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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

haded by bushes. keep pot pound or living plants on your indoor altar when it is not in use to keep the energies fresh and moving. if it feels stagnant, sprinkle an infusion of lemon or peppermint widdershins, to remove negativity that has come in from the activities of the day, and then deosil, to charge it with power. you can also cleanse it with incense, creating a protective circle of pine or myrrh, again widdershins and then deosil. each night, or whenever you have time, you can explore your inner psychic powers at your altar. for example, you can gaze into a candle or scry into a bowl of water on the surface of which you have dripped coloured inks. try holding the different crystals that you place on your altar and allow impressions to pass through your fingertips, manifest as images

that you can see it without moving your neck or head. experiment until you get the height of the table and the distances right. for group work, you can light a circle of candles. if you are working indoors, and there is no natural harmonious sound, such as the water, you may like to play softly a cd of rainforest or ocean sounds, birdsong or dolphin calls* light incense sticks of frankincense or myrrh* sit either cross-legged on the floor on a rug or blanket with your hands supporting your knees, in the lotus position if you are skilled in yoga, or on a chair with both feet flat on the floor. if you wish, support your back with a pillow and have arm rests on the chair for your elbows. relax your arms and hands, with palms uppermost. it is important to be comfortable and not to be distract

estive disorders, for stress and psychosomatic illness. it offers psychic protection and will heal sorrow. it purifies all forms of pollution and negativity, endows strength and endurance and encourages fidelity. ruled by the sun. bistort bistort is potent in relieving wounds of all kinds, emotional as well as physical, also throat, mouth and tongue problems, especially when mixed with echinacea, myrrh and goldenseal. it aids fertility, so can be carried by women who wish to become pregnant. it will repels those who come to a home with malice or ill intent. bistort also increases abundance and prosperity and psychic awareness. ruled by saturn. black cohosh this herb is particularly associated with older women. for this reason, it is good for problems associated with the menopause. as a pro

of any respiratory condition, such as bronchitis, hoarseness, asthma and harsh coughs. it can also be used for acidity, skin inflammation and pains of all kinds. it acts as a sedative and a cure for insomnia, guarding against nightmares. it brings courage and prevents accidents, so is good in travel or workplace protection; it is also very protective against any negative forces. ruled by saturn. myrrh a powerful antiseptic, with anti-fungal and astringent properties, myrrh is good for all mouth and throat problems and for wounds. it is one of the oldest protective and purification herbs, associated with all healing of mind and spirit as well as body. myrrh is a good herb to burn as incense for protection and for healing; it promotes higher states of consciousness and so is good for all sp

with herbs, i recommend that you should always check with your doctor before using any oils. epilepsy: avoid sweet fennel, hyssop, sage, and rosemary. high blood pressure: avoid cypress, hyssop, rosemary, sage and thyme. pregnancy: it is best to avoid the following oils during any stage of pregnancy. angelica, basil, bitter almond, cedarwood, clary sage, clove, fennel, hyssop, juniper, marjoram, myrrh, peppermint, rosemary, sage, tarragon, thyme, wintergreen, yarrow. photo-toxic oils certain oils, particularly citrus oils, can irritate the skin if they are exposed to the light, and about half of the normal amount of other oils should be used in baths and massage. avoid direct sunlight for six hours after use. they include: angelica, bergamot, ginger, lemon, lime, mandarin and orange. howe

s the most noble of oils, used in ceremonies and formal celebrations throughout the ages and considered in many cultures to be a gift from the deities, bringing healing and power. it offers confidence to aim high, attracting abundance of all kinds, money and success, but also granting access to higher dimensions and contact with angels and spirit guides. it mixes well with cypress, sandalwood and myrrh. geranium: geranium is a harmonising oil, restoring peace and wellbeing to the home or workplace, encouraging positive, non-confrontational interactions, reconciling quarrels and melting away emotional coldness and indifference in encounters. it relieves tension, depression doubts and despair, replacing them with gentle optimism. it mixes well with lavender, rose, ylang-ylang, cedarwood and

econciliation to any person or place. it mixes well with almost every oil, but especially geranium, chamomile, marjoram and ylang-ylang. lemon: lemon is the breath of life, bringing energy, clarity, logic and integrity. it is a light-bringer, cutting through secrecy, doubt and dishonesty, and cleansing atmospheres and attitudes. a citrus oil, it mixes well with chamomile, eucalyptus, lavender and myrrh. lemongrass: lemongrass will clear away negative emotions among family, friends and colleagues, and past resentment and feuds from the past that no longer serve any purpose. it removes also painful memories and helps to leave behind destructive relationships; lemongrass also enhances psychic awareness. it mixes well with frankincense and geranium. lime: lime brings health and well-being to s

mpathy with others. it is an oil of enduring love and fidelity. it mixes well with lavender and rosemary. mimosa: mimosa is an oil of the night, for secrets and secret love, bringing love and friendship, especially for older people. it calms anxiety and over-sensitivity to criticism and brings harmony and happiness, melting away opposition and hostility. it mixes well with bergamot and chamomile. myrrh: this is a sacred ceremonial oil, like frankincense, and is burned in healing and purification rituals. it mixes well with mandarin, pine and patchouli. neroli: this is orange-blossom oil, symbol of marriage, committed relationships and fidelity, fertility, sensuality and self-esteem. it prevents moods swings, crises of confidence and panic attacks. it mixes well with geranium and jasmine. o

d individuality, and calming anxiety and restlessness in children and adults. a citrus oil, it mixes well with lavender and ylang-ylang. patchouli: patchouli is the oil of prosperity and is used in money rituals, to bring employment and increase business opportunities. it is also frequently used in ceremonies to heal the planet, as it is a natural restorer of balance. it mixes well with geranium, myrrh and pine. peppermint: peppermint offers protection against illness, accident, hostility and theft or damage to the home and also attracts money. it mixes well with eucalyptus. pine: pine is a purifier of all forms of negativity, hostile atmospheres and dishonesty, protecting particularly against emotional blackmail. it is an oil of courage and perseverance under difficulty, of integrity and

the 1960s, incense sticks, cones and burners have increased in popularity for home use, to create an atmosphere of calm, to induce love and cleanse negativity. many people use them for meditation as well as for rituals for confidence, health, love, prosperity, psychic protection and success. incense is now on sale in floral fragrances as well as the more traditional ones, such as frankincense and myrrh, and these are lovely both for home use and folk spells. our ancestors would have burned flowers and leaves to create the same effect. like herbs and oils, incense can be empowered for specific purposes and can itself form a focus for a spell, as i describe later in this section. in formal magick, incense represents the air element and is placed in the east of the altar. it is perhaps the ea

otection, love, prophetic dreams and purification. mistletoe known to the druids as the all-healer, mistletoe is for healing sorrows, overcoming injustice and finding what is lost. it is also good for male potency. moss moss is used for good fortune, prosperity, money and permanence, whether in work or relationships. it frequently appears in water magick and divination (use with candles on water. myrrh myrrh is good for healing, peace, protection and inner harmony. myrtle sometimes mixed with other fragrances, myrtle is used in spells concerning fidelity in love, marriage and mature love. it may also be used in matters of property and security. nutmeg use nutmeg for fertility and healing, especially of the environment; it will also bring a gradual increase of wealth. orange blossom benefic

tual. the difference is one of degree of intensity. incense i have already described in detail the different kinds of incense and how to use them, starting on page 139. incense is placed in the east of the altar to the left of the ritual tools. incense is, as well as an elemental substance, an easy but powerful way of marking the boundaries between the everyday world and the magick. frankincense, myrrh or sandalwood is sometimes burned on the altar before a ceremony to purify the area, especially if the room is used for other purposes, and to raise the vibrations from the mundane to the more spiritual. if you are using the granular kind you burn on charcoal, you will need a censer, but a bowl containing sand will serve for incense sticks or cones. as the incense is burned, so the energies

ient earth element, saying: mother earth, charge with the power of the ancient stone circles and the wise ways of the ancestors this [name the tool(s] of magick and healing, that my work may be rooted in what is possible and help create abundance and prosperity for others and the land, as well as for my own needs* next, draw a circle of smoke deosil in the air around them, using a frankincense or myrrh incense stick, saying: father sky, charge with the power of the mighty winds and the limitless potential of the cosmos this [name the tool(s] of magick and healing, that my work may be focused, filled with energy and bring positive change to ever-widening horizons* now, using a golden or scarlet candle in a broad-based candle-holder, mark an inner circle of fire in the air, around the artefa

are good for bringing unconscious powers to the fore and thus also for gaining magical insights and for bringing wishes into actuality. element: water colour: silver or white (although some magical traditions that use the triple goddess in ritual dress show the maiden in white, the mother in red and the crone in black) crystals: moonstone, mother of pearl, pearl, selenite, opal incenses: jasmine, myrrh, mimosa trees: willow, alder herbs and oils: chamomile, lotus, poppy, wintergreen metal: silver the moon rules cancer, 22 june-22 july, and its spells are particularly potent during that period and for all who are born under cancer. mars tuesday, the day of mars, is good for spells for courage, taking the initiative at home, independence and separateness from others, and change. it also repr

ily and work environment. he can be invoked for protection against inclement weather, for travel across water, for taking away sorrow and for diminishing self-destructive tendencies and replacing them with the gentle growth of new hope. gabriel also rules rituals to protect water creatures and to cleanse polluted seas, lakes and rivers. colour: silver crystal: moonstone and opal incenses or oils: myrrh and jasmine samael samael is the archangel who rules the planet mars (see page 229. samael's day is tuesday. he is sometimes called the severity of god and as such is an angel of cleansing and of righteous anger. one of the seven regents of the world and said to be served by two million angels, he is also called the dark angel who in the guise of the serpent tempted eve. this is a very ancie

lace by his/her presence here* place the crystal in a clear dish in front of the candles and blow out the candle, sending the light to the person. leave the incense to burn through and spend the rest of the hour in a pleasurable way with the focus of the ritual or in a family-orientated activity* on the second day at the same hour, light the michael candle and the silver gabriel candle, plus some myrrh incense* take a moonstone, or other crystal of gabriel, and pass it through the flame of the silver candle, saying: flame high, o mystical guardian, with thy mighty sceptre, ruler of the waters of the moon and the oceans, bringer of dreams* pass the crystal through the incense, saying: enter through this fragrance, the compassion and understanding of gabriel, truth-bringer and clarion of hop

y. candle colours: white, cream and pink or any pale colour- these are associated with innocence and gentleness crystals: garnet and bloodstones, also amethysts, rose quartz and gentle moonstones for awakening fertility and feelings symbols: ice, milk, seeds, first snowdrops or very early-budding leaves or flowers flowers, herbs, oils and incenses: angelica, basil, benzoin, celandine, heather and myrrh a ritual to release the frozen life force work after dusk on the eve of 31 january or on the following evening, 1 february, and perhaps incorporate the ritual into your candlemas party. with close supervision, even children can join in the ritual. place the candles in a deep holders and make the miniature straw bed perhaps in a deep metal bowl or even the family hearth, if it is no longer us

trees adorned with lights, oak, ash or pine, brightly coloured baubles, gold, holly, ivy and mistletoe, nuts crystals: any precious stones, especially rubies, diamonds and emeralds, amazonite, garnets, zircons, spinels; you can also substitute glass nuggets in rich red, green and white flowers, herbs, oils and incenses: bay, cedar, holly, jumper, mistletoe, orange, rosemary, and frankincense and myrrh in golden-coloured holders a mid-winter ritual to celebrate the rebirth of the sun this ritual should be performed on the solstice eve. to prepare, decorate a bough of evergreen with red and gold baubles and bows of ribbon and surround it with a circle of five long-burning, pure white candles or a single candle with five wicks. the first candle will need to burn for 24 hours, the second for

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is no particular rule for them; nor any especial instructions to be followed; but the more resplendent, clean, and brilliant they are the better will it be. you shall also make a girdle of silk of the same colour as the tunic, wherewithal you shall be girded. you shall have upon your head a beautiful crown or woven fillet of silk and gold. you shall prepare the sacred oil in this manner: take of myrrh46 in tears, one part; of fine cinnamon, two parts; of galangal,47 half a part; and the half of the total weight of these drugs of the best oil olive. the which aromatics you shall mix together according unto the art of the apothecary, and shall make thereof a balsam, the which you shall keep in a glass vial which you shall put within the cupboard (formed by the interior) of the altar. the pe

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stplate is very doubtful; we advise reliance on columns stones and tribes, we having chosen stones on bases of physical analogy to signs, colours &c. col. xlii. the following table of sub-elemental perfumes is important: a of a ambergris. d of a the gall of the rukh. c of a oncha. e of a musk. b of a civet. a of d lign-aloes. d of d galbanum. c of d mastick. e of d storax. b of d olibanum. a of c myrrh. d of c camphor. c of c siamese benzoin. e of c indigo. b of c oppoponax. a of e dittany of crete. d of e assafoetida. c of e clover. e of e storax. b of e benzoin. a of b saffron. d of b lign-aloes. c of b red-sanders. e of b red sandalwood. b of b olibanum. col. xliii. and xliv. and, generally, all drugs exciting the parts of the body corresponding. see col. clxxxii. col. xlvi. each trigra

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ht of the place: magic mirror: 30 :crysoleth :the lamen or bow and arrow :31 :fire opal :the wand, lamp, pyramid of fire: 32 :onyx :the sickle :32 "bis :salt :the pantacle, the salt :31 "bis: 315& 316 table i: xlii: liii: xlix :key scale: perfumes :the greek: lineal figures of the :alphabet: planets and geomancy: 0 :the circle: 1 :ambergris :the point: 2 :musk (sigma :the line, also the cross: 3 :myrrh, civet :the plane, also the diamond: oval, circle and other yoni: symbols: 4 :cedar (iota :the solid figure: 5 :tobacco (phi :the tessaract: 6 :olibanum: omega: sephirotic geomantic fi: 7 :benzoin, rose: epsilon: gures follow the planets: red sandal: caput and cauda draconis: 8 :storax: are the nodes of the moon: 9 :jasmine, jinseng: chi: nearly= herschel and: all odoriferous: neptune respec

14 :sandalwood, myrtle: delta :heptagram: all soft volup: tuous odours: 15 :dragon's blood: epsilon :puer: 16 :storax: digamma :amissio: 17 :wormwood: zeta :albus: 18 :onycha: eta :populus and via: 19 :olibanum: theta :fortuna major& fortuna minor: 20 :white sandal: iota :conjunctio: narcissus: 21 :saffron, all: kappa :square and rhombus: generous odours: 22 :galbanum: lambda :puella :23 :onycha, myrrh: mu :those of watery triplicity: 24 :siamese benzoin: nu :rubeus: opoponax: 25 :lign-aloes :xi (sigma):acquisitio: 26 :musk, civet (also: omicron :carcer :saturnian perfumes: 27 :pepper, dragon's: pi :pentagram: blood, all hot: pungent odours: 28 :galbanum: psi :tristitia: 29 :ambergris: koppa :laetitia: 30 :olibanum, cinamon: rho :hexagram :all glorious odours :31 :olibanum, all: sampi :tho

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

that spark of the higher in the magician which wishes to unite the lower with itself. unless therefore the magician be first anointed with this oil, all his work will be wasted and evil. this oil is compounded of four substances. the basis of all is the oil of the olive. the olive is, traditionally, the gift of minerva, the wisdom of god, the logos. in this are dissolved three other oils; oil of myrrh, oil of cinnamon, oil of galangal. the myrrh is attributed to binah, the great mother, who is both the understanding of the magician and that sorrow and compassion which results from the contemplation of the universe. the cinnamon represents tiphereth, the sun- the son, in whom glory and suffering are identical. the galangal represents both kether and malkuth, the first and the last, the one

the universe. the cinnamon represents tiphereth, the sun- the son, in whom glory and suffering are identical. the galangal represents both kether and malkuth, the first and the last, the one and the many, since in this oil they are one. these oils taken together represent therefore the whole tree of life. the ten sephiroth are blended into the perfect gold. this oil cannot be prepared from crude myrrh, cinnamon, and galangal. the attempt to do so only gives a brown mud with which the oil will not mix. these substances must be themselves refined into pure oils before the final combination. this perfect oil is most penetrating and subtle. gradually it will spread itself, a glistening film, over every object in the temple. each of these objects will then flame in the light of the lamp. this

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onged; grew long kyr) male )rwkd 232 the sum of the four ways of spelling hwhy in the four worlds ryw) hy let there be light! rw) yhy 233 remembering rwkz the tree of life (cf. 228) myyxh c( 235 archangel of chesed l)yqdc 236 a handful cmwq the northern one; lilith ynwpc 237 essence of glory dwbkh mc( 238 lord of wonders hw)lpnh nwd) 239 azrael: the angel of death l)rz) iron lzrb the lot lrwg 240 myrrh; drop; bitter, sad; fierce rm the afflictions of the sons of adam (i.e. succubae) md) ynb y(gn first buds, sproutings myncn cash; counted out, paid down mydwqp high, lofty mr rubies, gems mynynp 241 to say; word; command rm) 242 recollection hrykz 243 created [they them (gn. 1:27) m)rb learned, complete; to finish, bring to pass (ch) rmg a bone; to destroy mrg 244 to be insensible; in deep s

down mydwqp high, lofty mr rubies, gems mynynp 241 to say; word; command rm) 242 recollection hrykz 243 created [they them (gn. 1:27) m)rb learned, complete; to finish, bring to pass (ch) rmg a bone; to destroy mrg 244 to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649) mdr 245 adam qadmon: the archetypal man (lit. geastern man h, scil. ancient) nwmdq md) gall, bile hrm spirit of god l) xwr 246 myrrh rwm vision, aspect h)rm height, altitude mwr gabriel: archangel of water (lit. gmighty one of god h) l)yrbg 247 to overwhelm (ps. 77:17; a flood mrz light, luminary rw)m the symbolic sense (i.e. of scripture, etc; see 400& 510) zmr 248 the three that bear witness, above and beneath, respectively (md) the spirit, the water, and the blood: aleph being air (spiritus, daleth standing for md bloo

t 452 ardent desire, longing, wish tdmx the crop; the maw nbqrq 453 the animal soul in its fulness (i.e. including the creative entity or ego, chiah; living creature hyx #pn behemoth; beasts twmhb 454 a seal mtwx the gholy ones h (consecrated catamites kept by the priesthood) my#dq continually dymt zaharariel: a title of tiphareth l)yr)rhz 456 the greatest fear (cf. hmy, 56) htmy) the mountain of myrrh (ct. 4:6; see 573) rwmh rh a wall ltwk legs, shanks myqw# the fig-tree and fruit hn)t you (fem. pl) hnt) face, person pwcrp 457 olives mytz furnace nwt) 458 a covenant; an engagement; a betrothed ntx 460 holiness unto hwhy (ex. 39:30) hwhyl #dq the lord is a man of war hmxlm #y) hwhy 461 bases, pedestals, sockets twnd) firm, strong, rigid, hard; rough; protruding nty) 462 the supernal earth

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ted or suppressed; but within their limits they have done excellent work. al iii,23 "for perfume mix meal& honey& thick leavings of red wine: then oil of abramelin and olive oil, and afterward soften& smooth down with rich fresh blood" the new comment meal: ordinary wheaten flour. leavings: the "beewing" of port should be good. oil of abramelin: take eight parts of oil of cinnamon, four of oil of myrrh, two of oil of galangal, seven of olive oil weh note: this is not the recipe given in abramelin, though it seems at first correct. that recipe took the proportions from the dry ingredients. if the essential oils are used instead at the same proportion, the mixture will be much too strong. in fact, the oil of cinnamon may injure the eyes or raise blisters if used at this strength. al iii,24 "

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e unconscious self of the normal man. reflex actions, circulation, breathing, digestion, etc, all pertain here. 10. the illusory physical envelope; the scaffolding of the building. section iv having compared these attributions with those to be found in 777, studied them, assimilated them so thoroughly that it is natural and needs no effort to think binah, mother, great sea, throne, saturn, black, myrrh, sorrow, intelligence, etc. etc. etc, in a flash whenever the number 3 is mentioned, we may profitably proceed to go through to the most important of the higher numbers. for this purpose i have removed myself from books of reference; only those things which have become fixed in my mind (from their importace) deserve place in the simplicity of this essay. 12. awh, he, a title of kether, ident

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ee what sort of gain god finds in this creating pain; nor do the vedas help me here. why should the paramatma cease42 335 from its eternity of peace, develop this disgusting drear system of stars, to gather again involving, all the realm of pain, time, space, to that eternal calm? 340 blavatsky s himalayan balm43 aids us no whit if to improve thus the all-light, all-life, all-love, by evolution s myrrh and gall, it would not then have been the all. 345 thus all conceptions fail and fall. but see the cyclop dia-article on metaphysics; miss no particle the sword of song 34 the advaitist position. mind s superior functions. does truth make itself instantly apparent? not reason. of thought! how ends the brave b.d, summarising ontology? 350 this talk of real is a wraith. our minds are lost in w

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an- let us flee church, and chapel, and meeting-room; let us abandon this mantle of order, and leap back to the heaths, and the marshes, and the hills; back to the woods, and the glades of night! back to the old gods, and the ruddy lips of pan! how the torches splutter in the storm, pressing warm kisses of gold on the gnarled and knotted trunks of the beech trees! how the fumigation from musk and myrrh whirls up in an aromatic cloud from the glowing censer- how for a time it greedily clings to the branches, and then is wafted to the stars! look- as we invoke them, how they gather round us, these spirit of love and of life, of passion, of strength, and of abandon- these sinews of the manhood of the world! o mystery of mysteries "for each one of the gods is in all, and all are in each, being

th; and, taking it, thou shalt drink from the cup the eucharist of freedom, the wine of which is more fragrant than the sweet-scented grapes of thrace, or the musk- breathing vines of lesbos, and is sweeter than the vintage of crete, and all the vineyards of naxos and egypt. and thou shalt be anointed with sweet-smelling nards, and unguent made from lilies and cypress, myrtle and amaranth, and of myrrh and cassia well mixed. and in thine hair shall be woven rose-leaves of crimson light, and the mingling loveliness of lilies and violets, twined as the dawn with night. and about thee shall waft a sweeter fragrance than the burning of frankincense, and storax, and lign-aloes; for it is the breath of the temple of god. then shalt thou step into the king's palace, o warrior! and a voice more mu

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e unconscious self of the normal man. reflex actions, circulation, breathing, digestion, etc, all pertain here. 10. the illusory physical envelope; the scaffolding of the building. section iv having compared these attributions with those to be found in 777, studied them, assimilated them so thoroughly that it is natural and needs no effort to think "binah, mother, great sea, throne, saturn, black myrrh, sorrow, intelligence, etc. etc. etc" in a flash whenever the number 3 is mentioned or seen, we may profitably proceed to go through the most important of he higher numbers. for this purpose i have removed myself from books of reference; only those things which have become fixed in my mind (from their importance) deserve place in the simplicity of this essay. 12. hva "he" a title of kether

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ape ol zodir idoian. and i said: odo kikale qaa. why art thou hidden from me, whom i hear? and the voice answered and said unto me: hearing is of the spirit alone. thou art a partaker of the five-fold mystery. thou must roll up the ten divine ones like a scroll, and fashion therefrom a star. yet must thou blot out the star in the heart of hadit. 26 for the blood of my heart is like a warm bath of myrrh and ambergris; bathe thyself therein. the blood of my heart is all gathered upon my lips if i kiss thee, burns in my fingertips if i caress thee, burns in my womb when thou art caught up into my bed. mighty are the stars; mighty is the sun; mighty is the moon; mighty is the voice of the ever-living one, and the echoes of his whisper are the thunders of the dissolution of the worlds. but my s

hanor called dissolution, or hammered into one in the forge of meditation, is in this place but a blasphemy and a mockery. and the beatific vision is no more, and the glory of the most high is no more. there is no more knowledge. there is no more bliss. there is no more power. there is no more beauty. for this is the palace of understanding: for thou art one with the primeval things. drink in the myrrh of my speech, that is bruised with the gall of the roc, and dissolved in the ink of the cuttle-fish, and perfumed with the deadly nightshade. this is thy wine, who wast drunk upon the wine of iacchus. and for bread shalt thou eat salt, o thou on the corn of ceres that didst wax fat! for as pure being is pure nothing, so is pure wisdom pure-,11 and so is pure understanding silence, and stilln

whole aire is filled with it. and there is a marvelous perfume in the aire, like unto the perfume of ra hoor khuit, but sublimated, as if the quintessence of that perfume alone were burnt. for it hath the richness and voluptuousness and humanity of blood, and the strength and freshness of meal, and the sweetness of honey, and the purity of olive-oil, and the holiness of that oil which is made of myrrh, and cinnamon, and galangal. the charioteer speaks in a low, solemn voice, awe-inspiring, like a large and very distant bell: let him look upon the cup whose blood is mingled therein, for the wine of the cup is the blood of the saints. glory unto the scarlet woman, babalon the mother of abominations, that rideth upon the beast, for she hath spilt their blood in every corner of the earth and

herical, supported 110 upon three legs, of silver, and within it an hemisphere of copper, and upon the top a grating of gilded silver, and thereupon shall he burn incense made of four parts of olibanum and two parts of stacte, and one part of lignum aloes, or of cedar, or of sandal. and this is enough. and he shall also keep ready in a flask of crystal within the altar, holy anointing oil made of myrrh and cinnamon and galangal. and even if he be of higher rank than a probationer, he shall yet wear the robe of the probationer, for the star of flame showeth forth ra hoor khuit openly upon the breast, and secretly the blue triangle that descendeth is nuit, and the red triangle that ascendeth is hadit. and i am the golden tau in the midst of their marriage. also, if he choose, he may instead

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etic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora, which messrs. burns and oates are on the point of publishing. the following stanzas from a poem on the nativity will surely be a better recommendation of the book than any words of critical appreciation."the virgin lies at bethlehem.(bring gold and frankincense and myrrh! the root of david shoots a stem.(o holy spirit, shadow her! she lies alone amid the kine.(bring gold and frankincense and myrrh! the straw is fragrant as with wine.(o holy spirit shadow her! lieut.-col. gormley writes:"the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are 'no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of

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etic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora' which messrs. burns and oates are on the point of publishing. the following stanzas from a poem on the nativity will surely be a better recommendation of the book than any words of critical appreciation "the virgin lies at bethlehem (bring gold and frankincense and myrrh) the root of david shoots a stem (o holy spirit, shadow her) she lies alone amid the kine (bring gold and frankincense and myrrh) the straw is fragrant as with wine (o holy spirit shadow her" lieut.-col. gormley writes "the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of

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l make a small altar, and you shall cover the same with a hut of fine branches, so that the rain may not fall thereon and extinguish the lamps and the censer."40 the altar should be made of wood and in the manner of a cupboard, so that it may hold all the necessary things. there should be two tunics, one of linen, and the other of crimson or scarlet silk with gold. the sacred oil is prepared from myrrh, cinnamon and galangal mixed with olive oil. the incense of olibanum, storax, and lign aloes, or cedar, is reduced to a fine powder and well mixed together. the wand is cut from an almond tree.41 243 the third period having been completed, on the morning following "rise betimes, neither wash yourself at all nor dress yourself at all in your 37 "the book of the sacred magic" pp. 69, 70. 38 "i

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n's mysteries, tell me, what followed the great gust of god that blew his world to dust? marsyas. i, even i the man, became as a great sword of flashing flame. my life, informed with holiness, conscious of its own loveliness, like a well that overflows at the limit of the snows, sent its crystal stream to gladden the hearts of me, their lives to madden with the intoxicating bliss (wine mixed with myrrh and ambergris) of this bitter-sweet perfume, this gorse's blaze of prickly bloom that is the wisdom of the way. then springs the statue from the clay, and all god's doubted fatherhood is seen to be supremely good. live within the sane sweet sun! leave the shadow-world alone! olympas. there is a crown for every one; for every one there is a throne! marsyas. that crown is silence. sealed and s

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e end, to storm the tower that holdeth thee, who art authentic truth. o golden hawk! o lidless eye! behold how the grey creeps upon the shuddering gold! still i will strive! that thou mayst sweep swift on the dead from thine all-seeing steep- and the unutterable word by spoken. aleister crowley. 276 the violinist the room was cloudy with a poisonous incense: saffron, opoponax, galbanum, musk, and myrrh, the purity of the last ingredient a curse of blasphemy, the final sneer; as a degenerate might insult a raphael by putting it in a room devoted to debauchery. the girl was tall and finely built, huntress-lithe. her dress, close- fitted, was of a gold-brown silk that matched, but could not rival, the coils that bound her brow- glittering and hissing like snakes. her face was greek in delicac

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roses deep-thorned and red- whose leaves are shed in perfumed dreams, where glows a world that blows and fairy-like discloses the fields that flora fled. and some are sped where dream brings that repose the thorn bestows (where naught that is, reposes- goring the sleeper's head. ethel archer. 112 the ordeal of ida pendragon 113 the ordeal of ida pendragon "to i, j, and k" i the red hour there was myrrh in the honey of the smile with which edgar rolles turned from the fasade of the pantheon "aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante- he reflected that the grateful fatherland never gives her great men anything but a tomb. then the full blast of it struck him. the gargantuan jest! the solemn ass that had devised the motto; the laborious ass that had put it up there; the admiring asses that h

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

ng; strong, excitatory virtues: compassion, tranquility, tenderness, forgiveness, modesty, fluidity in creativity, receptivity, influence vices: self-indulgence, negligence, cowardice, indifference, instability, moodiness, infatuation, easily put upon, delusions season: autumn time of day: sunset direction: west wind: zephyrus colour: blue symbols: willlow, dolphin, fish, water snakes, sea birds, myrrh, ferns, rushes tool: cup spirits: undines under neksa (elusive at first, flowing& difficult to understand, watch politely and learn) shortage: excess: notes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into

of blood; these tortures, long and continued, gave good results. in the art, we are taught an easier way, that is, to intensify the imagination, at the same time controlling the blood supply, and this may best be done by using the ritual. incense is good to propitiate the spirits, also to induce relaxation to the aspirant and to help build up the atmosphere which is necessary for suggestibility. myrrh, gum mastic, aromatic rush roots, cinnamon bark, musk, juniper, sandalwood and ambergris, in combination, are all good, but the best of all is patchouli. the circle being formed, and everything properly prepared, the aspirant should first bind and take his tutor into the circle, invoke suitable spirits for the operation, dance round till giddy, meanwhile invoking and announcing the object of

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

nto wisdom, and to offer- 47- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust all that they have to the christ within. the gifts they brought teach us the specific type of discipline which must be undergone in order to present to the christ, at the time of the new birth, gifts which will be symbolic of achievement. these three offered to the infant jesus three presents gold, frankincense and myrrh. let us study for a minute the specific importance of these to the individual would-be initiate. we are told by the esotericists that man is a three-fold person in his human nature, and this truth is endorsed by the psychologists through their investigations and research. he is a physical living body, he is a sum total of emotional reactions, and he is also that mysterious something which we

wishes to do. gold is a symbol of the material nature, which must be consecrated to the service of god and of man. frankincense symbolises the emotional nature, with its aspirations, wishes and longing, and this aspiration must rise as incense to the feet of god. incense is also a symbol of purification, of that burning which removes all dross and leaves only the essence for the blessing of god. myrrh or bitterness relates to the mind. it is through the mind that we suffer as human beings, and the further the race progresses and the more the mind develops, the greater seems the capacity for suffering. but when suffering is seen in its true light and dedicated to divinity, it can be used as an instrument whereby we approach nearer to god. then we can offer to god that rare and wonderful gi

BOOK OF ENOCH

2] but it was full of trees from this seed and water gushed out over it from above. 28.3] the torrent, which flowed towards the northwest, seemed copious, and from all sides, there went up spray and mist. 29.1] and i went to another place, away from the wilderness; i came near to the east of this mountain. 29.2] and there i saw trees of judgment, especially vessels of the fragrance of incense and myrrh, and the trees were not alike. 30.1] and above it, above these, above the mountains of the east, and not far away, i saw another place, valleys of water, like that which does not fail. 30.2] and i saw a beautiful tree, and its fragrance was like that of the mastic. 30.3] and by the banks of these valleys i saw fragrant cinnamon. and beyond those valleys i came towards the east. 31.1] and i s

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

art, these will be given to you by god through his ministering angels. the censur and suffumigations: the types of perfumes and incenses and their qualities or purposes have been described in many other books on the royal art of magick, some falsely so and others truely. here follows a list of the incenses and perfumes which may be used and their practical associations in this work: the incenses: myrrh saturnus saffron jupiter sulfur mars olibanum sol benzion venus storax mercurius jasmine luna dittany of crete terra the aspersion bowl: this is to be filled with clear water and blessed and is to be used in the consecration of the temple,weapons and tools of this work. it should never have been used for eating or any other purpose. as the operator of the aspersion exalts the water in prayer

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

combine with other herbs to make a good poultice. lobelia and slippery elm one third part lobelia and two thirds slippery elm. excellent for blood poisoning, boils, etc, also very good for rheumatism. charcoal and hops will quickly remove gallstone pain. charcoal and smartweed good for inflammation of the bowels. when using for healing old sores and ulcers, add powdered echinacea, golden seal or myrrh, or a small amount of all three. poke root and cammed excellent for inflamed breast. burdock leaf this poultice is cooling and drying. a poultice of the powdered root with salt eases the pain of a wound from an animal, such as a dog bite. plantain excellent poultice to prevent blood poisoning. nettle and wintergreen for dissolving tumors. carrots and golden seal applied to old sores, will he

expectorants often are combined with demulcents as ingredients in cough (due to cold) medicines. strong acting expectorants are marked with. asafetida gum balm gilead buds balsam or tolu beth rt. benzoin tincture or gum blood rt* cocillana bk. coltsfoot hb. comfrey hb. elecampane rt. grindelia hb. gum galbanum horehound hb. ipecac rt* licorice rt. maidenhair fern hb. marsh mallow rt. mullein hb. myrrh gum pleurisy rt. senega rt* skunk cabbage rt. slippery elm bk. wild cherry bk. yerba santa hb. nervines agents which tend to abate, or temporarily relax, non-serious nervous irritation, due to excitement, strain or fatigue. asafetida gum betony hb. catnip hb. chamomile fls. hop fls. nerve root passion fls. scullcap hb. skunk cabbage rt. valerian rt. yarrow hb. nerve stimulants nerve stimulan

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

haded by bushes. keep pot pound or living plants on your indoor altar when it is not in use to keep the energies fresh and moving. if it feels stagnant, sprinkle an infusion of lemon or peppermint widdershins, to remove negativity that has come in from the activities of the day, and then deosil, to charge it with power. you can also cleanse it with incense, creating a protective circle of pine or myrrh, again widdershins and then deosil. each night, or whenever you have time, you can explore your inner psychic powers at your altar. for example, you can gaze into a candle or scry into a bowl of water on the surface of which you have dripped coloured inks. try holding the different crystals that you place on your altar and allow impressions to pass through your fingertips, manifest as images

that you can see it without moving your neck or head. experiment until you get the height of the table and the distances right. for group work, you can light a circle of candles. if you are working indoors, and there is no natural harmonious sound, such as the water, you may like to play softly a cd of rainforest or ocean sounds, birdsong or dolphin calls* light incense sticks of frankincense or myrrh* sit either cross-legged on the floor on a rug or blanket with your hands supporting your knees, in the lotus position if you are skilled in yoga, or on a chair with both feet flat on the floor. if you wish, support your back with a pillow and have arm rests on the chair for your elbows. relax your arms and hands, with palms uppermost. it is important to be comfortable and not to be distract

estive disorders, for stress and psychosomatic illness. it offers psychic protection and will heal sorrow. it purifies all forms of pollution and negativity, endows strength and endurance and encourages fidelity. ruled by the sun. bistort bistort is potent in relieving wounds of all kinds, emotional as well as physical, also throat, mouth and tongue problems, especially when mixed with echinacea, myrrh and goldenseal. it aids fertility, so can be carried by women who wish to become pregnant. it will repels those who come to a home with malice or ill intent. bistort also increases abundance and prosperity and psychic awareness. ruled by saturn. black cohosh this herb is particularly associated with older women. for this reason, it is good for problems associated with the menopause. as a pro

of any respiratory condition, such as bronchitis, hoarseness, asthma and harsh coughs. it can also be used for acidity, skin inflammation and pains of all kinds. it acts as a sedative and a cure for insomnia, guarding against nightmares. it brings courage and prevents accidents, so is good in travel or workplace protection; it is also very protective against any negative forces. ruled by saturn. myrrh a powerful antiseptic, with anti-fungal and astringent properties, myrrh is good for all mouth and throat problems and for wounds. it is one of the oldest protective and purification herbs, associated with all healing of mind and spirit as well as body. myrrh is a good herb to burn as incense for protection and for healing; it promotes higher states of consciousness and so is good for all sp

with herbs, i recommend that you should always check with your doctor before using any oils. epilepsy: avoid sweet fennel, hyssop, sage, and rosemary. high blood pressure: avoid cypress, hyssop, rosemary, sage and thyme. pregnancy: it is best to avoid the following oils during any stage of pregnancy. angelica, basil, bitter almond, cedarwood, clary sage, clove, fennel, hyssop, juniper, marjoram, myrrh, peppermint, rosemary, sage, tarragon, thyme, wintergreen, yarrow. photo-toxic oils certain oils, particularly citrus oils, can irritate the skin if they are exposed to the light, and about half of the normal amount of other oils should be used in baths and massage. avoid direct sunlight for six hours after use. they include: angelica, bergamot, ginger, lemon, lime, mandarin and orange. howe

s the most noble of oils, used in ceremonies and formal celebrations throughout the ages and considered in many cultures to be a gift from the deities, bringing healing and power. it offers confidence to aim high, attracting abundance of all kinds, money and success, but also granting access to higher dimensions and contact with angels and spirit guides. it mixes well with cypress, sandalwood and myrrh. geranium: geranium is a harmonising oil, restoring peace and wellbeing to the home or workplace, encouraging positive, non-confrontational interactions, reconciling quarrels and melting away emotional coldness and indifference in encounters. it relieves tension, depression doubts and despair, replacing them with gentle optimism. it mixes well with lavender, rose, ylang-ylang, cedarwood and

econciliation to any person or place. it mixes well with almost every oil, but especially geranium, chamomile, marjoram and ylang-ylang. lemon: lemon is the breath of life, bringing energy, clarity, logic and integrity. it is a light-bringer, cutting through secrecy, doubt and dishonesty, and cleansing atmospheres and attitudes. a citrus oil, it mixes well with chamomile, eucalyptus, lavender and myrrh. lemongrass: lemongrass will clear away negative emotions among family, friends and colleagues, and past resentment and feuds from the past that no longer serve any purpose. it removes also painful memories and helps to leave behind destructive relationships; lemongrass also enhances psychic awareness. it mixes well with frankincense and geranium. lime: lime brings health and well-being to s

mpathy with others. it is an oil of enduring love and fidelity. it mixes well with lavender and rosemary. mimosa: mimosa is an oil of the night, for secrets and secret love, bringing love and friendship, especially for older people. it calms anxiety and over-sensitivity to criticism and brings harmony and happiness, melting away opposition and hostility. it mixes well with bergamot and chamomile. myrrh: this is a sacred ceremonial oil, like frankincense, and is burned in healing and purification rituals. it mixes well with mandarin, pine and patchouli. neroli: this is orange-blossom oil, symbol of marriage, committed relationships and fidelity, fertility, sensuality and self-esteem. it prevents moods swings, crises of confidence and panic attacks. it mixes well with geranium and jasmine. o

calming anxiety and restlessness in children and adults. a citrus oil, it mixes well with lavender and ylang-ylang. patchouli: patchouli is the oil of prosperity and is used in money rituals, to bring employment and increase business opportunities. it is also frequently used in seite 77 wicca01.txt ceremonies to heal the planet, as it is a natural restorer of balance. it mixes well with geranium, myrrh and pine. peppermint: peppermint offers protection against illness, accident, hostility and theft or damage to the home and also attracts money. it mixes well with eucalyptus. pine: pine is a purifier of all forms of negativity, hostile atmospheres and dishonesty, protecting particularly against emotional blackmail. it is an oil of courage and perseverance under difficulty, of integrity and

urners have increased in popularity for home use, to create an atmosphere of calm, to induce love and cleanse negativity. seite 81 wicca01.txt many people use them for meditation as well as for rituals for confidence, health, love, prosperity, psychic protection and success [insert pic p137- incense is now on sale in floral fragrances as well as the more traditional ones, such as frankincense and myrrh, and these are lovely both for home use and folk spells. our ancestors would have burned flowers and leaves to create the same effect. like herbs and oils, incense can be empowered for specific purposes and can itself form a focus for a spell, as i describe later in this section. in formal magick, incense represents the air element and is placed in the east of the altar. it is perhaps the ea

otection, love, prophetic dreams and purification. mistletoe known to the druids as the all-healer, mistletoe is for healing sorrows, overcoming injustice and finding what is lost. it is also good for male potency. moss moss is used for good fortune, prosperity, money and permanence, whether in work or relationships. it frequently appears in water magick and divination (use with candles on water. myrrh myrrh is good for healing, peace, protection and inner harmony. myrtle sometimes mixed with other fragrances, myrtle is used in spells concerning fidelity in love, marriage and mature love. it may also be used in matters of property and security. nutmeg use nutmeg for fertility and healing, especially of the environment; it will also bring a gradual increase of wealth. orange blossom benefic

tual. the difference is one of degree of intensity. incense i have already described in detail the different kinds of incense and how to use them, starting on page 139. incense is placed in the east of the altar to the left of the ritual tools. incense is, as well as an elemental substance, an easy but powerful way of marking the boundaries between the everyday world and the magick. frankincense, myrrh or sandalwood is sometimes burned on the altar before a ceremony to purify the area, especially if the room is used for other purposes, and to raise the vibrations from the mundane to the more spiritual. if you are using the granular kind you burn on charcoal, you will need a censer, but a bowl containing sand will serve for incense sticks or cones. as the incense is burned, so the energies

ing: mother earth, charge with the power of the ancient stone circles and the wise ways of the ancestors this [name the tool(s] of magick and healing, that my work may be rooted in what is possible and help create abundance and prosperity for others and the land, as well as for my own needs. seite 119 wicca01.txt* next, draw a circle of smoke deosil in the air around them, using a frankincense or myrrh incense stick, saying: father sky, charge with the power of the mighty winds and the limitless potential of the cosmos this [name the tool(s] of magick and healing, that my work may be focused, filled with energy and bring positive change to ever-widening horizons* now, using a golden or scarlet candle in a broad-based candle-holder, mark an inner circle of fire in the air, around the artefa

unconscious powers to the fore and thus also for gaining magical insights and for bringing wishes into actuality. element: water seite 139 wicca01.txt colour: silver or white (although some magical traditions that use the triple goddess in ritual dress show the maiden in white, the mother in red and the crone in black) crystals: moonstone, mother of pearl, pearl, selenite, opal incenses: jasmine, myrrh, mimosa trees: willow, alder herbs and oils: chamomile, lotus, poppy, wintergreen metal: silver the moon rules cancer, 22 june-22 july, and its spells are particularly potent during that period and for all who are born under cancer [insert sym15] mars tuesday, the day of mars, is good for spells for courage, taking the initiative at home, independence and separateness from others, and change

nt. he can be invoked for protection against inclement weather, for travel across water, for taking away sorrow and for diminishing self-destructive tendencies and replacing them with the gentle growth of new hope. gabriel also rules rituals to protect water creatures seite 144 wicca01.txt and to cleanse polluted seas, lakes and rivers. colour: silver crystal: moonstone and opal incenses or oils: myrrh and jasmine samael samael is the archangel who rules the planet mars (see page 229. samael's day is tuesday. he is sometimes called the severity of god and as such is an angel of cleansing and of righteous anger. one of the seven regents of the world and said to be served by two million angels, he is also called the dark angel who in the guise of the serpent tempted eve. this is a very ancie

lace by his/her presence here* place the crystal in a clear dish in front of the candles and blow out the candle, sending the light to the person. leave the incense to burn through and spend the rest of the hour in a pleasurable way with the focus of the ritual or in a family-orientated activity* on the second day at the same hour, light the michael candle and the silver gabriel candle, plus some myrrh incense* take a moonstone, or other crystal of gabriel, and pass it through the flame of the silver candle, saying: flame high, o mystical guardian, with thy mighty sceptre, ruler of the waters of the moon and the oceans, bringer of dreams* pass the crystal through the incense, saying: enter through this fragrance, the compassion and understanding of gabriel, truth-bringer and clarion of hop

y. candle colours: white, cream and pink or any pale colour- these are associated with innocence and gentleness crystals: garnet and bloodstones, also amethysts, rose quartz and gentle moonstones for awakening fertility and feelings symbols: ice, milk, seeds, first snowdrops or very early-budding leaves or flowers flowers, herbs, oils and incenses: angelica, basil, benzoin, celandine, heather and myrrh a ritual to release the frozen life force work after dusk on the eve of 31 january or on the following evening, 1 february, and perhaps incorporate the ritual into your candlemas party. with close supervision, even children can join in the ritual. place the candles in a deep holders and make the miniature straw bed perhaps in a deep metal bowl or even the family hearth, if it is no longer us

trees adorned with lights, oak, ash or pine, brightly coloured baubles, gold, holly, ivy and mistletoe, nuts crystals: any precious stones, especially rubies, diamonds and emeralds, amazonite, garnets, zircons, spinels; you can also substitute glass nuggets in rich red, green and white flowers, herbs, oils and incenses: bay, cedar, holly, jumper, mistletoe, orange, rosemary, and frankincense and myrrh in golden-coloured holders a mid-winter ritual to celebrate the rebirth of the sun this ritual should be performed on the solstice eve. to prepare, decorate a bough of evergreen with red and gold baubles and bows of ribbon and surround it with a circle of five long-burning, pure white candles or a single candle with five wicks. the first candle will need to burn for 24 hours, the second for

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he anunnaki, the sumerian tablets say. the mesopotamian kings were said to be of the bloodline of tammuz, just as sir laurence gardner claims that the merovingian "true" royal line is the bloodline of jesus. it was said that the land was given life by the blood of tammuz and he was a healer, saviour, and a shepherd who looked after his flock of stars. he died wearing a "crown of thorns" made from myrrh. tammuz was symbolically sacrificed on the day of atonement in the form of a lamb. he was worshipped in jerusalem where his exact story would later be re-told using the name "jesus. and, take a deep breath here vicar, the cave in bethlehem where jesus is said to have been born, is the same one where the ancients claimed that tammuz (adonis) was born. the bible "translator, jerome, admitted t

born to a virgin by immaculate conception through the intervention of a holy spirit. this fulfilled an ancient prophecy. when he was born, the ruling tyrant wanted to kill him. and his parents had to flee to safety. all male children under the age of two were slain by the ruler as he sought to kill the child. angels and shepherds were at his birth and he was given gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. he was worshipped as the saviour of men and led a moral and humble life. he performed miracles, which included healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, casting out devils, and raising the dead. he was put to death on the cross between two thieves. he descended to hell and rose from the dead to ascend back to heaven. just a coincidence, archbishop? well how about these, then? they all pr

ieo, lao-kium, chiang-ti, and tien of china; ixion and quirnus of rome; prometheus of the caucasus; mohammed or mahomet of arabia, dahzbog of the slavs; jupiter, jove, and quirinius of rome; mithra of persia, india, and rome.18 the cult of mithra originates thousands of years before "jesus" and yet again tells the later christian story in fine detail. it is even said that gold, frankincense, and myrrh, were offered to him. by the time that jesus was invented by the anunnaki priesthood, the mithra rites and religion were widespread throughout the roman empire. when they founded christianity in rome, they used the symbols and myths of the mithric rituals. mithra's sacred day was sunday because he was, like jesus, symbolic of the sun. mithra worshippers called this the "lord's day" and they

jesus, the bible says. this is the same story told in egypt about sirius, the brightest star we can see from earth. the egyptians said that the rising of the three stars of orion's belt (the three "kings "wise men" or "magi) marked the arrival of sothis or sirius, the star of osiris and horus. further symbolism of the "three wise men" is that the magi were sun worshippers. gold, frankincense, and myrrh were the traditional gifts given by arabian magi to the sun and that's why they were given to mithra in that version of the myth.21 the birth of jesus in a stable or cave is repeated throughout the solar-myth stories because the cave represents the "dark place" where the sun is said to go between the winter solstice and midnight on december 24th. thus we have the three days in the tomb betwe

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

ut?he was born to a virgin by immaculate conception through the intervention of a holyspirit. this fulfilled an ancient prophecy. when he was born the ruling tyrant wanted to killhim. his parents had to flee to safety. all male children under the age of two were slain bythe ruler as he sought to kill the child. angels and shepherds were at his birth and he wasgiven gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. he was worshipped as the saviour of men andled a moral and humble life. he performed miracles which included healing the sick, givingsight to the blind, casting out devils and raising the dead. he was put to death on the crossbetween two thieves. he descended to hell and rose from the dead to ascend back toheaven.21sounds exactly like jesus doesnt it? but its not. that is how they described

was the name of the high priest in the babylon mystery school. after an initiateof the mithran cult had completed the ritual, the members had a meal of bread and winein which they believed they were eating the flesh of mithra and drinking his blood.mithra, like a long list of pre-christian gods, was said to have been visited by wise menat his birth who brought him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. the same was saidby plato of his teacher, socrates, in ancient greece. christianity is a pagan sun religion,the worship of which is condemned by christianity! it is also an astrology religion, theevil of which is condemned by christianity, not least by the pope! beam me up scotty,its mad down here. the church hierarchy, of course, know all this. they just dont wantyou to know. the mystery c

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

rom the god bes: make a drawing of bes, as shewn below, on your left hand, and envelope your hand in a strip of black cloth that has been consecrated to isis and lie down to sleep without speaking a word, even in answer to a question. wind the remainder of the cloth round your neck. the ink with which you write must be composed of the blood of a cow, the blood of a white dove, fresh frankincense, myrrh, black writing ink, cinnabar, mulberry juice, rain-water, and the juice of wormwood and vetch. with this write your petition before the setting sun, saying, send the truthful seer out of the holy shrine, i beseech thee lampsuer, sumarta, baribas, dardalam, iorlex: o lord send the sacred deity anuth, anuth, salbana, chambre, breith, now, now, quickly, quickly. come in this very night. to proc

cy. they used spells and charms and mystic formulas, said to loose fetters, to cause blindness in one s enemies, to procure dreams, to gain favor, to encompass any desire whatsoever. in a greek gnostic papyrus the following spell of agathocles for producing dreams was found: take a cat, black all over, and which has been killed; prepare a writing tablet, and write the following with a solution of myrrh, and the dream which thou desirest to be sent, and put in the mouth of the cat. the text to be transcribed runs: keimi, keimi, i am the great one, in whose mouth rests mommom, thoth, nauumbre, karikha, kenyro, paarmiathon, the sacred ian ice ieu aeoi, who is above the heaven, amekheumen, neunana, seunana, ablanathanalba [here follow further names, then] put thyself in connection with n.n. in

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th great detail. it might be composed of seven metals, the ideal form for its expression, or traced in pure gold upon white marble never before used for any purpose. it might also be drawn with vermilion upon lambskin without a blemish prepared under the auspices of the sun. the sign was next consecrated with the four elements, breathed on five times, dried by the smoke of five perfumes (incense, myrrh, aloes, sulfur, and camphor. the names of five genii were breathed above it, and then the sign was placed successively at the north, south, east, west, and center of the astronomical cross, while the letters of the sacred tetragram and various kabalistic names were prounced over it (see kabala. it was believed to be of great efficacy in terrifying phantoms if engraved upon glass, and the mag

e suisse. it was a liquid green. unfortunately, it failed as a specific in the conditions indispensable for an elixir of immortality. by means and manipulations as subtle and ingenious as those that he employed upon the melissa, paracelsus learned to extract the predestined element of plants that ranked much higher in the vegetable aristocracy.the first life of the gilly-flower, the cinnamon, the myrrh, the scammony, and the celandine. all these supreme essences, which, according to the fifth book of archidoxa, united with a mass of magisteries as precious as they were rude, were the base of so many specifics, equally reparative and regenerative. this depended upon the relationship that existed between the temperament of a privileged plant and the temperament of the individual who asked of

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS D

most pure part of the wand. it is the crown, if you will, of kether. in spiritual or sephirotic workings, or even in workings where you are rising up in the planes, the lotus is to be inclined toward the forehead. consecration of the lotus wand the tools necessary for the consecration of the lotus wand are! a private room! the white triangle! the red cross of six squares! incense (frankincense or myrrh! a rose, representing m! a cup of wine, representing n! a lamp, representing o! bread and salt, representing l! the altar draped in black. it is also important to get an astrological figure of the position of the heavens at the time of consecration. however, the zodiacal wheel is also appropriate for the consecration of the lotus wand. to be more specific, an actual time figure of the conste

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

land of the gods .18 ta-neteru was thought to have had a definite earthly location a very long way south of ancient egypt seas and oceans away farther even than the spice country of punt (which probably lay along east africa s somali coast).19 to confuse matters, however, punt was also spoken of sometimes as the divine land, or god s land, and was the source of the sweet-smelling frankincense and myrrh especially favoured by the gods.20 another mythical paradise was also linked to the neteru an abode of the blessed, where the best of humans were sometimes taken which was believed to be situated away beyond a large expanse of water. as wallis budge observed in his important study, osiris and the egyptian resurrection, the egyptians believed that this land could only be reached by means of a

. 443; volume ii, pp. 7, 287. 19 ibid, volume ii, p. 7, where the deity amen-ra is addressed in a hymn: the gods love the smell of thee when thou comest from punt, thou eldest-born of the dew, who comest from the divine land (ta-neteru. see also volume ii, p. 287. punt is thought by many scholars to have been located on the somali coast of east africa where the trees that produce frankincense and myrrh( the food of the gods) are still grown today. 20 ibid. 21 osiris and the egyptian resurrection, volume i, p. 98; pyramid texts of pepi i, mer-en- rah and pepi ii, translated in ibid, volume ii, p. 316, where the maritime connections of the land of the blessed are made clear. 22 ibid, volume i, p. 97. 23 ibid, pp. 97-8. 24 ibid, volume ii, p. 307. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 422 t

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

o create your own ceremony to travel in the spirit vision to the watchtower of water, the subquadrant fire of water, the square l of r(n,a)il. step 1. consecrate a circle by executing the banishing rituals of the pentagram and hexagram. inscribe it with the formula of toog. stand with your cup and face west. trace the blue banishing pentagram and hexagram of water. fill the room with the scent of myrrh or ginger. step 2. recite the fourth cali as follows""i place my feet in the south, and look about me and say, are not the thunders of increase numbered 33, and do these not rule in the second angle? i have placed 9639 servants under them. none have yet numbered them, but one. in them, the second beginnings of things exists and grows strong. they are the successive numbers oftime.their power

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

en the prototype for the classical myth of the phoenix, a creature of which there was never more than one at a time. in the fifth century bc, the greek writer herodotus claimed to have visited heliopolis and been told about a marvelous red-gold bird known as a phoenix. this bird was said to visit the temple of the sun at heliopolis every 500 years carrying the ashes of its parent inside an egg of myrrh. it was presumably from this egg that the next phoenix would eventually hatch. see also atum; birds; primeval mound; ra references and further reading: r. t. rundle clark. the phoenix. in myth and symbol in ancient egypt. london: 1959, 245 249. s. quirke. benu bird of ra, the phoenix of egypt. in the cult of ra sun-worship in ancient egypt. london: 2001, 27 30. primary sources: pt 600; ct 76

HP LOVECRAFT THE QUEST OF IRANON

e, but merely shut my eyes. a moment later came the titanic thunderbolt of thunderbolts; blasting that accursed house of unutterable secrets and bringing the oblivion which alone saved my mind. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:44 sthe quest of iranon a short story by h.p.lovecraft into the granite city of teloth wandered the youth, vine-crowned, his yellow hair glistening with myrrh and his purple robe torn with briers of the mountain sidrak that lies across the antique bridge of stone. the men of teloth are dark and stern, and dwell in square houses, and with frowns they asked the stranger whence he had come and what were his name and fortune. so the youth answered "i am iranon, and come from aira, a far city that i recall only dimly but seek to find again. i am a sing

these things they whispered to one another; for though in the granite city there is no laughter or song, the stern men sometimes look to the karthian hills in the spring and think of the lutes of distant oonai whereof travellers have told. and thinking thus, they bade the stranger stay and sing in the square before the tower of mlin, though they liked not the colour of his tattered robe, nor the myrrh in his hair, nor his chaplet of vine-leaves, nor the youth in his golden voice. at evening iranon sang, and while he sang an old man prayed and a blind man said he saw a nimbus over the singer's head. but most of the men of teloth yawned, and some laughed and some went to sleep; for iranon told nothing useful, singing only his memories, his dreams, and his hopes "i remember the twilight, the

LIBER 777

0 crysolith the lamen or bow and arrow iao: inri 31 fire opal the wand or lamp, pyramid of b[[the thurible. 32 onyx a sickle. 32 bis salt the pantacle or[[bread and] salt. 31 bis black diamond[[the winged egg. table i (continued) 13 xlii* perfumes. xliii* vegetable drugs. xliv* mineral drugs. 0[[no attribution possible. carbon 1 ambergris elixir vit aur. pot. 2 musk hashish[[cocaine] phosphorus 3 myrrh, civet belladonna, soma silver 4 cedar opium. 5 tobacco nux vomica, nettle[[cocaine, atropine] iron, sulphur 6 olibanum stramonium, alcohol, digitalis, coffee. 7 benzoin, rose, red sandal damiana, cannabis indica[[anhalonium] arsenic 8 storax anhalonium lewinii[[cannabis indica] mercury 9 jasmine, jinseng, all odoriferous roots orchid root lead 1010 dittany of crete corn mag. sulph. 11 galba

aloes, all sweet virginal odours jupiter, pennyroyal& all emmenogogues. 14 sandalwood, myrtle, all soft voluptuous odours all aphrodisiacs. 15 dragon s blood all cerebral excitants. 16 storax sugar. 17 wormwood ergot and ecbolics. 18 onycha watercress. 19 olibanum all carminatives and tonics. 20 narcissus all anaphrodisiacs. 21 saffron, all generous odours cocaine. 22 galbanum tobacco. 23 onycha, myrrh caseara, all purges sulphates 24 siamese benzoin, opoponax. 25 lign-aloes. 26 musk, civet (also 'ian perfumes) orchis [satyrion. 27 pepper, dragon s blood, all hot pungent odours. 28 galbanum all diuretics. 29 ambergris[[menstrual fluid] all narcotics. 30 olibanum, cinnamon, all glorious odours alcohol. 31 olibanum, all fiery odours. nitrates 32 assafoe tida, scammony, indigo, sulphur (all e

stplate is very doubtful; we advise reliance on columns stones and tribes, we having chosen stones on bases of physical analogy to signs, colours &c. col. xlii. the following table of sub-elemental perfumes is important: a of a ambergris. d of a the gall of the rukh. c of a oncha. e of a musk. b of a civet. a of d lign-aloes. d of d galbanum. c of d mastick. e of d storax. b of d olibanum. a of c myrrh. d of c camphor. c of c siamese benzoin. e of c indigo. b of c oppoponax. a of e dittany of crete. d of e assafoetida. c of e clover. e of e storax. b of e benzoin. a of b saffron. d of b lign-aloes. c of b red-sanders. e of b red sandalwood. b of b olibanum. col. xliii. and xliv. and, generally, all drugs exciting the parts of the body corresponding. see col. clxxxii. col. xlvi. each trigra

LIBER CCXLII AHA

fs mysteries, tell me, what followed the great gust of god that blew his world to dust? marsyas. i, even i the man, became as a great sword of flashing flame. my life, informed with holiness, conscious of its own loveliness, like a well that overflows at the limit of the snows, sent its crystal stream to gladden the hearts of men, their lives to madden with the intoxicating bliss (wine mixed with myrrh and ambergris) of this bitter-sweet perfume, this gorse fs blaze of prickly bloom that is the wisdom of the way. then springs the statue from the clay, and all god fs doubted fatherhood is seen to be supremely good. live within the sane sweet sun! leave the shadow-world alone! olympas. there is a crown for every one; for every one there is a throne! marsyas. that crown is silence. sealed and

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

rest, sweet heart, save in the cradle of royal bacchus, the thigh of the most holy one. 15. there rest, under the canopy of night. 16. uranus chid eros; marsyas chid olympas; i chid my beautiful lover with his sunray mane; shall i not sing? 17. shall not mine incantations bring around me the wonderful company of the wood-gods, their bodies glistening with the ointments of moonlight and honey and myrrh? 18. worshipful are ye, o my lovers; let us forward to the dimmest hollow! 19. there we will feast upon mandrake and upon moly! 20. there the lovely one shall spread us his holy banquet. in the brown cakes of corn we shall taste the food of the world, and be strong. 21. in the ruddy and awful cup of death we shall drink the blood of the world, and be drunken! 22. ohe! the song to iao, the so

LIBER LVII

lf of the normal man. reflex actions, circulation, breathing, digestion, etc, all pertain here. 10. the illusory physical envelope; the scaffolding of the building. 32 liber lviii section iv having compared these attributions with those to be found in 777, studied them, assimilated them so thoroughly that it is natural and needs no effort to think .binah, mother, great sea, throne, saturn, black, myrrh, sorrow, intelligence, etc. etc. etc. in a flash whenever the number 3 is mentioned, we may profitably proceed to go through to the most important of the higher numbers. for this purpose i have removed myself from books of reference; only those things which have become fixed in my mind (from their importace) deserve place in the simplicity of this essay. 12. awh .he. a title of kether, ident

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

can i see what sort of gain god finds in this creating pain; nor do the vedas help me here. why should the paramatma cease42 from its eternity of peace, develop this disgusting drear system of stars, to gather again involving, all the realm of pain, time, space, to that eternal calm? blavatsky.s himalayan balm43 aids us no whit.if to improve thus the all-light, all-life, all-love, by evolution.s myrrh and gall, it would not then have been the all. thus all conceptions fail and fall. but see the cyclop dia-article on .metaphysics; miss no particle 310 315 320 325 330 335 340 345 visible image of the soul of nature, whose name is fatality. futility of all investigations of the mind into the first cause. faith our only alternative to despair? so says mansel. pentecost 31 of thought! how ends

LIBER SAMEKH

ispherical, supported upon three legs of silver, and within it an hemisphere of copper, and upon the top a grating of gilder silver, and thereupon shall he burn incense made of four parts of olibanum and two parts of stacte,38 and one part of lignum aloes, or of cedar, or of sandal. and this is enough. and he shall also keep ready in a flask of crystal within the altar, holy anointing oil made of myrrh and cinnamon and galangal.39 and even if he be of higher rank than a probationer, he shall yet wear the robe of the probationer, for the star of flame showeth forth ra-hoor-khuit openly upon the breast, and secretly the blue triangle that descendeth is nuit, and the red triangle that ascendeth is hadit. and i am the golden tau in the midst of their marriage.40 also, if he choose, he may insr

LIBER VII

mispherical, supported upon three legs, of silver, and within it an hemisphere of copper, and upon the top a grating of gilded silver, and thereupon shall he burn incense made of four parts of olibanum and two parts of stacte, and one part of lignum aloes, or of cedar, or of sandal. and this is enough. and he shall also keep ready in a flask of crystal within the altar, holy anointing oil made of myrrh and cinnamon and galangal. and even if he be of higher rank than a probationer, he shall yet wear the robe of the probationer, for the star of flame showeth forth ra hoor khuit openly upon the breast, and secretly the blue triangle that descendeth is nuit, and the red triangle that ascendeth is hadit. and i am the golden tau in the midst of their marriage. also, if he choose, he may instead

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

o sir francis bacon's use of the "wild boar" in his cryptic symbolism. adonis was originally an androgynous deity who represented the solar power which in the winter was destroyed by the evil principle of cold--the boar. after three days (months) in the tomb, adonis rose triumphant on the 25th day of march, amidst the acclamation of his priests and followers "he is risen" adonis was born out of a myrrh tree. myrrh, the symbol of death because of its connection with the process of embalming, was one of the gifts brought by the three magi to the manger of jesus. in the mysteries of adonis the neophyte passed through the symbolic death of the god and "raised" by the priests, entered into the blessed state of redemption made possible by the sufferings of adonis. nearly all authors believe adon

e benediction. the phoenix clement, one of the ante-nic an fathers, describes, in the first century after christ, the peculiar nature and habits of the phoenix, in this wise "there is a certain bird which is called a phoenix. this is the only one of its kind and lives five hundred years. and when the time of its dissolution draws near that it must die, it builds itself a nest of frankincense, and myrrh, and other spices, into which, when the time is fulfilled, it enters and dies. but as the flesh decays a certain kind of worm is produced, which, being nourished by the juices of the dead bird, brings forth feathers. then, when it has acquired strength, it takes up that nest in which are the bones of its parent, and bearing these it passes from the land of arabia into egypt, to the city call

ind that it has returned exactly as the five hundredth year was completed" although admitting that he had not seen the phoenix bird (there being only one alive at a time, herodotus amplifies a bit the description given by clement "they tell a story of what this bird does which does not seem to me to be credible: that he comes all the way from arabia, and brings the parent bird, all plastered with myrrh, to the temple of the sun, and there buries the body. in order to bring him, they say, he first forms a ball of myrrh as big as he finds that he can carry; then he hollows out the ball, and puts his parent inside; after which he covers over the opening with fresh myrrh, and the ball is then of exactly the same weight as at first; so he brings it to egypt, plastered over as i have said, and d

n, and so continue many ages; the rules you find in the fourth book* after this manner began the fraternity of the rosie cross, first by four persons, who died and rose again until christ, and then they came to worship as the star guided them to bethlehem of judea, where lay our saviour in his mother's arms; and then they opened their treasure and presented unto him gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and by the commandment of god went home to their habitation. these four waxing young again successively many hundreds of years, made a magical language and writing, with a large dictionary, which we yet daily use to god's praise and glory, and do find great wisdom therein* now whilst brother c.r. was in a proper womb quickening, they concluded to draw and receive yet others more into their

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

, patchouli leaves, rose petals, or some pulverized wood base such as sandalwood, lignum aloes, cedarwood shaving, and the like. these should always be well mixed and ground in your pestle and mortar, before adding the agents. the first of these are the flower essences or perfumes of the recipe. they should be ground well into a portion of the herb powder. now any gum resins such as frankincense, myrrh, or benzoin should then be added to the remaining herbal mixture, and likewise powdered as finely as possible. these two powders should now be mixed together, and the oils or other liquids added last (honey, wine, blood) and mixed in thoroughly. should the oil be in very small quantity, is can be dissolved first in a small amount of pure alcohol which is then mixed in, thus providing a great

ed lavender flowers or leaves 4 parts powdered patchouli leaves 2 parts powdered cloves 1 part powdered pimento 1/2 part a drop of musk or civet essence tie it up as usual in white cloth with red yarn or ribbon "in hertha's name" finally, a tellurian incense for any of the earth spells referred to on the preceding pages: either dried powdered juniper wood 3 parts or cypress raspings or leaves gum myrrh or tincture of myrrh 2 parts powdered orris root 1/2 part powdered patchouli leaves 1 part (or a few drops, patchouli oil) powdered sage 1 part reduce finely by trituration. should you wish to make incense cones instead of loose grains, add 1/4 part saltpetre and enough patchouli or myrrh oil to make a thick paste. model the cones by hand and let them stand to dry. before you embark on any c

sing your usual exorcism formula of fire and water, and opening all doors and windows beforehand. this has a practical as well as a symbolic meaning, as you will see when you try the fumigations for yourself! exorcism fumigations 1. calamint peony mint palma christi 2. simple gum asafetida 3. jumper rosemary hemlock (plant, not tree, very poisonous) sloe frankincense or pine resin dried garlic 4. myrrh frankincense hellebore st.-john's-wort sulphur 5. myrrh sulphur red sandalwood rotten apples wine galls vinegar red wine lees arsenic the last three incenses are somewhat poisonous as you can see from their composition, and great care should be taken with them. personally, i would advocate the use of one of the first two mentioned, but the last three are traditional, and as such you should d

e graveyard chips and pieces of bone, on the one hand, or your cernunnos paraphernalia of holly, fir, ivy, and animal horn on the other. within the altar triangle itself should be your candle of bewitchment, black for a ritual of binding and suppression, red for one of strafing and torment. it should be exorcised beforehand. for both saturnian and martial operations, a little powdered rue herb or myrrh should be mixed with the wine of consecration. you must now tune your deep mind to the correct wavelength. for martial operations using a red candle, you may use the conjuration of cernunnos described in chapter 4, beginning "eko, eko azarak" in your mind's eye, see the rampaging one: between cernunnos' horns from his forehead juts a blazing torch. in his right hand he bears either a flaming

he table of practice itself up so that the altar triangle also points north. within it should be placed your paten pentacle bearing your chosen modeling material, clay or wax, while wreathed about it should be your usual cernunnos paraphernalia- horns, evergreens, etc. outside the altar triangle, place: your thurible burning an incense of wrath and chastisement your chalice of bitter wine (rue or myrrh) the wand the cord the athame an unlit candle of bewitchment (red) lamps of art phial of sabbat oil your square of mars object links baneful herbs and graveyard dust (see end of chapter) your dagydes, or exorcised needles of art in this type of complicated ritual there is generally no room for the workbook on the altar, so you will probably have to either learn the process by heart or do wha

tum anglicum (of the same family as the field buttercup, ranunculaceae- poisonous) gum ammoniac (formerly used as a cement- poisonous) death cup mushrooms- amanita phalloides (deadly) the remaining complement of baneful herbs are those of a saturnian nature. the traditional saturnian incense of wrath and chastisement is composed of black poppy seed, henbane, mandrake root, powdered lodestone, and myrrh. this should be well mingled together and incorporated with the brain of a cat and the blood of a bat. however, for your purposes, the following recipe can be used quite satisfactorily: 4 parts gum myrrh 1 part dried, powdered yew or juniper 1 part dried elderberry leaves or twigs, powdered 1 part dried, powdered cyprus twigs 1 part patchouli leaves (or a few drops of patchouli oil) 1 pinch

e brain of a cat and the blood of a bat. however, for your purposes, the following recipe can be used quite satisfactorily: 4 parts gum myrrh 1 part dried, powdered yew or juniper 1 part dried elderberry leaves or twigs, powdered 1 part dried, powdered cyprus twigs 1 part patchouli leaves (or a few drops of patchouli oil) 1 pinch of magnetized iron filings or lodestone dust failing this, pure gum myrrh may be burned alone in the thurible. graveyard dust to the experienced practitioner of witchcraft, this may mean one of three things: 1. either purely dust or earth taken from a churchyard. 2. dried, powdered mullein herb (verbascum thapsus) 3. bone ash and asphaltum, also known as mummy dust, originally obtained by grinding up egyptian mummies. this is a great rarity nowadays for obvious re

cum thapsus) 3. bone ash and asphaltum, also known as mummy dust, originally obtained by grinding up egyptian mummies. this is a great rarity nowadays for obvious reasons. any or all of these graveyard dusts may be used singly or in combination in saturnian hex powders or sachets, designed to bring inertia or restriction of some sort. similarly the following "simples" may also be used: pulverized myrrh wood black poppy seeds "holda" berries, leaves, and flowers (elderberry or sambucus nigra) rue (ruta graveolens- edible but bitter bitter aloes sourgrass (sorrel- rumex acetosa (edible but sour) hawthorn blossoms (crataegus oxyacanthus) periwinkle blossoms (vinca major or minor) pulverized juniper wood and berries (juniperus communis) pulverized yew wood and berries (taxus baccata) felonwort

MORALS AND DOGMA

days. this was the great feast of the magian religion. the roman calendar, published in the time of constantine, at which period his worship began to gain ground in the occident, fixed his feast-day on the 25th of december. his statues and images were inscribed _deo-soli invicto mithr--to the invincible sun-god mithras _nomen invictum sol mithra. soli omnipotenti mithr. to him, gold, incense, and myrrh were consecrated "thee" says martianus capella, in his hymn to the sun "the dwellers on the nile adore as serapis, and memphis worships as osiris; in the sacred rites of persia thou art mithras, in phrygia, atys, and libya bows down to thee as ammon, and ph nician byblos as adonis; and thus the whole world adores thee under different names" osiris was the son of helios (phra, the "divine off

losophy with its anathemas, and compelled it to become more occult and more mysterious than ever. at the bottom of magic, nevertheless, was science, as at the bottom of christianity there was love; and in the evangelic symbols we see the incarnate word adored in its infancy by three magi whom a star guides (the ternary and the sign of the microcosm, and receiving from them gold, frankincense, and myrrh; another mysterious ternary, under the emblem whereof are allegorically contained the highest secrets of the kabala. christianity should not have hated magic; but human ignorance always fears the unknown. science was obliged to conceal itself, to avoid the impassioned aggressions of a blind love. it enveloped itself in new hieroglyphs, concealed its efforts, disguised its hopes. then was cre

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

5, 17, 34, 39-40, 50-51, 52-53, 61-62;al ii, 5-9, 17-23, 24-25, 2 7-45; vii, vii, 11-14, 25-33. 23. for perfume mix meal& honey& thick leavings of red wine: then oil of abramelin and olive oil, and afterward soften& smooth down with rich fresh blood. meal: ordinary wheaten flour. leavings: the "beeswing" of port should be good. oil of abramelin: take eight parts of oil of cinnamon, four of oil of myrrh, two of oil of galangal, seven of olive oil. 24. the best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what. a: menstrual blood. b: possibly "dragon's blood. these two kinds of 'blood' are not to be confused. the student should be able to discover t

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

nace and antagonism. al azif page 4 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 (nota: ye elder sign hath yet another form and when so enscribed upon ye grey stone of mnar it serveth to hold back ye power of ye great old ones for all time) to compound ye incense of zkauba in the day and hour of mercury with the moon in her increase, thou shalt take equal parts of myrrh, civet, storax, wormwood, assafoetida, galbanum and musk, mix well together and reduce all to the finest powder. place the so assembled elements in a vessel of green glass and seal with a brazen stopper afore inscribed with the characters of mars and saturn. elevate the vessel to the four winds and cry aloud the supreme words of power thus: al azif page 5 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/libr

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

sed as a boar. adonis was the son of cinyras, king of paphos in cyprus, and his daughter smyrna (myrrha. aphrodite had made smyrna fall in love and sleep with her father while he was drunk, in revenge for cinyras boasting that his daughter was more beautiful than she was herself. when smyrna fell pregnant, her father tried to kill her but aphrodite, now feeling sorry for smyrna, turned her into a myrrh tree. the tree subsequently split in two and the beautiful infant adonis tumbled out. aphrodite placed the baby in a chest and gave him to persephone for safekeeping. persephone was immediately infatuated. warnings of a goddess aphrodite clings to adonis, trying to persuade him not to go hunting. she constantly warned him against exposing himself to the dangers of hunting wild beasts fearing

rsuaded him to spend his free time with her as well. careless cupid according to the roman poet ovid, aphrodite fell in love with adonis because her son eros (cupid, the god of love, accidentally grazed her with one of his arrows while he was kissing her one day, thus inflaming her with passion for the beautiful youth. born from a tree some sources say that after his mother had been turned into a myrrh tree, the baby adonis continued to develop inside the tree. when it was time for him to be born, ilithyia, the goddess of childbirth, released him. others say that foreshadowing his death a wild boar charged the tree and split it in two. aphrodite and adonis by hendrick goltzius (1558 1616/17) this painting shows the goddess aphrodite and the youth adonis in a summer embrace, just before he

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

iest wearing them within his breastplate .translated from sefer halikutim and ta famei hamitzvot 14 ibid. 14:36-43. 379 parashat ki tisa among the topics discussed in this week fs torah portion is the preparation of the special oil used in the tabernacle (mishkan) and temple for anointing the temple vessels and the priests. the ingredients of this compound were gchoice spices: 500 weights of pure myrrh, fragrant cinnamon.half of which is 250 weights, 250 parts of aromatic cane, 250 weights cof cassia and a hin of olive oil. h1 the amounts of myrrh and cinnamon used in the compound were the same, 500 weights, but the cinnamon had to be measured out a half at a time. the mystical significance of the anointing oil is as follows: as you know, 500 weights of pure myrrh were used, and it was mea

tions together express themselves. thus, though it, too, is an independent faculty of the soul, it serves to express the content it is provided with from the emotions. we see, then, that in each case, these sefirot act as vessels or filters for other, more gactive h sefirot, and this commonality is the basis for their all being associated with the name elokim. the term used in scripture for gpure myrrh h is mor deror, which literally means gfree myrrh. h this spice is associated with the name elokim of binah and is therefore called gfree h myrrh. this is the mystical meaning of the verse, gand you shall proclaim freedom [throughout the land and to all its inhabitants, h3 which refers to binah. 1 exodus 30:23-24. a hin is a unit of measurement. 2 psalms 84:12. 3 the arizal on parashat ki ti

ct. thus, we are taught in the talmud that there are fifty ggates h of binah, i.e, fifty levels of understanding divinity. binah is the principle sefirah of the intellect, in which the insight of chochmah is developed into a full mental construction and world-view. when the mature understanding of binah permeates all ten sefirot, we have 50 x 10= 500; this is why there are five hundred weights of myrrh in the anointing oil. fragrant cinnamon is weighed out a half at a time because even though it is associated with [only one sefirah] gevurah, there is also an aspect of the name elokim associated with the sefirah of hod [this name elokim, however [is not counted] because it is considered part of z feir anpin. thus, we count only 3 names elokim: that of binah, that of gevurah, and that of mal

let mem-mem and sums to 300. the gincreasing value h of a word refers to the sum of the first letter of the word plus the first two letters plus the first three letters, and so on. thus, the gincreasing value h of the name elokim is alef plus alef-lamed plus alef-lamed-hei plus aleflamed- hei-yud plus alef-lamed-hei-yud-mem, which sums to 200. since the name elokim in general signifies binah, the myrrh [which represents binah] is taken in a quantity of 500, and weighed out all at once. since cinnamon represents z feir anpin, it is weighed out in two parts [for there are two names elokim in z feir anpin] even though we count them as only one: 250 corresponding to gevurah and 250 corresponding to hod. malchut, which embodies only one name havayah, is only weighed out once, and in a quantity

wing us that this essential element is the awareness that all our efforts are at best and at most in order to make ourselves and our lives receptacles and channels for g-d fs blessing. 383 parashat ki tisa [second installment] in the first installment on parashat ki tisa, we read part of the arizal fs discussion of the anointing oil. the arizal demonstrated how each of the ingredients of this oil.myrrh, cinnamon, aromatic cane, and cassia.all reflected the name elokim, which is manifest in the sefirot of binah, gevurah, and malchut. we now continue the translation of this discussion. know as well that these three manifestations of the name elokim.in binah, in gevurah, and in malchut, as we said.are also manifestations of the three [spellings out of the] name ekyeh: one with yud fs, one wit

ee spellings-out ekyeh.with yud fs, alef fs, and hei fs.correspond respectively to binah, z feir anpin, and malchut:1 spelling out of the name havayah letter(s) used corresponding partzuf/sefirah spelling out of the name ekyeh letter used 72 yud abba/chochmah 63 2 yud fs and 1 alef ima/binah 161 yud 45 alef z feir anpin/midot 143 alef 52 hei nukva/malchut 151 hei the [name of the] ingredient pure myrrh also alludes to [the connection between these spices and the name elokim: the numerical value of the word for gmyrrh h [mor, mem-reish] is [240, which is] 2 x 120. this number [i.e, 120] is the number of permutations that exist for the name elokim. the name elokim is composed of five letters. the number of possible permutations of a five-letter word is 5= 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1= 120. all these 12

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

ns and magic, while infatuated with the disquisitions of rousseau and the illusions of cagliostro. science, notwithstanding, is at the basis of magic, as at the root of christianity there is love, and in the gospel symbols we find the word incarnate adored in his cradle by three magi, led thither by a star the triad and the sign of the microcosm and receiving their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, a second mysterious triplicity, under which emblem the highest secrets of the kabalah are allegorically contained. christianity owes therefore no hatred to magic, but human ignorance has ever stood in fear of the unknown. the science was driven into hiding to escape the impassioned assaults of blind desire: it clothed itself with new hieroglyphics, falsified its intentions, denied its hopes

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in its equilibrated power, as producer of light in heaven and gold among metals. it is therefore that old serpent which encircles the world and places its devouring head beneath the foot of a virgin, the type of initiation .that virgin who presents a little new-born child to the adoration of three magi and 6 the ritual of transcendental magic receives from them, in exchange for this favour, gold, myrrh and frankincense. so does doctrine serve in all hieratic religions to veil the secret of natural forces which the initiate has at his disposal. religious formulae are the summaries of those words full of mystery and power which make the gods descend from heaven and become subject to the will of men. judea borrowed its secrets from egypt; greece sent her hierophants and later her theosophists

e skin must be salted with salt consecrated by magical operations. the omission of even one of these difficult and apparently arbitrary ceremonies makes void the entire success of the great works of science. the pentagram is consecrated with the four elements; the magical figure is breathed on five times; it is sprinkled with holy water; it is dried by the smoke of five perfumes, namely, incense, myrrh, aloes, sulphur and camphor, to which a little white resin and ambergris may be added. the five breathings are accompanied by the utterance of names attributed to the five genii, who are gabriel, raphael, anael, samael and oriphiel. afterwards the pentacle is placed successively at the north, south, east, west and centre of the astronomical cross, pronouncing at the same time, one after anot

agi is no other than the mysterious pentagram; and those three kings, sons of zoroaster, conducted by the blazing star to the cradle of the microcosmic god, are themselves a full demonstration of the kabalistic and magical beginnings of christian doc-trine. one of these kings is white, another black and the third brown. the white king offers gold, symbol of light and life; the black king presents myrrh, image of death and of darkness; the brown king sacrifices incense, emblem of the conciliating doctrine of the two principles. they return thereafter into their own land by another road, to show that a new cultus is only a new path, conducting man to one religion, being that of the sacred triad and the radiant pentagram, the sole eternal catholicism. st. john, in the blazing pentagram 37 the

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's sexual tendencies, the magic will work. the author of this piece, being most notoriously dour and puritanical, of course knows nothing of any of these matters. rite of setian passage the ritual area is set up with an altar containing the following: a source for the black flame, an aluminum foil baking dish on a hot pad, candles as needed for light, a censor that can be moved about the chamber, myrrh, frankincense, and incense pellets, the blue feather of maat, and the bell. in the center of the chamber is an oblong narrow table, draped in black, representing the coffin. upon it is placed a painting of the name of the deceased, and the funeral boat that carries the soul to the tuat. it will be commended to the abyss (the flame) at the working part of the rite, much as the viking traditio

ect his shadow while his body changes, and his spirit departs upon the funeral barge. let us perform the rite of passage, that he have company upon his last and most fearful journey into the western lands of darkness, that he arrive safely among the gods, and take his place amidst the shining beings who wield their will in full awareness of who they are. h incense cense the ritual area with smoky myrrh, circling the table and the shadow. celebrant says: hlet the smoke rise from the funeral resin, the sacred myrrh of the embalmer and healer. rise to the heavens, descend to the netherworld. those who dwell therein, beware of this rite. with this smoke comes one mighty in his being, one of our own, adept rick furgeson. h bell ring the bell. with each ring of the bell one line is read: hopen y

n a secret until the year x of the aon of set, at which time it would indeed be revealed to the "winners" of that particular ordeal. 23. for perfume mix meal& honey& thick leavings of red wine: then oil of abramelin and olive oil, and afterwards soften& smooth down with rich fresh blood. oil of abramelin [from the sacred magic of abra=melin the mage: eight parts of oil of cinnamon, four of oil of myrrh, two of oil of galangal, seven of olive oil. 24. the best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what. 25. this burn: of this make cakes& eat unto me. this hath also another use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfume of your or

ing in the chamber) in addition four wooden bowls, each containing sand and charcoal, are used as censers. one wooden bowl or censer should be placed below each elemental tablet, along with the appropriate incense to be ignited during the invoking of that element. the incenses i chose for this particular rite were: south: fire sandalwood east: air frankincense north: earth pine resinv west: water myrrh also, a combination of these resins is used in the later part of the rite to produce a pleasing and balancing effect within the chamber. note that we use only one grail during the rite, since this grail is the central symbol representing the element of water, and is essentially eucharistic in nature. before the rite, all participants are briefed and then they discuss the elemental attributio

er combined elements direction: south east north west (n/a) color: red yellow black blue (n/a) objective bodies: stellar bodies sun earth and planets moon (n/a) magickal tools: fire wand air dagger, bell, gong, incense altar chalice with wine table of union symbolic representations: red candle yellow rose crystal pyramid chalice with wine table of union incense: sandalwood frankincense pine resin myrrh combination of all senses invoked: sight sound and touch taste receptivity smell aspect of self: will, masculinity, aggression intellect carnality, creativity, the physical emotion, femininity, passivity combined self appendix ii notes on the visualization 1. when performing the banishing and invoking of the objective bodies, the members of the assemblage should, upon the drawing of the said

tiver- heavy and similar to aged patchouli sweet birch- a candy like smell clary sage- heavy like patchouli and vetiver, odor intensity of 5, volatility 82. peru balsam- a mellow resinous coniferous aroma sandalwood- similar to musk with a slight resinous and floral odor, odor intensity of 5, volatility 100? patchouli- heavy resinous like oil, easily overused, odor intensity of 5, volatility 100? myrrh- similar to patchouli, vetiver and clary sage, odor intensity of 7, volatility 100? rose geranium- distilled from the scented leaves, odor intensity of 6, volatility 87. amber- hard to find- a waxy substance similar to a musk and patchouli blend. amber used in jewelry is a hard stone-like petrified form of pine resin, of varying shades of yellow. amber as a fragrance material is said to be a

he reader is referred to any good resource on tantra. books on sexual magic also have a few usable ideas. but generally one has to give this matter thought to avoid having the aroma take over the setting. basically the fragrances when used properly are suggestive of warm body scents. in addition to use in religious rites and sex magic, some of these aromas have also found their way into medicine. myrrh with goldenseal root has been a famous formula with antibiotic-like action. it is sold in capsule form for this purpose, and i can attest to its effectiveness on adults. the traditional literature lists only the animal source aromas in this category, but they were always used in combination with aromas from the relaxing- sedative class when diluted for personal use. the aromas chosen have be

s been a famous formula with antibiotic-like action. it is sold in capsule form for this purpose, and i can attest to its effectiveness on adults. the traditional literature lists only the animal source aromas in this category, but they were always used in combination with aromas from the relaxing- sedative class when diluted for personal use. the aromas chosen have been sandalwood, frankincense, myrrh, and some of the coniferous resins. a few seeds such as vanilla pods (fermented in the form we know them) and ambretta seed have also been used often enough to warrant considering them in this class. i would also add canada snakeroot or wild ginger which, when it is aged in a mixture for a while, imparts a really exquisite note. it is for this reason that these aromas are included in this cl

e are at times wide variations in the quality of the plant material, due to growing and handling conditions, and in the past few years even the political climate. aromas in this class are the following: musk(*s- a synthetic formula widely used. ambergris(*s- a synthetic patchouli- these 3 have been discussed a bit already. frankincense- a resinous aroma that is overwhelming in even small amounts. myrrh- this resinous aroma is detracting for fragrance, but combines beautifully with other classes. canada snakeroot- wild ginger- the plant material. vanilla bean- considered a love attractant, it has been used in cooking initially for that purpose. rose- from the damask rose. promotes fantasy conducive to venusian matters as well as its relaxing- sedative effects. sweet birch- seldom used alone

e or ylang-ylang, and 3 to 5 for the lavender. 2 "sexem- a sweeter, mellower fragrance than "persian, can be used preliminary to it over a long evening. suitable for both men and women. a nice way to use it is for one partner to wear "persian" and the other "sexem. either of these are also nice on the hair. use a 1/4 oz bottle for this one. 4 droppers of sandalwood 8 drops of patchouli 5 drops of myrrh 3/8 inch to 1/2 inch of vanilla bean snipped fine. let this sit for about a week, and shake gently every day. little tiny black dots will come off the vanilla bean and float in the oil, but this is normal. used this way the vanilla is subtle, not at all overpowering as one might think. 3 "silk- a romantic blend of classes 1, 3 and 4. 20 drops of musk 8 drops of ylang-ylang 5 drops nutmeg or

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zamzam. so hagar survived; but why now do the pilgrims congregate? to celebrate her survival? no, no. they are celebrating the honour done the valley by the visit of, you've guessed it, ibrahim. in that loving consort's name, they gather, worship and, above all, spend. jahilia today is all perfume. the scents of araby, of _arabia odorifera, hang in the air: balsam, cassia, cinnamon, frankincense, myrrh. the pilgrims drink the wine of the date-palm and wander in the great fair of the feast of ibrahim. and, among them, one wanders whose furrowed brow sets him apart from the cheerful crowd: a tall man in loose white robes, he'd stand almost a full head higher than mahound. his beard is shaped close to his slanting, high--boned face; his gait contains the lilt, the deadly elegance of power. wh

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truth. in an early passage of the chronicles, he is transmuted into angelic form and allowed to visit heaven, receiving his information first hand. then the lord said to micha-el: go and strip enoch of his own clothes; anoint him with oil, and dress him like ourselves and micha-el did as he was told. he stripped me of my clothes, and rubbed me over with a wonderful oil like dew; with the scent of myrrh; which shone like a sunbeam. and i looked at myself, and i was like one of the others; there was no difference and all my fear and trembling left me. dr. john dee was obsessed by the idea of the book of enoch, and yet was unable to obtain a copy. his system of enochian magick was created when he and edward kelly were attempting to divine its contents. clavicula salomonis otherwise known as t

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tor of demonic forces. the sword of satan is placed upon the altar with the point of the blade to the left. the thurible and the aroma of enlightenment the earthly scents are burned to accentuate and stimulate the emotions and imagination. the aroma of incense adds to the magickal (and demonic) qualities of the atmosphere. highly regarded are fragrances such as: pine, sandalwood, frankincense and myrrh. the thurible is placed next to the flame of lucifer. the bell of commencement the sounding of the bell at each of the five points of the pentagonia signifies the opening of the gates of pandemonium and the subsequent release and attendance of demonic forces. the bell is to be rung while turning widdershins at the beginning and at the completion of the magickal working, thus closing the gate

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

re sunrise. one prayer is a confirmation of faith. before and during this prayer, the worshipper unties and reties the knots of the kushti, or sacred cord worn a symbol of the zoroastrian s commitment to the faith. individual worship also takes place when the faithful visit a temple. another common individual ritual is lighting a fire in an urn, then feeding the fire with sandalwood, incense, and myrrh. communal worship in addition to individual worship, zoroastrians take part in communal worship. communal worship takes place around a fire urn, which a priest called a raspi tends throughout the ritual. the fire ritual typically consists of recited prayers, often followed by a communal meal. zoroastrians take part in a large number of communal rituals, many of them connected with specific f

without beginning or end, the bestower [giver] of good things, the forgiver of sins, the loving, omnipotent [all-powerful, wise, and the nourisher of all creation. 456 world religions: almanac zoroastrianism introduction to the service itself. this introduction consists of a number of prayers and makes use of ayat, or ritual implements, including the fire urn; a tray with sandalwood, incense, and myrrh; a tray containing milk, fruit, wine, water, and other items; and, especially, a tray holding flowers, usually five but sometimes three or eight. the flowers all have to be of the same length and, traditionally, have come from either a jujuba tree or a myrtle tree. the five flowers, which are arranged in a specified manner on the tray, symbolize the five prayer times of the day. the ritual e

hen established close ties with the family of the king and the three wise men according to christian tradition, after the birth of jesus christ (6 bce c. 30 ce; see entry) he was visited by three magi from the east who are often referred to as the three wise men. the three had followed a bright star, the star of bethlehem, and arrived at jesus s birthplace bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh (frankincense and myrrh are oils used to make perfume or incense) the three magi have become a fixed aspect of modern christmas celebrations in the west (the countries of europe and the americas, and most displays of the nativity scene, or the birth of jesus, include depictions of the magi paying their respects to the christ child. the source of the story is one of the gospels, the first fou

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

formed over a scarab before it was worn, even in the period of the rule of the greeks and romans. thus about the "ring of horus" and the "ceremony of the beetle" we are told to take a beetle, sculptured as described below, and to place it on a paper table, and under the table there shall be a pure linen cloth; under it put some olive wood, and set on the middle of the table a small censer wherein myrrh and kyphi shall be offered. and have at hand a small vessel of chrysolite into which ointment of lilies, or myrrh, or cinnamon, shall be put, and take the ring and lay it in the ointment, having first made it pure and clean, and offer it up in the censer with kyphi and myrrh; leave the ring for three days, and take it out and put it in a safe place. at the celebration let there lie near at h

w these words have, reference to the delights and pleasures of the future life which shall be secured for him through the oil and unguents, which are duly specified and described, and through the magical figures which are drawn upon the bandages. the protecting properties of the turquoise and other precious stones are alluded to, and after a further anointing with oil and the placing of grains of myrrh and resin, the deceased is declared to have "received his head" and he is promised that it shall nevermore depart from him. on the conclusion of the. ceremonies which concern the head the deceased has the power to go in among the holy and perfect spirits, his name is exalted among men, the denizens of heaven receive his soul, the beings of the underworld bow down before his body, the dweller

the god] bes. make a drawing of besa, as shewn below, on your left hand, and envelope your hand in a strip of black cloth that has been consecrated to isis) and lie down to sleep without speaking a word, even in answer to a question. wind the remainder of the cloth round your neck. the ink with which you write must be composed of the blood of a cow, the blood of a white dove, fresh) frankincense, myrrh, black writing-ink, cinnabar, mulberry juice, rain-water, and the juice of wormwood and vetch. with this write your petition before the setting sun [saying, c send the truthful seer out of the holy shrine, i beseech thee, lampsuer, sumarta, baribas, dardalam, iorlex: o lord send the sacred deity anuth, anuth, salbana, chambre, breith, now, now, quickly, quickly. come in this very night" 2 "t

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tion, which had been formally written on paper, was to be read above the flame, demanding the removal of any curse that had been set against the magician. the candle was to be anointed with oil and was to be burned precisely at midnight. it was believed that power and success might be gained through the ritual burning of a candle with oil and setting before it an incense offering of sandalwood or myrrh. the candle was lighted, and the magician concentrated on a mental image of the goal that he or she most wished to attain. if a magi felt that he had become the unwelcome recipient of a candle spell, he believed that he might reverse its effect through an ancient medieval candle burning ceremony. for five consecutive nights, the magician was careful to light two large, black candles just as

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

tically as "malkuth is in kether, and kether is in malkuth, but after another manner" this doctrine of "trans-resonance, as given in kabbalah as an intimate and ultimate identity between malkuth and kether, can be demonstrated by combining the hebrew letters of both words. if the letters of kether and malkuth are merged together and matched in pairs, the resultant words can be interpreted as: mr: myrrh, the resin of suffering and sorrow, used for anointing (the head or feet, attributed to kether and malkuth) and embalming (the body, attributed as a whole to malkuth. also symbolic of the suffering endured in the separation of malkuth and kether from each other by the fall. rm: high, exalted, attributes of kether, and also meaning to decay (worm-eaten, thus the process of malkuth and the dec

the unwedded soul, to babalon, the great whore or scarlet woman, deified by crowley in his elaborate symbology as the lady babalon, nursing the babe of the abyss in the city of pyramids under the night of pan. the catholic "litany of the blessed virgin" lists titles which could be transposed onto the tree of life with appropriate relevance, such as: mary i.e, exalted, also "bitterness of the sea "myrrh of the sea, or "lady/mistress of the sea" mother of christ binah connecting to tiphareth mother of divine grace binah connecting to chesed mother inviolate etc binah above the abyss of manifestation mirror of justice binah connecting to geburah seat of wisdom binah connecting to chockmah gate of heaven binah as the first of the supernals above the abyss and connected to malkuth refuge of sin

THE STAR IN THE WEST BY CAPTAIN FULLER A CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

g horrent hath it woven and braided the ashen locks of wisdom, the dyed curls of folly, and all the glittering circlets of golden youth. all is transcended, all is unified and transcendental; neither is there joy nor laughter, sorrow nor weeping, for all is as a divine mastery of truth and knowledge to those who worship the new-born god, like the magi of the east, with gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. above whose heptagonal cradle flashes the magic star lusanaher, that great star cor leonis, which heralds and directs our reverent pilgrimage. the star has arisen; let us like men drop the silly pretence of an ostrich-like self-delusion that the cindery asteroid still lights our way; let us rather apply our mental spectroscope to the analysis of its rays. there shall we perchance discover t

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

was come unto his brethren, that they stript joseph out of his coat [his] coat of [many] colours that [was] on him; 37:24 and they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty [there was] no water in it. 37:25 and they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of ishmeelites came from gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry [it] down to egypt. 37:26 and judah said unto his brethren, what profit [is it] if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? 37:27 come, and let us sell him to the ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother [and] our flesh. and his brethren were content. 37:28 then there passed by midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up joseph out of

ou require him: if i bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: 43:10 for except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time. 43:11 and their father israel said unto them, if [it must be] so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: 43:12 and take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry [it] again in your hand; peradventure it [was] an oversight: 43:13 take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: 43:14 and god almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and benjamin. if i be bereaved [of my ch

ter, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the lord: 30:21 so they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them [even] to him and to his seed throughout their generations. 30:22 moreover the lord spake unto moses, saying, 30:23 take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred [shekels] and of sweet cinnamon half so much [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels] and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels] 30:24 and of cassia five hundred [shekels] after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: 30:25 and thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil

d her that she should not shew [it] 2:11 and mordecai walked every day before the court of the women s house, to know how esther did, and what should become of her. 2:12 now when every maid s turn was come to go in to king ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished [to wit] six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with [other] things for the purifying of the women) 2:13 then thus came [every] maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king s house. 2:14 in the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of shaashgaz, the king s chamberlain

ach thee terrible things. 45:5 thine arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king s enemies [whereby] the people fall under thee. 45:6 thy throne, o god [is] for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom [is] a right sceptre. 45:7 thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore god, thy god, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 45:8 all thy garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes [and] cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. 45:9 kings daughters [were] among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of ophir. 45:10 hearken, o daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father s house; 45:11 so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he [is] thy page 333 p

ait at every corner) 7:13 so she caught him, and kissed him [and] with an impudent face said unto him, 7:14 [i have] peace offerings with me; this day have i payed my vows. 7:15 therefore came i forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and i have found thee. 7:16 i have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works] with fine linen of egypt. 7:17 i have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 7:18 come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 7:19 for the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey: 7:20 he hath taken a bag of money with him [and] will come home at the day appointed. 7:21 with her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 7:22 he goeth after h

ootsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds tents. 1:9 i have compared thee, o my love, to a company of horses in pharaoh s chariots. 1:10 thy cheeks are comely with rows [of jewels] thy neck with chains [of gold] 1:11 we will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver. 1:12 while the king [sitteth] at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. 1:13 a bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. 1:14 my beloved [is] unto me [as] a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of en-gedi. 1:15 behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves eyes. 1:16 behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed [is] green. 1:17 the beams of our house [are] cedar [and] our rafters of fir. 2

und him whom my soul loveth: i held him, and would not let him go, until i had brought him into my mother s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 3:5 i charge you, o ye daughters of jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please. 3:6 who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? 3:7 behold his bed, which [is] solomon s; threescore valiant men [are] about it, of the valiant of israel. 3:8 they all hold swords [being] expert in war: every man [hath] his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. 3:9 king solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of lebanon. 3:10 he made the pillars thereof [of] silver, the b

thy speech [is] comely: thy temples [are] like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. 4:4 thy neck [is] like the tower of david builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. 4:5 thy two breasts [are] like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies. 4:6 until the day break, and the shadows flee away, i will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. 4:7 thou [art] all fair, my love [there is] no spot in thee. 4:8 come with me from lebanon [my] spouse, with me from lebanon: look from the top of amana, from the top of shenir and hermon, from the lions dens, from the mountains of the leopards. 4:9 thou hast ravished my heart, my sister [my] spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with o

eycomb: honey and milk [are] under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments [is] like the smell of lebanon. 4:12 a garden inclosed [is] my sister [my] spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. 4:13 thy song of songs page 414 plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, 4:14 spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: 4:15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from lebanon. 4:16 awake, o north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden [that] the spices thereof may flow out. let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. 5:1 i am come into my garden, my sister [my] spouse: i have gathered my myrrh with my spice; i have eat

cketh [saying] open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew [and] my locks with the drops of the night. 5:3 i have put off my coat; how shall i put it on? i have washed my feet; how shall i defile them? 5:4 my beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door] and my bowels were moved for him. 5:5 i rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped [with] myrrh, and my fingers [with] sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. 5:6 i opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself [and] was gone: my soul failed when he spake: i sought him, but i could not find him; i called him, but he gave me no answer. 5:7 the watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil f

that thou dost so charge us? 5:10 my beloved [is] white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. 5:11 his head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy [and] black as a raven. 5:12 his eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk [and] fitly set. 5:13 his cheeks [are] as a bed of spices [as] sweet flowers: his lips [like] lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. 5:14 his hands [are as] gold rings set with the beryl: his belly [is as] bright ivory overlaid [with] sapphires. 5:15 his legs [are as] pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance [is] as lebanon, excellent as the cedars. 5:16 his mouth [is] most sweet: yea, he [is] altogether lovely. this [is] my beloved, and this [is] my friend, o daughters of jerusalem. 6:1 whither

, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. 2:10 when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. 2:11 and when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. 2:12 and being warned of god in a dream that they should not return to herod, they departed into their own country another way. 2:13 and when they were departed, behold, the angel of the lord appeareth to joseph in a dream, saying, arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into egypt, and be thou there until i bring thee word: for herod will seek the young child to destroy hi

ked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him. 15:21 and they compel one simon a cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of alexander and rufus, to bear his cross. 15:22 and they bring him unto the place golgotha, which is, being interpreted, the place of a skull. 15:23 and they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received [it] not. 15:24 and when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take. 15:25 and it was the third hour, and they crucified him. 15:26 and the superscription of his accusation was written over, the king of the jews. 15:27 and with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left. 15:28 a

hey shall look on him whom they pierced. 19:38 and after this joseph of arimathaea, being a disciple of jesus, but secretly for fear of the jews, besought john page 624 pilate that he might take away the body of jesus: and pilate gave [him] leave. he came therefore, and took the body of jesus. 19:39 and there came also nicodemus, which at the first came to jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound [weight] 19:40 then took they the body of jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the jews is to bury. 19:41 now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. 19:42 there laid they jesus therefore because of the jews preparation [day] for the sepulchre

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wn, the goddess aurora, who had many lovers. the "house of virgins" would seem to be a reference to the biblical book of esther, which describes the sexual habits of king ahasuerus. it was the custom of ahasuerus to keep two houses. in one house all the fairest virgin girls in his kingdom were gathered together for purification. after twelve full months of ritual cleansing (six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet incense, each virgin went in to the king's bedchamber and spent the night with him. in reward, he gave the girl anything her heart desiredbeautiful robes, jewelry, servants. then she was sent to live in a second house with the other concubines, and "she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name (esther 2: 14. t

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nes incense adamant, acacia, galbanum, lavender, gum arabic, sage fenugreek, horehound, mastic, storax camphor, aloes, jasmine, pennyroyal myrtle, sandlewood, rose dragon's blood, geranium, tiger lily borage, mallow, periwinkle, storax orchid, wormwood anise, camphor, lotus, onycha catnip, frankincense, cinnamon lily, narcissis cedar, hyssop, saffron amber, hyacinth, galbanum fern, lotus, violet, myrrh benzoin, pine, opoponax aloes, dill, heliotrope, iris civit, hemp, musk, thistle capsium, dragon's blood, eyebright, rue cloves, galbanum, olive ambrigris, hibiscus, mugwort, poppy cinnamon, heliotrope, laurel, sunflower copol, frankincense cypress, lovage, nightshade, storax tone e e a-flat f-sharp c c-sharp d d-sharp b f a-sharp f-sharp a-flat g a-flat a c b-flat b d c a note: there are ma

e incenses attributed to specific planets from the chart in figure b on page 26 (see chapter three) and the chart in figure e on page 17 (see chapter two) for construction of angelic or other names using incenses. it is always exciting to mix your own blend (check the chart in figure h on page 33 in chapter three for best times, but here are some timehonored magical planetary mixtures: saturn: 1. myrrh gum or resin, cypress (wood or oil, rue oil (one drop, violet flowers, pine 2. storax gum, elm wood, musk, civit, cassia 3. mandrake root, henbane, musk, scammony resin, civit jupiter 1. copal gum, cedar wood, hyssop, orris root 2. galbanum gum, saffron, ash or oak wood, poplar leaves, cinquefoil mars 1. benzoin, dragon's blood resin, helleborne root, pepper, or tobacco 2. pine wood, holly

mace, vervain, clove, storax 2. marjoram, aspen, lime flowers, lemon peel 3. lavender, mastic, narcissis, bayberry moon 1. camphor, jasmine, olibanum, onycha 2. an artemesia (preferably wormwood, white sandalwood, lign aloes, ylang-ylang oil 3. white poppy, galbanum, gardenia, lotus pluto 1. dragon's blood, mandrake, benzoin, dittany of crete, sulphur 2. tears of olibanum, red storax, lign aloes, myrrh a word of caution as well as encouragement: mandalas are to be meditated on. they don't hang on your wall and make magic. the talismans in this book were primarily devised to help you unlock doors to the source inside of you that is the reservoir of light and truth. use them for this purpose and they will never become invested with the power to possess you. remember, never use the techniques

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

ver thou wiliest thou gatherest me, and gathering me thou gatherest thyself" 27 "i shall be merciful to thee in the cross of light" 28 "rejoicing, i come to thee; thou cross, the life-giver, the cross whom i know to be mine. i know thy mystery, for thou hast been planted in the world to make fast things unstable" 29 "until the day break and the shadows flee away, i will get me to the mountains of myrrh and the hill of frankincense" 30 "the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined" 31 "for on this mountain shall the hand of the lord rest" 32 "he will swallow up death in victory, and the lord will wipe away tears from all faces" 33 "who is this that leadeth them out, but she that dwelt in darkn

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