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o lord god, let thy spirit hither unto me! for i am lost in the night of infinite pain: no hope: no god: no resurrection: no end: i fall: i fear. o saviour of the world, bruise thou my head with thy foot to save the world, that once again i touch him whom i slew, that in my death i feel the radiance and the heat of the moving of thy robes! let us alone! what have we to do with thee, thou jesus of nazareth? go! go! if i keep silence- or if i speak each word is anguish without hope. and i heard the aethyr cry aloud "return! return! return! for the work is ended; and the book is shut; and let the glory be to god the blessed for ever in the aeons, amen" thus far is the voice of tex and no more. the cry of the twenty and ninth aire or aethyr, which is called rii the sky appears covered with sta

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and highly evolved men and women to pass into the ranks of the hierarchy, and thus- 23- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust constantly has there been a circulation of new life and blood, and the coming in of those who belong to a particular period or age. some of the great names during the later periods are known to history, such as shri sankaracharya, vyasa, mahommet, jesus of nazareth, and krishna, down to those lesser initiates, paul of tarsus, luther, and certain of the outstanding lights in european history. always have these men and women been agents for the carrying out of race purpose, for the bringing about of group conditions, and for the furthering of the evolution of humanity. sometimes they have appeared as beneficent forces, bringing peace and contentment w

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life consciousness f orm energy force matter the presence the angel of the human being the presence a clear distinction should be made between the christ principle as indicated above, which is a high spiritual aspect to which each member of humanity must attain, and the same term applied to a personage of exalted rank representing that principle, whether in the historical reference to the man of nazareth or otherwise. 2. this union (or yoga) is achieved through the subjugation of the psychic nature and the restraint of the chitta (or mind. the follower after union has two things to do- 10- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. to gain control of the "versatile psychic nature" 2. to prevent the mind from assuming the many forms it so easily does. these are frequently called "

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treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the ancient legend tells us that the three went forth in sorrow and revolt, laden with their treasures, and thus the history of the wandering jew began. it is significant to remember that one of the greatest sons of god who has worked on earth, and who epitomised in himself the way and the achievement, jesus of nazareth, was a jew. he reversed all the earlier conditions. he possessed nothing at all. he was the first of our humanity to achieve, and was a direct descendant of the eldest of the original three disciples who revolted from the drama of detachment. the jew embodies in himself the world prodigal son. he is the symbol of the disciple who has not yet learned the lesson of a just sense of values. h

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pendence of ancient mental trammels and of old and dusty traditions? as to the perfection of the portrayed character of christ there is never any question. the enemies of christianity admit his uniqueness, his basic profundity and his understanding of the hearts of men. they recognise the intelligence of his ideas and sponsor them in their own philosophies. the developments which the carpenter of nazareth brought about in the fabric of human life, his social and economic ideals, and the beauty of the civilisation which could be founded upon the ethical teaching of the sermon on the mount are frequently emphasised by many who refuse to recognise his mission as an expression of divinity. from the rational point of view, the question as to the historical accuracy of his story remains as yet u

. one account says that `she had alighted at an inn when buddha was born "the mother of lao-tse, the virgin-born chinese sage, was away from home when her child was born. she stopped to rest under a tree, and there, like the virgin maya, gave birth to her son."49 we are told in the gospel story that the virgin mary, with her husband joseph and bearing within herself the christ child, went up from nazareth in galilee to bethlehem. sometimes, through a study of the significances of the names we meet in the bible and in tradition, we can throw much light on the episode itself and unveil some of its hidden meaning. in the study of the bible story, i have used only the bible itself and cruden's concordance. the interpretation of the names is taken from cruden's concordance. therein we find that

zareth in galilee to bethlehem. sometimes, through a study of the significances of the names we meet in the bible and in tradition, we can throw much light on the episode itself and unveil some of its hidden meaning. in the study of the bible story, i have used only the bible itself and cruden's concordance. the interpretation of the names is taken from cruden's concordance. therein we find that "nazareth" means "that which is consecrated" or set apart "galilee" means the "turning of the wheel" that wheel of life and of death which turns continuously, carrying us all with it and keeping us upon the "wheel of existence" as the buddhists call it, until we have learnt life's lessons and have become "a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use."50 the long journey of existe

ave learnt life's lessons and have become "a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use."50 the long journey of existence lies behind the christ, and he, with his mother, journeys the last part of the way. consecrated from past aeons to this very work of world salvage, he has first of all to submit himself to the ordinary processes of birth and childhood. christ came forth from nazareth, the place of consecration, and went up to bethlehem, the house of bread, where in a peculiar way he himself was to become the "bread of life"51 to a hungry world. he was set apart, or set himself apart (as do all awakened sons of god) for the work of redemption. he came to feed the hungry, and in this connection two verses in the bible convey light upon his- 43- from bethlehem to calvary

ls and rules. then there comes the later stage in the history of the race and of the individual, when we find coma berenice symbolically emerging the woman bearing the christ child is seen. here matter begins to reveal its true function, which is to bring to the birth the christ in every form. when the turning of the great wheel of life has played its part, then mary can come out of galilee, from nazareth, and journey to bethlehem, there to give birth to the saviour. finally there is andromeda, the woman chained, or matter brought into subservience to the soul. the soul or the christ now rules. first, matter dominant, enthroned and triumphant. then matter, the custodian of hidden divinity, beauty and reality, ready to bring them to the birth. finally, matter as the servant of that which ha

da, the woman chained, or matter brought into subservience to the soul. the soul or the christ now rules. first, matter dominant, enthroned and triumphant. then matter, the custodian of hidden divinity, beauty and reality, ready to bring them to the birth. finally, matter as the servant of that which has been born, the christ. however, none of this is brought about unless the journey is made from nazareth, the place of consecration, and from galilee, the place of the daily round of life; and this is true, whether one is speaking of the cosmic christ, hidden by the form of a solar system; of the mythic christ, hidden in humanity down the ages; of the historical christ, concealed within the form of jesus; or of the individual christ, hidden within the ordinary man. for always the routine is

ning as it applies to our individual situation, it becomes equally apparent that today humanity, as a race, stands before the infant jesus, in the house of bread, at the end of a long journey, and can now offer, if it so will, the gifts of material life, of purification through the fires of adversity, and of the suffering to which it has been subjected. humanity can journey from galilee by way of nazareth. gold, the thing that today seems to be the very life-blood of the people, must be consecrated to the christ. frankincense, the dreams and visions and aspirations of the multitude, so real and deep that the nations everywhere are struggling for the expression of these dreams these too must be dedicated and offered to the christ, that he may be all in all. and the pain and suffering and ag

mple of the lord and there, for the first time, gave indication of his vocation, and evidenced the realisation that a mission was pre-ordained for him. prior to this, his parents had conformed to all the requirements of the jewish ritual; they had also sojourned in egypt. of his time there, we are told nothing. all that we know is covered by the words "they returned into galilee to their own city nazareth. and the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of god was upon him."60 students would do well to remember that the number twelve is regarded by the esotericists of all faiths as signifying the number of completion; it recurs again and again in the various scriptures of the world. the following comments are of interest in this connection, showing as they

2 gates."62 all these recurrences of twelve probably have their origin in the twelve signs of the zodiac, that imaginary belt in the heavens through which the sun appears to pass on its journey in the course of a year, and during its greater cycle of approximately 25,000 years. having completed the preparatory work, by his twelfth year christ again underwent an intuitive experience, going up from nazareth (the place of consecration) to the temple, where that intuition led him to a new realisation of his work. there is no sign that he knew in detail what that mission was; he went into no explanations to his mother. he started to do the work that was the nearest duty, and to teach those whom he found in the temple, astonishing them with his understanding and his answers. his mother, bewilder

than the average orthodox church seems willing to admit. the extent of this mission slowly dawned upon his young mind and he began, as all truly initiate sons of god must perforce do, to function as god's messenger as soon as the vision was recognised, and in the place where he was. having thus indicated his grasp of the future work, we read that "he went down with them (his parents, and came to nazareth (the place of renewed consecration, and was subject unto them. and jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with god and man."64 frequently in the gospel story, we find the word "down" occurring. christ went with his mother "down into egypt; he went "down to nazareth; and again and again he comes down from the mountain-top or from the place of solitude to do his duty among men

ness, unity, at-one-ment, completeness this is the hall mark of a perfect man. having once seen and with open eyes beheld the vision of divinity, what can we do? in this question our problem is voiced. what is the next step, the immediate duty of the man who knows that, in himself, the new birth has not yet taken place, but who feels in himself a readiness to go up to bethlehem, from galilee, via nazareth? it entails, in the first place, effort. it means initiative, the expenditure of energy, the overcoming of inertia, and the will to exert oneself so that the initial journey can be taken. it means listening for and obeying the insistent demand of the soul for a nearer approach to god and a fuller expression of divinity; and yet "every individual is at some point torn between the splendid

63- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust feeling, sentient man is first developed, and then the mind comes into active life. the baptism which christ gives his followers concerns the purification of the mind by fire. fire, under the universal symbolism of religion, is ever symbolic of the mind nature. this baptism by fire is the baptism of the holy spirit. thus jesus went up from nazareth and galilee to take the next step which was indicated in his experience. as the result of life experience and inner consecration, he was ready for the next initiation. this was taken in the river jordan. jordan means "that which descends" but also, according to some commentators, that which "divides" as a river divides and separates the land. in the symbolism of esotericism the word "rive

radually growing toward maturity. but there comes a time in the life of every initiate when choice must be made, and christ was faced with this. a clear, clean interior break is to be made with the past before we can face towards a future of service, consciously undertaken, and know that from that time on nothing will be the same. this initiation marked a tremendous change in the life of jesus of nazareth. up to that time, for thirty years, he had simply been the carpenter of the little town, and the son of his parents. he was a personality doing much good in a small sphere. but after the purification in jordan, having "fulfilled all righteousness,"12 he became the christ, and went about his country, serving the race and speaking those words which have moulded for centuries our western civ

to which the lives of god's saints in both hemispheres have ever testified. one wonders about the first man who received the first faint glimpse (with his dim inner light) of the infinite possibility lying ahead. he caught a glimpse of god, and from that minute the light from god waxed more and more intense. there is an ancient legend (and who shall say that it is not based on fact) that jesus of nazareth was the very first of our humanity, in a dim and far- 66- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust distant past, to catch this glimpse, and that he was, through the consistency of his constantly directed effort, the first of our humanity to emerge into the very light of god himself. st paul perhaps touched this truth when he spoke of christ as the "eldest in a vast family of b

rallels to earlier events. no man who has truly investigated with an open mind will deny that christ was an integral part of a great continuity of revelation. god has never "left himself without witness."1 and the salvation of mankind has always been close to the heart of the father. to quote one writer who seeks to prove this continuity "at the time of the life or recorded appearance of jesus of nazareth and for some centuries before, the mediterranean and neighbouring world had been the scene of a vast number of pagan- 109- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust creeds and rituals. there were temples without end dedicated to gods like apollo or dionysus among the greeks, hercules among the romans, mithra among the persians, adonis and arris in syria and phrygia, osiris and

christians were simple in this way because they loved one another, because they loved christ and the christ within each other. dr. grensted points this out in the following words, giving us a fine summation of the attitude of the early christians and of their approach, in those enthusiastic days, to christ and to life in the world "they spoke in plain terms of god. they did not think of jesus of nazareth as a crucial experiment. they knew him as friend and master, and they flung their whole being into the enthusiasm of his friendship and service. their preaching was the good news about jesus. they assumed that men already meant something when they spoke of god, and, without challenging the inheritance which they received from judaism, they set side by side with it the jesus whom they had

christ was human, he rose again. because he was also divine, he rose again, and in the enacting of the drama of resurrection he revealed to us that great concept of the continuity of unfoldment which it has ever been the task of the mysteries of all time to reveal. again and again we have found that the three episodes related in the gospel story are not isolated happenings in the life of jesus of nazareth, but that they have been repeatedly undergone in the secret places of the temples of the mysteries, from the dawn of time. the saviours of the past were all subjected to the processes of death in some form or other, but they all rose again or were translated to glory. in the initiation ceremonies this burial and resurrection at the end of three days was a familiar ceremonial. history tell

hing of christ's sacrifice upon the cross, but they say to those who seek the way "take up thy cross" and follow christ. to their fellow disciples they bring constantly the reminder that "except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone" and they set themselves the goal of the new birth. the bulk of the thinking, well-meaning men and women of the world are today going up from nazareth in galilee to bethlehem. some, perhaps more than one can estimate, are passing on their way to the baptism in jordan, whilst a few are valiantly climbing the mount of transfiguration. one here and there may be steadfastly setting his face to go to jerusalem, there to be crucified; but these are rare. most of us are learning, in the daily dying to self, to fit ourselves for the final cruci

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annot enter into that cosmic mind and vibrate in conscious unison with the divine idea nor grasp the plan as it is sensed and seen by the cosmic thinker. we have to work with the design, with the pattern, and with the plan, for we are only as yet in process of being initiated into that plan and we are not aware of the true significance of those great identifications which enabled the carpenter of nazareth to say "i and my father are one" but it must also be remembered (and herein lies the clue to world unfoldment and to the mystery of past, present and future) that we are dealing with matter-substance and with forms which are already conditioned, and which were conditioned when the creative process began. the material- 36- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii cop

e as the elect of god, the chosen of the lord, or the sole people to benefit by the sacrifice and death of the great son of god, and who pass, due to the merits of that vicarious death, into a state of bliss in heaven, simply because of an emotional choice, which ignores millions of those who have made no such choice, nor had the opportunity to do so. the symbolic activity of the great teacher of nazareth will be properly understood and its significance will be properly appreciated only when group implications are more carefully studied, the meaning of sacrifice and of death come into their rightful place in the human consciousness, and the law of giving, with all that that entails, is correctly understood and applied. those who thus sacrifice are: the solar deity who gave his life to the

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ancient tradition, is assertive of ecclesiastical authority, is responsive to outer forms and rituals and in spite of a wide and beneficent philanthropy is quite unable to leave her children free. if the catholic church can change her techniques, can relinquish authority over the souls of men (which she has never truly had) and can really follow the way of the saviour, of the humble carpenter of nazareth, she can render a world service and set an example which will serve to enlighten the followers of every faith and of every branch of christianity. the problem of the freedom of the human soul and its individual relation to god immanent and god transcendent is the spiritual problem, facing all the world religions at this time. no longer must the churches interpose their authority and their

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st stage, but it has to be mastered prior to the assistance of the master in the inner ashram; he is to the group what the monad is to the disciple, ever seeking to bring about the esoteric "renunciation" of the causal vehicle. this point of tension has to be held in high vibratory activity all through the process of transference. i would remind you that the outstanding characteristic of jesus of nazareth, throughout the period prior to the crucifixion, was one of complete silence; here is where the efficacy of the fourth quality mentioned by me appears. the group, at this stage, is so preoccupied with the task ahead and so conscious of the need for preserving a united and uniform tension, that "the silence of the secret place" settles on it and the work can then proceed apace. when this p

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facts as they are recorded in the archaic symbols[[footnote(s* in isis unveiled several of these gnostic systems are given. one is taken from the codex nazaraeus, the scriptures of the nazarenes, who, although they existed long before the days of christ, and even before the laws of moses, were gnostics, and many of them initiates. they held their "mysteries of life" in nazara (ancient and modern nazareth, and their doctrines are a faithful echo of the teachings of the secret doctrine- some of which we are now endeavouring to explain* see the translation from the greek by francois, monsieur de foix, evesque d'ayre: the work dedicated to marguerite de france, reine de navarre. edition of 1579, bordeaux[[vol. 2, page] 97 the trees of life (b) these "shadows" were born "each of his own colour

arnations, i.e, krishna is identified with the rishi narayana, and gautama gives a series of his previous births; and why the former, especially, being "the very supreme brahma" is yet called amsamsavatara "a part of a part" only of the supreme on earth. finally, why osiris is a great god, and at the same time a "prince on earth" who reappears in thoth-hermes, and why jesus (in hebrew, joshua) of nazareth is recognised, cabalistically, in joshua, the son of nun, as well as in other personages. the esoteric doctrine explains it by saying that each of these (as many others) had first appeared on earth as one of the seven powers of the logos, individualized as a god or "angel (messenger; then, mixed with matter, they had re-appeared in turn as great sages and instructors who "taught the fifth

igious doctrines of the gnostics that the real meaning of the dragon, the serpent, the goat, and all those symbols of powers now called evil, can be seen the best; as it is they who divulged the esoteric nature of the jewish substitute for ain-soph in their teachings; of the true meaning of which, while the rabbins concealed it, the christians, with a few exceptions, knew nothing. surely jesus of nazareth would have hardly advised his apostles to show themselves as wise as the serpent, had the latter been a symbol of the evil one; nor would the ophites, the learned egyptian gnostics of "the brotherhood of the serpent" have reverenced a living snake in their ceremonies as the emblem of wisdom, the divine sophia (and a type of the all-good, not the all-bad, were that reptile so closely conne

unconscious blunder, nevertheless, it was one. jehovah has ever been in antiquity only "a god among other gods (lxxxii. psalm. the lord appears to abraham, and while saying "i am the almighty god" yet adds "i will establish my covenant to be a god unto thee (abraham, and unto his seed after him (gen. xvii. 7- not unto aryan europeans. but then, there was the grandiose and ideal figure of jesus of nazareth to be set off against a dark background, to gain in radiance by the contrast; and a darker one the church could hardly invent. lacking the old testament symbology, ignorant of the real connotation of the name of jehovah- the rabbinical secret substitute for the ineffable and unpronounceable name- the church mistook the cunningly fabricated shadow for the reality, the anthropomorphized gen

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e existence of a first ante-historical (roman) catholicism of which our own is but the faithful continuation. but while the former was the culmination, the summum of the impudence of demons and goetic necromancy. the latter is divine. if in our (christian) revelation (l'apocalypse, mary, clothed with the sun and having the moon under her feet, has nothing more in common with the humble servant of nazareth (sic, it is because she has now become the greatest of theological and cosmological powers in our universe (archaeol. de la vierge, pp. 116 and 119, and by the marquis de mirville. verily so, since pindar's hymns to minerva (p. 19 "who sits at the right hand of her father jupiter, and who is more powerful than all the other (angels or) gods" are likewise applied to the virgin. it is st. b

l of all the past, present, and future spiritual saviours who dispense light and dispel mental darkness? christian symbologists have tried to prove that it was that of ephraim (joseph's son, the elect of jacob, that therefore, it was at the moment of the sun entering into the sign of the fish (pisces) that "the elect messiah, the[[ichthus] of the first christians, had to be born. but, if jesus of nazareth was that messiah- was he really born at that "moment" or was he made to be so born by the adaptation of theologians, who sought only to make their preconceived ideas fit in with sidereal facts and popular belief? everyone knows that the real time and year of the birth of jesus are totally unknown. and it is the jews, whose forefathers have made the word dag signify both "fish" and "messia

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e house of virgo the virgin (the house of delilah) at the start of autumn, this sun-man would have his hair cut shorter as the power of the sun began to fade. this is the real story of samson. he was not a real person, but symbolic of the sun. samson, like jesus, st paul, and many other biblical characters, was said to be a nazarene or nazarite. here we have the true meaning of the term "jesus of nazareth" or "jesus the nazarene. the town of nazareth did not exist during the alleged life of jesus. there is no mention of it in any records or on any maps, even though detailed roman records were kept at that time. it was founded after the gospel stories were circulating. the nazarite sect banned the cutting of hair, except in certain solar rituals, because the hair represented the rays of the

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which has manipulated itsway through history. in keeping with this, black has become the colour associated withauthority (look at the legal profession) and with death. it is also the traditional colour ofthe teaching profession with the black gown and the black hat called the mortar board,which is the circle and square symbol of freemasonry. the greatest miracle of jesus, itseems, was coming from nazareth because nazareth did not exist at the time. and jesussaid: let there be nazareth. and there was nazareth. or rather, there wasnt. thename does not appear in any of the detailed roman records, nor in any books, writingsor documents of any kind relating to the period covered by the gospels. jesus thenazarene does not relate to nazareth, but to the nazarene secret society.the essenes-therape

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trial of the knights templar and the suppression of the various gnostic heresies were only a foreshadowing, however, of the witch-hunts and inquisitions which spanned the 14th to 17th centuries as the church condemned anyone suspected of paganism or witchcraft to death by burning. as the people labored under the oppression of the church, some began to see satan as a preferable master to jesus of nazareth. the church condemned every natural inclination as sinful and wicked. the only way to salvation, the people were told, was denial of the flesh and obedience to the church and state. it is questionable whether or not there was a single satanist before the inquisition, but as a result of christian oppression (and repression) the cult of satanism and practice of witchcraft and magic develope

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

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o clearly shown in her interior castle. he will fall into the error, however, of thinking that the images he perceives and the experiences he undergoes are the direct and personal dealings of god with his soul, instead of realising that they are stages on the path. he will find a personal saviour in the god-man instead of in the regenerative influence of the christ-force. he will worship jesus of nazareth as god the father, thus confounding the persons. 13. chesed, then, is the sphere of the formulation of the archetypal idea; the apprehension by consciousness of an abstract concept which is subsequently brought down the planes and concreted in the light of experience of the concretion of analogous abstract ideas. equally, in its macrocosmic aspect, it reprents a corresponding phase in the

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on. in discovering that reality behind the illusion, humans discover their essence as equal to the divine reality and perceive that their highest purpose is in knowledge of that ground of being. they see in master teacher a person who facilitates the enlightenment of those around him. the church teaches that a course in miracles is a contemporary restatement by christ of the teachings of jesus of nazareth. church members have come into an experience of the divine reality and are attempting to learn always with that reality and out of that reality. in the real world, fear and evil do not exist. in that reality love is perfected and joy established. they also believe that a process of transformation is going on in their encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. new christian church

v. nancy castillo, 5903 seminole blvd, seminole, fl 33542. sources: gerling, helene. healthy intuitive development. new york: exposition press, 1971. universal life.the inner religion universal life.the inner religion began in 1977 to spread the message of contemporary german channel gabriele wittek (b. 1930. in 1975, according to wittek, the same spirit of christ who had been present in jesus of nazareth stepped into her life and chose her as his prophetic instrument for this generation. he disclosed his intention to lead his children back to their eternal home and to build the kingdom of god on earth. wittek organized the homebringing mission of jesus christ, the original name of the new religion. wittek, a wurzburg housewife, received an awakening experience in 1970 when she saw the spi

ath experiences, which have led to similar life transformations, though without the feeling of being a different person. montgomery claims she received the concept of walk-ins from her guides, a group of evolved entities from whom montgomery had channeled material for many years. according to her guides, many of the world s leading figures have been walk-ins, including moses, joseph, and jesus of nazareth. more recent leaders include muhammad, christopher columbus, abraham lincoln, joseph smith jr, mary baker eddy, and many of the founders of the american nation, notably george washington, alexander hamilton, benjamin franklin, thomas jefferson, james madison, and abigail adams. none of the outstanding people from history identified by montgomery as walk-ins left any hint of having experie

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strife cosmic awareness communications, which had the strongest links to the earliest group, emerged the strongest. based in olympia, washington, it survives today and maintains a sometimes controversial presence on the new age scene. its head, paul shockley, continues to channel teachings from awareness. his organization characterizes awareness as the force that expressed itself through jesus of nazareth, the buddha, krishna, mohammed and other great avatars who served as channels for what is commonly known as god, and which expresses itself once again as the world begins to enter the new age of spiritual consciousness and awareness( cosmic awareness communications, 1994. awareness teaches that the united states of america came into being through intervention with the founding fathers. th

ne: 11 13. vallee, jacques, 1969. passport to magonia: from folklore to flying saucers. chicago: henry regnery company. marian apparitions visions of the blessed virgin mary (bvm) have been reported since at least the third century of the christian era. the first for which there is anything approximating detailed knowledge dates back to 1061 when the bvm provided a vision of christ s residence in nazareth and directed the witness, the lady of the manor in walsingham, norfolk, to see that a precise copy was constructed on the spot. a few visions are well known, and the roman catholic church has granted official recognition to a small number, though it has rejected the vast majority as delusional. bvm encounters are far from rare. every year several occur around the world. with very few exce

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

themes by agrippa. thus agrippa had discussed solitude and tranquillity of life as necessary for the religious experience, quoting moses' vision in solitude, and proclus on rising to the vision of the intelligible essence in solitude.7 this becomes the basis of bruno's first "contraction" mentioning among those who in solitude have achieved the vision and gained marvellous powers, moses, jesus of nazareth, ramon lull, and the leisured contemplators amongst the egyptians and babylonians, and he introduces attacks on those who have destroyed the leisure and peace necessary for the con- 1 see below, pp. 284-5. 21 give the work this title to cover its three parts; see above, p. 205, note 1. 3 see above, p. 206* it will be treated more fully in the book which i hope to write on the art of memor

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

elsus was undoubtedly right when he declared that the primitive christian church was possessed of a secret system, and weishaupt, the supposed founder of the illuminati, may not have been altogether wrong when he said: no one. has so cleverly concealed the high meaning of his teaching, and no one finally has so surely and easily directed men on to the path of freedom, as our great master jesus of nazareth. this secret meaning and natural consequence of his teaching he hid completely, for jesus had a secret doctrine, as we see in more than one place of the scriptures.9 whether this is so or not, there can be no doubt whatever that the bible is a mystical work containing a secret doctrine which is only known to those who have been initiated into it. what part of this doctrine is will be disc

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

e commands of baruch which elohim issued. and in place of this power babel, or venus, envelops him in her own peculiar robe, that is, in the power of edem, who is the power below; and in this way the prophecy of hercules remained unfulfilled and his work" as men were still bound by the power of edem, or the devil, in the days of herod the king, baruch was again dispatched by elohim, and coming to nazareth delivered his message to jesus, son of joseph and mary. nass, who, as we have seen, was the evil spirit in edem, wished to entice away jesus also. he was not, however, disposed to listen but remained faithful to baruch. naas, overcome by anger at not being able to seduce him, caused him to be crucified "he, leaving the body of edem on the accursed tree, ascended to the good one; saying to

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

the messages.thesibyls the sibyls were a group of prophetic females who were' considered to be inspired by the gods; they were consulted byithe rich and powerful, by both the learned and the ignorant.a,large collection of their inspired messages have come down to us in greek words: these have been regarded with great interest because some of the verses are said to have been propheticalof'jesus of nazareth, as the saviour. in the tneidof virgil we: find an account of the sibyl of cumee, who led tneas through: hell: this lady is also said to have gone to the king of rome" tarquinius superbus, and to have offered him for sale nine books of oracles and mysterious secrets at a great price; he refused to buy them. she burnt three of them and returnedtothe king and offered him the six at the same

fficers of pharaoh, and nebuchadnezzar. the new testament has a mention of one dream of great interest, that of the wife of pontius pilate in matthew xxvii. 19, and of the five dreams of joseph the husband of mary and mother of jesus, announcing the conception, and warning him against herod, telling him to flee into egypt, and again to return to the land of israel, and lastly to go to the town of nazareth. christianity the whole tendency of the teachings of the christian faith has beentocondemn as unholy all magical arts and all attempts atdivination and its history 209divination of future events, and to impress upon believers that faith and good works are alone necessary to salvation, and that god always sends to man that which is most fitting for him in this life, and as he hides from us

ar to have taught forms of religion, some ethics and morality, and others important truths of nature. may we so think of zoroaster, of gautama the288themagicalmasonbuddha, of hermes trismegistus of egypt, of lao tze and confucius, of pythagoras, of socrates and plato, of st paul and of st john the divine: may we above all speak of the divine incarnation of the christ godinthe humanity of jesus of nazareth, who taught us to love the supreme being, and do unto each other as we wish others to do to ourselves, or of st paul, who said 'know ye not that ye are the temple of god, or as the rosicrucians used to phrase it,'thetemple of god is within you' the divine christ in the human form of jesus appeared among the hebrews, a race notable for the constant efforts of its prophets and poets to disc

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e agent of redemption and the primary symbol of gnosis. the ophites (from the greek word for serpent, ophis, like many modern gnostic groups, ourselves included, believe that the serpent of the genesis story was a representative for the lord of light (as was jesus, while the creator depicted in the old testament was seen as the demiurge. it has been suggested that since there was no town known as nazareth existing in the first century common era, that the epithet nazarene may actually be naasarene which means the serpentine and refers to jesus ancestry within the gnostic communion. the iconography of the serpent links the gnostics with the earliest occult traditions. in ancient egypt the serpent was the symbol of duality, it was both creative and destructive. since it had both a forked ton

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or deceiving me in any wise; through the virtue of our lord and saviour jesus christ, in whose name i attend, waiting for and expecting your appearance. fiat, fiat, fiat. amen. interrogations: comest thou in peace, in the name of the father, and of the son, and of thc holy ghost yes. thou art welcome, noble spirit. what is thy name? turiel. i have called thee here, turiel, in the name of jesus of nazareth, at whose name every knee doth bow, both of things in heaven, earth, and heil, and every tongue shall confess there is no name like unto the name of jesus, who hath given power unto man to bind and to loose all things in his name, yea, even unto them that trust in his salvation. art thou the messeager of setchiel yes wilt thou confirm thyself unto me at this time, and from henceforward re

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any ethical system that you carry out in the society? a. the ethics are there, ready and clear enough for whomsoever would follow them. they are the essence and cream of the world's ethics, gathered from the teachings of all the world's great reformers. therefore, you will find represented therein confucius and zoroaster, lao-tzu and the bhagavad-gita, the precepts of gautama buddha and jesus of nazareth, of hillel and his school, as of pythagoras, socrates, plato, and their schools. q. do the members of your society carry out these precepts? i have heard of great dissensions and quarrels among them. a. very naturally, since although the reform (in its present shape) may be called new, the men and women to be reformed are the same human, sinning natures as of old. as already said, the ear

that they, too, will perish by the sword. christ has given you one prayer of which you have made a lip prayer and a boast, and which none but the true occultist understands. in it you say, in your dead-sense meaning "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors" which you never do. again, he told you to love your enemies and do good to them that hate you. it is surely not the "meek prophet of nazareth" who taught you to pray to your "father" to slay, and give you victory over your enemies! this is why we reject what you call "prayers" q. but how do you explain the universal fact that all nations and peoples have prayed to, and worshiped a god or gods? some have adored and propitiated devils and harmful spirits, but this only proves the universality of the belief in the efficacy of pray

nd -ooo- on self-sacrifice q. is equal justice to all and love to every creature the highest standard of theosophy? a. no; there is an even far higher one. q. what can it be? a. the giving to others more than to oneself-self-sacrifice. such was the standard and abounding measure which marked so preeminently the greatest teachers and masters of humanity-e.g, gautama buddha in history, and jesus of nazareth as in the gospels. this trait alone was enough to secure to them the perpetual reverence and gratitude of the generations of men that come after them. we say, however, that self-sacrifice has to be performed with discrimination; and such a self-abandonment, if made without justice, or blindly, regardless of subsequent results, may often prove not only made in vain, but harmful. one of the

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another fascinating path of influence into traditional craft, namely that of gypsy beliefs. indeed, i recall once being told the tale of the uncooling nail by a romany fellow- on the night before christ s crucifixion, soldiers were sent out to have four long nails forged for the deed. they approached jewish, greek, and roman smiths, but each refused once they had heard the nails were for jesus of nazareth s crucifixion. outside the city gates the soldiers found a romany smith. he didn t ask the need for the long nails so late at night; he just needed the money. the smith obliged and began making the nails, one by one. however, whilst heating the fourth nail in the fire, he asked who they were for. on learning they were for christ s crucifixion, the gypsy ceased his work abrup tly and fled

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ble in eun^ 635- index i genenl index ii digitizecoy google author's preface to volume u tttere it possible, we would keep this work out of the hands of* many christians whom its perusal would not benefit, and for whom it was not written. we allude to those whose faith in their respect- ive churches is pure and sincere, and those whose sinless lives reflect the glorious example of that prophet of nazareth, by whose mouth the spirit of truth spake loudly to humanity. sueh there have been at all times. history preserves the names of many as heroes, philosophers, philan- thropists, martyrs, and holy men and women; but how many more have lived and died, unknown but to their intimate acquaintance, unblessed but by their humble beneficiaries! these have ennobled christianity, but would have shed

by the acumen of any observer" he says "they were, we are told, ignominiously killed by a stake being driven through the body; but experience showed them to have such temunty of life that they rose again and again, notwithstanding renewed impalement, and were not ultimately laid to rest till wholly burned. in like manner, the regenerated heathendom, which dominates over the followers of jesus of nazareth, has risen again and again, after bang transfixed. still cherished by the many, it is denounced by the few. amongst other accusers, i raise my voice against the paganism which exists so extensively in ecclesiastical christianity, and will do my utmost to expose the imposture "in a vampire story, told in thalaba by soutbey, the resuscitated being takes the form of a dearly beloved maiden

. cod. nai. i, p. 47. 268. i, p. 56; norbccg: owtnaoicoti, p. 74. 2eq. alphounia testaments 133 cornea clear why jesus was treated with such contempt from the first, and deprecatingly called "the galilean" nathaniel inquiies, at the very beginning of his career" can there any good thing come out of nazareth (john, i, 46) and merely because he knows himhebrew religionists, but rather a class of chaldoean theurgistsp besides, as the new testament is noted for its mistranslations and trans- parent falsifications of texta, we may justly suspect that the word naza- reth was substituted for that of nataria, or tw

nquires "why then does matthew state that the prophet said he should be called nasariaf" simply "because he belonged to that sect, and a prophecy would confirm his claims to the mesaiahship. now it does aot appear that the prophets anywhere state that the messiah will be called a nazcavne* he fact aloue that matthew tries in the last verse of chapter ii to strengthen his claim that jesus dwelt in nazareth merely to fulfil a prophecy, doea more than weaken the argument, it upsets it entirely; for the first two chapters have sufficiently been proved to be later forgeries. b^tism is one of the oldest rites and was practised by all the nations in their mysteries, as sacred ablutions. dunlap seems to derive the name of the ntaari from nazah, sprinkling" bahak-zivo is the genins who called the w

bly to the fact, that except a handful of self- styled christians who sulsequently won the day, all the civilized por- tion of the pagans who knew of jesus honored him as a philosopher, an adeja whom they placed on the same level with i^rthagoras and apollonius. whence such a veneration on their part for a man, were he simply, as represented by the synoptics, a poor, unknown jewish carpenter from nazareth? as an incarnated god there is no mn^ record of him on tiiis earth capable of withstanding the critical examina- tion of science; as one jesus is one of the grandest and most clearly-defined figures on the panorama of human history. h

hus shaming his lord and christ-god. 3. if jesus did wear his hair long and "parted in the middle of the forehead, after the fashion of the nazarenes (as well as of john, the only one of his apostles who fol- lowed it, then we have one good reason more to say that jesus must have belonged to the sect of the nazarenes, and been called nasaria for this reason and not because he was an inhabitant of nazareth, for they never wore their hair long. the nazarite, who separated himself unto the lord, allowed "no razor to come upon his head "he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow" says num- bera (vi, 5. samson was a nazarite, i. e, vowed to the service of god, and in his hair was his strength "no razor shall come upon his head; the child shall be a nazarite unto god

sesses this privilege" repeats plato, with a slight variation* six centuries before christ, the chinese philosopher confucius said that his doctrine was simple and easy to comprehend l^n-yh, chap, v, f 15. to which one of his disciples added "the doctrine of our master consists in having an invariable correctness of heart, and in doing toward others as we would that they should do to us "jesus of nazareth, a man approved of god among you by mira- cles" exclaims peter, long after the scene of calvary "there was a man sent from god, whose name was john^ says the fourth gospel, thus placing the baptist on an equality with jesus. john the baptist, in one of the most solenm acts of his life, that of baptizing christ, thinks not that he is going to baptize a god, but uses the word man "this is h

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when came forth from the portal a dread form, crimson-dyed with blood, they were cut down like wheat, standing unresisting before the scythe. so did jesu escape the wrath of herod. the child, in egypt, abided seven years and then, when the tetrarch had but forgotten 333 all that misery his hand had wrought was jesu restored to the land of israel and returned to his mother's town which was called nazareth. there did he grow and become a man. even as he did grow to manhood again and again descended gabriel from heaven to instruct him in many arts and to inscribe upon his soul belief in a great destiny that he might win for himself the faith of those born isaac and those that i had not surrendered. when he was of fifteen years went forth jesu into the wilderness and there, in the desert, wit

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concerning his doctrine of the unity of god, for god is man, and he said therefore: man is one. and his will was to unite all men in one reasonable faith: to make possible international co-operation in science. yet, because he arose in the time of the greatest possible corruption and darkness, when every civilisation and every religion had fallen into ruin, by the malice of the great sorcerer of nazareth, as some say, he is still hidden in the dust of the simoom, and we may not perceive him in his true self of glory. nevertheless, behold, o my son, this mystery. his true word was la allh, that is to say (there is) no god, and la al is that mystery of mysteries which thine own eye pierced in thine initiation. and of that truth have the illusion and falsehood enslaved the souls of men, as i

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acacia. in describing this sacred tree, albert pike has written "the genuine acacia, also, is the thorny tamarisk, the same tree which grew around the body of osiris. it was a sacred tree among the arabs, who made of it the idol al-uzza, which mohammed destroyed. it is abundant as a bush in the desert of thur; and of it the 'crown of thorns' was composed, which was set on the forehead of jesus of nazareth. it is a fit type of immortality on account of its tenacity of life; for it has been known, when planted as a door-post, to take root again and shoot out budding boughs above the threshold (see morals and dogma) it is quite possible that much of the veneration accorded the acacia is due to the peculiar attributes of the mimosa, or sensitive plant, with which it was often identified by the

earance. fiat, fiat, fiat. amen, amen, amen "interrogatories [having summoned the spirit unto his presence, the magician shall question him as follows"'comest thou in peace in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost [and the spirit shall answer 'yes"'thou art welcome, noble spirit. what is thy name [and the spirit shall answer 'pabiel"'i have called thee in the name of jesu of nazareth at whose name every knee doth bow in heaven, earth, and hell, and every tongue shall confess there is no name like unto the name of jesus, who hath given power unto man to bind and to loose all things in his most holy name, yea even unto those that trust in his salvation"'art thou the messenger of zadkiel [and the spirit shall answer 'yes"'wilt thou confirm thyself unto me at this time an

nscendency of their intellectual genius, still in the mystic temple of freemasonry these godmen live again in their words and symbols; and the candidate, passing through the initiations, feels himself face to face with these illumined hierophants of days long past. next: mystic christianity sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 177 mystic christianity the true story of the life of jesus of nazareth has never been unfolded to the world, either in the accepted gospels or in the apocrypha, although a few stray hints may be found in some of the commentaries written by the ante-nicene fathers. the facts concerning his identity and mission are among the priceless mysteries preserved to this day in the secret vaults beneath the "houses of the brethren" to a few of the knights templars, who

eed of the essenians, in holiness and love, for many generations. then came the chief of the angels, according to the commandment of god, to raise up an heir to the voice of jehovah. and, in four generations more, an heir was born, and named joshua, and he was the child of joseph and mara, devout worshippers of jehovah, who stood aloof from all other people save the essenians. and this joshua, in nazareth, reestablished jehovah, and restored many of the lost rites and ceremonies. in the thirty-sixth year of his age he was stoned to death in jerusalem" click to enlarge the round table of king arthur. from jennings' the rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries. according to tradition, arthur, when a boy of fifteen, was crowned king of britain, in a.d. 516. soon after his ascension to the thro

g the neo-platonism they found in europe, and gradually working back to aristotle" what means the subtle mystery of the phoenix reborn every six hundred years? faintly from within the sanctuary of the world mysteries is whispered the answer. six hundred years before christ the phoenix of wisdom (pythagoras) spread its wings and died upon the altar of humanity, consumed by the sacrificial fire. in nazareth the bird was again reborn from its own ashes, only to die upon the tree which had its roots in adam's skull. in a.d. 600 appeared ahmed (mohammed. again the phoenix suffered, this time from the poison of kheibar, and from its charred ashes rose to spread its wings across the face of mongolia, where in the twelfth century genghis khan established the rule of wisdom. circling the mighty des

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g: represented by the mystic character [mystic character: y. the genuine _acacia, also, is the thorny tamarisk, the same tree which grew up around the body of osiris. it was a sacred tree among the arabs, who made of it the idol al-uzza, which mohammed destroyed. it is abundant as a bush in the desert of thur: and of it the "crown of thorns" was composed, which was set on the forehead of jesus of nazareth. it is a fit type of immortality on account of its tenacity of life; for it has been known, when planted as a door-post, to take root again and shoot out budding boughs over the threshold* every commonwealth must have its periods of trial and transition, especially if it engages in war. it is certain at some time to be wholly governed by agitators appealing to all the baser elements of th

at intervals from the darkness to smite and crush humanity: but a god, good, kind, beneficent, and merciful: a father, loving the creatures he has made, with a love immeasureable and exhaustless; who feels for us, and sympathizes with us, and sends us pain and want and disaster only that they may serve to develop in us the virtues and excellences that befit us to live with him hereafter. jesus of nazareth, the "son of man" is the expounder of the new law of love. he calls to him the humble, the poor, the pariahs of the world. the first sentence that he pronounces blesses the world, and announces the new gospel "blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted" he pours the oil of consolation and peace upon every crushed and bleeding heart. every sufferer is his proselyte. he shares

e of any faith. we do not tell the moslem that it is only important for him to believe that there is but one god, and wholly unessential whether mahomet was his prophet. we do not tell the hebrew that the messiah whom he expects was born in bethlehem nearly two thousand years ago; and that he is a heretic because he will not so believe. and as little do we tell the sincere christian that jesus of nazareth was but a man like us, or his history but the unreal revival of an older legend. to do either is beyond our jurisdiction. masonry, of no one age, belongs to all time; of no one religion, it finds its great truths in all. to every mason, there is a god; one, supreme, infinite in goodness, wisdom, foresight, justice, and benevolence; creator, disposer, and preserver of all things. how, or b

it need to inquire. nor is it within its province to determine how the ultimate triumph of light and truth and good, over darkness and error and evil, is to be achieved; nor whether the redeemer, looked and longed for by all nations, hath appeared in judea, or is yet to come. it reverences all the great reformers. it sees in moses, the lawgiver of the jews, in confucius and zoroaster, in jesus of nazareth, and in the arabian iconoclast, great teachers of morality, and eminent reformers, if no more: and allows every brother of the order to assign to each such higher and even divine character as his creed and truth require. thus masonry disbelieves no truth, and teaches unbelief in no creed, except so far as such creed may lower its lofty estimate of the deity, degrade him to the level of th

continually enter into and form part of the habitations of new souls, creating new bonds of sympathy and brotherhood between each man that lives and all his race. and thus, in the bread we eat, and in the wine we drink to-night _may_ enter into and form part of us the identical particles of matter that once formed parts of the material bodies called moses, confucius, plato, socrates, or jesus of nazareth. in the truest sense, we eat and drink the bodies of the dead; and cannot say that there is a single atom of our blood or body, the ownership of which some other soul might not dispute with us. it teaches us also the infinite beneficence of god who sends us seed-time and harvest, each in its season, and makes his showers to fall and his sun to shine alike upon the evil and the good: besto

ral _names_ of the ineffable, into their several _sounds..an _echo_ of the pleroma falls down into the [hule, and becomes the forming of a new but lower creation. one formula of the pneumatical baptism among the gnostics ran thus "in the name which is hidden from all the divinities and powers [of the demiurge "the name of truth [the??e?a [aletheia, self-manifestation of the buthos, which jesus of nazareth has put on in the light-zones of christ, the living christ, through the holy ghost, for the redemption of the angels--the name by which all things attain to perfection. the candidate then said "i am established and redeemed; i am redeemed in my soul from this world, and from all that belongs to it, by the name of, who has redeemed the soul of jesus by the living christ. the assembly then

word; the kabalists, of the triads of the sephiroth. while the disciples of simon magus, and the many sects of the gnostics, confuse us with their _eons, emanations, powers, wisdom superior_ and _inferior, ialdabaoth, adam-kadmon, even to the three hundred and sixty-five thousand emanations of the malda tes. and while the pious christian believes that the word dwelt in the mortal body of jesus of nazareth, and suffered upon the cross; and that the holy ghost was poured out upon the apostles, and now inspires every truly christian soul. while all these faiths assert their claims to the exclusive possession of the truth. masonry inculcates its old doctrine, and no more. that god is one; that his thought uttered in his word, created the universe, and preserves it by those eternal laws which a

god, which were only temporary and provisional. a man who has a higher conception of god than those about him, and who denies that their conception _is_ god, is very likely to be called an atheist by men who are really far less believers in a god than he. thus the christians, who said the heathen idols were no gods, were accounted atheists by the people, and accordingly put to death; and jesus of nazareth was crucified as an unbelieving blasphemer, by the jews. there is a mere formal atheism, which is a denial of god in _terms, but not in _reality. a man says, there is no god; that is, no god that is self-originated, or that never originated, but always was and had been, who is the cause of existence, who is the mind and the providence of the universe; and so the order, beauty, and harmony

cross of knighthood is a symbol of the nine qualities of a knight of st. andrew of scotland; for every order of chivalry required of its votaries the same virtues and the same excellencies. humility, patience, and self-denial are the three essential qualities of a knight of st. andrew of scotland. the cross, sanctified by the blood of the holy ones who have died upon it; the cross, which jesus of nazareth bore, fainting, along the streets of jerusalem and up to calvary, upon which he cried "not my will, o father! but thine be done" is an unmistakable and eloquent symbol of these three virtues. he suffered upon it, because he consorted with and taught the poor and lowly, and found his disciples among the fishermen of galilee and the despised publicans. his life was one of humility, patience

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tell your brothers that it is your desire that this construction be undertaken i am convinced that the action you inspire from your bed will be greater than that of any army."8 in fact, the fortress was rapidly erected under the direction of the templar raymond de caro. it came to govern some 260 caserns and a rural populace of more then 10,000 and guaranteed the safety of the pilgrimage roads to nazareth and other sanctuaries in galilee.9 in 1243, following an accord reached with the malek of damascus, the franks took possession of the whole of jerusalem, after which the templars set about building a fortified castle there.10 the construction activities of the templars were not confined to the holy land, however. they erected churches and chapels throughout all 66 the origins of freemason

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

importance. few, however, take time out to apply basic qabalistic and magical principles to elucidate its meaning. so in order to convey some idea of elementary meanings, i have decided to show the student what can be done with these four english letters ln.r.1. they are, of course, the initials of a latin phrase once placed by the romans at the head of the cross representing the phrase "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews" several other theological meanings to these letters have been given at different periods in history by various groups of people and scholars. for example, the medieval alchemists suggested that i.n.r.i. meant "igne natura renovatur integra "the whole of nathre is renewed by fire" another example of about the same period elaborated the four letters to "igne nitrum raris

s one 94 the golden dawn: volume i book one of them. as he thus traverses the long road to dispassionate self <188> knowled e, and no longer has to waste energy in doing battle for and indu 7 ging wounded feelings in defence of a totally false idea of himself, he is led to meditate on the varied symbols of the cross, and from this to contemplate the crucified one, revealed to the west as jesus of nazareth. this life and the sayings of jesus given in the meditation should be studied and pictured in the mind. the mind must be taught to die to useless churnings over ast things and vain apprehensions about future things. this is difficult !or human phantasies die hard, but once the effort is made, however transient the result, it becomes easier with time to replace wasteful thoughts with those

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own- the potential for awareness and free will which is the true legacy of the prince of darkness- persists. caught between two realms, they cannot be true to either and thus betray both. they are described most accurately as metaphysical demagogues, and most politely as dilettantes misrepresenting superficial scholarship as knowledge. history someone christ, king of the jews the name of jesus of nazareth, to put it mildly, is one not unknown to magical societies. we have all heard it, heard it, and heard it any number of times from any number of people, and in ways ranged from the best of intentions to threats. it gets no better as time passes and you progress. after all, puritanism was once described as a terrible suspicion that someone somewhere might be happy, and the same applies equa

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fe span of the greek philosopher socrates. c. 428 348 bce life span of the greek philosopher plato. 384 322 bce life span of the greek philosopher aristotle. c. third century bce period in which the major text of daoism, the dao de jing, is likely written. c. 273 c. 232 bce the emperor ashoka of maurya, in present-day india, begins to spread buddhism beyond the borders of india. c. 6 bce jesus of nazareth, also known as jesus christ, is born. c. 30 ce jesus christ is put to death by crucifixion by roman authorities in jerusalem. 70 ce roman troops crush the great revolt by occupying jerusalem, massacring jews, and destroying the second temple. 142 revelations given to the holy man zhang daoling (also spelled chang tao-ling, who becomes the first of the great celestial masters in daoism. 22

ng. priests, ministers, and other clergy lead the faithful in christianity, while monks and nuns do much the same in buddhism. christians worship god the father. buddhism, though it has no supreme being, has world religions: almanac 11 what is religion? many deities in the mahayana branch and also reveres the state of enlightenment, or buddhahood, as godlike and at one with the universe. jesus of nazareth was the founder of christianity, while siddartha gautama, who was known by the title of the buddha or enlightened one, was the founder of buddhism. christians acknowledge jesus as the divine son of god, and the buddha, though he firmly denied being divine during his lifetime, has become godlike to many of his followers. such a brief comparison can be made for most major religions. similar

ts.com/buddhism/index.htm (accessed on may 7, 2006. friends of the western buddhist order. http//www.fwbo.org/index.html (accessed on may 7, 2006. introduction to buddhism. http//www.ship.edu/ cgboeree/buddhaintro.html (accessed on may 7, 2006. world religions: almanac 117 buddhism this page intentionally left blank 6 christianity christianity is a religion built on the life and words of jesus of nazareth (c. 6 bce c. 30 ce, also known as jesus christ. christianity is founded on the ideas of personal salvation (deliverance from sin) and eternal life for its followers. the bible is its chief sacred text, and there are three main branches: roman catholicism, the eastern orthodox church, and protestantism. modern christianity is further divided into an estimated twenty-two thousand different

ianity is, as huston smith notes in the religions of man, the life of a little-known jewish carpenter who. was born in a stable, died at the age of thirty-three as a criminal rather than a hero, never traveled more than ninety miles from his birthplace, owned nothing, attended no college, marshaled no army, and instead of producing books did his only writing in the sand. it was this man, jesus of nazareth, who so affected people that a religion was built around his words and actions. in the early twenty-first century christianity now includes one-third of the world s population as believers. 119 words to know atonement: in christianity, the sacrifice and death of jesus christ to redeem humankind from its sins. baptism: a religious ceremony in which a person is dipped in or sprinkled with w

e particularly holy and worthy. salvation: the deliverance of human beings from sin through jesus christ s death on the cross. trinity: in christianity, the union of the father, son, and holy spirit as three divine persons in one god. virgin birth: the christian belief that jesus christ was the son of god and born of a virgin mother. 120 world religions: almanac christianity the historic jesus of nazareth jesus was a jewish teacher and healer from the first century ce. although jesus is accepted as an actual historical figure, there is little known about him outside the stories found in the bible. according to the bible, jesus was born in a stable in the town of bethlehem, near jerusalem, to a young woman named mary and a carpenter named joseph. little is known of jesus s childhood or yout

rusalem, to a young woman named mary and a carpenter named joseph. little is known of jesus s childhood or youth. according to the bible, at age twelve he was taken on a trip to jerusalem and became separated from his parents for a time. he was finally found in the temple, where he was listening to and questioning jewish scholars. by his late twenties jesus began his teaching near his hometown of nazareth in northern palestine. he traveled all over galilee, gathering disciples (persons who accept and assist in spreading the teachings of a leader, including the fishermen simon (renamed peter, or rock in greek, by jesus) and andrew. soon he had gathered twelve disciples who traveled with him as he spread a message of love, acceptance of others, and the power of god s love for humanity. jesus

d muslims. this is a site of many of the events in the life and death of christ. the via dolorosa, or way of suffering, is traditionally believed to be the path jesus followed on his way to his crucifixion. the church of the holy sepulcher (tomb) is believed to be built on the spot where jesus was crucified and near where he was buried. also in the holy land is bethlehem, birthplace of jesus, and nazareth, where he came of age. santiago de compostela, in the northeast of spain, has also long been a pilgrimage site for christians. the remains of st. james, one of the original twelve disciples, are believed to be buried here. the medieval pilgrimage route of several hundred miles, the way of saint james, or camino de santiago, is still walked today by the faithful. pilgrims also visit the ch

s major work on nature. c. 390 bce the greek philosopher plato writes his most influential work, the republic. 384 322 bce life span of the greek philosopher aristotle. believing that achieving happiness is humanity s chief goal, he organizes all human behavior into a pyramid of actions that all lead to one supreme activity or goal for the individual. c. 6 bce jesus christ, also known as jesus of nazareth, is born. c. 30 ce jesus christ is put to death by crucifixion by roman authorities in jerusalem. c. 35 saul of tarsus, later known as saint paul, converts to christianity. 610 according to islamic belief, muhammad begins receiving revelations and prophecies from the archangel jabra il (gabriel. 661 al ibn ab ta lib, the fourth caliph, or leader, of islam, is murdered. his followers, part

ted by coleman banks. poet seers. http/ www.poetseers.org/the_poetseers/rumi/odes_of_rumi/7 (accessed on june 2, 2006. jala l ad-d n ar-ru m world religions: biographies 185 this page intentionally left blank jesus christ born: c. 6 bce bethlehem, judea died: c. 30 ce jerusalem, judea religious leader father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. jesus christ, originally known as jesus of nazareth, is the founder of christianity and the central figure in the early writings of the religion. a jewish healer, spiritual guide, and teacher who lived during the first century ce, jesus is both a historical figure and a member of the christian divine triumvirate (group of three, or trinity. he is considered the son of god, sent to earth to atone, or make amends for, the sins of humanity. g

oming of the messiah, thinking that this would cause unrest among the people he ruled. when word reached him that the savior had arrived, he ordered that all male children under the age of two in bethlehem should be killed. when he heard of this order, joseph left with mary and the baby jesus for egypt, where they remained until herod s death. afterwards they returned to palestine, to the town of nazareth. joseph and mary had a large family. in addition to jesus, they had at least two daughters and four other sons. some christian scholars claim that these other children were cousins, or perhaps joseph s children from another marriage, and that mary remained a virgin all her life. as a youth jesus studied the jewish scriptures, or holy writings. little else is known of his childhood, aside

ish scholars. world religions: biographies 189 jesus christ tradition holds that joseph was a carpenter, and that jesus adopted the same trade. upon joseph s death, jesus assumed the role of supporting his family. some accounts also hold that jesus became a self-taught rabbi, or jewish religious scholar and teacher, and devoted hours each day to study. the virgin mary mary, the mother of jesus of nazareth, has become one of the major figures of the christian church. the mary cult, a smaller group within christianity that places special focus mary, has been strong for two thousand years. also known as mariam or miriam, mary is the most celebrated female religious figure in the christian tradition, according to historian elizabeth a. johnson, writing in u.s. catholic. little is known about t

he son of god. he went into the desert, fasting (not eating) and meditating (thinking deeply) for forty days. during this period the devil is said to have tried to convince jesus to worship him, but jesus resisted. upon his return, he discovered that john the baptist had been arrested, so he took up john s work, preaching repentance and the coming of the kingdom of god. initially he preached near nazareth, but he attracted few followers as people there had known him since he was a boy. he moved to different locations in palestine and soon found followers among fishermen and common workers. in time he gathered twelve disciples, whom he personally educated. these disciples also claimed jesus was the messiah, and he was given the title of christ, which came from the greek word christos. chris

hristian martyr, or one who willingly dies rather than reject his religious faith. one day saul was traveling along the major road to damascus, syria. he carried letters that gave him the authority to apprehend any people he found practicing christianity and bring them to jerusalem for trial and probable execution. his goal, he said, was to wipe out the sect of the nazarene, referring to jesus of nazareth (nazareth is the town from which his mother, mary, and her husband, joseph, traveled before jesus was born) along the road, however, saul had a miraculous experience, as described in the ninth chapter of acts of the apostles: now as he journeyed he approached damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed about him. and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, saul, saul

rld, were alike despicable. again, all that is best in the ethics of the modern world, in so far as it has not grown out of greek thought, or barbarian manhood, is the direct development of the ethics of old israel. there is no code of legislation, ancient or modern, at once so just and so merciful, so tender to the weak and poor, as the jewish law; and, if the gospels are to be trusted, jesus of nazareth himself declared that he taught nothing but that which lay implicitly, or explicitly, in the religious and ethical system of his people. i trust that i have now made amends for any ambiguity, or want of fulness, in my previous exposition of that which i hold to be the essence of the agnostic doctrine. henceforward, i might hope to hear no more of the assertion that we are necessarily mate

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up parallels to the redeemer s life and death in eastern religions, and in the paganism contemporary with christian origins. was christ perhaps just another dying-and-rising god such as adonis or attis, or the others surveyed in james frazer s monumental study, the golden bough? not at all, declared others, hastily dissociating jesus from anything of the sort by turning him into the simple man of nazareth, an image equally inappropriate as an interpretation of the new testament sources. closer to our own day, these issues have been sharpened still further by the discovery of essene and gnostic texts from the early christian time and milieu. in many of these, too, christ (or the messiah of the dead sea scrolls) seems often to be a cosmic figure rather than a historical individual. despite a

of achieving something of importance. the individuality of jesus would thus be ready to accomplish what the gospels describe as an overwhelming jesus in his historical setting 143 mystery, fulfilled through the baptism by john. the personality of jesus had reached the stage at which it could receive into his soul the christ-logos. in him the word became flesh. from that point the ego of jesus of nazareth is the christ-logos, manifesting itself outwardly through his personality. the event which underlies the baptism by john is that the ego of jesus becomes the christ.162 in the period of the mysteries, union with the spirit was achieved by the initiates among humankind, by the few. the essene community opened the way to this union for all its members. the actions performed by the christ be

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rces for the final great battle of the ages between their evil hordes and christ and his faithful angelic army is armageddon, the mound of megiddo. the inspiration for such a choice of battlegrounds was quite likely an obvious one for john the revelator, for it has been said that more blood has been shed around the hill of megiddo than any other single spot on earth. located 10 miles southwest of nazareth at the entrance to a pass across the carmel mountain range, it stands on the main highway between asia and africa and in a key position between the euphrates and the nile rivers, thus providing a traditional meeting place of armies from the east and from the west. for thousands of years, the valley of mageddon, now known as the jezreel valley, had been the site where great battles had bee

o-minute warning: today s bible-predicted signs of the end times. north canton, ohio: leader co, 1996. shroud of turin in the fall of 1978, the ancient shroud of turin was exhibited publicly for the first time since 1933, thus rekindling the fires of controversy that have raged intermittently around this icon since the first century c.e. is this cloth truly the authentic burial shroud of jesus of nazareth (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e? is the full-sized human image impressed on its coarse fibers the actual physical representation of jesus as he lay in the tomb after his death by crucifixion at the hands of roman soldiers? when looking at the shroud, is one seeing a kind of supernatural photograph of jesus that can accurately depict his actual human appearance? the fourteen-by-four-foot shroud has

ntemporary culture, to be called a heretic may be considered something of a compliment, suggesting that one is an independent or adventurous thinker. however, in the epistles of st. paul, heretics were condemned as being those dangerous teachers who sought to distort or corrupt the teachings of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e. ironically, it was in antioch, the city where those who followed jesus of nazareth were first called christians, that bishop ignatius (c. 40 107) became the first of the church fathers to use the term heretic to condemn those he believed were altering the true understanding of christ. it was rather easy to be labeled a heretic by the early church fathers. originally composed of a small group of jews who had followed the teachings of their rabbi until his death on the cr

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

worshippers. and those men who faced death in battle were assured that the rites of mithras would guide them securely into a peaceful afterlife. the powerful effects of emperor constantine s (d. 337) conversion to christianity in the fourth century had a great influence on vast numbers of the roman legions, and thousands of soldiers followed his example and converted to the teachings of jesus of nazareth (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) and the christian church. mithraism gradually faded into obscurity by the end of the fourth century, retaining only small pockets of followers scattered throughout what had once been the persian empire. sources: clifton, chas s. encyclopedia of heresies and heretics. new york: barnes& noble, 1998. fox, robin lane. pagans and christians. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1

church and become a sect. as the sect becomes more organized and is regarded more seriously by the mainstream culture, it becomes known as a denomination. the various christian mystery schools, cults, and heresies that have influenced millions of individuals for two millennia. from the earliest days of christianity, there were basically two opposing interpretations of jesus: 1. jesus, a rabbi of nazareth, was a powerful teacher and prophet, a devout man divinely inspired by god. 2. jesus of nazareth was the christ, the messiah, the true son of god made flesh to serve as a sacrificial lamb for the sins of humankind. from these two metaphysical expressions with their vast essential differences, there arose centuries of theological arguments and interpretations of the gospels. what was heres

the wife of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) in this interpretation of the events that occurred after jesus death at the hands of the romans, mary brought the cup used at the last supper the holy grail from palestine to southern france, where it would eventually be guarded by the knights templar. there is also a belief that mary arrived in france carrying within her womb a child fathered by jesus of nazareth, who then became the progenitor for the royal family of france. for those who hold such beliefs, the holy grail is but a metaphor for mary magdalene s womb, which carried the true blood of jesus in the person of his unborn son. therefore, many of the depictions of the black madonna and child throughout the regions of southern france and spain may be regarded as images of mary magdalene ca

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ey must spit over their left shoulder. if one should awaken from a frightening nightmare, one must spit over the left shoulder three times to be certain that it doesn t come true. even if one should encounter satan himself, the prince of darkness can be made to disappear if one spits between his horns. in the gospel accounts of the ministry of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, the miracle worker from nazareth healed people of blindness and deafness with his spittle. the ancient greeks believed that eye troubles could be cured by rubbing them with the spit of someone who had been fasting. on occasion, mothers worldwide use their spittle to rub over their child s bruise or cut to make it heal faster. m delving deeper bradley, john r. the evil eye. arab news, april 27, 2002 [online] http//www.ara

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l, and works to time the osiris phase as appropriate. crowley connects the iao formula by the gematria of 17 (10+ 1+ 6) to the numbers of squares of the swastika, and from that to the aleph, in that the shape is similar, and thus to the unity. the iao formula hence signifies the unity of an act broken into its motion. inri is taken as an anagram of various phrases, but the most usual is "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews. however, by kabbalah, this phrase embodies the mystery of tiphareth in its analysis as yod, nun, resh and yod. i virgo isis n scorpio apophis r sun osiris i virgo isis thus, as with the tetragrammaton of yhvh, the formula repeats a key letter to indicate that events cycle through growth, death, rebirth and growth again. tiphareth might be the top of one mountain, but is

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nd seals the cross of light within the magician's aura. origins of the pentagram ritual the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram was a creation of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. however, various portions of the ritual are found to have far more ancient sources. in the new testament, the lord's prayer (matthew 6:9-13) is obviously based upon qabalistic principles, showing that jesus of nazareth, who was called rabbi by his followers, knew his qabalah. this is because the lord's prayer is itself based on the hebrew "prayer of david" from the old testament, found in the first book of chronicles 29:l "the prayer of david at the foundation of the temple" reads as follows: unto thee, 0 tetragrammaton, are the greatness and the power and the beauty and the victo y and the glo y, for u

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hey are dead which sought the young child s life. 2:21 and he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of israel. 2:22 but when he heard that archelaus did reign in judaea in the room of his father herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of god in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of galilee: 2:23 and he came and dwelt in a city called nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, he shall be called a nazarene. 3:1 in those days came john the baptist, preaching in the wilderness of judaea, 3:2 and saying, repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 3:3 for this is he that was spoken of by the prophet esaias, saying, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the lord, make his

these things will i give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 4:10 then saith jesus unto him, get thee hence, satan: for it is written, thou shalt worship the lord thy god, and him only shalt thou serve. 4:11 then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. 4:12 now when jesus had heard that john was cast into prison, he departed into galilee; 4:13 and leaving nazareth, he came and dwelt in capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of zabulon and nephthalim: 4:14 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by esaias the prophet, saying, 4:15 the land of zabulon, and the land of nephthalim [by] the way of the sea, beyond jordan, galilee of the gentiles; 4:16 the people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the regio

thers cut down branches from the trees, and strawed [them] in the way. 21:9 and the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, hosanna to the son of david: blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the lord; hosanna in the highest. 21:10 and when he was come into jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, who is this? 21:11 and the multitude said, this is jesus the prophet of nazareth of galilee. 21:12 and jesus went into the temple of god, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 21:13 and said unto them, it is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. 21:14 and the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and h

ing, prophesy unto us, thou christ, who is he that smote thee? 26:69 now peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, thou also wast with jesus of galilee. 26:70 but he denied before [them] all, saying, i know not what thou sayest. 26:71 and when he was gone out into the porch, another [maid] saw him, and said unto them that were there, this [fellow] was also with jesus of nazareth. 26:72 and again he denied with an oath, i do not know the man. 26:73 and after a while came unto [him] they that stood by, and said to peter, surely thou also art [one] of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee. 26:74 then began he to curse and to swear [saying] i know not the man. and immediately the cock crew. 26:75 and peter remembered the word of jesus, which said unto him, before the c

clothed with camel s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; 1:7 and preached, saying, there cometh one mightier than i after me, the latchet of whose shoes i am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. 1:8 i indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the holy ghost. 1:9 and it came to pass in those days, that jesus came from nazareth of galilee, and was baptized of john in jordan. 1:10 and straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the spirit like a dove descending upon him: 1:11 and there came a voice from heaven [saying] thou art my beloved son, in whom i am well pleased. 1:12 and immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. 1:13 and he was there in the wilderness forty days, t

after him. 1:21 and they went into capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught. 1:22 and they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. 1:23 and there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 1:24 saying, let [us] alone; what have we to do with thee, thou jesus of nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? i know thee who thou art, the holy one of god. 1:25 and jesus rebuked him, saying, hold thy peace, and come out of him. 1:26 and when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. 1:27 and they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, what thing is this? what new doctrine [is] this? for with

of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. 10:45 for even the son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. 10:46 and they came to jericho: and as he went out of jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind bartimaeus, the son of timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. 10:47 and when he heard that it was jesus of nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, jesus [thou] son of david, have mercy on me. 10:48 and many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal [thou] son of david, have mercy on me. 10:49 and jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. and they call the blind man, saying unto him, be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee. 10:50 and he, casting away his ga

be guilty of death. 14:65 and some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands. 14:66 and as peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest: 14:67 and when she saw peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, and thou also wast with jesus of nazareth. 14:68 but he denied, saying, i know not, neither understand i what thou sayest. and he went out into the porch; and the cock crew. 14:69 and a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, this is [one] of them. 14:70 and he denied it again. and a little after, they that stood by said again to peter, surely thou art [one] of them: for thou art a galilaean, and thy speech ag

3 and they said among themselves, who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? 16:4 and when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. 16:5 and entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. 16:6 and he saith unto them, be not affrighted: ye seek jesus of nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. 16:7 but go your way, tell his disciples and peter that he goeth before you into galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you. 16:8 and they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any [man] for they were afraid. 16:9 now

pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house. 1:24 and after those days his wife elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, 1:25 thus hath the lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on [me] to take away my reproach among men. 1:26 and in the sixth month the angel gabriel was sent from god unto a city of galilee, named nazareth, 1:27 to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was joseph, of the house of david; and the virgin s name [was] mary. 1:28 and the angel came in unto her, and said, hail [thou that art] highly favoured, the lord [is] with thee: blessed [art] thou among women. 1:29 and when she saw [him] she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 1:30 and t

rong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto israel. 2:1 and it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from caesar augustus, that all the world should be taxed. 2:2([and] this taxing was first made when cyrenius was governor of syria) 2:3 and all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. 2:4 and joseph also went up from galilee, out of the city of nazareth, into judaea, unto the city of david, which is called bethlehem (because he was of the house and lineage of david) 2:5 to be taxed with mary his espoused wife, being great with child. 2:6 and so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. 2:7 and she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a m

idow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served [god] with fastings and prayers night and day. 2:38 and she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in jerusalem. 2:39 and when they had performed all things according to the law of the lord, they returned into galilee, to their own city nazareth. 2:40 and the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of god was upon him. 2:41 now his parents went to jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. 2:42 and when he was twelve years old, they went up to jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 2:43 and when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child jesus tarried behind in jerusalem;

answers. 2:48 and when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and i have sought thee sorrowing. 2:49 and he said unto them, how is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that i must be about my father s business? 2:50 and they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. 2:51 and he went down with them, and came to nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. 2:52 and jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with god and man. 3:1 now in the fifteenth year of the reign of tiberius caesar, pontius pilate being governor of judaea, and herod being tetrarch of galilee, and his brother philip tetrarch of ituraea and of the region of trachonitis, and lysanias

. 4:12 and jesus answering said unto him, it is said, thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god. 4:13 and when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. 4:14 and jesus returned in the power of the spirit into galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 4:15 and he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 4:16 and he came to nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 4:17 and there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet esaias. and when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, 4:18 the spirit of the lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me t

sing through the midst of them went his way, 4:31 and came down to capernaum, a city of galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days. 4:32 and they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power. 4:33 and in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, 4:34 saying, let [us] alone; what have we to do with thee [thou] jesus of nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? i know thee who thou art; the holy one of god. 4:35 and jesus rebuked him, saying, hold thy peace, and come out of him. and when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. 4:36 and they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, what a word [is] this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, a

to death: and the third day he shall rise again. 18:34 and they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken. 18:35 and it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging: 18:36 and hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. 18:37 and they told him, that jesus of nazareth passeth by. 18:38 and he cried, saying, jesus [thou] son of david, have mercy on me. 18:39 and they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more [thou] son of david, have mercy on me. 18:40 and jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him, 18:41 saying, what wilt thou that i shall do unto thee

aid unto them, what manner of communications [are] these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? 24:18 and the one of them, whose luke page 610 name was cleopas, answering said unto him, art thou only a stranger in jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? 24:19 and he said unto them, what things? and they said unto him, concerning jesus of nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before god and all the people: 24:20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. 24:21 but we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done. 24:22 yea, and certain women also of our company made

art simon the son of jona: thou shalt be called cephas, which is by interpretation, a stone. 1:43 the day following jesus would go forth into galilee, and findeth philip, and saith unto him, follow me. 1:44 now philip was of bethsaida, the city of andrew and peter. 1:45 philip findeth nathanael, and saith unto him, we have found him, of whom moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, jesus of nazareth, the son of joseph. 1:46 and nathanael said unto him, can there any good thing come out of nazareth? philip saith unto him, come and see. 1:47 jesus saw nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, behold an israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! 1:48 nathanael saith unto him, whence knowest thou me? jesus answered and said unto him, before that philip called thee, when thou wast under the

also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. 18:3 judas then, having received a band [of men] and officers from the chief priests and pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. 18:4 jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, whom seek ye? 18:5 they answered him, jesus of nazareth. jesus saith unto them, i am [he] and judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. 18:6 as soon then as he had said unto them, i am [he] they went backward, and fell to the ground. 18:7 then asked he them again, whom seek ye? and they said, jesus of nazareth. 18:8 jesus answered, i have told you that i am [he] if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way: 18:9 that the saying might

e him therefore unto them to be crucified. and they took jesus, and led [him] away. 19:17 and he bearing his cross went forth into a place called [the place] of a skull, which is called in the hebrew golgotha: 19:18 where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and jesus in the midst. 19:19 and pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. and the writing was, jesus of nazareth the king of the jews. 19:20 this title then read many of the jews: for the place where jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in hebrew [and] greek [and] latin. 19:21 then said the chief priests of the jews to pilate, write not, the king of the jews; but that he said, i am king of the jews. 19:22 pilate answered, what i have written i have written. 19:23 then the sol

all prophesy: 2:19 and i will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 2:20 the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the lord come: 2:21 and it shall come to pass [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the lord shall be saved. 2:22 ye men of israel, hear these words; jesus of nazareth, a man approved of god among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which god did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: 2:23 him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of god, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 2:24 whom god hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be hol

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

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ver of life who resurrects osiris, apophis is the giver of death who kills osiris, and osiris is the god of rebirth, having died and been restored to life. lux is a latin word meaning light; iao is a gnostic name of god that is probably related to yahweh. the latin letters i. n. r i. refer to the crucifurion of christ-they are the first letters of the words iesus nazarenus rex iudaeorum (jesus of nazareth, king of the jews, and are supposed to have been written on a placard affured to jesus by the romans at the time of his execution. the hebrew letters yod-nun-resh-yod are merely their transliterations. the enochian words exarp, hcoma, nanta, bitom appear on a small magic square used by the golden dawn in its version of enochian magic-a subject far too complex to describe here. in the gold

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