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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

sday their fourth^ altogether deviating from the latin and icelandic reckoning, which makes monday second and thursday fifth. hence the slavic piatek (fifth) means friday, and that up. germ, pfinztag (fifth) thursday. wednesday they call middle, sreda, sereda, srida (whence lith. serrada, which may have acted upon our high german nomenclature; the finns too have keskivnjcko (half-week, from keski medium. it would be well worth finding out, when and for what reason the high german and the slav first introduced the abstract names mittewoche and sreda (boh. sti-eda, while the low german and the eomance have kept to woden and mercury. alone of slavs, the wends in llineburg show a trace of naming after a god; dies jovis was with them perendan, from peren, perun, thunder-god: apparently a mere i

a adhuc luce diei imminente luna matronariim ccdervae abjecto femineo pudore audientes strepitum hvjus vanitatis, passis capillis de stratis suis exiliehcmt, aliae seminudae, aliae simplice trntum clamide circumdatae, clwrosque ducerdibus circa navim impudentcr irruinpcndo se admiscebant. videres ibi aliquando mille bominum animas sexus utriusque p)rodigiosum ft infaustum celcusma usque ad noctis medium celebrare. quando vero execrabilis ilia cborea rumpebatur, emisso ingenti claviore vocum inconditarum sexus uterque bac illacque baccbando ferebatur; quae tunc videres agere, nostrum est tacere et dellere, quibns modo contingit graviter luere. istis tam nefandis factis plus quam duoisis. 20 1 decim diclus supradicto ritu celebratis, confercbaut simul oppidiiiii quid agerent amodo dc deducmd

uccouring deities visible to diomed, she has' taken the mist from his eyes, that was on them before' 5, 127: a)(kvv s' av rot cm oc^daxfioov exov, fj irplv etrijev, 6(f>p' ev 'yi'yvoiakrj'i ijfxep 6eov rjhe koi avspa. just so biarco, in saxo gram, p. 37, is unable to spy othin riding a white steed and aiding the swedes, till he peeps through the ring formed by the arm of a spirit- seeing woman: a medium that elsewhere makes the elfin race visible to the bleared eyes of man. in another way the gods, even when they showed themselves bodily, concealed their divine nature, by assuming the form of a human acquaintance, or of an animal. poseidon stept into the host, disguised as kalchas, ii. 13, 45, hermes escorted priam as a myrmidon warrior 24, 397, and athene the young telemachus as mentor, i

as, scilfingas, ynglingar (for ingingar, volsungar, skioldungar, niflungar- as there were heracleidae and pelopidae, but no wodeningas or thunoringas, though a wodening and a kronides. the anglo-saxons, with woden always appearing at their head, would surely have borne the name of wodeningas, had it been customary to take name from the god himself. nations do descend from the god, but through the medium of a demigod, and after him they name themselves. a national name taken from the highest god would have been impious arrogance, and alien to human feeling. as lower saxony, especially westphalia, was a chief seat of the irmin-worship, we may put by the side of widukind's account of hirmin a few other traces of his name, which is not even yet he greek aspirate corresponds a teutonic s, not h

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

al coupling of earth and sky by plunging a knife into a chalice of water, or by the use of physical sex carried out in private, by an established couple, out of sight of the coven. in this way, any very human complications may be prevented from creeping into the ritual. it is also possible to come across well-meaning but totally inexperienced groups who attempt to practise the kind of work that a medium, white witch or healer would take years even to approach. unfortunately, it is all too common for lovers of occult movies to set themselves up as gurus and wreak unintended havoc on the psychological and psychic well-being of others. you should be sure, when you choose a coven, that its members are kind and gentle and do not indulge in spirit summoning or spirit possession, even for trance

oral code. the wiccan rede states: an [if] it harm none, do what you will, and so ensures all magick has a positive intent. sabbat: one of eight special days of the year on which wiccan celebrations are held- the solstices, the equinoxes and the celtic fire festivals. samhain: the celtic fire festival of the new year, celebrated at the end of summer. scrying: seeing magical images in a reflective medium, such as a crystal ball, mirror or a natural moving source of inspiration, such as fire, water or clouds. the word 'scry' comes from the anglo- saxon word descry, which means 'to perceive dimly. shamanism: possibly the oldest spiritual practice in the world, continued today in communities as far apart as india, australia, japan and china, siberia and mongolia, in africa, among the bedouins

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speak of the retirement during the six months preparation for the same) is not borne out by his own account of his life, wherein we find him so constantly involved in the contests and convulsions of the time. also, however much the life of a hermit or anchorite may appear to be advocated, we rarely, if ever, find it followed by those adepts whom i may perhaps call the initiated and wonderworking medium between the great concealed adepts and the outer world. an example of the former class we may flnd in our author, an example of the latter in abra-melin. the particular scheme or system of magic advocated in the present work is to an extent sui generis, but to an extent only. it is rather the manner of its application which makes it unique. in magic, that is to say, the science of the contr

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

experience. oh yes, by the way, don't forget this. in a lesser sense venus represents tact. many of the problems that confront the yogi are impracticable to intellectual manipulation. they yield to graciousness. 13. our next planet is mercury, and the niyama which correspond to him are as innumerable and various as his own qualities. mercury is the word, the logos in the highest; he is the direct medium of connection between opposites; he is electricity, the very link of life, the yogic process itself, its means, its end. yet he is in himself indifferent to all things, as the electric current is indifferent to the meaning of the messages which may be transmitted by its means. the niyama corresponding to mercury in its highest forms may readily be divined from what i have already said, but

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

d among archangels: azrael, angel of death (n, israfel, of last trump (c. col. c. our order of angelic choirs is from r. mosheh ben maimon. r. ishmael and the book pliah prefer: 1. cherubim. 2. chasmalim. 3. chaioth. 4. aralim. 5. seraphim. 6. tarshishim. 7. auphanim. 8. auphanim. 9. aishim. 10. taphsarim. and there are many other schemes. col. cii. add daath, ydna. col. ciii. add daath, cerebrum medium, cuius locus est in parte capitis postica. but these have many other attributions, and each is itself divisible: thus chesed and geburah of tiphareth are the breasts; tiphareth the heart; netzach and hod the testicles; jesod the membrum virile; and malkuth, the anus. the signs of the zodiac are variously given, and the planets agree with the face: thus' and, the ears% and, the nostrils! and

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ribution of this book is thus an act of magick by which i cause changes to take place in conformity with my will<degree of force in the proper manner through the proper medium to the proper object (illustration: i wish to prepare an ounce of chloride of gold. i must take the right kind of acid, nitro-hydrochloric and no other, in sufficient quantity and of adequate strength, and place it, in a vessel which will not break, leak, or corrode, in such a manner as will not produce undesirable results, with the necessary quantity of gold: and so forth. every change has

tment injures his patient. there may be failure to apply the right kind of force, as when a rustic tries to blow out an electric light. there may be failure to apply the right degree of force, as when a wrestler has his hold broken. there may be failure to apply the force in the right manner, as when one presents a cheque at the wrong window of the bank. there may be failure to employ the correct medium, as when leonardo da vinci found his masterpiece fade away. the force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crack a stone, thinking it a nut (4) the first requisite for causing any change is through qualitative and quantitative understanding of the conditions (illustration: the most common cause of failure in life is ignorance of one's own true will, or of the means b

n, purple, or deep blue, approximating black: as if it were said, in the body of our lady of the stars. see 777 for the correspondences of the various forces of nature with drugs, perfumes, etc> those magicians who abject to the use of blood have endeavored to replace it with incense. for such a purpose the incense of abramelin may be burnt in large quantities. dittany of crete is also a valuable medium. both these incenses are very catholic in their nature, and suitable for almost any materialization. but the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious; and for nearly all purposes human sacrifice is the best. the truly great magician will be able to use his own blood, or possibly that of a disciple, and that without sacrificing the physical life irrevocably<
ess by clairvoyance and clairaudience; but communication with superior 155 intelligences demands elaborate preparation, even after years of successful performance. it is therefore useful to possess an art by which one can obtain at a moment's notice any information that may be necessary. this art is divination. the answers to one's questions in divination are not conveyed directly but through the medium of a suitable series of symbols. these symbols must be interpreted by the diviner in terms of his problem. it is not practicable to construct a lexicon in which the solution of every difficulty is given in so many words. it would be unwieldy; besides, nature does not happen to work on those lines. the theory of any process of divination may be stated in a few simple terms. 1. we postulate t

to mislead the querent. a further advantage is that the actual apparatus is simple. also the system is easy to manipulate, and five minutes is sufficient to obtain a fairly detailed answer to any but the most obscure questions. with regard to the intelligences whose business it is to give information to the diviner, their natures differ widely, and correspond more or less to the character of the medium of divination. thus, the geomantic intelligences are gnomes, spirits of an earthy nature, distinguished from each other by the modifications due to the various planetary and zodiacal influences which pertain to the several symbols. the intelligence governing puella is not to be confused with that of venus or of libra. it is simply a particular terrestrial daemon which partakes of those natu

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

h "spirits" such as printers, publishers, booksellers, and so forth, and constrain them to convey my message to those people. the composition and distribution is thus an act of- magick- by which i cause changes to take place in conformity with my will.8) ii. postulate: any required change may be effected by application of the proper kind and degree of force in the proper manner through the proper medium to the proper object (illustration: i wish to prepare an ounce of chloride of gold. i must take the right kind of acid, nitro-hydrochloric and no other, in sufficient quantity and of adequate strength, and place it, in a vessel which will not break, leak or corrode, in such a manner as magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 38 will not produce undesirable results, with

by the vulgar. 23 as when a rustic tries to blow out an electric light. there may be failure to apply the right degree of force, as when a wrestler has his hold broken. there may be failure to apply the force in the magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 39 right manner, as when one presents a cheque at the wrong window of the bank. there may be failure to employ the correct medium, as when leonardo da vinci found his masterpiece fade away. the force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crack a stone, thinking it a nut) 4. the first requisite for causing any change is thorough qualitative and quantitative understanding of the condition (illustration: the most common cause of failure in life is ignorance of one's own true will, or of the means b

devitalized and frittered away by the mere lapse of the centuries, since they had lost connection with the reality of the sage. alternatively, they might have been caught up and adopted by some wandering entity, quite probably some malignant demon. qlipoth- shells of the dead- obsessing spirits! here we are back in the pestilent purlieus of walham green, and the frowsty atmosphere of the frowsy "medium" and the squalid s ance "look! but do not speak to them" as virgil warned dante. so let us look. no! let us first congratulate ourselves that this subject of necromancy is so admirably documented. as to the real art, we have not only eliphas l vi, but the sublimely simple account in the old testament of the witch of endor, her conjuring up of the apparition of samuel to king saul. a third c

at he had seen it. i mean that he explained it by hypnotism or auto-suggestion or something of the kind; but it was true, he said, that he passed unscathed through the revolution and the civil war and was wounded in the polish war when the red army recovered kiev" so also we are most fortunate in possessing the account almost beyond heart's desire of spiritism, in robert browning's mr. sludge the medium. you see that i write "spiritism" not "spiritualism" to use the latter word in this connection is vulgar ignorance; it denotes a system of philosophy which flourished (more or less) is the middle ages- read your erdmann if you want the gruesome details. but why should you? the model for mr. sludge was david dunbar? douglas) home, who was really quite a distinguished person in his way, and s

endages of elizabeth barrett; and where r.b. was there was no room for anyone else- as in the case of allah! r.b. was accordingly as spiteful as he could be, and that was not a little. it is not fair to tar all mediums with the sludge brush; there are many magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 170 who could advance quite sincerely some of the apologia of sludge. why should a medium be immune to self-deception spurred by the wish-fiend? while there are people walking about outside the bug-house who can find mrs. simpson and generals de gaulle, franco, allenby, montgomery and who else in the "centuries" of nostradamus, we should be stupid to assign everything to conscious fraud. 28 in that case what about poor tiny aleister? do please allow me the happy young eagles of

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

e necessity, 16 during their whole lives. one should not criticise such persons without a thorough knowledge of the subject. such knowledge has not yet been published. however, one may safely assert that since the great men previously mentioned did not do this, it will not be necessary for their followers. let us then choose a suitable position, and consider what happens. there is a sort of happy medium between rigidity and limpness; the muscles are not to be strained; and yet they are not allowed to be altogether slack. it is difficult to find a good descriptive word "braced" is perhaps the best. a sense of physical alertness is desirable. think of the tiger about to spring, or of the oarsman waiting for the gun. after a little there will be cramp and fatigue. the student must now set his

l of god" to another, while engaged in killing thoughts, came the words "and push it down" apparently referring to the action of the inhibitory centres which he was using. by keeping on with this he got his "result" the ideal mantra should be rhythmical, one might even say musical; but there should be sufficient emphasis on some syllable to assist the faculty of attention. the best mantras are of medium length, so far as the beginner is concerned. if the mantra is too long, one is apt to forget it, unless one practises very hard for a great length of time. on the other hand, mantras of a single syllable, such as "aum<mantra containing the word "aum" one sometimes forgets the other words, and remains concentrated, repeating the "aum" at intervals; but this is

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

stones; burning coals mypcr oppression kt the work h#(mh 421 to meditate ddwbth 422 the vast countenance: a title of kether nypn) kyr) the golden line [that encircleth the world] qwry wq 424 living creatures twyx 425 a lion fs whelp (gn. 40:9) hyr) rwg ggazzith h: the stone of the chamber (see 1175) tyzgh be made, done; become; an accomplished fact h#(n hearing h(ym# 426 saviour; deliverer (y#wm medium kwt 428 chashmalim, brilliant ones: the angelic choir of chesed mylm#x they swore [an oath] w(b#n 429 judgment, equity +p#m madness nw(g# 430 nephesch: the animal soul of man #pn covered with mist; darkness, twilight p#n sections, members [of the body; fragments myqrp the righteousness is the foundation of the world: the full title of yesod mlw( dwsy qydc concealed np# tohu v-bohu: gformles

, mem and shin# m) guilty, damned *m) 902 palace of the pavement of sapphire stone (referred to yesod and malkuth) rypsh tnbl lkyh mud *cb perfume *m#b 903 and god said (gn. 1:3 *myhl) rm)yw 905 in that also (referred to daath *mg#b the name *m#h 906 license, permission; freedom tw#r a worm t(lwt qoph: the back of the head; an ape *pwq an increase *pswm dampnesses (pl; see 705. k.d. p.20 *nymlwpm medium *kwt 907 lifted up *pqz the ark [of the covenant *nwr) 908 arrow; lightning; punishment; wound; out! avaunt! go away *cx 909 throat *nwrg 910 beginning (defective; see i.z.q. 547 et seq) ty#r i.n.r (see 270 *r n y vacuum *mqyr and god saw that it was good *bw+ yk myhl )ryw 911 beginning ty#)r remnant tyr# abhorrence, abomination (is. 66:24 *nw)rd ishim, flames: the angelic choir of malkuth;

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

t goeth. it commands with absolute authority when it appears at all, despite conscious reason and judgment. aiwass is then, as this verse 7 states, the "minister" of this hoor-paar-kraat, that is of the saviour of the world in the larger sense, and of mine own "silent self" in the lesser. a "minister" is one who performs a service, in this case evidently that of revealing; he was the intelligible medium between the babe god- the new aeon about to be born- and myself. this book of the law is the voice of his mother, his father, and himself. but on his appearing, he assumes the active form twin to harpocrates, that of ra-hoor-khuit. the concealed child becomes the conquering child, the armed horus avenging his father osiris. so also our own silent self, helpless and witless, hidden within us

tion in the dictation) the new comment the phrase "the word- is of a deeper significance than at first sight may appear. the question is not merely equivalent to "is the dictation at an end" for the word is conceived as the act of possession. this is evident from the choice of the word "exhausted. the inspiration has been like an electrical discharge. language is in itself nothing; it is only the medium of transmitting experience to consciousness. tahuti, thoth, hermes, or mercury symbolize this relation; the character of this god is declared in very full terms in "the paris working, which should be studied eagerly by those who are fortunate enough to have access to the ms. al ii,70 "there is help& hope in other spells. wisdom says: be strong! then canst thou bear more joy. be not animal;

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

oul casts up, like brocken spectres, certain vast and vague images of the beholder himself, with or without a glory encompassing them. the function of the facts is then quite passive: it matters little or nothing whether the cloud be the red mist of christianity, or the glimmering silver-white of celtic paganism; the hard grey dim-gilded of buddhism, the fleecy opacity of islam, or the mysterious medium of those ancient faiths which come up in as many colours as their investigator has moods* in order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the na ve naturalism of many parts of those scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, philo borrowed from the stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of greek mythology) that great excalibur which they had forged

to belive this, and a glaring non sequitur as to christ s deity, on the evidence, not even of the inebriated eye-witnesses, but of mss. of doubtful authorship and date, bearing all the ear-marks of dishonesty. for we must not forget that the absurdities of to-day were most cunning proofs for the poor folk of seventeen centuries ago. talking of fish-stories, read john xxi. 1-6* a twentieth century medium. or luke v. 1-7 (comparisons are odious. but once i met a man by a lake and told him that i had toiled all the morning and had caught nothing, and he advised me to try the other side of the lake; and i caught many fish. but i knew not that it was the lord. in australia they were praying for rain in the churches. the sydney bulletin very sensibly pointed out how much more reverent and practi

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

extract from the "times, january 3, 1900. frank harris. 86 the chymical jousting of brother perardua with the seven lances that he brake 87 illustration facing next page: multi-color lithograph or metal plate resist work, effect like flat watercolors with heavy flat black and metalic overprinting. colors include white, metallic silver, metallic gold, burnt orange, chinese red, grayish blue, dull medium brown (always associated with gold, straw yellow and dull veridian. there are seven figures on a dull black field: at the upper right is a figure similar to blake's urizon, but not holding a compass. the figure is shown in head, arms and either part trunk or left knee (obscured by the beard. there is a radiant of sharp petals of silver on white behind the head (five only are visible clearly

a very forked tongue in gold brown (divides 1/8 inch from mouth and extends one inch past division point) such that the two outer points of flame are separated from the two inner by the fork. a golden dodecagram (twelve pointed star) in a ring is directly below the serpent's head, situated such that the tongue of the serpent frames the upper arc of the ring and the head of the serpent appears in medium coeli like a nemesis above the wheel of fortune. the ring is divided into twelve silver and twelve brown-gold bands, with a red zodiacal symbol over each gold and silver band, gold to widdershins and silver to deosil. the star in the center points to each symbol. aries is at top and the rest proceed deosil around the ring. in center is a star surmounted by the eye in the triangle. the star

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pillars of the temple, triangle of solomon, the tetragram, the pentagram, magical equilibrium, the fiery sword, realisation, imitation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the stone of the philosophers, the universal medicine, divination, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram. medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc "occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse, or godmother of all intell

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

are, and, all good figures and friendly in nature= well-intentioned help of friends* the figures quartile and* opposition are, which are not hostile to; therefore shows opposition not great* the figure in the 4th is, which shows a good end, but with anxiety* forming a reconciler, we get* again, a sympathetic figure, but denoting delay= delay, but helping querent's wishes. adding all together- 1. medium; 2. evil and obstacles, delay; 3. loss through querent's self; 4. strength for evil, medium only; 5. well-intentioned aid of friends; 6. not much opposition from enemies; 7. ending good, but with anxiety; 8. delay, but helping querent's wishes- we formulate this judgment: 160 that the querent's loss in business has been principally owing to his own mismanagement; that he will have a long an

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or of "fasting, vitality, and nutrition" in six hundred odd closely printed 9 in. x 6 in. pages the author proved that eating is all a mistake. food supplies no nourishment, but only causes disease; if you only fast long enough, you cure cancer and consumption and everything else. now when a man who can print drivel of this sort comes forward and testifies to the wind that blows from the top of a medium's head, it is unlikely that any serious person will take the trouble even to read his statement. worse, the presence of such a person at a sitting entirely invalidates the testimony of his fellow-sitters, even be they such presumably competent persons as mr. w.w.baggalay and the hon. everard feilding "le grande hyst rie" such as must play no small part in the constitution of a person who ca

rie" such as must play no small part in the constitution of a person who can persuade himself that the best athletic training is stark starvation, that tobacco is poison, alcohol fatal in doses of three drops, and the use of the reproductive faculties under any circumstances tantamount to suicide "la grande hyst rie" i say, is sufficient to explain anything. a sufferer is capable of assisting the medium to cheat, and of throwing dust in the eyes of his fellow-observers, entirely unconscious that he is doing so, under the spell of his morbid perversity. we hope shortly to publish studies, not of the phenomena alleged to be produced by mediums, but of the mental make-up of those investigators who allege them to be genuine. we must be understood to refer only to material phenomena; we have no

to praise on the recommendation of the advertisement manager rather than that of the literary adviser. but he believes that this policy defeats its own end, that praise in the equinox will really sell copies of the book receiving it, and that appreciation of this fact on the part of publishers will result in the enrichment of his advertising columns. 326 the shadowy dill-waters or mr. smudge the medium"'tis like the howling of irish wolves against the moon "as you like it" in our investigation of the trumpery tin pantheon of aunt sallies which our courtesy calls "literary gents" one of the most striking figures is a certain lame duck that suggests a mixed ancestry of brigand manqu and the ghost in the bab ballads. historically, too, the subject has its advantage, for not only does the wor

illars of the temple, triangle of solomon, the tetragram, the pentagram, magical equilibrium, the fiery sword, realisation, initiation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the stone of the philosophers, the universal medicine, divination, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram, medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc "occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse, or godmother of all intell

than 10 copies remain. it is mr. crowley's earliest and in some ways most striking mystical work. jephthah and other mysteries, lyrical and dramatic. demy 8vo, boards, pp. xxii+ 223, 7s. 6d. net. songs of the spirit. pp. x+ 109. a new edition. 3s. 6d. net. these two volumes breathe the pure semi-conscious aspiration of the soul, and express the first glimmerings of the light. the soul of osiris. medium 8vo, pp. ix+ 129, 5s. net. a collection of lyrics, illustrating the progress of the soul from corporeal to celestial beatitude. tannh user. demy 4to, pp. 142, 15s. net. the progress of the soul in dramatic form. berashith. 4to, china paper, pp. 24, 5s. net. only a few copies remain. an illuminating essay on the universe, reconciling the conflicting systems of religion. the god-eater. crown

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o be learned from books "g.c.j" rider's library of alchemical philosophy the hermetic and alchemical writings of aureolus philippus theophrastus bombast of hohenheim, called paracelsus the great, now for the first time translated into english. edited with a biographical preface, elucidatory notes, and a copious hermetic vocabulary and index, by arthur edward waite. in two volumes, dark red cloth, medium 4to, gilt tops, 25s. net. vol. i, 394 pp; vol. ii, 396 pp. the turba philosophorum, or assembly of the sages. an ancient alchemical treatise, with the chief readings of the shorter codex, parallels from greek alchemists, and explanations of obscure terms. translated, with introduction and notes, by a.e. waite. crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. a great symposium or debate of the adepts assembled in co

st retain the shroud of darkness under thy own proper control and guidance. v. now state clearly to the shroud what it is thy desire to perform therewith. w. having obtained the desired effect, and gone about invisible, it is requisite that thou shouldst conjure the forces of the light to act against that shroud of darkness and mystery, so as to disintegrate it, lest any force seek to use it as a medium for an obsession &c. therefore rehearse a conjuration as aforesaid, and then open the shroud and come forth out of the midst thereof, and then disintegrate that shroud by the use of a conjuration unto the forces of binah, to disintegrate and scatter the particles thereof; but affirming that they shall again be readily attracted at thy command. but on no account must that shroud of awful mys

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d that, among all the variable phenomena of hasheesh, this alone stands unvarying. the use of it directly after any other stimulus will produce consequences as appalling. i extinguished my light. to say this may seem trivial, but it is as important a matter as any which it is possible to notice. the most direful suggestions of the bottomless pit may flow in upon thehasheesh eater through the very medium of darkness. the blowing out of a candle can set an unfathomed barathrum wide agape beneath the flower-wreathed table of his feast, and convert his palace of sorcery into a golgotha. light is a necessity to him, even when sleeping; it must tinge his visions, or they assume a hue as sombre as the banks of styx. it was an awaking, which, for torture, had no parallel in all the stupendous doma

ds a pen like the rod of moses; he has struck the water of romance from the rock of history; such scenes have rarely been so vividly described since de sade and sacher-masoch passed on the the great reward. caligula ii. morag the seal. by j. w. bnrodie-innes. rebman. 6"s" one must wish that mr. brodie-innes' english were equal to his imagination. again and again a lack of perfect control over his medium spoils one of the finest stories ever thought. all the glamour of the highlands is here; all love, 329 all magic- which is love- and mr. brodie-innes' refinement avoids the crude detective solution of the mystery. and that mystery is enticing and enthralling; morag is delicious as dream or death, enticing, elusive, exquisite. one of the subtlest and truest women in literature. not many men

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we should abolish art schools and set an embargo on clay. if the will to act is but a mirage of the mind, then equally so is the will to differentiate or select. if this be true, and the chain of cause and effect is eternal, how is it then that cause a produces effect b, and cause b effect c, and cause a+ b+ c effect x. where originates this power of production? it is said there is no change, the medium remaining alike throughout. burt we say there is a change- a change of form,6 and not only a change, but a distinct birth and a distinct death of form. what creates 5 verworn in his "general physiology" says "it was found that the sole reality that we are able to discover in the world is mind. the idea of the physical world is only a product of the mind. but this idea is not the whole of mi

aces! even as x. a. r. p.189 etc, are evil. above were the gods of e. h. n. b; and above them svastika wheels whirling, and again above this the light ineffable. illustration on page 119 approximated_ air e x a r p_ water h c o m a_ spirit n a n t a_ dee b i t o m< air water spirit dee diagram 87. the spirit table 24th. green ankh. 7 m. poor. worked at 5= 6 explanation. cross in brilliance. 10 m. medium result. thoth in front of me. 5 m. poor. june 3rd. astral vision. dressed in white and red abramelin robes with crown, wand, ankh, and rose-cross, etc, etc, went on an astral journey to 119 hong-kong. i found soror f. sitting or kneeling in a temple. on the altar were elemental instruments also symbol of golden dawn. she was waiting in awe, almost in fear. on my entering she saw me and star

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pillars of the temple, triangle of solomon, the tetragram, the pentagram, magical equilibrium, the fiery sword, realsation, initiation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the stone of the philosophers, the universal medicine, divination, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram, medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc. book of the sacred magic (the) of abra-melin the mage, as delivered by abr

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by which he wishes to convey- what? it is our magnum opus to discover what he means! hence 'the eye 138 of faith' mere eyesight tells us that a plaster mould is truer to nature than the greatest masterpiece of phidias; so does science, with her gross calipers. sensible men prefer a good photograph of nature to a bad landscape. the photograph shows them the view of their own normal eye through the medium of an accepted symbolism; the picture shows the view of an indifferent bad soul through a medium of mud. but corot! but whistler! but morrice! corot sees a wood, and paints pan; bougereau sees a pretty model, and paints a pretty model. he doesn't paint woman. morrice paints the venice of byron, of our historic and voluptuous dreams; not the venice of the yankee and the churning steamers. ra

a wood, and paints pan; bougereau sees a pretty model, and paints a pretty model. he doesn't paint woman. morrice paints the venice of byron, of our historic and voluptuous dreams; not the venice of the yankee and the churning steamers. raphael found madonna in his mistress; rembrandt a queen of sombre passion and seduction in his wife. in one way or another we must get to god's meaning through a medium that itself is meaningless "just as through dejeuner we get to the dessert" laughed ida, who had something more to say than her face showed. all through lunch she had allured the big black savage, until beneath her glances he was in agony. all the primitive passions fought one another in his heart. he could have killed rolles for the very nonchalance of his small-talk. it hurt him that anyo

of fraud, telepathy, chance, and hysteria, and humanity is so cleaver at stopping chinks with putty and then leaving the door open, that we must continue to suspend judgment. an amusing case occurred some years ago at cambridge. i offered to reproduce roughly the performance of the zancigs (which was then puzzling the foolish in london) without preparation. a stranger to me offered to act as my "medium" the conditions were these. the ten small cards of a suit were laid on the floor; one was to be touched in the medium's absence and in my presence. the medium was to return and say which it was. the rest of the company were to prevent us from communicating if they could. well, they tried everything. in a minute's interview i arranged a button-touching code with my medium, and as each new re

inute's interview i arranged a button-touching code with my medium, and as each new restriction was put on me i managed to invent a new code. shifting my pipe, coughing, arranging books, winking, altering the position of my fingers, etc, etc, all were provided against. then i obtained a confederate. ultimately the grand sceptic of all devised the following test just as i had passed the note to my medium "if i can't manage any of the old ways, i'll try and write down the number and put it on the mantelpiece" and this was the test. the medium was to be taken from whewell's court (were we were) over to the great court of trinity- well out of all hearing. i was to be left alone with the sceptic, who by this time suspected everybody of being a confederate. he was to touch the card in my presenc

and write down the number and put it on the mantelpiece" and this was the test. the medium was to be taken from whewell's court (were we were) over to the great court of trinity- well out of all hearing. i was to be left alone with the sceptic, who by this time suspected everybody of being a confederate. he was to touch the card in my presence and then take me away in the opposite direction. the medium was then (at a given time) to return, and tell the card. now it happened that in the course of general argument about fairness, which i encouraged to enable myself to plot unnoticed in the confusion of talk, that i had stipulated for my sceptic to write down the number that he had 162) touched, to avoid dispute. this he agreed to; he was allowed to hide it as he chose. i gave up all hope bu

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

and very unsure of himself, all he could do .was watch and wait until someone gave the sign that he would surely recognize. 29 4 all mown tbe ptrttll when alex was seventeen he met a girl who was a keen spiritualist. learning of his interest in the occult she invited him to a m eting: he was curious to see if it had' anything in commo with witchcrafe, and went along with her. during the evenmg a medium in a trance singled him out 'i see horns on your head' she murmured. there was a ripple oflaughter; horns could mean he was a cuckold. but alex knew them as the ymbol of witchcraft and was impressed by such perception. he went along to every meeting at the spiritualist church and before long he was being trained as a medium. fit .hea:t he felt h; was cheatin, for. while they talked of going

hey were practising christians, one being the honorary treasurer of a christian association. both came from upper-class county families and were keeping details of the experiment strictly secret. devil-raising was not likely to be appreciated by either their parents or their employers. diligently they followed the elaborate ritual, invoking the devil, reciting incantations and offering .a1ex as a medium by which it might manifest itself. for awhile nothing happened; then the temperature seemed tofiuctuatewildly and there was pandemonium. atiled coffee table whizzed overhead,smashing itself into fragments against the wall. a heavy oak chest careered across the room and crashed into. an armchair behind one ofthe men.a typewriter hurled itselfinto the air,narrowly missed alex, who was ducking

betwe,en the early tnorninghours oft\vo and three, according to the magic ritual, and as they had.noroses oftheir own,the coven madeforays intog rdensallover eneighbou1' hood until there was not a rose to be seen in the entire district' they.charted an elaborate circle surrounded.by. pentacles and the symbolitwatchtowers. the child sat.a little' apart,ll1 a small triangle. he was to be used as a medium through'\vhicli voices might speak. at seven o'clock in the evening they took. their places within the circle and began their incantations. theros scented incense f1lled the room. hour. after.'hour they .called to the gods,repeatingthechants'andsecret mimes according to the instructions in' the key ofso"lomon,'but without result. at midnight they began all over again, remaining silent in be

to think her fiance was the wrong man for her anyway. when maxine set out the tarot cards, sheread that ben, insteadofconsecrating the ring to bless the marriage, had been working voodoo to break it up, his intention being to have an affair with victoria. without waiting to hear more, alex went up to ben's room and demanded the return of the ring. it was concealed ina bag of flour-flour being the medium for voodooalong with a crucifix, a st christopher medallion and a bracelet, all belonging to other witches in the coven. on 3 january, the first full moon of 1969, the coven was convened and ben was ritually cursed and banished. the others were asked to repeat their witch oaths or resign their membership. voodoo is totally incompatible with witchcraft, used as it is fo.r the seduction of wo

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

thought we might call the idealistic. it posits an evolutionary process within all manifestation and identifies life with the cosmic process. it is the exact opposite of materialism, and brings the supernatural deity, predicated by the religionist, into the position of a great entity or life, who is evolving through, and by means of, the universe, just as man is evolving consciousness through the medium of an objective physical body. in these three standpoints the frankly materialistic, the purely supernatural, and the idealistic you have the three main lines of thought which have been put forward as explanatory- 4- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust of the cosmic process; all of them are partial truths, yet none of them is complete without the others; all of them, wh

science is many, many removes from the primordial ether of the oriental occultist. we are led back to that intangible something which is the basis of the objective thing which you and i can see and touch and handle. the word "substance" itself means that which "stands under" or which lies back of things. all, therefore, that we can predicate in connection with the ether of space is that it is the medium in which energy or force- 12- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust functions, or makes itself felt. when we are talking in these lectures of energy and force, and of matter and substance, we can separate them in our minds thus: when we speak about energy and substance we are considering that which is as yet intangible, and we use force in connection with matter when deal

al to surmise that the great intelligence of our planet is similarly carrying his entire body of manifestation (which includes the human family) into situations which are distressing to the atoms. surely it may be logical to suppose that the mystery of all we see around us may be hidden in the will and intelligent purpose of that greater life, who works through our planet as man works through the medium of his physical body, and yet who is himself but an atom within a still larger sphere, which is indwelt by the solar logos, the intelligence who is the sumtotal of all the lesser lives. lecture iii the evolution of form, or group evolution- 18- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust i want to enlarge to-night upon the basic idea of the unity of consciousness, or of intelli

endere, to touch, and the idea then brought to our minds is the triple thought that that which is manifested is that which can be felt, contacted, and realised as tangible. yet in both these interpretations the most vital part of the concept is lost sight of, and we must look elsewhere for a truer definition. to my mind, plutarch conveys the idea of the manifestation of the subjective through the medium of the objective form in a much more illuminating way than does the dictionary. he says- 19- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust "an idea is a being incorporeal, which has no subsistence by itself, but gives figure and form unto shapeless matter, and becomes the cause of the manifestation" here you have a most interesting sentence, and one of real occult significance. i

ion, the atom of the chemist and the physicist, but of all forms that are constituted by their means, including the manifestation of a human being and of the deity of a solar system, that great life, that all-embracing, universal mind, that vibrant centre of energy, and that great enfolding consciousness whom we call god, or force, or the logos, the existence who is expressing himself through the medium of the solar system. in the christian bible the same thought is borne out by st. paul in a letter to the church at ephesus. in the second chapter of the epistle to the ephesians he says "we are his workmanship" literally, the correct translation from the greek is "we are his poem, or idea" and the thought in the mind of the apostle is that through the medium of every human life, or in the a

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

doctrine of the atonement. one unification takes place at the moment of individualisation, when man becomes a conscious rational entity, in contradistinction to the animals. as evolution proceeds successive at-one-ments occur. at-one-ment on all levels emotional, intuitional, spiritual and divine consists in conscious, continuous functioning. in all cases it is preceded by a burning, through the medium of the inner fire, and by the destruction, through sacrifice, of all that separates. the approach to unity is through destruction of the lower, and of all that forms a barrier. take, in illustration, the web that separates the etheric body and the emotional. when that web has been burned away by the inner fire the communication between the bodies of the personality becomes continuous and co

o serve, and the strength of the method of their appeal. knowing the quintessence of pain, knowing the depth of sin and of suffering, their methods can be exquisitely measured to the individual need; yet at the same time their realisation of the liberation to be achieved through pain, penalty, and suffering, and their apprehension of the freedom that comes through the sacrifice of the form by the medium of the purificatory fires, suffices to give them a firm hand, an ability to persist even when the form may seem to have undergone a sufficiency of suffering, and a love that triumphs over all setbacks, for it is founded on patience and experience. these elder brothers of humanity are characterised by a love which endures, and which acts ever for the good of the group; by a knowledge which h

s the reins of government for continents and nations, thus guiding, even if unknown, their destinies; they impress and inspire statesmen and rulers; they pour forth mental energy on governing groups, thus bringing about the desired results wherever co-operation and receptive intuition can be found amongst the thinkers. the world teacher presides over the destiny of the great religions through the medium of a group of masters and initiates who direct the activities of these different schools of thought. in illustration: the master jesus, the inspirer and director of the christian churches everywhere, though an adept on the sixth ray under the department of the mahachohan, works at present under the christ for the welfare of christianity; other masters hold similar posts in relation to the g

d truth dissemination of the various churches, sciences, and philosophies, and thus producing within the organisation itself an expansion, a widening, and a disintegration where necessary, which might otherwise be impossible. it might be wise for occult students everywhere to recognise these facts, and to cultivate the ability to recognise the hierarchical vibration as it demonstrates through the medium of disciples in the most unlikely places and groups. one point should here be stated in connection with the work of the masters through their disciples, and it is this. all the various schools of thought which are fostered by the energy of the lodge are, in every case, founded by a disciple, or several disciples, and upon these disciples, and not upon the master, lies responsibility for res

ttempt. if he fails, or his successors turn from the original impulse, thus disseminating error of any kind, in his love and in his sympathy the master will withdraw that blessing, withhold his energy, and thus cease from stimulating that which had better die. forms may come and go, and the interest of the master and his blessing pour through this or that channel; the work may proceed through one medium or another, but always the life force persists, shattering the form where it is inadequate, or utilising it when it suffices for the immediate need. certain masters and their work. under the first great group of which the manu is the head, can be found two masters, the master jupiter, and the master morya. both of them have taken more than the fifth initiation, and the master jupiter, who i

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

n up to the highest and most tenuous manifestation) and that all forms are but the expression of a stupendous and divine existence. this expression is caused by the blending of two divine aspects through the influence of a third, and produces the manifestation which we call a form, starting it upon its evolutionary cycle in time and space. thus is form brought to the point where it is an adequate medium for the demonstration of the nature of that which we call god. fourthly, to give practical information anent those focal points of energy which are found in the etheric bodies of the solar logos, the macrocosm, and of man, the microcosm. as the etheric substratum which is the true substance underlying every tangible form is understood, certain great revolutions will be brought about in the

oul. from these basic creative principles, in successive gradations there issue in ordered sequence the numberless universes comprising countless manifesting stars and solar systems. each solar system is the manifestation of the energy and life of a great cosmic existence, whom we call, for lack of a better term, a solar logos. this solar logos incarnates, or comes into manifestation, through the medium of a solar system. this solar system is the body, or form, of this cosmic life, and is itself triple. this triple solar system can be described in terms of three aspects, or (as the christian theology puts it) in terms of three persons. electric fire, or spirit. 1st person..father. life. will. purpose. positive energy. solar fire, or soul. 2nd person..son. consciousness. love-wisdom. equili

ii..ray of active intelligence 3rd aspect these are the major rays. ray iv..ray of harmony, beauty and art. ray v..ray of concrete knowledge or science. ray v..ray of devotion or of abstract idealism. ray vii..ray of ceremonial magic or order. ii. there is a basic law called the law of periodicity. 1. this law governs all manifestation, whether it is the manifestation of a solar logos through the medium of a solar system, or the manifestation of a human being through the medium of a form. this law controls likewise in all the kingdoms of nature. 2. there are certain other laws in the system which are linked with this one; some of them are as follows: a. the law of economy..the law governing matter, the third aspect. b. the law of attraction..the law governing soul, the second aspect. c. th

plane also demonstrate in a twofold manner: first, as the fire of mind, the basis of all expression and in one peculiar occult sense the sumtotal of existence. it provides the relation between the life and the form, between spirit and matter, and is the basis of consciousness itself. second, as the elementals of fire, or the sumtotal of the active expression of thought, showing itself through the medium of those entities who, in their very essence, are fire itself. these dualities of expression make the four necessary factors in the logoic quaternary,12(11) or the lower nature of the logos viewing his manifestation from one esoteric angle; exoterically, they are the sumtotal of the logoic quaternary, plus the logoic fifth principle, cosmic mind. the divine spark does not as yet manifest (a

include the other two laws as subdivisions. c. the subsequent result of forward progressive motion a motion which is rotary, cyclic and progressive. the whole matter dealt with in this treatise concerns the subjective essence of the solar system, not primarily either the objective or spiritual aspect. it concerns the entities who indwell the form, who demonstrate as animating factors through the medium of matter, and primarily through etheric matter; who are evolving a second faculty, the fire of mind, and who are essentially themselves points of fire, cast off through cosmic friction, produced by the turning of the cosmic wheel, swept into temporary limited manifestation and due eventually to return to their central cosmic centre. they will return plus the results of evolutionary growth

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

ed and paraphrased by the tibetan brother and the commentary upon them has been written by myself, and subjected to revision and comment by the tibetan. it should be noted that the translation is not literal, and is not an exact definition of each original sanskrit term. it is an attempt to put into clear and understandable english the exact meaning, insofar as it is possible to do so through the medium of that non elastic and unimaginative tongue. the student may find it of use in the study of these sutras to compare the rendition here given, with the various other procurable translations. alice a. bailey. new york, may, 1927 [page xviii] topical outline book i. the problem of union. a. the higher and lower natures defined. b. the obstacles and their removal considered. c. a summation of

this is, for the occult student, the use of the law of correspondences or of analogy. 3. the direct cognition of the yogi or seer, centered in the consciousness of the self, the ego on its own plane. this is achieved through the right use of the mind as an organ of vision and transmission. patanjali says "the seer is pure knowledge (gnosis. though pure he looks upon the presented idea through the medium of the mind" book ii. sutra 20. deduction is not a sure method of ascertaining knowledge and the other modifications refer primarily to the wrong use of the image making faculty (imagination, to the self-induced passivity of the mind, a condition of semi-trance, and to the retention of thought forms within the mental aura, through the use of the memory. each of these is now dealt with in a

elling life. no true adept judges any expression of divinity through its third aspect. raja yoga trains a man to function in his second aspect and through that second aspect to put himself en rapport with the "true nature" latent in any form. it is the "being" that is the essential reality, and all beings are struggling toward true expression. all knowledge therefore which is acquired through the medium of the lower faculties and which is based upon the form aspect is incorrect knowledge. the soul alone perceives correctly; the soul alone has the power to contact the germ or the principle of buddhi (in the christian phraseology, the christ principle) to be found at the heart of every atom, whether it is the atom of matter as studied in the laboratory of the scientist, whether it is the hum

of buddhi (in the christian phraseology, the christ principle) to be found at the heart of every atom, whether it is the atom of matter as studied in the laboratory of the scientist, whether it is the human atom in the crucible of daily experience, whether it is the planetary atom, within whose ring-pass-not all our kingdoms of nature are found, or the solar atom, god in manifestation through the medium of a solar system. christ "knew what was in man" and therefore could be a saviour. 9. fancy rests upon images which have no real existence. this means that these images have no real existence in so far as they are conjured up by men themselves, constructed within their own mental auras, energized by their will or desire and are consequently dissipated when attention is directed elsewhere "e

allucination, to delusion, to wrong impressions and to obsessions. sleep is of several kinds, and only a short tabulation is possible in such a commentary as this is. 1. the ordinary sleep of the physical body, where the brain does not respond to any sense contacts; 2. sleep of the vrittis, or of those modifications of the mental processes which correlate the man with his environment, through the medium of the senses and the mind; 3. the sleep of the soul, which, occultly speaking, covers that part of human experience which dates from a man's first human incarnation until he "awakens" to a knowledge of the plan, and endeavors to bring the lower man into line with the nature and will of the inner spiritual man; 4. the sleep of the ordinary medium, wherein the etheric body is partially extru

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

s, therefore, towards a new state of awareness of being. the relation of the soul to the oversoul is that of the part towards the whole, and it is this relation and its consequent recognitions, which develop into that sense of oneness with all beings and with the supreme reality to which the mystics have always testified. its relation to the human being is that of the conscious entity towards its medium of expression; of the one who thinks, towards the instrument of thought; of the one who registers feeling, towards the field of sensuous experience, and of the actor, towards the physical body the sole means of contact with that particular field of activity, the world of physical life. this soul expresses itself through two forms of energy, that which we call the vital principle or fluid, t

all the vital principle or fluid, the life aspect, and the energy of pure reason. these energies are focussed during life in the physical body. the life stream centres itself in the heart, utilizing the blood stream, the arteries and the veins, and animating every part of the organism; the other stream, of intellectual energy, centres itself in the brain, and utilizes the nervous apparatus as its medium of expression. in the heart, therefore, is the seat of the life-principle; in the head is the seat of the reasoning mind and of the spiritual consciousness, which latter is attained through a right use of the mind. dr. c. lloyd morgan says in connection with this word "soul "in any case what is currently understood by 'the soul-theory' has its roots in dualism. and what some people mean whe

rgy, and its seven points of contact with the physical organism are covered in my book, the soul and its mechanism, and will not be enlarged upon here, beyond quoting one paragraph "behind the objective body lies a subjective form constituted of etheric matter, and acting as a conductor of the life principle of energy, or prana. this life principle is the force aspect of the soul, and through the medium of the etheric body the soul animates the form, gives it its peculiar qualities and attributes, impresses upon it its desires and, eventually, directs it through the activity of the mind. through the medium of the brain the soul galvanizes the body into conscious (directed) activity and through the medium of the heart all parts of the body are pervaded by life".9(34) there is also another "

hrough the medium of the brain the soul galvanizes the body into conscious (directed) activity and through the medium of the heart all parts of the body are pervaded by life".9(34) there is also another "body" which is composed of the sum-total of all emotional states, moods and feelings. this body reacts to a man's physical environment in response to information received by the brain through the medium of the five senses, and conveyed to it via the vital body. thus it is swept into activity of a purely selfish and personal nature; or it can be trained to react primarily to the mind, regarding the mind (as it so seldom is) as the interpreter of the spiritual self, the soul. it is this emotional body, characterized by feeling and desire, that acts most potently, in the majority of cases, up

rm, until knowledge merges into wisdom. this is direct knowledge of god by means of the mental faculty, so that we become what we are, and are enabled to manifest our divine nature. tagore, in one place, defines meditation as "the entering into some great truth until we are possessed by it" and truth and god are synonymous terms. the mind knows two objects, we are told the outer world through the medium of the five senses and the brain, and the soul and its world through what we might call an introverted use of the mind and its intense focussing upon a new and unusual field of contact. then "the mind stuff reflecting both the knower (the self) and the knowable, becomes omniscient..it becomes the instrument of the self and acts as a unifying agent."12(47) all things will stand revealed to t

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ion or the teaching that all the lives of which the one life is formed, in their sphere and in their state of being, become, so to speak, grounded in matter and assume forms whereby their peculiar specific state of consciousness may be realised and their vibration stabilised; thus they may know themselves as existences. thus again the one life becomes a stabilised and conscious entity through the medium of the solar system, and is essentially, therefore the sum total of energies, of all states of consciousness, and of all forms in existence. the homogeneous becomes the heterogeneous, and yet remains a unity; the one manifests in diversity and yet is unchanged; the central unity is known in time and space as composite and differentiated and yet, when time and space are not (being but states

nature, subhuman and superhuman. this is as yet practically unknown but is rapidly coming into recognition, and when it is proven and realised it will be discovered that therein lies the basis of brotherhood and of unity. as the liver, the heart, the lungs, the stomach, and other organs in the body are separate in existence and in function and yet are unified and brought into relation through the medium of the nervous system throughout the body, so will it be found that in the world such organisms as the kingdoms in nature have their separate life and functions yet are correlated and coordinated by a vast intricate sensory system which is sometimes called the soul of all things, the anima mundi, the underlying consciousness. in dealing with the triplicities so often used when speaking of d

age suffices satisfactorily to deal with the concrete and with the world of form. but when one endeavours to convey an idea of his quality, character, and nature one is immediately faced with the problem of the unknown, with that undefinable unseen part which we sense, but which remains in a large sense unrevealed, and unrealised even by the man himself. how then shall we describe him through the medium of language? if this is so of man, how much greater is the difficulty when we seek through words to express that inexpressible sum total of which the terms spirit, soul, and body are regarded as the main component differentiations? how shall we define that undefinable life that men have (for the sake of understanding) limited and separated into a trinity of aspects, or persons, calling the

ct of the soul and its nature as dealt with in such an instruction as this is as clear and lucid as current literature is to the average reader, and the best sellers, as you call them, to the general public. equally, though fewer in number, there are those advanced souls to whom the spirit and its nature is also a rational and understandable subject, to be appreciated and comprehended through the medium of the soul and its powers just as it is possible to arrive at an understanding of the soul through the medium of the mind, correctly employed. on a lower level altogether, we know it is easy to understand the nature of the physical body through a study and right use of the desire nature. it is a form of pride, and a refusal to recognize one's temporary limitations that awakens in readers a

ppreciation of the process followed in the expansion of the divine consciousness in man is to study the relation of the mind and the brain and note what follows when the brain becomes the intelligent instrument of the mind; then study the relation of the soul to the mind and what eventuates when man is directed by his soul and utilises the mind to control the physical plane activities through the medium of the brain. in these three soul, mind and brain we have the analogy and the clue to the understanding of spirit, soul and body, and their mutual functions. this was the subject matter of the book, the light of the sou1. upon the perfecting of the conditions dealt with in that book there follows still another expansion when the spirit aspect, man's emanating source of energy, begins to use

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

of force which express themselves through all the forms in the three worlds and the four kingdoms in nature. you have therefore: a. three monadic groups of energies. the essential unity expresses, through these three, the- 11- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust qualities of will, love and intelligence. b. seven groups of energies which are the medium through which the three major groups express the divine qualities. c. forty-nine groups of forces to which all forms respond and which constitute the body of expression for the seven, who in their turn are reflections of the three divine qualities. in some mysterious ways, therefore, the differentiations which manifest in nature are found in the realm of quality and not in the realm of real

expressed them tritely and succinctly and adequately, had we but the development to know it. the third (however understood) defies expression, and hints at a fourth type of realisation which is that of deity itself, about which it profits us not to speculate. 2. life-quality -appearance in our study of the rays it must therefore be remembered that we are dealing with life-expression, through the medium of matter-form. the highest unity will be cognised only when this dual relation is perfected. the theory of the one life may be held, but i deal not basically with theory but with that which may be known, provided there is growth and intelligent application of truth. i deal with possibility and with that which is capable of achievement. many these days like to talk and think in terms of tha

eption) has believed its grasp of reality and its sensitivity to the inner beauty to be greater and nearer the true than was ever previously possible. the highest realisation of what is termed the one life is the awareness (of the initiate of high degree) of the embodied logos, of deity, and his identification with the consciousness of that stupendous creator who is seeking expression through the medium of the solar system. no initiate on the- 16- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust planet can identify himself with the consciousness of that identified being (in the esoteric sense of the term) who, speaking in the bhagavad gita, says "having pervaded the entire universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" these thoughts i commend to your

ucing change and constant mutation. i shall use the word quality as expressive of the second aspect, the son of god, the cosmic christ incarnate in form a form brought into being by the relation of spirit and matter. this interplay produces that psychological entity which we call the christ. this cosmic christ demonstrated to us his perfection, as far as the human family is concerned, through the medium of the historical christ. this psyphological entity can bring into functioning activity a quality within all human forms which esoterically can "obliterate the forms" and so engross the attention as to be regarded eventually as the main factor and as constituting all that is. this truth as to life and quality and form is made most clearly apparent to us in the story of the christ of galilee

world which will persist for as long a time as he lives in form. this statement covers also the life story and the qualified appearance of any one of the seven rays. god, ray, life, and man are all psychological entities and builders of forms. therefore a- 19- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust great psychological life is appearing through the medium of a solar system. seven psychological lives, qualified by seven types of force, are appearing through the medium of the seven planets. each planetary life repeats the same technique of manifestation life-quality-appearance and in its second aspect of quality demonstrates as a psychological entity. every human being is a miniature replica of the entire plan. he is also spirit-soul-body, lif

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

o again today. some day, as all masons know, these words which have been spoken periodically will be superseded- 24- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust by a word which is known among them as the "lost word" when that word is finally spoken humanity will be enabled to climb to the final peak of human achievement. the hidden divinity will then shine forth in its glory, through the medium of the race. the height of material achievement has perhaps been reached. now comes the opportunity for that subtle divine self to manifest through the agency of the experience which we call the "new birth" and which christianity has ever taught. the effect of all that is now transpiring upon earth is to bring to the surface that which is hidden within the human heart, and to unveil to our

"oh, saul, it shall be a face like my face that receives thee; a man like to me thou shalt love and be loved by, for ever: a hand like this hand shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! see the christ stand" after the third initiation, the transfiguration, when the personality has been subordinated to the soul, or the indwelling christ, and the glory of the lord can shine forth through the medium of the flesh, we are faced with the supreme achievement of the crucifixion and the resurrection. then, we are told, that mysterious being, spoken of in the old testament as melchizedek, and as the ancient of days, will play his part and initiate us into the still higher mysteries. of him we are told that "this melchizedek, king of salem, priest of the most high god. was, in the first place

s has submitted to the baptism of john. that submission and completed purification brought its reward. it was at this initiation that god himself proclaimed his son to be the one in whom he was "well pleased" every initiation is simply a recognition. it is a false idea, current in many schools of the mysteries and of esotericism, that initiation connotes a mysterious ceremony wherein, through the medium of the initiator and the rod of initiation, conditions are definitely changed in the aspirant, so that forever after he is altered and different. an initiation takes place whenever a man becomes, through his own self-effort, an initiate. then having taken "the kingdom of heaven by violence,"13 and having "worked out" his "own salvation through fear and trembling,"14 his spiritual status is

nitiation, christ's purity and freedom from evil had been demonstrated before men. now they have to undergo a different test. from the crowd and from the experience he went to the solitary place and for forty days and nights he was alone with himself, standing between god and the evil one. through what agency could this evil force reach him? through the agency of his own human nature, through the medium of loneliness, of hunger and of his own visions. christ was thrown back upon himself, and there, in the silence of the desert, alone with his thoughts and desires, he was tested throughout all the parts of his nature which might be vulnerable "as he is, so are we in this world,"31 vulnerable in all points. the difficulty with most of us is that we are vulnerable in so many petty ways, and i

o god and man when we think of christ. some thinkers emphasise his humanity and ignore his divinity. therein they are surely in error. others emphasise his divinity and regard as blasphemous and wrong all those who have placed him on an equality with other human beings. but if we regard christ as the flower of the human race, because the divine spirit had full control and showed forth through the medium of the human form, we in no way belittle him or his achievements. the further men progress upon the path of evolution, the more they become conscious of their divinity and of the fatherhood of god. at the same time, the more deeply they appreciate the christ, the more convinced are they of his perfected divinity and his mission, and the more humbly do they seek to follow in his steps, knowi

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

must, therefore, bear in mind that, as we read and consider this treatise on psychology, we are talking in symbols. this is necessarily so, for we are dealing with the expression of divinity in time and space, and until man is consciously aware of his divinity and demonstrating it, it is not possible to do more than speak in parable and metaphor with symbolic intent to be ascertained through the medium of the mystical perception and the wisdom of the enlightened man. as is often glibly said with little real understanding of the significance of the words used, we are dealing with forces and energies. these, as they cyclically run their course and play upon and intermingle with other energies and potencies, produce those forms in matter and substance, which constitute the appearance and exp

necessity for a revelation and a gradual apprehension of the plan which will enable man to a. work consciously and intelligently, b. realise the relation of form and quality to life, c. produce that inner transmutation which will bring into manifestation the fifth kingdom in nature, the kingdom of souls. all this has to be accomplished in the realm of conscious awareness or response, through the medium of steadily improving vehicles or response mechanisms, and with the aid of spiritual understanding and interpretation. with the bigger questions we will not deal. with the consciousness of the life of god as it expresses itself in the three subhuman kingdoms, we need not concern ourselves. we shall deal entirely with the following three points: 1. with the strictly human consciousness as it

rately recovered in the work of service. naught is then known save deity, no separation of any part, no lesser syntheses, and no divisions or differentiations. during these processes it might be stated that three streams of energy play upon the consciousness of the awakening man: a. the energy of matter itself, as it affects the consciousness of the inner spiritual man, who is using the form as a medium of expression- 11- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust b. the energy of the soul itself, or of the solar angel, as that energy pours forth upon the vehicles and produces reciprocal energy in the solar form. c. the energy of life itself, a meaningless phrase, and one that only initiates of the third initiation can grasp, for even the dis

egoic ray. those two great influences play upon and affect each other, interacting all the time, producing modifications and changes until, slowly and gradually, the ray of the personality becomes less dominant, and the ray of the soul steadily assumes prominence. eventually it will be the soul ray that will be expressed, and not the form ray. this personality or form ray then becomes simply the medium of expression through which the quality of the soul can make its presence felt in full power. something of this idea is conveyed in the ancient occult phrase "the lesser fire must be put out by the greater light. a symbol of this can be seen in the power of the sun apparently to put out a little fire when it can pour its heat right into it. it was earlier pointed out that we can profitably

off the effects of the earlier initiated causes. this is a point not often emphasised. still later cycles of lives bring these two aspects consciousness and form into a greater rapport, and thus produce an entirely different type of life. the correspondence to these cycles can be seen working out in the life and consciousness of the planetary logos, as that great life seeks expression through the medium of the four kingdoms in nature. however (and this is the fact of supreme importance, all this activity, all this directed unfoldment, all this evolving purpose and livingness, all the events in all the kingdoms of nature, and all the phases of life-conditioning in the human family, plus the kaleidoscope of events, the emergence of characteristics and tendencies, the appearance of forms with

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

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

the new groups of disciples, the externalisation in embryo of the inner ashrams. these in the new age will multiply and so carry forward the work of integrating the inner and the outer groups and fostering the growth of the kingdom of god on earth. this will bring to public attention the fact of the restoration of the mysteries of initiation. the production of the outer form on earth, through the medium of books, of esoteric schools and the educating of public opinion has been committed to a group of us who form a part of the inner world government disciples and initiates and to this group, i play the part of secretary and of organising contact man if i may use words which will mean something to your ears, versed as you are in physical plane organisation work; they mean little or nothing t

ng under the inspiration of the christ and the influence of the second ray and these in their totality will constitute this sixth group. 7. the seventh group is that of the scientific servers. they will reveal the essential spirituality of all scientific work which is motivated by love of humanity and its welfare, which relates science and religion and brings to light the glory of god through the medium of his tangible world and his works. they have a most interesting function but one which will not become evident for a long time not until the building forces of the universe are better understood. this will be co-incident with the development of etheric vision. this group will act as a channel of communication or intermediary between the energies which constitute the forces which construct

form under the law of rebirth. 8. the psychologists will form this next group and they will be concerned with the revelation of the fact of the soul and with the new psychology which will be based upon the seven ray types and the new esoteric astrology. their major task will be to relate, through approved techniques, the soul and the personality, leading to the revelation of divinity through the medium of- 32- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust humanity. they will act also as transmitters of illumination between groups of thinkers and as illuminators of group thought. they transmit energy from one thought centre to another and, above everything else, they transmit the energy of ideas. the world of ideas is a world of dynamic force centres. let this not be for

speculate as to the nature of the work being done by the other groups. let me outline for you the stages to be followed: stage one. alignment. soul contact. spiritual poise. poise is the steady holding of the achieved soul contact. a. then, the conscious relinquishing of personality reactions. b. next, the recognition of the fact of love as an expression of that soul contact expressed through the medium of the personality. c. finally, the imaginative fusion of the egoic and personality rays. this constitutes the vertical stage. stage two. the above is followed by group integration and group fusion, carried forward consciously: a. by bringing each group member into conscious rapport through naming and loving. b. by seeing all the group members as a circle of living points of light along wit

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

n and eventually she will. her brilliant intellect (when turned to the study of the things of the spirit) can outstrip the researchings of lesser minds; that clear perception and ability to convey thoughts in concise and crystal clear terms will be utilized to bring home to many the eternal verities. when france finds her spiritual soul and not just her intellectual soul, she will prove to be the medium through which will come revelation as to the nature of the soul of man. france has in the past revealed the nature of the human soul in its stage of intensest individualism and selfishness. through fire and pain, france will later demonstrate the qualities of the spirit of man. the accent upon the material values and the intense emphasis upon the importance of france to the world, instead o

ve and acquisitive white nations. contact with them has stimulated his intellectual perception; the white man's way of living has lifted the negroes of africa out of their primitive state into a more modern one; education and modern ways of thinking and planning are rapidly fitting the negroes to take their place in a modern world; science, transportation and knowledge brought to them through the medium of the white races are tying them closely into the developing scheme of modern history; the new world with its better ways of living is as much for the negro as for the white man. but beyond this necessary recognition of indebtedness and the effort to benefit from the presented conditions and to ignore that which is evil and undesirable, the negro problem, both in- 62- problems of humanity

as an act of invocative approach to god will prove amazing and miraculous in its results. a response beyond man's deepest hopes will be evoked from christ and his group of workers. to these two great concepts underlying the new world religion approach to god, and invocation and evocation must be added the exceedingly modern one of energy as the basis of all life, all forms and all action and the medium of all relationships. the force of the mind in producing telepathic rapport has already been recognized by science; mental power is today registered as an energy, capable of contact, of recognition and of producing a reciprocal activity. prayer has always recognized this, without attempting to formulate the mode whereby phenomena are produced through the medium of prayer. but in prayer, med

instrumentality of the buddha, would reveal his eternal light and evoke our intelligent cooperation; god, through the spiritual hierarchy and through that centre where the will of god is known, would bring humanity to the point of resurrection and to a spiritual awareness which would bring about goodwill towards men and peace on earth. the will of god transcendent would be carried out through the medium of god immanent in man; it would be expressed in love in response to the work of christ; it would be intelligently presented on earth because the minds of men would have been illumined as the result of their united invocation, the unity of their effort and the oneness of their understanding. it is for this that humanity waits; it is for this that the churches must work; it is these qualitie

of goodwill in the world who will recognize these principles as their personal directing ideal, and who will endeavour to apply them to current world or national events. 4. to create mailing lists in every country of the men and women of goodwill who can be counted upon to stand for world unity, right human relations and who will try in their own lands to reach others with this idea, through the medium of the press, the lecture platform and the radio. eventually this world group should have its own newspaper or magazine, through means of which the educational process can be intensified and goodwill be found to be a universal principle and technique. 5. to provide in every country and eventually in every large city, a central bureau where information will be available concerning the activi

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

ed him. and it is highly improbable that the reactionary churchmen will be the ones to recognise him today. he may reappear in a totally unexpected guise; who is to say whether he will come as a politician, an economist, a leader of the people (arising from the midst of them, a scientist or an artist? it is a fallacy to believe, as some do, that the main trend of christ's work will be through the medium of the churches or the world religions. he necessarily will work through them when conditions permit and there is a living nucleus of true spirituality within them, or when their invocative appeal is potent enough to reach him. he will use all possible channels whereby the consciousness of man may be enlarged and right orientation be brought about. it is, however, truer to say that it is as

at hand. 4. finally, in the triumph of the crucifixion or (as it is more accurately called in the east) the great renunciation, christ, for the first time, anchored on earth a tenuous thread of the divine- 27- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust will as it issued from the father's house (shamballa, passed into the understanding custody of the kingdom of god and, through the medium of the christ, was brought to the attention of mankind. through the instrumentality of certain great sons of god, the three divine aspects or characteristics of the divine trinity will, love and intelligence have become a part of human thinking and aspiration. christians are apt to forget that the crisis in the final hours of the christ was not that spent upon the cross, but those spent in

tivity will be known to be the human heart and also the crowded market places of the world, but not some stone edifice and not the pomp and ceremony of any ecclesiastical headquarters. our study of the future work of the christ is necessarily based upon three assumptions: 1. that the reappearance o the christ is inevitable and assured. 2. that he is today and has been actively working through the medium of the spiritual hierarchy of our planet, of which he is the head for the welfare of humanity. 3. that certain teachings will be given and certain energies will be released by him in the routine of his work and coming. people are apt to forget that the coming of the christ necessitates a period of intensive preparation by him; he, too, works under law and is subject to control from various

ded to reappear. 3. the invocative cry of humanity is ascending hourly to "the secret place of the most high" and the hierarchy plans to emerge when christ appears and restores the rule of the spirit on earth. the hour for the restoration of the ancient mysteries has arrived. these facts have been widely given out, during the past two years, as the result of the cleansing of the earth through the medium of the world war (1914-1945) and through the suffering to which humanity has been subjected (with an equally potent purifying effect, which will demonstrate later. it will then be possible for the hierarchy, the church of christ hitherto- 65- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust invisible, to externalise itself and to function openly upon the physical plane. this will i

nd of emotional love will be superseded by a living energy which can be sensed in a large way, though it cannot as yet be appropriated in its pure essence; this energy, we call the "love of god" it is that free-flowing, outgoing, magnetically attractive force which leads each pilgrim back to the father's house. it is that force which stirs in the heart of humanity and finds expression through the medium of such great avatars as the christ; which guides the mystical yearning found in each human being, and works through all movements that have for their objective the welfare of humanity, through philanthropic and educational tendencies of all kinds and through the instinctual motherhood found everywhere. but it is essentially a group sentiency, and only in the aquarian age, and as a result o

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

with this criticism they must learn to live and to it they must pay no attention. true group love is of more importance than personal relationships, though those are met as need (note, i say, need) arises. disciples learn to grasp the need of group love and to amend their ways in conformity with group good, but it is not easy for the self-interested individual to grasp the difference. through the medium of those disciples who have learned the distinction between the petty concerns of the individual plus his interest in himself and the necessities and urgencies of group work and love, the hierarchy can work and so bring about the needed world changes, which are primarily changes in consciousness. i have dealt somewhat in detail with these matters; the gist of them has, however, been embodie

the kingdom of god will be established upon earth and the ruler of the earth will then work through the hierarchy to produce that synthetic living creative response from nature (of which humanity is a part) which will enable each kingdom fully to reveal the glory of god. shamballa will work through the hierarchy and the hierarchy, in its turn, will reach the various kingdoms in nature through the medium of humanity, which will then enter into its pre-ordained and destined function. it is for this that all is taking place. the time of fruition lies relatively far ahead but in the meantime humanity is experimenting or is the subject of experiment; it is exploiting or being exploited; it is learning the lessons of enforced obedience or the dangers of selfish license; it is victimised by power

discovery and use of the radio and of the many means of communication and through the steady growth of telepathic interplay; hence also the spread of education, enlarging man's horizon and opening up to him new worlds for investigation and adventure; hence also the breaking down of the old and limiting forms through the invoked force of the first ray, which has hitherto always worked through the medium of the seventh ray, because the kingdoms in nature cannot yet stand pure first ray energy; hence also the keen interest in the life after death and the appearance of all the many groups which are today investigating the nature of survival and the probability of immortality; hence again the appearance of the modern spiritualistic movement. this is a direct effect of the coming into manifesta

wherein mind development has been the objective and which humanity shares with two great groups of lives the members of the hierarchy and the animal kingdom. ponder on this. if, therefore, these societies would concentrate on the intelligent and mental psychics and rule out all trance conditions it would not be long before revelation would come. the trance condition is undesirable, separates the medium from his soul and definitely relegates him to the realm of the negative, of the uncontrolled and of material forces. this development, however, the forces of materiality will prevent if possible because the moment there is positive intelligent understanding of the world on the other side of the veil, there is no fear of death and then the major aspect of their power and their hold on humani

d in the quality (if i may so call it) of their capital city and by the decisions there made. i would like to point out that in the british empire there are several major and distinctive sections which are themselves definitely governed by certain ruling signs; therefore, before giving the rulers of the capitals, i would like to indicate the influences which control the british empire through the medium of its component parts; they are an important factor in present events, owing to the major and powerful nature of the part great britain is playing in the present situation. as you will have noted great britain is ruled by gemini and taurus, and consequently the principles of multiplicity and integration are simultaneously present. duality, triplicity (england, scotland and wales) and also

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

arn first of all: 1. to distinguish between these three inner illusory aspects. 2. to discover what conditions in the environment or in the individual constitution induce these situations of difficulty. 3. to find out what methods are effective in inducing a cessation of the bewildering deceiving conditions. it must be remembered also that these distorting conditions, found in all of you, are the medium whereby you are tuned in on the world glamour and illusion. the emphasis has been laid in esoteric teaching on the training and liberation of the individual aspirant. this is, of course, necessary, for the mass is made up of the individuals, and in the steady release from the control of these inner delusions will come the eventual clarification of humanity. therefore each of you in this gro

the much misunderstood subject of the aura: search out what is said in my books and in the writings extant in any good occult library. i seek no copying out of paragraphs but a formulation of your knowledge so that you can answer clearly questions which might be asked. the following three questions are basic: 1. what is the aura and how does it come into existence? 2. how can the aura be made the medium of light, and the light which should shine through it be- 22- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust intensified? 3. have you noticed what is the effect which your own individual aura is making upon your environment and how can you improve that effect? this will enable you to make practical application of that which i seek to teach you. forget not that as you look out upon the

s, could play a most useful part. such groups would have two aspects to their endeavour. they would have to wrestle with group glamour which creeps inevitably into group life through the instrumentality of the group members. their united personal glamours provide the open door through which group glamour can enter. an instance of this can be seen in this group, when glamour entered in through the medium of l.t.s-k, and swept i.b.s. into its vortex of force. it was overcome, fortunately, leaving you all the richer and more united on account of the strong stand in love taken by the other group members. may i remind l.t.s-k. and i.b.s. of their deep indebtedness to the love of their brothers. the group love protected them. i.b.s. has gone a long way in freeing herself from certain aspects of

major reality in his existence) becomes aware of this new and undiscovered world of ideas and he seizes upon some idea or group of ideas and endeavours to make them his own. at first, with the majority of people and especially with the average mystical type, the appreciation of ideas is vague and nebulous, and frequently is arrived at from a second-hand angle. the illumination, coming through the medium of the feebly established soul contact, seems to the unaccustomed neophyte to be of a supreme wonder and of vital moment. the ideas contacted appear to him of great marvel, and superbly unusual, and vitally needed by humanity. but the mind is still self-centred, the contact feeble and the alignment uncertain. the ideas are therefore only dimly sensed. but the uniqueness of the experience in

upward and outward, and the idea, nebulous and faint, emerges into the consciousness of the man. it stands revealed, much as an object stands revealed when the bright beam of a powerful searchlight is thrown upon it. the mind, endeavouring to remain in- 34- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust constant steady conscious contact with the soul, seeing into the higher world through the medium of the "soul's wide-opened eye" registers the idea with increasing clarity. iv. the idea, revealed, becomes then an ideal to the attentive mind and eventually something to be desired and materialised. the thoughtform-making faculty of the mind then comes into play; the "mind-stuff" becomes actuated by the energy of the idea, vitalised by the recognition of the soul, and the idea then takes

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

hicle by alice a. bailey copyright 1950 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1978 by lucis trust teaching on telepathy i. the field of telepathic interplay one of the characteristics, distinguishing the group of world servers and knowers, is that the outer organisation which holds them integrated is practically non-existent. they are held together by the inner structure of thought and by a telepathic medium of inter-relation. the great ones, whom we all seek to serve, are thus linked, and can at the slightest need and with the least expenditure of force get en rapport with each other. they are all tuned to a particular vibration. in the new groups are collected together people who are very diverse in their nature, who are found upon differing rays, who are of different nationalities, and who a

rm of god himself not the dense physical form, but what the esotericists regard as the form-making substance. we use the word god to signify the expression of the one life which animates every form on the outer objective plane. the etheric or energy body, therefore, of every human being is an integral part of the etheric body of the planet itself and consequently of the solar system. through this medium, every human being is basically related to every other expression of the divine life, minute or great. the function of the etheric body is to receive energy impulses and to be swept into activity by these impulses, or streams of force, emanating from some originating source or other. the etheric body is in reality naught but energy. it is composed of myriads of threads of force or tiny stre

tablish a resembling condition and a telepathic relation between disciples on the physical plane. no matter where they may find themselves, this group of mystics and knowers will eventually find it feasible to communicate with one another and frequently do even now. a basic mystical idea or some new revelation of truth is suddenly recognised by many and finds expression simultaneously through the medium of many minds. no one person can claim individual right to the enunciated principle or truth. several minds have registered it. it is usually stated, however, in a wide generalisation, that these people have tapped the inner thought currents or have responded to the play of the universal mind. literally and technically this is not so. the universal mind is tapped by some member of the plane

e world etheric body, makes omniscience possible. the etheric body of the planetary logos is swept into activity by his directed will; energy is the result of his thoughtform playing in and through his energy body. this thoughtform embodies and expresses his world purpose. all the subhuman forms of life and the human forms up to the stage of advanced man are governed by divine thought through the medium of their energy bodies which are an integral part of the whole. they react, however, unconsciously and unintelligently. advanced humanity, the mystics and the knowers, are becoming increasingly aware of the mind which directs the evolutionary process. when this awareness is cultivated and the individual mind is brought consciously into contact with the mind of god as it expresses itself thr

e instinctual brain. this type of telepathic communication is definitely a characteristic of the animal body of man, and one of the- 5- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust best illustrations of this telepathic rapport is that existing between a mother and her child. it is this type of telepathy which is predominantly present in the average spiritualistic seance. there the medium, quite unconsciously, sets up a telepathic rapport with the people in the circle. their feelings, worries, sorrows, and desires become apparent and form part of the reading, so called. both the sitters and the medium are functioning through the same centre. with this class of medium, and in this type of seance, the highly intelligent and mentally polarised man or woman will learn nothing, a

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

ncerned with the etheric body of the planet, of the solar system, and of the seven solar systems of which our system is one, as well as with the general and vaster etheric body of the universe in which we are located. i employ the word "located" here with deliberation and because of the inferences to which it leads. this vaster field, as well as the smaller and more localised fields, provides the medium of transmission for all the energies which play upon and through our solar system, our planetary spheres and all forms of life upon those spheres. it forms one unbroken field of activity in constant ceaseless motion an eternal medium for the exchange and transmission of energies. in connection with this, and in order more correctly to understand, it will be useful to study individual man; i

d underlying truth. students should never forget the law of analogy as an interpretive agency. esotericism teaches (and modern science is rapidly arriving at the same conclusion) that underlying the physical body and its comprehensive and intricate system of nerves is a vital or etheric body which is the counterpart and the true form of the outer and tangible phenomenal aspect. it is likewise the medium for the transmission of force to all parts of the human frame and the agent of the indwelling life and consciousness. it determines and conditions the physical body, for it is itself the repository and the transmitter of energy from the various subjective aspects of man and also from the environment in which man (both inner and outer man) finds himself. two other points should here be added

.5.3. hierarchy six has the numbers 11.6.2. hierarchy seven has the numbers 12.7.1. it is necessary to take note of this as in the secret doctrine reference will be found to the hierarchies under different numbers. this serves to conceal, but it will also confuse the student. 6. the first four hierarchies achieved liberation in the first solar system. their influence reached our earth through the medium of the fifth creative hierarchy. 7. these are, therefore, related to the four rays which work as minor rays of attribute under the great major third ray of active intelligence. 8. pisces is seen at the head of the list of zodiacal signs because it is governing the present great astrological world cycle of 25,000 years. it was also one of the dominant signs, influencing our planet at the tim

os, but each hierarchy also expresses itself through one particular manifestation which comes to be regarded by the finite mind of man as the hierarchy itself. this is not so, and care must be taken to distinguish between these hierarchies. they are latent germs of force centres and manifest subjectively; they warm and vitalise groups of forms; they flower forth and express themselves through the medium of a form, or another hierarchy. these hierarchies are all interrelated and are negative or positive to each other, as the case may be. as is stated in the secret doctrine, i. 238, this hierarchy is the nursery for the incarnating jivas; and it carried in it the germs of the lives which achieved the human stage in another solar system, but were not able to proceed beyond that owing to the c

ets to hold down the consciousness aspect of the man. ponder upon this, for it embodies a deep esoteric truth. thus, two potent streams of energy cosmic and systemic reach man via the conditioning planetary centres of force (the seven planetary schemes in the solar system and their corresponding seven centres in the planet on which we live) and pour into the symbolic "twelve houses" through their medium. it is for this reason that our solar system is spoken of as one of "intrinsic duality (love-wisdom) and that the major task of man is the "regulation of the pairs of opposites" the theme of duality, therefore, runs through the whole story of man's development. upon all the three planes of human unfoldment the reconciliation goes forward. 1. upon the physical plane we find the merging of th

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

to cast my horoscope. most of them have given me leo rising because they regard me as so individual. only one of them has ever given me cancer rising and he had insight and sympathy with my problem of publicity, and i think that inclined him to make cancer my rising sign. however, i believe that my rising sign is pisces. i have a pisces husband and a pisces daughter and pisces is the sign of the medium or the mediator. i am not a medium but i have been a kind of "middleman" between the hierarchy and the general public. i would have you note that i say the general public and not occult groups. i know and believe that the general public is more ready for a sane knowledge of the masters and more prepared for a normal and sensible interpretation of occult truth than are the members of the ave

e 20th century a disciple would come who would give information concerning the three fires with which the secret doctrine deals: electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction. this prophecy was fulfilled when a treatise on cosmic fire was given out to the public. this book concerns the fire of pure spirit or life; the fire of the mind that vitalises every atom of the solar system and creates the medium through which the sons of god develop. it also concerns the fire of matter producing that attraction and repulsion which is the basic law of evolution, and holding forms together so as to provide vehicles for the evolving life and later, when they have served their purpose, repulsing those forms so that the evolving lives can move on their way to higher evolution. the true significance of t

tended to offer study to disciples and initiates at the close of this century and the beginning of the next century, up until 2025 a.d. a.a.b. later felt that it would be of value to me and to the work if she wrote certain books, useful to students, apart from transcribing my writings and taking down my notes, rendering them into the thought-provoking english which together we have developed as a medium for transmission of the ideas which it is my dharma to make public. the average psychic and medium is not usually of a high grade intelligence, and a.a.b. desired to prove (for the aiding of the work of the future) that one could do definitely psychic work and be of a real intelligence. she has, therefore, written four books which are entirely her own production: the consciousness of the at

dualism of the mystic (a necessary stage) there is the occult fact of identity with the divine. 3. esoteric schools in the future these schools will be truly esoteric for humanity will then be ready. the higher consciousness of the disciple will be evoked and trained. he will be taught to work consciously on spiritual levels and to act as a soul in the three worlds of human evolution, through the medium of a highly intelligent personality. disciples will be prepared for initiation, and initiates will be trained to take the higher major initiations. emphasis will be laid upon the right handling of energies and forces, upon wisdom as the result of applied knowledge and upon the work and plans of the hierarchy. the intuition will be developed and a still higher fusion brought about between th

hierarchy works and disciples are trained to work the same way, eventually themselves becoming masters of the wisdom. this they achieve by mastering all difficulties and obstacles by the power of their own souls. they thus release some master, now active in the world, for higher and different work- 155- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust 7. an esoteric school is, therefore, a medium through which the disciple's life-focus becomes that of the soul; neither the physical world, nor the emotional and mental worlds are to him the major sphere of his activities. they are simply his field of service, and his personality becomes that through which his soul serves. he learns to work entirely from spiritual levels, and his consciousness is stably centered in the soul and in his

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

t this time consists in: a. his inability to see the true uses of pain. b. his resentment at suffering. c. his misunderstanding of the law of nonresistance- 8- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust d. his over-emphasis of the form nature. e. his attitude to death, and his feeling that the disappearance of the life out of visual perception through the medium of form, and the consequent disintegration of that form, indicates disaster. 5. when human thought reverses the usual ideas as to disease, and accepts disease as a fact in nature, man will begin to work with the law of liberation, with right thought, leading to nonresistance. at present, by the power of his directed thought and his intense antagonism to disease, he only tends to energise th

among the many forms of life long before the human family appeared on earth. if you seek verbal expression, and if you want to talk within the limits of the human mind, you can say with a measure of accuracy: god, the planetary deity, is guilty of wrong thinking. but you will not be expressing the truth, but only a tiny fraction of the cause, as it appears to your feeble finite mind, through the medium of the general world glamour and illusion. 7. from one angle, disease is a process of liberation, and the enemy of that which is static and crystallised. think not, from what i say, that therefore disease should be welcomed, and that the process of death should be cherished. were that the case, one would cultivate disease and put a premium on suicide. fortunately for humanity, the whole ten

and purpose of that which is superlatively great. therefore, it lies beyond man's ken. man has some day to learn that all the laws of nature have their higher, spiritual counterparts, and of these we shall shortly be in search. our laws today are but secondary laws. they are the laws of group life and they govern the kingdoms of nature and find their expression (for the human kingdom) through the medium of the mind, of the emotional nature, and through a physical plane- 18- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust agent. it is not my intention in this present short treatise to elucidate the primary laws. i but state them, and at a future time (dependent upon certain factors yet undeveloped) i may deal with them. in this treatise, the third part o

for work, and the term of his existence. 2. the predominating stream of energy coming from the astral, mental or soul bodies. these control his expression upon the physical plane. with the masses of people throughout the world, and those whom we call the vast unthinking public, the dominating factors are the stream of life and the stream of astral or desire energy. this can be either of a low or medium calibre. with the thinking public, the dominating factors are these two streams, plus a steady inflowing and increasing tide of mental energy. with the intelligentsia of the world and the aspirant (those ready for, or already on, the probationary path) we find the above three streams reaching a point of equilibrium, and thus- 21- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing cop

ny one life; sometimes several are brought into greater functioning consciousness. c. there is, finally, the awakening of these centres through the process of initiation. this of course only happens when the man is consciously upon the path. 5. the centres determine the man's point of evolution as far as his phenomenal expression is concerned; they work directly upon the physical body through the medium of the endocrine system. this point should be borne in mind, for the future occult healer will approach his patient with this knowledge. he will then work through those centres and glands which govern the particular area of the body wherein the disease or discomfort is located. the time, however, for this has not yet come, for man's ignorance is great. over-stimulation of the centres, and c

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

hat he sees and hears. thus are laid the elements of the arts and crafts, of drawing and of music. in the next ten years the mind is definitely trained to become dominant. the child is taught to rationalise his emotional and desire impulses, and to discriminate the right from the wrong, the desirable from the undesirable, and the essential from the nonessential. this can be taught him through the medium of history and the intellectual training which the cycle of his life makes compulsory under the laws of the country in which he lives. a sense of values and of right standards is thus established. he is taught the distinction between memory training and thinking; between bodies of facts, ascertained by thinkers and tabulated in books, and their application to the events of objective existen

elation to the world soul will be investigated. meditation along suitable lines will be part of the curriculum. it should be noted here, however, that the religious implications of meditation are needless. meditation is the process whereby the objective tendencies and outgoing impulses of the mind are thwarted, and it begins to be subjective, to focus and to intuit. this can be taught through the medium of deep thinking on any- 12- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust subject mathematics, biology, and so forth. the tendency of the newer education should be to make the subject of the educational experiment the conscious possessor of his equipment; it should leave him standing clear-eyed before life, with open doors ahead of him into the world of objective phenomena and relati

wingly, the idea of his soul to due and proper form, so that each life adds, subtracts and multiplies, until the sum of each soul's experiencing is complete. thus, symbolically, the three basic ideas are held in elementary education, though their true meaning is divorced from reality and the right significance is entirely lost. all that we have, however, emerging slowly and definitely through the medium of world education, is built upon this unrealised scaffolding. the fundamental necessity which today confronts the educational world is the need to relate the process of unfolding the human mentality to the world of meaning, and not to the world of objective phenomena. until the aim of education is to orient a man to this inner world of realities, we shall have the misplaced emphasis of the

ognise the higher. when the right method of training is instituted, the mind will be developed into a reflector or agent of the soul and so sensitised to the world of true values that the lower nature emotional- 17- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust mental and physical or vital will become simply the automatic servant of the soul. the soul will then function on earth through the medium of the mind, thereby controlling its instrument, the lower mind. yet at the same time, the mind will remain the recorder and reflector of all information coming to it from the world of the senses, from the emotional body, and will register also the thoughts and the ideas current in its environment. at present, it is alas true, the trained mind is regarded as the highest expression of which

s. the life principle the flow of divine energy through all forms is temporarily seated in the heart, while the consciousness principle, the soul of all things, is located (temporarily as far as the form- 18- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust nature of a particular human unit is concerned) within the brain. as again you know, the life principle controls the mechanism through the medium of the blood stream, for "the blood is the life" and uses the heart as its central organ; whilst the consciousness principle uses the nervous system as its instrument, with the intricate extensions of the organ of sensitivity, the spinal column. the objective of education should therefore be the training of the mechanism to respond to the life of the soul. the higher self or soul is the sum

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

k you to ponder on this, bracing yourself for revelation, through a deep understanding of the initiator in yourself. each of you has to initiate your own individual crises; there is no one else who is responsible. each of you together initiates the activity for which the group is responsible and for which you have been brought together; each of you initiates himself into the presence, through the medium of the angel, and into the shadow of the dweller on the threshold. through this process, full consciousness is achieved. the work of this group, and of other groups similarly motivated, is to achieve these undertakings together: together to face the dweller and triumph; together to arrive at understanding; together to stand before the presence because the angel's light reveals "that which t

alue of acting "as if" there is no time for any of you to be lonely these days, for there is no time for you to think about yourselves. the second point i made was the need for you to emphasise and develop the will. presumably, you have all been working at the task of building the antahkarana, the channel of communication between the brain and the spiritual will, or the monad, working through the medium of the spiritual triad. if you have been successful, it will be beginning to dawn upon you that there is a great distinction between goodwill which the masses can and often do grasp, and the will-to-good which is the goal of the disciple. goodwill is relatively simple of expression and all of you know much about it and express much of it. for that, no commendation is required, for it is a h

was he to lose sight of the inner orientation and specific recollection. all the time he was outwardly busy, he was simultaneously occupied with a constant realisation of a retreat inward, a heightening of his vibration, and a raising of his consciousness. b. on the day of the full moon, you were asked to go through a symbolic performance in the realm of the creative imagination, and through the medium of its agent, visualisation. this performance involved the following steps: 1. the recognition that in the blue disk, at the end of the golden pathway, was an ivory door which was slowly opening into a room with three windows. 2. the recognition that the group, as a unit, was advancing into that room and there, united in an- 40- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis tr

ith the information and through the hope and expectancy thus engendered may move forward into greater light, better human relations and a newer happiness. the results of your activities along this line should enhance the usefulness of the service activities of the arcane school and swell the ranks of those who are working on mental levels in the triangles and for right human relations through the medium of the goodwill work. begin, my brothers, to do your own work, leaving others to shoulder their assigned responsibilities and waste no time in interfering in any phase of work which does not call for your attention. you are in my ashram. the arcane school is not a project of my ashram and is, therefore, no responsibility of yours. it has been the means of giving you a greatly needed esoteri

ing to the desired and arranged cyclic technique binds all members of the ashram into one synthetic whole; there is therefore no possible controversy or any emphasis upon individual ideas, because no personality vibratory quality can penetrate in the periphery or the aura of an ashram. 3. the planning and the assignment of tasks connected with the enterprise in hand is carried forward through the medium of an ashramic, reflective meditation, initiated by the custodian of the plan. the master of an ashram does not say "do this" or "do that" together, in unison and in deep reflection the plans unfold, and each disciple and initiate sees occultly where he is needed and where at any given moment he must place his cooperative energy. note my wording here. the members of an ashram, however, do n

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

, if he is not literally an empty shell, which an obsessing entity can occupy and use. when speaking thus i am dealing with the very lowest type of animal mediumship of which there is far too much these days, and which is the cause of concern to the best minds in all the movements which foster mediumship. a mediumship which is entered into with a fully conscious focussed attitude and in which the medium, knowingly and intelligently, vacates his body to an entering entity of whom he is fully aware and who takes possession with his conscious permission in order to serve some spiritual end and help his fellowmen can be right and good. but how often is this type of mediumship to be seen? few mediums know the- 7- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust technique governin

y. definitely and with purpose they lend their body temporarily to another soul for service, preserving their own integrity all the time. the highest expression of this type of activity was the giving of his body by the disciple jesus for the use of the christ. it is in the word service that the whole story lies, and the safeguard. when this true mediumship is better understood, we shall have the medium passing out of his body in full waking consciousness through the orifice at the top of his head, and not, as is now the case in the majority of instances, through the solar plexus, with no preservation of awareness of the transaction, nor any recollection of what has transpired. we shall then have the temporary entrance of a new tenant along the line of a synchronous vibration through the e

psychic should be the training of the mind and the closing of the solar plexus until such time as he can function as a true mediator; if this involves the temporary cessation of his mediumistic powers (and consequently of his commercial exploitation, then so much the better for him, viewing him as an immortal soul, with a spiritual destiny and usefulness. the instruction given to the intelligent medium and psychic should lead him to a full understanding of himself and of his powers; it should develop those powers without risk and with care, and he should be stabilised in the position of the positive controlling factor. his clairvoyant and clairaudient powers should gradually be perfected, and the right interpretation of what he sees and contacts on the plane of illusion, the astral plane

ages. the other method is strictly emotional and so more easily colours the mass consciousness. an instance of this was the message of the love of god which christ enunciated and the emotional reaction of the masses to his life, his message, and his sacrifice. thus the need of the mental few and the emotional many has been met down the ages. in every case, the origin of the work effected and the medium whereby the race has been guided has been a human-divine consciousness; the medium has been a personality who knew and felt and was at-one with the world of ideas, with the inner world order, and with god's plan. the result of these two techniques of activity has been the emanation of a stream of force, coming from some layer or level of the world consciousness the mental or the emotional p

mind stuff, and can do this at the same time as they are conditioned and limited by their physical mechanism. they are then entirely freed from the time consciousness and from any such limitations as space relations within the solar system. 2. the focus of their polarisation is on the mental plane and they function there as sons of mind or of manas. their normal mode of intercourse is through the medium of telepathic understanding. this is the normal technique of a divine and free manasaputra. this is all made possible when a human being has polarised himself in the soul consciousness, when the egoic lotus is unfolding and when, therefore, the mental method of working is that of mental relationship or telepathy- 25- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust i earlier

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

ilosophy are but the qualities he manifests through these types of entities. superhuman lives express sattva, the guna of rhythm and of harmonious response to divine urge, of perfect display of coordinated cooperation with the purpose of manifestation. human lives demonstrate the quality of rajas, of mobility, of constant and conscious change in order to ascertain what is the real and through the medium of experience demonstrate the true nature of rhythmic response. subhuman lives express the guna of tamas or of inertia. they work blindly and have no ability to- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust respond consciously to the plan. they are the sumtotal of the "units of inertia" just as the human units are called "the points of l

e of rightly adjusted proportion comes that accuracy and one-pointedness which is the hallmark of the occultist. in the right aspiration at the appointed time comes the necessary contact and the inspiration for the work that has to be done. in the steady adherence to self-appointed rules comes the gradual refining of the instrument and the perfecting of the vehicles that will be to the master the medium of help among many little ones. i commend the above thought to you knowing that you will apprehend the implications and will seriously consider the purport of my remarks. the world today is in the throes of agony. just as in the evolving ego, the moment of greatest development is oft the moment of greatest pain (if apprehension measure up to opportunity) so in the evolving world. to those o

e not been transmitted to us. they vary for each ray, but all bring about the recognition of divine merging, in which all separating veils are "rent from the top to the bottom (as the new testament expresses it- 26- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust b. the omniscience of the divine whole is also brought home to the initiate through the medium of the clear cold light, and the phases of "isolated experience" as it is sometimes occultly called, is forever ended. i would have you realise what this can mean in so far as possible to your present consciousness. up till the present, the initiate-disciple has been functioning as a duality and as a fusion of soul-energy and personality-force. now these forms of life stand exposed to him f

ife upon our planet via our planetary logos who hears it with clarity and with understanding the sound of the lowest syllable of the ineffable name of the- 35- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust one in whom all the planetary logoi live and move and have their being, for they are centres in the life which is expressing itself through the medium of a solar system. you can see how little use there is in my enlarging further upon this. its sole usefulness is to give an expanding impulse to the consciousness of the disciple and to stir his imagination (the seed of the intuition, so that even whilst occupied in expressing the m and then the m, he will be reaching out after the sound. earlier i pointed out that the sound of the a.u.m, t

the distribution of the waters of life) of its pristine beauty, and not the beauty of its false flowering. he demands, therefore, upon the note of the lower aspect of the personality (i am talking in symbols, that this flowering forth should take place according to the plan. this involves upon his part a vision of that plan, identification with the underlying purpose, and the ability through the medium of the higher mind, which is the lowest aspect of the spiritual triad to work in the world of ideas and to create those forms of thought which will aid in the materialising of the plan in conformity with the purpose. this is the creative work of thoughtform building and that is why, we are told, that the first great demand "sounds forth within the world of god's ideas and towards the desert

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ilized, the disciple finds himself en rapport with the universal and similar divine energies and powers, underlying the operations of the natural world. thus he becomes a worker under the plan of evolution and a cooperator with that great "cloud of witnesses, who through the power of their onlooking, and the result of their attainment, constitute the thrones, principalities and powers through the medium of which the one life guides all creation onward to a glorious consummation. such is the goal towards which hercules worked, and such is the goal before humanity as a whole, whose ultimate group achievement will be brought about by the many individual perfections. astrological connotations a secondary object of this study is to present an aspect of astrology which will differ from that usua

n our three dimensional knowledge, for the laws of time and space have no hold over the soul (esoteric astrology. we will therefore in this study deal with an astrology which will be non-mathematical and which will have no relation to the casting of horoscopes. it will concern itself with the twelve types of energy by means of which consciousness of the divine reality is brought about through the medium of form. in no distant heaven and in no subjective state did hercules arrive at this knowledge. in the physical body, handicapped and limited by the tendencies conferred on him by the sign in which he performed the labor, he attained understanding of his own essential divinity. through the overcoming of form and the subjugation of matter, a picture is given us of an unfolding divine self-re

areness when truly developed, enables a man to discover that the concealed deity in the universe- 11- the labours of hercules is identical in nature, though vastly greater in degree and consciousness, with the concealed deity within himself. man then can become consciously the onlooker, the beholder, the perceiver. he is no longer identified with the matter aspect, but is the one who uses it as a medium of expression. when this stage is reached, the great labors start, and the warfare is consciously in progress. the man is torn in two directions. habit entices him to identify himself with form. the new understanding impels him to identify himself with the soul. a reorientation then takes place, and a new and self-directed effort is initiated, which is portrayed for us in the story of hercu

earned from this? it is the need to realize that every disciple, if he truly merits that name, must necessarily be a highly developed member of the human family. all three parts of his nature have to be unfolded; his mind must be well-stocked and functioning, and he must know how to use it; his sensitive emotional nature must be responsive to every type of contact; his physical body must be a fit medium of expression for the indwelling soul and- 15- the labours of hercules equipped to undertake the tasks to which the man has pledged himself. there has been amongst aspirants for many centuries a tendency to decry and belittle the mind. they are apt to say glibly "the mind is the slayer of the real" and, through an unrecognized mental inertia and laziness, to feel that the important thing is

t 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 consecrated, purified and spiritualized, then the glory and the light can indeed shine through and the moon aspect can, therefore, be exalted in taurus. this is done through the influe

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of the eclectic magazine series man, myth and magic. here were a clutch of excitingly vivid and dynamically coloured originals. my mouth went dry, my head reeled and i was shocked into a state of genuine awe. these were the real thing. i remember a dual self-portrait in which the two facing heads of spare seemed to be locked into some perpetual argument. there was an eerie study of a transported medium, her eyes neither open nor closed, and then there was a martian coloured astral landscape with a single figure of a seated satyr looking into the orange-red void. i liked this one the most. unfortunately i couldn t afford to buy any of the pictures and very soon they went to various acquaintances who could afford them. i was desolated and vowed then to one day own one of my own. the paintin

here is a feeling in these later works that the senses have become inflamed and flooded with information in a way that sets the nerves jangling in both the viewer and the artist. but if this direction into synaesthesia wasn t entirely deliberate, it was certainly kickstarted into colour by the arrival of a gift of a new set of pastels courtesy of kenneth and steffi grant. spare s handling of this medium and his bold experimentation with flux and form sees him pre-empting and pre-figuring the extravagant and drug-induced art of the 60 s and 70 s. yet again he is attuned to the social pre-echo of the entire psychedelic movement. his artist shaman antennae were feeling their way ahead of time through the colonization of entire psychic geographies. again he reaches for a pure art of becoming e

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

necessary that the substance of the sun should touch the earth. twelve keys of basil valentine 48 of 95 the sun can heat the earth by shedding thereon its rays, which are intensified by reflection. this intermediate agency is quite sufficient to do the work of the sun, and to mature everything by coction. the rays of the sun are tempered with the air by passing through it so as to operate by the medium of the air, as the air operates through the medium of the fire. earth without water can produce nothing, nor can water quicken anything into growth without earth; and as earth and water are mutually indispensable in the production of fruit, so fire cannot operate without air, or air without fire. for fire has no life without air; and without fire air possesses neither heat nor dryness. when

molten metal, and then you will learn in all faith and truth that it shall be changed into the only good and fixed gold. for one body takes possession of the other; even if it be unlike to it, nevertheless, through the strength and potency added to it, it is compelled to be assimilated to the same, since like derives origin from like. twelve keys of basil valentine 72 of 95 whoever uses this as a medium shall find whither the vestibules of the palace lead, and there is nothing comparable to the subtlety thereof. he shall possess all in all, performing all things whatsoever which are possible under the sun. o principle of the prime principle, consider the end! o end of the final end, consider the beginning! and be this medium commended unto your faithful care, wherein also god the father, s

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

o samy monastery; neither is it clear when he became its head protector deity.48 regardless of these uncertainties, tsiu marpo has an understandably strong presence at samy monastery. de nebesky-wojkowitz provides an evocative account of the temple at samy that houses tsiu marpo, called the jokwukhang (lcog dbug khang. it is here that the samy oracle of tsiu marpo once resided: the most important medium of tsi u dmar po resides at samye in the so-called tsi u dmar lcog dbug khang. the outer walls of this edifice are covered by red cloth. the upper floor of the building is reserved as living-quarters for the oracle-priest, and on the lower floor, next to the mgon khang,49 lies a room which is opened only once a year, at the time when the so-called glud gong [person embodying a ransom ritual

ulty in classifying these divinities is no doubt due to the sharing of positions they engender, which is evident in parallel narratives such as this. tsiu marpo is believed to reside in the jokwukhang (figure 6) at samy to this day, but the building along with other temples at the monastery is currently in the process of being rebuilt after the damage inflicted during the cultural revolution. the medium no longer resides at the jokwukhang and there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that the tsiu marpo mediumship even exists anymore. if this oracle tradition still persists, it most likely made its way to india along with the nechung oracle.54 the g nkhang is now on the second floor of the temple rather than the first, and the room where the souls of the dead are meant to congregate for j

iu marpo s place within 151 diemberger (2005, p. 127) provides an argument for why the english word "oracle" is apt in describing this practice despite reservations about its usage by such figures as the fourteenth dalai lama. her usage depends heavily on the practice as it involves the speech of a god expressed through the individual. another common english word used synonymously with oracle is "medium" 113 it. the studies that exist on tibetan oracles show the tradition to be quite diverse and heterogeneous; however, there are some basic universal elements indicative of an oracle cult.152 there are a number of tibetan words that refer to oracles: kuten (sku rten "bodily receptacle" lhabap (lha bab "god descent" and lhaka (lha bka "god speech" these terms are descriptive enough in their c

not live very long because of the intense strain and pain they endure during trances.160 the oracle will also start to exhibit the specific attributes of the particular deity possessing them. de nebesky-wojkowitz provides a vivid account of this feature: many mediums, mostly at the beginning of the trance, show also a behaviour characteristic of the deity who took possession of their body. thus a medium of rdo rje shugs ldan [dorj shukden] produces the gurgling sound of a man in the agony of suffocation said to be the voice of the abbot bsod nams grags pa [s nam drakpa] who killed himself by stuffing a ceremonial scarf into his throat; the oracle-priest of skar ma shar [karmashar, who sometimes becomes possessed by bya khri mig gcig po [jatri mikchikpo "the one-eyed with the bird-throne, w

y stuffing a ceremonial scarf into his throat; the oracle-priest of skar ma shar [karmashar, who sometimes becomes possessed by bya khri mig gcig po [jatri mikchikpo "the one-eyed with the bird-throne, will keep only one eye open for the duration of his trance; the spirit of slob dpon [lop n, the crippled adversary of the former state magician rgyal mtshan mthar phyin [gyeltsen tarchin, makes his medium limp; the drung yig chen mo [drungyik chenmo, as soon as he had entered the body of an oracle-priest, will remind all those present of the events which led eventually to his incorporation among the dharmap.las by saying the sentence "i killed the ninety-nine 157 see de nebesky-wojkowitz 1998, p. 409; and diemberger 2005, p. 130. 158 see havnevik 2002, pp. 276-277; and de nebesky-wojkowitz 1

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that there are some countries which are lightened, whilst others are in darkness; these have the day, when for the former it is night; and there are countries in which it is constantly day, or in which at least the night continues only some instants (zohar iii, fol. 10a "qabbalah" p. 139[[vol. 2, page] 29 the celestial governors of humanity. gets all its vital forces, life, and powers through the medium of the seven planetary dhyanis from the spirit of the sun. they are his messengers of light and life "like each of the seven regions of the earth, each of the seven* firstborn (the primordial human groups) receives its light and life from its own especial dhyani- spiritually, and from the palace (house, the planet) of that dhyani physically; so with the seven great races to be born on it. t

the fathers, the progenitors of men. this[[footnote(s* usanas-sukra or venus is our "lucifer" the morning star, of course. the ingenuity of this allegory in its manifold meanings is great indeed. thus brihaspati (the planet jupiter) or brahmanaspati is, in the rig veda, a deity who is the symbol and the prototype of the exoteric or ritualistic worship. he is priest sacrificer, suppliant, and the medium through which the prayers of mortals reach the gods. he is the purohita (family priest, or court chaplain) of the hindu olympus and the spiritual guru of the gods. soma is the mystery god and presides over the mystic and occult nature in man and the universe. tara, the priest's wife, who symbolizes the worshipper, prefers esoteric truths to their mere shell, exotericism; hence she is shown

d dissolves only in nirvana, re-emerges from it in its integrity on the day when the great law calls all things back into action" hence, as the higher "pitris or dhyanis" had no hand in his physical creation, we find primeval man, issued from the bodies of his spiritually fireless progenitors, described as aeriform, devoid of compactness, and mindless. he had no middle principle to serve him as a medium between the highest and the lowest, the spiritual man and the physical brain, for he lacked manas. the monads which incarnated in those empty shells, remained as unconscious as when separated from their previous incomplete forms and vehicles. there is no potentiality for creation, or self-consciousness, in a pure spirit on this our plane, unless its too homogeneous, perfect, because divine

ways be found preferable, by a certain class of students, to one projected out of the ethereal body of his creator; though the former process has never been heard of, while the latter is familiar, as all know, to many spiritualists in europe and america, who, of all men, ought to understand it. for who of those who have witnessed the phenomenon of a materialising form oozing out of the pores of a medium or, at other times, out of his left side, can fail to credit the possibility, at least, of such a birth? if there are[[vol. 2, page] 87 man not created perfect. in the universe such beings as angels or spirits, whose incorporeal essence may constitute an intelligent entity notwithstanding the absence of any (to us) solid organism; and if there are those who believe that a god made the first

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ain, in all, twenty pages extracted from "isis unveiled" the author does not feel it necessary to ask the indulgence of her readers and critics for the many defects of literary style, and the imperfect english which may be found in these pages. she is a foreigner, and her knowledge of the language was acquired late in life. the english tongue is employed because it offers the most widely-diffused medium for conveying the truths which it had become her duty to place before the world. these truths are in no sense put forward as a revelation; nor does the author claim the position of a revealer of mystic lore, now made public for the first time in the world's history. for what is contained in this work is to be found scattered throughout thousands of volumes embodying the scriptures of the gr

there is "that" which links spirit to matter, subject to object. this something, at present unknown to western speculation, is called by the occultists fohat. it is the "bridge" by which the "ideas" existing in the "divine thought" are impressed on cosmic substance as the "laws of nature" fohat is thus the dynamic energy of cosmic ideation; or, regarded from the other side, it is the intelligent medium, the guiding power of all manifestation, the "thought divine" transmitted and made manifest through the dhyan chohans* the architects of the visible world. thus from spirit, or cosmic ideation, comes our consciousness; from cosmic substance the several vehicles in which that consciousness is individualised and attains to self- or reflective- consciousness; while fohat, in its various manife

of the angels, as it is called. satan and his rebellious host would thus prove, when the meaning of the allegory is explained, to have refused to create physical man, only to become the direct saviours and the creators of "divine man" the symbolical teaching is more than mystical and religious, it is purely scientific, as will be seen later on. for, instead of remaining a mere blind, functioning medium, impelled and guided by fathomless law, the "rebellious" angel claimed and enforced his right of independent judgment and will, his[[vol. 1, page] 194 the secret doctrine. right of free-agency and responsibility, since man and angel are alike under karmic law "and there was war in heaven. michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed n

creation out of nihil as christians and jews do, but in evolution out of preexisting materials* the so-called "spirits" that may occasionally possess themselves of the bodies of mediums are not the monads or higher principles of disembodied personalities. such a "spirit" can only be either an elementary, or- a nirmanakaya[[vol. 1, page] 234 the secret doctrine. or taking temporary possession of a medium. just as certain persons- men and women, reverting to parallel cases among living persons- whether by virtue of a peculiar organization, or through the power of acquired mystic knowledge, can be seen in their "double" in one place, while the body is many miles away; so the same thing can occur in the case of superior beings. man, philosophically considered, is, in his outward form, simply a

elor kama[[footnote(s* nephesch is the "breath of (animal) life" breathed into adam, the man of dust; it is consequently the vital spark, the informing element. without manas, or what is miscalled in levi's diagram nephesch instead of manas "the reasoning soul" or mind, atma- buddhi are irrational on this plane and cannot act. it is buddhi which is the plastic mediator, not manas "the intelligent medium between the upper triad and the lower quaternary" but there are many such strange and curious transformations to be found in the kabalistic works- a convincing proof that its literature has become a sad jumble. we do not accept the classification except in this one particular, in order to show the points of agreement[[vol. 1, page] 243 occult and kabalistic doctrines. we will now give in ta

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n abnormal individual, who needs treatment and cure; and the sooner cured the better! now, at this point, our friends begin messing-about with .mediums. and as the result, obtain an extraordinary amount of rubbish, wholly disconnected from the case, by which they try to prove that the alternating personalities were really .spirits! most of these messages were obtained through a .mrs. chenoweth. a medium who has figured largely in the reports of the american society, though heaven only knows why, as she gives us a constant flow of the most terrible drivel which it is possible to conceive. looking through the socalled reports on this medium, one is impressed with the idea that it is criminal to waste time, and the society s money, obtaining such stuff, and criminal to keep pouring money down

ican society, though heaven only knows why, as she gives us a constant flow of the most terrible drivel which it is possible to conceive. looking through the socalled reports on this medium, one is impressed with the idea that it is criminal to waste time, and the society s money, obtaining such stuff, and criminal to keep pouring money down such a sink of nothingness. what is the hold which this medium seems to have over the venerable secretary of the society? is it more than a mere scientific interest? are there subtler motives which cause the head of the psychical movement in america to bow solemnly before the crude .teachings. obtained through this evident fraud of a medium? any common sense man-of the-world, reading this stuff, would form his own opinions,.for it is plain to see that

e than a mere scientific interest? are there subtler motives which cause the head of the psychical movement in america to bow solemnly before the crude .teachings. obtained through this evident fraud of a medium? any common sense man-of the-world, reading this stuff, would form his own opinions,.for it is plain to see that,.by merely playing upon his vanity, and flattering him to the skies, this .medium. has managed to ingratiate herself so thoroughly with the noted professor, that he has become blind to evidence, to facts, and to common sense. here are a few typical .nuggets of wisdom. from the sittings .they are not so clear about the life here as they will be when they come but they mean all right. i had faith too but the knowledge is better. i had in the equinox 288 mind a prayer that

things we think and wish for are taking place then we realize that our thought has had some power even though we did not speak or act. i have no interest whatever that the things said do not match with what i believed in the past. one must tell things as they find them and not as they wish they were" o tempora, o mores! let us admit that .immortality. has now been proved; that hyslop.s marvellous medium has furnished the demonstration! we are to inherit the kingdom of heaven, and there assist the angels in the compilation of english grammars (let us hope) for the use of those who communicate through mrs. chenoweth! when one reads through stuff like this, one is driven to ask the question how can men of intelligence and learning, perhaps with skill in other lines of research, be driven to a

nd there assist the angels in the compilation of english grammars (let us hope) for the use of those who communicate through mrs. chenoweth! when one reads through stuff like this, one is driven to ask the question how can men of intelligence and learning, perhaps with skill in other lines of research, be driven to accept such nonsense as proof of anything beyond obvious fraud on the part of the .medium? how can their sense of all that constitutes evidence be so lacking,.their judgment so at fault,as to accept this drivel as proof of .spirits? one can form only the opinion.one seems driven to this conclusion.that it is the .will to believe. which has influenced them in this manner.not the evidence itself, but their own warped and faulty judgment. if one analyzes the facts, he finds that pr

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

e will crack) or oil. allow it to cool off then clean it with wet and dry paper. next, to temper it, reheat the blade to a dull red. again plunge it, point downwards, into the tepid water or oil, moving it up and down in the liquid. clean it with wet and dry paper, then heat it up again. watch the blade carefully this time as it changes color. it will go to a bright, light, straw color, then to a medium straw color. immediately plunge the blade into water and let it cool off (don't let it get past the straw color; it would go on to blue, then purple and green. watch the point as that will change color first. at the first sign or "blueing" on the point, plunge the blade into the water. note: the colors appear quickly. keep the point the furthest from the heat. once the blade is cold take it

conscious, or "higher spiritual mind. we now know this part of our mind or consciousness as the super-conscious. are dreams important? the mere fact that they occur gives them a certain importance. no facet of your existence is totally trivial. however, when you consider the source of your dreams, the great importance of them becomes increasingly clear. for many people the dream state is the only medium available to the higher mind for it to reach the consciousness. thus every night it is busy trying to get its message across. your higher self is expending a lot of time and effort in forming and transmitting dreams; the least you can do is try to understand what the message is. dream interpretation and symbology you have probably spent countless hours trying, unsuccessfully, to decipher th

ear seeing, clairaudience (hearing, clairsen-tience (sensing) and telepathy (thought transference. the abilities to function in precognitive (knowing before the event, retrocognitive (after the event) and present time frames. a further division of channeling should be noted. that is, the difference between "trance" and "conscious" channeling (the trance condition can be further divided into deep, medium and light states. generally speaking, the term "trance" indicates the lack of conscious activity on the part of the psychic, or "channel. in a deep trance, the channel is not consciously aware of what is occurring during the process and will not retain any memory of the event. in a medium or semi-trance state, the channel usually has some conscious awareness of what occurs and retains some

hand, rather than in both hands; some hold it to the forehead, over the third eye; some hold it over the heart. experiment. see which is best for you. there is good evidence to show that a pictorial method is resorted to very largely by the spirits mediums seeing what they describe, very often, when the more direct auditory method is not resorted to. the spirit presents somehow to the mind of the medium a picture, which is described and often interpreted by the medium. often this interpretation is quite erroneous, resemblinga defective analysis of a dream. because of this the message is not recognized, yet the source of the message may have been perfectly veridical. let us illustrate this more fully. suppose you desire to tell a chinese, who speaks not a word of english, to get a certain o

y to him your meaning. if this were not recognized you would have the utmost difficulty in telling him to get the watch from the next room. now suppose these antics, or somewhat similar ones, were resorted to by a spirit in his attempt to convey the word "watch, perhaps to remind the sitter of a particular pocket watch he used to carry in his vest pocket. the spirit might well proceed as follows: medium 'he taps his stomach and looks at a spot over his left side. he seems to wish to convey the impression that he suffered much from bowel trouble' perhaps a cancer on the left side. yes, he seems to be taking something away from his body; evidently they removed some growth. now he is examining his hand. he is looking intently. now he is doing something with his fingers. i can't see what it is

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gs, am reflected to myself. to the uninstructed, therefore, who mistake the reflection for that which is reflected, my secondary nature seemeth to be more interior than the primal will. this error may be likened to the illusion which ariseth when one seeth a room reflected in a glass, and thinketh he seeth the room itself. for though what presenteth itself in the mirror of wisdom is internal, the medium of reflection hath its place in the without, in the realm of secondary and created things [32] g i m e l 4 as the substance whence all forms arise, the vehicle of my divine essence, mine inferior nature is to the superior as is passive to active, as woman to man, as eve to adam. yet to every light of emanation proceeding from it on the tree of life doth this same wisdom stand as root and so

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

al coupling of earth and sky by plunging a knife into a chalice of water, or by the use of physical sex carried out in private, by an established couple, out of sight of the coven. in this way, any very human complications may be prevented from creeping into the ritual. it is also possible to come across well-meaning but totally inexperienced groups who attempt to practise the kind of work that a medium, white witch or healer would take years even to approach. unfortunately, it is all too common for lovers of occult movies to set themselves up as gurus and wreak unintended havoc on the psychological and psychic well-being of others. you should be sure, when you choose a coven, that its members are kind and gentle and do not indulge in spirit summoning or spirit possession, even for trance

oral code. the wiccan rede states: an [if] it harm none, do what you will, and so ensures all magick has a positive intent. sabbat: one of eight special days of the year on which wiccan celebrations are held- the solstices, the equinoxes and the celtic fire festivals. samhain: the celtic fire festival of the new year, celebrated at the end of summer. scrying: seeing magical images in a reflective medium, such as a crystal ball, mirror or a natural moving source of inspiration, such as fire, water or clouds. the word 'scry' comes from the anglo-saxon word descry, which means 'to perceive dimly. shamanism: possibly the oldest spiritual practice in the world, continued today in seite 180 wicca01.txt communities as far apart as india, australia, japan and china, siberia and mongolia, in africa

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

d "a notable increase of quarrelling and wrangling" with an atmosphere that was "alive with anger and terror" when conjure practitioners were about "a neighborhood in which a trick doctor may happen to be, is sometimes thrown into a state of general turmoil by his presence" he wrote "it then resembles a community of personal enemies whose hands strike at each other either directly, or through the medium of his supposed power" bruce's attitude was mirrored by other white observers of black life after the turn of the century "in the conduct of plantations, difficulty and annoyance were not infrequently experienced" wrote charles colcock jones, a georgia historian in the early 1900s "from the interference of [the] old negro women.conjurers,.who, in plying their secret trade, gave rise to dist

particular events"[58] other academic theories have proposed that the witchcraft beliefs of traditional peoples provide an arena for the enactment of grievances, an idea that would appear to be supported in black american conjure practices. the anthropologist clyde kluckhohn, researching native north american witchcraft beliefs in the early twentieth century, found that witchcraft functioned as a medium of social control in indian cultures. the witch, he concluded, was an antisocial character who embodied danger, promoted evil, and encouraged unnatural acts.an inversion of normative behavior in the navajo world. kluckhohn also believed that witchcraft beliefs permitted "socially legitimate hostilities" to emerge within navajo indian society "the witch" he stated "is the person whom the ide

lover's triangle, spoke of the healing power of a spiritual minister who cured her of "madness" when she was "hoodooed" by her adulterous husband and his mistress. the minister\ 117\ she claimed "had power above. she had a strong power to heal" she professed "i just c thank god that he enabled me to get myself back to be myself from that way they fixed me" another congregant commended a spiritual medium for helping her after a series of "unlucky" accidents caused her to become sick "i was nothing but a shell" she declared "i went up there to [the medium] and she told me to fast and pray on monday for my health and fast and pray on wednesday for my strength. c she sure has helped me a lot. i tell you i came out" spiritual churchgoers attested to recovery from ailments that ranged from alcoh

hose control over their own environment.often tainted by racism and discrimination, economic inequalities, and damaged interpersonal relations.was uncertain or precarious. by providing remedies and spiritual "work" spiritualists bolstered individuals f beliefs in their ability to care for themselves "i tell the people what the spirit directs and they go back to work out their problems" asserted a medium in the nashville church during the depression era "so many of them worry about jobs now and that's the thing i try to advise in some way. but you see people must live right and clean to get god's full blessing" a spiritual minister in chicago offered similar insights into the relationship between her congregants f afflictions and the quality of their lives "people around here are very insec

nd doctors rather than as conjurers, these specialists solicited customers independently through the classified sections of the newspaper rather than relying on the strength of their reputations or on word-of-mouth referrals. as a consequence, the intimacy and familiarity that had characterized contacts between conjure practitioners and their clients in the past shrank in the relatively anonymous medium of print.[42] advertising copy drawn from a sampling of black newspapers in the 1920s and the 1930s demonstrates how supernatural practitioners accommodated themselves to the increasingly specialized needs of city dwellers. press advertisements publicized the special skills and embellished credentials of supernatural practitioners, stressing their professional training or mastery of some es

COMMENTARY ON THE SEAL OF THE NINE ANGLES

ce" of the nine angles. with the number four we have geometrically a threedimensional displacement in space. hence existence of matter and energy becomes possible. hence time becomes possible, as the measurement of change in matter and energy. fifth angle: humanity as the physical vehicle for the expression of the satanic psyche as discussed in the fourth angle. concept of the body as a necessary medium for the self-realization of the psyche, at least in its early stage. translation of this into physical representation of supra- energy/matter forms such as set via the creation of images, building to temples, etc. a temple with five trihedrons is a four-faced pyramid (as giza, the 4/5/9 seal is the seal of the order of the trapezoid: a marvel of integrated, interrelated 4/5/9 values. as not

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t has enabled societies to maintain necessary class distinctions, and it has ensured the subordination of the citizen to the state, by virtue of the residue war powers inherent in the concept of nationhood. no modern political ruling group has successfully controlled its constituency after failing to sustain the continuing credibility of an external threat of war. 3 sociological. war, through the medium of military institutions, has uniquely served societies, throughout the course of known history, as an indispensable controller of dangerous [free-thinking] social dissidence and destructive antisocial tendencies. 172..and the truth shall set you free 4 ecological. war has been the principle evolutionary device for maintaining a satisfactory ecological balance between gross human population

this affected the vibrational state of the people attracted by it and turned them into equally crazed agents of hatred. it is the pied piper principle, using a vibration instead of a pipe. as the writer alan bullock said of hitler "his power to bewitch an audience has been likened to the occult arts of the african medicine-man or the asiatic shaman; others have compared it to the sensitivity of a medium, and the magnetism of a hypnotist."7 and herman rauschning, an aide to hitler, said in his book, hitler speaks "one cannot help thinking of him as a medium. for most of the time, mediums are ordinary, insignificant people. suddenly they are endowed with what seem to be 210 .and the truth shall set you free supernatural powers which set them apart from the rest of humanity. the medium is pos

ndia, a million farmers took to the streets when a us patent was awarded for the active genes of the neem tree, which has been used for centuries as a herbal remedy. no-one should own the patent to any seed or animal and especially not the mindset that controls the multinationals. the farming policies of the european community and those demanded by gatt have been designed to destroy the small and medium-sized farmer and allow the land and the market to be taken over almost entirely by the multinational corporations across the world. over-production in agriculture, the butter 'mountains' and the wine takes, has not been caused by stupidity. it has been calculated to destroy smaller farms. what is happening to the smaller farmers in the industrialised countries is only a continuation and exp

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ration to the vast crowds. this affected the vibrational state of the people and turned them into equally crazed agents of hatred. it is the pied piper principle, using vibrational frequencies. as writer alan bullock said of hitler "his power to bewitch an audience has been likened to the occult art of the african medicine man or the asiatic shaman; others have compared it to the sensitivity of a medium, and the magnetism of a hypnotist."19 and hermann rauschning, an aide to hitler, said in his book hitler speaks "one cannot help thinking of him as a medium. for most of the time, mediums are ordinary, insignificant people. suddenly they are endowed with what seems to be supernatural powers, which set them apart from the rest of humanity. the medium is possessed. once the crisis is passed

ns dubbed "pisces, which it entered around 2,000 years ago, and into a "new age" of aquarius. it is almost like passing through a curriculum at a school with the different energy combinations affecting the earth, offering different eras and experiences for those who choose to be here at the time. the maya peoples in the yucatan, mexico, left records of their measurement of "time" and their small, medium, and great cycles, of the earth's evolution. one of their great cycles, which apparently began in 3113bc, is due to be completed in 2012. other researchers of these ancient measurements of "time" suggest that much longer cycles than this are also ending in this same period. the base resonant frequency of the planet, known as schumann cavity resonance, was discovered in 1899 and remained pre

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take over the world. abrotherhood insider, a russian, said there was a massive vortex, an interdimensionalgateway, in the caucasus mountains where the extraterrestrials entered this dimension.that would explain a great deal. the name iran comes from the earlier airy-ana or air-an, which means land of the aryas or aryans.52 still today there are two distinct racesin kurdistan, the olive skinned of medium height with dark eyes, and the much taller,white skinned people, often with blue eyes. you will note that these traits wereconsidered the master race by the nazis and this was because the nazis knew thehistory and the connection with the reptilians. andrew collins in his book, from theashes of angels, presents compelling evidence that the biblical garden of eden washigh up in this region of

ed piper principle, using vibrational frequencies. as one writer said of hitler:his power to bewitch an audience has been likened to the occult art of the africanmedicine man or the asiatic shaman; others have compared it to the sensitivity of amedium, and the magnetism of a hypnotist. 5and hermann rauschning, an aide to hitler, said in his book, hitler speaks:one cannot help thinking of him as a medium. for most of the time, mediums areordinary, insignificant people. suddenly they are endowed with what seem to besupernatural powers which set them apart from the rest of humanity. the medium ispossessed. once the crisis is passed, they fall back again into mediocrity. it was in thisway, beyond any doubt, that hitler was possessed by forces outside of himself- almostdemoniacal forces of whic

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manifests in myriad ways. aether interacts with three dimensional matter and matter is a bound form of aether. all the various forces such as gravity, magnetism, electricity, and the nuclear forces are due to activities in aether. 1.1.3 characterization of aether my research and discoveries have led me to characterize the most basic attenuation of aether as follows: 1. a superfluidic particulate medium which pervades all space. 2. a medium which in its various modes is the building block of the physical universe. 3. a medium which, in one of its modes, is responsible for all the known grosser physical forces such as magnetism, electricity, electric charge, gravity, inertia, and the strong and weak atomic forces. 4. a medium which is controllable by our mind and can be manipulated by our t

ervades all space. 2. a medium which in its various modes is the building block of the physical universe. 3. a medium which, in one of its modes, is responsible for all the known grosser physical forces such as magnetism, electricity, electric charge, gravity, inertia, and the strong and weak atomic forces. 4. a medium which is controllable by our mind and can be manipulated by our thoughts. 5. a medium which can be intensified and manipulated into any force or manifestation by the use of materials, shapes, and grosser forces. this book will examine the aether as many of these characterizations but primarily from the view of shape power which is the ability of geometrical and atomic structure to modify, intensify, focus, and in general "qualify" or give specific qualities to aether and its

ure goes together geometrically what follows is a unified concept of these. i don't pretend that this is the end of the discussion of nuclear structure, but at least its a place to start developing a new, rational structure of matter and the universe, and to form a theoretical basis for a new picture of shape power research efforts. 8.2 the torroidal electron space is envisioned as a superfluidic medium, nonviscous, relatively frictionless, massless and continuous. it can be modeled as a paniculate superfluid with average interaction spacing of l essentially, this is a new definition of the aether.1 the electron is postulated as a torroidal (i.e, donut shaped) ring. the ring with a radius of r and a cross section of r, rotates with a velocity of c, the speed of light. the ring (or more pro

of kinetics, the transverse wave speed in a fluid is: the charge of an electron, the rydberg constant, and gravitational constant are also derivable from simple fluid mechanics 1,2 treatment of the aether. see table 1, page 119, for a summary of the simple relationships of the basic atomic and electrical constants as derived using fluid mechanics and treating aether as a superfluidic particulate medium. analysis of the proton leads to the conclusion that it is also an aetheric torroidal vortex, rotating at velocity c, with a different radius and ring cross section 3,4. the proton torroid, when it is broken up, devolves into a substructure which is made of three quarks, also torroids, which spin as a complete whole to form the proton. it is theorized that the quarks are not self-stable par

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

mportant are usually seven in number and are located along the spine from the perineum to the crown of the head. opening the chakras results in the attainment of various magickal energies. chalice: a stemmed goblet used as the tool of elemental water. the magickal weapon of elemental water and the west. channeling: the process by which a spirit is allowed to take control of the consciousness of a medium or channeler, and speaks through the mouth of that person. identical to the practices of trance mediums, but it tends to dispense with the traditional paraphernalia of the seance. used by modern day spiritualists. uncontrolled and unprepared invocation (q.v. a practice generally avoided and frowned upon by modern ceremonial/ritual magicians. chanting: the rhythmic repetition of sounds or wo

our higher self and the universe. 2) the act of turning the mind inward with focused attention. there are many forms and methods of meditation which are distinguished by the immediate object the mind focuses itself upon. meditative reflection upon silence seeks stillness of the mind, whereas meditative reflection upon a specific idea or problem necessitates mental activity in a certain direction. medium: 1) a person who let the consciousness of an entity, allegedly a the spirit of a dead person, enter into themselves, and take over his or her consciousness for a time. 2) in spiritualism (q.v, a person who becomes an intermediary by providing the spirit(s) with means of communicating with the carnate, material human beings. today, called a channeller. memory, magickal: the memory of past li

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

understanding, and the beautiful path (tipha reth, the sixth sephirah) with his bride the queen (malkuth, the tenth sephirah; and this is the concealed idea, or soul, pervading the whole emanation. since it is opened for that which proceedeth from itself; that is, daath is itself the beautiful path, but also the inner, whereto moses referred; and that path lieth hid within the mother, and is the medium of its conjunction" when it is noted that yod is identical with the lingam in the hindu system; and that kether, daath, and the beautiful path, tiphareth, the sixth sephirah, are in a line on the middle pillar of the tree, which equates with the spine in man, the microcosm; and that kundalini is coiled in yesod, also on the middle pillar, we shall see that we have here an important key for

ment on an altogether different basis. mystical qabala page 91 35. we must learn to know when we can function as chokmah and beget deeds upon the world; and when we had best function as binah, and make our environment fertilise us so that we become productive. we must never forget that self-fertilisation involves sterility in a few generations, and that we nust ever and again be fertilised by the medium in which we are working. there must be an interplay of polarity between us and whatever we have set out to do, and we must always be on the alert to find polarising influences, whether in tradition, or in books, or in fellow-workers in the same field, or even in the very opposition and antagonism of enemies; for there is just as much polarising force in a hearty hatred as there is in love

" as algernon blackwood has so graphically expressed it in his novels, into [page 226] which so much of the sphere of netzach enters. it is by means of dance and sound and colour that the netzach angels are contacted and evoked. the worshipper of a god in the sphere of netzach enters into communion with the object of his adoration by means of the arts; and in proportion as he is an artist in some medium or other, and can therein represent his deity symbolically, will he be able to make the contact and draw the life into himself. all rites which have rhythm and movement and colour in them are aworking in the sphere of netzach. and as hod, the sphere of magical workings, draws its force from netzach, it follows that any magical operation of the sphere of hod must have a netzach element in it

imes, and because when it is used loy anyone who has acquired the necessary degree of skill in concentration and knows the symbols that are used for building the different forms, the method works, and back come the old gods to the altar fires re-kindled. definite results are obtained in the consciousness of the worshippers; and if they borrow the technique of the spiritualist, and a materialising medium is available, phenomena of a very definite kind are produced. 14. it is the method that is used in working the mass by those priests who have knowledge. there are two types of priest in the roman church: the beneficed parish clergy and the men who belong to monastic orders and undertake parish, and especially home mission, work as part of their service. these monks frequently bring to the w

the channel of manifestation. it is his own magnetism that bridges the gulf between malkuth and yesod. there is no other method so satisfactory, for the amount of magnetism in a living being is far greater than in any metal or crystal, however precious. 46. this ancient method is also known to us under another name; it is called by moderns, mediumship. when the spirit speaks through the entranced medium, precisely the same thing is happening as happened in ancient egypt when the priest with the mask of horus spake with the voice of horus. 47. when we consider the microcosmic tree, the physical body is malkuth; the etheric double is yesod; the astromental body is hod and netzach; and the higher mind is tiphareth. whatever the higher mind can conceive can readily be brought through into mani

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

terial out of which dense matter is condensed. this was called by the ancients, hyle, or first matter, and by the moderns, ectoplasm. it is this projected ectoplasm which produces the phenomena whenever physical manifestations are in question. it may be projected as long rods, which will operate up to a distance of a dozen feet or so; or it may be projected as a nebulous cloud, connected with the medium by a tenuous thread. this cloud can be organised into distinct forms, having the semblance of life and acting as vehicles for conscious wills. there is a great deal of information available on this subject in the literature of spiritualism, to which reference may be found in the bibliography at the end of this book. the adept who was head of the occult college to which i have previously ref

n. having performed this mighty invocation, he would then offer himself upon the altar as the channel for the manifestation of the force. there are many formulae extant designed to enable a force to be brought through without the necessity of the magician himself being the channel. in my opinion they are one and all ineffectual; the only possible substitute for the magician himself being a trance medium. it is for this reason that ritual magic so often fails to come off. you cannot make custards without breaking eggs, and if you mean to be a magician you have got to "go the whole hog" when it is a question of bringing through the angelic aspect of a force, the matter is on a clear footing. to be the channel of such a force is a great privilege and is an initiation in itself. the operator h

is this fact which constitutes the real difference between normal union and self-abuse, and explains why the former is vitalising and harmonising, and the latter is exhausting and nerve-wrecking. may we not conceive it possible for anyone who can project the etheric body, or a being whose densest vehicle is etheric, to play a part in unions under certain conditions? and if we accept the theory of medium- ship, or of obsession, which is a pathological form of mediumship, what shall we say concerning the possibility of a union while one or other of the partners is under control? what maimer of soul might come through into incarnation under such conditions? 66 of 103 medieval tradition recognised two classes of demons which invade sleep, and called them incubi and succubi. these were held to

ent occult force at work to produce physical phenomena, it is very advisable to take 82 of 103 precautions to prevent materialisations taking place. the physical phenomena are of several types. they may take the form of noises, usually creakings, thuds, or more rarely bell-like notes or wailing sounds. if actual words are heard, auditory hallucinations should be suspected, for in the absence of a medium, spirit messages are given to the inner ear, not to the auditory nerve. lights may also be seen, usually taking the form of dim balls of luminous mist drifting like soap-bubbles. they may be any size from mere points of light to considerable dimensions, some six feet or more in diameter. in these spheres of dim luminosity psychics can generally see forms, sometimes human, sometimes from the

past? at any rate, i do not think there is much doubt that the holy inquisition would have paid him the compliment of burning him if he had lived during its hey-day. thirty years with the dead, by dr. wickstead, is another book which gives chapter and verse for personal experience instead of citing authorities and theorising about them. it is the record of an asylum doctor whose wife is a trance medium, and who made a most remarkable series of investigations concerning the nature of obsessing entities. in dr. moll's book on hypnotism some remarkable phenomena are recorded such as do not find their way into modern books, whether because the investigators are less expert at eliciting them, or more cautious in communicating them, having profited by the experience of the earlier investigators

DONALDTYSON CORONZON

ic language "which adam verily spake in innocency, and was never uttered nor disclosed to man since till now" this language is incredibly potent. it is the language "wherein the power of god must work, and wisdom in her true kind be delivered: which are not to be spoken of in any other thing, neither to be talked of with mans imaginations" the enochian language is in this sense not only the ideal medium of holy mysteries and truths, but the only medium through which these mysteries and truths can be conveyed. just as a higher mathematical concept, such as the theory of relativity, cannot be conveyed in ordinary language, so is it impossible to convey the higher wisdom of god in ordinary language. it simply cannot be done. ordinary language is unsuited to embody higher truth. this is the en

DONALDTYSON GHOSTS

sts occurs most often at night, in relative or complete darkness, or at least in some shadowed place, usually when the air is still. certain localities are favorable for the appearance of ghosts- why is difficult to determine. one theory has it that a ghost is a kind of psychic recording of an event in the past that took place at that locality, and that the locality acts as some sort of recording medium, and periodically replays the event under the right conditions. ghosts are often described as shadowy or translucent. only portions of their body may appear- a relative of mine once saw a ghostly hand project itself upward through the surface of a school desk that was stored in a dark school basement. sometimes ghosts walk out of or into walls, or through furniture. they can do this because

DONALDTYSON UFO

dern eye-witness accounts of alien visitors are merely a resurgence of similar sightings of angels, demons, gods, spirits and ghosts that have occurred throughout human history in every culture around the world. this similarity begs a number of important questions. is there a race or hierarchy of noncorporeal intelligent beings seeking communication and interaction with the human race through the medium of the human unconscious mind? have they been trying to establish this link for thousands of years? if so, what is their nature? and why would they wish to communicate with humanity? what would they gain by such communication? would such intercourse with spiritual intelligences be useful for humanity, or harmful? do these spiritual beings possess physical bodies in some other dimension of r

harmful? do these spiritual beings possess physical bodies in some other dimension of reality? or are they communicating with us through our unconscious minds across great physical distances, perhaps interstellar distances? it is possible that historical accounts of angels and other spiritual beings represent transmissions of data from aliens in distant star systems to human awareness through the medium of the human unconscious. if so, then ufo sightings and encounters may indeed be signs of interactions between humanity and extraterrestrials, though not in the way that is usually assumed by students of ufo phenomena. i decided not to deal in this article with so-called close encounters of the second and third kind- alien artifacts and physical contact with aliens. the physical evidence fo

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

research on physical mediumship, investigators repeatedly discovered that situations involving visible phenomena (materializations, apports, movement of objects) were often fraudulent. the high incidence of deceit and trickery, even by mediums previously investigated and pronounced genuine, created a major dilemma. it challenged the credibility of spiritualism and, while not suggesting that every medium or member was a fraud, insinuated that the movement protected con artists and defended their work, even in the face of unquestioned evidence of guilt. it also implied that psychical researchers who produced any positive evidence were either naive, sloppy methodologically, or conspirators with the mediums. both spence s encyclopedia of occultism and fodor s encyclopedia of psychic science we

of dunraven shortly after the seances. lord adare, for almost two years, lived most of the time encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. adare, lord 9 with home, which bolstered his belief that home was not perpetrating a large scale deception. the preface states: we have not, on a single occasion, during the whole series of seances, seen any indication of contrivance on the part of the medium for producing or facilitating the manifestations which have taken place. adcock, c(yril) j(ohn (1904) parapsychologist and university lecturer on psychology. born in england, adcock studied at the university of auckland and the university of london (b.a, m.a, ph.d. he lectured at victoria university, wellington, new zealand, and is a member of the parapsychological association and american

he became involved in the metaphysical community in turin and found himself drawn to psychic healers, especially some that practiced what was termed pranotherapy, a form of healing that used prana, considered by hindus the life force, to heal. he became a pranotheraphist in the early 1970s and soon established offices in several towns in northern italy. he also began to operate as a spiritualist medium and eventually wrote a book on the subject. by 1974 he had attained a following that joined him in the formation of two organizations, the horus centre and an associated school of pranotherapy. airaudi advocated the ideals of the communal life and in 1975 land was rented in the valchiusella valley north of turin as a possible site for the community. the following year some two dozen people

st strictly scientific russian investigation of spiritualism. daniel d. home, who visited russia for the first time in 1861, became connected through marriage with aksakof s family. in 1871 aksakof introduced home to professor boutlerof and to other professors of the university of st. petersburg. however, the body of savants was left unconvinced of the reality of his phenomena. in 1874 the french medium camille bredif paid a visit. professor wagner attended a seance and was deeply impressed. his article in the revue de l europe aroused such a storm that the university felt impelled to delegate an investigating committee and asked aksakof to make the necessary arrangements for them. aksakof went to england in 1875 and engaged a nonprofessional medium, using the name of mrs. clayer (to whom

nonprofessional medium, using the name of mrs. clayer (to whom he was introduced by crookes) for presentation to the committee. the lady, who is mentioned in crookes s researches, produced strong physical phenomena in good light. the committee, however, refused to be impressed and professor mendeleyeff, its principal member, declared in his report materials by which to judge spiritualism that the medium had an instrument under her skirt and produced table movements and raps by this agency. to this report aksakof published a caustic reply under the title a monument of scientific prejudice. in 1876 his request for permission to publish in st. petersburg a monthly review of mediumship was refused. in 1881 he founded the publication rebus, which was largely subsidized by aksakof after funds dw

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ere lie within him many more things than he imagined. maeterlinck considered survival proved but was uncertain as to the possibility of communication with the dead. between the telepathic and spirit hypotheses, he could not make a choice in favor of the latter. he admitted that: the survival of the spirit is no more improbable than the prodigious faculties which we are obliged to attribute to the medium if we deny them to the dead; but the existence of the medium, contrary to that of the spirit, is unquestionable, and therefore it is for the spirit, or for those who make use of its name, first to prove that it exists. he added that in his view there were five imaginable solutions of the great problem: the religious solution, annihilation, survival with our consciousness of today, survival

ness. rhythm is often employed to aid memory (see also mantra) the magician in early society the magic practitioner, a term that includes the shaman, medicine man, piage, and witch doctor, held his or her position by hereditary right; by an accident of birth, like being the seventh son of a seventh son; through revelation from the gods; or through his mastery of ritual. the shaman operated like a medium, for instead of summoning the powers of the air at his bidding, as did the magicians of medieval days, he found it necessary to throw himself into a trance and seek them in their own sphere (the magician is also often regarded as possessed by an animal or supernatural being) the duties of the priest and magician were often combined in tribal society. when one religion was superseded, howeve

ssages from beyond in their isolated farmhouse in 1848. it was the fox sisters, too, who encouraged the beginning of what would become a long history of debate between spiritualists and magic advocates. the first important challenge to spiritualism by a magician occurred right as the movement was just beginning. in 1853 j. h. anderson of new york offered a thousand dollars to any poverty-stricken medium who would come to his hall and attempt to produce raps. spiritualists were already becoming notorious for calling up the spirits of the dead, often in seances where the deceased would manifest themselves through a magic circle encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 962 knocking on the table where the participants were seated. the fox sisters accepted anderson s invitation immedi

ks which are the objects of my art. in a letter to m. de mirville, who introduced him to didier, robert-houdin writes: i, therefore, came away from this seance as astonished as anyone can be, and fully convinced that it would be quite impossible for anyone to produce such surprising effects by mere skill. the stage magician leon bosco used to laugh at those who thought the phenomena of the famous medium d. d. home could be imitated with the resources of his art. the magician canti similarly declared to prince napoleon that he could in no way account for the phenomena he saw on the principles of his profession. in the outlines of investigation into spiritualism (1862) by t. barkas, he also published a letter expressing the same opinion. robert-houdin stated: i have come away from that seanc

robin and robert-houdin, when attempting to imitate these said facts, never presented to the public anything beyond an infantile and almost grotesque parody of the said phenomena, and it would be only ignorant and obstinate persons who could regard the question seriously as set forth by these gentlemen. samuel bellachini, court conjurer at berlin, stated in an authenticated statement given to the medium henry slade (later exposed on several occasions as a fraud) the following: i must, for the sake of truth, hereby certify that the phenomenal occurrences with mr. slade have been thoroughly examined by me with the minutest observation and investigation of his surroundings, including the table, and that i have not in the smallest degree found anything produced by means of prestidigitative man

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ecret of the saucers. amherst, wi: amherst press, 1959. son of the sun. los angeles: devorss and company. jung, c. g, 1959. flying saucers: a modern myth of things seen in the skies. new york: harcourt, brace and company. anoah anoah, associated with the melchizedek order of the white brotherhood, consisting of wise extraterrestrial and spiritual entities, channeled through austin, texas, psychic medium jann weiss in the 1980s. the planetary light association, which at its peak had some 3,200 members around the world, distributed books and tapes of these channeling sessions. it also held workshops at which enthusiasts listened to anoah discuss the transi- anoah 23 the cover of the secret of the saucers by orfeo angelucci (fortean picture library) tion from an old age to a new age of expand

of visitation from other worlds. he also advanced the possibly tongue-in-cheek speculation that, perhaps, some human beings were secretly in contact with the occupants of such vehicles. the first explicit contact in the context of a ufo sighting occurred on the evening of october 9, 1946, over san diego. many residents had gone outside in anticipation of a predicted meteor shower. among them was medium mark probert, who channeled cosmic philosophy from a group of discarnates, including a 500,000-year-old tibetan named the yada di shi ite. he worked with occult theorist n. meade layne, who the year before had founded borderland sciences research associates. probert and many others wit- contactees 69 nessed something that, whatever else it may or may not have been, was not a meteor. observe

y, the others effected an escape by van. cyclopean beings can be classified into two subtypes, picasso writes. t h e re are short cyc l o p e a n s. and tall ones. the latter beings often behave aggre s s i ve l y (picasso, 1992. further reading picasso, fabio, 1992. infrequent types of south american humanoids. strange magazine 9 (spring/summer: 34 35, 55. cymatrili enid brady was a spiritualist medium who led a small church in holly hill, florida. in the early 1950s, she began to experience telepathic communications from the master teachers of venus. one of them was cymatrili. he and his companions were based in a giant ship in orbit above the southeastern united states. venusians look much like humans but are finer featured. their civilization is advanced, peaceful, and free of disease

ce has never been demonstrated scientifically, it has been used to explain a variety of ostensibly mysterious phenomena, including disappearances in the bermuda triangle, teleportation, clairvoyance, ghosts, monsters, ufos, and more. the concept came into the vocabulary of occultism through leipzig astronomer johann f. c. zollner, a student of theosophy. in the 1870s, zollner worked with american medium henry slade, who claimed the ability to materialize or teleport objects during seances. as zollner saw it, such talents indicated that mediums can move things out of our dimension into the fourth and back again. unfortunately for zellner s theory, slade later 104 fossilized aliens confessed that he produced the effects fraudulently. later psychical researchers, however, used variants of the

women and children from the surface of the earth to protect them for the purposes of procreation. these would all be abductees whose genetic make-up had already been altered. see also: abductions by ufos; insectoids further reading lewels, joe, 1997. the god hypothesis: extraterres- trial life and its implications for science and reli- gion. mill spring, nc: wild flower press. muller s martians a medium s contacts with martians are the subject of a classic early work on abnormal psychology, theodore flournoy s from india to the planet mars (1899. flournoy, a prominent swiss psychologist, gives the medium the pseudonym helene smith in his book, but her real name was catherine elise muller. born in 1861, muller possessed a considerable imagination and a keen intelligence. she grew up in a fa

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

tual awakening that is our birthright. whenever there is a decay of righteousness (dharma) and an ascendancy of unrighteousness, i manifest myself; and for the protection of the virtuous, the destruction of the vicious and for the establishment of righteousness, i manifest myself in age after age. 30 by appearing in a human form, messiahs are able to perfectly portray divine qualities through the medium of human life in a way that can be comprehended by the finite consciousness of humans. in this way, it is said that the message of a messiah is their divine life. messiahs also perform other important functions. the deterioration of righteousness is often paralleled by deterioration in the gatekeepers, who have the responsibility of echoing the message of the messiahs and pointing humanity

s) of many lifetimes. hence, in the beginning stages, when we move consciously into sefirah foundation/below, we will often next see the watcher on the threshold in the mirror of the gate of the gimel g. the watcher is actually the reflection of our own reincarnating geviyah. people typically run in fear from their watcher when they encounter it in their dream state. but, the geviyah is a plastic medium subject to change. repeating the name of one s chosen small face ideal (e.g. the lord hvhy) cleanses the geviyah of the seeds of impure desires and spiritual ignorance that have crystallized during past life activity. with the purification of the geviyah, the watcher is replaced by the reflection of the form of one s chosen small face ideal, or by a high level gatekeeper, or may even become

and void, and darkness upon the face of the deep. 24 swami vivekananda is the monastic name of narendranath datta. as sri ramakrishna s ambassador, he traveled to the world s parliament of religions in chicago in 1893, where he electrified the audience with his address. 25 the akashic record is the karmic archive of a planet, which can be accessed through psychic mediation. akasha is the plastic medium of the planet s astral body. 26 the torah begins with the word b reshith; the zohar begins with the word beshoshanah( by the rose; the sefer yetzirah begins with bishaloshym( by thirty; and the qu ran begins with bismaallah( in the name allah. 27 idra rabba 29. 28 idra zuta 56, 57. 29 saradananda, swami. sri sri ramakrishna lilaprasanga, trans. as sri ramakrishna the great master by swami j

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

to those planets, and this, being re-enforced by the invocation of their names and powers, was a way of drawing down their influences. the spiritus theory also lies behind this vocal or aural magic, as it does behind the sympathetic and talismanic magic. the orphic magic is thus exactly parallel to the talismanic magic; it is used for the same reasons, to draw down chosen stellar influences; its medium or channel is again the spiritus. the only difference between the two magics, and it is of course a basic one, is that one 1 on ficino's orphic magic, see walker, pp. 12-24. 2 see walker "orpheus the theologian and the renaissance platonists, j.w.c.i, xvi (1953, pp- 100-20. 3 walker spiritual and demonic magic, pp. 19, 22. 78 ficino's natural magic is visual, working through visual images (

walker, pp. 32-3. on diacceto, see kristeller, studies, pp. 287 ff. 2 see above, p. 71. in this passage, the talismanic image of the sun is almost reverting to a "statue, worshipped with rites as in the asclepius. 3 "the sun of that sphere. is an intellectual-principle, and immediately upon it follows the soul depending from i t. the soul borders also upon the sun of this sphere, and becomes the medium by which it is linked to the over-world; plotinus, ennead, iv, 3, xi; mckenna's translation, p. 270. 82 1(a) the zodiacal sign aries with its three decans. i (b) the first decan of aries. francesco del cossa, palazzo schifanoja, ferrara (p. 57. 2. botticelli "primavera, uffizi gallery, florence (p. j6. ficino's natural magic how could a pious christian reconcile such a revival with his chri

in things and how these are infused "by 1 agrippa, de occult, phil, i, 1 and 2; ed. cit, pp. 1-4. 131 cornelius agrippa's survey of renaissance magic the ideas through the world soul and the rays of the stars."1 this is based on the first chapter of ficino's de vita coelitus comparanda, which is quoted verbally, and agrippa has understood that ficino is there talking about the star images as the medium through which the ideas descend "thus all the virtues of inferior things depend on the stars and their images. and each species has a celestial image which corresponds to it."2 in a later chapter on "the spirit of the world as the link between occult virtues"-1 he is again quoting ficino and reproducing his spiritus theory.4 then follow chapters on the plants, animals, stones, and so on bel

yptiis praefuisse, eisque leges, ac literas tradidissc. literarum uero characteres in anirnalium, arborumque figuris instituisse (ficino, p. 1836) in one of the plotinus commentaries he relates these figures used by the egyptian priests to those described by "horus, that is to the hieroglyphics of horapollo (ficino, p. 1768; cf. hieroglyphics of horapollo, ed. boas, p. 28. on the hieroglyphs as a medium for transmission of hermetic philosophy, see below pp. 416-8. 163 against magic (2) the humanist tradition an example of "egyptian" infiltration into humanism. pure humanism could, however, turn in a religious direction, and towards a religious and theological attitude, and the clearest case of this is erasmus. erasmus is completely humanist in his whole outlook. he believes in polite learn

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

can't even describe this shit man. it seems also related to the zodiac in some way (maybe, i can't be sure. let me write a little bit of the background which elicited these un-coverings. this night i invoked many deities: moglthox: to steal my corruption and purify me. harakhan: to bring me knowledge and wisdom of self. babalon: for her ecstasy and love. teckno: to transport me to babalon in his medium. tiyet: to purify my dreams& submind, and give me the gift of her silence. set: as the dark sun, to show me the majesty and power of self. lucifer-christ (as luciferouschristos) to bring love& unity. the triple goddess of the moon and dyonysis and others (see appendix vii for commentaries on god-forms) all along (months) i have been offering prayers to my "guardian angel" to meet (myself of

what is liber chrnzn? it is a book of chrnzn and more, a result of a game of cat and mouse that we have been playing for sometime. chrnzn has a special linkage with thee angel, the full scope of this link is beyond the subject of this paper, and in all honesty is not fully known. liber chrnzon is also called the paper plate book in that it was first received and written on paper plates (a fitting medium. there is a high degree of my personalities felt through it because i was the filter of it s transmission. a great deal of my actions were controlled during the transmission. sexual invocation was allowed for a stronger connection. in offering some degree of comprehension of this text i offer some possible avenues of study. this commentary is not an explanation. i do this page by page, beca

let brotherhood. the cipher refers to 3 i s (6) words from the first sentence (7) words per sentence in the core paragraph (5) words in the last sentence. this gives us 3675, as per plate i/6b. the i is of us and the words are the logos, the first and the last is of the alpha and omega. i/16b: need we say more on this? this is so obviously true, one just needs to look around. i/17a: words being a medium of play. a reference to a master. by entertaining any thought, we cause the fall of man again and again. this is not an excuse to do nothing, but an aspiration to the way of annihilation of duality. anything which is something causes a reference and is like a lightning bolt in the darkness. the circle is formed of words. and i wear a suit which looks like a bear. i/17b: scorpio. sex and dea

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

riod that inspired the age-long draconian tradition of egypt, which lingered on into the dark dynasties, the monuments of which were laid waste by opponents of the elder cult. it is interesting to note that lovecraft himself specifically linked the worship of nyarlathotep to pre-dynastic egypt, in the eponymously titled prose poem. the elemental aspect of nyarlathotep is aether, the communicating medium of interstellar space (or in lovecraft s terminology, the audient void. shub-niggurath is the black goat of the woods with a thousand young a title inferring the geometric proliferation of creatures upon the earth. he is the horned god of the pagan agricultural societies of the ancient world, representing fertility and sexual energy. in greek mythology his archetype is pan, half-man and hal

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

ork is somewhat unpredictable. sometimes success will be instant sometimes it may take months. we are told that austin o m th it a p c m a p stimated. 42/ practical sigil magic it is the most simple and uncom but this is, as i have pointed out before, not a problem of sigil magic alone. as did dion fortune, i tend to operate on a time limit of about six to nine months in general. if short-term or medium-term operations have not succeeded within this period, they should be considered as having failed. you will find more tips for the practical use of sigils in chapter 8. for didactic reasons i chose to start off with the word method of sigilization to escort you to practical work immediately, without initially giving any consideration to other methods of sigil construction. in doing so, we a

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

, where king hiram stood,like him, seek strength above; sustain the east, pay all their dues, protect the weak in love. junior warden. my brother:you have been elected junior warden of this lodge, and i now invest you with this jewel and the implement of your office. the plumb admonishes us to walk uprightly in our several stations, to hold the scale of justice in equal poise, to observe the just medium between intemperance and pleasure, and to make our passions and prejudices coincide with the line of our duty. to you is committed the superintendence of the craft during the hours of refreshment; and it is, therefore, indispensably necessary that you should not only be temperate and discreet in the indulgence of your own inclinations, but careful to observe that none of the craft be suffer

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

is eyes before washing them [the open eye symbolizes kether. when he has washed them, however, he becomes sanctified and is called holy. for this sanctification two vessels are required, one held above and the other placed beneath, so that he may be sanctified by the water poured on his hands from the vessel above. the lower vessel, then, is the vessel of uncleanness [whilst the upper vessel is a medium of sanctification] 6 between these opposites of good and evil is placed the free will of man, which establishes secret wisdom of the qabalah page 38 harmony between them and by which man exercises the divine power of judgment. man is, therefore, a living representative of the tree of life, or conversely the tree of life is a pictorial representation of man. to the tree of life each sephirah

of so many of the masters is that they have considered morality, and frequently sexual morality, as the only gate and the only end. misunderstanding the meaning of moral equilibrium, which demands a balancing of all the moral and so-called immoral forces, and not a suppression of any one category of them, they have so completely secret wisdom of the qabalah page 70 contorted the three-dimensional medium that when it receives the mystic power a diabolical state is created. some have gone so far as to command their followers to neglect and macerate their bodies, and others have asserted that the intellect must be annihilated in order to create a vacuum for the onrush of the spirit. the dreadful consequent is that these errors do not prevent attainment; in fact, in many cases they hasten it b

to neglect and macerate their bodies, and others have asserted that the intellect must be annihilated in order to create a vacuum for the onrush of the spirit. the dreadful consequent is that these errors do not prevent attainment; in fact, in many cases they hasten it by cutting down resistance. but what kind of attainment do they lead to? the vision of x, the unknown god, on entering a balanced medium or body, becomes the logos; but when it enters an unbalanced body it becomes the anti-logos. true, in both cases the fire brought down from heaven is identically the same fire, but according to the medium it inhabits it illumines or blinds. those attracted towards this four-dimensional state are such as eliphas levi calls gthe energetic and active spirits h, that is individuals possessing s

freedom it has been tamped into a solid block of powder. in this sense a void is not an emptiness, but a fullness of undifferentiated quality. this is the meaning of the second verse of the first chapter of genesis. gand the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. h what did the spirit of god move upon? gthe face of the waters h- that is, an undifferentiated medium, a still and perfect mirror. this was the primal gexplosion h which started the revolution of existence. therefore to detonate revolution there must exist a negative organ and a positive idea; which means that the people must lack intellectual liberty and an illumined master must exist. the fourth-dimensional state. from the illumined we will now turn to the illuminator, the man who illumin

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

, later by way of automaticwritingand trance utterances, and the movement spreadrapidly throughout the united states.asmediums-thepersons supposedly acting as intermediaries between the worldsofthe living and of the dead-e-proliferated, the movement began to take on the rudimentsofformal organization and by 1852, when it appeared in england in the person of mrs hayden, the first visiting american medium, spiritualism as a definable sect was well established. england proved as susceptible to spiritualist phenomena as the united states, and although english mediums were at first few and far between, by the 1870s they were to be found in abundance, producing all the more spectacular effectsoftheir american counterparts: direct voice messages (in which the medium spokewiththevoice of the commu

sense toboth,led me further away from the notionofan infalliblechurchwhich offered hell opened to christiansinplace of eternal hope. i beheld on the further side, in the so-called hither hereafter, a place where men can dwell and healed by slow degrees of all their hurts can find new life in new and other work, worldwithoutend, because of endless worlds(slt,p. 62).his first direct experience of a medium waswiththe revd francis ward monck4-popularlybutinaccurately known as'dr'monck-whohad produced remarkable materializations at his seances in the early 1870s,butwhohad also in 1876 been exposed as a fraud and gaoled. waite met him in 1878:i made casual acquaintancewithdrmonck, the notorious cheating medium..i came across [him] keeping a noisome shop on theotherside of a foot-bridge spanning

sly drawn',butwaite was inclined to accepttheapparent evidenceofhisownsenses.referringto his experiences some twenty years later he remarked:if anyone asked me whether i have seen intelligentwritingproduced between locked slates under circumstances which fairly exclude the suggestion of trickery, i should reply that i have; andifhequestioned me further, whether in dark seances, when the so-called medium has been held in my arms, i have witnessed the levitation of inertobjects;i should again reply that i have(studiesinmysticism,pp. 133-4).whathe didnotadd wasthatwhentheseevents occurred he was seeking, and half-believed he had received; a message from his sister.thefirst seance waswithwilliameglinton,"ayoungmediumwhohadproduced amazing materializationsduringthe1870sbutwhobythemid-1880s was

rd, and spirit lights appeared,oneofwhich'disappeared closetomyownfacewitha slight smellofphosphorus'.thenthephenomenabeganto centre on waite.'iwastheobjectofsomeattentiononthepartofthespirits, partly because i wasnextthemedium,buti suppose also53_'whileyetaboyisoughtforghosts. 52becauseof the mediumistic powerswithwhich all these beingsseem to credit me 'charlie, oneof the spirit 'controls'ofthe medium 'volunteered the statement that i should make a very good medium' and then 'materialized twice overthe table, holdingtheslate which cast its phosphorescent light upon the drapery and ghostly countenance. ithinkhe turned in succession towards allofus, and then ascended towards.theceiling,vanishing in darkness'.evenmore impressive wasthe sudden materializationofa beautiful facebetweenmyself a

themostsolemn significance and sweet intelligence. i caught all this in an almost momentaryglimpse-aglimpsetoobriefformetofeel in any way surethatthe general resemblance to my dead sisterwhichi traced initwas morethanatrickof imagination.he added,withastonishing naivety 'moreover, as often in the mostgenuine materializations there was a faint phantasmal resemblance to the general contours of the medium'sownfeatures,buttransfiguredoutof all knowledge. rita, hethought,wasgenuine, for'in this seance, the essential element of fraud waswanting-i.e.there was no gain likely to accruein any way financially or otherwise tothemedium. it didnotoccur to him at the time that enthusiastic, unsolicited testimonials could be extremely beneficialtomrrita. later, he revised his opinion and in his autobiogr

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ace and many spiritualists were undoubtedly converted to the cause by a desire to evade the probability of eternal damnation that victorian popular theology offered them. further, spiritualism offered the novel attraction, which no church could offer, of conversation with one's departed relatives, either by mechanicalmeans-suchas ouija boards and table255turning-ordirectly, through the voice of a medium who could offer to individuals specific messages from particular spirits.thereaction of the churches was unanimously hostile and spiritualistic phenomena were condemned as fraudulent or, more usually, diabolic; but however disapproving of particular practices, the churches did not deny the reality of a spiritual order, and society as a whole maintained a solid belief in the supernatural.nor

the churches was unanimously hostile and spiritualistic phenomena were condemned as fraudulent or, more usually, diabolic; but however disapproving of particular practices, the churches did not deny the reality of a spiritual order, and society as a whole maintained a solid belief in the supernatural.norwere all clerics equally hostile. some went so far as to holdseances-the'sittings' at which a medium, often in a trance, produces messages for those present-themselves, and one, the revd w. stainton moses, was fromi&]2until his death in1892a medium himself and the principal exponent of spiritualist thought in england. others were more circumspect and, whether from natural reticence or fear of episcopal wrath, carefully avoided publicity. one such group had affinities with the rosicrucians

husiastic, and utterly uncritical support. this was the theosophical society, the creation of madameb1avatskyand colonelh.s. olcott. helena petrovnab1avatskywas a remarkable person by any standards; by those of contemporary seekers after wonders andmarvelsshe was little short of a goddess, and her departure from the spiritualist22thegoldendawnmovement, where she had collectedenrouteboth fame as a medium and the dog-like devotionofcolonel olcott, to the more exotic shoresofeastemoccultism was inevitable. whether or not she had travelled in tibet, and whether or not she served hiddenmahatmas-indeed,whether or not such beings evenexist-isstill hotly debated, but what is unquestionable is thatherfollowers believed implicidy that she had and that she did.thetheosophical society had as its objec

ver took place. florence also believed in propagating hermetic beliefs, and once she had assimilated the teachings of the second order (her transcription ofthebookof theconcourseof theforces,whichcontainsthe essence of enochian magic, egyptian symblolism and astral travelling, was completed, with extra notes, on12october1893)she was eager to give her knowledge to the world.thisshe did through the medium of westcott'scolleaaneahermeticaseries, in which she edited thomas vaughan'seup255hrates,annotatedthe hermeticartandwroteegyptianmagic.theintroduction tothehermeticartcontains this sketch of the true alchemist:wisdomi can holdout no hope of success tothose whostill retainan absorbing interest in the world.inthe world adepts may be, but notofit.alchemyis a jealous mistress, she demands fromp

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the past centuries were often as capable, and as honest as those of today, and were no more easily misled. there are beings about us today- call them soul-less if youwill-whosemoral sense is nonexistent, who do evil by preference, and whose extinction is as much to be desired as was the fate of the medieval witches. an adept of the rosicrucian ideal is the very opposite to theman, miracle, magic69medium. he is living trained vital energy illumined by the spiritual above; the medium is a negative being, the prey of every evil influence, and of anyone with malign passion: he is deceiving and self deceived, the catspaw of every elemental force, and baneful misdirected energy. our existence passes in an atmosphere of material air; matter in the third state. but beyond this, there are other sta

nce, and of anyone with malign passion: he is deceiving and self deceived, the catspaw of every elemental force, and baneful misdirected energy. our existence passes in an atmosphere of material air; matter in the third state. but beyond this, there are other states, even more rare; even science begins to hint at one step beyond the invisible air- the hypothetical ether of the light waves. a true medium indeed, but there is an even rarer state in which we are equally bathed, the akasic so-called astral light, of which our senses are all too gross to form any conception; yet this unseen and almost inconceivable film is ever around us, and takes an impression of every event and form that exists and that ever has existed.itis the recording angel of the exoteric scriptures, to it refers the ad

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

it closer' i said naturally i would very much, and thereupon it apparently glided down on to the table im255 mediately in front of us, passing over my hand, and feeling like a bit of damp fog. to me the features, so far as discernible, seemed to be those of a bald-headed man with a white beard,buta lady three or four places off declared that it was most plainly her mother's face. immediately the medium began to speak, in a quavering falsetto, some very trivial matter; a lady declared it was a message from her mother, of the authenticity of which she had no doubt. other messages were given to various persons present, which appeared to give them great content,butto me the appearance of the face was the striking and unaccountable fact. after leaving the room i walked a short distance with th

ven. i wondered, however, whether the phenomena ever took place under circumstances wherein it was humanly impossible for any preparation to be made, and, to test this for my own satifaction, i decided to try and get a materializing seance in my own chambers, with a select circle of my own friends, all being inquirers, neither deniers nor believers, but merely in quest of truth. i arranged with a medium to come when i should fetchhim,not tellinghimwhere the seance was to be held. i personally procured the things he wanted, such as a concertina, a tambourine, a bell, a musical box, etc, and when we were assembled i brought him in a cab. he saiditwas very doubtfulifthere would be any manifestation under the circumstances, which were very unfavourable. but there were the ordinary phenomena th

unfavourable. but there were the ordinary phenomena that have been so often described, and need not be repeated. a curious point, however, was that none of us had the slightest feeling of having experienced anything uncanny or supernatural. in discussing it afterwards we were divided in opinion, whether it had been brilliant conjuring, or the manifestation of some strange unknown force which the medium somehow was able to set in motion, and to some extent control. either hypothesis was unlikely, because in either case the power would have been worth a fortune to the medium, and he would not have been dependent on the comparatively paltry fees he charged. but we could think of no other theory. since that time i have seen very little of physical manifesta255 tions, of the knocking, moving o

ne way, though extremely interesting in another. trance mediums have given me messages from friends who have passed over, couched in familiar phrases, in the very tone and manner of the person they were supposed tosome psychic memories 93come from, sometimes alluding to events known to me and to no one else. convincing enough, i have been told. what more could you ask? but never by a professional medium have i been told anything that was not somehow, consciously or subconsciously, in my own mind.itmight be a forgotten, or half forgotten, memory of something said long ago. but it was there. vainly have i asked to be told something that could not be in my mind. this i have had, but not from a medium, nor with any suggestion of communication from the dead. a very instructive experience occurr

spritualistic friends have more than hinted that this was what actually happened, she, however,hadno belief in spiritualism. her gift, such as it was, she declared was perfectly natural, merely a kindoftelepathy, developed by a power of concentration.theidea of thought-forms recurred. was it possible that the disembodied spirit, say of one who had passed over, could create a thought-form, which a medium could see,andthus convey a message?ifso a mine of information lay before us of great value.if,for example, my father could recall to. me, through a medium, an incident known only to me and himself (which seems to be a frequent experience, and considered a convincing proof of bona fides, why should not my grand-some psychicmem.ories95father, who was an indian merchant, be abletogive me detai

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

e was chief adept for yorkshire) and his opposition helped to cut off the potential supply of members from within that society. even greater opposition and uproar would have followed if the views of one less reluctant but equally prominent member had become known. the rev. william stainton moses (1840 1892) was the first supreme grand chaplain of the rite as well as being a prominent spiritualist medium and co-founder, in 1881, of the spiritualist journal, light. he was eager for a lodge to be established in london and told irwin (20 may 1877) that he knew, 4 or 5 friends (all spiritualists) who would join me. in a later letter (undated, but probably early in 1878) he explained why: i want to form a lodge in london entirely composed of sp[irituali]sts& to seek for communion with the world

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

mages of men and things reflected in water, and later on the things themselves. after that, it would be easier to watch the heavenly bodies and the sky itself by night, looking at the light of the moon and stars rather than the sun and the suns light in the day time..last of all, he would be able to look at the sun and contemplate its nature, not as it appears when reflected in water or any alien medium, but as it is in itself in its own domain..and now he would begin to draw the conclusion that it is the sun that produces the seasons and the course of the year and controls everything in the visible world and moreover is in a way the cause of all that he and his companions used to see. republic, plato. 516ff. plato, then, is illustrating for us the state of man. his insight is clear and pr

r symbol-system did not develop or evolve naturally as most languages do, but was received through the crystal gnostic theurgy page 114 gazing visions of john dee (1527-1608) through the mediumship of edward kelly. ohn dee, a respected scientist and later alchemist, began experimenting with the occult sciences but found himself most successful in using a crystal with the assistance of a sensitive medium. as they began to receive messages they found themselves in communication with a strange and powerful force which outlined a complete, yet cryptic arcane system, this complex revelation had its own syntax and internal consistency and was one of great potency. since it was only of esoteric value, the correct pronunciations of the various letters and words triggered, and can still trigger, al

omplex numerical codes within the book of the law which suggest it is not a conscious fraud. aiwass could be best seen as a personification of the innermost will of crowley himself. it is that true self or will, which being beyond time was able to contemplate the transition which was occurring in the solar logos. it is ludicrous to see aiwass as some sort of extra-terrestrial using crowley as the medium or prophet of a new age. crowley himself had a love/hate relationship with both aiwass and the book of the law and conveniently lost it for some years in his attic! the book of the law is classic unconscious material. it is crowley's individual experience of the equinox of the gods as filtered via his own psychological structure. it could be said to be is his selfs perception of what was oc

nterpretations give us important clues regarding the message of the remnant age and its relation to conventional forms of christianity. madame blavaskty madame blavaskty was another who felt the great change that was occurring. she was born in russia in 1831 and in her early life trained as a circus hand and piano teacher, as her skills as a psychic developed she became an assistant to the famous medium douglas home. she travelled widely including such exotic locations as tibet and the himalayas. in 1873 she began teaching her own form of spiritualism, but this soon gave way to her unique adaptation of the esoteric teachings which came to be known as theosophy. she believed that she was in intimate contact with the mahatmas or secret chiefs who were the spiritual masters behind mans develo

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z2

hou mayest retain the shroud of darkness under thy own proper control and guidance. v. state clearly to the shroud what it is thy desire to perform therewith. w. having obtained the desired effect, and gone about invisible, it is required that thou should conjure the powers of the light to act against that shroud of darkness and mystery so as to disintegrate it, lest any force seek to use it as a medium for an obsession, etc. therefore, rehearse a conjuration as aforesaid, and then open the shroud and come forth out of the midst thereof, and then disintegrate that shroud by the use of a conjuration to the forces of hnyb to disintegrate and scatter the particles thereof, but affirming that they shall again be readily attracted at thy command. on no account must that shroud of awful mystery

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r defense against evil forces. for this reason, it is under the presidency of hrwbg and of f, whose names and forces are to be invoked at its consecration. this should take place on the day and hour of f, or else during the course of the fiery tattwa. any convenient sword may be adapted to this use, but the handle, hilt and guard must be such as to offer surfaces for inscriptions. it should be of medium length and weight. the motto of the adeptus should be engraved upon it, or upon the hilt in letters of emerald green, in addition to the mystic devices and names. the hilt, pommel and guard are to be coloured a flame red. the blade should be clean and bright. pentagrams should be painted on salient portions because this is the lineal figure of hrwbg. the divine and angelic names related to

GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LONELY ROAD

crooked path teachings. this particular mystery-rite obtains the meeting, soul to soul, between the aspirant and the deity. in the stream of sabbatic wisdom descended from yelda paterson through zos vel thanatos (austin osman spare, there is a line of transmission facilitated by the 'passing -on' of a spirit-familiar. in its contemporary manifestation this arcanum has itself 'fleshed out' via the medium of a mystery-rite 'the black eagle rite, simply named after the spirit itself. this instance in itself serves to illustrate that a certain type of magical lineage is principally conveyed via the inheritance of spirit-familiars. one might consider that the animal-totem, be it eagle, snake, fox or boar, functions as a 'mask' for the informing sentience of such traditions. mystery-rites, in an

nted, the task of the practice being to transform the apparent 'poisons' or mis-aligned sentiences into 'nectars' or benefic states of potent magical gnosis: to realise the union of purity and perfidy. oneiric initiation and transmission: the silver thread and road of green a principal way in which knowledge is transmitted within the cultus is via dreams. many of our rites are derived through the medium of lucid or clear-eyed dreaming; their messages being 'fleshed out' using the bases of traditional ritual structures, but enhanced and developed as the dream so dictates. it is indeed considered a talent and a blessing from the gods if someone has the power to dream viridically- that is to dream true, with a mind made green 'fertile as old eden. as in the matter of unique transmission, if s

in rites performed by higher adepts of the sabbatic mysteries the witches' supper is literally of 'flesh and blood- of semen and vaginal elixirs. for it is known that the seasons of the moon are refracted through the vessel of the priestess and that the issue of her sexual mouth contains the secrets (secret-ions) of the gnosis in a fluidic hypostasis. likewise the seed of a priest is the numinous medium for the powers of the godhead and for the concealed radiances of the sun. in rites employing a seeress as the so-called 'ophidian oracle, a trance-state is actuated by cunnilingus and the lucid post-orgasmic dream of the priestess is guided by external manuductive passes and verbal conjurations. as can be seen, if one considers it deeply, such matters cannot be operated effectively between

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

bc. this is 5 ibid, p. 149. 6 ibid, p. 93-6. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 25 emphasized by the coring tubes used, in 1949, by one of the byrd antarctic expeditions to take samples of sediment from the bottom of the ross sea. the sediments showed numerous clearly demarcated layers of stratification reflecting different environmental conditions in different epochs: coarse glacial marine, medium glacial marine, fine glacial marine, and so on. the most surprising discovery, however, was that a number of the layers were formed of fine-grained, well-assorted sediments, such as are brought down to the sea by rivers flowing from temperate (that is, ice-free) lands. 7 using the ionium-dating method developed by dr w. d. urry (which makes use of three different radioactive elements found

os, a sixteenth-century spanish chronicler, stated that according to the indians, he had been a bearded man of tall stature clothed in a white robe which came down to his feet and which he wore belted at the waist .7 other descriptions, collected from many different and widely separated andean peoples, all seemed to identify the same enigmatic individual. according to one he was: a bearded man of medium height dressed in a rather long cloak. he was past his prime, with grey hair, and lean. he walked with a staff and addressed the natives with love, calling them his sons and daughters. as he traversed all the land he worked miracles. he healed the sick by touch. he spoke every tongue even better than the natives. they called him thunupa or tarpaca, viracocha-rapacha or pachaccan..8 in one l

d not only for studying the round face of the earth but for their contemplation of the arch of heaven ?8 and is it a coincidence that the 6 popol vuh, introduction, p. 16. see also the magic and mysteries of mexico, p. 250ff. 7 popol vuh, pp. 168-9. 8 ibid. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 160 outstanding achievement of mayan society was its observational astronomy, upon which, through the medium of advanced mathematical calculations, was based a clever, complex, sophisticated and very accurate calendar? knowledge out of place in 1954 j. eric thompson, a leading authority on the archaeology of central america, confessed to a deep sense of puzzlement at a number of glaring disparities he had identified between the generally unremarkable achievements of the mayas, as a whole and the a

rylines so similar? why are they laden with common symbolism? and why do they so often share the same stock characters and plots? if they are indeed memories, why are there no historical records of the planetary disaster they seem to refer to? could it be that the myths themselves are historical records? could it be that these cunning and immortal stories, composed by anonymous geniuses, were the medium used to record such information and pass it on in the time before history began? and the ark went upon the face of the waters there was a king, in ancient sumer, who sought eternal life. his name was gilgamesh. we know of his exploits because the myths and traditions of mesopotamia, inscribed in cuneiform script upon tablets of baked clay, have survived. many thousands of these tablets, som

ime i immersed myself in what egyptologists call these ancient spells, i was impressed by the strange glimpses they seemed to afford of a high intelligence at work, darting from behind layers of incomprehension, reporting on experiences that prehistoric man should never have had and expressing notions he should never have been able to formulate. in short, the effect the texts achieved through the medium of hieroglyphs was akin to the effect the great pyramid achieved through the medium of architecture. in both cases the dominant impression was of anachronism of advanced technological processes used or described at a period in human history when there was supposed to have been no technology at all. 1944, p. 69. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 354 chapter 42 anachronisms and enigmas

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

eemed a 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

ission based on the cipher hidden in the book of the law. lightlines group, organized in kentucky by carla rueckert and the late don elkins. lightlines is one of the few trance channel contactee bodies making no claims for the true nature of its channelings, and known for doing systematic research on the process of communication. elkins was an eastern airline pilot but also an accomplished trance medium, best known for the work eventually published as the ra material. secret cipher of the ufonauts 13 layne, meade, founder of the venerable borderland sciences research foundation. layne was for many years the editor of bsrf s round robin and other journals, and he worked closely with trance channeler mark probert. layne was also a student of the work of frater achad. at one time, layne had b

ound to king john (same cipher value. king john equals 98, which equals i adore god and shall deny god, a fair description of england s historical and muchhated king john, but also a description of a key occult mystery in classical (as distinguished from new aeon) qabala, pointed out by frater achad: the interplay of 31 and its reverse, 13, or god and not. reference also blavatsky s contemporary, medium florence cook s control, katie king -the daughter of john king a/k/a sir henry morgan, the famous pirate. katie king= 139= unveiling and the bride. katie king appeared in spirit photographs as an unveiled bride. hpb s later mahatmas koot hoomi= 109= androgynous, and, from liber al. the lover; or hllarion smerdis= 183= ascended master, which suggests conscious ciphering. when we take into co

ufonauts 41 aleister crowley called 11 the great magical number, as uniting the antithesis of 5 and 6 etc (see aia aziz, fact and morya, above) and further, the general number of magick, or energy tending to change. rene guenon calls 11 the great number of the hieros gamos, or, as annemarie schimmel explains it, the sacred marriage between macrocosm and microcosm which is the precise role of the medium and contactee as well. i have mentioned the seth material as indicating a continuity from the mediumship and ufo contacteeism of the past 100+ years to the so-called new age trance channeling phenomenon. to be sure, a parallel exists with the holy books and the patience worth material channeled by mrs. curran from 1916. the alleged discarnate 17th century english girl who came through in co

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

in this they followed the pattern of any romance poetry (see suppl. that' passing round' or alternate telling of myth and marchen was already a greek and roman custom, as we may see by ovid's met. lib. iv, where the minyads during their spinning and weaving beguile the time by telling tales, 39' utile opus manuum vario sermone levemus, jerque vices aliquid, quod tempora longa videri non sinat, in medium vacuas referamus ad aures' dicta probant, primamque jubent narrare sorores. 167: desierat, mediumque fuit breve tempus, et orsa est dicere leuconoe, vocem tenuere sorores. 274: poscitur alcithoii, postquam siluere sorores. but it was the festival of bacchus, the priest had bidden them keep it' immunes operum dominas famulasque suorum' and the god avenged himself by turning their web into a

an (wackern. basel mss. p. 55^ that the common i^eople disbelieved the death of einp. frederick, and expected him to come back, is plain from the passages which expressly refer to' old peasants; it had most likely been the same in the preceding (13th) cent, and was long after. impostors took advantage of the general delusion; one chronicle (bohmer 1, 14) relates 'ecce quidam truphator surrexit in medium, qui dixit se esse fridericum quondam imjperatorem, quod de se multis intersignis et quibusdam prestigiis scire volentibus comprobavit' king rudolf had him burnt on a pile in 1285. yet detmar has under the year 1287 ^by der tid quam to lubeke en olt man, de sprak, he were heiser vrederic, de vordrevene. deme beghunden erst de boven (lads) und dat mene volk to horende sines tusches (fraud, u

lez daz sie domit bezouber^ and this proves the connexion of magical appliances with superstitious healing appliances. as the sick and the restored used to consecrate and hang up in churches an image or a limb of wax, so by images the witch maimed and killed. no doubt this kind of conjuring goes back to the oldest times; we find it in ovid, amor. iii. 7, 29: sagave punicea defixit nomina cera, et medium tenues in jecur egit acus? and goeth and taketli liis crossbow, and having bent it, will shoot at the image' then said the other' as thou lovest thy life, duck thee under the water when he shall shoot' and the man did so. and again he read in the book, and spake' behold, what seest thou' the man said' i see that he hath missed, and is exceeding sorry, and my wife with him; the scholar-erran

(p. 388, for a bad fall. in a netlil. comedy of the 16th century ^de bose frouwens/ they sew up the sick woman in a page's skin 'in eiue vriske pagenhut heneijen' schmidt on the east mongols p. 229 remarks, that these tribes also, to cure a disease, put their feet in the opened breast of a horse fresh hilled. the application of warm flesh is several times mentioned' vivmn gallinaceum pitzzitw per medium dividere, et protinus calidum su2^er vulnus imponere sic ut pars interior corpori jungatur^ celsus 5, 27 'cut open a black hen, and lay it on the shaven head' ettn. hebamme 795; fresh-hilled flesh on a wound, belg. mus. 7, 446 (see suppl^ again, the hirzin rieme, hart-strap, cut out of randolt's hide for the sick lion (reinh. 1951, is found actually prescribed as a remedy, bresl. ms. of the

a adjecit' habesne in horto tuo canapum spissum et longum' quae ait' habeo valde optatum' cui vetula' vade' inquit' tribus noctibus successive in crepusculo serotino ad ipsum hortum tali modo et forma, prima namque nocte accipe unam libram lardi spississimi et optimi quam poteris habere, secunda nocte duas, tertia vero tres, et semper pouas dextrum pedem ad canapum, ac projiciendo lardum usque ad medium canapi, vel citra, haec dices verba" alrawn du vil giiet, mit trawrigem miiet eiief ich dich an, dastu meiuen leidigen man bringst darzue. das er mir kein leid nimmer tue' tertia igitur nocte cum mulier haec verba replicaret, vetula abscondita in canapo jacebat. prius autem informaverat praedictam mulierem, quod attentissime auscultaret quae sibi tertia nocte dicta alrawn insinuaret. unde i

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

by the constitution and the decrees of the imperator, the grand master, or the supreme council. symbolically, he is the greatest light of each temple, and each lodge. he is the imperator's representative in each temple, and the grand master's representative in each lodge. his place is in the east, from whence all knowledge comes. he stands in the east at all convocations and lectures, to act as a medium .the master messenger.for the radiation of light and the dissemination of knowledge [36] the grand master shall be addressed as: worthy grand master. during all convocations he shall be saluted as hereinafter explained (see salutations, and in all ways shown that respect, consideration, and honor due his noble, unselfish, and ritualistic position. in subordinate lodges the master shall be a

n's total inheritance, of what is psychically innate in him. dreams, therefore, are something primordial, epigastric, intuitive. at rose-croix university and in dream laboratories in various centers around the world dream phenomena are being studied using scientifically established principles in an attempt to unravel some of the secret mysteries hidden in dreams. one recurring problem is that the medium of recollection does not seem to be the memory recollection associated with outer consciousness. unless a dream is recalled at various depths of consciousness as one passes from the deep subconscious through the borderline states to outer consciousness, a dream may swirl away and begin to fade as soon as we wake up. as for the dreams one has had earlier in the night, they are usually lost a

sensitive levels of consciousness permeating man's being. it is that consciousness and intelligence which accounts for the involuntary actions of the body. the psychic body is a kind of conscious field that corresponds to the physical body. the silver cord is the connecting link between the physical and psychic organisms so that the two may work cooperatively. the autonomic nervous system is the medium for the subconscious mind to carry out the commands in the psychic body. the psychic body carries with it a behavior pattern from the most primitive states of mankind, and the pattern of cosmic order of which this energy of life consists. there are seven important psychic centers or glands which receive and transform the psychic vibrations which we receive into grosser ones, enabling us to

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

he chatter, but by and by he sucked his sugar candy, and recovered his tranquillity; and the magician made him seat himself under a window,theonlyonethat had notbeendarkened,and poured out a table-spoonful ofsomeblackliquidinto theboy'srighthand,and bade him hold the hand steady, and keep his eye fixed upon the surface of the liquid("here" the doctor says, as with the magic mirrors of old "is the medium used to embody the idea, which has been conveyed by the operator to persons in correspond255 ence; the angle of direction from the boy's mind, must beinaccordance with the angle from the person in correspondence) and then resuming his old station by the brazier, sung out for several minutes on end "what do you see? allahbismillah255what do you see" all the while the smoke curled up faster a

attending that power of course is right; but it is not necessary for them to be always in a state of anxiety concerning it; for the being that gives that power, directs and controls the use of it. when you have done as much as is in your power for preventing evil spirits from taking any hold upon you, you have done sufficient.2i.-isit advisable that i should develop my faculty of being a writing medium? c.a.-itwould be prejudicial to you. in the first place you could not ascertain whether those spirits who guided your hand were really and truly what they profess themselves to be. you might receive communications from them which would so prey upon your mind that it would incapacitate you from the every day duties of life.thestatements they made would most probably, one half of them, be unt

ut a letter which i intend to address to them on the subject, and which, when complete, i will do myself the pleasure of sending for your perusal. if either of your mediums are seers,ishall be most happy to lend you my large crystal, which--did me the honour. to present me with, and also to obtain the promise of your guardian spirit to appear therein, and to respond to your questions, should your medium possess the requisite faculty; at the same time furnishing you with the necessary instructions for its use. withmyand my young friend's best regards,iam, dear sir, yours faithfully, robert owen, esq.f.h.[croydon]13november1854mydear sir,i duly received your esteemed present of the fourth and fifth parts of the'newexistence,'by which i am much obliged; and i should have acknowledged their re

tal,-thatone man's unceasing efforts for so many years for the benefit of mankind should be so long, and apparently so hopelessly, retarded, by another man's insane ambition, plunging the civilized world into all the evils and horrors of a war and itsconsequence-retrogradation.i took the opportunity of my return to call uponmrs. for a tablet i had left with him, and was surprised to find that his medium's faculty had left her, though probably,undermore judicious treatment, it may return. may i be allowed to inquire if your researches by the rappists continue to develop themselves to your satisfaction, and to repeat that i shall be most happy to obtain responses by the crystal to any questions you may favour me with as a testoftheir relative value. i have received from the spirit of my mirr

ainst. his guardian spirit makes it known to me that it will not be advisable to write to him for a short time.2.-1will write to him when you advise.e.a.-intwenty days.3.-mayi ask the name of his guardian spirit?e.a.-solomia.theresponses thus obtained are given by the c. a. generally in a large mirror, eighteen inches bytwelve;sometimes in a crystal and although my seer is a rapping and a writing medium, i never use the first, and rarely the last.theprocess is so slow, and liable to interruption, and the spirits are so utterly beyond control, for even when we exorcise them we cannot tell whether theymayormay not leave the room and return when it is over. in the responses by the crystal, the answers continually come faster than i canwrite;-indeedi have had more than 1,200 words pass through

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

eit? a. a tree is known by its fruit, a system by its results. when our opponents are able to prove to us that any solitary student of occultism throughout the ages has become a saintly adept like ammonius saccas, or even a plotinus, or a theurgist like iamblichus, or achieved feats such as are claimed to have been done by st. germain, without any master to guide him, and all this without being a medium, a self-deluded psychic, or a charlatan-then shall we confess ourselves mistaken. but till then, theosophists prefer to follow the proven natural law of the tradition of the sacred science. there are mystics who have made great discoveries in chemistry and physical sciences, almost bordering on alchemy and occultism; others who, by the sole aid of their genius, have rediscovered portions, i

lism, we do believe, most decidedly. q. do you reject the phenomena also? a. assuredly not-save cases of conscious fraud. q. how do you account for them, then? a. in many ways. the causes of such manifestations are by no means so simple as the spiritualists would like to believe. foremost of all, the deus ex machina of the so-called "materializations" is usually the astral body or "double" of the medium or of someone present. this astral body is also the producer or operating force in the manifestations of slate-writing "davenport"-like manifestations, and so on. q. you say usually-then what is it that produces the rest? a. that depends on the nature of the manifestations. sometimes the astral remains, the kamalokic "shells" of the vanished personalities that were; at other times, elementa

e reincarnating ego, the spiritual and immortal "individuality" and this hypothesis we entirely reject. the conscious individuality of the disembodied cannot materialize, nor can it return from its own mental devachanic sphere to the plane of terrestrial objectivity. q. but many of the communications received from the "spirits" show not only intelligence, but a knowledge of facts not known to the medium, and sometimes even not consciously present to the mind of the investigator, or any of those who compose the audience. a. this does not necessarily prove that the intelligence and knowledge you speak of belong to spirits, or emanate from disembodied souls. somnambulists have been known to compose music and poetry and to solve mathematical problems while in their trance state, without having

urely psychic and spiritual manifestations we believe in the intercommunication of the spirit of the living man with that of disembodied personalities. we say that in such cases it is not the spirits of the dead who descend on earth, but the spirits of the living that ascend to the pure spiritual souls. in truth there is neither ascending nor descending, but a change of state or condition for the medium. the body of the latter becoming paralyzed, or "entranced" the spiritual ego is free from its trammels, and finds itself on the same plane of consciousness with the disembodied spirits. hence, if there is any spiritual attraction between the two they can communicate, as often occurs in dreams. the difference between a mediumistic and a non-sensitive nature is this: the liberated spirit of a

edium. the body of the latter becoming paralyzed, or "entranced" the spiritual ego is free from its trammels, and finds itself on the same plane of consciousness with the disembodied spirits. hence, if there is any spiritual attraction between the two they can communicate, as often occurs in dreams. the difference between a mediumistic and a non-sensitive nature is this: the liberated spirit of a medium has the opportunity and facility of influencing the passive organs of its entranced physical body, to make them act, speak, and write at its will. the ego can make it repeat, echo-like, and in the human language, the thoughts and ideas of the disembodied entity, as well as its own. but the non-receptive or non-sensitive organism of one who is very positive cannot be so influenced. hence, al

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

a of chiswick by the 1870s because gardner fils was educated at the godolphin school at hammersmith. his first employment was as a clerk in a stockbroker's office( c. 1875-86) and in the latter year founded his own small stockbroking firm. he married in c. 1885 his parents were both addicted to spiritualism and he made a record of seances held at their home in 1878-9 when a certain joseph was the medium' on one occasion 'f.l.g. was slightly controlled by silver star- the latter was no doubt one of the countless red indians who manifested themselves as 'spirit guides 'and tried all he could to expel the influence by making passes over the medium. he was one of many who joined the theosophical society when madame blavatsky arrived in london. he preserved two sheets of paper with an automatic

t, and a new dangerous part taken by itself only. i do not think p[eter] d[avidson] knew that t.h.b. was a convicted felon, but when he did know it, he still embarked with his family and this felon for america. he has not been over scrupulous and has been making use of occultism for mere secular gain. i could tell you much of it if i were to see you personally. i know about thomas' he is a public medium, and like all the rest, pays the penalty of being subject to the will of elementaries& losing control of himself. he has attained to some kind of spiritual insight into the macrocosm, but others have done it so much better, that it is very little worth. his paper advertises him& he makes what's to him a living by it. please excuse a short letter this time. in haste, yours fraternally, wm. a

tions for divi.nation wer fir t published in papus, l tarot des hohemiens (1889; enghsh translation m 1892 by a. p. morton, second edition, revised by a. e. waite, 1910. 4 irwin's son herbert, a medical stud nt at bristol,.had died of an overdose of laudanum in 1879 and irwm made persistent efforts to contact him. william eglinton (1857-1933) was a well-known 'materialization' and 'slate-writing' medium. asealed slate would have a message written upon it during a seance eve if the slate itsel was supposedly inaccessible to human agents. eghnton was acquamted with madame blavatsky and visited adyar, near madras, when h.p.b. was there during the early 1880s. he joined the london lodge of the theosophical society during the early 1880s. 5 john thomas, who lived in cheshire, was a spiri ualist

ngs me such multifarious duties& interruptions that i am not my own master. in your letter, i think there is a solution of continuity, in your having omitted one or two words necessary to the full understanding of your meaning. however, you allude to davidson and thomas. i assume you mean peter davidson of the h[ermetic] b[rotherhood] of l[uxor& thomas, of frodsham, cheshire, the spiritualist and medium. as you did not belong to the h.b. of l. and i did not send you the particulars of the smashing-up of the whole wretched affair [sic. it came to my knowledge that burgoyne, the secretary, of whom i had always been suspicious, was no other than a man i had known previously under the name of d'alton who made such a confession of black magic that i rejected him altogether as being impossible

roaching his quarters he turns pale and trembles. it is supposed he has been guilty of something which puts him in mortal fear, and that he contemplates going off to australia. it is too long a tale to tell you the whole of it. if you know thomas of frodsham and mean him by your allusion, i can tell you about him. he has come entirely to grief and is sending begging letters to every one. he was a medium in communication with the colour spirits with whom he appears to have had a pact, but on two occasions nearly lost his life thro' them. the most apparently peaceable elementals, if a storm happens to come on, will become very violent and uncontrollable. the conflict of the elements seems to excite them to fury, and woe to the mortal, not being an adept, who encounters them. thomas has gone

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

an, and a crumbling volume of wholly unidentifiable characters yet with certain symbols and diagrams shuddering recognizable to the occult student. clearly, the lingering local rumours had not lied. this place had once been the seat of an evil older than mankind and wider than the known universe. in the ruined desk was a small leatherbound record-book filled with entries in some odd cryptographic medium. the manuscript writing consisted of the common traditional symbols used today in astronomy and anciently in alchemy, astrology, and other dubious arts- the devices of the sun, moon, planets, aspects, and zodiacal signs- here massed in solid pages of text, with divisions and paragraphings suggesting that each symbol answered to some alphabetical letter. in the hope of later solving the cryp

s walls and roof were of dressed masonry. its length he could not imagine, for it stretched ahead indefinitely into the blackness. of the archways, some had doors of the old six-panelled colonial type, whilst others had none. overcoming the dread induced by the smell and the howling, willett began to explore these archways one by one; finding beyond them rooms with groined stone ceilings, each of medium size and apparently of bizarre used. most of them had fireplaces, the upper courses of whose chimneys would have formed an interesting study in engineering. never before or since had he seen such instruments or suggestions of instruments as here loomed up on every hand through the burying dust and cobwebs of a century and a half, in many cases evidently shattered as if by the ancient raider

eirdly figured leaden bowls whose rims retained such obnoxious deposits and around which clung repellent odours perceptible above even the general noisomness of the crypt. when he had completed about half the entire circuit of the wall he found another corridor like that from which he had come, and out of which many doors opened. this he proceeded to investigate; and after entering three rooms of medium size and of no significant contents, he came at last to a large oblong apartment whose business-like tanks and tables, furnaces and modern instruments, occasional books and endless shelves of jars and bottles proclaimed it indeed the long-sought laboratory of charles ward- and no doubt of old joseph curwen before him. after lighting the three lamps which he found filled and ready, dr. wille

ined to penetrate every wonder and nightmare this nether realm might contain, seized the small lamp and crossed the threshold. a wave of nameless fright rolled out to meet him, but he yielded to no whim and deferred to no intuition. there was nothing alive here to harm him, and he would not be stayed in his piercing of the eldritch cloud which engulfed his patient. the room beyond the door was of medium size, and had no furniture save a table, a single chair, and two groups of curious machines with clamps and wheels, which willett recognised after a moment as mediaeval instruments of torture. on one side of the door stood a rack of savage whips, above which were some shelves bearing empty rows of shallow pedestalled cups of lead shaped like grecian kylikes. on the other side was the table;

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

istence the man was himself a luminous thing of the same race as his enemy. this impression was sustained by his frequent references to flying through space and burning all that impeded his progress. yet these conceptions were formulated in rustic words wholly inadequate to convey them, a circumstance which drove me to the conclusion that if a dream world indeed existed, oral language was not its medium for the transmission of thought. could it be that the dream soul inhabiting this inferior body was desperately struggling to speak things which the simple and halting tongue of dullness could not utter? could it be that i was face to face with intellectual emanations which would explain the mystery if i could but learn to discover and read them? i did not tell the older physicians of these

HP LOVECRAFT THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE

ed by the bleak exterior of the house. just what it was that i feared or loathed, i could by no means define; but something in the whole atmosphere seemed redolent of unhallowed age, of unpleasant crudeness, and of secrets which should be forgotten. i felt disinclined to sit down, and wandered about examining the various articles which i had noticed. the first object of my curiosity was a book of medium size lying upon the table and presenting such an antediluvian aspect that i marvelled at beholding it outside a museum or library. it was bound in leather with metal fittings, and was in an excellent state of preservation; being altogether an unusual sort of volume to encounter in an abode so lowly. when i opened it to the title page my wonder grew even greater, for it proved to be nothing

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

n would say, then making them say it. it may be that i was simply manipulating them, setting them up to react in a certain way, but the method isn't important. it's the result that counts. when i was a child, my mother and my grandmother did all sorts of psychic, witchy things, so they naturally recognized that i was a bit different from the rest of my cousins. my sister doesn't do this. she is a medium; she receives, which makes her very important to anyone who is a witch. i have been psychic since childhood. people used to visit us, and i could tell them things about their lives that i could not possibly have known if i hadn't been psychic. frequently, people would react in a nervous way, and of course, any child enjoys causing a sensation in adults, so i kept it up. i soon learned to di

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

al and magnetical fluids which represent the contrasting polarities. 4. the principle of air another element derived from akasa is that of air. initiated people do not regard this principle as a real element, but they will grant it the role of a mediator between the fiery and the watery principles, so that the principle of air will, in a certain way, establish the neutral equilibrium, acting as a medium between the active and the passive activities of water and of fire. through the interaction of the active and passive elements of fire and water the whole created life has become motion. in its mediatorship the principle of air has assumed the quality of warmth from the fire and that of humidity from the water. without these two qualities any life would be inconceivable. these two qualities

ical development at full speed. magical physical training (v) in this step i shall quote some exercises that render possible a deliberate passive communication with the invisible ones from a magical point of view. in a certain way the methods resemble the spiritualistic ones, but the magician will soon notice that he is not training himself to become a person without any will of his own, called a medium by the spiritualists. the magician may not become a plaything of uncontrollable powers; on the contrary, he directs his powers consciously and also learns to use them deliberately. in this respect, he considers the laws of the invisible world as well as those of the physical world. to further the passive communication with invisible beings, there are recommended mainly the levitation exerci

preparation is very different from that of the spiritualists who behave passively insofar as they take a pencil into their hands and write or paint. whether the messages that are asked for by the medial writing or painting of the spiritualists are actually coming out of the fourth dimension or the way they say it, from the world beyond or whether they originate only in the subconsciousness of the medium in question is entirely left to the judgment of the magician. a hand that has been exteriorized according to our method has really been transplanted into the fourth dimension and can be seen by any being of that sphere that wants to use if to send messages to our material world. as soon as the beginner has done these exercises, he is able to communicate with the beings of the fourth dimensi

nd one with an artist, another with a saint, in a different place with a pharaoh, and immediately again with an angel. therefore it is not at all surprising that this particular field of knowledge will meet with a host of opponents and mockers, because of its amount of self-deception. no wonder that a phantom has such a strong instinct of self-preservation as to present itself as a vampire to the medium or the whole circle, and indeed becomes fatal to the neighborhood as well. of course, all this does not mean that a genuine magician who masters the fourth state of aggregation, the akasa principle, would not be able to communicate with a deceased person or with an intellect that is not yet embodied. i have already quoted the practice in the chapter about mediumistic writing. apart from tha

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

ture she made the required confession of magical practices. she admitted the denial of her faith and the sacrificing to robert, son of art, and as well that she had caused certain women of her acquaintance to appear as if they had goats' horns, she also confessed that at the suggestion of dame alice she had frequently consulted demons and received responses from them, and that she had acted as a "medium (mediatrix) between her and the said robert. she declared that although she herself was mistress of the black art, yet she was as nothing in comparison with the dame from whom she had learnt all her knowledge, and that there was no one in the world more skilful than she. she also stated that william outlawe deserved death as much as she, for he was privy to their sorceries, and for a year a

ny as a black swan. had the words been written at the time the unfortunate negro might well have exclaimed, though in vain, to his judges "mislike me not for my complexion- the shadowed livery of the burning sun" or could it have been that he was the unhappy victim of a false etymology! for p. 61 in old writers the word "necromancy" is spelt "nigromancy" as if divination was practised through the medium of negroes instead of dead persons; indeed in an old vocabulary of 1475 "nigromantia" is defined as "divinatio facta per nigros" he may therefore have been suspected of complicity with the two witches. as yet the "natural law" held sway in ireland, but very soon this country was to be fully equipped with a statute all to itself. two statutes against witchcraft had already been passed in eng

ISIS UNVEILED

christian clergy can never become reconciled to a doc- trine based on the application of strict logic to discursive reasoning. the number of those who have abandoned theology on this account has never been made known. they have asked questions and been forbidden to ask them; hence, separation, disgust, and often a despairing plunge into the abyss of atheism. tb.e orphean views of aether as chief medium belteeen god and created matter were likewise denounced. the orphic aether recalled too vividly the archaeua, the soul of the world, and the latter was in its metaphysical sense as closely related to the emana- tions, being the first manifestation sephira, or divine light. and when could the latter be more feared than at that critical moment? origed* clemens alezandrinus^ chalcidius^ method

dience. flow could one know, had he not been taught by the demons themsdves, what they like or what they hate; the name which attracts, or that which forces them into obedienee; all this art, in short, of magic, the whole science of the magicians* to this impressive dissertation of the 'saint' we will add that no magician has ever denied that he had learned the art from 'spirits' whether, being a medium, they acted independently on him, or he had 133. hitl. qf tte svpemalutid, ii, pp. 13-16. 134 auguitme: the cog o god, xxi, vi; dca maiumuz: memn tt prutiqae* it* lunotit, p. isl. digitizecoy google 68 isis dnteiled beea initiated into the science f)f 'evocation' by his fathers who knew it before himself. but who was it then that taught the exorcist? the priest who clothes himself with an a

of faith by his holiness the present pope in 1870, at the last oecumenical council. from the foregoing it b easy to see that the only substantial differ- ence between infidel 'mediums' and orthodox saints lies in the relative usefulness of the dmumt, if demons we must call them. while the devil faithfully supports the christian exorcist in his orthodox) views, the modem spook generally leaves his medium in the lurch. for. by lying, he acts againat his or her interests rather than otherwise, and timeby too often casts foul suspicion on the genuineness of the mediumabip. were modem 'spirits' devua, they would evidently display a little more discrimination and cunning than they do. they would act as the demotu of the saint which, compelled by the ecclesiastical magician and by the power of "t

nt. true, he had more diacrimination, charity, and justice than the christian clergy; for while banishing the 'unconscious' sorcerer, the person troubled with a demon, from within the sacred pre- cincts of the adyta, the priests, instead of mercilessly burning him, took care of the uniortumite 'possessed one' having hospitals expressly for that purpose in the neighborhood of temples, the ancient 'medium' if obsessed, was taken care of and restored to health. but with one who had, by conscious witchcraft, acquired powers dangerous to his fellow- creatures, the priests of old were as severe as justice herself "any per- son aeddenially guilty of homicide, or of any crime, or convicted of wuchcrajl, was excluded from the eleusinian mysteries" and so were thc^ from all others. this law, mention

nt u mtnuu, pp. 31^^20^ 65. digitizec by google 100 isis unveiled natural; for they are his iwotecting deities. but are the pitris disembodied human beings of our meet tiaa is the question, and we will discuss it in a moment. we say that the fakir may be regarded in a degree as a medium; for he is what is not generally known under the direct mesmeric influence of a living adept, his sannydst or guru. when the latter dies, the power of the former, unless he has received the last transfer of spiritual forces, wanes and often even disappears. why, if it were other- wise, should the fakirs have been excluded from the right of advancing to the second and third degree? the lives

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

the strangely abstruse, and, in some instances, the startlingly singular ideas of these princes among the mystics. we are and desire to be viewed as the historians only of this renowned body; of whom it may most truly be asserted that no one can bost of having ever really and in fact seen or known in any age any supposed (or suspected, member in the flesh. it is sufficient honour to offer as the medium only, or the intermediaries to the reading world of this illustrious membership; whose renown has filled, and whose mystical doctrines (assumed or supposed, have puzzled the ages; in the intenser degree, still, in the present time; as the inquisitive reception of the authors first edition of the rosicrucians abundantly proved. dr. ginsburg says of the cabala, or kabbalah (regarding the myst

is the finest of air, and is the means of the quickest burning out, or the supernatural (in this world) exhilaration of animal life, or extenuation of the solid; and, above all, the heightening of the capacity of the human, as being the quintessence of matter: this oxygen is the thing which feeds fire the most overwhelming. nor would the specks and spots and stars of fire stop in this dense world-medium, in this tissue or sea of things, could it farther and farther fasten upon and devour the solids: eating, as it were, through them. but as this thick world is a thing the thickest, it presses out, thrusts, or gravitates upon, and stifles, in its too great weight; and conquers not only that liveliest, subtlest, thinnest element of the solids, the finest air, by whatever chemical name oxygen

ngs. and then, on the throne of the visible, they placed this in the world, invisible fire: the sense-thing to be worshipped in the senses, as the last thing of them, and the king of them, that is, that which we know as the phenomenon, burning fire, the spiritual fire being impalpable, as having the visible only for its shadow; the ghostly fire not being even to be thought upon; thought being its medium of apprehension when it itself had slipped; the waves of apprehension of it only flowing back when it being intuition had vanished. we only know that a thought is in us when the thought is off the object and in us: another thought being, at that simultaneous instant, in the object, to be taken up by us only when the first has gone out of us, and so on; but not before to be taken up by us; t

that all appearances are born of fire, so to speak, according to the ideas of the rosicrucians. light is not radiated from any intensely heated gas or fluid. if nitre is melted, it will not be visible; but throw into it any solid body, and as soon as that becomes heated it will radiate light; hence the phenomenon, nasmyth s willow-leaves, in the sun, must be solid, not gaseous; and through their medium the whole of our light from the sun is doubtless derived. see the records of the british assoideas of the bhuddists. 149 elation for the advancement of science (cambridge meeting, october 1862. these physical facts were known to the ancient persians. the ancient ideas upon these subjects have not come down to us. at all definitely. the destruction of ancient manuscripts was effected upon a

rnaturalism, p. 271. to the divine knowledge, the future must be as much present as the present itself. the explorations of the rosicrucians may be said to be as keys to masked doors in the ramparts of nature, which no mortal can pass through without rousing dread sentries never seen upon this side (a strange story, lord lytton, vol. i. p. 265. omnia ex uno, omnia in uno, omnia ad unum, omnia per medium, et omnia in omnibus (hermetic axiom. in the speculations of the gnostics, the astronomical points cancer and capricorn are called the gates of the sun. cancer, moreover, is-termed the "gate of man; capricorn is the gate of the gods. these are platonic views, as macrobius declares. with the influences of the planets, saturn brings reason and intelligence; jupiter, power of action; mars gove

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

l volumes of rarefied air rigid, could set up a sort of island in the gravitational or magnetic field, 35 moving the island about as the spot of a searchlight is moved on thin clouds. such a thing would be invisible, would have many of the physical attributes of a solid body, but very small mass. for example, its movement through the air would be wavelike, and would not envolve translation of the medium any more than the spot of the searchlight would require movement of the cloud which enabled the beam to attain visibility. in moving, this island would simply "freeze" on the advancing edge and "thaw" on the trailing edge. in this way it could have almost infinite velocity, and also acceleration, just as the spot of the searchlight. in this manner it would appear to be free of mass, and act

ation, a mechanical device passing through the air, emitting some sort of ray of heat or energy, at regular intervals of time and distance. what sort of device, and why the rays? close, someone is telepathing to his infierior (sic) receivor. i suggest that this ray was something in the nature of radar, and that it either adjusted the distance of the machine from the ground or acted as a repulsion medium to sustain the machine in flight. the slight pressure in the prints could hardly account for the latter, so let's guess that the rays were for guidance or navigational purposes to maintain the ship at a uniform distance from the ground or prevent too close an approach to the surface. tests should show emanations, else the "measurer" was only idleing his "marker" or unless, now elec. power i

ng as a common denominator. all of the aerial or spatial contrivances and gadgets which we have postulated appear to have one feature in common: they have their natural habitat in space, or at very least in the atmosphere. there is no sure record of an appearance on the ground, and few indications. appearances from, or disappearances into, the sea indicate only an ability to make use of the fluid medium of seawater, when necessary or desirable. this leads to an assumption that ufo's live naturally and easily in space; that they do not necessarily come from other stellar systems, or even from other planets. no. not easily the "little-men" are known to have gills just as all men before birth, have gills, too. after considering that the space structures or ufo's spend most of their time in li

, spindle or zeppelin shape but 8,000 miles in diameter and 30,000 miles long. besides shape and particular movement, the spot had one other characteristic in common with maunder's object. there was no noticeable distortion of its front, or advancing edge, as it plowed through the cloudy or fluid surface on which it floated, although it moved with a speed of two hundred miles per hour through the medium. it is conceded by all scientists that life, such as we know, could not exist on jupiter in any form, from our lowest to our highest. as for life in some other form, or weird, discarnate intelligence, the limit is defined only by one's ability to speculate. i "read "no life there at all, malfunction" because jupiter's great size, complex and turbulent condition, intricate system of satellit

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

c receiver- the ability to directly receive thought (communication) at a distance, with no physical connection to the sender. there are many everyday examples of this, in which we think something just as another person is about to say it. this is an easy one to test for through experiment. very dramatic cases of telepathy have been recorded; there is often an emotional element in such cases. 5) a medium, as in a seance. 6) experience with a ouija board, pendulum, or automatic writing. 7) precognition- to forsee the future. again, highly emotional events are the ones most likely to be 'tuned in. examples of pk pk, the abreviation for psychokinesis, is the active or sending side of psychic phenomena. the theory here is that psychic force is sent out from the individual. examples of pk includ

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

xternal boundary, be it the vocal cords of a- 341- human being, or the oscillating surface that emits a sound wave. similarly, we use our spiritual organs of perception to perceive the creator. a sensation of contact (much like a tactile sensation) with the external boundary of the created being is known as "prophetic vision" on the other hand, a contact that has been infracted by a certain other medium that came into contact with the external boundary of the created being (much like the sensation of hearing) is known as "prophetic hearing "prophetic vision" is considered to be the most obvious disclosure (just as in our world, we desire to see an object and consider this to be the most complete perception of the object) because we come into direct contact with the light emanating from the

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

own to us in europe, though there have been other infiltrations. numa pompilius, the second king of rome, who founded the roman collegia, established in connection with them a system of the mysteries which derived its masonic succession from egypt; but its ceremonies and teachings were somewhat modified by the migration of the rites of attis and cybele to rome about 200 b.c, and again through the medium of the soldiers returning from the campaigns of vespasian and titus. from the collegia this mingled tradition was handed on through the comacini and various other secret societies through the dangerous times of the middle ages; and when a better age dawned and persecution became less fierce it came to the surface once more. certain fragments of it were gathered together in 1717 to form the

that the m.m. should attend masonic meetings astrally, in this way giving his strength and his blessing to many lodges, and doing much more work for the craft than he can do by confining himself to his own lodge. a closer study of the physics of the higher life will show him that the actual gsilver cord h is observable only when etheric matter is withdrawn from the dense body, as in the case of a medium and that the connection between the astral and physical vehicles of the ordinary man is a wonderfully exact sympathetic vibration; perhaps better symbolized by a chord of music than a cord of silver; but the interpretation is nevertheless quite permissible. 675. the etheric forces 676. the o c being taken, the r.w.m. proceeds to the actual ceremony of admission, the external ritual of which

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

tes with tolerable accuracy, although once more the traditional history suffered distortion through being imperfectly remembered. such is the story of that line of succession which eventually found its way into the roman collegia, in the first place by direct descent from the teaching of king numa, then by the migration of the rites of attis and cybele to rome about 200 b.c, and again through the medium of the returning soldiers of the armies of vespasian and titus. from these collegia it has been handed down with singularly little change in essentials to our modern lodges. 294. besides the three craft degrees which formed the main structure of the jewish mysteries, there were also other masonic traditions handed down from egypt. that which is now the holy royal arch had its place in the w

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

o do just that. one of the few stories in hebrew scriptures (the old testament) that mentions sheol is the tale of the so-called witch of endor. king saul had banished, under threat of death, all who trafficked with ghosts and spirits (1 sam. 28:3. however, faced with a superior army and feeling himself in a desperate situation, saul, in disguise, consults a woman who today we would refer to as a medium. this woman, who lived at endor, summoned the spirit of the prophet samuel from sheol.when he arrived, he asked saul, why have you disturbed me and brought me up (1 sam. 28:15) by making a directional reference( brought me up, the clear implication is that sheol is underneath the surface of the earth. samuel told saul that he should never have turned away from god, that he was on the verge

ated via photographic and documentary evidence far outweighs the few items in dispute. the fact remains that lavey pursued a course that exposed him to the heights and depths of humanity, full of encounters with fascinating people; it climaxed with his founding of the church of satan and led to notorious celebrity on a worldwide scale. the church has survived his death, and continues, through the medium of his writings, to continually attract new members who see themselves reflected in the philosophy he called satanism. this entry was written by peter h. gilmore, high priest of the church of satan. see also church of satan; temple of set for further reading: aquino,michael. the church of satan. 4th ed. selfpublished, 1999. baddeley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll

em. they themselves are equally pleased by both errors. see also demons for further reading: lewis, c. s. the screwtape letters. new york: macmillan, 1961. messand, george. the history of the devil. london: newell, 1996. s ance a s ance involves a group of people who come together in order either to communicate with discarnate spirits or to produce and witness paranormal phenomena. a professional medium is usually, but not always, present. because of a longstanding association between disembodied spirits and demons, s ances were traditionally regarded as diabolical activities in which sitters (people attending the s ance) contacted agents of the 246 season of the witch devil agents who merely pretended to be the spirits of departed loved ones. there are references to s ance-type communicat

lism in the midnineteenth century, when the popularity of such gatherings boomed. s ances are still popular, although twentieth century gatherings usually feature mental mediumship. nineteenth-century s ances were often dramatic, producing phenomena associated with physical mediumship. s ances usually, though not always, take place in the home of one of the participants, often in the house of the medium if a professional psychic is involved. certain guidelines have been developed which, it is claimed, increase the probability of successful communications. as much as possible, sitters should be an even admixture of male and females, and should sit in a circular pattern. younger participants have more psychic energy, and skeptics seem to place a damper on such proceedings. other kinds of gui

ve more psychic energy, and skeptics seem to place a damper on such proceedings. other kinds of guidelines are that new people should only very cautiously be included in a regular meeting circle. to avoid becoming too obsessed with spirit contact, meetings should be restricted to two or three per week and, under normal circumstances, for periods of two hours or less. sitters must also respect the medium by not grabbing or jarring her or him. like the ceremonies in contemporary spiritualist churches, such gatherings often began with prayers and hymns to set the proper mood. the home circle was a type of popular s ance, oftentimes not involving a medium, which helped make spiritualism a popular movement extending well beyond spiritualist denominational boundaries. low lighting, it was claime

LIBER 777

LIBER ALEPH

ercome its inertia. to win that battle i must call time and pick-axe to mine aid. but how could i retard the motion of the earth in space? i am myself party of its momentum. yet every stroke of my pen affecteth that motion by changing the equilibrium thereof. the problem of every act of magick is then this: to exert a will sufficiently powerful to cause the required effect, through a menstruum or medium of communication. by the common understanding of the word magick, we however exclude such media as are generally known and understood. now then, o my son, will i declare unto thee first the nature of the power, and afterward that of the medium. l liber aleph vel cxi 52 aw de harmonia anim cum corpore (of the harmony of the soul with the body) ll things are interwoven. the most spiritual tho

en of the art and craft of this most holy mystery i write not, for a reason that thou already knowest. moreover, in this matter, thou shalt best learn by thine own experience, and thine observation in true science shall guide thee. for this secret is still of magick, and occult, so that i know not certainly if thy will lieth with my way or no. o liber aleph vel cxi 56 bd de menstruo artis (of the medium of the art) ut concerning the medium by whose sensitive nature our magick force is transmitted to the object of our working, doubt not. for already in other galaxies of physics have we been compelled to postulate an thyr wholly hypothetical in order to explain the phenomena of light, electricity, and the like; nor doth any man demand demonstration of the existence of that thyr other than it

icity, and the like; nor doth any man demand demonstration of the existence of that thyr other than its conformity with general law. thou therefore, creator and transmitter of thine own energy, needest not to ask whether by this or by some other means thou performest thy work. yet i know not why this thyr of the mathematicians and the physicians should not be one with the astral light, or plastic medium or aub, aud, aur (these three being a trinity) of which our own sages have spoken. and this meditation may bring forth much knowledge physical, which is good, for that which is above is like that which is beneath, and the study of any law leadeth to the understanding of all law. so mayst thou learn in the end that there is no law beyond do what thou wilt. b the book of wisdom or folly 57 be

LIBER LLL PARADIGMAT PIRATE

n the body and the mind. certain drum rhythms have also been known to directly impact emotional states, depending on tone and pace. there are some styles of drumming that can apparently cause sexual arousal or intense feelings of anger. extensive work with drumming will probably reveal these patterns, but the magician fs primary concern should be on entering a state of gnosis through the physical medium of this type of gnosis. drumming works well with visionary trance (in terms of divination, invocation of various godforms that are associated with the drum (or thunder) and can be used very well in group ritual settings. chanting/glossalaylia the process of repeating a simple phrase or a random collection of syllables for an extended period of time will also produce single-pointed conscious

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ul casts up, like brocken spectres, certain vast and vague images of the beholder himself, with or without a glory en-compassing them. the function of the facts is then quite passive: it matters little or nothing whether the cloud be the red mist of christianity, or the glimmering silver-white of celtic paganism; the hard grey dim-gilded of buddhism, the fleecy opacity of islam, or the mysterious medium of those ancient faiths which come up in as many colours as their investigator has moods .in order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the na ve naturalism of many parts of those scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, philo borrowed from the stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of greek mythology) that great excalibur which they had forged

to belive this, and a glaring non sequitur as to christ.s deity, on the evidence, not even of the inebriated eye-witnesses, but of mss. of doubtful authorship and date, bearing all the ear-marks of dishonesty. for we must not forget that the absurdities of to-day were most cunning proofs for the poor folk of seventeen centuries ago. talking of fish-stories, read john xxi. 1-6* a twentieth century medium. or luke v. 1-7 (comparisons are odious. but once i met a man by a lake and told him that i had toiled all the morning and had caught nothing, and he advised me to try the other side of the lake; and i caught many fish. but i knew not that it was the lord. in australia they were praying for rain in the churches. the sydney bulletin very sensibly pointed out how much more reverent and practi

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

eality. g. e w=h. g% v u]%d. 3"d. workings of equity from our own past karma. we make words ambiguous by adding our meaning; qualifications become endless and few understand themselves or each other. whatever you assert of the gods is more true of yourself. all ways to heaven lead to flesh. our re-orientation and ascent from earth must start here: nothing is obtained except by desire and our only medium is flesh. mouth and hand. in the midst of reality we strive for unreality, hence i teach the equal reality of all things, man and his illusions. flesh of dreams c there is a lamentable display of the nonartists shadow-fighting their fears; automata actuated by their own committed untruths seeking their fulfilment. truth is everywhere, there is nothing untrue anywhere; it may appear so, beca

e begotten by the training of our ids. our will proceeds from and is formed by preceding efforts, and so our further deliberati z@ o e. 5: v #5..15! v% e 6( s 2. to control our instincts by transference. what is the nexus of cause and effect? one answer is by the question: what stimulates cause to effect? to illustrate: i desire to make a pot, and from ide. p..1. x..q (i 5..1]%d( x definitely the medium between idea and creation. but we have already presumed certain factors, there is already a concatenation. z..t$ has /5..1/ g$ has permitted conation. whether initial stimulus is from without or within it is here identical, because related to#"d..1 2' 5! v( 87 w %d/ 2 constant concatenation answering necessity leveled to our ability. wisdom is in the realization of the mysterious incomprehe

yet he may break himself against them. t z. r..1( d=h -5! h" stupidities. whatever we commit to life unknowingly, concurrently causes a subtle superfetation which forms our media for ubiquitous thoughts which form our ego: then soul steps in. we are always a functional throwback, the articulation of past latencies clamouring for reformation. the complex development of body becomes a more elastic medium for ego, mind and soul to work through. the purpose of life appears as the conversion of matter from collective uniformity (stinking lump) into specialized separatenesses, i.e, a diversity of individuals. hence there is no universal brotherhood based on equality, there being no age-group of experience, just the reverse. time relates us to ability. whatever our claims concerning interrelated

st? our chief function is to live fully, however near the negations. what difficulties we make of this life and of the living! for most it has become a survival, a foregoing and forgetting. at best, a narrow selecting. there are more who would escape life than retain it. g r@ d..1 pjk( x. m e( 8\ 5: v 6..1 e. o e earth must begin and return here. nothing is obtained except by desire, and our only medium is flesh: appetent mouth and grasping hand. in the midst of reality we strive, and unreality is our accomplishment. hence i teach the equal reality of all things. man and his illusions. dreams shall flesh. some day. there is a. d* d/ t 2( o( n -fighting their fears: automata actuated by their committed untruths, seeking release from self-created illusions. to be repressed by others. our gre

xistence itself which induces a propensity towards the marvelous that receives a check only by redirection and relearning. but our reasoning and our learning are both forged by presumptions. if experience gives authority to testimony, recognition by ideas does the same. we are never fully aware of things except by the influx of sexual will awakening us. pain and pleasure: neither exists without a medium. we make our own evil. there is no malignity in nature. man, in his efforts to violate nature is himself violated. truth is an equation of time-space; untruth is unrelated to immediacy. life is insatiable desire, persistent yet ever-changing. it strives for expression by dramatic unities. we are afraid of it by heaped-up conventions and even stranger ethics. the familiar induces fatigue-ind

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

thermodynamics because our planet is an open system that receives large amounts of energy from our star, the sun. you can see how order can appear out of disorder, given an outside source of energy, by conducting a simple experiment in your kitchen. just pour a thin layer of cooking oil (a disordered system because all the oil molecules are distributed randomly) in a frying pan and heat it up on medium (this is the energy source. after a while, if you look at the oil from a shallow angle, you will see many highly structured ordered vortexes forming at the surface of the oil. these are called be nard cells, after henri be nard, the french physicist who studied them (figure 5.1. of course, be nard cells are a far cry from living cells and anyway, the term cells in this context is not meant

owering plants, including many crop plants, originated through a process of hybridization. these are typical cases of macroevolution that cannot be easily dismissed. finally, even simple bacteria still have much to tell us about the complexity of evolutionary pathways. for example, pseudomonas fluorescens, a soil bacterium, can evolve under laboratory conditions from free-floating cells in liquid medium to mat-forming communities that concentrate at the interface between liquid broth and air. this new trait is due to the mutation of a single base pair in a gene responsible for the control of several other genes. the result of the mutation of this single gene is what is called a evolution of the dna world 167 pleiotropic effect, an effect that modifies the expression of several genes. in th

zed in a pressure cooker. the selective agents antibiotics such as ampicillin and tetracycline should be filter sterilized because they are temperature sensitive. antibiotic-sensitive andantibiotic-resistant, plasmid-carryingescherichiacoli strains canbeobtained from the american type culture collection (atcc. e. coli cells first grown in the absence of antibiotic(s) are later plated on selective medium, where the amount of growth is observed. alternatively, students can collect bacteria present in their ears and nostrils (use sterilized cotton swabs. replica plating can be used to observe multidrug or single-drug resistance. with e. coli, gene-transfer-mediated resistance to antibiotics can be demonstrated through plasmid dna isolation and transfer to sensitive strains. this step is equiv

ide a cellular structure called a nucleus. eukarya are also called eukaryotes. evolution: in a broad sense, the ability of all things to change over time. fitness: a relative quantity that describes the ability of organisms to survive and multiply in a given type of environment. flagellum: a whiplike structure present in some prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells used to propel these cells in a liquid medium. fundamentalism: belief in the bible or other sacred books as factual, incontrovertible historical records. fusion: in physics, the action of merging two or more atomic nuclei together; in biology, the action of merging two or more living cells together. gene: an element of heredity. genes are made of dna or, in some viruses, of rna. genome: the suite of all genes present in an organism. gl

MAGIC AND SPELLS

ate the point of origin of the spell to a random place within range of the spell. to generate the direction in which the point of origin is moved randomly, roll 1d8 on the grenadelike weapons diagram on page 138 of the player's handbook. to generate how far the point of origin is moved from its intended position randomly, roll 3d6. multiply the result by s feet for close-range spells, 20 feet for medium-range spells, or by 80 feet for long-range spells. it is possible for the spell effect to extend outside the wild magic zone; however, its point of origin cannot exceed its range. if the result generated would do that, adjust the point of origin to the limit of the range in the randomly generated direction. spells whose range is personal or touch simply fail. t magic open any three books de

be carved to hold spells of great potency. learning the runes in order to use rune magic, a character must learn the inscribe rune feat (see chapter 1: characters. rune magic is strongly tied to the dwarven and giant deities and is thus the province of divine spellcasters. some students of rune magic choose to virtually abandon the normal practice of magic in order to concentrate on their chosen medium, becoming runecasters of great power. magic creating runes if you know inscribe rune, any divine spell you currently have prepared can instead be cast as a rune. a rune is a temporary magical writing similar to a scroll. it can be triggered once before it loses its magical power, but it lasts indefinitely until triggered. a rune written or painted on a surface fades away when expended, eras

ake advantage of their racial affinity for these items) if the check fails, the rune is imperfect and cannot hold the spell. the act of writing triggers the prepared spell, whether or not the craft check is successful, making the spell unavailable for casting until you rest and regain spells. that is, the spell is expended from your currently prepared spells, just as if it had been cast. a single medium-size or smaller object can hold only one rune. larger objects can hold one rune per 2s square feet (an area s feet square) of surface area. runes cannot be placed on creatures. the rune has a base price of the spell level x caster level x 100 gp (a 0- level spell counts as 1/2 level. you must spend 1/2s of its base price in xp and use up raw materials costing half this base price. a rune's

ice, and 1/25 of the market price in xp (one hundred days and 4,000 xp for the base portal. the builder can create a second portal at the destination point, making a two-way portal, for half price (25,000 gp, fifty days, 2,000 xp larger and smaller portals: a portal can be crafted as small as 1 square. foot (about a 6-inch radius, but this does not reduce the cost. the smallest portal usable by a medium-size creature is 12 square feet magic (roughly a 2-foot radius. small creatures can use portals as small as 7 square feet (an 18-inch radius, and tiny creatures can pass through portals of 2 square feet (a 10-inch radius. diminutive and fine creatures are the only beings who can pass through portals of 1 square foot. larger portals add 100% to the base cost for each extra 300 square feet of

. a successful erase spell removes a single magic tattoo. a successful dispel magic spell can remove multiple magic tattoos if targeted on the creature bearing the tattoos (see the dispel magic spell in the player's handbook. material components: tattoo inks in appropriate colors. focus: tattoo needles. darkbolt evocation [darkness] level: darkness 5 components: v, s casting time: 1 action range: medium (100 ft+ 10 ft./level) effect: one ray/2 caster levels (maximum seven) duration: instantaneous (see text) saving throw: will partial spell resistance: yes you unleash beams of darkness from your open palm. you must succeed at a ranged touch attack to strike your target. you can hurl one darkbolt for every two caster levels you have (maximum seven bolts. you can hurl all the bolts at once, o

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

o dissolution with the body. the mind he believed to be composed of spiritual atoms. aristotle intimates that democritus obtained his atomic theory from the pythagorean doctrine of the monad. among the eleatics are also included protagoras and anaxarchus. socrates (469-399 b.c, the founder of the socratic sect, being fundamentally a skeptic, did not force his opinions upon others, but through the medium of questionings caused each man to give expression to his own philosophy. according to plutarch, socrates conceived every place as appropriate for reaching in that the whole world was a school of virtue. he held that the soul existed before the body and, prior to immersion therein, was endowed with all knowledge; that when the soul entered into the material form it became stupefied, but tha

ings became so inextricably linked with the names of their disseminators that the actual but recondite source--the mysteries--came to be wholly ignored. symbolism is the language of the mysteries; in fact it is the language not only of mysticism and philosophy but of all nature, for every law and power active in universal procedure is manifested to the limited sense perceptions of man through the medium of symbol. every form existing in the diversified sphere of being is symbolic of the divine activity by which it is produced. by symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language. rejecting man-conceived dialects as inadequate and unworthy to perpetuate divine ideas, the mysteries thus chose symbolism as a far more ingenious

maze of worldly ignorance. in this relation serapis becomes the tryer or adversary who tests the souls of those seeking union with the immortals. the maze was also doubtless used to represent the solar system, the bull-man representing the sun dwelling in the mystic maze of its planets, moons, and asteroids. the gnostic mysteries were acquainted with the arcane meaning of serapis, and through the medium of gnosticism this god became inextricably associated with early christianity. in fact, the emperor hadrian, while traveling in egypt in a.d. 24, declared in a letter to servianus that the worshipers of serapis were christians and that the bishops of the church also worshiped at his shrine. he even declared that the patriarch himself, when in egypt, was forced to adore serapis as well as ch

ls; the first of prophets, and the prince of poets; himself the offspring of a muse; who taught the greeks their sacred rites and mysteries, and from whose wisdom, as from a perennial and abundant fountain, the divine muse of homer and the sublime theology of pythagoras and plato flowed (see the mystical hymns of orpheus) orpheus was founder of the grecian mythological system which he used as the medium for the promulgation of his philosophical doctrines. the origin of his philosophy is uncertain. he may have got it from the brahmins, there being legends to the effect that he got it was a hindu, his name possibly being derived from rfan ov, meaning "dark" orpheus was initiated into the egyptian mysteries, from which he secured extensive knowledge of magic, astrology, sorcery, and medicine

ells, in his outline of history, describing primitive life on the earth, states "but though the ocean and intertidal water already swarmed with life, the land above the high-tide line was still, so far as we can guess, a stony wilderness without a trace of life" in the next chapter he adds "wherever the shore-line ran there was life, and that life went on in and by and with water as its home, its medium, and its fundamental necessity" the ancients believed that the universal sperm proceeded from warm vapor, humid but fiery. the veiled isis, whose very coverings represent vapor, is symbolic of this humidity, which is the carrier or vehicle for the sperm life of the sun, represented by a child in her arms. because the sun, moon, and stars in setting appear to sink into the sea and also becau

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

gely enough, sometimes even more so than the summoning of demons. the truth of the matter is that it can be an extremely taxing operation to perform if the motivation is anything other than love, and if a physical manifestation is required, as is always the case when the shade is conjured to visible appearance. unless one who is suited to such energy transfers is present, that is, a materializing medium, the nervous and physical depletion visited upon the participants can prove truly onerous, and in some extremely rare cases, fatal. for this reason the ritual is often reserved for full-coven performance at sabbat on those occasions when it is employed, in this way providing a good complement of participants to act as energy donors. the best time for practising necromancy, however, is when

n successful, you will gradually perceive a dim form in the triangle before you, seemingly composed of the substance of incense smoke, sometimes illuminated from within by a very faint bluish phosphorescence. whether the apparition is built up on a magnetic and physical or purely psychic basis or a mixture of both depends solely on whether you as a witch function best as a seer or a materializing medium, which are the two ends of the magical spectrum whereon witches function. depending on your various constitutions and the degree of your magical development, you and your companions may differ in what you see before you in the triangle. one may see a dim form, while another may see a clearly defined figure, and yet another see nothing at all but merely feel the presence of someone who wasn'

ogy with the ensouling emotion of the projector or, on occasions, being that of the coven totem. this process of "sending forth the fetch" is identical to that of present-day practices of astral, or etheric, projection. the fetch itself may be perceived with the inner vision of the victim or, on very rare occasions, with his physical eyes should he or the antagonist be in any way a "materializing medium" this is the basis for the legends of the werewolf and the vampire. both of these creatures represent the materialized witch power of the practitioner through which he acts using the shape as a vehicle for his own consciousness. in cases of the legendary werewolf, the ensouling desires of the projector would be those of destructive rage, while in those of the equally famous vampire, incubus

ears to have a definite "jamming" or "scrambling" effect on any magical signal when used with intention. it is partly for this reason that iron, and indeed any metal, is usually rigorously excluded from the dress of the candidate in magical initiation rituals where a definite transmission of power is required. should you know that either you or your enemy is particularly gifted as a materializing medium, you should also take the precaution of placing a small saucer of very dilute nitric acid or vinegar in every room at the time you expect the attack to take place. the acetic solution seems to have the power of absorbing alien witch power in some manner, and thus preventing unpleasant materializations or poltergeist phenomena. if you haven't the time or wherewithal to do this for some reaso

should you also be of that lighthearted frame of mind, then you will obviously want to learn some of those timehonoured methods of speeding effective curses on their way. true to the general principles of witchcraft, the means used for effecting destructive ends is exactly the same as those used for constructive purposes. the only difference lies in the magical intent and symbolism involved. the medium for the transmission of power remains exactly the same of course, namely, the deep minds of both parties concerned. the type of power to be raised for these operations of wrath and chastisement can take two forms: a binding, inhibitory power for inducing inertia or "tying someone's hands- this pertains to saturn; and a scorching, blasting power for blighting and burning (which is what peopl

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

two page 123 ancient fragment of the key of solomon. translated from the hebrew by eliphaz levi; and given in his "philosophie occulte" serie ii, page 136. i will now give unto thee the key of the kingdom of the spirits. this key is the same as that of the mysterious numbers of yetzirah. 84 the spirits are governed by the natural and universal hierarchy of things. thrice command three through the medium of three. there are the spirits of above, those of below, and those of the center; then if thou investest the sacred ladder, if thou descendest instead of ascending, thou wilt discover the counter-hierarchy of the shells, or of the dead spirits. know thou only that the principalities of heaven, the virtues, and the powers, are not persons, but dignities. they are the degrees of the sacred l

ot shone upon by the sun it is invisible and virtually non-existent for us; when it is, it is one of the most resplendent of phenomena. similarly human intelligence is valuable or negligible according as it is enlightened by the master-light of the divine principle, or merely darkly functioning from its own unillumined energies. in the former case it is the chief executive faculty or transmitting medium of the supreme wisdom; in the latter it can display nothing better than brute- reason. midway between the master-light from the east and the" moon" in the west is placed the junior warden in the south, symbolizing the third greater light, the" sun" and, masonically, the" sun" stands for the illuminated human intelligence and craft understanding, which results from the material brain-mind be

yed up to a condition and an efficiency immensely in advance of av erage humanity. physiological processes are involved which cannot be discussed here, beyond saying that in such a man the entire nervous system contributes to charge certain ganglia and light up certain brain-centres in a way of which the ordinary mind knows nothing. the nervous system provides the storage-batteries and conductive medium of the spirit's energies just as telegraph wires are the media for transmitting electrical energy. but the true master mason, in virtue of his mastership, knows how to control and apply those energies. they culminate and come to self-consciousness in his head, in his intelligence. and in this respect we may refer to a very heavily veiled scriptural testimony, the import of which goes quite

bconsciousness with its intuitional capacity, and my practical with its and connecting of thought and understanding, are my assistant sojourners. let me see to it that, like their representatives, they are kept clothed in and so able to reflect and react to their correspondences in the or pole of my being. the nexus or connecting between man's and bodily poles is represented by a third impersonated by the two scribes and the janitor. the more important of these scribes is attached to the pole and is as it were its emissary towards the ; the other is associated with the western pole and his activities are directed eastwards; whilst the door-keeper is the point of contact with the withou