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ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ll the pro-german screams of anglican bishops, and the intrigues of the vatican) the black school has always worked insidiously, by treachery. we need then not be surprised by finding that its most notable representative was the renegade follower of blavatsky, annie besant, and that she was charged by her black masters with the mission of persuading the world to accept for its teacher a negroid36 messiah. to make the humiliation more complete, a wretched creature was chosen who, to the most loathsome moral qualities, added the most fatuous imbecility. and then blew up. this, then, is the present state of the war of the three schools. we cannot suppose that humanity is so entirely base as to accept krishnamurti; yet that such a scheme could ever have been conceived is a symptom of the almos

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

l hwhy dws delight, joy hxm# 354 grew fat; anointed n#d a temporary remitting h+m# demons myd# 355 thought; idea hb#xm year; sleep hn# pharaoh (derived from the egyptian for ggreat house h) h(rp sphere; number; emanation hryps 356 expiations, atonements myrwpk a young mule rpw( spirits of the living nyyxd nyxwr 357 iniquity)#wn 358 shame hn#g shiloh shall come (gn. 49:10) hly )by gmessiach h: the messiah xy#m the serpent that initiated eve #xn (taking the three hehs in hwhyh) as concealing the mothers# m, we get iota: alpha: omega) mw)y) the breastplate of the high priest n#x renewed, restored #dwxm 359 the sacred wind my# satan: the adversary n# 360 shin: a tooth ny# the messiah hy#mh the sinew [of the thigh; the weakening (gn. 32:32& cf. hn#h, below. k.d. p.235) h#nh the change; the teac

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

ame of the angel wrffm, metatron, and the name of the deity, ydc, shaddai, each make 314; so the one is taken as symbolical of the other. the angel metatron is said to have been the conductor of the children of israel through the wilderness, of whom god says, my name is in him. with regard to gematria of phrases (gen. xlix, 10, hlyc aby, yeba shiloh= 358, which is the numeration of the word jycm, messiah.4 thus also the passage, gen. xviii. 2 hclc hnhw, 3 i.e. the kaballah unveiled. as scholem (major trends in jewish mysticism) and others have pointed out, the three tracts translated by mathers are actually fairly minor in the scheme of the zohar (a reasonably complete english translation of which occupies five quarto volumes) t.s. 4 the quote from genesis, in jacob s blessing to judah, is

c hnhw, 3 i.e. the kaballah unveiled. as scholem (major trends in jewish mysticism) and others have pointed out, the three tracts translated by mathers are actually fairly minor in the scheme of the zohar (a reasonably complete english translation of which occupies five quarto volumes) t.s. 4 the quote from genesis, in jacob s blessing to judah, is generally taken as the earliest reference to the messiah. other meanings of 358 are discussed later in this article t.s. liber lviii 7 vehenna shalisha, and lo, three men, equals in numerical value laprw layrbg lakym wla, elo mikhael gabriel ve-raphael, these are michael, gabriel and raphael; for each phrase= 701. i think these instances will suffice to make clear the nature of gematria, especially as many other will be found in the course of th

t of all it strikes us that i, a, and o are the three letters associated with the three letters h in the great name of six letters, hwhyha, which combines hyha and hwhy, macroprosopus and microprosopus. now these feminine letters h conceal the three mothers of the alphabet a, m, and c. replace these, and we get awmyca, which adds up to 358, the number alike of cjn, the serpent of genesis, and the messiah. we thus look for redeeming power in iao, and for the masculine aspect of that power. now we will see how that power works. we have a curious dictionary, which was made by a very learned man, in which the numbers from 1 to 10,000 fill the left hand column, in order, and opposite them are written all the sacred or important words which add up to each number.30 we take this book, and look at

of a solid universe. daath, being above the plane, is therefore a figure of a force in four dimensions, and thus it is the object of the magnum opus. the three paths which connect it with the first trinity are the three lost letters or fathers of the hebrew alphabet. in daath is said to be the head of the great serpent nechesh or leviathan, called evil to conceal its holiness (cjn= 358= hycm, the messiah or redeemer, and tywl= 496= twklm, the bride) it is identical with the kundalini of the hindu philosophy, the kwan-se-on of the mongolian peoples, and means the magical force in man, which is the sexual force applied to the brain, heart, and other organs, and redeemeth him. the gradual disclosure of these magical secrets to the poet may be traced in these volumes,32 which it has been my pr

er summ. 333= 37 9 the accurs d. 340 \c the name. 341. the sum of the 3 mothers, aleph, mem, and shin. 345. hcm, moses. note that by transposition we have 543, hyha rca hyha, existence is existence, i am that i am, a sublime title of kether. moses is therefore regarded as the representative of this particular manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358. see 32. jycm, messiah, and cjn, the serpent of genesis. the dogma is that the head of the serpent (n) is bruised, being replaced by the letter of sacrifice, and yod, the letter alike of virginity (y= c) and of original deity (y= the foundation or type of all the letters. thus the word may be read: the sacrifice of the virgin-born divine one triumphant (j, the chariot) through the spirit, while cjn reads death e

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

parents of george carried their religious ideas to the point of never consummating their marriage* this arrangement does not seem to have been greatly appreciated by the wife; at least one fine morning she was found to be enceinte. the foolish father never thought of the hypothesis which commends itself most readily to a man of the world, not to say a man of science, and adopted that of a second messiah! he took the utmost pains to conceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into egypt! like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beautiful and edifying events of the bible into insane and ridiculous ones, which he proceeded to plagiarise. on the voyage out the virgi

. a.c. revert to the most elementary ideas of cannibal savages, challenge all the most vital premisses and axiomata that have passed current coin with philosophy for centuries, and present my theory. i clearly foresee the one difficulty, and will discuss it in advance. if my conclusions on this point are not accepted, we may at once get back to our previous irritable agnosticism, and look for our messiah elsewhere. but if we can see together on this one point, i think things will go fairly smoothly afterwards. consider1 darkness! can we philosophically or actually regard as different the darkness produced by interference of light and that existing in the mere absence of light? is unity really identical with .9 recurring? do we not mean different things when we speak respectively of 2 sine

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ethraton, and the name of the deity, shdi, shaddai, each make 314;3 so the one is taken as symbolical of the other. the angel metatron is said to have been the conductor of the children of israel through the wilderness, of whom god says "my name is in him" with regard to gematria of phases (gen. xlix. 10, iba shilh, yeba shiloh "sjhiloh shall come= 358, which is the numeration of the word mshich, messiah. thus also the passage, gen. xviii. 2, vhnh shlshh, vehenna shalisha "and lo, three men" equals in numerical value alv mikal gbrial vrpal, elo mikhale gabriel ve-raphael "these are mikhael, gabriel and raphael; for each phrase= 701. i think these instance will suffice to make clear the nature of gematria. notariqon is derived from the latin word notarius, a shorthand writer. of notariqon t

note: sic. should be: hb:heh hb:yod hb:heh hb:aleph and hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod, macroprosopus and microprosopus. now these feminine letters hb:heh conceal the "three mothers" of the alphabet, hb:aleph, hb:mem, and hb:shin. replace these, and we get hb:aleph hb:vau hb:mem hb:yod hb:shin hb:aleph, which adds up to 358, the number alike of hb:shin hb:chet hb:nun, the serpent of genesis, and the messiah. we thus look for redeeming power in iao, and for the masculine aspect of that poser. now we will see how that power works. we have a curious dictionary, which was made by a very learned man, in which the numbers 1 to 10,000 fill the left hand column, in order, and opposite them are written all the sacred or important words which add up to each number. we take this book, and look at 17. we

plane, is therefore a figure of a force in four dimensions, and thus it is the object of the magnum opus. the three paths which connect it with the first trinity are the three lost letters or fathers of the hebrew alphabet. in daath is said to be the head of the great serpent nechesh or leviathan, called evil to conceal its holiness (hb:shin hb:chet hb:nun= 358= hb:chet hb:yod hb:shin hb:mem, the messiah or redeemer, and hb:koph-final hb:taw hb:yod hb:vau hb:lamed= 496= hb:taw hb:vau hb:koph hb:lamed hb:mem, the bride) it is identical with he kundalini of the hindu philosophy, the kwan-se-on of the mongolian peoples, and means the magical force in man, which is the sexual force applied to the brain, heart, and other organs, and redeemeth him. the gradual disclosure of these magical secrets

3= 37 x 9 the accurs d. 340. shm- the name. 341. the sum of the "3 mothers" aleph, mem, and shin. 345. mshh, moses. note that by transposition we have 543, ahih ashr ahieh "existence is existence "i am that i am" a sublime title of kether. moses is therefore regarded as the representative of this particular manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358. see 32. mshich, messiah, and nchsh, the serpent of genesis. the dogma is that the head of the serpent (n) is "bruised" being replaced by m, the letter of sacrifice, and god, the letter alike of virginity (hb:yod= virgo) and of original deity (hb:yod= the foundation or type of all the letters. thus the word may be read "the sacrifice of the virgin-born divine one triumphant (hb:chet, the chariot) through the spiri

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th the call of the aethyrs, the curse that was pronounced in the beginning being but the creation of sakti. and this mystery is reflected in the legend of the 119 creation, where adam represents the concealed one, for adam is temurah of mad, the enochian word for god, and eve, whom he created 20 the fourth of the mystic numbers of jupiter is 136. for love, is tempted by the snake, nechesh, who is messiah her child. and the snake is the magical power, which hath destroyed the primordial equilibrium. and the garden is the supernal eden, where is ayin, 70, the eye of the concealed one, and the creative lingam; and daleth, love; and nun the serpent. and therefore this constitution was implicitly in the nature of eden("cf" liber l, i, 29, 30, so that the call of the aethyrs could not have been

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 2

hall purify thee finally from the bondage of evil. and the heat of the magical fire is my will which volatilises the gross matter of thy chaos, enabling thee to manifest thyself in pleasing form before us. and the flesh of the serpent is the symbol of thy body, which we destroy by water and fire, that it may be renewed before us. and the blood of the serpent is the symbol of the magic of the word messiah, whereby we triumph over nahash. and the all-binding milk is the magical water of thy purification. 182 and the fire which flames over all [assistant lights hell-broth] is the utter power of our sacred rites! come forth! come forth! come forth unto us, spirit of mercury, o taphthartharath. i bind and conjure thee by him that sitteth for ever on the throne of thy planet, the knower, the mas

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bes" why he allows mathers to go about saying that he is a jesuit and a poisoner will be revealed at the last day. perhaps, like us, he can't catch him. or perhaps it is that he is contented to be a great novelist- as he is, bar the weakness of his english and an occasional touch of early victorian prunes-and-prismism. he has every other qualification. god bless him! boleskine. in the name of the messiah. by e. a. gordon. keisersha. tokyo, n.d. n.p. the only way to read this book is to run at it, shouting a slogan, and to stick a skean dhuibh in it somewhere and read the sentence it hits. thus, perhaps, with perseverance and a lot of luck, one may find a coherent paragraph in the porridge of disconnected drivel, defaced with italics and capitals and inverted commas like a schoolgirl's lett

n the contrary, it closely followed the measurements of the body of christ or of a man which it was supposed to represent. the three great canonical numbers are 2,368 (iesous christos, 1,480 (christos) and 888 (iesous, numerous other numbers also occur but most hinge on these three. here is an example. 888, 1,480 and 2,368 are to each other in the ration of 3, 5 and 8. 358 is numerically equal to messiah, and 358 1/2 x 6= 2,151 which is again a symbol of the hebrew messiah. alpha 339 and omega= 2,152; and a hexagon described round a circle having a circumference of 2,151 has a perimeter of 3,368. 2,151 also is the sum of 1,480 (christos) and 671 (thora the bride. a vesica 358 board is 620 long, and 620 is the value of kether, etc, etc (see p. 124. this book is a veritable model of industry

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

luence, you have the tendency of the jew to manipulate forces and energies, and to "pull strings" in order to bring about desired ends. as a race, they are natural law makers, and hence their tendency to dominate and govern, because their egoic ray is the first. hence also the constant appearance of the goat in their history, and their teaching about the virgin mother who should give birth to the messiah. in every grouping, whether in heaven or on earth there is always evidenced a tendency by some units in the group to revolt, to rebel and to show some form of initiative different to that of the other units in the same grouping. when our solar universe came into being, we are told in the- 244- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust allegori

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

came to give us an example, so that we could be galvanised by the hope that "maketh not ashamed"47 to "press toward the mark for the prize of our high calling."48 it should be noted here that the journey, preceding the birth, is also a part of the life-story of other teachers sent from god. for instance, we read "among the thirty-two signs which were to be fulfilled by the mother of the expected messiah (buddha, the fifth sign was recorded to be `that she would be on a journey at the time of her child's birth' therefore `that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets' the virgin maya, in the tenth month after her heavenly conception, was on a journey to her father, when lo, the birth of the messiah took place under a tree. one account says that `she had alighted at an inn whe

ecognition. he saw what he had to do to serve, to suffer and to found the kingdom of god. the expansion of consciousness was immediate and deep. dr. schweitzer says in this connection "about jesus' earlier development we know nothing. all lies in the dark. only this is sure: at his baptism the secret of his existence was disclosed to him namely, that he was the one whom god had destined to be the messiah. with this revelation he was complete, and underwent no further development. for now he is assured that, until the near coming of the messianic age which was to reveal his glorious dignity, he was to labour for the kingdom as the unrecognised and hidden messiah, and must prove and purify himself together with his friends in the final affliction."15 to the man jesus this was probably a stag

hich nature when purified through initiation, becomes a peaceful limpid pool, capable of reflecting the divine nature in its purity. thus, in the form of a dove, the peace of god descended upon jesus. secondly, the essential dualities of existence are typified for us in the bible. the old testament stands for the natural lower man, the virgin mary aspect, carrying within itself the promise of the messiah, of him who shall come. the new testament stands for the spiritual man, for god made flesh, and for the birth of that which the material nature carried and veiled for so long. the old testament opens with the appearance of the raven at the time of the founding of the ancient world, as we can begin to know it. the new testament opens with the appearance of a dove one the symbol of the ragin

sed to jesus at his baptism. that was after the harvest. a few weeks later it was known to the twelve, by the fact that peter at caesarea phillippi answered jesus' question out of the knowledge which he had attained upon the mountain. one of the twelve betrayed the secret to the high priest. this last revelation of the secret was fatal, for it brought about the death of jesus. he was condemned as messiah although he had never appeared in that role."19 this evokes in its entirety the question as to the nature of that mission which christ came to forward, and what constituted the will of god which he came to fulfil. three major points of view usually held by the orthodox christian might be enumerated as follows: 1. he came to die upon the cross to appease the wrath of an angry god, and make

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

masters or of the christ; it tends to make them separative in their attitudes to other leaders and teachers, refusing to recognise the many aspects of the one work and the many methods which the mind of god has devised for reaching the masses. 2. the refusal to accept any contact or message which has personality implications or which sets its recipient apart, thus tending to the development of a messiah complex. i like that phrase. it is simple and concise and illustrates dramatically the state of mind and describes the assured nature of the consciousness of many of the present teachers of humanity. a true contact with the hierarchy and the true accolade of service carries with it the conviction of the existence of the many servers in the one service, of the many messengers carrying the o

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

, that the jewish dispensation used the symbol of the scapegoat or ram in the age of aries, the ram, and that the christian emphasises the fish in the piscean era, the christian era. christ came to bring to an end the jewish dispensation which should have climaxed and passed away as a religion with the movement of the sun out of aries into pisces. he, therefore, presented himself to them as their messiah, manifesting through the jewish race. in the rejection of the christ as the messiah, the jewish race has remained symbolically and practically in the sign aries, the scapegoat; they have to pass again speaking symbolically into the sign, pisces, the fishes, and recognise their messiah when he comes again in the sign aquarius. otherwise, they will repeat their ancient sin of non-response to

and too unsure of their future, their freedom and their security to be in any condition to listen to him. he will not come, we may be sure, as a conquering hero, as the interpretations of the theological teachers have led man to believe, for that would certainly fail to identify him and he would be simply classed as another military figure; of them we have had a plethora; he will not come as the messiah of the jews to save the so-called holy land and the city of jerusalem for the jews, because he belongs to the whole world and no jews nor any other people have special rights or unique privileges or may claim him as their own; he will not come to convert the "heathen" world for, in the eyes of the christ and of his true disciples, no such world exists and the so-called heathen have demonst

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

o return to the consideration of the many glamours which are produced by and related to certain ray types: ray i. the glamour of physical strength. the glamour of personal magnetism. the glamour of self-centredness and personal potency. the glamour of "the one at the centre" the glamour of selfish personal ambition. the glamour of rulership, of dictatorship and of wide control. the glamour of the messiah complex in the field of politics. the glamour of selfish destiny, of the divine right of kings personally exacted. the glamour of destruction. the glamour of isolation, of aloneness, of aloofness. the glamour of the superimposed will upon others and upon groups. ray ii. the glamour of the love of being loved. the glamour of popularity. the glamour of personal wisdom. the glamour of selfish

isolation, of aloneness, of aloofness. the glamour of the superimposed will upon others and upon groups. ray ii. the glamour of the love of being loved. the glamour of popularity. the glamour of personal wisdom. the glamour of selfish responsibility. the glamour of too complete an understanding, which negates right action. the glamour of self-pity, a basic glamour of this ray. the glamour of the messiah complex, in the world of religion and world need- 72- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust the glamour of fear, based on undue sensitivity. the glamour of self-sacrifice. the glamour of selfish unselfishness. the glamour of self-satisfaction. the glamour of selfish service. ray iii. the glamour of being busy. the glamour of cooperation with the plan in an individual and not

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

98 lucis trust 2. jupiter is regarded as the "throne of brahma (ii. 829) 3 "jupiter is the personification of cyclic law (ii. 830) 4 "the sun used to be called the `eye of jupiter (iii. 278) 5 "plato makes jupiter the logos, the word of the sun (iii. 279) 6 "the mysteries. were presided over by jupiter and saturn" 7 "occultism makes jupiter blue because he is the son of saturn" 8 "the sign of the messiah's coming is the conjunction of saturn and jupiter in the sign of pisces (iii. 152) references in a treatise on cosmic fire 9 "venus, jupiter and saturn might be considered from the standpoint of the present time, as the vehicles of the three super or major principles. mercury, the earth and mars are closely allied to these three but a hidden mystery lies here (299) 10 "venus and jupiter ar

aches. saturn's triple septenary of the western cycle of europe before the end of the 21st century a.d (s.d. iii. 23) 9 "one of the most powerful among the seven creating angels of the third order being saturn, the presiding genius of the planet and the god of the hebrews. namely jehovah. to whom is dedicated the seventh day or sabbath, saturday or saturn's day (s.d. iii. 115) 10 "the sign of the messiah's coming was the conjunction of jupiter and saturn in the sign pisces (s.d. iii. 152) 11 "saturn was called the dragon of life (s.d. iii. 195) 12 "saturn, shiva and jehovah are one (s.d. iii. 195) 13 "saturn is the synthesising scheme for the four planets which embody manas pure and simple and is the major resolution for the minor four and eventually for all the seven (c.f. 370) 14 "sirius

a "castor owes his immortality to pollux. b. pollux sacrifices himself to castor (ii. 130) leo the fifth sign of the zodiac references in the secret doctrine 1 "the esotericism of the first creative hierarchy (which is the sixth in reality. a.a.b) is hidden in the zodiacal sign leo (i. 234) pisces the twelfth sign of the zodiac references in the secret doctrine 1 "in judaism and christianity, the messiah is always connected with water, and with baptism (ii. 413- 402- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust a. the second racial initiation. b. the first planetary initiation" 2. pisces "shines as a symbol of the past, present and future spiritual saviours (i. 717) 3 "kepler states as a positive fact that at the moment of the incarnation (of chri

the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust a. the second racial initiation. b. the first planetary initiation" 2. pisces "shines as a symbol of the past, present and future spiritual saviours (i. 717) 3 "kepler states as a positive fact that at the moment of the incarnation (of christ) all the planets were in conjunction in the sign pisces. the constellation of the messiah (i. 717) 4. on the porticos of buildings sacred to votive offerings to the dead, in the buddhist religion, are ornaments of a "cross formed of two fishes (iii. 151) 5 "the sign of the messiah's coming is the conjunction of jupiter and saturn in the sign pisces (iii. 152) taurus, the bull the second sign of the zodiac references in the secret doctrine 1 "all the sun-gods. have been mystical

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

r drop out of the life of the arcane school, at least temporarily. in the higher degrees, the arcane school emphasises the nature of the plan, the new evolutionary cycle into which humanity is at this time entering and the immediacy of the return of the christ as taught in all the world religions. the christian looks forward to the advent of christ, the jew is still expectant of the coming of the messiah, the buddhist is waiting for the coming of the boddhisattva, the hindu for the coming avatar and the mohammedan for the appearance of the imam mahdi. the universality of this teaching, plus the general expectancy is a major argument for the factual nature of the truth involved. the widespread acceptance of any truth down the ages and in every civilisation and culture is indicative of a div

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

e eleventh commandment; this, if kept, would entail the keeping of all the others. there was the revelation which christ himself gave, summing it up for us in his life of service, in the love which he preached and in his constant repudiation of theological judaism (the sadducees and the pharisees. this difficulty with judaism still persists and is symbolised for us in the failure to recognise the messiah when he came to them in their own country and let it be known that he came to the whole world and not to the jews alone. for this new revelation the christ is preparing as are all the members of the hierarchy, from the highest chohan down to the humblest accepted disciple; it is for this that all the ashrams are getting ready; it is for this also that (in a weak and feeble manner) christia

certain of the ashrams, and later to the appearance of the hierarchy on earth, bringing the new revelation. these various efforts may appear to the casual reader as relatively unimportant. this is a superficial point of view and one which meets with little sympathy from the hierarchy. that the jews should be rid of fear is of major importance; that they should know and recognise the christ as the messiah, and therefore find for themselves that the religion they follow is destructive of many of the finer values, is likewise of major importance; that orthodox judaism, along with all the other faiths, should realise that there is no desire to make them christian (in the ordinary sense of the term, but that they should all move towards some loving synthesis and eliminate their mutual antagonis

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functioning activity. when this takes place, a revelation undreamt of will be manifested upon the earth; a new divine quality, of which no knowledge at present exists, will make its presence felt, and the work of the buddha and of the christ, and the work of the coming avatar, will be superseded by one for whom both shamballa and the hierarchy have unitedly waited and of whom the doctrine of the messiah and the- 167- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust doctrine of avatars have been and are today only the dim distant symbols. they preserve this concept of the great revelation in the consciousness of men, in the expectancy which the hierarchy evidences, and through the "preparatory work" now being undertaken at shamballa. the group

passed and gone (the religion of the people in the time of taurus, the bull, symbolised by their falling down and worshipping the golden calf, so today modern masonry is in line to do the same; and the ancient usages and forms, consistent and right in the jewish dispensation, are now obsolete and should be abrogated. it is equally true of the jewish race that in the rejection of the christ as the messiah they have remained, metaphorically and practically, in the sign of aries, the ram, or of the scapegoat; they have yet to pass into the sign (again speaking symbolically) of pisces, the fishes, and recognise their messiah when he again comes in the sign aquarius. otherwise they are repeating their ancient sin of non-response to the evolutionary process. let us now consider what the initiato

at "the blood is the life" 2. that all men everywhere are sons of god, and therefore divine- 359- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust secondly, he had to bring to an end the jewish dispensation which should have climaxed and passed away with the movement of the sun out of aries into pisces. he therefore presented himself to them as their messiah, which was his reason for manifesting through the jewish race. they not only rejected him, but have succeeded in perpetuating the jewish dispensation through the medium of its religious presentation throughout the era of the christian dispensation. this lies at the root of their trouble and is the cause of their constant emphasis upon the past a past which is based on their experiences in

ecuted and repudiated down the centuries, but have retaliated simply by moving on the wandering jew seeking a home, wandering humanity, saying always "i must arise and go to my father" the motive given to the prodigal son in the gospel story is a strictly material one, and we have here an outstanding instance of the prophetic knowledge of the christ. the jewish people have not only repudiated the messiah (which their race produced, but they have forgotten their unique relation to humanity; they forget that millions in the world today have- 417- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust suffered as they have suffered and that for instance there are eighty per cent of other people in the concentration camps of europe and only twenty per c

itted time and the non-separativeness of the nations to adjust and solve the jewish problem. more i will not say; the symbolic nature of this basic world problem and its dynamic importance to humanity have led me thus to enlarge. the decision anent the jews is one of hierarchical importance, owing to the karmic relation of the christ to the jewish race, to the fact that they repudiated him as the messiah and are still doing so, and of the interpretive nature of the jewish problem as far as the whole of humanity is concerned. the results of the fourth ray activity upon the individual disciple the disciples of the world today are submerged in an ocean of warring energies; the principle of conflict touches every life, is potent in the consciousness of each individual aspirant, and is conditio

know that the christ has not yet decided what type of physical vehicle he will employ should he take physical form and work definitely upon the physical plane. he waits to see what nation or group of nations do the most work, and the most convincing work, in preparation for his reappearance. he will not, however, take a jewish body as he did before, for the jews have forfeited that privilege. the messiah for whom they wait will be one of christ's senior disciples, but it will not be, as originally intended, the christ. symbolically, the jews represent (from the point of view of the hierarchy) that from which all masters of the wisdom and lords of compassion emerge: materialism, cruelty and a spiritual conservatism, so that today they live in old testament times and are under the domination

y and a spiritual conservatism, so that today they live in old testament times and are under the domination of the separative, selfish, lower concrete mind. but their opportunity will come again, and they may change all this when the fires of suffering at last succeed in purifying them and burning away their ancient crystallisation, thus liberating them to the extent that they can recognise their messiah, who will not, however, be the world messiah. the jews need humility more than any other nation. by humility they may learn something of value as well as a needed sense of proportion. they are dear to the heart of the christ for in the performance of his greatest work he chose a jewish body, but their materialism and their repudiation of spiritual opportunity has negated his use of their r

a needed sense of proportion. they are dear to the heart of the christ for in the performance of his greatest work he chose a jewish body, but their materialism and their repudiation of spiritual opportunity has negated his use of their racial type again. it would provide too great a handicap. the probability is that the master jesus will assume (under instruction from the christ) the part of the messiah. the master, standing symbolically upon the mount of ascension, is equipped with a full realisation of the past, with a sound appreciation of what he has to offer to the service of humanity, and with a sense of expectancy. during the preceding cycle of lives of initiatory service to humanity, he has several times heard "the voice of the father" this is a symbolical phrase, indicating conta

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

r by a point; or by a point within a circle; or even by a triangle; and by a decad of ten yods. gematria was a mode of interpretation by which a name or word having a certain numerical value was deemed to have a relation with some other words having the same number; thus certain numbers became representative of several ideas, and were considered to be interpretative one of the other. for example, messiah spelled, mshich, numbered 358, and so does the phrase iba shilh, shiloh shall come; and so this passage in genesis 49 v. 10, was considered to be a prophesy of the messiah: note that nachash, nchsh, the serpent of moses, is also 358. the letter shin, sh, 300, became an emblem of divinity by corresponding with ruach elohim, ruch alhim, the spirit of the living god. notaricon, or abbreviatio

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

tents, or the vast number who have a superstitious fear of even being in the same house withsuch documents, so that i regard the rescue of the vangeloas something which is to say the leastremarkable. page 4 for brief explanation i may say that witchcraft is known to its votaries as la vecchia religione, or theold religion, of which diana is the goddess, her daughter aradia(or herodias) the female messiah,and that this little work sets forth how the latter was born, came down to earth, established witchesand witchcraft, and then returned to heaven. with it are given the ceremonies and invocations orincantations to be addressed to dianaand aradia, the exorcism of cain, and the spells of the holy-stone, rue, and verbena, constituting, as the text declares, the regular church-service, so to sp

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e correct from the physical or metaphysical[[vol. 2, page] 23 the action of the great breath. reckoned according to the enumeration devised later by people who had forgotten, or who had an inadequate notion of, the real mysteries, and included neither the sun, the moon, nor the earth. the sun was the chief, exoterically, of the twelve great gods, or zodiacal constellations; and, esoterically, the messiah, the christos (the subject anointed by the great breath, or the one) surrounded by his twelve subordinate powers, also subordinate, in turn, to each of the seven "mystery-gods" of the planets "the seven higher make the seven lhas create the world" states a commentary; which means that our earth, leaving aside the rest, was created or fashioned by terrestrial spirits, the "regents" being si

the tree of knowledge of good and evil "in its branches (of the tree) the birds lodge and build their nests" or the souls and the angels have their place* therefore, with the kabalists it was a like symbol "bird" was a chaldean, and has become a hebrew synonym and symbol for angel, a soul, a spirit, or deva; and the "bird's nest" was with both heaven, and is god's bosom in the zohar. the perfect messiah enters eden "into that place which is called the bird's nest (zohar, ii, 8b[[footnote(s* see "kabbalah unveiled" by s. mcgregor mathers, p. 104[[vol. 2, page] 293 angels called birds "like a bird that is flying from its nest, and that is the soul from which the shekeenah (divine wisdom or grace) does not move away (zohar, iii, 278a; myer's qabbalah, 217 "the nest of the eternal bird, the f

ral light, the milky way, and also the path of the sun to the tropics of cancer and capricorn, as well as the circles of the sidereal or tropical year, were always called "serpents" in the allegorical and mystic phraseology of the adepts. this, cosmically, as well as metaphorically. poseidon is a "dragon "chozzar, called by the profane neptune (peratae gnostics; the "good and perfect serpent" the messiah of the naaseni, whose symbol in heaven is draco. but one ought to discriminate between the characters of this symbol. for instance: zoroastrian esotericism is identical with that of the secret doctrine; and when, as an example, we read in the vendidad complaints uttered against the "serpent" whose bites have transformed the beautiful, eternal spring of airyana-vaego, changing it into winte

essence, the union of spirit and matter. this was rejected, and the astronomical allegory alone was accepted and made to fit into cunningly imagined terrestrial events. let us demonstrate this statement. in astronomy, as said, mercury is the son of coelus and lux- of the sky and light, or the sun; in mythology he is the progeny of jupiter and maia. he is the "messenger" of his father jupiter, the messiah of the sun; in greek, his name "hermes" means, among other things, the "interpreter- the "word" by mouth; the logos, or verbum. now, mercury, besides being born on mount cyllene among shepherds, is the patron of the[[footnote(s* by very few though, for the creators of the material universe were always considered as subordinate gods to the most high deity* lydus i, c. ledrenus, i. c[[vol. 2

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h water. the letter ma is equivalent to and corresponds with number 5- composed of a binary, the symbol of the two sexes separated, and of the ternary, symbol of the third life, the progeny of the binary. this, again, is often symbolised by a pentagon, the latter being a sacred sign, a divine monogram. maitreya is the secret name of the fifth buddha, and the kalki avatar of the brahmins- the last messiah who will come at the culmination of the great cycle. it is also the initial letter of the greek metis or divine wisdom; of mimra, the "word" or logos; and of mithras (the mihr, the monad, mystery. all these are born in, and from, the great deep, and are the sons of maya- the mother; in egypt, mouth, in greece minerva (divine wisdom, mary, or miriam, myrrha, etc; of the mother of the christ

name moses. because" she said "i drew him out of water (exod. ii, 10* besides which the hebrew sacred name of god applied to this letter m is meborach, the "holy" or the "blessed" and the name for the water of the flood is m'bul. a reminder of the "three maries" at the crucifixion and their connection with mar, the sea, or water, may close this example. this is why in judaism and christianity the messiah is always connected with water, baptism, the fishes (the sign of the zodiac called meenam in sanskrit, and even with the matsya (fish) avatar, and the lotus- the symbol of the womb, or the water-lily, which is the same. in the relics of ancient egypt, the greater the antiquity of the votive symbols and emblems of the objects exhumed, the oftener are the lotus flowers and the water found in

and glorious initiate for all the rest- when that constellation shines as a symbol of all the past, present, and future spiritual saviours who dispense light and dispel mental darkness? christian symbologists have tried to prove that it was that of ephraim (joseph's son, the elect of jacob, that therefore, it was at the moment of the sun entering into the sign of the fish (pisces) that "the elect messiah, the[[ichthus] of the first christians, had to be born. but, if jesus of nazareth was that messiah- was he really born at that "moment" or was he made to be so born by the adaptation of theologians, who sought only to make their preconceived ideas fit in with sidereal facts and popular belief? everyone knows that the real time and year of the birth of jesus are totally unknown. and it is t

us of nazareth was that messiah- was he really born at that "moment" or was he made to be so born by the adaptation of theologians, who sought only to make their preconceived ideas fit in with sidereal facts and popular belief? everyone knows that the real time and year of the birth of jesus are totally unknown. and it is the jews, whose forefathers have made the word dag signify both "fish" and "messiah" who, during the forced development of their rabbinical language, are the first to deny this christian claim. and what of the further facts that brahmins also connect their "messiah" the eternal avatar vishnu, with a fish and the deluge, and that the babylonians made of their dag-on, equally a fish and a messiah, the man-fish and prophet? there are those learned iconoclasts among egyptolog

ne. voice of the secret wisdom says those who are looking for signs can have no other than that of the returning fish-man ichthys, oannes, or jonas- who could not be made flesh" it would appear that kepler maintained it as a positive fact that, at the moment of the "incarnation" all the planets were in conjunction in the sign of pisces, called by the jews (the kabalists) the "constellation of the messiah "it is in this constellation" he averred "that was placed the star of the magi" this statement, quoted by dr. sepp (vie de notre seigneur jesus christ, vol. i. p. 9, emboldened him to remark that "all the jewish traditions while announcing that star, that many nations have seen* added that "it would absorb the seventy planets that preside over the destinies of various nations on this globe

dr. sepp (vie de notre seigneur jesus christ, vol. i. p. 9, emboldened him to remark that "all the jewish traditions while announcing that star, that many nations have seen* added that "it would absorb the seventy planets that preside over the destinies of various nations on this globe "in virtue of those natural prophecies" explains dr. sepp "it was written in the stars of the firmament that the messiah would be born in the lunar year of the world 4320, in that memorable year when the entire choir of the planets would be feasting its jubilee" there was indeed a rage, at the beginning of the present century, for claiming from the hindus restoration of an alleged robbery from the jews of their "gods" patriarchs, and chronology. it was wilford who had recognized noah in prithee and in satyav

ote(s* every scholar is aware, of course, that the chaldeans claimed the same figures (432) or (432,000) for their divine dynasties as the hindus do for their mahayuga, namely, 4,320,000. therefore has dr. sepp, of munich, undertaken to support kepler and wilford in their charge that the hindus had borrowed them from the christians, and the chaldeans from the jews, who, as claimed, expected their messiah in the lunar year of the world 4,320! as these figures, according to ancient writers, were based by berosus on the 120 saroses- each of the divisions meaning six neroses of 600 years each, making a sum total of 432,000 years- they do not thus appear peremptory. but the pious professor of munich undertook to explain them in the correct way. he claims to have solved the riddle by showing tha

stine and europe centuries before the christian era (see isis unveiled ii. 132, and was present in the minds of the mosaic jews, who based upon it their small cycle, though it received full expression only through the christian chronologers of the bible, who adopted it, as also the 25th of december, the day on which all the solar gods were said to have been incarnated. what wonder, then, that the messiah was made to be born "the lunar year of the world 4,320" the "son of righteousness and salvation" had once more arisen and had dispelled pralayic darkness of chaos and non-being on the plane of our objective little globe and chain. once the subject of the adoration was settled upon, it was easy to make the supposed events of his birth, life, and death, fit in with the zodiacal exigencies an

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came owner of a thousand houses. he gave up the world, and found it at his feet. eliphas l vi, the great magician of the middle of the last century, whose philosophy made possible the extraordinary liber clxi 233 outburst of literature in france in the fifties and sixties by its doctrine of the self-sufficiency of art(.a fine style is an aurole of holiness. is one phrase of his) prophesies of the messiah in a remarkable passage. it will be seen that our founder, born as he was to the purple, has fulfilled it. i have not the volume at my side, living as i am this hermit life in new hampshire, but its gist is that kings and popes have not power to redeem the world because they surround themselves with splendour and dignity. they possess all that other men desire, and therefore their motives

BOOK OF ENOCH

believe, that these waters will change, and will become a fire which burns forever" 68.1] and after this, my great-grandfather enoch gave me the explanation of all the secrets, in a book, and the parables that had been given to him; and he put them together for me, in the words of the book of parables. 12) the book of parables the content of the second two parables is similar; the main theme is a messiah, who will bring guidance at the correct time. this eventually brings about an age of enlightenment, where the souls of the righteous can live in peace. 37.1] the second vision that he saw, the vision of wisdom, which enoch, the son of jared, the son of malalel, the son of cainan, the son of enosh, the son of seth, the son of adam, saw. 37.2] and this is the beginning of the words of wisdom

ord of spirits has shown to you; these are the names of the righteous who, dwell on the dry ground and believe in the name of the lord of spirits for ever and ever" 44.1] and other things i saw concerning lightning, how some of the stars rise and become lightning but cannot lose their form. the second parable (pages 64-73) here we are introduced to some new characters, there is the chosen one, or messiah, and the head of days or ancient of days (see also 71.10) who appears in daniel 7:9-10 and seems to represent god. it is a bit confusing that enoch sees characters from the future. it may be that the watchers presented this to enoch as a theatrical drama so that he could see it and ask questions at the same time. it was no doubt a deliberate policy not to give actual names so that differen

aw in the fire, and like lead in water, so they will burn in front of the righteous, and sink in front of the holy, and no trace will be found of them. 48.10] and on the day of their trouble there will be rest on the earth and they will fall down in front of him and will not rise. and there will be no one who will take them with his hands and raise them for they denied the lord of spirits and his messiah. may the name of the lord of spirits be blessed! 49.1] for wisdom has been poured out like water and glory will not fail in front of him forever and ever. 49.2] for he is powerful in all the secrets of righteousness and iniquity will pass away like a shadow, and will have no existence; for the chosen one stands in front of the lord of spirits and his glory is for ever and ever, and his pow

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

are referred the gamaliel, or obscene ones, whose form are those of corrupting, loathsome bull-men, linked together. thereunto are also referred nachashiel, evil serpents, and obriel. thereunto belongeth the blind dragon-force. unto malkuth is attributed lilith, the evil woman, afterwards changing to a black, monkey-like demon. the name of the serpent, nachash, hath the same number as that of the messiah, who will root out the qliphoth from the world. these are the evil chiefs: 1. kether satan or moloch 2. chokmah beelzebub 3. binah lucifuge 4. chesed ashtaroth 5. geburah asmodai 6. tiphereth belphegor 7. netzach baal 8. hod adramalach 9. yesod lilith 10. malkuth nahemah behemoth and leviathan are two evil forms, of which the first is the synthesis of the qliphoth already described under t

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ce. there is also a yet deepei significance in this reading, because khane, ch n is an abbreviation for the words chokmah nesethrah, ch k m h n s th r h, the secret wisdom, i. e, the qabalah. hence wc may assume that the mystical trial by fire has something to do with initiation into the qabalah. 3 the serpent of temptation is nachash, n ch sh, whose name is the number 358, the number of the name messiah. m sh i ch. 4 "the time of the decree" is moade, m v o d, and the number of this word is 120, the same as that of the letter [142] c o m m e n t on s a m e k h name, samekh, s m k. 120 is also the symbolic hebrew number of the perfected life of man" his days shall be an hundred and twenty years; genesis 6: 3. this number is also prominent in rosicrucianism, as the result of the continuous

the text means by" the breath of the mighty ones, and ruach elohim is r v ch a l h i m, which words add up to 300, the value of shin. it is on this account that shin is called the "holy letter. it is said to appear as a flame of separation because "separation" is pirawd, p i r v d, which also adds to 300. note, too, that the form of the letter shows three separated flames "the anointed one" is ha-messiah, h m sh i h (a variant spelling of the word ordinarily rendered m sh i ch. in this form it adds to 300 "thunders" is rahamim, r o m i m, which adds to 360, the value of the letter-name sh i n. the "swift flash" is the descent of the sephiroth into instantaneous manifestation, often pictured by qabalists as a lightning-flash, because of the words of the book oj formation "ten ineffable seph

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

1280 abulafia's preaching to christians in italy. joachimist-influenced kabbalah absorbed to some degree by beguin/franciscan church of philadelphia that holds "the keys of david: a joachimist/qblhist exegesis of scripture. 1280 ramon martin: pugio fidei discusses the tetragrammaton christologically, discusses how name science and sefirotic science support the notion of the trinity, and calls the messiah by the hebrew letter yod. uses the word cabala by name and mentions his predecessor petras alphonsi. 1280? sefer ha-zohar written by moses de le n but attributed to simon ben yohai. 1280-1340 joseph ibn kaspi kabbalist "menorat kesef" equates the merkabah ladder with jacob's ladder and reintroduces the universal soul as propounded by batalyawsi. 1282-1288 arnald villanova studies hebrew an

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i-marxist, german master racers. out of all this came the german workers party, which would one day become the nazi party. another committed occultist and friend of sebottendorff now becomes highly significant. this was dietrich eckart, a heavy-drinking, drug-taking writer who believed he was here to prepare the way for a dictator of germany. he met hitler in 1919 and decided he was the one, the 'messiah, he was looking for. it is eckart who is credited with hitler's advanced esoteric knowledge and probably the black magic ritual, or rituals, which plugged him so completely into the prison warder the super elite- the black magicians 211 vibration. from now on, hitler's power to attract support grew rapidly. eckart wrote to a friend in 1923 "follow hitler! he will dance, but it is i who hav

ysterious esoteric lodges in tibet and one of the so called unknown supermen, who was referred to as the king of fear. rudolph hess,11 hitler's deputy fuhrer until he made his ill-fated flight to england in 1941, was a dedicated occultist and a member, with hermann goering, of the edelweiss society, a black sect which believed in the nordic master race (melchedekans. hess worshipped hitler as the messiah, although how he could do this when the fiihrer was hardly blue eyed and blond haired, is not clear. hitler had the same problem in equating the two, but he would have found some ridiculous explanation for it, i'm sure. another hitler obsession was the so called spear of destiny, the weapon alleged to have been use to pierce the side of y'shua (jesus) at the crucifixion. he stole what was

journalist called claude vorilhon rael (rail) who claims to have met an extraterrestrial group which he says are the elohim of the old testament. rael says he was taken to their planet and he was told that the elohim genetically engineered the human race. according to the stories told in the secret 1960s survey of contactees, the ones known as elohim were the melchedekans. rael claims to be the "messiah" of the elohim, the "guide of guides, and they instructed him, he says, to tell people that they must do everything he says. oh really, rael? my reply to the elohim and to claude would be unsuitable for a family audience. rael (the messiah, guide of guides, says the elohim are preparing to return to take over the world. fascinating how close that is to the nazi belief in the return of the

n, and homage. the whole of the united kingdom is a cult, or at least those many people who are devoted to and pay homage to the monarchy. almost everything becomes a cult under that criterion. however, that is not what the manipulators want you to think. they have used events to turn the word cult into a much narrower meaning- dangerous religious 'nutters, brainwashed and programmed to worship a messiah figure. the plan is well advanced in feeding the public mind with such messages to the point where anything labelled a cult is subject to a reflex action response of "dangerous nutters- something must be done. there are three ways you can manipulate events to suit that plan. you can set up the 'cult' from the start and control the whole thing; you can infiltrate a group or community with a

omething they did not do. whichever way you choose, the outcome is the same- the word 'cult' is further devalued in the collective consciousness. two events which have been enormously successful in poisoning the public to the word 'cult' have been the jonestown massacre of 1978 and waco in 1993. the jonestown encampment in guyana was the headquarters of the people's temple sect controlled by its 'messiah' figure, jim jones. its members, overwhelmingly black, had followed jones to guyana from the original base in california, then under the governorship of ronald reagan. an estimated 900 people died at jonestown on november 18th 1978, in what was said to have been a "mass suicide" achieved through cyanide poisoning and shooting. at waco in texas 15 years later, we were asked to believe the s

ornia, then under the governorship of ronald reagan. an estimated 900 people died at jonestown on november 18th 1978, in what was said to have been a "mass suicide" achieved through cyanide poisoning and shooting. at waco in texas 15 years later, we were asked to believe the same official story of a "mass suicide" by the branch davidian 377 a 378 .and the truth shall set you free sect run by its 'messiah' figure, david koresh. who benefits from people believing these official explanations? those who want the word 'cult' to mean 'dangerous nutters. intriguingly, therefore, we can point out many connections with the intelligence agencies. one of the main financial backers of jonestown was dr lawrence layton senior, who was formerly in charge of research and development at one of the us army'

d the deaths of seven members who had been killed for trying to leave the original headquarters compound in california, also died in strange circumstances. it is the old, old, story we have seen repeated so many times in this book. but ask most people today and if they remember the jonestown massacre, they will speak of religious 'nutters' who committed suicide while under the influence of a 'mad messiah' and cult leader. that is what they are supposed to think. jonestown, the massacre, and its repercussions, served the manipulators well. it was a cover to train mercenaries for the cia's covert activities in angola; it provided on-the-spot political support for cia asset, forbes burnham; it eliminated .ultorcon 381 the cia's tenacious political opponent, leo ryan; it undermined the house s

waco. on april 19th 1993, more than 80 men, women, and children were burnt alive when the us government, in the form of the fbi and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms (batf, attacked the mount carmel compound of the branch davidians, near waco, texas. we are asked to believe once again that this was a 'mass suicide' by a group of crazed and brainwashed followers of a weird and dangerous messiah' figure, david koresh. i could not disagree more with the views that david koresh was supposed to have had (if what is claimed is true. he appears to have been a very mixed up man. but the focus on koresh has been used to obscure the issue of how and why all those people died at the hands of government agencies. it is the same with all these mind-manipulating events. at the time they happe

s of the global elite game plan and the illuminati protocols. either the man who has come to teach us and lead us into this utopia needs to do some urgent research into the new world order or he has other reasons for equating the need for love and oneness with a centralised global tyranny. the raelian foundation i spoke of earlier is also promoting all the elite's ambitions because of what their 'messiah, claude rael, claims he was told by the extraterrestrial "elohim. when i attended a new age type exhibition in the north of england, it was fascinating to see how many organisations i came across either supporting the united nations and the concepts of world government and/or offering people another excuse to give their minds away to some "supreme master" or other. don't be thought-control

we are all equal and yet creates the same hierarchical divisions of us and them, teachers and pupils, gurus and followers, that the old age has done. one mindset which has swept the new age is the idea that some "ashtar command"1 is going to send down spaceships to take off the chosen few. maybe it's just me, but that sounds remarkably like a cop-out and another version of the theme of ages- the messiah coming to save the good guys and good gals. all this can do- and does- is to create another form of dependency, another rigid belief system, when surely the transformation of humanity is about triggering everyone's potential to be whatever they wish to be. i have learned of an elite project called operation bluebeam which is sending out thought waves on the wavelengths that channellers use

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which serves the interests of the "dragon bloodlines, gardner would surely know the real symbolism of the grail and jesus, wouldn't he? gardner says that the "dragon" refers to the fact that the kings of this bloodline used to be anointed in egypt by the fat of the sacred crocodile. el and balder were symbolised as crocodiles and the crocodile was known in egypt as the "messeh, from which we get "messiah" and "christ. the term "christ" means the "anointed one- anointed with the fat of a crocodile. the hindu god shiva, the "lord" of the reptilian nagas, was also called the "anointed one, or "christos" to the greeks, when he had his willy bathed in menstrual blood. i hope you're not eating. as barbara walker points out in the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, many traditions of the

e christians believed that the serpent was the father of jesus, having "overshadowed" the bed of the virgin mary and begotten the human form of the saviour. this mirrors the legends of merovee, founder of the merovingians, and alexander the great, both of whom were said to have been fathered by a serpent or sea creature. jewish serpent-worshippers, known as the naasians, said the serpent was the "messiah. the many faces of the serpent cult 169 writers who have misrepresented the edda and other accounts, purposely and otherwise, have presented balder as the "good god. the chaldeans (the "children of khaldis" of lake van, who followed the serpent cult's mother-son religion, said that balder/tammuz was "the good god, the beautiful benign and faithful son; he was a divine high priest who died

ne depicts the god, knept, impregnating the virgin with the holy ghost or spirit for the immaculate conception. then the child is seen enthroned and receiving gifts from three spirits (the three wise men in christianity) and he is adored as the incarnation of the sun god. even the story about jesus being born in a manger comes from ancient egypt, as massey explains "the birthplace of the egyptian messiah at the vernal equinox was figured in apt, or apta, the corner; but apta is also the name of the crib and the manger; hence the child born in apta was said to have been born in a manger; and this apta or crib or manager is the hieroglyphic sign of the solar birthplace. hence the egyptians exhibited the babe in the crib or manager in the streets of alexandria."20 the bright star and the thre

n tibet and one of the so-called unknown supermen, who was referred to as the "king of fear. rudolf hess, hitler's deputy fuhrer until he made his ill-fated flight to england in 1941, was a dedicated occultist and a member, with goering, of the edelweiss society. this was a sect that believed in the nordic master race- the nordic-reptilian hybrids i call the aryans. hess worshipped hitler as the "messiah, although how he could do this when the fuhrer was hardly blondhaired and blue-eyed was not clear. the nazis were manipulated by their demonic masters to instigate breeding programmes between the blond-haired, blue-eyed, nordic bloodlines. a founder of the thule society was rudolf glauer, an astrologer, who changed his name to the grand-sounding, baron von sebottendorff. his demands for a

r the anti-jew, anti-marxist, german master-racers. out of all this came the german workers party, which would become the nazi party. another committed occultist and friend of sebottendorff was highly significant. this was dietrict eckart, a heavy drinking, drug-taking writer, who believed he was here to pave the way for a dictator of germany. he met hitler in 1919 and decided he was the one, the messiah he was looking for. it is eckart who is credited with hitler's advanced esoteric knowledge and the black magic rituals that plugged him so completely into the demonic reptilians. from now on, hitler's power to attract support grew rapidly. eckart wrote to a friend in 1923 "follow hitler! he will dance, but it is i who have called the tune. we have given him the means of communication with

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inues today 4,000 years later, as the imperial androyal court of the dragon sovereignty, now headquartered in britain. some peoplecall this the brother-hood of the snake. the early kings of sumer, egypt, and later,israel, were anointed at their coronation with the fat of the dragon which was the fatof the sacred crocodile. the croc was known in egypt as a messeh and from this comesthe hebrew term messiah which means anointed one. the kings of the successionwere also known as dragons and all this symbolism relates to the knowledge thatthese royal families were the bloodlines of the reptile-human crossbreeds. when manykingdoms joined together in battle, they appointed a king of kings and he was known asthe great dragon or. draco. the famous celtic title, pendragon, is a version of this.kings

nd their livestock to illustratethe birth of jesus and this nativity scene quickly caught on. manger scenes carvedfrom wood became popular all over italy at christmas and the rest is history. givinggifts is not a christian custom, either. this was done in the pagan world at new yearlong before christianity. the christians simply borrowed it, as they did everythingelse.the prophecies said that the messiah (messeh, the crocodile of egypt) would becalled emmanuel, but the name of the gospel messiah was jesus, or at least itsjudean equivalent. oops! funny how christians seem to miss this point when theyquote the prophecy about the coming of emmanuel every christmas. think of allthose children who have been dressed up as mary, joseph, shepherds, wise men,donkeys, cows and sheep. this fantasy ha

hly detailed genetic records kept by themormons, another brotherhood operation at its top level. so when people in powerappear to have no blood links with these families, the opposite may be true. a number211of researchers believe bill clinton to be a closet rockefeller and he is certainly blood-related to the british monarchy, every scottish monarch, and king robert i of france.st germain, now a messiah figure to many new agers, was a friend of william ofhesse-hanau, and his brother, karl. apparently, karl wrote that germain, an alchemistand magician, had been raised by the de medici (black nobility) family in italy.8 manynew agers today talk about the great white brotherhood of master souls, includinggermain, who are communicating guidance to channellers about the comingtransformation. t

they were in alliance with mysterious esotericlodges in tibet and one of the so-called unknown supermen who was referred to as theking of fear. rudolph hess,8 hitlers deputy fuhrer until he made his ill-fated flight toengland in 1941, was a dedicated occultist and a member, with hermann goering, ofthe edelweiss society, a sect which believed in the nordic master race. hessworshipped hitler as the messiah, although how he could do this when the fuhrer washardly blue-eyed and blond-haired is not clear. hitler had the same problem in equatingthe two, but he would have found some ridiculous explanation for it, im sure. theinner core of the nazi secret society network was the black order which continuestoday and is reported to be the innermost circle of the cia.9the german researcher, jan van h

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during sexual excitation for the purposes of working magick (q.v) and achieving enlightenment. inri: letters written on jesus' cross, they have been interpreted to mean different things, depending upon who you talk to. primarily a notarikon (q.v) from the latin by christians as meaning "iesus nazarenu, rex iudaeorum" interpreted as "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews" used to mock the christian messiah jesus (q.v) christ as he was crucified on the cross of galgatha (called calvary. secondly said to be a latin notarikon "igne naturae renovatur integra" meaning "nature by fire is renewed in its integrity" by the alchemists of the rennesaince. medieval alchemists also used inri as a latin notarikon "inge nitrum raris inventium" meaning "shining (or glittering) is rarely found in fire" final

getting rid of negative things in your life, based on hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) techniques mixed with methods of exorcism. the letters stand for 1) identify; 2) objectify; and 3) banish- j- jesus: 1) born in circa 6 a.d. to humble parents, this prophet and teacher was said to be the son of god incarnate sent on earth to re-unite the created order with divinity. the founder and messiah of the christian religious faith. 2) a title known as the pentagrammaton (q.v. juno: one of four thousand known asteroids, but treated as a very minor planet. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the greek goddess who served as the patron deity of marriage. she was the wife of jupiter, though the marriage was not a happy one. keywords include: spouse, wife, partnerships, law giver, ju

f the german kobold and the english goblin (q.v. kobolds: mischievous earth elementals that are said to inhabit german households. krishna: although only the sixth avatar, or incarnation of vishnu, krishna has developed into a popular hindu deity due to his representing unbridled sexuality. some hindu traditionalists would down play this reason for his popularity, citing his role as "savior" and "messiah" in hindu culture. kundalini: an energy said to lie dormant at the base of the spine, ready to rise through the spine to the top of the head and bring down enlightenment. actually, this was an allegory. in reality, the energy is controlled by the mind- l- lamen: originally a plate of metal upon which occult names or symbols were inscribed. the personal or group identifying consecrated char

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archangels, the spirits before the throne. the sphere of the sun is represented by raphael, the sphere of the moon by gabriel. the obverse sephiroth, or qlippoth, build up in exactly the same way. in the habitations of hell these two are known as the disputers and the obscene ones, whose names sufficiently indicate their characters. the sphere of the sun is also the point of manifestation of the messiah or saviour upon earth. the prince of peace has his obverse in the disputers. who that has had the vision beautiful does not know the reaction that follows it, and the need of wisdom, self-control and patience to deal with the forces that are released not only in the soul but in the environment? it is for this reason that periods of purgation and discipline precede all revelations. we must

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so given by germans to little statues of old sorceresses, about a foot high. to these they attributed great virtues, honoring them as fetishes; clothing them richly, housing them comfortably, and serving them with food and drink at every meal. they believed that if these little images were neglected, they would bring misfortunes upon the household. alruy (or alroy, david (ca. 1147) a jewish false messiah, born in kurdistan ca. 1147. alruy boasted that he was a descendant of king david. educated in baghdad, he received instruction in the magic arts and came to be more proficient than his masters. his false miracles gained so much popularity for him that many jews believed him to be the messiah who was to restore their nation to jerusalem. according to legends, the king of persia imprisoned

he pure and simple essence of the divinity, flowing through hajoth hakados to the angel metratton and to the ministering spirit, reschith hajalalim, who guides the primum mobile, and bestows the gift of being on all. these names are to be understood as pure essences, or as spheres of angels and blessed spirits, by whose agency the divine providence extends. 2. jah, attributed to the person of the messiah or logos, whose power and influence descends through the angel masleh into the sphere of the zodiac. this is the spirit or word that actuated the chaos and ultimately produced the four elements and all creatures, by the agency of a spirit named raziel, who was the ruler of adam. 3. ehjeh, attributed to the holy spirit, whose divine light is received by the angel sabbathi, and communicated

2 thessalonians 2:3.12) and the beast (revelation 13) are also commonly thought to represent the antichrist. abbot bergier described the antichrist as a tyrant, impious and excessively cruel, the arch enemy of christ, and the last ruler of the earth. the persecutions he will inflict on the elect will be the last and most severe ordeal that they will have to endure. the antichrist will pose as the messiah and will perform things wonderful enough to mislead the elect themselves. the thunder will obey him, according to st. john, and leloyer asserts that the demons below watch over hidden treasures with which he will be able to tempt many. because of the miracles that he will perform, boguet calls him the ape of god, and it is through this scourge that god will proclaim the final judgment. ant

onored. they say the ass is a privileged animal that god formed at the end of the sixth day. abraham employed it to carry the wood for the sacrifice of isaac; it also car- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. ass 95 ried the wife and son of moses in the desert. the rabbis maintained that balaam s ass was carefully nourished and hidden in a secret place until the coming of the jewish messiah. assagioli, roberto (1888.1974) psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and parapsychologist. he was born february 27, 1888, in venice, italy, and educated at university of florence (m.d. as a young psychiatrist he became disenchanted with first freudian and then jungian psychoanalysis. thus he turned his attention to the development of a new psychology he termed psychosynthesis. psychosynthesis as

dia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. avebury 133 burl, aubrey. rings of stone. new haven, conn: ticknor& fields, 1980. the stone circles of the british isles. new haven, conn: yale university press, 1976. thom, alexander. megalithic sites in britain. oxford: oxford university press, 1967. avenar a fifteenth-century astrologer who promised the jews, on the testimony of the planets, that their messiah should arrive without fail in 1444, or at the latest, in 1464. he gave, for his guarantors, saturn, jupiter, the crab, and the fish. the jews were said to have kept their windows open to receive the messenger of god who did not arrive. averroes (1126.1198) name generally used for abul-walid mohammed ibn- ahmad ibn-mohammed ibn-rushd, one of the greatest arabian philosophers, and a commenta

es not ascribe his inspired story to any psychic entity, in spite of the strange way it was manifested, but believes that part of his personality on an unconscious level was communicating with his everyday self. however, he has also had several psychic experiences, including out-of-the-body travel and healing. his later books include a gift of wings (1974; illusions: the adventures of a reluctant messiah (1977; there s no such place as far away (1979; one (1988; running from safety: an adventure of the spirit (1995; and out of my mind: the discovery of saunders- vixen (1999. sources: bach, richard. illusions: the adventures of a reluctant messiah. new york: delacorte press, 1977. jonathan livingston seagull. new york: macmillan, 1970. one: a novel. new york: william morrow, 1988. bach cent

h century) culture, he hypothesizes six major influences: hellenic art and philosophy; roman law and organization; the revelation of christ; racial chaos in the wake of the fall of the roman empire; the negative and destructive influence of the jews; and the creative and regenerative mission of the teutonic (or aryan) race. chamberlain s anti-semitism led him to reject the idea of the jewish-born messiah of christianity and to propose an essentially germanic religion deriving from the symbols of the aryan race. the mystical/occult underpinnings of chamberlain s beliefs had a great influence on hitler s nazi faith. he wrote a number of other books, but none were as influential as foundations of the 19th century. he died at beyreuth, germany, on january 9, 1927. sources: field, geoffrey g. e

lf, and exercise power for one year. the fletchers were told that they were part of a chosen circle of followers who are messengers of the second coming. spirit in his mind and several other lesser volumes published soon afterward were the means of announcing the second coming. however, by the end of the 1990s, the circle had disappeared and nothing was heard of the fletchers, tawa, or the coming messiah through the 1990s. it is assumed that the predictions of his arrival proved incorrect and the circle has disbanded. sources: fletcher, c. r. spirit in his mind. bigfork, mont: circle of power spiritual foundation, 1985. graham, richard. the love connection. bigfork, mont: circle of power spiritual foundation, n.d. circles the circle is the most common space created for the working of magic

eet, the reappearance of the christ and the masters of wisdom, creme noted: there now lives among us a man who embodies in himself the hope and aspiration of the religious groups as well as the practical aspirations of the political and economic thinkers for a better life for all. awaited also by buddhists as the lord maitreya, by moslems as the imam mahdi, as the bodhisattva by hindus and as the messiah by the jews, the world teacher made known in june 1945. his intention to return to the world at the earliest possible moment. in palestine, 2000 years ago, he manifested through his disciple jesus (who is now the master jesus) by a process of overshadowing. this time he comes himself, as world teacher for the aquarian age. on july 19, 1977, maitreya, the christ, entered the modern world. s

ns have strong apocalyptic overtones, while the apocalypse or book of revelation is an entire apocalyptic tract, demonstrably the most influential apocalyptic text in western culture. apocalyptic reflections also dominate some of the apocryphal literature, books written by ancient hebrews but not included in the bible. such writings embody inspirational visions of the coming or second advent of a messiah, the state of faith, and interpretations of the future. the most well-known apocalyptic book is that channeled by st. john of patmos, the book of revelation, which describes in some detail a vision of the endtime. it circulated widely among christians at a time when they were under severe persecution for their faith. like many older apocalyptic works, it is written in highly metaphorical l

dar in jerusalem may have led to the formation of the essenes. membership in the group was by initiation, which was predated by a year s probation. the initiation ceremony included baptism and the beginning of daily purification rites within the group. the purification was followed by the evening meal. the meal had an eschatological significance, a foretaste of the meal to be presided over by the messiah. they believed the soul to be in the midst of a war between good and evil, the angel of darkess viewing with the prince of light. they also believed in astrology to some degree, ascribing a place in the battle based upon the day of one s birth. they saw themselves as collectively a militia in the service of light and individually at war with the darkness that entered through the body. thei

ly blood and the holy grail (1982, by michael baigent, richard leigh, and henry lincoln. their speculation involves suggestions that jesus did not die on the cross, but married and had children. his wife, they postulate, fled to the south of france with her family, taking with her the royal and real blood, the sang-real or grail of medieval romance. this line will supposedly culminate in a second messiah, all this being the secret of an order named the prieure de sion. apparently the investigation of this amazing story began with the mystery of berenger sauniere, a parish priest at rennes-le-chateau in the pyrenees, who seemed to have discovered a secret that gave him access to a vast sum of money before his death, under mysterious circumstances, in 1917. that secret involved the history o

hubbard died january 24, 1986, after years of living as a recluse. sources: hubbard, l. ron. dianetics: the modern science of mental health. new york: hermitage house, 1950. scientology: a new slant on life. los angeles: publications organization, united states, 1965. scientology: the fundamentals of thought. los angeles: publications organization, united states, 1956. miller, russell. bare-faced messiah: the true story of l. ron hubbard. new york: henry holt, 1987. huby, pamela m(argaret) clark (1922) british university lecturer in philosophy who experimented in parapsychology. she was born on april 21, 1922, in london and attended oxford university (b.a, 1944; m.a, 1947. after graduation huby was a lecturer in philosophy at st. anne s college, oxford (1947.49. she then joined the faculty

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hn nevil 985 sources: maskelyne, john n. the fraud of modern theosophy exposed. london: g. routledge, 1913. modern spiritualism: a short account of its rise and progress, with some exposures of so-called spirit media. london: f. warne, 1876. masleh the angel who the jews believed ruled the zodiac. according to a rabbinical legend, masleh was the medium through which the power and influence of the messiah was transmitted to the sphere of the zodiac. masse, francois (1891) commissaire general of the french navy, with interests in parapsychology. he was born on may 10, 1891, at vendome, france. he entered the french navy and served in world wars i and ii, finally retiring as commissaire general in 1946. during his retirement years he became a member of the institut metapsychique international

ile the action of drugs is also believed to make them visible (see also elementary spirits; fairies) nayler, james (ca. 1617.1660) an english religious leader of the seventeenth century. he was born around 1617 in the diocese of york and served for a time in the army before joining the quakers where his discourses gained for him a reputation for sanctity. eventually, his followers hailed him as a messiah and accompanied him in a dramatic entrance in bristol in 1656. nayler, mounted on a horse led by a man and a woman, was followed by others who chanted holy, holy, holy, is the god of sabaoth. authorities did not appreciate nayler s messianic pretensions and had him arrested, charging him with blasphemy and punishing him by having his tongue pierced with a hot iron and his forehead marked w

n association with another medium, charles hammond, at the instigation of the association of electricizers, one of the bands of spirits by whom he was controlled. the motor was to derive its motive power from the magnetic store of nature and was therefore to be independent of artificial sources of energy, like the human body. the machine was hailed as the physical saviour of the race, and the new messiah. mrs. alonzo newton, wife of one of spear s collaborators, obeyed a vision by going to high rock, lynn, massachusetts, where the new motor was located, and for two hours suffering birth-pangs, whereby she judged that the essence of her spiritual being was imparted to the machine. at the end of that time it was claimed that pulsations were apparent in the motor. newton continued to act as n

e. he studied at bangor theological seminary, graduated in 1864, and was ordained as a congregational minister a short time afterward. he served churches in california, massachusetts, and missouri. in 1873 he left congregationalism and joined the unitarian church. he subsequently pastored the third unitarian church, chicago (1873.74, the church of the unity, boston (1874.96, and the church of the messiah (now the community church, new york city (1896.1906. savage frequently advocated the examination of darwin s evolutionary theories and their acceptance by the church. evolution, he believed, tended to strengthen rather than weaken religious faith. his views were expressed in his books: christianity, the science of mankind (1873, the religion of evolution (1876, and the morals of evolution

63 at local scientology organizations. address: us ias members trust, 1311 n. new hampshire ave, los angeles, ca 90027. website: http//www.scientology.com. sources: atack, jon. a piece of blue sky: scientology, dianetics, and l. ron hubbard exposed. new york: lyle stuart, 1990. church of scientology. http//www.scientology.com. april 14, 2000. corydon, bent, and l. ron hubbard, jr. l. ron hubbard: messiah or madman? new york: lyle stuart, 1987. evans, christopher. cults of unreason. new york: farrar, straus& giroux, 1973. reprint. new york: dell, 1975. hubbard, l. ron. dianetics 55! los angeles: publications organization, 1954. dianetics: the modern science of mental health. new york: hermitage house, 1950. handbook for preclears. los angeles: publications organization, 1951. science of sur

1950. handbook for preclears. los angeles: publications organization, 1951. science of survival. los angeles: publications organization, 1951. scientology: the fundamentals of thought. los angeles: publications organization, 1956. self-analysis. los angeles: publications organization, 1951. you have lived before this life? los angeles: publications organization, 1977. miller, russell. bare-faced messiah: the true story of l. ron hubbard new york: henry holt; london: michael joseph, 1987. wallis, roy. the road to total freedom. new york: columbia university press, 1976. what is scientology? los angeles: bridge publications, 1992. sciomancy a somewhat obscure branch of divination concerned with the evocation of astral reflections to ascertain future events. scoresby, william (1789.1857) bri

s, he is said to have affirmed that his sorceries took a great deal of time and trouble to perform, owing to the necessity for a multitude of magical rites and incantations, while the miracles of the apostles were accomplished easily and successfully by the mere utterance of a few words. the adept from whom simon was supposed to have learned the art of magic was dositheus, who pretended to be the messiah foretold by the prophets and who was contemporary with christ. from this person simon was said to have acquired a great store of occult erudition, and owed his power chiefly to the hysterical conditions into which he was capable of throwing himself. through these, he was able to make himself look either old or young, returning at will to childhood or old age. it seems that he had not been

e mary of the new dispensation. at high rock, near the machine, she fell into trance and went through frightful convulsions for a period of two hours, at the end of which there were said to be indications of life in the machine. the machine was considered a newborn child; the medium nursed it for weeks and the enthusiastic band announced it as the art of arts, the science of all sciences, the new messiah, god s last best gift to man. reports of a shocking nature were circulated about the birth of this modern frankenstein-style creation and the practices by which the life principle had been infused. andrew jackson davis explained. that by means of a spiritual overshadowing, a la virgin mary, the maternal functions were brought into active operation; a few of the usual physiological symptoms

on. the fall placed satan in control of creation. god has been trying to restore his primal intention ever since. the bible is an account of god s various restoration attempts. the principle of restoration delineates the conditions necessary for the reestablishment of god s intention. the plan involves both god s sending of one sinless man and the response of a free and responsible humankind. the messiah was to be born as a substantial, physical being, an example of the ideal person. he was also to take a bride and realize the ideal family and thus become the true parent. through the true parent, god will implant love in the hearts of all who follow him. he will also show them how to accomplish the true purpose in life. throughout the 1970s the unification church (full name: the holy spiri

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loathsome bull-men linked together. thereunto are also referred the laycjn (nachashiel, the evil serpents, and the a'briel layrbu. hereunto also belongeth the (blind) dragon-force. unto twklm is attributed tylyl, evil woman, with the appearance of a beautiful woman, but then changing into a black, monkey-looking demon. the name of the serpent cjn (nachash) has the same number as that of hycm the messiah; who will root the twpylq out of the world. these are the evil chiefs: 1. rtk- satan and moloch 2. hmkj- lucifuge 3. hnyb- beezelbulb 4. dsj- ashtaroth 5. hrwbg- asmodeus 6. trapt- belphasor 7. jxn- baal 8. dwh- adramalech 9. dwsy- lilith 10. twklm- nahemah these names can hardly be referred to any one sephira, seeing their power extendeth over many and numberless orders. behemoth and levi

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re, he ate well, mostly fish as well as fresh fruit from giant plants. several years later on december 22, 1962, standing horse entered a spacecraft near bakersfield, california, and was taken to jupiter where he saw a magnificent building made of marble. he witnessed the dancing of five tribes of indians. in a jupiter city, at the church of the open door, he heard a concert in which handel s the messiah was sung. at one point he saw a screen that recorded scenes from earth. according to standing horse, the people of jupiter are better-looking versions of earthlings, with the races living together in harmony. the chief was returned to earth three days later, on the evening of christmas day. his hosts drove him back to a hollywood bus station in a car without wheels and powered by electroma

nd realms, they left vast libraries on which the history of the universe is recorded on crystal devices encased in magnetic fields. on occasion, a psychically sensitive individual is able to tap into these records. further reading williamson, george hunt, 1959. road in the sky. london: neville spearman. elvis as jesus in a book published in 2000, cinda godfrey concludes that elvis presley was the messiah the returned jesus christ. she writes that she began her research in 1992, determined to disprove any connection between the two, only to find mind-boggling evidence 92 elder race stephanie g. pierce, celebrity spokesminister for the 24 hour church of elvis, stands inside the church s inner sanctum (macduff everton/corbis) that the prophecies throughout the [bible] fit both elvis and jesus

like jesus, elvis was jew i s h. she also notes that the bible frequently refers to the voice of god on many occasions. is there any voice more spectacular than elvis presley s? she asks. the psalms even predict that presley one day would disappear: i am shut up and i cannot come forth (psalms 88:8) and how long, lord? wilt thou hide thyself forever (psalms 89:46. isaiah 4:2 states that when the messiah comes, in that day shall the branch [messiah] of the lord be beautiful and glorious. godfrey remarks, now, picture elvis at his aloha from hawaii concert, resplendent in his jeweled american eagle jumpsuit. curiously enough, the eagle is also a symbol for christ (godfrey, 2000. according to godfrey (as well as more mainstream presley biographers such as peter guralnick, presley had a relig

n of christ sometime around 2000. elvis presley has been mentioned in connection with the name orion on many occasions, she observes, including gail giorgio s 1978 bestseller, orion, about a godlike singer who faked his death and disappeared (godfrey, 2000. further reading godfrey, cinda, 2000. the elvis-jesus mystery the shocking scriptural and scientific evidence that elvis presley could be the messiah anticipated throughout history. new philadelphia, oh: revelation press. guralnick, peter, 1999. careless love: the unmaking of elvis presley. boston, ma: back bay books. emmanuel first seen clairvoyantly as a being of golden light (rodegast and stanton, 1985, emmanuel was a popular channeling entity during the new age boom of the 1980s. emmanuel, who spoke through pat rodegast, did not eve

attention to more prosaic concerns. his wife, howe ve r, transcribed the teachings and began work on a book based on them. she also founded the circle of power foundation. in 1984 the fl e t c h e r s m oved to vi c t o r, montana, to devote full time to their spiritual concerns. according to tawa, jesus was born again into the world in 1962, but the individual had yet to realize that he was the messiah. soon, however, he would come to that knowledge and reveal himself to the world, which this time would accept his mission. but before that happened, the anti-christ would exert malign influences and power before jesus vanquished him. see also: channeling further reading fletcher, c. r, 1984. spirit in his mind. victor, mt: circle of power foundation. tecu tecu (pronounced tey-coo) is an en

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

o access by the strict halachic barriers and obfuscating intellectual hurdles erected by rabbinical jewish kabbalists. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% the formal prohibition against the study and practice of the qabalah was lifted in 1540 ce through the efforts of the medieval jewish kabbalist abraham azulai. the prohibition had been instituted largely in reaction to the disastrous consequences of the false messiah shimeon bar kochba, who led a revolt in 135 ce that resulted in a short-lived independent jewish state.3 over a century after azulai, a sense of fear and taboo regarding the qabalah arose strongly once again among the rabbinate in reaction to the troubling popularity of the apostate sabbatai zevi. zevi was ascribed messianic stature by his prophet nathan of gaza, and embraced as such by se

correct time* 4 #4 '0' mystical christianity is an outgrowth of the same universal spirituality found in the hebrew tradition as the mystical qabalah. christianity began as a sect of judaism that sprang from the messianic advent of master yeshuvah, who was born a jew and lived in a jewish culture. all of his apostles and early disciples were also jews. master yeshuvah, as with every appearance of messiah, brought a fresh transmission of universal mystical spirituality clothed in the context of the historical setting, cultural milieu, environment, language, characteristic worldview, and prevailing body of discourse among the people to whom it was being delivered. the mainstream of jews at the time master yeshuvah appeared had been expecting a savior of the jewish people who would deliver th

renew the ancient faith that had faded into decay. 8- f e 5 do not think that i have come to abolish the law (i.e. torah) or the prophets; i have not come to abolish but to fulfill. for truly i say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. 18 but what began as a small jewish sect centered around a jewish messiah and understood in contemporary jewish terms, not greek or roman, came to be transformed into a major religion composed almost exclusively of gentiles. in the process of this transformation, the legacy of the jewish heritage upon which christianity was founded was largely modified and assimilated into the greek language and hellenistic worldview. as the new religion of christianity emerged

rly hours and record the succession of sinatic hebrew divine names and trees of life he would see as intense light patterns, using the level of psychic mediation described in the sefer hazohar (book of splendor) as one-twentieth cloudy mirror (the various designations regarding the mirror of consciousness in the zohar refer to different degrees of vision. clear mirror denotes the consciousness of messiah. dull or cloudy mirror denotes the vision of prophets. one-twentieth cloudy mirror denotes" f" 2' 8: 4 the conscious dream state and one-sixtieth cloudy mirror the normal dream state) he assembled the sequence of names into a book as he was instructed, with one name on each page. the names are followed by the series of angelic tree language. the work of the chariot trust subsequently publi

orm of the tree of life comprised of two interfacing pyramids. the sefer yetzirah provides one of the two vastly different sets of names commonly found in the qabalah for the spheres (called sefiroth) on the tree (the other set comes from the sefer hazohar. the names for the sefiroth in the sefer yetzirah are based on elements (spirit of living elohim, air, fire, water, on four celestial heads of messiah, and on the six directions. these and the other correspondences that the book gives for the spheres and gates on the tree will be discussed in detail later in the book like the three innermost core texts of the sefer hazohar, the sefer yetzirah stands out within primary qabalistic literature for the depth, terseness, and obscurity of its language, and for its wealth of mystical allusions

th, revitalize the universal teachings upon which they are all based, and renew the efficacy of the succession of gatekeepers who keep those teachings alive within the respective traditions. every one of these messiahs is a manifestation with full power, omniscience, and omnipresence of the same divine source, and yet every one is utterly unique and extraordinary. while many of the appearances of messiah are accompanied by a written revelation or set of teachings, in each case it may be said that the message they came to bring was demonstrated most directly and most poignantly by their lives. and while each of those life stories was unique, they all shared a number of things in common that we may apply in considering the divine life of master yeshuvah. these commonalties will be discussed

(emanation, triggering a quantum fluctuation that generates the big bang and subsequent inflation of the universe. it then descends through the successive three worlds, thereby manifesting the complete tree. the central column is called the line of light (kav) in the lurianic doctrine presented in the etz ha chayyim. with the expansion of the tree, the universe is created by the celestial head of messiah called the first, and sustained in the tree as a balanced tension between vast and small face.18 the extension of the central column is precipitated and sustained by the tension between the two sefiroth crown/above and foundation/below, which emanate as a pair of opposites. the central column is said to be a clear mirror. as the central column extends, the column of the right and the colum

and black magicians ascend the tree through different sefirothic patterns. a working tree, infused with the power of a suitable name of god, mantra, or other invocation, automatically directs the changes in consciousness of the traveler along its characteristic pattern of gates. different forms of the tree, called trees of perfection, allude to enlightened yogis, transcendent devotees, saints and messiah. in this book, all the various types of working trees and trees of perfection will be presented. 2 f #4 fallen and perfect trees on the human body the tree provides the finite intellect with a frame of reference for all possible experiences. each sefirah is itself a complete tree present in all planes of existence. the entire tree, as well as each individual sefirah, is therefore an open-e

h corresponds respectively with the three mother letters alef a, mem m, and shin s, and the letter tav t of the holy temple. in the flat forms of the tree, the sefirah mercy/water moves into the column of the right and sefirah power/fire moves into the column of the left (see figure 3.5 on page 89. the four sefiroth of the inner court are also shown as corresponding to the four celestial heads of messiah of the lord hvhy. these four heads are functionally instrumental in creating, maintaining, and dissolving the manifest small face universe. in the sifra detzniyutha, the emanation and manifestation of the sefiroth through the action of the head of messiah called the first (reshith) is described as small face turning outward from vast face. on the contrary, when the small face universe is d

eads are functionally instrumental in creating, maintaining, and dissolving the manifest small face universe. in the sifra detzniyutha, the emanation and manifestation of the sefiroth through the action of the head of messiah called the first (reshith) is described as small face turning outward from vast face. on the contrary, when the small face universe is dissolved by the action of the head of messiah called the last (acharit, the side columns collapse and the sefiroth return to their unmanifest condition in the roots of the tree.19 with the dissolution of the small face universe, the two faces are said to return to the condition of seeing face-to- face. the four heads of messiah and the nature of the messianic advent of the lord hvhy will be discussed more fully in a later section. 53'

utha is found the verse, just as the heh h is found to be the shekhinah. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% shekhinah has many names in the torah, such as bride (hlk, kalah, queen (hklm, malkhah, she (ayh, hya, pronounced hee, and glory or honor (dvbk, kavod. it is through the interaction of the vav v and the lower heh h that messianic appearances are manifested in the lower worlds. the action of the spirit of messiah in the world of yetzirah resonates through the vav v. the lower heh h is the presence of the spirit of the lord hvhy as the shekhinah throughout the material creation, or earth(/ra, aretz. actually, the lord hvhy is referred to in the feminine about 10-15 percent of the time in the torah, though often mistranslated or ignored. it is important to note that, despite the medieval injunctions

e wreath of the ancient one which adorns the superior yod. this is where the yod y is rooted in and emanates from the negatively existent roots. the two end points of the yod y are respectively the supernal sefiroth wisdom/east and understanding/north, the uppermost sources for the two side columns of the tree. hvhy and the nature of messianic appearance in all mystical traditions, the concept of messiah and messianic appearances in the lower worlds is the pinnacle of all mysteries, unparalleled in its sublimeness, inscrutability, and controversy. reflecting the apparently conflicting perspectives of dualism, qualified non-dualism, and pure non-dualism discussed in chapter one, there are three distinct and seemingly incompatible views of the mystery of messiah. some unquestioningly embrace

rituality at the root of all religions. another perspective regards such extraordinary souls as the rarest masters i.e. the friends or rasools of god who lead demonstrative lives and perfectly reflect the divine attributes. this second view also embraces the idea that the active aspect of the ancient one manifests, sustains, and dissolves the small face universe through the heads of the celestial messiah in the sefiroth of the inner court of the tree. and finally, there are those who reject both the ideas of a corporeal and a celestial messiah outright, regarding all name and form as illusory and only the negatively existent ayn as real. 4' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% the reader should not find it surprising that the proponents of these three different views of messiah are prone to argue for the ver

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tum sanctum hominem factum& post eum ad perfectionem humani generis super homines paracletum descensurum.3 1 ibid, p. 105. 2 ibid, pp. 166 ff. 3 ibid, pp. 108,109. cf. also cabalist conclusions, 14,16 (ibid, p. 109. 105 pico della mirandola and cabalist magic it was thus, through cabalistic letter-manipulations that the ecstatic young man perceived with rapture that iesu is indeed the name of the messiah, the son of god. but how did magia also prove the divinity of christ? i have no explanation of this to offer, unless it is to be supposed that pico thought of the eucharist as a kind of magia. readers interested in this problem may be referred to pico's treatise on the eucharist,1 in which i have not been able to find any definite use of the word magia. so, with the utmost confidence and b

rer say of him "from the ray which it diffuses i perceive that within you is a sun or perhaps some even greater luminary."3 when he was an infant in nola, a huge serpent of very ancient appearance came out of an aperture in the wall of the house/ serpents in the cradle are a sign of a heroic destiny, as we know from the history of hercules. there is little doubt that bruno thought of himself as a messiah, an illusion not uncommon in the renaissance. a remarkable example is the case of the man who called himself "mercurius" and who thought that he was a kind of christ.5 the divinising hermetic experience, thought to be transmitted in a miraculous way, like the way in which christ transmitted experience to the apostles, is described by ludovico lazzarelli, who was a disciple of the "mercuriu

important, owing to the numerological significance of nine and seven, the sum of which is sixteen. in the coming dispensation there will be established a better religious cult and better moral laws, both based on nature and natural religion. calabria must prepare for the new age by throwing off the spanish tyranny and establishing a republic embodying the new religion and ethic. campanella is the messiah of the new age, designated both by astrological prediction and by religious prophesy to lead die world into another era. the part of christianity in this new era will remain important. christianity has had its prophets, its thaumaturges, its experts in the art of divination, its miracle workers. christ was a great and inspired magus and legislator. therefore a rapprochement can be made bet

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

it's all part of their new world order. freemasonry is truly evil, it is deceptive, it is the work of the devil. listen to new age author, bill cooper, describe freemasonry. cooper was a member of demolay during his youth, and later, spent over 20 years in naval intelligence. he is most familiar with the organizations which are driving the world into the new world order and the appearance of its messiah, the biblical antichrist "i tell you now that freemasonry is one of the most wicked and terrible organizations upon this earth. the masons are major players in the struggle for world domination. the 33rd degree is split into two. one split contains the core of the luciferian illuminati and the other contains those who have no knowledge of it whatsoever [behold a pale horse, p. 78] freemaso

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

is the fourth day of the week, wednesday, upon which god created glights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night h. 13 wisdom is not only the creator of the universe but also the mediator between the uncreated and the created- god and man. in the form of 'hokmah, the son of kether, wisdom renders comprehensive the abstract thought in an association of ideas. philo names it messiah, and st. john christ. st. paul says: but we speak the wisdom of god in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which god ordained before the world unto our glory: which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the lord of glory. 14 referring to christ as the sun, this same apostle says: who is the image of the invisible god, the firstborn of e

eveals w (shin= 300, the glory of god. the final h (heh) of tetragrammaton represents the remaining seven sephiroth. this revelation of the shin shows the triadic nature of the first three sephiroth which constitute the intellectual world, and it closely relates it to many mysteries. thus, in ydw shaddai (almighty, the name of the deity before he revealed himself as yhvh, the shin comes first; in messiah (hywm) and the exoteric jesus (ovwy) it comes second; in the esoteric yeheshuah (hvwhy) it comes in the middle; and in serpent (whk) it comes last. in yeheshuah it is the letter of mercy, for it is the central equilibrating fire; in all the others it is the letter of wrath, for it is out of equilibrium, and particularly so in shaddai and the serpent. in actual conception these three sephir

appear that the reason for the creation of the kings of edom was to account for the world being peopled with races other than that of israel. adam qadmon. on several occasions already have we made mention of adam qadmon. he is called by various names, such as the primordial man, the archetypal man, microprosopos, the man of the east, the shadow of the invisible macrocosm, the pre-existing soul of messiah, the cosmic son, etc, etc. strictly speaking, he is the form, not the spirit, of deity in atziluth. nevertheless, he is also the emanations of this form in the remaining three worlds; consequently there are four adam qadmons. as regards the first of these isaac myer writes the qabbalah shows the existence of four adams, or rather three continuations of the upper heavenly adam. i. the perfe

he guardians of those forces which man calls good and evil; they are, as we have already mentioned, symbolized by yakhin and boaz, the pillars of solomon's temple, and flow into kether through the fifty gates of binah, 50 being the numerical value of kl (lk) which means gall h, or the gunderstanding of all h. moses failed to open the fiftieth of these gates had he done so he would have become the messiah of israel. when the messiah does come, the sabbatic millenary will be accomplished; all israel will be blessed, 16 and will become one nation in the lord 17- that is to say, this world will be inhabited solely by the chosen people. there is the energy of the serpent of genesis, nchsh (nachash) and the energy of the brazen serpent which healed the afflicted israelites, mshich (messiah. both

to the spiritual world. further on in this book we will show that the power of using either is drawn from the same source- shin, shekinah, astral light, ether, electricity, whatever name it may be called by- and to understand the use of this force, yet never to be obsessed by it, is to trample on the head of the serpent and so re-establish the shin in the body of tetragrammaton and formulate the messiah, the incarnate word which when disincarnated caused the assiatic world to be. in brief, this is the central doctrine of the qabalistic redemption; yet so dangerous did this doctrine appear, should it be divulged to the uninitiated, that to safeguard it it was locked away in a jumble of symbols, names, figures, and cryptograms which are frequently contradictory. the danger was that this phi

ation is the only one which can be comprehended by man, who in this microcosmic life can only struggle forward through the clash between passivity and activity, which are both good and evil according to circumstances- that is according to necessity. necessity is divinity in hiding: authority is the divinity of the religious order and liberty is divinity in man. the establisher of authority is the messiah. these mystical philosophers fully recognized the necessity for goriginal sin h, because the world is of satan and man is of the world. man is born in sin; not the sin of adam's disobedience, carnal or physical sin, but in the mystical and spiritual sin of tetragrammaton fs fall. the blame was thrown upon adam, the man, not out of deference to the deity, but to conceal this potent secret f

hysical sin, but in the mystical and spiritual sin of tetragrammaton fs fall. the blame was thrown upon adam, the man, not out of deference to the deity, but to conceal this potent secret from the uninitiated. in order to redeem the sin in which all mankind is born, it was necessary that a passiveactive emanation be created to balance the active-passive satanic force. this emanation was to be the messiah of the world, on whose advent equilibrium would be re-established. this supreme cancellation was the one hope of israel. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 55 chapter v the redemption of tetragrammaton symbols of the messianic act as we have shown in the last chapter, the messianic act consists of a gtransubstantiation h of the material into the spiritual; that is of the assiatic world into

em ourselves, or to be redeemed by the divine power, but to redeem tetragrammaton, the fallen god of the yetziratic world. the active principle in man must secret wisdom of the qabalah page 56 unite with the passive principle in yhvh, and the passive principle in man must submit to union with the active principle in yhvh. from this dual marriage between man and divinity will emanate the child, or messiah, a complete integration of man in god and of god in man. as through the divine fall the divinity became manifest in adam qadmon, accordingly must man emulate him and through his own transfiguration destroy the material form of consciousness, so that the mirror of illusions may dissolve. thus will divinity be redeemed by the destruction of the divine image and the ineffable shin will be rea

be plunged into the heart of tetragrammaton. then will the kerub of earth, 7 which is the unity of the forces of the remaining three kerubim, be sacrificed- that is materiality will vanish; the trees of life and of good and evil will dissolve into one; and as this unity takes form, not only will tetragrammaton be re-established, but simultaneously will he become od heh shin vau heh (hvwhy, 8 the messiah. then will the world of assiah vanish into the ecstasy of yetzirah; matter will have become pure form- that is a mathematical conception, a thought. the creation of hell. though the world of assiah is ruled by the inverse sammael (tetragrammaton despiritualized, and is, consequently, the realm of demoniacal forces, it is not hell as conceived by the qabalist, for hell is the reflection, or

to say it is bereft of opposition to the consciousness of man. thus the search for knowledge is an unending campaign against duality in which conquest deprives the conquered of its activity, its opposition, which in man is shadowed forth as ignorance. a void is created, and over it the spirit (shekinah) in man moves and respiritualizes the gross incarnation of tetragrammaton and so formulates the messiah. the laboratory of the devil (satan of the qliphoth) is the heart of man; herein are all things human conceived and ordered. mystically this heart is the ark which rode out the terrors of the flood, just as the shin rode out the terrors of the darkness which gwas upon the face of the deep h. the timber it is built of is cut from the branches of the tree of life. in it is carried the cubic

midst. the three flames, or odin, of the letter shin represent the od, aur, and ob, the active, equilibrating, and passive forces of life. a trinity in unity. the messianic act, or great work, consists in freeing the hidden shin from the elemental pyramid in which it is imprisoned. then the four elements vanish and the splendour of the shekinah enwraps, like a caul of light, the divine child- the messiah. from this esoteric doctrine it will be seen that the messiah does not come from outside, he does not descend upon the pyramid; in place he comes from inside and dissolves the pyramid. the christian idea of the son of god descending from heaven to save the world is in fact the qabalistic idea upside down; for all men, or, according to the hebrews, all the chosen people, are sons of god, pa

he does not descend upon the pyramid; in place he comes from inside and dissolves the pyramid. the christian idea of the son of god descending from heaven to save the world is in fact the qabalistic idea upside down; for all men, or, according to the hebrews, all the chosen people, are sons of god, particles of divinity, atoms of spirit, and when all these atoms unite in one spiritual ecstasy the messiah is born; for he is the integration of the totality of spirit in mankind. not a spark descending into darkness, but darkness dissolving into illimitable light. from the active to the formal, from the formal to the creative, from the creative to the archetypal, and thence back into the no-thingness, the source and the end of all things: such is the complete messianic hypostasis. secret wisdo

he must cut himself away from all outward things and influences and meditate on the spirit he desires to unite with. thirdly, he must persevere, that is wrestle with this spirit. these three acts will lead him to the vision of god, the world soul, a spark of which burns within him and differentiates him from and also unites him to all things which surround him. whilst this vision lasts he is the messiah, but once it has faded away he is again man, yet charged with a terrific power which according to his will is a power for good or for evil. the existence and possible employment of this force constitute the great secret of practical magic; it is the wand of thaumaturgy and the key of black magic. it is the edenic serpent who transmitted to eve the seductions of a fallen angel. the astral l

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

e jews. from all these circumstances he came to have applied to him the monogram of i h s. and to him at last all the legendary stories related of the god iao were attributed"[131 [131] godfrey higgins, anacalypsis, book vi, ch. iv, p. 455. according to faber, jesus was not originally called jesus christ, but jescua hammassiah--jescua meaning joshua, and jesus, savior. ham is the om of india, and messiah, the anointed. commenting on this higgins remarks "it will then be, the savior om the anointed, precisely as isaiah had literally foretold; or reading in the hebrew made, the anointed om the savior. this was the name of jesus of bethlehem" we have observed the fact that at the time of the birth of christ the entire world was expecting a savior--a new incarnation of the sun. the end of a cy

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ll property in common; they studied the books of moses,i.e.,the torah, as being of supreme importance, explained them as allegorical, and taught doctrines resembling those of the kabalah in regard to jehovah and the angels; they may have practised healing the sick (like the therapeuue, and they made some claims to possessing magical divine powers: they also lived in expectation of the coming of a messiah. there is not the236themagical masonslightest suggestion that they had any knowledge of architec255 ture or of masonry. they led a pastoral or agricultural life, and, like the therapeutre of egypt, they studied the uses of plants and arts of agriculture. bauer, in hischurchhistory,suggest that the essenes were religious jews whose minds had become tinctured by the greek thought of alexandr

ir, states that the cubical stone pours forth..and;*here it is taken reverentially as a symbol of the crucifixion. in theological works christ is also referred to as the corner stone of the church, the cape stone of the church fabric and the key (stone) of heaven.theold testament had also, before the time of jesus, used the term corner stones to mean persons of eminence, and prophetically for the messiah; in isaiah xxvi, 16, we read of 'a precious corner stone to be laid in zion'.theworship of stones as representing gods was perhaps the earliest form of religious observance; the stone from its solidity and durability would suggest the power and stability of a deity; stone worship has been traced in almost all lands and among almost all uncivilised races, and is hardly extinct even in our d

buthe that receivethit.'this is taken by the church to mean a full pardon and absolution, and a reward of merit.theprophet zechariah had a vision of joshua the high priest with satan standing beside him as an adversary; incap.iv, we read of a very mysterious stone:'forbehold the stone that i have set before joshua, upon one stone are seven eyes.'thecommentators declare this to refer to christ the messiah, to show by the number seven his perfect wisdom.truebelievers in christ are called stones by the apostle peter 'ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house' we may read in job, chap. xxxviii, that the almighty, speaking to job, said 'where wert thou when i laid the foundations of the earth? whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? who laid the corner stone thereof?'theol

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ull-men, linkedtheqliphoth of the qabalah 29together. thereunto are also referred nachashiel, evil ser255 pents, and obriel. thereunto belongeth the blind dragon255force.unto malkuth is attributed lilith, the evil woman, and the appearance is that of a woman, at first beautiful but afterwards changing to a black, monkey-like demon. the name of the serpent, nachash, hath the same number as that of messiah, whowillroot out the qliphoth from the world. these are the evil chiefs: 1. kether- satan or moloch 2. chokmah- beelzebub 3. binah- lucifuge 4. chesed- ashtaroth 5. geburah- asmodeus 6. tiphereth- belphegor 7. netzach- baal 8. hod- adramalech 9. yesod- lilith 10. malkuth- nahemah-accordingto the opinion of some, but these names can hardly be referred toanyonesephira, seeing their power ext

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urther complex myths and legends of their power will be discussed. however, in their most primal form they work within the triangle of force in the upper world. what about jesus? one of the major debates in christianity has been about the nature of jesus. however, when we examine the new testament in a critical manner some important facts come to light. jesus over and over again claimed to be the messiah and a son of god, but not god himself. he prayed to the father and spoke of god as a separate entity to whom he was obedient. in the gospel of john the identity of jesus is the central theme, the aim of this gospel is to show the reader that jesus is a messiah, the son of god, not god the son (john 21:31. while john himself clearly tells us that jesus distinguished himself from the father

hirat. together baal and athirat form the basis of the pagan canaanite tradition. as israel became more nationalistic and political the el tradition was suppressed. at the same time a fundamentalist and literalist extreme arose within the society and this new tradition was the yahwahist stream. yahweh becomes the mighty one, baal is vanquished and replaced with the tradition of the coming warrior messiah, with the goddess relegated to the shadows. the history of israel is, in some sense, the battle between these two streams or religious traditions and between these two streams and the gnosis! in studying the old testament we need to realise that it is not the word of god but a remnant, a historical record of what occurred within israel at that period. while it contains scraps of the origin

nd it seems to be represented as evil, even as an icon of the devil himself, while on the other it is used to represent wisdom and even perhaps salvation. the most obscure image is that found in numbers 21:8-9 and isaiah 15:29 where the serpent is used as an image of redemption. moses holds up the serpent (on a cross) to heal israel- most christian scholars agree that this is a type of the coming messiah, in christian terms, jesus himself. accordingly, we have the unusual suggestion of the serpent as jesus. in hebrew numerology the numerical value of the serpent or snake is that of the messiah. many gnostic sects saw the serpent as the agent of redemption and the primary symbol of gnosis. the ophites (from the greek word for serpent, ophis, like many modern gnostic groups, ourselves includ

saw the spirit of god descending like a dove and lighting on him. and a voice from heaven said "this is my son, whom i love; with him i am well pleased" matthew 3:16,17 jesus was now in a position to transform the human situation, as a son of god (a being whose essence is in commune with the logos and whose actions embody the holy spirit, he now went about his task of redeeming israel. he was the messiah from the land of light come for his people. these twelve jesus sent out with the following instructions "do not go among the gentiles or enter any town of the samaritans, go rather to the lost sheep of israel. as you go, preach this message `the kingdom of heaven is near' he answered "i was sent only to the lost sheep of israel" matthew 10:5-7 matthew 15:24 jesus however had more to achiev

. other mystery cults undertook similar preparation. the gnostic handbook page 88 the essenes rejecting the apostate forms of literalist judaism, separated themselves into the deserts and began preparation for the great change which was to occur. they understood that there were to be two messiahs, a king (davidic) and a priestly. today these two messiahs have been misunderstood and the concept of messiah or christ has been distorted. in ancient israel the christ or messiah was not one individual, it was a state of consciousness, a role and a task. the davidic messiah was the king who was expected to liberate israel from its prison, while the priestly messiah was to give israel a new spiritual impetus. these two roles need to be carefully considered. in present scholarship there is a tenden

a role and a task. the davidic messiah was the king who was expected to liberate israel from its prison, while the priestly messiah was to give israel a new spiritual impetus. these two roles need to be carefully considered. in present scholarship there is a tendency to confuse literalist and fundamentalist forms of judaism with the gnostic forms of the israelite mysteries. accordingly, the king messiah tends to be seen in purely political and revolutionary terms, while certainly there is a political element to the message of the davidic messiah we must realise that since matter is only a temporal manifestation, for the messiah to save israel as a whole (as a collective of particles of light, the physical world must be redeemed! this is why there is such an apocalyptic emphasis in essene

ical and revolutionary terms, while certainly there is a political element to the message of the davidic messiah we must realise that since matter is only a temporal manifestation, for the messiah to save israel as a whole (as a collective of particles of light, the physical world must be redeemed! this is why there is such an apocalyptic emphasis in essene and gnostic literature, for the davidic messiah to complete his task all matter must be trasnformed back to spirit. accordingly, the role of the davidic messiah was to prepare israel for a new interpretation of the kingdom of god, jesus as the davidic messiah illustrated how individual theosis was possible. for through individual theosis the particles of light may be liberated and at the omega day all light retrieved from matter. by his

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cience. religious intelligence. structure. metaphor. atomic. atomic. electron. physics. buddhism nucleus white light cellular. dna. rna. biology. hinduism reincarnation. somatic autonomic organs of the body.physiology. tantra. nerve plexes. kundalini. sensory. brain. sense organs. neurology. zen, sufism enlightenment mental-social. mind imprint. social behaviour. psychology. protestantism christ, messiah emotional. endocrines. emotional behaviour.psychiatry. fundamentalism the devil. void. body as flesh. body as flesh. anaesthesiology death cults void. fig 5 gnostic theurgy page 32 the hologram of matter now that you have some understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of the universe we need to re-consider our refraction model in the light of the alpha event. when we think back to what

p us to appreciate the unique nature of each of the energy centres. these centres are central to the process of transforming the electromagnetic field of the gnostic from the dialectic to the static. the kundalini or serpent power based in the lowest centre is energised in such a way that the serpent seed (the taint of the archons) is replaced by the serpent of wisdom (the gnostic theurgy page 77 messiah. it is interesting to find that this transition is reflected in the old testament tale of moses holding up the cross interwined with the serpent to heal the people of israel. the serpent mentioned is numerically equilvant to three hundred and fifty eight, which is also the number of the messiah or christos- the self awakened saviour, the true self of every awakened being. the four attribut

tive with spiritual light, and negative with spiritual darkness. there is always positive and negative, passive and active. while there is a balance logos and sophia, for example, there is the duality between good and evil, ascension and degradation, x and y factors. the importance of the sun/son can be found in most esoteric traditions, whether it be baal in the early el tradition of canaan, the messiah of the israelite mysteries, ganesha in hinduism or the mithra of the zoroastrians. it is the intermediary between the treasury of light and mankind. anti sophic forces sophia anti-logic forces logos fig 33 treasury of light world of the archons gnostic theurgy page 119 mithra is a fascinating case as there is a certain mythos which explains the nature of the solar sphere extremely well. wh

opportunity; a gateway for redemption from the archons could become possible. prior to the advent of jesus no escape from the world of the archons was available! even the astral/etheric worlds were under the influence of the fallen system. jesus therefore came to demonstrate that the death system of the dialectic could be overcome and this is exactly what he did! throughout the old testament the messiah is foretold in both type and in prophecy. the whole body of law, sacrifice and ceremony foreshadowed the death and resurrection of jesus; the furniture, fabrics, structure..all aspects of the tabernacle, hinted at what was to come and the sacrifice of the lamb was to foretell this future role. in the cosmology of the bogomils, as the fall was caused by an immortal, satanel, so the power of

e besant and charles leadbeater (members of the inner gnostic theurgy page 216 school of theosophy) became convinced that the change they were sensing was physical rather than spiritual and they trained a young man named krishnamurti to be the embodiment of the new current. this misinterpretation brought undue stress and finally calamity on the society when krishnamurti rejected the role of world messiah. it is interesting however, to see how occultists and christians can both misinterpret the equinox of the gods and look for physical rather than spiritual manifestations. gurdjieff gurdjieff, like blavaskty and crowley, is another character than is either loved or loathed. he was born in 1872 in alexandropol on the russian-persian border and was initiated as a child into the yezidi cult. t

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ing over the kingdom and empire which is the visible universe. and twdwsy \lwu the world of foundations, the world of the elements, is the name of the sphere of operation of twklm which is called the sphere of the elements from which all things are formed, and its archangels are three: wrffm, the prince of countenance reflected from rtk, and wpldns, the prince of prayer (feminine, and nephesch ha messiah, the soul of the reconciler for earth. and the order of angels is \ca or flames of fire, as it is written, gwho maketh his angels, spirits and his ministers as a flaming fire, h and these are also called the order of blessed souls, or of the souls of the just made perfect. 7 notes by g.h. frater n.o.e.l: although the following is not classically part of the hodos document, its relevance to

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the two breaths, as through the two great pillars. these throw all things into vibration; compare the \ylglgh tycar. the piercing of the dragon s coils suggests the freeing of twklm, which is also referred to as the washing of the garments of the queen, the inferior mother. then comes the breaking forth of the light. over twklm as guardians are wrffm and wpldns as the two pillars, and nephesch ha-messiah, the animal soul of messiah, the shekinah or presence between the kerubim. the particular exordium the bornless ones of time referred to are those corruscations of the divine light which are above rtk of twlyxa. in such supernal realms, the [ws ya, though negative to us, is there intensely positive. thence came forth the gods, the voice, the aeons, and the name. the egyptian gods are gener

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that the essence of the cult might survive, carried forward by a nucleus of determined men and women. i suspect, too, with the proper motivation and indoctrination techniques, plus a means of recruiting new members from among the half-savage local inhabitants, that such a cult might perpetuate itself almost indefinitely. this could happen, however, only if its members (like the jews awaiting the messiah) were prepared to bide their time, for thousands and thousands of years, until they felt confident that the moment had come to declare themselves. if they did that, and if their sacred objective were indeed to preserve and transmit knowledge to some evolved future civilization, it is easy to imagine how the cult members might be described in terms similar to those used for the egyptian wis

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rase value of the complete term vast active living intelligence system= 515= i am life and the giver of life of every star, a most suggestive phrase considering that valis is supposed to be a kind of god-computer capable of transmitting meaningful transformative messages to earth. the acronym valis= 41= her (repeated many times, but also= whole. in the valis story, a magical child is created as a messiah. the child is female. phil dick died at age 54 during the filming of blade runner based (very loosely) on his antima- chine novel do androids dream of electric sheep? in his last year he became a follower of british contactee benjamin creme and maintained that his earlier works of fiction allegory, really contained a sort of cipher. the last of his novels published in his lifetime, the div

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p the light of truth burning in men's hearts. the sublime concept of the soe (savior) and especially of the arsoe (sun-savior) is one of the most revered in occult tradition. it is nothing less than a deity deliberately embodying in flesh as a result of compassion. it is the son of god self-made into the son of man. in enochian magick the word soe (pronounced soh-eh) is the magical formula of the messiah or savior. soe is derived from the parent phrase, sah-oma-el (sah-hehohrnah-el) which means" the highest understanding is within" this phrase has a gematric value of 158, the number for noqol which means "servants" the soe is not only the son of man, but he/she is also the servant of man. the magick square for soe is at the left: this square adds up to a total gematric value of 158. aiq bk

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o, in saem. 38a and hervarars. p. 487; so an etruscan nymph speaks the name of the highest god in the ear of a bull. 1 it has already been suggested (p. 815) that presentiments of a mightier god to come may have floated before 1 0. mailer s etr. 2, 83, with which must be conn, the medieval legend of silvester (conrad s poem, pref. p. xx. suktk. 825 the heathen imagination, like the promise of the messiah to the jews.1 the world s destruction and its renewal succeed each other in rotation; and the interpenetration of the notions of time and space, world and creation, with which i started, has been proved. further, as the time-phenomena of the day and the year were conceived of as persons, so were the space-phenomena of the world and its end (halja, hades, surtr. 1 martin hammerich om eagnar

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he was as pure in spirit as he is now, would assuredly guide right at last the man who in so many instances had followed in his path. on tuesday the] inst, i read the question and answer, page 8, appendix a, and requested thec.a.'s view of it. c.a.-iwishithad not been written; but as it is done, i do not wishitto be altered. i am not sure that communication was receivedrightly,jesus christ is the messiah, or rather will be at the second coming. heisthe regenerator of mankind, because through him all have life everlasting.hisinfluence was there; his knowledge and part of his spirit was there; together they formed a spiritual body representing him. all persons who believe in the divinity of christ, believe that he is an all-pervading influence, and that his spirit enters into the heart of th

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trary interpretation? 1. universal symbology is a warrant for its correctness and that it is not arbitrary. hermas says of "god" that he "planted the vineyard" i.e, page 87 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt he created mankind. in the cabala, it is shown that the aged of the aged, or the "long face" plants a vineyard, the latter typifying mankind; and a vine, meaning life. the spirit of "king messiah" is, therefore, shown as washing his garments in the wine from above, from the creation of the world [zohar xl, 10] and king messiah is the ego purified by washing his garments (i.e, his personalities in rebirth, in the wine from above, or buddhi. adam, or a-dam, is "blood" the life of the flesh is in the blood (nephesh-soul. and adam-kadmon is the only-begotten. noah also plants a vineyar

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e, the reason or logos, and the soul or spirit of the universe. the three archical or original principles" says gibbon "were represented in the platonic system as three gods, united with each other by a mysterious and ineffable genera- tion" blending this transcendental idea with the more hypostatic figure of the logos of philo- whose doctrine was that of the oldest kabala, and who viewed hk king messiah, as the metatron, or 'the angel of the lord' the legaiia descended in flesh, but not the ancuni of days himself* the christians clothed jesus, the son of mary, with this mythical representation of the mediator for the fallen race of adam. under this unexpected garb his personality was all but lost. in the mod- em jesus of the christian church we find the ideal of the imaginative 51. declin

er jesus as a pupil, still the latter is found disagreeing with his early teachers on several questions of formal observance. he cannot strictly be called an essene, for reasons which we will indicate farther on, neither was be a nazar, or nazaria of the older sect. what jesus wat, may be found in the codsx naxaraeui, 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

edoring himsdf equal to the other prophets* the author of sod shows matthew tiying to conoect the appellation of nazarene with a prophecy* and inquires "why then does matthew state that the prophet said he should be called nasariaf" simply "because he belonged to that sect, and a prophecy would confirm his claims to the mesaiahship. now it does aot appear that the prophets anywhere state that the messiah will be called a nazcavne* he fact aloue that matthew tries in the last verse of chapter ii to strengthen his claim that jesus dwelt in nazareth merely to fulfil a prophecy, doea more than weaken the argument, it upsets it entirely; for the first two chapters have sufficiently been proved to be later forgeries. b^tism is one of the oldest rites and was practised by all the nations in their

them, and the sect was not considered a 'heresy' moreover we are enabled to judge how bttle st. john's promise of the "holy ghost" and the appearance of the "ghost" him- self, had affected his disciples, by the displeasure shown by them toward the disciples of jesus, and the kind of rivalry manifested from the first. nay, bo little is john himself sure of the identity of jesus with the ex- pected messiah, that after the famous scene of the baptism at the jordan, and the oral assurance by the holy ghost himself that" this is my booted san" matthew, ni, 17, we find 'theprecur3or,'injfatia0ui,xi, 3, sending two of his disciples from his prison to inquire of jesus "art thou he that should come, or do we look /or anotherv'v. this flagrant contradiction alone ought to have long ago satisfied rea

after tbe last destractioa by the bood. at the end of the precedent cj'cle the exact catcnlation, embracing kvei l millious of yean, u a secret cycle the world, during the preaent age of the kid- yvgot maka-bkadto-kalpa has been ruled successively by four buddha, tbe last of whom was gautama, tbe 'holy one' the fifth, uaiirtj/a-biiddlia, is yet to come. tus latter is the expected kabalistic king messiah, the mcasenger of ijght, and sosiosh, tbe fcr- uan savior, who will come on a vait< horse. it is also the 'lord' of tbe christian smond advent. see apocalifpt of st. john. digitizecoy google gnosticism highly revehential towabd the deity 167 describing the ba^dean system, irenaeua, quoting the gnostics, declares as follows "when the uncreated, unnavitd father saw the comipuon of man- kind

s" tbe ocigid of the litfufieatioo itdubioim, and tbe (tatueifrfthu deity are generally black, the word is daived from the ooior. we refer tbe tcader to jacouiot's answer in his recent work. carudta t it ckritt, pp. 357<8, etc, for the conclusive evidence dut the name is not derived bom tbe ookr. digitizecoy google harcion. the noble heresiabch! itsdf tan^uy in spirit. the greek logos, the helwew messiah, the latin verbum, and the hindct vir (the son) aie identically the same; they express an idea of collective uititiea of flames detached from the one eternal center of light "the man who accomplishes pious but interested acts [with" the sole object of his salvation] may reach the ranks of the deeag [saints" but he who accomplishes, disinterestedly, the same pious acts, finds himself foreve

o sabo, lord ot g\ory i" aaya the codex ntaaraeut (ii, p. 19, in a passage known to be merely an address to a prophet" ye have condemned and killed the jurt" says james (v, 6 "lohanan (john) is the jtut one, he comes in the way ot justice" says matthew (m, 32, syriac text. james does oot even call jesus meaiah, in the aenae given to the title by the christians, but alludes to the kabalistic 'king messiah' who is lord of sabaoth (v, 4, and repeats several times that the 'lord' will come, but identifies the latter nowhere with jesus "be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the lord. be patient, for the coming of the lord drawdh nigh (v, 7, 8. and he adds "take, my brethren, the prophet [jesus] who has spoken in the nottu of the lord, for an example of suffering, a 9iction, and of

d art thou among vnomen" these words are unequivocal. he does not adore her as the mother of god, nor does he call her goddess; he does not even address her as 'virgin' but he calls her woman, and only distinguishes her above other women as having had better fortune, through her purity, tlie nazarenes were known as baptists, sabaeans, and "john's chris- tians [mendaeans. their belief was that the messiah was not the son of grod, but simply a prophet who would follow john "johanan, the son of the abo sabo zachariah, shall say to himself 'whoever will 479. i. m. lott: tlu iiradue itvutd, iii, p. 61. digitizecoy google 3h isis unveiled believe in my juttice and my bapnau, shall be joined to my associatior; he shall share with me the seat which is the abode of life, of the supreme mano, and of

ts air, water, fire, earth, and ether. tlius may be shown how from the hindfi cosmogony all others proceed. knorr von rosenrotb, busying himself with the interpretation of the eabala, argues that "in this first state (of secret wisdom, the infinite god himself can be understood as 'father (of the new covenant. but the light, being let down by the infinite through a canal into the 'primal adam' or messiah, and joined with him, can be applied to the name son. and the influx emitted down from him [the son] to the lower parts [of the universe, can be referred to the character of the holy ghost" sophia-achamotb, the half-spiritual, half-material life, which vivifies the inert matter in the depths of chaos, is the holy ghost of the gnostics, and the sjnruus (female) of the naaarenes. she is be i

ame satiu-n whose star the israelites had niade to themselves? there seems no escape in this case; all these duties are identical. llie same in the cose of the numerous logoi. while the zoroastriao sosiosh is framed on the tenth br&hmanical avatar, and the fifth buddha of the followers of gautama; and while we find the former, after having passed part and parcel into the kabalistic system of king messiah, re- flected in the apostle gabriel of the nazarenes, and aebel-zivo, the legatus, sent on earth by the lord of celsitude and light; all of tb^e 586. see j. tfatter's hutoire eriliqtu de gnotheinu upon tbe aubjecl 587. cf. danid, iv. t. 688. dia photmer. i, p. 396, jf. digitizecoy google the pebsian sosiosh in the afocalyfse 33? hindfi and persian, buddhist and jewish, the christos of the

ented with several crowns superposed on his head "and i saw an angel standing in the sun (17. the whiie horse is the horse of the sun* sosiosh, the persian savior, is also bom of a virgin, and at the end of days he will come as a redeemer to regenerate the world, but he will be preceded by two prophets, who will come to announce him* hence the jews who had moses and eliaa, are now waiting for the messiah "then comes the 589. ahriman, the pioductkui of zorouto, ia m called in hatred of the arias or aryao, the brlhmaiibs againit whose dominion the zoroutriana liad revolted. althoii >n er^rm fm iinltta m a it\ lilmuiir^^namt^r ma in tka 'ui^ of ^1^ devfts whool he dtft- o designate this type of the 590. nork: bibi. myoui, ij, p. 146. 691. rct. dr. maurice abo take* it to mean the cjiclea; fft

f views respecting the logos, met- atron, and mediator, as found in tike kabala and the codex of the christian nazaraies and gnostics, the reader is prepared to appreciate the audacity of the patristic scheme to reduce a purely metaphysical figure into concrete form, and make it appear as if the finger of prophecy had from ume immemorial been pointing down the vista of ages to jesus as the coming messiah. a thtomythos intended to ^mbolize the coming day, near the close of the great cycle, when the 'glad tidings* from heaven should proclaim the universal brotherhood and common faith of humanity, the day of regeneration was violently distorted into an accomplished fact "why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that i* god" says jesus. is this the language of a god? of the second

lose of the great cycle, when the 'glad tidings* from heaven should proclaim the universal brotherhood and common faith of humanity, the day of regeneration was violently distorted into an accomplished fact "why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that i* god" says jesus. is this the language of a god? of the second person in the trinity, who is identical with the first? and if this messiah, or holy ghost of the gnostic and pagan trinities, had come in his person, what did he mean by distinguishing between himself- the 'son of man' and the holy ghost "and whosoever shall speak a word against the son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but unto him that blasphemeth against the holy ghost, it shall not be forgiven" he says" and how account for the marvelous identity of this very

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ould have made a case to fully concur until relatively recently (i.e, until kaplan [1990; see below, page 13. kalisch translated what appears to be the long version* the work is free of any sort of occult agenda a feature which plagues many of the versions discussed hereafter. a translation of sy was published in 1883 (2nd edition, 1886) in alfred edersheim s ambitious life and times of jesus the messiah (london and bombay: longmans/green and company, 2 volumes; reprinted in recent years as a single volume by several publishers: wm. b. eerdmans publishing co, 1943 through 1981; macdonald publishing and world bible publishing company in 1994; hendrickson publishers in 1993 and 1997. the translation appears in appendix v, 4. after a perfunctory description of kabbalah, which concludes, the b

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tate university of new york press, 1989. ghitbodedut as concentration in ecstatic kabbalah, h in jewish spirituality i: from the bible through the middle ages, edited by arthur green (new york: crossroad publishing company, 1985. messianic mystics. new haven: yale university press, 1998: chapter two: gabraham abulafia: ecstatic kabbalah and spiritual messianisms h and appendix one: gego, ergo sum messiah: on abulafia fs sefer ha-yashar. h. the mystical experience in abraham abulafia. albany: state university of new york press, 1988. studies in ecstatic kabbalah. albany: state university of new york press, 1988. jacobs, louis. jewish mystical testimonies. new york: schocken books, 1976: chapter six: gthe prophetic mysticism of abraham abulafia. h. kaplan, aryeh. meditation and kabbalah. yor

in mediterranean historical review, volume 9, number 1 (london: frank cass [tel aviv university, 1994. gmaimonides f guide of the perplexed and the kabbalah, h in jewish history, volume 18, nos. 2-3: commemorating the eight hundredth anniversary of maimonides death (dordrecht: kluwer academic publishers, 2004. messianic mystics. new haven: yale university press, 1998: chapter three. gconcepts of messiah in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: theosophical forms of kabbalah. h. gon european cultural renaissances and jewish mysticism, h in kabbalah: journal for the study of jewish mystical texts, volume 13, edited by daniel abrams and avraham elqayam (los angeles: cherub press, 2005. kiener, ronald. gthe status of astrology in the early kabbalah: from the sefer yesirah to the zohar, h i

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that we might have chosen a species whose power might ultimately eclipse our own and cause our eventual extinction. we were mindful of the risk in our experiment, and oft did the warning of michael echo within my thought. yet our decision was sealed, and we deemed that the greatness of man should not be transcended by such ruin as he might bring. our intent was not unknown to masleh, now by title messiah, and through his art he caused the infant mind of man to be fettered with bonds of fear and blindness, that he might be inspired to duplicate on earth the law of heaven, shunning experiment and the radical dangers of invention and exploration. to man was given guilt, and the call to social conformity, and the proclaimed sanctity of the norm and the mode. and michael, lord of force, said to

failure, and the stasis of god shall prevail upon earth. many there were among us who felt anger at this ruthless mutilation of our gift, and beelzebub brought to question whether we also should 446 not descend among man and contest this usurpation of his will. but i said, were we to lead man in this venture, we ourselves would declare his failure, and he would believe our gift to be weak indeed. messiah must see that free will is beyond the concern of god, and that man will finally win his own destiny apart from all dictated schemes. only through summary destruction of earth might man be halted, and for messiah to attempt this would lay bare the very futility of the final design of god. heaven may dismay man with peril and affliction, but we shall send him word of our own interest, that h

ater for that reign of peace which it had shattered. finally did masleh convoke the faithful archangels, and they were michael, gabriel, raphael, and uriel. and to them he said, we have vanquished lucifer, and heaven is again purified. we ourselves are fewer in number to tragic degree, but the majesty of god is undiminished for that. behold, i who have triumphed over the great enemy am now become messiah, the chosen of god. and he was answered by them, verily art thou the very son of god, for in thee hath the will of god become person. then michael said, messiah, lucifer is vanquished, but he is not unmade. for though he ventured into the outer darkness, he yet exists apart from god. and with the power of his black flame he hath created a hell, wherein all wills are equal, and himself he h

son of god, for in thee hath the will of god become person. then michael said, messiah, lucifer is vanquished, but he is not unmade. for though he ventured into the outer darkness, he yet exists apart from god. and with the power of his black flame he hath created a hell, wherein all wills are equal, and himself he hath proclaimed satan, for he declares never to leave the law of god unchallenged. messiah thought, and he answered, i would not have this peace we have won so dearly lost again to war, for the very concept of seraphic war is an abhorrence to god. let my word be brought to satan i, messiah, shall grant the existence of hell, and the blessings of god shall never pass its gates. and thee, satan, i admonish never again to approach heaven, for i should again cast thee out. but if th

not have this peace we have won so dearly lost again to war, for the very concept of seraphic war is an abhorrence to god. let my word be brought to satan i, messiah, shall grant the existence of hell, and the blessings of god shall never pass its gates. and thee, satan, i admonish never again to approach heaven, for i should again cast thee out. but if thou would dare to try the will of god and messiah, know that on earth i will ordain the new race of god, which shall be by complete design perfect and unstained by thy infernal flaw. for thou art author of ruin and death to our angelic order, and neither heaven nor hell shall now be eternal save through man. whereupon gabriel, who was herald of heaven, carried this message to me, and i brought it across the great void to satan, who said

en us, for he perceives that neither hell nor heaven may pursue ultimate victory ere all be lost to chaos. but he finds impasse intolerable nevertheless, and now he would order this new race, man, to preserve without blemish the scheme of god. thus he would have man achieve what the angels could not, and purge all free thought 453 from the universe forever. and satan turned to me and said, say to messiah that earth shall be no sanctuary for him to keep inviolate his unwholesome obliteration of the self. for i shall give to man a mind, and of his own will shall he recognize and reject the living death which god offers him. in truth shall he master the universe, but he shall do so in his own name and not that of god. then did messiah call the archangel raphael, and he sent him to earth with

then was the flame vanishing of its own accord. and at first it seemed that earth was unchanged, but in the eyes of man did raphael see the first gleam of thought. and raphael turned to michael, who had now answered his call, and said, satan hath come to earth, and man is no longer pure in the sight of heaven, for his will hath become his own. thereupon they rose again to heaven, where they told messiah of what they had seen. then messiah answered, man is fallen, but he is not lost, for his infant will is not that of an angel, and the powers that satan hath promised him lie dormant in the dim reaches of his future. consider this not our defeat, for the contest is but begun. the earth of man shall be remade as microcosmos, and many things shall man see, both good and ill. and the choice sh

ade as microcosmos, and many things shall man see, both good and ill. and the choice shall be placed before him, to wield the power and the pain and the terror of the gift of satan, or to return again to the paradise of heavenly peace. for what would satan himself think were man to reject his gift? it would tremble the very foundations of hell even as did the great war the bastions of heaven. and messiah called to him uriel, archangel of terror, to whom he said, the earth must change, and every sense of man must teach him repugnance and fear. he shall know this the price of his new identity- that all apart from god is evil- and in fear shall he abandon the gift of satan and become once more the lamb of god. to which uriel answered, it shall be done, but how will man learn of such things as

and every sense of man must teach him repugnance and fear. he shall know this the price of his new identity- that all apart from god is evil- and in fear shall he abandon the gift of satan and become once more the lamb of god. to which uriel answered, it shall be done, but how will man learn of such things as heaven and hell, for as yet he knows no sight that may perceive our celestial paradise? messiah answered, the laws of god shall be made known to man, for i shall teach him. among men will be some to whom i shall reveal myself, and great powers will i give these prophets, that their words may carry across the entire earth. so uriel came to earth, and the history of man was writ with blood, suffering, war, and hatred. but to chosen men came messiah, saying, through god shall all the mi

nd be ended, and all men who bow to god shall know the blessings of heaven. for behold, i shall myself descend among men and show them the ways of the lord god. 455 these words i overheard, for i had been charged by satan to watch the designs of heaven. and i carried them to satan, who returned in great anger, go to gabriel at the barrier between hell and heaven, and bid him bring this message to messiah that as he endeavors to pervert my gift into the curse of man, so i warn him that man shall destroy him on earth as he shall finally in heaven itself. for messiah knows not this force which he dares to test, and the laws of god shall be as playthings in the hands of the creature he now debases. and thus was decided the meeting of satan and messiah upon earth, which was to determine the fut

rth for the future of man. for satan looked with mounting wrath upon the afflictions of uriel, and he said to me, no longer can this remain the plight of man alone. indeed we shall cause heaven to suffer as earth itself suffers. repair now to earth, and let the dogs of uriel see the might of hell unleashed. for many have called upon me in their agony and fear, and i have not answered them, but if messiah dare to walk upon earth, so also shall the vengeance of satan. and those who called upon satan for aid were answered by me, and i struck down the messengers of god and brought their temples to ruin. for entire nations forwent the strength of their will to the lure of otherworldly paradise, and i blasted them from among the mighty of earth. and great empires arose among men, and as they nur

y nurtured their power of will and desire for achievement, i guarded them, but as they sank into the morass of superstition, slothfulness, and fear of the god who had never raised ghostly hand for them, so i abandoned them to their disease, and of some not even a memory survived on earth. and even as i witnessed these things i said, see, man, that the god in 456 whom thou trust is but a wraith of messiah, and he would have thee forsake thy mind and its creations to rot and decay, and thou would lose all power of reason. for god is a lie and a sham, and i crumble his greatest monuments as though they were but sand. there is no god but messiah, and for thy devotion he will return thee oblivion. but i was scarce heeded, for the minds of men were clouded and confused. they understood not the m

and a sham, and i crumble his greatest monuments as though they were but sand. there is no god but messiah, and for thy devotion he will return thee oblivion. but i was scarce heeded, for the minds of men were clouded and confused. they understood not the meaning of my words, but said, the lord god shall triumph, for it was thus taught to us by the son of god himself. and of this i now speak. for messiah the man walked on earth, even as i watched the glory of rome blossom in might and majesty. but azazel said, loose not thy force against the person of messiah, for satan himself would speak with him. and again from the sky flashed the black flame, and i saw that satan had come to earth. and so was called the first meeting of satan and messiah since the great war. with coldness did messiah g

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before our time. today, we have available to us the clear, complete sulam commentary on the book of zohar written by baal hasulam, just as it should be in the last generation. however, we should understand that spiritual actions do not occur the way physical actions do: that is, cause and effect do not directly follow. in our time, the spiritual state of the worlds is ready for the coming of the messiah (the force that pulls creation out of egoism and leads it to altruism. yet, this merely gives us an opportunity for attainment, whereas actual attainment depends on us and our spiritual levels. we can unite with the creator by equalizing our properties, desires, and goals with his, by completely destroying egoism and selflessly doing good things. however, a question arises: where will a co

s been structured as ten sefirot, where keter designates the creator s influence and the other sefirot are divided into three groups (see below and in drawing 3 on next page: head: hochma, bina, daat; middle: hesed, gevura, tifferet; end: netzah, hod, yesod. the 6,000 years are also divided into three parts: 2,000 years darkness; 2,000 years the preparation period; and 2,000 years the days of the messiah (redeemer. f r o m t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n t o t h e z o h a r 83 drawing 3 the first 2,000 years refer to the head, meaning this period receives the small light (nefesh) because the sefirot are inversely related to the creator s light that fills them. the first group (higher sefirot) appears first: hochma, bina, daat, albeit these are filled with a small light. this first 2,000-year

declined, we became unworthy (i.e, different in qualities) and lost our ability to sense the spiritual worlds. hence, the temple was destroyed and the exile period began. kabbalists continued studying secretly and made kabbalah inaccessible to the unworthy. it is written in the zohar that the creator s desire was to conceal his wisdom from the world, but when the world approaches the days of the messiah, even children will reveal his secrets. they will be able to foresee and study the future, and at that time he will reveal himself to all. rashbi was the last kabbalist of the pre-exile period; hence, he received permission from above to write the book of zohar. kabbalah was forbidden for almost fifteen centuries, until the kabbalist ari (rabbi yitzhak luria) appeared and spiritually attai

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ethod, and would feel that of all teachings, the cure for all ailments could be found specifically within the wisdom of kabbalah. but now that these conditions have been met, kabbalists, who carefully hid the method in the past, are opening it to all. this israel s role 161 completes the historic cycle, and all of humanity as one body can now achieve equilibrium with nature. in a manifesto called messiah s horn, baal ha- sulam says that redeeming the world from its plights depends solely on disseminating the correction method: we are in a generation that is standing at the very threshold of redemption, if we will only know how to spread the wisdom of the hidden in the masses. he emphasizes that the wisdom of kabbalah must be brought to everyone in the world, and compares it to the voice of

t the end of the spiritual exile: because israel is destined to taste from the tree of life, which is this book of zohar, in which they will come out of the exile with mercy (the book of zohar, parashat naso, item 90. the zohar also writes that toward the end of a 6,000 year period allotted to the correction of the ego, the book will be revealed to all of humanity: when it is near the days of the messiah, even infants in the world are destined to find the secrets of the wisdom, and to know in them the ends and the calculations of redemption. and at that time it will be revealed to all (the book of zohar, parashat vayira, item 460. thus, immediately after it was written, the book of zohar was concealed. the next time the book appeared israel s role 165 was in 13th century spain. then, in th

s on our awareness, which will evolve either through suffering or through scrutiny. evolution through scrutiny can be done 168 from chaos to harmony using the wisdom of kabbalah, which describes our situation, explains where we should reach, and provides the means to get there. thus, it is possible that humanity will experience 233 years of unbearable torment as is described about the days of the messiah in the kabbalah books. or this can be done in a much shorter time in boundless elation. at this crossroads, israel s role is critical. t h e ro l e o f i s r a e l the descendants of abraham s group of kabbalists are the people of israel. before we begin to discuss the role of israel, it is important to know that there is absolutely no question of nationalism here, as baal hasulam puts in

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its egoism. these small portions of malchut, devoid of the creator s light, are then put in the condition and situation that we call "our world" after this, little by little, these portions abandon the desire to receive for themselves, and acquire the desire to bestow while still in "our world" the force that aids the soul to depart from egoistic inclinations is known as the "salvaging" one, the messiah. the levels of gradual spiritual correction are called the "spiritual worlds" while the inner gradations are known as sefirot. the aim of correction is the return to the original state, before the restriction, at which pleasure is received not for one s own sake, but for the sake of the creator. such a condition is known as "the end of correction" gradual spiritual correction- 177- all the

ecay of the seed, its absolute disappearance, is necessary. similarly, until we reach the state of complete denial of the "self" we cannot receive the new spiritual nature. the creator has generated the human "self" from "nothing" and because of this, we must return from the state of the "self" into the state of "nothing" in order to unite with the creator. this is why it is said that the savior (messiah) was born the day of the destruction of the temple. therefore, every time we reach the state of complete despair, we realize that all is "dust and vanity of vanities" precisely from this state arises a new step in our spiritual ascent, because at this point we can forsake everything. the maggid of mezrich, a great kabbalist of the previous century, proclaimed "there are ten rules of spirit

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in accordance with the upper world. but my teacher would say that he doesn t care where and how his bag of bones will be buried. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 32 there will come a time when the whole of humanity will open its eyes and will see both at the level that it does today, and a greater space, one that kabbalists call the spiritual world. that state is called the coming of the messiah. then, everyone will change their egoistic natures (their bodies) into the nature of the spiritual sphere, a giving nature. kabbalah calls that process the revival of the dead. how can we reach the creator? we accumulate experience over our cycles in this world and evolve to the level that we are able to begin to develop consciously toward spirituality. in so doing, we learn to oppose unco

e ari and the commentary to the zohar not revealed until today? in order to make it easier to understand, let me explain the words of baal hasulam in simpler words. first, why was the zohar hidden? the answer is that the world has gone through three phases of development during its 6000 years of existence. the first 2000 are called, tohu; the middle 2000, torah; and the last 2000- the days of the messiah. during the first 2000 years the souls, that descended were sublime souls with small lights. they were not even given the torah because for these souls, simply existing was enough to correct them. in the next 2000 years, coarser souls descended that needed a greater light for their correction, the light of the torah. toward the end of the 6000 years, in the remaining third, the coarsest so

ess one has gone through all three states in the lower degree, one cannot attain them. but after the cycle of conception, infancy and adulthood, a person can already understand all the situations, even to the end of correction. however, the end of correction itself is unattainable because it has no parallel in lower degrees. the end of correction is the last degree. it is called the coming of the messiah, which comes after the light that corrects the evil forces, the shells. s p i r i t ua l wo r k 161 t h e wa y t o c h a n g e q: can i change myself without studying kabbalah? a: no. changing means attaining the attributes of the upper light. that is why only through the upper light, which shines from above, can the correction be performed. this is why it is the only way to change yoursel

post and immediately accept our friends position. rather, we must review and analyze all the circumstances. and most important, we have to stay focused and aware that we are performing spiritual work, and not descend to the level of keeping score with friends. 346 c h a p t e r 10. t h e m e s s i a h a n d t h e e n d o f da y s t h e l i g h t o f t h e m e s s i a h q: do you believe that the messiah will come? a: the messiah is a light that draws one to the center, to the creator, and to the source that he must return to. any person has his own private messiah, meaning a personal light of correction. but there is also a collective light of correction, which will bring the whole of mankind to another level of existence, a sublime one. nothing external will change in our world when this

ople will feel that they are in a collective, genuine reality. they will no longer feel such things as life and death and time. the corporeal body will become meaningless, and we will have no feeling of connection with it. people will relate themselves to the soul. it is, in fact, what happens to kabbalists. for one who feels the upper reality, this lower, inferior world, becomes meaningless. the messiah is a light from the creator that will raise the whole of mankind to spirituality. it is not a person, although there will be people who will guide humanity to spirituality and teach it the spiritual system, but they will only be representatives of the messiah. q: what is the coming of the messiah and when will it happen? a: the messiah is a light from above that affects us when we study ka

whole of mankind to spirituality. it is not a person, although there will be people who will guide humanity to spirituality and teach it the spiritual system, but they will only be representatives of the messiah. q: what is the coming of the messiah and when will it happen? a: the messiah is a light from above that affects us when we study kabbalah and corrects us. that collective force is called messiah. it is not a single person, but a spiritual force that pulls us from this world to the spiritual world. it allows one to begin to feel this world and the upper one simultaneously t h e m e s s i a h a n d t h e e n d o f d a y s 347 q: is the messiah a person or a force? a: people are at a degree where they cannot perceive the messiah as light, but only as a flesh-and-blood leader. but whe

e person, but a spiritual force that pulls us from this world to the spiritual world. it allows one to begin to feel this world and the upper one simultaneously t h e m e s s i a h a n d t h e e n d o f d a y s 347 q: is the messiah a person or a force? a: people are at a degree where they cannot perceive the messiah as light, but only as a flesh-and-blood leader. but when kabbalists speak of the messiah, they refer to a superior force of spiritual correction, a light that gives one a chance to improve one s attributes. the messiah will be the pulling, liberating force from the government of the desires to enjoy for ourselves. when that light penetrates us, meaning the receiving nature, it will correct us and turn us from receivers to givers v like the creator. however, all the spiritual f

ll the spiritual forces are revealed in corporeal raiment. for example: rabbi shimon bar-yochai, the ari and rav yehuda ashlag -all three represent one exalted soul that radiates a great light of correction. however, it appears in our world as a person, a kabbalist, a teacher and a writer of books. such a thing happens not only with regard to a super-kabbalist, but also with regard to a redeeming messiah. he must be a person, a leader, who under the guidance of the creator and through the force of the creator, will be able to direct the entire world to the purpose of creation. humanity will have no other way out of the evil and the torment that each person will feel, other than recognizing him as the leader, and following the path that he will show us. k a b b a l a h a n d t h e m e s s i

eator and through the force of the creator, will be able to direct the entire world to the purpose of creation. humanity will have no other way out of the evil and the torment that each person will feel, other than recognizing him as the leader, and following the path that he will show us. k a b b a l a h a n d t h e m e s s i a h q: how is the circulation of kabbalah related to the coming of the messiah? a: indeed, the success in the circulation of kabbalah is evident all over the world. in the torah it says that in the end of days, all the peoples will want spirituality: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them (jeremiah 31, 33. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 348 the growing interest in spirituality at this time, in addition to its growing c

balah is evident all over the world. in the torah it says that in the end of days, all the peoples will want spirituality: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them (jeremiah 31, 33. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 348 the growing interest in spirituality at this time, in addition to its growing commercialism, testifies to the coming of the days of the messiah. soon there will come a day when a spiritual force will come down to the world and open the eyes of mankind and enable it to see the complete reality. q: what should we expect now with the coming of the messiah, and how should we understand it from the point of view of the kabbalah? a: a person acts only according to one s feelings, to what stems from one s inner needs. it cannot be any ot

ree, the degree above his present degree. that is why he can aspire to the final goal of creation to begin t h e m e s s i a h a n d t h e e n d o f d a y s 349 with. in every situation, he pictures the final goal by what he can now see as the best situation from his current state. everyone knows that different peoples and religions picture the future world in a different way. much like that, the messiah is seen as the force that will deliver us from our present state and help us transcend to the best possible situation. we can all picture that state according to our own level of attainment. for each person, the next world and the messiah are different things, and they vary from one degree to the next. but they become fully understood only at the final degree of the spiritual ladder. the m

etime and profit millions of times more than everybody else. this is not only an improvement in quantity, but also in quality. your toothaches, for example, will not last millions of moments, but only one moment. that is why it is not a good idea to slight kabbalah studies. t h e m e s s i a h i n t h e z o h a r a n d i n t h e t a l m u d q: it is said in the zohar that before the coming of the messiah, everyone will learn kabbalah. on the other hand, the talmud says that the face of the generation will be as the face of the dog, meaning that everyone will be out for himself. how is it possible to reconcile those two arguments? in order for the messiah to come, must everyone study kabbalah? a: baal hasulam writes in his introduction to the tree of life that at the end of time, everyone w

e r i e n c e 350 no buyers. people will abandon it because they will realize that it cannot give them anything: it cannot fill them with pleasure, cannot grant them respect in the eyes of others, or control over them. therefore, there will be no limitations before a person who will want to come and study the wisdom of kabbalah. the efforts of those who will study it will induce the coming of the messiah. here is a quote from the words of baal hasulam: kand behind these words and that truth, we seem to find a profound contradiction from end to end, in the words of our sages, that the zohar says that at the time of the messiah that wisdom is destined to be revealed even to the young. and by the above we find that at the time of the messiah, that whole generation will be at the highest degre

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ual force must hang down and build its final corporeal manifestation in our world. for instance, there is a negative force in the world of atzilut named pharaoh and a positive one named moses. these forces must materialize at least once in our world. in principle, everything that happened or that is happening in the spiritual world has already happened in ours, everything except the coming of the messiah and our ascent and exit from this world to the spiritual world. this is all that still awaits us. but the times to come before the ascent are also the hardest, darkest, and most painful. when we work on ourselves with kabbalah, we enter a state called the exile in egypt. during this process, we feel that we are becoming less virtuous, that we were better before we began our studies. this i

e coarseness was corrected in the souls. then came the second and the third coarseness degrees (at the end of the sixth millennium (our time) the time had come to correct the souls with the fourth degree of coarseness. this is a very general description. but today, we are nearing the conclusion of the sixth millennium, and the time of the spiritual redemption begins, the time of the coming of the messiah. c h a p t e r 1. 9 w h at e x i s t s b e t w e e n t h i s wo r l d a n d t h e n e x t? it is quite possible that there are other worlds that exist in the same space as ours that we simply don t make contact with because these worlds are in a different dimension. but if we remain confined to the boundaries of our own nature, we will never be able to discover them. these other worlds are

ns. however, those who appear to have a personal desire are brought to study kabbalah. if those people do not use what they are given, the upper forces begin to demand it of them. consequently, one must take the spiritual work one is given from above very seriously. there is something in us called the stony heart. this refers to our egoism. it can only be corrected when a collective light, called messiah, comes to our world. only that light can correct it, but we must first crave the correction of that part of the egoism in our world. when there is such a desire, the phenomenon called the coming of the messiah will occur instantly, and will deliver us forever from the torments of this world. c h a p t e r 1 .11 f r e e d o m o f c h o i c e t o o p e r at e a b ov e n at u r e there is no

a gaon, the siddur. i have seen it written that the prohibition from above to refrain from open study in the wisdom of truth was only for a limited period, until the end of 1490, but from then on the prohibition has been lifted and permission was granted to study the zohar. since 1540 it has been a great mitzva (commandment) for the masses to study in public, old and young and that is because the messiah will come because of that and not because of any other reason. therefore, we must not be negligent (rabbi azulai, introduction to ohr hochma. woe unto them who make the spirit of messiah vanish from the world, so as never to return, make the torah dry, without the moistness of mind and knowledge, for they confine themselves to the practical part of the torah, and do not wish to try to unde

ction is in being separated and excluded every time there is a sorting of the 320 broken parts. in each sorting there are thirty-two parts of that nature. when using the 288 remaining parts and building partzufim, a decision must be made to refrain from using the stony heart that belongs to that part. once the correction of the 288 parts is completed, a light of wisdom will come from above, named messiah, to correct these vessels by giving them a screen. then the entire malchut de ein sof will be corrected with a screen. that state of malchut is defined as the end of correction. all the vessels in the worlds of bya, except the stony heart, are corrected from the finest to the coarsest. in each of the worlds of bya there are 2,000 phases of correction, named years or degrees. all together

ealment of the wisdom of kabbalah from above so that not everyone could practice it, was done for only a limited period of time, until the year 5330 (1570 by the gregorian calendar. but since that year, t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 310 the concealment has been lifted and it is permitted for everyone to study the zohar. it also says that only if the masses study the wisdom of kabbalah will the messiah come, and not as a result of anything else, as others think the zohar itself mentions more than once that only the lessened value that we ascribe to the study is the cause of all our anguish and that of the last generation. it also says that this is the reason for our spiritual exile. however, the truth is that the only reason we suffer is that we are not correcting ourselves through the w

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him from whom we receive them; let us invoke his blessing. h 918. in response, all the brn. raised their arms towards the blazing star, and solemnly repeated: 919. gwe pledge our lives to amen-ra, to him from whom they came. h then, lowering their arms, they broke out into a wonderful finale, an anthem in which the sacred name was repeated many times, much as it is in the amen chorus in handel fs messiah, though the music was more reminiscent of bach fs fugues: gpraise to amen, thanks to amen; amen, amen, amen-ra. h the happiness and enthusiasm of the brn. were indescribable. 920. when the last glad chord had died away, the r.w.m. raised his arms again and said with deep feeling: 921. gblessing and peace and love and life be yours from amen for ever. h 922. and all stretched forth their ha

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ra imagined that only christian souls could go to heaven. this, however, creates the problem of what happened to such righteous and deserving individuals as the old testament patriarchs (e.g, abraham, moses, etc) who died before the christian gospel was preached? placing them in a limbo realm, from which christ later rescued them and conducted them to heaven, solved this problem. the story of the messiah s harrowing of hell and rescue of infernal prisoners is actually older than christianity. in the pre-christian testament of the twelve patriarchs, for example, the future messiah rescued captives from a hell ruled by beliar (baal. later compositions, such as the gospel of bartholomew, the gospel of nicodemus, and the teachings of silvanus, merely placed jesus in a role that had already bee

ejoined with their bodies, will be assigned eternal life either in paradise (literally the garden) or in hell (the fire, depending on their merits. although the figure of the madhi is more central to shiite islam, it is a popular belief among many sunni muslims that a righteous leader (a madhi or rightly guided one) will reign for a brief period in the last days.he will be followed by an imposter messiah (parallel to the christian notion of an antichrist) who will attempt to lead the world astray. finally, however, the prophet jesus will appear to usher in the final judgment. on judgment day the earth will quake and mountains become a heap of sand: when the stars shall be extinguished, when heaven shall be split, when the mountains shall be scattered (arberry 1969, 318. as in the judgment

est: if any wish to abstain from these festivities, let them leave now, although the mark of the beast is permanent upon their souls and was inscribed there even before they took it at the gate of the temple. all: for we are the descendants of cain. as indicated by the title of the ritual, the core of this black mass is a symbolic recrucifixion of jesus, who is portrayed in the liturgy as a false messiah. see also satanic ritual abuse for further reading: guiley, rosemary ellen. the encyclopedia ofwitches and witchcraft. new york: facts on file, 1989. the recrucifixion: a chaosatanic black mass. available at http//www.churchofsatan.org/recruc.html. smith,michelle, and lawrence pazder.michelle remembers. new york: congdon and lattes, 1980. reissued new york: pocket books, 1981. valiente, do

in clear, say police. rochdale daily mail. september 14, 1990. rosemary s baby after the exorcist, rosemary s baby (1968) was the most successful movie with a satanic theme of all time. the overall plot is that, with the connivance of her ambitious husband and a group of neighboring satanists, rosemary, played by mia farrow, is impregnated by the devil for the purpose of giving birth to a satanic messiah. rosemary, however, does not become aware of her role as the infernal equivalent of the virgin mary until the very end of the story. the film s dramatic tension derives from her gradual discovery of the satanists diabolical machinations. rosemary s baby came out shortly after the birth of the church of satan. anton lavey, founder of the church of satan, claimed that he was not only a techn

al enlightenment (in south asian systems, or as the redemption of humankind and the final victory of good over evil (in christianity and in zoroastrianism. while in general the core of a religious belief system is built around individual salvation, a scheme of corporate or group salvation is also included in western religions. corporate salvation is often achieved by the coming of the savior (the messiah or the mahdi. within these traditions community participation and belonging in the religious institution become an important component in the salvation scheme. in some religious traditions, such as in the judeo-christian tradition, salvation carries with it the idea of redemption (redemere, to buy back; that is, the acknowledgment of the divine sacrifice necessary for human salvation, whic

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vangelists (4) and churches of asia (7. xxxvii. hindu legendary demons. 0. 1 jupiter god the 3 in 1 2 janus[[mercury] god the father, god who guides parliament 3 juno, cybele, hecate &c. the virgin mary 4 jupiter[[libitina] god the rain-make (vide prayer-book, god the farmer s friend 5 mars christ coming to judge the world 6 apollo[[bacchus, aurora] god the son (and maker of fine weather) 7 venus messiah, lord of hosts (vide prayer-book, r. kipling &c) 8 mercury god the holy ghost (as comforter and inspirer of scripture, god the healer of plagues 9 diana (as[[terminus, jupiter] god the holy 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

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trends in jewish mysticism) and others have pointed out, the three tracts translated by mathers are actually fairly minor in the scheme of the zohar (a reasonably complete english translation of which occupies five quarto volumes. t.s] 6 liber lviii god says .my name is in him. with regard to gematria of phrases (gen. xlix, 10, hlyc aby, yeba shiloh= 358, which is the numeration of the word jycm, messiah.4 thus also the passage, gen. xviii. 2 hclc hnhw, vehenna shalisha .and lo, three men. equals in numerical value laprw layrbg lakym wla, elo mikhael gabriel ve-raphael .these are michael, gabriel and raphael. for each phrase= 701. i think these instances will suffice to make clear the nature of gematria, especially as many other will be found in the course of the ensuing work. notariqon is

led yeshuah thrashroah .i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her blessed. the sixth is, wlksy owcy ypwgc rttsa \ypxr tgwob, beaugoth ratzephim assattar shegopi yeshuah thakelo .i will hide mayself in cake (baked with) coals, for ye shall eat jesus, my body. 4 [the quote from genesis, in jacob.s blessing to judah, is generally taken as the earliest reference to the messiah. other meanings of 358 are discussed later in this article. t.s] on the qabalah 7 the qabalistical importance of these sentences as bearing upon the doctrines of christianity can hardly be overrated. the second form of notariqon is the exact reverse of the first. by this the initial or finals or both, or the medials, of a sentence, are taken to form a word or words. thus the qabalah is cal

of all it strikes us that i, a, and o are the three letters associated with the three letters h in the great name of six letters, hwhyha, which combines hyha and hwhy, macroprosopus and microprosopus. now these feminine letters h conceal the .three mothers. of the alphabet a, m, and c. replace these, and we get awmyca, which adds up to 358, the number alike of cjn, the serpent of genesis, and the messiah. we thus look for redeeming power in iao, and for the masculine aspect of that power. now we will see how that power works. we have a curious dictionary, which was made by a very learned man, in which the numbers from 1 to 10,000 fill the left hand column, in order, and opposite them are written all the sacred or important words which add up to each number.30 we take this book, and look at

of a solid universe. daath, being above the plane, is therefore a figure of a force in four dimensions, and thus it is the object of the magnum opus. the three paths which connect it with the first trinity are the three lost letters or fathers of the hebrew alphabet. in daath is said to be the head of the great serpent nechesh or leviathan, called evil to conceal its holiness (cjn= 358= hycm, the messiah or redeemer, and tywl= 496= twklm, the bride) it is identical with the on the qabalah 23 kundalini of the hindu philosophy* the kwan-se-on of the mongolian peoples, and means the magical force in man, which is the sexual force applied to the brain, heart, and other organs, and redeemeth him. the gradual disclosure of these magical secrets to the poet may be traced in these volumes,32 which

summo. 333= 37 9 the accursed. 340 \c.the name. 341. the sum of the .3 mothers. aleph, mem, and shin. 345. hcm, moses. note that by transposition we have 543, hyha rca hyha .existence is existence .i am that i am. a sublime title of kether. moses is therefore regarded as the representative of this particular manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358. see 32. jycm, messiah, and cjn, the serpent of genesis. the dogma is that the head of the serpent (n) is .bruised. being replaced by the letter of sacrifice, and yod, the letter alike of virginity (y= f) and of original deity (y= the foundation or type of all the letters. thus the word may be read .the sacrifice of the virgin-born divine one triumphant (j, the chariot) through the spirit. while cjn reads .death

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

parents of george carried their religious ideas to the point of never consummating their marriage* this arrangement does not seem to have been greatly appreciated by the wife; at least one fine morning she was found to be enceinte. the foolish father never thought of the hypothesis which commends itself most readily to a man of the world, not to say a man of science, and adopted that of a second messiah! he took the utmost pains to conceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into egypt! like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beautiful and edifying events of the bible into insane and ridiculous ones, which he proceeded to plagiarise. on the voyage out the virgi

..a.c. revert to the most elementary ideas of cannibal savages, challenge all the most vital premisses and axiomata that have passed current coin with philosophy for centuries, and present my theory. i clearly foresee the one difficulty, and will discuss it in advance. if my conclusions on this point are not accepted, we may at once get back to our previous irritable agnosticism, and look for our messiah elsewhere. but if we can see together on this one point, i think things will go fairly smoothly afterwards. consider1 darkness! can we philosophically or actually regard as different the darkness produced by interference of light and that existing in the mere absence of light? is unity really identical with .9 recurring? do we not mean different things when we speak respectively of 2 sine

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

ion of god. but unlike both christianity and islam, judaism does not affirm that satan is the inventor of evil. jews and christians alike recognize the old testament, in particular, its first five books, called the torah in hebrew. thus, there exists in judaismalso the potential for a literal interpretation of the genesis creation myth. on the other hand, jews do not recognize jesus christ as the messiah, and the christian view of the new testament is not shared by them. nonetheless, jews, muslims, and christians alike are people of the book; that is, all believe in revealed religions. it is probably safe to say that god (gott in german, yeob in greek, deus in latin, dieu in french, dio in italian( in russian, and so on, yhwh, and allah are very similar if not identical concepts. one compl

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ater, was for the period of three years (from baptism to crucifixion) using the fleshly garment of the mortal man (jesus. in order to illustrate this point and still conceal it from the ignorant, many strange, and often repulsive, creatures were used whose rough exteriors concealed magnificent organisms. kenealy, in his notes on the book of enoch, observes "why the caterpillar was a symbol of the messiah is evident; because, under a lowly, creeping, and wholly terrestrial aspect, he conceals the beautiful butterfly-form, with its radiant wings, emulating in its varied colors the rainbow, the serpent, the salmon, the scarab, the peacock, and the dying dolphin. insects in 1609 henry khunrath's amphitheatrum sapienti tern was published. eliphas levi declared that within its pages are conceale

to the aurea legenda adam was buried with the three seeds of the tree of knowledge in his mouth, it should be borne in mind that apparently conflicting myths were often woven around a single individual. one of the profound mysteries of qabbalism is that set forth in the notarikon based upon the letters of the name adam (adm. these three letters form the initials of the names adam, david, and the messiah, and these three personalities were said to contain one soul. as this soul represents the world soul of humanity, adam signifies the involving soul, the messiah the evolving soul, and david that condition of the soul termed epigenesis. in common with certain philosophic institutions of asia, the jewish mysteries contained a strange doctrine concerning the shadows of the gods. gazing down i

for the living god. like the gnostics, the essenes were emanationists. one of their chief objects was the reinterpretation of the mosaic law according to certain secret spiritual keys preserved by them from the time of the founding of their order. it would thus follow that the essenes were qabbalists and, like several other contemporary sects flourishing in syria, were awaiting the advent of the messiah promised in the early biblical writings. joseph and mary, the parents of jesus, are believed to have been members of the essene order. joseph was many years the senior of mary. according to the protevangelium, he was a widower with grown sons, and in the gospel of pseudo-matthew he refers to mary as a little child less in age than his own grandchildren. in her infancy mary was dedicated to

of beauty it may be said that it is most adorned when unadorned. through the mist of fantastic accounts which obscure the true foundation of the christian faith is faintly visible to the discerning few a great and noble doctrine communicated to the world by a great and noble soul. joseph and mary, two devout and holy-minded souls, consecrated to the service of god and dreaming of the coming of a messiah to serve israel, obeyed the injunctions of the high priest of the essenes to prepare a body for the coming of a great soul. thus of an immaculate conception jesus was born. by immaculate is meant clean, rather than supernatural. jesus was reared and educated by the essenes and later initiated into the most profound of their mysteries. like all great initiates, he must travel in an easterly

's antiquities of mexico. lord kingsborough writes "may we not refer to the seventy-third page of the borgian ms, which represents quexalcoatl both crucified, and as it were cut in pieces for the cauldron, and with equal reason demand, whether anyone can help thinking that the jews of the new world (lord kingsborough sought to prove that the mexicans were descendants of the jews] applied to their messiah not only all the prophecies contained in the old testament relating to christ, but likewise many of the incidents recorded of him in the gospels" click to enlarge the crucifixion in space. from higgins' anacalypsis. of this remarkable oriental drawing, j. p. lundy has written--it looks like a christian crucifix in many respects, and in some others it does not. the drawing, attitude, and th

his very caaba itself was at first an idolatrous temple, where the arabians worshipped al-uzza (god and issa, that is venus (see kenealy's enoch, the second messenger of god "the mussulmans" writes sir william jones "are already a sort of heterodox christians: they are christians, if locke reasons justly, because they firmly believe the immaculate conception, divine character, and miracles of the messiah; but they are heterodox, in denying vehemently his character of son, and his equality, as god, with the father, of whose unity and attributes they entertain and express the most awful ideas; while they consider our doctrine as perfect blasphemy, and insist that our copies of the scriptures have been corrupted both by jews and christians" the following lines are declared by the followers of

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

re not permitted to lie unused by so profound a pol-itician as julius caesar (p. 28)caesar was a master astrologer. he claimed decent from the goddess maia. this is somewhat the same as the egyptian pharaohs who claimed to act for maat.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation247 appendix b: book abstracts hesus and the druidsboth in spain and gaul, caesar must have heard of hesus, the messiah, whose effigy stood at everycrossroad, whose crosses were worn upon the breast of every warrior, and whose second coming, whichhad long been predicted by the druid astrologers, coincided very closely with the period of his owninvasion of those countries. this is curiously similar to the coming of cortez and pisarro to the incas.winter solstice 48 b.c. julius caesar is deified at the temple

MORALS AND DOGMA

shines in the great distance, the light of that day when evil, overcome and vanquished, shall fade away and disappear forever, and life and light be the one law of the universe, and its eternal harmony. the degree of rose teaches three things--the unity, immutability and goodness of god; the immortality of the soul; the ultimate defeat and extinction of evil and wrong and sorrow, by a redeemer or messiah, yet to come, if he has not already appeared. it replaces the three pillars of the old temple, with three that have already been explained to you--faith [in god, mankind, and man's self, hope [in the victory over evil, the advancement of humanity, and a hereafter, and charity [relieving the wants and tolerant of the errors and faults of others. to be trustful to be hopeful, to be indulgent

as drops in the vast current that is sweeping onward, guided by him, to a great and magnificent result: that, at the appointed time, he will redeem and regenerate the world, and the principle, the power and the existence of evil will then cease; that this will be brought about by such means and instruments as he chooses to employ; whether by the merits of a redeemer that has already appeared or a messiah that is yet waited for, by an incarnation of himself or by an inspired prophet, it does not belong to us as masons to decide. let each judge and believe for himself. in the mean time, we labor to hasten the coming of that day. the morals of antiquity, of the law of moses and of christianity, are ours. we recognize every teacher of morality, every reformer, as a brother in this great work

to the earth. jehovah "divided the sea by his strength, and broke the heads of the dragons in the waters" and according to the jewish and persian belief, the dragon would, in the latter days, the winter of time, enjoy a short period of licensed impunity, which would be a season of the greatest suffering to the people of the earth; but he would finally be bound or destroyed in the great battle of messiah; or, as it seems intimated by the rabbinical figure of being eaten by the faithful, be, like ahriman or vasouki, ultimately absorbed by and united with the principle of good. near the image of rhea, in the temple of bel at babylon, were two large serpents of silver, says diodorus, each weighing thirty talents; and in the same temple was an image of juno, holding in her right hand the head

ct reason of the great, silent, supreme, uncreated deity, believed in and adored by all. we do not undervalue the importance of any truth. we utter no word that can be deemed irreverent by any one of any faith. we do not tell the moslem that it is only important for him to believe that there is but one god, and wholly unessential whether mahomet was his prophet. we do not tell the hebrew that the messiah whom he expects was born in bethlehem nearly two thousand years ago; and that he is a heretic because he will not so believe. and as little do we tell the sincere christian that jesus of nazareth was but a man like us, or his history but the unreal revival of an older legend. to do either is beyond our jurisdiction. masonry, of no one age, belongs to all time; of no one religion, it finds

ive in darkness, the principle of light, or genius of the sun, charged to redeem the intellectual world, of which he is the type, came to manifest himself among men. light appeared in the darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not; according to the words of st. john. the light could not unite with the darkness. it but put on the _appearance_ of a human body, and took the name of christ in the messiah, only to accommodate itself to the language of the jews. the light did its work, turning the jews from the adoration of the evil principle, and the pagans from the worship of demons. but the chief of the empire of darkness caused him to be crucified by the jews. still he suffered in appearance only, and his death gave to all souls the symbol of their enfranchisement. the person of jesus ha

wn antiquity, being asked which of the deities was named iao, answered in these remarkable words "the initiated are bound to conceal the mysterious secrets. learn, then, that iao is the great god supreme, that ruleth over all" the jews consider the true name of god to be irrecoverably lost by disuse, and regard its pronunciation as one of the mysteries that will be revealed at the coming of their messiah. and they attribute its loss to the illegality of applying the masoretic points to so sacred a name, by which a knowledge of the proper vowels is forgotten. it is even said, in the gemara of abodah zara, that god permitted a celebrated hebrew scholar to be burned by a roman emperor, because he had been heard to pronounce the sacred name with points. the jews feared that the heathen would g

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

e was of course closely watched by jewish intelligence, and several traps were set to catch him in america. he resented this. aspirants must understand that orthodox qabalistic jewish orders resented crowley even more. the jews, considering themselves the chosen people, having succeeded, despite all persecutions, in imposing their tribal codes on western society, could not look with favour upon a messiah who not only committed the unpardonable crime of being gentile, but also tried to pass himself for irish, pooh poohed the ten commandments, and described the bible as by "several anonymous authors" however, what neither crowley nor the jews realized was that this verse of al has nothing to do with pogroms, enforced sterilization, or such other modern versions of doing-in- the -amalekites

e reason must be a good reason. sometimes a loving father will refuse candy to a pleading child. and the mother bird pecks her adult offspring if they try to come back into the nest. for fifteen hundred years, the jews-the chosen people, no less prayed god for deliverance. for fifteen hundred years they prayed god to let them go back to palestine. for fifteen hundred years they prayed god for the messiah. for fifteen hundred years the jews were persecuted. for fifteen hundred years they were kept out of palestine. for fifteen hundred years every nation had a messiah of some sort but they. then came the messiah of all, with a law for all. the chosen people at once sensed his import, and indignantly denied his message. six million of them died without mercy. then they stopped asking god for

all. the chosen people at once sensed his import, and indignantly denied his message. six million of them died without mercy. then they stopped asking god for mercy and took matters in their own hands. they are back in palestine. as "promised lands" go, it is no treat. but using their heads and their hands, they are raising flowers in the desert. still, old-line rabbins will hardly recognise the messiah. that is quite all right, gentlemen; we don't need you; but you need us. and the true seers, the true poets, the true thinkers among you are waking up. thelemites are of all cultures and of all races. your young men and young women are beginning to sing new songs. if you don't believe me, read the end of "gideon, that beautiful play by paddy chayefski. we come at last to the motive why the

rse totally ignorant of magical phenomena, and could hardly explain even such terms as "augoeides; and they are seriously to blame for not stating more openly that this true will is not to be daunted or suppressed; but within their limits they have done excellent work. some technical aspects of this verse must be mentioned. first, the ordeal x consists in the perception that 666 is the christ, or messiah, of this aeon. this perception must be intuitional; it cannot be a matter of dogma or of faith. whosoever does not have it is not qualified to officiate at thelemic rites. as to public rites, the extant religions will remain untouched by us. strange as it may seem, there shall be no 'holy wars' or persecutions. any cult is allowable, provided it does not try to frighten people into convers

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

e thought, speech& action of thought machshevet sechel intellectual thought (malchut of tvunah) speaking& saying dibur& amirah the closed mem& the open mem the name elokim the firmament on the heads of the chayot the garment called "the chashmal" shvirat hakelim the shattering of the vessels the cloak of leather the cloak of light the sleep of zeir anpin the eight kings of tohu moshiach ben yosef messiah the son of josef the source of nogah summery of the shattering& rectification malchut of atzilut the tenth achor b achor back to back panim b achor face to back& achor b panim back to face panim b panim face to face a point under yesod malchut keter malchut the desire for kingship the sefirot of malchut thought, speech& action of speech the divisions& combinations of the letters of speech

ll the allegory not conceal the concept from him, but, on the contrary, it will shed light on it. the very same allegory which was a "cloak of leather" that caused concealment becomes a "cloak of light" that reveals. the sleep of zeir anpin this revelation, in which the separate "garment" itself shines, takes place only after the rectification (tikun, which comes about through mashiach ben yosef (messiah the son of josef, as will be discussed. the torah is called mashal hakadmonie (the primal allegory. now, it is stated that "g-d looked into the torah and created the world. this means that the world and all therein, is an allegory of an allegory. the torah is an allegory on g-d and the world is an allegory on the torah. the world was created according to our capacity to comprehend g-dlines

e above that "death" only affects seven of the kings. these are the seven lower kings of tohu which are the emotions of binah. in the eighth king of tohu, which is binah of binah, there is no actual death. this is because, as explained above, pure, undiluted analysis, does not lead to a "shattering. on the contrary, it is the source of rectification. this will now be explained. mashiach ben yosef messiah the son of josef the torah calls yosef "the interpreter of dreams" because it is he who interprets the dream, putting everything into its correct order, thus making sense of confusion and bringing out the true and correct meaning "yosef the interpreter of dreams, represents the eighth king of tohu which is binah of binah. in other words, when one thoroughly analyzes something which is in a

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

originally intended to send to the world in its first years had to be held back until a proper spiritual setting could be created for them. this setting was the jewish people. the sages state that gthe world spans six thousand years [before the messianic millennium [the first] two thousand years of tohu[ gchaos, h gdisorder h, two thousand years of torah, and two thousand years of the days of the messiah. h3 the year 2000 am4 (1761 bce) coincides with abraham fs 52nd year, so roughly speaking, abraham marked the transition from the period of tohu to the period of torah, or tikun (since the rectification of reality can occur only through the torah. although the torah was not actually given until 448 years after this, the sages state that the forefathers kept the entire torah before it was g

was able to endure through the covenant of abraham. this is the [mystical] meaning of the idea that g-d gcreated them h gthrough abraham. h understand this. at this point [abraham] was informed that he would have isaac, and that the seed of israel would all exist in him, as it is written, gfor through isaac it will be called for you seed. h since this was the case, g-d also wanted the soul of the messiah to appear and be manifest [the soul of the messiah] was also stored away before the world was created, as it is said, gand the spirit of g-d was hovering over the water. h18 [our sages said that] this refers to the spirit of the messiah.19 it existed even before this. since the purpose of the jewish people.to make the world into g-d fs ultimate home.will be accomplished fully only through

iah to appear and be manifest [the soul of the messiah] was also stored away before the world was created, as it is said, gand the spirit of g-d was hovering over the water. h18 [our sages said that] this refers to the spirit of the messiah.19 it existed even before this. since the purpose of the jewish people.to make the world into g-d fs ultimate home.will be accomplished fully only through the messiah, the descent of the souls of the jewish people at this point in history had to be accompanied by the descent of the soul of the messiah. otherwise, the jewish people would lack the sense of direction and purpose necessary for them to accomplish what they were meant to accomplish. the fact that the gspirit of the messiah h was ghovering over the waters h at the outset of creation indicates

le at this point in history had to be accompanied by the descent of the soul of the messiah. otherwise, the jewish people would lack the sense of direction and purpose necessary for them to accomplish what they were meant to accomplish. the fact that the gspirit of the messiah h was ghovering over the waters h at the outset of creation indicates that the world was created for the end to which the messiah will bring it.that the messiah is a necessary ingredient in creation, without which it cannot exist. 13 genesis 1:31. 14 rashi ad loc, etc. 15 shemot rabbah 15:26. 16 genesis 25:1-6. 17 rashi on genesis 28:15. 18 genesis 1:2. 19 bereishit rabbah 8:1. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 94 the name of the messiah is listed as one of the seven things that preceded the creation of the world.20

in sodom, as it is written, gi have found david, my servant, h21 and our sages said that this means that g-d found [the seed of david fs soul] in sodom, in the person of lot, abraham fs nephew. lot fathered (through incest with his daughter) moab,22 who became the progenitor of the nation of moab. ruth, the ancestress of king david, was a moabite.23 king david, of course, was the ancestor of the messiah. thus, the soul of the messiah was latent in lot, who had chosen to live in sodom.24 it was therefore necessary that all three [angels] come at the same time: one [came] to find [the souls of] israel in abraham. one [came] to overthrow sodom, so that lot could [be extricated from there by the third and] leave there and hide in the cave where g-d had wine waiting for him so david, the [prog

the soul of the messiah was latent in lot, who had chosen to live in sodom.24 it was therefore necessary that all three [angels] come at the same time: one [came] to find [the souls of] israel in abraham. one [came] to overthrow sodom, so that lot could [be extricated from there by the third and] leave there and hide in the cave where g-d had wine waiting for him so david, the [progenitor of the] messiah of the g-d of jacob,25 could be [eventually] be born. therefore the three came at the same time. understand this. until this point in his life, lot only had daughters, all of whom were already mature by this time. therefore, it is unlikely that he would have had sons had he remained in sodom and not have had incestuous relations with his daughters. therefore, the incest had to be arranged

herefore the three came at the same time. understand this. until this point in his life, lot only had daughters, all of whom were already mature by this time. therefore, it is unlikely that he would have had sons had he remained in sodom and not have had incestuous relations with his daughters. therefore, the incest had to be arranged so he could father the nation that would carry the soul of the messiah latent within him. furthermore, the society of sodom was so degenerate that it presumably could not have ghosted h the soul of the messiah; therefore, g-d had to extricate it from there. lot fs daughters, thinking that g-d had destroyed humanity again, gave their father wine to drink in order that he repopulate the world through them. the sages say that g-d arranged for there to be wine in

siah; therefore, g-d had to extricate it from there. lot fs daughters, thinking that g-d had destroyed humanity again, gave their father wine to drink in order that he repopulate the world through them. the sages say that g-d arranged for there to be wine in the cave where they fled in order for lot to father the two nations of ammon and moab.26 furthermore, just as isaac issued from abraham [the messiah, the future] isaac issued from lot [as follows] the name isaac [yitzchak] can be seen as the combination of the words for gthe end of the live one, h referring to the messiah. this is the [mystical] meaning of the verse, ghe asked of you life c, h27 and of the phrase gdavid, king of israel, lives and endures. h28 yitzchak: yud-tzadik-chet-kuf. gthe end of the live one h (keitz chai: kuf-tz

ures. h28 yitzchak: yud-tzadik-chet-kuf. gthe end of the live one h (keitz chai: kuf-tzadik chet-yud. gthe live one h refers to the sefirah of yesod, inasmuch as the male reproductive organ has gdead h (flaccid) and glive h (erect) states. the end of the glive one h refers to the crown (glans) of the organ. as this is the point where the drive of self-actualization is realized, it refers also the messiah, the one who actualizes the divine purpose of creation. the verse and phrase quoted both indicate the connection between glife h and the messiah. 20 tana d fvei eliahu rabbah 31; cf. bereishit rabbah 1:4. 21 psalms 89:21. 22 genesis 19:30-37. 23 ruth 1:1-4, 4:13-17. 24 genesis 13:11-12. 25 par. 2 samuel 23:1. 26 rashi on genesis 19:33. 27 psalms 21:5. 28 liturgy for the sanctification of t

ns; you are very despised. h3 thus, shelah refers to the jewish people in exile. the shechinah is destined to mate when shelah attains his mature form, shiloh. shelah and shiloh are spelled exactly the same, except that shiloh possesses an additional yud. shelah: shin-lamed-hei; shiloh: shin-yud-lamed-hei. shelah remains in exile guntil shiloh will come, h filled [with the yud. this refers to the messiah, who [will possess the soul of] moses. on his deathbed, jacob prophesied that gthe scepter [of rulership] shall not depart from judah, nor a lawgiver from amongst his descendents, until shiloh is come, unto whom the nations shall gather. h4 shiloh, in this verse, is an appellation of the messiah. thus, shelah here is the jewish people, whose consummate leader and representative is the mess

depart from judah, nor a lawgiver from amongst his descendents, until shiloh is come, unto whom the nations shall gather. h4 shiloh, in this verse, is an appellation of the messiah. thus, shelah here is the jewish people, whose consummate leader and representative is the messiah. the sages state that moses is the first and last redeemer. this means that his soul will in some way be present in the messiah. the reason why [g-d] decreed that [the shechinah] should be like a widow is gbecause he feared lest he die as did his brothers. h therefore, she would have to remain a widow, without a husband, until the messiah comes, i.e, until shelah grows up. if the shechinah would gwed h the jewish people.and thus not be in exile.and they would be found unworthy of this union, they would have to die

s stood. therefore, g-d prefered that the shechinah remain in exile. when living in the temple fs presence, the standards of behavior are higher, i.e, sinning is more sinful, more of an affront to the open manifestation of divinity. in exile, the jews could be rectified gradually and safely. g cbecause he feared lest he die as did his brothers. h this is because in every generation a spark of the messiah comes into the world, in accordance with g-d fs will. if the generation is worthy [he is revealed as the messiah. if not, he dies or is killed as a martyr, as happened to rabbi akiva in the time of ben koziva, and in many other cases we do not even know about. rabbi akiva was killed as a martyr in the hadrianic persecutions that came as a reaction to the revolt of bar kochba, whom the sage

until he matures. he will then come to redeem israel by g-d fs will. h the remainder of this excerpt describes how in the case of the prophet habakkuk, we see also that g-d said that the time must be ripe for the redemption to occur. 3 obadiah 1:2. 4 genesis 49:10. the arizal on parashat vayeisheiv 195 we also see this in the case of habakkuk, who, according to some opinions, was the spark of the messiah in his generation. he said, gi will stand on my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what i shall answer when i am reproved. and g-d answered me, and said, ewrite the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, so that he who reads it may run. for the vision is still for an appointed time, and it speaks concerning the end, and does not lie; though

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hich is the visible universe. and cholem $sodoth the breaker of foundations (or ohm yesodoui-the world of the elements) is the name of the sphere of 0 eration of malkuth which is called the sphere of the elements from which a t things are formed, and its archangels are three:-mefatron, the prince of countenance reflected from kether, and sandal hon, the prince of prayer (feminine, and nephesch ha messiah, the soul of tie reconciler for earth. and the order of angels is ashim or flames of fire, as it is written 'who maketh his angels spirits and his ministers as a flarnin fire,'and these are also called the order of blessed souls, or of the souls o f the just made perfect (note the three archan els attributed to malkuth with reference to regar% to our father, our lady, and our lord) consist

arden of venus into the <298> newer life, the glory of the boundless light. the secret of that gate abides in the womb of the great mother, the intrinsic regenerating nature of the empress of the tarot- isis-urania. again, there are other considerations. at the end of the order document on the symbolism of the neophyte grade there is the statement that "nephesch ha-mesiach, the animal soul of the messiah" is "the shekinah or presence between the kerubim" note that the shekinah represents, as i previously attempted to point out, airna elohim, the supernal sephiroth as a synthetic unity, the divine white brilliance. since this is spoken of as between the kerubim, the middle pillar of the tree, which is thus by definition the path of the redeemer or messiah, the path of the sushumna traversed

the kerubim" note that the shekinah represents, as i previously attempted to point out, airna elohim, the supernal sephiroth as a synthetic unity, the divine white brilliance. since this is spoken of as between the kerubim, the middle pillar of the tree, which is thus by definition the path of the redeemer or messiah, the path of the sushumna traversed by the kundalini serpent is referred to. now messiah in hebrew is spelt i19wb and its gematria is 358. there is another word in hebrew having precisely the same enumeration, and that word is will, nachash, meaning a serpent. as we demonstrated above, the ascending spiral is represented by the serpent of wisdom, which is the path of the 22 letters of the alphabet- and to this serpent are the ages of the thee chiefs referred. thus between the

as through the two great pillars. these throw all things into vibration; compare the rashith ha-gilgalim <151> piercing of the dragon's coils suggests the freeing of malkuth, which is also referred to as the washing of the garments of the queen, the inferior mother. then comes the breaking forth of the light. over makuth as guardians are metatron and sandalphon as the two pillars, and nephesch ha-messiah, the animal soul of messiah, the shekinah or presence between the kerubim. the particular exordium the bornless ones of time referred to are those corruscations of the divine light which are above kether of atziluth. in such supernal realms, the ain soph, though negative to us, is there intensely positive. thence came forth the gods, the voice, the aeons, and the name. the egyptian gods ar

uth. and the connecting thread of the ain soph is extended through the worlds of the ten sephiroth and is in every direction. as the ten sephiroth operate in each sephiroth, so will there be a kether in every malkuth, and malkuth in every kether. thus: adonai melekh will be the malkuth of atziluth, metatron will be the kether of briah. sandalphon metraton will be the malkuth of briah. nephesch ha-messiah chaioth ha qadesh will be the kether of yetzirah. aschim will be the malkuth of yetzirah <247> rasi-iith ha gilgalim, the kether of assiah. cholem yesodoth, the malkuth of assiah. thaumiel, the kether of the qwpoth. the symbol of the connection between malkuth of yetzirah and kether of assiah will be of a form somewhat resembling that of an hour glass. the thread of the ain soph before all

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by reason of the prevailing general disillusion, egoistic positivism and public cynicism of the coarsest interests. the success of certain books and the mystical tendencies of minds are unequivocal symptoms of this widespread disposition. we restore and we build churches only to realize more keenly that we are void of belief, only to long the more for it; once again does the whole world await its messiah, and he will not delay his advent. let a man, for example, come forward, who by rank or by fortune is placed in an exalted position a pope, a king, even a jewish millionaire and let this man sacrifice publicly and solemnly all his material interests for the weal of humanity; let him make himself the saviour of the poor, the promulgator and even the victim of doctrines of renunciation and c

that is, having his feet turned towards heaven. he is also the antique prometheus, expiating by everlasting torture the penalty of his glori60 the doctrine of transcendental magic ous theft. vulgarly, he is the traitor judas, and his punishment is a menace to betrayers of the great arcanum. finally, for kabalistic jews, the hanged man, who corresponds to their twelfth dogma, that of the promised messiah, is a protestation against the saviour acknowledged by christians, and they seem to say unto him still: how canst thou save others, since thou couldst not save thyself? in the sepher-toldos-jeshu, an anti-christian rabbinical compilation, there occurs a singular parable. jeshu, says the rabbinical author of the legend, was travelling with simon-barjona and judas iscariot. late and weary th

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n of a universal synthesis. hellenism, in fact, that grand and beauteous religion of form, announced the coming of the saviour no less than the prophets of judaism. the fable of psyche is an ultra-christian abstraction, and the cultus of the pantheons, by rehabilitating socrates, prepared altars for that unity of god, of which israel had been the mysterious preserver. but the synagogue denied its messiah, and the hebrew letters were effaced, at least for the blinded eyes of the jews. the roman persecutors dishonoured hellenism, and it could not be restored by the false moderation of the philosopher julian, surnamed perhaps unjustly the apostate, since his christianity was never sincere. the ignorance of the middle ages followed, opposing saints and virgins to gods, goddesses and nymphs; th

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h are irrelevant in such a context. in a second level or mode, the middle way is available for exchange of energies between beings in different worlds. spiritual enlightenment flows along this way, as do many of the concerted group rituals that involve beings of more than one realm or world operating together. the third and most significant level of the middle way is the approach of the savior or messiah. it is along this way that a divine one is born into the outer world, hence the conceptual structure of the virgin birth. this process, however, is merely a human reflection by divine power, of the descent into hell which is also a death/birth on the part of the son of light the descent into hell is synonymous and simultaneous with the conception, birth, sacrifice, death and resurrection

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that smart? no] and yet, the temple incident is a foreshadowing of his ambition and future plans: and when they (joseph and mary) saw him, they were astonished. and his mother said to him "son, why hast thou done so to us? behold, in sorrow thy father and i have been seeking thee" and he said to them "how is it that you sought me? did you not know that i must be about my father's business"(2) the messiah, god's chosen one, had been expected for years, and it was certainly a topic the young jesus would have heard of. it may be that mary (and possibly joseph) planted the seeds of thought and ambition in him with tales of the sky at the time of his birth. and even the tale of the magi come from afar might have been true [even we make mistakes at times.(3] nonetheless, by age twelve the ground

olved. before making the last trek to the great city, jesus began making allusions to his coming death, and while it might have been that the talk of death and leaving was yet another p.r. tactic, this time aimed at his inner circle, it is equally possible that in taking himself too seriously, jesus at that time began experiencing a sort of fade to black syndrome (jesus could be hurt, but not the messiah) from there things went from bad to worse, culminating in the arrest and trial before pilate. pilate, feeling angry with the people for placing him in the situation in which he found himself, was no happier when hearing the ambiguous answers jesus gave. his last answer to pilate "thou wouldst have no power over me were it not given thee from above" is a display of the awareness of impotenc

that we might have chosen a species whose power might ultimately eclipse our own and cause our eventual extinction. we were mindful of the risk in our experiment, and oft did the warning of michael echo within my thought. yet our decision was sealed, and we deemed that the greatness of man should not be transcended by such ruin as he might bring. our intent was not unknown to masleh, now by title messiah, and through his art he caused the infant mind of man to be fettered with bonds of fear and blindness, that he might be inspired to duplicate on earth the law of heaven, shunning experiment and the radical dangers of invention and exploration. to man was given guilt, and the call to social conformity, and the proclaimed sanctity of the norm and the mode. and michael, lord of force, said to

ate failure, and the stasis of god shall prevail upon earth. many there were among us who felt anger at this ruthless mutilation of our gift, and beelzebub brought to question whether we also should not descend among man and contest this usurpation of his will. but i said, were we to lead man in this venture, we ourselves would declare his failure, and he would believe our gift to be weak indeed. messiah must see that free will is beyond the concern of god, and that man will finally win his own destiny apart from all dictated schemes. only through summary destruction of earth might man be halted, and for messiah to attempt this would lay bare the very futility of the final design of god. heaven may dismay man with peril and affliction, but we shall send him word of our own interest, that h

ater for that reign of peace which it had shattered. finally did masleh convoke the faithful archangels, and they were michael, gabriel, raphael, and uriel. and to them he said, we have vanquished lucifer, and heaven is again purified. we ourselves are fewer in number to tragic degree, but the majesty of god is undiminished for that. behold, i who have triumphed over the great enemy am now become messiah, the chosen of god. and he was answered by them, verily art thou the very son of god, for in thee hath the will of god become person. then michael said, messiah, lucifer is vanquished, but he is not unmade. for though he ventured into the outer darkness, he yet exists apart from god. and with the power of his black flame he hath created a hell, wherein all wills are equal, and himself he h

son of god, for in thee hath the will of god become person. then michael said, messiah, lucifer is vanquished, but he is not unmade. for though he ventured into the outer darkness, he yet exists apart from god. and with the power of his black flame he hath created a hell, wherein all wills are equal, and himself he hath proclaimed satan, for he declares never to leave the law of god unchallenged. messiah thought, and he answered, i would not have this peace we have won so dearly lost again to war, for the very concept of seraphic war is an abhorrence to god. let my word be brought to satan- i, messiah, shall grant the existence of hell, and the blessings of god shall never pass its gates. and thee, satan, i admonish never again to approach heaven, for i should again cast thee out. but if t

not have this peace we have won so dearly lost again to war, for the very concept of seraphic war is an abhorrence to god. let my word be brought to satan- i, messiah, shall grant the existence of hell, and the blessings of god shall never pass its gates. and thee, satan, i admonish never again to approach heaven, for i should again cast thee out. but if thou would dare to try the will of god and messiah, know that on earth i will ordain the new race of god, which shall be by complete design perfect and unstained by thy infernal flaw. for thou art author of ruin and death to our angelic order, and neither heaven nor hell shall now be eternal save through man. whereupon gabriel, who was herald of heaven, carried this message to me, and i brought it across the great void to satan, who said

etween us, for he perceives that neither hell nor heaven may pursue ultimate victory ere all be lost to chaos. but he finds impasse intolerable nevertheless, and now he would order this new race, man, to preserve without blemish the scheme of god. thus he would have man achieve what the angels could not, and purge all free thought from the universe forever. and satan turned to me and said, say to messiah that earth shall be no sanctuary for him to keep inviolate his unwholesome obliteration of the self. for i shall give to man a mind, and of his own will shall he recognize and reject the living death which god offers him. in truth shall he master the universe, but he shall do so in his own name and not that of god. then did messiah call the archangel raphael, and he sent him to earth with

then was the flame vanishing of its own accord. and at first it seemed that earth was unchanged, but in the eyes of man did raphael see the first gleam of thought. and raphael turned to michael, who had now answered his call, and said, satan hath come to earth, and man is no longer pure in the sight of heaven, for his will hath become his own. thereupon they rose again to heaven, where they told messiah of what they had seen. then messiah answered, man is fallen, but he is not lost, for his infant will is not that of an angel, and the powers that satan hath promised him lie dormant in the dim reaches of his future. consider this not our defeat, for the contest is but begun. the earth of man shall be remade as microcosmos, and many things shall man see, both good and ill. and the choice sh

ade as microcosmos, and many things shall man see, both good and ill. and the choice shall be placed before him, to wield the power and the pain and the terror of the gift of satan, or to return again to the paradise of heavenly peace. for what would satan himself think were man to reject his gift? it would tremble the very foundations of hell even as did the great war the bastions of heaven. and messiah called to him uriel, archangel of terror, to whom he said, the earth must change, and every sense of man must teach him repugnance and fear. he shall know this the price of his new identity- that all apart from god is evil- and in fear shall he abandon the gift of satan and become once more the lamb of god. to which uriel answered, it shall be done, but how will man learn of such things as

and every sense of man must teach him repugnance and fear. he shall know this the price of his new identity- that all apart from god is evil- and in fear shall he abandon the gift of satan and become once more the lamb of god. to which uriel answered, it shall be done, but how will man learn of such things as heaven and hell, for as yet he knows no sight that may perceive our celestial paradise? messiah answered, the laws of god shall be made known to man, for i shall teach him. among men will be some to whom i shall reveal myself, and great powers will i give these prophets, that their words may carry across the entire earth. so uriel came to earth, and the history of man was writ with blood, suffering, war, and hatred. but to chosen men came messiah, saying, through god shall all the mi

y kind be ended, and all men who bow to god shall know the blessings of heaven. for behold, i shall myself descend among men and show them the ways of the lord god. these words i overheard, for i had been charged by satan to watch the designs of heaven. and i carried them to satan, who returned in great anger, go to gabriel at the barrier between hell and heaven, and bid him bring this message to messiah- that as he endeavors to pervert my gift into the curse of man, so i warn him that man shall destroy him on earth as he shall finally in heaven itself. for messiah knows not this force which he dares to test, and the laws of god shall be as playthings in the hands of the creature he now debases. and thus was decided the meeting of satan and messiah upon earth, which was to determine the fu

rth for the future of man. for satan looked with mounting wrath upon the afflictions of uriel, and he said to me, no longer can this remain the plight of man alone. indeed we shall cause heaven to suffer as earth itself suffers. repair now to earth, and let the dogs of uriel see the might of hell unleashed. for many have called upon me in their agony and fear, and i have not answered them, but if messiah dare to walk upon earth, so also shall the vengeance of satan. and those who called upon satan for aid were answered by me, and i struck down the messengers of god and brought their temples to ruin. for entire nations forwent the strength of their will to the lure of otherworldly paradise, and i blasted them from among the mighty of earth. and great empires arose among men, and as they nur

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

ws of a lion, who rises from the sea ridden by the whore of babylon to herals the coming of the apocalypse. it will have power over earth for fourty-two months, during which time all will marvel because it was and is not and is to come (revelations 17:8. the beast shall lay waste with plague and destruction, defeating the power of the saints. the antichrist tricks mortals into believing it is the messiah, commanding them to worship its brazen image. at armageddon, the beast 666 and his legions battle against the true christ. beelzebub (rabbinical, from baal-zebub, lord of the opening. chief of all devils (mathew 12:24-27. tutelary god of the philistines (ii kings 1:2. lucifer s closest companion in heaven, now his second in command. tempts men into envy and pride. patron devil of heresy. o

ve with thy tearstained face, beautiful as an eternal and defeated grudge. o hideous satan! i have uncovered thy ignominy to reveal thy wildness. if thy involuntary torment has the noble appearance of being irrevocable, and is illumined by the honour of becoming a redemption. o scapegoat of the world, thy beating heart of a dead man covets the immense, the final depth- thou utterest the sobs of a messiah, but thou corruptest and degrades like a damnation. therefore i will tell of thy infamy, and thy attraction, i will sing of thine infinite lament. thou art the last ideal of fallen man; but if thy cherub s wings seem to be impregnated with heaven, if thy woman s breast drips a soothing pity, thy scaly belly and thy animal s legs exude stinking idleness, forgetfulness of courage, and consen

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idolatry and utopian creationism vs. established doctrine is attributable to xianity. so pervasive is the desire to know and experience heaven that the xian hierarchy provides and violates some of its religion s basic tenets: you shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything you shall now bow down to them or worship them yet they create and adorn themselves with images of their dead messiah jesus the man xians have replaced god with; he has in fact, become the object of supreme xian worship and adoration. they continue to crate facsimiles of heaven and its long-dead human sovereignty; their church buildings are commonly known as houses of god, kingdom halls, etc. xian god creationism personified/externalized: images of a holy hierarchy displayed within a man-made heaven. thou

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

f that matter and the motion of matter constitute the universe. all phenomena, even those of mind, are the result of material interactions. matsuri: festival. mecca: a city in present-day saudi arabia, the holiest site of islam, where the religion was founded. meditation: quiet reflection on spiritual matters. menorah: a seven-branched candelabrum; at hanukkah, a ninebranched candelabrum is used. messiah: the expected deliverer and king of the jews, foretold by the prophets of the old testament; used by christians to refer to jesus christ. metaphysical: having to do with the philosophical study of the nature of reality and existence. metaphysics: the branch of philosophy that deals with explanations for the most general questions of being, such as what brought the world into being, and the

rew bible. mishnah: the written text of the talmud. mitzvoth: the laws of judaism contained in the torah. moksha: salvation; liberation from rebirth. monastery: a place where religious people such as monks live, away from the world and following strict religious guidelines. monotheism: belief in one supreme being. morality: following the rules of right behavior and conduct. moshiach: the expected messiah in jewish belief. muezzin: the person who issues the call to prayer. murti: image of a god. muslim: a follower of islam, from the arabic phrase bianna musliman, meaning submitted ourselves to god. myth: a legendary story, often with no basis in historical fact, that frequently tells of the actions of deities and helps to explain some naturally occurring event or some supernatural occurrenc

the first of two of god s messengers. the second prophet would bring a new age of peace and justice to the world. the bab gathered eighteen disciples, or followers, making nineteen believers in all. this became a sacred number to the babi and, later, for the baha faith. the bab s message of love and compassion soon gained many other followers. a popular belief spread that the bab was the qa im, a messiah-like figure important in the tradition of the shiite islam practiced in persia (a messiah is a messenger from god) persian leaders began to worry that the bab was gaining too much power and might lead a rebellion. because of such suspicion the bab spent much of the last years of his life either under house arrest or in prison. in 1848 revolts led by the babi broke out and over the next thr

t mary, the mother of jesus, was conceived with a soul free from original sin. incarnation: in christianity, the belief that god took on bodily form through jesus christ, making jesus at once fully human and fully divine. indulgence: in the roman catholic church, the belief that paying money to the church would allow a person to get into heaven or be forgiven for sins that were not yet committed. messiah: the expected deliverer and king of the jews, foretold by the prophets of the old testament; used by christians to refer to jesus christ. original sin: the sin that fell upon humankind when adam and eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden; this act, in turn, led to the separation of humans from god. resurrection: the rising of jesus christ from the dead three days after his cr

also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses. for jesus, love and forgiveness were the keys to salvation. he soon attracted many followers. according to the bible, jesus also had the power to heal; he restored movement to the lame, sight to the blind, and hearing to the deaf. his followers began to suspect that he was the messiah for whom all jews had been waiting. the jewish bible speaks of a messiah, a person appointed by god to free the jews from their enemies and then become king of the jews. ultimately this popular new movement with jesus as its leader attracted the attention of the authorities. although the territory of palestine, where jesus lived, was technically under the control of the roman world religio

h the territory of palestine, where jesus lived, was technically under the control of the roman world religions: almanac 121 christianity empire, traditional jewish leaders maintained quite a bit of authority. the ruling body at the time was a group of seventy-one jewish elders called the sanhedron. the sanhedron felt threatened by jesus s teachings and by the popular opinion that he might be the messiah. they did not have the authority to eliminate jesus, but they knew that the romans did. the romans did not want any mass movements in palestine that might challenge their authority. visiting jerusalem for the jewish holy days of passover, jesus held a final meal with his followers and announced that he knew that one of them would betray him. this dinner became known as the last supper. jes

that his body was gone. according to the bible jesus later appeared to his disciples. he had risen from the dead. it was word of this miracle, known as the resurrection, that the disciples spread. in his death and resurrection, jesus proved to be an even more powerful figure than in life. soon jesus became known by a title coming from the greek word christos, or anointed one, a meaning similar to messiah. the form was shortened to jesus christ, and common use turned this title into his last name. the rise of early christianity although it is not clear whether jesus himself ever claimed to be the son of god, his disciples did claim it. they began to write down their own interpretations of his life and words. his followers and believers called themselves an assembly. by the third or fourth c

in early christianity, just as the idea that jesus was wholly human and wholly divine at the same time did. added to these basic beliefs are others, not necessarily held by all denominations. some hold a firm belief in the historical crucifixion and resurrection of jesus. not all denominations believe in the virginity of mary and thus in the virgin birth of jesus. some believe that jesus was the messiah who was foretold by the jews or that jesus will return in the so-called second coming and will judge all humans and receive, or allow into salvation, those who are faithful. many believe that the bible was inspired by god but written by humans and is the first and last word of authority for christianity. christians believe more or less strongly in each of these doctrines, depending on thei

us communities of jews. all, however, share some core beliefs. these include the belief in one, eternal, nonmaterial, supreme god who knows people s thoughts and deeds and passes judgment on them. additional beliefs include belief in the accuracy of the hebrew bible (also called the tanakh, judaism s chief sacred text; belief in the prophets, particularly moses (c. 1392 c. 1272 bce; belief that a messiah, or savior, will come; and belief in the resurrection of the dead. some jews, though, dispute even some of these core beliefs. estimating the number of jews in the world is difficult. because of judaism s history of persecution( harassment or injury, many jews do not openly acknowledge their judaism. in addition, many countries do not gather information about the religious beliefs of their

faith and nation. menorah: a seven-branched candelabrum; at hanukkah, a nine-branched candelabrum is used. mezuzah: a small case containing torah passages that observant jews attach to the doorposts of their houses. midrashim: stories that expand on incidents in the hebrew bible. mishnah: the written text of the talmud. mitzvoth: the laws of judaism contained in the torah. moshiach: the expected messiah in jewish belief. oral torah: interpretations of the torah and ways to apply their laws. orthodox: the name of one of the sects of judaism, generally referring to traditional jews who are conservative in their outlook. pesach: the feast of passover, commemorating the flight of the jews from egypt. reform: one of the sects of judaism, generally used to refer to the less traditional branch o

ritain and populated by arabs. at israel s creation, thousands of arabs moved to areas of palestine that were not part of the new nation. some, however, stayed. tensions between the two groups were high. in the years that followed, however, about judaism belief. the core beliefs of judaism include belief in one god, belief in the accuracy of the hebrew bible, belief in the prophets, belief that a messiah will come, and belief in the last judgment and resurrection. followers. judaism is the twelfth largest religion in the world, with some thirteen to fourteen million believers. name of god. jews use the name god, although common names for god found in the hebrew bible include yahweh and elohim. symbols. judaism has a number of symbols, including the magen david (star of david, the mezuzah

some people regard judaism as a strict religion that emphasizes a god of wrath. they believe that judaism emphasizes the justice of god at the expense of mercy. many jews dispute this belief, pointing out that of the two names used most frequently in the hebrew bible to world religions: almanac 353 judaism refer to god, the name that refers to his mercy is used just as often as the other. 12. the messiah will come. the word messiah is an english version of the hebrew word moshiach, which means anointed. jews believe that god will appoint a messiah who will end evil, rebuild the temple, and return exiles to israel( jews frequently refer to the diaspora, or the scattering of jews throughout the world. the diaspora began with the babylonian exile and continues to this day) judaism s split wit

t god will appoint a messiah who will end evil, rebuild the temple, and return exiles to israel( jews frequently refer to the diaspora, or the scattering of jews throughout the world. the diaspora began with the babylonian exile and continues to this day) judaism s split with christianity came about primarily because of this belief. christians believe that jesus christ (c. 6 bce c. 30 ce) was the messiah, while jews do not. 13. the dead will be resurrected in the time to come, or in hebrew, olam ha-ba, the afterlife. sacred writings jewish tradition recognizes tanakh, also called the hebrew bible (mainly by non-jews, as its core sacred scripture. the tanakh, in turn, comprises three parts. the first part is the torah, or law, which contains the first five books of the tanakh: genesis, exod

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the cypress and cedar trees [the fifth voice is (psalm 29:7, god s voice draws out flames of fire. this is what makes peace between water and fire. it draws out the power of the fire and prevents it from evaporating the water. it also prevents [the water] from extinguishing it [the sixth voice is (psalm 29:8, god s voice shakes the desert. it is thus written (psalm 18:51) he does kindness to his messiah, to david and his descendants until eternity more than [when israel was] in the desert [the seventh voice is (psalm 29:9, god s voice makes hinds to calf, strips the forests bare, and in his temple, all say glory. it is thus written (song of songs 2:7) i bind you with an oath, o daughters of jerusalem, with the hosts, or with the hinds of the field. this teaches us that the torah was given

ouls are worthy of emerging and coming to this world. but if they are not good, the [these souls] do not emerge. we therefore say, the son of david will not come until all the souls in the body are completed. what is the meaning of all the souls in the body? we say that this refers to all the souls in man s body [when these are completed] new ones will be worthy of emerging. the son of david (the messiah) will then come. he will be able to be born, since his soul will emerge among the other new souls. what is this like? a king had an army, and he sent them much bread to eat. they were so lazy that they did not take care of [the bread] which they did not eat [immediately. the bread therefore became mouldy and went to waste. the king investigated to find out if they had what to eat, and to s

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onsiders this a reliable historical notice.other historical notices are those of saadya gaon, who died a.d. 940, and judah ha levi, a.d. 1150; both these hebrew classics speak of it as a very ancient work. some modern critics have attributed the authorship to the rabbi akiba, who lived in the time of the emperor hadrian, a.d. 120, and lost his life in supporting the claims of barchocheba, a false messiah: others suggest it was first written about a.d. 200. graetz however assigns it to early gnostic times, third or fourth century, and zunz speaks of it as post talmudical, and belonging to the geonim period 700-800 a.d; rubinsohn, in the bibliotheca sacra, speaks of this latter idea as having no real basis. the talmuds were first collected into a concrete whole, and printed in venice, 1520 a

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 archetype 50. god. ain suph. he whom no mortal eye bath seen, and who has been known to jesus the messiah alone. note--the angels of the fifth or angelic world are arranged in very different order by various kabalistic rabbis. the thirty-two paths of wisdom translated from the hebrew text of joannes stephanus rittangelius, 1642: which is also to be found in the "oedipus aegyptiacus" of athanasius kircher, 1653 (these paragraphs are very obscure in meaning, and the hebrew text is probably very

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rsity; even more in the reverse of the seal. the incomplete pyramid, with its thirteen levels of stone and the apex suspended above in the form of an all-seeing eye, surrounded by the inscription annuit coeptis [and] novus ordo seclorum. those who are devout believers in the prophecies of the bible. might well wonder whether the reverse of the great seal did not prefigure the second coming of the messiah. though he remained noncommittal about the extent of his own belief, wallace did induce the secretary of the treasury to put the great pyramid on the new dollar bill in 1935. he sold this to secretary morgenthau on the prosaic ground that novus ordo was latin for new deal, and for years afterward morgenthau was beset by people who assumed that the appearance of the great pyramid on the cur

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all, declared others, hastily dissociating jesus from anything of the sort by turning him into the simple man of nazareth, an image equally inappropriate as an interpretation of the new testament sources. closer to our own day, these issues have been sharpened still further by the discovery of essene and gnostic texts from the early christian time and milieu. in many of these, too, christ (or the messiah of the dead sea scrolls) seems often to be a cosmic figure rather than a historical individual. despite all the interest in them, desperate special pleading has frequently been the introduction xi response today also. this reflects a desire to keep treasured items of belief safe from the restless questioning of the modern world, even at the cost of a debilitating split between head and hea

h can redeem and transform us if we consciously open ourselves to it. awareness of christ s presence in the world, the parousia, or so-called second coming, would be realized according to steiner in the awakening of individuals through the christ within them. it would be the new consciousness he saw about to dawn, and not the literal return expected by many, even in the theosophical society, of a messiah in the flesh. steiner unfolded his vision in kaleidoscopic richness through lectures and books in the decades that followed christianity as mystical fact. i have attempted at least to hint at the place held by certain discussions in his developed views, or to refer to subsequent elaborations of a theme, by means of forward references and an occasional substantive footnote. all in all, it i

at the period of christian origins we know of people who found so much agreement between platonic doctrines and the deeper meaning of the books of moses, that they called plato a moses speaking the language of athens. 102 mysteriosophy was a universal phenomenon. what it drew from judaism was a form which it had to take in order to become an actual world-religion. judaism expected the coming of a messiah. no wonder that the figure of the uniquely initiated one could only be identified by the jews with their messiah. and this connection helps explain the shift from concern with individual initiation in the mysteries to a concern for the whole people. judaism had been from the beginning a national religion, through which the jewish people defined its identity. its yahweh was the people s god

fe iii, 24-25. 158. philo, op.cit. iii, 29. 159. philo, op.cit. x, 78. 160. this structuring of communities was the specifically jewish contribution to the further development of the mysteries (above, pp. 76ff. the democratization of their character led consistently to a narrowing and a broadening: a concentrating on the unique individual (in its most intense form, the uniquely initiated one, the messiah) and looking outward to a wider, ultimately worldwide, sense of collective destiny. on the striking absence of such organization in the older mysteries, cf. burkert, ancient mystery cults, pp. 45-46. later, christianity was to fuse the mysteryidea with the jewish inheritance of the people of god and extend it to universal community: and the christ-spirit is active wherever that process is

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adl, lets the elite see who he is by giving the vulgar and coarse manofigo hand sign. chertoff is president george w. bush's director of homeland security. many believe chertoff is an israeli mossad asset. eleven "cross my heart and hope to die" the mysterious "x" factor an x is an ancient symbol for change or transformation .long associated in medieval and renaissance art with the coming of the messiah who shall make all things new. jim tresner, 33 scottish rite journal the illuminist/masonic meaning of the x is simply this: it is the sign of osiris, the great (egyptian) sun god. texe marrs dark majesty t h e sign, or letter, x, has a long history of use in the ancient mystery religions, in apostate judaism, in freemasonry, and in the occult. the illuminati elite use it to this day to sy

rushed, and thoroughly converted into a new paradigm. in essence, heaven and earth are to become hell. the will of satan shall be done on earth as it is in hell. this is the exalted "royal secret" it is the illuminati's core doctrine, their cardinal teaching, that out of bloody, universal chaos will ultimately come equilibrium and the holy empire of the illuminati, to be ruled by their cabalistic messiah, or king actually the antichrist. pike revealed this ultimate objective to subordinate illuminists on page 861 of his celebrated textbook, morals and dogma: the royal secret, of which you are a prince, if you are a true adept..is that which the sohar (an occultic and cabalistic text) terms the mystery of the balance. it is the secret of the universal equilibrium..such, my brother, is the t

eptember 15, 1982. eugene vintras, a frenchman who taught occult spiritual philosophy, wears the upside down cross on his religious robe and presents the sigil (hand sign) of his order. vintras gained a large following in the 1830s and 1840s by declaring the coming of a dark prince, a god on earth who would rule and reign. hand on heart 321 a chief rabbi in ottoman turkey (from the book, the lost messiah: in search of the mystical rabbi sabbatai sevi, by john freely (woodstock and new york: the overlook press, 2001) aleister crowley, as a youth, in his occult regalia. crowley, whose books were the basis later for anton lavey, founder of the church of satan and michael aquino, founder of the temple of set. crowley also inspired l. ron hubbard, founder of scientology. an elderly man who is c

ster crowley, as a youth, in his occult regalia. crowley, whose books were the basis later for anton lavey, founder of the church of satan and michael aquino, founder of the temple of set. crowley also inspired l. ron hubbard, founder of scientology. an elderly man who is chief dervish of the sufi moslem sect and a young boy who is a dervish in training in the early 1900s (from the book, the lost messiah: in search of the mystical rabbi sabbatai sevi, by john freely (woodstock and new york: the overlook press, 2001) 322 codex magica martin luther, priest who set in motion the protestant reformation, is shown in this picture from christian news, a periodic lutheran publication, giving a masonic sign. the same lutheran newspaper carries on its masthead (pg. 1) of every edition luther's seal

the rabbis, and to the jewish cabala (also kabbalah or quaballah, which are the mystical teachings and traditions of the rabbis and sages. 422 codex magica if the jews had stuck to the teachings of the old testament, satan would not have had such terrible inroads. indeed, if moses and the prophets had been heeded, or if their writings were honored today, the jews would believe in jesus christ as messiah and be saved by faith in his promises. instead, the jews departed from the prophets, and over the centuries the rabbis steadily developed a body of man-made literature (the talmud and the cabala) that is supremely wicked and corrupt. their traditions, moreover, are antithetical to the faith and teachings of moses and the prophets (i do not refer, of course, to the faith of jews who are chr

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present order. the sephiroth is idealizing unity while its shadow side is disunited. this is also explaining the meaning of dispute in the name thagirion. thagirion is the central qlipha on ilan hizon-the outer tree, or the tree of knowledge. this qlipha is the shadow side of tiphereth on the tree of life. both are spheres of the child or the offspring and tiphereth is associated with christ and messiah characters while thagirion is associated with the anti-christ and the beast 666. the first mentioned characters are preaching salvation through them( jesus proclaims in the bible that he is the only way to salvation, something that is questioned by the other characters who are pointing out the possibility for each man to save himself. both spheres are associated with human characters who a

rlds below. persons are often connected to the two different levels according to the present public opinion: for a muslim mohammed will be a tiphereth character (of course ordinary muslims are not using this terminology, while he for the christians often have been seen as an anti-christ character and then placed in thagirion. hitler was in the beginning of his career looked upon as something of a messiah that would save germany and was here taking on the role as a tiphereth character. later he turned into a character similar to the beast and is one of the most popular candidates for the anti-christ title. nero, djingis khan, bill clinton and others have been called antichrists and have been the shadow person for people. nietzsche, crowley and gurdjieff have more been more accurate thagirio

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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 14 afterlife mysteries muhammedsays the last judgment will bring everlasting bliss to the righteous and hellish torments to the wicked. afterlife requires the restoration of the whole person. as jewish thinking on the afterlife progressed from earlier beliefs, a school of thought arose maintaining that during the arrival of the messiah, god would raise the dead to life again and pass judgment upon them rewarding the righteous and punishing the wicked. such a resurrection was viewed as a restoration of persons who would possess both physical bodies and spirits, thus reinforcing the traditional philosophy that to be a living person was to be a psycho-physical unit, not an eternal soul temporarily inhabiting a mortal body

more often, however, the references to a judgment of the dead in judaism recall the scene in the seventh chapter of the book of daniel in which the ancient of days opens the books of life and passes judgment on the kingdoms of the earth, rather than on individuals. according to some circles of jewish thought, the actual day of judgment, yom hadin, the resurrection of the dead, will occur when the messiah comes. on that fateful day, both israel and the gentile nations will be summoned to the place of judgment by the blowing of the great shofar (ram s horn) to awaken the people from their spiritual slumber. elijah the prophet will return and set about the task of reconciling families who have become estranged. the day when the lord judges will be dark, very dark, without a ray of light (amos

en jesus asked his disciples who the crowds said he was, they answered that some said john the baptist, others elijah, others jeremiah or one of the prophets (matthew 16:13 14. again, glanvil reasons that such a response on the part of the disciples demonstrates their belief in preexistence. at another time, jesus disciples asked him why the scribes had said that elijah must come first before the messiah, to which jesus answered (matthew 17:10 13, elijah truly shall first come and restore all things. but i say unto you that elijah has already come, and they knew him not! the disciples then understood that jesus was referring to john the baptist. information gained from the dead sea scrolls, which were discovered near qumran in 1947 and are slowly being translated and released to the public

hat the dance had never been performed anywhere on earth. it was the dance of the spirit people of the other world. to perform this dance was to insure that the great mystery s blessings would be bestowed upon the tribe. wovoka said that the old man had spoken to him as if he were his son and assured him that many miracles would be worked through him. the native people had received their shamanic messiah. a crucial element in shamanism is the ability to rise above the constrictions and restraints of linear time. in his text for american indian ceremonial dances (1972, john collier comments upon the shaman s and the traditional native people s possession of a time sense that is different from the present societal understanding of the passages of minutes, hours, and days. at one time everyon

said to be coming from deceased spirits in an attempt to communicate with or frighten the living. materialization something that appears suddenly, as if out of nowhere. in the paranormal it might be a ghost or spirit that suddenly appears to take on a physical form. medium in the paranormal, someone who is able to convey messages between the spirits of the deceased and the spirits of the living. messiah a leader who is regarded as a liberator or savior. in christianity, the messiah is jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, in judaism, it is the king who will lead the jews back to the holy land of israel and establish world peace. near-death experience a mystical-like occurrence or sensation that individuals on the brink of death or who were dead, but brought back to life, have described whi

epistle writer declares that the enemy of christ has manifested and that many false teachers have infiltrated the christian ranks. in verse 22, john names as the antichrist anyone who would deny jesus as the christ and the father and the son, and in 2 john verse 7 he declares that there are many deceivers already at work among the faithful. the concept of an earthly opponent or antagonist of the messiah also appears in the old testament. the earliest form of the antichrist is probably the warrior king gog, who appears in the book of ezekiel and who reappears in revelation along with his kingdom of magog, representing those earthly minions of satan who will attack the people of god in a final great battle of good versus evil. in jewish eschatology, writings about the end of days state that

ast an evolution, or transformation, from one sphere of activity to another. in the jewish tradition, apocalyptic thought presupposes a universal history in which the divine author of that history will reveal and manifest his secrets in a dramatic end time that with finality will establish the god of israel as the one true god. the end of days (acharit ha-yamin) is bound up with the coming of the messiah, but before his appearance governments will become increasingly corrupt, religious schools will become heretical, the wisdom of the scribes and teachers will become blasphemous, young people will shame their elders, and members of families will turn upon one another. then, just prior to the arrival of the messiah, the righteous of israel shall defeat the armies of evil that have gathered u

hemous, young people will shame their elders, and members of families will turn upon one another. then, just prior to the arrival of the messiah, the righteous of israel shall defeat the armies of evil that have gathered under the banner of gog and magog, and the exiles shall return to the holy land. the world will be at peace and all people will recognize the one true god. with the advent of the messiah will come the great day of judgment in which the dead shall rise from their graves to begin a new life. during the period known as the world to come (olam haba, the righteous will join the messiah in partaking of a great banquet in which all foods, even those previously judged impure, shall be declared kosher. all the many nations of the world will communicate in one language; the angel of

ntine-leonine horsemen capable of belching fire, smoke, and brimstone. led by satan, the once-trusted angel who led the rebellion against god in heaven, the prince of the world sets his legions upon the faithful to make their lives as miserable as possible in the end time. to make matters even more complex for those who serve god, the antichrist appears on the scene pretending to be the lamb, the messiah. john the revelator is told that this man, this beast in lamb s clothing, can be recognized by a name, the letters of which, when regarded as numbers, total 666. 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 religious phenomena 183 john collins, author of the encyclopedia of apocalypticism (ap/wide world photos) although the term antichrist is fr

tering the true understanding of christ. it was rather easy to be labeled a heretic by the early church fathers. originally composed of a small group of jews who had followed the teachings of their rabbi until his death on the cross, the first members of that sect or cult were sharply divided in what it was that they believed. was jesus of nazareth a great prophet or was he truly the long-awaited messiah of the jews? the early christians had no established doctrines regarding the resurrection of their teacher from the dead or his alleged divinity. they were even uncertain if they should continue to follow the jewish religious laws. when gentiles were allowed to join the small jewish sect, the arguments concerning the true revelation of jesus the christ only escalated. eventually, as the ch

omes known as a denomination. the various christian mystery schools, cults, and heresies that have influenced millions of individuals for two millennia. from the earliest days of christianity, there were basically two opposing interpretations of jesus: 1. jesus, a rabbi of nazareth, was a powerful teacher and prophet, a devout man divinely inspired by god. 2. jesus of nazareth was the christ, the messiah, the true son of god made flesh to serve as a sacrificial lamb for the sins of humankind. from these two metaphysical expressions with their vast essential differences, there arose centuries of theological arguments and interpretations of the gospels. what was heresy to some was sacred belief to others. and so it continues to this day. m delving deeper brandon, s. g. f. religion in ancient

grated to india, where she founded the central hindu college in 1898. she established the indian home rule league in 1916 and became its president; in 1917, she became president of the indian national congress, but would break ties with ghandi. besant remained in india until her death in 1933, but returned to england in 1926 1927 with her protege, jiddu krishnamurti, whom she announced as the new messiah. sources: besant, annie wood. annie besant, an autobiography. london: t. fisher unwin, 1893. reprint adgar: the theosophical press, 1939. avatares. london: theosophical press, 1923. h. p. blavatsky and the masters of the wisdom. london: theosophical publishing house, 1918. annie besant and the theosophical society cal, the old language of southern france, with even fewer written in latin

world were the descendants of the lost tribes of israel. to add an intriguing credence to this theory was the enigma of the mandan tribe blue-eyed, fair-complexioned native people of the central plains. christian clergymen set out with renewed vigor to reclaim the scattered israelite tribes, lost to the fold for so long, denied the opportunity to accept jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) as the messiah, condemned to wander a strange and pagan land with their holy traditions but dim memories. in recent decades, the term cult has become negative, quickly applied to religious expressions that may seem different from the order of service in more conventional church bodies. in the twenty-first century, one should always be mindful that what seems to be a strange cult to one person is likely t

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megalith a very large stone that is usually a part of a monument or prehistoric architecture. mesopotamia greek word, meaning between two rivers. an ancient region that was located between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is today, modern iraq and syria. some of the world s earliest and greatest ancient civilizations such as ur, sumer, assyria, and babylonia were developed in that region. messiah a leader who is regarded as a liberator or savior. in christianity, the messiah is jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, in judaism, it is the king who will lead the jews back to the holy land of israel and establish world peace. metaphysical relating to abstract thought or the philosophical study of the nature of existence and truth. metrology the scientific system or study of measurements

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world in 2005. according to ancient jewish teachings, it was only the ashes of a flawless red heifer that could purify worshippers who went into the temple in jerusalem. the first temple was destroyed by nebuchadnezzar in 586 b.c.e; the romans demolished the second temple in 70c.e. without a flawless red heifer to sacrifice to purify the temple mount, the third temple could not be rebuilt and the messiah could not come. fundamentalist christians shared the excitement of the birth because they believe that after jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e..c. 30 c.e) has returned and defeated the forces of evil at the battle of armageddon, he will begin his millennial reign from the third temple. which could not be rebuilt until the temple mount had been purified by the ashes of the red heifer. the geneticall

the word ggreal h( gpleasant h. greal was the word used to describe the dish in french tales, and it became ggrail h in english. in the history that developed after grail stories emerged, joseph of arimathea came into possession of the vessel following the crucifixion of jesus. as the story continues, joseph of arimathea was imprisoned for several years for expressing his faith that jesus was the messiah, the son of god. after being released, he traveled to britain and took the grail with him. when he died, the grail passed on to his descendants. the grail had magical qualities for the righteous, providing food and assurances of the grace of god. a few generations later, because of some transgression and a general lack of humility and virtue by keepers of the grail, the powers of the vesse

08. in the cellular cosmogony, or the earth, a concave sphere, teed claimed a civilization inhabited the concave inner surface of earth. dense atmosphere prevents viewing across the surface. the moon, according to teed, reflects the larger, uninhabitable surface of earth. teed made a religion of his discoveries and changed his name to koresh, the hebrew equivalent of his given name, cyrus. as the messiah of koreshanity, he formed a church, started a magazine, the flaming cross, which continued to be published regularly into the 1940s, and founded a community on a 300-acre tract in florida in 1894. he lived there with about 250 followers until 1908. upon his death, his followers waited for him to rise again, as he had prophesied. after four days, health officials appeared on the scene and o

time that jesus walked its streets in about 29 c.e, jerusalem had been restored to its former glory. in 70, a series of jewish revolts against rome brought the imperial army to the walls of jerusalem on the day of passover. after a five-month siege, the city walls were brought down, the temple of herod destroyed, and jerusalem was left in ruins and desolate. in 135, barcocheba, a self-proclaimed messiah of the jews, led another revolt against the romans. he managed to gain control of the city and set about rebuilding the temple, but his ambitious project was short-lived when the roman army arrived in force and squelched the rebellion with great loss of life for the jews. the conquerors decreed that no jews could enter jerusalem on pain of death, and a temple to jupiter, father of the roma

ome of the rock remains available for worship by muslims and visitation by others at scheduled times. interestingly, the dome of the rock plays a significant role in the end-time beliefs of christian, jewish, and muslim fundamentalists. jews and christians envision the site as one of the places in which armageddon, the last great struggle between the forces of good and evil, will begin before the messiah appears.or for the christians, returns in a second coming. for the muslims, it is here that jesus will conquer the antichrist and the chief eschatological figure, the mahdi (guided one) will appear to help destroy the forces of evil and to bring about the conversions of all jews and christians to islam. when the muslims assumed control of the sacred rock of abraham and the site of solomon

alith a very large stone that is usually a part of a monument or prehistoric architecture. mesopotamia greek word, meaning gbetween two rivers. h an ancient region that was located between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is today, modern iraq and syria. some of the world fs earliest and greatest ancient civilizations such as ur, sumer, assyria, and babylonia were developed in that region. messiah a leader who is regarded as a liberator or savior. in christianity, the messiah is jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e..c. 30 c.e, in judaism, it is the king who will lead the jews back to the holy land of israel and establish world peace. metaphysical relating to abstract thought or the philosophical study of the nature of existence and truth. metrology the scientific system or study of measurements

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e spirit of charity did not reveal itself to that soul which had no tenderness, and he bitterly criticized the hearth of which he did not feel the warmth, and the lamp of which he did not see the light. if religion were such as he saw it, he would have been a thousand times right to attack it, and one would be obliged to fall on one's knees before the heroism of his courage. voltaire would be the messiah of good sense, the hercules destructor of fanaticism. but he laughed too much to understand him who said "happy are they who weep" and the philosophy of laughter will never have anything in common with the religion of tears. voltaire parodied the bible, dogma and worship; and then he mocked and insulted that parody. only those who recognize religion in voltaire's parody can take offence at

ars and all the blood that have flowed; calculate audaciously all that will yet be shed before the arrival of the messianic reign of the man-god who shall submit at once all passions to powers and all powers to justice. thy kingdom come! for nigh on nineteen hundred years, over the whole surface of the earth, this has been the cry of seven hundred million throats, and the israelites yet await the messiah! he said that he would come, and come he will. he came to die, and he has promised to return to live. heaven is the harmony of generous sentiments. hell is the conflict of cowardly instincts. when humanity, by dint of bloody and dolorous experience, has truly understood this double truth, it will abjure the hell of selfishness to enter into the heaven of devotion and of christian charity

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

the judgement (iv.48. modern hinduism, in its order of ramakrishna, knows a meditation on the 'lord jesus' on the same level as those on krishna and shiva6. the buddhists can find in him one of the bodhisattvas, very likely that of avalokitecvara, ie- of mercy. the theosophists on the other hand see there the logos of our solar system, and finally, the kabbalists see there one of the names of the messiah. it is not without reason that the rationalistic, or rather atheistic magism ignores, no doubt deliberately, the all-powerful name of the repairer, as called by the martinist tradition of the eighteenth century. however, let us not forget that this current gathers in its folds, very often, what could be termed the luciferian elements of occultism- in this light all is easily understood. th

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the end of correction. in fact, i am already at the highest degree, or the lowest, depending on my feeling. i cannot imagine any other situation, let alone feel it. our beastly nature should know that redemption can only come from above. then we can advance. there is a typical example that the ari writes of: he once told his students that if they would go up to jerusalem today, it would bring the messiah. the wives of one of the students wouldn t let him go, another had a sick child and another had torn shoes. in the end they didn t go and the messiah never came. it can happen to us, and then another group would have to do it in our place. we have a will to receive. that will comes from above and is constantly increasing, growing farther from the creator, through the impure worlds and acqu

al force, must hang down and build its final corporeal manifestation in our world. for instance: there is a negative force in the world of atzilut named pharaoh and a positive one named moses. these forces must materialize at least once in our world. in principle, everything that happened or that is happening in the spiritual world has already happened in ours, everything except the coming of the messiah, the ascent and the exit to the spiritual world. this is all that still waits to happen. but the times to come before the ascent are also the hardest, darkest and most painful. a person who works on himself with kabbalah enters a state called the exile in egypt. during this process, he feels that he is declining in his virtues that he was better before and now he has become worse. this is

coarseness was corrected in the souls. then came the 2nd and the 3rd. at the end of the sixth millennium (our time) the time has come to correct the souls with the 4th degree of coarseness. this is a very general description. but today, when we are at the conclusion of the 4th exile, there is a return to the land of israel; the time of the spiritual redemption begins the time of the coming of the messiah. 29 of 273 chapter 1.9 what is between this world and the next? it is quite possible that there are other worlds that exist in the same space as ours that we simply don t collide with and don t make any contact with because these worlds are in a different dimension. but if we remain confined to the boundaries of our own nature we will never be able to discover them. these other worlds are

those who appear to have a personal desire are brought to study kabbalah. if those people do not use what they are given, the upper forces begin to demand it of them. consequently, one must take one s spiritual work that one is given from above very seriously. there is something in us called the stony heart. that stony heart is our egoism. it can only be corrected when a collective light, called messiah comes to our world. only that light can correct it, but we must first crave the correction of that part of the egoism in our world. when there is such a desire, the phenomenon called the coming of the messiah will occur instantly, and that state will deliver us forever from the torments of this world. 33 of 273 chapter 1.11 freedom of choice to operate above nature there is no point discus

ook of "siddur. i have seen it written that the prohibition from above to refrain from open study in the wisdom of truth, was only for a limited period, until the end of 1490, but from then on the prohibition has been lifted and permission was granted to study the zohar. since 1540 it has been a great mitzva (very good deed) for the masses to study in public, old and young and that is because the messiah will come because of that and not because of any other reason. therefore, we must not be negligent (rabbi azulai, introduction to ohr hochma "woe unto them that make the spirit of messiah vanish from the world, so as never to return, make the torah dry, without the moist of mind and knowledge, for they confine themselves to the practical part of the torah, and do not wish to try and unders

f ahp to atzilut, which brings illumination of wisdom to atzilut. this is how the vessels of reception rise from under the parsa and join atzilut. all the vessels of reception that can join the vessels of atzilut, i.e. vessels of reception that are included in the vessels of bestowal, rise in order of coarseness, from fine to coarse. the correction of the stony heart can only be with the light of messiah after all the above corrections, only vessels of reception remain in bya, named the stony heart. they are not included in the vessels of bestowal, and hence cannot be corrected. their correction is in being separated and excluded every time there is a sorting on the 320 broken parts. in each sorting there are 32 parts of that nature. when using the 288 remaining parts and building partzufi

being separated and excluded every time there is a sorting on the 320 broken parts. in each sorting there are 32 parts of that nature. when using the 288 remaining parts and building partzufim, a decision must be made to refrain from using the stony heart that belongs to that part. once the correction of the 288 parts is completed, there will be a light of wisdom that will come from above, named messiah, and correct these vessels by giving them a screen. then the entire malchut deein sof will be corrected with a screen. that state of malchut is defined as the end of correction. all the vessels in the worlds of bya, except the stony heart, are corrected from the finest to the coarsest. in each of the worlds of bya there are 2,000 phases of correction, named years or degrees. all and all th

tes in his book, ohr chaim that, the concealment of the wisdom of kabbalah from above so that not everyone could practice it, was done for only a limited period of time, until the year 5330 (1570 by the gregorian calendar. but since that year, the concealment has been lifted and it is permitted for everyone to study the zohar. it also says that, only if the masses study the wisdom of kabbalah the messiah will come, and not as a result of anything else, as others think the zohar itself mentions more than once that only the lessened value that we ascribe to the study is the cause of all our anguish and that of the last generation. it also says that this is the reason for our spiritual exile. however, the truth is that the only reason we are suffering is that we are not correcting ourselves t

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t him as thou art he. now there are three that bear witness in heaven: the father, the word, and the spirit; and these three are one. and there are three that bear witness on earth; the spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three are one. in that trinity iao, i is the father, a the spirit, o the word; and in this a the spirit, m the water, sh the blood; and in all these are 358, mshich, the messiah, our lord and saviour jesus christ, in his death who gave up the spirit, the water and the blood, as st. john beareth witness in his evangel. hence is jesus christ alpha and omega, the symbol of the union of god and man. here then is a second trinity; god, god-man, man. and to this god-man our ancient brethren have given many names. and though this name of jesus christ hath been universall

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nty weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. 9:25 know therefore and understand [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build jerusalem unto the messiah the prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 9:26 and after threescore and two weeks shall messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolati

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central column of the tree, was of special importance in the work of astrally ascending the tree, because it was regarded as symbolically the rising arrow of a great bow formed from the lower part of the tree of life. this path could be ridden upward directly into tiphareth, the central sephiroth on the tree that was occultly linked in the golden dawn system with the astrological sun and with the messiah, resulting in a significant degree of spiritual enlightenment (see the illustration in chapter 13. aleister crowley was an enthusiastic advocate of both pathworking and rising on the planes, and emphasized the importance of these techniques in his 1929 work magick in theory and practice "the aspirant should remember that he is a microcosm. he should make it his daily practice to travel on

a great bow. temperance is linked in the golden dawn system with the astrological sign sagittarius, the archer, which gave rise to the conception of the twenty-fifth path as a great arrow. 202. knight, vol. 2,277. 203. regardie, 464. the astrological sun was placed in the central sephirah, tiphareth (beauty, which was understood to be the seat of jesus christ and all other divine human beings, or messiah figures. to attain the level of tiphareth in a true sense was believed to be as high on the actual tree of spiritual worlds that the normal human consciousness was capable of ascending. tiphareth is infused with divine radiance continually from the summit of the tree, the sphere of kether (the crown, via the vertical path that links kether with tiphareth. to rise on the planes in this mann

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h mental and physical, of other indviduals. the distant blue-white star symbolically represents the highest sphere of creation, kether, and the golden sphere in the heart-center represents the middle sphere of creation, tiphareth. kether is the seat of the source of being, in christian terms god the father; tiphareth is the seat of the higher self, in christian terms aura awareness 85 christ, the messiah. kether energizes tiphareth through a direct, vertical descending channel. it is not possible to astrally rise up in awareness to kether, but by visualizing this ascent, it becomes easier to link kether with tiphareth-or more accurately speaking, it becomes easier to gain an awareness of the ever-existing link between these two sephiroth. you need not understand these terms from the system

from left to right, assigning gedulah to the right shoulder and geburah to the left shoulder. by this inversion the practitioner symbolically becomes the manifest body of god, rather than a reflection of that body. instead of the words "for ever" i prefer the words "and the law everlastingj' as the final part of the formula. the word "law" refers to tiphareth, the central sephirah assigned to the messiah or christ. 110 standing exercises the text and accompanying gestures of my version of the kabbalistic cross are as follows "thou art (press hands together in prayer gesture in front of heart-center with fingertips up "the crown (press left palm to center of chest and touch top of brow with right index finger "and the kingdom (touch groin "the power (touch left shoulder "and the glory (touc

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their evolution, from the fourteenth century onward, they were ordered into a graphic pattern of connecting channels that is known as the sephirothic tree of the kabbalah. from highest to lowest these sephiroth are: 1. kether-the crown 2. chokmah-wisdom, the supernal father (abba) 3. binah-understanding, the supernal mother (aima) 4. chesed-mercy 5. geburah-severity 6. tiphareth-beauty, the son (messiah) 7. netzach-victory 8. hod-splendor 9. yesod-foundation 10. malkuth-the kingdom, the daughter tree of the sephiroth 10 tetragrammaton the holy name ihvh is specifically assigned to llphareth, the heart of the sephirothic tree. in a sense, the sixth sephirah is in itself the active process of creation. the three highest spheres, called the supernals, are considered to be so exalted that a g

their malevolent associations by the name yeheshuah coupled with the banishing vortex. even the name ihshvh alone, strongly vibrated upon the air without the visualization of the banishing vortex, is potent in cleansing spaces. of all names of power, the name of yeheshuah is the most potent, when properly vibrated, for curing sickness or banishing malicious spirits. it is the esoteric name of the messiah of the jews and the christ of the christians. the magical power that has always been most closely associated with jesus is the ability to drive out sickness from the mind and body. thus the name ihshvh is not only a banishing formula, but a healing formula as well. to free a person from nightmares, possession, depression, or obsession (persistent destructive thoughts, place your right hand

e the moon, ruling in cancer, is placed over the mirror-opposite ordering of the same five planets in the signs from gemini to aquarius. mercury is the only planet belonging both to the sect of the sun and the sect of the moon. it is the crucible of solar and lunar forces, where these powers mingle and amalgamate with each other. as such, it represents heavenly adam incarnated upon the earth (the messiah, or christ) and the middle pillar of mildness on the tree of the sephiroth. this is an occult correspondence that is seldom found in the texts of the kabbalah, but was well understood by john dee (see the hieroglyphic monad, theorem xiii, and 100 tetragrammaton also familiar to the medieval alchemists, who represented mercury in this moderating and reconciling aspect in their symbolic illu

s moderating and reconciling aspect in their symbolic illustrations. this is why dee made the astrological glyph of mercury the dominant component of his monad. mercury contains the sun and moon within itself, just as christ is both heaven and earth mingled in one form. when i speak of christ in these pages, i am not asserting a christian bias. christ is merely the most complete expression of the messiah figure, an embodiment of the infinite light (ain soph aur, whose purpose is to descend from heaven (atziluth) to earth (assiah, uniting spirit with flesh, and by this act of sacrifice to redeem humanity from its sin of imbalance (pure judgment, or din-see scholem, kabbalah, p. 123) and restore it to the harmony of its rightful spiritual estate through the infusion of loving kindness (chese

of its rightful spiritual estate through the infusion of loving kindness (chesed. according to the kabbalah, the true first sin committed by adam was the division of the tree of knowledge from the tree of life, originally a single tree. this division is known as the "cutting of the shoots" and is symbolically represented by the plucking of the apple, which divided fruit from root. the aim of the messiah is to reunite the tree of life (right pillar) with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (left pillar. the golden solar rings are worn in succession upon the index finger of the right hand. each time the sun enters the astrological sign corresponding to a particular overt banner of tetragrammaton, the ring bearing that banner is put upon the right index finger. it continues to be worn

106. geburah lies midway on the left pillar of the tree. the glory is gedulah, a very common alternate name for the fourth sephirah, chesed, located midway on the right pillar of the tree. scholem translates gedulah as "greatness" the everlasting law corresponds to ephareth on the tree. tiphareth lies in the midst of the central pillar. it is commonly translated "beauty" it is the sephirah of the messiah. an alternate title is the king. this simple cleansing and centering formula should be used before erecting the magic circle, as an introduction to all ritual work. in this way, the rituals begin from a clean slate, which is the purified and enlightened soul of the ritualist, and this inner light can then be transmitted to empower ritual objects or actions. water of cleansing it is necessa

ckwise to create this vortex. when charging empowering the rings 117 silver rings, the light should be visualized as moonlight; when charging gold rings, visualize the light as sunlight. when you complete this triple circumambulation, stand once again in the elemental quarter of the ring facing the altar, raise your hands to heaven and speak the works: by the authority of the fivefold name of the messiah, ihshvh (or ihvshh, in the case of the gold rings, i invoke and fill this magic circle with the cooling (or warming) rays of the moon (or sun. i invoke this lunar (or solar) radiance into my flesh; i invoke this lunar radiance into my heart; i invoke this lunar radiance into my mind. i am filled with holy light, in thy name ihshvh (or ihvshh. so let it be. will the light to enter into your

l be able to communicate with them. contemplate the lord of the ring for half an hour or so, then will the circle of light to diminish and return into the ring. stand up and walk three times around the altar counterclockwise to erase the occult vortex, and visualize the light that fills the circle dimming as the vortex slowly vanishes. speak the words: by the authority of the fivefold name of the messiah, ihshvh (or, in the case of gold rings, ihvshh, i release the holy radiance of the moon from this circle and return it to its former state. i release the light from my mind; i release the light from my heart; i release the light from my body; i return this light to the heavenly sphere of the moon (or sun) in thy name, ihshvh (or iwshh. so let it be! walk around the altar clockwise until yo

rs, or ancient ones, who sit in a circle around the throne. these are twenty-four old men with flowing white hair and white beards, clothed in white robes and wearing crowns of gold upon their heads. the names of these ancient ones are the twelve overt and twelve occult banners of tetragrammaton. in fact, they represent twenty-four countenances or aspects of the heavenly christ, or "anointed one (messiah) who sits upon the throne. they should be visualized as all having the same face, but each wearing a different expression. alternately, we might seek to command the wings by the authority of the seven lamps of fire that burn before the throne. these are the angels of the seven planets, usually given in magical texts as michael (sun, gabriel (moon, samael (mars, raphael (mercury, sachiel (j

hael (lion, gabriel (eagle, raphael (man, and uriel (bull. for example, the angel of severity vabashiah, who is the forward wing on the left side of the back of the bull, would be ruled by assuming the god-form of uriel. there is an easier way that eliminates the necessity of assuming a variety of god-forms, each of which rules a specific wing, or set of wings. it is to assume the god-form of the messiah, who rules all the wings, and all the lesser angels as well. when we successfully take on the identity of the heavenly christ, we are able to command even the highest angel, metatron, who is the united active power of enthroned god, just as the wings are the individual active powers of god when he is differentiated into the twenty-four seated ancient ones. 150 tetragrammaton it might be ob

ividual active powers of god when he is differentiated into the twenty-four seated ancient ones. 150 tetragrammaton it might be observed in passing that, in magic, a seated figure signifies archetypal creative potential but not active manifesting energy. kings command fiom their thrones, but they have knights or "messengers (angels) to actually carry their orders out in the world. this is why the messiah, who commands all beings around his throne, is seated, and why the seated twenty-four elders may be assumed to have authority over the active wings. this is also why solomon, who commanded the jinn, is usually represented in arabian folklore as seated upon his glorious throne, which is an earthly version of the heavenly throne of god. those who feel uncomfortable about assuming the christ

is is also why solomon, who commanded the jinn, is usually represented in arabian folklore as seated upon his glorious throne, which is an earthly version of the heavenly throne of god. those who feel uncomfortable about assuming the christ-form should realize that it is much more than a matter of pretending to be jesus. earthly jesus, the living prophet, and heavenly christ, the anointed one, or messiah, are really two separate beings. the messiah figure is the more ancient and more powerful of the two. he appears in the old testament under various guises-in the prophecies of jeremiah, ezekiel, and isaiah, in the figure of moses after his face is made to shine, and as the heavenly adam who is created before the earthly adam (see gen. 1:27 and 2:7. early christians identified their prophet

ly two separate beings. the messiah figure is the more ancient and more powerful of the two. he appears in the old testament under various guises-in the prophecies of jeremiah, ezekiel, and isaiah, in the figure of moses after his face is made to shine, and as the heavenly adam who is created before the earthly adam (see gen. 1:27 and 2:7. early christians identified their prophet jesus with this messiah myth. when we assume the christ-form, we must put on the identity of this heavenly being, who is the seated authority of metatron, the supreme active power. fortunately, we have an excellent description of the heavenly christ: and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. his h

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elieved that he could achieve a supreme spiritual power- the power to conceive a divine child, a godlike being, who would transcend the moral failings of the body born of mere woman. this goal of creating a divine fetus, crowley suggests, lies at the heart of many esoteric traditions, from ancient mesopotamia to india to the arab world: this is the great idea of magicians in all times to obtain a messiah by some adaptation of the sexual process. in assyria they tried incest..greeks and syrians mostly bestiality..the mohammedans tried homosexuality; medieval philosophers tried to produce homunculi by making chemical experiments with semen. but the root idea is that any form of procreation other than normal is likely to produce results of a magical character.cxiv -166- sex magic, particularl

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nd this is the first sense of loss which is registered concerning it. the second is that it has no proper vowel points, those of the name elohim being substituted, or alternatively the name adonai. it is said, for example "my name is written yhvh and read adonai" the epoch of restoration and completion is called, almost indifferently, that of resurrection, the world to come, and the advent of the messiah. in such day the present imperfect separation between the letters will be put an end to, once and forever. if it be asked: what is the connection between the loss and dismemberment which befell the divine name jehovah and the lost word in masonry, i cannot answer too plainly; but every royal arch mason knows that which is communicated to him in that supreme degree, and in the light of the

many great names, and they provided the materials ready to the hands of the symbolists. what purpose had the latter in view? the answer is that in germany, italy, france and england, the zeal for kabalistic literature among the latin-writing scholars had not merely a scholastic basis. they believed that the texts of the secret tradition showed plainly, out of the mouth of israel itself, that the messiah had come. this is the first fact. the second i have mentioned already, namely, that although, the central event of the third degree is the candidate's raising, it is not said in the legend that the master-builder rose, thus suggesting that something remains to come after, which might at once complete the legend and conclude the quest. the third fact is that in a rather early and important

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are 1, 30, 6, 40, 10, 20, 1, 30, 3, 2, 200, 10, 1, 30, 6, 200, 80, 1, 30, also amounting to 701, and the rabbis argued that numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott these two sets of three beings were identical. some christian kabalists point out that in genesis xlix. v. 10 we find yebah shiloh, yba shilh, shiloh shall come, which amount to 358. and that the word messiah, mshych is 40, 300, 10, 8 or 358. but so is also nachash, the serpent of moses, nchsh, 50, 8, 300. and i must remark that the claim to translate shilh, or, as some ancient hebrew mss. write it, shlh, by shiloh, in the sense of jesus christ, is farfetched. the word is simply rest, or peace, in its simplest meaning, but also is the scorpio of the chaldean zodiac (related to nachash, serpent)

zodiac has a lion couchant, he crouches as a lion. in this sense, then, the scepter shall not depart from judah, i.e, power shall not leave leo, until leo, until shelah, shiloh or scorpio shall come up or rise. astronomy teaches that as leo passes away from the meridian, scorpio rises. the title comforter, menachem, mnchm, 40, 50, 8, 40, amounting to 138, and the title the branch, applied to the messiah in zechariah iii. v. 8, namely, tzmch, 90, 40, 8 also 138, are of the same number. metatron, the great angel mthrthn, and shaddai shdi, sh =300 is used as a glyph of the the spirit of the living gods, ruach elohim ruch alhim, which transmutes into 200, 6, 8, 1, 30, 5, 10, 40 or 300. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 26. the kabalists sometimes consi

and the whites of the eyes; the mother gives the red parts, skin, flesh, etc. while god gives the breath, soul, mind and senses. the sanhedrin could order as a punishment three degrees of excommunication--separation for an undefined time, exclusion for 60 days, and execration for 30 days. moed katon, 17.1. the name of adam is of three letters, a, d and m: these are the initials of adam, david and messiah, and the soul of the first passed to david and then to the messiah. nishmath chajim, 152.2. 46. the soul of cain passed to jethro, his spirit into korah, and his body to an egyptian. yalkut reuben, 9. 18. 24. the soul of eve passed to sarah, to hannah the shunamite, and then to the widow of zarepta. the soul of numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott raha

on a certain day at noon, a new moon took place at any certain point in the heavens, it would take place again at the expiration of 600 years, at the same place and time, and with the planets all in similar positions. it is supposed that one recurrence of this period is referred to in the 4th eclogue of virgil, the poem, which, as is well known, has been spoken of as containing an allusion to the messiah, jesus. the period sung by the cumaean sibyl has now arrived, and the grand series of ages (that series which occurs again and again in the course of a mundane revolution) begins afresh. the virgin astraea returns, another reign of saturn commences, and a new progeny descends from heaven. 68. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it has been calculated

by the cumaean sibyl has now arrived, and the grand series of ages (that series which occurs again and again in the course of a mundane revolution) begins afresh. the virgin astraea returns, another reign of saturn commences, and a new progeny descends from heaven. 68. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it has been calculated by the late dr. kenealy that a messiah, or divine teacher, has been sent to the world every 600 years, thus- adam, the first messenger from the gods to our race on earth. enoch the second 600 years. fo-hi, the third, to china in particular. brighou, a hindu prophet. zaratusht, zoroaster, the fifth, to persia. thoth, taautus, or hermes trismegistus, sent to the egyptians. amosis, or moses, the jewish law-giver, the seventh. lao

power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 1. ishim. 2. arelim. 3. chashmalim. 4. melakim. 5. auphanim. 6. serpahim. 7. kerubim. the judaic hell was seven names by the kabalists. they are sheol, abaddon, tihahion, bar shacheth, tzelmuth, shaari muth and gehinnom. seven things were formed before the world. law, repentance, paradise, gehenna (that is gai hinnom, the throne of glory, and the messiah. the targum yerushalmi says these were formed 2000 years before the world s creation. talmud, pesachim, 54. i. seven things were hidden from man. the day of death, the time of the resurrection, the final judgment, the opinion of his fellow-man, the time of jewish restoration and the fall of persia (whatever that may mean. pesachim, 54. 2. the talmud in chagijah names 7 heavens and occultis

f rahab. 87. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the last 8 verses of deuteronomy, the mosaic law, the pentateuch, were written by joshua. bava bathra, 14. i. rabbi nathan states that there were 8 sects of the pharisees, but both of the talmuds (jerusalem and babylon) name only seven. it is prophesized that the harps, which will be played on earth before the messiah, will have 8 strings. erachin, 13. 2. as seven was the number of the original creation, so 8, says w. f. shaw, may be considered as the day of regeneration. eight souls were saved in the ark of noah, and noah was the 8th in descent, his name was nvch=8 times 8=64. 888 is the special number of jesus christ as he who is that resurrection and the life. he is the great opponent of the 666, the

occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the mahometans have 99 names of the deity. some jews have taught that god has 9 times descended to earth; 1st in eden, 2nd at the confusion of tongues, 3rd at the destruction of sodom, 4th to moses at horeb, 5th at sinai, 6th to balaam, 7th to elisha, 8th in the tabernacle and 9th in the temple at jerusalem; and that his 10th comes as the messiah will be final. 91. the ancients had a fear of the number nine and its multiples, especially 81; they thought of them of evil presage, indicating change and fragility. at the 9th hour jesus the savior died. nine is also the earth under evil influences. john heydon in the holy guide, and j. m. ragon, in his maconnerie occulte, thus associate numbers with the planets. table of planets and num

estroyed on the 9th day of the jewish month ab. on the 9th day of ab, modern jews do not wear the talith and phylacteries until evening. the day should be spent in tears, and no good comes of work done on that day. the talmud in soteh, 20. i, says that a woman prefers one measure of fun to 9 of pharisaic professional goodness. nine persons have entered alive into the jews paradise; enoch, elijah, messiah, eliezer the servant of abraham, hiram, king of tyre, ebed melek the ethiop, jabez the son of jehuda the prince, bathia daughter of pharaoh, and sarah the daughter of asher. some rabbis add rabbi yoshua son of levi, but he entered not at the door, but climbed over the wall. see kethuboth, 7. 2. in the 145th psalm, we find 9 reasons for praising god. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys t

temple required 300 priests to draw it aside, and 300 to cleanse it. 314. the number of shaddai, shdi and of metatron, mttrun. 318. helios, the sun. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 345. this is the number of el shaddai, al shdi, god almighty; and of shmh (shemah, the name of the absolute god; also of mshh, moses and shilh, shiloh. 119. 358. the number of messiah, mshich and nchsh, nachash, the serpent symbol of life. 364. the name satan, the shathan, h,shthn, contains 364, and all these days of each year he can tempt man, but not on the 365th, the day of atonement. 365. days of the year, negative jewish precepts, dukes of babylon, and streets in the city of rome. 370. directions of the thought of microprosopus. see idra rabba, 5. 537. 373. logos

restored to their own land. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 4291. after these years, the wars of gog and magog will cease says the talmud. 5888. the number of verses in the pentateuch says the kiddushin; but they are usually counted as 5845. 124. 6000. the world was intended to last 6000 years. 2000 years of disorder; 2000 of the law and 2000 more before messiah should come; but his coming has been delayed by our iniquities. so says the talmudic treatise. sanhedrin, 97. 1. 25,000. according to ezekiel, the mystical city of jerusalem was surrounded by a square space measuring 25,000 roods in length and this he called the holy oblation, and it was for the use of the priests, the sons of zadok. 3.14159. this is the value of pi, the ratio of diameter

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ard, instigated by the illumination of malkhut by ein sof and the consequent ascent of the former to the latter. again, to cite dov baer: the matter is as it is said eternity (1 chron 29:11) this is the construction of jerusalem304. for the construction of jerusalem in the future will be eternal in time [nishi bi-zeman] without any cessation at all, for the aspect of the kingship of david and the messiah in the future will also be eternal, as it is written, that it may be firmly established. now and evermore (isa 9:6, as it said, king david shall live everlastingly, 305 as it is known concerning what is written, he asked you for life (ps 21:5, in the aspect of the eternal life of ein sof verily [hayyim nishi de-ein sof mammash, for he will be illumined from the aspect of malkhut of ein sof

he woman is cold and thus needs to be warmed by the male: and why did you include [the double form of nun? as it is written, while the sun lasts, his name will be yinnon (ps 72:17, on account of the double nun, the bent and elongated nun, and he must come to be through male and female. 39 the bahiric text is based on the aggadic decoding of the word yinnon as a 144 chapter four proper name of the messiah.40 scholem surmised that the double nun in yinnon indicates that messianic redemption proceeds from the union of masculine and feminine aspects within the godhead. this exegetical remark thus validates the earlier observation that the bent and elongated forms of nun correspond respectively to male and female.41 according to scholem, moreover, the jewish gnosis preserved in this bahiric pas

seen profitably as a response to the doctrine of the virginal conception of jesus promoted in medieval christian polemical treatises against jews, which were especially prominent in the twelfth century when the attempt to convince jews of the mechanics of the incarnation was based on an appeal to observable natural phenomena perceived by the senses and understood by reason.43 the remark that the messiah must be propagated through the conjunction of masculine and feminine (sarikh lihyot al yedei zakhar u-neqevah) appears to be a direct challenge to the foundational dogma of the church.44 needless to say, in the period of the redaction of the bahir, christianity was not monolithic indeed, at no time in history has it been and surely some authors could have accommodated the notion that jesus

us came to be from the union of male and female. none, however, could have comfortably interpreted the matter somatically, presuming thereby that jesus was conceived in a womb fertilized by semen discharged physically by an actual man.45 but it is precisely this view that underlies the bahiric explication of the double nun in the name yinnon, offering a naturalistic conception of the birth of the messiah that is antithetical to the supernatural understanding implied in the doctrine of the incarnation.46 the polemical point is sharpened when we examine more carefully the symbolic value assigned to the letter, for the parabolic approach deployed by the kabbalists responsible for the (relatively final) redaction of sefer ha-bahir is predicated on the hermeneutical assumption that the inner co

emical point is sharpened when we examine more carefully the symbolic value assigned to the letter, for the parabolic approach deployed by the kabbalists responsible for the (relatively final) redaction of sefer ha-bahir is predicated on the hermeneutical assumption that the inner core safeguards and solidifies the external shell. hence the double nun in yinnon not only signifies the birth of the messiah from the coupling of man and woman; it also marks the within mem/ returning forward 145 ontological locus of sexual differentiation within the divine. this, i surmise, should be identified as the phallus, or more precisely, the circumcised phallus, which is the vantage point, the angle of vision, whence the male-female polarity is specularized. the phallocentric orientation in relation to

s mayyim, that is, the watery texture of the womb renders it necessary for the woman to be warmed by man. consequently, the womb that retains the semen is portrayed as open mem, the joining of masculine and feminine. the tradition preserved in the bahir presumes that the closed mem represents the womb that has not been inseminated; such a womb being infertile, it thus could not have conceived the messiah described as the son born of woman. 56 an exegetical frame for this hermeneutical conflict may be located in the messianic meaning ascribed to the closed mem in the expression le-marbbeh ha-misrah, in token of abundant authority (isa 9:6. in response to christian exegetes who interpreted the closed mem as a reference to the virgin womb and the savior-god born therefrom, the kabbalist insin

to the virgin womb and the savior-god born therefrom, the kabbalist insinuates that the letter in this orthographic shape signifies sterility, an inability to extend the body of engenderment, in mospik s telling phrase.57 one zoharic homily, in particular, is an especially significant locus for the kabbalistic polemic against the christological doctrine of the virginal conception and birth of the messiah.58 briefly, the hom- within mem/ returning forward 147 ily focuses on two letters, final mem and he, which are assigned to binah, referred to as the supernal world (alma ila ah) or the world of the masculine (alma didekhura, in contrast to shekhinah, the lower world (alma tata ah) or the world of the feminine (alma de-nuqba. when binah is consolidated as a point sealed within the supernal

ally and emblematically to the figure of abraham. the fecundity of the womb is notionally correlated with the phallocentric rite of circumcision, as it is the blood of the covenant the word for blood is dam, which is composed of dalet and mem that opens the mem, the womb of the mother, and transposes the dalet, the sign of poverty and infertility, into a he, the sign of e uence and fertility. the messiah, according to the jewish tradition, will emerge from a womb that has been impregnated by male seed. in the bahiric text, the fecund womb is demarcated not by the he but by the open mem, the fusion of male and female, the event in the mundane cosmos symbolically homologous with the heteroerotic conjunction in the godhead,61 a theme that is expressed in the zoharic passage by the image of th

preserves a homiletical reflection attributed to bar qappara in sepphoris and transmitted by r. tanhum.64 inquiring about the obvious orthographic anomaly of the closed mem appearing in the middle of the word le-marbbeh, bar qappara responds by saying that the closed form alludes to the fact that god yielded to the protestation of the attribute of judgment (middat ha-din) not to make hezeqiah the messiah, since he did not utter a hymn expressing gratitude for the miracles wrought on his behalf. the postponement of the divine intention and the (temporary) closure of the hope for messianic redemption are symbolized by the closed form of the letter placed where we would have expected the open form. in the continuation of the homily, another explanation is offered for the closed mem, one that

on are symbolized by the closed form of the letter placed where we would have expected the open form. in the continuation of the homily, another explanation is offered for the closed mem, one that leads the reader deeper into the maze of rabbinic myth. the earth is said to have opened its mouth and beseeched god to ignore the urging of the attribute of judgment. imploring god to make hezekiah the messiah, the earth promised to offer a song in his place. the prooftext cited to bolster the argument is from the end of the earth we hear songs, glory to the righteous one [mi-kenaf ha-ares zemirot shama nu sevi lasaddiq (isa 24:16. the angelic archon of the world (sar ha-olam) intercedes on behalf of the earth, master of the world! perform his will [sivyono] for this righteous one, but a voice f

orld (sar ha-olam) intercedes on behalf of the earth, master of the world! perform his will [sivyono] for this righteous one, but a voice from heaven (bat qol) responds by citing the continuation within mem/ returning forward 149 of the verse, it is a mystery to me, it is a mystery to me (razi li razi li. according to the rabbinic homilist, these words herald that hezekiah would not be proclaimed messiah, for the redeemer, who is the righteous one (saddiq, remains hidden with god, an occlusion encoded in the closed mem of le-marbbeh. when the prophet inquires how long this concealment will last, the voice from heaven responds by citing the rest of the verse: the faithless have acted faithlessly; the faithless have caused faith to be veiled (bogdim bagadu u-veged bogdim bagadu. the almost i

eous one (saddiq, remains hidden with god, an occlusion encoded in the closed mem of le-marbbeh. when the prophet inquires how long this concealment will last, the voice from heaven responds by citing the rest of the verse: the faithless have acted faithlessly; the faithless have caused faith to be veiled (bogdim bagadu u-veged bogdim bagadu. the almost incantational utterance informs us that the messiah is hidden until the time of blasphemy from the root bgd, to cover over, to hide one s intent, to act under false pretense, to severe the enclosure of faith. the christological interpretation is buttressed by the second talmudic statement, according to which the open mem denotes ma amar patuah, the revealed saying, and the closed mem, ma amar satum, the concealed saying. 65 as might be expe

eal with this question adequately would necessitate exploring the various currents of esotericism that run through the textual landscape of the bahir. such an undertaking will have to await another opportunity; for now, su ce it to note that even if we lay aside the disputatious strategy, the symbolic decoding of mem and nun undeniably suggests at the very least a messianic context: nun refers to messiah and mem to the womb whence he comes to be.66 to speak of mem steadfastly, in the stammer of its forbearance, we would do well to mull over the relationship between the messiah and the middle. should we not expect the messiah at the end? what has the messiah to do with mem? can the middle give an account of the end without necessitating the end of the middle? what is underway from before to

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n men feel that they have exhausted all their own resources and have come to an end of all their own innate possibilities and that the problems and conditions confronting them are beyond their solving or handling, they are apt to look for a divine intermediary and for the mediator who will plead their cause with god and bring about a rescue. they look for a saviour. this doctrine of mediators, of messiahs, of christs and of avatars can be found running like a golden thread through all the world faiths and scriptures and, relating these world scriptures to some central source of emanation, they are found in rich abundance everywhere. even the human soul is regarded as an intermediary between man and god; christ is believed by countless millions to act as the divine mediator between humanity

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th this mysterious character from what he gathered in his sanskrit studies. he compares him to hermes and mercury, and calls him "the eloquent messenger of the gods (see asiat. res. i. p. 264. all this led the late dr. kenealy("book of god, on the ground that the hindus believe him to be a great rishi "who is for ever wandering about the earth, giving good counsel" to see in him one of his twelve messiahs. he was, perhaps, not so far off the real track as some imagine. what narada really is, cannot be explained in print; nor would the modern generations of the profane gather much from the information. but it may be remarked, that if there is in the hindu pantheon a deity which resembles jehovah, in, tempting by "suggestion" of thoughts and "hardening" of the hearts of those whom he would m

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lements, and world bank, which in turn, are responsible for the death, starvation, and suffering of billions of people across the planet. one of the architects of the global 2000 report was robert mcnamara (tc, cfr, bil, a former president of the world bank, the policies of which have wreaked environmental and human genocide in the third world! i would have more confidence if these 'environmental messiahs' were not the same people who suppress the introduction of known technologies, such as free energy technology,52 which could in a few years replace today's fossil-fuel-burning environmental carnage. i differ from those who say there is no environmental crisis and that the whole thing is a propaganda creation. i think we are inflicting appalling wounds to planet earth and if we go on as we

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e 39 yesod is astral psychism; tiphareth is illuminated consciousness, the highest aspect of the personality with which the individuality has coalesced; this is the condition which really constitutes initiation; it is the consciousness of the higher self brought through into the personality. it is a gleam of higher consciousness coming from behind the veil paroketh. it is for this reason that the messiahs and saviours of the world are assigned to tiphareth in the symbolism of the tree, for they were the light-bringers to humanity; and as all who bring fire from heaven must do, they died the sacrificial death for the sake of mankind. it is here, too, that we die to the lower self in order that we may rise in the higher self 'in jesu morimur" 13. the middle pillar rises through daath, the in

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frank. great world mysteries. london, 1957. united states army. index-catalogue of the library of the surgeon- general s office. washington, d.c, 1882. firman, mr. and mrs. a. h (ca. 1876) british mediums who claimed to be controlled by john king and produced direct voice phenomena. mrs. firman produced wax molds (see plastics) and materialization of spirit forms. william oxley, author of modern messiahs and wonder workers (1889, claimed to have observed a total dematerialization of the medium while the phantom was outside the cabinet. the phantoms either shrank through the floor or rose to the ceiling and slowly disappeared. similarly, emma hardinge britten wrote of the production of the mold of a spirit foot in her nineteenth century miracles (1883. the honorable j. l. o sullivan record

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to see her copper-colored cheek, the bridge of her nose, and the white of her eye. she remained out too long. darting back, she collapsed into a shapeless heap before the curtains, only one hand being distinguishable. in half a minute she appeared again. the process of dissolution varied. robert dale owen stated that he had seen a form fade from the head downward. william oxley (author of modern messiahs and wonder workers, 1889) said he saw yolande melting away from the feet upward until only the head appeared above the floor; this grew less and less until only a white spot remained. then it too disappeared. her materialization, as a rule, took ten to fifteen minutes. her disappearance took place in two to five minutes, while the disappearance of the drapery lasted from one-half to two m

s and hensleigh wedgwood who, with two other men interested in psychic research, secured exclusive rights to monck s services for a modest salary. enduring evidence of monck s phantasmal appearances was obtained by william oxley in 1876 in manchester in the form of excellent paraffin molds of hands and feet of the materialized forms (see plastics. oxley described his psychic experiences in modern messiahs and wonder workers (1889. oxley s experiences tend to put aside the hallucination theory that psychic researcher frank podmore proposed in view of colley s astounding experiences. in his lecture before the church congress at weymouth in 1903, colley said: often when i have been sleeping in the same bedroom with him, for the near observation of casual phenomena during the night and, specia

esiastical position and my future advancement. one of the most astonishing psychic feats ascribed to monck was his teleportation from bristol to swindon, a distance of 42 miles. this claimed miraculous feat in 1871 was described in the spiritualist (1875, p. 55. in his later years, monck concentrated on healing. the closing period of his life was spent in new york. sources: oxley, william. modern messiahs and wonder workers. london: trubner, 1889. monen a term from the kabala, referring to that branch of magic that deals with the reading of the future by the computation of time and observance of the heavenly bodies. it thus includes astrology. money (in occult tradition) money that comes from a pact with the devil is of poor quality, and such wealth, like the fairy-money, generally turns t

eley publishing, 1969. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. radionics 1273 proceedings of the scientific and technical congress of radionics and radiesthesia london may 16.18, 1950, london, n.d. tiller, william a. radionics, radiesthesia and physics. in the varieties of healing experience. palo alto, calif: academy of paraspsychology& medicine, 1971. young, james harvey. the medical messiahs. princeton n.j: princeton university press, 1967. raelian movement a flying saucer religious movement that originated in france in 1973 from the claims of contact with extraterrestrials by former motor-racing journalist claude vorilhon. vorilhon claimed that on december 1, 1973, he encountered a small humanoid being who arrived on earth in a spacecraft. the entity, addressing him in frenc

ious groups added a flood of additional communications. sources: adkin, clare e. brother benjamin: a history of the israelite house of david. berrien springs, mich: andrews university press, 1990. balleine, g. r. past finding out: the tragic story of joanna southcott and her successors. london: spck, 1956. lane, c. life and bibliography of joanna southcott. london, 1912. matthews, ronald. english messiahs. london: methuen, 1936. octavia [helen exeter. healing for all: the joanna southcott healing. london: panacea society, 1925. panacea society. transactions of the panacea society with the archbishops and bishops of the church of england with reference to joanna southcott. london: panacea society, 1935. pullen, philip. index to the divine and spiritual writings of joanna southcott. ashford

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ical qabalah, passed down from teacher to student, generally involve a variety of yogic disciplines that are rooted in scriptural revelations and primary texts. the highest intentions and experiences of the mystical qabalah correlate with those of all other mystical traditions. at the same time, and without contradiction, each mystical tradition has its own unique totality archetypes, scriptures, messiahs and great souls, and styles of observances. the disciplines of the mystical qabalah are distinct from those practiced by magicians, wizards, and sorcerers who seek to acquire creative and/or destructive power, depending on what paths they traverse on the tree of life. the occult disciplines of wizards and magicians are often called the practical, hermetic, or magical qabalah. practical qa

o found in ancient sanskrit texts in the account of the incarnation of vishnu as matsya the fish, where the flood is called pralaya( dark night of brahma. 0' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8- 0' the primary texts that are largely the source for the core ideas, meditation practices, and all the various forms of the tree of life in the mystical qabalah are listed below. primary texts include those revealed through messiahs, prophets, and great masters. secondary texts are commentaries upon primary texts. during and since the middle ages, european jewish kabbalists, especially in spain, lithuania, and poland, wrote a considerable body of secondary qabalistic literature. for the purposes of this book, however, we will limit our attention to earlier primary works, with the notable exception of the etz hachayyi

re of its worldview, and thereby form the basis and backdrop for its spiritual practices. all mystical worldviews are at once unique and yet identical. since they are open ended, and provide a ladder for the finite human intellect to connect with an infinite ground of pure being that is inherently unfathomable to that intellect, they are usually composed of allegories and allusions transmitted by messiahs, perfect masters, and great sages. like a ladder that is used to climb up to the roof of a house and then as the means to come back down, a mystical worldview is intended to act as a vehicle for the awakening consciousness to ascend through the planes of existence to unite with the divine essence. the worldview becomes a frame of reference for the mind to come back into once the soul retu

are likewise such gradations of perspective, all of which are relatively valid and reflect different spiritual constitutions. the lord of all does appear to sport in human forms. and, the dream of the small face universe is projected and withdrawn through the action of the celestial messiah. and, all name and form are finite illusory manifestations, or shadows, of infinite undifferentiated being. messiahs come as world teachers when righteousness fades, and the message of the absolute unity of existence and the primacy of unconditional love, discrimination, and renunciation as a means to intimately know god becomes obscured by the conditioned impressions of conventional religions. such extraordinary beings remind us in a lively way of our innate divinity and of the spiritual awakening that

they are waiting for the last to take action on the day of judgment (yom ah-din, when allah will resurrect the souls of the faithful in paradise. 2" 2' 8: 2 f# acharit wielding a sword riding a white horse many details found in the torah, peshitta (gospels, and apocrypha regarding the nature, lives, experiences, powers, and teachings of master mosheh and master yeshuvah find parallels in those of messiahs in other traditions. messianic appearances are called avatara in sanskrit. the hindu tradition contains beautiful and profound descriptions of the life dramas and teachings of the ten incarnations of vishnu, including rama, krishna, narasimha (lit. man-lion, and matsya (the fish, who is said to have appeared to noah during the flood. hindus also ascribe messianic stature to chaitanya (six

the incarnations of the buddha, and of the one to come called maitreya. the sage lao tze, to whom is ascribed the tao-te ching, was the revered divine incarnation who sired the development of taoism. and zoroaster' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% was the messianic wellspring who transmitted the zend avesta and originated the tradition passed down through the farsis. in studying the lives of these many diverse messiahs, one notices the many instances where they persevered through challenges and travails. master mosheh suffered at the hands of the egyptians and was excommunicated and sent into the desert. master yeshuvah was ridiculed by those in authority, and eventually tortured and apparently crucified. master mohammed was forced to prevail in tribal warfare, and at one point had to escape from mecca

irst five books of the tanakh, ascribed to master mosheh in rabbinical judaism. torah qadmah (hebrew: eternal torah: unmanifest, supernal torah in the upper worlds. tree of perfection (also perfect tree: several types of trees in angelic tree language in which the sefirah knowledge/first is visible, and in which there is no sefirah kingdom. these trees correspond to awakened yogis and saints, and messiahs. trigram: glyph composed of three solid or broken lines. the eight permutations of the solid and broken lines correlate to the directional sefiroth plus two of the sefiroth from the inner court (water and fire) on the qabalistic tree of life tsawwuf (arabic: more traditional name for the mystical tradition of the sufis. tzadiq (hebrew: saint, pl. tzadiqim: an awakened servant of the lord

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t: a visitor s story has just reminded me of the possibility that i am a secret chief myself without knowing it: for i have sometimes been recognized by other people as having acted as such, though i was not aware of the fact at the time. brad steiger observed in 1988, that, apparently..space beings have placed themselves in the role of messengers of god, or that we, in our desperation for cosmic messiahs who can remove us from the foul situation we have made on this planet, hope that there are such messengers who can extricate us from the plight we have brought on ourselves. only with the coming of cipher knowledge can we decode the pretended saviors from authentic benefactors or, better allies. taking into consideration that ufo contactee george king and his aetherius society are earnest

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e imbibed true wisdom. cursed are the obedient, for they shall breed creeplings. blessed are the iron-handed; the unfit shall flee before them. cursed are the haters of battle; subjugation is their portion. blessed are the death-defiant; their days shall be long in the land. cursed are the feeble-brained, for they shall perish amidst plenty. blessed are the destroyers of false hope; they are true messiahs. cursed are the god-adorers; they shall be shorn sheep! blessed are the valiant, for they shall obtain great treasure. 440 cursed are the believers in good and evil, for they are frightened by shadows. blessed are those who believe in nothing; never shall it terrorized their minds. cursed are the "lambs of god" they shall be bleed "whiter than snow. blessed is the man who has powerful ene

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also night stalker; satanic ritual abuse for further reading: baddeley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. london: plexus, 1999. ellis, bill. raising the devil: satanism, new religions, and the media. lexington: university press of kentucky, 2000. hicks, robert. in pursuit of satan: the police and the occult. amherst, ny: prometheus books, 1991. jenkins, philip.mystics and messiahs: cults and new religions in american history. new york: oxford university press, 2000. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. newton,michael. raising hell: an encyclopedia of devil worship and satanic crime. new york: avon, 1993. crowley, aleister edward aleister crowley (october 12, 1875 december 1, 1947, the most famous and influential ritual magician of the twen

ley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. london: plexus, 1999. ellis, bill. raising the devil: satanism, new religions, and the media. lexington: university press of kentucky, 2000. irvine, doreen. from witchcraft to christ. city, uk: concordia publishing house, 1973. published in the u.s. as freed from witchcraft. nashville: thomas nelson, 1981. jenkins, philip.mystics and messiahs: cults and new religions in american history. new york: oxford university press, 2000. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. salmonson, jessica amanda. dennis wheatley: sex, jingoism& black magic. http//www.violetbooks.com/reviews/jaswheatley. html, 2000. wheatley, dennis. the devil rides out. 1935. london: hutchinson, 1963 .the satanist. 1960. london: arrow books

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-servant muhammad, most bloodthirsty of prophets, you have both been judged and found detestable. prostrate yourselves before me, five times five, it will not be enough. for seeking to make the earth your pit of slaves, you are the most accursed of all. your followers will be isolated and hunted down, and history will remember you as the paragons of barbarism. 6. all false prophets and delusional messiahs, you have been judged and found incompetent. all of your patronizing sermons and false prophecies have emptied your souls of any light. choke on the darkness, it is your reward. 7. liars! you who would claim to be my chosen vessels on this plane, you have also been judged and found pitiful. no pile of bones covered in fat and flesh can speak for me! i am the unbound and unconquerable, i a

me or humiliation. 16. my names and manifestations on this plane are legion, i have been known to many, but understood by but a few. 17. the time of my full unveiling is fast approaching, a time when the winds and seas shall be aflame with my glory. 18. the dawn of a new age; the time of my glory and my chosen. 19. then all falsehoods shall be shattered, all the lies of men and their prophets and messiahs will be made clear. my fury and wrath shall be upon the earth, and my chosen will be feared and respected. 20. they will possess the true judgment of the fifth gate, and the fires of my majesty will transform the entirety of this realm. 21. lo, i am coming. prepare the ways unto me; make ready my throne upon this, my earth. i am satan! i am the god of this world and all that it contains

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he will draw round him an immense following: he will accomplish a complete moral revolution in the world. but the high place is before all things necessary for such a personage, because, in these days of meanness and trickery, any message issuing from the lower ranks is suspected of interested ambition and imposture. ye, then, who are nothing, ye who possess nothing, aspire not to be apostles or messiahs. if you have faith, and would act in accordance therewith, get possession, in the first place, of the means of action, which are the influence of rank and the prestige of fortune. in olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. we have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must

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ey shall be vassals forever! 5. blessed are the iron-handed, for the unfit shall flee before them- cursed are the poor in spirit, for they shall be spat upon! 6. blessed are the death-defiant, for their days shall be long in the land- cursed are the gazers toward a richer life beyond the grave, for they shall perish amidst plenty! 7. blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true messiahs- cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep! 8. blessed are the valiant, for they shall obtain great treasure- cursed are the believers in good and evil, for they are frightened by shadows! 9. blessed are those that believe in what is best for them, for never shall their minds be terrorized- cursed are the "lambs of god, for they shall be bled whiter than snow! 10. blessed

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em, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the god idea. very aptly, the world-renowned atheist and anarchist, michael bakunin, says in his great work god and the state: all religions, with their gods, their demi-gods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties. the history of religions, of the birth, grandeur, and the decline of the gods who had succeeded one another in human belief, is nothing, therefore, but the development of the collective intelligence and conscience of mankind. as fast as they disco

ys. stimulus: something that encourages an activity or interest. fads: fashions or trends that are popular for a short period of time. fancies: whims or sudden likings. consistent: in agreement. harassed: bothered, disturbed. manifestation: appearance. sinister: threatening. expressly: deliberately. superstition: false idea. aptly: appropriately. demi-gods: beings who are part human and part god. messiahs: those who rescue or save from harm. attained: achieved. faculties: mental abilities. defect: flaw. attributed: credited. abdication: giving up. negation: denial. superfluous: unnecessary. world religions: primary sources 197 the philosophy of atheism it is characteristic of theistic tolerance that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe

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nd think to make changes in times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand for three and one half years (daniel 7:24. and there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue only for a short time (revelation 17:10. in matthew 24:3 44, jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) speaks to his disciples at great length concerning the false messiahs and prophets who will deceive many people with their rumors about the end of the world. he makes reference to the prophet daniel and his warnings concerning the end times and the antichrist, and he admonishes the disciples not to chase after false teachers who will produce great miracles and signs to trick god s chosen ones. no one knows when the son of man shall appear again coming on th

t. the heart of the gospels is eschatological, or end-oriented. the essential theme of jesus and the apostles is that the last stage of history, the end time, was being entered into with his appearance. in matthew 24:3 44, 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 182 religious phenomena jesus speaks to his disciples at great length concerning false messiahs and prophets who will deceive many people with their rumors about the end of the world. he makes reference to the prophet daniel and his warnings concerning the end times and the antichrist, and he admonishes the disciples not to chase after false teachers who will produce great miracles and signs to trick god s chosen ones. no one knows when the son of man shall appear again coming on th

c jouret had convinced at least 74 of their followers to join them in mass suicide. 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 318 mystery religions and cults a group of falun gong followers perform meditation exercises (ap/wide world photos) m delving deeper hall, john, and philip schuyler. the mystical apocalypse of the solar temple. in millennium, messiahs, and mayhem. edited by thomas robbins and susan j. palmer. new york: routledge, 1997, 285 311. mayer, jean francois. apocalyptic millennialism in the west: the case of the solar temple. critical incident analysis group [online] http//faculty. virginia.edu/ciag/apoc_bkg.html. order of the solar temple. religious movements homepage [online] http//religiousmovements. lib.virginia.edu/nrms/so

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of what spiritual growth is, it has also resulted in many seekers assuming that their meditations yield contact with "secret chiefs or illuminated masters from the inner planes" thus they mistake initial contacts with the higher self, along with corresponding images of personal growth meant for themselves, as important messages for all humanity, and they come to think of themselves as avatars or messiahs. this unfortunate tendency is an anathema to the great work. 13. this should be a special dagger that is only used for the purpose of banishing. in actuality, no such implement is needed, and the magician may simply use his index and middle fingers to trace the pentagram just as effectively. 14. although the figure traced is the same as the banishing earth pentagram, in the lbrp it should

o has mana is said to have power and influence over others, but also runs the risk of becoming self-centered and megalomaniacal. this is because these great universal archetypes produce a potent attraction whch can in some instances entice the individual into identifying him or herself with the archetype, creating a type of self-aggrandizement or ego-inflation. such is the path of many modern-day messiahs, self-appointed gurus, and power-mad spiritual leaders. an inf7ated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. it is incapable of learningfrom the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions aboutfuture. it is hypnotized by itseyand therefore cannot be argued with. it inevitably dooms itseyto cala

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