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bination of energies, a realization of an action, unlikely things coming together. it can also mean moderation. temperance -reversed a clashing of energies or interests. devil this is materialism and material force. it can also can mean temptation in the area of materiality. in some means it can represent that somebody is coveting your possessions or that you are coveting theirs. it can also mean obsession. devil -reversed something is going to happen, something is going to come up, but it will not be for the good, it will be for evil. tower fighting, war, power, courage and ambition. this is similar to the emperor in nature, however a lot more destructive. tower -reversed ruin, fall, danger, destruction. star this generally means hope and a bright future, positive thoughts, giving and abu

ABRAMELIN2

ocation. 96 viz: lucifer, leviathan, satan, and belial. 97 i.e, the demons and evil spirits generally. 98 the demons generally. 99 in the original: demandes etapparitions. the sacred magic 116 100 let me here once again insist on the absolute necessity in occult working of being courteous, even to the evil spirits; for the operator who is insolent and overbearing will speedily lay himself open to obsession by a spirit of like nature, the which will bring about his ultimate downfall, 101 a similar name, buriol, is given under the spirits subservient to amaymon. 102 see same name under oriens. 103 see same name under belzebud. 104 in ms "user d'humanit. 105 entitled: how we may retain the familiar spirits bond or free, in whatsoever form. 106 viz: lucifer, leviathan, satan, and belial. 107 v

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

d was intellect. the general object of a knock or a knell is to mark a stage in the ceremony. sasaki shigetz tells us in his essay on shinto that the japanese are accustomed to clap their hands four times "to drive away evil spirits. he explains that what really happens is that the sudden and sharp impact of the sound throws the mind into an alert activity which enables it to break loose from the obsession of its previous mood. it is aroused to apply itself aggressively to the ideals which had oppressed it. there is therefore a perfectly rational interpretation of the psychological power of the knock. in a magical ceremony the knock is employed for much the same purpose. the magician uses it like the chorus in a greek play. it helps him to make a clean cut, to turn his attention from one p

ecrets are<roman missal, the canon of the mass, and the chapter of "defects> chastity<initiates to signify a certain state of soul and of mind determinant of a certain habit of body which is nowise identical with what is commonly understood. chastity in the true magical sense of the word is inconceivable to those who are not wholly emancipated from the obsession of sex> is a condition; fasting for some hours previous is a condition; an earnest and continual aspiration is a condition. without these antecedents even the eucharist of the one and seven is partially- though such is its intrinsic virtue that it can never be wholly- baulked of its effect. a eucharist of some sort should most assuredly be consummated daily by every magician, and he shou

ed rapture, ought not to allow his mind to loosen its grip on the astral imagery of the star-spate, will-symbol, or soul-symbol, or even to forget its duty to the body and the sensible surroundings. nor should he omit to keep his body of light in close touch with the phenomena of its own plane, so that its privy consciousness may fulfil its proper functions of protecting his scattered ideals from obsession. but he should have acquired, by previous practice, the faculty of detaching these elements of his consciousness from their articulate centre, so that they become (temporarily) independent responsible units, capable of receiving communications from headquarters at will, but perfectly able (1) to take care of themselves without troubling their chief, and (2) to report to him at the proper

rs. 11. it is usually quite easy to return to the body, but should any difficulty arise, practice (again) will make the imagination fertile. for example, one may create in thought a chariot of fire with white horses, and command the charioteer to drive earthwards. it might be dangerous to go too far, or to stay too long; for fatigue must be avoided. the danger spoken of is that of fainting, or of obsession, or of loss of memory or other mental faculty. 12. finally, let the student cause his imagined body in which he supposes himself to have been travelling to coincide with the physical, tightening his muscles, drawing in his breath, and putting his forefinger to his lips. then let him "awake" by a well-defined act of will, and soberly and accurately record his experiences. it may be added

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

eal eminence were found to take the axioms of pessimism seriously. huxley, for all of his harping on the minor key, was an eupeptic tory. the culmination of the black philosophy is only found in schopenhauer, and we may regard him as having been obsessed, on the one hand, by the despair born of that false scepticism which he learnt from the bankruptcy of hume and kant; on the other, by the direct obsession of the buddhist documents to which he was one of the earliest europeans to obtain access. he was, so to speak, driven to suicide by his own vanity, a curious parallel to kiriloff in the possessed of dostoiewsky. we have, however, examples plentiful enough of religions deriving almost exclusively from the black tradition in the different stages. we have already mentioned the evangelical c

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ng. one may now go on to consider the use of the sword in purifying emotions into perceptions. it was the function of the cup to interpret the perceptions by the tendencies; the sword frees the perceptions from the web of emotion. 93 the perceptions are meaningless in themselves; but the emotions are worse, for they delude their victim into supposing them significant and true. every emotion is an obsession; the most horrible of blasphemies is to attribute any emotion to god in the macrocosm, or to the pure soul in the microcosm. how can that which is self-existent, complete, be "moved" it is even written that "torsion about a point is iniquity< but if the point itself could be moved it w

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ximate the members, so that p-q (p 2-(p; while the sub-thoughts which intervene between my impression on waking "a fine frosty morning" and my reaction "i'll go skating" come to me from very various departments of my mind, and no two of them are in any way more closely connected than their culmination in consciousness is to its forerunner. but this difference is in reality an illusion born of the obsession already diagnosed; 2 is nearer to 1 and to 3 than 3 is to 1 only in respect of one particular function. full comprehension of the true nature of number, as conceived by this book, should enable the mind to transcend its "normal" trammels. it will no doubt be objected that these speculations, even if correct, are sterile; or, even worse, discouraging to that study of the relations between

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

the difficulty of using its symbols a.c. liber lviii 38 in spiritual dealings, the qabalah, with those secrets discovered by yourself that are known only to yourself and god, forms the grip, sign, token and password that assure you that the lodge is properly titled. it is consequently of the very last importance that these final secrets should never be disclosed. and it must be remembered that an obsession, even momentary, might place a lying spirit in possession of the secrets of your grade. possibly it was in this manner that dee and kelly were so often deceived. a reference to this little dictionary of numbers will show that 1, 3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 17, 21, 22, 26, 32, 37, 45, 52, 65, 67, 73, 78, 91, 111, 120, 207, 231, 270, 300, 326, 358, 361, 370, 401, 306, 434, 474, 666, 671, 741, 913, we

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ice with men, all mingled with wild talk of religious dogma and a general exaltation of priapism at the expense, in particular, of christianity, in which religion, however, he is undoubtedly a believer till the last (the pious will quote james ii. 19, and the infidel will observe that he died in an asylum; then the full swing of the tide catches him, the mysteries of death become more and more an obsession, and he is flung headlong into sadism, necrophilia, notes 59 all the maddest, fiercest vices that the mind of fiends ever brought up from the pit. but always to the very end his power is unexhausted, immense, terrible. his delerium does not amuse; it appals! a man who could conceive as he did must himself have had some glorious chord in his heart vibrating to the eternal principle of bou

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

nd we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in truth) more than one; this christian dogma says "never less that four" hence its bondage to law and its most imperfect comprehension of any true mystic teaching, and hence the difficulty of using its symbols. it is consequently of the very last importance that these final secrets should never be disclosed. and it must be remembered that an obsession, even momentary, might place a lying spirit in possession of the secrets of your grade. probably it was in this manner that dee and kelly were so often deceived. a reference to this little dictionary of numbers will show that 1, 3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 17, 21, 22, 26, 32, 37, 45, 52, 65, 67, 73, 78, 91, 111, 120, 207, 231, 270, 300, 326, 358, 361, 370, 401, 406, 434, 474, 666, 671, 741, 913, we

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

le knows his man, though, if he thinks he can insult me with impunity. andr un sandwich![beyt allah, the mosque at mecca, means "house of god" ed. 7.5. i shall stop mantra while i eat, so as to concentrate "a" on the chewing,"b" on defiling the house of god. not so easy! the damned thing runs on like a prairie fire. important then to stop it absolutely at will: even the work itself may become an obsession. 11 hours with no real break no bad. the bad part of to-day seems the asana, and the deadness. or, perhaps worse, i fail to apprehend the true magical purport of my work: hence all sort of aimless formulae, leading naturally enough to no result. it just strikes me it may be this isis apophis osiris iao formula that i have preached so often. certainly the first two days were isis nat

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ctured much by his own nature; and therefore to an extent "untrue" because his united consciousnesses have not been able to focus along the thought-ray at the circumference of the sphere of sensation or m. m. of the u. and this is the reason why there are so many and multifarious errors in untrained spirit visions: for the untrained skryer("i.e, seer- even supposing him free from the delusions of obsession,41 doth not know or understand how to unite his consciousness: still less what are the correspondences and harmonies between his sphere of sensation and the universe- the macrocosmus. the art of skrying is further explained in a g. d. manuscript entitled "of travelling in the spirit vision" in which this particular form of gaining contact, so to speak, with the higher will is explained a

the impossibility of his task. yet that they can accomplish more than this is also certain: to a few they have unlocked the portal, to the many the postern; but in all cases it is best that the student should place himself under the guidance of one who has actually travelled, and not trust to his own intuitions in an unknown land, for, if he do so, he will almost of a certainty be led astray, and obsession may take the place of illumination, and failure that of success. between the grades 4= 7 and 5= 6 seven months had to elapse, and during this time we find p. busily travelling the british isles searching for a suitable house wherein to perform the operation of abramelin the mage, which ever since the previous autumn had engaged his attention. in the month of may he had met d. d. c. f. 7=

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

rs. 11. it is usually quite easy to return to the body, but should any difficulty arise, practice (again) will make the imagination fertile. for example, one may create in thought a chariot of fire with white horses, and command the charioteer to drive earthwards. it might be dangerous to go too far, or to stay too long; for fatigue must be avoided. the danger spoken of is that of fainting, or of obsession, or of loss of memory or other mental faculty. 12. finally, let the student cause his imagined body in which he supposes himself to have been travelling to coincide with the physical, tightening his muscles, drawing in his breath, and putting his forefinger to his lips. then let him "awake" by a well-defined act of will, and soberly and accurately record his experiences. it may be added

four methods. the holy qabalah. union by knowledge. the sacred magic. union by will. the acts of worship. union by love. the ordeals. union by courage. add the invocations. union by speech. the acts of service. union through work. these are united by the supreme method of silence. 199 iii. if this idea be any but the supreme and perfect idea, and the student lose control, the result is insanity, obsession, fanaticism, or paralysis and death (add addiction to gossip and incurable idleness, according to the nature of the failure. let then the student understand all these things and combine them in his art, uniting them by the supreme method of silence. aleister crowley t the equinox vol. i. no. iii 2nd part may 19, 1990 e.v. key entry and july 1, 1990 e.v. first proofreading against the 1s

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the book, by various preparations which we pass over in order that we may the more speedily record some of the 45 the reader will note that this is a sort of personal adaptation of the 5= 6 obligation. 46 this latter portion of the obligation is taken from the oath which abramelin imposed on his pupil abraham. visions which p. experienced at this time: the first we quote is little better than an obsession, and is as follows: in bed, i invoked the fire angels and spirits on the tablet, with names, etc, and the 6th key.47 i then (as harpocrates) entered my crystal. an angel, meeting me, told me among other things, that they (of the tablets) were "at war with the angels of the 30 aethyrs, to prevent the squaring of "the circle" i went with him unto the abodes of fire, but must have fallen as

280 79 on this occasion the abramelin demons appeared as misty forms filling the whole house with a pernicious aura, which was still noticeable three years after they had been attracted. whether these demons are to be considered as material or mental beings depends upon the philosophic outlook of the reader. nevertheless, let it be understood that abramelin is not a work to be taken lightly. the obsession of these demons was probably one of the chief causes of d.d.c.f.'s troubles. frater p, in spite of his equilibrating practices of yoga which followed immediately upon this operation, suffered terribly on their account. frater ae.a. fled secretly from his house in terror; his gardener, a teetotaller for twenty years, went raving drunk, as did nearly every one who lived on the estate_ we c

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ity. we hope shortly to publish studies, not of the phenomena alleged to be produced by mediums, but of the mental make-up of those investigators who allege them to be genuine. we must be understood to refer only to material phenomena; we have no doubt concerning the mental and moral phenomena. spiritualism leads in every case that we have yet investigated to mental spermatorrhoea, culminating in obsession and complete moral and intellectual atony. aleister crowley. 286 the brighton mystery the mind of the wise easily shunts to strange speculations before taking again to the main line of severely controlled thoughts. associations of ideas_ your name is harpy. how you do catch unheralded the mortal uncautious! the wise knows you; he is aware of your jumpy step; he makes ready; he fights and

ical joker. the mysterious part of the adventure can, i believe, be solved without much difficulty "dear sir" it ran "you do not know me; but i know you. i have followed you through the world with the eyes of my spirit. i once saw in the window of a paris photographer a portrait of yours which arrested my attention, and since that day your personality has been the constant, though not unpleasant, obsession of my life. i am perfectly acquainted with you and your life, your work and moods and ways of living. i came to england a few weeks ago and i saw you. to-day i write. i am aware that you are interested in the strange happenings which are to be studied in this world. my last adventure will cause you to be interested in the brighton murder. i have been nearer than any one else to be the cr

ticular, for anything is better than a second book like this! bathshebah tina. i found "the maniac" both entertaining and instructive, a very valuable study of psychology. it is so far as i know the only really illuminating book on madness; and i strongly recommend its perusal to all alienists, psychologists, and members of the grade of neophyte. it throws an admirable light on the true nature of obsession and black magic. two things impressed me in particular (1) the statement that the arguments held with a patient never reach his consciousness at all, despite his rational answers. this phenomenon is true of my own sane life. i sometimes chat pleasantly to bores for quite a long time without any consciousness that i am doing so (2) the statement that medical men have no idea of the real c

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

d singular state, where all the forces are balanced; where the imagination, though enormously powerful, does not drag after it into perilous adventures the moral sense; when an exquisite sensibility is no longer tortured by sick nerves, those councillors-in- ordinary of crime or despair: this marvellous 58 state, i say, has no prodromal symptoms. it is as unexpected as a ghost. it is a species of obsession, but of intermittent obsession; from which we should be able to draw, if we were but wise, the certainty of a nobler existence, and the hope of attaining to it by the daily exercise of our will. this sharpness of thought, this enthusiasm of the senses and of the spirit, must in every age have appeared to man as the chiefest of blessings; and for this reason, considering nothing but the i

shroud of darkness under thy own proper control and guidance. v. now state clearly to the shroud what it is thy desire to perform therewith. w. having obtained the desired effect, and gone about invisible, it is requisite that thou shouldst conjure the forces of the light to act against that shroud of darkness and mystery, so as to disintegrate it, lest any force seek to use it as a medium for an obsession &c. therefore rehearse a conjuration as aforesaid, and then open the shroud and come forth out of the midst thereof, and then disintegrate that shroud by the use of a conjuration unto the forces of binah, to disintegrate and scatter the particles thereof; but affirming that they shall again be readily attracted at thy command. but on no account must that shroud of awful mystery be left w

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he first would mean the ultimate death of the second the various mudra exercises wee introduced so that this healthy passion might not only be preserved, but cultivated in the most rapid manner possible, without loss of vitality resulting from the practices adopted. equilibrium is above all things necessary, and even in these early stages, the mind of the aspirant should be entirely free from the obsession of either ungratified or over-gratified appetites. neither lust nor chastity should solely occupy him; for as krishna says: verily yoga is not for him who eateth too much, nor who abstaineth to excess, nor who is too much addicted to sleep, nor even to wakefulness, o arjuna. yoga killeth out all pain for him who is regulated in eating and amusement, regulated in performing actions, regul

ntioned in paragraph 26 of "the book of concealed mystery" note too the lotus-leaf that backs the throne of a god is also the hood of the cobra. so too the egyptian gods have the serpent upon the brow. 80 provided the other exits are duly stopped by practice. the danger of yoga is this, that one may awaken the magic power before all is balanced. a discharge takes place in some wrong direction and obsession results. 81 the forcing of the kundalini up the sushumn and through the six chakkras to the sahasr ra, is very similar to rising on the planes through malkuth, yesod, the path of hb:peh, tiphereth, the path of hb:tet, and da th to kether, by means of the central pillar of the tree of life. seventh; but this one, the shasr ra, lies altogether outside the human organism. these six chakkras

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

ing public appearances to explain witchcraft and its compatibility with other religions, he had received a formal epistle putting the curse.of the witches upon.him, it was typewritten, except for the pentacle talisman at the top and. the hebrew inscription at thebottom, and it compared him to joris karl huysmans, a french writer, who, in the last century, had turned to witchcraft and developed an obsession with his powers. later he became a devout romancatholic and exposed.the secrets of witchcraft, mostly of the black variety, in his books. modern witches believe he was cursed by his contemporaries for he died a lingering death of cancer of the palate. now the curse was being passed on to alex for daring to reveal details of the cult. at this time, alex was undergoing a period when his fu

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

equently we have brought to our notice the dangers that must ensue should man tamper injudiciously, ignorantly or wilfully with these fires- 70- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust should a man, by the power of will or through an over-development of the mental side of his character, acquire the power to blend these fires of matter and to drive them forward, he stands in danger of obsession, insanity, physical death, or of dire disease in some part of his body, and he also runs the risk of an over-development of the sex impulse through the driving of the force in an uneven manner upwards, or in forcing its radiation to undesirable centres. the reason of this is that the matter of his body is not pure enough to stand the uniting of the flames, that the channel up the spine i

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

h concentration and meditation, is a potently dangerous matter. this must never be forgotten. there are forms of thought, unencumbered by much desire matter, which, failing to pass downward, poison the man on mental levels. this they do in two ways: 1. by growing so potent on the mental plane that the man falls a victim to the thing he has created. this is the "id e fixe" of the psychiatrist; the obsession which drives to lunacy; the one-pointed line of thought which eventually terrorises its creator. 2. by multiplying so fast that the mental aura of the man becomes like unto a thick and dense cloud, through which the light of the soul must fail to penetrate, and through which the love of human beings, the lovely and beautiful and comforting activities of nature and of life in the three wo

nd there seems no relation between their physical plane existence and the happenings which they relate whilst in trance and of which they usually remain totally unaware in the waking consciousness. the whole performance is below the diaphragm and is related primarily to animal sentient life. in the case of conscious clairvoyance and in the work of the higher psychics and seers there is no trance, obsession or mediumship. it is the web in the brain which is punctured and the opening in that region permits the inflow of light, information and inspiration; it confers also the power to pass into the state of samadhi which is the spiritual correspondence to the trance condition of the animal nature. in the process of death these are, therefore, the two main exits: the solar plexus for the astra

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

ted physically, etherically and emotionally. his physical body, his vital body and his desire nature (for emotion is but expressed desire of some kind or another) are closely knit. at the same time there can be a weakness in the etheric integration, of such a nature that there is a low vitality, a lack of desire impulses, a failure to register adequate dynamic incentives, immaturity and sometimes obsession or possession. frequently what is called a lack of will and the labelling of a person as "weak-willed" or "weak-minded" has in reality nothing to do with the will, but is apt to be the result of this feeble integration and loose connection between the consciousness and the brain which renders the man negative to the desire impulses which should normally stream through into his brain, gal

us correct treatment and balancing of the endocrine system. along these lines much work is being done today and the less serious forms of etheric cleavage are rapidly yielding to treatment. lack of vitality, immaturity, depression based upon a weak vital connection and lack of interest in life (so prevalent at this time) will become less frequent. i cannot here deal at length with the problems of obsession, due to the withdrawal of the self-conscious aspect of the dweller in the body. this process of abstraction leaves only a living shell, an empty house. too much would have to be considered for a treatise such as this. it is not easy for the scientific psychological investigator to accept the premise of the substitution of the consciousness of another entity in the place of the consciousn

these cases, there is to be found a situation wherein: a. the true owner of the body is absent. in this case the life thread will be anchored in the heart but the consciousness thread will not be anchored in the head. it will be withdrawn, and, therefore, the soul remains unaware of the form. in these cases you have idiocy, or simply a very lowgrade human animal. b. certain cases of possession or obsession will be found, wherein the life thread is attached to the original owner of the body but the consciousness thread is that of another person, or identity discarnate and most anxious for physical plane expression. in the average case, where the true owner of the body is not present, the situation is of no real moment, and sometimes serves a useful purpose, for it enables the obsessing enti

purpose, for it enables the obsessing entity to continue in possession. i refer to- 279- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust those cases wherein there is a true withdrawal of the incarnating ego and, therefore, a perfectly empty house. these are the rare cases, and present an unresented occupancy, whereas in the average case of possession or obsession there is a dual personality problem and even of several personalities. conflict then ensues and many distressing conditions result distressing from the point of view of the true owner of the body. the cases to which i am here referring permit of no cure as there is no ego to call into activity by strengthening the will or the physical condition of the human being when ejecting intruders

t he has noted but there is no interpretative ability. it is seldom of a high order because the psychic is not of a high order of mentality or influence himself. 2. those arising out of a loose connection existing between the physical body and the etheric body. this produces the various stages of mediumship, of control by entities of some kind or another, of trance conditions and of many kinds of obsession, temporary or permanent. i do not include in this list the work of the materialising mediums, for their work is of a totally different kind and though not so dangerous to the personality of the medium is perhaps still more undesirable. so completely is the medium divorced (as an astral-mental-soul individual) from his physical body that it becomes dominant in its own field (the material)

ed and recognisable forms of insanity. the mystic is then obsessed by his own peculiar- 364- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust thoughtform of truth and of reality. he has only one idea in his head. his mind is not active, for his brain has become the instrument of his astral nature and registers only his fanatical devotion and his emotional obsession. the ajna centre swings into activity before there is any true integration of the whole man, and any true useful purpose to its activity. a period ensues wherein the man expresses himself in many undesirable ways which include a too strenuous one-pointedness, real fanaticism, sadistic effort with a supposed spiritual motive (such as was seen in the inquisition) and certain forms of menta

in the group is not responsible, though there is usually to be found in the group those who are- 432- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust willfully ambitious and selfish. though the individual penalty is light, and the individual responsibility is small, yet the effectiveness of this method is very great. the result is in the nature of group obsession, which is a relatively new thing, but also is today becoming increasingly frequent. these are some of the forces which are bringing about and constituting the world problem, and with these the council has had to deal. all these forces are today playing upon humanity, and this whirlpool of energies is sweeping humanity into a period of definitely chaotic destruction, unless the masters of

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the point attained in evolution. this will be done by a careful consideration of the centres and the glands and their relation to each other. 3. the recognition of the points of cleavage or the splits in the personality which exist. these can be: a. between the etheric and the physical bodies, leading to a lack of vitality, physical weakness, obsession and many forms of difficulty. b. in the sentient astral body, leading to a vast number of problems and psychological difficulties based upon undue sensitivity, reaction to glamour in the environment, innate tendencies to glamour in the equipment or resulting from sensitivity to the glamours of other people. c. in the mental body, imposing mental illusions of many kinds, such as control b

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

out of his conscious control. when he does, he enters into a state of dangerous negativity. the material normally then received is mediocre. there is nothing new in it, and it frequently deteriorates as time goes on. many a time, the subject's negativity permits the entrance of a second force which, for some peculiar reason, is never of as high a standard as the first. then there comes danger of obsession. we have had to handle many cases of obsession as the result of automatic writing. in the work that i do there is no negativity but i assume an attitude of intense, positive attention. i remain in full control of all my senses of perception and there is nothing automatic in what i do. i simply listen and take down the words that i hear and register the thoughts which are dropped one by o

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

ints or centres the life force cannot adequately flow, and therefore you have a definite weakness in some part of the physical body. for instance, impotence is such a difficulty and a tendency to laryngitis is another to mention two widely different disorders. 3. the connection can also be so basically loose and poor that the soul has very little hold upon its vehicle for outer manifestation, and obsession or possession is easily established. this is an extreme example of the difficulties incident to this condition. others are certain forms of fainting or loss of consciousness and "petit mal" there are also, as will be apparent, the exactly reverse conditions when the etheric body is so closely knit or integrated with the personality whether it is of a highly evolved nature or simply an ex

sions, the mental breaks, the aberrations and the hallucinations. to the various healing agencies mentioned above should be added the work undertaken by members of the spiritual hierarchy and their disciples; it takes soul power and knowledge, plus the wisdom of the other healing groups, to produce health among people, to empty our sanatariums, to rid humanity of the basic diseases, of lunacy and obsession, and to prevent crime. this is finally brought about by the right integration of the whole man, through a right comprehension of the nature of energy, and through a correct appreciation of the endocrine system, its glands and their subtle relationships. at present there is little coherent and integrated work done in unison by the four groups: 1. physicians and surgeons orthodox and acade

ntres and the pituitary and pineal glands. 2. those where the difficulty is due to the overstimulation of the brain cells by some forms of energy which overbalance other forms and produce certain serious forms of insanity. 3. those where there is no real physical difficulty, no lesions or diseased tissues, but simply a loose connection between the etheric body and the dense physical vehicle. then obsession or possession can occur. such cases are frequently (i might say, usually) regarded by the orthodox psychiatrist and medical man as forms of insanity; yet they are not truly so. if the afflicted person can be put again "in possession of himself" by some understanding psychologist, and this is entirely possible, then the trouble is ended. there is a pronounced tendency among the most forwa

he brain. 5. based on fear of insanity and of death a baseless fear which has never materialised but which does constitute an id e fixe, so that the person is the victim of a well developed thoughtform. 6. a tuning-in, through oversensitivity, on the suffering and massed pain of the world. disciples can be temporarily overcome by this. 7. this condition is very seldom brought about by any form of obsession such as "an earthbound entity or a living vampire-like person" a very few such cases have been known, but they are too rare to be considered a factor. 8. sometimes a person tunes in on a state of massed melancholia, such as can be found in our sanitariums or asylums. the condition has then nothing really to do with him, but being sensitive, he identifies himself with those who are suffer

spects of life which we call phobias, lunacy, etc. i would like to make a suggestion here, which is not possible for me to prove to you, but which the future will substantiate. the major diseases called mental, seldom have anything to do with the mind itself. they are: 1. diseases of the brain. 2. disorders of the solar plexus. 3. astral domination. 4. premature clairvoyance and clairaudience. 5. obsession. 6. absence of mind. 7. soullessness. this is, of course, a wide generalisation and has no reference to that category of diseases in which both mind and brain are involved. the diseases of mystics are also in a different category. these latter diseases involve the brain of course, indicate mental imbalance, produce various types of heart disease and the diverse neurotic tendencies with w

d vital body. c. study this treatise on the new healing which will meet with a measure of response, but which will only later enter into its true usefulness and mission. 2. later, when a group can function together with impersonality as a unit and with true interplay of love, such a group can then begin to do some definite healing work, taking some case, for instance of known physical illness, of obsession, or of mental difficulty and working under soul direction or some initiated chela and in conformity with the teaching outlined in this treatise seek to cure and aid. the study of the art of dying is also to attract your intention and later that of the world at large- 222- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. finally, there will come the

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

d of their particular master in response to avataric impression. ponder on this. 2. inspiration. this is more direct than overshadowing and more potent in results. certain members of the hierarchy and, above all, the lesser avatars, are inspired from "on high" by the cosmic avatar and become at times direct expressions of his mind, his energy and his plans. this is the spiritual correspondence to obsession. in the case of obsession, a man is taken possession of and inspired by some evil entity; in inspiration, there is no possession but only what is called "identical response" a very different thing. in the one case, the free will and intelligent understanding of the master or the disciple is enlisted on the side of the spiritual agent; the spiritual man, functioning as a soul, becomes the

umanity, in the work of a great spiritual force or being. the cooperation of the master jesus with the christ is a case in point. in connection with the coming avatar, it may involve the cooperation of the christ or of a "kindred, equal soul" with a cosmic being or presence, taking place on still higher spiritual levels of consciousness and producing an incredibly focussed potency. in the case of obsession, the evil force enslaves the personality which, in the majority of cases, is but a shell. of this, hitler is a case in point. this produces greater potency on the physical plane and on the astral plane; it is quicker and more immediate in results, but the lasting power is less- 200- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust and the effects are relatively temporary

of restoration; it handicaps those who are seeking to establish the entire human family in a sounder way of life than heretofore, and to give a saner and wiser motivation to international relationships. these are the people who are the most to be feared at the coming conference at san francisco. the isolationists in all nations, particularly in the united states, french national idealism, and the obsession of certain factors in the polish race over boundaries will need watching, as these attitudes can be exploited by the evil and selfish interests which (behind the scenes) are seeking to prevent the world attaining that equilibrium which will permit tranquillity. these three groups, however, indicate the successful operation of the forces of restoration. these are tentatively beginning the

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nd he kept an open house for cats in the various places he lived. in some earlier pictures it seems as if more than half the image is made up of scales and feathers of the winged and crawling creatures that intertwine with captured humanity. their constant companionship accompanies spare s twilight journeys through the spirit worlds. equality with the beasts seems paramount to his vision. spare s obsession with the hybrid and grotesque in nature and supernature, something which takes in the full spectrum of ovidian metamorphoses, suggests in the artist s mind a vision of the active trafficking of creatures between one world and the other. all of the janus-headed, multi-faced, theriomorphic swarms which proliferate in spare s paintings threaten to break out of their world and spill into our

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crifice, punishment, loss, fatal and not voluntary, suffering. 13. time, age, transformation, change involuntary (as opposed to 18, pisces. or death, destruction (only latter with special cards. book t page 23 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 14. combination of forces, realization, action (material effect, good or evil. 15. materiality, material force, material temptation, obsession. 16. ambition, fighting, war, courage, or destruction, danger, fall, ruin. 17. hope, faith, unexpected help. or dreaminess, deceived hope, etc. 18. dissatisfaction, voluntary change. error, lying, falsity, deception. this card is very sensitive to dignity. 19. glory, gain, riches. with "very" evil cards it means arrogance, display, vanity. 20. final decision, judgment, sentence, determin

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should be sacrificed for it. this self-love is now declared by me the means of evolving millions of ideas for pleasure without love, or its synonyms- self-reproach, sickness, old-age, and death. the symposium of self and love. o! wise man, please thyself. the complete ritual and doctrine of magic the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 26 ecstasy in self-love the obsession my dearest, i will now explain the only safe and true formula, the destroyer of the darkness of the world, the most secret among all secrets. let it be secret to him who would attain. let it cover any period of time, depending on his conception. there is no qualification*(1, nor ritual or ceremony. his very existence symbolising all that is necessary to perfection. most emphatically, the

there is nothing in the world he will desire: unless he wills. that is why people do not understand me. the ecstasy in its emotion is omnigenous. know it as the nectar of life, the syllubub of sun and moon. verily he steals the fire from heaven: the greatest act of bravery in the world. deliberation egotized, except in the refraction*(2) of the ecstasy, is exposure and death, becoming a presiding obsession, control having been given to a prior experience and is over-conscious of that through it momentarily finding freedom from its native law; thus generating double personality (insanity*(1) if it becomes physical, let him imagine another's body, he has that sigil or its emergency. this, although not his original purpose, he will and exceedingly amiable*(2) laughter in this case. by these m

eceived, and liars, the worst of men! know, oh, the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 28 lord, oh beloved self, i have now told you of that most secret tavern where passion goes when youth has gone, where any man may drink of the nectar of all-beneficent and gratuitous ecstasy. the most pleasurable nourishment that harms no one. note on the difference of magical obsession (genius) and insanity. magical obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc, for inspiration. it is the condition of genius. other obsession is the "blind leading the blind" caused by quietism, known as mediumism, an opening out of the ego to (what is called) any external influence, elementals, or disemb

caused by quietism, known as mediumism, an opening out of the ego to (what is called) any external influence, elementals, or disembodied energy. a transmutated consciousness that is a resistance to "true" sub-conscious activity, it being a voluntary insanity, a somnambulation of the ego with "no form" or control to guide it: hence its emanations are stupid in suggestion, or memories of childhood. obsession known as or related to insanity is an experience that is dissociated from the personality (ego) through some sort of rejection. it is sub-crystalline, and cannot become permanently attached to the sub-consciousness, not having exhausted or completed itself by realisation. depending on its degree of intensity and resistance shown at some time or another, the ego has or has not knowledge o

ion known as or related to insanity is an experience that is dissociated from the personality (ego) through some sort of rejection. it is sub-crystalline, and cannot become permanently attached to the sub-consciousness, not having exhausted or completed itself by realisation. depending on its degree of intensity and resistance shown at some time or another, the ego has or has not knowledge of the obsession; always is its expression autonomous, divorced from personal control, power of direction and timing. concentration determines dissociation. enthusiasm for one object seeking completion by identification, sacrifices all else, or deliberately forgets. its separation from the ego (it becoming equal, or more in bulk than the rest of the consciousness, causes subdivision or "double personalit

ensity or by shock of resistance determined by some incompatibility of the desired or desire. concentration is dissatisfied desire, a conflict that can never be satisfied, because of its means. when the ego, not appearing to have or not knowing the means of fulfilment, seeks its repudiation, repression, imaginative fulfilment, or transmutation to escape its worry. none of these is the desire's or obsession's annihilation, but its separation or concealment from the rest of the ego, its premature sub-conscious existence. it is held there only when some form of resistance is active, when resistance is dormant- control is given to the presiding obsession, allowing its incarnation in, and swamping of the ego, which has to live and perform its emotional experience. disease and insanity (all dise

lay no claim to discipleship. assimilating slowly, he would not be conscious of his learning, he would not repeat the vital mistake; without fear he would accomplish with ease. the only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes. not by obscuring his vision and intention by righteousness. sigils. belief with protection. magickal obsession. i will now explain their creation and use; there is no difficulty about it, how pure and clear it all is*(1. out of love for my foolish devotees i invented it. all desire, whether for pleasure, knowledge, or power, that cannot find "natural" expression, can by sigils and the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 34 their formula find fulfilment from the su

t- the mother of insanity, or what always happens then, nothing at all. this being the only system, any result other than by it is accidental. also you do not have to dress up as a traditional magician, wizard or priest, build expensive temples, obtain virgin parchment, black goat's blood, etc, etc, in fact no theatricals or humbug*(2) free belief or energy, i.e, a disappointed desire, not yet an obsession. sigils are made by combining the letters of the alphabet simplified. illustration*(3, the word "woman" in sigil form is (example) or (example) or (example) etc. the word tiger (example) or (example) etc, etc. the idea being to obtain a simple form which can be easily visualised at will, and has not too much pictorial relation to the desire. the true method has a much greater virtue, whi

epending on temperament; choose the most pleasant; these should be held in favour, mantras and posture, women and wine, tennis, and the playing of patience, or by walking and concentration on the sigil, etc, etc. none is necessary to him who has (even symbolically) for a moment by the "neither-neither" conquered the dual principle (conception, his ego is free from gravity. if the sigil is made an obsession by continual apprehension, its realization may happen at any moment, in the form of inspiration. this is done by reverting the mind to the sigil when one is extremely worried- the time of exhaustion is the time of fulfilment. at the time of exhaustion or vacuity, retain only and visualize the sigil formeventually it becomes vague, then vanishes and success is assured. by the ego conceivi

en vanishes and success is assured. by the ego conceiving only the sigil, and not being able to conceive anything from it, all energy is focussed through it, the desire for identification carries it to the corresponding sub-conscious stratum, its destination. the sigil being a vehicle, serves the purpose of protecting consciousness from the direct manifestation of the (consciously unacknowledged) obsession, conflict is avoided with any incompatible ideas and neither gains separate personality. it (the obsession) is either gradually assimilated and becomes organic or returns to its original abode, its purpose of illumination served. hence the mind, by sigils, depending upon the intensity of desire, is the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 36 illuminated or

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

eorgia, who acknowledged the power and pervasiveness of conjure by noting that "folks can do yuh lots of harm"[54] a discussion of spiritual harming would not be complete without a comment on the numerous african american beliefs surrounding witches and witchcraft. accepted by europeans and africans, witchcraft beliefs were carried by black slaves and white settlers arriving in the new world. the obsession with witchcraft in colonial american has been well documented, especially in new england, where witchery was seen as a religious threat to the covenanted community of puritan saints. the witchcraft persecutions and trials that extended over several generations in early america revealed deep fissures that divided communities along the lines of gender, class, and race, where those most lik

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man race and manipulated our dna; there are many references by abductees to having sex with extraterrestrials while on a spacecraft. not all of these stories will be true, nor all the theories and details, but if you take note of the common themes, a picture starts to form. i believe that different extraterrestrial civilisations seeded the different races on earth and perhaps this can explain the obsession that some have with the purity of their race. most will not relate this to an extraterrestrial origin, but at a deep, subconscious level, that might be what is motivating them. i believe the earth is far older than science has imagined and that a stream of civilisations has settled and developed here which are not mentioned in the history books. most of them before 'the fall' were far mo

ate of the all-seeing eye stream of occult 'thinking. the views of john ruskin and his articulate promotion of them brought about a revolution in the thinking of the privileged undergraduates of oxford and some at cambridge, too. rhodes copied ruskin's inaugural lecture in longhand and kept it with him for the rest of his life. the creation of a world government centred on britain became rhodes's obsession and lay at the heart of almost everything he did. as his wealth grew with his exploitation of south african diamonds and minerals, he established companies like debeers consolidated mines and consolidated gold fields. he also became the prime minister of the cape colony and used his wealth and influence to control parliamentary seats in britain and south africa. by the 1890s, he had an i

h authoritarian and 'democratic, across the world. germany has long been a centre for esoteric thinking and the secret societies this knowledge seems to spawn. it was from this philosophical stream that hitler and his crazed followers would emerge. one of the pre-hitler 'prophets' was the composer, richard wagner, in the nineteenth century. his composition, the ride of the valkyries, captures his obsession with the invading powers of evil. wagner declared the imminent arrival of the master race. his work, the ring, was the musical expression of his belief in german supermen bestriding the world stage like the ancient pagan gods wotan and thor. hitler would later say that to understand nazi germany, one had to know wagner. one of the students of master race fanatic wagner was gustav mahler

a member, with hermann goering, of the edelweiss society, a black sect which believed in the nordic master race (melchedekans. hess worshipped hitler as the messiah, although how he could do this when the fiihrer was hardly blue eyed and blond haired, is not clear. hitler had the same problem in equating the two, but he would have found some ridiculous explanation for it, i'm sure. another hitler obsession was the so called spear of destiny, the weapon alleged to have been use to pierce the side of y'shua (jesus) at the crucifixion. he stole what was claimed to be the spear when the nazis annexed austria in 1938, and it was taken to nuremberg. the legend says that whoever has the spear and decodes its secrets will have control of the world for good or evil. the one that hitler stole is now

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however, it's the theme that really matters in understanding the basic background to the world today. the tussle between the atlantean advocates of the law of one and the opposing temple of the sun is highly significant. the temple of the sun has been the religion of the illuminati from atlantis/lemuria right through to the present time. in fact, today's world is the new atlantis, a mirror of the obsession with technological dominance that led to the destruction of the first atlantean civilisation. put simply, the law of one sees everything as connected, part of the same unified whole, and the temple of the sun represents the desire to present everything as unconnected and isolated from everything else. one seeks to unite, the other to divide and, therefore, rule. you will see this theme t

siderable, since the early ring lords of scythia (the tuatha de danaan king-tribe) were actually called the sumaire."61 another researcher, frans kamp in the netherlands, tells me that sumer means "land of the dragon" in the language of the scandinavian vikings. the founders of sumer were the same reptilian anunnaki who had controlled atlantis in its latter stages and led it to destruction. their obsession with technology and control by machine, so characteristic of the final era of atlantis, can be seen in the world today. there is a reason for that: the anunnaki are still in control. one theme of the atlantean and lemurian legends is that, especially in the latter stages, there emerged a very dark force that took over the mystery schools and the seats of power and used their advanced kno

scriptions, particularly in babylonian.13 the title ukus or ukussi in egypt means that he was a descendant of the first sumerian king, ukusi of ukhu (meaning sun hawk city) and also the first aryan (hybrid) king in the indian epics and their holy books, the vedas, which use the solar title of ikshwaku or ukusi of ukhu.14 all these kings of the sumer empire were given "solar titles" because of the obsession and emphasis on the worship of the sun and the symbolism of the sun as god. indeed it is extremely likely that horus or haru, the egyptian son of god and a mirror of the much later "jesus, came from the sumerian word, hu or ha, meaning hawk. the hawk or sun-hawk was a sumerian symbol for the sun, as we see above in sargon's very title. the heru of the pygmy people, hul-kin of the indians

at case i have some seafront property in the gobi desert you might like to buy. very large beach, too. the llluminati bloodlines through the 1990s, as i researched the way the world is controlled and manipulated today, it was clear that for some reason the ruling families and their offshoots were obsessed with interbreeding with each other. the higher you go in the hierarchy the more this genetic obsession prevails. when you follow these bloodlines back into history, you find that they have always interbred with themselves. the bloodlines of the 43 american presidents from george washington to george w. bush go back to european royal and aristocratic families who have famously interbred and still do to keep the gene pool "pure. their genealogy, and that of today's key politicians, banking

isc-shaped objects standing on tripod legs with ladders coming down from them. a drawing carved in a cliff at fergania in central asia had a man who appeared to be wearing an "airtight helmet" with some mechanical device on his back. it was dated to 7000bc. whatever the origin and nature of "flying saucers" and other such craft, they have been seen and recorded for thousands of years. the genetic obsession the anunnaki leader called enki, the "lord of the earth" and chief scientist, was not the top man in the anunnaki mission to this planet, the sumerian tablets say. he was the eldest son of the anunnaki's overall mr big, an or anu, who made only rare visits to the earth, we are told by translations. but enki's younger halfbrother enlil was made commander of the mission because his mother

n underground chamber. it is called the pont de l'alma tunnel where princess diana, named after the goddess, was murdered on sunday, august 31st, 1997. the goddess diana was symbolically a "moon goddess" and the name pont de l'alma means "bridge or passage of the moon goddess. i tell the story of diana's assassination in great detail in the biggest secret,27 where you will also see the staggering obsession that the bloodlines and their illuminati network have with symbolism and ritual. everything they do is symbolism and ritual, and when you study this subject it is a very good way to identify their signature on global events. by the way, paris and london are two of the most important global centres for the illuminati and both were founded by bloodlines from troy. the connection between br

which their whole plan depends. the windsors wanted diana's genes for figure 15: the three points of the fleur-de-lis, a widely used symbol of the merovingian-reptilian bloodline 82 children of the matrix their own purposes because she carried a strong dna connection to the nordics, and the reptilian hybrids need to infuse their bloodlines with that from time to time and therefore you have their obsession with blond-haired, blue-eyed, people. once the offspring were born of diana's union with prince charles she was surplus to requirements and ritually removed. christine fitzgerald, her closest confidante on esoteric matters for nine years, told me that diana called herself the "windsors' brood mare" because she had realised the game. now with diana gone, and having fulfilled his bloodline

ymbolism; the hard "k" sound used in names and words (ka, ki, etc; the red cross or fire cross on the white background (the flag of england; and the trinity, symbolised as the trident and later the fleurde- lis and other three-pointed forms. the reptilian-illuminati know that the balanced fusion of male and female energy create a third and immensely powerful force and this is one reason for their obsession with the "trinity. new agers and others talk about the need to balance 106 children of the matrix male and female and they are right. but we lose the plot if we don't understand that there are different levels of this fusion. you can fuse the negative aspects of both energies to create a malevolent "third force" or you can balance the higher frequencies of male and female, so creating a

centre for the illuminati, is called balliol and it has produced many significant politicians who have advanced the illuminati agenda. it is named after its founder john balliol who was married to a scottish princess, dervorguilla of galloway. their son, another john balliol, was king of the scots from 1292 to 1296. the balliol family were big time bloodline and given the illuminati's astonishing obsession with symbols and the sound of names and words, there may well be some connection between belial and balliol. certainly there is in spirit because balliol college, like oxford university in general, is an illuminati stronghold turning out future generations of placemen and women. early accounts by the gnostic sect (gnostic "knowledge) tell of the serpent gods in a positive light. they cla

the moon, and have always done so. the inscription behind el in this babylonian seal reads ildi or "il-the- shining, yet another confirmation of the portrayal of reptilians as "shining" or "luminous" in some way. el or ida is given the title of rann in the edda and this is the origin of the nursing serpent mother and matriarch, rann-t, in egyptian myth, or vice versa.34 serpent cult symbolism the obsession with troy and the trojan war by descendants of the merovingian bloodline can be understood when you read the edda. it tells of how thor's troy was raided by the "edenite" serpent cult led by wodan. the phrygians were serpent worshippers before their defeat by thor, and totems of the serpent cult were the lion and the wolf. this is why phrygia means "land of the lions. still today the ill

le. the scandinavian legend says that balder had a spear of mistletoe thrust into him by hod, a blind god. the christians say jesus had a spear thrust into him by the blind centurion, longinus. the ides of march, or march 15th, was the day devoted to hod by the ancients and this is the same day the serpent cult leaders of the christian church chose as the feast day of the "blessed longinus"!6 the obsession that hitler and the nazis had with possessing the "spear of destiny" relates to its association with their god, balder or baldur. hitler thought that the true spear was the one owned by the shape-shifting habsburg family in austria, which had formerly been in the possession of charlemagne of the reptilian bloodline. he believed that anyone who possessed it would be invincible, but it did

of shakespeare are part of this story, also. the texts are awash with esoteric and illuminati symbolism and codes. for instance, the "queen of the fairies (reptilian bloodline) in "shakespeare's" a midsummer night's dream, is another version of the universal goddess called titania. she was known in legend as the great goddess who ruled the "god-race, the titans. given the illuminati's staggering obsession with symbolism, i feel there was far more to the sinking of the titanic (titania) than ever we have yet realised. these goddesses are fundamentally associated with the sea and the underworld- the victims of the titanic tragedy in 1912 went to both. i don't buy the "hit an iceberg" line myself. in southern russia, titania (known there as rhea) was "the red one" and the romans claimed her

ult to the americas. we also have british columbia in canada; the district of columbia, the home of washington dc; and a stream of illuminati operations called columbia pictures, columbia university, and columbia broadcasting, the us network, cbs. one of the most horrific events in america in recent years was the shootings at columbine high school and when you begin to appreciate the unbelievable obsession the liluminati have with symbolism, down to the finest of details, that location is not a co-incidence. the english grand lodge of freemasonry is also located in london in great queen street to symbolise its worship of the serpent queen, el. england, one of the headquarters of the liluminati, is known as the "mother country" and its parliament the "mother of parliaments. it is all goddes

243 gardner, publicist for the imperial royal dragon court and order. another vehement critic of arizona is a researcher who appeared for several months to spend his entire day on the internet trying to undermine the content of the biggest secret and especially arizona's contribution. his desire to discredit the idea of the reptilian connection to the illuminati took on the appearance of a raging obsession and persuaded many people who should have known better to dismiss all that she said. one of the points made to undermine arizona's claims was that victims of multiple personality disorder have a photographic memory and arizona did not have that because there were names she did not immediately remember in the video. this revealed a fundamental lack of understanding of mind control. the ba

coming from, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. there is a vibrational synchronisation- s calling the demons 275 magnetism you might call it- between the frequency of the consciousness and the frequency represented by the dna of the body. the base reptilian nature, as expressed through the reptilian genetics, includes the desire for top-down control, emotionless "cold-blooded" attitudes, an obsession with ritualistic behaviour, and so on. this reptilian dna will naturally attract consciousness of like reality and desire. this consciousness is not "reptilian" in or of itself, it just takes a reptilian outer form. consciousness is pure energy, an aspect of the infinite whole, the infinite "i. but it takes a reptilian genetic expression in the lower densities if this dna is a match for

ew man is living amongst us now! he is here. isn't that enough for you? i will tell you a secret. i have seen the new man. he is intrepid and cruel. i was afraid of him."21 this is the society planned by the reptilians and their reptile-nordic (aryan "master race" if we allow their new world order of global control to be introduced- hitler's "secret chiefs" were demonic reptilians and others. the obsession with hierarchy and ritual outlined there are character traits of the reptilian brain, as we calling the demons 293 shall see. one of hitler's heroes, the writer houston stewart chamberlain, also fitted the description of demonic possession. he was an englishman who married eva, the daughter of another hitler hero, the composer richard wagner. chamberlain said that he felt himself to be t

they understand how visual images can be used to condition the population. in normal circumstances, the reptilian-dominated right brain receives images through the eyes or the imagination, and the left brain figure 46: the reptilian brain or "r-complex" is an ancient part of the human brain. from here we get the character traits of cold-blooded behaviour, the desire for top-down hierarchy, and an obsession with ritual. these are balanced by other parts of the brain in humans, but not in the full-blown reptilians, which manipulate this planet 386 children of the matrix decodes those images into thoughts, words, and conclusions. the illuminati- anunnaki have intervened in this process, however, to control the human mind. their aim is to disconnect the functions of these two distinct parts of

luminati wish us to have; and to attack, ridicule, condemn, and destroy anyone who threatens to expose the scam and the illusion on which it depends. bombarded us with an orgy of physical stimuli and materialism in which success is judged by what you own rather than what you are. focused the world and communication on all that is physical- money, winning the lottery, possessions, and promoting an obsession with sex as a physical rather than a spiritual experience. sex based on lust alone holds down our frequency because it is a purely physical act. sex based on love increases our frequency because it reconnects us with our spark of pure love. isolated male and female energy, so creating the duality and preventing the fusion of male and female energy within us all that would create a third

ng after the child becomes an adult. they are not our parents, in truth, anyway, except 396 children of the matrix according to matrix reality. they are the ones who seeded our physical form and with whom we spent our formative years. they are close by genetics in this physical realm, but they may not be at all close when it comes to vibrational connection. many are, but they don't have to be. an obsession with doing nothing to upset our parents or the people around us is the matrix mentality, a key part of the prison that keeps us in line. it is the same with our wives or husbands, partners, and children. observe your own situation. how many people around you, people you love and care for, are suppressing what you want to do with your life because you are concerned by the way it will make

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have been, and he made onlyrare visits to the plains of sumer. a sumerian city was called eridu. anu sent twosons to develop and rule the earth, the tablets say. they were enki, the guy theysay created homo sapiens, and his half-brother enlil. these two would later becomegreat rivals for ultimate control of the planet. enki, the first born of anu, was9subordinate to enlil because of the anunnakis obsession with genetic purity. enlilsmother was the half sister to anu and this union passed on the male genes moreefficiently than enkis birth via another mother. later the tablets describe how theanunnaki created bloodlines to rule humanity on their behalf and these, i suggest, arethe families still in control of the world to this day. the sumerian tablets describe howkingship was granted to hum

elieved, as brian13desborough does, that before this time mars orbited where the earth is now and theearth was much closer to the sun. the brilliant light of v enus as it passed close to theearth may have led to the idea of lucifer, the light bringer. the most ancientmesopotamian and central american records do not include v enus in their planetaryaccounts, only later does it appear. there was an obsession with v enus in manycultures, with human sacrifices being made to it.the unofficial study by the physicists has never been published, but let us considerthe evidence for some of its claims. when you sprinkle particles on a vibrating plateyou can recreate the planetary orbits of the solar system. when vibratory waves movingoutward from the plates centre meet waves moving in the other direc

our mind to re-vibratethat energy to a different resonance, you can appear in any form you choose. manywitnesses have described how the so-called men in black materialise anddematerialise when they threaten people who are communicating information about30extraterrestrials and ufos. they can do this because they are interdimensional beingswho can appear in any form. this is the main reason for the obsession withinterbreeding among the elite bloodline families. they are seeking to maintain a geneticstructure which allows them to move between dimensions and shape-shift between ahuman and reptilian appearance. once the genetic structure falls too far from itsreptilian origin, they cant shapeshift in this way. at nasa s goddard space flightcentre mind control laboratory near washington dc, cath

an crossbreeds who run the world today and it this profusion of reptilian geneswhich allows such people to shape-shift into reptilians and back into an apparently humanform. these bloodlines also have the ability to produce an extremely powerful hypnotic stare,just like a snake hypnotising its prey, and this is the origin of the term giving someone theevil eye. all this is the real reason for the obsession with blood and the interbreeding of theblue blood families and their offshoots. this is why since the earliest times of knownhistory, the blue blood heirs married their half-sisters and cousins, just as the anunnaki didaccording to the sumerian tablets. the most important gene in this succession is passed on bythe female line, so the choice of female sexual partner has been vital to them

netic lines. they then knowwhich people can be possessed more easily than others. the reptilians seek, however, toinfluence everyone by stimulating the behaviour patterns of the reptile region of thebrain -hierarchical thinking, aggression, conflict, division, lack of compassion and aneed for ritual. by ritual i dont just mean dressing up in a satanic ceremony. there aremany examples of the human obsession with ritual, including doing the same things atthe same time, day after day, week after week. the reptilians have used the white raceas their main route to global control, but they have crossbred with all races includingthe chinese, japanese, arabs and those known as jewish. all this allows the reptiliansto control apparently unconnected people and organisations. it is the extraterrestri

he uncontrolled way offers amore extreme and enlightening experience. once the kundalini is awakened, you havea constant supply of enormously powerful energy with which to create whatever youchoose. the satanists use sex as a fundamental part of their ritual so they can tap thissexual, kundalini force, for their horrendous purposes. but it can equally be used to setus free and hence the christian obsession with making sex into a dirty, immoral, guilt-ridden experience which suppresses or imbalances the kundalini energy and delinks theperson from their cosmic levels of self.the compilation of the bible was yet another farce. if you ask most people about thegospel writers, they will usually tell you that matthew, mark, luke and john were thedisciples of jesus. thats the impression people get

d cathedrals. notre dame in paris is covered inthem (see picture section) and many are smaller representations of the same reptiledepictions you find on and around the mayan pyramids and sites in mexico. themexican president, miguel de la madrid, said that the maya had been interbred withthe iguana race- reptilians.both chartres and notre dame were centres of black madonna worship, anothertemplar obsession. the black madonna cult was not related to mary, mother of jesus,although that was the impression they wanted people to have. it was the worship ofqueen semiramis and isis/barati. the egyptians portrayed isis in white in her positivemode and in black in her negative form. the black madonna was the black isis/baratiand more directly, queen semiramis who was known in babylon as the madonna

t have to use a gun or abomb. you can do it by threatening to destroy their livelihood and evict them from theirhome to pay you tax that is illegal. incidentally, note the year of these two events, thefederal reserve and the federal income tax- 1913. numbers and years matter to thesepeople because of the sun and astrological cycles and so it would all have been timed tohappen in 1913. look at the obsession the brotherhood groups throughout history havehad with the number 13. when the rockefellers set up their council of stategovernments to control the american state legislatures, they based the organisation in abuilding numbered 1313. for the same reason, a great deal happened in 1933 because33 is a major esoteric number which represents a vibrational frequency.the internal revenue service

and the christian church was splitinto catholics and protestants by martin luther, the german agent for the rosicrucianorder. germany is another centre for global manipulation. hitler was not the creator ofnazi belief, merely the public expression of it. in the 19th century one of the pre-hitlerprophets was the composer richard wagner, and his composition, the ride of thev alkyries, captures his obsession with the invading powers of evil. wagner declared theimminent arrival of the master race. his work, the ring, was the musical expression ofhis belief in german supermen bestriding the world stage like the ancient pagan gods,wotan and thor. hitler would later say that to understand nazi germany, one had toknow wagner. one of the students of master-race fanatic wagner, was the composer,gus

will know nothing. the new man is living amongst usnow! he is here. isnt that enough for you? i will tell you a secret. i have seen the newman. he is intrepid and cruel. i was afraid of him.7this is the society planned by the reptilians and their reptile-aryan master race if weallow the new world order to be introduced in the next few years. hitlers secret246chiefs are the reptilians and note the obsession with hierarchy and ritual, charactertraits of the r-complex or reptile brain. after hitler moved to germany, he spent a lot oftime in bavaria, from whence weishaupts illuminati had sprung and he returned thereafter the first world war. thats the official line, anyway. the following year, he cameacross a tiny and rather pathetic political party called the german workers party. thiswas an

d theadvanced sumerian culture and spawned the purest genetic stream on the planet. thesesame gods control the planet ever since from their underground cities. what i think hasbeen missed, however, is that within the aryan stream are the reptilian-aryanbloodlines. i know from brotherhood insiders that the reptilians need the blood forsome reason of the blond-haired, blue-eyed people, and the nazi obsession with themaster race was designed to keep this stream pure and discourage interbreeding withother streams and races.the thule society was named after ultima thule which is claimed to be themythical city on hyperborea, the first continent settled by the extraterrestrial aryan racefrom aldebaran, they believed. some say this was long before atlantis and lemuria,others say hyperborea was atl

, people, and subjects that he is desperateto ensure remain secret. certainly not a man to trust under any circumstances, in myview. i should emphasise, too, that the islamic elite, like the sultan of brunei, aresignificant players in the brotherhood pyramid and the grand lodge at cairo is one ofthe most powerful secret society centres in the world. this is hardly surprising given thebrotherhoods obsession with ancient egypt and its ritual and symbols. the reptilianbloodlines may be predominantly aryan, but they are far from exclusively so. theywork through streams within all races, the arabs and the jews most certainly amongthem. one of the predominant secret societies in the arab world is the order of themystic shrine or the shriners. they are connected to the knights templar, and theyor

se he was the one giving them themoney! this story did enormous harm to the conservative government and did muchto help the brotherhood chosen one, tony blair, to a landslide victory for the labourparty at the following general election. al fayed has also escaped prosecution so farfor a growing number of allegations from young female members of staff at harrodsthat he sexually assaulted them. his obsession with sex is legendary. one girl, 17-year-old samantha-jane ramsay, said that when she complained to her supervisor that shehad been groped by al fayed, the supervisor sighed: another one. al fayed sackedher for making the complaint, as he does all those who speak out against his sexualmolestation and style of business management. john monks the general secretary ofthe trades union congre

in so many horriblewords told me to never call back again. i said hes my fiancee, what are you talkingabout? he hung up on me and i called back and the secretary said dont ever call hereagain, your calls are no longer to be put through. it was so horrible.37ironically, diana used to have kensington palace swept for listening devices and nowshe was in the clutches of a man for whom bugging was an obsession. the al fayed villain san tropez was bugged, as were all fayed properties. everything diana said could beheard. bob loftus, the former head of security at harrods, said that the bugging there wasa very extensive operation and was also always under the direction of al fayed.38 henryporter, the london editor of the magazine v anity fair, had spent two years investigating alfayed and he sai

put his seat belt on, but apparently did not alert diana and dodi to the danger.thus they stay unbelted. as paul entered the pont d lalma tunnel at an estimated 80miles an hour (some reports say slower, he braked fiercely, scraped the right hand wallof the tunnel, and then aimed the car at the 13th pillar. it is the 13th pillar that gives itaway. the brotherhood throughout history has had such an obsession with the number13 that to believe this was a coincidence is taking chance to the level of fantasy. theremust be 30 pillars in that tunnel and the car hit the 13th because it was meant to. dianahad an aversion to the number 13 and she would not allow a 13th lot in her dressauction at christies the june before she died. if, as some witnesses have suggested, thecrash was caused by the merce

d my friend, and later told me onaudio and video tape, supports the information supplied by other slaves and bychristine fitzgerald about the windsors and their true nature. arizona said that sheofficiated at satanic rituals at glamis castle in tayside, scotland, the childhood homeof the queen mother, who still owns the property, and also at balmoral, the queensscottish residence. the brotherhood obsession with scotland, she said, was becausethere are many entrances there into the inner-earth where the physical reptilians live.glamis castle is built on the site of an 11th century royal hunting lodge and the presentbuilding dates from around 1687. it is mentioned in the shakespeare story of macbeth.arizona said that the queen, prince philip, prince charles and princess anne arepresent at th

he phoenician origin of britons, p 64.59fayeds rooftop flame of love for dodi and diana, london daily express, friday, july 24th1998, p 3.60the womens encyclopaedia of myths and secrets, p 543.61kitty kelly, the royals (warner books, new york, 1997, p 34762the times, wednesday, june 3rd 1998.63fergies mom was murdered, the globe, october 6th 1988.464chapter twentycasting the spellthe brotherhoods obsession with ritual and symbolism is not the bizarre behaviour itmight at first seem to be. they are casting a spell on the human mind and emotions.this has been going on for thousands of years and it is so important to understand thisif we are going to break free from reptilian control- as we are.everything that exists is an energy field, a unique vibrational pattern of energycreated by thought

ry four years. yes, fits like a glove. but a sensible measurement of time was not themotivation. disconnecting human consciousness from moon time was the idea and thegregorian calendar removed the 13th moon. there should be 13 moon-cycle months of28 days, but instead we have 12 months and 12 moon cycles. the brotherhood hierarchystill operate their calendars to moon time- another reason for their obsession with 13.crashing the car of diana (the moon goddess) into the 13th pillar was also symbolic ofthis removal of the 13th moon from the human perception of time. and when youdisconnect people from the natural flow of time, you are disconnecting them from all thatoperates in that flow of time. thus the western (and increasingly global) civilisation haslost its rapport with the natural world

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our to rise above them. this endeavour was, i am convinced, an honest one; unfortunately it was not always successful. she referred to the incident in which she told me to lock my door, and said she had done so in the hope of affording me 21 of 103 some measure of protection against the astral projection in which she knew she was tempted to indulge. at first sight her case had looked like one, of obsession, and had been so diagnosed by one or two members of the community, but wise handling revealed otherwise. this case reveals another interesting point in that, true to the witch-tradition, she had a horror of sacred symbols. she would not occupy a room where there was a picture of a religious subject. nothing would induce her to wear any piece of jewelry in the form of a cross, and it was

ds employed. there are many people for whom the deva kingdom, as the sphere which the elementals share with the nature spirits is sometimes called, has a great fascination, and they try by meditation and ritual to get into touch with it. in my opinion it is decidedly risky for a person who is not an initiate to attempt this work. it is exceedingly apt to lead to mental unbalance, if not to actual obsession. not that the nature contacts are evil, but they are profoundly disturbing to the human consciousness because they stir those atavistic depths which the psycho-analyst aims at laying bare by means of his technique. anyone who is acquainted with the literature or practice of psycho-analysis knows that the ab-reaction is an important factor in this system; it is a crisis, and can, for the

n 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 dared not move for fear of cutting myself, and to reach the matches- wherein, i knew, lay safety- i had to lean across the bed and again risk the glass. yet in my heart i knew that all this was false, but had no power to move. i could only stand there, incapable, looking at the shattered room in a state of hopeless terror "and now comes the most extraordi

r of cutting myself, and to reach the matches- wherein, i knew, lay safety- i had to lean across the bed and again risk the glass. yet in my heart i knew that all this was false, but had no power to move. i could only stand there, incapable, looking at the shattered room in a state of hopeless terror "and now comes the most extraordinary part of the whole business. when i had finally mastered the obsession, i went to bed again dead tired, and i know that the only sound i made that night was jumping to the floor, also my room is at least a hundred yards from the rest of my family, yet next morning at breakfast i was asked what was the terrible noise in my room during the night "after that i realised that the game was up. i had not taken these occurrences lying down, but i knew that it was i

er actually cause the loss of life or permanent disability in the absence of any physical lesion. the person who goes out of his mind as the result of a psychic shock would have gone out of his mind if he had been in a railway disaster or any other drastic emotional experience. unless the psychic atmosphere indicates otherwise, it is not necessary to do any banishings, or take precautions against obsession, because the power has dispersed itself in the very act of inflicting the shock. during my early days of occultism i developed my powers very rapidly because i recovered the memories of previous incarnations en bloc, and with them the capacities acquired in previous lives, and i shook myself up severely on numerous occasions before i learnt the technique of handling the invisible forces

s hag-ridden by his obsessive demon, invoked by the morbid broodings of the dissociated subconsciousness. the occultist maintains that the generalised principle of evil has its intelligent channels, just as the organised principle of good has its ministering spirits. any observer who considers the phenomena of mental disturbance will find much to support this hypothesis. 59 of 103 the question of obsession is an exceedingly important one. the word is used very freely in occult circles, and is held to mean the withdrawal of a soul from its body and its replacement by another soul, but i doubt whether this is a true representation of what happens. it has always appeared to me that in obsession we have not got the actual replacement of one soul by another, but the complete domination of one s

onstitutes the real difference between normal union and self-abuse, and explains why the former is vitalising and harmonising, and the latter is exhausting and nerve-wrecking. may we not conceive it possible for anyone who can project the etheric body, or a being whose densest vehicle is etheric, to play a part in unions under certain conditions? and if we accept the theory of medium- ship, or of obsession, which is a pathological form of mediumship, what shall we say concerning the possibility of a union while one or other of the partners is under control? what maimer of soul might come through into incarnation under such conditions? 66 of 103 medieval tradition recognised two classes of demons which invade sleep, and called them incubi and succubi. these were held to be responsible for l

tranger comes with a story of a psychic attack, what should be our procedure? we must first of all bear in mind that there is great need of caution in presuming that a psychic attack is being made. psychic attacks are comparatively rare things. we must not assume we are dealing with one until we have excluded all the other things it can possibly be. not so long ago i came across a case of alleged obsession which turned out to be neglected constipation, and which was effectually exorcised with castor oil. if there are any physical symptoms at all, even if they are no more than a bad colour or a bad breath, a diagnosis ought to be made by a qualified medical practitioner, for even if the trouble have a predominating psychic element, its origin may be physical. septic foci are really centres

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nish this higher element to restore the original condition of the ritual place, and also to restore your own normal everyday state of mind. sometimes it may be desirable to invoke spirit without banishing it, in order to create a spiritual charge or atmosphere in a particular locality, or to infuse an object or person with spiritual energy. this can be a powerful antidote to demonic possession or obsession, and an effective defense against magical attack. it is important to understand that all pentagrams of the elements are drawn in the same way, with a continuous line that ends at its starting place. it is only that different pentagrams begin at different points, and proceed around the figure either clockwise or counterclockwise. when invoking spirit, first the active, then the passive in

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ve difficult, since the vampire will sense that it is losing a source of nourishment, even if completely unaware of its true nature, and will exert all its considerable will power and guile to maintain a close connection with its hapless prey. the help and intervention of others is usually necessary to effect this complete break between the psychic vampire and its victim. those suffering from the obsession of a spiritual vampire face a more subtle difficulty. physical removal of the host from the spirit is impossible, since spirits are not bound by limitations of distance. it is necessary to erect occult wards and barriers in order to achieve this separation. magical boundaries are created which the spirit vampire cannot pass; or it is imprisoned within a particular object such as a ring o

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e self-conscious of her work. dr. john ballou newbrough, the automatist of oahspe, could paint with both hands at once in total darkness. susan- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. automatic drawing and painting 125 nah harris, being blindfolded on a platform, executed in two hours an oil painting upside-down. there are various degrees of such automatic activity from inspiration to obsession. the fantastic designs of victorien sardou. scenes on the planet jupiter, the house of mozart, the house of zoroaster.were inspired, as he felt it, by bernard palissy. in the celebrated thompson-gifford case, the impulse amounted to obsession (see possession and obsession. heinrich nusslein, a german automatist of the 1920s, developed his powers of painting under the effect of the sugges

deriving from the sanskrit word for isolation. although it is a place of torment, it differs in great degree from the dominant conception of hell. its torments are the torments of fleshly cravings, which for want of a physical body cannot be satisfied. people remain after death exactly the same entity as before, and, if in life an individual has been obsessed with strong desires or passions, such obsession still continues, though in the astral plane the satisfaction of these desires or passions is impossible. these torments are of infinite scope, whether it be the confirmed sensualist who suffers them, or more ordinary people who, without being bound to the things of the flesh, have nevertheless allowed the affairs of the world to loom too largely in their lives and are now doomed to regre

order. the author, 1928. davies, ann. thoughts on the tarot. burbank, calif: candlelight press, 1983. frazer, felix j. parallel paths to the unseen worlds. los angeles: builders of the adytum, 1967. bull, titus (1871.1946) new york physician. he was a member of the american association for the advancement of science and the director of the james h. hyslop foundation for the treatment of cases of obsession by psychic methods. bull was a close friend of the distinguished psychic researcher james h. hyslop (1854.1920. hyslop had already concluded that some individuals believed to be insane might be victims of spirit obsession. when hyslop was dying, he requested bull to carry on investigating this hypothesis. as a responsible physician, bull first sought conventional explanations and treatme

ucation. at first she was completely conscious of the messages that were given through her, but later speech control developed and proceedings became easier and more efficient. under the title analysis of unusual experiences in healing relative to diseased minds and results of materialism foreshadowed (1932, bull published his conclusions after 20 years of research. he ascribed the possibility of obsession to some accidental alteration in the nervous system and fully endorsed the spiritualistic methods of cure. somewhat similar work to that of bull was carried out by dr. carl a. wickland in los angeles, california. sources: bull, titus. mental obsession and the latent faculty. journal of the american society for psychical research 32 (1938: 260. resistance to metaphysical science. journal

owever, not wanting to show that the phenomena as well as theories of prophecy were known in more remote times. under the emperor hoei ti, about 304 a.d, a mystical sect arose in china calling themselves the teachers of the emptiness and nothingness of all things. they also exhibited the art of binding the power of the senses, and producing a condition which they believed perfection. demonism and obsession the chinese of former times were implicit believers in demons whom they imagined surrounded them on every hand. one writer states, english officials, american missionaries, mandarins and many of the chinese literati (confucians, taoists and buddhist believers alike) declare that spiritism in some form, and under some name, is the almost universal belief of china. it is generally denomina

, in this necromancy. they do healings and tell fortunes. she personally knew of one instance that the spirits through the planchette had foretold a great flood. the boxer uprising was prophesied by the planchette. these spirits disturbed family relations, caused fits of frothing at the mouth, and made some of their victims insane. in closing she declared that chinese spiritism was from hell, the obsession baffling the power of both christian missionaries and native priests. nevius sent out a circular communication for the purpose of discovering the actual beliefs of the chinese regarding demonism through which he obtained much valuable information. wang wu-fang, an educated chinese, writes: cases of demon possession abound among all classes. they are found among persons of robust health

ests. nevius sent out a circular communication for the purpose of discovering the actual beliefs of the chinese regarding demonism through which he obtained much valuable information. wang wu-fang, an educated chinese, writes: cases of demon possession abound among all classes. they are found among persons of robust health, as well as those who are weak and sickly. in many unquestionable cases of obsession, the unwilling subjects have resisted, but have been obliged to submit themselves to the control of the demon. in the majority of cases of possession, the beginning of the malady is a fit of grief, anger, or mourning. these conditions seem to open the door to the demons. the outward manifestations are apt to be fierce and violent. it may be that the subject alternately talks and laughs;

nd subtle that their disentanglement requires considerable literary skill. the subject was thoroughly studied by the verrall family, mrs. holland (pseudonym of alice fleming, j. g. piddington, and eleanor sidgwick. frederik van eeden obtained cross-correspondences between his own dreams and the trance utterances of nelly, rosina thompson s control. james h. hyslop used it for research in cases of obsession. many experiments were made to establish crosscorrespondence in thought-transference.to find out another s thoughts over distance. among the more baffling cases of cross-correspondences came from the mediumship of margery (i.e, mina crandon. they were instigated by her control walter, and given simultaneously through margery in boston, george valiantine in new york, henry hardwicke at ni

wn as kundalini, commonly the dynamic of sexual experience, is transformed into spiritual force as it follows its pathway through subtle channels along the spine and through the vital centers in the body (chakras) to the crown of the head, culminating in mystical experience accompanied by blissful sensations. however, this particular yoga is said to be more likely to result in sexual fixation and obsession. similar to tantric yoga is the sex magic of western occultists developed in the late nineteenth century out of the alchemical tradition. aleister crowley, best known for his experimentation and development in this field, viewed sex as the primary tool available to the magician in raising magic energy. in both the eastern and western mystical tradition, many have argued that celibacy is

ed him in oporto and was sentenced to six years detention for the deed. willie reichel, in his occult experiences (1906, described the sudden intrusion of a female spirit that went around the circle of 14 persons striking and spitting on nearly all of them and using horrible language. besides injuring the medium or the sitters, the danger of an enduring possession is possible. such possession, or obsession, would be called demoniacal. as a rule, however, cases of obsession do not originate in the seance room. it would be unwise, however, to deny the possibility. regarding the issue of evil influences on this life from the other world, andrew jackson davis, in commenting on a book, the great psychological crime, is very emphatic: i deny utterly and for all time that individuals are led into

d that it was uncharitable to imagine that all who came to baptism were demoniacs, it was thought prudent by reformers to omit it altogether in subsequent liturgies. the seventy-second canon issued the following restriction on exorcism: no minister shall, without the license of the bishop of the diocese, first obtained and had under his hand and seal. attempt upon any pretence whatever, either of obsession or possession, by fasting or prayer, to cast out any devil or devils: under pain of the imputation of imposture or cosenage, and deposition from the ministry. exorcism in the modern world exorcism became news in modern times with the publication of william peter blatty s novel the exorcist in 1971 and the subsequent warner brothers movie, scripted by blatty and released in 1974. much of

ead. exorcism has become somewhat institutionalized in charismatic churches, where it is referred to as spiritual warfare. sources: basham, don. a manual for spiritual warfare. greensburg, pa: manna books, 1974. blatty, william peter. the exorcist. new york: harper& row, 1971. brooks, pat. out! in the name of jesus. carol stream, ill: creation house, 1972. deutch, richard. exorcism: possession or obsession? london: bachman& turner, 1975. ebon, martin, ed. exorcism: fact not fiction. new york: new american library, 1974. huxley, aldous. the devils of loudon. london: chatto& windus, 1952. reprint, new york: harper& row, 1971. nauman, st. elmo, jr. exorcism through the ages. new york: philosophical library, 1974. neil-smith, christopher. the exorcist and the possessed. cornwall, england: jame

hy. he decided that science consisted of believers and cranks, and out of his skepticism he said whimsically that he would be a crank. in 1916 fort inherited a share of his grandfather s estate, and the following year, after his brother s death, he inherited that share. freed from the financial problems that had dominated his adult life, he was able to devote his time to what had become a growing obsession: to explain the unexplained. he had collected many notes on odd phenomena that had been reported but remained outside the explanation of science as it existed in his day, such as flying saucers and spontaneous human combustion. with the help of his friend novelist theodore dreiser, fort was able to publish the result of his early research called, the book of the damned (1919. the damned

ed to be the champion of christianity versus spiritualistic pantheism and published his song of satan, in which the communicating spirits, with the exception of those who visited harris s sacred family, are declared to be demons in the worst sense of the word. yet apparently he himself was not immune to the influence of these demons. in his life work, arcana of christianity (1857, he complains of obsession in writing: it was resolved upon by evil spirits that my physical existence should be destroyed, the demon, by name joseph balsamo, planned a subtle scheme to bring to bear upon the enfeebled physical system the magic of the infernal world. fairies occupied a large place in harris s esoteric system. there is a long discussion of them in the arcana under the title the divine origin of the

lowings like those of a bull were heard, followed by wild nonhuman cries in the corridor. we rang up all the servants and when all were up we again heard two bellowings and one cry. the laying to rest of uneasy spirits there are many cases of hauntings by uneasy spirits that required certain acts to take place before the manifestation ceased. a highly curious mixture of haunting, poltergeist, and obsession phenomena is found in the old case of the maid of orlach, told in justinus kerner s geschichten besessener neurer zeit (1834. the disturbances began in the cowhouse. the cows were found tied up in unusual ways and places. sometimes their tails were finely plaited together, as if by a lace weaver. strange cats and birds came and went and invisible hands boxed the cowmaid magdalene s ears

every wall a door. london: abelard- schuman, 1973. reprint, bergenfield, n.j: e. p. dutton, 1974. edwards, harry. a guide to the understanding and practice of spiritual healing. surrey, england: spiritual healing sanctuary, 1974. thirty years a spiritual healer. surrey, england: spiritual healing sanctuary, 1968. flammonde, paris. the mystic healers. new york: stein& day, 1974. guirdham, arthur. obsession: psychic forces and evil in the causation of disease. london: neville spearman, 1972. hammond, sally. we are all healers. new york: harper& row, 1973. reprint, new york: ballantine, 1974. hutton, bernard. healing hands. london: w. h. allen, 1966. james, r. l. l. the church and bodily healing. essex, england: c. w. daniel, 1929. kiev, ari. magic, faith and healing. new york: macmillan, 19

ak on the subject. any man who does not accept the existence of discarnate spirits and the proof of it is either ignorant or a moral coward. i give him short shrift, and do not propose any longer to argue with him on the supposition that he knows anything about the subject. hyslop also contributed many ingenious theories to psychical literature. he made a deep study of multiple personality and of obsession, and came to the conclusion that in many cases it could be attributed to spirit possession. in his will he left money to found an institute for the treatment of obsession through the instrumentality of mediums. he died june 17, 1920, in upper montclair, new jersey. the evidence of his own spirit return is discussed by his longtime secretary, gertrude o. tubby, in her book james hyslop x

riminal, lees set out in a state of trance, followed by an inspector and detectives. while on the trail, at four o clock in the morning lees halted at the gates of a west end mansion where a prominent physician was living and, pointing to an upper chamber where a faint light gleamed, declared: there is the murderer. it was reported that the physician later confessed that he was subject to fits of obsession in which he committed acts of fiendish cruelty. evidence consistent with victims of the ripper was found in his rooms, and on the recommendations of a medical committee, he was confined to an insane asylum. later it was learned that this story stemmed from a journalistic hoax reported in the chicago sunday-times herald april 28, 1895, which reported that lees had a vision of one of the k

the power of projection into animal forms; but he informed me that, so far as he could recollect, he had not done so. italian officials and big game hunters assure me that it is considered most dangerous (by natives in somaliland, abyssinia, etc) to sleep on ground thrown up by ants; the belief being that anyone who does so is liable to be possessed or obsessed by some wild animal, and that this obsession once having taken place, the victim is never afterwards able entirely to free himself from it and is compelled periodically to assume the form and habits of some beast or reptile. psychic aspects psychic research does not normally admit such phenomena as lycanthropy within its scope, but there are two possible points of contact. the first is the projection of the double (or astral body

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ers, founded in 1929 to promote the religion of spiritualism, psychic science and morality and demonstrate the phenomena of the continuity of life through spirit communication and psychic healing through prayer. last known address: c/o rev. marion odom, 17 baird pl, whippany, nj 07981. national psychological institute, inc. founded for scientific research in normal and abnormal psychology, spirit obsession, and the complex problem what becomes of the dead? by carl a. wickland, who was active in spiritualist circles in california in the 1920s. it was headquartered in los angeles, california. national spiritual aid association the national spiritual aid association was a spiritualist church founded in 1937. it operated among the independentminded spiritualists as a corporation to hold church

ular response to peter blatty s the exorcist. he has appeared on radio and television programs in north america, continental europe, and africa as well encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. neil-smith, christopher 1099 as in the united kingdom. he describes his experiences and beliefs in his 1974 book, the exorcist and the possessed. sources: deutsch, richard. exorcism: possession or obsession? foreword by christopher neil-smith. london: bachman& turner, 1975. neil-smith, christopher. the exorcist and the possessed: the truth about exorcism. cornwall, england: james pike, 1974. reprint, new york: pinnacle books, 1974. nelson, john john nelson, a radio engineer specializing in the study of shortwave radio propagation, made discoveries that have had a profound effect upon the st

ective phenomena term used in psychical research, together with subjective phenomena as an alternative classification to physical and mental phenomena, terms which emerged out of the study of spiritualism. object reading a term for psychometry, in which the operator may form impressions of events relating to an object associated with those events, usually by holding the object in his or her hand. obsession and possession obsession, from latin obsidere (to besiege, is a form of insanity caused, according to traditional belief, by the persistent attack of an invading spirit from outside the individual. obsession is the opposite of possession, control by an invading spirit from within. both, however, involve the usurpation of the person s individuality and control of the body by a foreign and

besiege, is a form of insanity caused, according to traditional belief, by the persistent attack of an invading spirit from outside the individual. obsession is the opposite of possession, control by an invading spirit from within. both, however, involve the usurpation of the person s individuality and control of the body by a foreign and discarnate entity. in the western christian context, both obsession and possession, but especially possession, have been viewed as completely negative, a perspective somewhat enforced by the modern concern for the autonomous individual, possession implying a giving over of one s freedom. in most cultures, however, there is a distinction between dysfunctional possession and possession that occurs voluntarily, usually in a religious context. numerous relig

propriated by believers. historical background this belief may be found in the earliest records of human history.in the ancient magic rites and in the pronouncements often used as charms against and for the exorcism of these invading influences. the oldest literary remains from india, greece, and rome are filled with references to possession. while there are passing references to demons and demon obsession or possession in sacred jewish writings.such as the case of saul, who was troubled with an evil spirit from god only to be relieved by the music of david s harp (1 sam. 16:14.16).it is with the christian movement that a major emphasis on spirit possession emerges. jesus regularly healed by casting possessing spirits out of the mentally ill. crucial to later understanding of possessing sp

. plato, in the republic, not only speaks of demons of various grades, but mentions a method of treating and providing for those obsessed by them. sophocles and euripides described the possessed, and mention of the subject is also found in herodotus, plutarch, horace, and many other classical writers. appalling episodes in the middle ages can be traced to the unquestioned belief in possession and obsession by the devil and his demonic legions. many believed that all madness was caused by possession, the visible manifestation of the evil one. such madness had to be exorcised by charms and averted by the observance of sacred rites. in extreme cases the possessed body was to be burned and destroyed for the good of the tortured soul within. the rites of black magic, in all ages and places, del

and places, deliberately evoked this possession by the devil and his demons to obtain the benefit of the extensive knowledge it was believed they conferred and the consequent power and control over man and his destinies. in the middle ages, when an intense belief in angels, saints, and devils flourished, the imagination of the individual was dominated by such beings. a variation on the belief in obsession and possession can be found in the condition known as lycanthropy (the delusion that one has become a wolf, which afflicted large numbers of people in france and germany in the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. the mania of flagellation took its rise in perouse in the thirteenth century, caused by the panic accompanying an outbreak of the plague. flagellants preached that there was no

the ancient egyptians had their intoxicating drinks, and receipts for witch s salves and philtres have come down to us from medieval times. in many countries this condition of possession was induced for a spectrum of purposes from the higher mystical and prophetic to mere fortune-telling. anthropologist edward tylor, in his primitive culture (1871, testifies to the extent to which this belief in obsession and possession persisted into the nineteenth century: it is not too much to assert that the doctrine of demoniacal possession is kept up, substantially the same theory to account for substantially the same facts, by half the human race, who thus stand as consistent representatives of their forefathers back in primitive antiquity. such beliefs persisted in the development of spiritualism

not too much to assert that the doctrine of demoniacal possession is kept up, substantially the same theory to account for substantially the same facts, by half the human race, who thus stand as consistent representatives of their forefathers back in primitive antiquity. such beliefs persisted in the development of spiritualism. pioneer spiritualist seer andrew jackson davis developed a theory of obsession to account for forms of insanity and crime. the following passage taken from his book diakka and their victims (1873) indicates this belief: the country of the diakka is where the morally deficient and the affectionately unclean enter upon a strange probation. they are continually victimizing sensitive persons still in the flesh making sport of them and having a jolly laugh at the expens

ds her feet, and making horrible noises. her feet were reversed, with the toes in the position of the heel, and despite the restraining power of eight of the men, she stiffened herself and threw herself into the air a height of six feet, the stature of a man, so that the attendants, sometimes even carried with her into the air, perspired at their encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. obsession and possession 1131 work. and although they bore down with all their might, still could they not restrain her, and torn away from the restraining hands, she freed herself without any appearance of being at all ruffle. the people, seeing and hearing such a horrible sight, one so monstrous, hideous and terrifying cried out, jesus, have mercy on us! some hid themselves, not daring to look;

ns as much as from illness they may be weak, but when the demon enters them and the authority of the church compels them to appear they may become at times so violent that all the power of four or five men may be unable to stop them. even their faces become so distorted and changed that they are no longer recognisable. what is more astonishing is that after these violent transports, lasting some- obsession and possession encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1132 times three or four hours; after efforts which would make the strongest feel like resting for several days; after continuous shrieking and heart-breaking cries; when they become normal again.a momentary proceeding.they are unwearied and quiet, and the mind is as tranquil, the face as composed, the breathing as easy an

e long round pieces of wood, four steel knives, some sharp and pointed, other notched like a saw, two iron rods each nine inches long and a large tuft of hair. one wondered how and by what means this mass of old iron could be collected together into the space of his stomach. there is no doubt that it was the work of the devil who is capable of anything which will maintain a dread of him. views of obsession from psychical research as nandor fodor pointed out, obsession in psychiatry means that the mind of the patient is dominated by fixed ideas to which an abnormal mental condition corresponds. in psychical research, obsession is an invasion of the living by a discarnate entity, tending to a complete displacement of normal personality for purposes of selfish gratification that is more or le

inted out, obsession in psychiatry means that the mind of the patient is dominated by fixed ideas to which an abnormal mental condition corresponds. in psychical research, obsession is an invasion of the living by a discarnate entity, tending to a complete displacement of normal personality for purposes of selfish gratification that is more or less permanent. the difference between mediumship and obsession is not in principle but in purpose, duration, and (most important) effect. mediumship, or trance possession, does not interfere with the ordinary course of life, does not bring about a demoralizing dissociation or disintegration; it shows consideration for the medium and its length is limited. after a certain time it ceases automatically and the medium s normal self resumes its sway. obs

and its length is limited. after a certain time it ceases automatically and the medium s normal self resumes its sway. obsession is always abnormal; it is an accompaniment of a shock, organic lesion, or, as has been observed among psychics, of low morale and weakening will power, induced by an unstable character and debility of health. once the existence of spirits is admitted, the possibility of obsession cannot be disregarded. psychical researcher james h. hyslop in contact with the other world (1919, observes: if we believe in telepathy we believe in a process which makes possible the invasion of a personality by someone at a distance. it is not at all likely that sane and intelligent spirits are the only ones to exert influence from a transcendental world. if they can act on the living

would be the same; we should have to possess adequate proof that nature puts more restrictions upon ignorance and evil in the next life than in this in order to establish the certainty that mischievous personalities do not or cannot perform nefarious deeds. the objection that such a doctrine makes the world seem evil applies equally to this situation in the present life. how are we to distinguish obsession from multiple personality? it was explained to hyslop by the imperator group of controls of medium william stainton moses that even for the spirits it is sometimes difficult to state how far the subconscious self of the patient is acting under influence and suggestion encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. obsession and possession 1133 from spirits or as a secondary personali

vinced that survival after death was proved. but several cases forced upon me the consideration of the question. the chief interest in such cases is their revolutionary effect in the field of medicine. it is high time for the medical world to wake up and learn something. william james, shortly before his death, surrendered to the same belief. he wrote: the refusal of modern enlightenment to treat obsession as a hypothesis to be spoken of as even possible, in spite of the massive human tradition based on concrete experience in its favor, has always seemed to me a curious example of the power of fashion in things scientific. that the demon theory (not necessarily a devil theory) will have its innings again is to my mind absolutely certain. one has to be scientific indeed to be blind and igno

ure it, expressed a desire to watch the progress of the malady. thompson went to hyslop for advice, who took him to three different mediums. they all claimed to sense the influence of gifford, described his character and life and confirmed the vague possibility, which hyslop wished to investigate, that the case was not the result of mental disorder. as soon as the case was determined to be spirit obsession, a course of treatment was decided upon. reportedly, gifford, the spirit entity, was reasoned with and persuaded to desist. spirit obsession and personality displacement if one assumes the possibility of obsession being actually caused by a spirit entity, the importance of such treatment as hyslop gave thompson and gifford seems appropriate. the obsessing spirit entity, if driven out eit

out either by strengthened willpower of the victim or by psychotherapeutic means, would logically seek and find another subject, but if it is convinced of the error of its ways, the danger is eliminated. work of this kind was done in the temple of light in kansas city in 1910. hyslop was impressed with the importance of this cure and established the james j. hyslop foundation for the treatment of obsession in new york. physician titus bull served as its director. the systematic practice of curing obsession through such means was soon taken up by dr. and mrs. carl wickland in their psychopathic institute of chicago. the patient was brought to mrs. wickland, who operated as a medium. she went into trance. her controls influenced the obsessing spirit to step into mrs. wickland s body. if the

ed to do so by means known to the controls. dr. wickland then began to parley with the spirit, usually ending in convincing the invader that it did a great wrong to its spiritual evolution by strengthening ties to the earth. the invader usually promised to depart and the patient became normal. later wickland moved to california and founded the national psychological institute for the treatment of obsession. his experiences are chronicled in his book thirty years among the dead (1924. the wicklands considered the obsessing entities to be mostly earthbound spirits.spirits of the recently deceased. they do not necessarily mean harm, the wicklands said, but only wish to enjoy earthly existence again. some may commit acts of revenge or do other harm, however, and if an occasional evil personali

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n american, energetically promoted meier, till then little known to americans. he published books supporting meier and had the non-english-speaking meier s work translated. stevens s efforts encouraged an independent journalist, gary kinder, to write a surprisingly sympathetic book for a mainstream publisher. to conservative ufologists, meier seemed like a shameless hoaxer. he became a particular obsession to a young california man, kal korff, who spent years investigating meier s claims. he published two intensely critical books published between 1981 and 1995. independent analyses suggested that the beamships in the photographs were in fact small models, some suspended on fishing wire, others apparently held in hand. investigators traced other images in meier s photos to nasa footage and

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red? no man shall follow me. i am not thy preservation. thou art the way. assuredly, thy virtue is to be equally different. thy complaint is the calamity: the hypocrite is always at prayer. dost thou suffer? thou shalt again suffer, till thine i does not fear its body. rather seek and increase by thy temptations, it is but the way to intelligence. transgression is wiser than prayer: make this thy obsession. thank only thyself and be silent. the coward's way is religion. there is no fear-but righteousness. let this be thy one excuse, i pleasured myself. brave laughter-not faith. rewarded are the courageous for they shall pass! thine i is envious of satisfaction. yet none devotes himself to reality. whoever learneth much, unlearneth all sentimental and small desires. this is the new atavism

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al. 5 (dial, ital, p. 340. 3 de i'infinito universo, dial. 5 (dial, ital, pp. 524-5- 4 cena, dial. 5 (dial, ital, p. 160. 9* 251 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic philosophy for bruno, mathematics can also be a kind of pedantry, a stopping short of deepest truth. the copernican mathematics have to be transcended by the further insights of the nolan. but bruno's greatest enemy, his nightmare obsession, is the "grammarian pedant. this kind of pedant can be combined with the aristotelian type, but his pedantry consists, not merely in a narrow-minded philosophy, but in a contempt for philosophical studies altogether, which he has abandoned for minute attention to latin style, dictionaries of words and phrases, with which he is so absorbed that he has lost all sense of using language to e

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ble what if scenarios. presenting the core ideas of this operation we have the following (abstracted to a general form: a certain degree of coincidences led me in the direction of the calling to a higher self in the formulation of the r.o.g. a shocking event happened, which was channeled wholly into feverish desire (prayer/ meditation) towards the desired goal. this goal was taken to the point of obsession, while learning about the goals concepts, relations and connections of the hga. certain alignments with resonant factors of myself were brought into play. the operation was extended over a lengthy duration. during the course of the operation a high degree of social isolation was present in day to day affairs. now i was left reeling for months after the babalon incident. i cannot emphasiz

of myself were brought into play. the operation was extended over a lengthy duration. during the course of the operation a high degree of social isolation was present in day to day affairs. now i was left reeling for months after the babalon incident. i cannot emphasize the great deal of truth which was felt at the time of these revelations. now this is treading dangerous territory here, because obsession is sure to follow. thus we get now into the subject of liber chrnzn see now appendix i and ii. afterwards i shall explicate the relations to the goddess-force babalon and the scarlet brotherhood. 6 the rite of suffering death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful. thou art not so- some dead poet being a chaotic interpretation of the holy guardian angel operation

ction and path for my life and future. i have to put in the work of course, but this is de-emphasized as this is all for myself. to take a perspective and change it for ones benefit is real magick let me emphasize, that this vision of clarity was very nice! to have a clear purpose of will and focus was welcome after the flux i just came from 11/6/99 the binding of the will. bearing witness to the obsession which is the small fraction of evil. the princes themselves. humanities vilest parts honed and chiseled into an ingot of fine malevolent intelligence (evocation) here and now do we bind them, the sublime well spring of hope. creation they bow before it s might a note of the demons- the identification and sigilization of as many demons as possible is necessary to get a grasp on this. many

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in order to convince you of the paganism of freemasonry, i am going to depict it, below. you can see the way they have split the pomegranate, they have depicted a woman's sexual organ and both her legs [we will have the occult symbol of the pomegranate up here soon, so you can see how they have twisted something so simple as a pomegranate into depicting sex] i find it highly pagan to realize the obsession masons have about sex, when they depict it in so many of their symbols and even in their own lodge. can you imagine a mason thinking about entering a woman's vagina as he goes through the porch of the masonic temple? unbelievable! the torch and statue of liberty satanists have always equated the flaming torch as a symbol of lucifer "lucifer, having regained his star and his diad ted by h

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put into, sooner or later she and her crew must sink beneath the waters and be lost for ever. when this doom encompasses mankind, as today it would seem to encompass it, man does not so secret wisdom of the qabalah page 7 much wring his hands in despair as drown his hopelessness in physical enjoyments. glet us eat and drink. for tomorrow we die h become the passwords of the age, and the more this obsession gains sway the less does wonder illumine his path, until the age enters its eclipse. love becomes lust, the noble ignoble, the beautiful hideous, the generous selfish, and all is lost in a scramble of greeds. it is in this dismal darkness that satan materializes and satanism becomes a cult. the symbols go on, potent and impotent; but now they are turned upside down, for fear is hope reve

nism and revolution. revolution means turning around. every twenty-four hours the earth completes a revolution from night to day and back again into night. man is not so mathematically poised; he cannot calculate the revolutions of his soul. when they occur they come as overwhelming shocks to his whole moral system, and unless he is mentally balanced they are apt to lay him under so tyrannical an obsession that his whole life is thrown out of the perpendicular. in its psychic form, this problem of revolution is little understood, in spite of the fact that it constitutes the foundation of social evolution and dissolution. when a revolution takes place humanity does not slough its skin; in place its skin is ripped off from it, leaving an agonized body behind. in the past the whole process of

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gson, the sister of the philosopher henri bergson, soon to bemrsmathers and thus central to the entire story of the order. mathers himselfis an enigma.hewas born in1854,educated at bedford grammar school and lived with his widowed mother atbournemouth255where he was made a mason in18n-untilher death in1885,when he moved to london to dedicate himself to hermetic philosophy, magical practice and an obsession with his fancied jacobite ancestry. his later history is one of growing eccentricity, of delusions both of persecution and grandeur, and of paranoia: it is also, to a large extent, the history of the order itself. but for all his oddity, mathers' friends and enemies alike admitted the extent of his learning, even if they did not admire it. a. e. waite described him as a 'comic blackstone

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9, 54.rtcontentspageintroduction 7part one: rosicrucianchapter1. christian rosenkreuz and the rosicrucians 13 2. data of the history of the rosicrucians 28 3. the rosicrucians, past and present, at home and abroad 40 4. in memory of robert fludd 48 5. rosicrucian thoughts on the ever-burning lamps of the ancients 54 6. man, miracle, magic, from the ancient rosicrucian dogmata 66 7. courage versus obsession 71 8. chess shatranji and chaturanga 75 part two: kabalistic 9. the kabalah 3110.a further glance at the kabalah 95 11. the ten sephiroth 110 12. the religion of freemasonry illuminated by the kabbalah 114 13. angels: jewish, christian and pagan 124 14. the devil, and evil spirits according to the bible and ancient hebrew rabbis 131 15. some anomalies in the biblical views of the constit

orthodox christians will turn on you, and deny their existence, though they sing of them. the spirits of the elements are both good and bad. the astral forms of good men will harm you not, but the elementaries, or astral shells of the wicked, and especially of the self-slain, are fertile sources of evil sensations and suggestions and foul disease. beware thenhowyou enter the immeasurable region. obsession is the nightmare of attack; a whole series of miseries and terrors may pass over the occultist who is feeble, who is vicious, who is weak of purpose- whose aims arecourage versus obsession73selfish, whose desires are sensual, whose thoughts are polluted by material possessions, or by the lusts of the world, the flesh and the devil.theneophyte who has entered the portal, and makes no adva

crave for the continuance in lust and the enjoyments of sin, and hence tendtoseek evil living human envelopes in which to perpetuate their love of evil. such is the nature, they say, of the so-called dweller of the threshold, a living but bodyless vampire insinuating itself into the astral vehicle of the wicked man. the late frater bulwer255 lytton appears to have recognized this peculiar form of obsession, as is shewn in the idealism of his novelszanoni, thestrangestory,andthe haunted and thehaunters.there are several modern works treating of the devil and the history of the development of the ideal satan, but these are chiefly concerned with the devil as he appears in modern literature and the really ancient rabbinic works are not fully discussed.thekabalistic tomes are very difficult of

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paris, where they remained- save for a prolonged visit to london for theequinoxandlooking glasscases of 1910 and 1911- until mathers' death from influenza in 1918. his career in the golden dawn has been charted often enough? not to need recounting here,butit is, perhaps, worth remarking that asintroduction9dissension grew within the order, so mathers' literary output declined. whether his growing obsession with 'treachery' in the order stifled his literary talents, or whether they had been burned out by ten years of feverish activity is impossible to tell, but after 1898 mathers neither wrote nor published anything of significance. but was he, as he claimed to be, the possessor of 'critical and profound occult archaeological knowledge? certainly he filled his published works with erudite f

lt with them accordingly. so if an initiate, or one who had power, found himself assailed by uncontrollable fear, let us say, he recognized that the god, or demon, having charge of this mood, had somehow found entrance to his house of life, and he promptly wrote the demon's name, devoted him to apophi, and exorcised them both. so we find in medieval europe the thaumaturgist-saints would recognize obsession, where we with the superior knowledge and wisdom of the twentieth century see only 'an obscure nervous condition' which we can neither explain, nor account for, nor cure, and they devoted the obsessing demon to satan, and cast him out.theblack magicians of the middle ages sometimes not only cast him out, but caused himtogo in, and this also by the power of the name. i have been shown ove

ic, and many instances are recorded from the times of the pharaohs till within a couple of hundred years of this present time, of magicians who in time of war, have cast fear into the hearts of the enemies of their country. froissart records the work of magicians who accompanied the german armies in his day, causing fogs to cover a retreat, and the like. many of the troubles anciently ascribed to obsession -are now sometimes dealt with, and it is said successfully, by hypnotism, and a new vocabulary has grown up, and we hear much of suggestion, and auto-suggestion, of the subliminal, and superliminal consciousness, and of unconscious cerebra255 tion, none of which seems to take us very much further thanegyptian ritual and modern witchcraft 137the old theory of obsession,butenables the scie

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es. they are not personalities, they are not personal deities. accordingly gnosis is a form of perception, feed by the minds and fueled by the emotions. it does not, however, greatly emphasize devotion (bhakti) that is focused or obsessed with image, sound, form and so forth. while we understand and use the power of images, to become devoted to one such image is to ignore its true nature. indeed, obsession with an image of the divine can lead away rather than to the higher principles. there are myriad spiritual forms throughout the great chain of being. in the gnostic system, there are many, many names for them. as they are in the dimensions below the upper world they are partial representations of aspects of the divine and each has its own unique essence, form and so forth. while these to

the mind, the exploration of the unconscious and a clear and precise understanding of the structure of your own psyche. then and only then are you ready to enter into work of a more advanced spiritual nature. before ritual can become a doorway to other dimensions, it is imperative that the mind is trained and under control, otherwise, as is the case with so many untrained spiritual practitioners, obsession and delusion result. beyond all these considerations is the simple issue of intent. while techniques of ritual and occultism can be remarkably similar across all traditions that does not make them qualitatively the same. a knife can be used to heal and to kill, so can the occult traditions. the focus must be on transfiguration and then ritual and related methodologies can be used, howeve

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cteristics of the city include life, earthquakes, plagues, fires and massacres. these refer to the intense dangers associated with the energies of this centre. it is the centre of sexual fire, and when the base centre is activated and force is manifested at this level it must be totally controlled so that the energies continue on upwards towards redemption. loss of control can mean destruction or obsession, a relevant maxim here is that "all acts of sex are acts of power. related to this characteristic is the mystery of the terrestrial and celestial paths, while both paths have much in common they activate the energy centres in different ways using very different technologies. the very things that are forbidden to those of the terrestrial path are used by those of the celestial to achieve

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of god (god may represent set or the divine will the isolate self. you may have the pentacle of tetragrammaton on your person, symbolic of the will of the rite. when one enters the cross-roads of spirits you are in the arena of anon, the spirits which have existed between the aethyr and the earth for timeless ages the take the flesh of our desires, therefore posing a dangerous tight rope walk of obsession/possession. consider the strength of will as the guide in the working, thus the reason for one being in direct contact with the hga/angel-serpent and envenomed with the light of set or the adversary. the names within the tetragrammaton represent the power of will that the magicians holds in the working, thus within the pentagram which ascends towards the luciferian realm of air. tetragra

tic drawing, the subconscious unveiled) communication with the serpent-angel, azal ucel (holy guardian angel/true will) or initiatic guide. self-enchantment is also the directional point which is the obsessional direction of ones sorcerous path. the path of sorcery is the direct road built from self-enchantment and the union with the isolate core essence of being (hga. sorcery is the rejuvenating obsession of encircling belief into flesh. this may be understood by austin osman spare s conceptual theory of manifestation will- desire-belief, self-enchantment/obsession leads to the destruction/vampyric death of unnecessary ideals which plague the self in numerous forms. in primal cultures these dogmatic ideals manifest as self-created sickness and disease. by destroying their foundation in th

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LBRP

the lesser ritual of the pentagram can be used to open and close any magical or mystical work, such as a ceremony or meditation. as an exorcism the lesser ritual of the pentagram can be used by the neophyte as a protection against impure magnetism, and as a practical form of exorcism, to eliminate obsessing or disturbing thoughts. in this the neophyte should first formulate a mental image of the obsession or disturbing thought, then s/he should project the image outside of his/her aura with the sign of projection (sign of horus, and when the image is approximately three feet away, the neophyte should give the sign of silence (sign of harpocrates) to prevent the image from returning unto him or her. with the image of the obsession or disturbing thought in the east, the neophyte should then

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS A

ory [b] 5. lesser ritual of the hexagram (commit to memory [c] 6. s.i.r.h./s.b.r.h (commit to memory [c1] 7. the secret wisdom of the lesser world or microcosm [u] 1. secret wisdom of the microcosm 2. evil persona 3. task of the adeptus minor 4. of traveling in the spirit vision concerning other microcosms 5. how the spiritual consciousness can act around and beyond the sphere of sensation. 6. of obsession, trance, and death 7. liber hodos chameleonis (u-7) 8. receive z1 and z3 (to be tested on knowledge and understanding) 9. make and consecrate the lotus wand [d] 10. the rose cross ritual (commit to memory) 11. make and consecrate the rose cross lamen [e] and [f] 6 12. make and consecrate the sword and four elemental weapons [g] 13. consecration ceremony of the vault of the adepti [k] 14

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U1

the ruach into the subsidiary sephiroth produces naturally a weakening of the lower will; the ruach, therefore, does not reflect so clearly the reasoning faculty. the thought of the spiritual consciousness reflecteth the image in a confused series, which are only partially realized by the lower will (this is as regards to the ordinary natural man in sleep. in the mad man, as considered apart from obsession (thought obsession is frequently the accompanying of mania, and still more frequently, its cause, the thought and lower will are very strongly exercised to the detriment of the reasoning faculty. that 7 is, there is an alliance between the two former which overpowereth the action of hmkj and hnyb in the latter. monomania is shown in the consideration of only one certain symbol which is t

hat they pass its boundary without either the lower will or the reasoning power, or even the thought itself, consenting thereto; the latter is, therefore, without protection of the will. thence, arises the condition of delirium, and tremors. an opening is made in the sphere of sensation which is unguarded, and through which hostile influences may enter. but this latter cometh under the heading of obsession. all thought action in the spiritual consciousness originateth in radiation, and radiation is as inseparable from the spiritual consciousness as it is from light. this spiritual consciousness is the focus of the action of the neschamah. the spiritual consciousness is, in its turn, the throne or vehicle of the life of the spirit which is the chiah; these combined form the chariot of the h

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U3

hall receive this reflection tinctured much by his own nature, and therefore to an extent untrue, because his united consciousnesses have not been able to focus along the thought ray at the circumference at the sphere of sensation. and this is the reason why there are so many and multifarious errors in untrained spirit visions. for the untrained seer, even supposing him free from the delusions of obsession, doth not know or understand how to unite his consciousnesses and the harmonies between his own sphere of sensation, and the universe, the macrocosmos. therefore, is it so necessary that the adeptus minor should correctly understand the principia and the axiomata of our secret knowledge, which are contained in our rituals and lectures. 4 commentary by g.h. frater p.c.a. the keywords in t

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U6

n the adept is "working the tree of life" he or she is "rising on the planes" this is definitely a mystical process. each path develops one simplistically and brings us closer to gnosis with our higher genius. the tree acts as a chart or guide in that it gives us a specific direction and location. in addition, it allows us to project to a location through the use of symbols, colors, names, etamu6 obsession, trance& death r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r this material is private and has been lent to me on trust, to return on demand. it contains nothing of pecuniary value and nothing personal to myself. i hereby direct my legal representatives whomsoever, in case of my death or incapacity, to return the same at once, unread and unopened, to g.h. frater p.c.a, at 14050 ch

d e p t u s m i n o r this material is private and has been lent to me on trust, to return on demand. it contains nothing of pecuniary value and nothing personal to myself. i hereby direct my legal representatives whomsoever, in case of my death or incapacity, to return the same at once, unread and unopened, to g.h. frater p.c.a, at 14050 cherry avenue, suite r- 159, fontana, california, 92337. 2 obsession always enters through a cutting off of the higher from the lower will, and it is ordinarily first induced by a thought-ray of the spiritual consciousness (whence one danger of evil thoughts) ill-governed, penetrating the sphere of sensation and admitting another potency, either human embodied, or human disembodied, elemental or demonic. the first action of such a force is to flatter the

d firmly an entrance into the sphere of sensation, and thus shall cause a strain on the nephesch which shall render the ruach less concentrated. as soon as the ruach is sufficiently dispersed to repair the strain on the physical body, the lower will is weakened, and is soon seized upon and bound by the invader, whence arise the sensations of chill and drowsiness which are the usual forerunners of obsession. now to yield the force necessary to overpower the lower will from any chance of communication with the higher, the obsessing idea proceeds by seizing upon the daath, and this consequently is the great point of attack, especially the part in the physical body which is at the back of the head about the junction with the spine. now, unless the lower will shall voluntarily endeavour to rest

the junction with the spine. now, unless the lower will shall voluntarily endeavour to restore the connection, it is impossible for the higher will to intervene, seeing that the lower will is king of the physical body. remember that no obsessing force can overpower the lower will, if that shall bravely and in spite of all opposition aspire unto the higher will. trance may arise from the action of obsession, or from the action of the higher will. therefore, its aspects are varied. death superveneth the natural man, when the mental action of the ruach and the nephesch is definitely and thoroughly interrupted in the physical body. in the adept, death can only supervene when the higher will consenteth thereto, and herein is implied the whole mystery of the elixir of life. additional notes on o

ruach and the nephesch is definitely and thoroughly interrupted in the physical body. in the adept, death can only supervene when the higher will consenteth thereto, and herein is implied the whole mystery of the elixir of life. additional notes on obsession g.h. frater n.o.e.l. when the magnetic rule of a desire causes separation between the higher will and the ruach and nephesch, the result is obsession. the natural man is often caught up in obsessions without realization. even so, the adept can become ensnared in obsession and thus perform his/her adept tasks without genuine connection and guidance from the higher will, while all along convincing him/herself that the tasks to be undertaken are truly being achieved. this is far more dangerous for the adept than the normal man, who in hi

ven so, the adept can become ensnared in obsession and thus perform his/her adept tasks without genuine connection and guidance from the higher will, while all along convincing him/herself that the tasks to be undertaken are truly being achieved. this is far more dangerous for the adept than the normal man, who in his slumber, is aware not of his higher will. thus, the adept is more vulnerable to obsession becoming trance due to the heavy astral currents of influence within his sphere of sensation. it is critical that the adept maintain connection with the higher will to avoid the confoundment of the yesodic currents leading to obsession. though it is far from complete, i have hearby listed areas of concern to the adeptus: 3 sexual obsession astral obsession obsession with perfection the a

in his sphere of sensation. it is critical that the adept maintain connection with the higher will to avoid the confoundment of the yesodic currents leading to obsession. though it is far from complete, i have hearby listed areas of concern to the adeptus: 3 sexual obsession astral obsession obsession with perfection the adept must realize that the lower is only made perfect by the higher. career obsession the adeptus must avoid thinking of himself as his career. this is the habit of the natural man leading to disillusionment when one eventually realizes that a career is something you do, not something you are. knowledge obsession while learning is important, st. francis reminds us that a lowly demon posseses more knowledge than all of humankind combined. thus, knowledge not applied is a v

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z1

se. on completing this, make the sign of silence and remain still, contemplating the force you have invoked. this is the secret traditional mode of pronouncing the divine names by vibration. let the adept beware that he applies it only to the divine names of the gods. if he does this thing ignorantly in working with elemental or demonic names, he may bring into himself terrible forces of evil and obsession. the method described is called, the vibratory formula of the middle pillar. after noting the names of the three chief officers, comes the recapitulation of the stations and duties of the officers. this occultly affirms the establishment of the temple so that the divine light may shine into the darkness. then follows the purification and consecration of the hall by n and o marking the li

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z2

ain the shroud of darkness under thy own proper control and guidance. v. state clearly to the shroud what it is thy desire to perform therewith. w. having obtained the desired effect, and gone about invisible, it is required that thou should conjure the powers of the light to act against that shroud of darkness and mystery so as to disintegrate it, lest any force seek to use it as a medium for an obsession, etc. therefore, rehearse a conjuration as aforesaid, and then open the shroud and come forth out of the midst thereof, and then disintegrate that shroud by the use of a conjuration to the forces of hnyb to disintegrate and scatter the particles thereof, but affirming that they shall again be readily attracted at thy command. on no account must that shroud of awful mystery be left withou

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z3

p with the left forefinger. close the other fingers and thumb, and drop the right hand to the side. imagine that a watery vapor encircles and encloses you. this is the reflux of the current. this sign is also used as a protection against attack. the sign represents a concentration of astral light about the person. having given the sign as above, it is a protection against all attack and danger of obsession. to make it yet stronger, the form of the god should be taken. if spiritual force is required, formulate it as if standing on a lotus or rising from it. for force in contemplation and meditation, formulate as if seated upon a lotus, but for more material force, as if standing upon a dragon or a serpent like some statues of harpocrates. as a defence and protection, the sign is as strong a

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM11

on the desert of despair as qrz bru, the ravens of death, would pluck at my spiritual eyes, leaving me blinded by my lusts and desires. my very thoughts would be confused and filled with aweful venom, and my thoughts would direct me not to return praise and joy to the lord of the universe, but rather to the stench and fowlness of lams. my animal would escape with the aid of laylmg to the realm of obsession and the hunger of a rabid boar. finally, i would be lost unto you, the lady of light, thou holy and beautiful shekinah, and i would be lost in the night, seduced by the darkness of tylyl. oh layqpx, in the name of \yhla hwhy guard and aid me in my quest of light, lest i be consumed by my own inward evil and the forces of darkness that would stand guard against my potential. send forth th

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

the burial of the abydos fleet (to around 4500 bc) showed the same long, sleek, high-prowed vessels in action.34 could an experienced race of ancient seafarers have become involved with the indigenous inhabitants of the nile valley at some indeterminate period before the official beginning of history at around 3000 bc? wouldn t this explain egypt s curious and paradoxical but nonetheless enduring obsession with ships in the desert (and references to what sounded like sophisticated ships in the pyramid texts, including one said to have been more than 2000 feet long)?35 in raising these conjectures, i did not doubt that religious symbolism had existed in ancient egypt in which, as scholars endlessly pointed out, ships had been designated as vessels for the pharaoh s soul. nevertheless that s

velling in beautiful, high-prowed, streamlined boats, built to the same advanced ocean-going specifications as the pyramid boats at giza and the mysterious fleet moored in the desert sands at abydos. landlocked people do not as rule become astronomers; seafaring people do. is it not possible that the maritime iconography of the ancient egyptians, the design of their ships, and also their splendid obsession with observing the stars, could have been part of an inheritance passed on to their ancestors by an unidentified seafaring, navigating race, in remote prehistory? it is really only such an archaic race, such a forgotten maritime civilization, that could have left its fingerprints behind in the form of maps which accurately depict the world as it looked before the end of the last ice age

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

xtent in certain watchtower squares. when you enter these places, you will confront your own sexual nature and unleash sexual energies within yourself whether you consciously desire to do so or not. the sexual force is one of the strongest within your magical universe. in itself, it is neither good nor evil, but like most things it will be up to you to use it wisely and not to let it control you (obsession is a very real possibility for the unwary magician. according to crowley "the phallus is the physiological basis of the oversoul (of the nature of the gods. the 153 154 supernal father is said to have risen up from the depths and uttered the word which led to the creation of the world. it was not a deliberate conscious act so much as a spontaneous outward expession of inherent internal c

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

hangelical, and angelical forces in the rituals of this book before setting out to evoke, constrain, and subdue any of the averse forces. should this not be the case, the solitary practitioner should leave magical evocation strictly alone. evocation is not a game to toy with, but a dangerous undertaking even for a major adept. the result of ignoring this warning could be spiritual disaster, ruin, obsession, or even psychosis. psychology and evocation one may best understand the function of magical evocation within rosicrucian magic from a psychological perspective. modern psychology offers the magician important insight into processes known to theurgists for thousands of years. the notion of the unconscious, an aspect of the psyche lying beneath the threshold of conscious awareness, provid

indeed manifest in a fashion disruptive to consciousness. therefore, the magician extracts an oath of obedience from the demon as the climax of the evocation. in rosicrucian magic, the demon does not swear this oath to the ego of the magician. such an oath would be like the demonic pacts described in certain grimoires and would place the magician's ego in great peril, likely leading to inflation, obsession, or to a state of mind once described as demonic possession. furthermore, unlike the abra-melin system, the demon does not even swear its oath to the magician's holy guardian angel. in rosicrucian magic, the will of the magician magnified by the power of the magic sword obliges the demon to swear an oath of allegiance and obedience to the divine force corresponding to its own nature and

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

angle in the composition of matter, as now explained to all our members of the first and fourth degrees, would be to reveal that which would never be understood by the uninitiated and always misunderstood by his critics. but dalton did refer to the triangle in some places of his manuscript and in some of his public speeches. in fact, the triangle was the key to his work, the use of it becoming an obsession with him. all in all, dalton made many thousands.not hundreds.of observations of the workings of nature and kept them well tabulated and classified. he made many hundreds of laboratory experiments, and he had students and friends cooperating with him in making other experiments. he climbed mountains [107] almost daily to register certain effects; he had certain instruments in his home an

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

oshis; and though well awarehow useless it was in my case to seek efficient cure from any other "adept" my excellent old friend dideverything he could to help me in my misfortune. but it was to no purpose, and the canker-worm of my life'sdespair could not be thoroughly extricated. i found from them that not one of these learned men couldpromise to relieve me entirely from the demon of clairvoyant obsession. it was he who raised certaindaij-dzins, calling on them to show futurity, or things that had already come to pass, who alone had fullcontrol over them. with kind sympathy, which i had now learned to appreciate, the holy men invited me tojoin the group of their disciples, and learn from them what i could do for myself "will alone, faith in yourown soul-powers, can help you now" they said

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

jagged when viewed onscreen with certain displays. they will print at the full resolution of your printer the aim being to experiment with various approaches to the evocation of spirits, beginning with the lesser key of solomon the king. some observations on our results with the entities of the lesser key of solomon are enclosed. during this project, i found my interests returning to a recurrent obsession- the entities of the cthulhu mythos. the final essay, evoking yog-sothoth (originally written for the journal of the esoteric order of dagon) is an attempt to pull together a 6 theoretical model relating to mythos entities, earth lights, and other factors. at the time of writing this, i was very much into creating .theoretical models. prior to embarking on practical projects. in a way, i

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

others- see luke rhinehart s the dice man for an amusing and instructive tale of one man s approach to deconditioning. the ego, a self-regulatory structure which maintains the fiction of being a unique self, doesn t like the process of becoming more adaptive to experience. one of the 45 oven-ready chaos more subtle defences that it throws up is the sneaking suspicion (which can quickly become an obsession) is that you are better than everyone else. in some circles, this is known as magusitis, and it is not unknown for those afflicted to declare themselves to be maguses, witch queens, avatars of goddesses, or spiritual masters. if you catch yourself reffering to everyone else as the herd, or human cattle, etc, then its time to take another look at where you re going. myself, i prefer the b

terested in reading more about someone else s approach to chaos magick, and most definitely not to pad out an otherwise slim volume. most have appeared in nox magazine or somewhere else, so if you ve seen em before, go and watch a video or something. 50 phil hine fracture lines if will stops and cries why, invoking because, then will stops& does nought. liber al,ii,30. i lay possessed by a demon. obsession. twisted by talons; self-love& hatred knotting my guts. howling frustration into the night, the broken dream heaped around my bed. later. a shaft of light burns through the brooding darkness; my cloak of night, my self-sewn shroud. knowledge. insight. wild laughter. a strange way into gnosis. a self-wounding, stretching back into my personal time. i crawl into my centre, my circle, and w

irs and they will come sneaking round the back, waiting with spider calm until you leave the door of your mind ajar. intellectualisation displacing feelings with words. a quick lie for the aesthetic becomes a fast buck for the lay analyst. such strategies are normal; that is until they become obsessive: a locked-up loop automatic as breathing. out of control. fantasy fantasy is the cornerstone of obsession, where imagination is trussed up like a battery-farmed chicken; catharsis eventually becomes catastrophic. walter mitty lives in all of us, in varyingly-sized corners. we use starter fantasies to weave meaning into a new situation, maintainer fantasies to prop up a boring task, and stopper fantasies to persuade ourselves that it s better not to. a fantasy has tremendous power, and in a p

od) of what the dreaded/hoped for moment will bring us. the fantasy exists in a continual tension between the desire to fulfill it, and the desire to maintain it- to keep from losing it. of course, any move to real-ise it threatens its existence. a closed loop is is the result, shored up by our favourite defence mechanisms, whipped on by fear of failure and lust of result. 53 oven-ready chaos the obsession clouds all reason, impairs the ability to act, makes anything secondary to it seem unimportant. it s a doublebind tug o war. the desire to maintain the fantasy may be stronger than the desire to make it real. in classical occult terms i am describing a thought-form, a monster bred from the darker reccesses of mind, fed by psychic energy, clothed in imagination and nurtured by umbilical c

aws digging into muscle and flesh. we dance to the pull of strings that were woven years ago, and in a lightning flash of insight, or better yet, the gentle admonitions of a friend, we may see the lie; the program. it is first necessary to see that there is a program. to say perhaps, this creature is mine, but not wholly me. what follows then is that the prey becomes the hunter, pulling apart the obsession, naming its parts, searching for fragments of understanding in its entrails. shrinking it, devouring it, peeling the layers of onion-skin. this is in itself a magick as powerful as any sorcery. unbinding the knots that we have tied and tangled; sorting out the threads of experience and colour-coding the chains of chance. it may leave us freer, more able to act effectively and less likely

inding the knots that we have tied and tangled; sorting out the threads of experience and colour-coding the chains of chance. it may leave us freer, more able to act effectively and less likely to repeat old mistakes. the thing has a chinese puzzle-like nature. we can perceive only the present, and it requires intense sifting through memory to see the scaffolding beneath. 54 phil hine the grip of obsession upon us has three components: cognitive- our thoughts& feelings in relation to the situation. these must be ruthlessly analysed and cut down by vipasana, banishing, or some similar strategy. physiological- anxiety responses of heart rate, muscle tone and blood pressure. the body must be stilled by relaxation and pranayama. behavioural- what we must do (or more often, don t do. often, our

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

, when scorned by jason, gifted his new and very much younger love with a gown of magical cloth that burned as fire. however little there may be to bind these women in a community of interests, it is not too difficult to categorize them by virtue of the "esprit de corps" that motivates any enchantress: those who wish to alter circumstances must be intense, emotional, self-motivated and capable of obsession. although popular knowledge of witches comes mostly from fairy tales and legends, not to mention superstition, let us set one thing straight: witches are human, very human, and sometimes a little superhuman. they are physical animals who may have a special mental quirk; supernormal, perhaps, but not supernatural. as to the belief that witches live many lives, it is doubtful. i am a witch

. the gold candle projects good health. don't fool with a red candle. it's beyond sex. it's awfully primitive, and it's best not to mess with it. not if you're a novice, anyway. leave the red candle to full-fledged witches. stick to orange-red for sex. it's all you'll be able to do to control the results of that! to alter circumstances you must be intense, emotional, self-motivated and capable of obsession. that's the only way it can work. and you must understand that once you cast a spell you've set into motion vibrations that can never be erased. they can never be stopped. something's going to happen. once in motion, there's no return, so you must be very brave. you may be able to alter the conclusion a bit, but things will never remain the same; they are no longer what they were. that's

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

ion, or through a sort of passivity (emptiness) of the mind, conjuring up a spontaneous displacement (shifting) of the consciousness. in this state it is possible for elementals, deceased people and certain low beings to induce the astral body together with the material body to manifestations and other undertakings. from the hermetic point of view, such experiments are to be regarded as a sort of obsession, even if the beings in question should be good ones. the true magician naturally does not doubt the performance of such experiments if they are to be taken very seriously but he will feel very sorry indeed about these mediums. the magician himself can consciously form connections with beings in quite a different way, being fully aware of what he is doing. particulars will be given in a s

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

the lesser ritual of the pentagram can be used to open and close any magical or mystical work, such as a ceremony or meditation. as an exorcism the lesser ritual of the pentagram can be used by the neophyte as a protection against impure magnetism, and as a practical form of exorcism, to eliminate obsessing or disturbing thoughts. in this the neophyte should first formulate a mental image of the obsession or disturbing thought, then s/he should project the image outside of his/her aura with the sign of projection (sign of horus, and when the image is approximately three feet away, the neophyte should give the sign of silence (sign of harpocrates) to prevent the image from returning unto him or her. with the image of the obsession or disturbing thought in the east, the neophyte should then

LETTER FROM A LUCIFEREAN

taining their emotional associations with taboo, forbidden pleasures and heightened sensuality. ritual sodomy, scatology and flagellation have their uses, but these are greatly lessened if they become normative to the practitioner. in the brotherhood, the aim of sexual magia was to enable celebrants to move between both apollonian and dionysian modes of expression at will. the popular chaos magic obsession with deconditioning- which i understand as an attempt to surpass all personal boundaries tends to ignore the point that some boundaries if deliberately and carefully maintained, can be extremely useful for magical work. it is such fine distinctions which separate the magician from the mere dissolusethe final volume in his magisterial study of the history of the devil, jeffrey burton russ

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

bosch has often been described as a worshiper of satan, as well as a devout catholic, a psychotic madman, a na ve humorist, and a religious fanatic. even though little is known about his life, it is presumed that the popular, moralizing literature and other beliefs of his time influenced bosch s symbolism. the paintings of the flemish artist hieronymus bosch (hertogenbosch 1450 1516, reflect his obsession with man s sin and damnation. the world portrayed by the artist is populated by a multitude of symbols from astrology, sorcery, and alchemy, and strange forms that are often composed of dislocated elements of real beings. each detail of his paintings contains an allusion to a symbolic significance within the whole, which can be considered a kind of allegory illustrating the opposite guis

et was destructive. he was so violent by nature that he ripped a hole in his mother s side when he was born. as the people reclaimed land through irrigation, he was angered that osiris was diminishing his desert kingdom.he grew to envy his bother more day by day (bierlein 1994, 212 213. like other peoples, the egyptians also populated the cosmos with all manner of demons. because of their seeming obsession with the afterlife, we know the most about the dangerous demons encountered in the underworld.however, in marked contrast to other cultures, the underworld was ruled by the just god osiris rather than an evil divinity like set. ancient egypt was a civilization with a stability and history that staggers the contemporary imagination.as long ago as 4000 b.c.e. there were significant politic

g a victim, are far more likely to be the result of sexual ritual than religious or satanic ritual. from a criminal investigative perspective, two other forms of ritualism must be recognized. the diagnostic and statistical manual ofmental disorders (dsm-iii-r (apa, 1987) defines obsessive-compulsive disorder as repetitive, purposeful, and intentional behaviors that are performed in response to an obsession, or according to certain rules or in a stereotyped fashion (p. 247. such compulsive behavior frequently involves rituals. although such behavior usually involves noncriminal activity such as excessive hand washing or checking that doors are locked, occasionally compulsive ritualism can be part of criminal activity. certain gamblers or firesetters, for example, are thought by some authori

LIBER O

rs. 11. it is usually quite easy to return to the body, but should any difficulty arise, practice (again) will make the imagination fertile. for example, one may create in thought a chariot of fire with white horses, and command the charioteer to drive earthwards. it might be dangerous to go too far, or to stay too long; for fatigue must be avoided. the danger spoken of is that of fainting, or of obsession, or of loss of memory or other mental faculty. 12. finally, let the student cause his imagined body in which he supposes himself to have been travelling to coincide with the physical, tightening his muscles, drawing in his breath, and putting his forefinger to his lips. then let him "awake" by a well-defined act of will, and soberly and accurately record his experiences. it may be added

LIBER ALEPH

f such journeys is consciously willed, and determined by reason, and also unconsciously willed, by the true self, since without it no invocation were possible, we have here a cooperation of alliance between the inner and the outer self, and thus an accomplishment, at least partial, of the great work. and therefore is confusion or terror in any such practice an error fearful indeed, bringing about obsession, which is a temporary or even it may be a permanent division of the personality, or insanity, and therefore a defeat most fatal and pernicious, a surrender of the soul to choronzon. c liber aleph vel cxi 16 o de cultu (of training) ow, o my son, that thou mayst be well guarded against thy ghostly enemies, do thou work constantly by the means prescribed in our holy books. neglect never th

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

knows his man, though, if he thinks he can insult me with impunity. andre, un sandwich [beyt allah, the mosque at mecca, means .house of god..ed] 7.05. i shall stop mantra while i eat, so as to concentrate (a) on the chewing (b) on defiling the house of god. not so easy! the damned thing runs on like a prairie fire. important then to stop it absolutely at will: even the work itself may become an obsession. 11 hours with no real break.not bad. the bad part of to-day seems the .sana, and the deadness. or, perhaps worse, i fail to apprehend the true magical purport of my work: hence all sort of aimless formulae, leading.naturally enough.to no result. it just strikes me.it may be this isis apophis osiris iao formula that i have preached so often. certainly the first two days were isis.natural

LIBER LVII

egimental toast, and all knew him for one of their own. in spiritual dealings, the qabalah, with those secrets discovered by yourself that are known only to yourself and god, forms the grip, sign, token and password that assure you that the lodge is properly titled. it is consequently of the very last importance that these final secrets should never be disclosed. and it must be remembered that an obsession, even momentary, might place a lying spirit in possession of the secrets of your grade. possibly it was in this manner that dee and kelly were so often deceived. a reference to this little dictionary of numbers will show that 1, 3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 17, 21, 22, 26, 32, 37, 45, 52, 65, 67, 73, 78, 91, 111, 120, 207, 231, 270, 300, 326, 358, 361, 370, 401, 306, 434, 474, 666, 671, 741, 913, we

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ice with men, all mingled with wild talk of religious dogma and a general exaltation of priapism at the expense, in particular, of christianity, in which religion, however, he is undoubtedly a believer till the last (the pious will quote james ii. 19, and the infidel will observe that he died in an asylum; then the full swing of the tide catches him, the mysteries of death become more and more an obsession, and he is flung headlong into sadism, necrophilia, 56 the sword of song all the maddest, fiercest vices that the mind of fiends ever brought up from the pit. but always to the very end his power is unexhausted, immense, terrible. his delerium does not amuse; it appals! a man who could conceive as he did must himself have had some glorious chord in his heart vibrating to the eternal prin

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ced sacrifice, punishment, loss, fatal and not voluntary, suffering. 13. time, age, transformation, change involuntary (as opposed to 18, pisces. or death, destruction (only latter with special cards [specially, a sudden and quite unexpected change] 14. combination of forces, realization, action (material effect, good or evil. 50 liber lxxviii 15. materiality, material force, material temptation, obsession. 16. ambition, fighting, war, courage, or destruction, danger, fall, ruin. 17. hope, faith, unexpected help. or dreaminess, deceived hope, etc. 18. dissatisfaction, voluntary change. error, lying, falsity, deception. this card is very sensitive to dignity. 19. glory, gain, riches. with very evil cards it means arrogance, display, vanity. 20. final decision, judgment, sentence, determinat

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c condition but does not care whether life is bittersweet or sweet and sour; rather it seeks to achieve any arbitrary perceptual perspective at will. any state of mind might arbitrarily be chosen as an objective for transmutation, but there is a specific virtue to the ones given. the first is an antidote to the imbalance and possible madness of the magical trance. the second is a specific against obsession with the magical practices in the third section. they are: 1) laughter/laughter 2) non-attachment/non-disinterest attaining these states of mind is accomplished by a process of ongoing meditation. one tries to enter into the spirit of the condition whenever possible and to think about the desired result at other times. by this method, a strong new mental habit can be established. conside

on of the use of talismanic weapons, gesture, visualized sigils, word spells, and magical trance. before proceeding with sigils or dreaming, it is essential to develop an effective banishing ritual. a well-constructed banishing ritual has the following aspects. it prepares the magician more rapidly for magical concentration than any of the trance exercises alone. it enables the magician to resist obsession if problems are encountered with dream experiences or with sigils becoming conscious. it also protects the magician from any hostile occult influences which may assail him. to develop a banishing ritual, first acquire a magical weapon- a sword, a dagger, a wand, or perhaps a large ring. the instrument should be something which is impressive to the mind and should also represent the aspir

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tters. 11. it is usually quite easy to return to the body; but should any difficulty arise, practice (again) will make the imagination fertile. for example, one may create in thought a chariot of fire with white horses, and command the charioteer to drive earthwards. it might be dangerous to go too far, or stay too long, for fatigue must be avoided. the danger spoken of is that of fainting, or of obsession, or loss of memory or other mental faculty. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 14 12. finally, let the student cause his imagined body in which he supposes himself to have been travelling to coincide with the physical, tightening his muscles, drawing in his breath, and putting his forefinger to his lips. then let him .awake. by a welldefined act of will, and soberly and accurately record his e

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olled rapture, ought notto allow his mind to loosen its grip on the ctual imagery of the star-spate, will-symbol, or soul-symbol, or even to forget his duty to the body and the sensible surroundings. nor should he omit to keep his body of light in close touch with the phenomena of its own plane, so that its privy consciousness may fulfil its proper functions of protecting his scattered ideas from obsession. but he should have acquired, by previous practice, the faculty of detatching these elements of his consciousness from their articulate centre, so that they become (temporarily) independent responsible units, capable of receiving communications from headquarters at will, but perfectly able (1) to take care of themselves without troubling their chief, and (2) to report to him at the prope

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first duty of self-love. our purpose and completeness fully to realize self is in our existence for others, but the hand of weakness leads us to evil. the disaster of love is that it gives us occasion to love in one person what we should love in all. the discarding of inhibiting beliefs by reorientation and substitution gives a selected level adjustable to the new idea, and becomes the matrix for obsession. the tight packing of space and the involuntary enforced silence are premonitions of pregnancy from this act. the deliberate delayed satisfaction of an urge, when serving another intent, is of greater benefit to the person concerned than its immediate satisfaction. urges serving their immediacy are often a failure, a disservice resulting in degenerate offspring. cand remember, you shall

t become a realist first or he will remain a fool. there is pause in life when all becomes unreal and ominous; a transitory phase which becomes our level of life. a decision, a choice, has to be made existentially, facing oneself, not from abstracts or logic but from our innate good and evil. matter alternating, evaporating, exhausting, correlates with our means of dynamic extension. our means of obsession. all things are in flux, nothing is static, but our truths are not immutable, and dynamic differences appear contrary to our interrelatability. ideas are more prolific when the struggle is for the unconceived rather than for the known. g. 6. ejk= 2 5: 2..q( 2' z' 5( v@ n* 5! real needs and go about the world mouthing doctrines of salvation like mountebanks with nostrums. the beauty we re

life is such desire believing. therefore, believe in the power of belief, and that sincerity will integrate sufficient will for its purposes. g..q. m 3$ 5! s5! y> e( transcendentalism and the magic of dynamic change. reactions are often worse than the thing reacted against. anathema quadrivial: the dark obliques from zodiacal signs, the evolutionary-parental chains, the environmental matrix, the obsession from foiled appetitive urges: thus are we born prehensive to, and slaves of, inheritances. creating a necessity is our utility. the divine effluvium is an eternal creative diversity: we are an ingression by contingency from which we simulate the creative when sufficiently individualistic. t w 5 rf6..q5. f. xu rf6- e% e( 9= emotional experience. those who would know themselves through the

hin, whatsoever it may be, and that it is possible to be a corruption of a finer thing. therefore i would ask you to look within. destroy all that leads away from the ideal, for your purpose and survival z "d e5. v( o$ 5..q..1 2. h7 there is virtue in understatement and elimination as against emphasis and buildup: a significance in omitting, yet appearing complete. all genius is a conversion from obsession by suppressive factors, giving the simulations of the desire and finding release by conative expression: madness the failure. when we strive to make things logical to us instead of ourselves to them, then are we makers of ugliness; affections fail and we decay and all we touch suffers. if i obey my ids, whom do my ids obey? and when my dog obeys me against his wishes, does he obey me or

elementals. the human social state is not aware of this precedent, thus the transference of powers to varied conditions of human providence is dangerous. poverty of art and philosophy leads to great evils, and knowledge is "justified" only as the model for greed; ideals, and life itself, are belittled. the unknown substrate of human cognition is inspiration. all knowledge is subsequent. genius is obsession, a form of love committed to life, reshaping and conserving itself by resisting bravely those things which interfere with its function. will is but lent to us and we put it to noble or to base ends; our good and evil stalk us and predestine our becoming. if we are begotten of inconceivableness we are kindred. things that are ends in themselves tend to emotional extremes and collapse. gre

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mbol of the universe because its rings and layers represented the concentric planes into which creation was divided according to the hermetic mysteries. it was also regarded as possessing great medicinal virtue. because of peculiar properties resulting from its pungency, the garlic plant was a powerful agent in transcendental magic. to this day no better medium has been found for the treatment of obsession. vampirism and certain forms of insanity- especially those resulting from mediumship and the influences of elemental larv--respond immediately to the use of garlic. in the middle ages, its presence in a house was believed to ward off all evil powers. trifoliate plants, such as the shamrock, were employed by many religious cults to represent the principle of the trinity. st. patrick is su

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f psychic make up is understood. blood and sexual congress have long been interpreted as animalistic lust, resulting in the creation of psychic bonds between the individuals involved. countess elizabeth bathory (4) often would stick pins and cut the flesh of her young victims after beating them almost to the point of unconsciousness. blood baths would provide the countess with the ease of her own obsession with staying young and her subconscious desire for the blood of youth. one tale set in the northwest of england involved a vampiric spirit known as the nightstalker of croglin grange. a family moved into an abandoned home located right next to a very old graveyard. the young woman, who lived there with her brothers, retired to bed one evening. she glanced out of her window to notice two

h mother paterson, 106 106 become flesh and dream, knowledge and initiation, your wisdom i recall! amen! at the moment of orgasm, consecrate the witch sigil and visualize your interpretation of yelg. this elemental shall be born of such desire. this elemental can serve one of two purposes, though only one should be selected. these purposes are firstly sexual congress, which presents the danger of obsession which should be avoided at all costs. alternatively, extracting craft wisdom in this spirit form can manifest knowledge in various ways. among the most interesting of these is automatic writing, where thoughts of the yelg image inspire writings which provide useful information. this may be either finely detailed or disorganised and highly symbolic. significant knowledge in the form of vo

mage inspire writings which provide useful information. this may be either finely detailed or disorganised and highly symbolic. significant knowledge in the form of voices or pictures may also be accessed in multilayered dreams. once the particular goal of the evocation is performed, the witch should banish and destroy the sigil, to reabsorb and uncreate this elemental. the purpose being to avoid obsession which could derive from long term contact with such a spirit. oracles of zos and kia "as i laid upon the crimson sheets i felt the cold, numbing hands of hecate lull my body to sleep. all became spirit. all became dream. i was witness to much lightning. fire engulfing the patch where the lightning struck, burning flames surrounded by greenish vapor. i felt my spirit-self casting forth in

much of the spirit-energy seemed to engulf the bone which was being tunneled deep within her. tunneling with a pace akin to the desire and control i would have inside of her. at the moment of climax, the spirits seemed to explode and dissipate and i felt a blinding jerk back into my body. the moment my conscious began coming back i knew my erection in my physical body was great. i wanted her but obsession is not 114 114 an option. only control and strength. throughout my life there have been times when i could grow only by being strong and facing the most difficult situations. even though my more reckless urges told me different. i reached a point of waking conscious and gave myself such comfort, i had met this special witch. i would meet her again i knew. obsession can develop if the sor

g strong and facing the most difficult situations. even though my more reckless urges told me different. i reached a point of waking conscious and gave myself such comfort, i had met this special witch. i would meet her again i knew. obsession can develop if the sorcerer becomes too involved with the desire for meeting, or for an experience, such that the conscious becomes entirely focused on it. obsession becomes failure due to the fact that the subconscious is not able to set in motion the proper paths for the desire to become flesh. the conscious must forget the desire as much as possible and focus on something else. once this can be done, the desire will become a fact based in flesh. if not, failure results in abiding anger in the individual, and leads to further troubles down the road

the chakras (specific power points of the body, and created elementals especially for shielding effects. this is not a technique for the ill of spirit, since qlipothic demons prey on such weakness. sexual services by vampire spirits can prove exciting and invigorating (as long as you are not their prey) but require much caution. such beings, as i have mentioned before, are notorious for invoking obsession and later madness. sexual demons should be treated as nothing more than mere slaves, otherwise they drive the unfortunate and foolish sorcerer into horrifying nightmares, exhaustion, paranoia, obsession and even suicide or a subconscious seed-program invoking death. once the elemental is used and the purpose is served, banish as soon as possible. if evoking or creating a vampire servitor

of elementals, either for the purpose of defense or as fetish imps. one particular method, which can prove useful in times of psychic war between two sorcerers, involves the creation of several servitors where each serves a different purpose. i have found such elementals are wonderful for a short evening of dreams and waking, however beyond that would prove rather dangerous, even to the point of obsession. such spirits should be controlled by the sorcerer, not the other way around which often befalls unbalanced magickians. the wizard realizes that servitors are only in existence to serve the will of the warlock himself, and that they should be banished and reabsorbed once their purpose is served. incubi/succubi have long been connected with vampires. the reason for this is their draining

ended attack, for which the sorcerer is indisposed, it is recommended to create a servitor for the purpose of longevity. incubus male demons who would enter the dream of sleeping women or men, seduce them by taking the flesh of their desire. the demon then drains them of astral blood while sexual congress takes place in the dreaming state, leaving the victim not only drained of energy but open to obsession and later personal destruction. such spirits are known in folklore 131 131 around the world, primarily in europe, to seduce their victims and drain them not only of their astral energy but semen as well. the point of this was to create other demon servitors and offspring. succubus female demons, born of the essence of lilith, goddess of the night. these female servitors work in the same

ason it is dangerous is that it is yet another step up from any normal elemental, in simple terms it is the closest to human intelligence that one could create, it stands on the threshold of having it s own will. the other point to understand is that such servitors, due to their lack of will, act only unto your commands. if one falls prey to starting to communicate with them when unnecessary then obsession can occur. the elemental will gain immortality through your soul itself, it will become attached and there is little hope beyond that. the same is the case with any of the vampiric rites included in this grimoire, if not undertaken properly there is literally hell to pay. the sorcerer who takes on the act of sex to invigorate what aleister crowley called a moonchild is stepping beyond th

e abyss, there to be confronted by choronzon itself. such a demon can manifest in numerous 141 141 ways, depending upon your subconscious, will and own individual fears. the mind is revealed to this guardian, thus delivering the would be vampire into a test of will, in a state of total vulnerability. if the will and intent is not pure madness will occur, the same as with what is known as vampiric obsession. the adept becomes drunk on the blood of the mother of abominations (the black aspect of babalon, as well as kali. they reach the destruction point of their own essence and thus become trapped within the abyss. such deformed desires are in fact what has been the building of the qlipoth, for it harbors unbalanced energies and elementals. the body in this case would continue but the very e

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gly dominating the theology and the ethic. it bred the mon-strous cult of asceticism, whose driving motivation was the idea that the instincts of the fleshmust be crushed down in the interests of the spirit. the tragic consequence of this stagger-ing default of insight are incalculable, but in all conscience overwhelming to any intelli-gence that discerns it. it lay the christian mind open to the obsession of a psychologicalinfluence that has been nothing less than devastating to sanity, inflicting upon the psyche atrauma that has produced morbidity and crushed to a degree the natural instinct for humanhappiness (alvin boyd kuhn, the ultimate canon of knowledge)from these malefactors comes the notion of the removed god, a distant, immaterialand punitive demiurge that requires man to repres

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ctive aspect is the combination of will-desire-belief. vampyrism within the current of modern witchcraft is a development from the sabbat- the infernal awakening of the sorcerer as a shadow-manifestation of ahriman, the persian- zoroastrian sorcerous being who was evil, or adversarial chaos embodied. black magic has long been viewed as a self-centered and selfish area of study, which often causes obsession and destruction. this, if looked through a rhp (right hand path) or path of disillusion (i.e. christianity) this is accurate according to the belief structure. keep in mind that religious pathways such as christianity hold no adversarial view piont rather than the extremes of the exact opposite side- which is not a natural point of study in itself. can the buddhist understand christian t

e sigil of binding. the soil may be kept then in the bottom of the fetish, which upon a parchment ones shadow name (for instance, akhtya seker arimanius, the present author) in the blood of the sorcerer, along with the sigil of binding. consider the vampyric fetish to house the greater shadow familiar, which is essentially an exteriorization of your own being. one will use the magickal aspects of obsession and will- desire- belief to set in motion the essence of self-transformalion, the demon emerging in flesh. the chamber should be adorned in the elements of death, of vampyrie design with such implements, fetishes and elements of ahriman, lilith, dracul or any night born ghost or image which relates therein. one should dress in the black robe of passing through shadows, a crimson lining i

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

l punctiliously refrain from trying to curtail the sexual freedom of the male. see al, i, 41. further on the subject of woman will be found in liber aleph, 168-172, 133-134, 125, 176; magick without tears, 15, 38; lxv, v, 8-10, 43-4 7, 50; vii, i, 48-49; iii, 7-16, 3 7-39; iv, 54-59; v, 43; vii, 15-16, 46-49; liber 370 and liber 156; and liber nv. before we pass on to the next verse, there is one obsession to which female occultists are prone which ought to be mentioned: the temptation to "be better than the male. just as the disciple will be tempted to "dethrone" the master, some women and generally those of most promise! will be tempted to replace man. that is obviously utter folly. nuit is woman, and hadit is man, and they are complementary. one has no meaning without the other. woman c

n refers to the lord of the aeon as enthroned, radiating from boleskine. the second pronoun refers to ra-hoor-khu; that is, the lord of the aeon manifested in the soul of the worshipper. aspirants should understand that to thelemites the verb 'to worship' means 'to identify with. it is 'love under will. you should not be afraid of becoming obsessed. the balance of the universe does not permit it. obsession always begins within, not without. courage is your armour and fear is the chink thereof "be thou therefore without fear, for in the heart of the coward virtue (ra hoor-khu) abideth not" as to the "tribulation of ordeal, one word must be said about the thelemic current, and the early experiences of those who seek to identify themselves with it. first, the current is in its beginning. it i

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over the chart, you can divine precise answers to your questions. as an example, let us. using your magical< divining instrument, ask first, then ask, in this manner you can pinpoint the dog s location. as you become more adept, you may even ask for a house number. these early contacts between you and the spirit force are important. keep your first contact with the spirit world fairly brief. your obsession with it can be the real danger. if you succeed in contacting the same spirit a number of times, the spirit will become familiar, sense your needs, take instruction readily, and help to bring your wishes into the here and now. a secret code of communication dreams, intuitions and hunches, visions and thoughts that will be sent to you from the depths of the astral world during your spells

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anishing in the evening. invoking the names should be pronounced inwardly in the breath vibrating it as much as possible and feeling that the whole body throbs with the sound and sends out a wave of vibration directed to the ends of the quarter. 2. as a protection against impure magnetism, the banishing ritual can be used to get rid of obsessing or disturbing thoughts. give a mental image to your obsession and imagine it formulated before you. project it out of your aura with the saluting sign of a neophyte, and when it is about three feet away, prevent its return with the sign of silence. now imagine the form in the east before you and do the banishing ritual of the pentagram to disintegrate it, seeing it, in your mind's eye, dissolving on the further side of your ring of flame. 3. it can

relative importance in the universe matures, he will attain strength to be honest with himself-ashamed of nothing he finds in his mind-one watching the antics of his personality with tolerant amusement-yet always learning. he will reflect on words, and the power of words. he will catch himself weaving them-twisting their meaning-deceiving himself and others with them. he will catch himself under obsession to them-he will see how they fix and make possible the recall of events and emotions, and with this knowledge he will become aware of how his words affect other people. as he begins to realise the tremendous miracle of words, the magic both good and evil of human communion by words, he will begin to grasp why the order reiterates the importance of silence. the true magician must understa

s subsidiary sephiroth produceth naturally a weakening of the lower< 212> will; and the ruach, therefore, doth not reflect so clearly the reasoning faculty. wherefore, the thought of the spiritual consciousness reflecteth the image in a confused series, which are only partially realised by the lowerwill (this is as regards the ordinary natural man in sleep) in the madman, as considered apart from obsession (thought-obsession is frequently the accompaniment of mania, and still more frequently its cause) the thought and lower will are very strongly exercised to the detriment of the reasoning faculty. that is, that there is an alliance between the two former which overpowereth the action of chokmah and binah in the latter. monomania is shown in the consideration of only one certain symbol whi

that they pass its boundary without either the lower will or the reasoning power or even the thought itself consenting thereto; and the latter is therefore without the protection of the will. thence arise the conditions of delirium tremens, and an opening is made in the sphere of sensation which is unguarded, and through which hostile influences may enter. but this latter cometh under the head of obsession. all thought action in the spiritual consciousness originateth in radiation, and radiation is as inseparable from the spiritual consciousness as it is from light. this spiritual consciousness is the focus of the action of neschamah. the spiritual consciousness is, in its turn, the throne or vehicle of the life of the spirit which is chiah; and these combined form the chariot of that high

ceive this reflection tinctured much by his own nature, and therefore to an extent untrue, because his united con <220> sciousnesses have not been able to focus along the thought-ray at the circumference of the sphere of sensation. and this is the reason why there are so many and multifarious errors in untrained spirit visions. for the untrained seer, even supposing him free from the delusions of obsession, doth not know or understand how to unite his consciousnesses and the harmonies between his own sphere of sensation, and the universe, the macrocosmos. therefore is it so necessary that the adeptus minor should correctly understand the principia and axiomata of our secret knowledge, which are contained in our rituals and lectures. of traveling in the spirit vision the symbol, place, dire

said "the ruach of a man which goeth upwards (i.e. directeth itself upwards, and the ruach of the beast which goeth downwards (or crosswise) in the earth" the neschamah in the beast is not. the beast consisteth of a ruach and a nephesch with a rudimentary daath or spiritual consciousness. this daath ever seeketh that which is beyond it and thence are beasts not responsible, but are submitted unto obsession, and herein is a great mys teryr ant,h erefore, is placed at the head of the beasts. woe, woe, unto him if he teacheth their elementary daath cruelty and injustice instead of mercy and justice. for the man is a god unto the beast, and the aspiration of the beast is toward the man, c225' and great is the office of the beast, for he prepareth the foundation for the man. man is responsible

more keen, and yet in some ways his spiritual superior though organically his inferior. they are the formers of the primal man, that is the elementary man, and they have other and greater-offices, for in them are many worlds and ranks and spheres. they are as the younger man (i.e. child) and towards them also is man responsible, and he hath wrought them much injustice. fiffh knowledge lecture of obsession, trance, death obsession always entereth through a cutting off of the higher from the lower will, and it is ordinarily first induced by a thought-ray of the spiritual consciousness (whence one danger of evil thoughts) ill-governed, penetrating the sphere of sensation and admitting another potency, either human embodied, or human disembodied, elemental or demonic. the first action of such

d firmly an entrance into the sphere of sensation, and thus shall cause a strain on the nephesch which shall render the ruach less concentrated. as soon as the ruach is sufficiently dispersed to repair the strain on the physical body, the lower will is weakened, and is soon seized upon and bound by the invader. whence arise the sensations of chill and drowsiness which are the usual forerunners of obsession. now to yield the force necessary to overpower the lower will from any chance of communication with the higher the obsessing idea proceeds by seizing upon the daath, and this consequently is the great point of attack, especially the part in the physical body which is at the back of the head about the junction with the spine. now unless the lower will shall voluntarily endeavour to restor

the junction with the spine. now unless the lower will shall voluntarily endeavour to restore the connection, it is impossible for the higher will to intervene, seeing that the lower will is king of the physical body. remember that no obsessing force can overpower the lower will, if that shall bravely and in spite of all opposition aspire unto the higher will. trance may arise from the action of obsession, or from the ac <227> tion of the higher will, therefore its aspects are varied. death superveneth in the naturalman, when the mental action of the ruach and the nephesch is definitely and thoroughly interrupted in the physical body. in the adept death can only supervene when the higher will consenteth thereto, and herein is implied the whole mystery of the elixir of life. end of volume

leting this, make the "sign of silence" and remain still, contemplating the force you have invoked <107> this is the secret traditional mode of pronouncing the divine names by vibration, but let the adept beware that he applies it only to the divine names of the gods. if he does this thing ignorantly in working with elemental or demonic names, he may bring into himself terrible forces of evil and obsession. the method described is called "the vibratory formula of the middle pillar" after noting the names of the three chief officers, comes the recapitulation of the stations and duties of the officers, thus occultly affirming the establishment of the temple so that the divine light may shine into the darkness. then follows the purification and consecration of the hall by water and by fire, t

p with the left forefinger. close the other fingers and thumb, and drop the right hand to the side. imagine that a watery vapor encircles and encloses you. this is the reflux of the current. this sign is also used as a protection against attack. the sign represents a concentration of astral light about the person. having given the sign as above, it is a protection against all attack and danger of obsession. to make it yet stronger, the form of the god should be taken. if spiritual force is required, formulate as if standing on a lotus or rising from it. for force in contemplation and meditation, formulate as if seated upon a lotus. but for more material force, as if standing upon a dragon or a serpent like some statues of harpocrates. as a defence and protection, the sign is as strong as t

tain the shroud of darkness under thy own proper control and guidance. v-state clearly to the shroud what it is thy desire to perform therewith. w-having obtained the desired effect, and gone about invisible, it is required that thou shouldst conjure the powers of the light to ad against that shroud of darkness and mystery so as to disintegrate it, lest any force seek to use it as a medium for an obsession, etc. therefore rehearse a conjuration as aforesaid, and then open the <175> shroud and come forth out of the midst thereof, and then disintegrate that shroud, by the use of a conjuration to the forces of binah to disintegrate and scatter the particles thereof, but affirming that they shall again be readily attracted at thy command. but on no account must that shroud of awful mystery be

time. ages. transformation. change involuntary as opposed to the moon, xix. sometimes death and destruction, but rarely the latter, and the former only if it is borne out by the cards with it. compare also with high priestess. 14. temperance. combination of forces. realisation. action (material. effect either for good or evil. 15. devil. materiality. material force. material temptation; sometimes obsession, especially if associated with the lovers. 16. tower. ambition, fighting, war, courage. compare with emperor. in certain combinations, destruction, danger, fall, ruin. 17. star. hope, faith, unexpected help. but sometimes also dreaminess, deceived hope, etc <206> 18. moon. dissatisfaction, voluntary change (as opposed to 13-death. error, lying, falsity, deception (the whole according whe

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

o wander in pursuit of reflections in the astral light, are subject to alternations of mania and melancholy which have originated all the marvels of demoniacal possession, though it is true, at the same time, that by means of these reflections impure spirits can act upon such souls, make use of them as docile instruments and even habitually torment their organism, wherein they enter and reside by obsession, or embryonically. these kabalistic terms are explained in the hebrew book of the revolution of souls, of which our thirteenth chapter will contain a succinct analysis. it is therefore extremely dangerous to make sport of the mysteries of magic; it is above all excessively rash to practise its rites from curiosity, by way of experimagical equilibrium 33 ment and as if to exploit higher f

c, in this case rescued father girard for the honour of the order. moreover, grandier and girard attained the same results by very different means, with which we shall be concerned specially in the sixteenth chapter. we act by our imagination on the imagination of others, by our sidereal body on theirs, by our organs on their organs, in such a way that, through sympathy, whether of inclination or obsession, we possess one another reciprocally and identify ourselves with those whom we wish to affect. reactions against such dominations may cause the most pronounced antipathy to succeed the liveliest sympathy. love has a tendency to unify beings; in thus identifying, it renders them rivals frequently, and hence enemies, if in the depth of the two natures there is some unsociable disposition l

oman's heart there is the bone of man, while at the bottom of man's heart there is the flesh of woman an allegory which is certainly not devoid of depth and beauty. we have referred, in the previous chapter, to what the masters in kabalah call the embryonic condition of souls. this state, completed after the death of the person who thereby possesses another, is commenced often in life, whether by obsession or by love. i knew a young woman whose parents inspired her with a great terror, and who began suddenly to inflict upon an inoffensive person the very acts she dreaded in them. i knew another who, after participating in an evocation concerned with a guilty woman suffering in the next world for certain eccentric acts, began to imitate, without any reason, the peculiarities of the dead per

to the analogies of our tendencies and above all of our faults. to pamper the weakness of an individuality is to possess ourselves of that individuality and convert it into an instrument in the order of the same errors or depravities. now, when two natures whose defects are analogous become subordinated one to another, the result is a sort of substitution of the stronger for the weaker, an actual obsession of one mind by the other. very often the weaker may struggle and seek to revolt, but it falls only deeper in servitude. so did louis xiii conspire against 80 the doctrine of transcendental magic richelieu and subsequently, so to speak, sought his pardon by abandoning his accomplices. we have all a ruling defect, which is for our soul as the umbilical cord of its birth in sin, and it is b

ority egotism. let a wicked and crafty mind avail itself of this means and we are lost; we may not go mad or turn idiots, but we become positively alienated, in all the force of the expression that is, we are subjected to a foreign suggestion. in such a state one dreads instinctively everything that might bring us back to reason, and will not even listen to representations that are opposed to our obsession. here is one of the most dangerous disorders which can affect the moral nature. the sole remedy for such a bewitchment is to make use of folly itself in order to cure folly, to provide the sufferer with imaginary satisfactions in the opposite order to that wherein he is now lost. endeavour, for example, to cure an ambitious person by making him desire the glories of heaven mystic remedy;

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ctim, are far more likely to be the result of sexual ritual than religious or "satanic" ritual. from a criminal investigative perspective, two other forms of ritualism must be recognized. the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-iii-r (apa, 1987) defines "obsessive-compulsive disorder" as "repetitive, purposeful, and intentional behaviors that are performed in response to an obsession, or according to certain rules or in a stereotyped fashion (p. 247. such compulsive behavior frequently involves rituals. although such behavior usually involves noncriminal activity such as excessive hand washing or checking that doors are locked, occasionally compulsive ritualism can be part of criminal activity. certain gamblers or firesetters, for example, are thought by some authori

will recognize the signals that will call them to initiation. only those who have conquered fear should provoke the ordeal, as stated before. the call to initiation is impossible to not recognize, for it comes as a longing, an inner need demanding to be fulfilled. it shall seem as a need for inner action, and there will be an unceasing impulse to force an esoteric issue. the aspirant will feel an obsession to know truth and to be. this will be unignorable. during the initiation, which may take one evening or one year, the being calls upon its self to reveal itself to its self. this shall require an awakened state from which one may see the truth of self balanced against ma'at, and this must be willed. one's inner vision is carried well beyond normal limitations, and the aspirant may be for

n will recognize the signals that will call them to initiation. only those who have conquered fear should provoke the ordeal as stated before. the call to initiation is impossible not to recognize, for it comes as a longing, an inner need demanding to be fulfilled. it shall seem as a need for inner action and there will be an unceasing impulse to force an esoteric issue. the aspirant will feel an obsession to know truth and to be. this will be unignorable" note that those approaching xem make that approach "through their own evolution; the name of that process of evolution is xeper, the word of the iii. it follows that, excepting the option of stasis, there is no way around the ordeal of initiation. regardless of whether it is seen as a shining gate or haunted cavern, it remains a necessit

the truths behind them] serve as an accurate form of communication, it is imperative they be explored in such a way that one thinks in symbols with magical ease and 2. to accomplish this, certain highest and useful truths must be a part of the being. in other words, one must become the truths.and this does not imply losing the individual awareness of self. it's not possession. i would say it's an obsession in seeking the purity of the highest states of being. which are always ahead of what has been attained up to that point [a train of thought: the highest possible state is always going to be a bit further ahead. if striving for that further state brings about a greater refinement, is there ever going to be a time when the being will be so pure, so refined, so high, that it will be impossi

is reviewed and dissected in order, hegel-like in our self-correcting sortings out of apparent or possible truths while en route to a workable absolute, that no crucial element is overlooked. young her-bak is on the path of philosophy, the starting point of which can originate only from within the mind in order to evolve outward. although we run the risk of appearing morbid by what can become an obsession with finding the answer to life beyond the physical, the quest is an unavoidable one. the question we face is that: what lives, and how does it do so? her-bak is not the only work to have questioned life and survival. to again quote from the text "priests take the place of god and arrogate to themselves the right to govern men's consciences" it is not only the right to govern the conscie

symbol-wise. just as gold remains one of the most sought after of metals, so the golden woman was the most precious of beings. one who did as she willed with no restrictions in the form of the shall and shall not. the beast is also of gold and therefore much to be desired. the reins, the "passion which unites them, was of a special significance to crowley; this becomes obvious when recalling his obsession with having a scarlet woman available for magic(k. without the presence of the reins there was a risk of the loss of balance and sights set on the path of the aeon, hence the tie. the beast's seven heads are a composite of ipsissimus aleister crowley himself "the head of an angel: the head of a saint: the head of a poet: the head of an adulterous woman: the head of a man of valour: the h

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traditional waning of life -force or even worse that you enter secret priesthoods that meet in dark cellars where the genii of commandment will force you to drink from the rod of fire in your un-natural search for disgracing your flesh and mouth and hand to the work of the backward wand. this can accomplish external changes and the formation of the perverse manifesting in the outer. this kind of obsession are reflected in the weird cloaks of the priest of these congregations and their vampyric drift towards drinking constantly from the rod of fire to quench their unnatural thirst for the light they believe to be found in churches formed as seedy dungeons. this will almost always be the case if the novice embarks on the road of in-between-ness forged by cain and upheld by lilitu in the dou

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s main location there lived bugsy the giant dung-beetle from the crab nebula who had run away from his father, and in a fish-tank you could find brains the super-intelligent giant abalone who liked eating chinese, and then there was ridley, the most terrifying of the regular cast, who looked like a francis bacon painting" of a mouthful of teeth waving at the end of a sightless pod, and who had an obsession with the actress sigourney weaver. the stars of the show, its kermit and miss piggy, were the very fashionable, slinkily attired, stunningly hairstyled duo, maxim and mamma alien, who yearned to be- what else- television personalities. they were played by saladin chamcha and mimi mamoulian, and they changed their voices along with their clothes, to say nothing of their hair, which could

e had become its meaning "you don't see" he gave up "maybe you never met a person for whom you'd cross the world, for whom you'd leave everything, walk out and take a plane. she climbed everest, man. twenty-nine thousand and two feet, or maybe twenty-nine one four one. straight to the top. you think i can't get on a jumbo-jet for a woman like that" the harder gibreel farishta tried to explain his obsession with the mountain--climber alleluia cone, the more saladin tried to conjure up the memory of pamela, but she wouldn't come. at first it would be zeeny who visited him, her shade, and then after a time there was nobody at all. gibreel's passion began to drive chamcha wild with anger and frustration, but farishta didn't notice it, slapped him on the back _cheer up, spoono, won't be long no

e sits up and at once concubines approach to resume their oilings and smoothings. he waves them away, claps his hands. the eunuch enters "send a messenger to the house of the kahin mahound" abu simbel commands _we will set him a little test. a fair contest: three against one. o o o water-carrier immigrant slave: mahound's three disciples are washing at the well of zamzam. in the sand--city, their obsession with water makes them freakish. ablutions, always ablutions, the legs up to the knees, the arms down to the elbows, the head down to the neck. dry-torsoed, wet-limbed and damp-headed, what eccentrics they look! splish, splosh, washing and praying. on their knees, pushing arms, legs, heads back into the ubiquitous sand, and then beginning again the cycle of water and prayer. these are eas

onger myself, or not only. i am the embodiment of wrong, of whatwe--hate, of sin. why? why me? what evil had he done- what vile thing could he, would he do? for what was he- he couldn't avoid the notion- being punished? and, come to that, by whom (i held my tongue) had he not pursued his own idea of _the good, sought to become that which he most admired, dedicated himself with a will bordering on obsession to the conquest of englishness? had he not worked hard, avoided trouble, striven to become new? assiduity, fastidiousness, moderation, restraint, self--reliance, probity, family life: what did these add up to if not a moral code? was it his fault that pamela and he were childless? were genetics his responsibility? could it be, in this inverted age, that he was being victimized by- the fa

her in a thousand ways, bringing her closer and closer to ecstasy; he came to see himself as that pair of hands, he could almost feel her coolness, her responses, almost hear her cries- he controlled himself. his desire disgusted him. she was unattainable; this was pure voyeurism, and he would not succumb to it- but the desire gibreel's revelations had aroused would not go away. gibreel's sexual obsession, chamcha reminded himself, actually made things easier "she's certainly a very attractive woman" he murmured by way of an experiment, and was gratified to receive a furious, strung-out glare in return. after which gibreel, making a show of controlling himself, put his arm around saladin and boomed "apologies, spoono, i'm a bad-tempered bugger where she's concerned. but you and me! we're

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francis, which lends a clue to the climate of the hell-fire club, was a group called the dilettanti club, of which he was the founder. it was the 19th century that brought a whitewashing to satanism, in the feeble attempts of "white" magicians trying to perform "black" magic. this was a very paradoxical period for satanism, with writers such as baudelaire and huysmans who, despite their apparent obsession with evil, seemed nice enough fellows. the devil developed his luciferian personality for the public to see, and gradually evolved into a sort of drawing-room gentleman. this was the era of "experts" on the black arts, such as eliphas levi and countless trance-mediums who, with their carefully bound spirits and demons, have also succeeded in binding the minds of many who call themselves

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ld make sure of the reward of good thought through right, to whose company the holy man belongs. his dwelling place shall be in thy house, o ahura. the zoroastrian god ahura mazda is depicted on the fac ade of the old majlis building in tehran, iran. zarathushtra wrote the gathas in praise of ahura mazda. roger wood/ corbis. twain: two. aright: correctly. infatuation: an intense and usually brief obsession for an idea or person. enfeeble: weaken. dominion: control, authority. karapan and the usij: classes of priests. kavi: a king of ancient iraq. 190 world religions: primary sources avesta, as reproduced in the divine songs of zarathushtra 12. these shall be the deliverers of the provinces, who exert themselves, o good thought in their action, o asha, to fulfill their duty, face to face wi

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power-manifesting duality. the supreme symbol of zos kia cultus therefore resumes that of the scarlet woman, and is reminiscent of crowley's cult of love under will. the scarlet woman embodies the fire snake, control of which causes 'change to occur in conformity with will. the energized enthusiasm of the will is the key to crowley's cult, and it is analogous to the technique of magically induced obsession which spare uses to reify the 'inherent dream. one of the foremost magicians of our time- salvador dali- developed a system of magical reification at about the same time that crowley and spare were elaborating their doctrines. dali's system of 'paranoi-accritical activity' evokes echoes of resurgent atavisms that are reflected into the concrete world of images by a process of obsession s

is only by virtue of the fact that it is not. this indicates that the origin of manifestation is non-manifestation, and it is plain to intuitive apprehension that the orgone of reich, the atmosheric 'i' of austin spare, and the dalinian delineations of the 'accommodations of desire' refer in each case to an identical energy manifesting through the mechanics of desire. desire, energized will, and obsession, are the keys to unlimited manifestation, for all form and all power is latent in the void, and its god-form is the death posture. these theories have their roots in very ancient practices, some of which- in distorted form- provided the basis of the mediaeval witch cult, covens of which flourished in new england at the time of the salem witch trials at the end of the 17th century. the su

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ti persist in their seemingly delusional and infantile behavior. each of the twelve reasons is represented by one of the key words listed below: 28 codex magica secrecy magic build power pride elitism signal wealth please invocation encourage rebellion it is important we examine these twelve keys to understanding why the illuminati do what they do. we have already covered the topic of the elite's obsession with secrecy in chapter one. in the following sections and pages of this present chapter, we will look at the remaining 12 keys. we begin with the illuminati's employment of magic to accomplish their ends. magic magic is defined in the new encyclopedia brittanica as "ritual performance or activity believed to influence human or natural events through access to an external mystical force

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heory; proof also that some cosmic forces then possesses the human vehicle and enables the magician to perform superhuman feats. the mainspring of the formula of atavistic resurgence is- as one might suppose- a form of sexual sorcery. the adepts of old concealed the process from the eyes of the profane (i.e. those whose ineptitude would destroy them, for once these atavisms are unleashed, magical obsession occurs and there is no reversing the course of events any more than 5 one can reverse the flow of semen on the point of its leaping forth. if the magician is unable to control the power he has invoked, or if he is unable to permit its unhindered movement as it wells into consciousness, then he is literally blasted into death or insanity. the secret of this sorcery is analogous to that ta

necessity of other means? like the drink to the drunkard everything should be sacrificed for it. this self-love is now declared by me the means of evolving millions of ideas for pleasure without love, or its synonyms- self-reproach, sickness, old-age, and death. the symposium of self and love. o! wise man, please thyself. 42 43 44 the complete ritual and doctrine of magic ecstasy in self-love the obsession my dearest, i will now explain the only safe and true formula, the destroyer of the darkness of the world, the most secret among all secrets. let it be secret to him who would attain. let it cover any period of time, depending on his conception. there is no qualification18, nor ritual or ceremony. his very existence symbolising all that is necessary to perfection. most emphatically, ther

there is nothing in the world he will desire: unless he wills. that is why people do not understand me. the ecstasy in its emotion is omnigenous. know it as the nectar of life, the syllubub of sun and moon. verily he steals the fire from heaven: the greatest act of bravery in the world. deliberation egotized, except in the refraction 23 of the ecstasy, is exposure and death, becoming a presiding obsession, control having been given to a prior experience and is over-conscious of that through it momentarily finding freedom from its native law; thus generating double personality (insanity. 22: if it becomes physical, let him imagine another's body, he has that sigil or its emergency. this, although not his original purpose, he will and exceedingly amiable. 23: laughter in this case. by these

n, fearsome, inconstant, diseased, and withered, dependent, cruel, deceived, and liars, the worst of men! know, oh, lord, oh beloved self, i have now told you of that most secret tavern where passion goes when youth has gone, where any man may drink of the nectar of allbeneficent and gratuitous ecstasy. the most pleasurable nourishment that harms no one. 46 47 48 note on the difference of magical obsession (genius) and insanity. magical obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc, for inspiration. it is the condition of genius. other obsession is the "blind leading the blind" caused by quietism, known as mediumism, an opening out of the ego to (what is called) any external influence, elementals, or disemb

caused by quietism, known as mediumism, an opening out of the ego to (what is called) any external influence, elementals, or disembodied energy. a transmutated consciousness that is a resistance to "true" sub-conscious activity, it being a voluntary insanity, a somnambulation of the ego with "no form" or control to guide it: hence its emanations are stupid in suggestion, or memories of childhood. obsession known as or related to insanity is an experience that is dissociated from the personality (ego) through some sort of rejection. it is sub-crystalline, and cannot become permanently attached to the sub-consciousness, not having exhausted or completed itself by realisation. depending on its degree of intensity and resistance shown at some time or another, the ego has or has not knowledge o

ion known as or related to insanity is an experience that is dissociated from the personality (ego) through some sort of rejection. it is sub-crystalline, and cannot become permanently attached to the sub-consciousness, not having exhausted or completed itself by realisation. depending on its degree of intensity and resistance shown at some time or another, the ego has or has not knowledge of the obsession; always is its expression autonomous, divorced from personal control, power of direction and timing. concentration determines dissociation. enthusiasm for one object seeking completion by identification, sacrifices all else, or deliberately forgets. its separation from the ego (it becoming equal, or more in bulk than the rest of the consciousness, causes subdivision or "double personalit

ensity or by shock of resistance determined by some incompatibility of the desired or desire. concentration is dissatisfied desire, a conflict that can never be satisfied, because of its means. when the ego, not appearing to have or not knowing the means of fulfilment, seeks its repudiation, repression, imaginative fulfilment, or transmutation to escape its worry. none of these is the desire's or obsession's annihilation, but its separation or concealment from the rest of the ego, its premature sub-conscious existence. it is held there only when some form of resistance is active, when resistance is dormant- control is given to the presiding obsession, allowing its incarnation in, and swamping of the ego, which has to live and perform its emotional experience. disease and insanity (all dise

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steiger for her tireless compiling of the glossaries, her efforts in writing sidebars, her invaluable talents as a researcher, her patience and love, and her always providing a shoulder to cry on during the all-night writing sessions. brad e. steiger 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 xx introduction chapter 1 afterlife mysteries humankind s obsession with the unknown and the unexplained begins with the greatest question of all: do humans survive physical death? and if so, are they born again? the mystery of what lies on the other side of death has given birth to humankind s magic, mysticisms, religions, and all the diverse creatures of light and darkness that populate the mysterious regions in between. 1 chapter exploration how the m

nation, she always stood by the entranced recollections as recorded in the search for bridey murphy. m delving deeper bernstein, morey. the search for bridey murphy. new york: doubleday and co, 1956. steiger, brad. you will live again. nevada city, calif: blue dolphin publishing, 1996. past-life therapy in past-life therapy, subjects arrive at the office of a past-life therapist with a phobia, an obsession, or a compulsion that seems unrelated to anything they can remember in their present life experience. their problem has increasingly begun to become awkward, stressful, or embarrassing. when they relive a past life during a hypnotic regression or in a dream or a vision, they view a scenario in which they see themselves setting in motion that karma, the initial action or deed that created

compulsion that seems unrelated to anything they can remember in their present life experience. their problem has increasingly begun to become awkward, stressful, or embarrassing. when they relive a past life during a hypnotic regression or in a dream or a vision, they view a scenario in which they see themselves setting in motion that karma, the initial action or deed that created their phobia, obsession, or compulsion. dissociated from their present life experience, they become capable of accepting responsibility for a past action that was performed in a prior existence. once the subjects have made the transfer of responsibility to the present life and have recognized that the fault or the trauma lies in a time far removed from current concerns, they are able to deal with the matter wit

the church passed such ruthless codes of personal behavior and repeatedly distorted and falsified the pronouncement of biblical texts in order to obtain justification for its laws. such an extreme asceticism was certainly not preached by christ, and such a sexual code is supported by neither the old nor new testaments. the middle ages had become a time of intolerable sexual frustration and sexual obsession. in its attempt to eradicate sin by means of enforced sexual repression, the church inadvertently created fertile ground for the rebirth of the dormant old religion. with the sanctioned state of holy matrimony open to only a few, the stories of the old ways, the old customs, and the old mysteries with their emphasis on fertility and communal sex rites became appealing to the common folk

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and antony, the sirens of the nile used makeup that mimicked the hypnotic eyes and facial markings of the cat. bubastis, a city in lower egypt, dedicated itself to the worship of the cat. each may some 700,000 pilgrims journeyed to the city to participate in the festival of the cat. during the persian invasion of 529 b.c.e, the egyptians deification of the cat proved their undoing. knowing of the obsession of the egyptian people with the divinity of felines, cambyses ii, king of the persians, made a cat part of the standard issue to each of his soldiers. the nile-dwellers led by king psamtik iii laid down their spears and bows for fear of harming the cat that each enemy soldier carried, and the persians conquered the city of pelusium without shedding a drop of blood. some people believe th

ss, director steven spielberg expresses the dilemma faced by an ordinary man who experiences a close encounter with a ufo and is given a mental summons to meet with the aliens at a future time. the film explores the range of emotions and inner stresses faced by a ufo contactee, including the confusion of his family, the reluctance of the authorities to recognize his experience as genuine, and the obsession of the contactee to respond to the invitation that the aliens have somehow impressed in his psyche. forced by an inner compulsion to seek reunion with the aliens atop devil s tower, wyoming, neary must leave his tearful and distressed wife (teri garr) and children behind as he continues his rendezvous with space intelligences. he is soon joined by an ally (melinda dillon, whose son was a

ions are conducted by aliens as a species-monitoring program. physical examinations of humans and crossbreeding attempts involving preselected men and women are allowed by the government as a treaty concession. as the year 2000 grew nearer, many fundamentalist religious sects became obsessed with fears concerning the millennium and armageddon, the great final battle between good and evil. such an obsession created a mind-set of suspicion that had many members of these religious groups identifying satan s minions gathering to fight the forces of good as aliens arriving on ufos. a number of fundamentalist christian evangelists began to blend accounts of ufos with the old fears of secret societies composed of top u.s. government officials, politicians, corporate chairmen, and international ba

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ous labor, were compelled by order of the lieutenant-general to baptize their slaves in the catholic religion. the slave suffered no conflict of theology. they accepted the white man fs gwater h and quickly adopted catholic saints into their family of nature gods and goddesses. the connotations of evil and fear that are associated with vodun originated primarily from the white plantation owners f obsession with the threat of slave revolts, for they and their overseers were outnumbered 16 to 1 by the field hands whom they worked unmercifully in the broiling haitian sun. as the black population increased and the white demand for slave labor remained unceasing, vodun began to take on an anti-white liturgy. several gmessiahs h emerged among the slaves, who were subsequently put to death by the

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g. jz ng, 131. 25. in reihan therapy, certain areas massaged approximate the positions of the sephwoth on the middle pillar. it is easy to see why regardie was so drawn to this type of therapy. 26. assagioli, psychosynthesis, 6. 27. what assagioli called the "higher self" is what ceremonial magicians often call the "divine self" 28. rather than identdying yourself with a weakness, limitation, or obsession("i am depressed, disidentify yourself from the source of the problem("a surge of depression is trying to envelop me. 29. assagioli thought that this point was an outward projection, but magicians consider it an inward reality, located in the sephwah of tiphareth, the seat of the holy guardian angel. 30. in magic, this can be compared to the work of the 27th path of peh (known as "the tow

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ame of one of jupiter's moons. when he went off on a trip with indrid cold, a trip that seemed to take hours or days, he always found on his return that only a few hours of earth time had passed. he rejected the notion that he may have hallucinated his interstellar voyages, so time-traveling was the only answer acceptable to him. in many of the cases outlined here i have pointed out the entities' obsession with time. their behavior as described by various witnesses further suggests their problems in adjusting to our time frame. for example, their rapid-fire unintelligible "language" noted by witnesses all over the world as sounding like "a speeded up phonograph record" could be caused by their failure to adjust to our time cycle when they enter, our space-time-continuum. they are talking a

calm voice dripped with terror "how can i stop all this, keel" he cried "stop what "all the things that have been happening. i want to quit. i want out "look, i just got in. what's wrong? what's been happening "everything. i can't take it anymore" i knew dan didn't drink or take drugs, and i certainly never expected him to go to pieces "there's only one way 'out' dan. this damned thing becomes an obsession. a fixation. the only way to stop all the nonsense is to stop thinking about ufos. get rid of all your files. take up stamp collecting or chasing women. the ufo business is emotional quicksand. the more you struggle with it, the deeper you sink" i finally calmed him. a few days later he gave me part of his files and destroyed the rest. i returned his files to him a year or so later. i as

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ed dabblers panicked and begged spare to banish it. before it faded, however, they saw a vast face peering out of the mist; the eyes of it were like pools of black and burning oil. spare died in 1956, in a basement flat in brixton, in poverty and obscurity. the essence of sorcery through this method draws lines of mental danger to those who normally should be of sound and strong mind, for even an obsession weakness, if preyed upon by such elementals, could aid to madness and failure. the emphasis of shamanistic magick is present, coinciding with the parallel system of crowley's thelema, meaning will in greek. focus and difference being not of dual aspects. however, always present in its need of balance. spare's system still requires much attention and focus, not just for the sake of study

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soldier faithful unto death is as artillery abandoned that is seized upon by the enemy and turned against you. and because it is of your own substance, therefore has it, as it were, by nature a link with you, a right upon you, and all the fortresses, that your inheritance of god, and your own holy art, have built about you are of no force to resist this treasonable assault. be wary therefore, for obsession, bodily wasting and disease, madness and even murder upon you may be inflicted by the engines that ye, having forged for the service of mankind and for the glory of the lord, leave to the malignancy of the demon that he may turn them to your own destruction. xiv a reproof hear then, dearly beloved, this reproof. first, strengthen to the uttermost the power of restraint by daily practice

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ess and the invoked god-form has gained the upper hand, remember that all manifest beings are sub- servient to the light. earnest prayer is the one ritual action no demonic force can directly prevent the magus from performing. the magus should open his or her personal self without reservation to the divine spirit, which will wash through the body of the magus like a cool stream and carry away any obsession. the god-forms of egypt are particularly useful in magic. since the egyptians were themselves great magicians, they personified all the natural forces around them so that those forces could be used magically. this personification resulted in a diverse pantheon of hundreds of deities. each god must be studied individually so that the magus will know precisely which is most appropriate for

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tempt to frighten us. some spirits are quite good at eliciting fear from humans traveling on the astral planes. they seem to know exactly which emotional buttons to push to cause the greatest possible panic. actual harm is beyond their ability, and when we begin to reintegrate with our bodies they can only gnash their teeth in frustration. as for the more subtle threats of fascination, vampirism, obsession, possession, and madness, it must be admitted that there is some basis to these dangers, but they are not nearly so prevalent or virulent as has been claimed by those who wish to discourage soul flight as a dangerous enterprise. it is useful to look at them each in turn, and to consider which dangers are real and which are inflated. astral glamour it was sometimes murmured in solemn tone

tor during the general ritual, spirits that are encountered in soul flight find it almost impossible to locate the mind of the traveler during waking consciousness, or even during ordinary sleep. the ritual serves as a kind of magic circle that isolates and contains the period of interaction with astral beings, confining it to those times deliberately chosen by the traveler. 310 soulflight spirit obsession obsession and possession are related. obsession is the persistent intrusion of a spirit into waking awareness, so that the spirit is perceived in various ways-usually as an image, a voice, or a touch. when a spirit appears in the physical world, it can seem completely real and solid, in every respect looking exactly as it would if it were standing before the observer in a living body of

, except on rare occasions. in past centuries, those obsessed by spirits were naturally considered insane. they would stare at an empty chair and hold conversations with the blank air. obsessing spirits pose little danger. they cannot injure those they obsess in any direct way, and indirect reflexive injuries caused by the unconscious belief in the attack of the spirit by the person suffering the obsession are usually minor. the danger lies in the reaction to obsession, which in extreme cases can be nervous breakdown or suicide. when i refer to obsession, i am not talking about someone who believes that the spirit haunting their steps is a living person. these individuals are deluded, and have lost the ability to separate physical reality from hallucination. in true cases of spirit obsessi

believes that the spirit haunting their steps is a living person. these individuals are deluded, and have lost the ability to separate physical reality from hallucination. in true cases of spirit obsession, the person obsessed knows full well that the spirit is not a real, physical human being, and is in every other respect completely sane, but still cannot shake off the perception of the spirit. obsession is quite rare, and is extremely unlikely to befall those engaging in soul flight. should it occur, one defense is to imagine that the spirit is slowly fading away. each time you look at it, hold firmly in your mind that it is a little less solid than it was the previous time, a bit more transparent, and that its voice is more faint. this method is used in tibet and other eastern lands to

ence that it took her six months to dischapter eighteen: astral self-defense 31 1 solve it. she wrote "my mind-creature was tenacious of life."243a lways bear in mind that on the astral level, imagination is real. it can both create and also destroy astral forms, provided there is a firm belief in its power and expectation of its effectiveness. spirit possession possession is quite different from obsession. instead of presenting itself externally to the perceptions of the person it has fixed its interest upon, the spirit assumes control of that person's body and displaces its intelligence, which enters a kind of dreamless sleep. sometimes the displaced human awareness is still conscious, but helpless to affect the uses to which the possessing spirit puts its body, and remains in a half-tra

nally to the perceptions of the person it has fixed its interest upon, the spirit assumes control of that person's body and displaces its intelligence, which enters a kind of dreamless sleep. sometimes the displaced human awareness is still conscious, but helpless to affect the uses to which the possessing spirit puts its body, and remains in a half-trance, as though viewing events in a dream. in obsession, the spirit is interested in the human personality with which it seeks to interact, whereas in possession the spirit is mainly interested in the physical body that it has usurped and the enjoyment of sensations. possessing spirits usually interact with the awareness of the person they take over only to the extent of tormenting the displaced human personality with shame and helplessness

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

s or banishing malicious spirits. it is the esoteric name of the messiah of the jews and the christ of the christians. the magical power that has always been most closely associated with jesus is the ability to drive out sickness from the mind and body. thus the name ihshvh is not only a banishing formula, but a healing formula as well. to free a person from nightmares, possession, depression, or obsession (persistent destructive thoughts, place your right hand upon the forehead of the sufferer and your left hand over your heart center. visualize the hebrew letters ihshvh glowing in your heart and vibrate the letters so that your breath touches the face of the person. this should be done in a rhythmic chant, repeating the letters of yeheshuah over and over. time the 54 tetragrammaton rhyth

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

ggest that crowley not only reflected his own era and the sexual anxieties of the late victorian era, but also foreshadowed much of our own era and our own sexual obsessions at the dawn of the new millennium. i. the new aeon: crowley and the end of the victorian age the nightmare world of christianity vanished at the dawn.[t]he detestable mysteries of sex were transformed into joy and beauty. the obsession of sin fell from my shoulders into the sea of oblivion- the confessions of aleister crowleyxii the point about crowley is that he seems to contain all these sorts of ideas and identities indeed most of the vices of the twentieth century and he was dead at the end of 1947- snoo wilson, author of the play the beast xiii born in 1875, the son of a member of the highly puritanical plymouth b

luent and elite group, the golden dawn attracted a number of prominent artists, poets and intellectuals, including w.b. yeats. eventually crowley and mathers would part ways, and finally become mired in a lawsuit when crowley published a full description of the secret rites of the golden dawn in his journal, equinox.xvii revealing secrets and sparking controversy, we will see, was something of an obsession throughout crowley's life. beginning in 1899, crowley also began to explore a variety of eastern spiritual traditions. after studying yoga in mexico, he traveled to ceylon and india in 1901-2, during which time he studied various forms of buddhism and hinduism. as we will see below, it seems possible that he also learned something of the esoteric techniques of indian tantra- though perha

tantra. not only can we now uncover the secrets of western tantra or dabble in celtic sex magic, but there is even a organization dedicated to the synthesis of western and eastern sexual techniques calling itself "namaste- the "new association of magical, sexual and tantric explorers."cxviii as such, crowley was also somewhat ahead of his time also foreshadowed in a very striking way much of the obsession with sexuality and transgression in our own generation at the turn of the millennium. for crowley is surely no less relevant for our own generation. perhaps most importantly, he provides some telling insights into the contemporary preoccupation with sexuality, which now saturates society through media, television and advertising. as angus mclaren "today's media, while claiming to be shoc

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. ingenuity, eloquence, precision, influence. communication, intelligence, intuition. skill and analysis. good at making judgments. negative: craftiness, deceitful, impatient. critical, aloof, divisive. moon: positive: dreaminess and imagination. adventurous spirit. spontaneous, alluring, psychic. self-reconciliation. negative: impulsivity, instability and mental agitation. mood-swings. idleness. obsession with psychic powers. pluto: positive: transforming, rejuvenating, penetrating. forces us to integrate our collective shadow. negative: baffling, sinister, depraved, fanatical, destructive. planetary trades and activities saturn: politics, business, agriculture, mining, clock-making, economics, masonry, plumbing, undertaking, tanning, occupations dealing with wills and real estate. jupite

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

psychologists in the traditional psychologies, one group may find that a certain technique works well in a given situation. its members may tend to apply it in situations where it is inappropriate, or with people for whom it is inappropriate. because the technique works for them, they come to believe that it ought to work for everyone at all times. the technique becomes the end, and may become an obsession. those who are involved in using such a technique, be it a particular meditation technique or a certain breathing exercise, can become fixated and restricted to what the technique has to offer. the adherents may set up schools to teach the sacred ritual, forgetting that any technique has its relevance only for a certain community at a certain time. just as can happen with any scientific

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

biding. it is the constant inner mechanism and clockwork, time, eternally commencing, eternally becoming, always devouring itself and always giving birth to itself. 284 the freedom of will, insofar as it wills nothing actual, is the a rmative concept of absolute eternity, and just as eternal immovability is the goal of all movement, so all time, even that eternal time, is nothing but the constant obsession with eternity. 285 there are metaphysicians who advocate a concept of eternity completely pure of any admixtures of temporal concepts, but this is an eternity that is as nothing. to speak of an actual, living eternity (wirklichen lebendigen ewigkeit) requires one to posit a constant now [best ndiges nun, an eternal present [ewige gegenwart. 286 in this moment, eternally present yet not f

raphy, must determine the centers of fate by ridding history of its conjunctive temporal tissue. for a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates. 314 casey has more recently a rmed blanchot s privileging of space in his phenomenological study on remembering, although he is careful to distinguish between place and space. the modern obsession with time can only be overcome by breaking down the resistance to place, which by virtue of its unencompassability by anything other than itself is conceived as the limit and condition of all that exists. 315 when examined from this standpoint, it appears that implacement is what makes the passage of time possible.316 what is remembered is well grounded if it is remembered as being in a

ZOETIC GRIMOIRE OF ZOS

s and the creation of a new sexuality by autotelic concept: the subsequent ecstasy is a sublimation. because every other sense is brought to nullity by sex-intoxication, it is called the..death posture. everything is 'a priori' to the act. the 'a posteriori' illumination reveals the inter-sexual correspondences of all things, and great emotiveness becomes. my desires have made a sentient soul, an obsession, a vampire, an insatiable negress of pendulous breasts and fatted thighs riding me into the abysses of the quadriga sexualis. seventh formula transcendental perspective as a means of mediumship and ano tic analgesia as related to me by the stoic, socrates many stoics lived before zeno and they formulated this sentiment as a practical and ideal behaviourism: there is in their genesis an h

cocky bastards who seem to obtain all they need whenever they want it. being intense egocentrics they are mediumistic or susceptible only to silent suggestion. so, look into their eyes and convey to them silently that they are the media for the transit of the obsessing elemental desired. they act simply as something en rapport between you and the elemental. to make yourself acceptive and fit for obsession acts of sacrifice and purgation are essential beforehand. also, the elemental must be named and given an appropriate sigil. query to great arrivism: behold everything in the self. thou art this and all that exists but here. s the catch never at one time. mind is universal and includes; ego separates. that art thou. never is. always. i was or may become this, and only. i am. in ego, often

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

n others. blue lace agate is a natural peace-bringer and protects against harsh words spoken by self or others. moss agate (clear with green, moss-like tendrils) is the stone for protecting against pollution and deforestation. plant a circle of them in the soil of a tropical plant and each day visualise healing rays being sent to the rainforests. moss agate also protects against food cravings and obsessions. amber known as the honey stone, because of its great antiquity and soft, warm touch, amber is said to contain the power of many suns and has the power to absorb negativity and protect the user from harm. it will also melt any emotional or physical rigidity. in the chinese tradition, the souls of tigers pass into amber when they die and so it is also a gem of courage in the face of unfa

lity. it eases water retention and nightmares. silver crystals include moonstones, whose colour deepens as the moon waxes, haematite, mother of pearl, snow and milky quartz and rutilated quartz. gold gold is for perfection, immortality and peak experiences, visions and the achievement of major life goals, especially those that change the world. gold is especially potent for overcoming addictions, obsessions and compulsions and relieving depression. gold is the most powerful healing colour of all, associated with long life and immortality, and will give a surge of healing energy in any chronic or debilitating illnesses. gold crystals include amber, golden tiger's eye, topaz and citrine. a colour healing ritual with candles candles of specific colours can help in the healing process. if you

idealism, matters of justice and the law, authority and altruism. jupiter increases what already exists, so can bring greater prosperity and abundance or success and good fortune. it rules marriage, permanent relationships (both business and personal, fidelity, loyalty and male potency in both the human and animal kingdom. ironically, jupiter can lead to excesses, including greed, addictions and obsessions, so it can also be used for banishing these. jupiter, known as the sky father, was the supreme roman god, ruler of the universe. like zeus, his greek counterpart, jupiter controlled the thunderbolts, which were carried by his eagle, the noblest of the birds. however, he ruled not despotically, but as the chief of a triumvirate of gods: the other two were juno, his consort, and minerva

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

e's gunpowder in an unconfined space. there are very few cases of "perverted hunger-instinct" in moderately healthy communities. war restrictions on food created dishonest devices to procure dainties, and artificial attempts to appease the ache of appetite by chemical counterfeits. the south-sea islanders, pagan, amoral and naked, are temperate lovers, free from hysterical "crimes of passion, sex obsessions, and puritan persecution-mania; perversion is practically unknown, and monogamy is the general custom. even the civilized psychopaths of cities, forced into every kind of excess by the omnipresence of erotic suggestions and the contact of crazed crowds seething with suppressed sexuality, are not wholly past physic. they are no sooner released from the persistent pressure by escaping to

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

millstone round his neck; but this is scarcely "cricket" even if at the last moment you pull him out of the water and restore life by artificial respiration. further, it is not teaching him how to swim, or how to improve his powers of swimming. in the 1= 10 ritual the neophyte enters the first sphere of the elements, the element of earth, and is at once liable to fall prey to the terrible worldly obsessions of the path of hb:taw. this dark path he journeys up only to become child of the 292 fickle element of air whose sign is the ever-changing moon. the next step brings him under the unstable condition of water and the seemingly unbalanced influences of mercury. but if he has passed through the paths of hb:shin and hb:resh with cunning and earnestness he will understand why it is necessary

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ng doses. secondly, the rule never to repeat my experiment before the lapse of at least a month. 54 frankly, i doubt if these were necessary. i do not suppose my will to be abnormally strong; i believe rather that there is a definite type of drug-slave, born from his mother's womb; and that those who achieve it or have it thrust upon them are a very small percentage. in saying this i include such obsessions as music, religion, gambling, among drugs. is the "keswick week" less of a debauch than the navvy's bank holiday? there are people who rush from meeting to meeting, and give up their whole lives to this unwholesome excess of stimulant; they are happy nowhere else; they become as irritable as the cocaine-fiend, and render wretched the lives of those who are forced to come in contact with

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

he nervous system, they will turn their attention to the amelioration of environal conditions, and will study the effects of the emotional currents upon the fluids of the body, and primarily upon the great nerve centres, and the spinal column. when the connection between the dense physical and the subtler bodies is a fact established in medical circles, then will the right treatment of lunacy, of obsessions, and of wrong mental conditions be better comprehended, and the results more successful; finally, when the nature of egoic force, or of energy is studied, and the function of the physical brain as the transmitter of egoic intent is better comprehended, then the coordination of man's entire being will be studied, and illness, debility and disease, will be traced to their just cause, and

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

elations cut off or atrophied, is not part of the process. the sleep here referred to is not the passing of the body into the state of slumber, but the putting to sleep of the vrittis. it is the negation of the contacts of the senses without the sixth sense, the mind, superseding their activities. in this condition of sleep, a man is open to hallucination, to delusion, to wrong impressions and to obsessions. sleep is of several kinds, and only a short tabulation is possible in such a commentary as this is. 1. the ordinary sleep of the physical body, where the brain does not respond to any sense contacts; 2. sleep of the vrittis, or of those modifications of the mental processes which correlate the man with his environment, through the medium of the senses and the mind; 3. the sleep of the

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

ngerous work. no true aspirant, in his efforts to be master of himself, will hand over the reins of government and submit to the control of any entity, incarnate or discarnate; neither will he render up his hand blindly for any force to use. the dangers of this kind of work are becoming too well known and have landed so many people in the psychopathic wards, or necessitated their being freed from obsessions or from "id es fixes, that there is no need for me to enlarge upon it. how, it might be pertinently asked, can one can distinguish between the truly inspired writings of the true knower, and this mass of literature which is flooding the minds of the public at this time? first, i should say that the true inspirational writing will be entirely without self-reference; it will sound a note

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

s to an understanding of the right use of the energies which pour through from the inner man, via the etheric body, to the physical. the following suggestions may help: 1. by the development of goodwill, which is the will of good intention and motive, will come the healing of diseases of the respiratory tract, lungs and throat, the stabilising of the cells of the brain, the cure of insanities and obsessions, and an attainment of equilibrium and of rhythm. longevity will ensue, for death should be the recognition by the soul of work consummated and pralaya earned. it will only take place later at long and separated periods, and will be controlled by the will of the man. he will cease to breathe when he has finished his work, and then will send the atoms of his body into pralaya. that is the

lement their work, and when the power of right thought comes likewise as an aid, then and only then, shall we enter upon a new era of well-being- 151- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust to the various categories of trouble must also be added a whole group of diseases which are more strictly mental in their effect the cleavages, the insanities, the obsessions, the mental breaks, the aberrations and the hallucinations. to the various healing agencies mentioned above should be added the work undertaken by members of the spiritual hierarchy and their disciples; it takes soul power and knowledge, plus the wisdom of the other healing groups, to produce health among people, to empty our sanatariums, to rid humanity of the basic diseases, of lunacy

tic and controls the brain so unreasonably that there seems only one point of view, one attitude to life, and no fluidity and capability of- 187- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust adjustment. such individuals may suffer, for instance, from what is called id e fixe, or they may be completely the victim of some obsessing mental thought. such mental obsessions can range all the way from a mild fanaticism to religious mania, with its accompanying characteristics of sadism, ruthlessness and general morbidity. dementia praecox comes under the first and the fourth groupings and is a blend, usually, of the factors descriptive of both. it is inherited in every case and, if not apparently physically so, is then based on inherited astral conditions

nts and healing, 2. magnetic healing, 3. the best of the allopathic and homeopathic techniques, with which we must not dispense, 4. surgical healing in its modern forms, 5. electro-therapeutics, 6. water-therapy, 7. healing by colour and sound, and radiation, 8. preventive medicine, 9. the essential practices of osteopathy and chiropractic, 10. scientific neurology and psychiatry, 11. the cure of obsessions and mental diseases- 221- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust 12. the care of the eyes and ears, 13. voice culture, which is a definitely healing agency, 14. mental and faith healing, 15. soul alignment and contact, and many other processes and procedures which belong to the healing art. some of the more ancient schools, such as the allop

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ts against their masters, is admitted. it is to be noted that a witness is not to be disqualified because of every sort of enmity. we learn that, in the case of witchcraft, virtually anybody may give evidence, though in any other case they would not be admitted. even the evidence of young children was admissable. it is obvious from the above that the authors of the malleus maleficarum had certain obsessions. a large number of the chapters are, for example, concerned with sexual aspects of witchcraft. who were the authors of this infamous work? they were two dominicans named jakob sprenger and heinrich (institor) kramer. witchcraft ancient and modern raymond buckland, hc publications, ny 1970 6/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft all of these were followers of the old religion. this had

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

n others. blue lace agate is a natural peace-bringer and protects against harsh words spoken by self or others. moss agate (clear with green, moss-like tendrils) is the stone for protecting against pollution and deforestation. plant a circle of them in the soil of a tropical plant and each day visualise healing rays being sent to the rainforests. moss agate also protects against food cravings and obsessions. amber known as the honey stone, because of its great antiquity and soft, warm touch, amber is said to contain the power of many suns and has the power to absorb negativity and protect the user from harm. it will also melt any emotional or physical rigidity. in the chinese tradition, the souls of tigers pass into amber when they die and so it is also a gem of courage in the face of unfa

lity. it eases water retention and nightmares. silver crystals include moonstones, whose colour deepens as the moon waxes, haematite, mother of pearl, snow and milky quartz and rutilated quartz. gold gold is for perfection, immortality and peak experiences, visions and the achievement of major life goals, especially those that change the world. gold is especially potent for overcoming addictions, obsessions and compulsions and relieving depression. gold is the most powerful healing colour of all, associated with long life and immortality, and will give a surge of healing energy in any chronic or debilitating illnesses. gold crystals include amber, golden tiger's eye, topaz and citrine. a colour healing ritual with candles candles of specific colours can help in the healing process. if you

idealism, matters of justice and the law, authority and altruism. jupiter increases what already exists, so can bring greater prosperity and abundance or success and good fortune. it rules marriage, permanent relationships (both business and personal, fidelity, loyalty and male potency in both the human and animal kingdom. ironically, jupiter can lead to excesses, including greed, addictions and obsessions, so it can also be used for banishing these. jupiter, known as the sky father, was the supreme roman god, ruler of the universe. like zeus, his greek counterpart, jupiter controlled the thunderbolts, which were carried by his eagle, the noblest of the birds. however, he ruled not despotically, but as the chief of a triumvirate of gods: the other two were juno, his consort, and minerva

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

not suffer under the nazis using the emotions of those who did to manipulate events for their own diabolical ends? we can only establish if that is true by allowing all information about that period to be made public without vilification or condemnation. as professor yehuda bauer, the chairman of the vidal sassoon centre for the study of anti-semitism, said "someone is misusing people's fears and obsessions and presenting things we know today did not happen".1 he was reacting to stories about 'human soap' which holocaust 'experts' have said the nazis made out of the bodies of jewish victims in the concentration camps. this has become an accepted 'fact, but professor bauer said there was no documentary evidence that any such thing took place. in the researching of this book, for the first t

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the black magic rituals which plugged him socompletely into the reptilian frequency. from now on, hitlers power to attract supportgrew rapidly. eckart wrote to a friend in 1923:follow hitler! he will dance, but it is i who have called the tune. we have given him themeans of communication with them. do not mourn for me; i shall have influenced historymore than any other german.13another of hitlers obsessions was the so-called spear of destiny, the weapon allegedto have been used to pierce the side of jesus at the crucifixion. he stole what is claimedto be the spear when the nazis annexed austria in 1938 and it was taken to nuremberg.the legend says that whoever has this spear and decodes its secrets will have control of theworld for good or evil. the one that hitler stole is now in the hofb

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

osed and it was bearded, with long flowing hair. it seemed a blind force slowly waking to activity "now there are three points which i must make quite clear before i proceed. in the first place, i was never attacked twice in the same night. secondly, when i speak of physical happenings, the smashing of glass and voices, they were never, with one absolutely inexplicable exception, actual, but pure obsessions; and this leads to the third point. not one of these incidents happened while i was asleep. always i found myself awake with the terror upon me and struggling violently to cast off the spell. i have had nightmares before, but no nightmare that i have ever had could hold my mind in its grip for minutes at a time as this thing did, or send me plunging through a ten-foot-high window to the

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

involuntary move- children of the night encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 278 ments of a bamboo pencil, and through a similar method some claim to see in the dark. persons considering themselves endowed with superior intelligence are firm believers in those and other modes of consulting spirits. w. j. plumb, a public teacher in chen sin ling, states: in the district of tu-ching, obsessions by evil spirits or demons are very common. he further writes that there are very many cases also in chang-lo. again he comments: when a man is thus afflicted, the spirit (kwei) takes possession of his body without regard to his being strong or weak in health. it is not easy to resist the demon s power. though without bodily ailments, possessed persons appear as if ill. when under the en

ze frankly admits that his experience was more limited to those phases of somnambulism in which his subjects submitted to amputations and severe surgical operations without experiencing the slightest pain. in a letter dated 1831 m. billot, writing to deleuze, says, i repeat, i have seen and known all that is permitted to man. i have seen the stigmata arise on magnetized subjects; i have dispelled obsessions of evil spirits with a single word. i have seen spirits bring those material objects i told you of, and when requested, make them so light that they would float, and, again, a small boiteau de bonbons was rendered so heavy that i failed to move it an inch until the power was removed. to those who enjoyed the unspeakable privilege of listening to the somnambules of billot, deleuze, and c

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california. sources: barrett, j. o. the spiritual pilgrim: a biography of james m. peebles. boston: william white, 1872. peebles, james m. around the world: or, travels in polynesia, china, india, arabia, egypt, syria. boston: colby& rich, 1875. celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of modern spiritualism at its birthplace. battle creek, mich: the author, 1898. the demonism of the ages, spirit obsessions so common in spiritism, oriental and occidental occultism. battle creek, mich: peebles medical institute, 1904. five journeys around the world: or, travels in the pacific islands, new zealand, australia, ceylon, india, egypt and other oriental countries. los angeles: peebles publishing, 1910. seers of the ages. 1869. reprint, chicago: progressive thinker, 1905. peebles, james m, helen d

FAUST

like feeling was duped by echoes of a happier day, i now curse all that, round the soul, enfolds it with dazzling lures and jugglery, and, banned within this cave of sorrows, holds it with blinding spells and flattery. cursed, before all, the high adherence to some opinion that ensnares the mind! cursed be the blinding of appearance that holds our senses thus confined! cursed be dissembling dream-obsessions, the fraud of fame, a name s enduring life! cursed all that flatters as possessions, as slave and plough, as child and wife! cursed too be mammon, when with treasures he stirs us on to deeds of might, when he, for lazy, idle pleasures, lays down for us the cushions right! cursed be the grape s sweet juice deceiving! cursed love s supreme, delicious thrall! a curse on hoping! on believin

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, a new luciferian youth! the world we live in is a christian world, look at what they have brought to humanity with their hypocritical self-deceit- war, murder, rape, incest, ignorance, blind faith and the slow destruction of the planet. it is time for a new luciferian youth, to shape the world in their own way by putting a new god on a cross, a god which demands selfstudy and self- worship, not obsessions to spiritual otherness which begins outside the self. luciferian and satanic thought begins internally, and then moves outwan the focus of life by austin osman spare preface the mutterings of aaos "now for reality "a os recovers from the death posture "nature is more atrocious" aphorism i "the effort of remembering in the valley of fear" kia of the effigies speaks of zos in soliloquy:

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

e writings of the holy ancient egyptian must be dated, not only long after moses but also long after christ. it shattered, too, the basis of all attempts to build a natural theology on hermetism, such as that to which campanella had pinned his hopes. casaubon's bomb-shell did not immediately take effect and there were many who ignored it, or refused to believe it, and clung obstinately to the old obsessions. nevertheless, though other 398 after hermes trismegistus was dated factors were working strongly against the renaissance traditions in the seventeenth century, casaubon's discovery must, i think, be reckoned as one of the factors, and an important one, in releasing seventeenth-century thinkers from magic.1 isaac casaubon,2 born at geneva of protestant parents in 1559, was one of the mo

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adeptus must avoid thinking of himself as his career. this is the habit of the natural man leading to disillusionment when one eventually realizes that a career is something you do, not something you are. knowledge obsession while learning is important, st. francis reminds us that a lowly demon posseses more knowledge than all of humankind combined. thus, knowledge not applied is a vain endeavor. obsessions are best conquered through regular and continous effort to maintain guidance from the higher will and the use of the pentagram rituals. g.h. frater n.o.e.l- 7= 4/ 1 7u7 liber hodos chameleonis r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r this material is private and has been lent to me on trust, to return on demand. it contains nothing of pecuniary value and nothing personal to

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

ke kitten-pulled wool; a language of critical moments in our personal histories. years later, a gap opens in the world, and creatures of free will and freedom that we think we are, our sudden vunerability surprises us. caught off guard we pause, and in that silence, ancient-innocent fingers deep within us pluck at strings, so that we jerk awkwardly in the grip of self-spawned monsters of th mind- obsessions. defence mechanisms the more value that we place on upholding a particular emotional pattern, the more likely it is that all ambiguous signals will be perceived as supporting it. evidence which counters it will most likely be overlooked or rationalised into a more malleable form. conflict arises when dissonance occurrs between desires and existing mental constructs (have you ever feared

ISIS UNVEILED

me possessed of the devil. morzine, and the awful stories of its demoniacs; valleyres, and the narratives of its well-authenticated exhibitions of sorcery; and those of the presbytire de cideville, curdled the blood in catholic veins. digitizecoy google why these abe no miracles in eussia 17 strange to aay, the question has been asked over and over again, why the 'divine' miracles and most of the obsessions are so strictly confined to roman catholic dioceses and countries? why is it that since the beformation there has been scarcely one single divine* miracle' in a protestant land? of course, the answer we must expect from catholics is, that the latter are peopled by heretics, and abandoned by god. then why are there no more churdi-miracles in russia, a couktty whose religion differs horn

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

eel compelled to apologize for their stance, or go through long-winded explanations justifying their decision. satanists would proudly plead guilty! we don t have to apologize.we already bear the devil s name; we are elitists and want our children to grow proud and strong. 3. most satanists would feel that children learn better when they are allowed to learn at their own pace, following their own obsessions. smart kids consider school boring and stultifying. learning should be student-centered, allowing the child to generate his own enthusiasm. that can t be done in an education factory. if, according to some bureaucrat s study, a child should know how to read by age 4 and do arithmetic by age 6 then they d better all know how to do that or they ll be labeled learning disabled. children s

MEANING OF MASONRY

re that should cleanse the thoughts and desires of the aspirant and make him white within and without even as the modern candidate for the craft is clothed in white. this inward purity of heart and mind, coupled with the possession of the four cardinal virtues, was and still is an absolute essential to the ordeals of actual initiation, which otherwise rendered the candidate liable to insanity and obsessions of which the modern mind in its ignorance of what initiation involves can form no opinion. those who became proficient and properly prepared in this curriculum of the lesser mysteries were eventually admitted to initiation in the greater mysteries. those who failed to qualify were restrained from advancement. as now, the numbers of really earnest and qualified aspirants were only a pe r

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

used as avatars of personal power but do not expect this to be an easy task. da athian spirits, if controlled and evoked properly, are useful for certain divinations and vampiric explorations beyond the mind, as subconscious guides and servitors for destruction, attack and defense, or in some species of sexual workings. within such sexual sorcery, such as succubus/incubus evocation, beware of the obsessions that may occur; they provide the most balanced yet the most dangerous approach to such work. da ath invokes change and subconscious/shadow exploration. through the use of sentient symbols (see chapter 4) one can communicate with the mighty atavisms of the dark matter of the brain. by mastering and learning to control by will the essence of the self, one can be open to the vast abyss bey

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

e's gunpowder in an unconfined space. there are very few cases of "perverted hunger-instinct" in moderately healthy communities. war restrictions on food created dishonest devices to procure dainties, and artificial attempts to appease the ache of appetite by chemical counterfeits. the south-sea islanders, pagan, amoral and naked, are temperate lovers, free from hysterical "crimes of passion, sex obsessions, and puritan persecution-mania; perversion is practically unknown, and monogamy is the general custom. even the civilized psychopaths of cities, forced into every kind of excess by the omnipresence of erotic suggestions and the contact of crazed crowds seething with suppressed sexuality, are not wholly past physic. they are no sooner released from the persistent pressure by escaping to

han as "lords of the earth. this, by the way, is the case with any person who worships a "god" outside himself or herself, instead of perceiving god (any god) within. and the key is to reverse the formula. instead of "loving" or "fearing" your "god; be your "god! he, she, or it is nothing but a projection of your own consciousness, anyway "there is no god where i am" certain rather amusing little obsessions through which aspirants may pass had better be mentioned. first, is the idea that liber al recommends that all dogs be killed. second, the idea that all dogs conceal a "spy" from which you gravitate naturally to the previous conclusion. third, the idea that dogs should be "despised" or "mistreated" or treated as human beings (or rather, better than you would treat a human being, as some

from which you gravitate naturally to the previous conclusion. third, the idea that dogs should be "despised" or "mistreated" or treated as human beings (or rather, better than you would treat a human being, as some dog lovers do) they should be treated like dogs, that is, like any other animals with respect (by respect" is not meant that the chinese must stop eating chow) one of the more amusing obsessions in this connection is that concerning sirius the "dog star. certain "initiates" who fear 666 and liber al whisper to their "disciples" that "the site of the rosy cross brotherhood is in sirius" meaning, of course, themselves. poor sirius. any person who has not achieved consciousness of his or her own godhead tends to mistreat animals. either is too cruel towards them, or too kind. a me

ONYX TABLET OF SET

ly working magic for you to succeed. thirdly it lets you know that you are a person of real worth, and fourth it reminds you of how far you need to go in order to achieve your long range goals. this is related to #2. 5. sense of humor. if an initiate cannot laugh at his or her own mistakes, they should give up trying. if they can't laugh at the world, they will go mad. laughter is the banister of obsessions, and the mark of someone sure of their sovereignty. 6. openness. many people are so insecure that they lead lives to tight that magic couldn't break in even if from the prince of darkness itself. they have rules about what to eat, when to sleep, who to fuck, what to read, how to vote- until every second of their life is filled. the lhp initiate because of faith that his or her magic wil

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

ted on the child, and we will explain in turn why blows received in dreams can bruise and even wound grievously the body of him who receives them in imagination, above all when that body is suffering and subjected to nervous and magnetic influences. to such phenomena and to the occult laws which govern them must be referred the effects of bewitchment, of which we shall speak hereafter. diabolical obsessions, and the majority of nervous diseases which affect the brain, are wounds inflicted on the nervous mechanism by perverted astral light, meaning that which is absorbed or projected in abnormal proportions. all extraordinary and extra-natural tensions of will predispose to obsessions and nervous diseases; enforced celibacy, asceticism, hatred, ambition, rejected love, are so many generativ

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

he land, is somehow environmental. kirk disputes tarbett's interpretation of this loss, but confirms it to be connected to the land (see page 114 below. kirk's commentary upon tarbett's letter page 45 but a few women are endowed with this sight. kirk immediately disputes tarbett's findings concerning the dif-fusion of the sight, possibly due to the connection between women seers and the fanatical obsessions with witchcraft that had been prevalent in scotland and england for many years. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_102.htm (8 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:30 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 102-111) commentary 111 only a few years before kirk assembled his treatise, major weir and his sister had been executed in edinburgh in 1670 for magical, necromantic, incestuous, and otherw

RUBY TABLET OF SET

e expression of the will should be limited to calculated. 12. the secret of the graal is. 13. the three forms of the elixer of the cup are, and. 14. the 'nature' of the cup is. 15. the quality which purifies the work of the magician is. 16. the sword is related to the element_ and corresponds to the human. 17. the sword frees the perceptions from the. 18. every idea must be_ by the sword. 19_ are obsessions toward which one must become an observer; indifference is weilded by the. 20. the only real exception to question #19 would be for the purpose of. 21. emotions are impressed from outside and all emotions leave marks upon the mind, yet passions are_ of the will. 22. the wand is divine force; the sword is_ force. 23. in magick, nothing of impression or experience is; all must be. 24_ repr

stence into a new and uncharted land where the only rules that apply are those of the self. the anubis guardians of the twin towers face left and right to ensure than none but those who prove themselves worthy enter and traverse the lane leading to infinity. in hand is to be found tcham ceptre and anx, symbols of the authority of the seekers' individual leading principles and the life which those obsessions can accord. the twon jackals at the bottom of each tower have a violent nature according to ipsissimus crowley since according to him they are there to lay in wait for the corpses of those unworthy to pass the gates and who are slain in the attempt. is there truly a transmutation process hidden within the jackal? some years ago we were taught there was. the question for the unfortunates

SATANGEL

r of babel and brought an end to the aeon of enoch. rabbi elkiezer of the 8th century puts the blame squarely on the women. the angels who fell from heaven saw the daughters of cain perambulating and displaying their private parts, their eyes painted with antimony in the manner of harlots, and, being seduced, took wives from amongst them. the watchers and their brood devolved through their carnal obsessions and became tainted by the powers they sought to master. as it says in the book of enoch..and they began to sin against the birds, the beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another s flesh. it seems they were unable to divest themselves of their mortal forms and instead descended further and further into carnality. naturally, god stepped in to try and sort out the mess. the w

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

ween the armies of christ and satan, that he believed would occur during the mid-seventeenth century. scores of american preachers and mystics from colonial times through the civil war and up to the present day have continued the precedent set by columbus and occupied themselves with predicting the exact time of christ s return and the subsequent final battle between good and evil. of course such obsessions with apocalyptic teachings and personal quests for spiritual fulfillment are by no means limited to americans. by the twentieth century, many formerly loyal followers of organized religious bodies throughout the world were beginning to become impatient with doctrinal rules of order and began to blend the new discoveries of science with the faith of their forefathers. in the west, many s

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

wicked is to suffer for one's self without winning life; it is to deceive one's self, to do evil, and to win eternal death. to recapitulate: fatal influences are those of death. living influences are those of life. according as we are weaker or stronger in life, we attract or repel witchcraft. this occult power is only too real, but intelligence and virtue will always find the means to avoid its obsessions and its attacks. 255 chapter iv mysteries of perversity human equilibrium is composed of two attractions, one towards death, the other towards life. fatality is the vertigo which drags us to the abyss; liberty is the reasonable effort which lifts us above the fatal attractions of death. what is mortal sin? it is apostasy from our own liberty; it is to abandon ourselves to the law of ine

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

o freud's id with its demands for instant gratification. thus the nephesh and the unconscious mind, together with the shadow, have all been unceremoniously rejected throughout hstory as scapegoats for problems which originated in the conscious mind (when the neuroses were consciously repressed rather than examined. thus the nephesh becomes the abode of many emotionally charged complexes, phobias, obsessions, delusions, and compulsive urges. beyond this five-fold division of the human soul, there is one more portion that is sometimes overlooked. the lowest part is called the g'uph. centered in malkuth, the g'uph is closely tied to the physical body and the total range of all psycho-physical functions. it is a low level of subconscious intelligence which communicates the current condition of

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

gher spirits are concerned with aspirations, intuition, inspiration, ideals, morals, destiny, and the soul. in general, lower spirits are of a materialistic nature, higher spirits are of a spiritual nature. the moon is the portal between the earthly realm 304 moving exercises and the higher spheres, and as a result, lunar spirits are concerned with fantasies, dreams, illusions, delusions, manias, obsessions, and mental health, and partake of a mixture of the lower and higher natures. if you have a floor that will accept tape, you can outline the circle and triangle in this way, but do not draw or paint a permanent circle and triangle, since the direction in which the triangle points will vary from evocation to evocation. when using tape, define the circle with white tape, and the triangle

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

indu, buddhist and even jain communities since at list the 3rd or 4th century ce. there is in fact intense disagreement, not only as to how it is best defined, but even as to whether tantra really "exists" at all. is it really an indigenous asian category, or is it instead- like the generic category of "hinduism" itself- the product of western orientalist scholars imposing their own fantasies and obsessions onto the exotic mirror of the oriental other?lxiv although it has been defined in many different ways, tantra centers in large part around the concept of shakti- power or energy, in all its many forms. shakti is the power that creates, sustains and destroys the entire universe, but it is also the power that flows through the social and political world, as well. tantric ritual seeks to h

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