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f boleskine, which is situated on the southeastern shore of loch ness in scotland, two miles east of foyers, is a shrine or high altar. its dimensions should be 7 feet in length, 3 feet in breadth, 44 inches in height. it should be covered with a crimson altar-cloth, on which may be embroidered fleur-de-lys in gold, or a sunblaze, or other suitable emblem. on each side of it should be a pillar or obelisk, with countercharges in black and white. below it should be the dias of three steps, in black and white squares. above it is the super-altar, at whose top is the stele of revealing in reproduction, with four candles on each side of it. below the stele is a place for the book of the law, with six candles on each side of it. below this again is the holy graal, with roses on each side of it

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boleskine, which is situated on the south-eastern shore of loch ness in scotland, two miles east of foyers, is a shrine or high altar. its dimensions should be 7 feet in length, 3 feet in breadth, 44 inches in height. it should be covered with a crimson altar-cloth, on which may be embroidered fleur-de-lys in gold, or a sunblaze, or other suitable emblem. on each side of it should be a pillar or obelisk, with countercharges in black and white. below it should be the dais of three steps, in black and white squares. above it is the super-altar, at whose top is the st^ele of revealing in reproduction, with four candles on each side of it. below the st^ele is a place for the book of the law, with six candles on each side of it. below this again is the holy graal, with roses on each side of it

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it. let one only think of the thousands, and perhaps millions, of mss. burnt; of monuments, with their too indiscreet inscriptions and pictorial symbols, pulverised to dust; of the bands of early hermits and ascetics roaming about among the ruined cities of upper and lower egypt, in desert and[[vol. 1, page] xli introductory. mountain, valleys and highlands, seeking for and eager to destroy every obelisk and pillar, scroll or parchment they could lay their hands on, if it only bore the symbol of the tau, or any other sign borrowed and appropriated by the new faith; and he will then see plainly how it is that so little has remained of the records of the past. verily, the fiendish spirits of fanaticism, of early and mediaeval christianity and of islam, have from the first loved to dwell in d

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boleskine, which is situated on the south-eastern shore of loch ness in scotland, two miles east of foyers, is a shrine or high altar. its dimensions should be 7 feet in length, 3 feet in breadth, 44 inches in height. it should be covered with a crimson altar-cloth, on which may be embroidered fleur-de-lys in gold, or a sunblaze, or other suitable emblem. on each side of it should be a pillar or obelisk, with countercharges in black and white. below it should be the dais of three steps, in black and white squares. above it is the super-altar, at whose top is the stele of revealing in reproduction, with four candles on each side of it. below the stele is a place for the book of the law, with six candles on each side of it. below this again is the holy graal, with roses on each side of it

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weishaupt 1749-56 swedenborg's arcana coelestia published ca 1750-1810 alliette/etteilla 1758 dom pernety dictionnaire mytho-hermetique. martinez de pasqually elus-cohens l ordre des chevaliers ma ons elus cohens de l univers. 1767-1825 fabre d'olivet 1768 carl friedrich koeppen. erklaehrung einer egyptischen spitz-schule welche vor dem lateran in rom zu finden ist (interpretation of an egyptian obelisk to be found in front of the lateran in rome. 1770 "initiations of egyptian priests" by two german masons, von kappen and j. w. b. hymmen thought to have influenced the composition of cagliostro's egyptian masonry. 1773 james bruce returned from six years in abyssinia with three ethiopic copies of the "lost" book of enoch. savalette de langes, keeper of the royal treasury, and court de gebe

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always be misused. knowledge without love is the state of being which still controls the higher levels of the brotherhood network, via its global elite. it is the intellect without the heart, you could say, and without the balanced feminine. the symbols of the brotherhood in ancient times remain those of the brotherhood today- the pyramid and all-seeing eye, the swastika, the lamb, the apron, the obelisk and many others. the obelisk is symbolic of the penis of osiris, the egyptian god. the legend is that he was torn into pieces by the 'evil' set (lucifer, satan, the devil, et al) and when isis, the wife of osiris, tried to put him back together again, she found all his missing parts, except you know what. such legends are, i feel, symbolic of much more straightforward truths. the obelisk a

ising of the earth, and by that, i don't only mean the re-emergence of women into areas of decision-making. i mean the reawakening of female energy within the male form also, and a softening of the indoctrinated desire of so many men to dominate and to follow the macho man programming. this reemergence of female energy is symbolised as 'the return of the goddess. it is highly appropriate that the obelisk (the symbol of male energy) should be so important to the brotherhood over the centuries, because it is, after all, a brotherhood, not a brother-and-sisterhood. the secret societies are almost entirely male-dominated with women excluded from the knowledge and decision making. look at the freemasons as an example. it is a male preserve, with their wives wheeled out for the annual dinner lik

the circumstances in which conflicts will break out. the rothschilds have long been enthusiastic freemasons and napoleon bonaparte was surrounded by freemasons who advised him on his policies and expansionism. they persuaded him at one time to invade egypt and ransack ancient sites for knowledge and artifacts held to be sacred to freemasonic ritual and legend. napoleon brought a massive egyptian obelisk back to paris as part of this burglary. british freemasons persuaded their government to do the same and the result was the theft of the egyptian obelisk known as cleopatra's needle, which still stands in london. napoleon's escapades were well exploited by the brotherhood and their bankers. in his book, the rothschilds, historian john reeves tells how nathan rothschild witnessed the result

ly involved many different agencies who were controlled by the elite. this way there could be coordination between elements within the cia, the fbi, the organised crime syndicate, the dallas police department, the military, the 'justice' department, the media, the incoming president johnson, and many others. freemasonry was certainly a thread in this, too. near the site of the killing today is an obelisk monument to freemasonry with the flame of lucifer positioned on the top. mossad and the cia were the prime agencies involved, i believe, right down to the driver of kennedy's car, agent william greer. the basic training of all drivers in intelligence agencies and security firms all over the world is: if you hear shots, your right foot hits the floor, and you get the hell out of the area as

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nterestingly, modern ufo researchers figure 2: the inverted pentagram, the classic symbol of satanism, and, apparently, a symbol for sirius. ruled by the gods 35 connect the reptilians with both sirius and orion. isis (sirius) was the companion of osiris (orion) in egyptian myth. among the major illuminati symbols to the present day are the eye, the triangle or pyramid, the five-pointed star, the obelisk, and the dome. the egyptian hieroglyph for sirius was the obelisk, dome and fivepointed star; the bozo tribe of mali, cousins to the dogon, call sirius the "eye star; an egyptian hieroglyph for sirius was a triangle- three points representing the three sirius stars; and the triangle symbolised water in pythagorean code;26 the eye was a symbol of osiris in egyptian myth. the bow and arrow i

the union between the people from the stars and humanity, which you find recorded in virtually every ancient culture. significantly, he says the copper willy was once made of gold before it was stolen and replaced with copper. this mirrors the ancient egyptian story about the golden penis of their key god, osiris, which is symbolised by the secret societies today, especially the freemasons, as an obelisk. the way the extraterrestrial is portrayed on the necklace, credo says, is merely symbolic because these "gods" were of a very distinct and unhuman form (reptilian) and they warned the people of instant death if they ever depicted them as they really looked. thus the "gods" were portrayed symbolically. hanging from the necklace of the mysteries is a large hand, full of symbols. among these

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as the home of the british nationalnewspaper industry. the symbol of the national tabloid, the daily express, onceheadquartered in fleet street, is a knight carrying a shield emblazoned with thetemplar-phoenician red cross on a white background. the templar lands stretcheddown to the river thames where the templars had their own docks. during the reign ofqueen victoria, the brotherhood erected an obelisk alongside the thames at this pointand placed a sphinx on either side. the obelisk had formerly stood in the egyptian cityof on or heliopolis (the city or place of the sun) and it is known today as cleopatrasneedle (see picture section. this obelisk is an ancient egyptian-aryan symbol of thesun, the male energy, the phallus. these symbols are to be found in many places, oftenunder the guise

he city or place of the sun) and it is known today as cleopatrasneedle (see picture section. this obelisk is an ancient egyptian-aryan symbol of thesun, the male energy, the phallus. these symbols are to be found in many places, oftenunder the guise of war memorials and have been placed there by freemasonicmanipulation. has anyone ever asked themselves why a war memorial nearly alwayshas to be an obelisk? and why do you think the washington monument in the centre ofwashington dc is a giant obelisk? because obelisks, like all these symbols andgeometrical shapes, generate the energy they represent. i remember climbing somestone steps inside a big obelisk near hebden bridge in england and feeling enormousmale sexual energy all around me. i wondered what on earth was happening until iremembere

o are in the heart of that area of london from the city of london square mile financialdistrict down to the houses of parliament and buckingham palace. this is the land fromwhich the world is currently controlled, at least at the operational level, together with parisand the v atican. and paris was the other dual-headquarters for the knights templar. that137city also has a 3,200 year old egyptian obelisk at a key point in its street plan, the placede la concorde. princess diana passed that obelisk in the mercedes literally a minutebefore it crashed in the pont de lalma tunnel in 1997.by the middle of the 12th century the templars were second only to the romanchurch for wealth and influence. they had their own fleet of ships (on which they flewthe skull and bones flag, and their financial c

here arecertainly many fascinatingconnections.201 london, paris, and washingon,and many other major cities weredesigned under the laws ofsacred geometry and have manyremarkably similar buildings andmonuments. domes and obelisksare particularly prevalent. here(left to right) we have st paulscathedral (london, thepantheon (paris) and thecongress building(washington..and (left to right) the egyptian obelisk called cleopatras needle in london, the obelisk from luxor in the placede ia concorde in paris, and the washington monument in washington dc202 the eternal flame is theclassic symbol of thebabylonianbrotherhood. here it isheld by thebrotherhood hero,prometheus (left, atthe rockefeller centrein new york. it can also be seenon the statue of libertyon an island in newyork harbour (left, andit

during asummer camp for thebabylonianbrotherhood elite. theowl is symbolic ofmoloch, the diety towhich children in theancient worid weresacrificially burnedalive- and still aretoday.extraterristial invasion? no, brotherhoodmanipulation. this is claimed to be thevrll-7, one of the nazi flying saucercraft developed during the second worldwar and later perfected in the unitedstates and elsewhere.the obelisk and the dome again. an artists impression of thecanary wharf building beside the river thames, the tallestbuilding in europe, and opposite is the new millenium dome.the zero time meridian of greenwich meantime runs close tothis point and that is no coincidence.207chapter tenmoney out of nothingtoday the initiates and frontmen for the babylonian brotherhood control world politics,banking, b

is a brotherhood symbol which says: we control this country and we aretelling you so, but you are too stupid to see it! the torch is the most obviousbrotherhood signature.352when the brotherhood assassinated president kennedy in 1963, they put a lightedtorch, the eternal flame which has burned to this day, on his grave in the arlingtoncemetery after the murder in dallas the freemasons erected an obelisk in dealey plazaa few yards from the spot where kennedy was shot. at the top they placed a depictionof the lighted torch. when diana, princess of wales, was murdered in the pont delalma tunnel in paris, the shrine to her, where people left flowers, was a large goldsymbol of the very eternal flame held by the two statues of liberty, which justhappened to be on top of the tunnel where her car

iety of jesus. the founder of the jesuits, the spaniard ignatius loyola, formed asecret society within this apparently catholic order and the initiates were called thealumbrados, the enlightened, the illuminated. weishaupt created 13 degrees ofinitiation in his illuminati (the same as the number of levels on the great seal pyramid)and the key personnel were to be found in the top nine degrees.the obelisk and the dome are common sights in the monuments and buildings of thebrotherhood. the obelisk is an ancient phallic symbol of the male energy and solarenergy and the dome represents the female or moon energy. often they are placedtogether or close to each other. this is the symbolism of the oval office (the womb,female) in the white house which looks out on the washington monument, the vast

k and the dome are common sights in the monuments and buildings of thebrotherhood. the obelisk is an ancient phallic symbol of the male energy and solarenergy and the dome represents the female or moon energy. often they are placedtogether or close to each other. this is the symbolism of the oval office (the womb,female) in the white house which looks out on the washington monument, the vaststone obelisk (phallic, male. these symbols attract and generate the energy theyrepresent: they are a physical thought form. the obelisk also symbolises the penis of theegyptian sun god, osiris. according to legend, after osiris had been sliced into piecesby his rival, set, the queen isis found all the pieces except his willy. an obelisk claimedto come from alexandria in egypt stands in central park, ne

city of thesun, from at least 1500 bc, before it was moved to alexandria (see picture section. asphinx has been placed on either side at its london location. another egyptian obeliskwhich was built in luxor 3,200 years ago now stands in the place de concorde in paris,less than a minutes drive from the scene of dianas crash.on the other side of the crash scene is the eiffel tower, another gigantic obelisk indisguise. the washington monument in washington dc is a colossal obelisk. thedome (from a greek word meaning place of the gods) draws in and harnesses energy,as does the pyramid. so often you find that the great cathedrals are built around amassive dome because their builders and designers understood the power of geometryto focus energy in one spot. the vast golden dome on the islamic sh

ich was also, incidentally, designedby sir christopher wren. it is to this point in the world that all the watches, clocks, andtime zones (therefore the collective human mind) are tuned and we view the universefrom the same time-perspective. the measurement used in the greenwich time-grid issolar time. on the other side of the river thames, opposite the millennium dome, isthe biggest building and obelisk in europe, the canary wharf building. again in thebrotherhood cities you will invariably find a skyscraper shaped like an obelisk becauseof the effect that has on the energy field and the harnessing of solar energy. big ben, thefamous clock at the houses of parliament in westminister is also an obelisk. the wordben is cymric and gaelic for mountain and in ancient egypt ben related to the s

per shaped like an obelisk becauseof the effect that has on the energy field and the harnessing of solar energy. big ben, thefamous clock at the houses of parliament in westminister is also an obelisk. the wordben is cymric and gaelic for mountain and in ancient egypt ben related to the sacredben ben stone on the top of the pillars in on, the city of the sun. these pillars becamesymbolised by the obelisk and it was said to be the point where the gods descended tothe earth. the bennu bird- the inspiration for the phoenix- sat on the ben ben stone,according to legend.4 there is also another significance for the millennium dome andcanary wharf which i will explain later.the street plans of major cities are designed under the laws of sacred geometry inthe same way that the great cathedrals, te

cities,is a mass of esoteric symbolism. thestreets around the congress building aredesigned to mark the places the sunrises and sets at the winter and summersolstice. there is also a hexagram or starof david- figure 31. 358that the nazis reversed theswastika. one pentagrampoints down into capitol hill(see figure 33, another intothe white house (see figure34, and a third extends outfrom the giant obelisk calledthe washington monumentand covers a large area of theinner city. at its centre is thesign for aries, the ram or lamb.similar satanic pentagramscan be identified in the streetplan of rome, the old city ofjerusalem, the land aroundrennes-le-chateau, thepyramid site at giza, and nodoubt over london and othercities and sites. across thepotomac river fromwashington is the home of theunite

erson and lincolnmemorials were added to the washington street plan in the early 20th century. thejefferson building, historians believe, is based on a design of the pantheon in rome.like all of these key buildings, they are built alongside water or reflecting pools. thebuilding represents the sun and the water is the moon reflecting the sun. thewashington monument, at 555 feet, the biggest stone obelisk in the world, wascompleted in 1885. the cornerstone had been laid by the grand freemasons lodge ofthe district of columbia. while travelling and speaking in the united states i saw atelevision item which said the authorities intended to build a memorial in the mall, theheart of the street plan, to those who died in the second world war. it would include atits centre, they said, a depiction

thefamous champs elysees and when you follow this line you can see how planned it allis. when you stand underneath the arc de triomphe next to the eternal flame of theunknown soldier, look in one direction, dead straight, and you see a big modernconcrete arch in the distance. when you turn and look the other way, again deadstraight, you look down the champs elysees to the 3,200 year old egyptian obelisk inthe place de concorde. beyond that in the same direct line you find another arch,similar to the arc de triomphe, but much smaller, and that, in turn, is in direct line withthe big black glass pyramidbuilt outside the louvremuseum during the presidencyof the 33rd degree freemason,francois mitterrand. peoplewere flabbergasted that anyonecould build such an out-of-keeping structure alongsid

ould wellhave been under the control of the priory of sion. cooper says that the assassination ofjfk was the revenge of the knights templar against the church, the state and thepeople. kennedy is the only roman catholic president of the united states, the samechurch of rome which killed jacques de molay. on dealey plaza today, standing nearthe points where kennedy and oswald were murdered, is the obelisk erected by thefreemasons after the murders. the obelisk is symbolic of the penis of osiris infigure 51: the pyramid with the capstone missing. this isdealey plaza where john f kennedy was assassinated. 409egyptian legend and the one in dealey plaza has the flame or lighted torch at the top(see picture section. the eternal flame on the kennedy grave in arlington cemetery isthere for the sam

ighted torch at the top(see picture section. the eternal flame on the kennedy grave in arlington cemetery isthere for the same reason. the flame or lighted torch is the most obvious brotherhoodsignature and on kennedys grave the flame is within a circle, the ancient symbol of thesun. kennedy was also laid in state in the centre of a circle under the dome on capitolhill. there are 14 stones on the obelisk in dealey plaza, the number of pieces intowhich osiris was cut by set, according to egyptian myth. the one part that his sister-wife, isis, could not find was his penis, represented by the obelisk itself. she replacedthe penis of osiris with one she made herself and this became the symbol of thebrotherhood. the dealey plaza obelisk was built for, and dedicated to, a freemasoniclodge of the

nd diana died in the early morning of august31st. hecates day in the satanic calendar is august 13th, but under the satanic law ofreverse symbolism and reverse numbers, hecates day of sacrifice is. august 31st!!so just look at the symbolism of this. diana, named after the ancient moon goddess,was driven from the ritz and through the place de la concorde where she passed the3,200 year-old egyptian obelisk brought to paris from luxor with its tip or pyramidcoloured bright gold symbolising the penis of osiris. it was at this very point, a minutefrom where diana died, that queen marie antoinette was beheaded at the guillotineduring the brotherhood-engineered french revolution, another symbolic blood sacrificeof the female energy. diana was then driven at speed to the pont de ualma tunnel, theb

rhood, the son of god was horus. he was bornto isis after her husband, osiris, had been murdered by set. she gathered together 14 partsof his mutilated body, but she could not find the penis. so she created a penis andimpregnated herself to conceive horus, the sun god- sun king, horus was osiris446reborn. in paris, part of this ritual was played out again. the car passed the golden-tippedegyptian obelisk, the penis of osiris, in the place de la concorde, and inside the vehiclewere diana (another name for isis) and the egyptian, dodi fayed, representing osiris. ihave heard from many sources that diana was pregnant. her foetus symbolised horus,the sun king. in ancient egypt, they said that osiris had to die before horus could comein. this will sound amazing to most people, but if you study t

use i found that seat again wherewe rested in 1994. it is on top of the pont de lalma tunnel very close to the 13th pillarwhere the car crashed! also, near that seat above the mouth of the tunnel is a large447depiction of a lighted torch (see picture section. this, of course, is the most obviousbrotherhood signature of them all and after president kennedys ritual killing, thefreemasons erected an obelisk in dealey plaza with a lighted torch at the top. anotherflame was placed on his grave. the one on the pont de ualma tunnel stands on a blackpentagram and there isnt a more powerful satanic symbol than that. it is supposed tobe a flame of liberty (a copy of the flame held by the statue of liberty) tocommemorate those who died in the second world war, but its location has,predictably, ensure

e is tuned to that, the brotherhood is again planning tomanipulate time across the millennium. as the millennium approached, the tallestbuilding in europe was built across the river thames from the greenwich observatoryin london, the zero point of so-called greenwich mean time. this building, namedcanary wharf, was built by a consortium of brotherhood business interesfs and it is anenormous glass obelisk. later the british government decided to spend the best part ofa billion, yes a billion, pounds to build a vast dome, the millennium dome, which willbe the focus of official celebration at the time of the millennium. this dome is besidethe river thames and on the opposite side, close to the global zero time line, is thecanary wharf obelisk (see picture section. the obelisk and the dome are

e earth we are constantly affected by theirvibrational state. the reptilian-brotherhood know this and here you have another reasonfor their symbolism and ritual on such an apparently obsessional scale. everythingresonates at a frequency and symbols are very powerful examples of this. a symbol is aphysical representation of a thought. what that symbol means to you is the energy itwill resonate. an obelisk symbolises male sexual energy, the phallus, and so that is theenergy it generates and attracts. the dome represents the womb, the female, and that isthe energy it generates and attracts. the same with a pentagram, a lighted torch,whatever. if they are placed in particularly powerful vortex points and crossover pointson the earths magnetic grids, they will affect the vibrational state of th

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ue the subjects they have listed at the very bottom of their home page, noting the extremely satanic, anti-christian subjects of which the invisible fraternity is comprised. below are a few of these subjects as kessinger's has listed them: this is the heart and soul of the invisible, inner fraternity. the absolute darkest part of this heart is phallicism, worshipping the erect male sex organ. the obelisk is the major symbol for this worship, which is why you see obelisks everywhere associated with freemasonry! it is time to stop being deceived, don't you think! listen to albert pike speak of the obelisk "hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of the resurrection by the tomb of buried deity [morals and dogma, p. 393] now, yo

obelisk "hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of the resurrection by the tomb of buried deity [morals and dogma, p. 393] now, you know why you see so many obelisks atop the graves of freemasons, for it is "an emblem of the resurrection of buried deity; the invisible mason believes he is becoming a god throughout his life, so the obelisk at his grave is simply the visible manifestation of that belief. the obelisk was originally created by the egyptian mysteries of the pharaohs, and is spoken of in the bible. listen" king jehu said to the guards and to the officers 'go in and slay them; let none escape. and they smote them with the sword; and the guards before the king threw their bodies out, and went into the inner dwellin

and slay them; let none escape. and they smote them with the sword; and the guards before the king threw their bodies out, and went into the inner dwelling of the house of baal. they brought out the obelisks of the house of baal and burned them [2 kings 10:26, amplified bible] god almighty ordered the satanic obelisks burned, but only after he ordered king jehu to slaughter the worshippers of the obelisk, also known as baal worshippers. thus, the invisible freemasonry is devoted to the obelisk worship so forbidden by god as to be worthy of the death penalty. keep this in mind the next time you contemplate the washington monument! finally, serpent worship takes us directly into hell itself, for satan stands directly behind this form of worship. this is the invisible fraternity of freemasonr

s date to 1959, following the inclusion of alaska and hawaii into the union as the 49th and 50th states. let us now quickly look at the washington monument, which lies directly west of the capitol. in fact, the washington monument lies on a straight line, precisely 900 west of the capitol. the washington monument(left) is the most important presidential monument to the occultist, because it is an obelisk set inside a circle. what, you are probably saying, is an obelisk? an obelisk is a tall, four-sided stone pillar tapering toward a pyramidal top. the obelisk is critically important to the occultist because they believe that the spirit of the ancient egyptian sun god, ra, resided in the obelisk. thus, the obelisk represents the very presence of the sun god, whom the bible calls satan! ther

is critically important to the occultist because they believe that the spirit of the ancient egyptian sun god, ra, resided in the obelisk. thus, the obelisk represents the very presence of the sun god, whom the bible calls satan! there are only three major obelisks in the world today, and two of them are in the united states. according to epperson in his book "the new world order, the first major obelisk was constructed in st. peter's square in rome, and is so placed that every pope who addresses any crowd in the square, must face the obelisk. a new age author, peter tomkins, reports the same facts in his book "the magic of obelisks, harper and row, new york, 1982, isbn 0-06-014899-3. there is an obelisk in st. peter's bascilica as well. you'll be shocked to know that the church of god pro

addresses any crowd in the square, must face the obelisk. a new age author, peter tomkins, reports the same facts in his book "the magic of obelisks, harper and row, new york, 1982, isbn 0-06-014899-3. there is an obelisk in st. peter's bascilica as well. you'll be shocked to know that the church of god promotes celibacy while displaying a sex act right outside of st peter's bascilica. the second obelisk was brought to america in 1881 from alexandria, egypt, and was placed in central park in new york city. the third obelisk is the washington monument, built to commemorate our first president, george washington (who was a freemason. in light of the symbols which we have just studied, which have been built into the layout of government center, i believe the washington monument was constructe

ington monument, but you get the point: this monument, constructed to honor the first masonic president, was designed so that both the white house and the capitol face toward it so that the leaders of both branches have to face the spirit of lucifer thought to be residing in it. this is typical occultism. one final interesting note. we reported earlier in this article that the washington monument obelisk was placed directly on a straight line, precisely 900 west of the capitol. thus, the inhabitants of the capitol could face the obelisk daily. however, note that the washington, d.c, obelisk does not lie in a straight line 900 south the white house. why? because it was lined so that it lies in a straight line 900 from the house of understanding, the headquarters of freemasonry! in the mind

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fter this there was absolute peace until june 30, when the real climax came. i had seen the thing again on the night of the new moon, and had noticed considerable changes in its appearance. especially it seemed far more active, while its long hair had changed into serpent heads. the night after i was awakened by a violent noise and jumped out of bed. i then saw the noise was caused by a great red obelisk which crashed through the west wall of my room and leaned against the wall at the east end, smashing both that and the window to pieces but missing my bed, which was in an alcove to the left of its path. in its transit it had smashed all the mirrors, and the floor and top of my bed were strewn with broken glass and fragments of wood. this time the obsession must have lasted some minutes, i

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

or the mythical sacrifice) in the british museum, london. this loose cap, with the point protruding, gives the original form from which all helmets or defensive headpieces, whether greek or not, derive. when a phrygian cap, or symbolizing cap, is bloodred, it stands for the cap of liberty, a revolutionary symbol; in another way, it is even a civic or incorporated badge. it marks the needle of the obelisk, the crown or tip of the phallus, whether human or representative. it may have had its origin in the rite of circumcision. the real meaning of the bonnet rouge or cap of liberty is obscure, but it has always been regarded as a most important hieroglyph or figure. it signifies the supernatural simultaneous sacrifice and triumph. it has descended from the time of abraham, and it is supposed

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nschems, that is "the eye of the sun, and that in the temple of the sun in it there was a marvellous mirror, constructed with great art to flash back the rays of the sun.3 we seem to be here in the miraculous atmosphere of the city of adocentyn, the arabic version of the city of the 1 kircher, op. cit, i l l, p. 568. 2 ibid, i, p. 150. 3 ibid, i, pp. 29-30. cf. also iii, p. 331, on the "solarian" obelisk at heliopolis. 418 after hermes trismegistus was dated sun in picatrix, though kircher does not name that work nor make any connection between heliopolis and the prophecies of the asclepius. nevertheless his remarks confirm the view that campanella's cittd del sole was ultimately egyptian in origin. kircher discusses the priesthood of egypt (basing himself mainly on quotation from clement

logical exposition of it is a development, or a further explanation, of ficino's words in the work which kircher calls, by rather a curious slip of the tongue, the de vita coelitus propaganda. he makes no comparison in this passage with the christian cross, nevertheless such a comparison is made very clearly in some of his interpretations of egyptian monuments. for example, the hieroglyphs on the obelisk of heliopolis,2 which include several representations of what kircher calls the egyptian cross, are explained as having the meaning of the obelisk shown in the centre, on which there is a christian cross and sun (pi. 16b. kircher's interpretation of the hieroglyphs on the obelisk3 is permeated by the influence of ficino's de vita coelitus comparanda. by elaborate developments he succeeds i

is permeated by the influence of ficino's de vita coelitus comparanda. by elaborate developments he succeeds in making his hermetic-ficinian interpretation of the hieroglyphs fit with the christian cross with the sun and trinity shown in the centre. the whole interpretation is but the expression in terms of hieroglyphs of religious hermetism "hermes trismegistus" has written in hieroglyphs on the obelisk dedicated to the sun the same truths which he wrote in the hermetic writings with their foreknowledge of christianity and of the trinity, and with the egyptian magical cross foreshadowing the christian cross, as in ficino's de vita coelitus comparanda. it will be remembered that giordano bruno had views about the egyptian and the christian forms of the cross, which he based on the passage

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separate steps to become fully enlightened spiritually. the final step which is the eighth step, is the sex act. notice that the very center of this symbol is a very small circle. this symbol is the ultimate female sexual representation. probably the most famous of all obelisks in the world, is the washington monument. it is believed that the spirit of the egyptian sun god, ra, resides within the obelisk, and they pray to it three t imes daily, if possible, and facing east. the obelisk is the most recognized of all phallic symbols. the sex act between male and female is represented by an obelisk within a circle. the washington monument sits within a circle. freemasonry planned, designed, and created the w ashington monument. the obelisk is greatly revered in masonry, as a quick tour of any

etween male and female is represented by an obelisk within a circle. the washington monument sits within a circle. freemasonry planned, designed, and created the w ashington monument. the obelisk is greatly revered in masonry, as a quick tour of any cemetery in new england will tell you. you can tell which graves are masonic by the obelisks as their headstone. of course, not all masons choose the obelisk for their headstone. the triangle and hexagram maso mong egyptians, the base nic author, r.h. mackenzie, states that "a [of the triangle] represented osiris, or the male principle; the perpendicular, isis, or the female principle; and the hypotenuse, horus, their son [kenneth r.h. mackenzie, the royal masonic cyclopaedia of history, rites, symbolism, and biography, new york, j.w. bouton, 1

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d forty feet broad, while the porch, a phallic emblem "was a huge tower, forty feet long, twenty feet broad, and two hundred and forty feet high" we are assured by forlong that solomon's temple was like hundreds observed in the east, except that its walls were a little higher than those usually seen, and the phallic spire out of proportion to the size of the structure "the jewish porch is but the obelisk which the egyptian placed beside his temple; the boodhist pillars which stood all around their dagobas; the pillars of hercules, which stood near the phoenician temple; and the spire which stands beside the christian church"[104 [104] forlong, rivers of life, vol. i, p. 219. the rites and ceremonies observed in the worship of baal-peor are not of a character to be described in these pages:

e and misapprehension of its western adherents had been engrafted upon it. concerning the form of religious worship in great britain, and the fact that phallic worship prevailed there, forlong writes "the generality of our countrymen have no conception of the overruling prevalence of this faith, and the number of its lingham gods throughout our islands" these symbols were always in the form of an obelisk or tower, thereby indicating the worship of the male energy. although emblems of the female element in the deity were present, they were less pronounced and of far less importance than those of the male. these monuments were erected on knolls, at crossroads and centers of marts or villages, and were placed on platforms which were usually raised from five to seven steps. a few years ago the

ial system, their love of learning, and the standard attained in the sciences and arts, prove the early people of ireland to have been equal if not superior to any of the early historic nations. in referring to the number and magnitude of the monumental remains in ireland, and while commenting on the mechanical skill of the druids, the rev. smedley says "i was present at the erection of the luxor obelisk in paris, and yet i think that i would have felt greater emotion if i had witnessed the successful performance of the old celtic engineer who placed on its three pedestals of stone the enormous rock which constitutes the druidical altar here at castle may" it is believed that this people understood the art of mining and that they were acquainted with the use of iron. the following is an ex

e columns. in the north of scotland was one of these monuments upon which were depicted war-like scenes, horses and their riders, warriors brandishing their weapons, and troops shouting for victory, while on the other side was a sumptuous cross, beneath which were two figures, the one evidently female, the other male. in cordiner's antiquities of scotland is a description of an elaborately carved obelisk. on one side of this column appears a mammoth cross, and underneath it are figures of uncouth animals. among these carvings are to be seen the bulbul of iran, the boar of vishnu, the elk, the fox, the lamb, and a number of dancing human figures. in fact all the configurations are not only in their nature and import essentially eastern, but are actually the symbols of the various animal for

religion. chapter xviii. the cross and a dying savior. in egypt, the cross when unaccompanied by any other symbol signified simply creative energy both female and male, but whenever a distinctively female emblem was present it denoted the male power alone. the ibis, which is represented with human hands and feet, bears the staff of isis in one hand and the cross in the other. there is scarcely an obelisk or monument in egypt upon which this figure does not appear. the symbol or monogram of venus was a circle and a cross, that of saturn was a cross and a ram's horn. plato declared that the son of god was expressed upon the universe in the form of the letter x, and that the second power of the supreme god was figured on the universe in the shape of a cross. there is little doubt that the ear

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masonic rituals. no matter how much those who attempted to interpret the magic flute as "a story about the far east" at its foundation are egyptian rituals. it is the gods and goddesses of the egyptian temples that influenced the creation of the characters of the magic flute.75 obelisks another important symbol of masonry is what was once an important element in ancient egyptian architecture the obelisk. an obelisk is a tall, vertical tower with a pyramid as its peak. obelisks were inscribed with ancient egyptian hieroglyphs, and lay buried for centuries under the ground until they were discovered in the nineteenth century, and removed to western cities such as new york, london and paris. the largest obelisk was sent to the usa. this exportation was arranged by masons. this was because ob

scovered in the nineteenth century, and removed to western cities such as new york, london and paris. the largest obelisk was sent to the usa. this exportation was arranged by masons. this was because obelisks, as well as the ancient egyptian figures inscribed on them, are claimed by masons as being really their own sym- wolfgang amadeus mozart bols. mimar sinan avers this about the 21-meter high obelisk in new york: the most striking instance of the symbolic use of architecture is the monument called cleopatra's needle, given to the us as a gift in 1878 by the egyptian governer ismail. this monument is now in central park. its surface is covered with masonic emblems. this monument was originally erected in the 16th century bc at the entrance to a temple of the sun god, an initiation cente

widow. masons call themselves the children of the widow, and pictures of widows often appear in their publications. what is the origin of this idea? who is this widow? when we examine masonic sources, we find that the symbol of the widow derives originally from an egyptian legend. this legend is one of ancient egypt's most important myths the story of osiris and isis. lj materialism revisited an obelisk covered with masonic symbols in new york's central park. global freemasonry remains from ancient egypt: monuments of pharaohs with an obelisk rising in front of them in the valley of the kings. lk ll materialism revisited an ancient egyptian depiction of isis. osiris was a fertility god and isis was his wife. according to the legend, osiris was the victim of a crime of passion by which isi

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he southern wall and it was down these i had come when i had entered the structure. i walked several times around the figure of viracocha, resting my fingers on the sun-warmed stone pillar, trying to guess its purpose. it was perhaps seven feet tall and it faced south, with its back to the old shoreline of lake titicaca (originally less than six hundred feet away).4 ranged out behind this central obelisk, furthermore, there were two others, of smaller stature, possibly intended to represent viracocha s legendary companions. all three figures, being severely, functionally vertical, cast clean-edged shadows as i gazed at them, for the sun was past its zenith. i sat down on the ground again and looked slowly all around the temple. viracocha dominated it, like the conductor of an orchestra, an

lah square, which was dominated by one of the world s oldest intact egyptian obelisks.1 weighing an estimated 350 tons, this was a pink granite monolith, 107 feet high, erected by pharaoh senuseret i (1971-1928 bc. it had originally been one of a pair at the gateway of the great heliopolitan temple of the sun. in the 4000 years since then the temple itself had entirely vanished, as had the second obelisk. indeed, almost all of ancient heliopolis had now been obliterated, cannibalized for its handsome dressed stones and ready-made building materials by countless generations of the citizens of cairo.2 heliopolis (city of the sun) was referred to in the bible as on but was originally known in the egyptian language as innu, or innu mehret meaning the pillar or the northern pillar .3 it was a d

enerations of the citizens of cairo.2 heliopolis (city of the sun) was referred to in the bible as on but was originally known in the egyptian language as innu, or innu mehret meaning the pillar or the northern pillar .3 it was a district of immense sanctity, associated with a strange group of nine solar and stellar deities, and was old beyond reckoning when senuseret chose it as the site for his obelisk. indeed, together with giza (and the distant southern city of abydos) innu/heliopolis was believed to have been part of the first land that emerged from the primeval waters at the moment of creation, the land of the first time, where the gods had commenced their rule on earth.4 heliopolitan theology rested on a creation-myth distinguished by a number of unique and curious features. it taug

se had been filled with a dark, watery nothingness, called the nun. out of this inert cosmic ocean (described as shapeless, black with the blackness of the blackest night) rose a mound of dry land on which ra, the sun god, materialized in his self-created form as atum (sometimes depicted as an old bearded man leaning on a staff):5 1 saqqara, egypt: archaeologists have discovered a green limestone obelisk, the world s oldest-known complete obelisk, dedicated to inty, a wife of pharaoh pepi i, egypt s ruler almost 4300 years ago, who was regarded as a goddess after her death. times, london, 9 may 1992; see also daily telegraph, london, 9 may 1992. 2 atlas of ancient egypt, pp. 173-4; rosalie and anthony e. david, a biographical dictionary of ancient egypt, seaby, london, 1992, pp. 133-4; blu

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gether to create life could be replaced by the concept of a divine union between the male and female principles inherent in the creator. a hand of atum is also mentioned in magical texts as a powerful talisman to drive away evil. in egyptian symbolism, beings and images often had dual sexual and apotropaic meanings. deities, themes, and concepts 111 figure 23. atum adored by king rameses ii on an obelisk moved to tanis (courtesy of geraldine pinch) another part of atum with an independent existence was his eye. the coalescence of atum with ra is expressed in the myth in which atum sends out his eye to bring light to the primeval darkness. this eye was also a goddess who was both the daughter and the consort of the creator. the eye goddess was mainly referred to as the eye of ra, but occasi

enewal of creation each dawn. the cry of the benu bird was the point at which time began. it was also the benu bird who would announce the end of time and the return of the world to chaos. from the pyramid texts onward, the benu bird was closely associated with the creator sun god. in heliopolis, the center of solar worship, the benu bird was said to perch on the benben stone, a kind of primitive obelisk, or in the branches of a sacred willow tree. when egyptian kings had reigned for thirty years, they asked the benu bird to renew their strength and vitality. both ra and osiris could be identified with the benu bird, an expression of the secret knowledge that these two gods were one. as a manifestation of osiris, the benu bird led the spirits of the dead through the dangers of the un- deit

ecromancy the practice of summoning the dead to gain knowledge or power. necropolis a city for the dead with tombs and funerary shrines. nilometer a set of steps used for estimating the height of the annual nile flood. nomarch the governor of a nome (province. nome one of the forty-two provinces into which egypt was divided. each nome was represented by a symbol and had at least one patron deity. obelisk a tapering pillar of stone with a pointed top. placed in open courts in temples or tombs, obelisks were mainly associated with sun worship. ogdoad a group of eight deities. the most famous example was the ogdoad of hermopolis (see deities, themes, and concepts. opening of the mouth ceremony a ritual to reanimate a mummy or to animate a statue or image. oracle a deity who answers questions

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fire and serpent worshippers, and explanations of the mystic symbols represented in the monuments and talismans of the primeval philosophers second edition revised, corrected, and considerably enlarged by hargrave jennings author of the indian religions; or, results of the mysterious buddhism; curious things of the outside world; live lights or dead lights (altar or talbe; one of the thirty; the obelisk (its origin, history, and purpose, etc, etc. illustrated by upwards of three hundred engravings london chatto and windus, piccadilly 1879 [the right of translation is reserved] first published london: john hotton, 1870. second edition, london: chatto and windus, 1879. this electronic text issued by celepha s press, leeds, 2003. this work is in the public domain. vnto the very points and pr

at all; for all history reads doubtfully, being written for popular purposes. in the temple-herren of nicolai there is an account of a gnostic gem, or talisman, which represents a cynocephalus, with a lunar disc on his head, standing in the act of adoration, with sceptrum displayed, before a column engraved with letters, and supporting a triangle. this latter architectural figure is, in fact, an obelisk. all the egyptian, obelisks were phalli. the triangle symbolises one of the pillars of hermes (hercules. the cynocephalus was sacred to him. the pillars of hermes have been judaiscd into solomon's jachin and boaz. so says herz, in regard to masonic insignia. we will explain fully, later in our book, of these interesting sexual images, set up for adoration so strangely; and from the meaning

olds in his extended hand on the babylonian cylinders, afterwards discovered by the jewish cabalists in the points of the letter shin, and by the mediaeval mystics in the three nails of the cross. the gnostics and their remains, ancient and medi val, p. 208. this figure, which is clearly a nail, has also characteristics, which will be remarked in its upper portion, which suggest a likeness to the obelisk, pin, spike, upright, or phallus. the hebrew letter shin, or sin, counts for 300 in the hebraic numeration. each spica, or spike, may be taken to signify 100, or ten tens. we have strong hints here of the origin of the decimal system, which reigns through the universal laws of computation as a natural substratum, basis, or principle. this powerful symbol, also, is full of secret important

by-spots in scotland, in the scottish isles, in the isle of man, and in ireland* all these stone of memorial older than history speak the secret faith of the ancient peoples. stonehenge, with its inner and outer circles of stones, enclosing the central mythic object, or altar; all the druidic or celtic remains; stones on the tops of mountains, altar-tables in the valley; the centre measuring, or obelisk, stones, in market-places or centre-spaces in great towns, from which the highways radiated, spaced in mileage to distance; that time-honoured relic, london stone, still extant in cannon street, london; the scottish sacred stone, with its famous oracular gifts, vulgarly called jacob s pillow* also in brittany, in various parts of france, and spain; nay, throughout europe, and occurring to

, as designating the guide, or direction, post, placed at the intersection of crossroads? nay, whence gained we that peculiar idea of the christian and heathen mystic lights. 107 sacredness, or of the forbidden attaching to the spot where four roads meet? it is sacer, as sacred, in the latin; extra-church or heathen, supposedly unhallowed, in the modem acceptation. the appellative ob, in the word obelisk, means occult, secret, or magic. ob is the biblical name for sorcery. it is also found as a word signifying converse with forbidden spirits, among the negroes on the coast of africa, from whence and indicating the practices marked out by it it was transplanted to the west indies, where it still exists. it is well known that a character resembling the runic alphabet was once widely diffused

rking downwards, and also transcending upwards. from any given point, in height, that the intellect is able to achieve, the same spirit downwards intensifies into manifestation; upwards, dissipates into god! in other words, before any knowledge of god can be formed at all, it must have a shape. god is an abstraction; man is an entity. winged human-headed lion (nineveh sculptures) black sculptured obelisk (british museum. chapter the thirteenth. inquiry as to the possibility of miracle. he definition of a miracle has been exposed to numerous erroneous views. inquirers know not what a miracle is. it is wrong to assume that nature and human nature are alike invariably, and that you can interpret the one by the other. there may be in reality great divergence between the two, though both start

venus. several of the arabian idols were no more than large, rude stones (sale s discourse, p. 20; koran, chap. v. p. 82. the stone at mecca is black. the crypts, the subterranean churches and chambers, the choirs, and the labyrinths, were all intended to enshrine (as it were) and to conceal the central object of worship, or this sacred stone. the pillar of suerio, near forres, in scotland, is an obelisk. these obelisks were all astrological gnomons, or pins, to the imitative stellar mazes, or to the fateful charts in the letter-written skies. the astro- fig. 31. the letters s and z. 139 nomical stalls, or stables were the many sections into which the hosts of the starry sky were distributed by the chaldseans. the decumens (or tenths, into which the ecliptic was divided, had also another n

r name, which was ashre, from the hebrew particle as, or ash, which means fiery, or fire. the romans displayed reverence for the ideas connected with these sacred stones. cambyses, in egypt, left the obelisks or single magic stories. the linghams in india were left untouched by the mohammedan conquerors. the modern romans have a phallus or lingha in front of almost all their churches. there is an obelisk, altered to suit christian ideas (and surmounted in most instances in modern times by a cross, in front of every church in rome. there are few churchyards in england without a phallus or obelisk. on the top is usually now fixed a dial. in former times, when the obeliscar form was adopted for ornaments of all sorts, it was one of the various kinds of christian acceptable cross which was pla

angeable. in professor smyth's book, pur j is wrongly translated wheat. it signifies product, or growth, or elimination; in other words, and in the symbolical sense, it means sunbegotten, or fire-begotten" the coptic derivation (rei 200 the rosicrucians. read by a new light) is the true one. thus we obtain another reason upon which we rely as the real interpretation of the name of the pyramid, or obelisk, or great original altar or upright, raised to the divinity working secondarily in nature. pur is fire (or division produced by fire; metron is ten (or measures or spaces numbered as ten. the whole word means, and the entire object bearing this name means, the original ten measures or parts of the fiery ecliptic or solar wheel, or the ten original signs of the zodiac. therefore the pyramid

y ancient churches, and on most fonts. these representative forms are also fig. 53. pyramid. fig. 54. egyptian seated figure (british museum. said to have been the four cherubim of the ark of the hebrews. hermetically they signify the four elements, 210 the rosicrucians. or the four corners or angle-points of the lesser or manifested world, or the microcosm of the cabalists. fig. 45 represents an obelisk at nineveh, now in the british museum. jacob s pillar, the sacred stone in westminster abbey, bethel &c, gilgal, have a mythic alliance with the obelisk. fig. 55. colossal head (british museum) regarding the pyramids the following may be advanced: murphy, the delineator of the alhambra, considered the pointed arch to be a system founded on the principle of the pyramid. the pointed or verti

wer, ireland. gradual growth, and expansion of the romantic or pointed architecture, which is generally called gothic; and they round towers and obelisks. 215 prove how the upright, or original phallic form, was adopted and gradually mingled in christian architecture,-in reality at last becoming its dominant feature. fig. 96 represents one of the western towers of st. fig. 72. obeliscus. fig. 73. obelisk. fig. 75. two round towers. paul s cathedral, london, which is one of the double lithoi (or obelisks, placed always in front of every temple, christian as well as heathen. it is surmounted by the fig. 74. propylon, thebes. fir-cone (thyrsus) of bacchus, and the sculptured urns below it are represented as flaming with the mystic fire. the architectural genealogy of the tower or steeple in f

with the point protruded, gives the original form from which all helmets or defensive headpieces, whether greek or barbarian, deduce. as a phrygian cap, or symbolising cap, it is always sanguine in its colour. it then stands as the cap of liberty, a revolutionary form; also, in another way, it is even a civic or incorporated badge. it is always masculine in its meaning. it marks the needle of the obelisk, the crown or tip of the phallus, whether human or representative. it has its origin in the rite of circumcision unaccountable as are both the symbol and the rite. the real meaning of the bonnet rouge, or cap of liberty, has been involved from time immemorial in deep obscurity, notwithstanding that it has always been regarded as a most important hieroglyph or figure. it signifies the super

e or skin-coat( pel, from pellis, skin; thence pall* this pelisse is an imitation or reminder, and is the very remote symbol, or garment, or cover of shame, as it is* in these modern tasteless, ignorant days all these distinctive learned marks are obliterated in the equipment of troops. we may also instance, as proofs of 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 p

rned, sol, is (in this form) the tudor rose (the rose-en-soleil, be it remembered, was another of the tudor badges; denoting the union of the houses of york and lancaster in the person of harry the eighth. it will be observed that each knight of the round table is seated as at the base of an round table (mythical) 1. rose crucified. 2. rose restored to life. 3. consummation. 372 the rosicrucians. obelisk. the architectural obeliscar form (rayed, or spread, or bladed) is universal, all the world over, both in old times and modern times. the egyptian obelisks are sacred to the sun. the paladins of charlemagne were twelve in number. the marshals of france should be twelve in number. the judges of england, according to old constitutional rationale, should be twelve; as the number of a jury are

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s, he was instructed in the highest of the secret mysteries of the eleusis. at the conclusion of this ceremony he was hailed as an epoptes, which means one who has beheld or seen directly. for this reason also initiation was termed autopsy. the epoptes was then given certain sacred books, probably written in cipher, together with tablets of stone on which secret instructions were engraved. in the obelisk in freemasonry, john a. weisse describes the officiating personages of the eleusinian mysteries as consisting of a male and a female hierophant who directed the initiations; a male and a female torchbearer; a male herald; and a male and a female altar attendant. there were also numerous minor officials. he states that, according to porphyry, the hierophant represents plato's demiurgus, or

ants, fruits, and trees sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 93 flowers, plants, fruits, and trees the yoni and phallus were worshiped by nearly all ancient peoples as appropriate symbols of god's creative power. the garden of eden, the ark, the gate of the temple, the veil of the mysteries, the vesica piscis or oval nimbus, and the holy grail are important yonic symbols; the pyramid, the obelisk, the cone, the candle, the tower, the celtic monolith, the spire, the campanile, the maypole, and the sacred spear are symbolic of the phallus. in treating the subject of priapic worship, too many modern authors judge pagan standards by their own and wallow in the mire of self-created vulgarity. the eleusinian mysteries--the greatest of all the ancient secret societies--established one of

eremonials were regarded as sacred. it has been claimed that solomon, at the instance of hiram, king of tyre, employed them at his temple and palaces. they were also employed at the construction of the temple of diana at ephesus. they had means of intercommunication all over the then known world, and from them, doubtless, sprang the guilds of the traveling masons known in the middle ages (see the obelisk and freemasonry) the fraternity of the dionysiac architects spread throughout all of asia minor, even reaching egypt and india. they established themselves in nearly all the countries bordering on the mediterranean, and with the rise of the roman empire found their way into central europe and even into england. the most stately and enduring buildings in constantinople, rhodes, athens, and

hand is formed like three bent spikes or nails; unmistakably the same symbol that belus often holds in his extended hand on the babylonian cylinders, afterwards discovered by the jewish cabalists in the points of the letter shin, and by the medi val mystics in o the three nails of the cross" from this point hargrave jennings continues king's speculations, noting the resemblance of the nail to an obelisk, or pillar, and that the qabbalistic value of the hebrew letter shin, or sin, is 300, namely, 100 for each spike. the passion nails are highly important symbols, especially when it is realized that, according to the esoteric systems of culture, there are certain secret centers of force in the palms of the hands and in the soles of the feet. the driving of the nails and the flow of blood an

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iltrated into their minds and the minds of their young. here are some of the key passages from the david ovasons masterpiece, which bringout facts that have long been concealed from the public: the extraordinary truth is that the very existence of the washington monument is intimatelylinked with the egyptian star, sirius the sihor, which the ancients represented in their sacredhieroglyphics as an obelisk as well as a star. how is it possible that this most important starof the ancient world should find itself, as it were, resurrected in the architecture of theunited states. in the course of that day, when the cornerstone of the washington monument was laid, thesun would have passed over sirius..computations clearly show that on the day the declaration of independence was agreed inphiladelp

cial placing of the american flag, a masonic ceremony took place, which was never tele-vised or revealed to the american free public. buzz aldrin produced a masonic bannerwhich was specially embroidered for the strange trip by the librarian of the masonic houseof the temple in washington d. c. the egyptian hierogram for the star sirius consists of three shapes: a five-pointed star, anoval, and an obelisk. amazingly, this is just what we find in stone in washington d.c. theentire city is dedicated astromantically to the star sirius and its occult deities. astrology isgood enough for the ruling plutocrats it seems. pity that when the ordinary person seeks touse the divination arts for their own personal physical and spiritual empowerment, they areconsidered freaks and devil-worshippers. mill

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g of the raw flesh of the victim, seems to be invigorated by a fresh draught from the fountain of universal life, to receive a new pledge of regenerated existence. death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of dionusos. hence the significancy of the _phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried deity at lerna or at sais. dionusos-orpheus descended to the shades to recover the lost virgin of the zodiac, to bring back his mother to the sky as thyone; or what has the same meaning, to consummate his eventful marriage with persephone, thereby securing, like the nuptials of his father with semele or dana, the perpetuity of natu

to the sea-dragon, and to the planet mars. the celebrated labyrinth was built in honor of the sun; and its twelve palaces, like the twelve superb columns of the temple at hieropolis, covered with symbols relating to the twelve signs and the occult qualities of the elements, were consecrated to the twelve gods or tutelary genii of the signs of the zodiac. the figure of the pyramid and that of the obelisk, resembling the shape of a flame, caused these monuments to be consecrated to the sun and to fire. and tim us of locria says "the equilateral triangle enters into the composition of the pyramid, which has four equal faces and equal angles, and which in this is like fire the most subtle and mobile of the elements" they and the obelisks were erected in honor of the sun, termed in an inscript

of the candidate, as a sign that he was set apart for the sacred mysteries. on the upright tablet of the king, discovered at nimroud, are the names of thirteen great gods (among which are yav and bel; and the left-hand character of every one is a cross composed of two cuneiform characters. the cross appears upon an ancient ph nician medal found in the ruins of citium; on the very ancient buddhist obelisk near ferns in ross-shire; on the buddhist round towers in ireland, and upon the splendid obelisk of the same era at forres in scotland. upon the facade of a temple at kalabche in nubia are three regal figures, each holding a crux ansata. like the subterranean mithriatic temple at new grange in scotland, the pagodas of benares and mathura were in the form of a cross. magnificent buddhist cr

SATANIC RITUALS

aw abideth as the key, and the shining trapezoid is the door! o mein bruder, studiere gut den stein des fluges, unerkkannt f r jene ohne ihn, innen warten die grell schimmernden antlitze der jagdhunde die welt zu entflammen! sind die winkel klein und ruhig oder gigantisch in ihrer br llenden gewaltt tigkeit, es ist in der weise, die wir so gut kennen. an dieser grimmigen, grauen k ste herscht der obelisk und f sst su mit seinen vier klauen nach dem ring des fafnir- f hrer, diese verk rperung kommt, welche uns vergr ssert und schl gt jene, die gegen uns sind. o my brothers, study well the stone with planes unrecognized by those without, for within those glaring facets the hounds await that set the world aflame! be the angles small and still or gargantuan in their roaring outrage, the form i

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

was equally entwined wilh ophiolatry. her emblem was the horned viper'"in the british museum there is a head of isis wearing a coronet of them" the egyptians often represented isis and osiris together, as two serpents "about the commencement of the christian era the cult of osiris was extended over asia minor, greece and rome" cicero tells us that he was known as ob-el, from whence we derive the obelisk.62 the identity of hermes-mercury. anubis (brother to osiris) has already beeen mentioned. his emblem, the caduceus, was the talismanic serpent, originally entwined around a tau cross, which was also a phallus. the serpents represented the power of mercury as a sun-god. the caduceus was identified with moses' brazen serpent "in judah the image of jehovah took the form of a golden serpent

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

underworld. the skull and bones, or death's head, is thought to guard the doorway to the mysteries of initiation. there are three number fives arranged in a triangle pattern, thus 555, the triple nickel, symbolizing death and resurrection. not coincidentally, the washington monument, in our nation's capital, is exactly sss feet high. it was designed by masonic overlords and architecturally is an obelisk, worshipped in egypt as osiris' penis (baal's shaft. black magic, masonic witchcraft, and triangle powers 377 the occult spiritual nature of the mission of the united nations (un) is seen in the un's meditation room, inside the un headquarters in new york city. the austere meditation room has a rough, black granite ashlar altar (masonic origins) and a mural with various occult symbols, inc

s the essential doctrine of cabalism. magical signs of the jewish cabala 427 the star of david and the jewish utopia the symbol of the jewish six-pointed star, known as the seal of solomon and as the magen david, is the preeminent symbol of cabalism, but other symbols, signs, and marks also hold the interest of cabalists, including the pentagram or pentacle, the triangle, the circle, the sun, the obelisk, the yoni, and the diamond. it is believed by cabalistic rabbis that there are hidden codes and messages in the numbering of scriptural letters. it is also believed that by working the cabala, the earth may someday be renovated, rebuilt, perfected. this, say the rabbis, will result in a perfect jewish kingdom, or utopia on earth, ruled by a cabalist master, a jewish leader, naturally. this

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ces, h and it became a religious center during the period known as the new kingdom (founded c. 1550 b.c.e. dedicated to the sun deity amon-ra (also t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d places of mystery and power 245 amun-re) and built around 1500 b.c.e, karnak consists of massive pillars, towering columns, avenues of sphinxes, and a remarkable obelisk that stands 97 feet tall and weighs 323 tons. the great hypostyle hall, one of the largest single chambers ever built, covers an area of nearly 54,000 square feet. the entire cathedral of notre dame could fit comfortably within its walls. nearby ruins suggest that karnak was considered a sacred site much earlier than the time during the new kingdom when it became the center of worship for

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

the rivals and successors of m. champollion. the system of writing of the disciples of hermes being analogical and synthetical, like all the signs of the qabalah, would it not be useful, in order to read the pages engraved upon the stones of the ancient temples, to replace these stones in their place, and to count the numbers of their letters, comparing them with the numbers of other stones? the obelisk of luxor, for example, was it not one of the two columns at the entrance of a temple? was it at the right-hand or the left-hand pillar? if at the right, these signs refer to the active principle; if at the left, it is by the passive principle 196 that one must interpret its characters. but there should be an exact correspondence of one obelisk with the other, and each sign should receive i

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

circle being the symbol of spirit, it is represented by the reversed t, that is, having the point, or energy, directed upward, the cross-bar resting below on the earth, and thus indicating that the thoughts, emotions and actions, are directed exclusively toward spiritual endeavor. it is figured by a blind man carrying bags on his left shoulder. he leans on a black staff and walks toward a fallen obelisk behind which a crocodile with open mouth awaits to devour him. above is an eclipse of the sun. the eclipse signifies that the spiritual light from within has been obscured by material interests; or it signifies that dark forces from the inner plane try to shut away the spiritual illumination which guides the neophyte. the bags over the left shoulder of the blind man indicate the material t

indicate the material things of life he has spent his efforts acquiring; or it represents his ability to minister in physical ways to those in need. the staff of experience with good and evil is black, indicating that prudence is subservient to the demands of the senses; or that the demands for uplifting and protecting others is so great that, though enlightened, he ignores all danger. the fallen obelisk symbolizes the final overthrow of all temporal work and power. the crocodile indicates the ultimate fate of all who are blind to spiritual things, and also the persecution of those who work to spread the true facts of spirituality. this blind man is the atheist, or materialist, and the man who is so absorbed in material aims that he neglects all thought of spiritual things. it is likewise

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

like all great things, it is masked by confused thinking; and, only too often, brought into contempt by the machinations of knavery (1) there is more nonsense talked and written about yoga than about anything else in the world. most of this nonsense, which is fostered by charlatans, is based upon the idea that there is something mysterious and oriental about it. there isn't. do not look to me for obelisks and odalisques, rahat loucoum, bul-buls, or any other tinsel imagery of the yoga-mongers. i am neat but not gaudy. there is nothing mysterious or oriental about anything, as everybody knows who has spent a little time intelligently in the continents of asia and africa. i propose to invoke the most remote and elusive of all gods to throw clear light upon the subject- the light of common se

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

after day. close it in locked glass for a proof to the world" the old comment 10. the stele of revealing. that temple; it was arranged as an octagon; its length double its breadth; entrances on all four quarters of temple; enormous mirrors covering six of the eight walls (there were no mirrors in the east and west or in the western halves of the south and north sides. there were an altar and two obelisks in the temple; a lamp above the altar; and other furniture. kiblah- any point to which one turns to pray, as mecca is the kiblah of the mohometan "it shall not fade" etc. it has not hitherto been practicable to carry out this command" the new comment the language is here so obvious and so inane that one is bound to suspect a deeper sense. it sounds as bad as "the last winking virgin" or s

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

never, oh never, by wile or endeavour am i to be taken. will a wish or a word charm the hawk from the air? and am i a bird to be caught in a snare? will a word or a wish bring the trout from the brook? and am i a fish to snap at an hook "the prophet" ye let me to the holy place. all ye have mocked me to my face. 24 now ends the age of living breath; i am sworn henchman unto death. lead me to the obelisks that support the holy disks! i am here; my grasp is firm, we are come unto the term. temple, dancers, girls, musicians, augurs, acolytes, magicians- ruin, ruin whelm us all! fall["he pulls down the pillars; but the temple" was not supported on them as in his" blindness he supposed; and he is himself" his only victim "the dancers" twine! twine! rose and vine. whirl! whirl! boy and girl. mi

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ed. seal the book with the seals of the stars concealed: for 3 the rivers have rushed together and the name hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod is broken in a thousand pieces (against the cubic stone. tremble ye, o pillars of the universe, for eternity is in travail of a terrible child; she shall bring forth an universe of darkness, whence shall leap forth a spark that shall put his father to flight. the obelisks are broken; the stars have rushed together: the light hath plunged into the abyss: the heavens are mixed with hell. my father shall not hear their noise: his ears are closed: his eyes are covered with the clouds of night. the end! the end! the end: for the eye of shiva he hath opened: the universe is naked before him: for the aeon of saturn leaneth toward the bosom of death. illustration

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

and paths.7 of these ten sephiroth the temple as arranged in the 0 =0 of neophyte includeth only the four lower sephiroth in the tree of life, viz: malkuth, jesod, hod, and netzach, and the outer side of paroketh,8 which latter formeth the east of the temple" the plan of the temple as arranged in this grade is shown on the adjoining diagram; therein it will be seen that it contains two pillars or obelisks. these two pillars, which are respectively in netzach and hod, need careful explanation. they represent mercy and severity, the former being white and in netzach, the latter black and in hod. their bases are cubical and black to represent the earth element in malkuth; the columns are respectively white and black to manifest eternal balance of the scales of justice. 245 4 hb:yod stands for

gement of the temple in the 0= 0 ritual. upon them should be represented in counterchanged colours any appropriate egyptian design emblematic of the soul. the scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the fire of test and trial, and between the balance is the porch way of the immeasurable region. the twin lights which flare on the summits are the "declarers of eternal truth" the pillars are really obelisks with tetrahedronal capitals slightly flattened at the apices so as to bear each a lamp. at the eastern part of malkuth, at its junction-point with the path of hb:taw, is placed the altar in the form of a double cube. its colour is black to represent to the neophyte the colour of malkuth; but to the adept there lies hidden in the blackness the four colours of the earth, in their appropriat

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

brew text has been grossly altered, especially in the interval next after the deluge- says whiston (old test, p. 20[[vol. 2, page] 396 the secret doctrine. confessed by himself when speaking of a mysterious tomb of an initiate at sais, in the sacred precinct of minerva. there, he says "behind the chapel. is the tomb of one, whose name i consider it impious to divulge. in the enclosure stand large obelisks and there is a lake near, surrounded with a stone wall formed in a circle. in this lake they perform by night, that person's adventures, which they call mysteries: on these matters, however, though i am accurately acquainted with the particulars of them, i must observe a discreet silence (ii. 170. on the other hand, it is well to know that no secret was so well preserved and so sacred wit

e western waters, the phoenician vessels had circumnavigated the globe, and spread civilization in regions now silent and deserted? what archaeologist will dare assert that the same hand which planned the pyramids of egypt, karnak, and the thousand ruins now crumbling to oblivion on the sandy banks of the nile, did not erect the monumental nagkon-wat of cambodia? or trace the hieroglyphics on the obelisks and doors of the deserted indian village, newly discovered in british columbia by lord dufferin? or those on the ruins of palenque and uxmal, of central america? do not the relics we treasure in our museums- last mementos of the long 'lost arts- speak loudly in favour of ancient civilization? and do they not prove, over and over again, that nations and continents that have passed away hav

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

. with cherubims of cunning work (exodus, ch. xxvi, xxvii) the tabernacle and the square courtyard, cherubim and all, were precisely the same as those in the egyptian temples. the square form of the tabernacle meant just the same thing as it still means, to this day, in the exoteric worship of the chinese and tibetans- the four cardinal points signifying that which the four sides of the pyramids, obelisks, and other such square erections mean. josephus takes care to explain the whole thing. he declares that the tabernacle pillars are the same[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] materialism" this doctrine, which commands a very wide assent, counting among its upholders such men as lewis, spencer, ferrier, and others, while positing thought and mental phenomena generally as r

ich represented the same orientation (antiquities i, viii, ch. xxii. the idea may be traced in the zoroastrian caves, in the rock-cut temples of india, as in all the sacred square buildings of antiquity that have survived to this day. this is shown definitely by layard, who finds the four cardinal points, and the four primitive elements, in the religion of every country, under the shape of square obelisks, the four sides of the pyramids, etc, etc. of these elements and their points the four maharajahs were the regents and the directors. if the student would know more of them, he has but to compare the vision of ezekiel (chap. i) with what is known of chinese buddhism (even in its exoteric teachings; and examine the outward shape of these "great kings" in the opinion of the rev. joseph edki

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

ve del altro mondo. at this, the inquisition declares him a dangerous revolutionary and mad. 1555-1625 francis anthony 1556 postel imprisoned in rome. 1556 hieroglyphica of valerianus, pierius giovanni pietro delle fosse italian humanist scholar and poet. first book to ascertain the historical truth about the writing system of ancient egypt on the basis of the bembine table, inscriptions on roman obelisks, the hieroglyphica of horapollo. 1557 catelin geofroy tarot(lyon. gabriel du preau -deus livres de mercure trismegiste hermes 1557-1607 thomas brightman. influenced by the twelfth-century monk joachim of fiore- seven churches prophesied the seven ages of church history. anticipated a jewish kingdom, separate from the church, upon the the conversion of the jews and a "full restoring of the

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

ebury stone circle (vortex) in wiltshire, england. it is like throwing a spanner into an electrical system. it throws it into chaos. i'm not saying that these places are negative in themselves. they are just energy. i am talking of the structures built upon them to manipulate the flow of that energy. i think people miss the point that you can program stones, with their quartz crystal content, and obelisks etc, to do a positive or negative job for you in these places. i think that many have been put there to disrupt and suppress. just my view. the illuminati keep their most powerful vortex points clean and secret, known only to themselves. among the ancient landscape features still visible today in the west of england are the white horses scored from the chalk hillsides. the oldest, accordi

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

eterms hebrew and judaism are another way of saying egyptian. this is one reasonwhy we have the constant use of symbols by todays brotherhood which relate to egypt,85including the pyramid with the capstone missing. this is symbolic of the great pyramidat giza and the egyptian mystery schools, together with much deeper meanings. at theentrance to the mystery school temple in egypt were two massive obelisks. these areoften represented as two pillars by the freemasons and in buildings designed andfunded by initiates. hence the two pillars that samson pushed over. every initiate in themystery schools was given a secret name and this also continues with the brotherhoodtoday. one connection to the hebrews in egypt could be the invasion of the hyksos orshepherd kings. the egyptian historian, mane

y, by the french artist jean cocteau(1889-1963, a grand master of the priory of sion. his mural includes a black sun, aclassic brotherhood symbol, casting its rays into the sky, and a man with an eye drawnin the shape of a fish, which could well be symbolic of the babylonian nimrod. inrome there is the dome at the v atican, that ancient site of mithra (sun) worship, andalongside the dome you find obelisks in st. peters square. in london, as i write, themillennium dome is being built next to the greenwich zero longitude time-line whichruns through the nearby greenwich observatory, which was also, incidentally, designedby sir christopher wren. it is to this point in the world that all the watches, clocks, andtime zones (therefore the collective human mind) are tuned and we view the universef

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

is pimander and asclepius asserted that god is one and good, whom the rest of the philosophers followed.1 thus the hieroglyphs and the hermetka were both writings of hermes trismegistus in which he made the same statements about divine things in which he was followed by all the poets and philosophers of antiquity. in the light of this profound belief, kircher interprets all egyptian monuments and obelisks, as having written on them in the hieroglyphs the truths of ficinian hermetism. kircher is much preoccupied with isis and osiris as the chief gods of egypt. in one of his discussions of their meanings he says: the divine dionysius testifies that all created things are nothing else but mirrors which reflect to us the rays of the divine wisdom. hence the wise men of egypt feigned that osiri

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

of male creative power. it was the type of virility which in the subsequent history of religion was to assume the position of the "one only and true god" it is not improbable that idolatry began with the tower of babel. indeed it has been confidently asserted by certain writers that the earliest idols set up as emblems of the deity, or as expressions of the peculiar worship of the lingajas, were obelisks, columns, or towers, the first of which we have any account being the tower of babel, erected probably at nipur in chaldea. until a comparatively recent time, the actual significance of this monument seems to have been little understood. later research, however, points to the fact that it was a phallic device erected in opposition to a religion which recognized the female element througho

phics were chiselled out of the monuments to make place for his" according to the testimony of rawlinson, the god hea is represented by the great serpent, which occupies a conspicuous position among the symbols of the gods on the black stones recording babylonian benefactions. now these flat black stones are themselves said to symbolize the female element in the deity, in contradistinction to the obelisks, which prefigure the male, while the serpent, for reasons which have already been explained, appeared for ages in connection with the figure of a woman. in later inscriptions "king" is everywhere attached to the name of the god hea, which fact shows that the titles ascribed to her were those particularly coveted by royalty. hence we are not surprised to find that in an inscription of sard

nes as emblems of the deity were plain unwrought shafts, but in process of time they began to be carved into the form of a man--a man who usually represented the ruler or chief of the people, and who, as he was the source of all power and wisdom, was supposed by the ignorant masses to be an incarnation of the sun. thus arose the spiritual power of monarchs, or the "divine right of kings" wherever obelisks, columns, pillars, attenuated spires, upright stones or crosses at the intersection of roads are found, they always appear as sacred monuments, or as symbols of the lingham god. the chaldean tower of which there are extant traditions in mexico and in the south sea islands; the round towers of ireland; the remarkable group of stones known as stonehenge, in england; the wonderful circle at

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

udaism and wholly infests it" solomon reinach defines the global freemasonry ei the dark world of the kabbalah ej from the templars to ancient egypt the magicians of ancient egypt the ancient egypt of the pharaohs was one of the most ancient civilizations of the world. it was also one of the most oppressive. the magnificent monuments that still remain from ancient egypt the pyramids, sphinxes and obelisks were constructed by hundreds of thousands of slaves, worked to the point of death, under the whip and threat of starvation. the pharaohs, the absolute rulers of egypt, wanted themselves to be represented as gods and to be worshipped by the people. one of our sources of knowledge about ancient egypt is their own inscriptions. these were discovered in the nineteenth century and, after inten

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z1

-kratt-l st. 5. the stations of isis and nephthys are respectively at the places of the pillars in jxn and dwh, and these great goddesses are not otherwise shown in the grade, save in connection with the praemonstrator and imperator, as operating through the hierophant, seeing that isis corresponds to the pillar of mercy and nephthys to that of severity. therefore, the positions of the pillars or obelisks are but, as it were, the places of their feet. the station of aroueris: the invisible station of aroueris (horus the elder) is beside the hierophant as though representing the power of osiris to the outer order. for while the hierophant is an adeptus, he is shown only as lord of the paths of the portal so that when the hierophant is on the dais, the station of aroueris is that of the imme

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

.6 the reed boats of the ancient nile, and the reed boats of lake titicaca (the original design of which, local indians insisted, had been given to them by the viracocha people 7, had other points in common. both, for example, were equipped with sails mounted on peculiar two-legged straddled masts.8 both had also been used for the long-distance transport of exceptionally heavy building materials: obelisks and gargantuan blocks of stone bound for the temples at giza and luxor and abydos on the one hand and for the mysterious edifices of tiahuanaco on the other. in those far-off days, before lake titicaca became more than one hundred feet shallower, tiahuanaco had stood at the water s edge overlooking a vista of awesome and sacred beauty. now the great port, capital city of viracocha himself

nd phillips, warminster, 1985, p. 8; the death of gods in ancient egypt, p. 36. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 349 remembered by the time senuseret took the throne in 1971 bc. in that period (the twelfth dynasty) all that was clearly recalled was that the benben had been pyramidal in form, thus providing (together with the pillar on which it stood) a prototype for the shape of all future obelisks. the name benben was likewise applied to the pyramidion, or apex stone, usually placed on top of pyramids.10 in a symbolic sense, it was also associated closely and directly with ra-atum, of whom the ancient texts said, you became high on the height; you rose up as the benben stone in the mansion of the phoenix. 11 mansion of the phoenix described the original temple at heliopolis where t

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

t characterized a deity. ba the soul or identity of a person or deity. the ba was usually shown as a human-headed bird. a closely related word means a divine manifestation. barque (bark) a sacred boat used to carry a god (in myth) or an image of a god (in cult. barque of millions the boat of the sun god. benben a sacred stone in the solar temple at heliopolis. probably the prototype for the first obelisks and the capstones of pyramids. book of the dead a collection of funerary texts used from the sixteenth century bce onward. canopic jars the four jars containing the viscera (usually the lungs, liver, stomach, and intestines) of a mummy. often stored in a canopic chest (see sons of horus in deities, themes, and concepts. cartouche an oval shape inside which royal names were written. it sym

HP LOVECRAFT DAGON

raving in the open boat after my escape from the german man-of-war. this i ask myself, but ever does there come before me a hideously vivid vision in reply. i cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite. i dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind- of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium. the end is near. i hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. it shall not find me. god

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

s once mighty and sublime. the pyramidal or triangular form which fire assumes in its ascent to heaven is in the monolithic typology used to signify the great generative power. we have only to look at stonehenge, ellora, the babel-towers of central america, the gigantic ruins scattered all over tartary and india, to see how gloriously they symbolised the majesty of the supreme. to these uprights, obelisks, or lithoi, of the old world, including the bethel, or jacob s pillar, or pillow, raised in the plain of luz, we will add, as the commemorative or reminding shape of the fire, the pyramids of ascending and descending signs. 61 egypt, the millenarius, gnomon, mete-stone, or mark, called london stone, all crosses raised at the junction of four roads, all market-crosses, the round towers of

to the philosopher, who knows how properly to value the ancient thinkers, who were as giants in the earth. we shall shortly show that reveries of the magi. 79 the monuments raised to this strange faith still remain, and that, surviving from the heathen times, the forms still mingle and lurk largely amidst the christian european institutions the traces of the idolatry, if not the idolatry itself. obelisks, spires, minarets, tall towers, upright stones (menhirs, monumental crosses, and architectural perpendiculars of every description, and, generally speaking, all erections conspicuous for height and slimness, were representatives of the sworded, or of the pyramidal, fire. they bespoke, wherever found, and in whatever age, the idea of the first principle, or the male generative emblem. havi

n trances, swept the adepts, leaving their mortality behind them: all, and their earth-surroundings, to be resumed at their reissue upon the plains of life, when down in their humanity again. in the cities of the ancient world, the palladium, or protesting talisman (invariably set up in the chief square or place, was there is but little doubt the reiteration of the very earliest monolith. all the obelisks, each often a single stone, of prodigious weight, all the singular, solitary, wonderful pillars and monuments of egypt, as of other lands, are, as it were, only tombstones of the fire! all testify to the great, so darkly hinted secret. in troy was the image of pallas, the myth of knowledge, of the world, of manifestation, of the fire-soul. in athens was pallas- athene, or minerva. in the

erspersed through the text. 10. lovanii, 1610. the bookseller adds: i never saw another copy of this curious old book. this book which there is no doubt is genuine would seem finally to settle the question as to the character of these irish round towers, which are not christian belfries, as dr. george petrie, and others sharing his erroneous beliefs, persistently assure us, but heathen lithoi, or obelisks, in the sense of all those referred to in other parts of this work. they were raised in the early religions, as the objects of a universal worship. all antiquaries know of what object the phallus stands as the symbolical representation. it needs not to be more particular here. the fleur-de-lis is a sacred symbol, descending from the chald ans, adopted by the egyptians, who converted it in

temple in india. the stone, or pillar, or pillow, of jacob was sacred among the jews. it was anointed with oil. there was a sacred stone among the greeks at delphi, which was also anointed with oil in the mystic ceremonies. the stone of caaba, or black stone at mecca, is stated to have been there long before the time of mohammed. it was preserved by him when he destroyed the dove and images. the obelisks at rome were, and are, lingas (or linghas. in the temple of jerusalem, and in the cathedral of chartres, they are in vaults. they are the idea of 168 the rosicrucians. the abstract membrum, or affluence, or means. to the initiated mind they imply glory, not grossness. figs. 25, 26 (p. 137, are the crux-ansata of the egyptians. this emblem is also found in india. according to ruffinus and

ness in the lapse of the ages, or to have been mutilated at some unknown, remote period possibly thrown down and broken as objects of superstitious reverence, if not of direct and positive idolatry, thus very probably exciting indignation, which, as it found opportunity and scope for its exercise, was successful in their demolition. in both these stones we certainly have only fragments perhaps of obelisks, or of jewish bethel pillars or stones for all these supposed magical stones are of the same sacred family. the supposed magical stone, enclosed in the wooden block at the base of the coronation chair, has been reputed, from time immemorial, to murmur its approval or disapproval of the royal occupant, only at the moment when the sovereign was placed in the chair for investiture with the s

we have spoken more fully in another place. see elias ashmole. pope john xiv, about the year 970, issued a bull for the baptising of bells to cleanse the air of devils; with which it was imagined to be full in the time of storms or of public commotion. to this end, the kettledrums of the lacedemonians were also supposed to be used on all extraordinarily harmful occasions. pagodas are uprights and obelisks, with the same meaning as other steeples, and their angles are set about with bells, which are agitated in the wind, and are supposed to exercise the same power of driving-off evil spirits. vesper-bells secure spiritual serenity. the bells of the churches are tolled in thunderstorms still, in some parishes in england, supposedly to disperse the clouds, and to open their rifts for the retu

gha, vase en forme de bateau. benares is the peculiar seat of the linga or phallic worship. no less than forty-seven lingas are* puranas (new testament, the modern scriptures of the hindus, as distinguished from the vedhas (as bible, or more ancient scriptures. wilson on hind sects. as. res. vol. xvii. as. res. vol. xvii. pp. 208-210. chinese hint. the chinese pagodas are phalli, storied tors, or obelisks; abounding in bells to be agitated in the winds to drive-off the crowds of roving malignant spirits. the whole of china may be mystically said to be populated by bells and the dragon. indian phallicism. 349 visited, all of pre-eminent sanctity; but there are hundreds of inferior note still worshipped; and thousands whose fame and fashion have passed away. it is a singular fact, that upon

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r, that in ancient times it was not lawful to speak of the tradition in any detail, at least to strangers, for herodotus says: 141. also at sais there is the burial place of him whom i account it not pious to name in connection with such a matter, which is in the temple of athene (isis) behind the house of the goddess, stretching along the whole wall of it; and in the sacred enclosure stand great obelisks of stone, and near them is a lake adorned with an edging of stone, and fairly made in a circle, being in size, as it seemed to me, equal to that which is called the round pool in delos. on this lake they perform by night the show of his sufferings, and this the egyptians call mysteries. of these things i know more fully in detail how they take place, but i shall leave this unspoken(*her

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es and gradations might be marked. every thing luminous was subsequently attributed to the gods; the sphere, and all that is spherical, to the universe, to the sun and the moon- sometimes to fortune and to hope. the circle, and all circular figures, to eternity--to the celestial movements; to the circles and zones of the heavens. the section of circles, to the phases of the moon; and pyramids and obelisks, to the igneous principle, and through that to the gods of heaven. a cone expresses the sun, a cylinder the earth; the phallus and triangle (a symbol of the matrix) designate generation (from essay on the mysteries of eleusis by m. ouvaroff) the eleusinian mysteries, according to heckethorn, survived all others and did not cease to exist as an institution until nearly four hundred years a

and pollux, and romulus and remus, may be the result of amplifying the myths of these celestial twins. the symbols of gemini have passed through many modifications. the one used by the arabians was the peacock. two of the important stars in the constellation of gemini still bear the names of castor and pollux. the sign of gemini is supposed to have been the patron of phallic worship, and the two obelisks, or pillars, in front of temples and churches convey the same symbolism as the twins. the sign of sagittarius consists of what the ancient greeks called a centaur--a composite creature, the lower half of whose body was in the form of a horse, while the upper half was human. the centaur is generally shown with a bow and arrow in his hands, aiming a shaft far off into the stars. hence sagit

ese fountains, the waters of which seemed to possess peculiar occult properties. the first contained the water of forgetfulness, and all who drank thereof forgot their earthly sorrows. from the second fountain flowed the sacred water of mnemosyne, or remembrance, for later it enabled those who partook of it to recall their experiences while in the cave. though its entrance was marked by two brass obelisks, the cave, surrounded by a wall of white stones and concealed in the heart of a grove of sacred trees, did not present an imposing appearance. there is no doubt that those entering it passed through strange experiences, for they were obliged to leave at the adjacent temple a complete account of what they saw and heard while in the oracle. the prophecies were given in the form of dreams an

nding having been discovered in stonehenge (see the celtic druids) it is interesting to note that the green stones forming the inner ring of stonehenge are believed to have been brought from africa. in many cases the monoliths are without carving or inscription, for they undoubtedly antedate both the use of tools and the art of writing. in some instances the stones have been trued into columns or obelisks, as in the runic monuments and the hindu lingams and sakti stones; in other instances they are fashioned into rough likenesses of the human body, as in the easter island statues, or into the elaborately sculptured figures of the central american indians and the khmers of cambodia. the first rough-stone images can hardly be considered as effigies of any particular deity but rather as the c

ret tradition had been lost and the letter of the revelation alone remained? as representing the power that fabricated the lower, or demiurgic, sphere, the tablets of stone were sacred to jehovah in contradistinction to the tablets of sapphire that signified the potency that established the higher, or celestial, sphere. without doubt the mosaic tablets have their prototype in the stone pillars or obelisks placed on either side of the entrance to pagan temples. these columns may pertain to that remote time when men worshiped the creator through his zodiacal sign of gemini, the symbol of which is still the phallic pillars of the celestial twins "the ten commandments, writes hargrave jennings "are inscribed in two groups of five each, in columnar form. the five to the right (looking from the

nt birth and death--the extremes of physical life. they accordingly signify the summer and the winter solstices, now known to freemasons under the comparatively modern appellation of the "two st. johns" in the mysterious sephirothic tree of the jews, these two pillars symbolize mercy and severity. standing before the gate of king solomon's temple, these columns had the same symbolic import as the obelisks before the sanctuaries of egypt. when interpreted qabbalistically, the names of the two pillars mean "in strength shall click to enlarge moses receiving the tables of the law. from an old bible. moses maimonides, the great jewish philosopher of the twelfth century, in describing the tables of the law written by the finger of god, divides all productions into two general orders: products o

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ch-angels michael, gabriel, uriel, raphael, and satanael (satan. although in some accounts, satan is his brother. these sons of god are commonly equated with the children of jehovah; zeus is also said to have plenty offspring. modern-day satanists often remark that satan successfully stole yahweh s creative power, and this belief has fueled much use of phallic symbolism. the planet is dotted with obelisks, like the washington monument, which are merely phallic symbols which represent the creative principle that satan now possesses. it is the fire prometheus stole from the gods. the act of stealing jehovah s creative principle, however, also resulted in the discontinuance of the births of new angels; now a race whose numbers are forever in decline. it is also remarked that jehovah transform

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deity. egypt was then composed of the thebaid only. middle egypt and the delta were a gulf of the mediterranean. the nile by degrees formed an immense marsh, which, afterward drained by the labor of man, formed lower egypt; and was for many centuries governed by the ethiopian sacerdotal caste, of arabic origin; afterward displaced by a dynasty of warriors. the magnificent ruins of axoum, with its obelisks and hieroglyphics, temples, vast tombs and pyramids, around ancient meroe, are far older than the pyramids near memphis. the priests, taught by hermes, embodied in books the occult and hermetic sciences, with their own discoveries and the revelations of the sibyls. they studied particularly the most abstract sciences, discovered the famous geometrical theorems which pythagoras afterward l

lculated eclipses, and regulated, nineteen centuries before c sar, the julian year. they descended to practical investigations as to the necessities of life, and made known their discoveries to the people; they cultivated the fine arts, and inspired the people with that enthusiasm which produced the avenues of thebes, the labyrinth, the temples of karnac, denderah, edfou, and phil, the monolithic obelisks, and the great lake moeris, the fertilizer of the country. the wisdom of the egyptian initiates, the high sciences and lofty morality which they taught, and their immense knowledge, excited the emulation of the most eminent men, whatever their rank and fortune; and led them, despite the complicated and terrible trials to be undergone, to seek admission into the mysteries of osiris and isi

m. over it herodotus throws the august veil of mystery and silence. speaking of the temple of minerva, or of that isis who was styled the mother of the sun-god, and whose mysteries were termed _isiac, at sais, he speaks of a tomb in the temple, in the rear of the chapel and against the wall; and says "it is the tomb of a man, whose name respect requires me to conceal. within the temple were great obelisks of stone[_phalli, and a circular lake paved with stones and revetted with a parapet. it seemed to me as large as that at delos [where the mysteries of apollo were celebrated "in this lake the egyptians celebrate, during the night, what they style the mysteries, in which are represented the sufferings of the god of whom i have spoken above" this god was osiris, put to death by typhon, and

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s. the stations of isis and nephthys are respectively at the places of the pillars in netzach and hod, and these great goddesses are not otherwise shown in the grade, save in <104> connection with the praemonstrator and imperator, as operating through the hierophant, seeing that isis corresponds to the pillar of mercy and nephthys to that of severity; and therefore the positions of the pillars or obelisks are but, as it were, the places of their feet. the station of aroueris. the invisible station of aroueris (horus the elder) is beside the hierophant as though representing the power of osiris to the outer order- for while the hierophant is an adeptus, he is shown only as lord of the paths of the portal- so that, when the hierophant moves from the throne of the east, he is no longer osiris

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