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t differentiated them from christianity was their emphasis on knowledge rather than faith. the christian church fathers considered the gnostics heretical, or heretics. kether: the first emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify kether as the state of consciousness where creation merges with the veils of nonexistence. kether lies on the middle pillar and transcends the duality of chokmah (male) and binah (female) which lie immediately below on the tree. it is therefore symbolized in mystical tradition by the heavenly androgyne (male and female united in one) and represents a state of mystical transcendence and union with the supreme. it is compared to satori and nirvana. chokmah: the second emanation on the tree of life, following kether. occultists identify chokmah with the great

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oundwork might well be contemporary with him. at the wedding of a king, the males of all quadrupeds and birds were to have been slaughtered, but the cock and gander had made their escape. it looks to me like a legend of the olden time, which still circulated in the ll-12lh centuries, and which even a nursery-tale (no. 27, the town54 wokship. musicians) knows something of^ anyhow, in heathen times male animals seem to be in special demand for sacrifice^ as for killincr one of every species (and even agathias's kol awa arra /xvpia does not come up to that, it would be such a stupendous affair, that its actual execution could never have been conceivable; it can only have existed in popular tradition. it is something like the old mirror of saxony and that of swabia assuring us that every livin

gram. p. 16 says; rem divinam facere fnrvis hostiis; does that mean hlack beasts? we may suppose that cattle were 1 or will any one trace this incident in the reynard to the words of the vnlgate in matt. 22, 4: tauri mei et altilia occisa sunt, venite ad nuptias; which merely describe the preparations for the wedding-feast? any liint about males is just what the passage lacks^ the greeks ofiered male animals to god, female to goddesses, ii. 3, 103: a white male lamb to helios (sun, a hlack eive lamb to ge (earth. tiie lithuanians sacrificed to their earthgod zemiennik utriusque sexus domestica animalia; haupt's zeitschr. 1, 141^ reyscher and wilda zeitschr. fiir deutsches recht 5, 17, 18* ra. 261. 594. weisth. 3, 41. 46. 69. conf. virg. aen. 8, 82: candida cum foetu concolor albo sus; and

quaeso, vir honoratorum spleiididissime, haec jocularia, quae christianis offensa, paganis vero imitanda sunt, exercere. hoc opus idololatriae cultura est, non christianse elegantissimae disciplinae' et licet hoc indesinenter vir deo dignus perageret, iile tamen nullo modo admonenti se adquiescere voluit aut obedire. vir autem domini iterum atque iterum eum hortabatur, nt non solum a consuetudine male arrepta discederet, verum etiam et ipsam arhorem, ne christianis offendiculum esset, radicitus exstirparet sed ille nullatenus aurem placidam applicare voluit admonenti. in hujus ergo persuasionis tempore quodam die germanus ex urbe in praedia sui juris discessit. tunc beatus amator opportunitatem opperiens sacrilcffam arhorem cum caudicibus abscidit, et ne aliqua ejus incredulis esset memori

is called sishottr, broadhat. the succeeding period, down to the introduction of christianity, scarcely yields any information on the condition of the priesthood in continental germany; their existence we infer from that of temples and sacrifices. a fact of some importance has been preserved by beda, hist. eccl. 2, 13: a heathen priest of the anglo- saxons was forbidden to carry arms or to ride a male horse: non enim licuerat, pontificem sacrorum vel arma ferre, vel praetcrquam in equa equitare. can this have any connexion with the regulation which, it is true, can be equally explained from the bible, that christian clergymen, when riding about the country, should be mounted on asses and colts, not horses (ka. 86-88? festus also remarks: uquo vehi flamini diali non licebat, ne, si longius

he had had more familiar converse; but the personifications of the sun, fire, and the moon, to which he limits the sum total of their gods, will hardly bear even a forced' interpretatio eomana. if in the place of sun and moon we put apollo and diana, they at once contradict that deeply rooted])eculiarity of the teutonic way of thinking, which conceives of the sun as a female, and of the moon as a male being, which could not have escaped the observation of the eoman, if it had penetrated deeper. and vulcan, similar to the norse loki, but one of those divinities of whom there is least trace to be found in the rest of teutondom, had certainly less foundation than the equally visible and helpful deities of the nourishing earth, and of the quickening, fish-teeming, ship-sustaining water. i can

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stence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right th

ed their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalists and midwives became a threat. this was not least because their skills ensured less painful childbirth, which was considered contrary to the curse of god that the daughters of eve should bear children in sorrow. so midwives were a prime target for the new persecutions and were often accused of sacrificing babies to the devil. given

ly an innocent witness at the trials at first. however, he himself was accused of witchcraft and was pressed to death- a torture in which heavy stones were placed on the victim's chest and which took three days to kill them- rather than confess, for if he had, his property would have been taken from his descendants. high-ranking practitioners of magick who attempted to conjure demons were usually male, and included both popes and royalty. they generally escaped censure, however. the folk religion of the countryside was an easier target. in december 1484, the bull of pope innocent vii was published, appointing heinrich kramer and jakob sprenger as inquisitors against witchcraft and heresy. these two clerics wrote the malleus maleficarum, the notorious hammer of the witches, which described

unger sibling died in prison. dorcas was driven insane by her experience. about three-quarters of all those killed as witches in europe and scandinavia were women, mainly lower-class older women, female healers, village herbalists, wise women and midwives. with the death of so many experienced healers and wise women, much knowledge was inevitably lost, and for a time infant mortality increased as male physicians took over the roles of the deposed midwives. but anyone who was different in any way- eccentric, senile or physically deformed- could be accused. any old woman living alone might be blamed for the deaths of animals, the failure of crops and outbreaks of disease that were in reality caused by poor hygiene and diet, bad weather, human neglect or simply blind fate. of course, this occ

nth century. but the authentic water gypsies knew their lore by inheritance rather than from a book, and the similarities are remarkable. ritual was practised by the canal people within a triple magical square, each square joined by four lines and constructed from wood known as 'the mill. only the women entered the sacred area, under the leadership of a senior female water witch, though the chief male, known as the master, summoned the entity to assist in the ritual. if you would like to read more about this, you will find some recommended books listed in further reading, page 301. certainly, i can recall two terrifyingly swarthy aunts who commanded the family, and my father recounted many superstitions and much canal lore when i was young. this included the tale of a terrifying character

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ation the universe comes from the one (ain or no-thing) and returns to it. the first cause is not an explosion like the so-called big bang, but the emergence of chaos and order. people often ask "how can satan be the exception to every rule, the dissonance in the universal, the rebel of the cosmos, the rock cast in the still pond and still represent nature's balance factor" simply put, satan, the male principle, is chaos personified. babalon, the female principle, is order personified. these principles combine, divide and subdivide as the universe expands. these divisions create primary forms which help the co-creators weave the fabric of the universe. the process is reminiscent of the way cells divide and multiply in our own bodies. during the contraction phase, the primary forms rejoin t

e specific concerning the material the amulet is to be made from, its design, the kind of protection you desire. aiwass, lord egan's daemonic form, grants one astral projection experience. lucifer grants increased intelligence. pan (priapus) grants one sexual encounter with whomever you desire. bacchus grants that your unpaid debts shall be brought up to date. aphrodite (venus) grants the perfect male partner shall come to you. harpocrates grants the power of invisibility. hermes grants healing for a friend, loved one or relative. amon grants rain where you reside for two days. thoth grants you clairvoyance and clairaudience- the ability to see and hear spirits. athena grants clairsentience- experiencing realities or entities via physical senses. once more, you must ask for your gift when

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iousness with the tail of an eye on such sciences as mathematics, biology, and chemistry. in mathematics the expression 'a' plus 'b' plus 'c' is a triviality. write 'a' plus 'b' plus 'c' equals 0, and you obtain an equation from which the most glorious truths may be developed. in biology the cell divides endlessly, but never becomes anything different; but if we unite cells of opposite qualities, male and female, we lay the foundations of a structure whose summit is unattainably fixed in the heavens of imagination. similar facts occur in chemistry. the atom by itself has few constant qualities, none of them particulary significant; but as soon as an element combines with the object of its hunger we get not only the ecstatic production of light, heat, and so forth, but a more complex struct

r that is going to ring the bell. it may be that if you increase your sixty seconds to sixty-four the phenomena would begin immediately. that sounds all right but as you have nearly burst your lungs doing the sixty, you want this *added* energy to make the grade. that is only one example of the difficulty which arises with every practice. mars, morever, is the flaming energy of passion, it is the male quality in its lowest sense; it is the courage which goes berserk, and i do not mind telling you that, in my own case at least, one of the inhibitions with which i had most frequently to contend was the fear that i was going mad. this was especially the case when those phenomena began to occur, which, recorded in cold blood, did seem like madness. and the niyama of mars is the ruthless rage w

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

bination shub ishnigarrab (shub niggurath) might actually mean. there was a battle between the forces of "light" and "darkness (so-called) that took place long before man was created, before even the cosmos as we know it existed. it is described fully in the enuma elish and in the bastardised version found in the necronomicon, and involved the ancient ones, led by the serpent mummu-tiamat and her male counterpart absu, against the elder gods (called such in the n) led by the warrior marduk, son of the sea god enki, lord of magicians of this side, or what could be called "white magicians- although close examination of the myths of ancient times makes one pause before attempting to judge which of the two warring factions was "good" or "evil. marduk won this battle- in much the same way that

orshipped or called up the serpent of the sea, or abyss. indeed, the hebrew word for abyss that is found in genesis 1:2 is, hooke tells us, tehom, which the majority of scholars take to be a survival of the name of the chaos-dragon tiamat or leviathan that is identified closely with kutulu or cthulhu within the pages are mentioned independently of each other, indicating that somehow kutulu is the male counterpart of tiamat, similar to absu. this monster is well known to cult worship all over the world. in china, however, there is an interesting twist. far from being considered a completely hostile creature, dedicated to the erasure of mankind from the page of existence, the dragon is given a place of pre-eminence and one does not hear of a chinese angel or saint striving to slay the dragon

ancing is probably the simplest method of attaining results in "rousing leviathan, and has been used by societies as diverse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female

of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an ironic and splendid result of the ignorance of the greek religious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the naming of the goddess as a deity, not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities, had both male and female manifestations, showing that the sumerians definitely recognised a yin-yang composition if

a (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities, had both male and female manifestations, showing that the sumerians definitely recognised a yin-yang composition if the universe (the "male moon" idea is, the editor is given to understand, common to so-called aryan mythologies. there is also evidence to show that every god and goddess also had both a good and an evil nature, and evil gods were banished in the exorcism formulae of that civilisation as well as the lesser forms of demon. the horned moon as mentioned, the god of the moon was called nanna by the sumerians. by the lat

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

clarify chi-epsilon-psiiota- delta of which it was the origin. frater perdurabo perceived this truth, or rather the first half of it, comedy, at breakfast at "au chien qui fume. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 76 [79] 35 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-epsilon venus of milo life is as ugly and necessary as the female body. death is as beautiful and necessary as the male body. the soul is beyond male and female as it is beyond life and death. even as the lingam and the yoni are but diverse developments of one organ, so also are life and death but two phases of one state. so also the absolute and the conditioned are but forms of that. what do i love? there is no from, no being, to which i do not give myself wholly up. take me, who will! book of lies get any bo

77 [80] commentary( lambda-epsilon) this chapter must be read in connection with chapters 1, 3, 4, 8, 15, 16, 18, 24, 28, 29. the last sentence of paragraph 4 also connects with the first paragraph of chapter 26. the title "venus of milo" is an argument in support of paragraphs 1 and 2, it being evident from this statement that the female body becomes beautiful in so far as it approximates to the male. the female is to be regarded as having been separated from the male, in order to reproduce the male in a superior form, the absolute, and the conditions forming the one absolute. in the last two paragraphs there is a justification of a practice which might be called sacred prostitution. in the common practice of meditation the idea is to reject all impressions, but here is an opposite practi

t section of the title is an analysis of 77 considered as a mystic number. 7, the septenary; 11, the magical number; 77, the manifestation, therefore, of the septenary. through matter, because 77 is written in hebrew ayin zayin (oz, and he-goat, the symbol of matter, capricornus, the devil of the tarot; which is the picture of the goat of the sabbath upon an altar, worshipped by two other devils, male and female. as will be seen from the photogravure inserted opposite this chapter, laylah is herself not devoid of "devil, but, as she habitually remarks, on being addressed in terms implying this fact "it's nice to be a devil when you're one like me" the text need no comment, but it will be noticed that it is much shorter that the title. now, the devil of the tarot is the phallus, the redeeme

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

eart) udakkha 7 kama manipura (solar plexus) mano 8 aib prana svadistthana (navel) sakkya-ditti 9 hati linga sharira muladhara (lingam and anus) kama 10 kheibt, khat, tet, sahu sthula sharira avigga cxx. magical images of the sephiroth. cxxi* the grades of the order. cxxii. the ten plagues of egypt. 0. 08=0. 1 ancient bearded king seen in profile 10 =18 ipsissimus death of first-born 2 almost any male image shows some aspect of chokmah. 9 =28 magus locusts 3 almost any female image shows some aspect of binah 8 =38 magister templi 3rd order darkness 4 a mighty crowned and enthroned king 7 =48 adeptus exemptus hail and fire 5 a mighty warrior in his chariot, armed and crowned 6 =58 adeptus major boils 6 a majestic king, a child, a crucified god 5 =68 adeptus minor 2nd order murrain 7 a beaut

left hand, but over his right shoulder, and a staff 463 lines long in his right. a lion and a dragon are at his feet, but he seems unaware of their attacks or caresses. line 12. his attitude suggests the shape of the swastika or thunderbolt, the message of god. line 13. she is reading intently in an open book. line 14. she bears a sceptre and a shield, whereon is figured a dove as a symbol of the male and female forces. line 15. his attitude suggests f, and he is seated upon the cubic stone, whose sides show the green lion and white eagle. line 16. he is crowned, sceptred, and blessing all in a threefold manner. four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. line 17. he is inspired by apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and progane: represented by a

lipse, composed of 400 lesser circles. at the corners of the card a man, an eagle, a bull, and a lion. within the circles a naked shining figure in the sign of earth right foot advanced, fight hand advanced and raised, left hand lowered and thrown back. the hands grip each a ray of dazzling light, spiril, the right hand being dextro- and the left hand l vo-rotary. a red scarf conceals the fact of male genital organs, and suggests by its shape the letter k. such is the conventional hieroglyph. 41 appendix i the trigrams of the yi king attribution to quarters. planetary attribution. hindu attribution. yetziratic attribution. figure. name. part of body. key scale s! lingam+ y 7 khien. head. 2 [and 30. s.e$ apas. c m 6 tui. mouth. 14 [and 23. e& mano (prana! r 5 li. eyes. 6 [21 and 30. n.e% te

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passive and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. nanta [make the invoking pentagram of earth and pronouce this name ]lm ynda] and elohim said: let us make man in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air; and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. and the elohim created ath-ha-adam: in the image of the elohim created they them; male and female created they them. in the name of ]lm ynda and of the bride and queen of the kingdom; spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the sign of taurus] in the name of layrwa, great archangel of earth, spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great northern quadrangle, spirits of earth, adore your creator [sprinkle water before earth tablet]

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gnity. the number five is balanced against it. the attributes of five are energy and justice. four and five are again combined and harmonized in the number six, whose nature is beauty and harmony, mortality and immortality. in the number seven the feminine nature is again predominant, 2 but it is the masculine type of female, the amazon, who is balanced in the number eight by the feminine type of male. in the number nine we reach the last of the purely mental qualities. it identifies change with stability. pendant to this sixfold system is the number ten< the balance of the sephiroth: kether (1 "kether is in malkuth, and malkuth is in kether, but after another manner" chokmah (2) is yod of tetragrammaton, and therefore also unity. binah (3) is he of tetragrammaton, and therefore "the emper

fies change with stability. pendant to this sixfold system is the number ten< the balance of the sephiroth: kether (1 "kether is in malkuth, and malkuth is in kether, but after another manner" chokmah (2) is yod of tetragrammaton, and therefore also unity. binah (3) is he of tetragrammaton, and therefore "the emperor" chesed (4) is daleth, venus the female. geburah (5) is the sephira of mars, the male. tiphereth (6) is the hexagram, harmonizing, and mediating between kether and malkuth. also it reflects kether "that which is above, is like that which is below, and that which is below, is like that which is above" netzach (7) and hod (8) balanced as in text. jesod (9) see text. malkuth (10) contains all the numbers> which includes the whole of matter as we know it by the senses. it is impos

and the only excuse for doing them is that it sometimes occurs that one particular portion of the microcosm is so weak that its imperfection of impurity would vitiate the macrocosm of which it is the image, eidolon, or reflexion. for example, god is above sex; and therefore neither man nor woman as such can be said fully to understand, much less to represent, god. it is therefore incumbent on the male magician to cultivate those female virtues in which he is deficient, and this task he must of course accomplish without in any way impairing his virility. it will then be lawful for a magician to invoke isis, and identify himself with her; if he fail to do this, his apprehension of the universe when he attains samadhi will lack the conception of maternity. the result will be a metaphysical an

sufficient to dissipate the illusion. the word masculine has no meaning except in relation to some feminine correlative. the word alim may in fact be considered as neuter. by a rather absurd convention, neuter objects are treated as feminine on account of their superficial resemblance in passivity and inertness with the unfertilized female. but the female produces life by the intervention of the male, while the neuter does so only when impregnated by spirit. thus we find the feminine ama, becoming aima<fertility, of bn, the son, through the operation of the phallic yod, while alim, the congress of dead elements, only fructifies by the brooding of spirit. this being so, how can we describe alim as containing a magical formula? inquiry

chcraft, which is under hecate<crowley "orpheus" for the invocation of this goddess> it is only the romantic mediaeval perversion of science that represents young women as partaking in witchcraft, which is, properly speaking, restricted to the use of such women as are no longer women in the magical sense of the word, because thy are no longer capable of corresponding to the formula of the male, and are therefore neuter rather than feminine. it is for this reason that their method has always been referred to the moon, in that sense of the term in which she appears, not as the feminine correlative of the sun, but as the burnt-out, dead, airless satellite of earth. no true magical operation can be performed by the formula of alim. all the works of witchcraft are illusory; and their ap

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uch remagic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 13 cord. i know a great many legends, mostly borrowed from previous legends of a similar character. 9 it would be better for you to get a copy of the equinox of the gods and study it. the great work is the uniting of opposites. it may mean the uniting of the soul with god, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego- or what not. by "love under will" one refers to the fact that the method in every case is love, by which is meant the uniting of opposites as above stated, such as hydrogen and chlorine, sodium and oxygen, and so on. any reaction whatever, any phenomenon, is a phenomenon of "love, as you will understand when i come to explain to you the meaning of the word "point

ys possible to reduce any expression to nothing by taking any two equal and opposite terms (thus n(-n= 0 "we ought therefore to be able to get any expression that we want from nothing; we merely have to be careful that the terms shall be precisely opposite and equal (0= n- n. this then they did, and began to diagrammatize the universe as the oe s.b. cap "i- a pair of opposites, the yang or active male, and the yin or passive female, principles. they represented the yang by an unbroken, the yin by a broken, line (the first manifestation in nature of these two is th i yang, the sun, and the th i yin, the moon) this being a little large and loose, they doubled these lines, and obtained the four hsiang. they then took them three at a time, and got the eight kwa. these represent the development

the yin by a broken, line (the first manifestation in nature of these two is th i yang, the sun, and the th i yin, the moon) this being a little large and loose, they doubled these lines, and obtained the four hsiang. they then took them three at a time, and got the eight kwa. these represent the development from the original oe s.b. cap "i" to the natural order of the elements. i shall call the male principle m, the female f. m.1- khien "heaven-father" f.1- khw n "earth-mother- m.2- loe the sun f.2- kh n the moon- m.3- k n fire f.3- tui water- magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 77 m.4- sun air f.4- k n earth- note how admirably they have preserved the idea of balance. m.1. and f.1. are perfection. m.2. and f.2. still keep balance in their lines. the four "element

bstance itself, but only multiply its combinations. this is something the same as mystic monotheism; but all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. if we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural "it is no objection to this theory to ask who made the elements- the elements are at least there, and god, when you look for him, is not there. theism is obscurum per obscurius. a male star is built up from the centre outwards; a female from the circumference inwards. this is what is meant when we say that woman has no soul. it explains fully the difference between the sexes" magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 79 every "act of love under will" has the dual result (1) the creation of a child combining the qualities of its parents (2) the withdrawal b

as rising when he first drew air into his lungs. let me add, to strengthen the argument, that on the few occasions where i have erred there has been a good astrological reason for it. e.g. i might plump for pisces rising when it was actually capricornus; but in that case saturn would have been afflicted by being in cancer, with bad aspects from venus and the moon, thus taking away all his rugged, male, laborious qualities, and in the ascendant might have been jupiter, suggesting many of the qualities of pisces: and so forth. 14 now let me start! you want me to explain the system- or no-system- which i use. i do not "move in a mysterious way my wonders to perform" for nothing could be simpler. for its origin i have to thank abramelin the mage, who empties the vials of his scorn upon the ast

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erky; the rhythmical idea is lost. here are a few useful mantras: 1. aum. 2. aum tat sat aum. this mantra is purely spondaic. ii. illustration: line of music with: aum tat sat aum :under it 3. aum mani padme hum; two trochees between two caesuras. iii. illustration: line of music with: aum ma-ni pad-me hum :under it 4. aum shivaya vashi; three trochees. note that "shi" means rest, the absolute or male aspect of the deity "va" is energy, the manifested or female side of the deity. this mantra therefore expresses the whole course of the universe, from zero through the finite back to zero. iv. illustration: line of music with: aum shi-va-ya va-shi aum shi-va-ya vashi :under it 5. allah. the syllables of this are accented equally, with a certain pause between them; and are usually combined by

be made of copper. the guard is composed of the two crescents of the waxing and the waning moon- back to back. spheres are placed between them, forming an equilateral triangle with the sphere of the pommel. the blade is straight, pointed, and sharp right up to the guard. it is made of steel, to equilibrate with the hilt, for steel is the metal of mars, as copper is of venus. those two planets are male and female- and thus reflect the wand and the cup, though in a much lower sense. the hilt is of venus, for love is the motive of this ruthless analysis- if this were not so the sword would be a black magical weapon. the pommel of the sword is in daath, the guard extends to chesed and geburah; the point is in malkuth. some magi make the three spheres of lead, tin, and gold respectively; the mo

aven-born (indian civil service> the sword has been the great weapon of the last century. every idea has been attacked by thinkers, and none has withstood attack. hence civilization crumbles. no settled principles remain. to-day all constructive statesmanship is empiricism or opportunism. it has been doubted whether there is any real relation between mother and child, any real distinction between male and female. the human mind, in despair, seeing insanity imminent in the breaking up of these coherent images, has tried to replace them by ideals which are only saved from destruction, at the very moment of their birth, by their vagueness. the will of the king was at least ascertainable at any moment; nobody has yet devised a means for ascertaining the will of the people. all conscious willed

he 8th "emanation" of the absolute "kamma" pali dialect of karma "q.v "karma "that which is made "the law of cause and effect "see "science and buddhism" crowley, coll. works, vol. ii "kether" the crown, 1st "emanation" of the absolute "lao tze" great chinese teacher, founder of taoists "see" tao teh "k"ing "liber legis "see" equinox vii for facsimile reproduction of ms. 123 "lingam" the unity or male principle. but these have many symbols "e.g" sometimes yoni is 0 or 3 and lingam 2 "lingam-yoni" a form of the rosy cross "macrocosmchsacrifice; altar (ar) xbd love, beloved; david dwd give, give (see 17, bhy) bh bh to grind, direct, stretch out hdh gold bhz hand (cf. 20) dy sufficiency, plenty yd valley )yg 15 the mystic number of geburah hod: splendour dwh the monogram of the eternal: the d

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e sephiroth the paths the elect ryxb mistress; queen; demi-goddess hrybg ye shall cleave unto hwhy( gnot h read; cf. 192) hwhyl myqbdx clean; elegant rwh+ a giant qn( giants (fully written only in num. 13:33) mylypn softness kr cups mylps 221 long kr) 222 unto the place (ex. 23:20) mwqmh l) whiteness hrwwh goodly mountain (deut. 3:25) bw+ rh i will chase hyw)r to kneel; bless; knee, lap krb young male camel rkb to make heavy; to make many, multiply; long; extent; long ago, already rbk to ride, drive; horseman, driver; vehicle bkr to be mixed, mingled kbr 224 male (ch) rkd walk, journey; the path krd [the beginnings of] emanations (cf. 264) yqqwx representations, inscriptions (cf. 264) yqwqx union rwxy number; census; appointed place; commandment dqpm the tarot (cf. 216, 280& 671 +wr+ 226 p

le (ch) rkd walk, journey; the path krd [the beginnings of] emanations (cf. 264) yqqwx representations, inscriptions (cf. 264) yqwqx union rwxy number; census; appointed place; commandment dqpm the tarot (cf. 216, 280& 671 +wr+ 226 profound; hidden; the north nwpc eternal foundation of the world: a title of yesod mlw( dwsy 227 long, tall kwr) a piscine, pond; blessing (prov. 10:22) hkrb remember; male (sacred phallus. see s.d. cap. 2) rkz damages, injuries nyqyzn the hooks of the pillars (ex. 27:10, 11) mydwm(h ywwl 228 first-born (cf. 567) rwkb blessed! kwrb the tree of life (cf. 233) myyx c( 230 astonishment hrkh surrounding, encircling pyqm bands, stripes; bindings mydwq( to sparkle, gleam ccn 231 the number of gates of wisdom (the number of permutations of pairs of hebrew letters disre

injuries nyqyzn the hooks of the pillars (ex. 27:10, 11) mydwm(h ywwl 228 first-born (cf. 567) rwkb blessed! kwrb the tree of life (cf. 233) myyx c( 230 astonishment hrkh surrounding, encircling pyqm bands, stripes; bindings mydwq( to sparkle, gleam ccn 231 the number of gates of wisdom (the number of permutations of pairs of hebrew letters disregarding order; i.e. 1-21) prolonged; grew long kyr) male )rwkd 232 the sum of the four ways of spelling hwhy in the four worlds ryw) hy let there be light! rw) yhy 233 remembering rwkz the tree of life (cf. 228) myyxh c( 235 archangel of chesed l)yqdc 236 a handful cmwq the northern one; lilith ynwpc 237 essence of glory dwbkh mc( 238 lord of wonders hw)lpnh nwd) 239 azrael: the angel of death l)rz) iron lzrb the lot lrwg 240 myrrh; drop; bitter, s

385 assiah: the material world; action hy( shekinah, divine presence: the goddess of malkuth hnyk# lip hp# 386 tongues nw#l tziruph, combinations: tables of temurah pwryc 387 the milky way (lit. gthe way of milk h; but cf. 525) blxh lyb# 388 the hardest rock (ps 114:8 #ymlx to search out diligently #px table; bread (cf. 394) nxl# 389 realized, materialized, corporeal m#gwm judge; judgment +p# 390 male and female (gn. 1:27) hbqnw rkz retroactively (rpm nourishing, supplying, maintaining snrp heavens, firmament, sky (always pl; referred to ruach) mym# oil nm# 391 salvation, help h(w#y the inscrutable height: a title of kether hl(m mwr 392 spices mym#b dwelling, habitation nb#m paths mylyb# 394 table (cf. 388) nxlw# 395 the heavens mym#h the oil nm#h judge +pw# eight hnm# neschamah: the soul

phim, flaming ones: the angelic choir of geburah mypr# hairy ones; he-goats; demons myry# drill, coarse linen; a triad #l# adam and eve *hwxw md) thine eye( gis h written. see 160& i.r.q. 652 *kny( 631 concealed mystery )tw(yncd silence; silent *ml) 632 the world of foundations: the sphere of the elements (i.e. malkuth; see 564) twdwsy mlw( 633 light (spelt in full, vau= ww; cf. 628 and 643 :r:w) male and female created [they them (gn. 1:27) m)rb hbqnw rkz a day of feast *bw+ mwy 634 worn-out; beggars *mykd 635 son of the dawn: the morning star, lucifer rx# nb llyh three h#l# unto them *mhl adonai the king: a divine name of malkuth (cf. 65& 361 *klm ynd) 638 the breaker; dream (n& v *mlx bread (ps. 78:20= mlx, by metathesis *mxl 639 tree of knowledge t(dh c( 640 the sun: the sphere of sol

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adept. yet unless these relations were manifest, even the most intelligent observer might be perplexed as to which was which. this is called the crown of mystery((the adept has become so absolutely natural that he appears unskillful. ars est celare artem. it is only he who has started on the path that can divine how sublime is the master) 32 chapter xxviii the return to simplicity. 1. balance thy male strength with thy female weakness and thou shalt attract all things, as the ocean absorbeth all rivers; for thou shalt formulate the excellence of the child((weh note: the ts has a mark for a footnote at this point. none is found in the end notes to match it. crowley's intent cannot be definitely defined, but probably relates to the 'childe' of liber al, possibly as hoor-pa-kraat) eternal, si

o hurt men; so also is the wise king; but he doth not. 3. when these powers((the spirits and the wise king) are in accord, their good will produceth the teh, endowing the people therewith. 66 chapter lxi the modesty of the teh. 1. a state becometh powerful when it resembleth a great river, deep-seated; to it tend all the small streams under heaven. 2. it is as with the female, that conquereth the male by her silence. silence is a form of gravity((it is not that there is any 'virtue' in humility; it is simply that all lines converge at the center of the web) 3. thus a great state attracteth small states by meeting their views, and small states attract the great state by revering its eminence. in the first case this silence gaineth supporters; in the second, favour. 4. the great state unitet

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d men. we know finally that he was accused of the same crimes as joan of arc by the same people who accused her, and that he was condemned by them to the same penalty. i do not think that i have left out any verfiable fact. i think that all the rest amounts to speculation. the real problem of gilles de rais amounts, accordingly, to this. here we have a person who, in almost every respect, was the male equivalent of joan of arc. both of them have gone down in history. but history is somewhat curious. i am still inclined to think that "there aint no sich animile" in the time of shakespeare, joan of arc was accepted in england as a symbol for everything vile. he makes her out not only as a sorceress, but a charlatan and hypocrite; and on tope of that a coward, a liar, and a common slut. i sus

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ter therion introduction the yi king is mathematical and philosophical in form. its structure is cognate with that of the qabalah; the actual apparatus is simple, and five minutes is sufficient to obtain a fairly detailed answer to any but the most obscure questions. to mega therion the tao 1. tao concentrateth itself upon kether as a point. 2. tao directeth itself within chokmah and becometh the male force. he is called yang, and is symbolized by a solid line. 3. tao expandeth in binah and becometh the female force. she is called yin, and is symbolized by a broken line. 4. these three: tao, yang and yin, bring forth heaven and earth, and all contained therein. the apparatus 0. tao is the source of the yi king, as of all. 1. thou shalt obtain 6 chinese coins. five shall be of one metal and

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r; and these are 'wrong' to the aeroplane. if speed had been the atlantean's object, he would have thought aeroplanes 'wrong' and all else too, so long as the speed of light was not surpassed by him. curious survivals of these laws are found in the jewish transcript of the egyptian code, which they, being a slave race, interpreted in the reverse manner "thou shalt not make any graven image" every male child on attaining manhood, had a graven image given him to worship, a miracle-working image, whose principle exploits he would tattoo upon it "remember the sabbath day and keep it holy" the atlantean kept one day in seven for all purposes unconnected with his principle task "thou shalt not commit adultery" though the atlanteans married, intercourse with the wife was the only act forbidden "h

everybody. the ceremonies were frequently long and exhausting; children often enough died in the course of them. this was not regarded as a serious calamity; some schools of magicians even pretended to rejoice. the representatives of the high house had a prior right to the parents of the child; at times he conducted the initiation in person, a high honour, but invariably fatal. on rare occasions male children were sent over to the atla to be devoured. the parents of so fortunate a child were advanced in rank on the spot, and had special privileges conferred on them, sometimes even being transferred to a 'house of houses. all those who dwelt in the high house were veiled whenever they appeared, in order to prevent it being known that they were of the same appearance in all respects as thei

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

the same as mystic monism, but the objection to that theory is that god has to create things which are all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. if we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural. it is no objection to this theory to ask who made the elements- the elements are at least there; and god, when you look for him, is not there. theism is "obscurum per obscurius. a male star is built up from the centre outwards, a female star from the circumference inwards. this is what is meant when we say that woman has no soul. it explains fully the difference between the sexes. weh note: although crowley evidently felt that this characterization was true simply, it should be noted that this comment is not class a. the idea of center outwards and circumference inwards may

le star from the circumference inwards. this is what is meant when we say that woman has no soul. it explains fully the difference between the sexes. weh note: although crowley evidently felt that this characterization was true simply, it should be noted that this comment is not class a. the idea of center outwards and circumference inwards may actually have described the impression received by a male of the victorian age in regard to men and women. certainly every male mystic has the state here described as "circumference inward..no soul" and "female" at the time of reception- vide liber lxv. equally, every woman who acts positively from awareness of her identity would qualify for "center outwards "soul" and "male" in this sense. what crowley identified as sex-linked may better be conside

, the holy guardian angel. the connexion is with the symbolism of the dwarf in mythology. he contains everything in himself, but is unmanifested. see ii:8. he is the first letter of the alphabet, aleph, whose number is one, and his card in the tarot is the fool, numbered zero. aleph is attributed to the "element (in the old classification of things) of air. now as "one" or aleph he represents the male principle, the first cause, and the free breath of life, the sound of the vowel a being made with the open throat and mouth. as zero he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess. fertile, for the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body o

e 'saviour' he must be born and grow to manhood; thus parsifal acquires the sacred lance, emblem of virility. he usually wears the 'coat of many colours' like joseph the 'dreamer; so he is also now the green man of spring festivals. but his 'folly' is now not innocence but inspiration of wine; he drinks from the graal, offered to him by the priestess. so we see him fully armed as bacchus diphues, male and female in one, bearing the thyrsus-rod, and a cluster of grapes or a wineskin, while a tiger leaps up by his side. this form is suggested in the taro card, where 'the fool' is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. tigers and crocodiles follow him, thus linking this image with that of harpocrates. almost identical symbols are those of the secret god of the templar

images of these ineffable beings. note that a woman, having no soul of her own, can be used always as a 'form' for any being. this explains why nuit can incarnate at will in successive women, careless of the physical limits of life. weh note: crowley's opinion regarding the soul-less state of women refers to a matter of expression. he believed it more generally, but probably based it on victorian male conceptions of "unliberated women. the comment to this and the previous verse may say more about the defensive insecurity of crowley the man than the verses of liber al. in chapter i comment, remember that all this is a male mind trying to contemplate the revelations of a goddess. square peg and round hole problems may arise. i feel a certain necessity to explain that an 'avatar' implies rath

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seed of life, love, liberty, and light, thou beyond speech and beyond sight, thee i invoke, my faint fresh fire kindling as mine intents aspire. thee i invoke, abiding one, thee, centre and secret of the sun, and that most holy mystery of which the vehicle am i. appear, most awful and most mild, as it is lawful, in thy child! the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from waiting womb! men: glory t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

thematics we reason of numbers in their abstract sense, so in the qabalah we reason of the deity by the abstract forms of the numbers; in other words, by the twryps, sephiroth. it was from this ancient oriental theory that pythagoras derived his numerical symbolic ideas.12 among these sephiroth, jointly and severally, we find the development of the persons and attributes of god. of these some are male and some are female. now, for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the bible have crowded out of existence and smothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge tha

nce and smothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in genesis i, 26: and the elohim said: let us make man. again (v. 27, how could adam be made in the image of the elohim, male and female, unless the elohim were male and female also? the world elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular hla, eloh, by adding \y to the word. but in as much as \y is usually the termination of the masculine plural, and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency added to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspr

hayyim: one is is she the spirit of the elohim of life. 11 in passages mercifully omitted by crowley from the present article t.s. 12 given the timescales involved it is prima faci far more likely that the early qabalists (such as the author of the sepher yetzirah) were influenced by pythagorean number mysticism t.s. liber lviii 11 now, we find that before the deity conformed himself thus i.e, as male and female that the worlds of the universe could not subsist, or, in the words of genesis (i, 2) the earth was formless and void. these prior worlds are considered to be symbolized by the kings that reigned in the land of edom, before there reigned a king over the children of israel ,13 and they are therefore spoken of in the qabalah as the edomite kings. this will be found fully explained in

new. to help our deduction about redemption, too, we find hdj, to brighten or make glad. we also work in another way. i is the straight line or central pillar of the temple of life; also it stands for unity, and for the generative force. a is the pentagram, which means the will of man working redemption. o is the circle from which everything came, also nothingness, and the female, who absorbs the male. the progress of the name shows then the way from life to nirvana by means of the will: and is a hieroglyph of the great work. 30 published as sepher sephiroth in equinox i (8. liber lviii 18 look at all our meanings! every one of them shows that the name, if it has any power at all, and that we must try, has the power to redeem us from the love of life which is the cause of life, by its masc

hy+ why+ hwhy= 72.42 41 67= yz, zayin in full, the first of the paths connecting tiphareth with the supernals t.s. 42 i.e, writing out the tetragrammaton as a tetrakys, or in wing form, gives 72 t.s. liber lviii 29 73. hmkj, wisdom. also lmg, gimel, the path uniting kether and tiphereth. but gimel, the priestess of the silver star, is the female hierophant, the moon; and chokmah is the logos, or male initiator. see liber 418 for more information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of part ii. 78. alzm, the influence from kether. the number of the cards of the tarot, and of the 13 paths of the beard of macroprosopus.43 also sawya, the messenger.44 see part ii. 80. the number of p, the lightning-struck tower of the tarot. 8= intellect, mercury; its most material form is ruin

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he child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into egypt! like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beautiful and edifying events of the bible into insane and ridiculous ones, which he proceeded to plagiarise. on the voyage out the virgin mother became enamoured, as was her wont, of the nearest male, in this case a fellow-traveller. he, being well able to support her in the luxury which she desired, easily persuaded her to leave the boat with him by stealth. a small sailing vessel conveyed them to malta, where they disappeared. the only trace left in the books of earth records that this fascinating character was accused, four years later, in vienna, of poisoning her paramour, but thanks

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iculty presents itself, the a. a. should be at once informed of the circumstances] 34 the wizard way 35 the wizard way velvet soft the night-star glowed over the untrodden road, through the giant glades of yew where its ray fell light as dew lighting up the shimmering veil maiden pure and aery frail that the spiders wove to hide blushes of the sylvan bride earth, that trembled with delight at the male caress of night. velvet soft the wizard trod to the sabbath of his god. with his naked feet he made starry blossoms in the glade, softly, softly, as he went to the sombre sacrament, stealthy stepping to the tryst in his gown of amethyst. earlier yet his soul had come to the hill of martyrdom, 37 where the charred and crook d stake like a black envenomed snake by the hangman's hands is thrust

tucked under the back of the hair like a newspaper under an elbow than naturally rooted. these wings show only on the facing side, are blue and gold on white and have the usual shape for an assyrian bull otherwise. they are fully as thick as the body and extend above it. the fore quarters are leonine in red and gold over orange. the hind quarters are taurian in gray brown over white. the bull is male, with a taurian tail hanging down below the hooves. the hind hooves are gold. the "saddle" of the bull is done in orange plates on gold. across the bottom and on the left side is a predominantly red-orange serpent with yellow scutes divided by orange. the scales on the back are represented in red dots on orange and defined by silver and red. eye in blue. teeth dog-like in blue with black boni

l" he said "i smell the dark brothers of iniquity. have you duly performed the ritual of the flaming star "thrice daily, according to your word "then evil has entered in a body of flesh. who has been here" the young poet told him. his eyes flashed "aha" he said "now let us work" the neophyte brought writing materials to his master: the quill of a young gander, snow-white; virgin vellum of a young male lamb; ink of the gall of a certain rare fish; and a mysterious book. the master drew a number of incomprehensible signs and letters upon the vellum "sleep with this beneath the pillow" he said "you will awake if you are attacked; and whatever it is that attacks you, kill it! kill it! kill it! then instantly go into your temple and assume the shape and dignity of the god 103 horus, send back t

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r mathematics we reason of numbers in their abstract sense, so in the qabalah we reason of the deity by the abstract forms of the numbers in other words, by the spirvth, sephiroth. it was from this ancient oriental theory that pythagoras derived his numerical symbolic ideas. among the sephiroth, jointly and severally, we find the development of the persons and attributes of god. of these some are male and some female. now, for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the bible have carefully crowded out of existence and smothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowled

existence and smothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in genesis iv, 26 "and elohim said: let us make man" again (v. 27, who could adam be made in the image of elohim, male and female, unless the elohim were male and female also? the word elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular alh, eloh, by adding im to word. but inasmuch as im is usually a termination of the masculine plural and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency united to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. how

son. now, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word rvch, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of the sepher yetzirah "achth rvch alhim chiim, achath (feminine, not achad, masculine) ruach elohim chimm: one is she the spirit of the elohim of life" now, we find that before he deity conformed himself thus "i.e, as male and female- that the worlds of the universe could not subsist, or, in the words of genesis "the earth was formless and void" these prior worlds are considered to be symbolised by the "kings who reigned in edom before there reigned a king in israel" and they are therefore spoken of in the qabalah as the "edomite kings" this will be found fully explained in various parts of this work. we now co

f us knew. to help our deduction about redemption, too, we find hb:heh hb:dalet hb:heh weh note: sic, should be: hb:heh hb:dalet hb:chet, to brighten or make glad. we also work in another way. i is the straight line or central pillar of the temple of life; also it stands for unity, and for the generative force. a circle from which everything came, also nothingness, and the female, who absorbs the male. the progress of the name shows then the way from life to nirvana by means of the will: and is a hieroglyph of the great work. look at all our meanings! every one shows that the name, if it has any power at all, and that we must try, has the power to redeem us from the love of life which is the cause of life, by its masculine whirlings, and to gladden us and to being us to the bosom of the gr

rial aspect. 72. chsd, mercy. the number of the shemhamphorasch, as if affirming god as merciful. for details of shemhamphorasch, see 777 and other classical books of reference. note especially i+ ih+ ihv_ ihvh= 72. 73. chkmh, wisdom. also gml, gimel, the path unitingkether and tiphereth. but gimel "the priestess of the silver star" is the female hierophant, the moon; and chokmah is the logos, or male initiator. see liber 418 for much information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of part ii. 78. mzla, the influence from kether. the number of the cards of the tarot, and of the 13 paths of the beard of macroprosopus. note 78= 13 x 6. also aivas, the messenger. see part ii. 80. the number of hb:peh, the "lightning-struck tower" of the tarot. 8= intellect, mercury; its most ma

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ally worthless therapeutically, and that cannabis sativa grown in india must be used if one would obtain physiologically active preparations. 250 furthermore, it has been claimed that the best indian drug is that grown especially for medicinal purposes, the part used consisting of the flowering tops of the unfertilised female plants, care being taken during the growing of the drug to weed out the male plants. according to our experience, this is an erroneous notion, as we have repeatedly found that the indian drug which contains large quantities of seed is fully as active as the drug which consists of the flowering tops only, provided the seed be removed before percolation. several years ago we began a systematic investigation of american- grown cannabis sativa. samples from a number of lo

ters! be ye unto me strength that i formulate the 12 rays of the crown of hva! i conjure ye, and very potently command. even by him who ruleth life from the throne of tahuti unto the abyss of amennti, even by ptah the swathed one, that unwrappeth the mortal from the immortal, even by amoun the giver of life, and by khem the mighty, whose phallus is like the pillar in karnak! even by myself and my male power do i conjure ye. amen. 12.20 i was getting sleepy when the oysters came. i now eat them in a yogin and ceremonial manner. 12.45. i have eaten my oysters, chewing them every one; also some bread and butter in the same manner, giving praise to priapus the lord of the oyster, to demeter the lady of corn, and to isis the queen of the cow. further, i pray symbolically in this meal for virtue

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redeless rune ineffably, utterly, tender! hark! the appealing cry of deadly hurt in the hollow- hyacinth! hyacinth! ay! smitten to death by apollo. swift, o maiden moon, send thy ray-dews after; turn the dolorous tune to soft ambiguous laughter! 214 mourn, o maenads, mourn! surely your comfort is over: all we laugh at you lorn. ours are the poppies and clover! o that mouth and eyes, mischevious, male, alluring! o that twitch of the thighs dorian past enduring! where is wisdom now? where the sage and his doubt? surely the sweat of the brow hath driven the demon out. surely the scented sleep that crowns the equal war is wiser than only to weep- to weep for evermore! now, at the crown of the year, the decadent days of october, i come to thee, god, without fear; pious, chaste, and sober. i so

are twenty-two in number, and are distinguished by the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet, making with the ten sephiroth themselves the thirty-two paths of wisdom of the sepher yetzirah" the letters, he then points out to him, form the symbol of the serpent of wisdom, and the sephiroth the flaming sword "the two pillars right and left of the tree are the symbols of the active and passive, male and female- adam and eve. the pillars further represent the two kerubim of the ark; the right, male- metatron; and the left, female- sandalphon. above them ever burn the lamps of their spiritual essence, the higher life, of which they are the partakers in the eternal uncreated one" illustration on page 269 described "diagram 24. the caduceus of hermes" this is composed of two figures, side by

ve four tendrils each extending out like an "x" with three leaves at the end of each. there are three circles on the lower arm. the top has hb:taw hb:resh hb:aleph hb:peh hb:taw. the middle has hb:dalet hb:vau hb:samekh hb:yod. the bottom has hb:taw hb:vau hb:koph hb:lamed hb:mem. the top and middle circles have the same tendrils found on the circles on the pillars, the bottom does not. a crowned male semi-nude has his head on the top circle and his feet on the middle- his arms are extended cruciform and the feet are one-behind-the-other. he wears a loin girdle or cloth. a fully nude woman stands in the lower circle, and her crowned head touches the bottom of the middle circle. her arms are posed as though to hold up a ceiling level with her crown. to the left of the male on the lower cros

he wears a loin girdle or cloth. a fully nude woman stands in the lower circle, and her crowned head touches the bottom of the middle circle. her arms are posed as though to hold up a ceiling level with her crown. to the left of the male on the lower cross arm is hb:heh hb:resh hb:vau hb:mem, to the left is air hb:lamed hb:qof hb:dalet hb:heh. the words "the tree of life" cross either side of the male's heart in space off the lower arm of the cross. the words "the knowledge of good" are similarly situated in space at the height of the female's crown. the words "the tree of knowledge of good and evil" extend in space across and just below the bases of the pillars. foliage extends about the base of the cross: four tendrils arch upward to left and three to right, six leaves each, topped by mo

am" illustration on page 283 partly described "diagram 51. the fall" this is a development from diagram #33 on page 235. it is composed of a circle above, containing three smaller, slightly overlapping circles, one above two. the top circle contains a crown of three points and a wing extending from the lower left circle. the right circle is surmounted by four visible points and contains a bearded male face obscured on the left by a wing extending from the left circle. the left circle contains a turned-away profile of a female with a crown of at least eight points, the points topped by diamond crosses. there is a glory about the left outer half of this circle, and wings extend as noted. below the top circle is a calvary cross. the top arm of this cross shows the sword that defines the sephi

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tant part in our life, my first duty is to describe them. the island is a large one. when i have gone round it myself i shall perhaps be able to give a rough estimate of its area. for the present i can but say "it is a large island" we have trees by thousands: water trees, from which, after the stems have been cut and slashed, the water pours down; kola-nut trees, papaw tress, with their flowers, male and female; dragon trees, fig trees, cocoa-nut palms, bread-fruit trees, and the rest. beautiful birds are dwelling in the branches. all that is needed for life is abundant and easy to gather. the climate permits us 367 to spend night and day in the open, and when i retire to sleep on the box whose cover i have turned out to be, my companions sleep in the trees. no venomous or objectionable b

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f the vital nervous currents which react in sympathy with it. let him then exalt to the utmost his soul by the appropriate ritual of ceremonial magic; and when by this means he has most thoroughly identified himself with the supreme, let him, as that supreme one, continue to meditate with intense force upon himself, until his sphere is entirely filled with the single thought. lastly, if this, the male energy, suffice not, let him transform it into a pure and perfect emptiness and passivity, as of one waiting for the beloved one, with intense longing rendered passionless by the certainty that he will come. 83 then, it may be, the eye will open upon him, and the tomb of his pyramid be unsealed. it is impossible in a few words to explain thoroughly this eclectic system; for each act and thoug

een principally owing to his own mismanagement; that he will have a long and hard struggle, but will meet with help from friends; that his obstacles will gradually give way; and that after much anxiety he will eventually recoup himself for his previous losses. illustration: this is another by aos, formed this time in an abstract of female primary and secondary sexual attributes in contrast to the male elements in the first. there is a large face suggested in the drawing, to the right and center. 161 the organ in king's chapel, cambridge then silence,and the veil of light is raised and darkness seen behind. now softly sound the angels' herald-trumpets, calling round thunders and mighty winds and powers amazed. now laden with the spirit of man's hand there bursts an awful clarion-shout and b

as typical of the father and the mother, and so divided into vau-heh and yod-heh<genesis v. 1, 2 :bet-resh-aleph aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal aleph-daletmemfinal bet-dalet-mem-vau-taw aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal ayin-shin-heh aleph-taw-vau qof-bet-resh vau-nun-qof-bet-heh bet-resh-aleph-memfinal "and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they them" now if adam be in the similitude of the elohim: and are male and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of those mysterious three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written "and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim, mem-lamed-aleph-kophfinal aleph-lamed-heh-yod-me

the manifestations of their presence. now mem-lamed-aleph-kophfinal hath the numeration 91, which also is the number of yod-heh-vau-heh aleph-dalet-nun-yod, wherefore by gematria "tetragrammaton our lord" is the angel now if into the midst of this divided name of the elohim of the divided name. therefore is the tetragrammaton symbolic of the manifested presence of the elohim; and if the elohim be male and female, so also must be the tetragram. also is the number of aleph-mem-nunfinal (also 91) by aiq bekar 1+ 4+ 5= 10- the perfection of the sephiroth> 170 we cast the triple fire of the holy letter hb:shin= 300, we get the name of the godhead incarnate upon earth, yod-heh-shin-vau-heh. but 1+ 2+ 3= 6, which is the number of hb:vau, the third letter of the venerable name: microprosopus and t

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er_ any person, in fact, in the whole world whose hand is weak or unsteady. but the whole world is comparatively too large to allow of any certainty in picking out the murderer of mrs. ridley. i say comparatively, because to the wise the world is small "passons" some time before her sudden death mrs. ridley had had a guest in her house whose unaffected manners had much offended the dignity of the male servants. he was said to be a distant relation of the late big-gun maker, james ridley. but he was "not" the late ridley had no relations whatever on earth_ at least among human beings. i happen to know that the so- called relation was a spiritualist. this sounds bad enough. was mrs. ridley in agreement with him or was she not? it is nothing more than a question. suppress the query, give the

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he use of it is very widely spread under different names in 62 india, algeria, and arabia felix; but we have around us, under our eyes, curious examples of the intoxication caused by vegetable emanations. without speaking of the children who, having played and rolled themselves in heaps of cut lucern, often experience singular attacks of vertigo, it is well known that during the hemp harvest both male and female workers undergo similar effects. one would say that from the harvest rises a miasma which troubles their brains despitefully. the head of the reaper is full of whirlwinds, sometimes laden with reveries; at certain moments the limbs grow weak and refuse their office. we have heard tell of crises of somnambulism as being frequent among the russian peasants, whose cause, they say, mus

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ion of silence('silence' is really choice. 287 "virtue" he defines as "the bent of mind towards self-command (and evidently practises it. his morals are good; but his scientific conceptions really "take the cake "there are three kinds of animate creations in the world" he writes "they are the creations from (1) the womb (2) eggs (3) perspiration" another gem "how is it that some of the bodies are male and some are female" answer "if the male seed preponderates, a male body is produced; and if female, a female. while, when both are equally proportioned, an eunuch is born) at one of his male meetings- there were also female ones; but mixed bathing in the ocean of infinite bliss was not allowed- he related to us his pet story, of how he had "flumoxed" the chief engineer and the captain of the

hread drawn from the observation of things around him, the slave of popularity wears it threadbare. morphia won't replace bread after the first month or so! now we see mr. blackwood and nemesis. he gets a reputation by marketing his tiny scrap of knowledge of the inner world; the public cries out for more, and the poor wage-slave, bankrupt in invention, does his best to fake- and fails. it is the male equivalent of the harlot who has drifted from piccadilly to waterloo bridge road. so here we see him, the shy smile changed to the open coarse appeal, the tawdry apparatus of his craft seen for what it is- rabbit-skin ermine- and himself unmistakably the fifth-rate writer, like baudelaire's "old mountebank- surely no more pitiful- tumbling for no kindlier laugh than that of contempt (and he m

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asons which are obvious to anyone who has mixed the gluten of the white eagle with the red powder, or accomplished the third projection, the order of the tarot trumps cannot any longer be preserved. nor will their number exceed seven. ix the hermit he went to seek it in the wilderness. a cottage green as a lizard, surrounded by flowers and trees, well furnished, well kept by a couple of servants, male and female, such was the chosen retreat. it proved very comfortable- and lonely. he pursued his education, often troubled by horrid visions, when he saw himself the centre of a stage where men and women crowded above, around, and beneath him. they reminded him of the terrible prediction of the french poet, who showed the two sexes dying away, irrevocably parted, la femme ayant gomorrhe et l'h

lips were full and red, whose skin was velvet. as a whole, she was very manly in her life, speech and 34 habit. she dressed often as a man; and, one day, riding by lionel's cottage, she noticed the thin-armed youth whose eyes were big and haloed. their eyes met; she smiled, he trembled. both were pleased. the next day rose and brought them again together. a formal introduction followed. mary the male conquered lionel the female. thereafter, the "cheval hongre" lost his nickname. nor did he give any widow the chance of horse-whipping him again. xviii the moon they were very happy; he learnt the joy of health and the ineffable delectation of surrender; she the thrilling pain-pleasure of possession. here, she, being the heroine of our tale, passes out of it. they are very happy. man and woma

ra, thou didst writhe slim, sinuous and swift, warning me with a viper's hiss- and was not death upon us then, no bastard of thy maiden kiss? god's grace, the all-surpassing gift! el arabi! el arabi! yea, death is man's elixir when life's pale wine foams and splashes over his imagination's rim! el arabi! el arabi! el arabi! witch-amber and obsidian thine eyes are, to ensorcell me, and leonine thy male caress. will not god grant us paradise to end the music earth began? we play with loaded dice! he cannot choose but raise right hand to bless. el arabi! el arabi! great is the love of god and man while i am trembling in thine arms, wild wanderer of the wilderness! el arabi! hilda norfolk. 38 lambda iota nu omicron sigma iota sigma iota delta omicron sigma lo! i lament. fallen is the sixfold s

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turn to their places" hermanubis "and" typhon "come forward and salute" sphinx] typhon. 1. mother of mystery, hast thou the secret of jupiter? 33 hermanubis. 1. mother of mystery, hast thou the secret of jupiter [sphinx "plays a triumphant melody<typhon. brother hermanubis, what is the place? hermanubis. the summit of mount kithairon. typhon. procul, o procul este viri["all male probationers retire to back of stage" typhon. sisters, let us invoke the father to manifest in the son. sphinx. per spiritum sanctum, amen["she also retires to her place on wheel" maenads. evoe! evoe ho! iacche! iacche! typhon. hail, o dionysus! hail! winged son of semele! hail, o hail! the stars are pale; hidden the moonlight in the vale; hidden the sunlight in the sea. blessed is her happy

the redeless rune ineffably, utterly, tender! hark! the appealing cry of deadly hurt in the hollow- hyacinth! hyacinth! ay! smitten to death by apollo. swift, o maiden moon, send thy ray-dews after; turn the dolorous tune to soft ambiguous laughter! mourn, o maenads, mourn! surely your comfort is over: all we laugh at you lorn. ours are the poppies and clover! o that mouth and eyes, mischievous, male, alluring! o that twitch of the thighs, dorian past enduring! where is wisdom now! where the sage and his doubt? surely the sweat of the brow hath driven the demon out. 119 surely the scented sleep that crowns the equal war is wiser than only to weep- to weep for evermore! now, at the crown of the year, the decadent days of october, i come to thee, god, without fear; pious, chaste, and sober

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agreed "consummate art" 118 "and to all arts there is but one summit" continued the girl "you are a "nymphomane" he said "your aspiration is the lie you tell yourself" she struck him across the face "devil" she cried, so loud that even in the taverne pantheon folk looked up an laughed "have i not heard that from conscience since i was sixteen? a blow is the one answer possible "a blow is but your male desire" he said, unmoved "how shall i prove my truth" she sobbed, disquieted and angry "live it down, little girl" he said kindly "trust me; i will prove you and justify you. afterwards "do you think- now" she began indignantly "i know it" said he "in the grey light, to-morrow, we will talk" she suddenly felt chill and afraid "i am not ready" she said "i am not worthy "it is to prove you wort

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tage' by the coven leader. originally a five-sided figure but now any circular piece of metal inscribed with witch symbols. major meeting of whole coven or several covens. cards used in predicting the future. primitive form. of religion practised by negroes of haiti and elsewherein the west indies and america. originally the witch who bound the initiate, but used only by non-witches to describe a male-witch. ancient word for witchcraft. initi t:d male or femalemember ofwitchcraft group. magician, not necessarily a witch. 3lntrobuction since the dawn of history man has believed in miracles. the first tribesmen to discover the healing power of herbs, or to recognize clouds as the forerunners ofrain, were elected magi, or wise men. from this it was but a short step to divining the future and

ches themselves. from being a joyous religion, witchcraft was changed overnight when, in 1484, pope innocent viii put his seal on e bull.t at condemned witches as heretics for interfering with fertility. from now on terror would invade the life ofanyone suspected of working miracles. in 1486, two members of the inquisition, with the full approval of the pope, wrote an ha publis ed the boo malleus male.ficarum, which described in considerable det 11 methods of discovering and punishing witches and ways m which magic could be harmful. the book, which by. 1520 had run to fourteen editions, confirmed popular misconceptions and hostility towards witchcraft and was to influe ce public opinion in europe until after the reformation (protestants were even greater witch-haters than their predecessor

hat he .could take no part in pseudo-seances such as they had justwitnessed. they were not even imitations of genuine esbats--or coven meetings. he added that he was trying. to find means of recognizing real witches so that he could practise his cult with them 'initiate me' urged his companion 'then you would have a. coven of two, and i promise i shall do all you ask of me' alex explained that no male witch may initiate another male, nora female a female. the natural laws of witchcraft, which regard homosexuality as a denial of the basic tenet of fertility, insist on man always being paired with woman, especiallyin a ceremony as personal asinitiation. a few days later the young man returned and asked if alex would accompany him to the home of some friends who might be able to help 'they ar

paul recited the [mal proclamation and, at the same time, masturbated, ejecting eheirsperm 011 to the pentacle. as they both slumped hack exhausted from theirlong vigil a baby's cry broke the silence. there on the pentacle; still moist with semen, lay what appeared to be a human baby of normal size except thatit had no navel. nor umbilical cord. and it" appeared to be bisexuel, its genitals .part male, part female. paul bent to pick it up. but alex, following the hebrew ritual,.stopped him 'butyou said it was my son,'said paul 'i want to christen it 'how can we christen it if we .aren't christians? you can baptize it. here, use the consecrated water, but do not touch the child with your hands' paul.flicked his moistened fingers over the baby and gave him the name 'michael. neither of them

he is the elder. giving his secret witch name, he recites the proclamation in runic, of which he understands only part. he outstretches his arms and legs to represent the pillars of life; his trunk is the tree of life, and his arms mercy and justice. beside him the high priestess, holding her sword above her head, invokes the power while all the other witches sit and face her. as she speaks, two male witches go to the initiate and bind his hands behind his back with cord, one end of which is then tied to his ankles. he knows he has to keep k.w.-io* 145 perfectly still at this moment for the high priestess goes towards him holding out her sword so that it touches his left breast. holdingit still, she says 'oh, thou who standeth on the threshold of the dread lords of the outer spaces, hast

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

lt dish, pentacle, censer, athame, bell; presence lamp; 4 quarter candles; sword (optional, candle snuffer (optional) let all be fit to enter into the presence of the gods. start in the dark. ritual leader waits until it feels like time to begin, then rises: lighting of the candle: r: i light this candle (lights presence lamp) in the name of that ancient presence, which is, was, and ever shall be male, female, all-knowing, all-powerful and present everywhere. and in the names of the four mighty ones, the rulers of the elements, may power and blessing descend in this hour upon this place and those gathered here. r lights the two altar candles, the charcoal, and the four quarter candles from the presence lamp. exorcism of the water: r kneels before the altar and places the water bowl upon th

wine and cakes will follow, but at a sabbat the great rite comes first. notes l from the witches' way by the farrars. wine blessing follows: working part of esbat circle (any worship circle) hps stands in god position before altar. hp fills a chalice with red wine and offers it up to her from his knees. hps takes athame between her palms and holds it above the chalice. hp: as the athame is to the male, hps: so the cup is to the female; both: and conjoined they bring blessedness. laying athame aside, hps accepts cup of hp (kiss, sips and returns it to him (kiss) who also sips and arises to pass it to a woman (kiss) to sip and hence from woman to man (kiss) and man to woman (kiss) about the circle. if more work is to be done, the cup makes the round but once and is returned to the altar, els

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ter. it is largely a question of polarisation. one hint might here be given: when men understand the deva evolution somewhat more correctly and recognise their work along certain lines in connection with the sun and realise that they represent the feminine pole as they themselves represent the masculine (the fourth creative- 51- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust hierarchy being male)39(35) they will comprehend the mutual relationship, and govern that relationship by law. these solar devas take the radiatory rays of the sun which reach from its centre to the periphery along one of the three channels of approach, pass them through their organism and focalise them there. they act almost as a burning glass acts. these rays are then reflected or transmitted to man's etheric b

hree important triangles: 1. in the head: the triangle of the three major centres, a. the pineal gland, b. the pituitary body, c. the alta major centre. 2. in the body: the triangle of prana, a. between the shoulders, b. above the diaphragm, c. the spleen. 3. at the base of the spine: the three lower centres, a. a point at the bottom of the spinal column. b. and c. the two major sex organs in the male and female.62(54) the merging of the fires of matter and the fires of mind results in the energising of the sumtotal of the atoms of the matter of the body. this is the secret of the immense staying power of the great thinkers and workers of the race. it results also in a tremendous stimulation of the three higher centres in the body, the head, the heart, the throat and in the electrification

riate vehicles. how can this be expressed? in terms of fire, when the two electric poles are brought into definite relationship we have demonstrated, along the line of occult sight and of occult feeling, both heat and light. this relationship is brought about and perfected during the evolutionary process. this heat and light are produced by the union of the two poles, or by the occult marriage of male and female, of spirit (father) and matter (mother. in terms of the physical, this union produces the objective solar system, the son of the father and the mother. in terms of the subjective, it produces the sun, as the sum total of the qualities of light and heat. in terms of fire, by the union or at-one-ment of electric fire (spirit) and fire by friction (energised matter) solar fire is prod

other as the vibration becomes sufficiently strong. a negative planet will be attracted by a positive, and so on through all forms. this is the manifestation of sex in- 162- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust substance of every kind, from the tiny atom in the body to the vast planetary chains, and this is the basis of activity. radiatory activity is simply the interplay between male and female, and this can be seen in the physical atom of the scientist, among men and women, and in the vaster atom of a solar system as it vibrates with its cosmic opposite. we might, therefore, consider time as that process of activity, or that progression in development, wherein the indwelling consciousness is seeking its opposite, and coming under the law of attraction, which leads to ato

may be hinted at as follows: the moon chain with the earth chain formed two units, or two polarities, negative and positive. the point of merging was reached, and the earth chain absorbed or synthesised the moon chain in the same sense as certain of the schemes will merge until only three will apparently be left. therefore the earth chain is essentially dual in its nature, being the sumtotal of a male and a female chain. this is a mystery impossible to elucidate further, but it is dealt with in certain occult books, and hinted at by h. p. b.47(130) in due course of time another merging in the scheme will eventuate and then uranus (the chain of that name in our scheme) will flash into objectivity. forget not that the schemes manifest as seven, as ten, as three from the angle of the eternal

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eternal plan. thus, again, we have a relation established between a positive and a negative vibration, and the study of these relations carries much information to the student, and is part of the teaching given in preparation for the first initiation. a list of these related situations might here be given showing them in their progressive relation on the path of evolution. 1. the relation between male and female physical bodies, called by man, the sex relation, and- 52- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust deemed of such paramount importance at this time. in the vale of illusion, the symbol oft engrosses attention and that which it represents is forgotten. in the solving of this relationship will come racial initiation, and it is with this that the race is now engrossed. 2

raction. this is a pull from the physical plane and the swinging back of a type of involutionary energy on to the path of return. cosmically speaking, it manifests as the attractive force between spirit and matter; spiritually speaking, it is demonstrated as the activity of the soul, as it seeks to draw the lower self into full realisation. physically speaking, it is the urge which tends to unite male and female for the purpose of procreation. when man was purely animal, no sin was involved. when to this urge was added emotional desire, then sin crept in, and the purpose for which the urge manifested was perverted into the satisfaction of desire. now that the race is more mental, and the force of mind is making itself felt in the human body, an even more serious situation is apparent, whic

and the clarity of the embodiment of the formula in a simple outlined structure, so will- 264- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust be the finally furnished building and the consequent form, which will confine within the periphery of the outer form itself the lives used in its construction. this, in reality, resembles the stage of conception. latent within the germ (the result of male female interrelation) lie all the potencies and capacities of the finished product. latent within the idea which has been materially conceived, but which has been inspired by the spirit aspect, lie hid the potencies of the finished thoughtforms. the matter aspect, represented by the mind, has been fecundated by the spirit aspect, and the triplicity will eventually be completed by the created

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ich results in the reproduction of the species. speaking in terms of modern usage as it is found among the unthinking and the average, sex is a word which denotes the alluring satisfaction of the animal impulses at any cost and with no rhythmic regulation. sex is essentially an expression of duality, and of the separation of a unity into two aspects or halves. these we can call spirit and matter, male and female, positive and negative; and they are in the nature of a stage upon the evolutionary ladder towards a final unity or homo-sexuality which has no relation to that perversion which is, today and inaccurately, called "homosexuality. this latter manifestation is rampant at this time in a mental and modern conception of the phenomenon, but it is rare indeed to find a person who truly com

personality. this head centre is the symbol of the spirit or positive masculine aspect, just as the centre between the eyebrows is the symbol of matter, of the negative feminine aspect. connected with these force vortices are two physical plane organs, the pituitary body and the pineal gland. the first is negative and the second is positive. these two organs are the higher correspondences of the male and female organs of physical reproduction. as the soul becomes increasingly potent in the mental and emotional life of the aspirant, it pours in with greater power into the head centre. as the man works with his personality, purifying it and bending it to the service of the spiritual will, he automatically raises the energies of the centres in the body up to the centre between the eyebrows

and by means of which they become at-one and produce a third reality. that third reality or result bears witness to their relation, and another life in form is seen. you have always, therefore, relation, at-one-ment and birth. these three words deal with the true significance of sex. but man has prostituted the truth, and the real significance has been lost. sex now means the satisfaction of the male desire for sensuous pleasure, and the assuaging of a physical appetite through the prostitution of the feminine aspect to that desire and appetite. this relation leads to no result as intended, but to a momentary second of satisfaction, and all of it is confined to the animal nature and the physical plane. i am largely generalising and would remind you that there are exceptions to all general

this, when i know that every human being is cyclically either a man or a woman; that the men of today have been women and the women have been men in previous lives? there is no sex, as we understand it, where souls are concerned; it is only in the form life that sex exists. only in the process of differentiation for the purposes of experimentation does the incarnating spiritual man occupy first a male body and then a feminine, thus rounding out the negative and positive aspects of the form life. all the race is equally guilty, and all must be equally active in the process of creating the correct conditions, and in bringing order out of the present chaos. therefore, the first postulate which must be laid down, and to which the general public must be educated, is that all souls incarnate and

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re viewing the situation with much concern. these cleavages seem basic, and produce the divisions we find everywhere between race and race and between religion and religion, and can- 253- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust be traced back to the fundamental condition of manifestation which we call the relationship of positive and negative, of male and female and, esoterically speaking, of the sun and the moon. the mystery of sex itself is bound up with the re-establishment of the sense of unity and of balance, of oneness or of wholeness. in its higher human aspect, this sexual differentiation is only the symbol or lowest expression of the cleavage or separativeness of which the mystic is aware and which makes him seek at-one-ment or un

e and retained temporarily in the heart centre, producing the phenomena of sex urges (accompanied at times with definitely physical sexual reactions, of religious eroticism and a generally unwholesome attitude, ranging all the way from real sexuality to fanatical celibacy. this latter is as much an undesirable extreme as the other and produces most undesirable results. frequently in the case of a male mystic there will be over developed sexual expression on the physical plane, perversions of different kinds or a pronounced homosexuality. in the case of women, there may be much disturbance of the solar plexus (instead of sacral disturbances) and consequent gastric trouble and an unwholesome imaginative life, ranging all the way from a feeble pruriency to definite forms of sexual insanity wi

opyright 1998 lucis trust therefore, for much of the discomfort and disease found in those areas in the human body which are governed and controlled by a particular centre. i would like to add the following points to the information given above: 1. the intense activity of the sacral centre will often produce diseases and physiological abnormalities, connected with the organs of reproduction (both male and female. these difficulties are of two kinds: a. those to which normal humanity is prone and which are well known to the physician, surgeon and psychologist. b. those which are the result of over-stimulation, through the successful effort of the mystic to bring in energy from the higher centres and from sources outside the human frame altogether. 2. in all cases of transference, the intens

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

for most aspirants in the early stages, sex does constitute a fundamental problem. esoterically, however, it is in libra that the whole question comes up and will increasingly come up for answering, and it is in libra that the balancing of the pairs of opposites must take place and reach solution through the activity of the judicial mind and the establishing of a point of equilibrium between the male and the female principles. this again (for it is a piece of recurrent symbology) is the problem existing basically between the sheep and the goats, between negative and positive, and between those who blindly follow either instinct or custom and those who climb freely where they choose- 139- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust and are self-d

en soul and form, so in the new world religion this fact will be recognised. appeal will be made to the forces which can utilise this planetary potency in order to work out the divine plan upon the earth. it is because venus thus relates certain pairs of opposites that she has been erroneously connected in the minds of men with sex and the sex life and with the relation of the physical opposites, male and female. it is interesting to discover that the hierarchical ruler of gemini is the earth itself, which is a non-sacred planet. the earth is also the esoteric ruler of sagittarius, the polar opposite of gemini. these are the only two constellations ruled by the earth, and this fact is of major- 210- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust sig

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

to the inherited taints. curiously enough, the free use of salt sea bathing has a definite effect on the healthiness of the physical body. the water, incidentally absorbed through the medium of the skin and by the mouth, has a vitally prophylactic effect. one of the major problems today to the psychologist and in a lesser degree to the medical man, is the growth of homosexuality, both female and male. specious arguments are brought forth in order to prove that this abnormal development (and the consequent interest in this morbid tendency) is due to the fact that the race is slowly becoming androgynous in its development, and that the future hermaphroditic man or woman is gradually making its appearance. this, again, is not true. homosexuality is what you call a "left-over" from the sexual

se and the misuse of the sex urge. instead of man being governed by the cyclic manifestation of the sex impulse, and his life, therefore, being ruled by a definite rhythm, there exists at this time no such- 54- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust thing, except in the cycles through which the female passes, and little attention is paid to these. the male, however, is not governed by any such cycles, and has broken in also on the rhythm to which the female body should be subordinated, and which rightly understood would determine the use of the sex relationship, including naturally the male impulse also. this failure to live by the law of periodicity and to subordinate the appetites to cyclic control is one of the major causes of disease; and a

ills. this too will result in the prolongation of life. the laws of electrical energy will also be better understood in this connection- 66- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. by the understanding of right methods of assimilation and elimination will come the healing of diseases connected with the bodily tissues, the stomach and bowels and the male and female organs of generation. it will some day be understood that these latter are only another system of assimilation and elimination, centred this time in the feminine aspect or woman, for again remember that this is the second or love system. the order is thus: a. the first system was masculine. b. the present system, the second, is feminine. c. the third system will be hermaphroditic

eative word. it registers the intention or creative purpose of the soul, transmitted to it by the inflow of energy from the ajna centre; the fusion of the two energies, thus brought about, will lead to some type of creative activity. this is the higher correspondence to the creativity of the sacral centre. in that centre the negative and the positive creative energies are embodied in the separate male and female organisms and are brought into relation in an act of creation, consciously undertaken, though as yet without much definite purpose. f. the dense physical externalisation of this centre is the thyroid gland. this gland is regarded as of supreme importance in the well-being of the average human being of today. its purpose is to guard health, to balance the bodily equilibrium in certa

1. the sphere of instinct. this refers to the fulfillment, under the influence of simple animal instinct, of the obligations which any assumed responsibility brings, even when assumed with no- 405- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust true understanding. an illustration of this is the instinctual care of a mother for her offspring or the relation of male and female. with this we need not deal in any detail, as it is well recognised and understood, at least by those who have passed out of the sphere of elementary instinctual obligations. to them no particular calls come, but this instinctual world of give and take is superseded by a higher sphere of responsibility eventually. 2. the sphere of duty. the call that comes from this sphere comes fr

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

n one of the major factors in world reconstruction. one of the most interesting features of this war period has been the direct contact which has been set up by some of the world leaders with the man in the street and the woman in the home, as witness the talks given by roosevelt and churchill. those given by the axis leaders are in a totally different category, for they have been directed to the male youth of their countries and to the man in uniform. only the lesser leaders in germany, for instance, talk to the people in their homes, and then only to give them orders, to foster hate and to misrepresent the truth. in all these cases, however, the value of mass opinion is recognised and the need to sway the mass mind, either bending it to the will of some leader, such as hitler, or educati

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

etary to the sumtotal of manifestation. all that remains is a point of light. this point is conscious, immutable and aware of the two extremes of the divine expression: the sense of individual identity and the sense of universality. these are fused and blended in the one. of this one the divine hermaphrodite is the concrete symbol the union in one of the pairs of opposites, negative and positive, male and female. in the state of being which we call the monadic, no difference is recognised between these two because (if i can bring such ideas down to the level of the intelligence of the aspirant) it is realised that there is no identity apart from universality and no appreciation of the universal apart from the individual realisation, and this realisation of identification with both the part

tention. in the phenomenal world of the average human being who has not yet passed through the initiatory experience of the rebirth, the emphasis has ever been and is today upon the dual relationship of the sexes and to this our novels, plays, movies and affairs of all men bear testimony. creativity expresses itself mainly through the propagation of the race, brought about through the relation of male and female, or of the positive and negative poles in the human family. this is right and good and part of the divine plan. even though men have prostituted their capacities and debased their relationships, the basic plan is divine and ideal. after the first initiation, the entire sex relationship shifts gradually and steadily into its proper place as simply a natural phase of existence in the

ips, the basic plan is divine and ideal. after the first initiation, the entire sex relationship shifts gradually and steadily into its proper place as simply a natural phase of existence in the three worlds and as one of the normal and correct appetites, but the emphasis changes. the higher experience and correspondence, that of which physical sex is only the symbol, becomes apparent. instead of male and female, there emerges the magnetic relationship between the now negative personality and the positive soul, with consequent creativity upon the higher planes. of this relationship the head centre and the centre between the eyebrows (the ajna centre) are the agents and eventually through the medium of the pituitary body and the pineal gland they condition the personality, rendering it soul

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

nciple of coherence which builds the forms through which god, or the soul, manifests. it produces the stability which demonstrates in the persistence of the form throughout its cycle of existence, and concerns the interrelation between that which builds the form and the form itself; between the two poles, positive and negative; between spirit and matter; between the self and the not-self; between male and female, and thus between the opposites. four symbolic words we find that this test concerns predominantly the problem of sex. there are four words in the english language which are ideographic and symbolic. they consist of three letters each and are as follows: god, sex, law and sin. in these four words we find expressed the sum total of all that is. god, the sum total of all forms, the s

at is. god, the sum total of all forms, the sum total of all states of consciousness, and the energizing life. sex, that life in operation, attracting spirit and matter and instituting the interplay between the objective and the subjective and between the exoteric and the esoteric. sex, desire, attraction, the instinctive urge to creation, the pull of the soul, the urge to divinity, desire of the male for the female, the lure of matter for spirit: all these phrases can be piled up to express some of the activities of sex in its various relations. law, the thought-impelled response of god to form; the habits instituted by the timeless interplay between the polar opposites which have been recognized by humanity as the inevitable laws of nature; the imposition [43] of the will of god and the

reasing power of the personal self. the story of man's growth to maturity and the history of the soul's gradually increasing control are told for us in the constellation gemini. in the ancient zodiac of denderah, this sign is called "the place of him who cometh, and the thought of an emerging spiritual being is held before us. it is represented by- 40- the labours of hercules two figures, the one male, the other female; one, the positive, spirit aspect, and the other, the negative, matter aspect. the coptic and the hebrew names signify "united, and this is the status of hercules, the aspirant. he is soul and body unified. this was the problem to be wrestled with in the sign gemini. the at-one-ment of the lower with the higher self, of the mortal and the immortal aspects, is the objective

these two men in libra. in one case the balance will swing wildly up and down; in the other balance will be approached, or achieved, between matter and spirit, and all lesser pairs of opposites. at this point we begin to see why, in this quiet sign, we meet with the problems of sex and money, both good servants and bad masters, according to the use made of them. sex is a sacrament, at-one-ment of male and female, for the production of forms, for the carrying on of evolving life. money is a means of exchange, of sharing at a distance, if not loved and held for itself alone, the gold of the miser, or the gold of the loving, giving heart. the balance of the pairs of opposites (esoteric astrology, p.250) is sharply defined. the balance may swing from bias and prejudice to justice or judgment;

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

nd the vital organs of the chest; netzach and hud are the lower limbs right and left; jesod refers to the digestive and reproductive organs and abdomen; and lastly malkuth is compared to the feet as a basis or foundation of man upon this earth or lowest plane: see the plate of the adam kadmon, archetypal man, or the first adam. these triads were looked upon as formed of a principle of union and a male and female potency, and thus a balance, mtqla, methequela, exists. almost as old as the kabalistic doctrine of the sephiroth, the intelligences, or emanations, are the peculiar forms in which they were represented in diagrams which resume all kabalistic ideas, and are emblems of these views on every subject. every deific conception can be thus demonstrated, and also the constitution of the an

APOCALYPSE MOSES

en and our children's children and tell them the manner of our transgression' chapter 15. 1 then saith eve to them 'hear all my children and children's children and i will relate to you how the enemy deceived us. 2 it befell that we were guarding paradise, each of us the portion allotted to us from god. 3 now i guarded in my lot, the west and the south. but the devil went to adam's lot, where the male creatures were (for god divided the creatures; all the males he gave to your father and all the females he gave to me) chapter 16. 1 and the devil spake to the serpent saying, rise up, come to me and i will tell thee a word whereby thou mayst have profit" 2 and he arose and came to him. and the devil saith to him "i hear that thou art wiser than all the beasts, and i have come to counsel thee

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

who is perfect. the first power, the glory of barbelo, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation, she glorified the virginal spirit and it was she who praised him, because thanks to him she had come forth. this is the first thought, his image; she became the womb of everything, for it is she who is prior to them all, the mother-father, the first man, the holy spirit, the thrice-male, the thrice-powerful, the thrice-named androgynous one, and the eternal aeon among the invisible ones, and the first to come forth" requested from the invisible, virginal spirit- that is barbelo- to give her foreknowledge. and the spirit consented. and when he had consented, the foreknowledge came forth, and it stood by the forethought; it originates from the thought of the invisible, vi

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

ible or repugnant it may be fora time.the emancipated or womans rights woman, when too enthusiastic, generally considers man aslimited, while woman is destined to gain on him. in earlier ages a contrary opinion prevailed, andboth are, or were, apparently in the wrong, so far as the future is concerned. for in truth both sexesare progressive, and progress in this respect means not a conflictof the male and female principle,such as formed the basis of the mahabarata, but a gradual ascertaining of true ability and adjust-ment of relations or co-ordination of powers in doing which on a scientific basis all conflict ceas-es.these remarks are appropriate to my text and subject, because it is in studying the epochs whenwoman has made herself prominent and influential that we learn what the capaci

a of how or why melodies wereanciently composed.the strange and mystical chapter how diana made the stars and the rain is the same given inmy legends of florence, vol. ii. p. 229, but much enlarged, or developed to a cosmogonic-mytholog-ic sketch. and here a reflection occurs which is perhaps the most remarkable which all this witchevangel suggests. in all other scriptures of all races, it is the male, jehovah, buddha, or brahma,who creates the universe; in witch sorcery it is the female who is the primitive principle. wheneverin history there is a period of radical intellectual rebellion against long-established conservatism,hierarchy, and the like, there is always an effort to regard woman as the fully equal, which meansthe superior sex. thus in the extraordinary war of conflicting eleme

d mercurio, who was the god of speed and of quickness, being much pleased with thisimp, bestowed on him the gift of running like the wind, with the privilege that whatever he pursued,be it spirit, a human being, or animal, he should certainly overtake or catch it.this follettohad a beautiful sister, who, like him, ran errands, not for the gods, but for the goddess(there was a female god for every male, even down to the small spirits; and dianaon the same daygave to this fairy the power that, whoever might chase her, she should, if pursued, never be overtak-en.one day the brother saw his sister speeding like a flash of lightning across the heaven, and he felt asudden strange desire in rivalry to overtake her. so he dashed after as she flitted on; but though itwas his destiny to catch, she h

a certainafrican, who was a servant of a friend of mine, did. the coloured mans duty was to pour out everymorning a libation of rum to a fetish and he poured it down his own throat. the peasant shouldalso sprinkle the vines, just as the devonshire farmers, who observed all christmas ceremonies,sprinkled, also from a horn, their apple-trees. page 35 n r r r r r quando il mio vino penderadi andare male, il corno prendero,e forte, forte lo suonero,nel punto della mezza notte,dentro alla mia cantina lo suonero,lo suonero tanto forteche tu bella dianaanche da molto lontano,tu lo possa sentire,e finestre e portecon gran forza tu possa spalancare,a gran corsa tu mia possa venire,a trovare, e tu possa salvarmiil mio vino, e tu possa salvare,salvare me da grande sciagura,perche se il mio vino a ma

tu non divieni..tu sarai (sempre) la prima strega,la prima strega divenuta nel mondo,tu insegnerai larte di avvelenare,di avvelenare (tutti) i signori,di farli morti nei loro palazzi,di legare il spirito del oppressore,e dove si trova un contadino ricco e avaro,insegnare alle strege tue alunne,come rovinare suo raccoltocon tempesta, folgore e balen,con grandine e vento.quando un prete ti fara del male,del male colle sue bene dizioni,tu le farei (sempre) un doppio malecol mio nome, col nome di /diana/,regina delle streghe..quando i nobili e prete vi dirannodovete credere nel padre, figlio,e maria, rispondete gli sempre,il, vostro dio padre e mariasono tre diavoli..il vero dio padre non e il vostro il vostro dio io sono venutaper distruggere la gente cattivae la distruggero..voi altri poveri

BAPHOMANTIS LUCIFERIAN SATANIC MASS

men have forever sought, have come to give you, lord lucifer, my eternal love, to serve you for all of eternity, accept me now for i am truly yours forever! i shall take comfort within you. accept me always as your own, blood of your own blood, flesh of your own flesh, shed me in your darklight, and hold me forever in your warm and loving embrace.veni, omnipotens aeternae diabolus, hail lucifer! male: do the same but say: i through you have gained knowledge and strength. accept me lucifer, as your son, as your own. as i give to you my body, and my undying love. accept me now and forever, as your own, blood of your own blood, flesh of your own flesh, eternally as your own son. veni, omnipotens aeternae diabolus, hail lucifer! after return to the altar, pick up the host hold it up and say:

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

st not be the twelve keys of basil valentine 10 of 95 subject of this investigation. animals are a class by themselves; nor can anything ever be obtained from them that is not animal in its nature. but our stone, as it has been bequeathed to me by the ancients, is derived from two things, and one thing, in which is concealed a third thing. this is the purest truth, and a most faithful saying. for male and female have from of old been regarded as one body, not from any external or visible consideration, but on account of the ardour of that mutual love which naturally draws them together into one; and as the male and female seed jointly represent the principle of propagation, so also the sperm of the matter out of which our stone is made can be sown and increased. there are in our substance

scope for others after me to write about the wonderful things of nature, which by the foolish are looked upon as unnatural. for they do not understand that all things twelve keys of basil valentine 43 of 95 are ultimately traceable to supernatural causes, but nevertheless are, in this present state of the world, subject to natural conditions. twelve keys of basil valentine 44 of 95 sixth key the male without the female is looked upon as only half a body, nor can the female without the male be regarded as more complete for neither can bring forth fruit so long as it remains alone. but if the two be conjugally united, there is a perfect body, and their seed is placed in a condition in which it can yield increase. if too much seed be cast into the field, the plants impede each other s growth

in mixing the liquid substance of the sages, lest that which is too much overpower that which is too little, and the generation be hindered. for too much rain spoils the fruit, and too much drought stunts its growth. therefore, when neptune has prepared his bath, measure out carefully the exact quantity of permanent water needed, and let there be neither too little nor too much. the twofold fiery male must be fed with a snowy swan, and then they must mutually slay each other and restore each other to life; and the air of the imprisoned fiery male will occupy three of the four quarters of the world, and make up three parts of the imprisoned fiery male, that the death vsong of the swans may be distinctly heard; then the swan roasted twelve keys of basil valentine 46 of 95 will become food fo

eceive back its former colour through the love of alluring venus, from whose blood it, in the first instance, derived its origin. but observe, likewise, that the spirit of salt also destroys the moon, and reduces it to a spiritual essence, according to my teaching, out of which the potable moon may be prepared. this spirit of the moon belongs to the spirit of the sun, as the female answers to the male, by the copulation or conjunction of the spirit of mercury or its oil. the spirit lies hid in mercury, the colour you must seek in sulphur, and their coagulation in salt; then you have three things which together are capable of once more generating a perfect thing. the spirit is fermented in the gold with its own proper oil; the twelve keys of basil valentine 80 of 95 sulphur is found in abun

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

t are found in the entourages of all major buddhist deities. they fill the intermediate spaces of ma..alas, are messengers and inspirers of buddhist texts, and represent pervasive wisdom, which is personified as feminine in buddhism. as such..kin.s are involved in all major buddhist ritual processes and can be invoked for protective purposes; they are said to guard scriptures as well.20 there are male sky-goers (tib. mkha gro; skt..ka, but they are not nearly as popular in tibetan buddhism. 18 see tucci 1999, pp. 713-717; and gyaltsen 1996, pp. 75-80 for more on the first tibetan tribes as well as their mythic descent from a demoness. this will be discussed further in chapter 3. 19 see haarh 1969, pp. 216-219. 20 see snellgrove 2002, pp. 167-168; beyer 1978, pp. 45-47, 399; and simmer-brow

of data that he or she considers especially significant in order to create a narrative in which these points of information act as the causes and results of certain events.73 such protocol is even stronger in the records of ahistorical figures such as protector deities where events primarily operate within a mythic space.74 70 to be discussed in connection with pehar in chapter 5. 71 this is the male variant of the..kin, as discussed in the introduction. 72 nbgl, fol. 3b.2: bdag nyid kyi thugs ka i od zer lcags kyu i rnam pa can gyis nub phyogs btsan yul zangs thang dmar po/ bsam yas mi gyur lhun gyis grub pa i gtsug lag khang/ ba dha hor gyis gom grwa/ li yul lcang ra smug po/ lha gnas sum cu rtsa gsum/ ayon mkha gro i gling/ rgya yul nam mkha chad chod sogs gar bzhugs. 73 see white 1985

kowitz 1998, pp. 418, 435; and havnevik 2002, p. 272. 115 horses of my master but left one for my lady-love; the spirit of the las dpon [foreman, who once served the bde legs rabs ldan [delek rapden] family of shigatse, always complains about the heavy grain-tax which had been collected at his time, etc.161 hanna havnevik describes a scenario in which the female oracle lobsang tsedr n channeled a male hero spirit and accordingly dressed, walked, and drank beer like a man; she never drank beer in any other circumstance. patrons claim that, once out of the trance, nobody could smell beer on her breath.162 supernatural qualities are a significant attribute of the trance state and help further the authenticity and sacred activity that surrounds the oracle tradition. such supernatural abilities

2002, pp. 270-272; and diemberger 2005, pp. 136-138. 120 important note should be made on the diachronic nature of the majority of the oracle studies cited here. de nebesky-wojkowitz, writing in the early 1950s, provides a detailed examination of the oracle tradition as it existed prior to chinese occupation and before the cultural revolution. his focus is also strongly directed toward important male state oracles. this observation is the same for rock and prince peter of greece and denmark, both of whom conducted preliminary research on the oracle tradition as it existed before or just after chinese occupation. havnevik and diemberger, however, conducted their research well after the cultural revolution, a time when the practices of many oracle lineages were forcefully cut off. this also

0 one final observation should be made on the oracular tradition of tsiu marpo. though deities do come to be associated with specific oracles, they can nonetheless possess several other people as well, as noted above with tengy ling monastery. havnevik explains that generally the sex of the deity corresponds with the sex of the oracle, but there are rare examples where a female oracle can channel male gods, as has previously been observed with lobsang tsedr n. havnevik provides another example in which an oracle nun named ani lochen was at one time possessed by tsiu marpo as well as other local gods.201 conversely, it has been previously explained that oracles can also channel other deities. as such, de nebesky-wojkowitz records 198 see gibson 1991, p. 207 n.64. 199 see alexander 2005, p

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

cluded- in the animal kingdom[[footnote(s* see genesis ch. ii, v. 19. adam is formed in verse 7, and in verse 19 it is said "out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto adam to see what he would call them" thus man was created before the animals; for the animals mentioned in chapter i. are the signs of the zodiac, while the man "male and female" is not man, but the host of the sephiroth; forces, or angels "made in his (god's) image and after his likeness" the adam, man, is not made in that likeness, nor is it so asserted in the bible. moreover, the second adam[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 2 the secret doctrine. the secret doctrine is not alone in speaking of primeval men born simultaneously on the seven

wing became the new shadow, and the shadow of the wing- vi. 22. then the second evolved the egg-born, the third. the sweat grew, its drops grew, and the drops became hard and round. the sun warmed it; the moon cooled and shaped it; the wind fed it until its ripeness. the white swan from the starry vault overshadowed the big drop. the egg of the future race, the man-swan of the later third. first male-female, then man and woman. 23. the self-born were the chhayas: the shadows from the bodies of the sons of twilight- vii. 24. the sons of wisdom, the sons of night, ready for rebirth, came down, they saw the vile forms of the first third "we can choose" said the lords "we have wisdom" some entered the chhaya. some projected the spark. some deferred till the fourth. from their own rupa they fi

on-coloured; the second yellow like gold; the third red; the fourth brown, which became black with sin. the first seven human shoots were all of one complexion. the next seven began mixing. 40. then the fourth became tall with pride. we are the kings, it was said; we are the gods. 41. they took wives fair to look upon. wives from the mindless, the narrow-headed. they bred monsters. wicked demons, male and female, also khado (dakini, with little minds. 42. they built temples for the human body. male and female they worshipped. then the third eye acted no longer- xi. 43. they built huge cities. of rare earths and metals they built, and out of the fires vomited, out of the white stone of[[vol. 2, page] 21 the slokas of "dzyan" the mountains and of the black stone, they cut their own images in

-subjective angels. thus- to anticipate a little by way of illustration- every race in its[[vol. 2, page] 24 the secret doctrine. evolution is said to be born under the direct influence of one of the planets: race the first receiving its breath of life from the sun, as will be seen later on; while the third humanity- those who fell into generation, or from androgynes became separate entities, one male and the other female- are said to be under the direct influence of venus "the little sun in which the solar orb stores his light" the summation of the stanzas in book i. showed the genesis* of gods and men taking rise in, and from, one and the same point, which is the one universal, immutable, eternal, and absolute unity. in its primary manifested aspect we have seen it become (1) in the sphe

b stores his light" the summation of the stanzas in book i. showed the genesis* of gods and men taking rise in, and from, one and the same point, which is the one universal, immutable, eternal, and absolute unity. in its primary manifested aspect we have seen it become (1) in the sphere of objectivity and physics, primordial substance and force (centripetal and centrifugal, positive and negative, male and female, etc, etc (2) in the world of metaphysics, the spirit of the universe, or cosmic ideation, called by some the logos. this logos is the apex of the pythagorean triangle. when the triangle is complete it becomes the tetraktis, or the triangle in the square, and is the dual symbol of the four-lettered tetragrammaton in the manifested kosmos, and of its radical triple ray in the unmani

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

owing to shifting sands and the desert wind, with strange and heterogeneous relics; with broken china and kitchen utensils and human bones. the natives often find copper and gold coins, melted silver, ingots, diamonds, and turquoises, and what is the most remarkable- broken glass "coffins of some undecaying wood, or material, also, within which beautifully preserved embalmed bodies are found. the male mummies are all extremely tall powerfully built men with long waving hair. a vault was found with twelve dead men sitting in it. another time, in a separate coffin, a young girl was discovered by us. her eyes were closed with golden discs, and the jaws held firm by a golden circlet running from under the chin across the top of the head. clad in a narrow[[vol. 1, page] xxxiv introductory. wool

nce and the emotions" a discourse delivered at south place chapel, finsbury, london, dec. 27th, 1885[[vol. 1, page] 4 the secret doctrine. two are able to understand the profound logic of their philosophy. the former will allow of no other god than the personified secondary powers which have worked out the visible universe, and which became with them the anthropomorphic god of the christians- the male jehovah, roaring amid thunder and lightning. in its turn, rationalistic science greets the buddhists and the svabhavikas as the "positivists" of the archaic ages. if we take a one-sided view of the philosophy of the latter, our materialists may be right in their own way. the buddhists maintained that there is no creator, but an infinitude of creative powers, which collectively form the one et

lled, or simply svastica within a circle[[diagram] by the third symbol- the circle divided in two by the horizontal line of the diameter- the first manifestation of creative (still passive, because feminine) nature was meant. the first shadowy perception of man connected with procreation is feminine, because man knows his mother more than his father. hence female deities were more sacred than the male. nature is therefore feminine, and, to a degree, objective and tangible, and the spirit principle which fructifies it is concealed. by adding to the circle with the horizontal line in it, a perpendicular line, the tau was formed[[diagram- the oldest form of the letter. it was the glyph of the third root-race to the day of its symbolical fall- i.e, when the separation of sexes by natural evolu

n be neither two infinites nor two absolutes in a universe supposed to be boundless, this self-existence can hardly be conceived of as creating personally. in the sense and perceptions of finite "beings" that is non-"being" in the sense that it is the one beness; for, in this all lies concealed its coeternal and coeval emanation or inherent radiation, which, upon becoming periodically brahma (the male-female potency) becomes or expands itself into the manifested universe. narayana moving on the (abstract) waters of space, is transformed into the waters of concrete substance moved by him, who now becomes the manifested word or logos[[footnote(s* see "vedanta sara" by major g. a. jacob; as also "the aphorisms of s'andilya" translated by cowell, p. 42* nevertheless, prejudiced and rather fana

e other, vishnu, from the root vis "to pervade" to enter in the nature of the essence; brahma-vishnu being this infinite space, of which the gods, the rishis, the manus, and all in this universe are simply the potencies, vibhutayah[[vol. 1, page] 9 proem. return to, brahma (brahma: for brahma (neuter, the unmanifested, is that universe in abscondito, and brahma, the manifested, is the logos, made male-female* in the symbolical orthodox dogmas. the god of the apostle-initiate and of the rishi being both the unseen and the visible space. space is called in the esoteric symbolism "the seven-skinned eternal mother-father" it is composed from its undifferentiated to its differentiated surface of seven layers "what is that which was, is, and will be, whether there is a universe or not; whether t

BLUE EQUINOX

ove, liberty, and light, thou beyond speech and beyond sight, thee i invoke, my faint fresh fire kindling as mine intents aspire. thee i invoke, abiding one, thee, centre and secret of the sun, and that most holy mystery of which the vehicle am i. the equinox 266 appear, most awful and most mild, as it is lawful, in thy child! the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from waiting womb! men: glory t

and call it thine, thy soul has to become as the ripe mango fruit: as soft and sweet as its bright golden pulp for others. woes, as hard as that fruit.s stone for thine own throes and sorrows, o conqueror of weal and woe. more trouble, more poetic image, more apparent sentimentality. its true interpretation is to be found in the old symbolism of this rearrange of chiah and neschamah. chiah is the male, proof against seduction; neschamah the female that overcomes by weakness. but in actual practice the meaning may be explained thus,.you yourself have conquered, you have become perfectly indifferent, perfectly energetic, perfectly creative, but, having united yourself to the universe, you become acutely conscious that your own fortunate condition is not shared by that which you now are. it i

BOOK OF JASHAR

les: human and eve, and noah and tubalcain. the subsequent naming of descendants("humans "noahites) calls our attention primarily to the husband in one couple (human) and the wife in the other (noah. but human and noah both rely on the skills, the strength, and the faithful support of their spouses, eve and tubalcain. so, in this text, leading and supporting roles are not type-cast as exclusively male or female. otherwise, however, noah's gender actually makes very little difference in the story. of all the factors that differ here from the biblical story (the nature of the flood, the wooden vehicle, the promise of the rainbow, etc, the gender of noah is one of the least essential. and yet noah's gender tends to capture readers' attention more than any other aspect of the story (indeed, we

rson. there are two other biblical characters who are present although unnamed in the story: isaac's new-born twin sons, esau and jacob. notice that, if isaac was sacrificed at the tower and abram was not his father, then these children would have a special status. because they were not fathers when the tower fell, they would not have been ordained as patriarchs. on the other hand, with no living male ancestor, they would also not be members of any other patriarch's nation. yet as children of the man whose sacrifice led to the great revolution, and as grandchildren of the woman whose courage made the revolution possible, they should have a claim to special treatment. thus, the story puts jacob and his twin in a position to found tribes whose claim to nationhood might be disputed, but whose

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

is first admonished that to not believe in witchcraft is heresy. points are then covered on whether children can he generated by incubi and succubi; witches' copulation with the devil; whether witches can sway the minds of men to love or hatred; whether witches can hebetate the powers of generation or obstruct the venereal act; whether witches may work some presti-digitatory illusion so that the male organ appears to be entirely removed and separate from the body; various ways that the witches may kill the child conceived in the womb, etc, etc. the second part, treating of the methods by which works of witchcraft are wrought and directed, and how they may be successfully annulled and dissolved' deals with 'the several methods by which devils through witches entice and allure the innocent

asure. in witchcraft today there are many traditions that continue this multiplicity of names. traditions with degree systems, for example, frequently use different deity names in their higher degrees than in their lower. gardnerian is one example of this. so we have this idea of an ultimate deity, an incomprehensible power, and in trying to relate to it we have split it into two main entities, a male and a female. to these we have given names. it would seem that by so doing we are limiting what is, by definition, limitless. but so long as you know, and keep always in the back of your mind, that "it" is limitless you will find that this is the easiest path to follow. after all, it is pretty difficult to pray to a "thing, a supreme power, without being able to picture someone in your mind

r mind. in judaism there is this problem to an extent (though judaism is a theocentric faith; the supreme power there has a name which may not be uttered and may not be written. yahweh is the vocalized form often used, but it is derived from the four letters yhwh (the "divine tetra-grammaton, signifying "that name too sacred to be pronounced. in christianity there was developed the use of a human male, jesus, to play the part of the "son of god, the christ, thus giving a recognizable form to deity; a form to which the followers could relate. with the addition of mary, the mother figure, the duality was complete. bo it was much more comfortable to pray to jesus, as the extension of god/supreme being, yet all the time knowing that there was the indefinable, the incomprehensible, beyond him

the god and the goddess are our intermediaries. different traditions use different names, as already mentioned. these are the names used for the "understandable forms" of the supreme power; the ultimate deity. they are the deities honored and worshipped in the witchcraft rites. the god and goddess of witchcraft a general complaint about christianity by witches is that there is the worship of the male deity to the exclusion of the female. in fact this is one of the main reasons for people (women especially) leaving christianity and returning to the old religion. and yet it's a strange paradox that many if not the majority of witchcraft traditions are guilty of this same crime of christianity, if in reverse. they laud the goddess to the near, or even total, exclusion of the god! witchcraft

for people (women especially) leaving christianity and returning to the old religion. and yet it's a strange paradox that many if not the majority of witchcraft traditions are guilty of this same crime of christianity, if in reverse. they laud the goddess to the near, or even total, exclusion of the god! witchcraft is a religion of nature, as any witch will tell you. everywhere in nature there is male and female, and both are necessary (i have yet to meet anyone who does not have both a mother and a father. it follows, then, that both the god and the goddess are important and should be equally revered. there should be balance. but balance is as woefully missing in most traditions of the craft as it is in christianity. we are all every single one of us made up of both masculine and feminine

BUDGE E

to view the boat which capsizeth. the forms of horus, who is occupied in tying loops of rope to the elongated hawk-headed rowlocks in which the paddles may be worked. the boat of af follows in the train of three boats, which may be thus described- the foremost boat is called uaa-penat, p. 46 i.e "the boat which capsizeth; it contains three hawk-headed forms of the god horus, and is steered by two male figures, who stand one in the bows and the other at the stern. in the middle of the boat stand the hawk-god bak, and the hawk-goddess baket, and behind them, standing on a snake, is the click to view the boat of rest. third form of horus. between the front steersman and baket is the serpent teka-hra, i.e "fiery face" and the aft steersman bears a name of similar meaning, nab-hra. the second b

click to view third hour. lower register. gods nos. 1-6. he hath come forth in the earth from them, they send forth their voice, and take vengeance upon the seba fiend. whosoever knoweth [these things] shall, when he passeth by these beings, not be driven away by their roarings, and he shall never fall down into their caverns" in the lower register are- 1. the god khnemu, ram-headed. 2. a bearded male figure called nerta, with hands raised in adoration. p. 56 3-6. four forms of osiris, mummified, bearded, and wearing the white crown, and seated on chairs of state; their names are asar-neb-amentet, asar-khent-amentet, asar-asti, and asar-thet-heh, that is "osiris, lord of click to view third hour. lower register. gods nos. 7-13 [paragraph continues] amentet "osiris at the head of amentet "o

ntet, asar-asti, and asar-thet-heh, that is "osiris, lord of click to view third hour. lower register. gods nos. 7-13 [paragraph continues] amentet "osiris at the head of amentet "osiris of the two seats" and "osiris, conqueror of millions of years" 7-11. five goose-headed beings, each holding a knife in his right hand; four of their names are neha-hra, akebsen, atemti, and tuatui. p. 57 12-14. a male figure called sepaashat, who holds a knife with both hands, and stands between two women, whose names are meskh-set, and tept-bes-s. 15. the male bearded figure amenti. click to view third hour. lower register. gods nos. 14-19. 16-19. four forms of osiris, mummified, bearded, and wearing the red crown, and seated on chairs of state; their names are asar-ka-amentet, asar-her-khentu-f, asar-bat

ne mummy form benni, seated (see p. 71. 5. a lion-headed goddess called hen-kherth (see p. 71. 6. a goddess, with a pair of horns on her head, in a sitting position, but with no throne to sit upon; her name is thest-apt (see p. 71. of these beings it is said "those who are in this picture are in the forms wherein horus made them, and they stand on the ground of re-stau in the hidden place" 7. the male serpent amen (see pp. 75, 77. 8. the female serpent hekent, which has a human head growing out of its body, a little distance from the tip of its tail; the human head faces the serpent amen. of the male serpent it is said "he p. 79 click to view the kingdom of seker. p. 80 p. 81 who is in this picture is the guardian of the secret passages which lead to the aheth chamber; he journeyeth round

who are united to your shades, who lift up your feet and who move onwards by your thighs, unite ye yourselves to your flesh, and let not your members be fettered. they have their life through the voice of this great god every day, and the work which they do is to watch the two comings of the god khuti" concerning the nine serpents it is said "the majesty of this great god speaketh words to these male gods who are at the head of this city-"hail, o nine forms of the divine spirits, whose faces are of flames, who are provided with your knives, burn ye up the enemies of khepera, hack in pieces their shades, for ye are the warders of the hidden flesh, which is made of nu, your habitation, for it is ye who dwell in the water of ta-thenen, and it is for you that the magical powers of khepera com

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

fourth paragraph continues the same theme. 5 "destruction is the foundation of existence. the letter peh, as a single character, is the number 80, and 80 is the enumeration of yesod, i s v d" foundation. on the tree of life the sephirah yesod represents the reproductive organism of the heavenly man. the process which begins the generation of a human or animal body is primarily a destruction. the male cell, or spermatozoon, penetrates the female cell, or ovum, and begins a process of division in the ovum [157] t h e book of t o k e n s the quotation is from deuteronomy, 8: 3. the authorized version reads" man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that procecdeth out of the mouth (peh) of the lord" but the authorized version is a translation made by theologians, who interpolated th

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

stence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was seite 6 wicca01.txt fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this moti

ed their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalists and midwives became a threat. this was not least because their skills ensured less painful childbirth, which was considered contrary to the curse of god that the daughters of eve should bear children in sorrow. so midwives were a prime target for the new persecutions and were often accused of sacrificing babies to the devil. given

ly an innocent witness at the trials at first. however, he himself was accused of witchcraft and was pressed to death- a torture in which heavy stones were placed on the victim's chest and which took three days to kill them- rather than confess, for if he had, his property would have been taken from his descendants. high-ranking practitioners of magick who attempted to conjure demons were usually male, and included both popes and royalty. they generally escaped censure, however. the folk religion of the countryside was an easier target. in december 1484, the bull of pope innocent vii was published, appointing heinrich kramer and jakob sprenger as inquisitors against witchcraft and heresy. these two clerics wrote the malleus maleficarum, the notorious hammer of the witches, which described

unger sibling died in prison. dorcas was driven insane by her experience. about three-quarters of all those killed as witches in europe and scandinavia were women, mainly lower-class older women, female healers, village herbalists, wise women and midwives. with the death of so many experienced healers and wise women, much knowledge was inevitably lost, and for a time infant mortality increased as male physicians took over the roles of the deposed midwives. but anyone who was different in any way- eccentric, senile or physically deformed- could be accused. any old woman living alone might be blamed for the deaths of animals, the failure of crops and outbreaks of disease that were in reality caused by poor hygiene and diet, bad weather, human neglect or simply blind fate. of course, this occ

nth century. but the authentic water gypsies knew their lore by inheritance rather than from a book, and the similarities are remarkable. ritual was practised by the canal people within a triple magical square, each square joined by four lines and constructed from wood known as 'the mill. only the women entered the sacred area, under the leadership of a senior female water witch, though the chief male, known as the master, summoned the entity to assist in the ritual. if you would like to read more about this, you will find some recommended books listed in further reading, page 301. certainly, i can recall two terrifyingly swarthy aunts who commanded the family, and my father recounted many superstitions and much canal lore when i was young. this included the tale of a terrifying character

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

, current superstitions collected from the oral traditions of english-speaking folk [boston: houghton mifflin, 1896, p. 128; and parsons "folklore of the sea islands, south carolina" memoirs of the american folklore society 16 [1923: 61. newbell niles puckett describes some witches as evil succubi who steal married women, suggesting a masculine identity, as does tom peete cross, who notes that "a male witch sometimes causes his neighbor to leave his bed, and then, entering the house, enjoys his wife (puckett, folk beliefs of the southern negro, p. 151; cross "folklore from the southern states" journal of american folklore 22 [1909: 251. another sources notes that "witches are the wives of hoodoo men"(richard dorson "negro witch stories on tape" midwest folklore 2, no. 4 [1952: 233. while s

bed, and then, entering the house, enjoys his wife (puckett, folk beliefs of the southern negro, p. 151; cross "folklore from the southern states" journal of american folklore 22 [1909: 251. another sources notes that "witches are the wives of hoodoo men"(richard dorson "negro witch stories on tape" midwest folklore 2, no. 4 [1952: 233. while some accounts make occasional references to a gendered male witch, by far, most witches in black folk narratives are female. 62. georgia writers' project, drums and shadows, p. 58; dorson "negro witch stories on tape" p. 233. for descriptions of witches in nineteenth-century folklore, see fanny bergen "two negro witch-stories" journal of american folklore 12 (1899: 145.46; mary minor "how to keep off witches" journal of american folklore 11 (1898: 71;

nt.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 68. grimes's curious treatment of the witch might be read as a coded reflection on his own repressed sexual desires, or a critique of the slaveowner's domination of a slave's erotic life. perhaps these anecdotes should be seen as fantasies, rendered complex and disturbing by the physical subordination suffered by the black male slave. for the full account see the life of william grimes, the runaway slave, written by himself (new york, 1825, pp. 24.25. chapter 4 "medical doctors can't do you no good" 1. addie battle's testimony, in james blackwell "a comparative study of five negro store-front churches in cleveland (master's thesis, western reserve university, cleveland, 1949, pp. 312.15. 2. ibid. on women preachers

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

m (james:1963..aryan migration into anatolia around 2000 bc.(lincoln: 1981..pg 181) harran founded as a merchant outpost of ur, situated on the major trade route across northern mesopotamia. the name comes from the sumerian and akkadian "harran-u, meaning "journey "caravan, or "crossroad. 2000-1900 abraham, b. in ur, according to bible lived to age of 175. 1857 bc birth of shenrab in the 1st wood male mouse year, the son of king gyal tokar and queen zanga ringum (wangyal: 1993..pg 30) 1800 enuma elish, bablyonian creation myth. 1700 bc 17th and 15th centuries bc..asherah was their mother goddess. the consort of jehovah 'she who treads on the sea-(petty: 1990) 1760 gilgamesh epic. 1600 orig. egyptian book of the dead (book of coming forth by day. 1570 ebers papyrus 1550-1450 o.c. rig-veda

rles-pierre-paul savalette de lange. keeper of the royal treasury, grand officer of the grand orient, and a high initiate of masonry 'versed in all mysteries, in all the lodges, and all the plots' in order to unite all the masonic groups he made his lodge a mixture of all sophistic, martiniste, and masonic systems 'and as a bait to the aristocracy organized balls and concerts at which the adepts, male and female, danced and feasted, or sang of the beauties of their liberty and equality, little knowing that above them was a secret committee which was arranging to extend this equality beyond the lodge to rank and fortune, to castles and to cottages, to marquesses and bourgeois' alike (webster, quoting barruel) 1748 tarot de grimaud 1748-1830 adam weishaupt 1749-56 swedenborg's arcana coelest

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

w up the fire himself with a pipe, and they stood blowing about it like this, as if they were wondrously preferred before us in this. and this blowing lasted until our old man roused us to our work again, so that i cannot say what was done afterwards. we opened our little forms, and there appeared two beautiful, bright and almost transparent little images, the like of which man s eye never saw, a male and a female, each of them only four inches long, and what surprised us most greatly was that they were not hard, but lithe and fleshy, like other human bodies, yet they had no life; so that i most assuredly believe that the lady venus s image was also made after some such manner. these angelically fair babes we first laid upon two little satin cushions, and looked at them for a good while, t

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

s, and other precious items of trade.1 the panku story shares some common elements with creation myths of those far-flung regions: a cosmic egg, separation of the world into opposing forces, and doomed gods. this story introduces the important concept of yin and yang. these opposing forces, which exist in everything found in nature, are not seen as evil and good, but as dark and light, female and male, earth and heaven. one cannot exist without the other. in this story, panku is depicted as a giant. in other versions, he appears in his withered human form, clothed in bearskin and leaves. 16 once, the world was a mass of swirling darkness. there was no heaven. there was no earth. all the forces of the universe were trapped inside a small egg, tumbling and spinning in utter chaos. inside the

marduk constructs the vault of heaven, from the other the solid earth .2 the story of panku also introduces one of the most important concepts in chinese thought: yin and yang. authors martin palmer and zhao xiaomin of the international consultancy on religion, education, and culture (icorec) explain: yin is female, moist, cold, the moon, the autumn and winter, the shadow and the waters. yang is male, dry, hot, the sun, the spring and summer, the bright and the dry land. they struggle with each other for supremacy. from their struggle comes the dynamic which drives the whole of life. for they are found locked together in every being, every situation. as one seems to be gaining the ascendancy, the other arises for they each carry the seed of the other within them as the yin yang symbol so

for supremacy. from their struggle comes the dynamic which drives the whole of life. for they are found locked together in every being, every situation. as one seems to be gaining the ascendancy, the other arises for they each carry the seed of the other within them as the yin yang symbol so clearly illustrates.3 22 2 nuwa creates people introduction whereas panku, the creator of the universe was male, the creator of people was a female goddess named nuwa. nuwa is briefly mentioned in several ancient chinese texts, a classic of history (eighth century b.c, a classic of mountains and seas (third century b.c, and questions of heaven (fourth century b.c).1 in addition, many images of nuwa have been uncovered on ancient chinese bronze sculptures and paintings. like many of the early chinese go

women in china had no social standing of their own. however, in their roles as mothers and wives, they were extremely powerful. since women generally outlived their husbands, they often asserted themselves and ran the household after their spouses death. even in politics, several women (empresses) became extremely powerful after the death of their husbands, the emperors.2 although most gods were male, nuwa is a very powerful female goddess in early mythology. she creates mankind and is responsible for repairing the earth. 24 the world was indeed a sparkling jewel. sturdy pine trees dotted the mountains, and weeping willows lined the streams. apple, quince, and plum blossoms burst into bloom and later yielded ripe, heavy fruit. birds flitted about in the azure sky, leaving their black, cri

much as she loved her new creations, she knew she could not watch over these humans every second. what would happen to these creatures when they grew old and died? nuwa did not relish making repairs, nor did she wish to repeat the tiring task of making new people. she thought and thought. how could these creatures reproduce without her? with a twist and a poke, she made some of the clay creatures male and some of them female. then she gathered up all the noisy creatures who were slipping and falling in the mud. in the hubbub, she began to deliver her most important instructions. as nuwa spoke, the clamor died down to a silent hush. the humans listened solemnly to her words. she spoke of the importance of marriage and a couple s obligations to each other. she told them how to make children

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

mbolic of the penis of osiris, the egyptian god. the legend is that he was torn into pieces by the 'evil' set (lucifer, satan, the devil, et al) and when isis, the wife of osiris, tried to put him back together again, she found all his missing parts, except you know what. such legends are, i feel, symbolic of much more straightforward truths. the obelisk and osiris's penis in that story symbolise male energy, which has dominated the world throughout recorded history. all of us, and creation as a whole, are in search of balance and harmony between opposites- negative and positive, male and female. these are the yin and yang-type forces of chinese culture. when one of these forces dominates, there is an imbalance which manifests as imbalanced behaviour. the transformation the planet is now g

en opposites- negative and positive, male and female. these are the yin and yang-type forces of chinese culture. when one of these forces dominates, there is an imbalance which manifests as imbalanced behaviour. the transformation the planet is now going through is designed to bring such forces into harmony and balance so that all serve, but none dominates. the suppression of female energy by the male has created a maledominated world and the 'macho man' is one of its offspring. this has not been by accident, but by design- the prison warders' design. harmony and balance in all things= wholeness. wholeness= infinite potential. that's the last thing the prison warders want, because such people are impossible to control. instead, they have sought to imbalance us. disharmony and imbalance= di

e in all things= wholeness. wholeness= infinite potential. that's the last thing the prison warders want, because such people are impossible to control. instead, they have sought to imbalance us. disharmony and imbalance= division of self. division of self= limited potential. the two major imbalances within ourselves and the prison in general have been the negative dominating the positive and the male dominating the female. there is no greater manifestation of the male imbalance than what is seen in some of the major religions and in the secret society network. the re-emergence of female energy is crucial to the harmonising of the earth, and by that, i don't only mean the re-emergence of women into areas of decision-making. i mean the reawakening of female energy within the male form also

by that, i don't only mean the re-emergence of women into areas of decision-making. i mean the reawakening of female energy within the male form also, and a softening of the indoctrinated desire of so many men to dominate and to follow the macho man programming. this reemergence of female energy is symbolised as 'the return of the goddess. it is highly appropriate that the obelisk (the symbol of male energy) should be so important to the brotherhood over the centuries, because it is, after all, a brotherhood, not a brother-and-sisterhood. the secret societies are almost entirely male-dominated with women excluded from the knowledge and decision making. look at the freemasons as an example. it is a male preserve, with their wives wheeled out for the annual dinner like a piece of decoration

gy) should be so important to the brotherhood over the centuries, because it is, after all, a brotherhood, not a brother-and-sisterhood. the secret societies are almost entirely male-dominated with women excluded from the knowledge and decision making. look at the freemasons as an example. it is a male preserve, with their wives wheeled out for the annual dinner like a piece of decoration. such a male-dominated organisation must by definition be imbalanced, and this one most certainly is. the freemasons have become one of the most important of the secret societies which have appeared since the ancient times, and they have based themselves on the the birth of the brotherhood 29 structure and beliefs of the brotherhood mystery schools, as have the others. i will refer to this network as the

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

a phoenician deity, later encompassed into christianity, was st michael and so you have st michael's mount just off the cornish coast near penzance.34 the tin ships operated from here, and there are many other references to "st michael" in that region. other phoenician-sumerian deities were st george of cappadocia in turkey, who defeated the dragon and became the patron saint of england; barat, a male deity, who became "briton; and barati, the female, who became the british heroine, britannia, when these deities were brought to these islands by the sumerian empire (figure 14).35 according to sir laurence gardner, the spokesman of the ancient imperial court of the royal dragon and order, barat-anna (great mother of the fire stone) symbolised the wife of anu, the chief of the sumerian reptil

e that embraced most of central europe and italy from 962 to 1806. the dutch researcher frans kamp suggests that the habsburgs were nordics who interbred with the reptilians in the ancient past. they were also connected to the reptilian house of lorraine. phillip eugene says that this "rothsburg" bloodline is known within the illuminati as the "gens. this is a latin word meaning "race "tribe" or "male line of descent" and comes from the term gignere "to beget".30 the late lord louis mountbatten, a famous member of the british royal family, and his nephew, prince philip, are battenbergs and illuminati satanists. this is why lord mountbatten became governor of the isle of wight off the south coast of england, an extremely important centre for the illuminati and its satanists because of its p

and symbol of the serpent cult; the snake, fish, and flying reptile (gargoyle, and other reptilian symbolism; the hard "k" sound used in names and words (ka, ki, etc; the red cross or fire cross on the white background (the flag of england; and the trinity, symbolised as the trident and later the fleurde- lis and other three-pointed forms. the reptilian-illuminati know that the balanced fusion of male and female energy create a third and immensely powerful force and this is one reason for their obsession with the "trinity. new agers and others talk about the need to balance 106 children of the matrix male and female and they are right. but we lose the plot if we don't understand that there are different levels of this fusion. you can fuse the negative aspects of both energies to create a m

d this is one reason for their obsession with the "trinity. new agers and others talk about the need to balance 106 children of the matrix male and female and they are right. but we lose the plot if we don't understand that there are different levels of this fusion. you can fuse the negative aspects of both energies to create a malevolent "third force" or you can balance the higher frequencies of male and female, so creating a positive third force. the world around us is, in fact, the manifestation of the negative balance and interaction of these energies. we are led to believe this is a male-dominated world, but that is only on the surface. behind the scenes it is really controlled by the negative expression of female energy. the extreme male energy is "out there" in front of our eyes in

orporations, media empires, and the military. but they are put into power, the wars created, and the agenda advanced, by the extreme negative aspects of the female energy- covert, behind-the-scenes manipulation. if anything, the illuminati, at the real seat of power, are dominated by the female. the negative extremes of the female energy covertly manipulate events and the negative extremes of the male energy play them out before our eyes. this is why we think it is a male-dominated world. it looks that way, but that is not the whole story. destroying the ancient knowledge there have been two main thrusts of the reptilian secret society network since those ancient times. first, to pass on advanced knowledge only to their chosen few and control how much of this information each of these init

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ousands ofyears since, have expanded their power across the globe. a crucial aspect of this hasbeen to create a network of mystery schools and secret societies to covertly introducetheir agenda while, at the same time, creating institutions like religions to mentally andemotionally imprison the masses and set them at war with each other. the hierarchy ofthis tribe of bloodlines is not exclusively male and some of its key positions are held bywomen. but in terms of numbers it is overwhelmingly male and i will therefore refer tothis group as the brotherhood. even more accurately, given the importance of ancientbabylon to this story, i will also call it the babylonian brotherhood. the plan they termtheir creat work of ages, i will call the brotherhood agenda. the present magnitudeof brotherho

sent twosons to develop and rule the earth, the tablets say. they were enki, the guy theysay created homo sapiens, and his half-brother enlil. these two would later becomegreat rivals for ultimate control of the planet. enki, the first born of anu, was9subordinate to enlil because of the anunnakis obsession with genetic purity. enlilsmother was the half sister to anu and this union passed on the male genes moreefficiently than enkis birth via another mother. later the tablets describe how theanunnaki created bloodlines to rule humanity on their behalf and these, i suggest, arethe families still in control of the world to this day. the sumerian tablets describe howkingship was granted to humanity by the anunnaki and it was originally known as anu-ship after an or anu, the ruler of the gods

of theislands of the blessed and the garden of the hesperides in which grew a tree bearingthe golden apples of immortality. this garden was protected by a dragon.4 in thechinese sacred books there is a garden in which grew trees bearing the fruit ofimmortality and it, too, was guarded by a winged serpent called a dragon. in ancientmexican accounts, their version of the eve story involves a great male serpent.5another hindu legend speaks of the sacred mountain of meru guarded by a dreadfuldragon.6 over and over we see the same theme of sacred places guarded by fearsomedragons and of a reptilian or a half reptile-half human, giving spiritual knowledge tohumans.the reptile species has a long, long connection with the earth, going back more than150 million years to the dinosaurs and beyond. i

iod of 15 days as i travelled around the united states in 1998, imet more than a dozen separate people who told me of how they had seen humanstransform into reptiles and go back again in front of their eyes. two televisionpresenters had just such an experience while interviewing a man who was in favour ofthe global centralisation of power known as the new world order. after the liveinterview, the male presenter said to his colleague that he had experienced an amazingsight during the interview. he had seen the mans face transform into a lizard-likecreature and then return to human. his female fellow presenter was astounded becauseshe had seen the interviewees hands turn reptilian. the male presenter also told me ofan experience a policeman friend had while making a routine visit to an offic

ve also discovered that humans have an internalclock which is in sync with the sun. in short, the suns effect on human life isfundamental and far beyond its obvious contribution of warmth and light. the56extraterrestrials knew this in these ancient times and the sun was viewed with awe. itis the physical and spiritual heart of the solar system and it came to symbolise thecreator, particularly the male aspects of the creative force. he who is the light ofthe world. this knowledge of the sun will be a common theme throughout the rest ofthis book as we journey through history to the present day. it does, however, make thedecoding of history a little more complex because the ancients would constantly usesun and astrological symbolism in their stories and some of the names for their godswould b

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

e encouraged to pursue the subjects they have listed at the very bottom of their home page, noting the extremely satanic, anti-christian subjects of which the invisible fraternity is comprised. below are a few of these subjects as kessinger's has listed them: this is the heart and soul of the invisible, inner fraternity. the absolute darkest part of this heart is phallicism, worshipping the erect male sex organ. the obelisk is the major symbol for this worship, which is why you see obelisks everywhere associated with freemasonry! it is time to stop being deceived, don't you think! listen to albert pike speak of the obelisk "hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of the resurrection by the tomb of buried deity [morals and do

DAVIDSON DAN SHAPE POWER

color, and general shape. my experience in psychic research and psychological testing enabled me to identify some first rate clairvoyants who have provided additional, very valuable, insight into the science of shape power. in this book, i have lumped all the clairvoyants for purposes of simplicity. this was done to protect the various identities as they all wish to remain anonymous. i used both male and female clairvoyants for various testing. it is amazing what we've been able to prove so far. it's better than using an oscilloscope on electronic circuits. using clairvoyants as the test instrument is total real-time feedback on exactly what is happening to the energy. as an example, i ran some tests on various materials to find out what happens with aetheric energy transmission through t

DEMONIC BIBLE

ul magicians of legend. the greatest of these men were worshipped after their deaths as gods. the prophets of every major religion were magicians, practitioners of the black arts, and lovers of the dark goddess. from all that i have written in this and the preceding sections, you may realize that the rituals of the demonic bible contain several fallacies. i have said that the devil is female, not male. how then can a man become the devil incarnate if the devil is female? i have also said that the names satan, lucifer, belial, etc. are titles for the dark goddess. how can the magician cross the gate of satan or the gate of lucifer? i have said that the key to understanding deitus is the realization that man is a god and yet the first ritual of the demonic bible is a renunciation of all gods

yself unto me as my wife and as my lover. take me as thy husband and thy lover. come forth, queen of the earth, and manifest thyself [notes: once again, the female practitioner will have to adapt these rituals so that she "becomes" the queen of the earth and takes the horned god as her husband and lover. you will find that these rituals are easily adaptable to your particular situation. where the male practitioner says "i have crossed the gates of hell and have become the devil incarnate: i am satan, i am lucifer, i am belial, and i am leviathan" the female practitioner will say something similar to "i have crossed the gates of hell and have become the goddess of darkness: i am astaroth, i am ishtar, i am hela" the distinction between male and female entities need only be made, however, in

d have become the devil incarnate: i am satan, i am lucifer, i am belial, and i am leviathan" the female practitioner will say something similar to "i have crossed the gates of hell and have become the goddess of darkness: i am astaroth, i am ishtar, i am hela" the distinction between male and female entities need only be made, however, in the symbolic marriage to the "forces of darkness" and the male practitioner should not fear calling both male and female beings into his body. as a spiritual being, the sorcerer is neither male nor female. only in the form which his physical body has taken is sex a consideration. through transmigration of the spirit, the sorcerer may choose incarnation in bodies of various races and sex. many spirits and demons also choose to take male and female forms

not fear calling both male and female beings into his body. as a spiritual being, the sorcerer is neither male nor female. only in the form which his physical body has taken is sex a consideration. through transmigration of the spirit, the sorcerer may choose incarnation in bodies of various races and sex. many spirits and demons also choose to take male and female forms. for example, astaroth (a male demon) is also ishtar (a female demoness, originally the goddess of babylon. the devil has been personified in art and in literature as an androgenous being, with both the breasts of a woman and the erect penis of a man. to attain union with the "forces of darkness, the sorcerer will summon both male and female beings into himself. the marriage should be in the form of a male/female union, ho

i desire. it is you alone that my heart longs for. it is you alone that i love with all my heart, mind, and soul. o ancient one, receive me as thy priest and thy servant. o tiamat, receive me as thy husband and thy lover. o ancient one, receive me as a sacrifice unto thee. o ancient one, receive me as a sacrifice unto thee. come forth, o ancient one, to receive this sacrifice [notes: absu is the male dragon. tiamat is the female dragon. in the realm of chaos they are as one. the sorcerer will give himself in marriage to tiamat. the sorceress will give herself in marriage to absu. in either case, the practitioner will attain union with the dragon of chaos, the ancient one] spirits of abomination once the magician has performed the ritual of descent and attained union with the dragon of cha

DIABOLUS

f means violence and refers to his name or title as sar shel yam, in hebrew prince of the primordial sea. the source of the twin fallen angels leviathan and behemoth, presents both as beasts and dragons which hold much power when they fell. and that day will two monsters be parted, one monster, a female named leviathan in order to dwell in the abyss of the ocean over the fountains of water, and a male called behemoth which holds his chest in an invisible desert whose name is dendayen, east of the garden of eden. enoch 60: 7-8 these twin dragons in the beginning were said to be angels, but took monstrous form and fell to earth, leviathan, represented as often female and male, and behemoth being a male, to respectively, the abyss of oceans and the earth. in this lore, lucifer fell yet retain

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

e, or ritual enclosure of voudoun (q.v, hounfor is a more general term that means all the physical area, ritual equipment, and persons under the immediate authority of the houngan, or priest. as such, it is equivalent to the christian parish. it may also be used in a more restricted sense to mean the small chamber adjoining the peristyle that contains the alter of one or more loa (q.v. houngan: a male priest of voudoun (q.v, who presides over the rites and gives counsel and magickal aid to worshipers of that religious faith. see planetary hours. hours, planetary: a division of the day and night into sections ruled by the energies of the planets. to determine the length of each planetary hour, divide the daylight hours by twelve. they will be different in length than the night hours (to det

specially words found in the torah (q.v) and other mystical books. methods include: gematria (q.v, notarikon (q.v, and temurah (q.v kabalah, practical: refers to kabalistic methods of making talismans (q.v) and amulets (q.v. kabalah, unwritten: that part of the kabalah which deals with the correspondences of the tree of life (q.v. kalakakra: a tantrik magick circle. see tantra. karezza: a male technique for delaying orgasm. it is said by the oriental mystics, to have beneficial effects to both members of a loving couple. karma: sanskrit for "action" it is the law of cause and effect extended to its widest possible this law states that you get back what you give out. a very important concept in hindu philosophy that is used to justify apparent injustices in the world. according to t

dom means hidden wisdom. occult knowledge means hidden knowledge. it does not mean or imply evil. ogham: a magickal alphabet of the celts composed of twenty (20) letters called fews, each standing for a different kind of tree. it is very simple in appearance, being made up of short vertical or diagonal strokes set against or across a horizontal line. old horny: an affectionate name for the horned male consort of the goddess of the witches. early christian priests either mistook this pagan god for satan (q.v) or deliberately misidentified this pagan god for satan for political reasons. old religion: a modern day reference for wicca (q.v) or witchcraft (q.v, which many occultists believe to be the descendant of an ancient pagan goddess religion. order of the argentium astrum, the [a.a: the g

d eighty-four (84) percent of accuracy and reliability. sephirah: hebrew for "sphere" pronounced "seh-fear-ah" it is a sphere or area or emanation on the tree of life (q.v. sephirohth: pronounced "seh-fear-oht" the plural of sephirah (q.v. serpent: in alchemy (q.v, the result of heating a substance in the athanor (q.v. in sex magick, it is the semen. shakta: in hinduism and eastern occultism, the male seed or spark of light that impregnates the womb of the universal goddess, shakti (q.v, and allows her to give birth to all things. it is viewed as a god in tantrik doctrine. shakta does not himself exist, but he enables existence. shakti: in hinduism and eastern occultism, the universal power of realization that creates and sustains the world from moment to moment. in tantrik doctrine, it is

s that have no discernible causal connection. luck is an example of synchronicity- t- talisman: a type of charm (q.v. any object, sacred or profane, with or without appropriate symbols, charged or consecrated toward the achieving of a specific end. for occultists today, a device that will draw something (health, money, wisdom, etc) toward the practitioner or wearer. tallit: a prayer shawl used by male jews during prayer. talmud: a huge commentary on the jewish law, or torah (q.v. tantra: sanskrit for "warp and woof of all creation" or "that which extends knowledge" a mystical philosophy from ancient india (and later tibet) which sees the physical world as spiritual. also, several books about tantrik philosophy. tantra centers on the great mother, shakti, as the fountain of all life. in the

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functioning will be able to lay hold on these ideas on their own plane, although it may be unable to translate them into the sphere of conscious thought. in this way, therefore, in the literature of esoteric science there are scattered seed-ideas such as "god is pressure" and "kether is the malkuth of negative existence" these images, whose content does not belong to our sphere at all, are as the male germs of thought which fecundate the ova of concrete realisation. in them [page 36] selves they are incapable of maintaining more than the fugitive existence in consciousness as a flash of realisation, but without them the ova of philosophical thought will be infertile. impregnated by them, however, though their suhstance is absorbed and lost in the very act of impregnation growth takes place

first whirlings, and chokmah the sphere of the zodiac. 9. now saturn is the father of the gods; he is the greatest of the old gods that were the predecessors of the olympians over which jupiter rules. in the secret titles attributed to the tarot trumps, the path of saturn is called, according to crowley, the great one of the night of time. 10. we have, then, kether differentiating into an active male potency, chokmah, and a passive female potency, binah, and these are placed at the head of the two side columns formed by the vertical alignment of the sephiroth in their spacing on the tree of life. of these two columns, the left-hand one under binah is called severity; the right-hand one under chokmah is called mercy; the middle one under kether is called mildness, and it is said to be the

of the tree we readily perceive the relations existing between the different sephiroth, and see how they group, reflect, and react upon each other. 7. at the head of the pillar of severity, the negative, feminine pillar, is binah, the great mother. now to binah is assigned the sphere of saturn, and saturn is the giver of form. at the head of the pillar of mercy is chokmah, the supernal father, a male potency. thus we see that we have here the apposition of form and force. 8. in the second trinity we have the apposition of chesed (jupiter) and geburah (mars. again we have the pairs of opposites of construction in jupiter, the lawgiver and beneficent ruler, and destruction in mars, the warrior and destroyer of evil. it may be asked why such a male potency as geburah should be placed in the

ive and negative principles- and their respective sephiroth as representing the modes of functioning of these forces upon the different levels. 22. the pillar of severity contains binah, geburah, and hod, or saturn, mars, and mercury. the pillar of mercy contains chokmah, chesed, and netzach, or the zodiac, jupiter, and venus. chokmah and binab, in the symbolism of the qabalah, are represented by male and female figures and are the supernal father and mother, or in mystical qabala page 56 more philosophical language, the positive and negative principles of the universe, the yin and the yang, of which maleness and femaleness are but specialised aspects. 23. chesed (jupiter) and geburah (mars) are both represented in qabalistic symbolism as crowned figures, the former a lawgiver upon his thr

f the life of the pure white light we shall have little temptation to strive for the crown which is not of this order of being at all; and if we have this realisation, then are we free from the bondage of manifestation and can speak to all forms as one having authority. chapter xvi chokmah, the second sephirah title: chokmah, wisdom (hebrew spelling: cheth, kaph, mem, he) magical image: a bearded male figure. situation on the tree: at the head of the pillar of mercy in the supernal triangle. yetziratic text: the second path is called the illuminating intelligence. it is the crown of creation, the splendour of unity, equalling it. it is exalted above every head, and is named by qabalists the second glory. titles given to chokmah: power of yetzirah. ah. abba. the supernal father. tetragramma

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hat lawyers call an accessory after the fact. but the psychic trail of mr. c. was soon picked up and followed, and it appeared that in his last incarnation he had been associated with two women, mother and daughter, who had practised witchcraft for his benefit. the younger of the two women had been for a short time his mistress. mother and daughter had paid the penalty for their crimes, but their male partner had escaped. the diagnosis was as follows: it is the younger witch that is at the bottom of the trouble. it is her astral visits which cause the seizures of mr. c. and the nightmares of mrs. c, and they correlate with the phases of the moon because certain phases are favourable for the operation she performs and she therefore takes advantage of them. the question now remains, is this

rding to the story elicited from the parents of d, this vice was not uncommon on certain sections of the front, as were also attacks on wounded men. the authorities were taking drastic steps to put it down. owing to family influence the cousin of d. was able to escape incarceration in a military prison, and was placed in the care of his family as a mental case, and they put him in the charge of a male nurse. it was while the male nurse was off duty that the unfortunate young d. was misguidedly employed to sit with him. it also came out that the relations between d. and his cousin were of a vicious nature, and on one occasion he bit the boy on the neck, just under the ear, actually drawing blood. d. had always been under the impression that some "ghost" attacked him during his crises, but h

thing, as anglo-catholic clergy have found to their cost. the woman, possibly quite ignorant of the facts of life, finds herself strangely stirred. she is frightened, she senses that something of the kingdom of pan is approaching. her instincts will usually guide her truly enough in divining the source from which the disturbing influence proceeds. she will point an unerring finger at the magnetic male. she will seldom take into account the reactions of the female in the presence of the male. if she is a woman ignorant of the facts of life, the charge she brings will usually take the form of an accusation of hypnotic influence. she does not realise that nature is the hypnotist. if she is a woman who knows something of the world, the charge may be of improper advances. one glance at the woma

ut there have been at various times some curious killings reported from the united states which look suspiciously like ritual murders, but in the absence of adequate information it is impossible to come to a final conclusion upon them. there recently came into my hands, however, a book upon magic published for private circulation, in which the statement is made that the ideal blood sacrifice is a male child. the charge of revolutionary activities is one that has been frequently made against the occult movement. there are certain things, however, which must be borne in mind when assessing the truth of this charge. firstly, the occult movement is not a homogeneous whole. it is totally unorganised and unregulated, and may best be likened to the state of england before the norman conquest. con

form of her first lover. she herself was short, dark and petite. her husband, a blood relation, was similar in type to herself, and a weed into the bargain. but her three sons were tall, upstanding blond men of the nordic type, bearing a strong resemblance to the dead man. the truth of this story was vouched for to me by a friend of the family. i have know personally two alleged "changelings" the male had the pointed ears of pan, and if anyone was ever a son of the devil, he was. the female was a curious and fascinating creature, essentially non-human, and when her child was born it came into the world with no more trouble than a kitten. both these beings were conceived when their mothers were under the influence of drink, and both of them were characterised by a marked callousness, which

DONALDTYSON ELEMENT

an magician paracelsus is most commonly used today. paracelsus called the fire elementals salamanders, the water elementals undines, the air elementals sylphs, and the earth elementals gnomes. salamanders are explosive and quick in their movements, very bright, with extreme and unstable emotions. they can assume many forms, but their forms usually reflect the appearance of a flame. they favor the male form. for example, were a salamander to put on the appearance of a man, its hair would be wavy and red, its complexion flushed, its eyes like embers, its body slender and active, its touch hot and dry. since fire is associated with the will, salamanders tend to be very forceful and opinionated. they want their own way. they can best be employed in matters that involve the exercise of will pow

in love with them, which can happen very easily. their prolonged presence in a house tends to make it damp and unhealthy. sylphs are active, energetic, quick of movement and of speech, subtle, clever, intelligent, persuasive, but at times mocking and superficial. they are light complexioned, with light brown or dark blond hair, usually. their eyes tend to be blue or grey. they may come in either male or female form, but have a slight preference for the male body. they usually appear in bodies that are only partially formed and transparent, but when they assume human shape they are thin, not muscular, with long arms and legs, deep chests, usually short hair. their touch feels very human and normal. their faces tend to be angular. they can be beautiful, but are not so sensual as undines, an

e men in the pointed hats that go under this name in popular folklore, but they are by nature more substantial than the other classes of elementals. they dwell in holes, mines, crevices and caverns in the ground. the best place to communicate with them is in a cave or cellar. they are the most fallibly human in their personalities, and are prey to all the weaknesses in human nature. they take the male and female form about equally as often. when they manifest in human form, they tend to have dark hair, dark brown eyes, olive complexions or sometimes darker skin, short and heavyset bodies, short arms and legs, powerful hands, a wide mouth, a deep voice and ringing laughter. usually when you deal with a gnome, or any other elemental, it will not assume a fully human form but will remain some

DONALDTYSON VAMPIRES

t that feeds upon the vital energy of human beings. these spirit vampires are known by various names. often they adopt the opposite sex to their victim, since sexual energy is a highly concentrated food source, equivalent to sugar for the spiritual vampire. when these spirits do not assume human form they are called larvae. when they take on the form of a woman they are known as lamia or succubi. male vampires of the spirit kind were sometimes called incubi or satyrs. they have many names in many cultures. these spirit vampires visit their victims in their beds during sleep, and enter their dreams, where they adopt pleasing forms. after their hold upon their unwitting hosts is certain, they drop the pretense of lovers and allow their natural forms to be perceived. their natural features ar

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

son of tmu, or tmu-ra, shu, tefnut, seb, and nut, the brother of isis, nephthys, set, and thoth, and the father of horus;[6] his hands, arms, belly, back, hips and thighs, and legs are the god tmu, and his face is anubis.[7] he is the brother of the moon,[8] he is the child of the star sothis,[9] he revolves in heaven like orion and sothis,[10] and he rises in his place like a star.[11] the gods, male and [1. recueil de travaux, t. iv, p. 44 (l. 391. 10. ibid, t. iii, p. 205 (l. 221. 10. ibid, t. iv, p. 44 (l. 391] p. lxxiv female, pay homage to him,[1] every being in heaven adores him; and in one interesting passage it is said of pepi i. that "when he hath come forth into heaven he will find ra standing face to face before him, and, having seated himself upon the shoulders of ra, ra will

these were followed by osiris and isis, set and nephthys. dr. brugsch's version of the origin of the gods as put forth in his last work on the subject[3] is somewhat different. according to him there was in the beginning neither heaven nor earth, and nothing existed except a boundless primeval mass of water which was shrouded in darkness and which contained within itself the germs or beginnings, male and female, of everything which was to be in the future world. the divine primeval spirit which formed an essential part of the primeval matter felt within itself the desire to begin the work of creation, and its word woke to life the world, the form and shape of which it had already depicted to itself. the first act of creation began with the formation of an egg[4] out of the primeval water

6. 3. religion und mythologie, p. 101. 4 a number of valuable facts concerning the place of the egg in the egyptian religion have been collected by lef bure, revue de l'histoire des religions, t. xvi, paris, 1887, p. 16 ff] p. xcix according to the divine intelligence maa. under the influence of thoth, or that form of the divine intelligence which created the world by a word, eight elements, four male and four female, arose out of the primeval nu, which possessed the properties of the male and female. these eight elements were called nu and nut,[1] heh and hehet,[2] kek and keket,[3] and enen and enenet,[4] or khemennu, the "eight" and they were considered as primeval fathers and mothers.[5] they are often represented in the forms of four male and four female apes who stand in adoration an

of the male and female. these eight elements were called nu and nut,[1] heh and hehet,[2] kek and keket,[3] and enen and enenet,[4] or khemennu, the "eight" and they were considered as primeval fathers and mothers.[5] they are often represented in the forms of four male and four female apes who stand in adoration and greet the rising sun with songs and hymns of praise,[6] but they also appear as male and female human forms with the heads of frogs or serpents.[7] the birth of light from the waters, and of fire from the moist mass of primeval matter, and of ra from nu, formed the starting point of all mythological speculations, conjectures, and theories of the egyptian priests.[8] the light of the sun gave birth to itself out of chaos, and the conception of the future world was depicted in

t "i am the soul which dwelleth in the two (110) tchafi" what then is this? it is osiris [when] he goeth into tattu (111) and findeth there the soul of ra; there the one god (112) embraceth the other, and souls spring into being within the two tchafi.[3["i am the cat which fought) by the persea tree hard by in annu, on the night when the foes of neb-er-tcher were destroyed] what then is this? the male cat is ra himself, and he is called maau[4] by reason of the speech of the god sa [who said] concerning him "he is like (maau) unto that which he hath made, and his name became maau; or (as others say, it is shu who maketh over the possessions of seb to osiris. as to the plates vii.-x. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod18.htm (10 of 14 [8/10/2001 11:27:39 am] fight) by the persea tree h

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or silver, depending on the length of time of its application. basing their conclusions on the examination of natural processes and metaphysical speculation concerning the secrets of nature, the alchemists arrived at the axiom that nature was divided into four principal regions: the dry, the moist, the warm, the cold, from which all that exists must be derived. nature was also divisible into the male and the female. she is the divine breath, the central fire, invisible yet ever active, and is typified by sulphur, which is the mercury of the sages, which slowly fructifies under the genial warmth of nature. thus, the alchemist had to be ingenuous, of a truthful disposition, and gifted with patience and prudence, following nature in every alchemical performance. he recalled that like attract

ty. great confusion exists in alchemical nomenclature, and the gibberish employed by the scores of charlatans who in later times pretended to a knowledge of alchemical matters did not tend to make things any more clear. the neophyte alchemist also had to acquire a thorough knowledge of the manner in which metals grow in the bowels of the earth. they were said to be engendered by sulphur, which is male, and mercury, which is female, and the crux of alchemy was to obtain their seed .a process the alchemistical philosophers did not describe with any degree of clarity. the physical theory of transmutation is based on the composite character of metals, and on the presumed existence of a substance which, applied to matter, exalts and perfects it. this substance, eugenius philalethes and others c

. this substance, eugenius philalethes and others called the light. the elements of all metals were said to be similar, differing only in purity and proportion. the entire trend of the metallic kingdom was toward the natural manufacture of gold, and the production of the baser metals was only accidental as the result of an unfavorable environment. the philosophers stone was the combination of the male and female seeds that form gold. the composition of these was so veiled by symbolism as to make their precise identification impossible. occult scholar arthur edward waite, summarized the alchemical process once the secret of the stone was unveiled: given the matter of the stone and also the necessary vessel, the processes which must be then undertaken to accomplish the magnum opus are descri

in 1955 anger paid a visit to cefalu, sicily, and rediscovered the abbey of thelema, the occult community established by aleister crowley in 1920. anger uncovered a variety of magical paintings, many with sexual themes, on the abbey walls and doors, hidden by whitewash 37 years earlier by order of the italian police. dr. alfred c. kinsey, compiler of the famous report sexual behavior in the human male (1948, visited cefalu, where anger showed him the unique murals. the story of anger s discovery was featured in a two-part article in the journal picture post (november 26.december 3, 1955, illustrated with striking photographs by fosco maraini. anger did a number of films, among which are those with occult themes, stemming from anger s fascination with the writings and philosophy of aleister

ltures, was soon accepted by his colleagues and remained popular into the mid-nineteenth century. sources: durkheim, emile. the elementary forms of the religious life. new york: collier, 1961. ankh the egyptian symbol of life, perhaps the life which remains after death. it takes the form of a cross with a loop instead of an upper vertical arm. it is conjectured that it symbolizes the union of the male and female principles, the origins of life, and that like the american cross, it typifies the four winds, the rainbringers and fertilizers. it is usually carried in the right hand by egyptian divinities. this symbol of a cross with a handle is also known as crux ansata. annales des sciences psychiques monthly magazine founded in 1891 by charles richet and dr. x. dariex, and edited from 1905 b

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of the soul was the foundation of this abstinence. they professed the science of divination and for that purpose met together and consulted in their temples. they professed to make truth the great object of their study, for that alone, they said, can make man like god whose body resembles light, as his soul or spirit resembles truth. they condemned all images and those who said that the gods were male and female; they had neither temples nor altars, but worshiped the sky, as a representative of the deity, on the tops of mountains; they also sacrificed to the sun, moon, earth, fire, water, and winds, said herodotus, meaning no doubt that they adored the heavenly bodies and the elements. this was probably before the time of zoroaster, when the religion of persia seems to have resembled that

l-headed demons, some with hands upraised in the egyptian posture of adoration; others posed like the animal-headed dancing gods of the bushmen. in the marsonlas paleolithic cave, there are humanlike faces of angry demons with staring eyes and monstrous noses. in the spanish cave at cogul, several figures of women wearing halflength skirts and shoulder shawls are represented dancing around a nude male. these females so closely resemble those of bushman paintings that they might, if not for their location, be credited to this interesting people. religious dances among the bushman tribes were associated with marriage, birth, and burial ceremonies; they were also performed to exorcise demons in cases of sickness. dances are to us what prayers are to you, an elderly bushman once informed a eur

ining from such things as alcohol and sex in order to attain spiritual realization, tantra suggests using items commonly denied as a tool to enlightenment. sexuality is by far the most controversial of such tools. within tantric systems, the practice of maithuna may be either symbolic (the right-hand path) or actual (the left hand path. tantra seeks union with the goddess shakti and speaks of the male s union with the goddess. in left-hand rites, the woman is seen as the goddess present in flesh. tantra also developed the understanding of occult anatomy in hinduism focused in the seven chakras, or psychic centers, located horizontally in the body from the base of the spine to the top of the head, and kundalini, the mystical energy that is usually pictured as lying latent, like a coiled ser

founded in 1890 by ottoman zar- adhusht hanish (1854.1936. the name mazdaznan is derived from the persian mazda and znan which hanish translated as master thought, although this interpretation might be questioned by persian scholars. as a zoroastrian group, members affirm the monotheistic faith in the lord god mazda, the creator of humanity. god finds expression in the holy family of father (the male creative principle, mother (the procreative female principle, and child (destiny/salvation. hanish was born in leipzig, germany. when only a boy, he was supposed to have been taken to a persian monastery at math-el-kharman and taught every major art and science, including occultism. early in this century, hanish settled in chicago, where he founded mazdaznan. in 1916 he moved to los angeles

hen the medium s own vocal organs are obviously being used.as in most cases of trance utterances.the proof of supernormality rests mainly on the substance of what is being said; but, occasionally the manner is surprising. i have spoken above of a characteristically cultured mode of expression, when a scholar is speaking, not easily imitated by an uncultured person; but, in addition to that a loud male voice may emanate from a female larynx and may occasionally attain oratorical proportions. moreover, the orator may deal with great themes in a style which we cannot associate with the fragile little woman who has gone into trance and is now under control. this is a phenomenon which undoubtedly calls attention to the existence of something supernormal, and can be appealed to as testifying to

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

hen, following subsequent abductions involving vaginal penetration by a suction device, they would discover that those pregnancies had been suddenly terminated. in later abductions they would be shown babies or small children with both human and alien features. the abductors would explain that these were the women s children. hopkins also uncovered a pattern of cases of sexual intercourse between male abductees and more-or-less human alien women (perhaps adult hybrids. other investigators began finding similar cases. hybrids were a new wrinkle, significantly augmenting the already considerable peculiarity of the abduction phenomenon. as long ago as 1975, in his book the mothman prophecies, investigator john a. keel noted, in passing, a pattern of what he called hysterical pregnancies in yo

d meditated until they sensed that the intruder was gone. on the night of september 14, arna and parz appeared and took gaynor into their spacecraft. besides the couple she knew, there were three others. one looked so close to being purely human that gaynor wondered if the young woman, who looked to be about nineteen years of age, was some kind of hybrid. gaynor noticed a picture on the wall of a male being like parz, only older. he was standing by a globe of a planet that clearly was not earth. the ship flew into space. half an hour later arna and parz told her that it had reached its destination, which turned out to be a kind of zoo full of bizarre creatures, all of them in twos. the animals were not in cages and had a great deal of space in which to wander. finally, the sights were too

e problem of atlantis. london: rider. steiner, rudolf, 1968. cosmic memory: prehistory of earth and man. west nyack, ny: paperback li- brary. aura rhanes heavy-equipment operator truman bethurum encountered the beautiful aura rhanes, captain of a scow (spaceship) from the idyllic planet clarion, on the other side of the moon, in the early morning hours of july 28, 1952, in the nevada desert. when male crew members ushered him inside the craft, parked in an area known locally as mormon mesa, bethurum saw aura rhanes for the first time. she was small, had an olive complexion, and wore a black and red beret. the two engaged in an extended conversation, during which they asked each other about their respective worlds. the spacewoman spoke, bethurum would write, in a swinging, rhythmic tone of

e and the other numbed with an injection. the beings spread an oily liquid all over him, and intercourse followed. at the conclusion of the act, oil was spread over him again, and they removed him from the apparatus and redressed him. the beings, who addressed him via telepathy but spoke an incomprehensible language to each other, explained that they had conducted an experiment. he would father a male child. at some point, after three unspecified signals had been given, they would re- azelia 37 turn to show him his offspring. after giving him an unpleasant-tasting liquid to quell his appetite, they took him to the disc that had brought him to the mother ship and flew him home. ferreira suffered from a variety of small punctures and wounds, and for the next twenty days he had a burning sens

studies 5 (n.s: 35 54. captive extraterrestrials along with rumors of dead extraterrestrials supposedly found in or near crashed spacecraft, there is a persistent lore of aliens who are held in captivity. ufologist william l. moore claims to have heard one such account from anonymous military and official sources said to be privy to highly classified ufo secrets. in 1949, the sources asserted, a male humanoid was discovered alive in the southwestern desert, the survivor of the crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. authorities housed the being, called ebe (ee-buh, after extraterrestrial biological entity, at the atomic installation at los alamos, new mexico. an air force captain was assigned the job of watching over the being. communication with the alien proved impossible until a speec

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l a cheat. frosch yet i drank wine or thought it so. brander but how about the grapes? what was that anyway? altmayer one should believe no miracles? oh, say! witch s kitchen a great cauldron stands over the fire on a low hearth. in the steam which rises from it, various figures become visible. a female ape sits by the cauldron and skims the foam off it, taking care that it does not run over. the male ape, with the young apes sits beside it and warms himself. walls and ceiling are decked out with the strangest articles of witches furniture. faust. mephistopheles. faust i am repelled by this mad sorcery. i shall get well, you promise me, in this chaotic craziness? shall i demand an old crone s remedy? and will the dirty, boiling mess divest my body of some thirty years? woe s me, if there s

it takes to warm a paw. mephistopheles [to faust. how do you think the dainty beasts appear? faust absurd as anyone i ever saw. mephistopheles i say, this kind of conversation i carry on with greatest delectation. to the beasts. accursed puppets! come and tell, what are you querling in that stuff? the beasts a beggars soup that s watered well. mephistopheles then you ve a public large enough. the male ape [sidles up to mephistopheles and fawns on him. oh, do throw the dice, make me rich in a trice, and do let it win me! it all is so bad, if money i had, good sense would be in me. mephistopheles how fortunate the ape would think himself, could he but also risk some money in a lottery! meanwhile the young apes have been playing with a great globe which they now roll forward. the male ape. th

pes have been playing with a great globe which they now roll forward. the male ape. that is the world! it mounts, now whirled, its fall will follow, like glass it rings. soon break such things! within it s hollow. here bright it gleams, here brighter beams. i am alive! my dear son, strive to keep away! for you must die! tis made of clay, in bits twill fly. mephistopheles what means the sieve? the male ape [takes it down. came you to thieve, i would know you directly. he runs to the female ape and makes her look through it. look through the sieve! know you the thief? dare not name him exactly? mephistopheles [going nearer to the fire. and then this pot? male ape and female ape. the half-witted sot! he knows not the pot, he knows not the kettle! mephistopheles unmannerly beast! the male ape

rs most recent and depraving woman is wont no longer to be saving and, like each tardy payer, collars far more desires than she has dollars, the husband now has much to bore him; wherever he looks, debts loom before him. her spinning-money is turned over to grace her body or her lover; better she feasts and drinks still more with all her wretched lover-corps. gold charms me all the more for this: male s now my gender, i am avarice! leader of the women. with dragons be the dragon avaricious, it s naught but lies, deceiving stuff! to stir up men he comes, malicious, whereas men now are troublesome enough. women [en masse. the scarecrow! box his ears, the japer! why does the wooden cross threat here? as if his ugly face we d fear! dragons are made of wood and paper. have at him, crowd him, sc

ns come, come! bring in a heap of gold! beneath our claws fast will we hold. they re bolts none others can excel, they guard the greatest treasure well. pygmies we are in our places truly, know not how it did befall. whence we came, don t ask unduly, for we re here now once for all. as a joyous place to settle, suitable is every land; if a rocky rift shows metal, straightway is the dwarf at hand. male and female, busy, ready, exemplary is each pair; we know not if once already this the case in eden were. our lot gratefully we treasure, for we find things here are best; mother earth brings forth with pleasure in the east as in the west. dactyls. hath in a night the earth the little ones brought to birth, the smallest she will create too, they will find each his mate too. eldest pygmies. has

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

ord hvhy as the shekhinah throughout the material creation, or earth(/ra, aretz. actually, the lord hvhy is referred to in the feminine about 10-15 percent of the time in the torah, though often mistranslated or ignored. it is important to note that, despite the medieval injunctions of the rabbinate, the ancient qabalah is not sexist. the mystical qabalah establishes the unity and equality of the male and female aspects of the lord hvhy( honor thy father and thy mother, and offers equal opportunity to become masters of the name and great servants of our lord. among books on the subject of the qabalah, there is some confusion regarding how the letters yod y, heh h, and vav v are respectively ascribed to the supernal sefiroth. many authors ascribe only the upper tip of the yod y to the sefir

spoken goes out from one name (i.e. hvhy. 6 the third chapter is keyed to the root phrase: three mothers alef a mem m shin s. the mother letters are the gates among the sefiroth of the inner court of the tree (first, last, water, fire. these letters are discussed in relation to the universe x heaven, earth, and the space between them, the seasons of the year (hot, cold, temperate, and the body of male and female (head, belly, and the geviyah. verses in both the third and sixth chapters mention fathers born from the archetypal elements of the mother letters. from the air (ryva, avir) of alef a comes the father space; from the water(,ym, mayim) of mem m comes the father matter; and from the fire (sa, esh) of shin s comes the father energy or motion..and from him go out fire and water, dividi

female (head, belly, and the geviyah. verses in both the third and sixth chapters mention fathers born from the archetypal elements of the mother letters. from the air (ryva, avir) of alef a comes the father space; from the water(,ym, mayim) of mem m comes the father matter; and from the fire (sa, esh) of shin s comes the father energy or motion..and from him go out fire and water, dividing into male and female. three mothers alef a mem m shin s are their foundation, and from them are born fathers, from which everything is created. 7 :2% e= i2 2 f 3#5 ten intangible sefiroth five opposite five (sefer yetzirah 1:3) center detail of figure 4.9' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% 2 f 3# double pyramid tree (sefer yetzirah) center detail of figure 4.10 :2% e= i2 5 2 f 3# inner court meditation (sefer yetzirah

ormed seven planets, seven days of the week, and seven orifices of the eyes, ears, nostrils, and mouth. seven double letters: beyt b gimel g dalet d kaf k pey p resh r and tav t are the foundation. he engraved them, he hewed them out, he combined them, he weighed them at opposites, and he formed through them: seven stars in the universe, seven days in the year :2% e= i2 seven gates in the body of male and female. and through which he engraved seven universes, seven heavens, seven earths, seven seas, seven rivers, seven sabbatical years, seven jubilees, and the holy temple. therefore he cherished the seventh ones under all the heavens. 10 the twelve simple letters, also called the borders and everlasting arms of the tree, are gates that connect the directional sefiroth among one another. ch

order, south-east border, south- below border, west-above border, west-south' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% border, west-below border, north-above border, north-west border, north-below border. and they continually become wider for ever and ever, and they are the arms of the universe. 11 the text then goes on to respectively designate the twelve constellations, twelve months, and twelve organs in the body of male and female as formed from the simple letters. for the reader s convenience, all of the correlations given by the sefer yetzirah for the mother, double, and simple letters are given in tables 4.1 through 4.3. the fifth chapter ends by mentioning three allusions: the sunset, the wall, and the battle. the sunset (figure 4.13) includes all the information on the letters in the sefer yetzirah. the

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ng but their own law. this self-love does not circumscribe nor promise but gives whatsoever is taken-spontaneously. thus i teach thee, will unto pleasure of all things, for they must again change the tenacity to obedience. and this new name i give unto thee, for all accusations: not sinner, but somnambulist. for he who premeditates, acts in his sleep. having overcome the difficulty of obtaining a male incarnation from parents not too venereal, one's habitation should be wandering among men: employment, devotion to art: bed, a hard surface: clothes of camel hair: diet, sour milk and roots of the earth. all morality and love of women should be ignored. to whom does not such abandonment give the unknown pleasure? again i say 'in all things' pleasure thyself, for occasion need not be. aphorism

know what happens to the body at death? exactly what changes take place? well, so it happens to your beliefs, desires, etc, that make consciousness, for all things seen are incarnate desire, the unseen; ideas of the past and future bodies "the death posture" from these the new body is determined and parentage selected by the laws of attraction. the wise man makes sure of his future parents and a male incarnation before death. consciousness [for most, only three dimensions] is not so definite as in life but to the extent of your will in life, that much is your consciousness in death. death is the manufacture of life. a dream is a sore likeness of life. death is a sore dream of life. its period depending on the perfection or otherwise of the individual but closely follows in duration the pr

its liberation in willing opposite to all my efforts of conciliation: cannot marriage be my emancipation" aaos answered "o my sister, must thou become ever smaller from thy small desires? oh! renounce half-desiring, much better is it to marry the evil. for thee my sister, i wish no marriage but the marriage of the greater love. for i announce, the day to come, yea it is nigh, thy absorption in a male incarnation. what is nature but thy past will incarnated and removed from consciousness by its further desires? the relationship still living provokes the involuntary purpose-thy opposition to which causes disease, and is but resistance of the i to the self. bind thy desire by attention on thy love of desire-lest it wholly runs away. prevent thy belief from incarnating through this consciousn

t resistance of the i to the self. bind thy desire by attention on thy love of desire-lest it wholly runs away. prevent thy belief from incarnating through this consciousness of the ever present greater desire. forestall the inclinations of desire by this and not by other means of exhausting desire. neither abstinence nor over indulgence necessarily destroys. verily, my sister i would have thee a male incarnation" then he became sleepy his sister becoming dim and the dream more meaningless, till he felt something that made him start with horror-awaking he perceived someone leave his couch! aaos seizing his sword gnashing his teeth, trembling in every limb, and with ghastly visage, shouted "alpha and omega! thou thyself shall throttle that which thou wouldst surpass" and swung his sword whi

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ave of the armature of the spheres "now, says pimander "i will reveal to you a mystery which has been hidden until now. nature being united to man in love produced an amazing prodigy. man, as i said, had in him the nature of the assembly of the seven, composed of fire and breath. nature from her union with man brought forth seven men corresponding to the natures of the seven governors, being both male and female and rising up towards the sky" the generation of the seven first men was made in the following fashion. female was the earth, water the generative element; the fire brought things to maturity, and from ether nature received the vital breath, and she produced the bodies with the form of man. as for man, from life and fight which he had been, he changed to soul and intellect, the lif

of man. as for man, from life and fight which he had been, he changed to soul and intellect, the life changing to soul and the light to intellect. and all the beings of the sensible world remained in this state until the end of a period. at the end of this period, continues pimander, the link which bound all things was broken by the will of god. man and all animals, which till then had been both male and female, separated into two sexes and god spoke the word, increase and multiply. 24 ficino's "pimander" and the "asclepius" then providence, through destiny and the armature of the spheres, established the generations, and all living things multiplied, each according to their species. pimander gives trismegistus advice as to how he is to comport himself in life in view of the mystery which

ese are partly on natural magic and partly on cabalist magic. i select here some of those on natural magic. the first of the magical conclusions is as follows: tota magia, quae in usu est apud modernos& quam merito exterminat ecclesia, nullam habet firmitatem, nullum fundamentum, nullam ueritatem, quia pendet ex manu hostium primae ueritatis, potestatum harum tenebrarum, quae tenebras falsitatis, male dispositis intellectibus obfundunt.1 all "modern magic, announces pico in this first conclusion is bad, groundless, the work of the devil, and rightly condemned by the church. this sounds uncompromisingly against magic as used in pico's time "modern magic. but magicians always introduce their subject by stating that, though there are bad and diabolical magics, their kind of magic is not of th

a more abstruse theology, professor of a purer and more innocuous wisdom, noted in the best academies of europe, an approved and honourably received philosopher, a stranger nowhere save amongst the barbarous and ignoble, the waker of sleeping souls, tamer of presumptuous and recalcitrant ignorance, proclaimer of a general philanthropy, who does not choose out the italian more than the briton, the male more than the female, the mitred head more than the crowned head, the man in the toga more than the armed man, the cowled man more than the man without a cowl, but him who is the more peaceable-minded, the more civilised, the more loyal, the more useful; who regards not the anointed head, the forehead signed with the cross, the washed hands, the circumcised penis, but (where the man may be kn

rudente, il furioso forte, il pessimo buono. e credetemi che ancora sara definita pena capitale a colui che s'applicara alia religion della mente; perche si trovaranno nove giustizie, nuove leggi, nulla si trovara di santo, nulla di religioso: non si udira cosa degna di cielo o di celesti. soli angeli perniciosi rimarrano, li quali meschiati con gli uomini forzaranno gh miseri all'audacia di ogni male, come fusse giustizia; donando materia a guerre, rapine, frode e tutte altre cose contrarie alia anima e giustizia naturale: e questa sara la vecchiaia ed il disordine e la irreligione del mondo. ma non dubitare, asclepio, perche, dopo che saranno accadute queste cose, allora il signore e padre dio, governator del mondo, l'omnipotente proveditore. senza dubbio donara fine a cotal macchia, ric

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but experience has shown that orgasm provides the most effective of magical trances. debauchees with glittering eyes may, however, be warned that this branch of sexual magic has little or nothing to do with sexual gfun. h in the past, when it was still trendy to work with gsacrifice c altar of transcendence, h etc obviously, this has a lot to do with tantric and taoist ideas, which state that the male should sex the magical trance/ activating the sigils/ 31 accord m after sexual intercourse (in hetero the first chapter it was mentioned that sigils should be internalized spasmodically. this can be done in several ways. our goal is always the same: to form an altered ing to these doctrines, loss of semen means loss of power (and, by extrapolation, longevity. this approach which has for vario

his can be done in several ways. our goal is always the same: to form an altered ing to these doctrines, loss of semen means loss of power (and, by extrapolation, longevity. this approach which has for various reasons never become particularly popular in the west, led even one of the major masters of sexual magic, aleister crowley, to concentrate on drinking his sper sexual intercourse, the mixed male and female secretions.crowley fs infamous gelixir h. this digression aside, we may note that lecherous sex maniacs won ft have too much when dealing with this branch of sexual magic, as these operations can be rather strenuous and not too pleasurable. in state of consciousness in which the censor has become gsoft h and in which s/he will no longer or cannot prevent direct communication betwee

. many witches prefer the term wicca as it does not have all of t th word gwitch. h comments th the ame er member of the iot n a si eiser, inc, 1975. 129 1. one has only to think of the unfortunate development which occurred to a name like astarte (ishtar) in the course of centuries.an erstwhile chaldean moon goddess developed in the middle ages via the addition of the plural ending goth h into a male) demon wi n astaroth. today fs evocatory magicians might be in for quite a surprise or two, if, for example, a supposedly male demon like kedemel from the venusian sphere suddenly appears before them as a female entity (quite obvious, actually, but who would have thought of it beforehand) 2. ray sherwin, writing as a form o milar connection in his excellent theatre of magic (leeds: the sorcer

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masses, were nevertheless rooted in cosmic truths, highly illuminating to the initiate. the students of the rosicrucian teachings who have learned how the world came into being and the process of gradual creation should have no difficulty in properly understanding every part of the alchemist's language. we know in the first place, that there was a time when man-in-the-making was a hermaphrodite, male-female, and able to create from himself, and we remember also that at that time he was like the plant in other respects. his consciousness was like that which we possess in dreamless sleep and which is possessed by the plant. the vital energy which he absorbed into his body was used solely for the purpose of growing, until the time of propagation came, when a new budding body was cast off to

urned upward under the direction of the angels for the purpose of building a larynx and a brain, that man might learn to create by thought as do the divine hierarchies, and express the creative thought in words. thus man ceased to be physically hermaphrodite and became uni-sexual. he can no longer create from himself physically as do the hermaphrodite plants, nor psychically as do the elohim, the male-female hierarchs, in whose image he was originally made, and thus he occupies at the present time, an unenviable intermediate position between the plant and the god. at the time when one half of the human sex force was diverted for the purpose of building a brain, men were helpless and lacking in knowledge of how to overcome conditions. they did not even have the consciousness to know that th

ese must be firmly fixed in mind to appreciate the full value of what follows. the creative force used by god to bring a solar system into manifestation, and the force used by the divine hierarchies to form the physical vehicle of the lower kingdoms over which they rule as group spirits, expresses itself in a dual manner as will and imagination, and is the same as the united creative force of the male and the female which results in the creation of a human body. at one time man was bi-sexual, male-female, and therefore each was able to propagate his species without assistance from anyone else. but one-half of the creative force has been temporarily diverted upwards to build a brain and larynx in order to enable him sometime to create by his own mind, to form thoughts and speak the word of

er. the latter were mediumistic persons, receiving impressions from spirit controls through the solar plexus. they were properly designated naioth by the hebrews who used the feminine suffix to indicate their negative qualities. but the voluntary clairvoyant and the initiate, represented by the egyptians as having the serpentine uraeus in the forehead, were called naim by the hebrews who used the male suffix to designate the positive spiritual faculty which they possess. and the latin catholic version of the new testament (luke, chapter vii, verses 11 to 15) speaks of the person raised by christ as the widow's son of nain. as the serpent is not fully unfolded until the ninth arch of the lesser mysteries has been passed and the candidates become aspirants to the greater mysteries, and furth

in part v shows that there was an age when humanity lived in peace and happiness under the guardianship of a ruler who held the double office of king and priest, being both temporal and spiritual head of the double sexed human race. he is called melchisedec in the bible terminology, and it is said that he was king of salem, salem meaning peace. since then humanity has been divided into two sexes, male and female, and placed under the dual rulership of a king having dominion over their temporal affairs and aiming to advance them by industry and statecraft, and a priest, head of the priestcraft, exercising a spiritual authority, in such a manner as they considered for the eternal good of their charges. the statecraft employed by the sons of cain holds up the male ideal, hiram abiff, the mast

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d with men who have the indomitable courage to dare, the unflagging energy to do and the diplomatic discrimination to be silent. part ii the masonic legend every mystic movement has its legend, which tells in symbolic language its status in the cosmic order and the ideal which it tries to realize. from the old testament, containing the atlantean mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another as is the case with some plants today. later on, we are informed, jehovah removed one pole of the creative force from adam, the early humanity, and that there were henceforth two sexes. the esoteric teaching supplements this information by stating that the purpose of this change was

orse mythology, the vanir or water deities are said to have been conquered by the assir, or fire gods. the hammer wherewith the norse god thor struck fire from the sky finds its counterpart in the thunderbolt of jove; like hiram, the assir belong to the hierarchy of fire, the lucifer spirits, the sons of cain, striving for positive mastership through individual effort, and therefore upholding the male ideal, which is diametrically opposite to that of the hierarchy which works in the plastic element water. in the present day temples of the latter order, magic water stands at the door, and all who enter are required to apply this lethal liquid to the point in the forehead where the spirit resides; their reason is drowned in dictums and dogmas, and the female ideal is worshipped in the virgin

salvation, the attitude of unquestioning childlike obedience being cultivated. it is different in the temple of the other order; when the candidate enters there "poor "naked" and "blind" he is asked at once what he is seeking, and when he answers "light" it is the duty of the master to give what he asks and make him a phree messen--a child of light. it is his duty also to teach him to work, and a male ideal, hiram abiff, the master workman, is presented for emulation. he is taught to be always ready to give a reason for his faith. as he qualifies in the work, he rises step by step, and at each degree more light is given. there are 3x3 degrees in the lesser mysteries; when the candidate has passed the 9th arch, he is in the holy of holies, which forms the gate to greater fields beyond the s

ll know from the least to the greatest what is the purpose of evolution, and thus give them a chance to align themselves with the trend of cosmic events. to understand the mystery of melchisedec we must revert to the earlier epochs of man's stay upon the earth during the age called the hyperborean epoch. the earth was then in an extremely heated condition. man in the making was then double sexed, male-female, like so many of our present plants, and he also resembled the plants in being inert and lacking in desire and aspirations. at that time man was the tractable ward of the divine hierarchs who guided him physically, these being darkly referred to in the bible as "kings of edom" later, during the lemurian epoch, when the body of man had crystallized and condensed somewhat more, mankind w

ecluded the clashing of interests which now obtains, and which will continue until another divine ruler shall present himself to embody within in his own person the qualifications of the dual office of king and priest after the order of melchisedec, and until sex generation be abolished. in this connection it is significant that the bible narrative begins in the garden of eden, where mankind were male-female and innocent; then in the next chapter we are told of the division of sexes, the transgression of the command not to eat of the tree of knowledge, and the infliction of the penalty--painful parturition and swift death. from then on the old testament tells of war, struggle and strife and in the last chapter makes the prophecy that there shall a sun of righteousness arise with healing in

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degree; emphasis added] we find it absolutely incredible that the freemasons should portray the holy spirit with the satanic symbol, baphomet. eliphas levi created this symbol, one of the foremost satanists and freemasons of all time. the baphomet is one of the most evil of all symbols. looking closely at the baphomet(left) you will see that the emphasis is on sex. this being is androgynous- both male and female- you can see it has the breasts of a woman, and an erect phallus. you'll notice that the erect phallus has two serpents coiled around it. the baphomet has the head of a "horned goat" another title for satan. masonic and occult symbols illustrated is a book in which dr. burns says "in a book on witchcraft, the complete book of witchcraft and demonology. the caption states that he is

spells and curses on the intended victim. the word "hex" comes from this practice. the hexagram is also a symbol of the sex act and reproduction. masonic author, albert g. mackey provides us with the occult explanation in his book, the symbolism of freemasonry [p. 195, 1869 a.d] the triangle pointing downward "is a female symbol corresponding to the 'yoni' and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the 'lingam. when the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements [also explained in did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine, missouri lodge of research, 1965, p. 132, wes cook, editor] if this has not become evident to you, the occultist, the paganist, worship sex

itor] if this has not become evident to you, the occultist, the paganist, worship sex. they also worship most everything in nature, which fulfills the biblical definition of a paganist in romans 1:25 "because they exchanged the truth of god for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the creator" speaking of the sexual connotation of the hexagram, another witch revealed "when the male triangle penetrates the female triangle, it produces the six pointed crest of solomon or hexagram, the most wicked symbol in witchcraft [david j. meyer, dancing with demons: the music's real master] the hexagram is the sign used in the royal arch in freemasonry. masonic author wes cook, writing in did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine [missouri lodge of researc

degree mason quotes eliphas levi who is also a 33rd degree, tells us that the letter "g" stands for venus, and that venus' symbol is a lingam, a stylized phallis [masonic author, arthur edward waite, the mysteries of magic: a digest of the writings of eliphas levi, chicago, delaurence, scott, and company, 1909, p. 217] albert pike states within morals and dogma [page 631-32] that the monad[#1] is male, and the duad[#2] is female. their sexual union produces the triad[#3, which is "represented by the letter 'g, the generative principle" this term "generative principle" is code for the sex act. sex act in columns- broken and unbroken the broken column is utilized by the eastern star and freemasonry. it contains many levels of meanings. the initiate is told that the broken column signifies an

n column and not the top. the bottom of the column shows the phallic upright column inserted into the circular base, which is the symbol of the female vulva. the column is broken, of course, to symbolize the belief that osiris' penis had been cut into many sections. but albert mackey, 33 degree masonic author, states that the regular column is a phallus symbol "the phallus was an imitation of the male generative organ. it was represented usually by a column, was was surrounded by a circle at the base [mackey, a manual of the lodge, 1870, p. 56. mackey also stated this in the symbolism of freemasonry, p. 60] sex in the point within a circle the point and the circle carries a sexual connotation. another masonic author states that this symbol is used in sun worship, and then says "the female

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gh, the diadem of the diadems. h8 the divine name in kether is ehyeh, gi am. the sephirotic scheme (see plate ii on page 25) may be condensed as follows: kether is also called abbah, the father; it is the will or ego from which the remaining nine sephiroth emanate. the second sephirah is binah, the universal intellect or understanding, also called immah or mother. whilst kether is positive, form (male, binah is negative and plastic, the receiver of form and, therefore, matter (female, because geverything existing can only be the work of the male and female h principles. 9 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 24 plate 2: the tree of life secret wisdom of the qabalah page 25 the second emanation from kether is called 'hokmah, wisdom, the word, logos, or son; it is the male principle in activity

nciple in activity, for through it all things are generated. gby means of the thirty-two paths. it gives everything, existing, shape and size. h 10 this sephirah is the spiritus mundi. from 'hokmah is derived the balance of the sephiroth, the next six of which refer to the dimensions of the universe- length, breadth, and depth moving as it were outwardly towards the positive and the negative, the male and the female principles each, therefore, in two directions. together they form the six faces of a perfect cube (the stone of the wise: the tenth sephirah, malkuth, the kingdom or sabbath represents rest, poise, and completion. these first three sephiroth- kether, binah, and 'hokmah (father, mother, and son- the supernal triad- constitute the intelligible or intellectual world. and since the

ce the holy ancient is expressed and impressed by three [i.e. ayin, ain soph, and ain soph aur the expression; and kether, binah 'hokmah the impression, so also all the lamps that receive their light from the holy ancient are triadic. 11 the second triad is called the moral or sensuous world; it is the world soul which emanates from the world spirit (spiritus mundi. it consists of the positive or male principle 'hesed, which means grace or mercy, also called gedulah (magnificence; and the negative or female principle pahad (punishment, also called geburah (severity) and din (judgment. these two unite in the sixth sephirah, tiphereth (beauty, the highest manifestation of ethical life- the ideal. the third triad is called the physical or material world and consists of the male or positive se

irah is the son or logos and the firstborn. it represents abstract ideas, the fruit of the gi am h forming in the mind. in the qabalah it is often called gthe only begotten son h. gin the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god h 17 here we have presented to us the logos nature of 'hokmah. its colour is yellow or red-orange, the colour of christ; it is positive and male, and its letter is v (vau= 6, which multiplied by the 50 gates of binah reveals w (shin= 300, the glory of god. the final h (heh) of tetragrammaton represents the remaining seven sephiroth. this revelation of the shin shows the triadic nature of the first three sephiroth which constitute the intellectual world, and it closely relates it to many mysteries. thus, in ydw shaddai (almighty, the n

divided horizontally into four planes (see plate iv on page 31) and vertically by three trunks or pillars (see plate iv on page 32. the central pillar- known as harmony, or mildness, or sometimes as the perfect pillar, consisting of kether, tiphereth, yesod, and malkuth- is the tree of life as mentioned in the book of genesis. the right-hand pillar- that of 'hokmah 'hesed, and netza'h- is active, male, and positive, and is called the pillar of mercy, whilst that of binah, pahad, and hod is passive, female, and negative, and is called the pillar of justice. these two pillars constitute the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because they are made up of unbalanced forces which can only find equilibrium in the central trunk or pillar. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 30 plate 4: the four

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chain of evidence has been produced in support of the facts recently set forth bearing upon the development of the two diverging lines of sexual demarcation. in other words, it has been found that sex is the fundamental fact not only in the operations of nature but in the construction of a god. in the evolution of woman it has been shown that the peculiar inheritance of the two sexes, female and male, is the result of the bias given to these separate lines of development during the earliest periods of sex-differentiation; and, as this division of labor was a necessary step in the evolutionary processes, the rate of progress depended largely on the subsequent adjustment of these two primary elements or forces. a comprehensive study of prehistoric records shows that in an earlier age of exi

an earlier age of existence upon the earth, at a time when woman's influence was in the ascendancy over that of man, human energy was directed by the altruistic characters which originated in and have been transmitted through the female; but after the decline of woman's power, all human institutions, customs, forms, and habits of thought are seen to reflect the egoistic qualities acquired by the male. nowhere is the influence of sex more plainly manifested than in the formulation of religious conceptions and creeds. with the rise of male power and dominion, and the corresponding repression of the natural female instincts, the principles which originally constituted the god-idea gradually gave place to a deity better suited to the peculiar bias which had been given to the male organism. an

we hope to gain a complete knowledge of human history by studying only the present aspect of society, as to expect to reach reasonable conclusions respecting the prevailing god-idea by investigating the various creeds and dogmas of existing faiths. the object of this volume is not only to furnish a brief outline of religious growth, but to show the effect which each of the two forces, female and male, has had on the development of our present god- idea, which investigation serves to accentuate the conclusions arrived at in the evolution of woman relative to the inheritance of each of the two lines of sexual demarcation. e.b.g. contents- chapter introduction i--sex the foundation of the god-idea ii--tree, plant, and fruit worship iii--sun worship--female and male energies in the sun iv--th

ing between the growth of the god-idea and the development of the human race, and especially of the two sex-principles, is everywhere clearly apparent "religion is to be found alone with its justification and explanation in the relations of the sexes. there and therein only"[3 [3] hargrave jennings, phallicism. as the conception of a deity originated in sex, or in the creative agencies female and male which animate nature, we may reasonably expect to find, in the history of the development of the two sex-principles and in the notions entertained concerning them throughout past ages, a tolerably correct account of the growth of the god-idea. we shall perceive that during an earlier age of human existence, not only were the reproductive powers throughout nature, and especially in human being

of a god have always corresponded with the current opinions regarding the importance of either sex in human society. in other words, so long as female power and influence were in the ascendency, the creative force was regarded as embodying the principles of the female nature; later, however, when woman's power waned, and the supremacy of man was gained, the god-idea began gradually to assume the male characters and attributes. through scientific research the fact has been observed that, for ages after life appeared on the earth, the male had no separate existence; that the two sex-principles, the sperm and the germ, were contained within one and the same individual. through the processes of differentiation, however, these elements became detached, and with the separation of the male from

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the evil principle. it is in fact, the occult theory of monosexualism based on a blasphemous distortionofthesacred text' succeedingversesinvolve further distortions and blasphemies-not, however, to. be taken seriously. he sums uptherite in this way:therite puts asunderwhatgod has joined together. it then unites them in abondof defiance to the command that they should fill the earth. it takes the male from the female and the female from the male and then promises a spiritual union between the female partswiththe suggestion or the inference that there is a more fruitful union still possible between their male parts.if the words had been translated into literal deeds it would havebeenanextremelycuriousrite. machen and waite, however, werebothvery much concernedwithfemale partners. long befor

endent branchofther.r.et a.c.workingunder a masonic regime and that this course doesnotinvolve hostility to those whose requirements aremetby the practical part of theorderknowledge. we have no.ideaofexcludingwomenfrom membership or from officewithinthe order, apart from the masonic chieftainship,whichis a business andworkingheadship. we believe thatourscheme is calculated to increase thenumberof male members and thus ensure the equalityofthesexes; and we affirm in conclusionourintention of insisting on the literal fulfilmentofallourrequirements for which purpose we hereby declareourindependence from the date hereof to be reconsidered ifourdemands are granted.virtuteortaocciduntrarius[i.e. revdw.a.ayton]mawahanuthesi [i.e. marcus worsley blackden]sacramentumregisii.e,a.e. waite]vigilateii

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1-atext that would have been known to westcott also.thecipher itself, which is alchemical in origin, would have posed few problems for westcott, who was familiar with old alchemical and magical texts and was well aware oftrithemius'polygraphiae-thebook which contains the cipher's key. trans255 lating it he found that it was in english, although written from right to left, that it allowed for both male and female initiates, and that it needed considerable improvement before the rituals could be worked. he further found that the german adept was the 'famous soror' sapiens dominabitur astris of nuremberg, whose real name was anna sprengel. in her 'reply' to westcott's initial letter, anna sprengel distri255 buted occult largesse wholesale: westcott was raised to the statusofadeptus exemptus(t

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ries of the debasement of menintoanimal forms; and of men reborn as women, as apunishment*for earthly sins in a previous life: see rabbi manasseh in the nishmath chiim, or 'breath of lives. but it must be remembered that many of the doctrines to which we may justly take exception are limited to the teachings*ifnotaspunishment,yetthemajority of female lives areharderto bearthanmale lives; possible male and female lives are alternative, and complementary to each other, each supplying needful experiences.thekabalah87ofbuta few rabbis: and that the differences between the doctrines on a given point are sometimes very great; as is shewn by a comparison of the books of the rabbis of different eras and schools. some of the kabalistic teaching has also never been printed nor published, and has bee

night,and of darkness, in this also the idea is an ancient one.thethree great, though emblematic, lights compose a bright triangle, the three lesser lights an inferior or darker one, the two combined may be considered in a group as a six-pointed star, the hexapla, or seal of solomon, which was also a notable emblem in all the old initiations. this hexapla was a type of the number six, esteemed a. male number assigned by the kabbalists to microprosopus, the vau of the hebrew alphabet, and of the tetragrammaton, the six middle sephiroth, especially the median 6th, the tiphereth, or beauty of the deity.thepentalpha, or emblem of health, the pythagorean emblem, is the five-pointed masonic star, five is the hebrew he, a female potency according to the kabbalah, and may be either the superior he

ings are declared concerning demons. they have three points in common with men, and three with ministering angels. they eat and drink, propagate and die like men. they have wings, they fly and they know future events like the angels. codexchagija cap. ii.p,16. the names of several female demons are commonly noted; lilith said to have been adam's first wife, naamah and agereth. samael is the chief male demon; he has many of the characters of the christian satan; he is often called the angel of death, but it was alleged that he had no power over true hebrews. the proper abode of demons is gai hinnom, and there are seven portions in hell, each part named and having its special qualities and inhabitants. the original rosicrucians of medieval europe and their successors through recent centuries

lusion, with what is conceived to be some mistranslation. this is from the so-called elohistic version of the creation narrated in the first chapter and concluding at the end of verse 3 of chapterii.we find 'and god said let us make man in our image, after our likeness' here the word god is translated from the word elohim,alhim,which is a curiously compounded word- plural- and yet containing both male and female suggestions: for al is god, singular and male, eloah,alhis god, single and female, and 1m is a common masculine plural form.thewordimagehere is tzelem, and likeness is demooth,dmut,a word often used with tzelem. in the english version note that the singular word 'god' is used,butthe plural pronoun 'our; a halting between two opinions, as if the intended meaning were- when i awake o

to buddhi also, at least parkhurst says it is applied to the 'spiritual soul .thenext problem is supplied by the word ruach, ruch, this is a hebrew root, and may mean either he breathed, or air, wind, breath, or space.itis applied in an indefinite way to man, and is also a very distinct title of divinity; in the compound formof'ruachelohim, which seemstohave really meant 'the spirits of the gods, male and female, it is translated 'the spirit of the living god, the 'divine spirit, and is used at times very nearly as the theosophist uses the word atma, our highest conception. calmet, the author of thebible dictionary,remarks that 'ruach' means spirit, and may be:1.thethird person of the trinity. 2. breath of animal life. genesis vii. 12; numbers xvi. 22; jobxii.10. 3.therational soul capable

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s relicsoftheearlier gods,theone supreme, the all-father, neter, whose worship was pre-dynastic,beingsymbolized by an axe, whose head inthetomb paintings is bound to the shaft by thongs, proving that it was a flint head.thelater symbol had the shaft wedged into a socket in the head,showingthatmetalhadsuperseded flint.thenext book of the papyrus directs the exorciser to writedownthe namesofall the male. and female. demons of which his heart is afraid, and to wrap these in a coverlid, together with a figure of apophi, to tie. them round tightly andputin a fire, to spit foul' times, and stamp withtheleft foot.'thedoing of this' says the papyrus,'hathgreat effect on earth, and inthenether world.'136 the sorcererand his apprenticethenether world here clearly means that which we call the astral

eation also, and it typifies the two opposing forces; the letter yod is the active, the energising, the fire; while the letter he is the passive, the receptive, the water- the spirit of god moving on the face of the water, the fire moving on the water. hence we get warmth and moisture, which are the basis of all168 the sorcererand his apprenticelife, and without which life is impossible; also the male and female principles which pervade all nature; and we get the letter vau, which is the union of the two, completing the triangle, and making the divine sign. but the second he is the term of transition, the passing from one world to another. the plant grows and flowers, but concealed within the flower lies the seed wherein is the potentiality of an infinite series of plants of the same kind

oon separable into .three layers(forwe cannot get away from the mysticthree. and thus the first point in physical life is the establishment of a three in one. the.firstbeginning of differentiation isclearlydual (this comes before the manifestation of life, it is positive and negative, energising and receptive, or whatever you like to call them. no names are precisely accurate, and the appellation male and female sometimes used is open to. serious misconcep255 tion; reallyitis the objective energy which does something, and the subject- matter to which that something is done.themost obvious symbol for the receptive matter is water, whose characteristic, when lying at rest, is to repose in a horizontal plane;sovasthe point in the circle symbolises the first manifestation, the horizontal line

n the first: point of aries, a conventional sign. long ago the sun movedoutof the constellation, but still astronomers kept up an imaginary zodiac, an ecliptic with imaginary divisions, called after the old signs, and they stuck to the name of aries. i have no doubt any astronomer could give you a dozen reasons why. the occult reason why is, that thatsign-thesun on his own throne, symbolising the male principleslain..the lamb slain before the foundation of the .184 the sorcerer and his apprenticeworld, showing, too, the moon, his mate- is the glyph of the whole period, the supreme glyph. the lamb of god is the glyph, one supreme glyphofthechristian church all over the world now just as much as the pascal lamb in the time of moses, the ram symbol of zeus, the ram of phryxos helle, and the r

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ht of five months' standing (castle was not a member of the order of the temple, asked a series of questions about castle's sources. the paper was unexceptionable and castle's answers more than adequate, but waite was convinced of his own superior knowledge and scornful of the members of quatuor coronati lodge. he recorded in his diary that the paper was 'ill-conceived, ill-defined and altogether male sonans. these people know not whither they are going. i asked certain questions at the end but there was no one to answer them. these are not brethren; they are simulacra "antic figures which a juggler dances '84[84. later he referred to the paper again 'of course i must not say what i think 82[82] letter from waite to shute, 22 november 1938 83[83] aqc 15 (1902, pp. 163-74. waite's comments

n always be preserved. this rule is absolute and invariable in respect of both its clauses (8) vacancy is constituted by death or permanent alienation as also by insanity or unfitness to act; agreement on the part of the other two members as to the existence of either disability being alone necessary in order to take action. each member has the right to nominate his successor, who shall be of the male sex and a royal arch mason. such nomination may be made absolute prior to decease by the approval of the other members and ranks alternatively as a very serious and urgent recommendation to be adopted if possible, failing which, the appointment rests with the survivors (9) in the event of permanent alienation, insanity or unfitness to act without a successor having been nominated previously

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r and slaughter of muslims, this motley band called crusaders reached jerusalem in 1099. when the city fell after a siege of nearly five weeks, the crusaders moved in. they carried out a level of savagery the like of which the world has seldom seen. all muslims and jews in the city were put to the sword. in the words of one historian "they killed all the saracens and the turks they found. whether male of female."2 one of the crusaders, raymond of aguiles, boasted of this violence: wonderful sights were to be seen. some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into flames. piles of heads, hands and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. it

mystery to which kabbalists devoted a great deal of meditation and speculation. obviously, this multifaceted god image admits to accusations of being polytheistic, a charge which was vehemently, if never entirely successfully, rebutted by the kabbalists. not only was the divine plural in kabbalistic theosophy, but in its first subtle emanation from unknowable unity god had taken on a dual form as male and female; a supernal father and mother, hokhmah and binah, were god's first emanated forms. kabbalists used frankly sexual metaphors to explain how the creative intercourse of hokhmah and binah generated further creation. 27 an interesting feature of this mystical theology is that, according to it, human beings are not created, but are in some way divine. owens describes this myth: the comp

is because humanism is an expression of "man's reckoning that he will be left to go on unchecked" which has been the primary basis, throughout history, for the denial of god. in one verse of the qur'an, god says: global freemasonry hg does man reckon he will be left to go on unchecked? was he not a drop of ejaculated sperm, then a blood-clot which he created and shaped, making from it both sexes, male and female? is he who does this not able to bring the dead to life (qur'an, 75: 36-40) god says that people are not to be "left to go on unchecked" and reminds them immediately afterwards that they are his creation. this is because, when a person realizes that he is a creation of god, he understands that he is not "unchecked" but responsible before god. for this reason, the claim that human b

of the greatest masons of all time. in his book morals and dogma, albert pike wrote the following about the compass and square: the square. is a natural and appropriate symbol of this earth. the hermaphroditic figure is the symbol of the double nature anciently assigned to the deity, as generator and producer, as brahm and maya among the arians, osiris and isis among the egyptians. as the sun was male, so the moon was female.78 this means that the compass and square, the most well known symbol of masonry, is a symbol of arian paganism and which dates back to ancient egypt or before the advent of christianity. the moon and the sun, in the passage quoted from pike, are important symbols in masonic lodges, and are none other than a reflection of the false beliefs of those ancient pagan societ

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ht of five months' standing (castle was not a member of the order of the temple, asked a series of questions about castle's sources. the paper was unexceptionable and castle's answers more than adequate, but waite was convinced of his own superior knowledge and scornful of the members of quatuor coronati lodge. he recorded in his diary that the paper was 'ill-conceived, ill-defined and altogether male sonans. these people know not whither they are going. i asked certain questions at the end but there was no one to answer them. these are not brethren; they are simulacra "antic figures which a juggler dances '84[84. later he referred to the paper again 'of course i must not say what i think 82[82] letter from waite to shute, 22 november 1938 83[83] aqc 15 (1902, pp. 163-74. waite's comments

n always be preserved. this rule is absolute and invariable in respect of both its clauses (8) vacancy is constituted by death or permanent alienation as also by insanity or unfitness to act; agreement on the part of the other two members as to the existence of either disability being alone necessary in order to take action. each member has the right to nominate his successor, who shall be of the male sex and a royal arch mason. such nomination may be made absolute prior to decease by the approval of the other members and ranks alternatively as a very serious and urgent recommendation to be adopted if possible, failing which, the appointment rests with the survivors (9) in the event of permanent alienation, insanity or unfitness to act without a successor having been nominated previously

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behind all things, this is known as ain (1st c) ain at various cycles moves through transformative stages and manifests three principles (2nd c) kether the divine will chokmah the logos binah sophia (saturn) we have deliberately chosen gnostic names here to prepare you for there use in our gnostic model of the universe as presented in the next chapter. chokmah and binah also form the polarity of male and female principles which give birth to the rest of the tree of life (they could also be easily related to the fire and ice of yggdrasil. geburah mars chesed jupiter tiphareth sun hod mercury netzach venus yesod moon malkuth earth these planes or world, which can be related to planets and realities bring together the remaining the gnostic handbook page 21 characteristics with the astral pla

nsfiguration involves a special spiritual technology which was revealed by jesus after his resurrection to his disciples, with final revelations being given to paul in what are now known as the mysteries. the secret of the qadesh jesus said" when you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside, and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female..then you will enter the kingdom. the gospel of thomas 2:38. within the oldest gnostic traditions we find that a further division is made within the spiritual classes. the psychic or dove class are allowed to reproduce (though not encouraged) and in fulfil the role of creating children, however, those of the s

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hrough to the rational or conscious mind. it includes the personality and all its related characteristics. the chiah and neschamah as deeper facets of the ruach, the chiah and neschamah form the unconscious framework of the psyche. these may be related to the animus and anima of jungian psychology and represent the deepest levels of the personal unconscious, where the dualities of force and form, male and female and body and mind originate. the yechidah the yechidah is the immortal part of man, which in his fallen state does not come into action naturally. the average human experiences life through his instincts (the soul) and through his mind (ruach) and constructs a little sense of self from these experiences. however, neither of these offer a truly discrete, individual identity. the kab

ortality to the liberation of the self through the activation of the tree of life. the church of smyrna the church of smyrna is the svadhisthana chakra in the hindu system or in our terms the sacral centre. it is known as sweet smelling and is related to the sexual organs. the sweet smell refers to the ojas or psychic force that dwells within the energy that flows through the organism of both the male and female. it also has a specific sexual meaning in terms of tantric practise where it represents the psychic energy found within the sexual secretions themselves, the smell relating to the ripening of the energy at certain times of the year. this correlation of sexual secretions, time and energy represents one of the inner teachings of gnosticism as well as buddhist and hindu tantra. the ch

abbalah and the vedas to the sacred birds of the celts and druids. from the chakric perspective the fifth day is the throat centre. the logos regenerates the mind and new levels of consciousness are reached. it is the blue centre, the colour of devotion. the sixth day this marks the appearance of the reborn man. he has subjugated his instincts and mind, liberated his innermost self and united the male and female principles within gnostic theurgy page 87 him. from the perspective of the chakra system, the sixth day is that of the ajna centre, where the currents of creation and destruction are unleashed and the gnostic becomes a master. it is indigo and represents intuition and inner mastery. the seventh day regeneration is complete. in relation to the chakric system is that of completed reg

y are seen as somehow separate from the rest of the tree and are divided from the lower seven centres by the abyss or barrier. while they are perfect and static in nature (at least in the world of atziluth, the lower seven centres are mixed and offer amalgams of light and darkness. fig 23 fig 24 gnostic theurgy page 93 the fourth centre is chesed or gedulah. it is known as mercy and is considered male and positive in action. in traditional texts it is known as receptive intelligence. some descriptions of it include love, majesty and magnificence. the fifth centre is geburah. it is known as severity or radical intelligence. while it is seen as feminine, it has characteristics not of passiveness but of strength and force. it is martial in tone. the sixth centre is tiphareth. it is known as b

ped in mystery. the knight templars were, at first, considered to be simply an order for the protection of the roads along which pilgrims travelled to the holy land. however, as they become better known, rumours began to circulate about their esoteric knowledge and occult practises and this resulted in their persecution. their teachings were dualistic with an emphasis on the union of the opposing male and female facets of consciousness, this process was reflected in their use of the image of baphomet, an androgynous pan like figure within their secret shrines. their origins can probably be traced to 1188 ce when the order of sion split into two opposed factions, of which the knight templar was the major. as time progressed and their influence spread, the knight templars absorbed esoteric t

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ce the magicians summons in the evocation circle the spirit, and then enters the point to become one with the spirit the very essence inbetween, then the force will be willed by concentration and enchantment (of reciting the binding 28 spell) into the vessel. if sexual evocation, allow the elixir to enter the vessel upon climax. if one is working with a partner, a woman, then she may utilize both male and female sexual fluids to create and give material basis for the spirit. this is not by itself necessary; the solitary magician may conduct successfully this creation or summoning method alone. beware the union of the fluids of the sun and the moon, as it leads to a strong familiar who for the inexperienced, may cause mental stress for the magician. after the evocation and binding of the sp

eems to move beyond the mirror from the circle yet this is a seeming illusion if ones concentration of will is upon the circle, hold it fast to the meeting place of spirits. asmoday may be summoned by self-enchantment as in karezza (karezza is masturbation without climax, always willed) or other means. a sex magickal operation involving the consecration of his sigil with secretions/fluids of both male and female will create asmoday, as suggested rightly so by aleister crowley. qabalistic lore has long warned of such, as it is said to breed demons. in a self-initiatory sense, it is ideal and powerful. asmoday/asmodeus grants 72 legions of spirits, and shows one where treasure may be found. this translates to the treasure of self from which one may obtain an area of individual and mental ach

ms. vine governs 36 legions of spirits, and acts as an elemental guide unto those who may seek to attack you. vine is also a divinatory spirit who will also brings initiatory knowledge to wizards, witches and hidden aspects. 59 t bifrons bifrons, known also as bifrons, bifrous and bifrovs is an earl, who appears as a wolf like monster, but at the will of the sorcerer, will change shape to a human male. bifrons is a necromantic spirit, who governs the realm of shades; he may bring one close to various shades of the dead, but often they are not who they claim to be. be cautious but be indulgent with this spirit as well. bifrons may change the place of dead bodies, being the binding of ghosts to various fetishes or pots, and lights witch fire on the graves of the dead. bifrons governs 6 legio

ide quick answers unto that which he governs. he presides over 20 legions of spirits. 64 4 gremory gamori/gremory is the fifty-sixth spirit, being a duke who is very powerful. he appears as a beautiful woman, of middle eastern visage, who wears a crown upon a camel. gremory will also copulate spiritually in a dreaming sense with the magician, who is just as a woman, as djinn are generally neither male nor female. gremory is a divinatory spirit. who tells of things past and present. gremory also teaches of the treasures of self, at various points in ones life, that may be considered as useful knowledge. he brings the love and lust of women young and old. gamori governs 26 legions of spirits. 5 ose ose/ose/voso is a great president, who appears as a leopard. he will put a human form on at th

h, as well as coming before the magician and acting in the natural way in which birds do. decarabia teaches also the use of stones and elements in sorceries. he governs 30 legions of spirits and is a mighty marquis. 72* seere seere/sear/seir is the seventieth spirit who is a might and powerful prince, who is under amaymon, the king of the east. seere appears in the form of a beautiful and angelic male, who rides upon a winged horse. he is a powerful angel who brings the sorcerer s will to flesh quickly, and will disappear until you are ready for him to return. being a luciferic spirit, seere resides in the air and may pass over the earth in a blink of the eye. he initiates the self towards the higher spheres of light and the sun, from which one rides the aethyr unto a higher articulation o

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by o, as it is written "i indeed baptize you with n, but one shall come after me who shall baptize ye with the holy ghost and with o" this completes the names and titles of the officers of a temple, and they are seven in number and may all be taken by a frater or soror. as they represent powers and not persons, the feminine form of the greek names is not usually used, for the powers are positive (male) or negative (female) according to the god form used. thus, hierophant, hiereus, and kerux are more natural offices for fraters, while hegemon, stolistes and dadouchos are more natural for sorors, but the office itself carries no implication of sex and sometimes the psychic balance of a ceremony may be better maintained when a frater is hegemon and a soror is hierophant. the hierophant must b

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ught that a magister can pass on his power via sexual means only once in his life. this might be to his chosen successor, if female, or to his own consort in the craft. we must also consider that sexual initiation can occur in the dream-state and that the 'consent' of the aspirant may be an irrelevant consideration. it is rather a case of personal sacrifice to the deity. from my knowledge of both male and female adepts in the elder craft, the gods can and will take lovers and by their 'elixirs' convey strange knowledges, far beyond the grasp of mortal aspirations. furthermore, we should also give thought to the transmission of gnosis between adepts via their own sexual fluids. a fully empowered consort is a vehicle for the magical current, his or her blood and bodily fluids are media for t

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her deity was venerated as the most holy of all. this was viracocha, whose namesakes were said to have made the nazca lines and whose own name meant foam of the sea. 5 no doubt it is just a coincidence that the greek goddess aphrodite, who was born of the sea, received her name because of the foam [aphros] out of which she was formed .6 besides, viracocha was always depicted uncompromisingly as a male by the peoples of the andes. that much about him is known for certain. no historian, however, is able to say how ancient was the cult of this deity before the spanish arrived to put a stop to it. this is because the cult seemed always to have been around; indeed, long before the incas incorporated him into their cosmogony and built a magnificent temple for him at cuzco, the evidence suggests

n feet high, seven feet wide and almost three feet thick. the carvings showed an encounter between two tall men, both dressed in elaborate robes and wearing elegant shoes with turned-up toes. either erosion or deliberate mutilation (quite commonly practised on olmec monuments) had resulted in the complete defacement of one of the figures. the other was intact. it so obviously depicted a caucasian male with a high-bridged nose and a long, flowing beard that the bemused archaeologists promptly christened it uncle sam .1 i walked slowly around the twenty-ton stele, remembering as i did so that it had lain buried in the earth for more than 3000 years. only in the brief half century or so since stirling s excavations had it seen the light of day again. what would its fate be now? would it stand

ah, and noah s wife, and the wives of his sons with them, into the ark they and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. and they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as god had commanded, and the lord shut them in. and the flood was upon the earth; and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. and the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. and the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. and every man was dest

ke also of intermediaries between gods and men the urshu, a category of lesser divinities whose title meant the watchers .3 and they preserved particularly vivid recollections of the gods themselves, puissant and beautiful beings called the neteru who lived on earth with humankind and exercised their sovereignty from heliopolis and other sanctuaries up and down the nile. some of these neteru were male and some female but all possessed a range of supernatural powers which included the ability to appear, at will, as men or women, or as animals, birds, reptiles, trees or plants. paradoxically, their words and deeds seem to have reflected human passions and preoccupations. likewise, although they were portrayed as stronger and more intelligent than humans, it was believed that they could grow

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rhanes, a female and thus unusual in the history of contactee accounts, has the cipher meaning of female. one would then expect, in future funny-name cases with female entities, some cipher reference to the femaleness of the being hidden in the being s name. thus, when semjase arrives in fred bell s life, we are not surprised to find her name the equivalent of gynander, the female in a so-called male role. further, when we find secret cipher of the ufonauts 25 her to come from a planet she calls erra, the exact equivalent of al bender s contact word kazik, we can predict without knowing the details that first communication will be mental or telepathic, followed by more physical encounters. so it is. but who plants such messages, and why? to answer this, one must apply the cipher knowledge

ts conscious ciphering. when we take into consideration john king s earlier role in blavatsky s life, koot hoomi= 109= thou king seems of interest. that crowley s controls have similar associations many years later is also of interest; lam= 24= god, and also dawn; abuldiz= 77= 0 warrior, another androgynous reference. the letter 0 used as a word has an occult meaning that, when used to refer to a male being, renders the phrase androgynous. the cross references are complex. for example, koot hoomi= 109= androgynous, but also lord hadit now (from a qabalistic standpoint, identical with lord hadit won (compare the 1970s new age control seth. seth= 58= hadit. hadit, nuit and ra hoor khuit are the trinity of the book of the law) although the names are of ancient egyptian deities, in the book of

s itself, which predicted the flying discs, the blonds and other features known in modern ufology. the mantong alphabet a animal (use an for short) b be to exist (often used as a command) c con to see (c-on; to understand) d de detrimental, disintegrant energy (the second important symbol in the alphabet) e energy (an all-pervading concept including the idea of motion) f fecund (used fe, as in fe-male fecund man) g generate (used gen) h human (a very metaphysical concept here, not fully under stood but used in the sense h-you-man; a human is an h-man) i self, ego (same as our english i) j generate (a duplication of g, but with a delicate difference in shade of meaning. actually ja, in contrast to ge, is a very important distinction. g is the generating energy, while j is animal generation

y that the correct magical operation for leaving a room is turning the door knob and pushing the door. resistance is not futile= 329= abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words. in the seminal and quintessential chapter 36 of the book of lies, aleister crowley informs us, let the adept be armed with his magick rood [and provided with his mystic rose. the magick rood, or wand, is the supreme male symbol; the mystic rose the female complement. the ritual, called the star sapphire, is the revelation to the initiated of the key secret of the magick of the conquest of the universe. thus, we find the wand: the double wand of power= 329= resistance is not futile. the blond alien khyia of procyon, our alleged informant from the stars= 150= mystic rose. combined, by theosophic addition, the w

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oh-yeh-veh) whose number is 171, the number for the word apophrasz ;meaning motion. the angel is boyv (boh-yeh-veh) and his word is law here. if he speaks to you, it will be very hard to resist doing whatever he says. use your sword to maintain control if necessary. step 9. the demon in this square is abo (ah-boh) whose number is 41, the number for the words tol (all) and efafafe (vessels. abo is male and is highly creative. his demonic nature is such that he is not definitive but instead seeks to create all manner of bod es. his impetuous desire to create new forms coupled with the power of solidilication given by isis causes the chaotic and ceaseless creation of forms in this square. step 10. the astrological force working here is taurus, and the tarot influence is the hierophant. this f

h-ee-neh) arinnap (ah-ree-neh-nah-peh) 131 step 4. enter your body of light and procede to the sub-quadrant fire of fire and then to the square of a in pali (pah-lee. step 5. you should see a combination of air and fire in this square. there will be turmoil and swiftly changing shapes and forms. step 6. you should see the goddess bastas outwardly soft and feminine yet inwardly hard and stern. the male sphinx here is a lion with a human head. the atmosphere in this square is charged with a strong masculine current which is somewhat balanced by the femininity of bast. step 7. the angel alip (ah-lee-peh) may confront you. her nature is to quickly disperse or dissipate the lower coarser elements of anything entering this square (alip 83= fifalz meaning to eliminate or weed out. step 8. be wary

ties including sexual polarities. it is your task as a magician to seek within yourself all of those qual i t ies charact er i zed as mascul ine or feminine. modern psychology suggests that every man has a feminine psychic component and that every woman has a masculine psychic component (this idea is expressed in the jungian descriptions of the anima and animus. in other words, a person outwardly male is inwardly female and vice versa. this idea echoes the magi -cal theorem that e ve ry indi vidual is essentially sufficient to himself. a part of the great work of every magician is to cultivate those virtues and qualities in which he/she is deficient. to do this a man may invoke one of the female enochian 152 deities, or one of the egyptian goddesses who presides over certain of the lesser

work of every magician is to cultivate those virtues and qualities in which he/she is deficient. to do this a man may invoke one of the female enochian 152 deities, or one of the egyptian goddesses who presides over certain of the lesser watchtower squares such as isis or nephthys. he can then identify himself with her and adopt her qualities as his own. similarly, a woman may invoice one of the male deities and identify herself with him and adopt his qualities as her own. knowledge of the sexual currents that flow within the subtle spheres surounding our earth will be essential if you are to advance in enochian magick. several aethyrs. fo r exampl e, are so hi ghl y char ged se xual l y that ignorance of these currents can lead you to disastrous consequences. the story of john dee's psyc

and, was fully pre-pared and so was able to directly experience all of the aethyrs up to and including lil. the physical body is a sexual organism. sex can not be avoided, nor should i t be. the enochian magician accepts sexuality as an important part of life. the great work is the unification of the dualistic poles that comprise the basis of our universe. this unification includes the duality of male and female. it takes place in the mind, not the body (i.e, in the mental body rather than the physical body. every physical act of sex should be a creative conscious expression of the great work. as such, every physical act of sex should be a magical act. 153 the use of sex sex is, directly or indirectly, the most powerful weapon in the armory of the magician; and precisely because there is n

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bulae or first swirlings of matter. humanly by the intentions of procreation. all this projects into: 2 wisdom. origination by the god-aspect yhvh (yahweh, meaning i will be. creation by archangel raziel (herald or announcer of god. formation by the angel order of the ofanim(wheels orcycles ofgod. expressively by themazlot (the zodiac or circle of life. humanly by the supply of sperm cells in the male. 3 understanding or intuition. originatively processed by the god-aspect yhvh elohim (i will be gods or goddesses. creatively by archangel tzafkiel( watcher or observer of god. formatively by the angelic order of the aralim (thrones or seats. expressively by the planet shabetai (saturn. humanly by the supply of unfertilised ova or eggs in the female (here male and female forces meet, mate and

by the act, and the gap between god and man becomes the great abyss, across which the lifestream goes to) 4 mercy or generosity. origination governed by god-aspect el (the one. creatively by archangel tzadkiel (righteous of god. formatively by the angel order of the chashmalim (brilliant ones. expressively by the planet tzedek (jupiter, traditional giver of good things. humanly the development of male chromosomes in the foetus. 5 severity or economy. origination governed by the god-aspect elohim gibur (god-goddesses of strength/might).creation byarchangelchamael orsamael (burner or venom of god. formation by the angelic order of serafim (fiery serpents. expressively by the planet madim (mars. humanly by the development of female chromosomes in the foetus. 6 harmony and beauty. here life is

of female chromosomes in the foetus. 6 harmony and beauty. here life is brought to balance originatively by the god- aspect yhvh eloah ve-da at (i will be god-goddess of knowledge. creatively by archangel michael (the god-like. formatively by the angel order of the malachim (kings or messengers. expressively by shemesh (the sun) as life-supporting nucleus of our solar system. it is said that the male-female chromosomes are combined into the best possible being here, and the ultimate physical sex of the individual decided. 7 victory and achievement. originatively governed by the god-aspect yhvh tzva ot (i will be hosts. creatively by archangel auriel (light of god, sometimes identified with haniel [grace ofgod. formatively by the angel order of the elohim god-goddesses. expressively by the

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the sense of mild, gracious, fair. frigg too p. 301-2) i interpret by the adj. free, fair, gracious- if gaue, gauden, is a corruption of the masc. woden, it might still have an accessory notion of good. frouwa is obviously the fem. to froho, and still asserts her full power in our present frau. almost all names of the female deities have still a transparent meaning; as compared with those of the male, there is something innocent and inviolable in them, and for that reason they seem to have been treated tenderly or tolerated. the delicacy and inoffensive matter of the myth have shielded it longer in popular legend. pkeface. xxi the goddess hellia has exchanged her personal meaning for a local one, that of hell. ostara, eastre, is preserved at least in the name of the high festival; and hre

site side of the baltic only the goddess nerthus. the relation of zio to zisa, perhaps isis (p. 298, demands further explanation. no doubt the numerous aliases of that female deity, who is not yet forgotten in modern legend, are due to differences of race: holda shews herself in hesse, thuringia, and north franconia, berhta in vogtland, east franconia and sundry tracts of swabia, where likewise a male berhtold encounters us. there is no trace of either goddess in lower germany, but a dame freke now turns up in the mark, and dame gaue haunts majklenburg between elbe and weser. yet in ancient times holda, as huldana, must have reached far westward to the rhine, and, if the ver-hilden-straet (p. 285) was named after her, into the netherlands, reminding us of the kinship between chatti and bat

ee suppl. this story is of a piece with many other ancient ones. in the first place, frau gauden resembles frau holda and berlita, who likewise travel in the' twelves/ who iu the same way get their vehicles repaired and requite the service with gold, and who finally quit the country (pp. 268, 274-6. then her name is that oifrau gaue,frau gode,frau wode (p. 252-3) who seems to have sprung out of a male divinity/ro woden (p. 156, a matter which is placed beyond doubt by her identity with wodan the wild hunter. the very dog that stays in the house a year, hakelberg's (p. 921) as well as frau gauden's, is in perfect keeping. the astonishment he expresses at seemingly perverse actions of men, and which induces him, like other ghostly elvish beings, to speak and begone, is exactly as in the stor

ems plainly to have led to berend bernhart and dietrich-bern, as indeed the dreams of hackelberg and berend were identical (p. 923. lastly, perhaps the nethl. derh met den beer (p. 213-4) ought to be taken into account here, not that i would derive his epithet from a misapprehension of dietrich von bern (see suppl. we have come to know the wild host in two principal lights: as a nocturnal hunt of male, and as a stately progress of female, deities; both, especially the last, occurring at stated seasons. the precise meaning of the word' host' calls for a third explanation: it marches as an army, it portends the outbreak of war. wuotan (the old father of hosts, p. 817, rackelhernd, berhtolt, bestriding their wlute war-horse, armed and spurred, appear still as supreme directors of the war for

in folktales he looks on at the game, especially if played during divine service on sunday, and he plays with men, who have to stake their own souls^ in witch-trials he is called schenzerlcin^ dicer, from schanzen to throw dice, schm. 3, 374; and he lies in wait for gamblers, renn. 11316 seq. judaism has devils, but knows nothing of she-devils; all power for good or evil it places in the hands of male beings (p. 396. to put it still more generally: gods are altogether the older, and a strict monotheism or dualism recognises gods alone; it is in the mellower fulness of polytheism that goddesses first emerge. the teutonic paganism, like others, is fond of female deities and elves: even the goth, vaihts (genius) is feminine (p. 439. divine mothers, bright benignant dames, norns, valkyrs, wood

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

f these shorter-lived genii warrant a comparison with the wights and elves of our own mythology? in the third race giants seem to be portrayed, or fighters of the giant sort, confronting as they do the rightful 1 the rabbinic myth supposes a first woman, lilith, made out of the ground like adam [the bible, we know, has two different accounts of man s creation: the first (elohistic) in gen. 1, 27, male and female created he them; the second (jehovistic) in gen. 2, 7, formed man of the dust, and in vv. 21. 22, took one of his ribs. and the rib. made he a woman. the first account seems to imply simultaneous creations. tkans] 576 ceeation. heroes of the fourth. the latter we might in mosaic language call sons of elohim, and the former sons of men; at the same time, their origin from the ash wo

ory of dold at the end of ch. xxxii. another and older narrative, found even in the british triads, comes much nearer to those given above: when the lake of llion overflowed and submerged all britain, the people were all drowned save dwyvan and dwyvach, who escaped in a naked (sailless) ship, and afterwards repeopled the land. this ship is also named that of nevydd nav neivion, and had on board a male and female of every creature; again it is told, that the oxen of hu gadarn dragged the avanc (beaver) ashore out of the llion lake, and it has never broken out since.3 of still narrower limits are our german tales, as that of the dwarf seeking a lodging at ralligen on l. thun (no. 45, which is very like the philemon-myth; of arendsee (no. ill, where again only a husband and wife are saved; of

o work, the hare measured the land, the fox s brush trailing after him marked the course of the stream; when they had finished hollowing out the bed, god poured water into it out of his golden bowl (verhandl. der esthn. gesellschaft, dorpat 1840. 1, 40-42. the two stories differ as to the manner of preparing the new bed. vol. ii. m 600 elements. the greeks and romans personified their rivers into male beings; a bearded old man pours the flowing spring out of his urn (pp. 585. 593. homer finely pictures the elemental strife between water and fire in the battle of the skamander with hephaestus: the river is a god, and is called ava%y od. 5, 445. 451. the indian ganges too is an august deity. smaller streams and fountains had nymphs set over them. 1 in our language, most of the rivers names a

ts into fire, as well as into water (sup. m, 11; to pacify the flame, they sacrifice a fowl to it (82. a distinction seems to have been made between friendly and malignant fires; among the former the greeks reckoned brimstone fire, as they call sulphur oelov, divine smoke (ii. 8, 135. od. 22, 481. 493. in 0. fr. poems i often find such forms of cursing as: mal feu arde! tristr. 3791; maus feus et male flambe m arde 1 meon 3, 227. 297. ren. 19998. this evil fire is what the norse loki represents; and as loki or the devil breaks loose, we say, when a fire begins, that it breaks loose, breaks out, gets out, as if from chains and prison: worde viir los/ doc. in sartorius s hanse p. 27; in lower germany an alarm of fire was given in the words fiir los! on. einn neisti (spark) war$ laus/ forms o

with a strict fast of three days, during which the fires are put out in all houses. on the fourth morning the chief priest by rubbing two dry sticks together lights a new clean fire, which is distributed among all the dwellings; not till then do the women carry home the new corn and fruits from the harvest field.1 the arabs have for firefriction two pieces of wood called march and aphar, the one male, the other female. the chinese say the emperor sui was the first who rubbed wood against wood; the inconvenient method is retained as a holy one. indians and persians turn a piece of cane round in dry wood, kanne s urk. 454-5 (see suppl. i fr. major s mythol. taschenb. 1811, p. 110. need-fire. 611 it is still more interesting to observe how nearly the old roman and greek customs correspond. e

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

s gods and goddesses. some of these deities had to change or die to begin the creative process. the origin of the universe was an intellectual problem that came to fascinate the egyptians. texts that allude to the unknowable era before creation define it as the time before two things had developed. 1 the cosmos was not yet divided into pairs of opposites such as earth and sky, light and darkness, male and female, or life and death. the egyptians speculated that the primeval substance was watery and dark and had no form and no boundaries. these primeval waters, known as the nu or the nun, continued to surround the world even after creation and were thought of as the ultimate source of the nile. when personified as a deity, nun could be called the father and mother of the creator, because th

and in various theological centers, a number of deities could be identified with the creator who emerged from the primeval waters. these creator deities include the gods atum, ra (often combined as ra- atum, shu, ptah, khnum, and amun-ra and the goddesses neith, hathor, and isis. important stages in the creation process were the establishment of maat, the divine order; the division of beings into male and female; and the separation of earth and sky. the egyptian cosmos consisted of a divine realm in the upper sky; the earth, with egypt its center; and the duat (or dat, the underworld that was to become the realm of the dead. the creator produced other deities and then lesser beings such as people and animals. the one who made himself into millions. in many egyptian sources the creation of

attained high social status. khnum s original role seems to have been as the divine potter who made things at the command of the creator. when he became a form of the universal creator, khnum s name was usually linked with those of more established creator deities such as ra or ptah. the hand of atum. before creation begins there is no division into genders. the creator seems to include both the male and female principles. creator deities were commonly called the father and mother of all things. deities who were normally regarded as male, such as atum, are described as giving birth to other deities during the creative process.8 the actual means by which the creator reproduced were sometimes left vague and sometimes described in terms of blunt sexual imagery. pyramid texts (pt) spell 527 s

fixed as a father. a further development was the personification of the hand of atum as a goddess, thus giving him a sexual partner. since the hand goddess came directly from the creator, she was his daughter as well as his consort. this god- mythical time lines 63 dess was often identified with hathor, who came to be regarded as the female creative principle. the twins sometimes appear to be the male and female aspects of atum. he embraces them to transfer his ka (vital essence) to them. in coffin texts spell 80, shu and tefnut are described as living with their father in the primeval waters. the three deities cling tightly to each other as if they were still one entity. for creation to continue, shu and tefnut had to become fully differentiated from the creator. the lost children. there

os, disorder) or gereg (wrongdoing, evil. the creator and all his/her creations were to live on and through maat. all egyptian rulers, and those who helped them to govern, were supposed to establish the state of maat on earth, as it was in the first time. a series of cosmic events was part of the first time. shu and tefnut separated from their father and came together in the first sexual union of male and female. tefnut then gave birth to another pair of deities, a son geb, who was associated with the earth, and a daughter nut, who was associated with the sky. geb and nut embraced each other so ardently that there was no room between them for anything to exist. nut conceived children but could not or would not give birth to them. geb and nut seemed to want to become one, reversing the move

HEAVEN HELL

f a man to him in neter kher" 3 and the text begins "hail, ra! hail, tem! hail, seb! hail, nut! grant ye unto sepa that he may traverse the heavens (or sky, that he may traverse the earth, that he may traverse the waters, that he may meet his ancestors, may meet his father, may meet his mother, may meet his grown up sons and daughters, and his brethren, and his sisters, may meet his friends, both male and female, may meet those who have been as parents to him, 4 and his kinsfolk (cousins, 5 and those who have worked for him upon earth, both male and female, and may meet the concubine whom he loved and knew" p. 68 "behold, o qema-ur (i.e, great creator, make sepa to rejoin his grown up sons and daughters, and his concubines whom it is his heart's desire [to meet, and make thou sepa to rejoi

meet those who have been as parents to him, 4 and his kinsfolk (cousins, 5 and those who have worked for him upon earth, both male and female, and may meet the concubine whom he loved and knew" p. 68 "behold, o qema-ur (i.e, great creator, make sepa to rejoin his grown up sons and daughters, and his concubines whom it is his heart's desire [to meet, and make thou sepa to rejoin his friends, both male and female, and those who have worked for him upon earth "and if it happen that his father should be turned aside, or opposed or removed, when he would appear to him, or his mother when she would reveal herself to him, when sepa wisheth to rejoin his ancestors, and his father and his mother, and his men and his women, and if it happen that there should be turned aside or opposed, or done away

eliver him from the things which the goddess. doeth, and from the actions) of nut, and from the mighty things which the two-lion 1 god doeth to every soul, and to every god. the ancestors of sepa shall make him to be delivered [rubric. may be rejoined ancestors, and father, and mother, and foster-parents, and kinsfolk, and young children, and wives, and concubines, and beloved ones (i.e, friends) male and female, and servants (i.e, slaves, and the property of every kind which belongeth to a man, to him in neter-kher (the underworld" the rubric ends with the words "rope of maat, millions of times" which indicate that the whole chapter, probably including the rubric, was to be said by the person who wished to rejoin his friends in the p. 71 [paragraph continues] underworld regularly and unce

; the greater number of these gods are not well known, and their exact functions are not well understood. the circles on the right are: 1. hetepet-neb-s, 2. hetemet-khemiu, 3. hapsemu-s, 4. sehert-baiu-s, 5. aat-setekau, 6. the door tes-amem-mit-em-sheta-f. as afu-ra passes these gods their doors fly open and those within hear what he says, and they respond with cries which are like unto those of male cats, or the "noise of the confused murmur of the living" or the "sound of those who go down to the battle-field of nu" or the "sound of the cry of the divine hawk of horus" or the "twittering of the birds in a nest of water-fowl" the circles on the left are: 1. sesheta, 2. tuat, 3. as-neteru, 4. aakebi, 5. nebt-semu-nifu, 6. the door tes-khaibitu-tuatiu. the sounds made by the gods in these

of the cry of the divine hawk of horus" or the "twittering of the birds in a nest of water-fowl" the circles on the left are: 1. sesheta, 2. tuat, 3. as-neteru, 4. aakebi, 5. nebt-semu-nifu, 6. the door tes-khaibitu-tuatiu. the sounds made by the gods in these resemble the "hum of many honey-bees" the "sound of the swathed ones" the "sound of men p. 156 who lament" the sounds "of bulls and other male animals" and the sound of those "who make supplication through terror (vol. i, pp. 170 ff. next: ninth division of the tuat. i. kingdom of osiris according to the book am-tuat sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next ninth division of the tuat. i. kingdom of osiris according to the book am-tuat. the name of this division, or hour, or city, is best-aru-ankhet-kheperu, the gate is calle

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

nt in an honoured place. on the capitals of the egyptian pillars, on thethrones and even the head-dresses of the divine kings, the lotus is everywhere found as a symbol of theuniverse. it inevitably became an indispensable attribute of every creative god, as of every creative goddess,the latter being, philosophically considered, only the feminine aspect of the god, at first androgynous,afterwards male. it is from padma-yoni "the bosom of the lotus" from absolute space, or from the universe outside timeand space, that emanates the cosmos, conditioned and limited by time and space. the hiranya garbha "theegg (or the womb) of gold, from which brahma emerges, is often called the heavenly lotus. the god,vishnu- the synthesis of the trimurti or hindu trinity- during the "nights of brahma" floats

eanwhile here is the legend of the blue lotuscentury after century has passed away since ambarisha, king of ayodhya, reigned in the city founded by theholy manu, vaivasvata, the offspring of the sun. the king was a suryavansi (a descendant of the solarrace, and he avowed himself a most faithful servant of the god, varuna, the greatest and most powerfuldeity in the rig-veda* but the god had denied male heirs to his worshipper, and this made the king veryunhappy* it is only much later in the orthodox pantheon and the symbolical polytheism of thebrahmans that varuna became poseidon or neptune- which he is now. in the vedas he isthe most ancient of the gods, identical with ouranos of the greek, that is to say apersonification of the celestial space and the infinite gods, the creator and ruler

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ou call them "ridiculous" the "theosophical mahatmas" are they "spirits of light" or "goblins damned? q. who are they, finally, those whom you call your "masters? some say they are "spirits" or some other kind of supernatural beings, while others call them "myths" page 132 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt a. they are neither. i once heard one outsider say to another that they were a sort of male mermaids, whatever such a creature may be. but if you listen to what people say, you will never have a true conception of them. in the first place they are living men, born as we are born, and doomed to die like every other mortal. q. yes, but it is rumored that some of them are a thousand years old. is this true? a. as true as the miraculous growth of hair on the head of meredith's shagpat

within himself, and that what that deity gave out was not "what measure he pleased" but in the measure of the capacities of the mortal and temporary dwelling it informed. book of the keys an ancient cabalistic work. the original is no longer extant, though there may be spurious and disfigured copies and forgeries of it. brahma (sans) the student must distinguish between the neuter brahma, and the male creator of the indian pantheon, brahm. the former brahma or brahman is the impersonal, supreme, and uncognizable soul of the universe, from the essence of which all emanates, and into which all returns; which is incorporeal, immaterial, unborn, eternal, beginningless, and endless. it is all-pervading, animating the highest god as well as the smallest mineral atom. brahm, on the other hand, th

le creator of the indian pantheon, brahm. the former brahma or brahman is the impersonal, supreme, and uncognizable soul of the universe, from the essence of which all emanates, and into which all returns; which is incorporeal, immaterial, unborn, eternal, beginningless, and endless. it is all-pervading, animating the highest god as well as the smallest mineral atom. brahm, on the other hand, the male and the alleged creator, exists in page 147 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt his manifestation periodically only, and passes into pralaya, i.e, disappears and is annihilated as periodically (see below) brahm 's day a period of 2,160,000,000 years, during which brahm, having emerged out of his golden egg (hiranyagarbha, creates and fashions the material world (for he is simply the fertil

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

ng can be employed as an aid to deconditioning. be mindful that the deconditioning process is not merely an intellectual experience. it is relatively easy to intellectually accept some experience or belief which you have previously rejected or dismissed. it takes more resilience to take action from your new position, and risk the emotional upheaval that may result afterwards. for example, a young male magician of my acquaintance examined his own beliefs about his sexuality, and decided that he would focus upon his own distate/ fear of homoeroticism. he found that he could accept intellectually his repressed attractions to other males, and thus thought himself liberated. he then went on to have several homosexual encounters which he said, did not give him any physical pleasure, but merely f

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

der of the golden dawn in 1888 he intended it to be a secret and highly-exclusive alternative to the theosophical society; in fact a school of occultism based on the western hermetic-qabalistic tradition, and hence without any hindu or buddhist elements. the theosophical society was open to all who wished to join it, but the door that led to the g.d. was closely guarded. the majority of the early male members of the g.d (up to c.i892) were recruited from westcott's friends in the societas rosicruciana in anglia, known to the initiated as the soc. ros, which was exclusively masonic. the s.r.i.a, of which westcott was secretary general, although he became its supreme magus in 1892, was not a masonic lodge but, during the 1880s, an increasingly esoteric equivalent of a learned society. there

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

d to perish gloriously at fredericksburg in 1862. neither he nor his son archer knew of the shunned house as other than a nuisance almost impossible to rent- perhaps on account of the mustiness and sickly odour of unkempt old age. indeed, it never was rented after a series of deaths culminating in 1861, which the excitement of the war tended to throw into obscurity. carrington harris, last of the male line, knew it only as a deserted and somewhat picturesque center of legend until i told him my experience. he had meant to tear it down and build an apartment house on the site, but after my account, decided to let it stand, install plumbing, and rent it. nor has he yet had any difficulty in obtaining tenants. the horror has gone. iii it may well be imagined how powerfully i was affected by t

its origin and manner of gathering gave it all the associative horror which any words could well possess. i will present it here in full as i remember it- and i am fairly confident that i know it correctly by heart, not only from reading the transcript, but from playing the record itself over and over again. it is not a thing which one might readily forget (indistinguishable sounds (a cultivated male human voice..is the lord of the wood, even to. and the gifts of the men of leng. so from the wells of night to the gulfs of space, and from the gulfs of space to the wells of night, ever the praises of great cthulhu, of tsathoggua, and of him who is not to be named. ever their praises, and abundance to the black goat of the woods. ia! shub-niggurath! the goat with a thousand young (a buzzing

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

wild energy around him and controlling it. anyone who learns to do this cannot help but improve his life circumstances. and that's the witch's bag in a nutshell. she knows how to put the power of her secret mind to work, how to harness the wild energy around her. but not all witches do their thing the same way. some witches always begin with a romantic interlude. the charged atmosphere between a male and a female cannot be duplicated, and it does generate high-intensity energy. that's why the stories of sexual orgies involved with witchcraft got started. but that certainly is not what witchcraft is all about, even if some groups use it as an excuse for wild sexual excesses, which sometimes include sadomasochistic practices. it's too bad that these groups get so much publicity, because it

can be rich, and many are, if that is the way they are concentrating. the coven in our area is just a loosely associated group. judging from the mail i receive, i'd say there is at least one person in every community who practises witchcraft. people in every walk of life are witches and wizards. there is a difference, by the way, between wizards and warlocks. a warlock is generally an effeminate male who has a great interest in witchcraft. he never has much success with his spells, which usually backfire or turn out in a way quite different from what he intended. warlocks lack control of their subconscious. a wizard is the actual male counterpart of a witch. he does have the power of control and knows how to handle it. there is one warlock who calls me all the time, haunts me, is always t

an, is the counterpart of the king of hearts. it would be to a man what the king of hearts is to a woman. but if you are a woman, the queen of hearts would represent your mother-in-law. it has to do with a woman who is not just a girl, so it's a womanly relationship you have, with a relative, for instance. it also has to do with passion. it can be used as a passion card, having no connection with male or female. if you want to cast a spell and put the queen of hearts in the fifth circle, that would trigger a passionate situation. the jack of hearts is a younger lover, but it also could be the one you're engaged to, or it could be just a man of forty. but as the king of hearts was a new man in your life, the jack of hearts is a man you are already involved with, and he could be any age. ten

ffair it's sometimes best for your lover not to be a well-known person. it could lead to difficulty. and don't put it in the twelfth circle because any secret affair would blow up into a scandal. it is a good card to stick in somebody else's twelfth circle to mess them up a little bit. it's a dynamic, powerful card, and by itself it means just plain good luck. king of diamonds is a very dignified male. he might be a lawyer who's got several other lawyers working for him, a man who's achieved some kind of recognition in his work. it also could indicate that you have a legal reason for having contact with a man of this type. it could signify divorce in the seventh circle. you've got to be very creative in your interpretations. this card, for example, varies so extremely that it could mean a

r life. money and emotion are interwoven in any situation involving the king of clubs. strength, knowledge and experience also are represented, so if you put it in the fifth circle, you want an experienced, older lover. if it's in the tenth, your boss is very well-known in the community; if it's in the first, then you yourself, even if a woman, would have capabilities comparable to an experienced male. you have to be very creative in your interpretation of this card. the kings, queens, and jacks, we must remember, are not only representative of people. but also of a particular type of experience or characteristic, so that you can use it to interpret what your loved one would look like or what certain people in your life are like. but you should also weigh its other meaning. so the king and

INFERNAL UNION

d succubi. their continued union through us produces or brings to our awareness, the timeless treasures of knowledge and strength hidden only by our previously ignorant minds. samael is according to legend, the fallen angel taught by belial .he is also known as asmodeus or ashmodei, the yezidi archangel ashamdon, and is the solar aspect of ahriman it seems, whose other name is ashmedai. he is the male serpent who possessed adam in the garden of eden in order to copulate with eve. in the christian apocalypse, and in thelema, he is the beast and the mate of babalon. in the kabbala, samael is the prince of the qlippoth, the inverse side of the tree of life and mate of lilith the queen of the qlippoth (lilith and babalon being the same. he is the infernal sun(night and fire) and she is the moo

, which is entirely in keeping with all the above references to 3 her. she was in this aspect in the tale of the egyptian sekmet, the blood-drinking goddess of the south (and may be related to seker in this aspect. lilith is the female serpent who latched onto eves brain centre in her union with samael who possessed adam. their union produced the first born (or in some mythologies, the dark twin) male, cain who through adversity was taught knowledge and wisdom by his true spiritual parents who he came into communion with. he became the eternal father of and the first in the circle of witchblood. throughout history he has guided those who truly seek the flame of luciferian becoming. because he is the perfect union of both the sun and moon, he is therefore baphomet. it is the sexual-magickal

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

trainee and the attentive reader will find in this book all they have been searching for in vain all the years, then the book has fulfilled its purpose completely. the author. part i theory picture of the magician: the first tarot card interpretation of the symbolism below you will find the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms expressed in a symbolic manner. the female on the left side and the male on the right side are the plus (positive) and the minus (negative) in every human being. in their middle is seen a hermaphrodite, a creature personifying the male and female combined in one as the sign of concinnity between the male and female principle the electrical and magnetical fluids are shown in red and blue colors, electrical fluid being red, magnetical fluid blue. the head region of

seen a hermaphrodite, a creature personifying the male and female combined in one as the sign of concinnity between the male and female principle the electrical and magnetical fluids are shown in red and blue colors, electrical fluid being red, magnetical fluid blue. the head region of the female is electrical, therefore red, the region of the genitals is magnetical, consequently blue. as for the male, it happens to be in inverted order. above the hermaphrodite there is a globe as a sign of the earth sphere, above which the magician is illustrated with the four elements. above the male, there are the active elements, that of the fire in red and the air element in blue color. above the female there are the passive elements, the water element in green and the element of the earth in yellow c

gnetical, left side electrical, the inside neutral. the fingers of the right hand: fore- and back part neutral, right side electrical, left side also, the inside neutral. the fingers of the left hand: fore- and back part neutral, right side electrical, left side as well, the inside neutral. the feet: fore- and back part neutral, right side magnetical, left side electrical, the inside neutral. the male genitals: forepart electrical, back part neutral, right and left side also, the inside magnetical. the female genitals: forepart magnetical, back part, right and left side neutral, the inside electrical. the last vertebra& anus: fore and back part neutral, right and left side as well, the inside magnetical. with the help of this occult anatomy and the key of the tetrapolar magnet, the adept m

ferent underlying motive: here we have to deal with a phantom of eroticism: the birth of such a phantom if one may use the expression of birth at all takes place in the face, the beautiful body of a living person, sometimes only a photo, a pornographic illustration or something similar with the purpose of provoking the lust, the sexual instinct, regardless of the person belonging to the female or male sex. provided anyone being in love, having no opportunity at all of satisfying his personal longing, the stronger and more vehement this yearning will grow, and at the same time the phantom s insinuations will become stronger, because it is thriving entirely on thoughts of yearning. the more the concerned person tries to resist this unsatisfied love, the more obtrusive the phantom will become

to anyone else; no foreigner must ever come in touch with the figure. any further work is already a matter of imagination. provided you with to advance, put the figure in front of you, imagine the astral body together with the mental body emanating from the puppet. you have to imagine your elementary very much like a tiny, complete human being. it is entirely up to you to see in your elementary a male or a female being, depending on the kind of task it is expected to fulfill. the same is true for the clothing for it; your fantasy may decide. according to the task ahead, you may link the elementary by imagination to a self-selected ritual. impress on your elementary right from the beginning the command that it should adopt the size you choose for it. you can have your elementary shrink to a

ISIS UNVEILED

isunion" the first eternal number is the father, or the chaldaean primeval, invisible and incomprehenuble dtaot, out of i^ch proceeded the inieiligihe one the egyptian pta, or" the principle of laghi not the light itself, and the prindple of ijfe, thou^ himself no life" the wisdom by which the father created the heavens is the son, or the kabalistic androgynous adam kadmon. the son is at once the male rd, or light of wisdom, prudence or intd- ligence, sephira, the female part of himself; while from this dual being proceeds the third emanation, the binah or reason, the second intelli- gence the holy ghost of the christians. therefore strictly speaking there is a tetraktts or quaternary, consisting of the unintelligible first monad and its triple emanation, which properly constitutes our tri

etics" we will not permit ourselves to contra- 71. cf. a. kirdicr: sp/tinx mgitagoga, n. 52: amstelodami, 1676. 72. cmffiia bttioeta rtu^ion and seieiux, p. 224. digitizecoy google 4s isis unveiled diet such a learned authority, further than to state that it originaud among them no more than did their 'anointed' christos and sophia. the former they modeled on the original of the 'king mesnah' the male principle of wisdom, and the latter on the third sephiroth, from the chaldaean kabala* and even from the hindq brahmi and sara- svatt" and the pagan dionysus and demeter. and here we are on firm ground, if it were only because it is now proved that the new tehameni never appeared in its complete form, such as we find it now, till 300 years after the period of apostles^ and the zohar and other

rifice of bread and at this 'superstition' to the old myit rief> which had been for nge spread su over the globe. the bncient variago-irinat had his mysteries in the north as well as in the south of riusis; and there are many relics of the by-gone /aith scsttered in the lands watered by tlie sacred diun>er, the biiptisnial jordan of all russia. no znadtar (the icdowing one) ot koldottn (sorcerer, male or female, can die in fact before be baa passed the mysterious word to soipe one. the popular behej is that unless he does that he will linger and suffer for weeks and mouths, and were he even finally to get hberated. it would be only to wander on earth, unable to quit its r^on unless he fim^ a luccesoor even after death. how far the belief may be verified by others we do not know, but we hav

y opened; the ezhibittv i iiieu> tbe pnest caok in. the poor girl, not without just reason 'had an avenian to holy things' or at least the 400 devils within her distorted body had such an aversion, uad in the oonfusiod of the moment, thinliing that the father was *a holy thin' she doul^ up her )m, kreamed out with twitdiing mouth, ber whole body writhing and threw how sdf near^ off the bench. tbe male attendant seised ber k^ the women sapported ho- hesd and swept oat her dkbevded bur. the priest advanced and, mipgli; familiariy with the shuddering and boitor>ftnicfc crowd, said, pointing at the suffering child, now sobbing and twitching on the lioicfa 'promise me, my ckildreo. that you win he ^udent (prvj^ala, and^ a truth, sons and daughters mine, you shall see marvels' nie promise was gi

, i warn you to mind what you are about, and give me no cause of r^)enting of my kindnew to you. the prayen and festivals instituted in my honor please me tremendously [vthcmenter, and if you faithfully persevere in these things, and provided you oppose to the utmost of your power the heretics which now-a.days are spreading through the wi^d, by which both my worship and that erf the other saints, male and fem^e, are so endangered, you shall enjoy my perpetual protection "in sign heaven the image of myself, cast by celestial hands, and if ye hold it in the tumor to which it is entitled, it will be an evidence to me (rf your obedience and your faith. farewell. dated in heaven, whilst sitting near the throne of my son, in the month (rf december, of the 1

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

it s easy to be a yogi and meditate in the stillness of nature however many live in busy cities where experiencing a constant state of inner peace can at times be a challenge. maintaining mastery in all situations in life is also basic training for the modern day yogi* while in india the female yogi is known as a yogini, throughout this text i choose not to discriminate as to me a yogi is neither male nor female. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 46 smiling 2. the inner smile taoist master practice: this technique prepares our organs and biosystem to get, and stay connected, to the theta. delta field by tuning each organ to the nourishing frequency of unconditional love. it also opens the inner doors to an experience of a more conscious and positive m

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

if not the idolatry itself. obelisks, spires, minarets, tall towers, upright stones (menhirs, monumental crosses, and architectural perpendiculars of every description, and, generally speaking, all erections conspicuous for height and slimness, were representatives of the sworded, or of the pyramidal, fire. they bespoke, wherever found, and in whatever age, the idea of the first principle, or the male generative emblem. having given, as we hope, some new views of the doctrine of universal fire, and shown that there has been error in imagining that the persians and the ancient fire-worshippers were idolaters simply of fire, inasmuch as, in bowing down before it, they only regarded fire as a symbol, or visible sign, or thing placed as standing for the deity, having, in our preceding chapters

priated to druidical stones in england men-amber. a famous logan-stone, commonly called men-amber, is in the parish of sethney, near pendennis, cornwall. it is 11 feet long, 4 feet deep, and 6 feet wide. from this the following derivatives may be safely made: men-amber, mon-amber, mon-ambra, mon- amrha, mon-amra (m om-ra, om-ra, red stone, or magic, or angelic, or sacred stone. this red colour is male it signifies the salvator. the following is the recognitory mark or talisman of the ophidi: f. the scarabaeus, bee, ass, typhon, basilisk, saint-basil, the town of basle (basil, or bale, in switzerland (of this place it may be remarked, that the appropriate cognisance is a basilisk, or a snake, the mythic horse, or hippocampus, of neptune, the lion, winged (or natural, the pegasus, or winged

which have each a family connection. all the above signify an identical myth. this we shall presently show conclusively, and connect them all with the worship of fire. our readers have no doubt often wondered to see on the table-monuments in christian cathedrals a creature resembling a dog, or generally like some four-footed animal, trampled by the feet of the recumbent effigy. it is generally a male which is represented as performing this significant efforcement, trampling or piercing with the point of his sword, or the butt of the crosier (in his left hand, be itremembered. this crosier is the ancient pedum, or lituus. at brent-pelham, in hertfordshire, there is a tomb, bearing the name of a knight, pierce shonke, built in the wall. he is said to have died a.d. 1086. under the feet of t

very early ages passed into the useages of christian times. thus: the high cap and the hooked staff of the god became the bishop s mitre and crozier; the term nun is purely egyptian, and bore its present meaning; the erect oval, fig 24. fig. 25. fig. 26. symbol of the female principle of nature, became the vesica piscis, and a frame for divine things; the crux ansata, testifying the union of the male and female fig 27. fig 28. fig 29. fig 30. i 138 the rosicrucians. principle in the most obvious manner, and denoting fecundity and abundance as borne in the god s hand, is transformed, by a simple inversion, into the orb surmounted by the cross, and the ensign of royalty. refer to the gnostics and their remains, p. 72. the famous stone of cabar, kaaba, cabir, or kebir, at mecca, which is so

r the reader to some significant figures towards the end of our volume, which will be found according to their numbers. figure 289: the abraxas-god, invested with all the attributes of phoebus. green jasper; a unique type. the egyptians call the moon the mother of the world, and say it is of both sexes (plutarch; spartian, life of caracalla. the moon, in a mystic sense, is called by the egyptians male and female. the above is a gem in the bosanquet collection. in the exerque is the address, cabaw glory unto thee! on the reverse, in a cartouche formed by a coiled asp, precisely as the hindoos write the ineffable name aum, are the titles iaw, abracax (the gnostics, p. 86. 160 the rosicrucians. figure 311 represents venus standing under a canopy supported on twisted columns, arranging her hai

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

o be interpreted analogously. venus venus, or i.tar, sister of the sun, is the only woman among the planets. as the brightest planet it has a special place; often moon, sun, and venus are treated as a triad. the two appearances of venus though acknowledged as the same planet were attributed to two different manifestations of the same god: as the morning star venus was female, as the evening star. male, and the two aspects corresponded to the double character of i.tar as the goddess of love and war (leick 1998: 96. as a male god, i.tar was described as bearded (tablet 61 of en ma anu enlil: gziqna zaqnat h (reiner 1995: 6. we have to remind here that ordinarily the gender of venus fs appearances has been treated by the opposites, according to the specification of the planet genders by ptole

g to the specification of the planet genders by ptolemy (tetrabiblos, parts 1.6 and 7. e.g. in southern arabia, a.tar/at ar was worshipped as ina araa nisanni d.ul.pa.e3 ilmarduk- aiari dud.al.tar- simani diku bab ilanipl- du fuzi dda-pi-nu- abi dma-ag-ru-u2- ululi dsag.me.gar- ti.riti dni-bi-ru- ara .amni drab-bu- kislimmi ulgam3- ebeti ullugal .aba i ulgal- adari ulkua de2-a- 23 the personified male aspect of venus as the morning star. southern arabia he was also worshipped, there uniting both the aspect of morning and evening star (leick 1998: 15. venus is the last of the three planets that also have numerical counterparts. d15 or simply 15. this number in the assyrian tree of life marks ebeauty f (6 in cabala. the most widespread appellation of venus is ddil-bat or muldil-bat, its mean

KETAB E SIYAH

yes. there sat in a glade beside the river, so she has told, some strange being of princely beauty of an image both similar and foreign to our own. gigantic in apparence was this earthly king, yet not terrible as you and your brothers seem, but rather gentle and most fair, inspiring in our hearts only love for such splendour and such grace. this spirit was both like us and much different: neither male nor female in formation but possessing both these attributes, miraculous androgyne, with the wide hips and rounded breasts of woman yet also man's member betwixt the thighs; and also was the flesh of this monster alien to us, coloured of the purest white whereas ours, as is most apparent to your sight, is tawny brown as is the soil of the earth; and the hair that cascaded as some shining cata

ost beneficent lord that you would serve and most rightly so indeed for noah is not beguiled by wickedness as are the other men of the world. great may noah be in the service of god and sinless be he that his service may be greater. god has decreed that all males that would serve him must bear a mark of that service that all may know them as the servants of he that it is well to serve. from every male child of eight days shall you cut the foreskin and thus consecrate the life of that child to god's service. such circumcision is the mark of god's favour and it is most right that it should be done. this is the decree of god. thus shall i enact upon you that you might go from this place and so do unto your own sons that god may know them for his own. return hence to this place that i might te

a skull and the cruel day sky burnt from him his wits that all the while he worked he addressed commands and exhortations to slaves that lived but within his mind. thus was built the ship of noah. when its dark form was finished, casting a great shadow on the sands as the day died bloody in the west came michael to noah from the south and behind him was some great number of beasts of each kind a male and female, lions, serpents, birds and deer, and unnumbered others that went on the earth and from the wind drew breath. so came michael once more to noah to fulfil his black scheme and thwart that scheme of mine which was born of his own treachery and malice 269 that had not dwindled but grown darker yet "hail noah, son of lamech" spoke the prince of heaven "this number of beasts have i brou

row and become a man and king. thus are your kingship and israel preserved. what is to be a king who would not hold what is his? what is to be a potentate who would let his enemy grow strong against him? no time is this for weak pity for a new-born monster is yet monstrous and every tiger was once a cub. spare not the children in the land's defence but send forth your warriors and strike down the male children born within the year that this one shall not escape your wrath but know destruction that he shall never grow and oppose your most righteous kingdom" having thus spoken to the king and worked his base persuasions michael, fearing to tarry there, flew the earth and made fast within his tower to observe from far off the consequence of those words spoken. herod had learnt well the ways o

nd wealth were the sole measure and he that betrayed was held highly if he could win for himself those carnal things revered by rome. rome priced a man with gold and forgot all of virtue. thus, with such a revelation, 330 no hand withheld the king's vengeance upon a child unwronging. yet herod knew not which child to seek but rather gave this command to his men. that every child within his lands, male and born within the year was to be taken from the parents that had begat the son and killed lest it be that one which should grow to be a man that might destroy his corrupt dominion. this terrible thing did he command and his warriors, paid with gold and of virtue most forgetful, fulfilled the command of herod, fulfilling the command of michael, who, like herod himself, would fall unceasingly

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

ded over by a god who holds his right hand over the cage of a hawk, and his left over the food of eternity. on each side of the god is a cornice crowned by a row of alternate feathers and uraei symbolizing justice and firey power. the door leaf which completes the right hand of a stall is called "posessor of truth controlling the feet" while that on the left is "possessor of strength, binding the male and female animals" the 42 judges of the dead are represented as seated in a long row, and each of them has to be named, and the sin over which he presided has been denied. this chapter describes the introduction of the initiate into the hall of truth by anubis, who, having questioned the aspirant, receives from him an account of his initiation, and is satisfied by his right to enter. he stat

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

aths but does not touch any of the sephiroth, which are linked by the flaming sword. the flaming sword is formed by the natural order of the tree of life. it resembles a flash of lightning. together the sephiroth and the twenty-two paths form the 32 paths of the sefer yetzirah, or book of formation. the two pillars on either side of the altar represent: active: the white pillar on the south side. male. adam. pillar of light and fire. right kerub. metatron. passive: the black pillar on the north side. female. eve. pillar of cloud. left kerub. sandalphon. the second meditation let the zelator meditate on a straight line. let him take a ruler or pencil and by moving it a distance equal to its length, outline a square. having done this, let him, after quieting his mind with the rhythmic breath

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

managed to survive for two decades in a rough climate, and even raise five offspring, thanks to the assistance given to her by the other monkeys. another female monkey, mentally and physically retarded, survived with the support of her older sister, who dragged her on her back for a very long time and protected her. a female monkey that had lost her sight was granted special guard by the males. a male baboon whose brother had an epileptic episode stood beside his ailing brother, rested his hand on his brother s chest and firmly prevented the caretakers who wanted to examine him from approaching. chapter three: altruism is life s law 57 other animals act very similarly. dolphins support their wounded companions and keep them close to the water level to keep them from drowning. elephants hav

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

o what degree? t h e s t u d y o f k a b b a l a h 95 a: yes, any woman can, and no less than a man, provided she has the desire from above and the devotion from below, the exact same requirements as for men. q: is it the will of the creator that women will study kabbalah? a: every soul should reach its destiny. all souls should reach equivalence of form with the creator and become a part of him, male and female souls alike. m e n a n d wo m e n q: is there a difference in the study of kabbalah between men and women? a: no. man or woman, it doesn t matter. women must also develop spiritually. the only difference lies in the method. the beginning of the learning process is the same. that is why in our introductory courses there is no difference between the method provided for men and for wo

at depends on the effort you ll make. ultimately you will attain the degree of moses, who received the torah on mt. sinai, but when that time comes, in this life or in ten or a hundred lives from now, depends on the quantity and, even more so, on the quality of your efforts. t h e g e n d e r o f t h e s o u l q: does the soul have a gender, like the body? a: the soul does have a specific gender: male or female. that attribute extends from the root of creation, from the very beginning. zeir anpin (male) and malchut (female) of the world of atzilut are the prototypes of the genders in our world, and there are no greater opposites than these. throughout the system of creation, built from up downward, there is a division, a separation into a feminine part and masculine part. the lower the deg

nner-spiritual attributes change according to our correction. thus, a woman may experience masculine spiritual situations, but on the outside, her body, which is the dressing, the clothing of this world, will remain a woman. in the spiritual world, however, the soul experiences corrections both in its feminine part and in its masculine part. in our world, the body is fixed and retains its gender- male or female. s o u l s o f l e a d e r s o f t h e wo r l d q: do evil leaders and dictators in our world have no spiritual souls, since they were destined to punish mankind? a: all souls are a part of the soul of the first man. the soul is a part of the creator from above because it is filled with the light of the creator, depending on the extent of its correction. we cannot see what actually

the development of our world comes from that spiritual gene in us. humanity should come to a situation of complete fragmentation, after which a process of correction will begin. if we want to picture the future family, it is possible only to the extent that a man, with his spiritual masculine gene, and a woman, with her feminine spiritual gene, bond in so well that they will be connected like the male and female in spirituality. those who have learned the wisdom of kabbalah know that there is a partzuf called zon, which is zeir anpin and nukva, the ideal image of man and woman in our world, the spiritual masculine and feminine origin. the same bond should exist between biological men and women. otherwise, there will be no connection at all. that is the situation our world is headed for. th

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

the important thing is what they do in their two or three free hours a day, the ones in which they are not committed to family or work. those are the hours that they must examine themselves to see if they spend them in front of the television, in a restaurant, or laboring to attain a spiritual goal. the difference between men and women in our world is a consequence of the relationship between the male part and the female part of the soul. as a result, men and women have different outlooks on life, different obligations and different objectives. the male and female parts of every partzuf in the spiritual world complement one another: the female part contributes its desires and the male part contributes its screens. in the end, it is their combination that pa r t t wo: p h a s e s o f s p i

e and the feminine parts, meaning the right and left lines. for example, in the degrees of pharaoh, moses, israel, and a gentile, there is both a feminine and a masculine part. but each name can only be attained once and in a certain degree. man and woman are a union of zeir anpin and malchut of the world of atzilut. its essence and degree create different names and a higher spiritual degree. the male and female states are set in each of the 125 degrees. if that is the case, then how should men and women behave in this world? each should behave according to the possibilities that he/she has been given within a specific sex. although we are egoistic and seek nothing but personal profit, we must be grateful to the creator for having allowed us to see ourselves as we really are, as unpleasant

ritual degree of the creator. q: what is a vessel? a: a vessel is a desire that has been corrected by the screen. using the screen (aim, the vessel is able to receive in order to benefit the creator, and thus fulfill the desire for pleasure. a desire without a screen is still not considered a vessel, but is called a reshimo or a shell. m a l e& f e m a l e q: why is the light of wisdom assigned a male gender and the light of mercy a female, motherly gender? a: the light of wisdom is the root of the male properties and the light of bina is the root of the female properties. men and women differ in properties, skin texture, physiology, etc. you can even see the differences in their handwriting. what separates the two genders are the t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 252 (hebrew) letters yod)

gender and the light of mercy a female, motherly gender? a: the light of wisdom is the root of the male properties and the light of bina is the root of the female properties. men and women differ in properties, skin texture, physiology, etc. you can even see the differences in their handwriting. what separates the two genders are the t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 252 (hebrew) letters yod) for male and hey) for female. the letter yod represents the sefira of hochma, while the letter hey designates the sefira of bina, in malchut. since all parts of reality are interconnected and complement one another, and each part contains something of the other, we can always explain each part or property that we examine in different ways. however, it will always be about the four phases of direct lig

ys, weeks, months and years) and their mating creates the souls. the properties of the souls define the characteristics of the physical body that the soul clothes. the soul is created and descends to this world even before a child is born into it. i am using earthly terms of time, space and motion, although they do not exist in the spiritual world. we must understand that relationship between the male and female parts of zon of the world of atzilut determines everything that happens in our world. there is no other way to easily explain the variety of possibilities for the relationship between these two parts, how they connect and how they clothe one another, how they mate and how they create new souls. it is a very complex system. nearly 1600 of the 2000 pages of the study of the ten sefir

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

the toltec sub-race- a branch probably identical with that cro-magnon race which inhabited europe and africa somewhere about 25,000 b.c. in ancient types of man(*op. cit, p. 71) sir arthur keith remarks that this race was mentally and physically one of the finest that the world has ever seen. broca has noted that the brain content of the skull of the cro-magnon woman surpasses that of the average male of today. the average height of the men of this race was six feet one and a half inches; the shoulders were exceedingly broad and the arms short as compared with the legs; the nose was thin but prominent, the cheek-bones high, and the chin massive. 61. it happened that the king or pharaoh on the throne at the time when the expedition from south india arrived had a daughter but no son, his wif

station. it was also emblematic of the androgynous nature of the deity; it typified god as father-mother. on the installed 775. figure 15 776. 777. master fs apron we find three taus in separation; in the holy royal arch we see them conjoined, for here the teaching given is the unity to be found in this entire threefold universe, conveying also the meaning that each person in this trinity has its male and female aspect- precisely the same idea which is expressed in the hindu religion by the statement that each person has his shakti, commonly described as his consort. thus the three-in-one becomes six-in-one, and, with the surrounding circle which indicates the unmanifested totality, we have the mystic seven. 778. the triple tau is also called in royal arch masonry the key. it contains eigh

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

envy, they would wish others to be damned, who are saved. consequently sorrow must be said to exist in them, and especially because it is of the very notion of punishment that it be repugnant to the will.moreover, they are deprived of happiness, which they desire naturally. while condemned to hell, thomas asserted that demons would float in the air until the day of judgment in the form of incubi (male demons) and succubi (female demons. like other medieval thinkers, aquinas believed that demons could seduce human beings, particularly in the dream state. he further speculated that should a succubi conceive after having intercourse with a man, the result would be a giant, like the nephilim mentioned in genesis 6:4. aquinas also perceived dark forces at work behind many cases of dream divinat

orcist. bill& ted s bogus journey following an exorcism, bill and ted are sent into an adolescent hell from which they escape through a portal of flames. this 1991 comedic fantasy is comparable to alice in wonderland with a heavy metal theme. bishop auckland case in 1993, accusations of satanic ritual abuse were leveled against four families in bishop auckland, uk. the case started with a teenage male who had been convicted of child molestation. after being sent away to a medical center for treatment, two of his five victims began to accuse various adults who lived close to each other in this middle-class residential suburb. eventually, four of the children began to claim that they had suffered sexual abuse during satanic rites in an attic. they further claimed that they had been drugged a

eaknesses and the triumphs of mortal men and women. blake s entire scheme is based upon a view that has its roots in plato and that extends to a philosophical tradition pointing to a spiritual reality in which forces higher than ourselves are constantly at work. blake insisted that eternity was complete harmony, and that therefore angels and spirits were androgynous,with no separate principles of male and female, but only the one of humanity. blake often used infernal imagery to represent aspects of the human being such as sensuality that he placed a positive valuation on but that the christian tradition labeled evil. this tendency to invert traditional imagery, which was also utilized by other romantic writers, was one of the touchstones of later satanists such as anton lavey. see also la

confirmed by direct or indirect testimony of trustworthy persons, that the sylvans and fauns, commonly called incubi, have often tormented women, solicited and obtained intercourse with them (augustine 1942, 15:23. such demons most often attack/seduce human beings at night, thus conveniently explaining why monks, nuns, and priests have erotic dreams. although sterile themselves, incubi (demons in male forms) could supposedly impregnate women with seed taken by succubi (demons in female form) from men a belief that was sometimes used to explain pregnancies resulting from secret affairs. this type of explanation not only absolved women from charges of licentiousness, but, because the sperm was taken from men, it also saved the child from being executed as an offspring of a demon. the authors

each of them should be commissioned by the prince of devils to work some witchcraft; since to each one is allotted his own angel, even from among the evil ones. alternately, the two inquisitors speculate that this pairing of efforts may arise from the filthiness of incubi and succubi 123 the deed, which one devil would abhor to commit implying that certain demons would object to playing both the male role and the female role in the semen transfer process. why, however, are demons so intent on promoting human reproduction? kramer and sprenger provide a number of different reasons: the reason that devils turn themselves into incubi or succubi is not for the cause of pleasure, since a spirit has not flesh and blood; but chiefly it is with this intention, that through the vice of luxury they

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onial masturbation on talismans as god first did. to be done peri ton broton tais abrotais erotos "o thou who hast formulated thy father and made fertile thy mother" 1. great adepts babalon- nuit. 2. isis- venus- aphrodite- astarte. 3. artemis- vesta- maria. 4. nymphs. in all cases death to be entrance into copulation, begetting yourself on them for new incarnation. woman adepts use corresponding male goou: liber 777 vel p rolegomena s y m b o l i c a ad s y s t e m am sceptico-mystic vi explicand fundamentum hieroglyphicum sanctissimorum scient summ v a\a\ publication in class b i 777 the following is an attempt to systematise alike the data of mysticism and the results of comparative religion. the sceptic will applaud our labours, for that the very catholicity of the symbols denies them

LIBER 777

rt) udakkha 7 kama manipura (solar plexus) mano 8 aib prana svadistthana (navel) sakkya-ditti 9 hati linga sharira muladhara (lingam and anus) kama 1010 kheibt, khat, tet, sahu sthula sharira avigga cxx. magical images of the sephiroth. cxxi* the grades of the order. cxxii. the ten plagues of egypt. 0. 08=0. 1 ancient bearded king seen in profile 10 =18 ipsissimus death of first-born 2 almost any male image shows some aspect of chokmah. 9 =28 magus locusts 3 almost any female image shows some aspect of binah 8 =38 magister templi 3rd order darkness 4 a mighty crowned and enthroned king 7 =48 adeptus exemptus hail and fire 5 a mighty warrior in his chariot, armed and crowned 6 =58 adeptus major boils 6 a majestic king, a child, a crucified god 5 =68 adeptus minor 2nd order murrain 7 a beaut

left hand, but over his right shoulder, and a staff 463 lines long in his right. a lion and a dragon are at his feet, but he seems unaware of their attacks or caresses. line 12. his attitude suggests the shape of the swastika or thunderbolt, the message of god. line 13. she is reading intently in an open book. line 14. she bears a sceptre and a shield, whereon is figured a dove as a symbol of the male and female forces. line 15. his attitude suggests f, and he is seated upon the cubic stone, whose sides show the green lion and white eagle. line 16. he is crowned, sceptred, and blessing all in a threefold manner. four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. line 17. he is inspired by apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and progane: represented by a

lipse, composed of 400 lesser circles. at the corners of the card a man, an eagle, a bull, and a lion. within the circles a naked shining figure in the sign of earth right foot advanced, fight hand advanced and raised, left hand lowered and thrown back. the hands grip each a ray of dazzling light, spiril, the right hand being dextro- and the left hand l vo-rotary. a red scarf conceals the fact of male genital organs, and suggests by its shape the letter k. such is the conventional hieroglyph. 41 appendix i the trigrams of the yi king attribution to quarters. planetary attribution. hindu attribution. yetziratic attribution. figure. name. part of body. key scale s! lingam+ y 7 khien. head. 2 [and 30. s.e$ apas. c m 6 tui. mouth. 14 [and 23. e& mano (prana! r 5 li. eyes. 6 [21 and 30. n.e% te

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relatively stable, and resisteth change; but things like increase mutually the potential of their particular natures. howbeit, each path hath his own use; and thou, being instructed in all ways, choose thine with discretion. i liber aleph vel cxi 176 #s de sua initiatione (of his initiation) y son, my delight, honey of the comb of my life, i will say also this concerning the odds of the formul of male and female, that mine initiation was ordered as followeth. first, unto the middle of the way, the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, were these men appointed to mine aid, jerome politt of kendal, cecil jones of basingstoke, allan bennett of the border, and oscar eckenstein of the mountain, with no woman. but after that attainment hath word come to me only

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

l the great stake is thrown, even now the dice are falling. all deeds are locked in links, one to another calling through time: from the dim throne the first rune that was ree.d by god, the supreme sphinx, determined the last deed [the king of babylon reaches forth his hand and arm. it is the hand and arm of a skeleton. he touches the forehead of the sleeping lord. instantly, radiant and naked, a male figure is seen erect] psyche. adonis! adonis. psyche [they run together and embrace. psyche. ah! long-lost! adonis. my wife! light, o intolerable! infinite love! o life beyond death! psyche. i have found thee! adonis. i was thine. psyche. i thine from all the ages! adonis. to the ages! psyche. mine [the king passes over and departs. chorus of soldiers hail to the lord! without a spear, withou

LIBER CHANOKH

passive and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. nanta [make the invoking pentagram of earth and pronouce this name ]lm ynda] and elohim said: let us make man in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air; and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. and the elohim created ath-ha-adam: in the image of the elohim created they them; male and female created they them. in the name of ]lm ynda and of the bride and queen of the kingdom; spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the sign of taurus] in the name of layrwa, great archangel of earth, spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great northern quadrangle, spirits of earth, adore your creator [sprinkle water before earth tablet]

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

ters! be ye unto me strength that i formulate the 12 rays of the crown of hva! i conjure ye, and very potently command. even by him who ruleth life from the throne of tahuti unto the abyss of amennti, even by ptah the swathed one, that unwrappeth the mortal from the immortal, even by amoun the giver of life, and by khem the mighty, whose phallus is like the pillar in karnak! even by myself and my male power do i conjure ye. amen. 12.20. i was getting sleepy when the oysters came. i now eat them in a yog. and ceremonial manner. 12.45. i have eaten my oysters, chewing them every one; also some bread and butter in the same manner, giving praise to priapus the lord of the oyster, to demeter the lady of corn, and to isis the queen of the cow. further, i pray symbolically in this meal for virtue

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

u hast begotten me upon a marble statue, o my god! 52. the body is icy cold with the coldness of a million moons; it is harder than the adamant of eternity. how shall i come forth into the light? 53. thou art he, o god! o my darling! my child! my plaything! thou art like a cluster of maidens, like a multitude of swans upon the lake. 54. i feel the essence of softness. 55. i am hard and strong and male; but come thou! i shall be soft and weak and feminine. 56. thou shalt crush me in the wine-press of thy love. my blood shall stain thy fiery feet with litanies of love in anguish. 57. there shall be a new flower in the fields, a new vintage in the vinyards. 58. the bees shall gather a new honey; the poets shall sing a new song. 59. i shall gain the pain of the goat for my prize; and the god t

LIBER LLL PARADIGMAT PIRATE

may also wish to experiment with combining the two techniques. cloy a bathroom with foul smelling incense. bring in a strobe and stereo for white noise and light and then submerge yourself in the tub, and follow the earlier procedure. excitatory forms of gnosis sex simple orgasm is not enough to reach a state of altered consciousness. the neophyte should instead practice techniques of karezza if male and multiple orgasmic overload if a female. in addition, sexual states of gnosis are generated through severe acts of sexual blasphemy by violating taboos. these taboos are entirely based upon your natural sexual preference, and each individual should come up with a list of gnasty h things that he or she wouldn ft do. these are usually perfect actions to trigger whole-body orgasms that should

LIBER LVII

thematics we reason of numbers in their abstract sense, so in the qabalah we reason of the deity by the abstract forms of the numbers; in other words, by the twryps, sephiroth. it was from this ancient oriental theory that pythagoras derived his numerical symbolic ideas.12 among these sephiroth, jointly and severally, we find the development of the persons and attributes of god. of these some are male and some are female. now, for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the bible have crowded out of existence and smothered up every 11 [in passages mercifully omitted by crowley from the present article. t.s] 12 [yeah, right. pythagoras: fl. 6th century b.c.e. estimated date of earliest known qabalistic texts (ignoring mythology: 4th or 5th century c.e. who derived

rs. t.s] on the qabalah 11 reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in genesis i, 26 .and the elohim said: let us make man. again (v. 27, how could adam be made in the image of the elohim, male and female, unless the elohim were male and female also? the world elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular hla, eloh, by adding \y to the word. but in as much as \y is usually the termination of the masculine plural, and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency added to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspr

e son. now, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word jwr, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of the sepher yetzirah \yyj \yhla rwr tja, achath (feminine, not achad, masculine) ruach elohim chayyim .one is is she the spirit of the elohim of life. now, we find that before the deity conformed himself thus.i.e, as male and female.that the worlds of the universe could not subsist, or, in the words of genesis (i, 2 .the earth was formless and void. these prior worlds are considered to be symbolized by the .kings that reigned in the land of edom, before there reigned a king over the children of israel.,13 and they are therefore spoken of in the qabalah as the .edomite kings. this will be found fully explained

brighten or make glad. we also work in another way. i is the straight line or central pillar of the temple of life; also it stands for unity, and for the generative force. a is the pentagram, which means the will of man working redemption. o is the circle from which everything came, also nothingness, and the female, who 30 [published as sepher sephiroth in equinox i (8] 20 liber lviii absorbs the male. the progress of the name shows then the way from life to nirvana by means of the will: and is a hieroglyph of the great work. look at all our meanings! every one of them shows that the name, if it has any power at all, and that we must try, has the power to redeem us from the love of life which is the cause of life, by its masculine whirlings, and to gladden us and to bring us to the bosom o

ial aspect. 72. dsj, mercy. the number of the shemhamphorasch, as if affirming god as merciful. for details of shemhamphorasch, see 777 and other classical books of reference. note especially y+ hy+ why+ hwhy= 72.43 73. hmkj, wisdom. also lmg, gimel, the path uniting kether and tiphereth. but gimel .the priestess of the silver star. is the female hierophant, the moon; and chokmah is the logos, or male initiator. see liber 418 for more information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of part ii. 78. alzm, the influence from kether. the number of the cards of the tarot, and of the 13 paths of the beard of macroprosopus.44 also sawya, the messenger.45 see part ii. 80. the number of p, the .lightning-struck tower. of the tarot. 8= intellect, mercury; its most material form is rui

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

he child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into egypt! like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beautiful and edifying events of the bible into insane and ridiculous ones, which he proceeded to plagiarise. on the voyage out the virgin mother became enamoured, as was her wont, of the nearest male, in this case a fellow-traveller. he, being well able to support her in the luxury which she desired, easily persuaded her to leave the boat with him by stealth. a small sailing vessel conveyed them to malta, where they disappeared. the only trace left in the books of earth records that this fascinating character was accused, four years later, in vienna, of poisoning her paramour, but thanks

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

it was spoken by the holy pythagoras .god geometrises. let us behold the work of his fingers! one father incomprehensible one son incomprehensible 1. 2. 3. a m c one mother incomprehensible. fig. i..the trinity unmanifest* for it is written (genesis 1: 27:\da arb jbqnw rkz wta arb \yhla \lxb wmlxb \dah-ta \yhla arb .and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they them. now if adam be in the similitude of the elohim: and are male and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of these mysterious three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written .and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim \yhla ]alm, is the manifestations of their presen

went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim \yhla ]alm, is the manifestations of their presence. now ]alm hath the number 91, which is also the number of ynda hyhw, wherefore by gematria .tetragrammaton our lord. is the angel of the elohim of the divided name. therefore is the tetragrammaton symbolic of the manifested presence of the elohim; and if the elohim be male and female, so also must be the tetragram. also is the number of ma (also 91) by aiq bekar 1+4+5= 10.the perfection of the sephiroth. a note on genesis 7 one father eternal. one son eternal. 4. 1. 2. 3. one mother eternal. fig. ii..the trinity in manifestation in both of these symbols the all-including circle represents the underlying idea of the number 0: the infinite: para-brahman: the ain

LIBER SAMEKH

the heavens. 3. thee, that didst create the night and the day, 4. thee, that didst create the darkness and the light. 5. thou art asar un-nefer1( gmyself made perfect h; whom no man hath seen at any time. 6. thou art ia-besz2( gthe truth in matter h. 7. thou art ia-apophrasz3( gthe truth in motion h. 8. thou hast distinguished between the just and the unjust. 9. thou didst make the female and the male. 10. thou didst produce the seed and the fruit. 11. thou didst form men to love one another and to hate one another. section aa. 1. i am ankh-f-n-khonsu4 thy prophet, unto whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of khem.5 2. thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created life. 3. hear thou me, for i am the angel of ptah-apophrasz-ra6 (vide the rub

mass h in the sense of the word which is used by physicists. the impossibility of defining it will not deter the intrepid initiate (in view of the fact that the fundamental conception is beyond the normal categories of reason. point i 7 ioel g hail, thou that art! h kotha g thou hollow one! h athor-e-bal-o g thou goddess of beauty and love, whom satan, beholding, desireth! h abraft g the fathers, male-female, desire thee! h (the conception is of earth, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic hippopotamus* of a venereal nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. s

transmuted by the creation of the compound letter mgn to replace m: that is, silence is realized as passing into continuous ecstatic vibration, of the nature of glove h under gwill h as shewn by mgn= 40+ 3+ 50= 93= agaph= qelhma, etc; and the whole word has the value of 100, perfection perfected, the unity in completion, and equivalent to kf [sic, s.b [k. kf= 520, the conjunction of the essential male and female principles [vide supra, point i, section f, note; also book 4, part iii, ch. vii. v] the gnormal h intellect is incapable of these functions; a superior faculty must have been developed. as zoroaster says: gextend the void mind of thy soul to that intelligible, that thou mayst learn the intelligible, because it subsistith beyond mind. thou wilt not understand it as when understandi

LIBER V VEL REGULI

itself a mode of naught, and its nature cannot encroach on the perfections of not-being, la, or of being, al. it must be purely nothing-motion as they are purely nothing-matter, so as to create a matter-in-motion which is a function of .something. thus sht is motion in its double phase, an inertia compose of two opposite current, and each current is also thus polarized. sh is heaven and earth, t male and female; sht is spirit and matter; one is the word of liberty and love flashing its light to restore life to earth, the other is the act by which life claims that love is light and liberty. and these are two-in-one, the divine letter of silence-in-speech whose symbol is the sun in the arms of the moon.11 but sh and t are alike formula of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not

e carving of min as shown in the new larousse encylopedia of mythology. 3 the reference is to a photograph of crowley titled .the student. which appears at the start of .aha. and not as the frontispiece to the volume as a whole. 4 there is some uncertainty about this sign. the .lesser man of vitruvius. is depicted (e.g. in the illustrations from caersarino.s edition, reproduced in the canon) as a male human figure framed by a square, the legs spread, feet turned out, and arms raised so the hands and toes mark the corners of the square, whose centre is at the figure.s navel; this is approximately how the sign mulier is interpreted in the blue brick, apparently based on a sketch by crowley in a letter to achad (holding the exact stance of the vitruvian man would require advanced hatha yoga t

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

cks of half a stanza. but besides this, he used a narrative frame to retell some of the more important myths that underlie skaldic kennings. according to this frame, a man named agir or hler from hlesey( ghler fs island, h modern lasso off the danish coast, a master of magic, goes to asgard, where the asir receive him well but with visual delusions. the hall is illuminated by swords alone. twelve male and twelve female asir are there. agir sits next to bragi, who tells agir many stories of events in which the asir have participated. the first of these is the full story of the alienation and recovery of idun and her apples, the death of thjazi, and the compensation granted to skadi. when bragi has finished, he and agir have a short conversation about a few kennings, and then agir asks bragi

ature, h in approaches to oral literature, ed. tobin thelwall (ulster: new university of ulster, 1978, 99.114. benjamin blaney, gthe berserk suitor: the literary application of a stereotyped theme, h scandinavian studies 54 (1982: 279.294. 76 norse mythology buckle of gilded bronze from the anglo-saxon cemetery at finglesham, kent, with bosses and rivets encircled with gold wire. it shows a naked male figure in a horned helmet and belt, holding a spear in each hand (courtesy of ms. sonia hawkes) bestla odin fs mother. the relationship of bestla and odin is set forth in snorri fs gylfaginning. the first man was buri, whose son was bor. he married that woman who was called bestla, the daughter of the giant bolthorn. they had three sons; the first was called odin, the second vili, the third v

cket and the gold-bristled boar, gullinborsti. it may be worth noting that each god gets one object of gold and one of iron or wood. furthermore, odin commissioned the dwarfs to make the fetter gleipnir, which he used to bind fenrir. and when odin, hoenir, and loki needed gold to compensate hreidmar for the death of his son otr in skaldskaparmal, it was to the dwarfs that odin sent loki. like the male gods, freyja also had precious objects fashioned by the dwarfs: she had her own gold-bristled boar (hyndluljod, stanza 7) and obtained a necklace (sorla thattr, which is probably a rather late text, perhaps the brisinga men. besides making precious objects for the gods, the dwarfs may also have supported them with magic. according to havamal, stanza 160, 100 norse mythology odin learned a cha

16 norse mythology fjolvar being, perhaps a giant, with whom odin spent some time, according the harbardsljod, stanza 17: i was with fjolvar all of five winters, in that island, which is called algroen [all-green; we could fight and fell carrion, to test much, to try our luck with a maiden. since a female fjolvor is listed among the thulur for giantesses, it seems likely that fjolvar would be her male counterpart, and therefore also a giant. in harbardsljod, stanza 18, odin says that he alone slept with seven sisters on algroen. the incident is otherwise unknown, but it would appear to fit the pattern of odinic seductions in giantland, known, for example, from the story of his seduction of gunnlod. algroen is also found only in this passage. see also gunnlod; harbardsljod; odin fjorgyn an

ely undocumented. her ownership of the brisinga men is alluded to in thrymskvida and perhaps explained in sorla thattr. thrymskvida also mentions a feather coat that freyja lends to loki, giving him the gift of flight. loki borrows the same item from freyja in the story of his retrieval of idun from thjazi in skaldskaparmal. in the extant mythology freyja exists primarily as an object of lust for male giants. thrym will only return thor fs stolen hammer if he gets freyja in return; the giant who is to build the wall around asgard demands freyja, the sun, and the moon as his wages; and hrungnir boasts drunkenly in asgard that he will kill all the asir except freyja and sif, whom he will carry off. freyja fs reputation, meanwhile, is somewhat questionable. when asked to go off as thrym fs br

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

ugh the witchcraft shall she set herself up as queen and mistress of the beast 666, whom is the solar force of creation and joy. the woman is highly respected in the witches sabbat path, as she is the beauty, life and joy of the feminine which is beheld in us all. it is through her womb that the night transfers knowledge and one must seek to continually manifest this through the individual, being male or female. the sabbat is the manifestation of the witch queen in all of her aspects, thus she is deadly and protective at the same time. the sabbat is paralleled in morocco by the ancient meeting of spirits called the zabbat, translating the forceful or powerful one, and those who attended this occasion are called kafan, meaning the winding sheet, from which is worn by the participants and ma

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

ay be viewed as a symbolic form of awakening, and much of the luciferian witchcraft gnosis is based upon the self-initiatory association with cain. cain is also considered the offspring of asmodeus/samael and lilith, a child of infernal union. the lore of the sorcerous blacksmith is explained in depth in luciferian witchcraft, liber hvhi and book of the witch moon. leviathan considered primarily "male" and often female, leviathan encompasses the ancient flesh of mummu tiamat, the primal goddess. leviathan is the unity of sexualities, from which all emerges from this dragon of the depths. leviathan or the ouraborus is considered the encircler of ones path, or will. it surrounds and brings in all exteriors as designed by the sorcerer's desire, will and belief. leviathan as featured in yatuk

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

trouble, but in the end both sexes suffer from the separation and reunite, realizing they need each other. either way, as with all myths, this one reflects the history and culture of the mythmakers. anthropologists have also found that origin myths, like folktales and other oral and written literature, are commonly structured through binary oppositions pairings of contrasts such as good and evil, male and female, culture and nature. the account in genesis abounds with such binary oppositions earth/heaven, dark/light, night/day, land/sea, man/woman, to name a few. anthropologist claude le vi-strauss considered that binary oppositions are so common in humans oral and written expressions because the human mind itself is organized to think this way. we find these myths and stories attractive b

after menopause, many women suffer from hot flashes, in some cases severely so. there are women who have hot flashes about every 15 minutes every single day, along with periods of severe sweating that interrupts sleep throughout the night. hot flashes can be extremely uncomfortable, producing a strong sensation of overheating, flushing of the face, and sudden sweating. not so many years ago, many male doctors told their menopausal women patients that they could expect mild discomfort from hot flashes for a year or two. not so. hot flashes can continue for many years, beginning around the age of 50, continuing into a woman s 60s, 70s, 80s, and so on in short, for life. as an experiment, ask any woman who has suffered from severe hot flashes if this biological condition was put into women th

uples reproduce, if the the origins and evolution of homo sapiens 93 child receives one x chromosome from its mother and one x from its father, this child will be a girl. if, however, the father contributes a y chromosome to the child, this child will be a boy. thus, we can see that y chromosome phylogenies trace the evolutionary history of human males. in that respect, the y chromosome plays for male phylogenies the same role that mtdna plays for female phylogenies. but unlike mtdna, the y chromosome is large: it contains more than 60 million base pairs and is thus about 4,000 times bigger than mtdna. this size makes sequencing this whole chromosome impractical on a routine basis. rather, scientists sequence only portions of the y chromosome to establish male phylogenies. but which portio

enies. but unlike mtdna, the y chromosome is large: it contains more than 60 million base pairs and is thus about 4,000 times bigger than mtdna. this size makes sequencing this whole chromosome impractical on a routine basis. rather, scientists sequence only portions of the y chromosome to establish male phylogenies. but which portions? fortunately again, it turns out that, aside from a number of male-determining genes whose location is known, the majority of the y chromosome does not contain any genes. this is the part of the y chromosome that phylogenists study because, not carrying any genes, the dna on this part is not susceptible to natural selection; its variants found in populations are the result of genetic drift. this way, as in the case of mtdna, the appearance of y chromosome va

ible to natural selection; its variants found in populations are the result of genetic drift. this way, as in the case of mtdna, the appearance of y chromosome variants over time depends on known mutation rates and is proportional to time since separation of lineages. in brief, the same reasoning and equations that are applied to mtdna can also be applied to y chromosome dna in order to establish male phylogenies. all researchers agree that, like eve, adam was also an east african, because the oldest y chromosome variants are found among east african populations. at what period of time did adam live? by adam we mean not the man who had children with eve, but the man who first passed on a distinctive y chromosome variant to all subsequent human males on earth. intriguingly, and perhaps anno

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

ded women? in the late 17th and early 18th centuries witch's covens in england were androgynous "the english [witch] craft was ostensibly bi-gradal until the end of the seventeenth century. two rites were observed but only one actual initiation was recognized. the first rite entailed ritual copulation with a representative of the god. the magister "brought in" female recruits. the lady brought in male recruits. this is the historical basis for the claim that a candidate must be initiated by a person of the opposite sex. the magister passed the "power" to women. the lady passed it to men. this sexual induction at the entrance rite was mandatory."10 it seems to me entirely reasonable to think that masons, seeking to rebut accusations of witchcraft, had excluded women from their proceedings s

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

niverse; oval, in allusion to the mundane egg, from which issued, according to the traditions of many nations, the universe, or, according to others, our first parents; serpentine, because a serpent was the symbol of hu, the druidic osiris; cruciform, because a cross is an emblem of regeneration; or winged, to represent the motion of the divine spirit* their chief deities were reducible to two--a male and a female, the great father and mother--hu and ceridwen, distinguished by the same characteristics as belong to osiris and isis, bacchus and ceres, or any other supreme god and goddess representing the two principles of all being" godfrey higgins states that hu, the mighty, regarded as the first settler of britain, came from a place which the welsh triads call the summer country, the prese

formerly the western provinces of the roman empire; many exist in germany, still more in france, and in this island (britain) they have often been discovered on the line of the picts' wall and the noted one at bath" alexander wilder, in his philosophy and ethics of the zoroasters, states that mithras is the zend title for the sun, and he is supposed to dwell within that shining orb. mithras has a male and a female aspect, though not himself androgynous. as mithras, he is the ford of the sun, powerful and radiant, and most magnificent of the yazatas (izads, or genii, of the sun. as mithra, this deity represents the feminine principle; the mundane universe is recognized as her symbol. she represents nature as receptive and terrestrial, and as fruitful only when bathed in the glory of the sol

's degree have a strong mithraic tinge and may easily have originated from this cult. a ladder of seven rungs appears in the mithraic initiation. faber is of the opinion that this ladder was originally a pyramid of seven steps. it is possible that the masonic ladder with seven rungs had its origin in this mithraic symbol. women were never permitted to enter the mithraic order, but children of the male sex were initiates long before they reached maturity. the refusal to permit women to join the masonic order may be based on the esoteric reason given in the secret instructions of the mithraics. this cult is another excellent example of those secret societies whose legends are largely symbolic representations of the sun and his journey through the houses of the heavens. mithras, rising from a

te. and the writing is this. of the universal ons [periods, planes, or cycles of creative and created life in substance and space, celestial creatures] there are two shoots, without beginning or end, springing from one root, which is the power invisible, inapprehensible silence [bythos. of these shoots one is manifested from above, which is the great power, the universal mind ordering all things, male, and the other [is manifested] from below, the great thought, female, producing all things. hence pairing with each other, they unite and manifest the middle distance, incomprehensible air, without beginning or end. in this is the father who sustains all things, and nourishes those things which have a beginning and end (see simon magus, by g. r. s. mead) by this we are to understand that mani

d as an epoptes, which means one who has beheld or seen directly. for this reason also initiation was termed autopsy. the epoptes was then given certain sacred books, probably written in cipher, together with tablets of stone on which secret instructions were engraved. in the obelisk in freemasonry, john a. weisse describes the officiating personages of the eleusinian mysteries as consisting of a male and a female hierophant who directed the initiations; a male and a female torchbearer; a male herald; and a male and a female altar attendant. there were also numerous minor officials. he states that, according to porphyry, the hierophant represents plato's demiurgus, or creator of the world; the torch bearer, the sun; the altar man, the moon; the herald, hermes, or mercury; and the other off

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egree of sureness in your practice. the sun and the moon are the two great hands of our cosmic clock. whereas the hour hand or sun governs the seasons of the year, the moon or minute hand governs the sea tides and the hidden workings of the deep mind. as such, this heavenly body rather than the sun is the main concern of witches. in european mythology the sun has always been seen as a symbol of a male divinity, the moon a female one. however, worship of the moon as a supreme deity evolved much earlier than that of the sun. it is said among witches that in england at least the cult of the moon goddess predated the druidic, solar religion, and that it is from this early prytanic religion that four of the great annual witch festivals are derived. these are the nights of october 31 (halloween;

n the sense they mean it. it is, in fact, an important part of your newly burgeoning witch personality, and henceforth you will be known chiefly by it to your fellow practitioners. many witches or warlocks choose to take a name which is intimately connected with magic and the supernatural, the favourites being the names of other, legendary practitioners of the black arts. for instance, if you are male, you may choose the name of a legendary sorcerer such as zyto, balaam, elymas, or cyprian; or, alternatively, maybe merlin, althotas, vergilius, or vandermast. a witch might well choose morgana, armida, vivienne, or melusina; brisen, nimue, hellawes, or fredegonda, nocticula, bensozia, sidonia, or even urganda! or you might choose a name of more classical inspiration like apollonius, medea, o

his is usually made of copper or silver an is worn by witches of either sex, again as a form of identity sign. however, unlike the necklace, it is engraved with the witch name of the bearer, the coven symbol (which is often an animal such as an owl, cat, or serpent, and his rank in it. there are usually only two "degrees" of rank, that of the triangle and the more advanced one of the pentacle. if male, the leader of the coven is sometimes known as the magister or master, the female as the high priestess. these are generally honorary ranks and titles, however, and simply indicate seniority of membership for the most part. very occasionally are they indications of power (see chapter 7 "the coven and how to form one" for more on this) sometimes coven members will wear the bracelet to signify

is concealed and worn openly only at coven meetings. the other jewels can pass as regular items in the eyes of the uninitiated, and as such can usually be worn openly. there are many styles of witch garters in existence. the traditional colour is bright red, though black, blue, and green ones are to be seen. often a female practitioner will have her garter made of velvet and backed with silk, the male variants being snakeskin, crocodile, or soft leather of some sort backed with blue silk. the garters are fastened by means of gold or silver gilt buckles. sometimes tiny gold or silver bells are also sewn on, reminiscent of those worn by english morris dancers. on the outer surface of the garter are embroidered the witch name, coven symbol, and coven rank, if any. sometimes the same signs tha

ly held sacred to the god. we are not dealing with the gentle mystery and twilit glamour of habondia's womanly enchantments, but rather the darkness of the wildwood, the trampling and snorting of the god of beasts, and those rude and basic facts of life, the rearing phallus and the hungry vulva. to begin this section on lust, here is a small traditional spell, more suitable for performance by the male warlock, to stir up the baser passions in a lady. it is not much in use nowadays for obvious reasons, but it is quaintly illustrative of the use of the principle of direct transmission. though there is no ritual to speak of here, nor any invocation to the horned one, he and his ministers are definitely present in the warlock's mind when he makes use of this charm. the ingredients for this sor

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

ince of the spirits, and he will receive it and take counsel with his chiefs. after this he will return the card, saying: that which thou desirest is accomplished, be thy will performed, and all thy demands fulfilled. the key of solomon page 110 chapter xiv. of the pen, ink, and colours. all things employed for writing &c, in this art, should be prepared in the following manner: thou shalt take a male gosling, from which thou shalt pluck the third feather of the right wing, and in plucking it thou shalt say: adrai, hahlii, tamaii, tilonas, athamas, zianor, adonai, banish from this pen all deceit and error, so that it may be of virtue and efficacy to write all that i desire. amen. after this thou shalt sharpen it with the penknife of the art, perfume it, sprinkle it, and place it aside in a

re are two kinds, one called virgin, the other unborn. virgin parchment is that which is taken from an animal which hath not attained the age of generation, whether it be ram, or kid, or other animal. unborn parchment is taken from an animal which hath been taken before its time from the uterus of its mother. take whichsoever of these two classes of animals thou pleasest, provided only that it be male, and in the day and hour of mercury; and take it to a secret place where no man may see thee at work. thou shalt have a marsh-reed cut at a single stroke with a new knife, and thou shalt strip from it the leaves, repeating this conjuration: the conjuration of the reed. i conjure thee by the creator of all things, and by the king of angels, whose name is el shaddai, that thou receivest strengt

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the editor. preliminary invocation. thee i invoke, the bornless one. thee, that didst create the earth and the heavens: thee, that didst create the night and the day. thee, that didst create the darkness and the light. thou art osorronophris: whom no man has seen at any time. thou art j bas thou art j pos: thou hast distinguished between the just and the unjust. thou didst make the female and the male. thou didst produce the seed and the fruit. thou didst form men to love one another, and to hate one another. i am mosheh thy prophet, unto whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of ishrael: thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created life. hear thou me, for i am the angel of paphro osorronophris: this is thy true name, handed down to the prop

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

sis) is a vampire spirit who haunts the astral plane as well as the earth. its bat like appearance exemplifies its predatory qualities. the nosferatu is said to be associated with the incubus and succubus, indicating its connection with the astral plane. once the creature is buried, it will rise from the grave shortly afterwards, going forth in the night to grow strong on the blood of the living. male nosferatu are said to be able to impregnate women, the children are then destined to carry on the lineage of its father and become a sorcerer and moroii, giving nightly communion of blood to it's parent. romania and hungary have significant folklore as well, hungary being connected with the bathory family. countess bathory added fuel to the fire of vampire mania in europe by being caught indu

dangerous path to take on magickally, as it invites the dark arms of the black eagle and thanatos. proceed with caution. when i began focusing on the archetypes and symbols of vampirism i began drawing connections to the system of shape shifting according to the nature of the vampire presented. for example, a tale of female vampires would give them the astral form of a cat, an owl or raven. many male vampires would take the astral assumption of a wolf or bat. it was said that vampires may take the form of mist or fog, this connection obviously comes from the ability to assume a mist form on the astral plane. if certain points of chi can be strengthened into a viable physical energy then one can view the astral in the form of the chosen focus. most often, this is seen in dreams or mentally

peeter, he continued his lycanthropic changes and began shedding blood each day. the following matter doth stand as a special note of the wickedness of this abominable sorcerer. he beheld a proper youth for a son, begotten as a young man. in this lad he took to much joy, commonly calling him his heart's ease. yet as he favored his son the beast within took over and he spilt the blood of his only male child. one day he took his son into a field and told him he would return. suddenly a hulking shadow of a wolf encountered his own son and cruelly slew him. once the horrid deed was done, the wolf cracked open the skull of the boy and ate his brains. his career lasted many years, filled with violence, murder and devilish lycanthropy and sorcery. soon the towns of cologne, bedburg and sperad, s

er neck a necklace of human skulls. kali is black because all that transpires returns to her, she is the abyss in it's feminine aspect. all time melts into this goddess. kali is also life giving, a nurturing and loving mother, granting ecstasy to those who would invoke her in the rites of tantra, through which the sexual combination of opposites set in motion the process of creation. the union of male and female with a magickal aim or focus presents an accessible window to the astral and dream plane. thus through oz being pan can desire become flesh. it is through the divine woman that the essence of magick and witchcraft is found. those seeking beyond this path will often miss it altogether, due to the consistent denial of ones' own feminine or lunar side which must be invariably joined w

female with a magickal aim or focus presents an accessible window to the astral and dream plane. thus through oz being pan can desire become flesh. it is through the divine woman that the essence of magick and witchcraft is found. those seeking beyond this path will often miss it altogether, due to the consistent denial of ones' own feminine or lunar side which must be invariably joined with the male or sun aspect. babalon the mysteries of babalon do hold a significant modern point within some witchcraft covens or groups. we must first discover what babalon was, is and is moving towards to recognize this brilliant feminine flame within each man and woman. babalon is the qabalistically restored spelling of the biblical babylon, the great whore. this goddess is in union with the beast 666 i

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

rth's atmosphere was recorded by some andpassed down the generations in what are now considered fabulous tales of chariots offire. the visions of the prophets enoch and ezekiel and the experience of babylonianking etana are related to these actual events and experiences.members of the sons of the serpents entered thegarden to open dialogue with their cousins inbondage and spiritual ignorance. the male adamswere not that interested in the counsel of their visi-tors. but the females, the eves, were. it is said thatthe eves found the newcomers comely and attrac-tive. the visitors told those adams and eves whowould listen that they were being kept in a state ofinduced ignorance and servitude, but that it waswithin them to become gods themselves, and thatif they left the garden and came to lemu

t which spoke only words of sympathy and wisdom.(madame helena petrovna blavatsky)woman have always been marginalized and degraded in post-diluvian times, because oftheir allegiance to the first born. the book of genesis reveals the intense hatred that thebent ones have toward the female. the tyrannies which have been perpetrated against wom-ankind through all the centuries, though disguised as a male versus female problem, are cer-tainly not at all confined to this, which is why very little is changing. the gender problemand dichotomy are but a carefully crafted manifestation of a greater malevolence, an all per-vasive ancient loathing for earths original inhabitants. once we approach the problem fromits root, we will see progress.when we look back across the historical time of patriarchy

base. it is from these regions that wefind traces of great advancement, amid later primitivism. at these new locations, thesons of the serpent would also continue their genetic studies and work. they hadfixed the adamic peoples so that they would be intelligent and creative. they alsomade it possible for the eves to reproduce sexually. this was primarily to pacify thenormal urges of the now freed male adams. and it is known that members of thesons of the serpent would mate with the eves, producing exceptional progeny. the reptilians did indeed serve their masters well. theywere part alien, part reptile, with no human dna at all.some, like their creators, looked entirely humanoid. otherswere distinctly reptoid. they operated from the limbicmode of consciousness and possessed the physical en

ways. and whatgoes on within the individual manifests collectively. the inner predicament has itsenvironmental concomitant. the post-diluvian empires, nations, and states aredesigned from the atlantean pattern. all the abhorrent phenomena that plaguesearthly life today have their origins in these times. after the second deluge (pole shift, the roles of the genders changed. the proclivitiesof the male became exalted and women slowly suffered the removal of their powerand status. aggression, violence, and conquest became dominant. meat eating(unheard of in the pre-diluvian epoch) was necessary during the times of tribulationand was later maintained. class divisions were established, slavery was again pro-moted, blood sacrifice compelled, carnality indulged in, and the subjugation of naturee

on of natureexalted into a veritable religion. coming down from these times, commensurate withthe artificial municipal life, were the vast mind-control strategies that are still today inevidence. the urantia book and others provide a commentary on the life of human-kind in the post-diluvian epoch: acquired inheritance, cities and industry, domestication of animals, practical family organi-zation (male at the head, racial and cultural separatism, strong executive head, militarystrength, conquest and territorialism and enslavement of foreigners (urantia book) states are as the men, they grow out of human characters (plato)perhaps we will never fully understand the mystery of that original mutation from egalitar-ian to state society. certainly no standard explanations are adequate (david wats

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

he promised to return one day, and after leaving the village the flood waters did come, which protected those who believed him. it s important to note that this tale of a chosen one who travels with 12 guys predates the arrival of europeans to north america. in the african myth from the mande people of mali, an evil god named pemba fell from heaven, and was barred from returning because he stole male seeds from god. pemba spread tainted seeds, borne from incest upon the ground. faro, his righteous twin brother that dwelled in heaven and took the form of a fish, was forced to sacrifice himself for pemba s sin. his body was cut into 60 pieces, and the pieces formed trees when spread across the earth. trees are, according the mande people, symbols of resurrection. the most high god brought f

ent: undines, salamanders, sylphs, and gnomes. undines are elementals of the element water. they are graceful, sensual, often pale and prefer the female form and watery habitations like river, lakes, and the ocean. salamanders, associated with the element of fire, are known for being emotionally unstable. their actions are rapid and explosive. when conjured, a salamander may prefer to arrive as a male with glowing eyes. sylphs, the elementals of air, are intelligent, subtle, and, like salamanders, make rapid movements. gnomes are the elementals associated with the element earth. these beings are said to live underground and in caves. contrary to popular folklore, gnomes are not short, funny little men. they can be overly emotional and even dangerous. they are more solid than the other type

e main tools of the magician include: the wand, the dagger (or sword, the cup, the alter, and the scrying mirror. the first of these, the wand, is used to direct energy and draw invoking symbols in the air. the element associated with the wand is fire, and fire represents the spark of life; in other words, the ability to give life. the wand is a phallic symbol and represents the active force; the male s ability to jump-start life. fire, whose symbol is an upward-pointing triangle, is also associated with the lion, the south, the color red, and arch-angel michael. fire also represents the will (desire. the second main implement is the dagger, or sword. the dagger represents the element of air, and is used to draw banishing symbols in the air (as opposed to the wand, which invokes. air repre

stated before, the dagger is used to threaten and punish disobedient spirits. the cup, or goblet, is associated with the element of water. water is symbolic for the passive force, and feminine quality of the womb, and its ability to bear life. water is likewise symbolic for blood and, more specifically, the previously discussed life-force. in magic, fire and water represent the polar opposites of male and female. water, who symbol is a downward-pointing triangle, is also associated with the eagle, the west, the color blue, and arch-angel gabriel. in magic, water corresponded to dreams, emotions, and psychic work. the last major magical tool is the scrying mirror. the scrying mirror is related to the moon, rather than one of the elements. since a spirit can more easily reveal itself in a mi

, with perhaps the possible exception of an increase of pragmatism and detachment; we humans rarely known them as the warmest individuals among us. coldness and disloyalty come easier for this flock. they are also extremely predatory, whether this characteristic is on account of their lifestyle, or whether it truly is inherent their kind, i do not know (although i ve come to suspect the latter. a male vampire is called an incubus, while a female vampire is called a succubus. some vampires are closer to spirit, while others lean towards the flesh. priests ,as they are called, lean more towards the spirit; as a result, they have increased vampiric senses and capabilities, but also suffer more of the weaknesses of vampires. their ability to reach out at long distances and feed is unmatched. t

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

any differences between males and females with respect to this phenomenon? there seems to be no difference at all in the contents or types of experiences reported by males and females. i have found both males and females who have described each of the common aspects of near-death encounters which have been discussed, and there is no one element which seems to weigh either more or less heavily in male vs. female reports. still, there are differences between male and female subjects. on the whole, males who have had death experiences are far more reticent to talk about them than are females. far more males than females have told me briefly of experiences, only to fail to respond to my letters or return my calls when i tried to follow up with a more detailed interview. many more males than f

MORALS AND DOGMA

e _essence_ of light, the _invisible_ fire, developed as flame _manifested_ as light and splendor. the sun was his manifestation and visible image; and the sab ans worshipping the light-god _seemed_ to worship the sun, in whom they saw the manifestation of the deity. the moon was the symbol of the passive capacity of nature to produce, the female, of which the life-giving power and energy was the male. it was the symbol of isis, astarte, and artemis, or diana. the"_master of life" was the supreme deity, above both, and manifested through both; zeus, the son of saturn, become king of the gods; horus, son of osiris and isis, become the master of life; dionusos or bacchus, like mithras, become the author of light and life and truth* the master of light and life, the sun and the moon, are symb

ent, the living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" in the temple of eleusis (a sanctuary lighted only by a window in the roof, and representing the universe, the images of the sun, moon, and mercury, were represented "the sun and moon" says the learned bro. delaunay "represent the two grand principles of all generations, the active and passive, the male and the female. the sun represents the actual light. he pours upon the moon his fecundating rays; both shed their light upon their offspring, the blazing star, or horus, and the three form the great equilateral triangle, in the centre of which is the omnific letter of the kabalah, by which creation is said to have been effected" the ornaments of a lodge are said to be "the mosaic pavement, th

reatures. the belief was general, that he was to be born of a virgin, and suffer a painful death. the indians called him chrishna; the chinese, kioun-tse; the persians, sosiosch; the chaldeans, dhou-vanai; the egyptians, har-oeri; plato, love; and the scandinavians, balder. chrishna, the hindoo redeemer, was cradled and educated among shepherds. a tyrant, at the time of his birth, ordered all the male children to be slain. he performed miracles, say his legends, even raising the dead. he washed the feet of the brahmins, and was meek and lowly of spirit. he was born of a virgin; descended to hell, rose again, ascended to heaven, charged his disciples to teach his doctrines, and gave them the gift of miracles. the first masonic legislator whose memory is preserved to us by history, was buddh

"the balance" that is, of equilibrium. of the sephiroth, or divine emanations, wisdom and understanding, severity and benignity, or justice and mercy, and victory and glory, constitute pairs. wisdom, or the intellectual generative _energy, and understanding, or the _capacity_ to be impregnated by the active energy and produce intellection or thought, are represented symbolically in the kabalah as male and female. so also are justice and mercy. strength is the intellectual energy or activity; establishment or stability is the intellectual capacity to produce, a passivity. they are the power of _generation_ and the capacity of _production. by wisdom, it is said, god creates, and by understanding establishes. these are the two columns of the temple, contraries like the man and woman, like rea

nd acting. this wisdom is the logos that creates, mistaken and personified by simon magus and the succeeding gnostics. by means of its utterance, the letter yod, it creates the worlds, first in the divine intellect as an idea, which invested with form became the fabricated world, the universe of material reality. yod and he, two letters of the ineffable name of the manifested deity, represent the male and the female, the active and the passive in equilibrium, and the vav completes the trinity and the triliteral name [hebrew, the divine triangle, which with the repetition of the _he_ becomes the tetragrammaton. thus the ten sephiroth contain all the sacred numbers _three _five _seven, and _nine, and the perfect number _ten, and correspond with the tetractys of pythagoras. being is being [he

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n angel. the connection is with the symbolism of the dwarf in mythology. he contains everything in himself, but is unmanifested. see chapter two, verse 8. he is the first letter of the alphabet, aleph, whose number is one, and his card in the tarot is the fool, numbered zero. aleph is attributed to the "element (in the old classification of things) of air. now, as one, or aleph, he represents the male principle, the first cause, and the free breath of life, the sound of the vowel a being made with the open throat and mouth. as zero, he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess) fertile because the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the bo

e 'saviour' he must be born and grow to manhood; thus parsifal acquires the sacred lance, emblem of virility. he usually wears the 'coat of many colours' like joseph the 'dreamer; so he is also now the green man of spring festivals. but his 'folly' is now not innocence but inspiration of wine: he drinks from the graal, offered to him by the priestess. so we see him fully armed as bacchus diphues, male and female in one, bearing the thyrsus-rod, and a cluster of grapes or a wineskin, while a tiger leaps up by his side. this form is suggested in the taro card, where 'the fool' is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. tigers and crocodiles follow him, thus linking this image with that of harpocrates. almost identical symbols are those of the secret god of the templar

is twisted. perhaps because of hebrew enslavement by the babylonians, jehovah acquired several of the markedly homosexual characteristics of sin. the god of the jews is a homosexual's concept of maleness: harsh, violent, revengeful, merciless. there are no equilibrating qualities. it is geburah at its worst. it must come as a surprise to those who do not know their qabalah that this image of the male is incomplete. as a matter of fact, geburah is female. it is chesed mercy which is male. the qualities that homosexuals attribute to masculinity are nothing but psychological transference. women, who are much more qualified to judge, like men to be gentle and considerate. they want men to be strong, and hard, and even harsh, of course-but they want to feel an underlying basis of qualities whi

uch more qualified to judge, like men to be gentle and considerate. they want men to be strong, and hard, and even harsh, of course-but they want to feel an underlying basis of qualities which homosexuals are inclined to attribute to the female. in jewish theology there is no woman concept. the creator is 'all boy; and one must surmise that he produced the universe through some astounding feat of male parthenogenesis. these homosexual tendencies reflect themselves in the harsh intolerance of mosaic law towards women. wives are chattels. women are not admitted to worship. adulteresses are stoned to death. these 'super-male (sin is nothing of the sort, of course; he is an 'under-male) traits are not exclusive to judaism. one finds them in all religions that associate the concept of spiritual

excessive reaction of hostility is a defense mechanism. they feel attracted, therefore they fear. a society that is sexually equilibrated will tolerate exceptions. a society that is sexually unhealthy will not, because its balance is unstable, and it is easily upset by deviations. one must add that the above remarks are just as true of societies where the concept of the female exists without the male. while it is true that everybody has absolute right to interpret the external-or the internal universe as they please, an interpretation that is too partial or twisted leads inevitably to interference with the will of others. thelemites will find themselves hampered at every turn by people whose concept of god is homosexual. they will try to restrict your personal freedom to serve their perve

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the taurica chersonnesus. it was colonized by greek settlers, who, finding that the scythian inhabitants had a page 102 native divinity somewhat resembling their own artemis, identified her with the huntress-goddess of the mother-country. the worship of this taurian artemis was attended with the most barbarous practices, for, in accordance with a law which she had enacted, all strangers, whether male or female, landing, or shipwrecked on her shores, were sacrificed upon her altars. it is supposed that this decree was [94]issued by the taurian goddess of chastity, to protect the purity of her followers, by keeping them apart from foreign influences. the interesting story of iphigenia, a priestess in the temple of artemis at tauris, forms the subject of one of schiller's most beautiful play

s as a vine-gatherer, to indicate autumn; and finally as a gray-haired old woman, symbolical of the snows of winter; but it was not until he assumed his true form, that of a beautiful youth, that he succeeded in his suit. vertumnus is generally represented crowned with wheat-sheaves, and bearing in his hand a cornucopia. pales. pales, a very ancient italian divinity, is represented sometimes as a male, sometimes as a female power. as a male divinity he is more particularly the god of shepherds and flocks. as a female deity, pales presides over husbandry and the fruitfulness of herds. her festivals, the palilia, were celebrated on the 21st of april, the day on which the city of rome was founded. during this festival it was customary for shepherds to ignite a mass of straw, through which the

rgo, with her brave crew of fifty heroes, was soon out of sight, and the sea-breeze only wafted to the shore a faint echo of the sweet strains of orpheus. for a time all went smoothly, but the vessel was soon driven, by stress of weather, to take refuge in a harbour in the island of lemnos. this island was inhabited by women only, who, the year before, in a fit of mad jealousy, had killed all the male population of the island, with the exception of the father of their queen, hypsipyle. as the protection of their island now devolved upon themselves they were always on the look-out for danger. when, therefore, they sighted the argo from afar they armed themselves and rushed to the shore, determined to repel any invasion of their territory. on arriving in port the argonauts, astonished at beh

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

thing unpleasant. the best way to win the love of a maiden is to chant an incantation three times over an apple, give the fruit to the young girl to eat, and she will surely come to you. the best example of sympathetic magic in witchcraft is the mandrake plant. a rather mysterious plant whose main use in the middle ages was as an aphrodisiac due to its shape, which resembles a certain part of the male anatomy. the powdered root of the mandrake was burned over a fire with some of the witch s pubic hair. at the same time, the witch s lustful desires were spoken, invoking a demon to draw the desired person to the witch s embrace. occult tradition has it that you can t harvest the mandrake plant in the normal way as the scream it gives as it leaves the ground will kill you or drive you mad. th

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

the surrounding areas* other examples include the triforium of the meridional transept of the cluny* bands, archivolts, modillons a copeaus [the console figures that have a design element. copeaux, resembling wood shavings, multifoil porches, and polychrome stonework give notre dame du port and notre dame du puy a resemblance to the mosque in cordova, which left such a strong impression on emile male (arts et metiers du moyen age, 33 ff. the crusades and the templars 77 abbey; the bell tower, the tower of the crossing of the transept, the triforium of the nave, and the choir of the church of la charite sur loire, a former cluny priory; the bell tower of the transept of saint philbert of tournus; the apse and transept of the cathedral of valence; the bell tower of saint peter's basilica in

e, therefore, that many of those who attended the mystery 126 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages of the passion and other catholic mystery plays belonged to this group. at the time of the hospital's reorganization, supported by an act of parliament on july 1, 1547, it was decided that children of the poor would also be raised there and educated in craft techniques by male and female workers in return for the privilege of obtaining, in six years' time, recognition as masters in their crafts without the requirement of any fee or masterpiece. justification for their status would be provided by the professional skills of their eventual students, who would themselves enjoy the status of the sons of masters* by a declaration of henri ii given in paris on february 2

se extent of their thousands of abbeys, houses, and commanderies. symbolism the use of symbolism on its own constituted a universal language. symbols were used by builders as much for spiritual teaching as for the transmission of operative craft secrets "during the middle ages, victor hugo states "the human race formed no important thought that it did not set down in stone" all form was, as emile male put it, the clothing of a thought.6 this was the case for the general design as well as the proportions of churches and cathedrals, for the figures sculpted universal freemasonry 215 on the portals and capitals, the gargoyles, and the composition and color of the stained-glass windows. until the fourteenth century, everything in romanesque and gothic art was invested with meaning. purely deco

ple, and adoniran, solomon's high official and head of the conscripted labor. hic et christus, said the venerable bede in the eighth century, meaning that it is christ who guides the workers of the temple and provides the measures of the construction. this was repeated in walafrid strabo's ordinary gloss, which, from the ninth to the sixteenth century, accompanied all editions of the bible* emile male describes this book as one of the most valuable to come down to us from the middle ages. this view of the figures of the hebrew scriptures as those who heralded the coming of christ was traditional among the fathers of the church. the same perspective held true for adam and noah; for the patriarchs abraham, isaac, jacob, and joseph; for melchizadek, the pontiff king; and for the prophets mose

f the hebrew scriptures was clearly sacred in nature. according to the symbolic exegesis, the* w. strabo in kings iii, 7, 13 for hiram and kings iii, 5, 28 for adoniram (kings i in modern editions of the bible, in which the former kings i and kings ii have become the book of samuel. this reference comes from the latin bible of froben (basel, 1498; bibliotheque national, res. a 807) see also emile male, l'art religieux du iiiieme stecle en france, vol. 1, 23 ff. speculative freemasonry 227 historical foundations of the scripture should not be disregarded; abraham, david, solomon, and all other biblical characters truly existed. but god made these men the heralds of his son yet to come upon the earth. therefore, it is necessary to search through all they said and did, and in doing so, we wil

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

apanese susano (see pp. 58, 69, and 123. but another theme is the creator s care for the beings he has made. it is this care that leads vishnu, the hindu preserver of the world, to take on his many avatar forms in order to help humanity in times of crisis. his final avatar, kalkin, the white horse, will appear at the end of this era, to usher in a new age. the great mother creator gods tend to be male, but much of the work of creation may be delegated to a goddess. for example, among the keres of the american southwest, utsiti, the creator god, who made the world from a clot of his own blood, sent his daughter iatiku with her sister to make the earth fruitful. iatiku sends her son to lead the people up into this world, and then iatiku and her sister sing a creation song, all the while cast

each morning. because of her role as the mother of the life-giving sun, nut was regarded as the universal mother. the dead were entrusted to her and her image was marked on the underside of coffin lids. geb, the earth the earth god geb is shown sprawling recumbent beneath his sister-spouse the sky. the egyptians were unusual in comparison with other cultures, because they thought of the earth as male. symbols of life and stability this figure is ha, the god of the western desert, who protected egypt from enemies in the west, especially the libyans. raising his arms in blessing, he carries the ankh, symbol of the life-giving elements of air and water, from which hangs a sacred djed pillar, signifying stability. ankh djed pillar the egyptian gods a ll the gods of ancient egypt are, like the

ur. ares ares, the god of war (see p. 27) was the only son of zeus and hera. his militant agression was often pitched against the strategy of athena (see above. aphrodite was his lover. zeus is the first, zeus is the last, the god with the dazzling lightning. zeus is the head, zeus is the middle, of zeus all things have their end. zeus is the foundation of the earth and of the starry sky. zeus is male, zeus is an immortal woman. zeus is the breath of all things. an orphic hymn to zeus zeus zeus, originally a sky god, was the supreme ruler of heaven and earth. he was married to hera but had many other sexual liaisons. zeus brandishes thunderbolts, his chief weapons, made for him by the cyclopes the gods of olympus by giulio romano (c. 1499 1546) this 16th-century ceiling painting shows the

ghana. this headpiece belonged to the yoruba people in nigeria and was used in ceremonies to impersonate the trickster hare. hare s ears hare orb-web spider the cosmic serpent 88 the cosmic serpent t he fon people of africa tell how the cosmic serpent, aida-hwedo, was brought into being at the beginning of time by the creator, an androgynous god with two faces: mawu the female moon and lisa, the male sun. aido-hwedo helped with the creation by carrying the creator in his mouth as the world was shaped. but when the work was done, the creator saw that there was too much weight for the earth to bear too many trees, too many mountains, too many elephants, everything. so he asked aido-hwedo to coil himself into a circle and lie underneath the overburdened earth like a carryingpad. as aido-hwed

st child. jar of spirits the jar probably contains fierce alcohol perhaps ghede s special drink of crude rum steeped in hot spices, which only he can bear to swallow. cockerel the black cockerel is a bird of sacrifice, waiting to be slaughtered to ghede. snake the snake twined around legba s walking stick, the symbol of his old age, represents damballah and ayida wedo (aido- hwedo, see p. 88, the male and female rainbow snakes who embrace the world, across the sky and beneath the sea. calling the gods the designs known as vevers are used to call the gods and are drawn on the earth in flour. at the centre of the circle in a voodoo ritual would be the poteau-mitan, the center-post by which the gods make their entrance to the ceremony. the ship symbol stands for agw, the god of the sea and fo

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solitary and is designed to create and develop the will and god itself self-deification. 5 0 void and the abyss title veneficus lucifugum -fly the light into the darkness- color white symbol witches mark forked stave within sun -study of fulmino-lucifer, how this spirit relates to self and how it becomes a focus point of the initiates life -lilith-hecate, how this spirit relates to the self both male and female -the very basics of magick the differences of high and low sorcery. developing the will as the center of work. 1. study of the luciferian path in base, the definition of magick and sorcery, lucifer as an archetype from sufi lore (azazel iblis) to the middle ages to modern times. what is the essence of lucifer and how is it recognized in you. study of shaitan (satan) the adversary a

n. find a medium suitable that may present your obtainment through the cunning arte. in summary, you must be able to described and positively present the following structure of the grade, thus embodying the elements of the grade system7 -study of lucifer, how this spirit relates to self and how it becomes a focus point of the initiates life -lilith-hecate, how this spirit relates to the self both male and female. this will be crystallized and presented to the magistrate for review. you may present this in ongoing written work, magical records and discussions/results from coven workings. the order of phosphorus recognition process in regards to grade structure. grade o) void and the abyss issued by akhtya, coven maleficia, vox barathrum toph, botd iv toph is an initiatory guild which focuse

reation of baphomet (an aspect of cain) 10 1. a study of austin osman spare via the book of pleasure. you will wish to obtain other titles by spare and seek to understand through practice the essence of zos kia and its view as a practitioner of the left hand path. 2. lilith, hecate, babalon& az. what each goddess represents (and how they are the same) and the results of invoking them within (both male and female. the significance of the feminine (lunar) and the goddess of death and birth. the crimson caul and the birth of lilith within the luciferian circle. a minimum four page essay on the goddess and how this feminine aspect is used within the male or female. see nox umbra, book of cain, book of the witch moon and yatuk dinoih. 3. creation of famulus (familiars) both lesser and greater

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

and nukva, as is known. then, on the sixth day, the torah tells us that gg-d created the man in his image, h and further on, that gg-d formed man out of the dust of the earth, h interrupting these two accounts with [its description of what occurred on] the seventh day, as it is written, gand the heavens [and the earth] were completed c. h in the first account of creation, the torah mentions both male and female, while in the second account, in [g-d fs] command [to create man, the female is not mentioned at all. if the command was to create only adam, why was eve created? we see that [even in the second account of creation] after the command, the female was created, for the torah goes on to describe how gg-d caused a deep sleep to descend upon the man c h and so forth. we shall now explain

principle. as we have seen, the name ekyeh is chiefly associated with binah, and therefore has a feminine nature. tzelem: tzadik-lamed-mem= 90+ 30+ 40= 160. ekyeh: alef-hei-yud-hei, when spelled out with the letter yud, becomes: alef alef-lamed-pei 1+ 30+ 80 111 hei hei-yud 5+ 10 15 yud yud-vav-dalet 10+ 6+ 4 20 hei hei-yud 5+ 10 15 161 the difference is that the gimage h is what ima gives to the male [offspring, z feir anpin] and the glikeness h.which has more of a form.is what ima gives to the female [offspring, nukva. because his intention was to [ultimately create the world of] asiyah.and the lower level always possesses the power of everything above it, while the higher level does not possess what the lower one does.he therefore said, gin our image, after our likeness, h all referring

ated previously, the verse glet us make man in our image, after our likeness h1 refers to the gman h of asiyah, while the following verse, gand g-d created man in his image, h refers to the gman h of beriah. thus, the gman h of asiyah contains both the image and the likeness, while the gman h of beriah contains only the image. even though it is stated in the zohar that gthe eimage f exists in the male, h this refers to the gimage h in z feir anpin of asiyah, and gthe elikeness f exists in the female h of asiyah. the terms gmale h and gfemale h usually refer to z feir anpin and nukva of atzilut, but in this case they refer to z feir anpin and nukva of asiyah. 1 genesis 1:26. the arizal on parashat bereishit (2) 22 nonetheless, all this occurred through ima of beriah [clothing the partzufim

never separated, for yesod and malchut are never separated. since this is so, the sixth day includes the feminine principle as well [as the masculine principle. thus, in a sense, the entire array of atzilut has already been dealt with by the sixth day, so while still discussing the sixth day, the torah can go on to discuss what happened in the world of beriah. furthermore, the main aspect of the male [partzuf] is yesod, for the feminine [partzuf] is essentially just a receptacle for the [seminal] drop that yesod posits in it. she is gan non-shining speculum. h since the feminine partzuf is essentially a receptacle for the seminal seed of z feir anpin, the main aspect of z feir anpin is, in this context, yesod, the sefirah that actual posits the seminal drop in nukva. the term gnon-shining

beriah, the heavens are mentioned first, while in the account of the making [of the world of asiyah. this is because the creation occurred by means of z feir anpin and nukva of atzilut as they were clothed [atzilut] is a masculine world, so therefore the heavens, the vav of the name havayah, were created first. atzilut is indicated by the yud of the name havayah and corresponds to chochmah (abba, male principles. asiyah is a feminine world, in which the female rules over the male, so therefore the earth was created before the heavens. this is another reason why asiyah was made together with beriah, before yetzirah [beriah] is a feminine world, indicated by the letter hei, which is formed of a dalet above a vav. the dalet, which indicates asiyah, was revealed there [in the world of beriah

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

te root of substance. it constitutes the divine centre of human consciousness, all the other principles which comprise what we call man being rather like so many layers of an dnion around a central core. from this meta hvsicalandu niversal centre dualitvissues. two distinct principles of activity, the oninked chokmah, wisdom, and thgother ina ah, understanding. here we have the roots of polarity, male and female, positive and negative, fire and water, mind and matter, and these two ideas are the noumena of all the various opposites in life of which we have cognisance. these three emanations are unique in a special way, and they especially symbolise that "light which shineth in darkness" the light of the spiritual self. as light shines into darkness, illuminating it without suffering a dimi

ed over by a god who holds his right hand over the cage of a hawk, and his left over the food of eternity. on each side of the god is a cornice crowned by a row of alternate feathers and uraei symbolising justice and fiery power. the door leaf which completes the right hand of a stall is called 'tossessor of truth controlling the feet" while that on the left is 'tossessor of strength, binding the male and female animals" the 42 judges of the dead are represented as seated in a long row, and each of them has to be named, and the sin over which he presided has been denied. this chapter describes the introduction of the initiate into the hall of truth by anubis, who, having questioned the aspirant, receives from him an account of his initiation, and is satisfied by his right to enter. he stat

e paths but does not touch any of the sephiroth, which are linked by the flaming sword. the flaming sword is formed by the natural order of the tree of life. it resembles a flash of lightning. together the sephiroth and the twenty two paths form the 32 paths of the sepher yetzirah or book of formation. the two pillars either side of the altar represent: active: the white pillar on the south side. male. adam. pillar of light and fire. right kerub. metatron <123> the serpent on the tree of life second knowledge lecture passive: the back pillar on the north side. female. eve. pillar of cloud. left kerub. sandalphon <124> the second meditation let the zelator meditate on a straight line. let him take a ruler or a pencil and by moving it a distance equal to its length, outline a square. having

e flaming sword, and the course of the lightning flash, as shown in the drawing below. the cross within the triangle, apex downwards, placed upon the altar at the base of the tree of life, refers to the four rivers of paradise, while the angles of the triangles refer to the three sephiroth, netzach, hod, and yesod. the two pillars, right and left of the tree are the symbols of active and passive, male and female, adam and eve. they also allude to the pillars of fire and cloud which guided the israelites in the wilderness, and the hot and moist natures are further marked by the red lamp and the cup of water. l l e pillars further represent the two kerubim of the ark- the right, metatron, male- and the left, sandalphon, female. theoricus ritual 163 above them ever burn the lamps of their spi

e which is kindled in his torch-just as when the sun is in capricornus, to which cold and earthy sign this key corresponds, solar light is at its weakest and the natures of cold and moisture triumph over heat and dryness. the cubical altar represents the universe- right and left of it, bound thereto by a cord attached to a circle which typifies the centre of the earth, are two smaller demons, one 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 l

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

outh a quantity of water; if he happens to die before this ceremony can he performed it is reserved till the body is brought to the grave. fr. 1 whilst the corpse is laid out in the house, the kaww ls chant one or two hymns to the sound of their sacred instruments, and then precede the funeral procession to the grave, burning incense as they go. morning and evening for several successive days the male and female relatives of the deceased repair to the grave in distinct parties, the women to weep and mourn, and the men to burn incense, and watch a short time in silence round the spot. it strikes me that these rites go to support the hypothesis already advanced, and that as a symbol of yezd or sheikh adi, the life-giving principle, the infusion of water is intended to typify, or is supposed

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

nction of elementary appearances admitted by the ancients, and shall recognize air, fire, earth and water as the four positive and visible elements of magic. the subtle and the gross, the swift and slow solvent, or the instruments of heat and cold, constitute, in occult physics, the two positive and negative principles of the tetrad, and should be thus tabulated: thus, air and earth represent the male principle; fire and water are referable to the female principle, since the philosophical cross of pantacles, as affirmed already, is a primitive and elementary hieroglyph of the lingam of the gymnosophists. to these four elementary forms correspond the four following philosophical ideas spirit, matter, motion, rest. as a fact, all science is comprised in the understanding of these four things

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

duce gold, and he exhausts all his resources; his torture is that of tantalus: ever does the water flow back when he stoops down to drink. the ancients in their symbols and magical operations multiplied the signs of the duad, so that its law of equilibrium might be remembered. in their evocations they constructed two altars and immolated two victims, one white and one black; the operator, whether male or female, holding a sword in one hand and a 20 the ritual of transcendental magic wand in the other, had one foot shod and the other bared. moreover, either one or three persons were required for magical works, because the duad would mean immobility or death in the absence of an equilibrating motor; and when a man and a woman participated in the ceremony, the operator was always a virgin, a

c dreams have issued the revolting and foolish histories of the sabbath which figure in magical processes and in the books of such writers as sprenger, delancre, delrio and bodin. 86 the ritual of transcendental magic the rites of the gnostic sabbath were imported into germany by an association which took the name of mopses. it replaced the kabalistic goat by the hermetic dog, and the candidates, male or female. for the order initiated women. were brought in with eyes bandaged. the same infernal noise was made about them which surrounded the name of sabbath with so many inexplicable rumours; they were asked whether they were afraid of the devil, and were required abruptly to choose between kissing the posterior of the grand master and that of a small silk-covered figure of a dog, which was

substances added in, so to speak, infinitesimal quantities are consecrations and signs of the physician's will. what is vulgarly called charlatanism is a great means of real success in medicine, assuming that it is sufficiently skilful to inspire great confidence and to form a circle of faith. in medicine, above all, it is faith which saves. there is scarcely a village which does not possess its male or female compounder of occult medicine, and these people are. almost everywhere and always. incomparably more successful than physicians approved by the faculty. the remedies which they prescribe are often strange or ridiculous, but on this account are so much more effectual, for they exact and realize more faith on the part of patients and operators. an old merchant of our acquaintance, a m

cially in our own century. let him follow their example by mistrusting them, for they will be invariably his most compromising friends and most dangerous enemies. the public exercise of divination is derogatory at the present period to a veritable adept, for he would be frequently driven to jugglery and sleight of hand in order to keep his clients and impress his public. accredited diviners, both male and female, have always secret spies, who instruct them as to the private life or habits of those who consult them. a code of signals is established between cabinet the science of the prophets 123 and antechamber; an unknown applicant receives a number at his first visit; a day is arranged, and he is followed; door-keepers, neighbours, servants are engaged in gossip, and details are thus arri

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

dant. 1. there is another world or dimension that mirrors our own: it is located underground. the cycle of energies and events in that place is a polarized image of our own, thus they have summer when we have winter, day when we have night, and so forth. 2. the inhabitants of this world are real beings in their own right, and have certain substantial supernatural powers. 3. certain people, mainly male seers, are gifted with the ability to see such beings from the mirror or underworld, and to receive communications from them. 4. the subterranean people are able through signs and mimicry or dramatic actions to show seers what will come to pass in the human world. it is up to the seer to develop means of interpretation. 5. humans can and do physically transfer to the fairy or underworld. 6. t

vading men were rowing, and thus failed to warn her fellow islanders. this anecdote has the ring of a widespread humorous tale, based on fact, spread about to make gentle fun at the expense of the seeress. this is one of several references by kirk to the fact that women seldom have the second sight. this seems to be an unusual stance; possibly very few women would admit to it when questioned by a male priest of an authoritarian, witch burning religion, even one as gentle and spiritually inclined as robert kirk. whatever the reasons, and we note that in this tale he implies that the woman was a witch working with a familiar spirit, kirk is not correct in this suggestion. indeed, it is often traditionally asserted that the female bloodline passes on the second sight, either to daughters or s

authoritarian, witch burning religion, even one as gentle and spiritually inclined as robert kirk. whatever the reasons, and we note that in this tale he implies that the woman was a witch working with a familiar spirit, kirk is not correct in this suggestion. indeed, it is often traditionally asserted that the female bloodline passes on the second sight, either to daughters or sons, and not the male bloodline. the second level concerns the nature of this woman's seership and its source. suddenly we find a different kind of tale altogether from anything that kirk has mentioned previously, and quite out of keeping with his general and specific thesis. indeed, the woman from colonsay seems to be more of a witch than a seeress, and though the two were, and are, frequently confused, kirk hims

gical role for a certain period of time. at the end of that period he is offered up to hell, or becomes subject to the powers of dissolution inherent in the underworld. following this second death, he can only be reborn as a mortal child, and commence again upon the wheel once challenged, however, tam lin is able to reveal a way by which he might be liberated through transformation, as with other male characters in magic, he is incomplete without the female partner, and unable to transform without the vitalizing fire of janet's love. 11. the transformation at hallow-e'n the most obvious magical elements now begin to appear in the ballad. janet must save her lover at hallow-e'en- the festival which marks the ancient feast of the dead. at this time, the barriers between the outer and underwo

human love or divine grace- while in the second he is saved by that same divine power emanating from within himself. for most of us, the first mode of liberation is the most likely, though the second is the true aim and function of the tradition. it would not be too daring to suggest that tam lin and thomas may be taken sequentially for magical purposes. the first ballad represents either a human male-female ritual operation and developed mystery or the action of divine intervention through the cycles of the wheel. the second ballad represents this same use of polarities removed into an inner dimension, where the love-exchange occurs between the initiate and the inner world entity; through which love the divine redemption is activated. the process described in thomas, therefore, may be sai

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he was there exposed to persian dualism. he saw the psyche as "good" and the matter into which it entered as "evil, but accepted their merger as something at least temporarily fulfilling to both. goal for the psyche was its escape from reincarnation into an eternal existence of pure spirit. the "music of the spheres. from his academy at crotona, magna graciacia, pythagoras advised students (both male and female) and political clients to strive to eliminate sources of friction and cultivate homonoia("good relations among the citizenry. he suggested that mankind was subject to hybris (diverse and chaotic animal emotions. acceptance of a master principle or "threatening eminence" called epanastasis is necessary to ensure homonoia in human relations. this master principle was an intuitive app

ptic [after the platonic academy in athens. in the 1st century bce rome saw the significant influence of imported initiatory systems, such as those of mithras (persia, the magna mater (phrygia/asia minor, and osiris/serapis (egypt. roman philosophy was heavily influenced by the customs, needs, and functions of the secular state. at the time of its original monarchy, rome also had an assembly (all male citizens of military age) and a senate. the assembly was essentially a ratifying body with veto power; it could not initiate legislation. the senate began as the heads of the various powerful clans controlling the roman state. the king was one of their number, and his powers were delegated by the senate. at approximately 509 bce the monarchy was overthrown and replaced by the roman republic

rrespondents. the opposites were then examined for certain criteria, and possibly eliminated from the list or renamed. several opposites were eliminated because they were found to be relatively unimportant subsets of other opposites. like and dislike, for instance, are milder examples of love and hate. other pairs were eliminated because upon examination we found them to not be opposites, such as male and female. finally, we had a list of opposites worth listing, and we chose to list them, where possible, as nouns or verbs, rather than listing them as adjectives or adverbs. for instance, we chose boredom and excitement instead of "boring" and "exciting. it seems that true opposites, neters of opposition, should be nameable using nouns (or perhaps verbs. any set of opposites which is named

oi 1a3b6 light: light- dark b1oi 1a3b7 direction: front- back n2bi 1a3b7a direction: left- right n2si 1a4 material/ non-material b2oi 1b time: past- future n?oi 1b1 negentropy- entropy b1oi 1b1a creation- destruction b2oi? maat? o?oi the following items were considered for the above list of opposites, and rejected, for reasons indicated in the corresponding notes: x.1 matter/ anti-matter x.2 sex: male/ female part iii- discussion and notes hierarchy the grand master proposes conceivability and inconceivability as the highest level of opposite. the grand master bases this classification on his opinion that everything which can or does exist must be conceivable. given a variety of advanced intelligent life forms, we feel that conscious life is or will be able to a) recognize the existence of

atter meet, they destroy each other (convert each other into huge amounts of randomized energy. though they sound as if they are opposites, in truth they are identical in every way except for charge. modern sub-nuclear physics has determined that the component particles of matter and anti-matter are identical, except that the subatomic components which contribute to the charge are different. sex: male/female male and female were one of the first entries in the taxonomy, and have a long tradition of being opposites. this tradition carries on symbolically in the order of shuti through the relationship of the primal opposites, shu and tefnut. but realistically, male and female are not opposite. some of their biological functions are complementary, but otherwise males and females are very much

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d in heat and silence and now the spectres began to shimmer out of the corners of their eyes. the most highly strung of the hostages, a young man with a goatee beard and close-cropped curly hair, awoke at dawn, shrieking with fear because he had seen a skeleton riding a camel across the dunes. other hostages saw coloured globes hanging in the sky, or heard the beating of gigantic wings. the three male hijackers fell into a deep, fatalistic gloom. one day tavleen summoned them to a conference at the far end of the plane; the hostages heard angry voices "she's telling them they have to issue an ultimatum" gibreel farishta said to chamcha "one of us has to die, or such" but when the men returned tavleen wasn't with them and the dejection in their eyes was tinged, now, with shame "they lost th

bowler hat. the world had rediscovered flight a 1-420, the boeing 747 _bostan. radar tracked it; radio messages crackled _do you want permission to land_ but no permission was requested _bostan_ circled over england's shore like a gigantic sea-bird. gull. albatross. fuel indicators dipped: towards zero. when the fight broke out, it took all the passengers by surprise, because this time the three male hijackers didn't argue with tavleen, there were no fierce whispers about the _fuel_ about _what the fuck you're doing_ but just a mute stand-off, they wouldn't even talk to one another, as if they had given up hope, and then it was man singh who cracked and went for her. the hostages watched the fight to the death, unable to feel involved, because a curious detachment from reality had come ov

ound its three rows of teeth in evident frustration "there's a woman over that way" it said "who is now mostly water-buffalo. there are businessmen from nigeria who have grown sturdy tails. there is a group of holidaymakers from senegal who were doing no more than changing planes when they were turned into slippery snakes. i myself am in the rag trade; for some years now i have been a highly paid male model, based in bombay, wearing a wide range of suitings and shirtings also. but who will employ me now" he burst into sudden and unexpected tears "there, there" said saladin chamcha, automatically "everything will be all right, i'm sure of it. have courage" the creature composed itself "the point is" it said fiercely "some of us aren't going to stand for it. we're going to bust out of here b

, which the insomniac saint thinks of as his waiting-room or transit lounge, the central heating is at full blast night and day, and the windows are tightly shut. the exile cannot forget, and must therefore simulate, the dry heat of desh, the once and future land where even the moon is hot and dripping like a fresh, buttered chapati. o that longed--for part of the world where the sun and moon are male but their hot sweet light is named with female names. at night the exile parts his curtains and the alien moonlight sidles into the room, its coldness striking his eyeballs like a nail. he winces, narrows his eyes. loose-robed, frowning, ominous, awake: this is the imam. exile is a soulless country. in exile, the furniture is ugly, expensive, all bought at the same time in the same store and

all the answers, but you couldn't get him to give you a decent fight. restraint was not for hind. maybe, if sufyan had ever complained; if just once he'd said _i thought i was marrying one woman but these days you're big enough for two; if he'd ever given her the incentive- then maybe she'd have desisted, why not, of course she would; so it was his fault, for having no aggression, what kind of a male was it who didn't know how to insult his fat lady wife- in truth, it was entirely possible that hind would have failed to control her eating binges even if sufyan had come up with the required imprecations and entreaties; but, since he did not, she munched on, content to dump the whole blame for her figure on him. as a matter of fact, once she had started blaming him for things, she found tha

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yed be in truth forces beyond the nature and rule of either god or science, or flights of imagination and the product of the deeper strata of subconscious mind. the ancient kabalists and magicians were not unaware of these ideas we now call the science of psychology, which we like to believe to be modern and progressive. the texts and systems of such practitioners speak freely of such concepts as male mind (active, rational, consciousness aware of consciousness) and female mind (passive, intuitive, dreaming awareness, and the concept of heaven and hell itself have direct parallels with the metaphoric language of superego and subconscious. as it says in the kybalion, the all is mind; the universe is mental. indeed any of these systems might provide alternative explanations for the products

ects of kabalist lore. it was described by eliphas levi, in key of the great mysteries, as 'a veritable monument of human perversity. this is usually of the classical catholic variety, requiring that the sorcerer is either also an ordained priest, or has the aid of one. levi further claims that the instruction to 'sacrifice a live kid' is an instruction to sacrifice a human child, as opposed to a male goat as most have presumed. it is just possible that levi was continuing, with this claim, the symbolic tradition that obscures the sexual elements of goetic sorceries. instructions to 'sacrifice children' may in fact be instruction to the magical use of non-procreative sex, classically either masturbatory, homosexual, or during the menstrual cycle of the sorceress. although these are pervers

ing to netzach (waite. balam (goetia, 51st spirit. once of the order of dominations, now a demonic king ruling 40 legions, with the heads of a man, a bull, and a ram, with the tail of a serpent. rides a bear, carries a goshawk, speaks hoarsely. tells fortunes, gives invisibility, makes men witty. baphomet this character has long been identified with the devil and the goat of mendes, and as purely male. such has played its part in the continuation of that myth which states that the templars were the agents of darkness. the name baphomet is also that of the goddess of the gnostics, sophia. it is hidden through the cabbalist codes of temurah. in this, the letters of words are substituted, transposed and altered, so that any word may yield a hidden meaning. in writing the twenty two letters of

n the most direct form of this code the alphabet is written in its entirety on one line, and then related to itself running backwards in the line below. employing this code, the sacred name of baphomet translates to that of sophia. perhaps this was known to eliphas levi, whose depiction of this mystery is commonly reproduced in modern texts. his picture is that of a hermaphrodite, displaying both male genitalia symbolised as the two caduceus serpents, and female breasts. barbatos (goetia, 8th spirit. duke commanding 30 legions, formerly of the angelic order of virtues. teaches the speech of animals, breaks enchantments on hidden treasures, knows past and future, reconciles friends and those in power. barbelo (gnostic. according to the gnostic sect called the sethians, the daughter of pisti

the bornless one thee, that didst create the earth and the heavens thee, that didst create the night and the day thee, that didst create the darkness and the light thou art ra hoor khuit, myself made perfect, who no man has seen at any time thou art ia besz, the truth in matter thou art the truth in motion thou hast distinguished between the just and the unjust thou didst make the female and the male thou didst produce the seeds and the fruit thou didst form men to love one another, and to hate one another i am [n, thy servant, unto whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of albion thou didst produce the moist and the dry and that which nourisheth all created life hear thou me, for i am the angel of lucifer; this is thy true name handed down to the initiates of albion. east:

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f the church; ravenhaired daughter karla, now in her early twenties, a criminology major like her father before, spending much of her time lecturing on satanism at universities in many parts of the country; and finally zeena, remembered by people who saw the famous photo of the satanic church baptism as a tiny tot, but now a gorgeously developed teenager attracting a growing pack of wolves, human male variety. out of lavey's relatively quiescent period came his widely read, pioneering books: first, the satanic bible, which at this writing is in its twelfth edition (and this is my second, revised introduction, after having written the original introduction to the first edition. second, the satanic rituals, which covers more of the somber, complex material lavey unearthed from his increasing

desires never progress beyond the fantasy stage. lack of release often leads to compulsion and, therefore, a great number of people devise undetectable methods of giving vent to their urges. just because most fetishistic activity is not outwardly apparent, the sexually unsophisticated should not delude himself into thinking it does not exist. to cite examples of the ingenious techniques used: the male transvestite will indulge in his fetish by wearing feminine undergarments while going about his daily activities; or the masochistic woman might wear a rubber girdle several sizes too small, so she may derive sexual pleasure from her fetishistic discomfort throughout the day, with no one the wiser. these illustrations are far tamer and more prevalent examples than others which could have been

est "shemhamforash" and "hail satan" is said after each request. 12. appropriate enochian key is now read by the priest, as evidence of the participants' allegiance to the powers of darkness. 13. ringing of the bell as pollutionary, and then the words "so it is done" are spoken by the priest. end of ritual the satanic ritual c. devices used in a satanic ritual clothing black robes are worn by the male participants. the robes may be cowled or hooded, and if desired may cover the face. the purpose in covering the face is to allow the participant freedom to express emotion in the face, without concern. it also lessens distraction on the part of one participant towards another. female participants wear garments which are sexually suggestive; or all black clothing for older women. amulets beari

pentagram of satan are worn by all participants. robes are donned by men before entering the ritual chamber, and are worn throughout the ritual. men may substitute all black clothing for black robes. black is chosen for the attire in the ritual chamber because it is symbolic of the powers of darkness. sexually appealing clothing is worn by women for the purpose of stimulating the emotions of the male participants, and thereby intensifying the outpouring of adrenal or bioelectrical energy which will insure a more powerful working. altar man's earliest altars were living flesh and blood; and man's natural instincts and predilictions were the foundation on which his religions were based. later religions, in making man's natural inclinations sinful, perverted his living altars into slabs of s

of the is to be, and the image of my creation lurketh as a seething basilisk awaiting his release. the vision shall become as reality and through the nourishment that my sacrifice giveth, the angles of the first dimension shall become the substance of the third. go out into the void of night (light of day) and pierce that mind that respondeth with thoughts which leadeth to paths of lewd abandon (male) my rod is athrust! the penetrating force of my venom shall shatter the sanctity of that mind which is barren of lust; and as the seed falleth, so shall its vapours be spread within that reeling brain benumbing it to helplessness according to my will! in the name of the great god pan, may my secret thoughts be marshalled into the movements of the flesh of that which i desire! shemhamforash! h

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ess his appearance conveyed the image of a woman. an exclusively homosexual group can often conduct more fruitful rituals than a group with both heterosexual and homosexual participants. the reason is that each person in an aflhomophile group is usually more aware of the individual active/passive propensities of his associates, and this ensures accurate role casting. it must be stressed that both male and female principles must be present, even if the same sex portrays both. with few exceptions the rituals and ceremonies in this book have been written to meet existing conditions and requirements. because a workable format depends on fairly recent standards of language, readily-understandable rubrics and emotion- producing litany cannot be set down without a certain degree of "satanic licen

ntly masochistic, he can, through transference, become a surrogate for members of the congregation who may harbor the same propensity. he suffers a fate worse than death when, within the coffin, instead of experiencing the hoped-for spiritual reward, he is confronted with unexpected passions from which he has long abstained (if a homophile portrays the celebrant, the coffin should contain another male. in all aspects of the ritual, the element of pleasure should be whatever would most likely be denied in the celebrant's life) the gravest punishment is always incurred by one whose abstinence has become his indulgence. thus be warned: to the chronic lover of distress, ruin arrives through the bestowal of indulgence. this, then, can function as a literal interpretation of the phrase "to kill

available. requirements for performance participants consist of a priest (celebrant, the woman who serves as altar, two acolytes, an illuminator, a gong-striker, and the congregation. the priest wears a red robe with full sleeves. his assistants are garbed in black robes with red cinctures around the waist. the altar is nude and wears only a metal crown with four lighted candles around its edge. male congregants wear russian style tunics over black trousers tucked into black boots. female congregants wear diaphanous fabric of muted hues, representing the misty veils of the rusalki. a chained thurible with which to cense the altar and the artifacts is required, as is a large brazier. a small vial of flash powder is placed next to the brazier. the powder is thrown into the brazier according

of pride banished. like the legendary lost tribes of israel, the yezidis broke away from their roots as a result of unresolved conflicts, and felt a strong justification and purpose because of their unique heritage, which theologically isolated them from all other peoples. the yezidis' legend of their origin is no longer fantastic, by scientific standards. it alludes to the creation of the first male and female of the tribe through the principles later set down by paracelsus for the creation of a homunculus; viz. encapsulation of sperm in a container where it gestates and assumes a human embryonic form. the yezidi provided a link between egypt, eastern europe, and tibet. the language of the yezidis was kurdishsimilar in sound to enochian, the language supposedly spoken by the watchers. sh

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ransition from one stage to another. the differences occur in the use of symbolism and of dieties. thus in some examples of a satanic initiation the neophyte may undergo a ritual coupling with a temple priest or priestess. this coupling is a symbolic union of satan and his bride baphomet. thus if the neophyte is female, then a priest, representing satan will couple with her, or if the neophyte is male a priestess, representing baphomet, will couple with him. the obvious exception is if the neophyte is gay and then he or she must seek out a relevant sapphic or uranian temple. the individual to be initiated may also undergo tests- both during and previous to the initiation ritual- and may be subjected to both humiliation and pain. humiliation may take the form of being stripped naked and bou

of the witches sabbath is very much reminiscent of the bacchanalia that existed during the times of the roman empire. the bacchanalia was originally a secret sorority that eventually initiated men into its cult. its members, who were said to indulge licentiously in their passions, were also alleged to have been responsible for a number of deaths, performed in secret caves, and defilements of its male members who refused to take the oath of the cult or to commit specific vices. when the cult was finally repressed by the authorities there was estimated to be some 7000 men and women who were members, many of whom were arrested and imprisoned whilst their meeting places were destroyed and the bacchanalia were prohibited throughout rome. the similarity between the bacchanalia, the witches sabb

r, is then cast to the floor and trodden upon. the participants drink from the chalice and the ritual is then officially declared completed. the order of nine angles offer a similar though different tradition concerning the black mass. whilst in the church of satan's black mass, the naked female takes the place of the altar, the black mass of the order of nine angles stipulates that it is a naked male who serves as the altar. three further participants and a congregation complete the number of celebrants. as opposed to the accepted understanding of a black mass where the participants are all adorned in black robes, the three leading participants wear white (priestess, scarlet (mistress of the earth) and purple (master of the temple) and whilst the church of satan exclude the sexual element

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

lief that god took on bodily form through jesus, making jesus fully human and fully divine. indigenous: a word that describes a people, culture, or religion that is native to a particular geographical region. indulgence: in the roman catholic church, the belief that paying money to the church would allow a person to get into heaven or be forgiven for sins that were not yet committed. izanagi: the male figure in the shinto creation myth. izanami: the female figure in the shinto creation myth. jinja: shrine. jinn: evil spirits that tempt a person away from dedication to allah. jinn: literally, conquerors; the great teachers of jainism who have conquered their earthly passions. world religions: almanac xxi words to know jiva: the soul. junzi: a gentleman or superior man. ka aba: the shrine bu

crete (c. 1500 bce. one early example that may indicate an early fertility goddess is the 25,000-year-old venus of willendorf, a small limestone statue discovered in austria in 1908. in these cultures it is believed that the mother goddess was worshipped for her role in promoting the fertility of both the land and the people. over time, the mother goddess was largely displaced by patriarchal, or male-dominated, pantheons, perhaps as a result of a better understanding of man s part in reproduction. the ancient minoan civilization has left a graphic and very beautiful record of its female goddess in wall paintings in archaeological ruins found on the island of crete. the mother goddess was not only important in prehistoric europe, but has been found in the traditions of ancient canaan, sume

y beautiful record of its female goddess in wall paintings in archaeological ruins found on the island of crete. the mother goddess was not only important in prehistoric europe, but has been found in the traditions of ancient canaan, sumeria, egypt and other african countries, india, native north america, western europe, and australia. these fertility-worshipping religions slowly gave way to more male-oriented belief systems. in europe, invasions from the east in the fourth and third millennia bce by warrior tribes from central asia introduced religions based on patriarchal beliefs. with the development and spread of judaism, christianity, and islam, the earlier pagan religions and their goddess worship were replaced with religions dominated by males. nevertheless, at the time of jesus s b

iness, written twice and connected by a line. confucianism also shares the yin-yang symbol with daoism. this symbol represents the connectedness of opposing forces in the universe. it is a circle divided into two equal and curving parts, one black and one white, with a black dot in the white section and a white dot in the black section. this represents the two types of forces in the universe, the male or sunlike yang force and the female or receptive moon force of the yin. the symbol shows these two forces in balance and harmony. world religions: almanac 165 confucianism worship confucianism has no clergy and no traditional houses of worship. instead, it is incorporated into every aspect of a person s life. in the modern world perhaps the idea of ancestor worship or respect comes closest t

nfucian worship. many chinese and other believers have shrines to dead relatives in their homes. at these home shrines and altars, tablets listing all the ancestors names, as well as pictures of deceased relatives are kept. at special times throughout the year, and for some families on a daily basis, special food and drink are offered to the pictures of these departed ones by the father or oldest male of the family. this is done as a way to honor the deceased, as well as a way to remember those who have died. the neo-confucian book family rituals was the primary source for how to conduct such family rites. it governed the rituals of filial piety toward ancestors from the thirteenth to the twentieth century not only in china, but also in japan, vietnam, and south korea. more public rituals

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god, is mighty in power. if he rejoices in his portion, then all is well. if not, then (exodus 15:6, your right hand, o god, crumbles the enemy. he said to them: this is referring to the gold. it is thus written, mine is the silver, and mine is the gold. 53. why is [gold] called zahav? because it includes three attributes [alluded to in its three letters, zayin, heh, beth [the first attribute is] male (zachar. this is the zayin [the second is] the soul. this is the heh [the numerical value of heh is five, alluding to] the five names of the soul: nephesh, ruach, neshamah, chiah, yechidah. what is the purpose the heh? it is a throne for the zayin. it is thus written (ecclesiastes 5:7, for one above the other watches. the beth is its sustenance. it is thus written (genesis 1:1, in (beth) the

spinal cord is the channel from the brain to the entire body. it is represented by the bent nun. but [in the word ozen] the nun is a straight one. the bahir 22 the straight nun is the one that is always at the end of a word. this teaches us that the straight nun includes both the bent one and the straight one. but the bent nun is the foundation. this teaches us that the straight nun includes both male and female. 84. the open mem. what is the open mem? it includes both male and female. what is the closed mem? it is made like a belly from above. but rabbi rahumai said that the belly is like the letter teth. he said it is like a teth on the inside, while i say that it is like a mem on the outside. 85 what is a mem? do not read mem, but mayim (water. just like water is wet, so is the belly al

e open mem? it includes both male and female. what is the closed mem? it is made like a belly from above. but rabbi rahumai said that the belly is like the letter teth. he said it is like a teth on the inside, while i say that it is like a mem on the outside. 85 what is a mem? do not read mem, but mayim (water. just like water is wet, so is the belly always wet. why does the open mem include both male and female, while the closed mem is male? this teaches us that the mem is primarily male. the opening was then added to it for the sake of the female. just like the male cannot give birth, so the closed mem cannot give birth. and just like the female has an opening with which to give birth, so can the open mem give birth. the mem is therefore open and closed. 86. why should the mem have two f

the sake of the female. just like the male cannot give birth, so the closed mem cannot give birth. and just like the female has an opening with which to give birth, so can the open mem give birth. the mem is therefore open and closed. 86. why should the mem have two forms, open and closed? because we said: do not read mem, but mayim (water. the woman is cold, and therefore, must be warmed by the male. why should the nun have two forms, bent and straight? because it is written (psalm 72:17, before the sun shall his name reign (ya-nun [this is] from two nuns, the bent nun and the straight nun, and it must be through male and female. 87. it is written (ecclesiastes 1:8, the ear is not satiated from hearing. it is also written (ecclesiastes 1:8, the eye is not satiate from seeing. this teache

m he ascended and did not taste death. 112. these are the explicit holy exalted names. there are twelve names, one for each of the twelve tribes of israel: ah-tzitzah-ron aklithah-ron shemaqtharon demushah-ron ve-tzaphtzaphithron hurmyron brach yah-ron eresh gadra-aon basavah monahon chazhavayah havahayryhah the bahir 30 ve-harayth-hon all of them are included in the heart of heaven. they include male and female. they are given over to the axis, the sphere and the heart, and they are the wellsprings of wisdom. 113. rabbi rahumai sat and expounded: what are the twelve tribes or israel? but this teaches us that the blessed holy one has twelve rods [on high. the word shevet is the same for both tribe and rod] what are they? what is this like? a king had a beautiful fountain. all his brothers

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ator between them. the three mothers, aleph, mem and shin, fire, water and air, are found in man: from the fire was formed the head; from the water the belly; and from the air was formed the chest, again placed as a mediator between the others. 5. these three mothers did he produce and design, and combined them; and he sealed them as the three mothers in the universe, in the year and in man--both male and female. he caused the letter aleph to reign in air and crowned it, and combining it with the others he sealed it, as air in the world, as the temperate (climate) of the year, and as the breath in the chest (the lungs for breathing air) in man: the male with aleph, mem, shin, the female with shin, mem, aleph. he caused the letter mem to reign in water, crowned it, and combining it with the

combining it with the others he sealed it, as air in the world, as the temperate (climate) of the year, and as the breath in the chest (the lungs for breathing air) in man: the male with aleph, mem, shin, the female with shin, mem, aleph. he caused the letter mem to reign in water, crowned it, and combining it with the others formed the earth in the world, cold in the year, and the belly in man, male and female, the former with mem, aleph, shin, the latter with mem, shin, aleph. he caused shin to reign in fire, and crowned it, and combining it with the others sealed with it the heavens in the universe, heat in the year and the head in man, male and female (38) chapter iv section 1. the seven double letters, beth, gimel, daleth, kaph, peh, resh, and tau have each two sounds associated with

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m, though many call him grandfather or grandmother. there are reasons for this, and you will learn them when the time is right. for now, if you would rather continue thinking of the force as lucifer or satan or even the devil, well, that's all right too. you can even call him mr. scratch or mr. hobs or whatever suits your fancy. there is no right human name for the force, it just is- it's neither male nor female, dark nor light, good nor evil- it just is. that is why it is such a mell of a hess to write coherent text concerning this entity. me thinks that i'll stick to the force from here out to save on ink. now that we know that the force and lucifer are one and we even have a name for him/her, it is time to access the cbr way of perceiving and interacting with our benefactor. there is on

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m of the lord hvhy. o lord hvhy-the sister, and all is within vhy.47 all are included in the tongue concealed in the mother, for it opens for that which egresses from it. the father dwells in the head, the mother in the middle, and there is a covering from this side and from that side. and woe unto him that uncovers their nakedness. and elohim said lights will be in the firmament of heaven.48 the male rules over the female as it is written, the righteous is the foundation forever.49 the yod y illumines both, and it illumines and passes on into the female. the yod y sets itself apart, ascends by its level higher and higher, and the female is darkened. and the mother is illumined and is opened out into her gates. the key, which contains the six, comes and covers up her gates, and it is unifi

ime, the good waters, the evil waters. for he said: the waters will swarm 11 they were contained, one in the other. the upper living-being, the lower living-being. the good living-being. the evil living-being. and elohim said, we will make adam. 102 this adam-not is written on not-adam in order to take away adam of above who was made by the perfect name. when this is perfected, that is perfected. male and female were perfected in order to perfect everything. the lord hvhy is the side of the male. elohim(,yhla) is the side of the female. therefore was the male extended, and formed with his members, as it were, regenerative power. the kings that were nullified are here sustained, the judgments of the male are severe in the beginning, mild in the end. those of the female are vice versa. vy h

hin her, establishing a dwelling for evil. thus it is written: and she conceived, and she gave birth to qain,103 the nest of the dwelling of the evil spirits, storms and demons, and blows to qain within hy. he formed in that adam(,da, by twos, by the general principle and the particular, which are contained in the particular and the general, legs and arms, right and left. it divides at its sides. male and female were established- vhy. yod y male, heh h female. vav v as it is written male and female created he them, and blessed them, 104 and called their name adam. the form and person of adam was seated upon the throne,105 as it is written: 12 and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of adam upon it from above.106 13 chapter four the ancient one107 is hidden an

. and those that are the form of not were expanded, when these became attached, the one in the other, they give birth like unto that living-being that gives birth unto many at one time. twenty-two letters that are concealed, twenty-two letters that are manifest.113 a concealed yod y, a manifest yod y. the concealed and the manifest are balanced in weight, over the weighing of the yod y came forth male and female v d d v. in this place vav v male, dalet d is female. therefore this d v v d is two,114 d v v d male and female. d v v d two pillars, two. yod y is by itself, male. heh h female. heh h at first was dalet d, but after it was impregnated in yod y, it brought forth the vav v (thus, as in the heh h there is d v v d, and in the yod y is h h h h, hence vhy) 14 thus the yv d d vy is seen

this d v v d is two,114 d v v d male and female. d v v d two pillars, two. yod y is by itself, male. heh h female. heh h at first was dalet d, but after it was impregnated in yod y, it brought forth the vav v (thus, as in the heh h there is d v v d, and in the yod y is h h h h, hence vhy) 14 thus the yv d d vy is seen in its general appearance of vhy. once the yv d d vy has emitted that which is male and female, she is then settled, and he covers the mother. and the sons of elohim saw the daughters of adam.115 this is that which is written two men, spies, secretly saying.116 what is daughters of adam? as it is written then came two women, harlots, unto the king.117 on their account it is written for they saw the wisdom of elohim is in him. then came, and not in the beginning. in the wreat

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foreigner moved along to the lord of the palace. the prince greeted him with a meaning smile, to which zanoni answered by a whisper "he who plays with loaded dice does not always win" the prince bit his lip, and zanoni, passing on, seemed deep in conversation with the fawning mascari "who is the prince's heir" asked the guest "a distant relation on the mother's side; with his excellency dies the male line "is the heir present at our host's banquet "no; they are not friends "no matter; he will be here to-morrow" mascari stared in surprise; but the signal for the banquet was given, and the guests were marshalled to the board. as was the custom then, the feast took place not long after mid-day. it was a long, oval hall, the whole of one side opening by a marble colonnade upon a court or gard

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at, this amulet was in use in egypt as early as the vith dynasty, and it was worn or held or carried with the sistrum by gods, kings, priests, priestesses, etc; usually it is held in the hand, but it is often worn on the neck. its object was to bring joy and health to the wearer, and it was believed to possess magical properties; it represented nutrition 2 and p. 61 strength, and the might of the male and female organs of generation, mystically considered, was supposed to be united therein. the amulet is made in bronze, stone, porcelain, and other substances, and when laid upon the body of the dead brought to it the power of life and reproduction. 17. the amulet of the sam, this amulet is probably intended to represent an organ of the human body, and its use is very ancient; it is made of

d snap at the lover, or he will bark. if he snarls and snaps the lover will not gain the object of his affections, but if he barks the lady will come to him. in the second example the lover is ordered to make two waxen figures; one in the form of ares, and the other in the form of a woman. the female figure is to be in the posture of kneeling upon her knees with her hands tied behind her, and the male figure is to stand over her with his sword at her throat. on the limbs of the female figure a large number of the names of demons are to be written, and when this has been done, the lover must take thirteen bronze needles, and stick them in her limbs, saying as he does so "i pierce (here he mentions the name of the limb "that she may think of me" the lover must next write certain words of pow

losophers and magicians, and from a passage like the following 1 we may get a proof of this-"i call thee, the headless one, that didst create earth and heaven, that didst create night and day, thee the creator of light and darkness. thou art osoronnophris, whom no man hath seen at any time; thou art iabas, thou art iapos, thou hast distinguished the just and the unjust, thou didst make female and male, thou didst produce seeds and fruits, thou didst make men to love one another and to bate one another. i am moses thy prophet, to whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of israel; thou didst produce the moist and the dry and all manner of food. listen to me: i am an angel of phapro osoronnophris; this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of israel. listen to me. 2" in t

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and that i might gain authority over him. and it came about through my prayer that grace was given to me from the lord sabaoth by michael his archangel [he brought me] a little ring, having a seal consisting of an engraved stone, and said to me "take, o solomon, king, son of david, the gift which the lord god has sent thee, the highest sabaoth. with it thou shalt lock up all demons of the earth, male and female; and with their help thou shalt build up jerusalem [but] thou [must] wear this seal of god. and this engraving of the seal of the ring sent thee is a pentalpha" 6. and i solomon was overjoyed, and praised and glorified the god of heaven and earth. and on the morrow i called the boy, and gave him the ring, and said to him "take this, and at the hour in which the demon shall come unt

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rees of the zodiac.21 the number of triangles in the mural are difficult to count. there are 22. isosceles, equilateral, scalene, right-angled. triangles. there are also 22 numbered letters in the ancient hebrew alphabet, with values of 1 to 400. the triangle is an ancient emblem of deity; it is also a sign of the female element. however, if the apex of the triangle is pointed down it becomes the male element; thus inverted it may also represent lucifer, particularly if it is black in color. the spiral figure intertwined with the mural-length diagonal line symbolizes the caduceus of hermes (mercury, which mythologically is represented as two serpents twined around the winged wand of mercury. nine arcs are formed by the intersections of the spiral line with the diagonal; the ninth hebrew le

us are negative and positive (representing polarity) and twine around the spinal column. they are the kundalini or sex force. in the encircled serpent (howey, op. cit, the chapter on the caduceus contains references (page 72) to the ancient use of the symbol without wings, as seen in the mural. the caduceus is also the symbol of peace, the propaganda term associated with the u.n. the serpents are male and female; the sun-god and the moon-god; and are symbols of generation. buddha was symbolized by the serpent and in mythology is identical with mercury. the center sphere and the outer circles around it form the all-seeing eye. this bisected sphere overlays an isoceles triangle bounded on one side by the diagonal line. according to manly palmer hall, in his occult treatise -18- on the secret

the spinal chord of adam kadmon, the archetypal man, another form of the sephiroth (pick, op. cit, p. 70. the quartered sphere represents the four different worlds of the tree. the three rows up and down of the mural are the three pillars of the tree. the 22 iriangles in the mural are the 22 lines or paths by which the (en sephiroth are connected one to another (waite, op. cit, p. 381. the left, male side of the tree, indicated by the black half of the sphere, is darkness and death (ibid, p. 350. the right side of the tree is female: as symbolized by the moon figure, the while halfcrescent. the caduceus line .spinal chord is the sex force which extends down (he middle pillar of the sephiroth, which is also the body of adam kadmon. the base of the spine is the yesod or foundation, the sacr

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platonic mysteries 61 understanding. we must be able to take the divine creative power that is present in ourselves from which the images of the gods are derived and form that power itself into divine images, so that behind the world of the gods we shape an image of the divine mother. this is none other than the archetypal power of the human soul. thus mythology places the goddesses alongside the male gods. our interpretation of this may be exemplified in a study of the myths about dionysus. dionysus is the son of zeus and a mortal mother, semele. but the mother is killed by lightning. zeus, however, snatches the still unformed child and allows it to grow within his own thigh where it lies concealed. hera, the mother of the gods, stirs up the enmity of the titans against dionysus, and they

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

in the catacombs of rome and was given many names like "anticipatory cross" or "type cross" and the "cross of the old testament" it represents in its shape a cross-headed yoke or gibbet, and by others, the hammer of thor. in looking at its origin, it could be said that it is phoenician or egyptian. for the 3 bottom of the ankh, the egyptian symbol of life, is a t cross. it could be said to be the male part of the ankh symbol. in contemplating the christian origin of the t cross, we need to look in ezekiel (ix. 4, for we read that the prophet was commanded by god to go through jerusalem and to "set a mark upon the foreheads" of certain men, presumably as a sign of their exemption from judgment. the hebrew word which is translated as "mark" is tau and some have identified the sign tau with t

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here are many apparently conflicting stories within the egyptian mythology. the grand master pointed out that in several egyptian myths, shu and tefnut are self-created. in others they were created by tears of the master creator god (whoever he happened to be according to the story teller. in yet others they were created by the master god's masturbation. shu and tefnut by definition are the first male and female. the master god's masturbation in these latter stories was always male masturbation, but shu is the first male. shu and tefnut begat geb and nut, but nut was the all-pervasive universal sky that preceded the first god. this confusion is the result of centuries of egyptian story telling, and while some of it appears to be contraditory, most of it is useful. we certainly must hesitat

TELESMATIC FIGURES

ine as follows: sound prolonged (masculine) aleph-broad a beth-b-bh vau-u,v, oo zayin-z caph-k, kh nun-n samekh-s ayin-o, ngh, au qoph-q, qh resh-r shin-sh, s sound arrested (feminine) gimel-g, gh daleth-d, dh heh-h cheth-ch (gutteral) teth-t yod-i, j, y. lamed-l mem-m peh-p, ph tzaddi-tz 5 telesmatic attributions of the letters of the hebrew alphabet a spiritual. wings generally, epicene, rather male than female, rather thin type. b active and slight. male. g grey, beautiful yet changeful. feminine, rather full face and body. d very beautiful and attractive. feminine. rather full face and body. h fierce, strong, rather fiery; feminine. w steady and strong. rather heavy and clumsy, masculine. z thin, intelligent, masculine. j full face, not much expression, feminine. f rather strong and fi

ather full face and body. h fierce, strong, rather fiery; feminine. w steady and strong. rather heavy and clumsy, masculine. z thin, intelligent, masculine. j full face, not much expression, feminine. f rather strong and fiery. feminine. y very white and rather delicate. feminine. k big and strong, masculine. l well-proportioned; feminine. m reflective, dream-like, epicene, but female rather than male. n square determined face, masculine, rather dark. s thin rather expressive face; masculine. u rather mechanical, masculine. p fierce, strong, resolute, feminine. x thoughtful, intellectual, feminine. q rather full face, masculine. r proud and dominant, masculine. c fierce, active, epicene, rather male than female. t dark, grey, epicene; male rather than female (these genders are only given a

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ply enjoy mocking and tricking us? teasing and playing with our minds, realizing that the vast majority of people in society are willing dupes? it was, after all, serial killer john wayne gacy certainly a psychopathic personality who once bragged "a clown could get away with murder" gacy, you see, enjoyed dressing up as a mischievous and gleeful clown and visiting hospital wards to cheer up young male patients. he also took great pleasure, in the confines of his home, in torturing and killing young boys. all of these are reasons why psychopaths of the illuminati pose and parade occultly in front of cameras, exchange ritual handshakes, and otherwise taunt the public. remember, according to webster's, the psychopath is immoral, selfishly flaunts societal mores, is infantile in personality, i

eft, in masonic grip with red chinese counterpart in beijing, china in march, 1992 as a bemused official looks on. u.s. president clinton receives masonic grip from united nations secretary-general kofi annan at opening of the un general assembly. in this staged photo opportunity, aides for the two world leaders arranged the national flags so that nicaragua's illuminatidesigned flag, which has a (male) triangle, a solar image, and all-seeing eye as its focus would be most prominently displayed. kofi annan is married to a white woman, a rothschild heiress.(photo: usa today, september 22, 1998, p. 11a) secret handshakes of the illuminati 167 great britain's duke of kent, head of the united lodge, the largest masonic fraternity in england, holds the title, the most worshipful grand master. th

1860) shows the master mason giving the "first sign, or due guard" with his hands upright "in the manner of giving the grand hailing sign of distress" compare this with the image inscribed on the cave stone above. this goddess statuette was on display in the chambers of alex sanders, well-known british warlock (witch) as he led a witchcraft ritual. witches worship both the goddess and the horned, male god (photo: witchcraft, magic and the supernatural, octopus books, hong kong, 1974) a show of hands 187 instructional material for educators in the fort worth, texas, independent school district included this drawing of 13 goddess worshippers (13 comprise a witches coven) on a succession of six circle platforms paying homage to the sun. the illustration originally came from an italian foundat

e hermaphroditic goat of mendes. there is a life-principle of the world, a universal agent, wherein are two natures and a double current..it is the body of the holy spirit, the universal agent, the serpent devouring his own tail..force attracts force..5 the jewish cabalists speak in mysterious, guarded terms of this same potent force. they say it is produced from the uniting of the two triangles, male and female, in the sex act, releasing the generative energy of creation. the result symbolized is, of course, the jewish star of david, known as the seal, or symbol, of solomon or simply as the six-pointed star. the cabalists say this star represents the combined energy of good and evil becoming one force; it represents the "white jehovah and the black jehovah" it is the epitome of the "as ab

e monuments and statues on government land. could their silence be attributed to the fact that jackson and farrakhan are themselves 3 3rd degree masons? in any case, at the foot of pike's justice department statue is a masonic female figure representing lady justice, holding a banner with the 33rd degree double-headed eagle and the triangle of freemasonry. the androgyne, a combination creature of male and female, symbolizes the hermaphrodite principle of the two-faced entity or two-headed eagle. in the jewish cabala, this strange creation of the feminine and masculine principle is known as "adam kadmon" both adam and eve, a golem. this conjunction of opposites is part of the science of alchemy, or hermeticism, and is especially beloved by occult magicians. in witchcraft, it is known as the

THE BLACK LODGE

h heterosexuality. the purpose behind this policy is still the basic purpose of the black lodge: to keep the human being as sub-human as possible. abstention from sexual relations with the opposite sex, and concentration in our own sex, is not, certainly, a normal attitude- again statistically speaking. but when it happens spontaneously, it may be normal for the individuals participating- be they male or female. the important condition, the vital condition, consists in avoiding environmental influence. our environment must not influence us either to avoid or to engage in homosexuality. we are not, in truth, either male or female in all the planes in which we exist- at least not simultaneously. in the subtler planes, the polarity of our vehicles may vary and alternate; particularly so durin

s a balance must be maintained. your lessons in the ordeals have taught you that balance is the way and the truth and the lvx. to the women of thelema; you must be especially careful for it is among your sex that the disease is growing the fastest at the present time. this fact is due to the nature of heterosexual intercourse which leaves the semen in the vagina. if that semen be from an infected male then the woman s body will absorb the semen and thus the virus will pass into her bloodstream and she will become infected. therefore you must insist that you are protected in all sexual intercourse with persons whose past history you do not know very well indeed. in fact, it is probably better to use the precaution of a prophylactic in all cases save in a monogamous long term relationship. i

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es: diana the huntress for many brings to mind a maiden who is wild and free. frigga the mother is evoked often by both pagans and non-pagans with the words t.g.i.f. as the f stands for friday, and once upon a time that was frigga tag, or frigga day. we all have strong emotions about friday. hecate the crone brings to mind for many, an ancient woman sitting over a cauldron. just to be fair to the male aspect of the divine, there is pan the goat footed god of male youth. the oak king brings to mind the strength and warmth of summer. while the holly king is symbolic of the joys of the winter season. deck the halls with boughs of holly, tra-la-la-la-la la-la la la. tis the season to be jolly etc. etc. what deities you choose to honor, unless you are following a tradition, are very much a pers

ng metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. north of the ancient roman empire, the teutonics used frost, fire, and water. while the celtic tribes called them sky, land, and sea. this background denotes sections taken from my personal book of shadows. above the realm of man and elements, there dwells the one which are two. we call it the force, or tao, and we know it as the yin& yang, the archetypical male and female, our lord& lady. in its manifest form it is the spirit flame. below the spirit flame, are the three sacred elements of the sky, the land, and the sea. the sky, is the realm of the sun, moon and stars. the home of the great ones that we call gods and goddesses. it is the unwritten future, and the realm of dreams. the land, is the realm of man. here we dwell in the present, with the

ment of earth. wand the most personal of the basic tools. traditionally made of wood, and a cubit in length (the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, it frequently has in its construction a drop of its owner blood. modern wands are often fashioned of copper tubes, covered in leather or cloth, and tipped with crystals or semi-precious gem stones. this tool is viewed as having a male end for projection, and a female or receptive end. much like the athame, the wand can be employed to cast a circle, but its true power lies at a higher level, when used to invoke, and dismiss spiritual entities. it is associated with the element of fire. miscellaneous altar tools these include candles, cords, censor/thurible/incense, bell, sword, staff, crystal ball, scrying stone, magick mir

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not only considered the ka an essential aspect of a human being, but understood that a provision for it, as well as for the physical body, must be made at the time of death. the ba is generally understood by modern scholars as representing that aspect of the essential self that is commonly referred to as the soul. often depicted in ancient egyptian art and hieroglyphs as a bird with a human head male or female, corresponding to the sex of the person represented the ba hovers near its physical counterpart. in cultures throughout the world, the bird is often utilized as a symbol for the soul. and certainly, in the egypt of thousands of years ago, the high-flying, free-moving creature of the air would have seemed an obvious representation of the aspect of the self that separates from the bod

n wisdom (anthro man; sophy wisdom) to achieve contact with the spiritual world. the human intellect, steiner insisted, could be trained to rise above material concerns and to perceive a greater spiritual reality. the human consciousness had the ability to activate the seed that the great spirit beings had implanted within their human offspring. steiner recognized that while the physical seeds of male and female intermingled to pro- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 52 afterlife mysteries the symbol of the theosophical society (fortean picture library) rudolfsteiner defined christ consciousness as a transformative energy that transcended orthodox christianity. duce the whole human being, there was also something in each human that did

t 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 p l a i n e d mediums and mystics 87 a group of men and women levitating a table (archives of brad steiger) mediums are popular at spiritualist camps, and husband and wife teams often travel the circle of summer camps giving demonstrations. skeptics suggest that the reason for such male and female partnerships among trumpet mediums is the simple fact that many more voice tones may be imitated by the mediums during the course of a seance. the materialization of an old coin, a ring, a bracelet, or a semiprecious stone from the spirit world to a sitter attending a seance is called an apport (from the french apporter, to bring. according to mediums, spirit friends bring these ob

ons in berkeley, mountain view, sacramento, and santa rosa refers to itself as a psychic kindergarten. the meaning of kindergarten, in this case, is the virtual playground in the psychic field, a place for exploring what it means to be psychic. since 1973, the bpi has taught students how to recognize and develop their own psychic abilities through classes in clairvoyance, meditation, healing, and male and female energy. since that time, more than 100,000 students have taken classes, and an additional 4,000-plus have graduated from a one-year intensive clairvoyant training program. sources: berkeley psychic institute. http//www.berkeleypsychic.com/ bpi/bpi.html. 15 october 2001. human television channel, receiving thoughts and images from beyond. whichever title is preferred by those who cl

e, was able to implant into humanity a seed which must now unfold and grow. to steiner, the christ energy is the catalyst that germinates the seed that t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 150 mediums and mystics rudolf steiner (1861 1925 (fortean picture library) great spirit beings implanted within their human offspring. the physical seeds of male and female intermingled to produce the whole human being, but steiner believed there was also something within each human that did not arise from the blending of the two physical seeds: a virgin birth, something ineffable, which somehow flowed into the process of germination from a different source. steiner also claimed to be able to read the akashic records, from which he had been able to as

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california (ap/wide world photos) theseven-foot forest apelike creature is known as bigfoot, sasquatch, wauk-wauk, oh-mah, or saskehavis. primate biology program of the smithsonian institution, commented that while he saw nothing that pointed conclusively to a hoax, he did express some reservations about the exaggerated, fluid motion of the creature. he also said that he thought the bigfoot was a male, in spite of the pendulous breasts, because of the crest on its head, a signature of male primates. dr. osman hill, director of yerkes region primate research center at emory university, stated his opinion that the bigfoot in the filmstrip was hominid (humanlike) rather than pongoid (apelike. if the being in the film was a hoax, hill commented, it had been incredibly well done. technicians at

thusiasts theorized that aliens brought the monsters to test the planet s atmosphere, in order to prepare a mass invasion of earth. anthropologists reminded people that tales of such mysterious, vampirelike monsters that sucked the blood out of livestock had been common in central america for centuries. a widely popular story spread throughout chile that chilean soldiers had captured a chupacabra male, female, and cub that had been living in a mine north of calama. then, according to the account, a team of nasa scientists arrived in a black helicopter and reclaimed the chupacabra family. the creatures, so the story claimed, had escaped from a secret nasa facility in the atacama desert of northern chile where the u.s. space agency was attempting to create some kind of hybrid beings that cou

turnal prowl for new victims. unlike the vampire, however, this ghoul feasts upon the flesh of the deceased, taking the corpses from cemeteries and morgues. the ghoul more common to the waking world is that of the mentally unbalanced individual who engages in eating or otherwise desecrating the flesh of deceased humans. yet a third type of ghoul would be those native of arabic folklore, the ghul (male) and ghulah (female, demonic jinns that haunt burial grounds and sustain themselves on human flesh stolen from graves. it is easy to envision how the legend of the ghoul began in ancient times when graves were shallow and often subject to the disturbances of wild animals seeking carrion. later, as funeral customs became more elaborate and men and women were buried with their jewelry and other

perceived herself as a wolfwoman with claws, teeth, and fangs. medical personnel would manage to get the woman under control until the next full moon when she would snarl, howl, and resume her wolflike behavior. rosenstock and vincent stated that the woman was eventually discharged and provided with antipsychotic medication, but she declared that she would haunt graveyards until she had found the male werewolf of her dreams. m delving deeper clark, jerome, and loren coleman. creatures of the outer edge. new york: warner books, 1978. eisler, robert. man into wolf. london: spring books, n.d. fodor, nandor. between two worlds. new york: paperback library, 1967. the haunted mind: a psychoanalyst looks at the supernatural. new york: new american library, 1968. mack, carol k, and dinah mack. a f

atures kindly elves as the seelie court and the nasty spirits as the unseelie court. scandinavians also called the elves the huldre folk and envisioned two principle divisions of the beings. there were the lovely, charming elves, who easily passed for humans and who loved to join in folk dances and in village parties. these elves, especially the females of the bunch, could easily seduce any human male into obeying their will. the male elves, though appearing handsome and dashing in the firelight of a village festival, would usually be exposed as ugly when moonlight struck them in the forests. the danes also noticed that even the attractive elves occasionally betrayed themselves with a long cowlike tail that popped out of their dress or trousers. in contemporary presentations, elves are usu

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proclaimed it an allegorical novel written in tribute to rosencreutz, as well as a symbolic depiction of the science of alchemy and hermetic magic. others identified the work as a comic romance, lightly depicting the most profound alchemical symbols in a fanciful manner. the royal wedding to which the hero rosencreutz is invited is in reality the alchemical process itself in which the female and male principles are joined together. as the novel continues, the vast arcana of alchemical truths are represented by various animals, mythological beings, and human personalities. in addition to being an advocate of alchemy and the process of contacting intermediary spirits to accomplish good for society, andreae believed in becoming an active reformer of social ills, as well as supporting the ref

a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d magic and sorcery 53 among certain hispanic and native american cultures of the southwest, the practice of burjeria is feared as a manifestation of evil. those who use rituals, spells, incantations, potions, and powders to work ill against others are known as brujas (witches, who are primarily female in number (the male witch is known as a brujo. all the negative facets of witchcraft feared by people throughout the world are practiced by the brujas: manifesting the evil eye, casting spells to cause physical or mental illness, bringing about bad luck, even death. the brujas create dolls in which they insert bits of the victim fs hair, fingernail clippings, or pieces of clothing and focus their evil intent upo

to intercede and command them to temper the fires of their campaign. today there are more than 60 million people who practice vodun worldwide, largely where haitian emigrants have settled in benin, dominican republic, ghana, togo, various cities in the united states, and, of course, in haiti. in south america, there are many religions similar to vodun, such as umbanda, quimbanda, or candomble. a male priest of vodun is called a houngan or hungan; his female counterpart, a mambo. the place where one practices vodun is a series of buildings called a humfort or hounfou. a gcongregation h is called a hunsi or hounsis, and the hungan cures, divines, and cares for them through the good graces of a loa, his guiding spirit. the worship of the supernatural loa is the central purpose of vodun. they

termed gthe occult. h wiccans do not believe that there is anything supernatural about the manifestations and phenomena associated with this extrasensory area of the mind. they believe that psychic powers lie dormant in everyone, to a greater or lesser degree, and the disciplines of wicca are designed to develop these to the fullest. wicca is a polarized religion, embodying within its worship the male principle in the figure of the horned god and the female in that of the goddess. thus its adherents believe that wicca presents a truer picture of the nature and workings of the universal creative principle than do those religions that overemphasize either the male or the female values and relegate the other to a subordinate status. wicca incorporates both cognates of the universal creative p

two comprise a tapestry of confusion and misidentification. wicca, in its contemporary expression, has evolved into t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d magic and sorcery 91 the curandero works among the hispanic people of california, texas, mexico, and many areas of south america as a master of the many skills involved in folk healing. whether male or female, they acquire their abilities through two basic methods: by serving as an apprentice under the guidance of an experienced curandero or by receiving a spiritual vision that gives the knowledge upon them. to be a curandero is to have received a gift from god. the three common types of curanderos are the herbalist, the yerbero; the midwife, the partera; and the massage therapist, the s

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eity wasa devil, that the cult of the horned god fell into disrepute.the idea of dividing the power beyond into two, one good and one evil, belongs to an advanced andsophisticated religion. in the more primitive cults the deity is in himself the author of all, whether good orbad. the monotheism -of early religions is very marked, each little settlement ok-group of settlementshaving its one deity, male or female, whose power was co-terminous with that of his worshippers.polytheism appears to have arisen with the amalgamation of tribes, each with its own deity. when a tribewhose deity was male coalesced with a tribe whose deity was female, the union of the peoples wassymbolised in their religion by the marriage of their gods. when by peaceful infiltration a new god ousted anold one, he was s

er periods. the neolithic people have left fewartistic remains; their human figures are almost invariably of women, and the masked man does not appear.but when the bronze-age is reached the horned human-being is found again, and occurs first in the near and the god of the witcheschapter i. the horned god6middle east, i.e, in egypt, mesopotamia and india. in the near east the figures may be either male orfemale, and the horns are those of cattle, sheep or goats.[1] there are no stag antlers, possibly because thestag did not occur in those lands or was so uncommon as not to be of importance as a food animal.horned gods were common in mesopotamia, both in babylon and assyria. the copper head found in one ofthe gold-tombs at ur, is very early; possibly earlier than the first egyptian dynasty

were like therush helmets which children made, and like those commonly worn by swedish lapps. in ireland[25] afairy-man was "like a boy of ten or twelve years old, only more broad and bulky, dressed in a grey little coat,and stockings of the same colour, with an old little black woollen hat" in the isle of man" the fairies weredressed in undyed wool with little pointed red caps. in wales[27] the male fairies had "red-tripled caps andthe ladies a light fantastic headdress which waved in the wind. the fairies of upper brittany[28] wore a kind the god of the witcheschapter ii. the worshippers21of cap "like a crown, which seemed to be part of their person" at hildesheim[29] the local goblin wasdressed like a peasant, but so invariably wore a hood that he was called hedekin or hutkin. even so

ne taking its place the womenoften remain faithful and carry on the old rites, being then obliged to act as priestesses.these changes are seen in the cult of the horned god. in the palaeolithic paintings there is only one scenewhich can be identified as a religious ceremony performed by several persons. this is at cogul, innorth-eastern spain, and represents a dance of nine women round a standing male figure (plate ix. a similardance, also round a standing male figure dates from the seventeenth century, but in this there are as manymen as women (plate x).cotton mather, in his account of the salem witches in 1692,[1] states that "the witches do say that they formthemselves much after the manner of congregational churches, and that they have a baptism, and a supper,and officers among them, a

ptions of the devil's costume. the scotch thom reid[31] wore a cap "closebehind and plain before, with silken laces through the lips thereof; the lancashire mamilion[32] was in asuit of black tied about with silk points; the swedish antecessor[33] had red and blue stockings with longgarters. the importance of the garter is shown in the witch dance of the palaeolithic painting (plate ix),where the male figure, who stands in the centre wears a garter on each leg standing out on either side of theknees. it seems therefore not unlikely that the string was a symbol of authority worn on a part of the personwhere it would be visible to all and yet would not impede in any way the movements of the wearer.the garter has long been credited with magical properties, especially when belonging to a woman

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nd what is important to note here is that the child is born of a union of two worlds- this world, represented by the alche mist, and the otherworld, represented by the spiritual bride or groom. in the daughter s mythology, she represents the human being of this world, and her seducer/mate, the lord of the underworld, represents the otherworldly partner that she is joined to in a conjunction. when male humans attempt to recreate this mythological pattern in their own mind/world, the whole process is moved out one step, and the male seeker of the mysteries becomes the worldly being and he seeks the daughter, who becomes the fetch wife or the otherworldly mate, who, in conjunction with him, brings forth the child. feminine initiates actually engage this myth on a more immediate level, taking

ied by his ordeal. his sacrifice into matter and into the fate of life and death is a higher harmonic to the sacrifice of the ego or lesser self to the greater, darker and unknown self in the underworld initiation, and like the underworld initiation, it is not fully over until the circle is completed and the glorified essence returns to its source. sacrifice in this sense is the true heart of the male mysteries, and it s many mythological harmonics are easy to see, especially, as i said before, in local sacrificial king cults, wherein the localized focus was on the regeneration of crops and animal life. these things should be seen as just miniature expressions of the regeneration of time and the whole world, and all its inhabitants. when the child, or the son of light, first emerges, he is

e seas drowning us, even the fires of the end of the cosmos, cannot destroy us, for by truly being aware of it, we become the indestructible, ever-renewing heart of life and existence, which is the only reality. the housle rite is our way of declaring that fact and showing it to all levels, from the subtlest, to the most material, in the form of a meal around an altar or a table. female redeemer, male consecrator and now for the last: some people have looked at the housle rite and asked a very good questio n, one that deserves answering. they have seen that the wine is symbolically a masculine substance, and the bread a feminine one, but noticed that the dame or the daughter is called upon to consecrate the wine, and the father or the master is called upon to consecrate the bread. why is t

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

and arch toward the post just below the wheel. the wheel is double, having an outer and an inner ring with eight spokes running through both rims. the spokes have a circular expansion with central hole inside and a bit short of the inner rim. these spokes appear to be riveted to the inner rim. at the top of the wheel is the nemesis seated on a platform as a sphinx with a sword: head cloth, stern male face and woman's breasts, winged. the sword is hilt to wheel and up to left "archee" is written over the wing to the left. risking on the right of the wheel is a hermanubus or variation of serapis: dog's head, human body, carries a caduceus half hidden behind head and wheel, legs before wheel "azoth" is written above the head of this figure. a demon reminiscent of proteus descends the wheel o

ise at midnight, and alone, in the church, begin the office of the dead "mingle with this office infernal evocations "finish the office by the light of a single taper, extinguish it immediately, and remain without light in the church thus profaned until sunrise "on thursday, mingle with the consecrated water the powder of the tongue and heart of the black cock, and let the whole be swallowed by a male lamb of nine days old" 176 the hand refuses to write the rest. it is a mixture of brutalizing practices and revolting crimes, so constituted as to kill for evermore judgment and conscience<yellow- o. m> but in order to communicate with the phantom of absolute evil, to realize that phantom to the point of see

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

ngth of the golden section of the meter. 9 pure beeswax, and can be obtained from specialized stores. a bronze or copper censer, or better, an earthenware cassolette, will also be required, and will be furnished with live coals at the proper time. the self burning charcoal for that purpose can be obtained from the same stores as the candles. the incense must be pure olibanum (frankincense, called male incense, in its original weeping tear drops and should be kept in a metal box or in the classic incense boat. the use of any other incense like that prepared for the churches etc, pulverised and compounded from different resins, is interdicted. the poignard (or a sword) should have a hilt made in the form of a cross and a flat double edged and pointed blade either straight or flamboyant. the

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

its aspect of moderation between two extremes. 4 "the one" 5. it is our opinion that the freudian id, in its more restricted definition, conesponds to the qabalistic nephesh rather than the yechidah. see part two, chapter six. 6. a chinese term for "way" it refers to the one absolute reality which is said to have brought forth "ten thousand things" it is the union of yin (female energy) and yang (male energy. 7. the collected works of c. g. jung #13, alchemical studies. 8. the word it is the english translation of the latin word id, which freud used in his theories (the german translation is es) to avoid confusion we have italicized the word it throughout the text to indicate where regardie was referring to the freudian id. 9. on the qabalistic tree of life, yang energy can also be attribu

phwah of tiphareth, the seat of the holy guardian angel. 30. in magic, this can be compared to the work of the 27th path of peh (known as "the tower) in which the old outmoded personality is dismantled, and a new personality is rebuilt. 31. transconscious is a term developed by psychologist/magician william stoltz to describe the psyche's creative and intuitive imagination. 32. although hermes is male, he is sometimes seen as an androgyne or hermaphrodite. in fact, the word hermaphrodite is a combination of the names hermes and aphrodite-the union of the anirna and the animus. 33. sometimes confused with freud's super-ego, which was an artificial construct composed of external influences in accordance with a process called introjection- the incorporation of the characteristics of a person

bol upon their doorsteps, to keep malevolent spirits out and beneficent spirits in. and as early as the sixth century b.c.e, pythagoras, the greek philosopher-mystic, used the pentagram as a holy symbol for his followers. five was a number peculiarly associated with the ideas of marriage and union, as it is the first number beyond the monad formed from the union of the first odd and even numbers, male and figure 11: backing into the tree. the pentagram 185 female. it is also said to represent the human figure, with arms and legs outspread. the shape of the five-pointed star seems to be one of nature's favorite geometric designs-it can be found in flowers, fruit, and crystalline forms. in magic the pentagram represents the four elements of fire, water, air, and earth-plus one other. in addi

awn starting from the earth point and moving toward the spirit point. the invoking earth pentagram is drawn starting from the spirit point and moving toward the earth point. 23. the invoking form would be the lesser invoking pentagram 24. used in this context, adonai or "lord is a term of sovereignty, not of gender. it should be thought of like the egyptian title of pharaoh, which applied to both male and female rulers. 25. from the neophyte ritual. see regardie, the golden dawn, 124. 26. based on the golden dawn's flying roll no. m, published by francis king in astral projection, ritual magic, and alchemy by s. l. macgregor mathers and others. 27. th hsa s been affirmed by an a. 0.v ersion of the same manuscript. 28. this invocation contains the names of egyptian gods rather than hebrew a

rapy: a reihan method of therapy whch uses deep massage to d o c k muscular tension and release repressed material. vibratory formula: a method by which divine names and words are intoned forcefully and with authority in a "vibration" visuddha: sanskrit word meaning "purity" refers to the throat chakra. yah: divine hebrew name associated with chokmah. yang: in chinese taoism the positive, active, male principle. yechidah: in qabalah, the highest part of the soul located in kether and is described as the true divine self. the purest form of consciousness. yeheshuah: hebrew name for jesus. a divine name associated with the five elements of fire, water, air, earth, and spirit. referred to as the pentagrammaton. yesod: hebrew word for "foundation" referring to the ninth sephirah on the tree of

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

trical apparatus. after i published a couple of pieces about it i received dozens of letters from people throughout the country recounting their own experiences. to my surprise, most of these people had heard the voices late at night, usually waking them up with a sharp command. for example, a man in the southwest claimed he had been jarred awake on several different nights by the sound of a deep male voice ordering "wake up, number 491" a woman in ohio heard the voice while driving "873. you are 873" and another woman in kansas wrote "please tell me who these people are that keep reading numbers to me. they sound as if they are standing right next to me but there is no one there" do we all have a number tattooed in our brains? hardly. there are three billion people so some of them should

ed like a galvanized iron shed" sitting in the middle of a large field. since he had never noticed this "shed" before he walked closer to take a better look. something about it frightened him. later he could not explain why it had scared him. and he turned and started to hurry away. although it was dark and he could see no windows or doors in the "shed" he claims that he distinctly heard a normal male voice come from it "don't run. don't run" the voice called "i didn't 'sactly run" mr. elmore told me "but i walked pretty fast" he hurried home and got his rifle and returned to the site. to his astonishment, the "shed" was gone. this incident upset him very much and, according to his wife, he was a nervous wreck for several days afterwards. he decided to call the sheriff and report what he'd

nd himself in a place not too unlike the earth. he and vadig got into a wheelless vehicle that traveled along a kind of trough "this is lanulos" vadig announced with pride in his voice. he repeated the name several times so it would stick in tom's memory. their vehicle traveled through a large city with low, flat buildings and signs written in some kind of oriental-looking characters. the people, male and female, were all nude "there were some real lookers there, too" tom commented. after the tour, they returned to the egg-shaped craft and took off again. tom sat alone in the same circular room watching the television screen for hours. finally they arrived back on earth at the same place from which they had left. tom, vadig, and the silent man returned to the old buick and drove for about

problems. that summer he was feeling ill. once he took to his bed and sweated profusely for forty-eight hours. and he confided to me that he had suffered a two-day siege with the cosmic clap) the symptoms disappearing as suddenly and mysteriously as they began "everybody hates the telephone company. even the bedouins hate their telephone company" line from the 1967 movie the president's analyst] male ufo witnesses sometimes develop a temporary set of symptoms resembling gonorrhea- one day jane called me with a message for "the man with skinny arms who wears dresses" very few people knew that ivan lounged around his farm in a skirtlike garment popular in indonesia. the message suggested that he should take a certain kind of vitamin supplement. i passed this on to him and a few days later h

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

mbination shub ishnigarrab (shub niggurath) might actually mean. there was a battle between the forces of "light" and "darkness (so-called) that took place long before man was created, before even the cosmos as we know it existed. it is described fully in the enuma elish and in the bastardised version found in the necronomicon, and involved the ancient ones, led by the serpent mummutiamat and her male counterpart absu, against the elder gods (called such in the n) led by the warrior marduk, son of the sea god enki, lord of magicians of this side, or what could be called "white magicians- although close examination of the myths of ancient times makes one pause before attempting to judge which of the two warring factions was "good" or "evil. marduk won this battle- in much the same way that

orshipped or called up the serpent of the sea, or abyss. indeed, the hebrew word for abyss that is found in genesis 1:2 is, hooke tells us, tehom, which the majority of scholars take to be a survival of the name of the chaos-dragon tiamat or leviathan that is identified closely with kutulu or cthulhu within the pages are mentioned independently of each other, indicating that somehow kutulu is the male counterpart of tiamat, similar to absu. this monster is well known to cult worship all over the world. in china, however, there is an interesting twist. far from being considered a completely hostile creature, dedicated to the erasure of mankind from the page of existence, the dragon is given a place of preeminence and one does not hear of a chinese angel or saint striving to slay the dragon

ancing is probably the simplest method of attaining results in "rousing leviathan, and has been used by societies as diverse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female

of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an ironic and splendid result of the ignorance of the greek religious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the naming of the goddess as a deity, not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities, had both male and female manifestations, showing that the sumerians definitely recognised a yin-yang composition if

a (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities, had both male and female manifestations, showing that the sumerians definitely recognised a yin-yang composition if the universe (the "male moon" idea is, the editor is given to understand, common to so-called aryan mythologies. there is also evidence to show that every god and goddess also had both a good and an evil nature, and evil gods were banished in the exorcism formulae of that civilisation as well as the lesser forms of demon. the horned moon as mentioned, the god of the moon was called nanna by the sumerians. by the lat

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

important thing is what a person does in his two or three free hours a day, the ones in which he is not committed to his family or his work. those are the hours that he must examine himself to see if he spends them in front of the television, in a restaurant, or labouring to attain a spiritual goal. the difference between men and women in our world is a consequence of the relationship between the male part and the female part of the soul. as a result, men 54 of 273 and women have a different outlook on life, different obligations and different objectives. the male and female parts of every partzuf in the spiritual world complement one another: the female part contributes its desires and the male part contributes its screens. in the end, it is the combination between them that brings to spi

e feminine parts, meaning the right and left lines. for example: in the degrees of pharaoh, moses, israel, and a gentile, there is both a feminine and a masculine part. but each name can only be attained once and in a certain degree. man and woman are a union of between zeir anpin and malchut of the world of atzilut. its essence and degree create different names and a higher spiritual degree. the male and female states are set in each of the 125 degrees. if that is the case, then how should men and women behave in this world? each according to the possibilities that he/she has been given within a specific gender. though we are egoistic and seek nothing but our personal profit, we must be grateful for the creator for having allowed us to see ourselves as we really are, as unpleasant as it i

imself with these worlds and attain equivalence of form (properties) with the world of ein sof. one feels the transitions from world to world according to the changes in his inner properties (inner feelings; he begins with feeling himself in this world, and gradually comes to feel himself completely identical to the world of ein sof, to the creator. lights q: why is the light of wisdom assigned a male gender and the light of mercy a female, motherly gender? a: the light of wisdom is the root of the male properties and the light of bina is the root of the female properties. men and women differ in properties, skin texture, physiology etc. you can even see the differences in their handwriting. what separates between the two genders are the (hebrew) letters yod (for male) and hey (for female

but a reshimo or a shell. q: what is the reason that one is born as a man or a woman? why does one need to realize his destination in the land of israel and the other away from it, and by what criteria are the relatives chosen? a: these questions relate to the mechanism of the superior providence, called zon of the world of atzilut. that system consists of two parts: zeir anpin and nukva, meaning male and female that have their own relationship. that relationship creates time (days, weeks, months and years) and their mating creates the souls. the properties of the souls define the characteristics of the physical body that the soul clothes. the soul is created and descends to this world even before a child is born into it. i am using earthly terms of time, space and motion, although they do

ys, weeks, months and years) and their mating creates the souls. the properties of the souls define the characteristics of the physical body that the soul clothes. the soul is created and descends to this world even before a child is born into it. i am using earthly terms of time, space and motion, although they do not exist in the spiritual world. we must understand that relationship between the male and female parts of zon of the world of atzilut determine everything that happens in our world. there is no other way to easily explain and describe the complete variety of possibilities of the relationship between these two parts, how they connect and how they clothe one another, how they mate and how they create new souls. it is a very complex system. about 1600 pages of the 2000 pages of t

THE SHADOWED ONES

violently as one awakes from a half-sleep, azazel from the form of a serpent took the skin of man to walk its desert lands. i guide without a scripture; i point the way by unseen means unto my friends and such as observe the precepts of my teaching, which is not grievous, and is adapted to the time and conditions kitab el-jelwa, the book of revelation walking these lands as man, yet not actually male, azazel had foreknowledge of those whom they met. these lesser beings were only made such as the first angel born of flame was the child of chaos, a distant and wished forgotten offspring of barbelo. azazel understood the depths of what humanity called sorrow, and shining optimism through that storm. by shadow way and kindled fire of the blackened eye opened, azazel called shemyaza gathered t

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

d, from us twain, and we were one *star and garter, vol. iii, p. 13. this melting of the i in you, is the only true possible form of marriage, and the only form that can exalt it over the prostitution of the monde and demimonde; for it matters little if a woman sell her body for a five pound note, or for a five million pound dot. the man who in his turn marries a woman for her wealth is as foul a male prostitute as ever shrieked his lewd obscenities in the street of sodom, and down the by-ways of gibeah. tannhauser expresses the whole celebration of this union in two pregnant lines: that is true marriage, in my estimate. aspire together to one deity? yes *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 259. or again in the song of nuith: we are lulled by the whirr of the stars; we are fanned by the whisper, the wi

nd, as cynical as a carlyle, and as satirical as a butler. its great theme is the contest gof age and sense with flatulence and youth. h we have already shaken hands with percy, molly, and lady baird (angela; we have still to be introduced to lord glenstrae. the first two form the flatulent element, the latter two the constipated substance of this drama. angela, the female quantity; glenstrae the male: both are outwardly highly moral; both are ready to lay their morality aside with skirt and shirt when opportunity should offer. when percy fell in love with molly, we saw how lady angela enticed him from her by her maturer wisdom. utterly false, the social hag of sixty totally eclipses the girl of sixteen; she backs her knowledge against the latter fs innocence, and wins in a canter. so much

g that she intends going into service, saying: gand so you shall, my dear, so you shall. come and live with my wife as her companion, and we will try and find your lover for you. no doubt the arts of this. er. designing female will soon lose their power. there, there, no thanks, i beg! i never could bear to see a pretty wench cry. there, there! h* we have now thoroughly grasped the quality of the male element, and the two together, the harlot and the lecher, produce the social code and seven-eighths of the social woes *why jesus wept, vol. iii, p. 39. vide, the martyrs of hell fs highway. gmust i, must i? oh, sir, have pity! h sobs the poor disillusionized molly, as the male element who has enjoyed her, now shoves her aside gwith the dishes and the wine, h a thousand a year, and a flat in

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

n a radiant sun. the rays from this sun number thirty, the number of degrees in one zodiacal sign. the woman is crowned with twelve stars, to represent the twelve signs through which the sun passes each year. her feet rest upon the moon, symbol of the feminine in nature. and the cube upon which she sits represents the cross of matter, where rays of sun and moon meet, and so signifies the union of male and female forces. from her brow the sacred serpent thrusts its head as a symbol of enlightenment. in her right hand she carries a scepter surmounted by a globe. this is essentially a phallus, and indicates the perpetual action of creative energy upon all things born or to be born. in her left hand she carries an eagle, the symbol of fruitfulness and of the heights to which the flights of the

of man, and that from the silver cup the forces of woman; together revealing the truth of soul-matehood, and indicating how the finer energies of man rejuvenate woman and how the finer energies of woman rejuvenate man; their forces mutually sustaining each other and making a joint immortality possible. the eight-point star symbolizes the law of equilibrium, the balance between spirit and matter, male and female, the inner and the outer. it is the book of the apocalypse sealed with seven seals, and thus represents the inner realization and the outer realization, the birth of the soul and the birth of the body, under the influence of the planets, represented by the 7 surrounding stars, or seals. each of these smaller stars, or seals, has four points, to signify that man should recognize the

THE BOOK OF GATES

y the flames of khuti which are in the corners of the hidden shrine grow stronger' and there shall be given to them meat in the place of peace in their circle" p. 96 the above passage refers to the "righteous who are in the tuat" on the left side of the boat of ra are: 1. the god tem, who is depicted in the form of an aged man, leaning heavily on a stick which he grasps in his right hand. 2. four male beings who are lying prostrate on their backs. 3. twenty male beings, with their backs bowed, and their arms tied together at their elbows behind their backs. the our beings are described as "the inert" and the twenty as "the apostates of the hall of ra, who have blasphemed ra upon earth, who have invoked evils upon him that is in the egg, who have thrust aside the right, and have spoken word

upon earth as to the p. 146 god hetepi, according to what should be offered unto them" ra saith unto this god-"let him that is over his corner (heri-qenbet-f) cry out to those souls who are right, and true, and divine, and make them to sit at peace in their habitations at the corner of those who are with myself" on the right hand of the path of ra in the fifth division of the tuat are--1. twelve male beings bowing in adoration; they are described as "those who make adorations in the tuat" 2. twelve male beings who bear in their hands a cord for measuring plots of ground and estates; these are called "holders of the cord in the tuat" four gods, standing upright, each holding the symbol of life in his right hand, and a sceptre in the left. p. 148 click to view the twelve gods who make adora

them not slip through your fingers. o enemies, ye are reckoned for slaughter according to the decree which [was given] to you by him that with his body, and created the tuat by his members. he hath passed the decree for p. 175 you to be punished, and he taketh count of you and what ye do" the upper register is much mutilated on the cover of the sarcophagus of seti i; on it we see- 1. five upright male figures, each of whom holds a large loaf of bread, with both hands on his head; when the scene was complete these figures were twelve in number, as we learn from the variants published by champollion, 1and they are called hetepti-kheperu. 2. six upright male figures, each of whom holds the feather of maat with both hands on his head; when the scene was complete these figures were twelve in nu

those who are in my following, and- who dwell in the house of him whose souls are holy. live ye on what ye live there, and have the mastery over the cool waters which are in your lake" click to view a few years ago i purchased from a native at luxor a fragment of the cover of the sarcophagus of seti i (see p. 176; this is now in the british museum (no. 29,948, and it gives the following- 1. three male figures, each of which bears a loaf on his head. 2. the following fragmentary text "their bread cakes are ordered for p. 178 "them by their gods; their kau are in their hands, and they enter into their abodes at the pylon which destroyeth its gods. the god sar (osiris) saith unto them-'your bread shall be to you from that which cometh forth from your mouths, o ye hetepti-kheperu" in the lower

hich bears a loaf on his head. 2. the following fragmentary text "their bread cakes are ordered for p. 178 "them by their gods; their kau are in their hands, and they enter into their abodes at the pylon which destroyeth its gods. the god sar (osiris) saith unto them-'your bread shall be to you from that which cometh forth from your mouths, o ye hetepti-kheperu" in the lower register are- 1. five male figures, who are occupied in tending very large ears of corn; when the scene was complete these figures were twelve in number, and they were called "those who work about the plants of grain in the fields of the tuat" 2. a man holding a sickle; he is one of the seven "reapers" of which this section of the scene originally consisted. the text which relates to those who tend the grain reads- p

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

perity and happiness of the princes of this sublime degree, i subscribe myself (signed (iv* the furniture of a chapter of rose croix red room altar. white silk altar-cloth, with rose 49 on gold cross 5 with 4 green rays. super-altar. black. 7 steps. copy of stele of revealing. 33 lights. 33 roses. paten and chalice. cakes of light and red wine (optional. crystal globe: image of babalon &c. but no male symbol) thrones. one each side of the altar for m.w.s.55 and h.p.56 one in west for g.m.57 file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c7.html (1 of 14 [12/28/2001 2:04:51 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. stalls for other princes. banners. the banner of the rite above m.w.s. the banner of love above the most reverend and perfect prelate. personal ba

.c: peace from the sun! and from the o.h.o. and from the g(rand) m(aster) b(aphomet) c.b: the graal is veiled (g.c. and c.b. leave the temple followed by others all arm in arm; s.b. and k.s. bring up the rear, disrobe in the anteroom) file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c8.html (13 of 13 [12/28/2001 2:05:02 pm] sroto_notes 60. g.c= grand commander, a male officer, at times representing baphomet. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael/my..20secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/note60.html [12/28/2001 2:05:06 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part three the secret instructions of the seventh, eight and ninth degrees66* of the nature of the gods a secret instruction of the seventh degree* de natura deorum baphomet x o.t.o. rex summus sanct

act they do incur damnation, if false, verily they lose their labour. but at least they set up man against the foul demon of the christians, and let this be accounted unto them for righteousness. but see, my brethren perfectly illuminated adepts, how great is their error, that they revolt who should be kings. for it is in truth not the apish antics of the priest that consecrate the bread, but his male power that should make holy all his deeds. consider of this. v of the sabbath of the adepts in the black hours of earth, when the christian superstition with fell blight withered most malignantly the peoples of europe, when our own holy order was dispersed and the sanctity of its preceptories lay violate, there were yet found certain to hold truth in their hearts, and, loving light, to bear t

has now and again overflowed, in sleep, without will, and only reflected itself dimly and fantastically by dream into his knowledge. now since naught can be lost on any plane, but only changed in appearance, the inner substance of this life-stuff does indeed beget monsters in part material, which the doctors of the middle ages called incubi or succubi according as they performed the functions of male or female. these, too, begat children upon women; but not the reverse, for the succubus, for all his female function, is as male as his brother. of these monstrous lovers some even became famous on earth; as that one who tempted san antonio, and the angel that wrestled with jacob at the place called paniel. also merlin was the child of an incubus, and thus also were many heroes of old time be

of thee, o titan, son of earth! or at the least, this being denied thee, yet all thy life in heart and spirit being hers, thy death shall be the consummation of these betrothals, an entry into the closed palace of thy lady. and of such espousals mayst thou read in liber ccccxviii, more especially in the ninth and in the second aethyrs. it is to be noted in all this that both god and the soul are male or female as convenience requires. see, for a curious example, the mystic treatise called the bagh-i-muattur. xi of lesser marriages this matter is easy, for the souls of the elements desire constantly this salvation. but let the adept beware: 1. that he choose wisely a reasonable soul, docile, apt, beautiful, and in all ways worthy of love. 2. that he fall not ever from love of the great god

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

upon the earth after his kind: and god saw that [it was] good. 1:26 and god said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 1:27 so god created man in his [own] image, in the image of god created he him; male and female created he them. 1:28 and god blessed them, and god said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 1:29 and god said, behold, i have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and eve

his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name seth: for god [said she] hath appointed me another seed instead of abel, whom cain slew. 4:26 and to seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name enos: then began men to call upon the name of the lord. 5:1 this [is] the book of the generations of adam. in the day that god created man, in the likeness of god made he him; 5:2 male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name adam, in the day when they were created. 5:3 and adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name seth: 5:4 and the days of adam after he had begotten seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5:5 and all the days that adam lived were nin

flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die. 6:18 but with thee will i establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons wives with thee. 6:19 and of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 6:20 of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive. 6:21 and take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 6:22 thus did noah; according to all that god commanded him

thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 6:22 thus did noah; according to all that god commanded him, so did he. 7:1 and the lord said unto noah, come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have i seen righteous before me in this generation. 7:2 of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female. 7:3 of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. genesis page 4 7:4 for yet seven days, and i will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that i have made will i destroy from off the face of the

d him. 7:6 and noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7:7 and noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 7:8 of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 there went in two and two unto noah into the ark, the male and the female, as god had commanded noah. 7:10 and it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 7:11 in the six hundredth year of noah s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 7:12 and the rain was upon the earth forty days and f

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nt they were afraid of it, as has been pointed out to me by folk practioners. their "nature rites" were to propitiate the caprice of the gods, not necessarily to honor them. the first neopagan revivalists, gardner, crowley and dr. murray, well understood this. neopagan wiccans usually do not. in introducing a "goddess element" into their theology, crowley and gardner both understood the yin/yang, male/female fundamental polarity of the universe. radical feminist neopagans have taken this balance and altered it, however unintentionally, into a political feminist agenda, centered around a near-monotheistic worship of the female principle, in a bizarre caricature of patriarchal christianity. bigotry, i submit, cuts both ways. i do not say these things lightly; i have seen it happen in my own

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

a church and convent belonging to the benedictine monks in the time of their poverty. this church is dedicated to st. cosmus and damianus. one of the days of the fair, the relicks of the saints are exposed, and afterwards carried in procession from the cathedral of the city to this church, attended by a prodigious concourse of people. in the city, and at the fair, ex-voti of wax, representing the male parts of generation, of various dimensions, some even of the length of the palm, are publickly offered to sale. there are also waxen vows, that represent other parts of the body mixed with them; but of these there are few in comparison of the number of the priapi. the devout distributers of these vows carry a basket full of them in one hand, and hold a plate in the other to receive the money

e litanie: here masses and litanies are received" and the other, qui si riceveno li voti: here the vows are received. the price of a mass is fifteen neapolitan grains, and of a litany five grains. on each table is a large bason for the reception of the different offerings. the vows are chiefly presented by the female sex; and they are seldom such as represent legs, arms &c, but most commonly the male parts of generation. the person who was at this fete in the year 1780, and who gave me this account (the authenticity of every article of which has since sir william hamilton 7 been fully confirmed to me by the governor of isernia, told me also, that he heard a woman say, at the time she presented a vow, like that which is presented in plate i, fig. i, santo cosimo benedetto, cosi lo voglio:

a da isernia 11 altre, santo cosimo ringrazio; e questo quello osservai, e si prattica nel vestibulo, baciando ogn'una il voto che presente. dentro la chiesa nell'altare maggiore un canonico fa le sante unzioni con l olio di s. cosimo. la ricetta di quest'olio la stessa del rituale romano, con l aggiunta dell orazione delli ss. martiri, cosimo e damiano. si presentano all altare gl infermi d ogni male, snundano la parte offesa, anche l'originale della copia di cera, ed il canonico ungendoli dice, per intercessionem beati cosmi, liberet te ab omni malo. amen. finisce la festa con dividersi li canonici la cera, ed il denaro, e con ritornar gravide molte donne sterili maritate, a profitto della popolazione delle provincie; e spesso la grazia s'entende senza meraviglia, alle zitelle, e vedove

cande per alloggiare tutto il numero di gente, che concorre: onde li frati, ajutando ai preti, danno le chiese alle donne, ed i portici agl'uomini; e cosi divisi succedendo gravidanze non deve dubitar si, che sia opera tutto miracolosa, e di divozione. nota i. l olio non solo serve per l'unzione che f canonico, ma anche si dispensa in picciolissime caraffine, e serve per ungersi li lombo a chi ha male a questa parte. in quest'anno 1780. si sono date par divozione 1400 caraffine, e si consumato mezzo stajo d olio. chi prende una caraffina da l'olemosina. nota ii. li canonici che siedono nel vestibulo prendono denaro d'elemosina per messe, e per litanie. le messea grana 15. e le litanie a grana 5. 12 lettera da isernia nota iii. li forestieria alloggiano non sola fr li cappuccini e zoccolant

with ther, by time, or eternity (kronoj, and necessity (anagkh, operating upon inert matter (caoj. he is described as eternally begetting (aeignhthj; the father of night, called in later times, the lucid or splendid (fanhj, because he first appeared in splendour; of a double nature (difuhj, as possessing the general power of creation 18 on the worship and generation, both active and passive, both male and female.1 light is his necessary and primary attribute, co-eternal with him- 1 orph. argon, ver. 12. this poem of the argonautic expedition is not of the ancient orpheus, but written in his name by some poet posterior to homer; as appears by the allusion to orpheus s descent into hell; a fable invented after the homeric times. it is, however, of very great antiquity, as both the style and

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

estive insights into a difficult and often self- contradictory subject. m agic has always been a disreputable business. until a few years ago, it could result in fines, imprisonment, torture, or execution, depending on how the lawmakers felt at a given period. in the bible, christians are cautioned not to suffer a witch to live "witch" was the english translation for any- one who practiced magic, male or female, as well as those who sold poison, pro- cured abortions, and committed other crimes. the magician was classed with the dregs of humanity alongside the prostitute and the cutpurse. occasionally voices were raised in defense of magic. the rosicrucian michael maier wrote in his themis aurea in 1618 "magic (as some define it) is the highest, most absolute, and divinest knowledge of natu

e both forms of magic, since everyone is innately androgynous, as the psy- chologist carl jung recognized with his concepts of the anima and animus. with- in the unconscious of each woman there is a hidden masculine persona, and within each man a concealed feminine persona. these may be more or less active, depending on the nature of the individual. the tendency toward a balanced androgyny, where male and female qualities approach equal strength, is more evi- dent in people naturally suited to magic. magus is an ancient persian word meaning priest. the magi, or priest cast of persia, were skilled in the arts of magic, astrology and healing. in ancient times the word magus became synonymous with "wise man" the irish historians applied the term to the druids who opposed the preaching of st

ength, is more evi- dent in people naturally suited to magic. magus is an ancient persian word meaning priest. the magi, or priest cast of persia, were skilled in the arts of magic, astrology and healing. in ancient times the word magus became synonymous with "wise man" the irish historians applied the term to the druids who opposed the preaching of st. patrick. it may rightly be given to anyone, male or female, who seeks to work magic by accessing the spirit. there is no separate word for a female magus, because in old persia all of the priests were men, but in the modern age "magus" applies equally to men or women, in the same way that the title "aviator' originally given only to men because there were no female flyers, is now used for both sexes. magician is a better term for someone wh

ahma, shiva, and vishnu. tn the faith of the ancient egyptians it was osiris, isis, and horus. symbolically it is embodied in the triskelion, a design of three appendages radiating from a center point, which occurs in such diverse cultures as the celtic, greek, and native american. 7: affirmation the seventh point is the essential yes, a rushing forth with purpose, an assertion that may be called male in character, although in manifest nature each sex embod- ies all three choices. the eighth point springs into being immediately as a reaction to the initial yes. when a body moves toward one thing, it moves away from something else. when water is poured from one vase to another, the first becomes empty as the second becomes full. the eighth point is rejection, a pulling away, the basic no. i

ll three choices. the eighth point springs into being immediately as a reaction to the initial yes. when a body moves toward one thing, it moves away from something else. when water is poured from one vase to another, the first becomes empty as the second becomes full. the eighth point is rejection, a pulling away, the basic no. it can be called female in the same way the seventh point was termed male. these are symbolic opposites. it should be understood, however, that in the physical world the female sex both affirms and denies. the ninth point forms immediately as the tension between yes and no manifests itself. it is the reconcilement of opposites, the center on the line between extremes. in moral terms it is the understanding that transcends good and evil. sexually, it is androgynous

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

t an early age for the shamanic profession, and then visit with him to communicate his future path in life. the shaman sees these spirits in dreams or visions. after he has accepted his fate, the spirits become his teachers and instruct him in the ways of shamanism. frequently the shaman marries one of the spirits. he has other lesser familiar spirits who act as his assistants. although i use the male gender for convenience, there have been many female shamans in different cultures. it is not exclusively a male profession. female shamans also engage in soul flight, and sometimes wed the spirits who guide their progress and instruct them in their arts. a shamaness named thorbjorg is described in detail in the norse saga of eric the red. she was probably typical for her time and culture, alt

es in appendix 111 of margaret a. murray's witch-cult in western europe shows a ratio or roughly one man for every ten women. since the practice of shamanism in pagan times was divided between men and women, it may be wondered why witchcraft, its descendent, came to be associated predominantly with women. a possible answer lies in tracing what became of the role in society that had been filled by male shamans. it is apparent that their functions of intermediaries with the spirit world and healers of the sick were assumed, respectively, by priests and physicians- and neither profession was open to women in medieval europe. to be a healer, a woman had to become a witch. to converse with the spirit realms and work magic, a woman had to become a witch. or, at least, women who healed and made c

ce of the same sort that once held men to be better weavers than women, and that continues to assert that they make better cooks. experience has demonstrated the falsehood of all these beliefs. if anything, 52. kirk and lanp, 7-8. chapter three: the land of fairy 45 the spiritualist movement has proven women better seers than men-at least, there seem to be more female mediums in modern times than male mediums, and they have attracted a larger share of attention. the same walking abroad of the fairies occurs, on a smaller scale, at twilight, the transition between day and night, when fairies are most often to be glimpsed or their music and laughter heard in the fields and woods. the scots call this transition period of the day the gloaming. fairies are also to be seen in the early mornings

at she believed fairies to be evil spirits. it was not the weak charges of witchcraft that condemned joan, but rather her custom of wearing men's clothing, which she had adopted after taking up the role of a warrior. for a woman to wear the clothing of a man was against the laws of the church, except in circumstances of dire necessity. the english deliberately took away joan's dress and left only male apparel in its place, forcing her to either fend off her jailers in the nude, or put on the clothing of a man. she was condemned as a heretic and burned alive at the stake in 1431. the executioner, geoffroy therage, confided to others shortly after the execution that he was in great fear of being damned, for "he had burned a saint" in 1920, joan was canonized by the church and transformed int

n acted as an intermediary between the totemic spirits of the tribe and its members. like the shaman, the medium usually entered a kind of trance during which the spirits of the dead communicated through her using her voice to speak, or her hands to write. the overwhelming number of mediums were women, just as in centuries past a much greater number of witches had been women. however, some of the male mediums, such as william stainton moses (1839-1892) and daniel dunglas home (1833-1886, achieved notable success, particularly in the production of physical events, such as the levitations or sudden apports (materializations) of physical objects. like the witch, the spiritualistic medium relied on a guiding spirit, called a control. it fulfilled duties similar to the familiar of the witch and

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

imits of the universe and return to focus in the east, just beyond the shining ring of the magic circle. the sounds become ever more concentrated, until they assume a vaguely humanoid shape that is bright yellow. as you watch with your astral vision, this shape defines itself into an angel ofvast size, taller even than your enlarged astral body. the angel has a human head, golden hair, a beautill male face, and white feathered wings that hang downward on its back almost to its bare feet. it wears a long robe of a light yellow color. extend your consciousness to the angel. as the angel becomes aware of your existence, gaze directly into its pale gray eyes. visualize the angel nod in acknowledgement and spread its white wings so that they fill the entire region of the east. draw several norm

se and return to focus in the south, just beyond the shining ring of the magic circle. the sounds become ever more concentrated, until they assume a vaguely humanoid shape that is bright red, the color of fresh blood. as you watch with your astral vision, this shape defines itself into an angel of vast size, taller even than your enlarged astral body. the angel has the maned, golden-red head of a male lion, and feathered white wings that hang down on its back almost to its bare feet. it wears a long robe of a bright red color. extend your consciousness to the angel. as the angel becomes aware of your existence, gaze directly into its golden eyes. visualize the angel nod its leonine head 134 moving exercises in acknowledgement and spread its white wings so that they fill the entire region o

to focus in the east, just beyond the shining ring of the magic circle. the evoking into the triangle 283 sounds become ever more concentrated, until they assume a vaguely humanoid shape that is bright yellow. as you watch with your astral vision, this shape defines itself into an angel of vast size, taller even than your enlarged astral body. the angel has a human head, golden hair, a beautiful male face, and white wings that hang downward on its back almost to its bare feet. it wears a long robe of a light yellow color. extend your consciousness to the angel. as the angel becomes aware of your existence, gaze directly into its pale gray eyes. mentally will the angel to turn outward. visualize the angel nod in acknowledgement, then turn and spread its white wings so that they fill the en

se and return to focus in the south, just beyond the shining ring of the magic circle. the sounds become ever more concentrated, until they assume a vaguely humanoid shape that is bright red, the color of fresh blood. as you watch with your astral vision, this shape defines itself into an angel of vast size, taller even than your enlarged astral body. the angel has the maned, golden-red head of a male lion, and white wings that hang down on its back almost to its bare feet. it wears a long robe of a bright red color. extend your consciousness to the angel. as the angel becomes aware of your existence, gaze directly into its golden eyes. silently will the angel to turn away from the circle and spread its wings. visualize the angel nod its leonine head in acknowledgement and turn its back to

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ngle sephirah can adequately express tetragrammaton, kabbalists also assign the most holy name to the entire tree. the point at the top of the yod) represents the nothingness (ain) that manifests itself first through kether, the primordial point. the yod itself, seed of god the father, they assign to chokmah. the first he (71, feminine and fertile, is given to binah, the great mother. the vau (i, male offspring of the union of the first two letters, kabbalists give to zlphareth, and by virtue of its numerical value, six, to the six sephiroth that lie between the three supernals and malkuth. the final he they assign to malkuth on the theory that, since the lowest sphere of emanation is passive and has no independent power, it cannot receive its own unique letter but must be given the second

e legend at a time (the book of thoth [new york: weiser, 19741, pp. 150-1) the square brackets in the above quotation are mine. crowley viewed the dynamic of the name as a series of family trines in which the father and mother (i and first h) alternately generate the son (v) and daughter (second h. the generative unit is complete in the trinity, but this trinity endlessly alternates its polarity, male-female-male giving way to male-female-female, and vice versa. the v elevates his twin sister, the second h, to the throne of the now barren mother, the first h, whom she replaces. her mature beauty arouses the creative lust of the v, who ascends to the throne of his father, the i. by this ascent he is transformed and his old identity "dies" or passes from existence. the renewed and fertile ma

v and second h combine to generate offspring, the seed of the v is purely masculine, composed only of the solid line in the binary code, and the egg of the second h is purely feminine, composed only of the broken line. in this sense, when brother and sister mature and come together to reproduce new life, they assume the pure gender identities of their parents. as immature children, they are both male and female in one, but as sexually mature adults they are of single gender. it may be more useful to think of the i and the first h not as complete male and female human figures, but as sperm and egg. with this in mind, it is easier to grasp how the v can be distinct from the i and yet at the same time embody the i within himself; and how the second h can be both the product of the first h an

contemporary with the editors of the old testament books. in the most famous incident, where abraham is tempted by god to sacrifice his first-born son, isaac, as a test of faith, it is said "and abraham built an altar there (gen. 22:9, presumably of unhewn stones in the prescribed manner. in demanding the sacrifice of isaac, god was only asking for what was rightfully his. by law, the first-born male of every mother, human or animal, belonged to god (exod. 34:19-20. the first-born males of sacrificial animals were sacrificed before the altar. the first-born males of non-sacrificial animals were simply destroyed, or redeemed by substituting a sacrificial animal. first-born sons were redeemed by the offering to the priests of five shekels of silver (num. 18:15-7, but strictly speaking they

nce the wings of the winds may be related through the banners to the signs of the zodiac, it is possible to give them distinguishing human characteristics that aid in understanding their natures. twofold division the first distinction to be made lies between the twelve occult angels under the moon, who may be regarded as female, and the twelve overt angels under the sun, who may be looked upon as male. paired angels under a single banner are related and are like brother and sister twins. the brother is the right wing, and the sister is the left wing. this polarity is expressed in the banner sigils by the invoking and banishing forms in each pair of sigils, which are mirror opposites. the female wings are under the influence of the supernal sephirah binah, understanding, which stands at the

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nineteenth century. many of randolph's ideas were transmitted to germany through a little known but extremely influential group known as the hermetic brotherhood of luxor (h.b. of l, begun by max theon (d. 1927) and peter davidson (d. 1916) probably sometime in the 1880 s. following randolph, the h.b. of l. made sex central to its metaphysical system and spiritual practice: it is the polarity of male and female energies that creates the universe, and it is sexual union of males and females that leads to the "reunion of the divine ego and to angelhood" li at the same time, however, the h.b. of l. was even more emphatic about the dangers that arise from the abuse of sexual magic. indeed, they warn that randolph himself was led to ruin by his sexual excesses.lii nonetheless, the teachings of

g and harnessing the awesome power or shakti that flows through all things. yet at the same time, as brooks, sanjukta gupta and many others have argued, tantra is really by no means the subversive, anti-social force that many western readers imagine it to be. on the contrary, it is in most cases a highly conservative tradition, which ultimately re-asserts the ritual authority and social status of male brahmins. social relations and sexual taboos are typically only violated in highly controlled ritual contexts and are generally re-asserted- indeed, reinforced- outside the boundaries of esoteric ritual "anti-caste statements should never be read outside their ritual context. returned to ordinary life, no high caste tantric would think of breaking social taboos..the ritual egalitarianism of t

and the more physical practice focused on bodily postures known as hatha yoga. his eight lectures on yoga- or "yoga for yahoos" as he described it- displays a competent grasp of the classical yoga system and would become one of the first vehicles through which yoga was transmitted to the west.lxxiii and it is also true that he made frequent use of key sanskrit terms, such as lingam and yoni, the male and female sexual organs, to explain his own magical practice. in fact, he records in his confessions that it was the indian worship of the lingam that helped change his attitudes toward sex and to see that the sexual organ can be a source of spiritual power and an object of veneration. unlike repressed and neurotic modern western society, india had long known the inherent divinity of sexuali

hindu tantric systems is the role of sexual intercourse in ritual practice. but here again there is some confusion. some authors have suggested that the primary difference lies in the way in which the sexual acts are carried out and the manner in which sexual union occurs. thus sutin argues that the key difference is that the hindu and buddhist tantrics call for a retention and sublimation of the male semen during union, while crowley calls for the ejaculation and consumption of the sexual fluids (in fact, crowley himself pointed this out in de arte magicka, chapters xiv and xvi: hindu and buddhist tantrism .call for retention of semen by the male, even in the heights of mystical sexual union. crowley followed that alchemical tradition which regarded the fluidic commingling as an 'elixir'

fluidic commingling as an 'elixir' which, when imbibed, could heighten both one's physical and spiritual state.lxxxvii actually, this is not quite correct. it is true that many later tantric texts emphasize retention of semen during union; but there are in fact many hindu tantric traditions- and arguably, the older traditions- that call for ejaculation of the semen and consumption of the combined male and female sexual fluids. according to the brhat tantrasara- one of the largest compendia of tantric ritual and iconography composed by the great 16th century author, krishnananda agamavagisha- the shedding of semen into the womb of the female partner is the ultimate "sacrificial act" for "sexual union is the libation; the sacred precept is the shedding of semen."lxxxviii the mingled sexual f

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

re caught by chains thrown over them, and the deadly spears of the blacksmiths drank their blood. after this the enemy fled to the north, and took refuge in the swamps of the delta, and in the shallows of the mediterranean sea, and horus pursued them thither. after searching for them for four days and four nights he found them, and they were speedily slain. one hundred and forty-two of them and a male hippopotamus were dragged on to the boat of ra, and there horus dug out their entrails, and hacked their carcases in pieces, which he gave to his blacksmiths and the gods who formed the crew of the boat of ra. before despatching the hippopotamus, horus leaped on to the back of the monster as a mark of his triumph, and to commemorate this event the priest of heben, the town wherein these thing

ore him in the water in the forms of crocodiles and hippopotami. at length he found them and saw them. and ra said unto horus of heben "o winged disk, thou great god and lord of heaven, seize thou them" and he hurled his lance after them, and he slew them, and worked a great overthrow of them. and he brought one hundred and forty-two enemies to the forepart of the boat [of ra, and with them was a male hippopotamus which had been among those enemies. and he hacked them in pieces with his knife, and he gave their entrails to those who were in his following, and he gave their carcases to the gods and goddesses who were in the boat of ra on the river-bank of the city of heben. then ra said unto thoth "see what mighty things heru-behutet hath performed in his deeds against the enemies: verily h

among those enemies. and he hacked them in pieces with his knife, and he gave their entrails to those who were in his following, and he gave their carcases to the gods and goddesses who were in the boat of ra on the river-bank of the city of heben. then ra said unto thoth "see what mighty things heru-behutet hath performed in his deeds against the enemies: verily he hath smitten them! and of the male hippopotamus he hath opened the mouth, and he hath speared it, and he hath mounted upon its back" then said thoth to ra "horus shall be called 'winged disk, great god, smiter of the enemies in the town of heben' from this day forward, and he shall be called 'he who standeth on the back' and 'prophet of this god' from this day forward" these are the things which happened in the lands of the ci

, thy bowels are the bowels of the cowgoddess meh-urt, who shall overthrow and cut in pieces the poison which is in thy belly and in all the members in thee, and in [all] the members of the gods in heaven, and in [all] the members of the gods on earth, and shall overthrow every poison in thee. there is no member in thee without the goddess who shall overthrow and cut in pieces the poison of every male serpent, and every female serpent, and every scorpion, and every reptile, which may be in any member of this cat which is under the knife. verily isis weaveth and nephthys spinneth against the poison. this woven garment strengtheneth this [being, i.e, horus, who is perfect in words of power, through the speech of ra heru-khuti, the great god, president of the south and north 'o evil poison wh

s is on the water, the eye of horus is with him. a great beetle spreadeth himself over him, great by reason of his grasp, produced by the gods from a child. he who is over the water appeareth in a healthy form. if he who is over the water shall be approached (or, attacked, the eye of horus, which weepeth, shall be approached "get ye back, o ye who dwell in the water, crocodiles, fish, that enemy, male dead person and female dead person, male fiend and female fiend, of every kind whatsoever, lift not up your faces, o ye who dwell in the waters, ye crocodiles and fish. when osiris journeyeth over you, permit ye him to go to busiris. let your nostrils [be closed, your throats stopped up "get ye back, seba fiends! lift ye not up your faces against him that is on the water. osiris-ra, riseth up

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

human being who comes into this world. the human being with his legs and arms spread out to the right and left is the star of five points. brain and sex live in an eternal struggle. brain must control sex. when sex overcomes the brain, then the star of five points (the human being) falls into the abyss with the feet pointing upwards and the head pointing downwards; this is the inverted star, the male goat of mendes. a human figure with the head aiming downwards and the feet aiming upwards naturally represents a demon. the entire science of gnosis is found summarized within the flaming star. many bodhisattvas (human souls of masters) have fallen inverted, like the five pointed star, with the superior ray aiming downwards and the two inferior rays aiming upwards. arcano v bienamados hermano

triangle is the center of the alchemist s microcosmos and the alchemist s macrocosmos. the sign of the mercury of the secret philosophy (the ens seminis) cannot be missed in the center of the triangle. man and woman must work with the sun and with the moon, with the gold and with the silver (sexual symbols) in order to perform the great work. nevertheless, this work is very difficult because the male goat of mendes (the black dragon) always tries to make the alchemist fall sexually. it is urgent to work with the four elements of alchemy in order to realize the great work. the alchemical macrocosmos is illuminated by the light; this is the superior triangle of the seal of solomon. the alchemical micro-cosmos is in the shadows, in the region where the souls fight against the black dragon. 7

smite the [philosophical] earth [the human organism of fornicators] with all kinds of plagues, as often as they will [according with the law- revelation 11: 4-6. disposition of the two witnesses the two witnesses are a semi-etheric, semiphysical pair of sympathetic cords that are entwined along the spinal medulla, forming the caduceus of mercury, the sacred eight, the sign of the infinite. in the male, the two witnesses depart from the right and left testicles and in the female they depart from the ovaries. these two witnesses are located to the right and left sides of the dorsal spine. the two witnesses alternatively ascend from left to right until forming a marvelous knot in that space located between the two eyebrows, thereafter they continue through the nasal cavities. the two witnesse

el cord n ganglionar que procede del lado izquierdo es fr o, lunar, y el cord n ganglionar que procede del lado derecho, es caliente, solar. este par de cordones nerviosos se anudan graciosamente en el coxis. 57 when the solar and lunar atoms of the seminal system make contact in the triveni, next to the coccyx, the kundalini awakens [the serpent of brass nachash. the sexual act among initiates, male and female, has only one objective, that of establishing a contact of opposite poles in order to awaken their kundalini. with the sexual contact, the mercury of secret philosophy multiplies (the seminal liquor increases. when the ens seminis is not ejaculated it is transmuted into seminal vapors. these vapors, at the same time, convert themselves into energies and are bipolarized into positiv

s ap stoles bebieron de la sangre contenida en el c liz, jes s tambi n bebi. la santa uni n gn stica est unida a la ultima cena por el pacto de sangre. cuando los tomos cr sticos descienden al pan y al vino, ste se convierte de hecho en la carne y la sangre del cristo. esta es la transubstanciaci n. 98 arcanum 15 let us go now to study the fifteenth arcanum of the tarot. we are going to study the male goat of mendes, typhon baphomet, the devil. the alchemist must steal the fire from the devil. when we work with the arcanum a.z.f. we steal the fire from the devil; this is how we transform ourselves into gods. the esoteric pentagram shines upon the forehead of the male goat [see image on next page. the caduceus of mercury replaces the sexual organs. in synthesis, we can state that the caduce

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thics and good sense? does the person show self-discipline or does he or she pester everybody with accounts of his or her incredible visions? these are some good criteria to test yourself and others. building a telesmatic figure and sigil when you are building this beautiful relationship with your closest and most trust-worthy friend, begin to discover clues about its nature. does your angel seem male or female? does he or she glow with certain colors? you can determine what colors are actually associated with the letters of the hebrew name (which, ideally, should be 5-7 letters. begin with the first letter. find it in the color chart (see figure 2-b. you may need to compare the color yellow yellow blue green red red-orange orange yellow-orange yellow yellow-green violet green blue blue-gr

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

atory instinct of their collective which apparently knows only one agenda: conquer, assimilate, consume! all this has been confirmed by many abductees, especially in more recent years. there is one reptilian "world" that has however been identified as being more-or-less friendly towards humans. and that is a female-dominated society in capella which has recently broken free of the greys and their male-dominated draco masters. big wonder, since female "reptilians" would probably be more in touch with their emotional/spiritual nature than would the male-dominated types "praise the lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps- psalms 148:7 as a result of the space-time-dimension travel however, or simply as a result of being fully integrated by the indwelling astral entity, many of the rept

0's came to us to explore several alien- related events in his life, and in the interview he told of a strange, although not apparently alien-oriented, episode that had haunted him since childhood. when he was ten years old, his grandmother came to visit in his home, and since the house was small, she shared his bed on the first night of her visit. during the night, the boy was awakened by a loud male voice. he couldn't understand what the voice was saying, but it sounded angry and was addressing the grandmother lying beside him. the next morning, he asked his grandmother, who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (25 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58 "what was that voice in the bedroom last night" his grandmother, with tears in her eyes, pulle

endeavor. eventually this person was discovered to have kept and maintained personal notes on his discoveries and was therefore scheduled for termination [not just "job termination. which he narrowly escaped. following 33 years of investigations, he went in to hiding in 1990: here is some data which this anonymous informant reportedly gathered on the reptilian type alien entities: average height: male- 2.0 meters; female- 1.4 meters average weight: m- 200 kilos; f- 100 kilos body temperature: m- ambient temperature; f- ambient temperature pulse/resperation: m- 40/10; f- 40/10 blood pressure: m- 80/50; f- 80/50 life expectancy: m- 60 earth years; f- 23 earth years cold-blooded like all reptiles, the reptiloid is found to flourish in a warm, tropical clime [normally artificial. big caves. wi

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

s gifts (i.e. the gifts of life) from the land of the dead, as we are told in the 'mabinogi. welsh triads allude to gwydion and amaethon doing much the same thing. in fact, this theme is so universal that mythologists refer to it by a common phrase 'the harrowing of hell. however, one might conjecture that the descent into hell, or the land of the dead, was originally accomplished, not by a solar male deity, but by a lunar female deity. it is nature herself who, in spring, returns from the underworld with her gift of abundant life. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 16 solar heroes may have laid claim to this theme much later. the very fact that we are dealing with a three-day period of absence should tell us we are dealing with a lunar, not solar, theme (a

herself who, in spring, returns from the underworld with her gift of abundant life. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 16 solar heroes may have laid claim to this theme much later. the very fact that we are dealing with a three-day period of absence should tell us we are dealing with a lunar, not solar, theme (although one must make exception for those occasional male lunar deities, such as the assyrian god, sin) at any rate, one of the nicest modern renditions of the harrowing of hell appears in many books of shadows as 'the descent of the goddess. lady day may be especially appropriate for the celebration of this theme, whether by storytelling, reading, or dramatic re-enactment. for modern witches, lady day is one of the lesser sabbats or low holidays of

) and the summer cauldron (symbol of the goddess in her bounty. the precise meaning of these two symbols, which i believe i have recently discovered, will be explored in the essay on the death of llew. but it is interesting to note here that modern witches often use these same symbols in the midsummer rituals. and one occasionally hears the alternative consecration formula 'as the spear is to the male, so the cauldron is to the female' with these mythic associations, it is no wonder that midsummer is such a joyous and magical occasion! l a m m a s: the first harvest= by mike nichols* once upon a lammas night when corn rigs are bonny, beneath the moon's unclouded light, i held awhile to annie* although in the heat of a mid-western summer it might be difficult to discern, the festival of lam

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ot proven facts; and this is the method i propose to adopt. in dealing with native races one records their folklore, the; stories and religious rites on which they base their beliefs. and actions. so why not do the same with english witches [1] witches are as often men as women, but in english a witch is always called 'she, so i will use that word, and the reader must understand it to mean either male of female [2] see note 1 (page 188- i must first explain why i claim to speak of things note generally known. i have been interested in magic and kindred subjects all my life, and have made a collection of? magical instruments and charms. these studies led me to spiritualist and other societies, and i met some people who claimed to have known me in a past life. here i must say that, though i

is possible that their method may be superior to that of witchcraft; possibly they know the witches' system and all the teaching it involves and keep it as a trade secret. witches are also taught that in some mysterious way 'inside the circle they are between the worlds (this world and the next, and 'that which happens between the worlds does not concern this world. to form this battery of wills, male and female intelligences are necessary in couples. in practice these are usually husband and wife, but there are younger people who often form attachments which usually end in marriage. there are also, of course, some unattached people, or some whose respective spouses are for some reason or other not members of the cult. i have heard fierce purists declare that no married man or woman should

god of death and hunting, or his representative, seems at one time to have taken the lead in the cult, and man became the master. but it is emphasised that because of her beauty, sweetness and goodness, man places woman, as the god placed the goddess, in the chief place, so that woman is dominant in the cult practice. what probably happened was this: there was an organised tribal religion, with a male tribal god, and an order of priestesses and their husbands who looked after the magic. the chief priest of the tribal cult was dominant when he attended their meetings, but in his absence the priestess ruled. my witches speak of him as god of 'death and what lies beyond: by this they not only mean the life in the next world but resurrection (or reincarnation. he rules a sort of happy hunting

mistress often helped her husband with his craft; she could foretell his future, when he would die, or whom he would marry after her death or after she left him; but while the association lasted she was usually very jealous. fairy mistresses were said to steal babies and probably they did so to make the race grow stronger. beautiful girls were regularly kidnapped as brides for the fairy king, and male fairies often persuaded girls to leave home, as the highlanders in scotland used to supply themselves with girls from the lowlands three hundred years ago by eloping with them or kidnapping them. the clan of macleods of the isles was founded by leod, son of olaf the black, king of man, who was son of harold hardraga, the norse king who was killed at the battle of stamford bridge, 1066. his gr

blessed in the mabinogion, the bleeding head in the story of peredur, and others, all bringers of victory and prosperity, reminiscent of the old legends of adonis and astarte, and of horus who was begotten by the dead osiris. the templars may have attempted practices which, while sheer heresy to a witch, were founded on her methods. witches teach that to work magic you must start with a couple, a male and a female intelligence being necessary, and they must be in sympathy with each other; and they find that in practice they become fond of each other. sometimes it is undesirable that they should fall in love. witches have methods by which they try to prevent this, but they are not always successful. for this reason, they say, the goddess has strictly forbidden a man to be initiated by or to

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

ms, jewish prayers which christians continued to pray from the earliest christian times, as indeed jesus himself did. elizabeth johnson women, earth and creator spirit pg. 22 three basic relationships: human beings with nature, among themselves, and with god. in each instance the major classical pattern of relationship is shaped by hierarchical dualism, that is, modeled on the dominance of ruling male elites and the subjugation of what is identified as female, cosmic, or foreign, an underclass with only instrumental value. as the ecological crisis makes crystal clear, the polarization of each pair s terms is nothing short of disastrous in its interconnected effects. our eyes have been blinded to the sacredness of the earth, which is linked to the exclusion of women from the 285 sphere of t

she wants to return, all the better. if not, she will have to accept that one hundred of her children will die every day. the angels went after her, finally locating her in the sea, in the powerful waters in which the egyptians were destined to perish. they told her what god had said, and she did not want to return (alphabet of ben sira 23a-b) and god created the human species in god s own image. male and female created god them (genesis 1:27) 286 scottish gaelic poetry editor s note: this collection is from the book nuadh bardachd/ modern scottish gaelic poetry (you won t find it in the library) with collections from many authors with english translations. i have met and talked with these authors while in scotland. the heron by sorley maclean a pale yellow moon on the skyline, the heart o

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

ce are called wholenesses--holotetes in greek. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the monad, unity, or the number one received very numerous meanings. photius tells us that the pythagoreans gave it the following names- mmeeaanni iings of the monad, number one 1. god, the first of all things; the maker of all things. 2. intellect, the source of all ideas. 3. male and female--both together produce all things; from the odd proceed both odd and even. 4. matter, the last development of universality. 5. chaos, which resembles the infinite, indifferentiation. 6. confusion. 7. commixion. 8. obscurity, because in the ineffable principle of things, of which it is the image, all is confused, vague and in darkness. 34. 9. a chasm, as a void. numbers--th eir occu

, just as erato, from desiring its opposite for a partner. in astronomy, we speak of 2 nodes, caput and cauda draconis; and in astrology of 2 aspects of the planets, benefic and malefic. the two pillars ikin and boz at the entrance of king solomon s temple are notable symbols of strength and stability. they are comparable to the two beings, kratos and bia, who appear in the play by eschylus, as a male and a female potency, who bind prometheus. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the chinese speak of blue as the color of heaven, because made up of red, male and black, female; of the active and the passive; the brilliant and the obscure. the followers of pythagoras spoke of two kinds of enjoyment. first, lasciviousness and indulgence of the belly, like

r hair and danced, singing eve, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott eve, by whom came the sin. see clemens alexandrinus, protrept 9. 38. duality introduces us to the fatal alternative to unity or good, namely evil; and to many other human and natural contrasts--night and day, light and darkness, wet and dry, hot and cold, health and disease, truth and error, male and female, which man having fallen from his high estate, from spirit to matter, cannot avoid associating himself with. two is a number of mourning and death, misfortunes are apt to follow; turn to our history of england, see the unhappiness of kings numbered the second of each name--william ii, edward ii, and richard ii. of england were all murdered. the romans dedicated the 2nd month to plu

bald. which things point a moral as well as adorn a tale. given two dry firebrands of wood and one of green, the dry will destroy the green. two dogs once killed a lion, so the minority must at last always give way to a majority. the talmud argues that adam had two faces. some say one before and one behind, while others say one looked to right and one to the left. others say that adam was both a male and a female. others say that eve was made from his thirteenth rib, and was not drawn out from his head, lest she should be vain. not from his eyes, lest she should be wanton; not from his mouth, lest she should talk to much; not from his ears, lest she should be an eavesdropper; not from his feet, lest she should be a gadabout; and not from his heart, lest she should be numbers--th eir occu

re were two witnesses of the resurrection and two of the ascension. 40. the book of revelation of st. john the divine speaks of two witnesses, two olive trees and two candlesticks. if a dream was dreamed two times it foretold a truth; as in genesis xli. judges vi, first book of kings, chapters ix. and xi. the animal kingdom shows all sexual generation to arise from pairs of contrasted beings, the male and female; the microscope now discovers to us the spermatozoon and the ovum, but the truth was known of old to phinumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott losophers of india, egypt and the gnostics, in whose lore we find human generation to spring from the serpent and the egg# 41. chapter s ix the triad. three, 3. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic v

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

. forty-five and linear circularity (a)temporal poetics 89 fifty-two connote two permutations of yhwh, ywd he waw he (10+6+4 5+1 6+1+6 5+1) and ywd hh ww hh (10+6+4 5+5 6+6 5+5) two gesticulations of the name that correspondingly symbolize overflowing masculine mercy and constricting feminine judgment. the temporalizing of the supernal will is manifest in the dyad of gender dimorphism,203 but the male and female potencies comprise the lower seven aspects, which correspond to the seven days of creation, also associated with seven of the eight kings of edom. in contrast to the lower seven, in the upper three the temporal deportment (hanhagat ha-zeman, which is identified as well as the root of time (shoresh ha-zeman, is fixed everlastingly. in that root, temporality and eternality are set no

ascend to the mother in the seventh millennium, to the secret of eternality [sod ha-nishiyyut, and there they will receive their reward and they will rise from level to level until arikh anpin who is above time, for his growth is not by way of time as in the case of ze eir anpin. the division of time into five gradations minutes, hours, days, months, and years is a deep matter, for time is in the male and female, the secret of the forty-five and fifty-two.204 kabbalistically interpreting the eschatological conception of the cosmic sabbatical cycle transmitted in the name of r. qatina six thousand years of history followed by a thousand years of desolation205 haver characterizes the seventh millennium as the elevation of everything to the mother, a standard designation of the third emanatio

depicted both as the return of all things to the womb of binah, the maternal fountainhead in the sefirotic pleroma, and as the elevation of malkhut to the head of her husband. the latter image conveys the asceticism appropriate to redemption, a point underscored by the symbolic connection between binah, the worldto- come, and yom kippur. in her transformed condition, the female is a crown on the male rather than a separate vessel to receive the seminal fluid, and consequently there is no intercourse. the transposition of the female to the status of the crown signifies, therefore, the ascetic eroticism suitable to the final phase of salvation.211 the temporal dimension of this transmutation is underscored by the fact that the seventh millennium is associated with the secret of eternality

with arikh anpin, literally the longfaced and metaphorically the long-suffering, the supreme manifestation of the godhead, keter, which is above time. the root of time is positioned in ze eir anpin, literally the short-faced and metaphorically the impatient, the lower gradation, which, in contrast to arikh anpin, is characterized by the opposition of left and right, judgment and mercy, female and male, night and day. we may deduce from this that temporality is inherently connected to a binary structure, the fluctuation from darkness to light, engendered in kabbalistic literature respectively as feminine and masculine, whereas the attribute linear circularity (a)temporal poetics 91 that is beyond polarity and the dimorphic interplay of gender, the moment/ place characterized by the coincide

n terminology is troped in phallic symbolism, whereas space as the curbed receptacle, emptiness gauged by the degree of its vacuity, is gendered as feminine, the capacity to receive that gives structure through imposing limit on the power to overflow. insofar as time is the divine impulse, which is marked by the dialectic of contracting and extending, it stands to reason that it will exhibit both male and female characteristics, and that these will correspond respectively to light and darkness, day and night. yet, as suggested by the image in one bahiric passage the precious pearl that is at once the inseminating seed and the inseminated womb that gives birth237 the nocturnal and diurnal aspects are both localized in what i have called the androgynous phallus in an effort to indicate that

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

er ahrimanic shadow will do so by techniques of willed- self-fascination, as meditation grows deeper visualize the shadow taking from and rising up. 20 leviathan, samael and lilith that samael is considered the qlippothic gateway towards self-deification is not essentially a new concept, but often misunderstood. the symbolism of this fallen angel is based within his connection (i label the gender male due to the solar aspects of this spirit, while lilith is female and lunar) of asmoday or ashamdon, a yezidic archangel. samael is considered to some extent connected with the roman light bearer, lucifer whom brings wisdom to mankind. when lucifer becomes the shadow bringer (noctifer) he is revealed as the ancient prince of darkness, set. the hidden gateway within the order of phosphorus is th

miliar and exterior daemon may seek further sexual congress via dreams. the sigil of infernal union is the gateway towards qlippothic awakening, which we may unite the shadow with the light, therefore reaching towards the depths and heights of beauty! leviathan surrounds the averse pentagram in the hebrew letters lvthn. leviathan is indeed the hebraic sea dragon known through many cultures as the male counterpart of tiamat, the ourabouris, tanin iver, the blind dragon. it is by all secrets now known the mystical marriage of daemonic opposites was through the unconscious link of leviathan, whom brought both spirits together in union. leviathan is the timeless aspect of being, as by the fall along with lucifer leviathan perceived the self and by entering the great oceans centered itself in t

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

of swinburn's laus veneris "i let mine eyes have all their will of thee i seal myself upon thee with my might" as for the women, the ferocious glitter of their eyes was almost terrifying. one of them, true, would have joined the happy warriors below; but the butler roughly pulled her back, saying in a shocked voice "madame est normale (i enjoyed that) others consoled themselves by capturing those males who were too timid to risk the jump. i swallowed a last glass of champagne, and then "je filai a l'anglais" summary: a pleasant time was had by all_ note for political economists: the woman took 10,000 francs (at about 125 to the oe; she took three weeks in hospital and three weeks' holiday between the shows. she was, or had been, the mistress of a minister magic without tears get any book f

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

hold it for more than a minute 'you'll make it cloudy' she told him 'later i'll teach you how to use it, but you've had enough for one day. now come and get your tea' it would be years before he discovered that he was the last of a line of witches dating back to the fifteenth century; that the initiation from which he was still smarting was a pale replica of those once carried out in sparta when males were emasculated so as to become priests ofthe moon goddess. ages would pass before he tried turning his powers to evil to gain himself a fortune; before his misuse of them lost him the person he loved. this was 1933 and alex sanders was just a bewildered child who believed he and his grandmother were the last two witches left unburnt. 14 2 :jff(agic ctcbilbboob left to himself, alex might h

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust mantra sastra which of course is in the hands of the knowers" from some thoughts on the gita. 81* first the (point, the monad, bythus(the deep, the unknown and unknowable father. then the (triangle, bythus and the first emanated pair or duad, nous (mind) and its syzygy aletheia (truth. then the (square, the dual duad, tetractys or quaternary, two males, the logos (word) and anthropos (man, two females, their syzygies= zoe (life) and ekklesia (the church or assembly, seven in all. the triangle the potentiality of spirit, the square the potentiality of matter; the vertical straight line the potency of spirit, and the horizontal the potency of matter. next comes the pentagram, the pentad, the mysterious symbol of the manasaputras or sons of w

ow in silence and ignorance the unspeakable mystery of that which is called by the vedantins, parabrahman" s. d, i, 352. 167 90: bible. proverbs iv, 18. 168 91: the lunar pitris "the great chohans called the lords of the moon, of the airy bodies "bring forth men" they were told "men of your nature. give them their forms within. she (mother earth) will build coverings without (for external bodies. males females will they be. lords of the flame also..they went each on his allotted lands: seven of them each on his lot. the lords of the flame remained behind. they would not go. they would not create" stanza iii, 12, 13, s. d, ii, 79, 81. 169 92: the lunar pitris created the physical man. s. d, i, 114, 197. they exist in three great classes. 1. the most developed. they form, in round one, the s

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e is the second adam. genesis, and the mysteries upon which it was fabricated, came from egypt. the "god" of the 1st chapter of genesis is the logos, and the "lord god" of the 2nd chapter the creative elohim- the lower powers* thus saith pymander "this is the mystery that to this day was hidden. nature being mingled with the heavenly man (elohim, or dhyanis, brought forth a wonder. seven men, all males and females (hermaphrodite. according to the nature of the seven governors- book ii. v. 29- or the seven hosts of the pitris or elohim, who projected or created him. this is very clear, but yet, see the interpretations of even our modern theologians, men supposed to be intellectual and learned! in the "theological and philosophical works of hermes trismegistus, christian) neoplatonist" a wor

iri was the "holy fires" which created on seven localities of the island of electria (or samothrace) the "kabir born of the holy lemnos (the island sacred to vulcan. according to pindar (see "philosophumena" miller's edition, p. 98, this kabir, whose name was adamas, was, in the traditions of lemnos, the type of the primitive man born from the bosom of the earth. he was the archetype of the first males in the order of generation, and was one of the seven autochthonous ancestors or progenitors of mankind (ibid, p. 108. if, while coupling with this the fact that samothrace was colonised by the phoenicians, and before them by the mysterious pelasgians who came from the east, one remembers also the identity of the mystery gods of the phoenicians, chaldeans, and israelites, it will be easy to d

t dry land appear" and now comes the traditional peg whereunto is hung the esoteric portion of the kabalistic interpretation. 12. the great chohans (lords, called the lords of the moon, of the airy bodies (a "bring forth men (they were told, men of your nature. give them (i.e, the jivas or monads) their forms within. she (mother earth or nature) will build coverings without (external bodies (for) males-females will they be. lords of the flame, also (a) who are the lords of the moon? in india they are called pitris or "lunar ancestors" but in the hebrew scrolls it is jehovah himself who is the "lord of the moon" collectively as the host, and also as one of the elohim. the astronomy of the hebrews and their observance of times was regulated by the moon. a kabalist, having shown that "daniel

yaho. prof. gibbs, however, suggests its punctuation thus[[hebrew (ye-hou-vih; and he cut the gordian knot of its true occult meaning. for in this last form, as a hebrew verb, it means "he will- be* it was also derived from the chaldaic verb[[hebrew] or[[hebrew] eue (eva) or eua (eva "to be" and so it was, since from enosh, the "son of man" only, were the truly human races to begin and "to be" as males and females. this statement receives further corroboration, inasmuch as parkhurst makes the verb[[hebrew] to mean (1 "to[[footnote(s* see for comparison hosea, xii. 6, where it is so punctuated[[vol. 2, page] 130 the secret doctrine. fall down (i.e. into generation or matter; and (2 "to be, to continue- as a race. the aspirate of the word eua (eva "to be" being[[hebrew] heve (eve, which is t

aim with far more reason that the manes mean their manus, and that mania is the female manu (see ramayana) mania is ila or ida, the wife and daughter of vaivasvata manu, from whom "he begat the race of manus" like rhea, the mother of the titans, she is the earth (sayana making her the goddess of the earth, and she is but the second edition and repetition of vach. both ida and vach are turned into males and females; ida becoming sudyumna, and vach "the female viraj" turning into a woman in order to punish the gandharvas; one version referring to cosmic and divine theogony, the other to the later period. the manes and mania of arnobius are names of indian origin, appropriated by the greeks and latins and disfigured by them. thus it is no accident, but the result of one archaic doctrine commo

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ties- the father and the son, while space and air in general, or that expanse of heaven called noot by the egyptians, was the concealed spirit or breath of the two. these "father and son" were interchangeable in their functions and worked harmoniously together in their effects upon terrestrial nature and humanity; hence they were regarded as one, though two in personified entities. they were both males, and both had their distinct and also collaborative work in the causative generation of humanity. so much from the astronomical and cosmic standpoints viewed and expressed in symbolical language- which became in our last races theological and dogmatic. but behind this veil of cosmic and astrological symbols, there were the occult mysteries of anthropography and the primeval genesis of man. a

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

of starting slowly and gradually building up, getting faster and faster, until the final explosion of the climax. within the circle this can be done by a single couple, by a whole coven, or by a solitary witch, as you will see. lesson eleven: magick/ 167 168 i auckland's complete book of witchcraft start out as usual with a short meditation on what you want to achieve. then take up positions with males and females, in pairs, kneeling facing one another (i will deal with the solitary in a moment. with eyes closed, allow your hands to pass slowly over your partner's body, stroking and caressing. this should not be hurried and the object, of course, is to bring about sexual arousal. when ready, the man should sit cross-legged with the woman sitting on top of him, facing him, and with his peni

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

upernatural specialists were also known to dress in styles suggesting sexual inversion. one account from the post-emancipation period tells of "reverend dr. h" in virginia, a conjurer who "had his hair braided like a woman, and [had] rings in his ears" gender mutability may have been a dramatic means by which conjure practitioners exploited their reputations as eccentric individuals.[20] although males appear to be more prominent in nineteenthand early twentieth-century accounts of conjurers, african american female practitioners apparently made their mark in significant numbers as well. charles colcock jones, jr, a white southern historian and namesake of a prominent antebellum missionary, alleged that conjure women predominated in black communities in the coastal regions of georgia and t

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opulation by simple means has created the basis for a national security crisis. the government of el salvador failed to use our programmes to lower their population. now they get a civil war because of it..there will be dislocation and food shortages. they still have too many people there."64 some more of mr ferguson's little gems include "to reduce the population quickly you have to pull all the males into the fighting and kill significant numbers of fertile, child-bearing age, females [speaking of the civil war in el salvador he said] you are killing a small number of males and not enough fertile females to do the job on population..if the war went on for 30 to 40 years like this, then you might accomplish something. unfortunately [sic, we don't have too many instances like that to study

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h humans. the sumerian tablets go much further than genesis in explaining this interbreeding. they describe how the anunnaki systematically set out to create a slave race, later called homo sapiens, to serve their agenda and how they began this quest, amid much trial and error, using what we call today test-tube methods. this is described in the tablets, and they tell of how the sperm of anunnaki males was used to fertilise human eggs before they were transplanted to anunnaki females to be birthed. all this appears to have first happened hundreds of thousands of years ago, but has continued ever since on various scales. i think many of the stories mentioned in the tablets refer to events in lemuria and atlantis. all this makes more understandable the countless stories told today by people

oyal families of europe, prince philip at the pinnacle. he stands, like most of the contemporary european monarchy, in the charlemagne, merovingian, aenean bloodline. but he is its current head. i am certain that his maternal chromosomes are in the current "antichrist" nephilim. prince philip..is the leading biological descendent of the "reptilians, as you call them. immediately below him are the males of my family line [rothschilds] like a court of ministers in charge of logistics and operations. the current monarchs of the netherlands, spain, and some of the old austrian nobility [habsburgs] are next in occult power and in the conspiracy."5 there is a lot of background to prince philip and the windsors in the biggest secret. other information has come from the victims of the illuminati m

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

cteristics are not present. we find the same tendency appearing in a modified form in the civilised adult. the highest type of man is not a hirsute gorilla, nor is the highest type of woman an exaggerated mammal. the tendency of evolution in civilisation is to an approxiniation of type between the sexes so far as the secondary sexual characteristics are concerned. what percentage of city-dwelling males could grow a really patriarchal beard? the primary sexual character, however, must be maintained unimpaired or the race speedily dies out, and we have no reason to believe that this is the mystical qabala page 90 case even among our most epicene moderns, who fill the divorce courts with abundant evidence of their overflowing philoprogenitiveness. 32. these things we can understand in the lig

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ous form of insanity known to alienists called folie des deux, in which two people intimately associated together share the same delusions. it is usually found in such cases that one is definitely insane, and that the other is of a hysterical type and has become imbued with the delusions of her associate by means of suggestion. i use the feminine pronoun because this form of insanity is rare with males. it usually occurs with two sisters, or with two women living together. there is another pitfall for which the inexperienced do well to watch out in their dealings with the person who complains of an occult attack. insanity may be periodic in its manifestation, outbreaks of acute mania alternating with periods of complete sanity. this periodic aspect should always be watched for in the case

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

the sisterhood administers the order on a day-to-day basis. the female members may hold position as either sophias, who lead with their wisdom; high priestesses, who keep the rituals; amazons, who defend the way of life; or maidens, who assist with their strength of mind and spirit. the gargareans and philos assist the sisterhood by protecting their sacred ways. only females may become initiates. males may become part of the order, but only as gargareans and philos. the artemisian order may be contacted through oriethyia at p.o. box 7184, capitol station, albany, ny 12224. website: http//www.artemisian.org/sanct.html. sources: hopman, ellen evert, and lawrence bond. people of the earth: the new pagans speak out. rochester, vt: destiny books, 1996. artephius (d. ca. 1119) a well-known expon

l to the hopi vision of their role as the people of balance, who are acting on behalf of all humankind. banyacya s first actions had some immediacy to them. in 1952 he organized a caravan to travel among the native american people, encouraging the revival of interest in culture and ways. the next year he set up a meeting with president eisenhower to gain conscientious objector status for the hopi males. he also traveled to the un building in new york to present the hopi message. soon afterwards he produced a passport as a citizen of the hopi nation and began to travel the world using it. during his many years of travel, he went across central europe to moscow and on another occasion to japan. most of his years were spent in the western united states. of the four messengers, banyacya lived

spiritualism. 2 vols. london, 1902. reprinted as mediums of the 19th century. 2 vols. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1963. davis, courtney (1946) artist courtney davis, a major voice in the contemporary revival of celtic paganism, was born on october 31, 1946, in blackwood, south wales. he grew up in london where he attended bransbury school for boys. much of the normal activity pursued by males was denied to him due to chronic back problems, and as a young man in the late 1960s he had to have major surgery on his back. during the period of recovery he had the first of a series of mystical experiences. he felt that his departed grandmother was massaging his body bringing healing powers to bear. he then had a vision of the wall of a hospital ward opening to a brilliant light and othe

nce and love of christ, and the catholic authorities took extreme measures to suppress what they considered a morbid enthusiasm for the act. in latin american countries, flagellation still occurs at religious processions of penitentes. symbolic whippings have also been associated with certain tibetan and mongolian sects, and some american indian tribes used whipping to test the endurance of young males in ritual ordeals. in the witchcraft movement of the mid-twentieth century, flagellation was introduced by gerald gardner; it is used both as a means of exciting psychic awareness and as a disciplinary measure. the persistent and widespread practice of flagellation both as a religious ritual and in sadomasochistic deviations appears to be based on the intense emotional and sexual sensations

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y of v. s. apete. members of the order seek to reestablish the natural, divine order found in pre-aryan shaivism, but with an emphasis on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered tantra. the outer order is open to all napunsakas (people who define themselves as other than heterosexual; affiliates are considered associate members. an inner order, the cultus skanda-karttikeya (cs-k, is open to gay males only, and only upon formal, in-person diksha, or initiation. the focus of the cs-k is on gay tantra with special emphasis on the sadhana (or worship or more properly, adoration) of the hindu deity skanda as patron of gays, in his many forms (kumara, marugan, etc. the current head of the order of napunsakas in the west and the cultus skanda-karttikeya is known by his religious name, sahajanan

agician residing in chicago, illinois, who noted that while a new form of magical gnostic teachings, master leo s perspective was very close to his own and that of kenneth grant, the head of the ordo templi orientis organization based in london, england. following the opening of the path of gnostic light, a set of inner orders were created. they include the order of the gnostic black serpent (for males, the order of the gnostic black dove (for females, the order of the gnostic black star (for both males and females) and a fourth order known only by its initials, p.o.k.a. included in the work of these orders is the practice of left-hand tantra, that is, sex magick. the teachings of the path are a path of self-exploration that begins in the direct experience of one s personal nature and the

rit paintings; a mrs. suydam, for immunity to fire; annie eva fay, lulu hurst, annie abbot, and a miss richardson, for feats of strength; etta roberts and a mrs. bliss, for materializations; mary m. hardy, for paraffin wax molds (see plastics; william eglinton, for slate writing; and mary murphy- lydy, for direct voice. composition and conditions of the seance ideally, according to spiritualists, males and females should be about equally represented at seances. the majority of the sitters should not be too old. young sitters provide favorable conditions if their attitude is serious and not flippant. persons of questionable moral character should not be admitted into the circle. those in ill health, preoccupied, or nervous should withdraw. skepticism does not prevent success, but the effect

merican gnostic church, founded in 1985, headed by the rev. james m. martin. the church serves as an umbrella organization for several closely related spiritual movements, each claiming some form of illumination by stellar-gnosis. through it, the sss is closely related to the order of napunsakas in the west (on, a tantrick order for non-heterosexuals. the on exists through an outer order for both males and females, though its inner order, the cultus skanda-karttikeya (cs-k, is open only to males. the tantra (from hinduism) and thelema (the magical system developed by aleister crowley) systems have a common interest in sex magick, though traditionally they approach sexuality from different perspectives. the sss has a webpage at http//www.wild.au/sss/index.html. sources: servants of the star

were disillusioned; others followed rival leaders. visions came to a wool comber named john wroe, another southcott follower, who came into prominence when he challenged turner s original prophecy of october 14, 1820, as the date of birth of shiloh. wroe now assumed control of turner s group, and his followers proclaimed themselves christian israelites. wroe dictated new laws for the final days. males were to be circumcised, and everyone was to eat only kosher meat. men had to wear dark, broad-brimmed hats and special clothing; even the sober dress for women was stipulated in great detail. men were also to give up shaving and wear beards. everyone was to give up snuff, tobacco, and alcohol. those who transgressed these laws were to be severely beaten. one child died after circumcision and

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a whistling sigh sounded. she looked up, and on the other side of the desk stood four tiny people, apparently members of a family: a couple and their two children. all looked strikingly alike. all were youthful in appearance, and the children were nearly the height of the ostensible parents. they were so short that they barely reached the level of the desk. they were all expensively dressed, the males in tailored suits, the females in pastel peach dresses. their hair did not look real. odd as it seemed, simpson suspected that they were wearing wigs. in a falsetto voice the man said, do you have a room to stay? do you have a room to stay? she told him what the charges would be, but he seemed not to understand what she had said. he turned to his female companion as if expecting her to clari

kely hoaxes, and others have not been well investigated. nonetheless, as of 1992, he had found eleven such reports. one such case is said to have occurred on august 28, 1963, at sagrada familia, br a z i l. t h ree boys witnessed the sudden appearance of a beam of light in their backyard. in s i d e the light, a transparent, ball-shaped object h ove red. inside it, four one-eyed entities, t h ree males and one female, clad in tight coveralls, we re visible. one stepped out of the ufo and floated in the air, communicating first by gestures, then by telepathy, to the c h i l d ren (the content of the message is not s p e c i fied. the being returned to the craft, which then depart e d. at torrent, argentina, in february 1965, farm laborers, returning home late at night from hunting, noticed

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

rology; its whole way of life is directed towards achieving a beneficial relationship with the stars. the aim of producing a good human stock by selective breeding, which is one of the daring innovations for which campanella's work is most famous, has really nothing to do with genetics as we understand it. it is concerned with choosing the right astrological moment for conception, and with mating males and females in accordance with their astrological temperaments. the work is entirely misunderstood if it is viewed as a blue-print for a well-governed state in any modern 369 giordano bruno and tommaso campanella sense. the city is arranged so as to be right with the stars, and thence flows all its happiness, health, and virtue. it is surely clear that the head priest, and his assistants, wh

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on't, it kicks back to the previous leader to try someone else. if the outgoing leader really doesn't want to nominate, he or she will ask for a volunteer. who gets to do the other stuff? usually we ask for volunteers for the quarter, goddess and god invocations. if there are more volunteers than needed, it's the leader's choice. this isn't a question of quality; it's usually a matter of balance (males and females, old people and new people, whatever. what's a petition? after the invocations are completed, the leader usually does a transition to the body of the ritual, which normally consists of people's personal workings, which are frequently of the "asking for something" persuasion, hence the word "petition, which is used to mean anyone's personal contribution. other than workings for a

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

exalted place in the deity, that even the great mother of the gods, as we have seen, is represented as male. the androgynous or plural form of the ancient phoenician god aleim, the creator referred to in the opening chapter of genesis, is clearly apparent. this god, speaking to his counterpart, wisdom, the female energy, says "let us make man in our own image, in our own likeness" and accordingly males and females are produced. by those whose duty it has been in the past to prove that the deity here represented is composed only of the masculine attributes, we are given to understand that god was really "speaking to himself" and that in his divine cogitations excessive modesty dictated the "polite form of speech; he did not, therefore, say exactly what he meant, or at least did not mean pre

ark was female, but that the god element or reproductive principle within the ark was both female and male, is a fact which has been lost sight of during the historic period, or during those ages of the world in which the attempt has been made to prove nature motherless. all the germs and living creatures which were within the ark, and which were to reanimate the earth, were in pairs, females and males; and, besides, the dove (female, the emblem of peace, was also present. even noah himself was produced from an egg, which, as we have seen, is the symbol of venus, or universal womanhood. in after ages the female principle was not mentioned, but, on the contrary, was concealed beneath convenient symbols; and as the philosophical ideas underlying natural religion were lost or forgotten, and m

at of the sexes" although the creative principle was adored under its representatives, the yoni and the lingham, still the principal object seems to have been, when administering the rites pertaining to the worship of cybele, to ignore sex and the usual sex distinctions; hence we find that, in order to assume an androgynous appearance, the priestesses of this goddess officiated in the costumes of males, while priests appeared in the dress peculiar to females. however, that the sensuous element was to a certain extent already assuming dominion over the higher nature, and that priests were regarded as being incapable of self-control, is observed in the fact that in the later ages of female worship one of the principal requirements of a priest of cybele was castration. it is the opinion of gr

heir gods as actual beings, while in reality "they were only the representations of the attributes and principles of nature" unlike the religions which succeeded it, egyptian mythology, as understood by the learned, was essentially philosophical, and dealt with abstractions and principles rather than with personalities. notwithstanding the importance which in process of time came to be claimed by males, and the consequent stimulation which was given to the animal tendencies, it is evident, from certain historical and undeniable proofs in connection with this subject, that although woman's power in egypt, as in all other countries, gradually became weakened, the effect of her influence on manners and social customs was never wholly extinguished. regarding the existence of polygamy, it has b

ysteries surrounding the ancient gods and the significance of the symbols of worship belonging to the earliest historic times, will fail to note the attempt which has been made in later ages to conceal the fact that the deity worshipped in very ancient times was female. neither will he fail to observe the modus operandi by which the attributes and prerogatives of this deity have been shifted upon males--usually deified monarchs. after priestcraft and its counterpart, monarchial rule, had robbed the people of all their natural rights, kings assumed not alone the governing functions, but arrogated to themselves the symbols, titles, and attributes of the dual deity. the reigning monarch became not only the temporal ruler and priest, but was actually god himself, the female principle being con

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le effect. to perambulate against the sun was called widdershins, and was an evil omen and act. freemasonry, as one special development of a long series of monotheistic secret associations, being constituted on a basis of masonic operations by masculine operatives, has perhaps necessarily excluded females; many military and hierarchical mystical societies have also from their essence consisted of males alone.thevery low state of female culture in the ancient world and duringthemiddle ages, also no doubt contributed towards the exclusion of women from mystic rites and from active interference with religious ceremonies; an exclusion which, were we about to constitute a new form of concealed worship, would hardly be tolerated in the present year of grace, and certainly could not be defended i

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mbalmed alike in old-german and norse tradition; and the faculty of somnambulism still shews itself most of all in women. then again, looked at from one side, the art of magic must have been chiefly monopolized by old women, who, dead to love and labour, fixed all their thoughts and endeavours on hidden science^ suorri in his curious account of the origin of magic (yno-1. s. cap. 7) says, that to males (karlmonnum) it seemed undignified to dabble in a doubtful art, so they taught it the fjoddesses or priestesses, for gysjur can mean either. according to differences of national sentiment, the norns and volvas (p. 403, the valkyrs and swan-maids approximate to divine beings or sorceresses. on all this put together, on a mixture of natural, legendary and imagined facts, rest the medieval noti

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ally the woodsprites. grendeps nature borders on those of giants and gods. not so with the females however: the wild women and female nixes drop into the class of fortune-telling swan-maids who are of human kind, while the elfins that present the drinking-horn melt into the circle of valkyrs; and here again we recognise a general beauty pervading all the female spirits, and raising them above the males, whose characteristics come out more individually. in wichtels, dwarfs and goblins, especially in that children s bugbear the man ruprecht, there shews itself a comic faculty derived from the oldest times. through the whole existence of elves, nixes, and goblins there runs a low under-current of the unsatisfied, disconsolate: they do not rightly know how to turn their glorious gifts to accou

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

and in harmony with similar work being done in the rosicrucian universities and colleges of other lands* see photographs of university on page 17 [56] interesting facts for our members to explain to inquirers about amorc the following facts are based upon an examination of 1,000 application blanks taken at random from our files. they are typical, therefore, of the entire membership. generalities males, 51; females, 49; average age of all members, thirtynine; average age of males, forty; average of females, thirty-eight. in regard to marriage, 59% are married. these figures show that the average member is a serious person with certain responsibilities and problems, and not an esthetic dreamer. social and political each member of the rosicrucian order must pledge allegiance to the flag of t

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poured over the stela. most of the spells center on a briefly stated mythical event, such as ra- atum transforming himself into a mongoose to kill apophis. a few are fleshed out into narratives with lively dialogue. in the longest of these dramatized spells, isis is imprisoned by seth but escapes to the marshes of chemmis, where she gives birth to horus. isis is depicted as oppressed by powerful males, struggling with poverty, and in constant fear of losing her child. this was probably the lot of most ordinary women in ancient egypt. the cippi texts raise the question that must be answered by every religion: if god is good, why do innocent children suffer? an angry attitude toward divine indifference is put in the mouth of isis. her challenge to the sun god to help her dying child is one

t. they may originally have embodied the strong currents in the primeval waters. the ogdoad of hermopolis was sometimes treated as identical with the group of four or eight heh gods created by shu to help him support the sky. they in turn were sometimes identified with the eastern souls, the eight baboons who helped the sun to rise. the ogdoad could be represented in human form, but sometimes the males have frog or jackal heads and the females snake heads. the amphibian and snake forms of the ogdoad were thought of as mating in and fertilizing the primeval waters. an image of the waters alive with glutinous frog spawn may be what the egyptians had in mind. in some sources, the ogdoad seem to be forces that the creator has to subdue before the work of creation can begin. in others they simp

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

n a brotherly way. if you're having a party and you put four queens in the fifth circle, you can be sure it will be a successful party. three queens in the twelfth circle would greatly increase the scandal and gossip. two queens in the tenth would gain support from the people in your working environment. four jacks- well, that's a handy hand for a homosexual interested in increasing interest from males. three jacks has to do with false friends; if you are wondering about a business partner or mate, put the three jacks in the proper circle and you'll immediately get information from the partner's own false friends. four tens will insure great success in a project, whatever you are doing. if you want to have an affair, put three tens in the fifth section of your spellcast, that is, if you do

o me is a newborn child. this man appeared on the unused television channel as i concentrated, and later he called me. my phone number is unlisted. and he says that he too saw me on his television set. i asked him what image he was trying to project and it was the same as mine, a newborn child. i described him and he described me. he was born october 15, 1948, and i was born october 15, 1948. all males in his family are wizards and all women in my family have been witches, except for my grandmother and my mother. yet since i was a small child, i've had strange powers. could i be the one to begin a new cycle of future witches in my family? also can the wizard and myself be on the same wave length mentally? one more thing i can't understand is that he called me from paris, france. he spoke f

n any too soon! besides black is beautiful baby. why in heaven's name (if you will pardon the expression) should i ever care to repent three years. only to become a someone else who is not a witch? i like being a witch. as a witch i am cuter, sexier, smarter, happier, more popular, more powerful, and continuously sought after by the cutest, sexiest, smartest, happiest, more popular, more powerful males in town. i see no reason to give all this up. just to be a someone. who is only a someone else. i am easily bored but you do idly entertain me with your ignorant curiosity. so i shall trouble myself for a moment to answer some of your questions. i don't know any witch who i would want to be an apprentice to! if you really met a few witches in england you would have noticed they are a mean an

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tn anyrian 'grove' the oaominaiton in on tyi* qf hu tiord, kccording to the bible propheta "the book in queition" uys the author "codtniu mimeroua ggurea, all resembling dosety the meaopotainun emblem of i^oar. hie ptewnce of the woman tt rnn identifie* tbe two u symbolic of ids, or ut natare; and a man bowing down b adoration thereof ihows tbe mme idea as ii depicted in asiyrian culptiike, whet males offer to the goddess symaajr of la >i(mbm" set anciml pagan and uod m ckrittian symmww, p. 91: 2nd ed. new york. digitizecoy google 110 isis nnteiled whole roman catholic image-worship the madonna element and reforming the faith to protestantism. the enforcement of the late dogma of the immaculation was prompted by this very secret reason. the science of symbology was mulring too rapid progr

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ot created till the seventh day. but the most generally received opinion is, that adam and eve were created on the sixth. these particular notions extravagant as they must be admitted to be as to the original single-dual, dual-single characteristics of adam and eve are eminently platonic nay, cabalistic. plato proceeds to account for the love which some men have for some women, and vice vers. the males, he says, which are halves of an androgyne, are much given to women; and the women, which are the halves of an androgyne, are passionately fond of men. as for the women (a not uncommon case) who indulge an inclination for their own sex, they are the halves of the androgyne females who were doubled, and the men who exhibit a liking for other men are the halves of the males who were also doubl

x or kind nothing remains but the tradition, and the name. the androgynes, for so they were called, had not only both the male and female faces, but also possessed the sexual distinctions of both. of these creatures, likewise, nothing now exists but the name, which survives as a stigma, and which is considered infamous* the reason assigned for the different shape of these three kinds was that the males* nature has made this, the fact; as out of nature. 330 the rosicrucians. were formed by the sun; the females by the earth; and the mixed race of androgynes by the moon; which partakes both of the sun and the earth. ecclesiastical writers declare that such an eunuch was the holy evangelist, st. john, whom jesus loved beyond all his other disciples, who lay upon jesus bosom; who, while peter t

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uf (body) of the partzuf. the lowest and darkest part is malchut. it transfers light from itself to the eyes of the lower partzuf, which demonstrates the difference between the partzufim. q: why are we born as a man or a woman? a: these questions relate to the mechanism of the superior providence, called zon of the world of atzilut. that system consists of two parts: zeir anpin and nukva, meaning males and females that have their own relationship. that relationship creates time (days, weeks, months and years) and their mating creates the souls. the properties of the souls define the characteristics of the physical body that the soul clothes. the soul is created and descends to this world even before a child is born into it. i am using earthly terms of time, space and motion, although they

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

les was a renowned slayer of monsters. thus, tacitus tells us about just three gods, the same three who were pressed into service when the days of the week were translated. tacitus also tells us about one goddess, whom he calls isis, and in the interpretatio germanica only one goddess was used, namely frigg, for venus. even if isis is not a rendering of frigg fs predecessor, the parallel of three males and one female is striking. see also interpretatio germanica references and further reading: georg wissowa, ginterpretatio romana: romische gotter im barbarenlande, h archiv fur religionswissenschaft 20 (1916.1919: 1.49. jarnsaxa (armed-with-an-iron-sword) giantess. hyndluljod, stanzas 35.38, tell of one gwith greatly increased power, of the race of gods, h born of nine giant maidens and the

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en in this battle of the sexes, but they realize they must reunite with the women in order to procreate and perpetuate their group, and so they do so. this navajo myth has been interpreted in different ways. some scholars suggest it may have developed as the navajo were shifting from hunting and gathering to agriculture. in this idea, agriculture was initially conducted mostly by women, depriving males of their roles in subsistence. later, men were active in agriculture, and the myth might represent men s attempts to creationism and intelligent design 19 regain their status as providers. other scholars see in this myth the navajo cultural theme of a complementarity of the sexes. it was a woman s adultery that caused the trouble, but in the end both sexes suffer from the separation and reun

tation present in the gene that determines the blood protein hemoglobin that is responsible for ferrying oxygen to our cells. the mutation strongly decreases the affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen and is of course deleterious, even lethal. to understand the evolution of sickle cell anemia, let us first go back to mendelian principles. remember that humans carry two copies of each gene, except that males have only one copy of genes located on the x chromosome. females, however, have two x chromosomes. males also have single copies of genes located on the y chromosome. on the other hand, females do not have a y chromosome at all. in our sickle cell anemia example, let us also call the normal hemoglobin gene variant a and the abnormal (mutant) variant s. since these genes are not located on th

es as one can well imagine, there must have been a genetic adam as well as a genetic eve. like eve, we expect that adam must have lived in the same east african population. can science show that, indeed, there was an adam and that this adam lived at the same time as eve?we cannot rely on mtdna because it is transmitted solely through mothers. fortunately for researchers, nature has equipped human males with a stretch of dna that females do not possess: the y chromosome. what is more, the y chromosome, called a sex chromosome, is passed down exclusively from fathers to sons. sex chromosomes come in two types: the x chromosome and the y chromosome. as described in chapter 2, women have an xx sex chromosome makeup, while men are xy. in other words, when couples reproduce, if the the origins a

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

joy yourself and to harness your skills at both black magic and holy magick. the history of the dedication was perpetrated by medieval witch hunters who in base were impotent bigots, who could not understand nor accept the equality of women within a cultural context. the kiss was assumed into a feminine submission because that to take up with the devil, one should intimately know this spirit. the males, or heterosexual males would in turn have congress with female succubi, or children of lilith. the legends of nocturnal emissions carried on with these initiations or dream-induced congress. 49 49 osculum infame the initiate s dedication to undertake the initiate s oath of witches, by the symbolic kiss of shame. the pact should take place out in the open air, a wooded area with your altar be

protective vampiric servitor- for use in absorbing or deflecting astral- psychic attacks a vampiric elemental created for the purpose of absorbing astral attacks or deflecting them can be most appropriate if one is planning a swift and effective defense against some one who is planning a malicious battle. this spell is also useful for those ladies who may be viewed as psychic prey for chauvinist males who feel they can be intimidating by throwing some useless wanks their way. servitors should not be created to compensate for mental weakness, such beings would be more of a complication in your life. please remember that the most deadly and effective attack is the swiftest and most silent. let your enemies be fooled by appearance. this is the key to mistakes made on the part of the aggresso

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

rsome and hairy, up to or over2.6 metres in height, with strong muscular bodies, powerful arms and large hands longer than ahuman's. they walked upright upon two legs with a stooped gait. their heads were sunk into theirshoulders, giving them the stooped appearance. they had a pointed sagittal crest skull dome and areceding forehead with thick, protruding eyebrow-ridges and large deeply-set eyes. males were oftenhairier than females, who had long pendulous breasts. the feet of the yowie were much larger thanthose of a normal-sized human, and possessed an opposable big toe.these mysterious hominids roamed the remoter, forest-covered mountain regions either in small familygroups or hunting in ones and twos, their females and young secreted back in their lairs. the aboriginesboth feared and r

ike foot, indicating the doolagahs once inhabited the area. it measures 35 cm length by 17 cm in widthacross the five toes. according to the former blue mountains aborigines who related these tales toeuropean settlers in the 1800's, the goolagah monster men and women were gigantic in every physicalfeature, with large heads, thick arm and leg muscles, and feet much larger than any normal aborigine.males were big-chested and very hairy, while the females had less hair and long pendulous breasts farlarger than those of any lubra!these monstrous beings lived and hunted throughout the sydney region. in what is now the westernsuburbs area, the giant men, women and their children were a commonplace sight, hunting monitor liz-ards with their large stone or wooden clubs and spears. the aborigines l

ted government comes to power.the act allowed a statutory objection from a parent relative to a child vaccination before the child wasfour months old. 1907 indiana passes the world's first compulsory sterilization law for all confirmed criminals, idiots,rapists and imbeciles who were confined in state institutions. by 1908, 30 states passed similar laws. 1907 at the indiana state reformatory, 475 males receive vasectomies. 1907 united states immigration adds imbeciles and feeble-minded persons to the exclusion list. 1907 bureau of chemistry empowered by congress to police quality of u.s. food. 1907 u.s. depression of 1907 created by international bankers. 1907 allan dulles secretary to hague peace conference. 1907 j.p. morgan precipitates banking panic of 1907 after rothschild visits, as a

uch on supreme economic council. 1919 british use arsenic smoke when intervening in the russian civil war. 1919 royal institute of international affairs (riia) founded by 21 americans and their british counter-parts. 1919 death rate from encephalitis accelerates. between 1919 and 1928, over 500,000 deaths and1,000,000 cases of neurological impairment were attributed to this disease, which affects males morethan females. recent research indicates that this epidemic was a late manifestation of the post worldwar i influenza outbreaks, and that both were due to the appearance of a swine flu virus. 1919 from 1919 to 1920, william donovan sent on classified missions to china and siberia. 1919 v ersailles treaty. germany, who lost wwi, is forbidden to have any type of intelligence gatheringagency

s about how vitamins (synthetic, yet) and supplementspromote good health. manufacturers are to refrain from advertising health claims for vitamins, mineraland herbal products and amino acids for 4 years (1998. 1994 science news reports that scientists are now realizing that certain chemical pollutants chemi-cally mimic female hormone estrogen. the effect is that normal sexual development in human males isatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation427 appendix f: general chronology of events being affected. testicular cancer has risen. sperm count has dropped 50% in men over the last 40 years.(ref: population control and disease production. science news 7/2& 7/15. 1994 netherlands makes it a criminal act to use secret codes or words while using the telephone, underpenalty of a 3-da

PHOSPHORUS

ich is by invitation, a period of one year will be the time of which the initiate enters grade 0) void and the abyss (this may be sooner, this is the time limit. they will learn and practice the foundations of high and low sorcery, an introspective study of their own being and to ensure their focus is suited for toph. the title for this grade is veneficus or yatus (the yatuk-dinoih practitioners, males, pairikas are female witches, the sorcerer who has entered the sabbat path of the leviathanic serpent. the witch of this path is known as commonly veneficus and their magical name, which will be adopted upon entry of toph. the grade structure is not a design of title, rather of work. while in the grade of void and the abyss the student will work with a guide or initiator who is in essence a

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

passover, shavuot, and sukot are called gpilgrim festivals h because on them most of the populace is require to travel to jerusalem and appear at the temple in order to offer specific sacrifices.8 to explain: the commandment to appear [at the temple] is that the individual ascend on the three festivals to the court of the israelites in order to appear there. this obligation only applies to adult males. the gcourt of the israelites h is the easternmost 11 cubits of the courtyard (azarah) surrounding the temple.9 the [mystical] reason we are required to ascend there on foot is to give [spiritual] power to the supernal glegs, h i.e, netzach-hod-yesod, on these three festivals. this is why they are not called [for example] gthree appointed times, h but gthree festivals, h in order to allude t

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

th his conductorapproaches the porch, when they halt and listen.song in sacred hallhark, the joyous song i bring"gualdi lives" and everything,that breathes shall shout his praisein ecstacy, through endless days.now the mystery he'll unveildeath no longer shall prevail,shout the tidings far and near"gualdi lives" life has no fear.the herald approaches the door of the sacred hall which is open, and males the followingproclamation:stand apart, and give due head. thus orders the magus and his council. greeting to the outer-world,gualdi lives, and death hath not the victory. this do i, son of asterial, the herald.the herald returns to his station. the guardian of the caverns and the torch bearer, whose torch isburning, approach the entrance to the hall, just as the conductor of novices and the

RUBY TABLET OF SET

ese sexually oriented symbolism. remember that wands (fire) and swords (air) are masculine suits, representing masculine elements with masculine characteristics, while cups (water) and disks (earth) are considered feminine suits, with feminine characteristics. this symbolism relies heavily upon our social archetypes, stereotypes, and traditions "men of action" and scholars have traditionally been males, while females have traditionally been considered more emotional and supporting/supportive types of people. as with any social tradition, these relationships are subject to change. these symbolic relationships will be more accurate (or less accurate) in one area of the globe as compared to another, and will change from one year to another. within setian arenas these relationships may not hol

l and mundane aspects of the person's being; they are not static, but are subject to change according to the progressive or regressive evolution of the individual. we individually found that our personal classifications dovetailed perfectly among us, but interesting enough, between the time of this working in september and the preparation of this article in mid-april, classifications had changed. males and females can become neithers by balancing the element that is missing- which is reminiscent of anubis' oft-repeated statement that a magician must become ambisexual. subject: triads, sexuality reading list: skinwalker ritual i. background the dinee (navajo) are a native american people resident in the southwest. they have a strong r.h.p. culture which includes a very expansive view of the

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

eing a look of such fierce concentration on patches of air immediately above people's left shoulders that it was regularly mistaken for contempt. then people heard about her new habit of swallowing butterflies and they revised their opinion of her, convinced that she was touched in the head and therefore dangerous to lie with in case the demons crossed over into her lovers. after this the lustful males of her village left her alone in her hovel, alone with her toy animals and her peculiar fluttering diet. one young man, however, took to sitting a little distance from her doorway, facing discreetly in the opposite direction, as if he were on guard, even though she no longer had any need of protectors. he was a former untouchable from the neighbouring village of chatnapatna who had been conv

s. i kept my mouth shut and said nothing, but i lost a lot of friends after that, i can tell you, people hate you to do them a good turn. in spite of thc ditch of yathrib, the faithful lost a good many men in the war against jahilia. on their raiding sorties they lost as many lives as they claimed. and after the end of the war, hey presto, there was the archangel gibreel instructing the surviving males to marry the widowed women, lest by remarrying outside the faith they be lost to submission. oh, such a practical angel, salman sneered to baal. by now he had produced a bottle of toddy from the folds of his cloak and the two men were drinking steadily in the failing light. salman grew ever more garrulous as the yellow liquid in the bottle went down; baal couldn't recall when he'd last heard

sked about her deflowering at the age of twelve, and she told him that, and afterwards he paid double the normal fee, because "it's been the best time of my life "we'll have to be careful of heart conditions" the madam said to baa. o o o when the news got around jahilia that the whores of the curtain had each assumed the identity of one of mahound's wives, the clandestine excitement of the city's males was intense; yet, so afraid were they of discovery, both because they would surely lose their lives if mahound or his lieutenants ever found out that they had been involved in such irreverences, and because of their desire that the new service at the curtain be maintained, that the secret was kept from the authorities. in those days mahound had returned with his wives to yathrib, preferring

rged with assault and the causing of actual bodily harm; the expectorating quartet was not, however, detained. stories of police brutality, of black youths hauled swiftly into unmarked cars and vans belonging to the special patrol groups and flung out, equally discreetly, covered in cuts and bruises, spread throughout the communities. self-defence patrols of young sikh, bengali and afro-caribbean males- described by their political opponents as _vigilante groups- began to roam the borough, on foot and in old ford zodiacs and cortinas, determined not to "take it lying down. hanif johnson told his live-in lover, mishal sufyan, that in his opinion one more ripper killing would light the fuse "that killer's not just crowing about being free" he said "he's laughing about simba's death as well

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

arot cards as pathworking images to explore the hidden side of the human psyche, the side that normally remains untouched in the abyss. alternatively the individual may undertake a specific ritual that draws forth the powers or energies contained within the abyss as they are, that is without any form of imagery or symbolism. this ritual involves a long and arduous walk- 80 miles over two days for males, 56 miles for females- followed by a ceremonial ritual where the individual invokes the chaotic energies of the abyss by visualising a crystal filling with darkness whilst continually chanting the word "chaos" entrance into the abyss, if successful, will result in changes of consciousness that will culminate in the individual himself becoming such a gate between the two worlds. speaking less

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

m magic. the differences between vodou denominations are differences in the nature of one s participation. the general term used for practitioners of vodou is vodouisants. these people attend ceremonies, receive counseling and medical treatment, and generally take part in vodou activities. in orthodox vodou the main ritual is that of initiation, called kanzo. initiates can be either men or women. males are referred to as houngan, while females are referred to as mambo. these initiates receive the sacred asson, or rattle, and thereby become the chief organizers of vodou ceremonies. during these ceremonies, the houngan or mambo is the one most likely to be possessed by a lwa, though in principle anyone can become possessed. while these ceremonies can take place in homes, they often take plac

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

he insects have previously dug for their reception; and it is upon the dung thus deposited that the larva, when hatched, feed. it does not appear that these beetles have the ability to distinguish their own balls, as they will seize upon those belonging to another, in the case of their having lost their own; indeed, it is said that several of them occasionally assist in rolling the same ball. the males as well as the females assist in rolling the pellets. they fly during the hottest part of the day. 1 among the ancients several curious views were held about the scarab, whether of the type scarabaus sacer or the ateuchus agyptiorium, 2 and alian, porphyry, p. 38 and horapollo declared that no female scarab existed. the last named writer stated that the scarab denoted "only begotten" because

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

ertly working for the cia. she "founded" the radical agenda ms magazine reportedly with illuminist funding and traveled widely in india. her elitist role: foster the anti-christian, culture-destroying feminist movement. 220 codex magica actress marlene dietrich, a tool of the oss, the predecessor of the cia, was a lesbian who privately snickered because hollywood portrayed her as a sex symbol for males. charlie chaplin in 1952 letting the whole world know just what he is a devil in human form! this photo, by famous photographer richard avedon, ran in time magazine (october 11, 2004, an illuminist-shill publication. charlie chaplin spoofs adolf hitler as adenoid hynkel in the film classic, the great dictator (1940. the hat he wears has two "x's" while the double doors in rite scene have ros

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

eligious phenomena 227 believing in the power of prayer, a group of muslims pray for rain in kabul, afghanistan (ap/ wide world photos) a true believer of islam must say his prayers (salla) five times a day dawn, noon, afternoon, sunset, and nighttime. prayer rugs (saijada) are carried by many muslims, but they are not an essential aspect of the ritual. it is essential to properly cover the body: males, at least from the navel to the knees; females, the entire body except for face, hands, and feet. it is also of utmost importance that wherever they may be, they face the qiblah, the precise direction of mecca. and while it is always preferable to perform the salat in the company of others, it is permissible under certain conditions to pray in private except for the friday congregational sal

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

d to seductive succubi in contrast to the enormous number of recorded instances in which women yielded to the sexual attentions of the incubi. such lack of reports did not imply that succubi were less seductive than incubi, but rested on the belief of the inquisitors and clergy of the day that women were naturally inclined to vice and would always put up defenses more feeble than those offered by males. the incubus could prove to be a jealous lover. in april 1533, according to old church records, an incubus became enraged when he discovered his human mistress in the arms of the son of the tavernkeeper at schilttach, near freiburg. in his furious state of mind, the incubus not only set the tavern ablaze, but he burned the entire village to the ground. church authorities dealt with the probl

l traditions, the demonic sexual molesters known as the incubi and the succubi were the children of father adam s consorting with a beautiful fallen angel named lilith, who in the view of certain jewish mystics, was adam s wife before the creation of eve. succubi appear to men as beautiful, sensual women, tempting and promising, but they also may be vampires thirsting for human blood. while those males who consort with a succubus often meet an untimely end, on occasion their interaction with the entity brings about a horde of demonic children, who will one day gather at his deathbed and hail him as their father. lilith, according to the midrash, preys not only on males as they lie sleeping, but also upon mothers who have just given birth, as well as their newborn babes. amulets of protecti

civilized world was largely freed from the demeaning customs of wife purchase and woman barter, although it is known that in some more primitive regions of the world, such practices continue today. infant betrothals. among early tribal cultures, betrothals were commonly arranged by parents between their infant daughters and their future husbands, sometimes even before the girls were born. infant males also had their brides selected for them by their families, most often with a girl from a family with whom an alliance would be profitable. among those societies in which people arranged the marriages of their children in infancy, the betrothals were considered absolutely binding. for most of the polynesian people, the father had absolute power of life and death over his children, and he coul

sleeping men and sits on their faces to suffocate them. it isn t a fat man that kills them, but an unexplained illness that kills young, healthy asian men and was first reported in the philippines in 1917 and has since been identified in thailand, japan, india, and singapore. known as sudden unexplained nocturnal death syndrome (sunds) by medical researchers, the victims of the disease have been males in 99 percent of the cases, and 80 percent of those men were between the ages of 22 to 45. the death usually occurs during the first third of the sleep cycle and results from a miocardial infraction in the lower left ventricle of the heart, thereby causing a heart attack. the victims are found lying on their backs in bed, often with a frozen expression of what appears to be terror on their f

having smothered them. sources: chokroverty, sudhansu, ed; robert b. daroff, introduction. sleep disorders medicine: basic science, technical considerations, and clinical aspects. burlington, mass: butterworth-heinemann medical, 1999. lyall, kimina. stranglers in the night. the australian, may 2, 2002 [online] http//www.theaustralian.news.com.au/ o,5942,4240606,00.html. odd syndrome targets asian males. wired news, april 2, 2002 [online] http//www.wired.com/news/medtech, 1286,51473,00.html. asian men killed by fat man account of the risen christ appearing to cleopas and another disciple as they walked on the road to emmaus, about seven miles northwest of jerusalem. at first the two do not recognize jesus and when they do, he disappears. the tale of the contemporary hitchhiking jesus is sti

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

y will dwell with us. 34:24 and unto hamor and unto shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. 34:25 and it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of jacob, simeon and levi, dinah s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. 34:26 and they slew hamor and shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took dinah out of shechem s house, and went out. 34:27 the sons of jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. 34:28 they took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was] in the field, 34:29 and all their wealth, a

ed him, then shall he eat thereof. 12:45 a foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. 12:46 in one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. 12:47 all the congregation of israel shall keep it. 12:48 and when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 12:49 one law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. 12:50 thus did all the children of israel; as the lord commanded moses and aaron, so did they. 12:51 and it came to pass the selfsame day [that]

d brought thee out of egypt. 13:10 thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year. 13:11 and it shall be when the lord shall bring thee into the land of the canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee, 13:12 that thou shalt set apart unto the lord all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males [shall be] the lord s. 13:13 and every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem. 13:14 and it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, what [is] this? that thou shalt say unto him, by strength of hand the lord brought us out from egypt

n time to come, saying, what [is] this? that thou shalt say unto him, by strength of hand the lord brought us out from egypt, from the house of bondage: 13:15 and it came to pass, when pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the lord slew all the firstborn in the land of egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore i sacrifice to the lord all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children i redeem. 13:16 and it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the lord brought us forth out of egypt. 13:17 and it came to pass, when pharaoh had let the people go, that god led them not [through] the way of the land of the philistines, although that [was] near; for god said, lest peradventure

s, as i commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month abib; for in it thou camest out from egypt: and none shall appear before me empty) 23:16 and the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. 23:17 three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the lord god. 23:18 thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. 23:19 the first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the lord thy god. thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother s milk. 23:20 behold, i send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

e those statues of the judges at thebes without hands, and their chief, or president, is represented with his eyes turned downwards, which signifies that justice ought not to be obtainable by bribes, nor guided by favour or affection. of a like nature is the beetle which we see engraven upon the seals of the soldiers, for there is no such thing as a female beetle of this species; for they are all males, and they propagate their kind by casting their seed into round balls of dirt, which afford not only a proper place wherein the young may be hatched, but also nourishment for them as soon as they are born [fn#286] the oldest form of the name is as-ar; the first sign, is a throne, and the second, is an eye, but the exact meaning represented by the two signs is not known. in late times a scept

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

> i wrote down at the end of my notes on this affair 'the whole case is like a ufo horror movie" case file #13: from: reptoids.com message board note: many of the reptiloids have shown animosity towards humans, there have however been, on a few occasions, reptoids which have apparently expressed a benevolent disposition. in most cases it seems that these were either female reptilians or reptilian males that have spent much time in the presence of humans- on starships or in underground bases- humans whose "emotionalism" seems to have "rubbed off" on the reptilians- branton appearance of reptoids, i have known. from "tal" date: 07 apr 1999 time: 07:55:18 comments having been within arm length of reptoids, i did get to observe various details. they wore no clothes. but, they did have a "utili

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

of the conversion of the names of abram, abrm, into abraham, abrhm, and that of his wife, sarai, shri, into sarah, shrh, see genesis xvii. v. 5-15, on the occasion of the conception of isaac, ytzchq or yshchq, from the root shchq or tzchq, laugh, when sarah was 90 and abraham 100 years old. this was on the occasion of the covenant made by jehovah with abram and the institution of circumcision of males in token thereof. now here we have the addition of an h or 5, the essentially female letter, to the name of abraham, and a conversion of a yod into he, y into h, in the case of sarah; and then their sterility is destroyed. some learned men consider abraham to be a conversion of brahma, the hindu deity. the name splits up curiously. ab is father, br is son, am is like om or aum, a deific name

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