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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

lf or wolves at the destruction of the world and the bursting of heaven's vault? in a lighted candle, if a piece of the wick gets half detached and makes it burn away too fast, they say* a wolf (as well as thief) is in the candle' this too is like the wolf devouring the sun or moon. eclipses of sun or moon have been a terror to many heathen nations; the incipient and increasing obscuration of the luminous orb marks for them the moment when the gaping jaws of the wolf threaten to devour it, and they think by loud cries to bring it succour (ch. xxii, eclipses. the breaking loose of the wolf and the ultimate enlargement o( loki from his chains, who at the time of the ragnarokr will war against and overcome the gods, is in striking accord with the release of the chained prometheus, by whom zeu

on? the german holda presides over spinning and agriculture, the norse hulle over cattle-grazing and milking. 5. pkrahta, berchte. a being similar to holda, or the same under another name, makes her appearance precisely in those upper german regions where holda leaves off, in swabia, in alsace, in switzerland, in j>avaria and austria^ she is called frau berchte, i.e, in ohg. feralita, the bright^ luminous, glorious (as holda produces the glittering snow: by the very meaning of the word a benign and gladdening intluence, yet she is now rarely represented as such; as a rule, the awe-inspiring side is brought into prominence, and she 1 details to be found in miiller's sagab. 1, 367-8. hallager p. 48. faye pp. 39-43 and 10. 15. 25. 26. 36. frigge, nytaarsgave for 1813, p. 85. strom's 8ondni6r

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

silk scarf in either hand, move around the tree with your hands rising and falling in a spiral path to create swirls of energies, the most ancient of the mother goddess sacred geometric forms, while chanting and dancing. if you are with friends, join hands around the tree and pass the light and energy between you from hand to hand, deosil, until you can feel the circle of light (you may even see luminous energy transferring from hand to hand* begin to circle the tree deosil, reciting faster and faster: tree power, earth power, sun shower and light, encircle me, enfold me, goddess radiance bright. if you do not want to use the goddess as a focus for your magick, you can substitute the word 'god' or say 'golden radiance bright. you can also create your own chant, if you prefer, that may cha

hen you feel the power reaching a climax, cast the scarves high into the air and hug the tree, pressing your feet down hard to ground your energy and receive healing light from the trunk. if you are working alone, you may feel that in a sense you are not alone but are joining with the tree spirits and devas, the higher forces of nature who will dance with you as you spiral. you may even see their luminous outlines* if you are working in a group, when you feel the power has reached a climax, unclasp your hands and with a final call, above! raise them straight above your head and allow the energies to spiral through the cosmos* then sink down so that your hands and feet are pressing the ground and let any excess golden radiance and power return to the earth (if you do not do this, you will b

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

e stood for a moment on the brink of the cliff which led down to the little rocky cove with its beach of marvellous smooth sand. i said something quite casually- i have never been able to remember what it was- nor could he ever remember- but he suddenly dashed down the steep little path like a mountain goat, threw off his cloak and plunged into the sea. when he came back, his very body had become luminous. i saw that he needed to be alone for a week to complete his experience, so i fixed him up in an alpine tent in a quiet dell under broad-spreading trees at the edge of a stream. from time to time he sent me his magical record, vision after vision of amazing depth and splendour. i was so gratified with his attainment that i showed these records to a distinguished literary critic who was st

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

ll palm standing by. i plunder in that cool wave; my strength came back, albeit slowly; yet with one wave of my hand in the due gesture the fiends all vanished; and in an hour i was sufficiently restored to call forth my friends from the pool- the little fishes my playmates- and the nymph of the pool came forth and bowed herself before me and cooked me the fishes with that fire that renders water luminous and sparkling. also she plucked me dates from the tree, and i ate thereof. thus was i much comforted; and when i had eaten, she took my head upon her lap, and sang me to sleep; for her voice was like the ripple of the lakes under the wind of spring and like the bubbling of a well and like the tinkling of a fountain through a bed of moss. also she had deep notes like the sea that booms upo

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

looby only loobies find excellence in these words. it is thinkable that a is not-a; to reverse this is but to revert to the normal. yet by forcing the brain to accept propositions of which one set is absurdity, the other truism, a new function of brain is established. vague and mysterious and all indefinite are the contents of this new consciousness; yet they are somehow vital. by use they become luminous. unreason becomes experience. this lifts the leaden-footed soul to the experience of that of which reason is the blasphemy. but without the experience these words are the lies of a looby. yet a looby to thee, and a booby to me, a balassius ruby to god, may be! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 85 [88] commentary( lambda-theta) the word looby occurs in folklore, and was

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ian. it is impossible to lay down rules for the obtaining of this special stimulus. to one the mystery of the whole ceremony may appeal; another may be moved by the strangeness of the words, even by the fact that the "barbarous names" are unintelligible to him. some times in the course of a ceremony the true meaning of some barbarous name that has hitherto baffled his analysis may flash upon him, luminous and splendid, so that he is caught up unto 129 orgasm. the smell of a particular incense may excite him effectively, or perhaps the physical ecstasy of the magick dance. every magician must compose his ceremony in such a manner as to produce a dramatic cilmax. at the moment when the excitement becomes ungovernable, when then the whole conscious being of the magician undergoes a spiritual

d mysteries. but, after all these folk of fear are driven before the avenging levin that rives the opening skies, behold that formless and that holy flame 292 that hath no name; the fire that darts and flashes, writhes and creeps snake-wise in royal robe wound round that vanished glory of the globe, unto that sky beyond the starry deeps, beyond the toils of time- then formulate in thine own mind, luminous, concentrate, the lion of the light, a child that stands on the vast shoulders of the steed of god: or winged, or shooting flying shafts, or shod with the flame-sandals. then, lift up thine hands! centre thee in thine heart one scarlet thought limpid with brilliance of the light above! drawn into naught all life, death, hatred, love: all self concentred in the sole desire- hear thou the v

his practice should be carried out not only at the time of meditation, but during the day's work. 2. this meditation is to be assisted by reasoning; as "this foot is not i. if i should lose my foot, i should still be i. this foot is a mass of changing and decaying flesh, bone, skin, blood, 411 lymph, etc. while i am the unchanging and immortal spirit, uniform, not made, unbegotten, formless, self-luminous" etc. 3. this practice being perfect for each part of the body, let him combine his workings until the whole body is thus understood as the non-ego and as illusion. 4. let then the hermit, seated in his asana, meditate upon the muladhara cakkra and its correspondence as a power of the mind, and destroy it in the same manner as aforesaid. also by reasoning "this emotion (memory, imaginatio

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

instantly sucked up and devoured by it. this was the greatest death, and ardently desired by all. the favour was accorded only to those who discovered improvements in zro, or otherwise merited signal and supreme recognition from the state. hidden men listened to the cries of the victim, and thus learned the nature of the death. it appears that the black suddenly broke into a fiery rose 'the only* luminous thing in atlas, and a shooting forward enclosed him. for some reason which was never even guessed the atla refused women. those who had seen atla were however useless to instruct. they came forth from the presence smiling, and even under the most fearful tortures that the magicians could devise, continued to smile. this smile never left them during life, and the conscious superiority of i

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

er than velvet was the sun of all being, alone. then about him were little crosses, greek, overrunning the heaven. these changed from form to form geometrical, marvel devouring marvel, a thousand times a thousand in their course and sequence, until by their movement was the universe churned into the quintessence of light. moreover at another time did i behold all things as bubbles, iridescent and luminous, self-shining in every colour and every combination of colour, myriad pursuing myriad until by their perpetual beauty they exhausted the virtue of my mind to receive them, and whelmed it, so that i was fain to withdraw myself from the burden of that brilliance. yet, o my son, the sum of all this ammounteth not to the worth of one dawn-glimmer of our true vision of holiness "de quodam modo

this method (e.g, liber hhh, section 3. but the course of history will determine the sense of the passage. the new comment "lurk! withdraw! upon them" describes the three parts of a certain magical gesture indicative of a formula which has proven very powerful in practical work (the events beginning in an xvii sol in libra, when i write these words, and ending i do not yet know when, will form a luminous comment on the passage. there is an alternative, taking the beginning as an x sol in libra, and implying larger periods. al iii,10 "get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple-and that temple is already aright disposed& it shall be your kiblah for ever. it shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after day. close it in locked glass for a proof to

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

quently more limited, though they are still of the purest nature, and without any admixture of matter. the third is the yetziratic world, hryxyh \lwu, olahm ha-yetzirah, or world of formation and of angels, which proceeds from briah, and though less refined in substance, is still without matter. it is in this angelic world where those intelligent and incorporeal beings reside who are wrapped in a luminous garment, and who assume a form when they appear to man. the fourth is the assiatic world, hycuh \lwu, olahm ha-assiah, the world of action, called also the world of shells, twpylqh \lwu, olahm ha-qliphoth, which is this world of matter, made up of the grosser elements of the other three. in it is also the abode of the evil spirits which are called the shells by the qabalah, twpylq, qlipho

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ble to arrest it, i slow the process, and render it temporarily painless, by eating. this is a concession to weakness, no doubt, in one sense. do i eat really in order to check change, or to maintain my consciousness? change i desire, for my present condition is sorrow. i really desire the impossible; completely to retain my present egoity with all its conditions reversed. a. c. 2 for an able and luminous exposition of the four noble truths i refer the reader to the pamphlet bearing that title by by old friend bikkhu ananda maitriya, published by the buddhasasana samagama, 1 pagoda road, rangoon. a. c. this is the buddhist assertion. what does science say (a) huxley, evolution and ethics: as no man fording a swift stream can dip his foot twice into the same water, so no man can, with exact

ore the words had their own effect, and it was in meditation upon the conditions of existence that he eternally repeated the formula* a home at distant inglistan. an old lady, and a grey parrot in a cage. the parrot was still muttering inaudibly the sacred mantra. now, now, the moment of destiny was at hand! the four noble truths shone out in that parrot s mind; the three characteristics appeared luminous, like three spectres on a murderer s grave: unable to contain himself he recited aloud the mysterious sentence. the old lady, whatever may have been her faults, could act promptly. she rang the bell. sarah! said she, take away that dreadful creature! its language is positively awful. what shall i do with it, mum? asked the general. aum mani padme hum, said the parrot. the old lady stopped

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not the same; this face was coarsened past all description; that face sharpened and made hideous with greed; and the other brutalized with lust. one recognized, so to speak, the dominant passion in each person. something moved me to turn my glasses on the merchant; if i was astounded before, i was now lost in wonder: the glasses transfigured him. the grey beard was tinged with gold, the blue eyes luminous with intelligence; all the features ennobled; the countenance irradiated sincerity and kindliness. i pulled off the glasses hastily and the vision passed away. mr. penry was looking at me with a curious little pleased smile of anticipation: involuntarily, i put out my hand to him with a sort of reverence "wonderful" i exclaimed "your face is wonderful and all the others grotesque and hide

he child of the morning once again strangled in the maw of a second night. now, even to such as are still mere students in the mysteries, it must have become apparent that there are moments in the lives of others, if not in their own, which bring with them an enormous sense of inner authority and illumination; moments which created epochs in our lives, and which, when they have gone, stand out as luminous peaks in the moonlight of the past. sad to say, they come but seldom, so seldom that often they are looked back upon as miraculous visitations of some vastly higher power beyond and outside of ourselves. but when they do come the greatest joys of earth wither before them like dried leaves in the fire, and fade from the firmament of our minds as the stars of night before the rising sun. no

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ently more limited, though they are still of the purest nature, and without any admixture of matter. the third is the jetziratic world, ovlm hitzirah, olahm ha-yetzirah, or world of formation and of angels, which proceeds from briah, and, though less refined in substance, is still without matter. it is in this angelic world that reside those intelligent and incorporeal beings who are wrapped in a luminous garment, and who assume a form when they appear unto man. the fourth is the asiatic world, ovlm hoshih, olahm ha-asiah, the world of action, called also the world of shells, ovlm hqlipvth, olahm ha-qliphoth, which is this world of matter, made up of the grosser elements of the other three. in it is also the abode of the evil spirits, which are called "the shells" by the qabalah, qlipvth

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and moves with his finger in the air. his finger leaves a trail of fire of every colour, so that the whole aire is become like a web of mingled lights. but through it all drops dew (i can't describe these things at all. dew doesn't represent what i mean in the least. for instance, these drops of dew are enormous globes, shining like the full moon, only perfectly transparent, as well as perfectly luminous) and now he shows the tablet again, and he says: as there are 49 letters in the tablet, so are there 49 kinds of cosmos in every thought of god. and there are 49 interpretations of every cosmos, and each interpretation is manifested in 49 ways. thus also are the calls 49, but to each call there are 49 visions. and each vision is composed of 49 elements, except in the 10th aethyr, that is

ock dissolves. now behind the angels are archangels with trumpets. these cause all things to appear at once, so that there is a tremendous confusion of images. and now i perceive that all these things are but veils of the wheel, for they all gather themselves into a wheel that spins with incredible velocity. it hath many colours, but all thrilled with white light, so that they are transparent and luminous. this one wheel is forty-nine wheels, set at different angles, so that they compose a sphere; each wheel has forty-nine spokes, and has forty-nine concentric tyres at equal distances from the centre. and wherever the rays from any two wheels meet, there is a blinding flash of glory. it must be understood that though so much detail is visible in the wheel, yet at the same time the impressi

gs thou seest just so much of god as thy capacity affordeth thee. but behold! thou must pierce deeply into this aethyr before true images appear. for tan is that which transformeth 56 judgment into justice. bal is the sword, and tan the balances. a pair of balances appears in the stone, and on the bar of the balance is written: motion about a point is iniquity. and behind the balances is a plume, luminous, azure. and somehow connected with the plume, but i cannot divine how, are these words: breath is iniquity (that is, any wind must stir the feather of truth) and behind the plume is a shining filament of quartz, suspended vertically from the abyss to the abyss. and in the midst is a winged disk of some extremely delicate, translucent substance, on which is written in the "dagger" alphabet

, that the holiness of a thing implies its personal relation with one, just as one cannot blaspheme an unknown god, because one does not know what to say to annoy him. and this explains the perfect inefficiency of those who try to insult the saints; the most violent attacks are very often merely clumsy compliments) now the angel is spread completely over the globe, a dewy film of silver upon that luminous blue. and a great voice cries: behold the queen of heaven, how she hath woven her robes from the loom of justice. for as that straight path of the arrow cleaving the rainbow became righteousness in her that sitteth in the hall of double truth, so at last is she exalted unto the throne of the high priestess, the priestess of the silver star, wherein also is thine angel made manifest. and t

ure. and now again i behold her) 107 and an angel cometh forth, and behind him whirls a black swastika, made of fine filaments of light that has been "interfered" with, and he taketh me aside into a little chamber in one of the nine towers. this chamber is furnished with maps of many mystical cities. there is a table, and a strange lamp, that gives light by jetting four columns of vortex rings of luminous smoke. and he points to the map of the aethyrs, that are arranged as a flaming sword, so that the thirty aethyrs go into the ten sephiroth. and the first nine are infinitely holy. and he says, it is written in the book of the law "wisdom says: be strong! then canst thou bear more joy "if thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art" and this shall signify unto thee that thou mus

hou that art no more than a little pile of dust! and the images rise up against me and constrain me, so that the aethyr is shut against me. only the things of the mind and of the body are open unto me. the shew-stone is dull, for that which i see therein is but a memory. tolga, algeria "december" 13, 1909. 8.15-10.10 p.m. the cry of the 4th aethyr, which is called paz the stone is translucent and luminous, and no images enter therein. a voice says: behold the brilliance of the lord, whose feet are set upon him that pardoneth transgression. behold the six-fold star that flameth in the vault, the seal of the marriage of the great white king and his black slave. so i looked into the stone, and beheld the six-fold star: the whole aethyr is as tawny clouds, like the flame of a furnace. and ther

on the face of it is a great black rose, each of whose petals, though it be featureless, is yet a devil-face. and all the stalks are the black snakes of hell. it is alive, this rose; a single thought informs it. it comes to clutch, to murder. yet, because a single thought alone informs it, i have hope therein. i think the rose has a hundred and fifty-six petals, and though it be black, it has the luminous blush. there it is, in the midst of the stone, and i cannot see anyone who wears it. aha! aha! aha! shut out the sight! holy, holy, holy art thou! 158 light, life and love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest! i am quite blind. thou art nuit! strain, strain, strain my whole soul! a ka dua tuf ur biu bi a'a chefu

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hat which "john st. john""means"(else is it a blank name) is that which he must be and what is that? the issue is with thee cannot one wait with fortitude, whether it be for the king's banqueting-house or for the headsman and the block? 9.45. breakfast croissant, sandwich, 2 coffees. concentrating "off" the work as well as possible. 10.10. arrived at brenner's studio. the rest has produced one luminous idea: why not end it all with destruction? say a great ritual of geburah, curses, curses, curses! john st. john ought not to have forgotten how to curse. in his early days at wastdale head people would travel miles to hear him! curse all the gods and all the demons all those things in short which go to make up john st. john. for "that" as he now knows is the name of the great enemy, the

therefore i had made ready the chamber, so that all was dark, save for the lamp upon the altar, i 132 began as recorded above, to inflame myself in praying, calling upon my lord; and i burned in the lamp that pantacle which i had made of him, renouncing the images, destroying the images, that himself might arise in me. and the chamber was filled with that wondrous glow of ultra- violet light self-luminous, without a source, that hath no counterpart in nature unless it be in that dawn of the north. and there were reveled unto me certain words of power. and i invoked my lord and recited the book ararita at the altar this holy inspired book (delivered unto me in the winter of last year) was now at last understanded of me; for it is, though i knew it not, a complete scheme of this operation

rn as the divine, always without shock or stress. how easy is magic, once the way is found! how still is the soul! the turbid spate of emotion has ceased; the heavy particles of thought have sunk 136 to the bottom; how limpid, how lucid is its glimmer only from above, from the overshadowing tree of life, whose leaves glisten and quiver in the shining wind of the spirit, drops ever and anon, self- luminous, the dew of immortality. many and wonderful also were the visions and powers offered unto me in this hour; but i refused them all; for being in my lord and he in me, there is no need of these toys. 12.0. the pose over. on this second sitting, practically no thoughts arose at all to cloud the sun; but a curious feeling that there was something more to come. possibly the proof, that i had d

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anst not pass by "hierophant" let the neophyte enter the path of good "hegemon" whence comest thou "kerux (for neophute: i am come from between the pillars and seek for the hidden light of occult knowledge. 262 "hegemon" and the great angel metatron (angel of good) answered and said: i am the angel of the presence divine. the wise man gazeth upon the material universe and he beholdeth therein the luminous image of the creator. not as yet canst thou bear the dazzling radiance of that light! return, for thou canst not pass by "hierophant" let the neophyte now advance by the straight and narrow way which inclineth neither to the right hand nor to the left "hiereus and hegemon" whence comest thou "kerux (for neophyte: i am come from between the pillars and seek for the hidden light of occult s

all rituals; they should bring the seeker step by step nearer to his quest, that is to say, to perfect him in the tongue he one day hopes to speak. each ritual, be it a letter, a word, a sentence, or a volume, should contain a lesson clear and precise, it should leave behind it so bright and dazzling a picture that the very thought of it will at once conjure up the power dressed in its simple yet luminous symbols. in the 0= 0 ritual this is much more clearly carried out than in the following four. the candidate, the would-be 291 neophyte, is led up to the portal of the first grade, the grade of neophyte, and is momentarily revealed a flashing vision of adonai, as it were a tongue of blinding flame out of the depths of darkness, to show him that there is light even in this dreadful night th

boon to pass me singing through the moon! nay! i knew not what glory shone gold from the breathless bliss beyond: but this i know that i am gone to the heart of god's great diamond! i match &c. 329 kether i am passed through the abyss of flame. hear ye that i am that i am! the return behold! i clothe mine awful light in yonder body born of night. its mind be open to he higher! its heart be lucid-luminous! the temple of its own desire the temple of the rosy cross! as horus sped the flame, harpocrates receive the flame, and set the soul at ease. i who was one am one, all light balanced within me, ordered right, as it was ever to the initiate's ken, is now, and shall be evermore. amen. the ascent unto da th come unto me, ye, the divine lords of the forces of intelligence: whose abode is in t

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poised on the stealth of ineffable wings. surely the sable osirian bird sole in the aether shall utter the word now that its crying can never be heard! 192 iv see how the star of the universe blazes! millions of meteors in marvellous mazes mingle their magic of peony praises. oh! the dark streak on the heart of its flood! smitten is the star, and its poisonous blood drips through the race of the luminous scud. poison and poison and poison! i quiver, drenched with the hate of the horrible river- o but the stars of it stagger and shiver! leave me in peace, o disaster of light! leave me to solitude, leave me to night! is there no moon to enkindle the height? v see how the moon with her amrita dews drinks up the death of the star, and renews life in cascades of peonian hues! nay, but she curv

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he soap-travail which might reveal it. still, one can never be sure; you might give a trial to the soap. if we had not a sufficiency of hard work before us in interpreting the masters of old, we might be tempted to waste more time on you; but there is blake. blake is more obscure than you are; but we have this guarantee, based on experience, that when we do attain to his meaning, it starts up 329 luminous, titanic, splendid. with you, we discover only commonplace_ the commonplace of a maudlin undertaker replying to the toast of the ladies at the annual dinner of the antique order of arch-druids. blake fashioned his intricate caskets of symbol to conceal pearls; you pile up dead leaves to cover rotten apples. you are attis with a barren fig-leaf. it is true that a sort of dreary music runs

r, and the black burrowings of the gnomes of the earth. i know thee! o thou master of the ways of life, in the palm of whose hand 20 all the arts lie bounden as a smoke-cloud betwixt the lips of the mountain. 10. o thou sovran lord of primaeval baresarkers, who huntest with dawn the dappled deer of twilight, and whose engines of war are blood-crested comets. i know thee! o thou flame-crowned self-luminous one, the lash of whose whip gathered the ancient worlds, and looseth the blood from the virgin clouds of heaven. 11. o thou sovran moonstone of pearly loveliness, from out whose many eyes flash the fire-clouds of life, and whose breath enkindleth the byss and the abyss. i know thee! o thou fountain-head of fierce aethyr, in the pupil of whose brightness all things lie crouched and wrapped

silence; thou blinding night of understanding: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou white finger of chaotic law; o thou creative cockatrice twined amongst the waters! i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till my cries stir the night as the burnished gold of a lance thrust into a poisonous dragon of adamant, for the glory and splendour of thy name. 13. ah! but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou self-luminous refulgent brilliance; thou eye of light that hath no eyelid; thou turquoise-studeed sceptre of deed: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou white furnace womb of energy; 40 o thou spark-whirling forge of the substance of the worlds; i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till i mount as a white beam unto the crown, and as a breath of night melt into the golden lips of thy dawn, in the glory and spl

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e others be cast out. olympas. lead me, master, by the hand gently to this gracious land! let me drink the doctrine in, an all-healing medicine! let me rise, correct and firm, steady striding to the term, master of my fate, to rise to imperial destinies; with the sun's ensanguine dart spear-bright in my blazing heart, and my being's basil-plant bright and hard as adamant! marsyas. yonder, faintly luminous, the yellow desert waits for us. lithe and eager, hand in hand, we travel to the lonely land. there, beneath the stars, the smoke of our incense shall invoke the queen of space; and subtly she shall bend from her infinity like a lambent flame of blue, touching us, and piercing through all the sense-webs that we are as the aethyr penetrates a star! her hands caressing the black earth, 52 h

, the rosy avalanches of sunset. it seems that the miserable chandelier spread a light far too insignificant to quench this insatiable thirst of brilliance. i thought, as i told you, that i was entering a world of shadows, which, moreover, grew gradually thicker, while i dreamt of the polar night and the eternal winter. as to the stage, it was a stage consecrated to the comic muse; that alone was luminous; infinitely small and far off, very far, like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope. i will not tell you that i listened to the actors; you know that that is impossible. from time to time my thoughts snapped up on the wing a fragment of a phrase, and like a clever dancing-girl used it as a spring-board to leap into far-distant reveries. you might suppose that a play heard

and genius? it is the infallibility itself of the means which constitutes its immorality; as the supposed infallibility of magic brands it with satanic stigma. shall i add that hashish, like all solitary pleasures, renders the individual useless to his fellow creatures and society superfluous to the individual, driving him to ceaseless admiration of himself and dragging him day by day towards the luminous abyss in which he admires his narcissus face? but even if at the price of his dignity, his honesty, and his free will man were able to draw from hashish great spiritual benefits; to make a kind of thinking machine, a fertile instrument? that is a question which i have often heard asked, and i reply to it: in the first place, as i have explained at length, hashish reveals to the individual

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elirium which they control must be a far more ductile state than any i have witnessed occurring under the influence of hasheesh at its height. in the present instance i found all suggestion powerless. the inner actuality of the visions and the terror of external darkness both defeated me. and now, in the midst of the darkness, there suddenly stood a wheel like that of a lottery, surrounded by one luminous spot, which illustrated all its movements. it began slowly to revolve; its rapidity grew frightful, and out of its opening flew symbols which indicated to him, in regular succession, every minutest act of his past life: from his first unfilial disobedience in childhood- the refusal upon a certain day, as far back as infancy, to go to school when it was enjoined upon him, to the latest dee

versal law of constantly acceleration diabolisation of visions held good as much in my case as in any others; but a thing of horror once experienced became a kappa tau nu mu alpha epsilon sigma alpha epsilon iota, an inalienable dower of hell; it was certain to reproduce itself in some- to god be the thanks if not in all- future visions. i had seen, for instance, in one of my states of ecstasy, a luminous spot on the firmament, a prismatic parhelion. in the midst of my delight of gazing on it, it had transferred itself mysteriously to my own heart, and there became a circle of fire, which gradually ate its way until the whole writing organ was in a torturous blaze. that spot, seen again in an after-vision, through the memory of its former pain instantly wrought out for me the same accursed

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a, or fundamental lotus, and it has four petals "in the pericarp of the adhar lotus there is the triangular beautiful yoni, hidden and kept secret in all the tantras" in this yoni dwells the goddess kundalini; she surrounds all the nadis, and has three and a half coils. she catches her tail in her own mouth, and rests in the entrance of the sushumn 82 87 58. it sleeps there like a serpent, and is luminous by its own light. it is the goddess of speech, and is called the vija (seed. 59. full of energy, and like burning gold, know this kundalini to be the power (shakti) of vishnu; it is the mother of the three qualities- satwa (good, rajas (indifference, and tamas (bad. 60. there, beautiful like the bandhuk flower, is placed the seed of love; it is brilliant like burnished gold, and is descri

e thunder without harmonics. did dh ran on anahata. 11.45-12.15 suddhi. a'sana very painful. a.m. p.m. 12-15-1.0 meditation on "aum mani padme hum" and sleep. p.m. p.m. 4.15-4.45 dh ran on anahata with "aum mani padme hum" the p.m. p.m. latter sounds like the flight of a great bird in windy weather. 5.50-6.20 suddhi. when meditating on my bronze buddha i ob- p.m. p.m. tained a great standing self-luminous but rayless buddha. 30th. 12.12-12.42 suddhi. a.m. a.m. i passed a bad night, and in the morning my will and control of thought seemed shortened. 8.45-9.15 suddhi. a.m. a.m. thoughts hopelessly wandering. 9.45-10.29 dh ran on buddha with "aum mani padme hum" a a.m. a.m. much better meditation. i felt a spiral force whirring around 156 the top of my spine. this signifies an induction curre

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e. 44 pallid, a mummy throned, she sits; the egyptian eyes, the egyptian hair, the band on her brows, the slender hands, all hieroglyphs of a god's commands beyond the rimes that a poet knits with fruitless travail, sterile care! marvellous! marvellous, marvellous! and again a marvel, a lotus-bud dropt from the brows of a goddess unknown on the ivory steps of the golden throne, virginal brows and luminous with the star-stream flowing therein for blood. ah, but electric thrills the host of the esoteric eucharist! the pagan power of the corn and wine mystical, magical, hers and mine, the dove-plumed snake of the holy ghost that wings and writhes in the wounds unkissed! lie there, love- if i love you indeed who adore and wonder and faint for drouth of the passion-flower fallen from the other

nobis dedit signum" it seemed hardly possible that her voice joined his. the lips hardly moved; it was as if an interior voice spoke in her heart. yet the room was suddenly filled with a pale green light- or was it rosy- or was it golden- or was it like the moon? that was the strange thing about it. to every name one put to it an inward voice answered: no, not that; like that, but not quite that. luminous, spectral, cloudy, shimmering- it was all these, and something more. he placed his hand upon the girl's forehead "are you perfectly awake "i am awake, frater "can you give me the sign of your grade "i must not move. but i am poised for diving, frater "the word" haltingly came the answer "ar--ar--it--a "one is his beginning; one is his individuality; his permutation one. do not forget it

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an to the fifth initiation a. the heart. b. the seven head centres. c. the two many-petalled lotuses. all these different periods show different triangular radiances. we must not infer from this that when the fire is centred in one triangle it is not demonstrating in others. once the fire has free passage along any triangle it flames continuously, but always there is one triangle more radiant and luminous than the others, and it is from these glowing triangles of light, issuing from wheels and vortices of fire that the clairvoyant and the teachers of the race can appraise a man's position in the scheme of things, and judge of his attainment. at the culmination of life experience, and when man has reached his goal, each triangle is a radiant path of fire, and each centre a wheel of living f

the cosmic lord of ceremonial magic..5. this should be pondered on, and his close connection therefore, as a transmitter of force within the moon chain, the third chain, in connection with the third kingdom, the animal, and with the third round, must be borne in mind. one symbol that may be found in the archaic records in lieu of his name or description is an inverted five-pointed star, with the luminous triangle at the centre. it will be noted that the points involved in this symbol number eight a picture of that peculiar state of consciousness brought about when the mind is seen to be the slayer of the real. the secret of planetary avitchi35(205) is hidden here, just as the third major scheme can be viewed as systemic avitchi, and the moon at one time held an analogous position in conne

all is centralised, and the etheric vehicle waits for use on the physical plane in co-operation with the dense medium until the man can succeed in linking the consciousness of the two aspects of the dense body so that the continuity is preserved. this work accomplished, the three centres which are of a strictly physical nature the pineal gland, the pituitary body and the spleen-themselves become luminous and radiant, and all the fires of the body are so stimulated that the atoms which form the physical sheath appear to radiate. this is the occult truth behind the belief that every messenger from the lodge and every saviour of man is naturally a healer. the forces which flow through a man whose atoms, centres, sheaths, and causal body form a coherent unit in full and radiant activity are o

in this connection that there is a jewel at the heart of every atom. every jewel has seven facets which are the seven doorways to the seven paths. the "beneficent dragons" are distinguished by their "luminosity" and it is this basic quality which lies behind the injunction given by all spiritual teachers to their pupils in the words "let your light shine forth" when the adept enters through the "luminous door" he has before him four very peculiar and esoteric identifications. this entrance takes place after he has passed the fifth initiation and has demonstrated his fitness so to do through a long period of service in connection with our planetary evolution. these identifications eventually bring about within the jewel, which is- 740- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust e

fixed, one scale is veiled in fire of vivid green; the other hides itself behind a screen of red. those sons of men whose note responds not to the note of red enter the scale upon the right hand side. from thence they pass upon a path which dimly can be seen behind the dragon's form. this path is entered by a fourfold door. the sacred phrases of the sons of light define it thus "the portal of the luminous light, which leadeth from the green into the heart of indigo, by that rare fire and richly coloured blaze for which no name on earth hath yet been found" its tone is hidden. the sons of men (and few their number is) enter that door of luminous fire when they surmount the crest of gold which riseth on the dragon's head above the point where gleams "the eye of fire" this eye of fire transmi

re s. d, ii, 96. 234- 815- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 67: unseen planets "not all of the intra-mercurial planets, nor yet those in the orbit of neptune, are yet discovered, although they are strongly suspected. we know that such exist and where they exist; and that there are innumerable planets "burnt out" they say, in obscuration we say; planets in formation and not yet luminous, etc "when so attached the 'tasimeter' will afford the possibility not only to measure the heat of the remotest of visible stars, but to detect by their invisible radiations stars that are unseen and otherwise undetectable, hence planets also. the discoverer, an f. t. s, a good deal protected by m, thinks that if, at any point in a blank space of heavens a space that appears blank even th

otherwise undetectable, hence planets also. the discoverer, an f. t. s, a good deal protected by m, thinks that if, at any point in a blank space of heavens a space that appears blank even through a telescope of the highest power the tasimeter indicates an accession of temperature and does so invariably; this will be a regular proof that the instrument is in range with the stellar body either non-luminous or so distant as to be beyond the reach of telescopic vision. his tasimeter, he says 'is affected by a wider range of etheric undulations than the eye can take cognisance of' science will hear sounds from certain planets before she sees them. this is a prophecy" mahatma letters to a. p. sinnett, p. 169. 235 68: s. d, i, 196. 236 69: all these will become solar logoi of varying grades. 237

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actors on it, is a psychical state or field. when the pure vision, as of the poet, the philosopher, the saint, fills the whole field, all lesser views and visions are crowded out. this high consciousness displaces all lesser consciousness. yet, in a certain sense, that which is viewed as part, even by the vision of a sage, has still an element of illusion, a thin psychical veil, however pure and luminous that veil may be. it is the last and highest psychic state" 51. when this state of perception is itself also restrained (or superseded, then is pure samadhi achieved. the great teacher patanjali, having led us through the various stages of the expanding consciousness, from "seeded" meditation to that in which the senses and the mind are superseded, carries us into a state for which we hav

ir direction up the spine to the head, 3. their concentration there and subsequent abstraction along the thread or sutratma, via the pineal gland and the brahmarandra, 4. the seer then stands in his true form, the etheric body, which is invisible to the human eye. as etheric vision develops in the race this will necessitate a further abstraction, then the seer will likewise withdraw the vital and luminous principles (the qualities of sattva and of rajas) out of the etheric body and stand in his kamic or astral body and thus be also etherically invisible. however, that time is still distant- 155- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust w. q. judge, in his commentary, makes certain interesting remarks, as follows "another great difference between this philosophy and modern science i

mind, so that it is his instrument to use as he will as an organ of vision into the higher worlds and as a transmitter or intermediary between the soul and the brain. 3. awakening the light in the head so that the aspirant can become a radiant centre of light and illumine all problems, and through its light see light everywhere. 4. arousing the fires of the body so that the centres become active, luminous, connected and coordinated. 5. producing a coordination between: a. the ego or soul on its own plane, b. the brain via the mind, c. the centres. by an act of the will they can then all be thrown into uniform activity. 6. this effected, the fire at the base of the spine, dormant hitherto, will be aroused and can proceed upward with security, blending ultimately with the fire or light in th

e to be found in the various translations of the yoga sutras of patanjali. they might be enumerated as follows: a. the awakened inner light (johnston, b. the light in the head (johnston, c. the light of immediate cognition (intuitive knowledge (tatya, d. that effulgent light (vivekananda, e. the light from the top of the head (vivekananda, f. the coronal light (ganganatha jha, g. the light of the luminous disposition (ganganatha jha, h. the inner light (dvivedi, i. the mind, full of light (dvivedi, j. the radiance in the head (woods, k. the luminosity of the central organ (rama prasad, 1. the light of the higher sense-activity (rama prasad. from a study of these terms it will be apparent that within the physical vehicle there is to be found a point of luminosity which (when contacted) will

e serve frequently to confuse the student and it might be wise if we used only two sets of terms, one conveying the orthodox oriental terminology as found in the best commentaries, and the other the one most easily recognizable by the western investigator. using wood's translation we find the following: 7. satya..the world of those gods who are unmanifest. b rahme< 6. tapas..the world of the self-luminous gods. svar< 5. jana..the lowest of the brahma world. 4. mahar prajapatya..the great world 3. mahendra..the home of the agnishvattas (the egos. 2. antariksa..the intermediate space. 1. bhu..the earth world- 163- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust this differentiation of the world into seven great divisions is also interesting in so far as it demonstrates the equal accuracy of

red to at length in the secret doctrine and in a treatise on cosmic fire) and they are portrayed as: 1. fulfilling their desires, therefore driven by desire to incarnate, 2. endowed with atomisation and other powers, therefore able to create their vehicles of manifestation, 3. living for a mundane period, therefore in incarnation during a world period, 4. goodly to behold, for the sons of god are luminous, radiant and full of beauty, 5. delighting in love, for love is the characteristic of the soul, and all sons of god, or sons of mind reveal the love of the father, 6. possessing bodies of their own "not caused by parents" that body "not made by hands, eternal in the heavens" mentioned by st. paul. in connection with the fourth world, vyasa notes that it is the world of mastery, therefore

es here which have nothing to correspond to them in modern thought. one is, that there is a light in the head; and the other, that there are divine beings who may be seen by those who thus concentrate upon the 'light in the head' it is held that a certain nerve, or psychic current, called brahmarandhra-nadi, passes out through the brain near the top of the head. in this there collects more of the luminous principle in nature than elsewhere in the body and it is called jyotis the light in the head. and, as every result is to be brought about by the use of appropriate means, the seeing of divine beings can be accomplished by concentration upon that part of the body more nearly connected with them. this point the end of- 173- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust brahmarandhra-nadi

rants and disciples. dvivedi also gives the same teaching in the following words "the light in the head is explained to be that collective flow of the light of sattva which is seen at the brahmarandhra which is variously supposed to be somewhere near the coronal artery, the pineal gland, or over the medulla oblongata. just as the light of a lamp burning within the four walls of a house presents a luminous appearance at the keyhole, so even does the light of sattva show itself at the crown of the head. this light is very familiar to all acquainted even slightly with yoga practices and is seen even by concentration on the space between the eyebrows. by samyama (meditation) on this light the class of beings called siddhas popularly known in theosophic circles as mahatmas or high adepts able t

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eld of action; it is there that he finds his likeness. it is there that we must seek him if we desire to find him and by the shortest way. then the spirit is transported high above all the faculties into a void of immense solitude whereof no mortal can adequately speak..when, afterwards, these persons come to themselves again, they find themselves possessed of a distinct knowledge of things, more luminous and more perfect than that of others."16(82) contemplation has been described, as a psychic gateway, leading from one state of consciousness to another. jeremy taylor calls it the "transition from intense meditation to that contemplation which attains to the vision of the wonders of god, as the human soul enters the realm of the divine light".17(83) francois malaval, who lived and wrote i

n, incessantly filled with beatitude, without duality (unconditioned) principle of all existence, knowing (without this knowledge implying any distinction of subject and object, which would be contrary to 'non-duality, and without end "he is brahma, by which all things are illumined (partaking of its essence according to their degrees of reality, the light of which causes the sun to shine and all luminous bodies, but which is not made manifest by their light "the 'self' being enlightened by meditation.,then burning with the fire of knowledge (realizing its essential identity with the supreme light, is delivered from all accidents..and shines in its own splendour like gold which is purified in fire "when the sun of spiritual knowledge arises in the heart's heaven (that is to say at the cent

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ke is a difficult one to grasp for those beneath the rank of initiate or accepted disciple of the higher stages. the soul is that factor in matter (or rather that which emerges out of the contact between spirit and matter) which produces sentient response and what we call consciousness in its varying forms; it is also that latent or subjective essential quality which makes itself felt as light or luminous radiation. it is the "self-shining from within" which is characteristic of all forms. matter, per se, and in its undifferentiated state, prior to being swept into activity through the creative process, is not possessed of soul, and does not therefore possess the qualities of response and of radiation. only when, in the creative and evolutionary process, these two are brought into conjunct

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adiating of the light of life, borne upon the stream to which the non-initiate gives the name `the light of love" the members of the ashram constitute a united channel for the new energies which are, at this time, entering the world; these energies pour dynamically through the ashram out into the world of men; they stream with potency through the master at the heart of the ashram; they move with "luminous speed" throughout the inner circle; they are stepped down by those who constitute the outer circle, and this is right and good; they are delayed by the beginner and the new disciple from breaking forth into the world of men, and this is not so good. they are delayed because the new disciple has turned his back upon the world of men and his eyes are fastened upon the inner goal and not upo

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otuses. all these different periods show different triangular radiations. we must not infer from this that when the fire is centred in one triangle it is not demonstrating in others. once the fire has free- 54- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust passage along any triangle it flames continuously, but always there is one triangle more radiant and luminous than the others, and it is from these glowing triangles of light, issuing from wheels and vortices of fire, that the clairvoyant and the teachers of the race can appraise a man's position in the scheme of things, and judge of his attainment. at the culmination of life experience, and when man has reached his goal, each triangle is a radiant path of fire, and each centre a wheel of living

he one or he alone, and the greek name `helios' meant most high (s.d. iii. 279) 20 "the visible sun is only the central star but not the central spiritual sun (s.d. iii. 280) 21 "the sun was the life-giving and the death-giving luminary (s.d. iii. 288) 22 "the sun is the substitute for the invisible inter-mercurial planet (s.d. iii. 459) 23 "the pure energy of solar intelligence proceeds from the luminous seat occupied by our sun in the centre of the heavens, that pure energy being the logos of our system (s.d. iii. 213) 24. there is "the sun of initiation in a triple form two of which are the `day-sun' and one the `night-sun (s.d. iii. 212) 25 "all initiates are `epitomisers of the history of the sun' which epitome is another mystery within the mystery (s.d. iii. 140) 26 "the mystery of t

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done the above leaves the disciple to work through to knowledge and cooperative usefulness; he neither pushes him into premature action nor constantly supervises him; he surrounds him with the aura of his presence and the protection and stimulation of his ashram; he gives him occasional hints, and as the disciple acts and works upon the hinted suggestions, the hint becomes a clear direction and a luminous area of enlightenment. on hints i have been working with all of you in this manner for more than ten years now; i have sought to bring about a definite awakening to latent possibilities and to those capacities for cooperation which must be eventually realised by the disciple. i am not discouraged, because apart from my realisation of the inevitable limitations which encompass each of you

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r consort. and it was dissimilar to the likeness of its mother, for it has another form "and when she saw (the consequences of) her desire, it changed into a form of a lion-faced serpent. and its eyes were like lightning fires which flash. she cast it away from her, outside that place, that no one of the immortal ones might see it, for she had created it in ignorance. and she surrounded it with a luminous cloud, and she placed a throne in the middle of the cloud that no one might see it except the holy spirit who is called the mother of the living. and she called his name yaltabaoth "this is the first archon who took a great power from his mother. and he removed himself from her and moved away from the places in which he was born. he became strong and created for himself other aeons with a

loud, and she placed a throne in the middle of the cloud that no one might see it except the holy spirit who is called the mother of the living. and she called his name yaltabaoth "this is the first archon who took a great power from his mother. and he removed himself from her and moved away from the places in which he was born. he became strong and created for himself other aeons with a flame of luminous fire which (still) exists now. and he joined with his arrogance which is in him and begot authorities for himself. the name of the first one is athoth, whom the generations call the reaper. the second one is harmas, who is the eye of envy. the third one is kalila-oumbri. the fourth one is yabel. the fifth one is adonaiou, who is called sabaoth. the sixth one is cain, whom the generations

oth 'blow into his face something of your spirit and his body will arise' and he blew into his face the spirit which is the power of his mother; he did not know (this, for he exists in ignorance. and the power of the mother went out of yaltabaoth into the natural body, which they had fashioned after the image of the one who exists from the beginning. the body moved and gained strength, and it was luminous "and in that moment the rest of the powers became jealous, because he had come into being through all of them and they had given their power to the man, and his intelligence was greater than that of those who had made him, and greater than that of the chief archon. and when they recognized that he was luminous, and that he could think better than they, and that he was free from wickedness

kedness, they took him and threw him into the lowest region of all matter "but the blessed one, the mother-father, the beneficent and merciful one, had mercy on the power of the mother which had been brought forth out of the chief archon, for they (the archons) might gain power over the natural and perceptible body. and he sent, through his beneficent spirit and his great mercy, a helper to adam, luminous epinoia which comes out of him, who is called life. and she assists the whole creature, by toiling with him and by restoring him to his fullness and by teaching him about the descent of his seed (and) by teaching him about the way of ascent (which is) the way he came down. and the luminous epinoia was hidden in adam, in order that the archons might not know her, but that the epinoia might

pursued her, it did not catch her. and he brought a part of his power out of him. and he made another creature, in the form of a woman, according to the likeness of the epinoia which had appeared to him. and he brought the part which he had taken from the power of the man into the female creature, and not as moses said 'his rib-bone "and he (adam) saw the woman beside him. and in that moment the luminous epinoia appeared, and she lifted the veil which lay over his mind. and he became sober from the drunkenness of darkness. and he recognized his counter-image, and he said 'this is indeed bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh' therefore the man will leave his father and his mother, and he will cleave to his wife, and they will both be one flesh. for they will send him his consort, and he w

found the woman as she was preparing herself for her husband. he was lord over her, though he did not know the mystery which had come to pass through the holy decree. and they were afraid to blame him. and he showed his angels his ignorance which is in him. and he cast them out of paradise and he clothed them in gloomy darkness. and the chief archon saw the virgin who stood by adam, and that the luminous epinoia of life had appeared in her. and yaltabaoth was full of ignorance. and when the foreknowledge of the all noticed (it, she sent some and they snatched life out of eve "and the chief archon seduced her and he begot in her two sons; the first and the second (are) eloim and yave. eloim has a bear-face and yave has a cat-face. the one is righteous but the other is unrighteous (yave is

tness of the light of the foreknowledge informed noah, and he proclaimed (it) to all the offspring which are the sons of men. but those who were strangers to him did not listen to him. it is not as moses said 'they hid themselves in an ark (gn 7: 7, but they hid themselves in a place, not only noah, but also many other people from the immovable race. they went into a place and hid themselves in a luminous cloud. and he (noah) recognized his authority, and she who belongs to the light was with him, having shone on them because he (the chief archon) had brought darkness upon the whole earth "and he made a plan with his powers. he sent his angels to the daughters of men, that they might take some of them for themselves and raise offspring for their enjoyment. and at first they did not succeed

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demon offerings (320.1-322.6) thus called "the s.dhana of the violence demons offerings..kin.-script "hr. padmacandhamah.krotahayaghr.va hulu hulu h. pha. properly arrange and bless the offering torma. regarding the activity ritual of the seven emanating riders; the haughty ones are autonomous, they do not need to be generated. red rays of light spread out like iron hooks from the syllable of the luminous heart center to the great powerful lord tamdrin. regarding the invitation from each domain; burn incense and powder, and fan it with red silk. regarding crying out with a tormented roar; kyai! regarding those many places over there; in the direction where the sun sets, in the red copper fields of the might demon domain, obey the words of the powerful lotus. regarding the high-ranking seve

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re so from the fact that light represents the ratio of 20612 to 6561, as part of the 'words' dbrim, 41224, or as to the word, debar, 206= 10 cubits. light is so much the burden of the kabbalah, in explaining the sephiroth, that the most famous book on the kabbalah is called zohar or light. in this we find expressions of this kind 'the infinite was entirely unknown and diffused no light before the luminous point violently broke through into vision 'when he first assumed the form (of the crown, or the first sephira, he caused 9 splendid lights to emanate from it, which, shining through it, diffused a bright light in all directions: that is, these 9 with his one (which was the origin, as above, of the nine, together made the 10, that is[[diagram] or[[diagram, or the sacred ten (numbers or sep

devachan, forsaking its residue* which shows that the essenes believed in re-birth and many reincarnations on earth, as jesus himself did, a fact we can prove from the new testament itself[[vol. 2, page] 112 the secret doctrine. i corinthians vi, 3 "know ye not that we (the initiates) shall judge angels? finally, it is shown in every ancient scripture and cosmogony that man evolved primarily as a luminous incorporeal form, over which, like the molten brass round the clay model of the sculptor, the physical frame of his body was built by, through, and from, the lower forms and types of animal terrestrial life "the soul and the form when descending on earth put on an earthly garment" says the zohar. his protoplastic body was not formed of that matter of which our mortal frames are fashioned

of her domain, toward her primal and final mysteries. nature, as a creative potency, is infinite, and no generation of physical scientists can ever boast of having exhausted the list of her ways and methods, however uniform the laws upon which she proceeds. if we can conceive of a ball of fire-mist becoming gradually- as it rolls through aeons of time in the interstellar spaces- a planet, a self-luminous globe, to settle into a man-bearing world or earth, thus having passed from a soft plastic body into a rock-bound globe; and if we see on it everything evolving from the non-nucleated jelly-speck that becomes the sarcode* of the moneron, then passes from its protistic state* into the form of an animal, to grow into a gigantic reptilian monster of the mesozoic times; then dwindles again in

figuring the image of the superior mirror, and each repeating it in its own way. thus the christian dogmas are but the reminiscences of the paradigms of plato, who spoke of these things cautiously, as every initiate would. but it is all as expressed in these few sentences of the desatir "all that is on earth, saith the lord (ormazd, is the shadow of something that is in the superior spheres. this luminous object (light, fire, etc) is the shadow of that which is still more luminous than itself, and so on till it reaches me, who am the light of lights" in the kabalistic books, and in the zohar pre-eminently, the idea that everything objective on earth or in this universe is the shadow- dyooknah- of the eternal light or deity, is very strong. the third race was pre-eminently the bright shadow

otypes) for rebirth, so will physico-ethereal man find among the graceful, shapely orders issuing from the air-plane, one or more which will be developed for his successive embodiments when procreated forms are given- a process which will include all mankind only very gradually. the (pre) adamic and post-adamic races were giants; their ethereal counterparts may possibly be liliputians- beauteous, luminous, diaphanous- but will assuredly be giants in mind (p. 671, art. by visconde de figaniere, f.t.s[[vol. 2, page] 290 the secret doctrine. for this round, vegetable and animal alike* as en-soph is "one, notwithstanding the innumerable forms which are in him (zohar" i. 2la, so is man, on earth the microcosm of the macrocosm "as soon as man appeared, everything was complete. for everything is

e, by miasma, or by the outpour of sulphurous fumes("mythical monsters" by ch. gould, p. 134) and how many of such cataclysms have changed the whole surface of the earth may be inferred from this stanza "during the first seven crores of the kalpa (70,000,000 years) the earth and its two kingdoms (mineral and vegetable, one already having achieved its seventh circle, the other, hardly nascent, are luminous and semi-ethereal, cold, lifeless, and translucid. in the eleventh crore* the mother (earth) grows opaque, and in the fourteenth* the throes of adolescence take place. these convulsions of nature (geological changes) last till her twentieth crore of years, uninterruptedly, after which they become periodical, and at long intervals" the last change took place nearly twelve crores of years a

ssumed the name of one of them (azaz(y)el, was sent (spencer. we say it is not so. the zohar has the following explanation on the practice of magic which is called in hebrew nehhaschim, or the "serpents' works" it says (part iii. col. 302 "it is called nehhaschim, because the magicians (practical kabalists) work surrounded by the light of the primordial serpent, which they perceive in heaven as a luminous zone composed of myriads of small stars. which means simply the astral light, so called by the martinists, by eliphas levi, and now by all the modern occultists (vide sections about- the "curse" from a philosophical point of view. the foregoing teachings of the secret doctrine, supplemented by universal traditions, must now have demonstrated that the brahmanas and puranas, the yathas and

of, if any were needed, that the ancient initiates knew of more than seven planets is to be found in the vishnu purana, book ii, ch. xii, where, describing[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 489 the one passive deity. seven rishis of the great bear and other glyphs. as said of the adityas by roth "they are neither sun, nor moon, nor stars, nor dawn, but the eternal sustainers of this luminous life which exists as it were behind all these phenomena" it is they- the "seven hosts- who, having "considered in their father (divine thought) the plan of the operator" as says pymander, desired to operate (or build the world with its creatures) likewise; for, having been born "within the sphere of operation- the manifesting universe- such is the manvantaric law. and now comes the second

which is so truly satanic and infernal in its cold and cruel wickedness. the magians accounted for the origin of evil in their exoteric teachings in this way "light can produce nothing but light, and can never be the origin of evil; how then was the evil produced, since there was nothing co-equal or like the light in its production? light, say they, produced several beings, all of them spiritual, luminous, and powerful. but a great one (the "great asura" ahriman, lucifer, etc, etc) had an evil thought, contrary to the light. he doubted, and by that doubt he became dark. this is a little nearer to the truth, but still wide of the mark. there was no "evil thought" that originated the opposing power, but simply thought per se; something which, being cogitative, and containing design and purpo

d, he was taught wisdom and the hidden knowledge by the "fallen angel" for the latter had become from that day his manas, mind and self-consciousness. in each of us that golden thread of continuous life- periodically broken into active and passive cycles of sensuous existence on earth, and super-sensuous in devachan- is from the beginning of our appearance upon this earth. it is the sutratma, the luminous thread of immortal impersonal monadship, on which our earthly lives or evanescent egos are strung as so many beads- according to the beautiful expression of vedantic philosophy. and now it stands proven that satan, or the red fiery dragon, the "lord of phosphorus (brimstone was a theological improvement, and lucifer, or "light-bearer" is in us: it is our mind- our tempter and redeemer, ou

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still not quite agree as to the nature of the fabric upon which it is written. it is the only original copy now in existence. the most ancient hebrew document on occult learning- the siphrah dzeniouta- was compiled from it, and that at a time when the former was already considered in the light of a literary relic. one of its illustrations represents the divine essence emanating from adam* like a luminous arc proceeding to form a circle; and then, having attained the highest point of its circumference, the ineffable glory bends back again, and returns to earth, bringing a higher type of humanity in its vortex. as it approaches nearer and nearer to our planet, the emanation becomes more and more shadowy, until upon touching the ground it is as black as night[[footnote(s* the name is used in

orm of existence stretched boundless, infinite, causeless, in dreamless sleep; and life pulsated unconscious in universal space, throughout that all-presence which is sensed by the opened eye of the dangma. 9. but where was the dangma when the alaya of the universe was in paramartha and the great wheel was anupadaka[[vol. 1, page] 28 the secret doctrine. stanza ii. 1. where were the builders, the luminous sons of manvantaric dawn. in the unknown darkness in their ah-hi paranishpanna. the producers of form from no-form- the root of the world- the devamatri and svabhavat, rested in the bliss of non-being. 2. where was silence? where the ears to sense it? no, there was neither silence nor sound; naught save ceaseless eternal breath, which knows itself not. 3. the hour had not yet struck; the

the slumbering waters of life. 3. darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep. the ray shoots through the virgin egg, the ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal germ, which condenses into the world-egg[[vol. 1, page] 29 the secret doctrine. 4. then the three fall into the four. the radiant essence becomes seven inside, seven outside. the luminous egg, which in itself is three, curdles and spreads in milk-white curds throughout the depths of mother, the root that grows in the depths of the ocean of life. 5. the root remains, the light remains, the curds remain, and still oeaohoo is one. 6. the root of life was in every drop of the ocean of immortality, and the ocean was radiant light, which was fire, and heat, and motion. darkness

iousness as taught by the vedantins and some adwaitees) appeared, has, in his death and history generally, himself presented the eternal history of spirit- a history which every man has to accomplish in himself, in order to exist as spirit- philosophy of history. sibree's english translation, p. 340[[vol. 1, page] 53 the state of paranirvana. stanza ii. commentary. 1. where were the builders, the luminous sons of manvantaric dawn (a. in the unknown darkness in their ah-hi (chohanic, dhyani-buddhic) paranishpanna, the producers of form (rupa) from no-form (arupa, the root of the world- the devamatri* and svabhavat, rested in the bliss of non-being (b (a) the "builders" the "sons of manvantaric dawn" are the real creators of the universe; and in this doctrine, which deals only with our plane

elements are translated "envelopes" and a secret one is added "aham-kara (see wilson's vishnu purana, book i, p. 40. the original text has no "aham-kara" it mentions seven elements without specifying the last three (see part ii. on "the mundane egg- stanza iii- continued. 4 (then) the three (triangle) fall into the four (quaternary. the radiant essence becomes seven inside, seven outside (a. the luminous egg (hiranyagarbha, which in itself is three (the triple hypostases of brahma, or vishnu, the three "avasthas, curdles and spreads in milk-white curds throughout the depths of mother, the root that grows in the ocean of life (b. the use of geometrical figures and the frequent allusions to figures in all ancient scriptures (see puranas, egyptian papyri, the "book of the dead" and even the

) transient light, however transcendent to human eyes. demon est deus inversus. the devil is now called darkness by the church, whereas, in the bible he is called the "son of god (see job, the bright star of the early morning, lucifer (see isaiah. there is a whole philosophy of dogmatic craft in the reason why the first archangel, who sprang from the depths of chaos, was called lux (lucifer, the "luminous son of the morning" or man[ footnote(s* see "kwan-shai-yin" the real name from the text cannot be given[[vol. 1, page] 71 light emerges from darkness. vantaric dawn. he was transformed by the church into lucifer or satan, because he is higher and older than jehovah, and had to be sacrificed to the new dogma (see book ii- stanza iii- continued. 7. behold, oh lanoo* the radiant child of the

urse of time followed by the next. no world, as no heavenly body, could be constructed on the objective plane, had not the elements been sufficiently differentiated already from their primeval ilus, resting in laya. the latter term is a synonym of nirvana. it is, in fact, the nirvanic dissociation of all substances, merged after a life-cycle into the latency of their primary conditions. it is the luminous but bodiless shadow of the matter that was, the realm of negativeness- wherein lie latent during their period of rest the active forces of the universe. now, speaking of elements, it is made the standing reproach of the ancients, that they "supposed their elements simple and undecomposable* once more this is an unwarrantable state[[footnote(s* the shades of our pre-historical ancestors mi

live and have their being at the expense of every other life that they consume. therefore they are named the "devourers "every visible thing in this universe was built by such lives, front conscious and divine primordial man down to the unconscious agents that construct matter "from the one life formless and uncreate, proceeds the universe of lives. first was manifested from the deep (chaos) cold luminous fire (gaseous light) which formed the curds in space (irresolvable nebulae, perhaps. these fought, and a great heat was developed by the encountering and collision, which produced rotation. then came the first manifested material, fire, the hot flames, the wanderers in heaven (comets; heat generates moist vapour; that forms solid water; then dry mist, then liquid mist, watery, that puts o

s fire (gaseous light) which formed the curds in space (irresolvable nebulae, perhaps. these fought, and a great heat was developed by the encountering and collision, which produced rotation. then came the first manifested material, fire, the hot flames, the wanderers in heaven (comets; heat generates moist vapour; that forms solid water; then dry mist, then liquid mist, watery, that puts out the luminous brightness of the pilgrims (comets) and forms solid watery wheels (matter globes. bhumi (the earth) appears with six sisters* these produce by their continuous motion the inferior fire, heat, and an aqueous mist, which yields the third world-element- water; and from the breath of all (atmospheric) air is born. these four are the four lives of the first four periods (rounds) of manvantara

ight when he spoke of the "powers of fire, air, water, earth; the earth, such as we know it now, had no existence before the 4th round, hundreds of million years ago, the commencement of our geological earth. the globe was "fiery, cool and radiant as its ethereal men and animals during the first round" says the commentary, uttering a contradiction or paradox in the opinion of our present science "luminous and more dense and heavy during the second round; watery during the third" thus are the elements reversed* if we had to frame our conclusions according to the data furnished to us by the[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 253 the great archaeus. earth as a state of matter to their stock as well as the three other elements in their present transformation. in short, none of the

l addition of a word or two to show the difference between western and eastern explanations of the same subject. the author says of the great magic agent "this ambient and all-penetrating fluid, this ray detached from the (central or 'spiritual) sun's splendour. fixed by the weight of the atmosphere) and the power of central attraction. the astral light, this electromagnetic ether, this vital and luminous caloric, is represented on ancient monuments by the girdle of isis which twines round two poles and in ancient theogonies by the serpent devouring its own tail, emblem of prudence and of saturn- emblem of infinity, immortality, and kronos "time- not the god saturn or the planet "it is the winged dragon of medea, the double serpent of the caduceus, and the tempter of genesis; but it is als

idas (see mrs. kingsford's "the virgin of the world "i adjure thee, heaven, holy work of the great god; i adjure thee, voice of the father, uttered in the beginning when the universal world was framed; i adjure thee by the word, only son of the father who upholds all things; be favourable, be favourable" this just preceded by the following "thus the ideal light was before the ideal light, and the luminous intelligence of intelligence was always, and its unity was nothing else than the spirit enveloping the universe. out of whom is neither god nor angels, nor any other essentials, for he (it) is the lord of all things and the power and the light; and all depends on him (it) and is in him (it, etc (fragments of the writings of hermes to ammon) this is contradicted by the very same trismegist

ans portrayed the moon as a cat, they were not ignorant enough to suppose that the moon was a cat; nor did their wandering fancies see any likeness in the moon to a cat; nor was a cat-myth any mere expansion of verbal metaphor; nor had they any intention of making puzzles or riddles. they had observed the simple fact that the cat saw in the dark, and that her eyes became full-orbed, and grew most luminous by night. the moon was the seer by night in heaven, and the cat was its equivalent on the earth; and so the familiar cat was adopted as a representative, a natural sign, a living pictograph of the lunar orb. and so it followed that the sun which saw down in the under-world at night could also be called the cat, as it was, because it also saw in the dark. the name of the[[footnote(s* as fa

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r their garlands. 39. they shaped ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the ancient dragon that sat upon the stagnant water. 40. then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at ease. 41. and again i was caught up into the presence of my lord adonai, and the knowledge and conversation of the holy one, the angel that guardeth me. 42. o holy exalted one, o self beyond self, o self- luminous image of the unimaginable naught, o my darling, my beautiful, come thou forth and follow me. 43. adonai, divine adonai, let adonai initiate refulgent dalliance! thus i concealed the name of her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose body bewildereth the soul, the light of whose soul abaseth this body unto the beasts. liber lxv 95 44. i have sucked out the blood with my lips; i

ar spell of work for 32 days, after which he seems to have recorded very little until march 25 in the following year, viz, 1912. he then experimented with sss section of liber hhh, from the equinox, vol. v and obtained automatic rigidity. he writes.(1) brain became charged with electric fluid or prana, in fact whole face and hands became as if connected with an electric battery, also brain seemed luminous but void (2) could not awaken spine from .yoni; but, after persisting, the part just below small of back became enlivened, then under ribs, then breast and nape of neck. the current became very strong and almost unbearable. whole body became perfectly and automatically rigid. hands seemed to feel gnarled and misshapen, contorted by the force in them (i noticed this as a side issue. feet a

tea..o.m] apr. 4. control of body. while at office kept left elbow at side for 3 hours. wished to see if this would be quite easy and found i had no difficulty in remembering [good: try something harder..o.m] apr. 6, 9:20.10 p.m. dragon. this meditation was the best lately. quickly felt the prana gripping the body. conceived the blackness of understanding become penetrated by wisdom. brain became luminous. body rigid. tension passed and force concentrated at bridge of nose. concentrated on ajna. personality gone. tried to project consciousness straight up. was suddenly interrupted by r. who was in bed just by my side. hardly knew where i was for the moment and had to concentrate on body to regain normal [too big a handicap, having anyone in the room..o.m] apr. 8, 9:25 to 10:11 p.m.=46 mins

e castellated ground where, in cerements of sable, one square tower and one great gable stood, the melancholy wraith of a false and fallen faith over all, supine, enthralling, the young moon, her faint edge falling to the dead verge of her setting, saintly swam, her silver fretting all the leaves with light. afar the equinox 188 toward the zenith stood a star, as of all worthiness and fitness the luminous eternal witness. so silent was the night, that i stirred the grasses reverently and hid myself. the garden s glow darkened, and all the gold below went out, and left the gold above to its sacrament of love, save where to sentinel my station, gold lilies bowed in adoration. had i not feared to move, i might have hid my shame from such a night! man is not worthy to intrude his soullessness

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o so. this exercise moves all the stale air from the bottom of the lungs. do this three times. 9: repeat the last exercise, this time breathing in through the left nostril and out through the right nostril. do this three times. now, with your body relaxing and breathing normally but deeply, concentrate your thoughts until you can imagine your whole body encased in a globe of white light. feel the luminous energy charging your whole body. now focus your attention on your toes. command them to relax. let the tension and tiredness melt lesson seven: meditation, dreams and the minor sabbats/ 83 away from them. repeat the process with the balls of the feet, the arches, the heels, the ankles and so on. completely relax the entire body, section by section. calves, knees, thighs, groin, buttocks

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r of mothers. hence it is commanded" honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the lord thy god giveth thee" for i, who am thy father, am thy mother also; and if thou honourest me, the giver of life, then shalt thou triumph at the last, even over death [45] comment on daleth* d a l e t h, pronounced dawleth. transcribed as" d. the number 4. meaning: door. the luminous intelligence. i daleth is the sign of the combined action of kether and chokmah, or 1 and 2, expressed in 3. thus the ancient hebrew character for daleth was a triangle, although the value of the letter is 4. the values of the letters apparently conflict with the numbers of the sephiroth and with those of the tarot keys to which the letters are assigned; but 1 in the alphabet is the origi

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

silk scarf in either hand, move around the tree with your hands rising and falling in a spiral path to create swirls of energies, the most ancient of the mother goddess sacred geometric forms, while chanting and dancing. if you are with friends, join hands around the tree and pass the light and energy between you from hand to hand, deosil, until you can feel the circle of light (you may even see luminous energy transferring from hand to hand *begin to circle the tree deosil, reciting faster and faster: tree power, earth power, sun shower and light, encircle me, enfold me, goddess radiance bright. if you do not want to use the goddess as a focus for your magick, you can substitute the word 'god' or say 'golden radiance bright. you can also create your own chant, if you prefer, that may cha

r reaching a climax, cast the scarves high into the air and seite 23 wicca01.txt hug the tree, pressing your feet down hard to ground your energy and receive healing light from the trunk. if you are working alone, you may feel that in a sense you are not alone but are joining with the tree spirits and devas, the higher forces of nature who will dance with you as you spiral. you may even see their luminous outlines* if you are working in a group, when you feel the power has reached a climax, unclasp your hands and with a final call, above! raise them straight above your head and allow the energies to spiral through the cosmos* then sink down so that your hands and feet are pressing the ground and let any excess golden radiance and power return to the earth (if you do not do this, you will b

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ange my shoes. the current state of chaos magick in the present time has only maneuvered to some certain state due to lack of imagination and vision. chaos magick is an egocentric ideology that has no specific doctrine or form. lack of dogma can often lead to emptiness of concepts and then the boat literally runs aground. chaos magick must be defined in a certain context in order to re-awaken the luminous possibilities contained therein. austin osman spare was the founder of what is today chaos magick. his study and practice of magick developed early on and was later subject to formal training with aleister crowley. spare understood the importance of ritual and ceremony yet at the same time found it repulsive and idiotic. however, by viewing spare s paintings and pastels one is able to und

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nicaea in 325ad (see the robots' rebellion. the gnostic text describes the birth of y'shua and how people and animals froze in mid-gesture in a powerful, though temporary paralysis, while joseph and the midwife were unaffected. this is very much a theme of et contactee/abductee experiences. the text goes on "and the midwife went away with him. and they stood in the place of the cave, and behold a luminous cloud overshadowed the cave. and the midwife said 'my soul has been magnified this day, because mine eyes have seen strange things- because salvation has been brought forth to israel. and immediately the cloud disappeared out of the cave, and a great light shone in the cave, so that the eyes could not bear it. and the veil of tears 13 in a little that light gradually decreased until the i

black magicians 211 vibration. from now on, hitler's power to attract support grew rapidly. eckart wrote to a friend in 1923 "follow hitler! he will dance, but it is i who have called the tune. we have given him the means of communication with them. do not mourn for me: i shall have influenced history more than any other german."10 hitler was also a member of another esoteric secret society, the luminous lodge or vril society. vril was the name given by the english writer, lord bulwer lytton, to the force which, he claimed, awakens people to their true power and potential to become supermen. in 1933, the rocket expert, willi ley, fled from germany and revealed the existence of the vril society and the nazis' belief that they would become the equals of the supermen in the bowels of the ear

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"before their bodies had been overlaid with a horny skin and enveloped with a cloud of glory. no sooner had they violated the command given them that the cloud of glory and the horny skin dropped from them and they stood there in their nakedness and ashamed."23 this fits with the legends which say that before the "fall, people, or "man, had skin "as bright as daylight and covered his body like a luminous garment".24 this later disappeared, but there were remnants of it among the hybrids at the time of "noah" and the deluge. still today, some people involved in government genetic experimentation tell me they have developed patches of reptilian skin. it was with the infusion of mammalian genes that the life spans began to fall from thousands of years, claimed in the records of the pre-delug

e former sumer empire. in a babylonian seal dated to around 3300bc, el is pictured with the crescent moon of the serpent cult and wodan is given the body of a serpent. satanists worship the reptilians and also the moon, and have always done so. the inscription behind el in this babylonian seal reads ildi or "il-the- shining, yet another confirmation of the portrayal of reptilians as "shining" or "luminous" in some way. el or ida is given the title of rann in the edda and this is the origin of the nursing serpent mother and matriarch, rann-t, in egyptian myth, or vice versa.34 serpent cult symbolism the obsession with troy and the trojan war by descendants of the merovingian bloodline can be understood when you read the edda. it tells of how thor's troy was raided by the "edenite" serpent c

s "nordic" blond-haired, blue-eyed beings, along with greys and reptilians, since she was young.8 witnesses have seen the marks on her body that have followed many of these visits. she has also suffered a raid by military personnel who walked in and stole material relating to extraterrestrials and ufo activity. pamela described a reptilian "visitor" who appeared a number of times. she said he had luminous amber-coloured eyes like a cat and had grey-green skin and sharp claws on his fingers. he wore a sort of "breast-plate" like the ones used by roman soldiers, she said. when he appeared she would first hear a high-pitched sound and a buzzing and clicking noise and soon found it hard to breath. she felt that her chest was being crushed. when she became paralysed and immobilised, the reptili

didn't believe him and he moved to sao paulo. it was there that a car stopped beside him in the street. he said he "lost his will to resist" and climbed inside to find the three guys who had been following him for months. he was driven to a wooden area, he said, where he saw a large "ufo. the car stopped and they all walked up to the craft, which was hovering above the ground and surrounded by a "luminous ring. the next thing he knew, they were inside and he was sat in a chair with handles that secured his wrists. an iron bar pressed his head backwards against the chair and his neck was also fastened. now, he said, the "men in black" transformed. their "heads ripped open into a heart shape" and their skin became scaled and green like a reptilian. this happened in 1979-80 long before mibs b

bavaria is a massive centre for the illuminati. the following year he came across a tiny and rather pathetic political party called the german workers party. this was an offshoot of an esoteric secret society called the german order, which was seriously nationalistic and anti-jewish. out of this order came other similar societies, including the infamous thule-gesellschaft (thule society) and the luminous lodge or vril society. hitler was a members of both. thule comes from the name given by the greeks and romans to the frozen northern region of the earth. they called this land thule or ultima thule. vril was the name given by the english writer and high illuminati initiate, lord edward bulwer- lytton, to the force in the blood, which, he claimed, awakens people to their true power and pot

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he first world war. thats the official line, anyway. the following year, he cameacross a tiny and rather pathetic political party called the german workers party. thiswas an offshoot of an esoteric secret society called the german order, which wasfiercely nationalistic and anti-jewish. out of this order came other similar societies,including the infamous thule-gesellschaft (thule society) and the luminous lodge orvril society. hitler was a member of both. vril was the name given by the englishwriter, lord bulwer-lytton to the force in the blood which, he claimed, awakens peopleto their true power and potential to become supermen. so what is the vril force in theblood? it was known by the hindus as the serpent force and it relates to the geneticmake up of the body which allows shape-shiftin

aser of the typenecessary was developed by the us airforce phillips laboratory for use by special forcespersonnel and it was after this that the cattle mutilations began. some of the first oneshappened near the chemical warfare laboratory at dulce in new mexico and desboroughsuggests that the cattle are being abducted as part of this research.485this would explain why many of them are daubed with luminous paint which can onlybe seen at night. these cattle can be winched aboard a craft, their body parts removed,and returned to a different area of the field, so leaving no footprints and creating a greatmystery. many uninformed (or otherwise) ufo researchers say that craft like the one atroswell must be extraterrestrial because they are made of a material with a non-crystalline structure whic

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reich's ideas have tabulated a host of biological effects of orgone energy. by sitting in an oraccu for an hour or so per day the person gradually becomes saturated with orgone and can begin to see and feel its effects. people describe a prickly glowing feeling when in the oraccu. warmth and relaxation are common effects. while in an oraccu, and in total darkness, a sensitized person can see the luminous activity of the orgone. some have experimented and found that orgone is controllable with the mind and feelings. people have claimed that the oraccu would keep the person more healthy and vital than otherwise. colds or other ills are claimed to be greatly reduced. reich claimed that the oraccu appeared to get rid of cancer and other serious diseases. experimenters and medical personnel ha

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the will through the manipulation of matter. iv. the gnostic yaltabaoth, child of chaos "and when she saw (the consequences of) her desire, it changed into a form of a lionfaced serpent. and its eyes were like lightning fires which flash. she cast it away from her, outside that place, that no one of the immortal ones might see it, for she had created it in ignorance. and she surrounded it with a luminous cloud, and she placed a throne in the middle of the cloud that no one might see it except the holy spirit who is called the mother of the living. and she called his name yaltabaoth. the apocryphon of john the apocryphon of john, discovered in upper egypt in 1945, is perhaps one of the more significant gnostic texts which hold a hidden relation to the adversary. these early christian writi

odel of the sorcerer that by will and desire does become able to create accordingly. here we are able to read that the fire of heaven was taken from barbelo and used by yaltabaoth "this is the first archon who took a great power from his mother. and he removed himself from her and moved away from the places in which he was born. he became strong and created for himself other aeons with a flame of luminous fire which (still) exists now. and he joined with his arrogance which is in him and begot authorities for himself. the name of the first one is athoth, whom the generations call the reaper. the second one is harmas, who is the eye of envy. the third one is kalila-oumbri. the fourth one is yabel. the fifth one is adonaiou, who is called sabaoth. the sixth one is cain, whom the generations

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tes that the moon separated from the earth at the period when evolution was on the cusp between the etheric phase of its development and the phase of dense matter. those who are familiar with the termonology of astrology will know that the cusp is that phase between two signs wherein the influence of both is intermingled. the moon, then, has something of the material in its composition, hence the luminous globe we see in the sky; but the really important part of its composition is etheric, because it was during the phase of evolution when life was developing the etheric form that the moon had its heyday, and for this reason the phase is called by some occultists the luna phase of evolution. those who want to know more of this subject will find it dealt with in the rosicrucian cosmo-concept

tical qabala page 193 lights; the relationship between malkuth and binab; and the function of malkuth in causing an influence to emanate from the angel of kether. 55. it may seem a curious idea that malkuth, which is the material world, should be the illuminator of the lights; we can understand this, however, if we refer to the analogy of physics, which tells us that the sky only appears blue and luminous owing to the reflection of light from the innumerable dust particles floating in the atmosphere; absolutely dustless air is unilluminated, and our sky would have the darkness of interstellar space if it were not for these dust particles. we also learn from the study of physics that we see objects solely by means of the rays of light they reflect from their surfaces. when there is little o

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ace. the physical phenomena are of several types. they may take the form of noises, usually creakings, thuds, or more rarely bell-like notes or wailing sounds. if actual words are heard, auditory hallucinations should be suspected, for in the absence of a medium, spirit messages are given to the inner ear, not to the auditory nerve. lights may also be seen, usually taking the form of dim balls of luminous mist drifting like soap-bubbles. they may be any size from mere points of light to considerable dimensions, some six feet or more in diameter. in these spheres of dim luminosity psychics can generally see forms, sometimes human, sometimes from the animal kingdom. whitish-grey clouds can also sometimes be seen, rising pillar-wise from the floor like smoke. these are usually fixed to one pl

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fices, of music, of the blood of victims, and the commerce of women; and that they were confined for a determinate time to certain houses or other places, which they haunted, and in which they appeared. they held that souls, when separated from their gross and terrestrial bodies, still retained a finer and more subtle body, of the same form with that which they had quitted; that these bodies were luminous like the stars; and they retained an inclination for the things which they had loved in their life time, and frequently appeared about their graves. when the soul of patroclus appeared to achilles, it had his voice, his shape, his eyes, and his dress, but not the same tangible body. calmet added of the early christian church fathers, we find that origen, tertullian, and st. irenaus, were

church fathers, we find that origen, tertullian, and st. irenaus, were clearly of this opinion. origen, in his second book against celsus, relates and subscribes to the opinion of plato, who says, that the shadows and images of the dead, which are seen near sepulchres, are nothing but the soul disengaged from its gross body, but not yet entirely freed from matter; that these souls become in time luminous, transparent, and subtle, or rather are carried in luminous and transparent bodies, as in a vehicle, in which they appeal to the living. tertullian, in his book concerning the soul, asserts that it is corporeal, and of a certain figure, and appeals to the experience of those who have seen apparitions of departed souls, and to whom they have appeared as corporeal and tangible, though of an

h. in a similar case a mother brought the news of the death of her grandson by drowning, the drowned man also appearing to the percipient. in an instance quoted by camille flammarion in the unknown (1900, the percipient, whose brother was killed in the attack at sedan, awoke suddenly during the night and saw. opposite to the window and beside my bed my brother on his knees surrounded by a sort of luminous mist. i tried to speak to him but i could not. i jumped out of bed. i looked out of the window and i saw there was no moonlight. the night was dark and it was raining heavily, great drops pattering on the window panes. my poor oliver was still there. then i drew near. i walked right through the apparition. i reached my chamber door, and as i turned the knob to open i looked back once more

appeared in bailey s seances. the bringing of pearls as apports is recorded in georgina houghton s book. they came in veritable showers in the seances of stainton moses. they may not have had any value, but that must have been different with his ruby, sapphire, and emerald apports. small as they were, great commercial value must have been attached to them. once he woke up from his sleep and saw a luminous hand near the ceiling, under it a little ball of fire as big as a pea. as he looked, the fingers were unclasped, the hand opened and the little ball of fire fell on his beard. it was a small opalescent stone about the size of a large pea, called sapphirium. two similar stones were later delivered during a seance, the arrival being preceded by a fit of violent convulsion. apports, if real

o be surrounded with a cloud of light. it is told that when st. john of the cross knelt at the altar in prayer, a certain brightness darted from his face. st. philip neri was constantly seen enveloped in light, and st. charles borromeo was similarly illuminated. this is said to be due to the fact that when a person is engaged in lofty thought and spiritual aspiration, the auric colors become more luminous and translucent and therefore more easily discernible. in christian art, around the heads of saints and the sacred characters is portrayed the halo, or nimbus, which is supposed to represent the aura. medieval saints and mystics distinguished four different types of aura; the nimbus, the halo, the aureola, and the glory. the first two stream from the head, the aureola from the whole body

with the light extending around the whole body. instances of this may be found in the temple caves of india and ceylon, in the japanese buddhistic books, also in egypt, greece, mexico, and peru. in occult literature the tradition of the aura is an old one. paracelsus mentioned it in the sixteenth century in the following terms: the vital force is not enclosed in man, but radiates round him like a luminous sphere, and it may be made to act at a distance. in these semi-natural rays the imagination of man may produce healthy or morbid effects. it may poison the essence of life and cause diseases, or it may purify it after it has been made impure, and restore the health. paracelsus said further that our thoughts are simply magnetic emanations, which, in escaping from our brains, penetrate into

n every time i hold a pencil or pen in my hand. helene smith painted in trance a series of tableaus on biblical subjects in colors. her fingers moved incoherently over the canvas, executing different details in different parts which later merged into a harmonious whole. she was very slow. the execution of a big picture took more than a year. the vision always returned. elizabeth d esperance saw a luminous cloud concentrate itself in the darkest corner of the room, become substantial, and form itself into the figure of a child. nobody else saw the figure, but she could sketch it in the dark, being unconscious of the extraordinary circumstances that she could see the paper and pencil perfectly well. spirit sketching became a regular phase of her mediumship for a considerable time, but the po

d of catching cold. the apports consisted mostly of small articles: two or three live birds; a fish with an acrid, penetrating, saline odor; and a babylonian tablet enveloped in a hard coating of sand. some of the birds, nests, and eggs disappeared before the end of the seance. in the dark bailey demonstrated the rapid growth of a seed in a flower pot and the presence of phosphorescent lights and luminous shapes. the committee s desire to have a specially designated object transported from one room to another was not realized. the report, signed by mr. baccigaluppi, a. brioschi, dr. clericetti, o. cipriana, dr. f. ferrari, a. marzorati, odorico, redealli, and dr. e. griffini, stated: the committee. whilst it deplores (a) the medium s strange obstinacy in refusing to consent to allow himsel

es the church investigated in that process were alleged miraculous occurrences credited to the candidate proposed for sainthood. lambertini quickly gained a reputation as one who admitted the possibility of miracles but took a very skeptical view of reports of paranormal phenomena. he refused to regard as a miracle any event that could result from natural phenomena. he made independent studies of luminous phenomena, nonconventional healings, and extrasensory perception (esp. he came to see esp as a natural phenomenon neither spiritually nor diabolically based. he capped his career with the publication of a four-volume work, de canonization santorum (1734.38, which had a marked effect upon the thinking of the church on miracles in a still very superstitious age. lambertini was elected to th

d wronged. there he hid his delinquencies under the cloak of imposture and hypocrisy, and he pretended that god had chosen him to reform mankind and to reestablish god s reign below. he also claimed to be the champion of the papal power against all heretics and protestants, and he wore a wondrous sword that he alleged had been given to him by saint michael. borri said that he had seen in heaven a luminous palm branch that was reserved for him. he uttered a number of heretical views, including that the virgin was divine in nature, that she had conceived through inspiration, and that she was equal to her son, with whom she was present in the eucharist, that the holy spirit was incarnate in her, and that the second and third persons of the trinity were inferior to the father. all of these vie

oud of light, a weightless glowing mass from which tiny flames leapt with a slight buzzing noise, after which she found a five-pointed star in embossed silver in her hand. other witnesses have described a blue light around campagni s hands when apports are materialized. father eugenio feriaroti, head of a roman catholic order in genoa, attended one seance, at which he stated that the medium put a luminous ball of light into my hands. the ball of light then materialized into a small silver angel. psychic researcher dr. luigi lapi of florence claims at one seance he saw the medium levitate to the ceiling. genoanese physicist alfredo ferraro states he has seen 30 materialized apports and believes trickery is not involved. parapsychologist ugo dettore, who has also studied campagni s phenomena

livered. these helpers sometimes assisted in the control as well, increasing the coherence of the messages. many instances of blunders by controls were recorded in the scripts of stainton moses. once, heavy volumes of phosphoric smoke were produced, scaring the medium as he was enveloped in fire. it was explained afterward that an accident happened during the production of the psychic lights (see luminous phenomena. another time, a perfume-producing experiment miscarried and the sitters were driven out of the room by an unbearable stench. sometimes harm reportedly occurred to the medium because of the control s negligence or careless overdraft of power. occasionally controls failed in their capacity as doorkeepers and undesirable, malignant elements invaded the seance room. in such cases t

size is said to indicate the age of the victim, a small light representing an infant death, especially if it is a pale blue color. these lights are erratic, sometimes disappearing and reappearing. they may be seen on or near the earth, in the air, or over lakes, or on the sea. they may be red, white, or blue and are thought to be caused by unusual atmospheric conditions, gaseous emanations, or by luminous insects. corrales, ophelia mysterious phosphorescent lights often seen over marshes or in churchyards. they are also known as fetchlights, jack o lanterns and dead men s candles, and are termed ignis fatuus. they are believed by some to presage death. the size is said to indicate the age of the victim, a small light representing an infant death, especially if it is a pale blue color. thes

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the notable materialization mediums, with the exception of d. d. home, were at one time or another caught in fraud, and that no clear case of even a partial materialization exists. the belief in materialization rests upon evidence of the most questionable kind. the origin of materialization phenomena in its early stages, materialization was confined to the appearance of heads and hands, or vague luminous streaks of light. figures were materialized later. like much of the physical phenomena of spiritualism, it had its origin in the united states, where it was reported at a comparatively early period in the history of the movement. as early as 1860, seances were held with the fox sisters by robert dale owen and others, at which veiled and luminous figures were seen. one sitter, a mr. liverm

ill of the medium, in a word, a new human being! this is surely the climax of marvels! nevertheless, it is a fact. he adds: materialisation is a mechanical projection; we already know the projection of light, of heat and of electricity; it is not a very long step to think that a projection of mechanical energy may be possible. the remarkable demonstrations of einstein show how close mechanical or luminous energy are to one another. i have also, like geley, schrenck notzing, and mme. bisson, been able to see the first lineaments of materialisations as they were formed. a kind of liquid or pasty jelly emerges from the mouth or the breast of marthe which organises itself by degrees, acquiring the shape of a face or a limb. under very good conditions of visibility, i have seen this paste sprea

journal of the american society for psychical research (1925, pp. 481.504: bright bluish stars appear and begin to move high above the table, near the ceiling. when they approached me at a distance of about 16 inches i recognised to my great astonishment that they were human eyes looking at me. within a few seconds such a pair of eyes develops into a complete human head, and with a hand moving a luminous palm illuminating it clearly. the hand will move around the head as if to show itself more clearly to the onlooker, the eyes looking at one intensely and the face smiling most pleasantly. i have seen a number of such heads, sometimes two at a time, moving through the air like drifting toy balloons from one sitter to another. on several occasions the apparitions appeared just behind my bac

each other with the plaques and performing fancy evolutions. it was really a beautiful sight, something like an aerial ballet. william crookes testified that the phantom hand. is not always a mere form, but sometimes appears perfectly life-like and graceful, the fingers moving and the flesh apparently as human as that of any in the room. at the wrist, or arm, it becomes hazy and fades off into a luminous cloud. to the touch the hand was sometimes icy cold and dead, at other times warm and lifelike. crookes said he saw a luminous cloud hover over a heliotrope, break a sprig off and carry it to a lady; he also claimed to have seen a finger and thumb pick petals from a flower in home s buttonhole and lay them in front of several persons sitting near him. phantom hands playing the keys of an

distinct hand; while my own was thus held down, five or six other hands protruded from the hole above my wrist. on withdrawing my hand from the aperture, an arm came out therefrom.an arm of such enormous proportions that had it been composed of flesh and bone, it would, i verily believe, have turned the scale (being weighted) against the whole corporeal substance of the small davenport. a silver, luminous hand that began at the elbow and was seen in the process of formation is described in the report of a seance with d. d. home in the hartford times, march 18, 1853: in a moment there appeared a rather dull looking, grey hand, somewhat shadowy, and not quite so clearly defined as the first, but it was unmistakably there, and its grey hue could be clearly seen. eusapia palladino was famous f

l present. despite such startling testimonies, the inference that telekinetic effects are produced by materialized hands should not be drawn hastily. julien ochorowicz noticed an alternative character about these manifestations: a well-materialized hand, when clearly visible, was mechanically inactive. mechanical effects were generally produced by invisible hands. the same held true for chemical, luminous, and acoustic effects. phantoms of fame and name the best records of full form materializations have been furnished by familiar spirits: katie king, who attended florence cook for three years; yolande, who appeared in elizabeth d esperance s seances for a similar period; estella, who manifested in the livermore sittings for five years; and bertha, a niece of e. a. brackett who appeared to

, i felt with mine the fingers and the back of a strong, warm, rough hand. i gripped it and it vanished from my grasp, not becoming smaller, but melting, dematerialising, dissolving. eugene rochas wrote in the annales des sciences psychiques (vol. 18, 1908, p. 280) of a seance in which m. montorguiel seized a materialized hand and called for a light. the hand melted and all of us thought we saw a luminous trail from his hand to f. s body, rochas recalls. hereward carrington, one of the keenest fraudhunters among psychical researchers, wrote: i myself have observed materializations under perfect conditions of control, and have had the temporary hand melt within my own, as i held it firmly clasped. this hand was a perfectly formed, physiological structure, warm, life-like and having all the

if one considers materialization as basically fraudulent, the drapery was merely a prop to confuse the issue. the communications received through mediums did little to elucidate the subject, though it was taken up in the discussions of the clothing of spirits in the afterlife. spirit drapery seems to have been constructed of a light material such as cheesecloth and was occasionally coated with a luminous substance such as phosphorus. however, the discussion of the phenomena as part of the larger inquiry into spirit existence is of some interest. julia, in her communications to w. t. stead (letters from julia, 1897, notes that the spirit is at the first moment quite unclothed, as at birth. when the thought of nakedness crosses the spirit s mind, there comes the clothing which you need. the

abinet) was talking to a sitter, the top part of her white drapery fell off and revealed her form, writes oxley. i noticed that the form was imperfect, as the bust was undeveloped and the waist uncontracted which was a test that the form was not a lay figure. the drapery observed usually appeared to be white, sometimes of a dazzling whiteness, but could also be greyish in appearance; it was often luminous and so material that it was always the last to disappear when the seance concluded. the reason apparently was that the substance of the drapery, though its texture was finer, withdrawn from the medium s clothes to be molded by the invisible operators, like ectoplasm, into all kinds of patterns. the medium franek kluski noticed that the curtains and carpets of his apartment, where his mate

the background, and vice versa. the testimony of clairvoyants also suggested that when animal apparitions were seen the necessary link was furnished by a friend of the sitter. materializations and apports in experiments with medium thomas lynn at the british college of psychic science, objects were photographed while supposedly in the process of materialization. they showed flecks and masses of a luminous material, possessing stringlike roots. these light masses floated over a harp lying upon the table and were visible to all present. a fingerlike projection extended from a mass of this luminosity, and extended toward the harp as if to play it. as the photo plates were developed, a bone ring was seen to hang from the medium s nose, and an object similar to the top of an infant s nursing bo

izing. in this case the root was strangely twisted. similar observations of what seem in retrospect simple conjuring were reported by karl blacher of riga university, with the apport medium bx (zeitschrift fur parapsychologie, june 1933. in trance and under control, nails, screws, or pieces of iron would be visibly drawn out of his chest, armpits, or arms, as could be clearly observed by means of luminous screens. on one occasion wire more than a yard long was drawn from the man s bared chest; at another time blacher himself caught hold of an end that was protruding from the same spot and drew out a long, leather strap. at another sitting the medium produced a heavy slab of metal from his chest and from his left arm a piece of wrought steel weighing more than three pounds. in a day when th

of science, january 1894: after several phenomena had occurred, the conversation turned upon some circumstances which seemed only explicable on the assumption that matter had actually passed through a solid substance. thereupon a message was given by means of the alphabet: it [is] impossible for matter to pass through matter, but we will show you what we can do. we waited in silence. presently a luminous appearance was seen hovering over the bouquet of flowers, and then, in full view of all present, a piece of china-grass 15 inches long, which formed the centre ornament of the bouquet, slowly rose from the other flowers, and then descended to the table in front of the vase between it and mr. home. it did not stop on reaching the table, but went straight through it and we all watched it ti

us character. copper, tin, pewter, and zinc were poor conductors. elliotson found that a magnetized sovereign (british gold coin) would throw into trance his sensitives, the o key sisters, and that although iron would neutralize the magnetic properties of the sovereign, no other metal would do so. when baron karl von reichenbach propounded his theory of odic force, his sensitives claimed to see a luminous emanation proceed from metals.silver and gold shone white; lead, blue; and nickel, red. opponents of reichenbach s theories ascribed such phenomena to suggestion. sources: elliotson, john. human physiology. london, 1840. reichenbach, karl von. letters on od and magnetism. london: hutchinson, 1926. reprinted as the odic force. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1968. metaphysical digest

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hich issues from clefts in the rock in some mines and caverns, seems to have been known, and was probably taken advantage of by the ancient sages to enhance the mystery and majesty of their secret rites. it is very possible that some of the priests of old were aware of the lucent property of some forms of sulphide of calcium, which have attracted much attention the last few years, in the shape of luminous paint. i will sub mit also that references exist in the history of remote ages to suggest the mysterious light now so freely handled and produced by electricity was not unknown to the ancient sages. numa, king of rome, studied electricity, and left pupils of his art, of whom we are told was his successor tullus hostilius, who was destroyed whilst endeavouring to draw down from heaven and

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someone always dies within a few days of its appearance. a man identified only as a. l. told a story with a different ending. late one evening in 1974, he was sitting in his yonkers, new york, apartment while his three children slept in their rooms. his wife was in their bathroom. when he happened to glance to his right, he was startled to observe a blackhooded figure holding a scythe, its face a luminous white skull. it was staring at him as it glided slowly backward and disappeared through the door. fearing that the reaper had come for someone, a. l. banged on the bathroom door. when he got no response, he entered and found his wife lying on the floor next to an empty bottle of pills. with the assistance of his sister and her husband, who lived close by, he was able to revive his wife an

reading picasso, fabio, 1991. infrequent types of south american humanoids. strange magazine 8 (fall: 21 23, 44. karen late at night, on the highway between ma t i a s and barbosa, brazil, on ja n u a ry 21, 1976, a couple in a car saw a blue light envelope the landscape. the light moved tow a rd them until it cove red their vehicle. the car was absorbed as if through a chimney into a brilliantly luminous circular object. two dark- f e a t u red fig u re s, male and more than six feet tall, appro a c h e d and signaled that the two humans should step out of their car. the ground seemed to move under them, and the woman said she felt d runk even though she had consumed no alcohol. the couple could not understand the a l i e n s strange language until one gave each of them a headset and plug

r news, lonzo dove deemed them so evidently faked that it is almost foolish to even criticize them (dove, 1959. when the anticontactee national investigations committee on aerial phenomena challenged menger and other contactees to submit to polygraph examinations, menger declined. his supporters flocked to his high bridge, new jersey, farm, where some reported seeing, from a distance, spacemen in luminous uniforms and other oddities, attributed by skeptics to effects engineered by menger confederates. one supporter apparently was connie weber, an attractive young blond woman to whom menger, a married man, had turned his romantic attentions. menger declared weber to be the sister of a spacewoman he had met in 1946. for her part, weber recalled that in previous lives she had been a venusian

is convinced, according to ufologist ann dru f f e l, that her intense belief in michael saved her f rom this demonic manifestation. fascinated by macleod s experiences, a friend, writer and parapsychologist stephen a. schwartz, engaged in three months intense meditation to see if he could visualize michael. after three months, a point of light suddenly shone in his room. within it, the form of a luminous entity, human in shape but larger, emerged into view. he had a demeanor of absolute implacability, schwartz recalled (druffel, 1998. he was convinced he had seen the archangel. further reading druffel, ann, 1998. how to defend yo u r s e l f against alien ab d u c t i o n. new yo rk: t h re e r i vers pre s s. sananda sananda, a popular channeling entity, is a powe rful being who is ashta

o the hoax charges. in march 1993 paramount pictures released a movie drama, fire in the sky, based loosely on the incident, with d. b. sweeney in the role of travis. few students of this complex episode bel i e ve it to be a hoax. alternative, non-ufo explanations tend to focus on psyc h o l o g i c a l or natural causes. one theory holds that walton and his companions saw an eart hquake light a luminous phenomenon generated by electrical fields in rocks in fault zones that triggered hallucinations. a p roblem with this hypothesis is the thinly clad wa l t o n s surv i val in the woods over five bitterly cold mountain nights. the wa l t o n abduction story remains one of the most intriguing cases of the ufo age. interestingly, walton s is one of the first two cases in the ufo literature t

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h in common. the kundalini spoken of in the tantras and the shekhinah of the qabalah appear to have the same function. the kundalini is described as a coiled snake asleep at the base of the chakric tree. on page 12 of the introduction to tantra shastra, sir john woodroffe says: kundalini means coiled. hence, kundalini, whose form is that of a coiled serpent, means that which is coiled. she is the luminous vital energy (jivashakti) which manifests as prana [ed. same as qi in chinese, and ruach in hebrew. she sleeps in the muladhara chakra [sefirah kingdom, and has three and a half coils corresponding in number with the three and half bindus (knots. when, after closing the ears, the sound of her hissing is not heard, then death approaches. 38 both the chakric tree (see figure 1.3) and the qa

n for the tree of life, for small face as light upon light, and for vast face as darkness upon thick darkness. 26 allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. the similitude of his light is that of a niche,27 within which is a lamp.28 the lamp is within a glass orb.29 the glass, as it were, a shining star,30 lit with the oil of a blessed olive tree, not of the east, not of the west. its light luminous even though fire touches it not, light upon light. 31 and, later in the surah, or like darkness upon a vast ocean,32 covered with waves upon waves, over them clouds, darkness upon thick darkness.33 and whoever allah gives not- light, has not- light in all. in islam, judaism and christianity are regarded as revealed religions, and therefore given protected status. in the qur an, there are

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tains the weird description of how the egyptians fabricated their idols and the lament for the egyptian religion, becomes sanctified because it contains a prophecy concerning the son of god. it was not only in the asclepius that the hermetic writers used the expression "son of god. at the beginning of pimander, which is the hermetic account of creation, the act of creation is said to be through a luminous word, who is the son of god.2 when discussing the son of god as the creative word, with quotations from the scriptures, lactantius brings in gentile confirmation, pointing out that the greeks speak of him as the logos, and also trismegistus. he was doubtless thinking of the passage on the creative word as the son of god in the pimander, and he adds that "trismegistus, who by some means or

vision which is all light. then a kind of obscurity or darkness appears, out of which comes a kind of fire in which is heard an indescribable sound, like a fiery groan, while from the light issues a holy word, and a fire without mixture leaps from the moist region up to the sublime, and the air, being light, follows the fiery breath "that light, says pimander "is i myself, nous, thy god. and the luminous word issuing from the nous is the son of god" trismegistus then sees within himself, in his own nous or mens, the light and an innumerable number of powers, a limitless world and the fire enveloped in an all powerful force. he asks pimander "whence then arise the elements of nature" and pimander replies "from the will of god, which received into itself the word. and the nous-god, existing

ation. pico lost himself in these wonders in which he saw the divinity of christ verified. and with cabala, too, there went a kind of magic, practical cabala. hermetism and cabalism also corroborated one another on a theme which was fundamental for them both, namely the creation by the word. the mysteries of the hermetica are mysteries of the word, or the logos, and in the pimander, it was by the luminous word, the son of god issuing from the nous that the creative act was made. in genesis"'god spoke" to form the created world, and, since he spoke in hebrew, this is why for the cabalist the words and letters of the hebrew tongue are subjects for endless mystical meditations, and why, for the practical cabalist, they contain magical power. lactantius may have helped to cement the union betw

w chapters on fascination, poisons, fumigations (perfumes sympathetic to the planets and how to make them, unguents and philtres, rings,3 and an interesting chapter on light.4 light descends from the father to the son and the holy spirit, thence to the angels, the celestial bodies, to fire, to man in the light of reason and knowledge of divine things, to the fantasy, and it communicates itself to luminous bodies as colour, after which follows the list of the colours of the planets. then we have gestures related to the planets, divinations, geomancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, pyromancy, furor and the power of the melancholy humour. there is then a section on psychology followed by discussion of the passions, their power to change the body, and how by cultivating the passions or emotions belong

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s named mercury, because it was said to be under the dominance of spiritual beings from mercury. the spinal canal, contrary to the ideas of anatomists, is not filled with fluid, but with a gas that is like steam in that it may be condensed when exposed to the outside atmosphere, but may also be super- heated by the vibratory activity of the spirit to such an extent that it becomes a brilliant and luminous fire, the fire of purification and regeneration. this is the field of action of the great spiritual hierarchy from neptune and is designated azoth by the alchemists. this spiritual fire is not alike in every man nor is it as luminous in one as in another. the state thereof depends upon the spiritual advancement of the person in question. when the aspirant to the higher life had been instr

t flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. but he also points out that we have a soma psuchicon (mistranslated natural body) a soul body, and this is made of ether, which is lighter than air and therefore capable of levitation. this is the golden wedding garment, the philosopher's stone, or the living stone, spoken of in some of the ancient philosophies as the diamond soul, for it is luminous, lustrous, and sparkling--a priceless gem. it was also called the astral body by the mediaeval alchemists, because of the ability it conferred upon the one who has it to traverse the starry regions. but it is not to be confounded with the desire body which some of the modern pseudo-occultists mistakenly call the astral body. this vehicle, the soul body, will eventually be evolved by human

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an then, were at one among themselves. in the western wisdom teaching we speak of the highest initiate of the saturn period as the father. in the sun period the root of a new element, air, was evolved, and coalesced with the true fire, which, mark again, is always invisible, and which manifested as heat in the saturn period. then fire burst into flames, and the dark world became a blazing ball of luminous firemist at the word of power "let there be light" let the student ponder well the relation of fire and flame; the former lies sleeping, invisible in everything, and is kindled into light in various ways: by a blow of a hammer upon a stone, by friction of wood against wood and by chemical action, etc. this gives us a clue to the identity and state of the father "whom no man hath seen at a

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

really the instrument of liberty. 20 to god the reflection of himself is evil, but to man this reflection is good, so long as he does not attempt to emulate god by reflecting his own personal shekinah (shin, w, or soul, on the chaos of human ignorance, that is on the unbalanced minds of those who surround him. in order to do so righteously, this chaos must first be stilled so that it may become a luminous mirror capable of reflecting the glory of the shekinah in all its perfection. in the past, the diabolical error made even by some of the greatest masters and the most illumined adepts was that, when once they had reduced their consciousness to zero, and on the mirror thus created had received the reflection of the shekinah, they attempted to reflect this reflection on the unpurified minds

ugh inversion due to reflection; the glory of this deity, that is the shekinah within it, being the agent which renders the formation of a simulacrum possible. according to the zohar, metatron gsets all his legions in motion by the power of a single letter [shin] h.21 this was the spoken word tetragrammaton, which created light, when the yetziratic emanation moved upon the face of the waters (the luminous mirror) and proclaimed gyehe aur h (value 222, glet there be light h (illumination. in proclaiming it, the shekinah, astral light, ether, or by whatever name the reader chooses to call it, emerged from out of the yetziratic deity, leaving the four tetragrammatic letters of his name reflected upon the deep. these four letters represent what may be called the materiality of this deity, the

use of differentiation between christian and hebrew ethics, so is the looking upon the sex act as sinful in place of righteous the main cause of differentiation between christian and hebrew morality. as christian ginsburg writes: love and fear are designed to aid the soul in achieving her high destiny, when she shall no more look through the dark glass, but see face to face in the presence of the luminous mirror, by permeating all acts of secret wisdom of the qabalah page 47 obedience and divine worship. 39 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 48 chapter iv the fall of tetragrmmmaton the principles of creation. when discussing the philosophy of the qabalah, we touched upon the principles of creation; here we will return to this subject, for they constitute the foundations of mystic knowledge

it quakes continually. gafter the quaking there was a fire, but the lord was not in the fire h, because over it presides the name elohim from the side of darkness. gand after the fire there was a small still voice h; and here at last was found the name yhvh. 2 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 49 this small still voice represents the shin emerging from yhshvh, which by turning the darkness into a luminous mirror enabled yhvh to be reflected upon it. then only was the balance between the former and the formless established. as the divine spark scintillated forth, ghe caused a wind to blow from above against a wind that blew from below. from the shock of the meeting of these two winds, a drop emerged and rose from the depths of the abyss. this drop united the winds and from the union of thes

the depth determines the height, and to fill up the valleys is to efface mountains, so also to take away shadows would be to destroy light, as this is only visible by the graduated contrast of darkness and day; a universal obscurity would be produced by all-dazzling brilliance. the very existence of colour in light is due to the presence of shadow; it is the triple alliance of day and night, the luminous image of dogma, the light made shadow, and the saviour is the word made man. all this rests on the same law, which is the first law of creation, the one absolute law of nature, being that of distinction and harmonious balancing of opposing forces in universal equilibrium. 17 the source of messianic power. as the creation of the world was out of chaos, so must its destruction, which carrie

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

towards allofus, and then ascended towards.theceiling,vanishing in darkness'.evenmore impressive wasthe sudden materializationofa beautiful facebetweenmyself and themedium,whichcame apparently to myself alone,andwasseenlbylonlyoneothersitterwhowas in thesame rangeofvision, so to speak. it wasdrapedinwhitelike anun;themouthwasnotvisible, the seatofexpression was in the eyes,whichwere large, dark, luminous, and full of themostsolemn significance and sweet intelligence. i caught all this in an almost momentaryglimpse-aglimpsetoobriefformetofeel in any way surethatthe general resemblance to my dead sisterwhichi traced initwas morethanatrickof imagination.he added,withastonishing naivety 'moreover, as often in the mostgenuine materializations there was a faint phantasmal resemblance to the gen

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

nt a guidecame tome-notangelic-a humanlookingteacherwith whom i have been out astrallybefore. he took my right hand in his left andthegoldendawnmysword in his right hand held pointing up and forward. saying to me'donot think any more, watch, we passed on, vibrating elohim gibor, our feet a little above the red river, it became pale in hue and then nearly white.theni lost the riverbutlooked into a luminous white fog. after a time there came figures in the fog, coming and going they at last came to me clearly as 7 vast godlike forms, each holding a gigantic sword like my guide pointed up.thenthe 7 joined the swords so that the points touched above them. instantly the white light streamed downbuteach sword transmitted a different colour, they flowed down past us and behind, a many coloured st

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

k in some mines and caverns, seems to have been known, and was probably taken advantage of by the ancient sages to enhance thethoughts ontheever-burning lamps 57mystery and majesty of their secret rites. it is very possible that some of the priests of old were aware of the lucent property of some forms of sulphide of calcium, which have attracted much attention the last few years, in the shape of luminous paint. i will submit also that references exist in the history of remote ages to suggest the mysterious light now so freely handled and produced by electricity was not unknowntothe ancient sages. numa, king of rome, studied electricity, and left pupils of his art, of whom we are told was his successor tullus hostilius, who was destroyed whilst endeavouringtodraw down from heaven and coerc

also recognised an ethereal envelope or magical envelope of the spiritual soul, and named it theaugoeidesoreidolon,the shining image illuminated by divine radi255 ance. porphyry (died 305) tells us that plotinus was six times in his life united for the moment to this divine light, the source of wisdom. bulwer lytton, the novelist, who was a rosicrucian initiated in germany, called theaugoeidesthe luminous self, the vehicle of the higher ego of a man, and inzanonispeaks of the adept as invocating his ownaugoeidesto obtain know255 ledge of high spiritual importance, and adds that any remnant of mortal passions unfits the hierophant from communion with the sublime spirit which dwells in this shining form.theancient persian sacred book thedesatiralso has allusions to this divine light upon man

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

'centre of the earth; just as the greeks were told thatforthemdelphi represented<>o(lepot'ao,.tljt;yij'.alsothe 4 ancients preside over the four elements of air, fire, water and earth; or as the teaching of occultism would say, over air, fire, water, andtheir synthesis;and, therefore, are their robes of the 2673 primary colours, one the flame redoffire, the second the blue of water, the third the luminous yellow of air, and that of the fourth is black, signifying the earth; and which colour is obtained by the mixture of the three others. but the candidate is clad in the white robe, to point out to him that he should not be led aside by the attraction of the elements, but that he should steadfastly follow that path of spiritual purity which alone willleadhimto the divine light. now astrolog

cies of ceremonial ritual for the use of the soul after death, to enable him to unite himself to the body of osiris the redeemer, thenceforth in the ritual is he no longer called the soul but he is called the 'osiris' of whom he is a member 'i am the vine, ye are the branches' said the christ of the new testament 'i am a member of the body of osiris' said the purified and justified soul. the soul luminous and washed from sin in the uncreated and immortal light, united to osiris and justified son of god, such is the subject of the great egyptian ritual, purified by suffering, strengthened by opposition, nor is the 'ritual of the dead' a work of comparatively recent times, for the great egyptolog255 ists birch and bunsen, assert that its origin is anterior to menes, and belongs probably to t

ected to sit round a table in the usual way, the lights were turned down, and a hymn or two was sung. for a long while nothing occurred.theni clearly saw against the gallery opposite to me, a faint light, which gradually took the appearance of a vague face. i know i could easily have imagined it was some one i knew,butas a fact i didn't. i only thought that this was very plainly a gauze mask with luminous paint. only i didn't quite see how it got there, or how it was suspended.itwas near a pillar, and i thought if it would only move a little to the right i could see how it was done. immediately, as if in answer to my thought, it swayed to the right. this seemed curious, and i began to wish it would move to the left, and then promptly it did so. rather astonished, i whisperedtoa lady next t

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

warlord of later fundamentalist judaism. for these reasons gnostics tend to avoid the old testament names of god altogether and use the more common terms of the mystery tradition. the pleroma the first principle is the source of all light, the unoriginate originator. however, this principles does not exist alone, throughout time he/she/it expands and contracts filing the spiritual dimensions with luminous beings of all orders and forms. in the valentinan hierarchy, for example, there are eight major forms (aeons) and twenty two minor. in the gnostic theosophic tradition there are three principles and seven lower planes or dimensions. the processes by which these realities are created are complex and vary from tradition to tradition. each of these interpretations can be further expanded to

s and forms. in the valentinan hierarchy, for example, there are eight major forms (aeons) and twenty two minor. in the gnostic theosophic tradition there are three principles and seven lower planes or dimensions. the processes by which these realities are created are complex and vary from tradition to tradition. each of these interpretations can be further expanded to include a whole universe of luminous realities, from the highest forces or aeons to choirs and angels. traditionally this complete spiritual kingdom is known as the pleroma or fullness, because it is filled to the brim with light and life. at the same time, the major spiritual forces within it are known as aeons. while in the gnostic tradition we tend to emphasize the three principles, the divine will, logos and sophia and t

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U1

wind beareth it in its bosom, the ruach. its nurse is the earth, the nephesch. the power is manifested when it can be vibrated through the earth. the following is the true attributions of the seven appetures of the head: right ear- l; right eye- a; mouth- b; right nostril- f; left ear- k; left eye- 5; left nostril- c. these latter represent here the sonofirerous sense. the right and left eye, the luminous sense, as the sun and the moon are the illuminaries of the macrocosm. the right and left nostrils through which the breath passes, giving strength to the physical body are under f and c. the mouth is under b, the messenger and the speaker. the spiritual consciousness is a focus of the action of the neschamah. the lower will power should control the descent of the spiritual consciousness i

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

garden which had perhaps in ancient times been planted with bright flowers. it seemed to me that the entire site, together with its setting, was a monumental work of sculpture composed in part of mountains, in part of rock, in part of trees, in part of stones and also in part of water. it was a heartachingly beautiful place, certainly one of the most beautiful places i have ever seen. despite its luminous brilliance, however, i felt that i was gazing down on to a city of ghosts. it was like the wreck of the marie celeste, deserted and restless. the houses were arranged in long terraces. each house was tiny, with just one room fronting directly on to the narrow street, and the architecture was solid and functional but by no means ornate. by way of contrast certain ceremonial areas were engi

s way into norse mythology by accident, especially in a context that has previously specified a derangement of the heavens severe enough to have caused the stars to come adrift from their stations in the sky. to understand what is going on here it is essential to grasp the basic imagery of the ancient message that santillana and von dechend claim to have stumbled upon. this imagery transforms the luminous dome of the celestial sphere into a vast and intricate piece of machinery. and, like a millwheel, like a churn, like a whirlpool, like a quern, this machine turns and turns and turns endlessly (its motions being calibrated all the time by the sun, which rises first in one constellation of the zodiac, then in another, and so on all the year round. the four key points of the year are the sp

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

them. fourteen years earlier, the shadowy visitors had shown themselves openly. then they had descended upon flying saucer buffs, threatening and terrorizing them, hushing them up. al k. bender, a ufo researcher, had been the first known victim..he performed a 58 allen h. greenfield certain experiment and the lurking horror came. it began with glowing blue lights. then came the stranger with the luminous eyes in the darkened theatre, and later on a dusky street. it culminated when the men in black, three of them, paid him a visit- gray barker, the silver bridge. ufologist gray barker got his one and only best-selling book in detailing the albert k. bender story and the world-wide wave of silencings. they knew too much about the flying saucers was an international success. it was widely as

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

physical body and employ the banishing pentagram and hexagram of earth. record your experiences in your magical diary. 138 the thirty aethyrs andan angel cometh forth, and. he taketh me aside into a little chamber in one of the nine towers. this chamber is furnished with maps of many mystical sities. there is a table, and a strange lamp, that gines light by jettingfour columns of vortex rings of luminous smoke. and he points to the map of the aethyrs, that are arranged as a flaming sword, so that the thirty aethyrs go into the ten sephiroth. and the first nine are infinitely holy. aleister crowley, the vision and the voice, the 9th aethyr enochian magick describes thirty aethyrs or aires that are situated above/behind our physical world. unlike the watchtower squares, the aethyrs are posi

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

d may descend any moment on the party it was aimed at; if his guardian angel but forsake him, it takes forthwith the shape of some misfortune, sickness or temptation, and strikes his devoted head. so in the pentam. 2, 7 a curse takes wing, and mounts to heaven' rrifsero le' mardettiune dessa vecchia vascelle, che sagliettero snheto 'n cielo' when a horse has been cursed, his hair is thought to be luminous 'a cavallo iastemmiato luce lo pilo^ ibid. specimens of the most vigorous cursing might be picked out of our old poetry; one in the edda, s^em. 144% nio rostom er]?u skyldir ne'sar vera, ok vaxi )7er a ba'snii barr! may remind us of the phrases culled from our common people's talk, pp. 181-2. 952n. in a minnesong, ben. 82 'der nider schar, daz die vor hilchen itegen' the low set, may they

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

y are forms and formulas left from the primitive fire-worship, and no longer understood. in the same way people complain and confess to mother earth, to a stone, a plant, an oak, or to the reed (morolt 1438. this personification of the oven hangs together with mid. age notions about orcus and hell as places of fire. conf. erebi fornax (walthar. 867, and what was said above, p. 256, on fornax. the luminous element permitted a feast to be prolonged into the night, and fires have always been a vehicle for testifying joy. when the worship had passed over into mere joy-fires, ignis jocunditatis, feux de joie, engl. bon-flres, these could, without any reference to the service of a deity, be employed on other occasions, especially the entry of a king or conqueror. thus they made a torch-waggon fo

GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL

hall not be able to do any hurt in any thing. bless, o lord, this creature of fire and sanctify it, that it may be biessed to set forth the praise of thy holy name that no hurt the secret grimoire may be able to come unto me, through the virtue and defence of our lord jesus christ. amen. the secret grimoire invocation for sunday (sol: come, heavenly spirits who have the effulgent rays of the sun, luminous spirits who are ready to obey the power of the great tetragrammaton, come and assist me in the operation that i am making under the auspices of the grand light of day whicb the eternal creator hath formed for the use of universal nature. i invoke you for these purposes. be favourable and auspicious to what i shali ask in the name of amioram, adonai, sabaoth. the secret grimoire invocation

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

all soul personalities on this earth plane and on the cosmic plane are in constant attunement. it is because man's soul personality is attuned with all other soul personalities that thought vibrations operate at great distances. by attuning ourselves to the divine mind we can receive the laws, rules, and facts of knowledge which we can depend upon as being truthful. aura.a field of multi-colored luminous radiations seen by active and passive visualization techniques to surround objects, the human [164] body, and other living things. everything in nature is surrounded by energy fields. the following contribute to the properties of auras: electric fields, magnetic fields, infrared radiation, ultraviolet radiation, volatile chemicals and hormones, and psychic emanations. in other words, the

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

tomakeaghost,'is extracted from themonthlymagazinefor june,1848-'ifchloride of barium is put upon a plate in a dark cellar, and the hand placed beneath it, so soon as the warmth of the hand has penetrated the plate, the form of the hand is delineated in phosphoric delineations on the upper surface of the plate' thus the heat communicated by the hand to the chloride of barium gives rise to certain luminous emanations,"it is surprising that eckhartshausen should have thus violated the rules expressly laid down for his guidance, and then complain of the unpleasant sensations he experienced.tseealso a very singular narrativebyjohn howison, esq, of the east india company's service, in hisforeignscenesandtravellingreminiscences,london,1825.contributionstothezoist187and amongst others the followi

HEAVEN HELL

of p. 82 the tomb of seti i. at thebes; here we have eleven out of the twelve sections of the book am-tuat, and the first six divisions of the summary of the work. the texts and pictures of this fine copy have been completely published by m. lef bure, assisted by mm. bouriant, loret, 1 and naville, and m. maspero has translated and discussed the work at length in one of the most important of his luminous dissertations on egyptian mythology. 2 the next fullest copy is found in the tomb of rameses vi, 3 and provides us with eleven divisions, but the drawings are less careful, and the texts are less accurate, and contain numerous additions which appear to represent beliefs of a later period. the history of the book am-tuat shows us that the egyptians treated it as they treated their older bo

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

daughter" softly murmured the serbian lady "can your spirit seek out themurderers "search and behold" sternly commanded the mesmerizer, fixing his gaze upon the face of the subject "i am on my way- i go" faintly whispered frosya, her voice seeming not to come from herself, but fromthe surrounding atmosphere. at this moment something so strange took place that i doubt my ability to describe it. a luminous vapourappeared, closely surrounding the girl's body. at first about an inch in thickness, it gradually expanded, and,gathering itself, suddenly seemed to break off from the body altogether and condense itself into a kind ofsemisolid vapour, which very soon assumed the likeness of the somnambule herself. flickering about thesurface of the earth the form vacillated for two or three seconds

i have passed under the instruction of the yamabooshis, butfeel gratified for the knowledge received. of the priest tamoora hideyeri i think always with sincereaffection and respect. i corresponded regularly with him to the day of his death; an event which, with all its tome painful details, i had the unthanked-for privilege of witnessing across the seas, at the very hour in whichit occurred. the luminous shieldwe were a small and select party of lighthearted travellers. we had arrived at constantinople a week beforefrom greece, and had devoted fourteen hours a day ever since to toiling up and down the steep heights ofpera, visiting bazaars, climbing to the tops of minarets and fighting our way through armies of hungry dogs,the traditional masters of the streets of stamboul. nomadic life i

avellers. we had arrived at constantinople a week beforefrom greece, and had devoted fourteen hours a day ever since to toiling up and down the steep heights ofpera, visiting bazaars, climbing to the tops of minarets and fighting our way through armies of hungry dogs,the traditional masters of the streets of stamboul. nomadic life is infectious, they say, and no civilization is nightmare talesthe luminous shield49 strong enough to destroy the charm of unrestrained freedom when it has once been tasted. the gipsy cannotbe tempted from his tent, and even the common tramp finds a fascination in his comfortless and precariousexistence, that prevents him taking to any fixed abode and occupation. to guard my spaniel ralph fromfalling a victim to this infection, and joining the canine bedouins tha

n theback, which had been clumsily repaired with pins "and that is just the most wonderful part of the whole story" quietly answered the phanariote, not in the leastdisconcerted "they showed me in the shining circle the quarter of the town, the house, and even the room inwhich the jew who had stolen my pelisse was just about to rip it up and cut it into pieces. my son and i had nightmare talesthe luminous shield50 barely time to run over to the kalindjikoulosek quarter, and to save my property. we caught the thief in thevery act, and we both recognized him as the man shown to us by the dervishes in the magic moon. heconfessed the theft and is now in prison" although none of us had the least comprehension of what she meant by the magic moon and the shiningcircle, and were all thoroughly mys

face of a satyr, and it was ornamented with letters and signsfrom the koran painted in bright yellow. on her forehead was a blood-red crescent; her head was crownedwith a dusty tarbouche, or fez; her legs were arrayed in large turkish trousers, and some dirty white muslinwrapped round her body barely sufficed to conceal its hideous deformities. this creature rather let herself nightmare talesthe luminous shield51 drop than sat down in the middle of the floor, and as her weight descended on the rickety boards it sent up acloud of dust that set us coughing and sneezing. this was the famous tatmos known as the damascus oracle! without losing time in idle talk, the dervish produced a piece of chalk, and traced around the girl a circleabout six feet in diameter. fetching from behind the door t

or a moment longer, emitted a few last flashes,and assuming the density and irridescence of an immense opal, it remained motionless. the disk now radiateda moon-like lustre, soft and silvery, but instead of illuminating the garret, it seemed only to intensify thedarkness. the edge of the circle was not penumbrous, but on the contrary sharply defined like that of a silvershield. nightmare talesthe luminous shield52 all being now ready, the dervish without uttering a word, or removing his gaze from the disk, stretched out ahand, and taking hold of mine, he drew me to his side and pointed to the luminous shield. looking at theplace indicated, we saw large patches appear like those on the moon. these gradually formed themselves intofigures that began moving about in high relief in their natura

bed the very dress she had changed when starting out on ourexpedition. no detail was lacking to make the identification complete; and as if to prove that we were notseeing something conjured up in our imagination, there lay upon the dressing-table two unopened letters, thehandwriting on which was clearly recognized by my friend. they were from a very dear relative of hers, from nightmare talesthe luminous shield53 whom she had expected to hear when in athens, but had been disappointed. the scene faded away and wenow saw her brother's room with himself lying upon the lounge, and a servant bathing his head, whence toour horror, blood was trickling. we had left the boy in perfect health but an hour before; and upon seeing thispicture my companion uttered a cry of alarm, and seizing me by the

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ginal name was swedberg, but on his being ennobled and knighted in 1719 it was changed to swedenborg. he became a mystic in 1743, and four years later (in 1747) resigned his office (of assessor extraordinary to the college of mines) and gave himself up entirely to mysticism. he died in 1772. page 169 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt taijas (sans) from tejas "fire" meaning the "radiant" the "luminous" and referring to the manasa-rupa "the body of manas" also to the stars, and the star-like shining envelopes. a term in vedanta philosophy, having other meanings besides the occult signification just given. taraka raja-yoga (sans) one of the brahmanical yoga systems, the most philosophical, and in fact the most secret of all, as its real tenets are never given out publicly. it is a purely

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ly worship, so inspector legrasse and his nineteen colleagues plunged on unguided into black arcades of horror that none of them had ever trod before. the region now entered by the police was one of traditionally evil repute, substantially unknown and untraversed by white men. there were legends of a hidden lake unglimpsed by mortal sight, in which dwelt a huge, formless white polypous thing with luminous eyes; and squatters whispered that bat-winged devils flew up out of caverns in inner earth to worship it at midnight. they said it had been there before d'iberville, before la salle, before the indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods. it was nightmare itself, and to see it was to die. but it made men dream, and so they knew enough to keep away. the present voo

jointed, and legible only in part. from them certain investigators have drawn conclusions differing greatly from the materialistic official verdict, but such speculations have little chance for belief among the conservative. the case of these imaginative theorists has not been helped by the action of superstitious doctor dexter, who threw the curious box and angled stone- an object certainly self-luminous as seen in the black windowless steeple where it was found- into the deepest channel of narragansett bay. excessive imagination and neurotic unbalance on blake's part, aggravated by knowledge of the evil bygone cult whose startling traces he had uncovered, form the dominant interpretation given those final frenzied jottings. these are the entries- or all that can be made of them: lights s

t the whitish deposits a particularly sharp definition of the "huddled form" i had suspected from boyhood. its clear ness was astonishing and unprecedented- and as i watched i seemed to see again the thin, yellowish, shimmering exhalation which had startled me on that rainy afternoon so many years before. above the anthropomorphic patch of mould by the fireplace it rose; a subtle, sickish, almost luminous vapour which, as it hung trembling in the dampness, seemed to develop vague and shocking suggestions of form, gradually trailing off into nebulous decay and passing up into the blackness of the great chimney with a foetor in its wake. it was truly horrible, and the more so to me because of. what i knew of the spot. refusing to flee, i watched it fade- and as i watched i felt that it was i

s of convex-topped blocks fitting the concave-bottomed courses which rested upon them. there were no chairs, but the tops of the vast pedestals were littered with books, papers, and what seemed to be writing materials- oddly figured jars of a purplish metal, and rods with stained tips. tall as the pedestals were, i seemed at times able to view them from above. on some of them were great globes of luminous crystal serving as lamps, and inexplicable machines formed of vitreous tubes and metal rods. the windows were glazed, and latticed with stout-looking bars. though i dared not approach and peer out them, i could see from where i was he waving tops of singular fern-like growths. the floor was of massive octagonal flagstones, while rugs and hangings were entirely lacking. later i had visions

yphed with symbols that i knew too well from years of custom as a captive mind of the great race. at moments i fancied i saw those omniscient, conical horrors moving about at their accustomed tasks, and i feared to look down lest i find myself one with them in aspect. yet all the while i saw the sand-covered blocks as well as the rooms and corridors; the evil, burning moon as well as the lamps of luminous crystal; the endless desert as well as the waving ferns beyond the windows. i was awake and dreaming at the same time. i do not know how long or how far- or indeed, in just what direction -i had walked when i first spied the heap of blocks bared by the day's wind. it was the largest group in one place that i had seen so far, and so sharply did it impress me that the visions of fabulous ae

iscern, but the nature of the carvings was beyond my perception. what held me the most was the vaulting overhead. the beam from my torch could not reach the roof, but the lower parts of the monstrous arches stood out distinctly. and so perfect was their identity with what i had seen in countless dreams of the elder world, that i trembled actively for the first time. behind and high above, a faint luminous blur told of the distant moonlit world outside. some vague shred of caution warned me that i should not let it out of my sight, lest i have no guide for my return. i now advanced toward the wall at my left, where the traces of carving were plainest. the littered floor was nearly as hard to traverse as the downward heap had been, but i managed to pick my difficult way. at one place i heave

such impressions and made at once for the staircase revealed by my flashlight- after a hasty glance at my watch, which shewed the hour to be 2 a.m. the steps creaked, but seemed tolerably sound; and i raced down past a barnlike second storey to the ground floor. the desolation was complete, and only echoes answered my footfalls. at length i reached the lower hall at the end of which i saw a faint luminous rectangle marking the ruined paine street doorway. heading the other way, i found the back door also open; and darted out and down five stone steps to the grass-grown cobblestones of the courtyard. the moonbeams did not reach down here, but i could just see my way about without using the flashlight. some of the windows on the gilman house side were faintly glowing, and i thought i heard c

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

ive hint of stupendous secrecy and potential revelation. it was as if these stark, nightmare spires marked the pylons of a frightful gateway into forbidden spheres of dream, and complex gulfs of remote time, space, and ultradimensionality. i could not help feeling that they were evil things-mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. that seething, half-luminous cloud background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial, and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world. it was young danforth who drew our notice to the curious regularities of the higher mountain skyline- regularities like clinging f

re not on a station platform. we were on the track ahead as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy speed and driving before it a spiral, rethickening cloud of the pallid abyss vapor. it was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. still came that eldritch, mocking cry "tekeli-li! tekeli-li" and at last we remembered that the demoniac shoggot

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

y a certain deadly enemy, who seemed to be a being of visible yet ethereal structure, and who did not appear to be of human shape, since slater never referred to it as a man, or as aught save a thing. this thing had done slater some hideous but unnamed wrong, which the maniac (if maniac he were) yearned to avenge. from the manner in which slater alluded to their dealings, i judged that he and the luminous thing had met on equal terms; that in his dream existence the man was himself a luminous thing of the same race as his enemy. this impression was sustained by his frequent references to flying through space and burning all that impeded his progress. yet these conceptions were formulated in rustic words wholly inadequate to convey them, a circumstance which drove me to the conclusion that

and fading of the objects around us, as though some force were recalling me to earth- where i least wished to go. the form near me seemed to feel a change also, for it gradually brought its discourse toward a conclusion, and itself prepared to quit the scene, fading from my sight at a rate somewhat less rapid than that of the other objects. a few more thoughts were exchanged, and i knew that the luminous one and i were being recalled to bondage, though for my brother of light it would be the last time. the sorry planet shell being well-nigh spent, in less than an hour my fellow would be free to pursue the oppressor along the milky way and past the hither stars to the very confines of infinity. a well-defined shock separates my final impression of the fading scene of light from my sudden a

did not rouse the sleeping nurse, but readjusted the slightly disarranged headband of my telepathic "radio" intent to catch any parting message the dreamer might have to deliver. all at once the head turned sharply in my direction and the eyes fell open, causing me to stare in blank amazement at what i beheld. the man who had been joe slater, the catskill decadent, was gazing at me with a pair of luminous, expanding eyes whose blue seemed subtly to have deepened. neither mania nor degeneracy was `visible in that gaze, and i felt beyond a doubt that i was viewing a face behind which lay an active mind of high order. at this juncture my brain became aware of a steady external influence operating upon it. i closed my eyes to concentrate my thoughts more profoundly and was rewarded by the posi

HP LOVECRAFT CELEPHAIS

est and hid all the landscape in effulgent draperies. the abyss was a seething chaos of roseate and cerulean splendour, and invisible voices sang exultantly as the knightly entourage plunged over the edge and floated gracefully down past glittering clouds and silvery coruscations. endlessly down the horsemen floated, their chargers pawing the aether as if galloping over golden sands; and then the luminous vapours spread apart to reveal a greater brightness, the brightness of the city celephais, and the sea coast beyond, and the snowy peak overlooking the sea, and the gaily painted galleys that sail out of the harbour toward distant regions where the sea meets the sky. and kuranes reigned thereafter over ooth-nargai and all the neighboring regions of dream, and held his court alternately in

HP LOVECRAFT FROM BEYOND

ge animate things brushing past me and occasionally walking or drifting through my supposedly solid body, and thought i saw tiiiiinghast look at them as though his better trained senses could catch them visually. i recalled what he had said of the pineal gland, and wondered what he saw with this preternatural eye. suddenly i myself became possessed of a kind of augmented sight. over and above the luminous and shadowy chaos arose a picture which, though vague, held the elements of consist-ency and permanence. it was indeed somewhat familiar, for the unusual part was superimposed upon the usual terrestrial scene much as a cinema view may be thrown upon the painted curtain of a theater. i saw the attic laboratory, the electrical machine, and the unsightly form of tillinghast op-posite me; but

HP LOVECRAFT HYPNOS

t raven black. his brow was white as the marble of pentelicus, and of a height and breadth almost god-like. i said to myself, with all the ardor of a sculptor, that this man was a faun's statue out of antique hellas, dug from a temple's ruins and brought somehow to life in our stifling age only to feel the chill and pressure of devastating years. and when he opened his immense, sunken, and wildly luminous black eyes i knew he would be thence-forth my only friend-the only friend of one who had never possessed a friend before-for i saw that such eyes must have looked fully upon the grandeur and the terror of realms beyond normal consciousness and reality; realms which i had cherished in fancy, but vainly sought. so as i drove the crowd away i told him he must come home with me and be my teac

hich are now partly lost to my memory and partly incapable of presentation to others. viscous obstacles were clawed through in rapid succession, and at length i felt that we had been borne to realms of greater remoteness than any we had previously known. my friend was vastly in advance as we plunged into this awesome ocean of virgin aether, and i could see the sinister exultation on his floating, luminous, too-youthful memory-face. suddenly that face became dim and quickly disappeared, and in a brief space i found myself projected against an obstacle which i could not penetrate. it was like the others, yet incalculably denser; a sticky clammy mass, if such terms can be applied to analogous qualities in a non-material sphere. i had, i felt, been halted by a barrier which my friend and leade

sed lodgers and police to break down the door. it was not what i heard, but what i saw; for in that dark, locked, shuttered, and curtained room there appeared from the black northeast corner a shaft of horrible red-gold light-a shaft which bore with it no glow to disperse the darkness, but which streamed only upon the recumbent head of the troubled sleeper, bringing out in hideous duplication the luminous and strangely youthful memory-face as i had known it in dreams of abysmal space and unshackled time, when my friend had pushed behind the barrier to those secret, innermost and forbidden caverns of nightmare. and as i looked, i beheld the head rise, the black, liquid, and deep-sunken eyes open in terror, and the thin, shadowed lips part as if for a scream too frightful to be uttered. ther

dreams of abysmal space and unshackled time, when my friend had pushed behind the barrier to those secret, innermost and forbidden caverns of nightmare. and as i looked, i beheld the head rise, the black, liquid, and deep-sunken eyes open in terror, and the thin, shadowed lips part as if for a scream too frightful to be uttered. there dwelt in that ghastly and flexible face, as it shone bodiless, luminous, and rejuvenated in the blackness, more of stark, teeming, brain-shattering fear than all the rest of heaven and earth has ever revealed to me. no word was spoken amidst the distant sound that grew nearer and nearer, but as i followed the memory-face's mad stare along that cursed shaft of light to its source, the source whence also the whining came, i, too, saw for an instant what it saw

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

spirit find that which it craveth. as zeus ceased, the young hermes gently seized the maiden and bore her up toward the fading stars, up and westward over unseen seas* many years have passed since marcia dreamt of the gods and of their parnassus conclave. tonight she sits in the same spacious drawing-room, but she is not alone. gone is the old spirit of unrest, for beside her is one whose name is luminous with celebrity: the young poet of poets at whose feet sits all the world. he is reading from a manuscript words which none has ever heard before, but which when heard will bring to men the dreams and the fancies they lost so many centuries ago, when pan lay down to doze in arcady, and the great gods withdrew to sleep in lotos-gardens beyond the lands of the hesperides. in the subtle caden

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

oly worship, so inspector legrasse and his nineteen colleagues plunged on unguided into black arcades of horror that none of them had ever trod before. the region now entered by the police was one of traditionally evil repute, substantially unknown and untraversed by white men. there were legends of a hidden lake unglimpsed by mortal sight, in which dwelt a huge, formless white polypus thing with luminous eyes; and squatters whispered that bat-winged devils flew up out of caverns in inner earth to worship it at midnight. they said it had been there before d'lberville, before la salle, before the indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods. it was nightmare itself, and to see it was to die. but it made men dream, and so they knew enough to keep away. the present voo

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

lden rivers, but among them shalt thou dwell. as i listened, enchanted, i suddenly became aware of a change in my surroundings. the palm tree, so lately overshadowing my exhausted form, was now some distance to my left and considerably below me. i was obviously floating in the atmosphere; companioned not only by the strange child and the radiant pair, but by a constantly increasing throng of half-luminous, vine-crowned youths and maidens with wind-blown hair and joyful countenance. we slowly ascended together, as if borne on a fragrant breeze which blew not from the earth but from the golden nebulae, and the child whispered in my ear that i must look always upward to the pathways of light, and never backward to the sphere i had just left. the youths and maidens now chanted mellifluous chor

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

creatures, whose hideous mummified forms were so close to me, i felt a new throb of fear. mental associations are curious, and i shrank from the idea that except for the poor primitive man torn to pieces in the last painting, mine was the only human form amidst the many relics and symbols of the primordial life. but as always in my strange and roving existence, wonder soon drove out fear; for the luminous abyss and what it might contain presented a problem worthy of the greatest explorer. that a weird world of mystery lay far down that flight of peculiarly small steps i could not doubt, and i hoped to find there those human memorials which the painted corridor had failed to give. the frescoes had pictured unbelievable cities, and valleys in this lower realm, and my fancy dwelt on the rich

les of the nameless city, while the very latest of the astounding maps in the frescoes shewed oceans and continents that man has forgotten, with only here and there some vaguely familiar outlines. of what could have happened in the geological ages since the paintings ceased and the death-hating race resentfully succumbed to decay, no man might say. life had once teemed in these caverns and in the luminous realm beyond; now i was alone with vivid relics, and i trembled to think of the countless ages through which these relics had kept a silent deserted vigil. suddenly there came another burst of that acute fear which had intermittently seized me ever since i first saw the terrible valley and the nameless city under a cold moon, and despite my exhaustion i found myself starting frantically t

voices were hideous with the pent-up viciousness of desolate eternities. presently these voices, while still chaotic before me, seemed to my beating brain to take articulate form behind me; and down there in the grave of unnumbered aeon-dead antiquities, leagues below the dawn-lit world of men, i heard the ghastly cursing and snarling of strange-tongued fiends. turning, i saw outlined against the luminous aether of the abyss what could not be seen against the dusk of the corridor- a nightmare horde of rushing devils; hate distorted, grotesquely panoplied, half transparent devils of a race no man might mistake- the crawling reptiles of the nameless city. and as the wind died away i was plunged into the ghoul-pooled darkness of earth's bowels; for behind the last of the creatures the great b

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

such impressions and made at once for the staircase revealed by my flashlight- after a hasty glance at my watch, which shewed the hour to be 2 a.m. the steps creaked, but seemed tolerably sound; and i raced down past a barnlike second storey to the ground floor. the desolation was complete, and only echoes answered my footfalls. at length i reached the lower hall at the end of which i saw a faint luminous rectangle marking the ruined paine street doorway. heading the other way, i found the back door also open; and darted out and down five stone steps to the grass-grown cobblestones of the courtyard. the moonbeams did not reach down here, but i could just see my way about without using the flashlight. some of the windows on the gilman house side were faintly glowing, and i thought i heard c

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

ons. it was a large sphere, or apparent sphere, of some obscurely iridescent metal, and as the guide put it forward a low, pervasive half-impression of sound be-gan to rise and fall in intervals which seemed to be rhythmic even though they followed no rhythm of earth. there was a suggestion of chanting or what human imagination might interpret as chanting. presently the quasi-sphere began to grow luminous, and as it gleamed up into a cold, pulsating light of unassignable colour, carter saw that its flickerings conformed to the alien rhythm of the chant. then all the mitered, scepter-bearing shapes on the pedestals commenced a slight, curious swaying in the same inexplicable rhythm, while nimbuses of unclassifiable light- resembling that of the quiasi-sphere- played around their shrouded he

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

l rules are to be respected if one intends to work successfully with elementals. i will render the practice even more understandable, and an illustrative case may show how it can be done: supposing the magician intends to enforce someone s memory or any other intellectual faculty with the help of an elemental, the procedure is as follows: the magician imagines a universal ocean of light, from the luminous matter of which he shapes an enormous ball of light, compressing and accumulating it more and more with the help of his imagination until this ball has the size of approximately 12-20 inches. by this accumulation of light, the ball has become similar to a radiating sun. now the magician impregnates this light ball with the desire and the firm conviction that it will exhibit the same power

ror. he will notice that gnomes are very tiny sprites, similar to the brownies described in fairy tales. generally they are portrayed as dwarfs with long beards and caps, with long hair, bright eyes and garbed in little cowls. such and similar will be the appearance of the gnome the magician will see in his magic mirror. he will also notice that every sprite is carrying a little lamp of different luminous force in order to find his way in the subterranean kingdom. if the magician has convinced himself of the gnomes shape, he only has to mentally take the shape of a gnome. moreover, he must identify himself with the earth element, i.e, load his whole shape with the earth element without any accumulation. now the magician has to imagine nothing else but to sink down into the subterranean rea

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

torm, and then burnt her--by which time, no doubt, the wind had subsided! much in the same strain might be added, but, lest we should weary our readers, we shall content ourselves with giving two more marvellous relations from this particular period so full of the marvellous. o'daly in his history of the geraldines relates that during the siege of limerick three portents appeared. the first was a luminous globe, brighter than the moon and little inferior to the sun, which for two leagues and a half shed a vertical light on the city, and then faded into darkness over the enemy's camp; the second was the apparition of the virgin, accompanied by several of the saints; and the third was a lusus natur, of the siamese-twins type: all three of which o'daly interprets to his own satisfaction. the

ISIS UNVEILED

ity a pure abstraction. the second is the active or the one digitizecoy google 228 isis unveiled revealed in the resutta of creation, proceeding out of the former its spiritual prototype. the third is the mutilated image of both the others, crystallized in the form of human dogmas, which vary according to the exub^ance of the national materialistic fancy. the supreme lord of splendor and of li^t, luminous and rcf ulgedt, before which no other existed, is called corona (the crown; lord feiho, the unievealed life which existed in the former from eternity; and lord jordan the spirit, the hving water of grace* he is the one throu^ whom alone we can be saved; and thus he answers to the ^ekhinab, or the holy spirit, the spiritual garment of ain-soph. these three consti- tute the trinity in absco

he zoaor, notwithstand- ing the many incorrect renderings of its translators "all souls which have alienated themselves in heaven from the holy one blessed be his name have thrown themselves into an abyss at their very existence, and have anticipated the time when they are to descend on earth. come and see when the soul reaches the treasury of life, the soul could not bear this light, but for the luminous mantle which she puts on. for just as the soul, when sent to this earth, puts on an earthly garment 718. jeam war, ii, viii, 11. 719. t> nmniu, i\ 22; di giganl\ 2, tq. 720. zomar, ii, p. m a; amst. ed. 721. jtfmaraapivitci46od.iv (29; cf. msckeniie: royal maxmu: cgdopatdia, p. us. 722. zoaor. ii, p. 97 k. 723. ibid, id, p. 61 b. digitizecoy google paul on the tkine human entity 281 to pr

the' father' of humanity, who lives in man as man lives in him, or as the incompre- hensible creative principle; and that all led god-like lives. ammonius, speaking of his philosophy, tauf^t that the ratonic school dated from liie days of hermes, who brought his wisdom from india. it was the same mystical contemplation throughout, as that of the yc^ns: the conununion os the br&hmana with his own luminous sdf the' atman' and this hinda term is again kabalistic. par exedlenee. who is self? is aalhid in the sig-veda "sdf is the lord cl all things. all things are contained in this self; all selves are contained in this self. brfthman itself is but self* is the answer. says the idraji rabbah "all things are himself, and himself is concealed on every side^ the "adam kadmon of the kabalists cont

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

rs of concentration on the sun, he (an esoteric student) can capture and draw into himself, in all their original purity, the elements needed to ensure his health and equilibrium. he also says that as the sun provides all the elements for all life, we can feed on its pure essence and that: when we gaze at the sun, therefore, even if we do not know it, our soul assumes the same shape and becomes a luminous, incandescent sphere. it is the law if imitative magic that is taking effect; we look at the sun and our whole being begins to resemble it. simply by looking at something, we create an association, an alliance between ourselves and the object or being we are looking at, our vibrations adjust to its vibratory rate and, quite unconsciously, we imitate it. he goes on to say of surya-yoga tha

begins to resemble it. simply by looking at something, we create an association, an alliance between ourselves and the object or being we are looking at, our vibrations adjust to its vibratory rate and, quite unconsciously, we imitate it. he goes on to say of surya-yoga that: if you want to be like the sun, you must gaze at it with great love and trust. in this way you will become warmer and more luminous and better able to pour life into others. your presence among others will be that of a sun radiating light, warmth and life. using mantra-yoga to remind us that the sun is also the source of nourishment for all life, we can then change our mindset by acknowledging that it has the power to feed us directly without going through the middle man food chain of the plant and animal kingdom. que

loser to our own centre, our higher self, the sun within; we melt into it more and more. but to focus our attention on the sun also means to learn to mobilize all our thoughts, desires and energies, and put them to work in the service of the highest ideal. he who works to unify the chaotic multitude of inner forces that constantly threaten to tear him apart, and launch them in the pursuit of one, luminous, beneficial goal, becomes a powerful focal point, capable of radiating in every direction. believe me, a human being who masters the tendencies of his own lower nature can benefit the whole of mankind. he becomes as radiant as the sun. his freedom is such that his consciousness embraces the whole human race as he pours out the superabundance of light and love that dwell within him. divine

journey through the fields continues like a dance where i continually learn new steps, for the fields of life are constantly changing as we expand into more refined levels of the game that we call life. all of it goes on in cycles and through it all we are constantly reborn. as i sit with my father and hold his cold thin hand i see the light in his deep blue eyes and how his skin is becoming more luminous as he surrenders his hold on his life. each day has become so precious for us as we know there will be so few, yet i also know that when he passes we can call each other through the gridlines of love that will always connect our hearts. namaste to you all. jasmuheen i dedicate this book to the light that i see shining in my heavenly father s eyes. and to my father arnie who passed from th

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

roy was the image of pallas, the myth of knowledge, of the world, of manifestation, of the fire-soul. in athens was pallas- athene, or minerva. in the greek cities, the form of the deity changed variously to bacchus, to hercules, to phoebus- apollo; to the tri-formed minerva, dian, and hecate; to the dusky ceres, or the darker cybele. in the wilds of sarmathia, in the wastes of northern asia, the luminous rays descended from heaven, and, animating the lama, or light-born spoke the same story. the flames of the greeks, the towers of the phoenicians, the emblems of the pelasgi; the story of prometheus, and the myth of his stealing the fire from heaven, wherewith to animate the man (or ensoul the visible world; the forges of the cyclops, and the monuments of sicily; the mysteries of the etrur

rrupted into the present motto to the prince of wales's crest, ich dien, or i serve. the meaning of i serve, in this view, is, that i suffice, or the lis, or the act suffices (p. 46, and figures post, for all the phenomena of the world. brixworth church, northamptonshire. egyptian amulet. chapter the seventeenth. prismatic investiture of the microcosm. he chemical dark rays are more bent than the luminous. the chemical rays increase in power as you ascend the spectrum, from the red ray to the violet. the chemical rays typified by the egyptians under the name of their divinity, taut or thoth, are most powerful in the morning; the luminous rays are most active at noon (isis, or abstractedly, manifestation; the heating rays (osiris) are most operative in the afternoon. the chemical rays are t

, from the red ray to the violet. the chemical rays typified by the egyptians under the name of their divinity, taut or thoth, are most powerful in the morning; the luminous rays are most active at noon (isis, or abstractedly, manifestation; the heating rays (osiris) are most operative in the afternoon. the chemical rays are the most powerful in spring (germination, producing, or making, the most luminous in the summer (ripening, or knowing, the most heating in the autumn (perpetuating. the chemical rays have more power in the temperate zone; the luminous and heating, in the tropical. there are more chemical rays given off from the centre of the sun than from the parts near its circumference. each prismatic atom, when a ray of light strikes uponit, opens out on a vertical axis, as a radius

ious alliance between colour and sound. there are seven pure tones in the diatonic scale, because the harmonic octave is on the margin, or border, or rhythmic point, of the first and seventh, like the chemical dark rays on the margin of the solar spectrum (see explanatory chart of the prismatic colours above) red is the deep bass vibration of ether. to produce the sensation of red to the eye, the luminous line must vibrate 477 millions of millions of times in a second. blue, or rather purple, is the high treble vibration, like the upper c in music. there must be a vibration of 699 millions of millions in a second to produce it; while the cord that produces the high c must vibrate 516 times per second. 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 fig. 32. fig. 32a. 144 the rosicrucians. heat, in its effect upon nature, p

ts fifteenth degree 1447 before christ, it follows that the first degree of libra could not have coincided with the vernal equinox more lately than 15,194 years before christ, to which, if you add 1790 years since christ, it appears that 16,984 years have elapsed since the origin of the zodiac (volney, ruins of empires, 1st english edition, 1792, p. 360. all white things express the celestial and luminous gods; all circular ones, the world, the moon, the sun, the destinies; all semicircular ones, as arches and crescents, are descriptive of the moon, and of lunar deities and meanings. the egyptians, says porphyry, employ every year a talisman in remembrance of the world. at the summer solstice, they mark their houses, flocks, and trees with red* see figs. 190, 191, 192, 195, post. see, also

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

y rule out a self-contained intelligence, but many of these manifestations have more the quality of something which, for want of an established terminology, we might call the searchlight type of ufo. many reports have described objects or ufo's as appearing to have been operated by remote control. i believe that they are exactly that. it is by no means clearly established that all apparently self-luminous phenomena are of this nature. there are still a number of luminous spheres and discs which seem to have a more material nature and to contain the intelligences which operate them. the widgets seen by astronomers in space are examples, and i think, too, of such things as the ruddy disc which buzzed captain manning's dc-3 near south bend, indiana. the "devil's hoofprints" and related phenom

" note that some of these dhurmsalla stones were spherical. spherical stones are most likely shaped by intelligence. it is further noted that, within a few months of the fall of the dhurmsalla "meteorite" there had been a fall of live fish at berares, a shower of red substance at furrackabad, a dark spot observed on the disc of the sun, an earthquake "an unnatural darkness of some duration" and a luminous appearance in the sky that looked like an aurora borealis. 1855: a series of explosions in the sky, fall of debris, slag, cinders, powder, discolored rain, reported at and near crieff, england. recurrence, in a localized area, of unusual events, mostly of celestial, or mysterious origin. 1858-1868: dr. c.m. inglsby, a meteorologist, wrote "during the storm on saturday (12) morning (may, b

m and wolverhampton, repeatedly, is more than we can say! there must be a reason. 1896: on february 10, a tremendous explosion occurred in the sky over madrid, and throughout the city windows were smashed. a wall in the building occupied by the american embassy was thrown down. the people of madrid rushed to the streets and there was a panic in which many were injured. for five and a half hours a luminous cloud of debris hung over madrid, and stones fell from the sky. here we have stone falling from the sky, a hint of a localized cloud, luminosity, and definitely the suggestion that some violent activity had come from space. there is also a haunting resemblance to the circumstances of the great heresford quake, in england, of december 17, 1896. a disc of quartz fell on the plantation, blei

hings which are being reported today under the misnomer "flying saucers? 1921: a shower of little frogs fell upon anton wagner's farm, near sterling, connecticut. by way of coincidence, professor campbell of lick observatory, ace aviator eddie rickenbacker, conservative astronomer, colonel marwick, and dr. emmert, of detroit, all reported from widely separated points of the earth that an unknown, luminous object had been seen near the sun on august 6 and 7 "near the sun" means, in astronomical parlance, something more or less in line with the sun as seen from terrestrial observation. it actually means "apparently near the sun" not necessarily physically close to that orb. in conclusion, let us summarize the vital features of these phenomena as they relate to our thesis. most falls involve

e are many instances of lights, clouds or structures which seem to exhibit voluntary or controlled motions. this applies to some isolated freak storms which appear in otherwise undisturbed skies. some of these storms seem to have organic entity. they seem to have many components, including debris of all sorts, and their clouds are apt to be of unique shape, density, texture, or color; they may be luminous or contain lights; they often produce extremely violent winds and stygian darkness. it is my contention that some of these storms are associated with intelligent action, that they may contain navigable structures which may surround themselves with clouds, for purposes of camouflage, or merely through natural interaction with the atmosphere. we will try to distinguish between these and the

cts which are known to have fallen with storms come from storms having some peculiarity. sometimes the only notation is that the storms were of unusual violence, but even then there is something, perhaps of statistical significance. these small, you might say independent, storms sometimes seem to have causes other than the accepted meteorological conditions. they are quick, tempestuous, sometimes luminous; frequently with geometrically defined clouds of rare and striking colors. they often appear suddenly in clear skies. as in the instances of some other phenomena, there appear to be three classes of clouds. the first, and most common, of course, are the ordinary meteorological or "weather" clouds. everybody sees them by the million. then there are clouds that seem to come from, at least b

sual and may hold some interest for students of meteoritics. what is of interest to us is the cloud, which seems to 78 have preceded the meteor instead of following it, and especially, to have been illuminated or selfluminous. many are the report of meteors emerging from clouds, as in 1808" such a phenomenon as appeared at siena in 1794, when stones descended, not from a moving meteor, but from a luminous cloud" a yellow cloud appeared over paderborn, from which came a torrential rain and a shower of mussels; the triangular cloud with a tail, whose red nucleus exploded; february 13, 1901, greenish-yellow clouds appeared in france, spreading "intensest darkness; people froze to death in naples that night. naples in southernmost italy. did something bring in the cold of outer space? the jour

ere shocks at memphis, tennessee, on june 14. there was a tidal wave in lake michigan on june 18. a mass of fire fell from the sky on the 20th, on a town in massachusetts. at the same time quakes occurred in italy and france. on the 24th, a great meteor shot over cape town. durango, mexico had its first rain in four years. glare in the sky alarmed germans on the 26th. in england, people watched a luminous cloud at night. quakes were reported in tasmania and australia. meteor from an organic cloud, seen by j. plant, f.s.s, salford, england, november 23, 1877- t the first year of the incredible decade. small battle why recite all those things? why imply a relationship? because it is a part of our present purpose to indicate that earthquakes and local storms may be engendered by huge masses o

ve intelligence or are remotely directed by intelligence. it is only another short step to say that they are intelligence. that they are a manifestation of some intelligent activity seems the most logical compromise. the references throughout history to strange lights in the sky, and burning objects fleeing through the air, are common knowledge. there are myriad cases where lights, balls of fire, luminous points and areas, and ball lightning which do not seem to be attached to or emanate from any solid object, have been observed. two recent sightings will serve to establish our basis of judgement. quite so! the following letter, to the editor of fate, march 1951 bears careful scrutiny. i ask that you recall the rays we suggested in "marks and footprints "my husband and i live alone in a li

lar. we saw it descend branch by branch, and then down the trunk. it moved along the courtyard very slowly, picking its way, and came through to the door where the two children stood. one of them touched it. immediately a terrible crash shook the entire farm to its foundation. the children were thrown back, uninjured but eleven of the oxen were felled dead" in the town of gray, on july 7, 1886, a luminous ball from thirty to forty centimeters in diameter jumped to the roof of a home and ripped off the corner. in this case, unlike so many others, the fireball didn't disintegrate after a single act of destruction. it rebounded to the home's outside stairs, crushing the slates. still it retained its shape, crawled into the midst of a group of passers-by who had stopped to watch the queer sigh

1952. there is a report on a puzzling light seen in hampshire on the night of september 14, 1908 a light as if from an unseen moon. strangely enough, that same night, david packer, in worcestershire, saw an illumination which he thought was auroral, and proceeded to photograph it. what he saw was a broad, diffuse series of cloudlike illuminations. his photograph in english mechanic showed a large luminous disc of sphere over the auroral illuminations. this does not in any way indicate a flaw in the film or lights leaking into the camera. the only possible explanation in that case is based on the conventional knowledge that this thing, invisible to the eye, was luminous in that part of the spectrum to which the plate was sensitive, probably ultraviolet, as infra-red plates were not then ava

it as has so often been the case. the exact nature of the flames is of course unknown to us; they may have been electrical discharges which would have been strange to the egyptians of 1500 bc and would have been recorded as ordinary flames. as in our modern sightings, there was sometimes one object and sometimes a group or flock. they were shining, and by this it seems we can infer that they were luminous. laminated metal, covered by sheet-diamond? one other thing is obvious from this egyptian record; that mechanical flight, if it had been previously known to the egyptians, or to their progenitors, was already a completely lost science in 1500 bc. it is in line with our thinking that the egyptians were merely another one of the trickles through the dyke of time from the previous great wave

e sun, it is true; but the objects are in general direction of the sun and the gravitational neutral- and there is always the possibility that some bodies are floating at the venus-sun neutral, as well as close to the earth. in 1645, a body large enough to look like a satellite was seen near venus. it was said to have been seen four times in the first half of the 18th century and again in 1867. a luminous spot was seen in 1799, by harding and schroedter, moving over the disc of mercury. this indeed, could not have been a intra-mercurial planet. there were two observations by denning and hind, persistent observers, on november 3, 1871, and march 26, 1873, and a black body was seen by weber, at berlin, april 4, 1876. the london times, for december 17, 1883, reports that mr. hicks pashaw, in

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generally speaking, is a collection of hymns and prayers in the form of a series of ceremonial rituals to enable the man to unite himself with osiris the redeemer. after this union he is no longer called the man, but osiris with whom he is now symbolically identified "that they also may be one of us" said the christ of the new testament "i am osiris" said the purified and justified man, his soul luminous and washed from sin in the immortal and uncreated light, united to osiris, and thereby justified, and the son of god; purified by suffering, strengthened by opposition, regenerate through selfsacrifice. such is the subject of the great egyptian ritual. the 17th chapter of the theban recension consists of a very ancient text with several commentaries, also extremely old, and some prayers

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

rly part of the building was done by freemasons. it has the peculiar form of pointed arch, made by the intersection of two rising arches, which characterizes the gothic style, differing both from the norman and roman styles with their rounded arches, and from the saracenic or byzantine with its serrated arches and round domes. 136. meaning of the three columns 137. i am indebted for the following luminous sug-gestions to bro. ernest wood. they are an interpretation of the three columns in the light of the principles embodied in his book, the seven rays, and i commend them to the careful study of the brn. 138. in order to understand the full significance of the columns presided over by the three principal officers, we must recall the occult teaching of the great divine trinity of father, so

e is still in semi-darkness, lit only by the three candles and the sacred fire. it is to this condition that the r.w.m. refers (whether he knows it or not) when he says: gour lodge being thus duly formed. h 417. in the case of the lower officers, at any rate, it requires but a slight development of clairvoyance to see these creatures floating in their appointed places, each group making a sort of luminous sphere or cloud (see plate x) this cloud is violet-grey in the case of the i. g, crimson for the j.d. and yellow for the s.d. it is not so easy to define the hues of the three principal officers, for each of them seems to carry something of all possible colours; but it may perhaps be said that a golden hue predominates in the w.j.w. fs sphere, and a strong electric blue in that of the w.s

ely after this the r.w.m, acting in the name of t.g.a.o.t.u, declares the lodge duly open, and all the lights are turned fully on. it is not only the physical light which leaps forth at this moment, for as the r.w.m. says the opening words his deva-representative also lifts his staff, and all the seven groups of assistant spirits, which until now have been seen even by clairvoyant sight as merely luminous clouds, flash out into their full brilliancy and their natural beauty of colour. at once also each group is connected by a line of living light with the physical official over which it hovers, and through this line its force is poured down upon him whenever he is called upon to take part in the ceremony. the deva representative usually remains floating above the regular situation of the o

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

ion and guidance. apparitions, which are not seen by everyone, usually involve noises, unusual smells, extreme cold, and the displacement of objects. also visual images, tactile sensations, voices, and the apparent psychokinetic movement of objects may be included. apparitions move through solid matter, appear and disappear abruptly, can cast shadows and be reflected in mirrors, seem corporeal or luminous and transparent, and can be lifelike or have limited movements. it has been shown that there are few differences between the characteristics of apparitions of the living and of the dead. apparition experiences can be of various types. they can be crisis apparitions, which typically appear to individuals who are emotionally very close to the agent, or apparitions of the dead,which usually

fied scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earth s surface. the information we are gathering is so surprising, that we are sincerely afraid of what we might find down there, stated dr. azzacov, the manager of the project in remote siberia (ship of fools website) many members of the team refused to continue the work. a later embellishment of the story was that luminous vapors escaped from the hole, forming a glowing, batlike creature (a bat out of hell, so to speak. the words i have conquered appeared in russian in the heavens. the trinity broadcasting network broadcast the tale at least three times, and sent out a story about the hellhole to their internet mailing list. a charon, hell s ferryman in greek mythology (dover pictorial archive) hermetic ord

dawn 111 tongue-in-cheek well to hell story also appeared in the biblical archeology review. to the chagrin of the editors, many of their readers took the article seriously. upon investigation, it was found that the original finnish article was actually a letter to the editor, in which a reader had repeated an item he had picked up from a christian newsletter. and the creator of the report about luminous gasses congealing into a bat and words appearing in the sky eventually confessed to fabricating the incident as a way of demonstrating the gullibility of conservative christians. see also beast computer legend for further reading: robinson, b. a. christian urban legends. http//www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm. ship of fools. drilling to hell. http//ship-offools. com/myths/03myth.htm

ctions would be punishment, but he preferred remaining true to his love of god (and the consequences of being condemned to hell) over being untrue to his love of god and remaining in heaven. the koran is especially focused on the day of judgement, when humankind will be bodily resurrected. when human beings die, they remain in a islam 129 sort of interworld (barzakh, a realm located closer to the luminous cosmic center, until the day of resurrection. in this interworld, which somewhat resembles dreaming, the soul of the deceased, liberated from its bodily layers, can awaken and become aware of its true nature. the interworld period is important in preparing for the day of resurrection, which occurs at the end of time when human possibilities and potential have been exhausted. the day of re

octrine of the role the living could play to rescue souls from purgatory that set the stage for the protestant reformation. islam embraced the zoroastrian notion of purgatory as an afterdeath realm in which all human beings reside between death and judgment 220 the pyx, a.k.a. the hooker cult murders day. when people die, they remain in a sort of interworld (barzakh, a realm located closer to the luminous cosmic center, until the day of resurrection. in this interworld, which somewhat resembles dreaming, the soul of the deceased, liberated from its bodily layers, can awaken and become aware of its true nature. the interworld period is important in preparing for the day of resurrection, which occurs at the end of time. see also limbo; zoroastrianism for further reading: cohn, norman. cosmos

ch other out, the soul is placed in hammistagan( region of the mixed, a limbo realm in which souls are neither happy nor sorrowful and in which they will abide until the final apocalypse. in later texts, a person s deeds z 283 284 zoroastrianism greet him on the bridge in personified form a beautiful maiden for a good person; an ugly hag for a bad person who either leads the soul to paradise( the luminous mansions of the sky) or embraces the soul and falls into hell, according to whether the person has been good or evil. after the final battle between good and evil, there will be a general judgment in which everyone will be put through an ordeal of fire (a river of molten metal, in which good individuals will have their dross burned away and evil people will be consumed. thus the souls of

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certain virgin) ow, o my son, i will declare unto thee the virtue of that part of love which receiveth and draweth, being the counterpart of thine own. for behold! i am moved in myself by the absence of the virgin that is appointed for me. and her eagerness of purity doth encompass me with its soft tenderness, and twineth about me with sweet scent so that my mind is enkindled with a gentle flame, luminous and subtle, and i write unto thee as in a dream; for in this enchantment of her devotion i am caught up cunningly into beautitude, with great joy of the gods that have bestrewn my way with flowers, ay many flowers and herbs of magick and of holiness withal to match their beauty. nay, o my son, i will cease this epistle unto thee for awhile, that i may rest in the pleasure of this contempl

r than velvet was the sun of all being, alone. then about him were little crosses, greek, over-running the heaven. these changed from form to form geometrical, marvel devouring marvel, a thousand times a thousand in their course and sequence, until by their movement was the universe churned into the quintessence of light. moreover at another time did i behold all things as bubbles, iridescent and luminous, selfshining in every colour, myriad pursuing myriad until by their perpetual beauty they exhausted the virtue of my mind to receive them, and whelmed it, so that i was fain to withdraw myself from the burden of that brilliance. yet, o my son, the sum of all this amounteth not to the worth of one dawn-glimmer of our true vision of holiness. y the book of wisdom or folly 179 #f de quodam m

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e cast out. olympas. lead me, master, by the hand gently to this gracious land! aha! 35 let me drink the doctrine in, an all-healing medicine! let me rise, correct and firm, steady striding to the term, master of my fate, to rise to imperial destinies; with the sun fs ensanguine dart spear-bright in my blazing heart, and my being fs basil-plant bright and hard as adamant! marsyas. yonder, faintly luminous, the yellow desert waits for us. lithe and eager, hand in hand, we travel to the lonely land. there, beneath the stars, the smoke of our incense shall invoke the queen of space; and subtly she shall bend from her infinity like a lambent flame of blue, touching us, and piercing through all the sense-webs that we are as the aethyr penetrates a star! her hands caressing the black earth, her

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

ar spell of work for 32 days, after which he seems to have recorded very little until march 25 in the following year, viz, 1912. he then experimented with sss section of liber hhh, from the equinox, vol. v and obtained automatic rigidity. he writes (1) brain became charged with electric fluid or prana, in fact whole face and hands became as if connected with an electric battery, also brain seemed luminous but void (2) could not awaken spine from yoni; but, after persisting, the part just below small of back became enlivened, then under ribs, then breast and nape of neck. the current became very strong and almost unbearable. whole body became perfectly and automatically rigid. hands seemed to feel gnarled and misshapen, contorted by the force in them (i noticed this as a side issue. feet al

tea. o.m] apr. 4. control of body. while at office kept left elbow at side for 3 hours. wished to see if this would be quite easy and found i had no difficulty in remembering [good: try something harder. o.m] apr. 6, 9:20 10 p.m. dragon. this meditation was the best lately. quickly felt the prana gripping the body. conceived the blackness of understanding become penetrated by wisdom. brain became luminous. body rigid. tension passed and force concentrated at bridge of nose. concentrated on ajna. personality gone. tried to project consciousness straight up. was suddenly interrupted by r. who was in bed just by my side. hardly knew where i was for the moment and had to concentrate on body to regain normal [too big a handicap, having anyone in the room. o.m] apr. 8, 9:25 to 10:11 p.m.=46 mins

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ands. 39. they shaped ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the ancient dragon that sat upon the stagnant water. 40. then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at ease. 41. and again i was caught up into the presence of my lord adonai, and the knowledge and conversation of the holy one, the angel that guardeth me. 26 liber lxv 42. o holy exalted one, o self beyond self, o self-luminous image of the unimaginable naught, o my darling, my beautiful, come thou forth and follow me. 43. adonai, divine adonai, let adonai initiate refulgent dalliance! thus i concealed the name of her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose body bewildereth the soul, the light of whose soul abaseth this body unto the beasts. 44. i have sucked out the blood with my lips; i have drained

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

d. that which .john st. john. means (else is it a blank name) is that which he must be.and what is that? the issue is with thee.cannot one wait with fortitude, whether it be for the king fs banqueting-house or for the headsman and the block? 9.45. breakfast.croissant, sandwich, 2 coffees. concentrating off the work as well as possible. 10.10. arrived at brenner.s studio. the rest has produced one luminous idea: why not end it all with destruction? say a great ritual of geburah, curses, curses, curses! john st. john ought not to have forgotten how to curse. in his early days at wastdale head people would travel miles to hear him! curse all the gods and all the demons.all those things in short which go to make up john st. john. for that.as he now knows.is the name of the great enemy, the dwe

when therefore i had made ready the chamber, so that all was dark, save for the lamp upon the altar, i began as recorded above, to inflame myself in praying, calling upon my lord; and i burned in the lamp that pantacle which i had made of him, renouncing the images, destroying the images, that himself might arise in me. and the chamber was filled with that wondrous glow of ultra-violet light self-luminous, without a source, that hath no counterpart in nature unless it be in that dawn of the north. and there were revealed unto me certain words of power. and i invoked my lord and recited the book ararita1 at the altar. this holy inspired book (delivered unto me in the winter of last year) was now at last understanded of me; for it is, though i knew it not, a complete scheme of this operation

eborn as the divine, always without shock or stress. how easy is magic, once the way is found! how still is the soul! the turbid spate of emotion has ceased; the heavy particles of thought have sunk to the bottom; how limpid, how lucid is its glimmer. only from above, from the overshadowing tree of life, whose leaves glisten and quiver in the shining wind of the spirit, drops ever and anon, self- luminous, the dew of immortality. john st. john 115 many and wonderful also were the visions and powers offered unto me in this hour; but i refused them all; for being in my lord and he in me, there is no need of these toys. 12.00. the pose over. on this second sitting, practically no thoughts arose at all to cloud the sun; but a curious feeling that there was something more to come. possibly the

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quently more limited, though they are still of the purest nature, and without any admixture of matter. the third is the yetziratic world, hryxyh \lwo, olahm ha-yetzirah, or world of formation and of angels, which proceeds from briah, and though less refined in substance, is still without matter. it is in this angelic world where those intelligent and incorporeal beings reside who are wrapped in a luminous garment, and who assume a form when they appear to man. the fourth is the assiatic world, hycoh \lwo, olahm ha-assiah, the world of action, called also the world of shells, twpylqh \lwo, olahm ha-qliphoth, which is this world of matter, made up of the grosser elements of the other three. in it is also the abode of the evil spirits which are called .the shells. by the qabalah, twpylq, qlip

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

re the words had their own effect, and it was in meditation upon the conditions of existence that he eternally re-peated the formula .a home at distant inglistan. an old lady, and a grey parrot in a cage. the parrot was still muttering inaudibly the sacred mantra. now, now, the moment of destiny was at hand! the four noble truths shone out in that parrot.s mind; the three characteristics appeared luminous, like three spectres on a murderer.s grave: unable to contain himself he recited aloud the mysterious sentence .the old lady, whatever may have been her faults, could act promptly. she rang the bell .sarah. said she .take away that dreadful creature! its language is positively awful .what shall i do with it, mum. asked the .general .aum mani padme hum. said the parrot. the old lady stoppe

to arrest it, i slow the process, and render it temporarily painless, by eating. this is a concession to weakness, no doubt, in one sense. do i eat really in order to check change, or to maintain my egoconsciousness? change i desire, for my present condition is sorrow. i really desire the impossible; completely to retain my present egoity with all its conditions reversed..a. c. 2 for an able and luminous exposition of .the four noble truths. i refer the reader to the pamphlet bearing that title by by old friend bikkhu ananda maitriya, published by the buddhasasana samagama, 1 pagoda road, rangoon..a. c. this is the buddhist assertion. what does science say (a) huxley .evolution and ethics .as no man fording a swift stream can dip his foot twice into the same water, so no man can, with exa

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acred mysteries. but, after all these folk of fear are driven before the avenging levin that rives the opening skies, behold that formless and that holy flame that hath no name; the fire that darts and flashes, writhes and creeps snake-wise in royal robe, wound round that vanished glory of the globe, unto that sky beyond the starry deeps, beyond the toils of time.then formulate in thine own mind, luminous, concentrate, the lion of the light, a child that stands on the vast shoulders of the steed of god: or winged, or shooting flying shafts, or shod with the flame-sandals. then, lift up thine hands! centre thee in thine heart one scarlet thought limpid with brilliance of the light above! draw into nought all life, death, hatred, love: all self concentred in the sole desire. hear thou the vo

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inding stairs equates this role to that of the junior warden whose place on the tree is at tiferet. but what is there that is "illusory" about tiferet, and how can we pull these ideas together? in the kabbalistic literature there are scores of different considerations of tiferet. two will serve to guide us in this situation. the first idea is a very traditional view that refers to tiferet as "the luminous mirror" this idea suggests that tiferet is the "reflection" the "image" the "bare surface" of the beriatic (spiritual) and azilutic (divine) tiferets. it conveys the idea that we are the image (the projection) of a more profound divine reality. the second idea is the one we have already seen; tiferet is considered to be the place of the self (in the jungian context. now, for a human, the

evotions in the temple, the place of the divine presence. in the course of the drama it is this independent, separate self, represented by the junior warden, which is slain. after the "death" the posture to which the candidate is restored suggests a oneness with an elevated consciousness close to the top of the tree and represented by the master; it is an idea consistent with the teaching of "the luminous mirror" on the coffin there is a representation of the holy-of-holies, and the veil is drawn back slightly, suggesting that by passing through this death-like process one can gain access to the divine presence which is said to reside in that place. w.l. wilmshurst has described the master mason's degree in such terms "hence the third degree is that of mystical death, of which bodily death

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tue of ceres and which symbolized the upper world, or the abode of light and truth. strabo states that the great temple of eleusis would hold between twenty and thirty thousand people. the caves dedicated by zarathustra also had these two doors, symbolizing the avenues of birth and death. the following paragraph from porphyry gives a fairly adequate conception of eleusinian symbolism "god being a luminous principle, residing in the midst of the most subtile fire, he remains for ever invisible to the eyes of those who do not elevate themselves above material life: on this account, the sight of transparent bodies, such as crystal, parian marble, and even ivory, recalls the idea of divine light; as the sight of gold excites an idea of its purity, for gold cannot he sullied. some have thought

y a black stone was signified the invisibility of the divine essence. to express supreme reason, the divinity was represented under the human form--and beautiful, for god is the source of beauty; of different ages, and in various attitudes, sitting or upright; of one or the other sex, as a virgin or a young man, a husband or a bride, that all the shades and gradations might be marked. every thing luminous was subsequently attributed to the gods; the sphere, and all that is spherical, to the universe, to the sun and the moon- sometimes to fortune and to hope. the circle, and all circular figures, to eternity--to the celestial movements; to the circles and zones of the heavens. the section of circles, to the phases of the moon; and pyramids and obelisks, to the igneous principle, and through

emple was rent from top to bottom. the venerable initiator, in his robes of blue and gold, slowly raised his jeweled wand and pointed with it into the darkness revealed by the tearing of the silken curtain "behold the light of egypt" the candidate, in his plain white robe, gazed into the utter blackness framed by the two great lotus-headed columns between which the veil had hung. as he watched, a luminous haze distributed itself throughout the atmosphere until the air was a mass of shining particles. the face of the neophyte was illumined by the soft glow as he scanned the shimmering cloud for some tangible object. the initiator spoke again "this light which ye behold is the secret luminance of the mysteries. whence it comes none knoweth, save the 'master of the light' behold him" suddenly

ich contains the hymns of the gods, the second the regulations for the king's life. and after the singer advances the astrologer, with a horologe in his hand, and a palm, the symbols of astrology. he must have the astrological books of hermes, which are four in number, always in his mouth. of these, one is about the order of the fixed stars that are visible, and another about the conjunctions and luminous appearances of the sun and moon; and the rest respecting their risings. next in order advances the sacred scribe, with wings on his head, and in his hand a book and rule, in which were writing ink and the reed, with which they write. and he must be acquainted with what are called hieroglyphics, and know about cosmography and geography, the position of the sun and moon, and about the five

dess the following statement concerning her powers and attributes "behold, i, moved by thy prayers, am present with thee; i, who am nature, the parent of things, the queen of all the elements, the primordial progeny of ages, the supreme of divinities, the sovereign of the spirits of the dead, the first of the celestials, and the uniform resemblance of gods and goddesses. i, who rule by my nod the luminous summits of the heavens, the salubrious breezes of the sea, and the deplorable silences of the realms beneath, and whose one divinity the whole orb of the earth venerates under a manifold form, by different rites and a variety of appellations. hence the primogenial phrygians call me pessinuntica, the mother of the gods, the attic aborigines, cecropian minerva; the floating cyprians, paphia

um trips. p. 305, just as he is represented as being born in a stable, under the name of christ, by the christians" concerning the catholic feast of the assumption and its parallel in astronomy, the same author adds "at the end of eight months, when the sun-god, having increased, traverses the eighth sign, he absorbs the celestial virgin in his fiery course, and she disappears in the midst of the luminous rays and the glory of her son. this phenomenon, which takes place every year about the middle of august, gave rise to a festival which still exists, and in which it is supposed that the mother of christ, laying aside her earthly life, is associated with the glory of her son, and is placed at his side in the heavens. the roman calendar of columella (col. 1. ii. cap. ii. p. 429) marks the d

ize, although some of the more powerful are considerably larger. their color is the golden white light of the sun, and from them emanate four streamers of vril. these streamers are often of great length and are in constant motion. a peculiar palpitation is to be noted throughout the structure of the globe and is communicated in the form of ripples to the emanating streamers. the greatest and most luminous of these spheres is the archangel michael; and the entire order of solar life, which resemble him and dwell upon the sun, are called by modern christians "the archangels" or "the spirits of the light. the sun in alchemical symbology gold is the metal of the sun and has been considered by many as crystallized sunlight. when gold is mentioned in alchemical tracts, it may be either the metal

th, and least perfect, note of the musical scale corresponds with purple, the least perfect tone of the color scale. in the principles of light and color, edwin d. babbitt confirms the correspondence of the color and musical scales "as c is at the bottom of the musical scale and made with the coarsest waves of air, so is red at the bottom of the chromatic scale and made with the coarsest waves of luminous ether. as the musical note b [the seventh note of the scale] requires 45 vibrations of air every time the note c at the lower end of the scale requires 24, or but little over half as many, so does extreme violet require about 300 trillions of vibrations of ether in a second, while extreme red requires only about 450 trillions, which also are but little more than half as many. when one mus

iration, on penetrating into the sanctuary of the kabalah, at seeing a doctrine so logical, so simple, and at the same time so absolute. the necessary union of ideas and signs, the consecration of the most fundamental realities by the primitive characters; the trinity of words, letters, and numbers; a philosophy simple as the alphabet, profound and infinite as the word; theorems more complete and luminous than those of pythagoras; a theology summed up by counting on one's fingers; an infinite which can be held in the hollow of an infant's hand; ten ciphers and twenty-two letters, a triangle, a square, and a circle--these are all the elements of the kabalah. these are the elementary principles of the written word, reflection of that spoken word that created the world (morals and dogma) hebr

the continual motion of ain soph towards the center of itself resulted in the establishment of the dot in the circle. the dot was called god, as being the supreme individualization of the universal essence. concerning this the zohar says "when the concealed of the concealed wished to reveal himself he first made a single point: the infinite was entirely unknown, and diffused no light before this luminous point violently broke through into vision" the name of this point is i am, called by the hebrews eheieh. the qabbalists gave many names to this dot. on this subject christian d. ginsberg writes, in substance: the dot is called the first crown, because it occupies the highest position. it is called the aged, because it is the first emanation. it is called the primordial or smooth point. it

of ignorance, modernism, and is prone to regard the qabbalah either as an evil to be shunned like the plague or as a ridiculous superstition which has survived the black magic of the dark ages. yet without the key which the qabbalah supplies, the spiritual mysteries of both the old and the new testament must remain unsolved by jew and gentile alike. the sephirothic tree consists of ten globes of luminous splendor arranged in three vertical columns and connected by 22 channels or paths. the ten globes are called the sephiroth and to them are assigned the numbers i to 10. the three columns are called mercy (on the right, severity (on the left, and, between them, mildness, as the reconciling power. the columns may also be said to represent wisdom, strength, and beauty, which form the triune

mysteries, and that dies also in the retort and becomes black with putrefaction? also, what is it that does this same thing in the nature of man, that he may rise again, phoenix-like, from his own ashes (caput mortuum? the solution in the alchemical retort, if digested a certain length of time, will turn into a red elixir, which is called the universal medicine. it resembles a fiery water and is luminous in the dark. during the process of digestion it passes through many colors which has given rise to its being called the peacock because of its iridescence during one of the periods of its digestion. if the augmentations of its power be carried too far, the test tube containing the substance will explode and vanish as dust. this commonly occurs and is the greatest danger involved in the pr

et, and, describing the largest circle, encompassed all the others. it shone with the purest light, and on its body were the images of the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the bodies in the ethereal regions. the second horse, signifying the element of air, was juno. it was inferior to the horse of jupiter and described a smaller circle; its color was black but that part exposed to the sun became luminous, thus signifying the diurnal and nocturnal conditions of air. the third horse, symbolizing the element of water, was sacred to neptune. it was of heavy gait and described a very small circle. the fourth horse, signifying the static element of earth, described as immovable and champing its bit, was the steed of vesta. despite their differences in temperature, these four horses lived harmon

MEANING OF MASONRY

the craft to be disturbed by their presence. the admission of every mason into the order is, we are taught" an emblematical representation of the entrance of all men upon this mortal existence" let us reflect a little upon these pregnant words. to those deep persistent questionings which present themselves to every thinking mind, what am i? whence come i? whither go i, masonry offers emphatic and luminous answers. each of us, it tells us, has come from that mystical" east" the eternal source of all light and life, and our life here is described as being spent in the" west (that is, in a world which is the antipodes of our original home, and under conditions of existence as far removed from those we came from and to which we are returning, as is west from east in our ordinary computation of

ger and more splendid than that temple ever was. our duty then is to look behind the literal story; to pierce the veil of allegory contained in the great legend and to grasp the significance of its true purport. that which is lost is to be found, we are told, with the centre. but if we enquire what a centre is, the average mason will give you nothing more than the official, enigmatic and not very luminous answer that it is a point within a circle from which every part of the circumference is equidistant. but what circle? and what circumference, for there are no such things as centres or circles in respect of ordinary buildings or architecture. and here the average mason is at an utter loss to explain. press him further" why with the centre" and again he can only give you the elusive and pe

provokes admiration from those who can appreciate it for their profound knowledge of, and insight into, the science of self-knowledge and regeneration. they were obviously initiates of an advanced type, well versed in the secret tradition and philosophy of the mystery systems of the past and acutely pe rceptive of the deeper and mystical sense of the holy scriptures to which they constantly make luminous reference. to deal with these explanatory lectures in complete detail would involve a very long task. we will, however, proceed to speak of some of the more prominent matters with which they deal and so elaborate the subject-matter of our previous papers. attention must first be called to the term" geometry" the art upon which the entire system is stated to be founded. to the ordinary man

d as having characterized joseph, the greatest of the sons of jacob, in contrast with that patriarch's less morally and spiritually developed sons who were not distinctified by any such coat. in masonry the equivalent of the aureole is the symbolic clothing worn by provincial and grand lodge officers. this is of deep blue, heavily fringed with gold, in correspondence with the deep blue centre and luminous circumference of flame" his ministers are flames of fire" provincial and grand lodge officers are drawn from those who are past masters in the craft; that is, from those who theoretically have attained sanctity, regeneration and mastership of themselves, and have become joined to the grand lodge above where they" shine as the stars" it follows from all this that the mason who seriously yi

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

s lost their lives, somewhat as they perished in the age offire and gravel, burned up and poisoned by its exhalations (p. 408) at last an evil one, denominated ahriman, corrupted the world. after having dared to visit heaven he descended upon the earth and assumed the form of a serpent (from zend avesta)the norse legendsy et, before all things, there existed what we call muspelheim. it is a world luminous, glowing, not to bedwelt in by strangers, and situate at the end of the earth. surtur holds his empire there. in his hand thereshines a flaming sword.muspel muspel is the lands of the south. connects with tolkiens numenor, with arcadia and ultima thule.viracocha of perucalled the white one. he constructed the sun and moon and created the inhabitants of the earth. thelatter attacked him wi

MORALS AND DOGMA

region of light. the hebrew word for _gold, zahab, also means _light, of which the sun is to the earth the great source. so, in the great oriental allegory of the hebrews, the river pison compasses the land of _gold_ or _light; and the river gihon the land of _ethiopia_ or _darkness. what light _is, we no more know than the ancients did. according to the modern hypothesis, it is _not_ composed of luminous particles shot out from the sun with immense velocity; but that body only impresses, on the ether which fills all space, a powerful vibratory movement that extends, in the form of luminous waves, beyond the most distant planets, supplying them with light and heat. to the ancients, it was an outflowing from the deity. to us, as to them, it is the apt symbol of truth and knowledge. to us, a

ht is the dawn of the eternal life, in being. the word of god, which creates the light, seems to be uttered by every intelligence that can take cognizance of forms and will look "let the light be! the light, in fact, exists, in its condition of splendor, for those eyes alone that gaze at it; and the soul, amorous of the spectacle of the beauties of the universe, and applying its attention to that luminous writing of the infinite book which is called "the visible" seems to utter, as god did on the dawn of the first day, that sublime and creative word "be! light" it is not beyond the tomb, but in life itself, that we are to seek for the mysteries of death. salvation or reprobation begins here below and the terrestrial world too has its heaven and its hell. always, even here below, virtue is

ent, and he possesses the philosophical stone. here the adepts will understand us. there is neither interruption in the toil of nature, nor gap in her work. the harmonies of heaven correspond to those of earth, and the eternal life accomplishes its evolutions in accordance with the same laws as the life of a dog "god has arranged all things by weight, number, and measure" says the bible; and this luminous doctrine was also that of plato. humanity has never really had but one religion and one worship. this universal light has had its uncertain mirages, its deceitful reflections, and its shadows; but always, after the nights of error, we see it reappear, one and pure like the sun. the magnificences of worship are the life of religion, and if christ wishes poor ministers, his sovereign divini

ls of the universe; while those sides and angles represent, by their number, three, the trinity of power, wisdom, and harmony, which presided at the building of this marvellous work. these three great lights also represent the great mystery of the three principles, of creation, dissolution or destruction, and reproduction or regeneration, consecrated by all creeds in their numerous trinities. the luminous pedestal, lighted by the perpetual flame within, is a symbol of that light of _reason, given by god to man, by which he is enabled to read in the book of nature the record of the thought, the revelation of the attributes of the deity. the three masters, adoniram, joabert, and stolkin, are types of the true mason, who seeks for knowledge from pure motives, and that he may be the better ena

ver whose divine neck her long thick hair hung in graceful ringlets" addressing him, she says "the parent of universal nature attends thy call. the mistress of the elements, initiative germ of generations, supreme of deities, queen of departed spirits, first inhabitant of heaven, and uniform type of all the gods and goddesses, propitiated by thy prayers, is with thee. she governs with her nod the luminous heights of the firmament, the salubrious breezes of the ocean; the silent deplorable depths of the shades below; one sole divinity under many forms, worshipped by the different nations of the earth under many titles, and with various religious rites" directing him how to proceed, at her festival, to re-obtain his human shape, she says "throughout the entire course of the remainder of thy

ctive, reasoning, thinking; its natural home in the highest regions of the universe, whence it descended to illuminate, give form and movement to, vivify, animate, and carry with itself the baser matter; and whither it unceasingly tends to reascend, when and as soon as it can free itself from its connection with that matter. from that substance, divine, infinitely delicate and active, essentially luminous, the souls of men were formed, and by it alone, uniting with and organizing their bodies, men _lived. this was the doctrine of pythagoras, who learned it when he received the egyptian mysteries: and it was the doctrine of all who, by means of the ceremonial of initiation, thought to purify the soul. virgil makes the spirit of anchises teach it to neas: and all the expiations and lustratio

ith the crowd of initiates, and, crowned with flowers, celebrates with them the holy orgies, in the brilliant realms of ether, and the dwelling-place of ormuzd. in the mysteries of isis, the candidate first passed through the dark valley of the shadow of death; then into a place representing the elements or sublunary world, where the two principles clash and contend; and was finally admitted to a luminous region where the sun, with his most brilliant light, put to rout the shades of night. then he himself put on the costume of the sun-god or the visible source of ethereal light, in whose mysteries he was initiated; and passed from the empire of darkness to that of light. after having set his feet on the threshold of the palace of pluto he ascended to the empyrean, to the bosom of the etern

e empyrean, to the bosom of the eternal principle of light of the universe, from which all souls and intelligences emanate. plutarch admits that this theory of two principles was the basis of all the mysteries, and consecrated in the religious ceremonies and mysteries of greece. osiris and typhon, ormuzd and ahriman, bacchus and the titans and giants, all represented these principles. phanes, the luminous god that issued from the sacred egg, and night, bore the sceptres in the mysteries of the new bacchus. night and day were two of the eight gods adored in the mysteries of osiris. the sojourn of proserpine and also of adonis, during six months of each year in the upper world, abode of light, and six months in the lower or abode of darkness, allegorically represented the same division of th

ated on a bull, the symbolical animal of the demiourgos, and bearing a sword. the equinoxes were the gates through which souls passed to and fro, between the hemisphere of light and that or darkness. the milky way was also represented, passing near each of these gates: and it was, in the old theology, termed the pathway of souls. it is, according to pythagoras, vast troops of souls that form that luminous belt. the route followed by souls, according to porphyry, or rather their progressive march in the world, lying through the fixed stars and planets, the mithriac cave not only displayed the zodiacal and other constellations, and marked gates at the four equinoctial and solstitial points of the zodiac, whereat souls enter into and escape from the world of generations; and through which the

dowed with a double force, active and passive, divided between light and darkness, moved by a living and intelligent force, governed by genii or angels who preside over its different parts, and whose nature and character are more lofty or low in proportion as they possess a greater or less portion of dark matter--to this world descends the soul, emanation of the ethereal fire, and exiled from the luminous region above the world. it enters into this dark matter, wherein the hostile principles, each seconded by his troops of genii, are ever in conflict, there to submit to one or more organizations in the body which is its prison, until it shall at last return to its place of origin, its true native country, from which during this life it is an exile. but one thing remained--to represent its

ll at last return to its place of origin, its true native country, from which during this life it is an exile. but one thing remained--to represent its return, through the constellations and planetary spheres, to its original home. the celestial fire, the philosophers said, soul of the world and of fire, an universal principle, circulating above the heavens, in a region infinitely pure and wholly luminous, itself pure, simple, and unmixed, is above the world by its specific lightness. if any part of it (say a human soul) descends, it acts against its nature in doing so, urged by an inconsiderate desire of the intelligence, a perfidious love for matter which causes it to descend, to know what passes here below, where good and evil are in conflict. the soul, a simple substance, when unconnec

on the fifth was the superb procession of torches, commemorative of the search for proserpine by ceres; the initiates marching by trios, and each bearing a torch; while at the head of the procession marched the dadoukos. the sixth was consecrated to iakchos, the young light-god, son of ceres, reared in the sanctuaries and bearing the torch of the sun-god. the chorus in aristophanes terms him the luminous star that lights the nocturnal initiation. he was brought from the sanctuary, his head crowned with myrtle, and borne from the gate of the ceramicus to eleusis, along the sacred way, amid dances, sacred songs, every mark of joy, and mystic cries of _iakchos. on the seventh there were gymnastic exercises and combats, the victors in which were crowned and rewarded. on the eighth was the fea

he idea more impressive, and, as it were, tangible, to the human mind. let us, in order to understand this old thought, first follow the soul in its descent. the sphere or heaven of the fixed stars was that holy region, and those elysian fields, that were the native domicile of souls, and the place to which they re-ascended, when they had recovered their primitive purity and simplicity. from that luminous region the soul set forth, when it journeyed toward the body; a destination which it did not reach until it had undergone three degradations, designated by the name of deaths; and until it had passed through the several spheres and the elements. all souls remained in possession of heaven and of happiness, so long as they were wise enough to avoid the contagion of the body, and to keep the

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

will take the goat on whom the lot fell for g-d and make it a sin-offering. the goat on whom fell the lot for azazel will be positioned live before g-d to make atonement on it [and] to send it to azazel into the desert. h1 the plain meaning of azazel is a cliff; the goat sent to azazel was thrown of a desert cliff to its death.2 the mystical significance of azazel is samael3 and the nukva of the luminous [shell, to whom the goat is given. they [samael and the evil nukva, the male and female [principles of evil] are also called gthe depths of the sea h.what remains after the dross of the kings [of edom] are purified.and gthe shadow of death. h as we have seen previously, samael is the name given to the evil partzuf of z feir anpin. just as the partzufim exist in each of the four holy world

of describing g-d fs wisdom as it has been imprinted in nature. binah, in contrast, is the experience of self. the insight of chochmah is evaluated and analyzed in the context of the individual fs personal world-view he has developed during his life. if this is done in an evil context, there is no redeeming element that could make the experience holy. azazel signifies samael and the nukva of the luminous [shell, which are positioned opposite z feir anpin and nukva of the worlds of beirah, yetzirah, and asiyah. since [they receive the binah-goat] they are happy. samael and nukva of the three lower worlds receive the evil binah of the level of atzilut. since [chochmah and binah of the evil z feir anpin of atzilut] are called ggoats h.as mentioned in the zohar10.z feir anpin and nukva of the

uminous [shell, which are positioned opposite z feir anpin and nukva of the worlds of beirah, yetzirah, and asiyah. since [they receive the binah-goat] they are happy. samael and nukva of the three lower worlds receive the evil binah of the level of atzilut. since [chochmah and binah of the evil z feir anpin of atzilut] are called ggoats h.as mentioned in the zohar10.z feir anpin and nukva of the luminous [shells] of beriah, yetzirah, and asiyah, their children, are called aza and azel. the word for goat is eiz (ayin-zayin. the gchildren h of the goats of atizlut are called aza (ayin-zayin-alef, a derivative, aramaic form of ggoat h and azel (ayin-zayin-alef-lamed, meaning ggoat-god. h together [these two goat-offspring] are called azazel, just like the words for gthe shadow of death h and

stically synonymous, as stated. since these goats derive from the holy nukva and her leftovers, they manifest strong judgment, as stated in the zohar.14 we have explained previously that nukva must evince strict judgment in order to differentiate between holiness and evil. when this judgment is exercised in an entirely evil context, however, it becomes prejudicial judgment. now, you know that the luminous shell is half good and half evil, and separates the holy realm from the evil realm. when a person transgresses a prohibition [this neutral realm] serves to complete the three evil shells of his evil inclination, and becomes completely evil itself. this is his punishment for transgressing a prohibition. when an element of the luminous shell is given over to the three completely evil shells

this repentance would refine the portion of [the goat] associated with the world of yetzirah, separating the good [in it] from the evil. this is necessary for it is impossible for good and evil to be intermixed as they were before the sin, for through sin the power of evil increased, and the good would just be subdued before it. as was stated above, good and evil are mixed together equally in the luminous shell. once a person sins, however, the evil is strengthened and the balance is upset. repentance cannot be merely an attempt to return to the state of affairs that existed before the sin; it is too late. the initial innocence has been lost, and the only avenue open 11 proverbs 5:5. 12 micah 7:19. 13 3:63. 14 3:41. 15 avot 4:2. the arizal on parashat acharei mot (2) 486 is to align the po

fore the sin; it is too late. the initial innocence has been lost, and the only avenue open 11 proverbs 5:5. 12 micah 7:19. 13 3:63. 14 3:41. 15 avot 4:2. the arizal on parashat acharei mot (2) 486 is to align the potential good with actual good, i.e, holiness, and let the evil that has been actualized assume its position with true evil. for example, a kosher chocolate cake is in the realm of the luminous shell. it is neither holy nor evil; what it will become depends on how it is used. if someone eats it for holy purposes, e.g, to add to the enjoyment of the sabbath, or to give himself a needed, temporary lift, or in order to experience the goodness of g-d in having made delicious food, then the cake existentially enters the realm of holiness. if it is eaten for coarse purposes, e.g, to i

that this innocence exposed him to the danger of sin. once he has lost his innocence, he fortifies his commitment to and consciousness of good, and although no longer innocent, he is now immune to the egomaniacal machinations of sensual cake-lust. he is older, but wiser. this is the meaning of repentance [evil and good] are separated through this. although they existed originally together in the luminous shell, the evil has now been identified; it clings to the goat and disappears into the [realms of] complete evil. the good, meanwhile, returns to [the realm of] supernal holiness, no longer part of the luminous shell. this is why samael rejoices. he sees that he has now been fortified [by this additional measure of energy from the luminous shell, and he accepts it with full consciousness

nal holiness, no longer part of the luminous shell. this is why samael rejoices. he sees that he has now been fortified [by this additional measure of energy from the luminous shell, and he accepts it with full consciousness. but he is a fool and makes a [fatal] mistake, for on the contrary, ghe will be heaping coals on his own head, h16 meaning that evil was initially intermixed with good in the luminous shell and he had a strong foothold. supernal holiness was forced to grant beneficence to the good with which this evil shared [the luminous shell. this is the mystical significance of israel fs exiles amongst the idolaters. when evil shares the luminous shell with good, it can more easily seduce man into sin, since it does not have to entice him into an explicit prohibition, only into usi

les amongst the idolaters. when evil shares the luminous shell with good, it can more easily seduce man into sin, since it does not have to entice him into an explicit prohibition, only into using a neutral aspect of reality for egotistic purposes. but now that evil has been separated from the good, samael has lost that portion [of divine beneficence] that was granted [to it] via the good [of the luminous shell. it follows that samael has been tricked and has suffered a great loss. on the contrary, a situation that was originally complete [for him] is now the opposite. for [as the verse paraphrased above continues] g[g-d] will surely 16 par. proverbs 25:22. the arizal on parashat acharei mot (2) 487 reward you, h meaning that the goodness [of the luminous shell] attaches to and completes t

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

generally speaking, is a collection of hymns and prayers in the form of a series of ceremonial rituals to enable the man to unite himself with osiris the redeemer. after this union he is no longer called the man, but osiris, with whom he is now symbolically identified "that they also may be one of us" said the christ of the new testament "i am osiris" said the purified and justified man, his soul luminous and washed from sin in the immortal and uncreated light, united to osiris, and thereby justified, and the son of god; purified by suffering, strengthened by opposition, regenerate through self-sacrifice. such is the subject of the great egyptian ritual. the 17th chapter of the theban recension consists of a very ancient text with several commentaries, also extremely old, and some prayers

s the earth (nephesch. the power is manifested when it can be vibrated through the earth. the following is the true attribution of the seven apertures of the head: right ear .saturn left ear. jupiter right eye. sol left eye .luna mouth .mercury (who is the messenger of the gods) right nostral. mars left nostral. venus these latter represent here the sonoriferous sense. the right and left eye, the luminous sense, as the sun and moon are the luminaries of-the macrocosm. the right and left nostrils through which the breath passes, giving strength to the physical body, are under mars and venus. the mouth is under mercury, the messenger and the speaker. this spiritual consciousness is a focus of the action of neschamah.the lower will-power should control the descent of this spiritual consciousn

ad. hands out the candle. 2nd receives it andgives sign of silence. phil. is directed to make sign. 3rd ad. leaves phil. comes east. takes candle and returns with sol. he holds candle before phil. and takes banner of w. in left hand. 2nd ad. honoured frater, what was the title you received in the= grade of philosophus? phil (unprompted) pharos illuminans 'for the details of these forces in the un-luminous void of the dark night of t i e see the instructional paper issued to the isis-urania temple on july 2,1900, called "the qlippoth of the qabalah (and reprinted in the sorcerer and his apprentice, by ra. gilbert. h.s. zhere is a powerful key to the magical cosmogony of the secret tradition operating in the darkness and silence behind the inner order of the golden dawn. for insight into the

male and one female. they hold a cord in their hands. the whole figure ritual of the portal 213 shows the gross generative powers of nature on the material plane, and is analogous to the pan of the greeks and the egyptian goat of mendes (the symbol of khem. in certain aspects, this key rep <183> resents the brutal forces of nature, which to the unbelieving man only obscure and do not reflect the luminous countenance of god. it also alludes to the sexual powers of natural generation. thus therefore the key fitly balances the symbol of death on the other side of the tree of life. of the smaller demons, one points downwards and one upwards, answering to the positions of the hands of the central figure. beneath his feet are pentagrams on which he tramples (whence comes their title of wizard's

ged the three alchemical principles, but in a different order for each element, and as showing their operation therein. the upmost arm of the cross, allotted to air, is of the yellow colour of tiphareth. in it the flowing philosophic mercurial nature is chief and without hindrance to its mobility; hence the ever moving nature of air. its sulphureous side is drawn from the part of fire, whence its luminous and electrical qualities. its saline side is from the water, whence result clouds and rain from the action of the solar forces. the lowest arm of the cross, allotted to earth, is of the four colours of malkuth, the earth being of the nature of a container and receiver of the other influences. the citrine answers to its airy part, the olive to the watery, the russet to the fire, and the bl

air, take the card bearing the symbol of the yellow square in his hand, and gaze intently at it for about twenty seconds. quickly transferring his attention from the symbol to any white surface, such as the ceiling, or a sheet of paper at his side especially provided for the purpose, he will see, by reflex optical action, the same shape but in a direct complementary colour. this will be a sort of luminous lavender-blue, or pale translucent mauve. the actual tint of this complementary colour will depend wholly on the depth of the yellow used in the first place, as well as upon the lighting conditions prevailing at the time of the experiment. immediately this mauve square is seen, the student should close his eyes, and endeavour to visualize in imagination this mauve square as standclairvoya

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

um convallium. the 5-pointedstar above the east emblemized by your 5 circuits of this secret hall reminds us of the 5 points ofrituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliazelator9 felicity, which are (1) to walk with (2) to intercede for (3) to love (4) to assist, and (5) to pray for,our brethren, so as to be united with them in heart and mind. the incense which rises in waving linestoward the luminous star, is a symbol of prayer which precedes to the throne of god. your passingthe 4 ancients in a serpentine course has a mystical allusion, for you were in search of wisdom. bethou as wise as a serpent. in learning wisdom seek to be obedient unto the law, for all its paths arepeace.the conductor of novice invests the aspirant with a crimson robe, as thecelebrant says: receive and be inves

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

with admiration in the presence of a doctrine so logical, so simple and at the same time so absolute. the essential union of ideas and signs; the consecration of the most funda12 the doctrine of transcendental magic mental realities by primitive characters; the trinity of words, letters and numbers; a philosophy simple as the alphabet, profound and infinite as the word; theorems more complete and luminous than those of pythagoras; a theology which may be summed up on the fingers; an infinite which can be held in the hollow of an infant's hand; ten figures and twenty-two letters, a triangle, a square and a circle: such are the elements of the kabalah. such also are the component principles of the written word, reflection of that spoken word which created the world! all truly dogmatic religi

or picus de mirandola; it is necessary to study and understand the hebrew writers in the collection of pistorius, the sepher yetzirah above all; it is essential in particular to master the great book zohar, to investigate the collection of 1684, entitled kabbala denudata, especially the treatise on kabalistic pneumatics and that on the revolution of souls; and afterwards to enter boldly into the luminous darkness of the whole dogmatic and allegorical body of the talmud. we shall be then in a position to understand william postel, and shall admit secretly that apart from his very premature and overgenerous dreams about the emancipation of women this celebrated, learned, illuminated man could not have been so mad as is pretended by those who have not read him. we have sketched rapidly the h

rns into a word. for this reason the ancient 6 the doctrine of transcendental magic sages, of whom trismegistus is the organ, formulated their sole dogma in these terms: that which is above is like unto that which is below, and that which is below unto that which is above. in other words, the form is proportional to the idea; the shadow is the measure of the body calculated in its relation to the luminous ray; the scabbard is as deep as the sword is long; the negation is in proportion to the contrary affirmation; production is equal to destruction in the movement which preserves life; and there is no point in infinite extension which may not be regarded as the centre of a circle having an expanding circumference receding indefinitely into space. every individuality is therefore indefinitel

a current of love and a current of wrath. this ambient and all-penetrating fluid; this ray loosened from the sun's splendour and fixed by the weight of the atmosphere and the power of central attraction; this body of the holy spirit, which we term the universal agent, while it was typified by the ancients under the symbol of a serpent devouring its tail; this electromagnetic ether, this vital and luminous caloric, is depicted in archaic monuments by the girdle of isis, twice-folded in a love-knot round two poles, as well as by the serpent devouring its own tail, emblematic of prudence and of saturn. motion and life consist in the extreme tension of two forces. i would thou wert cold or hot, said the master. as a fact, a great sinner is more really alive than is a tepid, effeminate man, and

equilibrated in its unchangeable order by the initiative 46 the doctrine of transcendental magic of intelligence. 3. binah.-active intelligence, equilibrated by wisdom. 4. chesed.-mercy, which is wisdom in its secondary conception, ever benevolent because it is strong. 5. geburah.-severity, necessitated by wisdom itself, and by goodwill. to permit evil is to hinder good. 6. tiphereth.-beauty, the luminous conception of equilibrium in forms, intermediary between the crown and the kingdom, mediating principle between creator and creation a sublime conception of poetry and its sovereign priesthood! 7. netsah- victory, that is, eternal triumph of intelligence and justice. 8. hod.-eternity of the conquests achieved by mind over matter, active over passive, life over death. 9. jesod. the foundat

ntrary bewitchment. he devised sympathetic remedies and applied them, not to the suffering members, but to representations of these, formed and con serrated according to magical ceremonial. his successes were incredible, for never has any physician approached paracelsus in his marvels of healing. but paracelsus arrived at magnetism long before mesmer and had carried to its final consequences this luminous discovery, or rather this initiation into the magic of the ancients, who better than us understood the great magical agent and did not regard the astral light, azoth, the universal magnesia of the pages, as a special animal fluid emanating only from a few secular creatures. in his occult philosophy, paracelsus opposes ceremonial magic, the terrible power of which he did not certainly igno

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

ord of will must be given in its completeness, so that it may be transformed into action; and a single negligence, representing an idle speech or a doubt, falsifies and paralyses the whole process, turning back upon the operator all the forces thus expended in vain. we must therefore abstain absolutely from magical ceremonies or scrupulously and exactly fulfil them all. the pentagram, engraved in luminous lines upon glass by the electrical machine, exercises also a great influence upon spirits and terrifies phantoms. the old magicians traced the sign of the pentagram upon their doorsteps, to prevent evil spirits from entering and good spirits from departing. this constraint followed from the direction of the points of the star. two points on the outer side drove away the evil; two points o

iluth, or perfect revelation; and we can only express our astonishment that hebrew kabalists have not recognized and explained this symbolism, which so closely and inseparably connects the highest mysteries of christianity with the secret but invariable doctrine of all the masters in israel. the beast with seven heads, in the symbolism of st. john, is the material and antagonistic negation of the luminous septenary; the babylonian harlot corresponds after the same manner to the woman clothed with the sun; the four horsemen are analogous to the four allegorical living creatures; the seven angels with their seven trumpets, seven cups and seven swords characterize the absolute of the struggle of good against evil by speech, by religious association and by force. thus are the seven seals of th

hich we have found on this subject are indicated by the mystical figures and magical legends in a book of henry khunrath, entitled amphitheatrum sapientae aeternae. khunrath represents and resumes the most learned gnostic schools, and connects in symbology with the mysticism of synesius. he affects christianity in expressions and in signs, but it is easy to see that his christ is the abraxas, the luminous pentagram radiating on the astronomical cross, the incarnation in humanity of the sovereign sun celebrated by the emperor julian; it is the luminous and living manifestation of that ruach- elohim which, according to moses, brooded and worked upon the bosom of the waters at the birth of the world; it is the man-sun, the monarch of light, the supreme magus, the master and conqueror of the s

he sabbath of the sorcerers 83 power satan does not exist. he is the personification of all errors, perversities and consequently of all weaknesses. if god may be defined as he who exists of necessity, may we not define his antagonist and enemy as necessarily he who does not exist at all? the absolute affirmation of good implies an absolute negation of evil: so also in the light, shadow itself is luminous. thus, erring spirits are good to the extent of their participation in being and in truth. there are no shadows without reflections, no nights without moon, the planet of morning and stars. if hell be just, it is good. no one has ever blasphemed god. the insults and mockeries addressed to his disfigured images attain him not. we have named manichaeanism, and it is by this monstrous heresy

o the active deity. an impure duad comes thus into being. men were mad enough to halve god; the star of solomon was separated into triangles, and the manichaens imagined a trinity of night. this evil god, product of sectarian fancies, inspired all manias and all crimes. sanguinary sacrifices were offered him; monstrous idolatry replaced the true religion; black magic traduced the transcendent and luminous magic of true adepts, and horrible conventicles of sorcerers, ghouls and stryges took place in caverns or desert places, for dementia soon changes into frenzy and from human sacrifices to cannibalism there is only one step. the mysteries the sabbath have been described variously, but they figure always in grimoires and in magical trials. the revelations made on the subject may be classifi

ation possible to an afflicted imagination. but the sabbath was not always a dream; it did exist in reality; even now there are secret nocturnal assemblies for the practice of the rites of the old world, some of which have a religious and social object, while that of others is concerned with orgies and conjurations. from this two-fold point of view we propose to consider the true sabbath, that of luminous magic in the one case and that of darkness in the other. when christianity proscribed the public exercise of the ancient worships, the partisans of the latter were compelled to meet in secret for the celebration of their mysteries. initiates presided over these assemblies and soon established a kind of orthodoxy among the varieties of persecuted worships, this being facilitated by the aid

o a spirit so acute and learned. dom calmet does not stop here with 112 the ritual of transcendental magic his history; he enumerates a long series of insidious questions and trivial injunctions on the part of the exorcisers, and a sequence of more or less congruous replies by the poor sufferer, still ecstatic and somnambulistic. it is needless to add that the excellent father draws precisely the luminous conclusions of the not less excellent m. de mirville. the phenomena being above the comprehension of the witnesses, they were all ascribed to perdition. brilliant and instructed conclusion! the most serious part of the business is that the physician poirot was arraigned as a magician, confessed like all others under torture, and was burnt. had he, by any potion, really attempted the reaso

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

sidered in the context of post-mortem metaphysics. the discarnate soul usually takes the 'broad broad way, in company with millions of others, following certain natural laws of attraction which are attuned by specific religions and mysteries, national group-souls, deep long-term aims of potent groups and patterns. these in turn are loosely related to certain stellar influences, and to the overall luminous attraction of lucifer within the earth's planetary body. the broad way leads to rebirth. the road of thorns and briars represents a voluntary incarnation in service of some higher aim or order. one who need not return to the planet or group worlds by impulse or attraction, but who chooses to do so out of love for those who suffer. the middle way does not lead to incarnation from the inner

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magus ronald k. barrett nefer i am alone again, and willingly so, alone with the pure sky and open sea, and again it is afternoon around me. it was afternoon when i once found my friends for the first time; it was afternoon too when i found them for a second time- at a time when all light grows stiller. for whatever happiness that is still traveling between heaven and earth now seeks shelter in a luminous soul: with happiness all light has grown stiller. o afternoon of my life! once my happiness, too, climbed down into the valley to seek shelter; there it found these open, hospitable souls. o afternoon of my life! what have i not given away that i might possess one thing: this living plantation of my thoughts and this dawn of my highest hopes! classification: v2- b51- 2 author: linda thoma

uer and put to use certain elements, and perchance to predict and follow his course through the future. this knowledge i unfold is but the pledge of limitless knowledge as, step by step, i lead him to the unexplored and unmeasured iam. reading list: for i am older than the pyramids, yet younger than tomorrow's unborn. withal the marks of time affect me not; i am ageless, and eternally i retain my luminous knowledge and quest for the intelligence of iam. some of my tasks i have recounted, but now is always the beginning; for iam and those who use me are of wisdom and vision; and together, as time unfolds, we will see and do many wondrous and mysterious things. when i am that i was not, and i am that i am not, then: i am that iam. proclamation of: i shall be i shall be that i shall become. i

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

0, was the vanished superstar, the living legend, gibreel farishta himself "sleep okay" he realized the question was addressed to him, and turned away from the apparition of the great movie actor to stare at the equally extraordinary sight sitting next to him, an improbable american in baseball cap, metal--rim spectacles and a neon--green bush--shirt across which there writhed the intertwined and luminous golden forms of a pair of chinese dragons. chamcha had edited this entity out of his field of vision in an attempt to wrap himself in a cocoon of privacy, but privacy was no longer possible "eugene dumsday at your service" the dragon man stuck out a huge red hand "at yours, and at that of the christian guard" sleep-fuddled chamcha shook his head "you are a military man "ha! ha! yes, sir

igh turnover" ayesha turned, and smiled "don't worry about me, srinivasji" she said, and left. ayesha the orphan was nineteen years old when she began her walk back to titlipur along the rutted potato track, but by the time she turned up in her village some forty--eight hours later she had attained a kind of agelessness, because her hair had turned as white as snow while her skin had regained the luminous perfection of a new-born child's, and although she was completely naked the butterflies had settled upon her body in such thick swarms that she seemed to be wearing a dress of the most delicate material in the universe. the clown osman was practising routines with the boom-boom bullock near the track, because even though he had been worried sick by her extended absence, and had spent the

h hanif johnson holding her hand, while the treacherous anahita watched from the foot of the stairs. chamcha had grown to a height of over eight feet, and from his nostrils there emerged smoke of two different colours, yellow from the left, and from the right, black. he was no longer wearing clothes. his bodily hair had grown thick and long, his tail was swishing angrily, his eyes were a pale but luminous red, and he had succeeded in terrifying the entire temporary population of the bed and breakfast establishment to the point of incoherence. mishal, however, was not too scared to talk "where do you think you're going" she asked him "you think you'd last five minutes out there, looking like you do" chamcha paused, looked himself over, observed the sizeable erection emerging from his loins

t of that power, not understood _which always wills the bad, and always works the good. o o o at the sports centre: he could scarcely bring himself to glance in mishal's direction (she too had left the simba meeting in time to make the class- although she was all over him _you came back, i bet it was to see me, isn't that nice, he could hardly speak a civil word, much less ask _were you wearing a luminous something in the middle of your, because she wasn't now, kicking her legs and flexing her long body, resplendent in its black leotard- until, sensing the coldness in him, she backed off, all confusion and injured pride "our other star hasn't turned up today" jumpy mentioned to saladin during a break in the exercises "miss alleluia cone, the one who climbed everest. i was meaning to introd

s the little fire-flowers out of his horn and they dance upon the concrete, needing neither combustible materials nor roots. here, a pink one! there, what would be nice, i know: a silver rose- and now the buds are blossoming into bushes, they are climbing like creepers up the sides of the towers, they reach out towards their neighbours, forming hedges of multicoloured flame. it is like watching a luminous garden, its growth accelerated many thousands of times, a garden blossoming, flourishing, becoming overgrown, tangled, becoming impenetrable, a garden of dense intertwined chimeras, rivalling in its own incandescent fashion the thornwood that sprang up around the palace of the sleeping beauty in another fairy-tale, long ago. but here, there is no beauty, sleeping within. there is gibreel

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

157 dao de jing if you receive the world, the tao will never leave you and you will be like a little child. know the white, yet keep to the black: be a pattern for the world. if you are a pattern for the world, the tao will be strong inside you and there will be nothing you can t do. know the personal, yet keep to the impersonal: accept the world as it is. if you accept the world, the tao will be luminous inside you and you will return to your primal self. the world is formed from the void, like utensils from a block of wood. the master knows the utensils, yet keeps to the block: thus she can use all things. 33 knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. if you realize that you have enough, you are truly r

you will endure forever. 34 the great tao flows everywhere. all things are born from it, yet it doesn t create them. it pours itself into its work, yet it makes no claim. it nourishes infinite worlds, yet it doesn t hold on to them. since it is merged with all things and hidden in their hearts, it can be called humble. since all things vanish into it and it alone endures, it can be called great. luminous: bright, radiant, glowing. 158 world religions: primary sources dao de jing it isn t aware of its greatness; thus it is truly great. 38 the master doesn t try to be powerful; thus he is truly powerful. the ordinary man keeps reaching for power; thus he never has enough. the master does nothing, yet he leaves nothing undone. the ordinary man is always doing things, yet many more are left t

SEVEN SHADES OF SOLITUDE

ll actions of the arte magical participate in the nature of the circle s pristine condition and are, in fact, the grand array or projection of its innate and self-illumined state as gnosis absolute. all magical acts dance as seeming reflections in the mirror of the circle, but, when the mirror is recognised as being untouched and unmarked by any action, the circle is finally realised as one s own luminous and quintessential being. the hermitage of the self-beholder resides under the patronage of the draconick god named azhdeha, the ancient serpent of light, whose scales are the skin of the world, forever shimmering with the seasons of life and death. the gift of this station of the soul is knowledge, the vision of the design of power. vii) the seventh solitude is the hermitage of seth, the

office of one-against- all. this is the great all-oneliness: the sacred marriage that divorces all other. all outward circumstance, every mode and relation of magical operation- whether congregational, connubial, solitary, autonomian, transgressive, or panentheistic, is of no difference: the millstone of the circle has ground all-that-is unto a single spark, the self-shining lumina. this seed of luminous awareness is the resurrecting shard of the smaragdina, the crown-stone of lumial, the angelic soul of witchblood. it is the luciferian bone-charm of wisdom that moves upstream against the current of all-that-is: the power of the void in constant becoming as the flesh of the initiate. the hermitage of seth resides under the patronage of the elder gods, the gods that were before the mortal

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

rk gods returned, shape-shifting, creating new possibilities. an ethos that is alive and evolving, defying all that challenge its vision; to constantly redefine limits, prometheus-like and insatiable. the cycle of creative evolution. the aeon of fid zanoni by edward bulwer lytton dedicatory epistle first prefixed to the edition of 1845 to john gibson, r.a, sculptor. in looking round the wide and luminous circle of our great living englishmen, to select one to whom i might fitly dedicate this work, one who, in his life as in his genius, might illustrate the principle i have sought to convey; elevated by the ideal which he exalts, and serenely dwelling in a glorious existence with the images born of his imagination, in looking round for some such man, my thoughts rested upon you. afar from

music, the actress, so united, that applause to one is applause to both. they make way for thee, at the orchestra, they no longer jeer and wink, when, with a fierce fondness, thou dost caress thy familiar, that plains, and wails, and chides, and growls, under thy remorseless hand. they understand now how irregular is ever the symmetry of real genius. the inequalities in its surface make the moon luminous to man. giovanni paisiello, maestro di capella, if thy gentle soul could know envy, thou must sicken to see thy elfrida and thy pirro laid aside, and all naples turned fanatic to the siren, at whose measures shook querulously thy gentle head! but thou, paisiello, calm in the long prosperity of fame, knowest that the new will have its day, and comfortest thyself that the elfrida and the pi

entered save by zanoni himself. the solemn voice of time, from the neighbouring church at last aroused the lord of the palace from the deep and motionless reverie, rather resembling a trance than thought, in which his mind was absorbed "it is one more sand out of the mighty hour-glass" said he, murmuringly "and yet time neither adds to, nor steals from, an atom in the infinite! soul of mine, the luminous, the augoeides (augoeides, a word favoured by the mystical platonists, sphaira psuches augoeides, otan mete ekteinetai epi ti, mete eso suntreche mete sunizane, alla photi lampetai, o ten aletheian opa ten panton, kai ten en aute. marc. ant, lib. 2. the sense of which beautiful sentence of the old philosophy, which, as bayle well observes, in his article on cornelius agrippa, the modern q

es, otan mete ekteinetai epi ti, mete eso suntreche mete sunizane, alla photi lampetai, o ten aletheian opa ten panton, kai ten en aute. marc. ant, lib. 2. the sense of which beautiful sentence of the old philosophy, which, as bayle well observes, in his article on cornelius agrippa, the modern quietists have (however impotently) sought to imitate, is to the effect that 'the sphere of the soul is luminous when nothing external has contact with the soul itself; but when lit by its own light, it sees the truth of all things and the truth centred in itself, why descendest thou from thy sphere, why from the eternal, starlike, and passionless serene, shrinkest thou back to the mists of the dark sarcophagus? how long, too austerely taught that companionship with the things that die brings with i

, that overspread the whole background of the heavens; in the centre whereof rose a flame that assumed a form singularly beautiful. it might have been compared to a crest of gigantic feathers, the diadem of the mountain, high-arched, and drooping downward, with the hues delicately shaded off, and the whole shifting and tremulous as the plumage on a warrior's helmet. the glare of the flame spread, luminous and crimson, over the dark and rugged ground on which they stood, and drew an innumerable variety of shadows from crag and hollow. an oppressive and sulphureous exhalation served to increase the gloomy and sublime terror of the place. but on turning from the mountain, and towards the distant and unseen ocean, the contrast was wonderfully great; the heavens serene and blue, the stars still

eemed gradually to fix and command his gaze. a sort of languor next seized his frame, but without, as he thought, communicating itself to the mind; and as this crept over him, he felt his temples sprinkled with some volatile and fiery essence. at the same moment a slight tremor shook his limbs and thrilled through his veins. the languor increased, still he kept his gaze upon the star, and now its luminous circumference seemed to expand and dilate. it became gradually softer and clearer in its light; spreading wider and broader, it diffused all space, all space seemed swallowed up in it. and at last, in the midst of a silver shining atmosphere, he felt as if something burst within his brain, as if a strong chain were broken; and at that moment a sense of heavenly liberty, of unutterable del

natures better than itself, then it is entirely separated from subordinate natures, exchanges this for another life, and, deserting the order of things with which it was connected, links and mingles itself with another. iamblichus "adon-ai! adon-ai! appear, appear" and in the lonely cave, whence once had gone forth the oracles of a heathen god, there emerged from the shadows of fantastic rocks a luminous and gigantic column, glittering and shifting. it resembled the shining but misty spray which, seen afar off, a fountain seems to send up on a starry night. the radiance lit the stalactites, the crags, the arches of the cave, and shed a pale and tremulous splendour on the features of zanoni "son of eternal light" said the invoker "thou to whose knowledge, grade after grade, race after race

death? he fled, trembling, from the pale-faced man of art, fled through stately hall and long-drawn corridor, and gained a remote chamber in the palace, which other step than his was not permitted to profane. out with thy herbs and vessels. break from the enchanted elements, o silveryazure flame! why comes he not, the son of the starbeam! why is adon- ai deaf to thy solemn call? it comes not, the luminous and delightsome presence! cabalist! are thy charms in vain? has thy throne vanished from the realms of space? thou standest pale and trembling. pale trembler! not thus didst thou look when the things of glory gathered at thy spell. never to the pale trembler bow the things of glory: the soul, and not the herbs, nor the silvery-azure flame, nor the spells of the cabala, commands the childr

the suns of the myriad systems throw off as they roll round the creator's throne, to become themselves new worlds of symmetry and glory, planets and suns that forever and forever shall in their turn multiply their shining race, and be the fathers of suns and planets yet to come*"astronomy instructs us that, in the original condition of the solar system, the sun was the nucleus of a nebulosity or luminous mass which revolved on its axis, and extended far beyond the orbits of all the planets, the planets as yet having no existence. its temperature gradually diminished, and, becoming contracted by cooling, the rotation increased in rapidity, and zones of nebulosity were successively thrown off, in consequence of the centrifugal force overpowering the central attraction. the condensation of t

it extends to the formation of the innumerable suns and worlds which are distributed throughout the universe. the sublime discoveries of modern astronomers have shown that every part of the realms of space abounds in large expansions of attenuated matter termed nebulae, which are irregularly reflective of light, of various figures, and in different states of condensation, from that of a diffused, luminous mass to suns and planets like our own" from mantell's eloquent and delightful work, entitled "the wonders of geology" volume i. page 22) there, in that enormous solitude of an infant world, which thousands and thousands of years can alone ripen into form, the spirit of viola beheld the shape of zanoni, or rather the likeness, the simulacrun, the lemur of his shape, not its human and corpo

ars can alone ripen into form, the spirit of viola beheld the shape of zanoni, or rather the likeness, the simulacrun, the lemur of his shape, not its human and corporeal substance, as if, like hers, the intelligence was parted from the clay, and as the sun, while it revolves and glows, had cast off into remotest space that nebular image of itself, so the thing of earth, in the action of its more luminous and enduring being, had thrown its likeness into that new-born stranger of the heavens. there stood the phantom, a phantom mejnour, by its side. in the gigantic chaos around raved and struggled the kindling elements; water and fire, darkness and light, at war, vapour and cloud hardening into mountains, and the breath of life moving like a steadfast splendour over all. as the dreamer looke

ice? see, the moon moves up through heaven. beautiful and wise one, wilt thou bid her smile to-morrow on thy headless clay "back! for my soul, in answering thee from depths where thou canst not hear it, has regained its glory; and i hear the wings of adon-ai gliding musical through the air" he spoke; and, with a low shriek of baffled rage and hate, the thing was gone, and through the room rushed, luminous and sudden, the presence of silvery light. as the heavenly visitor stood in the atmosphere of his own lustre, and looked upon the face of the theurgist with an aspect of ineffable tenderness and love, all space seemed lighted from his smile. along the blue air without, from that chamber in which his wings had halted, to the farthest star in the azure distance, it seemed as if the track of

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

rentage and therefore of their identity.178 he continues by describing the way of life and development which the soul should seek: it must be quiet. let us assume that quiet too is the body that wraps it round quiet the earth, quiet the air and the sea, quiet the high heavens. then picture the soul flowing into this tranquil mass from all sides, streaming into it, spreading through it until it is luminous. as the rays of the sun lighten and gild 160 christianity as mystical fact the blackest cloud, so the soul by entering the body of the universe gives it life and immortality.179 the profound affinities between this conception of the world and christianity are unmistakable. the community of the followers of jesus proclaimed: that which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we

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

he illuminati group. in ancient religions and cultures, rings were also magical in nature. according to cabalistic rabbis, king solomon used a magic ring with a hexagram symbol on it to enslave the demon asmodeus into helping him build his famous temple. some members of the illuminati in france in the late 18th century, about 1780, founded a new secret order, the academy of sublime masters of the luminous ring. the tenets of the group were pythagorean, and the fields of geometry and science were emphasized.5 in today's illuminati, the philosophy underlying the use of rings, neckties, etc "tubal cain" the phallus pin worn by many masons. tubal cain is the password of a master mason (3 (from the book, masonic and occult symbols illustrated, pg. 233, by dr. cathy burns "i fell in to a burning

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estations of the power of suggestion, say some researchers. at fortean times conventions in london, paranormal investigator dr. richard wiseman arranged two fake seances in which participants were told they would be taking part in a reenactment in which the medium would be an actor. even though they were told it was not a real seance, 30 percent of those who participated were convinced they saw a luminous- edged table levitate in the air when it was suggested by the staged medium that it would do so. the seance was filmed in infrared light so they had proof that the table did not move, yet 30 percent of people believed it had levitated, wiseman stated. wiseman said, these seances are pretty spooky. we re arguing that some seance phenomena are down to the power of suggestion. conceding that

omena is to assure the medium of one s good will. the sitter should also let the medium know that he or she is assured of the medium s honesty and abilities. the sitter should not hurry the medium, but keep in mind that the greatest guarantee of a successful seance is the medium s serene state of mind. often the spirit voices of the deceased speak through a metal trumpet that has been coated with luminous paint and which floats around the seance room. at trumpet seances almost invariably conducted in complete darkness the horn rises, apparently lifted by spirit hands, and the voices of the departed are heard speaking through the instrument. theoretically, these voices manifest independently from the medium. trumpet 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

g witnesses when they testify against my preconceptions. crookes studied firsthand the full gamut of home s phenomena, from levitation to the movement of objects. the physicist noted that the movements were generally preceded by a peculiar cold air, sometimes amounting to a decided wind. i have had sheets of paper blown about by it, and a thermometer lowered several degrees. crookes also observed luminous points of light and glowing clouds that formed and often settled on the heads of various investigators. in some instances, the scientist saw these luminous clouds form hands which carried small objects about the laboratory. on one occasion, crookes watched while a beautifully formed small hand rose up from an opening in a dining table and handed him a flower before it disappeared. the sci

efully inspected by dingwall the moment he set foot on the society s premises. the clothing that schneider changed into before the seance a set of pajamas and a dressing jacket was the property of the society. every precaution was taken to assure the investigators that whatever they might witness that night would be the result of psychic ability and not trickery. the medium was led to a seat, and luminous strips were taped around both his ankles and his wrists so that his slightest movement could easily be seen by the members of the society. during the seance, as an added precaution, the medium s hands would be held by two researchers. enclosed in a gauze cage were a luminous cardboard ring and a tambourine. the cage itself was set on a table several feet in front of schneider. as the sean

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arlier 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 interestedly and delightedly at himself. after the archbishop and himself had looked at each other for the space of about five seconds, the ghostly self vanished for a few seconds, and then returned even clearer than before. such weird phenomena are termed autoscopic hallucinations. they appear to serve no dual purpose, such as providing a w

al monsters bite the throats and drink the blood of men, women, and children? vampires rose from their dank graves by night to sustain their spark of life through the drinking of blood. werewolves devoured the flesh and blood of their victims by night or day. how could people defend themselves against these blood-hungry creatures when they also had the ability to shapeshift into bats, wolves, and luminous fogs? and then there were the supernatural beings, such as the incubus and the succubus, who were more interested in seizing human souls than in sucking human blood. it is difficult for those living in the modern world to imagine the night terrors of our ancestors as they prepared to face the demon- and monster-riddled world after sundown. today, vampires, werewolves, and creatures of the

e forerunner to thousands of dream books throughout the ages. in hinduism, it is believed that the immortal soul within the physical body is able to leave the house of flesh during sleep and to travel wherever it desires. it is also thought that the passing to the next life after death may be compared to a sleeper awakening from a dream. the brihadaranyaka upanishad states that the soul, the self-luminous being, may assume many forms, high and low, in the world of dreams. some say that dreaming is but another form of waking, for what a man experiences while awake he experiences again in his dreams. as a man passes from dream to wakefulness, so does he pass at death from this life to the next (brihadaranyaka upanishad, 4.3.11 14, 35. the mesopotamian and egyptian courts employed skilled pro

that their silver cords were highly elastic. in the oft-cited case of the reverend bertrand, the french clergyman saw that his etheric double was attached to his physical body by a kind of elastic string. an american student of obe, sylvan muldoon, reported an elastic- like cable linking his two bodies. on many occasions, out-of-body experiencers have commented that the silver cord appeared to be luminous, like a beam of light. others state that it was not really any kind of actual physical cord, but a stream of light that continued to connect them to their physical bodies. crookall mused from his gathering of accounts 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 ma

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

beneath the surface of the earth. halley fs theory was based on the fact that the earth fs magnetic field varies over time. halley suggested that there were several magnetic fields, one of which emanated from a sphere within the earth. halley eventually developed the idea that there were four concentric hollow spheres within the earth. he believed the inner earth was populated with life and had a luminous atmosphere. the aurora borealis, he concluded, was actually an emanation of radiant gases from within the earth that escaped through thin layers of crust at the poles. during the eighteenth century, halley fs hollow earth theory was adapted by two other famed mathematicians, leonhard euler (1707.1783, a swiss, and john leslie (1766. 1832, a scotsman. euler abandoned halley fs concentric s

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

t of this light? a. magnetic fluid<astral body. 18th and 19th century efforts to measure ectoplasm, oddic force, etc. and to physically measure an essence of life have persisted to the verge of the 21st century in a strange pseudo-science. at least in the 18th and 19th centuries there was the idea of the luminous aeyther as a partial justification for this sort of thing. now it is generally considered a curiosity dependent on subjective measurement without the objective external instrumentation required by hard science. this concept has led to a vast array of quack medical theories and the loss of otherwise promising philosophies. bulwar lytton used the idea; w. reich was imprisoned for trying to

s at considerable distances; it magnetizes the bodies submitted to the action of man, and can, by concentrating itself, again draw them to him. it can take all the forms evoked by thought, and, in the transitory coagulations of its radiant particles, appear to the eyes; it can even offer a sort of resistance to the touch. but these manifestations and uses of the plastic medium being abnormal, the luminous instrument of precision cannot produce them without being strained, and there is danger of either habitual hallucination, or of insanity. q. what is animal magnetism? a. the action of one plastic medium upon another, in order to dissolve or coagulate it. by augmenting the elasticity of the vital light and its force of projection, one sends it forth as far as one will, and withdraws it com

its constituent molecules<knowledge of thermodymanics> to direct the magnetic forces is then to destroy or create forms; to produce to all appearance, or to destroy bodies; it is to exercise the almighty power of nature. our plastic medium is a magnet which attracts or repels the astral light under the pressure of the will. it is a luminous body which reproduces with the greatest ease forms corresponding to ideas. it is the mirror of the imagination. this body is nourished by astral light just as the organic body is nourished by the products of the earth. during slumber, it absorbs the astral light by immersion, and during waking, by a kind of somewhat slow respiration. when the phenomena of natural somnambulism are produced

phenomena from waking; hallucination is waking still partially subjected to the astral intoxication of slumber. our fluidic bodies attract and repulse each other following laws similar to those of electricity. it is this which produces instinctive sympathies and antipathies. they thus equilibrate each other, and for this reason hallucinations are often contagious; abnormal projections change the luminous currents; the perturbation caused by a sick person wins over to itself the more sensitive natures; a circle of illusions is established, and a whole crowd of people is easily dragged away thereby. such is the history of strange apparitions and popular prodigies. thus are explained the miracles of the american mediums and the hysterics of table-turners, who reproduce in our own times the e

sion a nervous revolution in his organism with the rapidity of lightning. magnetic passes only serve to direct the will of the magnetizer in confirming it by acts. they are signs and nothing more. the act of the will is expressed and not operated by these signs. 116 powdered charcoal absorbs and retains the astral light. this explains the magic mirror of dupotet. figures traced in charcoal appear luminous to a magnetized person, and take, for him, following the direction indicated by the will of the magnetizer, the most gracious or the most terrifying forms. the astral light, or rather the vital light, of the plastic medium, absorbed by the charcoal, becomes wholly negative; for this reason animals which are tormented by electricity, as for example, cats, love to roll themselves upon coal<

onger than the tomb, seeks only devotion, and flies in terror before the egoism of desire. orpheus knows it; but, for an instant, he forgets it. eurydice, in her white bridal dress, lies upon the marriage bed; he wears the vestments of grand hierophant, he stands upright, his lyre in his hand, his head crowned with the sacred laurel, his eyes turned towards the east, and he sings. he sings of the luminous arrows of love that traverse the shadows of old chaos, the waves of soft, clear light, flowing from the black teats of the mother of the gods, from which hang the two children, eros and anteros. he says the song of adonis returning to life in answer to the complaint of venus, reviving like a flower under the shining dew of her 121 tears; the song of castor and pollux, whom death could not

, all of whose fingers are closed, except the thumb and the little finger. now, all that is diabolical in the highest degree. and is 150 it not a really wonderful thing, this intuition of the signs of a lost science? for it is transcendental magic which, basing the universe upon the two columns of hermes and of solomon, has divided the metaphysical world into two intellectual zones, one white and luminous, enclosing positive ideas, the other black and obscure, containing negative ideas, and which has given to the synthesis of the first, the name of god, and to that of the other, the name of the devil or of satan. the sign of the lingam borne upon the forehead is in india the distinguishing mark of the worshippers of shiva the destroyer; for that sign being that of the great magical arcanum

id not miss the appointment "i woke up suddenly" said he "upon one o'clock in the morning. in front of my bed i saw a bright light, and in this light a "shadowy arm" which passed and repassed before me, as if to magnetize me. then i went to sleep again, and some instants afterwards, waking anew, i saw again the same light, but it had changed its place. it had passed from left to right, and upon a luminous background i distinguished the silhouette of a man who was looking at me with arms crossed "what was this man like "just about your height and breadth "it is well. go, and continue to do what i told you" the nine days rolled by; at the end of that time, a new visit; but this time he was absolutely radiant and excited. as soon as he caught sight of eliphas "thanks, master" he cried "the ma

ne, the pages of the jew abraham, and the more or less apocryphal oracles of the emerald table of hermes. everywhere one finds the traces of that decade of pythagoras, which is so magnificently applied in the sepher yetzirah to the complete and absolute notion of divine things, that decade composed of unity and a triple ternary which the rabbis have 192 called the berashith, and the mercavah, the luminous tree of the sephiroth, and the key of the shemhamphorash. we have spoken at some length in our book entitled "dogme et rituel de la haute magie" of a hieroglyphic monument (preserved up to our own time under a futile pretext) which alone explains all the mysterious writings of high initiation. this monument is that tarot of the bohemians which gave rise to our games of cards. it is compos

. our respirable air becomes earth for them. this is what the saviour declares in his gospel, when he makes the soul of a saint say "now the great abyss is established between us, and those who are above can no longer descend to those who are below" the hands which mr. home causes to appear are, then, composed of air coloured by the reflection which his sick imagination attracts and projects<"the luminous agent being also that of heat, one understands the sudden variations of temperature occasioned by the abnormal projections or sudden absorptions of the light. there follows a sudden atmospheric perturbation, which produces the noise of storms, and the creaking of woodwork- e. l> 220 one touches them as one sees them; half illusion, half magnetic and nervous force. these, it seems to us, a

e very precise and very clear explanations. let us reason a little with those who support the theory of apparitions from another world: either those hands are real bodies, or they are illusions. if they are bodies, they are, then, not spirits. if they are illusions produced by mirages, either in us, or outside ourselves, you admit my argument. now, one remark! it is that all those who suffer from luminous congestion or contagious somnambulism, perish by a violent or, at least, a sudden death. it is for this reason that one used to attribute to the devil the power of strangling sorcerers. the excellent and worthy lavater habitually evoked the alleged spirit of gablidone. he was assassinated. a lemonade-seller of leipzig, schroepfer, evoked the animated images of the dead. he blew out his br

is eyes; he remained nearly half an hour motionless, observing this singular phenomenon, and asking himself whether he was delirious or mad. ultimately, he approached the phantasm to touch it, and it vanished. cornelius gemma, in his "histore critique universelle" says that in the year 454, in the island of candia, the phantom of moses appeared to some jews on the sea-side; on his forehead he had luminous horns, in his hand was his blasting rod; and he invited them to follow him, showing them with his finger the horizon in the direction of the holy land. the news of this prodigy spread abroad, and the israelites rushed towards the shore in a mob. all saw, or pretended to see, the marvellous apparition: they were, in number, twenty thousand, according to the chronicler, whom we suspect to b

hen one wishes to take hold of that other and dominate him. the astral ascendant has been divined by other magi, who gave it the name of "tourbillon (vortex. it is, say they, a current of specialized light, representing always the same circle of images, and consequently determined and determining impressions. these vortices exist for men as for stars "the stars" said paracelsus "breathe out their luminous soul, and attract each other's radiation. the soul of the earth, prisoner of the fatal laws of gravitation, frees itself by specializing itself, and passes through the instinct of animals to arrive at the intelligence of man. the active portion of this will is dumb, but it preserves in writing the secrets of nature. the free part can no longer read this fatal writing without instantaneous

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

noun. the interaction region inside the circles of an s-matrix or the tree of life is "blurred and unspecified" as one scientist puts it. the sepher yetzirah says this of the sephiroth "their end is lost in infinity. the word of god moves in them; leaving and returning ceaselessly like a whirlwind, they execute the divine word in an instant" the paths, on the other hand, as kircher puts it, are "luminous roads by which one can attain the hidden centres. that is to say, the paths are the observable symptoms of the process depicted by the sephiroth, but only through our knowledge of the paths can we come to appreciate the nature of the sephiroth, which in themselves remain unknowable. in a sense, we are in the position of playing a cosmic version of the children's' game of "battleships, whe

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

r they are, ufos radiate intense actinic rays. there are now thousands of cases in which the witnesses suffered eye-burns and temporary eye damage. even temporary blindness. after viewing a strange flying light in the night sky. one of the most extreme cases of ufo blindness occurred on the night of wednesday, october 3, 1973, in southeastern missouri. eddie webb, forty-five, of greenville, saw a luminous object in his rear-view mirror. he put his head out the window of his truck and looked back. there was a bright white flash. webb threw his hands to his face, crying "oh, my god! i'm burned! i can't see" one lens had fallen from his glasses and the frames were melted. his wife took over the wheel of their vehicle and drove him to a hospital. fortunately, the damage was not permanent. what

truck and looked back. there was a bright white flash. webb threw his hands to his face, crying "oh, my god! i'm burned! i can't see" one lens had fallen from his glasses and the frames were melted. his wife took over the wheel of their vehicle and drove him to a hospital. fortunately, the damage was not permanent. what puzzled me about connie's case, however, was that she had not seen a splendid luminous flying saucer. she had seen a giant "winged man" in broad daylight. according to her story, connie, a shy, sensitive eighteen-year-old, was driving home from church at 10:30 a.m. on sunday, november 27, 1966, when, as she passed the deserted greens of the mason county golf course outside of new haven, west virginia, she suddenly saw a huge gray figure. it was shaped like a man, she said

ear before the first flying saucer "scare" erupted in the state of washington in 1947, a group of sixteen people in san diego, california, witnessed a strange phenomenon. they were gathered on a rooftop to watch a meteor shower on the night of october 9, 1946, when a bluish-white winged object appeared in the sky. it looked like an extremely long airplane carrying two reddish lights and it left a luminous contrail "the strange object was certainly no airplane" one witness told harold t. wilkins (1 "the wings, which moved, were too wide for any bird. indeed, they were rather like the wings of a butterfly. the whole object emitted a red glow" the object was especially conspicuous as it crossed the face of the moon. some of the witnesses thought it. resembled a gigantic bat. astronomers have

wed. investigators found three giant footprints, an inch deep, two feet long, and nine inches across. three weeks later a group of people, including two newspaper reporters, visited the site and found the whole forest illuminated by a strange pulsating light. they watched it from a distance for half an hour, afraid to go closer (4) these great garudas and winged beings are closely associated with luminous phenomena. they tend to appear in areas where ufos have been active and, like ufos, they tend to linger for days or even weeks in the same specific area. the big luminous bird of the illinois-st. louis region in 1948 was visiting an area of the mississippi valley that would see continuous ufo and hairy monster activity thereafter. in many instances the witnesses have clearly seen the obje

ut the united states and, in fact, throughout the world. like many forms of chimeras, they are usually accompanied by the smell of rotten eggs hydrogen sulfide. the "fire and brimstone" of the ancients. the same odor frequently surrounds the fabled flying saucers and their space-suited pilots. seeing a spaceman disembark from a flying saucer is no more remarkable than seeing an angel descend in a luminous cloud (and angels are still reported hundreds of tunes each year. the report of a nine-foot-tall humanoid strolling down the main street of buffalo mills, pennsylvania, on august 19, 1973, was no more outlandish than the dinosaurs who appear from time to time to terrify witnesses and baffle police posses. in 1969 there were dinosaur reports in texas. in 1970 the police in italy scoured a

illumination. our religions are based upon our longtime awareness of this intelligence and our struggle to reduce it to humanly acceptable terms. the ancient ethiopians viewed their gods as black, snub-nosed entities. the greeks and romans populated their mountaintops with longhaired, handsome gods and goddesses. the indians of south america worshiped bearded gods who traveled the night skies in luminous discs of light, as did the ancient egyptians. but religious views were modified in the nineteenth century with the coming of the industrial age. the lights were still there but a new frame of reference was needed to cover their activities. somebody somewhere does not want us to understand the true nature of this phenomenon and its true purpose. for years the ufo enthusiasts believed the u

ow appeared. it rose slowly into the air and flew straight for their vehicle "my god! what is it" the nurse cried "i'm not going to stick around to find out" shertzer answered, pushing his foot down on the gas. the object effortlessly swooped over the van and stayed with it. shertzer rolled down his window and looked up. he was horrified to see some kind of arm or extension being lowered from the luminous thing cruising only a few feet above the bloodmobile "it's trying to get us" the nurse yelled, watching another arm reach down on her side. it looked as if the flying object was trying to wrap a pincers-like device around the vehicle. shertzer poured on the horses but the object kept pace with them easily. apparently they were saved by the sudden appearance of headlights from approaching

's head, dr. edward u. condon, complained that it was like a fire department that answered only false alarms. that spring some of the scientists spent weeks in the harrisburg, pennsylvania, area observing the "meandering nocturnal lights" that busied themselves there nightly. their learned conclusion was that the pennsylvanian skies were "most remarkable" ships in the atlantic were reporting huge luminous "cigars" discharging small globes of light which sailed toward new york and long island. and on long island and neighboring connecticut, those globes were cutting nightly capers. during my frequent treks out to long island, i saw several of the objects myself and i collected some eyewitness testimony that boggled my already much-boggled mind. one family of seven people swore they had seen

ehopping to keep below radar beams. but none of the flights reported to me proved to be the work of the national guard. drasin and estrella had hardly started out for new york when all hell began to break loose. late on the afternoon of march 31, a workman in the point pleasant lumber yard saw a glowing object hovering over the home of mrs. doris deweese. shortly afterward, mrs. deweese watched a luminous object zip across the sky and crash into a small shack on a neighboring hillside. the shack housed the transmitter for sheriff johnson's police, radio. it started to burn. what followed was straight out of the keystone kops. the police and fire department rushed to the snow-covered hill and bogged down on the mushy dirt road. there was much frantic scurrying and cursing as the men battled

ey drove off quickly. five minutes later, as i sat alone in my car, the reddish glow flared up again on the ridge. for the first time, it changed color from red to a glaring white and rose slowly upward, bobbing like a yo-yo toward the river in the west. apparently some boatmen on the river saw the object also, for a bright searchlight suddenly shot up from behind the hills, aimed directly at the luminous thing. when the searchlight appeared, the object halted in midflight, dropped downward, and went out. the searchlight continued to scan the sky. the next day i talked with mrs. mcdaniel and told her what i had seen "too bad you didn't stick around" i remarked "we were pretty scared" she began "we. oh, you'll probably think we were being silly "did that blue light frighten you "it wasn't t

r day i was walking through midtown manhattan and an indian took my picture. he was even wearing a black suit" dan knew of my concern with the mib, but he was not well-known to the ufo enthusiasts (i had tried to tell myself that the photographer on third avenue was a ufo-nut of some kind "probably just a tourist" i offered "probably" in west virginia, mrs. hyre was continuing to have problems. a luminous object appeared over her house and projected a powerful beam of light into her backyard. she was not home at the time but her husband and several neighbors saw it. then one evening her confused "little man" reappeared on the streets of point pleasant. she was certain it was the same man who had visited her office in january. this time he was wearing a khaki-colored uniform but had on the

e october 1973 wave) phantom photographer reports have been rare in england, but in 1973 two leading british ufologists, brinsley le poer trench and j.b. delair, came across an incident involving the bogart family who live in a forest near maresfield, sussex. the bogarts' isolated cottage has been plagued with apparitions, strange sounds, and poltergeist activity. and a large number of low-flying luminous objects have been seen repeatedly in the vicinity "on more than one occasion mrs. bogart alleges that she has been perturbed to find a yellow volkswagen car (having smoked-glass windows) following her discreetly at a distance" delair reports "once this involved the vehicle slowly following her down a woodland cart-track leading to piltdown lake, of it then stopping some distance from her

(1) i have chosen him rather whimsically because we share the same birth date. he was born on march 25, 1919. i was born on march 25, 1930. here's a summary of his story in his own words. i was 33 years old. and for the requirements of my job, i was up very early that morning. having arrived at the "martyrs square" i was waiting for the bus as usual when suddenly, i spotted in the sky, a kind of luminous object of a white mercurial color, which zigzagged very rapidly. this luminosity continued to intensify; it approached and i saw an object similar to a spinning top which stopped above me. i admit that i was petrified. what could this object be? a wave of thoughts flowed into my mind when suddenly, a brilliant ray left the object and struck me, it pierced me completely, while an indescrib

THE PAGAN BOOK OF WORDS PRAYERS CHANTS AND RHYMES

kanpa! ishnigarrab! ia! nngi ia! ia! the stars grow dim in their places, and the moon pales before me, as though a veil were blown across its flame. dog-faces demons approach the circumference of my sanctuary. strange lines appear carved on my door and walls, and the light from the windows grows increasing dim. a wind has risen. the dark waters stir. this is the book of the servant of the godse luminous one! our eyes are upon you. light our paths and light our visions. lead us through the dark. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com morning prayer to aphrodite hail mother! the sun has risen. another day has begun. i wash my face in these new born rays and take my first step in the ways of love. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com trinity by the divinity of three, so mote it be! eliz

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

world; and has graven on its side an ibis, to indicate that eternal vigilance is a necessity if physical limitations are to be surmounted. veiled isis--arcanum ii. in divination, arcanum ii may briefly be read as science. arcanum ii is figured by a woman seated at the threshold of the temple of isis. she is seated between two columns, the one on her right being red to signify pure spirit and its luminous ascension over matter, and the one on her left being black to represent the bondage of matter over the impure. the woman is crowned by a tiara of three stories surmounted by a lunar crescent. from the tiara a veil falls over her face. she wears upon her bosom the symbol of the planet mercury, and carries upon her knees an open book which she half covers with her mantle. this symbolic ense

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

ange my shoes. the current state of chaos magick in the present time has only maneuvered to some certain state due to lack of imagination and vision. chaos magick is an egocentric ideology that has no specific doctrine or form. lack of dogma can often lead to emptiness of concepts and then the boat literally runs aground. chaos magick must be defined in a certain context in order to re-awaken the luminous possibilities contained therein. austin osman spare was the founder of what is today chaos magick (unknowingly of course. his study and practice of magick developed early on and was later subject to formal training with aleister crowley. spare understood the importance of ritual and ceremony yet at the same time found it repulsive and idiotic. however, by viewing spare s paintings and pas

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

, ih, lb) and also of his own nature is he liberty and love. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c1.html (1 of 7 [12/28/2001 2:05:17 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. now of old our brethren hid this doctrine in tradition, and in fable, and in great buildings, and in the rituals of freemasonry. with this key all these rituals become intelligible, luminous, radiant; without it they are dark, the just scorn of the ignorant. search and see. ii in this book we have no need to speak of local and tribal gods, of animistic personifications of partial phenomena, and the like. but of universal gods, as these: the fire; an image of sol, and a fable of the phallus. the moon; an image of kteis, only worshipped with sol in his aspect as an extension of

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

or pre-eminence; and when moses descended from the mount with the spirit of god still upon him, his head appeared horned.2 to the head of the bull was sometimes joined the organ of generation, which represented not only the strength of the creator, 1 lib. i. c. 12. 2 exod. c. xxxiv. v. 35, ed. vulgat. other translators understand the expression metaphorically, and suppose it to mean radiated, or luminous. of priapus 23 but the peculiar direction of it to the most beneficial purpose, the propagation of sensitive beings. of this there is a small bronze in the museum of mr. townley, of which an engraving is given in plate iii. fig. 2.1 sometimes this generative attribute is represented by the symbol of the goat, supposed to be the most salacious of animals, and therefore adopted upon the sam

will be perfectly just and natural; for light-extending, is of all others the properest epithet for the sun. sophocles, as well as virgil, is known to have been an admirer of ancient expressions, and to have imitated homer more than any other attic poet; therefore, his employing an obsolete word is not to be wondered at. taking this etymology as the true one, the lyc an pan of arcadia is pan the luminous; that is, the divine essence of light incorporated in universal matter. the arcadians called him ton thj lhj kurion, the lord of matter as macrobius rightly translates it.2 he was hence called sylvanus by the latins; sylvus being, in the ancient pelasgian and olian greek, from which the latin is derived, the same as lh for it is well known to all who have compared the two languages attent

e names of the eleusinian ceres, celestial venus, and proserpine; and, when the goddess answers him, she describes herself as follows: i am, says she, nature, the parent of things, the sovereign of the elements, the primary progeny of time, the most exalted of the deities, the first of the heavenly gods and goddesses, the queen of the shades, the uniform countenance; who dispose, with my nod, the luminous heights of heaven, the salubrious breezes of the sea, and the mournful silence of the dead; whose single deity the whole 1 pausanias (lib. ii) says he knew the meaning of this symbol, but did not choose to reveal it, it being a part of the mystic worship. 2 plate iii, fig. 1. 3 lib. i. 40 on the worship world venerates, in many forms, with various rites, and various names. the egyptians

ir union produced the separation or delivery of the elements from each other; for the name apollo is only a title derived from apoluw, to deliver from.3 they made the robes of isis various in their colours and complicated in their folds, because the passive or material power appeared in various shapes and modes, as accommodating itself to the active; but the dress of osiris was simple, and of one luminous colour, to show the unity of his essence, and universality of his power; equally the same through all things.4 the luminous, or flame colour, represented the sun, who, in the language of the theologists, was the substance of his sacred power, and the visible image of his intellectual being.5 he is called, in the orphic litanies, the chain which connects all things together( d anedrame des

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

varied in luminosity, and was united to the body of the medium by a little cord. he asserted that it could see through distant opaque bodies, and most surprisingly, that it caused a calcium sulfide screen to glow when it approached the screen "the sensory organs of the medium were seated in the phantom. at close approach it produced a sensation of cold, was humid to the touch and made the fingers luminous in the dark."74 this material appears in durville's book les fantdmes des vivants, and was referred to with great interest by hereward carringt n. durville concluded that astral projection proved, beyond a doubt, not only the existence of the human soul, but also the survival of the soul after death. he summed it up in two statements: 74. fodor, 100. 75. muldoon and carrington, projection

e, by trapping it inside the body. kardec's solution was that the body had its own life independent of the life of the spirit. however, hedging his bets, kardec wrote "but we must add that, during earth-life, the spirit is never completely detached from the body. spirits, as well as certain seeing mediums, perceive that the spirit of one in the flesh, when away from the body, is united to it by a luminous trail, which reaches to the body; a phenomenon that never occurs when the body is dead, for then the separation is complete."79 we can gather from this that the silver cord is not always visible when the astral double is visible. it can be perceived by spiritual beings as well as mediums possessed of the second sight, but is not seen by everyone who sees the astral body. the method of sai

ll in its depths struck them as plausible. it was believed in some quarters that bulwer-lytton's novel was fact disguised as fiction. 122 soul flight in a magical sense, vril is a blind force. it can be used for good or for evil, in a way similar to electricity, which also has no moral affiliation. one of hitler's earlier advisors, the rosicrucian and freemason general karl haushofer, founded the luminous lodge of the vril society in 1925, the same year in which the thule society was dissolved. the author wulf schwarzwiiller asserted that the purpose of the vril society was to investigate the roots of the aryan race, and to perform ritual exercises designed to awaken the power of vril. he claimed that haushofer was a student of the mystic gregor ivanovich gurdyev, better known as g. i. gur

telligence that are used by the grays in their work. some are mere mobile, articulated machines, whereas others resemble the human form. 8. balls of light: the eighth class of aliens takes the form of floating balls of intense radiance that are difficult to look at directly with the naked eye. they communicate by means of telepathy. 9. apparitions: sometimes aliens appear in a ninth class that is luminous and semi-transparent, and has the ability to walk through doors, walls, and furniture. it is speculated that these are artificial three-dimensional projections rather than living beings. we can make a few general observations about this alien menagerie. the nordics were commonly seen early on in the flying saucer craze, but were soon supplanted by the grays, who have dominated the ufo sce

VOX SABBATUM

with blood! witness my ritual of the sun, from which i am the god of above and below! i ascend now into the sky, as the angel-djinn of light i am upon earth known as ahriman, arimanius, the dragon of darkness my religion is sorcery, that which is created from the self thus of self-love vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 27 my forms are many, human or a beautiful angel, crowned and winged in emerald, luminous as the peacock, as wise as the serpent. i may take the form of the serpent with a lions head, for i am the dragon and beast, who creates and destroys. on my left hand is belias, my shadow form over hades, on my right hand is cain, called elohim, my flesh born son of earth behind me is az lilith, my bride and druj spawning goddess, my inspiration of art! in front of me is aeshema, called t

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

el kundalini) magia sexual. 7 arcanum 13 death. the fouth hour of apollonius. the neophite will wonder at night among the sepulchures, and will experience the horror of the visions, he will deliver himself to magic and to goethia (this means the disciple will be attacked by millions of black magicians in the astral plane; those tenebreious magicians will attempt to move the disciple away from the luminous path. arcanum 14 the two urns divine magnetism and human magnetism. the superior waters of heaven. during this time the disciple learns to be pure and chaste, because he understands the value of his seminal fluid. arcanum 15 (the electrical hurricane) typhon baphomet. the sixth hour of apollonius. here it is necessary to stay quiet, still, because of fear (this signifies the terrible tria

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 abyss as a submerged sub-lunar type of demon. there are many students of the luminous path that have gone astray by this dark path. it is good to remember that the great masters of the sanctuary of vulcan fell under this subtle temptation and were converted into terrible, perverse demons. the narrow door there are many students of occultism who are convinced that many paths exist in order to reach god. there are some who affirm that three paths exist; there are others who

ansforma en un dios. 125 the great tempter the psychological i is the great tempter. the i hates sexual magic because the i wants the complete satisfaction of desire. the i is the one who thinks and searches whereas the being does not need to think or search. when we are working in the great work, the i does not feel secure; thus, it searches for that which is called security. the students of the luminous path always fall into the abyss of perdition when searching for security. therefore, do not allow yourself to be seduced by the great tempter. while the mind is searching around for results, it is because we are not ready for the great work. satan always wants results, satan always goes around hunting for something. thus do not allow your mind to be poisoned by satan. do not waste your me

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early christians saw as a symbol for christ, represented the new christian community, since these fish were caught after the resurrection of jesus. one may refer to david fideler's jesus christ sun of god: ancient cosmology and early christian symbolism for other interesting associations of the number 153 with pythagorean symbolism. eliphas levi praises the sephira of tiphareth thus: beauty, the luminous conception of equilibrium in forms, intermediary between the crown and the kingdom, mediating principle between creator and creation.a sublime conception of poetry and its sovereign priesthood (transcendental magic, 1972, p. 97. to this sphere is attributed the number six and the seal of solomon, or hexagram. this is the geometrical symbol which best illustrates the great maxim "as above

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

orts than you might realize. for example, there's the case of the creature of charles mill lake in mansfield, ohio. a green-eyed, seven-foot-tall, seemingly armless humanoid, seen late in march 1959 by michael lane, wayne armstrong, and dennis patterson, came out of the lake and left behind 'tracks that resembled the footgear worn by skin divers' the thing was seen again in 1963 and described as 'luminous and green-eyed' i examined the site of these encounters and can testify to the charles mill lake's swampy affinities--certainly a good home for a black lagoon beast. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (12 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58 "in 1973, during the summer, residents of new jersey's newton-lafayette area described a giant, man

a car stopped right in front of the stand and the door opened "even through he didn't want to go, aeromar lost his will and entered the car. the door closed and he found inside- not surprisingly- the three same men whom he had been dodging for months. they drove for a while, leaving the city and entering a wooded area "the car stopped and they all walked up to a big ufo surrounded by some sort of luminous ring and hovering above the ground. the men walked underneath the craft, which emitted a ray of light and they suddenly were inside. still drained of any willpower, aeromar walked to a chair and sat down. from the arms of the chair appeared handles that secured his wrists. an iron bar then pressed his forehead backwards while another gadget fast- ened his neck. up to here the men were alw

peared in a berkley, california newspaper "dale russell, curator of fossil vertebrates at the national museums of canada in ottawa, has developed a theory that intelligent life forms could have developed from the large reptiles that roamed the earth (in ancient times "russell calls his imaginary creature a 'dinosauroid' which would look like a hairless, green-skinned reptile with a bulging skull, luminous cat-like eyes and three-fingered hands "the amphibians evolved into a humanoid species that eventually developed a culture that ran its course or was destroyed in an atlantis-like catastrophe--just after they had begun exploring extraterrestrial frontiers. certain ufonauts, then, may be the descendants of the survivors of that amphibian culture returning from their space colony to monitor

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

e. even though he cannot see his own hand, yet when he hears a sound he moves toward it. true indeed, o yagnavalkya. when the sun has set, and the moon has set, and the fire has gone out, and no sound is heard, what serves then as his light? the self indeed is his light; for by the light of the self man sits, moves about, does his work, and when his work is done, rests. who is that self? the self-luminous being who dwells within the lotus of the heart, surrounded by the senses and sense organs, and who is the light of the intellect, is that self. becoming identified with the intellect, he moves to and fro, through birth and death, between this world and the next. becoming identified with the intellect, the self appears to be thinking, appears to be moving. while the mind is dreaming, the s

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

sublunary sphere, all things are not commensurate, nor is everything sensible to everybody alike. animals can be scented, and their presence definitely known, by dogs when at great distances from them, and when man is in complete ignorance of their existence. some of the ancients thought the soul had three vehicles--the terrestrial body, an aerial one in which it is punished, and an ethereal one, luminous and celestial, in which the soul abides when in a state of bliss. it may be that some one, by purification of the senses, by hereditary magical power, or by probity, or by the sacred operations of his religion, may perceive, with a terrestrial body laid aside, things imperceptible to us, and hear sounds inaudible to us still in bondage. or with mantle partly unfolded, some adept or truth

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

er of] rest, one can add to the sacred from the profane. 23 noteworthy is the application of this principle in a tradition attributed to r. yudan that the time in which the creation of the world [mele khet ha-olam] was completed is the extra hour wherein the sacred is added onto the profane [zo sha ah yeterah she-mosifin me-hol al qodesh. according to this statement, creation was completed in the luminous shadow of twilight, the borderline moment between the mundane and holy, and hence it is designated as the hour wherein the sacred can be added to the profane. in one midrashic context, the dictum of r. yudan is linked exegetically to the verse six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the lord your god (exod 20:9).24 the philosophical understanding

ut).260 this association of the feminine and the phallic corona accounts for the essential link between time and memory a rmed repeatedly by kabbalists, the masculine (zakhrut) branded as the locus of memory (zikkaron).261 the generative force is envisioned, moreover, as the twenty-two hebrew letters, which are contained within the name yhwh. these letters, in turn, allude to the ten sefirot, the luminous emanations arrayed in various images in the visionary s imagination, especially the image of an anthropos. philosophically speaking, envisioning the infinite entails the paradox of delineating the limit immeasurable in its delineation, enunciating the word unspoken in its enunciation, recollecting the trace forgotten in its recollection. this insight, which characterizes the kabbalistic o

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