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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

f the common people ^may also have a connexion with heathen notions. thus it is thrown in, as it were, to intensify a personal pronoun (see suppl. poems in]\i.h.g. have, by way of giving a hearty welcome: gote unde mir willekomen; trist. 504. frib. trist. 497. 1 writers of the 16-1 7th centuries use olgotze for statue (stieler says, from an allegorical representation of the apostles asleep on the mount of olives, 61= oil. hans sachs freqiiently has' den olgotzen tragen' for doing house drudgery, i. 5, 418'i 528. iii. 3, 24* 49^ iv. 3, 37^ 99^ the o.h.g. coz, simpuvium numae (juvenal 6, 343, which graff 4, 154 would identify with gotze, was a vessel, and belongs to giozan=fundere. 2 such a fear may arise from two causes: a holy name must not be abused, or an unholy dreaded name, e.g, that o

d on mountains (p. 25, and firgun might have been used of more than one of them; but that we have a right to claim it specially for donar and ms mother, is shewn by perun, 1 matt. 8, 1. mk 5, 5. 11. 9, 2. 11, 1. lu. 3, 5. 4, 29. 9, 37. 19, 29. 37. 1 cor. 13, 2. bairgahei (17 opeivrj) in lu. 1, 39, 65; never the simple bairgs. thunae. 173 perkun, and v>-ill be confirmed presently by the meaning of mount and rock which lies in the word hamar. as zeus is called ivdkplo, so is his daughter pallas akpia, and his mother opearepa td, fxdrep avrov ai6 (sophocl. philoct. 389; the myth transfers from him to his mother and daughter. of donar's another our very miirchen have things to tell (pentam. 5, 4; and beyond a doubt, the stories of the devil and his bath and his grandmother are but a vulgarizat

edda are osinn (who saddles his sleipnir for himself, sa^m. 93, baldr and hermosr; in sfem. 44^ and sn. 18 are given the names of ten other horses as well, on which the ases daily ride to council, one of them being heimdall's gulltoppr, sn. 30. 66; the owners of the rest are not specified, but, as there were twelve ases and only eleven horses are named, it follows that each of those gods had his mount, except thorr, who is invariably introduced either driving or walking (p. 167, and when he gets gullfaxi as spoil from hrungnir, gives him away to his son magni, sn. 110. osin's horse leaps a hedge seven ells high, eornm. sog. 10, 56. 175. even tlie women of the gods are mounted: the valkyrs, like o'sinn, ride through air and water, sn. 107, ereyja and hyndla on a boar and a wolf, as enchant

uter; but everywhere the number tlirce, in norns, moirai, parcae and fays (see suppl- about the eomance fays there is a multitude of stories, and they coincide with the popular beliefs of germany. pok uet de eomans sings: aissim fadero trcs serors en aquella ora qu'ieu sui natz, que totz temps fos enamoratz, guilhdei. poitou: assi fuy de nueitz/c/f/a; sobr'un puegau (so was i gifted by night on a mount. marcabrus: gentil fada vos adastret, quan fas nada d'una bevitat esmerada, trc fate go past, laughing, and give good gifts, pentam. 1, 10. 4, 4; the first fate bestow blessings, the last one curses 2, 8; pervonto builds a bower for three sleeping fcde, and is then gifted 1, 3; trc fate live down in a rocky hollow, and dower the children who descend 2, 3. 3, 10; fate appear at the birth of c

ht by the fearfully exciting poem in cap. 158 of the nialssaga. through a crevice in the rock dorrusr sees women sit singing over a tech, at which human heads serve them for weights, entrails for warp and weft, swords for spools, and arrows for a comb: in their weird song they describe themselves as valkyrjur, and their web as intended for the spectator dorrusr^ at length they tear up their work, mount their steeds, and six of them ride to the south, six to the north. compare with this the iveaving wyrd of the as. poet (p. 415. the parting of the maidens into two bands that ride in opposite directions, is like those nine in white and nine in black, who came riding up in succession (p. 421. i have set norns and /xotpai, side by side; with equal aptness a comparison can be drawn between valk

forewarn; their having individual names would of itself put them on a par with the norse valkyrs: hadhurc, sigelint. the third, whose name the poem omits (p. 428, is addressed by hague as 'aller wiseste wip' 1483, 4. wittich's ancestress (p. 376) is named frouwe wdchilt, as if wave- hilde, she is a merminne^ and says sooth to the hero, eab. 964 974. murolt also has an aunt a merminne who lives in mount elsam and rules over dwarfs; her name is not given, but that of her son is madelger, and she likewise gives wise advice to morolt; mor. 40' 41^ the merminne in ulrich's lanzelet (lines 196 seq) is said to be wis (5751. 6182, she has under her 10,000 %mmarried women (dern keiniu bekande man noch mannes gezoc, they dwell on a mountain by the sea, in an ever-blooming land. in the apouonius, a b

bles that of the vala. the relation of valkyrs to christian heroes is suggested by the fraternal bond between the vila and marko (vuk 2, 98. 232. danitza for 1826, p. 108, as also by the vilas appearing singly, having proper names, and prophesying. in some things they come nearer the german elfins of our next chapter: they live on hills, love the song and the round dance (ir. elfenm. ixxxii, they mount up in the air and discharge fatal arrows at men' ustrielila ga vila' the vila has shot him with her shaft. their cry in the wood is like the sound of the woodpecker hacking, and is expressed by the word 'kliktati. the vila has a right to the child whom his mother in heedless language (diavo ye odniyo) has consigned to the devil (vuk no. 394, as in similar cases the wolf or bear fetches him a

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f the lord breaketh the cedars, yea, the lord breaketh the cedars of lebanon. the voice of the lord divideth the flames of fire. the voice of the lord shaketh the wilderness, yea, the lord shaketh the wilderness of kadesh. heg: places candidate in a seat in west of altar and facing east and takes calvary cross from him, returns to place. hiero: eloah came from teman of edom, and the holy one from mount paran. his glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise, and his brightness was as the light. he had karnaim in his hands, and there was the hiding of his power. before him went the pestilence and flaming fire went forth at his feet. he stood and measured the earth. he beheld and drove asunder the nations and the everlasting mountains were scattered and the perpetual hills

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ehalf of mankind. the priest would chant 'agni, the divine ministrant of the sacrifice, the great bestower of treasure. may one obtain through agni, wealth and welfare' agni is still important as the god of domestic and ritual fire and for spells for the increase of wealth, material goods, creativity and domestic protection. hephaestus hephaestus, greek god of fire and metal-work, was thrown from mount olympus by his father zeus because he took the part of his mother hera in a quarrel; as a result of the fall, he became lame. he created armour, weapons and jewels for the gods in his workshop beneath the volcanic mount etna, in sicily, and as a reward was given aphrodite as his unwilling bride. he was among the least charismatic of the gods, but his roman counterpart, vulcan, fashioned jupi

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izodope zodelida caosaji tol-toregi; od zod-cahisa esiasacahe. el ta-vi-vau; od iaod tahilada das hubare pe-o-al; soba coremefa cahisa ta ela vaulasa od quo-co- casabe. eca niisa od darebesa quo-a-asa: fetahe-ar-ezodi od beliora: ia-ial eda-nasa cicalesa; bagile ge-iad i-el! the forty-eight keys or calls 26 the mighty sounds have entered into the third angle, and are become as olives in the olive mount; looking with gladness upon the earth, and dwelling in the brightness of the heavens as continual comforters. unto whom i fastened 19 pillars of gladness, and gave them vessels to water the earth with her creatures; and they are the brothers of the first and second, and the beginning of their own seats, which are garnished with 69,636 ever-burning lamps: whose numbers are as the first, the e

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immediately began to preach a new law. this is so curious that it leaves us to inquire whether the histories of other great teachers contradict or confirm. moses led a quiet life until his slaying of the egyptian. he then flees into the land of midian, and we hear nothing of what he did there, yet immediately on his return he turns the whole place upside down. later on, too, he absents himself on mount sinai for a few days, and comes back with the tables of the law in his hand. st. paul (again, after his adventure on the road to damascus, goes into the desert of arabia for many years, and on his return overturns the roman empire. even in the legends of savages we find the same thing universal; somebody who is nobody in particular goes away for a longer or shorter period, and comes back as

layman, these five: thou shalt not kill. thou shalt not steal. thou shalt not lie. thou shalt not commit adultery. thou shalt drink no intoxicating drink. for the monk many others are added. the commandments of moses are familiar to all; they are rather similar; and so are those given by christ<talmud> in the "sermon on the mount" some of these are only the "virtues" of a slave, invented by his master to keep him in order. the real point of the hindu "yama" is that breaking any of these would tend to excite the mind. subsequent theologians have tried to improve upon the teachings of the masters, have given a sort of mystical importance to these virtues; they have insisted upon them for their own sake, and turned them

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le to say where (or even whether) a copy of this latter work exists. 331, 332. stand (stephen) or sit (paul).50 acts vii. 36; heb. xii, 2. 337. samadhi-dak.51 ecstasy-of-meditation mail. 338. maha-meru.52 the mystic mountain of the hindus. see southey s curse of kehama. 339. gaurisankar.53 called also chomokankar, devadhunga, and everest. 341. chogo.54 the giant. this is the native name of k2; or mount godwin-auster, as col. godwin-austen would call it. it is the second highest known mountain in the world, as devadhunga is the first. 356. the history of the west.55 de acosta (jos) natural and moral history of the indies. alison, sir a. history of scotland. benzoni. history of the new world. buckle. history of civilisation. burton, j. h. history of scotland. carlyle. history of frederick th

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they longed to speak: aye! many a glance they flung. but i stood with an unflushed cheek. and only the strangers heed me now; i am but a statue cold. ah! could they see the pain in my brow, my heart that is growing old. i may not summon them to my side, or move my lips' stern fold. i am the lonely bride. but never a man doth dare to speak, and with burning heart i stand, till i feel the hot blood mount to my cheek, and a trembling shake my hand. if they but knew of my need, my need, as i wait in love's barren land, to me, to me would they speed. 96 here in the market place they pass, merchant and slave and thrall; the dewy herb-gatherer from the grass, the steward from out the hall. ah! the weary waiting till one shall speak, oh! then the spell will fall, and i shall find what i seek. vict

put it to; and wouldn't it be jolly if our own second? suddenly straightened its back and threw its chest out and marched off as? suppose then we accept our scepticism as having destroyed our knowledge root and branch- is there no limit to its action? does it not in a sense stultify itself? having destroyed logic by logic- if satan cast out satan, how shall his kingdom stand? let us stand on the mount, saviours of the world that we are, and answer "get thee behind me satan" though refraining from quoting texts or giving reasons. oho! says somebody; is aleister crowley here- samson blinded and bound, grinding corn for the philistines! not at all, dear boy! we shall put all the questions that we can put- but we may find a tower built upon a rock, against which the winds beat in vain. not wh

flame do we hover for a moment over the well of life; and then the night-wind rises, and wafts us into the starless depths of the grave. we are like gnats hovering in the sunbeams, and then the evening falls and we are gone: and who can tell whither, and unto what end? whether to the city of eternal sleep, or to the mansion of the music of rejoicing? o my brothers! come with me! follow me! let us mount the dark stairs of this tower of silence, this watch-tower of night; upon whose black brow no flickering flame burns to guide the weary wanderer across the mires of life and through the mists of death. come, follow me! grope up these age-worn steps, slippery with the tears of the fallen, and bearded with the blood of the vanquished and the salt of the agony of failure. come, come! halt not!

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f the dissolution of the worlds. but my silence is mightier than they. close up the worlds like unto a weary house; close up the book of the recorder, and let the veil swallow up the shrine, for i am arisen, o my fair one, and there is no more need of all these things. if once i put thee apart from me, it was the joy of play. is not the ebb and flowing of the tide a music of the sea? come, let us mount unto nuit our mother and be lost! let being be emptied in the infinite abyss! for by me only shalt thou mount; thou hast none other wings than mine. all this while the rose has been shooting out blue flames, coruscating like snakes through the whole aire. and the snakes have taken shapes of sentences. one of them is "sub umbra alarum tuarum adonai quies et felicitas" and another "summum bonu

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of the seal-folk legends. it is the story of the wounded seal. there was once an islander who made his living by the killing of seals. one night, as he sat by the fire, resting after his day's work, he heard a knocking at the door, and, on opening it, found a man on horseback. the stranger explained that he had come on behalf of one who wished to buy a large number of skins, and then told him to mount up behind. hoping to effect a good sale, the seal-hunter obeyed, and was carried away at a wild gallop, which ended on the brink of a precipice. there his strange companion grasped him, and plunged with him into the sea. down they went, and down, till at length they reached the abode of the seal-folk. here, after a not unfriendly reception, the hunter was shown a huge jack-knife. it was his

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y: and were totally unable to comprehend my explanation that i was a "man, returning in time to behold the "beginning of things" now was i able to stand in my sephiroth: and the crown of twelve stars "was upon my head! i then went into the centre of the earth (i suppose) and "stood upon the" 250 top of an high mountain. the many dragons and guardians i was able to overpower by "authority" now the mount was of glistening whiteness, exceeding white as snow: yet dead and unluminous. and i beheld a vision, even like unto that of the universal mercury;48 and i learnt that i myself was sulphur and unmercurial. now having attained the mercurialising of my sulphur i was able (in my vision) to fecundate the mountain (of salt. and it was instantly transmuted into gold. what came ye out into the wild

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search the unfathomable depths of thy wisdom. 4. for what am i that i durst look upon thy countenance, purblind one of small understanding that i am, blindly groping through the night of mine ignorance like unto a little maggot hid in the dark depths of a corrupted corpse? 5. therefore, o my god, fashion me into a five-pointed star of ruby burning beneath the foundations of thy unity, that i may mount the pillar of thy glory, and be lost in adoration of the triple unity of thy godhead, i beseech thee, o thou who art to me as the finger of light thrust through the black clouds of chaos; i beseech thee, o my god, hearken thou unto my cry! 6. then, o my god, am i not risen as the sun that eateth up ocean as a golden lion that feedeth on a blue-grey wolf? so shall i become one with thy beauty

onous dragon of adamant, for the glory and splendour of thy name. 13. ah! but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou self-luminous refulgent brilliance; thou eye of light that hath no eyelid; thou turquoise-studeed sceptre of deed: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou white furnace womb of energy; 40 o thou spark-whirling forge of the substance of the worlds; i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till i mount as a white beam unto the crown, and as a breath of night melt into the golden lips of thy dawn, in the glory and splendour of thy name. o glory be unto thee through all time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 41 the chapter known as capricorn the twelvefold humiliation of god and the unity thereof i adore thee by the twelve humiliatio

ent laughter of fire, that art wound round 68 the heart of the waters! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou gorilla blizzard air, that tearest out earth's tresses by the roots! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou reveller of spirit, that carousest in the halls of matter! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou red-lipped vampire of life, that drainest blood from the black mount of death! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou little lark of beyond, that art heard in the dark groves of knowledge! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou summer softness of lips, that glow hot with the scarlet of passion! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou pearly foam of the grape, that art flecked with the roses of love! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o

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ade as the godhead is displayed. nay, we stir not. everywhere is our temple right appointed. all the earth is faery fair for us. am i not anointed? the sigil burns upon the brow at the adjuration_ here and now. olympas. the air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. behold! it beams_ it burns_ it blooms* olympas. master, how subtly hast thou drawn the daylight from the golden dawn, bidden the cavernous mount unfold its ruby rose, its cross of gold; until i saw, flashed from afar, the hawk's eye in the silver star! marsyas. peace to all beings. peace to thee, co-heir of mine eternity! peace to the greatest and the least, to nebula and nenuphar! light in abundance be increased on them that dream that shadows are! olympas. blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star! 54 the he

r. waite. even so, he only just misses. and i will bet george hume barne a "cr me de menthe" that if mr. waite (even now) will ride on a camel from biskra to timbuktu with an ouled nail and the dancer m'saoud, he will produce absolutely first-rate poetry within six months. enough. but buy the book. a. quiller, jr. 114 an origin in fire of gold they set them out, the garlanded of old, who comb the mount of evil, strong and stout to wrest from venus' brow the comb "the fiery wind, the web unspun "the nine stars and the circling sun" not theirs to wander lost and lone, adream by mountain lake, and sea; not theirs to bear a face of stone away from human mystery: they pondered o'er the runes of time, they slew the serpent of the slime. the brutish brain, the nervous hands, the conscious power o

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his belly! knight, awake! ah! well he woke! his love an scorn grapple in death-throe at his throat "lead me away (quoth he "my men! woe, woe is me was ever born so blind a bat, so gross a goat, as palamede the saracen" 87 xxxiv sir palamede the saracen hath hid him in an hermit's cell upon an island in the fen of that lone land where druids dwell. there came an eagle from the height and bade him mount. from dale to dell they sank and soared. last to the light of the great sun himself they flew, piercing the borders of the night, passing the irremeable blue. far into space beyond the stars at last they came. and there he knew all the blind reasonable bars broken, and all the emotions stilled, and all the stains and all the scars left him; sop like a child he thrilled with utmost knowledge;

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white and gold nemmes" hermanubis, typhon "and others return to their places" hermanubis "and" typhon "come forward and salute" sphinx] typhon. 1. mother of mystery, hast thou the secret of jupiter? 33 hermanubis. 1. mother of mystery, hast thou the secret of jupiter [sphinx "plays a triumphant melody<typhon. brother hermanubis, what is the place? hermanubis. the summit of mount kithairon. typhon. procul, o procul este viri["all male probationers retire to back of stage" typhon. sisters, let us invoke the father to manifest in the son. sphinx. per spiritum sanctum, amen["she also retires to her place on wheel" maenads. evoe! evoe ho! iacche! iacche! typhon. hail, o dionysus! hail! winged son of semele! hail, o hail! the stars are pale; hidden the moonlight in the va

god of glory thundereth! the lord is upon many waters. 3. the voice of the lord is strong and powerful! the voice of the lord is full of majesty! 4. the voice of the lord breaketh the cedars! yea! the lord breaketh the cedars of lebanon! 5. the voice of the lord divideth the flames of fire! yea! the lord shaketh the wilderness of kadesh! 1. eloah came out of temani of edom: and the holy one from mount paran: 2. he had karnaim in his hand; and there was the hiding of his power. 3. before him went the pestilence; and flaming fire went forth at his feet. 4. he stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations. 5. and the everlasting mountains were scattered; the perpetual hills did bow! 52 1. was the lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger kindled against th

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universe, whereof he is the vessel. 15. nor do thou deceive thyself. it is easy to tell the live force from the dead matter. it is no easier to tell the live snake from the dead snake. 16. also concerning vows. be obstinate, and be not obstinate. understand that the yielding of the yoni is one with the lengthening of the lingam. thou art both these; and thy vow is but the rustling of the wind on mount meru. 17. now shalt thou adore me who am the eye and the tooth, the goat of the spirit, the lord of creation. i am the eye in the triangle, the silver star that ye adore. 18. i am baphomet, that is the eightfold word that shall be equilibrated with the three. 36 19. there is no act or passion that shall not be a hymn in mine honour. 20. all holy things and all symbolic things shall be my sac

d. i dared not whisper the sudden fear of my heart in your miracle of an ear, jeanne! i tightened my lips, and my hand on yours; so that you might think i loved you more. but now in the midnight the thought endures, and the love- ah what is the dream we adore? suppose the infinite peace of the heart, jeanne! the crest and crown of labour and art, of the mystic quest, of the toil of the saint, the mount on whose slopes the strongest faint, jeanne! suppose that peace of god, that house of delight of the bridegroom and the spouse, were only the calm of the chewing cows, jeanne! suppose that in all the worlds inane there were one thing only vexed and vain, turbulent, troubled, and insane, jeanne! suppose that the universal plan had but one flaw, and that flaw were man! 50 then- even then- we a

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ear on all the planes. it is an increased consciousness of god's plans for the world, and an increased ability to enter into those plans and to further them. it is the effort in the abstract mind to pass an examination. it is the honour class in the master's school, and is within the attainment of those souls whose karma permits and whose efforts suffice to fulfil the aim. initiation leads to the mount whence vision can be had, a vision of the eternal now, wherein past, present, and future exist as one; a vision of the pageant of the races with the golden thread of pedigree carried through the many types; a vision of the golden sphere that holds in unison all the many evolutions of our system, deva, human, animal, vegetable, mineral, and elemental, and through which the pulsating life can

ladder rise again, radiant and glowing in its fifth division. what marks those portions which you thus describe as separated from another part? do not all form but one completed ladder of clearly marked proportions always a gap appeareth to the eye, which (when approached more closely) resolveth then itself into a cross, by which one mounteth to the next division. what causeth then the cross? how mount you by its aid? the cross is formed by aspirations, instilled by godlike urge, which cut athwart the lower world desires, implanted by the life developed from below. explain more clearly what you mean, and how that cross becomes the way. the arms that form the cross become the great dividing line, placed twixt the lower and the higher. upon those arms the hands are nailed, the hands that gra

e, placed twixt the lower and the higher. upon those arms the hands are nailed, the hands that grasp and hold, ministering to the lower needs, trained thus through many aeons. lo, when the hands are helpless held, and cannot grasp and hold, the inner life slips from its sheath, mounting the limb upright. it passeth from the lower fourth, and the cross doth bridge the gap. pass they with ease that mount that limb, and leave the fourth behind? they pass through tears, through clouds and mists they suffer and they die. they bid adieu to all earth's friends; they mount the way alone they bridge the gap with loving deeds done in the pain of living; they lift one hand aloft to him who standeth just above; they lean one downward to the man who standeth next below. the hands, freed from the transv

the all, completion of the circling spheres and their entry into peace. what part, o pilgrim on the way. play you within this scheme? how will you enter into peace? how stand before your lord? i play my part with stern resolve, with earnest aspiration; i look above, i help below; i dream not, nor i rest; i toil; i serve; i reap; i pray; i am the cross; i am the way; i tread upon the work i do; i mount upon my slain self; i kill desire, and i strive, forgetting all reward. i forego peace; i forfeit rest, and in the stress of pain i lose myself and find myself and enter into peace. glossary adept. a master, or human being who, having traversed the path of evolution and entered upon the final stage of the path, the path of initiation, has taken five of the initiations, and has therefore pass

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he christian so beautifully expresses it) has been born in the cave of the heart, then that divine guest can consciously control the lower material bodies by means of consecrated mind. only when buddhi has assumed an ever-increasing control of the personality, via the mental plane (hence the need of building the antaskarana, will the personality respond to that which is above, and the lower fires mount and blend with the two higher. only when spirit, by the power of thought, controls the material vehicles, does the subjective life assume its rightful place, does the god within shine and blaze forth till the form is lost from sight, and "the path of the just shine ever more and more until the day be with us" division e- motion on the physical and astral planes i. preliminary remarks. 1. the

apidity than the devas. they have need to do this, for they have lost ground to make up- 342- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the law of vibration is the law of progress, of movement and of rotation. on the seventh or lowest plane, the vibration is slow, clogged and lethargic from the standpoint of the first, and it is in learning to vibrate or to rotate more rapidly, that we mount the path of return. it involves, therefore necessarily, the building in of finer matter into the vehicles, both deva and human. in this second system, on the five planes of human evolution, we have the five vehicles physical, astral, mental, buddhic and atmic which have all to be purified, rarefied, intensified and refined. in the two lowest, the physical and the astral, only matter of the f

tion of this law, and will come under the law of magnetic control. the other will remain under the law in a static condition, until in a later period a fresh opportunity will come; old forms will break, and in another mahamanvantara, and in its fifth period, will come the chance for which they will have waited, when they can again swing into the current of evolution and the imprisoned spirits may mount- 352- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust again towards their source. in an occult sense this law is for us the one with which we are the most intimately concerned. it plays an important part in the hands of the lords of flame, and is one of their main factors in controlling the three worlds. note here an interesting fact, that venus is the sixth planet (esoterically the sec

or builders and vitalisers of the egoic body; they are those through whom self-consciousness becomes a fact. in the next solar system they too will no longer embody the type of consciousness towards which man aspires; he will have to rise to still greater realisations, and again by occultly "putting his foot upon" them these higher realisations will become possible. in this solar system he has to mount by the putting his foot upon the serpent of matter. he rises by domination of matter and becomes himself a serpent of wisdom. in the next solar system he will mount upward by means of the "serpent of wisdom" and by the domination and control of the agnishvattas, achieve something of which even the illuminated mind of the highest dhyan-chohan can not yet conceive. a. the fifth principle. the

the uttermost disaster, and the chaos of that which seeketh to withstand. the asuras veil their faces, and the pit of maya reeleth to the foundation. the stars of the eternal lhas vibrate to that sound, the word uttered with sevenfold intensity. greater the chaos becometh; the major centre with all the seven circulating spheres rock with the echoes of disintegration. the fumes of utter blackness mount upwards in dissipation. the noise- 442- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust discordant of the warring elements greets the oncoming one, and deters him not. the strife and cries of the fourth great hierarchy, blending with the softer note of the builders of the fifth and sixth, meet his approach. yet he passeth on his way, sweeping the circle of the spheres, and sounding fort

were seen. the first, the second, and the third became three lines of fire and one triangle was consummated. yet the four are seen quiescent and respond not to the heat. thus do the cycles and the elemental lives pass and repass, and their work continues. the forms are set, yet brief their span. they move not, yet they pass. the hour has come for the great awakening. they pass no longer down but mount. this is the interlude for which the lhas in their high place have waited. they may not enter yet the forms prepared, but feel their hour approaching. they meditate anew, and for a minute gaze upon the myriad threefold fires until the fourth responds. the sixty seconds passed in dynamic concentration produce forms of triple kind, three sets of forms, and myriads in the three. the heart of mo

to the ray concerned, so is the centre affected. the force of the lunar lords, which has succeeded in keeping these three organs quiescent, is superseded and the solar angels pour in their energy. all this again is closely connected with the threefold energy of the physical body, and produces effects within the spinal column which arouses the kundalini fire at the base of the spine, causing it to mount along the triple spinal channel, again according to ray and aspect involved. more anent this may not here be said, as the dangers of a premature knowledge along this line are far greater than the dangers of ignorance. suffice it to point out that the fires at the lower centres, those below the diaphragm have, by the time the second initiation is reached, usually mounted to the centre between

spleen, and the solar plexus) synthesising their energy by an act of the will and directing it to the centre at the base of the spine, so that the fourfold energy is thence transmitted to the throat centre. the white magician uses the kundalini force as it is transmitted via the central spinal channel. the black magician uses the inferior channels, dividing the fourfold energy in two units, which mount via the two channels, leaving the central one dormant. hence it will be apparent that one works with duality and the other with unity. on the planes of duality, therefore, it is apparent why the black magician has so much power. the plane of unity for humanity is the mental plane. the planes of diversity are the astral and the physical. hence the black magician is of more apparent power than

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soul to man in physical plane incarnation works ever the great transformation. christ himself has said that "greater works than i do shall ye do" holding out to us the promise of the "kingdom, the power and the glory" provided our aspiration and endurance suffice to carry us along the thorny way of the cross, and enable us to tread that path which "leads up hill all the way" to the summit of the mount of transfiguration. how is this great change brought about? how does man, the victim of his desires and lower nature become man, the victor, triumph over the world, the flesh and the devil? it is brought about when the physical brain of the incarnated man becomes aware of the self, the soul, and this conscious awareness only becomes possible when the true self can "reflect itself in the mind

eir endeavour. when in incarnation under this sign they balance the pairs of opposites with care, they equalise their one-sided development, modifying the unevenness of their efforts hitherto, and begin to "set an even pace" they frequently then enter the sign of aquarius and become bearers of water, having to carry "on their heads the bowl of living water" thus the rapidity of their climb up the mount of initiation has to be modified, or "the water will be spilt and the bowl be shattered" because the water is intended to slake the thirst of the masses, they must hasten their progress for the need is great. thus the "first shall be last and the last shall be first" and the hare and the tortoise meet at the goal. 23. by intense devotion to ishvara, knowledge of ishvara is gained. ishvara is

nto line with these requirements, then he can safely proceed with the forms and rituals of practical yoga, but not till then. it is the failure to recognize this that leads to so much of the trouble among students of yoga in the west. there is no better basis for the work of eastern occultism than strict adherence to the requirements laid down by the master of all the masters in the sermon on the mount, and the self-disciplined christian, pledged to purity of life and unselfish service, can take up the practise of yoga much more safely than his more worldly and selfish yet intellectual brother. he will not run the risks that his unprepared brother takes. the words "internal and external purity" relate to the three sheaths in which the self is veiled and must be interpreted in a dual sense

rue and real; he becomes aware of the nature of the ideal and bends every power which he possesses to the work of bringing that ideal into objective manifestation; he sees the vision of the kingdom of god as it will be in the latter days, and all that he has and is he renders up in order that the vision may be seen by all; he knows the plan, for it is revealed to him in the "secret place upon the mount of god" and he cooperates with it intelligently upon the physical plane; he hears the voice of the silence and obeys its injunction, working steadily at the task of spiritual living in a world consecrated to things material. all this is possible to the man who has stilled the versatile psychic nature and has mastered the kingly science of raja yoga. in the hidden literature of the adepts the

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h kingdom cannot be taken. certain expansions of consciousness are possible; initiations on the astral and lower mental planes can be taken; some of the vision can be seen, the sense of the presence can be felt; the beloved can be reached by love, and the bliss and the joy of this contact can carry with it its abiding joy, but that clear perception which comes from the experience undergone on the mount of illumination is a different thing to the joy experienced on the mount of blessing. the heart leads in the one, the head leads in the other. to answer categorically: the path of knowledge is that of the occultist and the sage; that of love is that of the mystic and the saint. the head or the heart approach is not dependent upon the ray, for both ways must be known; the mystic must become t

athing exercise keep your count with accuracy, listen attentively for the sound that "soundeth in the silence" of the interlude. at the same time think of yourself as the soul, the imposer of rhythm, and the voice that speaks. this is something which can be acquired by practice by each of you. discover the serpent of illusion by the help of the serpent of wisdom and then will the sleeping serpent mount upwards to the place of meeting. rule six the devas of the lower four feel the force when the eye opens; they are driven forth and lose their master- 123- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the work of the eye the work of the eye we have for consideration now one of the simplest of the rules for magic yet at the same time one of the most practical, and one upon which the en

ave been considering. we must- 165- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust remember that 'to will' is the prerogative of spirit 'to know' is the function of the soul 'to dare' is the duty of the personality, and 'to be silent' is the ultimate dharma or destiny of the matter aspect, of the animal nature in its interplay with the soul. first ray "let the forces come together. let them mount to the high place, and from that lofty eminence, let the soul look out upon a world destroyed. then let the word go forth 'i still persist" second ray "let all the life be drawn to the centre, and enter thus into the heart of love divine. then from that point of sentient life, let the soul realise the consciousness of god. let the word go forth, reverberating through the silence 'naught is b

when the currents of the sentient life meet where the river passes round the mountain's massive foot, then one vast stream is seen which floweth north" the symbology of this is apparent, and can be also used to depict the flow of the two currents ida and pingala and their blending in the river of energy that mounts to the head. there is the meeting place, and there the sacrifice, enacted upon the mount of golgotha (the place of the skull. in considering the sentient body of a human being i will probably help the most if i deal with it in terms of its moods and ordinary expressions, for it is only in dealing with its effects and in seeking to master them that man arrives at knowledge of himself and so becomes a master. the most ordinary manifestations of astral activity are: i. fear. ii. de

er propositions. out of the medley of ideas, theories, speculations, religions, churches, cults, sects and organizations, two main lines of thought are emerging one doomed eventually to die out, the other to strengthen and grow until it, in its turn, gives birth to that (for us) ultimate formulation of truth which will suffice for the next age and carry man to a high pinnacle of the temple to the mount of initiation. these two lines are: 1. those who look back to the past, who hang on to the old ways, the ancient theologies, and the reactionary rejection methods of finding truth. these are the people who recognize authority, whether that of a prophet, a bible or a theology. these are those who prefer obedience to imposed authority to the self-imposed guidance of an enlightened soul. these

ies, and not the inner god within their own heart. thirdly, bear in mind, also, that just as in the individual life there come the periods wherein the vision is obscured, the valley is traversed, and the stars shut out by the fog, so in connection with groups will the same be seen. but bear equally in mind that after the valley is crossed (for all aspirants and for all truly spiritual groups) the mount of initiation is seen and ascended; after obscuration succeeds the vision, and after night comes the day. in the great cycles affecting cosmic groups this also can be seen; in the lesser cycles, controlling the races, the same eventuates and the same law persists in all the lesser groups down to the groups of tiny lives that hold sway in the vehicles of man. this needs emphasis. fourthly, do

the goal, is as yet totally unrealised except by the highest adept and the most- 346- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust exalted of the sons of god. until the illumined mind and the power of intuitional response are developed in the human family, it is not possible for us to grasp the basic concepts which are to be found in the mind of god himself. until the highest point of the mount of initiation has been climbed, it is not possible to vision the promised land as it is. until the limitations the necessary limitations of the three worlds have been surmounted and man can function as a free soul in the spiritual kingdom, that which lies beyond that kingdom must remain hid to man just as much as the human state of being and awareness remains a sealed book to the animal. thi

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ir eyes from pity as from fear. the work is all that counts. the form must disappear so that the loving spirit may enter into rest. naught must arrest the progress of the workers with the plan. they enter upon the work assigned with paean and with song. the cross is reared on high; the form is laid thereon, and on that cross must render up its life. each builds a cross which forms the cross. they mount upon the cross. through war, through work, through pain and toil, the purpose is achieved. thus saith the symbol. it will be noted how this purpose, when applied by man to himself, works his release. when applied by man to man, it has produced the corrupt and awful story of man's cruelty to man. in the above mantram you will find the clue to the sixth ray purpose as it appears in the human k

of their loved brother. 1. why is desire red? why red as blood? tell us, oh son of god, why thy way is red with blood? quality..power to kill out desire. 2. why do you turn your back upon the sphere of earth? is it too small, too poor? why kick it as a ball upon a playing field? quality. spurning that which is not desired. 3. why set the cross from earth to heaven? but earth can be a heaven. why mount the cross and die? quality..self-immolation. 4. why battle thus with all that is around? seek you not peace? why stand between the forces of the night and day? why thus unmoved and calm, untired and unafraid? quality. endurance and fearlessness. 5. see you not god in all, the life in all, and love in all? why separate yourself and leave behind the loved and the well-known? quality..power to

for no human being has, or can have, any comprehension of the nature of life until he has attained the third initiation- 95- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust i repeat this with emphasis, and in order to impress upon you the futility of idle speculation upon this subject. disciples who have undergone the third initiation and have climbed the mount of transfiguration can from that high point glimpse the radiance of the subjective centre of energy (the central spiritual sun of the secret doctrine) and so gain a flash of realisation as to the meaning of the word "life" but they cannot, and they dare not, pass on the knowledge gained. their efforts to convey such information would be futile, and language itself would be inadequate to the

is so vast that the concrete mind and the rationalising nature lose themselves in the realised complexities and problems. but the illumined intuition, with its power to synthesise (which is the emerging characteristic of the disciples and initiates under training, can and does lead them into a measured sequence of expansions of consciousness which eventually land them at last on the summit of the mount of transfiguration. from that eminence the disciple can gain the vision which will enable him to see the whole scheme in a moment of time, and to share with arjuna the experience of the gita wherein he "saw all forms gathered together in the body of that god of gods" he can descend from that mountain with his personality transfigured and radiant. why? because he now knows that spirit is a fa

s. through the activity of the real esoteric schools, a technique of training will be instituted which will develop the new powers that will substantiate the old truth and turn men's beliefs into certainties. through the stimulating and occultly scientific work of the department of religions, men will come to new knowledge and awareness, and will arrive at an uplift that will bring mankind to the mount of transfiguration. through the work of the department of government, men will come to an understanding of those ideas which are needed to carry the nations the next step forward to mutual help. i shall try to express the deepest objective of the brotherhood, so that you can understand and cooperate. humanity is intended to act as a power house through which certain types of divine energy ca

n of reality through group work. 16. 2. stimulation of man through desire. 17. 3. desire energy, instinct or aspiration. 18. vii. ray of ceremonial order. 1. union of energy and substance through group activity. 19. 2. stimulation of etheric forms. 20. 3. vital energy. 21. a treatise on cosmic fire, p. 1222. the seven keys to the seven ray methods first ray "let the forces come together. let them mount to the high place, and from that lofty eminence let the soul look upon a world destroyed. then let the word go forth 'i will persist" second ray "let all the life be drawn to the centre, and enter thus into the heart of love divine. then from that point of sentient life, let the soul realise the consciousness of god. let the word go forth, reverberating through the silence 'naught is but me

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his uniqueness, his basic profundity and his understanding of the hearts of men. they recognise the intelligence of his ideas and sponsor them in their own philosophies. the developments which the carpenter of nazareth brought about in the fabric of human life, his social and economic ideals, and the beauty of the civilisation which could be founded upon the ethical teaching of the sermon on the mount are frequently emphasised by many who refuse to recognise his mission as an expression of divinity. from the rational point of view, the question as to the historical accuracy of his story remains as yet unsolved, though his teaching upon the fatherhood of god and the brotherhood of man is endorsed by the best minds of the race. those who can move in the world of ideas, of faith and of livin

the facts of the gospel story, that fivefold sequential myth which teaches us the revelation of divinity in the person of jesus christ, and which remains eternally truth, in the cosmic sense, in the historical sense, and in its practical application to the individual. this myth divides itself into five great episodes: 1. the birth at bethlehem. 2. the baptism in jordan. 3. the transfiguration on mount carmel. 4. the crucifixion on mount golgotha. 5. the resurrection and ascension. their significance for us and their re-interpretation in modern terms is our task. a point of crisis and of culmination has been reached in the history of man, and man owes this to the influence of christianity. as a member of the human family, he has reached a level of integration unknown in the past, except in

ts from the standpoint of the individual, and study those episodes related in the gospel story which vitally concern the individual human being who, approaching the end of the long and weary way of evolution, is ready to re-enact the same drama in his own experience. to him there comes the opportunity to pass from the stage of the new birth to that of the final resurrection, via the steep path of mount golgotha. in his innermost nature he must learn to understand the words of christ "ye must be born again,"2 and to express the death unto life which is the outstanding message of st. paul.3 each of us must sooner or later prove this for himself, because "living religious experience is the only legitimate way to the comprehension of dogmas."4 only by following the example of those who have ac

lucis trust him forward along that way which leads from one high peak of attainment to another, until he himself becomes an illumined light-bearer, and one who can light the way for others. the illuminati have ever led the race forward; the knowers, mystics and saints have ever revealed to us the heights of racial and individual possibility. the way from the birth at bethlehem to the crucifixion mount is a hard and a difficult one, but it is trodden with joy by the christ and by those whose consciousness has been attuned to his. the joy of physical life is changed into the joy of understanding, and new values, new desires and a new love replace the old. the birth at bethlehem marked the beginning of the long way of tragedy of the saviour. it made him "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with

nt world, as we can begin to know it. the new testament opens with the appearance of a dove one the symbol of the raging waters, the other the symbol of the waters of peace. through christ and the unfoldment of the christ life in each human being will come "the peace which passeth understanding."23 standing there in the waters of jordan, christ faced the world as man. standing upon the top of the mount of transfiguration, he faced the world as god. but in this initiation, he stood on a level with his brethren and demonstrated purity and peace. let us remember that "from the point of view of others only that man is original who can lead them beyond what they already know, but this he cannot do until he has become their equal in their knowledge."24 this is a point to be remembered. christ wa

into one last effort to control the son of god. evil is thus constituted, and we shall all some day have to face this testing this triple evil, this devil, such as christ faced. three times he was tempted, and three times he resisted, and only after this capacity to react to form and to material benefit had been finally put aside was it possible for christ to pass on to his world service and the mount of transfiguration. one of the finest thinkers in the field of christian interpretation today tells us that "all they who are destined for the kingdom must win forgiveness for the guilt contracted in the earthly aeon by encountering steadfastly the world-power as it collects itself for a last attack. for through this guilt they were still subject to the power of ungodliness. this guilt const

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

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

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phenomena which we call the seven rays. on the path of return and in connection with the process of detachment, which marks the progress of the soul towards release and the ending of the period of appropriation, certain passages in a treatise on white magic give clearly the intended technique. they are as follows, and are found on pages 288 and 289. ray one "let the forces come together. let them mount to the high place, and from that lofty eminence, let the soul look out upon a world destroyed. then let the word go forth 'i still persist" ray two "let all the life be drawn to the centre, and enter thus into the heart of love divine. then from that point of sentient life, let the soul realise the consciousness of god. let the word go forth, reverberating through the silence 'naught is but

me ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust perhaps an indication of how much they need the impression of this life objective upon their consciousness. that pledge runs as follows "i play my part with stern resolve; with earnest aspiration; i look above, i help below; i dream not, nor i rest; i toil; i serve; i reap; i pray; i am the cross; i am the way; i tread upon the work i do, i mount upon my slain self; i kill desire, and i strive, forgetting all reward. i forego peace; i forfeit rest, and, in the stress of pain, i lose myself and find myself and enter into peace. to all this i solemnly pledge myself, invoking my higher self" as the work of learning to serve proceeds and the inner contact becomes more sure, the next thing which will occur will be a deepening of the life

e crucifixion, where he hung, symbolically pendent 'twixt heaven and earth, and through the potency of his own inner vibration and magnetism, has drawn and will draw all men to himself. this is the first great idea emerging. the second emerging idea concerns the balancing of the forces which have been mastered. the symbol of the scales is here appropriate, and, of this truth, the three crosses on mount golgotha are also symbols. libra governs this law, and certain forces from that constellation can be sensed when the soul consciousness comes under the influence of the law. these forces are quiescent where the personality is concerned; their effect does not register, even though necessarily present. in law three, the sacrificing god and the god of the dualities come under certain influences

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and that altitude of joy whereon your soul immovably stands, then look into the world of living men a threefold world in which all men, incarnate and discarnate are found. find there that which your soul can and will recognise. the glamours of one's own distress, the maya of the past distorts one's point of view. only the soul stands clear from illusion, and only the soul sees things as they are. mount, therefore, to the soul. i would like here to point out to you that earlier i gave you a hint that there might arise a need for you to call for added strength, and the need, perhaps to intensify your inner contact with myself. i gave you "permission thus to call" i foresaw the agony of your coming months and sought to have you know that i was standing by. this i still am doing. i remind you

remind you of this for the strengthening of your faith, the deepening of your assurance and your integration in this group work. i shall not at this time change your meditation work. as outlined, it should serve gradually to stabilise you and lift you up on to the mental plane. force of circumstances has driven you to live much upon the astral plane for the past few months in an emotional vortex. mount up, my brother, into the light and into renewed power and detachment. find surcease from sorrow in the task of aiding others. you can call and find me if your need is great. february 1937 my brother: you are entering upon a new cycle of life and of usefulness. you stand on the verge of opportunity and yet you seem to recognise it not. you are ready for complete service and yet you hide yours

nsibility to express the love of the soul. you are still separative, my brother and the magnetic quality of your soul still lacks. you still occultly "repudiate" certain people and your own critical, self-centred mind frequently relegates many to the limbo of your dislikes. when this is the case, you inevitably receive from them that which you give to them, and the wall of separation continues to mount higher and higher. i always speak to those who are in my group of disciples with frankness. hence my criticism of your attitude and hence my emphatic statement to you now that you do not love enough. you are too prone to criticism, to self-defense and to self-assertiveness. but having said this i must be equally frank and tell you that you have made real progress. you have stood steady under

struggle and who today feel certain of your victory) make another suggestion to you? build in your garden an ivory tower and from the summit of that tower survey your life each day. build it until the time of the full moon of may and then at the time of the wesak festival and for the three days of that festival live in your tower and there abide. in moments also of distress or of imminent failure mount to your tower and steadfast stand. the tower is only symbolic but, if you grasp the essential underlying meaning, you will literally slip out of the glamour as you mount your tower and pass into the clear light of day. there is oft a mist in your garden, but on the top of the tower there is sunlight, space and air. there i can meet with you, if you rightly build and learn the method of ascen

liarly suited and useful; it brings the strength to you that is needed and serves to clear both your vision and your path. adhere, therefore, to it with closeness and attention. and, my brother, follow the occult exercises indicated and return again to your garden which still can be found serene and fair within the world of thought. the summit of its tower pierces the world of souls and, when you mount the steps which lead there, you will find yourself in the realm of clear vision, wide wisdom and universal love. stand with steadfastness during this coming year and stand detached. let not the lesser voices crowd out the voice of your soul or my voice. keep the channel clear. this is my final word to you: keep the channel clear. if you will do this, then the decisions of moment which may co

se who can thus be served. choose quality and not quantity, and teach from the angle of knowledge, carefully thought out in meditation. in this sentence, i give you the clue to your meditation work. after your meditation, say the following obligation "i play my part with stern resolve, with earnest aspiration; i look above; i help below: i dream not, nor i rest; i toil; i serve; i reap; i pray; i mount the cross; i tread the way; i tread upon the work i do; i mount upon my slain self; i forego peace; i forfeit rest, and in the stress of pain, i lose myself and find my self, and enter into peace" for your seed thoughts for the next few months, will you use the following? 1st month the mind reveals the real. 2nd month the light is dual. it shows forth that which is not seen. it sheds its ray

eds hardening; you must learn to tune out and to leave unrecognised that which might disturb your life of service. the proverb runs "they say. what do they say? let them say" for you this holds much truth. disciples waste so much time in distress over the words, thoughts and deeds of other disciples and thus time is lost that could be more constructively employed. do you not know that the minutes mount into hours, as the disciple wrestles with himself in order to regain equilibrium? ask a.a.b. she knows the meaning of those lost hours and can help you there. remember, also, brother of old, that all suffering along the lines of super-sensitivity indicates self-centredness, and this in turn militates against the needed inclusiveness which will eventually make this group- 435- discipleship in

knows and what the soul sees, through the use of the key to soul vision the intuition. that key can only be used intelligently and consciously when personality affairs are dropping below the threshold of consciousness. i would ask you: how much of your present so-called vision is dependent upon what others have seen and how much you discovered for yourself by climbing arduously and earnestly the mount of vision and (from that eminence which you have arrived at alone) looking out over the horizon towards the next peak of attainment for humanity? a disciple becomes an accepted disciple when he starts climbing towards the vision, towards the mountain top; he can also register consciously what he has seen and then begins to do something constructive towards materialising it. this, many throug

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would then automatically appear. the difficulty is not with the organising of the money and work; it lies with the seeming inability of people to give. for one reason or another, they give little or nothing, even when interested in such a cause as that of the return of christ; fear of the future or the love of purchasing, or the desire to give presents, or failure to realise that many small sums mount up into very large sums all these things militate against financial generosity and the reason always seems adequate. therefore, the second prerequisite is for everyone to give as they can. thirdly, the metaphysical schools and the esoteric groups have given much thought to this business of directing money into channels which appeal to them. the question is often asked: why do the unity schoo

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rds of materiality (those whom the ignorant and the prejudiced esotericist call "the black forces; the forces of spirituality plus the thought of a handful of advanced men in the different nations were not so potent as they are today. the situation was then relatively simple. it was part of the evolutionary plan that matter and substance should temporarily control and that spirit should learn to "mount on the shoulders of matter" as the ancient wisdom puts it. now, however, owing to the widespread education of the masses and the many means of worldwide propaganda, these masses are themselves either thinking independently or are thinking as directed by the powerful minds everywhere to be found and which are seeking to control world events. hence the increasing difficulty of the problem and

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

eanse its source and thus reveal the hidden way which leads unto the innermost light, hid by the final cross. then, from the cross of man, the initiate finds his way, passes the angel and leaves behind the inner torn veil, mounts the major cross and passes into day, the final day. the wheel for him stands still. the sun and stars, for him, fade out. a great light is seen and" the three crosses on mount golgotha were biblical symbols of these three astrological crosses, the common or mutable cross, the fixed cross and the cardinal cross. i would ask you to remember that though i shall trace the progress of the man from sign to sign around the zodiacal way, yet there is not necessarily this ordered sequence of travel or the smooth- 50- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astro

ein he is "the fish" controlled by the laws of substance or material existence. in the second great stage, he passes from aries to taurus, because desire has at last been transmuted into aspiration. after proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life in the intervening signs, he passes again into pisces, from the opposite direction to his usual procedure, having earned the right to mount the cardinal cross of the heavens, the power to take a final planetary initiation and the privilege of passing on to one of the seven paths to which i have made reference in my other books; these eventually give him "the freedom of the seven solar systems" as it is called in contradistinction to "the freedom of the seven planetary spheres" which the experience of initiation has guaranteed hi

tuitional and expressive of the christ, as mercury and the sun are one. but the esoteric planets are more explicit in their inferences and man appears, when ready for their influence, to be responsive in a fourfold way which he is not in the earlier stages. they embody the recognitions and the reactions which condition man's consciousness when he is preparing to transfer off the mutable cross and mount the fixed cross. he comes, therefore, 1. through venus under the power of mind, transmuted into wisdom through the instrumentality of love. 2. through the moon under the bondage of form in order through form experience to achieve release and the "uplift of matter" in vulcan. 3. through the earth under the influence of planetary experience (which is different to individual experience) in orde

r it marks the point beyond which further ascent in any particular life cycle is not possible. capricorn is, therefore, the sign of what has been called esoterically "periodic arresting" progress becomes impossible under the existing forms, and there has to be the descent into the valley of pain, despair and death before a fresh attempt to scale the heights takes place. the attempt today to climb mount everest is amazingly symbolic, and it is being watched with much interest by the hierarchy, for in this effort we see the attempt of humanity to achieve the top of the mountain whose height has hitherto defeated all efforts. but and this is the matter of moment and of interest when humanity emerges into the light and relative glory of the new civilisation, they will at the same time conquer

anity, and the first reversals of the wheel in the life of the advanced men of the period took place. it was this reversal which was the true cause of the great contest or battle between the lords of the dark face (as they are called in the secret doctrine) and the lords of light a contest which is today persisting. certain men then reached the stage of discipleship wherein they could consciously mount the fixed cross and be prepared for a major initiation. this the forces of materiality and of obstruction (as they are sometimes called) fought and the battle was fought out and conditioned in the sign scorpio. 3. today, in aryan times, a similar conflict upon a higher turn of the spiral is taking place. the reason is that certain world disciples and initiates have reached the point in their

for a major initiation. this the forces of materiality and of obstruction (as they are sometimes called) fought and the battle was fought out and conditioned in the sign scorpio. 3. today, in aryan times, a similar conflict upon a higher turn of the spiral is taking place. the reason is that certain world disciples and initiates have reached the point in their unfoldment wherein they are ready to mount the cardinal cross and take some of the higher initiations. so the conflict is on between humanity (under the control of the lords of materiality) and the hierarchy (under the control of the forces of light and love, and right before our eyes the battle is being waged. the influences of the twelve signs of the zodiac (particularly of seven of the signs) are being engaged, for today men of al

isces- 98- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the exoteric and the esoteric planetary rulers of capricorn are the same, and saturn rules the career of the man in this sign, no matter whether he is on the ordinary or the reversed wheel, or whether he is on the mutable or the fixed cross. when he has taken the third initiation and can consciously mount the cardinal cross, he is then released from the ruling of saturn and comes under the influence of venus, who is governor or ruler of the hierarchy which is that of the crocodiles. a reference to the tabulation heretofore given will show this. it is only when a man is upon the cardinal cross that the significance, purpose and potencies of the creative hierarchies become clear to him and the

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

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ior to the jewish dispensation when moses was leading the children of israel out of egypt the sun was in the sign taurus. it was passing through the sign of the bull. we then had the appearance on earth of the mithraic mysteries which centered around the sacrifice of the sacred bull. the sin of the children of israel in the wilderness which so aroused the anger of moses when he descended from the mount of the lord and found them falling down before the golden calf was that they had reverted to a past and obsolete religion which they should have left behind. the jewish dispensation itself was governed by the sign of aries, the ram, through which the sun was passing for the next 2,000 years. then we have the appearance of the scapegoat in jewish history. we have the bible story of the ram ca

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

which i now propose to give you will lead eventually to the isolation of the seven psychological causes of disease, inherent in the substance of all forms in this world cycle, because all forms are infused with the life energy of the "imperfect gods" the seven spirits, we are told in the scriptures of the world, are "before the throne of god; this signifies that they are not yet in a position to mount the throne, symbolically speaking, owing to the fact that they have not yet achieved complete divine expression. these lords of the seven rays are greater and more advanced in the spiritual scale than are those great lives who form the council of the lord of the world in shamballa. they are the representatives of the seven ray energies who inform the seven sacred planets but are not yet as d

ltitude of joy whereon your soul immovably stands, then look into the world of living men a threefold world in which all men incarnate and discarnate are to be found. find there that which your soul can and will recognize. the glamours of one's own distress, the maya of the past, distort ever one's point of view. only the soul stands clear from illusion, and only the soul sees things as they are. mount, therefore, to the soul. discipleship in the new age, vol. i, page 463. chapter v- the process of restitution the theme of death, which we are now considering, must be approached by us with as much of the spirit of normalcy and of scientific investigation as we can manage. the fear complex of humanity finds its point of entrance into man's consciousness through the act of dying; failure to s

the plane consistent with the form. he has then outgrown the form and discards it for other and higher forms. thus, he has progressed always by means of the sacrifice and death of the form. always, it is recognised as imprisoning, always it must be sacrificed and die so that the life within may speed ever on and up. the path of resurrection presupposes crucifixion and death, and then leads to the mount whence ascension may be made. letters on occult meditation, page 261. the act of restitution in considering the consciousness of the departing soul (note that phrase) as it undertakes the act of restitution, i would again point out that i am dealing with a subject of which there is no tangible physical proof. occasionally men are brought back again into physical plane existence when at the e

the personality form is still left, but it persists without any real life of its own; this means that it can now be the recipient of energies and forces needed by the working initiate or master in order to carry on the work or salvaging humanity. students would find it of value to study the three "appearances of the christ" as recorded in the gospel story: 1. his transfigured appearance upon the mount of transfiguration. that episode depicts symbolically the radiant soul, and also the three vacated bodies of the personality, and hints also at a future building of a vehicle of manifestation. st. peter says "lord, let us here build three huts" or tabernacles. 2. his appearance as truth itself (silent yet present) before the bar or judgment seat of pilate repudiated by the world of men but r

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

e of three foundational ideas. the result of these ideas might be expressed under the terms of the following questions: 1. what shall be my vocation in order that i may have as much of the material world as my state in life and my wants permit? 2. who are the people who are above me, to whom i must look and whom i must honor, and who are those below me in the social order and how far am i able to mount in the social scale and so better myself? 3. from childhood i have been taught that my natural inclination is to do wrong, to be naughty, or (if the setting is narrowly orthodox) that i am a miserable sinner and unfit for future happiness. how can i escape the penalties of my natural predilections? the result of all this is to breed in the race a deep-seated sense of material and social ambi

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

astral plane, the merging of "lightened" substance with that of other planes, the use of the substance of light as a medium of spiritual destruction, and the bringing in of the three types and qualities of the substance of the spiritual triad (in order to liberate humanity) is never noted. nevertheless, these three types of substance (mental, buddhic and atmic) are all symbolised for us upon the mount of crucifixion. there are also far deeper meanings to the well-known gospel symbolism than those which have been recognised or studied. i have here, however, thrown some light upon this second point of revelation, and much upon which you could well ponder and reflect. part ix you will find it of value, brother of mine, to summarise the mass of information which i have given anent initiation;

s of great difficulty and much pain not only for yourself but for others. they have been years wherein everything has been wrested from you, leaving you upon that "pinnacle of loneliness" about which i spoke to your brother, w.d.s, in my instruction to him last year. i would have you regard that pinnacle as an exalted place from which the new vision can be seen. that pinnacle can be turned into a mount of initiation. you have passed the three score years and ten of ordinary living and you are privileged to look back upon a life of great usefulness and of much inner spiritual progress. you have disposed of much karma and are far freer than when you entered into incarnation. the crux of the lesson which you are now in process of learning is to refrain from expectation from life, from people

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

iversal human intelligence at the time that they were given (for the biblical dates are not correct and the date of their pronouncement is far older than is thought) they were expressed by the formula "thou shalt not" thus turning human attention to the material expression of material tendencies. in days to come, the ten commandments will be expressed in a reversed form of which the sermon on the mount and the beatitudes are the embryonic form. second, the hierarchy withdrew in order that humanity, on reaching maturity and years of discretion, should not be handicapped and hindered by coercion and undue safeguarding but should express its major divine characteristics. of these, free will and the discriminating use of the mind are the outstanding qualities. there was no free will in atlante

part of ancient history. the democracies, with all their present ineffectiveness, have in them the germ of that which is truly new, for they are the expression of an upward surging towards self-rule and self-mastery by humanity as a whole. there is also the communistic ideal which is a curious blend of individualism, dictatorship, the ancient conflict between labour and capital, the sermon on the mount, and the worst aspects of revolution and exploitation. the lines which it will follow, even in the immediate future, are unpredictable. there are other countries and peoples whose governments are conditioned by their environment and who at present play no real determining part in world events, except in so far as a greater power uses them. again, there are peoples and tribes who still pursue

pting to answer. the group of spiritual workers of whom i happen to be one is faced with two major problems: the problem of the war itself with its stupefying and stunning effect upon the masses everywhere, and the problem offered by the aspirants and disciples throughout the world. can the suffering masses of men "stand with massed intent" and with eyes directed towards god so that their cry can mount to his ears? and will the spiritually minded people and the workers for humanity make that supreme effort (rendered from an adequate "point of tension) so that humanity may be focussed in its appeal and bring about a response from the highest available sources. can the united effort of these two groups one conscious of what is happening and the other unconscious evoke reply? in moments of ex

th the symbols and not with the reality. now they must learn to recognise that the lord is not with them and they too must go forth, as mary did, and seek him anew. if they will do so, they will surely find him and again become his messengers. the fact of the resurrection will be demonstrated during the next few centuries, and the living christ will walk among men and lead them onward towards the mount of ascension. the pentecost will become truth. all men will come under the tide of inspiration from on high, and though they may speak with many tongues, they will all understand each other. what i have to say to you, i intend to divide into two parts: the work of the christ today the coming work of reconstruction these two convey the same basic ideas and thus complement each other. they pro

trustees would then automatically appear. the difficulty is not with the organising of the money and work; it lies with the seeming inability of people to give. for one reason or another, they give little or nothing, even when interested in such a cause as that of the return of the christ; fear, or the love of purchasing, or the desire to give presents, or failure to realise that many small sums mount up into very large sums all these things militate against financial generosity, and the reason always seems adequate. therefore, the second prerequisite is for everyone to give as they can. thirdly, the metaphysical schools and the esoteric groups have given much thought to this business of directing money into channels which appeal to them. the question is often asked: why do the unity scho

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

ns made by the world directors, that "society of illumined and organised minds" which is known under the name of the hierarchy. it is illumination and consequent organisation which is needed profoundly at this time. you will see, therefore, the significance of the teaching now being given out anent the building of the antahkarana. it is only through this bridge, this thread, that the disciple can mount on to- 85- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust that stage of the ladder of evolution which will lead him out of the three worlds, which will bring the personality into rapport with the spiritual triad, and which will finally lead the members of the hierarchy (when their term of service is completed) on to the path of the higher evol

ifestation of divinity on the physical plane. the doctrine of avatars. this religious history reveals. the nature of consciousness, through the development of psychology. the doctrine of the trinity, as it expresses itself through the aspects and the attributes. these four expressions of truth will be found to convey all the knowledge with which the initiate must stand equipped when he climbs the mount of transfiguration at the time of the third initiation. they have given him a spiritual perception of the plan. of that life, we know nothing whatsoever. the contemplation of its significance belongs to those who can move at will within the "precincts of the lord of life" in shamballa itself. all we can know about it is its lowest step. this enables us to study the impulse or instinct which

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

can be contacted by the human consciousness of the spiritual man, thus placing at his disposal the energies of the seven rays and of the twenty-one forces. it is this synthesis which is revealed at the fifth initiation and as i said above the combination of these forces produces the ascension; this is an exceeding great mystery and one which cannot as yet be grasped by you. from the height of the mount of ascension light is thrown upon the hierarchical plan in such a manner that the purpose in the mind of the planetary logos is (for the first time) truly grasped. 3. from that height also, the mystery of the human soul is revealed and a great triangular pattern will be seen, relating the human spirit to the world of forms, to the united hierarchy and to the council chamber of the lord. upon

gained whilst on this cross, the disciple passes from one renunciation to another until complete freedom and liberation has been achieved. 3. the cardinal cross governs the master as he passes through the remaining five initiations; the fourth initiation is, curiously enough, governed by neither the fixed cross nor the cardinal cross. the disciple is descending from the fixed cross and seeking to mount the cardinal cross, and it is this transition period and experience which practically govern him. it might therefore be noted that there are three initiations which test the disciple as to knowledge and experience: the first, the second and the third; then there comes an initiation of transition- 455- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis t

ll call attention to some particular initiation. the buddha, for instance, in his four noble truths, stated in reality the platform upon which the initiate of the third initiation takes his stand. he desires nothing of a personal nature; he is liberated from the three worlds. the christ pictured for us and emphasised the fourth initiation with its tremendous transition from the fixed cross to the mount of ascension, symbol of transition, through initiation. this crucifixion initiation has a major instructive feature. this is preserved for us in the name which is frequently given to this fourth initiation: the great renunciation. one tremendous experience is vouchsafed to the initiate at this time; he realises (because he sees and knows) that the antahkarana has been successfully completed

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

reatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust simultaneously, make spiritual progress himself. it is not possible for me here to indicate the nature of the revelation which is accorded to the initiate of the fifth initiation. it is too closely related to shamballa, and i have not myself done more this life than take the fifth initiation and climb the mount of ascension. the revelation for me is not completed and in any case my lips are sealed. i can, however, take up two points with you which may clarify your vision. i would remind you again that what i am here writing in this last volume of a treatise on the seven rays is written for disciples and initiates. disciples will see some of the significances behind the symbol and will make interpre

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

he centuries passed. the great wheel turned and turning, carried all the sons of men, who are the sons of god upon their way. and as these centuries passed, a group of men emerged who slowly turned the other way. they found the way. they passed the gates and struggled towards the mountain top, and towards the place of death and sacrifice. the watching teacher saw a man emerge from out this crowd, mount the fixed cross, demanding deeds to do, service to render unto god and man, and willingness to travel the way to god. he stood before the great presiding one who works within the council chamber of the lord and heard a word go forth "obey the teacher on the way. prepare for the last tests. pass through- 5- the labours of hercules each gate and in the sphere which they reveal and guard, perfo

ation and discipline on the part of the aspirant, producing a more rapid unfoldment of the power and life of the soul. in one analysis of discipleship, it has been defined as "a psychic resolvent, which eats- 7- the labours of hercules away all dross and leaves only the pure gold behind" it is a process of refining, of sublimation and of transmutation, carried steadily forward until at length the mount of transfiguration and of illumination is attained. the hidden mysteries and the forces, latent in human beings, need to be discovered and require to be utilized in a divine manner and in line with divine purpose, intelligently apprehended. when they have thus been utilized, the disciple finds himself en rapport with the universal and similar divine energies and powers, underlying the operat

is an embryo hercules, and each one of us faces the identical labors; each of us has the same goal to achieve and the same circle of the zodiac to encompass. the work to be done has for its prime objective the- 9- the labours of hercules elimination of all fear and the control of the natural forces of the human nature. these hercules has to face in every possible combination before he climbs the mount of initiation in capricorn and becomes the server of humanity. competition and selfish objectives have to be completely changed and eliminated, and we shall find hercules learning the lesson that to grasp anything for the separated self is no part of the mission of a son of god. he has to find himself as an individual, only to discover that individualism must be sacrificed intelligently to t

e of use. the golden antlered hind is mine, not yours, and mine it shall remain" hercules, standing between the pillars of the gate, listened and heard the quarrel, and wondered much as the two maidens strove for possession of the doe. another voice fell on his ear, and with commanding accents said "the doe belongs to neither maid, o hercules, but to the god whose shrine you see on yonder distant mount. go rescue it and bear it to the safety of the shrine, and leave it there. a simple thing to do, o son of man, yet (and ponder well my words) being a son of god, you thus can seek and hold the doe. go forth" through the fourth gate sprang hercules, leaving behind the many gifts received and cumbered not himself in the swift chase which lay ahead. and from a distance the quarrelling maidens w

in libra, and is subjected to the disciplining effect of the world of illusion and form in scorpio. in the final four signs, we have the signs of achievement. the aspirant has worked out of the world of glamor and of form, and in his consciousness is free from their limitations. now he can be the archer in sagittarius, going straight for his goal; now he can be the goat in capricorn, scaling the mount of initiation; now he can be the world worker in aquarius, and [83] the world savior in pisces. thus he can sum up in himself all the gains of the preparatory period and of the fiercely fought battles in the four signs of strenuous activity; and in these four final signs demonstrate the gains achieved and the powers developed. this brief summation of the signs, as they affect hercules, will

e heard is the note of possible achievement. all that is to be found is a deep inner urge and discontent which gradually becomes so strong that it lifts the hidden, struggling individual out of his environment of stabilized world condition and makes him the earnest aspirant, who knows no rest until he has emerged out of the water and climbed steadily on until he finds himself on the summit of the mount in capricorn, the birth not the consummation of the world savior "christ was born in capricorn, fulfiled the law under saturn, initiated the era of intelligent brotherhood under venus, and is the perfect example of the capricorn initiate, who becomes the world server in aquarius; and the world savior in pisces. cancer admits the soul into the world center which we call humanity. capricorn ad

at will draw out the full powers of the soul. in capricorn we shall climb the mountain-top, and entering now, as we are, the aquarian cycle, the aspirants of the race are in a position to begin to learn the lesson of service and universal consciousness. when, in two thousand years' time, we begin to enter capricorn, there will then be a tremendous gathering-in of initiates, and the scaling of the mount of initiation and the mount of transfiguration by many hundreds of disciples. in the meantime, the lion of the personality has to be dealt with and the cave entered. in the symbolism of the scriptures of the world, the most momentous happenings are enacted in one of two places: in [110] the cave or on the mountain. the christ is born in the cave; the personality is overcome in the cave; the

bolism of the scriptures of the world, the most momentous happenings are enacted in one of two places: in [110] the cave or on the mountain. the christ is born in the cave; the personality is overcome in the cave; the voice of the lord is heard in the cave, the christ consciousness is nurtured in the cave of the heart, but after the cave experiences the mountain of transfiguration is climbed, the mount of- 64- the labours of hercules crucifixion is achieved, to be succeeded finally by the mountain of ascension. i would like here to give the technical, perhaps more scientific, interpretation of this cave which hercules entered. the aryan race, to which we belong, is one of keen mental development, and the consciousness of people everywhere is shifting steadily out of the emotional nature, a

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

" twenty-two in number, shown on the diagram; they are numbered by means of the letters of the hebrew alphabet, each of which being equally a letter and a number. the 22 trumps of the pack of tarot cards (tarocchi) are also related to these paths. the 22 paths, added to the 10 sephiroth form the famous "thirty-two ways" by which wisdom descends by successive stages upon man, and may enable him to mount to the source of wisdom by passing successively upward through these 32 paths. this process of mental abstraction was the rabbinic form of what the hindoo knows as yoga, or the union of the human with the divine, by contemplation and absorption of the mind in a mystical reverie. frequently quoted kabalistic words are: arikh anpin, makroprosopos, the vast countenance which is a title of kethe

ANATHEMA OF ZOS

n once it had been a bright and shining spell of liberation. under this pall the scorpion bred consciousness in the charnel house of putrefaction. monsters arose and walked the earth in the guise of living men and women. these are the hypocrites to whom the sermon was delivered. the goat-herd found himself in a pigsty; speaking to swine bred on foul aethers. where once there was the sermon on the mount, now there need be a sermon of the midden. zos eats complacency and his leavings bear the name of doubt. zos heralds the onrush of the beast as john the baptist once swept the path of the christos. this time it is not the oracles' head served upon the platter. be not complacent. the anthem of liber l will, on saturn s touch, turn its melody inward and become a funeral dirge of the soul. if t

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

so in italy, where the most grotesque andmodern conceptions of classic subjects are mingled with much that is accurate and beautiful ofwhich indeed this work supplies many examples. page 75 n r r r r r then will weenter in a great hall where thou wilt see many beautiful ladies who will try to fascinatethee; but let thy answer ever be, she whom i love is her of monteroni.and now, gianni, to horse; mount and away! so he mounted the cat, which flew as quick asthought, and found the mare, and having pronounced over it the incantation, it became a womanand said: in nome della fata diana!tu possa divenireun giovane bellobianco e rosso!di latte e sangue!in the name of the fairy diana!mayest thou hereby becomea beautiful young man,red and white in hue,like to milk and blood!after this he found the

hee feel in burning hate,for ever on thy torture bent,i am revenged, and now content. page 37 n r r r r r chapter ix.t ana and endamone, or diana and endymion.hic ultra endymionem indormit negligentiae.now it is fabled that endymion, admitted to olympus,whence he was expelled for want of respect to juno, wasbanished for thirty years to earth. and having been allowedto sleep this time in a cave of mount latmos, diana, smittenwith his beauty visited him every night till she had byhim fifty daughters and one son. and after this endymionwas recalled to olympus. diz. stor. mitol.the following legend and the spells were given under the name or title of t ana. this was the oldetruscan name for diana, which is still preserved in the romagna t oscana. in more than one italianand french work i have

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

thesis was his thesis varied. for example, according to the rite of the strict observance the proscribed order was carried by its marshal, pierre d'aumont, who escaped with a few other knights to the isles of scotland, disguised as operative masons. they remained there and under the same veil the templars continued to exist in secret from generation to generation under the shadow of the mythical mount heredom of kilwinning. to whatever date the old dreams ascribe it, when emblematic freemasonry emerged it was- ex hypothesi-a product of the union between knights templar and ancient scottish masonry. such is the story told. the strict observance was founded by baron von hund in germany between about 1751 and 1754 or 1755, and is usually regarded as the first masonic chivalry which put forwa

mselves attained it, revealed the fact to clement v and philip the fair of france, and the real purpose of the persecution which followed was to wrest the transmuting process from the hands of its custodians. jacques de molay and his co-heirs died to preserve it, but three of the initiated knights made their escape and after long wandering from country to country they found refuge in the caves of mount heredom. they were succoured by knights of st. andrew of the thistle, with whom they made an alliance and on whom they conferred their knowledge. to conceal it from others and yet transmit it through the ages they created the masonic order in i340; but the alchemical secret, which is the physical term of the mystery, has been ever reserved to those who can emerge from the veils of allegory

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

the gods and demi-gods reside. the intermediate realm is somewhat extraneous in this 13 see haarh 1969, pp. 134-136 for the development of this cosmological scheme. 10 scheme and so has become a location for a great deal of potential involvement, being an expansive abode of many hidden realms and deities.14 geographically, the tibetans have adopted the indian view of a universe with the mythical mount meru at its center acting as the axis mundi. this central mountain is surrounded by four major continents and eight subcontinents. india, as well as tibet and surrounding countries like khotan and mongolia, form the southern continent of jambudv.pa( dzam bu gling).15 this structure, along with the multiple overlapping realms full of various entities, is mimicked in the powerful representativ

of the building is reserved as living-quarters for the oracle-priest, and on the lower floor, next to the mgon khang,49 lies a room which is opened only once a year, at the time when the so-called glud gong [person embodying a ransom ritual] arrives at 47 however, it is significant that tsiu marpo s root tantra and accompanying liturgical texts were discovered at samy or at temple sites on nearby mount chimpu (mchims phu. see appendix a, p. 171. 48 the most common answer that i have been given by tibetan monks has been that the time tsiu marpo came to samy is uncertain, but it was probably around the time of padmasambhava. this would suggest he was assigned as a protector of samy soon after his conversion (personal correspondence with lodr gyeltsen (blo gros rgyal mtshan, lama of tengy lin

icitly states that tsiu marpo is the protector deity of trisong deutsen, and that these texts must only be entrusted to his lineage, as previously recommended. an invocation of protection for the royal lineage is provided as well as a promise that the goals of the ritual will come to fruition if it is properly performed. the terma ends with a description of the various sites at samy monastery and mount chimpu, where 131 mpg, p. 326.5: mtshon phri sbyang gri dgra la thong/ gtib gri chu gri dgra la thong/ rbab gri spyang gri dgra la thong/ lceb gri drag po dgra la thong. 82 padmasambhava instructed these texts to be concealed originally so that they may be discovered later.132 immediately, it is apparent that the text lacks a great deal of ritual detail. this information is second-nature to

a red face, in his three right hands he holds an iron hook, an arrow, and a sword. his three left hands lift a knife, a bow, and a stick (ber ka. he wears an upper garment of white silk, a drawn (human) skin, and a tiger-skin serves him as a loin-cloth. on his head he wears a hat of cane, similar to a parasol. he rides on a white lion, and the mon bu pu tra [monbu putra] acts as the leader of his mount.232 as with tsiu marpo, variations certainly exist, but pehar s iconographic appearance as described here is represented quite well in numerous drawings and statues of pehar (figures 44, 45, and 46. pehar s entourage is also quite extensive. while tsiu marpo has six accompanying riders, pehar has four chief attendants as well as an expansive retinue: on the outside, in the main quarters and

stery of nechung was built up around this tree, which is currently found in the central chapel surrounded by statues of pehar in his wrathful and peaceful forms (the latter is seen here. the tree itself is on the left and covered with ceremonial scarves (kha btags) and prayer flags (dar lcog (photo: c. bell 2005) 139 figure 44. a common iconographic representation of pehar. in this variation, his mount is an elephant, a version noted in de nebesky-wojkowitz 1998, p. 117 (dcts, p. 320) 140 figure 45. painting of pehar on the wall within the main chapel at tengy ling monastery, lhasa. notice the shield hanging over his chest with a seed syllable inscribed on it. the painting of tsiu marpo in figure 12 is right next to this image (photo: c. bell 2005) 141 figure 46. a statue of pehar with a w

y a member in pehar s retinue. for further research along this line, i offer a number of suggestions. there is another more ambiguous deity whose name surfaces a number of times in the study of tsiu marpo and pehar; this deity s name is yangleber (yang le ber. de nebesky-wojkowitz describes this deity as being iconographically situated in front of m nbu putra (mon bu pu tra, the leader of pehar s mount: in front of this deity resides the mah.-yak.a [great violence demon, the srog bdag yang le ber [life lord yangleber; he is red in colour, radiating the light of a thousand suns, and his appearance is wrathful. he lifts the flesh, blood, and the "life-spirit" of enemies to his mouth. sometimes, his upper teeth are pressed against his lower lip, and his forehead and eyebrows are angrily conto

hayagr.va hulu hulu h. pha. o. rak.a rak.a snying la h. h .uyaghriva tra .ula hring hring ja. ja. o. mug sha mug sha. ja citta citta sod. lcebs thib sod. snying khrag dun dun. btsan ja laya. sha hr. srog laya. 358 inside the effigy. referring to the sixty-year tibetan calendrical cycle. 359 a band of colored wool. 360 as the next three annotations suggest, i suspect this refers to the dough horse mount and weapons that complete the might demon effigy. 361 smeared with colored powder. 362 obscure. 363 done by the red horse of the might demons. 364 by the weapon. 365 made orange [from] red wheat, orange meat, and red stone [mixed with] a knife; obscure. this possibly refers to a vow-breaker; from the sanskrit bheda "to break, cleave" 366 of sheep. 367 bamboo pitch (cu gang, saffron (gur gum

egarding this scroll of paper; because the king s lineage is protected by the urgyan lord [padmasambhava, 446 "shout. 447 "let loose; also refers to siccing a dog on someone. 448 "slay. 449 tib. gri. 169 insert them in an activity manual of prized leather. in order to preserve the words of glorious tamdrin, conceal this within the eye of the nampar nangdz (rnam par snang mdzad)450 [statue] of the mount chimpu temple at samy [319] at the end of time, the moment when the dharma king is cast down as vulgar will come. therefore, at that time, the haughty ones of the violence demons and the eight classes [of demons] will manifest; the red-colored knowledge-bearer451 of the lotus family and the horse will speak [and] shout forth with wrathful voices; it will create a beautiful appearance. from t

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eat races, which preceded our adamic race, were born, lived, and died. their archaic and esoteric names were many, and varied with the language of the nationality which mentioned them in its annals and scriptures. that which in the vendidad, for instance, is referred to as airyanem vaego (see bund. 79, 12) wherein was born the original zoroaster* is called in the puranic literature "sveta- dwipa "mount meru" the abode of vishnu, etc, etc; and in the secret doctrine is simply named the land of the "gods" under their chiefs the "spirits of this planet" therefore, in view of the possible, and even very probable confusion, that may arise, it is considered more convenient to adopt, for each of the four continents constantly referred to, a name more familiar to the cultured reader. it is propose

the sun was said never to set for one half of the year[[eggus gar nuktos te kai ematos eisi keleuthoi, says a verse in the odyssey (x. 86. but historically, or better, perhaps, ethnologically and geologically, the meaning is different. the land of the hyperboreans, the country that extended beyond boreas, the frozen-hearted god of snows and hurricanes, who loved to slumber heavily on the chain of mount riphaeus, was neither an ideal country, as surmised by the mythologists, nor yet a land in the neighbourhood of scythia and the danube* it was a real continent, a bona-fide land which knew no winter in those early days, nor have its sorry remains more than one night and day during the year, even now. the nocturnal shadows never fall upon it, said the greeks; for it is the land of the gods, t

. with the jews adam kadmon was the same as athamaz, tamaz, or the adonis of the greeks "the one with, and of his father- the "father" becoming during the later races helios, the sun, as apollo karneios* for instance, who was the "sun born; osiris, ormazd, and so on, were all followed by, and found themselves transformed later on into still more earthly types: such as prometheus, the crucified of mount kajbee, hercules, and so many others, sun-gods and heroes, until all of them came to have no better significance than phallic symbols. in the zohar is it said "man was created by the sephiroth (elohim-javeh, also) and they engendered by common power the earthly adam" therefore in genesis the elohim say "behold man is become as one of us" but in hindu cosmogony or "creation" brahma-prajapati

sri (sarai, s-r-i, the wife of the hebrew a-bram. sri is also venus-aphrodite the western emblem "of the luni-solar year or the moon (as sri is the wife of the moon; vide foot-note, the goddess of increase" therefore "the grand monument and landmark of the exact period of the lunar year and month, by which this cycle (of 19 tropical years and 235 revolutions of the moon) could be calculated, was mount sinai- the lord jehovah coming down thereon. paul speaks (then) as a mystagogue, when he says concerning the freed woman and bond woman of abraham 'for this hagar (the bond-woman) is mount sinai in arabia' how could a woman be a mountain? and such a mountain! yet. she was. her name was hagar, hebrew[[hebrew, whose numbers re-read 235, or in exact measure, the very number of lunar months to e

ul speaks (then) as a mystagogue, when he says concerning the freed woman and bond woman of abraham 'for this hagar (the bond-woman) is mount sinai in arabia' how could a woman be a mountain? and such a mountain! yet. she was. her name was hagar, hebrew[[hebrew, whose numbers re-read 235, or in exact measure, the very number of lunar months to equal nineteen tropical years to complete this cycle. mount sinai being, in the esoteric language of the wisdom, the monument of the exact time of the lunar[[footnote(s* according to the wonderful chronology of bentley, who wrote in days when biblical chronology was still undisputed; and also according to that of those modern orientalists who dwarf the hindu dates as far as they can* now sri is the daughter of bhrigu, one of the prajapatis and rishis

the egyptian word osiris is compounded (as shown by schelling) of the two primitives aish and asr, or a "fireenchanter" aesar in the old etruscan meant a god (being perhaps derived from asura of the vedas. aeswar and eswara are analogous terms, as dr. kenealy thought. in the bhagavad gita we read "iswara resides in every mortal being and puts in motion, by his supernatural power, all things which mount on the wheel of time" it is the creator and the destroyer, truly "the primitive fire was supposed to have an insatiable appetite for devouring. maximus of tyre relates that the ancient persians threw into the fire combustible matter crying 'devour, oh lord' in the irish language easam, or asam, means 'to create' and aesar was the name of an ancient irish god, meaning 'to light a fire (keneal

hrates became the college of the astrologers and magi, the aleim. but this "college" and this eden belong to the fifth race, and are simply a faint reminiscence of the adi-varsha, of the primeval third race. what is the etymological meaning of the word eden? in greek it is [hedone, signifying voluptuousness. in this aspect it is no better than the olympus of the greeks, indra's heaven (swarga) on mount meru, and even the paradise full of houris, promised by mahomet to the faithful. the garden of eden was never the property of the jews; for china, which can hardly be suspected of having known anything of the jews 2,000 b.c, has such a primitive garden in central asia inhabited by the "dragons of wisdom" the initiates. and according to klaproth[[vol. 2, page] 204 the secret doctrine. the hie

s in-folios. after this he received a letter from christopher scherer, prefect of the canton of soleure, switzerland, in which that official certifies to his having seen himself with his own eyes, one fine summer night in 1619, a living dragon. having remained on his balcony "to contemplate the perfect purity of the firmament" he writes "i saw a fiery, shining dragon rise from one of the caves of mount pilatus and direct itself rapidly towards fluelen to the other end of the lake. enormous in size, his tail was still longer and his neck very extended. his head and jaws were those of a serpent. in flying he emitted on his way numerous sparks. i thought at first i was seeing a meteor, but soon looking more attentively, i was convinced by his flight and the conformation of his body that i saw

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ely moral and physiological aspect of the wisdom religion, to ethics and man alone. things "unseen and incorporeal" the mystery of being outside our terrestrial sphere, the great teacher left entirely untouched in his public lectures, reserving the hidden truths for a select circle of his arhats. the latter received their initiation at the famous saptaparna cave (the sattapanni of mahavansa) near mount baibhar (the webhara of the pali mss. this cave was in rajagriha, the ancient capital of mogadha, and was the cheta cave of fa-hian, as rightly suspected by some archaeologists* time and human imagination made short work of the purity and philo[[footnote(s* dan, now become in modern chinese and tibetan phonetics ch'an, is the general term for the esoteric schools, and their literature. in th

very ancient and dates from the very earliest archaic period, is shown by the mention (in bhagavata purana) of a certain caste named "hamsa" or "hansa" which was the "one caste" par excellence; when far back in the mists of a forgotten past there was among the hindus only "one veda, one deity, one caste" there is also a range in the himalayas, described in the old books as being situated north of mount meru, called "hamsa" and connected with episodes pertaining to the history of religious mysteries and initiations. as to the name of kala-hansa being the supposed vehicle of brahma-prajapati, in the exoteric texts and translations of the[[footnote(s* this is again similar to the doctrine of fichte and german pantheists. the former reveres jesus as the great teacher who inculcated the unity o

led by the translators of the bible "cherubim "seraphim" etc; and by the occultists "the winged globes" the "fiery wheels" and in the hindu pantheon by a number of different names. all these gandharvas, the "sweet songsters" the asuras, kinnaras, and nagas, are the allegorical descriptions of the "four maharajahs" the seraphim are the fiery serpents of heaven which we find in a passage describing mount meru as "the exalted mass of glory, the venerable haunt of gods and heavenly choristers. not to be reached by sinful men. because guarded by serpents" they are called the avengers, and the "winged wheels" their mission and character being explained, let us see what the[[footnote(s* the hindus happen to divide the world into seven continents, exoterically as esoterically; and their four cosmi

the profound esotericism of the kabala to apply the name by which the one supreme essence is known to its manifestation, the sephiroth-elohim, and call it jehovah. but this is[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page "writers" or scribes; the "dragons" symbols of wisdom, who guard the trees of knowledge; the "golden" apple tree of the hesperides; the "luxuriant trees" and vegetation of mount meru guarded by a serpent. juno giving to jupiter, on her marriage with him, a tree with golden fruit is another form of eve offering adam the apple from the tree of knowledge[[vol. 1, page] 130 the secret doctrine. quite arbitrary and against all reason and logic, as the term elohim is a plural noun, identical with the plural word chiim, often compounded with the elohim* moreover, in occult

of which are placed the four mystical entities. then again "other seven (sons) are commissioned to preside over the seven hot, and seven cold lokas (the hells of the orthodox brahmins) at the two ends of the egg of matter (our earth and its poles. the seven lokas are also called the "rings" elsewhere, and the "circles" the ancients made the polar circles seven instead of two, as europeans do; for mount meru, which is the north pole, is said to have seven gold and seven silver steps leading to it. the strange statement made in one of the stanzas "the songs of fohat and his sons were radiant as the noon-tide sun and the moon combined" and that the four sons on the middle four-fold[[vol. 1, page] 205 seeing sound, hearing colours. circle "saw their father's songs and heard his solar-selenic r

both are inseparable, yet ever separated. in polarity, on the physical plane, two like poles will always repel each other, while the negative and the positive are mutually attracted, so do spirit and matter stand to each other- the two poles of the same homogeneous substance, the root-principle of the universe[[vol. 1, page] 248 the secret doctrine. therefore, when the hour strikes for purusha to mount on prakriti's shoulders for the formation of the perfect man- rudimentary man of the first 2 1/2 races being only the first, gradually evolving into the most perfect of mammals- the celestial "ancestors (entities from preceding worlds, called in india the sishta) step in on this our plane, as the pitris had stepped in before them for the formation of the physical or animal-man, and incarnate

ences are very strong; and, indeed, it would seem that in the history of the human race there happened, from causes which at present, at any rate, we cannot trace, a lapse or loss from an original perfect language and a perfect system of science- shall we say perfect because they were of divine origin and importation "divine origin" does not mean here a revelation from an anthropomorphic god on a mount amidst thunder and lightning; but, as we understand it, a language and a system of science imparted to the early mankind by a more advanced mankind, so much higher as to be divine in the sight of that infant humanity. by a "mankind" in short, from other spheres; an idea which contains nothing supernatural in it, but the acceptance or rejection of which depends upon the degree of conceit and

hma" but brahma, the noumenon, never rests, as it never changes and ever is, though it cannot be said to be anywhere. the jewish kabalists felt this necessity of immutability in an eternal, infinite deity, and therefore applied the same thought to the anthropomorphic god. the idea is poetical and very appropriate in its application. in the zohar we read as follows "as moses was keeping a vigil on mount sinai, in company with the deity, who was concealed from his sight by a cloud, he felt a great fear overcome him, and suddenly asked 'lord, where art thou. sleepest thou, o lord' and the spirit answered him 'i never sleep: were i to fall asleep for a moment before my time, all the creation would crumble into dissolution in one instant "before my time" is very suggestive. it shows the god of

BLUE EQUINOX

t of the night of pan! io pan! io pan! io pan! come over the sea from sicily and from arcady! roaming as bacchus, with fauns and pards and nymphs and satyrs for thy guards, on a milk-white ass, come over the sea to me, to me, come with apollo in bridal dress (shepherdess and pythoness) come with artemis, silken shod, and wash thy white thigh, beautiful god, in the moon of the woods, on the marble mount, the dimpled dawn of the amber fount! dip the purple of passionate prayer in the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare, the soul that startles in eyes of blue to watch thy wantonness weeping through the tangled grove, the gnarled bole the equinox 6 of the living tree that is spirit and soul and body and brain- come over the sea (io pan! io pan) devil or god, to me, to me, my man! my man! come wi

thy desires, lanoo, make thy vices impotent, ere the first step is taken on the solemn journey. by .desires. and .vices. are meant those things which you yourself think to be inimical to the work; for each man they will be quite different, and any attempt to lay down a general rule leads to worse than confusion. 62. strangle thy sins, and make them dumb for ever, before thou dost lift one foot to mount the ladder. this is merely a repetition of verse 61 in different language. but remember .the word of sin is restriction .do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. 63. silence thy thoughts and fix thy whole attention on thy master whom yet thou dost not see, but whom thou feelest. the equinox 28 this again commands the stilling of thoughts. the previous verses referred rather to emotio

igher principles of man. advance is in the direction of more continuous and more untiring energy. 31. the blessed ones have scorned to do so. the lion of the law, the lord of mercy, perceiving the true cause of human woe, immediately forsook the sweet but selfish rest of quiet wilds. from aranyani he became the teacher of mankind. after julai had entered the nirvana, he preached the equinox 46 on mount and plain, and held discourses in the cities, to devas, men and gods. reference is here made to the attainment of the buddha. it was only after he had abandoned the ascetic life that he attained, and so far from manifesting that attainment by nonaction, he created a revolution in india by attacking the caste system, and by preaching his law created a karma so violent that even today its prim

oes, but only the inner indifference of contempt, not the outer indifference of atrophy. madame blavatsky herself smoked like a volcano, drank like a fish, swore like a trooper, loved like a cleopatra. she was right. read the taoist instructions to this effect. 52. if sun thou canst not be, then be the humble planet. aye, if thou art debarred from flaming like the noonday sun upon the snow-capped mount of purity eternal, then choose, o neophyte, a humbler course. the two paths 57 there are a great many people who are not only without marked capacity, but are obviously without any capactiy at all, for attainment even on a very modest scale. the question then arises as to whether they can .be any good. unless they are made to do something, they are likely to slip back rather than to make pro

erson from the feeble emasculate cabbage-chewing victim of an mia, with its mind which has gained what it calls emancipation by forgetting how to think. little as it ever knew! not in such may one find the true adept. read liber legis, chap. ii, verse 24, and learn where to look for hermits. 55. a sense of pride would mar the work. aye, build it strong, lest the fierce rush of bathing waves, that mount and beat its shore from out the great world maya.s ocean, swallow up the pilgrim and the isle.yea, even when the victory.s achieved. we now perceive more clearly the meaning of this passage. just as the man, in order to conquer the woman, used restraint, so also must this true soul restrain itself, even at this high stage, although it gives itself completely up. although it creates without t

BOOK OF ENOCH

e lord, and he saw a holy vision in the heavens, which the angels showed to me. and i heard everything from them, and i understood what i saw: but not for this generation, but for a distant generation that will come. 1.3] concerning the chosen i spoke; and i uttered a parable concerning them: the holy and great one will come out of his dwelling. 1.4] and the eternal god will tread from there upon mount sinai, and he will appear with his host, and will appear in the strength of his power from heaven. 1.5] and all will be afraid, and the watchers will shake, and fear and great trembling will seize them, up to the ends of the earth. 1.6] and the high mountains will be shaken; and the high hills will be laid low and will melt like wax in a flame. 1.7] and the earth will sink, and everything th

days of their life. and their life will grow in peace, and the years of their joy will increase in gladness and eternal peace; all the days of their life. 3) rebels among the watchers (pages 15-17) this is the story of the fallen angels. the beginning, 6.1-2, is virtually identical with genesis 6.1-2. in enoch's book, we get their names and many other details. at 6.6, enoch explains the naming of mount hermon- in hebrew it means curses. the mountain that he was actually referring to is possibly somewhere near lake van in turkey. it is common for translators to update names rather than use phonetics, so the few names that appear, mainly mountains and rivers, can t be relied upon as accurate identifications. we don t know whether there was another mountain called curses or even what language

ed to be done and that i alone will pay for this great sin" 6.4] and they all answered him, and said "let us all swear an oath, and bind one-another with curses, so not to alter this plan, but to carry out this plan effectively" 6.5] then they all swore together and all bound one another with curses to it. 6.6] and they were, in all, two hundred and they came down on ardis, which is the summit of mount hermon. and they called the mountain hermon because on it they swore and bound one another with curses. 6.7] and these are the names of their leaders: semyaza, who was their leader, urakiba, ramiel, kokabiel, tamiel, ramiel, daniel, ezeqiel, baraqiel, asael, armaros, ananel, zaqiel, samsiel, satael, turiel, yomiel, araziel. 6.8] these are the leaders of the two hundred angels and of all the

BOOK OF JASHAR

ophehad, the wife of tubalcain, and the mother of shem, ham, and jafet. at night, while her family slept, noah talked to god. then god told noah to leave the forest and go up into the mountains "make disks of wood, two by two, and set rods through their centers. lay a sled four cubits long across the rods, and put all that you possess on the sled. then go with your family up to the high slopes of mount ararat. for the forests below are to be destroyed by a great flood which will cover all the lands of the world" to raise the sea level over all land would require more water than then existed in the oceans of the world. noah knew that her family would wonder how more water could be made. so she asked whether god's plan would deviate from the natural laws, which had guided the universe since

ll land would require more water than then existed in the oceans of the world. noah knew that her family would wonder how more water could be made. so she asked whether god's plan would deviate from the natural laws, which had guided the universe since the beginning, and she got no answer. but tubalcain faithfully made the cart to carry their tents and the younger children. no one knew the way to mount ararat, and so they followed a dove for forty days and forty nights, until it came to rest on an olive tree in a field of wheat, high above the valley. and there they stayed, waiting for the flood. in their first winter on the mountain, they had no food, except for the wheat. but god put a blessing on noah's porridge, and tubalcain set out to enlarge the field. with torch and axe he cut the

human; so eve can now truly say "we are not animals" the brand on cain's forehead marks him, even in his exile, as one who has also accepted the social contract. cain runs east from the nile delta for six days, and on the seventh day he has a vision of a great city. it is tempting to suppose (straining the limits of how far a man on foot can go in six days) that cain's first sabbath vision was at mount moriah in jerusalem. but what future jerusalem did he see: the modern jerusalem, the crusader city, the city of the second temple, the city of david, the jebusite village, or did he see some heavenly jerusalem that has never existed on earth? cain only knows that he is seeing the jerusalem that abel's descendants would have made. living at the very beginning of human history, he cannot compa

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

d sectors, though the third should be a little condensed. a deep, clear life line running smoothly around its full length betokens a rich, full life with good health throughout. a line which is in the form of a chain shows probable poor health. if the line is chained in its latter portions, the subject should beware of bad health in her later years. a parallel to the life line, on the side of the mount of venus, shows useful luck and natural vitality working for the subject. this is always a good sign. on most palms you will note that there are a number of tiny lines which run from the line of the head to the life line.each of these indicates a goal of some kind that will be attained. if you work out the above time-scale carefully, you should be able to tell, within two years, when a major

that, at the point in time where the branch occurs, the subject's life can take one of two major courses. it is a time for consideration and careful planning. a break in the life line will mean trouble, and if the break occurs in both hands it can be fatal unless great care is taken. if, however, a new line begins outside the break, or is parallel to the life line and continues unbroken along the mount of venus, the trouble will not be too drastic. the head and the heart note the relative lengths of the head and heart lines, for this will tell whether the subject tends towards things intellectual or whether she leans on the emotions and their very useful adjunct, intuition. for many people these lines are nearly equal in length; for others there will be more or less difference. here the pa

ine breaking, or terminating, at the line of the head, indicates an individual who gets in their own way by being over-cautious and thinking things over too much. when they have finally made up their mind, the opportunity is past and nothing is gained. each of these problems can be overcome by watching for them and correcting them before they do harm. someone whose line of fate starts over on the mount of the moon will probably have a peaceful and pleasing life. the old tradition is that he or she will be "happy without trying. if the line starts at the wristlets, wealth will be inherited, or a rewarding career gained. if the line of fate branches near the bottom, with one branch running over into the mount of the moon, good fortune will come in the form of a marriage or other attachment

of the finger (later in life. the wristlets the wristlets at the base of the hand can be a very general indication of how long the life will probably last. each complete, well-formed wristlet shows a complete and full twenty years. but the wristlets will change considerably throughout life, and choices and way of living will be the final factor in determining just how long this life will be. the mount of venus the thumb and its base are under the influence of venus. the base, or mount of venus, can give an interesting picture of the warmth, kindness and affection which are in the subject. if the mount is warm, rounded, full and firm, she is under venus' best influences: pleasing as a friend, delightful in love, and a person whose kindness to others always brings a warm response. if, howev

venus the thumb and its base are under the influence of venus. the base, or mount of venus, can give an interesting picture of the warmth, kindness and affection which are in the subject. if the mount is warm, rounded, full and firm, she is under venus' best influences: pleasing as a friend, delightful in love, and a person whose kindness to others always brings a warm response. if, however, the mount of venus is thin, dry and leathery, she is a person who is cold and thin-lipped, tolerating little warmth towards others and receiving little or nothing in return. but don't tell her this! say, instead, that she should loosen up and learn to like others. often you will note that venus' mount is crossed by many vertical and horizontal lines. here will be a person who, for all else that her pa

n return. but don't tell her this! say, instead, that she should loosen up and learn to like others. often you will note that venus' mount is crossed by many vertical and horizontal lines. here will be a person who, for all else that her palm says, is not as serene as she appears on the surface. underneath there are cross-currents of emotion which she feels deeply, but which she keeps hidden. the mount of the moon from most ancient times, of course, the moon has been linked with the psychic. and thus has it been in palmistry. a triangle on this mount will indicate some natural talent in the occult. any lines which arise here will have in them a hint of unconscious magick and of its close relation, love between man and woman. lines reaching towards the mount of the moon from around the edge

s has it been in palmistry. a triangle on this mount will indicate some natural talent in the occult. any lines which arise here will have in them a hint of unconscious magick and of its close relation, love between man and woman. lines reaching towards the mount of the moon from around the edge of the hand will be a prediction of journeys by sea or air. finally, the firmness and fullness of this mount indicates generally just how well the subject can combine practicality with imagination. the fingers as shown in the diagram, each finger is associated with an astrological sign and is an indicator of the good, or bad, aspects of that sign. at the base of the finger is the mount associated with the sign of the finger (e.g. index finger= mount of jupiter. the fullness or thinness of the mount

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

the husband woke up. she got into it, but could not stay. then she was tarred and burnt to death [63] another familiar theme is "witch-riding" the witches f practice of clambering on a sleeping human at night and riding him to exhaustion. the belief in riding also appears in european contexts with minor variations.sometimes the witches ride humans who are transformed into animals.but the human-as-mount motif in the tale has been related in black american folklore since the early 1800s. other european witchcraft traditions such as broomstick riding, for example, are negligible in african american folktales.[64] among african americans, beliefs in witches and witchcraft were accompanied by numerous practices designed to prevent the malice of the witch. anti-witchcraft precautions and remedie

ge illustration: founder of the church of god in christ (pentecostal, bishop c. h. mason, with "god's handiworks in nature" early twentieth century. photo courtesy sherry sherrod dupree collection, university of florida, gainesville\ 91\ 4 "medical doctors can't do you no good" conjure and african american traditions of healing in the mid twentieth century the reverend addie battle, pastor of the mount zion holy trinity spiritualist church of cleveland, ohio, rendered an account of her life "i was born of farming parents on january 15, 1903, near tuskegee, alabama" she began "i had three older brothers and five older sisters" toiling in the rugged cotton fields of the alabama black belt, addie and her family saw few material returns from their labor "most of the time we had almost nothing

at sprang up in the shadows of urban black churches in the early twentieth century. on occasion, however, magic entrepreneurs were able to form unusual alliances with members of the churches. in one instance, officers in one of the more conservative black protestant denominations found themselves playing host to a popular conjurer-magician during a time of severe fiscal crisis. in 1927 members of mount zion african methodist episcopal church in philadelphia sponsored a series of performances by a shrewd and independent peddler of magical goods, known as black herman rucker, a famous faith healer, conjurer, and vendor of lottery predictions. black herman's highly successful "voodoo campaigns" brought muchneeded funds to the black methodists, as he rented church space and charged admission f

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

ali's description of sufism contributing to the crystalization of prophetic kabbalah. wrote maftehot ha-kabbalah("the keys to kabbalah, containing a short commentary on the sefer yezirah. 1272 provincal chapter at narbonne forbade the franciscans to practice alchemy. 1273 dominican order at pest warned friars not to study or teach alchemy. d.1273 jalal al-din al-rumi. 1274 ramon llull's vision on mount randa. d. 1275 peire cardenal troubadour. 1275-1325 menahem ben benjamin recanati italian kabbalist and torah commentator. 1275 nestorian christian monk, rabban sauma travels from beijing to paris. ramon lull ars magna. aurora consurgens possibly written by thomas aquinas. zohar compiled by moses de leon in spain. 1277 guido bonatti: decem continens tractatus astronomiae(astrological compila

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

bespangled with golden stars; in her right hand she bore a trumpet of beaten gold, on which a name was engraved which i could well read but am as yet forbidden to reveal it. in her left hand she had a great bundle of letters of all languages, which she (as i afterwards understood) was to carry to all countries. she also had large and beautiful wings, full of eyes throughout, with which she could mount aloft, and fly swifter than any eagle. i might perhaps have been able to take further notice of her, but because she stayed so little time with me, and terror and amazement still possessed me, i had to be content. for as soon as i turned about, she turned her letters over and over, and at length drew out a small one, which with great reverence she laid down upon the table, and without giving

COSIMANO CHARLES ELEMENTARY PSIONICS

the top of helmet and mark that. having done all that, go out to the garage and hook up your drill. find the right size bits for the potentiometer screwing point at the base of the stems and drill those holes. then pick a new bit for the jack size and drill that hole. you can use the same bit for the antenna hole because that is only for a thin wire. now wire the pots in series, as in the box and mount them on the helmet. don t mount the knobs yet. cut the magnet strip into the 1 inch strips and stick them inside the helmet as in the interior drawing. alternate the polarities by putting them in horizontal and vertical arrangements, so for example if the strip in front is horizontal, the two on either side will be vertical. try to place them at equal distances. put the liner back in the hel

tting them in horizontal and vertical arrangements, so for example if the strip in front is horizontal, the two on either side will be vertical. try to place them at equal distances. put the liner back in the helmet if there is one. make the coil of unshielded wire with enough left over to go out the top of the helmet. wire the coil to the foil circle and then run the end of the wire out the top. mount the circle so it will come into contact with the top of your head. time to mount the jack. you will notice that, like the pots, the jack has three tabs. mount the wires to the two outside tabs and forget the center one. making sure that the wires from the jack are long enough so that they don t interfere with your head, attach the ends of them to the foil circle as in the figure. attach the

COVENANT OF SAMYAZA

man, and let us have children by them" then i, samyaza, said "let us swear an oath that we shall stand by our intention, and remain loyal each to the other, lest demiurge divide and destroy us" and with the aid of nephilim, those of satanael's angels who had manifested themselves carnally on earth to be as emissaries and guides to man, we took on bodily form and descended, two hundred of us, upon mount armon, swearing mutual loyalty and declaring unto demiurge "depart from us, for we desire not your ways. what is the almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him- v- and we resolved to join with nephilim on earth, to break the chains of demiurge, and elevate man unto the heights, to be as gods, as satanael had promised, and to dwell with them in bui

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d an invitation from mr alfred rothschild, then head of the british house of rothschild, to lunch with him at the historic new court, in the city. what they discussed, he declines to reveal. what do you think? amazing as it may seem at first, the connections between the jewish house of rothschild and the creation of world wars (in which so many jewish people suffered appallingly) are beginning to mount. it was part of the elite's strategy to involve the us and increase the post-war demands for a world authority to stop further wars. this was not too much of a problem because the president, woodrow wilson, did whatever his chief 'advisor, colonel house (comm 300, told him to do. in 1915, the german sinking of the american 'passenger' ship, the lusitania, was an excuse for the us to declare

ence of the united states by saying that pakistan needed the reprocessing plant for her energy needs. in reply, i told him that i will not insult the intelligence of the united states by discussing the energy needs of pakistan, but in the same token, he should not insult the sovereignty and self-respect of pakistan by discussing the plant at all. i got the death sentence."28 the list continues to mount. even the campaign against nuclear power leads to the same people and the same agenda. and by the way, it was the elite-puppet, general zia ul-hag, who was used to trigger the war in afghanistan. what next? what can we expect the banking-business manipulators to do from this point on? the elite want the introduction of a world central bank that would run the planet as the federal reserve now

volved in ufo research. i want to know a lot more about this to see if it checks out. if you know something and you would like to talk to an open mind, please contact me. one thing's for sure from where i am sitting: there is an underground facility connected with raf rudloe manor in wiltshire, england, which the british people ought to know about, and the same goes for places like the top secret mount weather underground city near the little town of bluemont, virginia, about 46 miles west of washington d.c. some of the things you see in the james bond films are not all fiction. neither of these facilities, or the others, are operating in the interests of the people. mount weather is likely to be a centre from where the parallel government of the united states, the one that really runs the

hotel international in medellin, attended by about 200 drug dealers. the now infamous medellin cartel was officially created in december 1981.8 the cia formed the colombian drug cartels? yes. but, then, what is amazing anymore? nothing of substance that bush promised in his various drug 'campaigns' was ever delivered and, more than that, the revelations of his links with drug dealers continue to mount, as they do with jimmy carter and bill clinton. we have already seen the shackley-gregg-rodriguez connections through the iran-contra arms-fordrugs scandal when more- not fewer- hard drugs were brought into the united states to further destabilise american society. for fourteen years bush was also a friend of don aronow, who (according to one published account9 and a number of other research

k lane; it gave valuable information about mind control to the mkultra project; and it further poisoned the public mind to the word 'cult. you will find many of the elements of jonestown in the story of waco. on april 19th 1993, more than 80 men, women, and children were burnt alive when the us government, in the form of the fbi and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms (batf, attacked the mount carmel compound of the branch davidians, near waco, texas. we are asked to believe once again that this was a 'mass suicide' by a group of crazed and brainwashed followers of a weird and dangerous messiah' figure, david koresh. i could not disagree more with the views that david koresh was supposed to have had (if what is claimed is true. he appears to have been a very mixed up man. but the

ge from the february attack and the mass murder at the end of the 51-day siege that followed. i don't necessarily agree with everything the video claims and there are many questions about it i would like to ask, but it certainly reveals a very different version of what happened. 382..and the truth shall set you free in the first attack in the february, we see four batf men dressed in black on the mount carmel building. they are all armed, but no shots are coming from the building. three of these men are seen to climb through a window while the fourth stays on the roof outside. when his colleagues have disappeared through the window, he throws in a grenade and begins to open fire in that direction. bullets burst through the wall from the inside. but is this the branch davidians returning fi

. the jamming frequency is already diffusing and breaking up, and light is pouring into our world. as the process gathers pace, the portals or gateways to other time-space realities (dimensions) are beginning to open. the period of quarantine is also coming to a close. these gateways, in places like stonehenge, machu picchu in peru, tibet, knossos in crete, ayers rock, lake titicaca in the andes, mount fuji, mount shasta, and the lands of ancient sumer and babylon (now iraq) are opening as circumstances allow. this is like opening a valve which allows energies and vibrations from other dimensions to flood into this one. a merging of dimensions and realities is beginning to happen which is offering the opportunity for those who are ready, emotionally and mentally (vibrationally in other wor

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

he mountains were formed during the cataclysms and therefore many lowland areas were raised to a great height. according to ancient accounts, supported by much other evidence, when the earth had settled down after the cataclysm, or cataclysms, the survivors began to return from the high mountains north of sumer in turkey and iran into the plains of mesopotamia. it was in the turkish mountains, on mount ararat, that the symbolic noah's ark came to rest when the waters receded, the bible claims.62 the sumerian tablets also relate how the anunnaki "gods" returned to rebuild and restore their devastated heartlands, and the civilisation that emerged from this is known to history as sumer. i think, however, that many parts of the sumerian tablets are actually referring to events on lemuria and a

same geometrical relationship with other structures on other points. simple, once you have the knowledge to locate the vortexes, which the atlanteans and lemurians could. the famous ancient and modern "sacred sites" are invariably associated with the atlanteans and lemurians. sedona in arizona, famous for its massive vortexes to this day, is claimed to be an ancient colony of the lemurians, as is mount shasta in northern california" sedona is also associated by researchers of ufo activity with a reptilian underground base where members of the reptilian race work with their human or part-human puppets in the illuminati on the scientific and generic agenda. the base would appear to be under boynton canyon in sedona. this is not far in american terms from the reservation of the hopi tribe, wh

rix that is so, it fits with the previous name for the phoenicians, the carians or "serpent sea people of the atlantean fire god. the tin mines of cornwall in the far west of england were first created by the sumerian empire and this was known to them in their writings as "the tin land country".33 a phoenician deity, later encompassed into christianity, was st michael and so you have st michael's mount just off the cornish coast near penzance.34 the tin ships operated from here, and there are many other references to "st michael" in that region. other phoenician-sumerian deities were st george of cappadocia in turkey, who defeated the dragon and became the patron saint of england; barat, a male deity, who became "briton; and barati, the female, who became the british heroine, britannia, wh

foot of the caucasus mountains and relates them, with persuasive evidence, to the greek myth of jason and the argonauts, a story which, as he points out, contains many symbolic codes for sirius.32 in the myth, jason steals the golden fleece from the king of colchis. it is in this region that the georgian people live their extraordinarily long lives by today's standards and not far to the south is mount ararat, the place where the biblical noah's ark was supposed to have come symbolically to rest. the greek historian, herodotus, said that the people of colchis, a dark race, were of egyptian descent and he was told that they were men from the army of the pharaoh, sesostris, whom, scholars believe, was another name for ramses ii. this guy appears in the illuminati bloodline that includes the

mory was hazy about what happened after he first met "ol' blue eyes" in the james bond mountain, but he remembered walking into a room and seeing a group of these beings sitting around a conference table. eventually, he was taken back to his plane and as it rose from the mountain his engines and electronics restarted. there are many modern reports of such beings living within mountains, including mount shasta in california, where it is said that lemurians fled before the cataclysms. now look at how the ancient book of enoch describes the "watchers "and there appeared to me two men, very tall, such as i have never seen on earth. and their faces shone like the sun, and their eyes were like burning lamps..their hands were brighter than snow" some ancient "gods" were also called the "shining o

hur david horn, former professor of biological anthropology at colorado state university at fort collins, has concluded that humanity was seeded by an extraterrestrial race and that the anunnaki were reptilian. he, too, believes that these same reptilians have controlled the world for thousands of years, as he explains in his book, humanity's extraterrestrial origins (a. and l. horn, po box 1632, mount shasta, california, 1994. the reptilians, or this manipulating faction of them anyway, have an undeveloped emotional level, along the lines of a crocodile or lizard. they don't feel in the same way as mammals. they have a sharp mind in an intellectual sense and that makes them very efficient in creating and using technology. the computer is a very good example of the reptilian mind at work

materials. sound familiar? and the main form in which these "fairies" and "elves, etc. appeared was reptilian. elf or elven is still one of the illuminati code names for the reptilian bloodlines. the tales of non-human "gods" living within mountains or having their subterranean complexes entered through mountains is likely to be the origin of the endless myths about "holy" or "sacred" mountains. mount olympus, the home of the greek pantheon of gods, is one example. zeus, their king of the gods, was said to come down from the mountain to seed children with human women. meetings between the mythical moses and his god were often associated with mountains. i will investigate these ancient and modern connections between modern "extraterrestrials" and the folklore "fairies" later in the book.27

proof that i am a serpent, which survived in circulation among the native americans until the time of the european invasion when it disappeared. prince votan's arrival in north america was celebrated with an annual ceremony known as thanksgiving, later stolen by the european pilgrims and still a major festival in the united states.43 a key area for illuminati rituals and mind control projects is mount shasta in northern california and this is also at the centre of many legends about "serpents" and lemurians settling before and after the cataclysm. as with all of these former atlantean and lemurian peoples, they were obsessed with building structures on the vortex points. some 40,000 stone circles, pyramids, and mounds were built in north america.44 burning flames were often placed on the

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

. think beyond the bounds of whatyou are told is reality.to refuse to do so is the ultimate prison cell, the ultimate mental and emotionalstagnation- the ultimate control. indeed it is the way we have been controlled since thiswhole scam began. sources1dr arthur david horn, humanitys extraterrestrial origins, et influences on humankindsbiological and cultural evolution (a and l horn, pd box 1632, mount shasta, california,96067, 1994).482jason bishop ill, matrix ii, compiled by valdamar valerian (arcturus book service, usa, 1990),p 96.3rev john bathhurst deane, the worship of the serpent (j. g. and f. rivington, london,1833).4bible myths, p 11.5ibid, p 15.6ibid, p 12.7francis hitching, the wodd atlas of mysteries (pan books, london, 1981, p 10, sectionentitled, death of the dinosaurs.8ibid

as was a native of phocca in asia minor, phocca deriving fromphoenicia, as did an adjoining port called phoenice.40 by this time the phoenicians hadorganised the tin trade, from their mines in cornwall in the west of england acrossgaul/france to marseilles, from where it was taken by sea to the lands of themediterranean and aegean. the first phoenician tin-port in cornwall was ictis or stmichaels mount in penzance bay. st michael, one of the great heroes of christianity,was in truth a phoenician deity.there is endless evidence to prove the ancient link between the british isles andireland and the culture of north africa and the near east. they say if you want toexpose corruption, follow the money. well if you want to identify the passage of peopleand cultures, follow the language. the iris

heads of which were reptilian mysteryschool initiates in babylon. their stories are symbolic and coded for initiates tounderstand and the masses to take literally. according to the levites, moses was givenhis laws and commandments by god on top of a mountain. again and again we see thesymbol of mountains. one reason for this is that the top of a mountain is closer to theirsymbol of god- the sun. mount sion means sun mountain. the sun rising over theeastern mountains is still a major brotherhood symbol today. the story of the israelitesand jews is largely a fantasy- the veil behind which the truth has been hidden. no-onehas been had more comprehensively over these thousands of years than the peoplewho have considered themselves jewish. they have been terrorised, used andmanipulated in the

e major centres for the phoenicians. the knights hospitaller established theamalfi hostelry in jerusalem to provide food and shelter for the visitors. as theirwealth and prestige grew, they formed a military wing, which was given papalbacking in 1118, the same year that the original nine knights templar arrived injerusalem to guard the pilgrims.135the templars were given quarters adjoining temple mount, the alleged, and i stressalleged, site of solomons temple. some researchers believe the templars foundsomething of great value, possibly manuscripts, possibly vast amounts of gold, whileexcavating under temple mount. but whatever happened events began to move rapidlyafter 1126, for it was then that the grand master, hugues de payens, left jerusalem togather recruits and expand the order. he

the flow of opium into their country were thwarted by themight of the british empire. queen victorias foreign secretary and prime ministerduring the opium wars was lord palmerston, the grand patriarch or master ofgrand orient freemasonry, and a member of the committee of 300. thepalmerstons were in fact the temple family and their title goes back to 1723 when281henry temple became baron temple of mount temple, county sligo, ireland andviscount palmerston of palmerston, county dublin, an irish peer. temple originatesfrom templar. this title was passed onto his grandson, also named henry, who was amember of the british house of commons for 40 years and it was he who owned apainting by the artist, david teniers, called st anthony and st paul, with its mass ofsacred geometry, which has been co

launched the gulf war to show that violence does not pay! cheney, bush, and othershave fun playing something they call the most dangerous game. it involves threateninggovernment slaves like cathy and other mind controlled children and adults with appallingconsequences if they are caught. they are then allowed to escape into a forest, usually insome top secret military area like lampe, missouri or mount shasta, california, which aresurrounded by a high fence to prevent any escape. george bush, the man who called for akinder, gentler america, dick cheney, and bill clinton often go after them with guns,cathy says in her book and newspaper interviews. when they are caught, they are brutallyraped, sometimes killed, she says. the mount shasta compound, where bush and cheneyshared an office, is

the author of the talisman ofthe united states, received some anonymous correspondence after his book waspublished. it consisted of a map of the usa and a piece of paper on which were writtenthe words: its bigger than you think.12 lines drawn on the map revealed similargeometry to that in washington, but on a much larger scale. some of the pointsconnecting the geometry, or highlighted by it, were mount v ernon, illinois, wheregeorge washington is buried; miami, which was dubbed the magic city as early as1820; and a place called pikes peak in jefferson county, colorado, just across theborder from arkansas. pikes peak, of course, is named after albert pike.the ancient symbol of the circle and the cross i described a few chapters back, isstill used today in the secret language. it is the one

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

ccomplishments (new age dictionary. this is again a fulfillment of scripture. lucifer remember in isaiah 14:12-14, where god recalls lucifer's original sin of pride and rebellion? lucifer had every intention of taking god's throne by force and establishing his own reign. in verses 13 and 14, lucifer vowed "i will ascend to heaven; i will exalt my throne above the stars of god; i will sit upon the mount of assembly in the uttermost north" did you see that north is apparently the direction in which god's throne is situated, and lucifer planned to take it over. north is the place, occultists believe, where governmental authority dwells. now look at the goathead pentagram again. scott circle is precisely located at the middle of the goathead, and 16th street proceeds directly north. as you loo

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ols on a blackboard and one of his vibratory devices or motors would start operating. what i surmise is that keely used symbols to control the aetheric energies in his lab and possibly focalize them to effect mechanical operation1. magic at its finest! in the book a dweller on two planets 2, during one of phylos's incarnations, he was being taken by a chinese master, quong, to a hidden retreat in mount shasta. during the trip, the master demonstrated to phylos, two occult symbols. quong drew a symbol he called the vis mortuus on the ground, which caused a flame of the "fire of life" to blaze up for many feet inside the symbol. the symbol was a circle a couple of feet in diameter with a cross inside the circle and with the cross arms pointing east-west and north-south respectively. the mast

during solar eclipse (time is in decimal fractions of an hour) the circuit for the gravity wave detector is shown in figure 7.1.1-2 with instructions to build the circuit shown below. a detailed schematic is shown in figure 7.1.1-3. figure 7.1.1-2 block diagram of davidson gravity wave detector 1. solder fine(#28 or smaller) wires to the poles of the piezo ceramic for connection to the op amp or mount the piezo in a machined teflon case with copper electrodes pressing against the conductive poles of the piezo. use conductive paste to assure connection. 2. shock mount the piezo to isolate it from sonic and physical vibration. 3. the op amp (ad 515) should be isolated from stray electrostatic fields. also, good electrical wiring procedures should be followed to assure success. addition of o

DEMONIC BIBLE

. it is within me, it flows through me, it is what the "i am" of my being is. i am lucifer. i am satan. there is one thing common to all gods man has created. every man-made god is static and unchanging. yahweh resides in heaven, unchanging, unbending, the creator of the universe and all that it contains. christ sits at the right hand of god ready to judge the living and the dead. zeus resides in mount olympus holding aloft the lightning bolt, his symbol of divine power. the values of society and the structure of its institutions are defined as "good" that which threatens society is defined as "evil" the definitions of good or evil change from nation to nation and from century to century. god is defined by that which is "static" and unchanging. that which is "dynamic, a potential threat to

zodaretahe afa; od dalugare zodizodope zodelida caosaji tol-toregi; od zod-cahisa esiasacahe el tavi-vau; od iao-d tahilada das hubare pe-o-al; soba coremefa cahisa ta ela vaulasa od quo-co-casabe. eca niisa od darebesa quo-a-asa: fetahe-ar-ezodi od beliora: ia-ial eda-nasa cicalesa; bagile ge-iad iel (dee) the mighty sounds have entered into the third angle, and are become as olives in the olive mount looking with gladness upon the earth and dwelling in the brightness of the heavens as continual comforters, unto whom i fastened 19 pillars of gladness and gave them vessels to water the earth with her creatures, and they are the brothers of the first and second and the beginning of their own seats which are garnished with 69,636 continually burning lamps whose numbers are as the first, the

DIABOLUS

he magical act of sexual union creates a god like individual, who in this instance is cain. cain is considered to be a son of satan, a manifestation of that very solar force within man and woman. in religious lore, samael who is the serpent or dragon, was said to have injected filth which spawned cain, his son in flesh- when the serpent mounted eve, he injected filth into her. israel who stood at mount sinai, their filth ceased; the other nations who did not stand at mount sinai, their filth has not ceased. talmud: b. shab. 146a aleister crowley made reference to cain and his mark of initiation, which some witches disagree with according to their tradition. to paraphrase: there is the legend of eve and the serpent, for cain was the child of eve and the serpent, and not of eve and adam; and

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e not had time to build up through experience a body of images and ideas that shall serve to represent them. these can only be got together with mystical qabala page 133 time, each transcendental experience adding its quota and subsequent rational meditation organising them. 26. mystics are very apt to make the mistake of thinking that they are following the star to the place of the sermon on the mount, not to the manger at bethlehem, the birth-place. it is here that the method of the tree is so valuable, enabling the transcendent to be expressed in terms of symbolism, and symbolism to be translated into terms of metaphysics; thus linking the psychic with the spiritual via the intellect, and bringing all three aspects of our trinitarian consciousness into focus. 27. it is in tiphareth that

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

seems as if the egyptians never succeeded in breaking away from their very ancient habit of confusing the things of the body with the things of the soul. they believed in an incorporeal and immortal part of man, the constituent elements of which flew to heaven after death and embalmment; yet the theologians of the vith dynasty had decided that there was some part of the deceased which could only mount to heaven by means of a ladder. in the pyramid of teta it is said "when teta hath purified himself on the borders of this earth where ra hath purified himself, he prayeth and setteth up the ladder, and those who dwell in the great place press teta forward with their hands"[3] in the pyramid of pepi i [1. e.g "this pepi goeth forth with his flesh" recueil de travaux, t. v, p. 185, l. 169. 2

th all that i did when this earth came into being from nu (18, and when it sprang from the watery abyss even as it was in the days of old. i am fate) and osiris, and i have changed my form into the likeness of divers serpents (19. man knoweth not, and the gods cannot see, the two-fold beauty which i have made for osiris, who is greater than all the gods. i have granted that he [shall rule] in the mount of the dead (20. verily his son horus is seated upon the throne of the dweller in the double lake of fire, as his heir. i have set his throne in (21) the boat of millions of years. horus is established upon his throne, amid the friends [of osiris] and all that belonged unto him. verily the soul of sut, which (22) is greater than all the gods, hath departed to [amenta. may it be granted that

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ves me several interesting facts which deserve record in this place. his brother, p. nichols, was a captain in the sixty-seventh north carolina troops. in the winter of 1863-64, the federals occupied newbern, from which point they frequently made cavalry raids into the interior. captain nichols, serving in virginia, obtained a furlough a typical lodge 131 to visit his family, who lived near rocky mount station, in north carolina. after spending a brief time at home, he set out on his return with a number of companions. making their way to the station, they were waiting for their train, when a troop of federal cavalry swooped down on them and made the little party prisoners. before they could escape, they were hustled off and landed in prison at newbern. when captain nichols, who was of fin

, and peremptorily checked every demonstration against the wounded man. he ordered one of the soldiers to take him to the rear and see that his wounds were dressed. the order was obeyed, though on the way the prisoner was obliged to give up his gold watch, his money, and afterward to exchange his cavalry boots for a pair of canvas shoes. captain bliss's wounds bled so much that he was too weak to mount a horse without help, but he was gotten into place behind one of the guards, and a ride of three miles brought him to a field hospital, where his wounds were dressed. later in the evening he was put into an ambulance with captain william a. moss-at that time a lieutenant-who had received a bullet wound in addition to the sabre cut from captain bliss. captain moss, like bliss, was a mason, an

d. payne died at warrenton, va, in march, z893. in his account of the remarkable exploit of captain bliss, he wrote "the fourth virginia regiment was at this point in the front, and captain morgan strother, its commander, when he discovered the barricade, ordered some of his men to dismount to remove the obstruction. while this was being done, he suddenly gave the order for the dismounted men to mount, which was immediately obeyed, and just then an incident occurred worthy of mention, as exhibiting a deed of individual heroism rarely witnessed. just as the men of the fourth regiment were well in the saddle, after the order of their commanding officer, a single soldier, coming from the direction of the enemy, with sword in hand, dashed into the black horse troop, which composed one of the

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d religion in the kabala. the guardian angel presented seth with three seeds from this tree and directed him to place them within the mouth of his father, adam, when he died. from this planting arose the burning bush, out of which god communicated to moses his holy name, and from a part of which moses made his magic wand. this was placed in the ark of the covenant and was planted by king david on mount zion, where it grew into a triple tree and was later cut down by solomon to form the pillars jachin and boaz, which were placed at the entrance to the temple. a third portion was inserted in the threshold of the great gate and acted as a talisman, permitting no unclean thing to enter the sanctuary. however, certain wicked priests removed it, weighted it with stones, and cast it into the temp

ult metaphysics and in 1936 founded the royal order of tibet, through which he offered a course in self-mastery. although he had no scientific training, he was often referred to as professor by his royal order of tibet mystical philosophy students. in 1940 he moved to the valley center with his followers, where they established a farming project. four years later he moved to the southern slope of mount palomar in southern california. he had no formal connection with the observatory there and worked as a handyman at a hamburger stand. soon after the modern flying saucer era began, adamski emerged in 1947 as a popular lecturer. he claimed to have sighted a ufo in 1946 and in 1949 wrote a novel, pioneers in space, to promote discussion of the subject by the general public. he also began to sh

observatory there and worked as a handyman at a hamburger stand. soon after the modern flying saucer era began, adamski emerged in 1947 as a popular lecturer. he claimed to have sighted a ufo in 1946 and in 1949 wrote a novel, pioneers in space, to promote discussion of the subject by the general public. he also began to show pictures of what he claimed were saucers he had seen near his home near mount palomar. adamski also coauthored, with desmond leslie, flying saucers have landed (1953, the book that launched the contactee phenomenon. adamski claimed that he had been contacted by the venusian occupant of a flying saucer that landed in the california desert november 20, 1952. subsequently adamski claimed to have had contact with spacemen from mars and saturn and to have traveled 50,000 m

hatchet. in 1774 the grand orient lodge of france established a system of three degrees called the rite of adoption and elected the duchess of bourbon as grand mistress of france. the rite has been generally adopted into freemasonry, and various degrees were added from time to time to the number of about twelve in all. latin and greek mysteries were added to the rite by the ladies hospitallers of mount tabor. the greatest ladies in france joined the french lodges of adoption. the rite of mizraim created lodges for both sexes in 1819, 1821, 1838, and 1853, and the rite of memphis in 1839. america founded the rite of the eastern star in five points. in these systems, admission was generally confined to the female relations of masons. the order of the eastern star and that of adoptive masonry

shed by fellow contactee george hunt williamson. these years were a time of intense growth, and before returning to the united states she began to send out transcripts of the messages she was receiving from the masters. in 1961 sister thedra returned to the united states and settled in arizona. she established the association of sananda and sanat kumara in 1965 and a short time later relocated to mount shasta, california. in 1988 she and the group returned to sedona, arizona. the association existed as a far-flung network of people who received the teachings of those who spoke through sister thedra. the advanced beings she channeled were seen as both spiritually advanced and coming from outer space. martin has since died and no new channel has arisen to take her place. the association may

perambulation of surrey became the basis of rawlinson s natural history and antiquities of surrey. a number of his works, including extracts from monumenta britannica, were issued in the nineteenth century. within the modern druid movement, many believe that aubrey was more than a gentleman scholar. they have concluded that he was a druid himself, that he participated in a druid grove that met at mount haemus, and that he passed along some authority to john toland. there is no hard evidence to support such belief. sources: carr-gomm, philip. the elements of the druid tradition. shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element, 1991. august order of light an oriental order introduced into england in 1882 by maurice vidal portman. its object was the development of practical occultism, and it continued at br

rk: maznaim publishing, 1984. baalzephon captain of the guard and sentinels of hell (according to johan weyer. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval and renaissance texts and studies, 1991. baaras a marvelous plant known to the arabs as the golden plant, which is supposed to grow on mount libanus, underneath the road that leads to damascus. it is said to flower in the month of may, after the melting of the snow. at night it can be seen by torchlight, but through the day it is invisible. it was believed to be of great assistance to alchemists in the transmutation of metals. it is alluded to by the historian josephus (lib. 8, chap. 25) bab name given to mirza ali muhammad (1819

despair, and overcare for the welfare of others. the bach remedies can be prescribed for plants, animals, and other living creatures as well as human beings. in the last years of his life, bach abandoned his successful medical practice and lived in a cottage on the borders of buckinghamshire, where he developed and prepared his healing system. the bach centre now carries on the doctors s work at mount vernon, sotwell, wallingford, berkshire. some of bach s ideas now have greater relevance through modern interest in the interaction between plants and human beings. during the last years of his life, he published several short books detailing his research. these and other publications dealing with bach s works are kept in print by the bach centre. in the united states, there is an edward bac

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the effect of quenching public interest in mesmerism, as animal magnetism was called at the time. mesmer s ideas were kept alive by a few of his students and reemerged in force during the next century. mesmer lived quietly for the rest of his life and died at meersburg, switzerland, march 5, 1815. sources: eden, jerome, trans. memoir of f. a. mesmer, doctor of medicine, on his discoveries, 1799. mount vernon, n.y: eden press, 1957. goldsmith, margaret l. franz anton mesmer: the history of an idea. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1934. reprint, london: arthur barker, 1934. wyckoff, james. franz anton mesmer. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1975. wydenbruck, nora. doctor mesmer. london: john westhouse, 1947. mesmerism a system of healing, founded by franz anton mesmer (1733.1815, an aust

, wrote an essay on a subject that had worried him on the previous evening, and then returned to bed without waking. it was the best essay of the class. no other incidents of a psychic nature of his early years were recorded. he won a scholarship to exeter college, oxford. owing to a breakdown in his health he interrupted his studies, traveled for some time, and spent six months in a monastery on mount athos. when he recovered his health he returned to oxford, took his m.a, and was ordained as a minister of the church of england by the renowned bishop wilberforce. he began his ministry at kirk maughold, near ramsey, in the isle of man, at age 24. there he gained the esteem and love of his parishioners. he was remembered for his activity during an outbreak encyclopedia of occultism& parapsy

y he assisted w. c. stewart and j. e. jenkins in developing and testing devices to investigate extrasensory perception. he is an associate member of the parapsychological association. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. stewart, w. c. three new esp test machines and some preliminary results. journal of parapsychology (march 1959. mount shasta see shasta, mount the mountain cove community a spiritualist community founded in mountain cove, fayette county, virginia, in the autumn of 1851 under the leadership of the rev. james scott and rev. thomas lake harris. both were mediums who had settled in auburn the previous year and had obtained a considerable following. while harris was absent in new york the command to form a commu

p oracular mysteries secret and inviolate. but after an accident had occurred to one of the pythonesses, the guardians of the temple permitted no one to fulfil the duties of the office until she had attained the age of 50. the oracle of dodona another celebrated oracle, that of jupiter, was at dodona in epirus, greece (from which jupiter derived the name of dodonus. it was situated at the foot of mount tomarus, in a grove of oaks, and there answers were given by a woman named pelias. pelias means dove in the attic dialect. the fable arose that the doves prophesied in the groves of dodona. the historian herodotus (ca. 484.425 b.c.e) cites a legendary tale concerning the origin of the oracle. supposedly two priestesses from thebes, egypt, were carried away by phoenician merchants; one went t

e wrist. the line of fortune runs from the base of the third finger towards the wrist parallel to the line of fate. if the lines are deep, firm, and of narrow width, the significance is good.excepting that a strong line of health shows constitutional weakness. at the base of the fingers, beginning with the first, lie the mounts of jupiter, saturn, apollo, and mercury; at the base of the thumb the mount of venus; opposite to it, that of luna. if well-proportioned they show certain virtues, but if exaggerated they indicate the vices that correspond to these. the first displays religion, reasonable ambition, or pride and superstition; the second wisdom and prudence, or ignorance and failure; the third when large, makes for success and intelligence, when small for, meanness or love of obscurit

but if exaggerated they indicate the vices that correspond to these. the first displays religion, reasonable ambition, or pride and superstition; the second wisdom and prudence, or ignorance and failure; the third when large, makes for success and intelligence, when small for, meanness or love of obscurity; the fourth desire for knowledge and industry, or disinterestedness and laziness. the lunar mount indicates sensitiveness, imagination, morality or otherwise, and self-will; the mount of venus, charity and affection, or if exaggerated, viciousness. the phalanges of the fingers are also indicative of certain faculties. for example, the first and second of the thumb, according to their length, indicate the value of the logical faculty and of the will; those of the index finger in their ord

oken in both hands, it means death. if it is much chained it means delicacy. if it has a second or sister line, it shows great vitality. a black spot on the line shows illness at the time marked. a cross indicates some fatality. the line of life coming out far into the palm is a sign of long life. the line of the head, if long and well-colored, denotes intelligence and power. if descending to the mount of the moon it shows that the head is much influenced by the imagination. islands on the line denote mental troubles. the head line forked at the end indicates subtlety and a facility for seeing all sides of the question. a double line of the head is an indication of good fortune. the line of the heart should branch towards the mount of jupiter. if it should pass over the mount of jupiter to

nt of jupiter. if it should pass over the mount of jupiter to the edge of the hand and travel round the index finger, it is called solomon s ring and indicates ideality and romance; it is also a sign of occult power. points or dots in this line may show illness if black, and if white love affairs, while islands on the heart line indicate disease. if the line of fate or saturn rises from the lunar mount and ascends towards the line of the palmer, raymond alfred encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1174 heart, it is a sign of a rich marriage. if it extends into the third phalange of saturn s finger it shows the sinister influence of that planet. a double line of fate is ominous. there are also numerous other lesser lines and marks the hand contains, which are detailed in a numb

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. in et zel cardena, st e ven jay lynn, and st a n l e y k r i p p n e r, eds. varieties of anomalous ex p e r i e n c e: examining the scientific ev i d e n c e, 253 282. wa s hington, dc: american ps ychological association. bu l l a rd, thomas e, 1987. ufo abductions: t h e me a s u re of a my s t e ry. volume 1: compara t i ve st u d y of abduction re p o rts. volume 2: catalogue of ca s e s. mount rainier, md: fund for ufo re s e a rc h, 1989. hypnosis and ufo abductions: a troubled relationship. journal of ufo studies 1 (new series: 3 40, 1991. folkloric dimensions of the ufo phenomenon. journal of ufo studies 3 (new series: 1 57, 2000. abductions under fire: a review of recent abduction literature. journal of ufo studies 7 (new series: 81 106. c l a rk, je rome, 2000. from mermaids

e whole, however, she was convinced that abram was a positive influence in her life. further reading rojcewicz, peter m, 1984. the boundaries of ortho- doxy: a folkloric look at the ufo phenomenon. ph.d. dissertation. university of pennsylvania, philadelphia. adama adama, who channels through dianne robbins, is an ascended master and high priest of telos, the great lemurian city now located under mount shasta in northern california. because of his pure thoughts, adama, like the million other persons who live in the city, is able to live for hundreds of years. he is currently more than six hundred years old. he is a descendant of the lemurians who fled inside the mountain when lemuria and all else on earth s surface were destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. only twenty-five thousand lemurians

adama says, and w e a r e n ow m e rg i n g o u r t h o u g h ts i n to o n e t h o u g h t f o r t h e e n t i r e h u m a n r ac e. soon we will all be on the same wave band of consciousness, broadcasting our love and light to all in the cosmos and letting the cosmos know that we are ready to join with them in one grand f e d e r at i o n o f p la ne ts( adama, 1995. adama 7 see also: lemuria; mount shasta further reading adama, 1995. http//www.salemctr.com/newage/ center36.html. adamski, george (1891 1965) though largely forgotten today, george adamski was once an international occult celebrity, perhaps the most famous of all flying- saucer contactees. his claimed meeting with a venusian in the california desert in november 1952 electrified esoterically inclined saucer buffs. in three

group trying to destroy the space people s good works. but in later years, following his death, several individuals disclosed that adamski had acknowledged to them that his stories were not true. by 1959 adamski s renown was such that he was able to embark on a worldwide tour, first to new zealand and australia, then to adamski, george 9 ufo contactee george adamski with his six-inch telescope on mount palomar, california (fortean picture library) europe. in may of that same year, queen juliana of holland received him, igniting fierce commentary in the press and a riot at the university of zurich when adamski attempted to give a lecture in switzerland. adamski charged that the students and indeed most of his critics were agents of a sinister silence group, which sought to frustrate the mor

asts believed that at l a n t e a n m a c h i n e ry and even atlanteans themselve s could be found inside certain cavern entrances around the world. new age channelers communicated with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of disembodied atlanteans. a c e n t u ry of occult lore holds that at l a n t e a n s and lemurians (from lemuria, the pa c i fic e q u i valent of atlantis) maintain colonies inside mount shasta on the california-ore g o n b o rd e r. with the rise of the internet, web sites devoted to atlantis and related materials have proliferated. one such site, run by the hawaii-based department of interplanetary affairs, provides a densely detailed overview of the atlantis myth as it had evolved by the end of the twentieth century. in this version, atlantis was literally a golden civili

it de- atlantis 33 stroyed. like the iliad and the odyssey, it has managed to survive for more than two millennia. but unlike homer s epic poems, plato s tale rarely considered an important part of his voluminous output has not only survived as a demonstration of the storyteller s art, but also has become a part of our own mythology. see also: bermuda triangle; channelings; hollow earth; lemuria; mount shasta; shaver mystery further reading cayce, edgar, 1968. edgar cayce on atlantis. new york: paperback library. de camp, l. sprague, 1970. lost continents: the at- lantis theme in history, science, and literature. new york: dover publications. donnelly, ignatius, 1882. atlantis: the antediluvian world. new york: harper. ellis, richard, 1998. imagining atlantis. new york: alfred a. knopf. om

r/ my s t e ry. htm. untitled, n.d. http//www.rcbbs.com/docs/empire7. txt. bonnie in 1977, william hamilton, a california man interested in ufos, met a young, very pretty blond girl with almond-shaped eyes and perfect small teeth. bonnie, whom hamilton judged sincere and sane, told him she was born in 1951 in the lemurian city of telos, located inside an artificial domelike cavern a mile beneath mount shasta on california s northern border. bonnie told him that she, her parents, her two sisters, and her two cousins move freely back and forth between our society and their native city. they also travel to other subterranean lemurian and atlantean cities, via a tube transit train system that travels as fast as 2,500 miles per hour. the lemurians are also able to fly into outer space in sauce

lantis (in the atlantic) and lemuria (in the pacific) fought a war against each other twenty-five thousand years ago, but it was a natural catastrophe that brought lemuria to the ocean bottom ten thousand years later. atlantis was destroyed a few centuries later when atlantean scientists conducted irresponsible experiments with cosmic, energy-generating fire crystals. see also: atlantis; lemuria; mount shasta further reading beckley, timothy green, ed, 1993. the smoky god and other inner earth mysteries. new brunswick, nj: inner light publications. boys from topside wilbert b. smith (1910 1962, an engineer who worked for canada s department of transport (dot, believed himself to be in contact with philosophically and scientifically inclined extraterrestrials. he called them the boys from t

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low, one that out of hell has run? then see this sign! before which incline black cohorts e er! it swells up now with bristling hair. thou reprobated, canst rede his token? the ne er-originated, the never-spoken, who every heaven has permeated, he! wantonly immolated! behind the stove, held by my spells, like an elephant it swells, and all the space it fills complete. in vapour it will melt away. mount not up to the ceiling! lay thyself down at thy master s feet! i threaten not in vain as thou canst see. with holy fire i ll shrivel thee! do not await the light thrice radiate! do not await the strongest art at my command! mephistopheles steps forth from behind the stove while the vapour is vanishing. he is dressed as a travelling scholar. mephistopheles wherefore this noise? what does my lo

the hartz mountains region of schierke and elend faust. mephistopheles. mephistopheles if you d a broomstick, wouldn t that be fine? i wish the sturdiest he-goat were mine. our goal s still far off and this way is rough. faust as long as i feel fresh afoot, i say for me this knotted staff s enough. what good is it when one cuts short the way? to loiter through the labyrinth of valleys and then to mount these cliffs, whence sallies the ever bubbling, leaping spring, that is the spice that makes such paths worth wandering! already springtime in the birches stirs, it s even felt already by the firs; should not our members also feel effect? mephistopheles forsooth, no trace of that can i detect! i m feeling wintry in my every limb; upon my path i should like frost and snow. how sadly rises, re

nd. oft what we did, we shouldn t rightly; but now the world turns round and round, and just when we would hold things tightly. author. who now in any case will read a book with contents middling clever? and as for dear young folks, indeed, they re pert and saucy now as never. mephistopheles [who all at once appears very old. i feel that men are ripe for judgment day, since no more up the witches mount i ll climb; and since my cask drains turbidly away, so too the world declines in dregs and slime. huckster-witch. you gentlemen, don t pass by so! let such an opportunity not go! look at my wares attentively; here are all sorts of things to see. yet in my shop, sirs, there is naughtits like on earth you will not findthat at some time or other has not wrought dire harm both to the world and t

auspicious chance, can it be hither faring? o marvel past comparing! a rider s trotting on toward me. spirited, strong, he seems to be; borne on a snow-white steed he s nearing. i do not err, i know him now, the famous son of philyra!halt, chiron, halt! and give me hearing! chiron what now? what is it? faust check your pace and stay! chiron i do not rest. faust take me along, i pray! chiron then, mount! and i can question you at leisure: whither your way? you re standing on the shore and i will bear you through the stream with pleasure. faust [mounting] whither you will, i ll thank you evermore. the noble pedagogue, so great in name, who reared full many a hero, to his fame, the troop of argonauts, renowned in story, and all who built the poets world of glory. chiron let us not talk of tha

? where does this lead out? there was a path, now stone-heaps roundabout. i came along on level ways, and rubble-stuff now meets my gaze; i clamber up and down in vain. my sphinxes- where find them again? i d not have dreamed so mad a sight, aye, such a mountain in one night! a witch-ride would not name it wrong; they bring their own blocksberg along. oread [from a natural rock. come up to me! my mount is old and still has its primeval mould. revere these cliff-paths steep ascending and pindus last spur far extending! unshaken, thus i reared my head when over my shoulders pompey fled. beside me here this phantom rock will vanish at the crow of cock. such fairy-tales i often see arise and perish in like sudden wise. mephistopheles honour to thee, thou honoured head! with mighty oaks engarla

d plunging as they go, then the broad vale itself with mead and lea and hollow. thus is remorse expressed, and pardon soon will follow. emperor my horror of this grievous fault is so profound the borders of the land yourself shall measure round. archbishop first, where one so has sinned, the spot, so desecrated, be to the most high s service straightway dedicated. my spirit sees the massive walls mount swiftly higher; the morning sun s first rays already light the choir; the growing edifice a cross s form is taking; the nave grows long and high, believers joy awaking; through solemn portals they stream in with ardent zeal, while over hill and dale resounds the bell s first peal. it sounds from lofty towers aspiring up to heaven. now comes the penitent to whom new life is given. the consecr

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

- devouring-its-tail (figure 7.4. for acharit, one can use the image of the letter tav t riding a white horse with a letter zayin -handled sword as seen in figure 3.11 on page 111. with master mosheh and master yeshuvah, use one or more of the powerful images found in the torah and peshitta, such as master mosheh prostrating before the burning bush, or master yeshuvah delivering the sermon on the mount. another root mantra for master yeshuvah, in use among eastern orthodox christians since the second century ce, and prominent in the catholic mass is kierie eleison christe eleison( lord have mercy, christ have mercy).8 the our father prayer that master yeshuvah instructed his disciples to embrace might also be incorporated in one s practices. as a jew addressing jews, it is highly likely th

the night the angel of death passed over i.e. spared the first-born children of the israelites preceding the release from egyptian slavery. pharisees (hebrew: rabbinical jewish sect that opposed the priesthood and the sadducees and eventually assimilated orthodox authority after the diaspora. the pharisees maintained that, in addition to the written torah, god had handed down an oral tradition at mount sinai. they believed that the soul was immortal and that all actions in this world affected the person's future in the world to come. pingala (sanskrit: one of the two side channels on the chakric tree. corresponds to the column of the left on the qabalistic tree. pir (persian: title for the spiritual preceptor in sufism. pralaya (sanskrit: night: a solar night in which brahma sleeps. corres

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nnot understand god: for the like is not intelligible save to the like. make yourself grow to a greatness beyond measure, by a bound free yourself from the body; raise yourself above all time, become eternity; then you will understand god. believe that nothing is impossible for you, think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, dry and moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the sky, that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. if you embrace in your thought all things at once, times, places, substances, qual

diso, iv, 49-54- 119 pseudo-dionysius and theology of a christian magus light, in ficino's exposition may possibly be due to the influence of dante. the notion that the supernal light is reflected down the angelic hierarchies, flashing as in mirrors from one to another, is a characteristically dionysian conception, to which dante had given a somewhat new turn by describing how, as he and beatrice mount through the spheres of the planets, the light changes in quality at each ascent, reaching ever more dazzhng degrees of intensity in the eighth sphere, the ninth sphere and the empyrean. ficino, in the passage analysed above, seems to be definitely using, splendor of light in the eighth sphere, candor of a more intense light in the chrystalline sphere, and lumen of the supreme light in the em

was not really by hermes but inserted by the magician, apuleius of madaura, when he made the latin translation of the work. this left the way clear to admire hermes without reserve for his remarkable insights into old and new testament truths. the most ancient egyptian writes a genesis which is close to the hebrew genesis; he speaks of the son of god as the word; he describes in a "sermon on the mount (discourse on the mountain of hermes trismegistus to his son tat, corpus hermeticum, xiii) a religious experience which is like christian regeneration; he seems to echo the beginning of st. john's gospel. all these christian parallels, which had immensely struck ficino, were free to be ecstatically pondered upon and developed, once the magic of the asclepius was got rid of, by those who, unl

nnot understand god: for the like is not intelligible save to the like. make yourself grow to a greatness beyond measure, by a bound free yourself from the body; raise yourself above all time, become eternity; then you will understand god. believe that nothing is impossible for you, think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, dry and moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the sky, that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. if you embrace in your thought all things at once, times, places, substances, qual

, p. 561. 2 spaccio, dedication and dial. 1 (dial, ital, pp. 562 ff, 617 ff. 3 ibid (dial, ital, pp. 562, 611) 4 ibid (dial, ital, pp. 562, 621. 5 ibid (dial, ital, pp. 563, 622. 6 spaccio, dedication and dial. 3 (dial, ital, pp. 565, 755' ibid (dial, ital, pp. 566, 765-6. 8 ibid (dial, ital, pp. 567, 774. ibid (dial, ital, pp. 567. 775) 8* 219 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform which mount magnanimity, and public spirit' in corvus, magia divina replaces imposture.2 we can already begin to see, in part, what the brunian reform of the heavens means. the prophecy at the end of the lament is coming true; the old age of the world after the collapse of the egyptian religion and the egyptian moral laws is over; the magical religion mounts up again into the sky and so do the virtues o

gyptian religion and the kind of moral law which bruno associates with it. yet this reform he envisages as remaining in some manner associated with the church, for the altar, discussed under the constellation of that name, is to remain in heaven with the centaur, half beast (in the egyptian sense of god) and half man beside it.1 the centaur is admired for having healed the sick and shown a way to mount up to the stars. he is to remain in heaven, for where there is an altar, there must be a priest for the altar. under the corona australis, apollo asks what is to be done with this crown? that (replied jupiter, is the crown which, by the high decree of fate and the inspiration of the divine spirit and as a reward for high merit, awaits the invincible henri iii, king of the magnanimous, powerf

near to me, as near, indeed, as i am to myself. yet no reasonable man would reprove me for so doing, since it is sometimes not only convenient but necessary to speak well of oneself. if in days of old tiphys was to be praised who invented the first ship and voyaged across the ocean with the argonauts. if in our times columbus receives honour. what then shall be said of him who has found a way to mount up to the sky? the nolan. has released the human spirit, and set knowledge at liberty. man's mind was suffocating in the close air of a narrow prison house whence only dimly, and, as it were, through chinks could he behold the far distant stars. his wings were clipped, so that he might not soar upwards through the cloudy veil to see what really lies beyond it and liberate himself from the fo

ted from hermetism. it is explicitly said that this "natural ass" is the same as the triumphant beast of the spaccio' 1 cabala, dial, i dial, ital, pp. 867-8. 2 cabala, dial. 1 dial, ital, pp. 875-6. it also symbolises ibid, p. 876) the total scepticism of the "pirronians and ephetics. 3 l'asino cillenico dial, ital, p. 915- the epithet "cillenico" connects the ass with mercury, born in a cave on mount cyllene. he is also conflated with the horse pegasus, hence the title cabala del cavallo pegaseo* l'asino cillenico dial, ital, p. 9*7- 5 ibid, loc. cit. 6 ibid, loc. cit. 7 l'asino cillenico dial, ital, pp. 842, 862. since we have also been told that the egyptians were made to turn their bull, apis, into an ass, it 260 giordano bruno and the cabala the origin of bruno's egyptian ass is quit

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

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

a cave and as legend affirms gsat in the sand up to their necks h for twelve or thirteen years gstudying the law h. 10 also ramon lulle, the qabalist, in preparing himself for revelation and for the union with god. sought the loneliest places and the most arduous ways. he withdrew far from the multitude, where there was nothing to distract him. at the foot of secret wisdom of the qabalah page 80 mount randa he constructed a little hut in which he received his pupils and taught them. but when he desired communion with god, he climbed to the summit of the mountain. 11 we will next turn to a modern example, that of baha u llah, the follower of the bab. in 1844 the bab, a young man of twenty-five and the son of a wool merchant, first proclaimed his message in shiraz. seven years later he was

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

and the end of all things. of "aditi, the boundless, the yonder, the beyond all and everything" max muller says that in later times she "may have become identified with the sky, also with the earth, but originally she was far beyond the sky and the earth"[24] the same writer quotes the following, also from a hymn of the rig-veda [24] origin and growth of religion, p. 221 "o mitra and varuna, you mount your chariot which, at the dawning of the dawn is golden-colored and has iron poles at the setting of the sun; from thence you see aditi and diti--that is, what is yonder and what is here, what is infinite and what is finite, what is mortal and what is immortal"[25 [25] ibid. aditi is the great she that is, the everlasting. muller refers to the fact that another hindoo poet "speaks of the da

spirit of the egyptian tree of life. we are given to understand that netpe was the same as rhea, the partner of sev or saturn, and that her hieroglyphic name was "abyss of heaven" osiris was the son of this goddess who was really a mai or mary, the celestial mother, he being the only god of the egyptians who was born upon this earth and lived among men. of this forlong remarks "his birthplace was mount sinai; called by the egyptians nysa, hence his greek name dionysos" as the palm was the first offering of mother earth to her children, so osiris was the first offspring of the egyptian celestial virgin to mankind. he was the new sun which through the winter months had been "buried" but which in process of time arose to gladden all the earth. he was also the new sun of righteousness which wa

lt deep nourished into life. declare how first the gods and earth became; the rivers and th' immeasurable sea high-raging in its foam; the glittering stars, the wide impending heaven; and who from these of deities arose, dispensing good; say how their treasures, how their honors each allotted shar'd: how first they held abode on many-caved olympus--this declare, ye muses! dwellers of the heavenly mount from the beginning; say, who first arose? first chaos was: next ample-bosomed earth, of deathless gods, who still the olympian heights snow-topt inhabit. her first-born earth produced of like immensity, the starry heaven: that he might sheltering compass her around on every side, and be forevermore to the blest gods a mansion unremoved"[92 [92] hesiod, the theogony. so long as human beings w

solomon and his cruel, lascivious bandit-father, the brazen-faced adulterer and murderer, who broke his freely volunteered oath, and sacrificed six innocent sons of his king to his javah" of solomon he says that he devoted his energies and some little wealth "to rearing phallic and solophallic shrines over all the high places around him, and especially in front of jerusalem, and on and around the mount of olives" on each side of the entrance to his celebrated temple, under the great phallic spire which formed the portico, were two handsome columns over fifty feet high, by the side of which were the sun god belus and his chariots. in a description of this temple it is represented as being one hundred and twenty feet long and forty feet broad, while the porch, a phallic emblem "was a huge to

ale, in the deity, we have the following from justinus, who is said to have been contemporary with peter and paul "when elohim had prepared and created the world as a result from joint pleasure, he wished to ascend up to the elevated parts of heaven, and to see that not anything of what pertained to the creation laboured under deficiency. and he took his own angels with him, for his nature was to mount aloft, leaving edem below; for inasmuch as she was earth, she was not disposed to follow upward her spouse. elohim, then, coming to the highest part of heaven above and beholding a light superior to that which he himself had created, exclaimed 'open me the gates, that entering in i may acknowledge the lord" as he enters the good one addresses him in the following manner "sit thou on my right

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

aternitatisr.c.the notable mystic and adept known as christian rosenkreuz, the founder of the rosicrucian fraternity, was born in 1378, of a noble family, and received his education in a cloister. a certain monk,p.a.l.,took him as a companion on a journey to the holy land; they reached cyprus, and there p.a.l. died. christian rosenkreuz, however, went on alone to damascus, and to the sanctuary of mount carmel where he studied with the wise men, from thence to egypt, to fez and then to spain, learning in all countries the doctrines of their religion and philosophy, and their arts of medicine; and he at last settled down in south germany about the year 1413. after several years spent in the study of the knowledge and arts so collected, c.r. chose three companions, fratres g.v, la (who it was

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

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

he mysteries contained in it almost forgotten, in the degenerate age preceding the flood, they were restored by special revelation to abraham who transmitted them to writinginthe book 'yetzirah; and that the revelation was renewed to moses, who received a traditionary and mystical as well as athekabbalah17written and preceptive law from god. accordingly the jews believe, that god gave to moses on mount sinai, not only the law,butalso the explication of that law; and that moses, after his coming down, retiring to his tent, rehearsed to aaron both the one and the other. when he had done, aaron standing on the right hand, his sons, eleazar and ithamar, were introduced to a second rehearsal; this being over, the seventy elders that composed the sanhedrim were admitted; and lastly, the people

much as the pascal lamb in the time of moses, the ram symbol of zeus, the ram of phryxos helle, and the ram of many another mythology of the same date. this is also the meaning of the horned moses. many people have asked, and some have asked in vain, unless from an occultist, what the horns of moses mean? it is easy to say that we are told there was a glory on his face when he came down from the mount, so that a veil had to be placed on his face. that may be one reason, but that would be pictorially represented by a halo or by a veil to moses. now we very seldom see a picture of a veiled moses, but we do frequently see a picture of a horned moses;.and the reason is simply because moses was the earth leader at the time when the ram was the supreme glyph in the heavens, and the symbol of th

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

oldiers of jesus christ and the temple of solomon, was formed in 1118, that is, 20 years after the crusaders took jerusalem. the founders of the order were two french knights, hugh de payens and godfrey de st. omer. at first there were 9 members, but the order steadily grew. the reason they named themselves after the temple of solomon was because the place they had chosen as a base was the temple mount where this ruined temple had been located. this same location was where the dome of the rock (qubbet as-sakhrah) stood. the templars called themselves "poor soldiers" but within a short time they became very wealthy. christian pilgrims, coming from europe to palestine, were under the complete control of this order, and by whose money they became very rich. in addition, for the first time the

e golden calf the israelites worshipped, while moses was on mt. sinai, was actually a replica of the egyptian idols hathor and aphis. in his book, too long in the sun, the christian author richard rives writes: hathor and aphis, the cow and bull gods of egypt, were representatives of sun worship. their worship was just one stage in the long egyptian history of solar veneration. the golden calf at mount sinai is more than sufficient ev- fj the inside story on the kabbalah another ancient egyptian idol: hathor, the golden calf. idence to prove that the feast proclaimed was related to sun worship 23 the influence of the egyptian pagan religion on the israelites occurred in many different stages. as soon as they had encountered a pagan people, this leaning towards heretical belief appeared and

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

s the gnostic approaches this doorway attacks him without mercy, only those truly on the path survive. some gnostic systems image this process as a cosmic trek through the planets where at each planet the soul needs special passwords and gestures to gain" right of passage. for others this battle is seen in terms of an internal quest. for st.john of the cross this process was part of the ascent of mount carmel where the soul would meet its maker. along the way the soul experiences torments and immense pain as it is purified and prepared for the divine marriage with god. hence the dark night with its aridities and voids is the means to the knowledge of god and self, although the knowledge given in this night is not as plenteous and abundant as that of the other night of spirit, for the knowl

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

nostic approaches this doorway attacks him without mercy, only those truly on the path survive. some gnostic systems consider this process as a cosmic trek through the planets, where at each planet the soul needs special passwords and gestures to gain a "rite of passage. for others, this battle is seen in terms of an internal quest. for st.john of the cross, this process was part of the ascent of mount carmel, where the soul would meet its maker. along the way the soul experiences torments and immense pain, as it is purified and prepared for the divine marriage with the divine. gnostic theurgy page 144 hence the dark night with its aridities and voids is the means to the knowledge of god and self, although the knowledge given in this night is not as plenteous and abundant as that of the ot

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

see io adohi. 4 adoian: face. adois: demonic name (reversal of sioda) commanding cacodemons of earth of fire. adop: kerubic angel of air angle of fire tablet. adopa: angel ruling dopa and companions. adota: angel, also known as adta. adph: piadph, jaw. adphaht/ adphant: unspeakable. adraman: name of an evil spirit. adre: subservient angel of fire angle of fire tablet, also known as adire. adroch: mount of olives. adrpan: cast down. adta: kerubic angel of air angle of water tablet. advorpt: governor of the third division of the aethyr tex (90. aeo: cacodemon of water angle of water tablet. aer: cacodemon of fire angle of fire tablet. af: nineteen. affa: empty. aflafben/ aphlafben: dee's good angel that appeared to dee and kelley on nov. 1, 1583. ag l toltorn: no one creature. ag: none/ no/

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T

ord your god which is and liveth for ever. do-o-a-ip qaal zacar od zamran in the name of the creator, move and show yourselves obelisong rest-el aaf nor-molap. as pleasant deliverers that you may praise him amongst the sons of men. hcoma, n the fifth key sapah zimii d u-i-v od 10 the mighty sounds have entered into the third angle and noas ta qanis adroch dorphal are become as olives in the olive mount looking with gladness caosg od faonts piripsol upon the earth and dwelling in the brightness of the heavens ta blior casarm a-m-ipzi nazarth as continual comforters. unto whom i fastened pillars of gladness af od dlugar zizop zlida caosgi tol torgi 19 and gave them vessels to water the earth with all her creatures: od z chis e siasch l ta-vi-u and they are the brothers of the first and the s

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T3

e lord your god which is and liveth for ever. do-o-a-ip qaal zacar od zamran in the name of the creator, move and show yourselves obelisong rest-el aaf nor-molap. as pleasant deliverers that you may praise him amongst the sons of men. hcoma, n the fifth key sapah zimii d u-i-v od the mighty sounds have entered into the third angle and noas ta qanis adroch dorphal are become as olives in the olive mount looking with gladness caosg od faonts piripsol 10 upon the earth and dwelling in the brightness of the heavens ta blior casarm a-m-ipzi nazarth as continual comforters. unto whom i fastened pillars of gladness af od dlugar zizop zlida caosgi tol torgi 19 and gave them vessels to water the earth with all her creatures: od z chis e siasch l ta-vi-u and they are the brothers of the first and th

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM8

as a general rule, the endecagram refers to the twpylq. when it is reflected from every forth point, it represents their restriction. however, from other reflections, it indicates the twpylq operation through nature. thus, we can say that the endecangle naturally represents the evil and imperfect nature of the endecad and the endecagon. this is highlighted by the dispersal of the eleven curses of mount ebal through the universe. the dodecangle refers to the zodiac. it represents the power of the dodecad. the dodecagon represents the influences of the zodiac through nature. however, the dodecagram represents its constriction. the number of degrees of the great circle cut off between its angles is thirty. this forms a weak astrological semi-sextile. one final note is that when using these li

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

it should reach the sky. having collected materials for the purpose they found a very adhesive clay and bitumen with which they speedily commenced to build the tower. and having reared it to the greatest possible altitude, so that it reached the sky, the lord of the heavens, enraged, said to the inhabitants of the sky, have you observed how they of the earth have built a high and haughty tower to mount hither, being enamoured of the light of the sun and his beauty? come and confound them, because it is not right that they of the earth, living in the flesh, should mingle with us. immediately the inhabitants of the sky sallied forth like flashes of lightning; they destroyed the edifice and divided and scattered its builders to all parts of the earth.18 it was this story, almost but not quite

ing the greater part of the earth. all mankind perished in this deluge, save a few who had fled to the highest mountains. it also happened at this time that the mountains of thessaly were split asunder, and the whole country as far as the isthmus and the peloponnese became a single sheet of water. deucalion and pyrrha floated over this sea in their box for nine days and nights, finally landing on mount parnassus. there, after the rains had ceased, they disembarked and sacrificed to the gods. in response zeus sent hermes to deucalion with permission to ask for whatever he wished. he wished for human beings. zeus then bade him take stones and throw them over his shoulder. the stones deucalion threw became men, and those that pyrrha threw became women.37 as the hebrews looked back on noah, so

ngerprints of the gods 212 only in north america but in central and south america, in the north atlantic, in continental asia, and in japan.31 it is difficult to imagine what this widespread volcanism might have meant for people living in those strange and terrible times. but those who recall the cauliflower-shaped clouds of dust, smoke and ash ejected into the upper atmosphere by the eruption of mount saint helens in 1980 will appreciate that a large number of such explosions (occurring sequentially over a sustained period at different points around the globe) would not only have had devastating local effects but would have caused a severe deterioration in the world s climate. mount saint helens spat out an estimated one cubic kilometre of rock and was small-scale by comparison with the t

firms that this did indeed happen during the melting of the ice sheets and that the mountains were not always high enough to save the refugees from disaster. for example, fissures in the rocks on the tops of isolated hills in central france are filled with what is known as osseous breccia, consisting of the splintered bones of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and other animals. the 1430 feet peak of mount genay in burgundy is capped by a breccia containing remains of mammoth, reindeer, horse and other animals .49 much farther south, so too is the rock of gibraltar where a human molar and some flints worked by paleolithic man were discovered among the animal bones. 50 hippo remains, together with mammoth, rhinoceros, horse, bear, bison, postglacial life fully established by 14,500 years ago. i

n throughout mankind s entire 5000-year historical period. was it always so? exhibit 1 discover the world of science magazine, february 1993, page 17: some 260 million years ago, during the permian period, deciduous trees adapted to a warm climate grew in antarctica. this is the conclusion palaeobotanists are drawing from a stand of fossilized tree stumps discovered at an altitude of 7000 feet on mount achernar in the transantarctic mountains. the site is at 84 22 south, some 500 miles north of the south pole. the interesting thing about this find is that it s really the only forest, living or fossil, that s been found at 80 or 85 degrees latitude, says ohio state university palaeobotanist edith taylor, who has studied the fossil trees. the first thing we palaeobotanists do is look for som

of thick limestones rich in reefbuilding archaeocyathidae: millions of years later, when these marine formations had appeared above the sea, warm climates brought forth a luxuriant vegetation in antarctica. thus sir ernest shackleton found coal beds within 200 miles of the south pole, and later, during the byrd expedition of 1935, geologists made a rich discovery of fossils on the lofty sides of mount weaver, in latitude 86 58 s, about the same distance from the pole and about two miles above sea level. these included leaf and stem impressions and fossilized wood. in 1952 dr lyman h. dougherty, of the carnegie institution of washington, completing a study of these fossils, identified two species of a tree fern called glossopteris, once common to the other southern continents (africa, sout

, february 1993, p. 17. the fifteen mineralized tree stumps, presumably the remnant of a much larger forest, range from three and a half to seven inches in diameter. they were saplings of a well-known genus of seed fern, glossopteris [found in much of the southern hemisphere s coal. unlike true ferns, seed ferns had seeds instead of spores, were often treelike, and are now extinct. all around the mount achernar tree stumps, taylor s colleagues found the tongue-shaped imprints of fallen glossopteris leaves. deciduous trees are an indicator of a warm climate, and so is the absence of frost rings. when taylor analysed the growth rings in samples from the stumps she found none of the ice-swollen cells and gaps between cells that arise when the growth of a tree is disrupted by frost. that means

is for plant communities. this fossil forest, growing at 85 degrees latitude, gives us some idea of what is possible with catastrophic climate change. n.b. the trees were killed by a flood or mudflow another impossibility in antarctica today. 4 the path of the pole, p. 61. 5 ibid, pp. 62-3. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 455 exhibit 3 admiral byrd s own comment on the significance of the mount weaver finds: here at the southernmost known mountain in the world, scarcely two hundred miles from the south pole, was found conclusive evidence that the climate of antarctica was once temperate or even sub-tropical. 6 exhibit 4 soviet scientists have reported finding evidence of tropical flora in graham land, another part of antarctica, dating from the early tertiary period (perhaps the pa

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ng rituals of the pentagram and hexagram inscribe it with the formulas of qaa and ivitdt. stand with your penta cle and face north. trace the black banishings pentagram and hexagram of earth in the air before you. fill the room in the the scent of musk or sandalwood. step 2. recite the fifth call as follows: mighty sounds have entered into the third angle, and have become like olives on the olive mount. they look with gladness upon the earth and dwell in the brightness of the heavens like continual conforters. on them i have fastened 19 pillar of gladness and gave them vessels to water the earth together with her creatures. they are the brothers of the first and second they have begun their own seats and have decorated them with 69,636 ever-burning lamps. their numbers are as the beginning

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

ish elf-queen (scott's minstr. 2, 149, 161, and of the /a?/s (keightley 1, 166^ hel rides a three-legged one, p. 844. 3 agricola's spr. 667. eyering 1, 781 6. headless figures, heasts two-legged, tliree-legged, redhot, are in many ghost stories; a headless wild hunter runs riot in the wetterau (dieffenbach's wett. p. 280, in pomerania a headless horseman (temme no. 140. straggele, eckhart, venus' mount. 935 gress: the people flock to meet and greet her, as they did to freyr (p. 213) or nerthus (p. 251. eckhart with his ivhite staff discharges the office of a herald, a chamherlahi, clearing the road before her. her living retinue is now converted into spectres (see suppl. eclikart the trustij, a notable figure in the group of old-teutonic heroes (heldensage 144. 190, reeve of the harlungs

erlahi, clearing the road before her. her living retinue is now converted into spectres (see suppl. eclikart the trustij, a notable figure in the group of old-teutonic heroes (heldensage 144. 190, reeve of the harlungs, perhaps more exactly eklcewart, kriemhild's htimmerer, nib. 1338, 3) gets mixt up with the myths of gods. the appendix or preface to the heldenbuch makes him sit outside the venus-mount to warn people, as here he warns them of the furious host; so much the plainer becomes his vocation here, as well as the meaning of the venusberg. eckhart goes before the furious host with holda, he is also doomed to abide till the judgment-day at the mount of venus: the identity of holda and venus is placed beyond question. that mountain (some say the hoselberg or horselherg near eisenach)

rrence is rather to be placed in the 14th cent. a dresden ms. of the 15th cent (hagen's grundr. 336) contains a still unprinted poem on the venuaherg, prob. composed in the 14th cent. job. v. soest wrote in 1470, herm. von sachsenheim 1453, and before them joh. nider (d. 1440) in his formicarius names the venusberg. joh. herolt speaks, as we saw, of diana and frau uiiliold; and next of kin is the mount that houses felicia and juno (p. 961. tliere may have been similar stories in italy, for paracelsus (strasb. 1616) 2, 291^ informs us' and by the same pygmaei was the venusberg in italia occupied, for venus herself was a nympha, and the venusberg hath been likened unto her realm; but she also is past away, and her realm hath departed with her and ceased. for who now heareth tell of them, as

vine procession; the christians put into the host the unchristened dead, the drunkard, the suicide (conf. p. 822, who come before us in frightful forms of mutilation. the' holde' goddess turns into an' unholde' still beautiful in front, but with a tail behind^ so much of her ancient charms as could not be stript off" was held to be seductive and sinful: and thus was forged the legend of the venus-mount. their ancient ofl'erings too the "wasscnberg p. 72. creuzer's symb. 2, 98. i fear eudbeck bad the boldness to adapt the legend of adonis (p. 949n) to oden- conf' frau welt' dame world, in conrad's poem p. 196 seq. vol. iii. e 948 spectres. peo^jle did not altogether drop, but limited them to tlie slieaf of oats for the celestial steed, as even death (another hunter, p. 845-6) has his bushel

ed out that she was lost for ever, and vanished (reusch's sagen des samlands no. 8. on the hill near kleinteich a castle is said to have stood, which has long been swallowed up. the people say their forefathers still saw with their own eyes a king's daughter come up every day between 11 and 12, and comb her golden locks over a golden trough (ib. no. 12. the hiinenberg by eckritten was once a holy mount, whereon the prussians sacrificed to their gods; there a dame shews herself now. a peasant, having heard a good deal about her, rode up the hill to see her. he did see her too, combing her hair, but turned tail directly, and was only prevailed on by her prayers to turn back again. she addressed him kindly, and gave white ladies in hills, etc. 967 him what she had combed out of her hair. he f

scand. hafs-fru (afzelius2, 150, spirits that likewise need redemption (p. 493. twelve luhite sea-maids come and join in the dancing of men (mone's anz. 5, 93; add the romance legend of melusina. but such mer-women generally assume, wholly or in part, the shape of a fish or snake; and some white women have afisjt's tail, a snake's tail imputed to them: a king's daughter was immured in the golden mount as a snake, and only once in three nights recovered her human form (kinderm, no. 92; in the oselberg by dinkelsbiihl dwells a snake with woman's head and a buuch of keys about the neck (d. sag. no. 221; and snpph. 970 teanslation. with the notion o mountain-banishment is commonly associated that of an enchanted, yet recoverable treasure. where the ancient hero or god sits in his mountain cav

eichenspitz, in the ziller valley. muchar's gasteinp. 145. vol. iii. g 980 translation. and as dame holda travels with the furious host and sits locked up in the mountain, she too is connected with the elves (p. 452. entrance into the caves of dwarfs is found as into enchanted mountains, and men are carried off to spend some time in the society of elvish sprites (p. 494, as they do in dame venus' mount (p. 935. that nibelung and schilbung wished to have their father's property divided, is asserted also in bit. 80; that they could not divide the treasure, is a highly mythic feature, which i shall illustrate further on, when i come to treat of wishing-gear. as a union with goddesses, wise-women, white-women, results in danger to heroes, so does their winning of the hoard turn to their misfor

de varen' fare to h, sam. meiger ccciii; in denmark' gaa du dig til udhenfeldt' lyngbye's fiir. qv. p. 549. thiele 3, 71 spells it' til eehkenfjalds; what if the allusion be to hakelberg, hakelbernd (p. 923? veld is not our feld, but the on. fiall (fell, mens, as the dan. form fjiild shews; and hakelberg may 1002 devil. be the furious hunter's and therefore the devil's abode, nay, it is evidently mount helda in iceland, sometimes called hemiifiall, a rendezvous of witches; and fischart garg. 119^ calls it hecjcelberg. hekla itself is apparently named fr.om the shape of the cloak or cowl (cucullus, as wodan is the cloaked one, hacol-berand; so that there are many points of contact. abyssus^ whence our nobis, i have spoken of, p. 805, and only wish now to give fuller examples of the latter f

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

etter, the same that the anglo-saxons called]?orn (conf]?urs rista/ saam. 86a: a notable deviation, as the as. tongue by no means lacks the word; in beow. 846 we find pyrs, and also in the menology in 1 can the witch jettha of the palatinate (p. 96 note) be a corruption of eta, eza? anyhow _the jettenbiihel (jetthro collis) reminds us of the bavarian jetteiiberg (mpn. boica 2, 219, ann. 1317, and mount jetten in eeinbote s georg 1717, where it is misprinted setten. near willingshauseu in hesse is another jetteiiberg, see w. crrimm on the runes, p. 271. 5 the ruined weissenstein, by werda near marburg, was ace. to popular legend the abode of a giant named essel (ezzal, and the meadow where at the fall of his castle he sank its golden door in the e. lahn, is still called ksselswerd. 3 isidor

irgin is said to have carried on her head, beside four other pillars in her apron; but as she was crossing the ney, she let one pillar fall into saintfront marsh (mem. des antiquaires 7, 31. according to a greek legend, athena was fetching a mountain from pallene to fortify the acropolis, but, startled at the ill news 538 giants. brought by a crow, she dropt it on the way, and there it remains as mount lykabettos. 1 as the lord god passed over the earth scattering stones, his bags burst over montenegro, and the whole stock came down (yuk. 5. like the goddess, like the giants, the devil takes such burdens upon him. in upper hesse i was told as follows: between gossfelden and wetter there was once a village that has now disappeared, elbringhausen; the farmers in it lived so luxuriously that

37 (see suppl. the freyfaxi in vatnsdaelasaga was owned by a man named brandr, who is said to have worshipped it (at hann hefsi atrunas a faxa, and was therefore called faxabrandr. the unpublished saga of hrafnkell is known to me only from miiller s bibl. 1, 103, but he too had a horse freyfaxi (mispr. freirfara, which he had half given to freyr, vowing at the same time to slay the man who should mount it without his leave. i can give the passage from job. erici de philippia apud priscos boreales, lips. 1755, p. 122: hrafnkell atti >ann grip i eigo sinni, er hanom]?6tti betri enn annar]?at var hestr bleikalottr at lit, er hann kalla^i freyfaxa, hann gaf frey vin sinom (supra, pp. 93. 211) pcnna hest hdlfann. a]?essom hesti haffti hann sva mikla elsko (love, at hann strengdi]?ess hei

and gler (golden, glittering, ibid) may be given them for the same reason, or because their hoofs were shod with gold, or from the gilding of the bridle and saddle. of colours, white was esteemed the noblest; a king would make his entry, or bestow a fief, seated on a milk-white steed. the weisthiimer often mention the white horse (e.g. 3, 342. 857; if an inheritance lie vacant, the governor is to mount a white foal, and taking one man before him and the other behind, to set one of them down on the property (3, 831; conf. 2, 541. a foal was esteemed even purer and nobler than a horse (see suppl. 2 tacitus (germ. 9, 10, after saying( lucos ac nemora consecrant/ adds: proprium gentis, equorum quoque praesagia ac monitus experiri. publice aluntur, iisdem nemoribus ac lucis, candidi et nullo mo

maintained.3 this is simply an unauthor ized appropriation of the statement in tacitus to a particular locality. there is more of local colour in what bolten 1, 262 re peats after the suspicious carsten, that at windbergen there* stood a grove set apart to hesus, which is still called hese or heseholt.4 in the grove two white horses, a young and an old, were fed for the god, no one was allowed to mount them, and good or bad auguries were gathered from their neighing and leaping. some talk of ten or even twenty horses. a priest of the god stuck staves in the ground, led the bridled steed along, and by certain processes made it leap slowly over the staves. joh. aldolfi, i.e. neocorus, who is cited in support, says nothing at all about it. the immunity from mounting is another point of agreem

mbiu were diu habent die von gouchesberc. here the men of gauchsberg are shown up as talking wisely and acting foolishly; gauchsberg is equivalent to narrenberg (fool s 1 welcker on schwenk 269. 270; usually an eagle sits there. the figures of eagle and cuckoo are not always easy to distinguish; but to this day the bavarians by way of jest call the prussian eagle gukezer, schm. 2, 27. cuckoo. 681 mount. 1 as far back as the 10th cent, gouh has the side-mean ing of fool (n. ps. 48, 11. 93, 8. urheizfcozi/i, war-fool, n. bth. 175; the same everywhere in the ]3th (walth. 22, 31. trist. 8631. 18215, though commonly with a qualifying adj. or gen. pi: ich tumber gouch, ms. 1, 65a. tumber denn ein gouch, troj. 8126. tumber gouch, barl. 319, 25. gouch unwise 228, 32. sinneloser gouch, 319, 38. der

hly beings too, after their dissolution, are transported thither, and distinguished heroes and giants shine as constellations. from the sky the gods descend to earth, along the sky they make their journeys, and through the sky they survey unseen the doings of men. and as all plants turn to the light of heaven, as all souls look up to heaven, so do the smoke of sacrifice and the prayers of mankind mount upwards. heaven covers earth, and our word himmel comes from the root hima (tego, involvo, vestio, gramm. 2, 55; conf. lith. dangus coelum, from dengiu tego; ohg. himilezi laquear. the goths and old norsemen agree in preferring the form himins, mminn, and most other teutons himil; even swed. norw. dan. have himmel. the saxon race has moreover two terms peculiar to itself: one is os. hebhan

oon! may you grow old, and i keep young! thorn. hiarne p. 40. 2 in demerara grows a tree like the mahogany, called \valala; if cut down at new-moon, the wood is tough and hard to split, if at full, it is soft and splits easily. bamboo planks cut at new-moon last ten years, those cut at full-moon rot within the year. phases of the moon. 715 load the legs (tobler 404b; set about it therefore by the mount ing moonlight. yuk sub v. miyena says, the servian women will wash never a shirt at new-moon, they declare all the linen would get mooned (omiyeniti) in the water, i.e. bulge and pucker, and soon tear; one might find another reason too for washing by the waning moon, that stains and dirt should disappear with the dwindling light (see suppl. behind superstitious practices i have tried to disc

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d faith in immortality.'excerptsfrom thecrystalmss127'theywill not be dismissed, an aide-de-camp of the duke of cambridge refused to ride at the battle of inkerman from the place where his royal highness was to lord raglan who was on an eminence on the other side of the field. what do you think was done?itwas said nothing at allabout-andhe was absolutely allowed to call a corporal from the ranks, mount him and send him with the message to lord raglan, when he returned safe he was applauded by the whole set and will be madesergeant-didyou ever hear anything like that.'vol.7lastpage:communication from the c[rowned] a[ngel. you will be sorry to hear that mr anderson was wounded on the znd december.vol.8,p.68: called mr anderson. dear me how altered he is to be sure 'thanks for your kind wishe

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

ong hours ofterrible mental and physical agony; who expire in forest and plain, in stagnant ditches by the road-side, inpools of blood under a sky made black with smoke. his eyes are once more rivetted to the torrents of blood,every drop of which represents a tear of despair, a heart-rent cry, a lifelong sorrow. he hears again thethrilling sighs of desolation, and the shrill cries ringing through mount, forest and valley. he sees the oldmothers who have lost the light of their souls; families, the hand that fed them. he beholds widowed youngwives thrown on the wide, cold world, and beggared orphans wailing in the streets by the thousands. he findsthe young daughters of his bravest old soldiers exchanging their mourning garments for the gaudy frippery ofprostitution, and the soul-ego shudde

ring the whole time. his visionswere peculiar, and he minutely described each. fantastic, ghastly figures kept slowly swimming out of thepenumbra of his small, dark room, in regular and uninterrupted procession, and he greeted each by name ashe might greet old acquaintances. he referred to himself as prometheus, bound to the rock by four bandsmade of human intestines. at the foot of the caucasian mount the black waters of the river styx wererunning. they had deserted arcadia, and were now endeavouring to encircle within a seven-fold embracethe rock upon which he was suffering "wouldst thou know the name of the promethean rock, old man" he roared into his adopted father's ear."listen then. its name is. called samuel klaus "yes, yes" the german murmured disconsolately "it is i who killed him

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

llow-servant who had received five. to every man it is given "according to his several ability" q. yet it is rather difficult to draw the line of demarcation between the abstract and the concrete in this case, as we have only the latter to form our judgment by. a. then why make an exception for the t.s? justice, like charity, ought to begin at home. will you revile and scoff at the "sermon on the mount" because your social, political and even religious laws have, so far, not only failed to carry out its precepts in their spirit, but even in their dead letter? abolish the oath in courts, parliament, army and everywhere, and do as the quakers do, if you will call yourselves christians. abolish the courts themselves, for if you would follow the commandments of christ, you have to give away yo

st. but most of the page 30 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt followers of such, when they became masters in their turn, have dwarfed the catholicism of these teachings into the narrow groove of their own sectarian dogmas. the commandments of a chosen master alone were then adopted and followed, to the exclusion of all others-if followed at all, note well, as in the case of the sermon on the mount. each religion is thus a bit of the divine truth, made to focus a vast panorama of human fancy which claimed to represent and replace that truth. q. but theosophy, you say, is not a religion? a. most assuredly it is not, since it is the essence of all religion and of absolute truth, a drop of which only underlies every creed. to resort once more to metaphor. theosophy, on earth, is like the

adual transformation of matter into its primordial element, spirit? a. it is to that final goal to which all tends in nature. q. do not some of you regard this association or "fall of spirit into matter" as evil, and rebirth as a sorrow? a. some do, and therefore strive to shorten their period of probation on earth. it is not an unmixed evil, however, since it ensures the experience upon which we mount to knowledge and wisdom. i mean that experience which teaches that the needs of our spiritual nature can never be met by other than spiritual happiness. as long as we are in the body, we are subjected to pain, suffering and all the disappointing incidents occurring during life. therefore, and to palliate this, we finally acquire knowledge which alone can afford us relief and hope of a better

lves -ooo- on charity q. how do you theosophists regard the christian duty of charity? a. what charity do you mean? charity of mind, or practical charity in the physical plane? q. i mean practical charity, as your idea of universal brotherhood would include, of course, charity of mind. a. then you have in your mind the practical carrying out of the commandments given by jesus in the sermon on the mount? page 112 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt q. precisely so. a. then why call them "christian? because, although your savior preached and practiced them, the last thing the christians of today think of is to carry them out in their lives. q. and yet many are those who pass their lives in dispensing charity? a. yes, out of the surplus of their great fortunes. but point out to me that chr

n and hellfire is to be understood as a parable too? why do some of your most popular preachers, while virtually allowing these "parables" to be understood as you take them, insist on the literal meaning of the fires of hell and the physical tortures of an "asbestos-like" soul? if one is a "parable" then the other is. if hellfire is a literal truth, then christ's commandments in the sermon on the mount have to be obeyed to the very letter. and i tell you that many who do not believe in the divinity of christ-like count leo tolstoi and more than one theosophist-do carry out these noble, because universal, precepts literally; and many more good men and women would do so, were they not more than certain that such a walk in life would very probably land them in a lunatic asylum-so christian ar

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ythic mega-star, and the discordian movement, if such a thing can be said to exist, is growing on both sides of the atlantic, helped by the discordian tactic of declaring that everyone is a genuine pope. more people are getting into the idea of a religion based on the celebration of confusion and madness. the central greek myth that eris figures prominently in is the ever-continuing soap opera of mount olympus- home of the gods; the episode which inadvertently brought about the trojan war. it seems that zeus was throwing a party and did not want to invite eris because of her reputation as a troublemaker. infuriated by the snub, eris fashioned a golden apple incribed with the word kallisti( to the prettiest one) and tossed it into the hall where all the guests were. three of the invited god

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

mpsing the archway to the room of machines and almost crying out as i saw the incline leading down to where one of those blasphemous trap-doors must be yawning two levels below. but instead of crying out i muttered over and over to myself that this was all a dream from which i must soon awake. perhaps i was in camp- perhaps i was at home in arkham. as these hopes bolstered up my sanity i began to mount the incline to the higher level. i knew, of course, that i had the four-foot cleft to re-cross, yet was too racked by other fears to realise the full horror until i came almost upon it. on my descent, the leap across had been easy- but could i clear the gap as readily when going uphill, and hampered by fright, exhaustion, the weight of the metal case, and the anomalous backward tug of that d

sh and heavier creaking of the stairs. a wavering flicker of light shewed through my transom, and the boards of the corridor began to groan with a ponderous load. muffled sounds of possible vocal origin approached, and at length a firm knock came at my outer door. for a moment i simply held my breath and waited. eternities seemed to elapse, and the nauseous fishy odour of my environment seemed to mount suddenly and spectacularly. then the knocking was repeated- continuously, and with growing insistence. i knew that the time for action had come, and forthwith drew the bolt of the northward connecting door, bracing myself for the task of battering it open. the knocking waxed louder, and i hoped that its volume would cover the sound of my efforts. at last beginning my attempt, i lunged again

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

tly, and one of the graduate assistants- a brilliant young fellow named danforth- pointed out what looked like lava on the snowy slope, remarking that this mountain, discovered in 1840, had undoubtedly been the source of poe s image when he wrote seven years later- the lavas that restlessly roll their sulphurous currents down yaanek in the ultimate climes of the pole- that groan as they roll down mount yaanek in the realms of the boreal pole. danforth was a great reader of bizarre material, and had talked a good deal of poe. i was interested myself because of the antarctic scene of poe s only long story- the disturbing and enigmatical arthur gordon pym. on the barren shore, and on the lofty ice barrier in the background, myriads of grotesque penguins squawked and flapped their fins, while

HP LOVECRAFT CELEPHAIS

fabulous city after forty weary years. but three nights afterward kuranes came again to celephais. as before, he dreamed first of the village that was asleep or dead, and of the abyss down which one must float silently; then the rift appeared again, and he beheld the glittering minarets of the city, and saw the graceful galleys riding at anchor in the blue harbour, and watched the gingko trees of mount man swaying in the sea-breeze. but this time he was not snatched away, and like a winged being settled gradually over a grassy hillside till finally his feet rested gently on the turf. he had indeed come back to the valley of ooth-nargai and the splendid city of celephais. down the hill amid scented grasses and brilliant flowers walked kuranes, over the bubbling naraxa on the small wooden br

i, but only perpetual youth. then kuranes walked through the street of pillars to the seaward wall, where gathered the traders and sailors, and strange men from the regions where the sea meets the sky. there he stayed long, gazing out over the bright harbour where the ripples sparkled beneath an unknown sun, and where rode lightly the galleys from far places over the water. and he gazed also upon mount man rising regally from the shore, its lower slopes green with swaying trees and its white summit touching the sky. more than ever kuranes wished to sail in a galley to the far places of which he had heard so many strange tales, and he sought again the captain who had agreed to carry him so long ago. he found the man, athib, sitting on the same chest of spice he had sat upon before, and athi

HP LOVECRAFT THE ALCHEMIST

r swamp and a cemetery on a low hillock, the pole star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:45:4the alchemist by h.p. lovecraft 1908 high up, crowning the grassy summit of a swelling mount whose sides are wooded near the base with the gnarled trees of the primeval forest stands the old chateau of my ancestors. for centuries its lofty battlements have frowned down upon the wild and rugged countryside about, serving as a home and stronghold for the proud house whose honored line is older even than the moss-grown castle walls. these ancient turrets, stained by the storms of gener

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

of mural history i had approached very closely to the end of the low-ceiled hall, and was aware of a gate through which came all of the illuminating phosphorescence. creeping up to it, i cried aloud in transcendent amazement at what lay beyond; for instead of other and brighter chambers there was only an illimitable void of uniform radiance, such one might fancy when gazing down from the peak of mount everest upon a sea of sunlit mist. behind me was a passage so cramped that i could not stand upright in it; before me was an infinity of subterranean effulgence. reaching down from the passage into the abyss was the head of a steep flight of steps- small numerous steps like those of black passages i had traversed- but after a few feet the glowing vapours concealed everything. swung back open

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

sh and heavier creaking of the stairs. a wavering flicker of light shewed through my transom, and the boards of the corridor began to groan with a ponderous load. muffled sounds of possible vocal origin approached, and at length a firm knock came at my outer door. for a moment i simply held my breath and waited. eternities seemed to elapse, and the nauseous fishy odour of my environment seemed to mount suddenly and spectacularly. then the knocking was repeated- continuously, and with growing insistence. i knew that the time for action had come, and forthwith drew the bolt of the northward connecting door, bracing myself for the task of battering it open. the knocking waxed louder, and i hoped that its volume would cover the sound of my efforts. at last beginning my attempt, i lunged again

HP LOVECRAFT THE STREET

sinister were most of the strangers, yet among them one might find a few faces like those who fashioned the street and moulded its spirit. like and yet unlike, for there was in the eyes of all a weird, unhealthy glitter as of greed, ambition, vindictiveness, or misguided zeal. unrest and treason were abroad amongst an evil few who plotted to strike the western land its death blow, that they might mount to power over its ruins, even as assassins had mounted in that unhappy, frozen land from whence most of them had come. and the heart of that plotting was in the street, whose crumbling houses teemed with alien makers of discord and echoed with the plans and speeches of those who yearned for the appointed day of blood, flame and crime. of the various odd assemblages in the street, the law sai

HP LOVECRAFT THE TREE

k which chains the door of the tomb perpetually ajar, and descended with a lantern into the murky depths. on a slab in an alcove he found an old but empty coffin whose tarnished plate bears the single word: jervas. in that coffin and in that vault they have promised me i shall be buried. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:455:the tree by h.p. lovecraft 1920 on a verdant slope of mount maenalus, in arcadia, there stands an olive grove about the ruins of a villa. close by is a tomb, once beautiful with the sublimest sculptures, but now fallen into as great decay as the house. at one end of that tomb, its curious roots displacing the time-stained blocks of panhellic marble, grows an unnaturally large olive tree of oddly repellent shape; so like to some grotesque man, or deat

limest sculptures, but now fallen into as great decay as the house. at one end of that tomb, its curious roots displacing the time-stained blocks of panhellic marble, grows an unnaturally large olive tree of oddly repellent shape; so like to some grotesque man, or death-distorted body of a man, that the country folk fear to pass it at night when the moon shines faintly through the crooked boughs. mount maenalus is a chosen haunt of dreaded pan, whose queer companions are many, and simple swains believe that the tree must have some hideous kinship to these weird panisci; but an old bee-keeper who lives in the neighboring cottage told me a different story. many years ago, when the hillside villa was new and resplendent, there dwelt within it the two sculptors kalos and musides. from lydia to

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

son always stands just a few feet from the piano in our living room. there is nothing to see, just the strong odour of decaying roses, which has been present off and on for years in this particular spot. many people notice it and ask about it. we have no roses in our garden, but there were some, years ago. the house was built by a man who lived in it for years with his family. it sits high in the mount washington area northeast of downtown los angeles, surrounded by tangled vines and foliage. we know that there were three violent deaths in the family who previously resided there, in close succession, shortly before we moved in. there are many unusual things about the house. we had to remove two doors to rooms inside because they wouldn't stay open. as soon as anyone would enter the room, t

ISIS UNVEILED

nd occult sciences upon which they could uy their hands. they ignorantly supposed that the most danger- ous writings of this class had perished with the last gnostic; but some day they may discover their mistake. other authentic and as important documents will periiaps reappear in a "most unexpected and almost miraculous manner" hiere are strange traditions current in various parts of the east on mount athos and in the desert of nitria, for instance among 38. jodiua, edv, 16. 39. one of the moit mirpriiing (acts that have come under our obacrvation, it that ?tudenti of profound teiearch ihodd not couple the frequent recumnce of these "un- expected mid almoat miraculoua" ducoveries of important documentj, at the moot opportune moments, with a premeditjited dedgn. k it ao strang that the cui

he mod- em jesus of the christian church we find the ideal of the imaginative 51. decline and fall itf the annan empin, ch. xxi. 52. zisis unveiled irenaeua, not the adept of the esseoes, the obscure reformer from galilee. we see him under the disfigured nato-philoneaa mask, not as when the disciples heard him on the mount. so far then the heathen philosophy had helped them in the building of the principal dogma. but when the theurgists of the third neo ^atonic school, deprived of their ancient mysteries, strove to blend the doctrines of plato with those of aristotle, and by combining the two philosophies added to their theosophy the primeval docbioes ot the oriental kabala, then the christians from rivals bec

that could be found was to destroy the writings of celsus" this could be achieved only in the fifth century, when copies had been taken from this work, and many were those who had read and studied them. if no copy of it has descended to our present generation of scientists, it is not because there is none extant at present, but for the simple reason that the monks of a certain oriental church on mount athos will neither show nor confess they have oae in their possession^ perhaps they themsdves do not even know the value of the contents of their manuscripts, on account of their great ignorance. the diapersion of the eclectic school had become the fondest hope of the christians. it had been looked for and contemplated with intense anxiety. it was finally achieved. the members were scattered

n unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given" was the reply, which was that of an initiate "therefore speak i to them in parables; because they se^g see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand" moteover, we find jesus expressing his thoughts still more clearly and in sen- tences which are purely ^thagorean when, during the sermon on the mount, he says "give ye not that which ii mcred to the dog. neither cast yt jaax pearis before swine "ear the nrine will tread them uader thdr feet- and the dogs will turn and tend you" professor a. wilder, the editor of taylor's eleusinian and bacckte mysteriet, observes "a like disposition on the part of jesus and paul to classify their doctrines as esoteric and exoteric 'the mysteries of the ki

humanit^p this father alone is the god of spirit and purity, and to compare him with the subordinate and capricious sinaitic deity is an error. did jesus ever pronounce the name of jehovah? did he ever identify hia father with this severe and cruel judge; his god of mercy, love, and justice, with tlie jewish genius of retaliation? never! from that memorable day when he preached his sermon on the mount, an immeasurable void opened between his god and that other deity who fulminated his commands from that other mount sinai. thelanguageof jesusisunequivocal; it implies not only rebellion but defiance of the mosaic 'lord god "ye have heard" he tells us "that it hath been said. an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but/ say unto you. that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite the

vah were to him abhorrent aod terrifying? the hindfla taught to return good for evil, but the jeho- vutic command was "an eye for an eye" and "a tooth for a tooth" would christians still maintain the identity of the 'father' of jesus and jehovah, if evidence sufficiently clear could be adduced that tbe 'lord god' was no other than the pagan bacchus, dionysos? well, this identity of the jehovah at mount sinai with the god bacchus is hardly disputable. the name mrt is yava, or lao according to diodo- rus and i^dus, and lao is the secret name of the phoenician mystery- god* it was actually adopted from the chaldaeans with whom it also was the secret name of the creator. wherever bacchus was worshiped there was a tradition of a place called nysa, and a cave where he was reared. beth-san or scy

t is yava, or lao according to diodo- rus and i^dus, and lao is the secret name of the phoenician mystery- god* it was actually adopted from the chaldaeans with whom it also was the secret name of the creator. wherever bacchus was worshiped there was a tradition of a place called nysa, and a cave where he was reared. beth-san or scythopolis in palestine once bad that designation; so had a spot on mount parnassus. but diodorus declares that nysa was between phoenicia and egypt; euripides states that dionysoa came to greece from india; and diodorus" adds his testimony "osiris was brought up in nysa, in arabia the happy; he was the son of zeus, and was namcxl from his father [nominative zeus, genitive dioa\ and the place dio-npaoa" the zeus or jove of nysa. this identity of name or title is v

tive dioa\ and the place dio-npaoa" the zeus or jove of nysa. this identity of name or title is very significant. in greece dionysos was second only to zeus, and pindar says "so fmthci zeiu govemi all thiiigi^ uki bacchtu he governs tjao" but outside of greece bacchus was the all-powerful "zagreus, the highest of gods" moses seems to have worshiped him personally and together with tbe populace at mount sinai; unless we admit that moses was an initiated priest, an adept, who knew how to lift the veil which hangs behind all such exoteric worship, but kept the secret "and moset buiu altar, and caued the name of it jekotak-tiiaail" or lao-nin. what better evidence is required to show that the siniutic god was in- differently bacchus, osiris, and jehovah? mr. sharpe appends bis testimony tha

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

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

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

pied by layard (nineveh and babylon, p. 156. subject: the egyptian god harpocrates, seated on the mythic lotus, in adoration of the yoni, or hwj, or havah. the druidical circles, and single stones standing in solitary places, are all connected with the mystic speculations of the rosicrucians. fig. 58. figures on the egyptian sarcophagus in the british museum. fig. 59. the eminences, st. michael's mount and mont st- michel, were dedicated by the phoenicians to the sun-god fig. 57. 212 the rosicrucians (hercules, as the hydra or dragon-slayer. these mounts in the channel are secondary hercules pillars, similar to calpe and abyla. figs. 60, 61. heads of ships: a. fiddle-head; b, c, d. gondola; e. ceres reaping-hook, also saturn; f. blade and fasces; g. beak of galley; h. glaive; i. prow of gr

nt british coin, mentioned by camden. changed and reproduced, according to the architectural ideas of the builders of the different countries where the same memorial pillar was raised, it assumed in time the pecu214 the rosicrucians. liarities of the gothic or pointed style. the steeples of the churches, the figures of which we give on p. 218, indicate the fig. 68. fig. 69. england: st. michael s mount, mount s bay, cornwall. dragon, horns, or fires (moloch or baal) british channel, dragonmouth (galilee from the west) france normandy: mont st.-michel( montjoie! montjoy! old battlecry of the gauls) dragon, horns, or fires (moloch or baal) st. michael, or the sun (hercules. fig. 71. round tower, devenish, ireland. fig. 70. round tower, ireland. gradual growth, and expansion of the romantic o

possibly seem strange, gregory says, that this orison should be daily said before the body of adam; but it is a most confessed tradition among; the eastern men that adam was commanded by god that his dead body should be kept above ground till a fulness of time should come to commit it ralasswyp to the middle of the earth by a priest of the most high god. pp. 120, 121. this middle of the earth is mount moriah the meru of india. 352 the rosicrucians. contradiction this practice is conceived to arise from an imitation of jacob, who took a stone and set it up &c. further this stone was held in great veneration in subsequent times by the jews and removed to jerusalem. they were accustomed to anoint this stone; and from the word bethel, the place where the pillar was erected, came the word boet

an book, written by an astrologer named flegetanis, containing the story of the marvellous vase called greal. the sacred vase, or the san greal, was placed, according to the myth of guyot, in a temple (or chapel, guarded by knights templeis or templois (knights templars. the temple of the greal was placed upon a mountain in the midst of a thick wood. the name of this mysterious mountain (like the mount meru of the hindoos and olympus of the greeks) hints sublimity and secrecy. guyot calls it mont salvagge, wild or inaccessible mountain (or holy way. the greal was made of a wonderful stone called exillis, which had once been the most brilliant jewel in .the crown of the archangel lucifer the gem was emerald (green; friday; the unlucky in one sense, the sacred woman s day in another sense. t

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

to explain the seeming inconsistencies of this freak of nature. the controversy about the s0-called flying saucers began in just such a fashion with kenneth arnold-s startling announcement in 1947. a businessman of boise, idaho, mr. arnold was on his way from chehalis to yakima, washington. flying in his private plane, he was startled to see a bright flash on his wing. looking in the direction of mount rainier, he was astonished to see nine gleaming disks, each approximately the size of a c-54. they were clearly outlined against the snow. as he later told the story "it was as if they were linked together. they flew close to the top of mountain in a diagonal, chainlike line" mr. arnold estimated their speed to be around twelve hundred miles per hour, and he thought they must have been about

KETAB E SIYAH

uch shame as this. this is why i have gathered you to me that we might oppose this unchaste plan 9 before it bears its bastard fruit full term and gives it ruinous and pernicious birth as in the time of our kingdom's founding when magog bore gog his base issue who, like savage beasts, made war upon us, making us slaves and sport until our brother, now turned against us, cast down, from the sky, a mount that broke the earth below in dire cataclysm and thus destroyed the hateful giants. this is why you are thus gathered" lo! they acclaimed michael's false counsel for their own malice ruled their ears and governed the intent of their hearts. from the throng, crying out for vengeance for the uncommitted crime that i had done, came the voice of auriel, the fourth of the brothers for they were m

such shame as this. this is why i have gathered you to me that we might oppose this unchaste plan before it bears its bastard fruit full term and gives it ruinous and pernicious birth as in the time of our kingdom's founding when magog bore gog his base issue who, like savage beasts, made war upon us, making us slaves and sport until our brother, now turned against us, cast down, from the sky, a mount that broke the earth below in dire cataclysm and thus destroyed the hateful giants. this is why you are thus gathered" lo! they acclaimed michael's false counsel for their own malice ruled their ears and governed the intent of their hearts. from the throng, crying out for vengeance for the uncommitted crime that i had done, came the voice of auriel, the fourth of the brothers for they were m

ow this is the end of that life. yet i came to you in the wilderness and persuaded you not but caused you to turn from me and walk to this terrible end. long have you been my enemy child but now i am want only forgiveness for i have failed in my duty to you and you have come to this place, golgotha, the hill of the skull. now, i beg of you, die not in the valley of despair but be exalted upon the mount of hope. so much have wrought with your life that was most fine and noble. long shall your spirit live. if it does seem to you now that you have lead those that followed upon a road most false then this blame falls not on your shoulders. no man may bear another's burden and they walked this road of their will. much of you is there to me that recalls ancient lamech. in life each man does thin

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

is light, we can break the barrier (machsom. afterwards, when the miracle passes, those who have entered the spiritual world do not return to the level of our world. in the next stage, we must acquire a vessel for receiving the light of wisdom, and this is accomplished on the difficult path of advancement in the spiritual desert until we merit receiving the light of the creator by ascending onto "mount sinai" in this state, we observe the commandments by virtue of faith above knowledge, when we place our own thoughts and wishes below the faith. a so-called lesser state, katnut, that is, malchut in this case, connotes only the center or keter("crown. in such minimal presence, our evil egoistic dispositions cannot sway us because we have placed faith above knowledge and perception- 170- atta

never shifted any of his responsibilities to another person. constantly observing his behavior, i would lose confidence in myself and in my own possible success, even though i understood that this supernatural strength emanated from the realization of the grandiose task before him, and from the help from above. i cannot forget even one moment that i spent with him during our trips to t veria and mount meron, when i would spend long evenings sitting across from him, absorbing his glance, his speeches, his songs. these recollections live deep inside of me, and i hope that, even today, they determine and guide my path. the information that was collected in the process of daily interactions with him, in the span of twelve years, lives and operates independently. very often, my rabbi would utt

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

abraham. in a different degree we might have referred to him as a prophet. a prophet is a person who has attained such a degree that he is now in direct contact with the creator. there are prophets who only speak to the creator, meaning they attain the level of spiritual speech. naturally, they do not hear any horns blowing in the sky, as the torah writes, and the voice of god does not sound from mount sinai from gigantic speakers to the whole of mankind. it is the inner voice of one who obtains evident contact with the creator. there are prophets who see and hear, and there are those who only see and hear afterwards. the books of the prophets demonstrate the versatility of the connections of the prophets with the creator, and how and when he appears before them, meaning in which degree on

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

r and fire. those are the mystical four; and they are full of eyes within, because they are the scribes, the recorders, the agents of the lipika: they watch all that happens, all that is done, all that is written or spoken or thought in all the worlds. 81. in the light of asia they are described as the rulers of the four points of the compass: 82. the four regents of the earth, come down 83. from mount sumeru- they who write men s deeds 84. on brazen plates- the angel of the east, 85. whose hosts are clad in silver robes, and bear 86. targets of pearl: the angel of the south, 87. whose horsemen, the kumbhandas, ride blue steeds, 88. with sapphire shields: the angel of the west, 89. by nagas followed, riding steeds blood-red, 90. with coral shields: the angel of the north, 91. environed by

n that great religion to the birth of christ in bethlehem in the christian presentation. horus was born of isis, the virgin-mother; at his birth the star shone forth, and the angelic hosts sang their song of triumph; he was adored by shepherds and wise men, and saved from danger which threatened him from without. in the book of the dead it is said: i know the power of the east, horus of the solar mount, the star of dawn. the story of the initiate is the story of the sun-god, the universal christ who is born into the heart of man, and his mystic birth is the purpose of the first great initiation. 191. if the candidate had not already passed through them, as most students in the mysteries would have done, he had at this stage to undergo the trials by earth, water, air and fire, learning with

y a degree of christhood. equal with him, but on the ray of rule, stands the manu, whose rank is mirrored at an almost infinite distance in the 30; and as the crown of the whole hierarchy there reigns the one initiator(*ibid, ch. xiv) whose life and light and glory are adumbrated in the splendour of the 33. thus the whole wondrous plan of masonic initiation is a shadow of things seen above in the mount; and herein lies the greatness of our mighty brotherhood and its value to mankind. 205. much lower down there are still correspondences. the 18 means glowing love and beauty, but that is mirrored in the position of the w.j.w; the 30 gives a wonderful outpouring of strength, which is typified by the column of the w.s.w, while the wisdom and all-embracing sympathy of the 33 should be reflected

college who were tortured to death by the emperor diocletian for refusing to make a statue of aesculapius(*j. s. m. ward: freemasonry and the ancient gods, pp. 144, 145) they were later confused with the tradition of the four brothers of horus. 442. bro. j. s. m. ward describes a building of the collegia unearthed at pompeii in 1878, which had been buried in a.d. 79, during the great eruption of mount vesuvius. it contains striking masonic correspondences. there are two columns, and on the walls are interlaced triangles. upon a pedestal in the centre was found an inlaid marble slab with a skull, level and plumb-rule and other masonic designs in mosaic work. a fresco in another building close by shows a figure in the act of making the f.c.h.s(*j. s. m. ward: freemasonry and the ancient god

erman tradition of the grail brotherhood. 496. heredom 497. in scotland these secret mysteries of the east and west were handed down from generation to generation in various centres, one of the chief of these being the sacred island of iona. among the initiates of the culdee rites iona was called heredom. heredom is said in masonic tradition to be a mystical mountain, and as such it is indeed the mount of initiation beyond the veils of space and time; but it was also the secret name of the physical centre of the mysteries- and this centre was iona. another such secret centre in mediaeval days was the abbey of kilwinning; and thus, the rites which derive in part from culdee sources have always styled themselves as of kilwinning and of heredom. 498. the saxon invasion of britain drove the ce

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

y eclipsed. although christianity no longer exercises hegemony over the thought world of the industrialized nations of the west, conservative christians still constitute a significant subpopulation. the strength of this constituency is evident in many ways, from the effectiveness of christian efforts to thwart the legalization of gay marriage to the powerful challenge christians have been able to mount against abortion. whether we applaud or deplore these efforts, the conservative christian community from which they draw their power shows no signs of disappearing in the foreseeable future. this reference work proposes to survey contemporary images of the devil. although i have cast a wide net, the diabolical is far too pervasive in our cultural tradition for any single volume to even begin

rnal as well as the paradisiacal realms in remote areas beyond the borders of china. the idea of the netherworld draws from different traditions that were mingled together. after the introduction of buddhism, which came from west, the mountains located in the western part of the country were considered to be netherworld realms. an important part of the landscape of the afterlife was, for example, mount t ai, originally considered the point where life began. mount t ai became, during the ch in and han empires, the dead s administration center, where souls were judged by a lord of the dead, thus reflecting the structure of political power and highly centralized bureaucracy that characterized those dynasties. when buddhism spread into china, a more organized netherworld was developed: a burea

glassy hardness, and in it are immured the four last grades of sinners. a hidden path connects the center of the earth to the purgatory, the place of purgation and of preparation for the life of eternal blessedness. it is imagined as a mountain formed by the earth that retreated before lucifer as he fell from heaven into the abyss of hell, and it is located at the exact antipodes of jerusalem and mount calvary, in the center of the southern hemisphere. after the antepurgatory, where are placed the excommunicated and the belatedly repentant, and the passage through peter s gate, come seven encircling terraces, which rise in succession with diminished circuit as they approach the summit. each of the cornices corresponds to the seven deadly sins, from which the soul is purged through the expi

by burgess meredith announces that the bigot is about to be catapulted into the darkest regions of the twilight zone. vic morrow is then transformed into every minority he had previously despised. ufos and demons unidentified flying objects flying saucers came into international consciousness when a private pilot reported seeing nine disc-shaped objects flying in formation and at high speed over mount rainier, washington, on the afternoon of june 24, 1947. other sightings followed, first in the pacific northwest, then elsewhere, and have continued unabated ever since. by the mid-1950s the notion that ufos might be extraterrestrial spacecraft were widely popular, having eclipsed the widespread suspicion that the objects were secret american or soviet aircraft. a minority of hard-core ufo e

ns (keel 1970, 216. unlike constable, who saw at least some ufo entities as kindly intentioned, keel believes they are uniformly evil. once they exerted direct control over the human race when the ruling classes of the world married ultraterrestrials disguised as humans. when democratic movements entered the world, however, and royal dynasties were overthrown, the ultraterrestrials were forced to mount a direct counterattack to restore their domination. they are behind cults, secret societies, and other movements, and under a wide range of guises they have affected the lives of human beings and the course of human destiny. any human being who deals with them will end up destroyed. we are biochemical robots helplessly controlled by forces that can scramble our brains, destroy our memories a

s are thought to have originated. other commentators have speculated that this battle took place on a planet in the solar system that exploded and gave rise to the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter. in literature, the most significant story about the war in heaven is john milton s multivolume paradise lost, in which an arrogant satan leads rebelling angels against faithful ones defending the mount of god in heaven. after being thrown out of heaven, satan eventually corrupts the first humans to revenge himself against god. however he does not accomplish anything, and as he returns to hell, god turns him and his fellow devils into serpents. see also demons; fallen angels;milton, john; satan for further reading: giovetti, paola. angels. the role of celestial guardians and beings of light

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LIBER CCXLII AHA

s the godhead is displayed. nay, we stir not. everywhere is our temple right appointed. all the earth is faery fair for us. am i not anointed? the sigil burns upon the brow at the adjuration.here and now. olympas. the air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. behold! it beams.it burns.it blooms* olympas. master, how subtly hast thou drawn the daylight from the golden dawn, aha! 37 bidden the cavernous mount unfold its ruby rose, its cross of gold; until i saw, flashed from afar, the hawk fs eye in the silver star! marsyas. peace to all beings. peace to thee, co-heir of mine eternity! peace to the greatest and the least, to nebula and nenuphar! light in abundance be increased on them that dream that shadows are! olympas. blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star! fmpliber

LIBER CHANOKH

i nazodarethe afa; od dalugare zodizodope zodelida caosaji tol-toregi; od zod-cahisa esiasacahe. el ta-vi-vau; od iao-d tahilada das hubare pe-oal; soba coremefa cahisa ta ela vaulasa od quo-co-casabe. eca niisa od darebesa quo-a-asa: fetahe-ar-ezodi od beliora: ia-ial eda-nasa cicalesa; bagile ge-iad i-el! the mighty sounds have entered into the third angle, and are become as olives in the olive mount; looking with gladness upon the earth, and dwelling in the brightness of the heavens as continual comforters. unto whom i fastened 19 pillars of gladness, and gave them vessels to water the earth with her creatures; and they are the brothers of the first and second, and the beginning of their own seats, which are garnished with 69,636 ever-burning lamps: whose numbers are as the first, the e

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

his belly! knight, awake! ah! well he woke! his love an scorn grapple in death-throe at his throat .lead me away (quoth he .my men! woe, woe is me was ever born so blind a bat, so gross a goat, as palamede the saracen. 78 xxxiv sir palamede the saracen hath hid him in an hermit.s cell upon an island in the fen of that lone land where druids dwell. there came an eagle from the height and bade him mount. from dale to dell they sank and soared. last to the light of the great sun himself they flew, piercing the borders of the night, passing the irremeable blue. far into space beyond the stars at last they came. and there he knew all the blind reasonable bars broken, and all the emotions stilled, and all the stains and all the scars left him; sop like a child he thrilled with utmost knowledge;

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

o put it to; and wouldn ft it be jolly if our own second? suddenly straightened its back and threw its chest out and marched off as? suppose then we accept our scepticism as having destroyed our knowledge root and branch.is there no limit to its action? does it not in a sense stultify itself? having destroyed logic by logic.if satan cast out satan, how shall his kingdom stand? let us stand on the mount, saviours of the world that we are, and answer gget thee behind me, satan! h though refraining from quoting texts or giving reasons. oho! says somebody; is aleister crowley here?.samson blinded and bound, grinding corn for the philistines? not at all, dear boy! 8 liber cxlviii we shall put all the questions that we can put.but we may find a tower built upon a rock, against which the winds be

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

say where (or even whether) a copy of this latter work exists. 331, 332. stand (stephen) or sit (paul).50. acts vii. 36; heb. xii, 2. 337. samadhi-dak.51..ecstasy-of-meditation mail. 338. maha-meru.52.the .mystic mountain. of the hindus. see southey.s curse of kehama. 339. gaurisankar.53.called also chomokankar, devadhunga, and everest. 341. chogo.54.the giant. this is the native name of .k2; or mount godwin-austen, as col. godwin-austen would call it. it is the second highest known mountain in the world, as devadhunga is the first. 356. the history of the west.55. de acosta (jos) natural and moral history of the indies. alison, sir a. history of scotland. benzoni. history of the new world. buckle. history of civilisation. burton, j. h. history of scotland. carlyle. history of frederick t

LIBER LXXVIII

unaccountably foolish; alternatively talkative and suspicious. kind, yet wavering and inconsistent. fortunate in journeying. argumentative. chokmah of (pleasant change, visit to friends. herein the angels labkl and hyrcw have rule. xxxvii the lord of material works three of pentacles a white-winged angelic hand, as before, holding a branch of a rose tree, of which two white rosebuds touch and sur-mount the topmost pentacle. the pentacles are arranged in an equilateral triangle. above and below the symbols% and j. working and constructive force, building up, creation, erection; realization and increase of material things; gain in commercial transactions, rank; increase of substance, influence, cleverness in business, selfishness. commencement of matters to be established later. narrow and p

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

ch other now. there was the way out of the little room with millions of changing colours, ever so beautiful, and it was lined with armed men, waving their swords for joy like flashes of lightning; and all about us glittering serpents danced and sang for joy. there was a winged horse ready for us when we came out on the slopes of the mountain. you see the sixth house is really in a mountain called mount abiegnus, only one doesn.t see it because one goes through indoors all the way. there.s one house you have to go outdoors to get to, because no passage has ever been made; but i.ll tell you about that afterwards; it.s the third house. so we got on the horse and went away for our honeymoon. i shan.t tell you a single word about the honeymoon. explicit capitulum secundum vel de collegio ad s.s

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

to the blood of the holy corpse. thus [the hall] is adorned from within with things remembered. the excellent heimdall rides a horse to that pyre that the gods had built for the fallen son of the very wise tester of the raven [odin. the very powerful hild of the mountains [giantess] caused the sea-sleipnir [ship] to trudge forward; but the wielders of the helmet flames of hropt [odin] felled her mount. snorri has more detail. he adds several gods to the list of those who attended, and he makes sense out of the stanza with the giantess in it by stating that the funeral ship could not be launched and that the gods therefore sent to jotunheimar for that ogress who was called hyrrokkin. gshe arrived riding a wolf with poisonous snakes for reins, and when she dismounted, odin called to four be

se mythology then hyrrokkin went to the prow of the ship and shot it forward at the first try so that sparks leapt out of the runners and all the lands shook. ulf fs stanza, number 12 in the conventional numbering, is as follows: the very powerful hild of the mountains [giantess] caused the sea-sleipnir to trudge forward; but the wielders of the helmet flames [warriors] of hropt [odin] felled her mount. ulf fs stanza was certainly known to snorri (husdrapa is only retained in snorri fs skaldskaparmal, and it does not appear that he needed to have known any other stanzas in order to have written what he did in gylfaginning. however, it is important to recall that ulf fs husdrapa was composed to put into words the carvings in a hall in western iceland, and even if the hall did not survive th

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

les are contaminated or are too small for accurate analysis. but a few exceptions should not be latched on to in order to refute a whole analytical system proven to be accurate over and over again. the eye, the immune system, and bacterial flagella as irreducibly complex systems as we mentioned in chapter 1, today s neocreationists (id believers, unlike classical creationists, generally no longer mount frontal attacks on dating techniques. rather, their contention is that properties of living systems, such as the existence of sensory organs (the eye, bacterial movements made possible by a structure called a flagellum, and the immune system are too complex to have evolved from simpler structures through unguided biological mechanisms. in other words, these properties must have been created

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

its nine days (embryologically, months) was descending into the realm of illusion and assuming the veil of unreality, so the greater mysteries discussed the principles of spiritual regeneration and revealed to initiates not only the simplest but also the most direct and complete method of liberating their higher natures from the bondage of material ignorance. like prometheus chained to the top of mount caucasus, man's higher nature is chained to his inadequate personality. the nine days of initiation were also symbolic of the nine spheres through which the human soul descends during the process of assuming a terrestrial form. the secret exercises for spiritual unfoldment given to disciples of the higher degrees are unknown, but there is every reason to believe that they were similar to the

concepts, the initiate was liberated not only for the period of his life but for all eternity, for never thereafter was he divested of those soul qualities which after death were his vehicles for manifestation and expression in the so-called heaven world. in contrast to the idea of hades as a state of darkness below, the gods were said to inhabit the tops of mountains, a well-known example being mount olympus, where the twelve deities of the greek pantheon were said to dwell together. in his initiatory wanderings the neophyte therefore entered chambers of ever-increasing brilliancy to portray the ascent of the spirit from the lower worlds into the realms of bliss. as the climax to such wanderings he entered a great vaulted room, in the center of which stood a brilliantly illumined statue

hree years, and like the eleusinian mysteries, were divided into two degrees. the initiates were crowned with myrtle and ivy, plants which were sacred to bacchus. in the anacalypsis, godfrey higgins conclusively establishes bacchus (dionysos) as one of the early pagan forms of the christos myth "the birthplace of bacchus, called sabazius or sabaoth, was claimed by several places in greece; but on mount zelmisus, in thrace, his worship seems to have been chiefly celebrated. he was born of a virgin on the 25th of december; he performed great miracles for the good of mankind; particularly one in which he changed water into wine; he rode in a triumphal procession on an ass; he was put to death by the titans, and rose again from the dead on the 25th of march: he was always called the saviour. i

sen by the greeks be cause of the shape of the cavern and the vent leading into the depths of the earth. the original name of the oracle was pytho, so called because its chambers had been the abode of the great serpent python, a fearsome creature that had crept out of the slime left by the receding flood that had destroyed all human beings except deucalion and pyrrha. apollo, climbing the side of mount parnassus, slew the serpent after a prolonged combat, and threw the body down the fissure of the oracle. from that time the sun god, surnamed the pythian apollo, gave oracles from the vent. with dionysos he shared the honor of being the patron god of delphi. after being vanquished by apollo, the spirit of python remained at delphi as the representative of his conqueror, and it was with the a

sacred, and persons came from all parts of greece and the surrounding countries to question the d mon who dwelt in its chimney-like vent. priests and priestesses guarded it closely and served the spirit who dwelt therein and who enlightened humanity through the gift of prophecy. the story of the original discovery of the oracle is somewhat as follows: shepherds tending their flocks on the side of mount parnassus were amazed at the peculiar antics of goats that wandered close to a great chasm on its southwestern spur. the animals jumped about as though trying to dance, and emitted strange cries unlike anything before heard. at last one of the shepherds, curious to learn the cause of the phenomenon, approached the vent, from which were rising noxious fumes. immediately he was seized with a p

e building of the temple in the fourth year of his reign on what would be, according to modern calculation, the 21st day of april, and finished it in the eleventh year of his reign on the 23rd day of october. the temple was begun in the 480th year after the children of israel had passed the red sea. part of the labor of construction included the building of an artificial foundation on the brow of mount moriah. the stones for the temple were hoisted from quarries directly beneath mount moriah and were trued before being brought to the surface. the brass and golden ornaments for the temple were cast in molds in the clay ground between succoth and zeredatha, and the wooden parts were all finished before they reached the temple site. the building was put together, consequently, without sound a

made a similar demand. again chiram was silent, and the second assassin struck him on the breast with the square. chiram thereupon staggered to the east gate, only to be met there by jubelum armed with a maul. when chiram, refused him the master's word, jubelum struck the master between the eyes with the mallet and chiram fell dead. the body of chiram was buried by the murderers over the brow of mount moriah and a sprig of acacia placed upon the grave. the murderers then sought to escape punishment for their crime by embarking for ethiopia, but the port was closed. all three were finally captured, and after admitting their guilt were duly executed. parties of three were then sent out by king solomon, and one of these groups discovered the newly made grave marked by the evergreen sprig. af

roads. the philosopher's stone is really the philosophical stone, for philosophy is truly likened to a magic jewel whose touch transmutes base substances into priceless gems like itself. wisdom is the alchemist's powder of projection which transforms many thousand times its own weight of gross ignorance into the precious substance of enlightenment. the tablets of the law while upon the heights of mount sinai, moses received from jehovah two tablets bearing the characters of the decalogue traced by the very finger of israel's god. these tables were fashioned from the divine sapphire, schethiy, which the most high, after removing from his own throne, had cast into the abyss to become the foundation and generator of the worlds. this sacred stone, formed of heavenly dew, was sundered by the br

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

by the name yesod and in the name yesod, which moses invoked, and at midnight all the first-born, both of men and of animals, died; and by the name of yeshimon, which moses named and invoked, and the red sea divided itself and separated in two; and by the name hesion, which moses invoked, and all the army of pharaoh was drowned in the waters; and by the name anabona, which moses having heard upon mount sinai, he was found worthy to receive and obtain the tables of stone written with the finger of god the creator; and by the name erygion, which joshua having invoked when he fought against the moabites, he defeated them and gained the victory; and by the name hoa, and in the name hoa, which david invoked, and he was delivered from the hand of goliath; and by the name yod, which solomon havin

na, profa, titache, ben ani, briah, theit; all which names are written in heaven in the characters of malachim, that is to say, the tongue of the angels. we then, by the just judgment of god, by the ineffable and admirable virtue of god, just, living, and true, we call ye with power, we force and exorcise ye by and in the admirable name which was written on the tables of stone which god gave upon mount sinai; and by and in the wonderful name which aaron the high priest bare written upon his breast, by which also god created the world, the which name is axineton; and by the living god who is one throughout the ages, whose dwelling is in the ineffable light, whose name is wisdom, and whose spirit is life, before whom goeth forth fire and flame, who hath from that fire formed the firmament, t

lished all things in thy wisdom; thou who has chosen abraham thy faithful servant, and hast promised that in his seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed, which seed thou hast multiplied as the stars of heaven; thou who hast appeared unto thy servant moses in flame in the midst of the burning bush, and hast made him walk with dry feet through the red sea; thou who gavest the law to him upon mount sinai; thou who hast granted unto solomon thy servant these pentacles by thy great mercy, for the preservation of soul and of body; we most humbly implore and supplicate thy holy majesty, that these pentacles may be consecrated by thy power, and prepared in such manner that they may obtain virtue and strength against all spirits, through thee, o most holy adonai, whose kingdom, empire, and p

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them this pentacle and immediately they will obey. editor s note. in the upper left hand corner is the magical seal of jupiter with the letters of the name ihvh. in the others are the seal of the intelligence of jupiter, figures 18 and 19. the holy pentacles page 65 and the names adonai and ihvh. around it is the versicle from psalm cxxv. 1 "a song of degrees. they that trust in ihvh shall be as mount zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever" figure 21. the fourth pentacle of jupiter. it serveth to acquire riches and honor, and to possess much wealth. its angel is bariel. it should be engraved upon silver in the day and hour of jupiter when he is in the sign cancer. editor s note. above the magical sigil is the name ih, iah. below it are the names of the angels adoniel and bari

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

on years. but if you used the selfsamemethod on the atmosphere, you got an age of only a few hundred thousand years. he also showed thatthe entire amount of radiogenic lead in the worlds two largest uranium deposits could be entirelymodern. clearly, something was wrong (p. 18)funkhouser and naughton at the hawaiian institute of geophysics used the potassium-argon method todate volcanic rocks from mount kilauea and got ages up to 3 thousand million yearswhen the rocksare known to have been formed in a modern eruption in 1801. mcdougall at the australian nationaluniversity found ages of up to 465,000 years from lava in new zealand that is independently known tobe less than 1,000 years old (p. 18)coal true revealer of the pastin 1878, miners at bernissart, a small village in the mons coalfiel

that jehovah was a man, that moses and israel thought of him as a man, is evidenced in many places.jehovah agreed to show his feet, his hands, his back, in fact, his whole person except his face (p. 19)many instances prove that god ate and drank (p. 19)i come to thee in a thick cloud that the people may hear when i speak to thee ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests.take heed, go not up to the mount (sinai, whosoever toucheth the mount shall surely be put to death. moses and aaron were the aries, the number two men (p. 19)vicar means vice-arioracles the means by which the gods communicated via mind-controlled virgins.the sybilrome was virtually founded after the fall of troy and many gods may have migrated there. there was adark age about 1000 b.c, just like the one after charlemagne.in

thousand years (p. 26)many rulers at the oracles were told to build cities.there were about 260 oracles in greece, but only a few were prominent.neith= a thena, the same if the last a is removed.appendix b: book abstracts240atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation city of elathat the head of the red sea on the gulf of alaba was an ancient city of elath (the el. elath was veryclose to mount sinai, mount seir, mount hor, and mount paran, all on the left. below elath on the rightwas edom and teman and yemen, the home of the wise men of edom, the dukes of edom, and thehighly educated sheba who visited solomon. from elath is a dry river bed that leads to the dead seaand the holy land (p. 31)there seemed to be an understanding that the mediterranean was the sea for one race of els a

alien visitation, and genetic manipulation in the period from 587 b.c. to 581 b.c, the hebrew prophet ezekiel prophesied that tyre wouldbecome a spoil to the nations (ezekiel 26:5, a place to spread nets upon (26:14 and 47:10, andbuilt no more (26:14. in 332 b.c, pursuant to ezekiel's prophecy, tyre fell to ruin when alex-ander the great besieged and stormed the city. 6. 875-848 b.c. the biblical mount carmel is south of the modern city of haifa and west of the seaof galilee in israel. mount carmel is less than 20 miles south of the 33rd parallel. at carmel, elijahthe hebrew prophet stood against 850 heathen prophets and defeated them (1 kings 18).7.593-571 b.c. in ezekiel chapter 28, the prophet wrote while in exile in babylon, not far south ofthe 33rd parallel. ezekiel wrote about the ru

, i am a god, in the presence of those who kill you? you will be but aman, not a god, in the hands of those who slay you. 10 you will die the death of the uncircumcisedat the hands of foreigners. i have spoken, declares the sovereign lord. ezekiel continues by comparing the king of tyre to the fallen angel, satan: you were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so i ordained you. you were on the holy mount ofgod; you walked among the fiery stones. 15 you were blameless in your ways from the day youwere created till wickedness was found in you. 16 through your widespread trade you were filledwith violence, and you sinned. so i drove you in disgrace from the mount of god, and i expelledyou, o guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. 17 your heart became proud on account ofyour beauty, and y

of a thousand points of light. the winds of change are with us now. bagdad,iraq's capital, and the united nations-enforced no fly zone are at the 33rd degree of north latitude.27. 1993 waco, texas, just south of the 32nd degree of north latitude is the site of the masonic grandlodge of texas. on april 19, 1993, the clinton administration murdered adults and children in thebranch davidian group at mount carmel, a compound about 10 miles from the city of waco.28.1997 while still shooting titanic, director james cameron secretly traveled to arizona to becomea 32nd degree mason at the masonic lodge in downtown phoenix, on march 13th, 1997. whilecameron was receiving his initiation into the 32nd degree from his law of one allies, millions ofpeople witnessed a large v-shaped formation of lights

giant people? atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation297 appendix d: scientific evidence townsville-rockhampton queenslandanother giant fossil footprint, identical to the penrith and bathurst examples and measuring 61 cm longby 46 cm wide across the toes, was found near townsville, queensland, in 1952. more fossilized giantmanlike footprints of these dimensions have been found in the mount isa district of queensland. in thesame region, according to aborigines, a race of monsterous four-to-five-metre-tall giant men andwomen-the kalkadoons-once lived during the dreamtime. these monsters are reminiscent of the illankanpanka of rockhampton, queensland, aboriginal lore-10-to-12-metre-tall giant beings. are all these monster hominids representative of a single race? givenaboriginal

ion, and genetic manipulation huge fossil tracks said by aborigines to have been left by the narragun giants near mt gambier,south australia, come from volcanic deposits which could be anywhere up to a million years old. v ol-canic eruptions in ice-age victoria, on the other hand, have produced hominid evidence preserved bymuch recent lava flows. for example, the lava flow from the scoria cone at mount buninyong, about 10 kilo metres south-eastof ballarat, covered a lake deposit from which, in 1864, the disputed buninyong bone implement wasfound at a depth of 80 metres together with the remains of an extinct kangaroo. the implement is partof a rib of a 'nototherium, and has been cut to an irregular point from opposite sides. the buninyongremains are dated at least 200,000 years old.the mos

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rs to the eye of set, timeless and divine, godlike and independent. the chaos star is destruction, change and power all of which emerges from the eye of shaitan, or set. it is this chaos which then brings order. algol is the mirror of the sorcerer, one who may enter and reside in the pulsing eye of blackened flame. arezura [avestan/pahlavi] arezurahe griva (arezura) in the bundahishin is called a mount at the gate of hell, whence the demons rush forth. arezura is the gate to hell in the alburz mountain range in present day iran. the north is traditionally the seat of ahriman, wherein the cold winds may blow forth. arezura from an initiatory perspective is the subconscious, the place where sorcerers may gather and grow in their arts, by encircling and manifesting their desire. m.n. dallah w

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righteous twin brother that dwelled in heaven and took the form of a fish, was forced to sacrifice himself for pemba s sin. his body was cut into 60 pieces, and the pieces formed trees when spread across the earth. trees are, according the mande people, symbols of resurrection. the most high god brought faro back to life, and sent him to earth in human form aboard an ark. the ark, which landed on mount kouroula, was of coarse loaded with a small group of humans and 2 of every animal. the incas of peru tell the story of a creator god named virococha, who created the world that was populated by giants he carved from stone. these giants were terribly disobedient and disorderly, and viracocha destroyed this race of giants with a massive flood. the hindu tradition of india, like countless other

e of magic and transformation to humanity. this story of god s enemy who, against the wishes of god, gives fire to mankind is also echoed in greek mythology. black magicians often equate azazel from the book of enoch, with lucifer and the greek god prometheus. the reason is that prometheus, against the wishes of zeus (god, stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. zeus, the furious god of mount olympus, punishes prometheus by binding him to a rock, and commanding an eagle to peck away at this liver, which regenerated every day. prometheus is depicted as incredibly intelligent, deceptive, and rebellious; prometheus, azazel, lucifer, the torch-bearer, the light bringer. the flame, or torch of the olympics, and it s corresponding tradition, is a commemoration of prometheus theft of fi

pollo is the only greek god that actually exists? probably not. what s more likely is that many( if not all) characters from the bible have corresponding names in greek mythology. but even though the characters correspond, the perspective of villains and heroes appears to have been inverted; as though retold through the eyes of a modern day satanist. in greek mythology, zeus is the tyrant lord of mount olympus, who is promiscuous, jealous, and a rapist. whereas prometheus, who is azazel and lucifer, is the creator and champion of mankind, highly intelligent, and can easily deceive zeus. i can t believe it s not fiction: zeus and hades heracles (2001) clash of the titans (2010) hidden history [1.6] mythology isn t the only vector by which we can reconstruct history. evidence of a more tempo

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with joy. let your voice be in unison with all those powers that god is using for his recovery! if one defrauds you, and exults at it, he is the most to be pitied of human beings. he has done himself a far deeper injury than he has done you. it is he, and not you, whom god regards with mingled displeasure and compassion; and his judgment should be your law. among all the benedictions of the holy mount there is not one for this man; but for the merciful, the peacemakers, and the persecuted they are poured out freely. we are all men of like passions, propensities, and exposures. there are elements in us all, which might have been perverted, through the successive processes of moral deterioration, to the worst of crimes. the wretch whom the execration of the thronging crowd pursues to the sc

the valiant. there is, even in this humble life, an infinity for those whose desires are boundless. there are blessings upon its birth; there is hope in its death; and eternity in its prospect. thus earth, which binds many in chains, is to the mason both the starting-place and goal of immortality. many it buries in the rubbish of dull cares and wearying vanities; but to the mason it is the lofty mount of meditation, where heaven, and infinity and eternity are spread before him and around him. to the lofty-minded, the pure, and the virtuous, this life is the beginning of heaven, and a part of immortality. god hath appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world; and that is a contented spirit. we may be reconciled to poverty and a low fortune, if we suffer contentedness and equanimity

ni-aamun. the true nature of god was unknown to them, like his name; and they worshipped the calves of jeroboam, as in the desert they did that made for them by aarun. the mass of the hebrews did not believe in the existence of one only god until a late period in their history. their early and popular ideas of the deity were singularly low and unworthy. even while moses was receiving the law upon mount sinai, they forced aarun to make them an image of the egyptian god apis, and fell down and adored it. they were ever ready to return to the worship of the gods of the mitzraim; and soon after the death of joshua they became devout worshippers of the false gods of all the surrounding nations "ye have borne" amos, the prophet, said to them, speaking of their forty years' journeying in the dese

the dale of the grievous waters. there were seven heliad, whose father helias, or the sun, once crossed the sea in a golden cup; seven titans, children of the older titan, kronos or saturn; seven corybantes; and seven cabiri, sons of sydyk; seven primeval celestial spirits of the japanese, and seven karfesters who escaped from the deluge and began to be the parents of a new race, on the summit of mount albordi. seven cyclopes, also, built the walls of tiryus. celsus, as quoted by origen, tells us that the persians represented by symbols the two-fold motion of the stars, fixed and planetary, and the passage of the soul through their successive spheres. they erected in their holy caves, in which the mystic rites of the mithriac initiations were practised, what he denominates a high _ladder

s, agents of jehovah. all their doctrines on these subjects were at bottom those of the holy books; but singularly developed; and the orient was evidently the source from which those developments came. they styled themselves _interpreters; a name indicating their claim to the exclusive possession of the true meaning of the holy writings, by virtue of the oral tradition which moses had received on mount sinai, and which successive generations of initiates had transmitted, as they claimed, unaltered, unto them. their very costume, their belief in the influences of the stars, and in the immortality and transmigration of souls, their system of angels and their astronomy, were all foreign. sadduceeism arose merely from an opposition essentially jewish, to these foreign teachings, and that mixtu

reason, the life, and the motion of all being "i am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life" so said the founder of the christian religion, as his words are reported by john the apostle. god, say the sacred writings of the jews, appeared to moses in a flame of fire, in the midst of a bush, which was not consumed. he descended upon mount sinai, as the smoke of a _furnace; he went before the children of israel, by day, in a pillar of cloud and, by night, in a pillar of _fire, to give them _light "call _you_ on the name of _your_ gods" said elijah the prophet to the priests of baal "and i will call upon the name of adonai; and the god that answereth _by fire, let him be god" according to the kabalah, as according to the doctri

f events is rightly ordered by an infinite wisdom, and leads, though we cannot see it, to a great and perfect result--let him be satisfied to follow the path pointed out by that providence, and to labor for the good of the human race in that mode in which god has chosen to enact that good shall be effected: and above all, let him build no tower of babel, under the belief that by ascending he will mount so high that god will disappear or be superseded by a great monstrous aggregate of material forces, or mere glittering, logical formula; but, evermore, standing humbly and reverently upon the earth and looking with awe and confidence toward heaven, let him be satisfied that there is a _real_ god; a _person, and not a formula; a father and a protector, who loves, and sympathizes, and compassi

d a temple, and who wore on her head a helmet bearing the image of a bull. and the throne of solomon, with bulls adorning its arms, and supported on lions, like those of horus in egypt and of the sun at tyre; likewise referred to the vernal equinox and summer solstice. those who in thrace adored the sun, under the name of saba-zeus, the grecian bakchos, builded to him, says macrobius, a temple on mount zelmisso, its round form representing the world and the sun. a circular aperture in the roof admitted the light, and introduced the image of the sun into the body of the sanctuary, where he seemed to blaze as in the heights of heaven, and to dissipate the darkness within that temple which was a representative symbol of the world. there the passion, death, and resurrection of bakchos were rep

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perfect in form and much finer in texture. their weapons also resembled those used by mankind; we hear of spears, shields, helmets, bows and arrows &c, being employed by the gods. each deity possessed a beautiful chariot, which, drawn by horses or other animals of celestial breed, conveyed them rapidly over land and sea according to their pleasure. most of these divinities lived on the summit of mount olympus, each possessing his or her individual habitation, and all meeting together on festive occasions in the council-chamber of the gods, where their banquets were enlivened by the sweet strains of apollo's lyre, whilst the beautiful voices of the muses poured forth their rich melodies to his harmonious accompaniment. magnificent temples were erected to their honour, where they were worsh

anxious to preserve the secret of his existence from cronus, rhea sent the infant zeus secretly to crete, where he was nourished, protected, and educated. a sacred goat, called amalthea, supplied the place of his mother, by providing him with milk; nymphs, called melissae, fed him with honey, and eagles and doves brought him nectar and ambrosia.[4] he was kept concealed in a cave in the heart of mount ida, and the curetes, or priests of rhea, by beating their shields together, kept up a constant noise at the entrance, which drowned the cries of the child and frightened away all intruders. under the watchful care of the nymphs the infant zeus throve rapidly, developing great physical powers, combined with [16]extraordinary wisdom and intelligence. grown to manhood, he determined to compel

ich caused him to give back the children he had swallowed. the stone which had counterfeited zeus was placed at delphi, where it was long exhibited as a sacred relic. cronus was so enraged at being circumvented that war between the father and son became inevitable. the rival forces ranged themselves on two separate high mountains in thessaly; zeus, with his brothers and sisters, took his stand on mount olympus, where he was joined by oceanus, and others of the titans, who had forsaken cronus on account of his oppressions. cronus and his brother-titans took possession of mount othrys, and prepared for battle. the struggle was long and fierce, and at length zeus, finding that he was no nearer victory than before, bethought himself of the existence of the imprisoned giants, and knowing that t

, which they had [20]conquered, should be divided between them. at last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included, and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. it will be seen that the realm of each of these gods was enveloped in mystery. olympus was shrouded in mists, hades was wrapt in gloomy darkness, and the sea was, and indeed still is, a source of wonder and deep interest. hence we see that wh

he course of time so degenerate that the gods resolved to destroy all mankind by means of a flood; page 22 deucalion [22](son of prometheus) and his wife pyrrha, being, on account of their piety, the only mortals saved. by the command of his father, deucalion built a ship, in which he and his wife took refuge during the deluge, which lasted for nine days. when the waters abated the ship rested on mount othrys in thessaly, or according to some on mount parnassus. deucalion and his wife now consulted the oracle of themis as to how the human race might be restored. the answer was, that they were to cover their heads, and throw the bones of their mother behind them. for some time they were perplexed as to the meaning of the oracular command, but at length both agreed that by the bones of their

mankind took wing and flew away. but all was not lost. just as hope (which lay at the bottom) was about to escape, pandora hastily closed the lid of the jar, and thus preserved to man that never-failing solace which helps him to bear with courage the many ills which assail him.[10] having punished mankind, zeus determined to execute vengeance on prometheus. he accordingly chained him to a rock in mount caucasus, and sent an eagle every day to gnaw away his liver, which grew again every night ready for fresh torments. for thirty years prometheus endured this fearful punishment; but at length zeus relented, and permitted his son heracles (hercules) to kill the eagle, and the sufferer was released. third dynasty.olympian divinities. zeus[11 (jupiter. zeus, the great presiding deity of the uni

ity, and uprightness, but severely punishing perjury, cruelty, and want of hospitality. even the poorest and most forlorn wanderer finds in him a powerful advocate, for he, by a wise and merciful dispensation, ordains that the mighty ones of the earth should succour their distressed and needy brethren. the greeks believed that the home of this their mighty and all-powerful deity was on the top of mount olympus, that high and lofty mountain between thessaly and macedon, whose summit, wrapt in clouds and mist, was hidden from mortal view. it was supposed that this mysterious region, which even a bird could not reach, extended beyond the clouds right into aether, the realm of the immortal gods. the poets describe this ethereal atmosphere as page 27 bright, glistening, and refreshing, exercisi

ous powers of his genius on this sublime conception, and earnestly entreated zeus to give him a decided proof that his labours were approved. an answer to his prayer came through the open roof of the temple in the shape of a flash of lightning, which phidias interpreted as a sign that the god of heaven was pleased with his work. zeus was first worshipped at dodona in epirus, where, at the foot of mount tomarus, on the woody shore of lake joanina, was his famous oracle, the most ancient in greece. here the voice of the eternal and invisible god was supposed to be heard in the rustling leaves of a giant oak, announcing to mankind the will of heaven and the destiny of mortals; these revelations being interpreted to the people by the priests of zeus, who were called selli. recent excavations w

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

templars 65 the first krak appears to have been built in 1141 in ibelin, between ascalon and jaffa. numerous workers participated in its construction, outfitting it with four towers just like the tower of the templars in paris/ this project was followed in 1142 by the krak of moab, or the stone of the desert, in transjordania;5 in 1143, the fortress of geth near lydda; and in 1144, on the shining mount or hill near ascalon, a high fortress that was flanked by four towers. the local people called this important construction the "white guard" and the latins, citizens of the latin states in the holy land, called it the "white workman's hut."6 in 1148, the christians, especially the templars, undertook the reconstruction of ancient gaza "with the buildings finished and wellkept, the christians

mple, however. the free lands of other abbeys and religious orders also offered this privilege. a manuscript from the beginning of the sixteenth century provides the following list of these other jurisdictions: the notre dame de garlande land and all the land of the chapter of notre dame inside the city of paris, the evesque land, the land of the franc-fie of the rosiers, the saint marcel land on mount saint hilaire, the saint victor land outside the gates, the sainte genevieve land outthe templars and the parisian builders 109 side the gates, the saint germain des pres land outside the gates, the saint benoit cloister, the saint eloi land on ile de la cite, the saint symphorien land, the saint denis de la chastre land in the city, the ostel dieu land, the dougnans land, the saint merri cl

a diatyposis (1643) and his de rerum humanarum emendatione catholica, whose first parts were published in 1666 under the titles panergesia and panaugia, he proposed the founding of a society with the purpose of spreading the ideas of tolerance and respect for the individual. the objective of this society would be the construction of a temple of wisdom, similar to the temple of solomon, built upon mount moriah (in other words the temple mount. komensky also proposed the creation of a large international organization, the collegium lucis, which would be a wisdom school to provide an education for those seeking to enter the celestial academy. all steps taken in this regard had to be taken secretly and komensky's full treatise was to be shared only with those participating in the undertaking

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

which reconciled the concurrent 260-day and 365-day years. noah and the flood noah s ark rides the flood after the biblical deluge, in a wood-engraving from the nuremberg bible of 1483. god decided to destroy humanity because of its wickedness, but warned the pious noah of the coming flood, and told him to build the ark and take on board two of every living creature. after the ark had grounded on mount ararat, god sent the rainbow as a symbol of his covenant never again to destroy the creatures he had made. noah lived to be 950 years old. introduction 8 nana-buluku who creates the world, and then gives it into the keeping of his children mawu and lisa (see pp. 88 89; but nana- buluku is now almost forgotten, and the work of creation credited to mawu. the ashanti tell how the supreme god on

sk me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and be rich like white men! but how dare i cut off my mother s hair? an anglo-saxon charm beseeches the favor of erce, erce, erce, mother of earth with similar fervor. yet, despite the obvious connection between agricultural and human fertility, the earth is not always vishnu the preserver vishnu and his wife lakshmi (or shri) are shown riding on their mount, the celestial bird garuda. vishnu, the wide-strider, measured out the cosmos in three strides. he is regarded as the protector of the world, and because of his compassion for humankind, descends to earth in various avatar forms, such as prince rama, to fight evil. whenever vishnu is incarnated, so is lakshmi, to be his bride. here, garuda is taking the loving couple to their own heaven, vai

nak, a duck was released across the waters of the sacred lake each morning in imitation of the benu bird. re, the sun god 14 re, the sun god r e, the sun god, took three main forms: khepri, the scarab beetle, who was the rising sun; re, the sun s disc, who was the midday sun; and atum, an old man leaning on a stick, who was the setting sun. each evening, as the sun reached the westernmost peak of mount manu, the sky goddess, nut (see p. 13, swallowed it, whereupon the sun god journeyed perilously through a netherworld in his night barque (boat. here, he was assailed by demons led by the monstrous snake apophis, his enemy who, according to one myth, came into being at the very same moment as re himself. in the darkest hour before dawn, apophis made his most desperate attack. each night, re

sleep for the noise. so enlil, god of earth, wind, and air, said, let us loose the waters on the world, and drown them all. the gods agreed, but ea warned utnapishtim of the impending disaster in a dream and told him to build a boat, and take on board two of every creature. for seven nights the tempest raged, until the entire world was covered in water. at last, the boat ran aground on the top of mount nisir. to check the water level, utnapishtim set free a dove, then a swallow, then a raven. when the raven did not return, utnapishtim knew it had found a resting place and the waters were subsiding. in thanks, he lit a fire to make a sacrifice to the gods. enlil was furious when he smelled the smoke, but wise ea interceded, and enlil made utnapishtim and his wife immortal; they are the ance

g, and free of taint. gods of olympus 22 hades hades (see pp. 28 29, zeus brother, was the god of the underworld. he was married to persephone (see above. cronos and rhea this couple may depict zeus parents, cronos and rhea, who were banished to tartarus in the underworld. cronos, whose name means time, castrated his father uranus with a sickle. t he gods of the ancient greeks lived at the top of mount olympus, the highest peak in greece. later their home was conceived of as a heaven in the skies. from olympus, the gods loved, quarrelled, watched the world, and helped and hindered mortals according to their whims. presided over by zeus (roman jupiter, ruler of heaven and earth, there were many gods and immortals of whom 12 are usually regarded as the most important: aphrodite (venus, apoll

eus is the breath of all things. an orphic hymn to zeus zeus zeus, originally a sky god, was the supreme ruler of heaven and earth. he was married to hera but had many other sexual liaisons. zeus brandishes thunderbolts, his chief weapons, made for him by the cyclopes the gods of olympus by giulio romano (c. 1499 1546) this 16th-century ceiling painting shows the gods and some of the immortals of mount olympus. it would have been painted to suggest the power and glory of the patron. artemis artemis (see pp. 36 37) was apollo s twin sister and the goddess of hunting and archery. all wild animals were in her care. demeter demeter, zeus sister, was the greek earth-goddess. her brother zeus fathered her daughter, persephone. her search for persephone formed the basis of the mysteries of eleusi

h stone they threw over their shoulders became a new man or woman. clash of the titans t he 12 titans, children of uranus, the sky, and gaia, the earth, were the first gods. they were deposed after a 10-year struggle by zeus, son of cronos (see p. 23, and sent to tartarus in the underworld, locked behind bronze doors guarded by three 100-armed giants. zeus and his siblings then became the gods of mount olympus. prometheus and epimetheus sided with zeus in this war; his older brothers, menoetius and atlas, supported the titans zeus killed menoetius and sent him to tartarus; atlas he condemned to support the heavens on his shoulders for eternity. prometheus 25 the first man prometheus shaped the first man in the image of the gods, by mixing earth and water into clay; athena, the goddess of w

ck by zeus, prometheus was doomed to 30,000 years of agony. he escaped the full term, however, by warning zeus of the oracle that foretold that any son borne to the sea nymph thetis, with whom zeus was in love, would be greater than his father (later, she married a mortal and gave birth to achilles, see p. 63) freed by heracles (see pp. 50 51, with zeus consent, prometheus joined the immortals on mount olympus by swapping his own mortality with the immortality of the centaur cheiron (see p. 39, who, accidentally wounded by heracles, was doomed to an eternity of suffering and wished to die. prometheus prometheus gave humankind the gift of thought, and the secrets of many skills, including how to navigate and how to tell the time. chariot of the sun helios (later identified with apollo) drov

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

ntal rite, is the veritable masonic tree, and all systems,whatsoever they be, are but detached branches of this institution, venerable for its great antiquity, and born in egypt. the real deposit of the principles of masonry written in the chaldee language is preserved in the sacred ark of the rite ofmemphis, and in part in the grand lodge of scotland, at edinburgh, and in the maronite convent on mount lebanon. to this extract we subjoin the first article of the organic statutes of the order, from which the rest may be readily imagined: bro marconis de negre, the grand hierophant, is the sole consecrated depository of the traditions of this sublime order. after this it would certainly be superfluous to ask,what are the constitutions or what are those precious documents in the chaldee langu

PROMETHEUS

ow in stature (power) they create their own heavens out in the astral realms and become their own savioe prometheus prometheus was one of the titans who was given the task of creating mankind by zeus. he felt great compassion for his creations and stole fire from heaven and cheated the gods in the apportionments of the sacrifice to aide them. this incurred the wrath of zeus who had him chained to mount caucasus and sent the gigantic kaukasian eagle to feed on his ever-regenerating liver. many generations later herakles freed him from this torture. parents (1) iapetos& klymene (theogony 507, works& days 54, hyginus fab 142 (2) iapetos& asia (apollodorus 1.8 (3) iapetos (quintus smyrnaeus 10.190, diodorus siculus 5.67.1 (4) themis (prometheus bound 8& 211& 873) offspring (1) deukalion (by pr

prometheus (or hephaistos, according to some) by the river tiron struck the head of zeus with and ax, and from his crown athene sprang up, clad in her armor -apollodorus 1.20 "prometheus, after forming men from water and earth, gave them fire, which he had hidden in a stalk of giant fennel to escape the notice of zeus. when zeus found out, he ordered hephaistos to rivet the body of prometheus to mount kaukasos, a skythian mountain, where he was kept fastened and bound for many years. each day an eagle would fly to him and munch on the lobes of his liver, which would then grow back at night. that was the price that prometheus paid for stealing fire, until herakles set him free later on. now prometheos had a son deukalion and was married to pyrrha, the daughter of epimetheus and pandora, th

vised deucalion to fashion an ark, which he then outfitted with provisions and launched himself with pyr rha aboard. zeus presently flooded most of hellas with a great downpour of rain from the sky, destroyed all the people except for a few who took refuge on high mountains nearby -apollodorus 1.45-46 "there they [the kentauroi] took refuge with kheiron, who, after the lapiths had driven him from mount pelion, settled on malea. herakles let loose an arrow at the kentaroi as they huddled round kheiron, which penetrated the arm of elatos and landed in kheiron s knee. in horror herakles ran to him, pulled out the arrow and dressed the wound with a salve that kheiron handed him. the festering wound was incurable, however, and kheiron moved into his cave, where he yearned for death, but could n

promise was given he advised jove not to lie with thetis, for if one greater than he were born he might drive jove [zeus] from his kingdom, as he himself had done to saturnus [kronos. and so thetis was given in marriage to peleus, son of aeacus, and hercules was sent to kill the eagle which was eating out prometheus heart. when it was killed, prometheus after thirty thousand years was freed from mount caucasus. hyginus fabulae 54 prometheus, son of iapetus, first fashioned men from clay. later vulcanus [hephaistos, at jove s [zeus] command, made a woman s form from cla y. minerva [athene] gave it life, and the rest of the gods each gave come other gift. because of this they named her pandora. she was given in marriage to prometheus brother epimetheus. pyrrha was her daughter, and was said

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

claim that he as victor had sinned without punishment. and so men began the practice of wearing wreaths at times of great rejoicing and victory. you may observe this in sports and banquets. but to come back to the beginning of the inquiry and the death of the eagle. hercules, when sent by eurystheus for the apples of the hesperides, out of ignorance of the way came to prometheus, who was bound on mount caucasus, as we have shown above. when victor, he returned to prometheus to tell him that that draco we have mentioned was slain, and to thank him for his kindness since he had pointed out the way. straightway he gave what honour he could to the one that deserved it, for he killed the eagle and since it was slain, men began, when victims were sacrificed, to offer livers on the altars of the

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

l may be initiated from g-d above. this may occur at special times to awaken us to repentance, such as on the day of yom kippur etc. because of this, the effect is not necessarily long lasting. this may be understood from the generation that left egypt. the jewish people experienced many revelations from above. many miracles occurred for them. nonetheless, immediately after receiving the torah at mount sinai, they sinned with the sin of golden calf. however, in our generation (which is the generation which will experience the true and complete redemption through our righteous moshiach, the effort is from below, on the part of man. this will bring about a reciprocal response of influence and assistance from g-d above. therefore, this redemption will be an everlasting redemption which will n

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

st draw down light from the legs of that level. gjacob h is the name of the immature version of the partzuf of z feir anpin. nonetheless, these levels are still only courtyards, gexternal houses, h12 for only unto such levels can the soul ascend, as mentioned in the zohar, on the verse, gwho can ascend [god fs mountain] and who can arise in his holy place? h13. g[ egod fs mountain f is the temple mount, and ehis holy place f] is the israelites f courtyard. h14 .translated from ta famei hamitzvot 11 chagigah, ch. 1. 12 ibid. 5b. 13 psalms 24:3. 14 zohar 2:195b. 333 parashat terumah the word terumah, which is usually understood and used to mean gdonation, h literally means gelevation. h by donating something to the holy temple or to some other holy use, one is elevating it from the domain of

om the dirt of the place of his atonement, and why [this dirt] was not taken from the garden of eden. for g-d knew that he would sin, and had he been created from the dirt of the garden, there could never be any atonement for him. g-d therefore [created adam outside the garden] and brought him into it [afterwards. according to tradition, adam was created on what would later be known as the temple mount, or mount moriah, specifically from the spot where the outer altar of temple would later stand.3 this fact signifies that man was created with the potential for repentance, i.e, the ability to restore his consciousness to its intended divine orientation such that his true, individual, divine ego can be revealed. g-d took adam out [of the garden] when the sin [he and eve committed brought out

hes. the four rivers signify the four archetypal exiles, and the preceding general river signifies the superarchetypal exile of egypt. the divine presence first descends and is clothed inside the form of evil known as the ghead, h and then descends and enters level after level, until the lowest level, the gfeet. h when it reaches the gfeet, h the verse gand his feet will stand on that day [on the mount of olives c] h16 will be fulfilled, as is explained in the zohar.17 this verse describes the future, messianic redemption. therefore the entire jewish people were exiled into egypt and babylonia, for egypt was the ghead h [relative to the other exiles, and babylonia is also called a ghead, h as it is written, gyou are the head of gold. h18 the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar had a dream visio

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ord is powerful. the voice of the lord is full of majesty. the voice of the lord breaketh the cedars of lebanon. the voice of the lord divideth the flames of fire. the voice of the lord shaketh the wilderness of kadesh. hegemon places practicus in a seat west of the altar, facing hiero; and takes the calvary cross. he returns to his place. hiero eloah came from teman of edom and the holy one from mount paran. his glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of his <141> praise. his brightness was as the light. he had karmaim in his hands and there was the hiding of his power. before him went the pestilence and flaming fire went forth at his feet. he stood and measured the earth. he beheld and drove asunder the nations. and the everlasting mountains were scattered- and perpetual hills d

darkness but for faint light in the east, and brings phil, just within the door. heg. the realm of chaos and of ancient night, ere ever the aeons were <164> when there was neither heaven or earth, nor was there any sea, when naught was, save the shape unluminous, formless and void. hiereus to and fro in the deeps, swayed the coils of the dragon with 8 heads and 11 horns. eleven were the curses of mount ebal, eleven the rulers of the qlippoth, and at their head were the dual contending forces.1 hiereus and heg. lower weapons and sfep back. 2nd ad (faces east) then breathed forth tho-0th out of the unutterable abyss the word! then stood forth tho-0th in the sign of the enterer, on the threshold of the hall of time as time was born of the eternal (gives= sign .so stood tho-0th in the power of

service and sacrifice draw nigh. 2nd and 3rd ads. stand at the veil. 2nd shows phil opening sign. 2nd ad. this is the sign of the rending of the veil, and thus standing, you form the tau cross. 216 the golden dawn: volume i1 book three phil. gives the sign. 2nd and 3rd ads draw back veil, revealing ch. ad. who stands also in the sign of tau, with sceptre and whife lamp. 2nd and 3rd ads. and phil. mount dais. phil. if able should stand in sign during offering ritual. lights turned up. hs. and heg. stand behind phil, who is between the pillars- 2nd ad. south and 3rd ad. north. ch. ad. freely and of full purpose and with understanding do you offer <189> yourself upon the altar of the spirit? phil. i do. as they say their words, hiereus and heg. ascend dais to drop their emblems into the brazi

s a general rule is referred to the qlippoth: of its forms however, the one reflected from every 4th point represents their restriction, and therefore it is not altogether to be classed with those that represent their operations in nature. the endekangle naturally represents the evil and imperfect nature of the endekad, and the endekagon (figure n) represents the dispersal of the eleven curses of mount ebal through the universe (deut. xxvii (though they are paraphrased as 12 in the english bible, in the hebrew version they are paragraphed as eleven, two being classed together) the dodekangle as a general rule is referred to the zodiac, and naturally represents the power of the dodekad. the dodekagon shows the dispersal of the influence of the zodiac through nature, the dodekagram its conce

eth for ever 'bugle zire 2mad 3ds i 40d apila 'in the name of the creator, wove and %how yourselves 'do-0-a-lp qaal 2zacar od 3zamran 'as pleasant deliverers that you may praise hi 3arnongst 'obelisong 2rest-el <336 'the sons of men. 3aaf 'nor-molap. hcoma, water. the fifth key 'the mighty sounds zhave entered %to the third angle 4and 'sapah 2zimii 3d u-lv 40d 'are become 'as olives 31n the olive mount 4looking with gladness noas ta qanis 3adroch 4dorphal 'upon the earth zand wwelling in 4the brightness of the heavens 'caosg ym 3faonts 4piripsol 6 76 the golden dawn: volume zv book nine 'as continual comforters. wnto whom 'i fastened 4pillars of gladness 'ta blior tasann 3a-m-lpn' 4nazorth '19 zand gave them 3vessels 4to water the earth 'with all her creatures 'af zod dlugar 3zizop 4uida c

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

burden of their grossness hinders them from ascending. indeed, they can do so only after infinite struggles, and by the mediation of the just, who stretch forth their hands towards them. during the whole period of the process they are devoured by the interior activity of the captive spirit, as in a burning furnace. those who attain the pyre of expiation burn themselves thereon, like hercules upon mount oetna, and so are delivered from their sufferings; but the courage of the majority fails before this ordeal, which seems to them a second death more appalling than the first, and so they remain in hell, which is rightly and actually eternal; but souls are never precipitated nor even retained despite themselves therein. 16 the doctrine of transcendental magic the three worlds correspond toget

one of the great instruments of magical power, but it is categorically forbidden to the magus, at least as an intoxication or passion. woe to the samson of the kabalah if he permit himself to be put asleep by delilah! the hercules of science, who exchanges his royal sceptre for the distaff of omphale, will soon experience the vengeance of dejanira, and nothing will be left for him but the pyre of mount oetna, in order to escape the devouring folds of the coat of nessus. sexual love is ever an illusion, for it is the result of an imaginary mirage. the astral light is the universal seducer, typified by the serpent of genesis' this subtle agent, ever active, ever vigorous, ever fruitful in alluring dreams and sensuous images; this force, which of itself is blind and subordinated to every will

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

[astral] shroud, for when it approached his head, he told [me] that such a person was ripe for the grave. the secret commonwealth 31 10. there be many places called fairy hills, which the mountain people think impious and dangerous to peel or uncover by taking earth or wood from them, superstitiously believing the souls of their predecessors to dwell therein. and to that end, they say, a mote or mount was dedicated beside every church-yard, to receive the souls http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_30.htm (1 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:46 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 30-39) until their adjacent bodies arise, and so [the church's artificial mound] becomes as a fairyhill [meanwhile] they use bodies of air when called [to travel] abroad [that is, about. they [the seers] also affirm

tm (8 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:34:55 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 40-49) correspondent on earth [just] as frequently the report of great actions [battles] has been carried more swiftly to other countries than all the art of us mortals could possibly dispatch it st. augustine [commenting] on mark 9:4, gives no small intimation of this truth, averring that elias appeared with jesus on the mount in his proper body, but moses [appeared] in an aerial body [which he had] assumed [that is, taken on [moses aerial body was] like [those of] the angels who appeared and had the ability to eat with abraham, though no necessity, on the account of their bodies, as likewise the late doctrine of the preexistence of souls, living into aerial vehicles [these examples] give a singular hint of the po

perception of the human aura. the fairy tradition is a very specific one of contact between human and underworld or otherworldly entities, with its own techniques and symbolic language. page 31 there be many places called fairy hills, which the mountain people think impious and dangerous to. uncover. believing the souls of their predecessors to dwell therein. and to that end, they say, a mote or mount was dedicated beside every churchhttp/ www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_92.htm (5 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:36:14 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 92-101) yard, to receive the souls until their adjacent bodies arise, and so becomes as a fairy-hill. fairy hills are either natural locations, or ancient ritual or burial structures. on occasions we find the two functions combined. a proportio

RUBY TABLET OF SET

in; and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, lord jehovah almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. isaiah 14:12-14 how you have fallen from heaven, o morning star, son of the dawn! you have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! you said in your heart 'i will ascend to heaven; i will raise my throne above the stars of god; i will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. i will ascend above the tops of the clouds; i will make myself like the most high' lucifer's five proclamations are: 1. i will ascend into heaven. by this statement lucifer is saying he will remanifest himself within the confines of both l.h.p. and r.h.p. religions. 2. i will exalt my throne above the stars of jehovah. lucifer will m

sacred mountain. i will ascend above the tops of the clouds; i will make myself like the most high' lucifer's five proclamations are: 1. i will ascend into heaven. by this statement lucifer is saying he will remanifest himself within the confines of both l.h.p. and r.h.p. religions. 2. i will exalt my throne above the stars of jehovah. lucifer will make himself into a god. 3. i will sit upon the mount of the congregation. lucifer will be the leader of another religion. 4. i will ascend above the heights of the clouds. lucifer mostly travels by air. 5. i will be like the most high. lucifer predicts he will become el-elyon, jehovah's title "the most high. the personality of satan we have seen some biblical evidence for the existence and origin of satan. now let's look at satan's personality

e stage for the absurd beliefs continually modified as convenient to our day [as magus lavey has said "not all vampires suck blood] a number of the teachings of jesus, in their own way, were well-meant and kindly ones. though the manipulative aspects were not new, they were at times a more sympathetic and gentle approach to the cosmos (or god) than were then generally expressed. the sermon on the mount may have been a masterpiece of the call for self-denial, and it certainly made a setting the crowds loved, but more importantly it portrayed the speaker as having the needed answers for the times. the puppet master pulled all the right strings at all the right times, and had, as john fowles might put it, written a new mystery story. and what a mystery story it was. not only did it have the a

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

l's. his strides can seem too long for his legs, but he's a light-footed man. orphans learn to be moving targets, develop a rapid walk, quick reactions, hold-yourtongue caution. up through the thorn-bushes and opobalsam trees he comes, scrabbling on boulders, this is a fit man, no softbellied usurer he. and yes, to state it again: takes an odd sort of business wallah to cut off into the wilds, up mount cone, sometimes for a month at a stretch, just to be alone. his name: a dream-name, changed by the vision. pronounced correctly, it means he-for-whom-thanks-should-be-given, but he won't answer to that here; nor, though he's well aware of what they call him, to his nickname in jahilia down below _he-who-goes-up-and-down-old-coney. here he is neither mahomet nor mochammered; has adopted, inst

ne looking down at the foreshortened figures of the actors, or he's swooping down to stand invisibly between them, turning slowly on his heel to achieve a threehundred-and-sixty-degree pan, or maybe he'll try a dolly shot, tracking along beside baal and abu simbel as they walk, or hand--held with the help of a steadicam he'll probe the secrets of the grandee's bedchamber. but mostly he sits up on mount cone like a paying customer in the dress circle, and jahilia is his silver screen. he watches and weighs up the action like any movie fan, enjoys the fights infidelities moral crises, but there aren't enough girls for a real hit, man, and where are the goddamn songs? they should have built up that fairground scene, maybe a cameo role for pimple billimoria in a show-tent, wiggling her famous

lized she still had her glasses on, eck, but she had forgotten to blacken her hands so she couldn't reach up to take the specs off, double eek: like that also _mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and i'm just some idiot actor having a bhaenchud nightmare, what the fuck do i know, yaar, what to tell you, help. help. o o o to reach mount cone from jahilia one must walk into dark ravines where the sand is not white, not the pure sand filtered long ago through the bodies of sea-cucumbers, but black and dour, sucking light from the sun. coney crouches over you like an imaginary beast. you ascend along its spine. leaving behind the last trees, white--flowered with thick, milky leaves, you climb among the boulders, which get larg

tomed to keeping his own company, squats down in the dust and plays a game with pebbles. there is no sense of urgency; sometimes he is away for days, even weeks. and today the city is all but deserted; everybody has gone to the great tents at the fairground to hear the poets compete. in the silence, there is only the noise of hamza's pebbles, and the gurgles of a pair of rock-doves, visitors from mount cone. then they hear the running feet. khalid arrives, out of breath, looking unhappy. the messenger has returned, but he isn't coming to zamzam. now they are all on their feet, perplexed by this departure from established practice. those who have been waiting with palm-fronds and steles ask hamza: then there will be no message? but khalid, still catching his breath, shakes his head "i think

recognized" she says "or you'd be dead, maybe. you know how the city was last night. people overdo it. my own brothers haven't come home yet" it comes back to him now, his wild anguished walk in the corrupt city, staring at the souls he had supposedly saved, looking at the simurgh-effigies, the devil-masks, the behemoths and hippogriffs. the fatigue of that long day on which he climbed down from mount cone, walked to the town, underwent the strain of the events in the poetry marquee- and afterwards, the anger of the disciples, the doubt- the whole of it had overwhelmed him "i fainted" he remembers. she comes and sits close to him on the bed, extends a finger, finds the gap in his robe, strokes his chest "fainted" she murmurs "that's weakness, mahound. are you becoming weak" she places the

hat kind are you "you are sand and i am water" mahound says "water washes sand away "and the desert soaks up water" hind answers him "look around you" soon after his departure the wounded men arrive at the grandee's palace, having screwed up their courage to inform hind that old hamza has killed her brothers. but by then the messenger is nowhere to be found; is heading, once again, slowly towards mount cone. o o o gibreel, when he's tired, wants to murder his mother for giving him such a damn fool nickname _angel, what a word, he begs _what? whom_ to be spared the dream--city of crumbling sandcastles and lions with three-tiered teeth, no more heart--washing of prophets or instructions to recite or promises of paradise, let there be an end to revelations, finito, khattam-shud. what he longs

to his own size and pulls me in towards him, his gravitational field is unbelievable, as powerful as a goddamn megastar. and then gibreel and the prophet are wrestling, both naked, rolling over and over, in the cave of the fine white sand that rises around them like a veil _as if he's learning me, searching me, as if i'm the one undergoing the test. in a cave five hundred feet below the summit of mount cone, mahound wrestles the archangel, hurling him from side to side, and let me tell you he's getting in _everywhere, his tongue in my ear his fist around my balls, there was never a person with such a rage in him, he has to has to know he has to k n ow and i have nothing to tell him, he's twice as physically fit as i am and four times as knowledgeable, minimum, we may both have taught ourse

oth times, baba, me first and second also me. from my mouth, both the statement and the repudiation, verses and converses, universes and reverses, the whole thing, and we all know how my mouth got worked "first it was the devil" mahound mutters as he rushes to jahilia "but this time, the angel, no question. he wrestled me to the ground" o o o the disciples stop him in the ravines near the foot of mount cone to warn him of the fury of hind, who is wearing white mourning garments and has loosened her black hair, letting it fly about her like a storm, or trail in the dust, erasing her footsteps so that she seems like an incarnation of the spirit of vengeance itself. they have all fled the city, and hamza, too, is lying low; but the word is that abu simbel has not, as yet, acceded to his wife'

SATANGEL

rtal. this grimoire he presented to adam, and it was then passed to enoch who incorporated much of it into the book of enoch. in was then passed to noah, who used information within it to design and build the ark. moses maimonides identifies him as the chief of the erelim (thrones, describing him as a brilliant white fire. according to targum ecclesiastes, each day razi-el stands upon the peak of mount horeb, proclaims the secrets to all mankind. 9th choir: angels theses are the last in the heavenly hierarchy and the closest to mankind. many early hebrew sources recognise the existence of angels before creation, as did the early catholic church. in the talmud, however, we are informed that having been created they sing a hymn of praise to god and promptly expire, only to be recreated again

as the bene ha elohim or grigori, sons of god known also as the watchers, who succumbed to the corruptions of the earthly plane. if they were truly angels, their form was nevertheless monstrous. generally they are described as serpents and dragons with seven heads, each with two faces, and as twelve wings. as in the above passage they were seduced by the potentials of the flesh and descended onto mount hermon 12,000 years ago. they cohabited with human females of the lowlands below eden to father the nephilim, giants who later went on to build the tower of babel and brought an end to the aeon of enoch. rabbi elkiezer of the 8th century puts the blame squarely on the women. the angels who fell from heaven saw the daughters of cain perambulating and displaying their private parts, their eyes

turies 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 devil has set himself up in competition to god, and has created his own dark counterpart of heaven within the abyss. according to st. augustine the war in heaven was brought about when god created an order of angels and strengthened them with an act o

is 4and liveth for ever. 1bagle zire 2mad 3ds i 4od apila. 1in the name of the creator, 2move and 3show yourselves 1do-o-a-lp qaal 2zacar od 3zamran 1as pleasant deliverers 2that you may praise him 3amongst 1obelisong 2rest-el 3aaf 1the sons of men. 1nor-molap. the fifth key 1the mighty sounds 2have entered 3into the third angle 4and 1sapah 2zimii 3d u-i-v 4od 1are become 2as olives 3in the olive mount 4looking with gladness 1noas 2ta qanis 3adroch 4dorphal 1upon the earth 2and 3dwelling in 4the brightness of the heavens 1caosg 2od 3faonts 4piripsol 1as continual comforters. 2unto whom 3i fastened 4pilllars of gladness 1ta blior 2casarm 3a-m-ipzi 4nazarth 119 2and gave them 3vessels 4to water the earth 5with all her creatures: 1af 2od dlugar 3zizop 4zlida caosgi 5tol torgi 1and 2they are t

he four principal names are invoked to the compass, followed by the calling of the third enochian key (from the satanic bible. the priest (celebrant) then addresses the altar, who is in the "bast enthroned (seated upright) position. the priest begins his invocation with arms upraised] celebrant: in the name of he who reigns in the firmament of fire and ice. arise, ye minions of tchort die lord! o mount the blizzards across the steppes and answer to our beckoning! my lips delighteth in thy praise, o tchornibog! i am a creature of thy creation, spawn of thy flame, craze of thy mind, carrier of transition! let comets hail the advent of thy coming, when we, thy sons, await on triglav's heights the omens of thy will! the glowing coals of ancient sacrifice give birth to spectral shadows who live

s of the of cependant que persiste la splendeur c t, du plumage bleut de 1'orgueil qui s'attriste d'un paon jadis vainqueur au jardin du coeur -verlaine "too true, too soon" might be the closing statement of the little band of heretics who survived eight centuries of cruel and moslem persecution-the yezidis. from their mecca-the of their first , sheik adi-situated on lalesh near the city of nineveh, the yezidi stretched in an invisible band approximately hundred miles wide to the mediterranean junction of turkey and syria on one end, and the of the caucasus in russia on the other. at intervals along this strip were -the of (ziarahs)-six of them trapezoidal in , and one, the "center" on lal