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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

cal qualities until the early decades of the nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had

et, draw up rich, golden light from the earth and let it flow upwards, becoming lighter and more golden as it rises to your fingertips. feel the light from above flowing downwards to merge with it* if you are working alone, then, holding a long, silk scarf in either hand, move around the tree with your hands rising and falling in a spiral path to create swirls of energies, the most ancient of the mother goddess sacred geometric forms, while chanting and dancing. if you are with friends, join hands around the tree and pass the light and energy between you from hand to hand, deosil, until you can feel the circle of light (you may even see luminous energy transferring from hand to hand* begin to circle the tree deosil, reciting faster and faster: tree power, earth power, sun shower and light

ies for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase. apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals of power, ambition and

wer of intuition and inspiration. mother goddesses mother goddesses are for fertility, abundance of all kinds, female power and all rituals for women. astarte astarte is the supreme female divinity of the phoenicians, goddess of love and fertility, associated with the moon and all nature. invoke her for power and wisdom, seduction and passion as well as fertility. cerridwen cerridwen is the welsh mother goddess, the keeper of the cauldron and goddess of inspiration, knowledge and wisdom. she is a natural focus for rituals involving all creative ventures and for increased spiritual and psychic awareness. invoke her for divination and especially scrying and for all rituals of increase. ceres ceres is the roman goddess of the grain and all food plants. her daughter proserpina was taken into t

als and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome many trials, to bring back to life her shepherd god consort dumuzi. ishtar ishtar, the babylonian version of innana, also descended into the underworld each year to restore her consort tammuz to life. she was a fierce goddess of weapons and war. in ancient babylon, a sacred marriage took place each year between t

represented as a vulture, in which form she appears on amulets (protective charms) with an ankh, the symbol for life, engraved on each talon. isis demonstrated the power of maternal protection when she hid horus in the marshes from his evil uncle who would have destroyed him. deities of marriage these deities can be invoked in rituals concerning the family and the home. frigg frigg was the viking mother goddess whose jewelled spinning wheel formed orion's belt; as patroness of marriage, women, mothers and families, she can be invoked for all rituals concerned with families and domestic happiness. she invited devoted husbands and wives to her hall after death so that they might never be parted again and so is goddess of fidelity. as ostara, goddess of spring, she was known among the anglo-s

s of wisdom, she made up the triumvirate of deities who made decisions about humankind and especially roman affairs. her month, june, is most fortunate for marriage and, like hera, her greek equivalent, her sacred creature is the peacock. she is invoked in sex magick as well as for all matters concerning marriage, children, fidelity and wise counsel. parvati parvati is the benign and gentle hindu mother goddess, consort of the god shiva and the goddess daughter of the himalayas. her name means 'mountain' and she is associated with all mountains. she and shiva are often pictured as a family in the himalayas with their sons ganesh, god of wisdom and learning, and six-headed skanda, the warrior god. she is invoked for all family matters and those concerning children and by women in distress

under the law of threefold return. the exception is bellona, who is a benevolent and effective focus for female power and courage. bellona bellona is the roman goddess of war, the female counterpart of mars whose chariot she drove into battle. she is especially good for women's assertiveness and self-confidence rituals. she carries a sword and wears a helmet. kali kali, the dark side of the hindu mother goddess, came into being when shiva, the husband of the mother goddess shakti, taunted her for her dark skin. in fury she carried out rituals until her skin became golden inside. shakti then shed her black outer skin like a snake and it formed the avenging destroying persona of kali. kali is depicted with her four arms holding weapons and the heads of her victims, her tongue lolling out, an

o was the greatest god when a great pillar of flame appeared between them. shiva appeared from within the flaming pillar, which was symbol of his masculine power, and the other gods bowed before him. invoke shiva for animus power, potency, survival and male rituals. shakti shakti, or matahdevi, is the female energy or power of shiva. her name is also used for the wife of any hindu god. she is the mother goddess and, like shiva, creator and destroyer in her different aspects. shakti provides the energy that activates shiva's male divine power, and her life-giving force animates other gods in difficult tasks. although there are several other hindu female goddesses, they all form aspects of shakti and often their identities merge. one of shakti's forms is as parvati, the gentle mother. shakti

increase psychic awareness and are good for those who travel. lemon verbena lemon verbena will break a run of bad luck; it brings love and protection against negativity. lilac use lilac for all domestic matters, acceptance of the frailty of self and others, and to ease nostalgia; lilac cleanses negativity. lily lily is for purity and breaking negative influences in love; it is frequently used in mother goddess magick. lily of the valley lily of the valley increases mental abilities, brings happiness and restores joy. marigold marigold is used for dreams and guarding against infidelity. it is effective in rituals concerning legal matters, luck and money. mimosa use mimosa for protection, love, prophetic dreams and purification. mistletoe known to the druids as the all-healer, mistletoe is

te your own innate self-protective power. your charged crystal acts as an amplifier for your own inner radiance and self-confidence and will repel any hostility. my own favourite method is to wrap the crystals in white silk and take them to a sacred place of ancient power, such as a standing stone, an old stone circle or one of the ancient healing wells. these wells were formerly dedicated to the mother goddess but were christianised and rededicated to st bride, the virgin mary or other christian, often celtic, saint. go as early in the morning as possible and place the crystals on a flat surface, either on one of the stones or close to the water. sit near to the source of power, touching it with your two hands so that you create a circuit of energy parallel to that being absorbed by the c

vamp or adonis and if you think your partner is at risk from temptation, add the empowered condiment to a salad and they will absorb the protection. a protective ritual with empowered salt* place the salt in a small ceramic dish on your altar and light a pure beeswax candle at the four main compass points around the edges of the altar. beeswax has a long tradition in magick: it was sacred to the mother goddess and later the virgin mary. demeter, goddess of the grain, was called queen bee and aphrodite's symbol at her hive-shaped shrine in eryx was a gold honeycomb. her high priestess was always called melissa, latin for bee* beginning at the north of your circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy

s a gold honeycomb. her high priestess was always called melissa, latin for bee* beginning at the north of your circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy light this salt, to enfold my home (workplace/journey) with thy golden mantle of protection. you may wish to leave out the goddess names or substitute a mother goddess or religious icon of your own. perhaps surprisingly, many witches do ask the blessings of mother mary and i believe that if you work in love, then you should use your own focus. if you prefer, just say: benign light, charge with honeyed fragrance this salt, to enfold-[insert the name of the person to be protected* next enclose your dish of salt in a square of small protective crysta

iana (the greek artemis, selene and hecate, being maiden, mother and wise woman or crone. isis, the egyptian goddess who was both moon goddess and mother of the sun, is also a potent focus. if you are going to use a specific goddess form, study images of her in the days before the ritual or if you have a favourite statue hold it for a few minutes before bedtime. i have a wooden figure of the moon mother goddess sold to me by a moroccan guy who said she was a patroness of his village. whether that was a sales pitch or not, i still associate her with palm trees and a brilliant moon in a cloudless sky. however, you may prefer to tune directly into the physical light of the silver moon as a source of power. you can carry out this ritual either alone or with a group. though traditionally it is

are potent for fertility and for matters of women's health. venus is sometimes known as the morning or evening star and at her brightest she is the most brilliant object in the sky besides the sun and moon. for this reason, in many cultures she took the name of the goddess of beauty. she was ishtar to the babylonians, aphrodite to the greeks and her viking counterparts are the goddess frigg, the mother goddess, and freyja, maiden goddess of beauty and love, after one or both of whom friday is named. spells at the hour of venus are especially good for new love and the growth of self-love, for if we do not love ourselves we cannot love others creatively. element: earth colour: green, pink crystals: amethyst, emerald, jade, moss agate, rose quartz incenses: geranium, rose, strawberry, vervai

overcame his twin, the god of darkness, and at easter, the christian spring festival most closely associated with the spring equinox, the resurrection of christ is associated with the restoration of light to the world. the first eggs of spring were painted and offered on the shrine of eostre, the anglo-saxon goddess of the spring. her norse counterpart was ostara, the maiden aspect of frigg, the mother goddess, to whom the hare was sacred (this is the origin of the easter rabbit. at the spring equinox, bonfires were lit and the corn dolly of the previous harvest (or in christian times a judas figure) was burned on the easter fires. the ashes were scattered on the field for fertility. wake at dawn on equinox morn or easter sunday and, it is said, you can see the sun or in the christian tra

r river. the green man is another central figure that features in rituals at this time in southern and eastern europe and especially among romany communities. the green man, or green george, as he is sometimes known, was the spirit of plants, trees and vegetables, fruit and vegetation, the male spring deity, consort of the earth mother and an early forerunner of both robin hood and st george. the mother goddess in her maiden aspect mated with the ascended sun god or, in popular folk tradition the green man, so that the conceived infant would be reborn as the new sun at the next winter solstice, thus ensuring the wheel of the year continued to turn. in the christian church, 25 march is the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary when gabriel told her she was with child. the ene

remony. this last sheaf was cut by a number of people casting their sickles simultaneously, so no one would know who killed the corn god, though he offered himself willingly so that there would be abundant future harvests. as well as being used to make the harvest loaf, some of the corn was woven into corn dollies, symbol of the earth mother, decorated with the scarlet ribbons of frigg, the norse mother goddess. these corn dollies would be hung over domestic hearths throughout winter. some were made into the shape of a corn mother or a cornucopia, or horn of plenty, and others were tied into knots that bound in the power and protection. this art continues today in rural places. the old name for this month in the celtic coligny calendar was claim-time, when debts would be collected and cont

e would be rekindled. this is a long way from the present commercial and consumer emphasis that has overtaken our christian festival of christmas. the name alban arthuran means 'light of arthur, named after king arthur who in legend bore the title sun king. his round table represented the great solar wheel of the year. the common theme of the festival that spans many ages and cultures is that the mother goddess, under one of her many names, gives birth to the sun itself, the sun god. it is the same theme as the virgin mary giving birth to the son of god in a cave or stable at the darkest hour of the year. the virgin birth features in several cultures and traditionally a candle (or other flame) is left burning all night on this longest of nights, to persuade the newborn sun to rise again on

is true, the wish is free, so shall it be* gradually, slow down and reduce your chant to a whisper until you are quite still* sit and make a nine-day plan for making your wish materialise and each morning untie one of your knots as you repeat the chant. a fertility spell* when the crescent moon is in the sky, take a hen's egg and paint or colour it with permanent marker pens and decorate it with mother goddess symbols, such as spirals, butterflies, bees and birds* place it on the window ledge of your bedroom and leave it there until the night of the full moon* on this night, prick the egg gently with a silver pin or paper knife* the next day, early in the morning, sprinkle it with a few drops of almond or pure olive oil for added fertility* place the egg in one half of a coconut shell (th

fruits. mabon: the second celtic harvest festival of the autumn equinox, around 22 september. medicine wheel: a concept central to all native american magick. the wheels link the celestial, human and natural cycles. also known as the circle of power. morphic resonance: the spreading of goodwill and positivity, through magick and good deeds, to increase the benign energies of the earth and cosmos. mother goddess: the giver of all life and fertility and mother of the animals, worshipped by huntergatherer societies since paleolithic times. in the shamanic religions in siberia and lapland, the mother of the herds is still a central icon of power. during the neolithic period, the mother goddess was the bringer of fertility to the land as well as to animals and humans. gradually, she came to be

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

th great reluctance that she nally wrote 'pagan. on 3 december j967 maxine's baby was born. as she lay in the delivery room, relieved that it was over, she asked if she could hold her son 'it's a. beautiful little girl' she was told. maxine was certain there had been some mistake, but one look at the infant assured her that it was hers. instead of michael, it was called maya a witch name meaning 'mother goddess. maya is not being trained for witchcraft, asher brother will be when he arrives, but will be able to choose her religion for herself when she is older. right from birth she has attended the coven meetings, but though her crib is in the same room, it is placed. outside the circle' when maya was a few months old, alex had a disturbing vision: a house, similar to the one in which he w

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

cal qualities until the early decades of the nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had

et, draw up rich, golden light from the earth and let it flow upwards, becoming lighter and more golden as it rises to your fingertips. feel the light from above flowing downwards to merge with it* if you are working alone, then, holding a long, silk scarf in either hand, move around the tree with your hands rising and falling in a spiral path to create swirls of energies, the most ancient of the mother goddess sacred geometric forms, while chanting and dancing. if you are with friends, join hands around the tree and pass the light and energy between you from hand to hand, deosil, until you can feel the circle of light (you may even see luminous energy transferring from hand to hand *begin to circle the tree deosil, reciting faster and faster: tree power, earth power, sun shower and light

oked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase [insert pic p061- seite 33 wicca01.txt apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals of power, ambition and

r goddesses mother goddesses are for fertility, abundance of all kinds, female power and all rituals for women [insert pic p064] seite 35 wicca01.txt- astarte astarte is the supreme female divinity of the phoenicians, goddess of love and fertility, associated with the moon and all nature. invoke her for power and wisdom, seduction and passion as well as fertility. cerridwen cerridwen is the welsh mother goddess, the keeper of the cauldron and goddess of inspiration, knowledge and wisdom. she is a natural focus for rituals involving all creative ventures and for increased spiritual and psychic awareness. invoke her for divination and especially scrying and for all rituals of increase. ceres ceres is the roman goddess of the grain and all food plants. her daughter proserpina was taken into t

als and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome many trials, to bring back to life her shepherd god consort dumuzi. ishtar ishtar, the babylonian version of innana, also descended into the underworld each year to restore her consort tammuz to life. she was a fierce goddess of weapons and war. in ancient babylon, a sacred marriage took place each year between t

vulture, in which form she appears on amulets (protective charms) with an ankh, the symbol for life, engraved on each talon. isis demonstrated the power of maternal protection when she hid horus in the marshes from his evil uncle who would have destroyed him. deities of marriage these deities can be invoked in rituals concerning the family and the home [insert pic p066- frigg frigg was the viking mother goddess whose jewelled spinning wheel formed orion's belt; as patroness of marriage, women, mothers and families, she can be invoked for all rituals concerned with families and domestic happiness. she invited devoted husbands and wives to her hall after death so that they might never be parted again and so is goddess of fidelity. as ostara, goddess of spring, she was known among the anglo-s

s of wisdom, she made up the triumvirate of deities who made decisions about humankind and especially roman affairs. her month, june, is most fortunate for marriage and, like hera, her greek equivalent, her sacred creature is the peacock. she is invoked in sex magick as well as for all matters concerning marriage, children, fidelity and wise counsel. parvati parvati is the benign and gentle hindu mother goddess, consort of the god shiva and the goddess daughter of the himalayas. her name means 'mountain' and she is associated with all mountains. she and shiva are often pictured as a family in the himalayas with their sons ganesh, god of wisdom and learning, and six-headed skanda, the warrior god. she is invoked for all family matters and those concerning children and by women in distress

under the law of threefold return. the exception is bellona, who is a benevolent and effective focus for female power and courage. bellona bellona is the roman goddess of war, the female counterpart of mars whose chariot she drove into battle. she is especially good for women's assertiveness and self-confidence rituals. she carries a sword and wears a helmet. kali kali, the dark side of the hindu mother goddess, came into being when shiva, the husband of the mother goddess shakti, taunted her for her dark skin. in fury she carried out rituals until her skin became golden inside. shakti then shed her black outer skin like a snake and it formed the avenging destroying persona of kali. kali is depicted with her four arms holding weapons and the heads of her victims, her tongue lolling out, an

o was the greatest god when a great pillar of flame appeared between them. shiva appeared from within the flaming pillar, which was symbol of his masculine power, and the other gods bowed before him. invoke shiva for animus power, potency, survival and male rituals. shakti shakti, or matahdevi, is the female energy or power of shiva. her name is also used for the wife of any hindu god. she is the mother goddess and, like shiva, creator and destroyer in her different aspects. shakti provides the energy that activates shiva's male divine power, and her life-giving force animates other gods in difficult tasks. although there are several other hindu female goddesses, they all form aspects of shakti and often their identities merge. one of shakti's forms is as parvati, the gentle mother. shakti

increase psychic awareness and are good for those who travel. lemon verbena lemon verbena will break a run of bad luck; it brings love and protection against negativity. lilac use lilac for all domestic matters, acceptance of the frailty of self and others, and to ease nostalgia; lilac cleanses negativity. lily lily is for purity and breaking negative influences in love; it is frequently used in mother goddess magick. lily of the valley lily of the valley increases mental abilities, brings happiness and restores joy. marigold marigold is used for dreams and guarding against infidelity. it is effective in rituals concerning legal matters, luck and money. mimosa use mimosa for protection, love, prophetic dreams and purification. mistletoe known to the druids as the all-healer, mistletoe is

lf-protective power. your charged crystal acts as an amplifier for your own inner radiance and self-confidence and will repel any hostility. seite 91 wicca01.txt my own favourite method is to wrap the crystals in white silk and take them to a sacred place of ancient power, such as a standing stone, an old stone circle or one of the ancient healing wells. these wells were formerly dedicated to the mother goddess but were christianised and rededicated to st bride, the virgin mary or other christian, often celtic, saint. go as early in the morning as possible and place the crystals on a flat surface, either on one of the stones or close to the water. sit near to the source of power, touching it with your two hands so that you create a circuit of energy parallel to that being absorbed by the c

f you think your partner is at risk from temptation, add the empowered condiment to a salad and they will absorb the protection. a protective ritual with empowered salt seite 97 wicca01.txt* place the salt in a small ceramic dish on your altar and light a pure beeswax candle at the four main compass points around the edges of the altar. beeswax has a long tradition in magick: it was sacred to the mother goddess and later the virgin mary. demeter, goddess of the grain, was called queen bee and aphrodite's symbol at her hive-shaped shrine in eryx was a gold honeycomb. her high priestess was always called melissa, latin for bee* beginning at the north of your circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy

s a gold honeycomb. her high priestess was always called melissa, latin for bee* beginning at the north of your circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy light this salt, to enfold my home (workplace/journey) with thy golden mantle of protection. you may wish to leave out the goddess names or substitute a mother goddess or religious icon of your own. perhaps surprisingly, many witches do ask the blessings of mother mary and i believe that if you work in love, then you should use your own focus. if you prefer, just say: benign light, charge with honeyed fragrance this salt, to enfold-[insert the name of the person to be protected* next enclose your dish of salt in a square of small protective crysta

iana (the greek artemis, selene and hecate, being maiden, mother and wise woman or crone. isis, the egyptian goddess who was both moon goddess and mother of the sun, is also a potent focus. if you are going to use a specific goddess form, study images of her in the days before the ritual or if you have a favourite statue hold it for a few minutes before bedtime. i have a wooden figure of the moon mother goddess sold to me by a moroccan guy who said she was a patroness of his village. whether that was a sales pitch or not, i still associate her with palm trees and a brilliant moon in a cloudless sky. however, you may prefer to tune directly into the physical light of the silver moon as a source of power. you can carry out this ritual either alone or with a group. though traditionally it is

are potent for fertility and for matters of women's health. venus is sometimes known as the morning or evening star and at her brightest she is the most brilliant object in the sky besides the sun and moon. for this reason, in many cultures she took the name of the goddess of beauty. she was ishtar to the babylonians, aphrodite to the greeks and her viking counterparts are the goddess frigg, the mother goddess, and freyja, maiden goddess of beauty and love, after one or both of whom friday is named. spells at the hour of venus are especially good for new love and the growth of self-love, for if we do not love ourselves we cannot love others creatively. element: earth colour: green, pink crystals: amethyst, emerald, jade, moss agate, rose quartz incenses: geranium, rose, strawberry, vervai

overcame his twin, the god of darkness, and at easter, the christian spring festival most closely associated with the spring equinox, the resurrection of christ is associated with the restoration of light to the world. the first eggs of spring were painted and offered on the shrine of eostre, the anglo-saxon goddess of the spring. her norse counterpart was ostara, the maiden aspect of frigg, the mother goddess, to whom the hare was sacred (this is the origin of the easter rabbit. at the spring equinox, bonfires were lit and the corn dolly of the previous harvest (or in christian times a judas figure) was burned on the easter fires. the ashes were scattered on the field for fertility. wake at dawn on equinox morn or easter sunday and, it is said, you can see the sun or in the christian tra

r river. the green man is another central figure that features in rituals at this time in southern and eastern europe and especially among romany communities. the green man, or green george, as he is sometimes known, was the spirit of plants, trees and vegetables, fruit and vegetation, the male spring deity, consort of the earth mother and an early forerunner of both robin hood and st george. the mother goddess in her maiden aspect mated with the ascended sun god or, in popular folk tradition the green man, so that the conceived infant would be reborn as the new sun at the next winter solstice, thus ensuring the wheel of the year continued to turn. in the christian church, 25 march is the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary when gabriel told her she was with child. the ene

remony. this last sheaf was cut by a number of people casting their sickles simultaneously, so no one would know who killed the corn god, though he offered himself willingly so that there would be abundant future harvests. as well as being used to make the harvest loaf, some of the corn was woven into corn dollies, symbol of the earth mother, decorated with the scarlet ribbons of frigg, the norse mother goddess. these corn dollies would be hung over domestic hearths throughout winter. some were made into the shape of a corn mother or a cornucopia, or horn of plenty, and others were tied into knots that bound in the power and protection. this art continues today in rural places. the old name for this month in the celtic coligny calendar was claim-time, when debts would be collected and cont

e would be rekindled. this is a long way from the present commercial and consumer emphasis that has overtaken our christian festival of christmas. the name alban arthuran means 'light of arthur, named after king arthur who in legend bore the title sun king. his round table represented the great solar wheel of the year. the common theme of the festival that spans many ages and cultures is that the mother goddess, under one of her many names, gives birth to the sun itself, the sun god. it is the same theme as the virgin mary giving birth to the son of god in a cave or stable at the darkest hour of the year. the virgin birth features in several cultures and traditionally a candle (or other flame) is left burning all night on this longest of nights, to persuade the newborn sun to rise again on

ree, so shall it be. seite 172 wicca01.txt* gradually, slow down and reduce your chant to a whisper until you are quite still* sit and make a nine-day plan for making your wish materialise and each morning untie one of your knots as you repeat the chant. a fertility spell* when the crescent moon is in the sky, take a hen's egg and paint or colour it with permanent marker pens and decorate it with mother goddess symbols, such as spirals, butterflies, bees and birds* place it on the window ledge of your bedroom and leave it there until the night of the full moon* on this night, prick the egg gently with a silver pin or paper knife* the next day, early in the morning, sprinkle it with a few drops of almond or pure olive oil for added fertility* place the egg in one half of a coconut shell (th

fruits. mabon: the second celtic harvest festival of the autumn equinox, around 22 september. medicine wheel: a concept central to all native american magick. the wheels link the celestial, human and natural cycles. also known as the circle of power. morphic resonance: the spreading of goodwill and positivity, through magick and good deeds, to increase the benign energies of the earth and cosmos. mother goddess: the giver of all life and fertility and mother of the animals, worshipped by hunter-gatherer societies since paleolithic times. in the shamanic religions in siberia and lapland, the mother of the herds is still a central icon of power. during the neolithic period, the mother goddess was the bringer of fertility to the land as well as to animals and humans. gradually, she came to be

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

a. the name comes from the sumerian and akkadian "harran-u, meaning "journey "caravan, or "crossroad. 2000-1900 abraham, b. in ur, according to bible lived to age of 175. 1857 bc birth of shenrab in the 1st wood male mouse year, the son of king gyal tokar and queen zanga ringum (wangyal: 1993..pg 30) 1800 enuma elish, bablyonian creation myth. 1700 bc 17th and 15th centuries bc..asherah was their mother goddess. the consort of jehovah 'she who treads on the sea-(petty: 1990) 1760 gilgamesh epic. 1600 orig. egyptian book of the dead (book of coming forth by day. 1570 ebers papyrus 1550-1450 o.c. rig-veda, sama-veda and yajur-veda 1500 indo-europeans invade india. vedic culture. 1500 (ca) volcanic destruction of thera, thought to be the origin of atlantis story. harranians established a pilg

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ancient interaction. the step pyramids of the yucatan, which in fact go back way before the maya who inherited them, are so similar to the classic ziggurats built for the "gods" of sumer. there are great similarities in art and language between the two, as there are between central american religion and language and that of the atlantis revisited 57 hindus and the middle-near eastern semites. the mother goddess, maya, has the same name in the maya culture as she does in india and there are mayan remains at an ancient egyptian site i have visited not far from giza. james churchward shows in the children of mu that all these "maya" peoples around the world originated in lemuria-mu, hence the common connections. also, the legendary founder of the maya culture, called votan or wotan, is the na

xpert in medicine, ninkharsag, also known as ninti("lady life) mesopotamian depictions portray her holding a horseshoe-shaped tool used at that time to cut the umbilical cord. another name later given to her was mammi, from which came mama and mother. mama or ma as a term for mother can be found in various languages all over the world. ninkharsag would later be symbolised in part by the stream of mother goddess deities with names like queen semiramis, isis, barati, artemis, diana, and the biblical mary. these were also used to symbolise the feminine principle as goddesses of the moon or waters, which are 74 children of the matrix considered feminine in balance to the masculine sun. there are often two distinct camps in these areas of research. there are those who believe that these deities

sage press, salt lake city, utah, 1991) that the monarchs of these bloodlines included the "serpent king" nahusha. they expanded into the five tribes that populated a large part of the indian population" james churchward wrote a number of superb books on the civilisation of mu and he says the nagas also populated china, tibet, and parts of asia. the 94 children of the matrix naga maya, with their mother goddess religion, were also the origin of the maya people of mexico. researcher michael mott writes in caverns, cauldrons, and concealed creatures (hidden mysteries, texas, 2000 "the nagas are described as a very advanced race or species, with a highlydeveloped technology. they also harbor a disdain for human beings, whom they are said to abduct, torture, interbreed with, and even to eat. t

ual to build their terror to the point of death. this allows them to drink blood full of that adrenaline. arizona wilder supplies precisely the same information from her own horrific experience. she says she conducted sacrificial rituals for the american elite and the british royal family at places like balmoral castle in scotland, as revealed in the biggest secret and the video, revelations of a mother goddess. arizona adds that the blood type the reptilians most desire is that of blond-haired, blue-eyed, people because it is the most effective for the purpose of holding human form. she, like almost every "elite" mind-controlled slave i have encountered, is blond-haired and blue- eyed. she dyed her hair after escaping from her mental and physical slavery blond- haired, blueeyed people are

knowledge" and the apple from this tree could be the one in the garden of eden story, the "forbidden fruit, he says. in the edda, the serpent leader, el, taunts eve for changing sides and becoming a priestess "of the rowan. the edda refers to eve as "idun, who dispenses life-giving apples to the goths from their sacred tree. idun was adueni or atueni to the sumerians and this later became athene, mother goddess of the greeks (figure 26. the levite fairy tales waddell says the levite priests of the hebrews took this symbolism and produced the make-believe story of adam and eve with the serpent in the garden of eden in which they were punished for eating from the tree of knowledge, the rowan tree, symbolic of the nordic religion. the levites were serpent worshippers of el and the old testame

ians, and greek myth says that the amazons founded the city. ephesus just happens to have been the headquarters of worship to the goddess artemis/diana- a goddess of the amazons. i visited ephesus in the summer of 2000 and on a hill high above the ancient ruins is a building that is claimed to have been the home of..mary, mother of "jesus. another goddess worshipped by the amazons was cybele, the mother goddess of all asia minor (turkey; she was taken to rome from phrygia, the "land of the lions" and the serpent cult. rituals to her included baptism in the blood of the sacred bull, who represented her dying consort attis, of whom jesus was a carbon copy. her temple in rome stood on the site of today's st peter's basilica until the 4th century ad when the christian church took over. in fact

nformation about this see: http//www.nexusmagazine.com/ringlords1.html 10 british edda, introduction 11 http//www.nexusmagazine.com/ringlords1.html 12 the deadly deception, p 102 13 ibid 14 albert pike, morals and dogma, p 819 15 details of the explanations that jim shaw was given can be found in the deadly deception, pp 142 to 146 16 ibid, p 149 17 told to the author by arizona wilder, a former "mother goddess" in llluminati satanic ritual 18 the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, p 23 19 ibid, pp 963 and 964 20 ibid, pp 382 and 383 the many faces of the serpent cult 181 21 ibid 22 ibid, p 378 23 ibid, p 382 24 http//www.nexusmagazine.com/ringlords1.html 25 http//www.xeper.org/pub/tos 26 the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, p 406 182 children of the matrix the three main

worshipped this goddess as sol minerva. her symbol was an owl- the symbol of the rituals at bohemian grove in northern california. the road system around the congress building in washington dc is also shaped unmistakably as an owl (see the biggest secret. the lion became the symbol of the "male" sun when the open became hidden, but once again the lion had more commonly symbolised the goddess. the mother goddess hathor was depicted as a lion-headed sphinx. mystery babylon the mystery school/secret society network designed to advance the reptilian agenda expanded rapidly from the time of babylon after 2000bc. in this same period the royal court of the dragon was infiltrating the egyptian mystery schools and the other structures of power. the jewish historian, eupolemus, said that giants buil

here the evidence leads. a few weeks after my meeting with christine fitzgerald in 1999, my scientist friend in california, brian desborough, told me there was a woman that i had to meet as soon as possible. this was arizona wilder, a recovering victim of the massive illuminati mind control network, who had worked for them at a very high level. she said she had conducted sacrificial rituals as a "mother goddess" for the british royal family, especially at balmoral castle in scotland, and at a notorious centre for satanic ritual called the mothers of darkness castle in belgium. this is located in the same region as the headquarters of the cult responsible for the widespread paedophilia, murder, and child sacrifice that came to light amid enormous public anger in 1994. the ring involved famo

nent" professors of psychiatry and therapy to tell the media and the courts that multiple personality disorder does not exist and that the memories of endless people telling the same stories and naming the same names are "false. arizona wilder is one of those who are breaking down the compartments and remembering their unimaginable experiences. in the biggest secret and the video revelations of a mother goddess, she tells her story in detail and names the famous names involved on both sides of the atlantic. she says she was chosen because of her bloodline. the illuminati-reptilians literally breed bloodlines to conduct their rituals for them. the people of these bloodlines are very psychic and able to connect easily with energy, and therefore manipulate its vibrational state or draw desire

have been because they wore reptile clothing or kept snakes. i think there is another reason, somehow. sources 1 trance-formation of america, p 174 2 recorded conversations with the author 3 see http//www.suite101.com/artlcle.cfm/ritual_abuse/43922 4 correspondence with the author 5 http//www.rense.com/general6/ciajew.htm 6 recorded conversations with the author and on the video, revelations of a mother goddess 250 children of the matrix 7 recorded conversations with the author 8 correspondence with the author and posted at davidicke.com 9 ibid 10 http//www.utlm.org/ and see also http//www.exmormon.org/stories.htm 11 http//www.davidicke.com/icke/articles/femaicke.html 12 http//www.reptilianagenda.com/exp/e012000a.html 13 http//www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/1998/jun/m09-009.shtml and see also

he human race."26 how right he is and how fast the human race needs to wake up and grow up. the stories i have featured in this chapter are just a small selection of the reports and personal accounts describing reptilian experiences. if you want to see more, go to the reptilian archive on my website, read the biggest secret, or watch the bridge of love videos with arizona wilder, revelations of a mother goddess, and credo mutwa, the reptilian agenda, parts one and two. when you put these modern reports together with their mirrors in the ancient world, it constitutes a library of information that only the most imprisoned of minds could dismiss without further investigation. but, given the level of human conditioning, many still will. especially the media. sources 1 david m. jacobs, the thre

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they were the chief scientist called enki, lord of the7earth (ki=earth) and ninkharsag, also known as ninti (lady life) because of herexpertise in medicine. she was later referred to as mammi, from which comes mamaand mother. ninkharsag is symbolised in mesopotamian depictions by a tool used to cutthe umbilical cord. it is shaped like a horseshoe and was used in ancient times. she alsobecame the mother goddess of a stream of religions under names like queen semiramis,isis, barati, diana, mary and many others, which emerged from the legends of this allover the world. she is often depicted as a pregnant woman. the texts say of theanunnaki leadership:they summoned and asked the goddess,the midwife of the gods, the wise birthgiver (saying),t o a creature give life, create workers!create a pri

ablets, menstrual blood was the gold of the gods.the reptilians and their crossbreeds drink blood because they are drinking thepersons life-force and because they need it to exist in this dimension. they will oftenshape-shift into reptilians when drinking human blood and eating human flesh, i amtold by those who have seen this happen. blood drinking is in their genes and an elitehigh priestess or mother goddess in the hierarchy, who performed rituals for thebrotherhood at the highest level, told me that without human blood the reptilians cannothold human form in this dimension. her name is arizona wilder, formerly jennifer anngreene. interestingly, she said that the reptilians had been pursuing the aryan peoplesaround the universe, because the blood of the white race was particularly impor

way hostels to ensure a constant supply of children. please tell me what you know.a short while before this book was sent to the printer, i was contacted by a friend inthe united states who was deprogramming a mind controlled slave of the brotherhoodcalled arizona wilder. i will explain how this mind control is done in the next chapter.she had been mind controlled from childhood to be a so-called mother goddess, whoconducts sacrificial rituals at the highest levels of the global brotherhood. arizona wasone of only three women at that level in the world. she has performed rituals for thebritish royal family, as you will see in the chapter, the goddess and the king, and thislady is so high in the satanic hierarchy that even the queen is, apparently, forbidden tospeak to her during the ceremo

herpseudonym- can you help? libeaux relates to of the water and is consistent with the303ancient legends of reptilian gods coming from the water. she says that in the basementof his chateau in alsace-lorraine there is an opening into the subterranean world. notethe area- lorraine, home to key reptilian bloodlines going back many centuries as ioutlined earlier. this mind controlled high priestess/ mother goddess was impregnatedby pindar, she says, but her own mind began to reject the programming and she abortedthe foetus and broke with the brotherhood. as often happens, her programming beganto break down when her programmer, mengele, died in the late 1980s. arizona says thatpindar, like all the reptilians when they shape-shift, has very powerful hypnotic eyes(the evil eye of legend) and at

is ispoured into goblets and consumed by the satanists, together with the liver and eyes.this is supposed to provide strength and greater psychic vision. fat is scraped from theintestines and smeared over the bodies of the participants- like the fat of the messehin ancient egypt. the corpse is then suspended from a tree and the satanists standnaked to allow the dripping blood to fall on them. the mother goddess says that by this304time the participants are in such a high state of excitement that they often shape-shiftinto reptilians and mostly manifest, she says, in a sort of off-white colour. they are alsoterrified, because at this point the mother goddess points to four of them and they arethen ritually murdered. clare reeves, the president of mothers against sexual abuse inthe us, told

akes place in orange county at dana covepoint in which a pregnant woman is drowned and her baby removed. the british royalfamily, ronald and nancy reagan, gerald ford, george bush, the two bush governorsons, henry kissinger, newt gingrich, bill and hillary clinton, rothschilds,habsburgs, bob hope, rupert murdoch and a stream of other famous names have allattended sacrificial rituals at which this mother goddess has presided, arizona says.she says that hillary is the power that controls bill clinton because she is far higher upthe hierarchy than him. he is mind controlled, she says, and hillary is his handler. shealso reports that she has seen reptilians, greys, and reptile-human hybrids at manyunderground facilities, including the infamous area 51 in nevada. she says thatastronaut neil arm

m. he is mind controlled, she says, and hillary is his handler. shealso reports that she has seen reptilians, greys, and reptile-human hybrids at manyunderground facilities, including the infamous area 51 in nevada. she says thatastronaut neil armstrong took pictures on the moon of translucent structures and anunderground habitat. these pictures are, apparently, in a building in oklahoma city.the mother goddess said that she had also conducted satanic ceremonies in franceinvolving pope john paul ii. another source within the mind control community reportsthat the pope is also a mind contolled stooge and a contact with relatives in the v aticantold me that they were slowly poisoning the pope to ensure that he dies in time for theirchosen one to replace him at the right time. we should expec

nedy and kennedys secretary was called lincoln. both presidents weremurdered on a friday in the presence of their wives and both were shot in the head.kennedys vice-president, lyndon baines johnson, had prior knowledge of theassassination and when he became president he immediately reversed all the policies onvietnam, interest-free money, and the cia which kennedy was implementing. thebrotherhood mother goddess, arizona wilder, says she saw the shape-shifting johnson atsacrifice rituals. johnsons middle name, baines, comes from the related scottish clans ofbain, bayne, beathy, binnie, beath and beth. freemasons from these clans claim thesame ancestor.19 the term, mac, means son of and so the son of bain becomes macbainand the interconnected clan, beth, becomes macbeth, the scottish king ma

she arrived at the hospital?when they had finished, the french minister of the interior, jean-pierre chevenement,decreed, according to his senior advisor, sami mani, that there would be strictly noadmittance to the room in which her body was laid out.55 chevenement was one of severalvips who rushed to the tunnel and observed the medical operation at this formersacrificial site.56 the brotherhood mother goddess, arizona wilder, said that guy derothschild had talked about dianas death in early 1998 when he tried to reprogrammeher at a house in sherman oaks, los angeles. rothschild was using a pseudonym, drbarrington. he said that he was in the tunnel that night to steal dianas soul through theevil eye hypnotic gaze the reptiles use at the point of death. i explained this earlier inrelation

own, south africa. when earl spencer, the queensgod-son, made his maiden speech in the house of lords in 1993, he chose a ratherstrange subject, satanism on the spencer s althorp estate in northamptonshire. heacknowledged that it was going on, but he said he was doing all he could to eradicate it.what a remarkable topic to introduce in your first speech in the houses of parliament.the brotherhood mother goddess, arizona wilder, reports seeing earl spencer and hisfather at some of the sacrificial rituals she conducted. it was earl spencer whoannounced that, despite her wishes, dianas body would not be interred in the familytomb at the local village church at great brington near the estate. earl spencer said hewanted to avoid swamping the village with sightseers and he had decided that diana

vel mind controlled slave from project monarch. hebelieves her to be the highest ranked woman in the satanic hierarchy in the united454states and she was one of only three mother goddesses in the world. this is arizonawilder, formerly jennifer greene. at the time my friend and arizona had no idea whatchristine fitzgerald had said. arizona had been programmed and trained sincechildhood to become a mother goddess who conducted satanic rituals at the highestlevels of the brotherhood all over the world. she described to my friend the inside ofmany secret and underground facilities that he has personally seen. what she describedwas accurate every time. he also checked her story with other contacts and the truth ofher memories was continually confirmed. what she told my friend, and later told me

ge and the ceremonies are guarded by members ofscotlands black watch. she also confirmed that lord mountbatten was a paedophileand that the windsors are reptilians in human form. her interview with me was taped, aswere the ones with christine fitzgerald, and copies are now at various addresses. thevideo interview with arizona is available and details are at the back of the book. i stressthat this mother goddess had no idea what christine fitzgerald had told me and yet theirstatements match again and again. arizona says that diana definitely knew that thewindsors were shape-shifting reptilians and dianas comments to christine fitzgeraldsupport this. apparently, reptilians have been seen to shape-shift during sleep. here is asummary of just some of what arizona said about the royal family:th

me of theworst of all of them. they dont care who sees them at the rituals, they are what they are,they show it outright. they dont care if you see it. who are you going to tell, who is goingto believe you? they feel that it is their birth-right and they love it. they love it.given the evidence i have presented in this chapter about the background to dianasmurder, i was not surprised to hear this mother goddess recall the following aboutmohamed al fayed:i saw mohammed al fayed at a ritual at the mothers of darkness castle in belgium in the1980s. the queen and the queen mother were also there. the queen mother was talkingto him and he was looking around as if he didnt believe this sort of thing went on. it wason december 24th at the ritual of the old king and the new king. they didnt let hi

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sualized to enter the body through the pores of the skin, and internal chanting of a mantra (word or phrase that embodies occult power. the visualization of power symbols such as yantras is also often used. most important of all in awakening kundalini is a technique that is almost never openly described. it involves the contemplation with love and desire of one of the primary forms of shakti, the mother goddess who represents for the hindus all manifest things and all energies. the word shakti literally means power. it is through the grace and love of shakti that kundalini is awakened and made to ascend. before this grace and love can be attained the practitioner must establish a close personal relationship with shakti. this is done through repeated visualization of that particular form of

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e a familiar focus for worshipers in societies based on interpersonal relationships. religion requires the spiritualization of emotions, and it is difficult to attach emotions of love or veneration to an impersonal absolute. in christianity, the concepts of god the father and god the son have provided a familiar and helpful focus for worshipers, while older religions have favored the concept of a mother goddess. throughout india, millions of worshipers have found the gods and goddesses of their sect or tradition a personification of divinity. parapsychologists have found that the personalities of communicators channeling through mediums may be manufactured consciously, and that such fictional entities can produce paranormal phenomena, as in the famous case of philip. such experiments have

ere initiated as priestess and priest and returned to found the gardnerian movement in the united states. gardner died at sea on february 12, 1964. after his death the contents of the museum were sold to ripley s believe it or not and were subsequently disbursed to various ripley s museums and sold to private collectors. gardner s form of witchcraft was based on a polytheism centered on the great mother goddess and her consort, the horned god. in the coven, the basic organizational and worshiping group of the movement, the two deities are symbolized by the priestess and priest. the priestess has clear dominance, and the lineage of authority is passed through her. the ritual is in three degrees, gardner having assembled ritual elements from a variety of sources. much of the third degree is

r fundamental modes of apprehension that are common to all humanity because of the universality of certain underlying experiences. archetypes manifest themselves in ancient (and not so ancient) myths, dreams, symbols, and artistic productions. one important appearance of archetypes is in the god forms of the ancient polytheistic religions. thus one can speak of the archetype of the sky god or the mother goddess. also from his concept of archetype, jung speculated on the nature of flying saucers, about which he wrote a short book. he also introduced the concept of synchronicity, the connecting principle between events, as distinct from conventional cause and effect, an important idea in modern astrology, which has attempted to break out of its deterministic mode of conceptualizing the relat

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sir walter scott and thomas hardy, both of whom described fictional cunning women or solitary rural witches in their novels. a leading proponent of this new romantic view of witches was the french writer jules michelet, a fervent anti-catholic and anti-monarchist, who produced numerous books of history, natural history, and social reform. advocating a turn from christianity to worship of a great mother goddess such as isis, michelet held that women were morally superior to men, and that their persecution as witches in former centuries was an attack by the elites on both the rights of women and the working classes. michelet took the position of the malleus maleficarum that women were innately drawn to witchcraft and made a positive good of it. medieval witchcraft, he declared in his 1862 b

little actual research for la sorciere, michelet succeed in introducing ideas that would be taken up by later generations of non-academic writers and by unconventional academics. one was the idea that witches were healers and midwives persecuted by a maledominated medical establishment; another was that the persecuted witches represented traces of a secret pagan religion. michelet s advocacy of a mother goddess religion helped reinforce a new current in nineteenth-century scholarship: that there had once been a universal matriarchal period of goddessworship, later buried by a patriarchal paganism typified by the well-known greco-roman pantheon: jupiter/zeus, hera/juno, and so on. the notion of a universal ancient matriarchy appealed to thinkers as different as karl marx and sigmund freud

th the devil and parodies of christian ritual. for this he substituted a murray-style old religion, in which the devil was merely the ritual leader with his crown of stag s horns.and often a nobleman in disguise. witchcraft, he alleged, had come down from the stone age as a fertility religion that honored the god of death and what comes after (in other words, rest and reincarnation) and the great mother goddess of nature, love, and pleasure. these new witches celebrated a cycle of eight festivals a year.the solstices and equinoxes and the four cross-quarter days between them: lugnasadh or lammas (loaf-mass) at the beginning of august, a harvest festival; samhain (hallowe en) a festival honoring the ancestors; brigid or oimelc, at the beginning of february, a feast of creativity and new beg

the wiccan community through his authorship of one of the first widely recognized texts presenting modern post-gardnerian witchcraft to the public, witchcraft: the old religion (1973. he argued effectively that witches were people from all walks of life who practice the pre-judeo-christian, pagan religion. they were not satanists and did not believe in the devil, he said; their main deities were mother goddess and horned god, and they were nature worshipers. martello also founded the witches antidefamation league (wadl) to educate the public, counteract false accusations, take legal steps, obtain irs recognition, paid legal holidays (such as halloween) for members, fight distortion and discrimination, sponsor seminars across the country, hold regular festivals. in 1970 wica and wadl, back

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re a n i n t e r p retation disputed by others. the first new world appearance of the bvm is said to have taken place five miles north of mexico city just after dawn on december 9, 1531. a fifty-seven-year-old aztec indian, juan diego, was racing along a hillside to get to mass in a nearby village. passing a site at the foot of a hill called tepeyac, which earlier had housed a temple to the aztec mother goddess, he heard a feminine voice calling his name. he saw a young woman, looking about fourteen years old and having mexican features, who asked that a chapel be built at the site. she also told him that he should alert the bishop in mexico city immediately. with some difficulty, he got an audience with the bishop, who was skeptical. diego returned to report his failure to the bvm, who wa

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ch-bearers, with one torch up and the other down, may refer to the rise and setting of the sun. in the later period of mithra worship in italy, these was a blending with the more usual solar worship of apollo as the sun god, as we read of mithra assol invictus, deus invictus mithras, deus sol invictus mithras;before its abolition we also find mithras associated with the paganmagna mater,the great mother goddess. as mithra worship was fading out, the emperor julian made an attempt to restore its dominance, but his failed, and persecution by christian authorities caused its extinction: the christian priests were especially bitter against the mithraists because of the similarities which christianity offered to the methods of mithra worship, for both used a ceremony of baptism, a sacred meal

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corrupt, largely due to the practice of young religions to demonize gods and angels from the pantheons of pre-existing and contemporaneous spiritual traditions. for example, baal and astarte, the great god and goddess of the caananites, appear diabolized in the infernal hierarchy of the goetia, in the lemegeton, as the demons beelzebub and asteroth. other grimoires even include isis, the sublime mother goddess of egypt, as one of the denizens of hell. fortunately, however, the hierarchies of forces attributed to the qabalistic tree of life by the hermetic order of the golden dawn provide a perfect vehicle for magical evocation. these hierarchies descend through all four of the qabalistic worlds and onward into the realm of the averse forces. unto aziluth, the highest of the four qabalisti

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. by the second millennium bce, this identification was nominally extended to all the dead. every aspect of burial and mummification came to be linked to the mythology of osiris. where, when, and how osiris was first worshipped is much disputed. it has been claimed that osiris was originally a deified predynastic king, a primitive vegetation spirit, a jackal god of an early royal necropolis, or a mother goddess. even the etymology of his name is uncertain, though it may simply mean the mighty one (death. the cult of osiris only became prominent during the fifth dynasty (c. 2494 2345 bce. he gradually seems to have taken over the attributes of other funerary deities, such as andjety of busiris and khentamentiu of abydos. the latter s name (foremost of the westerners) became an epithet of os

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g source of all nourishment and. stage 3: the crone representing death and transformation. the role of the triple goddess is to remind us of our sacredness regardless of our age for all stages are precious, and also to remind us that there is one multi-faceted goddess, always present, always sacred. then we have some of the hindu goddesses who the hindu s believe are all aspects of the one divine mother goddess. durga. also called devi in india where all goddesses are one as all are different aspects of the divine feminine. devi took the name of her enemy after she slew the evil demon durga in battle while riding on a tiger. lakshmi. goddess of abundance, the shakti force of vishnu. kali. the triple goddess of creation, the animating force of shiva, the destroyer. kali s role is to face ou

giver of light, represents being active and strong. isis. moon goddess, mother and giver of all life. goddess of agriculture, medicine and wisdom, isis represents total femininity. hathor. the mother of all gods and goddesses. goddess of love, mirth, beauty and sensual pleasure. sustainer, destroyer, creator. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 80. bast. earth mother goddess of abundance and of relaxed play. protector of women in childbirth, mother of light and independence. some of the roman goddesses. fortuna. goddess of abundance and destiny. flora. goddess of nature and pleasure, teaches us to honor inner and outer growth and the beauty of spring and flowers. venus. goddess of grace and physical and spiritual love, venus guides us through both our c

ory. her realm is relationship and feeling and mature love. the goddess of both spiritual and passionate love. athena. the virgin goddess of war and wisdom and limitlessness, she encourages warriors to gentleness, the patron of useful and elegant arts. artemis. mistress of animals and all wild untamed things, symbolizes female independence, healing goddess, values solitude. demeter. ancient greek mother goddess of persephone. giver of fruitfulness and abundance. blesses us with coming joy, abundant life and hope. other goddesses who have made an impact through time are. kwan yin. chinese goddess of infinite mercy and compassion. said t0 be born from buddha s tears for the suffering of the world. protects women and children and works with the healers of the world. mother mary. the creator g

lead us through darkness so that we grow. hel. norse goddess of the underworld, a place of renewal and the embodiment of divine mystery. teaches us to look behind the masks in life and beyond appearance. eve. mother and nurturer of all life, creator of the world and all living beings. represents rebirth and regeneration, embodies primal female creative energy. gaia. the eternal pre-historic earth mother goddess of the soul who clothes us with the atoms of her essence. reminds us to be grounded in the reality of nature and to balance and embrace all aspects of our selves from the heavenly to the earthly. sedna. eskimo goddess who rules the underworld. reminds us of the nourishing gifts that we can find in the darker places that we most fear. pele. hawaiian volcano goddess of creative fire

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conclusion that the room of the throne at knossos was designed for religious functions. 237. the salient features in its arrangement (plate ii, 2, following p. 50, in fact, suggest an interesting comparison with a ritual chamber recently discovered in one of the kindred anatolian sanctuaries. this is the hall of initiation excavated by the british explorers in the sanctuary of men askaenos and a mother goddess, described as demeter, near the pisidian antioch. the throne itself, the stone benches round, and the tank on the opposite side to the throne, find all their close analogies, and are arranged in the same relative positions. in the galatian sanctuary we see, on a larger scale it is true, a chamber with a throne- in this case near, not actually against the back wall- to the right of t

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d hades the underworld. hades was considered so unfortunate that even the mention of his name was regarded as unlucky, and mythological tales about the god of the underworld are scant. the foundation for greek classical religion was set in the homeric poems, the iliad and the odyssey, which themselves were the inheritors of older heritages from the mycenean-minoan culture. the chief deity was the mother goddess, who brought both good and evil, though even evil was understood to be part of the natural cycle of things. this included death, which was believed to be essential for new life. the mother goddess herself was ruler of the nether regions and thus a key element in the cult of the dead. at argos she was known as hera (the lady, at eleusis she was known as demeter (mother earth, at spar

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duced a symbolic figure, termed "the harlot of babylon "which is described as a woman seated upon a scarlet-colored beast having seven heads and ten horns. the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and bedecked with gold, precious stones, and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations. this figure may be an effort (probably interpolated) to vilify cybele, or artemis, the great mother goddess of antiquity. because the pagans venerated the mater deorum through symbols appropriate to the feminine generative principle they were accused by the early christians of worshiping a courtesan. as nearly all the ancient mysteries included a test of the neophyte's moral character, the temptress (the animal soul) is here portrayed as a pagan goddess. in the nineteenth and twentieth ch

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e held to be independent entities or aspects of a single divine pair, a god and goddess. the coven leaders are seen as direct representatives of these witch spirits during the sabbat. the magister's titles are, among others: cernunnos. the title is derived from the ancient european celtic horned deity of the same name. dumus. derived from "dumuzi" or "tammuz" the young consort of the mesopotamian mother goddess. puck. also known as "pookah" or "bok" the horned, satyr-like mischievous spirit said to be a reformation folklore version of the horned god. he was also known as robin artisson and robin goodfellow. hu. channel island version of the horned one, possibly derived from the welsh-celtic deity, hu gadarn. barabbas. hebrew bar abba meaning son of the father or divine son- reference to th

consideration, namely, the titles bestowed upon female witch leader whether she be designated high priestess or queen of the sabbat. among the lady's titles are: andred. witch goddess name coming from the forest of weald in england. bensozia. twelfth-century french name for the goddess, meaning doubtful. nocticula. similar twelfth-century appellation meaning "little night" rhiannon. welsh-celtic mother goddess. arrianrhod. similar welsh goddess, mother of llew. herodias or aradia. italian name for the witch goddess, being the daughter of the great mother "diana "dione "dana" or "jana" referred to in leland's aradia, the gospel of the witches. habondia or dame habonde. goddess seen as lady of love and plenty. holda or hulda. german version of the same. morgan or morrigan. celtic names for

being the daughter of the great mother "diana "dione "dana" or "jana" referred to in leland's aradia, the gospel of the witches. habondia or dame habonde. goddess seen as lady of love and plenty. holda or hulda. german version of the same. morgan or morrigan. celtic names for goddess seen a lady of death, variant of classical hecate. also king arthur's half-elven sister. brigid or bride. a celtic mother goddess. astarte or ishtar. mesopotamian goddess of love. bride of adonis-tammuz. the virgin or maiden. referring to perephone, the greek underworld goddess. should the lady or high priestess have a daughter present within the coven, the latter title of "maiden" is sometimes conferred on her. let me reiterate: the titles bestowed upon the leaders vary considerably from coven to coven, depen

as synonymous with hades, dis, and the horned one as god of death. it also represents the skull and crossbones itself, and finally the erect phallus flanked by twin testes below. the gesture of the high priestess is the mirror image of the magister's. it represents both the lunar crescent, the womb of space, and the horns of hathor, all of which are symbols pertaining to isis, the great egyptian mother goddess and consort of osiris. as such, the magister and high priestess are the human representatives of the two great archetypal poles of life, whether you conceive of them as isis and osiris, summer and winter, life and death, or yin and yang. having called down the two powers, such magical operations as required by the coven, if any, are now performed. the initiation of new members follo

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d connotes femalebreast and the burial chambers actually look like such from outside. the implication isthat the dead are placed again inside the womb, the breast, the symbols of renewedlife. the egyptians used to place their dead within sarcophagi that were symbols of thefemale body. in fact, the interior of the lid of the sarcophagus had the image of thenight sky as the over-arching body of the mother goddess nuith.clearly, the monarchies of any age have been responsible for atrocious crimes. and yet, themonarchs themselves claim rulership by divine right. james vi of scotland becamejames i of england and was the main proponent of this. the origins of the sanctity of kingsgoes back to pre-diluvian times, however.the state of monarchy is the most supreme thing upon earth, for kings are no

, relocating to theisland of oceania, later known as lemuria, where todays pacific ocean is. here theyestablish a thriving civilization where they also practiced the high sciences. the sub-lime cultural inventions and philosophies that enrich humankind then and now origi-nate from them. lemuria comes from mu or mu-devi which means the land ancestral or land of the ancestors. mu-devi was the hindu mother goddess. shiva was her counterpart and is the great father of mankind. an indian tamil text, silappadikaran, describes a lost continent in the pacific and indian ocean that it calls kumai nadu or kumari kandam, which means the dragon land of the immortal serpents.their rebellion and departure affronted their creators who, from that time onward,would consider their first born avowed adversar

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prison. the black magicians also have a long list of titles for lilith, and have much reverence for her because she is among those who give them the dark gift of transformation. among these titles are: queen of the qliphoth, queen of the underworld, queen of the dead, queen of the vampires, queen of the sabbat, queen of hell, queen of the witches, queen of the shells and shades. mother earth, and mother goddess. she is the bride of satan and the mother of all demons, also called lilitu. lilith is often associated with the red sea, which is said to be a place where she spawned and instructed demons. the screech owl and dove are lilith s sacred animals. the us dollar bill contains a tiny image of what is commonly thought to be a spider, but is in fact an owl. at bohemian grove, members of th

she was also known as the virgin goddess. artemis, the greek equivalent of diana, is also a goddess of the hunt, childbirth, the moon and also known as the virgin goddess. artemis is also closely related to selene, yet another moon goddess. in hinduism, lilith goes by the name kali. kali is a goddess identified with death, carnage, and the feminine principle. she often called mother kali and the mother goddess who is the consort of the god shiva, the destroyer. kali is depicted as a naked woman with black skin, who wear a necklace of skulls and holds a bloody sword. similar to the babylonian account of tiamat, kali s body parts constitutes the universe of space and time. the goddess kali, along with her husband shiva, roam the cremation grounds; this is a likely reference to the qliphoth

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must enter eternal time. similarly the myths underlying navajo rituals such as mountainway (see pp. 92 93, and its sandpaintings of the holy people, define and express what it means to be navajo. at the end of such a ritual, the world before me is restored in beauty. when jasper blowsnake revealed the sacred winnebago medicine rite to anthropologist paul radin (published under the title neolithic mother goddess the venus of willendorf, a stone figurine of a fertility goddess found at willendorf in austria, dates from the neolithic period. the breasts and belly are deliberately exaggerated in this representation of the great mother goddess. nut, the egyptian all-mother the egyptian sky goddess nut arches over the earth in this ancient tomb painting. she is about to swallow the evening sun

ar boars had cult significance for the celts from early times. one gaulish god is actually called moccus, pig, and a boar and serpent accompany depictions of the north british god veteris. a boar was the first convert of the irish st. ciaran, followed by a fox, a badger, a wolf, and a stag. it has been suggested that this shows the old mythology being assimilated into the christian tradition. the mother goddess celtic mythology abounds in strong women, and the worship of a mother goddess seems to have been basic to celtic culture from neolithic times. many dedications are to the matres, a triple mother goddess, shown with symbols of life and abundance, but also associated with death and war, as personified, for example, by the triple irish war goddess, the morrigan. there are also single m

culture from neolithic times. many dedications are to the matres, a triple mother goddess, shown with symbols of life and abundance, but also associated with death and war, as personified, for example, by the triple irish war goddess, the morrigan. there are also single mother and fertility goddesses, such as the horse goddess epona, and the celtic venus who is modeled in many clay figurines. the mother goddess is often coupled with the tribal all-father, as in the pairing of the gaulish sucellus, the good striker, and his consort nantosuelta, the winding river, or, in ireland, the dagda and the morrigan. images of the celtic mother goddess can still be seen on christian churches in britain and ireland, in the statues of women in a pose either of sexual invitation or childbirth known as sh

ans tortoise. in hindu mythology, the world rests on a giant tortoise. lakshmi lakshmi, sitting near a conch shell, a symbol of vishnu, has already been pulled from the ocean. the female in front of her is busy pulling out chandra, the moon (who is also known as soma. this indian ivory shows durga killing the buffalo demon. durga and the buffalo durga, the warrior goddess, is a form of the indian mother goddess, mahadevi. other forms include gentle parvati, wife of shiva (see pp. 112 13. durga was created by the gods when they were deposed by the asuras from their home on mount meru. arising from the flames of their fury, she rode into battle on a lion, killing every demon in her path, until she faced their leader, mahisha, the demon buffalo. after a terrible fight, durga defeated him and

ant. peacock the peacock is the vehicle of skanda, the baby on parvati s lap. nandi the bull nandi, shiva s milk-white bull, is the guardian of all four-legged creatures. rudra, shiva s name in the earliest hindu holy books, was the ruler of the beasts. parvati, shiva s wife parvati is the daughter of the himalaya mountain himself. like durga and lakshmi (see p. 108, she is an aspect of the great mother goddess, mahadevi. ganesh ganesh, the remover of obstacles, must be propitiated at the start of any enterprise. he is also a god of wisdom and learning, and was the scribe of the holy book, the mahabharata, using one of his tusks as a pen. ganesh s steed ganesh s companion and steed is a rat. but ganesh is lazy, and will not travel unnecessarily. once he made a bet with skanda that the firs

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n, magick is as old as known history. its contemporary revival, however, began in the early 1900s. the most popular form of magical religion, neo-paganism, is a nature-oriented religion based on the worship of male-female polarity, the observance of the agricultural seasons, and magick. worship of the male-female aspects of nature usually is expressed as allegiance to the horned god and the great mother goddess. ritual follows the movement of the sun and moon. neo-pagans see themselves as reviving the pre-christian religion of europe and the mediterranean basin, and manifest as norse, druid, or egyptian in format. by far the wiccans compose the largest segment of the neo-pagan community. wicca or witchcraft is derived from the ancient paganism practiced in western europe, especially the br

is known as mandatory worship, and in any other religion is reserved for divinity. further, much of the reasoning for mary's being blessed and virgin is due to divine intervention, and is therefore a matter of faith, meaning that a catholic can be excommunicated for heresy if he is not willing to accept these dogmas. commonly used to "honor" mary, the hail mary's are nothing but invocations to a mother goddess. mary has been an extremely touchy subject for catholicism. technically she is a saint, but just try calling her that in a conversation with devout catholics. some of the other female saints who are highly "venerated" do not come out so well either under scrutiny, especially when cults have been established around them. st. therese of the child jesus, a carmelite nun also known as t

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onsistent, and there are many conflicting versions of how he and his fellows came to exist. later christianity adopted the legend of the fall, a theme most popular throughout the middle east. the following canaanite scripture was recorded five centuries before the hebrew scribes produced the old testament, and concerns the legend of shaher, who was born of the pit, helel, which is the womb of the mother goddess. compare with isaiah 14:12-14 as we know it now; how hast thou fallen from heaven, helel s son shaher! thou didst say in thy heart, i will ascend to heaven. above the circumpolar stars i will raise my throne and i will dwell on the mount of council in the back of the north. i will mount the back of a cloud. i will be like unto elyon. according to some versions of this myth, the devi

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e the ability to cure illness, which was thought to be caused by spirits, or supernatural beings. this class of shamans began to organize the belief system and to create certain traditions and rituals, such as the sacrificing of animals to different gods. early religious practices it appears from archaeological evidence that one of the earliest organized religions may have been the worship of the mother goddess. archeological evidence of mother goddess worship exists in several different ancient cultures, including c atalho yu k in modern turkey (c. 6,000 bce, carchemish in ancient iraq (c. 2,000 bce, many people show respect, or veneration, to their relatives through ancestor shrines and other measures. praying to ancestor spirits for help or protection reassures many that there is someth

lp or protection reassures many that there is something more beyond the physical life. chris lisle/corbis. 6 world religions: almanac what is religion? and knossos in ancient crete (c. 1500 bce. one early example that may indicate an early fertility goddess is the 25,000-year-old venus of willendorf, a small limestone statue discovered in austria in 1908. in these cultures it is believed that the mother goddess was worshipped for her role in promoting the fertility of both the land and the people. over time, the mother goddess was largely displaced by patriarchal, or male-dominated, pantheons, perhaps as a result of a better understanding of man s part in reproduction. the ancient minoan civilization has left a graphic and very beautiful record of its female goddess in wall paintings in ar

ng the fertility of both the land and the people. over time, the mother goddess was largely displaced by patriarchal, or male-dominated, pantheons, perhaps as a result of a better understanding of man s part in reproduction. the ancient minoan civilization has left a graphic and very beautiful record of its female goddess in wall paintings in archaeological ruins found on the island of crete. the mother goddess was not only important in prehistoric europe, but has been found in the traditions of ancient canaan, sumeria, egypt and other african countries, india, native north america, western europe, and australia. these fertility-worshipping religions slowly gave way to more male-oriented belief systems. in europe, invasions from the east in the fourth and third millennia bce by warrior tri

appear with the head of an animal. among the central deities were horus (left, with the head of a falcon, osiris, and isis. adam woolfitt/ corbis. 46 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia the three chief gods in the sumerian pantheon were an, the sky god, enlil, the god of weather and storms, and enki, god of wisdom and the abzu. other important deities included the mother goddess, ninhursag; nanna, god of the moon who helped travelers find their way; utu, sun god and the watchful eye of justice; and inanna, the goddess of love and war and the one who guaranteed the kingship. inanna in particular had a strong and lasting influence on mesopotamian culture. she was featured in many fertility rites, but was also called upon in time of war. over the course of tim

ect is the saktis, or saktism. saktism is followed by hundreds of thousands of indians, primarily in the bengal region. its chief characteristics are its view of god as a destroyer, its emphasis on the feminine, mother aspect of god, and its emphasis on ceremony and ritual. the word sakti means energy, and saktis see force or power as the active principle of the universe, personified by devi, the mother goddess. the chief goal of saktism is moksha, achieving salvation through the bliss that comes with total identification with the supreme being. another major goal is good works. there are at least four different branches of the saktis. these are just a handful of hindu sects. there are many more, each emphasizing a different aspect of hinduism. no one of these sects believes that its doctr

ther lifetime. he used this as the background and setting for his second book, the 1939 novel a goddess arrives. the book centered around the worship of the goddess aphrodite 2,500 years earlier. gardner became fascinated with the idea of a goddess religion that supposedly ruled the peoples of europe during the stone age, the earliest known period of human culture. according to this religion, the mother goddess was the creator and the center of religious power. this feminine- based religion, many say, was the primary form of religious belief for many centuries until it was finally replaced several thousand years ago by what is called the sky god, or male-dominated religious systems that are known now. the existence of this religion was deemed uncertain by the early twenty-first century, bu

al thousand years ago by what is called the sky god, or male-dominated religious systems that are known now. the existence of this religion was deemed uncertain by the early twenty-first century, but during the 1930s many people in england and the united states believed in it. according to legend, pre- christian europe was matriarchal, or controlled by women, and the supreme spiritual being was a mother goddess. as a student of local folklore, gardner soon became interested in the history of the region where he had settled, and he discovered that it had deep roots in witchcraft. he became involved with an occult group, the fellowship of crotona, which was led by the daughter of an early member of the theosophical society. the theosophical society is a mystical religious and philosophical m

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gn of devotion to the chiefs m a s o n r y' s homage to the heart by the sign of hand on heart can best be understood by the fact that the leaders of the masonic lodge themselves boast that the rituals of freemasonry hearken back to ancient egyptian religion. the egyptian book of the dead addressed prayers to "my heart of my mother..my heart of transformations" meaning the source of rebirths. the mother goddess of egypt was worshipped by various names isis, hathor, rhea, etc. she was the one to whom the people "gave their hearts" meaning their heart-felt devotion and allegiance. as the goddess of sacrifices, it was deemed necessary by her admirers that men should sacrifice their "energies" on her behalf. the goddess was said to take possession of men's hearts. cutting out hearts and eating

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u n e x p l a i n e d 18 afterlife mysteries in ancient egypt, dead people s bodies were prepared for mummification. it was believed they would go to an afterlife (ap/wide world photos) the pyramid texts were the oldest extant funerary literature in the world, dating back to as early as the fourth millennium b.c.e. eliminate osiris. quite the opposite, in fact, for isis, incarnation of the divine mother goddess, used her magic to put him back together. osiris rose from the dead and became for all of his followers a god of resurrection. the cult of osiris was established at abydos, where he became known as the lord of the death or lord of the west, referring to his mastery over all those who had traveled west into the sunset of death. the theology of osiris, which promised resurrection, soo

ause he came from 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 mystery religions and cults 257 egyptian gods and goddesses amen: a creation-deity anubis: god of the dead bast: cat goddess bes: god to guard against evil spirits and misfortune chons: god of the moon dua: protector of the stomach of the dead geb: god of the earth hathor: cow goddess isis: mother goddess ka: god for the vital force of life maat: goddess of truth and justice min: egyptian fertility god mut: wife of amen, mother of khons nephthys: goddess of the dead nut: goddess of the sky and of the heavens osiris: god of the underworld and of vegetation qetesh: goddess of love and beauty ra: god of the sun selket: goddess of childbirth set: god of chaos shu: god of the air sobek: c

and cults it was during this time that the priests began to propagate the legend of isis, goddess of enchantment and magic, and her husband osiris, father of the great war god horus, finally conqueror of northern upper egypt. osiris came into conflict with set, who killed and dismembered him, scattering his body parts in the nile. death didn t eliminate osiris, for isis, incarnation of the divine mother goddess, used her magic to put him back together. osiris and his doctrines were concerned with the problems of life, death, resurrection, and an afterlife. the initiate who wished to attain mastery over the mysteries of life after death would be sent to knock at the door of the great temple of thebes or of memphis. here, he had been told, the priests could teach what isis and osiris knew. i

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study in magic. new york: samuel weiser, 1972. israel regardie (1907.1985) clutterbuck. in 1954, gardner published witchcraft today, which continued the thesis espoused by margaret murray that witchcraft had existed since pre-christian times but had gone underground to escape persecution. according to many researchers, gardner almost singlehandedly revived.some say reinvented. the worship of the mother goddess and combined it with elements from several other metaphysical schools. gardnerian witchcraft influenced many practitioners, including the colorful sybil leek (1923.1983, who, like so many after her would do, modified gardner fs rituals and teachings to fit her own style of wicca. the person responsible for the introduction and growth of modern witchcraft in north america was raymond

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dakota (sioux) tribes. 15. an atlas-like god of the tsimishan tribe of the pacific northwest. 16. algonquin earth goddess. 17. the "great spirit" of the lakota tribes (alternative deities for kether would be manitou, the great spirit known to many tribes, the iroquois' orenda, the oglala's wakan tanka, and the eskimo's innua) 18. creator god of the dakota (sioux) tribes. 19. iroquois/huron great mother goddess (an alternative deity for binah would be eagentic, the seneca's "ancient woman" or first mother) 20. a god of the crow tribe of the plains (an alternative deity for daath would be estsanatlehi, the navajo "woman who changes" a shape-shifter who signified transformation and immortality) 21. eskimo sea god who rules the waves and the tides. he also brings joy. 22. creator god of the i

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stic alterations according to the taste of a succession of copiers..parts of it i sense to be genuinely old; other parts suggest modern interpolation (farrar, what witches do, pp 34-35) as we shall discover presently, there appear to be no genuinely old copies of the book of shadows. still, as to the mythos, farrar informs us that the "two personifications of witchcraft are the horned god and the mother goddess (ibid, p 29) and that the "horned god is not the devil, and never has been. if today `satanist' covens do exist, they are not witches but a sick fringe, delayed-reaction victims of a centuries-old church propaganda in which even intelligent christians no longer believe (ibid, p 32. one could protest "very well, some case might be made for the horned god being mistaken for the christ

elayed-reaction victims of a centuries-old church propaganda in which even intelligent christians no longer believe (ibid, p 32. one could protest "very well, some case might be made for the horned god being mistaken for the christian devil (or should that be the other way around, but what record, prior to the advent 50 years ago of modern wicca via gerald gardner, do we have of the survival of a mother goddess image from ancient times" wiccan apologists frequently refer to the (apparently isolated) tenth century church document which states that "some wicked women, perverted by the devil, seduced by the illusions and phantasms of demons, believe and profess themselves in the a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 5 hours of the night to ride upon certain beas

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known. tuesday is named after the teutonic war god tiw, the nearest equivalent in the pagan hierarchy to mars. wednesday is named after woden, the earlier germanic form of the god the scandinavians named odin, who is the northern divine magician, or mercury. thursday is named for thor, who is associat- ed with jupiter, or jove, because he hurls thunderbolts. friday is named for frija, a teutonic mother goddess whose name means "beloved" and is linked with venus. the heptagram is drawn in one continuous line crossing from point to point. mercury is placed at the uppermost point, and as the figure is drawn clockwise, the rest of the planets follow in the order of the days (see figure at the top of page 100. also, beginning with androgynous mercury the planets alternate polarity: lunar (31

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ed ones, that stand by the lord of the whole earth" it was on the mount of olives that jesus delivered his famous sermon on the mount. in revelation 11:6, these two olive trees have the power to shut up the rain and withhold it from the earth. that is why in the key they are given "vessels to water the earth with her creatures" the earth is personified as a female spirit; more than this, she is a mother goddess who generates living things in her womb. the creatures of the earth are her children. the soul of the world (anima mundi) figures prominently in greek philosophy, and from this source found its way into the hermetic mysticism of the renaissance. this image of the earth as a fertile mother becomes very important in the key of the thirty aethers. the "continually burning lamps" may be

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jaculation of the ens seminis, then the igneous serpent of our magical powers awakens. if you want to return to the father who dwells in secret, you must first return to the bosom of your divine mother kundalini. you need to raise the serpent of life through your medullar channel. this is alchemy. alchemy: you have forgotten your divine mother kundalini. you need to worship the divine and blessed mother goddess of the world. you have been ungrateful to your cosmic mother; she is the virgin of all religious cults; she is isis, mary, cibeles, adonia, insoberta, etc. the stone of grace is surrounded by nine delectable mountains. that stone is sex. if you all want to return to the bosom of your divine mother, you need to work with the philosophical stone sex. the mayans stated that in the firs

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

menstrual blood was the 'gold of the gods. the reptilians and their crossbreeds drink blood because they are drinking the person's life-force and because they need it to exist in this dimension. they will often shape-shift into reptilians when drinking human blood and eating human flesh, i am told by those who have seen this happen. blood drinking is in their genes and an elite high priestess or 'mother goddess' in the hierarchy, who performed rituals for the brotherhood at the highest level, told, me that without human blood the reptilians cannot survive in this dimension. her name is arizona wilder, formerly jennifer ann green. interestingly, she said that the reptilians had been pursuing the aryan peoples around the universe, because the blood of the white race was particularly importan

poured into goblets and consumed by the satanists, together with the liver and eyes. this is supposed to provide strength and greater psychic vision. fat is scraped from the intestines and smeared over the bodies of the participants- like the fat of the 'messeh' in ancient egypt the corpse is then suspended from a tree and the satanists stand naked to allow the dripping blood to fall on them. the mother goddess says that by this time the participants are in such a high state of excitement that they often shape-shift into reptilians and mostly manifest, she says, in a sort of off-white colour. they are also terrified, because at this point the mother goddess points to four of them and they are then ritually murdered. clare reeves, the president of mothers against sexual abuse in the us, tol

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

welve months of the coming year, and so on. remembering that most christmas customs are ultimately based upon older pagan customs, it only remains for modern pagans to reclaim their lost traditions. in doing so, we can share many common customs with our christian friends, albeit with a slightly different interpretation. and thus we all share in the beauty of this most magical of seasons, when the mother goddess once again gives birth to the baby sun-god and sets the wheel in motion again. to conclude with a long-overdue paraphrase 'goddess bless us, every one' c a n d l e m a s: the light returns= eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 10 by mike nichols it seems quite impossible that the holiday of candlemas should be considered the beginning of spring. here i

the god of light now wins a victory over his twin, the god of darkness. in the mabinogion myth reconstruction which i have proposed, this is the day on which the restored llew takes his vengeance on goronwy by piercing him with the sunlight spear. for llew was restored/reborn at the winter solstice and is now well/old enough to vanquish his rival/twin and mate with his lover/mother. and the great mother goddess, who has returned to her virgin aspect at candlemas, welcomes the young sun god's embraces and conceives a child. the child will be born nine months from now, at the next winter solstice. and so the cycle closes at last. we think that the customs surrounding the celebration of the spring equinox were imported from mediterranean lands, although there can be no doubt that the first in

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

of creation, and after it reverts to what it was. and had the worlds and all that is in them not have been created, it would not have been possible to see the truth of the manifestation of his eternal being, blessed be he, in the past, present, and future, and he would not have been called by the name yhwh at all.119 it seems to me plausible to apply to ein sof the description of durga-kali, the mother goddess in sakta hinduism, as the ultimate trans-theistic symbol of timelessness the not-time, on account of which she merits the name adyakala.120 leaving aside the important divergence between the jewish and indian materials with respect to the gender construction of the formless form of ultimate reality,121 the characterization of the latter as a trans-theistic symbol of timelessness, th

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