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h: the third emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify binah with the great mother in all her forms. she is the womb of forthcoming, the source of all the great images and forms that manifest in the universe as archetypes. she is also the supreme female principal in the process of creation and, via the process of mythological correspondences, is associated with such deities as the virgin mary, rhea, isis, and demeter. chesed: the fourth emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify chesed as the ruler, but not creator, of the manifested universe. he is characterized as stable, wise, and merciful by contrast with his more dynamic opposite, geburah. chesed is associated with the gods zeus and jupiter. geburah: the fifth emanation on the tree of life. geburah is often associated

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

comparison with the true god, were not always pictured as powerless in themselves; they were perverted into hostile malignant powers, into demons, sorcerers and giants, who had to be put down, l)ut were nevertheless credited with a certain mischievous activity and influence. here and there a heathen tradition or a superstitious custom lived on by merely changing the names, and applying to christ, mary and the saints what had formerly been related and believed of idols (see suppl. on the other hand, the piety of christian priests suppressed and destroyed a multitude of heathen monuments, poems and beliefs, whose annihilation history can liardly cease to 1 fomnianna so^nir 1, 31-35. luxda'la, p. 170. kralodworsky rukopi, 72.74' greg. tur. 2, 31. fonnu. sog. 1, 260. 2, 200. 6 intkoductioii la

at the burial of a king there was brought up a goblet called bragafull (funeral toast cup, before which every one stood up, took a solemn vow, and emptied it, yngl. saga cap. 40; other passages have hragarfuu, stem. 146^ fornald. sog. 1, 345, 417. 515. the goblet was also called minnisvcig (swig, draught, sa3m. 193^ after conversion they did not give up the custom, but drank the minne of christ, mary, and the saints: krists minni, michaels minni, fornm. sog. 1, 162. 7, 148. in the fornm. sog. 10, 1781, st. martin demands of olaf that his minni be proposed instead of those of thor, osin, and the other ases. the other races were just as little weaned from the practice; only where the term minne had changed its meaning, it is translated by the lat. amor instead of memoria^ notably as early a

ar took eoman fortifications for devil's dikes, it was natural to associate with roman castella the notion of idolatry. eupertus tuitiensis (t 1135) in his account of the fire of 1128 that levelled such a castcllum at deuz, which had been adapted to christian worship, informs us that some thought it was built by julius caesar, others by constantius and constantine. in the emperor otto's time, st. mary appears by night to archbishop heribert' surge, et tuitiense castrum petens, locum in eodem mundari praecipe, ibique monastcrium deo mihique et omnibus sanctis constitue, ut, ubi quondam habitavit peccatiun et cultus daemoniivi, ibi jnstitia regnet et memoria sanctorum' with more of the like, in the vita heriberti cap. 15. conf. the fanum ut cologne above, p. 81- the asylum that atrium and te

stian iolk-tales of the mid. ages (see suppl. of more than one image of grace we are told that it dropt a ring off its finger or a shoe off its foot as a gift to those who prayed before it. a figure of christ gave its shoes to a poor man (nicolai abbatis peregrinatio, ed. werhiuft" p. 20, and a saint's image its gold slippers (mones anz. 7, 584. archiv. des henneb. vereins, pp. 7, 71. a figure of mary accepts a ring that is presented to it, and bends her finger as a sign that she will keep it (meon nouv. recueil 2, 296-7. maerl. 2, 214. the two virgin-stories in meon and maerlant, though one at bottom, have very different turns given them. in the latter, a young man at a game of ball pulls the ring off his finger, and puts it on the hand of a madonna; in the former, the youth is boxing in

ery different turns given them. in the latter, a young man at a game of ball pulls the ring off his finger, and puts it on the hand of a madonna; in the former, the youth is boxing in the colosseum at rome, and puts his ring on the finger of a heathen statue, which bends the finger. both figmes now hold the man to his c-ngagement. but the o. french poem makes the afilicted youth bring an image of mary to bear on the heathen one, the mary takes the ring oil the other figure, and restores it to the youth. conf. kaiserchr. 13142. 13265. 13323 "forduni scoti chronicon 1, 407 (w. scott's minstr. 2, 136, relates tliis fable as an event of the 11th century: a nobleman playing at ball slips his ring on the finger of a broken statue of venus, and only gets it back with the help of a priest palumbus

1, 407 (w. scott's minstr. 2, 136, relates tliis fable as an event of the 11th century: a nobleman playing at ball slips his ring on the finger of a broken statue of venus, and only gets it back with the help of a priest palumbus who understands magic. we see the story had spread at an early time, but it is old teutonic in its origin' wndeutsch' evid. a slip for itrdeutsch. even in a painting of mary, the infant in her lap hands her a casket to give to a suppliant, cod. pal. 341 fol. 63. similarly, statues turn the face aivaij, stretch out the arm to protect, they speajc, laugh, weep, eat and walk; tluis a figure of christ turns itself away (ls. 3, 78. 262, another begins to eat and grow bigger (kinderm. legenden no. 9, to weep, to beckon, to run away images. 115 frcy's statue of silver (

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

decades of the nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred 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 midwi

ifier for your own inner radiance and self-confidence and will repel any hostility. my own favourite method is to wrap the crystals in white silk and take them to a sacred place of ancient power, such as a standing stone, an old stone circle or one of the ancient healing wells. these wells were formerly dedicated to the mother goddess but were christianised and rededicated to st bride, the virgin mary or other christian, often celtic, saint. go as early in the morning as possible and place the crystals on a flat surface, either on one of the stones or close to the water. sit near to the source of power, touching it with your two hands so that you create a circuit of energy parallel to that being absorbed by the crystals and so empower your own auric field (the area of psychic energy that e

r partner is at risk from temptation, add the empowered condiment to a salad and they will absorb the protection. a protective ritual with empowered salt* place the salt in a small ceramic dish on your altar and light a pure beeswax candle at the four main compass points around the edges of the altar. beeswax has a long tradition in magick: it was sacred to the mother goddess and later the virgin mary. demeter, goddess of the grain, was called queen bee and aphrodite's symbol at her hive-shaped shrine in eryx was a gold honeycomb. her high priestess was always called melissa, latin for bee* beginning at the north of your circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy light this salt, to enfold my home (

circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy light this salt, to enfold my home (workplace/journey) with thy golden mantle of protection. you may wish to leave out the goddess names or substitute a mother goddess or religious icon of your own. perhaps surprisingly, many witches do ask the blessings of mother mary and i believe that if you work in love, then you should use your own focus. if you prefer, just say: benign light, charge with honeyed fragrance this salt, to enfold-[insert the name of the person to be protected* next enclose your dish of salt in a square of small protective crystals such as jade or tiger's eye and one or two amber if you have any in your collection (rose quartz or glass nug

t christ used at the last supper, in which his blood was collected after the crucifixion. as such, it signifies not only a source of healing and spiritual sustenance, but also offers direct access to the godhead through the sacred blood it once contained. tradition says that the original grail cup was incorporated by roman craftsmen into a gold and jewelled chalice called the marian chalice after mary magdalene. in celtic tradition, it became the cauldron of dagda. in rituals, the chalice can be filled with pure or scented water with rose petals floating on top. i have also mentioned its ritual use with the athame in male/female sacred rites, as the symbolic union of god and goddess that has in many modern covens replaced an actual sexual union (that now tends to occur in privacy between e

ls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obstacles and challenges, and brings wisdom and illumination as to the right path. michael stands in the south and his colour is gold. gabriel archangel of the moon, the messenger archangel and the heavenly awakener, gabriel appears many times in the bible. he visited the virgin mary and her cousin elizabeth, mother of john the baptist, to tell them that they were to bear sons who would lead mankind to salvation. it was gabriel who parted the waters of the red sea so that the hebrews could escape from the pharaoh's soldiers. gabriel is usually pictured holding a sceptre or lily. to the followers of islam, gabriel is the spirit of truth who dictated the koran to mohammed

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1458, abraham must have been born in 1362, and was consequently 47 years old in 1409. 33 sigismond, emperor of germany,was born the 14th february, 1368, and died at znatm on the 9th december, 1437. son of the emperor charles iv. and of anne of silesia, he received an excellent education. at ten years of age his father gave him the margravate of brandenburg, and two years later he was betrothed to mary, the daughter of louis the great of hungary, whom he afterwards married. he was nominated by his father-in-law his successor on the throne of poland. but the nobles preferred ladislaus, the nephew of casimir the great. however, in 1386, he took possession of hungary, repulsed the poles, overcame the rebellious nobles; and then marched against the wallachians and turks, but he was beaten, and

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adow cast in front of you and exclaim "i see saint peter. or satan" so the deities we give prayers and thoughts to become part of the tapestry of the universal unconscious and attach themselves to various archetypes, which are impersonal. what i am saying is, archetypes are also a natural conduit to the daemonic resonance we spoke of. and so, when a religious person tells me they prayed to mother mary and received an inspirational message in a dream which helped change the course of their life, i simply smile and nod. when daemons walk among us, they choose the time and the place, unlike younger souls, but there are no virgin births or "immaculate conceptions" it must be stressed that, as a race, the ancient ones come infrequently and they are not fighting a turf war in heaven as our primi

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

old word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. iii,50: curse them! curse them! curse them! iii,51: with my hawk s head i peck at the eyes of jesus as he hangs upon the cross. iii,52: i flap my wings in the face of mohammed& blind him. iii,53: with my claws i tear out the flesh of the indian and the buddhist, mongol and din. iii,54: bahlasti! ompehda! i spit on your crapulous creeds. iii,55: let mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! iii,56: also for beauty s sake and loves! iii,57: despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play; all fools despise! iii,58: but the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty; ye are brothers! iii,59: as brothers fight ye! iii,60: there is no law beyond do what thou

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teal their virtue. this can be done sometimes on a tremendous scale, as, for example, when all the images of isis and horus, or similar mother-child combinations, were appropriated wholesale by the christians. the miracle is, however, of a somewhat dangerous type, as in this case, where enlightenment has come through the researches of archaeologists. it has been shown that the so-called images of mary and jesus are really nothing but imitations of those of isis and horus. honesty is the best policy in magick as in other lines of life- 138 chapter xvii of the license to depart after a ceremony has reached its climax, anti-climax must inevitably follow. but if the ceremony has been successful this anti-climax is merely formal. the magician should rest permanently on the higher plain to which

these attacks will probably wear off, but it may leave you permanently damaged to a greater or less extent. 147 a great majority of "spiritualists "occultists "toshosophists, are pitiable examples of repeated losses from this cause. the emotional type of religionist also suffers in this way. devotion projects the fine body, which is seized and vampirized by the demon masquerading as "christ" or "mary, or whoever may be the object of worship. complete absence of all power to concentrate thought, to follow an argument, to formulate a will, to hold fast to an opinion or a course of action, or even to keep a solemn oath, mark indelibly those who have thus lost parts of their souls. they wander from one new cult to another even crazier. occasionally such persons drift for a moment into the sur

s the value of yod (the angel or herald) expressed in full as ivd "sh" is the spiritual congress of heaven and earth. but "t" is the holy spirit in action as a "roaring lion" or as the "old serpent" instead of as an "angel of light. the twins of set-isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the cases of mary and the dove; leda and the swan, etc. the card is xi, the number of magick avd: aleph the fool impregnating the woman according to the word of yod, the angel of the lord! his sister has seduced her brother beast, shaming the sun with her sin; she has mastered the lion and enchanted the serpent. nature is outraged by magick; man is bestialized and woman defiled. the conjunction produces a mons

sephone, and the love of venus and adonis, and the love of lakshmi and vishnu, and the love of siva and bhavani and the love of buddha and ananda, and the love of jesus and john, and many more. also there is the love of many saints for their particular deity, as of st. francis of assisi for christ, of sri sabhapaty swami for maheswara, of abdullah haji shirazi for allah, of st ignatius loyola for mary, and many more. now do thou take one such story every night, and enact it in thy mind, grasping each identity with infinite care and zest, and do thou figure thyself as one of the lovers and thy deity as the other. thus do thou pass through all adventures of love, not omitting one; and to each do thou conclude: how pale a reflection is this of my love for this deity! yet from each shalt thou

and round all, even the mantram or continuous prayer. 24 "concerning the mantram or continuous prayer- let the philosophus weave the name of the particular deity into a sentence short and rhythmical, as, for artemis: gr:epsilon-pi-epsilon-lambda-theta-omicron-nu, gr:epsilon-pi-epsilonlambda- theta-omicron-nu, gr:alpha-rho-tau-epsilon-mu-iota-sigma; or, for shiva: namo shivaya namaha aum; or, for mary; ave maria; or for pan, gr:chi-alpha-iota-rho-epsilon gr:sigma-omega-tau-eta-rho gr:kappa-omicronsigma- mu-omicron-upsilon, gr:iota-omega gr:pi-alpha-nu, gr:iota-omega gr:pi-alpha-nu; or, for allah, hua allahu alazi lailaha illa hua. let him repeat this day and night without cessation mechanically in his brain, which is thus made ready for the advent of that lord, and armed against all other

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's tale of antiquity; it is the same today: there are very few englishmen who have spent any time in india who have not been approached with proposals of this character. similar conditions, curiously enough, existed in france; the "fils papa" was usually a hopeless rotter, and his wife often resorted to a famous monastery on the riviera, where was an exceptionally holy image of the blessed virgin mary, prayers unto whom removed sterility. but when m. combes turned out the monks, the image somehow lost it virtue. now get your bible and turn up luke viii, 2! when the sal volatile has worked, turn to john xiii 2,3 and ask a scholar what any greek of the period would have understood by the technical expressions there unambiguously employed. 1^ weh note: this is a reference to the school of tho

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f malkuth hr( the small area of an enclosed garden hgwr( 286 high, lofty mwrm 287 a piece of the host (unleavened bread) nmwqyp) little ry(z 288 vindication rw(yb breeding, bearing; offspring rwby( winter prx 289 that which sets free (see 537, where it is figuratively gan opening h) r+p a particular, a detail +rp 290 thine enemy kr( fruit yrp piece cr persecutor, enemy; distress, danger; stone rc mary, mother of jesus myrm 291 torrents of water (lit. gchannels of water h) mym yqyp) to treasure, store rc) earth (in particular, the earth of malkuth) cr) a leopard (hence also gspotted h )rmn an adhering, adhesion; first, most eminent )krys 292 a young bird (deut. 22:6) hwrp) gold rcb a medicine, drug h)wpr 294 the greater light (sol) ldgh rw)mh purple nmgr) pertaining to autumn prwx 295 curta

inah *myl)r) spirit of lives *myyx xwr 843 that goes on foot *mylgr 844 intellectual virtues mylk#h twxkh 845 flowing oil (p#h nm# neptune (referred to kether *nw+pn 846 high, lofty *mwrm 847 most high god *nwyl( l) 849 the end of the sabbath (i.e. saturday evening) tb# y)cwm 850 violet (blue/purple; perfection tlkt my perfect one( gnot h read. ct. 5:2. see 857& i.z.q. 713) ytmt archetypal *nwmdq mary, mother of jesus *myrm to rule *k#ym 851 souls (i.r.q. 1052 et seq) nwhtm#n he was angry *pn) torrents of water (lit. gchannels of water h *mym yqyp) 852 gconcealed gold h: plaited with gold: netzach and hod receiving influence from geburah (ex. 28:11, gouches of gold h, for the two gems on the ephod) bhz twcb#m 853 an orchard myxwpt hd# plague *pgn 854 the angel of destruction tyx#mh k)lm 85

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

alling havoc upon the earth, were originally no more than a distinction adopted for convenience. it is indeed the task of this book to reduce theology to the interplay of the dyad nuith and hadith, these being themselves conceived as complementary, as two equivalent to naught "divided for lvoe's sake, for the chance of union- had enjoyed them in the form of a beast, bird, or what not; while later mary attributed her condition to the agency of a spirit- spiritus, breath, or air- in the shape of a dove. but the "small person" of hindu mysticism, the dwarf insane yet crafty of many legends in many lands, is also this same "holy ghost, or silent self of a man, or his holy guardian angel. he is almost the "unconscious" of freud, unknown, unaccountable, the silent spirit, blowing "whither it lis

e individual; to wit, the man aleister crowley. but the scarlet woman is an officer replaceable as need arises. thus to this present date of writing, anno xvi, sun in sagittarius, there have been several holders of the title. 1. rose edith crowley nee kelly, my wife. put me in touch with aiwas; see equinox 1, 7 "the temple of solomon the king" failed as elsewhere is on record. 2. a doubtful case. mary d'este sturges nee dempsey. put me in touch with abuldiz; hence helped with book 4. failed from personal jealousies. 3. jeanne robert foster nee oliver. bore the "child" to whom this book refers later. failed from respectability. 4. roddie minor. brought me in touch with amalantrah. failed from indifference to the work. 5. a doubtful case, marie rohling nee lavroff. helped to inspire liber cx

s and falseness or religion itself have been the monsters aborted from the dark womb of its infernal mystery. there is nothing unclean or degrading in any manifestation soever of the sexual instinct, because, without exception, every act is an impulsively projected image of the will of the individual who, whether man or woman, is a star; the pennsylvanian with his pig no less than the spirit with mary; sappho with atthis and apollo with hyacinth as perfect as daphnis with chloe or as galahad vowed to the graal. the one thing needful, the all-perfect means of purification, consecration, and sanctification, is independent of the physical and moral accidents circumstantial of the particular incident, is the realization of love as a sacrament. the use of the physical means as a magical operati

omment on "venus" of the shall awake chapt. i. 15. adonis legends. we have no clue to her name. the lust and the might and worthiness the "holy ghost" worship of the of hadit within men; also or "satan" indwelling. snake the cult of the spermatozoon the key to magick in the snake apophis the destroyer. another soul of the union of aiwaz and pan as god and god and beast the beast in aleister goat; mary &c: crowley. the identification as mother of the of matter and spirit in son of god, fertilized our doctrine. by the dove- or bull, swan &c. the doctrine of the regenerate incorruptible body. another sacrifice love is the magical crucifixion &c, as shall stain formula: sex as the key to the magical the tomb life "the tomb- the formula. death as temple of love the key to life "the tomb- the co

erfect. al iii,54 "bahlasti! ompehda! i spit on your crapulous creeds" the old comment 54. appears to be a plain instruction in theology and ethics. i do not understand "din. bahlasti= 358, and ompehda perhaps 210. the new comment see appendix weh note: not extant. by sound bahlasti suggests "hurling" or "blasting" ompegda is not too phantastically onomatopoeitic for 'an explosion" al iii,55 "let mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you" the new comment the name mary is connected with mars, mors, etc, from the sanskrit mr to slay and with mare, the sea, whose water opposes the fire of horus. i here quote a passage from liber xcvii which deals with this fully "let me strictly meditate this hate of the mother. m r is the sanskrit roo

slay and with mare, the sea, whose water opposes the fire of horus. i here quote a passage from liber xcvii which deals with this fully "let me strictly meditate this hate of the mother. m r is the sanskrit root "kill" hence mara, mors, maria, and i suppose meer, mere, mer- in short, lots of words meaning death or sea. note mordred as the traitor villain in morte d'arthur. in liber legis we have "mary" who is to be 'torn upon wheels' apparently because she is 'inviolate' liber 418 has some explanation of this 'because she hath shut herself up, i seem to remember is the phrase. it appears (i don't remember the sanskrit as if a dental t or d were inserted phallically to give us madar, mu-eta-tau-eta-rho, mater, mother? meter= measure) does the accent in mere conceal a lost dental? i suppose

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

cy or a fact; at least it squares with super-sense or spiritual experience. you do not well to swell the list 730 of horrid things to me imputed by calling me materialist. at least this thought is better suited to western minds than is embalmed among the doctrines of mohammed, 735 the dogma parthenogenetic* as told me by a fat ascetic. he said: your worthy friends may lack you late, but learn how mary was immaculate! i sat in vague expectant bliss. 740 the story as it runs is thus (i quote my eastern friend60 verbatim) the virgin, going to the bath, found a young fellow in her path, and turned, prepared to scold and rate him! 745 how dare you be on me encroaching? the beautiful young gentleman, with perfect courtesy approaching, bowed deeply, and at once began: fear nothing, mary! all is w

does not stick at treachery he makes one gulp of treason straining at the gnat of discipline, he swallows the camel of civil war. it was then, and is even now, the practice of some for example, the emigr s of the french revolution to invite foreign invasion as a means of securing domestic reaction. the blackguardism implied is beyond language: shakesepare was perhaps thinking of the proposal, in mary s reign, to react to romanism by the aid of spanish troops. but he will go further than this, will our greatest poet; it were ill that the life of even one child should atone for mere indignity or discomfort to another, were he the greatest in the realm. to-day we all agree; we smile or sneer if any one should differ. king lear got caught in the rain let us go and kill a million men! is an ar

we must interpret them. we must inqure: are they meant to be obeyed? or and this is my theory are they sarcastic and biting criticisms on existence, illustrations of the first noble truth; reasons, as it were, for the apotheosis of annihilation? i shall so that this is so. let me consider them precept upon precept, if the introduction of the hebrew visionary is not too strong meat for the little mary of a buddhist audience* lycidas, line 130. the school whose buddhism is derived from the canon, and who ignore the degradation of the professors of the religion, as seen in practice. the obvious caveat which logicians will enter against these remarks is that pansil is the five virtues rather than precepts. etymologically this is so. however, we may regard this as a clause on my side of the ar

; for in my view these are virtues, and the impossibility of attaining them is the cancer of existence. indeed, i support the etymology as against the futile bigotry of certain senile buddhists of to-day. and, since it is the current interpretation of buddhist thought that i attack, i but show myself the better buddhist in the act. a.c. a catch word for the stomach, from j.m. barrie s play little mary. the first precept. this forbids the taking of life in any form* what we have to note is the impossibility of performing this; if we can prove it to be so, either buddha was a fool, or his command was rhetorical, like those of yahweh to job, or of tannh user to himself go! seek the stars and count them and explore! go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea! let us consider what the words can m

the ego is constant within limits; hence the possibility of the magical memory. the sattva is this agglomeration. see my* paganini, a famous violinist. notes 61 science and buddhism, infra, for a full discussion of this point. 518. and.67 note the correct stress upon this word. previously, mr. w. s. gilbert has done this in his superb lines: except the plot of freehold land that held the cot, and mary, and but his demonstration is vitiated by the bad iambic and ma; unless indeed the juxtaposition is intentional, as exposing the sophistries of our official prosodists. 548. the heathen.68 the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget god. 580. satan and judas.69 at the moment of passing the final proofs i am informed that the character of judas has been rehabilitated

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lucifer, leviathan, belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world. 142 and satan is worshipped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshipped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshipped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshipped by men under the name of buddha (this is the meaning of the passage in liber legis, chap. iii) moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the heaven of urania. and all these are the excrement of choronzon. and for this is babalon under the power of the magician, that she hath submitted herself unto the work; and she guardet

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

pinion that the excellence of miss nichols' work effected a saving on press corrections almost or quite equal to the cost of her work."the photographs in this number of""the equinox" are by the" dover street studios 38 dover street, mayfair. amphora "blue cloth, gold design, 80 pp. price "2s. 6d. published by burns oates, 28 orchard st. w. this wonderful collection of hymns to the blessed virgin mary is the work (so it is said) of a leading london actress. father kent writes in "the tablet""among the many books which benevolent publishers are preparing as appropriate christmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora, which messrs. burns and oates

.-col. gormley writes:"the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are 'no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them indeed are little above the familiar nursery rhymes of our childhood; it is therefore somewhat of a relief and a pleasure to read the volume of hymns to the virgin mary which has just been published by messrs. burns and oats. these hymns to the virgin mary are in the best style, they are devotional in the highest degree, and to roman catholics, for whom devotion to the virgin mary forms so important part of their religious belief, these poems should indeed be welcome; personally i have found them just what i desired, and i have no doubt other catholics will

we are all, as sainte-beuve said,'children of a sensual literature, and perhaps for that reason we should expect from our singers fervent religious hymns."there is one of london's favourites almost unrivalled to express by her art the delights of the body with a pagan simplicity and directness. now she sends us a book,'amphora, a volume of religious verse: it contains song after song in praise of mary, etc. etc. etc. the "scotsman" says:"outside the latin church conflicting views are held about the worship of the virgin, but there can be no doubt that this motive of religion has given birth to many beautiful pieces of literature, and the poets have never tired of singing variations on the theme of 'hail, mary. this little book is best described here as a collection of such variations. they

th an engaging simplicity and fervour of feeling, and with a graceful, refined literary art that cannot but interest and attract many readers beyond the circles of such as must feel it religiously impossible not to admire them. the "daily telegraph" says:"in this slight volume we have the utterances of a devout anonymous roman catholic singer, in a number of songs or hymns addressed to the virgin mary. the author, who has evidently a decided gift for sacred verse and has mastered varied metres suitable to her high themes, divides her poems into four series of thirteen each thus providing a song for each week of the year. the songs are all of praise or prayer addressed to the virgin, and, through many have a touch of mysticism, most have a simplicity of expression and earnestness of devoti

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hey were fish and not flesh! annual raids were made on the seals after dark, usually in the autumn, and large numbers were captured. all, however, did not belong to the captors, for other persons of prominence were entitled to a share. the parish minister, according to martin "hath his choice of all the young seals, and that which he takes is called by the natives cullen-rory, that is, the virgin mary's seal. the steward of the island hath one paid to him, his officer hath another; and this by virtue of their offices" in the hebrides, as in orkney, the seal is regarded not as an animal of the ordinary brute creation, but as one endowed with great wisdom, and closely allied to man. one of the old beliefs is that seals are human beings under magic spells. the seal was credited with being abl

from the standpoint of the poet. i should add that the catch-penny title is entirely misleading, and has no discoverable connection with the contents, save those of a short preface, cribbed, like the title, from mr. waite's "devil-worship in france" what a wicked place france is! the workshop of religions. by arthur lillie. same price and publisher. slobber. the philosophy and fun of algebra. by mary everest boole. c.w.daniel, 2"s. net. mrs.boole is as convenient as mr. lillie from the standpoint of the poet. i am sorry for the children who search this book for fun, and there is as much philosophy as fun. the book is as of a superior person stooping to instruct lesser minds, and so wrapped in the robe of priggishness that the voice is muffled. the message of psychic science to the world

pinion that the excellence of miss nichols' work effected a saving on press corrections almost or quite equal to the cost of her work "the photographs in this number of "the equinox" are by the" dover street studios 38 dover street, mayfair. amphora "blue cloth, gold design, 80 pp. price "2s. 6d" published by burns& oates, 28 orchard st, w. this wonderful collection of hymns to the blessed virgin mary is the work (so it is said) of a leading london actress. father kent writes in "the tablet "among the many books which benevolent publishers are preparing as appropriate christmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora' which messrs. burns and oates

t.-col. gormley writes "the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them indeed are little above the familiar nursery rhymes of our childhood; it is therefore somewhat of a relief and a pleasure to read the volume of hymns to the virgin mary which has just been published by messrs. burns and oats. these hymns to the virgin mary are in the best style, they are devotional in the highest degree, and to roman catholics, for whom devotion to the virgin mary forms so important a part of their religious belief, these poems should indeed be welcome; personally i have found them just what i desired, and i have no doubt other catholics wil

we are all, as sainte-beuve said 'children of a sensual literature' and perhaps for that reason we should expect from our singers fervent religious hymns "there is one of london's favourites almost unrivalled to express by her art the delights of the body with a pagan simplicity and directness. now she sends us a book 'amphora' a volume of religious verse: it contains song after song in praise of mary" etc. etc. etc. the "scotsman" says "outside the latin church conflicting views are held about the worship of the virgin, but there can be no doubt that this motive of religion has given birth to many beautiful pieces of literature, and the poets have never tired of singing variations on the theme of 'hail, mary' this little book is best described here as a collection of such variations. they

th an engaging simplicity and fervour of feeling, and with a graceful, refined literary art that cannot but interest and attract many readers beyond the circles of such as must feel it religiously impossible not to admire them" the "daily telegraph" says "in this slight volume we have the utterances of a devout anonymous roman catholic singer, in a number of songs or hymns addressed to the virgin mary. the author, who has evidently a decided gift for sacred verse and has mastered varied metres suitable to her high themes, divides her poems into four series of thirteen each- thus providing a song for each week of the year. the songs are all of praise or prayer addressed to the virgin, and, though many have a touch of mysticism, most have a simplicity of expression and earnestness of devotio

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particular to be dreaded. of mystic phenomena we may notice the immense class of devotional apparitions. vishnu, christ, jehovah and other deities appear in response to long-continued and passionate love. see "bhagavad gita" chap. xi, the visions of many catholic saints, teresa, gertrude, francis and others, anna kingsford("clothed with the sun" part iii, idra rabba qadisha and so on. the virgin mary is a favourite with many; it is all one phenomenon. observe, though, that many such apparitions are not of the dhyana type at all; they are mostly mere hallucinations of the "astral plane" in section xiii. we have indicated the diagnostics. 69 methods of obtaining these states are to be found in any book on bhakta yoga- swami vivekananda's is the best i know of- and in loyola's "exercitios es

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r. in the hands of an acute critic this method is perfectly reliable; and mr. harris's familiarity with the text, his power of concentration and his sense of proportion, have made it possible for him to see shakespeare steadily and see him whole. we are perfectly convinced of the truth of the main theory which frank harris presents, the enslaving of his gentle spirit by the bold black-eyed harlot mary fitton, and we are even shaken in that other hypothesis which attributes to shakespeare the vice of caesar, goethe, milton, michael angelo, and of so many other good and great men that time and space would fail us to enumerate them. yet mr. harris only shakes the fabric of proof; he cannot the foundation_ instinct. and it is strange that he, the friend of oscar wilde through honour and dishon

ll one comes in touch with a fine spirit, alive to the glory of the world and all that charms the heart and sense of man, yet seeing past these with something of the soul of galahad. rich in memorable verse and significant thought, so closely wedded to emotion that each seems either_ glasgow herald. a book of mystery and vision. by arthur edward waite. foolscap 4to. with special cover designed by mary tourtel, and frontispiece by isabelle de steiger. price 7s. 6d. net "the most remarkable and on the whole the most successful attempt to sing the mysteries of mysticism, since blake wrote his 'prophetic books_ the star "undoubtedly one of the most original and most remarkable books of verse published for many years" birmingham daily gazette. the secret of the sphinx: or, the ring of moses. by

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he belief for which we have evidence, and we must reject the belief for which we have no evidence. and, sometimes, this is not easy" this unworthy right hand! we should not think of calling this martyr to his convictions, this revolutionary thinker, an ass in a lion's skin. for asses can kick. shall we say a sheep in wolf's clothing? for the heretics are too clearly sheep- probably descended from mary's little lamb. if the dean were to frown, they would all take to their heels, and break the record for attending chapel. in fact, this is what happened, when he did frown! just like the rationalists themselves when they disowned and deserted harry boulter. i am coming round to the belief that the best test of a religion is the manhood of its adherents rather than its truth. better believe a l

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nd the cripples walk; lepers grow clean; sick folk grow well; the deaf men hear, the dumb men talk. he casts out devils with a word; circleth his wand, and dead men rise. no such a wonder hath been heard since christ our god's sweet sacrifice "now, by the glad blood of our lord" quoth palamede "my heart is light. i am the chosen harpsichord whereon god playeth; the perfect knight, 76 the saint of mary- there he stayed, for out of memnon's singing stone so fierce a questing barked and brayed, it turned his laughter to a groan. his vow forgot, his task undone, his soul whipped in god's bitter school (he moaned a mighty malison) the perfect knight? the perfect fool "now, by god's wounds" quoth he "my strength is burnt out to a pest of pains. let me fling off my curse at length in old chaldea'

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name "don't you think that it fits him "oh, yes" the silent man of the party moved uneasily in his armchair. he was slow of cogitation "like the waistcoat of the late nessus fitted hercules, eh, what" he suggested "a fool "hercules "no, lionel. and, er. yes, hercules also. tabard reminds me of that bible chap "potiphar's joseph" the silent man exclaimed triumphantly "wrong again, bernard. i meant mary's joseph" the silent man threw his cigar over the fender. ii la papesse lionel tabard had been horse-whipped by a woman; he had received- to taken- no compensation. this i attribute to his mother. one reads many tales, the paper thereof being 28 damnably wasted; in most of these, mothers are all author-made angels- sweet, loving, kind, forbearing, forgiving creatures, who feel the responsibil

ecome a translucid set of bones, with two big eyes heavily crowned. the time of his knowledge had come. xv the devil i trust i said nothing that could lead the reader into the belief that the cottage was a lonely spot. men and women lived in its almost immediate neighbourhood. among others, sir anthony lawthon and his daughters. i propose that we concern ourselves solely with the eldest of these, mary lawthon. i hardly know how to describe her. she was a woman of six and twenty, most easy to understand, very simple and very complex, simple in her complexity, complex in her simplicity. to men she seemed a man, strong, healthy, a rough- rider, a ski-runner, a champion in many sports, who smoked her pipe and emptied her glass passing well. to women she seemed a woman, whose hands were ever re

ss, whose 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

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

he woke up to fmd the white-haired man of his vision bending over him. he was a. doctor and he was stitching the cut. alex's 'growing belief in witchcraft, reinforced by 'each experience of clairvoyance, did not conflict with his regular attendance at sunday school. his gran had explained .that there was only one god but that he was known by many names. it was easy, too, to accept that the virgin mary was the moon goddess in disguise. alex's childhood heroes took on new aspects when gran re-told their stories. there was robin hood, previously just the leader of the merry men, but now revealed in his real role as a witch who used his powers to direct money where it was most needed, and to escape his pursuers. and joan of are, who was really the witch queen of france and unashamedly declared

til their bare bodies touched. then they were united. there were no gestures of affection or passion; it was strictly a rit al an? alex did not feel the slightest .repugnance at losing his virginity to a woman of seventy-four. afterwards she pe ed a bottle of wine and, in his new robes, alex poured a libation to the moon goddess and drank to his future as a witch. 28 before many months had passed mary bibby died. her daughter went to dispose f her oss ssio s and was ldly surprised at the odd collection of antiques she found m the old chest. alex begged te have them as mementoes and his mother agreed. aware of the boy's desolation at his grandmother's death, she hoped the sword, the crystal, the brass bowls and the censer would comfort him, but refused to let him keep the iron cauldron-or c

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ing them in their totality as cosmic force; it is their action upon the negative or mother aspect which, on cosmic levels, produces that self-conscious unity, a solar logos, functioning through his physical vehicle. from the christian standpoint, the greater builders are the holy spirit, or force overshadowing and fecundating matter, whilst the negative or lesser builders correspond to the virgin mary. the lunar pitris, and lesser builders from the systemic point of view find their fullest expression in the animal kingdom. when they, as the initiatory impulse, had produced animal man they had performed their prime function, and just as (on a smaller scale and in connection with only one of- 366- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the heavenly men) the moon is a dying and

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already taken place in the brain. it is held in a waiting attitude, whilst the consciousness of the thinker shifts into a new state of awareness and he becomes identified with the true inner and spiritual man. what is technically called the "perceiving consciousness" waits. these two stages of meditation, one of intense activity and the other of an intense waiting, have been called the martha and mary states, and the idea, through this metaphor, becomes somewhat clearer. it is a period of silence whilst something inner transpires, and is perhaps the hardest part of the technique to master. it is so easy to slip back into the intellectual activity which ordinary meditation connotes, for one has not yet learnt to contemplate. dr. bennett describes this stage in some comments upon ruysbroeck

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

and quiescent. nevertheless, it remains a fact that when the energies, latent at- 113- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the base of the spine, are carried to the head and are brought (via the solar plexus, that clearing house of energy, and the medulla oblongata) to the centre between the eyebrows, then the personality, the matter aspect, reaches its apotheosis and the virgin mary in the individual sense, which is a finite parallel of an infinite reality is "carried up into heaven" there to sit by the side of her son, the christ, the soul. when the energies of the sacral centre, focussed hitherto on the work of physical creation and generation and therefore the source of physical sex life and interest, are sublimated, re-oriented and carried up to the throat centre, th

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en, as we have seen, many words sent forth from the centre. many sons of god, down the ages, have given to humanity a progressively revealing vision of the "heights of possibility" interpreting god's plan to the race in terms suited to each age and temperament. the uniformity of their life story, the appearance again and again of the virgin mother (whose name is frequently a variation of the name mary, the similarity in detail of the birth story, all indicate to us the constant re-enactment of a truth, so that from its dramatic quality and its repeated happening, god impresses upon the hearts of men certain great truths which are vital to their salvation. one of these truths is that the love of god is eternal, and that his love for his people has been steadfast and unalterable. whenever th

the- 38- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust virgin birth then been an important tenet of the faith it would undoubtedly have figured in the mystical symbolism of that composition."36 isis was often represented standing on the crescent moon, with twelve stars surrounding her head. in almost every roman catholic church on the continent of europe may be seen pictures and statues of mary, the "queen of heaven" standing on the crescent moon, her head surrounded with twelve stars "it would seem more than a chance that so many of the virgin mothers and goddesses of antiquity should have the same name. the mother of bacchus was myrrha; the mother of mercury or hermes was myrrha or maia; the mother of the siamese saviour sommona cadom was called maya maria, i.e `the great mary; th

that so many of the virgin mothers and goddesses of antiquity should have the same name. the mother of bacchus was myrrha; the mother of mercury or hermes was myrrha or maia; the mother of the siamese saviour sommona cadom was called maya maria, i.e `the great mary; the mother of adonis was myrrha; the mother of buddha was maya; now, all these names whether myrrha, maia or maria, are the same as mary, the name of the mother of the christian saviour. the month of may was sacred to these goddesses, so likewise is it sacred to the virgin mary at the present day. she was also called myrrha and maria, as well as mary."37 in the symbolic language of esotericism, a cave is regarded as the place of initiation. this has always been so, and a very interesting study of the initiatory process and of

mparative religion can investigate the truth of these statements, and at the end will stand amazed at the persistence of god's love and the willingness to sacrifice themselves which all these sons of god manifest. it is therefore wise and timely to remember that "these events are reproduced in the lives of the various solar gods, and antiquity teems with illustrations of them. isis of egypt, like mary of bethlehem, was our immaculate lady, star of the sea, queen of heaven, mother of god. we see her, in pictures, standing on the crescent moon, star-crowned, she nurses her child horus, and the cross appears on the back of the seat in which he sits on his mother's knee. the virgo of the zodiac is represented in ancient drawings as a woman suckling a child the type of all future madonnas with

as on a journey to her father, when lo, the birth of the messiah took place under a tree. one account says that `she had alighted at an inn when buddha was born "the mother of lao-tse, the virgin-born chinese sage, was away from home when her child was born. she stopped to rest under a tree, and there, like the virgin maya, gave birth to her son."49 we are told in the gospel story that the virgin mary, with her husband joseph and bearing within herself the christ child, went up from nazareth in galilee to bethlehem. sometimes, through a study of the significances of the names we meet in the bible and in tradition, we can throw much light on the episode itself and unveil some of its hidden meaning. in the study of the bible story, i have used only the bible itself and cruden's concordance

aiah tells us that "bread corn is bruised,"52 and christ himself told us that "except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."53 this was the destiny awaiting him when he came to the birth in bethlehem. then he entered upon the career which eventually "bruised" him and led him to his death. according to the concordance, the name mary means "the exalted of the lord" as one says these words, the famous picture, by mulillo, of the virgin, standing on the crescent moon and being gathered up into the clouds of heaven, comes to mind. such is the assumption of the virgin into glory. there is another interesting point in connection with the constellation virgo, upon which we might touch. mary, the virgin, in the symbolism of the

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erest in human good and human welfare, the perseverance they show in their search for light and their longing and desire for a true peace, based on right human relations, implemented by goodwill. this "mind as it is in christ" can be seen in their revolt against materialistic religion and in the widespread effort to be seen in europe and elsewhere to return the land (mother-earth, the true virgin mary) to the people. it can be seen in the constant movement of people throughout the world from place to place, symbolised in the gospel story by the journey of mary with the infant jesus into egypt. then followed, as we are told in the new testament, a cycle of thirty years wherein all we know is that the infant jesus grew to manhood and could then take the second initiation, the baptism in jord

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plane are not pure emotion and feeling, clothed in pure astral matter, for there is no such thing. they are the instinctual desires, evoked by the evolving substance of the physical plane and this, in its entirety and through the activity of the human family, is being redeemed and drawn upwards until some day we shall see the transfiguration of that substance and the "glorification of the virgin mary" the mother aspect in relation to divinity. they are also the descending thoughtforms which the developing human being is always creating and drawing downwards into manifestation, clothing them with the substance of desire. when the descending forms of thought (a reflection in the three worlds of that vast "cloud of knowable things" in process of perception, as patanjali calls it, and which h

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ence and which have come down to us concerning lilith, the last of the virgin goddesses of atlantean times; the same thought is also to be found in the traditionary accounts of the ancient amazons, whose queen hercules defeated, wresting from her what he sought. this is an allegory, teaching the emergence of the spiritual man from the control of matter. three of these goddesses are eve, isis, and mary. they are of peculiar and significant importance where our civilisation is concerned for they embody in themselves the symbology of the entire form nature, which, when integrated and functioning as a whole person, we call the personality. this personality is (as far as humanity is concerned) the developed and qualified expression of the third aspect of divinity, that of god the holy spirit, t

her arms; the germ of the christ life is as yet too small to make its presence felt; the involutionary process is yet too close; but in isis the midway point is reached; the quickening of that which is desired (the desire of all nations, as it is called in the bible) has taken place and isis consequently stands in the ancient zodiacs for fertility, for motherhood and as the guardian of the child. mary carries the process down to the plane or place of incarnation, the physical plane, and there gives birth to the christ child. in these three virgins and these three mothers of the christ, you have the history of the formation and the function of the three aspects of the personality through which the christ must find expression. the sign of virgo itself stands for a synthesis of these three fe

to the plane or place of incarnation, the physical plane, and there gives birth to the christ child. in these three virgins and these three mothers of the christ, you have the history of the formation and the function of the three aspects of the personality through which the christ must find expression. the sign of virgo itself stands for a synthesis of these three feminine aspects eve, isis and mary. she is the virgin mother, providing that which is needed for the mental, emotional and physical expression of the hidden but ever present divinity. these three expressions are brought to the needed perfection in leo, the sign of the individual, developed self-consciousness and personality unfoldment. virgo is, therefore, the opposite pole of spirit and stands for the relation of these two af

t principle which is of paramount importance. virgo is, from certain angles, quite the oldest of all the signs, which is a statement i am quite unable to prove to you. in that first system, the faint symptoms (if i may use such a word) of the duality which is a proven fact in this system are to be found, and this truth is preserved for us in the words that "the holy spirit overshadowed the virgin mary" the life of the third divine aspect played then upon the ocean of quiescent matter and prepared that substance (over untold aeons) for its work in this solar system. it is in this system that the christ child, the expression of the divine consciousness and the result of the relationship of father-spirit and mother-matter, must he brought to the birth. another sign of the zodiac which is also

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

the picture of myself when small, i can scarcely wonder skinny, scared and startled looking. i have no recollection of my mother for she died at the age of 29, when i was only six years old. i do remember her beautiful golden hair and her gentleness, but that is all. i also remember her funeral at torquay, devonshire, because my major reaction to that event was summed up in my words to my cousin, mary barttelot "see, long black stockings and 'spenders" the first i had ever had. i had been promoted from the sock stage. clothes always matter, apparently, no matter what the age or the circumstance! i used to own a very large miniature case in silver which my father was in the habit of carrying everywhere with him and in it was the only portrait i ever had of my mother. in 1928, after carting

bish talked by people about "recovering their past incarnations" i am a profound sceptic where this recovery is concerned. i believe that the various books which have been published giving in detail the past lives of prominent occultists are evidences of a vivid imagination and that they are untrue and mislead the public. i have been encouraged in this belief by the fact that in my work dozens of mary magdalenes and julius caesars, and other important people, have confessed portentously to me who they were; yet in this life they are such very ordinary, uninteresting people. these famous people seem to have deteriorated sadly since their last incarnations and it arouses a question as to evolution in my mind. also, i do not believe that, in the long cycle of the soul's experience, the soul e

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e average human being of today. its purpose is to guard health, to balance the bodily equilibrium in certain important aspects of the physical nature, and it symbolises the third aspect of intelligence and of substance impregnated with mind. it is in reality connected with the holy ghost, or the third divine aspect in manifestation "overshadowing (as the bible expresses it, the mother, the virgin mary. the parathyroids are symbolic of mary and joseph and the relation they hold to the overshadowing holy ghost. it will eventually be determined that there is a close physiological relation existing between the thyroid gland and the pineal gland, and between the parathyroids and the two lobes of the pituitary body, thus bringing into one related system the entire area of the throat and of the h

nally determined. this is a point of extreme importance. be not therefore misled by apparent moments of achievement. they are but prefaces to change, for such is the law of being. 7. the centre at the base of the spine. this centre is, above everything else, controlled and governed by the law of being, above referred to, and is established where spirit and matter meet and where matter, the virgin mary under the influence of the holy spirit, time energy of the etheric vehicle is translated "into heaven" there (as the christian phraseology puts it "to be seated beside her son in the house of the father" this centre is found at the very base of the spine, and supports all the other centres. it is relatively quiescent at this time, for it is only roused into full activity by an act of the will

their activities, via the christ and through their responsiveness to his work and imminent appearance. on the phrase "mother of the world" the various ways in which the phrase can be used can mean quite a number of differing things. it can mean: 1. the feminine aspect in manifestation, symbolised for us in many of the world religions as a virgin mother and in the christian religion as the virgin mary. it is that substance which enables deity to manifest. 2. nature itself, the mother of all forms. 3. the moon also, who is the symbol of the generative, creative life which gives birth to forms and is therefore the symbol of the form nature. 4. the concentration of the feminine force in nature in some individual in female form who is then called the "world mother" such an individual has never

n races have always held it, and from the western angle they are heathen and the heathen "in their blindness bow down to wood and stone" to quote one of your fundamentalist hymns. how curious it is to realise that, to the man from eastern countries, the religious people in the west do likewise, and can be seen on their knees before the christian altars bearing statues of the christ, of the virgin mary and of the apostles. the occultists of the world, through the theosophical societies and other occult bodies, so-called, have greatly damaged the presentation of the truth anent reincarnation through the unnecessary, unimportant, inaccurate and purely speculative details which they give out as truths anent the processes of death and the circumstances of man after death. these details are larg

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our bodies within us' raising each into the light of the next one above, and is not this the meaning of culture, education, refinement, purification? is not that the personal work we should constantly be at, and is it not what is symbolised, in roman- 434- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust catholic doctrine, by the assumption by the christ of the body of the virgin mary, his mother, into heaven" my reply to him is: in the above enquiry, my brother, you have asked nine questions, all bearing on the same subject. some of them would not have needed a reply had you had the time to study a treatise on cosmic fire, for in that book much of your question is answered. the difficulty in distinguishing between thought and emotion is due entirely to two things: 1. the

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

irit of resurrection. these facts (so near to manifestation) are physical facts; they will demonstrate as such if the disciples of the world recognise what it is that the christ desires, and if the men and women of goodwill implement their response to his wishes. speaking symbolically, the first step after the advent of the spirit of the resurrection will be similar to that in the biblical story. mary, that woman of sorrow, of experience and of aspiration, stands (as ever in the symbolism of the world) as the symbol of materialism. humanity must say with her "they have taken away my lord and i know not where they have laid him" but she said it to the lord himself, not recognising him and realising only her own deep need and despair. so must it be again. humanity materialistic, suffering, f

he churches materialistic, hide-bound and submerged in their theological concepts, seeking political power or possessions, emphasising stone buildings and cathedrals whilst neglecting "the temple of god, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" are occupied with the symbols and not with the reality. now they must learn to recognise that the lord is not with them and they too must go forth, as mary did, and seek him anew. if they will do so, they will surely find him and again become his messengers. the fact of the resurrection will be demonstrated during the next few centuries, and the living christ will walk among men and lead them onward towards the mount of ascension. the pentecost will become truth. all men will come under the tide of inspiration from on high, and though they may s

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

of incarnations and ending by destruction the hold of matter on the spirit; through the tomb he passed into the hierarchy, and the destiny of the christian church was committed to him; that destiny still lies in his hands. but in the gospel story, it is the christ who is indicated as appearing after the resurrection and not the master jesus, except in the one brief episode wherein he appeared to mary, weeping outside the door of the sepulchre. the other episodes are universal in their implications, as indicated by: 1. christ walking with the two disciples on the road to emmaus a symbol of the essential dualism of spirit and matter, as embodied in a world saviour. 2. christ appearing to the disciples in the upper room, symbolising the zodiac, for judas iscariot was there, standing for the

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

tellations connected with aries. first, there is cassiopeia, the enthroned queen, the symbol always of matter. it is most interesting to note how in the circle of the zodiac we come across three women. in connection with aries, the sign of commencement, we find cassiopeia, the dominant woman. woman and child and as we shall later see, mother-matter is the nurturer of the infant christ, the virgin mary gives birth to jesus. in pisces, at the close of the great round, we find andromeda, the chained woman. first the woman enthroned and dominant, then the woman caring for the infant, christ, and then the woman, representing matter that has been dominated and controlled. cassiopeia will be found seated on the arctic circle, close to [36] cepheus the king,or lawgiver, whom we shall meet later as

way does taurus, the bull, become the bringer of illumination? we are told that in this sign the moon is exalted and venus is the ruler. the moon has always, from the standpoint of the esotericist, and among primitive agricultural peoples, been regarded as the form-building aspect. the moon is the symbol, therefore, of matter and is seen in many of our churches, closely connected with the virgin mary. the consummation of the work that is undertaken in taurus, and the result of the taurian influence, is the glorification of matter and subsequent illumination through its medium. all that at present prevents the glory, which is the soul, and the radiance which emanates from the god within the form, from shining forth in its full power, is the matter or form aspect. when that has been consecr

and all unrecognized gave unto you the needed love and power. you rescued that which needed you, and thus again the two are one. ponder anew upon the ways of life, reflecting on the ways of death. go rest, my son [115] the tibetan (djwhal khul) introduction it is said that, from some aspects, virgo is the oldest of the zodiacal signs. down through the ages, be it lilith or isis, eve or the virgin mary, all portray the mother of the world, but it is mary who at length bears the child in her arms. and it is in this sign that the christ consciousness is conceived and nurtured through the period of gestation until at last in pisces, the opposite sign, the world savior is born. as in leo, this is a cave experience "in the womb of time, and should be characterized by warmth, quietness, deep expe

to be noted also that the labor was not described to hercules as in other cases. the word went out only to the country where the queen of the amazons ruled her woman's world, all men excluded. it was left for hercules to understand the nature of the labor, and he did not. also the amazons worshipped the moon (the form, and mars, the god of war; they too did not understand their true function, for mary is pictured with the moon under her feet, and in her arms the one to be known as the prince of peace. the two ways as always there is a choice for good or evil before the native of a sign, depending on his status of evolution and the degree of sensitivity. virgo is called the goddess of virtue or of vice. but what is the root meaning of "vice "to render ineffective, and that for virgo is to n

tarius completing the four arms. it is the common cross of those who have probationary status. its description is as follows "the mutable cross is the cross of the holy spirit, of the third person of the christian trinity, as it organizes substance and evokes sensitive response from substance itself (note the beautiful correlation of this statement with the fact that the holy spirit over-shadowed mary) on this cross the man reaches the stage of acquiescence and aspiration, and so prepares himself for the fixed cross of discipleship. it is notable that "the mutable cross of the personality dedicates the- 70- the labours of hercules man who is crucified thereon to material ends in order that he may learn eventually their divine use "the sin against the holy ghost" has been the subject of muc

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

all teach the witch, your pupil, howt o ruin all his crops with tempests dire,with lightning and with thunder (terrible),and the hail and wind..and when a priest shall do you injuryby his benedictions, ye shall do to himdouble the harm, and do it in the nameof me, diana, queen of witches all!and when the priests or the nobilityshall say to you that you should put your faithin the father, son, and mary, then reply:your god, the father, and maria arethree devils..for the true god the father is not yours;for i have come to sweep away the bad,the men of evil, all will i destroy!ye who are poor suffer with hunger keen,and toil in wretchedness, and suffer toofull oft imprisonment; yet with it allye have a soul, and for your sufferingsye shall be happy in the other world,but ill the fate of all w

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

he west could teach. out of such elements were begotten some at least of the templar rites and they grew from more to more, till this particular aspect culminated in the templar dramas of werner, in which an order concealed through the ages and perpetuated through saintly custodians reveals to a chosen few among knights templar some part of its secret doctrine-the identity of christ and horus, of mary the mother of god, and isis the queen of heaven. the root of these dreams on doctrine and myth transfigured through the ages- with a heart of reality behind it- will be found, as it seems to me, in occult derivations from templar ritual which belong to circa 1782 and are still in vigilant custody on the continent of europe. i mention this lest it should be thought that the intimations of a ge

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

roperties and powers from that which is extracted with an acid. for if the crystal of antimony be extracted with wine or the spirit of wine, it causes vomiting and diarrhoea, because it is a poison, and its poisonous quality is not destroyed by the wine. but if it be extracted with a good distilled acid, it furnishes a beautiful extract of a rich colour. if the acid be removed by means of the st. mary s bath, and the residuum of yellow powder washed away, you obtain a sweet powder which causes no diarrhoea, but is justly regarded as a marvellously beneficial medicine. this excellent powder is dissolved in a moist place into a liquid which is profitably employed as a painless agent in surgery. let me sum up in few words what i have to say. the substance is of heavenly birth, its life is pre

ich he has in hand. remember, then, that if our stone be not sufficiently matured, it will not be able to bring anything to maturity. the substance is dissolved in a bath, and its parts reunited by putrefaction. in ashes it blossoms. in the form of sand all its excessive moisture is dried up. maturity and fixity are obtained by living fire. the work does not actually take place in the bath of st. mary, in horse v dung, in ashes, or in sand, but the grades and regimen of the fire proceed after the degrees which are represented by these the stone is prepared in an empty furnace, with a threefold line of circumvallation, in a tightly closed chamber. it is twelve keys of basil valentine 66 of 95 subjected to continued coction, till all moisture and clouds are driven off, and the king attains t

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ht is jehovah. the light of alhim belongs to the world in general, in its allness and general fulness, but the light of jehovah is that pertaining to the chiefest production, man, whom this light penetrated and made" the author of the "source of measures" pertinently refers the reader to inman's "ancient faiths embodied in ancient names" vol. ii, p. 648. there, an engraving of "the vesica piscis, mary and the female emblem, copied from a rosary of the blessed virgin. printed at venice, 1542" and therefore, as inman remarks "with a license from the inquisition, consequently orthodox" will show the reader what the latin church understood by this "penetrating power of light and its effects" how sadly disfigured- applied as they were to the grossest anthropomorphic conceptions- have become, un

s process of kindling fire naturally led men to the idea of sexual reproduction" etc. why could not a more dignified idea, and one more occult, have led man to invent that symbol, in so far as it is connected, in one of its aspects, with human reproduction? but its chief symbolism refers to cosmogony "agni, in the condition of akta, or anointed, is suggestive of christ" remarks prof. jolly "maya, mary, his mother; twastri, st. joseph, the carpenter of the bible" in the rig veda, viswakarman is the highest and oldest of the gods and their "father" he is the "carpenter or builder" because god is called even by the monotheists "the architect of the universe" still, the original idea is purely metaphysical, and had no connection with the later phallicism[[vol. 2, page] 102 the secret doctrine

olism chaldean "nuah, the universal mother (female noah, considered as one with the ark, and of the female triad, ana, belita and davikina; called, when blended into one "sovereign goddess, lady of the nether abyss, mother of gods, queen of the earth, and queen of fecundity" later, belita or damti (the sea, the mother of the city of erech (the great chaldean necropolis) became eve; and now she is mary the virgin, in the latin church, represented as standing on the crescent-moon, and, at times on the globe, to vary the programme. the navi, or ship-like form of the crescent, which blends in itself all those common symbols of the ship of life, such as noah's ark, the yoni of the hindus, and the ark of the covenant, is the female symbol of the universal "mothers of the gods" and is now found u

ed. but devaki, the antetype of the roman catholic madonna, is a later anthropomorphized form of aditi. the latter is the goddess mother, the "deva-matri" of seven sons (the six and the seven adityas of early vedic times; the mother of krishna, devaki, has six embryos conveyed into her womb by jagaddhatri (the "nurse of the world, the seventh (krishna, the logos) being transferred to that rohini. mary, the mother of jesus, is the mother of seven children, of five sons and two daughters (a later transformation of sex) in matthew's gospel (xiii. 55-56. no one of the worshippers of the roman catholic virgin would object to reciting in her honour the prayer addressed by the gods to devaki. let the reader judge "thou art that prakriti (essence, infinite and subtile, which bore brahma in its wom

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

d in old puranic mss, in correct and archaic sanskrit, of all that the pundits of col. wilford had heard from him about adam and abraham, noah and his three sons, etc, etc[[vol. 1, page] xxxii introductory. the gods of many nations. thus, though the mother of mercury (budha, thot-hermes, etc, was maia, the mother of buddha (gautama, also maya, and the mother of jesus, likewise maya (illusion, for mary is mare, the sea, the great illusion symbolically- yet these three characters have no connection, nor can they have any, since bopp, has "laid down his code of phonetic laws" in their efforts to collect together the many skeins of unwritten history, it is a bold step for our orientalists to take, to deny, a priori, everything that does not dovetail with their special conclusions. thus, while

t fructifies the line- the virgin matrix of kosmos (the egg-shaped zero- and the immaculate mother gives birth to the form that combines all forms" prajapati is called the first procreating male, and "his mother's husband* this gives the key-note to all the later divine sons from immaculate mothers. it is greatly corroborated by the significant fact that anna (the name of the mother of the virgin mary) now represented by the roman catholic church as having given birth to her daughter in an immaculate way("mary conceived without sin, is derived from the chaldean ana, heaven, or astral light, anima mundi; whence anaitia, devi-durga, the wife of siva, is also called annapurna[[footnote(s* we find the same expression in egypt. mout signifies, for one thing "mother" and shows the character assi

lotus flower, represented as growing out of vishnu's navel- that god resting on the waters of space and his serpent of infinity- is the most graphic allegory ever made: the universe evolving from the central sun, the point, the ever-concealed germ. lakshmi, who is the[[footnote(s* in the christian religion gabriel, the archangel, holding in his hand a spray of water lilies, appears to the virgin mary in every picture of the annunciation. this spray typifying fire and water, or the idea of creation and generation, symbolizes precisely the same idea as the lotus in the hand of the bodhisat who announces to maha-maya, gautama's mother, the birth of the world's saviour, buddha. thus also, osiris and horus were represented by the egyptians constantly in association with the lotus-flower, the t

oever they were. they must have been aware also of the priority of the egyptian esotericism, since they have adopted several such symbols that typify purely egyptian conceptions and beliefs- in their outward and inward meaning- and which are not to be found in the jewish canon. one of such is the water-lily in the hands of the archangel in the early representations of his appearance to the virgin mary; and these symbolical images are preserved to this day in the iconography of the greek and roman churches. thus water, fire, the cross, as well as the dove, the lamb, and other sacred animals, with all their combinations, yield esoterically an identical meaning, and must have been accepted as an improvement upon judaism pure and simple. for the lotus and water are among the oldest symbols, an

h buddha, and the kalki avatar of the brahmins- the last messiah who will come at the culmination of the great cycle. it is also the initial letter of the greek metis or divine wisdom; of mimra, the "word" or logos; and of mithras (the mihr, the monad, mystery. all these are born in, and from, the great deep, and are the sons of maya- the mother; in egypt, mouth, in greece minerva (divine wisdom, mary, or miriam, myrrha, etc; of the mother of the christian logos, and of maya, the mother of buddha. madhava and madhavi are the titles of the most important gods and goddesses of the hindu pantheon. finally, mandala is in[[vol. 1, page] 385 the egyptian lotus. sanskrit "a circle" or an orb (the ten divisions of the rig veda. the most sacred names in india begin with this letter generally- from

flowing on the water. but the signification is, that it is androgyne or hermaphrodite, that is phallus and yoni combined, the number 10, the hebrew letter jod[[diagram, the containment of jehovah. she, or rather she-he, gives the minutes of the same circle of 360 degrees "jehovah" in its best aspect is binah "the upper mediating mother, the great sea or holy spirit" therefore rather a synonym of mary, the mother of jesus, than of his father; that "mother, being the latin mare" the sea is here also, venus, the stella del mare, or "star of the sea" the ancestors of the mysterious akkadians- the chandra or indovansas, the lunar kings whom tradition shows reigning at prayag (allahabad) ages before our era- had come from india, and brought with them the worship of their forefathers, of soma, a

BLUE EQUINOX

t dorian grey used to say about wonderful boyhood. i thought of keats worst sonnet, and .chatterton, marvellous boy. but the chic adolescent, who was mr. robert nichols, had a bullet in his neck, which explained the whole matter immediately to my satisfaction. mr. nichols also told me of how he was a great poet, of how he had started the war, or won it, or both. he said that his mother was called mary, but that vulgar report erred in saying that his father was named joseph. chekhov cannot hope to compete with this sort of thing. i forgot all about him. but i do wish i had one of mr. nichols. books to review. however, here is the macmillan chekhov, and i maun e en go to it- mr. edward garnett, with the banality which he has trained us to expect from him, remarks that .chekhov has been terme

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

of the reformation, it only existed in the outlying country districts. non-christians at that time became known as pagans and heathens "pagan" comes from the latin there were other more definite adoptions from the old religions, especially in the early formative years of christianity. the idea of the trinity, for instance, was taken from the old egyptian triad. osiris, isis and horus became god, mary and jesus. december 25th, as the birthdate of]esus, was borrowed from mithraism which also believed in a second coming and indulged in the "eating of god. in many religions of the ancient world were found immaculate conceptions and sacrifice of the god for the salvation of the people. witchcraft ancient and modern raymond buckland, hc publications, ny 1970. some of the instruments of torture

me to worship two principle deities: the horned god of hunting and the goddess of fertility. these, then, were our representations our understandable forms of the supreme power which actually rules life. in the various areas of wo/man's development we see that these representations became, for the ancient egyptians, isis and osiris; for the hindus, shiva and parvati; for the christians, jesus and mary. in virtually all instances (there were exceptions) the ultimate deity was equated with both masculine and feminine. broken down into a god and a goddess. this would seem most natural since everywhere in nature is found this duality. with the development of the craft, as we know it, there was also, as we have seen, this duality of a god and a goddess. deities' names as mentioned in lesson one

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. jesus and mary were the intermediaries. so in witchcraft; those we know as the god and the goddess are our intermediaries. different traditions use different names, as a

ee-table/catch-all, if you can! if it is not possible to have a regular altar specially made or adapted and kept for ritual use then you can get by using a coffee-table or similar. in this case keep your deity figures wherever convenient. on a table, shelf or sideboard. they should be respected by your roommate (s) in the same way that you would respect their, or anyone else's, crucifix or virgin mary figure, or whatever, should they have such. when you are able to do your rituals (presumably alone) all you need do is clear enough floor space anywhere convenient and set up your circle, altar, etc. afterwards you will have to clear everything away again. there are many full covens who meet regularly in one-room apartments. a little light furniture moving and a circle can be cast and a ritua

ing to your environment and your fellow man and woman. a small percentage of your dreams are of a prophetic nature, to warn and prepare you for future events (the percentage of prophetic dreams varies greatly from one person to another but it is estimated that perhaps one dream in twenty concerns the future. don't immediately jump to the conclusion that what you dream about brother bob, or cousin mary, is an indication of something that is about to happen to him or her. it may be but far more likely is not. along with this, incidentally, it should be noted that invariably the principle characters in your dream are actually representing you or some aspect of you. so when you dream of your sister suzy arguing with you about something, you are actually seeing a representation of an inner conf

ltism jonn mumford magical herbalism scott cunningham earth power scott cunningham lesson twelve 1. what is a talisman? how does a talisman differ? from an amulet? 2. what two main actions are required to charge a talisman with power? 3. how do you personalize a talisman? what would you put on a talisman to personalize it for a man named frank higgins (craft name: eldoriac, born june 27, 1942? 4. mary pagani (craft name: empira) wants a better paying position where she works. there is a position opening up soon and she would like to get it. explain how you would determine what to put on a talisman for her to wear to ensure getting this promotion. when and how would you make it? mary's birthdate is february 14, 1954. 5. henry wilson is in love with amy kirshaw. she is not in love with him

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

decades of the nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred 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 midwi

ner radiance and self-confidence and will repel any hostility. seite 91 wicca01.txt my own favourite method is to wrap the crystals in white silk and take them to a sacred place of ancient power, such as a standing stone, an old stone circle or one of the ancient healing wells. these wells were formerly dedicated to the mother goddess but were christianised and rededicated to st bride, the virgin mary or other christian, often celtic, saint. go as early in the morning as possible and place the crystals on a flat surface, either on one of the stones or close to the water. sit near to the source of power, touching it with your two hands so that you create a circuit of energy parallel to that being absorbed by the crystals and so empower your own auric field (the area of psychic energy that e

from temptation, add the empowered condiment to a salad and they will absorb the protection. a protective ritual with empowered salt seite 97 wicca01.txt* place the salt in a small ceramic dish on your altar and light a pure beeswax candle at the four main compass points around the edges of the altar. beeswax has a long tradition in magick: it was sacred to the mother goddess and later the virgin mary. demeter, goddess of the grain, was called queen bee and aphrodite's symbol at her hive-shaped shrine in eryx was a gold honeycomb. her high priestess was always called melissa, latin for bee* beginning at the north of your circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy light this salt, to enfold my home (

circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy light this salt, to enfold my home (workplace/journey) with thy golden mantle of protection. you may wish to leave out the goddess names or substitute a mother goddess or religious icon of your own. perhaps surprisingly, many witches do ask the blessings of mother mary and i believe that if you work in love, then you should use your own focus. if you prefer, just say: benign light, charge with honeyed fragrance this salt, to enfold-[insert the name of the person to be protected* next enclose your dish of salt in a square of small protective crystals such as jade or tiger's eye and one or two amber if you have any in your collection (rose quartz or glass nug

t christ used at the last supper, in which his blood was collected after the crucifixion. as such, it signifies not only a source of healing and spiritual sustenance, but also offers direct access to the godhead through the sacred blood it once contained. tradition says that the original grail cup was incorporated by roman craftsmen into a gold and jewelled chalice called the marian chalice after mary magdalene. in celtic tradition, it became the cauldron of dagda. in rituals, the chalice can be filled with pure or scented water with rose petals floating on top. i have also mentioned its ritual use with the athame in male/female sacred rites, as the symbolic union of god and goddess that has in many modern covens replaced an actual sexual union (that now tends to occur in privacy between e

ls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obstacles and challenges, and brings wisdom and illumination as to the right path. michael stands in the south and his colour is gold. gabriel archangel of the moon, the messenger archangel and the heavenly awakener, gabriel appears many times in the bible. he visited the virgin mary and her cousin elizabeth, mother of john the baptist, to tell them that they were to bear sons who would lead mankind to salvation. it was gabriel who parted the waters of the red sea so that the hebrews could escape from the pharaoh's soldiers. gabriel is usually pictured holding a sceptre or lily. to the followers of islam, gabriel is the spirit of truth who dictated the koran to mohammed

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

all the time" webb, who also believed in the mystical significance of dreams and prophecy, apparently combined the roles of conjuring specialist with plantation religious functionary.[6] william webb was not unique. quite a few african american spiritual authorities shifted between christianity and the prospects that conjure offered. in the 1840s the wife of a wealthy white landowner in virginia, mary livermore, described a black preacher she had known who was "a man of many gifts" according to livermore "uncle" aaron, a minister and exhorter, was popular as a "conjurer who could\ 15\ raise evil spirits, and a god-man who wore a charm, and could become invisible at any moment" another slave, known only as elihu, was recognized by witnesses as "an old and creditable member of the church" wh

mbly records noted that a slave\ 23\ who had been accused of murder had apprenticed at a "free school to learn to conjure sixteen years" other supernatural specialists participated in various methods of initiation. zora neale hurston, the anthropologist and novelist, found herself taking part in secret rituals of initiation among hoodoo practitioners in new orleans in the early twentieth century. mary owen, a white folklorist, also detailed the ceremonies of initiation for members of a "voodoo" cult of black conjurers in the late nineteenth century. nevertheless, it appears that most often the secrets of conjuring were passed on from one practitioner to another, between family members, or learned by those who were seen as especially proficient or in possession of unusual talents" eto be st

rived from his faith in his supernatural allies.[31] after slavery had ended, parallel streams of conjure and christianity developed in every part of the united states where african american freedpersons settled, occasionally entwining and merging within the lives of practitioners. in some places conjure made its way into the institutional church. in missouri at the turn of the twentieth century, mary owen wrote of a sexton in an african methodist church whose authority extended to his role as a powerful conjurer. he and others in his circle of "voodoos" who were members of the church as well, saw no contradiction between the two the positions he held. sarcastically, owen commented "the old-fashioned negro c conjures in the name of his african devil on saturday, and goes to a christian chu

by slaves and former slaves. in considering stories of supernatural conjure harming, we sift through charge after charge leveled by blacks against other blacks for malevolent spiritual practices. far from a picture of fraternal solidarity, conjure beliefs depict black americans as living in a world of dissension and discord. jealousy was often cited as a chief motivation for supernatural attacks. mary jackson of atlanta, georgia, related the tale of a woman who became convinced that her entire neighborhood was resentful of her financial success. this woman, she claimed, became stricken by a mysterious illness sent by those who thought she had become "more than anyone else" because, in her words "she worked hard and got something for herself" in an account from the sea islands at the turn o

he estimation of the other blacks" wrote one southern historian in 1860. at the turn of the twentieth century tom peete\ 86\ cross, a philologist, asserted that "the means by which southern witches c attain their ends are many" he explained "they vary all the way from incantations c to cheap econjer f or etricks, f the rationale of which is difficult to determine" in the late 1800s the folklorist mary owen claimed that the voodoo practitioners she met in missouri's border regions "invariably [spoke] of themselves as witches, men or women, or as conjurers"[61] the witch and the conjurer possessed similar attributes. each was believed to have the ability to harm others with lethally potent substances, or with the malevolent exercise of spiritual power "witches an f root men" stated one infor

new orleans in his popular 1880 work, the grandissimes. and chesnutt, who pursued supernatural themes in his 1899 collection, the conjure woman, used magical spirituality as a source of elderly wisdom and humor. other writers drew on conjuring stories to explore aspects of african american identity. some folklore collectors combined supernatural tales and ethnology in their published works, like mary owen, who wrote ole rabbit, the voodoo and other sorcerers and voodoo tales, causing "a sensation" at the 1893 international folklore congress with her genuine conjure stories. in their use of conjuring accounts, both black and white authors made african american supernaturalism available to a new generation of readers.[31] at the very time that conjuring was repackaged and reinterpreted for

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r to disciple and the their principle unifying form was the distinction of receiving "the initiation" which gave them the right to be known as "unknown superiors" or "superieurs inconnus" or s.i. as it is written"-mark stavish. there were printed editions of them in french, german and latin. james bonaventure hepburn published at rome his virga aurea "the heavenly golden rod of the blessed virgin mary in seventy-two praises" consists of a list of seventy two alphabets (actually seventy, plus latin and hebrew which are the two languages of the text of the plate. cabala, speculum artis et naturae, in alchymia- stephan michelspacher. 1617 first volume of fludd's utriusque cosmi historia 1618 theophilus schweighardt speculum sophicum rhodo-stauroticum. the 'mirror of wisdom' maier's atalanta f

on 1889 mathers' edition of kabbalah unveiled published. mathers' edition of key of solomon published. eleazar b. judah of worms, one of the several hasidei ashkenaz who wrote on the "sefer yetzirah" in its entirety in przemysl. papus (gerard encausse) publishes "le tarot des bohemiens. oswald wirth, a swiss occultist writing in french, publishes a majors only deck. 1890 dion fortune (i.e. violet mary firth) born; w.b. yeats joins the golden dawn 1890-1922 the golden bough by frazer. 1891 helena petrovna blavatski (helena petrovna von hahn, cofounder of the theosophical society, dies 1891 or 92 mayer lambert, paris, arabic edition "commentaire sur le sefer yetzirah par le gaon saadya, edited french version of sadaaya gaon on display in bodleian library, translated into french and printed i

r and noted theosophist dies 1933 god of the witches by m. murray. 1936 the brotherhood of light tarot -the sacred tarot 1937 israel regardie publishes the golden dawn, which includes the bulk of the golden dawns' rituals and teachings. 1939 william butler yeats dies 1942 arthur edward waite dies 1944 arcanum 17 andre breton 1945 discovery of nag hammadi scriptures. 1946 dion fortune (i.e. violet mary firth) dies 1947 aleister crowley (crowley, edward alexander) dies 1947-56 discovery of qumran (dead sea) scrolls. 1948 the white goddess by r. graves. 1949 gardnerian book of shadows 1953 grand lodge of the state of israel was constituted. 1957 l'art magique andre breton 1958 franz bardon dies 1961 a history of the jews in christian spain v.1 yitzchak baer links radical joachimite spiritual

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recorded throughout religious legend have an extraterrestrial (fourth dimensional) origin. the sight witnessed by 70,000 catholics at fatima, portugal in 1917 sounds like many of the stories described in both the ancient texts and the modern world. the fatima 'miracle' followed a series of meetings between three children and some strange being, which, they said, sometimes manifested as the virgin mary. the being promised to produce a miracle to open the eyes of humanity, and those tens of thousands of people who turned up to witness it did, indeed, see a fantastic sight. but what was it? ufo researcher, jacque vallee, believed he knew when he wrote, in his 1976 book, the invisible college "not only was a flying disc or globe consistently involved, but its motion, its falling leaf trajector

my soul has been magnified this day, because mine eyes have seen strange things- because salvation has been brought forth to israel. and immediately the cloud disappeared out of the cave, and a great light shone in the cave, so that the eyes could not bear it. and the veil of tears 13 in a little that light gradually decreased until the infant appeared, and went and took the breast of his mother, mary" the connections with 'gods' and 'clouds' are endless in the ancient legends and texts and what about the 'star' that was supposed to have hovered over the birthplace of y'shua? why could that not have been a spacecraft? in the biblical revelations we hear of the new jerusalem descending from the sky (rev 22:10) and y'shua returning 'with the clouds (rev 1:7. was y'shua a member of a positive

her allen will be another common thread in our story from the first world war to the kennedy assassination. john foster dulles would become us secretary of state and allen, the head of the cia. one other name i should mention here is a family which will appear many times: harriman. edward harriman started work at the age of fourteen with little education, but his fortunes changed after he married mary averell, the daughter of a new york banker and railroad president. harriman built his own fortune with the union pacific railroad, but he was a notoriously corrupt and ruthless businessman. in 1904, he was found guilty of a fraud which earned him $60 million in a deal that also implicated the rothschild company, kuhn loeb and co. harriman stayed out of jail only by insider influence with poli

by 1917, fifteen us states had eugenics laws, and all but a few of them made legal the compulsory sterilisation of epileptics, the mentally ill and retarded, and regular criminals. in 1932, a year before hitler and roosevelt came to power, the harrimans helped to organise the third international congress on eugenics at the american museum of natural history in new york. averell harriman's sister, mary, was the director of entertainment for the event. these wealthy american families, like their counterparts in britain, feel themselves to be racially superior and they wish to protect their racial purity. this- along with the pursuit of power, wealth, and influence- is the reason why so many intermarriages take place within these families. america may not have an official royal family or aris

nt incumbent, alan greenspan, who is also a member of the tc, cfr, and bilderberg group. just a coincidence, naturally. the trilateral commission's influence became worldwide with its membership across the american, european and japanese elites. ireland was well represented on the executive committee of the tc in europe through both prime minister garret fitzgerald (bil) and the then little known mary robinson, who would go on to be the first woman president of ireland. after i had spoken about these matters in a meeting at totnes in south west england, a lady in the audience sought me out "that's the first time i have heard anyone talk about this since my husband (who worked for the south african government) showed me a document which said that the trilateral commission had ordered britai

nister's office at 544 camp street in new orleans was also an informal branch of the renegade french intelligence cell, the oas, which provided the actual assassins for mossad and the cia in dallas. an oas representative working out of camp street was the mercenary, jean souetre, who had ties with meyer lansky's allies in the corsican mafia. a cia document discovered in 1977 by dallas researcher, mary ferrell, revealed that french intelligence were trying to locate souetre, an oas terrorist, because he was considered a threat to the life of charles degaulle. the document, dated april 1st 1964, listed some known sightings of souetre. it said that he was in fort worth on the morning of november 22nd 1963 (so was kennedy) and that he was also in dallas that same afternoon when kennedy was sho

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rope after the fall of the roman empire and for a period was based in amsterdam, the netherlands. this was when the dutch began to build their empire through the dutch east india company and they settled south africa. in 1688, one of these hybrid bloodlines, william of orange, invaded england from the netherlands and took the british throne as william iii in 1689. william ruled jointly with queen mary and alone after her death in 1694. from this time, the illuminati moved their centre of operations to london. what followed, of course, was the "great" and enormous british empire. the plot xxiii this vast expansion of the british and other european empires to all parts of the world exported these nefilim hybrid bloodlines to every continent, including, most importantly today, to north americ

ing a horseshoe-shaped tool used at that time to cut the umbilical cord. another name later given to her was mammi, from which came mama and mother. mama or ma as a term for mother can be found in various languages all over the world. ninkharsag would later be symbolised in part by the stream of mother goddess deities with names like queen semiramis, isis, barati, artemis, diana, and the biblical mary. these were also used to symbolise the feminine principle as goddesses of the moon or waters, which are 74 children of the matrix considered feminine in balance to the masculine sun. there are often two distinct camps in these areas of research. there are those who believe that these deities were only symbolic of astronomical and esoteric principles, and those who say they were originally fle

ry european monarch on and off the throne including the king of albania and has kinship with every member of britain's royal family, the report said. he is a 13th cousin of britain's (seriously reptilian) queen mother, and her daughter queen elizabeth, and is a 13th cousin once removed of the heir to the throne, prince charles. bush has a direct descent from henry iii and from henry viii's sister mary tudor, who was also the wife of louis xi of france. he is further descended from charles ii of england. harold brooks-baker, publishing director of burke's peerage, said "it is now clear that mr gore and mr bush have an unusually large number of royal and noble descents" only unusual if you don't know the story. he added "in point of fact, never in the history of the united states have two pr

merovingian line. there have been a number of best-selling books written over recent years about the merovingian bloodline and the france-based priory of sion, a secret society through which this bloodline manipulates. these books have presented some interesting and important information, but they claim that the merovingians are the bloodline of jesus and the children they say he conceived with "mary magdalene. the story goes that she fled with them to southern france after the "crucifixion. but there was no jesus and there was no mary magdalene, a fact that will become obvious. how do two people who did not exist conceive children who became the merovingian line? beats me. this is a vitally important bloodline, yes, but not because of jesus. the merovingians are anunnaki hybrids. it is o

and middle east by sea and land over the centuries. they became the leaders in royalty, politics and finance, wherever they went. then came a key period when they could begin to "go global" once again. when william of orange, 108 children of the matrix one of the bloodlines, crossed the english channel from holland in 1688, he was manipulated on to the throne of england to rule jointly with queen mary. this was the symbolic coming together of the bloodlines that had made their way into europe by land with those that were taken to the british isles long before by the sumer empire and even those who had survived the atlantean cataclysms in britain. william's invasion came ashore close to the same spot where brutus landed around 1103bc with his trojans to found his "new troy" or london. very

r coat of arms and he was nicknamed dracul (the devil or the dragon. son vlad signed his name draculea or draculya or the "devil's son" and this later became dracula, a name that translates as something like "son of him who had the order of the dragon. most appropriate. this is the same dragon order that is today promoted by the british "holy grail" author, sir laurence gardner. by the way, queen mary or mary of teck, the mother of king george vi and therefore grandmother to the present elizabeth ii, was descended from a sister of "dracula. nothing like keeping it in the family. british and european serpents in britain and the rest of europe, the stories of dragons and reptilian gods abound also. here are just some of the places in the british isles that have dragon/serpent legends: avebur

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known as ninti (lady life) because of herexpertise in medicine. she was later referred to as mammi, from which comes mamaand mother. ninkharsag is symbolised in mesopotamian depictions by a tool used to cutthe umbilical cord. it is shaped like a horseshoe and was used in ancient times. she alsobecame the mother goddess of a stream of religions under names like queen semiramis,isis, barati, diana, mary and many others, which emerged from the legends of this allover the world. she is often depicted as a pregnant woman. the texts say of theanunnaki leadership:they summoned and asked the goddess,the midwife of the gods, the wise birthgiver (saying),t o a creature give life, create workers!create a primitive worker, that he may bear the yoke!let him bear the yoke assigned by enlil,let the worke

aid to have been crucifiedwith a lamb at his feet and placed in a cave. when a rockwas rolled away from the caves entrance three days later,his body had disappeared. heard that somewhere before?this husband-wife-son theme of nimrod-semiramis-andninus/tammuz became the osiris-isis-horus mythologyof the egyptians with its equivalent in india, asia, china and elsewhere. much later itwould be joseph, mary and jesus. when the babylonians held their spring rites to markthe death and resurrection after three days of tammuz-ninus, they offered bunsinscribed with a solar cross. yes, even the hot cross buns of british easter traditioncome from babylon. easter comes from another face of queen semiramis- ishtar -andit is from this, and possibly another brotherhood deity, ashtaroth, that we get the nam

examples of the make-believe behind these tales.they are symbolic, not literal. another point. if solomon didnt exist, why should webelieve that his father, king david, did? i keep reading accounts of his life and the onlysources quoted are the old testament texts written by the levites! there is no otherevidence. its a con. so is the idea of the king david-jesus bloodline being taken tofrance by mary magdalene to become the merovingians as suggested in many booksover recent years. as the scholar and researcher, l. a. waddell, points out:there is absolutely no inscriptional evidence whatsoever, nor any ancient greek orroman reference, for the existence of abraham or any of the jewish patriarchs or prophetsof the old t estament, nor for moses, saul, david, solomon, nor any of the jewish kin

nbethlehem, the house of bread. horus was born in annu, the place of bread.jesus was the good shepherd. horus was the good shepherd. seven fishers board aboat with jesus. seven people board a boat with horus. jesus was the lamb. horuswas the lamb. jesus is identified with a cross. horus is identified with a cross. jesuswas baptised at 30. horus was baptised at 30. jesus was the child of a virgin, mary.horus was the child of a virgin, isis. the birth of jesus was marked by a star. the91birth of horus was marked by a star. jesus was the child teacher in the temple. horuswas the child teacher in the temple. jesus had 12 disciples. horus had 12 followers.jesus was the morning star. horus was the morning star. jesus was the christ. horuswas the krst. jesus was tempted on a mountain by satan. ho

rrestrialgods became used to describe concepts and esoteric principles.different eras and cultures gave different names to these same figure 14: aphoenicianstanding stonedepicting their sungod, bel or bil, withthe halorepresenting therays of the sun.this is precisely theway jesus isportrayed becausehe, too, was asymbol of the sun.92concepts and so in the gospels, horus becamejesus and isis became mary, the virgin mother ofjesus, the sun. mary is constantly picturedholding the baby jesus, but this is merely a repeatof all the egyptian portrayals of isis holding thebaby horus (see figure 15. these people did notactually exist, they are symbolic. isis becameassociated with the astrological sign of virgo thevirgin, as did mary. the titles given to isis ofstar of the sea and queen of heaven wer

n mother ofjesus, the sun. mary is constantly picturedholding the baby jesus, but this is merely a repeatof all the egyptian portrayals of isis holding thebaby horus (see figure 15. these people did notactually exist, they are symbolic. isis becameassociated with the astrological sign of virgo thevirgin, as did mary. the titles given to isis ofstar of the sea and queen of heaven were alsogiven to mary and they both originate fromqueen semiramis, who was called the queen ofheaven in babylon. christianity and judaism areboth the religion of babylon.throughout the world you see the same sunreligions and rituals, in sumer, babylon, assyria,egypt, britain, greece, europe in general,mexico and central america, australia..everywhere. it was the universal religion inspiredby the same, ultimately e

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infinite series of intersecting tangent lines. the focus point is the center of the circle. the intersecting lines actually cross energy fields in the center of the circle. therefore, aether will be concentrated in the center of the circle. this means the circle acts as an aetheric pump to draw in energy and concentrate it at the center. figure 1.4.9-1. shape power of a circle 1.4.10 symbol from mary a healing energy symbol given to a healer from beloved mary, mother of jesus, was tested as a shape power device. the symbol is shown in figure 1.4.10-1. when i drew the symbol for clairvoyant tests, we found that aetheric energy immediately streamed into the top spiral and its associated triangle contained it. then the aetheric energy flowed into the bottom triangle and shot out the bottom s

feet across the floor inside of the pyramid into the wall. this scared him so badly he took the whole thing apart and did nothing else with it. figure 4.7.1-1 les brown's pyramid energy experiment 4.7.2 spiral energy off apex of pyramid a number of years ago, jerry decker, prominent new science researcher, attended a crystal symposium in irving, texas, hosted by priscilla boyd, now in hunstville. mary and dean hardy of allegan, michigan, presented material on research they had been doing with pyramid energy. they showed a photographic slide of a pyramid emitting a double helix beam of energy when excited by a tesla coil. a scanned-in image of the original photo, figure 4.7.2-1, was taken by dr. j. d. nelson of the university of wyoming. from the limited information we have concerning how i

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his knees before me. after invoking the 30 ayres, i recited the following statement, repeating each line three times: i have risen up waging war on the heavens, by stealth i have conquered the heavens, i sit upon the throne of all creation, as lord of heaven, and earth, and hell. i force all the angels to kneel and supplicate themselves before me. i crucify jesus upon his cross. i rape the virgin mary and make her my concubine. i mock the cabala saying, i am the yod he vau he, i am the divine tetragrammaton, i am yahweh, i am allah, i am the elohim. i mock the cabala as i sit upon the throne of all creation. proclaiming a new aeon this ritual, like the one before it, was not included in the first edition of the demonic bible. it is not intended that the practitioner of the demonic bible pe

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removed. as the legend moves forward yavisht withstood each staota and then used the staota to attack akht. he took time to through sorcery, rushed into hell and communicated with ahriman who told him to accept his fate as it were. akht was said to have been defeated by yavisht and destroyed in physical form. the manichaean myths of creation were rich in their lore of the underworld. according to mary boyce18 who wrote on the manichaean myths, hell was divided into five kingdoms. in details on the underworld she also wrote- hell is divided into five kingdoms, each of the substance of one of the five dark elements. thse are sometimes given the same names as the corresponding light elements (i.e. standing air also for dark air) or sometimes the exact opposite (i.e. darkness for light .the fi

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actions of life, either good or bad. the completed karma (q.v. few, ogham: one of the characters of the celtic tree alphabet called ogham. fire: one of the five magickal elements (q.v. it has the qualities of being warm and dry. it is the element of the south. first matter: a mixture of the serpent (q.v) and the menstruum (q.v. used in alchemy (q.v) and sex magick (q.v. fortune, dion (nee violet mary firth: a past member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (q.v) who was a lay psychologist as well as a natural psychic (q.v) and ceremonial magician. dion fortune founded her own order based upon that order's teachings and gnostical christian mysticism known as the society of the inner light. she wrote works including sane occultism and the mystical qabalah. futhark: a word made up of th

ifferent names due to variations in the pronunciation of the letters. the english rune alphabet is known as the futhorc- g- gabriel: pronounced "gahb-ray-ehl" the archangel (q.v) and cosmic guardian of the west and of elemental water. in the tradition of christian mysticism, gabriel is the "heavenly herald. the archangel of the annunciation, he who didst bring blessed tidings to our blessed lady, mary, the mother of christ" gardnarian (wicca: modern witches (q.v) who follow the teachings of and use the book of shadows composed by gerald b gardner (q.v. the first major tradition of modern wicca (q.v) a combination of neo-paganism and high ceremonial magick, much of which was "shortened" and incorrectly abbreviated from the perspective of modern magicians. gardner, gerald b: the founder of t

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age 46] 12. binah, the superior mother (as distinguished from mal kuth, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopos, the isis of nature, the tenth sephirah, is two-aspected, and these aspects are distinguished as ama, the dark sterile mother, and aima, the bright fertile mother. we have already noted that she is called the great sea, marah, which not only means bitter, but also is the root of mary; and here we meet again the idea of the mother, at first virgin, and then with child by the holy spirit. 13. by the association of binah with the sea we are reminded that life had its primordial beginnings in the waters; from the sea arose venus, the archetypal woman. the association of saturn suggests the idea of primordial age "before the gods that made the gods had drunk at eve their fill"

bservers would probably conclude that we worshipped a sheep, and the holy ghost would yield some spectacular interpretations. let us credit other people with using metaphors if we do not expect to be taken literally our-selves. the outer form of the ancient pagan faiths is no cruder than christianity in backward latin countries, where jesus christ is represented in topper and tails and the virgin mary in lace-edged pantaloons. the inner form of the ancient faiths can compare very favourably with the best of our modern metaphysicians. after all, they produced plato and plotinus. the human mind does not change, and what is true of ourselves is probably true of the pagans. the lamb of god which taketh away the sins of the world is only another version of the bull of mithra which does the same

at the use of the tree of life is not merely an intellectual exercise; it is a creative art in the literal meaning of the words, and faculties have to be developed in the mind even as manual skill is acquired by sculptor or musician. 21. the yetziratic text specifically refers to binah as the sanctifying intelligence. sanctification conveys the idea of that which is holy and set apart. the virgin mary is held to be intimately associated with binah, the great mother; and from this attribution the mind is led on to the idea of that which brings forth the all but retains its virginity; in other words, whose creativeness does not involve it in the life of its creation, but which remains apart and behind as the basis of manifestation, the root-substance whence matter arises. for although matter

e death principle; for the giver of life in form is also the giver of death, for form must die when its use is outworn. upon the planes of form, death and birth are the two sides of the same coin. 43. the mother aspect of binah finds expression in the title of marah, the sea, which is given her. it is a curious fact that venus-aphrodite is represented as being born of the sea-foam, and the virgin mary is called by catholics stella mans, star of the sea. the word marab, which is the root of mary, also means bitter, and the spiritual experience attributed to binah is the vision of sorrow. a vision which calls to ruind the picture of the virgin weeping at the foot of the cross, her heart pierced by seven swords. we also recall the teaching of the buddha that life is sorrow. the idea of subjec

ee of cups is, therefore, at home in binah, for the two sets of symbols reinforce each other. the three of cups, which is aptly named abundance, represents the fertility of binah in her ceres aspect. 55. the three of swords, however, is called sorrow, and its symbol in the tarot pack is a heart pierced by three swords. out readers will recall the reference to the sword-pierced heart of the virgin mary in catholic symbolism, and mary equates with marab, bitter, the sea. ave, maria, stella maris! 56. swords are, of course, geburah cards, and as such represent the destructive aspect of binah as kali, the wife of siva, the hindu goddess of destruction. 57. pentacles are cards of earth, and as such are congemal to binah, form. the three of pentacles, therefore, is lord of material works, or act

he godhead its very self is manifesting in that form according to its type. god is made manifest arnong us when the conditions permit of manifestation. 12. having come through into manifestation on the planes of form in the child aspect of tiphareth, the incarnated god grows to manhood and becomes the redeemer. in other words, having obtained incarnation by means of matter in a virgin state, i.e. mary, marah, the sea, the great mother, binah, a supernal, as distinguished from the inferior mother, malkuth, the developing god-manifestation, is for ever striving to bring the kingdom of the six central sephiroth into a state of equilibrium. 13. when the glyph of the fall is represented upon the tree it is interesting to note that the heads of the great serpent that rises out of chaos only come

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ars, the emotional, suggestible one into the sphere of luna. the influences of these spheres play upon them. now the occultist working under a proper system, knowing that he has got to meet these forces sooner or later, picks them up one by one voluntarily and by means of the appropriate rituals, and synthesises them within his own nature. he knows too that each aspect has its obverse. the virgin mary is reflected in lilith. the older faiths knew this, but popular christianity, which has no roots in tradition, has forgotten it. protestant christianity threw away its occult aspect at the reformation. all the pagan pantheons have gross aspects of divinities as well as etherial ones. we need to search the refuse-heap of history for the lost parts of our own tradition if our faith is to be com

tters. according to the qabalists, lilith was the first wife of adam, who used to visit him in his dreams while he was as yet alone in the garden of eden, and the lord god became so perturbed at these goings-on that he created eve as a counter- attraction. witches were the recipients of similar attentions from the devil. st. theresa of avila records that the godhead itself visited her. the virgin mary received the holy ghost. st. anthony was tempted by apparitions of beautiful female demons. there are many cases on record of whole nunneries being attacked by the devil, who visited their members. george moore, in his exceedingly interesting study of convent life, sister theresa, gives an account of an outbreak of "counterparts" among the younger nuns, in which they formed liaisons with ange

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is overwhelming in it number and variety. only a few brief examples may be cited here. those interested in the subject should consult the 19th century text a dictionary of miracles by the reverend e. cobham brewer, an excellent compendium of christian wonders that runs to almost six hundred pages of double-column fine print. in 1380 a merchant was transporting a small wooden statue of the virgin mary to antwerp. when he reached the town of schiedam the image made itself too heavy to be moved. all the townspeople flocked to see this marvel, and the conclusion was reached that the virgin wished to remain in schiedam. they induced the merchant to sell the statue, then set it up in the church of st. john the baptist. st. hugh, the abbot of cluny (1024-1109) met a leper on the road and went ba

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ave often been used in conferring the past master's degree. the years between i85o and i86o were prosperous ones for north carolina. many public enterprises were begun and the resources of the state were rapidly developed. the fine building for the education of the deaf and dumb and blind was completed and occupied; the insane asylum was established; the methodists built a fine female school; st. mary's school was greatly improved; goldsboro and charlotte were joined by railway, making connection with other roads on the south and east; still other lines joined the atlantic with the mountains on the west, and the public school system was thoroughly reorganized. masonry kept pace with these advancements. the membership of hiram lodge had doubled and its members were identified with the mater

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in. the american association of acupuncture and oriental medicine may be contacted at 1424 16th st. nw, washington, dc 20036. there is also an international veterinary acupuncture society at 2140 conestoga rd, chester springs, pa 19425. sources: academy of traditional chinese medicine. an outline of chinese acupuncture. new york: pergamon press, 1975; peking: foreign language press, 1975. austin, mary. acupuncture therapy. 2nd ed. new york: asi publishers, 1972. dubrin, stanley, and j. keenan. acupuncture and your health. chatsworth, calif: books for better living, 1974. hashimoto, m. japanese acupuncture. new york: liveright publishing, 1968; london: thursons, 1966. mann, felix. acupuncture. new york: random house, 1963; london: w. heinemann medical books, 1962. matsumoto, teruo. acupunct

was prosecuted for fortune- telling but contested the case in court. she demonstrated her methods of work and made an accurate prediction concerning the judge s son. judge john h. freschi acquitted her, stating: the defendant has raised astrology to the dignity of an exact science. adams published various books and pamphlets on astrology, and many famous individuals (including j. pierpont morgan, mary pickford, singer enrico caruso, and king edward vii of britain) visited her headquarters at carnegie hall. from 1930 onward she broadcast three times weekly, and received thousands of letters requesting astrological readings. as early as 1931, she predicted that the united states would be at war in 1942. in 1932 she was booked for a 21-night lecture tour but canceled it after predicting her o

is believed to largely operate on humans through the many other deities. southern africa among the zulu and other bantu tribes of equatorial and southern africa, witchcraft or malevolent sorcery was traditionally practiced.in secret, for the results of detection were terrible. tribes instituted a caste of witchfinders assigned the task of tracking down witches. the nineteenth-century writer lady mary anne barker observed, it is not difficult to understand, bearing in mind the superstition and cruelty which existed in remote parts of england not so very long ago; how powerful such women become among a savage people, or how tempting an opportunity they could furnish of getting rid of an enemy. of course they are exceptional individuals; more observant, more shrewd, and more dauntless than t

was printed in paris in 1552. rabbi akiba was a great teacher who developed a rabbinical school at jaffu, and his mishnah became the foundation of the religious code. he was involved in the revolt of bar-cochba against hadrian in 132 c.e. and suffered martyrdom by being flayed alive. akita in 1969, akita, japan, was the site of one of the more prominent modern series of apparitions of the virgin mary. while praying, sister agnes sasagawa, a young postulate of the order of the handmaids of the eucharist, a roman catholic order community, received a locution, a clairaudient message, concerning how she should pray. she ascribed this voice to an angel. the content of the prayer, she later discovered, was the same as that given to the three children who had seen the virgin mary at fatima. sist

y. while praying, sister agnes sasagawa, a young postulate of the order of the handmaids of the eucharist, a roman catholic order community, received a locution, a clairaudient message, concerning how she should pray. she ascribed this voice to an angel. the content of the prayer, she later discovered, was the same as that given to the three children who had seen the virgin mary at fatima. sister mary was deaf. four years later she received another locution, which happened to coincide with the development of the stigmata, a mysterious cross-shaped wound on her hand that refused to stop bleeding. the inner voice directed her to the chapel, where she saw the virgin for the first time. she also heard a series of accompanying messages from the virgin calling for prayer and sacrifice. the words

erdict was confirmed by the vatican in 1984. the events at akita challenge the more common explanations of skeptics concerning weeping statues as the substance coming from the eyes was not water (as would have been the case if it was due to mere condensation. in like measure, explanations generally attributed to bleeding statues do not appear applicable. sources: catholic apparitions of jesus and mary. http/ www.frontier.net/apparitions/akita.num. april 5, 2000. aksakof, alexander n (1832.1903) imperial councillor to the czar and the pioneer of spiritualism in russia, as well as a swedenborg enthusiast. he was born in repiofka, russia, in 1832 and educated for civil duty at the royal lyceum, st. petersburg. he was introduced to modern spiritualism by andrew jackson davis s nature s divine

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s means creator of the great world. macumba african-derived brazilian religions that have spirit possession as a central feature. madonna ministry the madonna ministry is a new thought metaphysical ministry founded by bishop arnold michael, formerly a minister with the united church of religious science. as a young man, in 1947 he had written a book, blessed among women, on the life of the virgin mary published in 1948. the writing of the book became a life-altering event and michael left his job managing a restaurant and studied for the religious science ministry. he served religious science churches for the next 35 years. in 1980, he returned to his consideration of the virgin mary and began writing a series of newsletters under the title madonna ministry that explored mary s role as a c

t foundation. it transpired that these books were part of the diana vaughan conspiracy of gabriel jogand-pages( leo taxil, designed to embarrass the roman catholic church and freemasonry. sources: stein, gordon. encyclopedia of hoaxes. detroit: gale research, 1993. mariapovch povch was a village in northeastern hungary and the place of origin of one of the more notable weeping icons of the virgin mary revered among eastern rite roman catholic christians. the icon was prepared by stefan papp, the brother of the pastor of the local parish church. originally, the icon was intended for display in the local parish church. the picture of the virgin was shown holding the infant jesus, who in turn held a threepetaled lotus in his hand. the icon was seen to weep for the first time on november 14, 1

n of mariapovch. http//www.carpathorusyn. org. april 14, 2000. marie of agreda (or maria de jesus (1602.1665) a spanish nun, maria fernandez coronel, who founded and was abbess of the franciscan recollects at agreda. she published a work entitled la mystica ciudad de dios (the mystic city of god, a miracle of the all-powerful, the abyss of grace: divine history of the life of the most holy virgin mary, mother of god, our queen and mistress, manifested in these last times by the holy virgin to the sister marie of jesus, abbess of the convent of the immaculate conception of the town of agreda, and written by that same sister by order of her superiors and confessors. this work, which was condemned by the sorbonne, described many strange and miraculous happenings said to have befallen the virg

y, mother of god, our queen and mistress, manifested in these last times by the holy virgin to the sister marie of jesus, abbess of the convent of the immaculate conception of the town of agreda, and written by that same sister by order of her superiors and confessors. this work, which was condemned by the sorbonne, described many strange and miraculous happenings said to have befallen the virgin mary from her birth on, including a visit to heaven in her early years, when she was given a guard of 900 angels. these revelations appear to have come out of her own spiritual raptures, but were full of inaccuracies. she was said to have lived a pious life in spite of the condemnation of her writings. marion, frederick (1892) stage name of josef kraus, famous european performer of stage telepathy

searcher at the parapsychology laboratory of duke university, durham, north carolina (1951.52. he has investigated the relationship between subjects and agents in esp testing and the psychological aspects of conditions favorable to poltergeists, using psychological testing techniques. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. marshall, mary (1842.1884) the first british professional medium, through whom both sir william crookes and alfred russel wallace obtained their introduction to the phenomena of spiritualism. her manifestations consisted of raps, movements, and levitations of the table, knotting handkerchiefs under the table-leaf, and writing on glass. this latter appears to have been a rudimentary form of slate-writing, wi

; and space-time concepts in parapsychology. his articles on such subjects have been published in revue metapsychique. he also contributed papers to international conferences on parapsychology (utrecht, 1953; st. paul de vence, 1954. he was selected president of institute metapsychique in 1962. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. mary celeste the name of a ship found abandoned at sea december 5, 1872, and one of the most famous unsolved sea mysteries. her sails were set, she was sound and seaworthy, with plenty of food and water, but not a soul on board. some garments were hanging out to dry on a line. in the cabin was a slate with notes for the ship s log, with november 25 as the last date. the crew had left pipes, clothi

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

d to have supplanted in the imaginations of the superstitious and impressionable, according to any number of skeptical commentators were noted on occasion. at least one recent book from a reputable publisher janet bord s fairies: real encounters with little people (1997) argued that such things are a genuine aspect of a universe so complex that we cannot begin to understand it. the blessed virgin mary appeared, as usual, all over the world, as did other sorts of divine entities. the world, of course, goes on with its business as if none of this were true, taking serious (as opposed to tabloid) note only when belief in otherworldly beings goes horrendously wrong and thirty-nine cult members commit suicide while awaiting the arrival of a spaceship following a comet. the march 1997 mass death

. there were eleven meetings between july and november alone. only on the occasion of the third meeting, on august 18, did she reveal her name. once he spotted her walking down a street in las vegas, but she refused to speak with him, apparently not wanting to be recognized. bethurum participated actively in the 1950s contact movement. most outside observers believed him to be a hoaxer. his wife, mary, apparently felt otherwise. she divorced him in 1956 on the grounds that he was having sexual relations with aura rhanes. as with many other contactees from that period, it is impossible to judge just what bethurum believed or did not believe about his reported interactions with extraterrestrials. a privately kept scrapbook published after his death carried a poem titled third visit to mormon

ng the new age boom of the 1980s, ba rt h o l o m ew k n own for his gentle, kind manner was something of a channeling superstar; his messages of comfort and self-love we re taken to heart. he addressed a wide range of subjects, from sex and aids to prayer and ego surre n d e r. be f o re his popularity waned, he was the subject of two books by mo o re. see also: channeling further reading moore, mary-margaret, 1984. i come as a brother: a remembrance of illusions. taos, nm: high mesa press, 1987. from the heart of a gentle brother. taos, nm: high mesa press. bashar after two close encounters with large, triangle- shaped ufos over the course of one week in 1973, californian darryl anka the brother of singer and composer paul anka began reading ufo literature in search of answers. through h

rizona. he was a regular at the giant rock interplanetary spacecraft convention and other contactee venues. he remained active on the circuit until his death in landers, california, on may 21, 1969. two early chroniclers of the contactee subculture found themselves favorably and very deeply impressed with mr. bethurum s unimaginative sincerity (reeve and reeve, 1957. another apparent believer was mary bethurum, his first wife, who divorced him on the grounds that he was engaged in a sexual relationship with aura rhanes. more cynical observers, such as saucer news editor james w. moseley, judged bethurum to be a liar, motivated by a desire to enrich himself at believers expense. bethurum refused to undergo polygraph examination to verify his story, and when asked to submit, for scientific a

of the churches and the nations. he will demand the release of the scrolls for all human beings to see and understand. the master explained that earthlings cannot now tell the difference between good and evil because the scrolls suppressed ancient religious documents have not been available to them. the scrolls contain the hidden history of humanity, revealing all the truths that god, jesus, and mary wanted humans to know but were concealed because they did not suit the purposes of earthly political leaders and church authorities. keith himself, the master asserted, had this knowledge within himself, though it had not yet been released into his conscious mind. at the time of the lifting which is what the landanians called the occasion that macdonald would be taken aboard a spacecraft (one

her reading brodu, jean-louis, 1995. magonia: a re-evaluation. in steve moore, ed. fortean studies: volume 2, 198 215. london: john brown publishing. drake, w. r, 1964. spacemen in the middle ages. flying saucer review10, 3 (may/june: 11 13. vallee, jacques, 1969. passport to magonia: from folklore to flying saucers. chicago: henry regnery company. marian apparitions visions of the blessed virgin mary (bvm) have been reported since at least the third century of the christian era. the first for which there is anything approximating detailed knowledge dates back to 1061 when the bvm provided a vision of christ s residence in nazareth and directed the witness, the lady of the manor in walsingham, norfolk, to see that a precise copy was constructed on the spot. a few visions are well known, an

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

the greek septuagint. starting about forty years after master yeshuvah appeared to pass from his physical body, a variety of narratives attributed to close disciples began to appear. in addition to the four accounts that were canonized by the emerging orthodoxy into the peshitta, the gospel of thomas, the gospel of peter" f" 2' 8: 45 the gospel of philip, the secret gospel of mark, the gospel of mary magdalena, and other works are still extant in whole or part. are the four books contained in the current version of the peshitta accurate renditions of the life and teachings of master yeshuvah, as recorded by four of his closest disciples? that would be highly unlikely. until the gospel of mark appeared several years after the destruction of the second temple in 70 ce, virtually all informa

ry, culture, and spirituality. the christian inhabitants consisted largely of the descendants of heretics who had been expelled from the roman empire. these arabian desert fathers possessed numerous apocalyptic and pseudo-epigraphic texts. but it is suspected that they had limited knowledge of the peshitta, and that the bulk of the material related to the prophet isa (master yeshuvah) and miryam (mary) in the qur an was derived from jewish sources. the hanifites were an arabian faith community largely concentrated in mecca, medina, and a few other cities, who had rejected idolatry previous to the birth of the prophet. they professed to be in search of the original religion of abraham. in the qur an, master mohammed repeatedly applies the term hanif to the disciples of the religion of abrah

k (i.e. torah) whom muslims are exhorted to honor and respect. in the most high surah, the torah is called the book of mosheh and the sefer yetzirah (book of formation) is referred to as the book of abraham. the qur an also has beautiful surahs devoted to the prophet isa (master yeshuvah, to whom is ascribed the exalted stature of rasool (prophet of the highest degree, and to isa s mother miryam (mary. it is interesting to note that in the history of miryam, master mohammed speaks of miryam, sister of aaron the high priest" f" 2' 8: 0 and master mosheh, as the same miryam who became the mother of master isa 1570 years later. scholars frequently point to this as an erroneous ascription. however, from the perspective of reincarnation, was master mohammed inferring that the later miryam was a

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nde was decreed banishment or bondage.3 thus did thomas more enunciate the principles of religious toleration before the disasters of the sixteenth century had begun 1 more's utopia, robinson's translation, everyman edition, p. ioo. 2 ibid, pp. ioo-i. 3 ibid, pp. 101-2. 186 religious hermetism in the sixteenth century before his own execution, before the fires had been lighted at smithfield under mary, before the torturing of catholic missionaries under elizabeth, before the french wars of religion and the massacre of st. bartholomew, before the appalling cruelties of the spaniards in the netherlands, before the burning of servetus by calvin, before the burning of giordano bruno by the inquisition. and, if i am right in suggesting that the utopians were prisci theologi who carried on some

er turn of events in the latter part of the reign of henry viii. with the death of more on the scaffold, a chapter in the history of thought which had only just begun was prematurely closed. the violently intolerant protestant break with the past in the reign of edward vi, with its destruction of books and libraries, was followed by the equally violent spanish-catholic intolerance of the reign of mary. under elizabeth, the reformation was established with an extreme party, the puritans, in the ascendant. puritan anglicanism had quite lost the erasmian tolerance. bitterly resenting the persecutions of mary's reign, and dreading a repetition if philip ii should win the upper hand in europe and regain hold of england, puritan thought ran on narrowly theological and drearily historical fines d

is developing is a new hermetic insight into the divinity of the universe, an expanded gnosis. the copernican sun heralds the full sunrise of the ancient and true philosophy after its agelong burial in dark caverns. bruno has here in mind the image of veritas filia temporis, time bringing truth to light, which had been used in england of the return of catholic truth from protestant darkness under mary, and vice versa, of the return of protestant truth from catholic darkness under elizabeth.1 the truth of which bruno speaks had been imprisoned in the dark caverns by "mercuries and apollos" pretending to descend from heaven. the meaning of this is clear when compared with the similar passage in the de umbris idearum on the providence of the gods which does not cease, as the egyptian priests

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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 master craftsman, the son of fire, while the sons of seth as priestcraft uphold the female ideal in the virgin mary, the lady of the sea. thus fire and water, male and female, church and state, are opposed to each other, with the inevitable result that a great war has been waged ever since the separation, that sin, sorrow and death are rampant, and that humanity is praying for the day of redemption, when the two streams shall be united in the kingdom of heaven where there is neither marrying nor giving in

re was enmity between cain, the son of fire, and abel, the son of water. so cain slew abel and abel was replaced by seth. in time and through generations, the sons of cain became the craftsmen of the world, skilled in the use of fire and metal. their ideal was male, hiram abiff, the master workman. the sons of seth, on the other hand, became the churchmen, upholding the feminine ideal, the virgin mary, and ruling their people by the magic water placed at their temple doors. various attempts have been made to unite the two streams of humanity and emancipate them from their progenitors, jehovah and the lucifer spirits. with this end in view the symbolical temple was built according to the instruction of solomon, the son of seth and the molten sea was cast by hiram abiff, the son of cain; but

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nt for each class of spirits, the angels under jehovah were set to work with the inhabitants of all planets having moons; while the lucifer spirits have their abode upon the planet mars. the angel gabriel is representative on earth, of the lunar hierarchy, presided over by jehovah; the angel samael is ambassador of the martial forces of lucifer. gabriel (who announced the coming birth of jesus to mary) and his lunar angels are therefore the givers of physical life, while samael and the hosts of mars are the angels of death. thus originated the feud in the dim dawn of this cosmic day, and that which we see as free masonry today is an attempt by the hierarchs of fire, the lucifer spirits, to bring us the imprisoned spirit 'light' that by it we may see and know. catholicism is an activity of

ale 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 mary. faith is the prime factor in their 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 h

rhuman rulers- lemurian epoch atlantean& aryan epochs new galilee- humanity was double-sexed temporal powers abolition of sex malefemale\ finding the word each being a/ king initiates\ the word becomes complete phree messen [children of light] flesh creative unit initiation by fire [light- melchisedec: male ideal christ: king& priest hiram abiff king& priest just& holy- just& holy received virgin mary baptism of spirit sacrifice female ideal- divine ruler priests--brahmins--levites divine ruler over a over human initiation by water [baptism] purged humanity called brotherhood/ abraham's seed dwelling typified by/ in the new jer-u-salem abraham ecclesiastical powers which means melchisedec is there shall be peace called king of division into races--nations- salem [peace] sects and peace hen

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gle with the fire triangle, the hexagram is formed. it forms a six pointed star also known as the seal of solomon. this symbol is a counterfeit star of david, the national symbol of israel(god's chosen nation. the difference between the star of david and the occult seal is the triangles which make up the occult seal interlock and the two triangles of the star of david lie flat against each other. mary ann slipper, a masonic author, writing in symbolism of the eastern star, 1927, on page 14, makes a most telling admission, when she says "the six pointed star is used in masonic work and is also found in other well known secret orders" another eastern star book, the second mile, understates the impact of the hexagram when it says. the six pointed star is a very ancient symbol and one of the m

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e form and propagates itself. binah is often called the heavenly mother or holy spirit. her letter is h (heh, the numerical value of which is 5. binah possesses 50 gates, which is symbolical of the heh multiplied by the od; her symbol is the dove; her dimension is depth, whilst kether's is length (compare the lingam and yoni in hindu mythology; and her colour is sky blue, the colour of the virgin mary. from the union between kether and binah emanates 'hokmah (3) hmkc 'hokmah, wisdom. the third sephirah 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

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

tienhow, the queen of heaven nursing her infant son. connected with this figure is a lotus bud, symbol of the new birth. originally in chaldea and in egypt, only one supreme god was worshipped. this deity was figured by a mother and her child, as was the great chinese god. it comprehended the universe and all the attributes of the deity. it was worshipped thousands of years prior to the birth of mary, the mother of christ, and representations of it are still extant, not only in oriental lands, but in many countries of europe. within the oldest temples of egypt are still to be observed sacred apartments which contain the "holy of holies" and to which, in past ages, none might gain access but priests and priestesses of the highest order. within these apartments are pictured the mysteries of

sun had reached its lowest point and had begun to return. at this time, the 25th of december, and just as the days began to lengthen, this virgin gave birth to the sun-god. it is said that he issued forth from her side, hence the legend that gotama buddha was produced from the side of maya, and also the story believed by the gnostics and other christian sects that jesus was taken from the side of mary.[31 [31] the fact will doubtless be remembered that a similar belief was entertained concerning the birth of julius caesar. within the churches and in the streets of many cities of germany are to be observed figures of this traditional virgin. she is standing, one foot upon a crescent and the other on a serpent's head, in the mouth of which is the sprig of an apple tree on which is an apple

apple. the tail of the serpent is wound about a globe which is partially enveloped in clouds. on one arm of the virgin is the child, and in the hand of the other arm she carries the sacred lotus. her head is encircled with a halo of light similar to the rays of the sun. one is frequently disposed to query: do the initiated in the romish church regard these images as legitimate representations of mary, the wife of joseph and mother of christ, or are they aware of their true significance? certainly the various accessories attached to this figure betray its ancient origin and reveal its identity with the egyptian, chaldean, and phoenician virgin of the sphere. the fact has already been observed that in the original representation of the "temptation" in the cave temple of india, it is not the

slations he is feminine both in the old and new testaments.[88 [88] forlong, rivers of life, p. 223. jehovah was originally female, so, also, was netpe the holy spirit of the egyptian tree of life. we are given to understand that netpe was the same as rhea, the partner of sev or saturn, and that her hieroglyphic name was "abyss of heaven" osiris was the son of this goddess who was really a mai or mary, the celestial mother, he being the only god of the egyptians who was born upon this earth and lived among men. of this forlong remarks "his birthplace was mount sinai; called by the egyptians nysa, hence his greek name dionysos" as the palm was the first offering of mother earth to her children, so osiris was the first offspring of the egyptian celestial virgin to mankind. he was the new sun

the contrary, he was an example to mankind--a man who through moral purification and a life of self- abnegation had prepared himself for this holy office. mythologically, or astrologically, he was the new sun born at the close of the cycle. he was the great light which revealed the way to eternal repose- nirvana. the mythical buddha was the prototype of the mythical christ. his mother was mai or mary, queen of heaven, or the vernal spring. he was a new incarnation of the sun--the savior of the world. in process of time his many miracles were offered as proof of his divine character. although he taught the existence of a great and universal power, he made no attempt to explain the unknowable. the infinite is to be contemplated only through its manifestations. nirvana is not annihilation, a

he apostle thomas, from the land of the brahmins" concerning the story of herod and his order to slay all the male infants, there has been discovered in a cavern at elephanta, in india, a sculptured representation of a huge and ferocious figure, bearing a drawn sword and surrounded by slaughtered children, while mothers appear weeping for their slain. this figure is said to be of great antiquity. mary, the mother of jesus, like mai, the mother of gatama buddha, was regarded by certain sects in the earlier ages of christianity as an immortal virgin whose birth had been announced by an angel.[126] she was in fact the ancient virgin of the sphere--the mother of the gods--the queen of heaven [126] see gospels of mary and the protovangelion. as soon as christ was born he conversed with mary, as

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

tryisoddinother ways.othercontemporary marriages recorded in thehydegenealogyincludeboththemonthand theday-forcharles waite only the year is given, and he is inexplicably creditedwiththree children. nowhere else is a third child mentioned. it is, to say the least, a remarkably unreliable recordofrecent events. if waite is to be believed, themarriage-ifmarriage therewas-tookplace in the churchofst mary abbots, kensington,butthe church registers contain no recordofthe event in1850,.orin any year from1849to1857.noris the marriage recorded at the officeofthe registrar generalinst catherine's house. it is,267ofcourse, possiblethatemmalovell was married in america,butifso, it was the only marriage in the waite family for which no recordssurvive, a final possibility isthatof a marriage at sea;but

things external signify little enough ,except as they help or hinder the inward life'[sly,pp.14, 35.)on8december1810a francis lovell ofstpancras married elizabeth ottley at st george's, hanover square" and' this may well have been the first marriage of emma's father.mrlovellhad three children by his first wife: a son, francis,whobecame a physician, andtwodaughters: eliza,whomarried amrgordon, and mary ann,whoemigrated to australia. by1820he had remarried and proceeded to add six more children to his household in sloanestreet.ofthe three sons of the second marriage george, the eldest 'is a name only, while the second, william, was described by waite as living 'quietly till about fifty of age; waite further recalled that he once, only once, had a meetingwithhis sister after her return fromam

rward his ideas in his books.theintroductions tobothlivesofalchemysticalphilosophersandthemagicalwritingsofthomasvaughansetouthis thesis explicitly, and in the former the immediate source of his ideas is also revealed.thesuggestion that spiritual regeneration is the true secret of alchemy had been advanced in 1850 in an anonymous work,asuggestiveinquiryintothehermeticmystery.both the author, miss mary anne south (later mrs atwood, and her father,drthomas south, had spent many years immersed in alchemical literature, and thesuggestiveinquirywas the culmination of their researches; but immediately after its publicationdrsouth took fright at the prospect of revealing such stupendous truths to the unenlightened public and destroyed every copy of his daughter's book that could be recalled, toge

e.hehad fallen asleep one night, leaving a bedside lamp,'whichnever smokes,'burningquietly';butit was a false senseofsecurity, for he 'awoke at 4, nearly strangled by black smoke filling the whole room. an 'awful day' followed, spent entirely in cleaning up after the 'foul lamp grease'.butwaite's ill-health, real or imagined, was exacerbated by domestic stress. in april1916a young schoolmistress, mary broadbent schofield, had joined the fellowship oftherosy cross and taken themottoof'unasalus. she idolized158 a. e.waite-magicianofmanyparts_bothwaite and his work, and after ada's death she took it upon herself to act as his privatesecretary-muchto the annoyance of sybil waite,whosaw her father as herownprivate preserve,at least asfar asfemalecompany was concerned.thecloseness between waite

broadbent schofield, had joined the fellowship oftherosy cross and taken themottoof'unasalus. she idolized158 a. e.waite-magicianofmanyparts_bothwaite and his work, and after ada's death she took it upon herself to act as his privatesecretary-muchto the annoyance of sybil waite,whosaw her father as herownprivate preserve,at least asfar asfemalecompany was concerned.thecloseness between waite and mary schofield continued to grow, however, and led to frequent jealous outbursts on the part of his increasingly neurotic daughter (he was advised by his local physicianofthe 'need of rest and change for sybil and myself, apart from one another' and told that her state was partly due to thyroid poisoning. in spiteofthe intolerable atmosphere in waite's home they eventually married, on 15 august 19

ofield continued to grow, however, and led to frequent jealous outbursts on the part of his increasingly neurotic daughter (he was advised by his local physicianofthe 'need of rest and change for sybil and myself, apart from one another' and told that her state was partly due to thyroid poisoning. in spiteofthe intolerable atmosphere in waite's home they eventually married, on 15 august 1933, and mary moved to only to live apart from her husband 'all is peace at westfield lodge, wheremary is, wrote waite in his diary on 15 december 'and all is dreadful at my supposed home.'whenthef.267.r:.c:.moved to 104 maidavale,mary occupied a flat in the building where waite was able to staywhenin london, and thus gain some peace from the querulous sybil,buteven here there were problems. in october 193

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m the ideas of the higher powers, angels, archangels, and the emanations of deity, which cert255ainlyexisted in the oldest forms of the kabbalah, and in the minds of the composers of the early chapters of the pentateuch.itcannot be doubtedthata very large number of minds cling firmly to the roman catholic type of religion, owing to its insistance on reverence and praise to the beatified woman 255 mary- who is representative of the ancient views of the female counterpart of god-head. with this digression i must conclude, and i beg for a lenient judgment on these discursive remarks on our mystic order.the religion of freemasonry 123 [reprintedfromarsquatuorcoronatorum,vol. 1 (1886-88, pp.ss2558.]13. angels:jewish, christian and pagantheexistence of angels is asserted by almost all religions

ed in the english version.ofjacob,in genesis xxxi. 10, 11, concerning the breedingofcattle.ofjoseph, in genesis xxxvii. 5-11 symbolical dreams of his rule over his brethren.ofsolomon,i.kings iii. 5. in a dream god asks solomon what gift he should prefer,andsolomon asked for an under255 standing heart.ofdaniel, vii. 1, who has a vision of four winds, four beasts, etc, and of joseph, the husband of mary, inthenew testament, matthew i. 20, where he was told of the coming son;andii.13, where he was warned to flee from bethlehem; and again inv,19 he was told toreturnto israel; and thatofthe wise men in matthew ii. 12, when they were warned to return to their own country by another way.from that by which they had come to seek for the babe jesus, and to worship him.thetalmud,mischna, and gemara r

eph, solomon, daniel, joseph and the wise men; and thirdly to certain dreams believed to be divinely inspired, but yet requiring interpretaton, such were the dreams of abimelech, laban, the officers of pharaoh, and nebuchadnezzar. the new testament has a mention of one dream of great interest, that of the wife of pontius pilate in matthew xxvii. 19, and of the five dreams of joseph the husband of mary and mother of jesus, announcing the conception, and warning him against herod, telling him to flee into egypt, and again to return to the land of israel, and lastly to go to the town of nazareth. christianity the whole tendency of the teachings of the christian faith has beentocondemn as unholy all magical arts and all attempts atdivination and its history 209divination of future events, and

r date a new deity, serapis, was developed in egypt. he appears to have been a form of osiris and apis in combination. the worship of serapis also took root in greece.theslight and scanty details of the ancient religious mysteries of egypt centre round the names of osiris, isis, and horus, who have been compared with the hindoo triad, brahma, vishnu and siva, and with the roman catholic, jehovah, mary and jesus. the egyptian mysteries were divided into the lesser and the greater. every candidate for the greater must have passed into the lesser, and have perfected himself therein, and 'so many persons never passed beyond the lesser mysteries. to obtain admission to the lesser mysteries the candidate was required to have a history of good health and of virtuous conduct, and of education in t

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ohn bull? very few people could give any reason at all why the bull; and, supposing the bull, why john? there lies an occult reason behind that. the bull is the symbol of material strength, and the name of john, the most tender, the most feminine of the names of all the scripture is attached to it- the name of the beloved disciple taken as the intuitional form, and coupled always with the name of mary, so showing the spiritual development linked with the earthly and corporeal strength, the highest- the potentiality, at any rate, of the highest 255 spiritual development linked with the potentiality of the greatest bodily and material strength, pointing out the english-speaking race as the future rulers of the whole world. and i think there is little doubt that the whole tendency of history

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nka followed (after a visit to the swedenborgians in london) and in 1786 they founded the societe des illumines d avignon. precisely what this band of visionaries believed and taught is unclear; their doctrines have been described as a blend of swedenborgianism and roman catholicism, salted with occultism. to the cold intellectualism of the swedish visionary was added the veneration of the virgin mary and recital of the athanasian creed; while individual members studied renaiss-ance alchemy, the theurgy of alexandria, hermetic authors, the philosopher s stone, the divine science of numbers, and the mystical interpretation of dreams4[4. even less is known of the rituals they practised, but when two english swedenborgians, william bryan and john wright, visited the society in 1789, they were

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rton was a prominent whig politician, freemason, and atheist who sought to ridicule religion by publicly presiding over festive gatherings with "satanic" trappings and wharton went on to become grand master mason of the london grand lodge in 1722 by 1739, dashwood was on the homeward leg of his journey. on his way, he stopped in florence to see the abbe nicolini, and it was there that he met lady mary wortley montagu [who] would eventually join. dashwood in the divan club..unfortunately things were not going well for freemasonry in italy. pope clement xii had recently issued the bull in eminenti apostalatus specula, unleashing the inquisition against the lodges. by early 1740, the pontiff was dead, and dashwood went to rome for the conclave that would elect the new pope. there he playfully

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as such exists from the earliest pagan traditions right through to the greek mysteries and gnosticism. in gnostic literature she is described by many names the all mothers, mother of the living, shining mother and the holy spirit. sophia is seen as the counterpart of the logos and cannot work without. it is hence suggested in esoteric gnostic literature that it was the combined power of jesus and mary madgadene who transmitted the mysteries, not jesus alone. the sophia tradition has survived hidden under the veil of christian piety, it is still found in the cult of the virgin mary and is most powerful in the russian orthodox traditions. it is a tradition of great age and some beauty that personifies the power of the holy spirit as distinctly female. for example, in proverbs particularly we

ertaking secret rites on behalf of his people. a natural development after the mediating priest was the achievement of the individual right to deification. however, this involved spiritual as well as psychological changes. man could not just develop the right to be deified, the divine will had to reach into the lower worlds and change the nature of the mystical path. through the work of jesus and mary magdalene, a religious transformation occurred and mankind was given the right to enter the kingdom of light. in the past some individuals had been able to achieve theosis (enoch walked with god and was not, but these were unique cases and were above and beyond the norm. in preparation for the work of jesus and james, the qumran community (the essenes) had been formed, the teacher of righteou

and rebirth could become deified. during the life of jesus, he prepared his disciples for this change in spiritual technology. he taught how they could come into contact with their light selves but that only after his death could they receive the power of sophia. it was only after he had conquered death that a path to individual theosis became available and the task of those who followed such as mary magdaelne and simon magus. later the gnostic st.paul offered a full revelation of the mystery of theosis. the new teachings as revealed by jesus and paul has two distinct aspects, the first is that of individual self discovery. this is the path of the dove known to the gnostics as the psychic path. it is the path outlined by jesus. after the death of jesus and outpouring of sophia at pentecos

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rs or rulers are known as the archons. these archons have great power, which extends from the astral shield surrounding the earth far into the spiritual dimensions. the lower world even attempts to duplicate the higher spiritual planes within its own fallen astral realities, offering a false kingdom for the unwary. a superb description of these false seven planes is found in the gnostic gospel of mary, where we read about the inner dimension of the fourth power, or in our terms the four elements. when the soul had overcome the third power, it went upwards and saw the fourth power which took seven forms. the first form is darkness, the second desire, the third ignorance, the fourth is the excitement of death, the fifth is the kingdom of the flesh, the sixth is the foolish wisdom of the fles

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es, it was done to delay the coming of the end of the world.8 4 joyce milton, robert a. orsi and norman harrison, the feathered serpent and the cross: the pre-colombian god-kings and the papal states, cassell, london, 1980, p. 64. 5 reported in aztecs: reign of blood and splendour, time-life books, alexandria, virginia, 1992, p. 105. 6 ibid, p. 103. 7 the feathered serpent and the cross, p. 55. 8 mary miller and karl taube, the gods and symbols of ancient mexico and the maya, thames& hudson, london, 1993, pp. 96. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 103 children of the fifth sun like the many different peoples and cultures that had preceded them in mexico, the aztecs believed that the universe operated in great cycles. the priests stated as a matter of simple fact that there had been fo

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down-to- earth person with an extraordinary story to tell. secret cipher of the ufonauts 9 bimstein, louis m, also known as max theon and aia aziz. the son of a polish rabbi, bimstein traveled in nineteenth century egypt and became a disciple of the coptic initiate paolos metamon, under whom he became the grand master of the hermetic brotherhood of light. bimstein later married the trance medium mary ware and became the conduit of the cosmic philosophy. virtually every modern occult movement, from the theosophical society to the followers of sri aurobindo in india, owe him a debt in their origins. bimstein was a high initiate, quite a mysterious person, and probably in constant contact with ufonauts early on. he died in the early 1920s and has been largely forgotten until recently. blavat

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shunned with horror, as formerly they had thronged to those processions. veiled under the biblical names of cain, ehas, enoch, antichrist, herodias, there come into view the same old myths about moon-spots, giants' buildings, a god of thunder and of storm, the preface. xxxvll gracious (holde) night-dame and the buruing of the world. and what arrests our attention still more is, that to the virgin mary we apply a whole host of charming legends about holda and frouwa, uorns and valkyrs, as the romans did those about venus, juno and the parcae; nay, in the fairy-tale, dame holle and mary can usurp the place of gray-hatted wuotan. what a tender fragrance breathes in those tales of mary, and what has any other poetry to put by the side of them? to the kindly heathen traits is superadded for us

e romans did those about venus, juno and the parcae; nay, in the fairy-tale, dame holle and mary can usurp the place of gray-hatted wuotan. what a tender fragrance breathes in those tales of mary, and what has any other poetry to put by the side of them? to the kindly heathen traits is superadded for us that sense of superior sanctity which encompasses this lady. herbs and flowers are named after mary, her images are carried about, and, quite in accordance with the heathen worship, installed on forest trees. she is a divine mother, she is a spinning-wife, she appears as maid of mercy (vierge secourable) to whosoever calls upon her. to the country folk in italy, mary stands well in the foreground of their religion; the madonnas of several churches in naples are looked upon as so many differ

ppears as maid of mercy (vierge secourable) to whosoever calls upon her. to the country folk in italy, mary stands well in the foreground of their religion; the madonnas of several churches in naples are looked upon as so many different divine beings, and even as rivals, and a santa venere by their side gives no offence. three marys together (p. 416, note) resemble the three norns and three fays; mary cai'ries stones and earth in her apron (p. 537) like athena or the fay. the worship of maiy altogether, being neither founded on scripture nor recognised by the first centuries, can only be explained by the fact of those pretty and harmless but heathen fancies having taken such deep root in the people that the church also gradually combined with them a more daintily devised and statelier devo

. the worship of maiy altogether, being neither founded on scripture nor recognised by the first centuries, can only be explained by the fact of those pretty and harmless but heathen fancies having taken such deep root in the people that the church also gradually combined with them a more daintily devised and statelier devotion (attentio) which we find woven into numerous legends and sermons. but mary does not stand alone by a long way. immediately at her side there has grown up in the catholic and greek churches an interminable adoration of saints, to make up for heathen gods of the second or third rank, for heroes and wisewomen, and to fill the heart by bridging the gulf between it and pure deity. dogma may distinguish between deity and intercessors; but how many a pious lip, moving in p

f the several deities (p. 335. the victorious hero who had slain the dragon made room for michael or george; and the too pagan siegberg (p. 198, which may have meant the same as eresberg (p. 201, was handed over to michael, as the mons martis in france was turned into a mons martyrum, montmartre. it is remarkable that the ossets have converted the dies martis into georgeday, and dies veneris into mary's day (pott 1, 105. 2, 802. the places of osinn and of freyja in minni-drinking are taken by john and by gertrude, a saint who in other ways also has changed places with the goddess (pp. 61. 305. 673; but we can easily see why the heathen counterpart to a saint's legend is oftener to be found in the eoman than in our german mythology. the church in her saints and canonizations had not the wit

n. man beslot at spanna baltet omki-ing en hj'drk, och bjbrken for i luften, och at siitta asken pi en kulle (grave-mound, och straxt star kidlen i giusan idga. men efter det kyrkan ar bygd der den bliude mannen hade sitt gethus, bar hon fatt namnet getinge. the 'blind giant' banished to the island is a spectral heathen god (conf. orion, p. 949, the' white woman' a christian church or an imnge of mary; had they fastened the 956 translation. the king's armoury, and presented with the stand of a handbasin, which the goldsmith found to be sheer gold (ib. nos. 23. 296^ others make frederick sit in a cave of the rock near kaiserslautern (ib. no. 295, or at trifels by anweiler, or else in the jjnterherg near salzburg (ib. no. 28, though some put charles the great here, or charles v; the growing

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faithful eckart, who escorts holla. in christian times they would at first choose some saint to accompany the infant christ or the mother of god in their dis tribution of boons, but the saint would imperceptibly degenerate into the old goblin again, but now a coarser one. the christmas plays sometimes present the saviour with his usual attendant peter, or else with niclas, at other times however mary with gabriel, or with her aged joseph, who, disguised as a peasant, acts the part of knecht ruprecht. nicolaus again has converted himself into a( man globes or rupert; as a rule, it is true, there is still a niclas, a saintly bishop and benevolent being, distinct from the man who scares children; but the characters get mixed, and globes by himself acts the man (tobler 105b, 106a; the austria

gubbe in gothland, 1 lothar s volkssagen, leipz. 1825, p. 65. temme s pomm. sagen, nos. 190-1; see barthold s poniinern 1, 580, who spells dobberwort. and explains it by the pol. wor (sack. giants. 537 whom a peasant, to keep him friendly, had invited to a christen ing, refused, much as he would have liked to share in the feast, because he learnt from the messenger that not only christ, peter and mary, but thor also would be there j he would not face him (nyerup s morskabslasning, p. 243. a giant in fladsoe was on bad terms with one that lived at nestved. he took his wallet to the beach and filled it with sand, intending to bury all nestved. on the way the sand ran out through a hole in tlie sack, giving rise to the string of sandbanks between fladsoe and nestved. not till he came to the s

he childlike faith of antiquity supposed to be let fall out of bowls by gods of the sky; and riding witches are still believed to carry pitchers, out of which they pour storm and hail upon the plains, instead of the rain or dew that trickled down before. l when the heavens were shut, and the fields languished in drought, the granting of rain depended in the first instance on a deity, on donar, or mary and elias, who were supplicated accord ingly (pp. 173-6. 2 but in addition to that, a special charm was resorted to, which infallibly procured rainwater/ and in a measure compelled the gods to grant it. a little girl, completely undressed and led outside the town, had to dig up henbane (bilsenkraut, ohg. pilisa, hyoscyamus) with the little finger of her right hand, and tie it to the little to

e girl saw a copper pot standing on three legs, quite new and swarmingfull of horsebeetles (roskafer. she told her parents, who saw at once that the beetles were a treasure, and hastened with her to the hill, but found neither pot nor beetles any more (ibid. 8, 305. here beetles appear as holy animals guarding gold, and themselves golden. in sweden they call the small goldbeetle (skalkrak) virgin mary s key-maid (jungfru marie nyckelpiga, dybeck; s runa 1844, p. 10; in spring the girls let her creep about on their hands, and say, hon marker mig brudhandskar/ she marks (foreshews) me bride s gloves; if she flies away, they notice in which direction, for thence will come the bridegroom. thus the beetle seems a messenger of the goddess of love; but the number of the black spots on his wings h

greenery. the feast was still held in 1630 40. 2 the kuss. b6zhia korovka, has exactly the same meaning. tbans. chafee. bee. 695 204b) and der liebe froue henje, our lady s lien (alb. schott s deutsche in piemonfc 297, in contrast to herra-chtieli the coccinella (tobler 265a, though the name probably wavers be tween the two. by the same process which we observed in the names of plants and stars, mary seems to have stept into the place of freyja, and marihone was formerly freyjuhoena, which we still have word for word in froue henje, and the like in frauachiieli. and of romance tongues, it is only that of france (where the community of views with germany was strongest) that has a bete a dieu, vacjie a dieu; span, and ital. have nothing like it. at all events our children s song: marienlcaf

her; and willeins in messager de gand, 1, 195, following a ms. of 1351, reads, dat men in dietsch heet lodegeer; but none of these forms is intel ligible to me. perhaps the proper name ludger, leodegarius, ohg. liutker, has to do with it, and some forgotten legend of the mid. ages. a touching religious interpretation is handed down by berthold 145, surety not invented by himself, that the moon is mary magdalene, and the spots her tears of repentance (see suppl. the sun has had a slighter influence than the moon on super stitious notions and observances. magical herbs must be gathered, if not by moonlight, at least before sunrise (p. 621, and healing waters be drawn before sunrise (p. 586. the mounting sun dispels all magic, and bids the spirits back to their subterranean abode. twice in th

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lodge in their jurisdiction. they are privileged to visit lodges, chapters, and pronaoi of the organization, and are specially invited upon unusual occasions or whenever there is a feast or general ceremony. the members hold official membership cards and are given certain signs and symbols which are related to their membership. furthermore, members who qualify upon the completion of the pri [49] mary three degrees or atria may be permitted to receive the higher teachings of the order in the same manner as the first three degrees are presented. lodge, chapter, and pronaos membership. sanctum members may form pronaoi, chapters, and lodges in cities and localities where there are a sufficient number of members to conform to the requirements of the constitution and statutes for the formation

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is bad. with reference to the other matter i will write in a few days timebutam anxious to send this to prevent any future lossofyour esteemed favors.ourgood kind bro. hughan' unfortunately called upon metherosicrucianseerthepimanderofhermestrismegistusand the works of paracelsus.20see note 5 above.21william canynges(?1399-1474),five times mayor of bristol; m.p. for bristol1451and1455;rebuilt st mary redcliffe, bristol, and the college at westbury where he became a monk in1467and deanin1469 22john frederick helvetius (d.1709),alchemist. on27december1666he received a mysterious visitor whom he claimed showed him the philosopher's stone. he believed the stranger to be artist elias, the prophetofalchemy, whose coming had been foretold by paracelsus. see a. e. waite,thesecrettraditioninalcher

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

at christian monasticism first developed, and the great monasteries partially took the place of temples in egyptian society. christian chroniclers provide evidence that some egyptians clung to the old beliefs as late as the sixth century ce. a few magical texts of this period still mention the myths of isis and the horus introduction 45 child, but most replace them with anecdotes about the virgin mary and baby jesus. the last stories about the gods of egypt are those that tell of their defeat by coptic saints.109 in the seventh century ce, egypt was invaded first by the persians and then by the arabs. the arabs brought with them the muslim religion, but many of the native egyptians (the copts) remained christian. the coptic language fell out of general use around 1000 ce, but it has contin

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also a dr edmund dean of york, who wrote and commented on s. norton. i think that is in latin. i enclose you a ticket of one of s. norton's which i do not want again. kind regards. in haste. 1 a suggestive inquiry into the hermetic i\1ystery with a dissertati n on the more celebrated of the alchemical philosophers, was published anonymously in 1850. it was not by thomas south but by his daughter mary anne (later atwood. in his hermetica catalogue no. 25 (summer 1981) mr r. a. gilbert described it as an attempt to 'explain alchemy as a science of the soul by which the adept sought divine union by way of illumination gained in an exalted form of weare so sorry we could not see more of you whilst in london. we returned from yorkshire last evening and mrs ayton is decidedly the better for the

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ls, but can not always be certain when to expect them. in the matter spoke of, i require onlie one more thing; but wish to be sure i apprehend you exactly. you inform me, that no part must be missing if the finest effects are to be had, but you can not but know how hard it is to be sure. it seems a great hazard and burthen to take away the whole box, and in town (i.e. st. peter's, st. paul's, st. mary's or christ church) it can scarce be done at all. but i know what imperfections were in the one i rais'd up october last, and how many live specimens you were forc'd to imploy before you hit upon the right mode in the year 1766; so will be guided by you in all matters. i am impatient for yr brig, and inquire daily at mr. biddle's wharf. a third suspicious letter was in an unknown tongue and e

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hat his excitement had reached the point of mutiny, and that i could do nothing to check this headlong risk of the whole expedition s success; but it was appalling to think of his plunging deeper and deeper into that treacherous and sinister white immensity of tempests and unfathomed mysteries which stretched off for some fifteen hundred miles to the half-known, half-suspected coast line of queen mary and knox lands. then, in about an hour and a half more, came that doubly excited message from lake s moving plane, which almost reversed my sentiments and made me wish i had accompanied the party "10:05 p.m. on the wing. after snowstorm, have spied mountain range ahead higher than any hitherto seen. may equal himalayas, allowing for height of plateau. probable latitude 76 15, longitude 113 10

ness we had crossed. they extended, it appeared, from about latitude 77, e. longitude 70 to latitude 70, e. longitude 100- less than three hundred miles away from the dead city, so that we would have spied their dreaded summits in the dim western distance had it not been for that vague, opalescent haze. their northern end must likewise be visible from the long antarctic circle coast line at queen mary land. some of the old ones, in the decadent days, had made strange prayers to those mountains- but none ever went near them or dared to guess what lay beyond. no human eye had ever seen them, and as i studied the emotions conveyed in the carvings, i prayed that none ever might. there are protecting hills along the coast beyond them- queen mary and kaiser wilhelm lands- and i thank heaven no o

have barely lived to whisper of after unexplainable falls. looking at them, i thought nervously of certain sculptured hints of what the great bygone river had washed down into the city from their accursed slopes- and wondered how much sense and how much folly had lain in the fears of those old ones who carved them so reticently. i recalled how their northerly end must come near the coast at queen mary land, where even at that moment sir douglas mawson s expedition was doubtless working less than a thousand miles away; and hoped that no evil fate would give sir douglas and his men a glimpse of what might lie beyond the protecting coastal range. such thoughts formed a measure of my overwrought condition at the time- and danforth seemed to be even worse. yet long before we had passed the grea

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s of the misshapen damned. there was a vortex of withering, ice-cold wind, and then the rattle of loose bricks and plaster; but i had mercifully fainted before i could learn what it meant. manton, though smaller than i, is more resilient; for we opened our eyes at almost the same instant, despite his greater injuries. our couches were side by side, and we knew in a few seconds that we were in st. mary's hospital. attendants were grouped about in tense curiosity, eager to aid our memory by telling us how we came there, and we soon heard of the farmer who had found us at noon in a lonely field beyond meadow hill, a mile from the old burying ground, on a spot where an ancient slaughterhouse is reputed to have stood. manton had two malignant wounds in the chest, and some less severe cuts or go

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ssed butler--a ghost instigates a prosecution--supposed witchcraft in co. cork--the devil among the quakers chapter vii a.d. 1688 an irish-american witch 176 chapter viii a.d. 1689-1720 portent on entry of james ii--witchcraft in co. antrim--traditional version of same--events preceding the island--magee witch-trial--the trial itself--dr. francis hutchinson 194 chapter ix a.d. 1807 to present day mary butters, the carnmoney witch--ballad on her--the hand of glory--a journey through the air--a "witch" in 1911--some modern illustrations of cattle- and milk- magic--transference of disease by a cailleach--burying the sheaf--j.p.'s commission--conclusion 224 irish witchcraft and demonology chapter i some remarks on witchcraft in ireland it is said, though we cannot vouch for the accuracy of the

ety, vol. i, and in the rev. dr. carrigan's history of the diocese of ossory, vol. i. dame alice kyteler (such apparently being her maiden name, the facile princeps of irish witches, was a member of a good anglo-norman family that had been settled p. 26 in the city of kilkenny for many ears. the coffin-shaped tombstone of one of her ancestors, jose de keteller, who died in 128, is preserved at s. mary's church; the inscription is in norman-french and the lettering is lombardic. the lady in question must have been far removed from the popular conception of a witch as an old woman of striking ugliness, or else her powers of attraction were very remarkable, for she had succeeded in leading four husbands to the altar. she had been married, first, to william outlawe of kilkenny, banker; secondl

iff to attach the bodies of these people and put p. 36 them in safe keeping. but a warrant was refused, owing to the fact that william outlawe was a relation of the one and a close friend of the other; so at length the bishop obtained it through the justiciary, who also consented to deal with the case when he came to kilkenny. before his arrival the bishop summoned william outlawe to answer in s. mary's church. the latter appeared before him, accompanied by a band of men armed to the teeth; but in no way overawed by this show of force, de ledrede formally accused him of heresy, of favouring, receiving, and defending heretics, as well as of usury, perjury, adultery, clericide, and excommunications--in all thirty-four items were brought forward against him, and he was permitted to respond on

rior to the seventeenth century. we have of the entire proceedings an invaluable and contemporary account, or at latest one compiled within a very few years after the death of petronilla of meath; while the excitement produced by the affair is shown by the more or less lengthy allusions to it in early writings, such as the book of howth (carew mss, the annals by friar clyn, the chartularies of s. mary's abbey (vol. ii &c. it is also rendered more valuable by the fact that those who p. 47 are best qualified to give their opinion on the matter have assured the writer that to the best of their belief no entries with respect to trials for sorcery or witchcraft can be found in the various old rolls preserved in the dublin record office. but when the story is considered with reference to the fol

that the neighbours near cannot sleepe. priests have adventured to be there, but have been cruelly beaten for their paynes, and carryed away they knew not how, some two miles and some four miles. moreover were seen in the like manner, after they appear to the view of the neighbours, infinite number of armed men on foote as well as on horseback. one thing more [i.e. something supernatural] by mrs. mary burke with twelve servants yes in the house, and never one hurt, onley they must dance with them every night; they say, mrs. mary come away, p. 95 telling her she must be wyfe to the inchanted earl of desmond. uppon a mannour of my lord bishoppe of lymerick, loughill, hath been seen upon the hill by most of the inhabitants aboundance of armed men marching, and these seene many tymes--and when

t toe, and vice versa. she is then thrown into the water: if she sinks (and drowns, by any chance) her innocence is conclusively established; if, on the other hand, she floats, her witchcraft is proven, for water, as being the element in baptism, refuses to receive such a sinner in its bosom "florence newton was committed to youghal prison by the mayor of the town, 24th march 1661, for bewitching mary longdon, who gave evidence against her at the cork assizes (11th september, as follows "mary longdon being sworn, and bidden to look upon the prisoner, her countenance chang'd pale, and she was very fearful to look towards her, but at last she did, and being asked whether she knew her, she said she did, and wish'd she never had. being asked how long she had known her, she said for three or fo

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the many false teachings attributed by the roman church to the creator, we prefer disbelieving the latter assertion. the famous catholic theolo^an 'huemont, assures us in his work that "all the illus- trious pagans are condenmed to the eternal torments of hell, beeatue they lived before the time of jesus, and, therefore, could not be benefited by the redemption! he also assures us that the virgin mary person- ally testified to this truth over her own ugnature in a letter to a saint. therefore this is also a revelation "the spirit of god himself" teaching such charitable doctrines. we have also read with great advantage the topographical descrip- tions of hell arfd purgatory in the celebrated treatise of that name by a jesuit, the cardinal bellannine. a critic found that the aifthor, who gi

e rich city of bio de janeiro. in the church of the domo da candelaria, in a long hall running along one side of the church, there might he seen a few years ago another madonna. along the walls of the hall there is a line of saints, each standing on a contribution-box, which thus forms a fit pedestal. in the center of this line, under a gorgeously rich canopy of blue silk, is exhilhted the virgin mary leaning on the arm of christ 'our lady' is arrayed in a very dicouets blue satin dress with short digitizecoy google 10 isis untbii^d sleeves, showing to gteat advantage the snow-white, exquisitely-molded neck, moulders, and anns. the skirt, of blue satin with an over-skirt of rich lace and gauze puffs, is as short as that of a ballet-dancer; hardly reaching the knee, it exhibits a pair of fi

r- vention of god or devil. hardly had the manifestations begun to attract attention in europe, than the clergy commenced their outciy that their traditional enemy had reappeared under another name, and 'divine miracles' also began to be heard of in isolated instances. first they were confined to humble individuals, some of whom claimed to have them produced through the intervention of the virgin mary, saints and angels; others according to the clergy began to suffer from obtettion and posieanon; tor the devil must have his share of fame as well as the deity. finding that, notwithstanding the warning, the independent, or so-called spiritual phe nomena went on increasing and multiplying, and that these mani* festatioos threatened to upset the carefully-constructed dogmas of the church, the

inn learn from the magic rolls the lesson of the following day. llie encydopaedia briumnica [earlier editions, in its article on alexandria, says "when the temple of serapis was demolished. the valuable library was pillaged or destroyed; and tamiy years after- wards* the empty thelve* excited the regret. etc" but it does not state the subsequent fate of the puiaged books. in rivalry of the fierce mary-worshipers of the fourth century, the modem clerical persecutors of liberalism and 'heresy' would willingly' shut up all the heretics and their books in some modem serapion and bum them alive* the cause of this hatred is natural. modem re- search has mere than ever unveiled the secret "is not the worship of saints and angels now" said bbhop newton, years ago "in all respects the same that the

- search has mere than ever unveiled the secret "is not the worship of saints and angels now" said bbhop newton, years ago "in all respects the same that the worship of demons was in former times? the name only is different, the thing is identically the same. the very same temples, the very same images, which were once consecrated to jupiter and the other demons, are now consecrated to the virgin mary and the other saints. ajmost the whole of paganism is con- verted and api^ed to popery" why not be impartial and add that a good portion of it was adopted by protestant religions also? even the apostolic designation peter is from the mysteries. the hierophant or supreme pontiff bore the chaldaean title idd, peter, or in- terpreter. the names ptoft, peth'r, the residence of balaam, patara, and

mparisons, if we only stop at the fourth and fifth centuries of our era, and contrast the so-called 'heathenism' of the third neo-platonic eclectic school with the growing christiamty, the result may not be favorable to the latter. even at that early period, vhm the new religion had hardly outlined its contradictory dogmas; when the diampiods of the bloodthirsty cyril knew not thetoselves whether mary was to become' the mother of god' or rank as a 'demon' ia company with isis; when the memory of the meek and lowly jesus still lingered lovingly in every christian heart, and his words of mercy and charity still vibrated in the air, even then the christians were outdoing the pagans in every kind of ferocity and religious intolerance. and if we look still farther back, and seek for examples of

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ter. ancient greek mother goddess of persephone. giver of fruitfulness and abundance. blesses us with coming joy, abundant life and hope. other goddesses who have made an impact through time are. kwan yin. chinese goddess of infinite mercy and compassion. said t0 be born from buddha s tears for the suffering of the world. protects women and children and works with the healers of the world. mother mary. the creator goddess known as stella maris and associated with heaven and sea. mary reminds us to be gentle and compassionate to our selves and to all others. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 81. pachamama. earth goddess of peru known for inspiring healing and wholeness and holiness when we open to mother earth and commune with her. nut. egyptian goddes

will bring a human being into wonderful calibration levels and can sometimes compensate for a lifestyle that maybe not as supportive of the physical biosystem as it could be. the process of weaving is also very interesting because it can allow conscious access to other beings of great light and great love. for example, when we connect strongly through the doorways of love and devotion, to mother mary or to any of the other holy ones, that opens up an energetic path through our will and intention, for us to connect to their energy field, which then can weave back through into ours as we are all one and connected. the recognition of this type of connection and possibility allows the weaving to begin and also is a way of fine tuning our calibration and strengthening it quite quickly. for peo

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cult sense, is always obscurely, it is the sacred blue (or gray) womb, which is absurd. strange myths. 41 now, the reference and the meaning of this we will confidently commit to the penetration of those among our readers who can felicitously privately surmise it; and also the apparently circuitous deductions, which are yet to come, to be made by us. blue is the colour of the virgin maria. maria, mary, mare, mar, mam, means the bitterness, or the saltness, of the sea. blue is expressive of the hellenic, isidian, ionian, fonian (foni-indian) watery, female, and moonlike principle in the universal theogony. it runs through all the mythologies. the lady-bird, or lady-cow (there is no resemblance between a bird and a cow, it may be remarked en passant, except in this strangely occult, almost r

the path of the sun; and the children at home are the months produced in the house of the sun, or the solar year, or the signs of the zodiac which were originally ten, and not twelve* each sign answering* lady-cow, lady-cow, all but a little one fly away home! under a stone: thy house is on fire, fly thee home, lady-cow, thy children are flown. ere it be gone. the lady-bird, or cow, is the virgin mary, the little one 42 the rosicrucians. to one of the letters of the primeval alphabet, which were in number ten. thus, re-read, the lines run: lady-bird, lady-bird (columba, or dove, fly away home! your house is of fire your children are ten! the name of the flying insect called in england lady- bird is b te -dieu in french, which means god-creature, or god's creature. the napoleonic green is t

twelve pillars, or radii, are the signs of the zodiac, and are issuant out of the glorified centre, or opening rose, the sun or beginning of all things. king arthur s round table displays the crucified rose in its centre. in the tables* alternating with tying-knots, of the order of the garter, which most noble order was originally dedicated, be it remembered, to the blessed lady, or to the virgin mary, the microcosmical, miniture king arthur s round table becomes the individual female discus, or organ, waxing and waning, negative or in flower, positive or natural, alternately red and white, as in the rose of the world: rosamond, rosa mundi. and where we will adduce, as our justification for this new reading of the origin of the order of the garter, the very motto of the princely order itse

cture, to symbolise the female deity, or virgin born of the waters. the spectator looks to the faces of the figure marked 116. christian towers. 219 fig. 117 is a masonic, mosaic, or tesselated pavement (query, whether this pavement of black and white squares fig. 92. almondsbury church, gloucestershire, circa 1150. fig. 93 (decorated period) salisbury cathedral, central spire, 1350. fig. 94. st. mary's church, cheltenham, circa 1250. is not the origin of the ancient chess-table, or chess- board) the game of chess, with the board upon which it is played, is probably masonic in its invention. fig. 95. bayetix cathedral, normandy, circa 1220. fig. 96. st. paul s cathedral. in old representations of the cathedral church of notre dame at paris, the symbols of the masculine divinity such as the

discoverable in the orders of knighthood. he collar of esses is supposed always to be a part of the order of the garder. the coupled s.s. means the sanctus spiritus, or holy spirit, or the third person. the fleurs-de- lis, or lisses, or the lilies of the field, invariably appear in close connection with st. john, or the sanctus fig. 168. collar of esses. spiritus, and also with the blessed virgin mary, in all christian symbola or insignia. the prince of wales triple plume appears to have the same mythic egyptian and babylonian origin, and to be substantially the same symbol as the fleur-de-lis. when arranged in threes, the fleurs-de- lis represent the triple powers of nature, the producer, the means of production, and that produced. the fleur-de-lis is presented in a deep disguise in the t

prinfigures of the centuari. 241 ciple, and express the sign of aquarius, with its watery or lunar hints, its twin-fishes, and its jonah-like anagrams of the redeemer. hence the boat-like, elongated, peculiar form called the vesica piscis, which is the oblong shuttleshaped frame continually set over doors and windows and elsewhere in gothic churches, to contain effigies of the saviour, or virgin mary, or groups from the new testament in connection with these two sacred persons. a doorway in barfreston church, kent, supplies an excellent example of the employment of this oblong figure; which is also babylonian, and means the female member as its starting-point in a previous part of our book we give various figures of the prows or cutwater-heads of gondolas, in which we clearly show the ori

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ns not with your power yet was set free by your bands. why have you wrought such suffering upon the children of my love by the agency of hatred's prince, gabriel, traitor to you? why so move his hand to destroy so much that was fine and good? i shall not revile you for this thing, love, though most bitter is it to me for i have seen too much of your power. betrothed to a simple carpenter was she, mary, beloved of gabriel the hater, how did your bolt fly so untrue, and was it a difficulty to him prince of heaven's might and hidden king of the fortunes of most potent rome to take that maiden girl which he sought? she, what had she by which to defend, against such a love, such a lover. simple, pure and young she was and, appearing to her a vision of such glory and brilliance to blind princes

estroyed so much as on that most fatal of days. the intensity of that passion seared the very world to ashes though the flame burned most slow. at that time it was that rome declared a census in all their lands and the carpenter, with his wife, burdened with a child of love or hate yet not of that line traced back to bethlehem, journeyed thither, for it was his father's town. great with child was mary and it was manifest to her that her child would soon be born of her. swiftly then made they haste to bethlehem even as she cried out with the birth-pains of the child. at that time a comet burned in the sky and was above bethlehem. a dire portent was that burning shaft that flamed amongst the stars just as a beacon of the birth of gabriel's monstrous son, doomed to doom the nephilim and enfol

h the birth-pains of the child. at that time a comet burned in the sky and was above bethlehem. a dire portent was that burning shaft that flamed amongst the stars just as a beacon of the birth of gabriel's monstrous son, doomed to doom the nephilim and enfold in darkness the earth. thus beneath the omen of the fallen star in the town of bethlehem was the child born. gabriel's son came forth from mary and his eyes burned with a savage fire. apparent to all was his elohim blood. bloodied, long and tormented was that birth as though very world resisted a child that bore so great a curse, a child born of tainted love. no infants wail came from those new lips nor sought they the mother's breast but even the first breath drawn inwards was expired as speech intelligent and those that heard, moth

ousand hidden blades each clutched by some shadowed form, his elohim craft revealed to him what would be in future days and he perceived within the young child that by this agency would his power be destroyed and jesu's father would gain over him ascendancy in his father's eyes and for himself, eternal exile, even as he had once banished another. now was there a great dread of that infant born to mary in the heart of corrupted michael 328 and he sought most resolutely the death of that child that would bring his final overthrow. so did michael descend from his tower, unwillingly, and from heaven that he might act upon the earth to end the child's life as it began when the son of gabriel was yet young. to the king of israel did he descend, herod the great, tyrant of that land and servant to

w the price. so did we watch and weep, spilling out oceans of tears for michael's wrongs. one was there that wept not but acted with a bloody hand 331 to defend his own son. against that which michael worked worked gabriel, descending to the earth, flying most swift from heaven, falling as a fulmination to that lower realm to act in defence of his son. appearing in a blast of flame he appeared to mary and warned with these words the mother of his son to deliver the suckling babe from israel unto the river kingdom of the pharaoh's that offered libations at the altar to ashmedai, the thrice greatest, and to aset, the bright goddess. even as the soldiers of the king burst inwards with naked swords to claim the child gabriel spoke these words with a desperate tongue to that daughter of the nep

ed libations at the altar to ashmedai, the thrice greatest, and to aset, the bright goddess. even as the soldiers of the king burst inwards with naked swords to claim the child gabriel spoke these words with a desperate tongue to that daughter of the nephilim that he had loved and of whose womb jesu, son of gabriel, was born, addressing her with those words with which he had first approached her "mary, most blessed of the women of the earth, mother to that prince most blessed that is the very son of heaven. swiftly must you fly hence for it is that herod, king of israel, grows jealous of the blessing of your son and perceives in that boy that which would eclipse his kingdom. thus, in his fear and hatred, has he sent forth soldiers against us that the child shall be destroyed. this must not

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led, throughout the world(*op. cit, p. 31) 630. he goes on to explain that it is found in this association in egypt, in india and in mexico, and that it was so used by the roman collegia and the comacini. he also draws attention to the fact that the distinguishing badge of this degree has on it two blue rosettes, symbolizing the rose. blue was the colour of isis, and is that of the blessed virgin mary, whose emblem is the rose. the triangular flap, which in the first degree was worn with the point upward, to indicate that the spiritual had not yet entered into control of the material, is now turned down to show that the higher is supposed definitely to be taking charge of the lower. we shall see this same symbolism carried further still when we consider the sublime degree of the m.m. 631

of devotion! the holy presence is never absent, but it certainly exhibits itself in greater activity in answer to an appeal. is the angel fs force-centre something like a faint reflection of that? 825. perhaps another analogy may be found in the twelve stars which, following the beautiful description in the apocalypse, are so often shown in medieval paintings round the head of the blessed virgin mary. all these represent powers; perhaps they correspond in some way to the points of light which the angels leave in our aura. the star always floating over the head of an initiate betokens the power of the king, upon which he can draw at any moment, while the star upon his forehead is the symbol of his own acquired power. 826. chapter x 827. two wonderful rituals 828. the workings in egypt 829

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ther the presiding angels of the various countries than the rulers of the nine orders of the angelic hosts. 328. pallas athene, the grey-eyed goddess of wisdom, was a magnificent and splendid being, who practically governed athens in the old days through her devotees. her influence was enormously stimulating, but she was not so much an embodiment of compassion or of love, as is the blessed virgin mary, but rather of efficiency and of that perfect accuracy of form that is the essence of all true art. much of the wonderful art of greece was inspired directly by her; and to satisfy her it had to be the very highest and truest and most accurate. she could not tolerate a single line misplaced, even in the smallest thing. there was something of polished steel about athene; she was cold and keen

sea, or the virgin sea- which is impregnated with the divine life and beauty, and so gives birth to the loveliest of forms. the title foam-born is particularly appropriate when we consider that all forms are built up of aggregations of bubbles blown in the deep sea, the aether of space. all this was explained to the initiates of the mysteries. the same mystical idea lies in the title of our lady mary, star of the sea; although she embodies in herself a fuller manifestation of the divine love in the perfection of eternal motherhood, and indeed unites in her person many aspects of the deity that were divided in greece. there were, however, two sides of the cult of aphrodite. the higher side was embodied in aphrodite ouranios, the heavenly aphrodite, who was indeed the mother of fair love; b

of descent of those stonemasons who built the great german cathedrals in the middle ages. 500. in scotland the celtic mystery-tradition passed down independently of the later operative lodges, for there is no trace whatsoever of any high degrees in the extant minutes of mother kilwinning, no. 0 upon the roll of the grand lodge of scotland, which date from 1642(*history of the lodge of edinburgh (mary s chapel, no. i) d. murray lyon, pp. 340, 434) there is truth in the legend of the coming of certain of the french knights templars to scotland after their proscription in 1307, and there was an intermingling of their doctrines also with the scottish rites. one line of descent crossed from scotland to france, where it was blended in the eighteenth century with the egyptian tradition to form t

ther formed the society afterwards known throughout germany as the steinmetzen(*concise history of freemasonry, r. f. gould, p. 17) 532. we know from the torgau ordinances of 1462 that the stonemasons venerated the four crowned martyrs as their patron saints, and the strasburg constitutions of 1459 contain a devout invocation of the names of the father, son, and holy ghost; of our gracious mother mary; and of her blessed servants, the holy four crowned martyrs of everlasting memory(*gould, concise history, p. 19) from the brother-book of 1563 we learn that they had a greeting and a grip which might not be described in writing(*gould, hist. of freem, vol. i, p. 128) and a curious piece of testimony came to light at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when a certain architect, who had j

cealment of a hidden tradition. it is in this period also that the first public references to the secrets of the freemasons occur in contemporary literature; and we are able by means of them to trace to some extent the gradual emergence of the speculative mysteries. 563. scottish minutes 564. the oldest lodge minute extant at the present time is contained in the records of the lodge of edinburgh, mary s chapel, no. 1 upon the roll of the grand lodge of scotland, and is dated 1598. we know that it had been the custom from the earliest times for the operative lodges to accept nonoperative brethren; but the first authentic record of this is contained in the same archives, which state that john boswell of auchinlech was admitted in the year 1600(*history of the lodge of edinburgh, d. murray-ly

lodges affecting independency, one of which is admittedly old, do not take kindly to innovations from outside their ranks. if any proof is required that masonry was not the invention of anderson, we have it here in his own words. 584. two of steel s essays in the tatler in 1709 and 1710 refer to the existence of signs and tokens among the freemasons. in the minutes of the old lodge at york and of mary s chapel at edinburgh there is evidence of the proving of brn. before they were admitted to the lodge, the latter entry referring to no less a person than dr. desaguliers, who in 1721 was found qualified in all points of masonry by his scottish brn- an incident showing identity of secrets between the scottish and the english lodges(*history of the lodge of edinburgh. d. murray-lyon, p. 159) t

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er) puny brain. i call upon the messengers of doom to slash with grim delight this victim i hath chosen. silent is that voiceless bird that feeds upon the brain-pulp of him (her) who hath tormented me, and the agony of the is to be shall sustain itself in shrieks of pain, only to serve as signals of warning to those who would resent my being. curse from the late 18th or early 19th century against mary ann ward, which was found with a curse doll. it reads: i act this spell upon you from my holl (whole) heart wishing you to never rest nor eat nor sleep the whole resten part of your life. i hope your flesh will waste away and i hope you will never spend another penny i ought to have.wishing this from my whole heart (fortean picture library) curses 59 oh come forth in the name of abaddon and d

ed in cambridge, where he became a fellow of trinity college. magic and alchemy were among his major interests from his earliest years, and he began collecting books and manuscripts. he became a well-known mathematician. he is best known to modern satanists through the inclusion of some of his enochian keys in the latter section of anton lavey s the satanic bible. during the reign of the catholic mary tudor, he was accused of being a heretic and a conjurer. however, he was able to clear his charge and he was not burned, though he spent some time in prison. during a journey abroad, he learned that a mob had broken into his house at mortlake and sacked his library, believing that he was a worker of black magic. eventually he was favored by the court of queen elizabeth i, who was much more su

ar consciousness of the middle ages via the tale of theophilus, who according to legend had been the treasurer of a church in the sixth century. unfairly dismissed from his job, he sought revenge with the aid of a magician. this sorcerer invoked the devil, theophilus sold his soul, and he was subsequently restored to his position. however, he eventually regretted his actions, prayed to the virgin mary, and was saved. the legend of theophilus provided a model for the later narrative of faust easily the most famous man to sell his soul to satan though faust was motivated by pride rather than by the urge for revenge. also, unlike theophilus, faust did not escape his infernal fate in most versions of this story. the story of faust became the basis for a series of literary productions, includin

third level is composed of the great adepts and masters of the ages, guiding the fraternity from the inner realms. paul a. clark is the present head of the fraternity. 94 fraternity (society) of the inner light see also magic and magical groups for further reading: clark, paul a. the book of the rose. covina, ca: fraternity of the hidden light, 1985. fraternity (society) of the inner light violet mary firth was born in 1891 to a family of christian scientists. in her twenties she was a law analyst at a medical-psychological clinic in london, and began to study psychology to work on her own development. in 1919 she was initiated into the alpha et omega lodge (aeo) of the stella matutina, the hogd offshoot presided over by mathers s widow, moira bergson mathers. taking the name dion fortune

ves of native americans: as individuals who had managed to resist the temptations of the indian mode of life, ex-captives could reassure the colonists that the new england way was far preferable, and the apparent attractions of a savage lifestyle (e.g, its imagined freedom) illusory. in spite of the marked antipathy expressed by captives toward their captors, the earliest captivity tales, such as mary rowlandson s sovereignty and goodness of god, were saved from being anti- indian hate tracts by their focus on the captives inner spiritual dramas. cotton mather has the dubious distinction of being the first puritan consciously to deploy captivity tales, shorn of their inner dimension, as anti-indian propaganda. see also salem witchcraft for further reading: mather, cotton. a brand pluck d o

road, 1993, 65 85. eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. hultkrantz, ake. the religions of the american indians. 1967. berkeley: university of california press, 1979. leon-portilla,miguel. those made worthy by divine sacrifice: the faith of ancient mexico. in gary h. gossen, ed. south and meso- american native spirituality. new york: crossroad, 1993, 41 64. miller,mary, and karl taube. an illustrated dictionary of the gods and symbols of ancient mexico and the maya. london: thames and hudson, 1993. popul vuh. trans. dennis tedlock. 2nd ed. new york: touchstone, 1996. milton, john angels and demons (portrayed traditionally as fallen angels) are at the very center of john milton s (1608 1674) cosmic scenario, dwelling in the empyrean, a boundless region of li

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ons of assyrian, syrian, mongolian, tibetan, mexican, zend, south sea, west african &c. iacchus table of correspondences 10 xxxv. some roman gods. xxxvi. selection of christian gods (10; apostles (12; evangelists (4) and churches of asia (7. xxxvii. hindu legendary demons. 0. 1 jupiter god the 3 in 1 2 janus[[mercury] god the father, god who guides parliament 3 juno, cybele, hecate &c. the virgin mary 4 jupiter[[libitina] god the rain-make (vide prayer-book, god the farmer s friend 5 mars christ coming to judge the world 6 apollo[[bacchus, aurora] god the son (and maker of fine weather) 7 venus messiah, lord of hosts (vide prayer-book, r. kipling &c) 8 mercury god the holy ghost (as comforter and inspirer of scripture, god the healer of plagues 9 diana (as[[terminus, jupiter] god the holy

-book, god the farmer s friend 5 mars christ coming to judge the world 6 apollo[[bacchus, aurora] god the son (and maker of fine weather) 7 venus messiah, lord of hosts (vide prayer-book, r. kipling &c) 8 mercury god the holy ghost (as comforter and inspirer of scripture, god the healer of plagues 9 diana (as[[terminus, jupiter] god the holy ghost (as incubus) 1010 ceres ecclesia xsti, the virgin mary 11 jupiter[[juno, olus] matthew 12 mercury sardis 13 diana laodicea 14 venus thyatira 15 mars, minerva [the disciples are too indefinite] 16 venus[[hymen. 17 castor and pollux [janus[[hymen. 18 mercury[[lares and penates. 19 venus (repressing the fire of vulcan. 20 [attis, ceres, adonis[[vesta, flora. 21 jupiter [pluto] philadelphia 22 vulcan[[venus, nemesis. 23 neptune[[rhea] john, jesus as

LIBER ASTARTE

ephone, and the love of venus and adonis, and the love of lakshmi and vishnu, and the love of siva and bhavani, and the love of buddha and ananda, and the love of jesus and john, and many more. also there is the love of many saints for their particular deity, as of st francis of assisi for christ, of sri sabhapaty swami for maheswara, of abdullah haji shirazi1 for allah, of st ignatius loyola for mary, and many more. now do thou take one such story every night, and enact it in thy mind, grasping each identity with infinte care and zest, and do thou figure thyself as one of the lovers and thy deity as the other. thus do thou pass through all adventures of love, not omitting one; and to each do thou conclude: how pale a reflection is this of my love for this deity! yet from each shalt thou d

articular deity by love in every act. and lest thy twine slip, here is a little cord that wrappeth tightly round and round all, even the mantram or continuous prayer. 24. concerning the mantram or continuous prayer. let the philsophus weave the name of the particular deity into a sentence short and rhythmical; as, for artemis 'epelqon 'epelqon 'artemij, for shiva: nama shivaya namaha aum; or, for mary, ave maria;1 or, for pan, caire swthr kosmou 'iw pan 'iw pan;2 or, for allah: hua allahu alazi lailaha illa hua.3 let him repeat this day and night without cessation mechanically in his brain, which is thus made ready for the advent of that lord, and armed against all other. 25. concerning the active and the passive. let the philosophus change from the active love of his particular deity to a

e not. 60. i waited patiently, and thou wast with me from the beginning. then let him change back to the active, until a veritable rhythm is established between the states, as it were the swinging of a pendulum. but let him reflect that a vast intelligence is required for this; for he must stand as it were almost without himself to watch those phases of himself. and to do this a high 1 [lat .hail mary. seems too short to be a practical mantra; possibly refers to the traditional prayer which begins with these words; in full, ave maria, gratia plena, dominus tecum; benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, iesus; sancta maria, mater dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora mortis nostra. amen; although that if anything seems too long. your mileage may vary. t.s] 2

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

, and the cripples walk; lepers grow clean; sick folk grow well; the deaf men hear, the dumb men talk. he casts out devils with a word; circleth his wand, and dead men rise. no such a wonder hath been heard since christ our god.s sweet sacrifice .now, by the glad blood of our lord. quoth palamede .my heart is light. i am the chosen harpsichord whereon god playeth; the perfect knight, the saint of mary..there he stayed, for out of memnon fs singing stone so fierce a questing barked and brayed, it turned his laughter to a groan. liber cxcvii 68 his vow forgot, his task undone, his soul whipped in god.s bitter school (he moaned a mighty malison) the perfect knight? the perfect fool .now, by god.s wounds. quoth he .my strength is burnt out to a pest of pains. let me fling off my curse at lengt

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

be fancy or a fact; at least it squares with super-sense or .spiritual experience. you do not well to swell the list of horrid things to me imputed by calling me .materialist. at least this thought is better suited to western minds than is embalmed among the doctrines of mohammed, the dogma parthenogenetic* as told me by a fat ascetic. he said .your worthy friends may lack you late, but learn how mary was immaculate. i sat in vague expectant bliss. the story as it runs is thus (i quote my eastern friend60 verbatim) the virgin, going to the bath, found a young fellow in her path, and turned, prepared to scold and rate him .how dare you be on me encroaching. the beautiful young gentleman, with perfect courtesy approaching, bowed deeply, and at once began .fear nothing, mary! all is well! i a

does not stick at treachery.he makes one gulp of treason. straining at the gnat of discipline, he swallows the camel of civil war. it was then, and is even now, the practice of some.for example, the emigr s of the french revolution.to invite foreign invasion as a means of securing domestic reaction. the blackguardism implied is beyond language: shakesepare was perhaps thinking of the proposal, in mary.s reign, to react to romanism by the aid of spanish troops. but he will go further than this, will our greatest poet; it were ill that the life of even one child should atone for mere indignity or discomfort to another, were he the greatest in the realm. to-day we all agree; we smile or sneer if any one should differ .king lear got caught in the rain.let us go and kill a million men. is an ar

we must interpret them. we must inqure: are they meant to be obeyed? or.and this is my theory.are they sarcastic and biting criticisms on existence, illustrations of the first noble truth; reasons, as it were, for the apotheosis of annihilation? i shall so that this is so. let me consider them .precept upon precept. if the introduction of the hebrew visionary is not too strong meat for the little mary of a buddhist audience* lycidas, line 130. the school whose buddhism is derived from the canon, and who ignore the degradation of the professors of the religion, as seen in practice. the obvious caveat which logicians will enter against these remarks is that pansil is the five virtues rather than precepts. etymologically this is so. however, we may regard this as a clause on my side of the ar

for in my view these are virtues, and the impossibility of attaining them is the cancer of existence. indeed, i support the etymology as against the futile bigotry of certain senile buddhists of to-day. and, since it is the current interpretation of buddhist thought that i attack, i but show myself the better buddhist in the act..a.c. a catch word for the stomach, from j.m. barrie.s play .little mary. the first precept. this forbids the taking of life in any form* what we have to note is the impossibility of performing this; if we can prove it to be so, either buddha was a fool, or his command was rhetorical, like those of yahweh to job, or of tannh user to himself. go! seek the stars and count them and explore! go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea. let us consider what the words can

ant within limits; hence the possibility of the .magical memory. the .sattva. is this agglomeration. see my* paganini, a famous violinist. 58 the sword of song .science and buddhism. infra, for a full discussion of this point. 518. and.67.note the correct stress upon this word. previously, mr. w. s. gilbert has done this in his superb lines. except the plot of freehold land that held the cot, and mary, and. but his demonstration is vitiated by the bad iambic .and ma; unless indeed the juxtaposition is intentional, as exposing the sophistries of our official prosodists. 548. the heathen.68..the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget god. 580. satan and judas.69.at the moment of passing the final proofs i am informed that the character of judas has been rehabilitat

LIBER V VEL REGULI

l reguli hermit. mercury, the angel or herald) expressed in full as ivd. sh is the spiritual congress of heaven and earth. but t is the holy spirit in action as a .roaring lion. or as .the old serpent. instead of an .angel of light. the twins of set-isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the cases of mary and the dove, leda and the swan, etc. the card is xi, the number of magick avd: aleph .the fool. impregnating the woman according to the word of yod, the angel of the lord! his sister has seduced her brother beast, shaming the sun with her sin; she has mastered the lion, and enchanted the serpent. nature is outraged by magick; man is bestialized and woman defiled. the conjunction produces a m

serts the right to exist; that unless evil is a mere term expressing some relation of haphazard hostility between forces equally selfjustified, the universe is as inexplicable and impossible as uncompensated action; that the orgies of bacchus and pan are no less sacramental than the masses of jesus; that the scars of syphilis are sacred and worthy of honour as much as the wounds of the martyrs of mary.12 it should be unnecessary to insist that the above ideas apply only to the absolute. toothache is still painful, and deceit degrading, to a man, relatively to his situation in the world of illusion; he does his will by avoiding them. but the ritual of the mark of the beast 13 the existence of .evil. is fatal to philosophy so long as it is supposed to be independent of conditions; and to acc

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

onism: how could god possibly be equated with an incompetent designer? this new attitude is reminiscent of the story developed by the canada-based raelian cult. in it, human beings were created through cloning by extraterrestrials (called elohim) who manufactured human dna. the raelians call themselves scientific creationists and have an exquisite explanation for the virgin birth of jesus christ: mary was artificially inseminated by the elohim aboard one of their spacecraft! needless to say, the raelians support the idea of intelligent design. it would be interesting to know what id theorists think about the raelian interpretation of the world. can a mousetrap evolve? michael behe s most famous and iconic example of irreducible complexity is the familiar mousetrap, which we mentioned in ch

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

sibly scandinavian or gothic. in these languages the name is pronounced isa, meaning ice, or water in its most passive, crystallized, negative state. this egyptian deity under many names appears as the principle of natural fecundity among nearly all the religions of the ancient world. she was known as the goddess with ten thousand appellations and was metamorphosed by christianity into the virgin mary, for isis, although she gave birth to all living things--chief among them the sun--still remained a virgin, according to the legendary accounts. apuleius in the eleventh book of the golden ass ascribes to the goddess the following statement concerning her powers and attributes "behold, i, moved by thy prayers, am present with thee; i, who am nature, the parent of things, the queen of all the

lt of orion were called the magi who came to pay homage to the young sun god. the author of mankind--their origin and destiny contributes the following additional information "in cancer, which had risen to the meridian at midnight, is the constellation of the stable and of the ass. the ancients called it pr sepe jovis. in the north the stars of the bear are seen, called by the arabians martha and mary, and also the coffin of lazarus "thus the esotericism of pagandom was embodied in christianity, although its keys are lost. the christian church blindly follows ancient customs, and when asked for a reason gives superficial and unsatisfactory explanations, either forgetting or ignoring the indisputable fact that each religion is based upon the secret doctrines of its predecessor. the three su

e concerns. pythais [pythasis, the mother of pythagoras, had a connexion with an apolloniacal spectre, or ghost, of the god apollo, or god sol (of course this must have been a holy ghost, and here we have the holy ghost) which afterward appeared to her husband, and told him that he must have no connexion with his wife during her pregnancy--a story evidently the same as that relating to joseph and mary. from these peculiar circumstances, pythagoras was known by the same title as jesus, namely, the son of god; and was supposed by the multitude to be under the influence of divine inspiration" this most famous philosopher was born sometime between 600 and 590 b.c, and the length of his life has been estimated at nearly one hundred years. the teachings of pythagoras indicate that he was thoroug

regarded merely as emblems or reminders of invisible powers and principles. similarly, the body of man must not be considered as the individual but only as the house of the individual, in the same manner that the temple was the house of god. in a state of grossness and perversion man's body is the tomb or prison of a divine click to enlarge hand decorated with effigies of jesus christ, the virgin mary, and the twelve apostles. from an old print, courtesy of carl oscar borg. upon the twelve phalanges of the fingers, appear the likenesses of the apostles, each bearing its own appropriate symbol. in the case of those who suffered martyrdom the symbol signifies the instrument of death. thus, the symbol of st. andrew is a cross; of st. thomas, a javelin or a builder's square; of st. james the l

metic science, like all the real sciences, is mathematically demonstrable. its results, even material, are as rigorous as that of a correct equation. the hermetic gold is not only a true dogma, a light without shadow, a truth without alloy of falsehood; it is also a material gold, real, pure, the most precious that can be found in the mines of the earth" so much for the masonic angle. william and mary jointly ascended the throne of england in 1689, at which time alchemists must have abounded in the kingdom, for during the first year of their reign they repealed an act made by king henry iv in which that sovereign declared the multiplying of metals to be a crime against the crown. in dr. sigismund bacstrom's collection of alchemical manuscripts is a handwritten copy of the act passed by wil

tly ascended the throne of england in 1689, at which time alchemists must have abounded in the kingdom, for during the first year of their reign they repealed an act made by king henry iv in which that sovereign declared the multiplying of metals to be a crime against the crown. in dr. sigismund bacstrom's collection of alchemical manuscripts is a handwritten copy of the act passed by william and mary, copied from chapter 30 of statutes at large for the first year of their reign. the act reads as follows "an act to repeal the statute made in the 5th year of king henry iv, late king of england [wherein] it was enacted, among other things, in these words, or to this effect, namely 'that none from henceforth should use to multiply gold or silver or use the craft of multiplication, and if any

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

was magical in content. i am the rose of sharon, and the lily of the valleys, as the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. the rose has been preserved as the lady's emblem in the annals of courtly love and among the symbols of alchemy. the lily, however, passed directly into christian catholicism and became an attribute of the madonna, which is only right and proper, as the virgin mary is but a christian echo of an aspect of the lady herself. however, due to this association, it is more to be considered a symbol of cool chastity rather than love or passion. having seen to your initial preparations, illumine the lamps and kindle the appropriate incense, chanting as you do such words of consecration as "in thy name, habondia, and that of thy ministers of love, do i proceed in

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

ter crowley restored the goddess to her aspect of holding the cup of her fornications, from which the blood of the saints dwelled. those who transverse and persevered through the path of thelema or holy magick might offer their blood to the great cup, opening themselves to the glory of babalon. babalon is the beautiful goddess of an opened spirit, the luciferian mind. she is the exact opposite of mary, for the christians goddess is the mother of the black brotherhood of christianity in many aspects, she is closed therefore non existent to those who seek the light of god (lucifer. john whiteside parsons wrote much, and dedicated a majority of his short life to babalon. marjorie cameron parsons was said to be an avatar of this goddess, and lived her life expressing the importance of individu

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

lived inthebes (see p. 188)tiye, it is later revealed, was also the sister of israelite pharaoh aye, the father of aaron (smenkhkare)the pharaoh that took over after the abdication of akhenaton, but who was also eventually banishedwith him (see p. 192)tiyes prestigetiye went on to become more powerful than the first wife of the pharaoh.nefertitiwas the daughter of sitamun, the pharaohs first wife.mary/sit comes as no surprise to discover in the records of akhenaton the names of two princesses calledmery-taten (beloved of aten, one being his daughter and the other his granddaughter. the mery epi-thet was also applied to queen nefertiti herself, the elder half-sister and wife of akhenaton (p. 208)it was also posited that nefertiti may actually be the real sister of moses.avaristhe city of th

etallurgy, perfected the camera obscura.francois rabelais (1494-1553) satanistic playwrite and rebel.sir walter raleigh (1554-1618) pirate and member of the tudor dynasty.sir george ripley (1490) studied on the island of rhodes with the knights of st. john (tem-plars).emperor rudolph ii (1576-1612) holy roman emperor whose court in prague was frequented by major name alchemists. knew sir john dee.mary sidney (1561-1621) countess of pembroke and sister of pirate sir philip sidney.george starkey (1627-1665) educated at harvard.solomon trismosin (1480-1500) considered to be the instructor of paracelsus. he authored the beautiful splendour solis.trimethius (1462-1516) one of the most mysterious renaissance alchemists. a master of cryp-tography, his codes where thought to be satanic invocations

truman often told journalists, the s doesn't stand for anything. how-ever, after he attained the 33rd degree as a mason, truman secretly changed his name by adding themiddle initial s, which stood for solomon. truman's rise as a politician is traceable to masonicsponsorship. he said that being grand master for the whole state of missouri helped him win a u.s.senate seat in 1940. truman's sister, mary jane truman, was the grand matron of missouri in theorder of the eastern star, a masonic organization. as the 33rd president, this 33rd degree mason initiated the nuclear age, the crowning success ofalchemy, when the first a-bomb exploded at the 33rd parallel trinity test site (alamogordo) whitesands, new mexico, at the 33rd parallel. he was responsible for killing of thousands of japanese(th

the fossil footprints suggests that this and the other tracks had originally been cov-ered by volcanic activity.maybe this single surviving weathered giant tracks belonged to one of a whole group, perhaps a familyof giant hominids, fleeing from the eruption which subsequently covered their tracks-in a similar way tothose more famous normal-sized hominid tracks, found in 1974 by anthropologist dr mary leakey atlaetoli in tanzania, which proved to scientists at the time that early hominids were already walkingfully upright like modern humans three and a half million years ago.the inverell 'megaman' and his relatives obviously walked the landscape hereabouts a very long timeago. if the carrai range fossil tracks are any guide, then we could be safe in assuming the inverell fossilis of the sa

it would appear 35 times between 1702 and1800 and would appear almost every year between 1800 and 1879. 1709 plague in turkey, russia, scandinavia and germany through 1710. 1712 first record of vaccinations for smallpox in france. 1715 british east india company opens its first trading office in canton; china begins trading in opium. 1717 inoculation against smallpox instituted in england by lady mary montague after she returns fromturkey, where it was in a popular experimental stage at the time 1718 first bank notes in england. 1719 outbreak of the plague in marseilles, france through 1720. 1720 british government issues instruction that american colony governors consent to no act emittingbills of credit. 1721 in the united states, a clergyman named cotton mather attempts to introduce a c

329 appendix f: general chronology of events 1828 radioactive element thorium is discovered. anti-masonic party established. 1829 smithsonian institution founded in washington d.c. 1830 adam weishaupt dies. 1830 russell& company buys out the perkins opium syndicate, which had created the wealth of thecabot, lowell, higginson, forbes, cushing and sturgis families. russell makes connecticut the pri-mary center of the u.s. opium racket. massachusetts families (coolidge, sturgis, forbes and delano)joined connecticut (alsop) and new york (low) trafficking families under the auspices of the russellcompany and the british. 1830 export of nitrates from chile begins. 1830 britain imports 18,956 chests of opium to china. opium becomes the largest commodity in worldtrade. element v anadium is discove

MORALS AND DOGMA

mere words, without any real meaning. the god of nineteen-twentieths of the christian world is only bel, moloch, zeus, or at best osiris, mithras, or adona, under another name, worshipped with the old pagan ceremonies and ritualistic formulas. it is the statue of olympian jove, worshipped as the father, in the christian church that was a pagan temple; it is the statue of venus, become the virgin mary. for the most part, men do not in their hearts believe that god is either just or merciful. they fear and shrink from his lightnings and dread his wrath. for the most part, they only _think_ they believe that there is another life, a judgment, and a punishment for sin. yet they will none the less persecute as infidels and atheists those who do not believe what they themselves imagine they bel

a body, or at the most used it only as an envelope. no tus termed the son the first utterance of the father; the word, not by himself, as an intelligence, and unconnected with the flesh, a real son; but a word, and a perfect only-begotten; light emanated from the light; water flowing from its spring; a ray emanated from the sun. paul of samosata taught that jesus christ was the son of joseph and mary; but that the word, wisdom, or intelligence of god, the [nous] of the gnostics, had united itself with him, so that he might be said to be at once the son of god, and god himself. arius called the saviour the first of creatures, non-emanated from god, but really created, by the direct will of god, before time and the ages. according to the church, christ was of the same nature as god; accordi

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

uch appalling havoc upon earth, was originally no more than a distinction adopted for convenience. it is indeed the task of this book to reduce theology to the interplay of the dyad nuit and hadit, these being themselves conceived as complementary, as two equivalent to naught "divided for love's sake, for the chance of union- had enjoyed them in the form of a beast, bird, or what not; while later mary attributed her condition to the agency of a spirit spiritus, breath, or air in the shape of a dove (simple-minded readers must not think for one moment that a. c. is here "admitting the historical existence of the virgin mary; on the contrary, he is obviously putting her on the same footing with europa, semele and others. the virgin birth, like the dying god, is a much older myth than christi

eness and falseness of religion itself have been monsters aborted from the dark womb of its infernal mystery. there is nothing unclean or degrading in any manifestation soever of the sexual instinct, because, without exception, every act is an impulsively projected image of the will of the individual who, whether man or woman, is a star; the pennsylvanian with his pig no less than the spirit with mary; sappho with athis and apollo with hyacinth as perfect as daphnis with chloe or as galahad vowed to the graal. the one thing needful, the all-perfect means of purification, consecration, and sanctification, is independent of the physical and moral accidents circumstantial of the particular incident: is the realization of love as a sacrament. the use of the physical means as a magical operatio

e great whore, the shameless one who gets drunk on the blood of the saints. she is nature, whose mystery is eternally inviolate, the veiled isis; and she is the diana of the ephesians, frenetically copulating with, and giving suck to, all her creatures: isis unveiled, the heavenly and earthly venus. beyond them, uniting their aspects in a single female symbol, is isis urania nuit. the concept of "mary inviolate" is thus partial and unbalanced and for this motive is qliphotic, unless it be checked by its opposite. the greeks sensed this. artemis was the virgin goddess, patroness of maidens. she had never submitted to the embrace of any god but pan and one of the great riddles of eleusis was that artemis, having surrendered herself to pan that is, to all remained pure and virgin. this is als

ychic blindness is characteristic of the mental state of the "black brothers" it is a wicked and senseless folly to believe that god can be found only out of, and beyond, our neighbor's flesh. it is fatally false to form an astral image of our guardian angel, instead of to perceive that he is equally manifested in all things. see lxv, iii, 25-39. aspirants should keep in mind that the concept of "mary inviolate" is a telepathic projection of the inner state of the "black brothers. thelemites must fight to the utmost atavic tendencies in themselves to consider a "chaste" woman a virtuous woman. a virtuous woman is she who has the courage to meet life on all planes, who has the courage to be mistress and mother. a woman who shuts herself up, who castrates herself psychically, deserves only t

awake see comment on al i, v.15 "venus" of the adonis legends. we have no clue to her name. the lust& worship of the snake the might and worthiness of hadit within men; also the cult of the spermato- zoon the "holy ghost" or "satan" indwelling. the key to magick in the snake apophis the destroyer. another soul of god and beast the union of aiwaz and the beast in aleister crowley pan as god& goat; mary, etc, as mother of the son of god, fer tilized by the dove or bull, swan, etc. shall mingle in the globed priest the identification of matterandspiritinour doctrine the doctrine of the re generate incorruptible body. another sacrifice shall stain the tomb loveis the magical formula: sex as the key to life 'the tomb" the temple of love. crucifixion, etc, as the magical formula. death as the ke

ast it should not be the death of common sense. you are free to make a fool of yourself, but leave your neighbor alone. he may make a fool of himself who knows? 54. bahlasti! ompehda! i spit on your crapulous creeds. by sound, bahlasti suggests "hurling" or "blasting; ompehda is not too phantastically onomatopaeic for "an explosion. these two words are obviously from the angelic language. 55. let mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! the name mary is connected with mars, mors, etc, from the sanskrit mr, to slay; and with mare, the sea, whose water opposes the fire of horus. i here quote a passage from liber xcvii which deals with this fully "let me strictly meditate this hate of the mother. mr is the sanskrit root "kill, hence

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

t of thinking formed a community at a very early date. in 1187 raymond v, count of toulouse, granted them jurisdictional privileges in return for certain fees and for personnel to give military service aiding in the demolition of enemy castles.3 in paris the oldest brotherhood, that of the mercatores aquae [water merchants, is first mentioned in 1121. it maintained its seat at the church of saint mary magdalene. royal certificates from 1162 mention the privileges enjoyed by butchers of the la grande boucherie parisienne. these privileges were confirmed by patent letters issued from 1182 to 1183 by philip augustus. the drapers had established themselves in the community in 1183 and in 1188 they founded the brotherhood of saint peter in the chapel of saint mary the egyptian. in all the relev

with the same intensity that characterized their pursuits of a more professional nature. among the oldest statutes of italian builders' mastery associations are those of the venice stone carvers, dating from 1317 and renewed in 1396. these statutes open with a prayer to the very holy trinity and continue on to express a keen desire to contribute "to the glory of god and the glorious virgin mother mary, who is our constant advocate. there is also evidence of the worship of the four holy crowned martyrs, protectors of the mastery associations.5 this is quite possibly the earliest mention by builders of the individual worship of the four crowned martyrs, a patronage mentioned in england at the end of the fourteenth century or the beginning of the fifteenth century and in the statutes of the g

at the lodges of northern germany were not represented in strasbourg or ratisbonne. these lodges added their voice of support to the revision at an assembly held in torgau in 1462 by crafting ordinances that were described simply as reproductions of the strasbourg statutes established on the ancient foundations instituted "by the holy martyrs crowned in the honor and glory of the holy trinity and mary queen of heaven."10 a second masonic assembly, also convoked by the grand lodge of strasbourg, was held in ratisbonne in 1464. along with discussing general lodge business, including reports on buildings then under construction, the assembly gave more precise definition to the rights and attributions of the four existing grand lodges (in cologne, strasbourg, vienna, and bern) and named the ma

tes of the brotherhood of stonecutters (steinmetzen bruderschaft) dating from 1459 were not, apparently, the first; there is a good possibility that yet older ones exist. as we have seen, they were revised several times and endorsed by the emperors. those published in 1563 were the final ones. the rules began thus:14 "in the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost, and the glorious mother mary, and also the four crowned martyrs, their blessed servants remembered eternally" findel writes that before 1440, the members of the original strasbourg laborers society bore the name of the brothers of saint john. he adds that saint john the precursor, along with the four crowned martyrs, had always been the special patron saint and protector of the association. overall, the statutes of the g

ties as superintendet of the royal buildings, wren ceased to play the role of grand master and was not replaced. nonetheless, he alone, undoubtedly because of his position and duties, exercised direct professional authority over the masons, though it seems he had only just been initiated as a freemason in 1691. the corporative masonry of great britain 203 in scotland, the two lodges in edinburgh, mary's chapel and kilwinning, held the privilege of forming new lodges. kilwinning was given the significant title of "mother lodge" and practiced a unique rite that has become known as the rite of kilwinning* there are a number of lodges in scots freemasonry that grew out of the kilwinning mother lodge and formed in various locales throughout the region, even in edinburgh. these daughter lodges a

w many steps was in jacobs ladder? a. 3. q. what was ye 3? a. father, son& holy spirit. q. what meant ye golden dore of ye temple, qr (where) the went in to sanctum sanctorum? a. it was another type of christ who is ye door ye way and the truth& ye life by whome& in whom all ye elect entreth into heaven. q. what was ye greatest wonder yt seen or heard about the temple? a. god was man and was god. mary was a mother and yet a maid. q. what signifies the temple? a. ye son of god& partly of the church ye son soffered his body to be destroyed& rose again ye 3 d day& raised up tu us ye christian church we (which) in ye true spiritwal church. q (what signifies) the ark of the covenant? a. it represents as weel our saviour christ as ye hearts of ye faithfull for in christs breast was ye doctrine b

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perience, was born in the hills of haiti, among escaped slaves known as maroons. in 1791 a petro ceremony, led by a voodoo priest, boukman dutty, sparked an uprising for independence. grave the cross on this tomb is the symbol of baron samedi and the crossroad of death. an offering of rum to ghede stands at its base. all the voodoo gods are identified with catholic saints: erzulie with the virgin mary, legba with both st. peter and lazarus, ogoun with st. james the greater, damballah wedo with st. patrick, azacca with st. isidore, baron samedi with st. expedit, and so on. the voodoo gods incline towards the fate of haiti by cameau rameau this painting reflects the widespread belief that the gods are involved in the politics of the island, often helping to elect or get rid of a president. i

PRELUDE TO THE BLACK ARTS

, keep you in check, and make you subservient to the will of mother, father, teacher, preacher and cop. how tiresome. but, just think what would happen if at the wrong time, a bunch of that goop, upchucked all over your freshly pressed, black robe and stopped the proceedings? wouldn't you feel silly? i mean, if you have to stop and ask a demon if it is politically incorrect to rip the soul out of mary jo smith because she angered you, then you better get yourself into another business 'cause black magic ain't for you! that's right, you gotta grab control and keep it! admittedly, there is a fine line between having the villagers chase you back to your castle with shovels and hoes and that of successfully avenging yourself for some foul indiscretion visited upon your person by some ingrate

smith because she angered you, then you better get yourself into another business 'cause black magic ain't for you! that's right, you gotta grab control and keep it! admittedly, there is a fine line between having the villagers chase you back to your castle with shovels and hoes and that of successfully avenging yourself for some foul indiscretion visited upon your person by some ingrate, namely mary jo smith. however, civilization being what it is, full of the fearful, we true magicians have to keep our cool and not do anything obvious to stir up the sheep, less they stampede. that's right, we let off just before their eyes roll up in their sockets, and they jump the fence, leaving puddles of sheep-shit to coat our insteps. therefore, we should, at least, outwardly appear as good citizen

tice subtle nuances that proffer a more complete understanding of the subject of interest. while learning, cast or throw a hand and then watch and see what develops. soon, your chosen method will begin to come clear to you, and you will gain confidence in it. after all, a spiritually blind magician certainly leaves something to be desired. i mean, if you can't scry, how are you going to know that mary jo smith is sleeping with the preacher? purpose to be successful at any magickal endeavor, you must have a purpose. for instance, mary jo is sleeping with the preacher, and your purpose is to make an example of her. a secondary purpose is to make her stop and also to teach the next damn preacher by example, so he won't get any bright ideas. after all, preachers have been corrupting people for

is to make an example of her. a secondary purpose is to make her stop and also to teach the next damn preacher by example, so he won't get any bright ideas. after all, preachers have been corrupting people for a couple thousand years, and it's time to put a stop to it. that's purpose enough! focus after that, you must focus upon your purpose. i mean that you gotta really zero in on it hard! now, mary jo has really raised your ire because she is supposed to be sleeping with you, not the preacher- got it? now, you are generating energy, lots of energy, sweet, tasty energy, yeah, that's right- yum! nothing generates energy quite like hatred. so you focus on your purpose, and the hatred wells up within your soul, creating lots of those hot, dripping, smoldering black thoughts of destruction a

raised your ire because she is supposed to be sleeping with you, not the preacher- got it? now, you are generating energy, lots of energy, sweet, tasty energy, yeah, that's right- yum! nothing generates energy quite like hatred. so you focus on your purpose, and the hatred wells up within your soul, creating lots of those hot, dripping, smoldering black thoughts of destruction and mayhem against mary jo and the* preacher. now, knuckles white upon the hilt of your ceremonial sword, you are almost ready. intent now, the driving force behind magick is the intent behind your purpose. now, you have your purpose, you have your focus, and next you intend to implement those black thoughts of mayhem and destruction. in your mind's eye, you can see the worms eating mary jo's merken as she rubs that

u have your focus, and next you intend to implement those black thoughts of mayhem and destruction. in your mind's eye, you can see the worms eating mary jo's merken as she rubs that nasty thing all over that sweating preacher who is screaming jesus, jesus, jesus to no avail. he can't get away, and the worms are turning into venomous snakes that are biting at his johnson. the flesh is rotting off mary jo, and the preacher's eyes are rolling back in his head. however, there is no one there to see, so you let them roll! will next, the instrument that delivers your intent is your will. now, you bring forth your demon who is worked up and lathered. he's hot and breathing fire. sulfur smoke pours from his nostrils, and with a mighty thrust of your will, you sick him on that accursed pair to fea

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

gardie gave me a gift paraphernalia and equipment which be sent as a gift to the warburg and future generations to appreciate also made a gft of his practical alchemical maintained an alchemical laboratory circle with his re-connection with the feelings and memories were stirred he had once remarked that the "giants" zealand reflected upon who would continue helped to preserve over the past fifty mary renault, which i read on the tedious when regardie and i returned again. he died two years later. the novel regardie's work and legacy is that magicians to the modem day inquiring does that student approach and benefit and ritual without the aid of and more importantly, how does the "difference" in the individual's usual that by working assiduously, or as foolishly, misguidedly, it doesn't ma

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

when the gospel was first proclaimed in these parts. their professed reverence for our blessed lord seems to arise more from the difficulty of withholding from him the honour which is universally ascribed to his character and dignity, than from any knowledge which they possess of his person or mission. in this respect, indeed, they are profoundly ignorant, and their confession of isa, the son of mary, is much more undefined and imperfect than that of the mohammedans. it is true that they affect more attachment to christians than to mussulmans; but this may be fully accounted for on other ground than that of any sincere respect for christianity. for ages the christians have been co-sufferers with them, they have lived under the same yoke of bondage and oppression, and this community of end

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

of philosophical salt, that is to say, wisdom; of mercury, that is, personal skill and application; finally, of sulphur, representing vital energy and fire of will. by these are we enabled to change into spiritual gold things which are of all least precious, even the refuse of the earth. in this sense we must interpret the parables of the choir of philosophers, bernard trevisan, basil valentine, mary the egyptian and other prophets of alchemy; but in their works, as in the great work, we must separate skillfully the subtle from the gross, the mystical from the positive, allegory from theory. if we would read them with profit and understanding, we must take them first of all as allegorical in their entirety, and then descend from allegories to realities by the way of the correspondences or

, as it were, the respiration of the sea. we read in the zohar, one of the great sacred books of the kabalah, that the magical serpent, the son of the sun, was about to devour the world, when the sea, daughter of the moon, set her foot upon his head and subdued him. for this reason, among the ancients, venus was the daughter of the sea, as diana was identical with the moon. hence also the name of mary signifies star or salt of the sea. to consecrate this kabalistic doctrine in the belief of the vulgar, it is said in prophetic language: the woman shall crush the serpent's head. jerome cardan, one of the boldest students, and beyond contradiction the most skilful astrologer of his time jerome cardan, who was a martyr to his faith in astrology, if we accept the legend of his death, has left a

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

ar, is the sign of intellectual omnipotence and autocracy. it is the star of the magi; it is the sign of the word made flesh; and, according to the direction of its points, this absolute magical symbol represents order or confusion, the divine lamb of ormuz and st. john, or the accursed goat of mendes. it is initiation or profanation; it is lucifer or vesper, the star of morning or evening. it is mary or lilith, victory or death, day or night. the pentagram with two points in the ascendant represents satan as the goat of the sabbath; when one point is in the ascendant, it is the sign of the saviour. the pentagram is the figure of the human body, having the four limbs and a single point representing the head. a human figure head downwards naturally represents a demon that is, intellectual s

medals, are all true talismans. one such medal has become popular in our own day, and even those who are devoid of religion suspend it from the necks of their children. moreover, its figures are so perfectly kabalistic that it is truly a marvellous double pantacle. on the one side is the great initiatrix, the heavenly mother of the zohar, the isis of egypt, the venus-urania of the platonists, the mary of christianity, throned upon the world and setting one foot upon the head of the magical serpent. she extends the septenary of talismans 47 her two hands in such a manner as to form a triangle, of which her head is the apex; her hands are open and radiant, thus making a double triangle, with all its rays directed towards the earth, evidently representing the emancipation of intelligence by l

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

xt] set down [in writing] some of their more remarkable charms and spells as they are usually written and spoken, one in latin [and] another in irish, which i translate. and [i shall also] give the rest [but] only interpreted, for brevity's sate. 1. the general prayer or pater noster, called seachd phaidir, repeated in way of preface and conclusion to every remarkable [that is, individual] charm: mary is first placed, the pater noster of mary [1, the p.n. or prayer of my king [2, of mary [3, of the king [4, of mary [5, of the king [6 [then] the seven seanings or salvations to the son of my king omnipotent 2. the charm against the palsy and falling sickness [that is, epilepsy] written on paper, and tied about the patient's neck: the secret commonwealth 67 in nomine patris et filii et spirit

ng on them, and then with both thumbs strokes the sore, which daily mends thereafter. they use spitting as an antidote against all that is poisonous and diabolical. 4. a charm [is] spoke[n] in[to] a napkin, and [then] the napkin is sent many miles off to be tied about a child's open-head to lift it up, as they speak [the charm, and it does the fact [that is, does work. i will lift up thy bones as mary lifted up her hands, as the forks are lifted under the heavens, as the priest lifts up the upright mass, up to the crown of thy head i lift thy cheekbones, the bones of thy hind-head, thy brow before and behind. this they labour to justify as to its institution and operation by the reports they hear of the weapon-salve and sympathetic powders, which they suppose may have some such words accom

h or brigid, to whom many hundreds of gaelic prayers were uttered. there is some evidence that the early christian church at glastonbury was based on a pagan temple of brigid, and many other examples of her presence in britain and ireland could be cited. the original goddess mediated the energies of poetry and inspiration, smithcraft, and therapy. in celtic christian trad-ition she was midwife to mary and/or foster mother to jesus. we may see echoes of this in the many examples of the theme of the otherworld or fairy child and the human nurse or midwife, though this comparison need not be extended too far. a perpetual fire was kept burning in the temple of vesta in rome, and in the ancient egyptian temple of neith in sais. in britain the ancient temple of sulis minerva had a perpetual fire

RUBY TABLET OF SET

protectorate. in 1660 parliament invited the classification: v2- 102- 11 author: michael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: january 1, xxiv html revision: oct 13, 1997 ce subject: philosophy reading list: 16a, 16l, 16m exiled charles ii to resume the throne (the restoration. charles' son james ii was deposed by a bloodless coup in 1688-89 (the glorious revolution) in favor of william and mary. in france louis xiv (the "sun king) reigned from 1643 to 1715. he devoted much time and effort to affairs of state, but was followed by two incompetent kings, louis xv and xvi, whose estrangement from the people ultimately led to the french revolution of 1789. spain's philip ii reigned from 1556 to 1598. the defeat of his "invincible armada" by elizabeth i's england in 1588 marked the beginn

nown unto them- that is to say 'i have not declared the mystery, nor explained who is god, but i kept to myself in secret the mystery which i heard from wisdom' since then the things above (in the pleroma, ogdoad, and hebdomad) had been set right, by the same law of succession the things here (on earth) were to meet with their proper regulation. for this cause jesus, the saviour, was born through mary, that things here might be righted. just as christ was additionally emanated by mind-and-truth for the righting of the sufferings of wisdom- without that is to say the "abortion" so again did the saviour, born through mary, come for the righting of the sufferings of the soul. the above will give the reader some general notion of the cycle of ideas in which these gnostics moved. iv. results of

ght, any one of them, shall after death find rest in the light-world appropriate so his mystery, but no one who has not become a christ will know the gnosis of the whole pleroma, for "in all openness i am the gnosis of the whole pleroma" so he who receives the first mystery of the first mystery shall be king over the spaces of the first saviour in the light-realm, and so on up to the twelfth. and mary asks "master, how is it that the first mystery hath twelve mysteries, whereas the ineffable hath but one mystery" the answer is that they are really one mystery; this mystery is ordered into twelve, and also into five, and again into three, while still remaining one; they are all different aspects or types of the same mystery. 5. the mysteries of mithras the chief point of contact among the m

asters were put forth. the "i am" religious activity and the church universal and triumphant are two contemporary groups which have claimed contact with the spiritual hierarchy through their founder/leaders. new thought grew directly out of christian science. christian science had asked the question of healing within the context of an idealist philosophical framework. new thought, begun by one of mary baker eddy's students, emma curtis hopkins, differed from christian science at first over organizational disputes, but has during the twentieth century developed in various new perspectives which have taken it some distance from christian science. the united church of religious science is one form of new thought (as is the unity school of christianity considered in the first section of this m

philosophers and gnostics could be kept busy. the pantheon of deities would not be complete without the legendary saints. these were not supposed to be worshipped, as they were not divine. it was claimed that they had all lived exemplary lives, and were worthy of veneration. there was a saint for every day of the year, and for almost any function you could think of except sex. the blessed virgin mary was not supposed to be divine either, but some of her feasts are holy days of "obligation" wherein the catholic was supposed to attend mass. if one didn't attend this mass without good cause it was a mortal sin, and one would go to hell if one died on the spot. that kind of requirement is known as mandatory worship, and in any other religion is reserved for divinity. further, much of the reas

ot supposed to be divine either, but some of her feasts are holy days of "obligation" wherein the catholic was supposed to attend mass. if one didn't attend this mass without good cause it was a mortal sin, and one would go to hell if one died on the spot. that kind of requirement is known as mandatory worship, and in any other religion is reserved for divinity. further, much of the reasoning for mary's being blessed and virgin is due to divine intervention, and is therefore a matter of faith, meaning that a catholic can be excommunicated for heresy if he is not willing to accept these dogmas. commonly used to "honor" mary, the hail mary's are nothing but invocations to a mother goddess. mary has been an extremely touchy subject for catholicism. technically she is a saint, but just try cal

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

it's hard to believe" chamcha argued "i've lived here for many years and it never happened before" his words dried up because he saw the manticore looking at him through narrow, distrustful eyes "many years" it asked "how could that be- maybe you're an informer- yes, that's it, a spy" just then a wail came from a far corner of the ward "lemme go" a woman's voice howled "ojesus i want to go. jesus mary i gotta go, lemme go, o god, o jesus god" a very lecherouslooking wolf put its head through saladin's screens and spoke urgently to the manticore "the guards'll be here soon" it hissed "it's her again, glass bertha "glass" saladin began "her skin turned to glass" the manticore explained impatiently, not knowing that he was bringing chamcha's worst dream to life "and the bastards smashed it up

iously from his wrecked vehicle he turned out to be even larger than hal's minder. as this colossus bore down on him, hal lowered his push-button window and breathed, with a sweet smile "i strongly advise you to turn around and walk swiftly away; because, sir, if you do not do so within the next fifteen seconds, i am going to have you killed" other advertising geniuses were famous for their work: mary wells for her pink braniff planes, david ogilvy for his eyepatch,jerry della femina for "from those wonderful folks who gave you pearl harbor. valance, whose agency went in for cheap and cheerful vulgarity, all bums and honky-tonk, was renowned in the business for this (probably apocryphal "i'm going to have you killed, a turn of phrase which proved, to those in the know, that the guy really

es likewise, his features unmistakably indian, the haughty nose, long thin lips, a face from a _hamza-nama_ cloth. an indian who has never seen india, east--india--man from the west indies, white black man. a star. still the motionless figures dance between the shimmying of sisters, the jouncing and bouncing of youth. what are they- why, waxworks, nothing more- who are they- history. see, here is mary seacole, who did as much in the crimea as another magic-lamping lady, but, being dark, could scarce be seen for the flame of florence's candle- and, over there, one abdul karim, aka the munshi, whom queen victoria sought to promote, but who was done down by colour-barring ministers. they're all here, dancing motionlessly in hot wax: the black clown of septimius severus, to the right; to the l

nd, snootiest of all "ramlah, whose namesake, the eleventh wife of mahound, was the daughter of abu simbel and hind. and there was a "zainab bint jahsh, and a "juwairiyah, named after the bride captured on a military expedition, and a "rehana the jew, a "safia" and a "maimunah, and, most erotic of all the whores, who knew tricks she refused to teach to competitive "ayesha: the glamorous egyptian "mary the copt. strangest of all was the whore who had taken the name of "zainab bint khuzaimah, knowing that this wife of mahound had recently died. the necrophilia of her lovers, who forbade her to make any movements, was one of the more unsavoury aspects of the new regime at the curtain. but business was business, and this, too, was a need that the courtesans fulfilled. by the end of the first y

old that he ought to start behaving a little more like the "real" husband, that is, mahound "why can't you change your name like the rest of us" bad-tempered "hafsah" demanded, but at this baal drew the line "it may not be much to be proud of" he insisted "but it's my name. what's more, i don't work with the clients here. there's no business reason for such a change "well, anyhow" the voluptuous "mary the copt" shrugged "name or no name, we want you to start acting like him "i don't know much about" baal began to protest, but "ayesha, who really was the most attractive of them all, or so he had commenced to feel of late, made a delightful moue "honestly, husband" she cajoled him "it's not so tough. we just want you to, you know. be the boss" it turned out that the whores of the curtain wer

it was irresistible. he began to find the confidence to order them about, to adjudicate between them, to punish them when he was angry. once when their quarrelling irritated him he forswore them all for a month. when he went to see "ayesha" after twenty-nine nights she teased him for not having been able to stay away "that month was only twenty-nine days long" he replied. once he was caught with "mary the copt" by "hafsah, in "hafsah's" quarters and on "ayesha's" day. he begged "hafsah" not to tell "ayesha, with whom he had fallen in love; but she told her anyway and baal had to stay away from "mary" of the fair skin and curly hair for quite a time after that. in short, he had fallen prey to the seductions of becoming the secret, profane mirror of mahound; and he had begun, once again, to

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and demons as well. people are sometimes a little baffled by this. whatever our interests and spirituality as adults, most of us have been subjected to christian brainwashing of one sort or another since early childhood. as such, its iconography and mystery are imprinted quite thoroughly in our deeper minds. hence our asylums have more patients who believe themselves to be christ, or speaking to mary, or receiving transmissions from the antichrist, than they have pan, or daughters of hecate. i m sure they do pop up in such places occasionally. living as i do in norwich city, norfolk, england, i cannot help but be aware of the extent and majesty of power that the church once held over england s populace. yet also, i cannot avoid awareness of the pagan mysteries and their survival under chr

on 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 perversions of catholic iconography, they are not inversions in the sense of satanism. the power of god, jesus, the virgin mary, the archangels, thrones, dominations, powers, patriarchs, prophets, apostles and evangelists are called upon to bully the demonic forces into submission to the will of the summoner. the danger of the heresy here is that it is not seen as at all incongruous that a holy man might also be conversing with the powers of darkness, even if it is to subordinate them. the book of abra-melin sometimes

nsidered the angel of truth. gabri-el is described as possessing 140 pairs of wings and in judeo-christian lore is the angel of annunciation, resurrection, mercy, revelation and death. the root of the name gabri-el lies in the sumerian word gbr, meaning gubernator or governer. the name may also be translated as divine husband, and in luke 1:26 it is gabriel who places the child within the womb of mary. the ruler of the cherubim and the governor of eden, said to sit on the left side of god, some theologians have made a case for gabri-el being female. if such is so she is the only female angel of the higher echelons known by name. in occult lore she is often associated with childbirth, and with escorting the invariably complaining soul from paradise to its reincarnation in the womb of an ear

she is the only female angel of the higher echelons known by name. in occult lore she is often associated with childbirth, and with escorting the invariably complaining soul from paradise to its reincarnation in the womb of an earthly mother. she/he appears to zacharias to announce the coming of john the baptist, and again in daniel to tell him of the coming of a messiah, a message she repeats to mary in the annunciation. gabri-el lead the second war in heaven and was thus expelled like lucifer, but later forgiven and reinstated. during this time gabriel was replaced by the angel dobiel. rapha-el originally known in chaldea as labbi-el, the name rapha-el means the shining one who heals. in the zohar it is said that he is charged to heal the earth. the earth which furnishes a place for man

of malign spirits dealing in the bodies of people, as it is done by saint peter, fifteenth century. exorcism ii in the name of the father, and the son, and the holy spirits, amen. i conjure you, elves and all kinds of demons, of the night and of the day, by the father, and the son, and the holy spirit, and the undivided trinity, and by the intercession of the most blessed and glorious ever virgin mary, by the prayers of the prophets, by the merits of the patriarchs, by the intercession of the angels and archangels, by the intervention of the apostles, by the passion of the martyrs, by the faith of the confessors, by the chastity of the virgins, and by the intercession of all the saints, and by the seven sleepers, whose names are malchus, maximian, dionysius, john, constantine, serapion, an

SATANIC BIBLE

aret populated by superrealistic humanoids of lavey's creation. all of lavey's background seemed to prepare him for his role. he is the descendant of georgian, roumanian, and alsatian grandparents, including a gypsy grandmother who passed on to him the legends of vampires and witches in her native transylvania. as early as the age of five, lavey was reading weird-tales magazines and books such as mary shelly's frankenstein and bram stoker's dracula. though he was different from other children, they appointed him as leader in marches and maneuvers in mock military orders. in 1942, when lavey was twelve, his fascination with toy soldiers led to concern over world war ii. he delved into military manuals and discovered arsenals for the equipment of armies and navies could be bought like grocer

SATANICON

worthy opponents all stand defenseless. hell the sanctuary against the real horrors of the world! my brethren go there often -iv- dedicated to satan who has shown me the value of evil and who has been my guide; my personal source of inspiration. to the devil s own: anton szandor lavey, friedrich nietzsche, marquis de sade, wilhelm reich, lord byron, boris karloff, mikail bakunin, edgar allen poe, mary and percy shelley, grigori rasputin, cornell woolrich, herbert spencer, charles darwin, basil zaharoff, johann most, jack london, vincent price, h.p. lovecraft, count cagliostro, h.l. mencken, sigmund freud and all others who have, and will, live within a most certain aspect of the infernal light -v- contents prelude to evil: hell..iii preface to the original edition..vi book i: the writ of a

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oofing. special thanks are due for the invaluable comments and suggestions provided by u x l s world religions reference library advisors and consultants: george alscer, associate professor and chair of religious studies, philosophy and pastoral ministry, marygrove college, detroit, michigan. viii world religions: almanac reader s guide janet callahan, ford interfaith network, dearborn, michigan. mary ann christopher, librarian, yellow springs high school, yellow springs, ohio. margaret hallisey, retired library media specialist and former board member of the american association of school librarians; the massachusetts school library media association; and the new england educational media association. fatima al-hayani, professor of religious studies, university of toledo, toledo, ohio. ma

jews by the nazi regime in germany before and during world war ii (1939 45. householders: laypeople; jains who are not monks or nuns. idol: a statue or other image that is worshipped as a god. imbolc: neo-pagan holiday generally held on february 2 to mark the lengthening of the days and the emergence of the world from winter. immaculate conception: the principle of the roman catholic church that mary, the mother of jesus, was conceived with a soul free from original sin. incarnation: in christianity, the belief 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

, the earlier pagan religions and their goddess worship were replaced with religions dominated by males. nevertheless, at the time of jesus s birth, the worship of goddesses such as demeter, artemis, aphrodite, and cybele (also known as the great mother) was widespread throughout italy, greece, and the middle east. some historians of religion believe that the great admiration and respect held for mary, the mother of jesus christ, especially in the roman catholic faith, may be a holdover of this earlier form of goddess worship. by the time the first civilizations sprang up in what is now iraq, around 3,000 bce, religion had become a very involved process. ancient sumerians, people who lived in what is now the south of iraq about 5,000 years ago, had a complex pantheon, with many gods and go

y attempt to deal with such critics in a respectful manner. size and age also have something to do with cult status. usually cults are newly formed and small. despite the modern negative sense that the word cult has, its historical use was positive, or at least neutral. on the positive side, cult means a group that pays particular homage or worship to one thing or person. for example, the cult of mary honors the mother of jesus. a more neutral meaning is a small, recently created, religious organization that is often headed by a single charismatic (strong and appealing) leader. a cult may also be a spiritually inventive group, one that might challenge other larger and more dominating ones. a cult in this sense may simply be a new religious movement on its way to becoming a true religion. t

alculations were a vital tool. the observation of the stars and planets likewise led to the modern science of astronomy. world religions: almanac 65 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia ancient egyptian influences egyptian religion passed on many of its deities to other religions. for example, isis, in her aspect as the mother of horus, also influenced the later christian cult of the virgin mary. like the mesopotamians, the egyptians also passed on additional products of their religion in the form of mathematics and medicine. for example, their numbering system was based on the number ten, as in the modern decimal system. the egyptian calendar, based on the appearance of the star sirius, held 365 days and was divided into twelve months of thirty days each. the remaining five days wer

, established a continuation of the original covenant with the creation of a guardian, who serves as the hereditary leader of the religion, passing control from generation to generation. abdu l- baha named his grandson, shoghi effendi rabbani, as his successor. although he was young when he was named the guardian, shoghi effendi was generally accepted by the faithful. his marriage to a westerner, mary maxwell, a baha from the united states, and his growing international focus led to complaints from his immediate family, many of whom began disobeying him and marrying covenant breakers. this did not result in the creation of more sects, but it did force shoghi effendi to excommunicate several family members. with the death of shoghi effendi, the hereditary office of guardian came to an end

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ed a punier sceptre, though a gaudier purple, by the banks of the etrurian arno, or amidst the lagunes of venice, had chosen all its primary inspirations from the unfamiliar and classic sources of heathen legend; and pisani's "descent of orpheus" was but a bolder, darker, and more scientific repetition of the "euridice" which jacopi peri set to music at the august nuptials of henry of navarre and mary of medicis* still, as i have said, the style of the neapolitan musician was not on the whole pleasing to ears grown nice and euphuistic in the more dulcet melodies of the day; and faults and extravagances easily discernible, and often to appearance wilful, served the critics for an excuse for their distaste. fortunately, or the poor musician might have starved, he was not only a composer, but

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hen" they proved that they possessed this belief, for they always endeavoured to throw down the statues of the gods of p. 66 the greeks and romans, knowing that if they were once shattered the spirits which dwelt in them would have no place wherein to dwell, and would thereby be rendered homeless and powerless. it will be remembered that it is stated in the apocryphal gospels that when the virgin mary and her son arrived in egypt there "was a movement and quaking throughout all the land, and all the idols fell down from their pedestals and were broken in pieces" then all the priests and nobles went to a certain priest with whom "a devil used to speak from out of the idol" and they asked him the meaning of these things; and when he had explained to them that the footstep of the son of the "

ht be able to resist any attack which the pirates might make, and punish them for their robberies in times past. soon after he had sailed he fell in with a pirate vessel, and a fight at once took place between his crew and the robbers, in the course of which he was shot in the eye by an arrow; he stopped the combat and then sailed for a port which was situated near a monastery, wherein the virgin mary was reported to work miracles by means of a picture of herself which was hung up in it. when the merchant arrived in port he was so ill through the wound in his eye that he could not be moved, and it was found that a portion p. 103 of the arrow which had struck him remained embedded in it; and unless he could obtain the virgin's help speedily he felt that his death was nigh. in this difficult

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on in graphic form('hand done colour photography) i sidentical with spare's method of 'visualized sensation. these magicians utilized human embodiments of power (shakti) which appearedusually- in feminine form. each book that crowley produced had its corresponding shakti. the rites of eleusis (1910) were powered, largely, by leila waddell. book four, parts i& ii (1913) came through soror virakam (mary d'este. liber aleph- the book of wisdom or folly (1918- was inspired by soror hilarion (jane foster. his great work, magick in theory and practice, was written mainly in 1920 in cefalu, where alostrael (leah hirsig) supplied the magical impetus; and so on, up to the new aeon interpretation of the tarot (the book of thoth, which he produced in collaboration with frieda harris in 1944. dali's s

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th to queen maya by a white elephant, which overshadows her and tells her that she is to bring forth a divine man. and he will attune all beings to love and friendship, and will unite them in a bond of religious fervor. compare with this the passage from the gospel of luke where an angel is sent: to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named joseph, a descendant of david. the virgin s name was mary. the angel went to her and said, greetings, you who are highly favored. you will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name jesus. he will be great and will be called the son of the most high. the brahmans (indian priests) understand the meaning of the birth of a buddha. they interpret maya s dream according to a totally schematic concept of what a buddha is: the

t but this renders incomprehensible renan s own view that what happened at bethany was merely the staging of a piece of mummery, designed to strengthen belief in jesus: perhaps lazarus, still pale from his illness, had himself wrapped in a shroud and laid in the family grave. these tombs were large rooms hewn out of the rock, entered by a square opening closed by an immense stone slab. martha and mary hastened to meet jesus, and brought him to the grave before he had entered bethany. the painful emotion felt by jesus at the grave of the friend he believed to be dead (john 11:33 38) might be taken by those present for the agitation and tremors which were wont to accompany miracles. according to popular belief, divine power in a man was like an epileptic, convulsive force. to continue our hy

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ng of the great cosmic factors behind the incarnation of man and also of christ. it is the realization and revelation of the great mother herself. an awareness of this condition can be made by building the picture of the crucifixion with our lady and st. john on either side of the cross. the skies are black, and the crucifixion takes place between earth and sky in some strange condition of space. mary herself steps forward as if to take on herself the weight of the symbolism, while overshadowing all is tzaphkiel, the archangel of hnyb. the picture is filled with deep crimson, black, dark brown and the gray flecked pink of the sephirotic colors. this image should lead to the understanding 4 of the whole manifested universe as a form encompassing pure cosmic force. a gigantic cross upon whic

phirotic colors. this image should lead to the understanding 4 of the whole manifested universe as a form encompassing pure cosmic force. a gigantic cross upon which this force is crucified. the whole of life is lived under the shadow of this cross. this is the primary cross of life of which the cross of golgotha is a lesser manifestation; a shadow cast by the great shadow. having taken a look at mary as a representation of the feminine principle of the shekinah in the christian belief, let's take a look at twklm, for twklm and hnyb have various manifestations of mary, isis in common. twklm, the inferior mother, the queen, the bride, the virgin, have the common denominator of femininity. this attribution is obvious when one considers that twklm is receptive to all the higher emanations of

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ross my heart and hope to die" 229 the papacy often uses the "x" as is demonstrated in the dagon fish-hat of pope john paul ii on the cover of the pope speaks journal. 230 codex magica the x symbol on the robe worn by pope john paul ii is telling, as is the silver metal torch with its black flame. silver is the metallic element of the ancient goddess, which the pope would recognize in the form of mary, mother of jesus. the x, of course, represents the father deity. not the father god of the old and new testament, but of babylon and egypt "cross my heart and hope to die" 231 georges darboy, archbishop of paris in 1870. observe the crossed hands (x) and the il cornuto horned devil sign given with the left hand as it holds the prelate's hat (from the book, how the pope became infallible, by a

n, and egypt, those who had loose lips often paid with their lives and fortunes, so sacred and guarded were the secrets of the mystery religions. the egyptians and romans even worshipped a god of silence, harpocrates, a form of the solar deity. harpocrates was often pictured sitting on his mother's lap, suckling at her breast. later, the catholic church adopted similar images in the veneration of mary with child. sometimes harpocrates was pictured naked or with horns on his head, symbols of power. he often sat on a lotus flower. the lotus is a sexual symbol of the female vagina.7 "silence, slaves, or we'll cut your throat from ear to ear" 289 in the active days of benjamin franklin and our nation's founders, their secret society counterparts in great britain made use of the god harpocrates

st as masons decry the equality of ordinary women, even denying women the opportunity to become a mason in most orders, so do orthodox jews who practice cabalism openly proscribe and limit women's rights. yet, we see that deeply hidden and imbedded in their secret doctrine, both masonry and cabalistic judaism revere and honor the great goddess, just as does roman catholicism in the form of mother mary. it may surprise male chauvinists, but the goddess, the consort of lucifer, the woman figure whose sign is the downward pointing triangle, reigns side-by-side with jahbuhlun (satan) over the llluminati and its minions. 330 codex magica so many priests are now outed as homosexuals and pedophiles, this noted catholic publication, the catholic world report devoted a special edition to the topic

bery bushes, and the seemingly bizarre fact she has her eyes closed! all in all a very unflattering picture, but one that conveys much information. at the time (2000, general kennedy, an intelligence operative who was retiring from the military service, was being touted as a potential presidential candidate. did the llluminati choose other career options for the lady? harvard law school professor mary ann glendon headed a vatican delegation at a united nations conference in 1998 (photo: the catholic world report, july 1998, p. 39) 3 4 6 codex magica it appears from the position of his hands that computer chip magnate andy grove, jewish head of intel, wants to get across his "message" doesn't it (u.s. news& world report, march 22, 1999, p. 52) cover of espn magazine, published by espn sport

aid to be the "secret society of societies."1 baigent, leigh, and lincoln, authors of one acclaimed book, holy blood, holy grail, write that the brotherhood of the priory of sion has been preserved for two millennia. france's royal merovingian dynasty's bloodline is said to be the protector of the sect, which boasts that it is the actual bloodline of jesus. the astonishing claim is that jesus and mary magdalene were married and had children and from this bloodline shall someday arise a man who shall become the ruler of planet earth. the holy grail tied in with this unscriptural even blasphemous legend are the tales of the holy grail and the spear of longinus. some teach that as the blood of jesus oozed from his body on the cross, it was collected in the holy grail cup. esoterically that wo

rray's real name was arthur teichman, jewish of course. from the era of the roaring 20s to today, a number of the fad dances were based on masonic and jewish cabalistic rituals. 458 codex magica anne rice, writer of the popular "vampire" series, giving an occult, cabalistic sign with her left-hand, partially concealed yet in front of all. various occult symbols are on rice's shirt. the statues of mary give evidence of rice's veneration of the virgin in the form of the eternal pagan goddess (photo: associated press in austin american-statesman, january 31, 2004, p. a2) chaim potok, hasidic jewish writer and novelist, creates a headcovering of cabalistic magic. this sign is also reminiscent of the fourth sign in the initiation for the select master's degree (see richardson's monitor of freem

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possible without this; that are the 4 devils, satan, lucifer, leviathan, belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world "and satan is worshiped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshiped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshiped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshiped by men under the name of buddha (see al iii 48-56 "moreover, there is mary (the reflex, in the qliphoth of malkuth, of our lady babalon, the guardian of the abyss. she is the scarlet woman who rides the beast, and her cup of abominations is the holy grail. but again, this is an arcane of the grade of practicus of the a .a. and if we tried to explain it here we would only cause confusion, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up (this is the self-pre

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onment was impaired. dr. elisabeth kubler-ross( 1926) has said that the turning point in her work as a medical doctor occurred in a chicago hospital in 1969 when a deceased patient appeared before her in fully materialized form. kubler- ross had been feeling discouraged about her research with the dying because of the opposition that she had encountered among her colleagues, but the apparition of mary schwartz appeared to her to tell her not to abandon her work because life after death was a reality. death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon, kubler-ross has told her lecture audiences in presentations which she had conducted around the world. death is a transition into a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to unders

onscious of the medium. m delving deeper barbanell, maurice. spiritualism today. london: herbert jenkins, 1969. bayless, raymond. the other side of death. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1971. carrington, hereward. the case for psychic survival. new york: citadel press, 1957. garrett, eileen. many voices: the autobiography of a medium. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1968. uphoff, walter and mary jo. new psychic frontiers. gerrards cross, bucks, great britain: colin smythe, 1975. trance numerous researchers have noted the obvious parallels between hypnotic sleep and the trance state of the medium. in hypnosis the subject is controlled by the suggestions of the hypnotist. in the trance state, many investigators believe, the medium is controlled by autosuggestion a kind of self-induced

ill be impersonated with all the creative abilities that reside in the almost limitless range of subjective intelligence. m delving deeper barbanell, maurice. spiritualism today. london: herbert jenkins, 1969. fodor, nandor. an encyclopedia of psychic science. secaucus, n.j: citadel press, 1966. mysteries of the unknown: spirit summonings. alexandria, va: time-life books, 1989. uphoff, walter and mary jo. new psychic frontiers. gerrards cross, bucks, great britain: colin smythe, 1975. mediums and channelers the idea that humans survive physical death, that some part of the human being is immortal, profoundly affects the lives of those who harbor such a belief. while christianity, islam, judaism, and many other religions promise their followers some form of a life after death, many thousand

l times, under all manner of conditions, in broad daylight, under artificial lighting, indoors, outdoors, in private homes, in hotel rooms, and on public lecture platforms. born near edinburgh, scotland, on march 20, 1833, home was said to have been rocked in his cradle by unseen entities. his mother was also said to have had the gift of second sight, as clairvoyance was called in those days, and mary mcneal cook, an aunt who adopted home when he was but a year old, began noticing clairvoyant impressions from the child almost as soon as he began to speak. at the age of four he began having visions which proved to be accurate. a frail child who contracted tuberculosis at an early age, home s early childhood was marked by long periods of convalescence. when he was nine, his aunt and uncle mo

me so outspoken in praise of the guidance he received from the spirit world that it is said that it was lincoln s influence that prompted union general ulysses s. grant (1822 1885) to turn to spiritualism. in december of 1862, when the union cause was on the brink of defeat, lincoln was under great pressure from all sides to drop the rigid enforcement of the forthcoming emancipation proclamation. mary lincoln, aware of the terrible strain on her husband, called several trusted individuals together in the red parlor and called for one of the president s favorite mediums, nettie colburn (b. ca. 1841, to conduct a seance. the medium went into trance and her spirit control spoke of matters which only the president seemed to understand. then the entranced nettie colburn s spirit control charged

r essential longing, the longing for a living god and a vital religious experience. all of the highly varied religious phenomena described in this chapter have one thing in common: they all involve human beings responding to an individual mystical experience. whether one is soaring to the heart of the universe after receiving cosmic consciousness, standing in awe before a weeping statue of mother mary, or strengthening the spirit to resist the temptations of the fallen angels, a true blending of the phenomenon with the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 178 religious phenomena ina recent survey, it was revealed that 41 percent believe people can be possessed by the devil and 38 percent believe ghosts and spirits exist. t h e g a l e e

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y ghosts, aura of death. centre daily times, march 1, 1997 [online] http//tristate.pgh.net/ bsilver/ haunted.htm. hauck, dennis william. haunted places: the national directory. new york: viking/penguin, 1996. norman, michael, and beth scott. historic haunted america. new york: tor, 1996. the gray man of hinton ampner the account of the disturbances that gripped hinton ampner was first set down by mary ricketts, who, with her children, servants, and her brother, witnessed manifestations of a most eerie and frightening sort. ricketts was intelligent and widely read, and her reputation for truthfulness forever went unsullied. her brother, john jervis, was named baron jervis and earl st. vincent for his distinguished naval services. the hinton ampner case was published in the journal of the so

her brother, witnessed manifestations of a most eerie and frightening sort. ricketts was intelligent and widely read, and her reputation for truthfulness forever went unsullied. her brother, john jervis, was named baron jervis and earl st. vincent for his distinguished naval services. the hinton ampner case was published in the journal of the society for psychical research in april 1893. in 1757, mary had married william henry ricketts of canaan, jamaica, and they moved into the large country home outside of hinton ampner, england. from the very first there had been disturbances, the sound of doors slamming, the shuffling of footsteps. ricketts had spent many nights watching for the prowlers that he was convinced had somehow gained entrance into the house. they had lived there for about si

lived there for about six months when their nurse swore that she saw a gentleman in a drab-colored suit of clothes go into the yellow room. such things as these the rickettses tolerated for four years, firmly convinced that the noises were the result of wind and prowlers, and that the gray man and a once-sighted figure of a woman were the products of the servant s imagination. for several years, mary ricketts accompanied her husband on his frequent business trips to the west indies, but, in 1769, having now mothered three children, she decided to remain alone in england at the old manor house that they occupied. because they were convinced of a natural explanation for the disturbances, william had no pronounced anxiety when mary told him that she felt that she should remain in england wit

dren while he made the trip to jamaica. after all, she did have eight servants to assist her, and it was quite unlikely that any prowler would try to take on such odds. the phenomena seemed almost to have been waiting for william ricketts to leave on an extended trip before it began its manifestations in earnest. he had only been gone a short time when, one afternoon while lying down in her room, mary heard the noise of someone walking in the room and the rustling of silk clothing as it brushed the floor. she opened her eyes to see absolutely no one. she called the servants and a thorough search was made of the upstairs rooms and closets. the cook reminded her mistress that she had heard the same rustling noise descending the stairs on several occasions and had once seen the tall figure of

the upstairs rooms and closets. the cook reminded her mistress that she had heard the same rustling noise descending the stairs on several occasions and had once seen the tall figure of a woman in dark clothes. ricketts found herself being less dismissive of the servants stories now that she, too, had heard the spectral rustling of an invisible lady. nocturnal noises continued, and, one night, as mary ricketts lay sleeping in the yellow room which the gray man had been seen to enter, she was awakened by the heavy plodding steps of a man walking toward the foot of her bed. she was too frightened to reach for the bell at her bedside. she jumped from her bed and ran from the room into the nursery. the children s nurse was instantly out of her bed, rubbing her sleep-swollen eyes and wondering

as awakened by the heavy plodding steps of a man walking toward the foot of her bed. she was too frightened to reach for the bell at her bedside. she jumped from her bed and ran from the room into the nursery. the children s nurse was instantly out of her bed, rubbing her sleep-swollen eyes and wondering what on earth had so upset the mistress of the house. the nurse became immediately awake when mary ricketts told her about the heavy footsteps. the rest of the servants were summoned and again a fruitless search was made to discover some human agency who might be responsible for the disturbance. it was in november that the knocking and rappings began. a few months later, after the first of the year, mary ricketts and her household noticed that the entire house seemed to be filled with the

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2 secret societies by1897, the masons had about 750,000 members. who defended northern spain from the invading moors in the eleventh century, and the secret society continues to this day in a criminal organization akin to the mafia. according to tradition, around 710 a holy man named apollinario, who lived a hermitlike existence in the hills above cordova, had a vision in which the blessed virgin mary appointed him to be the savior of spain and drive the moors out of the land. at first the holy man was staggered by the very suggestion, regardless of the source from whence it had come. what remained of gothic spain had fallen into decay, deteriorating into a patchwork of petty princedoms, woefully ineffectual against the powerful moors who had conquered most of the land and established thei

ve the moors out of the land. at first the holy man was staggered by the very suggestion, regardless of the source from whence it had come. what remained of gothic spain had fallen into decay, deteriorating into a patchwork of petty princedoms, woefully ineffectual against the powerful moors who had conquered most of the land and established their royal seat in cordova. but when the apparition of mary presented him with a button that she said had been taken from the robe of christ, apollinario knew that he had been given the power to raise a band of holy warriors. he followed her orders to gather an army from the simple countryfolk of spain, even from the bandits who lived in the mountains, and to avoid the corrupt nobles and landed aristocracy. the hermit from the hills above cordova was

rteen articles of faith, the creeds of the apostles and athanasius; 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 20 secret societies knights templar parade in 1930 (corbis corporation. to uphold the doctrines of the two testaments, including the interpretations of the church fathers, the unity of god and the trinity of his persons, and the virginity of mary both before and after the birth of jesus. to go beyond the seas when called to do so in defense of the cause. to retreat not from the foe unless outnumbered three to one. in addition to the rules of conduct and discipline, humility was one of the first principles of membership in the knights templar. the helmet of the templar must bear no crest; his beard should never be cut; his personal beh

ollege, and he gained a wide reputation as an astronomer. dee left england again soon after acquiring fame as an astrologer and an astronomer, and he taught at many european universities. in 1551, he was back in england and was received by king edward vi (1537.1553, who awarded him a pension of 100 crowns per annum. this stipend dee later exchanged for a rectory at upton-upon-severn. during queen mary i fs (1516.1558) reign (1553.58, dee was accused of trying to kill her by genchantments. h he was seized, confined, and tried. after a long trial that lasted until 1555, he was at last acquitted. when elizabeth i (1533.1603) ascended to the throne in 1558, she consulted with dee as to which day the stars deemed the most propitious hours for her coronation. pleased with his pronouncements, she

hat their tradition has maintained an unbroken lineage that goes back before the days of the roman empire. according to the ways of the strege, the goddess of the old religion, whether known as diana, aradia, or demeter, has always been the benefactress of the outcast, the lonely, the people of the night. when the new religion of christianity achieved dominance in italy, the strege revered mother mary as an expression of the goddess diana. throughout italy, sicily, and malta, there are many strege passing as devout church members, including a few roman catholic priests, who accept the blessed virgin mary because they know she is just another incarnation of the goddess diana. one day, the strege believe religious tolerance will progress to the stage where they will once again have a public

iana. one day, the strege believe religious tolerance will progress to the stage where they will once again have a public temple to the goddess. more than one scholar of the mass conversions of the pagan populace of europe during the middle ages has commented on the fact that the common folk simply went underground with their worship of diana, or made the motions of giving reverence to the virgin mary, while secretly directing their true devotion to the goddess. gchristianization forced the old religionists underground in the twelfth century, but the sculptors paid tribute to their goddesses demeter and persephone by creating the madonna and female jesus. in ancient times people worshipped at the temple of demeter in enna, sicily, where they celebrated her daughter persephone fs resurrecti

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itterness by that of the inquisitors, states in 1673 that atthe sabbath "they make their accustomed homage, adoring and proclaiming him their lord. in the sameyear at newcastle-on-tyne[17] ann armstrong testified that she had heard ann baites "calling himsometimes her protector, and other sometimes her blessed saviour; and that "he was their protector, whichthey called their god. the salem witch, mary osgood, in 1692, said[18] that "the devil told her he was hergod, and that she should serve and worship him".such a mass of evidence shows that till the end of the seventeenth century the old religion still counted largenumbers of members. the issue has been confused, perhaps purposely, by the use of the word devil in itschristian connotation, for the name of the god, and by stigmatising the

s brown and her daughter, after they were condemned to death "were carried back to gaolwhere they were never heard to pray or to call upon god, but with bitter curses and execrations spent the littletime they had to live, until the day of their execution, when never asking pardon for their offences whether ofgod or the world, in this their dangerous and desperate resolution, died. elinor shaw and mary phillips ofthe same coven at their execution "being desired to say their prayers, they both set up a very loud laughter,calling for the devil to come and help them in such a blasphemous manner, as is not fit to mention; so thatthe sherif seeing their presumptuous impenitence, caused them to be executed with all the expeditionpossible; even while they were cursing and raving, and as they liv'd

vinemid "he asked, what was her name. she answered him, margret, the name that god gave me, and he said toher, i baptise thee jonet; isobel ncnicoll confessed that "he baptised her and gave her a new name andcalled her caterine; jonet ncnicoll "confesses with remorse" that she met "a gross copper-faced man,whom she knew to be an evil spirit, and that he gave her a new name, saying, i baptise thee mary; jonetmorisoun "trysted with the devil, and he asked what was her name, and she answered, jonet morisoun, thename that god gave me, and he said, believe not in christ but believe in me. i baptise thee margaret. in the god of the witcheschapter iv. the rites38sweden[26] the converts had to make an oath of fidelity on the occasion of the baptism "he caused them tobe baptised by such priests as

r "hemakes them give up their part in paradise [i.e. the christian heaven "and makes them promise that they willhold him as their sole master for ever, and that they will always be faithful to him. above all, he makes themswear very solemnly that they will never accuse one another, nor report anything which has passed amongthem. in new england[28] baptism is recorded as being practised regularly. mary osgood said that "she wasbaptised by the devil, who dipped her face in the water, and made her renounce her former baptism, and toldher she must be his, soul and body, for ever and ever. goody lacey" saw six baptised "he dipped theirheads in the water, saying, they were his".the kiss often followed the baptism. the new member kissed the grandmaster on any part of his person thathe directed. t

joined the coven, had"a nip on the neck, which continued sore for ten days; and john reid, who later suffered the traitor's deathin prison, received "a bite or nipp in his loyn, which he found painfull for a fortnight. isobel adams ofpittenweem, said at her trial in 1704, that "the devil put his mark in her flesh which was very painful"[47] in1705 the two northampton witches,[48] elinor shaw and mary phillips, who like the rest of that covenremained faithful to their god unto death, had been pricked at their finger ends.the pact or covenant was probably a late custom, introduced when the religion was falling into decay. in allreligions the god promises to the convert eternal life and eternal happiness in return for fidelity and service,but the promise of mundane help enforced by a written

st, they merely took what they required from somelocal farmer "the persons aforesaid had to their dinners beef, bacon, and roasted mutton; which mutton wasof a wether of christopher swyers of barley; which wether was brought in the night before into his mother'shouse by james device, and killed and eaten" in the same way the witches of forfar[85] helped themselvesto what they wanted "they went to mary rynd's house and sat down together at the table, the devil beingpresent at the head of it; and some of them went to john benny's house, he being a brewer, and brought alefrom thence, and others of them went to alexander's hieche's and brought aqua vitae from thence, and thusmade themselves merry."the somerset witches in 1664[86] were always the guests of their chief, who treated them well "at

THE HOLY ROSARY OF THE BRETHREN

debitoribus nostris. et ne nos inducas in tentationem: sed libera nos a malo. amen. the lord s prayer our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come. thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. give us this day, our daily bread. and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. the hail mary 10 hail mary full of grace, the lord is with thee. blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, jesus. holy mary, mother of god, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. amen. the ave maria ave maria, gratia plena; dominus tecum: benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui yeheshua. sancta maria, mater dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc

egnum, et potestas, et gloria, saecula, saeculorum. amen. the adoration to the lord of the universe in latin sanctus est tu dominus de mundi. sanctus est tu qui natura non-creatusest. sanctus est tu vastus et valindus rector lucis et tenebrarum. final note: 11 the adept is encouraged to do his/her research and homework on the use of the pater noster (the lord s prayer) and the ave maria (the hail mary. the prayer on the pater noster is the most potent of prayers. let the adept ascertain how the prayers relate to the tree of life. the ave maria exposes the greatest qabalistic truth in that through the feminine principle, we are taught about the justified one, and through the justified one, we learn of the infinite. as it is written: whomsoever sees me, sees the father. i and my father are o

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

hildren of cain have revolted against the mother of abel; they have enslaved their mother. the beauty of woman has become a prey for the brutality of such men as cannot love. thus woman closed her heart as if it were a secret sanctuary, and said to men unworthy of her "i am virgin, 19 but i will to become mother, and my son will teach you to love me" o eve! salutation and adoration in thy fall! o mary! blessings and adoration in thy sufferings and in thy glory! crucified and holy one who didst survive thy god that thou mightst bury thy son, be thou for us the final word of the divine revelation! moses called god "lord; jesus called him "my father" and we, thinking of thee, may say to providence "you are our mother" children of woman, let us forgive fallen woman! children of woman, let us a

d is the shadow of moses. moses is the forerunner of jesus. what is a prophet? a representative of humanity seeking god. god is god, and man is the prophet of god, when he causes us to believe in god. the old testament, the qur'an, and the gospel are three different translations of the same book. as god is one, so also is the law. o ideal woman! o reward of the elect! art thou more beautiful than mary? o mary, daughter of the east! caste as pure love, great as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the children of islam the mysteries of paradise, and the secrets of beauty! invite them to the festival of the new alliance! there, upon three thrones glittering with precious stones, three prophets will be seated. 54 the tuba tree will make, with its back-curving branches, a dais for the cele

m, and take pleasure in being called father. however, the poetry of the east, in its magical souvenirs, will call him still brahma, and jupiter. india will teach our enchanted climates the marvellous fables of vishnu, and we shall place upon the still bleeding forehead of our well-beloved christ the triple crown of pearls of the mystical trimurti. from that time, venus, purified under the veil of mary, will no more weep for her adonis. the bridegroom is risen to die no more, and the infernal boar has found death in its momentary victory. lift yourselves up again, o temples of delphi and of ephesus! the god of light and of art is become the god of the world, and the word of god is indeed willing to be called apollo! diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely fields of night; her silvern

ful, to those who love their enemies! oh, happy evermore, happy beyond all, are those who embrace poverty, who have drained themselves to the dregs, to give! happy are the souls who for ever make thy peace! happy the pure and the simple hearts that never think themselves better than others! humanity, my mother, humanity daughter and mother of god, humanity conceived without sin, universal church, mary! happy is he who has dared all to know thee and to understand thee, and who is ready to suffer all once more, in order to serve thee and to love thee! xviii the number eighteen this number is that of religious dogma, which is all poetry and all mystery. 65 the gospel says that at the death of the saviour the veil of the temple was rent, because that death manifested the triumph of devotion, t

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

on. obviously, binah contains 4 letters also. the number of the archangel tzaphkiel, relating to binah in briah, the world of creation, is 311, which by gematria equates to certain relevant words: qvrh; a beam, shelter, house (binah as container) gbvsh; crystallisation (binah as the formative process) shia; loftiness, summit, height (binah as eternal rest) also, shia "height, can be compared with mary "exalted, one of the key biblical aspects of binah. binah interacts with chockmah through the fourteenth path, to which is attributed the tarot card of the empress. the number of the card is 3, which is also the number of binah, and the first of the numbers to enclose a space: 0: no space nought (ain soph aur) 1: point point (kether) 2: vector line (chockmah) 3: space triangle (binah) the emp

ion, or aries in the zodiacal system. binah, as the top of the passive pillar of form, symbolises the ultimate feminine archetype, that of the great mother. the feminine can be broken down into a two-fold division, and a three-fold one: two-fold system ama: the dark, sterile, mother. light isis aima: the bright, fertile, mother. dark isis three-fold system sattva: goodness; maiden (first quarter- mary, isis, nephthys rajas: passion; mother (full moon- venus, aphrodite, nike tamas: darkness; crone (third quarter- kalli, lilith other forms of the feminine associated with binah range from the shekinah, the "indwelling presence of god (also associated with malkuth as the unwedded soul, to babalon, the great whore or scarlet woman, deified by crowley in his elaborate symbology as the lady babal

resence of god (also associated with malkuth as the unwedded soul, to babalon, the great whore or scarlet woman, deified by crowley in his elaborate symbology as the lady babalon, nursing the babe of the abyss in the city of pyramids under the night of pan. the catholic "litany of the blessed virgin" lists titles which could be transposed onto the tree of life with appropriate relevance, such as: mary i.e, exalted, also "bitterness of the sea "myrrh of the sea, or "lady/mistress of the sea" mother of christ binah connecting to tiphareth mother of divine grace binah connecting to chesed mother inviolate etc binah above the abyss of manifestation mirror of justice binah connecting to geburah seat of wisdom binah connecting to chockmah gate of heaven binah as the first of the supernals above

reth mother of divine grace binah connecting to chesed mother inviolate etc binah above the abyss of manifestation mirror of justice binah connecting to geburah seat of wisdom binah connecting to chockmah gate of heaven binah as the first of the supernals above the abyss and connected to malkuth refuge of sinners binah as the place of rest queen of angels binah as briah the fifteen "mysteries" of mary are divided into three groups, the number of binah, being the "joyful "sorrowful" and "glorious" mysteries. the first set of five relate to the creative and formative (descending) aspects of binah, the second set relate to the manifestative aspects of binah, and the third set relate to the mystical aspects (ascending) of binah. an example is the annunciation, which is the first "joyful myster

of binah, being the "joyful "sorrowful" and "glorious" mysteries. the first set of five relate to the creative and formative (descending) aspects of binah, the second set relate to the manifestative aspects of binah, and the third set relate to the mystical aspects (ascending) of binah. an example is the annunciation, which is the first "joyful mystery, and depicts the angel gabriel announcing to mary that she is to be the mother of god. in kabbalistic terms it can be seen that the archangel gabriel, attributed to yesod, the "formative" aspect on a lower plane, acts as the bearer of the "word" or creative spark of chockmah, the father, into binah, the mother. thus yesod and binah are linked by the attribution of gabriel "ruler of the waters, the waters being creation (binah) and the uncons

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

e that this divine name unites all martinists dispersed all over the world, regardless of their religious or philosophical beliefs, and as such, it is thus a factor of unity* islam reveres the 'lord jesus' as the prophet 'sidna issa' and the koran tells us that. there are only two beings, jesus and his mother, whom the wings of satan have not touched at all" and comments further. an angel said to mary: god announces to you his word. his name shall be jesus, the messiah, son of mary, great in this world as well as in the other, and a confidant of god (koran iv.40) 6. and god said to jesus: i shall send death unto thee and shall raise thee to me. thou shalt be separated from the infidels and those who follow thee shall be raised above the infidels, until the day of the judgement (iv.48. mode

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

virginia that november and i plodded from house to house searching for a telephone so i could call a tow truck. i had just come up from atlanta, georgia, where i had delivered a speech to a local ufo club. west virginia was almost a second home to me in those days. i had visited the state five times, investigating a long series of very strange events, and had many friends there. one of them, mrs. mary hyre, the star reporter of the athens, ohio, messenger, was with me that night. we had been out talking to ufo witnesses, and earlier that evening we ourselves had watched, a very strange light in the sky. since there was a heavy, low cloud layer it could not have been a star. it maneuvered over the hills, its brilliant glow very familiar to both of us for we both had seen many such lights in

ndred-foot span was gone. clusters of workmen, police officers, and assorted officials stood along the banks of the ohio, watching silently as divers continued to bob into the black waters. occasionally ropes would jerk and a bloated, whitened body would be hauled to the surface. it was not going to be a merry christmas in point pleasant. a few yards from the place where the bridge had been, mrs. mary hyre sat in her office revising a list of the missing and the known dead. a stout woman in her early fifties, her normally cheerful, alert face was blurred with fatigue. she had had almost no sleep in the past seven days. after twenty years as the local stringer for the messenger, recording all the births, marriages, and deaths in the little town, mrs. hyre suddenly found herself at the cente

ittle town, mrs. hyre suddenly found herself at the center of the universe. camera teams from as far away as new york were perched outside her door. the swarms of newsmen who had descended on point pleasant to record the tragedy had quickly learned what everyone in the ohio valley already knew. if you wanted to find out anything about the area and its people, the quickest way to do it was to "ask mary hyre" for seven days now her office had been filled with strangers, relatives of the missing, and weary rescue workers. so she hardly looked up that afternoon when two men entered. they seemed almost like twins, she recalled later. both were short and wore black overcoats. their complexions were dark, somewhat oriental, she thought "we hear there's been a lot of flying saucer activity around

ean or oriental of some kind. his hands were especially unusual, she thought, with unduly long, tapering fingers. he wore a cheap-looking, ill-fitting black suit, slightly out of fashion, and his tie was knotted in an odd old-fashioned way. strangely, he was not wearing an overcoat despite the fierce cold outside "my name is jack brown" he announced in a hesitant manner "i'm a ufo researcher "oh" mary pushed aside the pile of papers on her desk and studied him. the day was ending and she was ready to go home and try to get some sleep at last. after a brief, almost incoherent struggle to discuss ufo sightings brown stammered "what would what would you do if someone ordered ordered you to stop? to stop printing ufo stories "say, are you with those two men who were here earlier" she asked, su

rker of clarksburg was west virginia's best-known ufo investigator. he had published a number of books on the subject and was a frequent visitor to point pleasant "do you know john keel" his face tightened "i i used to think think the world of k k keel. then a few minutes ago i bought a a magazine. he has an article in it. he says he's seen ufos himself. he's he's a liar "i know he's seen things" mary flared "i've been with him when he saw them" brown smiled weakly at the success of his simple gambit "could you take me out t t take me where you you and k k keel saw saw things "i'm not going to do anything except go home to bed" mary declared flatly "is k k keel in p p point pleasant "no. he lives in new york "i i think he m m makes up all these stories "look, i can give you the names of so

them" brown smiled weakly at the success of his simple gambit "could you take me out t t take me where you you and k k keel saw saw things "i'm not going to do anything except go home to bed" mary declared flatly "is k k keel in p p point pleasant "no. he lives in new york "i i think he m m makes up all these stories "look, i can give you the names of some of the people here who have seen things" mary said wearily "you can talk to them and decide for yourself. but i just can't escort you around "i'm a friend of g g gray barker" he repeated lamely. outside the office a massive crane creaked and rumbled, dragging a huge hunk of twisted steel out of the river. iii. on april 22, 1897, an oblong machine with wings and lights "which appeared much brighter than electric lights" dropped out of the

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

atmosphere. laws are the concrete opinions of the many, morals the abstract sensations of the few. outside ourselves ethics do not exist, for they are the great faculty of sentient existence. the law of the survival of the fittest is not moral, it is essential; but, manifested through reason it becomes ethical. as regards the aspirations of the sexes, nature cares little whether john loves ann or mary. man, however, cares much. john is not married, ann is; nature implants a similar affinity in both, and they verge towards their own magnetic centre. nature says gunite! h man, however, thinks otherwise and so builds up a stout abatis out of the dead bones of unreasoning ages, fencing ann in; and even if john does surmount this formidable obstacle, a moral fougasse awaits for his impetuous fo

ilar affinity in both, and they verge towards their own magnetic centre. nature says gunite! h man, however, thinks otherwise and so builds up a stout abatis out of the dead bones of unreasoning ages, fencing ann in; and even if john does surmount this formidable obstacle, a moral fougasse awaits for his impetuous footstep, which will morally blow him to smithereens. again, john is unmarried, and mary is in a similar state of bliss, their affinities repel and do not attract: nature says gkeep apart! h; man says gi would rather see you unite with mary than i would with ann, affinities be damned! h they unite, and axiomatize the postulate of hell. nature now says gpart! h man says goh! no you don ft. h around them are then speedily constructed such labyrinthine entanglements, that few find t

ould rather see you unite with mary than i would with ann, affinities be damned! h they unite, and axiomatize the postulate of hell. nature now says gpart! h man says goh! no you don ft. h around them are then speedily constructed such labyrinthine entanglements, that few find their way out, and still fewer attempt so difficult a task. hence churches and brothels. if john, however, does not marry mary, ann squalls, but as the jailer can always let himself out of the prison, so can man, if he does not drop his keys through some matrimonial grating. ann then locks up mary in that bastille of despair which is called piccadilly (this is no paradox. hence prudes and nymphs. thus nature is scouted and thumped on the nose because she is essential, and man is enthroned in her stead and smacked on

he image created in the brain of man, but to become a man is to become a progenitor of gods; and then perchance we may realize the sublimity of the great motherhood, whose children are as one, a flaming crown of glory twined and interwoven with roses both white and red. this mingling of the passionate and the chaste we find is the new ideal that crowley flashes before our dazzled sight. away with mary, immaculate mother of christ: away with messalina, incestuous prophetess of lust. away! away! to the west, to the east, till they meet in some flaming region of equatorial fury, and flashing interfuse and interblend. once again must a prophet of the lord arise and wed a wife of whoredoms, who hath committed great whoredom, departing from the lord. once again must hosea expire on the crimson l

the spirit h we find this veneration acutely portrayed, and the christ as depicted in gthe goad h closely resembles the one as described in gthe farewell of paracelsus to aprile. h here is a passage from each: i contemplate the wound stabbed in the flanks of my dear silver christ. he hangs in anguish there; the crown of thorns pierces that palest brow; the nails drip blood; there is the wound; no mary by him mourns, there is no john beside the cruel wood; i am alone to kiss the silver lips; i rend my clothing for the temple veil; my heart fs black night must act the sun fs eclipse; my groans must play the earthquake c*2. still as i journey through the waste, i see a silver figure more divine arise; the christ usurps the horizon for me, and he requickens the forgotten skies; his golden lock

heal creation fs hurt; not to divide my devotees from those who scorned me to the close: a worm, a fire, a thirst for these; a harp-resounding heaven for those *the sword of song, ascension day, vol. ii, p. 158. concerning the mother of the eternal god, crowley has little to tell us, and the blessed virgin fs affaire du coeur with the amiable gabriel is but touched on for a moment: gfear nothing, mary! all is well! i am the angel gabriel. h she bared her right breast (query why *the sword of song, pentecost, p. 60; vol. ii, p. 182. according to al beidawi, gabriel blew into the bosom of mary fs shift, which he opened with his fingers, and his breath reaching her womb, caused the conception. it may also be remembered that the spanish mare, of silius italicus was similarly impregnated by a c

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

the princes rise from their attitudes of mourning and extinguish the lights, overthrow the pillars, strew the floor with corpses, skulls and bones, light a pungent incense, and the hell-broth. as the candidate re-enters in charge of the grand marshal, a sack is thrown over his head, and he is thrust through the veil, and beaten, pricked and pushed by all as they cry litanies of jesus, joseph, and mary while he gropes his way. the m.w.s. and g.m. should however retire to red room) second point (all present enter the red room, and assume insignia and stalls. the most reverend and perfect prelate advances from the red room. she takes postulant by the hand. the sack is removed) h.p: i come to conduct you from the depths of darkness and the valley of death. truth will direct you when you err si

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

away to babylon: 1:12 and after they were brought to babylon, jechonias begat salathiel; and salathiel begat zorobabel; 1:13 and zorobabel begat abiud; and abiud begat eliakim; and eliakim begat azor; 1:14 and azor begat sadoc; and sadoc begat achim; and achim begat eliud; 1:15 and eliud begat eleazar; and eleazar begat matthan; and matthan begat jacob; 1:16 and jacob begat joseph the husband of mary, of whom was born jesus, who is called christ. 1:17 so all the generations from abraham to david [are] fourteen generations; and from david until the carrying away into babylon [are] fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into babylon unto christ [are] fourteen generations. 1:18 now the birth of jesus christ was on this wise: when as his mother mary was espoused to joseph, before th

er mary was espoused to joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the holy ghost. 1:19 then joseph her husband, being a just [man] and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. 1:20 but while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, joseph, thou son of david, fear not to take unto thee mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the holy ghost. 1:21 and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins. 1:22 now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the lord by the prophet, saying, 1:23 behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name

nd when ye have found [him] bring me word again, that i may come and worship him also. 2:9 when they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. 2:10 when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. 2:11 and when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. 2:12 and being warned of god in a dream that they should not return to herod, they departed into their own country another way. 2:13 and when they were departed, behold, the angel of the lord appeareth to joseph in a dream, saying, arise, a

th forth out of his treasure [things] new and old. 13:53 and it came to pass [that] when jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. 13:54 and when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, whence hath this [man] this wisdom, and [these] mighty works? 13:55 is not this the carpenter s son? is not his mother called mary? and his brethren, james, and joses, and simon, and judas? 13:56 and his sisters, are they not all with us? whence then hath this [man] all these things? 13:57 and they were offended in him. but jesus said unto them, a prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. 13:58 and he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. 14:1 at that time herod th

ves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. 27:54 now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, truly this was the son of god. 27:55 and many women were there beholding afar off, which followed jesus from galilee, ministering unto him: 27:56 among which was mary magdalene, and mary the mother of james and joses, and the mother of zebedee s children. 27:57 when the even was come, there came a rich man of arimathaea, named joseph, who also himself was jesus disciple: 27:58 he went to pilate, and begged the body of jesus. then pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 27:59 and when joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 27:60

named joseph, who also himself was jesus disciple: 27:58 he went to pilate, and begged the body of jesus. then pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 27:59 and when joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 27:60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 27:61 and there was mary magdalene, and the other mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. 27:62 now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and pharisees came together unto pilate, 27:63 saying, sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, after three days i will rise again. 27:64 command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his d

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

ses under pain, recants when the pain is removed, only to be moved by more pain to confess again, she is asked "how did she influence the weather? she does not know what to say and can only whisper, oh, heavenly queen, protect me" was the victim calling upon "the goddess? or, as seems more likely, upon that aforementioned transfiguration of all ancient goddesses in christian mythology, the virgin mary. one more quote from dr. robbins, and i will cease to parade late medieval history before you. it comes from yet another priest, father cornelius loos, who observed, in 1592 that "wretched creatures are compelled by the severity of the torture to confess things they have never done, and so by cruel butchery innocent lives are taken (ibid, p 16. the "evidence" of the witch trials indicates, on

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

ought to be, that thou have the names of the spirits, that is, their powers and offices, and how they are subjected and appointed by god to minister unto thee; even as raphael was sent to tobias, that he should heal his father, and deliver his son from dangers, and bring him to a wife. so michael, the fortitude of god governeth the people of god: gabriel, the messenger of god, was sent to daniel, mary, and zachary the father of john baptist. and he shall be given to thee that desirest him, who will teach thee whatsoever thy soul shall desire, in the nature of things. his ministery thou shalt use with trembling and fear of thy creator, redeemer, and sanctifier, that is to say, the father, son, and holy ghost: and do not thou let slip any occasion of learning and be vigilant in thy calling

hiefest precept of wisdom. it is lawful to admit of, and exercise other suggestions which are not contrary to the glory of god, and charity towards our neighbours, not inquiring from what spirit such suggestions proceed: but we ought to take heed, that we are not too much busied with unnecessary things according to the admonition of christ; martha, martha, thou art troubled about many things; but mary hath chosen the better part, which shall not be taken from her. therefore let us alwaies have regard unto the saying of christ, seek ye first the kingdom of god and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. all other things, that is, all things which are due to the mortal microcosme, as food, raiment, and the necessary arts of this life. aphorism 46. there is nothing so

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

p, it appears certain that in the time of de lanere his favourite form of showing himself was that of a goat. at the opening of the sabbath the witches, male or female, presented formally to the devil those who had never been at the sabbath before, and the women especially brought to him the children whom they allured to him. the new converts, the novices, were made to renounce christ, the virgin mary, and the saints, and they were then re-baptized with mock ceremonies. they next performed their worship to the devil by kissing him on the face under the tail, or otherwise. the young children were taken to the edge of a stream for the scene was generally chosen on the banks of a stream and white wands were placed in their hands, and they were entrusted with the care of the toads which were k

s of poisons prepared on these occasions, de lancre proceeds to report the testimony of other witnesses to the details of the sabbath.1 jeannette de belloc, called atsoua, a damsel of twenty-four years of age, said that she had been made a witch in her childhood by a woman named oylarchahar, who took her for the first time to the sabbath, and there presented her to the devil; and after her death, mary martin, honneste homme: que n antmoins il y a deux ans qu elle s est retir e des liens de satan, et qu elle en a seco le joug. que le diable estoit en forme de bouc, ayant une queu et au dessoubs un visage d homme noir, o elle sut contrainte le baiser, et n a parole par ce visage de derri re, qu on luy sit adorer et baiser: puis ladicte moleres luy donna sept crapaux garder. que la dicte mole

hew of madame martin, who went to his aunt and merely enjoined her not to take the girl to the sabbath any more. jeannette said that at the solemn festivals all kissed the devil s posteriors except the notable witches, who kissed him in the face. according to her account, the children, at the age of two or three years, or as soon as they could speak, were made to renounce jesus christ, the virgin mary, their baptism &c. and from that moment they were taught to worship the devil. she described the sabbath as resembling a fair, well supplied with all sorts of objects, in which some walked about in their own form, and others were transformed, she knew not how, into dogs, cats, asses, horses, pigs, and other animals. the little boys and girls kept the herds of the sabbath, consisting of a worl

t qu il ne confesseroit jamais. qu elle a veu au sabbat entre une infinit qu elle nomme et cognoist, un nomm anduitze, qui est celuy qui va donner les assignations aux sorci res pour se trouver au sabbat. et plusieurs autres nous ont dict que les plaisirs et la joye y sont si grands et de tant de sortes, qu il n y a homme ny femme qui n y coure tr s-volontiers. la femme se joue en pr sence de son mary sans soup on ni jalousies, voire il en est souvent le proxenete: le p re d pucelle sa fille sans vergogne: la m re arrache le pucelage de fils sans cruinte: le fr re de la soeur; on y voit les p res et m res porter et pr senter leurs enfans. de l inconstance, p. 132. generative powers 239 the dances at the sabbath were mostly indecent, including the well-known sarabande, and the women danced

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is inconceivable. any picture or model a philosopher might form of it becomes at once invalid precisely because it has been formed, and therefore no longer represents the formless universe. even fea- tureless space has dimension and exists in time; it is a part of creation and cannot be used to represent the unmanifest. chaos has a secondary connotation, which should not be confused with its pri- mary meaning. it is sometimes said to be the dwelling place of evil because chaos is naturally destructive of order. however, this sense can be misleading. chaos as the region or dimension of formlessness is synonymous with the unmanifest itself; chaos as the land of evil beings or forces is a part of the manifest because the evil beings or forces there have forms and qualities. these may be loose

ous sites of ancient human habitation. cultures devoted to the goddess tend to be stable and agrarian, inward-seeking and secretive in their rites. they build no empires, but are subject to the empire-building of more aggressive neighbors. cults of female gods, existing away from the center of societies, can still be observed. remnants of goddess worship are evident in the adoration of the virgin mary among christians, the veneration of the matronit and shekhinah among jews, the worship of shakti among hindus. the women's movement has sparked a revival of interest in the goddess. the contemporary pagan religion of wicca wor- ships the earth mother in her many guises. as for the worship of god as a child, christianity is the most obvious example. in the middle ages, jesus was often depicted

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he western tradition o 2001 by donald tyson. all rights reserved. no part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including internet usage, without written permission from llewellyn publications except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. first edition second printing, 2003 cover design by gavin dayton dufi illustration on page 115 by mary ann zapalac library of congress cataloghg-in-publication data library of congress control number: 2001135234 llewellyn worldwide does not participate in, endorse, or have any authority or responsibility concerning private business transactions between our authors and the public. all mail addressed to the author is forwarded but the publisher cannot, unless specifically instructed by the autho

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n numerals, for the twenty-four hours of the day. although the hand of the sun is longer than that of the moon, the sun, which points to the hours, appears to me to be the hour hand. this would be symbolically correct. the circular face of the clock is enclosed in a square with four circular windows, one in each corner (symbolizing the four beasts. above the clock is a statue of the seated virgin mary holding christ upon her knee. she represents the queen of heaven in revelation 12:l. to her right is a large roman numeral x; to her left is an equally large arabic numeral 5 (in connection with these numerals, see the description of the hieroglyphic monad in chapter viii, specifically dee's comments regarding the roman numeral x. in passing, it might be pointed out that much of this symbolis

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y since 1800 (london: longon, 1981, 6-7; cf. foucault, religion and culture, ed. jeremy r. carrette (new york: routledge, 1999, 117. the classic medical-sex manual is richard von krafft-ebing, psychopathia sexualis: with especial reference to antipathic sexual instinct: a medico-forensic study (london: rebman, 1899 [1886. xxxvrobert wuthnow et al, eds, cultural analysis: the work of peter berger, mary douglas, michel foucault and jurgen habermas (boston: routledge, 1993, pp.171-2 "the medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report..function as mechanisms with a double impetus: pleasure and power. the pleasure that comes of exercising a power that questions, monitors, watches, spies, searches out, palpitates, brings to light (foucault, the history of sexuality, v

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e title of regenerated children of the moon- so that each one of them was henceforth symbolically a son of the queen of heaven- born as a man originally and reborn in a divine manner- has its correspondence on a much higher plane of symbolism with the divine birth in bethlehem, according to which a child was "born" and a son "given" who, in hypothesis at least, was the son of god, but son also of mary- one of whose titles, according to latin theology, is queen of heaven. the hidden life in egypt and nazareth corresponds to the life of seclusion led by the mystae during their period of probation between the lesser and greater mysteries. the three years of ministry are in analogy with the temple-functions of the mystagogues. but lastly, in egypt and elsewhere, there was the mystic experience

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enus of taurus, the love of the holy spirit, the causal body of the man, the sixth card of the tarot, the lover. netzach victory, justice of the arcanum, the seventh card of the tarot, the chariot, saturn. hod glory, mercury of gemini, the eighth card of the tarot, the eternity of all. yesod foundation, the sun of leo, the ninth card of the tarot. the hermit. malkuth kingdom, the entire universe, mary or virgo, nature. these ten sephiroth live within our being and are our inner solar system. the tarot is intimately related with esoteric astrology and with initiation. arcanum 10 this is the first hour of apollonius. the study of transcendental occultism arcanum 11 this is the second hour of apollonius. power. the abysses of fire. the astral virtues form a circle through the dragons and the

s in secret, you must first return to the bosom of your divine mother kundalini. you need to raise the serpent of life through your medullar channel. this is alchemy. alchemy: you have forgotten your divine mother kundalini. you need to worship the divine and blessed mother goddess of the world. you have been ungrateful to your cosmic mother; she is the virgin of all religious cults; she is isis, mary, cibeles, adonia, insoberta, etc. the stone of grace is surrounded by nine delectable mountains. that stone is sex. if you all want to return to the bosom of your divine mother, you need to work with the philosophical stone sex. the mayans stated that in the first heaven god, the word, had held his stone, had held his serpent, and had held his substance. only with the arcanum a.z.f. can the w

entire process of gestation) arrives at the moment when it must depart through the same door that its seed-germ entered. this is the law. the physical body of the human being is the outcome of nine months of gestation within the maternal womb. by means of philosophical analogies we also deduce that the human species remained within the maternal womb of the divine cosmic mother isis (rea, cibeles, mary, adonia, insobertha, kali, etc) gestating for nine ages. in the authentic initiation, this return to the point of departure is nothing more than the descent into the ninth sphere, which is a test of action for the supreme dignity of the great hierophant of mysteries. the flaming forge of vulcan is found in the ninth sphere (sex. there, mars descends in order to retemper his flaming sword and

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4-m. one can experiment with alternate designs on these kameas, provided that every cell is included. for example, i have used a very powerful symbol, which has come to be known as the miraculous medal, on the simplest of the planetary squares. this medal was revealed to st. catherine laboure (who has had an incorruptible body.now in an open casket in paris.since her death in 1876, by the virgin mary in a vision, and has become a very potent miracle working talisman in the past 100 years. it fits very nicely on the saturn kamea (see figure 4-n. it is also appropriate there symbolically because mary (miriam. whose initial it is, means bitter sea, an attribution of binah/saturn, and she is said to be the universal mother. qabalistic students will notice other similarities in the symbol, e

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at on the longest night of the winter 'the dark night of our souls, there springs the new spark of hope, the sacred fire, the light of the world, the coel coeth. that is why pagans have as much right to claim this holiday as christians. perhaps even more so, as the christians were rather late in laying claim to it, and tried more than once to reject it. there had been a tradition in the west that mary bore the child jesus on the twenty-fifth day, but no one could seem to decide on the month. finally, in 320 c.e, the catholic fathers in rome decided to make it december, in an effort to co-opt the mithraic celebration of the romans and the yule celebrations of the celts and saxons. there was never much pretense that the date they finally chose was historically accurate. shepherds just don't

that would be used for the coming liturgical year (catholics will be reminded that the following day, st. blaise's day, is remembered for using the newly-blessed candles to bless the throats of parishioners, keeping them from colds, flu, sore throats, etc) the catholic church, never one to refrain from piling holiday upon holiday, also called it the feast of the purification of the blessed virgin mary (it is surprising how many of the old pagan holidays were converted to maryan feasts) the symbol of the purification may seem a little obscure to modern readers, but it has to do with the old custom of 'churching women. it was believed that women were impure for six weeks after giving birth. and since mary gave birth at the winter solstice, she wouldn't be purified until february 2nd. in paga

alentine's day. ozark folklorist vance randolf makes this quite clear by noting that the old-timers used to celebrate groundhog's day on february 14th. this same displacement is evident in eastern orthodox christianity as well. their habit of celebrating the birth of jesus on january 6th, with a similar post-dated shift in the six-week period that follows it, puts the feast of the purification of mary on february 14th. it is amazing to think that the same confusion and lateral displacement of one of the old folk holidays can be seen from the russian steppes to the ozark hills, but such seems to be the case! eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 12 incidentally, there is speculation among linguistic scholars that the vary name of 'valentine' has pagan origins

of the first sign of the zodiac, aries. however you look at it, it is certainly a time of new beginnings, as a simple glance at nature will prove. in the roman catholic church, there are two holidays which get mixed up with the vernal equinox. the first, occurring on the fixed calendar day of march 25th in the old liturgical calendar, is called the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary (or b.v.m, as she was typically abbreviated in catholic missals 'annunciation' means an announcement. this is the day that the angel gabriel announced to mary that she was 'in the family way. naturally, this had to be announced since mary, being still a virgin, would have no other means of knowing it (quit scoffing, o ye of little faith) why did the church pick the vernal equinox for the comm

ic missals 'annunciation' means an announcement. this is the day that the angel gabriel announced to mary that she was 'in the family way. naturally, this had to be announced since mary, being still a virgin, would have no other means of knowing it (quit scoffing, o ye of little faith) why did the church pick the vernal equinox for the commemoration of this event? because it was necessary to have mary conceive the child jesus a full nine months before his birth at the winter solstice (i.e, christmas, celebrated on the fixed calendar date of december 25. mary's pregnancy would take the natural nine months to complete, even if the conception was a bit unorthodox. as mentioned before, the older pagan equivalent of this scene focuses on the joyous process of natural conception, when the young

ups misappropriated the term 'lady day' for beltane, which left no good folk name for the equinox. thus, eostara eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 15 was misappropriated for it, completing a chain-reaction of displacement. needless to say, the old and accepted folk name for the vernal equinox is 'lady day. christians sometimes insist that the title is in honor of mary and her annunciation, but pagans will smile knowingly. another mythological motif which must surely arrest our attention at this time of year is that of the descent of the god or goddess into the underworld. perhaps we see this most clearly in the christian tradition. beginning with his death on the cross on good friday, it is said that jesus 'descended into hell' for the three days that his

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. lewis carroll facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. aldous huxley there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. benjamin disraeli then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches. w.i.e. gates natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. mary ellen kelly none attains to the degree of truth until a thousand honest people have testified that he is a heretic. junaid of baghdad, sufi truth suffers from too much analysis. ancient fremen saying, dune wisdom a narrow place is large to the narrow-minded. turkemestan the supposition of the wise man is better than the certainty of the ignorant. moorish the best preacher is the heart; the be

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e first, third and last number 666, but opera and its reverse number only 356. the number 608 is notable, being in coptic, phre, the sun 500, 100, 8. and in greek we find vhs, 400, 8, 200, which becomes ihs in latin, for the greek upsilon changes to y and i in latin, and so we obtain the anagram of iesus hominum salvator. kircher points out a greek example of magic squares. the names of jesus and mary, and iesous maria have a curious relation. iesous is 10, 8, 200, 70, 400, 200=888. now take maria, 40, 1, 100, 10, 1=152. set 152 in a magic square of three, i.e. nine compartments, thus, 1-5-2, 5-2-1, 2-1-5, then the totals are all 888. the letters of iesous also make a magic square of 36 divisions, adding every way to 888. consult the arithmologia of kircher. numbers--th eir occu lt power a

d a cord of 3 colored strands and an image was carried 3 times round an altar. terna tibi haec primum triplici diversa colore. the druids also paid a constant respect to this number and even their poems are noted as being composed in triads. it is not necessary here to enlarge upon the transcendent importance of the christian trinity. in old paintings we often see a trinity of jesus with john and mary. in the timaeus of plato, the divine triad is called theos--god, logos--the word and psyche, the soul. indeed it is impossible to study any single system of worship throughout the world, without being struck by the peculiar persistence of the triple number in regard to divinity. whether as a group of deities, a triformed or 3- numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n w

ephesus, according to the monkish legend, were christians who hid in a cave under the persecutions of decius in the 3rd century. they fell into a trance and slept 200 years. they awaked in a.d. 447 and going to the emperor theodosius ii, they convinced him of the truth of the life beyond the grave. this done, they returned to the cave to sleep until the last judgment. the 7 dolours of the virgin mary is the name of a roman catholic fast day held on the friday before palm sunday. the 7 wise masters were officers of king kurush who tell stories to save the life of the king s son. they exist in greek, syriac, hebrew, persian and in english are called the book of sindibad, edited by clouston. the coptic gnostics represented the jehovah of the hebrews by a curious arrangement of the 7 vowels

s tcott the old sanskrit hindu names used by astrologers at the present time are; mesha, rishaba, mithuna, katakam, simha, kanya, tulam, vrishchika, dhanus, makaram, kumbha and minam. the 12 simple letters of the hebrew alphabet have affinities with the zodiacal signs, but the order of relation is a rosicrucian private doctrine. 108. there were 12 recorded appearances of jesus after his death; to mary magdalene, to the galician women, to two disciples, to peter, to ten apostles, to eleven apostles, to seven apostles and others when fishing, to 500 brethren at once, to james the less, to eleven apostles, to stephen at his martyrdom, to paul at his conversion and to the apostle john. the 12 hours marked in a watch face can be used to find the cardinal points, if the time is correct, and the

ngs, were composed by 120 elders. 130. the rabbis said that after the curse, adam fasted 130 years as a penance. this number is referred to elijah, alihv, and to the word prophet, hnbia. these names number 120, add 10 to this, the number of letters. the kabalists make a mystical square (rectangle) or kamea of alihv of 130 permutations--ten by thirteen. 152. the number of maria, the greek name for mary the virgin, being 40, 1, 100, 10, 1=152. 153. the number of the great fishes caught in an unbroken net by the apostles after the resurrection. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 118. 200. the number of bones in the human body. 207. this is the number of ain soph, ain, svp, the boundless, and aur, avr, light, and of adonai olam, adni ovlam, lord of the u

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pp. 531 532; see also p. 452. the thematic link between the passage from pugio fidei and the bahir, as well as some passages from zohar, are duly noted by liebes, studies in the zohar, pp. 148 149. for a lucid exposition of the historical and literary background of pugio fidei, see chazan, daggers, pp. 115 136. for a later formulation indebted to martin s exegesis of the closed mem as symbolic of mary s virginity, see epistle of secrets, pp. 12 14. on the marian interpretation of the closed mem in nicholas of lyre and the trinitarian approach proffered by pico della mirandola, see copenhaver, number, pp. 53 56. 64. babylonian talmud, sanhedrin 94a. 65. babylonian talmud, shabbat 104a. 66. notably, however, azriel of gerona cites this passage together with an allusion to the second aggadic

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iv university, 1976 (hebrew. gould, stephen jay. time s arrow, time s cycle: myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time. cambridge: harvard university press, 1987. graeber, bruce s. heschel and the philosophy of time. conservative judaism 33 (1980: 44 56. green, arthur. keter: the crown of god in early jewish mysticism. princeton: princeton university press, 1997. shekhinah, the virgin mary, and the song of songs: reflections on a kabbalistic symbol in its historical context. ajs review 26 (2002: 1 52. gri n carl w, and david l. paulsen. augustine and the corporeality of god. harvard theological review 95 (2002: 97 118. gri ths, jay. a sideways look at time. new york: penguin putnam, 1999. gross, benjamin. le messianisme juif: l eternit d isra l du maharal de prague. paris: libr

us t. fraser, 31 55. new york: george braziller, 1966. lacapra, dominick. the temporality of rhetoric. in chronotypes: the construction of time, edited by john bender and david e. wellbery, 118 147. stanford: stanford university press, 1991. landsberg, paul-louis. the experience of death. in essays in phenomenology, edited by maurice natanson, 193 231. the hague: martinus nijhoff, 1969. larrabee, mary jeanne. there s no time like the present: how to mind the now. in the many faces of time, edited by john b. brough and lester embree, 85 111. dordrecht: kluwer academic publishers, 2000. lasker, daniel j, and sarah stroumsa. the polemic of nestor the priest: qissat mujadalat al-usquf and sefer nestor ha-komer. introduction, annotated translations and commentary, with an appendix by johannis n

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onfirmed by the bishop of auckland. he did this because he considered the eastern training unsuitable for western people and was convinced that there must be esoteric training somewhere in the west. he inspired the gardiners with his enthusiasm for this quest, and during his two year stay they devoted time daily in prayer and meditation to this purpose. the group of three were soon joined by miss mary mclean, a trained teacher from scotland, and miss gardiner who had been trained as a kindergarden teacher at seasame house, london. miss mclean was acquainted with dr. carnegie dickenson, a former chief of the amen-ra temple, and had met father fitzgerald and was imbued with the same idea as harold large. h.l. assisted the sympathetic and helpful vicar as lay reader, and being a trained organ

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