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son is ignoring his material world. a special note on this card is that a lot of how you interpret this card is going to depend on where it is in the reading and more importantly on the nature of the question. if it is a purely spiritual question it tends to have a very airy nature and therefore can be quite spiritual. magician wisdom, skill, adaptation. it can also mean craft and cunning, a very mercurial card. this card can also refer to occult wisdom. magician -reversed a misuse of power, egotism, conceit, lack of skills yet not believing so, imbalance of the elements. high priestess this is a card of fluctuation. it could mean change, increase, decrease, alterations, altercations. this card is very lunar in nature and therefore a lot of the nature of this card will depend on whether th

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

r diagram of eden before the fall diagram of eden after the fall lamen badge of water required materials for the temple: banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: shin, resh, mem, peh, ayin kamea of mercury 2 diagrams of daath enochian water tablet 7 planes of tree of life to 7 planets diagram of 4 worlds and letters of holy names alchemical symbols of mercury, sulphur, and salt mercurial figures censer 4 chairs cup of water part iii ceremony of the grade of practicus hiero: honoured hegemon, instruct the theoricus in the proper alarm, present him with the necessary admission badge and admit him (her (done) hiero: place the theoricus before the portal of the 31st path, by which he (she) has symbolically entered this grade, from the grade zelator. heg: leads theoricus to n

of the alchemical sephiroth. here again it embraces all but kether. the radix metallorum, the triple foliation at the bottom of the cross refers to fire symbolized by the addition of the sign aries thereto; and it further alludes to the 3 principles of sulphur, mercury and salt. heg: leads theoricus to tablet in the north. heg: the tablet before you represents the symbol the planets resumed in a mercurial figure. in gradual descent we obtain luna, mars, sol, venus, and below saturn and jupiter, right and left. heg: places theoricus in a seat in west facing hierophant and returns to his own place. hiero: i now congratulate you on having passed through the ceremony of the grade of practicus and in recognition thereof i confer upon you the mystic title of monokeros de astris which means the

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

yer, and, as the prayer is attributed to horus, they are called four, as above explained; but it is only the name of horus which is fourfold; he himself is one. this may be compared with the qabalistic doctrine of the ten sephiroth as an expression of tetrabook of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 14 grammaton (1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4= 10. it is now seen that this hawk is not solar, but mercurial; hence the words, the cry of the hawk, the essential part of mercury being his voice; and the number of the chapter, b, which is beth the letter of mercury, the magus of the tarot, who has four weapons, and it must be remembered that this card is numbered 1, again connecting all these symbols with the phallus. the essential weapon of mercury is the caduceus. note (3) fourteen letters. qu

o breakfast every day chez laperouse "no" i replied "h would not do so, but think of his woe if laperouse were shut "i eat these oysters and i drink this wine solely to drown this misery of mine "yet the last height of consolation's cold: its pinnacle is-not to be consoled "and though i sleep with janefore and eleanor "and julian only fixes in my mind even before feels better than behind "you are mercurial spirits-be so kind as to enable me to raise the wind "put me in laylah's arms again: the accurst, leaving me that. elsehow may do his worst" doni and din, perceiving me inspired, book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 135 conceived their task was finished: they retired. i turned upon my friend, and, breaking bounds, borrowed a trifle of two hundred pounds [138] commentary(

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

judgment "yod" is the creative energy- the procreative power: and yet "yod" is the solitude and silence of the hermitage into which the magician has shut himself "mem" is the letter of water, and it is the mem final, whose long flat lines suggest the sea at peace hb:mem-final; not the ordinary (initial and medial) mem whose hieroglyph is a wave hb:mem<symbolism above outlined, yod is the mercurial "virgin word, the spermatozoon concealing its light under a cloke; and mem is the amniotic fluid, the flood wherein is the life-bearing ark. see a. crowley "the ship, equinox i, x> and then, in the centre of all, broods spirit, which combines the mildness of the lamb with the horns of the ram, and is the letter of bacchus or "christ<nuith, which makes pos

crates, with allusion to the well-known poem of catullus. lamed may imply the exaltation of saturn, and suggest the three of swords in a particular manner. yod will then recall hermes, and mem the hanged man. we have thus a tetragrammaton which contains no feminine component. the initial force is here the holy spirit and its vehicle or weapon the "sword and balances. justice is then done upon the mercurial "virgin, with the result that the man is "hanged" or extended, and is slain in this manner. such an operation makes creation impossible- as in the former case; but here there is no question of re-arrangement; the creative force is employed deliberately for destruction, and is entirely absorbed in its own sphere (or cylinder, on einstein's equations) of action. this work is to be regarded

ther 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 natures. 160 the tarot, on the other hand, being a book, is under mercury, and the intelligence of each card is fundamentally mercurial. such symbols are therefore peculiarly proper to communicate thought. they are not gross, like the geomantic daemons; but, as against this, they are unscrupulous in deceiving the diviner<oracles of truth; and they refuse to be profaned by the contamination of inferior and impure intelligences. a magi

t of all" phi-theta-soe "thou shining force of breath! thou lion-serpent sun! thou saviour, save" ib "thou ibis, secret solitary bird, inviolate wisdom, whose word in truth, creating the world by its magick" thiaf "o sun iaf! o lion-serpent sun, the beas that whirlest forth, a thunderbolt, begetter of life (the conception is of air, glowing, inhabited by a solar-phallic bird "the holy ghost, of a mercurial nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me; so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water; of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. 267 section c. fire. i invoke thee, the terrible and invisible god: who dwellest in the void place of the spirit- a

r! thou one with me- the sixfold star" 271 ad-on-a-i<hebrew, adni, 65. the gnostic initiates transliterated it to imply their own secret formulae; we follow so excellent an example. on is an arcanum of arcana; its significance is taught, gradually, in the o.t.o. also ad is the paternal formula, hadit; on is its complement nuit; the final yod signifies "mine" etymologically and essentially the mercurial (transmitted) hermaphroditic virginal seed- the hermit of the taro- the use of the name is therefore to invoke one's own inmost secrecy, considered as the result of the conjunction of nuit and hadit. if the second a is included, its import is to affirm the operation of the holy ghost and the formulation of the babe in the egg, which precedes the appearance of the hermit "my lord! my secr

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

hand wdyb by yodh dwyb hearer in secret hy))h the state of puberty gwwz a magical vision (ch )wzx wheat h+x good hbw (notariqon of gyehovah elohim yehovah achad h, 151 )y)y unity dxy 23 parted, removed, separated xxz joy hwdx a thread +wx life; chiah: the soul in chokmah hyx lesser (ar)+wz 24 the number of enochian seniors, and of elders in revelation he whom i love ybwh) he who loves me ybhw) a mercurial god (whose essence is z, 8) hgwbz) substance; a body hywg a pauper; oppressed kd abundance zyz bucket, pail, vessel dk 25 to break )kd beast )wyx let there be yhy will be separated xzy thus, so; here, there hk 26 the number of the sephiroth of the middle pillar: 1+ 6+ 9+ 10. the pillar of mercy: the paths vau and kaph (cf. 48& 463) k w seeing, looking at hzwx sight, vision hwzx tetragram

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

ction. finality; things as they are in their totality. hwhyha, the combined hyha and hwhy, macroprosopus and microprosopus, is here. if we supposed the 3 female letters h to conceal the 3 mothers a, m, c, we obtain the number 358, messiach, q.v. note 32= 25, the divine will extended through motion. 64= 26, will be the perfect number of matter, for it is 8, the first cube, squared. so we find it a mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter was in truth eternal change. 35. alga, a name of god= ateh gibor le-olahm adonai. to thee be the power unto the ages, o my lord! 35= 5 7. 7= divinity, 5= power. 36. a solar number. hla. otherwise unimportant, but it is the mystic number of mercury. 37. hdyjy. the highest principle of the soul, attributed to kether. note 37= 111 3. 38. note 38 11= 418

y various columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando. but here i am only dealing with the trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god. suppose now that a vision purporting to rpceed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lonely in aspect, not only knows the qabalah your own researches in the qabalah as well as you do, but is able to show you truths, qabalistic truths whic

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

tion. finality: things as they are in their totality. ahihvh, the combined ahih and ihvh, macroprosopus, and microprosopus, is here. if we suppose the 3 female letters h to conceal the 3 mothers a, m, sh, we obtain the number 358, messiach, q.v. note 32= 25, the divine will extended through motion. 64= 26, will be the perfect number of matter, for it is 8, the first cube, squared. so we find it a mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter was in truth eternal change. 35. agla, a name of god= ateh gibor le olahm adonai "to thee by the power unto the ages, o my lord" 35= 5 x 7. 7= divinity, 5= power. 36. a solar number. alh. otherwise unimportant, but is the mystic number of mercury. 37. ichidh. the highest principle of the soul, attributed to kether. note 37= 111 3. 38. note 38 x 11= 41

various columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando. but here i am only dealing with the "trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god" suppose now that a vision purporting to proceed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lowly in aspect, not only knows the qabalah- your own researches in the qabalah- as well as you do, but is able to show you truths, qabalistic truths, wh

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

e cross and triangle represents the maternal letter mem" after which, the tablet bearing the mystic seals and names drawn from the kamea of mercury19 is shown the theoricus, as well as the tablet of the seven planes of the tree of life, answering to the seven planets, and the tablet showing the meaning of the alchemical mercury on the tree of life; also the symbols of all the planets resumed in a mercurial figure. 15 "see 777" col. clxxvii, p. 35. 16 "see 777" col. xiv, p. 4. 17 "see 777" col. lxxx, p. 18 18 "see "handbook of geomancy" the equinox, vol. i, no. ii. 19 a kamea is a magic square "see "mathematical recreations" by w. w. rouse ball. illustration on page 274 approximated below. hb:mem/ hb:ayin/ air_ sigils mercury on tree of tablet of life mercury of air. throne of east_ hb:peh

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

his with the particular exordium (g. d. mss. z3 .at the ending of the night :at the limits of the light hb:bet :thoth stood before the unborn ones of time .then was formulated the universe .then came forth the gods thereof, hb:resh .the aeons of the bornless beyond. hb:aleph<caduceus("see" p. 269) the air symbol vibrating between them [also hb:yod, virgo, is a mercurial sign, and thoth is mercury, though on a higher plane. the hermit, with his lamp and wand, is hermes, who guides the souls of the dead, in the greek ritual of 0 degree= 0 square- p> then was the voice vibrated. hb:shin<spirit of god, second deity-name in the law, the trigrammaton, or threefold name, by which the universe came forth> then was the name declared

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ls. s. d, ii, 266, 279 a. the solar pitris embody the fifth principle..s. d, i, 241. b. they give consciousness to man..s. d, i, 204. c. they furnish the vehicle for the incarnating monad, forming the egoic body..s. d, i, 237. d. they develop the human type..s. d, ii, 243. compare s. d, ii, 96. 234- 815- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 67: unseen planets "not all of the intra-mercurial planets, nor yet those in the orbit of neptune, are yet discovered, although they are strongly suspected. we know that such exist and where they exist; and that there are innumerable planets "burnt out" they say, in obscuration we say; planets in formation and not yet luminous, etc "when so attached the 'tasimeter' will afford the possibility not only to measure the heat of the remotest

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

planet, eventually, a system of groupings within one national border or one empire, and yet with an international boundary which will be symbolic of the coming new age technique in government. the second ray of love or attraction governs, egoically, the british empire, and there is a relation between this fact and the fact that the sign gemini governs both the united states and london. the fluid, mercurial, intuitional mind is closely allied with the divine aspect of love and understanding, producing attraction and interpretation. it is interesting to note that the fourth ray of harmony or art, which will begin before long to come into power again in its major aspect, is to be found prominent in the destinies of india, germany, italy, austria and brazil, and it is for this that there is so

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

system of groupings within one national border or empire, and yet with an international implication which will be symbolic of the coming new age technique of government. the second ray of love or of attraction governs from the soul angle the british empire and there is a relation between this fact and the fact that the astrological sign gemini governs both the united states and london. the fluid, mercurial, intuitional mind is closely allied with the divine aspect of love and understanding, producing attraction and interpretation. it is interesting to note that the fourth ray of harmony through conflict which before long will come into power again, is to be prominent in the destinies of india, germany, italy, austria and brazil. it is for this that there is so much preparatory turmoil in f

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

ric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust as regards the three decanates of sagittarius, sepharial gives us the three governing planets as mercury, the moon and the sun, whilst alan leo gives us jupiter, mars and the sun, emphasising as he always does the way of the esotericists. he usually tunes in on the esoteric significances but not always. jupiter gives expansion, superseding mercury, for the mercurial mind is ever a limitation even if only a temporary one. the moon gives place to mars, which confers the quality of devotion and the capacity to fight for an ideal. this idealistic concept and method of work is always the characteristic of discipleship during the early stages of unfoldment upon the path. the sun, typifying the solar angel remains constant both through the exoteric and the

as the image of divine intelligence or wisdom. the word `sol (sun) was derived from `solus' the one or he alone, and the greek name `helios' meant most high (s.d. iii. 279) 20 "the visible sun is only the central star but not the central spiritual sun (s.d. iii. 280) 21 "the sun was the life-giving and the death-giving luminary (s.d. iii. 288) 22 "the sun is the substitute for the invisible inter-mercurial planet (s.d. iii. 459) 23 "the pure energy of solar intelligence proceeds from the luminous seat occupied by our sun in the centre of the heavens, that pure energy being the logos of our system (s.d. iii. 213) 24. there is "the sun of initiation in a triple form two of which are the `day-sun' and one the `night-sun (s.d. iii. 212) 25 "all initiates are `epitomisers of the history of the

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

e who are lovers of art, as an anatomist dissects the human body. thus change your gold back into what it was before it became gold; and thou shalt find the seed, the beginning, the middle, and the end vthat from which our gold and its female principle are derived, viz, the pure and subtle spirit, the spotless soul, and the astral salt and balsam. when these three are united, we may call them the mercurial liquid: a water which was examined by mercury, found by him to be pure and spotless, and therefore espoused by him as his wife. of the two was born an incombustible oil; for mercury became so proud that he hardly knew himself. he put twelve keys of basil valentine 17 of 95 forth eagle feathers, and devoured the slippery tail, of the dragon, and challenged mars to battle. then mars summon

v namely, mercury, twelve keys of basil valentine 75 of 95 sulphur, and salt v and herein i have taught what is true. but know that the stone is composed out of one, two, three, four, and five. out of five v that is, the quintessence of its own substance. out of four, by which we must understand the four elements. out of three, and these are the three principles of all things. out of two, for the mercurial substance is twofold. out of one, and this is the first essence of everything which emanated from the primal fiat of creation. but many may by all these discourses be rendered doubtful in mind as to what they must start with, and as to the consequent theory. so i will, in the first place, speak very briefly concerning mercury, secondly concerning sulphur, thirdly concerning salt; for the

rt, pure, subtle, clear, and glistening, like a spring, pellucid even as crystal, free from all dross. hence make water or combustible oil. for mercury was in the beginning water, and herein all the sages agree with my dictum and teaching in this oil of mercury dissolve its own mercury, from which the water in question was made, and precipitate the mercury with its own oil. then we have a twofold mercurial substance; but you must twelve keys of basil valentine 76 of 95 know that gold must first be dissolved in a certain water, as explained in my second key, after the purification described in the first key, and must be reduced into a subtle calx, as is mentioned in the fourth key. next, this calx must be sublimated by the spirit of salt, again precipitated, and by reverberation reduced int

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

re the septenary man as given by the rev. g. oliver, the learned mason, in his "pythagorean triangle (ch. on "science of numbers" p. 179. he speaks as follows "the theosophic philosophy counted seven properties (or principles, in man, viz (1) the divine golden man (2) the inward holy body from fire and light, like pure silver[[vol. 2, page] 641 hypnotism is- satanism (3) the elemental man (4) the mercurial paradisiacal man (5) the martial soul-like man (6) the passionate man of desires (7) the solar man; a witness to and inspector of the wonders of the universe. they had also seven fountain spirits, or powers of nature" compare this jumbled account and distribution of western theosophic philosophy with the latest theosophic explanations by the eastern school of theosophy, and then decide w

DANCE OF THE WITCHES

on is communicated. the path strays anew. so mote it be! alogos, magister: cultus sabbati. where the old serpent and man meet in murder and marriage, the spiritualisation of matter, the materialisation of spirit; the pole of heaven becomes the crown of the world. both in one: xoanon vox baetyltithe dance of the witches: opening the devil's eye copyright 2003 by robin artisson saturnian musings on mercurial subjects pursuant to my work on the art of the 'twilight sleep" or the trance, the topic has come up many times about the best way to achieve a good, workable trance state when performing acts of witchcraft. the answer is simple enough: there is no "best" way. each person, being an individual, is predisposed to a variety of techniques and leanings, which makes some people react well to v

DEITUS

ere are, for example, many ranks or orders of angels such as seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, powers, virtues, archangels, etc. each angelic choir is said to reside in a particular heavenly sphere. similarly, the fallen angels may reside in earth, air, fire, water, or in the tartaric depths. spirits which dwell in the planetary spheres are often called olympic spirits. these include lunar, mercurial, venereal, solar, martial, jovial, and sanguine spirits. traditionally, all spirits may be invoked or summoned to appearance by the magician using certain formulas of invocation or evocation. magicians of the middle ages would fast for many days and go without sleep or rest. they would also abstain from sexual intercourse and idle conversation in order to focus all of their attention on

DEMONIC BIBLE

nifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, hecate, and manifest thyself. come forth, hecate, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, hecate, and manifest thyself. come forth, hecate, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice, then say) i have crossed the lunar sphere. the mercurial sphere thoth, i invoke thee. thoth, i summon thee. thoth, i conjure thee. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself. com

e forth, thoth, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice, then say) i have crossed the mercurial sphere. the venerial sphere ishtar, i invoke thee. ishtar, i summon thee. ishtar, i conjure thee. come forth, ishtar, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, ishtar, and manifest thyself. come forth, ishtar, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, ishta

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

he renewal of youth. the search for this elixir and a quest for gold became the grand goals of alchemy. there was no standard method of manufacturing the elixir of life. in the grimoire, le petit albert, for example, one is instructed to use eight pounds of sugar of mercury as the foundation of such a mixture. fifteenth-century alchemist bernard trevisan said that dropping philosophers stone into mercurial water would create the elixir. this process would, when elaborated to the red, transmute copper and other metals into pure gold, he stated; if elaborated to the white it would produce pure silver. the possibility that the elixir could prolong life was undoubtedly the chief reason alchemists continued their search. the aged alchemist, weary with his quest for gold, craved the boon of yout

ledo, and their master picatrix, together with those in italy who made traffic of this kind of ware, knew better than to say whether or not they had appeared to those who had been in possession or bought them. and truly i cannot speak without horror of those who pretend to such vulgar familiarity with them, even to speaking of the nature of each particular demon shut up in a ring; whether he be a mercurial, jovial, saturnine, martial, or aphrodisiac spirit; in what form he is wont to appear when required; how many times in the night he awakes his possessor; whether benign or cruel in disposition; whether he can be falun gong encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 542 transferred to another; and if, once possessed, he can alter the natural temperament, so as to render men of sat

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

off the liqueur which floated on the top, filtering it through some cotton. this liqueur having been poured into a bottle he added to it the fixed salt, which he had drawn from the same plant when dried. there remained nothing more but to extract from this liqueur the first life or being of the plant. for this purpose paracelsus mixed the liqueur with so much water of salt (understand by this the mercurial element or radical humidity of the salt, put it in a matrass, exposed it for six weeks to the sun, and finally, at the expiration of this term, discovered a last residuum which was decidedly, according to him, the first life or supreme essence of the plant. but at all events, it is certain that what he found in his matrass was the genie or spirit he required; and with the surplus, if the

t, the middle, and the end of their work. it is necessary then to proceed first to purge the mercury with salt and with ordinary salad vinegar, to sublime it with vitriol and saltpetre, to dissolve it in aquafortis, to sublime it again, to calcine it and fix it, to put away part of it in salad oil, to distill this liquor for the purpose of separating the spiritual water, air, and fire, to fix the mercurial body in the spiritual water or to distill the spirit of liquid mercury found in it, to putrefy all, and then to raise and exalt the spirit with non-odorous white sulphur. that is to say, sal-ammoniac.to dissolve the sal-ammoniac in the spirit of liquid mercury which when distilled becomes the liquor known as the vinegar of the sages, to make it pass from gold to antimony three times and

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

the five metaleve1s ula. the solve princi which are, so to speak, goutside of competition h: laughter, deconceptualization, concep-tualization and union. and finally, he adds a gsupplementary alphabet in malkuth, h sy pain/pleasure and depression/ elation. also play a significant role. the first three are based on alchemical symbolism, describing gthe three states of matter h of each emotion: the mercurial, the sulphurous, and the earthy) levels. the mercurial form indicates states of over- stimulation and dissolution of consciousness followed by catharsis or ecstasy (p. 76. the sulphurous form indicates gthe normal functional mode of the emotion, h thus lying in between the mercurial and earthy mode, both of which derive from the first principle, comparable to the state of the gprima mate

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS E

three alchemical principles. they are in different orders for each element. this shows their different operations within each element. the upper arm is allotted to the element of m, the lowest arm to l, the right arm to n, and the left arm to o. you will observe that active and passive are in perfect harmony. m arm the background color is yellow on the m arm and represents the flowing philosophic mercurial nature without hinderance of mobility or movement. this alludes to the ever flowing nature of m. 3 l arm this is composed of the four colors of twklm, and shows the l being the receptive container of all the four elements. citrine is attributed to the airy aspect, olive to the watery, russet to the fiery aspect and black to the lowest earthy aspect. here, also, is the mercurial force chi

bring about the fixedness and immobility of l. o arm here the color is scarlet, and unlike the m and l arms, the sulfurous nature is chief and ruler. in this arm, the p is from the side of l. b is from the side of m. n arm the n arm is colored blue. here, the saline side is chief. this can be easily understood if we think about the fact that almost 3/4 of our planet is covered in salt water. the mercurial part is from l, and thus, we have the force of flux and re-flux. the sulfurous part is from m, relating to waves and storms. each arm shows us the three alchemical principles of nature acting within the alchemical operations of the elements. the white rays shining forth from behind the angles (between arms) is as the divine light coming forth from rtk in its center. the letters painted o

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

s expliquer les divers effets et ph nomenes relates par nous dans imposition de cette doctrine. the above passage is very curious, since it gives the key (a matter which has puzzled every speculator) as to the meaning of the masquerade and folly and antic system which prevails in the catholic application of the christian doctrine at the pre-lent period, and the recurring festivals, or the jovial, mercurial, venus patronised periods. folle: follets (m, follettes (f, folletins (m, folletinnes (f. these are the names of the male and female masquerading, gambolling follies, or fays or elves or sprightly spirits under their various fanciful names, and in their picturesque, sportive, masquerading disguises the pied-populace of that world-turnedupside- down, in the general male and female interch

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

dismissed. the shadows on our own clouds, as seen in texas and england, are irrefutable proof that some kind of dirigible bodies are moving in our upper atmosphere or in nearby space. bodies seen in space may be considered to have more direct and obvious connection with intelligence than do lights and shadow. there was a time when astronomers, seeing these by the dozens, thought them to be intra-mercurial planets, or asteroids. keen analysts have long since dispelled that misapprehension, but they have not discouraged nor discredited the sightings. these have remained without explanation for many decades, and some for hundreds of years. all of these observations gradually came to be regarded as erratics, to be ignored if possible. astronomers who did not make any such observations liked t

e or more planets revolving within the orbit of mercury. perturbation of that planet and its orbit led to such a conclusion, particularly before the theory of relativity explained a part of the disturbance. over a long period of years, astronomers kept seeing object of planetary shape and apparently planetary size crossing the disc of the sun, and these were almost universally assumed to be intra-mercurial planets. somehow it never occurred to anyone that similar crossings of the moon, also seen occasionally, could be related, nor that such objects between the earth and moon could undermine the intra-mercurial planet hypothesis. relativity? will explain by man? after a number of carefully observed crossings of the solar disc were recorded, some of the more able mathematicians calculated te

t never occurred to anyone that similar crossings of the moon, also seen occasionally, could be related, nor that such objects between the earth and moon could undermine the intra-mercurial planet hypothesis. relativity? will explain by man? after a number of carefully observed crossings of the solar disc were recorded, some of the more able mathematicians calculated tentative orbits for an intra-mercurial planet. they based this on the assumption that the intervals of time between transits were susceptible to a least-common-denominator which was the probable time of revolution of the suspected planet around the sun. such calculations led consistently to disappointment and sometimes to heartbreak. no intra-mercurial planet was ever found, although mathematical astronomers were so confidant

bservations and the mental balance of the observers. despite scathing linguistic fire, however, some of these vital notations got through to editors of astronomical and other journals. many such observations are tabulated in the observatory, but they are also scattered through the scientific literature in general. since it has now been irrefutably demonstrated that these could not have been intra-mercurial planets, their significance becomes much more apparent than it was to the casual reader in the early 19th century. we have changed our conception, and now we can accept these objects as being close to the earth. the overwhelming mass of evidence is too great to brush aside, and proves that astronomy has been sighting ufo's in space. so has? but they deny it will always so, they too (unre

e of venus, but since the many other skilled observers who watched the transit did not see this thing, it is most likely that it was very close to the earth's surface, and so displaced by parallax that it was silhouetted against the bright disc only in that one location. great arks advance home ship bringing news& orders for preparation of its arrival. all this leads up to a showdown on the intra-mercurial planet question. since it has been shown by c.h. f. peters and others that there is no intra-mercurial planet, then what are these things? although c.h.f. peters tried to belittle the sightings of all observers as illusions or fraud, we have difficulty in rejecting the statement of experienced observers like staudacher of nuremberg, who saw, in february 1762, a round black spot on the su

meter of the sun, traverse a chord of 70 degrees in approximately three hours. since 139 the apparent diameter of the sun is about half degree of arc, one-twelfth would be about two and one-half minutes or one hundred and fifty seconds. mercury's apparent diameter, when in transit, averages about twelve seconds, depending on its distance of the moment, so this thing, if it be considered an intra- mercurial planet, must have had an actual size of more than twenty times that of mercury, that is, a diameter of 60,000 miles or so. obviously such a thing as large as saturn does not exist in any intra- mercurial orbit. what then, was it? and how far away? at the gravitational neutral the apparent diameter of two and one-half minutes would represent a real diameter of two hundred miles or less. a

about 1/500,000 of whatever distance you might assign to it. great ark the next celestial event on our roster is unusually pertinent to our theme, and must have been startling when it was first published. on october 10, 1802, at madgeburg, fritch saw a spot moving two minutes of arc in four minutes of time, across the sun and not seen again after a cloudy spell. near the sun, e.g, in a deep intra-mercurial orbit, this indicates a velocity of 15,000-20,000 miles per minute. fritch also states that on march 20, 1800, and february 7, 1802, he saw spots having rapid motions of their own. in hundred of hours in the dusty tomes of the library of congress, that is the first case i have found where a scientist has state clearly that these objects were free-lance agents. even so he seems to have be

ch also states that on march 20, 1800, and february 7, 1802, he saw spots having rapid motions of their own. in hundred of hours in the dusty tomes of the library of congress, that is the first case i have found where a scientist has state clearly that these objects were free-lance agents. even so he seems to have been imbued with the idea that they were near the sun, or in other words, in intra- mercurial orbits at any rate not adjuncts of the third planet and its satellite. this seems to be a statement of controlled motion, but fritch said it in 1802, and fritch was an astronomer! on january 6, 1818, two englishmen, capel lofft and a mr. acton saw a small subelliptical, opaque spot moving more rapidly over the sun than venus moves when in transit. it disappeared before sunset and seemed

tion relatively to each other and taking different courses, if not orbits. in 1834 he had seen similar bodies pass across the disc of the sun looking very much like mercury in transit six times. now, there is another statement of rugged individualism in celestial, controlled motion. how confusing this must have seemed how frustrating to an inhibited observer who could think only in terms of intra-mercurial planets. there was not one, but two or more bodies, of size comparable to mercury, or one who doesn't realize the galactic-molecular scope of einstiens unified field theory, 1922-27 moving across the sun repeatedly with what seemed to be directed movement. but how simple it all is to us, when we are thinking of objects from one to ten miles in diameter only a few hundred miles away, or t

very small perfectly round spot, without a trace of penumbra, was seen to cross a considerable portion of the sun's disc in the short space of six hours as observed and reported, july 12, 1837, by de vico at rome. at a distance comparable to that of the gravitational neutral, an object would cover half a degree in six hours with a speed of about 300-325 miles per hour. at the distance of an intra-mercurial planet the speed would be in the order of 100,000 to 135,000 miles per hour, which is about 30-35 miles per second a little bit high for planetary velocity, but not inconceivable. in october 2, 1839, de cuppis, an astronomical pupil at a college in rome, saw a perfectly clear, round and definite spot moving at such a rate that it would cross the sun in about six hours. in late june or ea

w a spot like mercury in transit. on october 11, 1847, schmidt, at bonn, saw a small black body pass rapidly over the sun "which was neither bird nor insect crossing before the telescope" we do not know what he means by rapidly six hours, six minutes, or six seconds. all those would be rapid depending on where you think the object was in space. if it was, say, half an hour, and the body was intra-mercurial, its speed would be 650,000 to 800,000 miles per hour, or 200 miles per second, which is nebular velocity, not planetary. if only two or three seconds were involved, which is a reasonable assumption since schmidt compared the object to a seed or a bird, then, whatever it was, it was not more than a few hundred miles from the earth certainly not farther than the "neutral" we assume that t

1, 1858, a circular, opaque body moving from east to west was watched for about one and a half hours in late afternoon by wilson at manchester, england. in 1859, dr. lescarbault, an amateur astronomer of oregeres, france, announced that he had observed the passage of a body of planetary size across the sun on march 26. dr. lescarbault wrote to le verrier, knowing of le verrier's interest in intra-mercurial planets. the cloak and dagger investigation and third degree imposed on the good doctor by le verrier is quite an incident. le verrier was convinced that this was a transit of "vulcan" and predicted another transit for march 22, 1877. at that time astronomers of the whole civilized world were alerted, and an intense and eager watch was kept on that date, in order to confirm the existence

. le verrier was convinced that this was a transit of "vulcan" and predicted another transit for march 22, 1877. at that time astronomers of the whole civilized world were alerted, and an intense and eager watch was kept on that date, in order to confirm the existence of "vulcan" and to verify le verrier's orbital computations. nobody saw anything on march 22, 1877; and the whole idea of an intra-mercurial planet has been pretty much broken down but: what was it that these many good people really did see? were these reputable astronomers deluded, mendacious or irresponsible? they were all highly intelligent people, educated and trained in the fields of astronomy and mathematics. either you must say yes to one or more to the above charges, or these alert observers saw something round and so

etty much broken down but: what was it that these many good people really did see? were these reputable astronomers deluded, mendacious or irresponsible? they were all highly intelligent people, educated and trained in the fields of astronomy and mathematics. either you must say yes to one or more to the above charges, or these alert observers saw something round and solid- and it wasn't an intra-mercurial planet. they will never alert the whole world again, it would interfere with the petty squabbles between nations& cause a common-bond of the brother-hood of man sort of kinship to be realized. these humans love to implose their will, to make war, too well. note how uniform the reports are as to the apparent size of these things: usually about the apparent size of mercury; sometimes a bit

that of mercury and venus. on may 6, 1865, a round black spot moving across the sun was watched by 142 coumbray, at constantinople. it was watched for over three-quarters of an hour, until its departure from the disc. this spot was a sharply defined, black point, which detached itself from a group of sunspots near the limb of the sun and crossed the entire disc in forty-eight minutes. in an intra-mercurial orbit having one-third the radius of the earth's orbit, it would require a speed of approximately 6,000 miles per minute, or a hundred miles per second to accomplish this, and this is a very high planetary velocity. at the earth-sun neutral, however, an object would move the same angular distance in the same time, with a speed of about thirty-five miles per hour, a conservative velocity

lity that some bodies are floating at the venus-sun neutral, as well as close to the earth. in 1645, a body large enough to look like a satellite was seen near venus. it was said to have been seen four times in the first half of the 18th century and again in 1867. a luminous spot was seen in 1799, by harding and schroedter, moving over the disc of mercury. this indeed, could not have been a intra-mercurial planet. there were two observations by denning and hind, persistent observers, on november 3, 1871, and march 26, 1873, and a black body was seen by weber, at berlin, april 4, 1876. the london times, for december 17, 1883, reports that mr. hicks pashaw, in egypt, saw through glasses "an immense black spot upon the lower part of the sun" according to science, july 31, 1896, brooks, of smi

y, and a skilled searcher for new bodies like planets and comets. neither of these men can be called irresponsible. they knew the difference between stars, planets, comets and nebulae. they did not see ghosts. however, at the total eclipse of the sun, july 29, 1878, they saw unscheduled, unexplained objects. like many of their contemporary scientists, however, they were too preoccupied with intra-mercurial planets to speculate on anything close to the earth. mobilization for building of chol was seen astronomers came long distances to observe this eclipse. many europeans traveled across the atlantic, then to the high plateaus of colorado and wyoming. many were determined to make a final desperate search for an intra-mercurial planet which, supposedly quite near the sun, should have shown u

ngs. through skillful use of a four-and-one-half-inch telescope (which this writer has used many times at the university of michigan, watson found two disclike or planetary objects, both red and both comparable in size to mercury, perhaps a bit smaller. one was 2 from the sun and the other between 4 and 5. both were to the west. watson measured their positions carefully. he reported them as intra-mercurial planets. swift saw two discoid objects also, of about the same size, brightness and color. he reported them as intra-mercurial planets. but swift saw them in different places. whereas watson's two were several degrees apart, swift's were very close together. the members of the astronomical fraternity, who were not there, and observed nothing, were scathingly sarcastic. they maintained th

see it myself (too common) strangely, no sailor would believe that the world was round even when seeing its roundness each day, for it was not the proper way to think then. the conflict was long and hot, and towards the end it was bitter, but the observers stood their ground. they insisted that they saw something, and since not one person in the profession could conceive of anything but an intra-mercurial planet, no common ground was ever found for agreement. the british professionals, and dr. c.h.f. peters, in the united states, were especially vehement in their protests. in a long and brilliant analysis, peters proved conclusively that these objects could not possibly be intra-mercurial planets, and for good measure proved that none of the other long lists or objects seen near the sun o

y be intra-mercurial planets, and for good measure proved that none of the other long lists or objects seen near the sun or crossing it could be such planets. in fact he did a credible job of proving that no such planet could exist! after studying his arguments, i most whole-heartedly concur up to a point. that point is where dr. peters tries to prove that since watson and swift did not see intra-mercurial planets, what they did see were erroneously identified stars. but he would not necessarily agree that they had seen anything at all. peters was bitterly sarcastic and felt rather too secure in his superb analytical ability. in the above exampled conflict it was not who was right or wrong but "who but myself is the best observer: i.e. my pride& my expierence or ego. when ego slights ego

within our atmosphere, they would have realized that they had a new and awesome problem on their hands perhaps the key to many a celestial enigma. both gould and bone had valuable clues within their own observations, in consideration of the erratic movements and the circularity of the objects described by them, showing that the objects were neither stars nor comets. nor could they have been intra-mercurial planets because they were illuminated neither crescentically nor gibbously. parallax was the ultimate kingpin of the tangle, and rules out all of these possibilities. it may even be that these were the selfsame two objects seen by watson and swift. it may be that they are the two objects sought today by army ordnance and dr. lapaz. it may be that today's amateurs can find them if they wi

LIBER LVII

hwhyha, the combined hyha and hwhy, macroprosopus and microprosopus, is here. if we supposed the 3 female letters h to conceal the 3 mothers a, m, c, we obtain the number 358, messiach, q.v. note 32= 25, the divine will 41 [in the apocalpyse of john. t.s] on the qabalah 33 extended through motion. 64= 26, will be the perfect number of matter, for it is 8, the first cube, squared. so we find it a mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter was in truth eternal change. 35. alga, a name of god= ateh gibor le-olahm adonai .to thee be the power unto the ages, o my lord. 35= 5 7. 7= divinity, 5= power. 36. a solar number. hla. otherwise unimportant, but it is the mystic number of mercury. 37. hdyjy. the highest principle of the soul, attributed to kether. note 37= 111 3. 38. note 38 11= 418

arious columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando67. but here i am only dealing with the .trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god. suppose now that a vision purporting to proeed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lonely in aspect, not only knows the qabalah. your own researches in the qabalah.as well as you do, but is able to show you truths, qabalistic truths whi

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

light thoth stood before the unborn ones of time then was formulated the universe. r then came forth the gods thereof, the aons of the bornless beyond. a then was the voice vibrated. c then was the name declared* the hand of god, always the symbol of his power. remember in the description of the .caduceus (see .the temple of solomon the king) the air symbol vibrating between them [also y, f, is a mercurial sign, and thoth is mercury, though on a higher plane. the hermit, with his lamp and wand, is hermes, who guides the souls of the dead, in the greek ritual of 0= 0..p. the name \c, the spirit of god, second deity-name in the law, the trigrammaton, or threefold name, by which the universe came forth. a note on genesis 15 t at the threshold of entrance, betwixt the universe and the infinite

LIBER SAMEKH

theta-soe g thou shining force of breath! thou lion-serpent-sun! thou saviour, save! h ib g thou ibis, secret solitary bird, inviolate wisdom, whose word is truth, creating the world by its magick! h thiaf g o sun iaf! o lion-serpent sun the beast that whirlest forth, a thunderbolt, begetter of life! h (the conception is of air, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic bird, gthe holy ghost, h of a mercurial nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me* the letter f is used to represent the hebrew vau and the greek digamma, its sound lies between those of the english

e! my nothingness! h gaia g leap up, thou earth! h* in hebrew, adni, 65. the gnostic initiates transliterated it to imply their own secret formula; we follow so excellent an example. on is an arcanum of arcana; its significance is taught, gradually, in the o.t.o. also ad is the paternal formula, hadit; on is its complement, nuit; the final yod signifies gmine h etymologically, and essentially the mercurial (transmitted) hermaphroditic virginal seed. gthe hermit h of the tarot. the use of the name is therefore to invoke one fs own imost secrecy, considered as the result of the conjunction of nuit and hadit. if the second a is included, its import is to affirm the operation of the holy ghost, and the formulation of the babe in the egg, which precedes the appearance of the hermit. this is als

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

amayim, the fiery androgynous water, divides. the fire becomes the solar fire and the water becomes the lunar water. schamayim is the universal mercury--sometimes called azoth--the measureless spirit of life. the spiritual fiery original water--schamayim--comes through eden (in hebrew, vapor) and pours itself into four main rivers [the elements. this is the river of living water- azoth [the fiery mercurial essence] that flows out from the throne of god and the lamb. in this eden [vaporous essence or mist] is the spiritual earth [incomprehensible and intangible, or the dust aphar, out of which god formed adam min haadamah, the spiritual body of man, which body must sometime become revealed" in another part of his writings von welling also says that there was no material universe until lucif

e verse reads "so that you remain contented in all matters, i must listen attentively. my body [is] naked, clean, and shining, and i run like oil ready to drop, resplendent like bright gold, and then succumb to the plague in its bright and cheerful little chamber [retort" click to enlarge leaf 22. the verse in the upper left is as follows "this group is composed of three stones: lunar, solar, and mercurial. in the lunar is white sulphur; in the solar, red sulphur, in the mercurial, both; i.e. white and red, and this is the strength of all instruction" in the bottle at the left are the words "dissolving, calcination, sublimation complete the instruction; and at the base "wash, congeal, and coagulate" under the central tower is written "metallic salts, however, are hidden by one letter; arou

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

in each line, vertical or horizontal, add up to the same total. in this case, 260. now you may well ask what all this has to dp with mercury? well, you can think of magic squares as being signaling devices, types of psychic telephone numbers to the unseen. the way of using the square of mercury before any divination is this: take a blank sheet of white paper, and exorcise it with salt water and a mercurial incense such as you will find listed under the heading "herbs and incenses" having done this, draw a square with sixtyfour compartments as shown above with your pen and ink of art. now carefully and deliberately inscribe the numbers in the square as illustrated, in their correct numerical order, 1, 2, 3, 4, onwards, ending with 64. as you write each number, repeat a short invocation to m

basically the rune sticks consist of four flat slats of fruit-wood apple, pear, cherry, plum, hazel, rowan, or any other wood if you cannot obtain these. but they must be wood. they should be about five inches in length by about a quarter to a half inch in width. finish off the rough edges and make the rods smooth and comfortable to the touch. sprinkle them with salt and water and fumigate with a mercurial incense within a properly cast circle. now, using your brush and paint of art, make a large and obvious dot on one side of each of them, centrally located. when the paint has dried, turn the rods over and make two large dots on the other side of them, spaced so that the gaps between the dots themselves and the ends of the rod are all equal, in fact, so that the rods are marked into three

nds of the rod are all equal, in fact, so that the rods are marked into three equal segments by two dots. these are your rune sticks. you should carry them about with you for a period of time before you use them to charge them with your magnetism, or witch power. now the method of their employment is this: provide yourself with some pieces of clean paper, your pen and ink of art, a good supply of mercurial incense, your square of mercury, a flat-surfaced table, your thurible and your cup of salt and water. lock all the doors and means of access to your place of working, and if there is any chance of being overlooked through a window, make sure the drapes are drawn. then purify the chamber with fire and water as you were taught in an earlier chapter, using your mercurial incense. begin with

d. the latter process is, however, fairly advanced work. the beginner witch should only concern herself with obtaining 1 simple divinations by using it. generally speaking, divinations will always go better if you use your square of mercury first. the pendulum is no exception to the rule, although owing to the extreme simplicity of the divination, many witches feel they can do without any form of mercurial orientation. the wand of divination the wand, or staff, is the magical instrument which is par excellence emblematic of the powers of divination or prophecy. the staff of the prophet, the divining rod of the water witch, or dowser (as opposed to the pendulum, and the wand of the necromancer are all variations on the same theme. in the witch processes that i enumerate here, a wand or wand

that is "to compose a wand of divination" if you are unable to sever the wood yourself but have to purchase it, never mind; the real value is imparted with the consecration which follows. this has to be performed on a wednesday, again when the moon is waxing, at one of the four quarters of the day midnight, sunrise, noon, or sunset. first you must cast and purify your circle, kindling a suitable mercurial incense in your thurible; perform the square of mercury rite as an introduction. then trim the wood of all twigs and excrescences with your athame and peel the bark off, keeping your intention firmly in mind, repeating a jingle to concentrate your attention on the task in hand, such as "blessed be thou rod of power, rod of wisdom" and keeping in mind the mercurial images of speed and air

it rather than explicit; the choice is yours. then, with the point of your athame, engrave the following runes upon the wand, working from right to left, and continuing to repeat your charm with each figure. when you have finished, ink or paint in the etched figures with your materials of art, always repeating the jingle either audibly or mentally. should you wish to mix in any dried and powdered mercurial herbs with the ink or paint before applying, this can be a very effective way of reinforcing the potency of the rod. finally, fumigate the wand again in the incense smoke (do not asperge it; this would only demagnetize it and nullify all your previous effort) and seal it with the triple cross and the injunction "so mote it be" as in the square of mercury consecration. either keep your co

of the triangle with the hebraic divine names primeumaton, anaphaxeton, tetragrammaton and placing the name of michael, leader of the heavenly host, within; but none of these things is strictly necessary. all you basically need is the triangle prepared with intention which is accomplished, as with your other magical tools, by exorcising and consecrating your materials with fire and water (using a mercurial incense) in a properly cast circle on a wednesday. then, go to work using a charm to state your intention such as "blessed be thou, focus of power" again, as with all your other artifacts. finally, cense and seal with the triple cross. at the same time that you make the triangle, you can also manufacture the pedestal for the show stone. this you may make simply from a square slab of exor

araphernalia and such other close companions as are immediately concerned with the divination. your paraphernalia should consist of: your altar table with its triangle sign covering, pointing east; chairs in the west, facing east across the table, should you wish to remain seated during the scrying; your athame, cord, thurible, cup, workbook, square of mercury, and pen and ink of art, a supply of mercurial incense, and a box of incense consonant with vassago's nature (see end of this chapter "herbs and incenses. all or any of these things may be held by your assistants throughout the operation. on the table itself should stand your show stone, or speculum, within the triangle, and to either side and about twelve inches behind it should stand two of your candlesticks containing exorcised wh

rule. when you have completed the licence to depart, broken the circle, and completed your vision record, you must burn the sigil of vassago to ashes. in contrast to your square of mercury, the sigil of vassago may be used again. to repeat the operation, you will have to employ a fresh sigil every time. dreaming true the subject of acquiring prophetic dreams, generally speaking, comes under this mercurial heading. processes concerned with acquisition of dreams concerning lovers, present or future, will, however, be kept for chapter 4, part 1 "the loving cup" but should you or a friend wish to acquire knowledge about a certain matter, and not wish to resort to the rune sticks or any form of conjuration ceremony, a very simple, and sometimes quite effective method of securing said informati

ght of the new moon or very shortly after. it requires thirteen days' preparation, however (which characteristic it shares with the necromancy of love, that preparation being a short nightly meditation around midnight on a photograph or portrait of the deceased whose shade you hope to summon. on the night of the fourteenth day, the new moon, cast and purify your circle just before midnight with a mercurial incense, after making sure the room is secure from any intrusion. the paraphernalia you will need for the operation include: your athame, cord, cup, and thurible, naturally, for erecting the circle; your wand, altar table with triangle cloth, lamps, and an equilateral triangle of white tape (large enough to stand in) on the floor outside the circle to the west. in this is placed a skull

he lamps (and the thurible if necessary, place a final offering of necromantic incense upon the coals, and repeat the licence to depart, which runs thus: go, go, departed shade [name] by omgroma epin sayoc satony, degony, eparigon galiganon, zogogen, ferstigon. we licence thee depart into thy proper place and be there peace between us evermore. so mote it be! then, finally, as with all your other mercurial experiments, note down the results. in the final analysis, the best way to gain results is by a careful trial and error method, and this always depends on an accurate record being made. the results of your various researches should form a valuable part of your magical workbook. herbs and incenses for all divinations, great or small, whether the operation be one of mere sortilege such as

t way to gain results is by a careful trial and error method, and this always depends on an accurate record being made. the results of your various researches should form a valuable part of your magical workbook. herbs and incenses for all divinations, great or small, whether the operation be one of mere sortilege such as casting the runes or a grand operation of necromancy, two easily accessible mercurial divination incense ingredients are extremely useful to have on hand at all times: namely, gum mastic and cinnamon (the latter preferably in oil or essence form. the first may be obtained at any good art materials suppliers as it is used in picture varnish, while the second can be obtained easily enough from any pharmacy. these two ingredients may be fumed on top of charcoal by themselves

s you best. dittany of crete is mixed with any incense where a materialization is required in the operation. most if not all of the herbs aforementioned may be obtained from any shop which handles the sale of botanicals. substances like the gums and essences, such as camphor and cinnamon, can be obtained at the pharmacy. vassago conjuration incense this is a jupiter-type incense, for though he is mercurial in function, vassago is primarily jupiteroriented in nature. his incense should be composed of: 6 parts frankincense 6 parts balm of gilead 6 parts grain of paradise 1/2 part saffron touch of ambergris (an artificial tincture is quite sufficient) if you cannot obtain these ingredients, a good substitute can be compounded of frankincense, saffron, and cedarwood oil. necromancy incense 3 p

n. your eyes are dimmed, your limbs are bound. thus i lay you down to rest still and silent in the ground! you carry out a little symbolic funeral in fact. incidentally, should you wish to unbind this spell, you must perform a ritual which does everything in reverse. invoke the powers of the air to release the victim. dig up the cord on a wednesday while the moon is waxing. cast a circle, using a mercurial incense, and invoke herne with your square of mercury. begin by untying the centre knot and working outwards, in the reverse sequence you tied them in, chanting a jingle with each knot, such as, by the winds your limbs are freed, by the breath your mouth is opened, by the word your ears are opened, by the light your eyes are brightened [n] i conjure thee, awake, arise; so mote it be! whi

of mercury may be of use and herne invoked. the kerubic eagle, or great bird, from the watchtower of the east should be called upon. the wand should be used as the emblem of power in your ritual, and you should seek to call up all the stormy, howling, blustering, wind-swept memories of gale and hurricane within your experience, and augment them by rhyming spell within a circle properly cast with mercurial incense. for a benevolent zephyr, invoke on a wednesday with the moon waxing at 8 a.m, 3 p.m, or 10 p.m; for a destructive storm, conjure at one of the same hours on a thursday with the moon waning. for an electrical storm, call upon cernunnos and all the powers of fire on a tuesday with the moon waning. the great lion from the watchtower of the south must be invoked, and your fiery atha

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

se terrestrial things which are submitted to the power of man. there are different kinds of spirits, according to the things over which they preside, some of them govern the empyrean heaven, others the primum mobil, others the first and second crystalline, others the starry heaven; there are also spirits of the heaven of saturn, which i call saturnites. there are jovial, martial, solar, venerean, mercurial, and lunar spirits; there are also (spirits) in the elements as well as in the heavens, there are some in the fiery region, others in the air, others in the water, and others upon the earth, which can all render service to that man who learns their nature, and knows how to attract them. furthermore, i wish to make thee understand that god hath destined to each one of us a spirit, which w

MORALS AND DOGMA

her, the word, and the holy spirit; and three witnesses on earth--the breath, water, and blood. he thus agrees with the masters of the hermetic philosophy, who give to their sulphur the name of ether, to their mercury the name of philosophical water, to their salt that of blood of the dragon, or menstruum of the earth. the blood, or salt, corresponds by opposition with the father; the azothic, or mercurial water, with the word, or logos; and the breath, with the holy spirit. but the things of high symbolism can be well understood only by the true children of science. alchemy has its symbolic triad of salt, sulphur, and mercury--man consisting, according to the hermetic philosophers, of body, soul, and spirit. the dove, the raven, and the ph nix are striking symbols of good and evil, light

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

of the spirit and the four elements, in the order which is the key to the supreme ritual of the pentagram <52> upon each of the floriated ends of the cross are arranged the three alchemical principles, but in a different order for each element, and as showing their operation therein. the upmost arm of the cross, allotted to air, is of the yellow colour of tiphareth. in it the flowing philosophic mercurial nature is chief and without hindrance to its mobility; hence the ever moving nature of air. its sulphureous side is drawn from the part of fire, whence its luminous and electrical qualities. its saline side is from the water, whence result clouds and rain from the action of the solar forces. the lowest arm of the cross, allotted to earth, is of the four colours of malkuth, the earth bein

de is from the water, whence result clouds and rain from the action of the solar forces. the lowest arm of the cross, allotted to earth, is of the four colours of malkuth, the earth being of the nature of a container and receiver of the other influences. the citrine answers to its airy part, the olive to the watery, the russet to the fire, and the black to the lowest part, earth. here also is the mercurial part chief, but hindered by the compound nature whence its faculty becomes germinative rather than mobile, while the sulphur and the salt are 310 the rose cross lamen 311 respectively from the sides of water and fire, which almost neutralize their natural operation and bring about the fixedness and immobility of earth. the extremity allotted to fire is of the scarlet colour of geburah, a

um whereon to act, and the mercury is from the side of air, whence the leaping, lambent motion of flame especially when acted upon by wind. the extremity allotted to water is of the blue colour of chesed, and in it the saline side is chief as exemplified in the salt water of the ocean, to which all waters go; and from whence also is derived the nature of always preserving the horizontal line. the mercurial part is from earth, whence the weight and force of its flux and reflux. its sulphuric part is from the air <53> whence the effect of waves and storms. so that the disposition of these three principles forms the key of their alchemic operation in the elements. the white rays issuing from behind the rose at the inner angles between the arms, are the rays of the divine light issuing and cor

n war and fire. fifth house evil save for love, and sowing seed. sixth house evil except for blood-letting. seventh house evil except for war and fire. eighth house evil. ninth house very evil. tenth house dissolute. love, he. eleventh house evil, except to let blood. twelfth house evil in all things. albus good for profit and for entering into a place or undertaking. ascendant good for marriage. mercurial. peace. second house good in all. geomancy third house fourth house fifth house sixth house seventh house eighth house ninth house tenth house eleventh house twelfth house very good. very good except in war. good. good in all things. good except for war. good. a messenger brings a letter. excellent in all. very good. marvellously good <129> conjunctio good with good, or evil with evil. r

nding to its tarot trump. the method of attributing the figures to the angles is identical with the process described for the squares of both columns and ranks in the lesser angles. thus the airy 690 the golden dawn: volume n book nine lesser angle of the air chess-board would be mutable (airy) air, referred to the zodiacal sign gemini, and hence to the geomantic figure of <357> albus, which is a mercurial figure under the presidency of taphthartharath the watery angle of the air tablet would be kerubic or fixed (watery) air, which is the sign aquarius, and the geomantic figure of tristitia, attributed also to saturn, and the ruler over it is zazel. the earthy angles of the air tablet, is elemental air, referred to the geomantic figure of fortuna minor, also a solar or leo figure, ruled by

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

d gthere are three which give testimony on earth. the spirit, the water and the blood. h thus, st. john agrees with the masters of hermetic philosophy, who attribute to their sulphur the name of ether, to their mercury that of philosophical water, and to their salt the qualification of the dragon's blood or menstruum of the earth. blood or salt corresponds by opposition with the father, azotic or mercurial water with the word or logos, and the ether with the holy spirit. but the things of transcendent symbolism can only be understood rightly by the true children of science. the threefold repetition of names with varied intonations were united to triangular combinations in magical ceremonies. the magic wand was frequently surmounted with a small magnetized fork, which paracelsus replaced by

RUBY TABLET OF SET

it is clear that what lovecraft has taken the traditions surrounding hermes, mercury, and thoth- a being who is the messenger of the gods and a bringer of knowledge, but also a trickster and a thief. people react to the original concept instead of the prettified, sanitized images of these myths that evolves as people tame the archetypes, to make their images comfortable and familiar (think of the mercurial logo used by florists) lovecraft carried out this distillation for a number of figures and themes in his pantheon. he went to many sources, never taking anything at face value, never believing anything he read, never regarding it as more than an indicator of the nature of the human mind, a source of information he could exploit in rendering his tales more powerful and effective. this giv

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

e place for the fundamental creation of form. the influence of mercury has stirred up the water and the alchemy has started. in this phase of creation "vac" is important "vac" is an aspect of sarasvati as the goddess of speech, signifying sound, or rather the primordial sounds of creation. breath is air and the component needed for transmutation, as seen in the techniques of pranayama. it is this mercurial air of creation the water has stirred up. the rite of ingress, or the establishment of the point and its adversary into the one. the text itself called the eight steps of the rite of ingress gives a detailed outline of the procedure to follow (p. 124- 125) and several important keys to its understanding are freely given to the seeker. further the first few steps of the symbolism of the m

s. in lurias initatic system the rabbi of the mysteries was honoured with the title tzaddiquin. further this cell reflects the influence of aries, which in the tarot has been given the domain of the emperor. this explains the warrior like flavour of the cell and the solar influences of the cell. the formulae of zayin is captured in the formulae of the opposer as well as in its connection with the mercurial formulae of the pentagram as the cosmomatrix of transformation. the ram has found its expression in tz, the first sign of zodiacus who is the bringer of fire and light is essential to this riddle and as the five-fold symbol of the use of the senses. cell 7 being the aat of the 8th and 19th letter of the sacred alphabet this cell speaks of the union of all systems and the understanding of

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

s is echoed by regardies injunction in the golden dawn, where he states that "persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. crowley's phrase saying that "work alone has ultimate value" can also be allocated to the sephirah of hod. it is here that the work is performed, to counter the inertia that the ego (symbolised in this instance by the moon on the other side of the tree) can summon. the mercurial qualities of the sephirah are as numerous as the symbols denoting that elusive element. it is as sturzaker states "the sphere of intrigue, and also of the diplomat, the thief, the scientist and the magician. the sciences are rooted here, as they seek knowledge by division and mechanisms, and by strict definitions of qualities, events, and behaviours. these are all the processes of hod. i

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

er whimsically because we share the same birth date. he was born on march 25, 1919. i was born on march 25, 1930. here's a summary of his story in his own words. i was 33 years old. and for the requirements of my job, i was up very early that morning. having arrived at the "martyrs square" i was waiting for the bus as usual when suddenly, i spotted in the sky, a kind of luminous object of a white mercurial color, which zigzagged very rapidly. this luminosity continued to intensify; it approached and i saw an object similar to a spinning top which stopped above me. i admit that i was petrified. what could this object be? a wave of thoughts flowed into my mind when suddenly, a brilliant ray left the object and struck me, it pierced me completely, while an indescribable serenity flowed into m

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

adam, as the lightning is from a black cloud. lightning is born from a cloud, yet it is not a cloud. lightning is the super man while the cloud is the man. to be born is a sexual problem, the path is sexual transmutation. a rectangle appears in the ninth key, this represents the four elements of alchemy. by carefully studying this rectangle, we discover a double circle that wisely symbolizes the mercurial matter with its two properties (generation and regeneration. the double circle contains three serpents that emerge from three hearts. indeed, we need to work with mercury, sulfur and salt in order to raise the metallic serpent upon the pole. the adam christ is born in us only by working with the prima matter: mercury, sulfur and salt; the phoenix bird that is born from its own ashes stan

properties (generation and regeneration. the double circle contains three serpents that emerge from three hearts. indeed, we need to work with mercury, sulfur and salt in order to raise the metallic serpent upon the pole. the adam christ is born in us only by working with the prima matter: mercury, sulfur and salt; the phoenix bird that is born from its own ashes stands upon the double circle of mercurial matter. we need to become imitators of this mythological bird; however, this is only possible when we work with the grain. the eagle of volatility is the terrestrial adam that is dominated by the crow of putrefaction. the moon goddess carries upon her head a white swan. we must whiten the crow with sexual transmutation until transforming it into the immaculate swan of ascension. the enti

omo el rayo de la nube negra; el rayo nace de la nube, pero no es la nube. el rayo es el s per hombre y la nube es el hombre. nacer es un problema sexual, el camino es la transmutaci n sexual. en la novena llave, aparece un rect ngulo, representativo de los cuatro elementos de la alkimia, estudiando cuidadosamente este rect ngulo, descubrimos un doble c rculo que simboliza sabiamente a la materia mercurial con sus dos propiedades (generaci n y regeneraci n. el doble c rculo contiene tres serpientes emergentes de tres corazones. realmente necesitamos trabajar con el mercurio, el azufre y la sal, para levantar la serpiente de metal sobre la vara. s lo trabajando con la materia prima, mercurio azufre sal, nace en nosotros el adam cristo, sobre el doble c rculo de la materia mercurial, se apoy

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

sometimes the lines between these categories are not at all clear-cut. it may be that we have a desire to manifest a particular kind of job, say for a newspaper firm. we would then want to work on that part of our personality that will elicit dynamic communication abilities, as this job would involve both verbal and written communications. we may do this through designing a talisman with a lot of mercurial correspondences, and also do some creative work with the active imagination through meditating on the completed mandala, which will connect us to mercury or hod, the 8th sphere on the tree of life. symbols are very archetypal, but they can also be very personal. you probably have certain kinds of symbols which may mean something to you that no-one else understands. however, the archetypa

the first hour is calculated by the moment the sun rises on that particular day, and therefore the hours vary in length, according to whether the days are long or short. for many modern magicians (who have schedules as busy as anyone else, these minute time speculations may be too cumbersome. other planetary influences may then be examined for the most auspicious timing. if the talisman is to be mercurial in character, you may ask: is the planet astrologically favored at the time the talisman is being made? one should attempt it at a time when the sun is in gemini or virgo, for example, or when one of these signs is conjunct the moon. you do not need to be an adept astrologer to discover some basic positive correspondences for the best times to make your particular talisman. the moon shou

chakra is venus. it is considered reserved, dignified, and affectionate. it is also related to ideas of mastery, conquest, and fulfillment of desire. the magical symbol of the heptagram will be examined later. 8. eight represents realization. the eight-pointed star or eight-spoked wheel is a symbol of christ, as well as mercury. on the tree, it is attributed to hod, or the sphere of splendor. its mercurial connections imply knowledge and truth-seeking, especially in magical work. it symbolizes concrete form wherein the force of netzach finds expression. as a duplication of four, it also represents alteration and vibration. levi relates it to the astral light, or magical agent wherein all vibrations exist. it also symbolizes culture, education, and evolution. 9. nine represents fullness or

figure eight lying on its side. one of the intriguing points of interest between the symbols of the tau cross (christ) and the figure eight (mercury) is that, when laid sideways.when the cross is a multiplication symbol (x).it synthesizes with the lemniscate, or figure eight symbol, if the lines continue in an arc until they are connected (see figure 10-b. this is the cross in the sphere and the mercurial wheel of nature, which jacob boehme spoke about. the number of jesus, written in greek, is 888; and tau, the final hebrew letter, doubled equals 800, which is omega in greek. the curves in the number eight are reciprocal and alternating, expressing better than any other number the repetition of equal and complementary parts. its key words are rhythm, alteration, and vibration, and its mo

w a flame rising from the top, but could discover no rational explanation. the pyramid has often been associated in hermetic folklore with revelation of the inner mysteries, and figure 10-c revelation of secrets is the domain of mercury or hermes. it is believed that initiation rites were once held within the dark pyramid chambers: inspiration is mercury, the messenger of the gods. centres of the mercurial influence, like the great pyramid, were places of initiation into the mysteries, for within their labyrinths could be found the spirit whom god had sent to speak directly with men. in the presence of hermes, nothing was concealed except the person of god. the pyramid was built as a meeting place for mercury and for those who sought his instruction in the hidden secrets of creation (john

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

on of hermes on his day with the sun in 9 degrees sagittarius, the moon in 23 degrees leo& mercury in 19 degrees scorpio one hour before noon with him in the zenith, sextile to venu s jupiter& saturn. in furtherance whereof, at eleven of the night of monday, did the beast work under the scarlet woman his word, to make the great operatio n go aright. immediately was the beast inspired to a writing mercurial, a sati re upon the fish& thus wrote he some 14 or 15 hours. the oath of the cephaloedium working. hear all that we, to mega therion 9degree= 2square a'.a. the beast; al ostrael, the scarlet woman& genesthai odegree= 0square a'.a. do now in th e presence of tahuti most solemnly swear to devote ourselves to the establishme nt of "the book of the law" as uttered by aiwaz 93 to 66, by the w

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