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strength tiphareth (beauty/ harmony) netzach (victory) hod (splendor) yesod (foundation) malkuth (kingdom) occultists in the hermetic order of the golden dawn use the qabalistic tree of life as a matrix or grid for comparing the archetypal images of different mythologies that could be adapted to ceremonial magic. for example, the merciful father (chesed) has parallels in other pantheons, namely odin (scandinavia) zeus (greece) jupiter (rome) and ra (egypt) this system of comparison became known as mythological correspondences. it has become common in the occult tradition to link the ten sephiroth of the tree of life with the twenty-two paths between the sephiroth that also correspond to the major arcana of the tarot. definitions qbl: hebrew word meaning "from mouth to ear" thereby signif

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vent garden. 1882. to professor max muller, m.a, sue &c:^ts ^or^ is eespectfully dedicated by permission. ft. jworshippers of odin. it is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways. there is another point of interest in these scandinavian mythologies, that they have been preserved so well" carlyle's" hero-worship. what mr. carlyle says of the scandinavian will of course apply to all teutonic tradition, so far as it can be rec

rtz 2, 509-10) the gods images (sculpta) of the heathen, and that he was said to have had ploughshares, kettles and water-buckets forged of that metal. according to the nialssaga cap. 89, in a norwegian temple (gosahus) there were to be seen three figures again, those of thor and the two half-goddesses thorgersr and irpa, of human size, and adorned with armlets^ on recently discovered figures of' odin' v. infra, wudan. 114 gods. probably thor sat hi the middle on his car. altogether the portraitures of thor seem to have been those most in vogue, at least in norway^ one temple in which many skurdgos were worshipped, but thor most of all, is descriljed in fornm. sog. 2, 153 and 159, and his statue 1, 295. 302-6; in 2, 44 we read: thorr sat i midju ok var mest tignasr, hann var mikill ok allr

l p. 369; neither must you point at the stars with your fingers, for fear of sticking them into the angels' eyes. 2 there is a swed. miirchen of greymantle (grakappan, molbech 14, who, like mary in german tales, takes one up to heaven and forbids the opening of a lock, kinderm. 3, 407. wodan. 147 ilahdahairands, now that hakuls for (f)e\6vr]odin as bald-headed, iduna 10, 231. in the ancient poetry he is harharffr, sidgrani, sidskcggr, all in allusion to his thick growth of hair and beard. the name eedbeard i have elsewhere understood of thor, but in fornald. sog. 2, 239 257 the grani and rau&grani are expressly osinn (see suppl. the norse myth arms osinn with a wonderful s'pcar (geir, gixngnir by name, stem. 196. sn. 72; which i put

he has to do. a white dove descends singing on the head of st. devy, and instructs him, buhez santez nonn. paris 1837, p" 117. and on other occasions the dove flies down to make known the will of heaven. no one will trace the story of wuotan's ravens to these doves, still the coincidence is striking (see suppl.l- there are said to have been found lately, in denmark and sweden, representations of odin, which, if some rather strange reports are well-founded, ought to be made known without delay. a ploughman at boeslund in zealand turned up two golden urns filled with ashes; on the lids is carved odin, standing up, with two ravens on his shoulders, and the two wolves at his feet; kunstbl. 1843, no. 19, p. 80. gold coins also were discovered near the village of gomminga in oeland, one of whic

if some rather strange reports are well-founded, ought to be made known without delay. a ploughman at boeslund in zealand turned up two golden urns filled with ashes; on the lids is carved odin, standing up, with two ravens on his shoulders, and the two wolves at his feet; kunstbl. 1843, no. 19, p. 80. gold coins also were discovered near the village of gomminga in oeland, one of which represents odin with the ravens on his shoulder; the reverse has ruues, kunstbl. 1844, no. 13, p. 52. wodan. 149 noticeable for its double form: bijii&l esa bijlindi, sn. 3; sicm. 46' has biblindi. as bif (germ, beben) signifies motus, aer, aqua, the quaking element, and the as \vsq is lenis, ohg. lindi, on. linr (for linnr; an as. biflise, beoflise, ohg. pepalindi, might be suggested by the soft movement of

reover, when hermes and mercury are described as dator bonorum, and the slavs again call the same god dobro-pan (p. 130, note, as if mercis domains; it is worth noticing, that the misnere amgb. 42% in enumerating all the planets, singles out mercury to invoke in the words: jstu hilf mir, daz mir s^lde wache! schin er mir ze geliicke, noch so kum ich wider uf der sselden phat (pfad. just so i find odin invoked in swedish popular songs: hielp nu, oden asagrim! svenska fornsangor 1, 11. hielp mig othin! 1, 69. to this god first and foremost the people turned when in distress; i suppose he is called asagrim, because amons the ases he bore the name of grimnir^ eeuscli, sagen des preiiss. samlands, no. 11. 29. 2 in the old british mythology there appears a gwydion ah don, g. son of don, whom dav

r heiden gewanet, bi etliken ackerliiden(-leuteu, men) solker avergelovischer gebruk in anropinge des woden tor tid der arne gesporet werd, und ok oft desiilve helsche jcger (the same hellish hunter, sonderliken im winter, des nachtes up dem velde mit sinen jagethunden sik horen let^ david franck (meklenb. 1, 56-7, who has heard the same from old people, quotes the rhyme thus: story is told, that odin, in turning his horse out to graze, took the hit off him and laid it on a huge block of stone; the weight of the bit sjijlit tlie stone into two pieces, which were set upriglit as a memorial. another story is, that oden was about to tight an adversary, and knew not where to tie his horse up. in the hurry he ran to the stone, pierced it with his sword, and tied his horse fast through the hole

ch the bottom. abrah. ahkpiist, oelands historia, calmar 1822. 1, 37. 2, 212. there is a picture of the stones in liliengren och brimius, no. xviii. in the hcigbysocken of oeland is also a smooth block of granite named odinssten, on which, ace. to the folk-tale, the warriors of old, when marching to battle, used to whet their swords; ahlquist 2, 79. these legends confirm the special importance of odin's horse in his mythus. verelii notae on the gautrekssaga p. 40 quote from the clavis computi runici' odin heter hesta srna i lielg bunden' which i do not (juite understand. in the fornm. sog. 9, 55-g osinn has his horse shod at a blacksmith's, and rides away by enormous leaps to sweden, where a war breaks out (see suppl^ spegel des antichristischen pawestdoms (popery, dorch nicolaum grysen, p

we find: woodneshoro' in kent, near sandwich: wcdnesbury and wednesfield in staffordsliire; ivcdncsham in cheshire, called wodncs/leld in ethelwerd p. 848^ but their number is more considerable in scandinavia, where heathenism was preserved longer: and if in denmark and the gothland portion of sweden they occur more frequently than in norway and sweden proper, i infer from this a preponderance of odin-worship in south scandinavia. the chief town in the i. of funen (fion) was named odinsve (fornm. sog. 11, 266. 281) from ve, a sanctuary; sometimes also o&insey (ib. 230. 352) from cy, island, meadow; and later again odcnsc, and in waldemar's liber censualis^ 530. 5-42 othdnso, in lower norway, close to frederikstad, a second osinsey (ileimskr, ed. havn. 4, 348. 398, aft. called onso. in jutl

eedful here to group the most important of these names together, and no doubt there are many others wdiicli have escaped me f in their very multitude, as well as the similarity or identity of their structure, lies the full proof of their significance. few, or isolated, they might have been suspected, and explained otherwise; taken together, they are incontestable evidence of the wide diffusion of odin's worship. herbs and plants do not seem to have been named after this god. in brun's beitr.j. 54, icodcsterne is given as the name of a plant, but we ought first to see it in a distincter form. the icelanders and danes however call a small waterfowl (tringa minima, inquieta, lacustris et natans) offmshani, odenshane, odcns fugl^ which fits in with the belief, brought out on p. 147, in birds c

horr (sn. 25; his waggon is drawn by two he-goats (sn. 26. other gods have their 1 so even in high german dialects, durstag for donrstag, engl. thursday, and bav. doren, daren for donnern (schm. 1, 390. in thorr it is not er, but only the first r (the second being flectional, that is an abbrev. of nr; i.e. n suffers syncope before r, much as in the m. dut. ere, mire, for enre minre- conf. onsike (odin's drive) supra, p. 159. thunar. 1g7 waggons too, especially osinn and freyr (see pp. 107, 151, but thorr is distinctively thought of as the god who drives; he never appears riding, like osinn, nor is he supposed to own a horse: either he drives, or he walks on foot. we are expressly told' thorr gengr til domsius, ok vesr ar' walks to judgment, and wades the rivers (sn. 18^ the people in swede

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d restored him in a more evolved form. the annual celebrations of this event coincided with the rising of the dog star, sirius, which heralded the flooding of the nile and the restoration of fertility to the land and symbolically to the people. as the sky gods gained supremacy, they married the earth goddesses who slowly evolved into patronesses of women, marriage and childbirth. so, for example, odin the norse all-father married frigg, goddess of women, marriage and motherhood. but in witchcraft, though the sky fathers and their wives are used for the focus of specific rites, the goddess retains the earlier form as the creative principle. as the triple goddess- maiden, mother and wise woman or crone- she is frequently central to coven work. generally in magick the goddess is recognised as

sociated with balor, the sun deity of the formoiri, enemies of the gods, who was slain by lugh, the young solar god, at the battle of moytura, thus representing the ascent of the new sun. the death of the old order, as a necessary requirement for the new, is a central motif in spirituality and so dagda can offer a focus for rites of passage where change is necessary, but not necessarily welcomed. odin odin is the viking father god, known as the all-father, god of inspiration, wisdom and poetry as well as war. odin was desperate to acquire the wisdom and knowledge of the older order of giants. he traded one of his eyes for wisdom and obtained the knowledge of the runes, the ancient symbols of spiritual knowledge, by sacrificing himself on the world tree. odin can be invoked for magic and di

nism: possibly the oldest spiritual practice in the world, continued today in communities as far apart as india, australia, japan and china, siberia and mongolia, in africa, among the bedouins in the middle east and in north, central and south america. sky-clad: naked. sky gods: the powerful patriarchal gods of the classical and viking world, for example zeus of the greeks, jupiter of the romans, odin of the vikings and thunor of the anglo-saxons. they gained supremacy over the earth mother who appears as their wife-consort, full of human foibles. solstice: one of the main astronomical points of the year. the summer solstice (21 june, or 21 december in the southern hemisphere) marks the sun at its height and greatest power. the winter solstice (21 december or 21 june) is the shortest day w

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ou use the word12. what's worse, whatever you may mean by "god" conveys no idea to me: i 10* crippen was a famous english poisoner who was caught and hung. 11^ weh note: shipley's dictionary of word origins sneaks the following in under the word "goodbye "god, goth. guth, may be traced to aryan ghut, god, from ghuto, to implore: god is the one to whom we pray "god" might also be a contraction of "odin, as"'od- have the english speaking christians been praying to the aesir all this time? 12* one of the most amusing passages of irony is to be found in the questions of king milinda where the arhat nagasena demolishes maha brahma. 43 can only guess by the light of my exceedingly small knowledge of you and your general habits of thought and action. then what sense was there in chucking it at my

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e sun and the moon; nu, blue, starry lady of heaven, mistress and mother of the gods; ea, lord of the deep; istar "o thou who art set in the sky as a jewelled circlet of moonstone; brahma the golden, vishnu the sombre, and siva the crimson, lapped in seas of blood. everywhere do we find thee, o thou one and awful eidolon, who as aormuzd once didst rule the sun-scorched plains of euphrates, and as odin the icy waves and the shrieking winds, round the frozen halls of the north. everywhere- everywhere! and yet now thou art again god, nameless to the elect- o thou vast inscrutable pleroma built in the nothingness of our imagination- and to the little ones, the children who play with the units of existence, but a myriad-named doll a cubit high, a little thing to play with- or else: an ancient

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anctuary of truth: and a god sitteth upon my lips! my word is accomplished each day, and the desire of my heart realises itself like that of ptah when he creates his works. since i am eternal everything acts according to my designs, and everything obeys my words. therefore do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence, unutterable wisdom, all-light, all-power. thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still un-named and nameless for eternity! come thou forth, i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. 177 thou, star of the east that didst conduct the magi. thou art the same, all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest betwixt the light and the darkness rising, descending, changing for ever, yet for ever the same! the sun is thy fathe

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th: and a god sitteth upon my lips! my word is accomplished each day, and the desire of my heart realises itself, like that of ptah when he creates his works. i am eternal; therefore everything acts according to my designs, and everything obeys my words. therefore i say unto thee: come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence, unutterable wisdom, all-light, all-power! thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still un-named and nameless to eternity! come thou forth, i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. thou, star of the east that didst conduct the magi! thou art the same, all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest betwixt the light and the darkness. rising, descending; changing ever, yet ever the same! the sun is thy father! thy mothe

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nd pitris of india, the seven chaldean gods and seven evil spirits, the seven kabalistic sephiroth synthesised by the upper triad, and even the seven planetary spirits of the christian mystics. the ases create the earth, the seas, the sky and the clouds, the whole visible world, from the remains of the slain giant ymir; but they do not create man, but only his form from the ask or ash-tree. it is odin who endows him with life and soul, after lodur had given him blood and bones, and finally it is honir who furnishes him with his intellect (manas) and with his conscious senses. the norse ask, the hesiodic ash-tree, whence issued the men of the generation of bronze, the third root-race, and the tzite tree of the popol-vuh, out of which the mexican third race of men was created, are all one* t

who comprehends its full meaning is for ever liberated from the toils of mahamaya, the great illusion and deceiver. the light that shines from under the divine hammer, now degraded into the mallet or gavel of the grand masters of masonic lodges, is sufficient to dissipate the darkness of any human schemes or fictions. how prophetic are the songs of the three norse goddesses, to whom the ravens of odin whisper of the past and the future, as they flutter around in their abode of crystal beneath the flowing river. the songs are all written down in the "scrolls of wisdom" of which many are lost but some still remain: and they repeat in poetical allegory the teachings of the archaic ages. to summarise from dr. wagner's "asgard and the gods" the "renewal of the world" which is a prophecy about t

steries of heaven" he combines and uses the two for purposes of human, instead of super-human, procreation. henceforth "man will beget, not create* but as, by so doing, he has to use[[footnote(s* returning once more to the most important subject in the archaic cosmogony, it may be said that even in the norse legends, in the sacred scrolls of the goddess saga, we find loki, the brother by blood of odin (as typhon, ahriman, and others are brothers of osiris and ormazd, becoming evil only later, when he has mixed too long with humanity. like all other fire or light gods- fire burning and destroying as well as warming and giving life- he ended by being accepted in the destructive sense of "fire" the name loki, we learn("asgard and the gods" p. 250, has been derived from the old word "liechan"

said to have been copied from stone tablets which belonged to a buddha of the earliest day of the fifth race, who had witnessed the deluge and the submersion of the chief continents of the atlantean race. the day when much, if not all, of that which is given here from the archaic records, will be found correct, is not far distant. then the modern symbologists will acquire the certitude that even odin, or the god woden, the highest god in the german and scandinavian mythology, is one of these thirty-five buddhas; one of the earliest, indeed, for the continent to which he and his race belonged, is also one of the earliest. so early, in truth, that in the days when tropical nature was to be found, where now lie eternal unthawing snows, one could cross almost by dry land from norway via icela

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of the world has been gained" a "scientific treatment" of a subject is no guarantee for its "historical basis; and with such scarcity of data on hand, no philologist, even among the most eminent, is justified in giving out his own conclusions for historical facts. no doubt, the eminent orientalist has proved thoroughly to the world's satisfaction, that according to grimm's law of phonetic rules, odin and buddha are two different personages, quite distinct from each other, and he has shown it scientifically. when, however, he takes the opportunity of saying in the same breath that odin "was worshipped as the supreme deity during a period long anterior to the age of the veda and of homer (compar. theol, p. 318, he has not the slightest "historical basis" for it. he makes history and fact su

rship of sun and moon- identical with that of the gnostics, though less philosophical and pure than the "sun worship" of the zoroastrians- is a natural consequence of its birth and origin. the adoption by the latin church of such symbols as the water, fire, sun, moon and stars, and a good many other things, is simply a continuation by the early christians of the old worship of pagan nations. thus odin got his wisdom, power, and knowledge, by sitting at the feet of mimir, the thrice-wise jotun, who passed his life by the fountain of primeval wisdom, the crystalline waters of which increased his knowledge daily. mimir "drew the highest knowledge from the fountain, because the world was born of water; hence primeval wisdom was to be found in that mysterious element("asgard and the gods" 86. t

wisdom, power, and knowledge, by sitting at the feet of mimir, the thrice-wise jotun, who passed his life by the fountain of primeval wisdom, the crystalline waters of which increased his knowledge daily. mimir "drew the highest knowledge from the fountain, because the world was born of water; hence primeval wisdom was to be found in that mysterious element("asgard and the gods" 86. the eye which odin had to pledge to acquire that knowledge may be "the sun, which enlightens and penetrates all things; his other eye being the moon, whose reflection gazes out of the deep, and which at last, when setting, sinks into the ocean (ibid) but it is something more, besides this. loki, the fire-god, is said to have hidden in the water, as well as in the moon, the light-giver, whose reflection he found

e of brightness" awake life in the great waters of space, the elements of the first creation come into view, and from them is formed the giant ymir (also orgelmir- primordial matter differentiated from chaos (literally seething clay. then comes the cow audumla, the nourisher* from whom is born buri (the producer) who, by bestla, the daughter of the "frost-giants (the sons of ymir) had three sons, odin, willi and we, or "spirit "will" and "holiness (compare the genesis of the primordial races, in this work) this was when darkness still reigned throughout space, when the ases, the creative powers (dhyan chohans) were not yet evolved, and the yggdrasil, the tree of the universe of time and of life, had not yet grown, and there was, as yet, no walhalla, or hall of heroes. the scandinavian lege

g of the gospel, the idea "could not rise to distinct conceptions of the eternal" but on account of its great esoteric character. therefore, all the creative gods, or personal deities, begin at the secondary stage of cosmic evolution. zeus is born in, and out of kronos- time. so is brahma the production and emanation of kala "eternity and time" kala being one of the names of vishnu. hence we find odin, the father of the gods and of the ases, as brahma is the father of the gods and of the asuras, and hence also the androgyne character of all the chief creative gods, from the second monad of the greeks down to the sephiroth adam kadmon, the brahma or prajapati-vach of the vedas, and the androgyne of plato, which is but another version of the indian symbol[[footnote(s* vach- the "melodious co

nd even black flames; the seventh tongue of agni, the fire-god being called "kali "the black" as it was a black flickering flame. two black doves flew from egypt and settling on the oaks of dodona, gave their names to the grecian gods. noah lets out a black raven after the deluge, which is a symbol for the cosmic pralaya, after which began the real creation or evolution of our earth and humanity. odin's black ravens fluttered around the goddess saga and "whispered to her of the past and of the future" what is the real meaning of all those black birds? they are all connected with the primeval wisdom, which flows out of the pre-cosmic source of all, symbolised by the head, the circle, the egg; and they all have an identical meaning and relate to the primordial archetypal man (adam kadmon) th

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d restored him in a more evolved form. the annual celebrations of this event coincided with the rising of the dog star, sirius, which heralded the flooding of the nile and the restoration of fertility to the land and symbolically to the people. as the sky gods gained supremacy, they married the earth goddesses who slowly evolved into patronesses of women, marriage and childbirth. so, for example, odin the norse all-father married frigg, goddess of women, marriage and motherhood. but in witchcraft, though the sky fathers and their wives are used for the focus of specific rites, the goddess retains the earlier form as the creative principle. as the triple goddess- maiden, mother and wise woman or crone- she is frequently central to coven work. generally in magick the goddess is recognised as

sociated with balor, the sun deity of the formoiri, enemies of the gods, who was slain by lugh, the young solar god, at the battle of moytura, thus representing the ascent of the new sun. the death of the old order, as a necessary requirement for the new, is a central motif in spirituality and so dagda can offer a focus for rites of passage where change is necessary, but not necessarily welcomed. odin odin is the viking father god, known as the all-father, god of inspiration, wisdom and poetry as well as war. odin was desperate to acquire the wisdom and knowledge of the older order of giants. he traded one of his eyes for wisdom and obtained the knowledge of the runes, the ancient symbols of spiritual knowledge, by sacrificing himself on the world tree. odin can be invoked for magic and di

est spiritual practice in the world, continued today in seite 180 wicca01.txt communities as far apart as india, australia, japan and china, siberia and mongolia, in africa, among the bedouins in the middle east and in north, central and south america. sky-clad: naked. sky gods: the powerful patriarchal gods of the classical and viking world, for example zeus of the greeks, jupiter of the romans, odin of the vikings and thunor of the anglo-saxons.they gained supremacy over the earth mother who appears as their wife-consort, full of human foibles. solstice: one of the main astronomical points of the year. the summer solstice (21 june, or 21 december in the southern hemisphere) marks the sun at its height and greatest power. the winter solstice (21 december or 21 june) is the shortest day wh

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oaster. the christians read the same letters 'ihs' in the greek text as 'jes' and the roman christian priesthood added the terminus 'us" here are some of the other pre-christian deities of whom the "jesus" story was told: apollo, hercules, and zeus of greece; adad and marduk of assyria; buddha sakia and indra of india and tibet; salivahana of southern india and bermuda; osiris and horus of egypt; odin, balder, and frey of scandinavia; crite of chaldea; zoroaster of persia; baal (bel) and taut of phoenicia; bali of afghanistan; jao of nepal; wittoba of bilingonese; xamolxis of thrace; zoar of the bonzes; chu chulainn of ireland; deva tat, codom, and sammonocadam of siam; alcides of thebes; mikado of the sintoos; beddru of japan; hesus or eros, and bremrillaham of the druids; thor, son of od

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om the same genetic source -the white cimmerians andscythians from the caucasus and the middle/near east. it is the same with william theconqueror and his normans, the last people to invade britain in 1066 at the battle ofhastings. the terms norman and normandy originate from the norse (north) menbecause they came from scandinavia to occupy that region of france. the story of thescandinavian hero odin, says that he came from asaland or asaheim, which justhappens to be the lands of scythia and can be identified in aryan india. from there about200 to 300 ad, it is said, odin led a huge army north to conquer sweden. his army wascalled the svear and in swedish that country is still called sverige, the land of the svear.another group of scythians, who became known as the sakkas, went east from

. thus you have the 12 tribes of israel, 12 princes of83ishmael, 12 disciples or followers of jesus, buddha, osiris and quetzalcoatl. there isalso king arthur and his 12 knights of the round table (the zodiac circle, himmlerand his 12 knights in the nazi ss, and the woman (isis, semiramis) with a crown of 12stars in the book of revelation. in scandinavia and that whole northern region you findthe odin mysteries, again inspired by the same aryan race from the near east. in thistradition, you find twelve drottars presiding over the mysteries with odin. the sacred12 and one again. these stories are not literally true, they are mystery schoolsymbolism. this continues today with these same symbols used by the brotherhoodsecret society network in national flags, coats of arms, advertising and co

m of them, all originating with the aryan and reptile-aryanrace that came out of the near east and the caucasus mountains. here are just some of theson of god heroes who play the lead role in stories which mirror those attributed to jesusand almost all were worshipped long before jesus was even heard of:khrishna of hindostan; buddha sakia of india; salivahana of bermuda; osiris and horusof egypt; odin of scandinavia; crite of chaldea; zoroaster of persia; baal and taut ofphoenicia; indra of tibet; bali of afghanistan; jao of nepal; wittoba of bilingonese;tammuz of syria and babylon; attis of phrygia; xamolxis of thrace; zoar of thebonzes; adad of assyria; deva tat and sammonocadam of siam; alcides of thebes;mikado of the sintoos; beddru of japan; hesus or eros, and bremrillahm, of the drui

via; crite of chaldea; zoroaster of persia; baal and taut ofphoenicia; indra of tibet; bali of afghanistan; jao of nepal; wittoba of bilingonese;tammuz of syria and babylon; attis of phrygia; xamolxis of thrace; zoar of thebonzes; adad of assyria; deva tat and sammonocadam of siam; alcides of thebes;mikado of the sintoos; beddru of japan; hesus or eros, and bremrillahm, of the druids;thor, son of odin, of the gauls; cadmus of greece; hil and feta of mandaites; gentautand quetzalcoatl of mexico; universal monarch of the sibyls; ischy of formosa; divineteacher of plato; holy one of xaca; fohi and tien of china; adonis, son of virgin lo, ofgreece; ixion and quirinus of rome; prometheus of the caucasus; and mohammed ormahomet, of arabia.22all but a few of those sons of god or prophets, and the

s done by a blind roman centurioncalled longinus and some of the blood of jesus fell on his eyes and cured his blindness.longinus was converted and spent the rest of his life breaking up pagan idols. yeah,sure he did. centurions were not blind and could not have done their job if they were,and once again we find this story is a repeat from earlier versions. the scandinaviansaviour, balder, son of odin, had a spear of mistletoe thrust into him by hod, a god whowas blind. march 15th, the ides of march, was when many pagan saviours also died.this day was devoted to hod and later became a christian feast day to the blessedlonginus!30 youve got to laugh, really.the symbol of the fish is a theme throughout the gospel stories and this is symbolicof nimrod/tammuz, the father-son, of babylon. anoth

f mexico, miguel de lamadrid, told the mind controlled slave of the cia, cathy obrien, that the reptileextraterrestrials came down and created physical bodies to occupy, just as they did mostprofusely among the aryan people. the reptilians and human sacrifice go together. thescandinavians buried children alive in an effort to stop plagues and to appease the greatgod of the north, the scandinavian odin or the german wodan or woden. the gods ofthe mystery schools were invariably connected to human sacrifice and it was these veryschools which have, via the now global brotherhood and satanism networks, carriedthe knowledge and the rituals into the present day. the incas of peru sacrificed childrenand human sacrifice was practised from the earliest days in europe. one druid ritualwas to bury a

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el. new york: westgate press, 1988. angelseaxisce ealdriht angelseaxisce ealdriht is one of several norse pagan groups to emerge as paganism has become established anew among people of northern european descent residing in north america. members venerate the deities that were popular in pre- christian scandinavia and germany, referred to collectively as the aesir and vanir. they include woden (or odin, ing frea (freyr, tiw (tyr, frige (frigg, and thunor (thor. members value beliefs (or thoth) that build loyalty to the deities, one s ancestors, and fellow heathen. the swearing of holy oaths and the making of sacred vows are key activities seen as building thoth. members of angelseaxisce ealdriht also see themselves as very modern pagans. they esteem the past and the values extolled in ancie

ok of norse rituals. the fall of the asatru free assembly also left a vacuum just as norse paganism appeared to be in a growth phase. former members began to form new associations such as the asatru alliance and the ring of thoth. in 1992 mcnallen returned to active leadership as an asatru, founding the asatru folk assembly and reissuing the runestone. sources: hundingbani, heigi. the religion of odin-a handbook. red wing, minn: viking house, 1978. mcnallen, stephen a. rituals of asatru. breckenridge, tex: asatru free assembly, 1985. asatru alliance the asatru alliance is one of several groups operating in north america that continues the revival of asatru (literally faithfulness to the germanic deities) faith begun by the asatru free assembly in the early 1970s. the assembly disbanded in

913: as peoples became more civilised and thought more deeply of the mystery of death, they conceived of a place where the souls lived on, and being puzzled to account for the rainbow, came to the conclusion that it was a bridge by means of which spirits mounted to their abode above the clouds. the milky way was called variously the road of the gods or the road of souls. among the norsemen, after odin had constructed his heavenly palace, aided by the dwarfs, he reared the bridge bifrost, which men call the rainbow, by which it could be reached. it is of three colours; that in the middle is red, and is of fire, to consume any unworthy souls that would venture up the bridge. in connection with this idea of a bridge uniting heaven and earth, up which souls ascended, arose the custom of person

mission on divine healing set up by the archbishop of canterbury. he died june 8, 1959, in london. sources: elliott, g. maurice. the psychic life of jesus. 1938. reprint, new york: london press, 1974. spiritualism in the old testament. london: the psychic book club, 1940. elm tree the elm tree (genus ulmus) is prominent in teutonic mythology, where it was said to have been given a soul by the god odin, senses by hoenir, and blood and warmth by lodur, becoming embla, the first woman. in finno-ugric mythology the elms were believed to be the mothers of the fire goddess ut. in england the tree was associated with elves and sometimes known as elven. at lichfield, england, choristers of the cathedral used to deck the cathedral, close, and houses with elm boughs on ascension day. it was believed

istians to prayers; and when they fled, the persons of the faithful would be secure; that the destruction of lightnings and whirlwinds would be averted, and the spirits of the storm defeated. storms were considered to be the work of the devil, or the conjuration of his followers. the trampling heard was thought to be his fury, his fiery train above the tossing forests or holy spires. in that way, odin and his associated deities transformed. the valkyries, the choosers of the slain, riding to places of battle, became the medieval witches riding astride broomsticks on their missions of evil in much the same manner. castles of flames, where the devil held wild revels; conclaves of corpses revivified by evil knowledge; unearthly growths, vitalized by hanged humans souls, springing to life bene

s) and muspellsheim (the realm of fire).the void before the creation. cold winds from the abyss changed the streams into blocks of ice, which fell into the void with the sound of thunder, the legends say. sparks from muspellsheim turned the ice into streams, forming layers of frost that filled the gap. the inchoate mass became animate, taking the form of the primeval giant ymir. ymir was slain by odin, villi, and ve, who threw his body into the chasm, where his blood became the sea, his flesh the earth, his bones the mountains and rocks, his skull the sky, and his brains the clouds. during the eleventh century, the sea between greenland and america was named ginnungagap. the name was also used by author james webb as the title of the first chapter of his book the occult establishment (1976

e holy grail in arthurian legend. its supposed history begins with king david, who bequeathed the sword to solomon, who was bidden to recast the pommel. in solomon s time it was placed in a ship built and luxuriously furnished by solomon s wife. subsequently discovered by the knights of the quest, it was assumed and worn by sir galahad. gram in medieval legend, a magic sword thrust into a tree by odin and pulled out by sigmund. it bestowed upon its possessor exceptional powers and performed many miracles. the story is told in the lay of the volsungs. the grand grimoire a grimoire, or text of instruction for use in ceremonial magic. it was supposedly edited by one antonia del rabina from a copy transcribed from the genuine writings of king solomon. the grand grimoire is divided into two par

be known as greenland; but the majority of the people of iceland formed a conservative rural society. they were farmers who created a highly-evolved social structure defined by their work with the land. the stories they told, well-known as the islendinga sogur, or, iceland sagas, reflected that down-to-earth daily life by which honor was to be measured. through the best-known literary character, odin, icelanders were not totally without fantasy, myth or fascination with the magical and mysterious. robert kellogg, in an introduction iands encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 774 to the book, the sagas of icelanders, talked about the role odin as he discussed egil s saga, a key story in icelandic literature: the patron of all poets was odin, who was sometimes known as the one

anders were not totally without fantasy, myth or fascination with the magical and mysterious. robert kellogg, in an introduction iands encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 774 to the book, the sagas of icelanders, talked about the role odin as he discussed egil s saga, a key story in icelandic literature: the patron of all poets was odin, who was sometimes known as the one-eyed god .odin gave away his eye in order to drink from the underworld well of the wise god mimir and thus to acquire wisdom. egils is not only the beneficiary of odin s gifts of poetry and magic, but also to some small degree an embodiment of the god. iceland has been a christian country since 1000 c.e, following its ancestral religious roots of asatru (an interesting note is that the writings of j.r.r. to

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en, stephen a (1948) stephen a. mcnallen, the pioneer advocate of modern norse neo-paganism in north america, was born in breckenridge, texas, on october 15, 1948. he attended midwestern university in wichita falls, texas, and during his college days discovered the deities of the ancient norsemen and began to identify with the viking element in his own ancestry. he eventually dedicated himself to odin and the whole of the norse pantheon, though he kept this commitment to himself and a few friends. however, in the winter of 1971.72, as his college career was coming to an end, he released the first issue of the runestone. previously he had placed an ad in fate magazine, and compiled a list of potential subscribers from it. from those who responded he founded the viking brotherhood. mcnallen

small book: mes experiences en spiritualisme experimentale. nielsson died in 1928. nif an egyptian symbol in the form of a ship s sail widely spread, symbolizing breath (see also egypt) niflheim the region of everlasting cold, mist, and darkness in teutonic mythology. it is situated north of midgard (middle earth.the present human abode, across the river gjol. it was into this region that the god odin banished the goddess hel to rule over the worlds of the dead. the lowest depths are named nastrond. strand of the dead. nightmare possibly deriving from the old english night and mara, a specter, indicating a terrifying dream. it is said to be caused by a disorder of the digestive functions during sleep, inducing the temporary belief that some animal or demon is sitting on the chest. among pr

an obscure system of identifying thieves by the turning of their eyes when associated with certain ceremonies. od (odic force (or odyle) the term first used by baron karl von reichenbach to denote the subtle effluence that he claimed emanated from every substance in the universe, particularly from the stars and planets, and from crystals, magnets, and the human body. the term od was derived from odin, the norse deity, indicating a power that permeated the whole of nature. the name od was retained by dr. john ashburner (1816.1878) in his translation of reichenbach s writings, but another translator, william gregory (1803.1858, substituted odyle, probably hoping it would sound more scientific than od. od or odyle was perceptible to sensitives, in whom it produced vague feelings of heat or c

f scientific papers on meteorites. his many contributions earned him a well-deserved reputation as a brilliant scientist and industrialist. meanwhile his experiments in human sensitivity from 1839 onward were not as well received by his colleagues; in fact, he was harshly criticized. these experiments involved attempts to demonstrate a mysterious vital force which he named od, for the norse deity odin, indicating a power, like the animal magnetism conceived by franz a. mesmer, which permeates the whole of nature. detection and demonstration of this force depended upon sensitives.specially gifted individuals rather like psychics, although reichenbach s sensitives were ordinary people from all walks of life. these individuals experienced specific reactions to the proximity of other people.fe

the germanic group of languages, but is related to greek and latin alphabets. the earliest inscriptions were pictured in the hands of the goddess idun, the keeper of the gods magic apples of immortality. dating from the 3rd century c.e, runic inscriptions have been found in areas between the black sea and the baltic (territories occupied by goths) as well as throughout scandinavia. at one point, odin dies to acquire the runes for humankind, and, as men were expected to imitate his sacrifice, high praise was given to one who died in battle. in place of dying in battle, a norse warrior might carve the runes on his body and bleed to death, that day thus being marked as a red-letter day. runes were inscribed on stone monuments to commemorate events and individuals as well as for magical purpo

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as yule, and a number of other traditions as the birthday of solar saviors. the mithraists, for instance, regarded it as the birthday of mithra. the romans celebrated the date as dies natalis solis invictus, day of birth of the undefeated sun. the christian observance of the pentecost replaced the tradition of whitsunday, the holy day of the goddess frigg, the norse queen of heaven and consort of odin. easter absorbed the pesach of the jews, and was named after eostre or ostara, the pagan goddess of spring. 17 dimont, max. jews, god, and history, simon and schuster, new york p. 205, 1962. 18 peshitta, matthew 5:17-18. 19 eisenman, robert. james the brother of jesus, penguin, new york 1997. 20 gospel of thomas, translated by thomas hickey, esoterica, iowa city, 1992. the gospel of thomas wa

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rical value of which is 25, that is one unit less than the numerical value of tetragrammaton, which is 26. one is the numerical value of aleph, a, hence in omar khayyam we read: a hair perhaps divides the false and true; yes; and a single alif were the clue- could you but find it-to the treasure-house, and peradventure to the master too. this mystery is solved as follows: aleph is composed of two odin and a cross-bar which is a vau. it represents the world above separated from the world below by the vital force; its value is consequently 10+ 6+ 10= 26, and 26 is the numerical value of tetragrammaton. its symbols are also the swastika, fylfot, or gammadion (see plate vi on page 42) the redemption from satanic rule can only be attained by seeing god as he really is and not as he is in his re

vy (yvy; for the zohar informs us gthat god brought them [man shaped for this world and man shaped for the future world] under the aegis of his own name by shaping the two eyes like the letter od and the nose between them like the letter vau h. 12 at once we see the connection, for yvy equals 26, the numerical value of tetragrammaton; further, as we will show later on, by splitting one of the two odin into heh and heh (10 into 5, 5) and inserting the vau between them we obtain hvh (hvh)-eve. again, as already explained, the two odin and the vau are the members of the letter aleph, the first letter of the mystical creative alphabet. we are also told in the zohar that when the first man was created, god ggathered the dust from all the four sides of the world. and spread upon her a soul of li

y in unity inhibited by a gleam of the supernal shin- the shin which, volatilizing into light, enabled tetragrammaton to become visible-so also is the od threefold in nature. it represents not only the pillars of severity, mercy, and mildness, but also formation, reformation, and transformation; activity, passivity, and equilibrium; and good, evil, and deliverance. thus it is not one od but three odin, which to unite must climb the three trunks of the inseparable trees and, interlacing in kether, the crown, reformulate the letter shin, a trinity in unity. thus will it deliver back to tetragrammaton the power he lost in his fall from the world of yetzirah. such is the accomplishment of the messianic act. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 57 the integration of the disintegrated. thus far the

e letters heh, vau, heh, and in whose centre, unseen from outside, is the letter shin. this letter, as we have already explained, symbolizes among other things the crucifixion of christ- christ between the aggressive and passive thieves. as christ expires, his secret wisdom of the qabalah page 60 soul is liberated and the veil of the temple (the pyramid) is rent in the midst. the three flames, or odin, of the letter shin represent the od, aur, and ob, the active, equilibrating, and passive forces of life. a trinity in unity. the messianic act, or great work, consists in freeing the hidden shin from the elemental pyramid in which it is imprisoned. then the four elements vanish and the splendour of the shekinah enwraps, like a caul of light, the divine child- the messiah. from this esoteric

evertheless there is yet another mood, for from time to time in the world's history something happens: a man appears, be he prince or pauper, who throws the masses into such a state of religious fervour that all reason and with it all doubt is obliterated and a spiritual condition is produced which closely resembles physical drunkenness. such men were orpheus, oedipus, osiris, zoroaster, krishna, odin, buddha, christ, mahomet, and a host of lesser names, mythological and historical, many of which have passed into oblivion. for a time these men have lifted the multitudes out of nature, endowing them with a spiritual instinct, a ketheric nephesh, more powerful than all their natural instincts combined. self-preservation, self-sacrifice, self-assertion, pugnacity, love, hate, fear, greed, and

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was sometimes represented, their self-triplicating mithras. the syrians had their monimus, aziz, and ares. the egyptians had their emeph, eicton, and phtha. the greeks and romans had their jupiter, neptune, and pluto; three in number, though one in essence, and all springing from cronus, a fourth, yet older god. the canaanites had their baal-spalisha or self-triplicated baal. the goths had their odin, vile, and ve, who are described as the three sons of bura, the offspring of the mysterious cow, and the celts had their three bulls, venerated as the living symbols of the triple hu or menu. to the same class we must ascribe the triads of the orphic and pythagorean and platonic schools; each of which must again be identified with the imperial triad of the old chaldaic or babylonian philosoph

ined a man was saved. the gothic story of creation indicates that the scythians belonged to the same race as the chaldeans. at the beginning of time when nothing had been formed, and before the earth, the sea, or the heavens appeared, muspelsheim existed. a breath of heat passing over the vapors, melted them into water, and from this water was formed a cow named aedumla, who was the progenitor of odin, vile, and ve, the trinity of the gothic nation. there is also another tradition, probably a later, which asserts that from the drops of water produced by the primeval breath of heat, a man, ymer, was brought forth. the son of ymer was preserved in a storm-tossed bark, his father being dragged into the middle of the abyss, where, from his body the earth was produced. the sea was made of his b

omoroca are each the same as that hermaphrodite jupiter of the orphic theology" we have observed, however, that in all the older traditions this hermaphrodite conception is accounted as female, it is the great mother within whom is contained the male; in later ages, however, it is represented as male, the female being concealed beneath convenient symbols. the trinity of the goths was male; yet as odin could not create independently of the female energy he is provided with a wife, frigga, to whom "all fair things belonged, and who had priestesses among the early german tribes" frigga when worshipped alone was both female and male. according to one german tradition, tiw (zeus, which in its earliest conception was female, was the parent of the first man. this man begat three sons who became t

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lands it is rife to this day, also in brittany; and in morocco (as described in m. jules bois'sorcellerieau maroc) every medieval incident, including the witches' sabbath, is familiar ground, and universally believed in. one of the oldest of known incantations is that connected with the casting of the black thread.itwas undoubtedly scandinavianandpre-christian,referringto some legend of a ride of odin and baldur in which baldur's horse slipped and sprained or dislocated a leg. this was healed by binding round the injured leg a black thread with seven knots. the formula accordingly narrated the event. baldurrade.thefoalsladeslippedset bone to bone,sinewtosinew,heal in odin's.name.thewords are given in various forms, but the substance is the same. this spell is to be found in nearly every bo

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sdom but does not mean book learning, even tradition, it is a direct experience of the divine, the flash of wisdom that is brought when we meet god face to face. certainly gnosticism has certain key motifs, certain perennial ideals, which we will examine in the course of this book. however, we must appreciate that there are gnostic trends in most religious traditions. whether we are talking about odin on the world tree and his flash of wisdom as he grasped the runes or whether we are talking on the mystic achieving wisdom after days of penance and fasting, both are essentially gnostic. in some ways the best way to appreciate gnosticism is to use the metaphor of algebra. algebra is a branch of mathematics that uses letters etc to represent numbers and quantities. algebraic is ultimately fro

lah and as a system of classification it is extremely useful. again we must avoid the tendency towards reductionism and see the centres more as a landscape in which townships meld into each other rather than an a classification scheme from a biology textbook! yggdrasil:the world tree nine world i can count, nine roots of the tree volupsa nine lays of power i learned from bolthorn, bestla's father odin in the havamal yggdrasil is a prime example of the organic model of the great chain of being. in the elder edda yggdrasil is identified as a sacred ash tree, it becomes obvious that this is no ordinary tree but a tree which glyphs the worlds and which encompasses many strata's of reality. in the grimnismal yggddrasil is described as having three great roots, one lies under hel, the realm of t

) niflheim is the realm of ice and darkness, while muspellsheim is the world of fire and heat. the interaction between fire and ice, niflheim and muspellsheim (2nd c) is a major dynamic within the activity of the world tree. this interaction occurs in ginnungagap (1st c, an empty abyss, where the fire of muspellsheim mets of the icy rivers of niflheim and from this dynamic the giant ymir is born. odin and his brother, born from giants, carve up the body of ymir to create midgard. ymirs bones become the moutains, his teeth the rocks, his blood the rivers, his skull the vault of the sky, his hair the forests and grasses. like the titans, ymir's death creates mankind. hence midgard is a checkerboard on which fire and ice battle against each other until the game is completed. from the interact

the light elves or lojosalfar. there are two classes of elves, the light inhabit the lighter realms above midgard, while the dark elves (dwarves) inhabit the subterranean realm. asgard, the home of the aesir of sky gods is above the elven world and is the crown of the world tree. the name asgard means "enclosure of the gods. within asgard is valhalla, the hall of the fallen where the warriors of odin are taken if they are killed in battle and from where they will return to the final battle or ragnarok. snorri sturlson describes an inner enclosure (gardh) as being built right within the center of midgard, the sacred space of human society. however, this enclosure, this true essence of midgard as asgard, can only be entered by crossing the bifrost. the gnostic handbook page 23 within asgard

obably the most ancient model of the universe, while the logos and sophia model is central to gnosticism, this older structure is found in many nature religions. the divine will is seen as either the cosmic father or mother and the earth is the wife, husband or lover. in this mythology the underworld is intricately connected to the earth, even seen as part of it. in the norse tradition the god is odin or tyr (much earlier) and he is the lord of the upper world (asgard) and hel is the goddess of the underworld and earth. hel and freya are much the same goddess, she simply split into two and was demoted due to strong patriarchal and later christian influences. she was the goddess of death and rebirth, fertility and suffering, she guards the dead and sends them back to life, she compliments a

d he is the lord of the upper world (asgard) and hel is the goddess of the underworld and earth. hel and freya are much the same goddess, she simply split into two and was demoted due to strong patriarchal and later christian influences. she was the goddess of death and rebirth, fertility and suffering, she guards the dead and sends them back to life, she compliments and completes the lord or tyr/odin. in celtic mythology she guards the great cauldron and in the norse this cauldron is the seething cauldron from which the drizzle formed from fire and ice coalesces and from which life is formulated. we can see a cross over with sophia, she too is the goddess of the departed and the earth. this system also embraces the logos and sophia model but expresses it in a different way. the danger wit

omes more complex when we start to consider its full ramifications. if the watchers interbred with mankind and produced giants, then this is bizarre enough. however, if their hanged genetic make up (due to their fall) has mixed with ours then mind is a mixture of two lifestreams. this mixture is found hinted at in all literature, in norse mythology we are a mixture of the giants and the breath of odin, in some schools of gnosticism were are a mixture of pre-adamite and adamite stock, in others, we are a mixture of the soil of the earth and the divine breath. this biological conflict is important as it explains why we have such different models of experience. there is so much evidence for mans violence and destructiveness, way even beyond that of the animal kingdom and yet also so much evid

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f runic interpretation, one of the more complete is futhark. in futhark there is a fully developed symbol system which correlates sound, letters, bodily postures, dates and timing as many other correspondences. both the druidic traditions and the runic seem to have much in common with the ariosophic hebraic forms. while the outer form may vary, the essential gnosis remains the same. the legend of odin in norse mythology odin is the god of magic, his name originates from the anglo-saxon and means pure spirit. he may be equated with thoth and mercury, but has many discrete and unique characteristics. odin is believed to be responsible for bringing runecraft to humanity. as part of his initiatory quest he hung on the world tree (ygdrassill) for nine days and nights and finally, falling from t

ible for bringing runecraft to humanity. as part of his initiatory quest he hung on the world tree (ygdrassill) for nine days and nights and finally, falling from the tree, grasped the runes to his bosom and brought them back to earth. the kabbalistic imagery here is obvious, and shows how widely the shamanic practises of the ariosophic tradition had spread across the globe. the shamanic quest of odin is beautifully expressed in the poetic form of the elder edda. i trow that i hung on the windy tree, swing there nights all nine, gashed with a blade, bloodied for odin, myself an offering to myself, knotted to that tree, no man knows whither the roots of it run, gnostic theurgy page 113 none gave me bread, none gave me drink, down to the depths i peered, to snatch up the runes with a roaring

ffering to myself, knotted to that tree, no man knows whither the roots of it run, gnostic theurgy page 113 none gave me bread, none gave me drink, down to the depths i peered, to snatch up the runes with a roaring scream and fell in a dizzied swoon. well-being i won and wisdom too, i grew and joyed in my growth from a word to a word, i was led to a word from a deed to another deed. the legend of odin symbolises the initiatory quest of transfiguration. while using the shamanic imagery of the indo-europeans, it embodies the transformation process albeit expressed in a different, while equally expressive and potent symbol system. as we experience the tree of life (ygdrassill) gaining knowledge from each of its nine centres (except earth, we must grasp (comprehend) the secret alphabet (the pa

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of wisdom is in my heart. my tongue is the sanctuary of truth and a god sitteth upon my lips. my word is accomplished every day, and the desire of my heart realizes itself as that of ptah when he created his works. i am eternal, therefore all things are of my design. therefore, do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in silence, unutterable wisdom, all light or power. thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity. come thou forth i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. thou star of the east that didst conduct the magi, thou art the same all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness, rising, descending, changing ever yet ever the same. the sun is thy father; thy mother the moon. the w

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isdom is in my heart. my tongue is the sanctuary of truth, and a god sitteth upon my lips. my word is accomplished every day, and the desire of my heart realizes itself as that of ptah when he created his works. i am eternal, therefore all things are of my design. therefore, do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence, unutterable wisdom, all light or power. thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity. come thou forth i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. thou star of the east that didst conduct the magi, thou art the same, all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness, rising, descending, changing ever, yet ever the same. the sun is thy father; thy mother the moon. the

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the same strategy was adopted by survivors of the universal deluge as described in certain central american myths? such links and crossovers in myth between the themes of precession and global catastrophe are extremely common. 4 hamlet s mill, p. 7. 5 grimnismol 23, the poetic edda, p. 93, cited in death of gods in ancient egypt, p. 199; hamlet s mill, p. 162; elsa brita titchenell, the masks of odin, theosophical university press, pasadena, 1988, p. 168. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 242 seen to rise in a different constellation (thus if the sun rises in pisces at the spring equinox, as it does at present, it must rise in virgo at the autumn equinox, in gemini at the winter solstice and in sagittarius at the summer solstice. on each of these four occasions for the last 2000 yea

esent the frame of a world age. actually the frame defines a world age. because the polar axis and the colures form an invisible whole, the entire frame is thrown out of kilter if one part is moved. when that happens a new pole star with appropriate colures of its own must replace the obsolete apparatus.17 furthermore, the engulfing whirlpool: 12 grottasongr, the song of the mill, in the masks of odin, p. 198. 13 ibid, p. 201. 14 grottasongr, cited in hamlet s mill, p. 89-90. 15 ibid, p. 2. 16 ibid. 17 ibid, p. 232. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 245 belongs to the stock-in-trade of ancient fable. it appears in the odyssey as charybdis in the straits of messina, and again in other cultures in the indian ocean and the pacific. it is found there, too, curiously enough, with an overh

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d has twelve inferiors added to him, which raises the total by one: loki is called the thirteenth among the gods, and gna among the goddesses. snorri 21 p names thirteen ases, and even more asynjas. these triads and twelves of the gods are reflected again in the heroes and wise-women: mannus begot three sons, heads of races (p. 345. 395, heimdall founded three orders, the ynglinga saga 2, 7 calls odin's fellow-gods his twelve princes (hofdingjar; westmar has twelve sons (saxo lii peeface. gram. p. 68; there were thirteen valkyrs (p. 421, and three noriis. in welf's retinue are twelve heroes (p, 395; king charles's twelve might indeed be traced to the twelve apostles^ and the poem itself points to that, but the same thing is found in numberless myths and legends. the might of the godlike ki

on, p. 384n. snorri calls o^inn' forspar, liolkunnigr' and makes him' galdr qvesa' yngl. saga cap. 4. 5. 7. saxo gram. p. 18 ascribes to him' praestigia' and curiously divides all magicians (mathematici; see forcellini sub v) into three kinds, viz. giants, magi and deities (p. 9; conf. his statements (p. 108) on tlior and otbin' magicae artis imbuti' so the chronicon erici (circ. 1288) represents odin as' incautator et magus' 1u31 1032 magic. notions and practices were declared to be deceit and sinful delusion: the old gods fell back and changed into devils, and all that pertained to their worship into devilish jugglery. presently there sprang up tales of the evil one^s immediate connexion with sorcery; and out of this proceeded the most incredible, most cruel jumbling up of imagination an

e, where it was hid, ok hann kunni ;au lios, er upplaukz fyrir honum (unlocked itself to him) iorsin ok bicirg ok steinar ok haugarnir, ok hatt (bound) hann mes ordum einum]?a er fyrir biuggu (dwelt, ok gekk (went) inn ok tok j^ar slikt er hann vildi' afzelius in sagoh. 1, 4 mentions, too briefly and indistinctly, a strange swedish folktale of one kettil runske of kettilsas in alsheda, avho stole odin's rune-sticlis (runekaflai, and with them cast a spell on his hounds and bulls, nay at last on the merwoman that would have come to odin's aid. by this odin seems to be meant a shepherd or giant representing the former god; the surname rimshe evidently has to do with the acquisition and possession of the staves. songs and runes then can do very great things. they are able to kill and bring to

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opria nave constructo funeranctum constituit; dena autem gubernatorum corpora unius puppis igne consumi praecepit; ducem quempiam aut regem interfectum proprio injectum navigio concremari.^j the dead larlm&gus is conveyed in a ship, by his widow to a holy land, larlm. saga cap. 45. a swedish folk-tale (afzelms 1, 4) speaks of a golden ship lying sunk near t schlusselberg at runemadj iit that ship odin is said to have carried the slain from bravalla_fo valliall. in the 0. ft. romance of lancelot__du lac, ed. 1591, p. 147 the demoiselle d escalot arranges what is to be done with her body: le pria, que son corps fut mis en une nef richement equippee, que von laisseroit aller an gre du vent sans conduite. 1 and in the romance of gawan a swan tows a boat in which lies a dead knight (keller s ro

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uuuer: cuftfrvm a gmm woruup, i. p. 213. ilmnkkim ellant booki "in order to pnvt tltat boddlia luul beea in realit; the nwth of the ^rptian^ that he was mxmay, ot wodan, or zoroaatcr, or fjrthagotaa. ereti sir. w. jonea. identified buddha fint with odin and aftoirarda with stuthak" we are in the bfawtmoitb centnrr, not in tbe ei^leenth; and tboach to write booki on the auutority of the eaiiieat orientaliiti n> 7 in ww mom be viewed ai a muk o( teqtect for old agtv it it not alwata aafe to ti7 the eiqteri- ncdt in our time. hence uui highly initrnctive vdnne ladn
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yama [as god of last judgement] light k 31 surya (as) fire k 32 brahma quiescence r 32 bis [prithivi] earth k 31 bis [akasa] breathing r table i (continued) 9 xxiv. certain of the hindu and buddhist results. xxv- xxxii. xxxiii. some scandinavian gods. xxxiv. some greek gods. 0 nerodha-samapatti, nirvikalpa-samadhi, shiva darshana. pan. z1z1 unity with brahma, atma darshana wotan zeus, iacchus 2. odin athena, uranus[[hermes] 3. frigga cybele, demeter, rhea, her[[psych, kronos] 4. wotan poseidon[[zeus] 5. thor ares, hades 6 vishvarupa-darshana. iacchus, apollo, adonis[[dionysus, bacchus] 7. freya aphrodit, nik 8. odin, loki hermes 9. zeus (as d, diana of epheus (as phallic stone[[and[[eros] 1010 vision of the higher self, the various dhyanas or jhanas. persephone [adonis, psych 11 vaya-bhaw

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uth! and a god sitteth upon my lips. 11. my word is accomplished every day! and the desire of my heart realises itself, as that of ptah when he createth! i am eternal; therefore all things are as my designs; therefore do all things obey my word. therefore do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence: unutterable wisdom! all-light! all-power! svb figvra lxiv 3 thoth! hermes! mercury! odin! by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity: come thou forth, i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. 12. thou, star of the east, that didst conduct the magi! thou art the same all-present in heaven and in hell! thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness! rising, descending! changing ever, yet ever the same! the sun is thy father! thy mother the moo

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behavior. none of the definitions, however, will hold directly for the characters and stories this book treats. that is in part because of the enormous time frame: materials relevant to the study of scandinavian mythology, broadly defined, span two millennia or more. but even if we limit the discussion to the relatively small body of texts from the viking age and later middle ages about the gods odin, thor, frey, and the others and their constant battles with forces of evil and chaos, it is difficult to reconcile these texts with any one of the narrow definitions of myth suggested above. certainly they had some truth value to the people who composed them and those who wrote them down, but these were not always the same people.usually they were not.and it is obvious that what was true, sac

rate order by the unknown scribe who wrote it, an order that moves from the mythological to the heroic. it is ordered within the mythological and heroic sections as well. the manuscript begins with voluspa (prophecy of the seeress, which gives a summary of the entire mythology, from the origin of the cosmos to its destruc- 12 norse mythology tion to its rebirth. voluspa can also be regarded as an odin poem, since it is odin who causes the seeress voicing it to speak. the following three poems are also odin poems: havamal (words of the high one, which contains odinic wisdom and several stories that describe the acquisition of that wisdom; vafthrudnismal (words of vafthrudnir, which describes the context of wisdom between odin and the wise giant vafthrudnir; and grimnismal (words of grimnir

it is odin who causes the seeress voicing it to speak. the following three poems are also odin poems: havamal (words of the high one, which contains odinic wisdom and several stories that describe the acquisition of that wisdom; vafthrudnismal (words of vafthrudnir, which describes the context of wisdom between odin and the wise giant vafthrudnir; and grimnismal (words of grimnir, which describes odin fs ecstatic wisdom performance at the hall of the human king geirrod. the next poem, skirnismal (words of skirnir) or for skirnis (skirnir fs journey, belongs to frey, in that it describes the journey of frey fs servant skirnir to woo the giantess gerd. the following four poems are probably to be assigned to thor. the first of these is harbardsljod (song of harbard, in which thor and a disgui

fs ecstatic wisdom performance at the hall of the human king geirrod. the next poem, skirnismal (words of skirnir) or for skirnis (skirnir fs journey, belongs to frey, in that it describes the journey of frey fs servant skirnir to woo the giantess gerd. the following four poems are probably to be assigned to thor. the first of these is harbardsljod (song of harbard, in which thor and a disguised odin exchange insults and anecdotes. the next is hymiskvida (hymir fs poem, an account of thor fs journey to the giant hymir and fishing up of the midgard serpent. lokasenna (loki fs verbal duel) follows, and in it loki insults all the gods. it is a thor poem because it is thor who finally chases loki away. the last of the thor poems is thrymskvida (the poem of thrym, a burlesque in which thor, di

nor of the giants. alvissmal has another such creature in alviss, the gall-wise h dwarf who sues for the hand of thor fs daughter and is kept dispensing synonyms by the god until the sun comes up and turns the dwarf to stone. at this point the heroic poems begin, but the gods are by no means wholly absent, especially from the poems telling the early parts of the story of sigurd the dragon-slayer. odin, hoenir, and loki appear in the prose header to reginsmal (reginn fs poem, and loki appears in the poem itself. there are several allusions to odin, and these poems contain much fascinating information about such mythological beings as norns, dwarfs, and the like. there is a second main manuscript containing many of these poems, but, unlike codex regius of the poetic edda, it is not apparentl

was retained as manuscript number 748 in the arnamagnaan collection in copenhagen, it is called am 748. it was written down a bit later than codex regius of the poetic edda. there are few differences between the texts of the poems in the two manuscripts, but am 748 contains a mythological poem not included in codex regius of the poetic edda, namely, baldrs draumar (baldr fs dreams, an account of odin fs questioning of a seeress about the fate of baldr. one additional mythological poem, rigsthula (rig fs rhymed list, which tells of the origins of the human social order, is found in a manuscript of snorri fs edda. each eddic poem had its own history before it was written down, and there has been much speculation about the dates and origins of the various poems. most scholars believe strongl

any stories of events in which the asir have participated. the first of these is the full story of the alienation and recovery of idun and her apples, the death of thjazi, and the compensation granted to skadi. when bragi has finished, he and agir have a short conversation about a few kennings, and then agir asks bragi the origin of poetry, which elicits the story of the origin and acquisition by odin of the mead of poetry. at the end of this story agir puts questions and bragi answers them in a way that looks very much like the master-disciple dialogue that so typifies didactic texts in the middle ages. scholars pay special attention to this dialogue, for it sets forth more clearly than in any other place some of the principles of skaldic poetry. after it there follows a paragraph invitin

ably, one of his copyists, and it intrudes on the framing device of a dialogue between agir and bragi. that device is taken up again when snorri introduces the story of thor fs duel with hrungnir and of thor fs journey to geirrod, but thereafter it is dropped. additional mythic narratives in skaldskaparmal include the acquisition from one set of dwarfs of sif fs golden hair, the ship skidbladnir, odin fs spear gungnir, odin fs ring draupnir, frey fs boar gullinborsti, and thor fs hammer mjollnir, and the subsequent acquisition from another dwarf of the gold and cursed ring that play a large role in heroic legend. a good deal of heroic legend is also recounted in skaldskaparmal. it seems that snorri next was moved to write up the rest of the myths and to do so with a frame story consistentl

he conceals his name. har stipulates a wager of heads, but this motif is dropped; indeed, the nearest introduction 19 king gylfi of sweden questions har, jafnhar, and thridi, from dg 11, a fourteenth-century manuscript containing snorri sturluson fs prose edda (werner forman/art resource) analogy to the hall fs disappearance at the end of the text is thor fs visit to utgarda-loki, not any myth of odin. gylfi takes the odin-role in this contest of wisdom, as the traveler under an assumed name, and indeed this assumed name, gangleri, is one of odin fs in grimnismal, stanza 46 and elsewhere. this is somewhat ironic, since har, jafnhar, and even thridi are also names of odin, the latter two also in grimnismal. but as we shall see, har, jafnhar, and thridi probably also, in snorri fs view, were

fi takes the odin-role in this contest of wisdom, as the traveler under an assumed name, and indeed this assumed name, gangleri, is one of odin fs in grimnismal, stanza 46 and elsewhere. this is somewhat ironic, since har, jafnhar, and even thridi are also names of odin, the latter two also in grimnismal. but as we shall see, har, jafnhar, and thridi probably also, in snorri fs view, were no more odin than gylfi was. these three sections, in the opposite order from the one in which i just presented them (i.e, gylfaginning, skaldskaparmal, hattatal) and probably in the opposite order from the one in which snorri wrote them, make up, with a prologue, snorri fs edda, as the work is called in one of its manuscripts. the meaning of this word is not clear, but it seems to have to do with latin e

ed, and he took over the kingdom of loricus, trakia (thrace, gwhich we call thrudheim. then he traveled widely from country to country, explored the entire continent, and alone defeated all berserks and all giants and the greatest dragon and many animals. h he married sibil, a seeress, gwhom we call sif. h he begat an entire family, and eighteen generations later was born voden; gwe call that one odin. h troy was a known place, and agamemnon and priam were historical figures known in iceland from the twelfth century onward. snorri sets thor in that environment; that is, he tells us that there was a historical figure whom the nordic peoples called thor who lived before christ was born and who performed historical acts (it is important to remember that berserks and dragons were not as fantas

ns whose actions are reinterpreted and deified by later generations is called geuhemerism, h after the greek philosopher euhemeros (fl. 300 b.c.e, whose claim to have discovered an inscription showing that zeus was a mortal king elevated to deity was generalized into a theory that has had considerable currency down into modern times. snorri fs euhemerism in the prologue to his edda continues with odin, whose gift of prophecy informs him that his future lies to the north. he sets off from tyrkland with a large band of followers, young and old, men and women, and they brought many precious things with them. wherever they went people said great things about them, gso that they seemed more like gods than humans. h odin tarries for a while in saxony and there sets up his sons as kings. for exam

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dictates of the invisible lord. some gnostics were of the opinion that the jewish god, jehovah, was the demiurgus. this concept, under a slightly different name, apparently influenced medi val rosicrucianism, which viewed jehovah as the lord of the material universe rather than as the supreme deity. mythology abounds with the stories of gods who partook of both celestial and terrestrial natures. odin, of scandinavia, is a good example of a deity subject to mortality, bowing before the laws of nature and yet being, in certain senses at least, a supreme deity. the gnostic viewpoint concerning the christ is well worthy of consideration. this order claimed to be the only sect to have actual pictures of the divine syrian. while these were, in all probability, idealistic conceptions of the savi

rough cimbria to denmark, which acknowledged his fifth son skiold as its sovereign, and passed over to sweden, where gylf, who did homage to the wonderful stranger, and was initiated into his mysteries, then ruled. he soon made himself master here, built sigtuna as the capital of his empire, and promulgated a new code of laws, and established the sacred mysteries. he, himself, assumed the name of odin, founded the priesthood of the twelve drottars (druids) who conducted the secret worship, and the administration of justice, and, as prophets, revealed the future. the secret rites of these mysteries celebrated the death of balder, the beautiful and lovely, and represented the grief of gods and men at his death, and his restoration to life (general history of freemasonry) after his death, the

d the priesthood of the twelve drottars (druids) who conducted the secret worship, and the administration of justice, and, as prophets, revealed the future. the secret rites of these mysteries celebrated the death of balder, the beautiful and lovely, and represented the grief of gods and men at his death, and his restoration to life (general history of freemasonry) after his death, the historical odin was apotheosized, his identity being merged into that of the mythological odin, god of wisdom, whose cult he had promulgated. odinism then supplanted the worship of thor, the thunderer, the supreme deity of the ancient scandinavian pantheon. the mound where, according to legend, king odin was buried is still to be seen near the site of his great temple at upsala. the twelve drottars who presi

wisdom, whose cult he had promulgated. odinism then supplanted the worship of thor, the thunderer, the supreme deity of the ancient scandinavian pantheon. the mound where, according to legend, king odin was buried is still to be seen near the site of his great temple at upsala. the twelve drottars who presided over the odinic mysteries evidently personified the twelve holy and ineffable names of odin. the rituals of the odinic mysteries were very similar to those of the greeks, persians, and brahmins, after which they were patterned. the drottars, who symbolized the signs of the zodiac, were the custodians of the arts and sciences, which they revealed to those who passed successfully the ordeals of initiation. like many other pagan cults, the odinic mysteries, as an institution, were dest

ries, as an institution, were destroyed by christianity, but the underlying cause of their fall was the corruption of the priesthood. mythology is nearly always the ritual and the symbolism of a mystery school. briefly stated, the sacred drama which formed the basis of the odinic mysteries was as follows: the supreme, invisible creator of all things was called all-father. his regent in nature was odin, the one-eyed god. like quetzalcoatl, odin was elevated to the dignity of the supreme deity. according to the drottars, the universe was fashioned from the body of ymir, the hoarfrost giant. ymir was formed from the clouds of mist that rose from ginnungagap, the great cleft in chaos into which the primordial frost giants and flame giants had hurled snow and fire. the three gods--odin, vili, a

universe was fashioned from the body of ymir, the hoarfrost giant. ymir was formed from the clouds of mist that rose from ginnungagap, the great cleft in chaos into which the primordial frost giants and flame giants had hurled snow and fire. the three gods--odin, vili, and ve--slew ymir and from him formed the world. from ymir's various members the different parts of nature were fashioned. after odin had established order, he caused a wonderful palace, called asgard, to be built on the top of a mountain, and here the twelve sir (gods) dwelt together, far above the limitations of mortal men. on this mountain also was valhalla, the palace of the slain, where those who had heroically died fought and feasted day after day. each night their wounds were healed and the boar whose flesh they ate

ere the twelve sir (gods) dwelt together, far above the limitations of mortal men. on this mountain also was valhalla, the palace of the slain, where those who had heroically died fought and feasted day after day. each night their wounds were healed and the boar whose flesh they ate renewed itself as rapidly as it was consumed. balder the beautiful--the scandinavian christ--was the beloved son of odin. balder was not warlike; his kindly and beautiful spirit brought peace and joy to the hearts of the gods, and they all loved him save one. as jesus had a judas among his twelve disciples, so one of the twelve gods was false--loki, the personification of evil. loki caused h thr, the blind god of fate, to shoot balder with a mistletoe arrow. with the death of balder, light and joy vanished from

lematic of the planers. in this room, which symbolized the house of the sir, or wisdom, the neophyte took his oath of secrecy and piety upon the naked blade of a sword. he drank the sanctified mead from a bowl made of a human skull and, having passed successfully through all the tortures and trials designed to divert him from the course of wisdom, he was finally permitted to unveil the mystery of odin--the personification of wisdom. he was presented, in the name of balder, with the sacred ring of the order; he was hailed as a man reborn; and it was said of him that he had died and had been raised again without passing through the gates of death. richard wagner's immortal composition, der ring des nibelungen, is based upon the mystery rituals of the odinic cult. while the great composer too

of antiquity. thus the allegory of the self murdered by the not-self is perpetuated through the religious mysticism of all peoples. the philosophic death and the philosophic resurrection are the lesser and the greater mysteries respectively. a curious aspect of the dying-god myth is that of the hanged man. the most important example of this peculiar conception is found in the odinic rituals where odin hangs himself for nine nights from the branches of the world tree and upon the same occasion also pierces his own side with the sacred spear. as the result of this great sacrifice, odin, while suspended over the depths of nifl-heim, discovered by meditation the runes or alphabets by which later the records of his people were preserved. because of this remarkable experience, odin is sometimes

at the cause of death is the love of the body; and let him learn all things that are, for he who has recognized himself enters into the state of good' click to enlarge a greek form of hermes. from bryant's mythology. the name hermes is derived from "herm" a form of chiram, the personified universal life principle, generally represented by fire. the scandinavians worshiped hermes under the name of odin; the teutons as wotan, and certain of the oriental peoples as buddha, or fo. there are two theories concerning his demise. the first declares that hermes was translated like enoch and carried without death into the presence of god, the second states that he was buried in the valley of ebron and a great treasure placed in his tomb--not a treasure of gold but of books and sacred learning. the e

the sun was the supreme ruler, the planets his privy council, and all nature the subjects of his empire. many deities have been associated with the sun. the greeks believed that apollo, bacchus, dionysos, sabazius, hercules, jason, ulysses, zeus, uranus, and vulcan partook of either the visible or invisible attributes of the sun. the norwegians regarded balder the beautiful as a solar deity, and odin is often connected with the celestial orb, especially because of his one eye. among the egyptians, osiris, ra, anubis, hermes, and even the mysterious ammon himself had points of resemblance with the solar disc. isis was the mother of the sun, and even typhon, the destroyer, was supposed to be a form of solar energy. the egyptian sun myth finally centered around the person of a mysterious dei

whom they are insignia of merit. angels have been invested with wings because, like birds, they were considered to be the intermediaries between the gods and men and to inhabit the air or middle kingdom betwixt heaven and earth. as the dome of the heavens was likened to a skull in the gothic mysteries, so the birds which flew across the sky were regarded as thoughts of the deity. for this reason odin's two messenger ravens were called hugin and munin- thought and memory. among the greeks and romans, the eagle was the appointed bird of jupiter and consequently signified the swiftly moving forces of the demiurgus; hence it was looked upon as the mundane lord of the birds, in contradistinction to the phoenix, which was symbolic of the celestial ruler. the eagle typified the sun in its materi

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imaginary enemy when in fact a relatively simple amulet of beneficence may be all that is required. we must know what we are at hence divination. now in magic and witchcraft, the operations of divination have always been conducted by means of contact with a power which is symbolized by the astrological symbol of mercury. the greeks called this power hermes, the egyptians thoth, the scandinavians odin, the early anglo-saxons woden. this power has generally been connected with the starry sky, the air, storm winds, and also the crossroads. indeed in the voodoo pantheon the power of mercury is often known at maitre carrefour or master of the gross-roads. he is the great mediator between the worlds and is also known as psychopompos or guide of souls. the saxons knew him by the name "earendel

nscribe the numbers in the square as illustrated, in their correct numerical order, 1, 2, 3, 4, onwards, ending with 64. as you write each number, repeat a short invocation to mercury of your own devising, such as "mercury, be propitious to me" or "herne, lord of the crossroads, guide of the dead "earende, the morning star" or even a string of his names from various pantheons like "mercury hermes odin thoth" whichever you prefer. the only important thing to remember is that the charm should summon up a mental image in your mind which in some way strikes your fancy and links the work in hand with an idea concerning mercury, such as wisdom, speed, starlight, the air, a crossroads at night, or even one of the classical images of mercury. it might be as well to consult a book of mythology at t

orned one. janicot. a southern french diminutive of janus or dianus. the devil. literally "little god" derived from early aryan stem div or dev, meaning "holy" or "shining" lucifer "the light bearer" the god seen as the spirit of light and, hence, the sun. simon. possibly a reference to the gnostic magician, simon magus. herne. witch name derived from early english version of the anglo-saxon god, odin or woden. a god of wisdom and storm, and also a guide of the dead, he leads his wild rout across the winter skies accompanied by the baying of his death hounds! gogmagog. prehistoric version of the god and goddess in giant form. andros. the god as worshipped in the weald. adonai or adonis. hebrew for "the lord" dying god, consort of astarte. sabaoth. another hebrew name for god. baphomet. hor

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the first werewolves, lycon, was turned into a wolf by zeus in a form of punishment for a crime. in scandinavia, werewolves were regarded as great warriors who fought for their land and family honor. the werewolf was not one in the actual form of a wolf, however, but a norseman covered in the skin of a bear or wolf. they would attain a mental-shamanistic balance of beast and with a mind sigil of odin and wotan ascend to the battle which would last to the death. their ferocity was legendary and these warriors, who had no one sided concepts of good or evil, found a balance for the love of their culture and family. they fought in harmony with nature. there was however a shadowside within their culture: the great demon-wolf fenrir which devoured the sun; and the woods of "jarnskogarna, which

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ws so much poison that the whole sky and sea are splattered with it. strange flying craft bringing destruction are described: the mighty flood frees the ship known as naglfar, a vessel that the giants were so long inbuildingloki steers the ship of hel with the fenris wolf aboard.they also speak specifically of ragnarok, the war between the gods: the head of mimir (fountain of all wisdom, counsels odin to meet on the field of vigrid, andto wage there such a war that the power of evil would be destroyed forever, even though hisown world would be destroyed with them. now death is the portion of doomed men, red with blood the buildings of gods, the sun turnsblack in the summer after, winds whine.in northern sweden, the laplanders preserve their accounts. their ancient books say:i shall reverse

coils of dna, to the alien and human strands and their incompatibility. the folk-tales which have to do with the evil and good twin, the dark and fair sisters, the whiteand black witches, the twin towers, the true and false knights, the heroes descent andascent, etc, also conceal the same meta-theme. from robin hood to swan lake, fromhercules and the hydra to jason and the golden fleece, from the odin hanging on thewinding tree to conan the barbarian, from alice through the looking glass todungeons and dragons, the themes are one. what is the tree of the east and the treeof the west? what are the two seraphim who guard the ark of the covenant? what arethe gates of v alhalla? why are there twin columns at the portals of illustrious edifices?what do the swastika, the double-headed eagle, the

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through the wardens, who are his ministers "thy sun" says isaiah to jerusalem "shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever" such is the type of a free people. our northern ancestors worshipped this triune deity; odin, the almighty father; frea, his wife, emblem of universal matter; and thor, his son, the mediator. but above all these was the supreme god "the author of everything that existeth, the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" in the temple of eleusis (a sanctuary lighted only by a window in the roof, and representing t

ad the divine word, and have more courage to perform noble deeds. and in the north of europe the druids taught devotion to friends, indulgence for reciprocal wrongs, love of deserved praise, prudence, humanity, hospitality, respect for old age, disregard of the future, temperance, contempt of death, and a chivalrous deference to woman. listen to these maxims from the hava maal, or sublime book of odin "if thou hast a friend, visit him often; the path will grow over with grass, and the trees soon cover it, if thou dost not constantly walk upon it. he is a faithful friend, who, having but two loaves, gives his friend one. be never first to break with thy friend; sorrow wrings the heart of him who has no one save himself with whom to take counsel. there is no virtuous man who has not some vic

reparations commenced at midnight, on the 29th of april. when the initiations were over, on may-eve, fires were kindled on all the cairns and cromlechs in the island, which burned all night to introduce the sports of may-day. the festival was in honor of the sun. the initiations were performed at midnight; and there were three degrees. the gothic mysteries were carried northward from the east, by odin; who, being a great warrior, modelled and varied them to suit his purposes and the genius of his people. he placed over their celebration twelve hierophants, who were alike priests, counsellors of state, and judges from whose decision there was no appeal. he held the numbers three and nine in peculiar veneration and was probably himself the indian buddha. every thrice-three months, thrice-thr

e generation of the gods, the creation of the world, the deluge, and the resurrection, of which that of balder was a type. he was marked with the sign of the cross, and a ring was given to him as a symbol of the divine protection; and also as an emblem of perfection; from which comes the custom of giving a ring to the aspirant in the 14th degree. the point within a circle, and the cube, emblem of odin, were explained to him; and lastly, the nature of the supreme god "the author of everything that existeth, the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" with whom odin the conqueror was by the vulgar confounded: and the triune god of the indians was reproduced, as odin, the almighty father, frea(_rhea_ or _phre, his wi

f all the people of the ancient world. the twelve great gods of egypt are met with everywhere. they were adopted by the greeks and romans; and the latter assigned one of them to each sign of the zodiac. their images were seen at athens, where an altar was erected to each; and they were painted on the porticos. the people of the north had their twelve _azes, or senate of twelve great gods, of whom odin was chief. the japanese had the same number, and like the egyptians divided them into classes, seven, who were the most ancient, and five, afterward added: both of which numbers are well known and consecrated in masonry. there is no more striking proof of the universal adoration paid the stars and constellations, than the arrangement of the hebrew camp in the desert, and the allegory in regar

rides the emblem of the waters, the winged horse of nestor or poseidon: and the serpent, rising heliacally at the autumnal equinox, besetting with poisonous influence the cold constellation sagittarius, is explained as the reptile in the path who "bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward" the same serpent, the oannes aphrenos or musaros of syncellus, was the midgard serpent which odin sunk beneath the sea, but which grew to such a size as to encircle the whole earth. for these asiatic symbols of the contest of the sun-god with the dragon of darkness and winter were imported not only into the zodiac, but into the more homely circle of european legend; and both thor and odin fight with dragons, as apollo did with python, the great scaly snake, achilles with the scamander, an

influence of tao, principle of faith, who produced one, one produced two, two produced three, and three produced all that is. the sclavono-vendes typified the trinity by the three heads of the god triclav; and the pruczi or prussians by the tri-une god perkoun, pikollos, and potrimpos, the deities of _light_ and _thunder, of _hell_ and the _earth, its fruits and animals: and the scandinavians by odin, frea, and thor. in the kabalah, or the hebrew traditional philosophy, the infinite deity, beyond the reach of the human intellect, and without name, form, or limitation, was represented as developing himself, in order to create, and by self-limitation, in ten emanations or out-flowings, called sephiroth, or _rays. the first of these, in the world aziluth, that is, within the deity, was kethe

of oratory, the winged messenger of the gods, bearing the caduceus wreathed with serpents; and in our council he is represented by the orator. the _hindus_ called the sun surya; the _persians, mithras; the _egyptians, osiris; the _assyrians_ and _chald ans, bel; the _scythians_ and _etruscans_ and the ancient _pelasgi, arkaleus or hercules; the _ph nicians, adonai or adon; and the _scandinavians, odin. from the name surya, given by the hindus to the sun, the sect who paid him particular adoration were called _souras. their painters describe his car as drawn by seven green horses. in the temple of visweswara, at benares, there is an ancient piece of sculpture, well executed in stone, representing him sitting in a car drawn by a horse with twelve heads. his charioteer, by whom he is preceded

ted the bloodless spirits, and dragged into the light of day the monster cerberus, justly reputed invincible because an emblem of time itself; he burst the chains of the grave (for busiris is the grave personified, and triumphant at the close as in the dawn of his career, was received after his labors into the repose of the heavenly mansions, living forever with zeus in the arms of eternal youth. odin is said to have borne twelve names among the old germans, and to have had 114 names besides. he was the apollo of the scandinavians, and is represented in the voluspa as destined to slay the monstrous snake. then the sun will be extinguished, the earth be dissolved in the ocean, the stars lose their brightness, and all nature be destroyed, in order that it may be renewed again. from the bosom

ehensible deity, athom. brehm, the silent, self-contemplative, one original god, was the source, to the hindus, of brahma, vishnu, and siva. above zeus, or before him, were kronos and ouranos. over the alohayim was the great nature-god al, and still beyond him, abstract existence, ihuh--he that is, was, and shall be. above all the persian deities was the unlimited time, zeruane-akherene; and over odin and thor was the great scandinavian deity alfadir. the worship of universal nature as a god was too near akin to the worship of a universal soul, to have been the instinctive creed of any savage people or rude race of men. to imagine all nature with all its apparently independent parts, as forming one consistent whole, and as itself a unit, required an amount of experience and a faculty of ge

mblem of god _i.e, man bearing with himself a divine principle. four was a divine number; it referred to the deity, and many ancient nations gave god a name of four letters; as the hebrews, the egyptians amun, the persians sura, the greeks t??s, and the latins deus. this was the tetragrammaton of the hebrews, and the pythagoreans called it tetractys, and swore their most solemn oath by it. so too odin among the scandinavians??s among the greeks, phta among the egyptians, thoth among the phoenicians, and as-ur and nebo among the assyrians. the list might be indefinitely extended. the number 5 was considered as mysterious, because it was compounded of the binary, symbol of the false and double, and the ternary, so interesting in its results. it thus energetically expresses the state of imper

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red several ogres and monsters. before performing the last of his labors heracles had to be initiated into the eleusinian mysteries. on his death, he ascended to olympus to live with the gods. introduction 11 in this belief by the daily rebirth of re, the sun. the vikings believed that warriors who died in battle would feast in the goldenroofed hall of valhalla among the gods, before fighting for odin, the lord of hosts, in the final battle of ragnarok. the roman poet virgil tells us how the hero aeneas found his father anchises in the fields of elysium in the underworld (see p. 67. but when he tried to embrace him, he was as insubstantial as air. when he then saw souls flocking to drink the water of oblivion to forget their former lives, and be born again, he asked anchises what was happe

, it breaks. be it a quetzal feather, it tears apart. not forever on earth; only a little while here. in a world where the only certainty is uncertainty, the great myths offer us wisdom and comfort to prepare us for our own journey to the grandfather, into the hands of the unknown god. neil philip hermod descends to the underworld this 18th-century manuscript illustration shows hermod, the son of odin, descending to the underworld on odin s eight-legged steed sleipnir to try to rescue his brother balder, who had been slain through the treachery of the god loki. hel agreed to let balder go if all the world wept for him; but loki refused. as a result, the gods hunted loki down and tied him up in torment but at ragnarok, loki will break loose, and lead the hordes of the dead to war in a ship

olf romulus and remus the norse gods 68 the norse gods o din the chief god, or all-father of the norse gods and his brothers, vili and ve, created the world from the body of the first living creature, the frost giant ymir, whom they killed. ymir had come into being when the fiery sparks of the hot, southern land of muspell had met with the melting ice of niflheim, the cold land in the north. when odin and his brothers killed him, ymir s blood drowned all the frost giants except bergelmir and his wife, who later bore a race of giants, forever opposed to the norse gods (see opposite. once he was dead, the brothers used ymir s bones to make mountains, his skull to make the dome of the sky, and his blood became the seas. then they set the stars, the sun, and the moon in the sky. one day, when

iants, forever opposed to the norse gods (see opposite. once he was dead, the brothers used ymir s bones to make mountains, his skull to make the dome of the sky, and his blood became the seas. then they set the stars, the sun, and the moon in the sky. one day, when walking along the beach, they found two tree trunks an ash and an elm. from these, they made the first man and woman, ask and embla. odin breathed the spirit of life into them, vili gave them thoughts and feelings, and ve gave them hearing and sight. they were given the realm of midgard middle earth to live in (see pp. 70 71. the gods lived in the realm of asgard. there were two races of gods, the aesir and the vanir, who waged war against each other until they agreed to a truce. of the three gods depicted in this tapestry, the

d the spirit of life into them, vili gave them thoughts and feelings, and ve gave them hearing and sight. they were given the realm of midgard middle earth to live in (see pp. 70 71. the gods lived in the realm of asgard. there were two races of gods, the aesir and the vanir, who waged war against each other until they agreed to a truce. of the three gods depicted in this tapestry, the battle god odin and his warlike son thor were aesir, and freyr, the fertility god, was one of the vanir. freyr went to live with the aesir to seal the truce. the ride of the valkyries by arthur rackham an 11th-century account of the heathen temple at uppsala tells us that odin, thor, and freyr were the three most important gods, and describes how they were worshiped in the form of statues, and how sacrifices

nt of the heathen temple at uppsala tells us that odin, thor, and freyr were the three most important gods, and describes how they were worshiped in the form of statues, and how sacrifices of dogs, horses, and men were made to them. much less is known about the viking goddesses than the gods, though one primary source, snorri sturluson, claims that they were just as holy and powerful. missing eye odin has only one eye. he sacrificed the other one for a single mouthful of water from the spring of wisdom, which bubbled from underneath the second root of the world tree yggdrasil (see pp. 70 71. odin, lord of hosts odin had many names and many disguises, but he is most often invoked as a battle god. here, he carries an ax, but more frequently carries the spear gungnir; one of his epithets is s

eye. he sacrificed the other one for a single mouthful of water from the spring of wisdom, which bubbled from underneath the second root of the world tree yggdrasil (see pp. 70 71. odin, lord of hosts odin had many names and many disguises, but he is most often invoked as a battle god. here, he carries an ax, but more frequently carries the spear gungnir; one of his epithets is spear-brandisher. odin inspired warriors with battle ecstasy, and welcomed the battle dead in his paradise hall of valhalla. world tree odin once hanged himself on the world tree, yggdrasil, for nine days and nights. pierced with a spear, he sacrificed himself to himself, in a magic rite to bring him hidden knowledge. on the ninth day, he saw magic runes below him. when he managed to lift them, they set him free an

e odin once hanged himself on the world tree, yggdrasil, for nine days and nights. pierced with a spear, he sacrificed himself to himself, in a magic rite to bring him hidden knowledge. on the ninth day, he saw magic runes below him. when he managed to lift them, they set him free and filled him with power. the valkyries the valkyries were supernatural women who had several roles: they lived with odin in the golden hall of valhalla, where they served ale to the shades of dead warriors; they also rode into battle in armor, wielding spears, and allotting victory and defeat valkyrie literally meaning chooser of the slain. two valkyries, gunn and rota, chose men for death, accompanied by skuld (necessity, the youngest of the norns, one of the three fates who shaped men s lives. the valkyries m

s; they also rode into battle in armor, wielding spears, and allotting victory and defeat valkyrie literally meaning chooser of the slain. two valkyries, gunn and rota, chose men for death, accompanied by skuld (necessity, the youngest of the norns, one of the three fates who shaped men s lives. the valkyries may have had a special relationship with the warriors known as berserks who, inspired by odin s battle fury, flung off their armor to fight with supernatural strength. certainly the beserks were likely to die in battle, and so win a place in valhalla, where they split their time between fighting and drinking. valhalla was envisaged as a vast golden hall, with a roof of shields, a frame of spears, and 540 doors, through each of which 800 warriors would be able to march abreast at the l

in valhalla, where they split their time between fighting and drinking. valhalla was envisaged as a vast golden hall, with a roof of shields, a frame of spears, and 540 doors, through each of which 800 warriors would be able to march abreast at the last battle of ragnarok. the norse gods 69 freyr, god of fertility freyr, a god of fertility, was originally one of the vanir, who became subsumed in odin s more warlike aesir. freyr and his sister freya were the children of njord, the god of the sea. ask, the first ma n ask and his wife embla were the first man and woman. they were created by odin from logs on the seashore and are said to be the ancestors of all mankind. ear of corn freyr holds an ear of corn, in token of his role as the god who controls rain and sunshine. he is also a god of

the thrower s hand. thor s hamm er, mjollnir, enabled the aesir to protect asgard against the giants. a giant did once steal it and would only return it if the goddess freya would marry him. so thor and loki dressed up as freya and her maid. when mjollnir was placed in thor s lap to bless the union, he discarded his disguise and killed all the giants. thor, god of thunder thor the thunder god was odin s eldest son; his mother was the earth. he was immensely strong and famed for his enormous appetite. in a contest in the land of the giants, he drank so much of the sea at one gulp that he created the tides. he traveled in a chariot drawn by two goats. viking ta pestr y this picture shows a detail from a viking tapestry dating from the 12th century. it shows the aesir gods odin and thor, and

contest in the land of the giants, he drank so much of the sea at one gulp that he created the tides. he traveled in a chariot drawn by two goats. viking ta pestr y this picture shows a detail from a viking tapestry dating from the 12th century. it shows the aesir gods odin and thor, and freyr, who was one of the vanir. it used to hang in a church in halsingland. early germanic peoples worshiped odin as wotan or woden, the origin of the word wednesday. his wife frigg, is the origin of friday, thor gives us the word for thursday and tiw or tiwaz, another germanic battle god, is the source for tuesday. tiw survives as tyr in norse mythology, but most of his functions seem to have been transferred to odin. hammer rav en friends of odin odin is often depicted with his two ravens, huginn and m

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n nature makes it clear that it- and the god it expresses. is of extra-dimensional or "extra-terrestrial" origin. and from my manifest semblance, which alone is not of earth" the north solstice working for the illumination of the relationship between woden and set classification: v2- a41.w- 1 author: stephen e. flowers ii date: north solstice, xix html revision: october 26, 1998 ce subject: woden/odin, set reading list #3 #14 #17 the north solstice working for the illumination of the relationship between woden and set [performed outside, with the altar facing the north star, and the constellation of the thigh to the left. the pentagram of set is affixed beneath the north star, with images of set to the left and woden to the right. arrange the altar according to setian custom [dress for wor

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abits the ancient one of spirit which in this case can be assimilated with the vast powers of the black man of the sabbath or apethiui. the basic principle of the black mans function is to be found in the void (p. 99 gives a call unto this power as well as a formulae of this aats primal atavism from p. 99-103. this cell is the source of creation of the magical alphabet. in the call gods like exu, odin, shiva are evoked as openers of the crossroad gates. in the patakis (mythical legends) of eshu and also his nigerian counterpart eleggua there are many stories telling about this deities oppressive nature and his function as the taskmaster of the gods, his own assignment of taking the worshippers offerings to god for acceptance. he is the inter-mediary between man and god and he opens possibi

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tian in origin. of course, i do not always explain that. yet this is more than just me trying to be clever. this fluidity of expression is a central part of spiritist witchcraft. the gods and goddesses that are the mysteries couple and breed incestuously, and our familiars copulate with everything all the time. many of the genuinely old spells of english witchcraft call as readily on the power of odin as they do upon the saints, apostles and martyrs. hell, some even call on devils and demons as well. people are sometimes a little baffled by this. whatever our interests and spirituality as adults, most of us have been subjected to christian brainwashing of one sort or another since early childhood. as such, its iconography and mystery are imprinted quite thoroughly in our deeper minds. henc

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are the gods of fertility and the forces of nature. the third are the jotnar, or giants that are in constant conflict with the aesir and represent destruction and chaos. within these classes are a number of specific gods and goddesses: thor, the thunderer, who races across the sky in his chariot to create thunder. thor wields the divine hammer, called mjollnir. he is the god of weather and crops. odin, the one-eyed god, who gave up an eye to drink from the fountain of wisdom. odin is the wise one, the magician, who acquired the secrets of the northern european runic alphabet (also called runes) by hanging for nine nights from the tree yggdrasil. the celtic goddess bridgit, or brigit, was made a saint by the catholic church. as older religions in europe encountered newer ones like christian

wings. werner forman/corbis. world religions: almanac 377 neo-paganism frey is the god of yuletide (a celebration of the winter solstice) because he was born on that day, which usually falls on december 21. frey is the god of plenty and of peace. he provides prosperity and fertility. the goddess of love, sexuality, and beauty is freya, or freyja. she is the leader of the valkyries, the maidens of odin who choose the greatest warriors slain in battle and conduct them to odin s hall, valhalla. frigg, or frigga, as odin s wife, is the patroness of married women and of the household and hearth. skadi is the goddess of skiing, hunting, death, and independence. ostara is the goddess of fertility who is honored at the spring equinox. a variation of her name is eostre, from which the word easter i

ols of easter in the west. asatru also honors the landvaettir, or the land spirits that inhabit the streams, earth, and forests. asatru belief says that the universe was created when muspelheim, or the land of fire, and niflheim, or the land of ice, moved toward each other over an empty space called ginnungigap. when they collided, the universe was born. the earth was created when three brothers, odin, vili, and ve, killed a giant, whose body became the earth. these brothers then created humanity from two trees. another god, rig, came to earth to create the social classes. the gods granted humans od, or ecstasy, to separate them from the animals and to provide them with a connection to the gods. asatruars believe that when they die, evil people are sent to a realm of torment called hifhel

are lengthy poems about heroic and legendary figures in scandinavia) holidays include celebration of the vernal equinox and the summer solstice; the charming of the plow in february; fogmoon, a celebration of the dead in november; and the blot ritual, a sacrificial offering to the gods that consists of such items as fruit or grains. sacred symbols include the axe, thor s hammer, and the horns of odin. 378 world religions: almanac neo-paganism druidism historical information about druidism is very slight. while the religion is often thought of as celtic, some scholars believe that it was being practiced in northern and western europe before the arrival of the celts, who spread throughout europe over a period of thousands of years. the original celts may have come out of the region around t

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he woman in scarlet? also in the bible, we find that esau was born red (genesis 25:25, and god says "i have hated esau" the color red has a long and non-illustrious history of whoredom and violence. in pre-vedic india the people worshipped a primitive form of shiva as the "red god" and as "the howler" the god and planet mars was known by the ancients as the red god. in scandinavia, the major god, odin, had clothing, shield symbols and runes of red color. a hero viking's death became celebrated on the calendar as a "red-letter day" and thus we have this phrase in common use today. robin was the god of witches in the forest and when human sacrifices were made, they were dedicated to robin redbreast, or the slain cock robin. updated to more recent times, we find that in her occult book, a tre

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sun in its inner form where it shines inside man and reveals the hidden qliphotic worlds. the ordinary sun is the outer sun that shines on the ordinary world. the black sun is the god set in the typhonian alchemy, while the ordinary sun is sets twin horus. in old norse mythology balder corresponds with the ordinary sun and his blind brother h der or loke with the black sun. h der is similar with odin and also odin corresponds with the black sun. thagirion is the sun of the shadow side, which can be interpretated as the sun in the underworld balder in hel, ra in amenti etc. the sun is the symbol of the unity of the whole self that can be aware of itself only when it is in the underworld.this is illustrated by chepera, the principal of existence and the principal of becoming, that carries t

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s in 253. historian jeffrey burton russell states that in the early medieval liturgies, there were three kinds of common exorcisms the exorcism or blessing of houses or objects, of those about to receive baptism, and of people believed to be possessed by demons. in various parts of europe, the priest conducting the exorcism might also use the rites to banish such pre-christian deities as thor and odin. accounts of demonic possession were commonplace in ancient egypt, babylonia, and persia from the earliest times. although there are no accounts of demonic possession or of exorcism in the old testament, the casting out of demons is an integral part of jesus ministry and it is an important aspect of the earthly assignments that he gives to his followers( then he called together his twelve apo

gh the term is often used by some to refer to an alien spacecraft. ufologist someone who investigates the reports and sightings of unidentified flying objects. valhalla in norse mythology, when the souls of heroes are killed in battle, they spend eternity in a great hall, which is called valhalla. from the old norse valhall, literally meaning hall of the slain. valkyrie one of the 12 handmaids of odin in norse mythology who ride their horses over the battlefield as they escort the souls of slain heroes to valhalla. from the old norse valkyrja, meaning literally chooser of the slain. vision from the latin vis, to see. faculty of sight or a mental image produced by imagination. can refer to a mystical experience of seeing as if with the eyes, only through a supernatural means such as in a dr

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emstone or stone, believed to have magical powers or properties. from the greek telesma, meaning something consecrated, telein, to complete, and telos, result. valhalla in norse mythology, when the souls of heroes are killed in battle, they spend eternity in a great hall, which is called valhalla. from the old norse valhall, literally meaning hall of the slain. valkyrie one of the 12 handmaids of odin in norse mythology who ride their horses over the battlefield as they escort the souls of slain heroes to valhalla. from the old 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 238 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends norse valkyrja, meaning literally chooser of the slain. zoroaster a persian prophet (c. 628 b.c.e. c. 551 b.c.e) a

gh the term is often used by some to refer to an alien spacecraft. ufologist someone who investigates the reports and sightings of unidentified flying objects. valhalla in norse mythology, when the souls of heroes are killed in battle, they spend eternity in a great hall, which is called valhalla. from the old norse valhall, literally meaning hall of the slain. valkyrie one of the 12 handmaids of odin in norse mythology who ride their horses over the battlefield as they escort the souls of slain heroes to valhalla. from the old norse valkyrja, meaning literally chooser of the slain. vision from the latin vis, to see. faculty of sight or a mental image produced by imagination. can refer to a mystical experience of seeing as if with the eyes, only through a supernatural means such as in a dr

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aditions attribute the runes to the volsungr, an ancestral tribe of heroic and semidivine beings that settled in northern europe just prior to the ice age. according to some of the legends of the volsungr, the godlike beings gave the magical symbols as a gift that might assist lesser humans in their struggles to survive in the harsh environment of ice age europe. in the old norse religion, it was odin, the father of the gods, who, seeking higher wisdom, hung upside down from the world tree for nine days before he received the rune symbols as the answer to his quest. when the runic symbols were placed on small rocks or blocks of wood, the old norse cast them to predict the success of a hunting or fishing expedition, when to plant crops, or what course their children might follow throughout

gh the term is often used by some to refer to an alien spacecraft. ufologist someone who investigates the reports and sightings of unidentified flying objects. valhalla in norse mythology, when the souls of heroes are killed in battle, they spend eternity in a great hall, which is called valhalla. from the old norse valhall, literally meaning hall of the slain. valkyrie one of the 12 handmaids of odin in norse mythology who ride their horses over the battlefield as they escort the souls of slain heroes to valhalla. from the old norse valkyrja, meaning literally chooser of the slain. vision from the latin vis, to see. faculty of sight or a mental image produced by imagination. can refer to a mystical experience of seeing as if with the eyes, only through a supernatural means such as in a dr

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

rse hindu kether chokmah binah chesed geburah tiphareth netzach hod yesod malkuth nudjer ptah thoth isis- amoun horus- osiris ra hathor- anubis khnum shu khonsu geb aither- uranus rhea hera zeus ares- apollo- aphrodite- hermes- artemis- demeter aether- coelus juno- jupiter mars- sol- venus- mercury- diana- ceres dagda- lugh danu- llyr morrigan- angus mac og brigit- ogma- cerridwen- cemunnos ymir- odin frigga- frey thor t y balder- freya- loki bragi nanna- nerthus brahman- vishnu mahasakti- indra shiva- krishna surya lakshmi pamati hunuman- chandra soma ganesha daath nephthys hypnos janus arianrhod heimdall aditi- pushan color and visualization as regardie stated in chapter five, once students are familiar with the basic exercise of the middle pillar (and the three pillars, they can expand

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

just passed, is in every essential the lesser or infernal rite of the slain god, whose name is john, or some sound similar, as jonah, dionysus, janus, dianus, nu, anu, oannes, on, noah, and many others. this god of water is of the north, because the sun touches his northern limit as he enters the watery sign cancer, and turns towards the south, represented by the goat-gods, set, had, hades, adad, odin, adonis, adonii, atys, etc, who are of the earthly sign capricornus, the southern limit of the sun s journey. as the end of summer is in libra, the cardinal sign of air, the gods of water partake also of the airy nature, and similarly, the earthy gods have their natures intermixed with fire, since the end of winter announces the fiery sign of aries, whose mysteries are those of spring and cal

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

n into east and west until it had perceived the polarity of north and south. the cross is much older than christianity, indeed as old as time, for it is a uni- versal symbol that conveys an unchanging meaning to all peoples, whatever the outward interpretation that may be forced upon it. the pattern the titan prometheus took when bound to the pillar by zeus was a cross. the teutonic god woden, or odin, crucified himself on the eternal ash yggdrasill in order to peer into the mysteries of the timeless realm where magic is born. in other cultures the same mystical message is conveyed in slightly different forms. the sioux indians used to suspend their braves by their pectoral muscles so that they might receive illumination through suffering. in the mythology of the maya, the severed head of

(martis dies) mars some of the correspondences are obvious--sun for sunday, moon for monday, saturn for saturday--others are less apparent. this is because many of the old gods are no longer well known. tuesday is named after the teutonic war god tiw, the nearest equivalent in the pagan hierarchy to mars. wednesday is named after woden, the earlier germanic form of the god the scandinavians named odin, who is the northern divine magician, or mercury. thursday is named for thor, who is associat- ed with jupiter, or jove, because he hurls thunderbolts. friday is named for frija, a teutonic mother goddess whose name means "beloved" and is linked with venus. the heptagram is drawn in one continuous line crossing from point to point. mercury is placed at the uppermost point, and as the figure i

ach him or her the secrets of the art, the magus must suffer the considerable pain and doubt that comes from completely renouncing the com- mon western material mode of thinking and living. these hard-won personal keys of magic will belong to the magus alone and will have great power, but they will be wasted if the magus tries to share them with the larger world. in legend the norse god of magic, odin (the teutonic god woden) is said to have undergone this kind of personal sacrifice to achieve his spiritual illumination. in a beautiful and powerful excerpt from the havamal, an unknown bard takes on the voice of the god in order to sing of his trial and achievement: i trow that i hung on the windy tree, swing there nights all nine, gashed with a blade, bloodied for odin, myself a sacrifice

too, i grew and joyed in my growth- from a word to a word i was led to a word, from a deed to another besides being of great beauty, this ancient poem has much to teach the mod- ern magus about the way to acquire the instruction of the light. it is evident that the magus must make a significant commitment in life to seek wisdom, despite the very great hardship this may entail. the tree upon which odin willingly hangs himself is the world tree, the same as the kabbalistic tree of emanations, known in the north as yggdrasill, the eternal ash whose roots reach down into hell and whose branches hold up the heavens. it is symbolic of the rational order, the cos- mic law, of the manifest universe. there are parallels to the cross of christ. the nine nights in the poem are the nine primary emanat

e of emanations, known in the north as yggdrasill, the eternal ash whose roots reach down into hell and whose branches hold up the heavens. it is symbolic of the rational order, the cos- mic law, of the manifest universe. there are parallels to the cross of christ. the nine nights in the poem are the nine primary emanations that are reflect- ed in the physical world, the tenth emanation, malkuth. odin is said to remain tied to the tree for this span of time. obviously he could not have gone anywhere in the physical sense. his peering into the depths was a vision of the secret depths of his own being. his reaching down to snatch up the runes was an act of will to liberate the wisdom of the light in symbol form from beyond the veil of the unmanifest. the opening through which the god stretch

symbol form from beyond the veil of the unmanifest. the opening through which the god stretches his hand is his point of true self, which both encompasses the entire universe and is every point in it. his sacrifice was threefold. first and most important was the loss of his free- dom. to the norseman, bondage was slavery, and slavery was truly a fate worse than any death, no matter how horrible. odin voluntarily allowed himself to be tied to the trunk of the tree like a thrall about to be whipped. second was the spilling of his own blood. this was a magical act for the vikings, done to empower their symbols and weapons just prior to a battle. it is the true form of bloody sacrifice. the slaying of an animal or another human being is a foolish attempt to trick god by substituting the blood

he true form of bloody sacrifice. the slaying of an animal or another human being is a foolish attempt to trick god by substituting the blood of another creature for the lifeblood of the worshipper. only the spilling of his or her own blood can commit the worshipper wholly into the keeping of deity. the shamans of the north under- stood this truth. the third act of sacrifice was the nine-day fast odin endured, during which he took neither food nor drink. to go nine days without food is comparatively easy. to endure nine days without water is a hardship that would cause the death of all but the strongest. the norsemen were a physical race constantly pressing the boundaries of their endurance. one of the runes revealed by odin to his people is nyd, which means "the necessity to endure" they

e. one of the runes revealed by odin to his people is nyd, which means "the necessity to endure" they would have appreciated full well the meaning of nine days without water. interestingly, there is a japanese bud- dhist initiation that requires the priest undertaking it to go nine days and nights without water or food. this is still practiced today. what is the inner meaning of the sacrifices of odin? to be bound to the tree entails the curbing of the animal will to strike out in passion or hatred as soon as the impulse comes to mind. to mutilate one's own flesh is to proclaim to the depths of being that the pleasures and pains of the body are of secondary impor- tance to enlightenment. finally, to go without food or drink is a symbolic repudi- ation of the worth of mere material existenc

y are of secondary impor- tance to enlightenment. finally, to go without food or drink is a symbolic repudi- ation of the worth of mere material existence. taken together, the three sacrifices are a cleansing of the three levels of being- bondage thwarts the mental impulses; self-mutilation opposes the emotional and sensual impulses; and fasting thwarts the physical needs of the body itself. when odin peered into the depths of his own being after the nine nights, the effect of what he saw was almost overwhelming. to look into the face of the unshielded sun is to court blindness. madness and death are all too often the bit- ter fruit of the pursuit of enlightenment. only the briefest glance was necessary, for the center of higher self is timeless, enfolding eternity in an instant. at once o

given at the start, the acquiring of the elements of the art will have a snowball effect. these signs from the spirit are not abstractions but are con- crete tools by the use of which the magus can sculpt his or her personal universe. words are powers. in this view the norse shamans were very close to the hebrew kabbalists, who also perceived that words truly spoken have a vitality all their own. odin is said to have given his knowledge of runes to his people, but of course he could not have done so. even had he been an historical personage, he could only have given a translation of the runes he snatched from his subconscious, which would have been a pale shadow of their reality-a name for a name. he could never give the runes themselves because they were a part of his unique personal univ

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

nine tapty is kept in his yurt by the shaman. it is one more indication of his ability to journey ecstatically through the celestial regiom3 the tree represents the living axis of the world that has its roots in the underworld and its branches in the heavens. it is found in norse legends in the form of yggdrasill, the world ash, the roots of which run so deep not even the wise god of the shamans, odin, knows their endings. one of the many names of odin is yggr-he was named aft'er the shamanic tree. in the religion of voudoun, transplanted from africa to the new world by black slaves, it appears in the form of the central pillar (poteau-mitan) of the ritual space that holds up the roof, representing the starry heavem4 during his ecstasy, this tree or post becomes for the shaman the central

intelligence and its own astral world. the meaning of every rune expresses itself dynamically in these two ways-as a self-aware astral entity with whom it is possible to converse and interact, and as a landscape that contains and houses the entity, and reflects in its details the nature of the entity. the shamanic ordeal of woden the god most closely associated with runes is woden (the norse god odin, the one-eyed god of magic who became viewed as the father of the gods in the northern pantheon, on a similar footing with zeus in the greek pantheon. in his earlier germanic incarnation, he was a shaman who wrested the runes from the roots of yggdrasil, the world tree, during a soul flight that was induced by a trial of physical endurance. the nature of his trial, and its reward, are describ

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

went to haiti from 1512 onwards were of the finest african stock and perhaps carried with them a synthesis of the cults then existing in the congo. it is easy to show how close the parallels are between the voodoo they practised and mediaeval witchcraft. the mysteries of delphi and eleusis, or the roman cults, probably had the same origin. the ritual of the druids is said to copy that of osiris; odin himself is believed to be merely a frosty version of osiris. witchcraft almost everywhere had two main derivatives to which its other formative influences became attached; the fertility cults persisting from the indigenous inhabitants of any area, and the latter "magical" practices derived through direct or distorting channels from the centralising egyptian source. witchcraft as it emerges in

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

n his vestiges, remarks that of the names of the twelve months in use among the jews, several are identical with names of deities, as tammuz, ab, elul, bul. groups of twelve gods are to be noticed in the religions of many of the ancient nations, as the chaldeans, etruscans, mamertines, romans etc. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott in scandinavia, the great odin had 12 names- personified attributes. the kabalists esteem the 12 permutations of the tetragrammaton and are as follows: table of 111222 permutatiiions of iiihvh 12 permutations of tetragrammaton letter arrangements with full spelling ihvh yod, heh, vav, heh vhih vav, heh, yod, heh hihv heh, yod, heh, vav hvhi heh,vav,heh,yod ihhv yod, heh, heh, vav ivhh yod, vav, heh, heh hvih heh, vav, yod

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