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ame: that name which the rabbins of old have said rusheth through the universe; that name before which rolled back the darkness at the birth of the morning of time. the flame-red triangular capitals which crown the summits of the pillars represent the triune manifestation of the spirit of life, the 'three mothers' of the sepher yetzirah, the three alchemical principles of nature, the sulphur, the mercury and the salt, and each pillar is surmounted by its own light-bearer, though veiled from the material world. the hieroglyphical figures upon the pillars are taken from the vignettes of the 17th and the 125th chapters of the 'ritual of the dead' the egyptian 'per-m-hru. this celebrated and most ancient work is a collection of mystical hymns and addresses in the form of a species of ceremonia

of the ecliptic. these were named: caput draconis head of the dragon p cauda draconis tail of the dragon q since the discovery of two more distant planets, neptune and uranus, these two terms have been partially replaced by them. the effect of caput draconis is like neptune: n the effect of cauda draconis is like uranus: the names of the old planets are: sol a saturn l mars f venus c jupiter k mercury b moon 5 the hebrew alphabet the hebrew alphabet is given on the following page. each letter of this alphabet represents a number and has an additional meaning. five letters have a different shape when written at the end of a word, and also a different numerical value. of the finals, mem is distinguished by being the only oblong letter. the other four, kaph nun peh and tzaddi have tai

s the sphere of creativity, subjectivity, and emotions, a very clear contrast to the sphere of hod, which represents intellect and rational thought. netzach is the sphere of love and spiritual passion and is therefore associated with such deities as aphrodite, venus, hathor, and others that personify these qualities. hod: the eighth emanation on the tree of life. hod is associated with the planet mercury and represents intellect and rational thought. it also represents the structuring and measuring capacities of the mind as opposed to the emotional and intuitional aspects of netzach. hod has no exact parallel in the tarot, but is closely linked to the card judgement, ascribed to the path between hod and malkuth. yesod: the ninth emanation on the tree of life. yesod is associated with the m

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this jupiter on fire, from whom the people apostatized, may very well be donar (thunar, thor, but his statue is not alluded to. according to arx (on pertz 2, 61, eckehardus iv. quotes' jovis et neptuni idola' but i cannot find the passage; conf. p. 122 ermoldus nigellus on neptune. it is plain that the three statues have to do with the idolatry on l. constance, not with that on l. zurich; and if mercury, jupiter and neptune stood there together, the first two at all events may be easily applied to german deities. in ch. vii, i will impart my conjecture about neptune. but i think we may conclude from all this, that our tres imagines have a better claim to a german origin, than those imagines lapideae of the luxovian forest, cited on p. 83^ 1 two narratives by gregory of tours on statues of

ere together, the first two at all events may be easily applied to german deities. in ch. vii, i will impart my conjecture about neptune. but i think we may conclude from all this, that our tres imagines have a better claim to a german origin, than those imagines lapideae of the luxovian forest, cited on p. 83^ 1 two narratives by gregory of tours on statues of diana in the treves country, and of mercury and mars in the soiith of gaul, though they exchide all thought of german deities, yet offer striking comparisons. hist. 8, 15: deinde territorium trevericae urbis expetii, et in quo nunc estis monte habitaculum, quod cernitis, proprio labore construxi; reperi tamen hie dianae simulacrum, quod populus hie incredulus quasi deum adorahat. columnam, etiam statui, in qua cum grandi cruciatu si

osition of the arms in images of gods was held to be. that the gods themselves x^'p" vneptxovcnv over those whom they wish to protect, occurs as early us in homer. 1 finn maynusen ibid. 132-7. 116 gods. statua and imago. it was not yet extinct in the 12th century, as appears from two places in the kaiserchronik, near the beginning of the poem, and very likely there are more of them; it is said of mercury (massmann 129: uf einir ynnensule upon an yrmensul stuont ein abgot ungehiure, stood an idol huge, den hiezen sie ir koufman. him tliey called their merchant. again of julius csesar (massm. 624: eomere in ungetruweliche eomans him untruly slew, sluon-en. on an yrm. they buried him. uf einir yrmensul sie in begruoben. and of simon magus 24 (massm. 4432: lif eine yrmensul er steic. on an yrm

icus (airmanareiks, on. lormunrekr) shows; and beyond a doubt the hcvmunduri are properly ermunduri (gramm. 2, 175, the h being often prefixed to all such forms. now whatever may be the probable meaning of the word irman, iormun, eormen, to which i shall return in due time, one thing is evident, that the irman-piuar had some connexion, which continued to be felt down to a late period (p.ll6),with mercury or hermes, to whom greek antiquity raised similar posts and pillars, which were themselves called hermae, a name which suggests our teutonic one. the saxons may have known more about this; the eranks, in upper germany, from the 8th to the 13th century, connected with irmansul, irminsul the general notion of a heathen image set up on a pillar. probably euodolf associated with his truncus li

make themselves partially understood by a free translation, than, by preserving barbarous vocables, to do a service to posterity. at the same time they did not go arbitrarily to work, but evidently with care. caesar's sol, luna and vulcan are perhaps what satisfies us least; but tacitus seems never to use the names of roman deities, except advisedly and with reflection. of the gods, he names only mercury and mars (germ. 9. ann. 13, 57. hist. 4, 64; of deified heroes, hercules, castor and pollux (germ. 9, 43; of goddesses, 120 gods. isis (germ. 9, the terra mater by her german name (germ. 40, and the mater deum (germ. 45. incompatible deities, such as apollo or bacchus, are never compared. what strikes us most, is the absence of jupiter, and the distinction given to mercury, who was but a d

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that none below the grade of practicus is present. hiereus: fraters and sorors give the sign of practicus (done) hiereus (saluting) very honoured hierophant all present have attained the grade. hiero: honoured hegemon, to what particular element is this grade attributed? heg: to the element of water. hiero: honoured hiereus, to what planet does this grade especially refer? hiereus: to the planet mercury. hiero: honoured hegemon, what paths are attached to this grade? heg: the 31st and 30th paths of shin and resh. hiero: honoured hiereus to what does the 31st path refer? hiereus: to the reflection of the sphere of fire. hiero: honoured hegemon, to what does the 30th path allude? heg: to the reflection of the sphere of the sun. hiero: gives one knock. all rise and face east. hiero (knocks)

13 cubes 19th key of the tarot (sun) required materials for the temple: banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: resh astrological symbols of planets diagram of tarot cards to hebrew letters enochian water tablet 3 red lamps censer 4 chairs table of geomantic figures and ruling intelligences telesmatic symbols to each geomantic figure kamea of saturn, jupiter, mars, sun, venus, mercury and moon part ii path 30 advancement hiero: honoured hegemon, you have my command to present the theoricus with the necessary admission badge and to admit him (her. heg: rises, goes to door, opens it, presents theoricus with the greek cross of the 13 squares and admits him. heg: behold he hath placed his tabernacle in the sun. heg: leads theoricus to north east and places him before and fa

cent and the cross, either singly or in combination. the circle denotes the sun and gold, the crescent the moon and silver, respectively, analogous to the red and the white alchemical natures. the cross is the symbol of corrosion and the corrosion of metals is usually of the complementary color to that which they naturally approximate. thus, copper which is reddish becomes green in verdigris etc. mercury is the only one which unites these primary forms in one symbol. saturn is composed of the cross and the crescent, showing that lead is corrosive externally and lunar internally. jupiter is the reverse, mars is solar internally while venus is the opposite, for copper is externally of the nature of gold, but internally corrosive. wherefore, also the name of the sphere of venus nogah, denotes

d from the outer world. as a mss. lecture on this subject is circulated among the members of the grade of practicus, i shall not further enter into its explanation. heg: leads theoricus to tablet in the south. heg: before you is the tablet of the olympic or aerial planetary spirits with their seals, arathror of saturn, bethor of jupiter, phalegh of mars, och of the sun, hagith of venus, ophiel of mercury and phul of the moon. heg: leads theoricus to tablet in the north. heg: this shows you the geomantic figures with their ruling intelligences, and genii; also the talismanic symbols allotted to each geomantic figure. these are derived from them by drawing lines to the points composing them, so as to form mathematical figures therefrom. a mss. lecture on geomancy is circulated among the memb

ollar, red shoes, lamen, scepter. candidate: black robe, red shoes, sash. required materials for the altar: red cross and white triangle 3 red lamps at corners of triangle cup of water 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

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side is darkness and eleven circles, symbolizing the qlippoth. hiero: heg: pract: move to the tablet in the east. heg: this represents the alchemical symbol of sulphur on the tree of life. it does not touch the 4 lower sephiroth. the cross terminates in tiphareth, whereby as it were the supernal triangle is to be grasped, and tiphareth is the purified man. the meaning of the alchemical symbol of mercury was explained to you in the previous grade. the symbol of salt embraces all the sephiroth but malkuth, and is as it were, the reconciler between the sulphur and the mercury. the horizontal dividing line implies the precept of hermes as above, so below. hiero: resumes his place. hiereus: heg: pract: move to the tablets in the west. hiereus: this tablet represents the trinity operating throu

intelligence of venus; that answering to 175 is qedemei the spirit of venus and lastly that answering to 1252 is beni seraphim the name of the intelligence of venus. on this tablet is shown the meaning of the symbol of venus on the tree of life. it embraces all the sephiroth, and is therefore the fitting symbol of the isis of nature. hence also its circle is always represented larger than that of mercury. hiero: resumes his seat. heg: leads practicus to hiereus. heg: hiereus: pract: move to west. hiereus: on this tablet (indicating it) are shown the paths when arranged with daath added to the sephirotic tree. it differs from the other and more usual attributions. furthermore it is not so correct, as daath is not properly speaking, a sephira. on this tablet (indicating it) is shown the arra

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ver. freyja freyja is the viking goddess of love and sexuality and can be invoked for rituals to increase confidence in inner beauty and worth, for the increase of passion and for fertility in every aspect. a witch goddess, she is potent for all magick, especially astral projection and crystal and gem magick. venus venus, the goddess of love, is the roman form of aphrodite and by her liaison with mercury gave birth to cupid. although she had many lovers, she was the goddess of chastity in women and is a joybringer, and so represents not only sexual pleasure, but also innocent love and especially love in the springtime. her planetary associations mean she is the focus in all kinds of love rituals. as the evening star, venus takes on a warrior aspect and so can be invoked in fighting for one

eternal life. after death, a person's heart was weighed on the scales of justice against the feather from her headdress to see if it was free from sin. she can be invoked for all rituals of justice, uncovering secrets, truth and trustworthiness. hermes hermes is the greek messenger god who travelled between dimensions. he is associated with the wise ancient egyptian god thoth and the later roman mercury. he is credited with great knowledge, healing powers and medical knowledge. the double entwined snake of hermes' and mercury's caduceus, or wand, which is often a living growing staff, is a symbol both of healing and of powerful communication. the snake forms two circles, the interlinked cycles of good and evil, life and death, light and darkness. the wings on the caduceus are for wisdom

april to 21 may. colour: pink. a fixed earth sign, for rituals concerning all kinds of material matters and security, also for patience and caution if the way ahead seems hazardous. ruled by venus. gemini, the heavenly twins: 22 may to 21 june. colour: yellow or pale grey. a mutable air sign, for spells concerning communication, learning, choices, adaptability and short-distance travel. ruled by mercury. cancer, the crab: 22 june to 22 july. colour: silver. a cardinal water sign, for spells concerning the home and family, especially for protection and for gentle love and friendship. ruled by the moon. leo, the lion: 23 july to 23 august. colour: gold. a fixed fire sign, for rituals for courage and leadership, sensual pleasures and love affairs. ruled by the sun. virgo, the maiden: 24 augu

d by the moon. leo, the lion: 23 july to 23 august. colour: gold. a fixed fire sign, for rituals for courage and leadership, sensual pleasures and love affairs. ruled by the sun. virgo, the maiden: 24 august to 22 september. colour: green or pale blue. a mutable earth sign, for spells to increase efficiency, for bringing order to a chaotic situation, for self-improvement and for healing. ruled by mercury. libra, the scales: 23 september to 23 october. colour: blue or violet. a cardinal air sign for rituals concerning justice and the law, for balancing options and priorities relationships, harmony and reconciliation. ruled by venus. scorpio, the scorpion: 24 october to 22 november. colour: burgundy or red. a fixed water sign, for increasing second sight, for passion and sex, secrets, inheri

dence and asserting your identity if it is under threat or being eroded by the demands or unfair criticism of others. orange also relates to careers involving people and the arts. above all, orange is the colour of joy and also the successful integration of all aspects of the personality into a harmonious whole. orange candles are best used on a sunday. yellow yellow is the colour associated with mercury, the winged messenger of the roman gods. through his skill and dexterity, he came to rule over commerce and medicine and also became patron of tricksters and thieves. yellow candles therefore encourage clear communication and activity of all kinds, improving memory, concentration and learning, and are good for overcoming mental stagnation and blocks in ideas or assimilation of facts. use t

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ll you, and i repeat absolutely, that this is in no way true; that they produce thus a change of the time and of the air, i in part concede; but do me the grace to tell me how ye do divide the planetary hours. i know that ye begin the first hour of the day with the planet which itself giveth the name unto the day, as sunday is ascribed to the sun, monday to the moon, tuesday to mars, wednesday to mercury, thursday to jupiter, friday to venus, and saturday to saturn; then ye divide the length of the day into twelve equal portions which ye call hours, and to each hour ye assign its planet; and ye do the same thing with the night, according to whether the days be long or short. thus do the hours become long or short. as for example, suppose that on a sunday the sun riseth at 7 o'clock and set

o the hours become long or short. as for example, suppose that on a sunday the sun riseth at 7 o'clock and setteth at 5 o'clock in the evening, its course will be ten hours, the which ye divide up into twelve equal parts, so that each hour is of fifty minutes length. i say, therefore, that the first planetary hour is of the sun, and is fifty minutes long; that the second is of venus; the third of mercury; and so on of the others; at last the eighth hour returneth unto the sun; the ninth unto venus; the tenth unto mercury; and so the day finisheth. then cometh the night, which is longer, that is to say, fourteen hours, and each planetary hour of this night will be seventy minutes, and in order to continue the regular succession as we have begun, the first hour of the night will be of jupite

chaldean oracles of zoroaster say" he made them six, and for the seventh, he cast into the midst thereof the fire of the sun. 2 operates in the stars and planets as representing their good or evil influence in the heavens, in other words their dual nature. 3 consists in the metals because, the ancient alchemists considered their bases to be found in the three principles which they called sulphur, mercury, and salt; but by which they did not mean the substance which we know under these names. 4 ie, probable as opposed to certain. 5 ie, professing magicians. 6 in the original ms "nous avons deja dit quelle est la science que je dois vous enseigner cest adire quelle nest point humaine" etc. 7 ibid. 8 in the original" comme je suis apresent vous devez donc penser avant que d entrer dans ce bal

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there cometh hurt' venus represents the ecstatic acceptance of all possible experience, and the transcendental assumption of all particular experience into the one 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 th

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 in the technique of yoga he represents the fineness of the method which is infinitely adaptable to all problems, and only so because he is supremely indifferent. he is the adroitness and ingenuity which helps us in our difficulties; he is the mechanical system, the symbolism which helps the human mind of the yog

ies; he is the mechanical system, the symbolism which helps the human mind of the yogi to take cognisance of what is coming. it must here be remarked that because of his complete indifference to anything whatever (and that thought is- when you get far enough- only a primary point of wisdom) he is entirely unreliable. one of the most unfathomably dreadful dangers of the path is that you must trust mercury, and yet that if you trust him you are certain to be deceived. i can only explain this, if at all, by pointing out that, since all truth is relative, all truth is falsehood. in one sense mercury is the great enemy; mercury is mind, and it is the mind that we have set out to conquer. 14. the last of the seven sacred planets is the moon. the moon represents the totality of the female part of

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acles. the 'spirits' or bodies that exist beyond the zonei are called the azonei, meaning "un-zoned. whether this refers to the so-called "fixed" stars (having no sphere ascertainable to the early astronomers) or the comets, is unknown to the editor. whatever the case may be, the zonei seem to include the seven philosophical planets, i.e, including the sun and moon as planetary bodies, along with mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. each has their own seal and their own number. kenneth grant, author of aleister crowley and the hidden god, may be interested to know (or may already know) that the number of the sumerian goddess of venus, hence of love and war, is fifteen. in many of the ancient tablets of that period, she is actually referred to as "the fifteen, as a shortcut to spelling

smos before the fall of marduk from heaven (names of zodiacal constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2. sphere of the zodiac or fixed stars enki; lumashi (igigi) 3. sphere of saturn adar 4. sphere of jupiter marduk 5. sphere of mars nergal 6. sphere of the sun utu 7. sphere of venus inanna 8. sphere of mercury nebo 9. sphere of the moon nanna 10. sphere of the elements kia 11. air anna 12. mercury gudud 13. moon sin 14. venus dlibat 15. aries agru (xubur) 16. taurus kakkab u alap shame (kingu) 17. gemini re'u kinu shame u tu'ame rabuti (viper) 18. cancer shittu (snake) 19. leo kalbu rabu (lakhamu) 20. virgo shiru (whirlwind) 21. jupiter umunpaddu 22. libra zibanitum (ravening dog) 23. water badu

may watch you in its manufacture. being finished, it should be wrapped in a square of the finest silk and lain aside until such time as you desire its use, and then, it should be removed only after the sun has gone to its rest. no ray of sunlight should strike the seal, lest its power be rendered nil and a new seal must needs be cast. the number of nanna is thirty and this is his seal: the god of mercury is nebo. he is a very old spirit, having a long beard, and is the guardian of the gods, as well as the keeper of the knowledge of science. he wears a crown of one hundred horns, and the long robe of the priest. his colour is blue. his essence is in that metal known as quicksilver, and is sometimes also found in sand, and in those things bearing the sign of mercury. his gate is the second y

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

s 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. quid voles illud fac. q.v.i.f. 196=14^2 [15] 3 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-la

s 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( xi-delta) 64 is the number of mercury, and of the intelligence of that planet, din and doni. th moral of the chapter is that one wants liberty, although one may not wish to exercise it: the author would readily die in defence of the right of englishmen to play football, or of his own right not to play it (as a great poet has expressed it "we don't want to fight, but, by jingo, if we do) this is his meaning towards his attitude

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

riel 13= 9 (3321 \yqhc hwrb duw \ycycrtb aklm malkah be tarshishim va a ad be ruah shehaqim. 14$ 7 (49) laygh hagiel 21& 4 (136) lypwy yophiel 27% 5 (325) layparg graphiel 30! 6 (111) laykn nakhiel 32' 3 (45) layga agiel lxxix. spirits of the planets* cxciii (transliteration) lxxx. olympic planetary spirits. lxxxi. metals. lxxxii. the noble eightfold path. 12 (2080) trtrtpt taphthartharath ophiel mercury samma vaca 13 (369) yadwmcj chasmodai phul silver samma sankappo 14 (175) lamdq qedemel hagith copper samma kammanto 21 (136) lamsh hismael bethor tin samma ajivo 27 (325) labxrb bartzabel phaleg iron samma vayamo 30 (666) trws sorath och gold samma samadhi 32 (45) lazz zazel arathron lead samma sati and samaditthi cxcii. english of col. lxxxii lxxxiii. the attribution of the hexagram. 12

ear and nostril. line 15. budge has hands. line 32 bis. the hebrew is alim chayyim, the living gods. col. xxiii. nothing and neither p nor p) and beaten and scattered corpse each denote two different meditations. col. xxxv. agrippa (de occ. phil. tom ii cap xiv) in his orphic scale of the number twelve refers the twelve principle gods of rome to the zodiac: a pallas (minerva) b venus c phoebus d mercury e jupiter f ceres g vulcan h mars i diana j vesta k juno l neptune. crowley included most of these, omitting only jupiter and phoebus. col. xxxvi. the evangelists follow their traditional attribution to the kerubim. godwin gives the apostles thus (he does not state his source: a matthias b thaddeus c simon d john e peter f andew g bartholemew h phillip i james son of zebedee j thomas k mat

l to those in agrippa. cols. clv clxvi. i have added transliterations of the names of the spirits and numbers according to the order in which they appear in the goetia. planetary symbols indicate the rank of the spirit and the material from which its seal is to be made (some spirits have two ranks, thus: rank planet metal prince jupiter tin earl mars iron king sol gold duke venus copper president mercury mercury (hmm) marquis luna silver note that in rendering the names of the demons into hebrew, some suffixes like ion, ius, etc. have been dropped. an alternative set of attributions and hebrew spellings can be found in the sword and the serpent by denning and phillips, and godwin s cabalistic encyclopedia. notes 56 cols. clxvii clxxi. a completely different set of names for the dekans and

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angels are able to pronounce 2 8 1 these names are seen written without the heptagram within the heptagon. by reading these obliquely are obtained names of angels called (1) fili bonitatis or filiol lucis. e me ese iana akele azdobn stimcul (2) fili lucis. i ih ilr dmal heeoa beigia stimcul [these are given attributions to the metals of the planets in this order: sol, luna, venus, jupiter, mars, mercury, saturn] the symbolic representation of the universe 4 sigillvm dei meth plate ii liber lxxxiv 5 (3) fili filiarum lucis. s ab ath ized ekiei madimi esemeli (4) filii filiorum lucis. l (el) aw ave liba rocle hagone(l) ilemese see all these names in the heptagram of the great seal. so also there are seven great angels formed thus: take the corner letter s, then the diagonal next to it ab, t

: llewellyn( second edition 1994. finally i will warn the reader that schueler& schueler s enochian books for llewellyn should not be regarded as a reliable source of information on either dee purist or golden dawn enochian magick, or anything else for that matter. endnotes part i 1: these talismans, the ensigns of creation, are referred to the seven planets (clockwise from top) venus, sol, mars, mercury, jupiter, saturn, luna. the details of the ensigns are not visible on the graphic of the holy table (plate i. the seven ensigns and an account of their reception can be found in mysteriorum liber tertius. 2: the letters on the holy table itself are derived from the names of the heptarchic kings and princes. the method is described in dee s libri mysteriorum quinti appendix and in various s

t of these names consist of a transliteration of the hebrew for the sphere of the planet with -el stuck on the end. see agrippa de occulta philosophia tom. iii cap. xxviii, where most of these names appear, the spirit of saturn is called sabathiel; the spirit of jupiter zedekiel; the spirit of mars, madimiel; the spirit of the sun semeliel, or semeschia; the spirit of venus nogahel; the spirit of mercury cochabiah, or cochabiel; the spirit of the moon, jareahel, or levanael. a corabiel is cited as one of the angels of the first heaven ruling monday in the heptameron of pseudo-abano, but there has no particular connection to mercury. crowley omits to mention the names formed from the letters written along the outer heptagon; the seven angels which stand in the presence of god mentioned by a

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hird portion" of the invocation the magician asserts the identity of himself with the god. in the "fourth portion" the god is again invoked, but as if by himself, as if it were the utterance of the will of the god that he should manifest in the magician. at the conclusion of this, the original object of the invocation is stated. thus, in the invocation of thoth which is to be found in the rite of mercury (equinox i, vi) and in liber lxiv, the first part begins with the words "majesty of godhead, wisdom-crowned tahuti, thee, thee i invoke. oh thou of the ibis head, thee, thee i invoke; and so on. at the conclusion of this a mental image of the god, infinitely vast and infinitely splendid, should be perceived, in just the same sense as a man might see the sun. the second part begins with the

e magician. if this invocation has been correctly performed, the words of the fourth part will sound distant and strange. it is surprising that a dummy (so the magus now appears to himself) should be able to speak! the egyptian gods are so complete in their nature, so perfectly spiritual and yet so perfectly material, that this one invocation is sufficient. the god bethinks him that the spirit of mercury should now appear to the magician; and it is so. this egyptian formula is therefore to be preferred to the hierarchical formula of the hebrews with its tedious prayers, conjurations, and curses. it will be noted, however, that in this invocation of thoth which we have summarized, there is another formula contained, the reverberating or reciprocating formula, which may be called the formula

and the slain: osiris :parzival as king: priest in montsalvat: performing the mir: acle of redemption: horus crowned and: conquering, taking the: place of his father :christ-bacchus in hea: ven-olympus saving the: world: the hermit :ix :yod (a hand: 10:virgo (an :the root of the alphabet (hermes: english i: earthy sign: the spermatozoon. the with lamp: or y: ruled by: youth setting out on wings: mercury: his adventures after wand: exalted: receiving the wand. cloak, and: therein: parzival in the desert serpent: sexually: christ taking refuge: ambivalent: in egypt, and on: light, i.e: the mount tempted by: of wisdom: the devil. the uncon: the inmost: scious will, or word. 32: atu :no: hebrew :no.:correspondence: other :of: of (tarot trump :atu: letters :let: in nature: correspondences :ter

t the pen; the cup, the inkpot; the dagger, the knife for sharpening the pen; and the disk (pantacle) is either the papyrus roll itself; or the weight which kept it in position, or the sandbox for soaking up the ink. and, of course, the papyrus of ani is only the latin for toiletpaper> to take an entirely different case, that of the circle; the magician will synthesize the vermilion required from mercury an sulphur which he has himself sublimated. this pure 66 vermilion he will himself mix with the consecrated oil, and as he uses this paint he will think intently and with devotion of the symbols which he draws. this circle may then be initiated by a circumambulation, during which the magician invokes the names of god that are on it. any person without sufficient ingenuity to devise proper

see landscapes or beings of the astral plane. such have a quality all their own. they are not like material things- they are not like mental pictures- they seem to lie between the two. after some practice has made you adept, so that in the course 146 of any hour's journey you can reckon on having a fairly eventful time, turn your attention to reaching a definite place on the astral plane; invoke mercury, for example, and examine carefully your record of the resulting vision- discover whether the symbols which you have seen correspond with the conventional symbols of mercury. this testing of the spirits is the most important branch of the whole tree of magick. without it, one is lost in the jungle of delusion. every spirit, up to god himself, is ready to deceive you if possible, to make hi

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lorine, sodium and oxygen, and so on. any reaction whatever, any phenomenon, is a phenomenon of "love, as you will understand when i come to explain to you the meaning of the word "point-event. but love has to be "under will" if it is to be properly directed. you must find your true will, and make all your actions subservient to the one great purpose. rahoor is the sun god; tahuti is the egyptian mercury; kephra is the sun at midnight. about your problems; what i have to do is to try to teach you to think clearly. you will be immensely stimulated by having all the useless trimmings stripped from your thinking apparatus. for instance, i don't think you know the first principles of logic. you apparently take up a more or less christian attitude, but at the same time you like very much the id

rds have the same numerical value, 831. these two words can therefore serve you as the secret object of your work. how than can you construct the number 831? the letter kaph3, jupiter (jehovah, the wheel of fortune in the tarot- magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 19 the atu x is a picture of the universe built up and revolving by virtue of those three principles: sulphur, mercury, salt; or gunas: sattvas, rajas, tamas- has the value 20. so also has the letter yod4 spelt in full. one gnostic secret way of spelling and pronouncing jehovah is iao5 and this has the value 811. so has "let there be" fiat, transliterating into greek. resuming all these ideas, it seems that you can express your aspiration very neatly, very fully, by choosing for your motto the words fiat y

ake an actual discovery which throws light on magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 22 some problem which has been troubling you. a quarter of a century ago i was in new orleans, and was very puzzled about my immediate course of action; in fact i may say i was very much distressed. there seemed literally nothing that i could do, so i bethought myself that i had better invoke mercury. as soon as i got into the appropriate frame of mind, it naturally occurred to me, with a sort of joy "but i am mercury" i put it into latin- mercurius sum, and suddenly something struck me, a sort of nameless reaction which said "that's not quite right" like a flash it came to me to put 14 it into greek, which gave me "hermes eimi, keynote: may wish to convert to true greek and adding tha

h its graeco-phoenician child) for all work of supreme import. why stamp my vitals, madam! the abramelin operation itself turned into this form before i could so much as set to work on it! like the duchess' baby (excuse this enthusiasm; but you have aroused the british lion-serpent) note, please, that the equivalents given in 777 are not always exact. tahuti is not quite thoth, still less hermes; mercury is a very much more comprehensive idea, but not nearly so exalted: hanuman hardly at all. nor is tetragrammaton iao, though even etymology asserts the identity. in these matters you must be catholic, eclectic, even syncretic. and you must consider the nature of your work. if i wanted to evoke taphthartharath, there would be little help indeed from any but the qabalistic system; for that sp

are arranged in a geometrical design composed of ten "sephiroth (numbers) and twenty-two "paths" joining them; this is called the tree of life. every idea soever can be, and should be, attributed to one or more of these primary symbols; thus green, in different shades, is a quality or function of venus, the earth, the sea, libra, and others. so also abstract ideas; dishonesty means "an afflicted mercury" generosity a good, though not always strong, jupiter; and so on. the tree of life has got to be learnt by heart; you must know it backwards, forwards, sideways, and upside down; it must become the automatic background of all your thinking. you must keep on hanging everything that comes your way upon its proper bough. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 61 at first

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ral triangle are a scourge, chain, dagger and a wide, low perfume bottle shaped like a woman's breast with nipple, below this is a scale in inches and below that the caption "the scourge, the dagger, and the chain; enclosing the phial for the holy oil" 64 chapter iv the scourge, the dagger, and the chain the scourge, the dagger, and the chain, represent the three alchemical principles of sulphur, mercury, and salt. these are not the substances which we now call by these names; they represent "principles" whose operations chemists have found it more convenient to explain in other ways. but sulphur represents the energy of things, mercury their fluidity, salt their fixity. they are analogous to fire, air and water; but they mean rather more, for they represent something deeper and subtler, a

ists have found it more convenient to explain in other ways. but sulphur represents the energy of things, mercury their fluidity, salt their fixity. they are analogous to fire, air and water; but they mean rather more, for they represent something deeper and subtler, and yet more truly active. an almost exact analogy is given by the three gunas of the hindus; sattvas, rajas, and tamas. sattvas is mercury, equable, calm, clear; rajas is sulphur, active, excitable, even fierce; tamas is salt, thick, sluggish, heavy, dark<three gunas in the bhagavadgita> but hindu philosophy is so occupied with the main idea that only the absolute is worth anything, that it tends to consider these gunas (even sattvas) as evil. this is a correct view, but only fr

we should consider them as parts of a sacrament. this particular aspect of the scourge, the dagger, and the chain, suggests the sacrament of penance. the scourge is sulphur: its application excites our sluggish natures; and it may further be used as an instrument of correction, to castigate rebellious volitions. it is applied to the nephesh, the animal soul, the natural desires. 65 the dagger is mercury: it is used to calm too great heat, by the letting of blood; and it is this weapon which is plunged into the side or heart of the magician to fill the holy cup. those faculties which come between the appetites and the reason are thus dealt with. the chain is salt: it serves to bind the wandering thoughts; and for this reason is placed about the neck of the magician, where daath is situated

n became an arahat he must either take the vows of a bhikkhu that very day, or die, and it is this saying of buddha's that the unknown poet wished to commemorate. taffy was a welshman taffy was a thief; taffy came to my house and stole a leg of beef. i went to taffy's house; taffy was in bed. i took a carving knife, and cut off taffy's head. taffy is merely short for taphthatharath, the spirit of mercury and the god of welshmen or thieves "my house" is of course equivalent to "my magick circle" note that beth, the letter of mercury and "the magus" means "a house" the beef is a symbol of the bull, apis the redeemer. this is therefore that which is written "oh my god, disguise thy glory! come as a thief, and let us steal away the sacraments" in the following verse we find that taffy is "in b

that beth, the letter of mercury and "the magus" means "a house" the beef is a symbol of the bull, apis the redeemer. this is therefore that which is written "oh my god, disguise thy glory! come as a thief, and let us steal away the sacraments" in the following verse we find that taffy is "in bed" owing to the operation of the sacrament. the great task of the alchemist has been accomplished; the mercury is fixed. one can then take the holy dagger, and separate the caput mortuum from the elixir. some alchemists believe that the beef represents that dense physical substance which is imbibed by mercury for his fixation; but here as always we should prefer the more spiritual interpretation. bye, baby bunting! daddy's gone a-hunting. he's gone to get a rabbit-skin to wrap my baby bunting in. t

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he father: divine name attributed to jupiter b) l) to ransom, avenge, pollute l)g to reveal )lg wretched; a pauper ld a common person; uneducated, ignorant +wydh 35 agla, a name of god (notariqon of ateh gibor le-olahm adonai, 858 )lg) boundary, limit lbg he will go khy 36 the mystic number of hod a tent, tabernacle lh) how (la. 1:1, 2:1& 4:1-2) hky) to curse; goddess; a name of god attributed to mercury hl) to remove, cast away )lh confession ywdyw perhaps, possibly; would that; not, no wl to separate, divide ldb 37 god (ch )hl) behold! wl) perished, grew old hlb to grow great ldg standard, banner lgd tenuity, breath, vanity; in vain; abel (i.z.q: gthe supernal breathers h) lbh profession lz yechidah: the soul in kether hdyxy flame bhl to stray, turn aside zl 38 he departed lz) innocent y

. 1:38-39) hm 46 a name of god yhl) a female slave; an ell, cubit hm) tin, the metal of jupiter lydb a dividing, sundering, separation hldbh a ruiner lbwx 47 foolish, silly, stupid lyw) a weeping hyykb cloud; high place; waves; fortress hmb to clutch, hold +lx that it was good bw+ yk aum (cf. 111) mw) 48 the pillar of severity: the paths cheth and mem (cf. 26& 463) m x planet; star: the sphere of mercury bkwk greatness, magnificence, glory: a title of chesed hlwdg a woman; strength; an army lyx to grow warm; heat, fire; black mx jubilee lbwy from that time, of old (see ps. 93:2& prov. 8:22) z)m fat; marrow xm 49 the living god yx l) resembled; meditated; silent hmd drooping, being sick hlwx strength )lyx heat, fury (ch )mx a bringing forth, birth, nativity hdyl a measuring; a measure hdm t

itary) myr+w# 566 a valley; a plain (from gsharon h; see 1091) nwr#y points, pricks, dots twdwqn a secret (spelt in full :d:w:s correcting, configuring, restoring, repairing, reforming, renewing nwqyt 567 first-born (cf. 228) ynw#)r a cup *kws) 568 darkness *ksx 569 fingers tw(bc) 570 a couch, bed #r( ten r( heads ny#yr concussion; earthquake#(r gate, the door: a title of malkuth r# wickedness(#r mercury (the metal) typsk king: a title oftiphareth *klm 571 the mountains of zion nwyc yrrh balance )lqtm angel *k)lm 572 he was touched (i.r.q. 1117) bc(ty active lbqtm the lord thy god [is a consuming fire (deut. 4:24. see 182; deut. 28:58 *kyhl) hwhy 573 the hill of frankincense (ct. 4:6; see 456) hnwblh t(bg 574 chaldee (hath a general meaning of movement. see s.d) nw#xry to extinguish *k(d 5

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c) became((selfconscious and therefore) confused, loyal ministers((archangels. it is hard at first for the student to grasp the disdain of laotze for what we call good qualities. but the need for this 'good' is created by the existence of 'evil, i.e, the restriction of anything from doing its own will without friction. good is then merely a symptom of evil, and so itself a poison. a man who finds mercury and potassium iodide 'good' for him, is a sick man. frictionless nourishment is the order of change, or life) had to appear. 22 chapter xix returning to the purity of the current. 1. if we forgot our statesmanship and our wisdom, it would be an hundred times better for the people. if we forgot our benevolence and our justice, they would become again like sons, folk of good will. if we forg

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began to disintegrate. the magicians then began to seek a means of making this state permanent. but in this they failed* so that knives had always to be replaced twice weekly; but in the course of their failures they discovered the infinitely more valuable eighth and ninth stages of zro. tradition has preserved a hint of their efforts in alchemy with its problems of the fixation of the universal mercury, the secret of perpetual motion, and 'potable gold--the universal medicine. it has been theoretically determined towards the end of the tenth state, that zro should be a solid, but whether this was confirmed is beyond my knowledge. to return to the main magical theory, the quintessence, said they, or universal substance (which some strove to identify with hyle, others with the luminiferous

viously the atla had been carried about as occasion demanded. it was now enshrined with some decency of ceremonial upon a mountain. about three hundred years later we find ourselves face to face with the first great mystery of atlas. this is a translation of the record of that most strange event "now it came to pass that all men turned black and died, and that the living atla abode alone, bearing mercury, whereof the sun knoweth. thus came again the true men of atlas, and their women, bearing gods and goddesses. and the void suffered nothing, and the earth was at peace. now then indeed arose art, and men builded, being blind. and there was light, and some of the light wrought mischief. wherefore the wise men destroyed them with their magic, and there is no record because it is written in t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

hould be obvious. the most ordinary reflection should make it clear that our results depend upon all sorts of condition. if we inquire "what is the length of the thread of quicksilver in a thermometer, we can only reply that it depends on the temperature of the instrument. in fact, we judge temperature by the difference of the coefficients of expansion due to heat of the two substances, glass and mercury. again, the divisions of the scale of the thermometer depend upon the temperature of boiling water, which is not a fixed thing. it depends on the pressure of the earth's atmosphere, which varies (according to time and place) to the extent of over twenty per cent. most people who talk of "scientific accuracy" are quite ignorant of elementary facts of this kind. it will be said, however, tha

ire" is the attribute of ra-hoor-khuit, lord of the aeon; and 5 and 6 are mystically mated to represent the accomplishment of the great work in abrahadabra, the word of the aeon (see, for this word, infra qabalistic appendix. the termination st is the coronal combination xxxi which we shall notice often enough later on. the beast, besides 666 correspondences, is by english sound, the magus (beth, mercury, etc) of this st. s has in the tarot the card numbered xx, which represents the stele of revealing, and is called the judgment; i.e, the ending of an aeon. t has the card numbered xi and is called strength. it is the card of leo and represents babalon and the beast conjoined "their fold; not only a sheepfold, but as if it were written "their embrace. al i,16 "for he is ever a sun, and she

tangles, so that it may truly apprehend the silent self, judge partial pleas and unbalanced opinions, while supporting the concentration of the will by its fortified frontiers, and, with unanimous enthusiasm, acclaiming the lordship of the thought which expresses the act. the will must seal itself upon the substance of the talisman. it must be, in alchemical language, the sulphur which fixes the mercury which determines the nature of the salt. the whole man, from his inmost godhead to the tip of his tiniest eye-lash, must be one engine, cumbered with nothing useless, nothing inharmonious; a thunderbolt from the hand of jove. it must give itself utterly in the one act of love. it must cease to know itself as anything but the will. it must not have the will; it must transform itself complet

d eaten up with blindness" because of it. al ii,15 "for i am perfect, being not; and my number is nine by the fools; but with the just i am eight, and one in eight: which is vital, for i am none indeed. the empress and the king are not of me; for there is a further secret" the old comment 15. i am perfect, being not (31 la or 61 ain. my number is nine, by the fools (ix, the hermit, virgo: yod and mercury. with the just i am eight, viii, justice-libra-maat, lamed and, one in eight, aleph. which is vital, for i am none indeed. la. the empress, daleth iii, the king, he, iv, are not of me, iii plus iv= vii. the new comment see appendix. weh note: not available. al ii,16 "i am the empress& the hierophant. thus eleven, as my bride is eleven" the old comment 16. i am the empress and the hierophan

hristians to the lions! the "babe in the egg" is harpocrates; it is his regular image. i am not very well satisfied with the old comment on this verse. it appears rather as if the amen should be the beginning of a new paragraph altogether. amen is evidently a synthesis of the four elements, and the invisible fifth is spirit. but harpocrates, the babe in the egg, is virgo in the zodiac indeed, but mercury among the planets. mercury has the winged helmet and heels, and the winged staff about which snakes twine, and it is he that goeth. now this letter is beth whose numeration is 2, and aleph-mem-nun is 91, which added to 2 makes 93. amoun is of course jupiter in his highest form. to understand this note fully one must have studied "the paris working; also one must be an initiate of the o.t.o

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ough 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 q.v. in part ii. 39. dja hwhy, jehovah is one. 39= 13 3. this is then the affirmation of the aspiring soul. 40. a dead number of fixed law, 4 10, tetragrammaton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of malkuth. 41 \a, the mother, unfertilised as unenlightened. 42. ama, the

= 20. in general, the tens are solidifications of the ideas of the units which they multiply. thus 50 is death, the force of change in its final and most earthy aspect. samekh is temperance in the tarot: the 6 has little evil possible to it; the worst name one can call 60 is restriction. 61. ya, the negative. yna, the ego. a number rather like 31, q.v. 64. yd and ynd, intelligences (the twins) of mercury. see also 32. 65. ynda. in roman characters lxv= lvx, the redeeming light. see the 5 =6 ritual and konx om pax. note 65= 13 5, the most spiritual form of force, just as 10 5 was its most material form. note sh, keep silence! and lkyh, the palace; as if it were said silence is the house of adonai. 67. hnyb the great mother. note 6+ 7= 13, uniting the ideas of binah and kether. a number of t

the moon; and chokmah is the logos, or male initiator. see liber 418 for more information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of part ii. 78. alzm, the influence from kether. the number of the cards of the tarot, and of the 13 paths of the beard of macroprosopus.43 also sawya, the messenger.44 see part ii. 80. the number of p, the lightning-struck tower of the tarot. 8= intellect, mercury; its most material form is ruin, as intellect in the end is divided against itself. 81. a mystic number of the moon. 84. a number chiefly important in buddhism. 84= 7 12. 85. hp, the letter p. 85= 5 17: even the highest unity, if it move or energise, means war. 86 \yhla. see a note on genesis, equinox, no. ii. 90. number of tzaddi, a fishhook= tanha, the clinging of man to life (9, the tra

in which each file, rank, and diagonal add to the same number, e.g. saturn is 8 1 6, 3 5 7, 4 9 2, each square being filled in with the numbers from 1 upwared. the last of the magic numbers is the sum of the whole of the figures in the square, e.g. saturn 45.57 the complete list is thus: saturn 3, 9, 15, 45. jupiter 4, 16, 34, 136. mars 5, 25, 65, 325. sol 6, 36, 111, 666. venus 7, 49, 175, 1225. mercury 8, 64, 260, 2080. luna 9, 81, 369, 3321. generally speaking, the first number gives a divine name, the second an archangelic or angelic name, the third a name pertaining to the formative world, the fourth a name of a spirit or blind force. for example, mercury has za and dd (love) for 8, yd and ynd for 64, layrif for 260, and trtrtpt for 2080. but in the earlier numbers this is not so well

741. ctma, the four letters of the elements. ma, counting the as 700, the supreme name of the concealed one. the dogma is that the highest is but the four elements; that there is nothing beyond these, beyond tetragrammaton. this dogma is most admirably portrayed by lord dunsanay in a tale called the wanderings of shaun. 58 777. vide supra. 800. tcq, the rainbow. the promise of redemption (8) 8 as mercury, intellect, the ruach, microprosopus, the redeeming son in its most material form. 811. iaw (greek numeration. 888. jesus (greek numeration. 913. tycarb, the beginning. see a note on genesis. this list* will enable the student to follow through most of the arguments of the dogmatic qabalah. it is useful for him to go through the arguments b which one can prove that any given number is the

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were in vain. so jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whole force went out in a mighty current of hate towards his former friend. 1 allan macgragor bennett (whose motto in the hermetic order of the golden dawn, was iehi aour, i.e. let there be light, now ananda metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscribed. 2 taphtatharath [more usually taphthartharath t.s, the spirit of mercury. now hate hath power, though not the power of love. so it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the trance mara1 appeared to him. never before had his spells availed to call so fearful a potency from the abyss of matter. son cried the accurs d one, seven days of hate unmarred by passion milder, seven days without one thought of pity, these avail to call me forth. sla

aleph, 1. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 115 hammer of thor. arcanum. griphus i. griphus ii. griphus iii. griphus iv. griphus v. griphus vi. griphus vii. the serpent should be his at last. none for the fool, they laughed back nay, even his maiden queen. for she would not any should know thereof. yet all were right, both he and they. but truth ran quickly about; for that was the house of truth; and mercury stood far from the sun. yet the suggler was ever in the sign of sorrow, and the fig tree was not far. so went our father to the fool s paradise of air. but it is not lawful that i should write to you, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written. for alway doth this arcanum differ from itself on this wise, that the not and the amen,1

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anding. hb:heh hb:nun hb:yod hb:bet 3 10 s. of jupiter hb:qof hb:dalet hb:tzaddi mercy. hb:dalet hb:samekh hb:chet 4 15 s. of mars hb:mem-final hb:yod hb:dalet hb:aleph hb:mem strength. hb:heh hb:resh hb:vau hb:bet hb:gemel 5 21 s. of sol hb:shin hb:mem hb:shin beauty. hb:taw hb:resh hb:aleph hb:peh hb:taw 6 28 s. of venus hb:heh hb:gemel hb:vau hb:nun victory. hb:chet hb:tzaddi hb:nun 7 36 s. of mercury hb:bet hb:koph hb:vau hb:koph splendour. hb:dalet hb:vau hb:heh 8 45 s. of luna hb:heh hb:nun hb:bet hb:lamed foundation. hb:dalet hb:vau hb:samekh hb:yod 9 55 s. of the elements hb:taw hb:vau hb:dalet hb:vau hb:samekh hb:yod hb:mem-final hb:lamed hb:chet kingdom. hb:taw hb:vau hb:koph hb:lamed hb:mem 10 66 air hb:chet hb:vau hb:resh ox. hb:peh-final hb:lamed hb:aleph 11 78 mercury (planet

:ayin atziluth, archetypal hb:heh hb:yod hb:chet 72 dee fire, sight hb:yod 31 hb:nun-final hb:bet assiah, material hb:shin hb:peh hb:nun 52 spirit earth, touch h 32bis hb:heh hb:dalet hb:yod hb:chet hb:yod< spirit, hearing hb:shin 31bis_ xvi. ix. viii. vii. the planets and their numbers printed value of hebrew letters& numbers. on tarot trumps col.vii. english equiv. symbols used in this article_ mercury 8 12 0 1 a hb:aleph 11 moon 9 13 i 2 b hb:bet 12 venus 7 14 ii 3 g hb:gemel 13 jupiter 4 21 iii 4 d hb:dalet 14 mars 5 27 iv 5 h hb:heh 15 sun 6 30 v 6 v hb:vau 16 saturn 3 32 vi 7 z hb:zain 17_ vii 8 ch hb:chet 18 xviii. xvii. xi 9 t hb:tet 19 english of col. parts of ix 10 i hb:yod 20 xvii. the soul x 20, 500 k hb:koph, hb:koph-final 21_ viii 30 l hb:lamed 22 the self hb:heh hb:dalet hb:

rough 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= 418 q.v. in part ii. 39. ihvh achd, jehovah is one. 39= 13 x 3. this is then the affirmation of the aspiring soul. 40. a "dead" number of fixed law, 4 x 10, tetragrammaton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of malkuth. 41. am, the mother, unfertilised and unenlightened. 4

0. in general, the tens are "solidifications" of the ideas of the units which they multiply. thus 50 is death, the force of change in its final and most earthy aspect. samekh is "temperance" in the tarot: the 6 has little evil possible to it; the worst name one can call 60 is "restriction" 61. ain, the negative. ani, ego. a number rather like 31, q.v. 64. din and dni, intelligences (the twins) of mercury. see also 32. 65. adni. in roman characters lxv= lvx, the redeeming light. see the 5= 6 ritual and "konx om pax" note 65= 13 x 5, the most spiritual form of force, just as 10 x 5 was its most material form. note hs "keep silence" and hikl, the palace; as if it were said "silence is the house of adonai" 67. binh the great mother. note 6+ 7= 13, uniting the ideas of binah and kether. a numbe

ah is the logos, or male initiator. see liber 418 for much information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of part ii. 78. mzla, the influence from kether. the number of the cards of the tarot, and of the 13 paths of the beard of macroprosopus. note 78= 13 x 6. also aivas, the messenger. see part ii. 80. the number of hb:peh, the "lightning-struck tower" of the tarot. 8= intellect, mercury; its most material form is ruin, as intellect in the end is divided against itself. 81. a mystic number of the moon. 84. a number chiefly important in buddhism. 84= 7 x 12. 85. ph, the letter p. 85= 5 x 17: even the highest unity, if it move or energise, means war. 86. alhim. see "a note on genesis" equinox, no. ii. 90. number of tzaddi, a fishhook= tanha, the clinging of man to life (9, t

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hing upon the earth alive. i have feasted myself on the blood of the saints, but i am not suspected of men to be their enemy, for my fleece is white and warm, and my teeth are not the teeth of one that teareth flesh; and mine eyes are mild, and they know me not the chief of the lying spirits that the father of all sent forth from before his face in the beginning (his attribution is salt; the wolf mercury, and the raven sulphur) now the lamb grows small again, there is again nothing but the wheel, and the hand that whirleth it. and i said "by the word of power, double in the voice of the master; by the word that is seven, and one in seven; and by the great and terrible word 210, i beseech thee, o my lord, to grant me the vision of thy glory" and all the rays of the wheel stream out at me, a

ess. but a voice comes now: must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? accordingly, i wait in a certain magical posture which it is not fitting to disclose, and above me appears the starry heaven of night, and one star greater than all the other stars. it is a star of eight rays. i recognize it as the star in the seventeenth key of the tarot, as the star of mercury. and the light of it cometh from the path of aleph. and the letter cheth is also involved in the interpretation of this star, and the paths of h and vau are the separations which this star unites. and in the heart of the star is an exceeding splendour- a god standing upon the moon, brilliant beyond imagining. 123 it is like unto the vision of the universal mercury. but this is the fixed me

the temple that is the heart of this aethyr; it is an urn suspended in the air, without support, above the centre of a well. and the well hath eight pillars, and a canopy above it, and without there is a circle of marble paving-stones, and without them a great outer circle of pillars. and beyond there is the forest of the stars. but the urn is the wonderful thing in all this; it is made of fixed mercury; and within it are the ashes of the book tarot, which hath been utterly consumed. and this is that mystery which is spoken of in the acts of the apostles; that jupiter and mercury (kether and chokmah) 126 visited (that is, inspired, ephesus, the city of diana, binah- was not diana a black stone- and they burnt their books of magick. now it seems that the centre of infinite space is that ur

tal operations. a black and gold nemmes may be worn. assistant magi may wear these in all composite rituals of the black. the zelator's robe is fitted for all rituals involving i o, and for the infernal rites of luna. in the former case an uraeus crown and purple nemmes, in the latter a silver nemmes should be worn. the practicus' robe is fitted for all rituals involving i i, and for the rites of mercury. in the former case an uraeus crown and green nemmes, in the latter a nemyss of shot silk, should be worn. the philosophus' robe is fitted for all rituals involving o o, and for the rites of venus. in the former case an uraeus crown and azure nemmes, in the latter a green nemmes, should be worn. the dominus liminis' robe is fitted for the infernal rites of sol, which must never be celebrat

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and blackhead eradicators from lectures and essays by lister and m ller. thus frenziedly, at the age of twenty-two, p. set out on the quest of the philosopher's stone. visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultam lapidem veram medicinam; this is indeed the true medicine of souls; and so p. sought the universal solvent vitriolum, and equated the seven letters in vitriol, sulphur, 235 and mercury with the alchemical powers of the seven planets; precipitating the salt from the four elements- subtilis, aqua, lux, terra; and mingling flatus, ignis, aqua, and terra, smote them with the cross of hidden mystery, and cried "fiat lux" youth strides on with hasty step, and by summer of this year- 1898- we find p. deep in consultation with the mystics, and drinking from the white chalice of

ater. and netzach to philosophus and fire "of these the last three grades alone communicate with the second order, though cut off from it by a veil which may 242 illustration goes here. this is a tree of life with the sephiroth as circles, containing the information noted below on this approximation. the paths are straight lines, with the following data by number: 0. air. hb:aleph. fool. 11th. 1. mercury. hb:bet. magician. 12th. 2. moon. hb:gemel. high priestess. 13th. 3. venus. hb:dalet. empress. 14th. 4. aries. hb:heh. emperor. 15th. 5. taurus. hb:vau. hierophant. 16th. 6. gemini. hb:zain. lovers. 17th. 7. cancer. hb:chet. chariot. 18th. 11. leo. hb:tet. strength. 19th. 9. virgo. hb:yod. hermit. 20th. 10. jupiter. hb:koph. wheel of fortune. 21st. 8. libra. hb:lamed. justice. 22nd. 12. wa

ct center is an upright pentagram, also lineal, with a smaller circle in its own center. illustration described from page 265 "diagram 17. the seven-branched candlestick" this is a seven pointed star or heptagram with one point to top. there is a small circle in the center. the points have the symbols of the planets inside, clockwise starting from the top: saturn, mars, venus, moon, jupiter, sun, mercury. touching the tip of each of the seven points from outside is a circle, seven in all. these seven circles each contain an equilateral triangle, smaller than a circumscribed one would be. these seven triangles each have an apex radially outward from the center of the figure. each of the seven triangles has a hebrew letter in the center (planetary correspondence, hebrew names of the planets

, sardis, hb:bet. 2 "see 777" col. cxl, p. 27 "twelve banners of the name" and revelations, xxi, 19, 20. 3 "see 777" col. xxxvi, p. 11. illustration described from page 265 "diagram 18. the heptagram of seven days. this is a seven pointed star or heptagram with one point to top. the points have the symbols of the planets outside, clockwise starting from the top: saturn, jupiter, mars, sun, venus, mercury, moon. illustration described from page 265 "diagram 19. the altar of incense" the diagram is in two parts, one above the other. the upper part is shaped thusly, but the numbers here are a key to the description below, not a part of the diagram (not to scale/ 1/ 3 2/ 5 4/ 8 6 7\ 9_ 10_ content of the boxes in the above portion of the figure, top, center and bottom in each box: 1. hb:resh h

the 2= 9 grade of theoricus. the following month, february, p. passed through the next grade, that of 3= 8. ritual of the 3= 8 grade of practicus 7 "see" diagram of the paths and grades. 8 "see 777" cols. cxii, cxiii, p. 23. 9 "see 777" col. xlix, p. 15. 10 "see 777" col. xlix, p. 15 and note p. 41. this grade is particularly attributed to the element of water, and especially refers to the planet mercury and to the thirty-first and thirtieth paths of hb:shin and hb:resh. it opens with the adoration to the king of the waters, which is followed by the advancement. the theoricus first gives the necessary signs, and then, as before, solemnly pledges himself to secrecy, after which he is conducted to the east and placed between the mystic pillars. the "hierophant" then says to him "before you a

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ences("see" illustrations "the temple of solomon the king" in this number. cross references are given) 2. if we take an example, the use of the table will become clear. let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. in column xlv, line 12, you will find "knowledge of sciences" by now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its lineal figures the octagon and octagram. the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni elohim, its intelligence tiriel, its spirit taphtatharath, its colours orange (for mercury is the sphere of the sephira hod, 8, yellow, purple, grey, and indigo rayed with viole

e rituals more effective than the highly polished ones of other people. the general purpose of all this preparation is as follows: 5. since the student is a man surrounded by material objects, if it be his wish to master one particular idea, he must make every material object about him directly suggest that idea. thus in the ritual quoted, if his glance fall upon the lights, their number suggests mercury; he smells the perfumes, and again mercury is brought to his mind. in other words, the whole magical apparatus and ritual is a complex system of mnemonics [the importance of these lies principally in the fact that particular sets of images that the student may meet in his wanderings correspond to particular lineal figures, divine names &c. and are controlled by them. as to the possibility

r. i' b n\ a v# n o- i name: a l (el. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 3 degree= 8 square: raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards("see" illustration (the grade of 3 degree= 8 square is particularly attributed to the element of water; it refers to the planet mercury; the paths of resh and shin are attributed to this degree. for other attributions "see "777, lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air. i' b n\ a v* n name: i h v h o- i (ye-ho-wau. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 2 degree= 9 square: stretch both arms upwards and outwards, the elbows bent at right angles, the hands bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight("see" illustration. 21

upper triangle-*5,8. 10,3# from its left hand- point and complete. 2,11\*2,11. trace the/*1,12.sun 1,12# astrological sigil- of the planet in the 6,7-*4,9.centre of your 3,10. 5,8. hexagram. for the zodiac use-*2 *1 the hexagram of the- planet which/ venus\ rules the 25) sign# you require("777- col. cxxxviii; but 1# 2/ draw the astrological sigil of the sign, 1\ 2# instead of that of the- planet# mercury *2-*1- 1\ moon *1 *2 2# 25 for caput and cauda draconis use the lunar hexagram, with the sigil of caput draconis or cauda draconis. to banish, reverse the hexagram. in all cases use a conjuration first with ararita, and next with the name of the god corresponding to the planet or sign you are dealing with. the hexagrams pertaining to the planets are as in plate on preceding page. 2. these

e hip or genitalia. 140 a handbook of geomancy chapter i attributions of geomantic figures to planets, zodiac, and ruling genii-:sign :el :geom.:sex: name and meaning: genius: ruler :planet: fig: 1 :aries :fire: m: puer :malchidael:bartzabel:mars: boy, yellow: beardless: 2 :taurus:earth: f: amissio: asmodel :kedemel :venus :loss, comprehended: without: 3 :gemini: air: m: albus: ambriel :taphthar-:mercury: white, fair: tharath: 4 :cancer:water: f: populus: muriel :chashmo :moon: people, congreg: dai: ation: 5: leo :fire: m: fortuna major: verchiel: sorath :sun: greater fortune :greater aid, safe: guard entering: 6: virgo:earth: f: conjunctio: hamaliel :taphthar-:mercury: conjunction: tharath: assembling: 7: libra: air: m: puella: zuriel: kedemel :venus: a girl, beautiful: 8 :scor :water: f:

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s and achad on the diagonals "he is one. in the name of god let there be light unto the void a restriction "soror s.s.d.d. altered frater i.a.'s ritual, making the operation to "form a link between thoth and the magus. this is absurd; the correct way "is as here given, in which the link is formed between the spirit and the "magus" 170 "considerations" to be performed on the day and in the hour of mercury: the evocation itself commencing in the magical hour of tafrac, under the dominion of the great angel of mercury hb:lamed hb:aleph hb:peh hb:resh. on wednesday, may 13, 1896, this hour tafrac occurs between 8h. 32' p.m. and 9h. 16, when mercury is in 17 gemini on the cusp of seventh house slightly to south of due west. moon going to mars sic should be with mercury 14 gemini mercury to nept

ry: the evocation itself commencing in the magical hour of tafrac, under the dominion of the great angel of mercury hb:lamed hb:aleph hb:peh hb:resh. on wednesday, may 13, 1896, this hour tafrac occurs between 8h. 32' p.m. and 9h. 16, when mercury is in 17 gemini on the cusp of seventh house slightly to south of due west. moon going to mars sic should be with mercury 14 gemini mercury to neptune, mercury 150 saturn.1 "of the form of the circle to be employed" illustration on page 171 described "diagram 59. the circle of art" 1 weh note: this data contains typographic errors from the first edition. this is a duodecagram (twelve sided regular figure. it is oriented with a vertex to top and all diagonal chords are drawn, except those which would cross the exact center of the figure. each vert

, large ringed circle outside at the ne vertex, point of tangency obscured by the smaller ringed circle of that vertex. there is an equilateral triangle circumscribed within, base parallel to the tangent afore mentioned. there is an "a" within the apex of this triangle, top to apex direction. below the "a, within the triangle, is the sigil from page 170, oriented as the "a. the magical figures of mercury are to be drawn in yellow-orange chalk upon the ground as shown. at the quarter where the spirit is to appear is drawn a triangle within a circle: at its points are to be placed three vessels burning on charcoal the incense of mercury. about the great circle are disposed lamps burning olive oil impregnated with snake-fat. c is the chair of the chief operator. d is the altar, e e are the pi

probably obtained by buying a snake preserved in alcohol_ moderns be careful, other fluids are sometimes used these days! purify the temple by water: he shall consecrate all watery things used in due form""of the robes and insignia" the mighty magus of art shall wear a white robe, yellow sash, red overmantle, indigo nemys, upon her breast shall she bear a great tablet whereon is the magic seal of mercury; and over this the lamen bearing the signature of taphthartharath, on its obverse the lamen of a hierophant. she shall wear also a dagger in her sash, and a red rose on her heart: and she shall carry in her left hand the ankh of thoth, and in her right the ibis wand. the assistant magus of art shall wear a white robe, with a girdle of snake-skin; a black head-dress and a lamen of the spiri

mits of the magic circle. all circumambulate thrice. he then, standing at east and facing east, says: holy art thou, lord of the universe! holy art thou, whom nature hath not formed! holy art thou, the vast and the mighty one! lord of the light and of the darkness "chief magus of art" magus of the fires, i command you to perform at the four quarters of the universe the invocation of the forces of mercury by solomon's seal "magus of fire" mighty magus of art, all thy commands shall be obeyed, and all thy desires shall be accomplished [he does it.15 [the magus now advances to the centre of the circle, by the magical cauldron, wherein is the milk becoming heated, turns himself towards the fire of the spirit, and recites "the invocation to the higher" majesty of the godhead, wisdom-crowned tho

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th gilt, 252 pp, 2s. 6d. net. collectanea chemica. being certain select treatises on alchemy and hermetic medicine. by eirenaeus philalethes &c. crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. net. contents_ the secret of the immortal liquor called alkahest_ aurum potabile_ the admirable efficacy of the true oil of sulphur fire_ the stone of the philosophers_ the bosom book of sir george ripley_ the preparation of the sophic mercury. the hermetic museum, restored and enlarged: most faithfully instructing all disciples of the sopho-spagyric art how that greatest and truest medicine of the philosopher's stone may be found and held. now first done into english from the latin original published at frankfort in the year 1678. containing 22 celebrated alchemical tracts. translated from the latin and edited by a. e. waite. w

h the fear-idea. and imagination at work on the nexus! about 24 mu between charles bradlaugh and cardinal newman! 2.50. so for faith and doubt? sceptical criticism of my whole experiment boils up in me. what is "normality? even so, what possible relation is there between things and the evidence of them recorded in the brain? evidence of something, maybe. a thermometer chart gives a curve; yet the mercury has only moved up and down. what about the time dimension? but it is not a dimension; it is only a word to explain multiplicity of sensation. words! words! words! this is the last straw. there is no conceivable standard whereby we may measure anything whatever; and it is useless to pretend there is. 3.3. in short, we are all mad. yet all this is but the expression of the doubt-stop in the

e is then to be placed between the pillars (or the drawn symbols of these same) for seven days, upon a flashing tablet of mars. after this period, fit on the alembic head, and distil first in balneum mariae, then in balneum arenae till what time the mixture be clean distilled over. s. now let the alchemist take the fluid of the distillate and let him perform over it an invocation of the forces of mercury to act in the clear fluid; so as to formulate therein the alchemic mercury: even the mercury of the philosophers (the residuum of the dead head is not to be worked with at present, but is to be set apart for future use) after the invocation of the alchemic mercury a certain brilliance should manifest itself in the whole fluid (that is to say, that it should not only be clear, but also bril

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tal operations. a black and gold nemmes may be worn. assistant magi may wear these in all composite rituals of the black. the zelator's robe is fitted for all rituals involving i o, and for the infernal rites of luna. in the former case an uraeus crown and purple nemmes, in the latter a silver nemmes should be worn. the practicus' robe is fitted for all rituals involving i i, and for the rites of mercury. in the former case an uraeus crown and green nemmes, in the latter a nemyss of shot silk, should be worn. the philosophus' robe is fitted for all rituals involving o o, and for the rites of venus. in the former case an uraeus crown and azure nemmes, in the latter a green nemmes, should be worn. the dominus liminis' robe is fitted for the infernal rites of sol, which must never be celebrat

re sure that, even if they go into a cave and close the door and simply think five true thoughts and then pass away, these five thoughts of theirs will live through eternity (vivek nanda "karma yoga" udbodhan edition, pp. 164, 165) 13 or the unconsciously known. 14 deussen "ibid, p. 76. 15 "rigveda (griffiths, i. 164. 46 "you may call the creator of all things by different names: liber, hercules, mercury, are but different names of the same divine being (seneca, iv, 7. 8. 16 "ch ndogya upanishad" 6. 1. 3. also of "form" 17 that is to say, when he gains knowledge. 18 this is the meaning of "nequaquam vacuum" 19 modern materialism receives many a rude blow at the hands of gustave le bon. this great frenchman writes "these fundamental dogmas, the bases of modern science, the researches detail

ked black-magic pantacle. held a magical ceremony in the evening. lesser banishing ritual of pentagram and hexagram. invocation of thoth and the elements by keys 1-6182 and g. d. opening rituals. consecrated lamen crown and abrahadabra wand with great force. 16th. did the seven hb:shin of hb:shin operations. worked at a z for 5= 6 ritual.183 17th. position 1. 12 m. not good. evening invocation of mercury, chokmah and thoth. 18th. completed z for 5= 6 ritual. 117 may 19th. 1. assumption of the god-form of harpocrates: it lasted nine minutes: the result was good, for i got a distinct aura around me. 2. physical astral projection. i formed a sphere which took a human shape but rather corpse-like. i then projected a gray184 ray from the left side of my head; this was very tiring and there was

life is as follows: the first and second steps- right comprehension and right resolution, may from their purging nature fitly be compared to yama and niyama and also to the earthly and lunar natures of malkuth and yesod. the third and fourth- right speech and right action, in their yearning and striving are by nature as unbalanced as hod and netzach which are represented by fire and water and by mercury and venus respectively. then comes the fifth stage of poise- right livelihood; this is also a stage of exemption from worldly motion, and a stage which brings all below it to a finality and which may be compared to tiphereth in its solar aspect or to the manipura chakkra. the sixth and seventh stages- right effort and right thought, are stages of "definitely directed power" closely related

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o, stand isolated] 90 venus. brother taurus, art thou faithful, thou alone? taurus["seductively yet ironically] knowest thou not me? venus. yea, my beloved, lord of all my doves. taurus. venus, our lady! venus. come unto me["she half rises and draws him to her" taurus. within the veil? venus. there is no veil before my shrine["she unfastens his robe. as it falls he leaps up with the caduceus, as" mercury "and tramples her beneath his feet] taurus. in the beginning was the word; and the word was with god; and the word was god["all come forward" saturn "with" libra "linked" luna "and" pisces "linked; and bow to him] luna. the treason is accomplished. pisces. the mind is nobler than the body. saturn. friendship is holier than love. libra. nature is overcome by wit. pisces. how shall we adore

dy. saturn. friendship is holier than love. libra. nature is overcome by wit. pisces. how shall we adore thee? taurus. as you like it. saturn. what shall we sacrifice? taurus. want you will [luna "plays a moto perpetuo<mercury] libra. brother, what is the hour? pisces. dawn. libra. let us depart unto the work of the day. all. amen. 91 the rite of mercury officers mercury "violet robe" fr "and" sor. gemini "white dancing robe and black robe" virgo "green robe" four probationers "mercury is throned between the twins. at the west of the altar is virgo, and his four attendants" 95 the rite of mercury i mercury. 22-333-333["full light" the speech in the silence. the words against the son of night. the voice of mercury in the universe in the pre

he becoming visible of matter. the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon. the breaking forth of the light["all being seated, the" four probationers "rise from among the other" probationers "and march to the altar] first probationer. 333-333-22. brethren, let us kindle the holy perfumes in honour of the most divine god. all four probationers["while he does so] hail unto the most divine lord mercury! first probationer["to" fr. gemini] our brother, child 97 of the voice, we ask thee for thy help. wilt thou purify the temple, that we may proceed with the invocations? fr. gemini. i am one with you, brethren["he rises and performs the banishing ritual of the hexagram. while he does so, the" four probationers "stand facing the assembly] fr. gemini. let the rites of mercury be celebrated["t

of the wand, hail! coelestial, aethereal, inter-aethereal, water like, air like, fire like, earth like, like unto light, like unto darkness, shining as do the stars, moist, hot, cold spirit, hail to thee, ever laughing child-god, all-knowing. through thee alone can we hope to reach light and truth["returns to his seat [sor. gemini "plays accordingly<mercury. at the ending of the light, at the limits of the night, stood mercury before the unborn ones of time. then was formulated the universe; then came forth the gods thereof, the aeons of the bornless beyond. then was the voice vibrated; then was the name declared. at the threshold of entrance, between the universe and the infinite, in the sign of the enterer stood mercury, as before him the a

s thereof, the aeons of the bornless beyond. then was the voice vibrated; then was the name declared. at the threshold of entrance, between the universe and the infinite, in the sign of the enterer stood mercury, as before him the aeons were proclaimed. in symbols did he record them; in breath did he vibrate them; for between the light and the darkness did he stand. 99 ii "the temple in darkness" mercury. o light in light! o flashing wings of fire! the swiftest of the moments of the sea is unto thee even as some slow-foot eternity with limbs that drag and wheels that tire. o subtle-minded flame of amber gyre, it seems a spark of gold grown purple, and behold! a flame of gray! then the dark night-wings glow with iridescent indigo, shot with some violet ray; and all the vision flames across

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d this: 13. there is a well before the great white throne that is choked up with rubbish from the ages; rubble and clay and sediment and stone, delight of lizards and despair of sages. only the lightning from his hand that sits, and shall sit when the usurping tyrant falls, can purge that wilderness of wills and wits, let spring that fountain in eternal halls. 14. and this: 15. sulphur, salt, and mercury: which is master of the three? salt is lady of the sea; lord of air is mercury. now by god's grace here is salt fixed beneath the violet vault. now by god's love purge it through with our right hermetic dew. now by god wherein we trust be our sophic salt combust. then at last the eye shall see three in one and one in three, sulphur, salt, and mercury, crowned by heavenly alchemy! 14 to the

quilibrated and so corrected. so the "great magician" mayan, the maker of illusion, the creator, must be met in combat. then "if satan be divided against satan, how can his kingdom stand" both vanish: the illusion is no more. mathematically, 1(-1= 0. and this path is symbolised in the taro under the figure of the 153 magus, the card numbered 1, the first departure from 0, but referred to beth, 2, mercury, the god of wisdom, magic and truth. and this magus has the twofold aspect of the magician himself and also of the "great magician" described in liber 418 (equinox, no. v, special supplement, p. 144. now the formula of the mystic is much simpler. mathematically, it is 1- 1= 0. he is like a grain of salt cast into the sea; the process of dissolution is obviously easier than the shock of wor

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o 21 august. lucky stones: amber, topaz, sardonyx, ruby. 153 lucky numbers: leo, four. sun, one. lucky day: sunday. flowers: marigold, sunflower,.cowslip, heliotrope. trees: palm laurel. animal: lion. birds: cock, eagle. metal: gold. colours: gold, orange. yellow, green, white. vrsco, the virgin. 22 august to 21 september. lucky.stoncs: cornelian, jade, diamond, jasper. lucky numbers: virgo, ten; mercury, five. lucky day: wednesday. flowers: madonna lily, cornflower, valerian. tree: hazel. animal: squirrel. birds; parrot, magpie. metals: virgo, platinum; mercury,quicksilver. colours: pale blue, pale gold, yellow, jade green. lm.ra the scales. 22 september to 21 october. lucky stones: libra, opal; venus, lapis lazuli. lucky numbers: libra, eight; venus, six. lucky day: friday. flowers: viol

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

otes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l air goddess aspect: maiden astrological rulers: jupiter, mercury keys: life principle, intellect, raphael (instructor, traveller, healer) rules: mind, essential qualities, spiritual plane, knowledge, abstract learning, theories, windy or high places, breath, speech, phlegmatic; thinking; weak inhibitory virtues: gregarious, diligent, optimistic, dexterity, joie-de-vivre, persuasive, friendly, healthy, knowledgeable vices: frivolity, boasting, absent min

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

ivity are responsible for its custody, and under them the chohan of the ray. it is produced only at stated times, when specific work has to be done. it is used not only at the initiating of men, but at certain planetary functions of which nothing is at present known. it has its place and function in certain ceremonies connected with the inner round, and the triangle formed by the earth, mars, and mercury. the purpose of the rods of power. in the sceptre of a ruling monarch at this day is hidden the symbolism of these various rods. they are duly recognised as symbols of office and of power, but it is not generally appreciated that they are of electrical origin, and that their true significance is concerned with the dynamic stimulation of all the subordinates in office who come under their t

hese three points will bear careful consideration, and much may be learnt by occidental students from the study of the life of christ, and a consideration of his methods in using his hands. more cannot be said here, as the subject is too vast to be enlarged upon in this brief commentary. the "mark of the messenger" in the feet, is a reference to that well-known symbol of the wings on the heels of mercury. much upon this subject will be revealed to students in occult schools who will gather together all that can be found concerning the messenger of the gods, and who also will study with care information which astrological students have gleaned anent the planet mercury, and which occult students have gathered concerning the inner round. on the surface, the expression "the eye which looks out

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

plete vivification at this stage of evolutionary development. another triangle in connection with our own planetary logos is that formed by the seven kumaras the four exoteric kumaras corresponding to the four minor head centres, and the three esoteric kumaras corresponding to the three major head centres.75,(65)76 the second hint i seek to give, lies in the triangle formed by the earth, mars and mercury. in- 104- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust connection with this triangle, the analogy lies in the fact that mercury and the centre at the base of the spine in the human being are closely allied. mercury demonstrates kundalini in intelligent activity, while mars demonstrates kundalini latent. the truth lies hid in their two astrological symbols. in transmutation and plan

n the body of the logos, bearing to him a relationship identical with that borne by the masters and their affiliated groups, to some planetary logos. systemic kundalini goes forward to the vivification of these centres, and at this stage of development certain centres are more closely allied than others. just as in connection with our planetary logos, the three etheric planets of our chain earth, mercury and mars77(66) form a triangle of rare importance, so it may be here said that at the present point in evolution of the logoic centres, venus, earth and saturn form one triangle of great interest. it is a triangle that is at this time undergoing vivification through the action of kundalini; it is consequently increasing the vibratory capacity of the centres, which are becoming slowly fourt

responsible for its custody, and under them the chohan of the ray. it is produced only at stated times when specific work has to be done. it is used not only at the initiating of men, but at certain planetary functions, of which nothing as yet has been given out. it has its place and function in certain ceremonies connected with the inner round91(79) and the triangle formed by the earth, mars and mercury. but more about this is not at this time permissible. third. the rod of initiation, wielded by the logos of the solar system, is called among other things, the "sevenfold flaming fire" it was confided to our logos by the lord of sirius and sent to our system from that radiant sun. one of its purposes is for use in emergencies. this great talisman has never yet been employed in this particu

. of these venus is one. three of the sacred planets, it should be remembered, are the home of the three major rays, of the embodied forms of the three logoic aspects or principles. other planets are embodiments of the four minor rays. we might consider from the standpoint of the present that venus, jupiter and saturn might be considered as the vehicles of the three super-principles at this time. mercury, the earth and mars are closely allied to these three, but a hidden mystery lies here. the evolution of the inner round has a close connection with this problem. perhaps some light may be thrown upon the obscurity of the matter by the realisation that just as the logos has (in the non-sacred planets) the correspondence to the permanent atoms in the human being, so the middle evolution betw

f which venus was one, and logoic kundalini circulating with tremendous force through this adjusted triangle brought about that intensification of vibration in the human family which resulted in individualisation. we might here enumerate the schemes as a basis for our further work: the seven planets, centres, or schemes: 1. vulcan (the sun, exoterically considered. 2. venus. 3. mars. 4. earth. 5. mercury. 6. jupiter. 7. saturn. the three synthesising planets- 217- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. uranus. 2. neptune. 3. saturn. the one resolver. the sun. i would caution you here against attaching any importance to the sequence followed in numbering these seven schemes, either in connection with their order of development or importance, or their position in relation to

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

acy of words. the planned activity of every ray qualifies every form found within its body of manifestation. we come now to a technical statement which must be accepted for the sake of argument, being incapable of proof. all the lords of the rays create a body of expression, and thus the seven planets have come into being. these are their major expressions. the sun (veiling vulcan) jupiter saturn mercury venus mars the moon the energies of these seven lives however are not confined to their planetary expressions, but- 43- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust sweep around the confines of the solar system just as the life impulses of a human being his vital forces, his desire impulses, and his mental energies sweep throughout his body, brin

t. i am here using the words "planetary influence" in the same sense as the astrologer uses them, for he is not dealing, either, with the basic planetary rays. it might be stated therefore that the planetary relations in this cycle are as follows: 1. the mineral kingdom. pluto and vulcan. 2. the vegetable kingdom .v enus and jupiter. 3. the animal kingdom. the moon and mars. 4. the human kingdom. mercury and saturn. 5. the kingdom of souls. neptune and uranus. 6. synthesising these five. the sun. there are other planetary influences to be felt, and hidden forces likewise play upon our planetary life, but these are the major influences bringing about the desired results in the kingdoms of nature under the plan. it must be remembered that these are the cyclic influences dominant at this time

r planetary influences to be felt, and hidden forces likewise play upon our planetary life, but these are the major influences bringing about the desired results in the kingdoms of nature under the plan. it must be remembered that these are the cyclic influences dominant at this time, and that they change from cycle to cycle. for instance, a disciple who is upon the path is strongly influenced by mercury and by saturn, but when he begins his training for the first initiation he has to contend with the influences of pluto and vulcan; the training for the second initiation brings him under neptunian influences with venus and jupiter contending for control. the link with the vegetable kingdom is then strong, and hence the frequent recognition of "astral perfumes" which the disciple can note

re the first initiation, the static mineral world within him has been broken up- 155- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust at the third initiation, the moon and mars struggle to assume ascendancy, and there is his battle-ground. hence at the great transfiguration, the body is "transfigured" as the indication of triumph. at the fourth initiation, mercury and saturn act as the great translators, and bring the disciple to the door of realisation. when the final initiation is taken, it is the activity of uranus and the in-pouring force of jupiter that bring about the reorganisation which results in the final emancipation. the vastness and complexity of the subject thus become apparent. in the emergence of colour in the vegetable kingdom anoth

he activity of saturn, producing a dividing of the ways and a proffering of opportunity to those who can avail themselves of it. we shall have, therefore, a period of discipline and a cycle wherein choices will be made, and through these discriminating decisions humanity will enter into its birthright. this influence is now being strongly felt. then, later, we shall have, through the influence of mercury in the second decanate, the pouring in of light, of mental and spiritual illumination, and a truer interpretation of the teaching of the lodge of messengers. the work of the first decanate will enable many to make those choices and efforts which will enable them to raise the lower energies into the higher centres, and to transfer the focus of their attention from below to above the diaphra

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

ve stars surrounding her head. in almost every roman catholic church on the continent of europe may be seen pictures and statues of mary, the "queen of heaven" standing on the crescent moon, her head surrounded with twelve stars "it would seem more than a chance that so many of the virgin mothers and goddesses of antiquity should have the same name. the mother of bacchus was myrrha; the mother of mercury or hermes was myrrha or maia; the mother of the siamese saviour sommona cadom was called maya maria, i.e `the great mary; the mother of adonis was myrrha; the mother of buddha was maya; now, all these names whether myrrha, maia or maria, are the same as mary, the name of the mother of the christian saviour. the month of may was sacred to these goddesses, so likewise is it sacred to the vir

zodiac is represented in ancient drawings as a woman suckling a child the type of all future madonnas with their divine babes, showing the origin of the symbol. devaki is likewise figured with the divine krishna in her arms, as is mylitta, or istar, of babylon, also with the recurrent crown of stars, and with her child tammuz- 40- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust on her knee. mercury and aesculapius, bacchus and hercules, perseus and the dioscuri, mithras and zarathustra were all of divine and human birth."41 it is apposite to recall that the cathedral of notre dame in paris is built upon the ancient site of a temple of isis, and that the early church very frequently availed itself of a so-called heathen opportunity to determine a christian rite or a day of sacred reme

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

he true soul of france is to find expression. therefore, the following signs (cosmic energy) and planets transmitting solar and cosmic energies, are the conditioning factors of france in incarnation at the present time- 39- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust france 1. pisces with its rulers: jupiter and pluto> the nation 2. leo with its ruler: the sun. 3. virgo with its rulers: mercury, moon, jupiter> paris. 4. capricorn with its rulers: saturn and venus. 5. ray influences of an indirect nature, coming via the planetary rulers: a. ray 2. love-wisdom, via jupiter and the sun. these are the most powerful. b. ray 1. power or will, via pluto. this is also the destroyer ray and can bring the death of the leo influence. c. ray 3. active intelligence, via saturn. this cooperate

e sun. these are the most powerful. b. ray 1. power or will, via pluto. this is also the destroyer ray and can bring the death of the leo influence. c. ray 3. active intelligence, via saturn. this cooperates with the third ray personality of france, and at this time saturn offers most definite opportunity through the focus of power now to be found in paris. d. ray 4. harmony through conflict, via mercury. can france work for world harmony in the post-war period? e. ray 5. concrete science or knowledge, via venus. in this a realised cooperation with the soul ray, which is also the fifth ray, can bring about, through the french nation, a consummation of the piscean influence or genius. f. ray 4. this time through the moon, thus aiding the work of mercury and producing that needed internal co

lso a thing that many people are very apt to do, thus shifting responsibility. what is happening in the world today is a world happening, not a continental and local occurrence. germany is therefore controlled by the following energies and forces, and a study of the consequent inter-relations should prove interesting to the detached and open-minded student. germany 1. aries with its rulers, mars, mercury and uranus> the nation. 2. pisces with its rulers, jupiter and pluto. 3. scorpio with its rulers, mars and pluto> berlin. 4. leo with its ruler, the sun. 5. the soul ray. harmony through conflict. 4th. 6. personality ray. will or power. 1st. 7. ray influences of an indirect nature, coming via the planetary rulers: a. ray 6. idealism or devotion, via mars which rules aries and is the double

ality ray. will or power. 1st. 7. ray influences of an indirect nature, coming via the planetary rulers: a. ray 6. idealism or devotion, via mars which rules aries and is the double ruler of scorpio. this produces the fanaticism and unreasoning devotion and blind acceptance of conditions, so distinctive of the country at this time. it is virtue misdirected. b. ray 4. harmony through conflict, via mercury, thus cooperating with the soul ray intensifying the conflicting conditions and leading to a pull between idealism and facts, between france and germany, and between the groups within germany itself. c. ray 7. ceremonial order or ritual, via uranus. this affects the masses as a whole, as it is the hierarchical ruler and (because of their point of evolution) leads to their facile standardis

have in reality little to choose between them and are all equally indicative of personality control. this is, as you know, a thing to be overcome in all nations and individuals- 44- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust governing great britain, therefore, are the following energies, working through the zodiacal signs and the ruling planets: great britain 1. gemini with its rulers, mercury, venus and the earth> nation. 2. taurus with its rulers, venus and vulcan. 3. leo with its ruler, the sun> capital. 4. libra with its rulers, venus, uranus and saturn. 5. the soul ray love-wisdom. 2nd. 6. the personality ray will or power. 1st. 7. ray influences of an indirect nature, coming via the planetary rulers: a. ray 4. harmony through conflict, via mercury, leading to a definite li

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

ic fire, pages 1196-1207 tabulation iii i. dynamic energy. electric fire cancer 1. sirius. saturn. fifth creative hierarchy capricorn (the 8th unknown) the cardinal cross- 30- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the great aries bear. sun, veiling vulcan. second creative hierarchy libra (the 11th) unknown the cardinal cross gemini 3. pleiades. mercury. fourth creative hierarchy sagittarius (the 9th) unknown the mutable cross all the above energies are called into play as far as man is concerned during the major initiations and upon the path of initiation. ii. magnetic energy. s olar fire 4. the 7 solar taurus systems. m ars. third creative hierarchy scorpio (the 10th) unknown the fixed cross all the above energy is called into play as f

ies, giving the interim situation in this world cycle. tabulation iv. the orthodox astrological relationship constellations and planetary rulers in connection with ordinary man- 40- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust constellation r uler ray related to 1. aries .m ars. 6th ray .s corpio .s ame ruler. 2. taurus. venus. 5th ray. libra" 3. gemini. mercury .4 th ray .v irgo" 4. cancer. moon. 4th ray. none. 5. leo .t he sun. 2nd ray .n one. 6. virgo. mercury .4 th ray .g emini" 7. libra .v enus. 5th ray .t aurus" 8. scorpio. mars. 6th ray. aries" 9. sagittarius. jupiter. 2nd ray .p isces" 10. capricorn .s aturn. 3rd ray .n one. 11. aquarius. uranus. 7th ray. none. 12. pisces. jupiter. 2nd ray .s agittarius" a. the non-sacred planets are itali

the divine will. the world saviour 2. leo and aquarius, through the sun and jupiter, are related to ray 2. development of the individual consciousness into world consciousness. thus a man becomes a world server. the world server 3. sagittarius and capricorn, through the earth and saturn, are related to ray 3. the one-pointed disciple becomes the initiate. the initiate 4. aries and virgo, through mercury and the moon, are related to ray 4. harmonising the cosmos and the individual through conflict, producing unity and beauty. the birth pangs of the second birth. the cosmic and individual christ 5. cancer and scorpio, through neptune and mars, are related to ray 6. transformation of the mass consciousness into the inclusive consciousness of the disciple. the triumphant disciple i would call

ormation of the mass consciousness into the inclusive consciousness of the disciple. the triumphant disciple i would call attention to the fact that in tabulation iv, the relationship is between the planets which rule, and in tabulation v the emphasis is laid upon the conditioning ray. tabulation vi. planetary rulers in 3 tabulations constellation o rthodox d isciple h ierarchies 1. aries .m ars. mercury .u ranus- 42- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. taurus. venus. vulcan. vulcan. 3. gemini. mercury .v enus. the earth. 4. cancer. the moon. neptune. neptune. 5. leo. the sun. the sun. the sun. 6. virgo. mercury .t he moon. jupiter. 7. libra .v enus. uranus .s aturn. 8. scorpio. mars. mars. mercury. 9. sagittarius. jupiter. the earth

th ray. scorpio" 12. pisces. pluto. lst ray .t aurus" note: aries and capricorn in conjunction with 7th and 5th ray energy stand alone. the other constellations and rays are related in every case. a. ray 1 taurus and pisces, through vulcan and pluto. b. ray 2 leo and virgo, through the sun and jupiter. c. ray 3 gemini and libra, through the earth and saturn. d. ray 4 scorpio and aquarius, through mercury and moon. e. ray 6 cancer and sagittarius, through neptune and mars- 43- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust in view of all the above, and starting with the basic fact of the great illusion it should be remembered that the accuracy of astrological prediction and interpretation will be based upon three factors: 1. the potency of the though

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

of the neck, reaching up into the medulla oblongata, thus involving the carotid gland, and down towards the shoulder blades. it is an exceedingly powerful and well developed centre where average humanity is concerned. it is interesting to note in this connection that a. the throat centre is ruled by saturn just as the two head centres are ruled respectively by uranus (ruling the head centre) and mercury (ruling the ajna centre. this is only where the disciple is concerned; the rulership changes after the third initiation or before the first. these three planets constitute a most interesting triangle of forces and in the following triplicities and their inevitable inter-relations you have again only in the case of disciples a most amazing picture story or symbol of the ninefold of initiati

ure story or symbol of the ninefold of initiation: 1. the head centre the ajna centre the throat centre 2. the third eye the right eye the left eye 3. the pineal gland the pituitary body the carotid gland thus presenting the mechanism through which the spiritual triad, the soul and the personality work. the key to a right understanding of process lies in the relation of the three planets: uranus, mercury and saturn, as they pour their energies through these nine "points of spiritual contact" upon the physical plane into the "grounded sphere of light and power which is the man- 92- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust in time and space" b. this centre is related to the first initiation and develops great activity when that point in experience

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

n the point of tension is reached by the brothers at the fourth great cycle of attainment, then will this work be done. rule xii. for applicants: let the disciple learn to use the hand in service; let him seek the mark of the messenger in his feet and let him learn to see with the eye which looks out from between the two. for disciples and initiates: let the group serve as aquarius indicates; let mercury speed the group upon the upward way and let taurus bring illumination and the attainment of the vision; let the mark of the saviour, as the group toils in pisces, be seen above the aura of the group. rule xiii. for applicants: four things the disciple must learn and comprehend before he can be shown the inmost mystery: first, the laws of that which radiates; the five meanings of magnetisat

he will of god, to the council at shamballa, to forces active on the planet pluto, and on another planet which must remain nameless, and also to the central spiritual sun. 2. the soul relates the initiate to the love of god, to the consciousness aspect of deity, to the hierarchy as a whole, entering it through the ashram of the master who has aided him to take initiation, to the planets venus and mercury, to the sun sirius, and to the heart of the sun. 3. the personality relates the initiate to the mind of god, to the intelligence principle of the planetary life, to humanity as a whole, to saturn and mars, and to the physical sun through its pranic aspect. 4. the life aspect of the planet, or that great ocean of forces in which all these three aspects live and move and have their being, re

hierarchy during the next great cycle, that of the aquarian age, we shall therefore be considering those activities and plans which will usher in and mature that new culture and civilisation which will slowly come into being when the world has straightened itself out after the processes of the world war (1914-1945. the rule runs as follows: rule xii. let the group serve as aquarius indicates; let mercury speed the group upon the upward way and let taurus bring illumination and the attainment of the vision; let the mark of the saviour, as the group toils in pisces, be seen above the aura of the group. you will remember that the rule as given to applicants emphasised: 1. the use of the hands in service for healing, blessing and for invocation. 2. the mark of the messenger in the feet; this r

bring illumination and the attainment of the vision; let the mark of the saviour, as the group toils in pisces, be seen above the aura of the group. you will remember that the rule as given to applicants emphasised: 1. the use of the hands in service for healing, blessing and for invocation. 2. the mark of the messenger in the feet; this referred to the use of the intuition, which is governed by mercury. 3. the use of the "eye" this is not in reality the third eye (which is after all only a symbolic phrase, but the ability to use developed soul power. this is that intermediate potency found between the power of the mind and the dynamic electric energy of pure will. for the initiate, this rule simply carries the same message but on an infinitely higher scale, and (if i may so express it) o

which is after all only a symbolic phrase, but the ability to use developed soul power. this is that intermediate potency found between the power of the mind and the dynamic electric energy of pure will. for the initiate, this rule simply carries the same message but on an infinitely higher scale, and (if i may so express it) obedience to this rule calls in aquarian energy, the reasoning power of mercury, and the illumination of taurus, in order to carry forward hierarchical work upon a planet and in a planetary cycle which have been conditioned by pisces for more than two thousand years. i would have you ponder on this, for in realisation you will here have the formula for the work of the hierarchy as it reconstructs the world after the destruction wrought since 1900 a.d. you have here al

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

his golden gift was girded on, and, shielded thus, the new disciple felt secure. he had yet to prove his strength. neptune arrived with horses twain and handed them, in leash, to hercules. straight from the place of waters came they, of beauty rare and proven strength. and hercules was pleased, for he had yet to prove his power to ride the horses twain. with graceful speech and brilliant wit came mercury, carrying [16] a sword of rare design, which he proffered, in a silver sheath, to hercules. he strapped it on the thigh of hercules, bidding him keep it sharp and bright "it must divide and cut" said mercury "and with precision and acquired skill must move" and hercules, with joyous words, tendered his thanks. he had yet to prove his boasted skill. with blaring trumpets and the rush of sta

est assets that the disciple possesses. with the aid of neptune and the rapid steeds, hercules could be en rapport with the most distant sphere in which his labors could be cast. through emotional sensitivity and response, we, too, can be en rapport with the world in which our labors are cast. equipped, therefore, with vocation, spiritual energy and sensitivity, the gift of a sword that came from mercury, the messenger of the gods, is of profound significance, for the sword is the symbol of the mind which divides asunder, separates and cuts off. through its use, mercury added to the other gifts bestowed upon hercules that of mental analysis and discrimination. we are told that apollo, the sun god himself, became interested in hercules and pondered what he could give him that would serve hi

nd saving when coming from the soul. the exoteric ruler of this sign is mars, the god of war, and so hercules, acting under the right direction of thought and beginning his work on the mental plane, takes his stand as the warrior. his outstanding characteristic in this sign is the pioneering, militant spirit. the mares were in the possession of diomedes, the son of mars (but the esoteric ruler is mercury, which "illumines the mind and mediates between the soul and the personality) constellations in aries as is usual, there are three constellations connected with aries. first, there is cassiopeia, the enthroned queen, the symbol always of matter. it is most interesting to note how in the circle of the zodiac we come across three women. in connection with aries, the sign of commencement, we

om. one educator has said that "the ultimate purpose of education is the acquiring of knowledge in order to receive the higher revelation. the unintelligent may receive it, but they cannot interpret it. in this labor, hercules receives an outstanding revelation and in the five stages of his search his education is steadily carried forward. the exoteric ruler of gemini and of the first decanate is mercury for, as alan leo tells us "mercury in the outer world signifies schools, colleges, and all places where teaching and learning go on, scientific and literary institutions. in consciousness, it signifies thought, understanding, reason, intelligence, intellect; the abstract kinds rather than the concrete, knowledge for its own sake. its highest application seems to be what is called 'pure rea

therefore, language, intercourse or inter-communication 'and commerce. it is interesting to note that the united states [67] and london are both governed by gemini; that the english language is becoming predominantly the world tongue; that the greatest lines of ocean communication start from new york or london, and that both these cities have been world markets and world centers of distribution. mercury, the ruling planet of the sign, is the interpreter, the messenger of the gods. it is worth noticing also in this connection how hercules comes under the influence of two teachers: nereus, the higher teacher, and busiris, the lower or psychic teacher; and thus we again have emphasized both the duality of gemini and its mental quality. when this sign is in evidence as it is now, being a powe

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

also because its growth or decrease corresponds with that of the planet.therefore it was dedicated to isis, the moon-goddess. and for this reason the onion was so holy asto be regarded as having in itself something of deity; for which reason juvenal remarks that theegyptians were happy people to have gods growing in their gardens. page 55 n r r r r r chapter xiv.the goblin messengers of diana and mercury.the following tale was not given to me as connected with the gospel of the witches, but as dianaappears in it, and as the whole conception is that of dianaand apolloin another form, i include it inthe series.many centuries ago there was a folletto, goblin, or spirit, or devil-angel chi sa? who knowswhat? and mercurio, who was the god of speed and of quickness, being much pleased with thisi

tu devi andaresulla terra e fare da maestraa donne e a uomini che avrannovolent di inparare la tua scuolache sara composta di stregonerie. page 7 n r r r r r chapter xi.the house of the wind.showing how diana rescued a lady from death at thehouse of the wind in volterra.chapter xii.t ana or diana, the moon-goddess.chapter xiii.diana and the children.chapter xiv.the goblin messengers of diana and mercury.chapter xv.laverna.appendix.comments on the foregoing t exts.the children of diana, or how the fairies were born.diana, queen of the serpents, giver of the gift of languages.diana as giving beauty and restoring strength.note. page 6 contents.preface.chapter i.how diana gave birth to aradia (herodias).of the sufferings of mankind, and how dianasent aradiaon earth to relieve them by teaching

writer that a franciscan in a railway carriage is a strange anomaly and a few more yearsof newspapers and bicycles (heaven knows what it will be when flying-machines appear) will proba-bly cause an evanishment of all.however, they die slowly, and even yet there are old people in the romagna of the north who knowthe etruscan names of the twelve gods, and invocations to bacchus, jupiter, and venus, mercury,and the lares or ancestral spirits, and in the cities are women who prepare strange amulets, overwhich they mutter spells, all known in the old roman time, and who can astonish even the learnedby their legends of latin gods, mingled with lore which may be found in cato or theocritus. with oneof these i became intimately acquainted in 1886, and have ever since employed her specially to col

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

s. now, the spirits of metals have this property of fixedness in a greater or less degree; they are more or less volatile in proportion to the mutual fitness of their bodies and souls. a metal that has the three conditions of fixedness is not affected by fire or overcome by any other outward agent. but there is only one metal that fulfils these conditions, namely, gold. silver also contains fixed mercury, and is not so quickly volatilised as the imperfect metals, but stands the trial of fire, and yields no food to voracious saturn. amatory venus is clothed with abundant colour, and her whole body is one pure tincture, not unlike the red colour which is found in the most precious of metals. but though her spirit is of good quality, her body is leprous, and affords no permanent substratum to

ts strength be united to the beauty of venus, i do not say but that a precious and harmonious result may be obtained. for the phlegmatic or humid quality of the moon may be heated with the ardent blood of venus, and the blackness of venus removed with the strong salt of mars. you need not look for our metallic seed among the elements. it need not be sought so far back. if you can only rectify the mercury, sulphur, and salt (understand, those of the sages) until the metallic spirit and body are inseparably joined together by means of the metallic soul, you thereby firmly rivet the chain of love, and prepare the palace for the coronation. these things represent a liquid key, comparable to the celestial influence, and a dry water joined to the terrestrial substance: all which are one thing, d

s 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 summoned his horsemen, and bade them enclose mercury i

e planets in the firmament, declare here before you all, that i am the meanest and most unprofitable of all that are here present, that my body is weak, corruptible, and of a swarthy hue, but that, nevertheless, it is i that try you all. for having nothing that is fixed about me, i carry away with me all that is of a kindred nature. my wretchedness is entirely caused by that fickle and inconstant mercury, by his careless and neglectful conduct. therefore, i pray you, let us be avenged on him, shut him up in prison, and keep him there till he dies and is decomposed, nay, until not a drop of his blood is to be seen. then yellow jupiter stepped forward, bent his knees, inclined his sceptre, and with great authority twelve keys of basil valentine 18 of 95 bade them carry out the demand of satu

sceptre, and with great authority twelve keys of basil valentine 18 of 95 bade them carry out the demand of saturn. he added that he would punish everyone who did not aid the execution of this sentence. then mars presented himself, with sword drawn v v a sword that shone with many colours, and gave out a beautiful and unwonted splendour. this sword he gave to the warder vulcan, and bade him slay mercury, and burn him, together with his bones, to ashes. this vulcan consented to do. while he was executing his office, there appeared a beautiful lady in a long, silver robe, intertissued with many waters, who was immediately recognised as the moon, the wife of the sun. she fell on her knees, and with outspread hands, and flowing tears, besought them to liberate her husband v v the sun v v from

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sun) my house is empty. send thy sons to people this wheel (earth. thou hast sent thy seven sons to the lord of wisdom (a. seven times doth he see thee nearer to himself; seven times more doth he feel thee. thou hast forbidden thy servants, the small rings, to catch thy light and heat, thy great bounty to intercept on its passage (b. send now to thy servant the same (c (a) the "lord of wisdom" is mercury, or budha (b) the modern commentary explains the words as a reference to a well-known astronomical fact "that mercury receives seven times more[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] law of buddha" as schlagintweit believes, but real living men, some superior to men by virtue of their occult knowledge, and the protectors of buddha's law, inasmuch as they interpret his metaphys

gic[[vol. 2, page] 28 the secret doctrine. light and heat from the sun than earth, or even the beautiful venus, which receives but twice that amount more than our insignificant globe" whether the fact was known in antiquity may be inferred from the prayer of the "earth spirit" to the sun as given in the text* the sun however, refuses to people the globe, as it is not ready to receive life as yet. mercury is, as an astrological planet, still more occult and mysterious than venus. it is identical with the mazdean mithra, the genius, or god "established between the sun and the moon, the perpetual companion of 'sun' of wisdom" pausanias shows him as having an altar in common with jupiter (book v. he had wings to express his attendance upon the sun in its course; and he was called the nuntis, o

n its course; and he was called the nuntis, or sun-wolf "solaris luminis particeps" he was the leader of and the evocator of souls, the "great magician" and the hierophant. virgil depicts him as taking "his wand to evoke from orcus the souls plunged therein- tum virgam capit, hac animas ille evocat orco (see also the 21st fargard of the vendidad on the celestial militia) he is the golden-coloured mercury, the[[chrusophaes hermes] whom the hierophants forbade to name. he is symbolised in grecian mythology by one of the dogs (vigilance, which watch over the celestial flock (occult wisdom, or hermes anubis, or again agathodaemon. he is the argus watching over the earth, and which the latter mistakes for the sun itself. it is through the intercession of mercury that the emperor julian prayed t

n grecian mythology by one of the dogs (vigilance, which watch over the celestial flock (occult wisdom, or hermes anubis, or again agathodaemon. he is the argus watching over the earth, and which the latter mistakes for the sun itself. it is through the intercession of mercury that the emperor julian prayed to the occult sun every night; for, as says vossius "all the theologians agree to say that mercury and the sun are one. he was the most eloquent and the most wise of all the gods, which is not to be wondered at, since mercury is in such close proximity to the wisdom and the word of god (the sun) that he was confused with both (idolatry, vol. ii, p. 373) vossius utters here a greater occult truth than he suspected. the hermes-sarameyas of the greeks is closely related to the hindu saram

yani physically; so with the seven great races to be born on it. the first is born under the sun; the second under brihaspati (jupiter; the third under lohitanga (the "fiery-bodied" venus, or sukra; the fourth, under soma (the moon, our globe also, the fourth sphere being born under and from the moon) and sani, saturn* the krura-lochana (evil-eyed) and the asita (the dark; the fifth, under budha (mercury "so also with man and every 'man' in man (every principle. each gets its specific quality from its primary (the planetary spirit, therefore every man is a septenate (or a combination of principles, each having its origin in a quality of that special dhyani. every active power or force of the earth comes to her from one of the seven lords. light comes through sukra (venus, who receives a tr

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religion" lecture on false analogies in comparative theology, pp. 288 and 296 et seq. this relates to the clever forgery (on leaves inserted in old puranic mss, in correct and archaic sanskrit, of all that the pundits of col. wilford had heard from him about adam and abraham, noah and his three sons, etc, etc[[vol. 1, page] xxxii introductory. the gods of many nations. thus, though the mother of mercury (budha, thot-hermes, etc, was maia, the mother of buddha (gautama, also maya, and the mother of jesus, likewise maya (illusion, for mary is mare, the sea, the great illusion symbolically- yet these three characters have no connection, nor can they have any, since bopp, has "laid down his code of phonetic laws" in their efforts to collect together the many skeins of unwritten history, it is

e true eastern occultist will maintain that, whereas there are many yet undiscovered planets in our system, neptune does not belong to it, his apparent connection with our sun and the influence of the latter upon neptune notwithstanding. this connection is mayavic, imaginary, they say[[vol. 1, page] 103 the stellar "sons of light" but little, would have killed such comparatively small "houses" as mercury, venus and mars. as uranus was not known before the end of the eighteenth century, the name of the fourth planet mentioned in the allegory must remain to us, so far, a mystery. the "breath" of all the "seven" is said to be bhaskara (light-making, because they (the planets) were all comets and suns in their origin. they evolve into manvantaric life from primaeval chaos (now the noumenon of

n, is a septenary, as is the chain to which the earth belongs (see "esoteric[[footnote(s* see the note which follows the commentary on the preceding page, and also the summary of the stanzas in the proem, page 22* many more planets are enumerated in the secret books than in modern astronomical works[[vol. 1, page] 153 descending and re-ascending states. buddhism. for instance, all such planets as mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, saturn, etc, etc, or our earth, are as visible to us as our globe, probably, is to the inhabitants of the other planets, if any, because they are all on the same plane; while the superior fellowglobes of these planets are on other planes quite outside that of our terrestrial senses. as their relative position is given further on, and also in the diagram appended to t

, has cooled nearly six times as rapidly as the earth (winchell's "world-life "the moon, if the earth is 14,000,000 years old since its incrustation, is only eleven and two thirds millions of years old since that stage" etc. and if our moon is but a splash from our earth, why can no similar inference be established for the moons of other planets? the astronomers "do not know" why should venus and mercury have no satellites, and by what, when they exist, were they formed? because, we say, science has only one key- the key of matter- to open the mysteries of nature withal, while occult philosophy has seven keys and explains that which science fails to see. mercury and venus have no satellites but they had "parents" just as the earth had. both are far older than the earth and, before the latt

as a result thereof gratuitous speculations were sometimes indulged in by the european lay-chelas. among such were (a) the "mystery of the eighth sphere" in its relation to the moon; and (b) the erroneous statement that two of the superior globes of the terrestrial chain were two of our well-known planets "besides the earth. there are only two other worlds of our chain which are visible. mars and mercury (esoteric buddhism; p. 136) this was a great mistake. but the blame for it is to be attached as much to the vagueness and incompleteness of the master's answer as to the question of the learner itself, which was equally vague and indefinite. it was asked "what planets, of those known to ordinary science, besides mercury, belong to our system of worlds" now if by "system of worlds" our terr

BLUE EQUINOX

liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli, adumbratio kabbal gyptiorum sub figur vii, being the voluntary emancipation of a certain exempt adept from his adeptship. these are the birth words of curriculum of a.a. 31 a master of the temple. the nature of this book is sufficiently explained by its title. its seven chapters are referred to the seven planets in the following order: mars, saturn, jupiter, sol, mercury, luna, venus. liber vi. liber o vel manus et sagitt. the instructions given in this book are too loose to find place in the class d publications. instructions given for elementary study of the qabalah, assumption of god forms, vibrations of divine names, the rituals of pentagram and hexagram, and their uses in protection and invocation, a method of obtaining astral visions so called, and a

w pennies. you really mean .reflection on love .jones. night thoughts .idle thoughts of an idle fellow. it.s a soul-destroying, mind-fuddling practice. if indulged in, it will absolutely ruin all power of concentration. now here is your examination for the grade of zelator.9 (a) go through a door on which is engraved this figure and explain the figure in detail by means of your visions (b) invoke mercury and hod, and travel till you meet the unicorn mentioned in liber lxv, cap. iii, verse 2. report its conversation fully. 8 [this sort of thing is all wrong. it isn.t really meditation at all. you let your mind rove about, instead of pinning it down to a single, simple object. samadhi never occurs in such conditions..o.m] 9 [this examination is a subtle compliment, amounting almost to flatte

rong. it isn.t really meditation at all. you let your mind rove about, instead of pinning it down to a single, simple object. samadhi never occurs in such conditions..o.m] 9 [this examination is a subtle compliment, amounting almost to flattery. it is a much harder paper than would be set in most cases..o.m] the equinox 170 (c) discover by visions the nature of the alchemical principles, sulphur, mercury, and salt. how do they differ from the 3 gunas, and the elements fire, water, air (d) give an account of the sign aquarius in the 4 worlds, assiah, yetzirah, briah, and atziluth (e) visit and describe fully the qliphoth of aries (f) visit lophiel and hismael, and report their appearance, mode of life, and conversation. observe. the a. a. work throughout is definite and directed. there is n

n the holy place. but there is reserved for us a yet more terrible contemplation. if one had said .the girl escapes from the intrigue with her married lover, and is reviews 303 honorably married to a canadian. every one would say .what a wholesome story. the poison of puritanism has rotted through the whole of human thought. conventional morality is the syphilis of the soul, and it is for the god mercury, no one less, to oppose its action. our trouble is rendered a thousand times more grievous because most of us do not recognize how foul is our disease. the words .marriage with a canadian. should be expunged from human language. people should be prosecuted for printing so foul and obscene a phrase. yet these things happen every day. the sun turns sick in heaven to behold them. yet we do no

. the principal method of karma yoga indicated is the preaching of the good law. of course it will be understood that anyone thus unfortunately situated cannot understand the law, but the law is of such virtue that this is not a fatal disadvantage. see liber ccc. 54. behold migmar (mars) as in his crimson veils his .eye. sweeps over slumbering earth. behold the fiery aura of the .hand. of lhagpa (mercury) extended in protecting love over the heads of his ascetics. both are now servants to nyima (the sun) left in his absence silent watchers in the night. yet both in kalpas past were bright nyimas, and may in future .days. again become two suns. such are the falls and rises of the karmic law in nature. the astronomy of the author of this book is not equal to her poetic prose. mercury can har

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arth" 19. the king of pentacles is "the prince of the chariot of earth" 20. the knave of pentacles is "the princess of the echoing hills: the rose of the palace of earth" no. card lord of decan in 21 5 of wands strife saturn leo 22 6 of wands victory jupiter leo 23 7 of wands valour mars leo 24 8 of pentacles prudence sun virgo 25 9 of pentacles material gain venus virgo 26 10 of pentacles wealth mercury virgo 27 2 of swords peace restored moon libra 28 3 of swords sorrow saturn libra 29 4 of swords rest from strife jupiter libra 30 5 of cups loss in pleasure mars scorpio 31 6 of cups pleasure sun scorpio 32 7 of cups illusionary success venus scorpio 33 8 of wands swiftness mercury sagittarius 34 9 of wands great strength moon sagittarius 35 10 of wands oppression saturn sagittarius 36 2

io 32 7 of cups illusionary success venus scorpio 33 8 of wands swiftness mercury sagittarius 34 9 of wands great strength moon sagittarius 35 10 of wands oppression saturn sagittarius 36 2 of pentacles harmonious change jupiter capricorn 37 3 of pentacles material works mars capricorn 38 4 of pentacles earthly power sun capricorn 39 5 of swords defeat venus aquarius 40 6 of swords earned success mercury aquarius 41 7 of swords unstable effort moon aquarius 42 8 of cups abandoned success saturn pisces 43 9 of cups material happiness jupiter pisces 44 10 of cups perfected success mars pisces 45 2 of wands dominion mars aries 46 3 of wands established strength sun aries 47 4 of wands perfected work venus aries 48 5 of pentacles material trouble mercury taurus 49 6 of pentacles material succe

established strength sun aries 47 4 of wands perfected work venus aries 48 5 of pentacles material trouble mercury taurus 49 6 of pentacles material success moon taurus 50 7 of pentacles success unfulfilled saturn taurus 51 8 of swords shortened force jupiter gemini 52 9 of swords despair and cruelty mars gemini 53 10 of swords ruin sun gemini 54 2 of cups love venus cancer 55 3 of cups abundance mercury cancer 56 4 of cups blended pleasure moon cancer no. card the twenty-two keys of the book letter attribution 57 the foolish man the spirit of gr:alpha-iota-theta-eta-rho aleph air 58 the magician the magus of power bet mercury book t page 2 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 such are the titles of the abodes or atouts of thooth; of the mansions of the house of my fath

ibra capricorn pisces two swords: 1 each of others. head cross, orb held downwards brown princess winged ram's head grass, flowers, grove of trees, sceptre with disk, pentacle like that in ace rich brown dark card central decan of meaning day 3 of wands aries established strength sun 6 of pentacles taurus material success moon 9 of swords gemini despair and cruelty mars 3 of cups cancer abundance mercury 6 of wands leo victory jupiter 9 of pentacles virgo material gain venus 3 of swords libra sorrow saturn 6 of cups scorpio pleasure sun 9 of wands sagittarius great strength moon 3 of pentacles capricorn material works mars 6 of swords aquarius earned success mercury 9 of swords pisces material happiness jupiter saturn 1. leo strife 5 of wands. 2. libra sorrow 3 of swords. 3. sagittarius op

ni despair and cruelty 9 of swords. sun 1. virgo prudence 8 of pentacles. 2. scorpio pleasure 6 of cups. 3. capricorn earthly power 4 of pentacles. 4. aries established strength 3 of wands. 5. gemini ruin 10 of swords. venus 1. virgo material gain 9 of pentacles. 2. scorpio illusionary success 7 of cups. 3. aquarius defeat 5 of swords. 4. aries perfected work 4 of wands. 5. cancer love 2 of cups. mercury 1. virgo wealth 10 of pentacles. 2. sagittarius swiftness 8 of wands. 3. aquarius earned success 6 of swords. 4. taurus material trouble 5 of pentacles. 5. cancer abundance 3 of cups. moon 1. libra peace restored 2 of swords. 2. sagittarius great strength 9 of wands. 3. aquarius unstable effort 7 of swords. 4. taurus material success 6 of pentacles. 5. cancer blended pleasure 4 of cups. bo

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

hers say of ash, or willow, hazel. you can take your pick. the trouble here is that a lot of ceremonial magick has got mixed up with witchcraft (not just in the case of the wand, but with other tools and other aspects of the craft also. for example, some people swear that "the wand must be exactly twenty-one inches long, cut from a virgin hazel tree (one that has never borne fruit, in the hour of mercury on the day of mercury (wednesday, etc, etc, etc" others simply go out and buy a length of wood dowel from their local hardware store and paint it gold! the fact that both wands can work equally well should show that the real magick comes not from the tool but from within the magician or, in this case, the witch. the wand, then, is merely an extension of the operator. as such, make your wan

associated with the sign of the finger (e.g. index finger= mount of jupiter. the fullness or thinness of the mount shows how strongly that particular sign affects the individual. as the diagram shows, each finger is, in turn, divided into three sections to show the relative spiritual, intellectual and material development under each of the astrological signs: jupiter, saturn, apollo (the sun) and mercury. if, for example, the lowest digit of the small finger (mercury) is noticably larger and more developed than the finger's other two digits, then there would be strength especially in management and salesmanship. similar traits can be derived, using judgement and intuition with the astrological characteristics below, for each of the other signs. index finger (jupiter) the matriarch/patriarc

aits of this sign are pride, ambition and confidence. middle finger (saturn) the wise old wo/man, often a personification of old age and the very end of life. principle traits of this sign are wisdom, solitude, shyness, melancholy and solitary bleakness. third finger (apollo) the sun; all things bright and good. the arts; medicine. the principle trait of this sign is love of beauty. small finger (mercury) sharpness and quickness of mind; cleverness; shrewdness. principle traits of this sign are buoyancy; friendliness; skill in management and commerce. study your own hands and see if you can form some tentative conclusions. remember that every sign will have its own good traits and its bad ones. spend some time reading about the above signs in one of the recommended books on astrology. but

ur left hand (see cheiromancy above. it will also tie-in, in many ways, with your natal horoscope. suppose your birth number is 1. then the signing of contracts should be done on dates which also reduce to 1. your planetary sign is the sun, a fire sign. you would therefore be happiest married to someone whose sign is compatible, i.e. another fire sign or an air sign: sun, jupiter, mars, uranus or mercury-numbers 1, 3, 9, 4, 5. the numbers, their planets and signs, are as follows: 6: venus earth 7: neptune water 8: saturn earth 9: mars fire lesson nine: divination 1123 1: sun-fire 2: moon water 3: jupiter fire 4: uranus air 5: mercury air 124/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft name number the single primary number obtained from the numerical values of the letters of your name gives you

"why" and the "how. 4: uranus letters d, m, v inclined to appear strange and eccentric because s/he is usually ahead of her/his time. very interested in the occult; in psychic research. inclined to anything out of the ordinary. strong intuitive tendencies. can be bitingly sarcastic if crossed. believes in liberty and equality. can usually predict the probable outcome of actions and businesses. 5: mercury letters e, n, w active, both physically and mentally. inquiring, exploring. fond of reading and researching. good at languages. would make a very good teacher, writer, secretary. makes friends easily. usually methodical and orderly; adept at simplifying systems. 6: venus letters f, o, x gentle and refined; pleasant and sociable. usually good looking. natural peacemaker; able to soothe ruff

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theless conceals in her depths the active, fiery power of chokmah, the root of fire, just as the name aima contains the paternal i, and as b i n h is formed from jah, i h, a name of the father, and ben, b n, a name of the son. the "airy spirit" of the path of zain is a reference to the airy quality of the zodiacal sign gemini, whose ruler, according to the qabalah, is raphael, angel of the planet mercury [80] the meditation on cheth* 1 i am the hedge of protection, enclosing the field of existence. in this field thou dwellest, and i am thy defense against the darkness which is without. yet is this hedge of safety also a wall of limitation, and the darkness against which it defendeth thee is the radiant darkness of the limitless light, too brilliant for thine eyes. 2 for within the wall of

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

ver. freyja freyja is the viking goddess of love and sexuality and can be invoked for rituals to increase confidence in inner beauty and worth, for the increase of passion and for fertility in every aspect. a witch goddess, she is potent for all magick, especially astral projection and crystal and gem magick. venus venus, the goddess of love, is the roman form of aphrodite and by her liaison with mercury gave birth to cupid. although she had many lovers, she was the goddess of chastity in women and is a joy-bringer, and so represents not only sexual pleasure, but also innocent love and especially love in the springtime. her planetary associations mean she is the focus in all kinds of love rituals. as the evening star, venus takes on a warrior aspect and so can be invoked in fighting for on

eternal life. after death, a person's heart was weighed on the scales of justice against the feather from her headdress to see if it was free from sin. she can be invoked for all rituals of justice, uncovering secrets, truth and trustworthiness. hermes hermes is the greek messenger god who travelled between dimensions. he is associated with the wise ancient egyptian god thoth and the later roman mercury. he is credited with great knowledge, healing powers and medical knowledge [insert pic p080- the double entwined snake of hermes' and mercury's caduceus, or wand, which is often a living growing staff, is a symbol both of healing and of powerful communication. the snake forms two circles, the interlinked cycles of good and evil, life and death, light and darkness. the wings on the caduceus

y. colour: pink. a fixed earth sign, for rituals concerning all kinds of material matters and security, also for patience and caution if the way ahead seems hazardous. ruled by venus [symbol- sym03] gemini, the heavenly twins: 22 may to 21 june. colour: yellow or pale grey. a mutable air sign, for spells concerning communication, learning, choices, adaptability and short-distance travel. ruled by mercury [symbol- sym04] cancer, the crab: 22 june to 22 july. colour: silver. a cardinal water sign, for spells concerning the home and family, especially for protection and for gentle love and friendship. ruled by the moon [symbol- sym05] leo, the lion: 23 july to 23 august. colour: gold. a fixed fire sign, for rituals for courage and leadership, sensual pleasures and love affairs. ruled by the s

leo, the lion: 23 july to 23 august. colour: gold. a fixed fire sign, for rituals for courage and leadership, sensual pleasures and love affairs. ruled by the sun [symbol- sym06] virgo, the maiden: 24 august to 22 september. colour: green or pale blue. a mutable earth sign, for spells to increase efficiency, for bringing order to a chaotic situation, for self-improvement and for healing. ruled by mercury [symbol- sym07] libra, the scales: 23 september to 23 october. colour: blue or violet. a cardinal air sign for rituals concerning justice and the law, for balancing options and priorities relationships, harmony and reconciliation. ruled by venus [symbol- sym08] scorpio, the scorpion: 24 october to 22 november. colour: burgundy or red. a fixed water sign, for increasing second sight, for pa

dence and asserting your identity if it is under threat or being eroded by the demands or unfair criticism of others. orange also relates to careers involving people and the arts. above all, orange is the colour of joy and also the successful integration of all aspects of the personality into a harmonious whole. orange candles are best used on a sunday. yellow yellow is the colour associated with mercury, the winged messenger of the roman gods. through his skill and dexterity, he came to rule over commerce and medicine and also became patron of tricksters and thieves. seite 53 wicca01.txt yellow candles therefore encourage clear communication and activity of all kinds, improving memory, concentration and learning, and are good for overcoming mental stagnation and blocks in ideas or assimil

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

estern publishing, 1970. 78; distributed by american university bookstore, washington, d.c. 44. raboteau, slave religion, p. 276. 45. mary jackson, n.d, folklore folder, georgia folklore, works progress administration (wpa) records, manuscripts division, library of congress; rossa belle cooley, the homes of the freed (new york: new republic, 1926, pp. 40. 41; m. s. lea "two-head doctors" american mercury, october 1927, p. 238; daniel webster davis "conjuration" southern workman 27, no. 12 (1898: 252. see also rawick, american slave, georgia narratives vol. 13, pt. 3, black magic page 110 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006\ 184\ p. 345, for a conjure curse by a black woman to make another "nappy and kinky headed" 46. mamie garvin fie

tion of afro-american folklore, ed. alan dundes (jackson: university press of mississippi, 1972, p. 379; georgia folklore, pp. 249.50, records of the federal writers' project, wpa records, 1936. 37, manuscripts division, library of congress. 16. karen baldwin "mrs. emma dupree: ethat little medicine thing" north carolina folklore journal 32 (1984: 50. 53. 17. m. s. lea "two-head doctors" american mercury, october 1927, p. 236; johnson, god struck me dead, p. 46. see also hurston "hoodoo in america" p. 320. 18. cited in puckett, folk beliefs of the southern negro, p. 567. 19. johnson, god struck me dead, p. 150. 20. w. s. harrison, sam williams: a tale of the old south (nashville, tenn: publishing house of the methodist episcopal church, 1892, p. 61; rossa belle cooley, the homes of the fre

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

r geometry, and it was in the 11th millennium bc, within the window period suggested for great geological upheavals on the earth, that orion reached the lowest point of its cycle. astrological events affect earthquakes and weather systems because of the vibrational change they create on earth, as does collective human thought. also on may 5th 2000, the sun and the planets, neptune, uranus, venus, mercury, and mars all align with each other. the vibrational effects of this are likely to be fantastic. another important date may well be december 21st 2012, when the calender system left by the mayans in central america more than 1600 years ago, predicted that a great cycle for the earth would end. it appears to me that may 5th 2000 is the moment when the freedom vibration begins to take over f

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own little fairyland. this serving the dragon: the future 363 manufactured illusion is so entrenched in the human psyche that when the truth does come out, most people laugh in its face. there need to be massive class action lawsuits against the authorities by those who have already had their health devastated by fluoride, prozac, and aspartame. this is already happening in canada over the use of mercury, another poison and intellect suppressant, in tooth fillings. and there you have that phrase again which is constantly repeated when the adverse effects of drugs, food additives, and other chemicals in our diet are listed: intellect suppressant. with the truth about fluoride now being more widely circulated, suddenly "new research" has conveniently revealed that it is good for stopping bri

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les such ashealing the sick and raising people from the dead. so did khrishna, buddha, zoroaster,bochia, horus, osiris, serapis, marduk, bacchus, hermes and others. jesus was bornof royal blood. so was buddha, rama, fo-hi, horus, hercules, bacchus, perseus andothers. jesus was born to a virgin. so was khrishna, buddha, lao-kiun or tsze,confusius, horus, ra, zoroaster, prometheus, perseus, apollo, mercury, baldur,quetzalcoatl and far too many others to mention. jesus will, we are told, be bornagain. the sky is going to be rather crowded because khrishna, vishnu, buddha,quetzalcoatl and others, will also be there. the star at the birth ofjesus is another multideity story and goes back at least to thebabylonian tale of nimrod who, in a dream, saw a brilliant starrising above the horizon. the

d died and so there was darkness. and look how many hours thislasted for: three. the same story of darkness at their death was told by the hindus ofkhrishna, the buddhists of buddha, the greeks of hercules, the mexicans ofquetzalcoatl, ad infinitum, long before jesus. when he died, jesus descended intohell, just like the earlier khrishna, zoroaster, osiris, horus, adonis/tammuz, bacchus,hercules, mercury and so on. he then rose from the dead like the earlier khrishna,buddha, zoroaster, adonis/tammuz, osiris, mithra, hercules and baldur. jesus wassymbolically crucified at easter because this is the spring equinox when the sun (jesus)enters the astrological sign of aries, the ram or. the lamb. the lamb in the book ofrevelation is the same symbol. in around 2,200 bc the group known as the pri

of the spider woman legends ofthe native american traditions and the names of sacred places like spider rock inarizona. a book by fred gettings, the secret zodiac (routledge and kegan paul,1987, features the zodiac mosaic in the marble floor of the gothic church of sanminiato in florence, italy, which dates from 1207. gettings suggests that the churchwas built to align with a rare conjunction of mercury, v enus and saturn in the sign oftaurus at the end of may that year. astrology, which can be traced back to thebeginning of known history, was a very important art to the templars and was taught inthe school at chartres. when christians go to church they have no idea that they areentering a pagan shrine, but thats exactly what they are doing.the templars had close relationships with most o

d to know is that the drugs are beingdistributed by those fronting the drug war, who are offering the solutions at the sametime. much of the anti-drug network is deeply corrupt and used as a vehicle fordistributing drugs without detection. george bush has fronted more wars on drugs thanany other american politician and yet he is one of north americas premier drugbarons. a reporter on the san jose mercury news exposed the cia s involvement inputting crack cocaine into the black community of los angeles. this was during theperiod bush was in the white house and both the journalist and the paper were hit by atidal wave of ridicule and abuse from the establishment papers like the washington postand the los angeles times as the brotherhood tried to crush the story. even the runningof drugs come

DEITUS

c bible is a diagram entitled the map of the spheres. the spheres illustrated are essentially archetypal. they have been described countless times in grimoires and magical treatises. in the physical world there are four elemental spheres: earth, air, fire, and water. there are also the four great watchtowers: north, east, south, and west. above the earth are the seven planetary spheres: the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, and saturn. beyond the planetary spheres are the fixed stars and the primum mobil, the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the heavenly spheres. beneath the earth lies the land of the dead (hades, the tartaran abode (hell, and the realm of the abominations of chaos. all spirits, demons, angels, and other beings of an archetypal nature are said to reside in one o

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n the tree of life (q.v. gematria: a method of the literal kabalah (q.v) which assigns numbers to each of the hebrew letters. words of equal value are believed to have an important relationship with each other. a specific field of numerology (q.v. gemini "the twins" in astrology (q.v, the third sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of mutable (q.v) and air (q.v) and is ruled by the planet mercury (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color orange. keywords include: versatility, duality, with communication, intellectually, alertly, rationally, nervously. ghost(s: 1) when not caused by psycho kinetic activity (see psychonisis, in a living person (as can be the case in some poltergeist cases, these are entities that are the astral remains of

becomes an intermediary by providing the spirit(s) with means of communicating with the carnate, material human beings. today, called a channeller. memory, magickal: the memory of past lives. menstruum (nee menstruum of the gluten: in alchemy (q.v, the result of the slow heating of a substance in the athanor (q.v. in sex magick (q.v) the female lubricating fluids and/or female ejaculatory fluids. mercury: the first planet of the terran solar system. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the roman god who served as the herald and messenger. attributed as being the ruler of the zodiac (q.v) signs gemini (q.v) and virgo (q.v. on the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) mercury is attributed to the eighth sephirah (q.v, hode (q.v. keywords include: communication, intellect, percept

meant to be vibrated. this means that when sounded (loudly or silently) they should cause not only the practitioner, but all of space around the practitioner and all of the very existence of space before one to vibrate or resonate to the sound. virgo "the virgin" in astrology (q.v, the sixth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of mutable (q.v) and earth (q.v) and is ruled by the planet mercury (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color yellow-green. keywords include: picky, overly critical, practicality, with detail, industriously, modestly, analytically, discriminatingly, critically. virtues, occult: the magickal potency of efficacy of herbs, stones, beasts, and other things impressed upon them through the stars at the time of their

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ephirah of the pillar of severity, and yesod is upon the middle pillar of mildness or equilibrium, in direct alignment with kether and tiphareth. thus the third triangle is an exact replica of the second triangle upon a lower arc. 26. the meaning of netzach is victory, and to it is assigned the sphere of the planet venus; the meaning of hod is glory, and to it is assigned the sphere of the planet mercury; the meaning of yesod is foundation, and to it is assigned the sphere of the moon. 27.while the second triangle might not inaptly be termed the ethical triangle, the third may well be called the magical triangle; and if we assign to kether the sphere of the three in one, the undivided unity, and to tiphareth the sphere of the redeemer or son, we may be justified in referring to yesod the s

sis of analytical psychology. we might describe it as the symbol-using power of the subconscious mind. it is an instructive experiment to toss a mass of irrelevant symbolism into the mind and watch it sort itself out in meditation upon the tree, rising into consciousness in long association-chains like dream analysis. 28. netzach is the sphere of the goddess of nature, venus. hod is the sphere of mercury, the greek analogue of the egyptian thoth, lord of books and learning. observing their opposition, we shall expect to find two different aspects represented in them, these finding their equilibrium in a third, yesod, the sphere of luna. we see then a triangle composed of the lady of nature, the lord of books, and the mistress of witchcraft; in other words, subconsciousness and super- consc

rs is a destructive potency, one of the infortunes in astrology. the positive builds up, the negative breaks down; the positive is a kinetic force, the negative is a static force. 9. these aspects appear again in netzach at the base of the pillar of mercy, and hod at the base of the pillar of severity. netzach is venus, the green nature ray, elemental force, the initiation of the emotions. hod is mercury, hermes, the initiation of knowledge. netzach is instinct and emotion, a kinetic force; hod is intellect, concrete thought, the reduction of intuitive knowledge to form. 10. we must remember, however, that each sephirah is negative, that is to say feminine, in relation to its predecessor, whence it emanates and whence it receives the divine influence; and positive, masculine, or stimulatin

lled lotus, at the base of the generative organs, is assigned by general fuller to yesod. this agrees with the western tradition, which assigns yesod to the reproductive organs of the divine man; its astrological correspondence with the moon, diana-hecate, also agrees with this attribution. crowley, though assigning yesod to the phallus in column xxi of "777" assigns the svadisthana lotus to hod, mercury. it is difficult to understand this attribution, and as he does not give his authority, i consider it better to adhere to the principle of referring the levels of consciousness to the central pillar. 18. tiphareth, by universal consent, represents the solar plexus and breast; it therefore seems reasonable to attribute to it the manipura and anahata chakras, as crowley does. fuller attribut

very name of the first path, kether, the crown, which rests upon and above the head. 21. the two flanking pillars of severity and mercy can be seen as representing the positive and negative principles- and their respective sephiroth as representing the modes of functioning of these forces upon the different levels. 22. the pillar of severity contains binah, geburah, and hod, or saturn, mars, and mercury. the pillar of mercy contains chokmah, chesed, and netzach, or the zodiac, jupiter, and venus. chokmah and binab, in the symbolism of the qabalah, are represented by male and female figures and are the supernal father and mother, or in mystical qabala page 56 more philosophical language, the positive and negative principles of the universe, the yin and the yang, of which maleness and femal

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letters around it edge, and other occult symbols such as glyphs of the planets, zodiac signs or elements. by connotative usage, a physical object bearing a spirit symbol, such as a medallion, is more likely to be referred to as the spirit's seal, whereas the drawing of a spirit symbol in a manuscript is more apt to be called the spirit's sigil (occult characters associated with ophiel, spirit of mercury, from the nigromancia of roger bacon) confusion arises because the terms "sigil" and "seal" are often used indiscriminately. compounding this perplexity, both are sometimes referred to as signatures or characters. this is understandable, when we consider that in past ages, when few common persons could read or write, names were often signed by means of personal marks such as a simple x. th

ELIPHAS LEVI SANCTUM REGNUM

bot trithemius is a very curious and interesting dissertation upon the ruling of the world by the seven great archangels, to each of whom in succession is alloted a period of 354 years and 4 months. the archangels are referred to the planets of the ancients, and their successive periods of dominion are taken in the following order- orifiel representing saturn anael venus zachariel jupiter raphael mercury samael mars gabriel luna michael sol the first course of these rulers ended in anno mundi 2480. the noachian deluge is placed at 1656, in the reign of samael. the destruction of the tower of babel (see tarot trump, no. xvi, page 63) occured in the second reign of orifiel; the life of abraham in the second reign of zachariel; the life of moses in the second reign of raphael; pythagoras, xer

ELIPHAS LEVI THE CONJURATION OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS

n of these hidden forces of nature. but we live in an age in which men have not the courage to confess the miracles they witness; and if anyone says "i have seen or have done myself the things which i relate" he will be told "either you are making sport of us or you are sick" it is better to keep silence and act. the metals that correspond to the four elementary forms are gold and silver for air; mercury for water; iron and copper for fire; and lead for earth. talismans are prepared from them, having relation to the forces which they represent, and to the effects proposed to be obtained. divination by the four elementary forms named aeromancy, hydromancy, pyromancy, and geomancy, is made in diverse ways, which all depend upon the will and transparency or imagination of the operator. in tru

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metaphysical speculation concerning the secrets of nature, the alchemists arrived at the axiom that nature was divided into four principal regions: the dry, the moist, the warm, the cold, from which all that exists must be derived. nature was also divisible into the male and the female. she is the divine breath, the central fire, invisible yet ever active, and is typified by sulphur, which is the mercury of the sages, which slowly fructifies under the genial warmth of nature. thus, the alchemist had to be ingenuous, of a truthful disposition, and gifted with patience and prudence, following nature in every alchemical performance. he recalled that like attracts like, and had to know how to obtain the seed of metals, which was produced by the four elements through the will of the supreme bei

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

augmented with the alchemical spirit of life, and the exaltation of the philosophic earth is accomplished by the natural rectification of its elements. when these processes have been successfully completed, the mystic stone will have passed through three chief stages characterised by different colours, black, white, and red, after which it is capable of infinite multication, and when projected on mercury, it will absolutely transmute it, the resulting gold bearing every test. the base metals made use of must be purified to insure the success of the operation. the process for the manufacture of silver is essentially similar, but the resources of the matter are not carried to so high a degree. according to the commentary on the ancient war of the knights the transmutations performed by the p

old as the philosophers stone and now lost to us. in the four principal substances of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, and azote, we have the tetractus of pythagoras and the tetragram of the chaldeans and egyptians. all the sixty elements are referable to these original four. the ancient alchemical theory claimed that all the metals are the same in their composition, that all are formed from sulphur and mercury, and that the difference between them is according to the proportion of these substances in their composition. further, all the products of minerals present in their composition complete identity with those substances most opposed to them. for example, fulminating acid contains precisely the same quantity of carbon, oxygen, and azote as cyanic acid, and cyanhydric acid does not differ from

(or gamaliel) and descends through the sphere of mars. it imparts fortitude in times of war and affliction. 6. tsebaoth, the title of god as lord of hosts. the angel is raphael, through whom its mighty power passes into the sphere of the sun, giving motion, heat, and brightness to it. 7. elion, the title of god as the highest. the angel is michael. the sphere to which he imparts its influence is mercury, giving benignity, motion, and intelligence, with elegance and consonance of speech. 8. adonai, master or lord, governing the angel haniel, and the sphere of venus. 9. shaddai. the virtue of this name is conveyed by cherubim to the angel gabriel and influences the sphere of the moon. it causes increase and decrease, and rules the jinn and protecting spirits. 10. elohim, the source of knowl

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ect number six. magicians wore it bound on their brows and breasts during ceremonies, and it was engraved on the silver reservoirs of magic lamps. the tetragram, symbolic of the four elements, was used in the conjuration of the elementary spirits.sylphs of the air, undines of the water, and the fire salamanders and gnomes of the earth. in alchemy it represented the magical elements salt, sulphur, mercury, and azoth; in mystic philosophy, the ideas spirit, matter, motion, and rest; in hieroglyphs, the man, eagle, lion, and bull. the pentagram, the sign of the microcosm, was held to be the most powerful means of conjuration in any rite. it might represent good as well as evil, for with one point in the ascendant it was the sign of christ, and with two points in the ascendant it was the sign

and selenite; the perfumes, camphor, amber, aloes, white sandalwood, and seed of cucumber. in evocations concerning transcendent knowledge, green was the color chosen for the vestment, or it might be green shot with various colors. the chief ornament was a necklace of encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. magical vestments and appurtenances 961 pearls and hollow glass beads enclosing mercury. agate was the symbolic jewel; narcissus, lily, herb mercury, fumitory, and marjoram the flowers; while the perfumes must be benzoin, mace, and storax. for operations connected with religious and political matters, the magician must don a robe of scarlet and bind on his brow a brass tablet inscribed with various characters. his ring must be studded with an emerald or sapphire, and he must

rett, author of the magus, a seminal text of magical wisdom that stands at the fountainhead of modern magical practice. the mercurii apparently dissolved following the death of so many of its members in the 1830s, though given its secretive nature it could easily have survived much longer. sources: godwin, joscelyn. the theosophical enlightenment. albany: state university of new york press, 1995. mercury also popularly known as quicksilver. known for many centuries, the metal has played an important part in the history of alchemy. in its refined state it forms a coherent, very mobile liquid that at ordinary room temparature was a well-known unique substance. the early alchemists believed that nature formed all metals from mercury, and that it was a living and feminine principle. it went th

history of alchemy. in its refined state it forms a coherent, very mobile liquid that at ordinary room temparature was a well-known unique substance. the early alchemists believed that nature formed all metals from mercury, and that it was a living and feminine principle. it went through many processes, and the metal that evolved was pure or impure according to the locality of its production. the mercury of the philosophers stone needed to be a purified and revivified form of the ordinary metal; as the arabian alchemist geber stated in his summa perfectionis: mercury, taken as nature produces it, is not our material or our physic, but it must be added to. mercury seems to have been an entirely different substance than any ordinary metal or chemical element. depending upon one s interprepat

purified and revivified form of the ordinary metal; as the arabian alchemist geber stated in his summa perfectionis: mercury, taken as nature produces it, is not our material or our physic, but it must be added to. mercury seems to have been an entirely different substance than any ordinary metal or chemical element. depending upon one s interprepation of alchemy as a system of spiritual growth, mercury could be one of several substances or states of consciousness. merlin a legendary british enchanter who lived at the court of king arthur. he emerged as a character in geoffrey of manmouth s historia regum britanniae (completed around 1135 c.e. geoffrey later wrote a complete book on merlin, vita merlini (ca. 1150. according to geoffrey, merlin s mother was a nun, and he was borne of his m

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s a guardian to it, lest the value of so much oil should perish. on the smaller one were these words- abite hinc pessimi fures vos quid vultis, vestris cum oculis emisitiis. abite hinc, vestro cum mercurio petasato caduceato que donum hoc maximum, maximus olybius plutoni sacrum facit. get ye hence, most wicked thieves, what do you desire with your rolling eyes? get ye hence with your broad hatted mercury carrying a wand with twisted snakes. maximus olybius makes this, his greatest offering, sacred to pluto. see "f. licetus" cap. ix, and "scardeonius, de antiq. urbis patavinae; rubeus, de destillatione" and "lazius, wolfhang" lib. iii, cap.18. hermolaus barbarus, in his corollary to dioscorides, speaks of a wondrous liquor to sustain combustion, known to democritus and trismegistus. jacobus

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

s monitor the location and effects of phoenix. its members also deal with the periodic arrival of groups from other solar systems. some are highly evolved and benign, others less developed and belligerent. according to korsholm, the members of the planetary council are: horus, representing the sun, coordinates the council s work with that of higher space intelligences and christ councils. hermes (mercury) is in charge of communication through space. adonis (venus) guides the evolution of love and beauty. enoch (earth) oversees prophecy. croesus (mars) is responsible for the coordination of council activities with the dictates of the ascended masters in the brotherhood of light. athena (the asteroid belt, formerly the planet maldek) defends truth and justice. jove (jupiter) balances magneti

heads. these beings lived on the now-lost pacific continent of lemuria. by the time the fourth root race, dwelling on atlantis, appeared on earth, the present human form had developed. humans represent the fifth root race. in the relatively near future, the sixth root race will replace humans. after the seventh root race has risen and fallen, a new cycle of civilizations will begin on the planet mercury. blavatsky claimed as her source for these revelations an archaic manuscript a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknown process. on the first page is an immaculate white disk within a dull black ground. on the following page, the same disk, but with a central point (blavatsky, 1889. these stanzas of dzyan recorded the hidden history of th

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ng to betray you; well, here s the astrologer; ask him, i pray you. circle on circle, hour and house he knows. tell us then what the heavenly aspect shows. murmurs. two rogues- each to the other knowndreamer and fool- so near the thronean ancient ditty- worn and weakthe fool will prompt- the sage will speakastrologer [mephistopheles prompting him. the sun himself is gold of purest ray, the herald mercury serves for love and pay; dame venus has bewitched you all, for she, in youth and age, looks on you lovingly. chaste luna has her humours whimsical; the strength of mars, though striking not, threats all; and jupiter is still the fairest star. saturn is great, small to our eyes and far; him as a metal we don t venerate, little in worth but heavy in his weight. ah, when with sol chaste luna

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ingly authoritative writers must be right, and it is indeed a remarkable testimony to the prominence and importance of the hermetic writings and to the early and complete success of the hermes trismegistus legend as to their authorship and antiquity that lactantius, writing in the third century, and augustine in the fourth, both accept the legend unquestioningly. after quoting cicero on the fifth mercury as he "who gave c.h, ii, p. 328. 6 hermes trismegistus letters and laws to the egyptians, lactantius, in his institutes, goes on to say that this egyptian hermes "although he was a man, yet he was of great antiquity, and most fully imbued with every kind of learning, so that the knowledge of many subjects and arts acquired for him the name of trismegistus. he wrote books and those in great

exercise the wit than to elevate the knowledge. for as for morality, it stirred not in egypt until trismegistus' time, who was indeed long before the sages and philosophers of greece, but after abraham, isaac, jacob, joseph, yea and moses also; for at the time when moses was born, was atlas, prometheus' brother, a great astronomer, living, and he was grandfather by the mother's side to the elder mercury, who begat the father of this trismegistus.2 augustine thus confirmed with the great weight of his authority the extreme antiquity of hermes trismegistus, who was "long before the sages and philosophers of greece. and by giving him 1 see below, pp. 169, 172-3. 2 de civ. dei, xviii, xxix; quoted in john healey's translation. ii hermes trismegistus this curious genealogy, whereby he is dated

manuscript contained. he dedicated the translation to cosimo, and this dedication, or argumentum as he calls it, reveals the state of mind, the attitude of profound awe and wonder, in which he had approached this marvellous revelation of ancient egyptian wisdom. in that time in which moses was born flourished adas the astrologer, brother of prometheus the physicist and maternal uncle of the elder mercury whose nephew was mercurius trismegistus.1 so the argumentum begins, with a slightly garbled version of the augustinian genealogy of hermes, which at once places him in extreme antiquity, and almost in a mosaic context. augustine has written of mercurius, continues ficino, also cicero and lactantius. he repeats the information from cicero that mercurius "gave laws and letters" to the egypti

the figure (magic character) of the sun" 1 picatrix, lib. ii, cap. 12 (sloane 1305, ff. 52 recto ff. 2 the planet images are listed in lib. ii, cap. 10 (sloane 1305, ff. 43 recto ff. 52 hermes trismegistus and magic an image of venus "the form of a woman with her hair unbound riding on a stag, having in her right hand an apple, and in her left, flowers, and dressed in white garments" an image of mercury "the form of a man having a cock on his head, on a throne, having feet like those of an eagle, with fire in the palm of his left hand and having below his feet this sign (a magic character' an image of luna "the form of a woman with a beautiful face on a dragon, with horns on her head, with two snakes wound around her. a snake is wound around each of her arms, and above her head is a drago

beautiful girl, seated, with ears of corn in her hand and nursing a child.1 this decan image in this actual form, with the child, is drawn not from picatrix, but from albumazar, whom ficino mentions as the source. it is the only decan image which he describes all his other images are planet images and he is not sure whether it is right to use it. he then says that if you want to obtain gifts from mercury, you should make his image on tin or silver, with the sign of virgo and characters of virgo and mercury; and the decan image for the first face of virgo may be added "if this is to be used. this talisman would thus consist of the image of mercury, some signs and characters, and perhaps the virgo image with the child. note that the talisman is not a medical talisman, but to obtain intellect

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orath, demon of. constructing sigils with planetary cameas/ 115 table of venus numbers hebrew letters seals or characters of venus her intelligence her demons ivine names in accord with the numbers of venus numbe in hebrew. 49. e of. 1 enus. d rs divine names 7. aha hagiel, intelligencus. ven 175. kedemel, demon of venus. 232. beni seraphim, intelligence of v. 116/ practical sigil magic table of mercury numbers hebrew letters constructing sigils with planetary cameas/ 117 seals or characters of mercury his intelligence his demons divine names in accord with the numbers of mercury numbers divine names in hebrew 8. asboga, prolonged number eight. 64. din. 64. dani. 260. tiriel, intelligence of mercury. 2080. taphthartharath, demon or mercury. 118/ practical sigil magic table of the moon num

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red years ago when life and liberty were endangered by the expression of opinions in advance of the commonly accepted views. it was for this reason that the alchemists who had studied more deeply that the majority, were forced to embody their teachings in highly allegorical and symbolical language. their teaching concerning the spiritual evolution of man, and their use of the terms salt, sulphur, mercury, and azoth, so mystifying to the masses, were nevertheless rooted in cosmic truths, highly illuminating to the initiate. the students of the rosicrucian teachings who have learned how the world came into being and the process of gradual creation should have no difficulty in properly understanding every part of the alchemist's language. we know in the first place, that there was a time when

now that there was a difficulty, and had no outside help been given the race must have died out. therefore the angels from the moon, who were the guardians of mankind, herded the sexes together in great temples at times when the interplanetary lines of force were propitious to propagation and thus they perpetuated the race. it was also proposed that when the brain had been completed, the lords of mercury, elder brothers of our present humanity who excelled in intelligence, should teach us how to use the mind and make it truly creative so that we would no longer be dependent upon the separate sexual process of generation now in vogue. thus by the work of these two great hierarchies, we were raised from unconsciousness to the first stage of creative intelligence, from plant to god. we have a

d. the fiery lucifer spirits who have taken such a baneful part in man's evolution became associated with the fiery element "sulphur" the alchemists said that man is rendered unconscious and dies by continuous inhalation of this element; so man, the spirit, was rendered unconscious of and dead to the spiritual realms by the teachings which were instilled into him by the lucifer spirits. the metal mercury, they contended, is the most elusive of all metals. it will penetrate and evaporate through most substances with which it is brought in contact; and therefore they likened it to the lords of mercury who are past masters in penetrating the secrets of nature by the mind. mercury is also capable of freeing the spirit from its physical prison house. by the process of generation carried on at a

hway of evolution as originally planned. from this path he strayed into the byways of degeneration, led by the lucifer spirits, and is therefore now as it were in a slough from which he cannot extricate himself save with the help of others further advanced than he. when this becomes apparent to him and he starts to search for light, he stands at the pathway of regeneration guarded by the lords of mercury who with their wisdom will guide him toward the desired goal. the method as outlined by the ancient alchemists we shall discuss when we have summed up in a few words the points made. these must be firmly fixed in mind to appreciate the full value of what follows. the creative force used by god to bring a solar system into manifestation, and the force used by the divine hierarchies to form

that shall make his thoughts flesh. three great creative hierarchies were particularly concerned in bringing about this change: the angels from the moon, the mercurians, and the lucifer spirits from mars. the alchemists connected the angels from the moon, which rules the saline tides, with the element salt, the lucifer spirits from mars with the element sulphur, and the mercurians with the metal mercury. they used this symbolic presentation partly because of the religious intolerance which made it unsafe to promulgate any other teaching than that sanctioned by the orthodox church of that day, and partly because humanity as a whole was not yet ready to accept the truths which were embodied in their philosophy. they also spoke of a fourth element, azoth, a name composed of the first and las

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

hith, which by many qabalists is spelt be'raishith, which means gthrough wisdom h, or through the word or principle which expresses wisdom- namely the logos of philo and st. john. a similar idea is found in the chaldaic word memrah, in the vach of the rig veda, honover of the zend avesta, and in the boundless light of latter-day buddhists. nebo was the babylonian god of wisdom, and his planet was mercury. moses, the supposed originator of the qabalah, was buried on mount nebo. bo, bod, boden, and in china fo, are all gods of wisdom. amongst the buddhists and brahmins the day of wisdom is wednesday. amongst the scandinavians we have wo, wod, and woden; in egypt, thoth; in classical greece, hermes; and among the romans, mercury- all gods of wisdom, whose day is the fourth day of the week, we

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

nd mother of all the earth. she represents not only creative power but perceptive wisdom. although this goddess is usually seen with the lotus in her hand, she sometimes carries ripe corn or wheat. the mother of gotama buddha was called mai or maya, after the month in which the earth is arrayed in her most beautiful attire. maya is the parent of universal nature. according to davis, the mother of mercury "is the universal genius of nature which discriminated all things according to their various kinds of species" the same as was muth of egypt. mai is said to mean "one who begins to illuminate" she was in fact the mother of the sun whence everything proceeds. she was matter, within which was concealed spirit. in the representations of montfaucon appears the goddess isis sitting on the lotus

first, and of the seven principles of man, the physical body was the earliest. through evolutionary processes, or through cyclic periods involving millions of years, mind was developed, and in course of time spirit was finally manifested. mai, the mother of gotama buddha, was simply matter, or illusion, from which its higher manifestation, mind or spirit, was emerging. she was also the mother of mercury. a clearer knowledge of the philosophical doctrines which were elaborated at a time when nature-worship was beginning to decay, reveals the fact that the god-idea comprehended a profound knowledge of nature and her laws; that while this people did not pretend to account for the existence of matter, they recognized a force operating through it whose laws were unchanged and unchanging. with

were used to decorate their homes. this festival is said to be the most ancient of any known, and during the earlier and purer ages of human faith was celebrated in honor of returning spring. in later ages, however, after passion had become the only recognized god, may-day was celebrated with "all manner of obscenity and lewdness" although the uneducated masses among the gauls worshipped apollo, mercury, and mars without understanding their true significance, the druids, who are thought to be pythagorians, invoked one great power, the animating force which pervades the universe, the essence of which they believed resides in fire. it is related that although after the introduction of romish christianity, may fires still continued to be lighted on bealtine day, the more impressive ceremonie

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

t had so delighted him with its stories of the 'hidden city of ad' and of that 'other and greater city which iscalledirem. this was the city,raisedon pillars, that contained the great secret of earthly riches and had as its chief treasure 'a chest of goldfilledwith a red powder. waite could not know then that 'this is the powder of alchemyand the philosopher's stone. it is encircled by a river of mercury; for 'what should1know in my childhood concerning the stoneat the red, or thatestinmercurioquicquidquaeruntsapientesibut the talismanicseedof this romance of alchemyfellunawares in receptive soilandbecameaplant which iwas destinedto tend long afterin my own garden of the mind'(sly,p.28).beforethisalchemicalplantfloweredwaitehaddiscoveredboth spiritualism and theosophy-and found both of the

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

esent in a second vase as a guardian to it, lest the value of so much oil should perish. onthesmaller one were these words: abite kinepessimifures vos quiduultis,vestriscumoculisemisitiis.abite hinc,vestrocummercuriopetasatocaduceatoquedonumhocmaximum, maximusolybiuspluumisacrumtacit. get ye hence, most wicked thieves, what do you desire with your rolling eyes? get ye hence with your broad hatted mercury carrying a wand with twisted snakes. maximus olybius makes this, his greatest offering, sacred to pluto. see f. licetus, cap.ix.,andscardeonius,de antiq.urbispataoine;rubeus,de destillatione,and lazius, wolfhang, lib.iii.,cap. 18.thoughts ontheever-burning lamps 63hermolaus barbarus, in his corollary to dioscorides, speaks of a wondrous liquor to sustain combustion, known to democ255 ritus

and repulsion, they ascend and they descend, even as we see in an analogous manner the sun of our universe holds by attraction all the planets in their courses, and yet maintains an adequate repulsion between it and them at the due distances from itself, and so saves them from annihilation in its central fire. in alchemic language again we find the terms of the four255 fold scheme; salt, sulphur, mercury, and azoth, and azot again is a summary of the types of opposition, the firsts and the lasts in greek, roman and hebrew letters. rosicrucianism again develops the tetragrammaton in its religio-physical conceptions, and inri which shines in burn255 ing letters on the cross of the jesus who was christ, or holy, becomes alike 'igne naturae renovatur integra 'nature by fire is renewed in its i

birds; and phantasus who supplied the scenery of dreams. morning dreams they said came true most often.ifanyone desired a prophetic dream he was taught that he must become very careful in his diet, must avoid raw fruit and beans, and also all wine for three days, and then go to a temple and consult the priests who clothed him in a white garment, and he was instructed to propitiate hermes, that is mercury, before going to his sleep, for mercury presided over a man's sleeping hours (homer in hymn xiv. some persons also carried out this200themagical masonprocedure in their own homes.theeating of fish was said to make dreams obscure and meaningless or deceptive. when a dream seemed to be of doubtful meaning, a soothsayer calledmanteiswas consulted, who said he must appeal according to circumst

e future events of the life, and also certain particulars of the character of the individual; a study of much interest.202themagical masonthere is a hint of such a scheme in job, xxxvii, 7, which was known to aristotle and practised by the emperor augustuscresar.sortilegium-lotsamong the ancient greeks and romans the divination bysortes,that is by casting lots, was in very common use. hermes, the mercury of the romans, was supposed to preside over this system of discovering the will of the gods. inkleromantela,dice, black and white pebbles or beans were used; they were thrown into a vessel, together with an olive leaf to appease hermes; this leaf was, after due prayers, first taken out, and then the fateful lot was drawn. stichomanteia this was another method in frequent use; it was a divi

word. so there are two words for sun and two for moon, but where sun and moon are referred to in association, they are alwaysshemeshand!rack,orkhammahandlebanah.thebible has no suggestion that the jews were aware of the power of the moon over the tides; but the small seasof palestine have no tide, nor has the mediterranean sea.theancients recognised sevenplanets,-saturn,jupiter, mars, venus, and mercury with the sun and moon. we now speak of saturn, jupiter, mars, venus and mercury as planets moving around the sun with the earth as their companion, and the moon as the earth's satellite. there is no evidence that the ancient nations were aware that the moon had any closer relation to the earth than the other planets.thebible gives no recognition to the group of planets as such, or as disti

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

n isis255 urania temple. transcribed by w.e.h. humphreys, 2 july 1900.]4.theazoth lecturelazothis a word formed: from the initials and thefirial letters of the latin, greek and hebrew alphabets, a; z;253andc>(olong)andmandm:thusazrom.itis used with various meanings by. different writers;butit generally..267 signifies beginning and end; the astral light wherein are the elements and the philosophic mercury extracted from sol; or it may mean essence. 2. the cross with equal arms +represents the equation of theelementsandhence is derived its meaning of corrosion and corruption or resolutionofanything into its component parts, 3.theterms raven or crow, lion and eagle, have various alchemical significations. generally: raven or crow=inhibition through blackness lion=heat and sulphurous action ea

d and yesod, and rests on malkuth. also the calvary cross of six squares refers to the six sephiroth of microprosopus, the sun and forms the cube opened out.38 thesorcererand his apprentice44. the symbol of venus on the tree of life embraces the whole of the sephiroth and is therefore the fitting symbol of the isis of nature. hence, also, its circle is always to be represented larger than that of mercury.0 267 267.'45. the mode of using the talismanic forms drawn from the geomantic figures is to take those yielded by the figures under the planet required, and to place them at the opposite ends of the 8 radii of a wheel as shewn. occasionally also a square of any convenient number of apartments may be substituted for the wheel.theazoth lecture3946. these are the geomantic figures arranged i

inx which turns its head towards the78thesorcerer and his apprenticeother is black and menacing, the otheriswhite and calm. on the square which forms the front of the chariot we see the indian lingam surmounted by the flying globe of the egyptians.10. the wheeloffortune.a wheel of seven spokes, the cosmogonical wheel of ezekiel, with a dog-headed figure ascending on one side (anubis, the egyptian mercury; and a demon descending on the other (the egyptian evil deity, typhon; the former of these bears a caduceus, the latter a trident; both figures are bound to the wheel. above them is a sphinx at the balance-point of the wheel, holding a drawn sword between its lion's claws.12. the devil.throned on a cube above the universe is a goat-headed, satyr-like figure, bearing on its brow the pentagr

y the female and the lionrepresentedthe idea of venus (lady) offire of vulcan (hinexalted).but'the earliest attribution was the lion-goddess (or lion-god of.'horus)to.q.andmatthegoddess oftruthwith herscales'to, and this is therefore better. alsowas attributed to.225..horus at one time. so unto the 'foolish man' is attributed air, moveable .and'.never permanent.the'juggler' isthenatural symbol of mercury, the god of tricksters and also of thedeeper.knowledge.the'high priestess'267 findeth her natural correla. tive in the]j 225venus is the 'empress';cy>is the emperor, forthesun is exaltedinthat martial and commanding sign. and so also with the others, in each shalt thou find its natural attribution.notebyv.h.fra.'srioghailmodhreamamongthegreeks and romans there existed a peculiar attributio

rding to the kabalistic theory and treatment of numbers, every planet, and therefore every number, and everyoneofthe great gods or archangels, had itsownkey number; and making a magicsquareout of this key number, you arrive at other numbers, thesumof the column, and the total sum ofthenumbers and so forth. by substituting the hebrew letters for the numbers certain names are obtained- and thus for mercury we get the name tirial, as. the 267key number for the great. number 225 taphthartharath,whichis. the. name of the presiding spirit.:now those names were simply given because to the jewish initiates they at once gave thekeynumberofthattaphthartharath.theyadded up the numerical value of the letters, and. thus arrived at the key number, just as if doctors were to agree among themselves upon s

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

h sophia (saturn) we have deliberately chosen gnostic names here to prepare you for there use in our gnostic model of the universe as presented in the next chapter. chokmah and binah also form the polarity of male and female principles which give birth to the rest of the tree of life (they could also be easily related to the fire and ice of yggdrasil. geburah mars chesed jupiter tiphareth sun hod mercury netzach venus yesod moon malkuth earth these planes or world, which can be related to planets and realities bring together the remaining the gnostic handbook page 21 characteristics with the astral plane at the moon and the earth at the base. there are many attributions related to the kabbalah and as a system of classification it is extremely useful. again we must avoid the tendency toward

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

re destroyers, the pestilence that walks in darkness. sephira. planet. angel. intelligence. spirit. kether. primum mobile. chokmah. the zodiac. binah. saturn (shabbathai. cassial agiel. zazel. chesed. jupiter (tzedek. sachiel. iophiel. hismeal. geburah. mars (madim. zamael. graphiel. bartzabel. tiphareth. sun (shemesh. michael. nakhiel. sorath. netzach. venus (nogah. hanael. hagiel. kedemel. hod. mercury (kokab. raphael. tiriel. taphthartharath. yesod. moon (levanah. gabriel. malkah be schad barschemoth ha-shartathan tarshisim ve-ad ruachoth schechalim. malkuth. earth. fig 25 gnostic theurgy page 99 to conclude to conclude this introduction to kabbalah, i wish to share with you a more poetic outline of the tree of life. this was originally published in the book of lies, a paradoxical outli

odily postures, dates and timing as many other correspondences. both the druidic traditions and the runic seem to have much in common with the ariosophic hebraic forms. while the outer form may vary, the essential gnosis remains the same. the legend of odin in norse mythology odin is the god of magic, his name originates from the anglo-saxon and means pure spirit. he may be equated with thoth and mercury, but has many discrete and unique characteristics. odin is believed to be responsible for bringing runecraft to humanity. as part of his initiatory quest he hung on the world tree (ygdrassill) for nine days and nights and finally, falling from the tree, grasped the runes to his bosom and brought them back to earth. the kabbalistic imagery here is obvious, and shows how widely the shamanic

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

s such as workings of the divine will, or angelick holy guardian angel. the athame is also used in circulating and visualizing light around the self encircling the being. you will want to decorate the handle in the runes of summoning and protection, as first described in the key of solomon the king (clavicula salomonis, translated by s.l. macgregor mathers. the blade should be made in the hour of mercury when in the sign of the ram or scorpion. you may alternatively conduct such when the moon is waning in a more probable time frame. when you obtain a white handled knife, roughly six inches long wait until the moon is waning. fill a bucket or basin with distilled and purified water and pour salt, abramelin oil and a few drops of your own blood. you will then wish to have a small fire which

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS C C1

is traced in the center. the order has a very specific way of tracing the planetary symbols. this information appears in unpublished material written by s.l. macgregor mathers, g.h. frater s.r.m.d. l k f a c b y y q p as stated earlier, the two triangles are traced from opposite angles on the tree. 8 for the first triangle begin with: for the second triangle begin with: saturn l luna y jupiter k mercury b mars f venus c venus c mars f mercury b jupiter k luna y saturn l note: l takes the place of the tud on the tree. a and the supernals are treated differently. method of invoking or banishing a the sun is treated in a different manner. when thou wishes to invoke the sun, all of the six invoking hexagrams of the planets must be traced in their regular planetary order. the symbol of a shall

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

r: subservient angel of air angle of earth tablet. aal: cacodemon of earth angle of air tablet. aala/ ala: placed you. aala: put/ place (v) aana: kerubic angel of water angle of fire tablet. aanaa: kerubic name of water angle of fire tablet. aao ial pir gah: amongst the flames of first glory. aao: aaf/ among/ cacodemon of water angle of air tablet. aaodt: angel, also known as aadt. aaoth: name of mercury perimeter. aaozaif: senior of jupiter on the air tablet. aapdoce: senior of venus, on the fire tablet. aavan: angel, also known as aaan. aavna: angel, also known as aana. aax: cacodemon, counterpart of the angel axir. aaxp: subservient angel of air angle of water tablet. ab: angel (filia filarum lucis) associated with luna. ab: name of jupiter heptagon 2. aba: cacodemon of fire angle of ea

tablet. abraasa/ abraassa: provide/ provided. abramg: abrang/ i prepare/ i have prepared. abramig: prepare/ are prepared. acam: 7699. acar: subservient angel of fire angle of fire tablet, also known as acrar. acca: subservient angel of fire angle of air tablet. also known as acuca. achildao: with diamonds. acl: cacodemon of water angle of water tablet. aclondoh: in thy kingdom. acmbicu: senior of mercury on the earth tablet. acocasb: time. acon: subservient angel of earth angle of air tablet. acop: subservient angel of earth angle of water tablet. acp: cacodemon of water angle of air tablet. acps: kerubic angel of earth angle of fire tablet. acrar: angel, also known as acar. acroodzi: beginning, also croodzi. acuca: angel, also known as acca. aczinor: senior of jupiter on the earth tablet

tablet. aglo: in thy. agmm: subservient angel of water angle of water tablet. aha: cacodemon of earth angle of air tablet. ahaozpi: senior of venus on the air tablet. ah-deh-er-reh/ ah-deh-reh: adre, angel. ahd: cacodemon of air angle of water tablet. ah-ee-ah-oh-ah-ee: aiaoai, divine name. ahli: subservient angel of water angle of earth tablet. ahmbicv: acmbicu, senior of air. ahmlicv: senior of mercury on the earth tablet. ahx: cacodemon of earth angle of water tablet. aia: cacodemon of fire angle of earth tablet. aiab: subservient angel of fire angle of earth tablet. aiaoai: calling angel of earth angle of air tablet. 5 aidrom: laidrom, senior of earth. aigra: angel, also known as aira ail: cacodemon of fire angle of water tablet. aio: cacodemon of earth angle of fire tablet. aira: subs

t. ananael: of the secret wisdom/ wisdom. ancro: angel, also known as anro. and: cacodemon of air angle of water tablet. andispi: governor of the third division of the aethyr zom (9. anetab: in government. angelard: thought (n/ thoughts. angpoi: calling angel of air angle of earth tablet. anh: cacodemon of air angle of water tablet. ani: cacodemon of fire angle of water tablet. anodoin: senior of mercury on the fire tablet. anrg: subservient angel of earth angle of fire tablet. anro: angel, companion of roan, also ancro. anvaa: angel, also known as anaa. aoc: cacodemon of water angle of air tablet. aocp: subservient angel of water angle of air tablet. aoiveae: star/ stars. aom: cacodemon of earth angle of fire tablet. aomi: angel, companion of iaom, also aosmi. aoo/ aop: cacodemon of earth

stars. aom: cacodemon of earth angle of fire tablet. aomi: angel, companion of iaom, also aosmi. aoo/ aop: cacodemon of earth angle of earth tablet. aopn: subservient angel of earth angle of earth tablet. aor: cacodemon, counterpart of the angel ormn. aorx: subservient angel of earth angle of earth tablet. aosmi: angel, also known as aomi. aot: cacodemon of air angle of air tablet. aoth: name of mercury (corrected) perimeter. aourrz: calling name of fire angle of air tablet. aox: cacodemon of fire angle of air tablet. aozpi: holy name of god, ruling the element of air. apa: cacodemon of water angle of air tablet. apachana "the slimy things made of dust" apahr: angel, also known as aphr. apata: demonic name (reversal of atapa) commanding cacodemons of fire of water. 7 apbr: subservient ang

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U7

j capricorn a indigo (blue violet) k aquarius a# violet l pisces b magenta (violet-red) the mother letters (with the new planets) letter planet scale color sounds flash on c shin. pluto c red f# green a aleph uranus e yellow a# violet m mem n neptune g blue d orange fundamental notes of the planets planet scale color planet sounds flash on f mars c red venus f# green a sun d orange moon g# blue b mercury e yellow jupiter a# violet c venus f# green mars c red 12 y moon g# blue sun d orange k jupiter a# violet venus e yellow l saturn a indigo f green-yelatconsecration ceremony for a venus talisman r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the magus should be garbed in the regalia of the hierophant, and should in addition, wear a seal of k in the appropriate colors behind the la

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z3

, it is well to use the password then in being as an adjunct to the other names employed in magical ceremonies as bringing into operation the link with the solar light. notes on the opening exordium of z the great tho-oth is the highest aspect of the hermes of the most ancient egyptian mysteries, and corresponds almost to the great angel wrffm. it is the archangel of rtk in the briatic world. the mercury of the romans must not be confused with this great hermes* the doctrines of gnosticism and of valentinus approached those of the pure qabalah. in them we find speech and silence. across the abyss of silence comes the primal speech. the divine ones here referred to are the aeons in the atziluthic world. these formulae of knowledge are designed in terms cognizable to us in the lower world. h

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM21

. the god of wisdom is in my heart. my tongue is the sanctuary of truth and a god sitteth upon my lips. my word is accomplished every day, and the desire of my heart realizes itself as that of ptah when he created his works. i am eternal, therefore all things are of my design. therefore, do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in silence, unutterable wisdom, all light or power. thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity. come thou forth i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. thou star of the east that didst conduct the magi, thou art the same all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness, rising, descending, changing ever yet ever the same. the sun is thy father; thy mother the mo

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM7

god of wisdom is in my heart. my tongue is the sanctuary of truth, and a god sitteth upon my lips. my word is accomplished every day, and the desire of my heart realizes itself as that of ptah when he created his works. i am eternal, therefore all things are of my design. therefore, do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence, unutterable wisdom, all light or power. thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity. come thou forth i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. thou star of the east that didst conduct the magi, thou art the same, all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness, rising, descending, changing ever, yet ever the same. the sun is thy father; thy mother the

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

e world. he concluded, i berosus, interpreter of bellus, affirm that all the earth inherits will be consigned to flame when the five planets assemble in cancer, so arranged in one row that a straight line may pass through their spheres. 9 a conjunction of five planets that can be expected to have profound gravitational effects will take place on 5 may in the year 2000 when neptune, uranus, venus, mercury and mars will align with earth on the other side of the sun, setting up a sort of cosmic tug-of-war.10 let us also note that modern astrologers who have charted the mayan date for the end of the fifth sun calculate that there will be a most peculiar arrangement of planets at that time, indeed an arrangement so peculiar that it can only occur once in 45,200 years. from this extraordinary pa

7. 26 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, p. 24. 27 breaking the maya code, p. 275. 28 will the world survive? watch tower bible and tract society, 1992. 29 circulating file, earth changes, extracts from the edgar cayce readings, edgar cayce foundation, virginia beach, 1994, p. 36. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 478 effects will take place on 5 may in the year 2000, when neptune, uranus, venus, mercury and mars will align with the earth on the other side of the sun, setting up a sort of cosmic tug-of-war. 30 could the recondite influences of gravity, when combined with our planet s precessional wobble, the torsional effects of its axial rotation, and the rapidly growing mass and weight of the antarctic ice-cap, be enough to spark off a full-scale crustal displacement? we may never know

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

d of the kerub s= same as triangle no. 1 a= color of angle wands= fire, yod, red cups= water, he, blue swords= air, vau, yellow pantacles= earth, he, black the colors of the lesser watchtower squares are determined from the astrological and planetary signs as follows: red= firey= sun, jupiter, aries, cancer, libra, capricom blue= watery= mars, taurus, leo, scorpio, aquarius yellow= airy= saturas, mercury, gemini, virgo, sagittarius, pisces black= earthy= venus, moon, fire, air, water, saturn as a general role, complementary colors should be used when coloring the sides of truncated pyramids as follows: blue squares/pyramid sides have orange lettering yellow squares/pyramid sides have purple lettering black squares/pyramid sides have white lettering red squares/pyramid sides have green lett

cumbersome sword with the quicker, and equally effective, dagger. the sword dissociates and divides, but the dagger pierces te the heart. its chief function is the letting of blood and thereby it forces calmness. like the sword, the dagger is associated with the cosmic element air. note: it is sometimes said that the wand should be associated with air because the caduceus was the wand of the god mercury who has traditionally been associated. with air. this would associate the dagger and sword with fire. this fine of reasoning concludes that crowley and the golden dawn used deliberate blinds here to fool the unwary. rather than take sides on this issue, you should first experiment with both combinations and then choose whichever works best for you. 56 57 the maglcal robe the robe is that w

the silence the planetary influences in the four great crosses are shown in figures 1 to 4, appendix d. how these forces influence the calvary crosses is shown in figures 16 to 31, appendix a. the primary meanings of these signs are given below. sun: will power, vitality, creativity. it rules over leo. moon: instinct, habit, personality, feeling, memory, imagination, receptivity. it rules cancer. mercury: power of communicat ion, intel l igence, reason, mobility, self-expression. it rules gemini and virgo. venus: love, beauty, harmony. it roles taurus and libra. mars: passion, desire, energy, courage, initiative. it rules aries and scorpio. j piter: higher xni.nd, wisdom, optimism, spon74 taneity, enthusiasm, benevolence, generosity. it rules sagittarius and pisces. saturn: satan, contract

eapons will automatically become ppowerfultalismans. they will become charged with your own emotional and psychic energies. additional talismans can be made for specific ppurposesbut all should come under the following general headings: earth: taurus, virgo, capricorn, venus, moon, pentacle, black, north. water: cancer, scorpio, pisces, mars, cup, blue, west. air: gemini, libra, aquarius, saturn, mercury, sword, yellow, east. fire: aries, leo, sagittarius, sun, jupiter, wand, red, south. 94 when you practice the exercise to gain the knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel, you will need to design and make your own talisman of iliatai. figure 5 shows an example of such a talisman design. the watchtowers and tablet of union can be used for talismans. figures 15 through 31 in a

come forward and bestow the imagination of the moon upon my wand (see the power of imagination entering finto your wand. aapdoke (ah-ah-ped-oh-keh, 1 invoke you from the watchtower of fire to come forward and bestow the beauty of venus upon my wand (see beauty enter-mg finto your wand. anodoin (ah-noh-doh-ee-neh, 1 invoke you from the watchtower of fire to come forward and bestow the mobility of mercury upon my wand (see the power of motion entering finto your wand. 109 arinnap (ah-ree-neh-nah-peh, 1 invoke you from the watchtower of fire to come forward and bestow the ambition of saturn upan my wand (see the forces of ambition entering into your wand. step 4. know your wand to be the physical embodiment of these fire qualities. hold up your wand before you and say, kab bitom-zizop (kah-b

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

the elohim god-goddesses. expressively by the planet nogah (venus. humanly this is where emotions and feelings begin in the foetus. 8 splendour, glory and honour. originatively by the god-aspect elohim tzva ot (god-goddesses of hosts. creatively by archangel rafael (healer of god. formatively by the angelic order of the b nay-elohim (sons of the god- goddesses. expressively by the planet kochav (mercury or hermes. humanly 9 this is where the unborn get their intelligence and intellect from. 9 foundation or basis. originatively by the god-aspect shadai el chai (powerful/almighty lord of life).creatively byarchangelgavriel (virility ofgod. formatively by the angelic order of the ishim (souls of fire. expressively by levanah (themoon, which is closest to this planet. this is the sphere of fa

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

nd; partly, under some altered guise, in the more fluid but fuller form of the folk-tale. this last applies more to the goddesses, the former to the gods. gods and heroes are found in the very names of runes, the first of which in old norse is freyr, others are thor, zio, eor, asc, man, but nowhere goddesses. the gods that have kept the firmest hold are the three marked in the days of the week as mercury, jupiter, mars; and of these, wuotan stands out the most distinct. jonas, fredegar, paulus diaconus and the abrenuntiatio name him, he towers at the head of ancient lines of kings, many places bear the indelible impress of his name. woedenspanne signified a part of the human hand, as the north named another part' lilf-lisr' wolf-lith, after the god t^r. unexpectedly our 13th centuiy has pr

s folia (fulness, i attach importance to taranis =donar, to gwydion= wuotan, to beal=phol or balder, and i am not sure but that hesus is the same as cheru, and that segomon (p. 371) ought not to be overlooked. needfires and may-offerings xxx preface. are subjects for consideration. it would greatly advance our knowledge of wuotan^s true nature, if we could ascei-tain how far the celtic worship of mercury differed from the roman; to all appearance that deity was greater to the celts and germans than hermes-mercury was to the greeks and romans; to trismegistus and tervagan i allude on p. 150. all that is left us of the celtic religion, even in stray fragments, bespeaks a more finished mental culture than is to be found in german or norse mythology; there comes out in it more of priestly lore

ares, hermes= donar, zio, wuotan) take lodging with hyrieus, and after being feasted, give him leave to ask a favour; he wishes for a son, and they create him one much in the same way as kvasir was engendered (p. 902, conf. 1025n. ovid s fasti 5, 495 535. hyginus 195 relates the same fable of the thracian byrseus. in the beautiful legend of philemon and baucis (ovid's met. 8, 626 721, jupiter and mercury are travelling, and reward their kind entertainers by saving them from the impending deluge (p. 680; a fable of phaedrus makes the divine messenger alone, the god of roads and highways, pass the night with mortals (mercurium, hospitio mulieres olim duae illiberali et sordido receperant. but demeter also is at times represented as travelling and associating with men, as would be natural for

that were allowed the smith of jilterbok: compare also kinderm. no. 147, the netherl. story of smeke in wolps wodana p. 54 secj, and h. sachs iv. 3, 70. but in kinderm. 82, though the player, like the smith, asks for the tree from which one cannot get down, the main point with him is the dice, and the bestowal of them cannot but remind us of wuotan the inventor of dice (p. 150. 1007, and again of mercury. in h. sachs ii. 4, 114 it is only peter that bestows the wishing-die on a landsknecht at work in the garden. but the fabliau st. pierre et le jongleur (meon 3, 282) relates how the juggler fared after death in hell; though nothing is said of travelling or gift-giving, yet peter coming down from heaven in a black beard and smug moustaches and with a set of dice, to win from the showman the

instruments by which song is accompanied. apollo, who in homer plays the phorminx, is said by calliinstruments invented. 907 inaclius to have strung the lyre with seven chords; yet the invention of the lyre is ascribed to hermes^ who gave it to apollo. this is important for its, as in wuotan there is much of hermes and of apollo, with a preponderance of the former. ingenuity is characteristic of mercury, and i can scarcely doubt that in our antiquity, as wuotan was the inventor of writing and rhythm, so he was of some instrument to accompany singing. a confirmation of this is the five-stringed harp (kantelo) of the finns, an invention of their highest god wiiinamoinen, who everywhere represents our wuotan. first he made kantelo of the hones of a pihe, and when it fell into the sea, he mad

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

n sel, und manec engel liehtgevar die kamen mit gesange dar und fuorten in vrceliche inz sclioene liimelriche. geo. 6082, conf. diut. 1, 470. in the brandan (bruns p. 192-3) we read: de duvele streden umme de sele mit sunte michaele; conf. fundgr. 1, 92. gebt mir eine gabe, daz des kiiniges sele von sante michahele hiute gecondwieret si. gute frau 2674; michael having taken upon him the office of mercury or the walchure. a record of the 13th cent (mb. 7, 371) calls him praepositus paradisi et princeps animarum. a still more im portant passage, already noticed at p. 446, occurs in morolt 28 a- b, where three troops are introduced, the black, white and pale: den strtt mahtu gerne schouwen, dens umb die sele suln han/ for similar descriptions in the elder french poets, conf. meon 1, 239.4, 11

! i can see a connexion between valkyrs and hermes, who is wielder of the wishing-rod (p. 419) and conductor of souls to the underworld, tyvxaycoyos ^u^otto/atto, ve/cpoirofjitros. these maids are osin s messengers, as herines is herald of the gods, nay hermes is o&inn himself, to whom the souls belong. thus the god s relation to the dead is an additional proof of the iden tity between wuotan and mercury. a distinction appears in the fact that hermes, like the etruscan gharun (0. miiller 2, 100, conducts to hades, but not, as far as i know, to elysium; valkyrs, on the contrary, to yalholl, and not to hel. further, the function of guardian-spirit is wanting to hermes. this idea of a protecting spirit finds expression more in the personified thanatos (death) of the greek people s faith. he i

GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL

invocation for tuesday (mars) come children of the red genii who have executed the order of the sovereign master of the universe upon the armies of the rash sennacherib, come and assist me in the operation that i undertake under the auspices of the third brilliant luminary of the firmament; be favourable to my entreaties in the name of adonay sabaoth. the secret grimoire invocation of wednesday (mercury: run to me with speed, come to me ye spirits of mercury who preside over the operation of this day, hear favourably the present invocation that i make to you under the divine names of venoel, uranel, be kind and ready to second my undertakings. render them efficacious. the secret grimoire invocation for thursday (jupiter) come speedily ye olepid spirits who preside over the operation of th

al ammonia, roots of gentian, valerian herbs finely cut, a little sulphur, made into a paste with the blood of a black cat. the secret grimoire character of j3ethor lord of jupiter. perfumes sandalwood of the east, leaves of agrimony, choves, powder of henbane. beat all into a powder. make thereof a paste with foxes blood and the brains of a magpie. the secret grimoire character of ophiel lord of mercury. perfumes the seed of an ash tree, the wood of the aloe, leaves of the scullcap herb, mandrake roots, and the end of a quili, made into small balls (pihis. the secret grimoire craracter of hagith lord of venus. perfumes musk, juniper berries, wood of loes, dried red roses, dried leaves of elder, pulvenzed, and made into a paste with the blood of a pigeon. the secret grimoire character of o

of saturu. mael. orael. valnum. spirits of jupiter. setchiel. chedusitanieh. corael messengers of jupiter. tunel (see secret grimoire of turiel. conieh. babiel. intelligences of ju/iter. kadiel. maltiel. huphatrieb. the secret grimoire estael. spirits of venus. thamael. tenariel. arragon. messengers of venus. coiznas. peajel penael. intelligences of venus. penat. thiel. rael teriapel. spirits of mercury. mathlai. tarmiel. baraborat. messengers of mercury. raphael. ramel. doremiel. intelligences of mercury. aiediat. modiat. sugmonos. sal!ales. the secret grimoire presiding spirits of jupiter. sachiel. castiel. asasiel. presiding spirits of venus. anael. rachiel. sachiel. presiding spirits of mars. samael. satael. amabiel. presiding spirits of mercury. raphael. uriel. seraphiel. angeli glor

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

lled the alchemical and hermetic rose cross, and is a very old mystical symbol. it is composed of two rosy crosses united into one: the small rosy cross at the center. representative of man, the microcosm.is in turn the center point of a larger rose residing at the heart of the large cross.symbolic of the macrocosm. upon the four ends of the large cross are inscribed the three alchemical symbols: mercury, sulphur, and salt. at the top of the cross, mercury is placed in the center, sulphur on the left, and salt on the right. upon the other ends of the cross the symbols have been inscribed in such an order as to conform to the esoteric tradition. also upon each arm, adjacent to the alchemical symbols, is the symbol of the pentagram. this five-pointed figure is a symbolic rep [75] resentation

he lower small triangle on the right, with the point upward, represents fire. on the lower arm of the figure, below the large rose, is a hexagram. symbol of the macrocosm.composed of two interlaced triangles. at its points are inscribed the six planets, according to the ancient astrological tradition: at the bottom is the moon, at its right is venus, followed in turn by jupiter, saturn, mars, and mercury. at the center of the hexagram is the sun. the order of arrangement of these symbols conforms to certain kabalistic rituals. the lower end of the longest arm is divided into four sections by two diagonal lines. these sections are colored according to the four colors of malkuth of the kabalistic "tree of life" the four sets of three rays which extend outward from the center of the large cro

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

jacobbehmen-arude, unlettered shoemaker-who, falling, like hispredecessor255mahomet, and his successor-swedenborg, into a 'quasi255 mesmeric state' produced those admirable and voluminous works, theteutonicphilosophy,which thus engendered were merely the reflex of the christianity of his time mixed up with the then all-engrossing theories of the triune, body, soul, andspirit-thesulphur, salt, and mercury of the magi-alchemical philosophers, andexpressedin their peculiar language and phraseology. thus swedenborg anticipated, in his revelations,"zschokke in hisselbstschaustates 'it has happened to me occasionally, at the first meeting with a total stranger, when i have been listening in silence to his conversation, that his past life, up to the present moment, with many minute circumstances

n thisart,the invocant must repeat the ceremonies &c while placing his hands upon the different articles with his face turned towards the east, having done that, he may then place before the circle the table with the crystal thereon together with a candlestick containing a wax-candle on each side. all being ready the invocant and his companions (if any) may enter the circle in the day and hour of mercury (the moon increasing) and commence operations by earnestly invocating the spiritvassago,as an experiment in the following manner.invocation &c.i exorcise, call upon and command the spiritvassagoby and in the name of the immense and everlasting god,jehuvah,adont1:y,elohim,agla;el,on,tetragrammaton,and by and in the name ofourlord and saviour jesus christ, the only son of the eternal andtrue

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

sah and sopdu-hor. sah is almost certainly the great southern constellation known to the greeks as orion. the pyramid texts describe sah of the long stride as a stellar manifestation of osiris. as the lone star, sopdu-hor acted as the herald of the sun god morning and evening. various forms of horus were equated with other planets such as mars, jupiter, and saturn. it is possible that the planet mercury was associated with seth. the constellation we know as the great bear was interpreted by the egyptians as several deities guarding seth s bull form or its severed leg. this is one of the few recognizable parts of the star maps that decorate the ceilings of some royal tombs. the babylonian concept of the stars of the zodiac was introduced into egypt by the greeks. three decan stars were ass

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

elieve with the superstitious and the weak that this production ofphosphorus and grey matter is indeed the superior part of me; that it can act and see independently of myphysical senses? never! as well believe in the planetary 'intelligences' of the astrologer, as in the'daij-dzins' of my credulous though well-meaning friend, the priest. as well confess one's belief in jupiterand sol, saturn and mercury, and that these worthies guide their spheres and concern themselves withmortals, as to give one serious thought to the airy nonentities supposed to have guided my 'soul' in itsunpleasant dream! i loathe and laugh at the absurd idea. i regard it as a personal insult to the intellect andrational reasoning powers of a man, to speak of invisible creatures 'subjective intelligences' and all tha

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

merous papyri on alchemy, and other proofs that it was the favorite study of kings and priests, have been exhumed and preserved under the generic name of hermetic treatises. alchemy is studied under three distinct aspects, which admit of many different interpretations, viz: the cosmic, the human, and the terrestrial. these three methods were typified under the three alchemical properties-sulphur, mercury, and salt. different writers have stated that these are three, seven, ten, and twelve processes respectively; but they are all agreed there is but one object in alchemy, which is to transmute gross metals into pure gold. but what that gold really is, very few people understand correctly. no doubt there is such a thing in nature as transmutation of the baser metal into the nobler; but this

HEPTAMERON

ay be blessed to set forth the praise of thy holy name, that no hurt may come to the exorcisers or spectators: through our lord jesus christ &c. the sun. the moon. abragini. matasignais. the sun. the moon. commutaff. affaterim. heptameron 5 of the garment and pentacle. let it be a priests garment, if it can be had, let it be of linen, and clean. then take this pentacle made in the day and hour of mercury, the moon increasing, written in parchment made of a kids skin. but first let there be said over it the mass of the holy ghost, and let it be sprinkled with water of baptism. an oration to be said, when the vesture is put on. ancor, amacor, amides, theodonias, anitor, by the merits of thy angel, o lord, i will put on the garments of salvation, that this which i desire i may bring to effect

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

oom. it s relatively easy to generate the star trek world, due to the plethora of books, comics, videos and roleplaying supplements which are available to support that universe. the final proof of all that being that one of my colleagues had to sit a computer exam, and was wracking his brains trying to think of an appropriate god-form to invoke upon himself to concentrate his mind on programming. mercury? hermes? and then he hit on it- the most powerful mythic figure that he knew could deal with computers was mr. spock! so he proceeded to invoke mr. spock, by learning all he could about spock and going round saying i never will understand humans until he was thoroughly spock-ified. and he got an a, so there! and so, back to the cthulhu mythos. lovecraft himself was of the opinion that fear

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

e excuse a short letter this time. in haste, yours fraternally, wm. alex. ayton i thomas henry dalton (aet. 27) described as a grocer, was sentenced to seven months imprisonment at leeds borough sessions in january 1883 on a charge of conspiring to obtain money by false pretences. he and another were running a fraudulent 'national employment agency and mercantile assistants' bureau (see the leeds mercury, ro january 1883. after his release from prison dalton, who now used the pseudonym burgoyne, became secretary of a spurious 'hermetic brotherhood of luxor, which was founded by a so-called occultist called peter davidson. according to a. e. waite (in a new and revised encyclopaedia offreemasonry, new and revised [it was not] edition, 1923, art 'hermetic brotherhood of luxor) ayton, whom he

acquamted with madame blavatsky and visited adyar, near madras, when h.p.b. was there during the early 1880s. he joined the london lodge of the theosophical society during the early 1880s. 5 john thomas, who lived in cheshire, was a spiri ualist mediu and astrologer. the following transcription from the title-page of his 24 thealchemist of the golden dawn 3 see 'an account of some experiments on mercury a.nd silver, made at guildford, in may 1778, in the laboratory of. pnc, m.d, f.r.s' in the annual register, 1782 (pp. g0-8, under natural history. the article describes the procedures for the manufacture of minute quantities of what was alleged to be gold. the following letter is one of the very few which ayton wrote on notepaper bearing an. occult de ice (see the illustration on p. 19. in

perceive who this anonymous author is, we might institute a search abroad. anyhow, you will know the handwriting and look out for the others. mynsicht was a rositan and it has occurred to me whether the original of this ms was not a private affair of the order, and surreptitiously got hold of by some one out of the order and copied. all other ms[s] and books on the subject make use of sublimated mercury, antimony and iron, but this adept seems to use. separately the sophie mercury or soul of each, and this may be the best way. i shall soon copy the other vol. if i keep well, and will send it to you. it is about 30pp. shorter. it contains the process in detail for making the sophie mercury and oil of gold wh[ich] i have nowhere else seen. i cannot imagine such an ms being intended for any

this dismal exposure. i have not had a touch of bronchitis since i have been here. the air is dry and it is a very nice bit of country. i should not like to ask either of those you mention, i so i must wait till you return, when i shall be much obliged to you to send them to me. years ago i invented a cure for cockroaches, and have cleared several houses of them. it is calomel, i.e. submuriate of mercury. get a quarter of an ounce of it at the chemist's. then take a piece of dough about the size of an egg, and mix half of the 1/4 oz with it, break it up into small pellets, and put it into any small holes about the kitchen fire-place, or where they most congregate. if there is an ash-pit, as there is to most kitchen fire-places, take up the grating, and put the pellets into any small holes

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

effect on me that i will not set it down here. after man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the great race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space- to another stopping-place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of mercury. but there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end. meanwhile, in my dreams, i wrote endlessly in that history of my own age which i was preparing- half voluntarily and half through promises of increased library and travel opportunities- for the great race's central archives. the archives were in a co

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

the days of the week are named after planets, in all languages. sunday is derived from the sun, and monday is moon day. in foreign countries, the same practice is followed: it's a global custom. the chinese god, tui, was a war god, and although our war god, mars, comes from the romans, we named tuesday after tui. the french use mardi in honour of mars. the spanish and french named wednesday after mercury, but we use the germanic "wodensday" woden was the counterpart of the god mercury. thursday is thor's day. thor was the god who was comparable to jupiter and although the french and spanish named their thursday after jupiter, we stick to thor. thor and jupiter were the same gods in different parts of the world. friday comes from venus but we use the german "freitag" the equivalent goddess

eaded values, control over emotions. thursday is pretty good if you want to have a swinging affair and a lot of unexpected money coming in. friday, being a venus-ruled day, can be a day of sorrow. lovers face many tragic moments and they reach a point of separation and then make up again. it's a very emotional day. saturdays are for practical people. for example, two people marrying on wednesday, mercury's day, might do so for appearances or for commercial gain. a homosexual and a lesbian, for instance, might marry on wednesday. on the other hand, saturn's people, those who marry on saturday, generally stick to their commitment, sometimes against all odds. they might end up hating each other, even become sexually incompatible, yet still they usually stay together. 14. unwanted lover spell

o, depending upon how you use your subconscious strength. once you learn the significance of the twelve circles, the next thing to do is choose a spellcasting time each week. you can only do this once a week; you cannot do it every day, and even if you just want to do it for readings, you still must limit yourself to once a week. wednesday night is considered best for cards. wednesday is ruled by mercury and it has to do with inspiration and insight, so most witches utilize that evening for card spellcasting. astrology devotees will recognize in the circles' pattern a debt to their planetary lore, a common influence. true, but it doesn't mean that if you know astrology that enables you to become a witch. most reputable witches can do just about anything, and they are well-informed on astro

for bob smith, whose name and birthdate add up to four, it is a number five day, however. this can be done with every day of your life, and if you know the symbols that relate to the numbers you have a guiding key for every fraction of the future. according to the ancients, number one is symbolized by the sun, number two by the moon, number three by jupiter, number four by saturn, number five by mercury, number six by venus, number seven by uranus, number eight by mars and number nine by neptune. one old interpretation equates pluto to the number zero, but others place a value of twenty-two on pluto, which is an exception to the rule of reductions. if your birthdate adds up to 'twenty-two, this number is not converted to a four as the sum of two and two, because twenty-two has a special m

, employing natural resources and power. it has to do with solid foundations, so if you are a number four type then you tend to be cautious, steady, looking for security, but, of course, your luck can be something else again. in the same way that one spells going out like a rocket, number two leans to absorbing and number three to exuberance, number four is symbolized by caution. number five, the mercury number, and its vibrations, are linked with mental and manual aptitude. it's fast, quick- anything associated with speed. a number five individual could be a comic, but that doesn't mean that everything about number five is funny, because another interpretation could be a series of tragic events. but whatever happens, happens quickly. a number five is a reactor, rising quickly to the occas

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

parts the different parts are by volume, not weight. all ingredients must be pulverized. the metals can be filed. put all the ingredients together and mix well to obtain a real solid fluid condenser. the electrum magicum of the old alchemists is a superb fluid condenser composed of: 30 grams of gold 30 grams of silver 15 grams of copper 6 grams of tine 5 grams of lead 3 grams of iron 15 grams of mercury as one can see, it contains all the planetary metals, and from this alloy magic mirrors, bells and similar object have been made. the solid fluid condensers i have recommended are very good, reliable, and have proved useful many times. 10. preparation of magic mirrors two kinds of magic mirrors exist: the concave mirror and the flat mirror. normal mirrors are suitable for both kinds, which

s a dart from the earth, concentrating on the sphere his wishes to visit, and according to his will, being attracted by the sphere. as there does not exist any perception of time and space for his spirit, he can visit any sphere instantly, either alone or in the company of his leader. according to the quabbalistic tree of life, he will reach in turns, first the sphere of the moon, next the one of mercury, then that of venus, of the sun, mars, jupiter and finally the sphere of saturn. on all spheres he will meet the organisms living there, and he will learn to know all about their laws and secrets. if the magician has gone so far as to be able to visit the universe, that is the spheric planetary system of the organisms and to master it, his mental training is completed. he has grown to be a

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

es" or "travel through difficult territory" the egyptian word shta -ti may have been etymologically connected with certain forms of the name of set. by the time of the magical papyri the words meaning "belonging to set" or "of the secret place" had coalesced in the common tongue. the egyptians associated certain night sky features with set, particularly the constellation ursa major and the planet mercury. they called mercury sbq which simply means "the unknown" in the book of coming forth by day, the afterlife book of the osiris cult, there is an interesting confession of the good followers of osiris: i have come hither to see thy beauty, my hands raised in praise of thy true name. if i enter the secret seat, i speak with set. but if one veils his face when his glance falls upon secret thi

ISIS UNVEILED

raeui, from the unjust accusations of the bardesantan gnostics "jesu is n^m, the false messiah, the destroyer of the old orthodox religion" s^s the codec* he is the founder of the sect of the new ntuors, and, as the words clearly imply, a follower of the buddhist doctrine. in hebrew the word naba, k23, means to speak by inspira- tion; and dj is nebo, a god of wisdom. but nebo is also mercary, and mercury is buddha in the hindq monogram [iconography] of planets. moreover we find the talmudists holding that jesus was inspired by the genius of mercury* the nazarene reformer had undoubtedly belonged to one of these sects; though perhaps it would be next to impossible to decide ab- solutely which. but what is self-evident is that he preached the philo- sophy of b'uddha-sdkyamimi. denounced by t

or of the material world, was made to inhabit the planet saturn, which identises him still further with the jewish jehovah, who was saturn himself, according to the ophites, and is by them denied his sinaitic name. from dda-baoth emanate six spirits, who respectively dwell with their father in the seven planets. these are saba or mars; adonai ?io, or the sun* levo the moon; eloi jupiter; attapkoi mercury (spirit of wa- ter; and ouratot venus, spirit of fire* in their functions and description as given, these seven planets are identical with the hindq saput-lolau, the seven places or spheres, or the superior and inferior worlds; for they represent the kabalistic seven spheres. with the ophites, they belong to the lower spheres. the monograms of these gnostic planets are also buddhistic, the

atod louth-west of cbin, liiioat between china uid tibet. 747. sol. being aitusted in this acheme exactly in the center of the mdar syitem (of which the ophites *pp^ httm cognisant) hence, under the direct vertical ray of the higher spiritual sun showen his brightness on all other planeu. 74s. speaking of venus, placidus the astrologer i^wayi maintained that "ber bluish luster denotes heat" as to mercury, it was a itrange fancy of the ophites to repre- sent him as a spirit of wat r, when, astrologically considered, be is a "a cold, dry, earthy and metancholy star" 749. the name vhich norberg translates, in his onomosftimn to the codtx naxarana, m fa-ho, stands in the original par'ha rabba. in the lift cf motut, given by epiphantus, in his paaana, lib. ii. torn. ii, uaer. lxvi, iii, is ment

ut futh (or graoe^ moreover, the opute seven planetaiy genii, who emanated one from the other, are found again in the nazarene religion under the name of the "seven impostor-daemons" or stellars, who "will deceive ao the sons of adam" these are sol; spiriium venereus (holy spirit, in her material aspect, the mother of the "seven badly-disposed stellars" answering to the gnostic achamoth; nebu, or mercury "a false mes- siah, who will deprave the ancient worship of god* sin (or luna, or shuril; kmn (kivan, or saturn; bel-ju ter; and the seventh, nerig, mars (codex nazaraeut, i, p. 55. the christos of the gnostics is the chi^ of the seven aeons, st. john's seven spirits of god; the nazarenes have also their seven genii or good aeons, whose chief is rex lucu, mano, their christos. the sapa-ruh

herd of the catacombs in rome is a copy from the aris- t us, or from the apollo nomius, which figures in the same posture on the pagan sarcophagi, and still carries the fiute of pan, in the midst of the four half-naked seasons. on the christian tombs of the cemeteiy of st. calixtus, orpheus charms the animals. elsewhere, the christ as jupiter* pluto, and mary as proserpina, receive the souls that mercury wear- ing the broad-brimmed bat, and carrying in his hand the rod of the soul- guide (psyckopompot) brings to them in presence of the three fates. pegasus, the symbol of the apotheosis; psyche, the symbol of the immor- tal soul; heaven personified by an old man, the river jordan; and victory figure on a host of christian monuments" as we have elsewhere shown, the primitive christian commun

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

cation. danger, accidents, surgery, vitality, and magnetism. 4. sun. superiors, employers, executives, officials. power and success. life, money, growth of all kinds. illumination, imagination, mental power and creativity. health. 5. venus. social affairs, affections and emotions, women, younger people. all pleasures, including the arts: music, beauty, extravagance, luxury and self-indulgence. 6. mercury. business matters. writing, contracts, judgment, and short travels. buying, selling, bargaining. neighbours, giving and obtaining information. literary capabilities and intellectual friends. books, papers, communications, publications. 7. moon. general public, women. sense reactions. short journeys and removals. changes and fluctuations. the personality. what planet would publication come

ing information. literary capabilities and intellectual friends. books, papers, communications, publications. 7. moon. general public, women. sense reactions. short journeys and removals. changes and fluctuations. the personality. what planet would publication come under? generally speaking, both the writing and publication are considered forms of communication, which are thus ruled by the planet mercury. put this down on the form at the top of the page. all is now in order. note the variations possible. had the question related to success, not merely publication, the planetary ruler would have been either jupiter or the sun. were the question 'will a practical guide to geoman-tic divination endure for a long time' its planetary the house 41 rulcrship would have been saturn. if one had ask

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ts cancer and capricorn are called the gates of the sun. cancer, moreover, is-termed the "gate of man; capricorn is the gate of the gods. these are platonic views, as macrobius declares. with the influences of the planets, saturn brings reason and intelligence; jupiter, power of action; mars governs the irascible principle, the sun produces sensation and speculation, venus inspires the appetites, mercury bestows the power of declaring and expressing, and the moon confers the faculty of generating and augmenting the body. the egyptian winged disc is a symbol of tat, taut, or thoth (plutarch, de iside et osiride. the lions heads, so frequently observable in the sculptures decorating fountains, bespeak the astral influences under leo, which produce the rains in the ardent month of july; and i

musicalnotes, the celebrated seal of solomon (or sword of solomon, or gladius of saint michael the archangel (with the celebrated seal of solomon, he solomon thegenii) it is tehmost potentcabalistic, or talismanic, sign. linea viridis seu benedicata viriditas: mastered y. 1. violet (red and blue) most refrangible ray. sanguine. sardonyx. dragon s tail. w. 2. indigo (opaque blue) purpure amethyst) mercury. matter qualified by light. u. 3. blue (azure) sapphire. jupiter. o. 4. green (yellow and blue) vert emerald venus. i. 5. yellow or topaz gold sol. e. 6. orange (red and yellow) tawny tenne jacynth dragon s head. a. 7. red least refrangible ray gules ruby mars) dragon s head. vowels. matter coagulate (as the sea. pure elemental matter (as the sky. living forms in matter (disclosed in light

of bishops, by hook or crook, meaning by fair means or foul, is a proverbial expression continually heard. fig. 156. fig. 155. there are two works which will assist in throwing light upon that mystic system of the ancients, probably originating in the dreaming east, that refers the production of music to architectural forms or geometric diagrams; 157 158 fig. 157. hindoo monograms of planets (1) mercury, buddha (boodh (2) venus j (3) mars (4) jupiter (5) saturn (6) moon (7) sun. fig. 158. astrological symbols of planets (1) sol (2) luna (3) mercury (4) venus (5) mars (6) jupiter (7) saturn. as columns and entablatures, or upright lines and crosslines, and mathematical arcs and diagonals, in their modifications and properties, of course are. these books, which will help to explain the pass

y original and learned musical production, entitled the analogy of the laws of 236 the rosicrucians. musical temperament to the natural dissonance of creation, by m. vernon, published in london in 1867. through a 159 160 161 162 163 fig. 159. bhuddist emblem. fig. 160. shield of david" or, the "seal of solomon" fig. 161. phallic triad fig. 162. astrological hand (1) jupiter (2) saturn (3) sun (4) mercury (5) mars (6) moon (7) venus. fig. 163. indian and greek. strange theory, the music at p. 232 of our book is taken as the expression of the geometrical fronts of the two great fig. 164. isis, dragon's head. fig. 165. hand in benediction. temples, the parthenon at athens and the pantheon at rome, which are supposed to have been built with perfect fig. 166. egyptian alto-relievo (british muse

th fire. fig. 174. the following are the names of the angels of the planets, according to the gnostics. at the beginning of all things, is jehovah (sabaoth, victory; at the end, the old serpent (ophis. between these are the seraphim (intelligences) and cherubim (benevolences, and their representatives. origen calls the sun, adonai; the moon, lao; jupiter, eloi; mars, sabao; orai, venus; astaphai, mercury; ildabaoth, saturn. all this is gnostic highest mysticism therefore. the name tarasque is given for the dragon of a northern nation (qy. the hill of tara &c) under the roman emperors, and under the emperors of byzantium, every cohort or centurion bore a dragon as its ensign (modestus, de vocabu. rei milit; flav. veget. de re militari, lib. ii. c. xiii; georget, insig. europ. loc. cit. matt

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ny single sighting by an astronomer could be a mistake or an illusion. but hundreds of sightings are involved, and dozens of serious, reliable astronomers. boy! if only he knew the thousands. many round things have been seen crossing the discs of the sun and moon, and some in space with no background. roundness implies spherical or discoid shapes. lights have been seen in space, some of them near mercury, venus, mars, and the moon, and some between us and those orbs, so that they might be on their surfaces. in the case of the moon, lights have been seen on the surface. there have been shadows on the moon and on the earth which could have been cast only by manipulated space contrivances. the advent of the great comets and the red spot on jupiter in the late 1870's was coincident with the my

waystations (there are two great-arks, one new) for earth duty ad, 1104: burning torches, fiery darts, flying fires were often seen in the air in this year. and there were, near stars, what looked like swarms of butterflies and little fiery worms of a strange kind. they flew in the air and took away the light of the sun as if they had been clouds. above latter is excellent description of grecian mercury hat. that is just exactly what his hat& mayhap himself, was designed from. ad, 1067: in this year people saw a fire that flamed and burned fiercely in the sky. it came near the earth, and for a little time brilliantly lit it up. afterwards, it revolved, ascended on high, then descended into the sea. in several places it burned woods and plains, and in the country of northumberland this fir

ther, whistles in the dark, or, blasts the lid off, perhaps then philosophic progress can be introduced, peace restored& this our home-planet saved from prophesied end. however, either could be fatal to human kind but the latter not at all if handled properly. ufo's against the sun for generations, perhaps centuries, it was thought that there were one 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

nt that he thought it may have been a new planet. on november 19, 1762, observer lichtenberg saw with his unaided eye, a very large, round spot one-twelfth the diameter 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 i

nd 1837, wherein he reports having seen bodies crossing the sun's disc in comparatively short spaces of time. definite dates are lacking, but there is a description of a large object, and an accompanying much smaller one, changing position 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 uni

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

the moon, and venus. we do not know about the state of matters in sumerian period; thus these three are also the only ones that have numerical counterparts in the assyrian tree of life. table 2. main gods of mesopotamia, the planets connected to them, and their portfolios by akkadian tradition. saturn is hard to interpret, as it is connected to ninurta, but this leads us through nabu straight to mercury. at first sight, the composition of such a table does not seem to be very hard. sumerian nanna and akkadian sin are the moongod, utu or .ama. is the sungod without a hint of doubt. with the rest, however, there are problems. for an estonian, the concept of stars as a heavenly writing. akkadian .i ir .ame or .i ir bur me. sounds quite homely. esarhaddon, a megalomanic assyrian king, said al

e letters in which his name is written (rainer 1995: 9. subsequently, sumer akkad planet main portfolio of the god in akkadian tradition an anu god of heaven enlil marduk (b l) jupiter main god, god of air and earth enki ea god of waters and wisdom nanna sin moon moongod, god of fertility and prosperity utu .ama. sun sungod, god of justice inanna i.tar venus goddess of love and war (ninurta) nabu mercury god of wisdom and writing (savior, redeemer) ninurta ninurta saturn god of war and hunting? nergal mars god of plague, famine, war, and the underworld 15 we bring an excerpt of a list of witnesses from a pact between the same assyrian king and median king ramataia (672 bc, signs denoting the planets are translated as modern planet names: in the presence of the planets, jupiter, venus, satu

ury god of wisdom and writing (savior, redeemer) ninurta ninurta saturn god of war and hunting? nergal mars god of plague, famine, war, and the underworld 15 we bring an excerpt of a list of witnesses from a pact between the same assyrian king and median king ramataia (672 bc, signs denoting the planets are translated as modern planet names: in the presence of the planets, jupiter, venus, saturn, mercury, mars, sirius, and in the presence of assur, anu, enlil, ea, sin, shamash, adad, marduk, nabu, nusku, urash, nergal, ninlil, ishtar of niniveh, ishtar of arbela i tar, by all the gods in [the cities of] assur, niniveh, kalah, arbela, kakzu, harran, by all the gods of assyria, by all the gods in babylon, borsippa, nippur, by the gods of sumer, all of them, by the gods of the lands, all of t

initially. the same is suggested by brown: gmuch is said about planets grepresenting h or gstanding for h gods or constellations. h the relations of planets with gods are intricate, and deserve a separate study and much more accurate terminology than we are currently used to (brown 2000: 54. the tangle is further increased by the fact that the planets with the strongest maleficent influence, like mercury, saturn, and mars, do not have always a strong, one-to-one relation to one god. e.g. saturn is connected to ninurta, who tends to be identified with nabu, who in turn is connected to mercury. we can also, starting from ninurta, reach the war god nergal who is connected to mars. akkadian astral terminology in cuneiform texts, any name can be found written in different ways; and the meaning

h a gwild h word as idim (e.g. while edog f is ur, ewolf f is ur.idim. figure 5. eplanet f (akkadian bibbu) in two forms: dudu.idim and mulbi-ib-bu. in cuneiform texts, wedge signs are usually not as clearly grouped and are often written downright carelessly. handwriting of the ancient scribes is sometimes a problem in assyriology. the above-mentioned dudu.idim could also mark jupiter, venus, and mercury, but sometimes also mars, saturn, or even the constellation of scales. although theoretically it is possible to collect all planet names and gods related to them, their reading and interpretation have changed quite a lot in time (kugler 1907: 293; gossmann 1950; borger 1981; rochberg 1998: 28.29. sometimes, instead of naming the sun, the moon, and venus, a number as a symbol of the corresp

KETAB E SIYAH

ining and burning with golden flame, at my bidding would hide beneath the eastern horizon or flee to the horizon to the west. to speed or halt or turn back the sun was my prerogative and pleasure. my rod commanded also the silver moon, that lights night's shadow with virginal beams. i could make her wax or wane as i willed. others too knelt to my vice regency: crimson mars and gentle venus, swift mercury of the dawn's new light, mighty jupiter and his four-fold train and dim saturn who augurs ill. the seas i commanded with a hand, directing their tides to grow and fall. a dozen dozen myriads of angels were my thegns 6 that rode at my left, at my right, at my back. indeed was my glory most great! most beautiful and most noble was i, and am, and the high favour bestowed upon my name by the a

ng and burning with golden flame, at my bidding would hide beneath the eastern horizon or flee to the horizon to the west. to speed or halt or turn back the sun was my prerogative and pleasure. my rod commanded also the silver moon, that lights night's shadow with virginal beams. i could make her wax or wane as i willed. 67 others too knelt to my vice regency: crimson mars and gentle venus, swift mercury of the dawn's new light, mighty jupiter and his four-fold train and dim saturn who augurs ill. the seas i commanded with a hand, directing their tides to grow and fall. a dozen dozen myriads of angels were my thegns that rode at my left, at my right, at my back. indeed was my glory most great! most beautiful and most noble was i, and am, and the high favour bestowed upon my name by the arc

chadel and they too mourned those who fell to methuselah's cruel hand. hearing of what transpired upon the earth to the spire of opal and ruby by the fount of flame came abaddon, the battle-lord, marshal of my hosts. entering at the portal, guarded by great serpents, coiled about the tower's width, he ascended upon black raven's wings the central shaft to the high chamber where, within a pool of mercury i watched the reflections, magic-made, of the passings of men and beasts and angels upon the earth. turning, i hailed the iron-clad angel who bowed before me and hailed me and spoke with these words in a voice that seemed like the battle's very roar, the pounding of drums and hooves, the cannon's bark, the horns resounding blast, the war-cry and the death-cry. thus did abaddon, the lord of

m were roused to no action by the doings of the nephilim or elohim but yet watched and awaited those that might come later to fulfil that foreseen destiny and build amongst my children an eternal empire to exceed heaven and reign most potent over all creation. yet was it in those days that ishtar came to me where it was that i watched all things that passed upon the earth within a magic mirror of mercury. it was a time not long before tanit, ishtar's favoured queen, had fled from tyre to africa and there had built a great city, known to men as kart-hadasht and in later days as carthage. there were the shedim most honoured and the men of that city remembered best 307 that which i had taught their fathers even a greater part of half the knowledge of this truth that was known to shurupuk was

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE FIVE

s cross embraces tiphareth, netzach, hod, and yesod resting upon malkuth. this cross also refers to the 6 sephiroth of microprosopus and is the opened out form of the cube. finally we have the symbol of venus on the tree of life it embraces all ten sephiroth on the tree. it is a fitting emblem of the isis of nature. since it contains all the sephiroth its circle should be made larger then that of mercury shown in a previous diagram. another arrangement of the tree there are various formats of the sephiroth. the most frequent has already been given, but there is another in common usage and will be seen to have been employed in some of the large altar diagrams of both the practicus and philosophus grade. it is often referred to as the seven palaces of assiah attributed to the ten sephiroth

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE FOUR

es and their zodiacal attributions! p puer& o puella@ v amissio* rubeus# albus( u acquisitio$ m populus) x carcer$ n via_ z tristitia% s fortuna major+ y laetitia% t fortuna minor q caput draconis^ w conjunctio r cauda draconis lineal figures of the planets below are the numbers and lineal figures of the planets: saturn 3 triangle jupiter 4 square mars 5 pentagram sun 6 hexagram venus 7 heptagram mercury 8 octagram moon 9 enneagram this topic is considerably elaborated in a very important document entitled polygons and polygrams. there are a number of drawings to illustrate each point made. the magical squares of the planets they are formed of the squares of the number of the planet, arranged so as to yield the same number each way. the number of the sum of each column of figures and the n

uth are referred to the lower triangle the former to the apex and latter to the base. like the caduceus, it furthers represents water, fire and air, but in a different combination. the crescent refers to the waters above the firmament, the sphere to the firmament, and the basal triangle to the consuming fire, which is opposed to the fire symbolized by the upper part of the caduceus. the symbol of mercury on the tree of life it embraces all the sephiroth but kether. the horns spring from daath (knowledge) which is not, properly speaking, a sephirah, but rather a conjunction of chokmah and binah. meditation number four let the practicus meditate upon the symbols of the rhomboid and the vesica. let him seek out their meanings and correspondences. let him contemplate the symbol mercury and the

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

late the ineffable name, that name which the ancient rabbis have said "rushes through the universe" that name before which the darkness rolls back the birth of time. the flaming red triangular capitals which crown the summit of the pillars represent the triune manifestation of the spirit of life, the three mothers of the sepher yetsirah, the three alchemical principles of nature, the sulphur, the mercury and the salt. each pillar is surmounted by its own light-bearer veiled from the material world. at the base of both pillars rise the lotus flowers, symbols of regeneration and metempsychosis. the archaic illustrations are taken from the vignettes of teh 17th and 125th chapter of the ritual of the dead the egyptian book of the per-em-hru or the book of coming forth into the day, the oldest

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

n lower sephiroth are embraced by the twin serpents whose heads rest upon chesed and geburah the moon on the tree of life in the moon s increase the pillar of mercy is embraced. in its decrease the pillar of severity is embraced. at the full moon it reflects the sun of tiphare tii- second knowledge lecture (zelator) the names and alchemical symbols of the three principles of nature are: sulphur f mercury h salt g the metals attributed to the planets in alchemy are' lead! gold& tin$ copper or brass% iron# quicksilver (mercury" silver the following terms are used in books about alchemy. they have the meanings gievn below. sol philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold- the refined essence of heat and fire luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver--the refine

ve angelic hryxy assiah, action matter, man, shells, demons hycu the ten houses, or heavens, of assiah, the material world, are: 1. primum mobile, rashith ha gilgalim \ylglgh tycar 2. sphere of the zodiac, mazloth twlzm 3. sphere of saturn, shabbathai yatbc 4. sphere of jupiter, tzedek 'qdx 5. sphere of mars, madim \ydm 6. sphere of the sun, shemesh cmc 7. sphere of venus, nogah hgwn 8. sphere of mercury, kokab bkwk 9. sphere of the moon, levannah hnbl 10. spehere of the elements, olam yesodoth twdwsy \lwu the divine names attributed to the sephiroth kether's divine name is eheieh (hyha, its archangel is metatron( wrffm, its choir of angels is the chayoth ha-qedesh (cdqh twyj) or 'holy living creatures. chokmah's divine name is yah (hy, its archangel is raziel (layzr, its choir of angels i

is iophiel (layphy, and its spirit is hismael (lamsh. mars is called madim. its angel is zamael, its intelligence is graphiel (layparg, and its spirit is bartzabel (labxrb. the sun is called shemesh. its angel is michael, its intelligence nakhiel (laykn, and its spirit sorath (trws. venus is called noagh. its angel is hanael, its intelligence is hagiel (laygh, its spirit is called kedemel (lamdq. mercury is called kokab. its angel is raphael, its intelligence is tiriel (layryf, and its spirit is called taphthartharath (trtrtpt. finally, the moon is called levannah. its angel is gabriel, its intelligence is called malkah be tarshisim ve-ad ruachoth schechalim(\yljc twjwr duw \ysycrtb aklm, and is spirit is called schad barschemoth ha-shartathan (wttrch tumcrb dc) the traditional tarot consi

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y the method which shall have been given unto him in his initiation to the grade. 17. following which method, it shall be easy for him to combine that trinity from its elements, and further to combine sat-chit-ananda, and light, love, life, three by three into nine that are one, in which meditation success shall be that which was first adumbrated to him in the grade of practicus (which reflecteth mercury into the lowest world) in liber xxvii "here is nothing under its three forms" 18. and this is the opening of the grade of ipsissimus, and by the buddhists it is called the trance nerodha-samapatti. 19. and woe, woe, woe, yea woe, and again woe, woe, woe unto seven times be his that preacheth not his law to men! 20. and woe also be unto him that refuseth the curse of the grade of a magus, a

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

roes of old, he is but employing the powers with which he has been endowed from on high- just as arjuna in the battle of kurukshetra used the celestial weapons presented to him by shiva during his pilgrimage in the himalayas- just as perseus, in the fearful adventure which he undertook against the gorgon, used the helmet lent to him by pluto, the shield or mirror of pallas athene and the wings of mercury- just as king arthur received the mystic sword excalibur from the lady of the lake. and even christ said: gi do nothing of myself, but as my father hath taught me, and he that sent me is with me. h 488. the t c of g c r c, it is said, has already been heard in his favour in the lodge. this phrase has a double sense. it may undoubtedly be taken as referring to the testimony to the candidate

t of the sushumna, and 682. figure 14 683. 684. the pingala on the right (be it understood that i mean the right and left of the man, not the spectator; but in a woman these positions are reversed. the lines end in the medulla oblongata. 685. the spine is called in india the brahmadanda, the stick of brahma; and the drawing given in fig. 14(d) shows that it is also the original of the caduceus of mercury, the two snakes which symbolize the kundalini or serpent-fire which is presently to be set in motion along those channels, while the wings typify the power of conscious flight through higher planes which the development of that fire confers. fig. 14(a) shows the stimulated ida after the initiation into the first degree; this line is crimson in colour. to it is added at the passing the yell

LEMEGETON

onale [6. although this text is based on earlier versions, repeated mention of the year 1641 and guns, shows a late redaction. the "table of practice" has similarities with dee's "holy table. in the former the seven seals have the characters of the seven planets, which also occur in the "magical calendar (published 1620, but with possible connections with trithemius) saturn jupiter mars sun venus mercury moon the descriptions of the seals for each sign of the zodiac are evidently abstracted from paracelsus, the second treatise of celestial medicines, cf. archidoxes of magic translated by robert turner, 1656, pp. 136 ff. ars almadel in 1608, trithemius mentioned a long list of books on magic, including the book "almadel attributed to king solomon [7] ars almadel is also found in the hebrew

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

of cosmography, consists of nine moving heavens, which are concentric with the earth, the fixed center of the universe, and around which they revolve at a velocity proportional to their distance from the earth. each heaven is presided over by one of the angelic orders, and exercises its special influence on human beings and their affairs. the seven lowest are the heavens of the planets: the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, saturn. the eighth heaven, the sphere of the fixed stars, is the highest visible region of the celestial world, and the ninth heaven, the primum mobile, governs the general motion of the heavens from east to west, and by it all place and time are ultimately measured. finally, beyond and outside the heavens, lies the empyrean, where there is neither time nor

ttee, 20 october 1947 (bettmann/corbis) rivera, geraldo 225 a number of other writers featured on rivera s special have also been exposed as frauds. perhaps to emphasize the sensational nature of the subject matter as a way of titillating viewers, rivera repeatedly stressed that children should be taken away from the tv during his report. then, in the words of tom shales, writing for the san jose mercury news, there followed a segment on the alleged breeding of babies for sacrifice in satanic rituals, something which, said rivera, may really be happening. other segments dealt with ritual sexual abuse of children, mutilations of infants and cocktail parties for the blood-drinking set. rivera s presentation was redundantly saturated with expressions like gruesome rituals, gruesome memories

people were convicted and went to prison as a result. and i am equally positive [that the] repressed memory therapy movement is also a bunch of crap. see also manson, charles; crime; ingram ritual abuse case; satanic ritual abuse for further reading: brown, rebecca. he came to set the captives free. chino, ca: chick publications, 1986. o reilly, david. america s magic cult of ignorance. san jose mercury news, august 8, 1993. robinson, bruce a. geraldo rivera s influence on the satanic ritual abuse and recovered memory hoaxes. http//www.religioustolerance.org/geraldo.htm. shales, tom. rivera s devil worship was tv at its worst. san jose mercury news, october 31, 1988. skow, john. can memory be a devilish inventor? time. 143, no. 20 (may 16 1994).victor, jeffrey. satanic panic: the creation

l magic and wicca, a circle is not cast. see also left-hand path; aquino,michael a; church of satan for further reading: aquino,michael a. the church of satan. 4th ed. self-published, 1999. balanone s temple of set information site. http//www.bigfoot.com/ balanone/ flowers, stephen e, lords of the left hand path. smithville, tx: runa-raven press, 1997. goldston, linda. army of the night. san jose mercury news. july 24, 1988. harvey, graham. satanism in britain today. journal of contemporary religion 10, no. 3 (1995. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. mandelbaum,w. adam, the psychic battlefield: a history of the military-occult complex. new york: st.martin s press, 2000. melton, j. gordon, the encyclopedia of american religion. 5th ed. detroit, mi: gale research

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6. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as the magician or maker of illusion, and the exorcist or destroyer of illusion, under the figure of the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. also as the universal soul of motion (this conception harmonises thoth and harpocrates in a very complete and miraculous manner. thoth is both the magus of taro (see lib. 418) and the universal mercury; harpocrates both the destroyer of typhon and the babe on the lotus. note that the "ibis position" formulates this conception most exactly. ed "this is the fourth practice of intelligence("ccxx. ii" 7. 7. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as the perfect, that is not, and solve the mystery of the numbers of hadit and his components by his right ingenium "this is the fifth p

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llustrations in "the temple of solomon the king" in equinox no. 2. cross references are given) 2. if we take an example, the use of the tables will become clear. let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. in column xlv note 1, line 12, you will find "knowledge of sciences" by now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its lineal figures the octagon and octagram. the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni elohim, its intelligence tiriel, its spirit taphtatharath, its colours orange (for mercury is the sphere of the sephira hod, 8) yellow, purple, grey and indigo rayed with violet

rituals more effective than the highly polished ones of other people. the general purpose of all this preparation is as follows: 5. since the student is a man surrounded by material objects, if it be his wish to master one particular idea, he must make every material object about him directly suggest that idea. thus, in the ritual quoted, if his glance fall upon the lights, their number suggests mercury; he smells the perfumes, and again mercury is brought to his mind. in other words the whole magical apparatus and ritual is a complex system of mnemonics (the importance of these lies principally in the fact that particular sets of images that the student may meet in his wanderings correspond to particular lineal figures, divine names, etc. and are controlled by them. as to the possibility

and 31. the pentagrams of water. i' b n\ a v# n o- i name: la (el. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 3= 8. raise the arm till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards (see illustration (the grade of 3= 8) is particularly attributed to the element of water; it refers to the planet mercury; the paths of r and s are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see 777, lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air. i' b n\ a v* n name: hvhy o- i (ye-ho-wau. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 2= 9. stretch both arms upwards and outwards, the elbows bent at right angles, the hand bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight (see illustration (the grade of 2= 9) is particu

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ha-gilgalim sphere of primum mobile (1) laymwat thaumiel 2 twlzm mazloth sphere of the zodiac (1) lawgwu ghagiel 3 yatbc shabbathai sphere of saturn (1) layratas satariel 4 qdx tzedeq sphere of jupiter (2) hlksug gha agsheklah 5 \ydam madim sphere of mars (3) bjlwg golachab 6 cmc shemesh sphere of sol (4) wryrgt thagiriron 7 hgn nogah sphere ofvenus (5) qrz bru a arab zaraq 8 kbwk kokab sphere of mercury (6) lams samael 9 hnbl levanah sphere of luna (7) laymg gamaliel 1010 twdwsy \lj cholem yesodoth sphere of the elements (7) tylyl lilith 11 jwr ruach air [elements. see col. lxviii] 12 [planets follow sephiroth, corresponding] mercury [planets follow sephiroth] 13. luna. 14. venus. 15 hlt teleh aries b* wryryub ba airiron 16 rwc shar taurus e wrymyda adimiron 17 \ynwat teonim gemini wrymil

dary demons. 0. 1 jupiter god the 3 in 1 2 janus[[mercury] god the father, god who guides parliament 3 juno, cybele, hecate &c. the virgin mary 4 jupiter[[libitina] god the rain-make (vide prayer-book, god the farmer s friend 5 mars christ coming to judge the world 6 apollo[[bacchus, aurora] god the son (and maker of fine weather) 7 venus messiah, lord of hosts (vide prayer-book, r. kipling &c) 8 mercury god the holy ghost (as comforter and inspirer of scripture, god the healer of plagues 9 diana (as[[terminus, jupiter] god the holy ghost (as incubus) 1010 ceres ecclesia xsti, the virgin mary 11 jupiter[[juno, olus] matthew 12 mercury sardis 13 diana laodicea 14 venus thyatira 15 mars, minerva [the disciples are too indefinite] 16 venus[[hymen. 17 castor and pollux [janus[[hymen. 18 mercur

vine[[oak, gorse, ash, aswata] 7 iynx[[raven, all carrion birds] rose[[laurel] 8 hermaphrodite, jackal[[twin serpents, monoceros de astris] moly, anhalonium lewinii 9 elephant[[tortoise, toad [banyan, mandrake, damiana[[ginseng, yohimba] 1010 sphinx willow, lily, ivy[[pomegranate, all cereals] 11 eagle, man (cherub of d[[ox] aspen 12 swallow, ibis, ape[[twin serpents, fish, hybrids] vervain, herb mercury, major-lane, palm[[lime or linden] 13 dog[[stork, camel] almond, mugwort, hazel (as, moonwort, ranunculus[[alder, pomegranate] 14 sparrow, dove[[swan, sow, birds generally] myrtle, rose, clover[[fig, peach, apple] 15 ram, owl tiger lily, geranium[[olive] 16 bull (cherub of e[[all beasts of burden] mallow[[all giant trees] 17 magpie, hybrids[[parrot, zebra, penguin] hybrids, orchids 18 crab

drugs. 0[[no attribution possible. carbon 1 ambergris elixir vit aur. pot. 2 musk hashish[[cocaine] phosphorus 3 myrrh, civet belladonna, soma silver 4 cedar opium. 5 tobacco nux vomica, nettle[[cocaine, atropine] iron, sulphur 6 olibanum stramonium, alcohol, digitalis, coffee. 7 benzoin, rose, red sandal damiana, cannabis indica[[anhalonium] arsenic 8 storax anhalonium lewinii[[cannabis indica] mercury 9 jasmine, jinseng, all odoriferous roots orchid root lead 1010 dittany of crete corn mag. sulph. 11 galbanum peppermint. 12 mastic, white sandal[[nutmeg, mace, storax, all fugitive odours. all cerebral excitants mercury 13 menstrual blood, camphor, aloes, all sweet virginal odours jupiter, pennyroyal& all emmenogogues. 14 sandalwood, myrtle, all soft voluptuous odours all aphrodisiacs. 15

riel 13= 9 (3321 \yqhc hwrb duw \ycycrtb aklm malkah be tarshishim va a ad be ruah shehaqim. 14$ 7 (49) laygh hagiel 21& 4 (136) lypwy yophiel 27% 5 (325) layparg graphiel 30! 6 (111) laykn nakhiel 32' 3 (45) layga agiel lxxix. spirits of the planets* cxciii (transliteration) lxxx. olympic planetary spirits. lxxxi. metals. lxxxii. the noble eightfold path. 12 (2080) trtrtpt taphthartharath ophiel mercury samma vaca 13 (369) yadwmcj chasmodai phul silver samma sankappo 14 (175) lamdq qedemel hagith copper samma kammanto 21 (136) lamsh hismael bethor tin samma ajivo 27 (325) labxrb bartzabel phaleg iron samma vayamo 30 (666) trws sorath och gold samma samadhi 32 (45) lazz zazel arathron lead samma sati and samaditthi cxcii. english of col. lxxxii lxxxiii. the attribution of the hexagram. 12

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with every other part, communicating praise. now then learn also how this formula is that of the word abrahadabra. first, had is the triangle erect upon twin squares. of hadit need i not to write, for he hath hidden himself in the book of the law. this substance is the father, the instrument is the son, and the metaphysical ekstacy is the holy ghost, whose name is hriliu. these are then the sun, mercury, and venus, whose sacred letters are r (r, b (b, and d (d. but the last of the diverse letters is h (h, which in the tarot is the star whose eidolon is d (d; and herein is that arcanum concerning the tao of which i have already written. of this will i not write more plainly. but mark this, that our trinity is our path inwards in the solar system, and that h being of our lady nuith starry

s benignant at my nativity, to the right balance and formulation of my sphinx. for neptune was in the sign of the bull, giving strength and stability to my spiritual essence. uranus was ascending in the lion, to fortify my magical will with courage, and to turn it to the salvation of man. in the waterman was saturnus, to make mine intelligence sober, profound, and capable of labour. jupiter, with mercury his herald, was in scorpio, harmonizing me and my word according o the essence of my nature. then of the others, mars was exalted in the goat, for physical endurance of toil; sol was conjoined with venus in the balance, for judgment in art and in life, and for equability of temple. lastly, the moon was in the sign of the fishes, her loved abode, for a gift of sensitiveness and of glamour

ts course. for fire is extinguished by water; but upon earth it burneth freely, and is inflamed by the wind. understand also that which is written concerning the vesica, that it is the mother, giving ease, sleep, and death, which consolations are eschewed by the true man or hero. i liber aleph vel cxi 174% sequitur de his viis (further concerning these paths) ow the path of ayin is a link between mercury and the sun, and in the zodiac importeth the goat. this goat is called also strength, and standeth in the meridian at the sunrise of spring; and it is his nature to leap upon the mountains. so herefore he is a symbol of true magick, and his name is baphomet, wherefore did i design him as an atu of thoth, the fifteenth, and put his image in the front of my book, the ritual of high magick, w

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he robes, that of a philosophus, or that of an adept within is most suitable; or, the robe best fitted for the service of the particular deity, as a bassara for bacchus, a white robe for vesta. so also, for vesta, one might use for instrument the lamp; or the sickle, for chronos. 10. concerning the incense and libations. the incense should follow the nature of the particular deity; as, mastic for mercury, dittany for persephone. also the libations, as, a decoction of nightshade for melancholia, or of indian hemp for uranus. 11. concerning the harmony of the ceremonies. let all these things be rightly considered, and at length, in language of the utmost beauty at the command of the philosophus, accompanied, astarte vel liber berylli 4 if he have skill, by music, and interwoven, if the parti

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ch shall have been given unto him in his initiation to the grade. sub figura i 3 17. following which method, it shall be easy for him to combine that trinity from its elements, and further to combine sat-chit-ananda, and light, love, life, three by three into nine that are one, in which meditation success shall be that which was first adumbrated unto him in the grade of practicus (which reflected mercury into the lowest world) in liber xxvii, ghere is nothing under its three forms. h 18. and this is the opening of the grade of ipsissimus, and by the buddhists it is called the trance nerodha- samapatti. 19. and woe, woe, woe, yea, woe, and again woe, woe, woe, unto seven times be his that preacheth not his law to men! 20. and woe also be unto him that refuseth the curse of the grade of a ma

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by assiduity he has well succeeded. let him add the moon, keeping well in mind the relative sizes of, and the distance between, the planet and its satellite. he will probably find the final trick of the mind to be a constant disappearance of the image, and the appearance of the same upon a smaller scale. this trick he must outwit by constancy of endeavour. he will then in add in turn venus, mars, mercury and the sun. it is permissible at this stage to change the point of view to the centre of the sun, and to do so may add stability to the conception. the practicus may then a the asteroids, jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune. the utmost attention to detail is now necessary, as the picture is highly complex, apart from the difficulty of appreciating relative size and distance. let this pict

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s are seen written without the heptagram within the heptagon. by reading these obliquely are obtained names of angels called (1) fili bonitatis or filiol lucis. e me ese iana the symbolic representation of the universe 2 akele azdobn stimcul (2) fili lucis. i ih ilr dmal heeoa beigia stimcul [these are given attributions to the metals of the planets in this order: sol, luna, venus, jupiter, mars, mercury, saturn (3) fili filiarum lucis. s ab ath ized ekiei madimi esemeli (4) filii filiorum lucis. l (el) aw ave liba rocle hagone(l) ilemese see all these names in the heptagram of the great seal. so also there are seven great angels formed thus: take the corner letter s, then the diagonal next to it ab, then the next diagonal ath, then the fourth diagonal, where is i with 8 21 (which indicate

econd edition. 1994. finally i will warn the reader that schueler& schueler.s .enochian. books for llewellyn should not be regarded as a reliable source of information on either .dee purist. or golden dawn enochian magick, or anything else for that matter. notes 42 notes to part i 1: these talismans, the ensigns of creation, are referred to the seven planets (clockwise from top) venus, sol, mars, mercury, jupiter, saturn, luna. the details of the ensigns are not visible on the graphic of the holy table (plate i. the seven ensigns and an account of their reception can be found in mysteriorum liber tertius; they are reproduced in turner (1989. 2: the letters on the holy table itself are derived from the names of the heptarchic kings and princes. the method is described in dee.s libri mysteri

f these names consist of a transliteration of the hebrew for the .sphere of the planet. with.-el. stuck on the end. see agrippa de occulta philosophia lib. iii cap. xxviii, where most of these names appear. the spirit of saturn is called sabathiel; the spirit of jupiter zedekiel; the spirit of mars, madimiel; the spirit of the sun semeliel, or semeschia; the spirit of venus nogahel; the spirit of mercury cochabiah, or cochabiel; the spirit of the moon, jareahel, or levanael. a corabiel is cited as one of the .angels of the first heaven ruling monday. in the heptameron of pseudo-abano, but there has no particular connection to mercury. crowley omits to mention the names formed from the letters written along the outer heptagon; the .seven angels which stand in the presence of god. mentioned

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

new pennies. you really mean reflection on love: jones night thoughts: idle thoughts of an idle fellow. it s a soul-destroying, mind-fuddling practice. if indulged in, it will absolutely ruin all power of concentration. now here is your examination for the grade of zelator.9 (a) go through a door on which is engraved this figure and explain the figure in detail by means of your visions (b) invoke mercury and hod, and travel till you meet the unicorn mentioned in liber lxv, cap. iii, verse 2. report its conversation fully. 8 [this sort of thing is all wrong. it isn t really meditation at all. you let your mind rove about, instead of pinning it down to a single, simple object. samadhi never occurs in such conditions. o.m] 9 [this examination is a subtle compliment, amounting almost to flatte

rong. it isn t really meditation at all. you let your mind rove about, instead of pinning it down to a single, simple object. samadhi never occurs in such conditions. o.m] 9 [this examination is a subtle compliment, amounting almost to flattery. it is a much harder paper than would be set in most cases. o.m] the equinox 170 (c) discover by visions the nature of the alchemical principles, sulphur, mercury, and salt. how do they differ from the 3 gunas, and the elements fire, water, air (d) give an account of the sign aquarius in the 4 worlds, assiah, yetzirah, briah, and atziluth (e) visit and describe fully the qliphoth of aries (f) visit lophiel and hismael, and report their appearance, mode of life, and conversation. observe. the a\ a\ work throughout is definite and directed. there is n

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4. he shall commit to memory liber xxvii and pass examinations in the ritual and meditation practice given in liber xvi. further, he shall pass the mediation practice s.s.s, in liber hhh. 5. besides all this, he shall apply himself to a way of life wholly suited to the path. let him remember that the word practicus is no idle term, but that action is the equilibrium of him that is in the house of mercury, who is the lord of intelligence. 6. when authority confers the grade, he shall rejoice therein; but beware, for that that is his second departure from the middle pillar of the tree of life. 7. let him not venture while a member of the grade of practicus to attempt to withdraw from his association with the a a 8. he shall everywhere proclaim openly his connection with the a a and speak of

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until by assiduity he has well succeeded. let him add the moon, keeping well in mind the relative sizes of, and the distance between, the planet and its satellite. he will probably find the final trick of mind to be a constant disappearance of the image, and the appearance of the same upon a smaller scale. this trick he must outwit by constancy of endeavour. he will then add in turn venus, mars, mercury and the sun. it is permissible at this stage to change the point of view to svb figvra dxxxvi 3 the centre of the sun, and to do so may add stability to the conception. the practicus may then add the asteroids, jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune.3 the utmost attention to detail is now necessary, as the picture is highly complex, apart from the difficulty of appreciating relative size and

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. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as the magician or maker of illusion, and the exorcist of destroyer of illusion, under the figure of the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. also as the universal soul of motion (this conception harmonises thoth and harpocrates in a very complete and miraculous manner. thoth is both the magus of tarot (see lib. 418) and the universal mercury; harpocrates both the destroyer of typhon and the babe in the lotus. note that the .ibis position. formulates this conception most exactly. ed) this is the fourth practice of intelligence (ccxx. ii. 7. 7. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as the perfect, that is not, and solve the mystery of the numbers of hadit and his components by his right ingenium. this is the fifth p

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ary of truth! and a god sitteth upon my lips. 11. my word is accomplished every day! and the desire of my heart realises itself, as that of ptah when he createth! i am eternal; therefore all things are as my designs; therefore do all things obey my word. therefore do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence: unutterable wisdom! all-light! all-power! svb figvra lxiv 3 thoth! hermes! mercury! odin! by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity: come thou forth, i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. 12. thou, star of the east, that didst conduct the magi! thou art the same all-present in heaven and in hell! thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness! rising, descending! changing ever, yet ever the same! the sun is thy father! thy mothe

ritual is an adaptation by crowley of an invocation of thoth put together by allan bennett from golden dawn material, egyptian texts and miscellaneous sources, a few only of which are noted. the earlier version (corresponding to points 5-13 only of the present text) was published in equinox i (3) as part of bennett fs ritual for the evocation to visible appearance of taphthartharath the spirit of mercury. text (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 14.06.200. liber liberi vel lapidis lazvli advmbratio kabbala agyptiorvm svb figvra vii being the voluntary emancipation of a certain exempt adept from his adeptship. these are the birth-words of a master of the temple v a a publication in class a 1 prologue of the unborn 1. int

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ough 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 q.v. in part ii. 39. dja hwhy, jehovah is one. 39= 13 3. this is then the affirmation of the aspiring soul. 40. a .dead. number of fixed law, 4 10, tetragrammaton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of malkuth. 41 \a, the mother, unfertilised as unenlightened. 42. ama, th

in general, the tens are .solidifications. of the ideas of the units which they multiply. thus 50 is death, the force of change in its final and most earthy aspect. samekh is .temperance. in the tarot: the 6 has little evil possible to it; the worst name one can call 60 is .restriction. 61. ya, the negative. yna, the ego. a number rather like 31, q.v. 64. yd and ynd, intelligences (the twins) of mercury. see also 32. 65. ynda. in roman characters lxv= lvx, the redeeming light. see the 5 =6 ritual and .konx om pax. note 65= 13 5, the most spiritual form of force, just as 10 5 was its most material form. note sh .keep silence. and lkyh, the palace; as if it were said .silence is the house of adonai. 34 liber lviii 67. hnyb the great mother. note 6+ 7= 13, uniting the ideas of binah and keth

he moon; and chokmah is the logos, or male initiator. see liber 418 for more information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of part ii. 78. alzm, the influence from kether. the number of the cards of the tarot, and of the 13 paths of the beard of macroprosopus.44 also sawya, the messenger.45 see part ii. 80. the number of p, the .lightning-struck tower. of the tarot. 8= intellect, mercury; its most material form is ruin, as intellect in the end is divided against itself. 81. a mystic number of the moon. 84. a number chiefly important in buddhism. 84= 7 12. 85. hp, the letter pe. 85= 5 17: even the highest unity, if it move or energise, means war. 86 \yhla. see .a note on genesis. equinox, no. ii. 90. number of tzaddi, a fishhook= tanha, the clinging of man to life (9, the t

in which each file, rank, and diagonal add to the same number, e.g. saturn is 8 1 6, 3 5 7, 4 9 2, each square being filled in with the numbers from 1 upwards. the last of the magic numbers is the sum of the whole of the figures in the square, e.g. saturn 45.59 the complete list is thus: saturn 3, 9, 15, 45. jupiter 4, 16, 34, 136. mars 5, 25, 65, 325. sol 6, 36, 111, 666. venus 7, 49, 175, 1225. mercury 8, 64, 260, 2080. luna 9, 81, 369, 3321. generally speaking, the first number gives a divine name, the second an archangelic or angelic name, the third a name pertaining to the formative world, the fourth a name of a .spirit. or .blind force. for example, mercury has za and dd (love) for 8, yd and ynd for 64, layrif for 260, and trtrtpt for 2080. but in the earlier numbers this is not so w

41. ctma, the four letters of the elements. ma, counting the as 700, the supreme name of the concealed one. the dogma is that the highest is but the four elements; that there is nothing beyond these, beyond tetragrammaton. this dogma is most admirably portrayed by lord dunsanay in a tale called .the wanderings of shaun..60 777. vide supra. 800. tcq, the rainbow. the promise of redemption (8).8 as mercury, intellect, the ruach, microprosopus, the redeeming son.in its most material form. 811 (greek numeration. 888. jesus (greek numeration. 913. tycarb, the beginning. see .a note on genesis. this list* will enable the student to follow through most of the arguments of the dogmatic qabalah. it is useful for him to go through the arguments b which one can prove that any given number is the supr

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

l were in vain. so jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whole force went out in a mighty current of hate towards his former friend. 1 allan macgregor bennett (whose motto in the .hermetic order of the golden dawn. was iehi aour, i.e .let there be light, now ananda metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscribed. 2 taphtatharath [sic, s.b. taphthartharath. t.s, the spirit of mercury .now hate hath power, though not the power of love. so it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the trance mara1 appeared to him. never before had his spells availed to call so fearful a potency from the abyss of matter .son. cried the accurs d one .seven days of hate unmarred by passion milder, seven days without one thought of pity, these avail to call me forth .sl

kerubim. 4 the key marked 0 and applied to aleph, 1. dona virginis. puella urget sophiam sodalibus. the sophic suggler. ambrosii magi hortis rosarum 83 the serpent should be his at last .none for the fool. they laughed back.nay, even his maiden queen. for she would not any should know thereof. yet all were right, both he and they. but truth ran quickly about; for that was the house of truth; and mercury stood far from the sun. yet the suggler was ever in the sign of sorrow, and the fig tree was not far. so went our father to the fool.s paradise of air. but it is not lawful that i should write to you, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written. for alway doth this arcanum differ from itself on this wise, that the not and the amen,1

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w.these are her manifested powers in nature.where also she binds the great waters to her will. now in the yetziratic attribution, is the second number, beth (i.e. a house, an abode, the dwelling of the holy one, shown to be equivalent to the sphere of kokab and his lords. and the symbolic weapon of# is the caduceus, whose twin serpents show again the dualistic power (note..woden, the scandinavian mercury, was the all-father, as it is written in the ritual of the path of the spirit of the primal fire c .for all things did the father of all things perfect, and delivered them over unto the second mind; whom all races of men call first) behold, then, in these two great numbers 1 and 2 the father and the mother of the worlds and of numbers. now these twain being conjoined and manifest in one, p

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, y in the sign of the entere

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ndences (see illustrations .the temple of solomon the king. in equinox i (2. crossreferences are given) 2. if we take an example the use of the table will become clear. let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. in column xlv, line 12, you will find .knowledge of sciences. by now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its [lat .the traveller in the kingdoms of the tree (scil. of life [lat .the arrow beyond the moon (the reference being to the path of samekh on the kircher tree] svb figvra vi. 3 lineal figures the octagon and octagram, the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni e

of life [lat .the arrow beyond the moon (the reference being to the path of samekh on the kircher tree] svb figvra vi. 3 lineal figures the octagon and octagram, the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni elohim, its intelligence tiriel, its spirit taphthartharath,4 its colours orange (for mercury is the sphere of the sephira hod, 8, yellow, purple, grey, and indigo rayed with violet; its magical weapon the wand or caduceus, its perfumes mastic and others, its sacred plants vervain and others, its jewel the opal or agate, its sacred animal the snake &c &c. 3. you would then prepare your place of working according. in an orange circle you would draw an eight-pointed star of yellow, a

e rituals more effective than the highly polished ones of other people. the general purpose of all this preparation is as follows: 5. since the student is a man surrounded by material objects, if it be his wish to master one particular idea, he must make every material object about him directly suggest that idea. thus in the ritual quoted, if his glance fall upon the lights, their number suggests mercury; he smells the perfumes, and again mercury is brought to his mind. in other words, the whole magical apparatus and ritual is a complex system of mnemonics [the importance of these lies principally in the fact that particular sets of images that the student may meet in his wanderings liber o vel manvs et sagitta 4 correspond to particular lineal figures, divine names &c, and are controlled

pentagrams of water invoking aa banishing name: a l (el. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 8 the sign of 3 =8: raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards (see illustration (the grade of 3 =8 is particularly attributed to the element of water; it refers to the planet mercury; the paths of r and c are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see .777. lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air invoking aa banishing name: i h v h (ye-ho-wau. the sign of 2 =9: stretch both arms upwards and out-wards, the elbows bent at right-angles, the hands bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight (see illustration (the grade of 2 =9 is particularly attributed

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being. the athyr is the gakasa h, the gspirit, h the athyr of physics, which is the framework on which all forms are founded; it receives, records and transmits all impulses without itself suffering mutation thereby. the gearth h is the sphere wherein the operation of these gfundamental h and athyric forces appears to perception. gunder the earth h is the world of* they correspond to the sulphur, mercury, and salt of alchemy; to sattvas, rajas, and tamas in the hindu system; and are rather modes of action than actual qualities even when conceived as latent. they are the apparatus of communication between the planes; as such, they are conventions. there is no absolute validity in any means of mental apprehension; but unless we make these spirits of the firmament subject unto us by establish

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my side for he shall destroy love in thee& all thy beauty shall be blasted& no word of kindness shalt thou ever hear again if thou so much as lift thine eyes unto his face. place therefore thine head upon my knees, that i may put mine hands upon thine head& bless thee with my blessings (he does so) welcome wast thou& thou shalt be welcome to my brethren. pass thou on (they reach the sixth throne) mercury welcome, welcome, welcome, for thou art chosen, o thou that hast aspired to the brotherhood immortal. aspiration is strength& i give thee of my bounty: learning& eloquence& the power to heal the ills of men. all these hast thou won by virtue of that single aspiration. but beware of the black shadow at my side, for a thief shall come upon thee& despoil thee& thou shalt have no more knowledg

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d this: 13. there is a well before the great white throne that is choked up with rubbish from the ages; rubble and clay and sediment and stone, delight of lizards and despair of sages. only the lightning from his hand that sits, and shall sit when the usurping tyrant falls, can purge that wilderness of wills and wits, let spring that fountain in eternal halls. 14. and this: 15. sulphur, salt, and mercury: which is master of the three? salt is lady of the sea; lord of air is mercury. now by god fs grace here is salt fixed beneath the violet vault. now by god fs love purge it through with our right hermetic dew. 4 liber tvrris vel domvs dei now by god wherein we trust be our sophic salt combust. then at last the eye shall see three in one and one in three, sulphur, salt, and mercury, crowned

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formula of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not states of existence, but modes of motion. they are verbs, not nouns. sh is the holy spirit as a .tongue of fire. manifest in triplicity, and is the child of set-isis as their logos or word uttered by their .angel. the card is xx, and 20 is the value of yod (the secret seed of all things, the virgin .the 12 liber v vel reguli hermit. mercury, the angel or herald) expressed in full as ivd. sh is the spiritual congress of heaven and earth. but t is the holy spirit in action as a .roaring lion. or as .the old serpent. instead of an .angel of light. the twins of set-isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the cases of mary and the dove

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od of war and battle. the germanic peoples equated him with *tiwaz, who was to become ty lr in scandinavia and tiw in england, whence tuesday. thus, although about all ty lr does in the extant mythology is lose his hand to the wolf fenrir (and provide the gods with a laugh when he does so, we can surmise that he derives from a warrior god of considerable importance. dies mercurii bore the name of mercury, who was associated with travel and commerce (whence our words gmercantile h and gmerchandise h. mercury carried forward a number of the traits of the greek hermes, who was known for his cunning, taste for theft, invention of the lyre, and accompanying of the dead to hades. this set of characteristics fits odin strikingly: he relies on cunning and treachery; he is the thief of the mead of

who was known for his cunning, taste for theft, invention of the lyre, and accompanying of the dead to hades. this set of characteristics fits odin strikingly: he relies on cunning and treachery; he is the thief of the mead of poetry and is deeply associated with that craft (cf. the lyre of hermes; he is associated with the dead (the einherjar) and visits the abode of the dead (in baldrs draumar. mercury was associated with commerce, to be sure, but he was also changeable (whence our word gmercurial h in that meaning, as odin certainly was. odin therefore got the day of mercury, old english wodnesdag, our wednesday. dies jovis carried in it the name of jupiter, the head of the roman pantheon, heir to zeus in the greek pantheon. one of his accouterments was a thunderbolt that he heaved acro

manic divinities in weekday names, h journal of indo-european studies 3 (1975: 368.384. interpretatio romana groman interpretation, h that is, translations of the germanic gods into the roman equivalents. although caesar has something to say about the germanic gods, this notion refers especially to tacitus, germania, chapter 9, in which tacitus attempts a discussion of gods, cult, and divination. mercury, he says, receives the greatest worship, even human sacrifice. animals are sacrificed to hercules and mars, and a portion of the suebi sacrifice to isis (an egyptian goddess who was known to the romans, in what tacitus regards as a ritual of foreign origin because of the use of a ship. in the interpretatio germanica, we know the latin weekday names that were being translated, but here we a

o the iconography of roman gods, and we can make guesses about the forms of the myths that might have attended the germanic gods, but the enterprise is difficult. still, when we bring into the picture the interpretatio germanica, which presumably occurred a few centuries after tacitus wrote, the presumed correspondences become fairly clear. in the interpretatio germanica odin is the equivalent of mercury, and ty lr is the equivalent of mars. hercules is not used in the interpretatio, but we must believe that thor was one of the principal deities of the germanic peoples, and, like thor, hercules was a renowned slayer of monsters. thus, tacitus tells us about just three gods, the same three who were pressed into service when the days of the week were translated. tacitus also tells us about o

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s in a different manner, this hermetic version in the directions and elements were first developed by hamara t however the god forms were developed through the order of phosphorus. one may develop their own circle based on the pathal elements within a left hand path manner as the following for an example. direction element god form archetypical image planet south fire satan-shaitan peacock saturn/mercury east air lucifer eye venus north earth belial goat or ram sun/saturn west water leviathan serpent/snake moon 18 while the alternate version may be used for many witches sabbat callings and works of lesser or greater black magick, the suggested use of the triple hermetic circle of the different representations and egyptian god forms are highly suggested for a development of association. onc

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al compounds delivered by farmers. in this case, however, the action of natural selection is beneficial to humans: herbicide-degrading microbes prevent the accumulation of these chemicals in our fields and pastures. and finally, many bacterial species have become adapted naturally to survival and proliferation in human-made noxious environments heavily polluted with toxic elements such as copper, mercury, cadmium, lead, cobalt, and selenium (mine tailings, for example. the genes responsible for these properties are well known. fascinatingly, these heavy-metal-resistant bacteria are not found in simpler mining environments older than about 250 years. this means that it took less than two and a half centuries for mutation and natural selection to produce these strange organisms. here again

lutionary steps undergone by the first recognizable prokaryotes, which are microorganisms whose dna is not enclosed in a nuclear membrane? after all, the prokaryotic world today is enormously varied, much more so than the macroscopic plant and animal worlds. prokaryotes thrive everywhere on earth, even in the most inhospitable environments, with some of them even able to metabolize arsenic, toxic mercury compounds, and oil spills. in reality, it is no wonder that prokaryotes are so fantastically diverse: they have had about 3.5 billion years to evolve and branch out in innumerable directions. 145 the prokaryotic luca and its evolution the last universal common ancestor of all life on earth, or luca, should be thought of as a group of dna-containing microorganisms that lived a little more t

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ant part in the rituals of druidism. according to artemidorus, ceres and persephone were worshiped on an island close to britain with rites and ceremonies similar to those of samothrace. there is no doubt that the druidic pantheon includes a large number of greek and roman deities. this greatly amazed c sar during his conquest of britain and gaul, and caused him to affirm that these tribes adored mercury, apollo, mars, and jupiter, in a manner similar to that of the latin countries. it is almost certain that the druidic mysteries were not indigenous to britain or gaul, but migrated from one of the more ancient civilizations. the school of the druids was divided into three distinct parts, and the secret teachings embodied therein are practically the same as the mysteries concealed under the

odern christians celebrate easter. both the cross and the serpent were sacred to the druids, who made the former by cutting off all the branches of an oak tree and fastening one of them to the main trunk in the form of the letter t. this oaken cross became symbolic of their superior deity. they also worshiped the sun, moon, and stars. the moon received their special veneration. caesar stated that mercury was one of the chief deities of the gauls. the druids are believed to have worshiped mercury under the similitude of a stone cube. they also had great veneration for the nature spirits (fairies, gnomes, and undines, little creatures of the forests and rivers to whom many offerings were made. describing the temples of the druids, charles heckethorn, in the secret societies of all ages& coun

the power of ahriman will be destroyed. good will return to the world again, evil and death will be vanquished, and at last the spirit of evil will bow humbly before the throne of ormuzd. while ormuzd and ahriman are struggling for control of the human soul and for supremacy in nature, mithras, god of intelligence, stands as mediator between the two. many authors have noted the similarity between mercury and mithras. as the chemical mercury acts as a solvent (according to alchemists, so mithras seeks to harmonize the two celestial opposites. there are many points of resemblance between christianity and the cult of mithras. one of the reasons for this probably is that the persian mystics invaded italy during the first century after christ and the early history of both cults was closely inte

teries as consisting of a male and a female hierophant who directed the initiations; a male and a female torchbearer; a male herald; and a male and a female altar attendant. there were also numerous minor officials. he states that, according to porphyry, the hierophant represents plato's demiurgus, or creator of the world; the torch bearer, the sun; the altar man, the moon; the herald, hermes, or mercury; and the other officials, minor stars. from the records available, a number of strange and apparently supernatural phenomena accompanied the rituals. many initiates claim to have actually seen the living gods themselves. whether this was the result of religious ecstasy or the actual cooperation of invisible powers with the visible priests must remain a mystery. in the metamorphosis, or gol

hat equal honor might be conferred upon both the odd and the even numbers. here, with appropriate sacrifice, each king renewed his click to enlarge the scheme of the universe according to the greeks and romans. from cartari's imagini degli dei degli antichi. by ascending successively through the fiery sphere of hades, the spheres of water, earth, and air, and the heavens of the moon, the plane of mercury is reached. above mercury are the planes of venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, and saturn, the latter containing the symbols of the zodiacal constellations. above the arch of the heavens (saturn) is the dwelling place of the different powers controlling the universe. the supreme council of the gods is composed of twelve deities--six male and six female--which correspond to the positive and neg

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y, using this scheme to allocate the letters to numbers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z keep adding the resultant numbers together till they form a single digit, thus: j o h n+ s m i t h 1+ 6+ 8+ 5 1+ 4+ 9+ 2+ 8= 20= 24= 44= 4+ 4= 8 now numerologically speaking the digits have the following traditional planetary attribution: 1. the sun 2. the moon 3. mars 4. mercury 5. jupiter 6. venus 7. saturn 8. uranus 9. neptune in john smith's case, his name planet will be uranus. his next step would be to consult a book of classical myth and legend, on the subject matter surrounding uranus. there will be ample material to select a name from, especially if the book is one of comparative mythology, showing the interrelations of legends among different cultures. sh

arms to be carried about the person or philter powders to be slipped warily into some unsuspecting person's drink! the metal of which the ring or pendant is made can be any you wish the following are used by witches to magically stimulate the following traits in their witch character: gold- energy and general success silver- intuitiveness and magical ability copper- success in love brass or fixed mercury- mental agility tin- expansiveness and generosity iron- courage and aggressive instincts lead- stability sometimes an amalgam is made of some or all of them, depending on the orientation required. the resulting alloy is then known as magical electrum. but this is specialist stuff. gold, silver, or copper is the usual choice. like the other jewels, the ring or pendant will always be exorcis

is no point, and indeed no future, in employing a blast of countermagic against some imaginary enemy when in fact a relatively simple amulet of beneficence may be all that is required. we must know what we are at hence divination. now in magic and witchcraft, the operations of divination have always been conducted by means of contact with a power which is symbolized by the astrological symbol of mercury. the greeks called this power hermes, the egyptians thoth, the scandinavians odin, the early anglo-saxons woden. this power has generally been connected with the starry sky, the air, storm winds, and also the crossroads. indeed in the voodoo pantheon the power of mercury is often known at maitre carrefour or master of the gross-roads. he is the great mediator between the worlds and is also

heon the power of mercury is often known at maitre carrefour or master of the gross-roads. he is the great mediator between the worlds and is also known as psychopompos or guide of souls. the saxons knew him by the name "earendel, the morning star" the witch knows him by the name "herne" before beginning any divination, it is always important for the witch to bring her deep mind into contact with mercury; to tune into his waveband if you wish, whether the divination be performed by means of the relatively rudimentary entities governing the rune sticks, or by questioning a highly sophisticated entity such as vassago in a show stone. there are several methods of doing this, ranging from simply meditating upon one of the classical magical images of the winged mercury to the full ceremonial ri

he rune sticks, or by questioning a highly sophisticated entity such as vassago in a show stone. there are several methods of doing this, ranging from simply meditating upon one of the classical magical images of the winged mercury to the full ceremonial rite of invocation. to my way of thinking, none of the methods are as aesthetically satisfying or successful as the use of the magical square of mercury which, although cabalistic in its origin, is truly witchy in the manner of its employment. here it is: the square of mercury 8 58 59 5 4 62 63 1 49 15 14 52 53 11 10 56 41 23 22 44 48 19 18 45 32 34 38 29 25 35 39 28 40 26 27 37 36 30 31 33 17 47 46 20 21 43 42 24 9 55 54 12 13 51 50 16 64 2 3 61 60 6 7 57 as a matter of interest, one of the characteristics of magic squares, which is known

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ael gabriel zamael raphael sachiel anael the key of solomon page 10 table 3: table of the archangels, angels, metals, days of the week, and colours attributed to each planet. days saturday. thursd. tuesda. sunday. frida. wednes. mond. archangel tzaphquiel tzadiqel khamael raphael haniel michael gabriel angel cassiel sachiel zamael michael anael raphael gabriel planet saturn jupiter mars sun venus mercury moon metal lead tin iron gold copper mercury silver colour black blue red yellow green purple white book one page 11 preliminary discourse. from lansdowne mss. 1203, the veritable clavicles of solomon, translated from the hebrew into the latin language by the rabbi abognazar. every one knoweth in the present day that from time immemorial solomon possessed knowledge inspired by the wise tea

number, and that each hour is governed by one of the seven planets in regular order, commencing at the highest and descending to the lowest. the order of the planets is as follows: shbthai, shabbathai, saturn; beneath saturn is tzdq, tzedeq, jupiter; beneath jupiter is madim, madim, mars; beneath mars is shmsh, shemesh, the sun; beneath the sun is nvgh, nogah, venus; beneath venus is kvkb, kokav, mercury; and beneath mercury is lbnh, levanah, the moon, which is the lowest of all the planets. it must, therefore, be understood that the planets have their dominion over the day which approacheth nearest unto the name which is given and attributed unto them viz, over saturday, saturn; thursday, jupiter; tuesday, mars; sunday, the sun; friday, venus; wednesday, mercury: and monday, the moon. the

sun; friday, venus; wednesday, mercury: and monday, the moon. the rule of the planets over each hour begins from the dawn at the rising of the sun on the day which take its name from such planet, and the planet which follows it in order, succeeds to the rule over the next hour. thus (on saturday) saturn rules the first hour, jupiter the second, mars the third, the sun the fourth, venus the fifth, mercury the sixth, the moon the seventh, and saturn returns in the rule over the eighth, and the others in their turn, the planets always keeping the same relative order. note that each experiment of magical operation should be performed under the planet, and usually in the hour, which refers to the same. for example: in the days and hours of saturn thou canst perform experiments to summon the sou

h. the days and hours of the sun are very good for: perfecting experiments regarding temporal wealth, hope, gain, fortune, divination, the favour of princes, to dissolve hostile feeling, and to make friends. the key of solomon page 14 the days and hours of venus are good for forming friendships; for kindness and love; for joyous and pleasant undertakings, and for travelling. the days and hours of mercury are good to operate for eloquence and intelligence; promptitude in business; science and divination; wonders; apparitions: and answers regarding the future. thou canst also operate under this planet for thefts; writings; deceit; and merchandise. the days and hours of the moon are good for embassies; voyages; envoys; messages; navigation; reconciliation; love; and the acquisition of merchan

; envoys; messages; navigation; reconciliation; love; and the acquisition of merchandise by water. thou shouldst take care punctually to observe all the instructions contained in this chapter, if thou desirest to succeed, seeing that the truth of magical science dependeth thereon. the hours of saturn, of mars, and of the moon are alike good for communicating and speaking with spirits; as those of mercury are for recovering thefts by the means of spirits. the hours of mars serve for summoning souls from hades, especially of those slain in battle. the hours of the sun, of jupiter, and of venus, are adapted for preparing any operations whatsoever of love, of kindness, and of invisibility, as is hereafter more fully shown, to which must be added other things of a similar nature which are conta

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the first book. it is now necessary to notice in particular at what hour accomplishment and perfection should be given to the arts, all things necessary having been previously prepared. should it then happen that thou hast undertaken any secret operation for conversing with or conjuring spirits, in which the day and the hour are not marked, thou shalt put it in execution on the days and hours of mercury, at the sixteenth or twentythird hour, but it will be still better at the eighth, which is the third of the same night, which is called and means before the morning, for then thou shalt be able to put in practice all the arts and operations which should he performed, according as it shall please thee by day or by night, provided that they have been prepared at the hours suitable to them, a

agger, lance, wand, staff, and other instruments of magical art. in order to properly carry out the greatest and most important operations of the art, various instruments are necessary, as a knife with a white hilt, another with a black hilt, a short lance, wherewith to trace circles, characters, and other things. the knife with the white hilt (see figure 61) should be made in the day and hour of mercury, when mars is in the sign of the ram or of the scorpion. it should be dipped in the blood of a gosling and in the juice of the pimpernel, the moon being at her full or increasing in light. dip therein also the white hilt, upon the which thou shalt have engraved the characters shown. afterwards perfume it with the perfumes of the art. with this knife thou mayest perform all the necessary op

emlock, the characters and names shown in figure 62 being written thereon, from the point towards the hilt. which being completed, thou shalt wrap it in a black silk cloth. figure 61. figure 62. book two page 99 the scimitar (figure 63, and the sickle (figure 64, are made in the same way, as also the dagger (figure 65, the poniard (figure 66, and the short lance (figure 67, in the day and hour of mercury, and they should be dipped in the blood of a magpie and the juice of the herb mercury. thou must make for them handles of white boxwood cut at a single stroke from the tree, at the rising of the sun, with a new knife, or with any other convenient instrument. the characters shown should be traced thereoxn thou shalt perfume them according to the rules of art; and wrap them in silk cloth lik

cters shown should be traced thereoxn thou shalt perfume them according to the rules of art; and wrap them in silk cloth like the others. the staff (see figure 68) should be of elderwood, or cane, or rosewood; and the wand (figure 69) of hazel or nut tree, in all cases the wood being virgin, that is of one year s growth only. they should each be cut from the tree at a single stroke, on the day of mercury, at sunrise. the characters shown should be written or engraved thereon in the day and hour of mercury. this being done, thou shalt say: adonai, most holy, deign to bless and to consecrate this wand, and this staff, that they mav obtain the necessary virtue, through thee, o most holy adonai, whose kingdom endureth unto the ages of the ages. amen. after having perfumed and consecrated them

ry virtue, through thee, o most holy adonai, whose kingdom endureth unto the ages of the ages. amen. after having perfumed and consecrated them, put them aside in a pure and clean place for use when required. figures 63 65. the key of solomon page 100 swords are also frequently necessary for use in magical arts. thou shalt therefore take a new sword which thou shalt clean and polish on the day of mercury, and at the first or the fifteenth hour, and after this thou shalt write on one side these divine names in hebrew, yod he vau he, adonai, eheieh, yayai; and on the other side elohim gibor (see figure 70; sprinkle and cense it and repeat over it the following conjuration: the conjuration of the sword i conjure thee, o sword, by these names, abrhach, abrach, abracadabra, yod he vau he, that

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proper figures and characters, together with their especial virtues; for the use of the master of art. the order of the pentacles (1) seven pentacles consecrated to saturn black (2) seven pentacles consecrated to jupiter blue (3) seven pentacles consecrated to mars red (4) seven pentacles consecrated to the sun yellow (5) five pentacles consecrated to venus green (6) five pentacles consecrated to mercury mixed colors (7) six pentacles consecrated to the moon silver. kl figure 1. the mystical figure of solomon the key of solomon page 60 saturn. figure 11. the first pentacle of saturn. this pentacle is of great value and utility for striking terror into the spirits. wherefore, upon its being shown to them they submit, and kneeling upon the earth before it, they obey. editor s note. the hebre

unto love. editor s note. around the central square are the names elohim, el gebil, and two other names which i cannot decipher, and have, therefore, given them as they stand. the characters are those of the "passing of the river" the surrounding versicle is from psalm xxii. 14 "my heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels" figures 41 and 42. figure 43. the holy pentacles page 75 mercury. figure 44. the first pentacle of mercury. it serveth to invoke the spirits who are under the firmament. editor s note. letters forming the names of the spirits yekahel and agiel. figure 45. the second pentacle of mercury. the spirits herein written serve to bring to effect and to grant things which are contrary unto the order of nature; and which are not contained under any other head. th

irits yekahel and agiel. figure 45. the second pentacle of mercury. the spirits herein written serve to bring to effect and to grant things which are contrary unto the order of nature; and which are not contained under any other head. they easily give answer, but they can with difficulty be seen. editor s note. the letters form the names of b el and other spirits. figure 46. the third pentacle of mercury. this and the following serve to invoke the spirits subject unto mercury; and especially those who are written in this pentacle. editor s note. mystical characters of mercury, and the names of the angels: kokaviel, gheoriah, savaniah, and chokmahiel. figure 47. the fourth pentacle of mercury. this is further proper to acquire the understanding and knowledge of all things created, and to se

ly. editor s note. in the center is the name of god, el the hebrew letters inscribed about the dodecagram make the sentence "ihvh, fix thou the volatile, and let there be unto the void restriction" the versicle is "wisdom and virtue are in his house, and the knowledge of all things remaineth with him for ever" figures 44 and 45. the key of solomon page 76 figure 48. the fifth and last pentacle of mercury. this commandeth the spirits of mercury, and serveth to open doors in whatever way they may be closed, and nothing it may encounter can resist it. editor s note. within the pentacle are the names el ab, and ihvh. the versicle is from psalm xxiv. 7 "lift up your heads, o ye gates, and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors, and the king of glory shall come in" figures 46 and 47. figure 48. the

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

ations. first, thou shalt know and observe the moon s age for thy working. the best days be when the moon luna is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 14 days old, as solomon saith; and no other days be profitable. the seals of the 72 kings are to be made in metals. the chief kings in sol (gold; marquises in luna (silver; dukes in venus (copper; prelacies in jupiter (tin; knights in saturn (lead; presidents in mercury (mercury; earls in venus (copper, and luna (silver, alike equal, etc. these 72 kings be under the power of amaymon, corson, zimimay or ziminair, and gaap, who are the four great kings ruling in the four quarters, or cardinal points,27 viz: east, west, north, and south, and are not to be called forth except it be upon great occasions; but are to be invocated and commanded to send such or su

0) furcas. note- it will be remarked that several among the above spirits possess two titles of different ranks; e.g (45) vine is both king and earl (25) glasya-labolas is both president and earl, etc. prince and prelate are apparently used as interchangeable terms. probably the seals of earls should be made of iron, and those of presidents in mixture either of copper and silver, or of silver and mercury; as otherwise the metal of one planet, mars, is excluded from the list; the metals attributed to the seven planets being: to saturn, lead; to jupiter, tin; to mars, iron; to the sun, gold; to venus, copper; to mercury, mercury and mixtures of metals, and to luna, silver. in a manuscript codex by dr. rudd, which is in the british museum, hebrew names of these 72 spirits are given; but it ap

s.z. for "sphere of the zodiac+ iehovah eolhim binah tzaphquiel aralim shabbathai s (for "sphere) of saturn+ el chesed tzadquiel chaschmalim tzedeq s. of jupiter+ elohim gibor geburah kamael seraphim madim s. of mars+ iehovah eloah va-daath tiphereth raphael malakim shemesh s. of the sun+ iehovah tzabaoth netzach haniel elohim nogah s. of venus+ elohim tzabaoth hod michael beni elohim kokav s. of mercury+ shaddai el chai lesod gabriel cherubim levanah s. of the moon+ the hexagram of solomon. this is the form of the hexagram of solomon, the figure whereof is to be made on parchment of a calf s skin, and worn at the skirt of thy white vestment, and covered with a cloth of fine linen white and pure, the which is to be shown unto the spirits when they do appear, so that they be compelled to ta

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

earth from the netherworld are trying desperately to regaintheir freedom. they have been chained in the pit (earth, but are convinced that thereis a way out of their terrestrial prison. this is why the space program exists, and whythere is exorbitant and frenzied expenditure in satellites and the exploration of outerspace. look at the names given to many of the space programs and modules: gemini, mercury,capricorn, apollo, seti, nasa, v oyager, columbia, challenger, etc. notice also the namesof the research and invention laboratories that produce the technology. so many bear namesthat come out of the ancient world or are cryptically occult (see phoenix, microsoft, loral,altera, lam, siliconix, teknekron, nec, apple, oracle, 3m, intel, nasa, sun, double tree,sunaco, t exaco, and so on. the

axial rotation was about 30 hours, rather than 24.the moon was closer to the earth in the past. the earths orbit is very erratic and unstable. the speed of rotation on the axis has changed considerably. the earth has a negative electrical charge. this charge emanates from the core. the suns magnetic field reverses every 11 years. modern astronomy recognizes only nine planets in the solar system, mercury, v enus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune and pluto. mercurys orbit is not circular.v enus orbits very slowly for its size and in opposite direction.mars is also slow and extremely erratic.uranus has a tilted axis.pluto has an eccentric orbit.chiron, exists between saturn and uranus, broke off from the former.roche limitthe roche limit exists around earth as a protective gravi

information that was recorded concerning these celestial assaults and tribulations throughoutbritain and europe were covered up by the protestants, the puritan historians.one can wonder, that if these puritans were in the habit of such suppression and historical revisionism,what else have they concealed since their ascent to power?origin of the planetsit may be surprising to find out that v enus, mercury, the earth, and mars were all born from the sameplanetary mother, but the physical and circumstantial evidence all point in that direction (p. 225)edmund halleywas the first modern scientist to account for the deluge by this displacement of the poles. when he firstargued his theory before the royal society of london, in 1692, the revelation was so startling that hispaper was not published

ons, the human families were to seek safety and comfort in the temperate zones,and even then were to find it impossible to live half the days of their antediluvian ancestors (p. 275)elthis was probably the same as the akkadian enlil.mosesit was mosesthat the establishment of yahweh-worship was due. prior to his time, the israelites seemto have been polytheists (p. 38)state of the planet mercuryon mercury was discovered evidence of the new total destruction of an entire planet. mariner 10 sent uspictures back of a hyper-velocity impact crater that stretched nearly a thousand miles across the face ofmercury (p. 40)appendix b: book abstracts234atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation uranusnational geographic says, many astronomers suspect that a body the size of earth once struck

slavery to promote its trade in sugar, to which people were becoming addicted. 1493 columbus transports sugar cane to the new world on the advice of queen isabela. members of hiscrew acquire syphilis in haiti. 1495 syphilis epidemic spreads to europe from naples, italy, where the troops of charles viii werequartered. 1495 syphilis reaches germany and switzerland. 1496 treatment of syphilis using mercury compounds introduced, based on arabic use of mercury com-pounds to treat skin diseases. 1496 syphilis reaches england and holland. 1497 severe famine in florence, italy. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation321 appendix f: general chronology of events 1497 v asco da gama carries syphilis to india. 1498 syphilis outbreak in india. 1500 epidemic of syphilis. 1500 dutch establi

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

e chaos. venus netzach baal harab-serapel (hrb-srral: helebriel+ reteriel+ baruchiel+ satoriel+ refreziel+ reptoriel+ astoriel+ labreziel ghoreb zereq, or dispersing ravens. their form is that of the hideous demon-headed ravens rising from a volcano, also called getzphiel. shapeshifting into black ravens, the flight of the bird in the night, the element of fire and air with regards to initiation. mercury hod adramalech samael (smal: sheoliel+ molebriel+ afluxriel+ libridiel deceivers [jugglers of skulls, whose forms are that of a dull demon-headed, dog-like beasts. the moon yesod lilith gamaliel (gmlial: gedebriel+ materiel+ lapreziel+ idexriel+ alephriel+ labraeziel gamaliel, or the obscene ones, whose form are those of corrupting, loathsome bull-men, joined together. these demons are als

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

ysical properties of an object are things such as width, height, depth, weight, color, shape, etc; physical objects have all these properties at once. a large part of magic is devoted to 2 types of hidden properties. the first property is the elements, and there are 5: spirit, air, water, fire, and earth. the second major type of hidden property is the planets, and there are 7: the sun, the moon, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, and saturn. the 5 elements of the magicians were allegedly derived from the 4 elements the greeks claimed all things were made from. after more research, especially into greek philosophers such as plato and aristotle (who i suspect had occult knowledge, i am more convinced that the reverse is true, and that the greeks based their belief of the 4 elements (air, water

salamanders djin earth green/brown north stability gnomes ghob sprit white center balance n/a n/a planet color day# characteristics saturn black saturday 3 death; limitation; decay jupiter blue thursday 4 growth; prosperity; luck; justice mars red tuesday 5 violence; change; success; disease sun gold sunday 6 power; creative energy; goodness venus green friday 7 love; socialization; sex; the arts mercury purple wednesday 8 intellect; business; communication; travel moon silver monday 9 the unconscious; mysteries; childbirth note: the color property in the 2 tables of correspondences above are specific to the order of the golden dawn. other traditions have used different correspondences with equal results, however most of the correspondences in the tables are standard. but planetary or spir

e heavens make people aggressive, this is the time when the magician seeks to cause strife; when the rays from he stars suggests a time of peace, the magician seeks to induce favors and garner friendships. mostly, magicians concern themselves with the celestial effects brought on by the 7 magical--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 52 planets (the moon, the sun, mars, venus, jupiter, saturn, and mercury. each of these planets produce certain effects that rise and fall as the days and months go by. the magician always flows with the trends, but these trends are no mere machinations of popular culture, but celestial trends. astrology, as it is popularly known today, is the use of heavenly bodies to track current and future trends. astrology is based on the principle that the location of cer

to give us a physical, and doctors to fix our cars. to assign the talisman a job involving love and attraction, one should empower the talisman with the spirits of the planet venus, or the element of water. to succeed in conflict, the energy of the planet mars is what should be activated at the beginning of the ritual. to become a better author, the magician would invoke the spirits of the planet mercury, or spirits of the element of air. after the appropriate type of energy for the job is selected and invoked, the magician specifies exactly the purpose of the talisman. this act is called consecration, and usually includes a sentence specifically declaring intent. i consecrate this talisman for the purpose increasing my abilities as an author. may this talisman fulfill its purpose without

MORALS AND DOGMA

top in the clouds, the stars shining above it; and this is deemed to represent that mystic ladder, which jacob saw in his dream, set up on the earth, and the top of it reaching to heaven, with the angels of god ascending and descending on it. the addition of the three principal rounds to the symbolism, is wholly modern and incongruous. the ancients counted seven planets, thus arranged: the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, and saturn. there were seven heavens and seven spheres of these planets; on all the monuments of mithras are seven altars or pyres, consecrated to the seven planets, as were the seven lamps of the golden candelabrum in the temple. that these represented the planets, we are assured by clemens of alexandria, in his stromata, and by philo judaeus. to return to

lem of universal matter; and thor, his son, the mediator. but above all these was the supreme god "the author of everything that existeth, the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" in the temple of eleusis (a sanctuary lighted only by a window in the roof, and representing the universe, the images of the sun, moon, and mercury, were represented "the sun and moon" says the learned bro. delaunay "represent the two grand principles of all generations, the active and passive, the male and the female. the sun represents the actual light. he pours upon the moon his fecundating rays; both shed their light upon their offspring, the blazing star, or horus, and the three form the great equilateral triangle, in the centre

rother and husband. then it became the image of horus, the son of osiris, himself symbolized also by the sun, the author of the seasons, and the god of time; son of isis, who was the universal nature, himself the primitive matter, inexhaustible source of life, spark of uncreated fire, universal seed of all beings. it was hermes, also, the master of learning, whose name in greek is that of the god mercury. it became the sacred and potent sign or character of the magi, the pentalpha, and is the significant emblem of liberty and freedom, blazing with a steady radiance amid the weltering elements of good and evil of revolutions, and promising serene skies and fertile seasons to the nations, after the storms of change and tumult. in the east of the lodge, over the master, inclosed in a triangle

. the three are the _blue, the _yellow, and the _red. the trinity of the deity, in one mode or other, has been an article in all creeds. he creates, preserves, and destroys. he is the generative _power, the productive _capacity, and the _result. the immaterial man, according to the kabalah, is composed of _vitality, or _life, the breath of life; of _soul_ or _mind, and _spirit. salt, sulphur, and mercury are the great symbols of the alchemists. to them man was body, soul, and spirit. four is expressed by the square, or four-sided right-angled figure. out of the symbolic garden of eden flowed a river, dividing into _four_ streams--pison, which flows around the land of gold, or light; gihon, which flows around the land of ethiopia or darkness; hiddekel, running eastward to assyria; and the e

the mysterious pentalpha of pythagoras. it is indissolubly connected with the number _seven. christ fed his disciples and the multitude with _five_ loaves and _two_ fishes, and of the fragments there remained _twelve, that is _five_ and _seven, baskets full. again he fed them with _seven_ loaves and a few little fishes, and there remained _seven_ baskets full. the _five_ apparently small planets, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, and saturn, with the two greater ones, the sun and moon, constituted the _seven_ celestial spheres. seven was the peculiarly sacred number. there were _seven_ planets and spheres presided over by _seven_ archangels. there were _seven_ colors in the rainbow; and the phoenician deity was called the heptakis or god of _seven_ rays _seven_ days of the week; and _seven_ a

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

tangles, so that it may truly apprehend the silent self, judge partial pleas and unbalanced opinions, while supporting the concentration of the will by its fortified frontiers, and, with unanimous enthusiasm, acclaiming the lordship of the thought which expresses the act. the will must seal itself upon the substance of the talisman. it must be, in alchemical language, the sulphur which fixes the mercury which determines the nature of the salt. the whole man, from his inmost godhead to the tip of his tiniest eyelash, must be one engine, cumbered with nothing useless, nothing inharmonious; a thunderbolt from the hand of jove. it must give its elf utterly in the one act of love. it must cease to know itself as anything but the will. it must not have the will; it must transform itself complet

an egg) i am not very well satisfied with the old comment on this verse (published in the equinox i, 7) it appears rather as if the amen should be the beginning of a new paragraph altogether (that is not so; see the facsimile of the mmss) amen is evidently a synthesis of the four elements, and the invisible fifth is spirit. but harpocrates, the babe in the egg, is virgo in the zodiac indeed, but mercury among the planets. mercury has the winged helmet and heels, and the winged staff about which snakes twine, and it is he that goeth. now, this letter is beth, whose numeration is 2, and amen is 91, which added to 2 makes 93. amoun is of course jupiter in his highest form. to understand this note fully one must have studied 'the paris working; also one must be an initiate of the 0. t. 0 (the

gnificance 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 thy rapture! if thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if th

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

to be revenged first on mankind, and then on prometheus. to punish the former he commanded hephastus (vulcan) to mould a beautiful woman out of clay, and determined that through her instrumentality trouble and misery should be brought into the world. the gods were so charmed with the graceful and artistic creation of hephastus, that they all determined to endow her with some special gift. hermes (mercury) bestowed on her a smooth persuasive tongue, aphrodite gave her beauty and the art of pleasing; the graces made her fascinating, and athene (minerva) gifted her with the possession of feminine accomplishments. she was called pandora, which means all-gifted, having received every attribute necessary to make her charming and irresistible. thus beautifully formed and endowed, this exquisite c

eral sanctuaries in rome dedicated to her, the principal of which was on the capitol, where it was the custom of generals, after success had attended their arms, to erect statues of the goddess in commemoration of their victories. the most magnificent of these statues, was that raised by augustus after the battle of actium. a festival was celebrated in honour of nike on the 12th of april. hermes (mercury. page 129 hermes was the swift-footed messenger, and trusted ambassador of all the gods, and conductor of shades to hades. he presided over the rearing and education of [118]the young, and encouraged gymnastic exercises and athletic pursuits, for which reason, all gymnasiums and wrestling schools throughout greece were adorned with his statues. he is said to have invented the alphabet, and

ung and handsome man, who is looking down kindly and affectionately at the child resting on his arm, but unfortunately nothing remains of the infant save the right hand, which is laid lovingly on the shoulder of his protector. the sacrifices to hermes consisted of incense, honey, cakes, pigs, and especially lambs and young goats. as god of eloquence, the tongues of animals were sacrificed to him. mercury. mercury was the roman god of commerce and gain. we find mention of a temple having been erected to him [124]near the circus maximus as early as b.c. 495; and he had also a temple and a sacred fount near the porta capena. magic powers were ascribed to the latter, and on the festival of mercury, which took place on the 25th of may, it was the custom for merchants to sprinkle themselves and

porta capena. magic powers were ascribed to the latter, and on the festival of mercury, which took place on the 25th of may, it was the custom for merchants to sprinkle themselves and their merchandise with this holy water, in order to insure large profits from their wares. the fetiales (roman priests whose duty it was to act as guardians of the public faith) refused to recognize the identity of mercury with hermes, and ordered him to be represented with a sacred branch as the emblem of peace, instead of the caduceus. in later page 138 times, however, he was completely identified with the greek hermes. dionysus (bacchus. dionysus, also called bacchus (from bacca, berry, was the god of wine, and the personification of the blessings of nature in general. page 139 page 140 the worship of thi

fare of the state or city [187] page 217 penates. the penates were deities selected by each family, and frequently by its individual members, as a special protector. various causes led to this selection. if, for instance, a child were born on the festival of vesta, it was thought that that deity would henceforward act as its special guardian. if a youth possessed great business talents he adopted mercury as his tutelary deity; should he, on the other hand, develop a passion for music, apollo was selected as his patron god, and so forth. these became regarded as the special divinities of the household, small images of them adorned the surroundings of the hearth, and honours similar to those paid to the lares were accorded to them. just as there were public lares so there were public penates

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

ay of the ninth month, and at hallowmas (on november eve. call out to dread azathoth when the sun is in the sign of the ram, the lion, or the archer; the moon decreasing and mars and saturn conjoin. mighty yog-sothoth shall rise to ye incantations when sol has entered the fiery house of leo and the hour of lammas be upon ye. evoke ye terrible hastur on candlemas night, when sol is in aquarius and mercury in trine. supplicate great cthulhu only at hallowmas eve when the sun abides within the house of the scorpion and orion riseth. when all hallows falls within the cycle of the new moon the power shall be the strongest. conjure shub-niggurath when the beltane fires glow upon the hills and the sun is in the second house, repeating the rites of roodmas when ye black one appeareth. to raise up

l reacheth unto the stars: scorpio sigil set thou the seven stones of those that wander ye heavens, without ye inner four and through their diverse influences shall ye focus of power be established. in ye north beyond the stone of great coldness set ye first ye stone of saturn at a space of three paces. this being done proceed thou widdershins placing at like distances apart ye stones of jupiter, mercury, mars, venus, sul and luna marking each with their rightful sign. at ye center of the so completed configuration set ye the alter of ye great old ones and seal it with ye symbol of yog-sothoth and ye mighty names of azathoth, cthulhu, hastur, shub- niggurath and nyarlathotep. and ye stones shall be ye gates through which thou shalt call them forth from outside man's time and space. entreat

h those who would evoke ye powers by night, and banish ye forces of menace and antagonism. al azif page 4 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 (nota: ye elder sign hath yet another form and when so enscribed upon ye grey stone of mnar it serveth to hold back ye power of ye great old ones for all time) to compound ye incense of zkauba in the day and hour of mercury with the moon in her increase, thou shalt take equal parts of myrrh, civet, storax, wormwood, assafoetida, galbanum and musk, mix well together and reduce all to the finest powder. place the so assembled elements in a vessel of green glass and seal with a brazen stopper afore inscribed with the characters of mars and saturn. elevate the vessel to the four winds and cry aloud the supreme wo

ONYX TABLET OF SET

t certain subtle changes can occur- as much as it is a matter of reading them durn books and wearing robes. meeting setians is essential (as is meeting other great people. magic is easy. for sabrina, the teenage witch, and for samantha- but for our species it is the single hardest thing to do well. understanding that these weaknesses are in each candidate (through no fault of their own- it's like mercury in tuna-fish, reminds us what to push against. a methodology for work you should not discuss this methodology with non iii. knowing the external characteristics of an adept, and the inner virtues we wish to inspire, the job of the initiator is to apply outside pressure hat will aid the internal procedures of the seeker. there seem to be four steps to take the candidates through. knowing ho

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

, quarrelled, watched the world, and helped and hindered mortals according to their whims. presided over by zeus (roman jupiter, ruler of heaven and earth, there were many gods and immortals of whom 12 are usually regarded as the most important: aphrodite (venus, apollo (apollo, ares (mars, artemis (diana, athena (minerva, demeter (ceres, dionysus (bacchus, hephaestus (vulcan, hera (juno, hermes (mercury, hestia (vesta, and poseidon (neptune. hades (pluto, zeus brother, ruled the underworld. these olympian gods succeeded earlier generations of gods. gaia (mother earth) was the first goddess, and bore the race of titans by her son uranus. the titans, led by cronos (saturn, seized power from uranus; and in turn were defeated by their own children, led by cronos son zeus. after the defeat of

tole fire from the chariot of the sun and brought it down to earth in a fennel stalk; the origin of the olympic torch. prometheus fennel stalk athena pandora s box pandora, the first mortal woman, was created by several gods, on zeus orders, to wreak havoc after prometheus stole fire from heaven. hephaestus (vulcan) shaped her; aphrodite (venus) gave her beauty; helios taught her to sing; hermes (mercury) to flatter and deceive; and athena (minerva) clothed her. although prometheus told epimetheus to refuse any gifts from zeus, he accepted pandora and married her. as intended, she brought chaos, opening a forbidden jar and releasing all the ills of the world that had been shut away. only blind hope remained pandora coaxed it out to comfort humankind. aphrodite and ares 26 aphrodite and are

ioned a net of metal so fine and light that it was almost invisible, yet so strong that it could not be broken. this he fastened to the bedposts and rafters in the bedroom. when aphrodite and ares next went to bed, the net was released and bound them so tightly that they were unable to escape. hephaestus then invited all the gods to come and laugh at the trapped lovers. poseidon (neptune, hermes (mercury, and helios came. hephaestus demanded that zeus (jupiter) should repay him all the gifts he had made in order to win aphrodite s hand, but in the end settled for a fine to be paid by ares. amid much laughter, poseidon offered to stand surety for the debt, and so the lovers were freed. golden goddess aphrodite is called golden by the poet hesiod. she is also called laughter-loving, although

rpheus, making him doubt that she was still with him and glance back. orpheus singing the singing of orpheus even eased the torments of the damned. according to ovid, the ghosts ceased from their rounds of fruitless labor and constant torment, and listened to his plea in tears. even the furies cried. hades and persephone were so moved that they could not refuse him. guide of souls the god hermes (mercury) has a role in the underworld as the psychopompos, or guide of souls. here, he leads eurydice down to her new home. unusually, he is shown with wings, rather than winged sandals. orpheus was torn apart by maenads, the wild women in the retinue of dionysus (see pp. 58 59, because he would not join in their revels. only his head survived this floated down the river hebrus singing, and was wa

first and last with his high-tuned lyre. hail lord! hear my song. homeric hymn to apollo this greek votive relief dating from the 5th century bce shows a family sacrificing a bull to asclepius and his daughter hygeia. asclepius asclepius was the son of apollo and the nymph coronis. but coronis took a human lover, ischys, and, in a fit of anger, apollo killed her. he soon repented and told hermes (mercury) to rescue his unborn child from her womb. apollo then entrusted the child, asclepius, to cheiron (see box, who educated him, and he grew up to be the god of health and medicine. athena (minerva, also helped him by giving him two vials of blood from the medusa blood from her left side raised the dead; blood from the right caused death. when asclepius raised hippolytus, theseus dead son (se

PROMETHEUS

because of this they named her pandora. she was given in marriage to prometheus brother epimetheus. pyrrha was her daughter, and was said to be the first mortal born. hyginus fabulae 142 men in early times sought fire from the gods, and did not know how to keep it alive. later prometheys brought it to earth in a fennel-stalk, and showed men how to keep it covered over with ashes. because of this, mercury, at jove s command, bound him with iron spikes to a cliff on mount caucasus, and set an eagle to eat out his heart; as much as it devoured in the day, so much grew again at night. after 30,000 years hercules killed this eagle and freed prometheus. hyginus fabulae 144 the kneeler. others say he is prometheus, bound on mount caucasus. hyginus astronomica 2.6 arrow. this arrow, they say, is o

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

en years and one day old [the evil inclination is described as being] gruddy, h for it is a shedder of blood. the evil inclination descends to entice, ascends to accuse, and the descends again as the angel of death to execute the judgement. thus, the birth [of the jewish people, the exodus from egypt] occurred in the month of nisan, when of the seven planets.saturn, jupiter, mars, the sun, venus, mercury, and the moon.mars is ascendant. mars is red .translated from sefer halikutim 12 ibid. 4:7. parashat vaeira in the beginning of the portion of the torah read this week, the torah details the geneology of moses and aaron. gthese are the names of the sons of levi: gershon, kehat, and merari c. and the sons of kehat: amram, yitzhar, hebron, and uziel. h1 gand amram took his aunt jochebed for

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

s this unconsciousness into several strata, and to each of them is attributed some one of the four elements, fire, water, air and earth. netsach is attributed <27> to the element of fire, and so far as concerns the classification of man's principles, it represents his emotional life. its opposite pole on the tree of life, is hod, which means splendour, which receives the attribution of the planet mercury. its element is water, and its action represents fluidic mind, the thinking, logical capacity in man, as well as what may be called his magical or nervous force- what the hindu systems denominate as prana. the third of that triad is yesod, the foundation, the ninth sephirah, the operation of the sphere of the moon. this is the airy sphere of the fourth dimension, termed in occultism the as

nd the available french and italian packs, and by comparing them with the accounts given in the rituals, the imagination of the reader will render this omission unimportant. the third grade is that of practicus referred to the sephirah hod, the splendour, the lowest of the sephiroth on the left hand side of the tree, the pillar of severity. its attributions refer to the sphere of the operation of mercury, but more especially to the element of water which in this ceremony is invoked to power and presence. as i have previously remarked, and it bears constant reiteration, the tree of life and the qabalistic scheme as a whole should be carefully studied so that the aptness of the attributions both to the sephiroth and the paths may be fully appreciated. two paths lead to the sphere of splendou

se they named caput draconis a head of the dragon and cauda draconis ep tail of the dragon since the discovery of two more distant planets neptune and uranus or herschel, these two terms have been partially replaced by them. the effect of caput draconis is similar to that of w. the effect of cauda draconis is similar to that of yl the old planets are: saturn 9 sol 0 jupiter 3 venus q mars d mercury g luna d the moon 4. the hebrew alphabet is given on page 103. each letter represents a number and has also a meaning. five letters have a different shape when written at the end of a word and also a different number. mem d (final) of these finals, mem is distinguished by being the only oblong letter. f: 1: 9: y the other four-kaph, nun, pe, tzaddi, have tails which should come below the l

e the ineffable name, that name which the ancient rabbis have said "rushes through the universe" that name before which the darkness rolls back at the birth of time. the flaming red triangular capitals which crown the summit of the pillars represent the triune manifestation of the spirit of life, the three mothers of the sepher yetsirah, the three alchemical principles of nature, the sulphur, the mercury and the salt. each pillar is surmounted by its own light-bearer veiled from the material world. at the base of both pillars rise the lotus flowers, symbols of regeneration and metempsychosis. the archaic illustrations are taken from< 11 1> vignettes of the 17th and 125th chapter of the ritual of the dead, the egyptian book of the per-em-hnt or the book of coming forth into the day, the old

rs, represent the advance and purification of the soul and its union with osiris, the redeemer, in the golden dawn of the infinite light, in which the soul is transfigured, knows all, and can do all, for it is made one with the eternal god. khabs am pekht konx om pax light in extension! cii9> second knowledge lecture the names andaichemica1 symbols of the three principles of nature are- sulphur 9 mercury salt@ the metals attributed to the planets in alchemy are- lead 5 gold 0 tin 2 copper or brass' 9 iron d quicksilver g silver) the following terms are used in books about alchemy. they have the meanings given below. sol philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold-the refined. essence of heat and dryness. luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver-the refined

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rd; to wound and to give death. the days and hours of the sun are very good for perfecting experiments regarding temporal wealth, hope, gain, fortune, divination, the favour of princes, to dissolve hostile feeling, and to make friends. the days and hours of venus are good for forming friendships; for kindness and love; for joyous and pleasant undertakings, and for traveling. the days and hours of mercury are good to operate for eloquence and intelligence; promptitude in business; science and divination; wonders; apparitions; and answers regarding the future. thou canst also operate under this planet for thefts; writings; deceit; and merchandise. the days and hours of the moon are good for embassies; voyages; envoys; messages; navigation; reconciliation; love, and the acquisition of merchan

each line adding up to 34, of which the grand total is 136. here is an example of the square of mars representing the fifth sephirah of geburah. each side has 5 units for a total of 25 squares with each line both sideways and up and down counting 65, the total being 325. similarly the four several numbers of the sun are 6, 36, 111, and 666. the planet venus equals 7, 49, 175, and 1225. the planet mercury is represented by the numbers 8, 64, 260, and 2080. the moon or luna has the numbers 9, 81, 369, and 3321. each number total then becomes a name as, for example, in the case of mercury, which represents the eighth sephirah of hod. here the number 64 is din, a name meaning justice, or its variation dni, doni. its next number 260 is tiriel, tirial, the name of the intellegence of this sephir

luna has the numbers 9, 81, 369, and 3321. each number total then becomes a name as, for example, in the case of mercury, which represents the eighth sephirah of hod. here the number 64 is din, a name meaning justice, or its variation dni, doni. its next number 260 is tiriel, tirial, the name of the intellegence of this sephirah, while 2080 is taphthartharath, tptrtrt, representing the spirit of mercury. in each one of these examples, sigils would be traced on the appropriate square by following the course of the numbers. basic to the use of the magic squares is a method of permutation of hebrew letters and numbers called the qabalah of nine chambers. it is produced by the interception of two horizontal and two vertical lines, forming nine squares, as follows: this arrangement is called a

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

helves, in closets, and drawers, in bottles, jars andboxes, stored to all appearance in unknown quantities. these were nature's unadulterated gifts to beused for the health and preservation of man.the small laboratory was made famous in the early part of the 16th century by the followingdiscovery of transmutation by the chemists of the rosicrucians: while examining and investigatingthe amalgam of mercury, lead and arquifoux with the readily fusible bismuth, wonderful changesappeared by the introduction of a solution known to the theorici as 'primitia' or primordial solution.slowly did these changes appear, when a whitish metal, in grains and dendrites, of the colour ofsilver with a similar lustre and ductility, yet softer, was found mixed with cobalt bloom, a littlerituals of the societas

ilosopher hermes trismegistus, almost contemporaneous with the law-giver moses, andcalled 'thrice great, by reason of his virtues and great learning. it was he who gave us the divisionof a day into hours. he is the alleged inventor of alchemy: the father of that species of philosophy,which claims to solve and explain all the phenomena of nature from the three chemical principles,salt, sulphur and mercury: a system which reveals the causes of diseases, and the operations ofmedicines, on the principle of an alkali and acid. in this and congenial studies by being an activeparticipant you are entitled to rank as practicus.2nd alchemist:in continuation of your late instruction received from the four ancients, let me speak of our practicalexperience in this laboratory. your attention was drawn t

universe had succumbed to change, and that byprogression even in the metals a theory of successive changes is established by which nature revealsstrange results, the task remained to ascertain the requisite metals for the combination, with theproper proportions thereof, and the dynamic conditions or laws by the use of primitia to produce thedesired result, which was gold.they were confident that mercury was an essential: that copper was necessary, and most likelysulphur and tin.the ability to hold gold in solution had already been conquered by nitro nuriatic acid. in formingrituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliapracticus34 the amalgam native gold was added to the above named metals, as a seed. the course of nature,under the operation of a simple and universal law, is effected, so

d hall, that occupied by the theorici being the first, and which leads into this by a connectingpassage-way. here you beheld loss of confusion in the retorts, bulbs, receivers, worms and cylindersfor compounding and distilled. here were required scales and measures, heating and hanging lamps,and all the appliances necessary and requisite for the use of the philosophers of hermes. salt,sulphur and mercury abound in various shapes. alkali and acids continually met the gaze: and inlong rows, systematically arranged and occupying one side of the room, were many books of theegyptians, treating of universal principles, of the nature and orders of celestial beings. of medicinesand ever of divination. the philosophers were termed 'practicus, and here they pursued theirhermetic studies.as in the pr

n hesperides, at its upper transit was visible day and night, and marked the period 2170 bcor the period when the chronological mensuration takes 25,868 years to return to itself again. theerection of that pyramid marked the great year of the pleiades.the astronomy of the chinese is ancient though inexact. the wise chwien-hio marked 2449 yearsbefore christ, as an epoch, through the conjunction of mercury, mars, jupiter and saturn. theseancient people understood, to some extent, the celestial motions, calculated eclipses and slew two oftheir philosophers, ho and hi, for not announcing an eclipse of the sun, 2169 bcthe ionian school of the greeks was founded by thales, of miletus, 600 bc it thoroughlycomprehended the seasonal changes and length of the year.to hipparchus of nicaea, however, 1

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ies in necromancy or other magical works. we shall return also to the great magical agent in the fourth chapter of the ritual, where we shall complete our indications of the characteristics of the great arcanum, and of the means of recovering this tremendous power' here let us add a few words on the four magical elements and elementary spirits. the magical elements are: in alchemy, salt, sulphur, mercury and azoth; in kabalah, the macroprosopus, the microprosopus and the two mothers; in hieroglyphics, the man, eagle, lion and bull; in old physics, according to vulgar names and notions, air, water, earth and fire. but in magical science we know that water is not ordinary water, fire is not simply fire, etc. these expressions conceal a more recondite meaning. modern science has decomposed th

. thus, faith that aspiration towards the infinite, that noble self-reliance sustained by confidence in all virtues the faith which in weak natures may degenerate into pride, was represented by the sun; hope, the enemy of avarice, by the moon; charity, in opposition to luxury, by venus, the bright star of morning and evening; strength, superior to wrath, by mars; prudence, hostile to idleness, by mercury; temperance, opposed to gluttony, by saturn, who was given a stone instead of his children to devour; finally, justice, in opposition to envy, by jupiter, the conqueror of the titans. such are the symbols borrowed by astronomy from the hellenic cultus. in the kabalah of the hebrews, the sun represents the angel of light; the moon, the angel of aspirations and dreams; mars, the destroying a

luttony, by saturn, who was given a stone instead of his children to devour; finally, justice, in opposition to envy, by jupiter, the conqueror of the titans. such are the symbols borrowed by astronomy from the hellenic cultus. in the kabalah of the hebrews, the sun represents the angel of light; the moon, the angel of aspirations and dreams; mars, the destroying angel; venus, the angel of loves; mercury, the angel of progress; jupiter, the angel of power: saturn, the angel of the wilderness. they were named also michael, gabriel, samael, anael, raphael, zachariel and orifiel. these governing potencies of souls shared human life during successive periods, which astrologers measured by the revolutions of the corresponding planets. but kabalistic astrology must not be confounded with that wh

, raphael, zachariel and orifiel. these governing potencies of souls shared human life during successive periods, which astrologers measured by the revolutions of the corresponding planets. but kabalistic astrology must not be confounded with that which is called judicial. we will explain this distinction. infancy is dedicated to the sun, childhood to the moon, youth to mars and venus, manhood to mercury, ripe age to jupiter, and old age to saturn. now, humanity in general subsists under laws of development analogous to those of individual life. on this basis trithemius establishes his prophetic 36 the doctrine of transcendental magic key of the seven spirits, to which we shall refer subsequently; by means thereof, observing the analogical proportions of successive events, it is possible t

at is, to the seven chords of the human lyre. the spiritual heaven has never changed, and astrology has been more invariable than astronomy. the seven planets are, in fact, the hieroglyphic symbols of the keyboard of our affections. to compose talismans of the sun, moon or saturn, is to attach the will magnetically to signs corresponding to the chief powers of the soul; to consecrate something to mercury or venus is the fiery sword 37 to magnetize that object according to a direct intention, whether pleasure, science or profit be the end in view. the analogous metals, animals, plants and perfumes are auxiliaries to this end. the seven magical animals are (a) among birds, corresponding to the divine world, the swan, the owl, the vulture, the dove, the stork, the eagle and the pewit (b) amon

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ebelin. the double triangle of solomon is explained by st. john in a remarkable manner. he says, gthere are three which give record in heaven. the father, the word and the holy spirit h; and 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 na

century when no one has the courage to confess the wonders that he has witnessed, and did anyone say: gi have myself beheld or performed the things which i am describing, h he would be answered: gyou are diverting yourself at our expense, or otherwise you are ill. h it is far better to be silent and to act. the metals which correspond to the four elementary forms are gold and silver for the air, mercury for water, iron and copper for fire, lead for earth. talismans are composed from these, relative to the forces which they signify and to the effects which it is designed to obtain from them. divination by the four elementary forms, respectively known as aeromancy, hydromancy, pyromancy and geomancy, is performed after various manners, which all depend on the will and the translucid or imag

hristian ethics. the seven sacraments correspond equally to this great universal septenary. baptism, which consecrates the element of water, is in analogy with the moon; ascetic penance is under the auspices of samael, the angel of mars; confirmation, which imparts the spirit of understanding and communicates to the true believer the gift of tongues, is under the auspices of raphael, the angel of mercury; the eucharist substitutes sacramental realization of god made man for the empire of jupiter; marriage is consecrated by the angel anael, the purifying genius of venus; extreme unction is the safe-guard of the sick about to fall under the scythe of saturn; and orders, consecrating the priesthood of light, is marked more especially by the characters of the sun. almost all these analogies we

nent revelation transmitted to human genius by the harmonies of nature, and beheld only a catalogue of errors in this chain of speaking images and eternal truths. magical works are also seven in number (1) works of light and riches, under the auspices of the sun (2) works of divination and mystery, under the invocation of the moon (3) works of skill, science and eloquence, under the protection of mercury (4) works of wrath and chastisement, consecrated to mars (5) works of love, favoured by venus (6) works of ambition and intrigue, under the influence of jupiter (7) works of malediction and death, under the patronage of saturn. in theological symbolism, the sun represents the word of truth; the moon, religion 44 the ritual of transcendental magic itself; mercury, the interpretation and sci

gion 44 the ritual of transcendental magic itself; mercury, the interpretation and science of mysteries; mars, justice; venus, mercy and love; jupiter, the risen and glorious saviour; saturn, god the father, or the jehovah of moses. in the human body, the sun is analogous to the heart, the moon to the brain, jupiter to the right hand, saturn to the left, mars to the left foot, venus to the right, mercury to the generative organs, whence an androgyne figure is sometimes attributed to this planet. in the human face, the sun governs the forehead, jupiter the right and saturn the left eye; the moon rules between both at the root of the nose, the two alae of which are governed by mars and venus; finally, the influence of mercury is exercised over mouth and chin. among the ancients these notions

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certainly an area that needs deeper investigation. the workshop session discussion however left the topic of abstract forms, and instead investigated the historic use of symbols in various cultures. looking first at the more complex god forms, it seems each major culture has a "trickster" god: coyote fills this niche in several amerindian cultures, loki in the norse mythos, and thoth (hermes and mercury) in the egyptian (greek and roman) mythologies. the trickster is that spirit who makes you think. he is the spirit who is unpredictable in his actions or reactions, who gets himself and everyone else into trouble. in the process of doing so. most often after everyone is already in trouble. he makes people think, and in the end he generally gets everyone out of trouble by thinking. to repre

can expect, or that one has gone through, by doing a careful (as in professional) astrological chart (something to be explored in another paper. this has nothing to do with "fate" or "predestination" in a very simplified example, if i know it is going to storm rather severely, i will not take the kids to the beach. likewise if my "astrological weather" indicates "stormy" planetary alignments for mercury, i will either refrain from writing letters and making important decisions, or i will take extra precautions. a setian who is aware then of the astrological climate has another l.b.m. tool to use for refining self] the key processes that characterize the adult stages of life are differentiation and integration, for which the developmental goal is "an increased sense of inner freedom" the a

sources looking for concepts that could be distilled down into notions that were unfamiliar, and yet all too familiar. he sought the raw archetypal essence behind various symbols. so for example, there is nyarlathotep, the cryptic messenger of the gods. this being is a sardonic trickster who conveys power and knowledge. 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

t on the one hand he clearly documents paths around potholes and then just as blithely gives valuable initiates the boot. the main point in inserting the quote is that it is a paragrahp everyone delving into the tarot should keep in mind. the wings from the figure's feet have several clear and generally personally applicable interpretations. the most obvious symbolism is the pictured reference to mercury, the messenger of the gods, himself having winged feet- which in return represented the swiftness of his work [another and perhaps forgotten reason for seeing angels as having wings? angels, i recall from elder days, are the thoughts of god made visible. the belief smacked somewhat of applesauce in my younger days. my opinion remained unchanged] in these days of the aeon of set we have lit

s probably found in cavendish's the black arts. learn enough from that introduction so that you know the four elements (fire, water, air, and earth, the spiritual qualities they reflect, and the relationships between these elements. the rest of this primer will assume you have this basic knowledge (you should also develop a basic knowledge of the alchemical meanings of the triad sulfur, salt, and mercury. we will not discuss these latter ideas within this lesson, but will refer to them on occasion in later lessons as we do readings. crowley refers to these symbols fairly heavily in his text) if you need this knowledge, please read that introduction to alchemy now. continue reading this primer when you have completed that introduction to alchemy. do not continue with this primer until you h

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hes: may the blessing, curse and cunning be cell 1 being the aat of the 2nd and 13th letter of the sacred alphabet "all worship is soliliquy. in this house we enter the world of water, the way of manifestation. elemetal spirits as well as les loa prefer the watery way of entering mundane conditions, known as manifestations. this house is very manifestive indeed since it is balancing the forces of mercury and water. there are several clues for the understanding of the empowerments presented in this cell in the azo tic text of which the following carries a lot of essence "mirror the whole nature in your portrait and see the secret beauty. open eye and mind for this. this is the way of netzasch inspiring the "eye" and "mind" for this task. this cell is the place for the fundamental creation o

are several clues for the understanding of the empowerments presented in this cell in the azo tic text of which the following carries a lot of essence "mirror the whole nature in your portrait and see the secret beauty. open eye and mind for this. this is the way of netzasch inspiring the "eye" and "mind" for this task. this cell is the 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

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f israel were in captivity in egypt. thus he may be equated here with anubis, the dog star, whose name in persian is tistar, chief, and in akkadian kasista, prince. the equation of micha-el and the god of the underworld also continues after the arrival of roman catholicism. the church, anxious to attract and convert the pagans of roman gaul, endowed micha-el with many of the attributes of the god mercury, and thus also of the greek hermes. chapels dedicated to micha-el thus sprang up throughout europe and britain over earlier temples which had been built on hills and mounds, michael s mounts. these were previously the focal points in earlier times of the dragon power running through the earth. gabri-el jibril, an alternative version of the name, dictated the koran to mohammed and is consid

nd keep it for use. when it is necessary, with all the proper ceremonies, to make sacrifices of fire, they should be made of wood which hath some quality referring especially unto the spirits invoked; as juniper of pine unto the spirits of saturn; box, or oak, unto those of jupiter; cornel, or cedar, unto those of mars, laurel unto those of the sun; myrtle unto those of venus; hazel unto those of mercury; and willow unto those of the moon. but when we make sacrifices of food and drink, everything necessary should be prepared without the circle, and the meats should be covered with some fine clean cloth, and have also a clean white cloth spread beneath them; with new bread and good and sparkling wine, but in all things those which refer to the nature of the planet. animals, such as fowls or

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l name: hazeyael sign: virgo planet: venus degree: 10 15 meaning: merciful psalm 25:6: remember thy tender mercies, 0 tetragrammaton, and thy mercies, for from of old they were. 10th angel name: eldiah sign: virgo planet: venus degree: 15 20 meaning: profitable psalm 33:22: there shall be thy mercy, 0 tetragrammaton, upon us, as we have hoped in thee. 11th angel 8 name: leviah sign: virgo planet: mercury degree: 20 25 meaning: meet to be exalted. psalm 18:47: liveth tetragrammaton, and blessed by my rock, and there shall arise the god of my salvation. 12th angel name: hihaiah sign: virgo planet: mercury degree: 25 30 meaning: refuge psalm 10:1: why 0 tetragrammaton, wilt thou stand afar, why wilt thou hide thyself at times of trouble. 13th angel name: lezalel sign: libra planet: moon degre

: 20 25 meaning: turning away evil. 12 psalm 121:8: tetragrammaton will keep thy going out and thy coming in from now until ever. 24th angel name: hahauiah sign: scorpio planet: venus degree: 25 30 meaning: goodness in himself. trust in thy mercy. psalm 33:18: from tetragrammaton is a blessing uponthose that fear him, and those who trust in him. 25th angel name: nethhiah sign: sagittarius planet: mercury degree: 0 5 meaning: wide in extent, the enlarger, wonderful. psalm 9:1: i will give thanks unto tetragrammaton with all my heart, will tell of all thy wondrous works. 26th angel name: heeiah sign: sagittarius planet: mercury degree: 5 10 meaning: heaven in secret. psalm 119:145: i have called with all my heart, answer 13 me tetragrammaton, i will preserve thy statutes. 27th angel name: ir

ning: lord of virtues. psalm 80:18: 0 tetragrammaton elohim tzaboath, turn us and cause thy face to shine upon us, and we shall be saved. 38th angel name: chaamiah sign: aquarius planet: venus degree: 5-10 meaning: hope of all the ends of the earth. psalm 9 1:9: because thou, 0 tetragrammaton, art my refuge, thou hast thy refuge in the most high. 39th angel name: reheael 17 sign: aquarius planet: mercury degree: 10-15 meaning: swift to condone. psalm 30:2: hear, 0 tetragrammaton, and be gracious unto me tetragrammaton, be thou my helper. 40th angel name: yeizael sign: aquarius planet: mercury degree: 15 20 meaning: making joyful. psalm 88:14: why 0 tetragrammaton, repelled thou my soul, and hidest thy face from me. 41st angel name: kehihel sign: aquarius planet: moon degree: 20 25 meaning:

5 meaning: caster down of the proud. psalm 119:75: i have known, 0 tetragrammaton that righteous are thy judgements, and in faithfulness hast thou humbled me. 54th angel name: nithael sign: aries planet: venus degree: 25-30 meaning: celestial king. psalm 103:19: tetragrammaton hath established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom ruleth over all. 55th angel name: mibahaih sign: taurus 22 planet: mercury degree: 0-5 meaning: eternal. psalm 102:12: but thou 0 tetragrammaton, shall endure forever, and thy memorial from generation to generation. 56th angel name: puiael sign: taurus planet: mercury degree: 5 10 meaning: supporting all things. psalm 145:14: tetragrammaton upholdeth all those who fall, and lifteth up all those who are down. 57th angel name: nemamaiah sign: taurus planet: moon de

sign: cancer planet: venus degree: 0-5 meaning: delights of the sons of men. psalm 37:4: delight in tetragrammaton, and he shall 26 give the desire of thy heart. 68th angel name: chabeoiah sign: cancer planet: venus degree: 5-10 meaning: most liberal giver. psalm 106:1: 0 give thanks unto tetragrammaton, for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever. 69th angel name: rohael sign: cancer planet: mercury degree: 10-15 meaning: beholding all. psalm 16:5: tetragrammaton is the portion of my inheritance and my cup, thou maintainest my lot. 70th angel name: yebamaiah sign: cancer planet: mercury degree: 15-20 meaning: producing by his word. passage: genesis 1:1:21 in the beginning elohim created the substance of the heavens and the substance of the earth. 27 71st angel name: heyaiel sign: canc

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h is much more complex than that of the other olympians. as a child, the story goes, he was torn apart by wild women and spent three years in the underworld. the worship of dionysius played a significant role in the development of greek drama. the romans adopted this pantheon and gave many of them different names. the roman gods were, in the same order, jupiter, juno, venus, mars, minerva, diana, mercury, apollo, vulcan, neptune, vesta, ceres, pluto, and bacchus (in parts of the roman empire, the emperor was also worshipped as a god) these gods, along with many minor deities who came to earth to do the bidding of the gods, controlled the fate of humankind. zeus also appeared in human form, or even in animal form at times, to father children by mortal women. some of his sons became the hero

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pray that god may help thee. and if thou attain, never forget the poor. then thou wilt praise god with the legion of the angels, now and forever. mercy- choice light, strength, joy in the recognition of god's virtue and hymn of praise. darkness, evil-doing, fear in godlessness, sin and vice. come ye to the mercy-seat. go ye to the pit of fire mars: fear, heat, therein consists the sensibilities. mercury: bitter, drawing and moving out of the harsh quality, which causes a sting within, and remains in that spirit, the existence of mobility. saturn: harsh, hard, cold, severe, sharp, sour, inclined to rudeness and earthliness, its desire consists out of these qualities. sun: fire or life, half in darkness, half in light, is the setting alight and the goal of separation. moon: the being, made

hermaphrodite, born out of the wind, a phoenix living in fire, a pelican, reviving his dear young ones with its blood; the young icarus, drowned in the water, whose nurse is the earth, whose mother is the wind, whose father is the fire, the water her caretaker and drink, one stone and no stone, one water and no water, nevertheless a stone of living power and a water of living might; a sulphur, a mercury, a salt, hidden deep in nature, and which no fool has ever known nor se n sepher ha-bahir or the book of illumination attributed to rabbi nehunia ben hakana translated by aryeh kaplan the bahir 2 the first verses of creation 3 the aleph-beth 7 the seven voices and the sephiroth 12 the ten sephiroth 32 mysteries of the soul 53 index 57 the bahir 3 section i the first verses of creation 1. r

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en (his throne. 4. two letters produce two houses; three form six; four form twenty-four; five form one hundred and twenty; six form seven hundred and twenty (39) seven form five thousand and forty; and beyond this their numbers increase so that the mouth can hardly utter them, nor the ear hear the number of them. so now, behold the stars of our world, the planets which are seven; the sun, venus, mercury, moon, saturn, jupiter and mars. the seven are also the seven days of creation; and the seven gateways of the soul of man--the two eyes, the two ears, the mouth and the two nostrils. so with the seven are formed the seven heavens (41) the seven earths, and the seven periods of time; and so has he preferred the number seven above all things under his heaven (42) supplement to chapter iv not

referred it to fertility; he crowned it, combined and formed with it the sun in the universe, the third day of the week, and the right nostril of man. he produced kaph, and referred it to life; he crowned it, combined and formed with it venus in the universe, the fourth day of the week, and the left eye of man. he produced peh, and referred it to power; he crowned it, combined and formed with it mercury in the universe, the fifth day of the week, and the left ear of man. he produced resh, and referred it to peace; he crowned it, combined and formed with it saturn in the universe, the sixth day of the week, and the left nostril of man. he produced tau, and referred it to beauty; he crowned it, combined and formed with it jupiter in the universe, the seventh day of the week, and the mouth o

e seven letters were also made seven worlds, seven heavens, seven earths, seven seas, seven rivers, seven deserts, seven days, seven weeks from passover to pentecost, and every seventh year a jubilee. mayer lambert gives--beth to saturn and the hebrew sabbath--that is saturday; gimel to jupiter and sunday; daleth to mars and monday; kaph to the sun and tuesday; peh to venus and wednesday; resh to mercury and thursday; and tau to the moon and friday. chapter v 1. the twelve simple letters are h h, vau, zain, cheth, teth, yod, lamed, nun, samech, oin, tzaddi and qoph (43) they are the foundations of these twelve properties: sight, hearing, smell, speech, taste, sexual love, work, movement, anger, mirth, imagination (44) and sleep. these twelve are also allotted to the directions in space: no

rth animals. third order: decad of humanity 21. appearance of man. 22. material human body. 23. human soul conferred. 24. mystery of adam and eve. 25. complete man as the microcosm. 26. gift of five human faces acting exteriorly. 27. gift of five powers to the soul. 28. adam kadmon, the heavenly man. 29. angelic beings. 30. man in the image of god. fourth order: world of spheres 31. the moon. 32. mercury. 33. venus. 34. sol. 35. mars. 36. jupiter. 37. saturn. 38. the firmament. 39. the primum mobile. 40. the empyrean heaven. fifih order: the angelic world 41. ishim--sons of fire. 42. auphanim--cherubim. 43. aralim--thrones. 44. chashmalim--dominions. 45. seraphim--virtues. 46. malakim--powers. 47. elohim--principalities. 48. beni elohim--angels. 49. cherubim--arch-angels. sixth order: the

ifference between the editors and copyists, hardly any two editors concurring. i have given the numbers arising from continual multiplication of the product by each succeeding unit from one to seven. 2x1=2, 2x3=6, 6x4=24, 24x5=120, 120x6=720, 720x7=5040. 40. in associating the particular letters to each planet the learned jesuit athanasius kircher allots beth to the sun, gimel to venus, daleth to mercury, kaph to luna, peh to saturn, resh to jupiter, and tau to mars. kalisch in the supplementary paragraphs gives a different attribution; both are wrong, according to clairvoyant investigation. consult the tarot symbolism given by court de gebelin, eliphas levi, and my notes to the isiaic tablet of bembo. the true attribution is probably not anywhere printed. the planet names here given are c

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is essentially a suggester of something subtler than that which it embodies to the sense. what pliny tells us of a great painter of old, is true of most great painters "their works express something beyond the works "more felt than understood" this belongs to the concentration of intellect which high art demands, and which, of all the arts, sculpture best illustrates. take thorwaldsen's statue of mercury, it is but a single figure, yet it tells to those conversant with mythology a whole legend. the god has removed the pipe from his lips, because he has already lulled to sleep the argus, whom you do not see. he is pressing his heel against his sword, because the moment is come when he may slay his victim. apply the principle of this noble concentration of art to the moral writer: he, too, g

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ncient hebrew alphabet, with values of 1 to 400. the triangle is an ancient emblem of deity; it is also a sign of the female element. however, if the apex of the triangle is pointed down it becomes the male element; thus inverted it may also represent lucifer, particularly if it is black in color. the spiral figure intertwined with the mural-length diagonal line symbolizes the caduceus of hermes (mercury, which mythologically is represented as two serpents twined around the winged wand of mercury. nine arcs are formed by the intersections of the spiral line with the diagonal; the ninth hebrew letter, teth, with the value of nine, has the signification of "serpent."22 the number of the beast of revelation is 666, which cabalis- tically is nine, the number of generation.23 the twin serpents

(howey, op. cit, the chapter on the caduceus contains references (page 72) to the ancient use of the symbol without wings, as seen in the mural. the caduceus is also the symbol of peace, the propaganda term associated with the u.n. the serpents are male and female; the sun-god and the moon-god; and are symbols of generation. buddha was symbolized by the serpent and in mythology is identical with mercury. the center sphere and the outer circles around it form the all-seeing eye. this bisected sphere overlays an isoceles triangle bounded on one side by the diagonal line. according to manly palmer hall, in his occult treatise -18- on the secret destiny of america,24 the all-seeing eye is that of the great architect of the universe (whenever it appears as a symbol of god. his explanation is t

1944, a cited communist-front enterprise;28 and president of the field foundation, investigated by the select committee to investigate tax-exempt foundations in 1952 because of its contributions to communist front organizations. the field foundation's one-time secretary -20- louis s. weiss, now deceased, was identified in the committee's hearings as "a member of the communist party (see american mercury, january i960, page 9. trustees of the foundation, namely channing tobias and justine wise polier, were cited as long-time communist-fronters.29 sources 1. new yorker, december 28, 1957. 2 "van nostrand's scientific encyclopedia" 3rd edition, 1958, p. 1013. 3. november 11, 1957. 4 "in search of the miraculous" harcourt brace and co, pp. 26-27. 5. new york times release, december 6, 1950. 6

ing face" they "lived by catching the wicked "fed off their blood" and "devoured their hearts before horus" they were judges, accusers and punishers of crime "guilty souls were handed over to them by osiris, but to be 'tortured' only, not destroyed."56 during osiris' great expedition beyond the borders of egypt "he left his kingdom to the care of his wife isis, and her faithful minister hermes or mercury" who was anubis (brother to osiris, represented with a caduceus. when osiris returned he found that his brother set (typhon) had aroused his subjects against him (set's name was expressed by a hieroglyphic containing the black half-sphere seen in the meditation room murai) set murdered his brother and cut his body into fourteen pieces. isis recovered all the mangled pieces, with the except

try. her emblem was the horned viper'"in the british museum there is a head of isis wearing a coronet of them" the egyptians often represented isis and osiris together, as two serpents "about the commencement of the christian era the cult of osiris was extended over asia minor, greece and rome" cicero tells us that he was known as ob-el, from whence we derive the obelisk.62 the identity of hermes-mercury. anubis (brother to osiris) has already beeen mentioned. his emblem, the caduceus, was the talismanic serpent, originally entwined around a tau cross, which was also a phallus. the serpents represented the power of mercury as a sun-god. the caduceus was identified with moses' brazen serpent "in judah the image of jehovah took the form of a golden serpent, as in solomon's temple" its worshi

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4 steiner objected to such dogmatic faith in the philosophical formulation of his epistemology with increasingly sharp words, and he often mentioned christianity in this connection. in his autobiography, he described in retrospect what he had in mind: 3. see rudolf steiner s notes to the new edition, 1924, in the science of knowing: outline of an epistemology implicit in the goethean world view, mercury press, spring valley, ny, 1988, pp. 121ff (ga 2. 4. see the ground of things and the activity of knowing, the science of knowing, pp. 72ff. afterword 193 certain things i said and wrote during that time appear to contradict my later descriptions of christianity. the reason is that, in those days, the doctrine of a world beyond permeated all christian teachings, and it was these teachings i

tanding in the spiritual presence of the mystery of golgotha in a most profound and solemn festival of knowledge. 6 the path of knowledge, which began with absolutely no assumptions of any kind, had led him to knowledge of christ. 5. an autobiography, steinerbooks, blauvelt, ny, 1977, p. 316 (ga 28. see also regarding steiner s approach to thinking at that time (1899, individualism in philosophy, mercury press, spring valley, ny, 1989 (ga 30. 6. an autobiography, p. 319. 194 christianity as mystical fact how can we imagine this happening? in the little essay already mentioned, the twenty-one-year-old spoke of the essential being [wesen] of an object. in a similar sense, steiner says in his epistemology, in thinking, the ground of being shows itself in its most perfect form. this ultimately

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certainly an area that needs deeper investigation. the workshop session discussion however left the topic of abstract forms, and instead investigated the historic use of symbols in various cultures. looking first at the more complex god forms, it seems each major culture has a "trickster" god: coyote fills this niche in several amerindian cultures, loki in the norse mythos, and thoth (hermes and mercury) in the egyptian (greek and roman) mythologies. the trickster is that spirit who makes you think. he is the spirit who is unpredictable in his actions or reactions, who gets himself and everyone else into trouble. in the process of doing so- most often after everyone is already in trouble- he makes people think, and in the end he generally gets everyone out of trouble by thinking. to repre

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the white house. while the focal point is the black stone altar with its three sun medallions, the two serpents provide the most grotesque sight. on the rug we read "the goal of initiation" and, indeed, it is reportedly before this imposing black stone altar that the candidate for the 33rd degree kneels and drinks wine from a human skull. the medical profession uses the winged caduceus, symbol of mercury, the ancient god of commerce, as a universal sign, or logo. medical doctors even take the hippocratic oath, vowing obeisance to asclepius, the greek god of healing. the caduceus design is of two serpents intertwined around a staff, or pole, facing each other. again, this is evidence of llluminist doctrine of the integration of opposites. the two serpents are the same as the emblem of freem

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tiator into these sacred doctrines was known as toth and later to the greeks by his more familiar name of hermes. hermes-toth is a generic name that designates a man, a caste, and a god at the same time. as a man, hermes-toth is the originator of a powerful system of magic and its first initiator; as a caste, he represents the priesthood, the repository of ancient wisdom; as a god, hermes becomes mercury for the greeks, the god who delivers messages to mortals from the olympiad and the god who initiates mortals into transcendent mysteries. later, the greek disciples of this secret tradition would call him hermes trismegistus (three times great, and he would be credited for originating the material contained in 42 books of esoteric science. in the time of the ramses (c. 1300 b.c.e, egypt sh

s of purification had been observed, the initiates bathed in the sea and were sprinkled with the blood of pigs as they emerged. a sacrifice was offered to the gods, and a procession began the journey to eleusis, where, upon the arrival of the priests, the initiates were received by the high priest of eleusis, the hieroceryx, or sacred herald, who was dressed in a manner suggesting the god hermes (mercury, holding the caduceus, the entwined serpents, as a symbol of his authority. once the aspirants had assembled, the sacred herald led them to a sanctuary of the goddess persephone hidden in a quiet valley in the midst of a sacred grove. here, the priestesses of persephone, crowned with narcissus wreaths, began chanting, warning the newcomers of the mysteries that they were about to perceive

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ered by the extraterrestrial invaders left unforgettable images in the minds of the audience. while the film version of wells s novel is highly regarded by science-fiction and cinema buffs and was successful upon its release, the impact it had on mass consciousness cannot be compared to the effect of the radio broadcast of war of the worlds on the day before halloween in 1938. at that time, cbs s mercury theatre presented orson welles 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 286 invaders from outer space orson wells acting out his famous war of the worlds radio broadcast (archive photos, inc) and a talented cast simulating a live news broadcast of an invasion of earth by mechanized martian war machines. because the account of unstoppable ali

n e d 286 invaders from outer space orson wells acting out his famous war of the worlds radio broadcast (archive photos, inc) and a talented cast simulating a live news broadcast of an invasion of earth by mechanized martian war machines. because the account of unstoppable alien beings landing in the new jersey farmlands was depicted so realistically and because many listeners tuned in after the mercury theatre production was already in progress the greater part of the nation was in panic over the invaders from mars. invading aliens continued to be a popular theme in a number of motion pictures throughout the 1950s. invaders from mars (1953) remains in many moviegoers memory as the single most frightening film of their childhood. perhaps what made the film so terrifying to young people wa

sted was telling the truth disguised as a fictional presentation. the x-files (1993 2002) in 1993 chris carter, creator of the television series the x-files for fox, fashioned a blend of ufo mythology, increasing public distrust of 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 invaders from outer space 287 war of the worlds was broadcasted live by cbs s mercury theatre on october 30, 1938. the u.s. government, and a growing interest in the paranormal that over its nine-year run usually finished as the second-most popular drama among young adults. during its peak season in 1997, the x-files attracted an estimated 20 million viewers per episode. in 2002, shortly before the last episode of the series, sandy grushow, the chairperson of fox entertainm

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e leyden papyrus discovered in the tomb of the anonymous magician contains the oldest known copy of the inscription from the legendary emerald tablet, which is itself a description of the seven stages of gold-making. hermes, who is called trismegistus, gthree times the greatest, h was a deity of a group of greeks who once founded a colony in egypt. this transplanted god drew his name from hermes (mercury to the romans, the messenger of the greek hierarchy of deities and the god who conducted the souls of the dead to the underworld kingdom of hades. the egyptians identified hermes trismegistus with thoth, who, in their pantheon of gods, was the divine inventor of writing and the spoken word. these same greek colonists developed an interest in the old egyptian religion, then went on to combi

subjective and the left is the objective. for a palmist, each part of the hand is associated with a planetary spirit. the mount or mound of jupiter is located at the base of the finger of jupiter, the forefinger. the mount of saturn is located at the base of the finger of saturn, the second finger. the mount of the sun is found at the base of the finger of the sun, the third finger. the mount of mercury rests at the base of the little finger, the finger of mercury. the mount of venus is the fleshy part of the palm at the base of the thumb. the mount of the moon is located in the thicker part of the side of the hand, directly beneath the mount of mercury below the little finger. the major lines of the palm are the life, head, and heart, which describe the basic personality traits as laid o

he base of the forefinger, then runs across the base of the other mounts to the edge of the hand. it is the first horizontal line in the palm. 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 148 prophecy and divination an illustration plate on palmistry from the german book die kunst ciromantia (the art of chieromancy (fortean picture library) the line of mercury, found beneath the little finger, is not present in many people fs hands. the line of the sun is located underneath the third (ring) finger. the line of saturn, the so-called fate line, is only found in about 40 percent of the population. this vertical line (s) runs from the wrist up towards the middle finger. the girdle of venus is composed of curved lines that will appear underneath the

ine of saturn, the so-called fate line, is only found in about 40 percent of the population. this vertical line (s) runs from the wrist up towards the middle finger. the girdle of venus is composed of curved lines that will appear underneath the middle and ring fingers. the line of intuition is a curved, crescent-like line that extends from the lowest part of the mount of the moon to the mount of mercury, located directly below the little finger. the lines of affection or marriage are located on the side of the hand under the little finger in the area called the mount of mercury. the longer one spends studying the human palm, the more lines and markings one is likely to discover. there are gbars, h short lines that cross major lines, indicating warnings of serious interference. there are g

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ga-nu-alpha-sigma alpha-mu-eta-nu- greek is difficult to tell from latin letters here, and the first part looks very much like "aiwvas, almost crowley's "aiwass" and very possibly a subconscious inspiration for it. there is a suggestion of a nimbus about the head. the section next down is contained largely within a cloud. to the left, outside "psyche. to the right outside in rows "aziah "jezirah "mercury. in the center is a book held open by a right hand flat against the left page and open, palm to book, fingers extending to base of right page. at the top of this portion, just below the chin of the upper section head is the word" gr:eta delta-omicron-xi-alpha (the glory. immediately below this and above the spine of the book is an unrecognizable character a little like gr:mu or mem from th

be death. it is this original substance to which the hieratic recital of genesis refers when the word of elohim creates light by commanding it to exist. the elohim said "let there be light" and there was light. this light, whose hebrew name is hb:aleph-vau-resh "aour" is the fluidic and living gold of the hermetic philosophy. its positive principle is their sulphur; its negative principle, their mercury; and its equilibrated principles form what they call their salt. one must then, in place of the sixth aphorism of mesmer which reads thus "matter is indifferent as to whether it is in movement or at rest" establish this proposition "the universal matter is compelled to movement by its double magnetization, and its fate is to seek equilibrium" 111 whence one may deduce these corollaries: re

r the jakin of solomon. the schin- matter, or the column called boaz. the double letters beth. reflection, thought, the moon, the angel gabriel, prince of mysteries. gimel. love, will, venus, the angel anael, prince of life and death. daleth. force, power, jupiter, sachiel, melech, king of kings. kaph. violence, strife, work, mars, samael zebaoth, prince of phalanges. pe. eloquence, intelligence, mercury, raphael, prince of sciences. resh. destruction and regeneration, time, saturn, cassiel, king of tombs and of solitude. tau. truth, light, the sun, michael, king of the elohim. 185 the simple letters the simple letters are divided into four triplicities, having for titles the four letters of the divine tetragam yod-heh-vau-heh. in the divine tetragram, the iod, as we have just said, symbol

finger is insinuating and talkative, at least, so say simple folk and nursemaids, whose little finger tells them so much. the hand has seven protuberances which the qabalists, following natural analogies, have attributed to the seven planets: that of the thumb, to venus; that of the index to jupiter; that of the medius, to saturn; that of the ring-finger to the sun; that of the little finger, to mercury; the two others to mars and to the moon. according to their form and their predominance, they judged the inclinations, the aptitudes, and consequently the probable destinies of the individuals who submitted themselves to their judgment. there is no vice which does not leave its trace, no virtue which has not its sign. thus, for the trained eyes of the observer, no hypocrisy is possible. on

n their athanor. this is what results from the obscure dogmas of basil valentine, of bernard trevisan, and of henry khunrath, who, all of them, pretended to have worked the transmutation, like raymond lully, like arnaud de villeneuve, and like nicholas flamel. the universal light, when it magnetizes the worlds, is called astral light; when it forms the metals, one calls it azoth, or philosophical mercury; when it gives life to animals, it should be called animal magnetism. the brute is subject to the fatalities of this light; man is able to direct it. it is the intelligence which, by adapting the sign to the thought, creates forms and images. the universal light is like the divine imagination, and this world, which changes ceaselessly, yet ever remaining the same with regard to the laws of

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quired by the just king of a realm (learning when to hold one's tongue as effective diplomacy rather than lash out in anger is a lesson learnt from geburah. the weapons of the sephirah are the sword, scourge and spear. in "magick, crowley replaces the spear with the dagger, and states that the weapons symbolise the following essential qualities in the magicians world: scourge dagger chain sulpher mercury salt energy fluidity fixity rajas sattvas tamas pain death bondage the scourge keeps the aspiration keen, the dagger shows that the magician is determined to make any sacrifice required, and the chain restricts his wandering. the three "binding items" surround the holy oil, representing consecration, grace and aspiration. this could be taken to symbolise in the concentric circles model of

magician aleister crowley utilised gematria as a "testing of spirits" whilst pathworking or "travelling the aeythrs" in vision. that is, he would ask his scryer to present the entity to be tested with a question or a number, and the entity would be expected to reply appropriately. thus, if a pathworking was in the realm of hod, and a young boy had appeared, he might be asked about the workings of mercury. if he replied with a number which was later discovered to be that of the word "swiftness, his other responses would be considered equally appropriate. the theory is basically that the false spirits will not know the gematria appropriate to the working as they are not consistent themselves with the area being worked. there are many forms of gematria- one list gives seventy-two forms, and m

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s vibrated after the pentagram is drawn in the east, the direction attributed to elemental air. tradition tells us that yhvh is a symbol for the highest, most divine name of god. therefore it is appropriate that this name is vibrated in the east, the place of the dawning of the light. yhvh is our sunrise, our source of life. the east symbolizes elemental air which has further correspondences with mercury the highest of the three alchemical principles. alchemists often refer to mercury as spirit. all of this is in keeping with the idea of the "hghest name of god" adonai, meaning "lord" is the name vibrated after the figure is traced in the south. this name is particularly associated with malkuth, whose complete divine name is adonai ha-aretz. the name "lord carries with it connotations of h

ly one of several that are possible. a list of deity correspondences sephirah egypfian greek roman celtic norse hindu kether chokmah binah chesed geburah tiphareth netzach hod yesod malkuth nudjer ptah thoth isis- amoun horus- osiris ra hathor- anubis khnum shu khonsu geb aither- uranus rhea hera zeus ares- apollo- aphrodite- hermes- artemis- demeter aether- coelus juno- jupiter mars- sol- venus- mercury- diana- ceres dagda- lugh danu- llyr morrigan- angus mac og brigit- ogma- cerridwen- cemunnos ymir- odin frigga- frey thor t y balder- freya- loki bragi nanna- nerthus brahman- vishnu mahasakti- indra shiva- krishna surya lakshmi pamati hunuman- chandra soma ganesha daath nephthys hypnos janus arianrhod heimdall aditi- pushan color and visualization as regardie stated in chapter five, once

as well. since all the colors allotted to the planets and elements were included in the twelve colors of the rainbow associated with the signs, they were assigned notes based on color (in the king scale of the golden dawn, thus: 244 the balance between mind and g i c color note sign planet element red c aries mars fire red-orange c# taurus orange d gemini sun yellow-orange d# cancer yellow e leo mercury air yellow-green f virgo green f# libra venus blue-green g scorpio blue g# sagittarius moon water blue-violet a capricorn saturn violet a# aquarius jupiter red-violet b pisces in the golden dawn system, the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet are each associated with a sign, planet, or element. by extending the correspondences in the preceding chart to the associated hebrew letters

ttarius moon water blue-violet a capricorn saturn violet a# aquarius jupiter red-violet b pisces in the golden dawn system, the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet are each associated with a sign, planet, or element. by extending the correspondences in the preceding chart to the associated hebrew letters, we get the following: hebrew letter note astrology color h aleph e air yellow 2 beth e mercury yellow 3 gimel g# moon blue 7 daleth f# venus green 3 heh c aries red 1 vav c# taurus red-orange t zayin d gemini orange n cheth d# cancer yellow-orange d teth e leo yellow 9 yod f virgo yellow-green a# jupiter violet ?7 lkaamphe d f# libra green d mem g# water blue 3, nun g scorpio blue-green b samekh g# sagittarius blue ff ayin a capricorn blue-violet peh c mars red 3 tzaddi a# aquarius

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ms of speculative papers. we do not even have enough facts, after fifteen years of study, to form a real basis for the coveted probabilities. if nick the greek were asked to make book on the existence of extraterrestrial life, he would find the scientific arguments so tenuous that the odds would have to be somewhere around a trillion to one. of the nine planets in our own solar system, only three mercury, earth, and mars are solid, and only one of these three is infested with life. the appearance of life requires a long list of environmental and chemical conditions. for all these conditions to exist simultaneously on a single planet also requires a whole series of improbable coincidences. men have always gazed at the night sky and dreamed of other worlds. four thousand years ago, enoch bec

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acles. the 'spirits' or bodies that exist beyond the zonei are called the azonei, meaning "un-zoned. whether this refers to the so-called "fixed" stars (having no sphere ascertainable to the early astronomers) or the comets, is unknown to the editor. whatever the case may be, the zonei seem to include the seven philosophical planets, i.e, including the sun and moon as planetary bodies, along with mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. each has their own seal and their own number. kenneth grant, author of aleister crowley and the hidden god, may be interested to know (or may already know) that the number of the sumerian goddess of venus, hence of love and war, is fifteen. in many of the ancient tablets of that period, she is actually referred to as "the fifteen, as a shortcut to spelling

smos before the fall of marduk from heaven (names of zodiacal constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2. sphere of the zodiac or fixed stars enki; lumashi (igigi) 3. sphere of saturn adar 4. sphere of jupiter marduk 5. sphere of mars nergal 6. sphere of the sun utu 7. sphere of venus inanna 8. sphere of mercury nebo 9. sphere of the moon nanna 10. sphere of the elements kia 11. air anna 12. mercury gudud 13. moon sin 14. venus dlibat 15. aries agru (xubur) 16. taurus kakkab u alap shame (kingu) 17. gemini re'u kinu shame u tu'ame rabuti (viper) 18. cancer shittu (snake) 19. leo kalbu rabu (lakhamu) 20. virgo shiru (whirlwind) 21. jupiter umunpaddu 22. libra zibanitum (ravening dog) 23. water badu

may watch you in its manufacture. being finished, it should be wrapped in a square of the finest silk and lain aside until such time as you desire its use, and then, it should be removed only after the sun has gone to its rest. no ray of sunlight should strike the seal, lest its power be rendered nil and a new seal must needs be cast. the number of nanna is thirty and this is his seal: the god of mercury is nebo. he is a very old spirit, having a long beard, and is the guardian of the gods, as well as the keeper of the knowledge of science. he wears a crown of one hundred horns, and the long robe of the priest. his colour is blue. his essence is in that metal known as quicksilver, and is sometimes also found in sand, and in those things bearing the sign of mercury. his gate is the second y

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of isis. she is seated between two columns, the one on her right being red to signify pure spirit and its luminous ascension over matter, and the one on her left being black to represent the bondage of matter over the impure. the woman is crowned by a tiara of three stories surmounted by a lunar crescent. from the tiara a veil falls over her face. she wears upon her bosom the symbol of the planet mercury, and carries upon her knees an open book which she half covers with her mantle. this symbolic ensemble personifies occult science, which awaits the initiate at the threshold of the sanctuary of isis in order to tell him the secrets of universal nature. the symbol of mercury (hermes) upon the bosom of the virgin, signifies that matter is fecundated by spirit in order to evolve mind, or soul

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left to the ardours of your research. this sun is in the midst of the 6 other letters of the word; and the general knowledge of correspondences which you have derived from the study of the books appointed for your instruction will at once show you that j is virgo the virgin moon a is the fool or antic, the antique or ancient one saturn h is the letter of aries the house of mars b is the letter of mercury v is the hierophant or pope, emblem of jupiter l is libra the house of venus such, my brother, are the letters taken singly. in combination we reach beyond the simple facts of nature to divine mysteries. iii first of all, consider the descending triangle. it reads ihv, the first three letters of the ineffable name of four letters. they refer to father, mother, son, as your earliest studies

others of hermetic light. luna and of these the first is the building up of one that is not born; verily, a child of wonder shall he be. venus and the second is the harmony and the mastery of one co-eval and co-operative with thee from eternity, twin with thee, and thy mate. mars by the third cometh youth and beauty and energy, be thou never so old. saturn by the fourth is life prolonged at will. mercury the fifth is the attainment of the supreme, the magick of light. jupiter the sixth guardeth and aideth thee in the world wherein thou workest: to high rank and honour shall it lead thee, and from thy hands shall pour forth rivers of blessing: yea verily and amen. sol and by the seventh thou hast all light, and knowest the cause of all, understanding alike the earthy and the spiritual soul

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th his character, he maketh very fair, and to be adorned with all beauty. he converteth copper into gold, in a moment, and gold into copper: he giveth spirits which do faithfully serve those to whom they are addicted. his character. he hath 4000 legions of spirits and over every thousand he ordaineth kings for their appointed seasons. 15 ophiel is the governour of such things as are attributed to mercury: his character is this. his spirits are 100000 legions: he easily giveth familiar spirits: he teacheth all arts: and he that is dignified with his character, he maketh him to be able in a moment to convert quicksilver into the philosophers stone. phul hath this character. he changeth all metals into silver, in word and deed; governeth lunary things; healeth the dropsie: he giveth spirits o

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ame ideas are expressed somewhat more plainly on the medals of sernia in italy, which are executed with all the refinement and elegance of grecian art.5 on one side is apollo, the diurnal sun, mounting in his chariot; and on the other a beardless head, with the same cap on, and the same instrument behind it, but with the youthful features and elegant character of countenance usually attributed to mercury, who, as well as vulcan, was the god of art and mechanism; and whose peculiar office it also was to conduct the souls of the deceased to their eternal mansions, from whence came the epithet diaktwr, applied to him by homer. he was, therefore, in this respect, the same as the helman of the 1 eurip. hecuba. 2 malles, introd; hist. de danemarc, c. 9. 3 `epta epi qhbaj, v. 535. 4 plate x. fig

danemarc, c. 9. 3 `epta epi qhbaj, v. 535. 4 plate x. fig 2. 5 see plate x, fig. 6, from one belonging to me. of priapus 81 celtes and scythians, who was supposed to conduct the souls of all who died a violent death (which alone was accounted truly happy) to the palace of valhala.1 it seems that the attributes of the deity which the greeks represented by the mythological personages of vulcan and mercury, were united in the celtic mythology. c sar tells us that the germans worshipped vulcan, or fire, with the sun and moon; and i shall soon have occasion to show that the greeks held fire to be the real conductor of the dead, and emancipator of the soul. the sernians, bordering upon the samnites, a celtic nation, might naturally be supposed to have adopted the notions of their neighbours, or

rnians, bordering upon the samnites, a celtic nation, might naturally be supposed to have adopted the notions of their neighbours, or, what is more probable, preserved the religion of their ancestors more pure than the hellenic greeks. hence they represented vulcan, who, from the inscription on the exergue of their coins, appears to have been their tutelar god, with the characteristic features of mercury, who was only a different personification of the same deity. at lycopolis in egypt the destroying power of the sun was represented by a wolf; which, as macrobius says, was worshipped there as apollo.2 the wolf appears devouring grapes in the ornaments of the temple of bacchus perikionoj at puzzuoli;3 and on the medals of cartha he is surrounded with rays, which plainly proves that he is th

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approach the ultimate reality of existence, it will be through the work of these men and women who have dared to think magic thoughts and dream magic dreams. a short explanation is necessary for the ordering of the planets on the hexa- gram, chakras, and tree of the sephiroth. this is at variance with the long- accepted arrangements and results from a basic shift of emphasis away from the sun to mercury as the central influence of planetary magic. there are good rationales for a sun-central pattern, which is why it has endured for so many centuries. the sun is the most beautiful heavenly body, its power the most overt. it is the only "planet" that can directly be felt, producing life- giving warmth and chastising the unwary with sunburn and sun-blindness. all the magi of old were astrolog

hed as singularly different, more important, and central. the difficulty with a sun-central arrangement is that it results in an imbalance among the other six planets that cannot be corrected by rearranging them in con- trasting pairs around the sun. in fact, balanced pairs are impossible. no other plan- et except the sun adequately balances the moon, and no planet at all can successfully balance mercury, which is solitary and unique among the wandering bodies. the sun may be central astronomically, but it can never be central magically because it is by its nature unbalanced. it is blazingly masculine where neutrality is demanded. it is yellow, and to be neutral, it must be colorless. it has an observable sphere, allowing it to balance in this respect only another observable sphere. philos

t only another observable sphere. philosophically, the sun is at the extreme masculine active end of a linear scale and balances its heavenly mate, the moon, which is at the extreme passive feminine end. between them lie the remaining five planets, also arranged in pairs about a theoretical center. jupiter is the masculine mate of feminine saturn. mars is the masculine mate of feminine venus. but mercury has no mate, for the simple reason that it embodies both mascu- line and feminine elements within itself. as a magical symbol, mercury is balanced and complete. because of this balance, it neither needs to be, nor will tolerate being, paired to any other planet. xvi new millennium magic as is explained in the chapter on the hexagram, the traditional system of astro- logical symbols for the

d complete. because of this balance, it neither needs to be, nor will tolerate being, paired to any other planet. xvi new millennium magic as is explained in the chapter on the hexagram, the traditional system of astro- logical symbols for the planets is not a set of arbitrary tokens, but reflects both the nature of the individual planets and their interrelationship. it proves the unique- ness of mercury with unmistakable clarity. the sun and the moon are paired and separated from the rest of the planets by each being given a single, pure sign denot- ing its quality: sun: el moon: the jupiter-saturn and mars-venus pairs are likewise inescapable, based on their symbolism. all four of these planets are double-compound, partaking of the pure solar or lunar qualities blended with the quality o

ts by each being given a single, pure sign denot- ing its quality: sun: el moon: the jupiter-saturn and mars-venus pairs are likewise inescapable, based on their symbolism. all four of these planets are double-compound, partaking of the pure solar or lunar qualities blended with the quality of the earth, which is repre- sented by the cross: jupiter: 3 mars: 6 saturn: fi venus: 9 unique and apart, mercury is made up of the symbols of the three primary forces-sun, moon, and earth. it is the only planet that combines the solar and lunar symbols. these are held in harmonious balance by the symbol of earth: mercury: this relationship between the seven traditional planets and the earth is pre- sented clearly and concisely in the following diagram: the symbols? and d represent the nodes of the mo

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the head the crown-sphere of the primum mobile 2. chokrnah left side of the brain wisdom-sphere of fixed stars 3. binah right side of the brain understanding-sphere of saturn 4. chesed left arm mercy-sphere of jupiter 5. geburah right arm severity-sphere of mars 108 soul flight 6. tiphareth torso beauty-sphere of the sun 7. netzach left leg victory-sphere of venus 8. hod right leg glory-sphere of mercury 9. yesod genitals foundation-sphere of the moon 10. malkuth entire physical body kingdom-sphere of the four elements those familiar with the tree of life will notice that when applied to the human body by the golden dawn, it was reflected left to right. chokrnah, on the right side of the tree, is placed on the left side of the brain. hod, on the left side of the tree, is located on the rig

he ruling intelligence of this world is an oracular voice speaking in riddles that may hinder or help, depending on their interpretation. this oracle is unseen, its form concealed within a shining whirlwind that dazzles with its radiance, but it may be the holy grail, common quest of the foolish and the wise. chapter twelve: the tarot 205 i the magician hebrew letter: beth (house) correspondence: mercury path: twelfth unlike the fool, who wanders through the wilds of the natural world, the magician functions within the environs of men-interacting with them, matching his wits with theirs, amazing and deceiving their senses. the art of the magician is illusion, yet his efforts to understand and control the ways of the world and the ways of mankind have given him a quick wit and a cunning min

e golden dawn details are not really necessary. it is useful to have the astrological symbol that corresponds with each sephirah inscribed prominently within the astral temple of that sephirah. for example, malkuth corresponds with the four elements, so the signs of the four elements in the form of four elemental triangles would appear within the temple of malkuth. hod corresponds with the planet mercury, so the glyph of mercury would appear within the temple of hod. one possible general form you might wish to use is a square room with two doorways, the one that exits the elevator through which you enter the temple of the initial sephirah 230 soul flight of the path, and a doorway in the opposite wall that is masked by a curtain painted with the image of the tarot trump associated with the

ictory) divine name: ihvh tzabaoth (lord of hosts) archangelic name: haniel correspondence: venus "the seventh path is the occult intelligence, because it is the refulgent splendour of all the intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of the intellect, and by the contemplation of faith" 8. hod (glory) divine name: elohim tzabaoth (god of hosts) archangelic name: michael correspondence: mercury "the eighth path is called the absolute or perfect intelligence, because it is the means of the primordial, which has no root by which it can cleave, nor rest, except in the hidden places of gedulah, magnificence, from which emanates its own proper essence" chapter thirteen: pathworking 233 9. yesod (foundation) divine name: shaddai el chai (the almighty living one) archangelic name: gabri

er: aleph tarot trump: 0 the fool correspondence: air "the eleventh path is the scintillating intelligence, because it is the essence of that curtain which is placed close to the order of the disposition, and this is a special dignity given to it that it may be able to stand before the face of the cause of causes" 12. kether to binah hebrew letter: beth tarot trump: i the magician correspondence: mercury "the twelfth path is the intelligence of transparency, because it is that species of magnificence called chazchazit, the place whence issues the vision of those seeing in apparitions (that is the prophecies by seers in a vision" 13. kether to tiphareth hebrew letter: gimel 234 soul flight tarot trump: i1 the high priestess correspondence: moon "the thirteenth path is named the uniting inte

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gic that have descended from the original golden dawn teachings, so it is necessary to be familiar with their meanings and functions. the correspondence that i have set forth between the five workdays of the week and the five tattwa forms is not exact, but is close enough to be serviceable. monday, the day of the moon, is watery in nature; tuesday, the day of mars, is fiery; wednesday, the day of mercury, partakes of the quality of mind and in this sense is linked with the fifth element of spirit; thursday, the day of jupiter, is airy because jupiter is a sky god; friday, the day of venus, is earthy. this correspondence is not found in the golden dawn system, so far as i am aware, but it makes good symbolic sense. inward perception n: tattwa awareness 27 most persons have some notion conce

ers of fire, the undines of water, and the gnomes of earth. the infernal spirits, such as the demons of hell, who traditionally are supposed to dwell beneath the surface of the earth, are also lower spirits, as are the qlippoth or shells of kabbalistic doctrine. higher spirits are those that dwell in or above the sphere of the moon. they are associated with the spheres, successively, of the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, saturn, and the sphere of the fixed stars, or zodiac. this traditional division of the world into successive shells or spheres about the earth should be understood in a symbolic sense. lower spirits are those involved with the senses, emotions, desires, health of the body, and physical substances. higher spirits are concerned with aspirations, intuition, ins

e body of the triangle and its center. at its base, the trump associated with the moon is put on the left next to the trump of water, and the trump of the sun on the right next to the trump of fire. the trumps of the lunar planets, jupiter and saturn, occupy the left side, and the trumps of the solar planets, venus and mars, the right side. in the center is placed the trump linked with the planet mercury, the planet of balance and union that contains both solar and lunar principles. in the coin method, pennies are used to define the circle because they are composed of bronze, a mixture of copper (metal of venus) and tin (metal ofjupiter. the influence of both these planets is benign-jupiter is known as the greater fortune, and venus as the lesser fortune. twelve is the number of the zodiac

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s, and so on (see crowley's book of thoth, p. 23. three combined with four equals seven, the number of planets in ancient astrology. the planets are compounded out of combinations of three pure principles, which may conveniently be called sun, moon, and earth. four of the planets are based on pairs of these principles: venus (sun-earth, mars (earthsun; jupiter (moon-earth, and saturn (earth-moon. mercury is formed of all three, moon-sun-earth. it is highly instructive to compare the structure of the planets with the structure of tetragrammaton. the sun corresponds with the initial yod. the moon is the first he. mercury is the threefold aspect of the name, ihv, out of which the six directions of space are formed in sepher etzirah. there are six possible permutations of the glyph for mercury

al order of the seven planets on the heptagram (see illustration on page 53. if the line of the seven-pointed star is traced clockwise from point to point, the order of the planets associated with the seven days of the week results. beginning with saturday, the jewish sabbath, this order is: saturday (saturn, sunday (sun, monday (moon, tuesday (tew-the teutonic mars, wednesday (woden-the teutonic mercury, thursday (thor-the teutonic jupiter, friday (frija-the teutonic venus. if a circle is traced clockwise around the heptagram from this same planet, saturn, the order of the planets touched by the circle is their ancient astrological order based upon their apparent rate of progress across the heavens. from slowest *new millennium magic, an updated and expanded version of the new magus, will

is their ancient astrological order based upon their apparent rate of progress across the heavens. from slowest *new millennium magic, an updated and expanded version of the new magus, will be available in may 1996 from llewellyn worldwide, ltd. pentagrammaton spirit tu earth fire pentagram of the elements heavens. from slowest planet to fastest, this order is: saturn, jupiter, mars, sun, venus, mercury, moon. the opposite directions of motion around the pentagram created by yeheshuah and yehovashah allow these two forms of pentagrammaton to serve as words of power for banishing and invoking spirits, particularly those associated with the magical elements, the salamanders (fire, sylphs (air, undines (water, and gnomes (earth. an effective technique is to hold the right arm extended straig

metry-dee was famed for his brilliant introduction to the elements of euclid, and he was a skilled mathematician and geometer. each theorem of the monad involves the examination of a different symbolic aspect of a single geometric figure, which dee called the hieroglyphic monad, using its mathematical proportions as an aid to understanding. this curious symbol is similar to the planetary glyph of mercury, except that a dot has been added to the middle of the circle and the sign of aries attached to the bottom of the cross. for dee, the hieroglyphic monad represented in a graphic way the entire universe, which he believed might be understood by a close examination of the glyph's parts and proportions. he considered the work of supreme importance-it was dedicated to the german emperor maximi

gs possessed of a more holy nature than the wings of the winds are the twentyfour seated elders with their white robes and crowns of gold, and the seven fiery spirits of god. the elders are the banners of tetragrammaton, and the fiery spirits are the seven traditional planets. these planets are divided into two sects ruled by the sun and the moon. the sect of the sun contains jupiter, saturn, and mercury. the sect of the moon contains mars, venus, and mercury. there is another ancient division of the planets in astrology that assigns them under the sun and moon to the signs of the zodiac. by this arrangement, the zodiac is divided down the middle into a solar half (right side) and a lunar half (left side. the sun, ruling in leo, is placed over the five lesser planets in the signs from virg

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nted by a breast. the fourth tarot card, the emperor. geburah severity; the fifth card of man, the pope or the hierophant of the tarot: mars, the warrior of aries. tiphereth beauty, venus of taurus, the love of the holy spirit, the causal body of the man, the sixth card of the tarot, the lover. netzach victory, justice of the arcanum, the seventh card of the tarot, the chariot, saturn. hod glory, mercury of gemini, the eighth card of the tarot, the eternity of all. yesod foundation, the sun of leo, the ninth card of the tarot. the hermit. malkuth kingdom, the entire universe, mary or virgo, nature. these ten sephiroth live within our being and are our inner solar system. the tarot is intimately related with esoteric astrology and with initiation. arcanum 10 this is the first hour of apollo

p you to consciously travel in your astral body. invoke him when you are meditating on the sacred sign of the infinite. on any given night, you will be invoked from the temple of the himalayas. there you will be submitted to seven ordeals. there you will be taught the secret science. now then, after this digression, let us continue with our initial point. the holy eight symbolizes the caduceus of mercury and represents the two ganglionic chords that esoterically are entwined around the spinal medulla, these are: id and pingal; the two witnesses, the two olives, the two candlesticks standing before the throne of god on earth. the solar atoms rise through the cord of the right and the lunar atoms rise through the cord of the left. these solar and lunar atoms rise from our seminal system, the

these elements are the perfect synthesis of the four manifested elements. the powerful mantra i.a.o. encompasses the magical power of the triangle of these principle elements: i ignis fire a aqua water o origo spiritual principle i. a o is the supreme mantra of the arcanum a.z.f. whosoever wants to raise the soul of the world through the medullar channel must work with the sulfur (fire, with the mercury (water) and with the salt (philosophical earth. it is only in this way that one can be born in spirit and in truth. 3 jeugo extraordinerio is literally extraordinary game arcano iii recordad, el sepher yetzirah describe en forma maravillosa todos los esplendores del mundo y el juego extraordinario de los sephirotes, en dios y en el hombre, por las treinta y dos sendas de la sabidur a. en e

es of basil valentine. azoth is the sexual creative principle of nature. the magnum work has been realized when the rose of the spirit blooms upon the cross of our body. the three principle-elements are the three mother letters of the hebraic alphabet. when one is practicing the arcanum a.z.f. one is working with these three principle-elements within the great laboratory of nature. one works with mercury, sulfur and salt when one practices the arcanum a.z.f; this is how the lead of the personality is transmuted into the gold of the spirit; this is how we elaborate the golden child of alchemy within ourselves. these three principle-elements become manifested within the four elements of nature. there exists the heat of fire and air, the humidity of air and water, and the dryness of fire and

how the lead of the personality is transmuted into the gold of the spirit; this is how we elaborate the golden child of alchemy within ourselves. these three principle-elements become manifested within the four elements of nature. there exists the heat of fire and air, the humidity of air and water, and the dryness of fire and earth. these are the three principle-elements, the i.a.o, the sulfur, mercury and salt contained within the four elements of nature. the elemental paradises of nature are found within these principle-elements. the kabbalist- alchemist must learn how to use sulfur, mercury and salt. en el arcano a.z.f, est n las doce llaves secretas del benedictino de erfurt (erfurt, basilio valent n. en el manuscrito del azoth, de valent n, se encierra todo el secreto de la gran obr

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pter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter chapter 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14: 15: appendix qabalistic talismans: how do getting started correspondences magical squares and sigils the kamea of binah/saturn the kamea of chesed/jupiter the kamea of geburah/mars the kamea of tiphareth/sun the kamea of netzach/venus the kamea of hod/mercury the kamea of yesod/moon the kamea of daath/pluto talisman of the name using tattwas for healing and consecration bibliography they work? balancing xiii 1 11 23 53 71 81 89 97 107 115 125 135 145 153 189 193 201 and mercurius trismegistus writes, that an image, rightly made of certain proper things, appropriated to any one certain angel will presently be animated by that angel .cornelius ag

roperties for thousands of years in other traditions besides hermeticism, in places such as china, india, and the middle east. the planetary spirit of the magic square is viewed as a guiding, inspiring, or informing entity, and many planetary talismans of the middle ages have their planetary seals and squares engraved in the talisman dedicated to the mythic figure represented by the planet, e. g, mercury (number eight) or mars (number five. the mars square has twenty-five cells (5x5, and the sum of any row equals sixtyfive. the "theosophic extension" of the square is the addition of all the numbers from one through sixty-five, which in this case is 325. these are the sacred numbers of mars. according to john michell, who has done perhaps the most comprehensive modern analysis of ancient sa

aper 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 archetypal symbols have great power in talisman making because they have a tradition.these are images that have been built up in the ether, or akasha, for thousands

that one needs a set of correspondences which, because it has the backbone of tradition, has certain built-in 8 western mandalas of transformation rules. one would not put the mark or seal of the planet mars on a talisman for healing, along with an angel or intelligence from the sphere of the moon. one uses mars for other purposes; healing would belong to the sphere of the sun (or, in some cases, mercury; and in neither case would you use the intelligence of the moon. this is an example of combining three different energies that have little or nothing to do with one another. we don't put an angelic name on a talisman because we like the way it sounds, or even because of past associations from childhood. in qabalah, talismanic images, symbols, or names are in no way arbitrary. if you don't

the talismans which are directly derived from the tree of life. one single tattwa image, for example a square (which is attributed to earth, could be added to many different kinds of talismans.it would go with different planetary energies for a variety of purposes. when added to one with venus, or netzach, it may refer to the need for grounding in a particular relationship; when added to one with mercury, or hod, it may make concrete certain aspirations for getting a teaching job. this will become more clear as we explore the tattwa and talisman correspondences in more depth. qabalistic talismans. 9 for meditation images which lead one directly to an experience of the intelligence of the path (or those belonging to the tarot archetype, i suggest the hebrew letters themselves, which are roo

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hich, the progeny being depraved, discord will result. simplicius, in his commentary on the 2nd book of aristotle, on the heavens, remarks that pythagoras and his followers claimed to have heard the music of the spheres, to have heard an harmonic sound produced by the motion of the planets, and from the sound to have calculated by numbers the ratio of distance and size of the sun, moon, venus and mercury. 21. to this aristotle objected, but perhaps the difficulty might be solved. in this sublunary sphere, all things are not commensurate, nor is everything sensible to everybody alike. animals can be scented, and their presence definitely known, by dogs when at great distances from them, and when man is in complete ignorance of their existence. some of the ancients thought the soul had three

n d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 50. chapter eight the tetrad, four, 4. he pythagoreans, said nicomachus, call the number four the greatest miracle, a god after another manner, a manifold divinity, the fountain of nature, and its key bearer. it is the introducer and cause of the permanency of the mathematical discipline. it is most masculine and robust; it is hercules and aeolus. it is mercury, vulcan, and bacchus. among the muses, urania. they also called it feminine, effective of virility, and an exciter of bacchic fury. in harmony, it was said to form by the quadruple numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott ratio, the symphony dis-diapason. they called it justice, as the first evenly even number. as a type of deity, we all know of the famous

, pycnostyle, systyle, eustyle, diastyle and aerostyle. 63. the triad society of china, concerning which we find an article in the freemasons quarterly review, 1845, p. 165, boasts of great antiquity; it resembles freemasonry in some points. five is a chief mystical number in its concerns. its seal is pentangular, or its angles are 5 characters representing too or saturn, muh or jupiter, shwuy or mercury, kin or venus, and ho or mars. in the infernal world are 5 terrors and torments. deadly bitterness, horrible howling, terrible darkness, unquenchable heat and thirst, and a penetrating stench; says old john heydon, quoting some mediaeval father of numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the church. he was admitted an adept among the fratres rosae crucis

power over earthly destiny; there were seven also of the hyades, daughters of atlas; and the seven stars which guided the sailors. ursa major, in which the hindus locate the sapta rishi, seven sages of primitive wisdom, are a group of the first importance and are easily recognized. duncan, in his astro-theology, gives 7 stages of life with associated planets; thus, infancy, moon, luna; childhood, mercury, knowledge; youth, venus, love; numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott manhood, sol; full strength, mars; maturity of judgment, jupiter; and old age, saturn. 74. some philosophers have said that our souls have 7 foci in the material body, viz, the five senses, the voice and the generative power. the body has seven obvious parts, the head, chest, abdomen

apertures of the skull to correspond with the seven planets. there are seven degrees in the oriental order of sikha and the sat bhai (7 brothers; but i have doubts of the brahmanic authenticity of the present order of the name, which was introduced by j. h. lawrence archer. from the relative strength of their courses the ancients constructed a planetary ladder, with vowel symbols, thus--moon (a, mercury (e, venus (ee, sun (i, mars (o, jupiter (u) and saturn (oo. these symbols were used in mystical knowledge, as an inscription at the temple of apollo at delphi shows, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott where e i meant the sun and its nearest planet, i.e, sun and mercury; and mercury was often represented as a dog, following a sun man. the oracle of cl

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u monoth isme. paris: ditions de l herne, 1981. cornford, francis m. principium sapienti: the origins of greek philosophical thought. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1952. corradini, richard. zeit und text: studien zum tempus-begriff des augustinus. vienna: r. oldenbourg verlag, 1997. coudert, allison p. the impact of the kabbalah in the seventeenth century: the life and thought of francis mercury van helmont (1614 1698. leiden: e. j. brill, 1999. courtine, jean-fran ois. extase de la raison: essais sur schelling. paris: galil e, 1990. schelling et le juda sme. in la philosophie allemande dans la pens e juive, 95 114. paris: presses universitaires de france, 1997. craig, william lane. on the mind-dependence of temporal becoming. in time, reality, and transcendence in rational perspe

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

s was tahuti manifest in the mind of the beast, like light therein, clear, icy, wit without heart. and i beheld the working afar off, full utterly of des ire towards it; and i was aware of certain things concerning it; as here now to be writ down. firstly: the working shall establish the aeon of ra hoor khuit by obeying th e instructions given in "the book of the law. secondly: it is a working of mercury and sol, combined even as they are in t he beast; so that the word of the working is aleph-lamed-dalet-yod weh note: s ic, probably should be aleph-lamed-hay, 36, the square of 6 and the sum of the first eight numbers, etc, etc. now aleph is the letter of hadith as hay of nu ith, and lamed is their balanced union. thirdly: alostrael resumeth nuit and the beast hadith; their copulation is t

that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the do or of the palace of love. then vau reproduceth itself in its spelling, as it is written``all is ever as it was' in "the book of the law, and in aiwaz are f ound the three star-clusters of earth-nature, the goat under the god set or sat urn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his natu re, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, un der hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love t

aught, the pantacle being of "earth (in parts 7 to 10 weapons& robes may be laid on the throne of aiwaz (11) perform any scrying or utter any prophecies, as may be given& at leisure& pleasure resume vestments& insignia& close temple. so far of these matters. now we may begin our first working by the invocation 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 ceph

of "the book of the law" as uttered by aiwaz 93 to 66, by the way of the cep haloedium working as in the record thereof it hath been written. witness our hands: to mega therion 9degree= 2square a'.a. 666 alostrael- 31-666-31. genesthai the banquet of fish& yellow wine was consumed& the oath of the working witnes sed accordingly with ceremonial proper thereto& concluded at 1:18 p.m. of the day of mercury which openeth the month called december. i ask a symbol for the next day of the working. iv- earth of moon: the formulation of the restrictions& the dispelling of ig norance. id est: make careful arrangements& ask for further enlightenment. h ow should we obtain further enlightenment? lii- earth of earth "when one's resting is like that of the back& he loses a ll consciousness of self: whe

n in hand at one o'clock, the afternoon on the day of jupiter. the formulation of the primum ens melissae was however difficult. the beast receiving a communication of a climatological character reminding him of his lost lustre. it is therefore incumbent to make a new divination task: what course is now proper to pursue? lxii: let the matter take care of itself: enquire further on the next day of mercury. dei lunae: dec. 13: at two o'clock this morning, after making my confession. i laid my hand upon the sacred lotus of alostrael& swore these oaths- i. i, the beast 666 hereby& herein most solemnly promise& swear: to devote my whole working time exclusively to the completion of my comment on "the book of the law" 2. i, etc, as before etc. swear: that as soon as the comment is ready, i will

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

hus was tahuti manifest in the mind of the beast, like light therein, clear, icy, wit without heart. and i beheld the working afar off, full utterly of desire towards it; and i was aware of certain things concerning it; as here now to be writ down. firstly: the working shall establish the aeon of ra hoor khuit by obeying the instructions given in "the book of the law. secondly: it is a working of mercury and sol, combined even as they are in the beast; so that the word of the working is aleph-lamed-dalet-yod weh note: sic, probably should be aleph-lamed-hay, 36, the square of 6 and the sum of the first eight numbers, etc, etc. now aleph is the letter of hadith as hay of nuith, and lamed is their balanced union. thirdly: alostrael resumeth nuit and the beast hadith; their copulation is ther

vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the door of the palace of love. then vau reproduceth itself in its spelling, as it is written``all is ever as it was' in "the book of the law, and in aiwaz are found the three star-clusters of earth-nature, the goat under the god set or saturn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his nature, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, under hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love the

aught, the pantacle being of "earth (in parts 7 to 10 weapons& robes may be laid on the throne of aiwaz (11) perform any scrying or utter any prophecies, as may be given& at leisure& pleasure resume vestments& insignia& close temple. so far of these matters. now we may begin our first working by the invocation 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 venus 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 operation go aright. immediately was the beast inspired to a writing mercurial, a satire upon the fish& thus wrote he some 14 or 15 hours. the oath of the cephalo

nt of "the book of the law" as uttered by aiwaz 93 to 66, by the way of the cephaloedium working as in the record thereof it hath been written. witness our hands: to mega therion 9degree= 2square a'.a. 666 alostrael- 31-666-31. genesthai the banquet of fish& yellow wine was consumed& the oath of the working witnessed accordingly with ceremonial proper thereto& concluded at 1:18 p.m. of the day of mercury which openeth the month called december. i ask a symbol for the next day of the working. iv- earth of moon: the formulation of the restrictions& the dispelling of ignorance. id est: make careful arrangements& ask for further enlightenment. how should we obtain further enlightenment? lii- earth of earth "when one's resting is like that of the back& he loses all consciousness of self: when h

n in hand at one o'clock, the afternoon on the day of jupiter. the formulation of the primum ens melissae was however difficult. the beast receiving a communication of a climatological character reminding him of his lost lustre. it is therefore incumbent to make a new divination task: what course is now proper to pursue? lxii: let the matter take care of itself: enquire further on the next day of mercury. dei lunae: dec. 13: at two o'clock this morning, after making my confession. i laid my hand upon the sacred lotus of alostrael& swore these oaths- i. i, the beast 666 hereby& herein most solemnly promise& swear: to devote my whole working time exclusively to the completion of my comment on "the book of the law" 2. i, etc, as before etc. swear: that as soon as the comment is ready, i will

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

egin with the middle circle on the sigillum, the greek omega, for the number of rays is twelve around the circle to give: this yields ohoohaatan for the fire tablet "count 12 in any case neglecting the numbers over or under, always forward" at this point, i would mention that only one of these four names are to be found in the dee manuscripts that i have examined: thaaoth, representing the planet mercury. i had first assumed that they were purely a golden dawn manipulation of dee's work. now i have discovered they came from the dee manuscripts. when conducting golden dawn rituals, there is a very real effect from these seals. for example, when these angels are in8 when conducting golden dawn rituals, there is a very real' effect from these seals. for example, when these angels are in-yoked

te squares. by tracing a lightning flash type of sign through the above square the following names of planetary angels are generated: at this point, the angel for sol ends in an s and not an l. although this may appear incorrect, we must remember that throughout the dee manuscript there are a number of instances where one letter can be transposed for another. this would also apply to the angel of mercury, who could possibly be kokabiel. concerning this, the manuscripts say: 14 "these names bring forth seven angels (1) the governors of the heavens next unto us. every letter of the angel's name bringeth forth seven daughters (2) every daughter bringeth forth her daughter (3) every daughter her daughter bringeth forth a son (4) every son hath his son" from this, we can determine that further

ruth" 25 draw the invoking unicursal hexagram of the moon over the seal and say "now i invite ye noble one, galas (trace sigil) to send forth your light through the holy seal of truth" draw the invoking unicursal hexagram of saturn over the seal and say "i now invite ye noble one, gethog (trace sigil) to send forth your light through the holy seal of truth" draw the invoking unicursal hexagram of mercury over the seal and say "i now invite ye noble one, thoath (trace sigil) to send forth your light through the holy seal of truth" 26 draw the invoking unicursal hexagram of mars over the seal and say "i now invite ye noble one, innon (trace sigil) to send forth your light through the holy seal of truth" draw invoking unicursal hexagram of the sun over the seal and say: now invite ye noble on

he application of the biblical verses of genesis to the first seven days of creation. the seal of king camara is shown in figure 73. 109 sunday president: isr vice president: ave the seal of ave is shown in figure 74. king: bobogel figure 74 prince: bornogo the seal of bornogo is shown in figure 75. governors: bonefon over the hour of mars barnafa over the hour of jupiter bariges over the hour of mercury buscnab over the hour of saturn bablibo over the hour of the moon 80bogel governs the whole with his seat of power in the hour of the sun. borongo governs the whole day with his seat of power it the hour of venus. 110 the following 42 ministers each rule approximately 34 minutes of the day: 1. lennarb 12. aeblnan 23. eaoribl 34. abneici 2. eenarbl 13. eblnana 24. aorible 35. bneicia 3. ena

night' and there was evening, and there was morning-the first day" 111 monday president: stimcul vice president: ilemese the seal of ilemese is shown in figure 76. king: blvmaza prince: bralges the seal of bralges is shown in figure 77. governors: basleof over the hour of venus brisfli over the hour of the sun bragiof over the hour of mars belmara over the hour of jupiter baspalo over the hour of mercury blvmaza governs the whole day, with his seat of power in the hour of the moon. bralges governs the whole day with his seat of power in the hour of jupiter. 112 the following 42 ministers each rule approximately 34 minutes of the day: 1. oesngle 12. ilnavzn 23. rsogoon 34. rnnrrcp 2. esngleo 13. lnavzni 24. sogonr 35. nnrrcpr 3. sngleoe 14. navznil 25. ogoonrs 36. labdgre 4. ngleoes 15. yll

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