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res. in egyptian mythology, isis, the sister-wife of osiris, sought and reassembled his body after his murder and dismemberment by his brother seth. in this connection, she took on the role of the goddess of rebirth, the bone goddess, and restored him in a more evolved form. the annual celebrations of this event coincided with the rising of the dog star, sirius, which heralded the flooding of the nile and the restoration of fertility to the land and symbolically to the people. as the sky gods gained supremacy, they married the earth goddesses who slowly evolved into patronesses of women, marriage and childbirth. so, for example, odin the norse all-father married frigg, goddess of women, marriage and motherhood. but in witchcraft, though the sky fathers and their wives are used for the focu

fertility, restoration, renewal, birth and the life cycles; she also represents power with responsibility and necessary sacrifice for future gain, but above all transformation. isis the egyptian goddess isis is the most powerful and frequently invoked goddess in formal magick. she is mother, healer and the faithful wife who annually restored her consort osiris to life, thus magically causing the nile to flood and fertility to return to the land. she is the patroness of magick and spell-casting, having tricked ra the sun god into giving her his secrets. some accounts say she was taught by thoth, god of wisdom and learning. her cult spread throughout the roman empire and she remained in mediterranean lands in her guise as the black madonna, holding her infant son horus, until the middle age

god. osiris ruled wisely, teaching his people about agriculture and the arts. but osiris's brother seth was jealous and vowed to kill him. seth invited osiris to a feast and showed the guests a fine coffer, promising that whoever fitted inside would be the owner. osiris stepped inside the coffer and it fitted perfectly. seth slammed the lid tight and he and his followers threw the chest into the nile. isis searched for her husband and at last discovered the chest at byblos on the phoenician coast. she brought osiris' body back to egypt and conceived a son by her dead husband, hiding herself in the rushes of the marshes of the delta while awaiting the birth. seth discovered the body of osiris, hacked it into pieces and scattered them throughout egypt so that he could never be restored to l

form and restored her husband to life once more. when their son horus, the sky god, became a youth, he fought to avenge his father against seth. the divine judges, including thoth, god of wisdom, met in the great hall of judgment and decided that osiris should become not a living king once more, but eternal king and judge of the underworld. osiris was also god of vegetation, the fertile, flooding nile and the corn, and so represented the annual dying of the land and rebirth with the flood. he is normally pictured as a man, bound in mummy wrappings. osiris is an important icon of the annual cycle of sacrifice and resurrection but, as with all the sacrifice gods, it is the female power that causes the resurrection. like other sacrificed and restored gods, osiris thereby represents the integr

rcury cannot be seen and on saturday. black another colour of saturn and also the kings of the underworld- the roman pluto, the bestower of the hidden wealth that lay within the earth, and the greek hades, who abducted persephone (proserpine, thus causing winter. black is the colour not only of death, but also of regeneration. this belief goes back to ancient egypt when the annual flooding of the nile carried with it black silt, which brought new life to the land each year. in magick, black is the colour of endings that carry within them seeds of new beginnings. it can be used for banishing negativity, for leaving behind old sorrows and redundant relationships; for acknowledging grief, for rituals of partings, for breaking hexes and for psychic protection. some people do not like using bla

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se which i had been at without any return, and without having made any acquisition of that which i wished for and which had caused me to undertake the voyage. i had, however, taken the resolution of returning to my home on quitting arabia deserta by way of palestine, and so into egypt; and i was six months on the way. i at length arrived at a little town called arachi, situated on the bank of the nile, where i lodged with an old jew named aaron, where indeed i had already lodged before in my journey; and i communicated unto him my sentiments. he asked me how i had succeeded, and whether i had found that which i wished. i answered mournfully that i had done absolutely nothing, and i made him an exact recital of the labours and troubles which i had undergone, and my recital was accompanied b

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okos= a kid. habhi: from chaidee, chba, or hebrew, chbh= hidden. acuar: from hebrew, akr= a tiller of the earth. tirana: perhaps from hebrew, thrn= the mast of a ship, also an apple tree. alluph: from hebrew, alvp= a leader, a duke; also a bull, from his leading the herd. nercamay: perhaps from hebrew, nor= a boy, and chmh a companion. nilen: perhaps from nilus, latin, or neilos, greek= the river nile. morel: perhaps from hebrew, mrh= to rebel. traci: from greek, trachus, etc= harsh, rude. enaia: perhaps from hebrew, onih= poor, afflicted. mulach: probably the same as moloch, from hebrew,mlk, to rule. malutens: perhaps from hebrew, mol= to lie, or deceive, or prevaricate. iparkas: probably from greek, hipparches= a commander of cavalry, or leader of horse. nuditon: apparently from the lati

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

yss, as page 1 gulf.txt showing that my power and glory should be secret, and in aterechinis the second decanate of the house of mast, so that my passion and pleasure should likewise be unprofance. in the house of travel in the sign of the ram was the moon my sweet lady. and the wise men interpreted this as a token that i should travel afar; it might be to the great temple at the source of mother nile; it might be. foolishness! i have scarce stirred from thebai. yet have i explored strange countries that they knew not of: and of this also will i tell in due course. i remember- as i never could while i lived in khemi-land- all the minute care of my birth. for my mother was of the oldest house in thebes, her blood not only royal, but mixed with the divine. fifty virgins in their silver tissu

, being dressed as a princess only, without the sacred badges of her office. also in the sixth month they exposed me to the sun in the desert where was no shade or clothing; and in the seventh month they laid me in a bed with a sorceress, that fed on the blood of young children, and, having been in prison for a long time, was bitterly an-hungered; and in the eighth month they gave me the aspic of nile, and the royal uraeus serpent, and the deadly snake of page 3 gulf.txt the south country, for playmates; but i passed scatheless through all these trials. and in the ninth month i was weaned, and my mother bade me farewell, for never again might she look upon my face, save in the secret rites of the gods, when we should meet otherwise than as babe and mother, in the garment of that second bir

was marvelous. none suspected me; it was thought a miracle. the old eunuch, distressed, went to consult the magus of the well; whose answer was "let the vows of the priestess be taken" now i thought this old man most foolish-obstinate; for i myself was obstinate and foolish. not yet did i at all understand his wisdom or his purpose. it often happens thus. of old, men sent their priests to rebuke nile for rising- until it was known that his rising was the cause of the fertility of their fields. now of the vows which i took upon me and of my service as priestess of the veiled one it shall next be related. chapter iii page 8 gulf.txt it was the equinox of spring, and all my life stirred in me. they led me down cool colonnades of mighty stone clad in robes of white broidered with silver, and

in his dark shrine the osiris gloomed, displeasure on his forehead, insulted majesty in his eyes. then a pillar of dust whirled down from the vault of heaven, even unto me as i stood alone, half-defiant, in the midst of the temple while the priests and the people cowered and wailed afar off. it rent the massy roof as it had been a thatch of straw, whirling the blocks of granite far away into the nile. it descended, roaring and twisting, like a wounded serpent demon-king in his death-agony; it struck me and lifted me from the temple; it bore me through leagues of air into the desert; then it dissolved and flung me contemptuously on a hill of sand. breathless and dazed i lay, anger and anguish tearing at my heart. i rose to swear a mighty curse; exhaustion took me, and i fell in a swoon to

anguish tearing at my heart. i rose to swear a mighty curse; exhaustion took me, and i fell in a swoon to the earth. when i came to myself it was nigh dawn. i went to the top of the hillock and looked about me. nothing but sand, sand all ways. just so was it within my heart! the only guide for my steps (as the sun rose) was a greener glimpse in the east, which i thought might be the valley of the nile reflected. thither i bent my steps: all day i struggled with the scorching heat, the shifting sand. at night i tried to sleep, for sheer fatigue impelled me. but as often as i lay down, so often restlessness impelled me forward. i would stagger on awhile, then stumble and fall. only at dawn i slept perhaps for an hour, and woke chilled to death by me own sweat. i was so weak that i could hard

ng a few grains into the pool, repaid her for her courtesy. and i blessed her in the name of our dead lady isis, and went on in the strength of that delicious meal for a great way. yet i page 23 gulf.txt wist not what to do; for i was as it were a dead man, although my age was barely two and twenty years. what indeed should befall me? yet i went on; and, climbing a ridge, beheld at last the broad nile, and a shining city that i knew not. there on the ridge i stood and gave thanks to the great gods of heaven, the aeons of infinite years, that i had come thus far. for at the sight of nilus new life began to dawn in me. chapter vi without any long delay i descended the slopes and entered the city. not knowing what might have taken place in thebai and what news might have come thither, i did n

oarded the state barge of the high priest, and pillowed myself upon gold and purple, and disported myself with lutes and with lyres and with parrots, and with black salves,and with wine and with delicious fruits, until i came even unto the holy city of memphis. and there i called soldiers of pharaoh, and put cruelly to death all them that had accompanied me; and i burnt the barge, adrift upon the nile at sunset, so that the flames alarmed the foolish citizens. all this i did, and danced naked in my madness through the city, until i came to the old magus of the well. and laughing, i threw a stone upon him, crying "ree me the riddle of my life" and he answered naught. then i threw a great rock upon him, and i heard his bones crunch, and i cried in mockery "ree me the riddle of thy life" but

rth, a silly boy with idle languishing ways. but his mouth burned like sunset when the dust-storms blow. so pale an weak was he that all despised him and mocked him for a girl. then he took a white-hot iron from the fire and wrote with it my name in hieroglyphics on his breast; nor did his smile once alter while the flesh hissed and smoked. thus we went out a great caravan to a rocky islet in the nile, difficult of access for that the waters foamed and swirled dangerously about it. there we builded a little temple shaped like a beehive; but there was no altar and no shrine therein; for in that temple should the god be sacrificed unto himself. myself i made the god thereof; i powdered my hair with gold, and inwound it with flowers. i gilded my eyelids, and i stained my lips with vermilion

a flute-player, that was blind, and, seeing not those eyes of mine, died not. then to him i spake, saying "arise, summon the priests and the people, all that remain. and let them build a temple unto osiris the god of the dead, and let the dead be worshipped for ever and ever" page 30 gulf.txt this i said, and went out from the city with the two slaves that i had left in the gate, and we went unto nile, unto a cave by the bank of the river; and there i abode for many months, weeping for isis my lady. for though i had avenged her in many dreadful deeds, yet i brought her not back unto life. moreover the lover of her was as it were dead in me, so that my heart stirred not at the thought of her. say that my love wandered like a ghost unburied, frozen, adrift upon the winds! now of my deeds at

wind of laughter. at this time my slaves would be afraid to come anight me, and then darting out of the cave i would catch one by the hair and dragging page 31 gulf.txt him within put him to exquisite torture. this indeed was of great use to me; for i would devise atrocious things, and if they served to excite his utmost anguish i would then try them on myself. thus i would run needles steeped in nile mud beneath my finger-nails, so that the sores festering might produce a sickening agony. or again i would cut strips of skin and tear them off; but this filed, though it acted well enough upon the slave, for my own skin had become too brittle. then i would take a piece of hard wood, and hammer it with a stone against the bones, hurting the membrane that covers them, and causing it to swell

e like bean-pods withered and blackened, and although there was not one inch of skin upon all my body that was not scarred. yet my trial was night its end. for the people of memphis, wondering at the frequent purchases of dead lepers made always by the same slave, began, as is the wont of the ignorant, to spread foolish rumours. at last they said openly "there is an holy hermit in the old cave by nile" the the barren women of the city came out stealthily to me in the hope that by my sanctity their dry sticks might blossom. but i showed them my dead leper, and said "let me first beget children upon this,and after i will do your business" this liked them not; yet they left me not alone, for they went home and cried out that i was an horror, a ghoul, a vampire. and at that all the young and b

hem, and she made open love (though feigned) to him. yet subtly, so that he thought her the deer and himself the lion. then at last he went clean mad, and said "i will give thee what thou wilt for one kiss of that thy marvellous mouth" then she made him swear the oath by pharaoh- the which if he broke pharaoh would have his head- and she kissed him once, as if her passion were like the passion of nile in flood for the sandy bars that it devoureth, and then leaping up, answered him "give me thine office of high priest for this my lover" with that she took and fondled me. he gaped, aghast; then he took off the ring of office and flung it at her feet; he spat one word in her face; he slunk away. but i, picking up the ring of office, cried after him "what shall be done to who insulteth the hig

ed cheerfully and boasted themselves. now then did i swathe them one by one in the grave-clothes of osiris, binding upon the breast and image, truly consecrated, of the god, with a talisman against the four elements. then i set them one by one upon a narrow and lofty tower, balanced, so that the least breath of wind would blow them off into destruction. those whom the air spared i next threw into nile where most it foams and races. only a few the water gave back again. these, however, did i bury for three days in the earth without sepulchre or coffin, so that the element of earth might combat them. and the rare ones whom earth spared i cast upon a fire of charcoal. now who is prepared for these ordeals (being firstly attuned to the elements) findeth them easy. he remains still, though the

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

y crowley (some of which i suspect are corrupt or misprinted) i will give the versions of these names as listed in regardie (ed, complete g.d (tom. x pp. 113-4. in many cases these are not reasonable transliterations of the names printed in 777. fire: bishop: toum. queen: sati-ashtoreth. knight: ra. castle: anouke (possibly ankhet, a title of isis) king: kneph (khnemu. water: bishop: hapimon (the nile god) queen: thouerist (ta-urt the hippopotamus goddess) knight: sebek castle: shu king: osiris air: bishop: shu queen: knousou knight: seb castle: tharpesht (a g.d. amalgam of bast and sekhet) king: socharis (seker; an early god who became identified with ptah, and later with osiris) earth: bishop: aroueris queen: isis knight: hoori (horus) castle: nephthys king: aeshoori (i.e. osiris again)

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

son( digamma= the letter of tiphareth, 6, even when spelt as omega, in coptic. see 777 "aeon of osiris" patriarchal age. two sexes. i conceived as the father-wand (yod in tetragrammaton. a the babe is pursued by the dragon, who casts a flood from his mouth to swallow it. see "rev" vii. the dragon is also the mother- the "evil mother" of freud. it is harpocrates, threatened by the crocodile in the nile. we find the symbolism of the ark, the coffin of osiris, etc. the lotus is the yoni; the water the amniotic fluid. in order to live his own life, the child must leave the mother, and overcome the temptation to return to her for refuge. kundry, armida, jocasta, circe, etc, are symbols of this force which tempts the hero. he may take her as his servant<
shaitan, and regarded with horror by people who are ignorant of his formula, and, imagining themselves to be evil, accuse nature herself of their own phantasmal crime. satan is saturn, set, abrasax, adad, adonis, attis, adam, adonai, etc. the most serious charge against him is that he is the sun in the south. the ancient initiates, 35 dwelling as they did in lands whose blood was the water of the nile or the euphrates, connected the south with life-withering heat, and cursed that quarter where the solar darts were deadliest. even in the legend of hiram, it is at high noon that he is stricken down and slain. capricornus is moreover the sign which the sun enterers when he reaches his extreme southern declination at the winter solstice, the season of the death of vegetation, for the folk of t

s" of being is indefinitely large. but there are several main types of symbolism corresponding to the forms of plastic presentation established by the minds of mankind. each such "plane" has its special appearances, inhabitants, and laws- special cases of the general proposition. notable among these are the "egyptian" plane, which conforms with the ideas and methods of magick once in vogue in the nile valley; the "celtic" plane, close akin to 249 "fairyland, with a pagan pantheism as its keynote, sometimes concealed by christian nomenclature: the "alchemical" plane, where the great work is often presented under the form of symbolically constructed landscapes occupied by quasi-heraldic animals and human types hieroglyphically distinguished, who carry on the mysterious operations of the herm

erhood and wisdom, ineffably candid, clear, and loving; the other of murder and madness, blood-intoxicated, lust-befogged, and cruel. the sole link is the woman-symbol. but whoso makes samadhi on kali obtains the self-same illumination as if it had been isis; for in both cases he attains identity with the quintessence of the woman-idea, untrammelled by the qualities with which the dwellers by the nile and the ganges respectively disguised it. thus, in low grades of initiation, dogmatic quarrels are inflamed by astral experience; as when saint john distinguishes between the whore babalon and the woman clothed with the sun, between the lamb that was slain and the beast 666 whose deadly wound was healed; nor understands that satan, the old serpent, in the abyss, the lake of fire and sulphur

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

join the three supernals. to what cupboard did she go? even to the most secret caverns of the universe. and who is this dog? is it not the name of god spelt qabalistically backwards? and what is this bone? the bone is the wand, the holy lingam! the complete interpretation of the rune is now open. this rime is the legend of the murder of osiris by typhon. the limbs of osiris were scattered in the nile. isis sought them in every corner of the universe, and she found all except his sacred lingam, which was not found until quite recently (vide fuller, the star in the west. let us take another example from this rich storehouse of magick lore. little bo peep she lost her sheep, and couldn't tell where to find them. leave them alone! and they'll come home, dragging their tails behind them "bo" i

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

ast thirty feet on every side in order to make access impossible. these plains had been made flat by generations of labour. vines and fruit-trees growing only on the upper slopes, they were devoted principally to corn, and to grass pastures for the amphibian herds of atlas. this corn was of a kind now unknown, flourishing in sea-water, and the periodical flood-tides served the same purpose as the nile in egypt. enormous floating stages of spongy rock--no trees of any kind grew anywhere on the plains so wood was unknown--supported the villages. these were inhabited by a type of man similar to the modern caucasian race. they were not permitted to use any of the food of their masters, neither the corn, nor the amphibians, nor the vast supplies of shellfish, but were fed by what they called "b

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

rom the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess. fertile, for the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuith, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool; he is the 'saviour, being the son who shall trample on the crocodiles and tigers, and avenge his father osiris. thus we see him as the "great fool" of celtic legend, the "pure fool" of act i of "parsifal, and, generally speaking, the insane person whose words have always been taken for oracles. but to be 'saviour' h

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

nd from a brahmachari become a householder. it was in the course of the journey undertaken by him shortly after his marriage that occurred the events which we shall proceed to relate. and to that end we must ask the reader to accompany us in imagination to the sovereign nursery of wisdom and initiation, to the holy land of the uraeus serpent, to the land of isis and osris, of the pyramids and the nile, even to khem, more magnificent in ruin than all other lands are in plenitude of their glory [editor s note: this article on the qabalah was originally published in equinox i (5) as part v of the temple of solomon the king serial. essentially it was a filler, written after j.f.c. fuller who had been doing the legwork of working up the series from crowley s diaries and notebooks broke with the

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ath bred blessed babes to pan! oh! like a lion-hued nightingale she hath torn her breast on thorns to avail the barren rose-tree to renew her life with that disastrous dew, building the rose o' the world alight with music out of the pale moonlight! o she is like the river of blood that broke from the lips of the bastard god, when he saw the sacred mother smile on the ibis that flew up the foam of nile bearing the limbs unblessed, unborn, that the lurking beast of nile had torn! 43 so (for the world is weary) i these dreadful souls of sense lay by. i sacrifice these impure shoon to the cold ray of the waning moon. i take the fork d hazel staff, and the rose of no terrene graff, and the lamp of no olive oil with heart's blood that alone may boil. with naked breast and feet unshod i follow th

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nd from a brahmachari became a householder. it was in the course of the journey undertaken by him shortly after his marriage that occurred the event which we shall proceed to relate. and to that end we must ask the reader to accompany us in imagination to the sovereign nursery of wisdom and initiation, to the holy land of the uraeus serpent, to the land of isis and osiris, of the pyramids and the nile, even to khem, more magnificent in ruin than all other lands are in plenitude of their glory. 120 a nocturne in the little cleft of the rocks whence life first sprang to birth, by the secret shadowy molten sea, where aphrodite sprang to greet the sun, low voices murmur: shadowy under-world in the void of time; light song of erebus on the lips of a courtesan of rome- ah! list! a wandering sing

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rrible oaths! yet why should tahuti be so kind to me, and asar un-nefer so unkind? the answer comes direct from tahuti himself: because you have learned to write perfectly, but have not yet taught yourself to suffer. true enough, the last part! asar un-nefer, thou perfected one, teach me thy mysteries! let my members be torn by set and devoured by sebek and typhon! let my blood be poured out upon nile, and my flesh be given to besz to devour! let my phallus be concealed in the maw of mati, and my crown be divided among my brethren! let the jaws of apep grind me into poison! let the sea of poison swallow me wholly up! let asi my mother rend her robes in anguish, and nepti weep for me unavailing. then shall asi being forth hoor, and heru-pa-kraat shall leap glad from her womb. the lord of ve

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ed, even unto an hundred millions of generations, and it may be that the mercy of the mighty ones may bestow upon thy children a drop of the poison of eld. 54. then the humming-bird was afflicted in his spirit, and he flew unto the flowers, and it was as if naught had been spoken between them. yet in a little while a serpent struck him that he died. 55. but an ibis that meditated upon the bank of nile the beautiful god listened and heard. and he laid aside his ibis ways, and became as a serpent saying peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the exalted one. 56. and behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an uraeus serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even f

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what i complain of; you always treat me as a baby! euphemia. come to him mummy, then! carr. you're not my mummy! that's what i complain of; you always treat me as a cheops, ever since that night on the great pyramid! euphemia["hides her head in his bosom] oh shame, shame! carr. not a bit of it! think of the infinite clearness of the night "the magical green of the sunset, the magical blue of the nile" the rising of the great globed moon- the stars starting from their fastnesses like sentries on the alarm- the isolation of our stance upon the summit- the faery distance of cairo and its spear-sharp minarets- and we- and we- euphemia. oh me! oh me! carr. shall i remind you- 221 euphemia. must "i" remind "you" carr. no; my memory is excellent. euphemia. of what you swore? carr. i swore at the

wo laws of the hasheesh operation, which, as explicatory, deserve a place here. first, after the completion of any one fantasia has arrived, there almost invariably succeeds a shifting of the action to some other stage entirely different in its surroundings. in this transition the general character of the emotion 248 may remain unchanged. i may be happy in paradise and happy at the sources of the nile, but seldom, either in paradise or on the nile, twice in succession. i may writhe in etna and burn unquenchably in gehenna, but almost never, in the course of the same delirium, shall etna or gehenna witness my torture a second time. second, after the full storm of a vision of intense sublimity has blown past the hasheesh-eater, his next vision is generally of a quiet, relaxing, and recreatin

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es. but ah! the more it changed and changed (the good knight laughed to split his sides "what? is the soul of things deranged? the more it changed, and rippled through its changes, and still changed, and changed, the liker to itself it grew. bear me" he cried "to purge my bile to the old land of hormakhu, that i may sit and curse awhile at all these follies fond that pen my quest about- on, on to nile! tread tenderly, my merry men! for nothing is so void and vile as palamede the saracen" 72 xxviii sir palamede the saracen hath clad him in a sable robe; hath curses, writ by holy men from all the gardens of the globe. he standeth at an altar-stone; the blood drips from the slain babe's throat; his chant rolls in a magick moan; his head bows to the crown d goat. his wand makes curves and spir

andeth at an altar-stone; the blood drips from the slain babe's throat; his chant rolls in a magick moan; his head bows to the crown d goat. his wand makes curves and spires in air; the smoke of incense curls and quivers; his eyes fix in a glass-cold stare: the land of egypt rocks and shivers "lo! by thy gods, o god, i vow to burn the authentic bones and blood of curst osiris even now to the dark nile's upsurging flood! i cast thee down, oh crowned and throned! to black amennti's void profane. until mine anger be atoned thou shalt not ever rise again" 73 with firm red lips and square black beard, osiris in his strength appeared. he made the sign that saveth men on palamede the saracen 'hath hushed his conjuration grim: the curse comes back to sleep with him 'hath fallen himself to that pro

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gma iota delta omicron sigma lo! i lament. fallen is the sixfold star: slain is asar. o twinned with me in the womb of night! o son of my bowels to the lord of light! o man of mine that hast covered me from the shame of my virginity! where art thou? is it not apep thy brother, the snake in my womb that am thy mother, that hath slain thee by violence girt with guile, and scattered thy limbs on the nile? lo! i lament. i have forged a whirling star: i seek asar. o nepti, sister! arise in the dusk from thy chamber of mystery and musk! come with me, though weary the way, to bring back his life to the rended clay! see! are not these the hands that wove delight, and these the arms that strove with me? and these the feet, the thighs that were lovely in mine eyes? lo! io lament. i gather in my car

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great antiquity of the gnosis, such as mr pryse unveils, yet it is clearly aryan, dating from the time of momu- the thinker; then again the development of the kundalini- serpent fire- world's mother, also termed rousing the brahm- is said to be shown as issuing from the foreheads of early 165 egyptian kings; apollonius of tyana, a contemporary of our jesus, visited the gymnosophists of the upper nile, but said that they were not equal to those of india. the british druids must have had a knowledge of the "serpent fire" in their secret instruction, or why exclaim "i am a serpent" the mythraic mysteries, and all the eranoi societies, were equally protected by the laws of solon seven centuries b.c, and mr pryse observes that only once does the word halleluiah occur in the bible, yet we know

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

iritual law to which he will eventually subordinate himself; third, that the work of an individual is to apply the sickle and to cut out, or cut down, that which hinders the application of the spiritual law and so hinders the flowering forth of the soul. the constellation leo has in it ninety-five stars, two of them of the first magnitude. its egyptian name, we are told, meant "a pouring out, the nile giving its fullest irrigation at that season. this has also an interesting esoteric significance for, according to the teaching of the ageless wisdom, the human family came into existence through what is technically called "the third outpouring, which was the term given to the coming-in of a great tide of souls into the animal bodies and, therefore, the formation of the human family composed

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. but even this is preceded in the old records by the preastronomical cosmic flood, which became allegorized and symbolized in the above zodiacal or noah's flood. but this has nothing to do with atlantis. the pyramids are closely connected with the ideas of both the great dragon (the constellation, the "dragons of wisdom" or the great initiates of the third and fourth races, and the floods of the nile, regarded as a divine reminder of the great atlantic flood. the astronomical records of universal history, however, are said to have had their beginnings with the third sub-race of the fourth root-race or the atlanteans. when was it? occult data show that even since the time of the regular establishment of the zodiacal calculations in egypt, the poles have been thrice inverted. we will presen

rulers" but this fact has been gradually forgotten. as bosuage shows, the egyptians themselves confessed that science flourished in their country only since isis-osiris, whom they continue to adore as gods "though they had become princes in human form" and he adds of osiris-isis (the divine androgyne "it is said that this prince (isis-osiris) built cities in egypt, stopped the overflowing of the nile; invented agriculture, the use of the vine, music, astronomy, and geometry" when abul-feda says in his "historia anteislamitica (fleisher, p. 16) that the sabean language was established by seth and edris (enoch- he means by "sabean language" astronomy. in the "melelwa nohil (ms. 47 in nic. cat) hermes is called the disciple of agathodaemon. and in another account (see col. vyse's 2nd vol. of

abean language" astronomy. in the "melelwa nohil (ms. 47 in nic. cat) hermes is called the disciple of agathodaemon. and in another account (see col. vyse's 2nd vol. of the "pyramids of ghizeh" p. 364, ms. 785, uri's cat) agathodaemon is mentioned as a "king of egypt" celepas geraldinus gives curious traditions about henoch. he calls him the "divine giant" in the "book of the various names of the nile" the same author (the historian ahmed-ben-yusouf eltiphas) tells us of the belief among the semitic arabs that seth (become later the egyptian typhon, set, had been one of the seven angels (or patriarchs in the bible: then he became a mortal and adam's son, after which he communicated the gift of prophecy and astronomical science to jared, who passed it to his son henoch. but henoch (idris "t

he hierophants of egypt, of babylon, and india, styling themselves generally the "sons of the dragon" and "serpents; thus the teachings of the secret doctrine are thereby corroborated. there were numerous catacombs in egypt and chaldea, some of them of a very vast extent. the most renowned of them were the subterranean crypts of thebes and memphis. the former, beginning on the western side of the nile, extended towards the lybian desert, and were known as the serpent's catacombs, or passages. it was there that were performed the sacred mysteries of the kuklos anagkes, the "unavoidable cycle" more generally known as "the circle of necessity; the inexorable doom imposed upon every soul after the bodily death, and when it has been judged in the amenthian region. in de bourbourg's book, votan

ore) of bharata varsha. because sankha-dwipa was peopled by "mlechchhas (unclean foreigners, who worshipped hindu divinities" therefore they were connected with india* this accounts for sankhasura, a king of a portion of sankha-dwipa, who was killed by krishna; that king who resided in the palace "which was an ocean shell, and whose subjects lived in shells also" says wilford "on the banks of the nile) there were frequent contests between the devatas (divine beings, demi-gods) and the daityas (giants; but the latter tribe having prevailed, their king, sankhasura, who resided in the ocean, made frequent incursions in the night (as. res, vol. iii. 225) it is not on the banks of the nile, but on the coasts of western africa, south of where now lies morocco, that these battles took place. ther

borated by indian puranas, greek writers, and asiatic, persian, and mohammedan traditions. wilford, who confuses sorely the hindu and the mussulman legends, shows this, however, clearly (see vol. viii, x. and xi. of[[footnote(s* they were called demons, asuras, giants, and monsters, because of their wickedness; and thus their country was likened to atala- a hell, because of that* not on the river nile, surely, but near the nila mountains of the atlas range[[vol. 2, page] 406 the secret doctrine. asiatic researches) and his facts and quotations from the puranas give direct and conclusive evidence that the aryan hindus and other ancient nations were earlier navigators than the phoenicians, who are now credited with having been the first seamen that appeared in the post-diluvian times. this i

where is the aethiop "river; along its banks proceed till thou attain the mighty rapids, where from bybline heights pure draughts of sacred water neilos sends" there io was ordained to found a colony for herself and sons. now we must see how the passage is interpreted. as io is told that she has to travel eastward till she comes to the river ethiops, which she is to follow till it falls into the nile- hence the perplexity "according to the geographical theories of the earliest greeks" we are informed by the author of the version on "prometheus bound "this condition was fulfilled by the river indus. arrian (vi. i) mentions that alexander the great, when preparing to sail down the indus (having seen crocodiles in the river indus, and in no other river except the nile, seemed to himself to h

ing to the geographical theories of the earliest greeks" we are informed by the author of the version on "prometheus bound "this condition was fulfilled by the river indus. arrian (vi. i) mentions that alexander the great, when preparing to sail down the indus (having seen crocodiles in the river indus, and in no other river except the nile, seemed to himself to have discovered the sources of the nile, as though the nile, rising from some place in india, and flowing through much desert land, and thereby losing its name indus, next. flowed through inhabited land, being now called the nile by the ethiopians of those parts and afterwards by the egyptians. virgil in the 4th georgic echoes the absolute error (p. 197, vol. ii. both alexander and virgil may have erred considerably in their geogra

s of alexander, because its banks, from attock down to sind, were peopled by tribes generally referred to as the eastern ethiopians. india and egypt were two kindred nations, and the eastern ethiopians- the mighty builders- have come from india, as is pretty well proved, it is hoped, in "isis unveiled (vol. i. p. 569-70. then why could not alexander, and even the learned virgil have used the word nile or neilos when speaking of the indus, since it is one of its names? to this day that river is called, in the regions around kala-bagh, nil (blue, and nilah "the blue river" the water here is of such dark blue colour that the name given to it from time immemorial led to[[vol. 2, page] 418 the secret doctrine. a small town on its banks being called by the same name. it exists to this day. evide

d the greek conqueror. nor are our modern historians much wiser, in judging as they do. for they often make the most sweeping declarations on mere appearances, as much as their ancient colleagues ever did in days of old, when no encyclopaedias were yet ready for them. the race of io "the cow-horned maid" is then simply the first pioneer race of the aethiopians brought by her from the indus to the nile (which received its name in memory of the mother river of the colonists from india. for does not prometheus say to io* that the sacred neilos (the god, not the river "he to the land, three-cornered, thee shall guide- namely, to the delta, where her sons are foreordained to found "that far-off colony (v. 830 et seq. it is there that a new race (the egyptians) will begin, and a "female race (87

r three lunar terms" until finally reached by the rising waves, they perished to the last man, the soil sinking under their feet and the earth engulfing those who had desecrated her. this sounds a good deal like the original material upon which the similar story in exodus was built many hundred thousands of years later. the biography of moses, the story of his birth, childhood and rescue from the nile by pharaoh's daughter, is now shown to have been adapted from the chaldean narrative about sargon. and if so, the assyrian tile in the british museum being a good proof of it, why not that of the jews robbing the egyptians of their jewels, the death of pharaoh and his army, and so on? the gigantic magicians of ruta and daitya, the "lords of the dark face" may have become in the later narrativ

pyramids that "there are also subterranean passages and winding retreats, which, it is said, men skilful in the ancient mysteries, by means of which they divined the coming of a flood, constructed in different places lest the memory of all their sacred ceremonies should be lost" these men who "divined the coming of floods" were not egyptians, who never had any, except the periodical rising of the nile. who were they? the last remnants of the atlanteans, we maintain. those races which are dimly suspected by science, and thinking of which mr. ch. gould, the well-known geologist, says "can we suppose that we have at all exhausted the great museum of nature? have we, in fact, penetrated yet beyond its antechambers? does the written history of man, comprising a few thousand years, embrace the w

unveiled "why should we forget that, ages before the prow of the adventurous genoese clove the western waters, the phoenician vessels had circumnavigated the globe, and spread civilization in regions now silent and deserted? what archaeologist will dare assert that the same hand which planned the pyramids of egypt, karnak, and the thousand ruins now crumbling to oblivion on the sandy banks of the nile, did not erect the monumental nagkon-wat of cambodia? or trace the hieroglyphics on the obelisks and doors of the deserted indian village, newly discovered in british columbia by lord dufferin? or those on the ruins of palenque and uxmal, of central america? do not the relics we treasure in our museums- last mementos of the long 'lost arts- speak loudly in favour of ancient civilization? and

dynasty (supposed to have built the pyramids) had appeared("the great pyramid" staniland wake. thus 4,100 years b.c. is the age assigned to menes. now sir j. gardner wilkinson's declaration that "all the facts lead to the conclusion that the egyptians had already made very great progress in the arts of civilization before the age of menes, and perhaps before they immigrated into the valley of the nile (rawlinson's "herodotus" vol. ii. p. 345) is very suggestive, as destroying this hypothesis. it points to great civilization in prehistoric times, and a still greater antiquity. the schesoo-hor("the servants of horus) were the people who had settled in egypt; and, as m. g. maspero affirms, it is to this prehistoric race that "belongs the honour. of having founded the principal cities of egypt

, emanating from androgyne nature, one from brahma and his female counterpart vach, the other, from osiris and isis- never from the one infinite god. in the judaeo-christian systems it is different. whereas the lotus, containing brahma, the universe, is shown growing out of vishnu's navel, the central point in the waters of infinite space, and whereas horus springs from the lotus of the celestial nile- all these abstract pantheistic ideas are dwarfed and made terrestrially concrete in the bible: one is almost inclined to say that in the esoteric they are grosser and still more anthropomorphic, than in their exoteric rendering. take as an example the same symbol, even in its christian application; the lilies in the hand of the archangel gabriel (luke i. 28. in hinduism- the "holy of holies"

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ks to the numerous records of the egyptian theogony and mysteries preserved in the classics, and in a number of ancient writers, the rites and dogmas of pharaonic egypt ought to be well understood at least; better, at any rate, than the too abstruse philosophies and pantheism of india, of whose religion and language europe had hardly any idea before the beginning of the present century. along the nile and on the face of the whole country, there stand to this hour, exhumed yearly and daily, fresh relics which eloquently tell their own history. still it is not so. the learned oxford philologist himself confesses the truth by saying that "though. we see still standing the pyramids, and the ruins of temples and labyrinths, their walls[[footnote(s* lassen("ind. althersumkunde" vol. ii, p. 1,072

hose days the writer hardly knew the language in which the work was written, and the disclosure of many things, freely spoken about now, was forbidden. in century the twentieth some disciple more informed, and far better fitted, may be sent by the masters of wisdom to give final and irrefutable proofs that there exists a science called gupta-vidya; and that, like the oncemysterious sources of the nile, the source of all religions and philosophies now known to the world has been for many ages forgotten and lost to men, but is at last found. such a work as this has to be introduced with no simple preface, but with a volume rather; one that would give facts, not mere disquisitions, since the secret doctrine is not a treatise, or a series of vague theories, but contains all that can be given o

turanian and the indo-european, so-called, after the sinking of the great continent- could only accept its symbology in the spirit which was given to it by the nations from which it was derived. perchance, in the mosaic beginnings, that symbology was not as crude as it became later under the handling of ezra, who remodelled the whole pentateuch. for the glyph of pharaoh's daughter (the woman, the nile (the great deep and water, and the baby-boy found floating therein in the ark of rushes, has not been primarily composed for, or by, moses. it has been found anticipated in the babylonian fragments on the tiles, in the story of king sargon* who lived far earlier than moses. now, what is the logical inference? most assuredly that which gives us the right to say that the story told of moses by

ng the winged serpents which came every spring from arabia and infested the country. the other was sacred to the moon, because the latter planet is white and brilliant on her external side, dark and black on that side which she never turns to the earth. moreover, the ibis kills land serpents, and makes the most terrible havoc amongst the eggs of the crocodile, and thus saves egypt from having the nile infested by those horrible saurians. the bird is credited with doing so in the moonlight, and thus being helped by isis, as the moon, her sidereal symbol. but the nearer esoteric truth underlying these popular myths is, that hermes, as shown by abenephius (de cultu egypt, watched under the form of that bird over the egyptians, and taught them the occult arts and sciences. this means simply th

c worship- which had also its esoteric symbology- the lotus became in time the carrier and container of a more terrestrial idea. no dogmatic religion has ever escaped the sexual element in it; and to this day it soils the moral beauty of the root idea. the following is quoted from the same kabalistic mss. already mentioned "pointing to like signification was the lotus growing in the waters of the nile. its mode of growth peculiarly fitted it as a symbol of the generative activities. the flower of the lotus, which is the bearer of the seed for reproduction, as the result of its maturing, is connected by its placenta-like attachment with mother-earth, or the womb of isis, through the water of the womb, that is, the river nile, by means of the long cord-like stalk, the umbilicus. nothing can

rb (the ten divisions of the rig veda. the most sacred names in india begin with this letter generally- from mahat, the first manifested intellect, and mandara, the great mountain used by the gods to churn the ocean, down to mandakin, the heavenly ganga (ganges, manu, etc, etc. shall this be called a coincidence? a strange one it is then, indeed, when we find even moses- found in the water of the nile- having the symbolical consonant in his name. and pharaoh's daughter "called his name moses. because" she said "i drew him out of water (exod. ii, 10* besides which the hebrew sacred name of god applied to this letter m is meborach, the "holy" or the "blessed" and the name for the water of the flood is m'bul. a reminder of the "three maries" at the crucifixion and their connection with mar, t

contained all things within himself; and that man was his image, man including woman. the place of the man and woman with the hebrews was among the egyptians occupied by the bull and the cow, sacred to osiris and isis* who were represented, respectively, by a man having a bull's head, and a woman having the head of a cow, which symbols were worshipped. notoriously osiris was the sun and the river nile, the tropical year of 365 days, which number is the value of the word neilos, and the bull, as he was also the principle of fire and of life-giving force, while isis was the moon, the bed of the river nile, or the mother earth, for the parturient energies of which water was a necessity, the lunar year of 354-364 days, the time-maker of the periods of gestation, and the cow marked by, or with

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oll. ext. achad cancellarius 65 liber lxv liber cordis cincti serpente sub figur ynda i 1. i am the heart; and the snake is entwined about the invisible core of the mind. rise, o my snake! it is now is the hour of the hooded and holy ineffable flower. rise, o my snake, into brilliance of bloom on the corpse of osiris afloat in the tomb! o heart of my mother, my sister, mine own, thou art given to nile, to the terror typhon! ah me! but the glory of ravening storm enswathes thee and wraps thee in frenzy of form. be still, o my soul! that the spell may dissolve as the wands are upraised and the ons revolve. behold! in my beauty how joyous thou art, o snake that caresses the crown of mine heart! behold! we are one, and the tempest of years goes down to the dusk, and the beetle appears. o beetl

magister gave the sign of the magistry, and laughed back on him: o lord, o beloved, did these fingers relax on thy curls, or these eyes turn away from thine eye? 21. and adonai delighted in him exceedingly. liber lxv 85 22. yea, o my master, thou art the beloved of the beloved one; the bennu bird is set up in phil not in vain. 23. i who was the priestess of ahathoor rejoice in your love. arise, o nile-god, and devour the holy place of the cow of heaven! let the milk of the stars be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my lord, and thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of isis the mother of the gods! 25. for thou art he! yea, thou shall swallow up asi and asar, and the children of ptah. thou shalt pour for

on. bid thy satyrs heap thorns among the flowers, that we may take our pain thereon. let the pleasure and pain be mingled in one supreme offering unto the lord adonai! 48. also i heard the voice of adonai the lord the desirable one concerning that which is beyond. 49. let not the dwellers in thebai and the temples thereof prate ever of the pillars of hercules and the ocean of the west. is not the nile a beautiful water? 50. let not the priest of isis uncover the nakedness of nuit, for every step is a death and a birth. the priest of isis lifted the veil of isis, and was slain by the kisses of her the equinox 96 mouth. then he was the priest of nuit, and drank of the milk of the stars. 51. let not the failure and the pain turn aside the worshippers. the foundations of the pyramid were hewn

ed, even unto an hundred millions of generations, and it may be that the mercy of the mighty ones may bestow upon thy children a drop of the poison of eld. 54. then the humming-bird was afflicted in his spirit, and he flew unto the flowers, and it was as if naught had been spoken between them. yet in a little while a serpent struck him that he died. 55. but an ibis that meditated upon the bank of nile the beautiful god listened and heard. and he laid aside his ibis ways, and became as a serpent, saying peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the exalted one. 56. and behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an liber lxv 97 ur us serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and hi

have lives, even unto an hundred millions of generations, and it may be that the mercy of the mighty ones may bestow upon thy children a drop of the poison of eld. then the humming-bird was afflicted in his spirit, and he flew unto the flowers, and it was as if naught had been spoken between them. yet in a little while a serpent struck him that he died. but an ibis that meditated upon the bank of nile the beautiful god listened and heard. and he laid aside his ibis ways, and became as a serpent, saying peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the exalted one. and behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an ur us serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even for e

BOOK OF ENOCH

, he erected alters to baal and asherah in solomon's temple. in kings at 21:16, it says that so much innocent blood was shed that it filled jerusalem from end to end. at this time, the religious establishment left the country, taking the ark of the covenant and all the important religious texts with them. after a number of years in egypt, the refugees went further south, near to the source of the nile, at lake tana in ethiopia. the descendants of these people are the falashas, who even today follow the form of judaism that had been practiced in israel only before 620 bc. the ethiopians translated the book of hanokh into ge'ez, and had enough respect to look after it. meanwhile, all hebrew versions disappeared but a substantial part of the book had survived in greek, and some parts in arama

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urishing world, one speck in a fragment of a vast cosmos. here the cycle of life and death develops again, but its potential is unfulfilled until the appearance of intelligent beings. thus, the beginnings of human life on earth are portrayed as a long-awaited event for which god has prepared a vast stage in both time and space. so we find ourselves following a tribe of hominids who live along the nile river (the "great river" in genesis is the euphrates, but the author of jashar obviously uses "the great river" to mean the nile instead) the image of these four individuals, at the borderline between animal and human, is sharpened for the modern reader by the fact that "flo" and "faben" are names that jane goodall used for wild chimpanzees that she studied in gombe. the name "human" is of co

al contract that defines legitimate leadership and restrains individual behavior. the consolidation of this social contract, within a generation after the discovery of fire, completes the transition from animal to human; so eve can now truly say "we are not animals" the brand on cain's forehead marks him, even in his exile, as one who has also accepted the social contract. cain runs east from the nile delta for six days, and on the seventh day he has a vision of a great city. it is tempting to suppose (straining the limits of how far a man on foot can go in six days) that cain's first sabbath vision was at mount moriah in jerusalem. but what future jerusalem did he see: the modern jerusalem, the crusader city, the city of the second temple, the city of david, the jebusite village, or did h

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t have the flesh of their own bodies, and their souls speak p. 55 over them, and their shadows are united unto them, and after this great god hath addressed them, they speak to him, and they say words of praise to him, and they weep after he hath passed them by. the work which is theirs in amentet is to take vengeance upon the seba fiend of ra, to make nu to come into being, to make hap (i.e, the nile) to flow, and when click to view third hour. lower register. gods nos. 1-6. he hath come forth in the earth from them, they send forth their voice, and take vengeance upon the seba fiend. whosoever knoweth [these things] shall, when he passeth by these beings, not be driven away by their roarings, and he shall never fall down into their caverns" in the lower register are- 1. the god khnemu, r

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

res. in egyptian mythology, isis, the sister-wife of osiris, sought and reassembled his body after his murder and dismemberment by his brother seth. in this connection, she took on the role of the goddess of rebirth, the bone goddess, and restored him in a more evolved form. the annual celebrations of this event coincided with the rising of the dog star, sirius, which heralded the flooding of the nile and the restoration of fertility to the land and symbolically to the people. as the sky gods gained supremacy, they married the earth goddesses who slowly evolved into patronesses of women, marriage and childbirth. so, for example, odin the norse all-father married frigg, goddess of women, marriage and motherhood. but in witchcraft, though the sky fathers and their wives are used for the focu

on, renewal, birth and the life cycles; she also represents power with responsibility and necessary sacrifice for future gain, but above all transformation. isis the egyptian goddess isis is the most powerful and frequently invoked goddess in formal magick. she is mother, healer and the faithful wife who annually restored seite 36 wicca01.txt her consort osiris to life, thus magically causing the nile to flood and fertility to return to the land. she is the patroness of magick and spell-casting, having tricked ra the sun god into giving her his secrets. some accounts say she was taught by thoth, god of wisdom and learning. her cult spread throughout the roman empire and she remained in mediterranean lands in her guise as the black madonna, holding her infant son horus, until the middle age

god. osiris ruled wisely, teaching his people about agriculture and the arts. but osiris's brother seth was jealous and vowed to kill him. seth invited osiris to a feast and showed the guests a fine coffer, promising that whoever fitted inside would be the owner. osiris stepped inside the coffer and it fitted perfectly. seth slammed the lid tight and he and his followers threw the chest into the nile. isis searched for her husband and at last discovered the chest at byblos on the phoenician coast. she brought osiris' body back to egypt and conceived a son by her dead husband, hiding herself in the rushes of the marshes of the delta while awaiting the birth. seth discovered the body of osiris, hacked it into pieces and scattered them throughout egypt so that he could never be restored to l

form and restored her husband to life once more. when their son horus, the sky god, became a youth, he fought to avenge his father against seth. the divine judges, including thoth, god of wisdom, met in the great hall of judgment and decided that osiris should become not a living king once more, but eternal king and judge of the underworld. osiris was also god of vegetation, the fertile, flooding nile and the corn, and so represented the annual dying of the land and rebirth with the flood. he is normally pictured as a man, bound in mummy wrappings. osiris is an important icon of the annual cycle of sacrifice and resurrection but, as with all the sacrifice gods, it is the female power that causes the resurrection. like other sacrificed and restored gods, osiris thereby represents the integr

rcury cannot be seen and on saturday. black another colour of saturn and also the kings of the underworld- the roman pluto, the bestower of the hidden wealth that lay within the earth, and the greek hades, who abducted persephone (proserpine, thus causing winter. black is the colour not only of death, but also of regeneration. this belief goes back to ancient egypt when the annual flooding of the nile carried with it black silt, which brought new life to the land each year. in magick, black is the colour of endings that carry within them seeds of new beginnings. it can be used for banishing negativity, for leaving behind old sorrows and redundant relationships; for acknowledging grief, for rituals of partings, for breaking hexes and for psychic protection. some people do not like using bla

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ent post-deluge societies appeared with tremendous speed. professor w.b. emery writes in archaic egypt (penguin books, england, 1961 "at a period approximately 3400 years (bc, a great change took place in egypt, and the country passed rapidly from a state of advanced neolithic culture with a complex tribal character to two well-organised monarchies, one comprising the delta area and the other the nile valley proper. at the same time the art of writing appears. monumental architecture and the arts and crafts developed to an astonishing degree, and all the evidence points to the existence of a well-organised, even luxurious civilisation. all this was achieved within a comparatively short period of time, for there appears to be little or no background to these fundamental developments in writ

three-leaf plant in egypt is known as a shamrukh. the rosary beads, such a symbol of the roman catholic church (created by the sumerian-inspired romans and based on sun worship, are from the middle east and still used by the egyptians. the word "nun" is egyptian and their garb is middle eastern. the old irish sailing craft called a pucan was designed in north africa where it was used on the river nile. old irish books employ the same styles as those found in egypt and even the colours used in the irish book of kells and book of durrow are from middle eastern insects and plants. the famous ancient mound at newgrange, north of dublin, has a narrow passageway of some 62 feet that perfectly aligns with the sun as it rises on the winter solstice. it is so precise that at the solstice sunrise, i

e sumerian empire, and also known as king minos to the greeks, actually died in ireland" this story sums up how 64 children of the matrix ludicrous official history can be and how one mis-translation can make a complete pig's ear of what really happened. according to the accepted story, menes died after a reign of some 60 years when he was killed by a "kheb beast" that came from the waters of the nile. this "kheb beast" has been translated as hippopotamus. but, as waddell points out, the word "kheb" in egyptian also means wasp or hornet.42 pictographs relaying this story portray an insect that looks remarkably like a wasp or hornet and very unlike a friggin' hippo, unless in those days hippos had wings and looked like flying insects. accounts of menes' death found in his "tomb (in truth hi

evisited 65 waddell's work is further supported by evidence that egyptians were shipwrecked off the east coast of britain some 2,700 years ago and settled in the area now occupied by the city of hull. three wooden boats found in mud on the banks of the river humber in 1937 were thought to be viking. now they are said to date from around 700bc and they are identical to ones that once navigated the nile.51 i can understand the confusion with the vikings, however, because the scandinavian nordics travelled south to egypt and sumer after atlantis and there would be many similarities and mutual origins. the egyptologist, lorraine evans, also says in her book, kingdom of the ark (simon& schuster, london, 2000) that the ancient egyptians established a colony in ireland 3,500 years ago, after land

he illuminati's key symbol the lighted torch or eternal flame. in the temple, serapis was portrayed as a massive statue standing on a crocodile holding a staff with a serpent coiling serving the dragon: the past 129 around it. at the top of the staff were the heads of a lion, dog, and wolf, all classic symbols of the serpent cult.56 egyptian queens like cleopatra were known as the "serpent of the nile" and the uraeus hieroglyphic sign for goddess was a serpent.57 later gnostic christians adopted the name uraeus as a secret name for god!58 many gnostic traditions also identified the serpent with "jesus".59 as with many other cultures of the serpent gods, they were seen in the earliest egyptian records as either benevolent or partly benevolent and partly not so. this is what you would expect

, says waddell. budhnya and wodan are the same character. in india, wednesday or "wodens-day" is known as budh!30 interesting how close that is to buddha, and, according to waddell, buddha is a derivative of woden and buddha claimed to have had several "former births" as a serpent. the indian brahmans adopted the moon and serpent cult. so too, according to waddell, did the "semitic priests of the nile valley".31 he says that they replaced the original sun worship of asar or osiris and deliberately introduced the serpent and sacrificial cult to egyptian culture. balder, who is el and wodan's malicious son in the edda, corresponds with the green man of the king arthur legend and loki, the original of lucifer, according to waddell. he says that balder is also lancelot in the arthur stories fr

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s of their god, osiris, canbe seen in irish manuscripts. the irish sweaters made on the isle of arran carry,according to at least one expert on the history of knitting, designs first given to them byegyptian coptic monks.42 the main blood group of arran (aryan) is different frommost of the irish population. the old irish sailing craft called pucan was invented by thenorth africans and used on the nile. excavations at navan fort, near armagh city,found remains of the barbary ape estimated to have lived about 500 bc. the barbaryape today is mainly associated with gibraltar, but its home in 500 bc was north africa.libyan dragonskins (mercenaries) were believed to have been at large in ireland 2,000years ago. in the second century, the geographer ptolemy, who lived in alexandria,could name six

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form of set who had many helpers being serpents, noxious creatures and demons. it is further connected that thoth was said to have gotten the knife to slay the bull from set, thus making parallel the name of smain with set, being violence. one specific dwelling place of set was called set amentet3 which is the mountain of the underworld, which is a cemetery in the desert on the west banks of the nile. set is also closely connected with a former death-god called seker, who was later merged with osiris and became something rather different in nature. in the tuat, seker resided within a kingdom called ra-stau, from which he sat upon a throne in majesty, having numerous legions of winged serpents, devils called seba and other monsters 2 budge, e.a. wallis, the gods of the egyptians volume 1 3

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ecorded them in hieroglyphic characters, and who have left the monuments which are the only trustworthy sources of information on the subject, or whether they were brought into egypt by the early immigrants from the asiatic continent whence they came, or whether they represent the religious books of the egyptians incorporated with the funeral texts of some prehistoric dwellers on the banks of the nile, are all questions which the possible discovery of inscriptions belonging to the first dynasties of the early empire can alone decide. the evidence derived from the p. xii its antiquity. enormous mass of new material which we owe to the all-important discoveries of mastaba tombs and pyramids by m. maspero, and to his publication of the early religious texts, proves beyond all doubt that the g

religions, t. xii, p. 125. see also recueil de travaux, t. iv, p. 62. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (3 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:54 am] 3. so sind wir gezwungen, wenigstens die ersten grundlagen des buches den anf ngen den aegyptischen civilization beizumessen" see naville, das aegyptische todtenbuch (einleitung, berlin, 1886, p. 18] p. xiii the nile.[1] to fix a chronological limit for the arts and civilization of egypt is absolutely impossible.[2] evidence of the antiquity of certain chapters. the oldest form or edition of the book of the dead as we have received it supplies no information whatever as to the period when it was compiled; but a copy of the hieratic text inscribed upon a coffin of menthu-hetep, a queen of the xith dynasty

v, p. 299, and tudes de mythologie, t i, p. 368. 6 todtenbuch (einleitung, p. 139. mr. renouf also holds this opinion, trans. see. bibl. arch, 1803, p. 6* i.e, the "chief reader" many of the inscriptions on whose tomb have been published by d michen, der grabpalast des patuamenap; leipzig, 1884, 1885+ i.e, asas f el-bahr yeh, or asasif of the north, behind d r el-bahar, on the western bank of the nile, opposite thebes] p. xv the oldest in the book of the dead; the former basing his opinion on the rubric' and the latter upon the evidence derived from the contents and character of the text; but maspero, while admitting the great age of the chapter, does not attach any very great importance to the rubric as fixing any exact date for its composition.[1] of herutataf the finder of the block of

ades, and with aso, the queen of ethiopia, to slay him; and secretly got the measure of the body of osiris, and made ready a fair chest, which was brought into his banqueting hall when osiris was present together with other guests. by a ruse osiris was induced to lie down in the chest, which was immediately closed by typhon and his fellow conspirators, who conveyed it to the tanaitic mouth of the nile.[4] these things happened on the seventeenth day of [1. for the text see de iside et osiride, ed. didot (scripta moralia, t. iii, pp. 429-69, xii. ff. 2. the days are called in hieroglyphics "the five additional days of the year" e?pago'menai!hme'rai pe'nte; see brugsch, thesaurus inscriptionum aegytiacarum, abt. ii (kalendarische inschriften, leipzig, 1883, pp. 479, 480; brugsch, aegyptologi

inscriptionum aegytiacarum, abt. ii (kalendarische inschriften, leipzig, 1883, pp. 479, 480; brugsch, aegyptologie, p. 361 chabas, le c lendrier, paris (no date, p. 99 ff. 3. osiris was born on the first day, horus on the second, set on the third, isis on the fourth, and nephthys on the fifth; the first, third, and fifth of these days were considered unlucky by the egyptians. 4. the mouths of the nile are discussed and described by strabo, xvii, i, 18 (ed. didot, p. 681) and by diodorus, i, 33, 7 (ed. didot, p. 26] p. l plutarch's version. the month hathor,[1] when osiris was in the twenty-eighth year either of his reign or of his age. the first to know of what had happened were the pans and satyrs, who dwelt hard by panopolis; and finally the news was brought to isis at coptos, whereupon

ife, the firstborn son of the womb of nut, begotten of seb, the prince of gods and men, the god of gods, the king of kings, the lord of lords, the prince of princes, the governor of the world, from the womb of nut, whose existence is for everlasting,[1] unnefer of many forms and of many attributes, tmu in annu, the lord of akert,[2] the only one, the lord of the land on each side of the celestial nile"[3] in the xxvith dynasty and later there grew up a class of literature [1. for the text see the papyrus of ani, pl. ii, and pl. xxxvi, 1. 2. 2. i.e, the underworld. 3. neb atebui; see ani, pl. xix, 1. 9] p. liv osiris the god of the resurrection. represented by such works as "the book of respirations"[1 "the lamentations of isis and nephthys"[2 "the festival songs of isis and nephthys"[3 "th

esses become fuel for his furnace. the mighty ones in heaven shoot out fire under the caldrons which are heaped up with the haunches of the firstborn; and he that maketh those who live (514) in heaven to revolve round unas hath shot into the caldrons the haunches of their women; he hath gone round about the two heavens in their entirety, and he hath gone round about the two banks of the celestial nile. unas is the great form, the form (515) of forms, and unas is the chief of the gods in visible forms. whatever he hath found upon his path he hath eaten forthwith, and the magical might of unas is before that of all the (516) sahu who dwell in the horizon. unas is the firstborn of the first born. unas hath gone round thousands and he hath offered oblations unto hundreds; he hath manifested hi

cred serpent bit him. the flame of life departed from him, and he who dwelt among the cedars) was overcome. the holy god opened his mouth, and the cry of his majesty reached unto heaven. his company of gods said "what hath happened" and his gods exclaimed "what is it" but ra could not answer, for his jaws trembled and all his members quaked; the poison spread swiftly through his flesh just as the nile invadeth all his land. when the great god had stablished his heart, he cried unto those who were in his train, saying "come unto me, o ye who have come into being from my body, ye gods who have come forth from me, make ye known unto khepera that a dire calamity hath fallen upon me. my heart perceiveth it, but my eyes see it not; my hand hath not caused it, nor do i know who hath done this unt

to being the great and wide sea, i have made the 'bull of p. xci legend of ra and isis. his mother' from whom spring the delights of love. i have made the heavens, i have stretched out the two horizons like a curtain, and i have placed the soul of the gods within them. i am he who, if he openeth his eyes, doth make the light, and, if he closeth them, darkness cometh into being. at his command the nile riseth, and the gods know not his name. i have made the hours, i have created the days, i bring forward the festivals of the year, i create the nile-flood. i make the fire of life, and i provide food in the houses. i am khepera in the morning, i am ra at noon, and i am tmu at even" meanwhile the poison was not taken away from his body, but it pierced deeper, and the great god could no longer

ved to express the name of the creator of the universe, and that neteru, usually rendered "gods" should be translated by some other word, but what that word should be it is almost impossible to say.[2] the belief in one god. from the attributes of god set forth in egyptian texts of all periods, dr. brugsch, de roug, and other eminent egyptologists have come to the opinion that the dwellers in the nile valley, from the earliest times, knew and worshipped one god, nameless, incomprehensible, and eternal. in 1860 de roug wrote-"the [1. the hieratic text of this story was published by pleyte and rossi, le papyrus de turin, 1869-1876, pll. 31-77, and 131-138; a french translation of it was published by m. lef bure, who first recognized the true character of the composition, in aeg. zeitschrift

h were made by his [1. the literature relating to the fragment of the sallier papyrus recording this fact is given by wiedemann, aegyptische geschichte, p. 299. 2 the hieratic text is published, with a hieroglyphic transcript, by maspero, m moires publi s par les membres de la mission arch ologique fran aise au caire, t. i, p. 594 ff, and pll. 25-27. 3 a district of thebes on the east bank of the nile, the modern karnak. 4 see within, p: xcvii. 5. 6# neter netra. m. maspero translates "dieu exer ant sa fonction de dieu, dieu en activit de service" or "dieu d isant] p. cvi conception.[1] he is the prince of princes, the mightiest of the mighty, he is greater than the gods, he is the young bull with sharp pointed horns, and he protecteth the world in his great name 'eternity cometh with its

a serpent is twined, or as a winged ur us wearing the crown of the north [1. in egyptian the town is called apu. 2. see lanzone, op. cit, tav. 332. 3. ibid, tav 124. 4. ibid, op. cit, tav. 362] p. cxxiii beb, bebti, baba, or babu, mentioned three times in the book of the dead, is the "firstborn son of osiris" and seems to be one of the gods of generation. hapi is the name of the great god of the nile who was worshipped in egypt under two forms, i.e "hapi of the south" and "hapi of the north; the papyrus was the emblem of the one, and the lotus of the other. from the earliest times the nile was regarded by the egyptians as the source of all the prosperity of egypt, and it was honoured as being the type of the life-giving waters out of the midst of which sprang the gods and all created thin

pt, and it was honoured as being the type of the life-giving waters out of the midst of which sprang the gods and all created things. in turn it was identified with all the gods of egypt, new or old, and its influence was so great upon the minds of the egyptians that from the earliest days they depicted to themselves a material heaven wherein the isles of the blest were laved by the waters of the nile, and the approach to which was by the way of its stream as it flowed to the north. others again lived in imagination on the banks of the heavenly nile, whereon they built cities; and it seems as if the egyptians never succeeded in conceiving a heaven without a nile and canals. the nile is depicted in the form of a man, who wears upon his head a clump of papyrus or lotus flowers; his breasts a

nation on the banks of the heavenly nile, whereon they built cities; and it seems as if the egyptians never succeeded in conceiving a heaven without a nile and canals. the nile is depicted in the form of a man, who wears upon his head a clump of papyrus or lotus flowers; his breasts are those of a woman, indicating fertility. lanzone reproduces an interesting scene[1] in which the north and south nile gods are tying a papyrus and a lotus stalk around the emblem of union to indicate the unity of upper and lower egypt, and this emblem is found cut upon the thrones of the kings of egypt to indicate their sovereignty over the regions traversed by the south and north niles. it has already been said that hapi was identified with all the gods in turn, and it follows as a matter of course that the

nnot be rendered nor offerings made to him; not [1. dizionario, tav. 198] p. cxxiv seset-tu em setau an rex-tu bu entuf an the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (12 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:59 am] can he be drawn from [his] mystery; not can be known the place where he is; not qem tephet anu. is he found in the painted shrine.[1] here the scribe gave to the nile the attributes of the great and unknown god its maker. in the pyramid texts we find a group of four gods with whom the deceased is closely connected in the "other world; these are the four "children of horus" whose names are given in the following order--hapi, tua-mautef, amset and qebhsennuf.[2] the deceased is called their "father"[3] his two arms were identified with hapi and tuamautef, an

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rts of asia; in turkey; in introduction ix syria (as at aleppo, where an english lodge was established more than a century ago; in all the east india settlements, in bengal, bombay, madras (in all of which lodges are numerous; in china, where there is a provincial grand master and several lodges; in various parts of africa, as at the cape of good hope and at sierra leone; on the gambia and on the nile; in all the larger islands of the pacific and indian oceans, as at ceylon, sumatra, st. helena, mauritius, madagascar; the sandwich group; in all the principal settlements of australia, as at adelaide, melbourne, parramatta, sidney, new zealand; in greece, where there is a grand lodge; in algeria, in tunis, in the empire of morocco, and wherever else in the old world the genius of civilizatio

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s satan (or adversary) in mat. 4:8.11 and rev. 12:9. the idea of satan was most fully developed in postapostolic christianity, but as the personification of evil, satan has many precursors and analogous representations in other religions. possibly the clearest precursor was set (or seth, the antagonist of the egyptian god of light, horus. set was the deity of the desert; horus, of the life-giving nile. set s color was red, and redhaired and ruddy-complected people were on occasion sacrificed because they were identified with him. devereux, george encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 408 in early polygamous religious systems, the gods were pictured in quite human terms, possessing both admirable and detestable attributes at the same time. very few of them were seen as evil lik

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a god: the king presented himself before the god and preferred a direct question, so framed as to admit of an answer by simple yes or no; in reply the god nodded an affirmative, or shook his head in negation. this has suggested the idea that the oracles were manipulated statues of divinities mechanically set in motion by the priests. but as yet no such statues have been found in the valley of the nile. it was customary for the king to visit the god alone and in secret. it is believed the king presented himself on such occasions before the sacred animal the god was incarnate, believing the divine will would be manifested by its movements (see also moving statues) the apis bull also possessed oracles, as did bes, the god of pleasure or of the senses, whose oracle was located at abydos. ameri

nglish winter and spent a year in egypt, where he first became attracted to archaeological excavation. the joint explorations of carnarvon and carter began in the winter of 1907.08, with excavations in the valley of der al- bahari in western thebes. in 1910.11, they discovered an unfinished temple of hatshepsut and other remains. in 1911.12, new ground was broken with excavations of xois near the nile delta. it was thought by 1922 that there were no more royal tombs in the valley of kings, but carter persisted, and in december 1922 discovered the tomb of tutankhamen. on november 6, carter sent a telegram to carnarvon in england: at last have made wonderful discovery in valley. a magnificent tomb with seals intact. re-covered same for your arrival. congratulations. carnarvon went to egypt a

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ections, but there is in particular one very striking passage in the fourth book of picatrix in which hermes is stated to have been the first to use magic images and is credited with having founded a marvellous city in egypt. there are among the chaldeans very perfect masters in this art and they affirm that hermes was the first who constructed images by means of which he knew how to regulate the nile against the motion of the moon. this man also built a temple to the sun, and he knew how to hide himself from all so that no one could see him, although he was within it. it was he, too, who in the east of egypt constructed a city twelve miles miliaria) long within which he constructed a castle which had four gates in each of its four parts. on the eastern gate he placed the form of an eagle;

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elds and sweet air. 13 nor does the great omission halt here. abramelin the magie, a medieval jewish magician, enjoins retirement. in his book the sacred magic we are informed: i resolved to absent myself suddenly, and go away into the hercynian forests, and there remain during the time necessary for this operation, and lead a solitary life. 14 the mad mullah of sudan fame sat in a cave under the nile and repeated to himself the two-andseventy names of allah until allah appeared to him. the qabalist hayyim samuel jacob falk, born in 1708, did much the same; an admirer, sussman shesnowzi, writes on one occasion he abode in seclusion in his house for six weeks without meat and drink. when at the conclusion of this period ten persons were summoned to enter, they found him seated on a sort of

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ore worshipped at the west than was the sacred ficus at the east. like it, the wood of the oak must be used "to call down the sacred fire from heaven and gladden in the yule (suiel or seul) log of christmas-tide even christian fires, as well as annually renew with fire direct from ba-al, on beltine day, the sacred flame on every public and private hearth, and this from the temples of meroe on the nile, to the farthest icy forests and mountains of the sklavonian"[15 [15] faiths of man in all lands, vol. i, p. 68. among the druids, the mistletoe was also sacred especially when entwining the oak. together they represented the tree of life, or the two generating agencies throughout nature. of the species of it which grows on the oak, borlaise says that they deified the mistletoe and were not t

, but in many countries of europe. within the oldest temples of egypt are still to be observed sacred apartments which contain the "holy of holies" and to which, in past ages, none might gain access but priests and priestesses of the highest order. within these apartments are pictured the mysteries of birth, together with the symbols of generation emblems of procreation. on the banks of the river nile are observed the ruins of the temple of philae, which structure, it is said, represents the most ancient style of architecture. within these ruins is to be seen an inner chamber in which are depicted the birth scenes of the child god horus, and, indeed, everywhere among the monuments and ruins of egypt, is plainly visible the fact that the creative power and functions in human beings, in anim

in these ruins is to be seen an inner chamber in which are depicted the birth scenes of the child god horus, and, indeed, everywhere among the monuments and ruins of egypt, is plainly visible the fact that the creative power and functions in human beings, in animals, and in vegetable life, together with wisdom, once constituted the god-idea. between the ruins of the palace of amunoph iii. and the nile are two colossal statues, each hewn from a single block of stone. these figures, although in a sitting posture, are sixty feet high. it is thought that they once formed the entrance to an avenue of similar figures leading up to the palace. it has been supposed that the most northern statue represents ammon, and that its companion piece is his mother. it is now believed by many writers, howeve

os who, attempting to reconcile the two systems, declare in their allegorical style that "parvati and mahadeva found their concurrence essential to the perfection of their offspring, and that vishnu, at the request of the goddess, effected a reconciliation between them"[51 [49] see the evolution of women, p. 303 [50] asiatic researches, vol. iii, pp. 125-132 [51] asiatic researches "egypt and the nile" vol. iii, pp. 361-363. the people who were dominant in asia long before the rise of the late assyrian monarchy, are said to be those whom scriptural writers represent as cushim, and the hindoos as cushas. they were the descendants of cush, or cuth, and were believed to have been the architects of the tower of babel. epiphanius, eusebius, and others assert that at the time of the building of

iate in a nude state, and during the ceremony should it appear that the symbols with which they came in contact had appealed to other than their highest emotions, they were immediately stoned by the people.[54 [54] sonnerat, voyage aux indes, i, 311. the identity of the religions of india and egypt has been noted in an earlier portion of this work. wilford, in his dissertations upon egypt and the nile, says that in a conversation which he had with some learned brahmins, upon describing to them the form and peculiarities of the great pyramid, they told him that "it was a temple appropriated to the worship of padma devi" the true coptic name of these edifices is pire honc, which signifies a sunbeam. padma devi means the lotus, or the deity of generation. it is thought by many writers that th

s now known that the lens as a magnifying instrument was in use among them. attention has been drawn to the fact that the astronomical observations of the ancients would have been impossible without the aid of the telescope. diodorus siculus says there was an island west of the celtae in which the druids brought the sun and moon near them. an instrument has recently been found in the sands of the nile, the construction of which shows plainly that 6000 years ago the egyptians were acquainted with our modern ideas of the science of astronomy. william huntington, who has travelled widely in india, borneo, the malay peninsula, and egypt, says "i think, on the whole, the most interesting experience i ever had was in an ancient city on the nile in egypt. when i was there a year ago, and men were

ced civilized conditions into every quarter of the globe. even in peru, in mexico, in central america, and in the united states are evidences of the old cushite religion and enterprise. baldwin, commenting on the greatness of this remarkable people, says that early in the period of its colonizing enterprise, commercial greatness, and extensive empire, it established colonies in the valleys of the nile and the euphrates, which in later ages became barbary, egypt, and chaldea. the ancient cushite nation occupied arabia and other extensive regions of africa, india, and western asia to the mediterranean. while remarking upon the vastness and antiquity of this old cushite race, rawlinson says that they founded most of the towns of western asia. the vast commercial system which formed a connecti

ramis herself. her title was the "shining sun"[70 [70] rawlinson, history of herodotus, app, book ii, ch. viii. as these women doubtless belonged to the old arabian, ethiopian, or cushite race, the people who had brought civilization to egypt, we are not surprised to find them holding positions which were connected with the highest civil and religious offices. the labyrinth, in the country of the nile, is described by ancient writers as containing three thousand chambers. strabo says of it that the enclosure contained as many palaces as there formerly were homes, and that there the priests and priestesses of each department were wont to congregate to discuss difficult and important questions of law. according to the greeks, the egyptian god osiris corresponds to their jupiter; and sate, th

re" of the depravity of the jews and the immorality practiced in their religious rites, forlong says "no one can study their history, liberated from the blindness which our christian up-bringing and associations cast over us, without seeing that the jews were probably the grossest worshippers among all those ophi--phallo--solar devotees who then covered every land and sea, from the sources of the nile and euphrates to all over the mediterranean coasts and isles. these impure faiths seem to have been very strictly maintained by jews up to hezekiah's days, and by none more so than by dissolute solomon and his cruel, lascivious bandit-father, the brazen-faced adulterer and murderer, who broke his freely volunteered oath, and sacrificed six innocent sons of his king to his javah" of solomon he

rs from the bramble, and honey shall distil spontaneously from the rugged oak. the universal globe shall enjoy the blessings of peace, secure under the mild sway of its new and divine sovereign" there is no lack of evidence to prove that for several centuries great numbers of christians regarded christ as a solar incarnation similar to those which from time to time were born in the valleys of the nile and the ganges. by the fathers in the church jesus christ was named the new sun, and in the early days of christianity the egyptians struck a coin representing o. b. or the holy basilisk, with rays of light darting from his head, on the reverse side of which was figured "jesus christ as the new solar deity" the similarity if not the actual identity of the religion of christ and that of the pa

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merce and a centre of intellectual learning, flourished before the rise of the imperial power of rome, falling at length before the martial prowess of the romans, who, having conquered, took great pains to destroy the arts and sciences of the egypt they had overrun and subdued; for they seem to have had a wholesome fear of the magical arts, which, as tradition had informed them, flourished in the nile valley; which same tradition is also familiar to english people through our acquaintance with the book of genesis, whose reputed author was taught in egypt all the science and arts he possessed, even as the bible itself tells us, although the orthodox are apt to slur over this assertion of the old testament narrative.ourpresent world has taken almost no notice of the rosicrucian philosophy, n

t birth of any man, and still less will he believe in the processes called horary astrol255 ogy, or the judgments of fate derived from figures of the sky drawn for the time of the special event, or from the time of asking the question. to return to the origins of history, we find references to astrologic notions in the civilizations of babylon and chaldea, on the banks of the gangesoflndia,on the nile of egypt, and also in turanian chinese history. from chaldea astrology came to persia and asia minor, to greek culture, to roman cities, and to the jews who overspread all these parts after the destruction of jerusalem.itis said that the arabs knew of the science even before the days of mohammed; the saracens carried it to spain about 711a.d.and the moors from north africa brought it afresh t

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sed, and this seems a long way from the witch's cursings. but we have to remember thatinancient egypt, as in medieval europe, evil was a term of very varying significance, and one thinks perhaps the hierophant's conception of evil might sometimes have been merely that which was personally annoying to himself. after all, this is but human nature, and we can. readily imagine that if a farmer on old nile should withold his temple dues, and attempt to cheat the priests, as without doubt they occasionally did, it might be a short and simple solution to devote him to typhon apophis, even as we may bid a man who has defrauded us go to the devil. only in ancient egypt we are told they did it with effect. an instance of the survivalofthis old idea was told me by a london doctor. a man came to see h

e magic for the banishingofevils, famine, and disease, as well as moral evil.and wrong,andtherefore is appropriately paralleled by the church formulae of exorcism. with this may be profitably compared the black magical formulae, as recorded in the confessionsofwitches. storms might be raised, and boats wreckedinrnuchthe same manner as the beneficent rain might be invoked in time of drought in the nile valley; and again 267by material actions, coupled with appropriate. words. isabel goudie employed a wetcloutbeaten with a wooden beetle. and the words as quoted by the witches were often a degraded corruption of psalms and church rituals. the evil against which the spells were directed. wasthatwhich was obnoxious to the witch herself; the enemies devoted to the powers ofill,and ceremonially c

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single-cell organisms such as bacteria divide and multiply. nothing has ever been observed to the contrary. throughout the history of the world no one has ever witnessed lifeless matter giving birth to a living being. of course, there were those in ancient egypt, greece and the middle ages who thought they had observed such an outcome; the egyptians believed that frogs sprang from the mud of the nile, a belief also sustained by ancient greek philosophers, such as aristotle. in the middle ages it was believed that mice were begotten from the wheat of granaries. however, all these beliefs proved to be out of ignorance, and finally, in his famous experiments in the 1860's, pasteur proved that even bacteria, the most basic form of life, did not come to be without a predecessor, that is, it is

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being. thou art trapt, the sun in fullest glory. gaze thou with favor upon me who now standeth humbly before thee with arms uplifted in praise of thee. o ra, self-begotten and self born, thy devices are greater and more numerous than those of any other god. behold! the gods tremble at thy feet when they recognize thy majesty! all things are created by thy design, and it is by thy command that the nile doth flow. thou art the lord of intelligence, and knowledge proceedeth from thy mouth to educate all that liveth, and even in death dost thou causeth the hearts of men to rejoice. thou who risest in the double house of flame, make thy face to shine upon me, and bestow upon me the light of your strength. i invoke thee to exalt my soul in the rays of thy glory and to manifest unto me that which

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ow that the coffer had been constructed precisely to his body measurements. as a result, when the assembled guests tried one by one to get into it they failed. osiris lay down comfortably inside. before he had time to get out the conspirators rushed forward, nailed the lid tightly closed and sealed even the cracks with molten lead so that there would be no air. the coffer was then thrown into the nile. it had been intended that it should sink, but it floated rapidly away, drifting for a considerable distance until it reached the sea coast. at this point the goddess isis, wife of osiris, intervened. using all the great magic for which she was renowned, she found the coffer and concealed it in a secret place. however, her evil brother set, out hunting in the marshes, discovered the coffer, o

r which she was renowned, she found the coffer and concealed it in a secret place. however, her evil brother set, out hunting in the marshes, discovered the coffer, opened it and, in a mad fury, cut the royal corpse into fourteen pieces which he scattered throughout the land. once more isis set off to save her husband. she made a small boat of papyrus reeds, coated with pitch, and embarked on the nile in search of the remains. when she had found them she worked powerful spells to reunite the dismembered parts of the body so that it resumed its old form. thereafter, in an intact and perfect state, osiris went through a process of stellar rebirth to become god of the dead and king of the underworld from which place, legend had it, he occasionally returned to earth in the guise of a mortal ma

tudy over the next few hours and, though the setting was unmistakably andean, i found myself repeatedly overtaken by a sense of d j vu from another place and another time. the reason was that the totora vessels of suriqui were virtually identical, both in the method of construction and in finished appearance, to the beautiful craft fashioned from papyrus reeds in which the pharaohs had sailed the nile thousands of years previously. in my travels in egypt i had examined the images of many such vessels painted on the walls of ancient tombs. it sent a tingle down my spine to see them now so colourfully brought to life on an obscure island on lake titicaca even though my research had partially prepared me for this coincidence. i knew that no satisfactory explanation had ever been given for how

at both ends with rope lashings running from the deck right round the bottom of the boat all in one piece graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 76. each straw was placed with maximum precision to achieve perfect symmetry and streamlined elegance, while the bundles were so tightly lashed that they looked like. gilded logs bent into a clog-shaped peak fore and aft.6 the reed boats of the ancient nile, and the reed boats of lake titicaca (the original design of which, local indians insisted, had been given to them by the viracocha people 7, had other points in common. both, for example, were equipped with sails mounted on peculiar two-legged straddled masts.8 both had also been used for the long-distance transport of exceptionally heavy building materials: obelisks and gargantuan blocks of

s others weighed between 100 and 150 tons.5 furthermore, many of the biggest monoliths had clearly been joined to each other by i-shaped metal clamps. in the whole of south america, i knew, this masonry technique had been found only on tiahuanacan structures.6 the last time i had seen the characteristic notched depressions which proved its use had been on ruins on the island of elephantine in the nile in upper egypt.7 1 tiahuanacu, ii, p. 156ff; iii, p. 196. 2 ibid, i, p. 39: an extensive series of canals and hydraulic works, dry at present, but which are all in communication with the former lake bed, are just so many more proofs of the extension of the lake as far as tiahuanacu in this period. 3 ibid, ii, p. 156. 4 bolivia, p. 158. 5 the ancient civilizations of peru, p. 93. 6 ibid. 7 for

does suggest a link between the two regions. but none of these similarities is strong enough to infer that the connection could have been in any way causal, with one society directly influencing the other. on the contrary, as professor emery writes: the impression we get is of an indirect connection, and perhaps the existence of a third party, whose influence spread to both the euphrates and the nile. modern 7 ibid, p. 38. see also the egyptian book of the dead (trans. e.a. wallis budge, british museum, 1895, introduction, pp. xii, xiii. 8 john anthony west, serpent in the sky, harper and row, new york, 1979, p. 13. 9 archaic egypt, p. 38. 10 ibid, pp. 175-91. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 140 scholars have tended to ignore the possibility of immigration to both regions from som

world? for example, archaeo-astronomers making use of the latest starmapping computer programmes had recently demonstrated that the three world-famous pyramids on egypt s giza plateau formed an exact terrestrial diagram of the three belt stars in the constellation of orion.14 nor was this the limit of the celestial map the ancient egyptian priests had created in the sands on the west bank of the nile. included in their overall vision, as we shall see in parts vi and vii, there was a natural 11 ibid, pp. 266-9. 12 the ancient kingdoms of mexico, p. 67. 13 mysteries of the mexican pyramids, p. 221. 14 the orion mystery. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 169 feature the river nile which was exactly where it should be had it been designed to represent the milky way.15 the incorporation

ame means opener of the ways .41 if we follow this way opener to egypt, turn our eyes to the constellation of orion, and enter the potent myth of osiris, we find ourselves enveloped in a net of familiar symbols. the reader will recall that the myth presents osiris as the victim of a plot. the conspirators initially dispose of him by sealing him in a box and casting him adrift on the waters of the nile. in this respect does he not resemble utnapishtim, and noah and coxcoxtli and all the other deluge heroes in their arks (or boxes, or chests) riding out the waters of the flood? another familiar element is the classic precessional image of the worldtree and/or roof-pillar (in this case combined. the myth tells us how osiris, still sealed inside his coffer, is carried out into the sea and wash

gh a mill, as such, is nowhere to be seen, many ancient egyptian reliefs depict two of the principal characters in the osiris myth (horus and seth) jointly operating a giant drill, again a classic symbol of precession. hamlet s mill, p. 162: this feature is continuously mislabelled the uniting of the two countries whether horus and seth serve the churn or, as is more often the case, the so-called nile gods. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 250 chapter 31 the osiris numbers archaeo-astronomer jane b. sellers, who studied egyptology at the university of chicago s oriental institute, spends her winters in portland, maine, and summers at ripley neck, a nineteenth-century enclave downcast on maine s rocky coast. there, she says, the night skies can be as clear as the desert, and no one m

r the world has been shattered by a horrifying geological catastrophe and brings comfort and the gifts of civilization to the shocked and demoralized survivors? white and bearded, osiris is the egyptian manifestation of this universal figure, and it may not be an accident that one of the first acts he is remembered for in myth is the abolition of cannibalism among the primitive inhabitants of the nile valley.2 viracocha, in south america, was said to have begun his civilizing mission immediately after a great flood; quetzalcoatl, the discoverer of maize, brought the benefits of crops, mathematics, astronomy and a refined culture to mexico after the fourth sun had been overwhelmed by a destroying deluge. could these strange myths contain a record of encounters between scattered palaeolithic

was still in perfect condition 4500 years after it had been built. with a displacement of around 40 tons, its design was particularly thought-provoking, incorporating, in the words of one expert, all the sea-going ship s characteristic properties, with prow and stern soaring upward, higher than in a viking ship, to ride out the breakers and high seas, not to contend with the little ripples of the nile. 6 4 ibid, p. 87. 5 see lionel casson, ships and seafaring in ancient times, university of texas press, 1994, p. 17; the ra expeditions, p. 15. 6 the ra expeditions, p. 17. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 273 another authority felt that the careful and clever design of this strange pyramid boat could potentially have made it a far more seaworthy craft than anything available to columb

ed that it had been built to a pattern that could only have been created by shipbuilders from a people with a long, solid tradition of sailing on the open sea. 8 present at the very beginning of egypt s 3000-year history, who had those as yet unidentified shipbuilders been? they had not accumulated their long, solid tradition of sailing on the open sea while ploughing the fields of the landlocked nile valley. so where and when had they developed their maritime skills? there was yet another puzzle. i knew that the ancient egyptians had been very good at making scale models and representations of all manner of things for symbolic purposes.9 i therefore found it hard to understand why they would have gone to the trouble of manufacturing and then burying a boat as big and sophisticated as this

o modern family cars. how long had the pyramid taken to complete? how many men had worked on it? the consensus among egyptologists was two decades and 100,000 men.5 it was also generally agreed that the construction project had not been a year-round affair but had been confined (through labour force availability) to the annual three-month agricultural lay-off season imposed by the flooding of the nile.6 as i continued to climb, i reminded myself of the implications of all this. it wasn t just the tens of thousands of blocks weighing 15 tons or more that the builders would have had to worry about. year in, year out, the real crises would have been caused by the millions of average-sized blocks, weighing say 2.5 tons, that also had to be brought to the working plane. the pyramid has been rel

t drew back before us like some legendary welsh peak. then, just when we d resigned ourselves to an endless succession of such disappointments, we found ourselves at the top, under a breathtaking canopy of stars, more than 450 feet above the surrounding plateau on the most extraordinary viewing platform in the world. to our north and east, sprawled out across the wide, sloping valley of the river nile, lay the 17 the pyramids of egypt, p. 125. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 280 city of cairo, a jumble of skyscrapers and flat traditional roofs separated by the dark defiles of narrow streets and interspersed with the needlepoint minarets of a thousand and one mosques. a film of reflected streetlighting shimmered over the whole scene, closing the eyes of modern cairenes to the wonder

t the heavens. over to the west, across limitless desert sands, regulus had now set beneath the horizon, and the rest of the lion s body was poised to follow. the constellations of virgo and libra were also dropping lower in the sky and, much farther to the north, i could see the great and little bears slowly pacing out their eternal cycle around the celestial pole. i looked south-east across the nile valley and there was the crescent moon still spreading its spectral radiance from the bank of the milky way. 18 ibid, p. 87. 19 one is irritated by the number of imbeciles names written everywhere, gustave flaubert commented in his letters from egypt. on the top of the great pyramid there is a certain buffard, 79 rue st martin, wallpaper manufacturer, in black letters. graham hancock fingerpr

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hand resting against his closed lips in his role ofthe god of silence. hathor maternal force, protection, sustenance, fertility. hathor is the consort of horas. her name means 'house of horus' she has the form of a cow in role of the eternal mother. sothis initiation (femiriine, evolution, growth sothis is the godde ss of the dog star whose annual rise into the heavens marked 67 the advent of the nile river's inundation and thus assured another year of bounty. she is shown naked to ind cate that she holds no secrets from her followers. apis emotions, sacrifice, passion, lust, desire. apis has the form of a bula. anubis initiation (masculine, intelligence, wisdom, rational mvnd_ anubis is the son of osiris and nephthys and thus the step brother of horus. he is called the'initiator of the te

iatory awareness of the high priestess (caput draconis. one is the downward creative impulse, the other the upward spiritual impulse. ztztzt expresses the proper balance necessary between these two complementary forces. the sisil of ztztzt from the watchtower of air is: the letters ceph, gisa, ceph, gisa, ceph, gisa are written: 196 the formula of iliatai i who was priest of ammon-ra, who saw the nile flow by for many moons, for many, many moons, am the young fawn of the grey land. aleister crowley, liber vii the enochian word iliatai, pronounced ee-lee-ahtahee, is comprised of the first letters of the teaching, insi lama-iaida ananael toantoh aai-iad which means "to tread the highest path of the secret wisdom is to unite with the god within yourself" the entire sentence adds up to 836 (th

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urkey in the north to what is now ethiopia in the south, and from libya in the west to what is now iraq in the east (see map two. the egyptians believed that they were set apart from the people who lived in these surrounding countries. the ancient word kemet (usually translated as egypt) literally means black land. this referred to the rich black soil of the land on either bank of the great river nile, which flows through the center of egypt. the egyptians were claiming to be the people of the valley, but they had not always been so. for many millennia north africa enjoyed a moist climate. vast areas that are now desert were then grasslands with large animal populations. nomadic peoples, all with a fairly similar culture, ranged across the grasslands. from around the sixth millennium bce o

many millennia north africa enjoyed a moist climate. vast areas that are now desert were then grasslands with large animal populations. nomadic peoples, all with a fairly similar culture, ranged across the grasslands. from around the sixth millennium bce on, the climate became drier and hotter, and the grasslands gradually turned into desert. the first egyptians built villages on the edges of the nile valley, where they mainly survived by hunting and fishing. by the fourth millennium bce, agriculture-based communities were established in the nile valley and delta. this great climatic and cultural change may have shaped the idea found in egyptian myth that the world had once been different. egypt had become one of the driest places on earth and a hard country to get in or out of. to the nor

ain did 2 handbook of egyptian mythology come, it was in the form of violent desert storms that could lead to destructive flash floods. the usually cloudless skies made it particularly easy for the egyptians to observe the stars and planets. much early mythology may have developed to explain the movement of celestial bodies. the habitable part of egypt was effectively a giant oasis created by the nile and its annual flood, which is known as the inundation. every year a combination of melting snows and monsoon rains in the mountains of ethiopia caused a huge increase in the amount of water in the nile. when the swollen river reached egypt, it flooded all the low-lying land in the nile valley and delta, depositing a thick layer of silt.7 as the floods went down, the fields were planted, and

or it might be too high and sweep away villages and towns and drown thousands of people. the whole welfare of the country depended on this one phenomenon, and because of this the ancient egyptians seem to have felt both uniquely blessed and uniquely vulnerable. aspects of the inundation were personified as deities (see hapy in deities, themes, and concepts, but there was no god or goddess of the nile. introduction 3 figure 1. the nile valley (black land) seen from the desert hills (red land (courtesy of geraldine pinch) the annual rising of the nile was thought of as part of the divine order of things decreed by a creator deity. this divine order was known as maat, and the creator was often identified with the god of the sun. the sun was the great provider of the light and warmth necessar

. in egypt, concepts that might in other cultures belong to the realm of abstract philosophy were expressed by symbols, images, and, to a lesser extent, myths. the divine order envisaged by the egyptians placed their country at the center of the created world. this world was still surrounded by the primeval waters (the nun) from which the creator had originally emerged. the ultimate source of the nile and the inundation was believed to be in the nun. foreign lands and the deserts that bordered the nile valley were said to belong to the realm of chaos (isfet, the force that constantly threatened the divine order. there was a tradition that the creator and the numerous gods and goddesses whom he/she had created originally lived in egypt itself. at the beginning of history they withdrew up in

lly lived in egypt itself. at the beginning of history they withdrew up into the heavens or down under the earth, though their spirits might be persuaded to reside in shrines built for them by the king. the egyptians believed that some supernatural beings could still be encountered in the wilder regions of the earth, such as the remote desert and the areas of untamed marshland on the edges of the nile valley and in parts of the delta. many of the key events in egyptian myth, such as the burial of the murdered god osiris, were supposed to have happened in specific places in egypt or in its neighboring countries. thus a mythical geography can be superimposed on the physical geography. every major egyptian temple was designed as a miniature cosmos in which the main events in mythical history

and rituals: a general theory, harvard theological review 35 (1942: 45 79. 4. kirk, myth, 254 255. 5. it is a feature of etiological myths that, factually speaking, the explanation given is nearly always wrong. 6. in ancient egyptian color symbolism, black was a good color standing for fertility and rebirth, whereas red was a bad color standing for danger and sometimes for evil. 7. because of the nile flood, all permanent settlements had to be built on banks or mounds of high ground within the floodplain or in the desert hills that flank the nile valley. the annual flood is now controlled by the huge aswan dam. 8. kirk, myth, 208 209. 9. for an accessible account of recent discoveries about the origins of egyptian writing, see vivian davies and ren e friedman, egypt (london, 1998, chap. 1

d. 1 the cosmos was not yet divided into pairs of opposites such as earth and sky, light and darkness, male and female, or life and death. the egyptians speculated that the primeval substance was watery and dark and had no form and no boundaries. these primeval waters, known as the nu or the nun, continued to surround the world even after creation and were thought of as the ultimate source of the nile. when personified as a deity, nun could be called the father and mother of the creator, because the creator was thought of as coming into existence within the nun. after creation, qualities of the primeval state, such as its darkness, were retrospectively endowed with consciousness and became a group of deities known as the eight or the ogdoad of hermopolis (see deities, themes, and concepts

eator.4 one of the sacred books at edfu was the book of the mounds of the first time. this presents a primeval landscape of mounds, water, and reeds 60 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 11. a pyramidion from a late period tomb showing the creator god atum with the primeval benu bird. the pyramidion itself may represent the primeval mound (courtesy of geraldine pinch) that is close to what the nile valley must have looked like before it was settled by the first egyptians.5 the creator could now begin the work of creating the world and its inhabitants. creation summary: at different periods and in various theological centers, a number of deities could be identified with the creator who emerged from the primeval waters. these creator deities include the gods atum, ra (often combined as ra

neith, returns. so, most versions of the tears myth provide an explanation for the perpetually sorrowful and imperfect state of humanity. in spite of this imperfection, the creator was said to have done many things to help humanity. in coffin texts 1130, the lord of all describes his four good deeds. these were to create the four winds to give the breath of life to every body, to make the annual nile flood so that everyone would get enough food, to create everyone with equal potential, and to make every person s heart remember the west. this last deed implies that from the beginning humans were destined for an eternal life in the beautiful west, the realm of the dead. a middle kingdom text set in the turbulent first intermediate period compares humanity with a flock and the (unnamed) crea

description of the symptoms of snake bite. he feels colder than water and hotter than fire; he is drenched with sweat and has lost his sight. isis claims that she can help if ra will tell her his name. ra describes himself by many phrases that define his role as creator. he is the one who created the physical world, he made the bull for the cow so sex came into being. he is the one who causes the nile to flood. he is the one who divided the year into seasons and the day into hours. he ends by proclaiming that he is called khepri 70 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 13. votive bronze statuette of isis with her son, horus the child (cleveland museum of art, bequest of harley c. lee and elizabeth k. lee, 1993. 110) in the morning, ra at noon, and atum in the evening, but none of these is

of humanity that he regarded as innocent. the latter is probably implied by the fact that the people killed on the first day have fled to the desert, part of the realm of chaos. these people become enemies of ra, a group that is shown in the underworld books being horribly tortured in the afterlife. the second day s slaughter is to take place in fields, presumably in the agricultural land of the nile valley, usually associated with the realm of order. the goddess maat was sometimes said to have been sent down to live among humanity. she would stay with a virtuous person even after their death, but in times of general disorder and strife she would withdraw. humanity was sometimes divided into the followers of horus (good) and the followers of seth (bad. this division appears to justify the

f the dead rather than a god who died,33 but once the concept of osiris s death was established, a slayer had to be identified. many egyptian texts imply that seth took the form of a dangerous animal, such as a wild bull, a wild ass, or a crocodile, to kill his brother in a lonely place. the pyramid texts and the coffin texts allude to osiris being cast down or trampled and his body thrown in the nile. in later times it was often stated that osiris died by drowning. being a god, osiris probably had to be killed in several different ways to render him permanently dead. a belief developed that the attack on osiris was a unique and terrible crime, carried out on the night of the great storm. yet in theological terms, his was a necessary death. by dying, osiris becomes ruler of the underworld

body and had a beautiful chest made to fit it.34 typhon displayed the chest at a feast and promised to give it to whoever could fit inside it. seth s seventy-two followers all tried the chest, but it did not fit any of them. finally osiris lay down in the chest. as soon as he did so, the conspirators bolted on the lid and sealed the chest with molten lead. then they threw it into a branch of the nile, which carried the chest out into the mediterranean sea. isis was away in the city of coptos, but she heard a terrible lament from the deities of the northern marshes and knew that osiris was dead. she searched egypt for the body and followed sightings of the chest all the way to byblos in the lebanon.35 there the chest had grown into a marvelous tree that the king of byblos had felled and ma

contexts in which the myth might be used. the strength of seth was needed to defend the gods from their enemies, so it was necessary to reintegrate the loser into the community of the gods. in order to reconcile the two fighters and turn them into the two lords, the divine tribunal divided the land between horus and seth. horus got lower egypt and seth upper egypt, or horus the black land of the nile valley and seth the red land of the deserts. the image of horus and seth uniting the two lands to support the ruling king was a popular one in royal art up to the end of the new kingdom (see figure 46. in the memphite theology and other texts, however, this division of the kingdom is subsequently challenged, and horus is given all of egypt. the tale of the contendings of horus and seth, writt

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out of the beliefs of the predynastic egyptians, who, we have every reason to think, dealt largely in magic both "black" and "white" many of the superstitions, and most of the fantastic and half-savage ideas about the gods and supernatural powers enshrined in the great collection of religious texts called per-em-hru, were inherited by the dynastic egyptians from some of the oldest dwellers in the nile valley. those who died in the faith of osiris believed in the efficacy of the book per-em-hru, and were content to employ it as a "guide" to a heaven which was full of material delights; the number of those who were "followers" of osiris was very large under every dynasty in egypt. on the other hand, from the ivth dynasty onwards there was a very large class who had no belief in a purely mate

e gods of this region appear to have been nau, kapet, and neheb-kau. aat xi. atu, the god of which was sept (sothis. aat xii. unt, the god of which was hetemet-baiu; also called astchetet-em-ament. click to view aat xi. click to view aat xii. p. 41 aat xiii. uart-ent-mu: its deity was the hippopotamus-god called hebt-re-f. aat xiv. the mountainous region of kher-aha, the god of which was hap, the nile. a brief examination of this list of aats, or regions, suggests that the divisions of sekhet-hetepet given in it are arranged in order from south to north, for it is well known that amentet, the first aat, was entered from the neighbourbood of thebes, and that the last-mentioned aat, i.e, kher-aha, represents a region quite click to view aat xiii. click to view aat xiv. close to heliopolis; i

are that--1. one section at least was filled with fire. 2. another was filled with rushing, roaring waters, which swept everything away before them. 3. in another the serpent rerek lived. 4. in another the spirits lived upon the inert and the feeble. 5. in another lived the "destroyer of souls" 6. the great antiquity of the ideas about the aats is proved by the appearance of the names of hap, the nile-god, sept, or sothis, and the hippopotamus-goddess, hebt-re-f, in connection with them. the qualification for entering the aats was not so much the living of a good life upon earth as a knowledge of the magical figures which represented them, and their names; these are given twice in the papyrus of nu, and as they are of great importance for the study of magical pictures they have been reprod

p. 69 children, and his beloved ones, and his foster-parents, and his kinsfolk, and his [grown-up] sons and daughters, and his concubines, whom it is his heart's desire [to meet, and his friends, and those who have worked for him upon earth; and if he shall rejoin all his ancestors in heaven, and on earth, and in neter-kher, and in the sky, and in aakeb (i.e, a region of the sky, and in hap (the nile, and in akeb (i.e. the watery abyss of the sky, and in het-ur-kau, and in tetu, and in tetet, and in pa-ur, and in abakher, and in abtu: then verily the bread-cakes shall be shattered, and the white bread-cakes shall be broken in pieces, and verily the meat offerings shall be cut up in the divine chamber of sacrifice, and verily ropes shall be coiled, and verily boats shall be manned, and ver

which was shrouded in the gloom and darkness of night, p. 90 and a place of fear and horror. at each end of the tuat was a space which was neither wholly darkness nor wholly light, the western end being partially lighted by the setting sun, and the eastern end by the rising sun. from the pictures in the book am-tuat and the book of gates we learn that a river flowed through the tuat, much as the nile flowed through egypt, and we see that there were inhabitants on each of its banks, just as there were human beings on each side of the nile. at one place the river of the tuat joined the great celestial waters which were supposed to form the source of the earthly nile. how, or when, or where the belief arose it is impossible to say, but it seems that at a very early period the inhabitants of

ts have said the final words which p. 104 will secure for the soul a passage in the boat of ra, and a safe-conduct to the abode of the blessed, whether this abode be in the boat itself or in the kingdom of osiris. the result of all these things is that we have been enabled to pass through the tomb out into the region which lies immediately to the west of the mountain-chain on the west bank of the nile, which we may consider as one mountain and call manu, or the mountain of the sunset. at this place are gathered together numbers of spirits, all bent on making their way to the abode of the blessed; these are they who have departed from their bodies during the day, and they have made their way to the sacred place in western thebes where they can join the boat of the sun-god. some are adequate

rn for the lands which were given them by osiris, in the possession of which they were confirmed by afu-ra, these gods have certain duties to perform, viz, to take vengeance upon the fiend seba, to make nu to come into being, and to cause hapi to flow. from this it appears that seba possessed at times power over nu, that is to say, the great celestial watery mass which was the source of the river nile in egypt; to destroy this fiend was all-important, for without water the inhabitants of the tuat could not live, and the cessation of the flow of the nile would cause the ruin and death of the people of egypt. it is interesting to note the connexion of the nile with the chief domain of osiris, and it is, no doubt, a reminiscence of the period in the history of the god when he was a water-god

, and that the gods who are in it are peculiar to the region of akert. it is impossible to say where akert p. 173 began or ended, but as the tuat of the inhabitants of heliopolis was represented by it, it follows, perhaps, that it was believed to be situated quite near that city. it is pretty certain that it comprised a part of the eastern delta, and that it extended along the eastern bank of the nile some considerable distance to the south of memphis, in fact, so far as bakhau, the mountain of sunrise; if this be so, it follows that when the boat of afu-ra entered this division the god would have to alter his course from east to south. as the kingdom of osiris marked the limit of his journey northwards, and the boat then turned eastwards, so the northern end of akert marked the limit of h

ng javelins, and four carrying bows (vol. i, p. 210, 211. the serpent is the "watcher of the tuat in the holy place of khenti-amenti" and the weapons carried by the twelve gods are to enable them to protect afu-ra against his enemies in this region. to p. 174 the right of the path of afu-ra are twelve lakes of water, which are intended to represent the celestial watery abyss of nu, from which the nile on earth was supposed to obtain its supply. at, one end of the scene is horus, who leans on a staff, and addresses the beings who are seen plunging, and swimming, and floating in the various lakes (vol. i, pp. 226, 227, and bids them to come to hap-ur, and promises them that their members shall not perish, nor their flesh decay. who the beings in the water are it is impossible exactly to say

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

libre would see but the blue colour of the list of contents of our journal. to avoid a like misunderstanding, we shall attempt to initiate our readers into the general symbolism of thelotus and the particular symbolism of the blue lotus. this mysterious and sacred plant has been consideredthrough the ages, both in egypt and in india, as a symbol of the universe. not a monument in the valley ofthe nile, not a papyrus, without this plant in an honoured place. on the capitals of the egyptian pillars, on thethrones and even the head-dresses of the divine kings, the lotus is everywhere found as a symbol of theuniverse. it inevitably became an indispensable attribute of every creative god, as of every creative goddess,the latter being, philosophically considered, only the feminine aspect of the

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

. mysteries, sacred they were enacted in the ancient temples by the initiated hierophants for the benefit and instruction of candidates. the most solemn and occult were certainly those which were performed in egypt by "the band of secret-keepers" as mr. bonwick calls the hierophants. maurice describes their nature very graphically in a few lines. speaking of the mysteries performed in philae (the nile-island, he says: it was in these gloomy caverns that the grand mystic arcana of the goddess (isis) were unfolded to the adoring aspirant, while the solemn hymn of initiation resounded through the long extent of these stony recesses. the word mystery is derived from the greek mu "to close the mouth" and every symbol connected with them had a hidden meaning. as plato and many of the other sages

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

but those unheard are sweeter, therefore, yet sweep pipes, play on* when old age shall this generation waste, thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say st "beauty is truth- truth beauty- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. as the singer ceased, there came a sound in the wind blowing from far egypt, where at night aurora mourns by the nile for her slain memnon. to the feet of the thunderer flew the rosy-fingered goddess and, kneeling, cried "master, it is time i unlocked the gates of the east. and phoebus, handing his lyre to calliope, his bride among the muses, prepared to depart for the jewelled and column-raised palace of the sun, where fretted the steeds already harnessed to the golden car of day. so zeus descended from his

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

m of sand stirring among the antique stones though the sky was clear and the vast reaches of desert still. then suddenly above the desert's far rim came the blazing edge of the sun, seen through the tiny sandstorm which was passing away, and in my fevered state i fancied that from some remote depth there came a crash of musical metal to hail the fiery disc as memnon hails it from the banks of the nile. my ears rang and my imagination seethed as i led my camel slowly across the sand to that unvocal place; that place which i alone of living men had seen. in and out amongst the shapeless foundations of houses and places i wandered, finding never a carving or inscription to tell of these men, if men they were, who built this city and dwelt therein so long ago. the antiquity of the spot was unw

ils of a race no man might mistake- the crawling reptiles of the nameless city. and as the wind died away i was plunged into the ghoul-pooled darkness of earth's bowels; for behind the last of the creatures the great brazen door clanged shut with a deafening peal of metallic music whose reverberations swelled out to the distant world to hail the rising sun as memnon hails it from the banks of the nile. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:44ifthe outsider by h. p. lovecraft unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of grotesque, gigantic, and vine-encumbered trees that si

HP LOVECRAFT THE OUTSIDER

and ran swiftly and silently in the moonlight. when i returned to the churchyard place of marble and went down the steps i found the stone trap-door immovable; but i was not sorry, for i had hated the antique castle and the trees. now i ride with the mocking and friendly ghouls on the night-wind, and play by day amongst the catacombs of nephren-ka in the sealed and unknown valley of hadoth by the nile. i know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of nitokris beneath the great pyramid; yet in my new wildness and freedom i almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. for although nepenthe has calmed me, i know always that i am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. this i have known

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

l more universally portentous, than sepulture or even death! is it at all reasonable to conclude, at a period when knowledge was at the highest, and when the human powers were, in comparison with ours at the present time, prodigious, that all these indomitable, scarcely believable, physical efforts that such achievements as those of the egyptians were devoted to a mistake? that the myriads of the nile were fools labouring in the dark, and that all the magic of their great men was forgery? and that we, in despising that which we call their superstition and wasted power, are alone the wise? no! there is much more in these old religions than, probably, in the audacity of modern denial, in the confidence of these superficial-science times, and in the derision of these days without faith, is in

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

pplication of such simple block& tackle unknown to those peopole (sic) mech. lifting, thusly not feasable (don't know) present day engineering equipment as block-and tackle or sand ramps. the great pyramids, consisting of hundreds of thousands of huge stone blocks, are thought by some to have been erected by thousands of slaves toiling up long ramps of sand to bring these gigantic masses from the nile. flotation has been considered. no suggestions have been made which really fit all cases, and some of the submissions are so cumbersome and inadequate as to seem ridiculous. let's take a look at some of these great monoliths, and note their size, their geographical distributions, and, where possible, something of their age and any other details which stand out. one such example is that of sac

KETAB E SIYAH

ies of gabriel, and the human race was sundered into many nations that spread from the kingdom between two rivers to many of the lands of the world, untrodden by human foot in those pristine days. seeking new kingdoms and new glories the thousand princes of the nephilim scattered to the north and south, to the east and west, to wild scythia or parched arabia, to persia and to egypt of the eternal nile. by the plough and mattock they did quell the wilderness and set to order what was once untamed. the shedim went about the lands of men in those times and taught man of many things that he knew not. ashmedai and aset taught to the sages of the nephilim the letters of recording and the numbers of counting that their words would not be lost like breath but would be recorded upon tablets of ston

ince most blessed that is the very son of heaven. swiftly must you fly hence for it is that herod, king of israel, grows jealous of the blessing of your son and perceives in that boy that which would eclipse his kingdom. thus, in his fear and hatred, has he sent forth soldiers against us that the child shall be destroyed. this must not be. take hence the child unto egypt, the great kingdom of the nile for there shall you be protected and herod's arm shall not there reach. make haste then that the precious child is saved from herod's wrath. 332 those that would pursue you i shall thwart them and shall watch you on the road of exile. have no fear for you shall be provided for even as your ancestors were succoured as they fled here from that land which you now make to. go then, mary, and fear

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

ying the enemies of the ancient of days. i am the dweller in the egg. i am he who turns in the disc. i shine forth from the horizon as the gold from the mine. i float through the pillars of shu in the ether. without a peer among the gods. the breath of my mouth is as a flame. i light upon the earth with my glory. eye cannot gaze on my daring beams as they reach through the heavens and lick up the nile with tongues of flame. i am strong upon earth with the strength of ra. i have come into harbour as osiris made perfect. let priestly offerings be made to me as one in the train of the ancient of days. i brood as the divine spirit. i move in the firmness of my strength. i undulate as the waves that vibrate through eternity. osiris has been claimed with acclamation, and ordained to rule among t

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

e power. 46. the outer religion of ancient egypt- the official religion in which everyone took part, from the king to the slave- was one of the most splendid that have ever been known to man. gorgeous processions perambulating avenues miles in length, amid pillars so stupendous that they seemed scarcely human work, stately boats in a medley of rainbow colours sweeping majestically down the placid nile, music triumphant or plaintive, but always thrilling- how shall i describe something so absolutely without parallel in our puny modern times? the common dress of all classes in egypt was white; but in contradistinction their religious processions were masses of splendid, glowing colour, the priests wearing vestments of crimson and a gorgeous blue supposed to represent the blue of the sky, and

rallel in our puny modern times? the common dress of all classes in egypt was white; but in contradistinction their religious processions were masses of splendid, glowing colour, the priests wearing vestments of crimson and a gorgeous blue supposed to represent the blue of the sky, and many other brilliant colours also. the life of ancient egypt, as indeed of modern egypt, centred round the river nile, slow-flowing and majestic, and richly decorated barges were used for all purposes of transit, and also for the celebration of religious festivals. on these the priests were arranged in certain symbolical figures, standing or sitting; and all wore the colours appropriate to the particular aspect of the deity which they symbolized. 47. not only were solemn sacrifices offered to the gods upon t

nd salvation to the faithful and obedient among men. there is no doubt that in the myth as taught in ancient egypt the star to which reference was made in these terms was originally sirius. bro. ward remarks: 711. the association of these ideas with the dog star is undoubtedly a fragment which has come down from ancient egypt, for the rising of sirius marked the beginning of the inundation of the nile, which literally brought salvation to the people of egypt by irrigating the land and enabling it to produce food(*the m.m. fs book, p. 50) 712. for us, however, the star is invested with a symbolical meaning, and reminds us of the star of initiation which marks the assent and approval of the lord of the world when a new candidate has joined the mighty brotherhood which exists from eternity to

his arms again and said with deep feeling: 921. gblessing and peace and love and life be yours from amen for ever. h 922. and all stretched forth their hands, and replied: 923. gso mote it be. h 924. then the lodge was lowered and closed in due and antient form* 925. at a convenient time after the whole ceremony was over, the r.w.m. and some of the officers took the golden bowl to the bank of the nile. they embarked upon a boat, and were rowed out to the middle of the river, and there the r.w.m. broke his seals, and emptied out the entire contents of the bowl into deep water. then he carefully washed it and it was borne back to the sanctuary. 926. the ceremony of the holy angels 927. the h.o.a.t.f. holds a lodge of his own in one of the halls of his castle, and we have at various times bee

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

the ptolemaic period, whose works are now lost (except for certain fragments preserved in quotations, the gods and demigods reigned for 12,843 years. after these came the nekyes or manes, who are said to have reigned for 5,813 years; and some of these may perhaps be identified with the shemsu heru, or followers of horus, who are frequently mentioned in egyptian texts(*sir e. a. wallis budge. the nile, p. 26) diodorus siculus, who visited egypt about 57 b.c, tells us that it was traditionally believed that the gods and heroes had reigned over egypt for a little less than eighteen thousand years before the time of mena(*diod. sic, hist, bk. i, xliv) the book man: whence, how and whither carries us much further into the past, and gives us the following facts. 54. the atlantean conquest of eg

t the gods of the four quarters, or of the cardinal points, who support the canopy of heaven at its four corners. the god of the north was hapi, who bore the head of an ape; the god of the east was tuamutef, who bore the head of a jackal; amset or kestha ruled the south, and had the head of a man; while the west was governed by qebsennuf, whose head was that of a hawk(*sir e. a. wallis budge, the nile, p. 267, egyptian ideas of the future life, p. 107) 76. the truth underlying these strange deities is of the deepest interest when examined by the inner sight, for these four are the same as the four devarajas of india- the kings of the elements, earth, air, fire and water, who likewise preside over the cardinal points. they correspond also with the cherubim described by ezekiel, and with the

gyptian mysteries were symbolically engaged in the building of the pyramid, just as in our modern masonry we are engaged in erecting the temple of king solomon, both structures being intended to be emblematical of the building processes of nature. in the halls below the pyramid- those underground chambers which were mentioned by herodotus as being contained in an island, fed by a channel from the nile(*her. book ii, 124- certain of the ceremonies of the mysteries were held. these and other halls in and near the great pyramid are still unknown to the explorer, though they may yet be opened by the proper steps- the secret doors turning upon pivots according to an elaborate system of counterpoises, and being set in motion by treading upon certain spots in the floor in a certain order. 107. th

t into his banqueting hall when osiris was present as a guest, and promised, as it were in pleasantry, to give it to anyone whose body it might be found to fit. 147. all those present at the feast tried it, but since the box fitted none of them, osiris at the last laid himself down in it, whereupon the conspirators at once fastened down the lid, securely sealing it with lead, and cast it into the nile. the murder of osiris is said to have taken place on the seventeenth day of the month athyr (hathor, when the sun was in scorpio, osiris being in the twenty-eighth year either of his reign or his age (it will be noted that this date marks the beginning of winter, when the sun is mystically slain by the forces of darkness; and it was on this date, corresponding to the festival of all souls in

nner meaning was explained only to initiates of the third degree. 151. the meaning of the story 152. it is often thought that the story of osiris, like that of mithra and the other sun-gods (among whom some writers include even christ himself, is simply an apotheosis of the processes of nature familiar to an agricultural people. thus plutarch says that osiris was also regarded as nilus, the river nile, and isis as the land of egypt, periodically fertilized by his overflow(*plutarch. moralia; de iside et osiride) astronomically, osiris was the sun, isis the moon, and typhon darkness and winter, who in his triumph destroyed the fertilizing powers of the sun, preventing him from giving his life to the world. it is the universal story of the sun-god 153. who, after a struggle for existence and

h regard to it sir arthur evans says: 225. the proto-egyptian element in early minoan crete is, in fact, so clearly defined and is so intensive in its nature as almost to suggest something more than such a connection as might have been brought about by primitive commerce. it may well, indeed, be asked whether, in the time of stress and change that marked the triumph of the dynastic element in the nile valley, some part of the older population then driven out may not have made an actual settlement on the soil of crete(*the palace of minos at knossos, vol. i, p. 17) 226. though the civilizations of ancient egypt and crete have much in common, yet each had distinctly a genius of its own, and much of the similarity between them can be explained by the fact that for long ages not only the delta

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

most about the dangerous demons encountered in the underworld.however, in marked contrast to other cultures, the underworld was ruled by the just god osiris rather than an evil divinity like set. ancient egypt was a civilization with a stability and history that staggers the contemporary imagination.as long ago as 4000 b.c.e. there were significant political and agricultural centers all along the nile river. thanks in part to the invention of writing and agricultural developments in the ancient near east that allowed for greater urbanization, the many city-states in the area of today s egypt were gradually unified into one dynasty. the period referred to as the old kingdom was well established by the middle of the third millennium b.c.e. the middle kingdom is dated from about 2100 b.c.e. t

ere many other gods and goddesses in the egyptian pantheon, whose domains covered everything from natural phenomena like air (the god shu) to cultural phenomena like writing (the goddess safekht. many gods were represented as e 77 78 egypt an animal or part-human/part-animal, perhaps the residue of earlier animal worship. generally, egyptians gave most prominence to those gods associated with the nile (hapy, sothis, sebek, the sun (re, re-atum, horus, and helping the dead (osiris, anubis, sokaris. during the time of the old kingdom, the sun god re was the dominant god. re served to give immortality to the collective state through the pharaoh, his son. the sun seemed to the egyptians and to many other ancients to be clearly immortal, as it died every evening, traveled through the underworld

(osiris, anubis, sokaris. during the time of the old kingdom, the sun god re was the dominant god. re served to give immortality to the collective state through the pharaoh, his son. the sun seemed to the egyptians and to many other ancients to be clearly immortal, as it died every evening, traveled through the underworld, and was reborn every morning. the sun was also important to the success of nile agriculture. thus, insofar as the pharaoh was identified with the sun god, the continuity and success of the state was assured. one of the primary sources for understanding egyptian mythologies is the book of the dead, now more accurately titled the book of going forth by day. this refers to a large number of funeral texts spanning the entire history of ancient egypt. from these texts and oth

f osiris, egypt suffered miseries hitherto unknown. set s deserts encroached upon and parched fertile farmlands, causing famine. the people began to fight and steal for the meager remaining food.mothers did not sleep at night, as the cries of their hungry children kept them awake.with the disruption of agriculture and irrigation, set s kingdom of sand grew until it nearly reached the banks of the nile. the despair was so great that the people envied the dead (bierlein 1994, 213) when nephtys and isis discovered the deed, isis (his wife as well as sister, according to the tradition of royal inbreeding) vowed to find the pieces and put the body back together. being a great magician, she was able to do so and even to become pregnant by him, but otherwise she could not bring life to him and ha

he was recognized as osiris s legitimate successor and crowned the new king of egypt. at that point horus was able to revive osiris, who became ruler of the underworld, symbolic of resurrection and fertility, and judge of the dead for the rest of eternity. originally, the story of osiris seems to have been merely the story of a vegetative cult, where osiris s fate represented the flooding of the nile in the spring and its recession in the fall, and/or the regular agricultural cycle of seed, growth, death, and rebirth. the story began to gain a greater significance when horus became identified with the living pharaoh, which may have happened as early as 2800 b.c.e. that identification perhaps occurred because the immortality of osiris could be functional for reinforcing the royal dynasty

LIBER 777

y crowley (some of which i suspect are corrupt or misprinted) i will give the versions of these names as listed in regardie (ed, complete g.d (tom. x pp. 113-4. in many cases these are not reasonable transliterations of the names printed in 777. fire: bishop: toum. queen: sati-ashtoreth. knight: ra. castle: anouke (possibly ankhet, a title of isis) king: kneph (khnemu. water: bishop: hapimon (the nile god) queen: thouerist (ta-urt the hippopotamus goddess) knight: sebek castle: shu king: osiris air: bishop: shu queen: knousou knight: seb castle: tharpesht (a g.d. amalgam of bast and sekhet) king: socharis (seker; an early god who became identified with ptah, and later with osiris) earth: bishop: aroueris queen: isis knight: hoori (horus) castle: nephthys king: aeshoori (i.e. osiris again)

LIBER ALEPH

. if then by thine art thou canst conceal thyself in thine own nature, this is silence, this, and not nullity of consciousness else were a stone more perfect in adeptship that thou. but, abiding in thy silence, thou art in a city of refuge, and the waters prevail not against the lotus that enfoldeth thee. this ark or lotus is then the body of our lady babalon, without which thou weret the prey of nile and of he crocodiles that are therein. now, o my son, mark thou well this that i will write for thine advertisement and behoof, that this silence, though it be perfection of delight, is but the gestation of thy lion, and in thy season thou must dare, and come forth to the battle. else, were not this practice of silence akin to the formula of separateness of the black brothers? t the book of w

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

b e r c o r d i s c i n c t i serpente svb figvra ynda v a a publication in class a 1 i 1. i am the heart; and the snake is entwined about the invisible core of the mind. rise, o my snake! it is now is the hour of the hooded and holy ineffable flower. rise, o my snake, into brilliance of bloom on the corpse of osiris afloat in the tomb! o heart of my mother, my sister, mine own, thou art given to nile, to the terror typhon! ah me! but the glory of ravening storm enswathes thee and wraps thee in frenzy of form. be still, o my soul! that the spell may dissolve as the wands are upraised and the aons revolve. behold! in my beauty how joyous thou art, o snake that caresses the crown of mine heart! behold! we are one, and the tempest of years goes down to the dusk, and the beetle appears. o beet

20. but the magister gave the sign of the magistry, and laughed back on him: o lord, o beloved, did these fingers relax on thy curls, or these eyes turn away from thine eye? 21. and adonai delighted in him exceedingly. 22. yea, o my master, thou art the beloved of the beloved one; the bennu bird is set up in phila not in vain. 23. i who was the priestess of ahathoor rejoice in your love. arise, o nile-god, and devour the holy place of the cow of heaven! let the milk of the stars be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 18 liber lxv 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my lord, and thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of isis the mother of the gods! 25. for thou art he! yea, thou shall swallow up asi and asar, and the children of ptah. thou s

on. bid thy satyrs heap thorns among the flowers, that we may take our pain thereon. let the pleasure and pain be mingled in one supreme offering unto the lord adonai! 48. also i heard the voice of adonai the lord the desirable one concerning that which is beyond. 49. let not the dwellers in thebai and the temples thereof prate ever of the pillars of hercules and the ocean of the west. is not the nile a beautiful water? liber cordis cincti serpente svb figvra ynda 27 50. let not the priest of isis uncover the nakedness of nuit, for every step is a death and a birth. the priest of isis lifted the veil of isis, and was slain by the kisses of her mouth. then he was the priest of nuit, and drank of the milk of the stars. 51. let not the failure and the pain turn aside the worshippers. the foun

ed, even unto an hundred millions of generations, and it may be that the mercy of the mighty ones may bestow upon thy children a drop of the poison of eld. 54. then the humming-bird was afflicted in his spirit, and he flew unto the flowers, and it was as if naught had been spoken between them. yet in a little while a serpent struck him that he died. 55. but an ibis that meditated upon the bank of nile the beautiful god listened and heard. and he laid aside his ibis ways, and became as a serpent, saying peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the exalted one. 56. and behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an uraus serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even f

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

more it changed and changed (the good knight laughed to split his sides) liber cxcvii 64 .what? is the soul of things deranged? the more it changed, and rippled through its changes, and still changed, and changed, the liker to itself it grew .bear me. he cried .to purge my bile to the old land of hormakhu, that i may sit and curse awhile at all these follies fond that pen my quest about.on, on to nile! tread tenderly, my merry men! for nothing is so void and vile as palamede the saracen. 65 xxviii sir palamede the saracen hath clad him in a sable robe; hath curses, writ by holy men from all the gardens of the globe. he standeth at an altar-stone; the blood drips from the slain babe.s throat; his chant rolls in a magick moan; his head bows to the crowned goat. his wand makes curves and spir

andeth at an altar-stone; the blood drips from the slain babe.s throat; his chant rolls in a magick moan; his head bows to the crowned goat. his wand makes curves and spires in air; the smoke of incense curls and quivers; his eyes fix in a glass-cold stare: the land of egypt rocks and shivers .lo! by thy gods, o god, i vow to burn the authentic bones and blood of curst osiris even now to the dark nile fs upsurging flood! i cast thee down, oh crowned and throned! to black amennti.s void profane. until mine anger be atoned thou shalt not ever rise again. with firm red lips and square black beard, osiris in his strength appeared. liber cxcvii 66 he made the sign that saveth men on palamede the saracen .hath hushed his conjuration grim: the curse comes back to sleep with him .hath fallen himse

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

answer comes direct from tahuti himself: because 1 [see .the symbolic representation of the universe. in equinox i (8] liber dccclx 74 you have learned to write perfectly, but have not yet taught yourself to suffer. true enough, the last part! asar un-nefer, thou perfected one, teach me thy mysteries! let my members be torn by set and devoured by sebek and typhon! let my blood be poured out upon nile, and my flesh be given to besz to devour! let my phallus be concealed in the maw of mati, and my crown be divided among my brethren! let the jaws of apep grind me into poison! let the sea of poison swallow me wholly up! let asi my mother rend her robes in anguish, and nepti weep for me unavailing. then shall asi being forth hoor, and heru-pa-kraat shall leap glad from her womb. the lord of ve

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

t, and father. that are god! as babe in egg, being born. for silence duly is begot and darkness duly brought to bed. the shroud is figured in my thought, the inmost light is on my head. unbind. sign of enterer. attack! i eat up the strong lions. i! fear is on seb, on them that dwell therein, behold the radiant vigour of the lord! sign of silence defence! i close the mouth of sebek, ply my fear on nile, asar that held not in! behold my radiant peace, ye things abhorred. 10 liber dclxxi for see! the gods have loosed mine hands: asar unfettered stands. hail, asi, hail! hoor-apep cries. now i the son of man arise and follow. dead where asar lies! lie down in sign of hanged man: i gild my left foot with the light. i gild my phallus with the light. i gild my right knee with the light. i gild my

LIBER GRADUUM MONTIS ABIEGNI

have lived, even unto an hundred millions of generations, and it may be that the mercy of the mighty ones may bestow upon thy children a drop of the poison of eld. then the humming-bird was afflicted in his spirit, and he flew unto the flowers, and it was as if naught had been spoken between them. yet in a little while a serpent struck him that he died. but an ibis that meditated upon the bank of nile the beautiful god listened and heard. and he laid aside his ibis ways, and became as a serpent, saying peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the exalted one. and behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an uraus serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even for e

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

f the great goddess! 10. therein is a pearl. 11. o pearl! thou hast come from the majesty of dread ammon-ra. 12. then i the priest beheld a steady glitter in the heart of the pearl. 13. so bright we could not look. but behold! a bloodred rose upon a rood of glowing gold! svb figvra vii 11 14. so i adored the god. bacchus! thou art the lover of my god! 15. i who was priest of ammon-ra, who saw the nile flow by for many moons, for many, many moons, am the young fawn of the grey land. 16. i will set up my dance in your conventicles, and my secret loves shall be sweet among you. 17. thou shalt have a lover among the lords of the grey land. 18. this shall he bring unto thee, without which all is in vain; a man fs life spilt for thy love upon mine altars. 19. amen. 20. let is be soon, o god, my

LIBER LVII

and from a brahmachari become a householder. it was in the course of the journey undertaken by him shortly after his marriage that occurred the events which we shall proceed to relate. and to that end we must ask the reader to accompany us in imagination to the sovereign nursery of wisdom and initiation, to the holy land of the uraus serpent, to the land of isis and osris, of the pyramids and the nile, even to khem, more magnificent in ruin than all other lands are in plenitude of their glory* 83 [lat .may the lord our god, who gave us the supreme science, be blessed] 54 liber lviii transcriber fs note. this article on the qabalah was originally published in equinox i (5) as part v of the temple of solomon the king serial. essentially it was a filler, knocked together after j.f.c. fuller w

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

hese variants could have turned into entirely new species, such as the modern kiwi and kakapo. we show in chapter 4 that geographical circumstances also played a role in the evolution of homo floresiensis, an extinct dwarf member of our own genus, homo. in fact, dwarfism (reduction in size) is observed when mammals migrate out of their original niches to reach isolated islands, as happened to the nile basin hippopotamus (very large animals) after some of them swam across the mozambique channel to reach madagascar a long time ago. hippos in madagascar are known as pygmy hippos, in reference what is evolutionary biology? 37 to their reduced size. more examples of new species formation, independent from geographic isolation, are discussed in chapter 6, after we provide a thorough description

88 evolution and religious creation myths erectus was tall, sometimes as tall as modern humans. what then accounts for the very short size of h. floresiensis? it turns out that size reduction (dwarfism) can take place when mammalian species find refuge on isolated islands, which also explains why elephants on flores were so small. as we mentioned in chapter 2, this size reduction also happened to nile hippopotamus that reached the island of madagascar. this phenomenon is known as island dwarfism. the same phenomenon would have been responsible for the evolution of the hobbits. it should be noted, however, that not all paleoanthropologists agree that the hobbits are a new species of humans. a very few claim that these creatures may simply be pathologically deformed h. sapiens. another extin

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

orm of a bull, was driven by bacchus from india to egypt. the priority of the hindu mysteries would further substantiate such a theory. among other meanings suggested for the word serapis are "the sacred bull "the sun in taurus "the soul of osiris "the sacred serpent" and "the retiring of the bull" the last appellation has reference to the ceremony of drowning the sacred apis in the waters of the nile every twenty-five years. click to enlarge the lion-faced light-power. from montfaucon's antiquities. this gnostic gem represents by its serpentine body the pathway of the sun and by its lion head the exaltation of the solar in the constellation of leo. click to enlarge a symbolic labyrinth. from montfaucon's antiquities. labyrinths and mazes were favored places of initiation among many ancien

he positions previously occupied by the other egyptian and greek gods, and became the supreme deity of both religions. his power continued until the fourth century of click to enlarge the alexandrian serapis. from mosaize historie der hebreeuwse kerke. serapis is often shown standing on the back of the sacred crocodile, carrying in his left hand a rule with which to measure the inundations of the nile, and balancing with his right hand a curious emblem consisting of an animal with the heads. the first head--that of a lion--signified the present; the second head--that of a wolf--the past; and the third head--that of a dog--the future. the body with its three heads was enveloped by the twisted coils of a serpent. figures of serapis are occasionally accompanied by cerberus, the three-headed d

na] says that coelum and terra, that is universal mind and productive body, were the great gods of the samothracian mysteries; and the same as the serapis and isis of the later gyptians: the taautos and astarte of the phoenicians, and the saturn and ops of the latins" the second quotation is from albert pike's morals and dogma"'thee' says martianus capella, in his hymn to the sun 'dwellers on the nile adore as serapis, and memphis worships as osiris: in the sacred rites of persia thou art mithras, in phrygia, atys, and libya bows down to thee as ammon, and phoenician byblos as adonis; thus the whole world adores thee under different names" the odinic mysteries the date of the founding of the odinic mysteries is uncertain, some writers declaring that they were established in the first centu

ting their risings. next in order advances the sacred scribe, with wings on his head, and in his hand a book and rule, in which were writing ink and the reed, with which they write. and he must be acquainted with what are called hieroglyphics, and know about cosmography and geography, the position of the sun and moon, and about the five planets; also the description of egypt, and the chart of the nile; and the description of the equipment of the priests and of the place consecrated to them, and about the measures and the things in use in the sacred rites. then the stole-keeper follows those previously mentioned, with the cubit of justice and the cup for libations. he is acquainted with all points called p deutic (relating to training) and moschophaltic (sacrificial. there are also ten book

larly provided. and i may go further--out of these very caverns may have been excavated the limestone of which the pyramids were built* in the bowels of the limestone ridge on which p. 43 click to enlarge a vertical section of the great pyramid. from smyth's life and wok at the great pyramid. the great pyramid stands upon a limestone plateau at the base of which, according to ancient history, the nile once flooded, thus supplying a method for the huge blocks used in its construction. presuming that the capstone as originally in place, the pyramid is, according to john taylor, in round figures 486 feet high; the base of each side is 764 feet long, and the entire structure covers a ground area of more than 13 acres. the great pyramid is the only one in the group at gizeh--in fact, as far as

sible and supreme deity. the great pyramid was not a lighthouse, an observatory, or a tomb, but the first temple of the mysteries, the first structure erected as a repository for those secret truths which are the certain foundation of all arts and sciences. it was the perfect emblem of the microcosm and the macrocosm and, according to the secret teachings, the tomb of osiris, the black god of the nile. osiris represents a certain manifestation of solar energy, and therefore his house or tomb is emblematic of the universe within which he is entombed and upon the cross of which he is crucified. through the mystic passageways and chambers of the great pyramid passed the illumined of antiquity. they entered its portals as men; they came forth as gods. it was the place of the "second birth" the

to mortals the use of wheat. i am the mother of orus the king. in my honor was the city of bubaste built. rejoice, o egypt, rejoice, land that gave me birth (see "morals and dogma" by albert pike) p. 46 rose again, until at last osiris also tried. the moment he was in the chest typhon and his accomplices nailed the cover down and sealed the cracks with molten lead. they then cast the box into the nile, down which it floated to the sea. plutarch states that the date upon which this occurred was the seventeenth day of the month athyr, when the sun was in the constellation of scorpio. this is most significant, for the scorpion is the symbol of treachery. the time when osiris entered the chest was also the same season that noah entered the ark to escape from the deluge. plutarch further declar

pport the roof of his palace. isis, visiting byblos, recovered the body of her husband, but it was again stolen by typhon, who cut it into fourteen parts, which he scattered all over the earth. isis, in despair, began gathering up the severed remains of her husband, but found only thirteen pieces. the fourteenth part (the phallus) she reproduced in gold, for the original had fallen into the river nile and had been swallowed by a fish. typhon was later slain in battle by the son of osiris. some of the egyptians believed that the souls of the gods were taken to heaven, where they shone forth as stars. it was supposed that the soul of isis gleamed from the dog star, while typhon became the constellation of the bear. it is doubtful, however, whether this idea was ever generally accepted. among

s triumphant from the broken clay of mortality: that part which remains after the natural organisms have disintegrated or have been regenerated. from his mother (the passive principle) he inherits his body--that part over which the laws of nature have control: his humanity, his mortal personality, his appetites, his feelings, and his emotions. the egyptians also believed that osiris was the river nile and that isis (his sister-wife) was the contiguous land, which, when inundated by the river, bore fruit and harvest. the murky water of the nile were believed to account for the blackness of osiris, who was generally symbolized as being of ebony hue. next: the sun, a universal deity sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 49 the sun, a universal deity the adoration of the sun was one of

by other information gleaned by the present author from the mystical writings of the chaldeans, hebrews, egyptians, and greeks. the temples of the egyptians were so designed that the arrangement of chambers, decorations, and utensils was all of symbolic significance, as shown by the hieroglyphics that covered them. beside the altar, which usually was in the center of each room, was the cistern of nile water which flowed in and out through unseen pipes. here also were images of the gods in concatenated series, accompanied by magical inscriptions. in these temples, by use of symbols and hieroglyphics, neophytes were instructed in the secrets of the sacerdotal caste. the tablet of isis was originally a table or altar, and its emblems were part of the mysteries explained by priests. tables wer

e that the waters of lakes, rivers, and oceans are inhabited by a mysterious people, the "water indians" the fish has been used as an emblem of damnation; but among the chinese it typified contentment and good fortune, and fishes appear on many of their coins. when typhon, or set, the egyptian evil genius, had divided the body of the god osiris into fourteen parts, he cast one part into the river nile, where, according to plutarch, it was devoured by three fishes--the lepidotus (probably the lepidosiren, the phagrus, and the oxyrynchus (a form of pike. for this reason the egyptians would not eat the flesh of these fishes, believing that to do so would be to devour the body of their god. when used as a symbol of evil, the fish represented the earth (man's lower nature) and the tomb (the sep

ents an imperfect lens and retina and, in its long stalk, nerve fibers" crocodiles were regarded by the egyptians both as symbols of typhon and emblems of the supreme deity, of the latter because while under water the crocodile is capable of seeing--plutarch asserts- though its eyes are covered by a thin membrane. the egyptians declared that no matter how far away the crocodile laid its eggs, the nile would reach up to them in its next inundation, this reptile being endowed with a mysterious sense capable of making known the extent of the flood months before it took place. there were two kinds of crocodiles. the larger and more ferocious was hated by the egyptians, for they likened it to the nature of typhon, their destroying demon. typhon waited to devour all who failed to pass the judgme

mark in the form of a crescent. after its sanctification the apis was kept in a stable adjacent to the temple and led in processionals through the streets of the city upon certain solemn occasions. it was a popular belief among the egyptians that any child upon whom the bull breathed would become illustrious. after reaching a certain age (twenty-five years) the apis was taken either to the river nile or to a sacred fountain (authorities differ on this point) and drowned, amidst the lamentations of the populace. the mourning and wailing for his death continued until the new apis was found, when it was declared that osiris had reincarnated, whereupon rejoicing took the place of grief. the worship of the bull was not confined to egypt, but was prevalent in many nations of the ancient world

d his god. the shepherd dog was a type of the priestcraft. the dog's ability to sense and follow unseen persons for miles symbolized the transcendental power by which the philosopher follows the thread of truth through the labyrinth of earthly error. the dog is also the symbol of mercury. the dog star, sirius or sothis, was sacred to the egyptians because it presaged the annual inundations of the nile. as a beast of burden the horse was the symbol of the body of man forced to sustain the weight of his spiritual constitution. conversely, it also typified the spiritual nature of man forced to maintain the burden of the material personality. chiron, the centaur, mentor of achilles, represents the primitive creation which was the progenitor and instructor of mankind, as described by berossus

mewhat suggesting the swastika. she has two urns, the contents of which she pours upon the land and sea. above the girl's head are eight stars, one of which is exceptionally large and bright. count de g belin considers the great star to be sothis or sirius; the other seven are the sacred planets of the ancients. he believes the female figure to be isis in the act of causing the inundations of the nile which accompanied the rising of the dog star. the unclothed figure of isis may well signify that nature does not receive her garment of verdure until the rising of the nile waters releases the germinal life of plants and flowers. the bush and bird (or butterfly) signify the growth and resurrection which accompany the rising of the waters. in the pseudo- egyptian tarot the great star contains

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

. before cutting the reed recite psalm lxxii. after this, with the knife of the art, thou shalt fashion the reed into the shape of a knife, and upon it thou shalt write these names: agla, adonai, elohi (see figure 87, through whom be the work of this knife accomplished. then thou shalt say: o god, who drewest moses, thy well-beloved and thine elect, from among the reeds on the marshy banks of the nile, and from the waters, he being yet but a child, grant unto me through thy great mercy and compassion that this reed may receive power and virtue to effect that which i desire through thy holy name and the names of thy holy angels. amen. this being done, thou shalt commence with this knife to flay the animal, whether it be virgin or unborn, saying: the key of solomon page 114 zohar, zio, talma

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

if one is in true connection with nature, it follows that there is no gender dichotomy.women are not only treated as equals but are regarded as living agents (even portals)to the mysteries of nature and being. the very word mystery comes from mestameaning woman in egyptian. the scholar max muller wrote:no people ancient or modern has given woman so high a legal status as did the inhabitantsof the nile v alley.the egyptian women were entrusted with the civilization. the woman (princess, and not themale, was the legal heir to the throne, and the man she chose to marry would become theruling pharaoh (moustapha gadalla, historical deception..and the kingdom became dead and desert, for they lost the voices of the wells and the dam-sels that were therein (the elucidation)as civilizations became

e sons that give rise to the 12 tribes of israel (see p. 166)threat to abrahamthere is also mention of a threat to the life of abraham, because his wife has married the pharaoh (see p. 166)appendix b: book abstracts220atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation sojourn in egyptabrahams grandson, jacob/israel, takes his family of 70 members into egypt from canaan, settling ingoshen by the nile delta. there was a famine in canaan. there they remained until lead out again bymoses.ramesis ii and exodusin apparent confirmation of the israelites sojourn in egypt, the annals of pharaoh ramesis ii (thegreat) make reference to semitic people who settled in the delta region of goshen, but this does notreally help because they are not specified as israelites, but included in the arab races o

he wavestwo hundred and fiftythousand persons are said to have perished in the earthquake of antioch, whose domestic multitudeswere swelled by the conflux to the festival of ascension (p. 113)fatal plaguesthe fatal disease which depopulated the earth in the time of justinian and his successors, first appearedin the neighborhood of pelusium, between the serbonian bog and the eastern channel of the nile. fromthence, tracing as it were a double path, it spread to the east over syria, persia, and the indies, and pen-etrated into the west along the coast of africa, and over the continent of europe (p. 115)dinosaursit has been wondered why, if comet impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, why did it not do thesame for other contemporary creatures. it is therefore, conjectured that the com

or the illi were the city builders and the illi wholived in certain cities were the civilli.etymology connecting to the illiciviliza tionciviliancapitol originally meaning, head of the illi, or chief hill.hill from the high place of the illi. the illi always resided on the peaks.islands/isles another chosen refuge of the illi (see skilly, heiligoland, ille in france, illium ingreece, elephantine, nile, laaland, sicilly, etc.)commentapparently thousands of islands were used by the illi before the time of civilization; before the time of troy; even before the time of written history. knowing navigation, the illi sailed the seas, the oceans, and the rivers. up the rivers they went for trade, and later to settle in the high places, whence we get the word hill mountains were called the cordiril

6 b.c. the great pyramid was built in egypt by masons at a location not far south of 30degrees latitude, and on 31 degrees longitude. how the great pyramid was built is unknown. hero-dotus estimated that it would have taken 30 years and 100,000 slaves (slavemasons as opposed tofreemasons) to have built it. another theory says that it was built by peasants who were unable towork the land while the nile flooded between july and november. the flooded waters would haveassisted in the transport of the stones, which were brought from aswan and tura and the waterwould have brought the stones right to the pyramid. it would have taken more than 2.3 millionblocks of stone with an average weight of 2.5 tons each. the total weight would have been 6 milliontons, the height, 482 feet. it is the largest

y provethat the race which inhabited this mysterious cavern, hewn in solid rock by human hands, was of orien-tal origin, possibly from egypt, tracing back to ramses. if their theories are borne out by the translationof the tablets engraved with hieroglyphics, the mystery of the prehistoric peoples of north america,their ancient arts, who they were and whence they came will be solved.egypt and the nile, and arizona and the colorado will be linked by a historical chain running back toages, which staggers the wildest fancy of the fictionist. under the direction of professor s. a. jordan,the smithsonian institute is now prosecuting the most thorough explorations, which will be continueduntil the last link in the chain is forged. nearly a mile underground, about 1480 feet below the surface, the

dwelling place will be restored to them. that is the tradition. among the engravings of animals in the cave is seen the image of a heart over the spot where it islocated. the legend was learned by w. e. rollins the artist, during a year spent with the hopi indians.there are two theories of the origin of the egyptians. one is that they came from asia; another that theracial cradle was in the upper nile region. heeren, an egyptologist, believed in the indian origin of theegyptians. the discoveries in the grand canyon may throw further light on human evolution and pre-historic ages.connection between egypt and chinabeijing, aug. 7, 2001more than a dozen heads of maces dating back to between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago, extremely similarto those used by kings of ancient egypt, were recently unea

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

traveling around the world teaching and civilizing the people of other kingdoms and races. he did not use his powers to force people, but instead preferred gentle persuasion. after returning to egypt, osiris was conspired against by his evil brother set, and 72 accomplices. set murdered his brother osiris by locking him in a coffer and throwing it into the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 10 nile river. instead of sinking into the depths of the nile river forever, which was the intention and expectation of the conspirators, the coffer sailed away quickly. set would eventually discover the coffin containing the body of his brother osiris in a hidden place. infuriated that his brother survived (in a sense, set cut osiris body into 14 parts and scattered the pieces, seeing to it that his

MORALS AND DOGMA

and fitful action, maintain and continue in action and existence a free government once created. that force must be limited, restrained, conveyed by distribution into different channels, and by roundabout courses, to outlets, whence it is to issue as the law, action, and decision of the state; as the wise old egyptian kings conveyed in different canals, by sub-division, the swelling waters of the nile, and compelled them to fertilize and not devastate the land. there must be the _jus et norma, the law and _rule, or _gauge, of constitution and law, within which the public force must act. make a breach in either, and the great steam-hammer, with its swift and ponderous blows, crushes all the machinery to atoms, and, at last, wrenching itself away, lies inert and dead amid the ruin it has wro

if these and the bordering have any symbolic meaning, it is fanciful and arbitrary. to find in the blazing star of five points an allusion to the divine providence, is also fanciful; and to make it commemorative of the star that is said to have guided the magi, is to give it a meaning comparatively modern. originally it represented sirius, or the dog-star, the forerunner of the inundation of the nile; the god anubis, companion of isis in her search for the body of osiris, her brother and husband. then it became the image of horus, the son of osiris, himself symbolized also by the sun, the author of the seasons, and the god of time; son of isis, who was the universal nature, himself the primitive matter, inexhaustible source of life, spark of uncreated fire, universal seed of all beings. i

y and change the destinies of nations, and write a new chapter in the history of the world. for we never know the importance of the act we do. the daughter of pharaoh little thought what she was doing for the human race, and the vast unimaginable consequences that depended on her charitable act, when she drew the little child of a hebrew woman from among the rushes that grew along the bank of the nile, and determined to rear it as if it were her own. how often has an act of charity, costing the doer little, given to the world a great painter, a great musician, a great inventor! how often has such an act developed the ragged boy into the benefactor of his race! on what small and apparently unimportant circumstances have turned and hinged the fates of the world's great conquerors. there is n

again shine clearly upon the glad earth. the rain-drops sink into the ground, and gather in subterranean reservoirs, and run in subterranean channels, and bubble up in springs and fountains; and from the mountain-sides and heads of valleys the silver threads of water begin their long journey to the ocean. uniting, they widen into brooks and rivulets, then into streams and rivers; and, at last, a nile, a ganges, a danube, an amazon, or a mississippi rolls between its banks, mighty, majestic, and resistless, creating vast alluvial valleys to be the granaries of the world, ploughed by the thousand keels of commerce and serving as great highways, and as the impassable boundaries of rival nations; ever returning to the ocean the drops that rose from it in vapor, and descended in rain and snow

expressive symbols of primitive observances, under which there were instances in which the terrified aspirant actually expired with fear. the pyramids were probably used for the purposes of initiation, as were caverns, pagodas, and labyrinths; for the ceremonies required many apartments and cells, long passages and wells. in egypt a principal place for the mysteries was the island of phil on the nile, where a magnificent temple of osiris stood, and his relics were said to be preserved. with their natural proclivities, the priesthood, that select and exclusive class, in egypt, india, ph nicia, judea and greece as well as in britain and rome, and wherever else the mysteries were known, made use of them to build wider and higher the fabric of their own power. the purity of no religion contin

was at meroe, and their mysteries were celebrated in the temple of amun, renowned for his oracle. ethiopia was then a powerful state, which preceded egypt in civilization, and had a theocratic government. above the king was the priest, who could put him to death in the name of the deity. egypt was then composed of the thebaid only. middle egypt and the delta were a gulf of the mediterranean. the nile by degrees formed an immense marsh, which, afterward drained by the labor of man, formed lower egypt; and was for many centuries governed by the ethiopian sacerdotal caste, of arabic origin; afterward displaced by a dynasty of warriors. the magnificent ruins of axoum, with its obelisks and hieroglyphics, temples, vast tombs and pyramids, around ancient meroe, are far older than the pyramids n

ed his history from certain pillars which he discovered in egypt, whereon inscriptions had been made by thoth, or the first mercury [or hermes, in the sacred letters and dialect: but which were after the flood translated from that dialect into the greek tongue, and laid up in the private recesses of the egyptian temples. these pillars were found in subterranean caverns, near thebes and beyond the nile, not far from the sounding statue of memnon, in a place called syringes; which are described to be certain winding apartments underground; made, it is said, by those who were skilled in ancient rites; who, foreseeing the coming of the deluge, and fearing lest the memory of their ceremonies should be obliterated, built and contrived vaults, dug with vast labor, in several places. from the boso

, in poetical and figurative style, the annual journey of the great luminary of heaven through the different signs of the zodiac. in the absence of osiris, typhon, his brother, filled with envy and malice, sought to usurp his throne; but his plans were frustrated by isis. then he resolved to kill osiris. this he did, by persuading him to enter a coffin or sarcophagus, which he then flung into the nile. after a long search, isis found the body, and concealed it in the depths of a forest; but typhon, finding it there, cut it into fourteen pieces, and scattered them hither and thither. after tedious search, isis found thirteen pieces, the fishes having eaten the other (the privates, which she replaced of wood, and buried the body at phil; where a temple of surpassing magnificence was erected

sented by an image of the animal that cultivates it, the cow or ox, borne by another officer. then followed a chest or ark, magnificently ornamented, containing an image of the organs of generation of osiris, or perhaps of both sexes; emblems of the original generating and producing powers. when typhon, said the egyptian fable, cut up the body of osiris into pieces, he flung his genitals into the nile, where a fish devoured them. atys mutilated himself, as his priests afterward did in imitation of him; and adonis was in that part of his body wounded by the boar: all of which represented the loss by the sun of his vivifying and generative power, when he reached the autumnal equinox (the scorpion that on old monuments bites those parts of the vernal bull, and descended toward the region of d

ith life and force and mysterious powers and mighty influences. memphis, in egypt, was in latitude 29 5' north, and in longitude 30 18' east. theb, in upper egypt, in latitude 25 45' north, and longitude 32 43' east. babylon was in latitude 32 30' north, and longitude 44 23' east: while saba, the ancient sab an capital of ethiopia, was about in latitude 15 north. through egypt ran the great river nile, coming from beyond ethiopia, its source in regions wholly unknown, in the abodes of heat and fire, and its course from south to north. its inundations had formed the alluvial lands of upper and lower egypt, which they continued to raise higher and higher, and to fertilize by their deposits. at first, as in all newly-settled countries, those inundations, occurring annually and always at the s

covered their vigor, the birds mated and builded their nests, the seeds germinated, the grass grew, and the trees put forth leaves. with the summer solstice, when the sun reached the extreme northern limit of his course, came great heat, and burning winds, and lassitude and exhaustion; then vegetation withered, man longed for the cool breezes of spring and autumn, and the cool water of the wintry nile or euphrates, and the lion sought for that element far from his home in the desert. with the autumnal equinox came ripe harvests, and fruits of the tree and vine, and falling leaves, and cold evenings presaging wintry frosts; and the principle and powers of darkness, prevailing over those of light, drove the sun further to the south, so that the nights grew longer than the days. and at the wi

and terrestrial objects that were _in fact_ connected: and they commenced by giving to particular stars or groups of stars the names of those terrestrial objects which seemed connected with them; and for those which still remained unnamed by this nomenclature, they, to complete a system, assumed arbitrary and fanciful names. thus the ethiopian of thebes or saba styled those stars under which the nile commenced to overflow, stars of inundation, or that _poured out water (aquarius. those stars among which the sun was, when he had reached the northern tropic and began to _retreat_ southward, were termed, from his retrograde motion, the crab (cancer. as he approached, in autumn, the middle point between the northern and southern extremes of his journeying, the days and nights became equal; an

rd, were termed, from his retrograde motion, the crab (cancer. as he approached, in autumn, the middle point between the northern and southern extremes of his journeying, the days and nights became equal; and the stars among which he was then found were called stars of the balance (libra. those stars among which the sun was, when the lion, driven from the desert by thirst, came to slake it at the nile, were called stars of the lion (leo. those among which the sun was at harvest, were called those of the gleaning virgin, holding a sheaf of wheat (virgo. those among which he was found in february, when the ewes brought forth their young, were called stars of the lamb (aries. those in march, when it was time to plough, were called stars of the ox (taurus. those under which hot and burning win

. those among which he was found in february, when the ewes brought forth their young, were called stars of the lamb (aries. those in march, when it was time to plough, were called stars of the ox (taurus. those under which hot and burning winds came from the desert, venomous like poisonous reptiles, were called stars of the scorpion (scorpio. observing that the annual return of the rising of the nile was always accompanied by the appearance of a beautiful star, which at that period showed itself in the direction of the sources of that river, and seemed to warn the husbandman to be careful not to be surprised by the inundation, the ethiopian compared this act of that star to that of the animal which by barking gives warning of danger, and styled it the dog (sirius. thus commencing, and as

ed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand, this were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for i should have denied the god that is above" perhaps we are not, on the whole, much wiser than those simple men of the old time. for what do we know of _effect_ and _cause, except that one thing regularly or habitually _follows_ another? so, because the heliacal rising of sirius _preceded_ the rising of the nile, it was deemed to _cause_ it; and other stars were in like manner held to _cause_ extreme heat, bitter cold, and watery storm. a religious reverence for the zodiacal bull [taurus] appears, from a very early period, to have been pretty general--perhaps it was universal, throughout asia; from that chain or region of caucasus to which it gave name; and which is still known under the appellation

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess) fertile because the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuit, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless, yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool; he is the 'saviour, being the son who shall trample on the crocodiles and tigers, and avenge his father osiris. thus we see him as the "great fool" of celtic legend, and "pure fool" of act i of parsifal, and, generally speaking, the insane person whose words have always been taken for oracles. but to be 'saviour' he

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

d rendered her, hera placed his eyes on the tail of a peacock, as a lasting memorial of her gratitude. ever fertile in resource, hera now sent a gadfly to worry and torment the unfortunate io incessantly, and she wandered all over the world in hopes of escaping from her tormentor. at length she reached egypt, where she found rest and freedom from the persecutions of her enemy. on the banks of the nile she resumed her original form and gave birth to a son called page 36 epaphus, who afterwards became king of egypt, and built the famous city of memphis. danae..zeus appeared to danae under the form of a shower of gold (further details concerning her will be found in the legend of perseus) the greeks supposed that the divine ruler of the universe occasionally assumed a human form, and descende

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ten depicted attached to the sun disc. according to one myth, the world was created by the archer goddess neith from the primeval waters of nun. she created the gods by saying their names, and then (in cow form) gave birth to the all-powerful re. re was born in an egg, and when he emerged from the egg he was dazzled by the light, and cried: mankind was formed from his tears. nun, fertility of the nile the god nun, who represents the primeval waters or flood, holds up the barque of the sun. to some extent the mythology of ancient egypt simply reflects the land of egypt itself. egypt was described by the greek historian herodotus as the gift of the nile, and without the annual flooding of the nile, which made a strip either side of the river fertile, egypt could not have survived. the import

and horus osiris, the ruler of the underworld, was originally a king in the upper world where he taught the egyptians (and later, the rest of the world) how to live, worship, and grow grain (they had previously been cannibals) he earned the name wennefer, meaning eternally good. he was murdered by his jealous brother seth, who tricked him into a wooden chest, which he sealed up and sent down the nile. osiris wife isis rescued the corpse, but when seth found it, he cut it up and scattered the pieces all over egypt. sorrowfully, isis and her sister nepthys collected every piece and, with the help of anubis, the guide of souls to the underworld, and thoth, the gods scribe, they pieced osiris back together as the first mummy. isis transformed herself into a kite and, hovering over the body, s

possible the technique used by the jackal-headed anubis, god of mummification, in preparing the body of osiris. horus horus is shown here as a falcon-winged wedjat eye. his origins lie in the early egyptian conception of the sky as the wings of a falcon. the eyes and speckled belly of the falcon were the sun, moon, and starry night sky. isis and the scorpions pregnant, isis fled from seth to the nile delta accompanied by seven scorpions. one night, she begged shelter of a rich lady named usert, but she refused her. furious, the scorpions pooled all their venom and bit usert s son. pitying the dying child, isis cured him. she then went to khemmis and gave birth to horus. desperately poor, isis often had to leave the baby alone while she found food. one day, she returned to find horus lying

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

but they did not get the hint. in any case, they later took [joseph] out of the pit and sold him, and [his purchasers] brought him to egypt, the gstraits of the sea, h which is malchut. specifically, the back of nukva of z feir anpin. the word for gegypt, h mitzrayim can be read as the two words meitzar yam, or gthe straits of the sea, h and indeed, most of the settled area of egypt is around the nile river, a passageway into the mediterranean sea. mystically, the sea is an appellation for malchut, since all the other sefirot flow into malchut just as everything eventually flows into the sea. the gstrait h or gconstriction h of malchut is the back of malchut, the side exposed to evil. thus, he was now on the [central] axis, that of malchut and binah. having been thrown off-center to the le

their sin, it was not proper that they try to invoke that very power, g-d fs gevurah, to judge the egyptians. 18 this array may be seen, inter alia, in the standard editions of the zohar, volume 2, p. 270a. 19 tikunei zohar 55 (89a. 20 zohar 2:36a, based on isaiah 19:22. 21 shemot rabbah 43:8. 22 the egyptians worshipped the ram-headed god khnum as the creator. he was also one of the gods of the nile. there was also an egyptian bull-god, apis, an incarnation of the creation-god ptah. gthe priests at memphis kept a real bull that was thoguht be the god fs living image. the bull lived in luxurious accomodations near the temple of ptah, and at regular festivals the egyptian upper classes were allowed to come and view the bull. when the bull died, it was mummified in a solemn ceremony and bur

head in the dirt instead of his tail. he thus embodies the upside down order caused by sin. pharaoh was the image of the snake; he was gthe great serpent. h ezekiel prophesied against pharaoh: gthus said g-d: ebehold, i am against you, pharaoh, king of egypt, the great serpent that crouches inside its rivers, who has said, gmy river is mine, and i have made myself. h f h6 the river of egypt, the nile, was also the god the egyptians worshipped. the nile provided egypt with water to irrigate its crops by overflowing regularly. it thus represented the immutable laws of nature, whereas the irregularity of rain encourages reliance upon g-d. thus, pharaoh became synonymous with his river, his god, his philosophy of denying g-d fs active involvement in life. therefore g-d was angry with pharaoh

e nile provided egypt with water to irrigate its crops by overflowing regularly. it thus represented the immutable laws of nature, whereas the irregularity of rain encourages reliance upon g-d. thus, pharaoh became synonymous with his river, his god, his philosophy of denying g-d fs active involvement in life. therefore g-d was angry with pharaoh, and he exacted retribution from him.i.e, from the nile river, changing it to blood.using the very letters of the name havayah that he denied. when moses first approached pharaoh, he told him to release the jews from slavery, saying, gthus says g-d [havayah, g-d of israel: esend out my people, that they may celebrate for me in the desert. f h but pharaoh replied, gwho is g-d [havayah, that i should listen to him and send out israel? i have not kno

esert. f h but pharaoh replied, gwho is g-d [havayah, that i should listen to him and send out israel? i have not known g-d [havayah, and i will not send out israel. h7 pharaoh was acquainted with elokim, g-d as nature, but not with havayah, g-d above nature. with the yud [of his name, whose numerical value is 10, he struck him with ten plagues. he began with that which made him into the head.the nile.and changed it into blood. corresponding to the first hei [of the name havayah, whose numerical value is 5, he said, gbehold, the hand of g-d [is upon your cattle c, h8 [the hand] comprising five fingers. pestilence was the fifth plague. regarding the hand [rabbi yosi the galilean] said,9 gwith how many [plagues] were [the egyptians] struck by [g-d fs] finger? ten plagues [thus, you must conc

seph, the same word for ox appears, although in a different meaning, that of gwall h: ga fruitful son is joseph, a fruitful son above the [evil] eye; daughters tread over the wall [to gaze on him. h11 the words for gover the wall h in hebrew are alei shur, which if slightly revocalized can be read: gascend, o ox! h (aleh, shor. the sages tell us that when joseph died, his coffin was placed in the nile river, and when the jews left egypt many years later, moses stood at the edge of the nile and cast into it a golden plate inscribed with the words gascend, o ox! h and joseph fs coffin rose to the surface. in this way, moses was able to fulfill joseph fs wish to have his bones removed from egypt and buried in the land of israel.12 obviously, this golden plate possessed great power. thus they

golden calf, which is also called an gox, h with the powerful magic tools in their mouths, which upset the order of the supernal realms. all the powers we mentioned combined together.that of the evil [generated by the jews f sin, that of the magic [powers they possessed, that of the holiness of aaron fs, and that of the holy name etched in the golden plate that was used to elevate joseph from the nile. this combination produced the golden calf, which was animated by the spiritual life-force of their grandfather beor [beor] thus ascended from the vegetable to the animal kingdom, and [the mixed multitude] accepted him as their leader, who would inform them of the future and tell them whatever they would need to know. and all this was possible by the fact that they made the israelites sin, as

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ng the enemies of the ancient of days. i am the dweller in the egg. i am he who turns in the disc. i shine forth from the horizon, as the gold from the mine. i float through the pillars of shu in the ether. without a peer among the gods. the breath of my mouth is as a flame. i light upon the earth with my glory. eye cannot gaze on my daring beams, as they reach through the heavens and lick up the nile with tongues of flame. i am strong upon earth with the strength of ra. i have come into harbour as osiris made perfect. let priestly offerings be made to me as one in< 114> the train of the ancient of days. i brood as the divine spirit. i move in the firmness of my strength. i undulate as the waves that vibrate through eternity. osiris has been claimed with acclamation, and ordained to rule a

ephi in the north,has the head of an ape. the symbology of the ape in ancient egypt is very complex. here it may be taken that while apis, the bull, represents the divine strength of the eternal gods, the ape represents the elemental strength which is far inferior and blended with cunning. ahephi, however, has other symbology and other attributes. for by reason of the fertilising qualities of the nile and of the fad that what is brought down by the nile as refuse from the land of the sacred lakes is, to egypt, its life and the source of its fertility, so there arises a correspondence between the nile and the lower intestines, and both are under the care of ahephi (hapi) who thus was worshipped as nilus, and in this connection he has for his symbol, a head-dress of lotus flowers. now, furth

d in this connection he has for his symbol, a head-dress of lotus flowers. now, further, the alimentary system is under the special guardianship of isis and nephthys. isis who conquers by the power of wisdom and the forces of nature, guards ameshet. and nephthys who hides that which is secret, guards ahephi- whence also, until recent days, in the fulness of time, the sacred sources of ahephi, the nile, were kept secret from the whole world. tmoumathph is under the guardianship of neith, the dawn. this is the celestial space, who makes the morning to pass and awakes the light of a golden dawn in the heart of him whom the eternal gods shall choose, by the sacred science of the breath. ameshet (stomach and upper intestines) ahephi (lower tmoumathph (heart and lungs) kabexnuf (liver and intest

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or a paramour. worldwide copyright 1990, 1998-2001, rjstewart, all rights and permissions reserved http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_171.htm [10/9/2001 12:37:42 4 napaka! zaznamek ni definiran. a guide to effective public speaking. napaka! zaznamek ni definiran. philosophy ancient egyptian philosophy inhabiting a land characterized by the regularity of the elements (behavior of the winds, the nile, the climate, the sun, and the skies, the egyptians sought perfection in stability, harmony, symmetry, geometry, and a cyclical [as opposed to progressive or linear] concept of time. egyptian achievements, correspondingly, were in areas such as astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and architecture. egyptian religion and art tend to be oversimplified in many modern treatments, due in part to the

was consistent, reliable, and therefore powerful. similarly each force in nature was given a personality, because each force in nature has a personality (or seems to, to those who humanize such things. this is the basic principle behind most spirits of most animistic religions. these personalities are generally reliable. a rain cloud is going to rain; it isn't going to add to the day's heat. the nile was not going to dry up. it was going to overflow once a year, and deposit good, rich, fertile earth upon the ground. each force of nature, each personality, was given a name, a face, and a story. the most powerful stories, faces, and names are those that belong to the creator gods. there are so many creator gods, that it's really difficult to pin down an actual order of precedence. this brin

xford university press, 1934. casson, lionel, ancient egypt. new york: time, inc. 1965. christian, paul, histoire de la magie, du monde surnaturel et de la fatalitj b travers les temps et les peuples. paris, 1870 (translation- new york: citadel press, 1969. cottrell, leonard, life under the pharaohs. new york: hold, rinehart and winston, 1960. fairservis, walter a. jr, the ancient kingdoms of the nile. new york: mentor books, 1962. frankfort, hentry, ancient egyptian religion. new york: harper and brothers, 1948. frankfort, hentry et al, before philosophy. baltimore: penguin books, 1972. grun, bernard, the timetables of history. new york: simon and schuster, 1975. jerome, st "taceo de philosophis" in the prologus galeatus to the bible, 1590. piankoff, alexandre (ed, the tomb of ramesses vi

ge 141. 7. tompkins, op. cit, pages 3-4. 8. berlitz, charles, mysteries from forgotten worlds, page 36. 9. compare this to the chinese view of china as the "middle kingdom (chhung kuo, the "focus" of civilization and creativity. 10. clark, r.t, myth and symbol in ancient egypt, page 74. 11. frankfort, henry, ancient egyptian religion, page 62. 12. fairservis, walter a, the ancient kingdoms of the nile, pages 98-99. 13. stanley, thomas, the history of philosophy, page 494. 14. asimov, isaac, asimov's biographical encyclopaedia of science and technology, page 2. 15. stanley, op. cit, page 494. 16. plato, collected dialogues, page 1059. 17. stanley, op. cit, pages 494-495. 18. budge, sir e. a. wallis, egyptian language, pages 13-42. 19. stanley, op.cit, page 495. 20. ibid, page 496. 21. ibid

al, i.1, anubis pylon subject: egypt reading list: hail, honored visitors. and welcome to my land. i am called shehbui, my name being that of the god, south wind. the great river which gives life to egypt flows in the same direction as shehbui. my land is but an arid desert ehich extends thousands of quare miles, and we have almost nowhere to live save this thin strip of green land watered by the nile. here in this region of lower egypt called the delta, you will find the great river branching off into a triangular network of tributaries, and here, nearly 150 miles wide in some places, are fertile fields, luscious orchards, and abundant vineyards. yet the desert, the threatening, inhospitable place for burial, the home of the dead, looms at the very fringes of our villages. but i will not

ributaries, and here, nearly 150 miles wide in some places, are fertile fields, luscious orchards, and abundant vineyards. yet the desert, the threatening, inhospitable place for burial, the home of the dead, looms at the very fringes of our villages. but i will not speak now of the desert, for it is the river which has structured our lives and determined our economic and political framework. the nile flows for more than 4,000 miles, creating along its length a prosperous oasis. ah! but my land, my kem which you have come to learn about, stretches for only 750 miles between the mighty first cataract at aswan and ther great green (what you call the mediterranean sea. and, my friends, kem is called "the gift of the river. each year the ethiopian rains flow in a deluge, pushing swiftly northw

. each year the ethiopian rains flow in a deluge, pushing swiftly northward across the land, and only the towns remain above the water. thus, every summer, the land is irrigated; hopefully not too well, for flooding creates havoc- nor too low, for famine can easily invade us if the life-giving waters do not reach deeply into the farm lands. our three seasons are determined by the gods- and by the nile's temperament! june through september marks the time of "inundation "emergence (of the land from the waters) occurs from october to february, and finally "drought" lasts until june, beginning the cycle over again. the laborer's tasks are also patterned by the seasonal changes. planting takes place during the emergence, followed by harvesting and the preparation for the next planting during th

nd afterward you may all draw your own conclusions as to why we live as we do. as you probably know, pharaoh is at the topmost part of the pyramid of social structure. in order to create and maintain unification of a land as vast as ours, he holds total civil, military, and religious authority. since he is the embodiment of the gods, and therefore divine, he is responsible for the behavior of the nile, the success or failure of the crops, the fortune of the military and its endeavours- yes, all aspects of our lives. he owns all the land! he directs the entire labor force! his law is the only law! those officials who assist pharaoh have no authority other than his; they are merely his voice in all matters. directly beneath pharaoh, the one we name "overseer of all the works of the king" is

gypt, and he was also cast as the champion of set in the osirian-mythos trial between set and horus the younger. the curious term "hadit" is simply the islamic word for a divinely inspired utterance of any sort; hence it is not found on the xxvi dynasty monument. the "hadit" disc is hieroglyphically identified on the stele as "behdety, a form of horus the elder worshipped at behdet in the eastern nile delta. summarily the stele of revealing is not based upon the osirian triad at all; its themes are those of a theban sun-cult based upon horus the elder and ra-harakte. this casts an entirely new light on the book of the law that crowley transcribed on april 8- 10, 1904. he interpreted the chapters and verses of this document according to his understanding of the figures on the stele of revea

on this stele, whom crowley called nuit, hadit, and ra hoor khuit, lent their names to the three chapters of the book of the law. nuit he correctly identified as the egyptian sky goddess. hadit or had is not the name of any egyptian deity; the winged solar disk in question is identified in the hieroglyphs of the stele as behut-t (horus behdety, a form of horus the elder worshipped in the western nile delta at behdet.29 [the curious term "hadit" is actually arabic, and means "a divinely inspired utterance] as for ra hoor khuit, whom crowley incorrectly identifies as horus the younger,30 the hieroglyphs on the stele title the figure ra-harakhti. ra-harakhti("ra-horus of the two horizons) was a form of horus the elder identified with ra, especially in his aspects of atum and xepera.31 ra-har

curious term, but the most sensible is that of idries shah, who in his book the sufis suggests that it is a corruption of the arabic abufihamat (pronounced "bufihimat, which means "father" or "source of understanding" going beyond shah, this in turn may have been a corruption from the ancient egyptian ba-neb-tettu, the hieroglyphic term for the city of mendes, capital of the xvi khar nome in the nile delta at 31n, 31.5e, not far distant from tanis. in ptolemaic accounts mendes was "notorious" for its goat-god, who was said to mate with human females in religious festivals. the truth is probably less lurid. comments budge in his gods of the egyptians "the title ba-neb-tettu was sometimes held to mean the 'soul, the lord tettu, and this was the name at mendes of the local form of khnemu, wh

xeper have you come to be. now you stand before new gates, and will remanifest your souls in ways unsuspected. as your will turns to xeper, so must you also remanifest. all you have been, all you have done, these bring about change. though that change you xeper. through that change you remanifest [statement of xa nepthys, light the eighth candle] as the lotus blossom floats upon the waters of the nile, peacefully, quietly, so beneath the surface of the river glide the water creatures of the lord set, waiting, perchance to rise to the surface and with their baleful eyes fix sternly upon some rash mortal who dares to disturb a drifting blossom with an oar. as you enter the river of life, swimmer, take care that you do not crush the lotus unless you would like to be the breakfast of a crocodi

ruins, and once more honor the ancient bond. be with me this night [consecration of the chalice] behold, all ye who dwell in darkness: i have poured every drop of my blood into the cup of the scarlet woman, and she hath lifted it to her crimson lips and drunk thereof. no single drop hath fallen, lest all be lost [opening of the gate and main invocation] set, lord of that ancient land, gift of the nile: time melts into nothingness, and i stand amidst the columns of thy house in pamat-et. brooding in silent majesty, the gods gaze down upon golden sands rippling in the wind. as thou revealed thy wisdom to the chosen sons of khem in dim aeons past, so do i partake of the divine gift. darkness descends upon earth, and grim osiris shall open the doors of the house of death. o thou who bear the c

of sokaris. unpublished. tompkins, peter, secrets of the great pyramid. new york: harper and row, 1971. this knum i've become though it is difficult to explain both the knum and uriaz within me without going into a long and detailed "epic, i shall attempt nevertheless to cut the dramatics of which i am guilty all to often! knum was a god of creation, a ram-headed god of the first cataract of the nile on the island of elephantine. he was said to be the maker of earth, water, and the underworld, and creator of gods and men from clay on a potter's wheel. knum represented earth and divinity, and was self-created. let me explain this duality within me as i see it and feel it. first of all, knum is a very real existence to me, and even though "old khem" exists no more, the ka (spirit) of knum h

ft of altar. 4. the celebrant enters slowly and faces altar. 5. the assistant walks around entire chamber with burning incense to seal the interior from outside influences, whilst the celebrant rings bell or gong nine times, turning counterclockwise to focus the attention of assembled wills. pollutionary. 6. the celebrant now summons the four elemental forces: west: hail, hapy! western god of the nile! join us, leviathan of the watery abyss! hail serpents of the timeless depths! keep us quenched of thy powers! south: hail, amon! lord of the southern fires! enter our beings, and burn our wills with the flames of your power! east: hail, ra in your rising! you who are known as xepera! defend us with the warmth of your burning rays! north: hail, mighty set! open your northern trapezoid to the

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and belief in guardian and protective gods led to increasingly complex belief systems. myths, or stories about the creation of the world and tales of individual gods and goddesses, became a fundamental part of religion, as did certain rituals and rules of behavior, or things to do and things to avoid doing. the earliest historical religions, ones for which a written record exists, arose along the nile river in egypt and in the fertile crescent of mesopotamia. an ancient form of hinduism also emerged about the same time in what is now known as india. egyptian and mesopotamian religions were polytheistic, meaning they recognized more than one god (hinduism has many deities as well, but they are all understood as different aspects of one supreme being) both egyptian and mesopotamian religions

na 37 (also called ishtar. in the later stages of mesopotamian civilization the local god marduk became head of the pantheon. in egyptian religion the primary god was amen (amon or amun, king of the gods. next in importance was ra (or re, the sun god. these two were eventually joined in the cult of amen-ra. a cult is a religion considered to be outside the mainstream. then came osiris, god of the nile and also god of the kingdom of the dead. his wife, isis, was the moon goddess and mother of the universe. their child horus was god of the sky; set, their brother, was the god of chaos and of the desert; and thoth, the god of writing and knowledge. in addition to these was a vast array of other gods and goddesses that sometimes duplicated each other s functions. the current pharaoh, as a livi

temples. thus, already by the time of the first real towns and cities in human history, mesopotamian religion had already become well organized. various clay tablets have been found with details of the religion, as well as sacred vessels and architectural remains of temples. these all help to give an overview of the religion. the environment of mesopotamia largely shaped its religion. unlike the nile river in egypt, which rises and falls slowly on a very predictable schedule, the tigris and euphrates rivers could and often did rise quickly and violently, causing disastrous flooding. because of this, the mesopotamians felt that nature was dangerous and far beyond the control of mere humans. the earliest mesopotamian deities thus represented different aspects of nature and were honored in h

r of horus s father osiris) reflects the war between upper and lower egypt, with horus s eventual victory reflecting the unification of the two countries by menes during his sixty-two year reign. world religions: almanac 41 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia before this time, however, nature gods and animals had been worshipped for at least two millennia among the people who inhabited the nile valley. these animal deities later took human form, but their heads were still often depicted as that of an animal. some gods even became associated with more than one animal. for example, thoth, the god of the moon and of wisdom and protector of scribes, was depicted by the egyptian ibis, a wading bird, by a baboon, and by a figure of the moon. about the ancient religions of egypt and mesopo

ddess of moisture. these two in turn gave birth to geb, the earth god, and nut, the sky goddess. from them came two pairs of siblings: osiris and isis, and set and nephtys. eventually ra, the sun god, took the place of atum in the pantheon; later pharaohs, for instance, called themselves sons of ra. ancient egypt and mesopotamia. reproduced by permission of thomson gale. red sea mediterranean sea nile delta river river p e r s i a n g u l f tigris euphrates nile river sinai peninsula arabian peninsula a s i a a f r i c a upper egypt lower egypt memphis aswan thebes ur luxor karnak babylon uruk nineveh khorsabad amarna (akhetaten) heliopolis giza (cairo) n 0 150 300 mi. 0 150 300 km ancient egypt and mesopotamia area under egyptian control mesopotoamia ancient coastline ancient city temple

pieces, was put back together again by his wife sister isis. he then became god of the underworld. osiris became identified with the dead pharaoh. his son, horus, became associated with the living pharaoh. osiris eventually became a symbol of immortality and resurrection, or returning to life after death, and, as such, symbolized the annual renewal of fertility to the soil by the flooding of the nile. a lengthy annual festival was held for him to celebrate this rebirth. the middle kingdom came to an end with the hyksos invasion of lower egypt, with the new invaders adapting egyptian habits and gods. the new kingdom (c. 1570 1085 bce) began when egyptian nobles drove the hyksos out. during this period the god amen came to prominence and was worshipped at karnak, near thebes. amen incorpora

were destroyed, from the inscription of his name on temples to his mummy. with the restoration of the old gods, the priests of karnak and at another holy site, luxor, regained their power at the expense of the monarchy. at the city of thebes, the high priest of amen became the first of a ruling class of high priests, while the pharaoh continued to wield power from a new city center, tanis, in the nile delta. during the course of the second half of the first millennium bce the power and prestige of egypt was reduced. foreign conquerors inhabited the land, and various cults gained favor and then went out of favor. but amen and amen-ra remained the major cult. the local goddess neith became more popular and was later incorporated into greek and roman pantheons in the figures of athena and dia

search of him and returns with him triumphantly to earth. tammuz, however, can only spend spring and summer on earth; the rest of the year he must remain in the underworld. in some traditions, tammuz is ishtar s son; in others, he is her lover rather than her husband. a similar regeneration myth lies at the heart of egyptian popular religion. ancient egyptians believed that osiris was god of the nile river and of resurrection and vegetation before he became god of the underworld. killed by his evil brother set, god of chaos, his body was chopped into pieces and scattered. his loyal wife, the sky goddess isis, found the pieces and put his body back together. she made herself pregnant from osiris s body, and their son horus revenged osiris s murder, defeating his uncle set in epic combat. h

acred marriage of mesopotamia, but the purpose behind them was the same: to confirm the authority of the ruler. eight months after the feast of opet came the second major egyptian festival, the feast of the valley. this was an opportunity for egyptians to reconnect with those who had died. the image of amen was brought out of the temple at karnak into public view and was taken by barge across the nile to visit temples in the west. even though this was a serious occasion, music and dancing accompanied the procession of amen on the royal barge. amen would be taken into the major temples and also to a necropolis, a large graveyard to honor the dead. the egyptians ate and drank large amounts during the feast of the valley, believing this brought them closer to their dead relatives and loved on

bservances. for some workers almost one-third of the year was set aside for religious observances and celebrations. the tomb makers eight-day work week, for example, had a two- or three-day weekend. put together, these weekend days of rest accounted for about sixty days a year. there were another sixty-five days of religious festivals, from full moon days to the celebration of the flooding of the nile river, to such major festivals as the feast of opet. these occasions were opportunities not just for prayer at one s home shrine or at the temple, but also for world religions: almanac 63 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia the enjoyment of games such as boxing and chariot races. other games that may have had a religious significance include a form of hockey and another resembling hand

for various ailments or illnesses. egyptian architecture and building techniques have also been very influential. the pyramidal shape has been adopted by modern architects, including the egyptian-inspired entrance to the louvre museum in paris, france. egyptians, like mesopotamians, made use of canals for irrigation and became dam builders in order to control some of the unwanted flooding of the nile river. both of these influenced modern engineering. art was also influenced through colorful and often realistic tomb decorations. this was especially true during the rule of akhenaten when a style called amarna art was popular. the art during this period was surprisingly modern; it had a very natural look instead of the stiff poses usually found in royal paintings. for more information books

, also a christian, officially banned the practice of the old roman polytheistic religion. history and development: greco-roman philosophy some believe the beginning of early greek philosophy can be traced to contact with ancient egypt and babylonia. by the seventh century bce egyptians had allowed ionian (from the west coast of modern-day turkey) traders to establish a seaport on a branch of the nile river about greco-roman religion belief. greco-roman religion was polytheistic, believing in many gods. the twelve main gods formed a pantheon, or group. all the gods could involve themselves in human affairs and often acted very much like humans. followers. all greek and roman citizens were obliged to follow the religion. this symbolized their obedience and loyalty to the state. name of god

his, so abram and his group traveled to hebron, where they settled and built another altar to god. abram then heard that lot and his group had been caught up in a war between the king of sodom and three other kings and had been taken prisoner. abram gathered 318 fighters and rescued his nephew. god then gave abram a prophesy, or a foretelling of the future. he told abram that the land between the nile river and the euphrates would belong to his descendants, but that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four centuries before such things came to pass. god also promised abram that he would have as many heirs (children) as there were stars in the sky. fulfilling god s promise in egypt sarai had acquired a maid named hagar. sarai was unable to bear children, so she gave abram this maid to

srael. abraham is said to have lived to the age of 175, although this has never been confirmed. he was buried next to sarah. the importance of abraham the life of abraham has had a profound influence on hebrew( jewish) culture right up to the modern day. it was abraham who refused to follow polytheism and pursued the belief in one god, and it was to abraham that god promised the lands between the nile and the euphrates rivers. such a promise is important even in the modern-day state of israel, as many israelis believe it gives authority to their claim to the lands in this region. jews trace their ancestry back to abraham, his son isaac, and grandson jacob. many jews also see abraham as a role model of faith, obedience, and success. abraham and the old testament story of abraham s blessing

many that amenhotep iv was trying to increase his power. around 1347 bce he established aten as the state god of egypt. the following year he officially changed his name to akhenaten. his wife changed hers to neferneferuaten( exquisite beauty of the aten. that same year akhenaten decided to move the capital of egypt from thebes to a new location two hundred miles distant, on the east side of the nile. this place is now called tel el-amarna or amarna, and amarna is the name given to the brief period of akhenaten s rule from that capital. amarna art during the amarna period, as akhenaten s rule is known, the art of egypt went through a revolution. egyptian art traditionally portrayed people in a lifeless, dignified, and stiff manner. in profile, their faces appeared calm and almost expressi

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entations.31 thus, aberamentho was obviously no inherent title of seth-typhon. as shown by m. tardieu (above, n. 30, aberamentho or, actually, aberamentho[o]uth, derives from the hebrew phrase, ym ryba "power of waters, and the greek version of the name of the egyptian god thoth.32 from the xxvith dynasty onwards, thot was seen as the god bringing forth and exercising power over the waters of the nile. in greco-roman times, thoth was also identified with hermes, the messenger and spokesman of the gods. as the "lord of the holy words, thoth-hermes knew the formulas by which the cosmic powers could be controlled. the identification of jesus as aberamentho in the untitled work in the askew codex is thus easily explicable. in the beginning of the tract, jesus is said to have invoked god while

03. the amulets show the sun god iao-harpocrates. doresse did not cite this evidence either. 32 the name is the first part of a palindrome; for the decipherment of which see tardieu "aberamentho" 416. in the glossary at the end of the greek magical papyri in translation, it is said that "no meaningful decipherment of the word has been put forward (331. for thoth's connection with the flood of the nile, see d. bonneau, la crue du nil (paris 1964) 234f. 33 the preposition, hijn, is used in the coptic translation of the new testament texts describing jesus walking upon water (matt 14.25-26; mark 6.48-49; john 6.19. 34 see g. scholem, origins of the kabbalah, ed. r.j. zwi werblowsky and trans. a. arkush (new york 1987) 31-32. 35 in the two other places where the phrase "jesus who is aberamenth

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eturn from the place of death p. 14 in the underworld, and to make it to dwell in his body again for a short time" with these words, he led forward a man dressed in linen, and wearing palm-leaf sandals, who, like all the egyptian priests, had his head shaved, and having kissed his hands and embraced his legs he implored him by the stars, and by the gods of the underworld, and by the island of the nile, and by the inundation, etc, to restore life to the dead body, if only for the smallest possible time, so that the truth of his accusation against the widow might be proved. thus adjured zaclas touched the mouth and the breast of the dead man three times with some plant, and having turned his face to the east and prayed, the lungs of the corpse began to fill with breath, and his heart to beat

d that khufu would greatly exalt his rank. the greetings ended, herutataf assisted teta to rise, and the old man set out for the quay leaning upon the arm of the king's son, p. 18 and when he had arrived there he asked that a boat might be provided for the transport of his children and his books. two boats were at once prepared and filled with their complement of sailors, and teta sailed down the nile with herutataf, while his family followed. after a time the party arrived at khufu's palace, and herutataf went into the presence of his father, and reported to him that he had brought teta the sage for him to see; khufu gave orders that he was to be brought before him quickly, and having gone forth into the colonnade of the palace, teta was led in to him. khufu said to him "how is it, teta

inds of "wisdom" which enabled them to deal with both the material world and the spiritual world; the nations around, however, confused the two kinds, and misunderstood matters in consequence. one of the oldest names of egypt is "kamt" or "qemt" a word which means "black" or "dusky" and it was applied to the country on account of the dark colour of the mud which forms the land on each side of the nile; the christian egyptians or copts p. 20 transmitted the word under the form kheme to the greeks, romans, syrians, and arabs. at a very early period the egyptians were famous for their skill in the working of metals and in their attempts to transmute them, and, according to greek writers, they employed quicksilver in the processes whereby they separated the metals gold and silver from the nati

deceased with a heart in the place of that which had been removed in the process of mummification. the text reads "may my heart be with me in the house of hearts! may my breast 2 be with me in the house of hearts! may my heart be with me, and may it rest there, or i shall not eat of the cakes of osiris on the eastern side of the lake of flowers, neither shall i have a boat wherein to go down the nile, nor another wherein to go up, nor shall i be able to sail down the nile with thee. may my mouth [be given] to me that i may speak therewith, and my two legs to walk therewith, and my two hands and arms to overthrow my foe. may the doors of heaven be opened unto me; may seb, the prince of the gods, open wide his p. 30 two jaws unto me; may he open my two eyes which are blindfolded; may he cau

east to the west" after these words comes the answer by the figure "verily i am" here, and [will do] whatsoever thou biddest me to do" the egyptians were most anxious to escape the labours of top-dressing 2 the land, and of sowing the seed, a work which had to be done by a man standing in water in the sun, and the toilsome task of working the shaduf, or instrument for raising water p. 73 from the nile and turning it on to the land. in graves not one figure only is found, but several, and it is said that in the tomb of seti i, king of egypt about b.c. 1370, no less than seven hundred wooden ushabtiu inscribed with the vith chapter of the book of the dead, and covered with bitumen, were found. the use of the shabti figure continued unabated down to the roman period, when boxes full of ill-sh

st native king of egypt, about b.c. 318, was the chief, if we may believe greek tradition. according to pseudo- callisthenes, and the versions of his works which were translated into pehlevi, arabic, syriac, and a score of other languages and dialects, this king was famous as a magician and a sage, and he was deeply learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians. he knew what was in the depths of the nile and of heaven, he was skilled in reading the stars, in interpreting omens, in casting nativities, in telling fortunes, and in predicting the future of the unborn child, and in working magic of every kind, as we shall see; he was said to be the lord of the earth, and to rule all kings by means of his magical powers. p. 92 [paragraph continues] whenever he was threatened with invasion by sea or

cred serpent bit him. the flame of life departed from him, and he who dwelt among the cedars) was overcome. the holy god opened his mouth, and the cry of his majesty reached unto heaven; his company of gods said 'what hath happened' and his gods exclaimed 'what is it' but ra could not answer, for his jaws trembled and all his members quaked; the poison spread swiftly through his flesh just as the nile rusheth through all his land. when the great god had stablished his heart, he cried unto those who were in his train, saying 'come unto me, o ye who have come into being from my body, ye gods who have come forth from me, make ye known unto khepera that a dire calamity hath fallen upon me. my heart perceiveth it, but my eyes see it not; my hand hath not caused it, nor do i know who hath done t

water, i have made to come into being the goddess meht-urt, and i have made the bull of his mother, from whom spring the delights of love. i have made the heavens, i have stretched out the two horizons like a curtain, and i have placed the soul of the gods within them. i am he who, if he openeth his eyes, doth make the light, and, if he closeth them, darkness cometh into being. at his command the nile riseth, and the gods know not his name. i have made the hours, i have created the days, i bring forward the festivals of the year, i create the nile-flood. i make the fire of life, and i provide food in the houses. i am khepera in the morning, i am ra at noon, and i am temu at even' meanwhile the poison was not taken away from his body, but it pierced deeper, and the great god could no longer

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was consistent, reliable, and therefore powerful. similarly each force in nature was given a personality, because each force in nature has a personality (or seems to, to those who humanize such things. this is the basic principle behind most spirits of most animistic religions. these personalities are generally reliable. a rain cloud is going to rain; it isn't going to add to the day's heat. the nile was not going to dry up- it was going to overflow once a year, and deposit good, rich, fertile earth upon the ground. each force of nature, each personality, was given a name, a face, and a story. the most powerful stories, faces, and names are those tha t belong to the creator gods. there are so many creator gods, that it's really difficult to pin down an actual order of precedence. this bri

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phi in the north, has the head of an ape. the symbology of the ape in ancient egypt is very complex. here it may be taken that while apis, the bull, represents the divine strength of the eternal gods, the ape represents the elemental strength which is far inferior and blended with cunning. ahephi, however, has other symbolism and other attributes. for by reason of the fertilizing qualities of the nile and of the fact that what is brought down by the nile as refuse from the land of the sacred lakes is, to egypt, its life and the source of its fertility, so there arises a correspondence between the nile and the lower intestines, and both are under the care of ahephi (hapi) who thus was worshipped as nilus, and in this connection he has for his symbol, a headdress of lotus flowers. now furthe

in this connection he has for his symbol, a headdress of lotus flowers. now further, the alimentary system is under the special guardianship of isis and nephthys. isis who conquers by the power of wisdom and the forces of nature, guards ameshett. and nephthys, who hides that which is secret, guards ahephi- whence also, until recent days, in the fullness of time, the sacred sources of ahephi, the nile, were kept secret from the whole world. tmo-oumathu is under the guardianship of neith, the dawn. this is the celestial space, who makes the morning to pass and awakens the light of a golden dawn in the heart of him whom the eternal gods shall chose, by the sacred science of breath. kabexnuv is guarded by sakhet, the sun at the western equinox, the opening of amenti, who wears the scorpion on

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holar e. a. w. budge [osiris] was the god-man who suffered, and died, and rose again, and reigned eternally in heaven. they [the egyptians] believed that they would inherit eternal life, just as he had done. the ancient myths proclaim that osiris first received renown as a peaceful leader of a higher culture in the eastern delta, then as a powerful ruler over all the delta, a veritable god of the nile and its vegetation, growth, life, and culture. he was the husband of isis, goddess of enchantment and magic; father of the great war god horus; and finally conqueror of northern upper egypt with his principal city at abydos. it was then that he came into conflict with set, who killed and dismembered him. the dark mists of death didn t t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u

n patterns of settlement and migration, as well as information on diseases and genetic characteristics. 9. recent approaches to studying mummies involve the interdisciplinary cooperation of egyptologists, physicians, radiologists, physical anthropologists, and specialists in ancient languages. 10. recent discoveries of mummies in the sinai peninsula, the desert oases, and the eastern delta of the nile river are providing abundant information about the regional mummification styles. sources: teeter, emily. presentation of maat: ritual and legitimacy in ancient egypt and scarabs, scarboids, seals and seal impressions from medinet habu. n.p, n.d. person s tomb was called the het ka, the house of the ka, suggesting that the egyptians not only considered the ka an essential aspect of a human be

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 been waged and the fate of empires decided. thothmes iii, whose military strategies made egypt a world empire, proclaimed the taking of megiddo to be worth the conquering of a th

f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 260 mystery religions and cults it was during this time that the priests began to propagate the legend of isis, goddess of enchantment and magic, and her husband osiris, father of the great war god horus, finally conqueror of northern upper egypt. osiris came into conflict with set, who killed and dismembered him, scattering his body parts in the nile. death didn t eliminate osiris, for isis, incarnation of the divine mother goddess, used her magic to put him back together. osiris and his doctrines were concerned with the problems of life, death, resurrection, and an afterlife. the initiate who wished to attain mastery over the mysteries of life after death would be sent to knock at the door of the great temple of thebes or of memphis. her

elta. although osiris was eventually slain by an evil being called set, it was believed that the great king s power conquered the grave and enabled him to be resurrected. henceforth, beginning with the pharoahs and later to all who could afford mummification, all those who paid homage to osiris would gain eternal life. down through the centuries, osiris was transformed into a veritable god of the nile and its vegetation, growth, life, and culture. he was the husband of isis, goddess of enchantment and magic; father of the great war god horus; and conqueror of northern upper egypt with his principal city at abydos. the cult of osiris was established at abydos, where he became known as the lord of the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 2

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confidence. carefully considering the import of the cat s midnight vigils, the egyptian sages decided that the cat was solely responsible for preventing the world from falling into eternal darkness. at the same time, the cat s nocturnal excursions made it a symbol of sexuality and fertility. it seems quite likely that long before cleopatra worked her magic on caesar and antony, the sirens of the nile used makeup that mimicked the hypnotic eyes and facial markings of the cat. bubastis, a city in lower egypt, dedicated itself to the worship of the cat. each may some 700,000 pilgrims journeyed to the city to participate in the festival of the cat. during the persian invasion of 529 b.c.e, the egyptians deification of the cat proved their undoing. knowing of the obsession of the egyptian peop

he worship of the cat. each may some 700,000 pilgrims journeyed to the city to participate in the festival of the cat. during the persian invasion of 529 b.c.e, the egyptians deification of the cat proved their undoing. knowing of the obsession of the egyptian people with the divinity of felines, cambyses ii, king of the persians, made a cat part of the standard issue to each of his soldiers. the nile-dwellers led by king psamtik iii laid down their spears and bows for fear of harming the cat that each enemy soldier carried, and the persians conquered the city of pelusium without shedding a drop of blood. some people believe that the unwavering stare of the cat can bring about illness or insanity or even cause death. such an unreasoning, fearful response to cats is known as ailurophobia. h

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ility of the crops. from this point on, the figure of the goddess began to overshadow that of the horned god. a population that did not have to keep on the move increased rapidly, and soon a portion of the human tribes began to move out of the tigris- euphrates valley, the so-called cradle of civilization, and spread northward to what is now europe and asia. to the west, the fertile valley of the nile proved an attractive site to agricultural peoples. and as humankind moved, their gods moved with them. the population of medieval europe had descended from the central asian plateau. centuries ago, they had strained against the barriers that the roman legions had set against them until they had finally broken through and flooded the continent. christianity and gcivilized h ways were unknown t

tend to be somewhat moody, often brooding over imagined slights and injuries. capricorns are liable to feel sorry for themselves, and they may develop into super pessimists unless they are careful. a capricorn needs to keep things carefree and light. aquarius, the water bearer, january 21 to february 19, is an air sign. aquarius hearkens back to ancient egypt and the god hap, who represented the nile river, the sustainer of all life. aquarians are difficult to describe, for they are often moody, untidy, and rather eccentric.while at the same time being highly gifted and intellectual men and women, who contribute much to art, literature, and allied subjects. aquarians do not fit into the general concept of conventional living, and they make for most interesting, albeit unusual, friends and

d to the gypsies, there is a loose consensus that it was wandering tribes of gypsies who brought the prototype of what is today considered a deck of cards to europe some time in the fourteenth century. although it is thought that the gypsies came west from india by way of persia, they often claimed that they were originally from egypt. to make such an association with the ancient mysteries of the nile added to their status with the europeans and also increased the aura of the mysterious that they sought to create around themselves. portraying themselves as diviners in the magical traditions of egypt, the gypsies began reading fortunes with picture cards called atouts that were popular in persia. when the deck underwent a transformation in europe, it was called tarots. these decks were simi

great-grandfather, presents a history of atlantean civilization and describes the ideal society that flourished there. critias notes that the stories were originally passed on by an ancestor, solon (638.558 b.c.e, a politician and poet who traveled widely. critias and solon were both ancestors of plato. solon, as the story goes, was informed by egyptian priests in the city of sais, located in the nile delta, that there was once a land even older in history than egypt, which the greeks acknowledged as being centuries older than their own society. the priests described a large island continent called atlantis that prospered some 8,000 years earlier, which dates atlantis before 8500 b.c.e. the continent was located beyond gthe pillars of hercules, h the greek term for the rocks that form the

history fs cauldron.one valley in the jerusalem hills. new york: crown publishers, 1990. shanks, hershel. the city of david: a guide to biblical jerusalem.washington, d.c: biblical archaeological society, 1975. starr, chester g. a history of the ancient world. new york: oxford university press, 1991. westwood, jennifer. mysterious places. new york: galahad books, 1996. karnak on the banks of the nile, between the ancient cities of luxor and thebes, lie the remains of karnak, one of the most magnificent temple complexes ever constructed. in ancient egyptian, karnak means gthe most select of places, h and it became a religious center during the period known as the new kingdom (founded c. 1550 b.c.e. dedicated to the sun deity amon-ra (also t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n

tinued by his son seti i (reigned 1318.1304 b.c.e, and completed by ramses ii, one of the longestreigning of egyptian pharaohs (1304.1237 b.c.e) and a devotee of amon-ra. ramses ii also extended the temple of amon by adding a series of courtyards and ceremonial halls. at the time of ramses iii (reigned 1198. 1166 b.c.e, the size of the temple estates covered almost 700,000 acres of land, from the nile delta in the north to nubia in the south. eighty thousand servants and slaves were designated to serve amon-ra in karnak, and more than 5,000 statues reflected his glory throughout the vast temple complex. large numbers of animals considered sacred to amon were kept on the site at karnak, including thousands of geese and rams and over 421,000 head of cattle. from about 1080 b.c.e. onward, egy

hat intersect at the pyramid run across more land than any others, leading some to believe that giza and the monuments there represent the center of the inhabitable world. ancient egyptians would have had to determine the world was round in order to reach such a conclusion, a possibility accepted by some scholars. lines extending northwest and northeast from the great pyramid neatly encompass the nile delta, the naturally formed area of deposits where the nile river branches to flow into the mediterranean. deltas are formed by streams and become triangular-shaped, the same shape as the pyramids themselves. the perfect pyramidal shape has been cited as the purpose of the great pyramid in that it embodies and represents a universal system of measurement in material form. one such set of calc

e bedrock on which the nearby sphinx was sculpted. the limestone may have been quarried, moved, and then chiseled into blocks for the pyramid. a 50-foot drop-off, now filled in by sand, occurs just beyond the temples in front of the sphinx, perhaps a result of quarried stone. additional stone may have arrived through shallow boats. dry canals have been discovered that lead from giza to the nearby nile river, where a harbor may have been located that was subsequently obscured by the steadily encroaching desert sands. contemporary experiments have demonstrated that the copper chisels and stone hammers used by workers were sufficient to chip away at limestone. tests have determined that 2.5-ton limestone blocks can be transported a fair distance in a fair amount of time to match the estimated

s the pyramid rose higher. during the 1990s, archaeologists mark lehner and zahi hawass (1947) developed theories for the pyramid building that reduced the workforce from the 100,000 laborers cited by herodotus to a much smaller skilled crew of laborers that worked on the great pyramid year-round, but were joined by thousands of other workers only during the late summer and autumn months when the nile river overflowed and drenched agricultural fields. when the annual flooding occurred, farmers and villagers left the fields to work on the great pyramid for their god-king. teams led by lehner and hawass found further remains of bakeries and buildings where fish may have been processed to help feed the workforce. they also discovered bones of young male cattle and evidence that grains were de

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

ount ofoutward conformity with christianity could be established, and then only by means of compromises on thepart of the church; certain practices were permitted, certain images were retained, though often underdifferent names.the reformation appears to have had the same effect on great britain as the mahommedan conquest had onegypt. the moslems found christianity established in the towns of the nile valley while a debased paganismstill existed among the agricultural population. the religion of islam swept through the country like a flame,the converts being chiefly from the pagans, not from the christians. in great britain the appeal of thereformation, like the appeal of the even more fanatical islam, was to the pagan population; but with thisdifference, that in england political conditio

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

lowly bend before thee: i invoke thee at the end when other gods are fallen and put to scorn. thy foot is to my lips; my sighs unborn rise, touch and curl about thy heart; they spend pitiful love. lovelier pity, descend and bring me luck who am lonely and forlorn. h *w.e. henley, rodin in rime, vol. iii, p. 120. compare the following verse in swinburne fs poem, the centenary of the battle of the nile: the strong and sunbright lie whose name was france arose against the sun of truth, whose glance laughed large from the eyes of england fierce as fire whence eyes wax blind that gaze in truth askance. here gpiti h is a trochee; glovelier, h a spondee; gpity, h a trochee. the whole metre breaks up, as if the singer fs heart burst in despair. whilst in gbouches d fenfer h we find such lines as:

aching jaws whose tongue licks mine, twin asps like moons that curl, red moons of blood! whose catlike body claws, like a white swan raping a jet-black girl, mine, with hysteric laughter c *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 86. and the following four verses in gsaida h are superb: the spears of the night at her onset are lords of the day for a while, the magical green of the sunset, the magical blue of the nile. afloat are the gales in our slumberous sails on the beautiful breast of the nile. we have swooned through the midday exhausted by the lips. they are whips. of the sun, the horizon befogged and befrosted by the haze and the grays and the dun of the whirlings of sand let loose on the land by the wind that is born of the sun. thrilled through to the marrow with heat we abode (as we glode) on th

THE BOOK OF GATES

facts connected with its discovery by giovanni battista belzoni, who has fortunately placed them on record in his narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs and excavations in egypt and nubia, london, 1820, p. 233 ff. in october, 1815, belzoni began to excavate in the biban-al-muluk, i.e, the valley of the tombs of the kings, on the western bank of the nile at thebes, and in the p. 44 bed of a watercourse he found a spot where the ground bore traces of having been "moved" on the 19th of the month his workmen made a way through the sand and fragments of stone which had been piled up there, and entered the first corridor or passage of a magnificent tomb, which he soon discovered to have been made for one of the great kings of egypt. a second corri

i.e, asiatics. the reth, i.e, egyptians (far right) horus. click to view the themehu, i.e, libyans. the nehesu, i.e, negroes. p. 154 the passage which refers to the four groups, each containing four men, reads- horus saith unto the creatures of ra who dwell in the black land (qemt, i.e, egypt) and in the red land (i.e, the deserts which lie on each side of the black land formed of the mud of the nile-"magical protection be unto you, o ye creatures of ra, who have come into being from the great one who is at the head of heaven! let there be breath to your nostrils, and let your linen swathings be unloosed! ye are the tears 1 of the eye of my splendour in your name of reth (i.e, men. mighty of issue (aa-mu) ye have come into being in your name of aamu; sekhet hath created them, and it is sh

THE GOD SET

ing in the ombos and naquada regions. interestingly, his was the only god- figure not composed of parts from recognizable earth animals (the hamitic speakers donated most of the terms to religious philosophy to the egyptian langauge that seperate it from other semitic languages including ba, ka, neter, etc. if somebody really wants to find the roots of the egyptian religion, they should go up the nile and do some serious anthropology among hamitic speaking native cultures- the roots of the nile may hold keys to egyptian thought that mute stones do not. archaic egypt: set generally occupies a secondary role to his enemy horus, champion of the people of the north (except in the 2nd dynasty when one pharaoh took a "set" name rather than a horus name) set is intimately connected with teaching

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

s-only a matter of degree. god-forms gain or lose in power depending on how they are looked upon and worshipped by their people. many gods who at one time were principal deities have, through conquest, become absorbed into the pantheons of other races and have descended in status. for example, the god ptah was supreme in the city of memphis in the early days of egypt, but when the pharaohs of the nile moved their palaces southward to thebes, ptah lost much of his authority. god-forms were created because they are useful. they allowed humans to reach hidden powers and direct them according to human purpose. for this rea- son, god-forms are still being created today in civilized western culture. the forms of the worker, the consumer, the scientist-all are personalizations of the gener- al cu

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

dominates the other seven above her head. it is evident that she is involved in some occult ritual that pertains to the fecundity and fruitfulness of the land and the water. in the tree visible past her shoulder, a bird sits and watches. the great star is sirius, known as the dog star, which was venerated by the egyptians because it rose above the eastern horizon at the time of the year when the nile river flooded and overflowed its banks. in this way, the fertility of the farmlands of egypt were annually renewed by a fresh deposit of river silt. the bird is the phoenix, which periodically renews itself and rises as a youthful bird from the remains of its former aged body. when we gaze around at the world of this trump, we find that the land is part of a green floodplain beside a river. t

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ntroduction i. the legend of the god neb-er-tcher, and the history of creation. the text of the remarkable legend of the creation which forms the first section of this volume is preserved in a well-written papyrus in the british museum, where it bears the number 10,188. this papyrus was acquired by the late mr. a. h. rhind in 1861 or 1862, when he was excavating some tombs on the west bank of the nile at thebes. he did not himself find it in a tomb, but he received it from the british consul at luxor, mustafa agha, during an interchange of gifts when mr. rhind was leaving the country. mustafa agha obtained the papyrus from the famous hiding-place of the royal mummies at der-al-bahari, with the situation of which he was well acquainted for many years before it became known to the egyptian s

the destruction of the mythological monster who existed solely to prevent the sun from rising and shining. ii. the legend of the destruction of mankind. the text containing the legend of the destruction of mankind is written in hieroglyphs, and is found on the four walls of a small chamber which is entered from the "hall of columns" in the tomb of seti i, which is situated on the west bank of the nile at thebes. on the wall facing the door of this chamber is painted in red the figure of the large "cow of heaven" the lower part of her belly is decorated with a series of thirteen stars, and immediately beneath it are the two boats of ra, called semketet and mantchet, or sektet and matet. each of her four legs is held in position by two gods, and the god shu, with outstretched uplifted arms

must proclaim that the soul which animated ra was the soul of the aged one, and that of shu, khnemu, heh &c, and then he must proclaim that he is ra himself, and his word of power heka. if he recites the chapter correctly he shall have life in the other world, and he will be held in greater fear there than here. a rubric adds that he must be dressed in new linen garments, and be well washed with nile water; he must wear white sandals, and his body must be anointed with holy oil. he must burn incense in a censer, and a figure of maat (truth) must be painted on his tongue with green paint. these regulations applied to the laity as well as to the clergy. iii. the legend of ra and isis. the original text of this very interesting legend is written in the hieratic character on a papyrus preserv

erivations of the names of edfu &c, which are valueless, and which remind us of the derivations of placenames propounded by ancient semitic scribes [fn#23] i.e, ra on the horizon. plate v. horus standing on the back of the hippopotamus-fiend, and spearing him in the presence of isis. plate vi. the "butcher-priest" slicing open the hippopotamus-fiend. in gladness of heart ra proposed a sail on the nile, but as soon as his enemies heard that he was coming, they changed themselves into crocodiles and hippopotami, so that they might be able to wreck his boat and devour him. as the boat of the god approached them they opened their jaws to crush it, but horus and his followers came quickly on the scene, and defeated their purpose. the followers of horus here mentioned are called in the text "mes

crown. his claws were like flints, and with them he dragged away one hundred and forty-two of the enemy, and tore them in pieces, and dug out their tongues, which he carried off as symbols of his victory. meanwhile rebellion had again broken out in nubia, where about onethird of the enemy had taken refuge in the river in the forms of crocodiles and hippopotami. ra counselled horus to sail up the nile with his blacksmiths, and when thoth had recited the "chapters of protecting the boat of ra" over the boats, the expedition set sail for the south. the object of reciting these spells was to prevent the monsters which were in the river from making the waves to rise and from stirring up storms which might engulf the boats of ra and horus and the blacksmiths. when the rebels and fiends who had

the other world lived. he was the greatest of the gods in on (heliopolis, memphis, herakleopolis, hermopolis, abydos, and the region of the first cataract, and so. he embodied in his own person the might of ra-tem, apis and ptah, the horus-gods, thoth and khnemu, and his rule over busiris and abydos continued to be supreme, as it had been for many, many hundreds of years. he was the source of the nile, the north wind sprang from him, his seats were the stars of heaven which never set, and the imperishable stars were his ministers. all heaven was his dominion, and the doors of the sky opened before him of their own accord when he appeared. he inherited the earth from his father keb, and the sovereignty of heaven from his mother nut. in his person he united endless time in the past and endle

r. maudslay's negatives to dr. brugsch, who in the course of 1891 published a transcript of the text with a german translation and notes in a work entitled die biblischen sieben jahre der hungersnoth, leipzig, 8vo. the legend contained in this remarkable text describes a terrible famine which took place in the reign of tcheser, a king of the iiird dynasty, and lasted for seven years. insufficient nile-floods were, of course, the physical cause of the famine, but the legend shows that the "low niles" were brought about by the neglect of the egyptians in respect of the worship of the god of the first cataract, the great god khnemu. when, according to the legend, king tcheser had been made to believe that the famine took place because men had ceased to worship khnemu in a manner appropriate t

that the "low niles" were brought about by the neglect of the egyptians in respect of the worship of the god of the first cataract, the great god khnemu. when, according to the legend, king tcheser had been made to believe that the famine took place because men had ceased to worship khnemu in a manner appropriate to his greatness, and when he had taken steps to remove the ground of complaint, the nile rose to its accustomed height, the crops became abundant once more, and all misery caused by scarcity of provisions ceased. in other words, when tcheser restored the offerings of khnemu, and re-endowed his sanctuary and his priesthood, the god allowed hapi to pour forth his streams from the caverns in the cataract, and to flood the land with abundance. the general character of the legend, as

hose goods passed down the cataract into egypt. why, if this be the case, they should have chosen to connect the famine with the reign of tcheser is not clear. they may have wished to prove the great antiquity of the worship of khnemu, but it would have been quite easy to select the name of some king of the ist dynasty, and had they done this, they would have made the authority of khnemu over the nile coaeval with dynastic civilization. it is impossible to assume that no great famine took place in egypt between the reign of tcheser and the period when the inscription was made, and when we consider this fact the choice by the editor of the legend of a famine which took place under the iiird dynasty to illustrate the power of khnemu seems inexplicable. of the famines which must have taken pl

e statement that in the 18th year of the reign of king tcheser, when matar, the erpa prince and ha, was the governor of the temple properties of the south and north, and was also the director of the khenti men at elephantine (aswan, a royal despatch was delivered to him, in which the king said "i am in misery on my throne. my heart is very sore because of the calamity which hath happened, for the nile hath not come forth[fn#47] for seven years. there is no grain, there are no vegetables, there is no food, and every man is robbing his neighbour. men wish to walk, but they are unable to move; the young man drags along his limbs, the hearts of the aged are crushed with despair, their legs fail them, they sink to the ground, and they clutch their bodies with their hands in pain. the councillor

of the aged are crushed with despair, their legs fail them, they sink to the ground, and they clutch their bodies with their hands in pain. the councillors are dumb, and nothing but wind comes out of the granaries when they are opened. everything is in a state of ruin" a more graphic picture of the misery caused by the famine could hardly be imagined. the king then goes on to ask matar where the nile is born? what god or goddess presides over it? and what is his [or her] form? he says he would like to go to the temple of thoth to enquire of that god, to go to the college of the magicians, and search through the sacred books in order to find out these things [fn#47] i.e, there have been insufficient nile-floods. when matar had read the despatch, he set out to go to the king, and explained

is [or her] form? he says he would like to go to the temple of thoth to enquire of that god, to go to the college of the magicians, and search through the sacred books in order to find out these things [fn#47] i.e, there have been insufficient nile-floods. when matar had read the despatch, he set out to go to the king, and explained to him the things which he wished to know. he told him that, the nile rose near the city of elephantine, that it flowed out of two caverns, which were the breasts of the nile-god, that it rose to a height of twenty-eight cubits at elephantine, and to the height of seven cubits at sma-behutet, or, diospolis parva in the delta. he who controlled the nile was khnemu, and when this god drew the bolt of the doors which shut in the stream, and smote the earth with hi

the stream, and smote the earth with his sandals, the river rushed forth. matar also described to the king the form of khnemu, which was that of shu, and the work which he did, and the wooden house in which he lived, and its exact position, which was near the famous granite quarries. the gods who dwelt with khnemu were the goddess sept (sothis, or the dog-star, the goddess anqet, hap (or hep, the nile-god, shu, keb, nut, osiris, isis, nephthys, and horus. thus we see that the priests of khnemu made him to be the head of a company of gods. finally matar gave the king a list of all the stones, precious and otherwise, which were found in and about elephantine. when the king, who had, it seems, come to elephantine, heard these things he rejoiced greatly, and he went into the temple of khnemu

shrines of the gods, or in doing what they ought to do for him, their lord and creator. these words were, of course, meant as a rebuke for the king, who evidently, though it is not so stated in the text, was intended by khnemu to undertake the rebuilding of his shrine without delay. the god then went on to proclaim his majesty and power, and declared himself to be nu, the celestial ocean, and the nile-god "who came into being at the beginning, and riseth at his will to give health to him that laboureth for khnemu" he described himself as the father of the gods, the governor of the earth and of men, and then he promised the king to make the nile rise yearly, regularly, and unceasingly, to give abundant harvests, to give all people their heart's desire, to make misery to pass away, to fill t

rage returned to him, and having cast away despair from his heart he issued a decree by which he made ample provision for the maintenance of the worship of the god in a fitting state. in this decree, the first copy of which was cut upon wood, the king endowed khnemu with 20 schoinoi of land on each side of the river, with gardens, etc. it was further enacted that every man who drew water from the nile for his land should contribute a portion of his crops to the god. fishermen, fowlers, and hunters were to pay an octroi duty of one-tenth of the value of their catches when they brought them into the city, and a tithe of the cattle was to be set apart for the daily sacrifice. the masters of caravans coming from the sudan were to pay a tithe also, but they were not liable to any further tax in

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

opied from the other and believes that the witch practice must be the original working before it was 'bowdlerised. the statement that all the systems for the disturbance of consciousness used by african negroes are derived from ancient egypt is extremely interesting, as is the natural suggestion that they took these powers with them to america. in ancient times there was widespread trading up the nile, across and down to the congo. i had always thought of the africans going in for human sacrifices and orgies of rum, methods i believe entirely alien to the egyptian spirit i was told in new orleans that it was not only negroes who attended the voodoo festivals but that many whites went as well. it was well known there that voodoo festivals were often held by the lakeside and bodies of police

lieve that mind has much to do with it, this answer does not satisfy me. superstition is believing without evidence; science is testing a thing and only believing it when you obtain adequate proof. for this reason science is continually and quite rightly changing its views; they may often confuse cause with effect, as when an early egyptian scientist noticed that at the coming of the dog star the nile rose, and, to the great benefit of agriculture, was able to predict the annual flooding. that later on it was discerned that the dog star did not actually cause the floods, but simply rose at the time of the floods, made no difference to this. i think that thousands of years ago some medicine men found that by directing the massed power of mind they got good results in hunting. whether this p

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