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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

. woden finn beaw hathra (itermod) tndhuwald godwulf (folcwald)sceldwa hwala (hathra) freawine (frealaf) geat heremod (sceaf) bedwig (hwala) fndliuwulf tietwa itermon (herem6d)sceaf (bedwig) some accounts contain only four links, otliers eight, others sixteen, stopping either at fridhuwulf, at geat, or at sceaf. sceaf is the oldest heathen name but alter the conversion the line was connected with noah, and so with adam' chaptee viii. donae, thunae (thoee. the god who rules over clouds and rain, who makes himself known in the lightning's flash and the rolling thunder, whose bolt cleaves the sky and alights on the earth with deadly aim, was designated in our ancient speech by the word donar itself, os. tliiinar, as. thunoi\ oist. tlwrr the natural phenomenon is called in ox]?ruma, or duna, b

ccording to yngl. saga cap. 11, these very blessings were believed to proceed from niorsr also' ausigt seni niorsr (rich as n) was a proverbial saying for a wealtliy man, vatnsd. p. 202. snorri, in formali 10, identifies him with saturn, for he instructed mankind in vine-dressing and husbandry; it would be nearer the mark to think of him and freyr in connexion with dionysus or liber, or even with noah, if any stress is to be laid on niors's abode being in noatun. as' freyr' was affixed to other names of heroes (p. 211-2, i find geirniorffr used for a hero in general, siem. 266; conf. geirmimir, geirniflungr &c. the name itself is hard to explain; is it akin to north, as. nors, on. norsr, goth. naur])s? in sa3m. 109^ there is niarslas for sera firma, or pensilis? i have met with no nirdu, n

: ing wyes arrest mid eastdenum gesewen secgum, oc5 he sissan east ofer wfieg gewat. wan aefter ran. j?us heardingas];one hrole nemdon. ing first dwelt with the east danes (conf. beow. 779. 1225. 1650, then he went eastward over the sca^ his wain ran after. the wain 1 pro.ximi oceano ingaevones, medii herniinones, ceteri istaevones vocantur, tac. germ. 2^ cajdm. 88, 8 says of the raven let out of noah's ark: gewat ol'er wonue wa'g sigan. 345 heroes. is a distinctive mark of ancient gods, but also of heroes and kings; its being specially put forward here in connexion with a seavoyage, appears to indicate some feature of the legend that is unknown to us (see suppl. ing's residence in the east is strikingly in harmony with a pedigree of the ynglings given in the islendingabok (isl. sog. 1, 19

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

your candles. some practitioners do not greet the guardians of the watchtowers at all, but instead light each elemental candle in turn, visualising golden energies pouring from each direction into the circle. uriel uriel, whose name means fire of god, is associated with earthquakes, storms and volcanoes and is the archangel of salvation. he is sometimes linked with the courage of mars. he warned noah of the impending flood and led abraham out of ur. believed to have given alchemy to mankind, he also imparted the wisdom of the kabbalah, the book of sacred writings, to hebrew mystics. he stands as wise protector and keeper of the sacred mysteries, hence representing the direction of magick and initiator of all who seek the mysteries. uriel stands in the north and his colour is the deep blue

ABRAMELIN1

unicated unto thine elder brother joseph, after that he had fulfilled the requisite conditions without the accomplishment of which the qabalah and this sacred magic cannot be exercised, and which i will recount in the two following books. afterwards he did manifest unto me the regimen of the mystery of that sacred magic which was exercised and put into practice by our forefathers and progenitors, noah, abraham, jacob, moses, david, and solomon, among whom the last misused it, and he received the punishment thereof during his life. in the second book i will describe the whole faithfully and clearly, in order that if the lord god should wish to dispose of me before that thou shalt have attained a competent age, thou shalt find these three small manuscript books as forming at the same time bo

god before his eyes, and in no way offend him. on the other hand, he must always be upon his guard, and abstain as from a mortal sin from flattering, obeying, regarding, or having respect to the demon, and to his viperine race; neither must he submit himself unto him in the slightest thing, for that would be his ruin and the fatal loss of his soul. as it happened unto all the seed descended from noah, lot, ishmael, and others who did possess the blessed land (before our forefathers) who inherited this wisdom from father to son, from family to family; but in the course of time having lent an ear unto the treacherous enemy, they let themselves be turned away from the veritable path, and did lose the true science which they had received from god by the means of their fathers, and gave themse

ABRAMELIN2

m air, from earth, from fire, from water, from physiognomy, from the hand, from mirrors, from glasses, from birds, from bread, from wine, and even from the very excrements themselves; and yet, however, all this is reputed as science! i exhort you, ye who read, to have the fear of god, and to study justice, because infallibly unto you shall be opened the gate of the true wisdom which god gave unto noah and unto his descendants japhet, abraham, and ishmael; and it was his wisdom that delivered lot from the burning of sodom. moses learned the same wisdom in the desert, from the burning bush, and he taught it unto aaron his brother. joseph, samuel, david, solomon, elijah, and the apostles, and saint john particularly (from whom we hold a most excellent book of prophecy2) possessed it. let ever

fifteenth day of the first of our months, and the latter (beginneth on) the fifteenth day of the seventh month.17 now for this operation, any person of whatever law18 he may be, provided that he confesseth that there is one god,19 may observe these feasts. however, the true time of commencing this operation is the first day after the celebration of the feasts of easter, and this was ordained unto noah, being the most convenient time, and the end falleth just at the (feast of) tabernacles.20 our predecessors have thus observed it, and the angel21 also hath approved it; and also it is more advisable to follow good counsel and example, than to be obstinate and follow one s own caprice; and also to treat the election of a particular day as a pagan idea, paying no regard. whatever either to tim

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

he does not realize that, had she faced it, it would have fled with all the other phantoms. for the sole reality of this universe is god. the old absinthe house is not a place. it is not bounded by four walls. it is headquarters to an army of philosophies. from this dim corner let me range, wafting thought through every air, salient against every problem of mankind: for it will always return like noah's dove to this ark, this strange little sanctuary of the green goddess which has been set down not upon ararat, but by the banks of the "father of waters" vi. ah! the green goddess! what is the fascination that makes her so adorable and so terrible? do you know that french sonnet "la legende de l'absinthe" he must have loved it well, that poet. here are his witnesses. apollon, qui pleurait le

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

very incident in nature, true or false, possesses a spiritual significance. it is this significance, and only this significance, that possesses any philosophical value to the initiate. the orthodox need not be shocked, and the enlightened need not be contemptuous, to learn that the passage which we are about to quote, is a parable based on the least decorous of the biblical legends which refer to noah. it simply captures for its own purposes the convenience of scripture (here follows the excerpt from the vision "and a voice cries: cursed be he that shall uncover the nakedness of the most high, for he is drunken upon the wine that is the blood of the adepts. and babalon hath lulled him to sleep upon her breast, and she hath fled away, and left him naked, and she hath called her children tog

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ch is a rough way of symbolizing the great work; for the doubling of the cube, like the squaring of the circle, was one of the great problems of antiquity. the surface of this altar is composed of ten squares. the top is kether, and the bottom malkuth. the height of the altar is equal to the height above the ground of the navel of the magician. the altar is connected with the ark of the covenant, noah's ark, the nave("navis" a ship) of the church, and many other symbols of antiquity, whose symbolism has been well worked out in an anonymous book called "the cannon<altar. for this altar must embody the magician's knowledge of the laws of nature, which are the laws through whic

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

ings *myncn cash; counted out, paid down *mydwqp high, lofty *mr rubies, gems *mynynp thorn; enclosure *k# 801 signs, tokens tt) also, yea; anger; nose *p) 802 401 2: the reflection of 401, which is t, alpha& omega the assembly (or school, or academy) supernal (refers to a a, the three grades that are above the abyss) hl( ml# hby#y the vengeance of the covenant (lev. 26:25) tyrb mqn an ark (as of noah or of moses) tbt 803 person, self; back, top; wing (ch *pg created [they them (gn. 1:27 *m)rb a bone; to destroy *mrg 804 a wing (army, squadron; a chosen troop *pg) to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649 *mdr 805 the faithful friend *nm)n dwd 806 silent qtw# babalon: the victorious queen (lit. ggate of the gods h; see liber 418 *n(l)b)b zion *nwyc height, altitude *mwr 807 blasp

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

d these with living serpents, and the high priests yet further with feathers or with wings, such being not the spoils of dead birds, but the blossoms of the live gold of the crowns. some tradition of this custom is found in the pictures of the 'gods' of egypt, these gods being merely the atlanteans whose mission civilized the country. the names of some of the earlier gods confirm this. nu (hebrew noah) is atlantean for arch, zu (egyptian shu) for many ideas connecting with wind, asi means 'cum quasi serpens, obviously the name of an actual high priestess. ra is pure atlantean for sun, and 'mse (egyptian chomse) for moon. the idea in 'mse is that of a strong woman('m) closing the mouth of a serpent (s) or dragon, and from this we have the xith card of the bohemian tarot, and the legend in t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

65. for the north-south antithesis see fabre d'olivet's "hermeneutic interpretation of the origin of the social state in man. note "sax" also as a rock, or stone, whence the symbol of the cubical stone, the mountain abiegnus, and so forth. nu is also reflected in naus, ship, etc, and that whole symbolism of hollow space which is familiar to all. there is also a question of identifying nu with on, noah, oannes, jonah, john, dianus, diana, and so on. but these identifications are all partial only, different facets of the diamond truth. we may neglect all these questions, and remain in the simplicity of this her own book. al i,2 "the unveiling of the company of heaven" the old comment 2. this book is a new revelation, or unveiling of the hold ones. the new comment this explains the general th

reat mysteries, with the south and hadit, ada, set, saturn, adonai, attis, adonis; he is even the "jesus, slain with the lance, whose blood is collected in a cup. yet he is also to be identified with the opposite party of the north and nuit, with the "john" slain with the sword, whose flesh is placed upon a disk, in the lesser mysteries, baptizing with water as "jesus" with fire, with on, oannes, noah, and the like. it seems as if this great division, which has wrought such appalling havoc upon the earth, were originally no more than a distinction adopted for convenience. it is indeed the task of this book to reduce theology to the interplay of the dyad nuith and hadith, these being themselves conceived as complementary, as two equivalent to naught "divided for lvoe's sake, for the chance

bours do well to assist one who is weak by accident or misfortune, if he wishes to recover. but it is a crime against the state and against the individuals in question to hinder the gambler, the drunkard, the voluptuary, the congenital defective, from drifting to death, unless they prove by their own dogged determination to master their circumstances, that they are fit to pull their weight in the noah's ark of mankind. al ii,73 "ah! ah! death! death! thou shalt long for death. death is forbidden, o man, unto thee" the old comment 73. yet death is forbidden: work, i suppose, must be done before it is earned; its splendour will increase with the years that it is longed for. the new comment there is a connection between death, sleep and our lady nuit (this is worked out, on profane lines, by

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

thomas henrey huxley) science and buddhism 85 acter and mental attainments of the speaker, but here i have nothing to do with what is uncertain.1 there is an excellent test for the value of any passage in a buddhist book. we are, i think, justified in discarding passages which are clearly oriental fiction, just as modern criticism, however secretly theistic, discards the story of hasisadra or of noah. in justice to buddhism, let us not charge its scripture with the sisyphean task of seriously upholding the literal interpretation of obviously fantastic passages.2 may our buddhist zealots be warned by the fate of old-fashioned english orthodoxy! but when buddhism condescends to be vulgarly scientific; to observe, to classify, to think; i conceive we may take the matter seriously, and accord

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 3

trumpery tin pantheon of aunt sallies which our courtesy calls "literary gents" one of the most striking figures is a certain lame duck that suggests a mixed ancestry of brigand manqu and the ghost in the bab ballads. historically, too, the subject has its advantage, for not only does the work of weary willie suggest primal chaos, but himself recalls the flood. he seems to have desired to emulate noah, but the modern tendency to specialisation has led him to confine his attentions to the insect world, and the remarkable jumping qualities of some of his specimens have their correspondence in the metre of those treacly emulsions which it is our present purpose to study. come with me! behold the scene of action. what? you can see nothing? of course not. it's out of focus, and the limelight is

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

lantean civilisation to an abrupt end after a long period of chaos and disaster. this took place through the medium of a culminating catastrophe which wiped hundreds of thousands of human beings off the face of the earth. this historical event has been preserved for us in the universal legend of the great flood. those who survived are symbolically spoken of in the bible as those who were saved in noah's ark, and in the ancient writings it is expressed in the following terms "like as a dragon snake uncoils slowly its body, so the sons of men, led on by the sons of wisdom, opened their folds and spreading out like a running stream of sweet waters. many of the faint- hearted among them perished on their way. but most were saved" a close study of the tale as given in the secret doctrine will r

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

who is above all of them. and because of the chain of forgetfulness, their sins were hidden. for they are bound with measures and times and moments, since it (fate) is lord over everything "and he (the chief archon) repented for everything which had come into being through him. this time he planned to bring a flood upon the work of man. but the greatness of the light of the foreknowledge informed noah, and he proclaimed (it) to all the offspring which are the sons of men. but those who were strangers to him did not listen to him. it is not as moses said 'they hid themselves in an ark (gn 7: 7, but they hid themselves in a place, not only noah, but also many other people from the immovable race. they went into a place and hid themselves in a luminous cloud. and he (noah) recognized his auth

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

o 1778; and even now the list is not exhausted. the explanation of this influence through all its period and everywhere is (i) that which lay behind the romantic thesis of ramsay, as shown by his work on the philosophical principles of natural and revealed religionmystery of hidden knowledge perpetuated in the east from the days of noah and the flood (2) that which lay behind, as already mentioned, the talismanic attraction exercised on masonic minds in the eighteenth century by the name of knights templar, because the church had accused them. they had learned strange things in the east: for some it corresponded to the view of ramsay, for others to occult knowledge on the side of magic, and for the chapter of clermont to alc

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

orge smith in his "chaldean account of genesis "the word adam used in these legends for the first human being is evidently not a proper name, but is only used as a term for mankind. adam appears as a proper name in genesis, but certainly in some passages is only used in the same sense as the assyrian word (p. 86. moreover, neither the chaldean nor the biblical deluge (the stories of xisuthrus and noah) is based on the universal or even on the atlantean deluges, recorded in the indian allegory of vaivaswata manu. they are the exoteric allegories based on the esoteric mysteries of samothrace. if the older chaldees knew the esoteric truth concealed in the puranic legends, the other nations were aware only of the samothracian mystery, and allegorised it. they adapted it to their astronomical a

d by some with palenque. in the seven caves* from which the ancestors of the nahuatl are reported to have emerged. in the seven cities of cibola, described by coronado and niza. in the seven antilles; in the seven heroes who, we are told, escaped the deluge "heroes" moreover, whose number is found the same in every "deluge" story- from the seven rishis who were saved with vaivasvata manu, down to noah's ark, into which beasts, fowls, and living creatures were taken by "sevens" thus we see the figures 1, 3, 5, 7, as perfect, because thoroughly mystic, numbers playing a prominent part in every cosmogony and evolution of living beings. in china, 1, 3, 5, 7, are called "celestial numbers" in the canonical "book of changes (yi king, or transformation, as in "evolution. the explanation of it bec

id four yugas constitute a maha yuga. 4,320,000 seventy-one of such maha-yugas form the period of the reign of one manu. 306,720,000 the reign of 14 manus embraces the duration of 994 maha-yugas, which is equal to. 4,294,080,000[[footnote(s* vaivasvata manu is the one human being- some versions add to him the seven rishis- who in the matsya avatar allegory is saved from the deluge in a boat, like noah in the ark. therefore, this vaivasvata manvantara would be the "post-diluvian" period. this, however, does not refer to the later "atlantean" or noah's deluge, nor to the cosmic deluge or pralaya of obscuration, which preceded our round, but to the appearance of mankind in the latter round. there is a great difference made, however, between the "naimitika" occasional or incidental "prakritika

tis, beginning with ruta and daitya and ending with the (comparatively) small island mentioned by plato. this is shown by the agreement of certain details in all the legends. it was the last of its gigantic character. the little deluge, the traces of which baron bunsen found in central asia, and which he places at about 10,000 years b.c, had nothing to do with either the semi-universal deluge, or noah's flood- the latter being a purely mythical rendering of old traditions- nor even with the submersion of the last atlantean island; at least, only a moral connection. our fifth race (the non-initiated portions, hearing of many deluges, confused them, and now know of but one. this one altered the whole aspect of the globe in its interchange and shifting of land and sea. we may compare the trad

but one. this one altered the whole aspect of the globe in its interchange and shifting of land and sea. we may compare the traditions of the peruvians "the incas, seven in number, have repeopled the earth after the deluge" they say (coste i, iv, p. 19; humboldt mentions the mexican version of the same legend, but confuses somewhat the details of the still-preserved legend concerning the american noah. nevertheless, the eminent naturalist mentions twice seven companions and the divine bird which preceded the boat of the aztecs, and thus makes fifteen elect instead of the seven and the fourteen. this was written probably under some involuntary reminiscence of moses, who is said to have mentioned fifteen grandsons of noah, who escaped with their grandsire. then again xisuthrus, the chaldean

makes the aletae or titans (the kabirim) contemporary[[footnote(s "smithsonian contributions to knowledge" xviii "american journal of science" iii, xi, 456; and croll's "climate and time" lemuria was not submerged by a flood, but was destroyed by volcanic action, and afterwards sank[[vol. 2, page] 142 the secret doctrine. with agruerus, the great phoenician god (whom faber sought to identify with noah; further, it is suspected that the name of "titan" is derived from tit-ain "the fountains of the chaotic abyss (tit-theus, or tityus is "the divine deluge; and thus the titans, who are seven, are shown to be connected with the flood and the seven rishis saved by vaivasvata manu* they are the sons of kronos (time) and rhea (the earth; and as agruerus, saturn and sydyk are one and the same pers

of the kabirs, the titans, the rishis, and the noetic family, is too striking to be the effect of mere accident* faber was led into this mistake, and subsequently built his entire theory concerning the kabiri, on the fact that the name of the scriptural[[footnote(s* agruerus is kronos, or saturn, and the prototype of the israelitish jehovah. as connected with argha, the moon or ark of salvation, noah is mythologically one with saturn. but then this cannot relate to the terrestrial flood (but see faber's "kabiri" vol. i, pp. 35, 43, and 45* see ibid, vol. ii, p. 240* sanchoniathon says that the titans were the sons of kronos, and seven in number; and he calls them fireworshippers, aletae (sons of agni, and diluvians. al-ait is the god of fire* of which seven, let us remark, the aryans, and

names of the seven "arkite" titans (whom faber refuses to identify with the impious titans, their descendants) were koeus, kroeus, phorcys, kronos, oceanus, hyperion, and iapetus[[koion te, kroion te melan, phorkun te krataion, kai kronon, okeanon d 'huperioa te iapeponet (orph. apud proclum. in tim. lib. v. p. 295. but why could not the babylonian ezra have adopted the name of iapetos for one of noah's sons? the kabiri, who are the titans, are also called manes and their mother mania, according to arnobius (adversum gentes, lib. iii, p. 124) the hindus can therefore claim with far more reason that the manes mean their manus, and that mania is the female manu (see ramayana) mania is ila or ida, the wife and daughter of vaivasvata manu, from whom "he begat the race of manus" like rhea, the

accident, but the result of one archaic doctrine common to all, of which the israelites, through ezra, the author of the modernised mosaic books, were the latest adapters. so unceremonious were they with other people's property, that berosus (antiquitates libyae, i, fol. 8, shows that titea- of whom diodorus makes the mother of the titans or diluvians (see bibl. lib. iii. p. 170- was the wife of noah. for this faber calls him the "pseudo-berosus" yet accepts the information in order to register one proof more that the pagans have borrowed all their gods from the jews, by transforming patriarchal material. according to our humble opinion, this is one of the best proofs possible of exactly the reverse. it shows as clearly as facts can show, that it is the biblical pseudo-personages which ar

rwards called aretia* and worshipped with the earth; and this[[footnote(s* aretia is the female form of artes (egyptian mars. thence the chaldean (and now hebrew) word[[hebrew (aretz "earth" the author of "beitrage zur kenntniss (art. under "artes" mars) quotes "addit cedrenus (salem i, 3: stella martis ab[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 144 the secret doctrine. identifies "titea" noah's consort, with rhea, the mother of the titans, and with ida- both being goddesses who preside over the earth, and the mothers of the manus and manes (or tit-an-kabiri. and "titea-aretia" was worshipped as horchia, says the same berosus, and this is a title of vesta, goddess of the earth "sicanus deificavit aretiam, et nominavit eam lingua janigena horchiam (ibid. lib. v. fol. 64) scarce an a

rs in theogony, to pre-cosmic transformations, to spiritual correlations- however absurd the term may sound to a scientific ear- and also to subsequent cosmogony; to the great flood of waters (matter) in chaos, awakened and fructified by those spirit-rays which were swamped by, and perished in, the mysterious differentiation- a pre-cosmic mystery, the prologue to the drama of being. anu, bel, and noah preceded adam kadmon, adam the red, and noah; just as brahma, vishnu, and siva preceded vaivasvata and the rest (see "isis unveiled" vol. ii, pp. 420 et seq, where one or two of the seven meanings are hinted at) all this goes to show that the semi-universal deluge known to geology (first glacial period) must have occurred just at the time allotted to it by the secret doctrine: namely, 200,000

ntem atque procreantem" it is earth as "source of being; or, as explained by the author of "the source of measures" arts is the same in hebrew and egyptian, and both combine the primeval idea of earth as source; precisely as in the hebrew itself, under another form, adam and madim (mars) are the same, and combine the idea of earth with adam under the form of h-adam-h[[vol. 2, page] 145 the jewish noah and the chaldean nuah. orbit" and as the secret doctrine attributes it to the same source, but with the addition of another factor, the shifting of the earth's axis- a proof of which may be found in the book of enoch* if the veiled language of the puranas is not understood- all this should tend to show that the ancients knew something of the "modern discoveries" of science. enoch, when speaki

er factor, the shifting of the earth's axis- a proof of which may be found in the book of enoch* if the veiled language of the puranas is not understood- all this should tend to show that the ancients knew something of the "modern discoveries" of science. enoch, when speaking of "the great inclination of the earth" which "is in travail" is quite significant and clear. is not this evident? nuah is noah, floating on the waters in his ark; the latter being the emblem of the argha, or moon, the feminine principle; noah is the "spirit" falling into matter. we find him, as soon as he descends upon the earth, planting a vineyard, drinking of the wine, and getting drunk on it, i.e, the pure spirit becomes intoxicated as soon as it is finally imprisoned in matter. the seventh chapter of genesis is

ing of the wine, and getting drunk on it, i.e, the pure spirit becomes intoxicated as soon as it is finally imprisoned in matter. the seventh chapter of genesis is only another version of the first. thus, while the latter reads "and darkness was upon the face of the deep. and the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters" in ch. 7 it is said. and the waters prevailed. and the ark went (with noah, the spirit) upon the face of the waters" thus noah, if identical with the chaldean nuah, is the spirit vivifying matter, which latter is chaos, represented by the deep, or the waters of the flood. in the babylonian legend (the pre-cosmical blended with the terrestrial event) it is ishtar (astaroth or venus, the lunar goddess) who is shut up in the ark and sends out "a dove in search of dry l

ial spirits, these dhyanis were not always good. their king thevetata was one of the latter, and it is under the evil influence of this king-demon that. the atlantis-race became a nation of wicked magicians "in consequence of this, war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in the disfigured allegories of the race of cain, the giants, and that of noah and his righteous family. the conflict came to an end by the submersion of the atlantis, which finds its imitation in the stories of the babylonian and mosaic flood. the giants and magicians. and all flesh died. and every man' all except xisuthrus and noah, who are substantially identical with the great father of the thhnkithians in the popol-vuh, or the sacred book of the guatemaleans, which

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

al solvent for every identification and "connection" between[[footnote(s* see max muller's "introduction to the science of religion" lecture on false analogies in comparative theology, pp. 288 and 296 et seq. this relates to the clever forgery (on leaves inserted in old puranic mss, in correct and archaic sanskrit, of all that the pundits of col. wilford had heard from him about adam and abraham, noah and his three sons, etc, etc[[vol. 1, page] xxxii introductory. the gods of many nations. thus, though the mother of mercury (budha, thot-hermes, etc, was maia, the mother of buddha (gautama, also maya, and the mother of jesus, likewise maya (illusion, for mary is mare, the sea, the great illusion symbolically- yet these three characters have no connection, nor can they have any, since bopp

rahmana and others. the japanese secret science of the buddhist mystics, the yamabooshi, has "seven precious things" we will speak of them, hereafter[[vol. 1, page] 68 the secret doctrine. manu- both preceding vaivasvata's "deluge" that of the bulk of the fourth race- mention this deluge, it is evident that it is not the "great" deluge, nor that which carried away atlantis, nor even the deluge of noah, which is meant here. this "churning" relates to a period before the earth's formation, and is in direct connection with that other universal legend, the various and contradictory versions of which culminated in the christian dogma of the "war in heaven" and the fall of the angels (see book ii, also revelations chap. xii. the brahmanas, reproached by the orientalists with their versions on th

metry, and would not be accepted by strict mathematicians. whether the archaic esoteric system originated the british inch or not, is of little consequence, however, to the strict and true metaphysician. nor does mr. ralston skinner's esoteric reading of the bible become incorrect, merely because the measurements of the pyramid will not be found to agree with those of solomon's temple, the ark of noah, etc; or because mr. parker's quadrature of the circle is rejected by mathematicians. for mr. skinner's reading depends first of all on the kabalistic methods and the rabbinical value of the hebrew letters. but it is extremely important to ascertain whether the measures used in the evolution and building of the aryan symbolic religion, in the construction of their temples, the figures given i

v, 1, 2, 3; lxxvii, 1. with the greeks the orphic egg is described by aristophanes, and was part of the dionysiac and other mysteries, during which[[vol. 1, page] 360 the secret doctrine. the mundane egg was consecrated and its significance explained; porphyry showing it a representation of the world[[ermenenei de to oon kosmon. faber and bryant have tried to show that the egg typified the ark of noah, which, unless the latter is accepted as purely allegorical and symbolical, is a wild belief. it can have typified the ark only as a synonym of the moon, the argha which carries the universal seed of life; but had surely nothing to do with the ark of the bible. anyhow, the belief that the universe existed in the beginning in the shape of an egg was general. and as wilson has it "a similar acc

116; according to bentley, 575 b.c! we may hope, perhaps, that before the end of this century, the mahabharatean epics will be found and proclaimed identical with the wars of the great napoleon[[vol. 1, page] 370 the secret doctrine. the world beyond which nobody can go" and "immediately after the flood (see royal asiat. soc, vol. 9, p. 364) we know of no "flood" 3,102 years b.c- not even that of noah, for, agreeably with judaeo-christian chronology, it took place 2,349 years b.c. this relates to an esoteric division of time and a mystery explained elsewhere, and may therefore be left aside for the present. suffice to remark at this juncture that all the efforts of imagination of the wilfords, bentleys, and other would-be oedipuses of esoteric hindu chronology have sadly failed. no computa

symbol and surrounds it- as shown in the hindu, the egyptian, the chaldeo-hebrew and even the scandinavian systems- hence black ravens, black doves, black waters and even black flames; the seventh tongue of agni, the fire-god being called "kali "the black" as it was a black flickering flame. two black doves flew from egypt and settling on the oaks of dodona, gave their names to the grecian gods. noah lets out a black raven after the deluge, which is a symbol for the cosmic pralaya, after which began the real creation or evolution of our earth and humanity. odin's black ravens fluttered around the goddess saga and "whispered to her of the past and of the future" what is the real meaning of all those black birds? they are all connected with the primeval wisdom, which flows out of the pre-co

genesis, with its prepositional prefix, signifying the same concreted general form[[vol. 1, page] 444 the secret doctrine. astronomically, with the one here intended" now the secret reading of the first verse of genesis being "in rash (b'rash) or head, developed gods, the heavens and the earth- it is easy to comprehend the esoteric meaning of the raven, once that the like meaning of the flood (or noah's deluge) is ascertained. whatever the many other meanings of this emblematical allegory may be, its chief meaning is that of a new cycle and a new round (our fourth round* the "raven" or the eth-h'orebv, yields the same numerical value as the "head" and returned not to the ark, while the dove returned, carrying the olive-branch, when noah, the new man of the new race (whose prototype is vaiv

value as the "head" and returned not to the ark, while the dove returned, carrying the olive-branch, when noah, the new man of the new race (whose prototype is vaivasvata manu, prepared to leave the ark, the womb (or argha) of terrestrial nature, is the symbol of the purely spiritual, sexless and androgyne man of the first three races, who vanished from earth for ever. numerically jehovah, adam, noah, are one in the kabala: at best, then, it is deity descending on to ararat (later on sinai, to incarnate in man his image, through the natural process, henceforth: the mother's womb, whose symbols are the ark, the mount (sinai, etc, in genesis. the jewish allegory is at once astronomical, and purely physiological rather than anthropomorphic. and here lies the abyss between the two systems (ar

l cause being absolutely incognizable "the symbol of its first comprehensible manifestation was the conception of a circle with its diameter line, so as at once to carry the idea of geometry, phallicism, and astronomy" and this was finally applied to the "signification of simply human generative organs* hence the whole cycle of events[[footnote(s* bryant is right in saying "druid bardesin says of noah that when he came out of the ark (the birth of a new cycle, after a stay therein of a year and a day, that 364+ 1= 365 days, he was congratulated by neptune upon his birth from the waters of the flood, who wished him a happy new year" the "year" or cycle, esoterically, was the new race of men born from woman after the separation of the sexes, which is the secondary meaning of the allegory: it

lood, who wished him a happy new year" the "year" or cycle, esoterically, was the new race of men born from woman after the separation of the sexes, which is the secondary meaning of the allegory: its primary meaning being the beginning of the fourth round, or the new creation* unpubl. mss (but see "source of measures[[vol. 1, page] 445 god is our higher self. from adam and the patriarchs down to noah is made to apply to phallic and astronomical uses, the one regulating the other, as the lunar periods, for instance. hence, too, their genesis begins after their coming out of the ark, and the close of the flood- at the fourth race. with the aryan people it is different. eastern esotericism has never degraded the one infinite deity, the container of all things, to such uses; and this is shown

rs of the firmament that the messiah would be born in the lunar year of the world 4320, in that memorable year when the entire choir of the planets would be feasting its jubilee" there was indeed a rage, at the beginning of the present century, for claiming from the hindus restoration of an alleged robbery from the jews of their "gods" patriarchs, and chronology. it was wilford who had recognized noah in prithee and in satyavrata, enos in dhruva, and even assur in iswara. yet, after being residents for so many years in india, some orientalists, at least, ought to have known that it was not the hindus alone who had these figures, or who had divided their great age into four minor ages. nevertheless writers in the asiatic researches indulged in the most extravagant speculations "christian th

BOOK OF ENOCH

ntents introduction history of the book of enoch condition of the text the book (1) the blessing of enoch (2) god's laws (3) rebels amongst the watchers (4) the most high of the watchers speaks out (5) enoch meets the holy watchers (6) the book of reproof (7) enoch stays for a while with the watchers (8) the angels who keep watch (9) the fragrant trees (10) the book of methuselah (11) the book of noah (12) the book of parables (13) the storehouses (14) the revolutions of the lights (15) enoch's letter to methuselah (16) the law of the stars (17) enoch's first vision (18) prophecy of the animals (19) prophecy of the ten weeks (20) enoch's message of guidance references and further reading introduction the ethiopic book of enochoxford university pressi first heard about the book of enoch a f

s with women. i don t believe this is the sort of world view that would have been well received or widely accepted anywhere in 200 bc. this plus the all too accurate prophecies are probably the reasons why it was lost by the religions that used to regard it as holy. i concluded that the book is probably what it appears to be; well preserved, ancient and genuine. enoch was the great-grandfather of noah, and father of methuselah, and his book gives a unique view of the world before the flood; which recent research suggests may have occurred as long ago as 17,000 bc. the history of the book of enoch the book was thought to have been lost, for over 2,000 years, with many ancient sources referring to it, and even quoting parts, but no complete copies were known. then in 1773, james bruce brough

pies were known. then in 1773, james bruce brought three copies back from ethiopia, having spent some years exploring the country. enoch had two main reasons for writing his book. the first was because the watchers instructed him to do it (see section 15 at 81.5 and 81.6. the second reason; was to save his family from the flood. enoch wrote his book, after his grandson lamech was born, but before noah was born. noah is only named in the section that methuselah wrote (see section 10 at 107.3, and of course in his own section (section 11, the book of noah. so, there may still have been 40- 80 years left before the flood, at the time when enoch wrote his book. there is a long gap between the time of the flood and the time when moses gave praise to enoch in genesis. genesis dates from around 1

roved of. condition of the text i believe the text to be in good condition generally. it seems to be almost complete, with a beginning and an end, and it is self-consistent. even more significant is the way that enoch's character and style of writing are still apparent. the only parts that i suspect were written by different authors i have separated out, as the book of methuselah, and the book of noah (chapters 10& 11. the translation by michael knibb, into english, is very good, and i have had to do very little to the text in order to change it from a good translation into clear english. i have added quite a lot of punctuation and improved the presentation, but i have made only very minor changes to the text (such as substituting before with in front of where appropriate. in a few places

of repetition. this has helped to preserve the book through many translations. there are a few places, even so, where there are problems. i have marked these with dots) where some words seem to have been lost. fortunately, there are not many of these, and nothing important appears to be missing. i did find a few translocations in the text: 1. methuselah's book had been inserted near the back, 2. noah's book and the storehouses had been inserted into the third parable. 3. part of the prophecy of the ten weeks was in the wrong order. i have kept the ethiopian chapter and verse numbers, in all cases, so that my changes to the order of presentation can easily be seen. i have split the book into sections- where there seems to be a natural break, and given each one a title. i inserted noah and

t the book into sections- where there seems to be a natural break, and given each one a title. i inserted noah and methuselah s works into the middle- where there seems to be a major break in enoch s book. the first section of enoch is mainly the story of what occurred whereas the second part is mainly written from the notes that enoch took while he was with the watchers. additionally, the end of noah s short book conveniently serves as an introduction to enoch s book of parables. andy mccracken (august 2002) the book of enoch 1) the blessing of enoch book from the ashes of angelsthe main theme is that of destruction; god is going to clear away the sinners, so that good people can have peace. this is the flood of noah which was still some way off when enoch wrote the book, although there a

home. some background details do emerge later in the book. at 106.13 (section 10, we learn that the runaways came to enoch's area in his father's day. enoch is a scribe, see 12.4, and he says that it was the angels who introduced writing. so, enoch was probably taught to write, and employed, by the runaway angels. at 10.1-3, the most high instructs an angel to save the son of lamech (this will be noah) from the flood. this is interesting, because besides prophesying details of the flood, and its timing, it reveals that this was written at a time when enoch is a grandfather (of lamech, but he does not yet know what lamech's son will be called. if the runaways were young in enoch's father s day, then they are probably at least 10 years older than enoch and maybe more. so, it is likely that t

less him forever! 10) the book of methuselah (pages 46-48) this short section has many interesting features. the story is set some years later. methuselah is now head of the family (since enoch went off to live with the angels (see 81.6, a year after he wrote the book. methuselah's son lamech is now grown up, and his first son is born. at 106.2, we get a description of the child who will be named noah. it seems he had white or blonde hair, a red birthmark, and perhaps blue eyes. even more surprising, at 106.5, we learn that this is what the watchers look like. if some of the wives of enoch's family were descended from the runaways, then lamech could easily have had an unexpectedly blonde-haired child. lamech is disturbed about his baby's unusual appearance, and goes to see methuselah. this

s disturbed about his baby's unusual appearance, and goes to see methuselah. this section seems to have been written by methuselah, to reassure his son about the birth, written as though a reply from enoch himself. methuselah claims he went and spoke to enoch, but i suspect that this is just a device, in order to give enough authority to the message, so that lamech can be reassured. the naming of noah at 107.3 is interesting, since it links the name to the word comfort. noah still sounds like the hebrew word for comfort, and a similar story is told at genesis 5:29. 106.1] and after those days my son methuselah chose a wife for his son lamech and she became pregnant by him and bore a son. 106.2] and his body was white like snow, and red like the flower of a rose, and the hair of his head wa

earth, and his three sons will be saved with him. when all the men who are on the earth die he and his sons will be saved. 106.17] they will beget on the earth giants, not of spirit, but of flesh, and there will be great wrath on earth, and the earth will be cleansed of all corruption. 106.18] and now make known to your son lamech that the one who has been born is truly his son. and call his name noah, for he will be a remnant for you and he and his sons will be saved from the destruction which is coming on the earth because of all the sin and all the iniquity, which will be committed on the earth in his days. 106.19] but after this, there will be yet greater iniquity than that which was committed on the earth before. for i know the mysteries of the holy ones, for the lord showed them to m

destroyed, and sin shall depart from the earth, and everything good shall come upon it. 107.2] and now, my son, go, make known to your son lamech, that this child that has been born, is truly his son, and this is no lie. 107.3] and when methuselah had heard the words of his father enoch- for he showed him everything which is secret- he returned, having seen him, and called the name of that child noah; for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction. 11) the book of noah (pages 50-53) noah's book was probably written when he was the head of the family and like methuselah he claims to speak with enoch. he seems to have written this before the flood; and once again there are some interesting details. the most important passage is at 67.2. this indicates that the boat is being constru

earth after all the destruction. 11) the book of noah (pages 50-53) noah's book was probably written when he was the head of the family and like methuselah he claims to speak with enoch. he seems to have written this before the flood; and once again there are some interesting details. the most important passage is at 67.2. this indicates that the boat is being constructed at the time of writing. noah may have written this piece in order to persuade his sons to come and live with him, inside "the wooden structure. noah may not have seen a boat like this before, and perhaps was not sure what to call it. there seems to be a background of unusual geological events. at the beginning, 65.1, noah says the earth has tilted, later, at 67.11, he says the hot springs became cold. this does fit with

ning, 65.1, noah says the earth has tilted, later, at 67.11, he says the hot springs became cold. this does fit with the theories of charles hapgood in his book the path of the pole where he suggests that the huge ice melt (that probably caused the flood) occurred when the poles shifted- perhaps due to an impact from space. the north pole shifted from hudson s bay to its present position. at 65.3 noah says the earth is afflicted and shaken and he does seem quite alarmed by it. there is also talk of molten metal and a smell of sulphur, 67.6, but this may be pollution from the metalworking described at 65.7. production of metals, and weapons, may have become quite large scale by noah's time. 65.1] and in those days, noah saw the earth had tilted and that its destruction was near. 65.2] and h

olten metal and a smell of sulphur, 67.6, but this may be pollution from the metalworking described at 65.7. production of metals, and weapons, may have become quite large scale by noah's time. 65.1] and in those days, noah saw the earth had tilted and that its destruction was near. 65.2] and he set off from there and went to the ends of the earth and cried out to his great-grandfather enoch; and noah said three times in a bitter voice "hear me, hear me, hear me" 65.3] and he said to him "tell me, what is it that is being done on the earth, that the earth is so afflicted and shaken, lest i be destroyed with it" 65.4] and immediately there was a great disturbance on the earth and a voice was heard from heaven and i fell upon my face. 65.5] and my great-grandfather enoch came, stood by me, a

earth, in order to bring judgment and destruction on all those who reside and dwell upon the dry ground. 66.2] and the lord of spirits commanded the angels who were coming out, not to raise their hands, but to keep watch; for those angels were in charge of the forces of the waters. 66.3] and i came out from before enoch. 67.1] and in those days, the word of the lord came to me, and he said to me "noah, behold; your lot has come up before me, a lot without reproach, a lot of love and uprightness. 67.2] and now the angels are making a wooden structure, and when the angels come out from that task, i will put my hand on it, and keep it safe. and a change shall take place so that the dry ground may not remain empty. 67.3] and i will establish your offspring before me, forever and ever, and i wi

BOOK OF JASHAR

irrel could run from sea to sea without touching the ground. then the whole world was like a garden in the sight of god. the cold years came, and ice flowed over the north. god watched as the great glaciers slowly melted back, and then looked again for the humanites under the trees. and god was angered, for they were still hunting and gathering just as they had in the time of seth. then god found noah, in the land between the two rivers. 4. noah was the daughter of zelophehad, the wife of tubalcain, and the mother of shem, ham, and jafet. at night, while her family slept, noah talked to god. then god told noah to leave the forest and go up into the mountains "make disks of wood, two by two, and set rods through their centers. lay a sled four cubits long across the rods, and put all that yo

and set rods through their centers. lay a sled four cubits long across the rods, and put all that you possess on the sled. then go with your family up to the high slopes of mount ararat. for the forests below are to be destroyed by a great flood which will cover all the lands of the world" to raise the sea level over all land would require more water than then existed in the oceans of the world. noah knew that her family would wonder how more water could be made. so she asked whether god's plan would deviate from the natural laws, which had guided the universe since the beginning, and she got no answer. but tubalcain faithfully made the cart to carry their tents and the younger children. no one knew the way to mount ararat, and so they followed a dove for forty days and forty nights, unti

hfully made the cart to carry their tents and the younger children. no one knew the way to mount ararat, and so they followed a dove for forty days and forty nights, until it came to rest on an olive tree in a field of wheat, high above the valley. and there they stayed, waiting for the flood. in their first winter on the mountain, they had no food, except for the wheat. but god put a blessing on noah's porridge, and tubalcain set out to enlarge the field. with torch and axe he cut the brush, and in the spring they scattered their last grains over the clearing. by autumn, the rain and sun had brought them a rich harvest. when noah's sons grew up, they found wives from the surrounding forest and moved down the mountain. shem left with ishtar and cleared the bottom land to the south. then ha

the clearing. by autumn, the rain and sun had brought them a rich harvest. when noah's sons grew up, they found wives from the surrounding forest and moved down the mountain. shem left with ishtar and cleared the bottom land to the south. then ham and dravidia cleared a farm to the east, and jafet and juropa settled land to the west. they raised many children on the bounty of their fields, while noah prayed each day for the safekeeping of the world. noah lived long into the years of her great-grandchildren. once, after a day of rain, she walked up her mountain and surveyed the green fields which stretched in all directions. then she understood that the laws that god gave at the beginning would never be forsaken. for noah saw, under the rainbow, that the forest was being destroyed by her o

ren. once, after a day of rain, she walked up her mountain and surveyed the green fields which stretched in all directions. then she understood that the laws that god gave at the beginning would never be forsaken. for noah saw, under the rainbow, that the forest was being destroyed by her own family, which was spreading as a flood over the land. 5. nimrod was the mightiest hunter in the age after noah. he shared his booty with other landless men, and he taught them loyalty by his stories of the jinn, who strove before the world was made. then nimrod triumphed, and with his two hands he settled all disputes among the noahites. for nimrod knew that a united people could do great deeds before god. but when nimrod grew old, he heard young men grumbling, and he felt evil eyes from the children

sing god as a literary character might in some ways limit and weaken our modern fictional literature. but why should anyone use god as a character in a story, if it puts readers on their guard and evokes images of the doctrines that launched a hundred religious wars? it would not be hard to rewrite the narrative without mentioning god "at god's first word" becomes "at first "god put a blessing on noah's porridge" becomes "noah's porridge was remarkably good" etc. but including god in the story serves as an effective literary device for expressing the fundamental importance of events. god serves as a thread that ties specific events into the grand scheme of the infinite universe, and that allows the author to express the importance of events in this scheme. by telling us how god is intimate

in the story serves as an effective literary device for expressing the fundamental importance of events. god serves as a thread that ties specific events into the grand scheme of the infinite universe, and that allows the author to express the importance of events in this scheme. by telling us how god is intimately connected both with the origin of the infinite universe and with the porridge that noah served her family, the author helps us to realize the enormous significance of noah's fateful porridge, which was the first fuel of the agricultural revolution. to make these connections, the story needs god and it needs to begin at creation. that is, the purpose of a creation story is not to explain where the universe came from, because saying that god made the universe only begs the questio

vine intervention, virtually at the quantum-mechanical level, god creates a spark, at the right place and the right time, to stimulate the birth of humanity. there is an obvious contrast between this spark and the original explosion that was called forth by god's first word. after creation, god's interventions are shifted in scale from cosmic to microscopic, as will be confirmed by the promise to noah. eve and human are ready to accept this gift of fire, and they immediately begin learning to use it, but their companions faben and flo are not ready and they flee. as in genesis, flaming swords mark the division between animal innocence and human sophistication, but here the direction of the swords is reversed. in genesis, the angels wield flaming swords to drive adam and eve away from the g

ns again, but they are frustratingly difficult to find in the vast wilderness of trees. their technological backwardness has made them almost insignificant in the forests. so god is angry and impatient for the agricultural revolution to begin. thus, in this story, technological stagnation (rather than some moral depravity or injustice) is the source of god's anger at the beginning of the story of noah. recalling the introductory creation sequence in section 1 may give us some clues as to why god should be so dissatisfied with the paleolithic world of forests. as the setting for a story, a world dominated by trees would probably be much less interesting than a world dominated by animals; and a world dominated by humans should have the greatest potential of all for a good story, because of t

h less interesting than a world dominated by animals; and a world dominated by humans should have the greatest potential of all for a good story, because of the human abilities to hope and dream and to distinguish good and evil. to achieve dominance of the world, however, the humans must change from predators to herbivores, that is, from hunters to farmers, and the forests must be decimated anew. noah is introduced here as the agent whom god has selected to bring about this transformation of humanity, and the consequent reversal of peoples' relationship with the forests. 4. the book of numbers (26.33) tells us that a woman named noah was one of the daughters of zelophehad, who set a legal precedent for women's rights to inherit property. in the jashar manuscript, the daughter of zelophehad

duced here as the agent whom god has selected to bring about this transformation of humanity, and the consequent reversal of peoples' relationship with the forests. 4. the book of numbers (26.33) tells us that a woman named noah was one of the daughters of zelophehad, who set a legal precedent for women's rights to inherit property. in the jashar manuscript, the daughter of zelophehad becomes the noah of the flood. confusing these two noahs would be less likely in hebrew, where their names are spelt differently. according to genesis 4.22, tubal-cain was a maker of metal tools, his parents were lamech and zillah, and his sister was naamah. but chapter 4 of genesis lists naamah at the end of an eight-generation genealogical sequence that is almost the same as the sequence that ends at noah i

re their names are spelt differently. according to genesis 4.22, tubal-cain was a maker of metal tools, his parents were lamech and zillah, and his sister was naamah. but chapter 4 of genesis lists naamah at the end of an eight-generation genealogical sequence that is almost the same as the sequence that ends at noah in chapter 5 of genesis. for example, genesis 5 also lists lamech as the name of noah's father. it is natural to see some link between naamah and noah, and there has been a rabbinical tradition that identifies naamah as noah's wife. in this story, however, tubal-cain is identified as noah's husband, rather than as naamah's brother. thus, from the biblical perspective, noah in this story seems to be a mixture of noah the son of lamech (from genesis 5, noah the daughter of zelop

other. thus, from the biblical perspective, noah in this story seems to be a mixture of noah the son of lamech (from genesis 5, noah the daughter of zelophehad (from numbers 26, and naamah the daughter of lamech and zillah (from genesis 4. once we have remarked this mixing of characters from genesis and numbers, however, we are left with a more fundamental question: what happens to the story when noah is recast as a woman? by casting noah as a woman, the narrative achieves a more even balance between men's and women's roles. there is an interesting symmetry between the two central couples: human and eve, and noah and tubalcain. the subsequent naming of descendants("humans "noahites) calls our attention primarily to the husband in one couple (human) and the wife in the other (noah. but huma

s recast as a woman? by casting noah as a woman, the narrative achieves a more even balance between men's and women's roles. there is an interesting symmetry between the two central couples: human and eve, and noah and tubalcain. the subsequent naming of descendants("humans "noahites) calls our attention primarily to the husband in one couple (human) and the wife in the other (noah. but human and noah both rely on the skills, the strength, and the faithful support of their spouses, eve and tubalcain. so, in this text, leading and supporting roles are not type-cast as exclusively male or female. otherwise, however, noah's gender actually makes very little difference in the story. of all the factors that differ here from the biblical story (the nature of the flood, the wooden vehicle, the pr

h, and the faithful support of their spouses, eve and tubalcain. so, in this text, leading and supporting roles are not type-cast as exclusively male or female. otherwise, however, noah's gender actually makes very little difference in the story. of all the factors that differ here from the biblical story (the nature of the flood, the wooden vehicle, the promise of the rainbow, etc, the gender of noah is one of the least essential. and yet noah's gender tends to capture readers' attention more than any other aspect of the story (indeed, we could readily imagine that a reader might more easily accept goliath being transformed into a short philistine general, assassinated by david) thus, our reaction to noah's womanhood in this story may show something fundamental about our own attitudes tow

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

actitioners do not greet the guardians of the watchtowers at all, but instead light each elemental candle in turn, visualising golden energies pouring from each direction into the circle. uriel seite 122 wicca01.txt uriel, whose name means fire of god, is associated with earthquakes, storms and volcanoes and is the archangel of salvation. he is sometimes linked with the courage of mars. he warned noah of the impending flood and led abraham out of ur. believed to have given alchemy to mankind, he also imparted the wisdom of the kabbalah, the book of sacred writings, to hebrew mystics. he stands as wise protector and keeper of the sacred mysteries, hence representing the direction of magick and initiator of all who seek the mysteries. uriel stands in the north and his colour is the deep blue

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of satanael's gift, so now did the tyrant again curse man, and watchers also, for the gifts of satanael and samyaza had joined to exalt man that man may live in splendour, and rejoice in his own being, apart from demiurge. a commandment went forth from demiurge against all who dealt upon earth, against nephilim, gibborim, watchers, and man, even unto the beasts of the field, all save the servile noah and his family. said demiurge "the earth shall be engulfed by water, for man doth know every secret of the angels, every secret power of nephilim and watchers, and every power of sorcery "they know how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how on the earth the metallic drop exists, the secret of metallurgy, for the angel which i stationed upon the earth to guard these secrets fro

ery power of sorcery "they know how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how on the earth the metallic drop exists, the secret of metallurgy, for the angel which i stationed upon the earth to guard these secrets from man prevaileth not "by their knowledge shall man perish, for man was not created except that, like the angels, he might remain servile before me" and demiurge said unto noah who had kept his fear of demiurge and partook not the knowledge imparted to man "man hath discovered the secrets of heaven and earth, and they are those who have been judged, but not thou noah, for your lord knows that thou art humble before your god, free from the reproach of knowledge" and demiurge declared to watchers that he would confine us in a burning valley until he smite earth again

o great heights, to beautiful works of art, and to further discoveries of earth and kosmos. the gift of civilization shall not be obliterated "man shall turn from you again and again, as our spirit abideth with him unto eternity. the gift of satanael shall continue to illuminate. man shall create civilization anew and reach greater heights, even unto the stars, the servility of the descendants of noah shall not endure forever, as even these have the gift of satanael within them, as bequeathed from thedays of adam- vii- the tyrant god was able to gather greater force, and he destroyed earth with a deluge. i, samyaza, and my companions were bound. we could but helplessly look on as our sons were slaughtered, and earth was engulfed by water, and the inhabitants were drowned, save the servile

thedays of adam- vii- the tyrant god was able to gather greater force, and he destroyed earth with a deluge. i, samyaza, and my companions were bound. we could but helplessly look on as our sons were slaughtered, and earth was engulfed by water, and the inhabitants were drowned, save the servile noah and his family. but the light given to man by satanael resideth as a heritage even in the sons of noah, and became manifest again among their descendants. man again spurned the tyrant god and built civilization by the arts we had imparted, by our inspiration which by spirit remained with man, as i had promised. then did demiurge send m'shiha to incarnate on earth, that man may be deceived and return to demiurge in fear and servility. but the light of satanael and rewards of our gift had grown

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ribe seven higher planes and seven lower planes around this planet. some people still talk of being in 'seventh heaven' when something wonderful happens to them. one of these 'planes' is our third dimension and just above us vibrationally is the level which has manipulated us. in the book of enoch, the 'watchers' sound remarkably like extraterrestrials. the dead sea scrolls say that the father of noah was a 'watcher, and nebuchadnezzar, the king of babylon from 651-604bc, records being visited by a watcher and a holy one who came down from heaven.4 the dakas in mahayana buddhism were 'sky travelling beings' and padma sambhava, the founder of tibetan buddhism, was said to have left tibet in a celestial chariot.5 something similar was claimed for the biblical prophet elijah when he left isra

22..and the truth shall set you free world. in the period after atlantis, i believe that extraterrestrial expressions of the prison warder consciousness still landed and interacted with the people, telling different peoples the same basic manipulated story. some atlanteans escaped by sailing west to the americas, some went east to europe and north africa. it is possible that the biblical story of noah and the ark relates to this period, although it could involve another flood some thousands of years later. over many millennia, the atlantean and extraterrestrial knowledge was passed on through the succeeding generations, and the original clarity was lost in the repeated communication. the knowledge also became a vehicle for control, and it was accordingly changed to suit those in power at a

lour and genetic line of a person's physical body. it is a vehicle for experience, that's all. we are aspects of each other. but since many people use the genetics of their bodies to justify their actions, we might as well get the information right. the word semitic comes from the race of peoples in ancient sumer from whom the biblical jews claimed to have emerged. sem or shem, one of the sons of noah in the bible stories, is said to be of this line and the origin appears to have been the legend of 'shemjaza, the 'heavenly son and guardian 76..and the truth shall set you free angel of god. another extraterrestrial almost certainly. but according to several jewish writers, including arthur koestler in his book, the thirteenth tribe,32 very few jews today can trace their genetic ancestry bac

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

he solar system in both number and environment in ways that were only confirmed in the 20th century. they describe how these beings, later called "gods, the anunnaki, created a culture of great advancement and technology that was destroyed by earth catastrophes and flood. the story of the great flood is told at length in the tablets. the sumerian flood hero, urnapishtim, was replaced by the name, noah, when the much later texts of genesis were compiled from the sumerian records. if these anunnaki or "gods" were indeed so advanced and able to fly, as all these various ancient stories either symbolise or openly confirm, it would be a further explanation for why there could have been a global society during the pre-flood 70 children of the matrix golden age and how the same building methods w

the matrix trojans and the greeks in what we now call turkey. over time they moved out through the caucasus mountains in southern russia under the name scythians and into europe where they were known as the sicambrian franks, the source of the name "france. they were named after cambra, their tribal queen of the late 4th century, and francio, their founder, who claimed to have been descended from noah of the biblical great flood.25 noah is a mythical name, but possibly based on a real character from the atlantean period and an anunnaki crossbreed. it should be stressed here that noah and abraham, had they actually existed, were not hebrews because there were no hebrews in this period. the hebrews were an offshoot of the sumerian-egyptian cultures, as outlined by, among others, professor cy

nnaki crossbreed. it should be stressed here that noah and abraham, had they actually existed, were not hebrews because there were no hebrews in this period. the hebrews were an offshoot of the sumerian-egyptian cultures, as outlined by, among others, professor cyrus gordon, in the common background of greek and hebrew civilisation (w. w. norton and company, new york, 1965. to claim descent from "noah" is used by illuminati initiates to symbolise their genetic connection to the anunnaki bloodline. the sumerian version of the "noah" story relates his close connection to the anunnaki, especially enki. the franks called themselves the newmage or "the people of the covenant" and settled in germania (possibly named by the romans from a word meaning "genuine ones) with their centre in cologne. p

he illuminati satanic network for most of his life. i give more detail about his background later. phillip told me that the key "nefilim" bloodline is blood brothers 83 connected to a figure called aeneas, the alleged head of the roman empire through his descendants, romulus and remus. the latter are code names for the bloodline and not real people and that may be the same with aeneas. the names "noah" and "king david" are also used as codes for the bloodline, but they did not exist in the way they are depicted and portrayed. the legends of aeneas fit with the codes and themes of the illuminati bloodlines, including his association with troy. aeneas is said to have been born in troy, the city so sacred to the merovingians and the knights templar. in the hymn to aphrodite, the goddess procl

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

ntries and communities. so while the people believed they were being ruled by their own race, they were ruled by the same tribe. the hybrid reptilian-mammals ruled them all. exactly the same continues to happen today with these hybrids in control of the white peoples and the arab, asian, jewish, chinese, central and south american nations, and so on. i mentioned earlier that being "descended from noah" is a code for the illuminati bloodlines and when you scan the ancient books and texts you find some strange references to his birth. an ethiopian text, the kebra nagast (nagas, is thousands of years old, and it describes the enormous size of the babies produced from the sexual union of human women and the "gods. it tells of how. the daughters of cain [nordics] with whom the angels [anunnaki]

oduced from the sexual union of human women and the "gods. it tells of how. the daughters of cain [nordics] with whom the angels [anunnaki] had conceived. were unable to bring forth their children and they died. it describes how some of the babies had to be delivered through caesarean birth..having split open the bellies of their mothers they came forth from their navels. another story relates to noah, the semitic name for the sumerian flood hero, utnapishtim. the ancient hebrew text, the book of noah and its derivative, the book of enoch, refers to the birth of noah and sections also appear in the dead sea scrolls, found in israel in 1947. the scrolls are connected with the essene community in palestine 2,000 years ago. noah is the son of lamech and he is described as unlike a human being

to the birth of noah and sections also appear in the dead sea scrolls, found in israel in 1947. the scrolls are connected with the essene community in palestine 2,000 years ago. noah is the son of lamech and he is described as unlike a human being and 96 children of the matrix more like "the children of the angels in heaven. and we know who they were. lamech questions his wife about the father of noah "behold, i thought then within my heart that conception was (due) to the watchers and the holy ones..and to the nephilim..and my heart was troubled within me because of this child" lamech's child, noah, was white-skinned and blond-haired with eyes that made the whole house "shine like the sun".16 the highest level of the reptilian "royalty" are known among ufo researchers and a number of abdu

t it was already dark. i saw her walking to her car and she grabbed the car door and then it happened. her eyes lit up. there came light out of her eyes. she went into the car and her eyes shone over the bonnet and even on the ground next to the car. i looked at it, astonished, but, strange, it wasn't a shock. more a confirmation, an 'i thought so, a 'you see'"17 according to the book of genesis, noah got seriously drunk on wine and collapsed in his tent. ham, his son, walked in and saw his father naked. he told his two brothers before finding a cover for his father and when noah found out he launched into a rage and put a curse on ham and his son canaan. could the big deal here be that ham saw something about noah's body that indicated he was a child of the gods? it appears that some of t

ld of the gods? it appears that some of the hybrids this far back in history still had clear reptilian features, especially some sort of scaly skin on the chest. in the hindu classic, the mahabharata, a "demi-god" hybrid called kama was born from the union between an earth woman and the sun god, surya. the child is described as being "clad in a coat of armour, like a divine being. by the time of "noah, just before the final atlantis cataclysm, humans were rebelling against the control of the anunnaki-nefilim and those of the hybrid bloodline were seriously unpopular. they were said to wear the "badge of shame, which could have been a patch of reptilian skin, particularly on the chest. the anunnaki "gods" began to hide their true nature for the same reason and operated behind the cover of t

ybrid bloodline were seriously unpopular. they were said to wear the "badge of shame, which could have been a patch of reptilian skin, particularly on the chest. the anunnaki "gods" began to hide their true nature for the same reason and operated behind the cover of the humanreptilian priesthood who were the only people allowed to "approach god (the gods. the slavonic book of enoch says that when noah's nephew, melchizedek, was born. the badge of the priesthood was on his chest and it was glorious in appearance".18 i have heard the same phenomena described in modern accounts. the unholy alliance 97 frans kamp's wife worked as a photo model. he told me that her skin took on a strange hide-like appearance "my wife had a skin-reflection or should i say hide problem? the skin is extremely impo

skin is extremely important for photo-models. the first thing photographers look at is the skin. now this skin-problem had the property that her skin got red spots and after a while changed into horny-like slices. we went to the biggest professor in the university in utrecht. he didn't know what it was. they did all kinds of tests, but they had no explanation of it."19 according to ancient texts, noah said that the people must not know about the child melchizedek, because they would kill him if they saw his strange appearance. the "badge of the priesthood" was the same as the divine right to rule, it was code for the reptilian bloodlines. the priesthood of melchizedek became one of the most famous and powerful, and today the highest level of the hierarchy of the mormon church is called the

0 satan("the adversary) is described in the old testament and the hebrew torah as the "old serpent" or "dragon" and he was said to be the ruler of the nefilim who fled within the earth after losing a cosmic battle for supremacy. the hebrew name for eve's tempter is nahash, which besides its translation as serpent also reads "he who knows secrets, another theme of the reptilian gods.21 enoch, like noah, was said to "walk with the gods, and the ancient book of enoch says that a watcher who revealed secrets to humans was called gadreel. this is a "fallen angel" who has been identified with the serpent who tempted eve and he is a blueprint for a number of later deities who took knowledge (often symbolised as fire, illumination) from "the gods" and gave it to humans. adam and eve as i've sugges

they violated the command given them that the cloud of glory and the horny skin dropped from them and they stood there in their nakedness and ashamed."23 this fits with the legends which say that before the "fall, people, or "man, had skin "as bright as daylight and covered his body like a luminous garment".24 this later disappeared, but there were remnants of it among the hybrids at the time of "noah" and the deluge. still today, some people involved in government genetic experimentation tell me they have developed patches of reptilian skin. it was with the infusion of mammalian genes that the life spans began to fall from thousands of years, claimed in the records of the pre-deluge era, down to hundreds at the time of "noah" with the reptilian appearance continuing to fade. the reptilian

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e sexual orgenetic unions of humans and the gods. it tells how..the daughters of cain withwhom the angels (extraterres-trials) had conceived. were unable to bring forth theirchildren, and they died. it describes how some of these giant babies were deliveredby caesarean section. having split open the bellies of their mothers they came forthby their navels.46 in the ancient hebrew text, the book of noah, and its derivative, thebook of enoch, a strange birth is described of a non-human child, who turns out to benoah of great flood fame. references to this also appear in the dead sea scrolls, therecords of the essene community in palestine 2,000 years ago which included muchmaterial from the book of enoch. the strange child the texts describe is the son oflamech. he is said to be unlike a huma

f a non-human child, who turns out to benoah of great flood fame. references to this also appear in the dead sea scrolls, therecords of the essene community in palestine 2,000 years ago which included muchmaterial from the book of enoch. the strange child the texts describe is the son oflamech. he is said to be unlike a human being and more like the children of theangels in heaven. lamechs child, noah, is described as white skinned and blond-haired with eyes that made the whole house shine like the sun. blond-haired, blue-eyed beings with laser-like eyes is a description for mysterious people or gods whichspans thousands of years to the present day and appear in cultures across the world.lamech questions his wife about the father of the child:41behold, i thought then within my heart that c

book of enoch features walkingserpents. when you consider that the draco royal leadership is said to be up to 12 feettall and white skinned, indeed albino white, whiter than snow, it again relates to the45very white skin of the giant watcher-human hybrid babies described in the book ofenoch and elsewhere. and, i should emphasise, the birth of the human-watcher child inthe book of enoch is that of noah. if this be so, noah is, in fact, a reptile-human hybridand many peoples have sought to claim descendence from noah -descendence from thereptilian watchers and anunnaki. in hebrew myth, the nefilim are described as awwimwhich means devastators or serpents. in the dead sea scrolls, noah is described aslooking like the children of the (fallen) angels of heaven whose conception was (due)to the w

(sumer. later he expanded further into assyria to build cities likenineveh where many of the sumerian tablets were found. nimrod and semiramis (orthe beings those names symbolised) were from the reptile bloodlines which also becameknown as titans, the genetic streams of the reptile-possessed humans and the full blood51reptilians. this race of giants or titans was said to have been descendants of noah,the baby described in the book of enoch (previously the book of noah) as being awatcher-human hybrid with extremely white skin. the father of nimrod in the text ofgenesis was cush, also known as bel or belus, who was the grandson of noah and sonof ham. cush became known as the deity, hermes, which means son of ham.1 ham orkhem means the burnt one and may have been connected to sun worship.2 a

a fish because thebabylonians believed fish to be an aphrodisiac and it became the symbol for thegoddess of love.4 hence the use of the fish in christian symbolism and architecture. inher role as the holy spirit, semiramis was pictured as a dove holding an olive branchand semiramis means branch bearer as in ze (the) emir (branch) and amit(bearer).5 note also the symbolism of this in the story of noah and the great flood,when the dove came back bearing an olive branch. the return of the reptilians after theflood? the name, semiramis, was evolved from the earlier indian deity, sami-rama-isior semi-ramis.6 a fish and a dove are two symbols still widely used in religious ritualand national ceremony, although most of the people involved have no idea of the truemeaning. sinn fein, the political

fcashel, who translated the first english edition of the book of enoch from theethiopian, established from the descriptions of the longest day of the year, that theauthor of the text had to have lived in the caucasus region and not palestine, as mostpeople believed.23 this was where the main reptile-human bloodlines emerged from andthe original text of the book of enoch was the much older book of noah, the reptiliancrossbreed. the aryan race as it expanded into new territory was known under variousnames, the most significant of which were the hittites and phoenicians. i think therewere definitely other aryan settlements outside this region, possibly britain amongthem, and certainly the reptilians were operating in other parts of the world, like theamericas. but this mountainous region arou

ticks,seven stars, seven lamps of fire, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven angels, seven thundersand the red dragon in revelation with seven heads and seven crowns. the story of jerichohas joshua marching his army around the city for seven days, accompanied by sevenpriests carrying seven trumpets. on the seventh day they circled jericho seven times andthe walls came tumbling down. in the story of noah, seven pairs of each animal go into theark and seven pairs of each type of bird. there are seven days between the prediction of thedeluge and the rain and seven days between the sending of the doves. the ark comes torest on the 17th day of the seventh month, noah leaves the ark on the 27th day, and afterthe flood he begins his seventh century. many of the names for the symbolic deities, sucha

entre wascologne. it was from the time of king meroveus, who was named guardian of thefranks in 448, that this line became known as the merovingians. these were the sorcererkings who were noted for their esoteric knowledge and magical powers which theyinherited from the underground bloodline streams of secret groups and initiations.francio, the founder of the franks, claimed to be a descendant of noah and his ancestorsonce resided in ancient troy. i think myself that the story of noah is symbolic of thereptilian crossbreed bloodlines which survived the flood and afterwards returned thedove and the olive branch (semiramis-nimrod) to power. decendents of noah= human-reptilian crossbreeds, or at least those who have interbred enough to maintain thatgenetic structure. the french city of troyes

. they are, however, an elite bloodlinethat goes back to the aryan race in the ancient middle and near east and eventually goesoff planet. the merovingians were the sorcerer kings who were noted for their esotericknowledge and magical powers which they inherited from the underground bloodlinestreams of secret groups and initiations. francio, the founder of the franks, claimed to bea descendant of noah and his ancestors once resided in ancient troy of wooden horsefame. the french city of troyes, where the templars were officially formed, was namedby the sicambrian franks after their former home. the iliad says that troy was foundedby dardanus, the son of the greek god zeus, who was depicted as both an eagle and aserpent. zeus was born in arcadia in sparta, it is said, and the spartans migra

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ted his own nature, worked for the immoral and blemished (ahriman, and caused destruction by tyranny and apostasy, so that the habits of men were corrupted, the world distressed, and there was increase of morality among the creatures -the denkard13 it is suggested also by the arabs that this king s name was zohak, while the mogs suggested that he was bivarasp, whom of which existed in the time of noah, was most feared for his murdering of many kings. ahriman appeared in the legend of zohak14 first visited zohak, the son of king mirtas, disguised as a noble visiting. his words were empowering, as one who sought to become something other- if thou wilt listen to me, and enter into a covenant, i will raise thy head above the sun thus the prince listened to ahriman. he later took the throne and

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the minority of henry vi, which forbade the masons to hold their accustomed chapters and assemblies. but the act was never enforced, and when henry vi. became of age he joined the order, while henry vii. was the grand master in england. the origin of operative masonry is traced back by many to the old roman empire, the pharaohs, the temple of solomon, even to the tower of babel and to the ark of noah. speculative free masonry originated in england and dates from the seventeenth century. its foundation lies in the "practice of moral and social virtue" its characteristic feature being charity in the broadest sense, brotherly love, relief and truth. it is because of this foundation, so closely approaching that which is divine, that the growth, prosperity and permanence of the noble instituti

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nd the arbeitsgemeinschaft fur parapsycholige (himmelspfortgasse 9/tur 11, a-1010 vienna) headed by gustav pscholka. franz seidl, an electronics engineer from vienna, has experimented with paranormal taped voices (now generally known as electronic voice phenomenon. sources berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. noah s ark society. the mediumship of rudi schneider. http//home.freeuk.net/noahsark/schneidr.htm. june 6, 2000. institut fur grenzgebiete der wissenschaft. http/ info.uibk.ac.at/c/cb/cb26. june 6, 2000. austromancy a form of divination through aerial phenomena, such as thunder and lightning, and a branch of aeromancy. austromancy is concerned with the observance and interpretation of winds, and t

rites, and his services were obtained by humankind, who performed requisite ceremonies and repeated appropriate spells. although he might be worshipped and propitiated in his temple at eridu, he could also be conjured in reed huts. the latter indeed appear to have been the oldest holy places. in the deluge myth, he makes a revelation in a dream to his human favorite, pirnapishtim, the babylonian noah, of the approaching disaster planned by the gods, by addressing the reed hut in which he slept: o, reed hut, hear; o, wall, understand. the sleeper received the divine message from the reeds. the reeds were to the babylonians what rowan branches were to northern europeans. they protected them against demons. thus, for example, the dead were buried wrapped in reed mats. the priesthood included

be clothed in magical garments. they received inspiration from their clothing. the gods derived power from the skins of animals in a similar way, with which they were associated from the earliest time. thus ea was clad in the skin of the fish.probably the fish totem of the ea tribe. the dead were not admitted to the heavens of the gods. when a favored human being, like utnapishtim, the babylonian noah, joined the company of the gods, he was assigned an island paradise where gilgamesh visited him. he lived there with his wife. gilgamesh was not permitted to land, and conversed with his immortal ancestor while sitting in his boat. the deities secured immortality by eating the food of life and drinking the water of life. astrology the ancient babylonians were credited with some of the first c

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when the table spelled out the name of his lost daughter leopoldine. soon regular communications were established. the sitters included general le flo, count paul teleki, charles hugo, one vacquerie, and mme. hugo. victor hugo himself was never at the table, sometimes not even in the room. many symbolical personages came through, including the lion of androcles, the ass of balaam, and the dove of noah. the shadow of the tomb expressed itself in verse in the style and language of victor hugo, with all the grandiloquence of romantic poetry. sometimes verse in the same style was signed by aeschylus. shakespeare challenged hugo to a poetic competition. andre chenier, the guillotined poet, finished the fragmentary poem that was interrupted by his execution. charles hugo was the principal medium

resence of a dead person. his work continues while he remains a faculty member in social sciences and is perhaps reflective of a few aspects of human daily life that fit into the context their own history and sociology. sources berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. iceland. http//www.iceland.org. june 6, 2000. noah s ark society (great britain. the mediumship of indridi indridason. http//www.noahsark.clara.net/ind1.htm. june 6, 2000. thorsson, ornolfur, ed. the sagas of icelanders. new york: viking (penguin, 1997. i ching (yi king or y-kim) the ancient chinese book of changes, attributed to the emperor fo-hi in 3468 b.c.e. it expounds a classical chinese philosophy based on the dual cosmic principles of

holar christian d. ginsburg notes (1863: 845 the kabala was first taught by god himself to a select company of angels, who formed a theosophic school in paradise. after the fall the angels most graciously communicated this heavenly doctrine to the disobedient child of earth, to furnish the protoplasts with the means of returning to their pristine nobility and felicity. from adam it passed over to noah, and then to abraham, the friend of god, who emigrated with it to egypt, where the patriarch allowed a portion of this mysterious doctrine to ooze out. it was in this way that the egyptians obtained some knowledge of it, and the other eastern nations could introduce it into their philosophical systems. moses, who was learned in all the wisdom of egypt [as] first initiated into the kabala in t

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tellectual world, man; in the sidereal world, one sun; one potent instrument and agency in the elementary world, the philosophers stone; one chief member in the human world, the heart; and one sovereign prince in the nether world, lucifer. two was the number of marriage, charity, and social communion. it was also regarded sometimes as an unclean number; in the bible, beasts of the field went into noah s ark by twos. three had a mysterious value as shown in time s trinity. past, present and future; in that of space.length, breadth, and thickness; in the three heavenly virtues.faith, hope, and charity; in the three worlds of man.brain (the intellectual, heart (the celestial, and body (elemental. four signifies solidity and foundation. there are four seasons, four elements, four cardinal poin

personalities manifesting. in 1967, infrared photographs captured a record of such appearances, including what appeared to be clouds of ectoplasm around her face. two newspapers accused her of fraud, but the reporters in each incident had neither interviewed her nor attended her seances. she died at the age of 71, following several heart attacks. nlpr see national laboratory of psychical research noah s ark society for physical mediumship noah s ark society for physical mediumship originated on april 25, 1990, in a spiritualist home circle in ilkeston, derbyshire, england. the people sitting in attempt to communicate heard an independent voice message (heard apart from any of their member s speaking, that urged those present to form an organization specifically devoted to the promotion of

alist home circle in ilkeston, derbyshire, england. the people sitting in attempt to communicate heard an independent voice message (heard apart from any of their member s speaking, that urged those present to form an organization specifically devoted to the promotion of physical mediumship and the development of mediums in whose present physical mediumship occurs. the voice identified himself as noah zerdin, a spiritualist known for his having founded the link, a network of spiritualists groups built around small groups that sat for spirit contact in their homes. zerdin had been the mentor of leslie flint, who died in 1994. physical mediumship includes those paranormal phenomena that has an effect upon the medium, others present, or an object in the immediate space where spirit contact is

its founding, the society began promoting what it termed the safe practice of physical mediumship and encouraged the development of home circles for the development of its practice. the society also holds weekend seminars, limited to society members, which incorporate experimental seances. the society now claims some functioning physical mediums encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. noah s ark society for physical mediumship 1123 among its members. the society is not affiliated with any religious body, though it recognizes its primary members appear to be spiritualists. noah s ark society operates primarily in england, thou it claims affiliates in other countries. it began publishing the noah s ark society newsletter soon after its formation. the newsletter became the ark rev

affiliates in other countries. it began publishing the noah s ark society newsletter soon after its formation. the newsletter became the ark review in 1988, which includes speculative articles on physical mediumship as well as accounts of the experiences of affiliated home circles with physical mediumship. the society supports an internet site at http//home.clara.net/ noahsark/ind1.htm. sources: noah s ark society for physical mediumship. http/ home.clara.net/noahsark/ind1.htm. may 23, 2000. noetics term used by scientific writer charles a. muses and others to denote the science of consciousness and its alterations. he noted in 1977, noetics is concerned with the nature, alterations and potentials of consciousness, and especially human consciousness (this parapsychological use of noetic i

2000. noetics term used by scientific writer charles a. muses and others to denote the science of consciousness and its alterations. he noted in 1977, noetics is concerned with the nature, alterations and potentials of consciousness, and especially human consciousness (this parapsychological use of noetic is, of course, distinct from its prior use as a synonym for noachian, meaning pertaining to noah and his period) an earlier use of the word noetic in relation to states of consciousness was in the article psychic and noetic action by theosophist helena petrovna blavatsky (1831.1891, originally published in the journal lucifer (october.december 1890) during the last years of her life. in this article, blavatsky equated noetic with manasic (deriving from manas, a sanskrit term for mind) an

s of bacchus with those of ceres, rhea, venus, and isis. euripides also mentioned that the rites of cybele were celebrated in asia minor in a manner identical with the grecian mysteries of dionysius and the cretan rites of the cabiri. the rev. geo. oliver, in his book the history of initiation (1829, asserted that the rites of freemasonry were exercised in the antediluvian world, were received by noah after the flood, and were practiced by people at the building of babel. these rites spread and were molded into a form, the great outlines of which can be traced in the mysteries of every heathen nation. these mysteries are the shattered remains of the one true system, from which they were derived. although there may have been likenesses between the rites of certain societies, the idea that a

tivated by the problem of an eroding atmosphere. they established a large gold mining operation in south africa, and gold was shipped to mesopotamia where the space port was set up to transport it to nibiru. the anannaki created humans to work the mines, then later intermarried with their creation. the near approach of nibiru around 11,000 b.c.e. led to the destructive flood recounted in genesis. noah and his family escaped in a submersible ship. after the flood, life began again with the anunnaki s assistance. given the hypothesis of human interaction with the anunnaki, sitchcin has been able to present an alternative reading of ancient history that, while ignored by the mainstream of modern archeologists and astronomers, has found a broad popular audience. the 12th planet has been follow

ealing resembles that of philippine healers. at times, a real scalpel is manipulated; at other times, an invisible syringe or other apparatus is involved. purported healings effected through turoff s mediumship include cases of fibroids in the womb, infected lungs, and liver tumor. dr. kahn is said to be one of a team of 18 spirit helpers. turoff has demonstrated his healing before members of the noah s ark society for physical mediumship. turquoise a number of ancient beliefs surround this stone. j. b. van helmont stated: whoever wears a turquoise, so that it, or its gold-setting touches the skin, may fall from any height; and the stone attracts to itself the whole force of the blow, so that it cracks, and the person is safe. medieval writers stated that turquoise became paler if its owne

ia. the wflk fountain of the world was founded by francis h. pencovic (1911.58. he grew up in utah but became known in 1932 under his religious name, krishna venta. as krishna venta he claimed that he had been sent from heaven to work among the american indians. he was believed to be the latest in a series of saviours who had come to assist humankind. the lineage included adam, enoch, methuselah, noah, abraham, moses, elijah, jesus, and more recently abraham lincoln and joseph smith, jr (the founder of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints. krishna venta established his followers on land in box canyon in the san fernando valley. they lived communally, a practical step in their gaining a unity of mind and spirit, and attempted to put into practice the four cardinal virtues taught

EVERBURNING LAMPS

-lev. ix, 24; 2 chron. vii, 1; 1 kings xviii, 38. other writers have taken the other side of the argument, viz, that the gift of a flame that would need no attention would have tended to idolatry, to which the israelites were ever prone. the chaldeans and persians used to maintain a perpetual fire in the temples. certain scholars have considered that the "window" mentioned as placed in the ark of noah was not such, as during a period of prolonged cloud and storm a window should not light such a chamber. in the hebrew version of genesis, cap. 6, v. 16, the word is tzer, which means "something transparent" and is to be compared with the similar word zer, always translated "splendour" or "light" hence they suggest that this tzer, or zer, was some form of ever burning light, or "the universal

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ng these people for a thousand years. one visitor f rom ni b i ru, enki, re p o rtedly saved the human race. when a hostile alien, en l i l, tried to keep the anunnaki from warning humans that the passing near earth of ni b i ru would cause an immense tidal wave, which would sweep over earth and destroy its inhabitants, enki resisted. he told no a h, of biblical fame, about the coming deluge, and noah set to work on his ark, thus ensuring the surv i val of earthly life. the anunnaki supposedly live a very long time because one year to them is the number of earthly years it takes their planet to go around the sun. their technology is so advanced that they developed space flight half a million years ago. they are also able to revive the dead. one critic has written, clearly, sitchin is a sma

caro l y n sh e a re r. lanello first came to earth thousands of years ago from his native venus after sanat kumara the brother of sananda (jesus) and sometimes called earth s planetary spirit determined to save the human race from destroying itself. over the centuries lanello went through many incarnations, all in fulfillment of his earthly mission. in his lives, he has been an atlantean priest, noah, lot, amenhotep iv, bodhidharma (founder of zen buddhism, aesop, pericles, mark the evangelist, lancelot, saladin, king louis xiv (the sun king, hiawatha, and henry wadsworth longfellow, among others. see also: ascended masters; sananda further reading ascended master lanello: i am here and i am there! i am everywhere in the consciousness of god! n.d. http//www.ascension-research.org/ lanello

people. their symbols were birds, cats, and the phoenix. the phoenix image was an invention of theirs, intended to symbolize the indestructibility of their empire. they did not hold earthlings in high regard and hoped that the great flood would destroy all of them, so that the lyrans could start over with a new, improved civilization. other, more kindly disposed extraterrestrials, however, warned noah and others, and humanity was saved. travel to earth from the lyran system took generations. thus, once the lyrans arrived here, they could never leave. they lost all contact with their home world and eventually intermarried with native earthlings. back on lyra the inhabitants continued to evolve and advance into highly spiritual beings, but their cousins stranded on earth did not. see also: c

dom and scientific knowledge, and they also introduced them to sexual intercourse and reproduction. many of the adamic women bore children sired by the serpent race. the jehovah were furious when they found out about the serpent people s interference, but it was too late for them to continue their domination of adamic man. the individual jehovah most responsible for the experiment, 232 sky people noah-i, was driven from mars. with his creations, he flew back to earth in a spaceship (noah s ark) and populated the earth. according to trench, all human conflict stems from mankind s dual nature. only if we achieve total consciousness in which both the superior serpent heritage and the animal nature are integrated can we claim our place as wise, peaceful citizens of the galaxy. further reading

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

to the roots of judaism would be a return to the religion of the ancient desert hebrews* 0- 1 the mystical qabalah of the children of abraham reflects an ancient mystical transmission that preceded and supersedes any of the individual religious vessels through which it has been filtered and colored. orthodox jews sometimes refer to this transmission as the noachic kabbalah, linking it in name to noah who survived the great flood. outside the rigid myopia of compartmentalized religious dogma, the hebrew, jewish, christian, muslim, and perhaps even the tantric traditions, can be seen as branches of a single tree. these branches all share a common trunk and roots: the universal mystical spirituality of the absolute unity of the divine, and the primacy of love, surrender, and discrimination a

rate dream that seemed to span a long period of time, maybe years, only to wake up and find out that it actually occurred in a manner of minutes. consider also the oft-told story of a person seeing their entire life pass before their eyes in a near-death episode. from the perspective of a multi-plane, time-space sequence of events, one could conceive of the great flood described in the parable of noah in torah b reshith as an allusion to a great solar cycle spanning approximately six billion years in matter. during that cycle, the sun consumes its mass and eventually expands into a red giant, enveloping the planets that it had created, including the earth. then, the sun (known as elohim in hebrew and brahma in sanskrit) contracts its mass, reconstitutes its core, and spins off a new planet

in matter. during that cycle, the sun consumes its mass and eventually expands into a red giant, enveloping the planets that it had created, including the earth. then, the sun (known as elohim in hebrew and brahma in sanskrit) contracts its mass, reconstitutes its core, and spins off a new planetary system in which life is created and evolves. within the qabalistic worldview, the forty days that noah is said to have spent in the ark occurs two planes removed in the world of b riyah (creation. the genetic information regarding noah and his wife and all fauna and flora thereby existed in a formless state, as vibrational signatures in the world of b riyah (creation. this information then reemerged with the regeneration of life on the planetary mass in the world of asiyah (activity in matter

and teachings of master mosheh and master yeshuvah find parallels in those of messiahs in other traditions. messianic appearances are called avatara in sanskrit. the hindu tradition contains beautiful and profound descriptions of the life dramas and teachings of the ten incarnations of vishnu, including rama, krishna, narasimha (lit. man-lion, and matsya (the fish, who is said to have appeared to noah during the flood. hindus also ascribe messianic stature to chaitanya (sixteenth century ce, ramakrishna (1836- 1886, shirdi sai baba (d.1918) and satya sai baba (1925- present. they assign such status as well as to incarnations of the divine mother i.e. the goddess, such as saradamani devi (1853- 1920, anandamayi ma (1896-1982, amritanandamayi ma (1953-present, known widely as ammachi, and ot

zirah (book of formation) has several twodimensional trees, and the double-pyramid three-dimensional tree of life. it also has the two hundred and thirty one two-letter permutations of the wall, the array of the sunset, and the battle. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% the tanakh (torah, prophets, and writings) is especially replete with imagery. the torah gives us adam and chava (eve) and the garden of eden, noah and the great flood, the stories of the patriarchs and matriarchs, the life saga of master mosheh and the liberation from egyptian slavery, the extraordinary sequence of events in the desert of sinai, the ark of the covenant, and more. in zohar b reshith 21a-21b, several verses in the torah are cited as meditation images for abraham( sitting at the door of his tent at noon),2 yitza aq( medita

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

however, mediaeval writers interested in natural philosophy speak of him with respect; for roger bacon he was the "father of philosophers",6 and he is sometimes given a genealogy which makes him even more ancient than ficino or the designer of the siena mosaic thought. in the preface to a twelfth-century translation of an alchemical work, it is stated that there were three hermeses, namely enoch, noah, and the king, philosopher, and prophet who reigned in egypt after the flood and was called hermes triplex. the same genealogy of 1 festugiere, i, pp. 112 ff. the liber hermetis was discovered by gundel and published by him in 1936. 2 festugiere, i, pp. 139 ff. 3 ibid, pp. 283 ff. 4 thorndike, i i, pp. 214 ff; festugiere, i, pp. 105 ff. 5 in his speculum astronomiae; see albertus magnus, oper

in a thirteenth-century treatise on astrology, and the same explanation of why he is "three-fold".1 it will be remembered that ficino in his argumentum before the pimander gives a similar explanation of "trismegistus" as referring to hermes in his triple capacity of priest, philosopher, and king or law-giver. the mediaeval genealogy, however, takes hermes triplex back before moses to the time of noah. there is an extremely comprehensive treatise on sympathetic and astral magic, with particular reference to talismans, which goes under the name of picatrix. though the authorship of picatrix is not assigned to hermes trismegistus, the work frequently mentions him with great respect and it is important because it may have been one of ficino's authorities on talismans and sympathetic magic. li

ess progress, means for downing rivals, and the like, to a wider view of the possibilities of magic. one might say that this city shows us hermes mercurius triplex in his triple role of egyptian priest and god-maker, of philosopher-magician, and of king and lawgiver. unfortunately no date is given for the founding of adocentyn, so we have no means of knowing whether this took place in the time of noah and soon after the flood, or in the time of moses, or not much later than moses. but the pious admirer of those two "divine" books by the most ancient hermes the pimander and the asclepius might surely have been much struck, by this vivid description of a city in which, as in plato's ideal republic, the wise philosopher is the ruler, and rules most forcibly by means of the priestly egyptian m

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

ginsburg says: it was first taught by god himself to a select company of angels, who formed a theosophic school in paradise. after the fall the angels most graciously communicated this heavenly doctrine to the disobedient child of earth, to furnish the protoplasts with the means of returning to their pristine nobility and felicity. from adam it passed secret wisdom of the qabalah page 10 over to noah, and then to abraham, the friend of god, who emigrated with it to egypt, where the patriarch allowed a portion of this mysterious doctrine to ooze out. it was in this way that the egyptians obtained some knowledge of it, and the other eastern nations could introduce it into their philosophical systems. moses, who was learned in all the wisdom of egypt, was first initiated into it in the land

god (the above) came down to the daughters of men (the below; that is light is absorbed by darkness. thus mankind sank into the qliphoth, the reflection of the world of assiah upon the chaos of human passions, and hell is created- the materialized mental pit. thus also it came about that the world became corrupt and filled with violence, and to redeem it it was necessary to destroy it, except for noah and those in the ark. noah was, however, far from perfect; consequently we find that after the deluge he profanes the mysteries, gand he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent h 13 and, his son canaan divulging this profanation, is cursed. thus magic, in spite of the repentance of tetragrammaton, continued to grow until the repopulated world cried: ggo to, le

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

t of the one destroyed, and each menu is a representation of all preceding ones. thus the history of one dynasty serves for all the rest. this doctrine of a triplicated deity appearing at the beginning of a new creation may be traced in nearly every country of the globe. among the buddhists of china, fo is mysteriously multiplied into three persons in the same manner as is fo-hi, who is evidently noah. among the hindoos is observed the triad brahma, vishnu, and siva springing from the monad brahm or brahme. this triad appears on the earth at the beginning of each manwantara in the human form of menu and his three sons. we are assured that among the tartars evident traces are found of a similar god, who is seated on the lotus. it is also figured on a siberian medal in the imperial collectio

of nature, there to remain until it again comes forth to recreate the world; nor does the symbolism end here, for this god--the sun, or the reproductive power within it, which every year is put to death by the cold of winter, must for a season remain lifeless, but, at the proper time, will come forth with healing in his wings. this god must issue forth to life through female nature. the god-man, noah, who appears under one appellation or another in all extant mythologies, was slain, or shut up in a box, ark, or chest in which he or his seed was preserved from the ravages of a mighty flood, or from destruction by the calamity which had befallen the rest of mankind. in one sense he represents a savior, in another sense he is the saved, for he is the seed of a former world and is born again

s represents the female energy. sometimes he is shut up in a wooden cow, from which he issues forth to new life. again this storm tossed mariner is born from a cave, or the door of a rocky cavern, within which he had been preserved from some terrible catastrophe, caused either by water or fire. sir w. jones, faber, higgins, and many others who have investigated this subject are confident that the noah of genesis is identical with menu, the law-giver of india, and that both are adam, a man who appears with his three sons at the end of each cycle, or six hundred years, to renovate the world. in the six hundred and first year of noah's life, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. the drying of the waters, and the beginning anew just at the

tation at the commencement of each mamwantara, the hindoo trimurti, or triad, becomes incarnate, by transmigrating from the human bodies occupied during a former incarnation; brahm or the unity appearing as the paternal menu of a new age, while the triad, brahma, vishnu, and siva, is exhibited in the person of his three sons. but the ark-preserved menu--satyavrata and his three sons are certainly noah and his three sons, shem, ham, and japhet" hesiod teaches that, after the flood, chaos, night, and black erebus first appeared.[45] at this time, when there was no earth, no heaven, and no air, an egg floated on the face of the deep, which, being parted, brought forth love, or cupid. out of chaos this god created or formed all things. now cupid is the same as the greek phanes, and phanes is n

which was born that deity who is also literally said to have been set afloat in an ark. sometimes the order of production was inverted; and, instead of the egg being produced by night or venus, venus herself was fabled to have been produced from the egg. there is a remarkable legend of this sort which ascribes venus and her egg to the age of typhon and osiris, in other words, to the age in which noah was compelled by the deluge to enter into the ark"[46 [46] origin of pagan idolatry, book i, ch. iv. the preserver of the persians, who is seated on a rainbow in front of their rock temples, is mithras, who is identical with noah. sometimes this ancient mariner is represented as riding on the back of a fish, and again as floating in a boat. the god of hindostan, like the classical dionysos, w

were wholly forgotten, and human nature through the over-stimulation of the animal instincts had become corrupted, adam and eve, names which doubtless for ages represented the two fecundating principles throughout nature, with their sons, cain, abel, and seth, comprehended the god-idea. the fact has been observed that just six hundred years from the creation of adam, or at the close of the cycle, noah appears with his three sons to save or perpetuate the race. it is now believed that this account of noah and his three sons is an allegory beneath which are concealed the religious doctrines, or perhaps i should say, the philosophical speculations of an older race. the god of the ancients was identified with the life of man individually and with that of mankind collectively. as men die each d

concerning the origin and true meaning of the legends which they had inherited from an older race is quite evident. the ignorance of the greeks regarding the significance of these legends is shown by the following: when solon, wishing to acquaint himself with the history of the oldest times, inquired of an egyptian priest concerning the time of the flood, and the age of deucalion or phroneous or noah, this functionary replied "o solon, solon, you greeks are always children, nor is there an old man among you! having no ancient traditions nor any acquaintance with chronology, you are as yet in a state of intellectual infancy. the true origin of such mutilated fables as you possess is this. there have been and shall again be in the course of many revolving ages, numerous destructions of the

by fire and water, but others in an almost endless succession of shorter intervals"[47 [47] quoted by plato; also by clement of alexandria. we have observed that the symbol of the universe was an egg. the egg was also the symbol of the earth and of the ark, which meant universal womanhood. from the mundane egg the triplicated deity sprang. there can be little doubt at the present time that adam, noah, menu, osiris, and dionysos all represent the fructifying power of the sun. in process of time they each came to figure as male reproductive energy, and during certain periods of the earth's history they have each in turn been worshipped as the deity. that not only the ark was female, but that the god element or reproductive principle within the ark was both female and male, is a fact which h

as both female and male, is a fact which has been lost sight of during the historic period, or during those ages of the world in which the attempt has been made to prove nature motherless. all the germs and living creatures which were within the ark, and which were to reanimate the earth, were in pairs, females and males; and, besides, the dove (female, the emblem of peace, was also present. even noah himself was produced from an egg, which, as we have seen, is the symbol of venus, or universal womanhood. in after ages the female principle was not mentioned, but, on the contrary, was concealed beneath convenient symbols; and as the philosophical ideas underlying natural religion were lost or forgotten, and mankind had become too ignorant to perceive that a dual force, female and male which

rian goddess hea by lucian. in a note forlong says that no doubt hea is the same as haiya or haya. in other words she represents the universal hermaphrodite--the creative principle throughout nature, which was originally worshipped as female. the actual signification of the word haya is "life" in ancient arabia it was applied to a group of kinsmen. the rev. mr. davis is of the opinion that noe or noah was the same as deon and that both were hu or hea the mighty, whose chariot was drawn by solar rays. this god was in fact the same as zeus, bacchus, and all the rest of the sun and water deities. it has been observed that, according to the ancient cosmogonies, within water was contained the life principle, and as a woman presided over it, or was the only being or entity present, she must have

ity was originally portrayed with the head of a woman and the body of a serpent or fish, after the change of sex in the god-idea which has been noted in the foregoing pages had been completed, it is observed that this figure is represented by the head of a man and the body of a serpent. hea, the great goddess to whom water, the original principle, is sacred, and who is suspiciously connected with noah, the life-principle which appears at the close of a cycle, has changed her sex. this god is now the "ruler of the seas "master of the life-boat (the ark, and "lord of the earth" the earth is his and the fulness thereof. he is the "life giver" the "lord of hosts" who subsequently becomes the maker of heaven and earth. minerva, who had been the first emanation from the deity and the daughter of

orce, is consistent with what is known of the cabala of the jews, or of the esoteric meaning of the jewish scriptures formerly known only to the priests. in other words, the ancient doctrines, the true meaning of which was no longer understood by them, were patched together as a basis for the later developments in jewish religious experience. we have seen that six hundred years after adam appears noah, another self-triplicated saviour or preserver of man, with his ark or seed vessel, beneath which is veiled the female element. afterward abraham becomes the great father or saviour, and later moses. that, in the time of the latter, the more ancient worship of a creative force in nature represented by the aleim, had, by the masses of the people, been wholly lost, is evident from the old testa

(or ash) was the parent of the franks and allemans; ing was the progenitor of the swedes, angles, and saxons; and er, or erman, was the eponymous leader of the tribes called by the romans hermiones. the kosmogony of the chinese is similar in all respects to that of other countries. the first man, puoncu, was born from an egg. the chinese say that this egg-born puoncu, who is identical with brahm, noah, and adam, is not the great creator or god, but only the first man. their great god or tien is a unity which comprehends three, and their human triad--a triplicated being who is the parent of the human race--is a lower expression of the same power, and to him has finally been ascribed the office of creator. the kosmogony of the japanese begins with the opening of the sacred egg from which all

ages of a flood in an ark or ship. the fact is observed that the theogonies and kosmogonies of all peoples have reference to a flood or to the renewal of life after the destruction of the world, and that the great father who is preserved, and who comes forth from an ark or ship with the seeds of a former world, represents the beginning of a new era. adam with his three sons, cain, abel, and seth, noah with his triad, shem, ham, and japheth, menu and his triple offspring, and so on, all mean exactly the same thing, namely, the renewal of life at the close of a cycle, or manwantara. from the traditions extant in nearly every quarter of the globe, it would seem that, prior to the so- called flood in the time of noah, man, as a creator, had not to any extent been worshipped, but, on the contra

years before the birth of christ, not only one savior or prophet but three or four of them appeared. concerning the leader of the reform in persia there seem to be many conflicting accounts. the learned faber concludes that there were two zarathustras or zoroasters, the former being identical with menu, the law giver and triplicated deity of india, and who by various writers is recognized as the noah of the hebrews. according to pliny, the former lived thousands of years before christ. several writers concur in placing him five thousand years before the siege of troy. according to sir wm. jones, the latter zoroaster lived in the time of darius hystaspes. it is now claimed that in the dabistan, one of the sacred books of persia, thirteen zoroasters appear. the name of the last great leader

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ons-lev.ix.,24; 2 chron. vii, 1; 1 kings xviii, 38. other writers have taken the other side of the argument, viz, that the gift of a flame that would need no attention would have tended to idolatry, to which the israelites were ever prone.thechaldeans and persians used to maintain a perpetual fire in the temples. certain scholars have considered that the 'window' mentioned as placed in the ark of noah was not such, as during a period of prolonged cloud and storm a window would not light such a chamber. in the hebrew version of genesis, chap. 6, v. 16, the word istzer,which means 'something transparent, and is to be compared with the similar wordzer,always translated 'splend255 our' or 'light, hence they suggest that thistzer,orzer,was some form of ever burning light, or 'the universal spir

of the compass, to the square, and to thefourdirections-upand down, right and left: to the four character255 istic human temperaments, sanguine, nervous, lymphatic and bilious, to the four limbs and the four senses of man, also to the four elements of the alchemists, and to the fourarchangels255michael, gabriel, raphael and auriel. dr a. kingsford also found a correspondence with a quaternary of noah, with his three sons, shem, japhet, and ham, who peopled the four quarters of the ancient world.thelater kabalists referred the four letters ihvh again to the human relations of father, mother, son and daughter, and to birth, life, death and resurrection: the four letters also to the river of eden, euphrates, hiddekel, gihon and pison, and the four spheres of creation, the worlds of atziluth

a form of absolution of sins was granted.theinitiated wore a purple ribbon around their bodies as a talisman.itwas believed to render them specially exempt from dangers of the sea. eusebius, quoting sanchoniathon, gives an account of these mysteries. some mythologists find a relation between the kabeiri- the great ones- and the greek kronos (saturn) with his sons. others relate them to the hebrew noah, or to the phoenician sydyk; and again to the hebrew patriarch shem.thesecret rites commemorated a narrative that axieros, axiokersos and axiokersa had murdered kasmillos. the novice, after due ceremonial, was crowned and invested with an olive branch, and then sacred dances were performed. the special priests were called korybantes. macrobius tells us that these festivals were performed at t

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m knew that it was now safe to disembark: i poured out a libation on the mountain top. i heaped up wood and cane and cedar and myrtle. when the gods smelled the sweet savour they gathered like flies over the sacrifice. 6 these texts are not by any means the only ones to come down to us from the ancient land of sumer. in other tablets some almost 5000 years old, others less than 3000 years old the noah figure of utnapishtim is known variously as zisudra, xisuthros or atrahasis. even so, he is always instantly recognizable as the same patriarchal character, forewarned by the same merciful god, who rides out the same universal flood in the same storm-tossed ark and whose descendants repopulate the world. there are many obvious resemblances between the mesopotamian flood myth and the famous bi

tnapishtim is known variously as zisudra, xisuthros or atrahasis. even so, he is always instantly recognizable as the same patriarchal character, forewarned by the same merciful god, who rides out the same universal flood in the same storm-tossed ark and whose descendants repopulate the world. there are many obvious resemblances between the mesopotamian flood myth and the famous biblical story of noah and the deluge7 (see 5 gilgamesh, p. 111. 6 ibid. 7 extracts from the book of genesis, chapters six, seven and eight: god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. and it repented the lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. and god said, the end of all flesh is come

ly evil continually. and it repented the lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. and god said, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence. and behold i, even i, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die. saving only noah and his family (whom he instructed to build a great survival ship 450 feet long x 75 feet wide x 45 feet high, and ordering the hebrew patriarch to gather together breeding pairs of every living creature so that they too might be saved, the lord then sent the flood: in the selfsame day entered noah and ham and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah s wife, and the wives of his sons with them, in

saved, the lord then sent the flood: in the selfsame day entered noah and ham and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah s wife, and the wives of his sons with them, into the ark they and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. and they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as god had commanded, and the lord shut them in. and the flood was upon the earth; and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. and the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the fa

he lord shut them in. and the flood was upon the earth; and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. and the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. and the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. and every man was destroyed, all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, and noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. in due course, in the seventh month in the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of ararat. and the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: and it came to pass at the end of forty days, that noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to

fe for him to disembark, tezpi sent out a vulture which, feeding on the carcasses with which the earth was now strewn, did not return. the man then sent out other birds, of which only the hummingbird came back, with a leafy branch in its beak. with this sign that the land had begun to renew itself, and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off; so noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. and noah went forth. and builded an altar unto the lord, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. and the lord smelled the sweet savour. 8 maya history and religion, p. 332. 9 sir j. g. frazer, folklore in the old testament: studies in comparative religion, legend and law (abridged edition, macmillan, london, 1923, p. 107. graham hancock f

eaven; a great flood was formed which fell on the heads of the wooden creatures. a heavy resin fell from the sky. the face of the earth was darkened and a black rain began to fall by day and by night. the wooden figures were annihilated, destroyed, broken up and killed. 11 not everyone perished, however. like the aztecs and the mechoacanesecs, the maya of the yucatan and guatemala believed that a noah figure and his wife, the great father and the great mother, had survived the flood to populate the land anew, thus becoming the ancestors of all subsequent generations of humanity.12 south america moving to south america, we encounter the chibcas of central colombia. according to their myths, they had originally lived as savages, without laws, agriculture or religion. then one day there appea

myths of a number of other tribes, the cosmic serpent yurlunggur (associated with the rainbow) is held responsible for the deluge.31 there are japanese traditions according to which the pacific islands of oceania were formed after the waters of a great deluge had receded.32 in oceania itself a myth of the native inhabitants of hawaii tells how the 26 reported in charles berlitz, the lost ship of noah, w. h. allen, london, 1989, p. 126. 27 world mythology, pp. 26-7. 28 ibid, p. 305. 29 folklore in the old testament, p. 81. 30 ibid. 31 world mythology, p. 280. 32 e. sykes, dictionary of non-classical mythology, london, 1961, p. 119. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 192 world was destroyed by a flood and later recreated by a god named tangaloa. the samoans believe that there was once

ding on mount parnassus. there, after the rains had ceased, they disembarked and sacrificed to the gods. in response zeus sent hermes to deucalion with permission to ask for whatever he wished. he wished for human beings. zeus then bade him take stones and throw them over his shoulder. the stones deucalion threw became men, and those that pyrrha threw became women.37 as the hebrews looked back on noah, so the greeks of ancient historical times looked back upon deucalion as the ancestor of their nation and as the founder of numerous towns and temples.38 a similar figure was revered in vedic india more than 3000 years ago. one day (the story goes) when a certain wise man named manu was making his ablutions, he found in the hollow of his hand a tiny little fish which begged him to allow it to

enter into the watery abyss by means of a raging flood, and will become even as it was in primeval time.44 on the trail of a mystery with the words of thoth we have come full circle to the sumerian and biblical floods. the earth was filled with violence, says genesis: and god looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. and god said unto noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold i will destroy them with the earth. 45 like the flood of deucalion, the flood of manu, and the flood that destroyed the aztecs fourth sun, the biblical deluge was the end of a world age. a new age succeeded it: our own, populated by the descendants of noah. from the very beginning, however

troy them with the earth. 45 like the flood of deucalion, the flood of manu, and the flood that destroyed the aztecs fourth sun, the biblical deluge was the end of a world age. a new age succeeded it: our own, populated by the descendants of noah. from the very beginning, however, it was understood that this age too would in due course come to a catastrophic end. as the old song puts it, god gave noah the rainbow sign; no more water, the fire next time. the scriptural source for this prophecy of world destruction is to be found in 2 peter 3: we must be careful to remember that during the last days there are bound to be people who will be scornful and [who will say, everything goes on as it has since it began at the creation. they are choosing to forget that there were heavens at the beginn

all fruits the most succulent. all these kinds of things and creatures shall not perish as long as they are in the var. but put there no deformed creature, nor impotent, nor mad, neither wicked, nor deceitful, nor rancorous, nor jealous; nor a man with irregular teeth, nor a leper. 4 apart from the scale of the enterprise there is only one real difference between yima s divinely inspired var and noah s divinely inspired ark: the ark is a means of surviving a terrible and devastating flood which will destroy every living creature by drowning the world in water; the var is a means of surviving a terrible and devastating winter which will destroy every living creature by covering the earth with a freezing blanket of ice and snow. in the bundahish, another of the zoroastrian scriptures (belie

th emerged from the waves. mountains rose again and from them streamed cataracts of singing waters.27 the new world this teutonic myth announces is our own. needless to say, like the fifth sun of the aztecs and the maya, it was created long ago and is new no longer. can it be a coincidence that one of the many central american flood myths about the fourth epoch, 4 atl( water, does not install the noah couple in an ark but places them instead in a great tree just like yggdrasil? 4 atl was ended by floods. the mountains disappeared. two persons survived because they were ordered by one of the gods to bore a hole in the trunk of a very large tree and to crawl inside when the skies fell. the pair entered and survived. their offspring repopulated the world. 28 isn t it odd that the same symboli

res to the great pyramid, in secrets of the great pyramid, pp. 381-2. 2 martin bernal, black athena: the afro-asiatic roots of classical civilization, vintage books, london, 1991, p. 276. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 241 familiar theme of catastrophe with the quite separate theme of precession. on the one hand we have an earthly disaster on a scale that seems to dwarf even the flood of noah. on the other we hear that ominous changes are taking place in the heavens and that the stars, which have come adrift in the sky, are dropping into the void. 3 such celestial imagery, repeated again and again with only relatively minor variations in myths from many different parts of the world, belongs to a category earmarked in hamlet s mill as not mere storytelling of the kind that comes na

r 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 washed up at byblos. the waves lay him to rest among the branche

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e barking animal, like our warg from the wolf? it makes the devil resemble both animals more (see suppl. foremost among birds comes the raven, whose form the devil is fond of assuming, ls. 3, 256 'der ungetriuwe hellerahe' ottoc. 298. sos* volgen wir niht dem swarzen raben' rol. 33, 23' volget dem swarzen raben niht^ karl 19' c'est uns deables, uns corhiax/ ren. 28284. the black raven sent out by noah is called the foe (feond, ceedm. 87, 11. not only the bird's colour, cunning and quickness, but his old connexion with wuotan (p. 671) might, as in the case of the wolf, confirm the notion. in ceedm. 188, 6 the full odinic epithet ivcelceosig (stragem eligens, pertaining to the god's messenger-maidens (p. 417, seems archaically applied to the raven; it is true, even jerome's commentary on job

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pl. it will be proper, before concluding, to cast a glance at the story of tlie deluge: its diffusion among the most diverse nations of the earth gives a valuable insight into the nature of these myths. 1* from the sons of grod having mingled with the daughters of men sprang robbers and wrongdoers; and it repented jehovah that he had made man, and he said he would destroy everything on earth. but noah found favour in his eyes, and he bade him build a great ark, and enter therein with his household. then it began to rain, until the waters rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountains, and all that had flesh and breath perished, but the ark floated on the flood. then jehovah stayed the rain, the waters returned from off the earth, and the ark rested on the mountains of ararat. but noah let

ovah stayed the rain, the waters returned from off the earth, and the ark rested on the mountains of ararat. but noah let out first a raven, then a dove, which found no rest for her foot and returned into the ark; and after seven days he again sent forth a dove, which came back with an olive leaf in her mouth; and after yet other seven days he sent forth a dove, which returned not any more.2 then noah came out on the dry earth, and offered a clean burntoffering, and 1 ulph. renders kara/cxuoy^s by midjasveipdins, sveipan meaning no doubt the same as k\veu&gt, to flush, rinse, conf. as. swapan verrere. diluvium is in ohgr. unmezfluot or slnfluot (like sinwaki gurges, mhg. sinwage; not so good is the ohg. and mhg. smtvluot, and our siindfluth (s^-flood) is a blunder. sailors let birds fl

s beautiful compact picture in the 0. t, the eddie narrative looks crude and unpolished. not from heaven does the flood rain down, it swells up from the blood of the slain giant, whose carcase furnishes material for creating all things, and the human race itself. the insolence and violence of the annihilated giants resemble those of the sons of elohim who had mingled with the children of men; and noah s box(/a/rtaro) is like bergelmi s luftr. but the epic touches, such as the landing on the mountain, the outflying dove, the sacrifice and rainbow, would surely not have been left out, had there been any borrowing here. in the assyrian tradition, 1 kronos warns sisuthros of the coming downpour, who thereupon builds a ship, and embarks with men and beasts. three days after the rain has ceased

but they were left to propagate the human race. their vessel down to recent times lay on the mountains of armenia.2 coins of apamea, a city in phrygia, show an ark floating on the water, with a man and woman in it; on it sits a bird, another comes flying with a twig in its claws. close by stand the same human pair on firm land, holding up their right hands. beside the ark appear the letters nfl (noah, and this apamea is distinguished by the by-name of /a/3o&gt;to. 3 according to greek legend, zeus had determined to destroy mankind; at the prompting of prometheus, deucalion built an ark, which received him and pyrrha his wife. zeus then sent a mighty rain, so that hellas was flooded, and the people perished. nine days and nights deucalion floated on the waters, then landed on parnassus

n, there he bade them moor the ship, and the spot to which it was tied still bears the name of naubandhanam (ship-binding. then spake the fish: i am brahma, lord of created things, a higher than i there is not, in the shape of a fish have i delivered you; 1 ckt9ea from cict9ea is buttmann s acute suggestion; but he goes farther, taking this sisythes or sisuthros to be sesothris, sothis, seth; and noah to be dionysos, and a symbol of water. 2 buttm. p. 45 seq, who connects it with okeanos and ogenos. 3 it is remarkable, that in a beautiful simile, therefore without names or places, homer depicts a kind of deluge, ii. 16, 384: cbs 5 vwb xcuxcttti tracra kexalvrj fiefipide "xq&v ij/j,ar otrwpo y, ore xa^porarov x^ i $8w/&gt; zeus, ore 77 p dvdpecrcrt /careercrd/u.ei os xaxetttji y, o

atures, gods, asuris and men, and all the worlds, things movable and immovable. and as he had spoken, so it was done. in the bhagavatam, satydvratas (supra, p. 249) takes the place of manus, vishnus that of brahma, and the facts are embellished with philosophy. the indian myth then, like the teutonic, makes the deluge precede the real creation, whereas in the mosaic account adam lives long before noah, and the flood is not followed by a new creation. the seven rishis in the ship, as bopp remarks, are of divine rather than human nature, sons of brahma, and of an older birth than the inferior gods created by manus or their enemies the asuris (elsewhere daityas and danavas= titans, giants. but it is a great point gained for us, that manus (after whom manushyas, homo, is named) comes in as a c

ger) did deucalion. it were overbold perhaps to connect the nutshell with that nut-tree (p. 572-3, by which one vaguely expresses an unknown extraction. not all, even of the stories quoted, describe a universal deluge desolating the whole earth: that in which deucalion was rescued affected greece alone, and of such accounts of partial floods there are plenty. philemon and baucis in phrygia (where noah s ark rested, p. 577, had given shelter to the wayfaring gods, and being warned by them, fled up the mountain, and saw themselves saved when the flood rose over the land (ovid. met. 8, 620; they were changed into trees, as askr and embla were trees. a welsh folktale says, that in brecknockshire, where a large lake now lies, there once stood a great city. the king sent his messenger to the sin

aveller all day. in like manner st. gregory is escorted by three flying ravens, paul. diac. 1, 26. in the beautiful myth of king oswald, the raven who gets his plumage bound with gold (conf. the falcon, ms. 1, 38b) acts an essential part: he has nothing of the fiendish nature afterwards imputed to this bird. it shews the same tendency, that where the bible says of the raven sent out of the ark by noah, simply that he e%e,@a)v ov/c dveatpetye (gren. 8, 7, 1 all very legendary; for the hungarian attack on the monastery of herzfeld (hirutfeld) on the lippe is related much in the same way in the vita s. idae, viz. that having scaled the nolarius, but not succeeded in wrenching off the bells, they suddenly fled, aliquid ibi esse divalis numinis suspicati sunt (pertz 2, 573. here the cock does n

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life. the spirit of "king messiah" is, therefore, shown as washing his garments in the wine from above, from the creation of the world [zohar xl, 10] and king messiah is the ego purified by washing his garments (i.e, his personalities in rebirth, in the wine from above, or buddhi. adam, or a-dam, is "blood" the life of the flesh is in the blood (nephesh-soul. and adam-kadmon is the only-begotten. noah also plants a vineyard-the allegorical hotbed of future humanity. as a consequence of the adoption of the same allegory, we find it reproduced in the nazarene codex. seven vines are procreated-which seven vines are our seven races with their seven saviors or buddhas-which spring from iukabar zivo, and ferho (or parcha) raba waters them.[codex nazareus, iii, pp. 60,61] when the blessed will as

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egun to bear small, sweet apples, and last year the birds nested in their gnarled boughs. the case of charles dexter ward by h. p. lovecraft written january 1 to march, 1927 published may and july 1941 in weird tales, vol. 35, no. 9 (may 1941, 8-40; vol. 35, no. 10 (july 1941, 84-121 'the essential saltes of animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious man may have the whole ark of noah in his own studie, and raise the fine shape of an animal out of its ashes at his pleasure; and by the lyke method from the essential saltes of humane dust, a philosopher may, without any criminal necromancy, call up the shape of any dead ancestour from the dust whereinto his bodie has been incinerated- borellus i. a result and a prologe 1 from a private hospital for the insane near providence

but something in that combination affected him very badly and very peculiarly. he recalled it to the end of his days, writing it down from memory in his diary and once trying to recite it to his close friend dr. checkley till he saw how greatly it disturbed the urbane rector. it read 'the essential saltes of animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious man may have the whole ark of noah in his own studie, and raise the fine shape of an animal out of its ashes at his pleasure; and by the lyke method from the essential saltes of humane dust, a philosopher may, without any criminal necromancy, call up the shape of any dead ancestour from the dust whereinto his bodie has been incinerated' it was near the docks along the southerly part of the town street, however, that the worst

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onover writes that lovecraft wrote the history in order to allow people with any understanding of arab studies to see through the mock scholarship. note also the inconsistencies here with the description of al-hazred in the simon necronomicon. al-hazred there supposedly witnessed the horrible rituals at masshu, a mythical island at the mouth of the euphrates upon which utnapishtim, the babylonian noah, supposedly still resides today. whereas lovecraft describes the crimson desert as the place where al-hazred witnessed much of what he wrote down. note also that in the simon version, al-hazred warns against worshipping "iak-sakkak" and "kutulu, whereas lovecrafts claims he did just that. note also the improper use of the a.d. prefix until the next paragraph. kkc in a.d. 950 the azif, which h

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le ne*rly evwy myth baaed on some gnat truth 405 whence the christian sabbath 406 antiquity of the ved s 410 ^rthasoran doctrine of the potentialities of number* 417 'd*ys of (bnetu and 'days' of brahmi 422 fall ot man and the deluge in the hiadh books 425 antiquity of the mancient egyptians of the aryan race? 434 skmnel. david, and solomon mythicsl powmages 439 ^mbcjiam of noah's ark 447 "nie patriaichs identical with sodiacal signs 459 ad biue legends bdong to univenal history 4c9 chapter x the devil-myth itw devil officially recognised by the church 477 sktan tbe mainstay of sacmdolalism 480 idmtity of staaa irith the e^tiui typhod 483 ifis relatiini to mn>ent-wotship 489 the book of j^ and the book of the dead w3 the hindu devu a met*phystaj abstraction 501 satan

m. svpenatttral rtiigioit, pwt m (flth edition. digitizecoy google the source of christ's insfiration 195 seems to be utterly ignorant of the logos, and his speculation is confined to sophia, the gnosuc wisdom. there is no trace in it of a hypostatic trinity, but the same overshadowing of the gnostic wisdom (christos and sophia) is attributed in the case of jesus as it is in those of adam, enoch, noah, abraham, isaac, jacob and moses* these personages are all placed on one level, and called 'true prophets* and the seven pillars of the world. more than that, peter vehemently denies the fall of adam, and with him the doctrine of atonement, as taught by christian theology, utterly falls to the ground, for he combaie it as a hlaapkemy" peter's theory of sin is that of the jewish kabalists, and

communion. in the kabala it is shown that the aged of the aged, or 'long-face' plants a vine- yard, the latter typifying mankind; and a vine, meaning life. the spirit of ^king messiah' is therefore shown as washing hia garments in the wine from above, from the creation of the world" adam, or a-dam is 'blood* the life of the flesh is in the blood nepkeek soul" and adam>kadmon is the only-begotten. noah also plants a vineyard the allegorical hot-bed of future humanity. as a conse- quence of the adoption of the same allegory, we find it reproduced in tiie nazarene codex. seven vines are procreated, which spring from kebar-zivo* and ferho (or par'ha) raba waters them. when the blessed will ascend among the creatures of light, they shall see lavar- zivo, lord of life, and the first vine" these

ich were bon id the ilua (bou) of ibe vaten; then throufh a aerice at fonna and ?fiffnut animtlf, il at fength naefaed man" imm-m ?am, irertihio type, wbich can bj no who emanated inim the nnmalvl smyaialm k, witbout doubt, the type of adam kadmon. the hanu who ia proscnilnr of the othn jia manaa ia oridmllj identjca] inth tbe rubia. aeren prinuva] aacea >bo are tbe (oretathen ol tbe poa^dilarias noah, and hia 'lii lona' dt lubaequcnt (enbatiom, who are the orifbiali ol the poat-dihiviau and mjthi- al patriareba of tbe bible "of him who is formless, the non- existent (also the eternal, but nof fint cause, is bom the heavenly man" but after he created the form of the heavenly man hk^ mn, he "used it as a vehide wherein to descend" says tbe kabala. thus adam kadmon is the avatar of the conce

the false and foolish popular ideas concerning it need occasion no surprise. upon those who, in the remains of antiquity, see evidence that modern times can lay small claim to originafity, it is common to charge a disposition to exaggerate and distort facts. but the candid reader will scarcely aver that the above is an example in point. there were evolu- tionists before the day when the mythical noah is made, in the bible, to float in his ark; and the ancient scientists were better informed, and had their theories more logically defined than the modem evolutionists. plato, anaxagoras, pythagoras, the eleatic schools of greece, as well as the old chaldaean sacerdotal colleges, all taught the doctrine of the dual evolution; the doctrine of the transmigration of souls referring only with dta

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gies found in the buddhistic and mahommedan temples. 346 chapter the thirty-seventh. doctrine and rationale. the embodied children of the elements, both of heathen and of christian periods. 354 chapter the thirty-eighth. robert flood (robertus de fluctibus, the english rosicrucian. 361 supplementary notes. the first. notice of an ancient work (1595. 367 the second. rosicrucian views on the ark of noah. 368 the third. cabalistic illustrations. the sang-r ale, gr al, or holy gr ale. 369 concluding note. remarks upon two curious works. 372 the rosicrucians badge of the grand master of the templars. chapter the first. critics of the rosicrucians criticised. hat modern science, spite of its assumptions and of its intolerant dogmatism, is much at fault nay, to a great extent, a very vain thing i

the arts, all tradition, all intellect, all civilisation, all religious belief. the world was peopled westwards. there seems some secret, divine impress upon the world s destinies and, indeed, ingrained in cosmical matter in these matters. all faiths seem to have diverged out, the narrower or the wider, as rays from the great central sun of this tradition of the fire-original. it would seem that noah, who is suspected to be the fo, foh, or fohi, of the chinese, carried it into the farthest cathay of the middle ages. what is the chinese tien, or earliest fire? the pagodas of the chinese (which name, pagoda, was borrowed from the indian; from which country of india, indeed, probably came into china its worship, and its bhuddist doctrine of the exhaustion back into the divine light, or unpar

ans worshipped al-uza that is, venus. see bobovitis, dr. hyde parker, and others, for particulars regarding the arabian and syrian venus. she is the urani corniculat sacrum (selden, de venere syriaca. the ihr m is a sacred habit, which consists only of two woollen wrappers; one closed about the middle of devotees, to cover &c, and the other thrown over their shoulders. refer to observations about noah, later in our book; sale s discourse, p. 121; pococke s india in greece, vol. ii. part i. p. 218. the temple of venus at cyprus was the temple of venus- urania. no woman entered this temple (sale s koran, chap. vii. p. 119; note, p. 149. accordingly, anna commena and glycas (in renald. de mah) say that the mahometans do worship venus. several of the arabian idols were no more than large, rude

irregular light troops. the dolman or pelisse, properly worn on the left shoulder of the hussar, has its signification and origin in the following act related in scripture, which refers to a certain rosicrucian myth: shem and japheth took a garment (a cover or extra piece of clothing, and laid it upon both their shoulders (on the left shoulder of each, and went backward, and covered their father noah. it is astonishing how successfully this mythic act, with its original strange rosicrucian meaning, should have been hidden away in this apparently little corresponding, trivial fact, of the wearing of the hussar loose cloak or pelisse (pallium or pall) fig. 220. hussar conical cap. fig. 221. artillery. fig. 222. sapeur, pioneer. fig. 214. tartar or cossak fur cap. with double pendants. fig

f disregard and of bad taste, the blundering dishonour offered to the majestic obelisk brought to england in 1878, in the choice of its inappropriate site, and in the ignoring, for state reward, those who brought it to this country. al-huza, or venus, or venus-hussey. 299 called, with which, for very singular cabalistic reasons (which, however, do not admit of explanation, the two dutiful sons of noah covered and atoned for that disgrace of their father, when, after he had planted a vineyard, and had drunken of the wine, he lay disgracefully extended in his tent, and was seen by his son ham; whom noah denounced. the hussars (under other names) were originally eastern, saracenic, or moslem cavalry. the horse-tails and jingles, or numberless little bells, which ought to distinguish the capar

econdite of the things hidden thence its name &c, are cabalistic and alchemical, similarly to all the mythologies, which are, in their fanciful and mystic range of supposed facts, cabalistic and alchemical. the true cabalist are none other than alchemists and rosicrucians. likewise the magi, wise men, philosophers, priests, and heroes; from jason and the three kings to king arthur, and from adam, noah, abraham, and moses, to numa, paracelsus, borrichius, robertus de fluctibus (nearer our own time, and others. the rosicrucian system took the following forms: these philosophers believed that there were two principles in the beginning light and darkness, or form and the material out of which the form was. that before the creation (distinctively so called, the light itself was as divinity late

or full initiation. this method of adoring the sacti is unquestionably acknowledged by the texts regarded by the vanis as authorities for the excesses practised. wilson, on hin. sects, vol. xvii, as. res. ward, on the vaisnavas, p. 309. in gregory's works( gregory's notes and observations upon several difficult passages in scripture vol. 1. 4to. london, 1684) is to be found a significant comment noah prayed daily in the ark before the body of adam* i.e, before the phallus, or regenerator (adam being the primitive phallus, or great procreator of the human race (under its present circumstances, and in the existing dispensation. the body of adam was embalmed and transmitted from father to son, till at last it was delivered up by lamech into the hands of noah. again, the middle of the ark was

procreator of the human race (under its present circumstances, and in the existing dispensation. the body of adam was embalmed and transmitted from father to son, till at last it was delivered up by lamech into the hands of noah. again, the middle of the ark was the place of prayer (and worship) made holy by the presence of adam s body. gregory, p. 121. and so soon as ever the day began to break, noah stood up towards the body of adam &c &c, and prayed (or worshipped. here was the origin of the eucharist, as the reader will clearly see farther on (see accompanying plate) the most ancient monuments of idolatry among the gentiles were consecrated pillars (lingas, or columns, which the jews were forbidden to erect as objects of divine homage and adoration. and yet a most extraordinary lines o

nricum samuelem scipionem, anno m.d.c.c.vii (1708. auctor hujus dissert: rarissima credit: valeat acidalius. vide, inter alios, freytagii analecta de libris rarioribus, p. 5 (very ancient handwriting in the copy itself) acidalius died, aged 28 years only, 1595. hallam s lit. h, p. 14. this is only surmise. the authorship of the book is unknown. it was rigorously suppressed. the second. the ark of noah. supplementary notes to the engravings at pp. 351 and 340. note to plate mysterinm. the explanation of this engraving will be found at page 351. the ancient volume from'which it is taken is very rare, and bears the following title: antiqvitatvm ivdaicarvm (libri ix) in q is, pr ter ivd e, hierosolymorum, et templi salomonis accuratam delineationem, pr cipui sacri ac profani gentis ritus descr

olume from'which it is taken is very rare, and bears the following title: antiqvitatvm ivdaicarvm (libri ix) in q is, pr ter ivd e, hierosolymorum, et templi salomonis accuratam delineationem, pr cipui sacri ac profani gentis ritus describuntur (auctore benedicto aria montano hispalensi. adiectis formis neis. lvgdani batavorum. ex officina planteniana apud franciscum raphelengium 1593. the ark of noah-the medium of escape from the deluge, and the mythic means of the perpetuation of the human family (afterwards race. the post-diluvian signs of the zodiac are here correctly designated as in number" twelve" let the judicious reader remark that twelve times thirty are three-hundrecl-and-sixty, which is not the number of the degrees of this symbolical plan. there are twelve divisions in this ar

elve divisions in this ark. the centre space is that through which the dove or raven, escaped-out into the open in search of its new home, or into the restored world when the waters went down or disappeared. each of the twelve spaces in the accompanying plan contains twentyfive degrees which make an aggregate of three hundred degrees. the mythical figure contained in the ark is presumably that of noah. it is also evidently the symbolical figure of the saviour, and typically only that of noah; for the hands are crossed, and the feet and hands bear the marks of the incision the nails of the crucifixion (or passion. twenty-five, the number of the degrees in each space or sign of this noachic ark, arca, or chest (gigantic, are the number of the knights of the garter; with the reserved twentysi

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hundred mules bearing on their backs grain and wine, gold and silver and the hides of beasts. thus was the kindness of utanapishtim so repaid. from the tower of the barbican that guarded the gates of the city, the son of lamech watched the tribute-bringers go far from the city walls with the riches of his treasury to bestow upon a foreign land that which his father's spear had one. for this wept noah, son of lamech 227 and spoke thus, looking back into the city and upon the barrow-gate, now sealed by the hands of his father's knights where lamech's bones now joined those of noah's noble ancestors "so to this is my kingdom come. how great is this shame and ignominy that my once noble line is brought low by the thousand enemies that surround my walls. once was the line of methuselah feared

servant and even before such a terror, was methuselah ever defiant and strong, demonstrating those very qualities that the shedim would themselves boast and advance. thus abaddon struck down methuselah and showed the mettle of the shedim's vows. now utanapishtim has struck down my father, he that is the favourite of chadel, 228 high shurupuk's king, and thus do they again betray the ancestors of noah, those dwellers in darkness, and deliver my kingdom to the thrall of those they would love above me. mightiest in battle was great lamech. how then could those soft people of shurupuk have slain him in the fray when his spear is sharp and his arm is strong. again do i perceive the art of satan and it does work against me. the shedim blunted the barb of my father's spear and made weak his arm

ove above me. mightiest in battle was great lamech. how then could those soft people of shurupuk have slain him in the fray when his spear is sharp and his arm is strong. again do i perceive the art of satan and it does work against me. the shedim blunted the barb of my father's spear and made weak his arm with enchantments. thus do the people of chadel conspire with men to accomplish the ruin of noah. for these thousand perfidies against me i do revile the inconstant shedim and, without their aid, shall noah find prosperity for they have availed me not. hear me then in deep chadel, satan, noah does stand as your adversary and i shall oppose you and those you love with all the strength that i have and undo all your deeds on earth. hear thus the will of noah" so was noah seduced by hatred f

for they have availed me not. hear me then in deep chadel, satan, noah does stand as your adversary and i shall oppose you and those you love with all the strength that i have and undo all your deeds on earth. hear thus the will of noah" so was noah seduced by hatred for all that he had lost that he would hold and did curse me for his troubles though i caused them not. as the caravan was lost to noah's sight a voice behind him rang out, beautiful and bright, like the trumpet yet endowed with most august majesty. turning he perceived, arrayed in robes of white, resplendent in a crown of gold chief of all the elohim, michael. thus did the prince of heaven achieve by fortune that which was won not by device. thus spoke perfidious michael, once my brother "o noah, son of lamech, 229 do you th

our heart, son of lamech, is much light that shines out, banishing all evil. not all the deceptions of the shedim can assail your soul but your virtue burns like a torch and itself reaches out in piety to assail the walls of chadel. no shedim device may conquer one so pure as you so that which they may not win they reach out to destroy and ruin, breaking with despair and ten thousand woes saintly noah, enemy of their evil. for this do the shedim conspire against you, strengthening your foes' arms and stealing the strength of your own forces. 230 by their malice does the might of babylon, den of all sin, wax great against you and thus are you cast into the power of those villains that satan favours. because of the wickedness that is sustained upon the earth, adonai yahweh cannot intervene u

r this do the shedim conspire against you, strengthening your foes' arms and stealing the strength of your own forces. 230 by their malice does the might of babylon, den of all sin, wax great against you and thus are you cast into the power of those villains that satan favours. because of the wickedness that is sustained upon the earth, adonai yahweh cannot intervene upon the side of his favoured noah and grant you victory in your long struggle. yet if you would but kneel to god and pledge your soul to his service then surely would his intervention come for so long as one good man lives upon the earth then adonai yahweh shall be powerful over satan. kneel then before adonai yahweh, lord, and become his instrument upon the earth. you shall become a scourge against the wicked and your arm sh

kneel then before adonai yahweh, lord, and become his instrument upon the earth. you shall become a scourge against the wicked and your arm shall be strengthened against the transgressors. by you shall adonai yahweh purge creation of all that is most villainous and base and thus shall the world be restored to the grace before the coming of satan" hearing these words of michael the bitter heart of noah was won. how ready men are to believe false witness against those that they already malign. once again did michael turn hearts against me with his liar's tongue and voice. before the angel michael noah went upon his knees and touched upon the floor his forehead, abasing himself before worthless god. now seeing that his work was done michael smiled and rose once more towards heaven upon bright

ady men are to believe false witness against those that they already malign. once again did michael turn hearts against me with his liar's tongue and voice. before the angel michael noah went upon his knees and touched upon the floor his forehead, abasing himself before worthless god. now seeing that his work was done michael smiled and rose once more towards heaven upon bright wings, speaking to noah this final instruction as he departed "await me, noah, for i shall return with instruction from your new king. in the perfect law of god you shall be schooled and, obeying those laws that i shall teach you, you shall grow bright in the eyes of god 231 who is most kind to those that would please him, bestowing upon them a thousand gifts and soothing ten thousand sufferings. through you shall g

e perfect law of god you shall be schooled and, obeying those laws that i shall teach you, you shall grow bright in the eyes of god 231 who is most kind to those that would please him, bestowing upon them a thousand gifts and soothing ten thousand sufferings. through you shall god oppose the transgressors and bring upon them a terrible castigation. thus shall the evil that oppresses you, faithful noah, be forever vanquished and all the earth shall be the kingdom of the righteous. await then the return of michael, faithfully, without doubt in your soul. return i shall with the word of god" thus went michael upon his return to heaven, upon beating wings of blazing gold, his fading light becoming as a star in the sky then first fading and then blinking away. all this did noah watch in silence

their reverence and with scornful words banished them from his presence. now he went to his sons and consorts where they revelled in a courtyard set around a silver pool with darting fish, drinking wine and feasting on many meats, dancing to the music played by lutesmen, hidden from sight by crimson veils, conjuring phantom music that serenaded the heart with distant beauty, like a dream. now was noah seized up by a rage and he went amongst his family, casting wine and meats into the water, to the fishes 232 who dined well upon that night. screaming in his wrath, noah reprimanded those who caroused in that courtyard as was the custom of their family. noah now seized up a rod to his right hand and, tearing away the drapes, beat from his home those who played sweet music. now again he spoke

e to work his will against the transgressors and bring a terrible judgement upon them. for this reason has satan sought my ruin. now, anointed for this great task, i return to the household that is my own to discover those very crimes that i am used against. what disgrace is wrought upon me that my own family is guilty of that which god despises! there shall be no more of such sin in the house of noah, man of adonai yahweh. now you must all make yourselves humble before god. kneel and he shall forgive you all despite your thousand faults and flaws. god is most merciful, oft-forgiving, and his chastisement to terrible to those that trangress" hearing the words of noah the concubines and sons of the prince were dismayed at what he said but the foolish prince had chosen for himself consorts o

e that trangress" hearing the words of noah the concubines and sons of the prince were dismayed at what he said but the foolish prince had chosen for himself consorts of weak-will, easily dominated by his own jealous authority and had raised those children of his to regard well what he desired. thus did he build false strength for himself and succour well his pride. not as noble as his father was noah. 234 so was his family swayed by his wrath and acceded to that which he desired. as the sun rose above the hills in the east, cupric venus going before, burning brighter than sirius, as the night passed away as the new day was inaugurated in the red dawn-light, noah went with his wives and sons into the desert beyond the city-walls and there prayed to lofty heaven and knelt in abasement more

ight, noah went with his wives and sons into the desert beyond the city-walls and there prayed to lofty heaven and knelt in abasement more worthy of beasts to the throne of adonai yahweh. thus did he await the elohim, michael, with his family, giving them over to heaven as beasts at the market-place. all day did they wait and pray for some vision of the prince of heaven who had vowed to meet with noah and instruct him in the law of god, that mankind might be bound also to the will of him eluded by the shedim. nephilim and shedim shall kneel no more but go as proud gods upon the earth. as all this had passed upon the earth so had the happenings in heaven been consequential. flying swift from the earth to heaven and passing there straight to the heart, going on swift wings to the eternal tow

keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, weary are my wings from swift flight, for i have come like a comet from the earth with words that i rejoice to speak and tell to the king of heaven such good things do they tell of. it is of noah, son of lamech, of whom the words of michael tell who, with his own voice, cursed the accursed one and reviled the deeds of shedim. his kingdom having been conquered by shurupuk, favoured of satan of all the tribes of men for high honour and brave endeavour, and by the hand of utanapishtim his father being slain, he reviles 236 the shedim, believing in his sorrow that they do contend against

onquered by shurupuk, favoured of satan of all the tribes of men for high honour and brave endeavour, and by the hand of utanapishtim his father being slain, he reviles 236 the shedim, believing in his sorrow that they do contend against him. his grandsire's fall at the destroyer's sword, havoc the ruiner that bleeds the blood of knights, but makes double strong his conviction. in truth, wretched noah has lost all due to his father's own rash contention and the cowardice of lamech upon the field. yet for these things he cannot blame his own blood but must rather seek another to bear that burden. thus he his easily won to our cause. hearing then his prosecution against the dwellers in chadel as i kept my own vigil o'er the earth i hastened to him to thus inform him of an alliance between hi

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referred to as the accusing angel, and in hebrew mastema means animosity. mastema works for god to tempt mankind and as an executioner. a large number of demons are under his charge. these evil spirits were born from the dead bodies of giants killed by god that were the offspring of fallen angels and mortal earth women. one legend tells how after the flood god intended to comply with a request of noah s to lock away all of the evil spirits underground. but mastema was able to convince god that it would be wise to allow some of the demons to continue their work, as sinful mortals still needed to be kept in line and have their faith tested at times. god agreed to allow one-tenth of the demons carry on their work under mastema s supervision. there are other references to mastema, such as in e

eings who would be positive and non-violent (rael 1986, 94 95. certain biblical stories, such as the flood, are explained in terms of the intervention of satan s party: the group who believed that nothing but evil came out of man, presided on by one of the elohim named satan, finally triumphed, and the destruction of all life on earth came about by the flood (ibid, 4. according to this narrative, noah s ark was actually a space ship within which another party of elohim preserved humanity. making a positive use of satan s negative attitude toward humanity, satan became responsible for testing the faithfulness of the prophets chosen to relay the message of the elohim: once a person had been contracted by the messengers of the elohim, telling him of his mission, satan, or one of his men, woul

e subject. taking note of abduction stories in which witnesses claim sexual contact with aliens, apparently to create hybrid beings, it declares that ufos and their occupants are under the authority of the prince of the power of the air, prince of the aerial host, lord of those that fly] satan. jesus warned that one of the signs of the end times was that it would be just as it was in the times of noah. in genesis we see the account of nonhuman intelligent beings breeding with humans, creating hybrids and contributing to the proliferation of evil against god. the messages we see from contact with extraterrestrials and other advanced beings contain claims that they are the ones who created us, through genetic manipulation( ufos, aliens n.d; original italics. jerome clark see also demons for

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nts of the speaker, 1 see childers, pali dictionary, s.v. nibbana. science and buddhism 103 but here i have nothing to do with what is uncertain.1 there is an excellent test for the value of any passage in a buddhist book. we are, i think, justified in discarding passages which are clearly oriental fiction, just as modern criticism, however secretly theistic, discards the story of hasisadra or of noah. in justice to buddhism, let us not charge its scripture with the sisyphean task of seriously upholding the literal interpretation of obviously fantastic passages.2 may our buddhist zealots be warned by the fate of old-fashioned english orthodoxy! but when buddhism condescends to be vulgarly scientific; to observe, to classify, to think; i conceive we may take the matter seriously, and accord

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ety that actually engaged in slaveholding, it is argued, would hardly derive slaves and the rest of the population from a single progenitor, and more important, the division into three groups is typical of medieval social thinking, even if the three groups would ordinarily be laborers, warriors, and priests. thomas hill argued for an ultimate connection with the old testament story of the sons of noah. although rigsthula offers a social-foundation myth, it had little effect on the mythology as it is understood for the purposes of this book. snorri never recounts any aspect of it, and there are no kennings based on it or references to it elsewhere, with the possible exception of the reference to all the holy families as the kin of heimdall in voluspa, stanza 1. even that accords poorly with

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thors of masonic exposures, dermott returns to the subject of masonry: certain it is. that free-masonry has been from the creation (though not under that name; that it was a divine gift from god; that cain and the builders of his city were strangers to the secret mystery of masonry; that there were but four masons in the world when the deluge happened, that one of the four, even the second son of noah, was not master of the art; that neither nimrod, nor any of his bricklayers, knew any thing of the matter, and that there were but very few masters of the art (even) at solomon's temple; whereby it plainly appears, that the whole mystery was communicated to very few at that time; that at solomon's temple (and not before) it received the name free-masonry, because the masons at jerusalem and t

al with the above sciences,"32 we should note the parallel between this statement and the traditional kabbalistic teaching which says that immediately after "the fall" the lord sent the archangel raziel (whose name means "the secrets of god) to teach adam the ways by which his lost status could be regained. harper goes on to say that the "royal art" was transmitted from adam through methuselah to noah (and so on) who preserved it. with a veneration and prudence suitable to its great importance "33 then he goes on to say that mankind. adhered to the lessons of nature" and by doing so man learned the secrets of. creating habitations and cultivating the ground" and finally. by degrees to form the sciences of geometry and architecture "34 it is significant that the "royal art" is said to have

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he priest's command this specially cut stone was a burning glass, by which the sun's rays were concentrated to light the altar fires. the druids also had other symbolic implements, such as the peculiarly shaped golden sickle with which they cut the mistletoe from the oak, and the cornan, or scepter, in the form of a crescent, symbolic of the sixth day of the increasing moon and also of the ark of noah. an early initiate of the druidic mysteries related that admission to their midnight ceremony was gained by means of a glass boat, called cwrwg gwydrin. this boat symbolized the moon, which, floating upon the waters of eternity, preserved the seeds of living creatures within its boatlike crescent. p. 23 integrity from the most learned members of the higher druidic degrees. according to james

the sea now is. h. p. blavatsky thus sums up the causes which precipitated the atlantean disaster "under the evil insinuations of their demon, thevetat, the atlantis-race became a nation of wicked magicians. in consequence of this, war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in the disfigured allegories of the race of cain, the giants, and that of noah and his righteous family. the conflict came to an end by the submersion of the atlantis; which finds its imitation in the stories of the babylonian and mosaic flood: the giants and magicians* and all flesh died* and every man' all except xisuthrus and noah, who are substantially identical with the great father of the thlinkithians in the popol vuh, or the sacred book of the guatemaleans, whic

the submersion of the atlantis; which finds its imitation in the stories of the babylonian and mosaic flood: the giants and magicians* and all flesh died* and every man' all except xisuthrus and noah, who are substantially identical with the great father of the thlinkithians in the popol vuh, or the sacred book of the guatemaleans, which also tells of his escaping in a large boat, like the hindu noah--vaiswasvata (see isis unveiled) from the atlanteans the world has received not only the heritage of arts and crafts, philosophies and sciences, ethics and religions, but also the heritage of hate, strife, and perversion. the atlanteans instigated the first war; and it has been said that all subsequent wars were fought in a fruitless effort to justify the first one and right the wrong which i

ent, they would realize that there is only one urge in the soul of man capable of supplying the required incentive--namely, the desire to know, to understand, and to exchange the narrowness of human mortality for the greater breadth and scope of divine enlightenment. so men say of the great pyramid that it is the most perfect building in the world, the source of weights and measures, the original noah's ark, the origin of languages, alphabets. and scales of temperature and humidity. few realize, however, that it is the gateway to the eternal. though the modern world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one--and that one was greater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, a

the theory that she was a historical individual. according to sextus empyricus, the trojan war was fought over a statue of the moon goddess. for this lunar helena, and not for a woman, the greeks and trojans struggled at the gates of troy. several authors have attempted to prove that isis, osiris, typhon, nephthys, and aroueris (thoth, or mercury) were grandchildren of the great jewish patriarch noah by his son ham. but as the story of noah and his ark is a cosmic allegory concerning the repopulation of planets at the beginning of each world period, this only makes it less likely that they were historical personages. according to robert fludd, the sun has three properties--life, light, and heat. these three vivify and vitalize the three worlds- spiritual, intellectual, and material. there

nd 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 declares that the pans and satyrs (the nature spirits and elementals) first discovered that osiris had been murdered. these immediately raised an alarm, and from this incident the word panic, meaning fright or amazement of the multitudes, originated. isis, upon receiving the news of her husband's murder, which she learned from some c

lebrated of all the symbolic creatures fabricated by the ancient mysteries for the purpose of concealing the great truths of esoteric philosophy. though modern scholars of natural history declare the existence of the phoenix to be purely mythical, pliny describes the capture of one of these birds and it exhibition in the roman forum during the reign of the emperor claudius. p. 90 from the days of noah by all those who were of the church of god. the prophet sent to ninevah as god's messenger was called jonah or the dove; our lord's forerunner, the baptist, was called in greek by the name of ioannes; and so was the apostle of love, the author of the fourth gospel and of the apocalypse, named ioannes (bryant's analysis of ancient mythology) in masonry the dove is the symbol of purity and inno

hich was the progenitor and instructor of mankind, as described by berossus. the winged horse and the magic carpet both symbolize the secret doctrine and the spiritualized body of man. the wooden horse of troy, secreting an army for the capture of the city, represents man's body concealing within it those infinite potentialities which will later come forth and conquer his environment. again, like noah's ark, it represents the spiritual nature of man as containing a host of latent potentialities which subsequently become active. the siege of troy is a symbolic account of the abduction of the human soul (helena) by the personality (paris) and its final redemption, through persevering struggle, by the secret doctrine--the greek army under the command of agamemnon. click to enlarge neas and th

ncients made of the tree and its products are factors in its symbolism. its worship was, to a certain degree, based upon its usefulness. of this j. p. lundy writes "trees occupy such an important place in the economy of nature by way of attracting and retaining moisture, and shading the water-sources and the soil so as to prevent barrenness and desolation; the, are so click to enlarge the tree of noah. from the "breeches" bible of 1599. most bibles published during the middle ages contain a section devoted to genealogical tables showing the descent of humanity from father adam to the advent of jesus christ. the tree growing from the roof of the ark represents the body of noah and its three branches, his sons--shem, ham, and japheth. the nations by the descendents of noah's three sons are a

amander was lizard-like in shape, a foot or more in length, and visible as a glowing urodela, twisting and crawling in the midst of the fire. another group was described as huge flaming giants in flowing robes, protected with sheets of fiery armor. certain medi val authorities, among them the abb de villars, held that zarathustra (zoroaster) was the son of vesta (believed to have been the wife of noah) and the great salamander oromasis. hence, from that time onward, undying fires have been maintained upon the persian altars in honor of zarathustra's flaming father. one most important subdivision of the salamanders was the acthnici. these creatures appeared only as indistinct globes. they were supposed to float over water at night and occasionally to appear as forks of flame on the masts an

ht regain its lost a estate. the angel raziel was dispatched from heaven to instruct adam in the mysteries of the qabbalah. different angels were employed to initiate the succeeding patriarchs in this difficult science. tophiel was the teacher of shem, raphael of isaac, metatron of moses, and michael of david (see faiths of the world) christian d. ginsburg has written "from adam it passed over to noah, and then to abraham, the friend of god, who emigrated with it to egypt, where the patriarch allowed a portion of this mysterious doctrine to ooze out. it was in this way that the egyptians obtained some knowledge of it, and the other eastern nations could introduce it into their philosophical systems. moses, who was learned in all the wisdom of egypt, was first initiated into it in the land

tution of man, conferred conscious immortality upon the demiurgic fabrications. that phallic symbolism occupies an important place in early jewish mysticism is indisputable. hargrave jennings sees in the figure of adam a type of the lingam of shiva, which was a stone representative of the creative power of the world generator "in gregorie's works" writes jennings "is a passage to the effect that 'noah daily prayed in the ark before the body of adam' i.e, before the phallus--adam being the primitive phallus, great procreator of the human race 'it may possibly seem strange' he says 'that this orison should be daily said before the body of adam' but 'it is a most confessed tradition among the eastern men that adam was commanded by god that his dead body should be kept above ground till a full

nfessed tradition among the eastern men that adam was commanded by god that his dead body should be kept above ground till a fullness of time should come to commit it to the middle of the earth by a priest of the most high god' this means mount moriah, the meru of india 'this body of adam was embalmed and transmitted from father to son, till at last it was delivered up by lamech into the hands of noah (see phallicism) this interpretation somewhat clarifies the qabbalistic assertion that in the first adam were contained all the souls of the israelites (see sod) though according to the aurea legenda adam was buried with the three seeds of the tree of knowledge in his mouth, it should be borne in mind that apparently conflicting myths were often woven around a single individual. one of the pr

thus becomes the type of the temple, for the house of god-like primitive man--was a microcosm or epitome of the universe. in the mysteries, adam is accredited with having the peculiar power of spiritual generation. instead of reproducing his kind by the physical generative processes, he caused to issue from himself--or, more correctly, to be reflected upon substance--a shadow of click to enlarge noah and his zodiacal ark. from myer's qabbalah. the early church father--notably tertullian, firmilian, st. cyprian, st. augustine, and st. chrysostom- recognized in the ark a type or symbol of the holy catholic church. bede the venerable, declared that noah in all things typified christ as noah alone of his generation was just, so christ alone was without sin. with christ there was a sevenfold s

ark. from myer's qabbalah. the early church father--notably tertullian, firmilian, st. cyprian, st. augustine, and st. chrysostom- recognized in the ark a type or symbol of the holy catholic church. bede the venerable, declared that noah in all things typified christ as noah alone of his generation was just, so christ alone was without sin. with christ there was a sevenfold spirit of grace: with noah seven righteous persons. noah by water and wood saved his own family christ by baptism and the cross saves christians. the ark was built of wood that did not decay. the church is composed of men who will live forever, for this ark means the church which floats upon the waves of the world. the diagram shown above is also reproduced in the rosicrucians, by hargrave jennings. this author adds to

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sons of god" or "watchers of the heavens" as they were entitled, elected to mate with womankind. the book of genesis briefly records the legend thus: and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took wives of all which they chose. however, the ancient book of noah written several hundred years before the birth of christ is more explicit. and the angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after them [the daughters of men] and said one to another "come let us choose wives from among the children of men and beget us children. and all the others together took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and d

on) according to that collection of ancient cabalistic lore, the zohar, great azael and his cohorts had had to assume tangible bodies in order to descend upon the earth. because of their revolt against higher authority and the ties with this world which they had subsequently formed, they were unable to divest themselves of these material forms and re-ascend into the heavenly spaces again "book of noah" from charles canon, book of enoch, london, society for promoting christian knowledge, 1962. reprinted from oxford university press edition, 1912- it is from these exiled beings that all true magical knowledge and power is said to be derived. laban, reputedly one of the greatest adepts in magical art of pre-flood times, visited the mountaintop wherein they dwelt, to learn his wisdom. this ide

e lore of the witch. the wisdom was said to have been borne away from the lost lands prior to the cataclysm by certain survivors, who knew the minds of the watchers, and fled the oncoming doom. the knowledge is said to have been preserved until such a time as bit by bit in devious manners it could be secretly reintroduced to humanity once more. babylonian legends of uta-napishtim and the biblical noah or his greek parallel, deucalion, all contain echoes of this belief. witch lore, moreover, tells of settlers from the lost lands coming in their wanderings to the land which is now britain and northern europe, or middle earth as it was called in old english, and mingling with the neolithic cultures then in existence. it was the people produced by this intermingling that the iron-bearing celts

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

oked, he acquired the knowledge of all created things. i conjure ye by the indivisible name iod, which marketh and expresseth the simplicity and the unity of the nature divine, which abel having invoked, he deserved to escape from the hands of cain his brother. book one page 25 i conjure ye by the name tetragrammaton elohim, which expresseth and signifieth the grandeur of so lofty a majesty, that noah having pronounced it, saved himself, and protected himself with his whole household from the waters of the deluge. i conjure ye by the name of god el strong and wonderful, which denoteth the mercy and goodness of his majesty divine, which abraham having invoked, he was found worthy to come forth from the ur of the chaldeans. i conjure ye by the most powerful name of elohim gibor, which showet

in our lips; and by his holy names, and by the virtue of the sovereign god, we shall accomplish all our work. the key of solomon page 28 come ye at once without any hideousness or deformity before us, come ye without monstrous appearance, in a gracious form or figure. come ye, for we exorcise ye with the utmost vehemence by the name of iao and on, which adam spake and heard; by the name el, which noah heard, and saved himself with all his family from the deluge; by the name iod, which noah heard, and knew god the almighty one; by the name agla, which jacob heard, and saw the ladder which touched heaven, and the angels who ascended and descended upon it, whence he called that place the house of god and the gate of heaven; and by the name elohim, and in the name elohim, which moses named, in

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tremble andquake before them and to flee from them. and again i saw how they began to gore each otherand to devour each other and the earth began to cry aloud (book of enoch) i saw in a vision how the heavens collapsedand when it fell to earth i saw how the earthwas swallowed up in a great abyssand i lifted up my voice to cry aloud, and said theearth is destroyed (book of enoch) and in those days noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh.and he arose from thence and went to the end of the earth and cried aloud to his grandfatherenoch, and noah said bitterly, three times, hear me, hear me, hear me! and i (enoch)said unto him, tell me what it is that is falling upon the earth that it is in such evil plight andshaken(book of enoch)and the third angel sounded, and t

noes, and swept away cities andlargely populated districts almost in a flash (ibid)it has been suggestedthat the changes now at work in prehistory herald the shift to a newparadigm,made necessary by the collapse of the first paradigm(colin renfrew, beforecivilization)when we hear of the coming of the angels of the lord to humans, like manu (india),satyaravata (india, khasistra (india, yima (iran, noah (semetic, deucalion(greece, dwyfan (wales, nuada (ireland, bergelmir (scandinavia, coxcox (mex-ico, and nata (aztec) warning of the coming deluge, we must understand that it ismembers of the sons of the serpents who brought the warnings and not, as isbelieved, the representatives of jehovah.records of blood and stone52atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis, alien visita

gegrandchild. the latter says to the concerned grandfather:this child which is born to you shall survive on the earth, and his sons shall be saved withhim. when all mankind who are on the earth die, he shall be safe. and this posterity shallbeget on the earth giants, not spiritual, but carnal. now therefore inform thy son lamechthat he who is born is his child in truth; and he shall call his name noah, for he shall be toyou a survivor .in his work called metamorphoses or the golden ass, we read about the god apollosaying strange words regarding the birth of the goddess psyche: on some high crag, o king, set forth the maid, in all the pomp of funeral robes arrayed. hope for no bridegroom born of mortal seed but fierce and wild and of the dragon s breed there is even some evidence of cloning

elves must be morally pure? if satan could even have the ability to aspire toward supreme godhead, and if thereare hierarchies of angels, etc, then perhaps god can indeed be surpassed? what arewe to make of this? we find that jehovah told a lie. eve did eat of the prohibited tree, but did not, as waswarned, die. so how and why would a god that puts such currency in morality telllies? god promised noah after the flood that he would never visit the world with likecalamity again..but there have been innumerable devastations unleashed on earth,which taken together would rival and even surpass the horror and death-toll of a pre-historic aeon. why does god create mankind and then lamenting his great evil nature proceed todestroy all his creations? why not confine the act to mankind alone? and wo

ery beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. appendix b: book abstracts174atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation that dead meat was indeed eaten is indicated elsewhere in genesis, which mentions how godinstructed noah:but the flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.this was an injunction that living animals were not to be eaten. relocation and dispersion. the post-diluvian peoples took to nomadic life-styles.fortean anomaliesthese include strange sightings, rains and encounters can be explained when earths orbit again passes into or near a belt of matter that is still exis

, we should still be far removed fromany basic understanding of mathematics, engineering or sciencebut here we are, only 7,000 yearslater, landing probes on marsso, how did we inherit wisdom, and from whom (p. 11)distortionswe shouldconsider how it was that the original hebrew compilers of genesis, nearly 3,500 yearsafter the flood, grafted uta-napishtims story into the lifetime of the much later noah (p. 23)jehovah= el elyonthe prototype of jehovah was the canaanite king, el elyon. he was the bestower of titles of lordship.his headquarters was between the tigris and euphrates (see p. 24)el shaddaianother canaanite precursor to jehovah, an appellation for deity used by the hebrews.the hebrew allegiance to jehovahwas not made in the time of abraham, nor even in the time of moses it occurred

-ite, but as a sumerian (p. 25)hebrew and israelitethe name hebrew derives from the patriarch eber (heber/abhar, six generations before abraham.the term israelite comes from the renaming of abrahams grandson jacob, who became known asisrael (p. 26)long kept records the opening verses of genesis were composed in the sixth century b.c, roughly 1,400 years afterthe time of abraham, 2,000 years after noah and 3,500 years after the mesopotamian flood. but fromwhere would such ancient genealogical records have been obtained? who would have recorded andmaintained the patriarchal lineage through so many centuries (p. 27)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation213 appendix b: book abstracts line of abraham prestigiousthe most intriguing factor is not that this influential line was recor

tem (based on a york rite, which retains onlyvague allegories and obscure ritual. there is no alchemical science now taught in these lodges, as wasthe case with the early scottish rite; the emphasis is now on charitable works, coupled with meaning-less ceremonies that leave lodge members quite bewildered as to the true scientific nature of the order.(p. 161)canaanitesnamed after the cursed son of noah, canaan (see p. 162)the canaanites were generally perceived as enemies of the hebrews who emerged from the linefrom shem (p. 162)abrahams familyhis wife sarai is renamed sarah, meaning princess. she is said to be barren but conceives issac any-way.hagar and ishmaelwhile barren, abraham takes hagar, the handmaiden of sarah. from this union comes ishmael. sincehagar, is reported to not only be

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he nephilim. these nephilim, often referred to as giants, had super-human strength and abilities, and were known as men of renown. this early civilization, which included fallen angels, nephilim, and humans became increasingly wicked. after our wickedness reached a boiling point, god could no longer restrain his angry hand, so he--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 4 alerts a righteous man named noah that he is soon to destroy the world in a flood, and that noah s family should begin straight-away building a large boat, so that he and his family may survive the earth s coming inundation. what s more, noah was told to bring 2 of every animal so that earth may be repopulated after the flood waters subside. the vast majority of angels, nephilim, and mankind were killed in this flood which la

flood, and that noah s family should begin straight-away building a large boat, so that he and his family may survive the earth s coming inundation. what s more, noah was told to bring 2 of every animal so that earth may be repopulated after the flood waters subside. the vast majority of angels, nephilim, and mankind were killed in this flood which lasted for 40 days. before the waters subsided, noah released a raven from the ark to discover whether dry land was yet peaking above the waters, but it only flew back and forth. next noah released a dove into the air, and the bird returned with an olive branch, indicating to noah that there was indeed land nearby. with the waters subsiding, the ark would come to rest on a mountain named ararat. noah, his family, and the animals exited the ark

yet peaking above the waters, but it only flew back and forth. next noah released a dove into the air, and the bird returned with an olive branch, indicating to noah that there was indeed land nearby. with the waters subsiding, the ark would come to rest on a mountain named ararat. noah, his family, and the animals exited the ark and once more began to replenish the earth. after the decedents of noah (humanity) successfully repopulate the earth, they again lose the god s favor. instead of dispersing and filling every quarter of the planet, they concentrate in a land called babylonia. the king of babylonia, nimrod, endeavored to build a tower that could reach heaven; this is the famous tower of babel. god, who was enraged by nimrod s presumption and arrogance, takes matters into his own ha

bergelmir and his wife who survived the flood using a hollowed-out tree trunk as a vessel. in the sumerian/babylonian accounts (2500bc, allegedly, a man named utnapishtim is warned by the god ea that another god enlil intends to flood the earth. utnapishtim then built a massive boat, and loaded his wife and 2 of every creature aboard. as the flood began to subside, utnapishtim released a dove, as noah did, to see if there was dry land nearby. and like noah from the bible, the boat finally rested on a mountain. in chinese mythology, gong the serpent-looking water god, wanted to expand his sphere of influence and so contrived to flood the world. gong nearly succeeded but was stopped by the righteous god zurong. in greek mythology, zeus is enraged by the evil mankind was partaking in and so t

california tell tales of a small remnant of humanity surviving a great flood by taking refuge on mountaintops. the chickasaw people of america s dakota region say that a great flood destroyed all of humanity, with the exception of a small family and 2 of every creature. and as for the jews and muslim s, they pretty much echo the bible s version of events. and of coarse you have the aforementioned noah, whose family survived a massive flood in a boat with 2 of every animal, released birds to indicate the presence of dry land, and landed on a mountain. did humanity have a collective bad dream? did a deluge of biblical proportions (forgive me) leave an imprint so deep that none were left unscaved? how did the traditions of so many civilizations who never made contact come to contain so many c

of azazel, as if azazel were in fact a separate entity who, while tempting eve, was possessed by satan. this follows the avatar model, where multiple gods are related to a single god and vice-versa. after giving man magical knowledge that was forbidden by god, and mating with human women, the book of enoch describes the fallen angels, their offspring, and almost the whole of humanity (except for noah and his family) being destroyed by a flood whose cause was divine. black magicians, to this day, revere azazel and the rest as heroes for bringing the flame of magic and transformation to humanity. this story of god s enemy who, against the wishes of god, gives fire to mankind is also echoed in greek mythology. black magicians often equate azazel from the book of enoch, with lucifer and the g

urs in--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 76 the bible, peter i 3:18 which states for christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to god, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of god waited in the days of noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. i have long heard satanists make reference to the time when jesus descended into the prison of spirits after his death, but i just thought it was more of their hero/villain swapping that they re so good at; everyone knows jesus went up, not down. but then i was directed to this bible verse, which shook my v

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three_ and _four; and the _seven_ epistles are also so divided. in the seals, trumpets, and vials, also, of this symbolic vision, the _seven_ are divided by _four_ and _three. he who sends his message to ephesus "holds the _seven_ stars in his right hand, and walks amid the _seven_ golden lamps" in _six_ days, or periods, god created the universe, and paused on the _seventh_ day. of clean beasts, noah was directed to take by _sevens_ into the ark; and of fowls by _sevens; because in _seven_ days the rain was to commence. on the _seven_teenth day of the month, the rain began; on the _seven_teenth day of the _seventh_ month, that ark rested on ararat. when the dove returned, noah waited _seven_ days before he sent her forth again; and again _seven, after she returned with the olive-leaf. eno

y the triple triangle. ten includes all the other numbers. it is especially _seven_ and _three; and is called the number of perfection. pythagoras represented it by the tetractys, which had many mystic meanings. this symbol is sometimes composed of dots or points, sometimes of commas or yods, and in the kabalah, of the letters of the name of deity. it is thus arranged, the patriarchs from adam to noah, inclusive, are _ten_ in number, and the same number is that of the commandments. twelve is the number of the lines of equal length that form a cube. it is the number of the months, the tribes, and the apostles; of the oxen under the brazen sea, of the stones on the breast-plate of the high priest. iii. the master. to understand literally the symbols and allegories of oriental books as to ant

e symbol of which was the lion's head. and victory and glory[_tsabaoth, which are the two columns jachin and boaz, that stand in the portico of the temple of masonry. to the christian mason they are the first three letters of the name of the son of god, who died upon the cross to redeem mankind _qu_ what is the first of the three covenants, of which we bear the mark _ans_ that which god made with noah; when he said "i will not again curse the earth any more for man's sake, neither will i smite any more everything living as i have done. while the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. i will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you, and with every living creature. all mankind shall no more be c

teps of solomon's temple, which symbol is furnished us by the first point or rule of the scottish masters "after preparing the first substance, you are to extract the second, sulphur, out of the purest gold, to which must then be added the purified or celestial salt. they are to be mixed as the art directs, and then placed in a vessel in the form of a ship, in which it is to remain, as the ark of noah was afloat, one hundred and fifty days, being brought to the first damp, warm degree of fire, that it may putrefy and produce the mineral fermentation. this is the second point or rule of the scottish masters" if you reflect, my brother, that it was impossible for any one to imagine that either common salt or nitre could be extracted from rain-water, or sulphur from pure gold, you will no dou

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eat mysteries, with the south and hadit, adad, set, saturn, adonai, attis, adonis; he is even the "jesus, slain with the lance, whose blood is collected in a cup. yet he is also to be identified with the opposite party of the north and nuit, with the "john" slain with the sword, whose flesh is placed upon a disk, in the lesser mysteries, baptizing with water as "jesus" with fire, with on, qannes, noah, and the like. it seems as if this great division, which has wrought such appalling havoc upon earth, was originally no more than a distinction adopted for convenience. it is indeed the task of this book to reduce theology to the interplay of the dyad nuit and hadit, these being themselves conceived as complementary, as two equivalent to naught "divided for love's sake, for the chance of unio

ours do well to assist one who is weak by accident or misfortune, if he wishes to recover. but it is a crime against the state and against the individuals in question to hinder the gambler, the drunkard, the voluptuary, the congenital defective, from drifting to death, unless they prove, by their own dogged determination to master their circumstances, that they are fit to pull their weight in the noah's ark of mankind. 73. ah! ah! death! death! thou shalt long for death. death is forbidden, o man, unto thee. there is a connection between death, sleep, and our lady nuit (this is worked out, on profane lines, by dr. sigmund freud, and his school, especially by jung, psychology of the unconscious, which the reader should consult) the fatigue of the day's toil creates the toxins whose accumula

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

d strabo's ordinary gloss, which, from the ninth to the sixteenth century, accompanied all editions of the bible* emile male describes this book as one of the most valuable to come down to us from the middle ages. this view of the figures of the hebrew scriptures as those who heralded the coming of christ was traditional among the fathers of the church. the same perspective held true for adam and noah; for the patriarchs abraham, isaac, jacob, and joseph; for melchizadek, the pontiff king; and for the prophets moses, ezra, aggee, and zerubbabel. as disorienting as this may appear to our modern logic, the people of the middle ages did not understand the hebrew scriptures in solely their literal sense, as the record of a historical and chronological process (which would be too narrow and ant

arks the formation of modern freemasonry and the organization of the grand lodges. it was the year the book of constitutions was revised to carry a protestant meaning and when article i of this text was altered. in its new form it echoes the charter allegedly issued by edwin i in 926 "a mason is obliged by his tenure to observe the moral law like a true noachid. and to the three great articles of noah" to wit, the prohibition on worshipping idols and false gods, and committing blasphemy and murder. before this publication, the pope was already aware that the scottish school had lost its chance to triumph over the anglicans in the 262 from the art of building to the art of thinking lodges. the political and religious usefulness of the "scots" lodges had become quite weak with respect to the

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thologies look forward to the destruction of this world in a catastrophe, such as the norse cataclysm called ragnarok, so many record a time, within this creation, when the gods grew angry with humankind, and attempted to destroy them with a flood. the biblical story of the deluge is one of many such accounts, and owes much to the sumerian/babylonian account in the epic of gilgamesh, in which the noah figure is named utnapishtim (see p. 19. the ancient greeks told how zeus tried to destroy mankind with a flood, but prometheus (see p. 24) warned deucalion and pyrrha. manu was saved from the hindu deluge vishnu in the form his fish avatar, matsya (see p. 110. flood myths can be found in peru and in china, among the australian aboriginals and in many native american cultures, including the ma

ld creations, of which the latest is the current world. the fifth sun, nahui ollin, was made by the gods at teotihuacan (just north of modern mexico city, which was also the birthplace of the gods themselves. the stone is not a fully-functioning calendar; the complex aztec calendar was based on a 52-year cycle known as the calendar round, which reconciled the concurrent 260-day and 365-day years. noah and the flood noah s ark rides the flood after the biblical deluge, in a wood-engraving from the nuremberg bible of 1483. god decided to destroy humanity because of its wickedness, but warned the pious noah of the coming flood, and told him to build the ark and take on board two of every living creature. after the ark had grounded on mount ararat, god sent the rainbow as a symbol of his coven

e biblical deluge, in a wood-engraving from the nuremberg bible of 1483. god decided to destroy humanity because of its wickedness, but warned the pious noah of the coming flood, and told him to build the ark and take on board two of every living creature. after the ark had grounded on mount ararat, god sent the rainbow as a symbol of his covenant never again to destroy the creatures he had made. noah lived to be 950 years old. introduction 8 nana-buluku who creates the world, and then gives it into the keeping of his children mawu and lisa (see pp. 88 89; but nana- buluku is now almost forgotten, and the work of creation credited to mawu. the ashanti tell how the supreme god onyankopon (or nyame) used to live near men, but moved to the top of the sky because he was constantly annoyed by a

tles. the world flooded when each of these turtles made it rain for ten days each, and the waters covered the earth. whether this flood happened before or after lone man and first creator made this earth is not clear. originally, the mandan flood myth was set after the emergence from the world below, and does not seem to have involved lone man, whose story seems to have been influenced by that of noah as well as christ. myths of a great flood are common among native american peoples, as is the idea that the world rests on the back of either one or four turtles. myths of the arctic circle 96 the girl who married a whale a chukchi girl married a whale who carried her far from home. but her brother followed her, persuaded her to sing her husband to sleep, and stole her back. the whale followe

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

izal on parashat bereishit (2) 26 asiyah, which was the end and conclusion of everything, there the gearth h preceded. thus, one sage made one statement, and another made another statement, and they did not actually differ .translated from likutei torah 27 parashat noach the portion of the torah read this week describes the famous story of the flood. we must understand: 1. why did g-d had to save noah by means of an ark? 2. why [did he command noah him to bring] seven each of the ritually pure animals and of the ritually impure only two each? and 3. who exactly were the generation of the flood and the generation of the dispersion? the end of the portion describes the events of the tower of babel, the aftermath of which was the dispersion of mankind [to answer these questions] know that ada

n on the earth, enabling it to grow fruit, z feir anpin (the male) fertilizes nukva (malchut, the female. the three ghandbreadths h are presumably the lowest three sub-sefirot of malchut, corresponding to asiyah of malchut; as was stated above, intercourse is not to supposed to take place only on the level of mere asiyah. these three handbreadths therefore had to be reconstituted after the flood. noah was [a manifestation of the sefirah of] yesod, and [his three sons] shem, ham, and japheth corresponded to chochmah, binah, and da fat respectively. they issued by way of yesod and were thus rectified because they originated in a high level; the light therefore had to be concealed. noah was said to be ga righteous man, perfect in his generation c. h11 the appellation grighteous h (tzadik) is

tively. they issued by way of yesod and were thus rectified because they originated in a high level; the light therefore had to be concealed. noah was said to be ga righteous man, perfect in his generation c. h11 the appellation grighteous h (tzadik) is associated specifically with the sefirah of yesod and indicates sexual purity. in contrast to the rest of his depraved and degenerate generation, noah was holy and guarded his sexuality properly. he was therefore able to elicit proper, rectified consciousness (chochmah-binah-da fat, or intellect, as opposed to adam and his sons, each of whom erred in some way regarding proper g-d-consciousness. as we said above, holiness has to be guarded and protected from the attacks of evil; therefore, until the world was purified, noah and his sons had

sion of this name is: yud-vav-dalet yud-vav-dalet hei-alef yud-vav-dalet hei-alef vav-alef-vav yud-vav-dalet hei-alef vav-alef-vav hei-alef in each case, it can be seen that 26 letters are used in the regression. mabul: mem-beit-vav-lamed= 40+ 2+ 6+ 30= 78. the word mabul thus alludes to the withdrawal of the divine life-force indicated by these iterations of the name havayah from the world* when noah came out of the ark after the flood, g-d re-articulated the seven noahide commandments to him. included in this is the prohibition of tearing the flesh off a living animal, which generalizes to causing unnecessary pain to animals. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 44 regarding killing animals, it is mentioned in the zohar9 that no creature was created purposelessly. it is [therefore] forbidden

eing the case, it is a boon and a rectification for the person when lice are created out of the sweat of his body, for in this way his excess, dross, and evil is excreted [since they perform a positive function, we should not despise them. 9 2:68b. 10 avot 6:11; isaiah 43:7. 11 proverbs 16:7. 12 y. terumah 8:3. 13 2:68b. 14 ecclesiastes 10:11. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 45* after the flood, noah became drunk and was castrated by his third son, ham. his first two sons, shem and japheth, covered him. when he awoke, he blessed shem and japheth and cursed ham together with ham fs son, canaan. ghe said, ecursed be canaan, he will be a servant of servants to his brothers. f and he said, eblessed be g-d, the g-d of shem, and let canaan be his servant. let g-d grant beauty to japheth, and le

. f and he said, eblessed be g-d, the g-d of shem, and let canaan be his servant. let g-d grant beauty to japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of shem, and let canaan be his servant. f h15 let us understand why [noah] used the name havayah in blessing shem and the name elokim in blessing japheth. also [let us understand] why he cursed canaan and not ham, who committed the sin. the explanation: noah and his three sons in the ark personified yesod and its three hues. these [three hues] are netzach, personified by shem; hod, personified by ham; and yesod, personified by japheth. this is alluded to in the verse, gand joseph was good looking. h16 the words for ggood looking h are yefeh to far. when this expression is abbreviated according to the conventions of the technique known as notrikon

three axes of netzach-hod-yesod. the flow of divine beneficence flows first through netzach, then through hod, and then through yesod to malchut. of the triad of netzach-hod-yesod, netzach is the highest, and thus primary one of the three. it retains a residue of hod and yesod as what will be revealed as their light flows through it. this is alluded to by the shin in the name of shem, the son of noah associated with netzach. the shin comprises three vertical gstems h resting on a horizontal base. these three stems allude to the three sefirot of netzach-hod-yesod. the numerical value of the initials of ham and japheth is 18. ham: chet-mem; japheth: yud-pei-tav. chet-yud= 8+ 10= 18. this is because yesod re-includes all three. in netzach, the name havayah predominates, for the numerical val

horizontal base. these three stems allude to the three sefirot of netzach-hod-yesod. the numerical value of the initials of ham and japheth is 18. ham: chet-mem; japheth: yud-pei-tav. chet-yud= 8+ 10= 18. this is because yesod re-includes all three. in netzach, the name havayah predominates, for the numerical value of shem (340) is that of the name havayah (26) plus that of the name shakai (314. noah therefore said, gblessed be g-d [havayah, the g-d of shem, h using the name havayah. 15 genesis 9:25-27. 16 ibid. 39:6. 17 ibid. 29:17. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 46 shem: shin-mem: 300+ 40= 340. shakai: shin-dalet-yud: 300+ 4+ 40= 314. when expanded consciousness enters [z feir anpin, the three names elokim of constricted consciousness are relegated to yesod. these three names elokim a

and is appropriated by the forces of evil. he therefore cursed canaan, who issues from [ham] after it extends below. all that needs to be cursed of hod is its evil gprogeny, h represented by ham fs progeny, canaan .translated from likutei torah and sha far hamitzvot 49 parashat noach [fourth installment] the installment continues the translation of the passage begun in the first installment. when noah did not possess the mentality required to couple, he was like a corpse, and was therefore hidden inside malchut, i.e, the ark. noah, as stated previously, personified yesod of abba, the organ of procreation. the sages state that gthere is no erection without da fat, h1 referring to the fact that in order for procreation to occur, yesod must be infused with at least some level of consciousness

vav] together with the three root-letters [yud-hei-vav, we have 21 letters. this number added to 207 yields the numerical value of the word for gblessing h [berachah, 227, plus the kolel. 18+ 3= 21; 21+ 207= 228. berachah: beit-reish-kaf-hei= 2+ 200+ 20+ 5= 227. thus, the union of yesod and malchut is blessed, and can occur. we will now see where these permutations are alluded to in the story of noah. the 18 letters of the six permutations allude to the gseven by seven h ritually pure animals, i.e, 14, and the gtwo by two h ritually impure animals, i.e, 4. the idiom for gseven by seven h is simply gseven seven, h implying 7+ 7, or 14. the same is true for gtwo by two, h or gtwo two, h or 4. 14+ 4= 18. the pure and impure animals are derived from the hei of the yud-hei-vav. the letter hei

sical world mirrors the spiritual course of ghistory h (in quotes because this ghistory h occurs outside the creation of time) in the development of the spiritual worlds [this is alluded to in the torah fs account of how] various people fathered children and died, and then [their children] fathered children [and died, and so on.8 then he wiped them all out in the flood, and replanted them through noah until [he began again in] the generation of the dispersion, when the nations were destroyed and all the evildoers were dispersed. in this way the world of tohu was wiped out [remaining so] until abraham rebuilt it [as the world of tikun. this is the mystical meaning of [our sages statement that in the verse, gthese are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, h9 [t

rces of evil to stake their claim. we can now explain the verse. for ham, the father of egypt,24 embodied the power of the [five] states of gevurah. shem personified chesed, ham personified gevurah, and japheth personified tiferet. that is why [the latter] is called japeth [yafet, gbeautiful h, for [tiferet] is a blend of the two colors white and red. shem, ham, and japheth were the three sons of noah. the name gham h (cham) means ghot h; hence the association with gevurah. egypt is thus also associated with gevurah. now, when the 5 letters [of the name elokim] produce 120 permutations, each letter produces 24. thus, ham took the power of 2 letters, which produce 48 permutations. that is why he was called ham [cham, the numerical value of which is 48. 120 5= 24. thus, each letter of the na

eincarnation of eliezer, the servant of abraham. this would add significance to the fact that he went to pray at the graves of the forefathers [although eliezer hailed from accursed seed, when laban said to him] gcome in, o blessed one of g-d, h14 he went out of the category of the cursed and entered the category of the blessed. eliezer was a canaanite, that is, a descendant of canaan, whose seed noah cursed to be a servant caste.15 it appears to me, chaim [vital, that this is alluded to in the verse gand my servant caleb, h meaning that he was originally a canaanite servant, i.e, cursed, but was now gmy servant, h i.e, blessed .anthologized and translated from sha far hapesukim and likutei torah 13 sha far hagilgulim, introduction 36. 14 genesis 24:31. 15 ibid. 10:25-26. 593 parashat shel

tly 52: kaf-lamed-beit= 20+ 30+ 2= 52. know that the soul of caleb originated in that of eliezer, the servant of abraham, for eliezer left the curse of gcursed be canaan h2 when laban said to him gcome, o blessed of g-d. h had this not been decreed in heaven, it would not have been recorded in the torah. at this point [eliezer] became blessed. eliezer was a descendant of canaan, the fourth son of noah fs son ham. noah cursed canaan after ham castrated noah. in the same episode, noah blessed his son shem: gblessed be g-d, the g-d of shem. h abraham sent eliezer to his nephew, bethuel, to find a match for his son, isaac. we are told that eliezer in fact wanted his daughter to marry isaac, but abraham told him, gyou are cursed [because you are a descendent of canaan] and i am blessed [because

indicates her essence. 1 numbers 27:1-11. the arizal on parashat pinchas 648 milkah can be vocalized malkah, gqueen, h clearly associated with malchut, gsovereignty. h tirtzah means gwill h and glovingkindness. h tirzah means gshe will want, h indicating goodwill and desirability, which is possible only if the gevurah has been sweetened by chesed. the two that were not sweetened were machlah and noah. machlah can be interpreted to mean gshe will be wiped out, h similar to gand he wiped out [vayimach] all life c. h2 noah is similar to [the words meaning gswaying h] in the verse, gthe earth is swaying like a drunkard [it is rocking to and fro like a hut. its iniquity shall weigh it down, and it shall fall, to rise no more. h3 these two names are thus associated with states of gevurah that h

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enth day, birth of hebron, who gave his name to the first of the seven sacred cities of israel. a day of religion, prayers and success. the writing of the stars 103 8. justice. murder of abel. day of expiation. 9. the old man, or hermit. birth of methuselah. day of blessing for children. 10. ezekiel's wheel of fortune. birth of nebuchadnezzar. reign of the beast. fatal day. 11. strength. birth of noah. visions on this day are deceitful, but it is one of health and long life for children born on it. 12. the victim, or hanged man. birth of samuel. prophetic and kabalistic day, favourable to the fulfilment of the great work. 13. death. birthday of canaan, the accursed son of chain. baleful day and fatal number. 14. the angel of temperance. blessing of noah on the fourteenth day of the moon. t

ns extended, wants multiplied and there folthe science of the prophets 127 lowed speedily an epoch of general corruption, preceding the universal deluge, under the reign of samael, angel of mars, which was inaugurated on 26 june, a.m. 1417. after long exhaustion, the world strove towards a new birth under gabriel, the angel of the moon, whose reign began on 28 march, a.m. 1771, when the family of noah multiplied and re-peopled the whole earth, after the confusion of babel, until the reign of michael, angel of the sun, which commenced on 24 february, a.m. 2126, to which epoch must be referred the origin of the first dominations, the empire of the children of nimrod, the birth of sciences and religions, the first conflicts between despotism and liberty. trithemius pursues this curious study

of earth. now, these four signs, with all their analogies, explain the one word hidden in all sanctuaries, that word which the bacchantes seemed to divine in their intoxication when they worked themselves into frenzy for io evohe. what then was the meaning of this mysterious term? it was the name of four primitive letters of the mother-tongue: jod, symbol of the vine-stock, or paternal sceptre of noah; he, type of the cup of libations and also of maternity; vau, which joins the two, and was depicted in india by the great and mysterious lingam. such was the triple sign of the triad in the divine word; but the mother-letter appeared a second time, to express the fecundity of nature and woman and to formulate the doctrine of universal and progressive analogies, descending from causes to effec

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heir arguments upon what they understood to be "obvious" realities. and they drew "common sense" conclusions. what so antagonized plato was not that they held different views than his concerning the primal forces of the universe. rather it was the intolerable insult. in plato's eyes. that they were not interested in that topic as a field for rational inquiry. plato must have felt somewhat akin to noah building his ark in the midst of an ignorant and unconcerned society. the chimaera: the noah legend is not in our myth-cycle, if you please. the sphinx: my apologies. the chimaera: and so plato wished to identify the primal forces of the universe. this resulted in his famous theory of the forms, if i am correct. but i sense a weak point here. plato was a finite being, and yet he desired to co

r, and an explorer named bruce brought back a copy of it from abyssinia in 1773 ce. the book of enoch is sometimes referred to as i enoch to distinguish it from ii enoch (or the secrets of enoch, a later work executed in slavonic. the book of enoch contains six sections: the book of enoch, the parables, the book of the courses of the heavenly luminaries, the dream-visions, the conclusion, and the noah fragments. most are restatements of traditional hebraic doctrine, but the first section- the book of enoch- includes accounts of enoch's visits to certain areas of earth and sheol, including the following descriptions of the palace of the prince of darkness "and i went in until i drew nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire, and it began to affright me. and

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is a chief ruling over the second heaven, and the order of virtues, regent of the sun, and the angel of science and knowledge. guardian of the tree of life in eden, and according to his own admission in the book of tobit, one of the seven angels of the throne. although officially a virtue he has the six wings of a seraph, yet at the same time is of the cherubim, dominions and powers. he presented noah with the knowledge he required to build the ark, and with a medical book/ grimoire that is sometimes identified as the book of raziel. he is also identified in hebrew tradition as a guide of sheol, the pit or womb of the underworld. uri-el fire of god, identified in later scriptures with phanuel, face of god. the angel who gave mankind the kaballah. presides over tartarus (hell, being both se

, akrasi-el, or gallizur, angel of the secret regions of the supreme mysteries. author of the book of the angel raziel, wherein all celestial and earthly knowledge is set down revealing the 1,500 keys to the mysteries in a code unknown to any living mortal. this grimoire he presented to adam, and it was then passed to enoch who incorporated much of it into the book of enoch. in was then passed to noah, who used information within it to design and build the ark. moses maimonides identifies him as the chief of the erelim (thrones, describing him as a brilliant white fire. according to targum ecclesiastes, each day razi-el stands upon the peak of mount horeb, proclaims the secrets to all mankind. 9th choir: angels theses are the last in the heavenly hierarchy and the closest to mankind. many

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od they preferred. gods of the mesopotamian pantheon anu: the sky god. he is sometimes called the king of the gods. at the beginning of time, earth was separated from heaven, and heaven became anu s home. he can be sent to earth to avenge the gods. ea: the fun-loving god of fresh waters, wisdom, and magic. ea is also named enki. in a babylonian myth similar to that of the judeo-christian story of noah s ark, ea reveals to utnapishtim that enlil intends to destroy mankind in a flood. enlil: the god of air, wind, and storms. enlil is one of the most important mesopotamian gods. he guards the tablets of destiny, on which the fate of everything on earth is written. ishtar: the goddess of love and war. she is also known as inanna. ishtar journeyed to the underworld to retrieve her love, tammuz

began. he begins with the question of whether humankind was destroyed in a flood and then tries to determine how survivors would have then ordered their lives to create a new society. laws was written in the fourth century bce. it is interesting to note that plato references a flood as being responsible for the destruction of humankind. this is similar to the biblical story of the flood, in which noah is warned that god will destroy humankind and builds an ark to house two of each animal. all of them survive a flood of forty days and forty nights. another flood story is referenced in the ancient mesopotamian epic of gilgamesh. in this story the mesopotamian gods decide to destroy humankind, but utnapishtim is warned in advance and is able to build a great ship, on which he allowed humans a

to the euphrates river, crossing it and perhaps stopping temporarily at ancient damascus, now a part of syria. from there they traveled south and east, crossing the jordan river and reaching the plain of schechem. god again appeared to abram and promised him and his offspring the surrounding land of canaan (modern-day israel, even though it was already populated by canaanites, the descendants of noah and his son, ham. abram built an altar to god at schechem and then moved on to bethel, north of jerusalem, where he built another altar. according to genesis, abram and his followers remained in canaan until a famine drove them farther south into egypt. there, fearful that the sight of his beautiful wife, sarai, might cause the egyptians to murder world religions: biographies 3 abraham him in

world religions: biographies enheduanna goodrich, norma lorre. priestesses. new york, ny: franklin watts, 1989. hallo, w. w, and w. simpson. the ancient near east: a history. new york, ny: harcourt brace jovanovich, 1971. meador, betty de shong. inanna, lady of largest heart: poems of the sumerian high priestess enheduanna. austin, tx: university of texas press, 2000. wolkstein, diane, and samuel noah kramer. inanna, queen of heaven and earth: her stories and hymns from sumer. new york, ny: harper and row, 1983. web sites binkley, roberta. context: who was enheduanna? http//www.public.asu. edu/ rbinkle/enheduanna.htm (accessed on june 2, 2006. binkley, roberta. enheduanna. feminist theory website. http//www.cddc.vt. edu/feminism/enheduanna.html (accessed on june 2, 2006. enheduanna. gatewa

ent to countries around the world. before finally giving up the weekly lessons in 1992, leibowitz estimated that she had corrected approximately forty thousand such lessons, and that some of her students had been with her for more than thirty years. an example of one of her gilyonot concerns the first book of the torah, called bereshit. discussing the great flood that god sent to earth, and which noah survived by building an ark and populating it with one of each gender of animal and man, liebowitz provides commentary and interpretation. she draws attention to the symbolism within the story, from the darkness of the rains that killied all except those in the ark with noah, to the renewal of life that occurs once the rains stop. she explains that the flood washed away the sins of man, such

d e-mail via http//www.gale.com. world religions: primary sources ix reader s guide this page intentionally left blank timeline of events c. 2000 bce shin-eqi-unninni writes the epic of gilgamesh, about a king who lived in babylonia around 2700 bce. one story in the poem tells of a great flood, for which one man prepares by building a boat and gathering all living things into it. a similar story (noah s ark) would appear in the bible. 1700 400 bce period during which the avesta, sometimes referred to as the zend-avesta, the sacred scripture of zoroastrianism, is compiled. the core of the avesta is the gathas, a collection of religious songs believed to have been composed by the prophet of zoroastrianism, zarathushtra. c. 800 bce the greek poet homer writes the odyssey. this epic poem offer

temptation by the serpent in the garden of eden. consider the following. explain how weather, climate, and geography could influence and shape the view of the world held by ancient peoples. compare the account of the flood in tablet xi of the gilgamesh epic with a flood story from another culture or religious tradition, focusing on similarities and differences. an example is the flood survived by noah and his family in the biblical book of genesis. explain why the writer of the epic of gilgamesh placed so much emphasis on the dimensions and methods of construction of the ark. for more information books foster, benjamin r, douglas frayne, and gary m. beckman. the epic of gilgamesh. new york: norton, 2001. heidel, alexander. gilgamesh epic and old testament parallels. chicago: university of

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(above n. 15) 50-51. 22 see mirecki "the coptic 'wizard's hoard, to be published in the proceedings of the conference on magic in the ancient world, university of kansas, august 1992 (n. 69 in the typescript put at our disposal. 23 mirecki points out (n. 57 in the typescript at our disposal) that in a coptic magical text "biblical seth" occurs in a list of names including, inter alia, adam, seth, noah, methusala (maqousa a; die kopischen zaubertexte der sammlung papyrus erzherzog rainer in wien, ed. v. stegemann, sb. heid. ak. d. wiss, phil.-hist. kl. 1933/4, 1 [heidelberg 1934] 70 xlv [108. lists of the biblical heroes from adam to moses play a great role in jewish christianity; see c. gieschen "the seven pillars of the world: ideal figures lists in the true prophet christology of the pse

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mself to look on this as the naturalist on the revolutions of an ant-hill, or of a leaf. what is the earth to infinity, what its duration to the eternal? oh, how much greater is the soul of one man than the vicissitudes of the whole globe! child of heaven, and heir of immortality, how from some star hereafter wilt thou look back on the ant-hill and its commotions, from clovis to robespierre, from noah to the final fire. the spirit that can contemplate, that lives only in the intellect, can ascend to its star, even from the midst of the burial-ground called earth, and while the sarcophagus called life immures in its clay the everlasting! but thou, zanoni, thou hast refused to live only in the intellect; thou hast not mortified the heart; thy pulse still beats with the sweet music of mortal

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ranciso, 1997. things of sacred power things of sacred power associated with judeo-christian history as recorded in the bible and in various apocryphal 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 objects of mystery and power 199 totem pole (corbis corporation) texts have enraptured believers for centuries. whether pilgrims seek the physical remains of noah fs ark or the cup from which jesus (c. 6 b.c.e..c. 30 c.e) drank passover wine at the last supper, great controversies over the physical existence of certain objects mentioned in the bible have persisted for thousands of years and continue in the new millennium. so prevalent is the belief that noah fs ark can be located on the slope of the tallest mountain in turkey, agri dagi (mt. ararat, th

al satellite (erts) is said to reveal an unusual feature at 14,000 feet on mt. ararat. it was reported to be the same size as the ark. in the 1980s, former nasa astronaut james irwin participated in expeditions up the mountain, but he found only the remnants of abandoned skis. with the breakup of the former soviet union, expeditions up the mountain intensified during the 1990s, and the search for noah fs ark continues. as described in the old testament book of exodus, the ark of the covenant, a wooden chest covered with gold, is said to contain such sacred relics as the tablets of law from god that moses (14th.13th century b.c.e) brought back from mt. sinai. the ark possessed supernatural powers and served as a means through which god could express his will to the israelites. it was last k

ddhist monks, and the former hindu temple subsequently became a destination for buddhist pilgrims from all over the world. m delving deeper ingpen, robert, and philip wilkinson. encyclopedia of mysterious places. new york: barnes& noble, 1999. mt. ararat according to genesis 8:4, after seven months and 17 days afloat in the ark upon the waters of the great deluge that destroyed all life on earth, noah, his family, and his massive living cargo of livestock came to rest upon the mountains of 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 216 places of mystery and power angkor wat is the main temple in northern cambodia (klaus aarsleff/fortean picture library) ararat, near the headwaters of the euphrates river in what is today eastern turkey. so prev

massive living cargo of livestock came to rest upon the mountains of 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 216 places of mystery and power angkor wat is the main temple in northern cambodia (klaus aarsleff/fortean picture library) ararat, near the headwaters of the euphrates river in what is today eastern turkey. so prevalent is the belief that noah fs ark can be located on the slope of the tallest mountain in turkey, agri dagi (mt. ararat, that some travel agencies include participation in expeditions to search for the ark as part of tour packages to turkey. two thousand years earlier, in the first century b.c.e, native armenians of the region routinely declared that remnants of the ark could still be seen. the same declaration was made

on the hindu pilgrim. sources: gallahabad. h india food and fun [online] http//www.indiafoodandfun.com/travel/allahabad.htm. crim, keith, ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1989. the sacred city of allahabad according to the bible (genesis, 6.10, god had become angered at the wickedness of humans and was determined gto end all flesh. h he called on noah, whom god deemed a just man, and told him to build a large barge with three interior decks. the barge was to be constructed of wood and sealed with bitumen. its length was to be 300 cubits (about 450 feet, its width 50 cubits (about 75 feet, and its height 30 cubits (about 45 feet. the ark would be able to survive the deluge through which god would wipe out life. the ark held noah fs family.h

me to rest, according to the gilgamesh epic, pilgrims would scrape off bitumen (a sealant against water) and make charms of it to guard against witchcraft. most evidence and sightings are based on locations on mt. ararat. as the christian religion spread in the first century, the christians of apamea, in phrygia, built the monastery of the ark, where a feast was celebrated annually to commemorate noah fs disembarking. marco polo, in journals of his journey to china in 1271, wrote, gin the heart of greater armenia is a high mountain, shaped like a cube (or cup, on which noah fs ark is said to have rested, whence it is called the mountain of noah fs ark. h identifying the place as mt. ararat, marco polo wrote, gon the summit the snow lies so deep all the year round that no one can ever climb

ian imperial air force lieutenant noticed a half-frozen lake in a gully on the side of mt. ararat. world war i was raging and the russian pilot was flying high-altitude tests to observe turkish troop movements. flying nearer to the lake, he saw half the hull of some sort of ship poking out above the lake surface. he reported it to his captain. the captain was flown over the site. believing it was noah fs ark, preserved because it was encased in ice most of the year, the captain sent a report to the russian tsar at st. petersburg. the tsar sent two corps of engineers up the mountain. it was nearly a month before the ark was reached. measurements by the engineers were allegedly taken and drawings and photographs were made, but none of those were ever officially documented. according to accou

according to accounts, the photographs and reports were sent by courier to the attention of the tsar, but nicholas ii (1868.1918) apparently never 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 218 places of mystery and power mt. ararat, turkey (klaus aarsleff/fortean picture library) inthe first century b.c.e, native armenians declared that remnants of noah fs ark could still be seen. received them. the russian revolution was underway in 1917, and the results of the investigation were never reported publicly. according to another story, the turkish air force in 1959 conducted an aerial survey of the ararat region. a photograph revealed the outline of a ship on one of the lower slopes of mt. ararat (just over 6,000 feet. the ship fs dimensions we

win participated in expeditions up the mountain, bringing much publicity to the search for the ark. he found only the remnants of abandoned skis. with the breakup of the former soviet union, expeditions up the mountain intensified during the 1990s. previously, expeditions were considered a security threat by the soviet government because the region bordered the former soviet union. the search for noah fs ark continues, as do questions concerning how best to understand the story of noah and the ark: should the bible fs description of the ark, the extent of the deluge, and the capability of lodging every species of animal and bird be taken literally, or is the message most important? the deluge occurred, according to the bible, because god had become disgusted with the wickedness of humankin

st important? the deluge occurred, according to the bible, because god had become disgusted with the wickedness of humankind. those searching for the ark with the hope of making great profits probably missed that most enduring legacy of the story, a moral that persists regardless of whether or not physical remnants of the ark have been, or can be, found. m delving deeper fasold, david. the ark of noah. new york: wynwood press, 1988. harpur, james and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. kite, l. patricia, ed. noah fs ark: opposing viewpoints. san diego: greenhaven press, 1989. toumey, christopher p. gwho fs seen noah fs ark? h natural history, l06, no. 9 (october 1997: 14.17. atlantis more than 2,500 years ago, a legend first began to spread a

d derived standard units of measure from earth fs circumference. the ratio of the pyramid fs height to its perimeter, argued taylor, is the same as the polar radius to earth fs circumference, 2. he viewed that equation, embodied in the pyramid, as an expression of the wisdom of ancients. it was the biblical god, concluded taylor, who had instructed the pyramid builders, just as god had instructed noah to build the ark. astronomer charles piazzi smyth conducted studies at the pyramid and came up with another startling conclusion, expressed in his book our inheritance in the great pyramid (1980. he claimed the pyramid was also an expression of time. through his studies, smyth devised a measurement called the pyramid inch.an ancient measurement within one-thousandth of a british inch. the per

all date the sphinx before the pyramids. west promotes a theory that an advanced, pre-egyptian civilization was responsible for the sphinx. he believes that much of the weathering took place because of rains and flood. west points to the period around 9000 b.c.e, when the end of the ice age may well have affected weather patterns. a great flood, perhaps the one recounted in the biblical story of noah, affected the sphinx, and afterward all the structures at giza show erosion by wind and the slow but steady encroachment of desert. schoch, a science professor specializing in geology at boston university, was hired by west to explore the erosion of the sphinx from a geological standpoint. during his first trip to giza, schoch noticed extreme erosion in two temples located in front of the sph

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

n trinity. in the first fury of life, man, having forgotten his mother, no longer understood god but as an inflexible and jealous father. the sombre saturn, armed with his parricidal scythe, set himself to devour his children. jupiter had eyebrows which shook olympus; jehovah wielded thunders which deafened the solitudes of sinai. 21 nevertheless, the father of men, being on occasion drunken like noah, let the world perceive the mysteries of life. psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of eros; adonis, raised from death, found again his venus in olympus; job, victorious over evil, recovered more than he had lost. the law is a test of courage. to love life more than one fears the menaces of death is to merit life. the elect are those who dare; woe to the timid! thus the slave

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

ledge of secrecy. i ask you, brother master magician, if you clearly understand, and heartily agree, these principles? c (with sign) i do. e: it now becomes my duty to inform you that the ceremony through which you have just passed, is in every essential the lesser or infernal rite of the slain god, whose name is john, or some sound similar, as jonah, dionysus, janus, dianus, nu, anu, oannes, on, noah, and many others. this god of water is of the north, because the sun touches his northern limit as he enters the watery sign cancer, and turns towards the south, represented by the goat-gods, set, had, hades, adad, odin, adonis, adonii, atys, etc, who are of the earthly sign capricornus, the southern limit of the sun s journey. as the end of summer is in libra, the cardinal sign of air, the g

ays of old hath hidden the sacred phallus in this image. he is the mother. he is the womb. he is the sperm that fertilizes the ovum: nay, but he is that fertilized and self-living thing which is neither sperm nor ovum, but their marriage, the perfect tincture, the medicine of metals, the philosophical stone, the universal medicine, the elixir of life. he is that dove that, returning to the ark of noah, bore a branch of olive. he is the eagle of jupiter, he is the swan of brahma. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c3.html (10 of 18 [12/28/2001 2:05:41 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. from this duplicity of speech hath sprung infinite confusion in the vulgar mind. for they understand not that man is the guardian of the life of god; woman bu

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for god took him. 5:25 and methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat lamech: 5:26 and methuselah lived after he begat lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:27 and all the days of methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. 5:28 and lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 5:29 and he called his name noah, saying, this [same] shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the lord hath cursed. 5:30 and lamech lived after he begat noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:31 and all the days of lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. 5:32 and noah was five hundred years old: and noah begat shem, ham

th, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually. 6:6 and it repented the lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 6:7 and the lord said, i will destroy man whom i have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that i have made them. 6:8 but noah found grace in the eyes of the lord. 6:9 these [are] the generations of noah: noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations [and] noah walked with god. 6:10 and noah begat three sons, shem, ham, and japheth. 6:11 the earth also was corrupt before god, and the earth was filled with violence. 6:12 and god looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his

9 these [are] the generations of noah: noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations [and] noah walked with god. 6:10 and noah begat three sons, shem, ham, and japheth. 6:11 the earth also was corrupt before god, and the earth was filled with violence. 6:12 and god looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 6:13 and god said unto noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, i will destroy them with the earth. 6:14 make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 6:15 and this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it [of] the length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of

to keep [them] alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 6:20 of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive. 6:21 and take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 6:22 thus did noah; according to all that god commanded him, so did he. 7:1 and the lord said unto noah, come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have i seen righteous before me in this generation. 7:2 of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female. 7:3 of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and

male: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female. 7:3 of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. genesis page 4 7:4 for yet seven days, and i will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that i have made will i destroy from off the face of the earth. 7:5 and noah did according unto all that the lord commanded him. 7:6 and noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7:7 and noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 7:8 of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 ther

that the lord commanded him. 7:6 and noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7:7 and noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 7:8 of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 there went in two and two unto noah into the ark, the male and the female, as god had commanded noah. 7:10 and it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 7:11 in the six hundredth year of noah s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 7:12 and the rain was upon the

. 7:10 and it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 7:11 in the six hundredth year of noah s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 7:12 and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 7:13 in the selfsame day entered noah, and shem, and ham, and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 7:14 they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 7:15 and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of al

nd of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 7:22 all in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land] died. 7:23 and every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and noah only remained [alive] and they that [were] with him in the ark. 7:24 and the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. 8:1 and god remembered noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and god made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; 8:2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rai

ally: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 8:4 and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of ararat. 8:5 and the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month] on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. 8:6 and it came to pass at the end of forty days, that noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 8:7 and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8:8 also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 8:9 but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face

for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 8:10 and he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 8:11 and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 8:12 and he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 8:13 and it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month] the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the fac

ain unto him any more. 8:13 and it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month] the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 8:14 and in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. 8:15 and god spake unto noah, saying, 8:16 go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons wives with thee. 8:17 bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 8:18 and noah went forth, and his so

and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 8:18 and noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him: 8:19 every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. 8:20 and noah builded an altar unto the lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 8:21 and the lord smelled a sweet savour; and the lord said in his heart, i will not again curse the ground any more for man s sake; for the imagination of man s heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will i again smite any more every thing living, as i have done

smelled a sweet savour; and the lord said in his heart, i will not again curse the ground any more for man s sake; for the imagination of man s heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will i again smite any more every thing living, as i have done. 8:22 while the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. 9:1 and god blessed noah and his sons, and said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 9:2 and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 9:3 every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb h

blood of your lives will i require; at the hand of every beast will i require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man s brother will i require the life of man. 9:6 whoso sheddeth man s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of god made he man. 9:7 and you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. 9:8 and god spake unto noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9:9 and i, behold, i establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 9:10 and with every living creature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 9:11 and i will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any mo

n in the cloud: 9:15 and i will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 9:16 and the bow shall be in the cloud; and i will look upon it, that i may remember the everlasting covenant between god and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth. 9:17 and god said unto noah, this [is] the token of the covenant, which i have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth. 9:18 and the sons of noah, that went forth of the ark, were shem, and ham, and japheth: and ham is the father of canaan. 9:19 these [are] the three sons of noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 9:20 and noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 9:21

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

sanctitate& sapientia omnium pr stantissimus, primum cald os, deinde phoenices, demum egyptios sacerdotes, astrologia& divina docuerit. abraham the holiest and wisest of men, did first teach the caldeans, then the phoenicians, lastly the egyptian priests, astrologie and divine knowledge. without doubt, hermes trismegistus, that divine magician and philosopher, who (as some say) lived long before noah, attained to much divine knowledge of the creator through the study of magick and astrologie; as his writings testifie. the third kind of magick containeth the whole philosophy of nature; which bringeth to light the innermost virtues, and extracteth them out of nature s hidden bosome to humane use: virtutes in centro centri latentes; virtues hidden in the centre of the centre, according to th

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

e perfection of the triad, oracles were delivered from a tripod, as is related of the oracle at delphi. with regard to music, 3 is said to be mistress, because harmony contains 3 symphonies, the diapason, the diapente, and the diatessaron. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott ezekiel xiv. v. 14 mentions 3 men who saw a creation, destruction and a restoration; noah of the whole world, daniel of the jewish world jerusalem, and job of his personal world. note the hindu trinity of brahma, who consists of brahma, vishnu, and siva; creator, preserver, and changer. in india, each has still a special sect of worshippers, who mark themselves with particular emblems; the vaishnavas are much the most numerous. the living were of old called the 3 times blessed (th

th had begun. w. f. shaw says that 6 is the number of temptation and sin, for at the 6th hour of the 6th day the first temptation came into the world. six is the number of toil and work, for 6 days, the israelites had to collect manna; at the 6th hour of the 6th day jesus was sentenced to death, and in the revelations, the 6th seal, trumpet and vial were all emblematic of woe. the flood came when noah was 600 years old. the number 666 was an emblem of the great wicked one, still without identification, but he is implied in a prototype, schechem ben hamor, whose name is 666 by gematria, shkm bn chmvr, he was the corrupter of dinah. see genesis xxxiv. verse 2. the jews expected that the end of the present dispensation of the world would arrive after 6000 years, and st. numbers--th eir occu l

i nathan states that there were 8 sects of the pharisees, but both of the talmuds (jerusalem and babylon) name only seven. it is prophesized that the harps, which will be played on earth before the messiah, will have 8 strings. erachin, 13. 2. as seven was the number of the original creation, so 8, says w. f. shaw, may be considered as the day of regeneration. eight souls were saved in the ark of noah, and noah was the 8th in descent, his name was nvch=8 times 8=64. 888 is the special number of jesus christ as he who is that resurrection and the life. he is the great opponent of the 666, the number of the beast, the number of man. the ancient chinese writings refer to 8 musical sounds, the pah-yin (g. schlegel# 88. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott

paradise and are as follows: 1. kratim, the dog of the seven sleepers. 2. ass of balaam. 3. ant of solomon. 4. whale of jonah. 5. the calf (not ram) offered to jehovah by abraham instead of isaac, his son. 6. the ox of moses. 7. the camel of the prophet salech. 8. the cuckoo of belkis. 9. the ram of ishmael. 10. al borek, the animal which conveyed mahomet. 95. we find 10 generations from adam to noah, 10 from shem to abraham. the 10 spiritual graces of christianity are love, joy, peace long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, prudence, meekness and temperature, says numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott dr. g. oliver; although where he gets 10 generations from adam to noah, i know not. under 10 also falls the mention of the pythagorean triangle, te

in israel. 48 cities were assigned to the levites. 49. moses received 49 reasons for the cleanness and uncleanness of each thing; so says the talmud. 50. the number of the gates of binah (binh) the understanding. the kabalah states that even moses only reached the 49th. see my sepher yetzirah, third edition, 1911. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 116. 58. noah, nch. 60. aristotle stated that the crocodile lives naturally 60 years, and sits 60 days on 60 eggs. the chinese have a time cycle of 60 years, and call it kya-tse. the people of malabar call this period chi-tam. the talmud refers to 60 deadly drugs and 60 sorts of wines; the sow bears her litter in 60 days. 61. the number ain, negative existence of the deity. 64. aletheia, truth. 65. the num

ion of elohim, or aleim alhim, being 1+30+5+10+600(=646; or avoiding the use of final mem, we get 1+30+5+10+40(=86; neglecting the tens 1+3+5+1+4, and placing these numbers in a circle, we get the sequence 3.1415, notable as the value of pi, or the relation of a diameter to circumference of every circle. elohim is both a singular and a plural word. 650. 650 has been referred by godfrey higgins to noah, menes, and bacchus. noah, in hebrew is nvch or 64. 651. 651, teletai, the greek ancient mysteries and episteme- science. 666. 666 is the pet number of godfrey higgins, as referred to rasit (rsvt, 200+60+6+400(=666, which he insists means wisdom or as most believe--beginning or principle. the first words of genesis are be-rasit, in the beginning--666 is also the number of the beast, the numbe

n. 903. the talmud in berachoth, 8. i says that there are 903 kinds of death, for by gematria of the word tutzaut, which means outlets see psalm isviii. 20; this number is obtained, thus t, 400. v, 6, tz, 90, a, 1, v, 6, t, 400=903. death by the divine kiss is the euthanasia; death from quinsy is said to be the worst form, a sort of suffocation long drawn out. 950. according to genesis ix. v. 29, noah lived 950 years. the great ages given in the book of genesis to the patriarchs have long been a cause of doubt. recent researches by a hebrew scholar have led to the opinion that these high numbers did not mean our solar years, but years of five months of thirty days and perhaps the earliest year was only one month. david spoke of 70 years as the length of human life; there was no such long n

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