereward carrington sir william crookes harry houdini william james sir oliver lodge fredric w. h. myers society for psychical research (spr) introduction the belief in an afterlife in which the soul continues a conscious and rational existence is an intensely powerful human longing. while even those of deep religious faiths may still have apprehensions when it comes to facing death and standing on the edge of the boundaries of the unknown, throughout history there have been

new york: taplinger, 1973. leonora e. piper (1857 1950) psychical researcher hereward carrington (1880 1958) considered leonora e. piper to be the greatest psychical medium of her time. piper was a resident of boston, as was margery crandon (1888 1941, but her mediumship had already won the endorsement of such luminaries as william james (1842 1910, dr. richard hodgson (1855 1905, and sir oliver lodge (1851 1940) before crandon had really begun her psychic career. piper was a direct-voice medium, who while entranced, would allow her body to be taken over by spirits who would use her voice to speak and, on occasion, to write messages to those persons assembled for her seances. eight-year-old leonora (often spelled leonore) had been playing in the family garden when she suddenly felt a stin

y this belief, it is sufficient to you to present to your teacher one white raven. my only white raven is mrs. piper. it became the psychologist s conviction that, while in the state of trance, piper was able to reveal knowledge that she could not have acquired through the normal sensory channels. science, like life, feeds itself on its own ruins, james said. new facts break old rules. sir oliver lodge, after a series of experiments with piper, told how the medium from boston had completely convinced him not only of human survival but also of the faculty possessed by disembodied spirits to communicate with people on earth. hereward carrington related that piper s procedure during a seance was to make herself comfortable on a pile of cushions, then gradually pass into the trance state. once

ters either chose to ignore the trickery in the hope that more genuine phenomena would manifest or else were too gullible or too eager to accept the miraculous to protest. while his early encounters with mediumship were not greatly impressive, doyle s interest in exploring the unknown was stirred, and he joined the society for psychical research (spr) shortly thereafter. in 1902 he met sir oliver lodge (1851 1940, and the experiences and research of this highly respected scientist had a great impact upon him. 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 mediums and mystics 137 doyle became convinced that telepathy was a genuine phenomenon that could also account for a great deal of apparent mediumistic knowledge of the deceased. perhaps, he theo

1975, the biologist; sir james jeans (1877 1946, the astronomer; arnold toynbee (1889 1975, the historian; alfred north whitehead (1861 1947, the philosopher all of these great thinkers urged that their fellow scientists seriously approach psychical research. in spite of the attention of such commanding intellects and the painstaking research of such individuals as sir william crookes, sir oliver lodge (1851 1940, dr. gardner murphy (1895 1979, hereward carrington (1880 1958. j. b. rhine (1895 1980, g. n. m. tyrell (1879 1973, dr. karlis osis (1917 1997, dr. stanley krippner (1932, and dr. harold puthoff (1930, psychical researchers are still regarded by a large section of the scientific community as being spook chasers and as outright rebels and heretics to the bodies of established knowl

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shing experience of meeting himself as he rode away from strassburg. the phantom wore a pike grey cloak with gold lace that goethe had never seen before. eight years later, as goethe was on the same road going to visit frederika, it occurred to him that he was dressed in precisely the same cloak that his phantom had been wearing on that earlier occasion. in 1929, an archbishop wrote to sir oliver lodge to tell him of a most peculiar incident which had occurred one evening when he had returned to his home feeling tired. he sat down in a favorite easy chair, and immediately fell asleep. then, he wrote in the letter, he was sharply aroused in about a quarter of an hour (as he perceived by the clock. as he awoke he saw an apparition, luminous, vaporous, wonderfully real of himself, looking int

ings seemed to direct themselves to the door of 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 ghosts and phantoms 35 haunted hotels in the us the old stagecoach inn, waterbury, vermont st. james hotel, cimarron, new mexico kennebunk inn, kennebunkport, maine the dorrington hotel, dorrington, california hotel monte vista, flagstaff, arizona the brookdale lodge, near boulder creek, california the horton grand hotel, san diego, california the hotel del coronado, san diego, california sources: blackman, w. haden. the field guide to north american hauntings. new york: three rivers press, 1998. hauck, dennis william. haunted places. reprint. new york: penguin usa, 1996. mead, robin, and pamela wright, illus. haunted hotels: a guide to american and cana

unts of obe that the so-called silver cord corresponds to the umbilical cord in childbirth (where an old body gives birth to a new body; and if such is the case, its severance may mean death. dr. alexander cannon saw the various strata of physical and nonphysical human beings a bit differently. in his sleeping through space (1938, cannon related the view of the master-the-fifth of the great white lodge of the himalayas, kushog vogi of northern tibet, who believed that the astral body surrounds the physical body like an eggshell surrounds the egg within it and is linked up with the physical body by invisible vibrations on the ether in the air being carried to the mind centers on the plexuses of the involuntary nervous system. in cannon s view, the astral body is the scriptural golden bowl a

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out europe and had been carried across the ocean to the new world by numerous immigrants. george washington, benjamin franklin (1706. 1790, john hancock (1737.1793, paul revere (1735.1818, and many other of the founding fathers of the united states were openly proud of being masons. a freed slave, prince hall, who was initiated into masonry by a british soldier in boston, later founded an african lodge, which became the still-extant prince hall masons. after the revolution (1775.83, american freemasonry became extremely powerful in the united states. lodges were constructed in the smallest of villages, and it became an undeniable sign of prestige in any community to be a member of the masons. for businessmen who wished to succeed, it was almost a requirement to join the freemasons. at the

k, let it be known that he was writing a book that would reveal all the secrets of freemasonry to the world. the printer fs shop that was going to publish his manuscript was torched, and a few days later, morgan was arrested on charges that he was in arrears on a two-dollar debt. that night, a stranger arrived to pay morgan fs bail, and the dissident mason was then seized by a group of his fellow lodge members and forced into a carriage. neither morgan nor his remains were ever found. one of the cornerstones of masonry was its loyalty to its members, but the entire nation was offended by the manner in which the juries were stacked in favor of those masons who were accused of having murdered william morgan. the general population demanded justice, and they were shocked by the power of a sec

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

website http//theknightstemplar.org. associated with the supreme military order of temple of jerusalem is the north american order of poor fellow soldiers of christ and the temple of solomon, knights templar and can be found at the website http//www.knights templar.org. m delving deeper ahmed, rollo. the black art. london: arrow books, 1966. baigent, michael, and richard leigh. the temple and the lodge. new york: arcade, 1989. clifton, charles s. encyclopedia of heresies and heretics. new york: barnes& noble, 1998. howarth, stephen. the knights templar. new york: barnes& noble, 1993. vankin, jonathan, and john whalen. the seventy greatest conspiracies of all time: history fs biggest mysteries, coverups, and cabals. new york: citadel, 1998. the leopard men in ancient egypt, the leopard was

ugh the revolt against the emperor failed, the survivors scattered throughout china and established five provincial grand lodges, each led by one of the five monks. initiation into the triad society is based on a blood ceremony. first, the ancient five heroes are invoked by an gincense master h who offers libations of tea and wine. the candidate for initiation is challenged at the entrance to the lodge by guards carrying razoredged swords. he is allowed to enter only after answering a series of ritual questions as he crawls under crossed swords. once inside the lodge, the initiate participates in a lengthy reenactment of the traditional ordeals of the five ancestors, swears 36 oaths, and learns his first secret signs. then a rooster is brought in and beheaded, a warning to the initiate tha

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he grimoire. not only is the book libeled to honorius iii, instead of honorius ii as levi states (waite says honorous i, but the "diabolical signatures" are totally different from those described by levi! levi's changes obscure the text and add false linkages to "satanic" language, in addition to exaggerating the very real sacrileges. a brief account of this grimoire will be found in the "thelema lodge calendar" for march 1989 e.v. a translation of the the actual grimoire will be found in idries shah's "the secret lore of magic, citadel press, new york, 1970 "choose a black cock, and give him the name of the spirit of darkness which one wishes to evoke "kill the cock, and keep its heart, its tongue, and the first feather of its left wing "dry the tongue and the heart, and reduce them to po

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words yoga and magic. the subject of yoga has already been excellently dealt with by several able and competent writers, requiring therefore but little mention here. such a book as yoga and western psychology by geraldine coster must certainly take its place hstorically as a genuine and first-rate contribution to the progress of analytical psychology. there is also the compilation of the buddhst lodge concentration and meditation, a handbook on that subject of great merit.1 a number of modem psychologists have also examined the subject of yoga and meditation as a whole, and have found much that is sympathetic to and explanatory of their own systems. and furthermore, the mystical systems posit a goal and a general schema whch expand the rather hazy and indeterminate character of a very lar

nter into a disquisition on the intricacies of magical ritual. but in order to expound fundamental psychological and spiritual principles it is necessary to refer to what are known technically as the two pillars.5 half-way between the east and west, and north and south, in a properly instituted temple are placed two upright pillars.6 one of these is colored white, the other black. these pieces of lodge furniture are emblematical of the two opposites functioning in the diverse operations of nature. just as the temple represents in miniature the whole of life by which we may ever be confronted, or, rather, the manifold parts of our own inner nature, so these two pillars symbolize some aspect of these phenomena. they represent light and darkness, heat and cold. in man, they stand for love and

d adeptship,29 that path by which man is translated into a voluntary co-worker with nature in the task of evolution. the final exercise is magic proper-the art of ceremonial magic. by now it should be abundantly clear that not all magic is ceremonial; that not necessarily does it proceed by way of ceremony or ritual. nor does it always require the usual paraphernalia of robe, candle, incense, and lodge-room. there is much in magic which is not too dissimilar with the methods of meditation. that is to say, it follows an interior route, and is a means of dealing with the psyche by way of the actual psychological instruments of psyche without reference to any external object, symbol, or piece of equipment. it is the technique of an equilibriated introversion. just as the exercises described a

the concept of the middle way by which the extremes of the opposites may be avoided, they chose as the word to express the higher self in ths slight ritual the second pronoun "thou" the other words employed are names of sephroth on the tree of life. geelurah or "power" is that center numbered five on the diagram. gedulah or "mercy" is the fourth.3 these two are the centers represented by the two lodge room pillars, the two opposites encountered in everyday life. it is of these two centers that speaks the ritual in junction already quoted about unbalanced severity being cruelty and oppression. malkuth is the tenth sephirah. it is translated by the word "kingdom" inasmuch as the ancients considered that man's nature was a kingdom of inconceivable extent, a kingdom of vast and wide complexit

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a pay phone and someone picked it up "hi, this is john keel" i said cheerily "any messages for me" there was an audible gasp on the other end and they slammed the receiver down. obviously i was getting four zero's phone bills. i asked my friendly telephone representative to track down the owner of that other phone. but, of course, she could not "give out that information" so i went to the fbi to lodge a formal complaint. when you visit the new york fbi office you are ushered into one of several small cubicles where a polite young man hears you out sympathetically. you can imagine the loonies and weirdos who must pester the fbi day after day. but after hearing a summary of my story, my man escorted me to another room where i was interviewed by a group of older agents who were obviously ext

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ries shah tells us of a search he conducted for a copy of the book of power by the arab magician abdul-kadir (see: the secret lore of magic by shah, of which only one copy was ever found. the keys of solomon had a similar reputation, as did the magus by barret, until all of these works were eventually reprinted in the last fifteen years or so. the golden dawn, a famous british and american occult lodge of the turn of the century, was said to have possessed a manuscript called "the veils of negative existence" by another arab. these were the sorcerer's handbooks, and generally not meant as textbooks or encyclopedias of ceremonial magick. in other words, the sorcerer or magician is supposed to be in possession of the requisite knowledge and training with which to carry out a complex magickal

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nt factor of magickal training, even within sorcery and witchcraft. the mind and body must be in fine tuned shape for the rigors of the left hand path and its possibilities towards the light of lucifer or adonai (the hidden self, associated with god or the source of light. the illuminates of thanateros has some very strong initiates within their ranks at many points, one being the austrian former lodge, temple pleasuredome which operated from 1988 until 1990 when temple founder michael dewitt was excommunicated due to his support for peter carroll in the infamous ice magick wars. the ice magick wars are detailed in other chaos magick volumes and will not be discussed here. michael dewitt, aka anon 359 has long been an innovator in the austrian magickal scene, and for that matter even beyon

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balance and the application of reason to achieve magical results. one may consider the demon of the void mentioned in john dee s diaries who is called coronzom, known by modern enochian and thelemic students as choronzon. this demon is considered a madness inspiring beast, causing fragmentation of the mind and the loss of mental vitality. choronzon in the black temple rites of the characith lunar lodge, from which the author was personally involved in the late 1990 s draw on the energies of choronzon as a vampire spirit, being something which may be encircled and used as a means of draining the energy or chi of another through ritual sorcery. some dogmatic magical practitioners consider choronzon as a symbol of the false ego or will, which can be viewed by left hand path practitioners as r

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world. every man or woman who becomes a member of the o.t.o. has an indefeasible right to the first three degrees of masonry. the o.t.o, although an academia masonica, is not a masonic body, so far as the craft degrees are concerned in the sense in which that expression is usually understood in england, and therefore in no way conflicts with, or infringes the just privileges of, the united grand lodge of england. english master masons in good standing, by arrangement, on affiliation, are admitted at reduced charges. members of the ix become part-proprietors of the estates and goods of the order. for further information see the publications of the o.t.o, and the synopsis of the degrees of the o.t.o. the manifesto goes on to outline the constitution of the o.t.o; the rules of membership are

ssumed for example, that the mysterious master thirion was either some discarnate entity, similar to those who supposedly manifested themselves to macgregor mathers and other members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, or a himalayan superman, like madame blavatsky s mahatmas.2 again, the statement that the o.t.o. in no way conflicts with or infringes the just privileges of the united grand lodge of england 3 displayed on reuss s part either what lenin, in another connection, called a naivete which in a child would be touching, but is repugnant in a person of mature years, or a capacity to tell a good, strong lie. for the o.t.o. not only had, as we shall see, connections with spurious and clandestine masonic groups but functioned as a recruiting office for one of these for in the cla

s of sufism.11 it is probable that for many years the o.t.o. existed only in its founder s imagination, for nothing seems to have been heard of it between 1895, the date of its supposed establishment, and 1904, when it began to be mentioned by name in a periodical called the oriflamme. the oriflamme was a supposedly masonic production, the official organ of the magnificently entitled berlin grand lodge of the united grand council of rites of the ancient and accepted scottish rite of 33 degrees, of the ancient primitive rite of memphis of 95 degrees and the egyptian rite of misraim of 90 degrees. to understand the real nature of the berlin grand lodge of memphis and misraim for such is the conventional (and merciful) abbreviation of the organization s title it is necessary to make a brief e

private affairs, to fall into poverty13 and, eventually, to be prepared to confer masonic charters on any individual, or group of individuals, who were prepared to pay a sufficiently large fee. in 1902 yarker was approached by three german occultists, named klein, hartmann and reuss, and on september 24 of that year he sold them a charter conferring upon them the right to establish a berlin grand lodge of memphis and misraim. exactly what were the motives that induced these three germans to make their purchase is uncertain; probably it was at least partly in order to establish a profitable business in conferring masonic initiations in return for substantial sums of money for at least two of the three, hartmann and reuss, seem to have been in perpetual financial difficulties. in many ways h

helemiten. the foremost law of the thelemists will be, thou shalt not kill, cf. liber oz! i have no idea of the origin of the thelemistic revelations from which he quotes (p. 5) the verses vi. 6, 10, 11 and 12. and then again later, iii. 6, 7 and on p. 7 vi. 2, 3. it reads, to me, at least, like the style of the so-called mahatma letters. magically i see it as the deliberate attempts by the black lodge, or whatever lodge, to throw a stick into the wheel of our new serious beginning. grosche wants to make himself the spokesman for thelema in germany. it may be a deliberate attempt to draw the wind from our sails. it will not succeed, but shows to what current he belongs. this quotation makes clear that when he left the crowley copyrights to the o.t.o. germer did not have grosche s movement

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man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the lord had made his journey prosperous or not. 24:22 and it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold; 24:23 and said, whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, i pray thee: is there room [in] thy father s house for us to lodge in? 24:24 and she said unto him, i [am] the daughter of bethuel the son of milcah, which she bare unto nahor. 24:25 she said moreover unto him, we have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. 24:26 and the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the lord. 24:27 and he said, blessed [be] the lord god of my master abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and h

ty for me: peradventure i shall prevail [that] we may smite them, and [that] i may drive them out of the land: for i wot that he whom thou blessest [is] blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed. 22:7 and the elders of moab and the elders of midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto balaam, and spake unto him the words of balak. 22:8 and he said unto them, lodge here this night, and i will bring you word again, as the lord shall speak unto me: and the princes of moab abode with balaam. 22:9 and god came unto balaam, and said, what men [are] these with thee? 22:10 and balaam said unto god, balak the son of zippor, king of moab, hath sent unto me [saying] 22:11 behold [there is] a people come out of egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come no

ass, when all the people were clean passed over jordan, that the lord spake unto joshua, saying, 4:2 take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, 4:3 and command ye them, saying, take you hence out of the midst of jordan, out of the place where the priests feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night. 4:4 then joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of israel, out of every tribe a man: 4:5 and joshua said unto them, pass over before the ark of the lord your god into the midst of jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of israel: 4:6 that this may be a sign among you [t

on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel s father said, comfort thine heart, i pray thee. and they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them. 19:9 and when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel s father, said unto him, behold, now the day draweth toward evening, i pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home. 19:10 but the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against jebus, which is jerusalem; and [there were] with him two asses saddled, his concubine also [was] with him. 19:11 [and] when they [were] by jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unt

thou mayest go home. 19:10 but the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against jebus, which is jerusalem; and [there were] with him two asses saddled, his concubine also [was] with him. 19:11 [and] when they [were] by jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, come, i pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the jebusites, and lodge in it. 19:12 and his master said unto him, we will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that [is] not of the children of israel; we will pass over to gibeah. 19:13 and he said unto his servant, come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in gibeah, or in ramah. 19:14 and they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them [when they were

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ably authentic. it hung for some time in gardner's museum, possibly giving rise, as we shall see, to the rumor that crowley wrote the book of shadows for gardner. according to doreen valiente,and to col. lawrence as well, the museum's descriptive pamphlet says of this document "the collection includes a charter granted by aleister crowley to g.b. gardner (the director of this museum) to operate a lodge of crowley's fraternity, the ordo templi orientis (the director would like to point out, however, that he has never used this charter and has no intention of doing so, although to the best of his belief he is the only person in britain possessing such a charter from crowley himself; crowley was a personal friend of his, and gave him the charter because he liked him" col. lawrence("merlin the

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nster of his bodily fears and desires waiting to devour him. yet with courage he overcomes the minotaur and follows the threads of ariadne, his faith, into the light of day. he has been transformed and elevated from the man he was, who remains as a shad- ow entombed within the bowels of the earth. these legends bear on the initiation into a modern magical school. no seeker can enter a true secret lodge so long as he or she lives in the material world of con- ceits and delusions. the philosophy of the world is material; the philosophy of magic is mystical. the two are oil and water. they will not mix. true, trained magi are easily able to take their chosen places in the world, even as they are able to adapt their minds and bodies to all mundane occupations; but this is no longer the real li

to simulate the physical act of dying, through such ges- tures as lying in a coffin or (in circles with a christian mythos) being elevated on a cross in a dramatic recreation of the crucifixion. through trials of courage, they may be tested to determine that they are serious enough to treat the symbolism of the rite with respect, and strong-willed enough to keep from betraying the secrets of the lodge. usually these tests are symbolic in nature, although made to appear terrify- ingly real, and physical injury is not permitted to happen in a responsible group. the nineteenth-century french occultist paul christian, purporting to describe the egyptian mysteries, tells how the candidate is led to a dark passage and told to crawl in. the candidate has no assurance that he is not crawling to h

the ritual of initiation compresses into a short span of time a process of becoming that requires years to bear fruit. as the magus grows in wisdom and acquires the basics of the art, the real rebirth takes place-a slow miracle, like the growth of a tree, so slow that it is barely discernible in the short run but is readily apparent over a large stretch of time. if candidates are initiated into a lodge or other established circle, they have a relatively easy task. they are told what to do, and provided that they are of average intelligence and courage, they will readily be able to accomplish what is expected of them. it is not the desire of any legitimate lodge to turn candidates away, but to find those who will bear refinement and tempering into a useful instrument for the light. how far

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arious kinds upon himself, or have his disciples inflict these injuries. for example, the shaman might have his body bound in an uncomfortable position, or slash his arms and chest to deliberately make himself weak with blood loss and the pain of the cuts. other forms of endurance include sitting for extended periods near a hot fire to induce dehydration and to overheat the body. the famous sweat lodge of the plains indians of america fulfilled the same function. suspension of the body was also used by shamans. ordeals are usually most severe during initiation. among the manchu, nine holes were made in the ice and a person seeking to become a shaman was forced to dive into the first hole, come out of the second, and continue in this way to the end. if the spirits were with him, they would

s of spiritualism that indicates by its content the condescending attitude with which they regarded the spiritualist movement. it is related by charles webster leadbeater (1854- 1934) in his book the astral plane: its scenery, inhabitants and phenomena. according to leadbeater, the modern spiritualism movement began as an experiment conducted by the enlightened spiritual chiefs of a secret occult lodge known as the divine rulers of the golden gate, which leadbeater claimed was associated with atlantis. appalled by the creeping materialism of the nineteenth century, these powerful spirits decided to make it possible for the average person to converse with the dead, and thereby gain direct proof of the survival of the soul after death: the method adopted was to take some ordinary person afte

pon the astral plane, instruct him to a certain extent in the powers and possibilities belonging to it, and then put him in charge of a spiritualistic circle. he in his turn "developed other departed personalities along the same line, they all acted upon those who sat at their seances, and "developed them as mediums; and so spiritualism grew and flourished. no doubt living members of the original lodge occasionally manifested themselves in astral form at some of the circles-perhaps they may do so even now; but in most cases they simply gave such direction and guidance as they considered necessary to the persons they had put in charge. there is little doubt that the movement increased so much more rapidly than they had expected that it soon got quite beyond their control, so that, as has be

ed the same sort of astral experience. ithell colquhoun (1906-1988, who attempted many years later to gain initiation into both a descendant offshoot of the golden dawn and dion fortune's society of the inner light, experienced an identical type of astral probing on both occasions. both times, she was denied admission. during the 1920s, after filling out an application to join the alpha and omega lodge of the golden dawn, but before she received word that her admission was denied, she went through the kind of testing mentioned by doyle. colquhoun felt as though someone were exploring her on the astral level, trying to influence her will directly by an action that took place below the level of words, even be- 125. howe, 200. 126. ibid. chapter seven: the golden dawn 103 neath the level of t

after being put through a correspondence course followed by a rigorous face-to-face interrogation, she was told that she was not a fit candidate for initiation, but that she should wait a year and she would be reconsidered. thirteen months later, she again experienced the same sort of astral probing, although this time it was less intense than when she had sought admission to the alpha and omega lodge of the golden dawn. again she was rejected. the spiritual leaders of the society of the inner light were called masters, after the practice in theosophy, but it is evident that they were of a similar type to the spirits controlling the golden dawn. colquhoun wrote that, in both instances, this astral probing was set into motion by those connected with the secret chiefs of the respective soci

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r than achieve results, they are general rather than specific, and may be adapted to a wide variety of purposes. xiv introduction essential role of the golden dawn some are training exercises and ritual methods developed independently in my own practice. others are standard techniques and rituals of western occultism that were first used by the original hermetic order of the golden dawn, a secret lodge of english magicians that flourished at the end of the nineteenth century. still others are original rituals, but based on golden dawn components. the single thread connecting the exercises is their utility. i have used them all at various times and have found them effective in advancing my skills and awakening sleeping perceptions and abilities. they work, or i would not have included them

y david godwin. st. paul, minnesota: llewellyn publications, 1990. first published in four volumes 1938-1940 by aries press of chicago. this is regardie's greatest work. it consists of an edited collection of the original golden dawn teaching documents and grade rituals that circulated among members of that hermetic order. regardie obtained this material in 1934 when he was admitted to the hermes lodge of the stella matutina. it was the first time these instructional papers had been presented in an honest form, although much of the golden dawn teachings had previously appeared in print as part of aleister crowley's periodical, the equinox. crowley tended to present the golden dawn teachings as his own, but regardie returned the credit for their brilliance to the leader of the golden dawn

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he notion of a secret word communicated as an essential part of the master-degree in building. this is perhaps the most important and strangest of the three elements; but the quest after the word is not finished in the third degree. the first degree let us look for a moment at the degree of entered apprentice, and how things stand with the candidate when he first comes within the precincts of the lodge. he comes as one who is "worthy and well recommended" as if he contained within himself certain elements or materials which are adaptable to a specific purpose. he is described by his conductor as a person who is "properly prepared" the fitness implied by the recommendation has reference to something which is within him, but not of necessity obvious or visible on his surface personality. it

mitted; but he is very much more, because masonry has an object in view respecting his personality- something that can be accomplished in him as a result of his fellowship in the brotherhood, and by himself. as a matter of truth, it is by both. the "prepared" state is, however, only external, and all of us know in what precisely it consists. now the manner of his preparation for entrance into the lodge typifies a state which is peculiar to his inward position as a person who has not been initiated. there are other particulars into which i need not enter, but it should be remarked that in respect of his preparation he learns only the meaning of the state of darkness, namely, that he has not yet received the light communicated in masonry. the significance of those hindrances which place him

being unclothed therefrom- partially at least- and thereafter of entering into a condition that is new and different, in which another kind of light is communicated, and another vesture is to be assumed, and, ultimately, another life entered. the meaning of initiation in the first degree the candidate's eyes are opened into the representation of a new world, for you must know, of course, that the lodge itself is a symbol of the world, extending to the four corners, having the height of heaven above and the great depth beneath. the candidate may think naturally that light has been taken away from him for the purpose of his initiation, has been thereafter restored automatically, when he has gone through a part of the ceremony, and that hence he is only returned to his previous position. not

rally that light has been taken away from him for the purpose of his initiation, has been thereafter restored automatically, when he has gone through a part of the ceremony, and that hence he is only returned to his previous position. not so. in reality, the light is restored to him in another place; he has put aside old things, has come into things that are new; and he will never pass out of the lodge as quite the same man that he entered. there is a very true sense in which the particulars of his initiation are in analogy with the process of birth into the physical world. the imputed darkness of his previous existence, amidst the life of the uninitiated world, and the yoke which is placed about him is unquestionably in correspondence with the umbilical cord. you will remember the point a

at which he is released therefrom- in our english ritual, i mean. i do not wish to press this view, because it belongs of right, in the main, to another region of symbolism, and the procedure in the later degrees confuses an issue which might be called clear otherwise in the degree of entered apprentice. it is preferable to say that a new light- being that of masonry- illuminates the world of the lodge in the midst of which the candidate is placed; he is penetrated by a fresh experience; and he sees things as they have never been presented to him before. when he retires subsequently for a period, this is like his restoration to light; in the literal sense he resumes that which he set aside, as he is restored to the old light; but in the symbolism it is another environment, a new body of mo

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ists, so that they can return to the ain soph. circe offers the tempting cup and ulysses rejects her with his sword. in the sacred sign of the infinite are represented the planetary genie s brain, heart, and sex. this struggle is terrible, brain against sex, and sex against brain, and what is even more terrible is heart against heart. you know this. on the altars of the temples of the great white lodge the masters used to place three glasses of loria, three glasses of alchemy. each one of these three sacred glasees of the temple contains a precious balm: the red balm is the fire, the blue balm is the water and the white balm is the universal spirit of life. el doctor arnoldo krumm heller, dijo "un qu mico olvid por casualidad un anillo con una esmeralda cerca de un tubito que conten a radi

hat became secret in the year 1620. likewise, it comes into our memory the schools of aryavarta ashrama of tibet, as well as the sect of the manicheans of persian origin, and the famous sufis with their sacred dances, the templars, etc. all of these were schools of regeneration; the coitus reservatus is practiced in all of them. the schools of regeneration constitute the golden chain of the white lodge. escuelas de regeneraci n regenerarse, significa generarse nuevamente, es decir recrearse, volver a crearse. esto de nacer nuevamente, es un problema absolutamente sexual. las escuelas de regeneraci n est n gobernadas por neptuno. este planeta tiene un ciclo de 165 a os. dicho ciclo controla las pocas de actividades p blicas y secretas de estas escuelas. el esoterismo de las escuelas de rege

la eyaculaci n. 112 these satanic atoms are picked up from the atomic infernos of man by the creative organs after the ejaculation. when such satanic atoms attempt to rise through the sympathetic canals to the brain, they are downwardly precipitated by the three rays: father, son and holy spirit. when these kinds of tenebrous atoms descend, they violently crash against a master atom of the black lodge that resides in the fundamental chakra of the coccygeal bone. this evil atomic entity then receives a formidable impulse which gives him power to negatively awaken the fiery serpent of our magical powers. in such a case, the fiery serpent descends downward to the atomic infernos of the human being and becomes the the tail of satan. this is how the human being is definitively born in the abys

enza la codicia. 127 there exists covetousness of occult powers when we want end results. those who only want end results are covetous. those who go around here and there accumulating theories, seeking for powers, who are today in one school and tomorrow in another, are in fact, bottled up within the bottle of covetousness. the mind that is bottled up within covetousness is unstable. it goes from lodge to lodge, from school to school, from sect to sect, always suffering, always longing for powers, light, wisdom, illumination, etc, without ever achieving anything since what is unstable can never comprehend that which is stable, permanent and divine. only god comprehends himself, thus the mind bottled up within the bottle of covetousness is incapable of comprehending the things that are out

ng football or like playing tennis. people have still not learned how to be serious. commonly, people enter into these studies with the longing of acquiring powers within a few months. however, when they realize that they need patience and hard work, they then desperately leave in search of another school. thus, this is how they waste their life away, fleeing from one school to the next, from one lodge to another, from institution to institution until they get old and die without ever having achieved anything. this is how humanity is. one can count those who are truly serious and truly prepared for the practical adepthood on the fingers of the hands. beloved disciples, you need to develop each of the twenty-two major arcana of the tarot within yourselves. you are immitatus, or rather, one

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s, symbols, and the chakras emerging from the cutting edge of modern-day magical practice. open the magical portal to daath and the secrets which await the seeker beyond the confines of normal existence. western mandalas of transformation explains mysteries hidden in the magical squares which have never been published before. powerful techniques obtained from the experiences of a working hermetic lodge can now be yours. do you have the will to dare the assay into the silent depths of the unknown? about the author soror a. l. lives and writes in her niche in the woods with her cat and herb garden. she belongs to a working hermetic lodge on the west coast and welcomes correspondence on magical squares. about the illustrator after studying buddhism for five years, lloyd nygaard turned to the

ou need neither to travel to the mountain top nor obtain any tool other than your own consciousness. you need no garment other than your own imagination. you need no authority other than that of your own true will. set forth, then, into the new dawn.a new start on the greatest adventure there is: to become one with the divine genius. this book is dedicated to all my students, and especially to my lodge sisters in hermetica west, who have been a great source of light and joy in my life: sarial, la, tzadkiel, aimbe, morning star, starel, and matarah, and to claire, wherever you are. special thanks to: all golden dawn friends, both living and dead, and la and lux for proofreading table of contents introduction chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter cha

al way of creating many sacred and angelic sigils or signatures in the golden dawn tradition, is to take the letters of the name, for instance gabriel (gbrial, and trace them in order onto the golden dawn rose glyph (see figure 2-c) through a thin sheet of paper. it is best to use a ruler. the usual way of making a sigil is to indicate its opening with a circle and close with a small line. in our lodge we usually close with an arrow, so gabriel looks like figure 2-d. what have you just done? you have made a glyph or visual image of an angelic name or vibration. here we have a western technique wherein the image or visual representation is another method of communicating to an entity whose word or name we are calling upon verbally and mentally, similar to the yantra/mantra concept in the ea

e enough so that it actually appears to encompass you, or you seem to pass through it. then you will be in the magical or imaginative landscape of the energy evoked by the telesmatic figure. you may then choose to just observe (but try not to become too passive) or you may want to dialogue with whatever kind of figure emerges. any talismanic design could be used for this purpose (for example, our lodge came up with the idea of using the planetary seals, although the flashing tablet effect works best if used with one or two pairs of complementary colors. you could start with simple designs such as this one, provided you are clear about the energy you are evoking (see chapter three for description of the basic types of tattwa images and other correspondences) these could later be incorporate

, such as turning the entire sigil into a geometric figure and coloring it to use as a flashing color tablet for meditation purposes (see figure 4-y. the complementary colors for mars are red and green. i must say that i have never seen a correct sigil of tiriel, the intelligence of mercury, in any published source. there are golden dawn lessons i have seen that use the same sigil as we do in our lodge, and it is published here. taphthartharath, the spirit of mercury, is correct in nearly all books i have seen, and to the unaware student, this could pose a danger, because one should never use the spirit or daimon without also including figure 4-v figure 4-w the sigil of the intelligence of the planet on the talisman as well. on the physical plane, it would be rather like a person who had a

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ike statues' he said, he saw a woman who told him she had fixed herself up so that he wouldn't be traumatized "he said he was taken to an examining room by creatures that looked 'like frogs or lizards' the 'woman' told him they were the educators and would supervise his learning experience, he said. among other strange things, foster recalled that the lizard men encouraged him to join the masonic lodge "after he was examined, foster said, he was sent back out of the craft to the crowd below. the woman (i.e. the being that had 'fixed' itself up to appear as a 'woman- branton) spoke to him in almost a scolding tone, saying that from then on he would be a good boy and mind his parents, he said. the woman seemed to know a lot about him, including the fact that he and some friends had stolen so

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ome a mentor of the people of the five nations. the thickness of your skin shall be seven spans- which is to say that you shall be filled with peace and goodwill and your mind filled with a yearning for the welfare of the people of the confederacy. with endless patience you shall carry out your duty, and your firmness shall be tempered with tenderness for your people. neither anger nor fury shall lodge in your mind, and all your words and actions shall be marked with calm deliberation. in all your deliberations in the council, in your efforts at lawmaking, in all your official acts, self-interest shall be cast into oblivion. cast not away the warnings of any others, if they should chide you for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the great law, which is just and right

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.h. chief adepts and these are placed in our hands to use in the tuition of pupils in the ancient methods of this order. this temple (isis urania) was consecrated as a successor to hermanubis no. 2 which had ceased to exist owing to the death of all its chiefs. the temple no. 1 of licht, liebe, libra is a group of continental mystics who have not been in the habit of performing ceremonies in open lodge, but have conferred the grades chiefly in privacy and in the presence of two or three members, so there is no accurate record of name and rank of all these members. soon after the formation of temple no. 3, permission was granted for the consecration of osiris temple no. 4 at weston-super-mare under rule of v.h. frater "crux dat salubrem" and the west of england has been assigned to him as a

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heh merkavah or vision of ezekiel. the chagigah of the talmud says it were better never to have been born than to pry into the 4 sides thereof, what is above and below, before and behind it. the ancient legend of the four crowned martyrs, who were masons, who refused to disclaim their christian faith and refused to build an idol, has led in our own time to the consecration of the quatuor coronati lodge of freemasons, which has a corresponding membership numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott of 3000 brethren. the present author is a past master of this lodge of literary freemasons. the four masters of ireland of the first half of the 17th century compiled a history of ireland from b.c 2242 to a.d. 1616. 58. magic squares were first known by the work of a

rits. it is found almost everywhere in greece and egypt. diodorus calls five the union of the four elements with ether. there are 5 orders of architecture and 5 senses of the human body now commonly known and described (but the whole are seven. geometry is technically called the 5th science. in masonry the grand scheme is the 5 points of fellowship and note also 5 brethren can hold a fellowcrafts lodge. it is also called the pyramid, from the arrangement of monads, thus three below, then two, then one above them. note the system of 5 regular euclidean bodies, tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron. the pentagram was the emblem of safety. the pentacle, the masons signet mark (according to stukeley, was the device borne by antiochus soter on a war-banner, t

nit place, thus, 6, 36, 216, 1296, 7776. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott on the 6th day, man was created according to genesis. on the 6th day of the week, jesus died on the cross. 67. the israelites had 6 cities of refuge. numbers xxxv. v. 6. there were six things hated by jehovah. prov. vi. v. 16. the seraphim of isaiah had each 6 wings. in a freemasons lodge there are 6 jewels, three of which are immovable and lie open in the lodge for the brethren to moralize upon, while the other three jewels are transferable from one brother to another at the periodical changes of officers. in the hebrew, book of creation, the sepher yetzirah, the hexad is spoken of. the units representing the four quarters of the world; north, south, east and west, and also

y w. wyn n wes tcott the golden candlestick of seven branches was a notable emblematic ornament of the tabernacle of moses, exodus xxv. 31. note the seven years for repentance; 7 churches of asia (or assiah, 7 angels with trumpets, 7 candlesticks of the holy places, 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 kings, 7 thousands slain, 7 vials of wrath to be poured out, pace the apocalypse. 7 members make a freemasons lodge perfect, although 5 may hold one. francis barrett, in his magus, catalogs 7 birds, fishes, animals, metals, stones and members of the body. it has been said there are seven apertures of the skull to correspond with the seven planets. there are seven degrees in the oriental order of sikha and the sat bhai (7 brothers; but i have doubts of the brahmanic authenticity of the present order of the

theosophical society. lucifer was first published in 1887, and 1887 is the sum of 17 hundred, 17 tens and 17 units. h. p. b. lived at 17 lansdowne road, and 17 avenue road. lucifer was published at 7 duke street. 7 volumes were completed at her death. colonel olcott first met her at 7 beckman street and later at 71 broadway, new york. anna kingsford was elected president first of the london t. s. lodge on 7th january 1883. isis unveiled was published in 1877 and the third volume of the secret doctrine was published in 1897, after her death# numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 85. chapter twelve the ogdoad, eight, 8. n the first cube of energy, and is the only evenly even number within the decad. the greeks thought it an all-powerful number. they had a

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orus, displacing the old age of osiris. in 1904, he had received a message, from what lovecraft might have called "out of space, that contained the formula for a new world order, a new system of philosophy, science, art and religion, but this new order had to begin with the fundamental part, and common denominator, of all four: magick. in 1937, the year lovecraft dies, the nazis banned the occult lodges of germany, notable among them two organisations which crowley had supervised: the a\ a\ and the o.t.o, the latter of which he was elected head in england, and the former which he founded himself. there are those who believe that crowley was somehow, magickally, responsible for the third reich, for two reasons: one, that the emergence of new world orders generally seems to instigate holocau

ounded himself. there are those who believe that crowley was somehow, magickally, responsible for the third reich, for two reasons: one, that the emergence of new world orders generally seems to instigate holocausts and, two, that he is said to have influenced the mind of adolf hitler. while it is almost certain that crowley and hitler never met, it is known that hitler belonged to several occult lodges in the early days after the first war; the symbol of one of these, the thule gesellschaft which preached a doctrine of aryan racial superiority, was the infamous swastika which hitler was later to adopt as the symbol of the forms, however, is evident in many of his writings, notably the essays written in the late 'thirties. crowley seemed to regard the nazi phenomenon as a creature of chris

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gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. thus ye have star& star, system& system; let not one know well the other" the old comment 50. our system of initiation is to be triune. for the outer, tests of labour, pain, etc. for the inner, intellectual tests. for the elect of the a'.a, spiritual tests. further the order is not to hold lodges, but to have a chain-system. weh note: this was written when crowley had not yet joined o.t.o. and before he chartered o.t.o. lodges the new comment it would be improper to make extended commentary on this verse, since the nature of the ordeals is not to be written. it is only necessary to say that these ordeals are singularly thorough in all ways, and cannot be dodged. they are real, not f

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

ctrical force from sirius, and was received by our logos during the secondary period of creation, from the hands of that great entity who is the presiding lord of the lords of karma. he is the repository of the law during manifestation, and he it is who is the representative in the solar system of that greater brotherhood on sirius whose- 74- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust lodges are found functioning as the occult hierarchies in the different planets. again, it is he who, with the solar logos to assist him, invests the various initiators with power, gives to them that word in secret which enables them to draw down the pure electric force with which their rods of office must be charged, and commits to their keeping the peculiar secret of their particular planetary s

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

n themselves the longing and desire for the mystical vision, and who loved deeply and were devoted to the spiritual ideal. they were not required to possess active mentalities, and their intellectual powers were practically nil. they liked and needed authority: they learnt through ceremonial; they were devoted to the great ones whose names and forms stood behind the office holders in the esoteric lodges. mind entered not in. this must be remembered. there were no personalities. today, in the world, another great moment of crisis has arrived. i refer not to the present world condition, but to the state of the human consciousness. mind has arrived at a functioning power, personalities are coordinated. the three aspects of man are being blended; another formation or precipitation from the hie

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

ears, if history is to be believed, the wealthy landowners, the institutional heads of tribes, the feudal lords, the slave owners, merchants or business executives have been in power; they exploited the poor; they searched for the maximum output at the minimum cost. it is no new story. in the middle ages, the exploited workmen, the skilled craftsmen and cathedral builders began to form guilds and lodges for mutual protection, for joint discussion and frequently to promote the finest type of craftsmanship. these groups grew in power as the centuries slipped by yet the position of the employed man, woman or child remained deplorable. with invention of machinery and the inauguration of the machine age during the 18th and 19th centuries, the condition of the labouring elements of the populatio

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

two other things stand out in my recollection. from the earliest possible time we were taught to care about the poor and the sick and to realise that fortunate circumstances entailed responsibility. several times a week when it was time to go for a walk we had to go to the housekeeper's room for jellies and soup for some sick person on the property, for baby clothes for the new baby at one of the lodges, for books for someone who was confined to the house to read. this may be an instance of the paternalism and the feudalism of great britain but it had its good points. it may be a good thing that it has disappeared personally i believe it is but we could do with that trained sense of responsibility and of duty to others among the wealthy in this land. we were taught that money and position

ernational centre, was at that time reactionary and old-fashioned whereas the new approach to life and truth, freedom of interpretation and impersonality were the characteristics which should have governed policies and methods but did not. the society was founded for the establishing of universal brotherhood but it was degenerating into a sectarian group more interested in founding and sustaining lodges and increasing the membership than in reaching the general public with the truths of the ageless wisdom. their policy of admitting nobody into the e.s. for spiritual teaching unless they had been for two years a member of the t.s. is proof of this. why should spiritual teaching be withheld until a person had demonstrated for two years their loyalty to an organisation? why should people be r

the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust with the french nation there is the demonstration that "the mind is the slayer of the real" they are such realists that the beautiful, spiritual, subjective thing is often forgotten and this indicates a great lack in the french equipment. their senate assembles without any recognition of deity; their masonic orders are outlawed by the grand lodges of other countries because they recognise no grand architect of the universe and their planned sex relationships are based upon a purely utilitarian concept which is basically sound provided there is nothing in the world but material living. today, in 1947, the world is sex mad. great britain, the u. s, and all other countries are riddled by divorce procedures; young people marry on the bas

him the ancient rules governing the path of discipleship, adapting them to modern conditions and to the more advanced mental comprehension of the modern aspirant. we also leave our students free to serve as they like and where they like. we do not demand that they join this, that or the other activity, as do some of the esoteric groups. we as an organisation exact no service from them; we have no lodges, centres or meetings which we expect them to attend; we leave them free to work in any group, church, organisation or social and welfare activity which may appeal to them. our belief is that if we have given them anything of spiritual value, then they should take it and use it in the environment (no matter what it is) which evokes their interest or which demands their loyalty. this complete

oal in all other groups and will express a fundamental spiritual unity. they will lay the emphasis upon the points of contact and not upon the points of difference; they will endeavour to cooperate with all groups which have a sane spiritual vision and objective without losing, at the same time, their individuality and integrity. it is for this reason that the arcane school does not start groups, lodges or organised meetings in the many cities in the world where students are to be found. it has no desire to be a competitive organisation with related loyalties to local lodges, local meetings and local leaders. as we said above, our students are free to work in other organisations and are not expected to owe allegiance to anyone in the arcane school. its students are taught to realise that t

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e sound of liberation, the great note of resurrection and of the raising of humanity to the secret place of the most high when all other words and sounds have failed. it is not a triple sound as is the a.u.m, but a dual sound, significant of the relation of spirit and soul, and of life and consciousness. this lost word, symbolic of the loss in the three worlds (typified by the degrees of the blue lodges in masonry) must be recovered and is in process of discovery today. the mystics have sought after it; the masons have preserved the tradition of its existence; the disciples and initiates of the world must demonstrate its possession. 3. the sound is the sole expression of the ineffable name, the secret appellation of the one in whom we live and move and have our being, and who is known to t

o give evidence of a growing sense of responsibility, and therefore of the power to demonstrate discriminative choice. this led to the great war in the fourth race which culminated in the flood, to which all parts of the world testify and to which the majority of the world scriptures bear evidence. in that era, in which the then known world of men was extensively involved, the black and the white lodges of adepts were also implicated, and the first major fight between the demonstrators of evil and the forces of light took place; it was inconclusive, with the evidence for defeat to be found on the side of the good more than on the side of evil. under the symbolism of the flood, it is apparent to students that the fight was focussed primarily upon the astral plane, though fought out historic

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

ines on a given point are sometimes very great, as is shown by a comparison of the books of the rabbis of different eras and schools. some of the kabalistic teaching has also never been printed nor published, and has been handed down even to this day from master to pupil only: there are some points not found in any hebrew book, which i myself have taught in the rosicrucian society and in hermetic lodges. an attentive study of some of these old mystical hebrew books discloses the existence of intentional "blinds" which appear to have been introduced to confine certain dogmas to certain students fitted to receive them, and to preserve them from promiscuous distribution and so from misuse by the ignorant or vicious. two or three centuries have now passed since any notable addition to the body

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the omega of universal creative force, evolving from pure spirit and ending in gross matter. it is also the key to the cycle of science, divine and human; and he who comprehends its full meaning is for ever liberated from the toils of mahamaya, the great illusion and deceiver. the light that shines from under the divine hammer, now degraded into the mallet or gavel of the grand masters of masonic lodges, is sufficient to dissipate the darkness of any human schemes or fictions. how prophetic are the songs of the three norse goddesses, to whom the ravens of odin whisper of the past and the future, as they flutter around in their abode of crystal beneath the flowing river. the songs are all written down in the "scrolls of wisdom" of which many are lost but some still remain: and they repeat i

e combinations which were applied to it are numberless. it is on the occult properties of the three equal lines or sides of the triangle that ragon based his studies and founded the famous masonic society of the trinosophists (those who study three sciences; an improvement upon the ordinary three masonic degrees, given to those who study nothing except eating and drinking at the meetings of their lodges "the first line of the triangle offered to the apprentice for study" writes the founder "is the mineral kingdom, symbolized by tubalc (tubal-cain. the second side on which the 'companion' has to meditate, is the vegetable kingdom, symbolized by schibb[[diagram (schibboleth. in this kingdom begins the generation of the bodies. this is why the letter g is presented radiant before the eyes of

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al staff of the army of the sixth degree. from its members the supreme and holy king appoints a supreme grand council. this council is charged with the government of the whole of the second triad, or lovers. all members of the seventh degree travel as sovereign grand inspectors general of the order, and report, on their own initiative, to the supreme and most holy king, as to the condition of all lodges, and chapters; to the supreme council, on all affairs of the second triad; and to the electoral college, on those of the third. the eighth degree is a philosophical body. its members, being fully instructed in the principles of the order, save in one point only, devote themselves to the understanding of what they have learned in their initiation. they have power to reverse the decisions of

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.12 while ties were 'officially' severed between britain and the united states after the war, those between the american brotherhood societies and ruling families and their brethren in britain and europe grew still stronger, through the secret network. again, i am not suggesting that everyone involved in the fight for american independence was negatively motivated, nor that all in the brotherhood lodges are of a similar state of mind. most would have been persuaded they were doing the right thing and in many ways they were. often it is not the act, but the motivation behind the act that we need to watch. one country owning and controlling another is quite wrong, in my view. but we need to look at the wider agenda and motivation behind a course of action and look very carefully at what the

u free world order and they had a remarkable resemblance to the protocols of the elders of zion, of which more shortly.23 the bavarian government had the headquarters of the illuminati searched. much more information was found and the french authorities were told of the plan. but events in france had by now reached such a momentum that nothing could stop them. by 1789, more than 2,000 freemasonry lodges had affiliated with the grand orient organisation which, in turn, was controlled by the illuminati. they were, themselves, controlled by the global elite. the central organisation of the revolution and the printing and distribution of propaganda was based at the palais royal, the home of egalite. he was so in debt to the money lenders that he had to sign over his palace and estates to them

s at one level, but it too is being manipulated by another covert force, the illuminati, which in turn answers to its global elite. there are organisations within organisations (say, the freemasonry network within a government) and another organisation within those organisations (the illuminati membership within the freemasons. this illuminised form of freemasonry became known as the grand orient lodges. it followed the modified hegelian tradition of infiltrating two extremes and playing one off against the other to create the desired change. using these methods, it was pledged to overthrow the rule of the monarchies, destroy faith in god, put an end to patriotism and nation states, abolish the ownership of property and dismantle traditional social order. the black nobility the illuminati

tioned in any freemasons guidebook. those are the people who actually run the show and they are the agents of the all-seeing eye cult. world freemasonry is a massive pyramid of manipulation. it was not always like this. it is said that freemasonry was once a society that was exclusive to those who worked as stonemasons and builders on the churches and cathedrals. it was then called masonry. their lodges were like trade organisations some historians claim, and their secrecy and rituals were designed to protect their profession from unskilled outsiders. most of the masons' work came from the catholic church, ruled from rome. the immense wealth of the church, most of it stolen directly or indirectly, paid for the construction of the great cathedrals on which the masons' income largely depende

d. far from continuing the building programmes of rome, henry looted the monasteries and everything else he could get away with. he was broke, basically, and there were always wars to fight. one of his targets was the assets of the 'fraternities, brotherhoods and guilds. the masonry societies collapsed in the wake of this royal mugging and the desperate lack of work for their members. many of the lodges disappeared, along with their ancient records, and little is known about their true history. the lodges (branches) which survived did so by opening their memberships to people who were not stonemasons, or so the story goes. these newcomers- the businessmen, merchants, landowners, and aristocracy- were called 'speculative' masons and soon they far outnumbered the original members. this was t

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oward hughes medical institute. all are illuminati fronts. researcher alan walton, who writes extensively on the internet about the reptilian connection, says: 264 children of the matrix "underneath most major cities, especially in the usa in fact, there exist subterranean counterpart 'cities' controlled by the masonic/hybrid/alien 'elite. often surface/ subsurface terminals exist beneath masonic lodges, police stations, airports, and federal buildings of major cities. and even not so 'major' cities. the population ratio is probably close to 10% of the population (the hybrid military-industrial fraternity 'elite' living below ground as opposed to the 90% living above. this does not include the full-blood reptilian species who live in even deeper recesses of the earth "some of the major pop

ief that they were to become the equals of the supermen in the bowels of the earth by use of esoteric teachings and mind expansion. they believed this would re-awaken the vril force sleeping in the blood. the initiates of the vril society included two men who would become famous nazis, heinrich himmler and hermann goering. vril members were convinced they were in alliance with mysterious esoteric lodges in tibet and one of the so-called unknown supermen, who was referred to as the "king of fear. rudolf hess, hitler's deputy fuhrer until he made his ill-fated flight to england in 1941, was a dedicated occultist and a member, with goering, of the edelweiss society. this was a sect that believed in the nordic master race- the nordic-reptilian hybrids i call the aryans. hess worshipped hitler

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on the island of comacini in lake como in northern italy.lake como, which today is close to the swiss drug money laundering centres likelugano, is a very important centre for the babylonian brotherhood. two of its modernbritish members, prince philip and his mentor, lord mountbatten, attended a meetingof the brotherhoods bilderberg group at lake como in 1965. the order of comacinewas divided into lodges headed by grand masters and they wore white gloves andaprons and communicated through secret signs and handshakes.22 all this washappening more than a thousand years before the official creation of freemasonry!they were given the patronage of the king of lombardy and were made masters of allmasons and architects in italy.23 it was this secret order, the successors to the earlierbrotherhood

ecause of his connections to the esoteric underground. hewrote in his work, the magical mason, that the freemasons originate from the essenes,the pharisee (levite) jews, the ancient mystery schools of egypt and greece, the v ehm-gerichte of westphalia, germany, the roman collegia, the french compagnons, andthe rosicrucians.28 the official (and inaccurate) story is that freemasonry emergedfrom the lodges of the stone masons who worked on the great churches and cathedrals,craftsmen with the knowledge of sacred geometry. they had enjoyed a close connectionwith the knights templar since the building of the gothic cathedrals. but by the time ofhenry viii, their work was in decline. far from building more cathedrals, henry setabout looting the monasteries and the fraternities, brotherhoods and g

t it was derived from the mystery schools of antiquity which worshipped diana,minerva and isis (semiramis. he said that freemasonry had its origins in the holy landat the time of the crusades (the knights templar) and did not originate with stonemasons. ramsey said that our order (the templars) had formed an intimate union with173the knights of st john of jerusalem (malta) and from that time: our lodges took thename of lodges of st john.38 in france, freemasonry, with ramseys keen support,spawned a particularly important strand, a fusion between freemasonry and thejacobite movement which became known as grand orient freemasonry. there are alsogrand orient networks in others countries like brazil and portugal. grand orient meansgrand east and its rituals are inspired by the worship of zoroa

can war of independence, just as they do in every other war.as historians have documented, the british military and naval operation during thewar of independence was incredibly inept. it wasnt that the colonies won the war, itwas that the british chose to lose it. now we can see why, and the channels throughwhich this was made possible. also, the british regiments were awash withfreemasonic field lodges which interlocked with their brethren in the american army.benjamin franklin based himself in paris during the crucial period and from there hecould communicate easily with the french lodges and the british. paris was also amajor centre, and still is, for the british spy network. the role of british postmastergeneral was traditionally one of espionage, not least because you had control of a

ian namesake)near washington dc. when he was inaugurated as president on april 30th 1789, theday before the major brotherhood ritual day, may 1st or may day, the oath was takenby robert livingstone, the grand master of the new york grand lodge. the ceremonywas entirely freemasonic ritual carried out by freemasons. a grand procession187included washington and the officers and initiates of american lodges in their regalia.like most of the leading founding fathers, washington was from an englisharistocratic bloodline and one of his ancestors was an english knight of the 12thcentury, the time the templars were formed, and another was a relative of the duke ofbuckingham who had fought for the crown in the english civil war. washington wasonly the first example of how the babylonian brotherhood

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

. and the washington monument has freemasonry stamped all over it* it is built from 36,000 separate blocks of granite. the number 36 is derived from multiplying 3x12 and is an important number* its capstone weighs exactly 3,300 pounds* the monument contains 188 specially donated memorial stones, most of them donated by individuals, societies, cities, and nations throughout the world. but, masonic lodges throughout the world contributed 35 of these memorial stones. these 35 blocks were intermingled with the other memorial stones, but the last several of them were placed at the 330 foot level* the total cost of the washington monument was reported to be $1,300,000, showing again a most important masonic number, 13* the monument has 8 windows, and together they total 39 square feet in size. t

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rom ancient times or from a race of secret masters in the east. in reality, these lodges had very few secrets to reveal other than hand-shakes and grade signs but masonry was condemned by the church as a form of devil-worship which only added to its popularity. freemasons may have had few hidden secrets, but the myth of masonic secrecy led to more myserious (and occasionally more sinister) occult lodges being established. one such group was the rosicrucians, the brethren of the rosy cross. among them was the magician francis barrett, author of the magus, a classic on the subject of ceremonial magic, and eliphas levi, author of numerous books on the cabala. this was followed a century later by another occult order, known as the golden dawn, of which the magician aleister crowley was a membe

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

ment of the sephiroth in their spacing on the tree of life. of these two columns, the left-hand one under binah is called severity; the right-hand one under chokmah is called mercy; the middle one under kether is called mildness, and it is said to be the column of equilibrium. these two side columns are the two pillars that stand at the entrance to king solomon's temple and are represented in all lodges of the mysteries, the candidate himself, when he stands between them, is the middle pillar of equilibrium. 11. here we meet with the idea put forth by mme blavatsky, that there can be no manifestation without differentiation into the pairs of opposites. kether differentiates its two aspects as chokmah and binab, and manifestation is in being. now in this supernal triangle, the head which is

erred to, we know to what sphere on the tree the particular mode of manifestation should be assigned. all references to the son always refer to tiphareth; all references to the father refer to kether; all references to the holy ghost refer to yesod; and very deep mysteries are concealed here, for the holy ghost is the aspect of the mystical qabala page 132 godhead that is worshipped in the occult lodges; the worship of pantheistic nature-forces and elemental operations take place under the presidency of god the father; and the regenerative ethical aspect of religion, which is the exoteric aspect for this epoch, is under the presidency of god the son in fiphareth. 21. the initiate, however, transcends his epoch, and aims at uniting all three modes of adoration in his worship of deity as a t

through our feet we pick up the earth magnetism; and when that magnetism is of a special kind) we use special slippers that shall not inhibit it. 32. the perfumes, too, are very important in ceremonial operations, for they represent the etheric side of the affair, their psychological influence is well known, but the fine art of using them psychologically has been but little studied outside occult lodges. the use of perfumes is the most effectual way of playing on the emotions, and consequently of changing the focus of consciousness. how quickly do our thoughts turn away from mystical qabala page 180 earthly things when the driftin smoke of incense comes to us from the high altar; how quickly do they return to them again when we get a whiff of patchouli from the next pew! 33. and in the fou

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

tion of evil influences in the occult group to which the neophyte is affiliated. it is necessary to use very great caution in drawing conclusions from the psychic impressions of an inexperienced student, who is apt to be as full of alarms as a two-year-old thorough bred. on the other hand, the instinctive reactions of a pure and sensitive soul are not to be ignored. there are such things as black lodges and evil entities. we must not allow the cry of "wolf! wolf" to make us either callous or careless. in any case, the victim is suffering remediable discomfort. it is an exceedingly difficult thing to determine psychic ally whether the complainant has reasonable grounds for his feelings, for his own imagination will have filled his atmosphere with menacing thought-forms. it is no simple matt

which it should have the gratitude and support of all who have the cause of the wisdom religion at heart. the commonest danger to which a person who gets into the company of undesirables is exposed, is to be induced to part with more money than is convenient by the time- honoured expedients of either swindling or blackmailing, the latter being by far the commonest form of unpleasantness in black lodges. the one and only remedy in all such cases is to place the matter in the hands of the police. firstly, it is your duty as a citizen in order that others may not be victimised as you have been. secondly, if you don't, your persecutors will not leave you until they have sucked you absolutely dry, and not even then if they can still find a use for you as a catspaw. a blackmailer is never got r

impregnated with 62 of 103 the forces they were employed in generating. odds and ends of magical equipment turn up in some queer places. i was present at an auction in a country town when the twelve signs of the zodiac, neatly painted on a blackboard, came up for sale. various of my friends have picked up magical treasures, such as altar lamps and incense burners that obviously came out of ritual lodges, but the prize of the collection was a magical rod that was put up to auction along with a bundle of fire-irons. large crystals for scrying are frequently seen in antique shops. all such things need carefully de-magnetising before they are brought into one's psychic sphere. i was taking part at one time in a series of psychic experi ments which had been going on very well, when, for no appa

imitations of space forbid me to mention any more. in addition to the occult police, who function solely on the inner planes, there also exist certain groups of occultists who have banded themselves together for the purpose of combating black occultism. i suppose they give themselves different names, but i do not know what these are; i have always heard them referred to generically as the hunting lodges. upon various occasions i have skirmished on their flanks and looked on at some lively forays. i imagine them to be organised in conjunction with the occult police, and they certainly possess means of obtaining information which point to co-operation from the inner planes. they appear to possess alliances in unexpected quarters and to be able to pull a remarkable number of strings. what psy

t there is no connecting link save that of a common literature, a common idealism, and a set of symbols which, if not common to all sections, are readily translatable by means of well-understood equivalents. the position in the occult field is analogous to that of protestant christianity, not roman christianity. occultism has no pope. nor do i think that bolshevism ever gained any foothold in the lodges, though i believe it tried; as witness the application to my own fraternity. the average occultist is not interested in politics, his concern is with things invisible. moreover, the occult fraternities are too inco-ordinated and scattered to be formidable political weapons even if they were imbued with bolshevism. it has also been said that the occult fraternities are controlled by the jews

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y spiritual vampire that sucks out the vital life force, became combined into the half-physical and half-spiritual film vampire of the 20th century. this is the vampire that most people think of when they hear the term spoken. it is only a fiction, but as is so often true, the legend is based on fact. there are three kinds of real vampire. they are not very well know outside the halls of esoteric lodges that study and practice the arcane arts, but i will reveal them for you here. the first type of true vampire is the deluded living human being who feels the irresistible compulsion to consume human or animal blood. some believe that this compulsion is the result of a physical sickness, but it is more generally held that the compulsion of blood-drinking is a mental disorder. it is sometimes

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pproaching that which is divine, that the growth, prosperity and permanence of the noble institution is due. it has withstood every shock and will continue its beneficent sway to the end of time. introduction v charles ii. and william iii. were masons, and a seeming connection with operative masonry was kept up by the appointment of sir christopher wren to the office of grand master. the scottish lodges claim origin among the foreign masons who came to scotland in i iso to build kilwinning abbey; those of england go back to an assemblage of masons held by st. alban at york in 926. the mother lodges of york and kilwinning were, with a few slight exceptions, the parents of all the lodges that were formed in different parts of great britain. the admirable character of the order was attested i

d the benevolent affections, a higher reverence for god, and a warmer love for man. new laws and regulations, adapted to the changed condition of the institution, were then made, an entire revolution in its governmental policy took place, order and system obtained where neither had previously existed, and england became the great central point of masonry for the whole world "from this source have lodges, grand and subordinate, at various times been established, and still exist and flourish in france and switzerland; in all the german states save austria (and there at different times and for short seasons; all up and down the classic shores of the rhine; in prussia; holland, belgium, saxony, hanover, sweden, denmark, russia and even in fallen poland; in italy and spain (under cover of secre

ction of any grand lodge" we all looked astonished and scared. more than one suspected that a false mason had managed to obtain admission. the master said rather sternly "be good enough to explain "i was made a mason among the chippewa indians; your committee knows whether it was real or not "there can be no question about that" promptly spoke one of the committee "i have visited fully a score of lodges in the west and east and have never failed of admission wherever i applied "it is news to me that there are masons among the indians" remarked the master, voicing the sentiments of the rest of us "why, my dear brother, there are hundreds of them. i 20 low twelve could relate incidents that would amaze you, in which the lives of white men have been spared through the fact that the indians le

uite young, that he married one of the tribe, and two children were born to the couple. the deaths of these and their mother were due to white men. it was impossible to know the circumstances, but the awful blow shadowed jennings's life. who could have had a more appalling grievance? in the hope of overcoming his intolerable resentment, he came east, mingled with his own race, and visited masonic lodges, as he was entitled to do. finally his restlessness mastered him. he started suddenly for the indian country, resolved to do all in his power to punish those who had wrecked his life. it may have been that he had settled long before with the directly guilty, but if so, it did not suffice him. he forswore his race. the chippewas at that time, and indeed for a long time before, were on the be

austria. they recognize and affiliate with the masons under the jurisdiction of the supreme council of france, but are not in affiliation with the masons under the jurisdiction of the grand orient of that country. in spain, italy and other roman catholic countries, freemasonry is under the ban of the church, and the membership is meagre and scattered. inasmuch as we are dealing only with the blue lodges, an account of one will serve as an illustration of the history of all. a general similarity of the main features will be found, varied, of course, by local circumstances and surroundings. those in the north felt little or no effects of the great civil war, or, as our brethren in the south prefer to call it, the war between the states. but in their section, the times, to say the least, prov

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a system of three degrees called the rite of adoption and elected the duchess of bourbon as grand mistress of france. the rite has been generally adopted into freemasonry, and various degrees were added from time to time to the number of about twelve in all. latin and greek mysteries were added to the rite by the ladies hospitallers of mount tabor. the greatest ladies in france joined the french lodges of adoption. the rite of mizraim created lodges for both sexes in 1819, 1821, 1838, and 1853, and the rite of memphis in 1839. america founded the rite of the eastern star in five points. in these systems, admission was generally confined to the female relations of masons. the order of the eastern star and that of adoptive masonry were attempted in scotland but without success. adramelech a

ing into material expression the things which one mentally images. the techniques taught to students are presented through a correspondence course, leading to mastery. as each level is successfully completed, the student is admitted to a higher degree and given a more advanced set of lessons. members may, but are by no means required to, attend local gatherings of students variously designated as lodges, chapters, or pronaoi, depending upon their strength. ananda metteya encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 48 the amorc sees itself as the continuation of the ancient mystery schools of the middle east, once headed by solomon and amenhotep. according to its own history, the group works in 180-year cycles in which public activity is followed by a period of secrecy and silence. t

ere to marseilles and barcelona. their progress was marked by considerable state, and having cheated an alchemist of 100,000 crowns under the pretence of achieving some alchemical secret, they fled to england. during his second visit to london cagliostro was initiated into freemasonry and conceived his great idea of employing that system for his own gain. he incessantly visited the various london lodges and ingratiated himself with their principals and officials. at this time he supposedly picked up a manuscript at an obscure london bookstall that is said to have belonged to a certain george gaston. this document dealt with the mysteries of egyptian masonry and abounded in magical and mystical references. it was from this, that cagliostro allegedly gathered his occult inspirations. after a

among others that they must detest, avoid, and calumniate men of understanding, but flatter, foster, and blind fools, that they must spread abroad with much mystery the intelligence that the court de st. germain was five hundred years old, and that they must make gold, but dupes before all. traveling into courland (western latvia, cagliostro and his wife succeeded in establishing several masonic lodges according to the rite of what he called egyptian freemasonry. persons of high rank flocked around the couple, and it is even said that he plotted for the sovereignty of the grand duchy. it is also alleged that he collected a very large treasure of presents and money and set out for st. petersburg, where he established himself as a physician. a large number of medical cures have been credite

ounding them, and the elite of parisian society vied with one another to be present at their magic suppers, at which the evocation of the illustrious dead was the principal amusement. it is even stated that deceased statesmen, authors, and nobles took their seats at cagliostro s supper table. cagliostro s grand objective, however, appeared to have been the spread of his egyptian masonic rite. the lodges he founded were androgynal.they admitted both men and women. the ladies were instructed by the master s wife, who figured as the grand mistress of the order, her husband adopting the title of grand copt. there is little doubt that a good deal of money was subscribed by the neophytes of the various lodges. each woman who joined sacrificed on the altar of mysticism no less than 100 louis, and

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and could easily have dissolved. however, in 1969 grady mcmurtry, a member residing in the san francisco bay area, began to reorganize the oto. mc- murtry had been given a document by crowley containing broad emergency measures. through the 1970s and until his death in 1985, mcmurtry rebuilt the order (assisted by the publication of many of crowley s books, and by the time of his death there were lodges across the united states and in a number of foreign countries. by 1992 the order had approximately 2,100 members in 135 lodges and local groups in some twenty countries. several months after mcmurtry s death, the ninth-degree members met and elected a new caliph (the title assumed by mcmurtry because of the way he came to head the order. the new caliph has chosen to keep his identity a secr

the u.s.a. he and brooks went their separate ways in 1927, and plummer emerged as archbishop. in 1934 he was reconsecrated by william albert nichols of the holy orthodox church in america. the anglican universal church and holy orthodox church in america merged and took the name of the latter body. plummer developed congregations of the holy orthodox church in all of the cities where rosicrucian lodges had previously been developed. he also consecrated four men to assist him, one of whom, stanislaus wotowski, eventually succeeded plummer as head of the church. plummer wrote a number of books, including the rosicrucian fundamentals (1920, principles and practice for rosicrucians (1947, the art of rosicrucian healing (1947, and the science of death (1978. he also wrote the lessons for the r

osicrucian society of england, organized in 1865 by robert wentworth little (who claimed to have found some old freemasonry rituals) and kenneth r. h. mackenzie (who claimed to have received rosicrucian initiation in austria. the metropolitan college was founded in london in 1865 with little as supreme magus, and a societas rosicruciana in scotia was started soon afterward, followed by provincial lodges. some famous names associated with the societas rosicruciana in anglia include sir francis burdett (vice president) and author-occultist-politician lord edward bulwer lytton (grand patron 1871.73. kenneth mackenzie became an honorary magus. william wynn westcott was supreme magus in 1916. the aims of the society were. to afford mutual aid and encouragement in working out the great problems

lan, 1970. societas rosicruciana in civitatibus foederatis the societas rosicruciana in civitatibus foederatis was founded in boston in 1878 by charles e. meyer (1839.1908) with a mason from pennsylvania. the mason had headed the societas rosicruciana in anglia, the british branch of the society founded in the 1860s by robert wentworth little. within a few years the american group had established lodges, called colleges, across the country. with several others, meyer traveled to england and was initiated at the college in sheffield. when sheffield blocked their request for a charter, they turned to the college in edinburgh, which issued a charter in 1879. the next year a second charter was issued for a college in new york, and the two american colleges jointly founded the society rosicruci

society and condemned the homosexual preferences of wedgwood. he went on to attack theosophical offshoots such as the aquarian foundation, the arcane school, and the i am movement. stokes couched his criticism of the new trends in the theosophical movement under the slogan back to blavatsky, a phrase he first used in the november 14, 1917 issue of the critic. he lauded the groups and independent lodges that still adhered to the writings of helena petrovna blavatsky, the cofounder of the theosophical society. he did not leave the international theosophical society and is credited with reintroducing blavatsky s writings to the general membership. stokes continued to edit the critic until his death on september 20, 1942. sources: santucci, james. h. n. stokes and the o. e. library critic. th

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east: and this invitation should be accepted by those present, unless there are special reasons for not doing so. chapter viii. masonic processions the too great frequency of masonic processions in public is an evil greatly to be deplored. in this state no lodge can form a public procession, except for funerals and attendance upon divine services, without the consent of the grand master. formerly lodges had the right to appear in public on st. john's days; and if the ancient manner of celebrating those days should ever again prevail undoubtedly lodges would be permitted to do so without being required to obtain special permission. the rule is that masonic processions are allowable only when some masonic work is to be done. but in former times masons frequently appeared in public in their d

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d then says "the female principle, symbolized by the moon, assumed the form of a lunette [small circular opening, or crescent, while the male principle, symbolized by the sun, assumed the form of the lingam [phallus] and placed himself erect in the center of the lunette, like the mast of a ship["point within a circle" short talk bulletin, august, 1931, masonic bulletin designed to read within the lodges, p. 4] sex within a circle the circle is commonly used to depict the female sexual organ. satanists love to use the "eight-step path of enlightenment (right) they believe a person needs to go through eight separate steps to become fully enlightened spiritually. the final step which is the eighth step, is the sex act. notice that the very center of this symbol is a very small circle. this sy

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:.or the star in theeast,pp.126-8__appendix b _theconstitutionofthesecretcouncilofrites(1)thes. c. r. was constituted on december 2nd,1902for the determination in a particular direction of existing mystic interests, more especially in connectionwithmasonry and the orders which are connectedwithand dependent uponit.(2)thework of the s. c. lies entirely outside that of any legislative bodies, grand lodges, grand chapters orsupreme councils; it does not seek to intrude among them and it will not tolerate their interference in its concerns.(3)thes. c. will for its better protection vigilantly conserve an occult and anonymous character and, savein the supreme degrees of the council, will at no time divulge the names of its members to any person in the world.(4)thes. c. consists of the following

t special-rites only.(17)thefrater s.r.is at thistimethesole envoy-extraordinary representing all ritesofthec.,underthe obedienceofthec.,withthespecial envoys to him subordinate, alsoundertheobedienceofthec.,andthisrule.shallbe, absolute' henceforward for every envoy-extraordinary successively appointed and fortheenvoys-subordinate.(18)thes. c. will obtain and exercise jurisdictionoverindependent lodges, chapters and templesofthefollowingrectifiedoccultordersand masonic rites:theoccultorders.(a)theindependent and rectifiedriteofmartinism (b)thereformedorderoftheg. d. masonically reconstituted (c)therectifiedriter. r.eta.c.masonicrites(a)therectifiedriteofswedenborg,(b)theindependentorder. oftheilluminati (c)theorderofthe novices and knights beneficentoftheholycityofjerusalem (d)thenewand r

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learned friend s.d.a.7=4whose loss is very hard for me.thedeath occurred on20july in a place near to b. we are afraid that the young mani.u.f.,the secretary who has often written letters to you for s.d.a. in recent years, will have to abandon his studies and apply himself to business. but all our wishes are with you, you can be sure.imust inform youthatthe permission to conduct ceremonies in big lodges as you now do and as you had permission from s.d.a. to do (was) against the wishesofseveral other chiefs, who will not correspond with you qr giveyou help at present until they see what sort of effect the change will have on the interests of this society. yet a few papers5and6the propertyofthe lates.d.a.will be sent to you.iam enclosing my private card but only for your own use.iremain your

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eral of ceremonies, 9260. j.d'amer drew, chief adept of australia, 9260. james m. meek, chief adept of yorkshire, 9260. seymour bell, chief adept of northumbria, 9260. robert j. blackham,m.d.,chief adept of british india,viiio.the present grand secretary of the freemasons of england, sir edward letchworth, 8260, has been for many years a frater of the metropolitan college. the revived rosicrucian lodges on the continent of europe are carried on with great privacy, and their members do not openly confess to their admission and membership. several centres are in active work under conditions derived from previous centuries of usefulness. while studying and teaching theories of life and its duties, and admitting members by ceremonial and ritual, many groups of the continental rosicru255 cians

ctrines on a given point are sometimes very great; as is shewn by a comparison of the books of the rabbis of different eras and schools. some of the kabalistic teaching has also never been printed nor published, and has been handed down even to this day from master to pupil only: there are some points, not found in any hebrew book, which i myself have received in our rosicrucian and g.d. hermetic lodges; and i may not therefore be able to supply chapter and verse foralli may say about kabalah, or for all that i may answer in response to your questions. an attentive study of some of these old mystical hebrew books discloses the existence of intentional 'blinds, to use h.p.bo's expression, when it is intended to confine certain dogmas to certain students fitted to receive them, and to preser

visibleworld-isa curious image of the kabbalistic first triad of the emanations of the unseen and unknowable ain soph aur, the boundless one, boundless light; first is kether the crown, thence proceed chochmah and binah, wisdom and understanding, and then is the crown concealed and lost to perception in its exaltedness, the word is lost, and replaced by other titles. in thetensephiroth, as in our lodges, we are taught of two great pillars, one on the right and on the left, the pillars of mercy and judgment; then a third exists between them, that of severity; tempered by mercy, and called pillar of mildness. these are similar to the masonic pillars of wisdom, strength, and beauty, while the ain soph aur above them is the mystic blazing star in the east. wisdom, strength, and beauty are the

r coping255 stone of the north gate of the temple of solomon, which killed the intendant of the works.thedouble cube is a form of special excellence, and its side, often absurdly called the 'oblong-square, is considered to be the proper form for a masonic lodge. english masons refer to the rough ashlar and the perfect ashlar; these are the unhewn block and the finished cube. in earlier times some lodges appear to have exhibited a peculiar stone, the broached thurne1, a name which has lately led to much controversy as to its shape, and the manner in which its surface has been worked: some authors have declared it to be the same as the rough ashlar because an old erroneous ritual says it was for the apprentice to work upon; while mackey argued that it was a perfect ashlar; others again say i

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ctorian england: william wynn westcott. his fame, such as it is, depends on his occult activities rather than on his masonic doings, but, as we shall see, the swedenborgian rite played a crucial role in his life. by 1885 westcott was eager to breathe new life into the rite and inserted a letter in the kneph (vol. 5, no. 41, february 1885, p. 10) lamenting the fact that, for some unknown cause the lodges do not now carry on the working. he suggested that there should be an annual meeting, an assemblage of the whole order, in london or in some central situation, in order to receive candidates, and use the ceremonies. it would, he felt, be a great misfortune to let the order lapse into obscurity. he continued to press yarker in the same vein, and when mackenzie was dying, in june 1886, westco

don at 4 torriano avenue, camden road the former home of a mr. knight, one of the founders of the new church theological college. mackenzie died on 3 july 1886, and with appalling insensitivity westcott pestered his widow almost immediately for all the effects of the late supreme grand secretary. when he had obtained from her some 14 packets of constitutions, the warrents of pythagoras and hermes lodges, declairation books, a minute book, various seals and a press for their use, together with some loose papers the manuscript rituals of the rite did not come to him until he purchased them from mrs. mackenzie s second husband, george parratt, in 1908 he set about the business of revival. there was no immediate rush of new candidates but the balustres of the rite from 1887 to 1908 all show th

t phremason, or red brother, waite says scarcely any-thing, because of its very curious, but withal bizarre, analogies with its marvellous prototype in the craft. the candidate is pledged to keep secret the ineffable name of god, and in this connection a certain communication is made to him. there was one further aspect that beswick sought to introduce but that was clearly absent from the english lodges. the symbolic temples he wrote to stuart (3 may 1871, could be filled with symbolic representations its walls floors &c, appealing to the eye, which would be out of place in our chapels. further consideration of the merits of his ideas is not appropriate in an historical research paper, but one curious parallel does deserve to be noted. the sting in the tail westcott could never have read b

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ified rite and highly recommended him. in february 1903 waite received the preliminary forms of admission and pledge and a series of questions d'ordre, all of which he duly completed, signed and returned- with a curious error; he gave his year of birth as 1859. in his replies to the questions he stated his belief 'that there is a masonry which is behind masonry and is not commonly communicated in lodges, though at the right time it is made known to the right person. but it is requisite that he should come in by the door and should pass through the preliminary grades to attain the ineffable ends"71[71] and in his covering letter he intimated that he 'was going among the brethren of geneva to learn and not to teach'72[72. he was also 'required to choose (1) a mystic name (2) a motto, also sy

8 waite had officially styled himself as an author, despite his involvements in publishing and with the horlick's food company, and it was through his books that he was best known to most of his masonic brethren. his authority in all matters occult was widely accepted, as was his great knowledge of the esoteric byways of freemasonry, and this undoubtedly helped him to gain entrance to the various lodges, chapters and preceptories he sought to join- all of which contained potential converts to his ideas. once converted they tended to seek admission to the independent& rectified rite of the golden dawn and to its successor, the fellowship of the rosy cross, but it must be stressed that waite never actively sought recruits. he did, however, seize every opportunity to propagate his doctrine of

x d the secret council of rites the secret council of rites s+c+r constitution (1) the s.c.r. was constituted on december 2nd, 1902 for the determination in a particular direction of existing mystic interests, more especially in connection with masonry and the orders which are connected with and dependent upon it (2) the work of the s.c. lies entirely outside that of any legislative bodies, grand lodges, grand chapters or supreme councils; it does not seek to intrude among them and it will not tolerate their interference in its concerns (3) the s.c. will for its better protection vigilantly conserve an occult and anonymous character and, save in the supreme degrees of the council, will at no time divulge the names of its members to any person in the world (4) the s.c. consists of the follo

he frater s.r. is at this time the sole envoy-extraordinary representing all rites of the c, under the obedience of the c, with the special envoys to him subordinate, also under the obedience of the c, and this rule shall be absolute henceforward for every envoy extraordinary successively appointed and for the envoys-subordinate (18) the s.c. will obtain and exercise jurisdiction over independent lodges, chapters and temples of the following rectified occult orders and masonic rites- occult orders (a) the independent and rectified rite of martinism (b) the reformed order of the gd. masonically reconstituted (c) the rectified rite r.r. et a.c. masonic rites a. the rectified rite of swedenborg. b. the independent order of the illuniinati. c. the order of the novices and knights beneficent of

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blication of turkish freemasons, which describes the relationship between the order of the templars and freemasonry in these words: in 1312, when the french king, under pressure from the church, closed the order of templars and gave their possessions to the knights of st. john in jerusalem, the activities of the templars did not cease. the great majority of the templars took refuge in freemasonic lodges that were operating in europe at that time. the leader of the templars, mabeignac, with a few other members, found refuge in scotland under the guise of a wall builder under the name of mac benach. the scottish king, robert the bruce, welcomed them and allowed them to exercise great influence over the masonic lodges in scotland. as a result, scottish lodges gained great importance from the

a principle of life. they search their bases not in metaphysical concepts but inside a mature person living on this earth.50 masons who think in this way are totally opposed to a person believing in god and performing acts of charity to gain his approval. for them, everything must be done only for the sake of humanity. we can clearly discern this way of thinking in a book published by the turkish lodges: masonic morality is based on love for humanity. it totally rejects being good through hope for the future, a benefit, a reward, and paradise, out of fear of another person, a religious or political institution, unknown supernatural powers it only espouses and exalts being good in relation to the love for family, country, human beings and humanity. this is one of the most significant aims o

mafia, and that the directors of the lodge were engaged in activities such as arms-smuggling, the drug trade or money laundering. it was also revealed that they arranged assaults on their rivals and on those who had betrayed them. in the "great eastern lodge scandal" of france in 1992, and in the "clean hands" operation in england, reported in the english press in 1995, the activities of masonic lodges in the interests of illegal profit became clear. the masons' idea of "humanist morality" is only a sham. that such a thing should happen is inevitable, because, as we said at the beginning, morality is only established in society by the moral discipline of religion. at the basis of morality lies the absence of arrogance and jf humanism revisited the guillotine, the french revolution's imple

other verses, the godless system of egypt is described in this way: pharaoh called to his people, saying "my people, does the kingdom of egypt not belong to me? do not all these rivers flow under my control? do you not then see" in that way he swayed his people and they succumbed to him. they were a people of deviators (qur'an, 43: 51-54) global freemasonry kg ancient egyptian symbols in masonic lodges one of the most important things that establishes the relation between ancient egypt and the masons is their symbols. symbols are very important in masonry. masons reveal the true meaning of their philosophy to their members through allegory. amason, who advances stage by stage through the 33 degrees of the masonic hierarchy, learns new meanings for each symbol at every stage. in this way

is, allegories. these stories go back to the first ages of history. we can even say that they stretch back to legends of prehistory. in this way, masonry has shown the antiquity of its ideals and has gained a rich source of symbols.65 the conceptions of the ancient egyptians are the most prominent of these symbols and legends, that stretch back to the first ages of history. everywhere in masonic lodges, and frequently in masonic publications, drawings of pyramids and sphinxes and hieroglyphs can be found. in an article in mimar sinan magazine, about the ancient sources of masonry, it states: if we choose ancient egypt as the "most ancient" i don't think we will be mistaken. moreover, the fact that the ceremonies, degrees and philosophy found in ancient egypt are most similar to those in m

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ified rite and highly recommended him. in february 1903 waite received the preliminary forms of admission and pledge and a series of questions d'ordre, all of which he duly completed, signed and returned- with a curious error; he gave his year of birth as 1859. in his replies to the questions he stated his belief 'that there is a masonry which is behind masonry and is not commonly communicated in lodges, though at the right time it is made known to the right person. but it is requisite that he should come in by the door and should pass through the preliminary grades to attain the ineffable ends"71[71] and in his covering letter he intimated that he 'was going among the brethren of geneva to learn and not to teach'72[72. he was also 'required to choose (1) a mystic name (2) a motto, also sy

8 waite had officially styled himself as an author, despite his involvements in publishing and with the horlick's food company, and it was through his books that he was best known to most of his masonic brethren. his authority in all matters occult was widely accepted, as was his great knowledge of the esoteric byways of freemasonry, and this undoubtedly helped him to gain entrance to the various lodges, chapters and preceptories he sought to join- all of which contained potential converts to his ideas. once converted they tended to seek admission to the independent& rectified rite of the golden dawn and to its successor, the fellowship of the rosy cross, but it must be stressed that waite never actively sought recruits. he did, however, seize every opportunity to propagate his doctrine of

x d the secret council of rites the secret council of rites s+c+r constitution (1) the s.c.r. was constituted on december 2nd, 1902 for the determination in a particular direction of existing mystic interests, more especially in connection with masonry and the orders which are connected with and dependent upon it (2) the work of the s.c. lies entirely outside that of any legislative bodies, grand lodges, grand chapters or supreme councils; it does not seek to intrude among them and it will not tolerate their interference in its concerns (3) the s.c. will for its better protection vigilantly conserve an occult and anonymous character and, save in the supreme degrees of the council, will at no time divulge the names of its members to any person in the world (4) the s.c. consists of the follo

he frater s.r. is at this time the sole envoy-extraordinary representing all rites of the c, under the obedience of the c, with the special envoys to him subordinate, also under the obedience of the c, and this rule shall be absolute henceforward for every envoy extraordinary successively appointed and for the envoys-subordinate (18) the s.c. will obtain and exercise jurisdiction over independent lodges, chapters and temples of the following rectified occult orders and masonic rites- occult orders (a) the independent and rectified rite of martinism (b) the reformed order of the gd. masonically reconstituted (c) the rectified rite r.r. et a.c. masonic rites a. the rectified rite of swedenborg. b. the independent order of the illuniinati. c. the order of the novices and knights beneficent of

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ade a somewhat public appearance by creating the myth of christian rosencrantz, a superhuman figure who had supposed lived for 106 years and left his secrets to the order. this had the desired effect and many rosicrucian orders arose. in the seventeenth century a range of manifestoes were penned by many members gnostic theurgy page 208 of the order (and many who spuriously claimed membership) and lodges spread to england, france and russia. some of the more prominent members of this order including dr.randolph (1825-1875, a famous occult author and master of the societas rosicruciana in london, franz hartmann (1838-1912, theodor reuss (founder of the ordei templi orientis) and eliphas levi (1810-1875, whose works helped trigger the french occult revival. in more recent time a plethora of a

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and enrichment though both at 1. see the sirius mystery by robert temple for a discussion of the sirius connection also kenneth grant s outside the circles of time discusses the matter from a magical perspective. 60 allen h. greenfield times have made claims to being our saviors. there are keys for decoding which is which for example, rituals that have been generated or handed down to the magical lodges of modern times which refer to a star or the stars directly or indirectly tend to be transformative and thus of the great white brotherhood. ciphers for decoding messages between the black lodges and their alien sponsors have always existed. but confusions of a deliberate nature exist; the ancient gnostics uncovered a cipher which clearly indicates that the story of the garden of eden in it

f timothy archer by philip k. dick radio free albemuth by philip k. dick what is enlightenment? john white, editor cosmic consciousness by richard bucke. m.d. hitler m a dit by hermann rauschning the fellowship by brad steiger the silencers by timothy green beckley the silver bridge by gray barker the sirius mystery by robert temple also check their sources, if possible. the material on the black lodges in the nazi era is based on fundamental sources and obscure volumes named in the sourcebooks listed here. johnson lists his obscure sources in detail. the fictional nature of mundy s work should be placed in the context of his professional career as a british colonial police officer in india, and p.k. dick s fiction should be classed as allegory or slightly disguised biography, both by his

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c. 2, 116, and pref. to tome 1; from mielcke's lith. sprachl. p. 167 i learn that the same version prevails in samogitia, and the gesta romanor. cap. 80 tell of the angelus et eremita. as the gods lodged with philemon and baucis, so does a dwarf travelling in the grindelwald with some poor but hospitable folk, and protects their little house from the flood (ds. no. 45; in kinderm. 87 god almighty lodges with the poor man, and allows him three wishes; to riigen comes the old beggar-man= wuotan, gets a night's lodging from a poor woman, and on leaving in the morning lets her dabble in the wishing business, which turns out ill for the envious neighbour. thiele (danmarks folkesagn 2, 306) finds the very same myth in fiinen, and here the traveller is peter again: the norwegian tale makes the lo

rries his head under his arm (ib. 3, 15) like the leader of the furious host, and that he gets his beard shaved by the stranger who is to take off the ban (ib. 3, 9. mone's anz. 7, 365. baader's bad. sagen no. 275; conf. the well-known fairytale in musteus, and simpliciss. 1713. 1, 617, who also knows the legend of the waste castle and the beard-shaving (see suppl. the old fable of the water-bear lodges schrats (night-hags) in the forsaken house, and beowulf rids the royal hall of grendefs nightly visits. a house like this, in which all is not right, seems to be called in mhg. wunder-butc' ich sunge ouch wie der (trache) lit, der manigen in der wunderhurc verslunden hat dur sinen git' ms. 2, 177^ similar to removal into mountains or banishment into the ground, and proceeding from like caus

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ars in ohg. himilzunga (graff 5, 682: the moon and some of the planets, when partially illuminated, do present the appearance of a tongue or a sickle, and very likely some cosmogonic belief 1 was engrafted on that; i know of nothing like it in other languages. all the heavenly bodies have particular spots, seats, chairs assigned them, which they make their abode and resting-place; they have their lodges and stages (sterrono girusti, 0. i. 17, 10. this-1 holds especially of the sun, who daily sinks into his seat a translation of the tongue to heaven. or was the twinkling of the stars likened to a tingling [ziingeln, a quivering nickering motion like that of the tongue? the moon s steady light does not bear that out, nor the ohg. form without the i. sun. moon. 701 or settle (see chap. xxiii;

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ess and joy in the glorious search for light, and love. in peace profound, h. spencer lewis, f.r.c. imperator december 1, 1937 (letter of greetings from the first imperator of the worldwide order rosae crucis in this cycle[ l] what the manual contains this manual contains many helps for the members as outlined herewith: 1st. a manual of the order generally, its purposes, formation, arrangement of lodges, description of officers, their duties, etc, and the various regulations of membership. this is of unusual value to every member and officer. 2nd. the plates and diagrams used in connection with certain of the degrees. these diagrams serve two purposes. members will be able to refer to them in connection with the monographs which they receive for private study. explanations of the diagrams

ghty forces of the cosmic or divine mind, and masters of matter, space, and time. this makes them essentially mystics, adepts, and magi.creators of their own destiny. there are no other benefits or rights. all members are pledged to give unselfish service, without other hope or expectation of remuneration than to evolve the self and prepare it for greater work. jurisdiction masters of subordinate lodges, in all jurisdictions, have autocratic power within their individual lodges, limited by the constitution of the order, the grand master of the jurisdiction, and the bylaws of the individual lodges. members, belonging to one jurisdiction, but visiting lodges in another jurisdiction, must be subject to the rulings and laws of the jurisdiction in which they are visiting. masters visiting any j

perfect. the diurnal rising of the sun, with such infinite exactness, after a period of transition from ebbing life at the west, to its dismal darkness of the north, likewise teaches man that life is continuous and immortal, rising again and again in the east, the south, and the west. in the east is the new life begun. from the east comes forth the glory of god "which is of god" therefore, in our lodges, the east is the point in which all fratres and sorores seek that dawn of illumination and divine resurrection, from the "dismal darkness of the north" that will make them free from the superstitions of darkness (ignorance, and the fears of night (evil. for this reason, the east is always respected and saluted, as the "place of divine illumination and resurrection" it must be so regarded at

smal darkness of the north" that will make them free from the superstitions of darkness (ignorance, and the fears of night (evil. for this reason, the east is always respected and saluted, as the "place of divine illumination and resurrection" it must be so regarded at all times, and must never be occupied by the profane (unilluminated, uninitiated) or the unworthy. the "south" the "south" in our lodges, is that point where the sun (source of illumination) shines in the greatest glory and strength, and finds the culmination of its ascendency in the realm of heaven (spirituality. therefore, this point is where the divine mind finds fullest (spiritual) expression, and is occupied in all lodges by the chaplain, the spiritual representative of god in his temple. from the "south" shall come wor

t of either its identity or location. for example, rosicrucian park in san jose, california, which is the see of the order, has a number of prominent buildings and the name of amorc is conspicuously displayed. further, there are approximately 400,000 persons a year of the general public. schools, colleges, and so on.who visit the rosicrucian egyptian museum and planetarium. also, all of our grand lodges throughout the world, and our subordinate lodges, chapters, and pronaoi publicly reveal our identity in public announcements. therefore, all that is private, are the rituals and teachings which are extended to the member of the order. such a practice, then, is not different than that of many other fraternal orders, even those which are not philosophical or esoteric in nature [46] part four

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

and was invested with his collar and jewel at the annual investiture held on 24 april 1867.theminutes of the board of grand stewards show him to have been a regular attender, taking his full part in the arrangementofthe grand festival held on 29 april 1868. as a grand steward he was entided to join the grand stewards lodge. formed in 1735, and standing without number at the headofthe register of lodges since 1792, the membership was limited to those who had served the officeofgrand steward. joining in 1867 hockley became its junior warden in 1875 and from 1877 until his death was its secretary.hewas so assiduous in the performance of his duties as secretary that the members in 1885 voted unanimously to present him with a special jewel, as masonic medals are called, as a tokenoftheir estee

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

of fingers (mudras) performed by the bali priests in their cults in the orient, or the exorcism ritual of magicians. the synthesis will always remain the same. at a trial, the hand with three fingers raised for the oath as confirmation of a truthful statement may also be regarded as a magical gesture. from the christian point of view the raised fingers symbolize the trinity. each of the numerous lodges and sects has its own rites. the lodges of the freemasons, for example, are all bound to a fixed sign, word and touch. a lot could be said about this problem from the historical point of view. for practical magic respecting the magical training, however, studies like these would be absolutely useless. it is of no importance at all to the genuine magician if he reads books about the particul

dition. if this power reservoir has been loaded by frequent repetition, the mere ritual will produce the discharge of one part of this reservoir, bringing about the necessary effect in this way. it is therefore profitable not to talk about it; otherwise, somebody else could easily draw up the power by the same ritual and accomplish the effect, naturally at the sacrifice of the originator. certain lodges let their beginners perform rituals by which such a power reservoir is loaded automatically. in this case, the higher adepts would get a cheap additional allowance and could work with it effortlessly. but as soon as the scholar is making progress and is capable of obtaining it by himself already, he will be advised to use this ritual as little as possible. evidently some people will come to

d destruction will follow, apart from the fact that the curses of the absolutely innocent victims pining in prisons, sentenced to death or sent to hopeless battles in the field, will invisibly produce an opposite polarity that will also contribute to the decomposition of the power reservoir. the same law works in all the rest of cult practices, no matter whether they happen in religions, sects or lodges. the miraculous healings in places of pilgrimage have the same fundamental base. the devoted believer is drawing up the spiritual power from the akasa principle, accumulated there by the worshipers as a result of their firm faith and unshakeable confidence, and the miraculous effect is carried out in this manner. the well-trained magician will always find the sole true explanation for such

will hardly display this surplus of patience in order to achieve a result that he can sooner obtain with the help of one of the methods described here. the loading by an traditional ritual is easier and requires only a few repetitions to bring about the contact, the effect being so amazing as to verge on a miracle. the snag here is that such traditional loading rituals happen to be the secrets of lodges, sects &c, that i myself cannot give away. it is quite obvious that a magician trained in clairvoyance could easily get hold of these secrets, but there is always the danger of being found out. and the oriental magicians who guard their rituals under the oath of death would proceed ruthlessly against anyone that should dare to grab them without permission. therefore i warn every magician no

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

heraldically, the honour-point, of the first column to the right. the master-masons were celebrated in their art of concealing myths, or hinting them cautiously in the most difficult and far-off resemblances. the curious reader is referred to our illustration, figs. 119, 120. the character of the" head" which the templars were charged with having worshipped in their secret encampments, or mystic lodges, has been the subject of much dispute. some say it was the head of proserpine, or of isis, or of the mother of nature, presented under certain strange aspects. others assert that the figure was male, and that of dis or charon, according to the classic nomenclature. the object was reputed to be a talisman, and it is called by some the head of medusa, or the snake-haired visage, dropping bloo

du ciel leur gr. ils menacent le soleil et la lune de r v ler les secrets des mysteres. eusebius lamblicus, de mysteriis egyptiorum. the mystic emblems of the religions of india, china, greece, and rome are closely similar, and are set forth in the ornaments on the friezes of the temples of all those countries, explaining their general principles. your popular societies are an emanation from the lodges of the freemasons, in like manner as these proceeded from the funeral pile of the templars( castle of the tuilerics, year viii) thus the egg-and-tongue moulding( egg and adder's tongue, for the egg and the serpent were two of the emblems of the egyptian and greek mysteries, the griffin, the lion of st. mark, the honeysuckle-and-lotus ornament the convolutions and volutes, the horns as flori

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

truction of members of the co-masonic order, whose desire, as is expressed in their ritual, is to pour the waters of esoteric knowledge into the masonic vessels, i hope nevertheless that it may appeal to a wider circle, and may perhaps be of use to some of those many brn. in the masculine craft who are seeking for a deeper interpretation of masonic symbolism than is given in the majority of their lodges, showing them that in the ritual which they know and love so well are enshrined splendid ideals and deep spiritual teachings which are of the most absorbing interest to the student of the inner side of life. before we can gain this fuller understanding we must have at least some slight acquaintance with certain facts concerning the world in which we live- a world only half of which we see o

f malta, the man who arranged the transfer of the island of malta to the english. this great saint and teacher still lives, and his present body has no appearance of great age. i myself met him physically in rome in 1901, and had a long conversation with him. 32. in co-masonry we refer to him as the head of all true freemasons throughout the world (abbreviated as the h.o.a.t.f) and in some of our lodges his portrait is placed in the east, above the chair of the r.w.m, and just beneath the star of initiation; others place it in the north, above an empty chair. upon his recognition and assent as head of the seventh ray the validity of all rites and degrees depends. he often selects pupils from among the brn. of the masonic order, and prepares those who have fitted themselves in the lower mys

, however, positively required the earnest and intelligent co-operation of a considerable number of people. it was, therefore, much more difficult to achieve perfectly, but when thoroughly done it was far more powerful, and covered a much wider range of country. the christian scheme needs a vast number of churches dotted all over the land; the egyptian plan required only the action of a few grand lodges established in the principal cities in order to flood the whole kingdom with the hidden light- the work of the ordinary lodges being regarded as subsidiary to these, and rather as a training ground for membership in the grand lodges. 57. the central doctrine of the religion of the ancient egyptians was that the divine power dwelt in every man, even the lowest and most degraded, and they cal

ty land, but a time came when the egos most advanced in evolution began to seek incarnation in new nations, in which, as in different classes in the world-school, they might learn new lessons. then this portion of the egyptian mysteries fell into abeyance, while the egyptian civilization grew degenerate and formalized as it became a theatre for the activities of less evolved men. 71. the ordinary lodges 72. there were also dotted all about the country numerous other lodges, which more closely resembled those of modern times. their work was much more varied than that of the three grand lodges, and they met more frequently, for to them was entrusted the work of preparing their members for higher things, and giving them a liberal education. their purpose was the same as that of the mysteries

heir work well, for one who had passed through their degrees- a process of many years- thereby became what we should now call a highly educated and cultured man or woman, with, in addition to his knowledge about this world, a vivid realization of the future after death, of man fs place in the scheme of things, and therefore of what was really worth doing and living for. 73. even in these ordinary lodges every member took part in the work, and the labour of those in the columns was regarded as more arduous than that of the officers. though the latter had special physical actions through which they must go with great accuracy, the former had to use their thought-power all the time. they had all to join at certain points in the ritual in sending out streams of thought, more in the nature of w

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

be assigned to it(*concise history of freemasonry, by r. r gould, p. 55; but many other writers look for the origin of our mysteries no further back than the mediaeval builders. amongst this school there is a tendency, also very natural when such a theory of origin is held, to deny the validity of the higher degrees, and to declare, in accordance with the solemn act of union between the two grand lodges of the freemasons of england, in december, 1813, that pure antient masonry consists of three degrees and no more, viz, those of the entered apprentice, the fellow craft, and the master mason, including the supreme order of the holy royal arch(*book of constitutions, 1884, p. 16) all other degrees and rites are, among the more rigid followers of this school, looked upon as continental innova

carvings, sculpture and buildings of the principal races of the world. the anthropological school, therefore, allows a far greater degree of antiquity to masonry than the authentics have ever ventured to do, and traces striking analogies with the ancient mysteries of many nations, which clearly possessed our symbols and signs, and in all probability ceremonies analogous to those worked in masonic lodges to-day. 13. the anthropologists do not confine their studies to the past alone, but have investigated the initiatory rites of many existing tribes, both in africa and australia, and have found them to possess signs and gestures still in use among masons. striking analogies to our masonic rites have also been found among the inhabitants of india and syria, interwoven with their religious phi

f heredom was formed) reflect to some extent these more advanced lines of progress which existed in egypt. we may therefore in the following brief account of them classify them as they are expressed in our red, black and white freemasonry. 166. red masonry in the mysteries 167. for such m.m.s as were thought promising by the priests in charge (who were for the most part members of the three grand lodges, what we now call red masonry existed, as well as the teaching which is now included in our royal arch and kindred degrees, culminating in the splendid quest of the knights of the rose-croix for the lost word, man s true divinity. 168. in the symbolic teaching corresponding to our degree of the holy royal arch the aspirant was taught to clear away from the various levels of his consciousnes

7. our 30 links the knight k.h. to the ruling rather than the teaching branch of the great hierarchy; he should become a radiant centre of perennial energy, which is intended to give him strength to overcome evil and to make him a real power on the side of good. the prevailing colour of the influence is an electric blue (that of the first ray, quite different from the blue of the symbolic or blue lodges) edged with gold, including and yet not drowning the rose of the 18. associated with the degree there are also great blue angels of the first ray who lend their strength to the knight, somewhat as the crimson angels assist the excellent and perfect brn. of the rose-croix. a higher level of the same energy is transmitted in what to-day we should call the chair of the sovereign commander, who

n which eventually found its way into the roman collegia, in the first place by direct descent from the teaching of king numa, then by the migration of the rites of attis and cybele to rome about 200 b.c, and again through the medium of the returning soldiers of the armies of vespasian and titus. from these collegia it has been handed down with singularly little change in essentials to our modern lodges. 294. besides the three craft degrees which formed the main structure of the jewish mysteries, there were also other masonic traditions handed down from egypt. that which is now the holy royal arch had its place in the working, while the ideas contained in what we now call the mark degree were associated with the 2 as the arch was with the 3. although in english working the period of the ar

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

is identified with a demon, or the devil himself, in the third-century acts of thomas, as well as in john bunyan s puritan classic, pilgrim s progress.within modern ceremonial magic, it constitutes the name for god invoked by moses to bring down the rain over egypt, as reported by samuel liddell mathers in the greater key of solomon. there is also a reference to abaddon as the sixth of the seven lodges of hell in the work of the cabalist joseph ben abraham gikatilla. in various sources,abaddon is identified as the angel of death and destruction, demon of the abyss, and chief of the demons of the underworld. see also demons;magic and magical groups for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: the free press, 1967. strayer, joseph r. d

effect. around 1976 1979, he performed battlefield promotions of several younger proteges to the exalted ninth degree of the oto, although they had not been through the long series of initiations and training generally required. although this has created some problems within the order, the oto in california grew and prospered as never before, and by the time of mcmurtry s death, had chapters and lodges across the u.s. and canada and in ten other countries. the initial warrant from crowley may not have quite justified grady s assumption of the tenth degree (supreme and holy king, but his later actions clearly demonstrated his fitness for it. when grady declared himself head of the oto, the order was virtually dead and had been since jack parsons s defection in 1947. when yet another claima

works of imitators,wheatley provided details about the diabolical underground that confessing ex-satanists would later repeat in testimonials aimed at conservative christian audiences. for example, in his recent study, raising the devil, bill ellis provides a short overview of the career of doreen irvine, an early evangelical ex- satanist heavily indebted to the novelist for her portrait of black lodges. irvine gathered her recollections together into a book published in 1973 as from witchcraft to christ. at one infernal gathering, she described participants arriving in smart cars, not on broomsticks, and booked in at hotels looking for all the world like successful businessmen and women which some were. this was the new face of witchcraft prosperous, almost respectable a veneer that conce

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

and concepts 185 thjalfi fs big contribution is to tell hrungnir that thor will attack from below. the giant stands on his shield and thus cannot use it to protect himself against the hammer mjollnir. thor flings his hammer, and the giant flings his whetstone in return. the weapons meet in midair. the hammer shatters the whetstone and finds its mark, killing hrungnir, but a piece of the whetstone lodges in thor fs head. he lies under hrungnir fs body until his three-year-old son magni (three nights old, according to some manuscripts of snorri fs edda) lifts it off, saying that he could have killed the giant easily. thor is visited by the seeress groa, who is to sing the whetstone out of his head. when thor thinks the cure is imminent, he wishes to reward her, and he tells her that he carri

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

ose parallel lines represented the saints john. we know them to be opposites because the baptist's day is mid-summer and the evangelist's mid-winter. today, after the de-christianization of the order, they are said to represent moses (the prophet) and solomon (the lawgiver);26 once again, opposites. we will see this arrangement again. the rivalry between the premier (modern) and the antient grand lodges continued throughout latter half of the 18th century, and at times it became quite intense. toward the end of the century, however, there was a general recognition among the members of both grand lodges that the two bodies had, in principle, similar objectives, and that they would do well to bury their rivalry and seek unification. in the first decade of 1800s there were desultory efforts a

tyre were the greatest cabalists then in the world; that the mystery has been, for the most part, practised amongst builders since solomon's time. this paragraph also includes a footnote which defines "cabalists" as "people skilled in the cabala i.e. tradition, their secret science of expounding divine mysteries &c."31 writing some fifty years later, in 1807 shortly before the union of the grand lodges, thomas harper, then the deputy grand master of the antients, published the seventh edition of ahiman rezon. the title page proclaimed it to be "revised and corrected" the introduction had been rewritten and derogatory material had been removed, but the two sections cited above (including the reference to "cabalists) appear virtually unchanged in the 1807 edition. in his version of the intr

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

hat since women had been admitted into the ancient mysteries there was no reason why they should be excluded from the modem orders. the princesse de lamballe graciously accepted the dignity of mistress of honor in his secret society, and on the evening of her initiation the most important members of the french court were present. the brilliance of the affair attracted the attention of the masonic lodges in paris. their representatives, in a sincere desire to understand the masonic mysteries, chose the learned orientalist court de g belin as their spokesman, and invited comte di cagliostro to attend a conference to assist in clearing up a number of important questions concerning masonic philosophy. the comte accepted the invitation. on may 10, 1785, cagliostro attended the conference called

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

irly well decimated most of the centres of witch lore, save those preserved under heavy disguise of cabalistic or alchemical learning. even these by now had also become suspect, and apparently owing to this, secret brotherhoods such as the rosicrucians and freemasons were organized, for the very purpose of keeping the flame of the old wisdom burning. by the eighteenth century masonic and hermetic lodges had become widespread and the power of the church had been considerably reduced, indeed was waning fast, never to recover its old position of strength. within the lodges, many old witch secrets were being rediscovered. swedenborg reintroduced the concept of that principle which is known as clairvoyance, or esp, and mesmer began his researches on what he called animal magnetism, but that wit

MEANING OF MASONRY

readily comprehended by readers without some measure of mystical experience and perhaps unfamiliar with the testimony of the mystics thereto. purposely these papers avoid dealing with matters of craft history and of merely antiquarian or archaeological interest. dates, particulars of masonic constitutions, historical changes and developments in the external aspects of the craft, references to old lodges and the names of outstanding people connected therewith--these and such like matters can be read about elsewhere. they are all subordinate to what alone is of vital moment and what so many brethren are hungering for- knowledge of the spiritual purpose and lineage of the order and the present-day value of rites of initiation. in giving these pages to publication care has been taken to observ

pects the vital secrets of life, and of any system expounding life, protect themselves even though shouted from the housetops, because they mean nothing to those as yet unqualified for the knowledge and unready to identify themselves with it by incorporating it into their habitual thought and conduct. in view of the great spread and popularity of masonry to-day--when there are some three thousand lodges in great britain alone--it is as well to consider its present bearings and tendencies and to give a thought to future possibilities. the order is a semi-secret, semi-public institution; secret in respect of its activities intra moenia, but otherwise of full public notoriety, with its doors open to any applicant for admission who is of ordinary good character and repute. those who enter it

h engaged in admirable secondary activities, is as yet an initiating instrument of low efficiency, it may be that, with enlarged understanding of its designs, that efficiency may yet become very considerably increased. during the last two centuries the craft has been gradually developing from small and crude beginnings into its present vast and highly elaborated organization. to-day the number of lodges and the membership of the craft are increasing beyond all precedent. one asks oneself what this growing interest portends, and to what it will, or can be made to, lead? the growth synchronizes with a corresponding defection of interest in orthodox religion and public worship. it need not now be enquired whether or to what extent the simple principles of faith and the humanitarian ideals of

of politics and political intrigue, but nevertheless has unconsciously become a real, though unobtrusive, asset of political value, both in stabilizing the social fabric and tending to foster international amity. the elaborateness of its organization, the care and admirable control of its affairs by its higher authorities, are praiseworthy in the extreme, whilst in the co nduct of its individual lodges there has been and is a progressive endeavour to raise the standard of ceremonial work to a far higher degree of reverence and intelligence than was perhaps possible under conditions existing not long ago. the masonic craft has grown and ramified to dimensions undreamed of by its original founders and, at its present rate of increase, its potentialities and influence in the future are quite

change: a rebirth, or regeneration of his whole nature. he has been" sown a corruptible body; and in virtue of the self-discipline and self development he has undergone, there has been raised in him" an incorruptible body" and death has been swallowed up in the victory he has attained o ver himself. i sometimes fear that the too conspicuous display of the emblems and trappings of mortality in our lodges is apt to create the false impression that the death to which the third degree alludes is the mere physical change that awaits all men. but a far deeper meaning is intended. the mason who knows his science knows that the death of the body is only a natural transition of which he need have no dread whatever; he knows also that when the due time for it arrives, that transition will be a welco

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

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

n, and genetic manipulation325 appendix f: general chronology of events 1774 scheele discovers chlorine gas. 1775 king george issues his proclamation of rebellion. 1775 continental congress authorizes respective states to issue paper currency in defiance of britain.the british respond by printing counterfeit money and flooding the u.s. with it. 1776 adam weishaupt infiltrates the bavarian masonic lodges. the doctrine of the illuminati encom-passes: abolition of ordered government, private property, inheritance, nationalism, family, religion,marriage, morality, and communal education of children. 1776 roughly 85% of citizens in the united states have independent livelihoods. 1776 american colonies of britain declare their independence from britain. 1776 adam smith writes the wealth of natio

ation houses in denmark by order of the king. 1778 in italy, infants were inoculated by neapolitan nurses without the knowledge of parents. 1778 an act of congress prohibits importation of slaves into u.s. 1779 america recalls its currency to counteract the effect of undermining by britain. 1780 united states has two interest-bearing banks. 1780 eclectic alliance used until 1784 to covert masonic lodges to illuminism. 1780 adam weishaupts order of the illuminati at the university of ingolstadt has 60 members in fivegerman cities by 1780, but the impact of his ideas extends much farther in society. weishaupt and oth-ers desired to attach themselves to masonic lodges in europe and america. in 1780, weishaupt recruitsadolf francis (baron knigge, which allowed the hierarchical structure of the

en the illuminati was outlawed it went underground and resurfaced as an orga-nization called the german union, which played a role in creating the french revolution in 1789. thisthesis is later discussed in 1918 with stauffer's new england and the bavarian illuminati. knigge wasallegedly involved with both the german union and the eclectic alliance, which was used as a coverfor converting masonic lodges to illuminism between 1780 and 1784. 1798 emigration to canada begins. 1799 george washington dies. with his death masons were again trusted and the controversy about theilluminati faded. 1800 united states has 200 interest-bearing banks. 1800 benjamin waterhouse at harvard university introduces vaccination in massachusetts. 1800 british sugar consumption reaches 160 million pounds per year

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

e divine light descend! excerpt from closing ritual: do sign of osiris slain and say in the great name of strength through sacrifice! yeh-heh-shu-wah! yeh-heh-wah-sha! i now release any spirit that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. depart in peace unto your habitations, and peace be between us now, and in a time to come this represents only a small taste of the many references members of lodges based on the golden dawn make regarding this jesus-like osiris. although it s worth noting that the real egyptian god osiris died not by sacrifice, but was instead murdered by the conspiracy of his brother set (typhon. further, the real osiris was no more associated with the cross than any other egyptian god. more still, it s worth noting that yeh-heh-shu-wah and yeh-heh-wah-sha are referen

MORALS AND DOGMA

brew word is rendered in our translation of the bible, jachin: and that on the left boaz. our translators say that the first word means"_he shall establish" and the second"_in it is strength" these columns were imitations, by khurum, the tyrian artist, of the great columns consecrated to the winds and fire, at the entrance to the famous temple of malkarth, in the city of tyre. it is customary, in lodges of the york rite, to see a celestial globe on one, and a terrestrial globe on the other; but these are not warranted, if the object be to imitate the original two columns of the temple. the symbolic meaning of these columns we shall leave for the present unexplained, only adding that entered apprentices keep their working-tools in the column jachin; and giving you the etymology and literal

o this untruth in the yet older times, when rome lost her freedom, and her indignant citizens declared that tumultuous liberty is better than disgraceful tranquillity* with the compasses and scale, we can trace all the figures used in the mathematics of planes, or in what are called geometry and trigonometry, two words that are themselves deficient in meaning. geometry, which the letter g in most lodges is _said_ to signify, means _measurement_ of _land_ or the earth--or surveying; and trigonometry, the measurement of triangles, or figures with three sides or angles. the latter is by far the most appropriate name for the science intended to be expressed by the word "geometry" neither is of a meaning sufficiently wide: for although the vast surveys of great spaces of the earth's surface, an

ch she had felt in the struggles of her lollards, anabaptists, and presbyterians, had "purged her masonry" from all explanations tending to overturn empires; but there still remained adepts whom disorganizing principles bound to the ancient mysteries. because true masonry, unemasculated, bore the banners of freedom and equal rights, and was in rebellion against temporal and spiritual tyranny, its lodges were proscribed in 1735, by an edict of the states of holland. in 1737, louis xv. forbade them in france. in 1738, pope clement xii. issued against them his famous bull of excommunication, which was renewed by benedict xiv; and in 1743 the council of berne also proscribed them. the title of the bull of clement is "the condemnation of the society of conventicles _de liberi muratari, or of th

ccessible, and enter the unfolded gates burning in the sun. the highest intellectual cultivation is perfectly compatible with the daily cares and toils of working-men. a keen relish for the most sublime truths of science belongs alike to every class of mankind. and, as philosophy was taught in the sacred groves of athens, and under the portico, and in the old temples of egypt and india, so in our lodges ought knowledge to be dispensed, the sciences taught, and the lectures become like the teachings of socrates and plato, of agassiz and cousin. real knowledge never permitted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. whoso dreads these may well tremble; for he may be well assured that their day is at length come, and must put

y all who read the epistles of st. paul, who wrote after philo, the latter living till the reign of caligula, and being the contemporary of christ. and the mason is familiar with these doctrines of philo: that the supreme being is a centre of light whose rays or emanations pervade the universe; for that is the light for which all masonic journeys are a search, and of which the sun and moon in our lodges are only emblems: that light and darkness, chief enemies from the beginning of time, dispute with each other the empire of the world; which we symbolize by the candidate wandering in darkness and being brought to light: that the world was created, not by the supreme being, but by a secondary agent, who is but his word the [greek, and by types which are but his ideas, aided by an intelligenc

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

l uriel in the north. he wears dark robes olive, russet, citrine and black and stands against a background of fertile earth. say on my left hand, uriel. holding all the visualizations strongly. say, about me flame the pentagrams. behind me shines the sixrayed star. repeat the cabalistic cross. this completes the ritual, which is still secretly practiced today as an opening ceremony in many occult lodges. after you have practiced this a few times, and found the swing of it, you will find it equally effective if you merely imagine you are making the gestures, while you say the words and names of power aloud. chapter 6 the esoteric arts< can you look far into the future and know what lies ahead? yes! says the esoteric arts. divining the future is something that occultists have done since the

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ades and the templars 62 6 the templars, the francs metiers, and freemasonry 81 7 the templars and the parisian builders 102 part 2. from the art of building to the art of thinking 8 mason corporations in france 146 9 builders corporations in italy, germany, and switzerland 168 10 the corporative masonry of great britain 180 11 universal freemasonry 205 12 speculative freemasonry 221 13 the grand lodges and modern freemasonry 247 conclusion 270 notes 278 index 293 preface i state with all modesty, and without presuming to underestimate the value of preceding works on the subject, that to date there has been no truly scientific history of the origins of freemasonry and that such a study is totally justified. a number of valuable works on the history of freemasonry have in fact been publishe

nclusion 270 notes 278 index 293 preface i state with all modesty, and without presuming to underestimate the value of preceding works on the subject, that to date there has been no truly scientific history of the origins of freemasonry and that such a study is totally justified. a number of valuable works on the history of freemasonry have in fact been published since the appearance of the grand lodges at the beginning of the seventeenth century. indeed, they have flourished in such number since the end of the second world war that we can now hail the birth of a new discipline, which we might call masonology. nevertheless, operative freemasonry, which preceded this modern freemasonry* and which is its source, has not been the beneficiary of such extensive examination. those who have dealt

master jacques de molay, the order continued and that he was succeeded by other grand masters without interruption. of course, the line of descent varies according to author. for cadet- gassicourt it was the grand master molay himself who, foreseeing the tragic end of the order and his own execution while in his cell at the bastille, charged his nephew beaujeu with the task of creating four great lodges in paris, edinborough, stockholm, and naples, whose purpose would be the destruction of spiritual power (the pope) and temporal power (the king).18 in the acta latomorum, thory explains it as follows: jacques de molay, foreseeing the misfortunes that threatened an order whose existence he wished to perpetuate, designated as his successor brother jean-marc larmenius of jerusalem, who investe

to the art of thinking the contract was concluded orally, but before this the valet swore on the saints that he would perform the trade "faithfully and well" depending on the profession, this swearing might involve the relics or images of the patron saints of the trade or the holy gospels.6 a. lantoine is therefore mistaken when he claims that the oath could not have been made on the bible in the lodges of operative catholic masons. we find this oath on the bible in corporative english masonry, which was also catholic. the "bible upon the altar" is therefore not an example of "huguenot contraband" smuggled to freemasonry.7 to obtain the grade of master it was first necessary that an apprentice show proof that he had fulfilled his apprenticeship. the idea of the masterwork did not yet exist

ure and/or the art of drawing sciences that art historian eugene miintz (florence et la toscane) described as "transcendent" this institution went on to become the academy of fine arts, whose palace on saint mark's square now houses some prestigious collections. later, when we discuss the birth of speculative freemasonry, we will learn how these italian academies indirectly influenced the english lodges at the beginning of the seventeenth century. builders corporations in germany and switzerland the arts corporations in germany attained their freedom later than those in italy but followed their lead whenever possible in the development of their political power. sometime after the first half of the thirteenth century, trade representatives were admitted into the municipal councils in, for e

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ified in a common purpose: the glorification of man. the guardians of the mysteries freemasonry, by its own accord, practices the ancient mysteries of egypt, and has as a primary goal, the re-instatement of this mystery religion for the coming world order. the magical mystery religion of ancient egypt exercised a great fascination over renaissance man, which was incorporated into the newly formed lodges at that time. the mysterious heiroglyphs were considered to be symbols of hidden knowledge. symbols and gestures became a means of conveying secrets and truths. the cosmos was seen as an organic unity. it was peopled by a hierarchy of spirits which exercised all kinds of influences and sympathies. the practice of magic became a holy quest. back in 1927, freemason w.l. wilmhurst saw the dawn

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

s true. those who now manage the rite and sell its degrees, in new york, publish that it is recognized by the gr or of france. but this is false, in the sense in which it is intended to be taken; and in selling degrees and titles by means of it, the vendors are obtaining money under false pretenses. on the d ath of april, b i g c, grand master marshal magnan addressed a circular to the dissenting lodges and masons of france, inviting them to return to their allegiance.marconis seized the opportunity to apply for the affiliation of his rite with the grand orient.his request was granted, and two new lodges were soon after constituted. yet, although the grand college of rites thus admitted the rite of memphis, this admission was accompanied with such restrictions that the rite, in fact, exist

the rite of memphis were closed. from that date, until b i e i finding his occupation gone, he turned his attention to masonic literature and published in succession several works, the sanctuary of memphis, the hierophant, the mystic sun, the mystic temple, the masonic pantheon, etc. in b i e i v j, taking advantage of the political events of the period, marconis succeeded in reestablishing three lodges at paris: the disciples of menes, the disciples of pythagoras, and the disciples of memphis. the belgian and other lodges he had previously founded, however, slept the sleep that knows no waking. during the time that marconis de negre managed to keep his lodges alive, he followed the example of the bros bedarride, by seeking to procure adherents among the members of the grand orient and sup

onis himself thought it prudent to declare that lie had washed hands of the whole affair, and disowned all responsibility relative to the proceedings of the lodge. still fondly hoping for the realization of his pet scheme, marconis, in b i f c, endeavored through bro rebold, the well known masonic author, to negotiate with the grand orient for the affiliation with that authority of the memphisian lodges. the demand was rejected, and marconis then again devoted his attention to masonic publications. in b i g a lie came to new york with an assortment of diplomas, charters, jewels, etc, for the purpose of propagating his rite. he had some time before his arrival constituted, by deputy, two chapters and a council of his rite at new york. one of these bodies was composed of american citizens of

mselves. this body is still in existence, but has no masonic status whatever, the grand lodge of england regarding them as clandestine masons, and forbidding its subordinates from holding masonic communication with them. x x x x x bulletin du grand orient de france supreme conseil pour la france et les possessions francaises mars 1865, pp. 4, 5. the grand master of the order, to the presidents of lodges: s s s very dear brethren: article i of the constitution declares that masonic initiation has several degrees, which are passed through and conferred according to the forms indicated by the rituals, and of which the highest is the d dd of the ancient and accepted scottish rite. x(art. i of the constitution) volume j, c a a b b f h the spurious rites of memphis and misraim the names speciall

ed at charleston, south carolina, in b i a b, to which all legitimate bodies of this rite can mediately or immediately trace their origin. while in english-speaking countries, with one or two minor exceptions, the first three degrees of this rite are never practiced, the remaining degrees being conferred only upon those who have received the symbolic degrees in bodies regularly chartered by grand lodges, in some countries, notably the latin- american ones, it is almost the only masonic system known. origin of the rites of memphis and misraim this article treats of the history of these organizations rather than of their ritualistic and allegorical philosophies. for that reason there is no necessity of discussing the alleged origins of the bodies as set forth in their rituals and lectures. a

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ing rituals for dealing with both physical and emotional imbalances (illnesses. the dinee diagnosticians (which include crystal gazers, hand tremblers, etc) are employed to diagnose an imbalance, and working with a singer("medicine man, they recommend what type of sing must be done in order that healing (physically, spiritually, and emotionally) may occur. the healing ritual itself involves sweat lodges, sandpainting(s, sings, etc. it is a long, expensive process that usually involves other family (clan) members. the songs that are employed are drawn from a variety of mythological stories. each is designed toward the restoration of harmony in the affected individual. sings are very complex, and can last for days. the order of events runs roughly as follows. the affected person calls for a

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he head down to the neck. dry-torsoed, wet-limbed and damp-headed, what eccentrics they look! splish, splosh, washing and praying. on their knees, pushing arms, legs, heads back into the ubiquitous sand, and then beginning again the cycle of water and prayer. these are easy targets for baal's pen. their water--loving is a treason of a sort; the people of jahilia accept the omnipotence of sand. it lodges between their fingers and toes, cakes their lashes and hair, clogs their pores. they open themselves to the desert: come, sand, wash us in aridity. that is the jahilian way from the highest citizen to the lowest of the low. they are people of silicon, and water-lovers have come among them. baal circles them from a safe distance- bilal is not a man to trifle with- and yells gibes "if mahound

SATANIC RITUALS

e, it is a tool to find light where none is thought to exist. the principles of this rite have been recorded in many waysall similar, yet with nuances unique to each particular order. versions of the litany in print have catered to the standards of theologically acceptable prose, avoiding what might be offensive to the metaphysically minded. so far as this author has been able to discover, german lodges have kept secret the rites which accompany the spoken hypothesis. it is known that certain individuals have stumbled upon these procedures, employing and expanding upon them to great advantage, but, as might be expected, little has been divulged. the instructions given here will serve as a useful key to those who can extract the most viable principles and apply them to their own ends. die e

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

king into account the human factor, it is possible to identify many of the hand signs and poses given and used by the elite. check out my selection on the pages that follow and see if you agree. many secret orders and societies display and use secret handshakes and signs. in wales (great britain) the order of the true ivorites was established in 1836 and prospered for many years. some believe two lodges of ivorites still exist today. pictured here are some of their secret signs and handshakes. four hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun because the higher trinity of man's being must be present before soul-union can take place..the omnific royal arch word can only be given in groups of three. their right hands are then raised above their heads or they give at low breath the word: jah-buh-lun

d-goal of illuminism: to destroy earth, debase civilization, end pure spirituality, induce chaos on earth, and bring order according to satan's illuminati script. earth is to be hell and hell on earth: as above, so below. this is the meaning of the double-headed eagle; the androgynous joining of man and woman; the mixing of the yin and yang; the checkerboard, black and white floors of the masonic lodges; the mirror images of the rosicrucians; the sulphurous tale of beauty and the beast; the witches parable of the lovely lady vs. the crone on her broom; the druid/satanic/catholic alternating of black and white priest vestments; the front and obverse (hidden) sides of the great seal of the united states; the reversing of the cross and the reading of the lord's prayer backwards in satanic wor

the great seal with its all-seeing eye in the capstone amidst the radiant sun background. as followers of egyptianism, it has long been assumed that the eye is that of osiris, the egyptian sun god, and/or of his son, horus. this is true, but there is much more. osiris, of course, was worshipped as the sun. albert pike, former sovereign grand commander, wrote "the sun..is the all-seeing eye in our lodges."2 pike goes on to say that "the blazing star (the pentagram deity) has been recognized as an emblem of omniscience, or the all-seeing eye, which to the ancients was the sun."3 the illuminati and their subordinates, the masons, honor the deity of countless names. yes, one of those names is osiris, with his son horus. but the illuminati deity is a concealed god who hides his true identity in

s based on judaism. eliminate the teachings of judaism from the masonic ritual and what is left?"11 ray novosel, writing from australia in 2004, states: zionist world leaders, men in influential positions with the various masonic organizations everywhere, have worked "hand in glove" for a universal world revolution, which will bring in the one world church and a one world government. many masonic lodges are exclusively jewish, as are the controlling 424 codex magica b'nai b'rith lodges the mother of the infamous and very dangerous anti defamation league (adl).12 masonry's jewish roots a popular pro-freemasonry web site, in an article entitled "judaism and freemasonry" comments: jews were actively involved in the beginnings of freemasonry in america. there is evidence they were among those

hands and wrists of richard and louis-dreyfuss; the descendant triangle sign of jason alexander's("george) hands, and so on. 454 codex magica sign of the ram: 2004 vice presidential candidate, senator joseph liebennan, a jew, on the campaign trail. the placement of both hands downward to create the appearance of the two horns of a ram is a cabalistic sign often given by members of middle eastern lodges, especially the masonic lodges of israel. it is a sign of high rank and is said to invoke good fortune on the part of the user. the sign is often given publicly at the beginning, or commencement of a project to enhance success. promoter sidney shlenker, here giving the sign of the ram, was in the news back in 1992, shlenker, a jewish wheeler-dealer and owner of a professional basketball tea

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

gy received from their living relatives, who performed a long and demanding rite known as the shadow or ghost ceremony. the time needed to complete the ritual successfully could amount to as long as two years, during which period the immediate family and close relatives endured great privation to ensure the safe passage of the departed spirit. these extensive rites were conducted in special ghost lodges, and it was here that the body of the deceased was kept prior to burial and where the ceremonies on the part of the deceased were held long after his or her interment. the ogallala most often kept ghost lodges when the death was a particularly sad one, such as the passing of a child by accident or illness. among the ojibway people it is customary to cut the hair of a child who has died and

try dated august 24 which told of such a photo having been taken. in his report for the society for psychical research (spr, lodge noted that the photograph had been taken 21 days before their son s death. some days may have elapsed before [raymond] saw a print, if he ever saw one, he wrote. he certainly never mentioned it in his letters. we were, therefore, in complete ignorance of it. while the lodges were awaiting the photograph from cheves, they visited another medium through whose spirit control raymond gave them additional details concerning the group picture. now, it seemed, raymond was not so certain he held his walking stick, but he confirmed that there were a considerable number of men in the photograph, including two who were friends of his. these two men were prominently featur

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ent father of the gods, had passed into his person and commanded him to form a new order, the decided ones of jupiter. in a brief period of time, numerous independent bands of thieves and murderers became a single secret society. and when word spread of the alleged supernatural powers of their leader, ciro annunchiarico, now known as jupiter the thunderer, men flocked to the mountains to join the lodges of the decided ones. in order to facilitate the rapid dispersal of his legendary abilities, annunchiarico secretly used men who resembled him to serve as his doubles, dressed in priestly robes exactly like his, so it would appear that jupiter the 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 6 secret societies in1816, a man named ciro annunchiaric

cepts of the great architect of the universe. although hiram is mentioned in biblical accounts as a master of the arts of construction, the rites of freemasonry extend beyond the bible and fashion a parallel myth, portraying hiram as a primary figure in the creation of the temple. according to masonic tradition, the ancient builders of solomon fs temple created the rites still practiced in modern lodges, with the various degrees of initiation and their secret symbols and handshakes. while the free and accepted order of freemasons is the oldest fraternity in the world, it doesn ft really extend back to the stone masons working on solomon fs temple. nor does it date even farther back to those who labored on the egyptian pyramids, as some masons have claimed. freemasonry did evolve from the g

led from city to city in europe of the fourteenth century looking for work on the great cathedrals being constructed at that time. the secret passwords and handshakes were unique ways by which a newcomer to a city might prove that he really was a true member of the guild. while there are references to freemasonry as early as 1390, the fraternity did not come into being until 1717 when four london lodges united. from its actual beginnings in the early 1700s, freemasonry exerted a great deal of influence upon society. for one thing, in the midst of seemingly incessant quarreling over religion throughout the european nations, the freemasons were nondenominational, asking only that its members recognized a supreme being and sought somehow to better humanity through the course of their own live

only that its members recognized a supreme being and sought somehow to better humanity through the course of their own lives. because men of low rank could become members and no religious philosophy was deemed 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 10 secret societies freemasons annual meeting in 1992 (corbis corporation) superior to another, the lodges of freemasonry became champions of the emerging concepts of democracy that were suffusing the enlightenment. such freedoms of thought and spirituality did not endear the freemasons to many facets of established society, particularly the roman catholic church, who condemned the fraternity as anti-christian. by the mid-1700s, freemasonry had established its lodges throughout europe and had be

owever, those individuals who were not privy to its secrets had begun to spread rumors about the bizarre rites and grim pledges that the members of the fraternity were sworn to uphold. curiosity and concern that satanic rites might be held by supposedly upstanding businessmen who had sold their souls to the devil began to spread doubts about what was really going on behind the closed doors of its lodges. while the various oaths and rituals of the masons would quite likely be judged as a bit overly dramatic and flamboyant by some, they were largely symbolic and representative of an earlier age.and far less danger- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d secret societies 11 officers of the new york mecca temple (corbis corporation) thefree an

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orus, displacing the old age of osiris. in 1904, he had received a message, from what lovecraft might have called "out of space, that contained the formula for a new world order, a new system of philosophy, science, art and religion, but this new order had to begin with the fundamental part, and common denominator, of all four: magick. in 1937, the year lovecraft dies, the nazis banned the occult lodges of germany, notable among them two organisations which crowley had supervised: the a\ a\ and the o.t.o, the latter of which he was elected head in england, and the former which he founded himself. there are those who believe that crowley was somehow, magickally, responsible for the third reich, for two reasons: one, that the emergence of new world orders generally seems to instigate holocau

ounded himself. there are those who believe that crowley was somehow, magickally, responsible for the third reich, for two reasons: one, that the emergence of new world orders generally seems to instigate holocausts and, two, that he is said to have influenced the mind of adolf hitler. while it is almost certain that crowley and hitler never met, it is known that hitler belonged to several occult lodges in the early days after the first war; the symbol of one of these, the thule gesellschaft which preached a doctrine of aryan racial superiority, was the infamous swastika which hitler was later to adopt as the symbol of the forms, however, is evident in many of his writings, notably the essays written in the late 'thirties. crowley seemed to regard the nazi phenomenon as a creature of chris

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

d the idea of connection between her ceremonial practices and those of magic,*1. for she has always denied relationship to those who live outside the brothel, the asylum, and the jail; and further, in this case, burnt and destroyed countless thousands of innocent and erudite persons on the authority of a divine book she had rendered obscene by her whorish thumbmarks; nevertheless, in spite of her lodges and her logic, the greatest of her sons and daughters, as we have already seen, were mystics and magicians pure and simple; this no doubt accounts for the comparative safety and dignity with which the early fathers travelled in the east, and the greatest of her ceremonies were entirely of a magical nature. i defy any one to find any essential difference between the spiritual exercises of st

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

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

and, at reuss s request, revised some of the o.t.o. instructional material pertaining to the ninth degree.21 reuss resigned his chieftainship of the o.t.o. in 1922 he had suffered a stroke some two years earlier verbally nominating crowley his successor. it was not until 1925, however, that a majority of the german o.t.o. accepted crowley s leadership, and even then a substantial minority of its lodges continued to reject both crowley and the book of the law. in 1937 both groups of magicians were suppressed by the nazis. for the next ten years california was the main centre of o.t.o. activity and at the time of crowley s death in 1947 there was no real organized o.t.o. activity outside the u.s.a.22 file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c4.html

temple in a.d. 1118. thus the year of the order 788 corresponds to 1906 of the christian era. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael/my..20secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/note25.html [12/28/2001 2:02:18 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part two the rituals themselves* minerval (0) prefatory note the sign, grip, penal sign, etc, of this degree seem to vary widely amongst those occult lodges which claim an o.t.o. ancestry.27 accordingly they have not been inserted into the body of the ritual; in any case they are no more than the usual claptrap of secret societies quite the least important parts of the ritual. minerval ritual a conical tent, within which is seated saladin, in oriental costume. before him is an altar, a well covered with a coping-stone, on which are (1) the book

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

le it is actually being worked and only in the heart of the individual who is working it. since it cannot be assimilated into the culture, or manipulated to achieve social ends, it is perceived as inimical by all human groups that are not specifically dedicated to its practice. the rosicrucians understood clearly the personal and present quality of magic. they made no attempt to found churches or lodges after the masonic model. instead, they cherished their art in secret and passed it on from master to apprentice in much the same way that magical knowledge is still conveyed in india and more primitive regions. one of the six laws of the rosicrucians enumerated by michael maier in his themis aurea states that every brother shall choose a fit person for his successor. another stresses the ne

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

of practical magic, but only you have the power to make magic a reality in your own life. preface yoga of the west in the first chapter of her book the mystical qabalah, dion fortune referred to the european esoteric tradition as the "yoga of the west" she had in mind specifically the magical kabbalah, as taught by the original hermetic order of the golden dawn and its offshoot members and occult lodges, but also intended this description to embrace the discipline of ceremonial magic as a whole. in order to understand her intention, it is necessary to know that yoga is far more than merely a form of physical exercise. there are numerous types of yoga, some predominantly physical and others mainly mental in their approach. for example, hatha yoga employs physical postures of the body. bakti

den dawn, all movement around the circle was done in a sunwise or clockwise direction when forming the circle, or working within it. sunwise means in imitation of the movement of the sun across the sky. we move around the magic circle in the same way the shadow of a sundial moves around the dial, following the sun. not all groups project the magic circle sunwise. some wiccan covens and ceremonial lodges project the circle by moving counterclockwise or widdershins, and if they absorb the circle, do so by moving clockwise. there is a strong rationale for this practice. since occult energy is projected from the right side of the body, and absorbed through the left, a more natural posture results when the great circle is projected through the right hand while walking around it counterclockwise

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

period when there was a tendency to symbolize everything roughly, so that it might receive a tincture of religion- i speak of the middle ages- the duty of apprentice to master, and of master to pupil, had analogies with relations subsisting between man and god, and they were not lost sight of in those old operative documents. here was a rudiment capable of indefinite extension. the placing of the lodges and of the craft at large under notable patronage, and the subsequent custom of admitting persons of influence, offered another and quite distinct opportunity. these facts notwithstanding, my position is that the traces of symbolism which may in a sense be inherent in operative masonry did not produce, by a natural development, the speculative art and craft, though they helped undoubtedly t

left the matter in a dubious position. the reason is not for our seeking, for the kind of enquiry that is involved is one of exceeding difficulty. if i say that it is my personal aspiration to undertake it one of these days, i speak of what is perhaps a distant hope. that which is needed is a complete codification of all the old copies, in what language soever, which are scattered throughout the lodges and libraries of the whole masonic world, together with an approximate determination of their dates by expert evidence. in my opinion, the codices now in use have their roots in the 18th century, but were edited and re-edited at an even later date. i have now brought before you in somewhat disjointed manner- as i cannot help feeling- several independent considerations, each of which, taken

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

is pair of opposites. maithuna (sexual magic) exists within the white tantrism of india and tibet. the white tantrism of buddhism, chinese taoism and the legitimate tibetan yogas, practice the arcanum a.z.f. only the infrasexual pseudo-yogis and yoginis (that are so abundant in america and asia) hate the arcanum a.z.f. chinese alchemy is the foundation of the authentic schools of yoga. the yellow lodges are schools of regeneration. infrasexual people mortally hate the schools of regeneration. el once se descompone kabal sticamente as: 1 m s 1 igual 2 (1 masculino; 2 femenino. los pares de opuestos de la santa alkimia positivo= negativo activo= pasivo osiris= isis baal bel= astarte istar shiva= parvati esposo= esposa padre= madre sol= luna fuego= agua calor= fr o vol til= fijo azufre= mercu

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

lete in its own fashion? zen stays neither in assertion nor denial. it is like a steering wheel turning to the left or to the right to guide the vehicle onward. the master in this story was not insisting on his own course, but was warning students not to cling to one side or the other. he sought only to play the game of life fairly even though he knew the fact of non-individuality. there are many lodges, clubs, and lecture halls, where all sorts of discourses are delivered, each speaker with an urgent message to give to his audience. you can attend these meetings and enjoy the different opinions and arguments, but i advise you to recall occasionally, where others dwell, i do not dwell. where others go, i do not go. it may save you from nervous strain. the koan also says, this does not mean

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