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and have not hearkened unto the voice of the lord our god, to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly: 19 since the day that the lord brought our forefathers out of the land of egypt, unto this present day, we have been disobedient unto the lord our god, and we have been negligent in not hearing his voice. 20 wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the lord appointed by moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day. 21 nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of the lord our god, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom he sent unto us: 22 but every man followed the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, a

lord our god. chapter 2 herefore the lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of israel and juda, 2 to bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in jerusalem, according to the things that were written in the law of moses; 3 that a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter. 4 moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about, where the lord hath scattered them. 5 thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have sinned against the lord our god, and have not

st of the night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence. 26 and the house which is called by thy name hast thou laid waste, as it is to be seen this day, for the wickedness of the house of israel and the house of juda. 27 o lord our god, thou hast dealt with us after all thy goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine, 28 as thou spakest by thy servant moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the children of israel, saying, 29 if ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where i will scatter them. 30 for i knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves. 31

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al division of judaism. the qabalah presents a symbolic explanation of the origin of the universe, the relationship of human beings to the godhead, and an emanationist approach to creation, whereby the infinite light (ain soph aur) manifests through different sephiroth on the tree of life. although the central book of the qabalah, the zohar, was not written down until around 1280 a.d. probably by moses de leon, the qabalah has spiritual links with gnosticism and other early mystical cosmologies. in the qabalah, all manifestations are said to have their origin in ain soph aur, and the successive emanations of the godhead reveal aspects of the divine nature. the system is thus monotheistic in essence, but allows for the tenfold structure of the sephiroth upon the tree of life. the emanations

golden dawn who use the tree of life as a glyph for the unconscious mind sometimes distinguish the magical path, which embraces all ten sephiroth, from the mystical path of the middle pillar, which is an ascent from malkuth through yesod and tiphareth to kether on the central pillar of the tree. zohar: the book of splendor, the principal book of the qabalah. it is thought to have been written by moses de leon and was first circulated around 1280-1290 a.d. in guadalajara. it included commentaries on the torah. gnosticism: gnosis is a greek term for knowledge. the term gnosis applies to certain religious sects that emerged during the early formative years christianity, and which believed in hidden spiritual knowledge. the main factor that differentiated them from christianity was their emph

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the 30th path by which he has symbolically entered this grade from the grade of theoricus. heg: leads theoricus to s.w. corner of temple (done) heg: leads theoricus s.w. then forward to hiereus. hiereus: by what symbol dost thou enter herein? heg: by the peculiar emblem of the stolistes, which is the cup of water. hiereus: the cup of the stolistes partakes in part of the symbolism of the laver of moses and the sea of solomon. on the tree of life it embraces nine of the sephiroth, exclusive of kether. yesod and malkuth form the triangle below, the former the apex the latter the base. like the caduceus it further represents the 3 elements of water, air and fire. the crescent is the water which is above the firmament; the circle is the firmament and the triangle the consuming fire below, whic

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st. the crayfish is the sign cancer, and was anciently the scarabus or khephra, the emblem of the sun below the horizon as he ever is when the moon is increasing above. also when the sun is in the sign pisces, the moon will be well in her increase in cancer as shown by the crayfish emblem. hiero: leads practicus to tablet of the serpent of brass in east. hiero: this is the serpent nehushtan which moses made when the children of israel were bitten by the serpents of fire in the wilderness. it is the serpent of the paths of the tree. and he set it on a pole, that is, twined round the middle pillar of the sephiroth. and the word used in the passage in numbers 21 for fiery serpents, is the same as the name of the angels of geburah, the same spelling, the same pointing, seraphim, around the mid

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

tures on the face of the earth and in the skies and waters and the promise that tomorrow really is another day. he is also guardian of the young. he is depicted with a pilgrim's stick, a wallet and a fish, showing the way and offering sustenance to all who ask. raphael stands in the east and his colour is yellow. michael archangel of the sun and light, michael is the warrior angel. he appeared to moses as the fire in the burning bush and saved daniel from the lions' den. as commander of the heavenly hosts, michael, with his flaming sword, drove satan and his fallen angels out of the celestial realms; as angel of judgement, he also carries a scale for weighing the souls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obsta

ABRAMELIN1

l at length happen that at thy first invocation thou wilt be able to see and communicate with them. but i advise thee to undertake nothing unclean or impure, for then thy importunity, far from attracting them will only serve to chase them from thee; and it will be thereafter exceedingly difficult for thee to attract them for use for pure ends. the first book of the holy magic, which god gave unto moses, aaron, david, solomon, and other saints, patriarchs and prophets; which teacheth the true divine wisdom. bequeathed by abraham unto lamech his son. translated from the hebrew. 1458. 1 the first book of the holy magic. lthough this first book serveth rather for prologue than for the actual rules to acquire this divine and sacred magic; nevertheless, o! lamech, my son, thou wilt therein find

and sisters, andistudied with care how to put to a profitable use what my father had left me after his death; and seeing that my means were insufficient to counterbalance the expenses which i was compelled to be at, after having set in order all my affairs and business as well as my strength permitted; i set out, and i went into vormatia9 to mayence, in order to find there a very aged rabbi named moses, in the hope that i had found in him that which i sought. as i have said in the preceding chapter, his science had no foundation such as that of the true divine wisdom. i remained with him for four years,10 miserably wasting all that time there, and persuading myself that i had learned all that i wished to know, and i was only thinking of returning to my paternal home, when i casually met a

ad not death taken samuel from me at length through a sudden illness. finding myself alone, a fresh desire for travel seized me, and so much was my heart given thereto, that i kept wandering from one place to another, until at length i arrived in egypt, where constantly travelling for the space of four years in one direction and another, the more i practised the experiments of the magic of rabbin moses, the less did it please me. i pursued my voyage towards our ancient country, where i fixed my residence for a year, and neither saw nor heard of any other thing but misery, calamity, and unhappiness. after this period of time, i there found a christian who also was travelling in order to find that which i was seeking also myself. having made an agreement together, we resolved to go into the

this art which i discovered in one way and another while travelling in the world, and also of the measure and understanding of their various sciences; while, in the sixth chapter following, i will recount the things which i have learned and seen with some among them, and whether in actual practice i found them true or false. i have already before told you that my first master had been the rabbin moses at mayence, who was indeed a good man, but entirely ignorant of the true mystery and of the veritable magic. he only devoted himself to certain superstitious secrets which he had collected from various infidels, and which were full of the nonsense and foolishness of pagans and idolaters; to such an extent that the good angels and holy spirits judged him unworthy of their visits and conversat

oul and of body, because all these only worked by particular pacts, which had no true foundation; also all these arts demanded a very long space of time, and they were very false, and when these men were unsuccessful they had always ready a thousand lies and excuses. in the same city of constantinople i found two men of our law, namely, simon and the rabbin abrahame, whom we may class with rabbin moses of mayence. in egypt the first time i found five persons who were esteemed and reputed as wise men, among whom were four, namely, horay, abimech, alcaon, and orilach, who performed their operations by the means of the course of the stars and of the constellations, adding many diabolical conjurations and impious and profane prayers, and performing the whole with great difficulty. the fifth, n

ABRAMELIN2

gic of abramelin the mage book ii translated by s.l. mac gregor mathers the sacred magic of abramelin the mage book ii this adobe acrobat edition contains the complete and unaltered text of the corresponding sections in the second (1900) edition published by john m. watkins, london. prepared and typeset by benjamin rowe, december 16, 1998. 41 the second book of the holy magic, which god gave unto moses, aaron, david, solomon, and other saints, patriarchs and prophets; which teacheth the true divine wisdom. bequeathed by abraham unto lamech his son. translated from the hebrew. 1458. the sacred magic 42 the second book of the sacred magic. prologue. he wisdom of the lord is an inexhaustible fountain, neither hath there ever been a man born who could penetrate its veritable origin and foundat

rom wine, and even from the very excrements themselves; and yet, however, all this is reputed as science! i exhort you, ye who read, to have the fear of god, and to study justice, because infallibly unto you shall be opened the gate of the true wisdom which god gave unto noah and unto his descendants japhet, abraham, and ishmael; and it was his wisdom that delivered lot from the burning of sodom. moses learned the same wisdom in the desert, from the burning bush, and he taught it unto aaron his brother. joseph, samuel, david, solomon, elijah, and the apostles, and saint john particularly (from whom we hold a most excellent book of prophecy2) possessed it. let every one then know that this, this which i teach, is that same wisdom and magic, and which is in this same book, and independent of

s full of diabolical inventions;12 and ye should know that the demon maketh use of an infinitude of methods to entrap and deceive mankind. this i have myself proved, because when i have operated with the veritable wisdom, all the other enchantments which i had learned have ceased, and i could no longer operate with them, and i made a very careful trial of those which i had learned with the rabbin moses; the cause of which is that the deceit and fraud of the demon can never appear where the divine wisdom is. furthermore, the most certain mark of their falsity is the election of certain days; since there be those which god hath expressly commanded to sanctify, we can freely operate on all other days, and at all times. and whenever ye shall see tables which do mark the days and their differen

your own master, as far as lieth in your power, free yourself from all your business, and quit all mundane and vain company and conversation; leading a life tranquil, solitary and honest. if aforetime you have been a wicked, debauched, avaricious, luxurious and proud of abramelin the mage 55 man, leave and flee from all these vices. consider that this was one of the principal reasons why abraham, moses, david, elijah, john, and other holy men retired into desert places, until that they had acquired this holy science and magic; because where there are many people, many scandals do arise; and where scandal is, sin cometh; the which at length offendeth and driveth away the angel of god, and the way which leadeth unto wisdom becometh closed unto ye. fly as far as you can the conversation of me

grace to finish your operation unto the praise and glory of his holy name, and for your own use and that of your neighbour. also you shall supplicate your guardian angel to aid you, and to govern your heart with his counsel, and all your senses. after this you shall take the wand in your right hand, and pray unto god to give unto this wand as much virtue, force, and power as he gave unto those of moses, of aaron, of elijah, and of the other prophets whose number is infinite. now place yourself beside the altar looking towards the door and the open terrace; or if you be in the country place yourself at the western67 side, and commence by summoning the chief spirits and princes. but your angel will already have instructed you how to convoke them, and will have sufficiently impressed it on yo

ABRAMELIN3

ree translated by s.l. macgregor mathers this adobe acrobat edition contains the complete and unaltered text and illustrations of the corresponding sections in the second (1900) edition published by john m. watkins, london. prepared and typeset by benjamin rowe, april 27, 1999. text set in adobe garamond. illustrations set in book antiqua. 120 the third book of the holy magic, which god gave unto moses, aaron, david, solomon, and other saints, patriarchs and prophets; which teacheth the true divine wisdom. bequeathed by abraham unto lamech his son. translated from the hebrew. b e f i. the sacred magick 121 the third book of the sacred magic (the prologue) e who shall have faithfully observed that which hath been taught unto him, and shall have with a good will obeyed the commandments of go

tained this sacred wisdom thou mayest dispose of it and communicate it unto three friends; but thou must not exceed this sacred number of the ternary, for in such case thou wouldest be altogether deprived of it. one of the most meritorious deeds in the sight of the lord, is to share with one s neighbour the goods which god hath given unto us; yet must we take note of that which god commanded unto moses, when he ordered him to give the operation unto aaron his brother, namely that he should receive as the symbol of an offering ten golden florins, the which he should distribute unto seventy-two poor persons with his own hands, obliging them to repeat the psalms which i have already mentioned in the second book, and which should be of the number of seventytwo. for if he who receiveth this ope

wo poor persons with his own hands, obliging them to repeat the psalms which i have already mentioned in the second book, and which should be of the number of seventytwo. for if he who receiveth this operation should not perform this alms, the operation would be void of value for him. thou, not yet having the authority to give it, without having received the ten golden florins, thou must act like moses, unto whom the lord granted it on this condition, for him to give it unto his brother aaron. i have also described the precautions which we must take before granting this sacred science unto any; and i repeat here that at least six months should transpire during which we should frequently test, and seek by conversations to sound, the inclinations of him unto whom we may be willing to give it

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

e of his doctrine. the reference to their "living not" is to be found in liber 418. the word "perdurabo" means "i will endure unto the end. the allusion is explained in the note. siddartha, or gotama, was the name of the last budda. krishna was the principal incarnation of the indian vishnu, the preserver, the principal expounder of vedantism. tahuti, or thoth, the egyptian god of wisdom. mosheh, moses, the founder of the hebrew system. dionysus, probably an ecstatic from the east. mahmud, mohammed. all these were men; their godhead is the result of mythopoeia. notes (5) masters of the temple, whose grade has the mystic number 6= 1+ 2+ 3 (6) these are not eight, as apparent; for lao-tzu counts as 0 (7) the legend of "christ" is only a corruption and perversion of other legends. especially

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

erm consisting of the article "al" and the adjective "khemi" which means "that which pertains to egypt<egyptian matter. the assumption is that the mohammedan grammarians held traditionally that the art was derived from that wisdom of the egyptians which was the boast of moses, plato, and pythagoras, and the source of their illumination. modern research (by profane scholars) leaves it still doubtful as to whether alchemical treatises should be classified as mystical, magical, medical, or chemical. the most reasonable opinion is that all these objects formed the preoccupation of the alchemists in varying proportions. hermes is alike the god of wisdom, thaumaturgy

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

s given in the mahaparinibbana sutta; and it was the contention of the toshophists that this 'great, sublime nibbana story' was something peculiar to gautama buddha. they began to talk about parinibbana, super-nibbana, as if there were some way of subtracting one from one which would leave a higher, superior kind of a nothing, or as if there were some way of blowing out a candle which would leave moses in a much more egyptian darkness than we ever supposed when we were children "this is not science. this is not business. this is american sunmagic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 117 day journalism. the hindu and the american are very much alike in this innocence, this 'naivet' which demands fairy stories with ever bigger giants. they cannot bear the idea of anything be

a pound, or a factor 7* i mean criticisms such as "definition is impossible "all arguments are circular "all propositions are tautological" these are true, but one is obliged to ignore them in all practical discussions. 36 indispensable, as when one says "a wheel is part of a motorcar, or (part actually means "a share, that which is provided" according to skeat; and i am closer to the place where moses was when the candle went out than i was before) the fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. we calmly, we carelessly assume that our minds are identical with that of the writer, at least on that point; and then we wonder that there should be misunderstandings! the fact is (again) that usually we don't really want to know; it is so very much

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ear nothing of christ between the ages of twelve and thirty. mohammed disappeared into a cave. buddha left his palace, and went for a long while into the desert. each of them, perfectly silent up to the time of the disappearance, came back and immediately began to preach a new law. this is so curious that it leaves us to inquire whether the histories of other great teachers contradict or confirm. moses led a quiet life until his slaying of the egyptian. he then flees into the land of midian, and we hear nothing of what he did there, yet immediately on his return he turns the whole place upside down. later on, too, he absents himself on mount sinai for a few days, and comes back with the tables of the law in his hand. st. paul (again, after his adventure on the road to damascus, goes into t

. there is not the smallest ground for the contention that these were from the start exceptional men. mohammed would hardly have driven a camel until he was thirty-five years old if he had possessed any talent or ambition. st. paul had much original talent; but he is the least of the five. nor do they seem to have possessed any of the usual materials of power, such as rank, fortune, or influence. moses was rather a big man in egypt when he left; he came back as a mere stranger. 8 christ had not been to china and married the emperor's daughter. mohammed had not been acquiring wealth and drilling soldiers. buddha had not been consolidating any religious organizations. st. paul had not been intriguing with an ambitious general. each came back poor; each came back alone. what was the nature of

s place; but the gist of it is that in one way or another he got hold of the secret force of the world and mastered it. of st. paul's experiences, we have nothing but a casual illusion to his having been "caught up into heaven, and seen and heard things of which it was not lawful to speak" mohammed speaks crudely of his having been "visited by the angel gabriel" who communicated things from "god" moses says that he "beheld god" diverse as these statements are at first sight, all agree in announcing an experience of the class which fifty years ago would have been called supernatural, to-day may be called spiritual, and fifty years hence will have a proper name based on an understanding of the phenomenon which occurred. theorists have not been at a loss to explain; but they differ. the moham

ama" consists of non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence, and non-receiving of any gift. in the buddhist system "sila "virtue" is similarly enjoined. the qualities are, for the layman, these five: thou shalt not kill. thou shalt not steal. thou shalt not lie. thou shalt not commit adultery. thou shalt drink no intoxicating drink. for the monk many others are added. the commandments of moses are familiar to all; they are rather similar; and so are those given by christ<talmud> in the "sermon on the mount" some of these are only the "virtues" of a slave, invented by his master to keep him in order. the real point of the hindu "yama" is that breaking any of these would tend to excite the mind. subsequent the

universe is to be approved by the superior of the magician. to this rule the lamp is an exception; it is said "a magical lamp that shall burn without wick or oil, being fed by the aethyr. this shall he accomplish secretly and apart, without asking the advice or approval of his adeptus minor" this lamp is the light of the pure soul; it hath no need of fuel, it is the burning bush incomsumable that moses saw, the image of the most high. this lamp hangeth above the altar, it hath no support from below; its light illumines the whole temple, yet upon it are cast no shadows, no reflections. it cannot be touched, it cannot be extinguished, in no way can it change; for it is utterly apart from all those things which have complexity, which have dimension, which change and may be changed. when the e

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

hrp expanded, spread out; an enclosure; a diaphragm )srp the name (ar )m# 342 cooking l#yb perfume m#b a blaze, flame hbhl# path lyb# 343 and god said (gn. 1:3) myhl) rm)yw a sweet smell nwrpz 344 a plantation, garden (ct. 4:13) sdrp 345 other gods (lit. ggods of the heathen h; ex. 20:3) myrx) myhl) god almighty yd# l) in that also (referred to daath) mg#b the name m#h lioness h#yl dominator +lw# moses (cf. 351) h#m shiloh (perhaps ghe whose it is h or gpacific h; also a place name) hly# he was appeased (esther 7:10) hkk# 346 a spring; spring water rwqm a water-pipe; channel rwnc the will (i.r.q. 90; delight, favour, grace (i.z.q. 102) nwcr 347 palanquin (ct. 3:9; bridal bed; nuptial chariot( gwedlock, or the artificial sky under which they are joined in wedlock h) nwyrp) 348 five; to set

cial sky under which they are joined in wedlock h) nwyrp) 348 five; to set in array #mx 350 a sapphire (ex. 28:18) ryps ophir; a young mule; dust of the earth rp( the horn; head; to send out rays, shine nrq vacuum mqyr [conscious] intelligence lk# tooth n# and god saw that it was good bw+ yk myhl )ryw 351 man #n) ishim, flames: the angelic choir of malkuth; burnt or incense offering my) lifted)#n moses the initiator (cf. 346) h#wm hiram-abif (a cunning artificer at the temple of solomon in the legend) pyb) mryx 352 the exalted light hl(m rw) long of nose (i.e. merciful: a title of the supreme god (cf. 362) myp) kr) lightnings, flashings myqrb an approach nbrq 353 five h#mx the secret of hwhy is to his fearers (ps. 25:14) wy)ryl hwhy dws delight, joy hxm# 354 grew fat; anointed n#d a tempor

a virgin (title of malkuth; a city hlwtb the house of god (cf. 498; also a place name) l) tyb 444 the sanctuary #dqm frogs (drpc 445 the twelve single letters q c( s n l y+ x z w h sorcerer hp#km 446 destruction; death twm the ankles mylwsrq 447 initials of the three above and the three beneath (cf. 203& 248 )br rmd 448 lofty twmb 449 most dazzling light xcxwcm rw) cloak tyl+ 450 tablets (e.g. of moses) twxwl the fruit of the tree c( yrp transgression(#p goodwill (grace, acceptance, favour, will) without end lwbg ny)b nwcr dwelling in eternity d( nkw# craftiness, cunning myl# the dragon; jackal nt witchcrafts, sorceries myp#k 451 the essence of man md)h t) death )tym the deep, the abyss (gn. 49:25) mwht 452 ardent desire, longing, wish tdmx the crop; the maw nbqrq 453 the animal soul in it

cash; counted out, paid down *mydwqp high, lofty *mr rubies, gems *mynynp thorn; enclosure *k# 801 signs, tokens tt) also, yea; anger; nose *p) 802 401 2: the reflection of 401, which is t, alpha& omega the assembly (or school, or academy) supernal (refers to a a, the three grades that are above the abyss) hl( ml# hby#y the vengeance of the covenant (lev. 26:25) tyrb mqn an ark (as of noah or of moses) tbt 803 person, self; back, top; wing (ch *pg created [they them (gn. 1:27 *m)rb a bone; to destroy *mrg 804 a wing (army, squadron; a chosen troop *pg) to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649 *mdr 805 the faithful friend *nm)n dwd 806 silent qtw# babalon: the victorious queen (lit. ggate of the gods h; see liber 418 *n(l)b)b zion *nwyc height, altitude *mwr 807 blasphemed *pdg

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

even "the style of a letter (how much less a phrase) in this book is casual. the expression "to hell with them" is not merely an outburst of colloquial enthusiasm. the word "hell, that and no other, serves the purpose of the speaker. this would naturally be suggested to us, in any case, by the reflection that our law does not indulge in the frothings of impotent fury, like the priestly frauds of moses, the rishis, and buddha, in the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth of the galilean fishwife. our law knows nothing of punishment beyond that imposed by ignorance and awkwardness on their possessor. the word 'hell' must therefore be explained in terms neither of virile vulgarity, or theological blackmail. i quote liber aleph, p.24, p.129, p.130, from which the peculiar applicability of

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

thus every letter of the word tycarb, berashith, the first word in genesis, is made the initial of a word, and we obtain hrwt larcy wlbqyc \yhla har tycarb, be-rashith rahi elohim sheyequebelo israel torah, in the beginning the elohim saw that israel would accept the law. in this connection i may give six very interesting specimens of notariqon formed from this same word tycarb by solom meir ben moses, a jewish qabalist, who embraced the christian faith in 1665, and took the name of prosper rugere. these all have a christian tendency, and by their means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed to christianity. the first is \ymt djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad themim: the son, the spirit, the father, their trinity, perfect unity. the se

abulation of the book is from kether to malkuth, the course of the flaming sword; and if this sword be drawn upon the tree of life, the numeration of the paths over which it passes (taking g, 3, as the non-existent path from binah to chesed, since it connects macroprosopus and microprosopus) is 777 [see diagrams 2 and 1233] to take another example, it is no mere coincidence that 463, the staff of moses, is t, s, g, the paths of the middle pillar; no mere coincides that 26, hwhy, is 1+ 6+ 9+ 10, the sephiroth of the middle pillar. but ought we not to have some supreme name for 489, their sum, the middle pillar perfect? yet the sepher sephiroth is silent (we find only 489= lwmg \lcm, the avenger. ed) again, 111 is aleph, the unity, but also lpa, thick darkness, and sa, sudden death. this can

pirit of mars, and layparg, the intelligence of mars. 326. hwchy, jesus see 300. 333. wznwrvj, see liber 418, 10th thyr. it is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. there is doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possible the evil of matter 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 replace

erent aspects of a deity worshipped in three persons and in three ways: viz (1) with averted face (2) with prostration (3) with identification. 418. pertains principally to part ii, q.v. 419. tyf, the letter teth. 434. tld, the letter daleth. 440. ylt, the great dragon.54 441. tma, truth. note 441= 21 21. 21 is hyha, the god of kether, whose will is truth. 450. t, the great dragon. 463. dqch hfm, moses wand, a rod of almond. 3+ 60+ 400, the paths of the middle pillar. 474. tud, knowledge, the sephira that is not a sephira. in one aspect the child of chokmah and binah; in another the eighth heads of the stooping dragon, raised up when the tree of life was shattered, and macroprosopus set cherubim against microprosopus. see 4= 7 ritual supra.55 also, and very specifically, liber 418. it is t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

omnia consociantur in hac influentia& inveniuntur in ea. 160. et propterea omnis ornatus ornatuum ab ista influentia dependent. 161. ist liter, qu dependent ab hoc seniore, omnes pendent in ista barba& consociantur in ista influentia. 162. et pendent in ea ad stabiliendas literas alteras. 163. nisi enim ill liter ascenderunt in seniorem, reliqu ist liter non stabilirentur. 164. et propterea dicit moses cum opus esset: tetragrammaton, tetragrammaton bis& ita ut accentus distinguat utrumque. 165. certe enim ab influentia omnia dependent. 166. ab ista influentia ad reverentiam adiguntur superna& inferna& flectuntur coram ea. 167. beatus ille, qui ad hanc usque per tingit. idra suta, seu synodus minor. sectio vi. 75. forehead.23 496. frons cranii est frons ad visitandum (al. ad eradicandum) pe

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e of? science replies "green cheese" for our one moon we have now two ideas "greenness" and "cheese "greenness" depends on the sunlight, and the eye, and a thousand other things "cheese" depends on bacteria and fermentation and the nature of the cow "deeper, even deeper, into the mire of things" shall we cut the gordian knot? shall we say "there is god? what, in the devil's name, is god? if (with moses) we picture him as an old man showing us his back parts, who shall blame us? the great question 119 "any" question is the great question- does indeed treat us thus cavalierly, the disenchanted sceptic is too prone to think! well, shall we define him as a loving father, as a jealous priest, as a gleam of light upon the holy ark? what does it matter? all these images are of wood and stone, the

ny other. who are we, then? we are spencerian agnostics, poor silly, damned spencerian agnostics! and there is an end of the matter. vi it is surely time that we began to question the validity of some of our data. so far our scepticism has not only knocked 120 to pieces our tower of thought, but rooted up the foundation-stone and ground it into finer and more poisonous powder than that into which moses ground the calf. these golden elohim! our calf-heads that brought us not out of egypt, but into a darkness deeper and more tangible than any darkness of the double empire of asar. hume put his little? to berkeley's god; buddha his? to the vedic atman- and neither hume nor buddha was baulked of his reward. ourselves may put? to our own? since we have found no! to put it to; and wouldn't it be

t will i put a further question, announce a further glory. 133 it is my misfortune and not my fault that i am bound to deliver this elementary message "man has two sides; one to face the world with, one to show a woman when he loves her" we must pardon browning his bawdy jest; for his truth is ower true! but it is your own fault if you are the world instead of the beloved; and only see of me what moses saw of god! it is disgusting to have to spend one's life jetting dirt in the face of the british public in the hope that in washing it they may wash off the acrid grease of their commercialism, the saline streaks of their hypocritical tears, the putrid perspiration of their morality, the dribbling slobber of their sentimentality and their religion. and they don't wash it. but let us take a l

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every letter of the word brashith, berashith, the first word in genesis, is made the initial of a word, and we obtain brashith rah alhim shiqblv ishral thvrh, berashith rahi elohim sheyequebelo israel torah "in the beginning elohim saw that israel would accept the law" in this connection i may give six very interesting specimens of notariqon formed from this same word brashith by solomon meir ben moses, a jewish qabalist, who embraced the christian faith in 1665, and took the name of prosper rugere. these have all a christian tendency, 72 and by their means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed 1 weh note: plagiarized entire from ginsburg's "the kabbalah. 2 weh note: better: his purported translation of three of the more obscure books of the zohar. 3 weh n

65, and took the name of prosper rugere. these have all a christian tendency, 72 and by their means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed 1 weh note: plagiarized entire from ginsburg's "the kabbalah. 2 weh note: better: his purported translation of three of the more obscure books of the zohar. 3 weh note: this observation led mathers to miss-identify a picture of moses as metatron in his edition (not translation, the mss were in english) of "the greater key of solomon" to christianity. the first is, bn rvch ab shlvshthm ichd thmim, ben, ruach, ab, shaloshethem yechad thaubodo "the son, the spirit, the father, ye shall equally worship their trinity" the third is bkvri rashvni ashr shmv ishvo thobvdv, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo "ye shall wor

tion of the book is from kether to malkuth, the course of the flaming sword; and if this sword be drawn upon the tree of life, the numeration of the paths over which it passes (taking hb:gemel, 3, as the non-existent path from binah to chesed, since it connects macroprosopus and microprosopus) is 777 [see diagrams 2 and 12] to take another example, it is no mere coincidence that 463, the staff of moses, is hb:taw, hb:samekh, hb:gemel, the paths of the middle pillar; no mere coincidence that 26, hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod, is 1+ 6+ 9+ 10, the sephiroth of the middle pillar. but ought we not to have some supreme name for 489, their sum, the middle pillar perfect? yet the sepher sephiroth is silent (we find only 489= mshlm gmvl, the avenger. ed) again, 111 is aleph, the unity, but also apl

, and grapial, the intelligence of mars. 326. ihshvh, jesus- see 300. 333. chvrvnzvn, see liber 418, 10th aethry. it is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. there is doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possibly the evil of matter summ. 333= 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

t aspects of a deity worshipped in three persons and in three ways: viz (1) with averted face (2) with prostration (3) with identification. 418. pertains principally to part, q.v. 419. tith, the letter teth. 434. dlth, the letter daleth. 440. thli, the great dragon. 441. amth, truth. note 441= 21 x 21. 21 is ahih, the god of kether, whose will is truth. 450. thn, the great dragon. 463. nth hshqd, moses' wand, a rod of almond. 3+ 60+ 400, the paths of the middle pillar. 474. dvth, weh note: sic, should be doth in the substitutions used in text knowledge, the sephira that is not a sephira. in one aspect the child of chokmah and binah; in another the eighth head of the stooping dragon, raised up when the tree of life was shattered, and macroposopus set cherubim against microposopus. see 4= 7

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become the maker of illusions, the great deceiver, the setter of snares; he who baffleth even them that have understanding. for i stand on every path, and turn them aside from the truth by my words, and by my magick arts. and this is the horror that was shown by the lake that was 125 nigh unto the city of the seven hills, and this is the mystery of the great prophets that have come unto mankind. moses, and buddha, and lao tan, and krishna, and jesus, and osiris, and mohammed; for all these attained unto the grade of magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of thoth. but, being guardians of the truth, they have taught nothing but falsehood, except unto such as understood; for the truth may not pass the gate of the abyss. but the reflection of the truth hath been shown in the low

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ers of the holy name. the dogs are the jackals of anubis guarding the gates of the east and the west symbolised by the two towers. the cray-fish is the sign cancer, the scarabaeus or god kephera "the emblem of the sun below the horizon, as he ever is when the moon is increasing above" the "hierophant" then leads the practicus to the serpent of brass, and says "this is the serpent nehushtan, which moses made 'and he set it upon a pole- that is, he twined it about the middle pillar of the sephiroth, because that is the reconciler between the fires of geburah (seraphim, fiery serpents) or severity, and the waters of chesed or mercy. this serpent is also a type of christ the reconciler, also it is known as nogah amongst the shells, and the celestial serpent of wisdom 'but the serpent of the te

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rinted them in hebrew, the result would scarcely have been more oppressive; anyhow it would have been as 312 interesting to read of how many handkerchiefs the famous seer used when he had a cold as to ponder over the platitudes of this rheumy old leech. never since reading "bothwell" and "who's who" have we read such ponderous and pedantic pedagogics. the translator in his preface informs us that moses and solomon were adepts; verily hast thou spoke, but thou, wm. alexr. ayton, art greater than either, to have survived such a leaden task as this of putting dr. smith's bad latin into good english; at the completion of it you must have felt like jacob when "he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost" matter, spirit, and the cosmos. by h. stanley redgrove. william rider an

igned by mary tourtel, and frontispiece by isabelle de steiger. price 7s. 6d. net "the most remarkable and on the whole the most successful attempt to sing the mysteries of mysticism, since blake wrote his 'prophetic books_ the star "undoubtedly one of the most original and most remarkable books of verse published for many years" birmingham daily gazette. the secret of the sphinx: or, the ring of moses. by james smith and john wren sutton. crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. net "a romance founded on the building of the great pyramid by pharaoh and the birth of moses is a distinctly notable addition to modern fiction, and mr. smith and mr. sutton have done their work conscientiously and well. the secret of the sphinx is revealed by a narrative of a curious combination of circumstances, in which the magic r

by james smith and john wren sutton. crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. net "a romance founded on the building of the great pyramid by pharaoh and the birth of moses is a distinctly notable addition to modern fiction, and mr. smith and mr. sutton have done their work conscientiously and well. the secret of the sphinx is revealed by a narrative of a curious combination of circumstances, in which the magic ring of moses is given a conspicuous place_ the scotsman "a vividly drawn and fascinating picture of life in egypt and the desert, and interprets on broad and universal principles the 'wisdom of the egyptians' in which moses was learned_ light. the living wheel. by t. i. uniacke. a drama in five acts. crown 8vo. 3s. 6d "this is one of the most remarkable books that i have read for many a long day. a darin

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n these limits. the translation might have been better done in one or two places- bother! here's hedonia coming for lunch. what a wormy worm ombricius was! d. carr. peter the cruel. by edward storer. john lane. this admirable story of a little-known monarch dresses once more the middle ages in robes of scarlet, winged and shot with a delicate impressionism. mr. storer wields a pen like the rod of moses; he has struck the water of romance from the rock of history; such scenes have rarely been so vividly described since de sade and sacher-masoch passed on the the great reward. caligula ii. morag the seal. by j. w. bnrodie-innes. rebman. 6"s" one must wish that mr. brodie-innes' english were equal to his imagination. again and again a lack of perfect control over his medium spoils one of the

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t to expect. indeed its translation into worldly comments was a matter of education, so it came about that he discovered that the great attainment "per se" was identical in all systems irrespective of the symbol may sought it under. thus yahweh as a clay phallus in a band-box was as much a reality to the jews of genesis as brahman in brahma-loka was to the aryas of vedic india; that the vision of moses when he beheld god as a burning bush is similar to the vision of the fire-flashing courser of he chaldean oracles; and that nibb na the non-existent is little removed, if at all, from the christian heaven with its harps, halos and hovering angels. and the reason is, that the man who does attain to any of these states, on his return to consciousness, at once attributes his attainment to his p

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form daily rituals. if you be your own master as far as lieth in your purpose, free yourselfofallyour business and quit all mundane and vain company and conversation, leading a life tranquil, solitary and honest. if aforetimes you have been a wicked,debauched, avaricious, luxurious and proud man, leave and flee from all these vices, consider that this was one of the principle reasons why abraham, moses, david, john and other holy men retired into desert places until they had acquired this holy science and magic. alex had to manage all this outside working hours. the house in which he lived had no bathroom and as the abramelin instructions demanded daily ritual bathing, he had to buy himself a tin bath. his bathwater had to be emptied so that no other person touched it, which meant frequent

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rt of a group, but that, after merging his identity with the group although never losing it the group itself has to be blended again with the consciousness of that great identity who is the synthesis of them all. thus he arrives at the final stage of intelligent appreciation of divine unity. this triple idea can be found summed up in the bible in a rather interesting phrase, where jehovah says to moses, the representative man "i am that i am" if you split this verse into its three parts you have what i have been seeking to bring out to-night: first, the atomic consciousness, i am; then the group, i am that; a consciousness that he is not just a separated individual, not only a self-centred unit, not only a self-conscious entity, but that he is something still greater. man then reaches the

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rodigal son. he is the symbol of the disciple who has not yet learned the lesson of a just sense of values. he has been the victim of the law of light and of his inability to comply with that law. he sinned wilfully and with his eyes wide open to results. hence he knows the law as no other race knows it, for he is eternally its victim. he has enunciated the law from its negative angle; the law of moses today rules most of the world, and yet fails to bring into life justice and true legality. the other group of disciples, the representatives (in their day and age) of the race, passed through the ancient portals of initiation and took the first great step. they came back with a latent and dim recollection of the episode which separated them from three of their co-disciples. on their return t

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f the soul. these are the father-mother principle, indicated by the presence of the parents."61 and again "this number (of the twelve disciples) is typified by many things in the old testament; by the 12 sons of jacob, by the 12 princes of the children of israel; by the 12 running springs in helim; by the 12 stones in aaron's breastplate; by the 12 loaves of the shew-bred; by the 12 spies sent by moses; by the 12 stones of which the altar was made; by the 12 stones taken out of jordan; by the 12 oxen which bare the brazen sea. also in the new testament, by the 12 stars in the bride's- 49- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust crown, by the 12 foundations of jerusalem which john saw, and her 12 gates."62 all these recurrences of twelve probably have their origin in the twelve

urposes of the divine nature had been revealed by earlier incarnations of god, and appeared as the race reached the point in its development where a right reaction was possible. zarathustra, to mention one such messenger, had called the attention of mankind to the fact of the two basic principles to be found in the world those of good and of evil thus emphasising the basic dualities of existence. moses revealed the law, calling men to recognise god as the principle of justice, even if it may seem an unloving justice to those of us who live after the revelation which christ gave. buddha embodied in himself the principle of divine wisdom and, with clear insight into the world of causes, saw mortal existence as it was and pointed the way out. but the principle of love the fundamental principl

day we shall understand this more clearly. it is as yet something which we cannot grasp, unless for us the transfiguration is a reality and not a goal. it is interesting to have in mind another at-one-ment which christ made. he unified in himself the past and the future, as far as humanity is concerned. this is significantly typified in the appearance with him upon the mount of transfiguration of moses and elias, the representatives respectively of the law and of the prophets. in the one figure we find symbolised the past of man, with its summation in the law of moses, setting the limits beyond which man may not go, defining the injunctions which he must set upon his lower nature (the desire-nature, and emphasising the restrictions which the race as a whole must set upon its actions. caref

which man may not go, defining the injunctions which he must set upon his lower nature (the desire-nature, and emphasising the restrictions which the race as a whole must set upon its actions. careful study will reveal that all these laws concern the government and control of the desire-nature, of the emotional, feeling body, to which we have already had need to refer. curiously enough, the name "moses" according to cruden's concordance, means "taken out of the water" we have already seen that water is the symbol of the fluidic emotional desire-nature in which man habitually dwells. moses therefore appeared with christ as typifying man's emotional past, and the technique of its control is to be later superseded when the message of christ's life is duly understood, pouring through man's con

ld relegate the ten commandments into the background of life, rendering them superfluous, because the love which will flow out from man to god, and from- 90- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust man to man, will automatically and positively produce that right action which will make the breaking of the commandments impossible. the "shalt not" of god, spoken from mount sinai through moses, with its negative emphasis and its punitive interpretation, will give place to the radiance of love and the understanding of goodwill and light which christ radiated upon the mount of transfiguration. the past met in him and was superseded by a living present. elias, whose name means "the strength of the lord" stood beside jesus christ as the representative of all the schools of the prophet

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sion of these powers and their many weaving lines (seen as rivers and streams of light) is given to the initiate from the mountain top of capricorn, once that summit has been reached. it is at the transfiguration initiation that this vision appears before the eyes of the astounded disciple. the great experiences upon the various mountain tops as related in the bible have all to do with capricorn. moses, the lawgiver on mount sinai, is saturn in capricorn imposing the law of karma upon the people. a clue to the significance of the jewish people as a karmic clearing house can be found here. ponder on those words "a karmic clearing house" the mount of transfiguration in the new testament is venus in capricorn when love and mind and will meet in the person of the christ, and "he was transfigur

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ac, which is the imaginary path of the sun in the heavens, the sun appears to be going through the constellation aquarius. this is an astronomical fact at this time and has nothing to do with astrology. the influence, however, of the sign through which the sun may be passing at any particular world period is irrefutable and i can prove it to you here and now. prior to the jewish dispensation when moses was leading the children of israel out of egypt the sun was in the sign taurus. it was passing through the sign of the bull. we then had the appearance on earth of the mithraic mysteries which centered around the sacrifice of the sacred bull. the sin of the children of israel in the wilderness which so aroused the anger of moses when he descended from the mount of the lord and found them fal

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ivine purpose a fact in conditioning world affairs. had they not so responded to the influencing impression, and had they not accepted the responsibility imposed upon them, the course of world affairs and world events might have been very different. i refer not here specifically to spiritual leaders but also to leaders in other departments of human living to such expressions of the divine will as moses, the lawgiver, akbar, the warrior and student, leonardo da vinci, the inspired artist, and to other great and outstanding figures who have determined the basic trends of human civilisation; i refer also to the constructive forces which have guided mankind into the increasing light of knowledge and understanding. all these leaders have produced lasting effects upon the human consciousness and

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he light, utilising those rents which already exist within the veils of maya. three major rents within these veils might here be noted. they are symbolically referred to in the bible, though their essential meaning has not been noted or comprehended. the first major rent was made by the establishment of the law of god, and this is portrayed for us symbolically in the old testament in the story of moses. he went up into the mount of god and there received the ten commandments. this is the expression of divine law as adapted for humanity and as needed in the projection of those forces which will destroy, purify and reorganise. moses, the lawgiver, penetrated to one of the halls within the veils of maya, and there encountered the glory of the lord. this was of such a radiance that, as the old

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nd seated on the arctic circle, close to [36] cepheus the king,or lawgiver, whom we shall meet later as one of the three constellations in pisces. at the commencement, law; at the close, law; for cepheus has a close relation with the first and the last sign of the zodiac. it is interesting to note that mahomet, the founder of the most militant religion, was born in this sign, and legend says that moses also was born in it; moses, the lawgiver, and mahomet, the warrior- 24- the labours of hercules the problem of hercules, as he enters upon his labors, is to demonstrate his power over matter and form, and so he has to recognize cassiopeia from the very beginning, the hitherto enthroned queen. the second constellation is cetus, the sea monster, the enemy of little fishes. one of the great sym

l apparatus, in which the soul cannot fulfil the part of the dominating factor and all things be done truly to the glory of god. but the soul must control, and not the lower nature. people forget that some of the greatest of the world initiates married; that the buddha married and had a son, and must have been an initiate of high degree when he entered into the married state [50] they forget that moses, david the psalmist, and many of the outstanding figures in the world of mysticism in both hemispheres, were married and raised families. disciples belong to all races, both in the occident and in the orient, and the attitude of different races towards sex is widely diversified. standards of conduct differ. the legality or the illegality of relations varies. different epochs and different ci

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n ben jochai, who lived a.d. 160; he was persecuted and driven to live in a cave by lucius aurelius verus, co-regent with the emperor marcus aurelius antoninus. some considerable portion of the work may have been arranged by him from the oral traditions of his time: but other parts have certainly been added by other hands at intervals up to the time when it was first published as a whole by rabbi moses de leon, of guadalajara in spain, circa 1290. from that time its history is known; printed editions have been issued in mantua, 1558, cremona, 1560, and lublin, 1623; these are the three famous codices of "the zohar" in the hebrew language. for those who do not read hebrew the only practical means of studying the zohar are the partial translation into latin of baron knorr von rosenroth, publ

ritings of the famous spanish jew, ibn gebirol, who died a.d. 1070, and was also called avicebron, his great works are "the fountain of life" and "the crown of the kingdom" the teaching of the kabalah has been considered to be grouped into several schools, each of which was for a time famous. i may mention--the school of gerona, 1190 to 1210, of rabbi isaac the blind, rabbis azariel and ezra, and moses nachmanides. the school of segovia of rabbis jacob, abulafia (died 1305, shem tob (died 1332, and isaac of akko. the school of rabbi isaac ben abraham ibn latif about 1390. the school of abulafia (died 1292) and joseph gikatilla (died 1300; also the schools of "zoharists" of rabbis moses de leon (died 1305, menahem di recanti (died 1350, isaac loria (died 1572) and chajim vital, who died in

t if we regard it, as i believe is correct, as the esotericism of the religion of the hebrews, the foundation dogmas are doubtless almost as old as the first promulgation of the main principles of the worship of jehovah. i cannot now attempt any glance at the contentions of some doubting scholars, who question whether the story of the twelve tribes is a historic fact, or whether there ever were a moses, or even a king solomon. it is sufficient for the present purpose that the jewish nation had the jehovistic theology and a system of priestly caste, and a coherent doctrine, at the time of the second temple when cyrus, sovereign of all asia, 536 b.c, holding the jews in captivity, permitted certain of them to return to jerusalem for the express purpose of reestablishing the hebrew mode of wo

ntil at least a.d. 1500. the two talmuds were first printed at venice in 1520 and 1523 respectively. the old testament books were the guiding light through the ages of the jews, but the learned rabbis were not satisfied with them alone, and they supplemented them by two parallel series of works of literature; the one, talmudic, being commentaries based upon thirteen rules of argument delivered by moses to illustrate the old testament, and supply material for teaching the populace; and the other a long series of treatises of a more abstruse character, designed to illustrate their secret doctrines and esoteric views. the sepher yetzirah, and the zohar or book of splendour represent the kernel of that oral instruction which the rabbis of the olden times prided themselves upon possessing, and

ulace; and the other a long series of treatises of a more abstruse character, designed to illustrate their secret doctrines and esoteric views. the sepher yetzirah, and the zohar or book of splendour represent the kernel of that oral instruction which the rabbis of the olden times prided themselves upon possessing, and which they have even claimed as being "the secret knowledge" which god gave to moses for the use of the priests themselves, in contradistinction to the written law intended for the masses of the people. one of the principal conceptions of the kabalah is that spiritual wisdom is attained by thirty-two paths, typified by the ten numbers and the twenty-two letters; these ten again being symbols of the divine emanations, the sephiroth, the holy voices chanting at the crystal sea

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owley's formulaic conception of 0=2 becomes fully revealed as the antinomian formula for spiritual disse sthe forgotten books of eden translated in the late 1800's by dr. s. c. malan and dr. e. trumpp. translated into king james english from both the arabic version and the ethiopic version which was then published in the forgotten books of eden in 1927 by the world publishing company. apocalypses moses part of the "forgotten" books of eden from-the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the old testament r.h. charles oxford: the clarendon press, 1913 scanned and edited by joshua williams northwest nazarene college,1995 this is the story of adam and eve after they had gone out of paradise. chapter 1. 1 and adam knew his wife eve and went upwards to the sun-rising and abode there eighteen years and

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tended him that there exists another god. for if there were no other one, of whom would he be jealous "then the mother began to move to and fro. she became aware of the deficiency when the brightness of her light diminished. and she became dark because her consort had not agreed with her" and i said "lord, what does it mean that she moved to and fro" but he smiled and said "do not think it is, as moses said 'above the waters' no, but when she had seen the wickedness which had happened, and the theft which her son had committed, she repented. and she was overcome by forgetfulness in the darkness of ignorance and she began to be ashamed. and she did not dare to return, but she was moving about. and the moving is the going to and fro "and the arrogant one took a power from his mother. for he

ful to him. and he (adam) knew that he was disobedient to him (the chief archon) due to light of the epinoia which is in him, which made him more correct in his thinking than the chief archon. and (the latter) wanted to bring about the power which he himself had given him. and he brought a forgetfulness over adam" and i said to the savior "what is the forgetfulness" and he said "it is not the way moses wrote (and) you heard. for he said in his first book 'he put him to sleep (gn 2:21, but (it was) in his perception. for also he said through the prophet 'i will make their hearts heavy, that they may not pay attention and may not see (is 6:10 "then the epinoia of the light hid herself in him (adam. and the chief archon wanted to bring her out of his rib. but the epinoia of the light cannot b

ing her out of his rib. but the epinoia of the light cannot be grasped. although darkness pursued her, it did not catch her. and he brought a part of his power out of him. and he made another creature, in the form of a woman, according to the likeness of the epinoia which had appeared to him. and he brought the part which he had taken from the power of the man into the female creature, and not as moses said 'his rib-bone "and he (adam) saw the woman beside him. and in that moment the luminous epinoia appeared, and she lifted the veil which lay over his mind. and he became sober from the drunkenness of darkness. and he recognized his counter-image, and he said 'this is indeed bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh' therefore the man will leave his father and his mother, and he will cleave t

since it (fate) is lord over everything "and he (the chief archon) repented for everything which had come into being through him. this time he planned to bring a flood upon the work of man. but the greatness of the light of the foreknowledge informed noah, and he proclaimed (it) to all the offspring which are the sons of men. but those who were strangers to him did not listen to him. it is not as moses said 'they hid themselves in an ark (gn 7: 7, but they hid themselves in a place, not only noah, but also many other people from the immovable race. they went into a place and hid themselves in a luminous cloud. and he (noah) recognized his authority, and she who belongs to the light was with him, having shone on them because he (the chief archon) had brought darkness upon the whole earth "a

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race was colonised by the phoenicians, and before them by the mysterious pelasgians who came from the east, one remembers also the identity of the mystery gods of the phoenicians, chaldeans, and israelites, it will be easy to discover whence came also the confused account of the noachian deluge. it has become undeniable of late that the jews, who obtained their primitive ideas about creation from moses, who had them from[[footnote(s* as it is now asserted that the chaldean tablets, which give the allegorical description of creation, the fall, and the flood, even to the legend of the tower of babel, were written "before the time of moses (see g. smith's "chaldean account of genesis" p. 86, how can the pentateuch be called a revelation? it is simply another version of the same story[[vol. 2

greeks is closely related to the hindu saram and sarameya, the divine watchman "who watches over the golden flock of stars and solar rays" in the clearer words of the commentary "the globe, propelled onward by the spirit of the earth and his six assistants[[footnote(s* copernicus wrote his theories on the "revolution of the heavenly bodies" in the xvith century, and the zohar, even if compiled by moses de leon in the xiiith century, states that "in the book of hammannunah, the old, we learn. that the earth turns upon itself in the form of a circle; that some are on top, the others below. that there are some countries which are lightened, whilst others are in darkness; these have the day, when for the former it is night; and there are countries in which it is constantly day, or in which at

is male and female, or hermaphrodite; hence the bearded venus in mythology* therefore, putting aside its religio-metaphysical aspect, the cross of the christians is symbolically far more phallic than the pagan svastica[[vol. 2, page] 31 the horses of sukra's car. of life" in eden anouki, a form of isis, is the goddess of life; and ank was taken by the hebrews from the egyptians and introduced by moses, one learned in the wisdom of the priests of egypt, with many other mystical words. the word ank in hebrew, with the personal suffix, means "my life" my being, which "is the personal pronoun anochi" from the name of the egyptian goddess anouki* in one of the most ancient catechisms of southern india, madras presidency, the hermaphrodite goddess adanari (see also "indian pantheon) has the ans

) and[[footnote(s* adam-jehovah, brahma and mars are, in one sense, identical; they are all symbols for primitive or initial generative powers for the purposes of human procreation. adam is red, and so also are brahma-viraj and mars- god and planet. water is the blood of the earth; therefore, all these names are connected with earth and water "it takes earth and water to create a human soul" says moses. mars is identical with kartikeya god of war (in one sense- which god is born of the sweat of siva, siva gharmaja and the earth. in the mahabharata he is shown as born without the intervention of a woman. and he is also called "lohita" the red, like adam, and the other "first men" hence, the author of "the source of measures" is quite right in thinking that mars (and all the other gods of li

s in the hindu pantheon, and restore through ahura the asuras to their legitimate place in theogony, so the recent discoveries of the chaldean tablets vindicate the good name of the first divine emanations. this is easily proved. christian angelology is directly and solely derived from that of the pharisees, who brought their tenets from babylonia. the sadducees, the real guardians of the laws of moses, knew not of, and rejected, any angels, opposing even the immortality of the human soul (not impersonal spirit. in the bible the only "angels" spoken of are the "sons of god" mentioned in genesis vi (who are now regarded as the nephilim, the fallen angels, and several angels in human form, the "messengers" of the jewish god, whose own rank needs a closer analysis than heretofore given (vide

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he secret doctrine. 273 hermes in christian garb. 285 some occult aphorisms. 289 the seven powers of nature. 293- book i- part ii. the evolution of symbolism in its approximate order. i. symbolism and ideographs. 303 emblem and symbol differ. 305 magic potency of sound. 307 mystery language. 309- ii. the mystery language and its keys. 310 egypt's many religions. 311 the jews and their system. 313 moses copied from sargon. 319 identity of ancient symbols. 323- iii. primordial substance and divine thought. 325 divine thought, or cineritious matter. 327 ether and intelligence. 330 the seven prakritis. 335 the mystic fire. 339 one tree of knowledge. 341- iv. chaos- theos- kosmos. 342 the union of chaos and spirit. 343 the birth of mind. 345- v. the hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs. 349 the

word evil thus became by a double transmutation d'evil in every tongue (diabolos, diable, diavolo, teufel. but the pagans have always shown a philosophical discrimination in their symbols. the primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine wisdom and perfection, and had always stood for psychical regeneration and immortality. hence- hermes, calling the serpent the most spiritual of all beings; moses, initiated in the wisdom of hermes, following suit in genesis; the gnostic's serpent with the seven vowels over its head, being the emblem of the seven hierarchies of the septenary or planetary creators. hence, also, the hindu serpent sesha or ananta "the infinite" a name of vishnu, whose first vahan or vehicle on the primordial waters is this serpent* yet they all made a difference between

t is no matter, as it is an aquatic bird floating or moving on the waters like the spirit, and then issuing from those waters to give birth to other beings. the true significance of the symbol of the eighteenth degree of the rose-croix is precisely this, though poetised later on into the motherly feeling of the pelican rending its bosom to feed its seven little ones with its blood* the reason why moses forbids eating the pelican and swan, classing the two among the unclean fowls, and permits eating "bald locusts, beetles, and the grasshopper after his kind (leviticus xi. and deuteronomy xiv) is a purely physiological one, and has to do with mystic symbology only in so far as the word "unclean" like every other word, ought not to be read and understood literally, as it is esoteric like all

all found repeated by professor piazzi smythe in solomon's alleged and mythical temple, is not of a later date than the mosaic books? hence, if there is any such great identity as claimed, it must be due to servile copying on the part of the jews, not on that of the egyptians. the jewish glyphs- and even their language, the hebrew- are not original. they are borrowed from the egyptians, from whom moses got his wisdom; from the coptic, the probable kinsman, if not parent, of the old phoenician and from the hyksos, their (alleged) ancestors, as josephus shows in his "against apion" i, 25. aye; but who are the hyksos shepherds? and who the egyptians? history knows nothing of the question, and speculates and theorizes out of the depths of the respective consciousnesses of her historians (see i

'substance" thus, not only the fire-worshipper, the parsee, but even the wandering savage tribes of america, which proclaim themselves "born of fire" show more science in their creeds and truth in their superstitions, than all the speculations of modern physics and learning. the christian who says "god is a living fire" and speaks of the pentecostal "tongues of fire" and of the "burning bush" of moses, is as much a fire-worshipper as any other "heathen" the rosicrucians, among all the mystics and kabalists, were those who defined fire in the right and most correct way. procure a sixpenny lamp, keep it only supplied with oil, and you will be able to light at its flame the lamps, candles[[vol. 1, page] 122 the secret doctrine. and fires of the whole globe without diminishing that flame. if

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given in the mahaparinibbana sutta; and it was the contention of the theosophists that this .great, sublime, nibbana story. was something peculiar to gautama buddha. they began to talk about parinibbana, super-nibbana, as if there were some way of subtracting one from one which would leave a higher, superior kind of a nothing, or as if there were some way of blowing out a candle which would heave moses in a much more egyptian darkness than we ever supposed when we were children. this is not science. this is not business. this is american sunday journalism. the hindu and the american are very much alike in this innocence, this na vet which demands fairy stories with ever bigger giants. they cannot bear the idea of anything being complete and done with. so, they are always talking in superla

BOOK OF ENOCH

arching into end of days prophesies. when i finally managed to get hold of a copy, i discovered that it was a very strange and unusual book. the first time i read it i was skeptical and somewhat puzzled; i wondered who would have written an odd book like this. i knew that enoch (hanokh in hebrew, was very favourably mentioned in genesis, and i discovered that enoch s book describes the exodus and moses very favourably (although not by name. so my first theory was that it might have been written around the same time as the torah, perhaps around 1400 bc. however, after several readings i could find no plausible theories. the prophecy of the animals is extremely precisely written and obviously refers to events well after moses (see my notes on that chapter. additionally; who would have dared

name. so my first theory was that it might have been written around the same time as the torah, perhaps around 1400 bc. however, after several readings i could find no plausible theories. the prophecy of the animals is extremely precisely written and obviously refers to events well after moses (see my notes on that chapter. additionally; who would have dared to produce a book with people such as moses described in terms of farm animals? michael knibb, whose translation i have used to produce this book, studied all available manuscripts and sources, and it is clear that this book was well known and studied in many countries well before the time of jesus. the earliest known surviving fragments and quotations in various languages show that this is the same book, and that the ethiopians have

ch wrote his book, after his grandson lamech was born, but before noah was born. noah is only named in the section that methuselah wrote (see section 10 at 107.3, and of course in his own section (section 11, the book of noah. so, there may still have been 40- 80 years left before the flood, at the time when enoch wrote his book. there is a long gap between the time of the flood and the time when moses gave praise to enoch in genesis. genesis dates from around 1400 bc, and forms part of the torah (the first five books of the bible. in genesis, there is enoch's family; as named by him in this book, and a quick recap of some of enoch's story. it seems likely therefore, that copies of the book of enoch survived into egyptian times, 3500 bc, and was known to moses around 2,000 years later. mos

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with green and gold, the color of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adam be lifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended on that tree, through suffering and through pain, let thy countenance be raised up towards the light of the holy one to invoke the divine brightness, not for thyself, but for th

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picted around the heads of people believed to possess great spiritual power. there it was referred to as a halo or gloria. it also appeared as a ring of flames around the heads of moslem prophets. the headdresses of priests, kings and queens symbolize the aura. there are references to the aura in the christian bible. in sculpture, there is an excellent example in that of michaelangelo's figure of moses, which shows him with horns. this has mystified many. the reason for the horns is that in translation the word for "horns" was confused with the very similar word for "rays, so in fact moses was thought of as "having rays coming from his head. the aura. auric healing in auric healing, you set out to change the condition of a person by 193 in 1858 baron karl van reichenbach, an industrial che

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pt away by the multiplicity of objects, thou shalt perceive me more clearly, as a pillar of living fire. behold, it shall be well with thee if thou canst understand this saying, and if thou knowest what is day, and what is night. 8 none hath seen me face to face, for i am the forerunner of all. thus, o israel, am i ever before thee on the way of life [55] and to all mankind it is said, even as to moses "thou shalt see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen" no matter how far thou goest, i have already passed that way. thou shalt never see me as i am, but thou mayest know me in what i have done. the wise discover me in my works. 9 no man perceiveth me as father, until as mother i have brought forth creatures. the following of heh after daleth in the alphabet is a sign and symbol of th

of g b a is 6, the same as v [71] the meditation on zain* 1 i am the sword, the sword which is understanding, dividing between the darkness and the light at creation's dawn. 2 not by addition doth the multiplicity of creatures come into existence, for i, the source of all, am one, one and alone, even as it is written "beside me there is nothing" verily the beginning of all things is division, as moses saith" in the beginning the elohim cut apart the heaven and the earth" 3 that, therefore, which to purblind eyes seemeth to be another than myself, that which to the deluded appeareth as somewhat fashioned by my hand, into which i enter not [75] t h e book of t o k e n s the wise know as a portion of mine own being set apart for my regard by mine unfathomable power of self-reflection. this p

"punishment, corresponds to the letter-name cheth, ch i th, because both add up to 418. the derivation of ch t a th is from a verb meaning" to miss the target [87] meditation on teth* i my secret wisdom is hid in number, and in the sign of the tally is concealed the building of the whole creation. number veileth the power of the elohim, for number is that thick darkness whereof it is written "and moses drew near unto the thick darkness where god was; and again "tetragrammaton said that he would dwell in the thick darkness" ye shall know that this darkness is egypt, and by the wisdom hidden in that darkness did moses lead israel forth. in the darkness which is egypt is the darkness of number, concealing the one in the cloud of the many. of that darkness the serpent is a sign, that great ser

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

tures on the face of the earth and in the skies and waters and the promise that tomorrow really is another day. he is also guardian of the young. he is depicted with a pilgrim's stick, a wallet and a fish, showing the way and offering sustenance to all who ask. raphael stands in the east and his colour is yellow. michael archangel of the sun and light, michael is the warrior angel. he appeared to moses as the fire in the burning bush and saved daniel from the lions' den. as commander of the heavenly hosts, michael, with his flaming sword, drove satan and his fallen angels out of the celestial realms; as angel of judgement, he also carries a scale for weighing the souls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obsta

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

s could acquire conjuring materials. charms containing inscriptions of the black magic page 18 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 psalms provided wearers with luck and prosperity. according to hurston, the bible, with its miraculous formulae and magical legends, was viewed by many conjurers as the "greatest conjure book in the world" while moses, as a powerful african miracle worker, was "honored as the greatest conjurer" other literaryminded conjure practitioners swore by the knowledge they attained from popular euro-american nineteenth-century magical manuals such as the albertus magnus, john hohman's "pow-wows" or the sixth and seventh\ 26\ books of moses, the last one an esoteric treatise of occult science and philosophy that wa

ernatural perspective truly interpenetrated the beliefs of many black believers, churchgoing christians or not. in the african american religious imagination there were a host of forces that intervened directly in human life and its affairs, including spirits, ghosts, and angelic personalities that were periodically summoned to assist human beings in their endeavors. the biblical god of jesus and moses was also the sovereign of the unseen world whose power was witnessed in "signs and wonders" on the earth. to many, it was all a matter of correctly perceiving the nature of things "the old folks c knows more about the signs that the lord uses to reveal his laws than the folks of today" recalled a ninety-one-year-old former slave "some of the folks laughs c says it am superstition, but it am

iscovered, according to one account, when he opened a hidden conjurer's cache to find "a tin trunk and a great many articulate creatures" other created artifacts transformed into animate beings, mysteriously shifting and relocating when left alone. the fabrication of "voodoo bags "luck balls" and other supernatural artifacts was the mainstay of successful conjure practitioners. the ex-slave patsy moses of fort bend, texas, described the creation of her protective charm "a good charm bag" she explained "am make of red flannel with frog bones and a piece of snakeskin and some horse hairs and a spoonful of ashes. dat bag pertect you from you enemy" moses claimed that she learned her magical knowledge "from my daddy and mammy\ 48\ and de old folks" she added "most of dem things works iffen you

dicine had been preferred by bondpersons 'twan't no used to send fo f a docta" black magic page 58 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 recollected one former slave"'cause dey didn't have no medicine. my grandmother got out in de woods and got 'erbs" some herbalists shared similar perspectives on affliction with conjurers. ex-bondwoman patsy moses recalled a "dr. jones" a conjurer who first learned 'bout de medicine w'en he wuz a slave boy in de piney woods from his ole granny" in texas "de\ 94\ conjure doctor, old doctor jones" she explained "walk 'bout in de black coat like a preacher c and uses roots and such for he medicine" many blacks found the herbal system to be superior to the medical care offered by the slave masters "we did

of an elderly woman for dysentery, towne found that they believed she had "neutralized" the ailment by means of witchcraft.[11] although many utilized spiritual sources of knowledge in their treatment of affliction, not all african american healers were supernatural specialists. many did not perform rituals or use charms and healing devices, as did the conjurers "ole doctor jones" commented patsy moses, referring to a local practitioner "used roots an herbs fer his medicine an f did not cast de spells like de voodoo doctor did" zora neale hurston found that a hierarchy of healing roles operated among african american workers in southeastern mining and turpentine camps in the early twentieth century "nearly all of the conjure doctors practice eroots, f" she noted "but some of the root docto

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

zid al-bistami sufi said to have first expressed symbolism of wine, cup, and cupbearer "i have come to know allah through allah, and i have come to know what is other than allah with the light of allah "praise to me, for my greatest glory "i set forth on an ocean when the [earlier] prophets were still by the shore" 882-942 se'adia ga'on of fajum. commentary on the "sefer yezirah" 10th ce sword of moses composed 900- beginning of the bogomils of bulgaria, a manicheian sect, roots of cathari. 904 abu bakr ahmed (or mohammed) ibn ali ibn al-wahshiya al-kaldani or al-nabati. kitab al-falaha al-nabatiya (nabatean agriculture."the hermesians let nobody into the secrets of their knowledge but their disciples, lest the arts and sciences should be debased by being common amongst the vulgar. they hi

troyes, france c.1050 michael psellus studying in constantinople, received an annotated copy of the hermetica from a scholar from harran. 1052-1127 ibn al-sid al batalyawsi kitab al- hada'iq or "the book of imaginary circles" ladder by which the soul ascends and descends(influenced by the "epistles of the brethren of purity) popular in medieval spain and provence -translations made by kabbalists moses ibn tibbon and samuel ibn motot 1054 rome splits from orthodox church, forms catholic church 1058-1111 ghazali (persian muslim scholar and mystic) 1060 r. solomon ibn gabirol said to have created a woman 1062-1110 petrus alfonsi proof of the trinity based on the tetragrammaton. 1071-1126 guilhelm ix duca d'aquitania, vii conte di poitiers troubadour c. 1075 yehuda ha-levi born. friend of abr

pierce armor. mongol envoy sargis/sergius meets pope innocent iv in italy. 1248-1309 angela of foligno franciscan tertiary. 1248- 1251 oghul ghaymish c.1250 pseudo-joachim's "exposition on the sibyls and on merlin" franciscan joachite commentary on the erythraean sibyl and the sayings of merlin. 1250? liber juratus (sworn book of honorius) compiled by honorius of thebes, son of euclid. 1250-1305 moses ben shem tob de leon. zohar (the book of splendor) 1250/57- 1315 petrus de abano -petrus aponensis- translator of the kabbalistic and astrological books of rabbi ibn ezra. in "astrolabium planum" he interpreted the 360 degrees of the zodiac plus the decans. 1251- 1259 mongke khan 1251: hulegu leads the mongol invasion of persia and establishes the ilkhanate. 1253-1341 ubertino of casale spir

arned friars not to study or teach alchemy. d.1273 jalal al-din al-rumi. 1274 ramon llull's vision on mount randa. d. 1275 peire cardenal troubadour. 1275-1325 menahem ben benjamin recanati italian kabbalist and torah commentator. 1275 nestorian christian monk, rabban sauma travels from beijing to paris. ramon lull ars magna. aurora consurgens possibly written by thomas aquinas. zohar compiled by moses de leon in spain. 1277 guido bonatti: decem continens tractatus astronomiae(astrological compilation. 1279-1340 jedidah ben abraham bedersi ha penini.behinat olam. 1279-1348 abner de burgos(alfonso de valladolid) spanish christian cabalist; divine names. 1280 abulafia's preaching to christians in italy. joachimist-influenced kabbalah absorbed to some degree by beguin/franciscan church of phi

delphia 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 and joachimist literature perhaps meets abraham abulafia. 1283 "ars demonstrativa" ramon llull. on the letters a+ t (prefigures later *azoth* f

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

play their part in the overall plan, the true agenda of which is kept secret from them. once they have done their job, they are discarded. those reading this book who are on the lower levels of the brotherhood ladder might ponder deeply on this for their own sake, if not for that of others. another brotherhood frontman was the marquis de mirabeau. he is known to have been financed by the german, moses mendelssohn, a member of the uluminati.21 rabbi marvin s. antelman names mendelssohn as a key manipulator for an inner 'jewish' clique which he believes has been seeking to destroy judaism and all religion.22 he says that this clique, together with non-jews, are followers of what he, too, calls the all-seeing eye cult. he links this group to the house of rothschild and says the cult was the

s seriously misguided in his means of achieving them. his ideas were to be followed by karl marx and friedrich engels (another student of plato) and became the foundations of the marxist form of communism which was soon to grip the nations of eastern europe. rabbi marvin s. antelman also identifies the plato theme and its connection to the all-seeing eye secret society network. he points out that moses mendelssohn, an architect of the french revolution, was such a student of plato's works that he became known as the "german plato. he translated three books of plato's republic into german, but his work was never published. it was, however, passed down through the warburg banking family, the subordinates of the rothschilds, and creators of the federal reserve.1 the warburgs, like the rothsch

the manipulation. in a statement from brixton prison to the speaker and members of the house of commons, ramsey claimed to have uncovered nearly thirty organisations which were working in britain to bring about what i call the elite agenda. the names that interconnected and controlled these organisations were, according to ramsey: professor harold j. laski (fabian society and labour party, israel moses sieff, professor herman levy, victor gollancz, d.n. pritt mp, and g.r. strauss mp. notably, given what would later unfold as the european community, he said his investigations had unearthed a plot to bring about a federal europe. that has certainly proved to be correct. he said in february 1940 he was handed some literature about a new group advocating a federal europe under centralised cont

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e sumerian story of king sargon is a classic case. they said that his mother floated him in a basket of rushes on the river and he was found by a member of the sumerian royal family who brought him up as their own.8 the hebrews, or rather their manipulating priests, the levites, later stole this ancient story from the sumerian accounts and used it in the fable of their invented character known as moses. the old testament is founded on sumerian accounts, edited and rewritten as required, to create a manufactured history and religion called judaism. the new testament is based on symbolic stories repeated over and over in the thousands of years before its creation and based on the sumerian (and golden age) religion of sun worship. the new testament texts, in turn, created a manufactured relig

iest of zagg. minos was a giver of 54 children of the matrix figure 11: the aegean/mediterranean region has always been highly significant to the llluminati. the island of crete was the centre of the advanced minoan civilisation- another colony of the sumer-egyptian empire atlantis revisited 55 laws direct from zeus (another story constantly repeated around the world and used for the make-believe moses) and menes established laws said to have come from zagg. the son of minos was a bull-man or minotaur. the son of menes was known as "the strong wild bull".21 can even the most padlocked of academic minds still go on ignoring the fact that menes was minos? i suspect they can. in doing so they hold together the house of cards that scams people into missing a truth, as we shall explore, which i

ts, once again the same old story goes on being told to children and students by official academia. you do not have to delve into the translations for long to see that much of the biblical old testament is simply an edited rewrite of these sumerian stories. the tablets talk of how king sargon was floated on a river in a basket of rushes, as i mentioned earlier. the bible tells this same story of "moses. the tablets describe a place called e.din("the abode of the righteous ones. the bible speaks of eden the garden of "god. the story of genesis is a summary of the same basic story that is told in the sumerian tablets in far more detail. interestingly, many of the terms translated into the english version of the old testament as "god" come from words that actually mean gods, plural, and the s

of non-human "gods" living within mountains or having their subterranean complexes entered through mountains is likely to be the origin of the endless myths about "holy" or "sacred" mountains. mount olympus, the home of the greek pantheon of gods, is one example. zeus, their king of the gods, was said to come down from the mountain to seed children with human women. meetings between the mythical moses and his god were often associated with mountains. i will investigate these ancient and modern connections between modern "extraterrestrials" and the folklore "fairies" later in the book.27 the anunnaki wars the sumerian tablets, according to translators like zecharia sitchin* tell of wars between anunnaki factions. the tablets say that the anunnaki leadership, like enlil* for some inexplicab

ents" and they worshipped nahustan, the golden or brazen serpent, the image of whom they displayed on wooden crosses. the naaseni (nagas) later became known as the ophites, a greek term for serpent. the greeks said that serpents were creatures of great knowledge, which spoke through their oracles- psychic channellers. in other words, communications from another dimension, or density. the story of moses contains much serpent symbolism, also. the garden of eden, edin, heden the serpent that "tempted" eve in the biblical garden of eden is the best-known serpent symbolism of all. this was an edited rewrite of the far more ancient sumerian story of edin, the "land of the gods or the righteous ones. there is again a common theme of the serpent gods in a garden, and james churchward suggests in t

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abode of the righteous ones. thisconnects with the sumerian name for their gods, din.gir (the righteous ones of therockets. so the sumerians spoke of edin and genesis speaks of the garden of eden.this was a centre for the gods, the anunnaki. the sumerian tablets speak of king8sargon the elder being found as a baby floating in a basket on the river and brought upby a royal family. exodus speaks of moses being found as a baby floating in a basketon the river by a royal princess and how he was brought up by the egyptian royalfamily. the list of such coincidences goes on and on.the old testament is a classic example of the religious recycling which has spawnedall the religions. so when you are looking for the original meaning of genesis and thestory of adam you have to go back to the sumerian

god, a tradition adopted by the pharaohsof egypt.1 to many in the new age, jesus is sananda, a high initiate of some spiritualhierarchy who incarnated to infuse the earth with the christ energy. or, depending onwho you talk to, he was an extraterrestrial on a similar mission. to others he wasclaiming to be the king of the jews by right of his king david bloodline. but didjesus actually exist? did moses, solomon and king david exist? i would saycategorically no. there is no credible evidence for the existence of any of them outsidethe biblical texts and they are certainly not credible. so where did they come from?the old testamentin 721 bc, it appears that israel was overrun by the assyrians and the israelites orcanaanites were taken into captivity. however, the tribes known by official his

fanaticsquote this stuff as the word of god! it is not the word of god, it is the word of thelevites under the direction of the reptile full-bloods and crossbreeds of the babylonianbrotherhood. the sumerian tablets prove beyond question that genesis was a muchedited and condensed version of sumer records. the sumerian story of edin became thelevites biblical garden of eden. remember the story of moses being found in thebulrushes by the egyptian princess? the same tale was told by the sumerians-babylonians about king sargon the elder. the story of moses is make-believe, as is theegyptian captivity, the exodus, at least in the form described, and also the creation ofthe 12 tribes via jacob.these texts were written by the levites, the heads of which were reptilian mysteryschool initiates in

elder. the story of moses is make-believe, as is theegyptian captivity, the exodus, at least in the form described, and also the creation ofthe 12 tribes via jacob.these texts were written by the levites, the heads of which were reptilian mysteryschool initiates in babylon. their stories are symbolic and coded for initiates tounderstand and the masses to take literally. according to the levites, moses was givenhis laws and commandments by god on top of a mountain. again and again we see thesymbol of mountains. one reason for this is that the top of a mountain is closer to theirsymbol of god- the sun. mount sion means sun mountain. the sun rising over theeastern mountains is still a major brotherhood symbol today. the story of the israelitesand jews is largely a fantasy- the veil behind wh

27th day, and afterthe flood he begins his seventh century. many of the names for the symbolic deities, suchas abraxas of the gnostics and serapis of greece have seven letters. then there is 40.adam enters paradise when he is 40 years old; eve follows 40 years later; during the greatflood it rains for 40 days and 40 nights; seth is carried away by angels when he is 40 andis not seen for 40 days; moses is 40 when he goes to midian and he stays for 40 years;joseph is 40 years old when jacob arrives in egypt; jesus goes into the wilderness for 40days. the bible is the word of god? no. it is written in the esoteric code of the mysteryschools. the arabian literature was also compiled by and for initiates of the mysteries andhere you find the same codes. the arbaindt (the forties) are stories w

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power. in jewish belief, god is infinite and therefore beyond description. yahweh, according to the cabalist, is not the name of god but the phonetic pronunciation of the word god spoke at the moment of creation. yhvh, called the divine tetragrammaton or sacred four letter word, represents the elements earth, air, fire, and water. the hebrew god was a god of physical manifestation who appeared to moses in a burning bush and to the israelites as a pillar of flame by night and cloud of vapor by day. it is likely that the hebrew mystical beliefs (which later formed the cabala) developed during the time the israelites lived among the egyptians. prior to the development of the cabala, the jewish religion was a fertility cult of the god adonai, or el. the israelites were syrian foreigners to egy

al system but it lent itself well to magical application. words held the power to change reality and names compelled obedience from elemental beings. grimoires, or books of ceremonial magic based on cabalistic belief, cataloged the names and sigils of countless demons over which it was said the magician could exercise power. many of these books were attributed to biblical figures such as solomon, moses, or enoch. the enochian system of magic adopted by the golden dawn was based on the enochian evocation of dr. john dee. dee, an elizabethan astrologer and magician, working with another man, edward kelly, produced a series of 18 keys in what they claimed was the original angelic language and apparently revealed to enoch, the first man after the fall to walk with god. the english translation

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dahaka is the second in command of ahriman s children, he is for a lack of a better term considered a prototype for an antichrist in that he expands the opposite gnosis against zoroaster. the jewish scriptures were first composed by him (i.e. zohak, and deposited in the fortress of jerusalem. and through zohak men adhered unto the jewish high-priest abraham, and through abraham they adhered unto moses, whom the jews accepted as their prophet and messengers of faith, and unto whom they ascribe the salvation of sins committed, and regarded his acquirements as being necessary for the final propagation of their faith. thus zohak cherished demoniac deceptions to harm his people. the denkard here we read that zohak, during his long life span, was considered the one who propagated early jewish s

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from the latin "zodiakos" meaning "circle of animals. an imaginary belt in the heavens extending on either side of the apparent path of the sun, the moon, and the planets along the ecliptic divided into twelve sections of thirty degrees each. used in astrology (q.v. zohar: a huge, mystical commentary on the torah (q.v) first written down in the fourteenth (14th) century by the rebbe and kabbalist moses de leon *finis- the encceremonial magic unveiled by dion fortune this article first appeared in the occult gazette in january i933 and has not been available for a wider audience since. it is of particular relevance in revealing d.f's considered opinion about the golden dawn as well as aleister crowley. if i read the signs of the times aright, the veil of the temple of the mysteries is being

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g of days nor end of life" administers to him the first eucharistic feast of bread and wine after the battle with the kings in the valley, the sinister kings of edom "who ruled ere there was a king in israel, whose kingdoms are unbalanced force" 10. generation by generation we trace the intercourse of the princes of israel with the priest-kings of egypt. abraham and jacob went thither; joseph and moses were mystical qabala page 6 intimately associated with the court of the royal adepts. when we read of solomon sending to hiram, king of tyre, for men materials to aid in the building of the temple we know that the famous tyrian mysteries must have profoundly influenced the hebrew esotericism. when we read of daniel being educated in the palaces of babylon we know that the wisdom of the magi

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

, it is the nature of kether that conditions all things, because all things are evolved from it. bearded he is, because in the curious symbolism of the rabbis every hair of his beard has significance. 20. the manifestation of the forces of kether in briah, the world of archetypal mind, is said to be through the archangel metatron, the prince of countenances, who tradition avers was the teacher of moses. the sepher yetzirah says of the tenth path, malkuth, that "it causes an influence to flow from the prince of countenances, the archangel of kether, and is the solirce of illumination of all the lights of the universe" thus plainly do we learn that not only does spirit flow out into manifestation in matter, but matter by its own energy draws spirit into manifestation, an important point for

amic cosmic energy in its pure form; an energy so tremendous that mortal man is fused into disruption by it. it is recorded that when semele, mother of dionysos, saw zeus her divine lover in his god-form as the thunderer, she was blasted and burnt, and gave birth to her divine son prematurely. the spiritual experience assigned to kether is the vision of god face to face; and god (jehovah) said to moses "thou canst not look upon my face and live" 21. but although the sight of the divine father blasts mortals as with fire, the divine son comes familiarly among them and can be invoked by the appropriate ntes-bacchanalia in the case of the son of zeus, and the eucharist in the case of the son of jehovah. thus we see that there is a lower form of manifestation, which "shews us the father" but t

n of adam" 31. the assignation to yesod of the perfumes and sandals is very significant. these two things play a very important part in magical operations. the sandals, or soft heelless slippers that give free play to the foot, are always used in ceremonial work to tread the magical circle. they are as important a part of the equipment of the practical occultist as his rod of power. god said unto moses, put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground" the adept makes holy ground for himself by placing upon his feet the consecrated sandals. the floor-cloth, of the appropriate colour and marked with the appropriate symbol5, is also an important piece of lodge furniture. jt is designed to concentrate the earth magnetism used in the [page 264] operation

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nquet failed to fill the stomachs of the guests. this explanation has always struck me as a bit flimsy. who is to say that the loaves and fishes miraculously multiplied by jesus to feed his flock (matthew 14:15-21) were any different in kind than the banquets created by faust and other famous magicians to feed their dinner guests? when the magician of the pharaoh of egypt cast down a staff before moses and transformed it into a serpent, was this really any less miraculous than the staff cast down and turned into a serpent by moses himself? if true changes of essence are the measure of a miracle, then what are we to make of the alchemical act of transforming base metals into gold? according to the view of devout christians, if the gold is genuine, the alchemist must act with the assistance

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tian appealed in prayer for eternal life through his victory and power. in every funeral inscription known to us, from the pyramid texts down to the roughly written prayers upon coffins of the roman period, what is done for osiris is done also for the deceased, the state and condition of osiris are the state and condition of [1. the ark of "bulrushes" was, no doubt, intended to preserve the child moses from crocodiles. 2. greek mo'non de` tw^n merw^u tou^ o?si'ridos th`n i?^sin ou`x e`urei^n to` ai?doi^n e`u u`s ga`r ei's to`n potamo`n r!ifh^nai kai` geu'sas ai to'n te lepidwto`n au`tou^ kai` to`n fa'gron kai` to`n o?ksu'rugxon. k.t.l. by the festival celebrated by the egyptians in honour of the model of the lost member of osiris, we are probably to understand the public performance of the

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senting saturn anael venus zachariel jupiter raphael mercury samael mars gabriel luna michael sol the first course of these rulers ended in anno mundi 2480. the noachian deluge is placed at 1656, in the reign of samael. the destruction of the tower of babel (see tarot trump, no. xvi, page 63) occured in the second reign of orifiel; the life of abraham in the second reign of zachariel; the life of moses in the second reign of raphael; pythagoras, xerxes, and alexander the great in the second solar reign of michael. the era of jesus christ comes in the third reign of orifiel. the third reign of anael began in 109 ad the third reign of zachariel began in 463 ad the third reign of raphael began in 817 ad the third reign of samael began in 1171 ad the third reign of gabriel began in 1525 ad the

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87 to the present day. london: neville spearman, 1970. suster, gerald. the legacy of the beast. york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1989. symonds, john. the great beast: the life and magick of aleister crowley. london: macdonald, 1971. rev. ed. london: mayflower, 1973. the king of the shadow realm. london: duckworth, 1989. aaron s rod a magic wand deriving from the biblical narrative of the rods of moses and aaron that were used in the miracles of dividing the waters of the red sea and in causing water to gush from a rock in the desert. when aaron cast his rod before pharaoh and his magicians (exodus 7, the rod transformed into a serpent, hence the occult use of aaron s rod with a motif of a serpent. an old jewish legend states that aaron s rod was created on the sixth day of creation and wa

r possibly somewhat earlier. a distinct illiteracy characterizes the french script, with the punctuation being either inaccurate or conspicuously absent. abraham was probably a native of mayence, and appears to have been born in 1362. his father, simon, was something of a seer and magician, and the boy took up his occult studies initially under parental guidance, then later under another teacher, moses, whom abraham describes as indeed a good man, but entirely ignorant of the true mystery, and of the veritable magic. abraham thereafter decided to continue his education by traveling. with his friend samuel, a bohemian by birth, he wandered through austria and hungary into greece, and next into constantinople (now istanbul, where he remained two years. abraham then traveled to arabia, in tho

owledge, which had become grafted upon each other so that they formed one tree. some commentators believe this to symbolize the harmony of science and religion in the kabala. the guardian angel presented seth with three seeds from this tree and directed him to place them within the mouth of his father, adam, when he died. from this planting arose the burning bush, out of which god communicated to moses his holy name, and from a part of which moses made his magic wand. this was placed in the ark of the covenant and was planted by king david on mount zion, where it grew into a triple tree and was later cut down by solomon to form the pillars jachin and boaz, which were placed at the entrance to the temple. a third portion was inserted in the threshold of the great gate and acted as a talisma

reatures had power over god. this custom in jewish prayers still prevails, especially among hasidic jews, who follow the kabala and believe that the holy name of god, associated with miraculous powers, should not be profaned. yahweh is their invisible protector and king, and no image of him is made. he is worshiped according to his commandments, with an observance of the ritual instituted through moses. the term yhwh means the revealed absolute deity, the manifest, only, personal, holy creator and redeemer. adoptive masonry masonic societies that adopted women as members. early in the eighteenth century such societies were established in france, and they spread speedily to other countries. one of the first to adopt women was the mopses. the felicitaries existed in 1742. the fendeurs, or wo

the emersonian tradition. many of its early proponents had been members of the church of christ, scientist. it has been characterized as a very loosely organized movement in contrast to the tight organization of christian science. ernest holmes was the last student of emma curtis hopkins, generally regarded as the founder of new thought. prominent in the formation of the network was harry morgan moses of the new thought center of san diego. the network s goal is the promotion of new thought as a practical philosophy and instructing people on its day-to-day application. it is the members belief that new thought can foster global transformation and healing. associated with the network as its educational arm is emerson institute, located in oakhurst, california. the institute provides a full

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given names.kaspar, melchior, and balthasar. and their bones are said to rest in cologne cathedral, germany. the term magus is also used in magical societies like the golden dawn to indicate one of its highest grades, between the master of the temple and the ipsissimus. sources: king, francis. the rites of modern occult magic. new york: macmillan, 1970. magus a spirit control of william stainton moses, supposed to be a member of the mystic band that delivered occult teaching in moses s scripts. magus did not disclose his name on earth, but he said that he lived 4,000 years ago and belonged to an ancient african wonder-working brotherhood. in the nineteenth book of the moses scripts, a topaz is mentioned as the material counterpart of a spiritual jewel worn by magus, which was to be given

sed to be a member of the mystic band that delivered occult teaching in moses s scripts. magus did not disclose his name on earth, but he said that he lived 4,000 years ago and belonged to an ancient african wonder-working brotherhood. in the nineteenth book of the moses scripts, a topaz is mentioned as the material counterpart of a spiritual jewel worn by magus, which was to be given to stainton moses to help him to see visions. the stone, set in a ring, was reportedly dropped from the air in stainton moses s bedroom. sources: moses, stainton. spirit identity. london: london spiritualist alliance, ltd, 1908. spirit teachings. 1883. reprint, new york: arno press, 1976. maharaj ji, guru (1957) teacher in the sant mat tradition and head of elan vital (formerly known as the divine light missi

te rosoe crucis. the second was an echo colloquii by hilarion on behalf of the rosicrucian fraternity. from these pamphlets it appears that maier considered himself a member of the mystical order. he became the most profuse writer on alchemy of his time. most of his works, many of which are adorned with curious plates, are obscure with the exception of his rosicrucian apologies. maimonides, rabbi moses (1135.1204) a great spanish-hebrew philosopher, theologian, and author of the guide for the perplexed. his theories were aristotelian and rational, but there remained in his viewpoint a touch of mysticism. he was born april 6, 1135, in cordova, southern spain, and was educated by arabic teachers. after the moorish conquest of cordova in 1148, jews left the province, and maimonides settled in

moment there appeared a rather dull looking, grey hand, somewhat shadowy, and not quite so clearly defined as the first, but it was unmistakably there, and its grey hue could be clearly seen. eusapia palladino was famous for her third arm, which issued from her shoulders and receded into them. this arm was often seen independently and well materialized. the counterpartal arms of william stainton moses, extending from his shoulders straight out, and above his true arms, presented a similar phenomenon. they simply retracted into the medium, or vanished if an attempt was made to grasp them. describing john king s materialized hand, charles richet stated: i held it firmly and counted 29 seconds, during all which time i had leisure to observe both of eusapia s hands on the table, to ask mme. c

ht feet from mr. home were seen to move. a dark, shadowy, semi-transparent form, like that of a man, was then seen by all present standing near the window, waving the curtain with his hand. as we looked, the form faded away and the curtains ceased to move. mrs. crookes described a semitransparent phantom form playing an accordian, which she said was also seen by her husband, the reverend stainton moses, and sergeant cox in a home seance: as the figure approached i felt an intense cold, getting stronger as it got nearer, and as it was giving me the accordion i could not help screaming. the figure seemed to sink into the floor, to the waist, leaving only the head and shoulders visible, still playing the accordion, which was then about a foot off the floor. a description of a more solid case

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stooping dragon of the apocalypse; the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou, therefore, the celestial serpent as of brass; glistening with green and gold, the colors of vegetation and of growth. banish thou, therefore, the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst know the life of ages, thou who would follow in the footsteps of our master, o brother of the order of the golden dawn! for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up and raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended upon the tree through suffering and through pain, let thy countenance be raised up towards the light of the holy one, to invoke the divine brightness, not for thyself, but for

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se, from a few seconds to a few minutes, he would return either to answer the question or to announce he was not permitted to answer it. other times, though rarely, the entity with whom david had conferred, the master, would speak, always briefly. the master s voice had an odd, eerie quality and a tone of absolute authority. over many dozens of hours of channeling, this story emerged: just before moses was given the ten commandments, seven citizens of landa were elected by the masters for a mission on earth. the leader of the seven select, also called the habanas or the warriors of god, was daniel (pronounced dan-yell, the son of david and corinthian. once on earth, the habanas s souls occupied human bodies. with the passing of centuries, during which the habanas reincarnated repeatedly, o

ng about them. a more interesting issue concerns the motivations of the principals. sh a ve r s manifest belief in experiences that could not have happened in consensus reality leads some, such as h o l l ow- e a rth chronicler walter kafton-mi nkel, to see sh a ver as a visionary, a member of that ancient fellowship of re c e i vers of re ve a l e d shaver mystery 225 k n owledge, a prophet like moses or jo s e p h smith though without the religious trappings. even if sh a ver technologized hell, he re m a i n e d to the end an atheist and a materialist. to him the caverns existed in this world and had nothing to do with the supernatural. though usually depicted as a cynical exploiter of a deluded man whom any responsible adult would have directed to the nearest psychiatrist, palmer himse

g of life that they can forego the time-consuming process of birth and childhood, returning directly [to] the adult b o d i e s. the motivation of the walk-in is humanitarian. he returns to physical being in order to help others help themselve s, planting seed-concepts that will grow and flourish for the benefit of mankind (mo n tg o m e ry, 1979) walk-ins, according to mo n t g o m e ry, include moses, jesus, mohammed, christopher columbus, abraham lincoln, ga n d h i, ma ry baker ed d y, thomas jefferson, be njamin franklin, and others who have playe d large roles in politics, religion, the arts, and other aspects of human life. in a later elaboration of the notion, montgomery contended that there are also extraterrestrial walk-ins, in other words the souls of kindly space people who hav

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

you have never seen. the explanations of core ideas may lead you to think about what you do know in new ways$ this book is composed of seven chapters, an epilogue, a glossary, and two appendices. the first chapter focuses on how the mystical qabalah of the children of abraham developed and took shape through successive transmissions of the universal mystical spirituality by adam, abraham, mosheh (moses, yeshuvah' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8 (jesus, and mohammad. the ensuing discussion addresses a number of basic questions: e what is the universal mystical qabalah of the children of abraham? e in what ways is the mystical qabalah distinct from the practical or hermetic kabbalah? e in what ways is the mystical qabalah distinct from the rabbinical jewish kabbalah? e what is the relationship between the

hese, with one lamed l instead of two. the addition of the second lamed l extends the name into asiyah (qabalistic world of activity. 2 f# name allah the silent and oral recitation (dikhr) of the affirmation of unity (la illaha il allah, which is the root mantra at the foundation of islam, is a core practice of all sufis. the various orders can often be distinguished by the way that they do this. moses maimomades, the oft-cited author of the guide for the perplexed, regarded the affirmation of unity of the qur an as essentially equal to the affirmation of unity of the torah, shem ayin yisrael hvhy elohenu hvhy echad. maimomedes made this declaration actually believing this to be the case, and not just because the alternative was death. sufis are also known for movement practices, called de

rse of this book,'0( the sefer hazohar (book of splendor, often referred to simply as the zohar) is a five-volume mystical exegesis written in rashi aramaic on the five books of the torah. like" f" 2' 8: 4 the sefer yetzirah, the date and original author of the zohar are subjects for academic debate. many qabalistic scholars, such as gershom scholem, believe the zohar to be a new work produced by moses de leon, circa 1250 ce in spain.15 others believe that it was dictated by its pivotal figure rabbi shimeon ben yochai to his son rabbi abba in the first century ce, while they and their group of rabbis hid in caves for thirteen years in piquin, israel to avoid roman persecution. hence, there are also those who would take the intermediary position that de leon redacted and published a work th

oman legions without the support of the rabbis, and was sorely defeated. 4 diaspora is a term most often used to describe the widespread scattering of jews outside of palestine, subsequent to the destruction of the second temple in 70 ce. 5 tanakh is an acronym composed of the first letters of each of the principal sections of the jewish scriptures: the torah (law, also known as the five books of moses; naviyim (prophets, which includes a number of historical books (joshua, judges, i samuel, ii samuel, i kings, ii kings, three major prophets (isaiah, jeremiah, and ezekiel, and 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% twelve minor prophets (hosea, joel, amos, obadiah, jonah, micah, nahum, habakkuk, zefaniah, and malachi; and the kethuvim (writings, which includes the psalms, proverbs, job, song of songs, ruth

he sinatic hebrew alphabet, the letter ayin is a circle, and the letter dalet is a triangle. in the vaishnavic hindu tradition, there is an ancient sacred image called the footprints of vishnu. this image depicts a pair of left and right footprints, covered with a variety of mystical symbols. among the symbols that appear on both feet are six-pointed stars, a circle and a triangle. 15 maimomades, moses, a guide for the perplexed. 16 zohar 285a,b. unify the holy name means to see all as a unity in small face. bind the knot of faith is alluded to in the mystery of the circumcision of the heart. the proper place is maqom, which has the literal meaning of place, an allusion to the throne. 17 these are all traditions that espouse doctrines of non-duality. 18 idra rabba 39. 19 book of enoch 71:1

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rlier than the egyptian wisdom. and what was their [the egyptian's] goodly wisdom, think you? truly nothing but astronomy, and such other sciences as rather seemed to exercise the wit than to elevate the knowledge. for as for morality, it stirred not in egypt until trismegistus' time, who was indeed long before the sages and philosophers of greece, but after abraham, isaac, jacob, joseph, yea and moses also; for at the time when moses was born, was atlas, prometheus' brother, a great astronomer, living, and he was grandfather by the mother's side to the elder mercury, who begat the father of this trismegistus.2 augustine thus confirmed with the great weight of his authority the extreme antiquity of hermes trismegistus, who was "long before the sages and philosophers of greece. and by givin

us.2 augustine thus confirmed with the great weight of his authority the extreme antiquity of hermes trismegistus, who was "long before the sages and philosophers of greece. and by giving him 1 see below, pp. 169, 172-3. 2 de civ. dei, xviii, xxix; quoted in john healey's translation. ii hermes trismegistus this curious genealogy, whereby he is dated three generations later than a contemporary of moses, augustine raised a question which was to be much debated concerning the relative dates of moses and hermes. was hermes slightly later than moses, though much earlier than the greeks, as augustine said? was he contemporary with moses, or earlier than moses? all these views were to be held by later hermetists and magi. the need to date him in relation to moses was stimulated by the affinities

but which he extended to cover the whole corpus, or rather the first fourteen of its items which were all that his manuscript contained. he dedicated the translation to cosimo, and this dedication, or argumentum as he calls it, reveals the state of mind, the attitude of profound awe and wonder, in which he had approached this marvellous revelation of ancient egyptian wisdom. in that time in which moses was born flourished adas the astrologer, brother of prometheus the physicist and maternal uncle of the elder mercury whose nephew was mercurius trismegistus.1 so the argumentum begins, with a slightly garbled version of the augustinian genealogy of hermes, which at once places him in extreme antiquity, and almost in a mosaic context. augustine has written of mercurius, continues ficino, also

early christian writers, especially lactantius and augustine, and partly on the internal evidence of the corpus hermeticum and the latin asclepius of pseudo-apuleius. he saw. that the resemblance between the hermetic doctrines and those of plato was such as to imply some historical connection; but accepting it as a known fact that the author of the hermetica was a man who lived about the time of moses, he inverted the true relation and thought that plato had derived his theology, through pythagoras, from trismegistus. and his view was adopted, at least in its main outlines, by all who dealt with the subject down to the end of the sixteenth century.2 1 in his work on the christian religion (de christ, relig, xxv, ficino puts hermes with the sibyls as testifying with them to the coming of c

gins to preach to the people urging them to leave their errors and to take part in immortality. and trismegistus "engraved within himself the benefit of pimander".1 ficino, in his commentary on this treatise, is immensely struck by remarkable resemblances to the book of genesis "here mercurius is seen to be treating of the mosaic mysteries, he begins, and then goes on to make obvious comparisons. moses saw a darkness over the face of the abyss and the spirit of god brooding over the waters: mercurius sees a darkness and the word of god warming the humid nature. moses announced the creation by the powerful word of god. mercurius actually states that that shining word, which illuminates all things, is the son of god. and if it is "ego autem pimandri beneficium inscripsi penetralibus animi (f

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a already hints at the fact that magical sigils have a long historical tradition, which we will not discuss here because then we would have to cover the whole complex of occult iconology as well. in general, people think of''correct' and gincorrect h sigils. the grimoires of the late middle ages were often little else but gmagical recipe books (the frequently criticized sixth and seventh books of moses basically applies the same procedure of''select ingredients, pour in and stir h, and these practitioners believed in the following principle: to know the gtrue' name and the''true' sigil of a demon means to have power over it. pragmatic magic, which developed in the anglo-saxon realms, completely tidied up this concept.6 often crowley's revolt in the golden dawn.at first in favor of but soon

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ave been made to unite the two streams of humanity and emancipate them from their progenitors, jehovah and the lucifer spirits. with this end in view the symbolical temple was built according to the instruction of solomon, the son of seth and the molten sea was cast by hiram abiff, the son of cain; but the main object was frustrated as we have seen, and the attempt at unification proved abortive. moses, the divinely appointed leader of the old dispensation, afterward reborn as elijah, guided humanity through its ages of infancy, and was finally embodied as john the baptist, the herald of the new dispensation, the christian era. at the same point in time the other actors in the world drama were also brought to birth that they might serve their brothers. at the casting of the molten sea hira

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iest continually* and here men that die (the levites) receive tithes, but there he receiveth them of whom it is witnessed the he liveth* if, therefore, perfection were by the law and its priesthood what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of melchisedec and not be called after the order of aaron* for it is evident that our lord sprang out of judah of which tribe moses spake nothing concerning the priesthood. and it is yet far more evident for that after the similitude of melchisedec there ariseth another priest who is made not after the law of carnal commandments but after the power of an endless life, for he testifies 'thou are a priest for the age, after the order of melchisedec* by so much was jesus made the surety of a better testament* because he con

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that the hebrew word sod, which means gmystery h or gsecrets h, has the same numerical value, namely 70, as the hebrew word which represents gwine h; for mystery can intoxicate as well as refresh. the mysteries of the early hebrews were closely guarded by the sons of the doctrine, and it would appear that many of their secrets were derived from egypt and later on from babylonia. we are told that moses was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians2 and that in the first four books of the pentateuch he has esoterically laid down the principles of the secret doctrine. he initiated seventy elders into the mysteries,3 which they transmitted from mouth to ear. generally speaking, the initiates led an ascetic life in order to separate themselves from the ignorant and unwise, so that they might

ne nobility and felicity. from adam it passed secret wisdom of the qabalah page 10 over to noah, and then to abraham, the friend of god, who emigrated with it to egypt, where the patriarch allowed a portion of this mysterious doctrine to ooze out. it was in this way that the egyptians obtained some knowledge of it, and the other eastern nations could introduce it into their philosophical systems. moses, who was learned in all the wisdom of egypt, was first initiated into it in the land of his birth, but became most proficient in it during his wanderings in the wilderness, when he not only devoted to it the leisure hours of the whole forty years, but received lessons in it from one of the angels. by the aid of this mysterious science the lawgiver was enabled to solve the difficulties which

sterious science the lawgiver was enabled to solve the difficulties which arose during his management of the israelites, in spite of the pilgrimages, wars, and the frequent miseries of the nation. he covertly laid down the principles of this secret doctrine in the first four books of the pentateuch, but withheld them from deuteronomy. this constitutes the former the man, and the latter the woman. moses also initiated the seventy elders into the secrets of this doctrine, and they again transmitted them from hand to hand. of all who formed the unbroken line of tradition, david and solomon were most initiated into the kabbalah. no one, however, dared to write it down, till simon ben jochai, who lived at the time of the destruction of the second temple. after his death his son, r. eliezer, and

tion of the second temple. after his death his son, r. eliezer, and his secretary, r. abba, as well as his disciples, then collated r. simon g. jochai's treatises, and out of these composed the celebrated work called sohar (rhz) i.e. splendour, which is the grand storehouse of kabbalism.10 turning from tradition to history: though here again evidence is none too secure, the zohar is attributed to moses de leon, a qabalistic writer of the thirteenth century, and quite possibly parts of it were written by him. the whole compilation covers a vast ground and comprises: 1. the sefer ha-zohar, the book of splendour11- the main commentary. 2. the sifra-di-tseniuta, the book of the veiled mystery.12 3. the sitre torah, secrets of the torah. 4. the ra'ya mahemna, the true shepherd. 5. the midrush h

l. after he has accustomed himself to her society, she finally shows herself to him face to face, and entrusts him with the innermost secrets of her heart [sod].5 git is h, according to the book of proverbs,6 gthe glory of god to conceal a thing h- gloria dei est celare verbum. gwith the lowly is wisdom h7; that is, wisdom belongs to those who have conquered the arrogance of the rational faculty. moses is looked upon as such a one. he kept the secret law secretly and orally transmitted it to the elect;8 also he compiled the public, or exoteric, law for the multitudes. these two categories of laws are distinct, but frequently the second envelops the first, and, as pointed out in the introduction, the uncovering of mysteries before the uninitiated is wraught with infernal dangers; for to do

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informed by bunsen that el, or elohim, comprehends the true significance of the deity among all the aramaic or canaanitish races, el representing the abstract principle taken collectively, elohim pertaining to the separate elements as creator, preserver, and regenerator. each of these canaanitish races had inherited these ideas from their fathers, and, although they had become grossly idolatrous "moses knew, and educated israelites remained a long time conscious, that they used them not merely in their real but in their most ancient sense"[41] maurice and other writers call attention to the fact that moses himself uses this word elohim with verbs and adjectives in the plural. that the god worshipped by the more ancient peoples, namely aleim, or elohim, the same who said "let us make man in

several thousand years, there existed various sects, those who worshipped the male as the only creative force, others who adored the female as the origin of life, and those who paid homage to both, as alike important in the office of reproduction. it would seem that the fierce wars which had devastated the land had ceased prior to the beginning of the tower of babel. according to the testimony of moses, the lord himself declared "behold the people is one" this unanimity of belief, as is plainly shown, was of short duration, for the tower arose "upright and defiant" not, however, as an emblem of the primeval dual or triune god in which the female energy was predominant, but as a symbol of male creative power. it was the type of virility which in the subsequent history of religion was to ass

which we have of the egyptians, we observe that their ceremonies and symbols have already become multitudinous, the true meaning of the latter being concealed. the masses of the people, who had grown too sensualized and ignorant to receive the higher divine "mysteries" and too gross to be entrusted with their true significance, had become idolaters. not only the egyptian and chaldean priests, but moses and the jewish doctors were well versed in religious symbolism. the fact is observed, also, that as late as medieval christianity, the fathers in the church, the christian painters, sculptors, and architects, still employed signs and symbols to set forth their religious doctrines. even at the present time, many of the emblems representing certain ideas connected with the creative principles

which brought the children of israel out from the bondage of egypt was the male power, which by a certain sect had been proclaimed the only actual creative agency, and therefore the "only one and true god" although, at the time at which abraham is said to have lived, the knowledge of an abstract dual or triune god still remained, yet, during the five hundred years which elapsed until the time of moses, the grossest idolatry had come to prevail. notwithstanding the fact that moses had learned much from the egyptians, he seems not to have risen above a very gross conception of a deity. his god was by turns angry, jealous, revengeful, vacillating, and weak. he was in fact the embodiment of human passions and desires. we have seen that the third person in the ancient trinity had, in egypt, in

ul, vacillating, and weak. he was in fact the embodiment of human passions and desires. we have seen that the third person in the ancient trinity had, in egypt, india, and persia, come to be recognized in place of the three principles originally worshipped--that, as it really embodied the essence of the other two, little was heard of the creator and preserver. doubtless this god was the one which moses intended the israelites to worship, but as they were unable to conceive of an abstract principle he invested it with a personality which, as we have seen, was burdened with the frailties and weaknesses common to themselves. as the regenerator or destroyer represented the processes of nature--the dying away of the sun's rays at night only to reappear on the following day, and the withdrawal o

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

hat in 1938 it was suggestedthathemightbecome editoroflightin succession to george lethemwhowas in ill-health.theimmediate reason forthesuggestion was, however, somewhat bizarre, as waitenotedatthetime:thecouncil of the spliritualist] allliance] knows of no-one to succeed [letheml and phyllis [le. mercy phillimore, secretary of the association] was asked to see a certain mediumthroughwhomstainton-moses is said to communicate.he-i-advisedthat i should be consulted. butiknowless of likely people. if the advice really came from s.m, was it intended to seewhetheriwould serve? this is amootpoint. wasitsubconsciously in themindof phyllis? she at leastthoughtof me once in connectionwiththe editorship. i made my position plain on the score of sincerity, and it seemsnotfar apart from hers.he also r

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usually, diabolic; but however disapproving of particular practices, the churches did not deny the reality of a spiritual order, and society as a whole maintained a solid belief in the supernatural.norwere all clerics equally hostile. some went so far as to holdseances-the'sittings' at which a medium, often in a trance, produces messages for those present-themselves, and one, the revd w. stainton moses, was fromi&]2until his death in1892a medium himself and the principal exponent of spiritualist thought in england. others were more circumspect and, whether from natural reticence or fear of episcopal wrath, carefully avoided publicity. one such group had affinities with the rosicrucians.theguild of the holy spirit was first brought to public noticein]anuary1881in the first issue of the spir

ologian and mystic, has left us in his works, published in and after the year1614,an account of100thegoldendawnthe doctrines and exoteric management of the r.c. society. but even the revival of mysticism was but a new development of the vastly older wisdom of the kabbalistic rabbis and of.the most ancient of all secret knowledge, the magic of the egyptians, in which the bible itself tells us that moses the founder of the jewish system was 'learned, that is, in which he had been in255 itiated. through the hebrew kabbalah we have indeed become pos255 sessed of more of the ancient wisdom than from any other source, for it must be borne in mind that the hebrews were taught at one time by the egyptians, and at a later date by the chaldean sages of babylon.itis a very curious fact that the class

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ul artificial songs; these we may take to be what the eastern adepts called mantrams, that is portions of language in a certain rhythm for recitation in magical ceremonies.they condemned gold-making for profit and luxury as accursed, calling transmutation but a parergon or side work. and lastly we read in thefama:ourphilosophy is not a new invention, but as adam after his fall received it, and as moses and solomon used, also she ought not to be much doubted of or contradicted by other opinions or meanings; but seeing thattruthis always peaceful and brief and always like herself and especially accorded by with jesusinomniparteand all members. and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image.itshall not be said that this is true only of philosophy, but true according to theolog

opinions or meanings; but seeing thattruthis always peaceful and brief and always like herself and especially accorded by with jesusinomniparteand all members. and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image.itshall not be said that this is true only of philosophy, but true according to theology. and wherein plato, aristotle, pythag255 oras and others did hit the mark, and wherein moses, enochandsolomon did excel, but especially in what that wonderful book the bible agreeth. all that same concurreth and makes a sphere or globe whose total parts are equidistant from the centre.there follows theconfessio fraternitatis,written to the learned in europe, and which is said to contain thirty-seven reasons of the purpose and intention of the society. curiously enough, that tract do

etoric and oratory, politics and on miracles. he then complains of several heathen philosophies, greek and arabian: but objects less to plato than to aristotle. he then explains at length his views of creation and of the realms of nature and man as described in the mosaic works and in the bible generally, and again recounts the doctrine of the cabala as illustrating and completing the doctrine of moses, and he concludes the work with the words 'worldlings still persecute and crucify daily the spiritual christ who is the only true wisdom and corner-stone, whose name be blessed for ever. i will sing the truth under the shadow of thy wings. 0 lord in thee do i put my trust, keep and preserve me from my enemies, for thy mercy's sake. amen' time will not permit metosay anything of our author's

n going on in the philosophy since medieval times. some of the writings of the latest rabbis sadly differ from the purer and more ancient treatises. whatever may be the origin of this philosophy,itis undeniable that the most ancient rabbis did claim a prehistoric date for its conception:thekabalah83and being hebrews, who no doubt were prominent in the study and the practice of the exoteric law of moses, they claimed for it as distant an origin as they allowed to man himself. they asserted its origin to be from adam himself, the first human being of their cosmogony, and they asserted that he was instructed by angels sent by the deity, whom they exoterically described as jehovah elohim, he who they saidputthe soul into man, and made him a living and thinking being..here then we have a parall

ho liveda.d.160, who was persecuted and driven to liveina cave by lucius aurelius verus, co-regent with the emperor marcus aurelius antoninus. some considerable portion of the work may have been arranged by him, and condensed by him from the oral traditions of his time:butother parts have certainly been added by other hands at intervals up to the timewhenit was first published as a whole by rabbi moses de leon, of guadalajara in spain,circa1290. from that time its history is known. printed editions have been issued in mantua, 1558; cremona, 1560;and lublin, 1623; these are the three famous codices of thezoharin the hebrew language. for those who do not read hebrew, the only practical means of studying thezoharhas been the partial translation into latin of baron knorr von rosenroth- publish

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combination of particular words, letters, and numbers, and by this means pretend to discover what is to. come, and to see clearly into the sense of many difficult passages of scripture. there are no sure principles of this knowledge, but it depends upon some particular traditions of the ancients, for which reason it is termed cabbala. the secrets of the cabbala are said to have been discovered to moses on mount .sinai; and to have been delivered from him down. from father. to son, without interruption, and without any use of letters; fortowrite them down is what they are by no means permitted to do..there is another cabbala, called artificial, which consists in searching for abstruse and mysterious significationsofaword in scripture, from whence they borrow certain explana255 tions,by comb

fall, this book was taken back into heaven; that after many prayers and tears god restored it to adam; and that it passed from adam to seth.thebook being lost, and the mysteries contained in it almost forgotten, in the degenerate age preceding the flood, they were restored by special revelation to abraham who transmitted them to writinginthe book 'yetzirah; and that the revelation was renewed to moses, who received a traditionary and mystical as well as athekabbalah17written and preceptive law from god. accordingly the jews believe, that god gave to moses on mount sinai, not only the law,butalso the explication of that law; and that moses, after his coming down, retiring to his tent, rehearsed to aaron both the one and the other. when he had done, aaron standing on the right hand, his son

so the explication of that law; and that moses, after his coming down, retiring to his tent, rehearsed to aaron both the one and the other. when he had done, aaron standing on the right hand, his sons, eleazar and ithamar, were introduced to a second rehearsal; this being over, the seventy elders that composed the sanhedrim were admitted; and lastly, the people, as many as pleased: to all of whom moses again repeated both the law and the explanation as he received them from god. so that aaron heard it four times, his sons thrice, the elders twice, and the people once. now, of the two things which moses taught them, the law and the explanation, only the first was committed to writing; which is what we have in exodus, leviticus, and numbers; as to the second, or the explication of that law

the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with. green and gold, the colour of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst follow in the footsteps of our master, brother of the golden dawn. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adambelifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended on that tree, through suffering and through pain, let thy countenance be raised up towards the light of the holy one to invoke the divine brightness, not for thyself,butfor those

brother of joseph, for rachel had only thesetwosons, and is the only one of the sons of jacob who at his birth was called by two names, for rachel called him 'ben-oni',buthis father benjamin, and in the sign of (t )the two natures of man and horse are bound together in one symbol. we shall find much light upon the connection between the signs and the tribes shown by the blessings of jacob, and of moses, from the former of which the armorial bearings of the twelve tribes are derived. let us note also that as in the tribes levi was withdrawn, and the two tribes of ephraim and manasseh substituted for the simple one of joseph, so in the new testament, judas is withdrawn from the number of the twelve apostles and his place filled by another, matthias, who is chosen by lot to fill his place.the

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before june 1882 what made this letter more damaging was that whytehead was a prominent member of the sria (he was chief adept for yorkshire) and his opposition helped to cut off the potential supply of members from within that society. even greater opposition and uproar would have followed if the views of one less reluctant but equally prominent member had become known. the rev. william stainton moses (1840 1892) was the first supreme grand chaplain of the rite as well as being a prominent spiritualist medium and co-founder, in 1881, of the spiritualist journal, light. he was eager for a lodge to be established in london and told irwin (20 may 1877) that he knew, 4 or 5 friends (all spiritualists) who would join me. in a later letter (undated, but probably early in 1878) he explained why:

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. also, many non-jews have been influenced by the kabbalah, and have tried to practice magic by employing its doctrines. the esoteric tendencies that took hold in europe during the late middle ages, especially as practiced by alchemists, have their roots, to a great extent, in the kabbalah. the strange thing is, that judaism is a monotheistic religion, incepted with the revelation of the torah to moses (peace be upon him. but, within this religion is a system called the kabbalah, that adopts the basic practices of magic forbidden by the religion. this substantiates what we have presented above, and demonstrates that the kabbalah is actually an element that has entered judaism from the outside. but, what is the source of this element? the jewish historian fabre d'olivet says that it came fr

d in the nineteenth century and, after intense labor, the egyptian alphabet was deciphered, bringing to light much information about the country. but, because these inscriptions were written by official state historians, they are filled with biased accounts designed to praise the state. for us, of course, the best source of knowledge about this matter is the qur'an. in the qur'an, in the story of moses, we are given important information about the egyptian system. the verses reveal that there were two important focal points of power in egypt: pharaoh and his inner-council. this council tended to exercise an important influence over pharaoh; pharaoh would often consult them and, from time to time, follow their suggestions. the verses quoted below show the influence that this council had on

are given important information about the egyptian system. the verses reveal that there were two important focal points of power in egypt: pharaoh and his inner-council. this council tended to exercise an important influence over pharaoh; pharaoh would often consult them and, from time to time, follow their suggestions. the verses quoted below show the influence that this council had on pharaoh: moses said "pharaoh! i am truly a messenger from the lord of all the worlds, duty bound to say nothing about god except the truth. i have come to you with a clear sign from your lord. so send the tribe of israel away with me" he said "if you have come with a clear sign produce it if you are telling the truth" so he threw down his staff and there it was, unmistakably a snake. global freemasonry ek

o looked. the ruling circle of pharaoh's people said "this is certainly a skilled magician who desires to expel you from your land, so what do you recommend" they said "detain him and his brother and send out marshals to the cities, to bring you all the skilled magicians (qur'an, 7: 104-112) it should be noticed that mention here is made of a council that advises pharaoh, that incites him against moses, and recommends to him certain methods. if we look at the records of egyptian history, we see that the two basic components of this council were the army and the priests. there is no need to explain the importance of the army; it constituted the basic military power of the regimes of the pharaohs. but, we should look more closely at the role of the priests. the priests of ancient egypt were

n be the inheritors of the magicians of ancient egypt? in order to make the answer to this question clearer, we must first examine more closely the historical events that we have now only briefly outlined. ff from the templars to ancient egypt fg -iithe inside story on the kabbalah xodus" is the title of the second book of the torah. this book describes how the israelites, under the leadership of moses, left egypt and escaped the tyranny of pharaoh. pharaoh made the israelites work as slaves and would not consent to set them free. but, when confronted by the miracles god performed through moses, and the disasters he inflicted on his people, pharaoh relented. and so, one night the israelites gathered en masse, and began their emigration from egypt. later, pharaoh attacked the israelites, bu

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is to use the seven planes in a standard "scientific" chart and ignore the more organic view that was held of the planes in early theosophy. in the next chapter we will examine this in more detail and consider it in terms of the gnostic tradition. the kabbalistic tree of life the kabbalah is a system of some controversy, it has been heralded as the greatest mystical system of all, handed down by moses and guarded by the jewish people. the problem with this largely mythical tale is that the kabbalah was not developed til at least the 6th century ad and incorporated greek and gnostic images, forms and traditions. indeed it has been suggested by both barbara thiering and gershom scholem that the very image of the tree of life was derived from greek rather than archaic jewish mystical sources

re made in tibet, india, sumer/egypt and south america. it is from the sumer/egypt basin that the israelite mysteries developed. the israel connection developing from the theory above we have the fascinating studies by ahmed osman and others. these suggest clearly a direct link between what was supposed to be judaism and egypt. this evidence proves, fairly conclusively in many peoples minds, that moses and arkenaten were the same people and that the israelites were his followers escaping from egypt. this model certainly re-visions the old testament as we start to realize that judaism in this earlier phase had little to do with what we see as rabbinic judaism today. the evidence is then they developed a large desert culture with an emphasis on a god and a goddess and that most old testament

the old testament echo this re-writing of history, while they certainly contain images and icons of the original aryan faith, they also reflect the distorted tradition established by the pharisaic priesthood. one of the best examples of this is the image of the serpent. the serpent was a sacred symbol of the israelite tradition, throughout the old testament it is also used as a symbol of wisdom. moses uses a serpent to heal the people of israel, in gematria the serpent has the same numerical as the christ and is seen as a type of jesus. yet, at the same time, the serpent is cursed in the priestly rendition of genesis and seen as a symbol of evil. and the lord said unto moses, make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when

stortion found in the old testament text. the bible as a whole has an ambivalent view of the serpent or snake, on one hand 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

t kept contacts with greek and perhaps even egyptian mystery cults. they were not insular but taught a form of the mysteries with both israelite, greek and egyptian elements. this group was known as the essenes and forms an important link in the survival of the gnosis through the dark time from constantine's rule to the present. the gnostic handbook page 77 if it is true as everyone attests, that moses left an oral law, it is amongst the essenes that it was preserved. the pharisees who flattered themselves so highly on possessing it, only has its outward forms, as jesus reproaches them at every moment. it is from these latter that the modern jews descend. la langue hebraique, fabre d'olivet. while we will study the essenes in more detail later, they form an important background, as it is f

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he 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 attributes of each church as given in the book of revelation are: 1. characteristics of the church and cit

mselves on the tablets of stone. zohar:book of enlightenment. trans, daniel matt, paulist press.1983 come and behold the letters by which heaven and earth were created, the letters by which were created hills and mountains, the letters by which were created rivers and seas, the letters by which were created the trees and the herbs. the book of enoch. in the ancient book of enoch it is stated that moses received the letters of the hebrew alphabet from metraton, an angel of the highest degree. it is also stated that these letters were of a special substance, the actual substance from which the universe itself was formed. this concept, that the alphabet has secret and occult power, is the basis for the gnostic use of words and numbers. sacred alphabets are not seen as social or communication

within practical esoteric science. it can be seen primarily as an extension of the notariqon technique where parts of a larger word are then used to create other words. for example, the term tenach is the title given to the books of the old testament, it is composed of three letters tau, nun and kaph (final. these are seen as abbreviations for a further three words. tau. torah. the five books of moses. nun. n vee-im. the prophets. kaph. k soovim. rest of the old testament. v visita visit i interiora the interior t terrae of the earth r recificando find i invenies and rectify o occultum the secret l lapidem stone. fig 26 gnostic theurgy page 107 the creation of formulae by combining the arts of gematria and notariqon it is possible to produce formulae which outline various phases of esoter

d that this text (and others) used secret codes to outline the mysteries as taught within the egyptian occult schools. these teachings were complex and sophisticated. for example, it was taught that man was seen as having ten bodies, ranging from the khu or self to the ka or astral body. it is intriguing that these fit so well with the sephiroth of the tree of life, however, when we consider that moses was an egyptian initiate, the link becomes self evident. the life of the average man or women in egypt was saturated with magic, there was no artificial separation between religion and magic. while there certainly was an esoteric craft sustained by a specialised priest class, there was always festivals, feasts and celebrations that catered to the needs of the masses. medicine was closely ass

ts perhaps we will never be truly sure. the emphasis on the logos or divine word as the son of god relates the hermetic tradition to later christian gnosticism, indeed many early church fathers used hermeticism as part of their apologetics. israel where did the people of israel originate? it seems that this is a quirk of history which will not be easily solved. from biblical accounts we know that moses came from sumer and that abraham was a chaldean, so the assumption can be made that the people of israel were racially similar to the many tribes of the region (including the sumerians and egyptians. there is also a suggestion that they were part and parcel of egyptian society, however, as egypt became more cosmopolitan and came to loose its spiritual values, the israelites slowly developed

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visible and unsuspected forces, the rules of whose administration may be revealed through meditation. it is the outer form of the wand surmounted by the winged globe below which the twin serpents are shown, the wand of the chief adept in the 5=6 grade. the lamen of the stolistes is thus explained in the grade of practicus "the cup of the stolistes partakes in part of the symbolism of the laver of moses and the sea of solomon. on the tree of life, it embraces nine of the sephiroth, exclusive of rtk. dwsy and twklm form the triangle below, with the former as the apex, and the latter as the base. like the caduceus, it further represents the three elements of n, m and o. the crescent is n which is above the firmament, the circle is the firmament, and the triangle is the consuming o below, as o

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of the closing ceremony is explained by the opening. the reverse circumambulation, however, is intended to formulate the withdrawal of the light of the supernal triad from the altar, so that it may not be profaned by abiding without due guard. it is not that the divine light would suffer thereby, but because it might initiate an avenging current if profaned. this is what is implied by the law of moses in the prohibition about offering unconsecrated d either before or within the veil of the tabernacle. as a vibratory formula, the reverse circumambulation represents the reversal of the current and the restoration of the operator to his ordinary condition. the mystic repast then follows. it is a communion in the body of osiris. its mystic name is, the formula of the justified one, and it is

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s, no man (except god alone) can make it common, nor any unworthy person is able to bereave us of it. but we shall help with secret aid this, so good a cause, as god shall permit or hinder us. for our god is not blind, as the heathen's fortuna, but is the churches' ornament and the honor of the temple. our philosophy also is not a new invention, but as adam after his fall hath received it, and as moses and solomon used it, also it ought not much to be doubted of, or contradicted by other opinions, or meanings; but seeing the truth is peaceable, brief, and always like herself in all things, and especially accorded with by jesus in omnia parte and all members, and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image, so it shall not be said, this is true according to philosophy, but tr

g the truth is peaceable, brief, and always like herself in all things, and especially accorded with by jesus in omnia parte and all members, and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image, so it shall not be said, this is true according to philosophy, but true according to theology; and wherein plato, aristotle, pythagoras, and others did hit the mark, and wherein enoch, abraham, moses, solomon, did excel, but especially wherewith that wonderful book the bible agreeth. all that same concurreth together, and maketh a sphere or globe whose total parts are equisdistant from the center, as hereof more at large and more pain shall be spoken in christianly conference. but now concerning, and chiefly in this our age, the ungodly and accursed goldmaking, which hath gotten so much

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seelde. the diminutive form of it in wunscili-gerta leads me to see in this compound no reference to a person, but to a thing: it is the gerta (yard, rod) by possessing which a man becomes partaker of all earthly bliss. the bestowal of that bliss proceeds from wuotan the supreme (p. 419. the 13th century poets also use the term. conrad in bis schmiede 664 (614, comparing the virgin to the rod of moses' du bist diu wiinschel-gerte, dar mit (wherewith) liz einem steine wazzer wart gestagen' and 1306 (1261 ^du saelden (saelden) tviinscjielgerte' in his troj. 19888, of helena ^schoene als ein wunsch elgerte kam sie geslichen (gliding) lifreht' as danish folk-songs use lilje-vaand (lily-stalk) in a like sense; troj. 2215 'alles heiles ein ivunscltel-rts(-spray^ gotfried in a minnesong 2, 9' de

in his work on runes pp. 296 307. a connexion there certainly is between these lots and the runes and ciphers; lot-books are mentioned as early as the 13th cent, ls. 3, 169. kolocz. 70 (see suppl. the armenians prophesied from the movement of cypress boughs' quarum cupressorum surcuus ramisque seu leni sive violento vento agitatis armenii flamines ad longum tempus in auguriis uti consueverunt' as moses chorenensis (ed. 1736, p. 54) tells us in the 5th cent. lots. water in a sieve. 1111 a long array of divinations seems to have been diflfased over europe by the greeks and romans^ from this source come hartlieb's accounts of liydromantia, pyromantia (the fiur-sehen of altd. bl. 1, 365, cluromantia (mhg. the tisch in der hant, er. 8136, on which see more inhaupt^s zeitschr. 3, 271 (see suppl

stinket (infects, daz nieman bi im genesen mac; und daz ein geivijder jjriester hoesen aneganc habe, an dem aller gloube lit (faith lies. so gloubent eteliche an den miusearn; so ist dem der hase (hare) iiber'n wee geloufen. als ist ir unglouben als (so) vil, daz sin nieman ze ende komen mac* conf. sup. i, 128. the word' aneganc' is supported by rudolfs weltchron (cod. zeisb. 114, in speaking of moses: er verbot alien aneganc, vogel-vluc, stimme oder sane, daz da geloupte nieman an; and walth. 118, 16 says of a wretched man 'wizzet, swem der anegenget an dem morgen fruo, deme get ungeliicke zuo' whom he on-gangeth at early morn, on him shall come misfortune. the nethl. reinaert 1055 expresses the notion by' tehtn ende ghemoet/ token and meeting^ reineke, ed. hakemann p. 52, by gemote, and

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n lazit (leaves the body lying, so quimit ein heri (comes one host) fona himilzungalon, daz andar fona pehhe (pitch, hell; dar pdgant siu umpi. i have questioned (p. 420) whether this pac umpi dia sela 838 souls (tussle for the soul) between the hosts of heaven and hell be traceable to christian tradition. the ep. of jude v. 9 does tell of archangel michael and the devils striving for the body of moses/ and the champion michael at all events seems borrowed thence. but jealousy and strife over the partition of souls may be supposed an idea already present to the heathen mind, as the norse osinn, thorr and freyja appropriated their several por tions of the slain. at pp. 60 and 305 we identified freyja with gertrude: some say the soul, on quitting the body, is the first night with st. gerdrau

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e unity of the holy spirit, ever one god, world without end. the god of abraham, isaac and jacob bless thee, purge thee, and make thee pure, and be thou clean in the name of the father, son and holy ghost. amen. the secret grimoire in this thy holy sign o god, fear no evil. by thy holy power, and by this thy holy sign all evil doth flee. by thy holy name and thy power which secret was revealed to moses, through the holy names written in this book, depart far from me all ye workers of iniquity. bless, o lord, i beseech thee, this place and drive away all evil and wickedness far from it. sanctify and make it become meet and convenient for thy servant to finish and bring to pass therein his desires, through jesus christ our lord, amen. be thou blessed and purified in the name of the father, s

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abbalah).the word is from the ancient hebrew and, literally translated, means "doctrines received by ancient traditions. the written teachings of the kabala go back perhaps no [181] later than the eleventh century. there is every evidence, however, that the oral teachings were in existence at a far earlier date. traditionally, they are said to date back to the time of the secret wisdom related by moses. by a system of numbers, and letters of the hebrew alphabet, the kabala discloses the esoteric mysteries. its philosophy, in other words, concerns ontology, the nature of being; cosmology, the origin of the universe; theology, the nature of god; and anthropology, man's relationship to god and the world. karma.a term used by us to mean the working of the law of compensation. rosicrucians do n

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ould seem that hockley and his partners worked for a legal practice. from the letters we also know that his work took him out of london on occasion, including an annual trip to northumberland. from thei8s0she was much involved in spiritualism, coming into contact withmrandmrs everitt (who were to remain lifelong friends, lord stanhope, robert owen (the social reformer, d.di.home,the revd stainton moses.etal.whilst convinced of the veracity of somehe.was not unaware of the many charlatans, misguided enthusiasts (the 'harpies' as k. r. h. mackenziecauedthem) and the simple publicity seekers involved in the spiritualist movement. he was very free with his own knowledge and the contents of his library, with theexceptionof 225 the records of his own work with the crystal. whether or not. he had

swer by their extraordinary lustre; and from porphyry, iamblichus, and psellus, to the magiciansofcairo and the peepers and speculators in england at the present day. with respect to the 'superstitious rites, the long fastings, themysticalwords, the concentric""itwould seem from the observations of sir gardner wilkinson that this form of divination was employed by the egyptians before the time of moses. not only the form, but the symbols, and even titles, connected with it, are all related to those of egypt. the urim and thummim, connected with, if not part of the breast-plate of judgment of the high priest (exodusxxviii,30),and interpreted as light and truth, or revelation andtruth,correspond most remarkably with the figure of re (the sun) and thmei (truth) in the breast-plate of the egyp

r 'gems' as cagliostro's" must be veryscarce-therewill be some which will be knocked down at spencer's sale. i came home so thoroughly knockedup-&these horrid long days, all twilight, prevent me doing any thing and i have not been able to answer your worthy papa's letter yet and must now conclude with best compliments to mrs irwin& best regards to yourself, faithfully yours.1revd william stainton moses(183)-92),clergyman, teacher and private tutor, freemason. introduced to spiritualism in1872,he developed his own mediumistic powers. author of books on spiritualism and contributor tolight,humannature,andthespiritualist.founder member british national association of spir255 itualists. member of the council of the psychological society. member of society of psychical research. president, lond

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seth, however, rather than with osiris. it may be that a myth about osiris s losing his penis was created to balance the ancient myth about seth losing his testicles. 37. this is a role that could be of great significance in egyptian culture, particularly among royalty, who were often raised by foster mothers. many writers have noted parallels between the myth of horus in chemmis and the story of moses being hidden in a floating basket among the rushes and then given to his own mother to wet nurse. 38. the sacred fish was probably the one that helped to guide the sun barque through the rivers of the underworld. for a translation of this spell, see number 49 in j. f. borghouts, ancient egyptian magical texts (leiden, 1978. 39. h. te velde argues in seth, god of confusion (leiden, 1977) that

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t the strife of words ought to cease, and considered it possible to extract one harmonious system from these various teachings panaetius, athenagoras, and clement were thoroughly instructed in platonic philosophy, and comprehended its essential unity with the oriental systems. in those days, the jew aristobulus affirmed that the ethics of aristotle represented the esoteric teachings of the law of moses; philo judaeus endeavored to reconcile the pentateuch with the pythagorean and platonic philosophy; and josephus proved that the essenes of carmel were simply the copyists and followers of the egyptian therapeutae (the healers. so it is in our day. we can show the line of descent of every christian religion, as of every, even the smallest, sect. the latter are the minor twigs or shoots grown

ve your enemies" for if ye love them (only) which love you, what reward (or merit) have ye? do not even the publicans the same? and if you salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even publicans so? these are christ's words. but genesis says "cursed be canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren" and, therefore, christian but biblical people prefer the law of moses to christ's law of love. they base upon the old testament, which panders to all their passions, their laws of conquest, annexation, and tyranny over races which they call inferior. what crimes have been committed on the strength of this infernal (if taken in its dead letter) passage in genesis, history alone gives us an idea, however inadequate. at the close of the middle ages slavery, under

ociation that tries to work up to, and for the propagation of, its ideal with most tremendous odds against it. some vilify the theosophical society only because it presumes to attempt to do that in which other systems-church and state christianity preeminently-have failed most egregiously; others because they would fain preserve the existing state of things: pharisees and sadducees in the seat of moses, and publicans and sinners revelling in high places, as under the roman empire during its decadence. fair-minded people, at any rate, ought to remember that the man who does all he can, does as much as he who has achieved the most, in this world of relative possibilities. this is a simple truism, an axiom supported for believers in the gospels by the parable of the talents given by their mas

ecret doctrine. it is based on the oldest philosophy of the world, called the wisdom-religion or the archaic doctrine. if you like, you may ask questions and have them explained. the fundamental teachings of theosophy on god and prayer q. do you believe in god? a. that depends what you mean by the term. q. i mean the god of the christians, the father of jesus, and the creator: the biblical god of moses, in short. a. in such a god we do not believe. we reject the idea of a personal, or an extra-cosmic and anthropomorphic god, who is but the gigantic shadow of man, and not of man at his best, either. the god of theology, we say-and prove it-is a bundle of contradictions and a logical impossibility. therefore, we will have nothing to do with him. q. state your reasons, if you please. a. they

it was near colombo, and the missionary had challenged the priest megattivati to give his reasons why the christian god should not be accepted by the "heathen" well, the missionary came out of that forever memorable discussion second best, as usual. q. i should be glad to learn in what way. a. simply this: the buddhist priest premised by asking the padre whether his god had given commandments to moses only for men to keep, but to be broken by god himself. the missionary denied the supposition indignantly. well, said his opponent, you tell us that god makes no exceptions to this rule, and that no soul can be born without his will. now god forbids adultery, among other things, and yet you say in the same breath that it is he who creates every baby born, and he who endows it with a soul. are

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eformitate& tortuositate aliqua. venite vos omnes tales, quia vobis imperamus, per nomen y& v quod adam audivit& locutus est& per nomen dei agla, quod loth audivit& factus salvus cum sua familia& per nomen joth, quod jacob audivit ab angelo secum luctantes& liberatus est de manu fratris sui esau: and by the name anephexeton, quot aaron audivit& loquens& sapiens factus est& per nomen zebaoth, quod moses nominavit& omnia flumina& paludes de terra gypti, vers fuerunt in sanguinem& per nomen ecerchie oriston, quod moses nominavit& omnes flu vis ebullierunt ranas& ascenderunt in domos gyptiorum, omnia destruentes& per nomen elion, quod moses nominavit& fuit grando talis, qualis non fuit ab initio mundi& per nomen adonay, quod moses nominavit& fuerunt locusta& apparuerunt super terram gyptiorum&

t. ani sedem divin majesta is gradientia& oculos ant& retr habentia& per ignem ante ejus thronum circumstantem& per sanctos angelos c lorum, t& per eam qu ecclesia dei nominatur& per summam sapientiam omnipotentis dei viriliter exorcizamus, ut nobis hic ante circulum appareatis, ut faciendam nostram voluntatem, in omnibus prout placuerit nobis: per sedem baldachi& per hoc nomen primeumaton, quod moses nominavit& in cavernis abyssi fuerunt profundati vel absorpti, datan, corah& abiron& in virtute istius nominis primeumaton, tota coeli militia compellente, maledicimus vos, privamus vos omni officio, loco& gaudio vestro, esque in profundum abyssi& usque ad ultimum diem judicii vos ponimus& relegamus in ignem ternum& in stagnum ignis& sulphuris, nisi statim appareatis hic coram nobis, inte ci

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caped patient manages to cope with the complicated world of today; the dominant opinion being that he is "lying low" in some humble and unexacting position till his stock of modern information can be brought up to the normal. the beginning of ward's madness is a matter of dispute among alienists. dr. lyman, the eminent boston authority, places it in 1919 or 1920, during the boy's last year at the moses brown school, when he suddenly turned from the study of the past to the study of the occult, and refused to qualify for college on the ground that he had individual researches of much greater importance to make. this is certainly borne out by ward's altered habits at the time, especially by his continual search through town records and among old burying-grounds for a certain grave dug in 177

of the papers and of their monstrous implications at the same time that those papers were borne forever from human knowledge. 2 one must look back at charles ward's earlier life as at something belonging as much to the past as the antiquities he loved so keenly. in the autumn of 1918, and with a considerable show of zest in the military training of the period, he had begun his junior year at the moses brown school, which lies very near his home. the old main building, erected in 1819, had always charmed his youthful antiquarian sense; and the spacious park in which the academy is set appealed to his sharp eye for landscape. his social activities were few; and his hours were spent mainly at home, in rambling walks, in his classes and drills, and in pursuit of antiquarian and genealogical d

ad just moved up from warren and was temporarily housed in the new king street schoolhouse awaiting the completion of its building on the hill above presbyterian-lane; ex-governor stephen hopkins, who had been a member of the philosophical society at newport, and was a man of very broad perceptions; john carter, publisher of the gazette; all four of the brown brothers, john, joseph, nicholas, and moses, who formed the recognised local magnates, and of whom joseph was an amateur scientist of parts; old dr. jabez bowen, whose erudition was considerable, and who had much first-hand knowledge of curwen's odd purchases; and capt. abraham whipple, a privateersman of phenomenal boldness and energy who could be counted on to lead in any active measures needed. these men, if favourable, might event

n appeared; and the raiders fell silently into military order in the street, shouldering the firelocks, fowling-pieces, or whaling harpoons which they had with them. weeden and smith were with the party, and of the deliberating citizens there were present for active service capt. whipple, the leader, capt. esek hopkins, john carter, president manning, capt. mathewson, and dr. bowen; together with moses brown, who had come up at the eleventh hour though absent from the preliminary session in the tavern. all these freemen and their hundred sailors began the long march without delay, grim and a trifle apprehensive as they left the muddy dock behind and mounted the gentle rise of broad street toward the pawtuxet road. just beyond elder snow's church some of the men turned back to take a partin

capt. whipple's belief in the existence of catacombs was absolute, and he took no alternative into consideration when making his plans. he had with him a whistle of great power and shrillness, and did not fear any upsetting or misunderstanding of signals. the final reserve at the landing, of course, was nearly out of the whistle's range; hence would require a special messenger if needed for help. moses brown and john carter went with capt. hopkins to the river-bank, while president manning was detailed with capt. mathewson to the stone building. dr. bowen, with ezra weeden, remained in capt. whipple's party which was to storm the farmhouse itself. the attack was to begin as soon as a messenger from capt. hopkins had joined capt. whipple to notify him of the river party's readiness. the lea

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has been re-enforced to an extent which leaves littie, if any, room for further controversy. a con- clusive opinion is furnished by too many scholars to doubt the fact that india was the alvut mater, not only of the civilization, arts, and sciences, but also of all the great religions of antiquity judaism, and hence christianity, included. herder places the cradle of humanity in india, and shows moses as a clever and relatively modem compiler of the andent brahmanical traditions "the river which encircles the country (india) is the sacred ganges, which all asia considers as the paradisaical river. there, also, is the biblical gihon, which \i none else but the indus. the arabs call it so unto this day, and the names of the countries watered by it are yet existing among the hindfls* jacouio

tter ia nothing more than the most remote effect of the emanaiiee energy of the deity. the material world receives its form from the imjdediate agency of powers far beneath the first source of being^ beau- sobre, after citing st. augustine the manichsean, says" and if by raeit we understand the actwe principle of the creation, instead of its beginning, in such a case we will clearly perceive that moses never meant to say fis. d prine. ill, t. 56. stnm, vi, v. 57. ctmm. in rtmonim. 58. vni "things created' s 8, ap. photitu, bmiouuea. 50. mara nmkhlm. ii. 30; p. 274. 60. bu. crit. dn maniekitme, tie. i, p. 291 (uv. vi, i. 61. a. rmb: cydopaedia. art 'kabkla' digitizecoy google 3e isis dntehed that heaven and earth were the first works of god. he only said that god created heavea and earth th

dess of wisdom, of the greeks, who emanated from the head of jupiter; and the second person of the christian trinity. the eariy fathers of the church had not much call to exert their imagination; they found a ready-made doctrine that had existed in every theogoay for thousands of years before the christian era. their trinity is but the trio of sephiroth, the first three kabalistic lighie of which moses nschmanides says, that "they have never been teen by any one; there is not any defect in uiem, nor any disunion" the first eternal number is the father, or the chaldaean primeval, invisible and incomprehenuble dtaot, out of i^ch proceeded the inieiligihe one the egyptian pta, or" the principle of laghi not the light itself, and the prindple of ijfe, thou^ himself no life" the wisdom by which

evident; as it is fur- thermore evident, that like all learned jews he was well acquainted with the doctrine of emanations and never thought of corrupting it. how can any one imagine that paul identified the son with the father, when he tells us that god made jeaus "a luiie lower than the angel" barewt, ii, 9) sjs.a a, little hiiiher\iiaji moaea "for this man was counted worthy of more ^ory than moses" hd>reui, iii, 3. of what or how many forgeries, interpolated later in the acts, the fathers are guilty, we know not; but that paul never considered christ more than a man "full of the spirit of god" is but too evident "in the arche was the logot, and the logos was adnate to the theos" wisdom, the first emanation of ain-soph; the protogonos, the hy- postasis; the adam kadmoq of the kabalist;

w up medieval chris- tianity, the usurper and assassin of the great master's doctrine. the ancient kabala, the gnosis, or traditional aecrh knowledge, has never been without its representatives in any age or country. the trinities of initiates, whether passed into history or concealed under the impene- trable veil of mystny, are preserved throughout, and impressed upon the ages. they are known as moses, aholiab, and besaleel, the son of uri, the son of hur, as plato, philo, and pythagoras, etc. at the transfigura- tion we see them as jesus, moses, and elias, the three trismegisti; and three kabahsts, peter, james, and john whose revelation is the key lo all wisdom. we found them in the twiught of jewish history as zoro- aster, abraham, and terah, and later as henoch, ezekiel, and daniel. w

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d and maintains la loi salique. sign of the planet venus. chapter the eighth. sacred fire. he appearance of god to mortals seems always to have been in brightness and great glory, whether he was angry and in displeasure, or benign and kind. these appearances are often mentioned in scripture. when god appeared on mount sinai, it is said, the lord descended upon it in fire (exodus xix. 18. and when moses repeats the history of this to the children of israel, he says, the lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire (deuteronomy iv. 12. so it was when the angel of the lord appeared to moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush: the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed (exodus iii. 3. the appearances of the angel of god s presence, or that divine person who repre

and the glory of the lord filled the house (2 chronicles vii. i. and much about a hundred years afterwards, when elijah made that extraordinary sacrifice in proof that baal was no god, the fire of the lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench (1 kings xviii. 38. and if we go back long before the times of moses, as early as abraham s days, we meet with an instance of the same sort: it came to pass that when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp, that passed between these pieces (genesis xv. 17. the first appearances of god, then, being in glory or, which is the same thing, in light or fire and he showing his acceptance of sacrifices in so many instances by

ythagoras. pythagoras resided for a long period in egypt, and acquired from the priests the philosophic transition knowledge, which was afterwards doctrine. the globe, disc, or circle of the phoenician astarte, the crescent of minerva, the horns of the egyptian ammon, the deifying of the ox, all have the same meaning. we trace, among the hebrews, the token of the identical mystery in the horns of moses, distinct in the sublime statue by michael angelo in the vatican; as also in the horns of the levitical altar: indeed, the use of the double hieroglyph in continual ways. the volutes of the ionic column, the twin-stars of castor and pollux, nay, generally, the employment of the double emblem all the world over, in ancient or in modern times, whether displayed as points, or radii) or wings on

ndriss einer geschichte dir philosophie, 1 th. p. 344. we find, therefore, in the earliest ages, an ther (spiritual fire) theory, by which t 148 the rosicrucians. many modern theorists endeavour to explain the phenomena of magnetism. this is the ther um of robert flood, the rosicrucian. fire, indeed, would appear to have been the chosen element of god. in the form of a flaming bush he appeared to moses on mount sinai. his presence was denoted by torrents of flame, and in the form of fire he preceded the band of israelites by night through the dreary wilderness; which is perhaps the origin of the present custom of the arabians, who always carry fire in front of their caravans (reade s veil of isis. all the early fathers held god the creator to consist of a subtile fire. when the holy spirit

, also tc in hebrew, and `erm j (hermes) in greek, are all names for a pillar or post. this is the homeric use of rma and rmij (il, 486; od, 278; kenrick s essay on primeval history, p. 119. arca is the ship, navis (from thence come nave and navel, in which the germ of animated nature was saved. thebes, or theba, means the ark. carnac, or karnak, in egypt, is reckoned to be older than the days of moses at least dating from 1600 a.c. 170 the rosicrucians. heraldic genealogy of the fleur-de-lis, or flower-de-luce. apotheosis of the symbol fig. 40. 4. bee. 6. bee. 7. imperial bee. 8. fleuron. 9. charlemagne. 10. a babylonian gem. 11 and 12. early french (also babylonian. 13. middle french. 14. later french. 16. valois. 17. henry of navarre. 18. in england, thus. 19. bourbon. 20. egyptian scul

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s a thorough list of editions, translations and commentaries* glotzer, leonard r. the fundamentals of jewish mysticism. the book of creation and its commentaries. northvale: jason aronson inc, 1992. glotzer s book gives sy one paragraph at a time (in english and hebrew, each followed by an extended commentary. glotzer freely draws from rabbinic sources ranging from the gaon of vilna and saadia to moses cordovero and hayim vital. this means that the commentary stays within the bounds of traditional jewish kabbalah, even if straying from the stated contents of sy. glotzer s translation and extended commentary are preceded by a brief introduction to kabbalah and followed by eight appendices covering particular points of doctrine related to sy, even if only by tradition: the sefirot in the sha

een written more for the thinker or seeker than for the academic. alas, his historical and conceptual summaries are often misleading and frustratingly lacking in nuance, e.g, his statement, the knowledge that we call kabbalah is based on the doctrine and teachings of isaac luria, who was born in jerusalem during the 16th century( ancient secrets, page 87; reiss does go on to mention the zohar and moses de leon. in an excerpt from an interview with the author of ancient secrets of creation: sepher yetzira, the book that started kabbalah, revealed* dr. reiss begins to understand why god chose the aleph, mem, and sheen to be the mother letters of creation, we have to know three things. the first is that the author of sepher yetzira understood that the scroll of the five books of moses, called

ore generally, is yet another example of someone at the mercy of unreliable translators and commentators (as were mathers, westcott, waite, etc) 20073 20 robert saks [on ponce: his treatment of german hasidism is superficial and misses the point on such a basic matter as its concept of the words of prayers as keys, though gematria, to the unity of all creation. it is hard to excuse his claim that moses cordovero wrote lechah dodi, his use of pereks as the plural of perek, or his description of luria as being primarily interested in the practical side of kabbalah. it is impossible to ignore his claim that the hasidic movement believed that study was worthless( jewish mysticism it ain t, in judaism 23: 4, 1974) we are finally brought to gershom scholem, who, in his several studies, presents

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asher ben david, and r. azriel of gerona (see below. further reference. zinberg, israel. a history of jewish literature, volume iii: the struggle of mysticism and tradition against philosophical rationalism (philadelphia: 20081 5 the jewish publication society of america, 1973: chapter one, gthe mystics of provence. h. koren, sharon faye. gkabbalistic physiology: isaac the blind, nahmanides, and moses de leon on menstruation, h ajs review, vol. 28, no. 2 (cambridge: association for jewish studies, 2004. halbertal, moshe. concealment and revelation: esotericism in jewish thought and its philosophical implications, translated by jackie feldman. princeton. oxford: princeton university press, 2007, chapter 9 gfrom transmission to writing: hinting, leaking, and orthodoxy in early kabbalah. h a

jewish mysticism 50 years after, edited by j. dan and p. schafer (tubingen: mohr siebeck, 1993. 1. c. gerona (catalonia: the most prolific circle of kabbalists from the period before the zohar was that of gerona, which followed up on the teachings of r. isaac the blind. the primary figures of this group were (1) r. ezra ben solomon and (2) r. azriel, who established a school which included (3) r. moses ben nahman (nahmanides) and (4) r. jacob ben sheshet. on the gerona circle, see ek (pp. 34-36, ok (pp. 365-475, and moshe idel fs article, gsome remarks on ritual and mysticism in geronese kabbalah, h in the journal of jewish thought and philosophy, vol. 3, issue 1 (1993. other references: 1. r. ezra ben solomon. altmann, alexander. ga note on the rabbinic doctrine of creation, h in (idem) s

chapter 10 gopen knowledge and closed knowledge: the kabbalists of gerona.rabbi azriel and rabbi ya fakov bar sheshet h. pachter, mordechai. gthe root of faith is the root of heresy, h part i of pachter fs roots of faith and devequt: studies in the history of kabbalistic ideas (los angeles: cherub press, 2004. safran, bezalel. grabbi azriel and nahmanides: two views of the fall of man, h in rabbi moses nahmanides (ramban: explorations in his religious and literary virtuosity, edited by isadore twersky (cambridge: harvard university press, 1983. 3. nahmanides. abrams, daniel. gorality in the kabbalistic school of nahmanides: preserving and interpreting esoteric traditions and texts, h in jewish quarterly review, vol. 3, no. 1 (tubingen: j. c. b. mohr [paul siebeck] 1996. dan, joseph. gnachm

henoch, chayim j. ramban: philosopher and kabbalist. northvale. jerusalem: jason aronson inc, 1998. idel, moshe. gnahmanides: kabbalah, halakhah, and spiritual leadership, h in jewish mystical leaders and leadership in the thirteenth century, edited by m. idel and m. ostow (northvale/ jerusalem: jason aronson inc, 1998. koren, sharon faye. gkabbalistic physiology: isaac the blind, nahmanides, and moses de leon on menstruation, h ajs review, vol. 28, no. 2 (cambridge: association for jewish studies, 2004. pachter, mordechai. gthe root of faith is the root of heresy h= part ii of pachter fs roots of faith and devequt: studies in the history of kabbalistic ideas (los angeles: cherub press, 2004. schechter, solomon. gnachmanides, h in studies in judaism: first series [articles by s. schechter

l reference library of judaism, vol 20 (leiden- boston: brill, 2005. shulman, yaacov dovid. the ramban: the story of rabbi moshe ben nachman. new york. london. jerusalem: c. i. s. publishers, 1993. stern, josef. problems and parables of law: maimonides and nahmanides on reasons for the commandments (ta famei ha-mitzvot. albany: state university of new york press, 1998. twersky, isadore (ed. rabbi moses nahmanides (ramban: explorations of his religious and literary virtuosity. cambridge: harvard university press, 1983. wolfson, elliot. gby way of truth: aspects of nahmanides f kabbalistic hermeneutic, in ajs review, vol. 14, no. 2 (cambridge: association for jewish studies, 1989. gthe secret of the garment in nahmanides h in daat: a journal of jewish philosophy and kabbalah #24 (ramat-gan:

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great. yet by these fraudulent persuasions did he win to himself many for at that time many sought some new way for it seemed to them that the old way had failed when shalem to the aeneans fell. you might offer to a thirsty man poison and he would drink. yet that he proclaimed himself the son of god 338 was as a blasphemy to the teachers that spoke to the judaeans the laws, inscribed in stone for moses by the elohim in prior days. seeing that the people heard his lies though in truth there were not his, they were the lies of heaven but were the truth of jesu, the teachers at the synagogues and cohanim at the temple sought to silence the tongue of jesu that they might win back to them the souls of the people lost to them by that which he had spoken. so did they gather themselves together an

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ure for which the entire creation was formed. the sensation of another person is developed only in humans. it endows envy, empathy, shame, and the sensation of spiritual ascent. the ability to sense others was created in us to enable us to sense the creator. the sensation of the creator means that everyone feels the creator in exactly the same way as one feels one s fellow person. it is said that moses spoke to the creator face to face. this means that he had a sense of absolute attainment of the creator, to the extent of intimacy in his contact with him, as with a friend. the end of an action is determined by the original thought: just like a person who is building a house first makes a plan and works on specifications according to the final goal, all one s actions are determined by the f

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cess that began in the same group of kabbalists that abraham began, and has stretched over thousands of years. after using abraham s method for several generations, the intensified ego appeared in his group, too. in that state, to cope with the new egoism, it needed to find a higher level of the method of achieving balance with nature. 162 from chaos to harmony the provider of this new method was moses, the great kabbalist of that time. moses led the people out of egypt, out of the domination of the new ego, and taught them to be as one man in one heart, as parts of a single body. because of its size, this group was now called a people or a nation. however, genetically, it was part of the ancient babylonian people to which abraham belonged, as even science confirms today.21 moses method of

called a people or a nation. however, genetically, it was part of the ancient babylonian people to which abraham belonged, as even science confirms today.21 moses method of balancing with nature was a continuation of abraham s method. it was named the torah. this does not refer to the torah (pentateuch) as a historic document, as we know it today, but as a method for correcting the ego. the term, moses, symbolizes the force that pulls (moshech, in hebrew) one out of the ego s rule. the term, torah, comes from the word, instruction or light, the force that corrects, as in, the light in it reformed them (midrash raba, eicha, introduction, 2nd paragraph. torah also stands for the pleasure that fills one who has corrected one s ego. thus, the group of kabbalists continued to evolve. implementi

es, symbolizes the force that pulls (moshech, in hebrew) one out of the ego s rule. the term, torah, comes from the word, instruction or light, the force that corrects, as in, the light in it reformed them (midrash raba, eicha, introduction, 2nd paragraph. torah also stands for the pleasure that fills one who has corrected one s ego. thus, the group of kabbalists continued to evolve. implementing moses method, they corrected all the egoistic desires that surfaced in them, and the filling (satisfaction, light) they received within their corrected desires was called beit ha mikdash (the temple, the house of holiness. the temple is their corrected desires, which has now become a house filled with holiness; i.e, the quality of altruism, the quality of the comprehensive nature. israel s role 16

, which was both spiritual and physical, we have been disconisrael s role 187 nected from this wisdom. while a chosen few have been correcting their egos and perceived the inclusive nature by using this wisdom, the rest of the nation has been completely detached from it, remaining with only superficial symbols of israel s tradition. we should be aware that the method for correcting the ego, which moses gave to israel the torah (pentateuch) was written in the language of the branches. it uses corporeal terms (branches) to point to spiritual elements (roots. kabbalists people who have attained the comprehensive nature and live in both the physical and the spiritual worlds simultaneously know how to decipher the language of the branches. they identify to which spiritual root each corporeal br

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or and make it impossible for us to feel him. as soon as we acquire attributes similar to those of the creator, we will begin to feel him proportionately. therefore, when hardships befall us, we need to ask ourselves "why is this happening to me" and "why is the creator doing this to me" punishments, as such, do not exist, although many are mentioned in the bible (which includes the five books of moses, the writings and the prophets- 88- attaining the worlds beyond there are only "incentives" that force us to progress towards our selfish desires. our awareness of things is only an ancillary mechanism that helps us properly understand what we feel. whenever we picture our lives, we should think of a gigantic classroom with the omniscient creator acting as a teacher and lavishing on us the k

ur spiritual redemption. we should not ask the creator for the ability to see and experience miracles, falsely believing that this experience will help us overcome the self and bring an appreciation of the grandeur of the spiritual, rather than simply being overtaken by blind faith. kabbalah warns against such thinking when it tells the story of exodus from egypt: when amalek attacked the people, moses defeated them only by raising up his hands and asking for the power of faith. in the process of spiritual ascent, we constantly acquire a higher reason that increases with each attained level. as a result, we must constantly increase the power of our faith, so that it is always greater than the power of the intellect; otherwise, we may once again come under the influence of egoism. this proc

he encasing of our souls into our bodies. the method or instruction for how we can cling to the creator is known as kabbalah, derived from the verb "lekabel" to receive pleasure from the creator. with the help of words and descriptions of our world, kabbalah relates to us the experiences of the spiritual world. according to kabbalah, all that is said in the bible (which includes the five books of moses, the writings and the prophets) is said to teach us how to achieve the goal of creation. kabbalah sees this meaning in the following words "in the beginning (in the beginning of working on oneself, in the beginning of drawing closer to the creator "our forefathers (the initial state of a person s desires "were idol worshippers (all personal desires were directed towards deriving pleasure "an

is an act of god, and that there is nothing in the world other than him. all of our efforts should be concentrated on this: to not think that what happens to us is through chance, or fate, or a consequence of our prior actions, or the will of others. we must exert ourselves not to forget the creator. under no circumstance should we interpret the text of any section of the bible (the five books of moses) according to our own perceptions, likening the description of events to the events in our own world. for example, as i have written in my previous books "the evil lavan" mentioned in the bible is the highest level of the soul being filled with the light of the creator "pharaoh" is a symbol of the totality of our egoism. another example can be found in the bible where it tells how a certain

easy to follow it once it has been chosen. an obstacle in the guise of a demand from our own lower intellect first to comprehend and only then to proceed, is called a "stumbling block" or a "stone (even. everyone stumbles on that stone. kabbalah talks only of one soul, the soul of any one of us, and about that soul s ascent to the final stage. it is said in the bible that when the arms (faith) of moses (moshe, deriving from the verb limshoch to pull, to take oneself out of egoism) became weak, he began to lose the battle with the enemies (those he thought were his enemies were his own egotistical thoughts and desires. then the elders (his wise thoughts) sat him down (lowered his own intellect) on a stone (above egoism) and raised his arms (faith) and put a stone beneath them (lifted faith

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ere our lives are leading us. 26 t h e n at u r e o f m at t e r the wisdom of kabbalah has evolved over thousands of years and been disseminated among kabbalists throughout history. i would like to briefly review the key points in this process. the first kabbalist was abraham the patriarch (approximately 1,800 bce. sefer yetzira (the book of creation) is ascribed to him. 500 years after abraham, moses wrote his book of torah (the pentateuch, around 1,350 bce. in the 2nd century ce rabbi shimon bar-yochai wrote sefer ha zohar (the book of splendor. kabbalah thrived in the 16th century israeli town of safed, led by the kabbalist rabbi yitzhak luria ashkenazi, the ari (1534-1572. he presented his method in his books, and today the wisdom of kabbalah is founded on the lurianic kabbalah (the k

d o m o f t ru t h kabbalists, as previously mentioned, research the upper world, the world beyond the perception of an ordinary person. hence, the depictions of kabbalists attainments relate to the upper world, but because we are not aware of the existence of a spiritual world besides our own, we ascribe their words to our world, a phenomenon called materialization. when the torah (five books of moses) was written, the people of israel were at a spiritual degree. but after two thousand years of detachment from spirituality since the ruin of the second temple, the torah stories seem to refer to historic episodes or moral conduct. yet, this is not the case. each element in the world is connected to the same element in all the other worlds by a root and branch connection. based on that princ

s t s w r i t e a b o u t k a b b a l a h rabbi moshe chaim lutzato (the ramchal (1707-1747) all of man's engagements are guided by a single, intrinsic premise, and the internality dresses within all people. it is what they referred to as nature, whose numeric count is the same as elohim (god. and this is the truth that the creator concealed from the philosophers--ramchal, the book of the war of moses, rule 15 rabbi eliahu the vilna gaon (1138-1204) our rabbi [the vilna gaon] engaged extensively in the study of the qualities of nature and the studies of the earth in order to attain the wisdom of the torah, to sanctify the name of god among the nations, and to bring the redemption closer. from his youth, he manifested wonders in all seven teachings. he also asked and commanded his disciple

, composed in 1486, was a characteristic renaissance work. it reflected his syncretistic method of taking the best elements from other philosophies and combining them in his own work. additionally, della mirandola researched kabbalah, the bible, and the koran after reading them in their original languages. this true interpretation of the law (vera illius legis interpretatio, which was revealed to moses in godly tradition, is called p r o m i n e n t s c h o l a r s w r i t e a b o u t k a b b a l a h 211 kabbalah (dicta cabala est, which to hebrews is the same as for us receiving (receptio. in whole[ there are] two sciences- also with a name they honoured them: the one is called ars combinandi and it is a measure of the progress in sciences. the other one treats the forces of the higher th

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unconsciously, and by that we somehow equalize with the 613 upper laws, and for that reason we get a certain amount of light from above. that spiritual light does not develop us, but guards us, which is why it belongs to the degree of the still, which does not change. a kabbalist who attains the upper world also attains the inner meaning of the 613 laws of the upper world. who gave us those laws? moses. where did he get them? not from our world, but from the attainment of the upper world. there has always been tension between those who observe the laws solely at the level of this world, and those who want to observe them in the t h e w i s d o m o f k a b b a l a h 63 true spiritual form. those who observe them only at the level of this world assume that mere observance is enough, and rega

: torah is kabbalah. it speaks only of spiritual laws, of the creator and the events that take place in the upper world, while using familiar words from our everyday life. it does not say a single word about our corporeal life, but of man s way to the creator, and the inner change. the torah should lead us to the upper world, the purpose of our journey here. that is what makes it holy and unique. moses is considered to be the foremost kabbalist. although there were kabbalistic books before him, he was the first to compose a book of torah (instructions) about man s path from down to up, from our world to the spiritual world. he described the way in general terms, and for the first time in history, the system of the worlds was described in a literary tongue. kabbalists use four languages to

e them with mind and will, consequently affecting the results that return to affect us. t h e b o o k o f c r e at i o n q: rav laitman, when you say that sefer yetzira (the book of creation) was written by abraham the patriarch, should we imagine one man who reached the spiritual level called, abraham, or was it abraham, the historical figure. in the second case, if abraham wrote the book before moses, then how is the name of the prophet, yehezkel (ezekiel, mentioned there (mishnah 8, p.1? this prophet lived centuries after abraham did. a: the book of creation was supposedly written by abraham. this is the opinion of judaism, not my own. i actually never say anything on my own and can always provide a reference for my words. that is why my adversaries do not oppose me, they oppose kabbala

he purpose of spiritual ascent are under perpetual changes, and must pick the material they read according to the state they re in at that moment. c o n t e m p o r a r y s t u dy b o o k s q: why do we study only, or mostly, the zohar, the writings of the ari and the writings of the ashlags? a: because these are actually one writer, one soul that reincarnated from the first man, through abraham, moses, rabbi shimon bar-yochai, the ari and finally, rav yehuda ashlag. it is a soul that came down only to show humanity the path for correction. although there are kabt h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 102 balists who know more, they were not given permission to write books meant to teach and correct people, especially not the newcomers to the spiritual path. thousands of books have been

balah (there is no other way, and one will then receive a spiritual soul in addition to the animate soul. the animate soul does not change, but the spiritual soul changes all the time. a kabbalist has two souls: the animate, and the spiritual. naturally, a kabbalist is born with the animate soul and only later attains the higher, spiritual soul. it is said that everyone must come to the degree of moses, meaning they must attain a soul such as that of moses. everyone must come to complete adhesion with the creator and unite with the spiritual root that is in partzuf adam ha rishon (the first man, which contains all the souls within it. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 250 t h e r o l e o f m a n a n d t h e r o l e o f t h e s o u l q: are we born with a predetermined task that we

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e sensations can we guess anything about the creator. hence, the study of kabbalah must be correctly directed; thoughts must be focused on studying the inner attributes that we are still unable to see in ourselves. all the worlds, partzufim, sefirot, names, everything the kabbalah speaks of, exists in us and will be revealed in us, depending on the degree of our correction. we will find our inner moses and aaron, king david and the angels, the evil, the righteous, and the degrees of attainment called jerusalem, the temple and more. every word in the torah speaks of our own forces and our levels of ability to sense the creator. that is the only topic of discussion of the torah. that is also the only thing we speak of in our daily lives, because we talk about our feelings. in fact, all we fe

natural power that works on us in that state, the power of our egoistic nature, doesn t allow us to advance anywhere except to care for ourselves. this is called the state of pharaoh. our egoism doesn t let us feel the sublime and perfect state. it is egoism, man s inner and vicious force called pharaoh, that the torah speaks of at length, whereas the force that frees one of that state is called moses. pharaoh, moses and everything that is written about the exodus describe spiritual states and emotions. our current state is the lowest possible. it is a state of absolute slumber and even unconsciousness. we have no sensation whatsoever of who or where we are. it is even a lower state than this world, since defining our state as this world implies that we are already aware that there is ano

nce of this world. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 28 there is a law for the spiritual nature that states that, every spiritual root must touch a corporeal branch. this means that every spiritual origin and spiritual 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

ual world and the creator. that is how it was done before and that is what kabbalists describe. there is no other revelation of the creator to man. we can feel the spiritual world and the creator only by changing ourselves. that is what we can write about and convey to others. the first man wrote about his attainments. abraham the patriarch followed in his footsteps, which in turn was followed by moses, who named his attainments of the creator and creation, torah. the kabbalists that followed wrote about their feelings and attainments in additional books, the mishnah, the talmud and so on. every kabbalist describes our world and how to enter the spiritual world. we call these books, holy books, or torah, from the hebrew word ohr (light) and hora a (instruction, meaning instructions for ent

e v o l u t i o n 99 the right line (bestowal, masculine part) and at other times they should follow the left line (reception, feminine part. all the names in the torah are names of spiritual attainments on the spiritual ladder. but in order to attain a certain name, you must play both the masculine and the feminine parts, meaning the right and left lines. for example, in the degrees of pharaoh, moses, israel, and a gentile, there is both a feminine and a masculine part. but each name can only be attained once and in a certain degree. man and woman are a union of zeir anpin and malchut of the world of atzilut. its essence and degree create different names and a higher spiritual degree. the male and female states are set in each of the 125 degrees. if that is the case, then how should men

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lways done in the anteroom, and the brn. entered the lodge in procession, singing, as co-masons do now. 79. the history of masonry 80. the mystery teaching of egypt was very closely guarded, and it was only with great difficulty and under special conditions that anyone not an egyptian born could be allowed to receive it. still, it was given to various distinguished foreigners, and among others to moses, of whom it is said in the biblical story that he was glearned in all the wisdom of the egyptians h. he passed on his knowledge to the jewish priestly line, and thus it survived in a more or less defective form till the time of david and solomon. 81. when solomon built his temple he erected it on masonic lines, and made it a centre of masonic symbolism and work. he unquestionably intended hi

the desert, and was always placed east and west when put down. it is certainly not sufficient to say that the early masons oriented their lodges merely because all churches and chapels ought to be so; rather the ecclesiastical rule spectare ad orientem was also a rule for the masons. 100. as we have already said, the egyptian origin of masonry has been somewhat obscured by jewish influence. when moses introduced the egyptian wisdom to the jews they quickly gave their own colouring to it. they are a very remarkable race, in that they assimilate readily, but stamp their own decided characteristics upon whatever they take up. in this case, the egyptians spoke of the great pyramid of gizeh as the ghouse of light h, or more commonly gthe light h but the jews were taught to interpret it as refe

a circle bounded on the north and the south by two lines. in the centre there should be a point- the point within a circle round which a m.m. cannot err. the circle, as shown on the t c b c, is drawn the full size of the altar, so that it touches or almost touches the v.s.l. an explanation of this which is often given in lodge lectures is that as the circle is bounded by two lines, which signify moses and solomon, and also by the v.s.l, anyone who keeps himself within that circle and follows the precepts of the v.s.l. as thoroughly as did moses and solomon will not err. 113. in ancient egypt, however, long before the time of the jews, it was already a symbol with many meanings. first of all, it was the symbol of the sun-god, ra; secondly, it bore to the egyptians the signification of the

, k. of t, especially in order to do this and other metal work for king solomon. undoubtedly this man was a true artist, for he took an almost inconceivable amount of trouble to carry out his design exactly as he wanted it. so far as the investigators were able to see, his work was based entirely upon a traditional account of the stone egyptian pillars, which had been handed down from the time of moses. it did not appear that he had any clear idea of the meaning of all these strange decorations, though moses knew perfectly well the whole system of symbology which lay behind it. 174. it is to be understood that all this varied orna-mentation was not arranged in basso-relievo, as would be expected in a casting; on the contrary it stood out boldly from the face of the pillar, many of the flow

ls, and those of us who investigated the making of the pillars fully confirm that statement, though they do not find him suffering the sanguinary death which the legend asserts. as i mentioned in an earlier chapter, king solomon himself appears to be responsible for introducing into jewish masonry the original form of the story, but not for the insertion of the name which we now use for its hero. moses brought from egypt the myth of the death and resurrection of osiris, and that persisted in a modified form until the time of david. solomon for patriotic reasons transferred the theatre of the drama to jerusalem, and centred its interest round the temple which he had built, winning popularity at the same time by bringing his ritual into accordance with that of surrounding peoples, who were m

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craft handed down from operative times in the old charges. thus it was put forward in all seriousness by dr. anderson in his first book of constitutions that adam, our first parent, created after the image of god, the great architect of the universe, must have had the liberal sciences, particularly geometry, written on his heart, while others, less fanciful, have attributed its origin to abraham, moses, or solomon. dr. oliver, writing as late as the first part of the nineteenth century, held that masonry, as we have it to-day, is the only true relic of the faith of the patriarchs before the flood, while the ancient mysteries of egypt and other countries, which so closely resembled it, were but human corruptions of the one primitive and pure tradition. as scientific and historical knowledge

in egyptian territory. the pharaoh of the period, interested in their story, offered them an outlying district of his kingdom if they chose to settle there. eventually some pharaoh made a demand upon them for additional taxation and forced work which they considered an infringement of their privileges; and they once more undertook a wholesale migration under the leadership of him whom we now call moses, and after further wanderings settled in palestine, where they were known as the jews, still strongly maintaining that they were a chosen people(*see man: whence, how and whither, ch. xiv and xvi, passim) 269. during their sojourn in egypt certain of them had been initiated into some of the degrees of the egyptian mysteries. moses, as was said much later, was learned in all the wisdom of the

ing their wanderings they used a tent for the celebration of their mysteries, preserved in hebrew tradition as the tabernacle; in this they worked in essence the egyptian rituals, though the whole celebration was under such conditions on a much smaller and less splendid scale. these are the facts lying behind the masonic tradition of the first or holy lodge. 270. the prophets 271. it appears that moses was also acquainted with the great ritual of amen as worked in the mysteries of egypt, and some portion at least of this tradition was transmitted to his successors. there arose in later times a school in connection with the mysteries, the members of which had the idea of personifying the children of israel as one being who might shed blessing over all nations; and they attempted to arouse a

seen clearly only with the sight of the spiritual or nirvanic plane; it does not appear that ezekiel had touched that exalted level directly, but he became aware of it in his ecstasy as though looking up to it from below. 273. the builders of k. s. t. 274. something both of the inner powers and of the egyptian rituals had been faithfully handed down from generation to generation from the days of moses until king solomon came to the throne of his father david. there is some truth in the tradition preserved in the bible, although there are exaggerations and mistakes in the accounts which have come down to us, and much of the inner meaning of the symbols had been forgotten. king solomon seems to have been a man of considerable force of character and some occult knowledge, and the great ambit

ing of the rituals 278. but king solomon s plans for the consolidation of his people were not yet complete; by the building of his temple he had formed an outer centre of national worship, and he now desired that the mysteries, the heart of his people's religion and the centre of their spiritual consciousness, should also be purely jewish in their form. the ceremonial handed down from the days of moses was still egyptian, and the initiates of the mysteries were yet symbolically engaged in building the great pyramid, the house of light, and in celebrating the death and resurrection of osiris. even though it had no corresponding halls of initiation, king solomon desired that for the future his temple should take the place of the house of light, and become the spiritual centre of the jewish m

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ace name for hell rather than as the name of a demon or an angel. abaddon is also referred to as a place the pit in milton s paradise regained (iv, 624. alternately, abaddon is identified with a demon, or the devil himself, in the third-century acts of thomas, as well as in john bunyan s puritan classic, pilgrim s progress.within modern ceremonial magic, it constitutes the name for god invoked by moses to bring down the rain over egypt, as reported by samuel liddell mathers in the greater key of solomon. there is also a reference to abaddon as the sixth of the seven lodges of hell in the work of the cabalist joseph ben abraham gikatilla. in various sources,abaddon is identified as the angel of death and destruction, demon of the abyss, and chief of the demons of the underworld. see also de

owing his execution, only to have the plan backfire. technically, christ harrows the limbo containing the old testament patriarchs, rather than hell, as the patriarchs are merely being held as prisoners rather than being tortured in a realm of fire and sulfur. rather than being imprisoned, jesus does battle with satan and his minions, defeats them, and frees everyone in hell, from adam and eve to moses. the gospel of nicodemus was popular long before the full development of the notion of purgatory, which eventually supplanted the idea of limbo. limbo had been necessary because christians of the first few centuries of the common era 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 ol

ular long before the full development of the notion of purgatory, which eventually supplanted the idea of limbo. limbo had been necessary because christians of the first few centuries of the common era 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 captiv

ther question limbo answered for the early church concerned the fate of righteous people who had passed away in the eras before the good news of christianity. in other words, christians of the first few centuries of the common era imagined that only christian souls could go to heaven. but where does that leave such righteous and deserving individuals as the old testament patriarchs (e.g, abraham, moses, etc? placing them in a limbo realm, from which christ later rescued them and conducted them to heaven, solved this problem. see also purgatory for further reading: eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. eliade,mircea. shamanism: archaic techniques of ecstasy. princeton, nj: princeton university press, 1964. mcdannell, colleen, and bernhard lang. heaven: a his

s underground. but mastema was able to convince god that it would be wise to allow some of the demons to continue their work, as sinful mortals still needed to be kept in line and have their faith tested at times. god agreed to allow one-tenth of the demons carry on their work under mastema s supervision. there are other references to mastema, such as in exodus (4:24ff. here mastema tries to kill moses. also, it is said that mastema is supposed to have assisted the egyptian wizards against moses and aaron when these israelites had to present themselves before the pharaoh to display their talent at feats of magic. see also book of jubilees for further reading: davidson,gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. 1967.new york: free press, 1971. godwin,malcolm. angels: an end

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a of inri. also by his mystery of number he made plain the path for his successor to declare the nature of the whole universe in its form and in its structure, as it were an analysis thereof, doing for matter what the buddha was decreed to do for mind. t the book of wisdom or folly 73 bt de quodam mago gyptiorum, quem appelunt iudaei mosheh (of a certain magus of the egyptians, whom the jews call moses) he follower of tahuti was an egyptian whose name is lost; but the jews called him mosheh, or moses, and their fabulists made him the leader of their legendary exodus. yet they preserved his word, and it is ihvh, which thou must understand also as that secret word which thou hast seen and heard in thunders and lightnings in thine initiation to the degree thou wottest of. but this word is its

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science replies ggreen cheese. h for our one moon we now have two ideas. greenness, and cheese. greenness depends on the sunlight, and the eye, and a thousand other things. cheese depends on bacteria and fermentation and the nature of the cow. gdeeper, ever deeper, into the mire of things! h1 shall we cut the gordian knot? shall we say gthere is god h? what, in the devil fs name, is god? if (with moses) we picture him as an old man showing us his back parts, who shall blame us? the great question.any question is the great question.does indeed treat us thus cavalierly, the disenchanted sceptic is too prone to think! well, shall we define him as a loving father, as a jealous priest, as a gleam of light upon the holy ark? what does is matter? all these images are of wood and stone, the wood a

as any other. who are we, then? we are spencerian agnostics, poor silly, damned spencerian agnostics! and there is an end of the matter. vi it is surely time that we began to question the validity of some of our data. so far our scepticism has not only knocked to pieces our tower of thought, but rooted up the foundation-stone and ground it into finer and more poisonous powder than that into which moses ground the calf. these golden elohim! our calfheads that brought us not out of egypt, but into a darkness deeper and more tangible than any darkness of the double empire of asar. hume put his little? to berkeley fs god; buddha his? to the vedic atman!.and neither hume nor buddha was baulked of his reward. ourselves may put? to our own? since we have found no! to put it to; and wouldn ft it b

t will i put a further question, announce an further glory. it is my misfortune and not my fault that i am bound to deliver this elementary message. gman has two sides; one to face the world with, one to show a woman that he loves her. h we must pardon browning his bawdy jest; for his truth is ower true! but it is your own fault if you are the world instead of the beloved; and only see of me what moses saw of god! it is disgusting to have to spend one fs life jetting dirt in the face of the british public in the hope that in washing it they may 1 [fr, git fs his job. h] 18 liber cxlviii wash off the acrid grease of their commercialism, the saline streaks of their hypocritical tears, the putrid perspiration of their morality, the dribbling slobber of their sentimentality and their religion

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

join together and one chorus is formed of the two bands, in imitation of the joined chorus on the banks of the red sea, because of the wonderful works that had been there wrought. for the sea at god's command became for one party a cause of safety and for the other a cause of ruin [philo here refers to the fabled dance of triumph of the israelites at the destruction of pharaoh and his host, when moses led the men and miriam the women in a common 24 liber dcccxi dance; but the therapeuts all over the world could not have traced the custom to a common myth] gso the chorus of men and women therapeuts, being formed as closely as possible on this model, by means of melodies in parts and harmony.the high notes of the women answering to the deep tones of the men.produces a harmonious and most mu

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thus every letter of the word tycarb, berashith, the first word in genesis, is made the initial of a word, and we obtain hrwt larcy wlbqyc \yhla har tycarb, be-rashith rahi elohim sheyequebelo israel torah .in the beginning the elohim saw that israel would accept the law. in this connection i may give six very interesting specimens of notariqon formed from this same word tycarb by solom meir ben moses, a jewish qabalist, who embraced the christian faith in 1665, and took the name of prosper rugere. these all have a christian tendency, and by their means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed to christianity. the first is \ymt djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad themim .the son, the spirit, the father, their trinity, perfect unity. the se

py of equinox i (5, transcribed by yorke] 32 i.e, the three volumes of crowley.s collected works. t.s. 24 liber lviii tree of life, the numeration of the paths over which it passes (taking g, 3, as the non-existent path from binah to chesed, since it connects macroprosopus and microprosopus) is 777 [see diagrams 2 and 1233] to take another example, it is no mere coincidence that 463, the staff of moses, is t, s, g, the paths of the middle pillar; no mere coincides that 26, hwhy, is 1+ 6+ 9+ 10, the sephiroth of the middle pillar. but ought we not to have some supreme name for 489, their sum, the middle pillar perfect? yet the sepher sephiroth is silent (we find only 489= lwmg \lcm, the avenger. ed) again, 111 is aleph, the unity, but also lpa, thick darkness, and sa, sudden death. this can

it of mars, and layparg, the intelligence of mars. 326. hwchy, jesus.see 300. 333. wznwrvj, see liber 418, 10th athyr. it is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. there is doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possible the evil of matter 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 replac

erent aspects of a deity worshipped in three persons and in three ways: viz (1) with averted face (2) with prostration (3) with identification. 418. pertains principally to part ii, q.v. 419. tyf, the letter teth. 434. tld, the letter daleth. 440. ylt, the great dragon.56 441. tma, truth. note 441= 21 21. 21 is hyha, the god of kether, whose will is truth. 450. t, the great dragon. 463. dqch hfm, moses. wand, a rod of almond. 3+ 60+ 400, the paths of the middle pillar. 474. tod, knowledge, the sephira that is not a sephira. in one aspect the child of chokmah and binah; in another the eighth heads of the stooping dragon, raised up when the tree of life was shattered, and macroprosopus set cherubim against microprosopus. see 4= 7 ritual supra.57 also, and very specifically, liber 418. it is

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omnia consociantur in hac influentia& inveniuntur in ea .160. et propterea omnis ornatus ornatuum ab ista influentia dependent .161. ist liter, qu dependent ab hoc seniore, omnes pendent in ista barba& consociantur in ista influentia .162. et pendent in ea ad stabiliendas literas alteras .163. nisi enim ill liter ascenderunt in seniorem, reliqu ist liter non stabilirentur .164. et propterea dicit moses cum opus esset: tetragrammaton, tetragrammaton bis& ita ut accentus distinguat utrumque .165. certe enim ab influentia omnia dependent .166. ab ista influentia ad reverentiam adiguntur superna& inferna& flectuntur coram ea .167. beatus ille, qui ad hanc usque per tingit. idra suta, seu synodus minor. sectio vi. 75. forehead.23..496. frons cranii est frons ad visitandum (al. ad eradicandum) p

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asia. in all likelihood, this took place via a coastal route that took them first through the middle east (thus first traveling in a north and then northeasterly direction) and subsequently moving southeastward to reach the indian subcontinent. an alternative explanation is that early humans could have gone due east from their african location, crossed the red sea (but not under the leadership of moses quite yet, and then traveled along the coast of the arabian peninsula until they reached and crossed the strait of hormuz. from there, they would have traveled east in the direction of india. at about the same time that they reached northern india, several thousand years after leaving africa, some subgroups split off from the main migrating group and moved northward, toward central asia. oth

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l of the circle, the parallel lines and the ladder (jacob's ladder) which has three principal rounds, faith, hope, and charity. in 1797, when this drawing was published, those parallel lines represented the saints john. we know them to be opposites because the baptist's day is mid-summer and the evangelist's mid-winter. today, after the de-christianization of the order, they are said to represent moses (the prophet) and solomon (the lawgiver);26 once again, opposites. we will see this arrangement again. the rivalry between the premier (modern) and the antient grand lodges continued throughout latter half of the 18th century, and at times it became quite intense. toward the end of the century, however, there was a general recognition among the members of both grand lodges that the two bodie

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lohim--the four adams--arabian traditions concerning adam--adam as the archetype of mankind--the early christian church on the subject of marriage. 125 an analysis of the tarot cards the origin of playing cards--the rota mundi of the rosicrucians--the problem of tarot symbolism--the unnumbered card--the symbolism of the twenty-one major trumps- the suit cards. 129 the tabernacle in the wilderness moses, the egyptian initiate--the building of the tabernacle--the furnishings of the tabernacle--the ark of the covenant--the robes of glory--the urim and thummim. 133 the fraternity of the rose cross the life of father c.r.c--johann valentin andre--the alchemical teachings of the rosicrucians--significance of the rose cross--the rosicrucian temple--the adepts of the rose cross. 137 rosicrucian do

nce of divine inspiration" this most famous philosopher was born sometime between 600 and 590 b.c, and the length of his life has been estimated at nearly one hundred years. the teachings of pythagoras indicate that he was thoroughly conversant with the precepts of oriental and occidental esotericism. he traveled among the jews and was instructed by the rabbins concerning the secret traditions of moses, the lawgiver of israel. later the school of the essenes was conducted chiefly for the purpose of interpreting the pythagorean symbols. pythagoras was initiated into the egyptian, babylonian, and chaldean mysteries. although it is believed by some that he was a disciple of zoroaster, it is doubtful whether his instructor of that name was the god-man now revered by the parsees. while accounts

nts of the sacrum and coccyx are pierced by ten foramina, through which pass the roots of the tree of life. nine is the sacred number of man, and in the symbolism of the sacrum and coccyx a great mystery is concealed. that part of the body from the kidneys downward was termed by the early qabbalists the land of egypt into which the children of israel were taken during the captivity. out of egypt, moses (the illuminated mind, as his name implies) led the tribes of israel (the twelve faculties) by raising the brazen serpent in the wilderness upon the symbol of the tau cross. not only chiram but the god-men of nearly every pagan mystery ritual are personifications of the spirit fire in the human spinal cord. the astronomical aspect of the hiramic legend must not be overlooked. the tragedy of

of scripture. the tree that grows in the midst of the garden is the spinal fire; the knowledge of the use of that spinal fire is the gift of the great serpent. notwithstanding statements to the contrary, the serpent is the symbol and prototype of the universal savior, who redeems the worlds by giving creation the knowledge of itself and the realization of good and evil. if this be not so, why did moses raise a brazen serpent upon a cross in the wilderness that all who looked upon it might be saved from the sting of the lesser snakes? was not the brazen serpent a prophecy of the crucified man to come? if the serpent be only a thing of evil, why did christ instruct his disciples to be as wise as serpents? the accepted theory that the serpent is evil cannot be substantiated. it has long been

ows that the true supports of god's glorious house were not the logs subject to decay but the immortal and imperishable intellects of the tree hierophants. trees are repeatedly mentioned in the old and new testaments, and in the scriptures of various pagan nations. the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil mentioned in genesis, the burning bush in which the angel appeared to moses, the famous vine and fig tree of the new testament, the grove of olives in the garden of gethsemane where jesus went to pray, and the miraculous tree of revelation, which bore twelve manners of fruit and whose leaves were for the healing of the nations, all bear witness to the esteem in which trees were held by the scribes of holy writ. buddha received his illumination while under the bodhi

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ural all play a primary part. the rod is obviously a phallic emblem and has always been associated with divine wisdom whether it is presented in the tibetan pantheon as a dorji or thunderbolt sceptre or as the classical mercury's winged rod, the caduceus. all the legendary wizards from biblical times on have carried rods wherein their powers were often vested. jannes and jambres of the egyptians, moses, aaron and elijah, merlin, virgilius, roger bacon: the list is extensive. apart from its phallic connotations, the wand is also a pointer, or indicator, a flying arrow in the case of the greek abaris, again connected with occult methods of "finding things out" witches employ two different types of wands in their rituals: the riding staff in the past often disguised as the legendary broomstic

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h vanquisher of god; and he was delivered from the fury of esau his brother. i conjure ye by the most potent name of el. adonai tzabaoth, which is the god of armies, ruling in the heavens, which joseph invoked and was found worthy to escape from the hands of his brethren. i conjure ye by the most potent name of elohim tzabaoth, which expresseth piety, mercy, splendour, and knowledge of god, which moses invoked, and he was found worthy to deliver the people israel from egypt, and from the servitude of pharaoh. i conjure ye by the most potent name of shaddai, which signifieth doing good unto all; which moses invoked, and having struck the sea, it divided into two parts in the midst, on the right hand and on the left. i conjure ye by the most holy name of el chai, which is that of the living

rvitude of pharaoh. i conjure ye by the most potent name of shaddai, which signifieth doing good unto all; which moses invoked, and having struck the sea, it divided into two parts in the midst, on the right hand and on the left. i conjure ye by the most holy name of el chai, which is that of the living god, through the virtue of which alliance with us, and redemption for us have been made; which moses invoked and all the waters returned to their prior state and enveloped the egyptians, so that not one of them escaped to carry the news into the land of mizraim. lastly, i conjure ye all, ye rebellious spirits, by the most holy name of god adonai malekh, which joshua invoked, and stayed the course of the sun in his presence, through the virtue of methratton, its principal image; and by the t

new, and i powerfully urge ye, o demons, in whatsoever part of the world ye may be, so that ye shall be unable to remain in air, fire, water, earth, or in any part of the universe, or in any pleasant place which may attract ye; but that ye come promptly to accomplish our desire, and all things that we demand from your obedience. i conjure ye anew by the two tables of the law, by the five books of moses, by the seven burning lamps on the candlestick of gold before the face of the throne of the majesty of god, and by the holy of holies wherein the kohen ha-gadul was alone permitted to enter, that is to say, the high-priest. i conjure ye by him who hath made the heavens and the earth, and who hath measured those heavens in the hollow of his hand, and enclosed the earth with three of his finge

name el, which noah heard, and saved himself with all his family from the deluge; by the name iod, which noah heard, and knew god the almighty one; by the name agla, which jacob heard, and saw the ladder which touched heaven, and the angels who ascended and descended upon it, whence he called that place the house of god and the gate of heaven; and by the name elohim, and in the name elohim, which moses named, invoked, and heard in horeb the mount of god, and he was found worthy to hear him speak from the burning bush; and by the name ain soph, which aaron heard, and was at once made eloquent, wise, and learned; and by the name tzabaoth, which moses named and invoked, and all the ponds and rivers were covered with blood throughout the land of egypt; and by the name iod, which moses named an

which aaron heard, and was at once made eloquent, wise, and learned; and by the name tzabaoth, which moses named and invoked, and all the ponds and rivers were covered with blood throughout the land of egypt; and by the name iod, which moses named and invoked, and striking upon the dust of the earth both men and beasts were struck with disease; and by the name, and in the name primeumaton, which moses named and invoked, and there fell a great and severe hail throughout all the land of egypt, destroying the vines, the trees, and the woods which were in that country; and by the name iaphar, which moses heard and invoked, and immediately a great pestilence began to appear through all the land of egypt, striking and slaying the asses, the oxen, and the sheep of the egyptians, so that they all

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all write or do may obtain its effect, through him who liveth unto the eternal ages. amen. before cutting the reed recite psalm lxxii. after this, with the knife of the art, thou shalt fashion the reed into the shape of a knife, and upon it thou shalt write these names: agla, adonai, elohi (see figure 87, through whom be the work of this knife accomplished. then thou shalt say: o god, who drewest moses, thy well-beloved and thine elect, from among the reeds on the marshy banks of the nile, and from the waters, he being yet but a child, grant unto me through thy great mercy and compassion that this reed may receive power and virtue to effect that which i desire through thy holy name and the names of thy holy angels. amen. this being done, thou shalt commence with this knife to flay the anim

in hebrew symbolism under the form of bulls. their empire is that of fecundity. they correspond to true ideas. they have for adversaries the gamaliel or obscene, whose queen is lilith, the demon of debaucheries. the tenth number is ten. the tenth sephira is malkuth, or the kingdom of forms. the spirits of malkuth are the ischim, or the virile ones; they are the souls of the saints whose chief is moses (let us not forget that it is solomon who speaks. eliphaz levi) they have for adversaries the wicked ones who obey nahema, the demon of impurity. the wicked are symbolized by the five accursed nations whom joshua was to destroy. joshua, or jehoshua the saviour, is a symbol of the messiach. book two page 125 his name is composed of the letters of the divine tetragram changed into the pentagra

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mity or tortuosity; by the name and in the name iah and vau, which adam heard and spake; and by the name of god, agla, which lot heard and was saved with his family; and by the name ioth, which jacob heard from the angel wrestling with him, and was delivered from the hand of esau his brother; and by the name anaphaxeton which aaron heard and spake and was made wise; and by the name zabaoth, which moses named and all the rivers were turned into blood; and by the name asher ehyeh oriston, which moses named, and all the rivers brought forth frogs, and they ascended into the houses, destroying all things; and by the name elion, which moses named, and there was great hail such as had not been since the beginning of the world; and by the name adonai, which moses named, and there came up locusts

mighty and powerful; by the four beasts before the throne, having eyes before and behind; by the fire round about the throne; by the holy angels of heaven; and by the mighty wisdom of god; i do potently exorcise thee, that thou appearest here before this circle, to fulfil my will in all things which shall seem good unto me; by the seal of basdathea balda-chia; and by this name primeumaton, which moses named, and the earth opened, and did swallow up kora, dathan, and abiram. wherefore thou shalt make faithful answers unto all my demands, o spirit n, and shalt perform all my desires so far as in thine office thou art capable hereof. wherefore, come thou, visibly, peaceably, and affably, now without delay, to manifest that which i desire, speaking with a clear and perfect voice, intelligibly

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hovah hath created& made, and come ye peaceably, visibly and affably without delay manifesting what i desire, being conjured by the name of the eternal living true god heliorin tetragrammaton anepheneton& fulfill my commands& persist unto the end, i conjure, command& constrain you spirit n by alpha& omega& by the name primeumaton which commandeth the whole host of heaven& by all these names which moses named when he by the power of these names brought great plagues upon pharaoh& all the people of egypt; zebaoth, escerchie, oriston, elian, adonay primeumaton& by the name schersieta mathia which joshua called upon the sun stayed its course& by the hagioss& by the seal of adonay& by agla on tetragrammaton to whom all creatures are obedient& by the dreadful judgement of the most high god& by t

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common knowledge that great secret systems of the mysteries (referred to in our lectures as" noble orders of architecture" i.e, of soul-building) existed in the east, in chaldea, assyria, egypt, greece, italy, amongst the hebrews, amongst mahommedans and amongst christians; even among uncivilized african races they are to be found. all the great teachers of humanity, socrates, plato, pythagoras, moses, aristotle, virgil, the author of the homeric poems, and the great greek tragedians, along with st. john, st. paul and innumerable other great names--were initiates of the sacred mysteries. the form of the teaching co mmunicated has varied considerably from age to age; it has been expressed under different veils; but since the ultimate truth the mysteries aim at teaching is always one and th

ling round it, so at the secret centre of individual human life exists a vital, immortal principle, the spirit and the spiritual will of man. this is the faculty, by using which (when we have found it) we can never err. it is a point within the circle of our own nature and, living as we do in this physical world, the circle of our existence is bounded by two grand parallel lines" one representing moses; the other king solomon" that is to say, law and wisdom; the divine ordinances regulating the universe on the one hand; the divine "wisdom and mercy that follow us all the days of our life" on the other. very truly then the mason who keeps himself thus circumscribed cannot err. masonry, then, is a system of religious philosophy in that it provides us with a doctrine of the universe and of ou

of the divine science in chaldea, persia, greece and asia minor" out of egypt have i called my son" is, in one of its many senses, a biblical allusion to this passing on of the catholic m ysteries from egypt to new and virgin regions, for their enlightenment. of these various translations those that concern us chiefly are two; the one to greece, the other to palestine. we know from the bible that moses was an initiate of the egyptian mysteries and became learned in all its wisdom, while philo tells us that moses there became" skilled in music, geometry, arithmetic, hieroglyphics and the whole circle of arts and sciences" in other words he became in a real sense a master mason and, as such, qualified himself for his subsequent great task of leadership of the hebrew people and the formulatin

eat greek school of the mysteries was developing, which, originating in the orphic religion, culminated and came to a focus at delphi and generated the philosophic wisdom and the aesthetic glories associated with athens and the periclean age. greece was the spiritual descendant and infant prodigy of both india and egypt, though developing along quite different lines. we know that pythagoras, like moses, after absorbing all his native teachers could impart, journeyed to egypt to take his final initiation prior to returning and founding the great school at crotona associated with his name. we know, too, from the timaus of plato how aspirants for mystical wisdom visited egypt for initiation and were told by the priests of sais that" you greeks are but children" in the secret doctrine, but wer

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4:19..his going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there isnothing hid from the heat thereof (nehemiah 18:10)and i looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud and a fire infold-ing itself and a brightness was about it and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber outof the midst of the fire (ezekiel 4:5)and it came to pass, as moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, andstood at the door of the tabernacle, and the lord talked with moses. and all the people sawthe cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped,every man in his tent door (exodus 33:9)then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the landwhither they went (john

es and shields and breastplates and madeknown to them the metals of the earth and the art of working with themand they were leadastray, and became corrupt in all their ways.the war of the gods is recorded in the bible. v eiled references to it include the term,first born. this euphemism turns up in the old testament. we read of jehovah, forinstance, striking down the first born of the pharaoh for moses. later, in the newtestament, herod goes after the first born of the so-called israelites in his search forthe christ child. few ask what is productive in attacking those without any sin, whenthe resources would be better used striking at the actual enemy. little in theologicalatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation47 the world falls dead texts will make sense until that which is

r of the pre-diluvian epochs, ignatius donnelly, who demon-strated his discernment, concerning the terrestrial tribulations, when he wrote:it sounds like the cry not of a man but of a race, a great, religious, civilized race, who couldnot understand how god could so cruelly visit the world. this fact can be corroborated by a close reading of the old testament. in it, we hear ofthe strange meeting moses had at the burning bush. this has long been a point ofconjecture, but can easily be explained when the imagery is replaced by fact. jehovahannounces to mosess question, i am the god of thy fathers. scholars have pointedout that mosess doubt as to the nature and pre-eminence of jehovah is strange, to saythe least, and that jehovah should need no introduction to a devoted israelite. more-over

long been a point ofconjecture, but can easily be explained when the imagery is replaced by fact. jehovahannounces to mosess question, i am the god of thy fathers. scholars have pointedout that mosess doubt as to the nature and pre-eminence of jehovah is strange, to saythe least, and that jehovah should need no introduction to a devoted israelite. more-over, the introduction clearly implies that moses is in fact one of the progeny of thesons of the serpents (his fathers, but has now had the misfortune to come intocontact with one of their fathers, that is, one of the original serpent masters, maybethe world falls dead48atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation even the main man. the second revealing anecdote happens when moses and aaronare in the presence of the pharaoh. the sc

ement: apocalyptic fragment) in the babylonian legend of creation, we read: men with bodies of birds of the deserts, human beings with the faces of ravens, these thegods created and in the earth the gods created for them a dwellingin the midst of the earththey grew up and became great, and increased in number .atlantis researcher andrew collins provides the story of amram, father of the law-giver moses, who had a personal encounter with such beings or their masters: i saw watchers in my vision, the dream-vision. two men were fighting over me, saying. andholding a great contest over me. i asked them `who are you, that you are thus empoweredover me? they answered me `we have been empowered and rule over all mankind' theyreptilians, priestesses, and strange genes60atlantis, alien visitation

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holds in trust, and of necessity bequeaths to mankind; the personal estate of man, entailed of nature to the end of time. and masonry early recognized it as true, that to set forth and develop a truth, or any human excellence of gift or growth, is to make, greater the spiritual glory of the race; that whosoever aids the march of a truth, and makes the thought a thing, writes in the same line with moses, and with him who died upon the cross; and has an intellectual sympathy with the deity himself. the best gift we can bestow on man is manhood. it is that which masonry is ordained of god to bestow on its votaries: not sectarianism and religious dogma; not a rudimental morality, that may be found in the writings of confucius, zoroaster, seneca, and the rabbis, in the proverbs and ecclesiastes

day of the _seventh_ month, that ark rested on ararat. when the dove returned, noah waited _seven_ days before he sent her forth again; and again _seven, after she returned with the olive-leaf. enoch was the _seventh_ patriarch, adam included, and lamech lived 777 years. there were _seven_ lamps in the great candlestick of the tabernacle and temple, representing the _seven_ planets _seven_ times moses sprinkled the anointing oil upon the altar. the days of consecration of aaron and his sons were _seven_ in number. a woman was unclean _seven_ days after child-birth; one infected with leprosy was shut up _seven_ days _seven_ times the leper was sprinkled with the blood of a slain bird; and _seven_ days afterwards he must remain abroad out of his tent _seven_ times, in purifying the leper, t

; the whole hieratic intelligence is in the perfect knowledge of these three degrees" pythagoras enveloped doctrine with symbols, but carefully eschewed personifications and images, which, he thought, sooner or later produced idolatry. the holy kabalah, or tradition of the children of seth, was carried from chald a by abraham, taught to the egyptian priesthood by joseph, recovered and purified by moses, concealed under symbols in the bible, revealed by the saviour to saint john, and contained, entire, under hieratic figures analogous to those of all antiquity, in the apocalypse of that apostle. the kabalists consider god as the intelligent, animated, living infinite. he is not, for them, either the aggregate of existences, or existence in the abstract, or a being philosophically definable

be a mason. masonry has ever the most vivid remembrance of the terrible and artificial torments that were used to put down new forms of religion or extinguish the old. it sees with the eye of memory the ruthless extermination of all the people of all sexes and ages, because it was their misfortune not to know the god of the hebrews, or to worship him under the wrong name, by the savage troops of moses and joshua. it sees the thumb-screws and the racks, the whip, the gallows, and the stake, the victims of diocletian and alva, the miserable covenanters, the non-conformists, servetus burned, and the unoffending quaker hung. it sees cranmer hold his arm, now no longer erring, in the flame until the hand drops off in the consuming heat. it sees the persecutions of peter and paul, the martyrdom

others what thou wouldst not desire done unto thyself; do that unto the people, which, when done to thyself, is not disagreeable unto thee" the same doctrine had been long taught in the schools of babylon, alexandria, and jerusalem. a pagan declared to the pharisee hillel, that he was ready to embrace the jewish religion, if he could make known to him in a few words a summary of the whole law of moses "that which thou likest not done to thyself" said hillel "do it not unto thy neighbor. therein is all the law: the rest is nothing but the commentary upon it "nothing is more natural" said confucius "nothing more simple, than the principles of that morality which i endeavor, by salutary maxims, to inculcate in you. it is humanity; which is to say, that universal charity among all of our spec

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mysticism. as a result, the initiate acquires sufficient spiritual experience not to make the same blunders as do "asses in lion skin. 47. but they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. they have half of the key. half=5+1+30+ 6=42. 4+2=6, the sun. the jews have, in common with thelemites, awareness of the sun current. this they acquired through the egyptian initiate they called moses and "adopted" as a jew. it is with motive that they have been called "children of satan. truly, the "eye that watches over israel never sleeps. but that eye watches over everybody! unite by thine art so that all disappear. this phrase sent certain debased elements within jewish occultism hunting for aleister crowley as long as he lived. thelemites have been pointed (by these same so-called o

ons in which the intellect became a liability, rather than an asset. some thinkers have already pointed out that we are progressing too fast in intellect and too slow emotionally. our technology is that of the year 2000, but our morals date of 3000 to 4000 b.c. we are brought up by our parents to behave as if the social conditions of the second half of the twentieth century were the same that led moses to conceive the tribal code called the ten commandments. unless we put the intellect in its proper perspective (the reasoning faculties, after all, occupy only one fifth of the total capacity of our brains, and develop a moral code better adapted to our present stage of evolution, we may end by atom- bombing each other to extinction. the purpose of liber al is precisely to introduce a new, f

ven the "style of the letter (how much less a phrase) in this book is casual. the expression "to hell with them" is not merely an outburst of colloquial enthusiasm. the word "hell, that and no other, serves the purpose of the speaker. this would naturally be suggested to us, in any case, by the reflection that our law does not indulge in the frothings of impotent fury, like the priestly frauds of moses, the rishis, and buddha, in the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth of the galilean fishwife. our law knows nothing of punishment beyond that imposed by ignorance and awkwardness on their possessor. the word "hell" must therefore be explained in terms neither of virile vulgarity, or theological blackmail. see liber aleph, 124, 129, 130. 61. there is a light before thine eyes, o prophet

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ile male describes this book as one of the most valuable to come down to us from the middle ages. this view of the figures of the hebrew scriptures as those who heralded the coming of christ was traditional among the fathers of the church. the same perspective held true for adam and noah; for the patriarchs abraham, isaac, jacob, and joseph; for melchizadek, the pontiff king; and for the prophets moses, ezra, aggee, and zerubbabel. as disorienting as this may appear to our modern logic, the people of the middle ages did not understand the hebrew scriptures in solely their literal sense, as the record of a historical and chronological process (which would be too narrow and anti-christian. truth for them was intemporal, not merely a question of historical contribution. truth was what was pri

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ned as well. the fact that abel fs offering is compared to cain fs implies that it, too, was defective in some way. also, the fact that abel was murdered means that he must have been deserving of death in some way (although this in no was exonerates cain, of course. elsewhere, the arizal states that abel fs sin was that he ggazed h at the divine presence [the situation remained unrectified] until moses came and rectified the hei of [abel fs name in hebrew] hevel and the shin of [seth fs name in hebrew] shet. moses in hebrew is moshe, mem-shin-hei. he is thus seen as the rectification of seth and abel. in other words, the ultimate tool for rectifying the sin of adam is the torah (which was given through moses. some of the souls that went out [of adam] were rectified [by being reincarnated]

fy the souls that had become reincarnated in the generation of the exodus by immersing them in water, which is a metaphor for the torah. but they were not fully rectified until they came to marah, where they were all fully rectified. at marah, the jews received their first commandments, as a sort of transitional law between the universal laws of the noahides and the 613 commandments of the torah. moses also rectified the hei of abel fs name [hevel, and thus then everything was rectified. when moses received the full torah and transmitted it to the jewish people, all the souls that made up adam fs original soul were finally rectified .translated from likutei torah 13 exodus 1:10. 57 parashat lech lecha the portion of the torah read this week begins: gand g-d said to abram, ego forth from yo

t- yud-vav. this is also alluded to in the fact that gjob h [iyov] permutes to spell gand he came h [vayavo. vayavo: vav-yud-beit-alef. job is also alluded to in the verse [describing the reaction of the jewish people to the splitting of the sea: gand the people revered g-d, and they believed in g-d 7 job 32:2. 8 ibid. 42:6. 9 genesis 18:27. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 81 and in his servant moses. h10 the initials of the words for g cg-d and they believed in g-d c h [et y-k-v-k vaya faminu be-y-k-v-k, alef-yud-vav-beit] spell gjob h [iyov. we can now understand why job fs name is alluded to in the description of the splitting of the sea. since job apparently did not figure at all in this incident. and also [we can now understand] why g-d delivered him into the hands of samel. samel i

sitive to the inner reality of life and its experiences. this is graphically represented by the letter chet, in which the open ghole h of the hei has been closed. this is the mystical meaning of the verse, gthe well that the princes dug. h3 [the gprinces h] are the father [abraham] and son [isaac. the verse quoted refers to the well of miriam. in the plain meaning of the verse, the gprinces h are moses and aaron, who restored the well with moses f stick after it disappeared when miriam died. allegorically, the gwell h is nukva, which was gdug, h i.e, made into an open vessel, by the forces of chesed and gevurah. the forces of chesed do not open the well permanently, as is seen by the fact that after abraham dug his wells the philistines were able to stop them up. the experience of divine c

260+ 208+ 2= 470. this is the [mystical] meaning of the verse, gfor they contended with him, h meaning that gtogether with him they formed the word eisek. h the form for gthey contended h is hitasku, meaning gthey participated in an eisek, h a contention. now for another point about eisek. three times the value of eisek is 1410. 470 x 3= 1410. this is the [mystical] meaning of what [g-d] said to moses: gbehold, there is a place with me [iti, h6 meaning, at the end of 1410, which is the root of moses. this verse was spoken by g-d to moses when he was on mt. sinai. the word iti is spelled alef-tav-yud. since the word alef means ga thousand, h this spelling can be interpreted as 1000+ 400+ 10= 1410. the allusion to moses might be based on the passage in the midrash in which it is stated that

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ised investigators whose origin is traced to the fratres roseae crucis of germany, which association was founded by one christian rosenkreutz about the year 1398 a. d "the rosicrucian revival of mysticism was but a new development of the vastly older wisdom of the qabalistic rabbis and of that very ancient secret knowledge, the magic of the egyptians, in which the hebrew pentateuch tells you that moses the founder of the jewish system was learned, that is, in which he had been initiated" in a slender but highly informative booklet entitled data of the history of <17> the rosicrucians published in 1916 by the late dr. william wynn westcott, we find the following brief statement "in 1887 by permission of s.d.a. a continental rosicrucian adept, the isis-urania temple of hermetic students of t

rn is composed of the cross and the crescent showing that lead is corrosive internally and luna externally. jupiter is the reverse. mars is solar internally but corrosive externally. venus is opposite. copper is externally of the nature of gold, but intermlly corrosive. hence the name of the sphere of venus is nogah-denoting external splendour but internal corruption. the serpent nehushtan, which moses made when the children of israel were bitten by serpents of fire in the wilderness, is the serpent of the paths of the tree. and he set it on a pole-that is, twined it round the middle pillar of the sephiroth. and the word used in the passage in numbers 21 for fiery serpents is the same as the name of the angels of geburah, the same spelling, the same pointing, seraphim. round the middle pil

one equals ten of zelator (done) practicus ritual 177 place the theoricus now before the portal of the 30th path by which he has symbolically entered this grade from the two equals nine of theoricus (done) hiereus by what symbol dost thou enter herein? heg by the peculiar emblem of the stolistes, the cup of water. hiereus the cup of the stolistes partakes in part of the symbolism of the laver of moses and the sea of solomon. on the tree of life, it embraces nine of the sephiroth, exclusive of kether. yesod and malkuth form the triangle below, the former the apex, the latter the base. like caduceus, it further represents the three elements of water, air, and fire. the crescent is the water which is above the firmament, the circle is the firmament, and the triangle the consuming fire below

ntaining invisible and unsuspected forces, the rules of whose administration may be revealed through meditation. it is the outer form of the wand surmounted by the winged globe below which the twin serpents are shown- the wand of the chief adept in the= grade. the lamen of stolistes is thus explained in the grade of practicus "the cup of stolistes partakes in part of the symbolism of the laver of moses and the sea of solomon. on the tree of life it embraces nine of the sephiroth exclusive of kether. yesod and malkuth form the triangle below, the former apex, the latter the base. like the caduceus, it further represents the three elements of water, air, and fire. the crescent is the water which is above the firmament; the circle is the firmament, and the triangle is the consuming fire below

nd resurrection of christ has other symbology and the teachings belong to a higher grade. let none therefore object that his body was laid in the tomb entire (the body of osiris was first laid in the chest or pastos whole. the division into 14 parts was subsequent. n. b. 1 plus 4= 5, the five wounds) for even as yod heh vav heh must be known before yod heh shin vav heh can be comprehended, and as moses must precede christ, so must the mysteries of osiris first be known. now the guardian of the hall and of the neophytes against the qlip poth (whose kether is thaumiel, the dual or two-headed one, the demons of corruption and disintegration) is the hiereus or horns, and to the children of horns, who partake of his symbology, are the viscera committed, to guard them against the demons of disin

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less he should bestow upon us some newfaculties of the mind?before yielding to a fuller consideration of these special subjects, let me advert to your recentinstruction and approach less abruptly such momentous revelations.as a theoricus you bowed to aesculapius, the god of medicine, but reverence is also due to theancient philosopher hermes trismegistus, almost contemporaneous with the law-giver moses, andcalled 'thrice great, by reason of his virtues and great learning. it was he who gave us the divisionof a day into hours. he is the alleged inventor of alchemy: the father of that species of philosophy,which claims to solve and explain all the phenomena of nature from the three chemical principles,salt, sulphur and mercury: a system which reveals the causes of diseases, and the operation

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e affirmation is this: there was and there still is a potent and real magic; all that is said of it in legend is true after a certain manner, yet contrary to the common course of popular exaggeration it falls below the truth. there is indeed a formidable secret, the revelation of which has once already transformed the world, as testified in egyptian religious tradition, summarized symbolically by moses at the beginning of genesis. this secret constitutes the fatal science of good and evil, and the consequence of its revelation is death. moses depicts it under the figure of a tree which stands in the midst of the terrestrial paradise, is in proximity to the tree of life and is joined at the root thereto. at the foot of this tree is the source of the four mysterious rivers; it is guarded by

chiefs who have sworn upon the blood of victims, possess the same significance as the seven seals of the sacred book interpreted by seven genii and assailed by a monster with seven heads, after being opened by a lamb which liveth and was dead, in the allegorical work of st. john. the mysterious origin of oedipus, found hanging on the tree of cithaeron like a bleeding fruit, recalls the symbols of moses and the narratives of genesis. he makes war upon his father, whom he slays without knowing tremendous prophecy of the blind emancipation of reason apart from science. thereafter he meets with the sphinx, that symbol of symbols, the eternal enigma of the vulgar, the granite pedestal of the sciences of the sages, the voracious and silent monster whose unchanging form expresses the one dogma of

oedipus we find the gracious poem of psyche, which was certainly not invented by apuleius. the great magical arcanum reappears here under the figure of a mysterious union between a god and a weak mortal, abandoned alone and naked on a rock. psyche must remain in ignorance of the secret of her ideal royalty, and if she behold her husband she must lose him. here apuleius commentates and interprets moses; but did not the elohim of israel and the gods of apuleius both issue from the sanctuaries of memphis and thebes? psyche is the sister of eve, or rather she is eve spiritualized. both desire to know and lose innocence for the honour of the ordeal. both deserve to go down into hell, one to bring back the antique box of pandora, the other to find and to crush the head of the old serpent, who i

t we should have recourse to this vast and hidden source of universal philosophy. the bible, with all its allegories, gives expression to the religious knowledge of the hebrews only in an incomplete and veiled manner. the book which we have mentioned, the hieratic characters of which we shall explain subsequently, that book which william postel names the genesis of enoch, existed certainly before moses and the prophets, whose doctrine, fundamentally identical with that of the ancient egyptians, had also its exotericism and its veils. when moses spoke to the people, says the sacred book allegorically, he placed a veil over his face, and he removed it when communing with god: this accounts for the alleged biblical absurdities which so exercised the satirical powers of voltaire. the books wer

his famous lever. this it is which was accomplished by the great initiators who have electrified the world, and they could not have done so except by means of the great and incommunicable secret. however, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the remains and evidences of its previous life. so also moses saw to it that all those who had known egypt and her mysteries should end their life in the desert; at ephesus st. paul burnt all books which treated of the occult sciences; and in fine, the french revolution, daughter of the great johannite orient and the ashes of the templars, spoliated the churches and blasphemed the allegories of the divine cultus. but all doctrines and all revivals pros

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those monstrous idols of anarchy which india opposes in its symbols to the magical trimurti, have found priests and worshippers in christianity. the demon is mentioned nowhere in genesis; an allegorical serpent deceives our first parents. here is the common translation of the sacred text: gnow, the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the lord god had made. h but this is what moses says: this signifies, according to the version of fabre d'olivet: gnow, original attraction (cupidity) was the entraining passion of all elementary life (the interior activity of nature, the work of jhoah, the being of beings. h but herein fabre d'olivet is beside the true interpretation, because he was unacquainted with the grand keys of the kabalah. the word nahash, explained by the symbol

'olivet is beside the true interpretation, because he was unacquainted with the grand keys of the kabalah. the word nahash, explained by the symbolical letters of the tarot signifies rigorously 14 i nun.-the power which produces combinations. 5 x he.-the recipient and passive producer of forms. 21 e shin.-the natural and central fire equilibrated by double polarization. thus, the word employed by moses, read kabalistically, gives the description and definition of that magical universal agent, represented in all theogonies by the serpent; to this agent the hebrews applied the name of od when it manifested its active force, of ob when it exhibited its passive force, and of aour when it revealed itself wholly in its equilibrated power, as producer of light in heaven and gold among metals. it

ho restrains and constrains the dragon with lance and heel. in this place let us affirm without evasion that the great magical agent. the double current of light, the living and astral fire of the earth. was represented by the serpent with the head of an ox, goat or dog, in ancient theogonies. it is the dual serpent of the caduceus, the old serpent of genesis, but it is also the brazen serpent of moses, twined about the tau, that is, the generating lingam. it is, moreover, the goat of the sabbath and the baphomet of the templars; it is the hyle of the gnostics; it is the double tail of the serpent which forms the legs of the solar cock of abraxas. in fine, it is the devil of m. eudes de mirville and is really that blind force which souls must overcome if they would be freed from the chains

a sequence of miracles. we have spoken of the magical importance of the triad and tetrad. their combination constitutes the great religious and kabalistic number which represents the universal synthesis and comprises the sacred septenary. in the belief of the ancients, the world is governed by seven secondary causes. secundii, as trithemius calls them. which are the universal forces designated by moses under the the septenary of talismans 43 plural name of eloim, gods. these forces, analogous and contrary to one another, produce equilibrium by their contrasts and rule the movement of the spheres. the hebrews termed them the seven great archangels, giving them the names of michael, gabriel, raphael, anael, samael, zadkiel and oriphiel. the christian gnostics named the four last uriel, barac

der the influence of jupiter (7) works of malediction and death, under the patronage of saturn. in theological symbolism, the sun represents the word of truth; the moon, religion 44 the ritual of transcendental magic itself; mercury, the interpretation and science of mysteries; mars, justice; venus, mercy and love; jupiter, the risen and glorious saviour; saturn, god the father, or the jehovah of moses. in the human body, the sun is analogous to the heart, the moon to the brain, jupiter to the right hand, saturn to the left, mars to the left foot, venus to the right, mercury to the generative organs, whence an androgyne figure is sometimes attributed to this planet. in the human face, the sun governs the forehead, jupiter the right and saturn the left eye; the moon rules between both at th

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r, with bodies of air condensed and curiously shaped, may be next to man [that is, humankind, superior to him in understanding, yet unconfirmed; and of their region [of] habitation and influences on man, greater than that of the stars upon inanimate bodies. a knowledge reserved for these last atheistic ages, wherein the profanity of men's lives has debauched and blinded their understandings as to moses, jesus, and the prophets, unless they get [such] convictions from things formerly known, as from the regions of the dead. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_40.htm (7 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:34:55 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 40-49) the secret commonwealth 48 nor does the ceasing of the visions, upon the seer's transmigration into foreign kingdoms make his lordship's conjecture

am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 40-49) correspondent on earth [just] as frequently the report of great actions [battles] has been carried more swiftly to other countries than all the art of us mortals could possibly dispatch it st. augustine [commenting] on mark 9:4, gives no small intimation of this truth, averring that elias appeared with jesus on the mount in his proper body, but moses [appeared] in an aerial body [which he had] assumed [that is, taken on [moses aerial body was] like [those of] the angels who appeared and had the ability to eat with abraham, though no necessity, on the account of their bodies, as likewise the late doctrine of the preexistence of souls, living into aerial vehicles [these examples] give a singular hint of the possibilities of the thing, if n

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ation of a state in what it is and has been rather than in its future goals or ideals. the founder(s) of a society must be excused for acts which are inexcusable after the society has been established. the grounds for this initial license are simply the forceful, initial establishment of good qualities and benefits of the resultant society. examples of such unprincipled founders in the prince are moses, romulus, and cyrus. each of whom attacked and destroyed rivals in order to found the important state in question. the principle of legality is secondary to that of force "the foundations of all states, whether new, old, or mixed, are good laws and good arms. and as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms, and where there are good arms there must be good laws, i will not disc

t initiation, and was taught the mighty mystery of the father and the aeons; and he could reveal it to no one else" the terms used denote that the demiurge received instruction, but was not given the higher power or initiation, whereby he could become a teacher or initiator in his turn; he received the "mnesis" but not the "epopteia" this is the meaning, according to the writer, of his words unto moses "i am the god of abraham, and the god of isaac, and the god of jacob, and the name of god i have not made known unto them- that is to say 'i have not declared the mystery, nor explained who is god, but i kept to myself in secret the mystery which i heard from wisdom' since then the things above (in the pleroma, ogdoad, and hebdomad) had been set right, by the same law of succession the thing

r prey. they roar only after their prey has been vanquished. james 4:7 submit yourselves therefore to jehovah. resist satan, and he will flee from you. in these modern times, christians use this passage as a permit to be rude, closed minded, indifferent, and hostile towards anyone who is not of like kind. jude 1:9 yet michael the archangel, when contending with satan he disputed about the body of moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, the lord rebuke thee. here is a fine example of the use of language. should the opportunity present itself, a christian may attempt to use the term "the lord rebuke you" on you. should the direction of a conversation with a christian be aimed to misdirect their intent, i have found an interesting reaction from several when they are

n of set is xeper. become each magical aon is characterized by a philosophy, which may be summarized by a formula, which may in turn be summarized by a word. the magus of an aon "utters its word, i.e: he formulates and explains the new philosophy. although crowley speaks of only three historic aons (isis, osiris, and horus, he identifies eight magi: lao-tzu, gotama buddha, krishna, tehuti (thoth, moses, dionysus (christ, mohammed, and himself. anton szandor lavey is the ninth, his number is nine, and his word is indulgence. the formula of the age of satan was an expansion of this word: indulgence instead of abstinence.64 i am therefore the tenth, appearing in the year x, and it has been my task and curse65 to utter the word xeper. this is the egyptian hieroglyphic term for "to become/to be

hand path, you know that god isn't going to answer you with help. all god may give is clarity. set was and is the pharaoh's teacher of the art of archery, he doesn't fire the arrows for you, but if your purpose and his and are resonate, he may clarify the content of your mind to allow you to see the target. for most of mankind such clarification never occurs, because it is a curse. like the magus moses, you will see the promised land, but you will never step foot into it. you will have the unpleasant task of trying to tell others that there are behaviors and thoughts that will give them power to work on themselves, while they are trapped in the received notions of the world, which are inherently disempowering. the cursed one, whom we call a magus (although other titles such as rishi would

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and over water. in the old days it had been thought safer to transport goods across the desert than over the seas, where monsoons could strike at any time. in those days before meteorology such matters were impossible to predict. for this reason the cara- vanserais prospered. the produce of the world came up from zafar to sheba, and thence tojahilia and the oasis of yathrib and on to midian where moses lived; thence to aqabah and egypt. from jahilia other trails began: to the east and north--east, towards mesopotamia and the great persian empire. to petra and to palmyra, where once solomon loved the queen of sheba. those were fatted days. but now the fleets plying the waters around the peninsula have grown hardier, their crews more skilful, their navigational instruments more accurate. the

hovered above the holy city, didn't i return and describe it exactly as it is, accurate down to the last detail? so that there could be no doubting the miracle, and still they went to lat. haven't i already done my best to make things simple for them? when you carried me up to the throne itself, and allah laid upon the faithful the great burden of forty prayers a day. on the return journey i met moses and he said, the burden is too heavy, go back and plead for less. four times i went back, four times moses said, still too many, go back again. but by the fourth time allah had reduced the duty to five prayers and i refused to return. i felt ashamed to beg any more. in his bounty he asks for five instead of forty, and still they love manat, they want uzza. what can i do? what shall i recite?

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have been the origins of the deepest, most profound initiations. chapter one; shining ones the hierarchy of heaven in comprehending the nature of the devils and demons that are traditionally the source of the black witchcraft power, it is necessary to consider and meditate upon the forms and names of those angelic mysteries from which they are understood v wilful or not v to have descended. from moses onwards kabalists, esotericists and occultists attributed angels governing the powers of the planets, the four seasons, the days of the week, the hours of the day, to places, plants and principles of every kind. they also expanded greatly upon their numbers and names. spells and incantations calling upon such forces were in abundance as late as the 13th century, as are recorded in the classi

nity. their chief is cama-el, he who sees god, who exemplifies the nature of the powers in that he may be considered as benign and malign, and yet gains the favour of god. as kemu-el, he acts as mediator between the prayers of israel and the hierarchs of the seventh heaven. as chamuel, he wrestled with jacob and appeared to jesus in the garden of gethsemane. it was also cama-el who was blasted by moses when he attempted to prevent moses from receiving the torah from god. he is said to command 144,000 angels of destruction, punishment, vengeance and death. cama-el is also identified in the goetia as a duke of hell. the third circle lowest triad the third triad of principalities is rooted in the first heaven and its border with the material dimension. they are thus the most like humans, and

cha-el translates as who is as god. along with gabriel he is one of the only two angels actually named in the old testament. it was he who vanquished satan from heaven in single combat. it is also he who will descend from heaven with the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand and will bind the beast for 1000 years (revelations: 20:1. according to jewish lore it is micha-el who appeared to moses in the midst of the burning bush. he appears again in the burial scene where he disputes with satan the possession of the old patriarch s corpse. in one account micha-el is said to have single handedly annihilated a hundred and eighty-five thousand men from the army of sennercherib, the assyrian king who threatened jerusalem in 701 b.c. in the war of the sons of light against the sons of dar

uri-el is the angel who on the day of judgement will break the monstrous bars framed of unyielding and unbroken adamant of the brazen gates of hades, and cast them down straightaway. in the prayer of joseph jacob wrestles with a dark angel usually identified as uri-el, and the two merge to become one entity. in the midrash aggada exodus uri-el manifests in the form of a fiery serpent and attacks moses for failing to uphold tradition in the circumcision of his son. uri-el was officially de-sainted in 745 a.d. when a church council, pope zachary, condemned both uri-el and ragu-el as demons in a kind of inquisition of the celestial beings. he was later reinstated. sari-el also known as suri-el, suriy-el, zerachi-el and sarqu-el, his name translates as god s command. according to enoch, sarie

is responsible for the fate of those angels who transgress the laws. with the self contradiction typical of all theologians he also lists him as one of the fallen angels, whilst in the wars of the sons of light against the sons of darkness his name appears on the shields of a unit of the forces of light. he is often identified as one of the angels of death, and as the angel who gave knowledge to moses. ragu-el friend of god, also called rasu-il, rufa-el, akrasi-el. according to enoch this is the angel who takes vengeance upon the world of the luminaries, i.e. who watches over and polices the behaviour of the angels, and punishes their transgressions. he also appears in the apocryphal revelation of john; then shall he send the angel raguel saying: go sound the trumpet for the angels of col

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ssed true knowledge, xian man does not know, nor does he understand the proper way to worship his mythological god. thus he continues to employ true xian creationism, violating inapplicable commandments supposedly mandated by his creation the false and imperceptible god. truly, genesis story of creation actually began when the first church, or man-made house of god was established (beginning with moses and the hebrew tradition in the thirteenth century bc; and jesus and xianity in the first century ad, thus ushering in the curse: the actual fall of man the wholesale loss of human integrity, freedom of thought and worship, and inherent strength; generations forever cursed by the xian castration of instinctual harmony thru tyranny and mandated blind faith -7- the following criticisms are bas

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angel of the elohim, that went before the camp of israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them and stood behind them. 20th verse: and it came between the camp of the egyptians and the camp of israel; and it was a cloud and darkness (to the first) but it gave light by night (to these; and the one came not near unto the other all the night. 21st verse: and moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night and made the sea dry land, and the waters divided. these three verses are now to be written at length one above the other, the first from right to left, and the second from left to right, and the third from right to left; and as they contain 72 letters, there will be 72 columns of thre

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

he ten commandments. the commandments provide ten rules that followers of both the jewish and christian faiths are told to follow. a role similar to that of jesus is taken by muhammad (c. 570 632) in islam. muhammad is considered the true prophet and messenger of god to whom the angel jabra il (gabriel) communicated god s will. baha u lla h (1817 1892) was the messenger for the baha faith, as was moses (c. thirteenth century bce) for judaism. even in natural religions, which grow out of human questions about the universe and the way it works rather than divine messages, the truths that are found and developed are considered universal and eternally present. these include philosophy- like religions such as buddhism, developed by the buddha (siddartha gautama [563 483 bce. in the faith-based

anging over time. it is therefore necessary that prophets and messengers from the one god appear from time to time to bring updated messages to humans. each messenger or prophet is merely a new representative of the one eternal religion. baha s see themselves within this cycle of continual change and evolution and recognize baha u lla h as one messenger among many that have come before, including moses, the buddha, jesus christ, and muhammad. according to the kitab-i-aqdas, another new messenger will reveal a better way to live a spiritual life, but this will not take place before a thousand years. this sense of continual transformation is a key element to the baha faith and one that is unique to the religion. spiritual growth and social conscience baha s believe that the purpose of human

n rituals. ancestor worship is based on the belief that the dead live on in some form of afterlife and are able to influence the lives of their still-living family members. the living family members exercise great respect for their ancestors and may ask them for favors. the santer an eleven commandments just as christianity and judaism follow the ten commandments delivered to the jewish people by moses (c. 1392 1272 bce, santeros follow the eleven commandments of a santer an altar may contain candles, flowers, and offerings of food. animal sacrifice, most commonly chickens, is an element of the religion. this practice it criticized by some, but is a protected religious right in the united states. daniel laine/corbis. 284 world religions: almanac indigenous religions olo du`mare, who handed

mply god s messenger or prophet. islam is a monotheistic religion, meaning that its followers believe in one supreme god. the god of islam is called allah, a name that comes from the arabic phrase al-ilah, meaning the one true god. core beliefs of the religion include belief in one god, allah, and in allah s messengers, the angels. muslims believe in allah s many prophets, which include muhammad, moses (c. 1392 c. 1272 bce, abraham (c. 2050 c. 1950 bce, jesus christ (c. 6 bce c. 30 ce, and others. islam also contains as its core beliefs a last day, when the world will end; allah s judgment of human affairs; and life after death. it is the world s second largest religion, with approximately one to 1.3 billion members. while islam is thought of as a predominantly middle eastern religion, the

h. this accounting is relayed in the muslim holy book, the qur an. in turn, the qur an mentions jesus christ as it acknowledges the validity of the messengers and faiths that came before it and notes their unity. this passage is from the creed of islam, chapter 2, verse 136. we believe in allah, and the revelation given to us and to abraham, isma il, isaac, jacob and the tribes, and that given to moses and jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their lord. we make no difference between one and another of them, and we bow to allah (in islam. world religions: almanac 305 islam to muslims that there is only one god and that muhammad is god s messenger. daily prayer, or salat, is crucial in the life of muslims. daily prayer follows a number of rituals and traditions. depending on what su

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the spring. it is thus written (psalm 111:10 "the beginning is wisdom, the fear of god, good intelligence to all who do them [his praise endures forever" you may think that it lacks something. it is therefore written "his praise endures forever" 7. rabbi amorai sat and expounded: what is the meaning of the verse (deuteronomy 33:23 "the filling is god's blessing, possessing the sea and the south" moses was saying "if you follow my decrees, you will inherit both this world and the next" the world to come is likened to the sea, as it is written (job 11:9 "it is wider than the sea" the present world is referred to as the south. it is thus written( joshua 15:19 [give me a blessing] for you have set me in the land of the south [therefore give me springs of water" the targum translates this "beh

e sickness (choleh) on your head, and diseases (cholim) on its head. 41. they also said: every dream (chalom) is in the cholem. every white precious stone is in the cholem. it is thus written [with regard to the high priest's breastplate (exodus 28:19"[and in the third row] a white stone (achlamah" 42. he said to them: come and hear the fine points regarding the vowel points found in the torah of moses. he sat and expounded: chirek hates evildoers and punishes them. its side includes jealousy, hatred and competition. it is thus written (psalm 37:12 "he gnashes (chorek) his teeth at them" do not read chorek (gnashes, but rochek (repels. repel (rachek) these traits from yourself, and repel yourself from evil. good will then certainly attach itself to you. 43. chirek. do not read chirik but k

nstruct you. and on the earth he showed you his great fire, and his words you heard from the fire. which [fire] was that? it was the great [fire that was on the earth] from where did the speech emanate? from this fire, as it is written, and his words you heard from the fire. 47. what is the meaning of the verse (deuteronomy 4:12, you saw no form, only a voice? the bahir 13 this was explained when moses said to israel (deuteronomy 4:15, you did not see an entire image. you saw an image, but not an entire image. what is this like? a king stands before his servants wrapped in a white robe. even though he is far away, they can still hear his voice. this is true even though they cannot see his throat when he speaks. in a similar manner, they saw an image, but not an entire image. it is therefor

ot obey my will. 114. what is the meaning of the word shevet [which has the connotation of both a tribe and a rod? it is something simple and not square. what is the reason? because it is impossible to have one square inside another square. a circle inside a square can move. a square inside a square cannot move. 115. what are the things that are circular? they are the vowel points in the torah of moses, for these are all round. they are to the letters like the soul, which lives in the body of man. it is impossible for [man] to come [into this world] unless [the soul] endures within him. it is impossible for him to speak anything, great or small, without it. in a similar manner, it is impossible to speak a word, great or small, without the vowel points. 116. every vowel point is round, and

and watered it separately. the bahir 34 134. rabbi rahumai said: glory (kavod) and heart (lev) both have the same [numerical value, namely 32. they are both one, but glory refers to its function on high, and heart refers to its function below. god s glory and the heart of heaven are therefore both identical. 135. rabbi yochanan said: what is the meaning of the verse (exodus 17:11, and it was when moses would raise his hands, israel would prevail, and when he would lower his hands, amalek would prevail? this teaches us that the whole world endures because of the lifting of hands. why? because the name of the power given to jacob is israel. abraham, isaac and jacob were each given a particular power. the counterpart of the attribute in which each one walked was given to him. abraham did deed

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tions which have sprung therefrom, with the doctrine of the sephiroth, the ideals of macroprosopus and microprosopus, and the doctrine of re-incarnation. the "sepher yetzirah" on the other hand, is mainly concerned with our universe and with the microcosm. the opinions of hebrew kabalistic rabbis and of modern mystics may be fitly introduced here. the following interesting quotation is from rabbi moses botarel, who wrote his famous commentary in 1409-"it was abraham our father--blessed be he--who wrote this book to condemn the doctrine of the sages of his time, who were incredulous of the supreme dogma of the unity. at least, this was the opinion of rabbi saadiah--blessed be he--as written in the first chapter of his book the philosopher's stone. these are his words: the sages of babylon a

bstance is the foundation of all, and all things bear his imprint and are symbols of his intelligence" hebrew tradition assigns the doctrines of the oldest portions of the "zohar" to a date antecedent to the building of the second temple, but rabbi simeon ben jochai, who lived in the reign of the emperor titus, a.d. 70-80, is considered to have been the first to commit these to writing, and rabbi moses de leon, of guadalaxara, in spain, who died in 1305, certainly reproduced and published the "zohar" ginsburg, speaking of the zoharic doctrines of the ain suph, says that they were unknown until the thirteenth century, but he does not deny the great antiquity of the "sepher yetzirah" in which it will be noticed the "ain suph aur" and "ain suph" are not mentioned.i suggest, however, that this

ing copies of the "sepher yetzirah" in hebrew, i have also examined, but only in a superficial manner- 1. a version by saadiah, ab. ben david, and three others, mantua, 1562, 4to. 2. a version with the commentary of rabbi abraham f. dior, amsterdam, 1642, 4to. 3. a version with preface by m. ben j. chagiz, amsterdam, 1713, 16mo.4. a version, constantinople, 1719, 8vo. 5" zolkiew, 1745, 4to. 6" by moses ben jacob, zozec, 1779, 4to. 7" grodno, 1806, 4to. 8" dyhernfurth, 1812, 8vo. 9" salonica, 1831, 8vo. 10. a ms. copy dated 1719, in the british museum. i add here the full titles of the three latin versions; they are all to be found in the british museum library "abrahami patriarchae liber jezirah sive formationis mundi, patribus quidem abrahami tempora praecedentibus revelatus, sed ab ipso

f the "sepher yetzirah" is found this scheme of kabalistic classification of knowledge emanating from the second sephira binah, understanding, and descending by stages through the angels, heavens, humanity, animal and vegetable and mineral kingdoms to hyle and the chaos. the kabalists said that one must enter and pass up through the gates to attain to the thirty-two paths of wisdom; and that even moses only passed through the forty-ninth gate, and never entered the fiftieth. see the oedipus aegyptiacus of athanasius kircher, vol. ii. p. 319. first order: elementary 1. chaos, hyle, the first matter. 2. formless, void, lifeless. 3. the abyss. 4. origin of the elements. 5. earth (no seed germs. 6. water. 7. air. 8. fire 9. differentiation of qualities. 10. mixture and combination. second orde

ith twelve. notes to the thirty-two paths of wisdom 1. the highest crown is kether, the first sephira, the first emanation from the ain suph aur, the limit-less light. 2. binah, or understanding, is the third sephira. 3. chokmah, wisdom, is the second sephira. 4. gedulah is a synonym of chesed, mercy, the fourth sephira. 5. metatron, the intelligence of the first sephira, and the reputed guide of moses. 6. this word is from chzch, a seer, seership. chazuth is a vision. 7. this word means "scintillating flame" the "thirty-two paths of wisdom" refer to the ten sephiroth and the twenty-two letters, each supplying a type of divine power and attributes. in my introduction to the kabalah will be found a diagram showing how the paths from eleven to thirty-two connect the several sephiroth, and ar

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

arrying the name of aberamentho, a name which also is given to jesus in one gnostic work, does not pertain to the jewish figure of seth. it will be dealt with in the second part of the paper. the so-called stele of jeou the hieroglyphist,9 however, must be discussed in the present part. the papyrus certainly shows jewish influence. in the osiris aretalogy at the beginning, the author claims to be moses, and the true name of the headless god, osoronnophris "osiris the beautiful being (eo!oron fri, is given as eiaba (i.e. jahwe [also below) and is said to have been "transmitted to the prophets of israel (pgm v.108ff. k. preisendanz originally argued that the text did not contain the name of seth. he read "arbathiao, reibetatheleberseth, ara. blatha c",10 or, in pgm v.118f, arb[a]yiav reibet

oints out (n. 57 in the typescript at our disposal) that in a coptic magical text "biblical seth" occurs in a list of names including, inter alia, adam, seth, noah, methusala (maqousa a; die kopischen zaubertexte der sammlung papyrus erzherzog rainer in wien, ed. v. stegemann, sb. heid. ak. d. wiss, phil.-hist. kl. 1933/4, 1 [heidelberg 1934] 70 xlv [108. lists of the biblical heroes from adam to moses play a great role in jewish christianity; see c. gieschen "the seven pillars of the world: ideal figures lists in the true prophet christology of the pseudo-clementine literature, journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha, forthcoming. 24 w.c. crum, catalogue of the coptic manuscripts in the british museum (london 1905) 147. seth in the magical texts 91 we have still to discuss doresse's r

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icians and sorcerers. hebrew, and greek, and roman writers referred to them as experts in the occult sciences, and as the possessors of powers which could, according to circumstances, be employed to do either good or harm to man. from the hebrews we receive, incidentally, it is true, considerable information about the powers of the egyptian magician. saint stephen boasts that the great legislator moses "was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians" and declares that he "was mighty in words and in deeds" 1 and there are numerous features in the life of this remarkable man which shew that he was acquainted with many of the practices of p. 5 egyptian magic. the phrase "mighty in words" probably means that, like the goddess isis, he was "strong of tongue" and uttered the words of power which

urning of the stick back into a writhing snake, 2 are feats which have been performed in the east from the most ancient period; and the power to control and direct the movements of such venomous reptiles was one of the things of which the egyptian was most proud, and in which he was most skilful, already in the time when the pyramids were being built. but this was by no means the only proof which moses gives that he was versed in the magic of the egyptians, for, like the sage aba-aner and king nectanebus, and all the other magicians of egypt from time immemorial, he and aaron possessed a wonderful rod 3 by means of which they worked their wonders. at the word of moses aaron lifted up his rod and smote the waters and they became blood; he stretched it out p. 6 over the waters, and frogs inn

a-aner and king nectanebus, and all the other magicians of egypt from time immemorial, he and aaron possessed a wonderful rod 3 by means of which they worked their wonders. at the word of moses aaron lifted up his rod and smote the waters and they became blood; he stretched it out p. 6 over the waters, and frogs innumerable appeared; when the dust was smitten by the rod it became lice; and so on. moses sprinkled ashes "toward heaven" and it became boils and blains upon man and beast; he stretched out his rod, and there was "hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous" and the "flax and the barley was smitten" he stretched out his rod and the locusts came, and after them the darkness. now moses did all these things, and brought about the death of the firstborn among the egyptians by

"flax and the barley was smitten" he stretched out his rod and the locusts came, and after them the darkness. now moses did all these things, and brought about the death of the firstborn among the egyptians by the command of his god, and by means of the words which he told him to speak. but although we are told by the hebrew writer that the egyptian magicians could not imitate all the miracles of moses, it is quite certain that every egyptian magician believed that he could perform things equally marvellous by merely uttering the name of one of his gods, or through the words of power which he had learned to recite; and there are many instances on record of egyptian magicians utterly destroying their enemies by the recital of a few words possessed of magical power, and, by the performance o

ly marvellous by merely uttering the name of one of his gods, or through the words of power which he had learned to recite; and there are many instances on record of egyptian magicians utterly destroying their enemies by the recital of a few words possessed of magical power, and, by the performance of some, apparently, simple ceremony. 1 but one great distinction must be made between the magic of moses and that of the egyptians among whom he lived; the former was wrought by the command of the god of the hebrews, but the latter by the gods of egypt at the command of man. p. 7 later on in the history of moses' dealings with the egyptians we find the account of how "he stretched out his hand over the sea, and the lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made th

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d to him "who art thou, and what calls thee? and what is thy business? for i hear many things about thee' and the demon answered "i, o king solomon, am called abezithibod. i am a descendant of the archangel. once as i sat in the first heaven, of which the name is ameleouth- i then am a fierce spirit and winged, and with a single wing, plotting against every spirit under heaven. i was present when moses went in before pharaoh, king of egypt, and i hardened his heart. i am he whom iannes and iambres invoked homing [1] with moses in egypt. i am he who fought against moses [2] with wonders with signs [1. o koyx menoi in the ms, a vox nihili. if we had the apocryph of iannes and iambres we might understand the reference. 2. 2 tim. iii. 8] 126. i said therefore to him "how wast thou found in the

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fe and the immortality of the soul (ibid, march-april 1960, pp. 6-7) m. oldfield howey tells us in the encircled serpent (david mackay co, philadelphia, pa, 192, p. 84, that in the symbolism of egypt the "serpent is constantly represented as surmounting a cross. the brazen serpent. was a palladium or talisman in [he form of a serpent coiled around the mystic tau, or t [also] the serpent set up by moses was originally the egyptian. sun-god, who was now known to his people as jehovah (lbid, p. 83) joseph von hammer, in the history of the assassins (eng. trans, 1835) explains the tau as the figure of the phallus (see also source 9, p. 791 "among the egyptians, the lotus was the symbol of osiris and isis. it was esteemed a sacred ornament by the priests (ibid, p. 477) the six-pointed star is t

erson secured the services of a french west indian portrait painter named eugene pierre du simitiere, who later did the head of george washington which was used on the 1791 coin.2 the all-seeing eye appeared on du simitiere's first sketch of the seal, as the eye of providence''an adoption of a very ancient symbol of the overseeing god" franklin's own choice for a design was an old illustration of moses crossing the red sea accompanied by a quotation attributed to oliver cromwell "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to god."3 nothing came of these first designs; the matter rested until 1782 when ben franklin secured william barton, a.m. a private citizen of philadelphia, as the second designer. gaillard hunt identified william barton as the son of reverend thomas barton, rector of st. james e

he all-seeing eye. mr. totten traced the history of the eye in the triangle back to ancient chaldea and its appearance as the solar eye, the eye of jove or jupiter, of phoebus or apollo, the eye of baal, and as the eye of providence. the eye of jove appeared on the front of jove's temple at peloponnessus. as the solar eye it was the symbol of the arabian god of. jethro, the black father-in-law of moses, and of the arabic motto "allah" or "i am that i am" all ancient temples of arabia were decorated with the eye, which had first appeared as the symbol of osiris, isis and horus of egypt.42 the eye represented the mystic symbol of the so-called egyptian "trinity" expressed in these words, often inscribed on the statues of isis "i am all that has been, that is, or shall be, and none among mort

greece and rome" cicero tells us that he was known as ob-el, from whence we derive the obelisk.62 the identity of hermes-mercury. anubis (brother to osiris) has already beeen mentioned. his emblem, the caduceus, was the talismanic serpent, originally entwined around a tau cross, which was also a phallus. the serpents represented the power of mercury as a sun-god. the caduceus was identified with moses' brazen serpent "in judah the image of jehovah took the form of a golden serpent, as in solomon's temple" its worship "was in fact the worship of the sun-god, osiris, under the name of jehovah" the targum, or chaldee paraphrast, referred to the brazen serpent as the 'word1."63 it must also be mentioned that the olive branch on the coat of arms. the emblem of peace. traces directly back to th

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new of his agreement with the egyptian priestly authorities when he put the core of greek wisdom into the form of a philosophical world-picture. it was said of pythagoras that he had traveled to egypt and india and was instructed by the wise men there. 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

is not of merely personal significance for someone to give expression to these forms; rather they are the eternal wisdom the life of the world. his view accords with the mysteryattitude toward the familiar myths. the mystai looked for the deeper reality behind the myths, and what they did in the case of the pagan mythology, philo does with the tale of origins contained in the books attributed to moses. the old testament narratives he treats as images of internal, psychic processes. take the creation of the world recounted in the bible. to read it as expressing things that happened in an external way is to grasp only one half of its meaning. it does indeed say: 156 christianity as mystical fact in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth. now the earth was formless and empty, da

an image for the path of the soul toward divinization. the soul, then, must undertake on the microcosmic level to follow in the footsteps of god; that is the only way of describing its mystery-striving after wisdom. it is the cosmic drama itself that is played out in every soul. the primal image expressed in the account of the creation finds its fulfillment in the inner life of the mystery-adept. moses wrote, not just to recount historical occurrences, but to provide images of the course that will lead the soul to god. philo s conception renders everything a spiritual reality within a person s own being. the human experience is a subjective echo of god s cosmic experience. god s word, the logos, becomes a reality within the soul. god brought the jews out of egypt and led them to the promis

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a keen understanding of astrology. but, its performance is said to be derived from a passage in the scriptures "the sign is made" writes zain "by thrusting the hand into the bosom and again drawing it out."9 the official masonic explanation for this sign a myth intended to divert the profane from the truth is that it refers to the fourth chapter of exodus in the holy bible "and the lord said unto moses, put now thine hand into thy bosom; and he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold his hand was leprous as snow" leprous, indeed, is the hand of the mason who vainly seeks to hide and coverup his fides oath of allegiance to jahbuhlun, his sacred god. but, believe me, there is no relationship of the mason to moses, a prophet of god who loyally worshipped the true i am, th

baphomet; about the green man; about pan, the horned witch god; and about crowley and his ordo templi orientis (o.t.o. since the days of alexander the great, the horned god has been worshipped by a significant portion of mankind. the holy bible records, for example, the worship of baal, the horned fire god. michaelangelo and some other artists, strangely, created sculptures blasphemously showing moses, the biblical prophet, with horns. all of these horned deities and images represent lust, because the horn is itself a phallic symbol in the occult world. of stars and goatees in recent times, communist revolutionaries adopted the star, also symbol of baphomet (see the star on the baphomet goat's forehead in this chapter, and some karl marx, che gueverra and others adopted the huge and strag

onqueror, alexander the great, attributed horns to him. this was thought to be emblematic of a person's divine power and spiritual acumen. coins bearing alexander's visage were struck picturing the greek military leader as a bull with horns and the lit torch in his head. 112 codex magic a strangely, many medieval artists, especially those clandestinely dabbling in the occult arts, often portrayed moses as a bearded human figure with horns (the herder dictionary of symbols, chiron publications, illinois) the devil has long been conceived in the popular imagination of the masses as a creature with horns, cloved feet and claws, and tail. smokey the bull? baphlesme! 113 this ad for nokia telephones appears harmless enough. but look closely at the subtle, horned image of the man's silver belt b

ation 11:8, declares that in the last days just prior to christ's return, one of the most wicked places on earth will be jerusalem and israel. in revelation god calls jerusalem "sodom and egypt" the question is, why? why is jerusalem and the nation of israel spiritually "sodom and egypt" i believe it is because of the jewish religion, a religion diametrically opposed to the old testament faith of moses, isaac, jacob, and the prophets. from the days of the jews' captivity in babylon, to today, the religion of the jews has increasingly grown more dark and more wicked. jesus openly castigated the jewish religionists; he called them "blind guides "fools, hypocrites" he said "ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer..ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when h

reality, these traditions are satanic in origin. i refer especially to the jewish talmud, the legalistic law traditions of 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 ant

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experience. let us examine another way in which the black lodge goes about its work. the black lodge creates false initiatic movements or they stimulate faith in false masters. at the present time, all organized religions of the old aeon fall into the category of demonic influence. as it is written, liber 418, 6th aethyr..and this is the mystery of the great prophets that have come unto mankind, moses, and buddha, and lao tan, and krishna, and jesus, and osiris, and mohammed; for all these attain unto the grade of magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of thoth. but, being guardians of the truth, they have taught nothing but falsehood, except unto such as understood (that is, except unto such as had the potential of becoming masters of the temple; for the truth may not pass t

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preserved apart from the body. the death and resurrection of christ has other symbolism, and the teachings belong to a higher grade. let none therefore object that his body was laid in the tomb entire (the body of osiris was first laid in the chest or pastos whole. the division was into 14 parts, 1 plus 4= 5, the five wounds) for even as hwhy must be known before hwchy can be comprehended, and as moses must precede christ, so must the mysteries of osiris first be known. now, the guardian of the hall and of the neophytes against the twpylq (whose rtk is laymwat, the dual or two-headed one, the demons of corruption and 3 disintegration) is the hiereus or horus, and to the children of horus, who partake of his symbolism are the viscera committed, to guard them against the demons of disintegra

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s of neural transmitters, neural networks, and brain chemistry. perhaps the feeling of transcendence that mystics describe could be the result of decreased activity in the brain s parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. perhaps the human brain is wired for mystical experiences and the flash of wisdom that illuminated the buddha, the voices that mohammed and moses heard in the wilderness, and the dialogues that jesus had with the father were the result of brain chemistry and may someday be completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind s fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions fear. early humans faced the constant danger of being attack

times married their sisters. polygamy, the marriage of one man and several women or one woman and several men, is prohibited in modern civilization, but there are still religious groups in nearly every nation who justify plural marriages as being ordained by the deity they worship. adultery, an act of infidelity on the part of a married individual, is one of the most universal taboos. the code of moses condemned both parties involved in the act to be stoned to death. hindu religious doctrines demand the death, mutilation, or humiliation of both men and women, depending upon the caste of the guilty parties. taboos can change within a society over time. many acts that were once considered forbidden have developed into an acceptable social activity. while some of the old customs and taboos su

that these sacred texts contain all the accumulated wisdom of ancient egypt, going back in an unbroken tradition to the very earliest time. as the hermetic texts continued to influence the growth of european alchemy, astrology, and magic, the author of the books was said to have been adam s grandson, who built the great pyramids of egypt; or an egyptian magician who lived three generations after moses; or a magus from babylonia who instructed pythagoras. the hermetic text decrees against transmigration, the belief that the souls of humans may enter into animals: divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. m delving deeper gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline house, 1993. orphic mysteries orpheus may have been an actual historic figure, a man ca

ction of the individual souls through different lives. the zohar (hebrew for splendor, the main work of the kabbalah, describes the esoteric reality that lies behind everyday experience, and insists that the real meaning of the torah lies in its mystical secrets. although tradition declares rabbi simeon ben jochai (c. 80 c.e) as its author, later scholarship acknowledges the contribution of rabbi moses de leon (1240 1305) and other hebrew scholars in the thirteenth century. the zohar states that since the human soul is rooted in the divine, the redemption of the world will be achieved when each individual has undergone the process of the transmigration of souls and completes his or her task of unification. because humans cannot know the most high s plans for each individual, they cannot kn

nt greek, and his native tongue, portuguese. as an automatic-writing medium, he produced lengthy and erudite written dissertations in 28 languages, in a speed impossible to achieve under normal writing conditions. while entranced, it is said that mirabelli wrote treatises in the style of lombroso, kepler, voltaire, and galileo. these works included an essay on evil written in hebrew and signed by moses, a tract on the instability of empires by alexander the great, and an essay on the mysterious things between heaven and earth by shakespeare. although unable to verify such prestigious authorship, 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 118 mediums and mystics at the cesar lombroso academy of psychic studies in san paul, brazil, carlos mirabe

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s of neural transmitters, neural networks, and brain chemistry. perhaps the feeling of transcendence that mystics describe could be the result of decreased activity in the brain s parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. perhaps the human brain is wired for mystical experiences and the flash of wisdom that illuminated the buddha, the voices that mohammed and moses heard in the wilderness, and the dialogues that jesus had with the father were the result of brain chemistry and may someday be completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind s fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions fear. early humans faced the constant danger of being attack

times married their sisters. polygamy, the marriage of one man and several women or one woman and several men, is prohibited in modern civilization, but there are still religious groups in nearly every nation who justify plural marriages as being ordained by the deity they worship. adultery, an act of infidelity on the part of a married individual, is one of the most universal taboos. the code of moses condemned both parties involved in the act to be stoned to death. hindu religious doctrines demand the death, mutilation, or humiliation of both men and women, depending upon the caste of the guilty parties. taboos can change within a society over time. many acts that were once considered forbidden have developed into an acceptable social activity. while some of the old customs and taboos su

hree feet long and a wingspan of 10 to 15 feet. in october 2002, alaskan villagers in togiak and manokotak reported seeing a huge bird larger than anything they had seen before. pilot john bouker, owner of bristol bay air service, said that while flying to manokotak he and his passengers sighted a large raptorlike bird with a wingspan that matched the length of his cessna 207, about 14 feet. when moses coupchiak, a heavy equipment operator from togiak, spotted the monster bird flying toward him, he said that he thought it was a small airplane until it banked to the left and flew away. biologists in the region said that they believed the witnesses sighted a bird known as the steller s sea eagle, a species native to northeast asia, that occasionally shows up on the aleutian islands and on ko

dern culture is replete with accounts of kings, caliphs, emperors, and patriarchs who had numerous wives. the great solomon, the prototype for the wise ruler and credited with writing some of the world s greatest love poetry, is said to have had 700 wives and 300 concubines. adultery, an act of infidelity on the part of a married individual, is one of the most universal of the taboos. the code of moses condemned both parties involved in the act to be stoned to death. the hindu religious doctrines order both man and woman, humiliated, mutilated or killed, depending upon their caste. in ancient egypt, the male offender was castrated, and the woman s nose was cut off. in ancient greece, the guilty pair might be killed by being dragged behind horses or starved. as the greek civilization mature

own word for a vehicle of transporation chariot. those ufo researchers who have conducted a careful analysis of biblical texts have found three types of cosmic conveyances employed as vehicles of transportation for celestial beings: 1. the wheel, or disc-shaped object described by ezekiel; 2. the chariot of fire mentioned in the second book of kings; 3. the cloudy chariot found in the writings of moses, daniel, david, matthew, paul, and john. in ii kings 2:11 12, 6:17; psalms 68:17; and habakkuk 3:8, the old testament writers describe cosmic craft identified as a chariot of fire powered by engines called horses of fire with charioteers (pilots. the chariot s liftoff is described as a whirlwind. in ii kings is written: and it came to pass, when the lord would take up elijah into heaven by a

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of neural transmitters, neural networks, and brain chemistry. perhaps the feeling of transcendence that mystics describe could be the result of decreased activity in the brain fs parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. perhaps the human brain is wired for mystical experiences and the flash of wisdom that illuminated the buddha, the voices that mohammed and moses heard in the wilderness, and the dialogues that jesus had with the father were the result of brain chemistry and may someday be completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind fs fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions.fear. early humans faced the constant danger of being attac

times married their sisters. polygamy, the marriage of one man and several women or one woman and several men, is prohibited in modern civilization, but there are still religious groups in nearly every nation who justify plural marriages as being ordained by the deity they worship. adultery, an act of infidelity on the part of a married individual, is one of the most universal taboos. the code of moses condemned both parties involved in the act to be stoned to death. hindu religious doctrines demand the death, mutilation, or humiliation of both men and women, depending upon the caste of the guilty parties. taboos can change within a society over time. many acts that were once considered forbidden have developed into an acceptable social activity. while some of the old customs and taboos su

trega: an introduction. h [online] http//www.monmouth.com/ equinoxbook/strega.html. steiger, brad. revelation: the divine fire. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1973. stregeria: old religion or new? ple were equipped with horns, as was the altar at the shrine of the ark of the covenant in jerusalem before solomon. most curious of all, however, is michaelangelo fs (1475.1564) famous statue of moses (14th.13th century b.c.e, which depicts him with horns, thereby causing his head and face to bear a remarkable resemblance to cerrnunos, as the celts named the horned god. because of the importance of human and animal fertility, the horned god was soon joined by a goddess, whose purpose it was to ensure the success of all reproductive activities. she was also the goddess who oversaw the birt

. it is interesting to note that the greek school of neo-pythagorean philosophers also understood numbers and letters to be divine things endowed with supernatural powers. the kabbalah began to emerge as a text of power and influence in spain and southern france in the thirteenth century. many of its teachers proclaimed that the kabbalah (hebrew for greceived tradition h) had been given by god to moses (14th.13th century b.c.e) on mt. sinai along with the torah, and generations of magi, alchemists, and magicians believed this claim to be true and revered the ancient texts as a legacy of the creator to humankind, the apex of his creation. contemporary scholarship suggests that rather than a divinely authored text, the kabbalah was a product of the earlier mystical tradition of the maaseh be

o attain a vision of the divine throne of god and to become transformed from human to angel. combined with the maaseh merkavah and the maaseh bereshit to form the bible of the kabbalists was the zohar (hebrew for gsplendor h, which was ascribed to the followers of simeon bar yochai, who was said to have recorded the mystical teachings of elijah during the years the prophet spent hiding in a cave. moses de leon who claimed to possess a copy of the ancient manuscript, published the zohar in the thirteenth century. after de leon fs death, however, his wife admitted that he had attributed his own writings to simeon bar yochai in order to assure sales to those interested in such ancient magical texts. modern scholars concede that while the zohar splendidly depicts the spiritual reality that lie

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as if it were a secret sanctuary, and said to men unworthy of her "i am virgin, 19 but i will to become mother, and my son will teach you to love me" o eve! salutation and adoration in thy fall! o mary! blessings and adoration in thy sufferings and in thy glory! crucified and holy one who didst survive thy god that thou mightst bury thy son, be thou for us the final word of the divine revelation! moses called god "lord; jesus called him "my father" and we, thinking of thee, may say to providence "you are our mother" children of woman, let us forgive fallen woman! children of woman, let us adore regenerate woman! children of woman, who have slept upon her breast, been cradled in her arms, and consoled by her caresses, let us love her, and let us love each other! iii the ternary the ternary

s of the father. was not the christ excommunicated and crucified by the synagogue? was not savonarola burned by the order of the sovereign pontiff of the christian religion? are not the pharisees to-day just what they were in the time of caiaphas? if any one speaks to them in the name of intelligence and love, will they listen? in rescuing the children of liberty from the tyranny of the pharaohs, moses inaugurated the reign of the father. in breaking the insupportable yoke of mosaic pharisaism, jesus welcomed all men to the brotherhood of the only son of god. when the last ideals fall, when the last material chains of conscience break, when the last of them that killed the 22 prophets and the last of them that stifled the word are confounded, then will be the reign of the holy ghost. then

at you should stone them who humiliate you and disturb you, in speaking to you of your rights. o christ! the authorities condemn thee, thy disciples deny thee, the people curses thee, and demands thy murder; only thy mother weeps for thee, even god abandons thee "eli! eli! lama sabachthani" vii the septenary the septenary is the great biblical number. it is the key of the creation in the books of moses and the symbol of all religion. moses left five books, and the law is complete in two testaments. the bible is not a history, it is a collection of poems, a book of allegories and images. adam and eve are only the primitive types of humanity; the tempter serpent is time which tests; the tree of knowledge is 'right; the expiation by toil is duty. cain and abel represent the flesh and the spir

e sanctuary should surround itself with sacrifices and with terror. the servitude of the children of jacob paves the way for their deliverance: for they have an idea, and one does not enchain an idea; they have a religion, and one does not 34 violate a religion; they are, in fine, a people, and one does not enchain a real people. persecution stirs up avengers; the idea incarnates itself in a man; moses springs up; pharaoh falls; and the column of smoke and flame, which goes before a freed people, advances majestically into the desert. christ is priest and king by intelligence and by love. he has received the holy unction, the unction of genius, faith and virtue, which is force. he comes when the priesthood is worn out, when the old symbols have no more virtue, when the beacon of intelligen

guardians of the tombs of your fathers? your fathers are not here, they are risen: for the god of abraham, of isaac, and of jacob, is not the god of the dead! why do you always impress upon your offspring the bloody sigil of the knife? god no longer wishes to separate you from other men; be our brethren, and eat with us the consecrated bread of peace on altars that blood stains never. the law of moses is accomplished: read your books and understand that you have been a blind and hard-hearted race, even as all your prophets said to you. you have also been a courageous race, a race that persevered in strife. children of israel, become the children of god: understand and love! god has wiped from your forehead the brand of cain, and the peoples seeing you pass will no longer say "there go the

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ds to be spoken before each door is passed and each palace entered. three classical texts formulate the basic structure of traditional kabbalah, being; the sefer-ha-zohar; book of splendour- first printed 1558-60 and 1559-60 the sefer yetzirah; book of formation- first printed in mantua 1562 the sefer-ha-bahir; book of light- first printed in amsterdam 1651 the zohar was written around 1280-86 by moses b. shem tov de leon in guadalajara, north-east of madrid, spain, where there was a lot of kabbalistic activity at this time. many of the later kabbalistic schools are formed about these books, finding in them interpretation and meanings revealing the work of god and creation. the school formed at safed in the sixteenth century produced many of the leading thinkers of kabbalah, particularly r

presents as a glyph in chockmah the two proceeding stages of 1 (kether) and 0 (the ain. further, it shows chockmah as a source of the ten gates, and as a singularity in itself (1+0=1, which refers to the formula of 2=1, rather than that of 2=0 which kether represents. a final note can be made that the "grey hermit" of the tarot can be associated with chockmah as the personification of "wisdom" or moses, who spoke with god directly, and that card has the yod attributed to it. the link will be further looked at in the chapter on chesed. crowley also tells of this in his fairy tale "the wake world, where he says that the hermit has "belonged to the first house from the very beginning. chkmh totals to 73, the value of mbvkh, meaning "chaos, and demonstrates the stage of chockmah in the cosmoge

mercury. if he replied with a number which was later discovered to be that of the word "swiftness, his other responses would be considered equally appropriate. the theory is basically that the false spirits will not know the gematria appropriate to the working as they are not consistent themselves with the area being worked. there are many forms of gematria- one list gives seventy-two forms, and moses corovero listed nine major systems. the most basic is obviously taking the value of the letters and adding them up, then discovering what other words total to the same value. for this purpose, many occultists keep and maintain a "sepher sephiroth" or 'book of numbers, which functions as a numerological dictionary. the main numbers used by crowley are to be found in many of his works, the mos

kabbalists, such as abraham ibn ezra, followed on from the neoplatonic school of plotinus in utilising a threefold division of the functions of the psyche. these were; nefesh (npsh; breath, spirit, soul, person, character in drama, tombstone) ru'ah (rvch; wind, spirit, ghost, disposition) neshamah (nshmh; breath, soul, life, living creature) this trinity, as developed by such kabbalists as rabbi moses korduero and rabbi yitzchaq loria, is usually taken to represent; nefesh: animal vitality ru'ah: self-awareness neshamah: transcendent awareness eliphas levi summarises these elements as the passions, the reason, and the higher aspirations, and puts it that "the body is the veil of the nephesch, the nephesch is the veil of ruach, ruach is the veil of the shroud of neschemah" a further develo

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rnal thought, for the greatest glory of the eternal will and for the greatest glory of the eternal action, by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator lights the charcoal in the censer, or in the cassolette, from the flame of the central luminary and says: i purify thee fire and i bless thee. i sanctify thee in the name of the eternal, in the name of him who created thee and who appeared to his servant moses in the form of the burning bush, may thou become, as then, an altar of perfumes of the holy temple of jerusalem and carry the incense, which is due to his glory and goodness, up to the throne of god himself. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator waits for a short moment and then resumes: holy ghost, descend! surround the fire which has been consecrated to thee to become thy radiant throne do

nts, the places where thy creatures live or take shelter, and to spare thy creatures themselves from the ravages of tempests, whirlwinds and hurricanes. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator meditates for a moment and then prays that the whole nature be spared from the ravages of fire, but especially the works of man: o almighty and eternal god, thou who deigned to manifest thyself to thy servant moses under the form of a burning bush and who made thy holy ghost descend upon the apostles and disciples under the form of fire of pentecost, o lord of mercy, we beseech thy immense goodness and thy inexhaustible mercy, to spare by the power of thy angels and the merits of thy saints the places where thy creatures live or take shelter as well as the creatures themselves, from the flames of the 2

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as well. refer to the diagram of the pentagram and its enclosing pentagon (see figure 12, p. 189. the pentagon is a figure that is implied, if not actually traced, when drawing a pentagram. in length every line of the pentagon is composed of thrteen units. the number thirteen is associated with a multitude of occult references: twelve spheres are needed to surround a central (thirteenth) sphere; moses and the twelve tribes of israel; jesus and the twelve apostles; the sun and the twelve signs of the zodiac. in addition, many important qabalistic words have the numerical value of thrteen, including achad (yilk "unity" and ahavah( 7 1 7 k "love" other words tied to this number include gahah (ti "healing" or "health; ziv (lt "glory; and hegeh (717 "to separate" or "to imagine" the thrteenth

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the creator, but about how he appears to us, how he wants to be felt. hence, the study of kabbalah must be correctly aimed; the thought must be focused on studying the inner attributes that we still cannot see in us. all the world, partzufim, sefirot, names, everything the kabbalah speaks of exists in us and will be revealed in us, depending on the degree of our correction. we will find our inner moses and aaron, king david and the angels, the evil, the righteous and the 7 of 273 degrees of attainment called jerusalem, the temple and more. every word in the torah speaks of our own forces and the levels of our sensation of the creator. that is the only thing that the torah discusses. that is also the only thing we speak of in our daily lives, because we talk about our feelings. all we feel

ral power that works on us in that state, the power of our egoistic nature, doesn t allow us to advance anywhere except to care for ourselves. this is called the state of pharaoh. the egoism doesn t let us feel the sublime and perfect state. it is the egoism, man s inner and vicious force called pharaoh that the torah speaks of at length, whereas the force that makes one exit that state is called moses. pharaoh, moses and everything that is written about the exodus describe spiritual states and emotions. our current state is the lowest possible. it is a state of absolute slumber, unconsciousness. we have no sensation whatsoever of who or where we are. it is even 20 of 273 a lower state than this world. it is so low that we cannot feel any spirituality, not even as good or bad. the torah is

ent state and with our egoistic substance of this world. there is a law for the spiritual nature that states that, every spiritual root must touch a corporeal branch. this means that every spiritual origin, spiritual 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

ld and the creator. that is how it was done before and that is what kabbalists write about. there is no other revelation of the creator to man. a person can feel the spiritual world and the creator only by changing himself. that is what he can write about and convey to others. the first man wrote about his attainments, abraham the patriarch followed in his footsteps, which in turn was followed by moses, who named his attainments of the creator and creation torah. the kabbalists that followed wrote their feelings and attainments in additional books the mishnah, the talmud and so on. every kabbalist wrote about his research of our world and the way to enter the spiritual world. we call these books holy books, or in general we call them torah, from the hebrew word ohr (light) and hora a (inst

should sometimes follow the right line (bestowal, masculine part) and other times they should follow the left line (reception, feminine part. all the names in the torah are names of spiritual attainments in the spiritual ladder. but in order to attain a certain name, you must play both the masculine and the feminine parts, meaning the right and left lines. for example: in the degrees of pharaoh, moses, israel, and a gentile, there is both a feminine and a masculine part. but each name can only be attained once and in a certain degree. man and woman are a union of between zeir anpin and malchut of the world of atzilut. its essence and degree create different names and a higher spiritual degree. the male and female states are set in each of the 125 degrees. if that is the case, then how sho

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nds, no man (except god alone) can make it common, nor any unworthy person is able to bereave us of it. but we shall help with secret aid this so good a cause, as god shal permit or hinder us: for our god is not blinde, as the heathens fortuna, but is the churches ornament, and the honor of the temple. our philosophy also is not a new invention, but as adam after his fall hath received it, and as moses and solomon used it: also she ought not much to be doubted of, or contradicted by other opinions, or meanings; but seeing the truth is peaceable, brief, and always like herself in all things, and especially accorded by with jesus in omni parte and all members. and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image; it shall not be said, this is true according to philosophy, but true

eeing the truth is peaceable, brief, and always like herself in all things, and especially accorded by with jesus in omni parte and all members. and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image; it shall not be said, this is true according to philosophy, but true according to theologie; and wherein plato, aristotle, pythagoras and others did hit the mark, and wherein enoch, abraham, moses, solomon did excel; but especially wherewith that wonderful book the bible agreeth. all that same concurreth together, and make a sphere or globe, whose total parts are equidistant from the center, as hereof more at large and more plain shal be spoken of in christianly conference. but now concerning (and chiefly in this our age) the ungodly and accursed gold-making, which hath gotten so much

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me deity; the external visible matter world of evil and darkness, and the internal spiritual higher world of goodness and light, beneficent and malevolent as the ancient gods of babylonia. the unique athanor of philosophic and moral alchemy was the transmutation of darkness into light. gquand l fhomme grandit dieu s feleve h. it was but a reconstruction of the same idea as held in exodus, xxxiii, moses was unable to look at god face to face; it was also the same idea as held by charles darwin. the theory of evolution. the growth of the protoplast into man, of evil into good. khephra, god of the morning emerging from the black thunders of night. above us flames the zodiac, the sign of the balance lies between virgo and scorpio, the eagle is the emblem of good, the scorpion of evil, the eagl

follow. others from a similar point of vantage attack it as being pure autohypnosis and nothing else. but curious to say. if such be the case why is it that the greatest sages of all times have been able to attract within their focus so many hundreds of millions of rational beings? they themselves being only irrational and pathological mystagogues. if such men as krishna, mahomet, st. augustine, moses, orpheus, pythagoras, buddha, plato, jesus, and a host of equal and lesser names, owed their power to self-hypnosis, then indeed self-hypnosis is the key which in this world will unlock the fast closed corridor of its mysteries. crowley strongly attacks this kitchen-knavery: you weary me with proof enough that all this meditation stuff is self-hypnosis. be it so! do you suppose i did not kno

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ostles and disciples. how this mystic christianity had supposedly passed on to the templars was recounted in the order s legend: file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (4 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:01:22 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. up to the year 1118 the mysteries and the hierarchic order of the initiation of egypt, transmitted to the jews by moses, then to the christians by jesus christ, were preserved by the successors of st. john. these mysteries and initiations. were a sacred trust. preserved from all adulteration. these gnostic christians, appreciating the courage and piety of the templar knights. held it their duty to trust to hands so pure the knowledge acquired over so many centuries. hugues de payens (the templar grand master)

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11. for both a brief outline of tantrism and some details of kellner s possible indebtedness to the american occultist p. b. randolph see my sexuality, magic and perversion (london, spearman; new jersey, citadel press, 1972. file//c /documents%20as/ appearing of our lord jesus christ, to whom with the holy ghost, be all praise and thanksgiving. amen. old testament page 1 genesis the first book of moses, called genesis 1:1 in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth. 1:2 and the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. and the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters. 1:3 and god said, let there be light: and there was light. 1:4 and god saw the light, that [it was] good: and god divided the light from the darkness. 1:5 and god called

and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware genesis page 30 to abraham, to isaac, and to jacob. 50:25 and joseph took an oath of the children of israel, saying, god will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 50:26 so joseph died [being] an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in egypt. page 31 exodus the second book of moses, called exodus 1:1 now these [are] the names of the children of israel, which came into egypt; every man and his household came with jacob. 1:2 reuben, simeon, levi, and judah, 1:3 issachar, zebulun, and benjamin, 1:4 dan, and naphtali, gad, and asher. 1:5 and all the souls that came out of the loins of jacob were seventy souls: for joseph was in egypt [already] 1:6 and joseph died, and all

nurse the child for thee? 2:8 and pharaoh s daughter said to her, go. and the maid went and called the child s mother. 2:9 and pharaoh s daughter said unto her, take this child away, and nurse it for me, and i will give [thee] thy wages. and the woman took the child, and nursed it. 2:10 and the child grew, and she brought him unto pharaoh s daughter, and he became her son. and she called his name moses: and she said, because i drew him out of the water. 2:11 and it came to pass in those days, when moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an egyptian smiting an hebrew, one of his brethren. 2:12 and he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no man, he slew the egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 2:13 and when he wen

this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no man, he slew the egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 2:13 and when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 2:14 and he said, who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the egyptian? and moses feared, and said, surely this thing is known. 2:15 now when pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay moses. but moses fled from the face of pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of midian: and he sat down by a well. 2:16 now the priest of midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew [water] and filled the troughs to water their father s flock. 2:17 and the shepherds came and drove them awa

eared, and said, surely this thing is known. 2:15 now when pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay moses. but moses fled from the face of pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of midian: and he sat down by a well. 2:16 now the priest of midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew [water] and filled the troughs to water their father s flock. 2:17 and the shepherds came and drove them away: but moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 2:18 and when they came to reuel their father, he said, how [is it that] ye are come so soon to day? 2:19 and they said, an egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew [water] enough for us, and watered the flock. 2:20 and he said unto his daughters, and where [is] he? why [is] it [that] ye have left the man? call h

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garderian archives, a thought occurred to me" you know" i suggested "if you ever, in all this stuff, happen across a copy of the book of shadows in the handwriting of aleister crowley, it would be of considerable historical value" i understated the case. it would be like finding the book of mormon in joseph smith's hand, or finding the original ten commandments written not by god himself, but by moses, pure and a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 16 simple (better still, eleven commandments, with a margin note "first draft) i didn't really expect anything to come of it, and in the months ahead, it didn't. in the meantime, i had managed to acquire the interesting document i first mistook for gerald gardner's (long acknowledged) initiation certificate into c

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

are also to be referred all those who are noted in the two tables of the law; and are set forth with their evil deeds. 28 the subdivisions and species of both kindes of magick, we will note in the tomes following. in this place it shall suffice, that we distinguish the sciences, which is good, and which is evil: whereas man sought to obtain them both at first, to his own ruine and destruction, as moses and hermes do demonstrate. aphorism 42. secondly, we are to know, that a magitian is a person predestinated to this work from his mothers wombe; neither let him assume any such great things to himself, unless he be called divinely by grace hereunto, for some good end; to a bad end is, that the scripture might be fulfilled, it must be that offences will come; but wo be to that man through who

had slain his own father, and the father of his country. aphorism 48. all magick is a revelation of spirits of that kinde, of which sort the magick is; so that the nine muses are called, in hesiod, the ninth magick, as he manifestly testifies of himself in theogony. in homer, the genius of ulysses in psigiogagia. hermes, the spirits of the more sublime parts of the minde. god revealed himself to moses in the bush. the three wise men who came to seek christ at jerusalem, the angel of the lord was their leader. the angels of the lord directed daniel. therefore there is nothing whereof any one may glory; for it is not unto him that willeth, nor unto him that runneth; but to whom god will have mercy, or of some other spiritual fate. from 31 hence springeth all magick, and thither again it wil

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ined to great britain, but prevails in most parts of christendom, as the ancient acceptation of it did formerly in most parts of the world, even among that people from whose religion christianity is derived; for it is a common mode of expression in the old testament, to say that the horns of any one shall be exalted, in order to signify that he shall be raised into power or pre-eminence; and when moses descended from the mount with the spirit of god still upon him, his head appeared horned.2 to the head of the bull was sometimes joined the organ of generation, which represented not only the strength of the creator, 1 lib. i. c. 12. 2 exod. c. xxxiv. v. 35, ed. vulgat. other translators understand the expression metaphorically, and suppose it to mean radiated, or luminous. of priapus 23 but

sat. i. c. 22. of priapus 37 their pronunciation and orthography which took place after the emigration of the latian and etruscan colonies. the chorus in the ajax of sophocles address pan by the title of aliplagktoj,1 probably because he was worshipped on the shores of the sea; water being reckoned the best and most prolific of the subordinate elements,2 upon which the spirit of god, according to moses, or the plastic nature, according to the platonics, operating, produced life and motion on earth. hence the ocean is said by homer to be the source of all things;3 and hence the use of water in baptism, which was to regenerate, and, in a manner, new create the person baptised; for the soul, supposed by many of the primitive christians to be naturally mortal, was then supposed to become immor

son under the form of a calf. this seems to be the case with the hindoos, as well as with the egyptians; wherefore kandarp may be very properly placed among the cattle. by following this analogy, we may come to the true meaning of a much-celebrated object of devotion, recorded by another ancient writer, of a more venerable character. when the israelites grew clamorous on account of the absence of moses, and called upon aaron to make them a god to go before them, he set up a golden calf; to which the people sacrificed and feasted, and then rose up (as the translator says) to play; but in the original the term is more specific, and means, in its plain direct sense, that particular sort of play which requires the concurrence of both sexes,2 and which was therefore a very proper conclusion of

the fine arts, like that of the dutch (who are the phoenicians of modern history, never went beyond a strict imitation of nature; which, compared to the more elevated graces of ideal composition, is like a newspaper narrative compared with one of homer s battles. a figure of hercules, therefore, executed by a phoenician artist, if compared to one by phidias or lysippus, would be like a picture of moses or david, painted by teniers, or gerard dow, compared to one of the same, painted by raphael or annibal caracci. this is exactly the difference between the figures on the medal now under consideration, and those on the coins of gelo or alexander. of all the personages of the ancient mythology, hercules is perhaps the most difficult to explain; for physical allegory and fabulous history are s

s and inspire them with those particular sentiments. st. paul adopted the still more comfortable doctrine of grace, which served full as well to emancipate the consciences of the faithful from the shackles of practical morality. the familiar d mons, or divine emanations, were supposed to reside in the blood; which was thought to contain the principles of vital heat, and was therefore forbidden by moses.3 homer, who seems to have collected little fragments of the ancient theology, and introduced them here and there, amidst the wild profusion of his poetical fables, represents the shades of the deceased as void of perception, until they had tasted of the blood of the victims offered 1 pindar. pyth. v. ver. 164. sophocl. trachin. ver. 922. hor. lib. ii. epist. ii. ver. 187. 2 ek qewn machanai

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nder disgrace, and they who seek after it are vulgarly esteemed sorcer- ers; wherefore the brethren thought it not fit to style themselves magicians (maier, laws of the fraternity of the rosie crosse [themis aureu, 16181 [1656, philosophical research society, los angeles, 1976, pages 91 -2. the church derived much of its authority from supernatural events. these were always termed "miracles" when moses cast down his rod before pharaoh and turned it into a serpent, it was a miracle; but when the egyptian priest also changed a staff to a snake it was nothing but foul sorcery. a monk to whom these miracles fre- quently happened was sure to be called a saint. a layman who produced the exact same events would be burned at the stake. hence a tongue-in-cheek definition of magic might be "miracles

worship. the black stone, which is roughly the size of a cabbage, is fixed in the southeast, or black, corner several feet above the level of the ground, and held together by a silver setting (it was cracked by fire in the siege of 683. the ancient hebrews also recognized stone, the cube, and especially cubic stones as the most suitable receptacle of spirit. the fragments of the stone tablets of moses, even though the writing that had been upon them could no longer be read, were preserved in the ark of the covenant because those stones had been touched by god, and still preserved the occult virtue of that contact. the inner chamber in the temple of solomon that housed the ark was cubic (see 1 kings 6:20, and the brass altar of solomon was square (2 chronicles 4:l. even the christian churc

the authority of mathers without question, have carried on this mistake. thus, it has descended through the western occult tradition in an unbroken chain for five centuries. it is evident that the correct sequence of the banners was known to at least some of the jewish kabbalists who lived around the time of agrippa. it occurs, minus the numerical proof given above, in the work pardes rimmonim by moses ben jacob cordevero, which was written in 1548. although agrippa composed his occult phi- losophy some forty years earlier (it was written in 1509-lo, it is quite probable that agrippa and cordevero drew on the same tradition for their ordering of the banners, but that agrippa copied a faulty list, and did not understand the banners well enough to correct it. on the other hand, agrippa may h

prometheus, who gave the secret of fire to humanity, is also symbolic of the magus. woden, who snatched the runes of power from the roots of the cosmic tree yggdrasill and bequeathed them as a gift to his people, is the magus in yet another mythic guise. all of the great teachers of wisdom, such as. thoth of egypt, zoroaster of persia, abaris of scythia, daedalus of crete, pythago- ras of samos, moses of israel, apollonius of tyana, jesus of nazareth, plotinus of lycopolis, and iamblichus of chalcis, were magi. the magus of five hundred years ago was what we now call a renaissance man, and pursued mathematics, art, and alchemy. two thousand years before that, he or she was the pythagorean philosopher who traveled to egypt and chaldea to study the mysteries. twenty millennia before that th

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l flight in the bible there are many examples of soul flight in the bible, but they are always presented as divine miracles that fulfill the purposes of god. the experience of the prophets is the same as that of shamans and witches, with the difference that the soul flights of prophets were usually spontaneous, whereas those of shamans and witches were often induced. an exception is the ascent of moses to the top of mount sinai, where he remained forty days and forty nights (exodus 24:18. he engaged in this trial of physical endurance for the purpose of altering his state of consciousness, in a way little different from that of countless shamans around the world, who go alone into the wilderness and endure hunger and thirst to achieve what is called a "vision quest" success came in the for

d in this trial of physical endurance for the purpose of altering his state of consciousness, in a way little different from that of countless shamans around the world, who go alone into the wilderness and endure hunger and thirst to achieve what is called a "vision quest" success came in the form of the 59. murray, 239. chapter four: religious bilocation 51 astral vision of the laws inscribed by moses himself on the stone tables that he carried down from the mountain. all the great prophets of the old testament exhibit many of the characteristics of shamans. they lived alone, outside the customs of their society, and they went into the wilderness where they received detailed visions while traveling out of their bodies on the astral plane. they acted as intermediaries or mediums, carrying

totemic spirits of the tribe and its members. like the shaman, the medium usually entered a kind of trance during which the spirits of the dead communicated through her using her voice to speak, or her hands to write. the overwhelming number of mediums were women, just as in centuries past a much greater number of witches had been women. however, some of the male mediums, such as william stainton moses (1839-1892) and daniel dunglas home (1833-1886, achieved notable success, particularly in the production of physical events, such as the levitations or sudden apports (materializations) of physical objects. like the witch, the spiritualistic medium relied on a guiding spirit, called a control. it fulfilled duties similar to the familiar of the witch and the tutelary spirit of the shaman. how

d most often used by spiritualist mediums during the nineteenth century, without the component of prayer or the advantage of moral improvement. fodor wrote "the usual method of such experiments is to determine before going to sleep to visit someone during the night. the experiment may succeed when the least expected, and the agent may be totally unaware of the success."81 the male medium stainton moses decided to visit a friend one night. without informing the friend of his intention, he went to bed and fixed his thoughts intently on that individual, than drifted into sleep. he had no awareness of success, but several days later when he asked the friend if anything unusual had happened on that night, the other replied that he had seen the medium sitting in his rooms in a chair by the fire

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

ai is a name of command. in the rituals of the original golden dawn, this name was sounded in three syllables, but to preserve the fourfold symmetry of the four names of the quarters i prefer to voice it in four sounds that express its four hebrew letrers. eheieh is usually translated "i am" or "i will be"-it denotes pure existence, and is the name by which god described himself on mt. horeb when moses asked to know the name of god. it was linked by the golden dawn with the west and the element water, because water is a formative element and eheieh is a formative name. in the golden dawn it was pronounced with three syllables, but for the reasons already given, i prefer to voice it in four distinct sounds in this exercise. 96 standing exercises agla is written all in capital letters since

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

emonial magic. it should be studied together with this author's book, concenwation. shah, idries. the secr o. 277 fall the words of power employed in magic since the dawn of time, none is more mysterious and profound than the ineffable name of god with four hebrew letters, ihvh (717'1, called by the greeks tetragrammaton. by uttering it, god created the world and breathed life into the first man. moses called upon its authority to bring down the ten plagues on egypt. solomon used it to compel the spirits of the earth to build the first temple at jerusalem, then turned it upon them and sealed them beneath the sea in a prison of brass. prophets and exorcists used its fabled might to restore the dead to life, to rule storms and calm the seas, to turn back the course of the sun, and to drive d

masters of the name) used it widely in driving demons out of the possessed and healing the sick. among the kabbalists of the middle ages, it was handed down from master to disciple. much of the ire of the rabbis against these mystics may have been incited by the fear that they would misuse the name in secular magic and thus profane it. biblical tradition has it that the name was first revealed to moses when he went up upon horeb, the mountain of god, and saw the burning bush history of the name 3 (exod. 3:14-51, and it is explicitly stated that prior to this revelation to moses the name was not known among the hebrews "and i appeared unto abraham, unto isaac, and unto jacob, by the name of god almighty (shaddai; but by my name jehovah (ihvh) was i not known to them (exod. 6:3. this has led

was not known among the hebrews "and i appeared unto abraham, unto isaac, and unto jacob, by the name of god almighty (shaddai; but by my name jehovah (ihvh) was i not known to them (exod. 6:3. this has led to speculation that the name originally belonged to the resident deity of the holy mountain who was worshipped by the tribes that dwelt in the region south of palestine. in receiving the name, moses also took on the authority of the god of the mountain and conveyed its power to his people. that is why he married a daughter of the priest of midian (exod. 3: l b t h e tribe of midian grazed their flocks in the land of the sacred mountain and worshipped its god with sacrifices. that is why he led the israelites to this mountain after their deliverance from egypt and taught them how to wors

mountain after their deliverance from egypt and taught them how to worship ihvh. he wished them to have the continuing protection and blessing of this most potent god who had secured their freedom through his miracles. the meaning of the name is not known with certainty. it is often stated that while the numerous other names of god are merely descriptive of divine attributes (see the comments of moses maimonides in appendix b, the ineffable name means supreme deity completely and exclusively and cannot be referred to any lesser function. the derivation of the word is obscure, but it may have descended from the hebrew verb hayah (to be, as is implied by the words of god to moses on horeb. thus the meaning of the name may be "he who is always the same" or "he who is truly existent" or even

at jerusalem before the roman conquest. it is equally impossible to be certain that the pronunciation of the jewish priests, though historically accurate, was the correct mystical manner of vibrating the name. merely because it was spoken a certain way for centuries does not necessarily mean that it was spoken rightly. it is much easier to carry on an error than to preserve the truth. presumably moses knew the name, having received it directly from god, but after him doubt must creep in. t he correct pronunciation of the tetragrammaton may seem a trivial matter to those who view a name merely as a label, to be exchanged for another, different label as casually as we might change hats. in magic, a name is far more significant. it embodies the identity, the very being, of what it signifies

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ PRACTICE DIVINITY IN YOUR OWN LIFE

d. jesus is an example of a black magician without ethics. 6. practice your godhood among your followers. when one of your fans is in trouble, magically use the power of your name to help him. not out of pity or compassion but to understand the nature of the name of a divine being. once again keep this practice to yourself. do this until you have results. this illustrates the power of the word of moses ihvh in which a fan club or political/cultural organization can create laws beyond the natural, an identity, and a bargaining position with the unknown by use of a name. this not only produces an objective change in the world as an example of your own divinity, it will begin to illustrate the power of the word to open new potentials of power within you. this practice is highly recommended fo

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

or, tongue, eyes, fists, fingers, back, ears, loins, and body. some of the lists in egyptian add the face of a ram and the hair. the cities in which isis buried the portions of his body are: koptos, philae in elephantine, herakleopolis magna, kusae, heliopolis, diospolis of lower egypt, letopolis, sais, hermopolis of lower egypt, athribis, aq (schedia, ab in the libyan nome, netert, apis [fn#307] moses was laid in an ark of bulrushes, i.e, papyrus, and was found uninjured [fn#308] we meet with a similar statement in the tale of the two brothers, where we are told that the younger brother, having declared his innocence to the elder brother, out off his phallus and threw it into the river, where it was devoured by the naru fish. xix. after these things osiris returned from the other world, a

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

inite or the tau cross is found in the center of the two triangles; both are phallic (sexual) signs. the soul is found between the two triangles and has to decide between the white dragon and the black dragon. such a dilemma is absolutely sexual. the clue is found in the serpent. the rooster s legs of abraxas are made by the double tail of a serpent. the tempting serpent of eden exists as well as moses serpent of brass [nachash] interlaced around the tau, in other words, entwined around the sexual lingam (the phallus; the yoni is the uterus. normally the serpent is enclosed within the chakra muladhara (church of ephesus. the serpent slumbers in that coccygeal center entwined three and a half times. the serpent must inevitably leave from its church. if the serpent rises through the medullar

transform the lead of our personality into the gold of the spirit based on rigorous comprehension and sexual transmutation. this is how the i is annihilated. the rose elaborates its perfume with the mud of the earth; the perfume of the rose is transmuted mud. the door of eden sex is the door of eden. the guardian of this door is the assyrian sphinx, the egyptian sphinx, the bull (golden calf) of moses with the sword between its paws. this is the psychological i reflected in the baphomet that with his sword drives out from the threshold all of those who are not prepared. the enemy is within us; we need to work with the demon in order to dissolve it. we need to steal the fire from the devil. quinta: el quinto grado de integraci n representa a todo aqu l ser humano perfecto. sexta: compasi n

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

apter. the various sacred names or words which specify our particular intention, such as a biblical verse or affirmation, are important parts of the talisman and should always be included. agrippa also wrote: the scripture tells us that there are names written in heaven; why, it was said, should they be written there, if they be useless? through the knowledge of such divine names, it is affirmed, moses overcame the sorcerers of egypt, elias brought fire from heaven, daniel closed the mouths of lions. by what secret to have power over this line of communication with superior worlds it is for practical cabalism to discover (1971, p. 242 .23. the celestial intelligences are, in practical qabalistic magic, thought to be emanations of the deity, and correspond to principles in the human microco

dered to be the pivot of the entire tree, like the sun in our solar system. many ancient peoples identified the sun with the deity, yet the evolution of western religion advises us to express this identity with caution. although the ancient hebrews sang many hymns praising god's movement in nature, we know they distinguished themselves from the surrounding cultures which worshipped god in nature. moses himself inveighed against sun-worship, and the reason that qabalah stresses the ineffable nature of god as distinct from as well as identified with the attributes on the tree of life (by postulating the unknowable force called the ain soph) is because it is a materialization of our understanding of the god-energy to take the manifestation (the sun, the golden calf, gold, and others) for the

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

theological sensibilities may not have been as finely honed as our own. but secondly and more importantly, st. john himself was often seen as a rather pagan figure. he was, after all, called 'the oak king. his connection to the wilderness (from whence 'the voice cried out) was often emphasized by the rustic nature of his shrines. many statues show him as a horned figure (as is also the case with moses. christian iconographers mumble embarrassed explanations about 'horns of light, while modern pagans giggle and happily refer to such statues as 'pan the baptist. and to clench matters, many depictions of john actually show him with the lower torso of a satyr, cloven hooves and all! obviously, this kind of john the baptist is more properly a jack in the green! also obvious is that behind the

WILLIAM WESCOTT GOLDEN DAWN HISTORTY LECTURE

he rosicrucian society. it seems likely it was andrea who published in 1614 the fama fraternitatis, or theory of the society, which must have been derived from the old records of the pupils of christian rosenkrawz. but even this arrival of mysticism was a new development of the older wisdom of the qabalistic rabbis and of that very ancient secret knowledge of the magic of the egyptians into which moses had been initiated. through the qabalah, indeed, europe became possessed of the ancient wisdom more than from any one other source, for the hebrews were taught at one time by the egyptians and later by the chaldees of babylon. it is a curious fact that the classic nations, the greeks and romans, have handed down to us but slight glimpses of the ancient magic, and this is more notable because

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

ounting 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) and judah, of whom jacob is talking in the prophecy, is the sign of the zodiac;

iqon, a word derived from the latin notarius, a shorthand writer, means the construction of a word from the initial or final letters of the several words of a sentence; or vice versa the construction of a sentence of which each word in order begins with the several letters composing a given word--processes of contraction and expansion, therefore. 27. refer to deuteronomy xxx. v. 12, and find that moses asks, who shall go up for us to heaven? the initials of the words of the sentence, my yolh lnu hshmymh, read my yeolah lenu hashemimha, form the word mylh or mylah, which means circumcision, and the final letters from the word jehovah, yhuh or ihvh, suggesting that jehovah pointed out the way, by circumcision, to heaven. again, the first six letters of the book of genesis, brashit, berasit

o tables. this meant that very few deserve to have the best of the next life, as well as the good things to come. there are two important things. first, that one s bed should be placed north to south and that one should pray in front of his bed. there are two ways before a man, one leads to paradise and one to gai-hinnom, the place of punishment. there are only two jewish laws, the written law of moses, and the oral law of the qabalah. every jew who goes from the synagogue to his house on the eve of the sabbath is accompanied by two angels, one good and one bad, and if the house is all in order the good angel confirms a blessing, but if it be in disorder, the good angel has to say amen to the condemnation spoken by the evil angel. 39. two are better than three; this means youth is better t

crowded with quaint conceits concerning the triad and many are very curious. the ancient hebrews said there are three night watches, in the first the ass brays, in the second the dog barks, in the third the mother suckles her infant and converses with her husband. he who three times daily repeats the 114th psalm is sure of future happiness. three precious gifts were given to the jews; the law of moses, the land of israel, and paradise. in three sorts of dream there is truth. the last dream of the morning, the dream which is also dreamed by a neighbor and a dream twice repeated. 45. three things calm a man; melody, scenery and sweet scent. and three things improve a man; a fine house, a handsome wife and good furniture. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes t

k offerings; he who returns safe from a sea voyage, he who has safely crossed a desert, he who has recovered from an illness, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott and he who is released from prison. these are referred to in psalm cvii. four men have died from original sin, the work of the serpent, for they themselves did no ill; benjamin, amram, the father of moses, jesse, the father of david, and chilah the son of david. sabbat 55. 2. at the end of the passion fast every hebrew should drink 4 glasses of wine, even if the price robs him of other necessaries. the talmud says that only 4 men had entered paradise (pardes, the garden of holiness; this meant the state of supernal communion with god, the beatific vision, by profound abstraction of mind. thes

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

f the confessions come directly after the a rmation of the christological doctrine of creation by the eternal logos. significantly, augustine s musing on the first verse in genesis, in the beginning god created heaven and earth, precedes the discourse on this creed. augustine notes that although he knew only latin and not hebrew, he would have understood the truth (veritas) of these words even in moses s own hebrew, for truth uses neither mouth nor tongue as instruments and utters no audible syllables, and thus it can be stripped of any particular linguistic attire.24 one cannot fail to note the ironic twist in augustine s thought. the scriptural truth that the medium of creation is the word of god finds its ultimate thinking time/ hermeneutic suppositions 5 justification in an intuition b

suppositions 5 justification in an intuition beyond the logos in its ocular and verbal representations. the only way to transcend the word, however, is through the word. to support his point exegetically, augustine cites the words attributed to the voice that spoke from the clouds to peter, james, and john while they were witnessing the transfiguration of jesus and his standing in the company of moses and elijah: this is my beloved son, with whom i am well pleased; listen to him (matt 17:5. augustine detects here a reference to the mystery of incarnation, which he expounds in temporal terms: therefore it is clear and evident that the utterance came through the movement of some created thing, serving your eternal will but itself temporal [quod creaturae motus expressit eam, serviens aetern

ifestation of that essence, spirit, and will.241 the kabbalistic influence on schelling is even more conspicuous in his observation regarding the interchangeability of the angelic figure the angel of the countenance, mal akh ha-panim (der engel des angesichts) or the angel of the lord, mal akh yhwh (der engel jehovahs)242 and the divine essence.243 focusing exegetically on the theophany of god to moses at/in the burning bush (exod 3:2ff, schelling notes according to the understanding of the narrator, the angel of the countenance is also jehovah, yet both are still distinct. the meaning of the narration is perhaps just that moses was deemed worthy of a vision of that highest vitality, of that inner consuming yet always again reviving (and in this respect not consuming) fire that is the natu

odhead are not conflicting, that is, the highest of desires is the desire that has no object (der seine sache begehrt) and the strongest of wills, the will that wills nothing (der wille, der nichts will. similar representations of the infinite will are widely attested in the theosophic ruminations of thirteenth-century kabbalists for instance, azriel of gerona, jacob ben sheshet, isaac ibn latif, moses de le n, and other castilian figures whose views are preserved in zoharic homilies, and the many subsequent authors influenced thereby, including luria and his disciples.268 keter, the supernal will, the aura that is coextensive with and hence ontically inseparable even if distinguishable from ein sof,269 is also characterized as nothing (ayin),270 a designation that denotes not lack but sur

first attributes of god, a reference to the eighth of the traditional ten sefirot. schelling also relates the notion of eternity that contains time subjugated within itself to the egyptian theogonic circularity captured in the inscription over the temple of sais: i am the one who was, who is, who will be. moreover, following kant, schelling associates this inscription with the divine epiphany to moses (exod 3:14, which he paraphrases as i am the one who was, i was who i will be, i will be who i am (ich bin, der ich war, ich war, der ich sehn werde, ich werde sehn, der ich bin).290 for schelling, we cannot speak of time in god, but we must speak of god in time: this time outside of eternity is that movement of eternal nature where eternal nature, ascending from the lowest, always attains t

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

nctions of the three holy names of each tablet as shown in the diagram of the shewbread (figure 17. the angelic names are kings who rule the 30 aethyrs and the 12 tribes. ethese kings are not to be confused with the kings of the watchtower squares eds. holy name aozpi tribe gad sign aries angelic name olpaged "of gad, jacob says 'gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last' moses says 'blessed be he that enlargeth gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. and he provideth the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the lord, and his judgements with israel' the armorial bearings of gad are white, a troop of calvary. all thi

hee; and by the almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head ofjoseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren' moses says 'blessed of the lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, and for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills. and for the precious things of the earth, and fullness thereo

to taurus while the archers over manasseh, as sagittarius, the sign of the archer, is in opposition to gemini" 36 holy name hctga tribe issachar sign cancer angelic name zarnaah "of issachar, jacob says `issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant, and he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute' moses says 'rej oice. issachar, in thy tents. for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas' the armorial bearings of issachar are blue, and an ass crouching beneath its burden. this coincides with the peaceful nature of the quiet and watery sign of cancer" holy name oip tribe judah sign leo angelic name gebabal "of judah, jacob says 'judah, thou are he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand

d as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? the sceptre shall not depart from judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk' moses says 'and this is the blessing of judah: and he said, hear, lord, the voice of judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him and be thou a help to him from his enemies' the armorial bearings of judah are scarlet, a lion rampant. all this well agrees with the regal and leonine nature of the sign 'binding the ass's colt unto the choice vine' may allude to the ass of

ah are scarlet, a lion rampant. all this well agrees with the regal and leonine nature of the sign 'binding the ass's colt unto the choice vine' may allude to the ass of issachar (cancer) lying between judah (leo) and the vine of manasseh (gemini" 37 holy name teaa tribe naphtali sign virgo angelic name zurchol "of naphtali (virgo, jacob says 'naphtali is a hind let loose, he giveth goodly words' moses says '0 naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full with the blessing of the lord, possess thou the west and the south' the armorial bearings of naphtali are blue, a hind" holy name pdoce tribe assur or assher sign libra angelic name alpudus "of asshur (libra, jacob says 'out of asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties' moses says 'let asher be blessed with children, let

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

f life; this is the representation of the flaming sword descending, but it is not until the 2=9 comes that we begin to find the actual symbol of self sacrifice. the 2=9 altar diagram, then, represents, the serpent of wisdom twined through the paths. in the 4=7 grade however, you are shown the same serpent; its representation being that of the serpent nechushtan. this was the serpent of brass that moses made in the wilderness, and which was turned around the central pillar of mildness, having three cross bars upon it, representing a species of triple cross. dealing now with the altar diagram of the 3=8 grade, it will be seen that adam is the tiphareth part, wherein he is extended. that is to say that the form of the man is projected from there. the figure of eve stands in malkuth, in the fo

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