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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

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 MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

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 THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

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

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

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

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6

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

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

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

thought in connection with the human being. the process of limitation can be seen in the taking of a physical form, and in those early rebellious days, when a man is full of desires, aspirations, longings and ideals, which he seems unable to express or to satisfy. then comes the period of adaptation, wherein the man begins to utilise what he has, and to express himself as best he may through the medium of those myriads of lesser lives and intelligences which constitute his physical, his emotional, and his mental bodies. he energises his threefold form, forcing it to carry out his behests and fulfil his purposes, and thus carry out his plan, whether for good or evil. this is succeeded by the stage in which he utilises the form as far as in him lies, and comes to what we call maturity. fina

st. he enunciated these great and eternal truths, and sent them forth to take form and meet the need of a suffering world. they were limited by the form, and there came a long period wherein that form (religious dogmas and doctrines) gradually grew and took shape. centuries ensued wherein the form and the life seemed adapted to each other, and the christian ideals expressed themselves through the medium of that form. now the period of crystallisation has set in, and the expanding christian consciousness is finding the limitations of the theologians inadequate and restricting. the great fabric of dogmas and doctrines, as built up by the churchmen and theologians of the ages, must inevitably disintegrate, but only in order that the life within may escape, build for itself a better and more s

see philosophies successfully attacked, we see the foundations of material science shaken. yet, after all, what are civilisations? what are the religions? what are the great races? simply the forms through which the great threefold central life, who informs our planet, seeks to express himself. just as we express- 26- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust ourselves through the medium of a physical, an emotional, and a mental nature, so he expresses himself through the totality of the kingdoms of nature, and through the nations, races, religions, sciences, and philosophies, in existence at this time. as his life pulsates through every department of his being, we as cells and atoms within that greater manifestation follow each transition, and are swept along from one stag

n ideas clearly formulated. we have seen that our interpretation of the processes of nature necessitates a threefold concept, which concerns itself with the life aspect, with the substance aspect, and with their close interrelation through the faculty of intelligence manifesting as consciousness of some kind or other. this interrelation will produce, finally, the perfected expression (through the medium of matter) of the conscious purpose of some indwelling entity. i seek to emphasise the fact that the goal of my endeavour is to put before you a hypothesis and a suggestion which may have within it the germ of a possible truth, and which seems to some of us the clearest way of explaining the mystery of the universe. we have seen that the three parts of the one great whole are spirit, or lif

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

formation anent initiation, as some may think. there is no moment of the day that that goal may not be envisioned, and the work of preparation carried on. one of the greatest instruments for practical development lying in the hands of small and great, is the instrument of speech. he who guards his words, and who only speaks with altruistic purpose, in order to carry the energy of love through the medium of the tongue, is one who is mastering rapidly the initial steps to be taken in preparation for initiation. speech is the most occult manifestation in existence; it is the means of creation and the vehicle for force. in the reservation of words, esoterically understood, lies the conservation of force; in the utilisation of words, justly chosen and spoken, lies the distribution of the love f

state the order of the application of these varying types of energy, nor to give the initiation during which the man contacts the different types. these facts involve the secrets of the mysteries, and no purpose is served by revealing them. other types of force from certain of the planetary schemes, as well as from cosmic centres, are brought into play by the initiator and transmitted through the medium of the rod to the various centres in the initiate's three vehicles, the mental, the astral, and the etheric centres. at the fourth initiation a specialised type of force from a centre which must remain nameless is applied to a man's causal body, and is one of the causes of its final disintegration. in thinking of this matter of the attainment of the sons of men, we must recognise that as ma

ee, but only at times of great crises, when some individual is given the opportunity to bring peace out of strife, and to kindle a blaze whereby rapidly crystallising forms are destroyed and the imprisoned life consequently set free. at stated periods in the year the lodge meets, and at the wesak festival gathers under his jurisdiction for three purposes: 1. to contact planetary force through the medium of the buddha. 2. to hold the principal of the quarterly conferences. 3. to admit to the ceremony of initiation those who are ready in all grades. three other initiation ceremonies take place during the year: 1. for the minor initiations administered by the bodhisattva, all of which are in the department of the mahachohan, and on one or other of the four lesser rays, the rays of attribute

m. finally, sight that inner vision which is produced through the initiation process, yet which is withal but the recognition of faculty, always present yet unknown. just as an infant has eyes which are perfectly good and clear from birth, yet there comes a day wherein the conscious recognition of that which is seen is first to be noted, so with the human unit undergoing spiritual unfoldment. the medium of the inner sight has ever existed, and that which can be seen is always present, but the recognition of the majority as yet exists not. this "recognition" by the initiate is the first great step in the initiation ceremony, and until it has transpired all the other stages must wait. that which is recognised differs at the different initiations, and might be roughly summarised as follows: t

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

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

l return plus the results of evolutionary growth, and through assimilation they will have intensified their fundamental nature, and be spiritual fire plus the fire manasic. the internal fire of matter is called in the secret doctrine "fire by friction" it is an effect and not a cause. it is produced by the two fires of spirit and of mind (electric and solar fire) contacting each other through the medium of matter. this energy demonstrates in matter itself as the internal fires of the sun, and of the planets and finds a reflection in the internal fires of man. man is the flame divine and the fire of mind brought into contact through the medium of substance or form. when evolution ends, the fire of matter is not cognisable. it persists only when the other two fires are associated, and it doe

ewhat in greater detail the interior fires of the systems, microcosmic and macrocosmic. division a- the internal fires of the sheaths. i. the three channels- 32- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. fire elementals and devas. i. the three channels for the fire from the very use of the term "sheath" it will be noted that we are considering those fires which manifest through the medium of those externalities, of those veils of substance which hide and conceal the inner reality. we shall not here take up the subject of the sheaths on the higher planes, but simply deal with the fires that animate the three lower vehicles, the physical body in its two divisions (etheric and dense, the emotional or astral body, and the mental sheath. it is frequently overlooked by the casual

r more insuperable than an admission of its existence. scientists admit already the fact of etheric matter; the success of photographic endeavor has demonstrated the reality of that which has hitherto been considered unreal, because (from the standpoint of the physical) intangible. phenomena are occurring all the time which remain in the domain of the supernatural unless accounted for through the medium of etheric matter, and in their anxiety to prove the spiritualists wrong, scientists have aided the cause of the true and higher spiritism by falling back on reality, and on the fact of the etheric body, even though they consider it a body of emanative radiation being concerned with the effect and not having yet ascertained the cause. medical men are beginning to study (blindly as yet) the

this fourth earth chain is in this connection one of the most important, for it is the appointed place for the domination of the etheric body by the human monad, with the aim in view of both human and planetary escape from limitations. this earth chain, though not one of the seven sacred planetary chains, is of vital importance at this time to the planetary logos, who temporarily employs it as a medium of incarnation, and of expression. this fourth round finds the solution of its strenuous and chaotic life in the very simple fact of the shattering of the etheric web in order to effect liberation, and permit a later and more adequate form to be employed. a further chain of ideas may be followed up in the remembrance that the fourth ether is even now being studied and developed by the avera

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

ernal activity instead of external; it is an attitude of one-pointed concentration. the aspirant is, however, responsive to impressions from the subtler realms and to modifications arising from those perceptions which are still more subjective. he becomes aware of a new field of knowledge, though as yet he knows not what it is. he ascertains that there is a world which cannot be known through the medium of the five senses but which the right use of the organ of the mind will reveal. he gets a perception of what may lie back of the words found in a later sutra as translated by charles johnston, which expresses this thought in particularly clear terms "the seer is pure vision. he looks out through the vesture of the mind (book ii. sutra 20- 25- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trus

for the fifth or aryan race, for those whose function it is to develop the fifth principle or mind and thus become true sons of mind. it is their part to become the five-pointed star, the star of the perfected man, in all his glory. through following this way the five planes of human and superhuman evolution are dominated and atma (or the will of god, the father aspect) stand revealed through the medium of buddhi (or the christ consciousness, having for its vehicle, manas or higher mind. the other way is the may of pure devotion. through intense adoration and entire consecration the aspirant arrives at a knowledge of the reality of spirit. this is the way of least resistance for many; it was the method of attainment for the race preceding the aryan. it largely ignores the fifth principle a

that which is hidden from those who abide by the tradition, substituted that which is newly seen, donated the acquired possession to those who hold out empty hands, and passed on to inner halls of learning" students would do well in studying these few sutras relating to ishvara to bear in mind that they have reference to the son of god, the second person of the trinity as he manifests through the medium of the solar system, to the macrocosmic soul. the secondary meaning has reference also to the divine son of god, the second aspect monadic, as he manifests through the medium of a human being. this is the microcosmic soul. the following synonyms of the ishvara aspect may be found of value. the macrocosm. ishvara, the second aspect .w hose nature is love. the son of god .t he revealer of the

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

s of contact, receiving information from various sources, and by different means. through the five senses, information is conveyed, and the man becomes aware of the world of physical phenomena and of psychical life in which he is immersed. not only that, but the mind registers impressions emanating from other minds, and the thoughts of men (both ancient and modern) are conveyed to him through the medium of leading and the spoken word- 44- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust through the drama, through pictures and through music. most of it is simply registered and stored up, finding later expression as memory and anticipation. moods, emotional reactions, feelings and desires, are also recorded by the mind, whether of a high grade or a low, but with the average person that

ust transcend the brain, reach some tremendous altitude and stay upon some pinnacle of thought until something transcendent happens, and they can then say they know god. what is really needed is that we should get control of the mind and of the brain processes, so that the brain becomes a sensitive receiver of the thoughts and desires of the soul, the higher self, as he transmits them through the medium of the mind. the mind is regarded as in the nature of a sixth sense, and the brain as a receiving plate. we are already utilizing the five senses as avenues of perception, and they telegraph constant information to the brain. through their medium, information as to five vast fields of knowledge, or of five ranges of vibrations, is made available to man. it is intended that the mind should s

parent. a trained mind and a well-stocked memory and a carefully cultured mentality will greatly facilitate the work of the soul in gaining a right record and an accurate registering of its knowledge. then, following upon this mental activity, will ensue a process of transmitting the gained information to the waiting quiescent brain. when the soul has learned to handle its instrument, through the medium of the mind and the brain, direct contact and interplay between the two becomes increasingly possible and steady, so that a man at will can focus his mind upon earthly affairs and be an efficient member of society, or upon heavenly things and function in his true being as a son of god. when this is the case, the soul utilizes the mind as a transmitting agent and the physical brain is traine

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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

lligence of the body nature is fused with the love of the soul. the following tabulation may make the thought clearer. monad. will. purpose 1st aspect. will, enabling the monad to participate in the universal purpose. 2nd aspect. love, the energy which is poured forth into the soul, making it what it is. 3rd aspect. intelligence, transmitted via the soul and brought into manifestation through the medium of the body. soul. love .t he method 1st aspect. will, held in abeyance but expressing itself through the mind aspect of the personality and through kundalini, which when aroused correctly makes possible the final initiations into the consciousness of the monad. 2nd aspect. love, the dominating force of the soul life; through this possession and this type of energy, the soul can be en- 25

ty. b. its rate of vibration, which synchronises always with the development of the soul. c. its coherent force, linking and connecting every part of the body structure. 2. it is the microcosmic "web of life" for it underlies every part of the physical structure and has three purposes: a. to carry throughout the body the life principle, the energy which produces activity. this it does through the medium of the blood, and the focal point for this distribution is the heart. it is the conveyor of physical vitality. b. to enable the soul, or human yet spiritual man to be en rapport with his environment. this is carried forward through the medium of the entire nervous system and the focal point of that activity is the brain. this is the seat of conscious receptivity. c. to produce eventually, t

else in the cosmos. the soul breathes and its form lives thereby. 8. when the communication between the soul and its instrument is conscious and steady, the man becomes a white magician. 9. therefore workers in white magic are invariably, and through the very nature of things, advanced human beings, for it takes many cycles of lives to train a magician. 10. the soul dominates its form through the medium of the sutratma or life thread, and (through it) vitalises its triple instrument (mental, emotional and physical) and thus sets up a communication with the brain. through the brain, consciously controlled, the man is galvanised into intelligent activity on the physical plane. the above is a brief analysis of the first rule for magic and i would like to suggest that in the future as the stud

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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

bolical analogy the fact of a central life (extraneous and outside our solar system yet within it during the process of manifestation) which decides within itself to take a material form and to incarnate. a vortex of force is set up as a preliminary step and we then have god immanent and god transcendent at the same time. this vortex, as a result of this initial activity, demonstrates through the medium of what we call substance or (to use a technical term of modern science, which is the best we can do at this time) through the ether of space. the consequence of this active interplay of life and substance is that a basic unity is constituted. father and mother are at-one. this unity is characterised by quality. through this triplicity of life-quality-form, the central life evokes and manif

s the solar deity. he expresses himself primarily through the planet jupiter, which is his body of manifestation. 3. the lord of active intelligence. his work is more closely linked to matter and he works in cooperation with the lord of the second ray. he is the motivating impulse in the initial work of creation. the planet saturn is his body of expression within the solar system, and through the medium of matter (which beneficently obstructs and hinders) he provides humanity with a vast field of experiment and experience. i should like to point out here that when i speak in terms of personality and perforce employ the personal pronoun, i must not be accused of personalizing these great forces. i speak in terms of entity, of pure being, and not in terms of human personality. but the handic

. through the lens of the illumined mind, he will shortly see aspects of divinity hitherto unknown. has it ever dawned on you that there may be qualities and characteristics of the divine nature, latent as yet within the form, that have hitherto remained totally unknown and not even dimly sensed, and which, as yet, are literally unprecedented and for which we have neither words nor other adequate medium of expression? so it is. just as the phrase "group-consciousness" would carry, for early primitive man, no significance whatsoever, and would have been only a meaningless string of alphabetical forms, so (lingering just below the surface of our manifested world) lie divine qualities and a purpose which is as far removed from the consciousness of our present humanity as the idea of collectiv

e is it to study the rays? 5. what is the meaning of: sentiency; consciousness awareness; energy or light? chapter ii certain questions and their answers i indicated that in this treatise we would give our main attention to the central one of the three aspects, and would concentrate upon quality. what do i mean by this? i mean that we shall occupy ourselves with that which is emerging through the medium of form, with that which veils or hides itself behind the appearance, which is expressive of life or spirit, and which is produced through the interplay of life with matter. this, when posited of man, the reflection of divinity, and when applied to the subject of his quality, involves three recognitions: 1. that a human being is, as earlier said, an embodied life, expressing quality and reg

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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

vealed the triple nature of deity in the first, third, and fifth initiations. 2. he demonstrated the expansions of consciousness which come when the requirements are duly met purification and self-sacrifice. in these five episodes the whole story of initiation is told; birth, subsequent purification in order that right manifestation of deity may follow, revelation of the nature of god through the medium of a transfigured personality, and finally the goal life eternal and unending because decentralised and freed from the self-imposed limitations of form. these three major initiations, the first, the third and the fifth, constitute the three syllables of the word made flesh; they embody the musical chord of christ's life, as they will be embodied in the life of all who follow in his steps. t

tual man, which we might call the "individual" it is here again that christ achieved- 88- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust success, and the second duality, which he so significantly resolved, is that of the personal self and the "individuality" the finite and the infinite must be brought into a close relation. this, christ demonstrated in the transfiguration, when, through the medium of a purified and developed personality, he manifested the nature and the quality of god. the finite nature had been transcended and could no longer control his activities. he had passed in his consciousness to the realm of inclusive realisation, and the ordinary rules governing the finite individual, with its petty problems and its small reaction to events and persons, could no longer infl

of two great kingdoms in nature, the human and the divine, making possible the emergence into manifestation of a new kingdom upon earth the kingdom of god, the fifth kingdom in nature. when considering the transfiguration it is necessary to realise that it was not simply a great initiation, in which god revealed himself in his radiance and glory to man, but that it had a definite relation to the medium of revelation the material physical nature, which we call the "mother aspect" we saw, when studying the birth initiation, that the virgin mary (even when recognising, as we do, the historicity of christ's existence) is the symbol of the form nature, of the material nature of god. she typifies in herself that which preserves the life of god, latent yet with infinite potentialities. christ re

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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

vanced humanity, and is only known in its true significance by such great existences as the christ, the buddha and those of analogous rank in the hierarchy of lives. the qualities generated and developed through the first of these identifications persist and colour the conscious realisation, and it must be remembered that the final identification is the result of the experience gained through the medium of the first. these qualities will vary according to the dominance of- 17- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust one or other of the ray energies, but there will be in the final stages no consciousness of quality or ray type, but simply a state of being or of livingness that realises identification with the whole and which, at the same ti

ome of the realisations of the true initiate when he stands at the third initiation before the angel and sees that angel also pass away, so that naught is left but conscious knowledge and realisation. although this statement may signify but little to us at present, it will, nevertheless, serve to demonstrate the futility of dealing with the secrets of the mysteries and with initiation through the medium of words. when this is better realised, the true work of the masonic dramas will begin to measure up to the need. this section expresses some of the basic emerging truths which will carry meaning to the senior disciples and the initiates of the world, who are battling, at this time, in the service of the plan. they are present in the world at this time, and their work is bearing fruit, but

ich infuses it and motivates it with life and intelligence. certain basic premises are recognised and can, therefore, be very briefly mentioned: 1. the soul informs the mechanism in two ways and through two points of contact in the body: a. the "thread of life" is anchored in the heart. the life principle is there to be found, and from that station it pervades the entire physical body through the medium of the blood stream, for "the blood is the life. b. the "thread of consciousness" or of intelligence is anchored in the head, in the region of the pineal gland, and from that station of perception it orders or directs the physical plane activities, through the medium of the brain and the nervous system. 2. the directive activity of the soul, or its authoritative grasp upon the mechanism of

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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

and also of feeling and knowledge. only from the heart centre can stream, in reality, those lines of energy which link and bind together. it was for this reason that i have assigned certain meditations which stimulated the heart- 67- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust into action, linking the heart centre (between the shoulder blades) to the head centre, through the medium of the higher correspondence to the heart centre, found within the head centre (the thousand petalled lotus. this heart centre, when adequately radiatory and magnetic, relates disciples to each other and to all the world. it will also produce that telepathic interplay which is so much to be desired and which is so constructively useful to the spiritual hierarchy provided it is established w

e relation between soul and body so that, at will, contact can be established between them; the astral body provides no hindrance that- 72- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust amounts to anything, and through that soul contact a facile relation to the hierarchy, its purposes and resources can be made. secondly, the nature of energy and its wise utilisation through the medium of an integrated personality is indicated. it is essential that one thing be grasped by all of you, prior to undertaking work with me. it is that in a group of disciples such as this, the large majority have already taken the first initiation and are being prepared for one of the later initiations. there is nothing surprising in this statement or any particular cause for elation or for plea

eived because there are no violent mental reactions or emotional states of response; the vehicles of perception are quiet and therefore there is nothing to offset correct attitude. when this state of consciousness is achieved, you will be able to teach with power and at the same time possess that also which must be taught. secondly, you must acquire an increased ability to voice truth through the medium of the written word. opportunity will come to you to reach the world with ideas that are relatively new; that which you write can be printed and circulated. but, my brother, you must work for a year at the organising of your thought and material, so that you can reach the thinkers of the world with the new ideas in the field of that oncoming major science, that newer field of service the fi

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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

prove also the close relationship between god transcendent and that in "him we live and move and have our being" because "having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment of himself, he remains" god is immanent in the forms of all created things; the glory which shall be revealed is the expression of that innate divinity in all its attributes and aspects, its qualities and powers, through the medium of humanity. on the fact of god and of man's relation to the divine, on the fact of immortality and of the continuity of divine revelation, and upon the fact of the constant emergence of messengers from the divine centre, the new world religion will be based. to these facts must be added man's assured, instinctive knowledge of the existence of the path to god and of his ability to tread it

t this time is one of the indications of the success of the evolutionary process, as applied to humanity. this method of- 98- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust work the use of human beings as agents to carry forward the work of salvation and of world uplift was initiated by the christ himself; he worked with men very frequently through others, reaching humanity through the medium of his twelve apostles, regarding paul as substituting for judas iscariot. the buddha tried the same system but the relation of his group was, in the first instance, to him and not so much to the world of men. christ sent his apostles out into the world to feed the sheep, to seek, to guide and to become "fishers of men" the relation of the disciples of the christ was only secondarily to the

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

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

ss in the national life which is a good augury for the future. a study of what i have said and a consideration of the various tabulations will prove how utterly impossible it is for the american people to dissociate themselves from europe and the rest of the world. 5. the significance of certain cities. these energies which we have been considering are released into our planetary life through the medium of certain great inlets. at this time there are five such inlets, scattered over the world. wherever one of these inlets for spiritual force is found, there will also be present a city of spiritual importance in the same location. these five points of spiritual influx are: 1. london. for the british empire. 2. new york. for the western hemisphere. 3. geneva. for europe, including the u.s.s

this is true in a sense, but there is a wider and deeper sense in which it will prove true. when the intent and purpose of the great life which works through shamballa is carried out and is in process of expression, a light will be revealed which has never yet been seen or known. there is a word in the christian scriptures which says "in that light shall we see light" this means that through the medium of the light of wisdom shed abroad in our hearts through the ageless wisdom, we shall eventually see the light of life itself something meaningless and inexplicable to humanity at present but which will be later revealed when the present point of crisis is surmounted. of its nature and its effect i have naught to say to you at present. i would like here to interpolate some remarks. it is of

nent aquarian age; this age will be predominantly the age of worldwide discipleship, leading later to the age of universal initiation in capricornian times. therefore the great world religions have held authoritative sway for a very long time; their peculiar tenets, adapted to specific nation, race or time, embodied- 60- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust some truth through the medium of some particular teacher who attracted to himself individuals throughout the world who were spiritually minded, because he expressed for them the highest goal towards which they could possibly strive. all the world religions have been thus built around an embodied idea, who, in his own person, expressed the immediate ideal of the time and age. he demonstrated certain divine attributes and

t of instinct. this is followed by intelligently recognised desire and thus there is a steady expansion of requirements, of realisation and then of reorientation. 2. the consequent stimulation of the human consciousness towards expansion, leading finally to spiritual aspiration. 3. the reflection of reality in the mind consciousness follows next and this is sensed, demanded and sought through the medium of group work- 62- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust the apparatus of the human being, which is the mechanism whereby the soul contacts the three worlds which would be otherwise (under the present plan) sealed and hidden to the experience and experiment of the soul, has been more acutely sensitised and developed during the past two thousand years than in any previous per

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

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

ve correctly, to achieve a right outlook, and to attain a right mental attitude. it was these right attitudes with which the buddha was dealing when he outlined the noble eightfold path. it involves the reaching of a right mental altitude. yes, i said altitude, my brothers, and not attitude. 2. through wrong interpretation. the idea, a vital entity or a germ of living potency, is seen through the medium of a partial view, distorted through the inadequacy of the mental equipment, and frequently stepped down into futility. the mechanism for right understanding is lacking, and though the man may be giving his highest and his best, and though he may be able in some measure to hold his mind steady in the light, yet what he is offering to the idea is but a poor thing at the best. this leads to i

hat phrase) a rich glamour is created which prevents them ever reaching the disciple or his reaching them. it is not possible to penetrate the dense glamour of devotion, vibrating with dynamic ecstatic life, which emanates from the concentrated energy of the disciple, working still through the solar plexus centre. for this glamour there are some age-old rules: contact the greater self through the medium of the- 47- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust higher self and thus lose sight of the little self, its reactions, its desires, and intentions. or: the pure love of the soul which is not personalised in any way and which seeks no recognition can then pour into the world of glamour which surrounds the devotee, and the mists of his devotion (upon which he prides himself) will

is well on the way to the relinquishing and the dissipation of all glamour. i am choosing my words with care in an effort to arrest your attention. illusion is dispelled, rejected, and thrust away through the conscious use of the intuition. the initiate insulates himself from the world of illusion and of illusory forms and from the attractive urges of a personality nature and thereby through the medium of isolation comes into touch with the reality in all forms, hidden hitherto by the veil of illusion. this is one of the paradoxes of the path. insulation and isolation of the right kind lead to the right relationships and the correct contacts with the real. they produce eventual identification with reality, through insulation of oneself against the unreal. it is this idea which lies behind

system. it might perhaps become clearer to your perception if i worded the truth about maya as follows: the latent impulses of the personality life, when divorced from and not under soul control, are blended with the pranic fluids within the periphery of the personality sphere of influence, and then become potent directed streams of force, seeking emergence into physical manifestation through the medium of the seven centres in the physical body. these forces or impulses, plus the prana available, constitute the etheric body of the undeveloped and frequently of the average man. it will be apparent, therefore, how much the undeveloped man is the victim of mass energy of a low kind, for his etheric body is responsive to, and draws its energy from a type of general environing prana, until such

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

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

et us now discuss in some detail the three types of telepathy enumerated above: instinctual telepathy, mental telepathy, and intuitional telepathy. these three produce differing modes of activity and tap (to use a familiar word) differing areas of communication. 1. instinctual telepathy is based upon those impacts of energy which come from one etheric body and make an impression upon another. the medium of communication employed is, as we have seen, the etheric substance of all bodies, which is necessarily one with the etheric substance of the planet. the area around the solar plexus (though not in direct relation to that centre as it exists as an instrument differentiated from all other instruments or centres) is sensitive to the impact of etheric energy, for this area in the etheric body

owerful "feeling" apparatus of the solar plexus received it (acting like a magnet) and drew the "feeling impression" powerfully there, drawing thus upon the communicator. it is this process which is pursued when, for instance, some mother "feels" that some danger threatens her child, or that some happening is taking place in connection with her child. she is thus sometimes enabled to send, by the medium of instinctual love, a most definite warning. the solar plexus is involved where the recipient is concerned; the area around the diaphragm is involved where the communicator is concerned. 2. in our race, the aryan, instinctual telepathic work is still the major expression of this spiritual possibility, but at the same time mental telepathy is becoming increasingly prevalent. this will be mo

however, must eventually be used in synthesis. i stated the reason for this earlier in the words "only from the heart centre can stream, in reality, those lines of energy which link and bind together. it was for this reason that i have assigned certain meditations which stimulated the heart centre into action, linking the heart centre (between the shoulder blades) to the head centre, through the medium of the higher correspondence to the heart centre, found within the head centre (the thousand petalled lotus. this heart centre, when adequately radiatory and magnetic, relates disciples to each other and to all the world. it will also produce that telepathic interplay which is so much to be desired and which is so constructively- 11- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis tr

in themselves adequate to account for the display of modern opinion as we now have it. what is the apparently accurate information, so rapidly circulated among the savage races, but an expression of that instinctual telepathy which uses the vital body and the pranic fluids as its medium? iv. three types of energy involved telepathic inter-relation between the members of a group grows through the medium of a constant attitude of reflective thought and a steadfast love for each other. i would remind you that when i use these terms i am referring to the two major types of energy in the world today. essentially, energy is active substance. these two types of force are of a vitality, potency and substance so subtle and fine that they can work through and "force into activity" the pranic fluids

disciples to other similar groups. e. subjective groups to objective receptive groups. f. the hierarchy, through its great leaders, to the various ashrams of the masters. g. the hierarchy to the new group of world servers. 5. the major factors which must be considered in all telepathic work are: a. the initiating agent or emanating source. b. the recipient of the ideas, thoughts or energy. c. the medium of revelation. the growth of telepathic rapport will bring in an era of universality and synthesis, with its qualities of recognised relationships and responsiveness. this will be, outstandingly, the glory of the aquarian age. as the race achieves increasingly a mental polarisation through the developing attractive power of the mental principle, the use of language for the conveying of thou

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

.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

of the soul, which is sensitive to different combinations of forces to those controlling the personality life. the disciple and the initiate respond distinctively to the incoming influences and their response differs from that of the undeveloped man or the self-centred person. this will have to be recognised. those who "live below the diaphragm" and who react to the incoming energies through the medium of the lower centres will have a very different type of chart to that of the disciple and initiate. it will require a different mode of interpretation. i have referred to this before and would remind you of some of the points which i made. 1. disciples upon the path of discipleship are strongly influenced by mercury and saturn one bringing illumination and the other offering opportunity. 2

s. the new astrology therefore is necessarily based upon an understanding of the rays. the following tabulation is fundamental in its implications in this connection and upon it all that i have to say will be based. seven stars of the great bear are the originating sources of the seven rays of our solar system. the seven rishis (as they are called) of the great bear express themselves through the medium of the seven planetary logoi who are their representatives and to whom they stand in the relation of prototype. the seven planetary spirits manifest through the medium of the seven sacred planets. each of these seven rays, coming from the great bear, are transmitted into our solar system through the medium of three constellations and their ruling planets. the following tabulation makes this

al in capricorn. it culminates in the achievement of transference from off the fixed cross on to the cardinal cross, which is, in its turn, the logical sequence of the transference from off the mutable or common cross on to the fixed cross. therefore, in its lowest manifestation, aries is the creator of those activities, conditions and processes which lead to the manifestation of soul through the medium of form, and later of those higher creative undertakings which lead in due time to the manifestation of spirit through the soul. these processes eventually demonstrate the true nature of the triplicity to which i introduced you in the earlier pages of this treatise: life quality appearance. aries is also the purveyor to our solar system of fire (electric fire) and of the dynamic nature of

personality working out its own ideas and ambitious worldly projects or the spiritual aspiration (worldly ambition transmuted into its higher aspect) of the initiate, who seeks to work out god's plans and make them his own. in every case, mars leads to the battle ground of scorpio. mercury, embodying the energy of the fourth ray, eventually carries the man around the wheel of life and through the medium of conflict enables him to achieve harmony. mercury illumines the mind and mediates between the soul and the personality, being the messenger of the gods. this mediatorship, in the first instance, produces an inevitable opposition between the pairs of opposites and a long drawn out conflict. this conflict finally works out into victory and the dispelling of illusion through the illumination

he lesser zodiac conditions the- 68- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust personality career and the twelve planetary houses are of dominant importance. later the influence of the twelve signs supersedes the influence of the planets. i would like also to emphasise perhaps unnecessarily that sirius, the great bear and the pleiades work through the medium of the twelve constellations, pouring their influences through nine of them in particular, but that these major constellations are not part of the zodiac with which we are concerned. they, with the seven solar systems of which ours is one, are the ten constellations connected with a still greater zodiac which is not conditioned by the numerical significance of the number twelve. hence ten i

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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

ight 1998 lucis trust 5. the laws of the spiritual world are studied and the disciple learns to apply the laws to himself, to events, to the world and to humanity. these laws include, among many others: a. the law of cause and effect. b. the law of rebirth. c. the law of evolution. d. the law of health. these laws concern the manifestation of the world of spiritual values and impulses through the medium of the world of material phenomena. 6. the plan, of which the hierarchy is the custodian and which underlies all planetary happenings, furthering the divine purpose, is brought to the attention of the students; its working in the past, bringing humanity to its present point of development, is studied; the happenings of the present are interpreted in terms of god's plan and are investigated

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

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

carded physical vehicles of the souls who are passing out of incarnation. as the soil becomes less tainted, and as soul contact is established, we can hope to see a steady decrease in the number of those who succumb to the inherited taints. curiously enough, the free use of salt sea bathing has a definite effect on the healthiness of the physical body. the water, incidentally absorbed through the medium of the skin and by the mouth, has a vitally prophylactic effect. one of the major problems today to the psychologist and in a lesser degree to the medical man, is the growth of homosexuality, both female and male. specious arguments are brought forth in order to prove that this abnormal development (and the consequent interest in this morbid tendency) is due to the fact that the race is slo

only the right functioning of the five senses and consequently providing five major points of contact with the tangible world, but it also enables a man to register sensitively the subtler worlds, and, when energised and controlled by the soul, the spiritual realms stand wide open also. the etheric body is a potent receiver of impressions, which are conveyed to the human consciousness through the medium of the awakened centres. there is, for instance, no true clairvoyance until either the solar plexus or the ajna centre is awakened. these transmitted impressions and information become the incentive whereby conscious activity is initiated. there are many words used to describe these forces and their actuating effects: such as impulses, incentives, influences, potencies, desires, aspirations

ies and forces. b. the endocrine system whose various glands are in reality the externalisation or materialisation of the centres, major and minor. c. the heart, which is the centre of life as the brain is the centre of consciousness. from the heart, the blood circulates and is controlled. thus these three great systems are related. d. the entire glandular system to the nervous system through the medium of the network of nerves and the "nadis" which underlie this network. these nadis are the threads of life force which underlie every part of the body and particularly the nervous system in all its aspects. to these problems and relationships another might be added. this is the interrelation which must be established between all the centres, permitting the free play of force in correct rhyth

te the inertia of the etheric body and its lack of vitality. the results of this inertness of the vital body can be both physical and psychological, because the glands in the physical body will not function normally and, as is well known, they condition the physical expression of man as well as his emotional and mental states, in so far as those are able or not able to find expression through the medium of the physical vehicle. the glands do not condition the inner man or his states of consciousness, but they can and do prevent those inner states finding manifestation outwardly. in the reverse situation, too powerful an etheric body and the overstimulation of the centres concerned, may put too great a strain upon the nervous system and produce, as a consequence, definite nervous trouble, m

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

s activity is dependent upon the type and quality of the body nature, the mechanism produced by soul activity in other lives, and the effect of reaction to environing conditions. the increasing of soul awareness, the deepening of the flow of consciousness, and the development of an inner continuity of awareness, plus the evocation of soul attributes and aspects upon the physical plane through the medium of its triple mechanism, constitute the objective of all education. these aspects are, as you well know: 1. will or purpose. this, through education, should be developed to the point where the manifested life is governed by conscious spiritual purpose and the life tendency is correctly oriented towards reality. the right direction of the will should be one of the major concerns of all true

head. a few people are steadily linking the soul and the mind, which in its turn is linked with the other two aspects. the soul energy, when linked with the other threads, has its anchor in the heart. a very few people (the initiates of the world) having effected all the lower syntheses, are now occupied with bringing about a still higher union with that triple reality which uses the soul as its medium of expression, just as the soul in its turn is endeavouring to use its shadow, the threefold lower man. these distinctions and unifications are matters of form, symbols in speech, and are used to express events and happenings in the world of energies and forces in connection with which man is definitely implicated. it is to these unifications that we refer when the subject of initiation is

wisdom angle. 11. the new education will take into consideration: a. the mind and its relation to the energy body, the etheric body, which underlies the nervous system and which galvanises the physical body into activity. b. the mind and its relation to the brain. c. the mind and its relation to the seven centres of force in the etheric body, and their externalisation and utilisation through the medium of the major nerve plexi to be found in the human body, and their relation (which will become increasingly obvious) to the endocrine glands. d. the brain as the coordinating factor in the dense body, and its capacity to direct the activities of the man through the medium of the nervous system. in the above statements you will see how large is our theme, and yet it is one which i intend to c

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

train you in the light of pure perception which knows the reason why and sees with clarity the ends in view. where true perception exists, criticism is automatically eliminated. modern groups (and groups form a large part of every field of thought and activity) are usually composed of people possessing some basic idea upon which they are all agreed and which they are trying to express through the medium of their clashing personalities and, frequently, in obedience to some leader or person of more powerful mentality than that of the majority, and in order to exploit and use the methods which they regard as essential to success. there is therefore little true unity, and often what there is is based on expediency or good manners. everywhere, however, the newer type of groups are slowly being

n, let me repeat what i earlier said, for it makes a fitting preface to what i shall ask you to do "only from the heart centre can stream, in reality, those lines of energy which link and bind together. for this reason, i shall give you for your group meditation a form which will stimulate the heart into action, linking the heart centre (between the shoulder blades) to the head centre through the medium of the heart centre which is found within the head centre (the thousand-petalled lotus. this heart centre, when adequately radiatory and magnetic will relate you afresh to each other and to all the world. this again when connected by an act of the spiritual will to the solar plexus centre will help to produce that telepathic interplay which is so much to be desired and which is so construct

rightly used, can and will completely alter and change man's attitude to life, his sense of values and his use of time. all this has been brought about by what we might call with exactitude the first precipitation. its effects have been mass effects to a very large extent. they have affected the spiritual workers and the men of goodwill, producing the purifying fires of pain and agony through the medium of war, and making available also the essence of the material world. i have endeavoured to express the majesty of the recent happenings in various ways in order to impress upon you all the stupendous nature of what has occurred. the second precipitation must be more consciously brought about by humanity itself, and it is to- 115- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis t

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

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

thoughts and ideas. 2. government by an oligarchy of illumined minds, recognised as such by the massed thinkers, and therefore chosen by them to rule. this they will do through the education of the thinkers of the race in group ideas and in their right application. the system of education, then prevalent- 35- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust will be utilised as the medium of reaching the masses and swinging them into line with the major ideas and this will be done not by force, but through right understanding, through analysis, discussion and experiment. curiously enough (from the point of view of many) the spiritual hierarchy will then work largely through the world scientists who, being by that time convinced of the factual reality of the soul and wise in

will be founded upon certain premises contained in those volumes. therefore, the members of this group of disciples will be of the more orthodox persuasion; they will be theosophists by nature, and academic by disposition. the nature of the anima mundi, the fact of the subjective consciousness found in all forms without exception, and the existence of an interplay between these forms, through the medium of the soul, will be the major theme. soul sensitivity and reaction to the energy in any form will be the training objective of the group members. owing to the difficulty of this task, the members of this eighth group will be chosen from the personnel of the other groups, for they will have had a fair measure of training in their preliminary work. two groups will then be interlocking groups

selfish aspirations and ambitions of well-meaning servers. they are limited in their view and need to get a picture of the possibilities inherent in the present situation which could deflect much of this form of concretised divine energy into constructive channels and "ways of light" 3. a study of the law of supply and demand, so that there can be made available for the masters' work through the medium of the world disciples (of pure motive and skill in action and tried responsibility) that which is needed, and, my brothers, sorely needed by them. money has been deflected into entirely material ends, even in its philanthropic objectives. the most spiritual use now to be found in the world is the application of money to the purposes of education. when it is turned away from the constructio

r. there are, therefore, three points to consider: the soul, the illumined mind and the personality. to these three you have to add a consecrated and awakened heart, full of love to all, vibrant with compassion and with understanding. bear, therefore, these four factors in mind: 1. the dedicated oriented man. the personality 2. the overshadowing, spiritual man. the soul 3. the illumined mind. the medium of relation 4. the consecrated, loving heart. the expression of these three- 62- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust this is the personality and individual correspondence to the broader picture and the world factors and the wider undertakings with which humanity is at this time faced. just as in the life of the individual a man is confronted with the opportunity

d conflict would not be taking place. but the divine plan of evolution was based upon the production of this relationship between spiritually conscious man and the form aspect, and thus the great law of duality came into action, bringing about the "fall of the angels" as they descended from their sinless and free state of existence in order to develop full divine awareness upon earth, through the medium of material incarnation and the use of the principle of mind. this was the divine plan, emanating from the mind of god and swept into activity and progressive unfoldment by an act of his will. at its inception, there took place the original "war in the heavens" when the sons of god who responded to the divine urge to experience, to serve and to sacrifice, separated themselves from the sons

275-466. to our understanding, this account may seem vague and obscure, but the issues at the time were clear. the forces of light triumphed because the hierarchy was forced to intervene potently, and, with the aid of certain great lives extraneous to our planetary life, they brought the atlantean civilisation to an abrupt end after a long period of chaos and disaster. this took place through the medium of a culminating catastrophe which wiped hundreds of thousands of human beings off the face of the earth. this historical event has been preserved for us in the universal legend of the great flood. those who survived are symbolically spoken of in the bible as those who were saved in noah's ark, and in the ancient writings it is expressed in the following terms "like as a dragon snake uncoil

clination or ancient karma are the descendants of the lords of darkness; their actions and ideals make possible the activity of the forces of materialism. i would have you note that phrasing. even the most dangerous of them are nevertheless conscious of some form or another of idealism, but they are misguided and full of response to the will-to-power (power upon the physical plane and through the medium of form activity. this is stimulated by the inflow of the shamballa energy. because of these reactions and tendencies, they constitute focal points for those lives and energies which are inherent in matter itself and whose influence and work are dedicated to the preservation of form, and of that which is. they endeavour constantly to negate the new and to hold back the evolution and develop

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

tual will. when you can appreciate that the initiate of high degree works with monadic energy and not soul force, you can understand why he finds it necessary ever to work behind the scenes. he works with the soul aspect and through the power of monadic energy, using the antahkarana as a distributing agency. the disciples and initiates of the first two degrees work with soul force and through the medium of the centres. the personality works with forces. the third great demand has in it a different implication, and sounds forth, we are told "through the fires" in this solar system there is no evading the fire. it is found at all levels of divine expression as we well know from our study of the three fires fire by friction, solar fire and electric fire, with their differentiations, the forty

rm veils. at the third major initiation, the third planetary initiation (which is in fact the first solar initiation, the liberated disciple for the first time alone and unaided invokes the highest spiritual centre on our planet, shamballa. this he does because, for the first time, consciously and with understanding, he registers the life aspect (which has brought his soul into action through the medium of form) and vibrates to the monad. that registration enables him to contact "the bright centre, lying far ahead" to blend his individual will with the divine will, and to cooperate with the purpose aspect of manifestation. he has learnt to function through form; he has become aware, as a soul, of the divine form in its many aspects and differentiations; he now starts off upon the way of th

he activity of the great ray lives and started the motivation and impulse of that which produced manifestation. thus were the seven ray qualities brought into expression. the relation of spirit and matter produced this ordered process which again, cyclically and under law, creates the manifested world as a field for soul development and as an area wherein divine purpose is wrought out through the medium of the plan. again i call your attention to the distinction existing between purpose and plan. this is the aspect, emanating from shamballa, and inherent also in form (as are the other two, which eventually relates the human will, through the right use of the mind, to the organised planning of his separate and individual life in the three worlds, and which eventually relates and reorients t

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

he third constellation, auriga, is the charioteer, leading forth to new lands and so symbolizing the soul. nature of the tests the broad lesson to be learned in this sign is to achieve right understanding of the law of attraction and right use and control of matter. in this way matter is raised up into heaven, figuratively speaking, and can enter upon its right function; which is, to constitute a medium of expression and a field of endeavor for the indwelling christ or soul. the aspirant, therefore, is tested in two ways: first as to the caliber of his animal nature and the motives underlying its utilization; second, he is tested as to the attraction which the great illusion can exert over him. maya, or the great illusion, and sex are but two aspects of the same force, that of attraction:

gins to rule his life by the question "what is best for the group with which i am associated" it is by doing this that the bull is ridden to the mainland. 2. use common sense. the ancient meaning of the word "common sense" was that there was a sense which synthesized and unified the five senses and so constituted a "common sense, literally, the mind. let the aspirant use his mind, and through the medium of intelligent perception, guide and control the bull of desire. if common sense is used, certain dangers will be avoided. there is a danger in the method of many aspirants in inhibiting or shutting off all sex expression. physiologically they may succeed, but the experience of psychologists and teachers is that where inhibition and a drastic suppression is imposed upon the organism, the re

ce "our god is a consuming fire, and sirius is the symbol of the universal soul as well as of the individual soul. it is therefore, esoterically considered, the star of initiation. in the language of symbology we are told, there comes a moment when a star blazes forth before the initiate, signifying his realization of his identity with the universal soul, and this he suddenly glimpses through the medium of his own soul, his own star- 42- the labours of hercules canis major is the immortal hound of heaven, that chases forever the lesser dog, the underdog, the man in physical incarnation. this chase has been immortalised for us by francis thompson in the hound of heaven "i fled him, down the nights and down the days; i fled him, down the arches of the years; i fled him, down the labyrinthine

e buddhic plane, and it is only when we carry glamor up into the clear light of the christ soul that we shall see truth as it is, and become invincible. most solemnly, i would urge upon all aspirants to forego all interest in psychic phenomena, and to shut out as steadily as they can the astral plane until they have developed the power to be intuitive and to interpret their intuitions through the medium of a welldeveloped, well-stocked, well-trained mind. the next stage of the search of hercules is equally applicable to humanity as a whole. he fell into the clutches of busiris, who claimed to be a great teacher. for a long period of [75] time hercules was kept in bondage. the world today is full of teachers, and like busiris, they base their teaching upon portentous claims; they claim to b

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

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

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

take revenge upon tsi u dmar po. a fierce battle ensued in which the dharmap.la was defeated and had to flee. dza sa dmar po "the red dza sa" as he became later on known, then took possession of the tsi u dmar lcog dbug khang [jokwukhang] and of all the objects stored there. he tried, however, in vain to place upon his own head tsi u dmar po s heavy helmet, which is worn during the trances by the medium of samye s best-known dharmap.la. after some time dza sa dmar po left tsi u dmar po s residence, and the monks then built for him a special shrine within the precincts of their monastery, the so-called dza sa dmar po i rab brtan [dzasa marp rapten. tsi u dmar po returned later to his abode, and from then on peaceful relations were established between these two deities. a trace of their disp

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

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

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

order to account for dispersion and polarization, theoretical impossibilities were discovered with regard to such dispersions. cauchy's "scientific imagination" saw in atoms "material points without extension" and he proposed, in order to obviate the most formidable obstacles to the undulatory theory (namely, some well-known mechanical theorems which stood in the way, to assume that the ethereal medium of propagation, instead of being continuous, should consist of particles separated by sensible distances. fresnel rendered the same service to the phenomena of polarization. e. b. hunt upset the theories of both (silliman's journal, vol. viii, p. 364 et seq) there are now men of science who proclaim them "materially fallacious" while others- the "atomo-mechanicalists- cling to to them with

ef. if he was "persuaded that the power of attraction could not be exerted by matter across a vacuum* how is it that so late as 1860, french astronomers (le couturier, for instance, combated "the disastrous results of the theory of vacuum established by the great man* professor winchell writes "these passages (letter to bentley) show what were his views respecting the nature of the interplanetary medium of communication. though declaring that the heavens 'are void of sensible matter' he elsewhere excepted 'perhaps[[footnote(s* world-life. prof. winchell, ll.d (pp. 49 and 50 "il n'est plus possible aujourd'hui, de soutenir comme newton, que les corps celestes se mouvent au milieu du vide immense des espaces. parmi les consequences de la theorie du vide etablie par ce grand homme, il ne rest

s the subtle medium that connects the outer with the inner universe of man and animal. i think- and this is the modification i suggest to the older theory- there must be another form of matter present during life; a matter which exists in the condition of vapour or gas, which pervades the whole nervous organism, surrounds as an enveloping atmosphere* each molecule of nervous structure, and is the medium of all motion, communicated to and from the nervous centres. when it is once fairly presented to the mind that during life there is in the animal body a finely diffused form of matter, a vapour filling every part- and even stored in some parts; a matter constantly renewed by the vital chemistry; a matter as easily disposed of as the breath, after it has served its purpose- a new flood of li

eity, or the latter absent from the smallest speck of animate or inanimate substance* why either the ether of space, or "nervous ether" should "destroy the individuality of every sense" seems incomprehensible for one acquainted with the real nature of that "nervous ether" under its sanskrit, or rather esoteric and kabalistic name. dr. richardson agrees that "if we did not individually produce the medium of communication between ourselves and the outer world, if it were produced from without and adapted to one kind of vibration alone, there were fewer senses required than we possess: for, taking two illustrations only- ether of light is not adapted for sound, and yet we hear as well as see; while air, the medium of motion of sound, is not the medium of light, and yet we see and hear" this i

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

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

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

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

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

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

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

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 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

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french journals announced a public course of lectures on hermetic philosophy by a professor of the university of munich. figuier further stated that many hanoverian and bavarian families pursued in common the search for the grand arcanum. paris, however, was regarded as the alchemistical mecca. there lived many theoretical alchemists and empirical adepts. the first pursued the arcanum through the medium of books; the others engaged in practical efforts to effect transmutation. during the 1840s figuier frequented the laboratory of a certain monsieur l, which was the rendezvous of the alchemists of paris. when monsieur l s pupils left the laboratory for the day the modern adepts dropped in one by one, and figuier relates how deeply impressed he was by the appearance and costumes of these str

llen, james. as a man thinketh. 1890. reprint, philadelphia: david o. mckay, n.d. by-ways of blessedness. libertyville, ill: sheldon university press, 1909. from poverty to power. new york: r. f. fenno, 1907. the life triumphant. libertyville, ill: sheldon university press, 1908. alleyne, john pseudonym of captain john allen bartlett (1861.1933, retired british marine officer, who was the psychic medium of part of the glastonbury scripts in the experiments of frederick bligh bond (1864.1945, detailed in bond s book gate of remembrance (1918. all hallow s eve one of the ancient four great fire festivals in britain, supposed to have taken place on november 1, when all fires, save those of the druids, were extinguished, from whose altars the holy fire had to be purchased by the householders f

, different groups of christians declared that one or more of their contemporaries was the antichrist. for example, sixteenth-century protestants called the pope antichrist. even napoleon was called antichrist. the third treatise in the history veritable et memorable des trois possedees de flandre (1613) by father sebastien michaelis, a dominican friar, described antichrist: conceived through the medium of a devil, he will be as malicious as a madman, with such wickedness as was never seen on earth. an inhuman martyr rather than a human one, he will treat christians as souls are treated in hell. he will have a multitude of synagogue names, and he will be able to fly when he wishes. beelzebub will be his father, lucifer his grandfather. according to michaelis, exorcised demons revealed that

month old son of kate fox- jencken, write: i love this little child. god bless him. advise his father to go back to london on monday by all means. susan. susan was the name of mr. wason s wife. myers and hodgson saw a girl of four write the words, your aunt emma. celina, a child of three and a half, wrote in the presence of drs. dussart and broquet: i am glad to manifest through a charming little medium of three and a half who promises well. promise me not to neglect her. glimpses into automatic literature the claims of discarnate authorship present a delicate problem. angelo brofferio knew a writing medium to whom boccaccio, bruno and galileo dictated replies that for the elevation of thought were assuredly more worthy of the greatness of that automatic writing encyclopedia of occultism&

f occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 144 sources: bailey, alice a. the unfinished autobiography of alice a. bailey. new york: lucis publishing, 1951. works. new york: lucis publishing, new york, various dates. sinclair, john r. the alice bailey inheritance. wellingborough, england: turnstone press, 1984. thirty years work. new york: lucis publishing, n.d. bailey, charles (1870.1947) famous apport medium of melbourne, australia, discussed for years both in australia and in europe. though repeatedly caught in fraud, he was able to continue work with a small group of believers until shortly before his death. bailey was a bootmaker by trade when he began his mediumship in 1889. for many years he was the private medium of thomas welton stanford, a melbourne millionaire, who made a collection of

of a life of harmlessness and a move away from thoughts, words, and actions that lead to harm of others. sources: moore, mary-margaret. from the heart of a gentle brother. taos, n. mex: high mesa press, 1987. i come as a brother: a remembrance of illusions. taos, n. mex: high mesa publishing, 1984. bartlett, john allen (1861.1933) retired english marine officer and songwriter who was the psychic medium of part of the glastonbury scripts, in which indications were given regarding the site and characteristics of the long-lost edgar and loretto chapels of the abbey at glastonbury. bartlett was a friend of frederick bligh bond s, with whom the experiments were conducted and who excavated the abbey site. in his book the gate of remembrance (1918, bond, using the pseudonym john alleyne for his

1977. this transforming mind. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1970. bendit, phoebe. man s latent powers. london, faber and faber, 1938. the psychic child or over-sensitive child. n.p, 1955. bendit, phoebe, and laurence j. bendit. the psychic sense. london: faber and faber, 1943. this world and that. london: faber and faber, 1950. benedict, mrs (ca. 1850) of auburn, new york, official medium of the apostolic circle, the first american psychic after the fox sisters. her psychic faculties were developed in katie fox s circle in auburn. her channeling from the biblical apostles and prophets was edited and published by thomas lake harris. benedict xiv, pope (1675.1758) pope benedict xiv, born prospero lambertini of a noble italian family, is credited with making the first modern ob

an alleged sorceress burnt at maubec, in france, in 1577, at the height of the witchcraft hysteria. she was confronted and accused of sorcery, and when she denied it, her accuser exclaimed, dost thou not remember how at the last dance at the croix du pate, thou didst carry a pot of poison? then berande confessed and was burnt along with her accuser. beraud, marthe also known as eva c. she was the medium of charles richet s experiments in materialization phenomena at the villa carmen in algiers, 1905. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. beraud, marthe 171 berendt, h(einz) c(haim (1911) parapsychologist born in berlin, germany, who moved to jerusalem in the 1930s. a dentist, he practiced as a dental surgeon from 1937 on and became an instructor in radiodontics at hebrew univer

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ted to refute hodgson s (and additional supporting) claims. for example, all now agree that the original mahatma letters to blavatsky were strongly influenced by her personality, since the handwriting and language were typical of her. while skeptics would claim that such influence is an additional sign of conscious fraud, theosophists would claim that this resulted from the masters using her as a medium of communication, in much the same way that a psychic delivers automatic writing. more recently (1980, charles marshall attempted to prove by computer analysis that there is a strong dissimilarity between blavatsky s language and that of the masters. however, the computer program, although extensive, was somewhat arbitrary, being confined to certain prepositions and conjunctions. moreover t

ctable. sources: marion, frederick. in my mind s eye. london: rider, 1949. preliminary studies of a vaudeville telepathist. bulletin iii. london: london council for psychical investigation, 1937. price, harry. confessions of a ghost hunter. 1936. reprint, causeway books, 1974. mark probert memorial foundation former foundation that preserved tape recordings of sessions with mark probert, a trance medium of the 1950s. marriott, william s (ca. 1910) british professional magician and illusionist who investigated and exposed fake mediumship. his stage name was dr. wilmar. one of his noted illusions was the production of apparently paranormal paintings, duplicating the claimed psychic phenomena of the chicago mediums, the bangs sisters. the illusion was presented as dr. wilmar s spirit painting

a kindred demonstration, of which the davenport brothers were the greatest exponents, was the taking on and off of coats while the medium s hands were held. in a letter to the london daily news, dion boucicault, the famous english actor and author, spoke of a seance at his house on october 11, 1864, in which, by striking a light, the participants actually witnessed the coat of mr. fay, the fellow-medium of the davenport brothers, flying off. it was seen quitting him, plucked off him upwards. it flew up to the chandelier, where it hung for a moment and then fell to the ground. mr. fay was seen meanwhile bound hand and foot as before. robert cooper wrote in his book spiritual experiences (1867: the coat of mr. fay has, scores of times, been taken from his back in my presence, and mr. fay at

specter until the day of doom. she became the banshee of lusignan. it is said also that the count immured her in the dungeon of his castle. sources: briggs, katherine a. a dictionary of fairies. london: penguin books, 1976. reprinted as an encyclopedia of fairies, hobgoblins, brownies, bogies, and other supernatural creatures. new york: pantheon books, 1976. melzer, heinrich (1873) german apport medium of dresden, the successor of anna rothe. his early seances were reported in die ubersinnliche welt in november 1905. these were held in darkness, but the medium allowed himself to be fastened into a sack. quanties of flowers and stones were apported to sitters. the operators were said to be oriental entities: curadiasamy, a hindu, who spoke with a foreign accent; lissipan, a young indian bu

wire service reports has been preserved by the australian government s distributed services technology centre in bribane on an internet file, genesha is drinking milk! at http//archive.dstc.edu.au/ tu/staff/timbomb/buddha/ganesha.html. sources: genesha is drinking milk. http//archive.dstc.edu.au/tu/ staff/timbomb/buddha/ganesha.html. march 4, 2000. miller, charles victor (d. 1943) materialization medium of san francisco, born in nancy, france. by profession he was a dealer in old pictures and japanese art. author willie reichel claimed to have witnessed many of miller s performances. for example, miller did not go into trance as a seance started. he stood outside the cabinet from which a procession of phantoms issued. miller took them by the hand, asked their names, and introduced them to

ian immigrant parents. mirabelli was a spiritist of the school of allan kardec, which had become popular in brazil after its importation from europe. such extraordinary accounts of his phenomena spread through psychical research circles in england and the united states that, if they could have been proved to the satisfaction of psychical researchers, he would have had to be ranked as the greatest medium of all time. such phenomena included automatic writing in more than thirty different languages, materialization of persons and objects, levitation, impressions of spirit hands, and paranormal musical performances. he also normally produced phenomena in the light of day. the first description of mirabelli s feats was published in a booklet, o medium mirabelli, written anonymously by r. h. mi

e room and afford opportunities for observation under strict scientific conditions. display of strength occasionally the power that accumulates for telekinetic phenomena is so great that astounding feats of strength are exhibited. at warsaw, in ochorowitz s experiments, a dynamometer marked a force three times as great as eusapia palladino s and in excess of that of the strongest man present. the medium of elizabeth d esperance recorded that during a seance in breslau the strongest man in silesia, a veritable hercules, vainly tried to prevent the movements of the table. zollner recorded this incident from a seance with henry slade: a violent crack was suddenly heard as in the discharging of a large battery of leyden jars. on turning, with some alarm, in the direction of the sound, the befo

) 1067 psychokinetic metal-bending. psi news, bulletin of the parapsychological association 4, 1. rhine, louisa e. mind over matter: psychokinesis. new york: macmillan, 1970. rogers, e. c. philosophy of mysterious agents, human and mundane. boston, 1853. zollner, j. c. f. transcendental physics: an account of experimental investigations. london: w. h. harrison, 1882. moyes, winifred (d. 1957) the medium of the spirit guide zodiac for the spreading of whose teachings the greater world paper and the greater world christian spiritualist league were founded in 1931. zodiac first manifested at moyes s home circle in 1921. he claimed to have been a teacher at the temple in the time of jesus. his earth name was not disclosed but he said he was the scribe who asked jesus which was the first comman

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

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

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

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

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

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

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

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

stance to its expansion. some resistance there must betogive it the twirl. we allknowhowa ringofsmoke can be blown in order to make a vortex ring, and howis always. the resisting medium. we cannot blow a.vortexring .in an absolute vacuum. and now. comes inthehermetic philosophy, and says, the first emergence of theword;the breath. the thought of god that blew the vortex ring, met with a resisting medium of limitationiof darkness, of sin, and of death-symbolisedby the dragon,thegreat dragon through the sky. trailing one-third of the stars with its tail. that was the glyph of the darkness, the resistance which the thoughtofgodmetwith, the abyss of evil. and from the contest between these two 255 the word of godsentforthvandthedarkness and the evil which it hadtowithand to overcome- was born

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

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

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

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

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

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

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

her husband and son's interest in spiritualism.2hockley's ironical term for london. 3 unidentified. 4 the ms carne into the possession of walter moseley and is listed in redway's catalogueofmoseley's library (1889) asfollows:'metaphyiscal and spiritual philosophy; or, the connection with and influence over material bodies by spirit. revealed by the crowned angel of the seventh sphere through the medium of the magicmirror, miss emma louisa leigh being speculatrix, 1854.3 vols, 4to. this is presumably the work hockley refers to in his letter of 13 may 1875 ashockley'sletters to the irmins 69decline a ticket for the banquet which he had kept forme-asi cannot stand the worryofgetting from kensington tofreema255sons' hall.6i suffer somuchfrom neuralgiaofthe muscles and then racingofthe heart t

diary,annusmjrabilisredivivus,entry for 26 march 1903. 10thelea transcripts are in the library of the wellcome institute; irwin's transcripts are in the library of the united grand lodgeofengland, at freemasons' hall. 1ireportonspiritualism,op. cit, p. 185. 12. a. e. waite,thebrotherhoodof therosycross,pp. 570-81.32therosicrucianseerrevealed by the crowned angel of the seventh sphere, through the medium of the magic mirror, miss emma louisa leigh beingspeculatrix,3 volumes (m3 12 (1855) metaphysical and spiritual philosophy (in two parts. rough transcript (hazo [dated by redway although no date appears in the manuscript, which appears to be a corrected copy of part ofm312] 18 55 cartomancy.(hi14) 1857 metaphysical and spiritual philosophy, a series of discourses delivered through the mediu

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

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

ogle 118 isis dnveiled but even ot those who were known to have 'a familiar apiiit' the lav waa just and logical, because a genuine medium is more or less ir- responsible; and the eccentricities of socrates are thus accounted for in some degree. a medium must be pattwe; and if a firm believer in his 'spirit-guide' he will allow himself to be ruled by the latter, not by the rules^ the sanctuary. a medium of olden times, like the modem 'medium' was subject to be entranced at the will and pleasure of the 'power' which controlled him; therefore, he could not well have been entrusted with the awful secrets of the final initiation "never to be re- vealed under the penalty of death" the old sage, in unguarded mo- ments of' spiritual inspiration' revealed that which he had never learned; and was t

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

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

appearance, been seen in some worldly form, which might be acceptable to, and supportable by, a human face. there is, theoretically, such contrariety, and such fatal difference to the constitution of man, in the actual disclosure of a spirit, that it is wholly impossible except by his death; therefore spirits and divine appearances have always been invested in some natural escape or guise, by the medium of which the personal communication, whatever it might be, might be made without alarm, and without that bodily disturbance of nervous assent which should destroy. this alarm would, by the utter upsetting of the mind, and the possible fatal effect, otherwise have rendered the disclosure impossible. the denial of the interior parts of a sanctuary, or adytum, to the priests of the temple, or

sleep, because dreams are in sleep. god is in sleep. and god, who is in sleep, although he is a reality away from us, is a delusion, when sought to* there is no such thing as pain or pleasure, radically; without a medium which makes it pain or pleasure. and both are only disturbance, made pain or pleasure from without. our pain may be pleasure in another differently-constituted nervous method (or medium of) existence. our pleasures may be pains (or penalties) elsewhere. this possibility, which is the foundation of supernaturalism or of the doctrine of the intelligent population of the elements proves that pain and pleasure, and the countless shades between them, necessitate the idea of body, or of capacity, of some kind or other: because capacity is state, and state is material. so says pa

m'which it is taken is very rare, and bears the following title: antiqvitatvm ivdaicarvm (libri ix) in q is, pr ter ivd e, hierosolymorum, et templi salomonis accuratam delineationem, pr cipui sacri ac profani gentis ritus describuntur (auctore benedicto aria montano hispalensi. adiectis formis neis. lvgdani batavorum. ex officina planteniana apud franciscum raphelengium 1593. the ark of noah-the medium of escape from the deluge, and the mythic means of the perpetuation of the human family (afterwards race. the post-diluvian signs of the zodiac are here correctly designated as in number" twelve" let the judicious reader remark that twelve times thirty are three-hundrecl-and-sixty, which is not the number of the degrees of this symbolical plan. there are twelve divisions in this ark. the ce

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

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

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

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

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

is real enough. one of the aspects of modern satanism s appeal, especially to teenagers, is its ready accessibility, even to isolated individuals. unlike traditional religions, and even unlike the early satanist bodies such as the church of satan and the temple of set, contemporary satanism is, for the most part, a decentralized movement. in the past, this movement has been propagated through the medium of certain popular books, especially anton lavey s satanic bible. in more recent years, the internet has come to play a significant role in reaching potential converts, particularly among disaffected young people. does this phenomenon, however, exhaust the significance of religious satanism? are most satanists, in other words, just angry teenagers who adopt diabolical trappings to express t

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

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

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

n and moon. two great lessons are concealed in this aphorism. the first is a warning against the sacrifice of living things to the gods, because life is sacred and man should not destroy it even as an offering to the deity. the second warns man that the human body here referred to as a cock is sacred to the sun (god) and the moon (nature, and should be guarded and preserved as man's most precious medium of expression. pythagoras also warned his disciples against suicide. viii. receive not a swallow into your house. this warns the seeker after truth not to allow drifting thoughts to come into his mind nor shiftless persons to enter into his life. he must ever surround himself with rationally inspired thinkers and with conscientious workers. ix. offer not your right hand easily to anyone. th

with many remarkable cures. the chinese, egyptians, and american indians cured with herbs diseases for which modern science knows no remedy. doctor nicholas culpeper, whose useful life ended in 1654, was probably the most famous of herbalists. finding that the medical systems of his day were unsatisfactory in the extreme, culpeper turned his attention to the plants of the fields, and discovered a medium of healing which gained for him national renown. in doctor culpeper's correlation of astrology and herbalism, each plant was under the jurisdiction of one of the planets or luminaries. he believed that disease was also controlled by celestial configurations. he summed up his system of treatment as follows "you may oppose diseases by herbs of the planet opposite to the planet that causes the

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

MEANING OF MASONRY

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

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

ed in this grimoire each involve the use of the sigil. this feature derives from coven nachttoter (coven maleficia, a magickal base in which the author received the setting to write this book during the babalon working of december 1998 e.v) where this sigil was present in all night side path workings. sigils permit an individual or collective to focus upon one strong and consistent desire, by the medium of graphic symbol. sigils are not necessarily any one persons creation, however they should be complimentary to the individual's own natural ability and interest. the personal nature of sigil workings is present in the sorcery of austin osman spare. sigils are not designed and implemented for the purpose of the sigil, as many has done ignorantly. sigils are an extension of an individual's o

ent idea as well. the candle should a large round one, allowing it to burn for several hours. many small taper candles will burn out within one hour so those are not advised. the intent of the wish should be heavily 76 76 visualized in sigil form once the candle is lit, as it slowly burns focus upon the wish coming to flesh. this would give the brain avenues to obtain its inner desire through the medium of a coded (i.e. colored) object, given significance according to the definition of the color used in reference to your mental definition. the candle should be burnt for as long as possible, the focus fading as the candle burns out. by the extinguishing of the flame, the mind should be tired of it, enough to forget it. if not, a forced passing should be implemented to the best of your abili

MORALS AND DOGMA

of the act or image; sacred commentaries, explanatory of established symbols; with little of those independent traditions embodying physical or moral speculation, in which the elements or planets were the actors, and the creation and revolutions of the world were intermingled with recollections of ancient events: and yet with so much of that also, that nature became her own expositor through the medium of an arbitrary symbolical instruction; and the ancient views of the relation between the human and divine received dramatic forms. there has ever been an intimate alliance between the two systems, the symbolic and the philosophical, in the allegories of the monuments of all ages, in the symbolic writings of the priests of all nations, in the rituals of all secret and mysterious societies;

the bull and accompanied by orion, blazes in the heavens. all nature rejoices at the victory; and order and harmony are everywhere re-established, in place of the dire confusion that reigned while gloomy typhon domineered, and ahriman prevailed against ormuzd. the universal soul of the world, motive power of heaven and of the spheres, it was held, exercises its creative energy chiefly through the medium of the sun, during his revolution along the signs of the zodiac, with which signs unite the paranatellons that modify their influence, and concur in furnishing the symbolic attributes of the great luminary that regulates nature and is the depository of her greatest powers. the action of this universal soul of the world is displayed in the movements of the spheres, and above all in that of t

ve revelation: nor do they seem, until after their captivity among the persians, to have concerned themselves about metaphysical speculations in regard to the divine nature and essence; although it is evident, from the psalms of david, that a select body among them preserved a knowledge, in regard to the deity, which was wholly unknown to the mass of the people; and those chosen few were made the medium of transition for certain truths, to later ages. among the greeks, the scholars of the egyptians, all the higher ideas and severer doctrines on the divinity, his sovereign nature and infinite might, the eternal wisdom and providence that conducts and directs all things to their proper end, the infinite mind and supreme intelligence that created all things, and is raised far above external n

mparted ten spherical numerations; and thereafter issued forth the rectilinear figure of a man in his sephirothic decade, as it were the diameter of the said circles; as it were the axis of these spheres, reaching from their highest point to their lowest; and from it depend all the systems. but now, as the infinite light would be too excellent and great to be borne and endured, except through the medium of this adam kadmon, its most secret nature preventing this, its illuminating light had again to emanate in streams out of itself, by certain apertures, as it were, like windows, and which are termed the ears, eyes, nostrils, and mouth. the light proceeding from this adam kadmon is indeed but one; but in proportion to its remoteness from the place of out-flowing, and to the grades of its de

nd image. he was alone, companionless, without form or similitude, utterly without ideal or figure. it is forbidden to make of him any figure whatever, by any image in the world, neither by the letter he nor by the letter yod, nor by any other letter or point in the world. but after he had formed this idea, the particular conception, limited and intelligible, which the ten numerations are, of the medium of transmission, adam kadmon, the primal or supreme man, he by that medium descended, and may, through that idea, be called by the name ihuh, and so created things have cognizance of him, by means of his proper likeness. woe unto him who makes god to be like unto any mode or attribute whatever, even were it to one of his own; and still more if he make him like unto the sons of men, whose el

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

what do i feel? is the word exhausted? this phrase "the word" is of 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. 70. there is help& hope in other spells. wisdom says: be strong! then canst thou bear more joy. be not animal; refine

ON COMMUNICATION WITH SET

man magician uses his talisman to draw wealth or love into manifestation in the objective universe form the the unmanifest, which the profane call the future, set uses his talisman to draw xeper form the unmanifest. set's purpose does not require communication. his method for working in the objective universe is by providing an insight into the nature of personhood. this insight given through the medium of his aeon is fourfold. firstly there is the observable fact of the xeper of setians. this takes years to see, but when you've seen former street people getting their ph.d.s or average guys form dallas re-creating the runic tradition; you discover that the limits that you have placed on yourself are false. average people, who have been purposeless dreamers all their lives, have learned to

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

diance of a radiance" of the malchut of malchut of atzilut, which only shines through a partition and becomes the keter of briyah. this may be understood as follows. as mentioned above, the world of atzilut corresponds to the general sefirah of chochmah. however, it is only from the last level of chochmah that a flash of intuition comes into binah. furthermore, it is only through the intermediary medium of letters of description, that the light of the concept can be understood in binah (comprehension and grasp. the actual light of the chochmah itself is altogether beyond the grasp of binah. when a person has an intuitive flash, he does not perceive the light of chochmah directly. the "light" which he "sees" is actually only the letters, which contain the light of intuition. nonetheless, th

onclusion, he will usually act upon it without going back and rethinking the whole matter over and over again in his mind. this indicates that the garment of the chashmal encompasses from the externality of binah (analysis and comprehension) through malchut of malchut) it was further explained that this garment is similar to an allegory, which enclothes a deep concept within it. it is through the medium of the allegory that the light of the concept may radiate and be perceived. nonetheless, the light of the concept may only be perceived when the letters of the allegory are in order. however, if the letters are confused, the allegory actually conceals the concept rather than reveals it. this may be compared to a teacher. if he presents the subject in a logical, orderly fashion, explaining i

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

rs of creation, the eternal source of being, whose symbol was a jar; and under the especial protection of that one of the genii of the underworld or vice-gerents of the elements to whom that particular organ was dedicated. hence each eggshaped package was enclosed in a jar whose lid was shaped like the head of that especial god. now arneshet was also termed "the carpenter" for he it is who by the medium of his organ, the stomach, frames the rough materials and builds up the structure of the body; to him the stomach and upper intestines were dedicated (a. ahephi was also termed "the digger" or "burier" for he puts out of sight or removes that which is useless or offensive in the body, and to him the lower intestines or bowels were dedicated (b. tmoumathph was also called "the cutter" or "di

le suitable to the matter may then be written within the double circle. occasionally, a square of any convenient 496 the golden dawn: volume n book smen number of compartments may be substituted for the wheel or one form may be used for the obverse and the other for the reverse of the talisman. sigils of the planetary squares another very important mode of forming sigils anciently was through the medium of the kameas of the planets, or the magical squares. magical squares are arrangements of numbers so arranged as to yield the same number when added horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. also the sum of the total of all the numbers in the square is a number of special significance to the planet to which that square is referred. the method of forming sigils from these is very simple. the

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

l dogma in its more arid and abstruse phases; now the enchantments begin; now we can proclaim wonders and reveal most secret things. the pentagram signifies the domination of the mind over the elements, and the demons of air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and ghosts of earth are enchained by this sign. equipped therewith, and suitably disposed, you may behold the infinite through the medium of that faculty which is like the soul's eye, and you will be ministered unto by legions of angels and hosts of fiends. but here, in the first place, let us establish certain principles. there is no invisible world; there are, however, many degrees of perfection in organs. the body is the coarse and, as it were, the perishable cortex of the soul. the soul can perceive of itself, and indepen

light is the realization or form of intellectual light, as the latter is the realization or form of the divine light. the great initiator of christianity, seeing that the astral light was overcharged with the impure reflections of roman debauchery, sought to separate his disciples from the circumambient sphere of reflections and to concentrate them only on the interior light, so that, through the medium of a common faith and enthusiasm, they might communicate together by new magnetic chains, which he termed grace, and thus overcome the dissolute currents, to which he gave the names of the devil and satan, signifying their putrefaction. to oppose current to current is to renew the power of fluidic life. the revealers have therefore done scarcely more than divine, by the accuracy of their ca

given insufficient attention. it follows that we attribute the strange phenomena of table-turning to the universal magnetic agent in search of a chain of enthusiasms with a view to the formation of fresh currents. the force of itself is blind, but can be directed by the will of man and is influenced by prevailing opinions. this universal fluid if we decide to regard it as a fluid being the common medium of all nervous organisms and the vehicle of all sensitive vibrations, establishes an actual physical solidarity between impressionable persons, and transmits from one to another the impressions of imagination and of thought. the movement of inert objects, determined by undulations of the universal agent, obeys the ruling impression and reproduces in its revelations at one time all the lucid

he wolf; who, further, whilst his phantom wanders over the country, is sleeping painfully in his bed and dreams that he is a wolf indeed. what makes the werewolf visible is the almost somnambulistic excitement caused by the fright of those who behold it, or else the tendency, more particularly in simple country persons, to enter into direct communication with the astral light, which is the common medium of visions and dreams. the hurts inflicted on the werewolf do actually wound the sleeping person by an odic and sympathetic congestion of the astral light, and by correspondence between the immaterial and material body. many persons will believe that they are dreaming when they read such things as these, and may ask whether we are really awake ourselves; but we need only request men of scie

the necessary consequence of a plurality of gods. when we dream of any living person, either his sidereal body presents itself to ours in the astral light or at least a reflection thereof, and our impressions at the meeting may often make known his secret dispositions in our regard. for example, love fashions the sidereal body of the one in the image and likeness of the other, so that the psychic medium of the woman is like a man and that of the man 72 the doctrine of transcendental magic like a woman. it was this transfer which the kabalists sought to express in an occult manner when they said, in explanation of an obscure passage in genesis: god created love by placing a rib of adam in the breast of the woman and a portion of the flesh of eve in the breast of the man, so that at the bott

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

nce of minerva his associate. out of nothing the creator of the world produced four elements that they might be the prior cause as well as the material for creating all things when they were joined together in harmony: the heaven which he adorned with stars and which stands on high and embraces everything like the shells surrounding a nut; then he made the air, fit for forming sounds, through the medium of which day and night present the stars; the sea which girds the land in four circles, and with appendix 7: the vita merlini cosmology 162 its mighty refluence so strikes the air as to generate the winds which are said to be four in number; as a foundation he placed the earth, standing by its own strength and not lightly moved, which is divided into five parts, whereof the middle one is no

RUBY TABLET OF SET

s system. crime and corruption were of course possible, but inadvisable because of the conviction that vice would be punished severely after earthly death. old kingdom egypt was largely insulated from foreign invasion or conflict, hence egypt spent its early years as a peaceful culture with no standing military. egypt is credited with invention of the alphabet, as well as the use of currency as a medium of exchange. it is noteworthy for having produced the first national (as opposed to city-state) political system, as well as the most enduring one in recorded history (more than 3,000 years. there was no caste, racial, or sexual discrimination; foreigners were considered "less than human(=egyptian, but could remedy this misfortune simply by moving to egypt and adopting egyptian culture. egy

m potential of the subjective mind is equivalent to set" be limiting set? no, for only if we feel our subjective mind is limited would we thereby limit set. the only thing that tries to limit us is the objective self, and that is because of its human existence. in order to continue after death, our subjective mind must be strong, and that strength depends at this time upon our objective mind as a medium of exercise. because of this, the potential of the subjective mind/ conscious self is underdeveloped at the present time. when this potential (essence) is exercised and nourished, it can become more active and attain higher levels of existence. continuing in life and/or death we will become equivalent to set. yet set will also continue to xeper. we would come into being as our own self, ord

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

currents of energy around the planet. it is this belief that is reflected in the theory that the abyss is a location point where the magical worlds and the mundane worlds collide. yet this gateway is also believed to exist within the human psyche at the point where the conscious and the unconscious meet and it is from this point that the satanic magician draws forth his magical power through the medium of satanic ritual. magical use of the abyss from this perspective varies according to the tradition of the order of nine angles one may utilise the tarot cards as pathworking images to explore the hidden side of the human psyche, the side that normally remains untouched in the abyss. alternatively the individual may undertake a specific ritual that draws forth the powers or energies contain

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

though she had no prejudice against them. she liked a play and a pantomime, with a slight supper afterwards. she did not like concerts nor operas. at the beginning of the winter she selected some book to read, and some piece of work to commence. the two lasted her till the spring, when, though she continued to work, she left off reading. her favourite study was history, which she read through the medium of dr. goldsmith. her favourite author in the belles lettres was, of course, dr. johnson. a worthier woman, or one more respected, was not to be found, except in an epitaph! it was an autumn night. mr. and mrs. mervale, lately returned from an excursion to weymouth, are in the drawing-room "the dame sat on this side, the man sat on that "yes, i assure you, my dear, that glyndon, with all hi

SORCERIES OF ZOS

(reichenbach, the libido (freud, reich was the first- with the possible exception of reichenbach- actually to isolate it and demonstrate its properties. austin spare suspected, as early as 1913, that some such energy was the basic factor in the re-activization of primal atavisms, and he treated it accordingly as cosmic energy (the 'atmospheric i) responsive to subconscious suggestion through the medium of sentient symbols, and through the application of the body (zos) in such a way that it could reify remote atavisms and all possible future forms. during the time that he was preoccupied with these themes spare dreamed repeatedly of fantastic buildings whose alignments he found quite impossible to note down on waking. he supposed them to be adumbrations of a future geometry of space-time b

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

s rightful significance. the esoteric tradition a special interest attaches to the teachings that we find in the books attributed to dionysus the areopagite.167 it is admittedly the case that these books are never mentioned prior to the sixth century a.d, but the place and date of their composition is not the relevant question here. what interests us is that they present christianity, through the medium of ideas of neoplatonic philosophy, entirely as a spiritual vision of the supersensible world. and this is a form of presentation that actually belongs specifically to the early centuries of christianity. in the early period this presentation of christianity was handed down orally in earlier times it was the most important things that were definitely not entrusted to written form. we see th

d that which is not. if, however, someone wishes to gain a real perspective on god, 150 christianity as mystical fact even this distinction between the existent and nonexistent has to be transcended since it belongs to the sphere of sense-observation from which it is drawn. god in this sense neither exists nor does not exist. he transcends existence. god cannot be approached therefore through the medium of ordinary cognition, which is concerned with things that exist. we have to be raised above ourselves, above our sensory observation, above our rational thinking- processes, and cross over to purely spiritual apprehension. then we can begin to grasp, in mystical intuition, the perspective of the divine. however, the superexistent god has brought forth from himself the logos, the wisdom-fil

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

it. it is this spiritual polarity that dissents from oneness, following the path between one polaric point and the other, experiencing what is in order to sense what it can be. it is through self consciousness that the tools necessary to create change are perceived and utilised. finally, energy extends into the substrate of space through the vehicle of oscillation and resonance. it is through the medium of pure non-phenomenal space that the original surge of energy extended itself. the result of this is synthesis, creation, movement and ultimately through evolutionary process, in self perceived consciousness. without this expansion into space this energy could only exist as one. as such, it is as much nothing as the nonphenomenal space it occupies. we have a numbers game. in an infinite (f

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

nd wife, singer liza minelli. gest, a homosexual, and minelli are now separated and seeking a divorce. actor jack bolger, who played the tin man in the classic alchemical drama, the wizard of oz, with wife, floe, at home in beverly hills. the merovingian dynasty, the priory of sion 415 actor danny glover, notorious for his marxist liberal political activism, sends a cabalistic message through the medium of aarp magazine, also known for its marxist and jewish agenda. glover is signaling deep occultic spirits to empower his quest. 416 codex magica sam donaldson's face has been a staple for many years on abc news. but here, in this photo in smart business magazine, it is donaldson's hands we should pay attention to. this full page shot of sam donaldson had no caption and no explanation. obvio

THE CANOPIC GODS SYMBOLISM

waters of creation, the eternal source of being, whose symbol was a jar; and under the special protection of that one of the genii of the underworld or vice-gerents of the elements to whom that particular organ was dedicated. hence each egg-shaped package was enclosed in a jar whose lid was 4 shaped like the head of that special god. now, ameshett was also termed carpenter for it is he who by the medium of his organ, the stomach, frames the rough materials and builds up the structure of the body; and to him the stomach and upper intestines were dedicated (a. ahephi was also termed the digger or burier, for he puts out of sight or removes that which is useless or offensive in the body, and to him, the lower intestines or bowels were dedicated (b. tmo-oumathu was also called the cutter or di

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

believe that some part of their being survives physical death, and they are willing to base their hope for life eternal on the phenomena of the seance room and the messages that they receive from discarnate beings. after the sitters have been ushered into the seance room with its subdued lighting, they are invited to be seated, generally forming a circle around a large round table. the successful medium of an established reputa- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 86 mediums and mystics theouija board was first available for the american public in 1890 and was marketed as a parlor game. tion usually begins the seance in a friendly manner, making light conversation with each of the sitters. such an approach relaxes the sitters and encour

t induces the trance which summons the spirit guide, the sitters have been prepared by the medium s confidence and by their own beliefs and expectancy to accept the reality of an outside intelligence occupying the medium s physical body. mediums usually make it quite clear to neophyte sitters that the best manner in which to secure a demonstration of genuine spiritistic phenomena is to assure the medium of one s good will. the sitter should also let the medium know that he or she is assured of the medium s honesty and abilities. the sitter should not hurry the medium, but keep in mind that the greatest guarantee of a successful seance is the medium s serene state of mind. often the spirit voices of the deceased speak through a metal trumpet that has been coated with luminous paint and whic

imed to be the daughter of john king, alias henry owen morgan, the infamous buccaneer. king promised to be cook s spirit control and to produce many types of remarkable phenomena for a period of three years. cook was conducting her seances only at her parental home, and her father, mother, two sisters, and their household maid served as her steady circle of sitters. the teenager s reputation as a medium of remarkable talents had spread, and wealthy citizens of manchester were offering retainers that would guarantee their attendance at her spirit circles whenever they required them. in april of 1872, katie king made an attempt to materialize, and she appeared only as a deathlike face between the gauze curtains of a seance cabinet. as spirit and medium strengthened their spiritual bond, king

f fraud could not prove that all of margery s spirit phenomena had been produced as products of clever deception, as houdini had declared, but the falsification of her spirit control s fingerprint caused the majority of researchers who had examined and tested her mediumship to decide that perhaps she had, after all, been too good to be true. mina crandon herself remains a mystery. the most famous medium of the 1920s has become a martyr in the minds of spiritualists, a courageous woman who submitted to test after complex test for the sake of demonstrating the truth of survival after death. for psychical researchers, she stands as a classic example of a talented medium who, though capable of occasionally producing genuine phenomena, from time to time resorted to trickery. for the skeptics, s

stigating body of skeptics. m delving deeper carrington, hereward. eusapia palladino and her phenomena. new york: b. w. dodge, 1909. dingwall, e. j. very peculiar people. london: rider& co, 1950. tabori, paul. pioneers of the unseen. new york: taplinger, 1973. leonora e. piper (1857 1950) psychical researcher hereward carrington (1880 1958) considered leonora e. piper to be the greatest psychical medium of her time. piper was a resident of boston, as was margery crandon (1888 1941, but her mediumship had already won the endorsement of such luminaries as william james (1842 1910, dr. richard hodgson (1855 1905, and sir oliver lodge (1851 1940) before crandon had really begun her psychic career. piper was a direct-voice medium, who while entranced, would allow her body to be taken over by sp

ocesses which might be responsible for phenomena otherwise attributed to spirits. returning to boston, james, together with sir william barret and others, helped establish the american society for psychical research (aspr) in 1885. that same year, james was brought to the seance room of leonora e. piper (1857 1950, the medium whom many psychical researchers would later declare the greatest mental medium of all time. taking such precautions as identifying himself with a false name, the psychologist came away from the sitting completely baffled as to how the medium s spirit control had been able to provide accurate information on all the subjects about which he had queried. although he was never greatly impressed by the phenomena produced by the physical mediums, james began a lengthy study

ams, your young men shall see visions. the great jewish philosopher maimonides (1135 1204) conceived of revelations received through visions as a continuous emanation from the divine being, which is transmitted to all those men and women who are endowed with a certain imaginative faculty and who have achieved a certain moral and mental standard. the revelatory transmission is filtered through the medium of the active intellect, first to the visionary s rational faculty, then to his or her imaginative faculty. in this way the distribution of prophetic illumination occurs in conformity with a natural law of emanation. roman catholic scholarship holds that there are two kinds of visions. one is the imaginative vision, in which the object seen is but a mental concept of symbol, such as jacob s

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

also the most intoxicating, of all loves. religious passion has also its excesses 115 and its fatal reactions. one may have ecstasies and stigmata like st. francis of assisi, and fall afterwards into abysses of debauch and impiety. passionate natures are highly charged magnets; they attract or repel with violence. it is possible to magnetize in two ways: first, in acting by will upon the plastic medium of another person, whose will and whose acts are, in consequence, subordinated to that action. secondly, in acting through the will of another, either by intimidation, or by persuasion, so that the influenced will modifies at our pleasure the plastic medium and the acts of that person. one magnetizes by radiation, by contact, by look, or by word. the vibrations of the voice modify the movem

anguish of the threshold of eternity, were obliged to make a second attempt. a celebrated magnetist, baron dupotet, teaches in his secret book on "magic" that one can kill by magic as by electricity. there is nothing strange in this revelation for 123 anyone who is well acquainted with the analogies of nature. it is certain that in diluting beyond measure, or in coagulating suddenly, the plastic medium of a subject, it is possible to loose the body from the soul. it is sometimes sufficient to arouse a violent anger, or an overmastering fear in anyone, to kill him suddenly. the habitual use of magnetism usually puts the subject who abandons himself to it at the mercy of the magnetizer. when communication is well-established, and the magnetizer can produce at will slumber, insensibility, ca

gnetic light, and act on men in the same way as upon animals. one will stupidly take pleasure in the society of a person in whom is nothing lovable, because one is mysteriously attracted and dominated by him. and often enough, these strange sympathies began by lively antipathies; the fluids repelled each other at first, and subsequently became balanced. the equilibrating speciality of the plastic medium of every person is what paracelsus calls his "ascendant" and he gives the name of "flagum" to the particular reflection of the habitual ideas of each one in the universal light. one arrives at the knowledge of the "ascendant" of a person by the sensitive divination of the "flagum" and by a persistent direction of the will. one turns the active side of one's own ascendant towards the passive

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

i regard as a bridge between conventional psychotherapy and occultism. i doubt if reich would be pleased to learn of tlus association of mine-but a fact it is nevertheless. today i will not so much as consider even discussion of the great work with a student until he has experienced some form of psychotherapy, i care not which. there is lacking, until then, a common frame of reference, and common medium of communication. in the middle pillar will be discovered the first glimmerings of insight i had in that particular direction. it still holds good today. endnotes 1. the "wheel of existence" or the "wheel of evolution" refers to the wheel of karma or destiny. karma is a sanskrit word that means "action" it is a destiny consaously chosen in life by each person, created by the total life expe

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

t hides their chosen wood, where through the blackness sounds the sickening noise of cannibals that gloat on monstrous joys *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 126. feeding perhaps first on man fs body, the priest soon found, after investing his victim with an immortal soul, that the soul would form an excellent basis for blackmail, enabling man to buy off the terrors of hell through the medium of the priest who held the keys of heaven: cstill death reigns, and god and priests are fed, man fs blood for wine, man fs flesh for meat and bread *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 106. and these priests are not dead yet. as the human race throve so did their gods, the old savage of man fs early thoughts grew, and growing became more evil, as their gods so were men, and as men s

found in the divine works of the christian fathers, the alchymistic philosophers, and the mystical poets of ancient and modern times *2. there is an old saying, gall men are born either platonists or aristotelians. h for many centuries now, european thought has been labouring under the damnosa hereditas of foregone conclusions. and as religion in the attempt to anthropomorphise power, through the medium of dialectic symbols, lost all footing and plunged headlong into the pandemoniac majesty of deity, so philosophy, losing all grip of reality by clutching the illusive realism of its own creative faculties, was itself whirled into that furnace of hereditary prejudice, and educational bias, from out of which it has flowed a mass of molten and subservient acquiescence. lost in the axiomatic wh

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

st simple and direct in the worship of the creator. they were the puritans of the heathen world, and not only rejected all images of god or his agents, but also temples and altars, according to herodotus,1 whose authority i prefer to any other, because he had an opportunity of conversing with them before they had adopted any foreign superstitions. 2 as they worshipped the therial fire without any medium of personification or allegory, they thought it unworthy of the dignity of the god to be represented by any definite form, or circumscribed to any particular place. the universe was his temple, and the all-pervading element of fire his only symbol. the greeks appear originally to have held similar opinions; for they were long without statues;3 and pausanias speaks of a temple at sicyon, bui

pinion, however, of many of the most learned among the ancients, that the principles of the jewish religion were originally the same as those of the greek, and that their god was no other than the creator and generator bacchus,4 who, being viewed 1 symmach. ep. 10& 61. themist. orat. ad imperat. 2 odyss. z, ver. 207. 3 see pope s odyssey. 4 tacit. histor. lib. v. of priapus 113 through the gloomy medium of the hierarchy, appeared to them a jealous and irascible god; and so gave a more austere and unsociable form to their devotion. the golden vine preserved in the temple at jerusalem,1 and the taurine forms of the cherubs, between which the deity was supposed to reside, were symbols so exactly similar to their own, that they naturally concluded them meant to express the same ideas; especial

plate 59. 4 see before, p. 198 [prob. error for 138 t.s] generative powers 205 other objects intended to be concealed, or at least kept in private; but it is hardly probable that men who held opinions and practised rites the very rumour of which was then so full of danger, would proclaim them publicly on the walls of their buildings, for the wall of a church was then, perhaps, the most effectual medium of publication. the question of the supposed templar medals is very obscure. von hammer has engraved a certain number of these objects, which present various singular subjects on the obverse, sometimes with a cross on the reverse, and sometimes bracteate. antiquaries have given the name of abbey tokens to a rather numerous class of such medals, the use of which is still very uncertain, alth

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

hat combines both wisdom and understanding is art. the artist manipulates concepts, symbols and materials at the direction of his or her spiritual insights, relying on skills acquired over years of dedicated study and practice to express these intuitions in ways that are potent and true. magic is the ultimate form of art. it is the art of causing change in the manifest world through the universal medium of unmanifest spirit. magic is not and can never be a social institution. it is a present and personal quality: it exists only while it is actually being worked and only in the heart of the individual who is working it. since it cannot be assimilated into the culture, or manipulated to achieve social ends, it is perceived as inimical by all human groups that are not specifically dedicated t

new millennium magic what they really study is the materialistic illusion of magic, not true magic. their efforts always end in disappointment or disaster. fortunately, they usually give up before they can do themselves any real harm. they are not motivated strongly enough to withstand the rigorous discipline that even a false study of magic entails. for those who seek the true magic through the medium of spirit, there are many obstacles to overcome. social censure can exert a powerful and subtle force of repres- sion on even the most liberated minds. the strongest coercion comes from peers, not authority figures. the magi are reviled as both fools and degenerates: fools who chase after an illusion, degenerates who indulge in immoral or illegal acts. they are subject to ridicule. no one t

e understood by using the lever, one of the simplest machines, as a mental model. the lever in action may be considered in three parts. there is the force applied to one end, the transmitting medium, and the work accomplished at the opposite end. these three elements will be termed the mover, the moving, and the moved. they correspond to the desire of the magus, his or her will acting through the medium of the art, and the end accomplished. if one end of the lever is pulled down, the other end goes up. if one end is moved left, the other end goes right-always around the infinitely small point of the fulcrum. the fulcrum represents the aperture through the veil and the unman- ifest. work is put in and emerges inverted left to right and top to bottom out the other side, as though projected t

their genesis is even earlier. they may have arisen not long after the human race began to favor agriculture over the nomadic lifestyle. on first look it appears that the eagle would be a more appropriate emblem for the element air than the angel, but upon deeper consideration this is not so self- evident. no one who has seen an eagle catch a fish could fail to connect it with water. water is the medium of transmission, the element of formation, and the eagle has long been a symbol for the messenger or herald. air is the element of thought, the product of the impulse begun with fire, and angels are beings of the higher intellect. even with these considerations many occultists still maintain that at some time in the distant past a mistake was made and the eagle and angel were inverted from

book was to elevate magic above the level of reductionism so that it cannot be so easily dismissed by those too lazy to seriously think about it. this was accomplished by making explic- it the link between magic and the source of all creation which is forever above and beyond measurement and categorization. magic is the art of causing transformation in the manifest universe through the universal medium of the unmanifest. many techniques called magical that never cross the veil of unknowing are really no more than sleight of hand and fascination, in the same category as the tricks of the stage magician. their effects are predictable and measurable and will eventually come into the domain of science. hypnotism is one such technique. by the same token, many activities thought of as commonpla

pours forth as a raw power and is shaped for its specific ritual purpose the instant it enters manifestation in the forge of the subconscious. the conscious mind then becomes aware of this potency on the mental and physical levels through its action. consciousness monitors the success or failure of the ritual as it occurs, and if necessary, sends a ray of will to change its direction through the medium of the subconscious. it should be made clear that "subconscious" is only another word for igno- rance. it is the catch phrase made popular by nineteenth century psychiatrists talk- ing about those aspects of the psyche that could be observed only through their effects, never directly by the conscious mind. the reason the subconscious cannot be observed by the conscious mind is because it is

creation of thor, who exists inde- pendently of humankind in every way. all these views betray a faulty understanding of the natures of the au and the manifest universe. human beings do not create from the level of the perceived self, but are themselves creations of god. what humans call their own creations are in real- ity creations of the spiritual light from the unrnanifest acting through the medium of human beings, as ordinary light shines through a prism, on the manifest universe. when men and women began to worship thor, they did not invent the vari- ous attributes of that deity-thunder and lightning, great strength, courage, unbri- dled fury, destruction-but recognized the common principle behind those qualities and focused it into a form with a name and a human shape. thus the god

be intuitively derived by communion with the light. first the magus should strive to know the spirit intimately, meditating on the form and per- sonality of the spirit until it becomes a living being in his or her imagination. then the magus should pray to the light, asking it to provide a dependable sigil by which the spirit may be summoned and directed. this will be delivered either through the medium of the guardian angel of the magus or some other familiar spirit, or directly into the intuition of the magus. the sigil will be given quietly, often at an unexpected time, usually it will take the form of a persistent image, and the magus may not realize for some time that he or she has been given the sigil sought. it may even be that the sigil will be given before the magus asks for it, s

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ BECOME EVIL AND RULE THE WORLD1

tbacks. many people along the path confuse magic with magical thinking. these people are always expecting a trouble-free life: no flat tires, winning the big one, and decidedly fewer red lights. whereas xeper often reveals its presence through beneficial synchronicity, we are still constrained by the natural order. one of the great mysteries of satanism is how the inward force evolves through the medium of internal and external necessity. necessity presents a challenge, for example we were overlooked for a job promotion. the magical thinker would go buy a spell kit. he waves his wand and sprinkles gold lodestone sand and holds his mouth just right. he attributes his failure to "having done the ritual wrong" we work to change the promotion process. when we have changed the process, we not o

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

ustine notes that although he knew only latin and not hebrew, he would have understood the truth (veritas) of these words even in moses s own hebrew, for truth uses neither mouth nor tongue as instruments and utters no audible syllables, and thus it can be stripped of any particular linguistic attire.24 one cannot fail to note the ironic twist in augustine s thought. the scriptural truth that the medium of creation is the word of god finds its ultimate thinking time/ hermeneutic suppositions 5 justification in an intuition beyond the logos in its ocular and verbal representations. the only way to transcend the word, however, is through the word. to support his point exegetically, augustine cites the words attributed to the voice that spoke from the clouds to peter, james, and john while th

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

, since the original tablet was transparent, as kelley saw it. i did not originally plan to include this section in the book. after prompting from a variety of sources, however, to explain some of the vagueness in enochian literature, i have put some of my study notes on certain aspects of the dee system (which form the bulk of this chapter) at the disposal of any who wish to use them through the medium of publication. generally speaking, a large amount of dee's enochian material has been revealed, the exception being the hundred or so folios that make up the codes of "liber logeath" which i am sure will form the basis of a very interesting future publication and may open yet more doors to the dee literature that has not survived to the present. 156 157 5 visionary experiences in the prece

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