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r william i. of bavaria. they were brothers, and reigned conjointly. from his calling the duke of bavaria, his lord, it would appear that he was living under his dominion, but it is curious that up to this point abraham has never mentioned the name of his own town. 40 constantine palaeologos, who was the thirteenth and last greek emperor. he was killed, and constantinople taken by the turks under mahomet ii. the direct descendant of constantine palaeologos today, is the princess eug nie di cristoforo-palxologae-nicephorae-comnenae. 41 a deux doigts de sa perte. 42 this chapter is entitled concerning the convocation of the good spirits. 43 thus in ms? saxonia. 44 quelques hableurs. of abramelin the mage 37 45 herbipolis is the latin mediaeval name of the town of wurtzbourg in bavaria. it se

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

e true? and when you have answered this question there will be time enough to assume that all other systems are wrong. start with a clean sheet, and write neatly and beautifully upon it, so that others can read you aright; do not start with some old palimpsest, and then scribble all over it carelessly, for then indeed others will come who will of a certainty ready you awry. if osiris, christ, and mahomet were mad, then indeed is madness the key to the door of the temple. yet if they were only called mad for being wise beyond the sane, then ask you why their doctrines brought with them the crimes of bigotry and the horrors of madness? and our answer is, that though they loved truth and wedded truth, they could not explain truth; and their disciples therefore had to accept the symbols of tru

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

the life of jesus this solitariness emerges ever more clearly the great souls are always lonely souls. they tread uncompanioned the most difficult parts of the long way of return. christ was ever lonely. his spirit drove him again and again into isolation "the great religious conceptions which haunt the imaginations of civilized mankind are scenes of solitariness: prometheus chained to his rock, mahomet brooding in the desert, the meditations of the buddha, the solitary man on the cross. it belongs to the depth of the religious spirit to have felt forsaken, even by god."33 christ's life alternated between the crowd whom he loved and the silence of the solitary places. first he is to be found in the daily life of the family experience, where the intimacies of personalities can so sadly imp

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

larly if shri krishna is shown to be an earlier incarnation of the lord of love, the christ. thereby three major world religions the christian, the hindu and the buddhist will be intimately related, whilst the mahommedan faith will be found to be linked to the christian faith because it embodies the work of the master jesus as he overshadowed one of his senior disciples, a very advanced initiate, mahomet. a close study of all the above will indicate to you the lines along which i would like to see the work expand in future years. i would ask for a careful study of these words, for i regard this as an important instruction and one which could be regarded as the skeleton outline of the work i wish to see done. it will involve an intensification of the work of the advanced section in the arca

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

en the woman, representing matter that has been dominated and controlled. cassiopeia will be found seated on the arctic circle, close to [36] cepheus the king,or lawgiver, whom we shall meet later as one of the three constellations in pisces. at the commencement, law; at the close, law; for cepheus has a close relation with the first and the last sign of the zodiac. it is interesting to note that mahomet, the founder of the most militant religion, was born in this sign, and legend says that moses also was born in it; moses, the lawgiver, and mahomet, the warrior- 24- the labours of hercules the problem of hercules, as he enters upon his labors, is to demonstrate his power over matter and form, and so he has to recognize cassiopeia from the very beginning, the hitherto enthroned queen. the

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

im. but this "college" and this eden belong to the fifth race, and are simply a faint reminiscence of the adi-varsha, of the primeval third race. what is the etymological meaning of the word eden? in greek it is [hedone, signifying voluptuousness. in this aspect it is no better than the olympus of the greeks, indra's heaven (swarga) on mount meru, and even the paradise full of houris, promised by mahomet to the faithful. the garden of eden was never the property of the jews; for china, which can hardly be suspected of having known anything of the jews 2,000 b.c, has such a primitive garden in central asia inhabited by the "dragons of wisdom" the initiates. and according to klaproth[[vol. 2, page] 204 the secret doctrine. the hieroglyphical chart copied from a japanese cyclopaedia in the bo

ristian symbol in every church, as the nave (from navis, the ship* the navis- the sidereal vessel- is fructified by the spirit of life- the male god; or, as the learned kenealy (in his apocalypsis) calls it very appropriately- the holy spirit. in western religious symbology the crescent was the male, the full moon, the female aspect of that universal spirit "the mystic word alm, which the prophet mahomet prefixed to many chapters of the koran, alludes to her as the alm, the immaculate virgin of the heavens. and- the sublime ever falling into the ridiculous- it is from this root alm that we have to derive the word almeh- the egyptian dancing-girls. the latter are "virgins" of the same type as the nautchnis in india, and the (female) kadeshim, the holy ones of the jewish temples (those conse

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ain relations of atomic weights" or even by mr. crookes's "radiant matter" though his experiments may seem[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 544 the secret doctrine. to go further. unless it also admits the possibility of one element, or the one life of the occultists. it will have to hang up that "single substance" especially if limited to only the solar nebulae, like the coffin of mahomet, in mid air, though minus the attractive magnet that sustains that coffin. fortunately for the speculative physicists, if unable to state with any degree of precision what the nebular theory does imply, we have, thanks to professor winchell, and several disagreeing astronomers, been able to learn what it does not imply (vide supra) unfortunately, this is far from clearing even the most sim

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

the sintoos; beddru of japan; hesus or eros, and bremrillaham of the druids; thor, son of odin, of gauls; cadmus of greece; hil and feta of mandaites; gentaut and quetzalcoatl of mexico; universal monarch of the sibyls; ischy of formosa; divine teacher of plato; holy one of xaca; fohi, ieo, lao-kium, chiang-ti, and tien of china; ixion and quirnus of rome; prometheus of the caucasus; mohammed or mahomet of arabia, dahzbog of the slavs; jupiter, jove, and quirinius of rome; mithra of persia, india, and rome.18 the cult of mithra originates thousands of years before "jesus" and yet again tells the later christian story in fine detail. it is even said that gold, frankincense, and myrrh, were offered to him. by the time that jesus was invented by the anunnaki priesthood, the mithra rites and

tion. islam was created to further polarise the religious divides and in the biggest secret i show some of the connections between the secret societies behind "christianity, including the knights templar, and those at the heart of islam. among these were the assassins, from whom we get the term for politically motivated murder. the muslim faith and the creed of islam were inspired by the story of mahomet or mohammed. this was very similar in theme to the official version of how joseph smith inspired the mormon religion. in 612, it is said, mohammed had a "vision" and was told to start a new faith- just as smith later claimed. the date is interesting because some ancient peoples were told to expect an incarnation of "god" every 600 years and mohammed came 600 years after "jesus. once again

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

kull cap. this is symbolic of the way priests in the mystery schools used to shave thebacks of their heads. the more formal headgear and ritual of judaism and christianityare also very similar because they originate from the same source and the popes mitreis the fish head symbol of nimrod.to complete the trio, along came the skull-cap-wearing muslims and the creed ofislam, inspired by the prophet mahomet (mohammed) when he had a vision in theyear 612. once more we find that islams roots are in christianity and judaism andtherefore babylon. muslims see islam as an updated continuation of thejudeo-christian stream and they, too, trace their ancestry back to our old mate,abraham, who is said to have emerged from the sumerian city of ur and headed foregypt. they believe that abraham built the

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

shed a collection of manuscripts known as the antiquities of annius, full of fables and absurdities, and falsely attributed to berosus, fabius victor, cato, manettio, and others. he was also responsible for the treatise the empire of the turks and the book future triumphs of the christians over the turks and the saracens. these two works are explanations of the apocalypse. the author claimed that mahomet was the antichrist, and that the end of the world would take place when the christians overcome the jews and the muslims. annwyn (or annwfn) the celtic other-world. according to ancient belief, it might be located either on or under the earth or the sea, or might be a group of islands or a revolving castle surrounded by sea, and anima mundi encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed

lable online at http//www.aspr.com. ass many superstitions concern this familiar animal. the egyptians traced his image on the cakes they offered to typhon, god of evil. the romans regarded the meeting of an ass as an evil omen, but the animal was honored in arabia and judea, and it was in arabia that the ass of silenus spoke to his master. other talking asses were balaam s ass (numbers 22, which mahomet placed in his paradise with alborack; the ass of aasis, queen of sheba; and the ass on which jesus christ rode into jerusalem. some people have found something sacred and mysterious in the innocent beast, and a species of divination employed the head of an ass. at one time a special festival was held for the ass, during which he was led into the church while mass was sung. this reverence i

to promote these results. he concludes with a catalog of the names of some of the devils of commonest occurrence: astaroth, baal, cozbi, dagon, aseroth, baalimm, chamo, beelphegor, astarte, bethage, phogor, moloch, asmodaeus, bele, nergel, melchon, asima, bel, nexroth, tartach, acharon, belial, neabaz, merodach, adonides, beaemot, jerobaal, socothbenoth, beelzebub, leviathan, lucifer, satan, and mahomet. petrus stampa s fuga satanae treatise in the the sauvus exorcismorum is very brief and does not contain any significant additional information. according to a treatise on practical exorcism entitled histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d une penitente (1613, sr. madeleine de demandolx de la palud was exorcised over a four-month period. she was under the power of five princes

hat the lady was smitten with a deadly cancer, lully s frame of mind began to alter speedily. sobered by the frustration of his hopes, he vowed henceforth to live differently, consecrating his days to the service of god. lully took his holy orders, but his active and impetuous temperament left him little inclined for monastic life. aiming to carry the gospel far afield to convert the followers of mahomet, he began to study arabic. in 1276 lully founded trinity college of majorca and trained other men in arabic and prepared missionaries for service in islamic lands. soon lilly proceeded to rome to enlist the pope s sympathy in his project. lully failed to get the pope s support, yet, undaunted, he embarked on his own from genoa in about 1291, and when he reached tunis, he commenced his crus

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inating nor endowed with the power which modern criminologists call irresistible; but when she wishes, be it by day or by night, she can divert a curious group for an hour or so with the most surprising phenomena. either bound to a seat, or firmly held by the hands of the curious, she attracts to her the articles of furniture which surround her, lifts them up, holds them suspended in the air like mahomet s coffin, and makes them come down again with undulatory movements, as if they were obeying her will. she increases their height or lessens it according to her pleasure. she raps or taps upon the walls, the ceiling, the floor, with fine rhythm and cadence. in response to the requests of the spectators something like flashes of electricity shoot forth from her body, and envelop her or enwra

and the winds, they should dig under his throne. they did so and found the books, abounding with the most impious superstitions. the more learned and enlightened refused to participate in the practices described in those books, but they were willingly adopted by the common people. muslims asserted that the jewish priests published this scandalous story concerning solomon, which was believed until mahomet, by god s command, declared him to have been no idolater. it was further maintained by some muslims that solomon brought a thousand horses from damascus and other cities he conquered, although some say they were left to him by his father david, who seized them from the amalekites; others claimed that they came out of the red sea and were provided with wings. the king wished to inspect his

rs. their intimate connection with the east and the long establishment of the order had in all probability rendered their christianity not quite so pure as that of western europe. numerous treatises have been written for the purpose of proving or disproving the temple heresy, to show that it followed the doctrines and rites of the gnostic ophites of islam, that baphomet was merely a corruption of mahomet, and it has been collated with various other eastern systems. hans prutz furthered the view of the rejection of christianity in his book geheimlehre und geheimstatutendes tempelherren- ordens (1879) in favor of a religion based on gnostic dualism, and at once raised up a host of critics. but many defenders of the order followed, and it was proved in numerous instances that the confessions

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

stial things. on the fourth wall were birds and reptiles; and on the fifth animals. finally, on the outermost giro were displayed, on the inner side of the wall, all the mechanical arts and their inventors, and the different ways in which these are used in different parts of the world. and on its outer side were images of inventors of sciences and laws. there were moses, osiris, jupiter, mercury, mahomet, and many others. in a higher and more honourable place on this wall were placed images of christ and the twelve apostles, whom the solarians greatly venerated. 1 cittd del sole, ed. cit, pp. 3-5. 368 giordano bruno and tommaso campanella the city was thus a complete reflection of the world as governed by the laws of natural magic in dependence on the stars. the great men were those who ha

ainly hoped, during his last triumphant period in paris, that richelieu was getting interested in it in relation to the french monarchy. in the dedication to richelieu of his de sensu rerum et magia (the paris edition of 1637, campanella appeals to the great cardinal to build the city of the sun. the paris edition of the civitas solis (1637) revises the city in a slightly more orthodox direction; mahomet is left out; christ and the apostles are put into a much higher place; aristotle is called a logician, instead of a pedant. but another change is that the solarians are described as actually practising the magic.1 how was it that campanella could believe that the magical reform could come within a catholic framework? one way was through the continuity of the stars with the pseudo-dionysian

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

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

jettison the symbolic language of the masters, and, having swept clean our minds of the dogmas, rituals, and canons of the churches, we must diligently search for that secret process whereby a helot can be transformed into a hierophant, not magically but spiritually. this indeed is the one and hidden problem of divine alchemy. we will first examine three masters known to all- buddha, christ, and mahomet. what is there common in their lives? the first was born a prince; the second was the son of a carpenter- or the son of god if the orthodox object to so humble a parentage; the third was a camel-driver. as different as their origins and worldly occupations were their intellects and characters, and again as different were the religions which they founded. yet we find one thing in common in

rom the world, and during this long period no single mention is made of him. then through baptism and prayer the heaven was opened, and the holy ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove [symbol of binah] upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, thou art my beloved son; in thee i am well pleased. 7 today his nominal and actual followers still number six hundred and eighty millions. mahomet, at the age of thirty-five, retired into a cave and was visited by the angel gabriel, the messenger of god; he emerged an illumined adept. his followers conquered half the known world of their day, established a wonderful civilization, and still number two hundred and ten millions. is this omission, this negative period, a coincidence in these three lives? the answer is gno h, and this ans

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

ut seven inches in length, and of oval shape; it was broken during the seige of mecca ina.d.683, and wasputtogether with cement and enclosed in a silver band.itis built into the wall at the northeast264themagical masoncorner of the kaaba, at a height suitable for men to kiss it in adoration.thisstone or a similar one called ai-lat was deemed a holy relic by the arab tribes even before the time of mahomet, and was associated with the history of abraham and the casting out of hagar and ishmael, the bond-woman andherson, when preference was given to the free woman sarah and her son isaac. as already stated, jerusalem had in its temple also a consecrated stone, and there is still a sacred stone in the churchoftheholy sepulchure in that city which was once said to be the centre or navelomphalos

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM17

t and last age shall not attain to see anything else; for our rota takes her beginning from that day when god spake fiat and shall end when he shall speak pereat; yet god's clock striketh every minute, where ours scarce striketh perfect hours. we also steadfastly believe, that if our brethren and fathers had lived in this our present and clear light, they would more roughly have handled the pope, mahomet, scribes, artists, and sophisters, and showed themselves more helpful, not simply with sighs and wishing of their end and consummation. when now these eight brethren had disposed and ordered all things in such manner, as there was not now any need of any great labour, and also that every one was sufficiently instructed and able perfectly to discourse of secret and manifest philosophy, they

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

derworld there fly scorched birds who were souls (svrsnir fuglar er salir voro, like swarms of flies, saem. 127a. the heathen bohemians thought the soul came out of the dying lips as a bird, and hovered among the trees, not knowing where to go till the body was buried; then it found rest. finns and lithuanians call the milkyway the path of birds (p. 357n, i.e. of souls. the arabs till the time of mahomet believed that the blood of a murdered man turns into an accusing bird, that flits about the grave till vengeance be taken for the dead. according to a polish folk-tale every member of the herburt family turns into an eagle as soon as he dies. the first-born daughters of the house of pileck were changed into doves if they died unmarried, but the married ones into owls, and to each member of

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

of the past transactions of others like heinrich zschokke-the swisshistorian-ofthe present, how far soever distant, like the americansolitaire*'and mr hazard's patient; and, in like manner, becoming possessed by an intuitive perception of the floating ideas of other coexistent souls, thus accounting for the phenomenon of jacobbehmen-arude, unlettered shoemaker-who, falling, like hispredecessor255mahomet, and his successor-swedenborg, into a 'quasi255 mesmeric state' produced those admirable and voluminous works, theteutonicphilosophy,which thus engendered were merely the reflex of the christianity of his time mixed up with the then all-engrossing theories of the triune, body, soul, andspirit-thesulphur, salt, and mercury of the magi-alchemical philosophers, andexpressedin their peculiar l

port of dogmas founded on the doctrine of hades, the possibility of a communion with the souls of the departed and the spirit world, particularly the ministry of guardian angels-doctrines which appeared novel to the great body of the protestant faith, though strictly scriptural and strenuously asserted by the ancient fathers and numerous modem author255 ities of the church of england.theclaims of mahomet ]acobbehmen, or swedenborg, to a divine mission arose from their cases being isolated, though exceedingly elevated, instances of spontaneous somnambulism; but surely the demonstration of the existence of animal magnetism by mesmer, the discovery of clairvoyance by de puysegur, and the phenomena since elicited by an almost countless number of somnambulists, tending incontestibly to prove th

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

, bursting its bounds, overflowed the neighboring lands. the palace of khosru the king of persia shook t on its foundations, and several of its towers were toppled to the earth* in the same eventful night the sacred fire of zoroaster, which, guarded by the magi, had burned without interruption for upward of a thousand years, was suddenly extinguished, and all the idols in the world fell down (see mahomet and his successors) while the prophet was still but a toddling babe, the angel gabriel with seventy wings came to him, and cutting open the child, withdrew the heart. this gabriel cleansed of the black drop of original sin which is in every human heart because of the perfidy of adam and then returned the organ to its proper place in the prophet's body (see footnote in e. h. palmer's transl

e tenth year after the hegira, mohammed led the valedictory pilgrimage and for the last time rode at the head of the faithful along the sacred way leading to mecca and the black stone. as the premonition of death was strong upon him, he desired this pilgrimage to be the perfect model for all the thousands that would follow "conscious that life was waning away within him" writes washington irving "mahomet, during this last sojourn in the sacred city of his faith, sought to engrave his doctrines deeply in the minds and hearts of his followers. for this purpose he preached frequently in the caaba from the pulpit, or in the open air from the back of his camel 'listen to my words' would he say 'for i know not whether, after this year, we shall ever meet here again. oh, my hearers, i am but a ma

. oh, my hearers, i am but a man like yourselves; the angel of death may at any time appear, and i must obey his summons' while thus preaching, the very heavens are said to have opened and the voice of god spoke, saying "this day i have perfected your religion, and accomplished in you my grace" when these words were uttered the multitude fell down in adoration and even mohammed's camel knelt (see mahomet and his successors) having completed the valedictory pilgrimage, mohammed returned to medina. in the seventh year after the hegira (a.h. 7) an attempt was made at kheibar to poison the prophet. as mohammed took the first mouthful of the poisoned food, the evil design was revealed to him either by the taste of the meat or, as the faithful believe, by divine intercession. he had already swal

rs (see a dictionary of islam) concerning the character of mohammed there have been the grossest misconceptions. no evidence exists to support the charges of extreme cruelty and licentiousness laid at his door. on the other hand, the more closely the life of mohammed is scrutinized by dispassionate investigators, the more apparent become the finer qualities of his nature. in the words of carlyle "mahomet himself, after all that can be said about him, was nor, a sensual man. we so err widely if we consider this man as a common voluptuary, intent mainly on base enjoyments--nay, on enjoyments of any kind. his household was of the frugalest, his common diet barley bread and water. sometimes for months there was not a fire once lighted on his hearth* a poor, hard-working, ill-provided man; care

nor vainglory, as they would have done had they been effected for selfish purposes. in the time of his greatest power, he maintained the same simplicity of manners and appearances as in the days of his adversity* it is this perfect abnegation of self, connected with this apparent heartfelt piety, running throughout the various phases of his fortune, which perplex one in forming a just estimate of mahomet's character* when he hung over the death-bed of his infant son ibrahim, resignation to the will of god was exhibited in his conduct under this keenest of afflictions; and the hope of soon rejoining his child in paradise was his consolation (see mahomet and his successors) a'isha, questioned after the death of the prophet concerning his habits, replied that he mended his own clothes, cobble

MORALS AND DOGMA

e is a judgment of god against all that is unjust. to seek to subjugate the _will_ of others and take the _soul_ captive, because it is the exercise of the highest power, seems to be the highest object of human ambition. it is at the bottom of all proselyting and propagandism, from that of mesmer to that of the church of rome and the french republic. that was the apostolate alike of joshua and of mahomet. masonry alone preaches toleration, the right of man to abide by his own faith, the right of all states to govern themselves. it rebukes alike the monarch who seeks to extend his dominions by conquest, the church that claims the right to repress heresy by fire and steel, and the confederation of states that insist on maintaining a union by force and restoring brotherhood by slaughter and s

ised prerogative of god, and condemn and punish another for his belief. born in a protestant land, we are of that faith. if we had opened our eyes to the light under the shadows of st. peter's at rome, we should have been devout catholics; born in the jewish quarter of aleppo, we should have contemned christ as an imposter; in constantinople, we should have cried"_allah il allah, god is great and mahomet is his prophet" birth, place, and education give us our faith. few believe in any religion because they have examined the evidences of its authenticity, and made up a formal judgment, upon weighing the testimony. not one man in ten thousand knows anything about the _proofs_ of his faith. we believe what we are taught; and those are most fanatical who know least of the evidences on which th

rest in the h pital des invalides, in the great city on the seine. his thoughts still govern france. he, and not the people, dethroned the bourbon, and drove the last king of the house of orleans into exile. he, in his coffin, and not the people, voted the crown to the third napoleon; and he, and not the generals of france and england, led their united forces against the grim northern despotism. mahomet announced to the arabian idolaters the new creed"_there is but one god, and mahomet, like moses and christ, is his apostle" for many years unaided, then with the help of his family and a few friends, then with many disciples, and last of all with an army, he taught and preached the koran. the religion of the wild arabian enthusiast converting the fiery tribes of the great desert, spread ov

disciples, and last of all with an army, he taught and preached the koran. the religion of the wild arabian enthusiast converting the fiery tribes of the great desert, spread over asia, built up the saracenic dynasties, conquered persia and india, the greek empire, northern africa, and spain, and dashed the surges of its fierce soldiery against the battlements of northern christendom. the law of mahomet still governs a fourth of the human race; and turk and arab, moor and persian and hindu, still obey the prophet, and pray with their faces turned toward mecca; and he, and not the living, rules and reigns in the fairest portions of the orient. confucius still enacts the law for china; and the thoughts and ideas of peter the great govern russia. plato and the other great sages of antiquity

the pythian priestess was a triple-headed serpent of brass, whose body, folded in circles growing wider and wider toward the ground, formed a conical column, while the three heads, disposed triangularly, upheld the _tripod_ of gold. a similar column was placed on a pillar in the hippodrome at constantinople, by the founder of that city; one of the heads of which is said to have been broken off by mahomet the second, by a blow with his iron mace. the british god hu was called "the dragon--ruler of the world" and his car was drawn by serpents. his ministers were styled _adders. a druid in a poem of taliessin says "i am a druid, i am an _architect, i am a prophet, i am a _serpent (gnadi" the car of the goddess ceridwen also was drawn by serpents. in the elegy of uther pendragon, this passage

or uttered thought or first emanation of light, or the perfect reason of the great, silent, supreme, uncreated deity, believed in and adored by all. we do not undervalue the importance of any truth. we utter no word that can be deemed irreverent by any one of any faith. we do not tell the moslem that it is only important for him to believe that there is but one god, and wholly unessential whether mahomet was his prophet. we do not tell the hebrew that the messiah whom he expects was born in bethlehem nearly two thousand years ago; and that he is a heretic because he will not so believe. and as little do we tell the sincere christian that jesus of nazareth was but a man like us, or his history but the unreal revival of an older legend. to do either is beyond our jurisdiction. masonry, of no

sessed a poetical, high-wrought, and scientifically arranged system of polytheism. their historical traditions had much analogy with those of the hebrews, and coincided with them in a variety of points. the tradition of a purer faith and the simple patriarchal worship of the deity appear never to have been totally extinguished among them; nor did idolatry gain much foothold until near the time of mahomet; who, adopting the old primeval faith, taught again the doctrine of one god, adding to it that he was his prophet. to the mass of hebrews, as well as to other nations, seem to have come fragments only of the primitive revelation: nor do they seem, until after their captivity among the persians, to have concerned themselves about metaphysical speculations in regard to the divine nature and

they believed it capable of working miracles; and held that the wonders in egypt were performed by moses, in virtue of this name being engraved on his rod: and that any person who knew the true pronunciation would be able to do as much as he did. josephus says it was unknown until god communicated it to moses in the wilderness: and that it was lost through the wickedness of man. the followers of mahomet have a tradition that there is a secret name of the deity which possesses wonderful properties; and that the only method of becoming acquainted with it, is by being initiated into the mysteries of the _ism abla. h o m was the first framer of the new religion among the persians, and his name was ineffable. amun, among the egyptians, was a name pronounceable by none save the priests. the old

in anger accused him of sophistry, nor saw immorality lurking in his doctrines; however they may judge of those who succeeded him, and claimed to be his apostles. divine or human, inspired or only a reforming essene, it must be agreed that his teachings are far nobler, far purer, far less alloyed with error and imperfection, far less of the earth earthly, than those of socrates, plato, seneca, or mahomet, or any other of the great moralists and reformers of the world. if our aims went as completely as his beyond personal care and selfish gratification; if our thoughts and words and actions were as entirely employed upon the great work of benefiting our kind--the true work which we have been placed here to do--as his were; if our nature were as gentle and as tender as his; and if society, c

stolidity of scottish presbyterianism "the better to succeed and win partisans, the templars sympathized with regrets for dethroned creeds and encouraged the hopes of new worships, promising to all liberty of conscience and a new orthodoxy that should be the synthesis of all the persecuted creeds" it is absurd to suppose that men of intellect adored a monstrous idol called baphomet, or recognized mahomet as an inspired prophet. their symbolism, invented ages before, to conceal what it was dangerous to avow, was of course misunderstood by those who were not adepts, and to their enemies seemed to be pantheistic. the calf of gold, made by aaron for the israelites, was but one of the oxen under the laver of bronze, and the karobim on the propitiatory, misunderstood. the symbols of the wise alw

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

e destinies of the ottoman power at constantinople would be fixed and foretold by four stars, entering into the word x'j, caah, signifying to be feeble, weak and drawing to its end. the stars being more brilliant in the letter aleph, indicated a capital, and gave it the numerical value of a thousand. the three letters combined make 1025, which must be computed from the taking of constantinople by mahomet ii, a calculation which still promises several centuries of existence to the enfeebled empire of the sultans, sustained at present by all europe combined. the mane thecel phares which belshazzar, in his intoxication, saw written on the wall of his palace by the glare of torches, was an onomantic intuition similar to that of the rabbins. initiated, no doubt, by his hebrew diviners in the re

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

ness wallah to cut off into the wilds, up mount cone, sometimes for a month at a stretch, just to be alone. his name: a dream-name, changed by the vision. pronounced correctly, it means he-for-whom-thanks-should-be-given, but he won't answer to that here; nor, though he's well aware of what they call him, to his nickname in jahilia down below _he-who-goes-up-and-down-old-coney. here he is neither mahomet nor mochammered; has adopted, instead, the demon-tag the farangis hung around his neck. to turn insults into strengths, whigs, tories, blacks all chose to wear with pride the names they were given in scorn; likewise, our mountain-climbing, prophetmotivated solitary is to be the medieval baby--frightener, the devil's synonym: mahound. that's him. mahound the businessman, climbing his hot mo

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

di arabia died: june 8, 632 medina, saudi arabia arabian prophet; religious leader the merciful are shown mercy by the all-merciful. show mercy to those on earth, and god will show mercy to you. the world s one billion muslims believe that muhammad, the founder of islam, was sent to earth by allah (god) as his final prophet, or divine messenger. his name can also be spelled mohammad, mohammed, or mahomet, but he is generally referred to as the prophet. he was born muhammad ibn abdullah in the city of mecca, in the hejaz region of modern-day saudi arabia. the exact date of his birth is uncertain. some believe he was born on april 20, but muslims belonging to the shi a sect, or division, believe the date was april 26. the year is variously given as 570 or 571 ce, although some scholars have

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

an, of these last culprits, have you prepared a list "it is here" returned payan, laconically, presenting a paper. robespierre glanced over it rapidly "collot d'herbois! good! barrere! ay, it was barrere who said 'let us strike: the dead alone never return('frappons! il n'y a que les morts qui ne revient pas' barrere) vadier, the savage jester! good good! vadier of the mountain. he has called me 'mahomet' scelerat! blasphemer "mahomet is coming to the mountain" said couthon, with his silvery accent, as he caressed his spaniel "but how is this? i do not see the name of tallien? tallien, i hate that man; that is" said robespierre, correcting himself with the hypocrisy or self-deceit which those who formed the council of this phrase-monger exhibited habitually, even among themselves "that is

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

rs (1843 1901) observed that the evidence for ecstasy is stronger than the evidence for any other religious belief. of all the subjective experiences of religion, ecstasy is that which has been most urgently, perhaps to the psychologist most convincingly asserted; and it is not confined to any one religion, myers said. from the medicine man up to st. john, st. peter, and st. paul, with buddha and mahomet on the way, we find records which, though morally and intellectually much differing, are in psychological essence the same. evelyn underhill states that ecstasy represents the greatest possible extension of the spiritual consciousness in the direction of pure being: the blind intent stretching here receives its reward in a profound experience of eternal life. in this experience, the consci

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

the clock do never return to the clock from which theyare taken, so may my soul never return to heaven. this renunciation of a previous religion is noted as earlyas 1584 by reginald scot,[23] who was one of the first to raise his voice against the persecution by christiansof the heathen in their midst "as our witches are said to renounce christ and despite his sacraments: so doothe other forsake mahomet and his lawes".after the renunciation of his old religion the convert advanced to the actual admission ceremony, whichconsisted of baptism and marking. baptism was the less important part in the eyes of the members of the cultand was often omitted. it was, however, a rite which was in force before the introduction of christianity andhas therefore a definite bearing on the antiquity of the

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

t and last age shall not attain to see any thing else; for our rota takes her beginning from that day when god spake fiat, and shall end when he shall speak pereat; yet gods clock striketh every minute, where ours scarce striketh perfect hours. we also stedfastly beleeve, that if our brethren and fathers had lived in this our present and clear light, they would more roughly have handled the pope, mahomet, scribes, artists, and sophisters, and had shewed themselves more helpful, not simply with sighs, and wishing of their end and consummation. when now these eight brethren had disposed and ordered all things in such manner, as there was not now need of any great labour, and also that every one was sufficiently instructed, and able perfectly to discourse of secret and manifest philosophy, th

be eased of all their toil and labour, and be no more subject to the storms of inconstant fortune; but the wickedness of the ungodly thereby, with their due and deserved punishment, be augmented and multiplied. although we cannot be by any suspected of the least heresy, or of any wicked beginning, or purpose against the worldly government, we do condemn the east and the west (meaning the pope and mahomet) blasphemers against our lord jesus christ, and offer and present with a good will to the chief head of the roman empire our prayers, secrets, and great treasures of gold. yet we have thought good, and fit for the learned s sakes, to add somewhat more to this, and make a better explanation if there be anything too deep, hidden, and set down over dark in the fama, or for certain reasons wer

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

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

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

bei, described it as a wooden head, on which the figure of baphomet was painted, and adds, that he worshipped it by kissing its feet, and exclaiming, yalla, which was, he says, verbum saracenorum, a word taken from the saracens.2 a templar of florence declared that, in the secret chapters of the order, one brother said to the other, showing the idol, adore this head this head is your god and your mahomet. the word mahomet was used commonly in the middle ages as a general term for an idol or false god; but some writers have suggested that baphomet is itself a mere corruption of mahomet, and suppose that the templars had secretly embraced mahometanism. a much more remarkable explanation of this word has, however, been proposed, which is, at the least, worthy of very great consideration, espe

mti j, wisdom, a personification in what we may perhaps call the gnostic mythology answering to the sophia of the ophianites. he considers that the name baphomet is derived from the greek words baf m teoj, i. e. the baptism of metis, and that in its application it is equivalent with the name mete itself. he has further shown, we think conclusively, that baphomet, instead of being a corruption of mahomet, was a name known among the gnostic sects in the east. zonar is not an arabic word, and is perhaps only a corruption or error of the sculptor, but von hammer thought it meant a girdle, and that it alluded to the mysterious girdle of the templars, of which so much is said in their examinations. the letter b is supposed by von hammer to stand here for the name baphomet, or for that of barbal

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

n against any templar priest. with regard to no. 9, all the crusaders and the ordinary clergy were charged with this at some time or other. there seems little evidence that the templars were worse than the others. but with regard to 1, 2, 5 and possibly 4 and 6, i think there may have been some base for the charges. the idol was said to be called baphomet. some writers say this is a corruption of mahomet; but in those days the crusaders surely knew mahomet was a man and a prophet, and not an idol. it was also said to mean bapho metis, the baptism of wisdom, with no explanation given of what this wisdom consisted. another story was that it was coined from the first letters of the following sentence written backwards: templi omnium hominum pacis abbas: the father of the temple of universal p

that at his reception he was shown a head or idol and told 'you must adore this as your saviour and the saviour of the order of the temple' and he was made to worship this head by kissing its feet and saying 'blessed be he who shall save my soul' cettus, a knight received at rome, gave a very similar account. a templar of florence said he was told 'adore this head; this head is your god and your mahomet' and said that he worshipped it by kissing its feet. there seems to have been no questions asked as to how you can kiss a skull's feet. can it perhaps be explained by some rite resembling the following witch practice: in the old days it was said that 'when the god was not present, he was represented by a skull and crossbones('death and what lies beyond, or 'paradise and regeneration. nowad

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

mahometans say that ten animals were admitted to paradise and are as follows: 1. kratim, the dog of the seven sleepers. 2. ass of balaam. 3. ant of solomon. 4. whale of jonah. 5. the calf (not ram) offered to jehovah by abraham instead of isaac, his son. 6. the ox of moses. 7. the camel of the prophet salech. 8. the cuckoo of belkis. 9. the ram of ishmael. 10. al borek, the animal which conveyed mahomet. 95. we find 10 generations from adam to noah, 10 from shem to abraham. the 10 spiritual graces of christianity are love, joy, peace long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, prudence, meekness and temperature, says numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott dr. g. oliver; although where he gets 10 generations from adam to noah, i know not. under 10 also

delivered to moses. david, it is said, reduced them to eleven (11, and isaiah to six (6, and later to two (2. habakkuk to one (1, viz, the just shall live by faith. 613 also refers to the holy garment which had 600 fringes, eight (8) threads and five (5) knots. 620. the number of kether, ktr, the crown, or 1st sephirah. 622. 622 years from the christian era is the date of the hegira, or flight of mahomet from mecca, from which year the mahometans reckon their calendar. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 632. 632 years a.d. is the foundation of the persian mode of reckoning years, from their king yezdegird. 640. 640 is shemesh, the sun, shmsh; mem is water; place the three letters one above the other, and we get sh, fire, sun, rising above and sinking

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