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hat' unde den' is a slip for' abe dem. trans. uahana. hellia. 315 daz si iiner werde vol; that slie ever become full; si ist daz ungcsatliche hoi, she is the insatiable cavern, daz weder uu noeh uie ne sprah: that neither now nor ever said' diz ist des ih niht ne mac' this is what i cannot (manage' lampr. alex. g671-80. old poems have frequent allusions to the abgrund (chasm, abyss) and the doors of hell: helligruoba, hellagrunt, helliporta &c. gramm. 2, 458; der abgrunde tunc, der tiefen helle tunc (the deep hell's dinge, darkness. mart. 88^ 99. of course there are bible texts that would in the first instance suggest much of this, e.g, about the insatiableness of hell, prov. 27, 20. 30, 16 (conf. freidank ixxiv, her being uncovered, job 26, 6, her opening her mouth, isaiah 5, 14. but we a

in judgment on souls. this office, the similar name and the black hue (kala niger, conf. caligo and kekalv6) make her exceedingly like halja. and halja is one of the oldest and commonest conceptions of our heathenism. 1 in the south of itollanfl, where the mouse falls into the sea, is a place named hdvoeisluis. i do not know it' any forms in old documents confirm tlie idea contained in the name, of hell-foot, foot of hell. the romans have a helium here: inter helium acflevum, ita appellantur ostia, in quae effusus rhenus, ah septentrione in lacus, ab occidente in amnem mosam se spar^it, medio inter haec ore modicum nonnne suo custodiens alveiim, plin. 4, 29. tac. also says 2, g: immense ore, conf. supra. 198 on unjjisdijr (see suppl. chapter xiv. condition" of gods. now that we have colle

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hey burned in a furnace. and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in his strength. 23 diagram 9 24 (pastos lid- top (pastos lid- bottom) chief "i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold! i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of death and of hell. second "he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the assemblies (second and third adepts open door of tomb, and lead aspirant in. they kneel down west of altar with heads bent. chief stands at east of the altar with arms extended) 25 chief "for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life

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the souls of the monks who wrote it, rather than of the innocents it was used to massacre. eventually, satanism, protestantism and judaism were inextricably woven together to form a patchwork quilt of evil that the church attempted to destroy during the middle ages, with fire and sword. as a matter of fact, a certain type of devil worship did exist during those times but, ironically, the acolytes of hell were usually never brought to trial; something which stems from the fact that many of those who celebrated and attended the infamous black masses of the period were roman catholic clergymen, many of whom has been pressed into his service at a young age by their parents, who wished to see their sons brought up well-fed and educated in those uncertain times, where the church was the sole pow

the living, and the ministers of absu are clearly walking the earth, riding on the air, and upon the earth, and sailing silently through the water, and roaring in the fire, and all these spirits must be brought to subjection to the person of the priest of magick, before any else. or the priest becomes prey to the eye of death of the seven annunnaki, lord of the underworld, ministers of the queen of hell. know, fifthly, that the worshippers of tiamat are abroad in the world, and will give fight to the magician. lo, they have worshipped the serpent from ancient times, and have always been with us. and they are to be known by their seeming human appearance which has the mark of the beast upon them, as they change easily into the shapes of animals and haunt the nights of men and by their odou

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him. ii,60: therefore strike hard& low, and to hell with them, master! ii,61: there is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable. ii,62: i am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. ii,63: thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of hell s own worm. ii,64: oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; our delight is all over thee: hail! hail: prophet of nu! prophet of had! prophet of ra-hoor-khu! now rejoice! now come in our splendour& rapture! come in our passionate peace& write sweet words for the kings! ii,65: i am the master: thou art the holy chosen one. ii,66: write& find ecstasy in writing! work& be our bed in working! t

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. the signs of the zodiac are variously given, and the planets agree with the face: thus' and, the ears% and, the nostrils! and, the eyes; and, the mouth. the hand: thumb, a; 1st finger, d; 2nd, c; 3rd, e; 4th b. these, however, vary somewhat.10 col. cvi. these abodes are enclosed in four circles: the waters of weeping, or creation, of oceanus, and the false sea. compare the classical four rivers of hell.11 col. cviii. incomplete and redundant owing to unconentrated nature of qliphoth. line 2. three evil forms before samael are: laytmq [qemetial] laybl [belial] laytu [othiel] the thaumiel, also called kerethiel col. cix. king ulb son of rwub, dukes hwlu, unmj, and tty, are all referred to daath. edomite kings and dukes are taken e libro maggid. and gen. 36. col. cxiv, line 1. i.e, simple b

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93 and fraternize with them. they will tear you in pieces at their leisure. not at once; they will wait until you have wholly broken the link between you and your holy guardian angel before they pounce, lest at the last moment you escape. anthony of padua and (in our own times "macgregor" mathers are examples of such victims. nevertheless, every magician must firmly extend his empire to the depth of hell "my adepts stand upright, their heads above the heavens, their feet below the hells<equinox> this is the reason why the magician who performs the operation of the "sacred magic of abramelin the mage, immediately after attaining to the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, must evoke the four great princes of the evil of the world "obedience and

when all the earth is shaken, the stars abide not, and the moon is gone, all time crushed back into eternity, the universe by earthquake overtaken; light is not, and the thunders roll, the world is done: when in the darkness chaos rolls again in the excited brain: then, o then call not to thy view that visible image of nature; fatal is her name! it fitteth not thy body to behold that living light of hell, the unluminous, dead flame, until that body from the crucible hath passed, pure gold! for, from the confines of material space, the twilight-moving place, the gates of matter, and the dark threshold, before the faces of the things that dwell in the abodes of night, spring into sight demons, dog-faced, that show no mortal sign of truth, but desecrate the light divine, seducing from the sac

re may come a time in the course of this practice when the outward symbols of devotion cease, when the soul is as it were dumb in the presence of its god. mark that this is not a cessation but a transmutation of the barren seed of prayer into the green shoot of yearning. this yearning is spontaneous, and it shall be left to grow, whether it be sweet or bitter. for often times it is as the torment of hell in which the soul burns and writhes unceasingly. yet it ends, and at its end continue openly thy method. 27 "concerning dryness- another state wherein at times the soul may fall is this dark night. and this is indeed purifying, in such depths that the soul cannot fathom it. it is less like pain than like death. but it is the necessary death that comes before the rising of a body glorified

ol of the ankh, and of the cross within the circle! 1. three are the beasts wherewith thou must plough the field; the unicorn, the horse, and the ox. and these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by one whip. 2. now these beasts run wildly upon the earths<equinox has "earth> and are not easily obedient to the man. 3. nothing shall be said here of cerberus, the great beast of hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as athanasius hath foreshadowed. for this matter<(i.e. the matter of cereberus> is not of tiphereth without, but tiphereth within. i. 0. the unicorn is speech. man, rule thy speech! how else shalt thou master the son, and answer the magician at the right hand gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more (a)

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is to say those who follow out their holy commandment, to the ultimate goal. again we read: little miss muffett sat on a tuffet, eating of curds and whey, up came a big spider, and sat down beside her, and frightened miss muffett away. little miss muffett unquestionably represents malkah; for she is unmarried. she is seated upon a "tuffet; id est, she is the unregenerate soul upon tophet, the pit of hell. and she eats curds and whey, that is, not the pure milk of the mother, but milk which has undergone decomposition. but who is the spider? verily herein is a venerable arcanum connoted! like all insects, the spider represents a demon. but why a spider? who is this spider "who taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces? the name of this spider is death. it is the fear of death whi

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

e must moreover avoid doing another injury by deforming his nature; for instance, to flog children at or near puberty may distort the sensitive nascent sexual character, and impress it with the stamp of masochism. again, homosexual practices between boys may in certain cases actually rob them of their virility, psychically or even physically. trying to frighten adolescents about sex by the bogeys of hell, disease, and insanity, may warp the moral nature permanently, and produce hypochondria or other mental maladies, with perversions of the enervated and thwarted instinct. repression of the natural satisfaction may result in addition to secret and dangerous vices which destroy their victim because they are artificial and unnatural aberrations. such moral cripples resemble those manufactured

ess of suffering to spur them. they prove with euler's exactness and hinton's passion that heterosexuality entrains an infinity of ills; jealousies, abortions, diseases, infanticides, frauds, intrigues, quarrels, poverty, prostitution, persecution, idleness, self-indulgence, social stress, over-population, sex-antagonism. they show with poincare's precision that jesus and paul struck at the heart of hell when they proclaimed marriage a scourge, and offered the testimony of john and timothy to support the plea of plato on behalf of paederastic passion. out of the court there slunk mark antony, his toga to his face, one of the legion of lost souls that woman had withered; behind him groped blind samson, disinherited adam, feeling his way along the table where they had piled countless papyri

en the 'booze' can you imagine an evangelist in taormina? it is to laugh. this is why missionaries, in all these centuries, have produced no conversions whatever, save among the lowest types of negro, who resemble the anglo-saxon in this possession of the 'fear-of-god' and 'sin' psychopathies. truth is so terrible to these detestable mockeries of humanity that the thought of self is a realization of hell. therefore they fly to drink and drugs as to an anaesthetic in the surgical operation of introspection. the craving for these things is caused by the internal misery which their use reveals to the slave-souls. if you are really free, you can take cocaine as simply as salt-water taffy. there is no better rough test of a soul than its attitude to drugs. if a man is simple, fearless, eager, h

of the stars rain hard upon thy body" the old comment 62. next, as hadit himself, did he know the athletic rapture of nuit's embrace. the new comment "uplifted in thine heart- compare the book of the heart girt with a serpent (see equinox iii,i) al ii,63 "thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of hell's own worm" the old comment 63. each breath, as he drew it in, was an orgasm; each breath, as it went out, was a new dissolution into death. note that throughout these books death is always spoken of as a definite experience, a delightful event in one's career. the new comment this verse conceals a certain magical formula of the loftiest initiations. it refers to a method of using the brea

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, but have everlasting life. ascension day 15 my own vague optimism. impossibility of tracing cause back or effect forward to the ultimate. ethics individual. exactly! grown my mental stature, i ponder much: but never yet can i get over or forget that bitter text s accurded nature, the subtle devilish omission,57 380 the cruel antithesis implied, the irony, the curse-fruition, the calm assumption of hell s fevers as fit, as just, for unbelievers these are the things that stick beside 385 and hamper my quite serious wish to harbour kind thoughts of the fish. 58 here goes my arrow to the gold! i ll make no magpies! though i hold your christianity a lie, 390 abortion and iniquity, the most immoral and absurd (a priest s invention, in a word) of all religions, i have hope in the good dhamma s5

pain at last 585 out of this universe accurst. but otherwise! i lift my voice, deliberately take my choice promethean, eager to rejoice, in the grim protest s joy to revel 590 betwixt iscariot and the devil, throned in their midst! no pain to feel, tossed on some burning bed of steel, but theirs: my soul of love should swell and, on those piteous floors they trod, 595 feel, and make god feel, out of hell, across the gulf impassable, that he was damned and i was god! ay! let him rise and answer me that false creative deity, 600 whence came his right to rack the earth with pangs of death,70 disease, and birth: no joy unmarred by pain and grief: insult on injury heaped high in that quack-doctor infamy 605 the panacea of belief! only the selfish soul of man could ever have conceived a plan man

worst a wicked lie devised 215 to bind men s thoughts; but we must work with our own instruments, nor shirk discarding what we erstwhile prized; should we perceive it disagree with the first-born necessity. 220 i come to tell you why i shun the sight of men, the life and fun you know i can enjoy so well, the nature that i love as none (i think) before me ever loved. 225 you know i scorn the fear of hell, by worship and all else unmoved pentecost 31 recapitulation of principal cosmic theories. bard checkmates himself. consciousness and christianity. dhyana and hinduism. sammasamadhi and buddhism. you know for me the soul is nought36 save a mere phantom in the thought, that thought itself impermanent, 230 save as a casual element with such another may combine to form now water and now wine;

ul, he said, the soul, the i, is as all of these; it is impermanent as the ephemeral flower of beauty in the water that is born and shines and dies ere sun be risen and set again. and he humiliated his heart and sang the following verse: brahma, and vishnu, and great shiva! truly i see the trinity in all things dwell, some rightly tinged of heaven, others duly pitched down the steep and precipice of hell. nay, not your glory ye from fable borrow! these three i see in spirit and in sense, these three, o miserable see! sorrow, absence of ego, and impermanence! and at the rhythm he swooned, for his old mantra surged up in the long-sealed vessels of sub-conscious memory, and he fell into the calm ocean of a great meditation. 1902 the three characteristics the three characteristics 103 ii jehja

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is thrust through the wet and writhing dust, never black and never dried heart's blood of a suicide. he had plucked the hazel rod from the rude and goatish god, even as the curved moon's waning ray stolen from the king of day. he had learnt the elvish sign; given the token of the nine: once to rave, and once to revel, once to bow before the devil, once to swing the thurible, once to kiss the goat of hell, once to dance the aspen spring, once to croak, and once to sing, once to oil the savoury thighs of the witch with sea-green eyes with the unguents magical. oh the honey and the gall of that black enchanter's lips as he croons to the eclipse mingling that most puissant spell of the giant gods of hell with the four ingredients of the evil elements; 38 ambergris from golden spar, musk of ox

dread abodes without affright: on them will i impose my will, the law of light. their faces and their shapes are terrible and strange. these devils by my might to angels i will change. these nameless horrors i address without affright: on them will i impose my will, the law of light. these are the phantoms pale of mine astonied view, yet none but i their blasted beauty can renew; for to the abyss of hell i plunge without affright: on them will i impose my will, the law of light. 109 the soldier and the hunchback! and? 111 the soldier and the hunchback! and "expect seven misfortunes from the cripple, and forty-two from the one-eyed man; but when the hunchback comes, say 'allah our aid" arab proverb i inquiry. let us inquire in the first place: what is scepticism? the word means looking, que

(partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from kether. 126 this man performs great magic; very strong medicine. he does really find gold on the midden and skeletons in pretty girls. in abiegnus the sacred mountain of the rosicrucians the postulant finds but a coffin in the central shrine; yet that coffin contains christian rosencreutz who is dead and is alive for evermore and hath the keys of hell and of death. ay! your tiphereth man, child of mercy and justice, looks deeper than the skin! but he seems a ridiculous object enough both to the malkuth man and to the kether man. still, he's the most interesting man there is; and we all must pass through that stage before we get our heads really clear, the kether-vision above the clouds that encircle the mountain abiegnus. ix running and

a loud voice saying "o queen of the lusts of flesh! o queen of the lands haunted by satyrs! o mistress of night! o mother of the mysteries of birth and death! who art girt in the flames of passion, and jewelled with emerald, and moonstone, and chrysoleth. lo! on thy brow burns the star-sapphire of heaven, thy girdle is as the serpent of eden, and round thine ankles chatter the rubies and garnets of hell. hearken, o lilith! o sorceress of the blood of life! my lips are for those who suckle not good, and my kisses for those who cherish not evil. and my kingdom is for the children of light who trample under foot the garment of shame, and rend from their loins the sackcloth of modesty. when two shall be one, then shalt thou be crowned with a crown neither of gold nor of silver, nor yet of pre

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ron sigma; secunds, pi upsilon rho alpha mu iota sigma; tertia phi alpha lambda lambda omicron sigma vocatur. et hae reflexiones aquaticae sunt trium enthusiasmorum, apollonis, dionysi, veneris "tota stella est nechesh et messiach, nomen hb:heh hb:yod hb:heh hb:aleph cum hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod conjunctum "there are three contemplations as it were breaths in the human mind, that "is the abyss of hell: the first is called" nu epsilon kappa rho omicron sigma, the "second" pi upsilon rho alpha mu iota sigma, and the third "phi alpha lambda lambda omicron sigma" these are the watery reflexions of the three enthusiasms; those of apollo "dionysys, and aphrodite" the whole star is nechesh and messiach, the name" hb:heh hb:yod hb:heh hb:aleph" joined "with "hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod" 7 liber

e gods. i have put these eyes out to attain to the crown of the pallid periods that pulse in the almighty brain! i have striven all my life for this; that i might see, and still might kiss "the musicians" vain! vain! time is sane. fain! fain! space is plain. time passes once, and is not found. space divides once, not heals the wound. knell! knell! the shattered shell that could not break the word of hell. whirl! whirl! the wanton girl (curve, and coil, and close, and curl) slips the grip as the swallow avoids the leaps of the dog; or the moon, that sails abeam to god's invisible gales, the clumsy caress of the asteroids! love her in memory, love her in dream, 22 love her in hope, or love her in faith; but all these loves are loves that seem; the worst is a ghoul, the best is a wraith; for

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from him in all directions. it is a woman of some thirty years old, and she has the moon for a crest, and the moon is blazoned on her heart, and her sandals are curved silver, like the moon. and she cries: lonely am i and cold in the wilderness of the stars. for i am the queen of all them that dwell in heaven, and the queen of all them that are pure upon earth, and the queen of all the sorcerers of hell. i am the daughter of nuit, the lady of the stars. and i am the bride of them that are vowed unto loneliness. and i am the mother of the dog cerberus. one person am i, and three gods. and thou who hast blasphemed me shalt suffer knowing me. for i am cold as thou art cold, and burn with thy fire. oh, when shall the war of the aires and the elements be accomplished? radiant are these falchio

alone, in whom the brightness of your countenance is as 1,728 petals of fire. also he spake the curse, folding his wings across and crying: is not the son the enemy of his father? and hath not the daughter stolen the warmth of the bed of her mother? therefore is the great curse irrevocable. therefore there is neither wisdom nor understanding nor knowledge in this house, that hangeth upon the edge of hell. thou art not 4 but 2, o thou blasphemy spoken against 1! therefore whoso worshippeth thee is accursed. he shall be brayed in a mortar and the powder thereof cast to the winds, that the birds of the air may eat thereof and die; and he shall be dissolved in strong acid and the elixir poured into the sea, that the fishes of the sea may breathe thereof and die. and he shall be mingled with du

king of the dew. i cannot describe to you the joy and the exhaustion of everything that was, and the energy of everything that is, for it is only a corpse that is lying on the moss. i am the soul of the aethyr. 28 now it reverberates like the swords of archangels, clashing upon the armour of the damned; and there seem to be the blacksmiths of heaven beating the steel of the worlds upon the anvils of hell, to make a roof to the aethyr. for if the great work were accomplished and all the aethyrs were caught up into one, then would the vision fail; then would the voice be still. now all is gone from the stone. ain el hajel "november" 26, 1909. 2-3.25 p.m. the cry of the 23rd aethyr, which is called tor. in the brightness of the stone are three lights, brighter than all, which revolve ceaseles

arms were out in the form of a cross, and that cross was extended, blazing with light into infinity. i myself am the minutest point in it. this is "the birth of form" i am encircled by an immense sphere of many-coloured bands; it seems it is the sphere of the sephiroth projected in the three dimensions. this is "the "birth of death" now in the centre within me is a glowing sun. that is "the birth of hell" now all that is swept away, washed away by the table. it is the virtue of the table to sweep everything away. it is the letter i in this aethyr that gives this vision, and l is its purity, and n is its energy. now everything is confused, for i invoked the mind, that is disruption. every adept who beholds this vision is corrupted by mind. yet it is by virtue of mind that he endures it, and

eady to sting. and, because he is himself, therefore he is no self; the terror of darkness, and the blindness of night, and the deafness of the adder, and the tastelessness of stale and stagnant water, and the black fire of hatred, and the udders of the cat of slime; not one thing, but many things. yet, with all that, his torment 95 is eternal. the sun burns him as he writhes naked upon the sands of hell, and the wind cuts him bitterly to the bone, a harsh dry wind, so that he is sore athirst. give unto me, i pray thee, one drop of water from the pure springs of paradise, that i may quench my thirst (the scribe refused) sprinkle water upon my head. i can hardly go on (this last was spoken from the triangle in the natural voice of the frater, which choronzon again simulated. but he did not

torn bull, and the cry of the man that is torn by the claws of the eagle, and the scream of the eagle that is strangled by the hands of the man. mingle all these in the death-shriek of the sphinx, for the blind man hath profaned her mystery. who is this, oedipus, tiresias, erinyes? who is this, that is blind and a seer, a fool above wisdom? whom do the hounds of heaven follow, and the crocodiles of hell await? aleph, vau, yod, ayin, resh, tau, is his name. beneath his feet is the kingdom, and upon his head the crown. he is spirit and matter; he is peace and power; in him is chaos and night and pan, and upon babalon his concubine, that hath made him drunk upon the blood of the saints that she hath gathered in her golden cup, hath he begotten the virgin that now he doth deflower. and this i

. and through the malice of babalon i hunger, hunger, hunger. all this while the stone is more inert than ever yet; a thousand times more lifeless than when it is not invoked. now, when it kindles, it only kindles into its physical beauty. and now upon the face of it is a great black rose, each of whose petals, though it be featureless, is yet a devil-face. and all the stalks are the black snakes of hell. it is alive, this rose; a single thought informs it. it comes to clutch, to murder. yet, because a single thought alone informs it, i have hope therein. i think the rose has a hundred and fifty-six petals, and though it be black, it has the luminous blush. there it is, in the midst of the stone, and i cannot see anyone who wears it. aha! aha! aha! shut out the sight! holy, holy, holy art

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ule the earth. therefore with sweetness ineffable he parted from me; yet leaving a comfort not to be told, a peace the peace. and the light and the perfume do certainly yet remain with me in the little chamber, and i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. for i am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold! i am alive for evermore, and have the keys of hell and of death. i am amoun the sun in his rising; i have passed from darkness into light. i am asar un-nefer the perfected one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu saith with his voice of truth and calm: oh thou that has a single arm! o thou that glitterest in the moon! i weave thee in the spinning charm

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itary engineer, the drain is more useful, more rational, altogether more proper than the wayward stream. but it is the rigid utilitarianism of this bread-and-water morality, this one-shirt-a- week thrift, this skimmed-milk philosophy this cake-on-sunday religion, and all the other halfpenny economies of a gluttonous mediocrity, that must be trampled under foot as if they were the very cockroaches of hell, before freedom of even a protoplasmic kind can be brought to life. better be a savage, a one-legged hottentot, better be anything than a civilized eunuch, a crape-capped "widder" in upper tooting lamenting her "demised husband" whilst she counts the halfpence he has left behind him in his trouser pockets. if there is going to be a flood, let it be grand, typhoonic, torrential; do not let

would battle for his manhood, ay! and for the manhood of the world! then the trumpet-blast resounded; the battle had indeed begun! struggling to his feet, he tore from him the shroud of a corrupted faith as if it had been the rotten cerement of a mummy. with quivering lip, and voice choked with indignation at the injustice of the world, he cursed the name of christ and strode on to seek the gate of hell and let loose the fiends of the pit, so that mankind might yet learn that compassion was not dead. nevertheless, the madness passes, like a dark cloud before the breath of awakening dawn; conscious of his own rightness, of the manhood which was his, of his own strength, and the righteousness of his purpose, and filled with the overflowing ambitions of youth, we find him unconsciously sheat

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he globe of space became; of how the light broke in that space and wrapped it in a robe of glory; of how one most white withdrew that whole, and hid it in the lobe of his right ear, so that the universe one dewdrop did appear. ix yea! and the end revealed a word, a spell, an incantation, a device whereby the eye of the most terrible wakes from its wilderness of ice to flame, whereby the very core of hell bursts from its rind, sweeping the world away into the blank of mind. xii so then i saw my fault; i plunged within the well, and brake the images that i had made, as i must make- men spin 96 the webs that snare them- while the knees bend to the tyrant god- or unto sin the lecher sunder! ah! came that undulant light from over or from under? xiii it matters not. come, change! come, woe! come

dog-faced demon that seduceth thy soul from the sacred mysteries; the mysteries of life and duty"'let me tell my story' i replied 'and you shall judge- for, whoever you may be, i feel your power and truth"'i am eliphaz levi zahed- men call me the abbe constant' returned the other"'the great magician"'the enemy of the great magician "we went together to my house. i had begun to suspect some trick of hell. the malice of that devilish old woman, it might be, had not slept, even at her death. she had hidden the house beneath a magic veil? or had her death itself in some strange way operated to- to what? even conjecture paled "but magic somewhere there must be, and eliphaz levi was the most famous adept in paris at the time "i told my story, just as i have told it to you, but with strong passi

unt for both the weapons and the scene in the morgue. but i cannot say "so, too, i learnt from the master that all this veil of life is but a shadow of a vast reality beyond, perceptible only to those who have earned eyes to see withal "these eyes i could not earn; a faith in the master sustained me. i began to understand, too, a little about the human brain; of what it is capable. of heaven- and of hell "life passed, vigorous and pleasant; the only memory that haunted me was the compulsion of my oath that never would i again set foot in the rue des quatre vents "life passed, and for the master ended 'the veil of the temple is but a spider's web' he said, three days before he died. i followed eliphaz levi zahed to the grave "i could not follow him beyond "for the next year i applied myself

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mahiel and onuel, they who rejoice. come forth unto us therefore, o taphthartharath, taphthartharath, and appear thou in visible and material form before us in the great magical triangle without this circle of art! and if any other magus of art, or any other school than ours, is now invoking thee by potent spells; or if thou art bound by thy vow, or thy duties, or the terrible bonds of the magic of hell; then i let shine upon thee the glory of the symbol of the rose and the cross; and i tell thee by that symbol that thou art free of all vows, of all bonds, for what time thou comest hither to obey my will! or if any other master or masters of the magic of light of the order of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold is now binding and invoking thee by the supreme, absolute and fearful power

g it, and exalt thy mind unto its glory, imagine it as encompassing thee and entering into thy inmost being, and say] i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live again: and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die! i am the first and the last, i am he that liveth but was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death! for i know that my redeemer liveth; and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way: the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified: i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light! i have fought upon earth for good: i have finished my work: i have entered into the invisible! i am the sun in his rising: i have pass

s as flaming fire. his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in its strength "chief adept" i am the first and i am the last, i am he that liveth but was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death. 218 [the "second" and third adepts lead the aspirant into the vault; all kneel save the "chief adept" who, extending his arms, says] for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified, i have passed through the gates of darkness unto ligh

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ghty one, thou creator of all things, i renounce unto thee the sorrow of my mother, and the threshold of my home, and all the labour of my father's hands; so that i may be led unto the mansion of thy light, and be consumed in the unutterable joy of thine everlasting rapture. 7. o my god, thou mighty one, thou creator of all things, i renounce unto thee the yearning for paradise, and the dark fear of hell, and the feast of the corruption of the grave; so that as a child i may be led unto thy kingdom, and be consumed in the unutterable joy of thine everlasting rapture. 8. o my god, thou mighty one, thou creator of all things, i renounce unto thee the moonlit peaks of the mountains, and the arrow-shapen kiss of the firs, and all the travail of the winds; so that i may be lost on the summit of

unfailing cruse of joy, that art filled with the tears of the fallen! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou burning lust of the moon, that art clothed in the mist of the ocean! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou one measure of all things, that art dam of the great order or worlds! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou frail virgin of eden, that art ravished to the abode of hell! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou dark forest of wonder, that art tangled in a gold web of dew! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou tortured shriek of the storm, that art whirled up through the leaves of the woods! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou dazzling opal of light, that flamest in the crumbling skull of space! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao!

u diadem of the suns, that art the knot of this red web of worlds! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou ravished river of law, that outpourest the arcanum of life! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou glimmering tongue of day, that art sucked into the blue lips of night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou queen-bee of heaven's hive, that smearest thy thighs with honey of hell! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou scarlet dragon of flame, enmeshed in the web of a spider! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou magic symbol of light, that art frozen on the black book of blood! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou swathed image of death, that art hidden in the coffin of joy! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou red breast of the su

dore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou red breast of the sunset, that pantest for the ravishment of night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou serpent of malachite, that baskest in a desert of turquoise! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou fierce whirlpool of passion, that art sucked up by the mouth of the sun! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou green cockatrice of hell, that art coiled around the finger of fate! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou lambent laughter of fire, that art wound round 68 the heart of the waters! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou gorilla blizzard air, that tearest out earth's tresses by the roots! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou reveller of spirit, that carousest in the halls of matter! i adore

am of the grape, that art flecked with the roses of love! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou frenzied hand of the seas, that unfurlest the black banner of storm! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou shrouded book of the dead, that art sealed with the seven souls of man! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou writhing frenzy of love, that art knotted like the grid-flames of hell! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou primal birth-ring of thought, that dost encircle the thumb of the soul! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! 69 o thou blind flame of nothingness, as a crown upon my brow! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o glory be unto thee through all time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 7

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as more fatal results. one is a soft-spoken enchantress; the other, a raging demon. 94 i wish in this last part to define and to analyse the moral ravage caused by this dangerous and delicious practice; a ravage so great, a danger so profound, that those who return from the fight but lightly wounded appear to me like heroes escaped from the cave of a multiform proteus, or like orpheus, conquerors of hell. you may take, if you will, this form of language for an exaggerated metaphor, but for my part i will affirm that these exciting poisons seem to me not only one of the most terrible and the most sure means which the spirit of darkness uses to enlist and enslave wretched humanity, but even one of the most perfect of his avatars. this time, to shorten my task and make my analysis the clearer

e his hopes and raise himself towards the infinite, he showed (in every country and in every time) a frenzied appetite for every substance, even those which are dangerous, which, by exalting his personality, are able to bring in an instant before his eyes this bargain paradise, object of all his desires; and at last that this daring spirit, driving without knowing it his chariot through the gates of hell, by this very fact bore witness to his original greatness. but man is not so god-forsaken, so barren of straightforward means of reaching heaven, that he need invoke pharmacy and witchcraft. he has no need to sell his soul to buy intoxicating caresses and the friendship of the hur al'ain. what is a paradise which must be bought at the price of eternal salvation? i imagine a man (shall i 11

points_ that the tenth labour was to slay geryon, the "three-"headed and "three-"bodied monster of gades; that the eleventh was to obtain apples from the garden of the hesperides, where lived the "three" daughters of hesperus; and that the last was to bring upon earth the "three-"headed dog cerberus, and so 143 unguard the gates of hades. similar is the adept's last labour, to destroy the terrors of hell and to bring upon earth the supernal triad and formulate the hb:shin 3 in hb:heh hb:vau hb:shin hb:heh hb:yod. one idea must possess us, and all our energies must be focused upon it. a man who would be rich must worship wealth and understand poverty; a man who would be strong must worship strength and understand weakness; and so also a man who would be god must worship deity and understand

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hey slipped from my grasp and under my feet like the smoothest icicles. through increasing grades of agony i lay unconsumed, tossing from side to side with the rocking of the dreadful engine, and still above me pealed the chant of blasphemy, and the eyes of demoniac sarcasm smiled at me in mockery of a mother's gaze upon her child "let us sing him" said one of the fiends to the other "the lullaby of hell" the blasphemy now changed into an awful word-picturing of eternity, unveiling what it was, and dwelling with raptures of malice upon its infinitude, its sublimity of growing pain, and its privation of all fixed points which might mark it into divisions. by emblems common to all language rather than by any vocal words, did they sing this frightful apocalypse, yet the very emblems had a sou

ks; with some constitutions, indeed, this wearing may occur; it never did with me, as i have said, even to the extent 266 of producing muscular weakness, yet the universal law of constantly acceleration diabolisation of visions held good as much in my case as in any others; but a thing of horror once experienced became a kappa tau nu mu alpha epsilon sigma alpha epsilon iota, an inalienable dower of hell; it was certain to reproduce itself in some- to god be the thanks if not in all- future visions. i had seen, for instance, in one of my states of ecstasy, a luminous spot on the firmament, a prismatic parhelion. in the midst of my delight of gazing on it, it had transferred itself mysteriously to my own heart, and there became a circle of fire, which gradually ate its way until the whole w

visible or tangible object, hardly a phrase which could be spoken, that had not some such infernal potency as connected with an earlier effect of suffering. slowly thus does midnight close over the hasheesh-eater's heaven. one by one, upon its pall thrice dyed in acharon, do the baleful lustres appear, until he walks under a hemisphere flaming with demon lamps, and upon a ground paved with tiles of hell. out of this awful domain there are but three ways. thank god that over this alluring gateway is not written "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch' entrate" the first of these exits is insanity, the second death, the third abandonment. the first is doubtless oftenest trodden 267 yet it may be long ere it reaches the final escape in oblivion, and it is as frightful as the domain it leaves behind

immures us in its silence, the supreme serene crowning the dagoba, what destined die rings on the table, what resistless dart strike me i love you; can you satisfy the hunger of my heart! nay; not in love, or faith, or hope is hidden the drug that heals my life; i know too well how all things lawful, and all things forbidden alike disclose no pearl upon the midden, offer no key to unlock the gate of hell. there is no escape from the eternal round, no hope in love, or victory, or art. there is no plumb-line long enough to sound the abysses of my heart! 272 there no dawn breaks; no sunlight penetrates its blackness; no moon shines, nor any star. for its own horror of itself creates malignant fate from all benignant fates, of its own spite drives its own angel afar. nay; this is the great imp

ation to the angels her soul. her eyes expressed the infinite sweetness, the love merciful; the pure innocence of the eternal equi-balanced. they were like crystalline drops of dew falling on a perfect rock of carrara marble; eyes that looked upon you and created you holy; eyes clearer than the clearest rivulet, more beautiful than the most royal amethyst; eyes that illuminated the darkest corner of hell; eyes that set the fashion to the stars of the celestial vault of heaven; eyes that were but the imperfect mirror of the soul behind. such was the ten-years-old ljubov of the goodly countenance. when, later on, the usual legend grew around her, it was said that wolves had once entered the village, in the midst of 296 winter, starved to madness, and had begun eating two cows in their shed

ll sweetly the murderous hours had lulled us to rest; and the magical poison of flowers had stolen our brains, and our eyelids were heavy with sleep. ah love! they are banished, yet not so the strength of the spell which holds both our beings in bondage, a bondage so fell that even the angels above cannot alter its power; it lives in the memory yet of one passionate hour, when from the dark bosom of hell sprang a fair felon flower. ethel archer. 326 the big stick counterparts. vol. xvi of the brotherhood of the new life. an epitome of the work and teaching of thomas lake harris. by respiro. 2"s. 6"d. net. a new edition. c. w. pearce and co, 139, west regent street, glasgow. if we are in any way to shadow forth the ineffable, it must be by a degradation. every symbol is a blasphemy against

of the real magic, but she has learnt the tales spread by fools about sorcerers, and fostered by them as the best possible concealments of their truth. of these ingredients she has brewed a magnificent hell-broth. no chapter lacks its jewelled incident, and the web that she has woven of men's passions is a flame-red tapestry stained with dark patches of murder and charred here and there with fire of hell. marjorie bowen has immense skill; has she genius? how can a stranger say? so many nowadays are forced by sheer starvation into writing books that will sell- and when they have taken the devil's money, find that it is in no figure that he has their souls in pawn. i am told that it is the ambition of w. s. maugham to write a great play. a. c. the education of uncle paul. by algernon blackwo

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him that hath given us the symbol of the ankh, and of the cross within the circle! 1. three are the beasts wherewith thou must plough the field; the unicorn, the horse, and the ox. and these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by one whip. 2. now these beasts run wildly upon the earth and are not easily obedient to the man. 3. nothing shall be said here of cerberus, the great beast of hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as athanasius hath foreshadowed. for this matter1 is not of tiphereth without, but tiphereth within. 11 i 0. the unicorn is speech. man, rule thy speech! how else shalt thou master the son, and answer the magician at the right hand gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more. alpha. avoid using some common

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es him that his name be forgotten in the land. 5 even as the wicked eye seeks the mysteries to spy, so the blindness of the gods takes his spirit: he shall die. even as the evil priest, poisoned by the sacred feast, changes by its seven powers to the misbegotten beast: even as the powers of ill, broken by the wanded will, shriek about the holy place, vain and vague and terrible: even as the lords of hell, chained in fires before the spell, strain upon the sightless steel, break not fetters nor compel: so be distant, o profane! children of the hurricane! lest the sword of fire destroy, lest the ways of death be plain! so depart, and so be wise, lest your perishable eyes look upon the formless fire, see the maiden sacrifice! so depart, and secret flame burn upon the stone of shame, that the

and stark the pharaoh sate: no breath went whispering, hushed or scared. only that red incarnate hate through pylon after pylon flared. 7 as in the blood of murdered things the affrighted augur shaking skries earthquake and ruinous fate of kings, famine and desperate destinies, so in the eyes of pharaoh shone the hate and loathing that compel in death each damned minion of set, the accursed lord of hell. yea! in those globes of fire there sate some cruel knowledge closely curled like serpents in those halls of hate, palaces of the underworld. but in the hell-glow of those eyes the ashen skull of pharaoh shone white as the moonrays that surprise the invoking druse on lebanon. moreover pylon shouldered round to pylon an unearthly tune, like phantom priests that strike and sound sinister sis

the triumphal dance which becomes slow and "voluptuous["a pause" bro. aries["to seal his triumph. 1-4444. bro. capricornus["without. 4444-1 [bro. aries "extinguishes all lights [scorpio "plays love poem<mars "recites" who is this maiden robed for a bride, white shoulders and bright brows adorable, the flaming locks that clothe her, and abide, as god were bathing in the fire of hell? 55 they change, they grow, they shake as sunlight on the lake: they hiss, they glisten on her bosom bare. o maiden, maiden queen! the lightning flows between thy mounting breasts, too magically fair. draw me, o draw me to a dreaming death! send out thine opiate breath, and lull me to the everlasting sleep, that, closing from the kisses of disdain to ecstasy of pain, i may sob out my life

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and chanting: darksome night and shining moon, east then south then west then north, hearken to the witches' rune, here i come to call thee forth. earth and water, air and fire, wand and pentacle and sword, work ye unto my desire. hearken ye unto my word. cords and censer, scourge and knife, powers of the witches' blade, waken all ye unto life, come ye as the charm is made. queen of heaven, queen of hell, homed hunter of the night, lend your power unto the spell, and work my will by magic rite. by all the power of land and sea, by all the might of moon and sun, as i do will, so it shall be, chant the spell and be it done. eko, eko azarak, eko, eko zamilak, eko, eko cernunnos, eko, eko aradia. during the invocation the high priestess stands at one side and at the moment when she believes th

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. the witches' rune darksome night and shining moon, hearken to the witches' rune. east, then south, west then north, here come i to call the forth. earth and water, air and fire, work ye unto my desire. wand and pentacle and sword hearken ye unto my word. cords and censer, scourge and knife, waken all ye into life. powers of the witches blade, come ye as the charm is made. queen of heaven, queen of hell, lend your aid unto the spell. horned hunter of the night, work my will by magic rite. by all the power of land and sea, as i do will, so mote it be. by all the might of moon and sun, chant the spell and be it done. notes the original was written by doreen valiente, and is rather different (verses are arranged in an abab rhyme scheme: l darksome night and shining moon, east, then south, we

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

peeded faster on its way. when the lesser fifth had midway passed and all the lesser four were peopling the land, the lords of dark intent arose. they said "not so shall go the force. the forms and rupas of the third and fourth, within the corresponding fifth, approach too close the archetype. the work is far too good" they constructed other forms. they called for cosmic fire. the seven deep pits of hell belched forth the animating shades. the incoming seventh reduced to order all the forms, the white, the dark, the red, and shaded brown. the period of destruction extended far on either hand. the work was sadly marred. the chohans of the highest plane gazed in silence on the work. the asuras and the chaitans, the sons of cosmic evil, and the rishis of the darkest constellations, gathered t

hades. the incoming seventh reduced to order all the forms, the white, the dark, the red, and shaded brown. the period of destruction extended far on either hand. the work was sadly marred. the chohans of the highest plane gazed in silence on the work. the asuras and the chaitans, the sons of cosmic evil, and the rishis of the darkest constellations, gathered their lesser hosts, the darkest spawn of hell. they darkened all the space* from the coming of the heaven-sent one peace passed upon the earth. the planet staggered and belched forth fire. part rose. part fell. the form was changed. millions took other forms or ascended to the appointed place of waiting. they tarried till the hour of progress should again sound forth for them* the early third produced the monsters, great beasts and ev

eir place in this treatise on fire through their very appropriateness "the brothers of the sun, through the force of solar fire, fanned to a flame in the blazing vault of the second heaven, put out the lower lunar fires, and render naught that lower 'fire by friction "the brother of the moon ignores the sun and solar heat; borrows his fire from all that triply is, and pursues his cycle. the fires of hell await, and lunar fire dies out. then neither sun nor moon avails him, only the highest heaven awaits the spark electric, seeking vibration synchronous from that which lies beneath. and yet it cometh not" 3. fifteen rules for magic. these rules will necessarily be of an esoteric nature, and the student will need to remember that the terminology is in the nature of a blind, which ever carrie

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"yet the jesus of history as distinct from the jesus of theology, remains `the way, the truth, and the life; and i am convinced that concentration upon the historic figure of our lord and upon his teaching can alone inspire in this twentieth century that fervent adherence and service which in former ages could be obtained from the average layman by the expounding of theological dogmas, the threat of hell, and the performance of elaborate rites and ceremonies."1 the kingdom of god is now in process of rapid formation, as all those with forward-seeing vision and a realisation of the rapidly emerging beauty and divinity of man can bear testimony. we are passing through the transition period between the old age and the new, and the true mission of christ, so deeply and frequently obscured by t

thout ever having heard of christ. therefore belief in him as an historical figure is not possible for them. we have evolved such doctrines as conditional immortality, and the atonement through the blood of jesus, in an endeavour to glorify the personality of jesus and safe-guard christian believers, and to reconcile human interpretations with the truth in the gospels. we have taught the doctrine of hell-fire and eternal punishment, and then tried to fit it in to the general belief that god is love. yet the truth is that christ died and rose again because he was divinity immanent in a human body. through the processes of evolution and initiation he demonstrated to us the meaning and purpose of the divine life present in him and in us all. because christ was human, he rose again. because he

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

eriod of the atlantean cycle were given by the adepts of the time to their disciples. you must bear in mind that the problem before the hierarchy at that time was to bring to an end temporarily the then normal psychic emphasis and start the flow of the forces to the upper part of the body. these three rules can be connected in your minds with the three methods touched upon above. i. shun the pits of hell, oh, chela. let your feet go hurrying from the lower way and seek the upper reaches of the plane of glamour. ascend. choose for your good companions those who live a life of arduous labour upon the plains of earth. depart. descend and live the normal life of earth. depart. ii. lift up thine eyes, oh, chela, and cleanse thine heart and see the vision of thy soul. look up, not down; within

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uld flower forth in all its glory; he taught that service was the keynote of the spiritual life and that the will of god would be revealed. these are not the points about which the mass of commentators have written. they have discussed ad nauseam how far christ was divine and how far he was human, the nature of the virgin birth, the function of st. paul as a teacher of christian truth, the nature of hell, salvation through blood, and the authenticity and historicity of the bible. today men's minds are recognizing the dawn of freedom; they are realizing that every man should be free to worship god in his own way. this will not mean (in the coming new age) that every man will pick a theological school to which he will choose to adhere. his own god-illumined mind will search for truth and he

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to the reorganising of the structures of world thought, world politics, plus the redistribution of the world's resources in conformity to divine purpose. then and only then will it be possible to carry the revelation further. be of good cheer, for there is no true defeat of the human spirit; there is no final extinction of the divine in man, for divinity ever rises triumphant from the darkest pit of hell. there is need, however, to overcome the inertia of the material nature in response to human need, individually and by the nations not engrossed with the essentials of the situation. this shows signs of happening. there is no power on earth which can prevent the advance of man towards his destined goal and no combination of powers can hold him back. today that combination is active a combi

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

as we see them working out in the sign pisces would be of very real value. death through the influences of pluto and death through the influences of mars are widely different. death in pisces through the energy of pluto is transformation a transformation so vital and so basic that the. ancient one is no longer seen. he sinks to the depth of the ocean of life; he descends into hell, but the gates of hell hold him not. he, the new and living one leaves below that which has held him down throughout the ages and rises from the depths unto the heights, close to the throne of god" the connection of these words with christ, the present world saviour, is obvious in their- 128- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust implications, and yet they were w

e is not in the balance and there is no need to despair. the courage of those fighting for freedom remains unimpaired. the hierarchy stands. light is breaking in the world as the realities of the situation emerge more clearly. be of good cheer for there is no true defeat of the human spirit; there is no final extinction of the divine in man, for divinity ever rises triumphant from the darkest pit of hell. there is need however to overcome the inertia of the material nature in response to human need, individually and by the nations not engrossed with the essentials of the situation. this shows signs of happening. there is no power on earth which can prevent the advance of man towards his destined goal and no combination of powers can hold him back. chapter v three major constellations and t

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

o life and people. to remain static in a point of view strikes me as unintelligent. it means that there comes a point in one's development when one ceases to learn, when one fails to extract the meaning out of events, schools of thought and circumstance, and when one remains mentally quiescent in the face of life. that is disaster. that is evil. that, surely, is what hell must mean. the awfulness of hell (in which i do not believe from the orthodox point of view) must lie in "everlasting" sameness, in a forced inability to change conditions. i became next an occult student, a writer of books which have had a wide and constant circulation and which have been translated into many languages. i found myself the head of an esoteric school all unwittingly and without any planned intention and th

n won over to better things, not by my eloquent preaching or by any emphasis upon the theological precept that the blood of jesus could save them, but simply by loving understanding. i had not believed that that was possible. i had yet to learn that love is the keynote of the christ's teaching and that it is his love and life that saves and not any violent theological pronouncements over the fear of hell. there are many little incidents connected with this time in india that i could relate but they are probably of more interest to me than anyone else. i went from one home to another, attending to the accounts, interviewing the managers, holding endless gospel meetings, talking to the soldiers about their souls or their families, visiting in the military hospitals and dealing with the many

us and show a sadistic nature. in one place, for instance, he talks of the babies who die unbaptised and speaks of them as "little vipers" burning to a crisp in hell fire. now that really did seem unfair to me. they had not asked to be born; they were not old enough to know anything about jesus, why, therefore, should they be burned to a crisp for all eternity? i saturated myself with the thought of hell and, glowing with information and forgetting that nobody had ever come back from hell to tell us whether it was true or not, i stood up that afternoon on the platform before five hundred men prepared to terrify them into the courts- 49- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust of heaven. it was an immense room, with long french windows opening out into the rose garden and th

them into the courts- 49- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust of heaven. it was an immense room, with long french windows opening out into the rose garden and the roses at that time were in full bloom. i spouted my piece; i declaimed vociferously; i talked and i emphasised the dire need of my audience. i was carried away with my subject; i forgot my surroundings in the thought of hell. suddenly at the end of half an hour i discovered i had no audience. one by one they had sneaked out of the french windows. one by one they had listened until they could stand no more and they congregated among the roses to laugh at the poor little fool. i was left with a small handful of religiously minded soldiers (irreverently called "bible thumpers" by their comrades. they were members

eble finish, a sergeant came up to me with a pitying look in his eye and said "now, miss, just so long as you speak the truth we will sit and listen to anything you have got to say, you know that, but the moment you start telling lies most of us will up and go. and we did" it was a drastic and violent lesson and one which at the time i did not understand. i believed that the bible taught the fact of hell and all my values were being shaken. if teaching about hell was untrue, what else was false? these three episodes threw my mind into the most violent questioning and helped eventually bring about a nervous breakdown. had i been wrong right along? were there a few things which i still had to learn? were there other points of view which might possibly be right? i knew there were a lot of nic

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ople but knew more, birth would be the experience which they would dread, and not death, for birth establishes the soul in the true prison, and physical death is only the first step towards liberation. another fear which induces mankind to regard death as a calamity is one which theological religion has inculcated, particularly the protestant fundamentalists and the roman catholic church the-fear of hell, the imposition of penalties, usually out of all proportion to the errors of a lifetime, and the terrors imposed by an angry god. to these man is told he will have to submit, and from them there is no escape, except through the vicarious atonement. there is, as you well know, no angry god, no hell, and no vicarious atonement. there is only a great principle of love animating the entire uni

urge of our own souls. this teaching anent hell is a remainder of the sadistic turn which was given to the thinking of the christian church in the middle ages and to the erroneous teaching to be found in the old testament anent jehovah, the tribal god of the jews. jehovah is not god, the planetary logos, the eternal heart of love whom christ revealed. as these erroneous ideas die out, the concept of hell will fade from man's recollection and its place will be taken by an understanding of salvation upon the physical plane, which leads him to right the wrongs which he may have perpetrated in his lives on earth, and which enables him eventually to "clean his own slate" i seek not here to impose upon you a theological discussion. i seek only to point out that the- 233- a treatise on the seven

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argely ignored; the failure of christianity can be traced to its jewish background (emphasised by st. paul, which made it full of propaganda instead of loving action, which taught the blood sacrifice instead of loving service, and which emphasised the existence of a wrathful god, needing to be placated by death, and which embodied the threats of the old testament jehovah in the christian teaching of hell fire. this situation is one which the christ is seeking to alter; it has been in preparation for his instituting a new and more correct presentation of divine truth that i have sought with love and understanding to point out the faults of the world religions, with their obsolete theologies and their lack of love, and to indicate the evils of judaism. the present world faiths must return to

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that this is wild poppy. the poppy was specially sacred to ceres, but also to thenight and its rites, and laverna was a nocturnal deity a play on the word paura, or fear. page 78 13 this appears from very early ages, as in roman times, to have been regarded as gifted withmagic properties, and was used in occult ceremonies. 14 that is, dianais invoked to send demons with the very life of the fire of hell to still moreincrease that of the sun to intensify the wine.chapter vi. 15 the beginning of this spell seems to be merely a prose introduction explaining the nature of theceremony.chapter vii. 16 this refers to a small ceremony which i have seen performed scores of times, and have indeedhad it performed over me almost as often, as an act of courtesy common among wizards and witch-es. it co

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i, omnipotens aeternae diabolus! after which turn back towards the alter, make in the air an inverted pentagram, using your left forefinger or w/ dagger, as you do so say: i bless this alter in the name of lucifer and satan. and i dedicate this rite unto thee oh infernal lord of the earth, he who gives me joy. may the blessings of darkness be with (me\us) this night "i shall go down to the alters of hell" after which one participant may say: i call upon thee oh mighty lord lucifer to witness this rite! i call upon the daemons and legions of the aybss to witness this rite! i call upon the oh dark gods to witness this rite" then preist says: i stand before the mighty lord of the earth! i proclaim that satan-lucifer rules the earth! i ratify and renew my promise to recongnize and honor him in

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divinities represent the natural in the universe. 18. priestess of battle. 19. daemoness of herbal knowledge. 20. depictions representing a daemonic entity. a signature.(plural) 21. a latin name for satan 22. an offering to lucifer 23. reversed satan 24. bringer of light and enlightenment 25. to invest with ministerial or priestly authority 26. she teaches all magick and sorcery. 27. mar de camp of hell 28. demon of domination according to dukante hierarchy 31 name that sigil no cheating! put your books away and see how many sigils you can identify! 32 answers to crosswode1 black witchcraft foundations of the luciferian path by michael w. ford, akhtya seker arimanius the nature of skir-hand witchcraft in the ancient and modern world is of anti-nature, or rather the word antinomian is a gr

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n it for the whole cycle of the mahayuga, thus exchanging their impersonal individualities for individual personalities- the bliss of sidereal existence for the curse of terrestrial life. this voluntary sacrifice of the fiery angels, whose nature was knowledge and love, was construed by the exoteric theologies into a statement that shows "the rebel angels hurled down from heaven into the darkness of hell- our earth. hindu philosophy hints at the truth by teaching that the asuras hurled down by siva, are only in an intermediate state in which they prepare for higher degrees of purification and redemption from their[[footnote(s* explaining the kabala, dr. h. pratt says "spirit was to man (to the jewish rabbin, rather) a bodiless, disembodied, or deprived, and degraded being, and hence was te

deprived of limbs as it is- to the jod[[diagram- the poetical ideograph of jehovah in the kabala- the god of the male symbol of generation[[vol. 2, page] 247 the curse of vasishta. wretched condition; but christian theology, claiming to be based on the rock of divine love, charity, and justice of him it appeals to as its saviour- has invented, to enforce that claim paradoxically, the dreary dogma of hell, that archimedean lever of roman catholic philosophy. as to rabbinical wisdom- than which there is none more positive, materialistic, or grossly terrestrial, as it brings everything down to physiological mysteries- it calls these beings, the "evil one" and the kabalists- nahash "deprived" as just said, and the souls, that have thrown themselves, after having been alienated in heaven from t

ic curiosity, but they have finally proved a misfit. yet the metaphorical fall, and as metaphorical atonement and crucifixion, led western humanity through roads knee-deep in blood. worse than all, they led it to believe in the dogma of the evil spirit distinct from the spirit of all good, whereas the former lives in all matter and pre-eminently in man. finally it created the god-slandering dogma of hell and eternal perdition; it spread a thick film between the higher intuitions of man and divine verities; and, most pernicious result of all, it made people remain ignorant of the fact that there were no fiends, no dark demons in the universe before man's own appearance on this, and probably on other earths. henceforth the people were led to accept, as the problematical consolation for this

ime and space, the manifested worlds of cycles including those of incarnation, and the amshaspends "the seven bright sravah" accompanied by their stars, fight ahriman, and the vanquished devas fall to the earth along with him (acad. des inscrip, vol. xxxix, p. 690; see vendidad, farg. xix, iii) in the vendidad the daevas are called "evil-doing" and shown to rush away "into the depths of the world of hell" or matter (47) this is an allegory showing the devas compelled to incarnate, once that they have separated themselves from their parent essence, or, in other words, after the unit had become a multiple, after differentiation and manifestation. typhon the egyptian, python, the titans, the suras and the asuras, all belong to the same legend of spirits peopling the earth. they are not "demon

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ordinis caputis medusae. all rights reserved. no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without prior permission in writing by the author or publisher. published by o.a.i, box 666-033, marietta, ga 30066 if you dare to violate this copyright or the copyright of any other o.a.i. or faust material (doctor johannes faust's miracle and magic book, or the black raven or the threefold coercion of hell, doctor johannes faust's infernal tarot, etc, or if you are in possession of the book of doom or any faust material that has been produced in violation of this copyright, you will be automatically the target of the most powerful magical attack unless you destroy these materials! the magical trap, staffed by the spirits of hell, is wide open and waiting! you are allowed to upload this mater

udy well what the spirits of the infernal hierarchy have to tell you, and all the power will be yours. 3.18. the structure of the o.a.i. is following the principles of the infernal hierarchy and so should all groups that are truly left path, small and large, from the top to the bottom. translator's note: the algolic spiritual hierarchy is somewhat reflected in the grimoire "the threefold coercion of hell by doctor johannes faust" translated into english by k.h.w. however, the names of the infernal spirits have been somewhat distorted in this german classic. the hierarchy of the o.a.i. is indeed following these ancient principles as shown in this chapter, and so is the hierarchy of all branches of the o.a.i. caput quartum: the infernal alphabet of doom part 1: letters from f through g 4.1

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at rather than allow the kids to go trick-or-treating, there would be a big hallowe'en party sponsored by the village. five such parties were to feature "burning a witch" in a big bonfire. a reporter for the chicago tribune called stan modrzyk, priest of the first temple of the craft of wica, of chicago heights, and asked him how he felt about it. stan told him he thought there would be all sorts of hell to pay if they said they were going to burn a jew or a baptist, and immediately wrote to all five villages, several local papers (including the tribune) and an attorney, saying that making a witch-burning, even in effigy, was a poor lesson for the kids, that it smacked of religious persecution and he was prepared to go to court to stop such demonstrations if they did not call it off. bonfi

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ream did that dragon come and ignite within, my soul, my initiator by giving to the daemon did my eyes open anew. i conjure thee, o wanderer who bears a black thorn stick i adjure thee, who the blood of abel did ignite your senses who lifted thee up into the flames of your father in iblis shadow did you awaken in the arms of lilith, the moon. i summon thee, cain of old, whose words open the gates of hell i invoke thee, cain of the serpent skin, who is the first of witch blood i conjure thee, cain who is the earthly devil, who is the master of spirits encircle and awaken within my flesh, my blood, my mind. by thy depths of which i walk herein shall i become reborn in the name and mark of the devil, whom i swear my spirit unto i am myself the redeemer and bringer of the infernal pact which h

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to vomit at it. in a word, they never kept in their order, but whenever one rascal here, another there, could insinuate himself in between the nobles, then they pretended to having finished such adventures as neither samson nor yet hercules with all their strength could ever have achieved: this one would discharge atlas of his burden; the other would again draw forth the threeheaded cerberus out of hell. in brief, every man had his own prate, and yet the greatest lords were so simple that they believed their pretences, and the rogues so audacious, that although one or other of them was here and there rapped over the fingers with a knife, yet they flinched not at it, but when anyone perchance had filched a gold-chain, then they would all hazard for the same. page 16 i saw one who heard the

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d in the energy grid and knew how to harness the power it contained.10 one of the leading revolutionaries and founding fathers of the united states was benjamin franklin, the first grand master of the freemasons of pennsylvania. he 34..and the truth shall set you free became a friend of sir francis dashwood, the chancellor of the british treasury, and founder of the secret society called the club of hell's fire. franklin became a member along with the mayor of london, the son of the archbishop of canterbury, and the prince of wales. he travelled to france to canvass successfully for the support of the french freemasons for the american revolution, and he also secured the services of the german freemason, baron von streube, who served in the army of frederick the great of prussia. the baron

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rs of this serpent cult. they were the serpent goddess known as el; her consort, the male entity called wodan (votan was the atlantean fire god; and their son, baldr or balder. this was the serpent "trinity" of mother-father-son. el was also known as eldi or "fiery el, the "hound, and, highly significantly, as "mary".24 from this cult and "fiery el" came the term hell "burning in hell" and "fires of hell" el or hel was the norse queen of the underworld and her followers became known as "kinsman of hel".25 in medieval times, this was symbolised as the "harlequin, the lover of the maiden columbine-the-dove. columba, columbine, and the symbol of the dove are all other names and symbols for el, the serpent or dragon queen of the edda. the more i research, the more the 154 children of the matri

edda and in sumerian and hittite seals, both el and balder are given "wings (figure 27. in the indian vedas you have accounts of the gods warring in the sky. it suggests a credible explanation for the ancient ruins that indicate they were destroyed by some kind of high-tech, even nuclear, weaponry. the edda tells how thor won the victory against the serpent cult and this is known as the "harrying of hell [el" in welsh traditions. a key moment was when prince cain, miok or michael, the son of thor, killed balder or abel, the son of el, and this is depicted in many sumerian, babylonian, assyrian, hittite, and persian seals and sculptures. cain, as horus, is seen spearing abel-set, symbolised as a demon crocodile, in an egyptian bas-relief of around 1000bc (see picture section).41 this is a v

the accounts describe a race called the pazazu, a dog-faced "human" with reptilian scales and tail. all this sounds remarkably like the scenes described at dulce today. chinese legend claims that an underground world entered from the eastern mountain of taishan was guarded by vicious demons called men shen with animal-like faces or masks. this was the chinese "hell" and it is said that the lords of hell interacted with the dragon kings on the surface. the japanese "hell" or underground network was similar, and among the non-human entities were the kappa, semi-aquatic reptilian humanoids and other shape-shifters who lived in mountains, under the ground, or under the sea. in viking-norse legend they have the giant serpent, nidhoggr or jormungand, that lived underground and this was similar

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emotions with fearand guilt. they were usually based on some saviour-god figure like jesus ormohammed and only by believing in them and following their dictates can we findgod and be saved. that is precisely what the babylonian priests said about nimrodwhen the blueprint for control-by-religion was being moulded in babylon. those whorefuse to believe this hogwash are condemned to stoke the fires of hell for all eternity.staggeringly, billions upon billions have fallen for this scam over thousands of years,and still do. thats fine if they want to give their minds and their lives away, but manyinsist that everyone else must do the same and thats not fine. seriously not fine. most ofthe people reading this book will be from the parts of the world dominated bychristianity and judaism and so i

to achieve the same effect and,therefore, the saviour-god myths throughout the ancient world have an identical gameplan: 1 you are born with original sin and so you are an unworthy piece of shit from theday you arrive on the planet. 2 you can only be saved by believing in the saviour andthat means doing what the priesthood tell you to do. 3 if you dont do that, you will becondemned to the bowels of hell forever. what guilt and terror this has created overthousands of years. i have heard roman catholic mothers in anguish after their babieshave died wondering what will have happened to them. the babies couldnt believe injesus because they were only a few days old, so would they go to heaven or hell? i waswatching a roman catholic television channel in the united states and the guy with thel

imed to stand for religious and politicalfreedom and yet one of their puppets, martin luther, stood for anything but. he hatedfreethinking and open minded research. in one sermon he said that his followers shouldthrow spit in the face of reason, because she was the devils whore, rotten with the itchof leprosy, and should be kept in the toilet.10 lovely. he also wrote:damned be love into the abyss of hell, if it is maintained to the damage of faith. it isbetter that tyrants should sin a hundred times against the people than the people shouldsin once against the tyrants. the ass wants to be thrashed, the mob to be governed byforce.11speak for yourself, darlin. a frenchman, known in english as john calvin, alsoproduced his version of protestant christianity, another extreme and arrogant creed

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their own repressed emotions and fears of the unknown. if faced, with courage and fortitude, the demons would have vanished and become once again shadows. the satanist has no need for ouija boards or spirit cards since he has exercised the shells embedded in man s subconscious. neither does the satanist require protective pentagrams and names of god to protect him, or call upon the lesser minions of hell for fear that the greater deities are too powerful to control. the satanist calls brazenly upon the very gods of hell and lords of the abyss, realizing that they can in no way harm him for he is the master of his conscious and subconscious mind. aleister crowley defined magick as the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. anton lavey took this definition farthe

DEMONIC BIBLE

the word of the aeon of lucifer can be seen as an indication that the embassy of lucifer is the natural successor to the tos, cos, and oto/aa, since the aeon of lucifer succeeded the aeon of set and the previous aeon of horus. unlike most satanic rituals, which invoke demons as beings or forces alien to the magician, the rituals presented in the demonic bible allow the magician to open the gates of hell and become one with the forces of darkness. it can now be seen that the embassy of lucifer fulfills the ona s objectives in presencing the forces of darkness and becoming nexus s or gateways to the acausal as well as establishing a new aeon and creating a new race homo deitus (called homo galacticus in ona literature) the embassy of s.a.t.a.n. may no longer exist, but the social realist ph

emon, the spirit azael, and also in part by astaroth, asmodeus, moloch, and beelzebub. this book includes many of the formulas given in the demonic bible but is not the entire demonic bible, the unholy book being thousands of pages in length in its entirety. when originally revealed to me by the spirit azael, this work included only the crossing of four gates, corresponding with the four "princes of hell, and an extraneous book dealing with the invocation of the dead. i performed the rituals and experienced the "crossing of the gates" within extremely vivid and symbolic dreams. since then the spirits have revealed additional rituals to me. this book has been a work in progress. it has evolved over the last fifteen years as i have progressed along the dark path. rituals which enhanced the w

as magical seals, charms, and spells have been omitted from this book in order to avoid such things being used foolishly by those who have no interest in magic beyond the acquisition of wealth and the satisfaction of vain ambitions. if you desire it the spirits will reveal to you all manner of sorceries whereby you may attain that which you desire. this book provides the key to crossing the gates of hell and becoming one with the forces of darkness. rather than give you spells, charms, and seals for material benefit, this book provides you with the means to acquire these things yourself. initial to performing these rituals, you must take a "bath of purification, a bath in salt water. the reason for this is that salt is a universal purgant. taking a bath in salt water will eliminate any psy

month: invoke leviatan every night. etc. nightly ritual 1. dress for ritual and make any preliminary preparations. 2. enter ritual chamber; shut out all outside light sources. 3. light candle(s. 4. light incense; place incense in incense burner. 5. wait a few minutes; allow the incense to fill the room; meditate upon intent of ritual. 6. recite any preliminary statements("i have crossed the gates of hell. etc. 7. recite incantation three or more times; until satisfied that the alignment has been formed. 8. drink from chalice as a sign of communion with the forces of darkness. 9. extinguish candles; allow light to once again enter the ritual chamber. in the performance of these rites you shall set yourself apart to the forces of darkness, consecrate your body as a temple to the dark lord, c

. recite incantation three or more times; until satisfied that the alignment has been formed. 8. drink from chalice as a sign of communion with the forces of darkness. 9. extinguish candles; allow light to once again enter the ritual chamber. in the performance of these rites you shall set yourself apart to the forces of darkness, consecrate your body as a temple to the dark lord, cross the gates of hell, and become one with the forces of darkness. this differs from all other systems of magic involving the invocation of spirits. white magicians stand inside protective pentagrams wearing protective amulets to shield themselves from the forces they call upon. in the satanic bible, anton lavey mocked the hypocrisy of those who attempted to protect themselves from the forces they called upon f

agic of abramelin the mage in that, unlike a mere book of spells for love, power, wealth, or the destruction of one s enemies, the demonic bible presents a series of rituals that the magician can use to initiate himself. all of the rituals in the demonic bible form a single ritual working which the magician may spend a lifetime performing. the goal of the working is to symbolically open the gates of hell and become one with the forces of darkness. these dark forces may or may not have an independent existence apart from man s belief in them but, whatever they may be, these forces exist in an acausal non spatial reality apart from the causal world in which we usually function. this ritual system allows the magician to become a nexus or gate to these acausal forces. whether these forces have

itiatory style ritual 1. dress for ritual and make any preliminary preparations. 2. enter ritual chamber; shut out all outside light sources. 3. celebrant lights candle(s. 4. celebrant lights incense; places incense in incense burner. 5. wait a few minutes; allow the incense to fill the room; meditate upon intent of ritual. 6. celebrant recites any preliminary statements( i have crossed the gates of hell) 7. initiate recites any preliminary statements. 8. initiate recites incantation three or more times. 9. celebrant and initiate recite incantation together three or more times. 10. both drink from chalice as a sign of communion with the forces of darkness. 11. the initiate gives herself to the celebrant who does to her as he wishes. 12. celebrant extinguishes candles; allows light to once

sign of communion with the forces of darkness. 10. celebrant and partner come together in sexual union. 11. extinguish candles; allow light to once again enter the ritual chamber. the rituals of the demonic bible may be undertaken by a group or coven. if this is the case, each participant chooses a dark god/goddess as his personal archetype. the high priest performs the rituals to cross the gates of hell and become the devil incarnate. he then adopts the name of a particular archetype, such as satan or lucifer, and is known from then on by that name within the coven. he then initiates the high priestess so that she becomes the manifestation of the dark goddess. she assumes the name of a particular archetype such as hela, hecate, or diana. the other priests and priestesses are then initiate

thus purifying the air. 8. high priest walks counter-clockwise around the circle, swinging the incense burner while reciting the incantation i am satan, i am lucifer, i am the devil incarnate; i am belial, i am leviatan, i am the devil incarnate he drinks from the chalice. 9. high priest sprinkles unholy water to the south, the east, the north, and the west while saying, i have crossed the gates of hell and have become the devil incarnate; i am satan, i am lucifer, i am belial, and i am leviatan. 10. high priest strikes the gong three times, signaling the congregation to enter. 11. participants enter the chamber in a procession and take their places by rank. 12. there is a moment of silent meditation. 13. high priest breaks the silence by reciting the preliminary statement. 14. congregati

eitus for man has become god, lucifer has risen, the heavens have been conquered; the ancient ones rule once more. by thelema and by xeper i have attained deitus. i have spoken the word of the aeon and become magus of the aeon of lucifer* once more i shall perform the rituals of the demonic bible as revealed to me by the spirit azael, my unholy guardian demon, and confirmed by the 4 crown princes of hell, the 8 sub-princes of hell, and the 9 lords of the abyss* dark lord, consecrate this work which i begin this night that i may emerge from the waters of leviatan as a new born babe from the womb and, as a suckling, feed upon the breast of the great harlot, the lady of babylon and, once weened from the tit, grow as a child of darkness until i have become a god upon the earth, exercising the

the abyss* dark lord, consecrate this work which i begin this night that i may emerge from the waters of leviatan as a new born babe from the womb and, as a suckling, feed upon the breast of the great harlot, the lady of babylon and, once weened from the tit, grow as a child of darkness until i have become a god upon the earth, exercising the power and authority of the highest and ineffable king of hell* i bless and consecrate this water in the name of satan and in the name of lucifer (recite three times, then enter bath* sanctify me in the waters of the abyss that i may rise up, from this bath, reborn in the image of satan and go forth into the world as a living demon in the flesh to the glory of the infernal empire and to the majesty of the infernal king he, who shall reign forever upon

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r daylight in vain and not see the first days of the dawn. leviathan is considered to being connected with azhdeha, the dragon, the very home of tiamat and some suggesting also set (who is known in lore to take the form of serpents, also connected to tiamat, the chaos dragon of the akko-sumerians. in the book of the sacred magic of abra-melin the mage, leviathan is one of the four crowned princes of hell, spell from the hebraic root of lvithn. he is called the crooked or piercing serpent or dragon. leviathan is a chief daemon along with lucifer, satan and belial. anton lavey attributed leviathan to the direction of west, associated with water. understanding leviathan provides a more significant challenge than any other daemon. rahab itself is a fallen spirit of timeless existence, as it wr

could be joyful do threaten us. o prince satan, father of all the wicked and ungodly and renegades wherefore wouldest thou do this? they that from the beginning until now have despaired of life and salvation-now is none of their wonted roarings heard, neither doth any groan from them sound in our ears, nor is there any sign of tears upon the face of any of them. o prince satan, holder of the keys of hell, those thy riches which thou hadst gained by the tree of transgression and the losing of paradise, thou hast lost by the tree of the cross, and all thy gladness hath perished- gospel of nicodemus vii (xxiii) here beelzebub is the tester and accuser of christ, he by having him in myth crucified acted as his initiator and teacher, he tested christ by word and prose and christ proved a powerf

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t and functional. each sphere, in the course of its evolution, builds up an oversoul which is called by different names in different systems. in the qabalistic system we call them the archangels, the spirits before the throne. the sphere of the sun is represented by raphael, the sphere of the moon by gabriel. the obverse sephiroth, or qlippoth, build up in exactly the same way. in the habitations of hell these two are known as the disputers and the obscene ones, whose names sufficiently indicate their characters. the sphere of the sun is also the point of manifestation of the messiah or saviour upon earth. the prince of peace has his obverse in the disputers. who that has had the vision beautiful does not know the reaction that follows it, and the need of wisdom, self-control and patience

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h ready to sting. and, because he is himself, therefore he is no self; the terror of darkness, and the blindness of night, and the deafness of the adder, and the tastelessness of stale and stagnant water, and the black fire of hatred, and the udders of the cat of slime; not one thing, but many things. yet, with all that, his torment is eternal. the sun burns him as he writhes naked upon the sands of hell, and the wind cuts him bitterly to the bone, a harsh dry wind, so that he is sore athirst. give unto me, i pray thee, one drop of water from the pure springs of paradise, that i may quench my thirst (the scribe refused) sprinkle water upon my head. i can hardly go on (this last was spoken from the triangle in the natural voice of the frater, which choronzon again simulated. but he did not

DONALDTYSON DEMON

demons mentioned in the old testament, such as ashtaroth and baal, are the gods of middle eastern peoples other than the hebrews. the modern concept of demons owes many of its key features to the influence of christian folklore and theological doctrine, which were heavily influenced by jewish beliefs through the old testament. in christianity, a demon is not just a malicious spirit, but a spirit of hell sent to earth by the devil to enforce his authority or to carry out his purposes. just as angels are the agents of god who act with divine authority to do good works among men, so demons are the agents of lucifer who act with infernal authority to do works of evil. indeed, in jewish, islamic and christian mythology, lucifer was himself once an angel of heaven who defied god. seeking to ove

f evil. indeed, in jewish, islamic and christian mythology, lucifer was himself once an angel of heaven who defied god. seeking to overthrow god and rule heaven, lucifer assembled an army of apostate angels and initiated a war in heaven. he and his angels were defeated by michael and the angels who remained loyal to god, and were thrown down from heaven to hell. in their fallen state these angels of hell are supposed in christian lore to be of hideous aspect, filthy, deformed and base. lucifer seeks to harass god by plaguing mankind with a multitude of troubles, and by inciting human beings to defy god. he uses his fallen angels as his agents, sending them abroad across the face of the world to incite and commit evil. every time he succeeds in inducing a human to defy god, lucifer gains an

EMPERORS NEW RELIGION CHURCH OF SATAN

accept the label satanist. this conclusion is supported by blanche barton s welcoming statement on the official church of satan web page, where she explains that: the philosophy really isn t that esoteric and doesn t take much pondering to understand. but it s that looming figure in the shadows, that majestic silhouette of satan leathery wings outstretched, standing proudly, backlit by the flames of hell that people find disquieting [16] church of satan officials have argued that parts of the the satanic bible were intended as sincere philosophy while other parts were intended to mislead the rubes begging to be mocked and derided. according to william gidney (priest of the church of satan: the church of satan champions the machiavellian ethic of misdirection: you should try actually readin

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their evening prayers, the vision faded. twentieth century apparitions the four french apparitions set the stage for what possibly were the most spectacular of the modern apparitions whose fame closely rivals that of lourdes. the apparitions at fatima, in central portugal, began on may 13, 1917, and continued monthly into october. here mary offered the three children to whom she appeared a vision of hell as the consequences of impiety and unbelief, and called for reparations and prayers for the conversion of russia. what set the apparitions apart, however, was the fulfilled promise of a miracle to complete the apparitions on october 13. tens of thousands of people gathered at the site of the apparitions though the day was rainy. as the children were conversing with the lady, whom none of o

of gross and unrestrained passions. since it and most of the matter in the inhabitants astral bodies is of the same type, it constitutes a veritable hell and is the only hell which exists. this is avichi, the place of desires that cannot be satisfied because of the absence of the physical body, which was the means of their satisfaction. the tortures of these desires are the analog of the torments of hell-fire in the older christian orthodoxy. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. astral world 101 unlike that orthodoxy, however, theosophy teaches that the state of torment is not eternal but passes away in time, when the desires.through long gnawing without fulfillment.have at last died. avichi is more correctly regarded as a purgatorial state. the ordinary individual, however

ched living. he then retired to hamadan, where, worn out with years of sensual indulgence, he died, at the age of 58. avicenna wrote nearly 100 works on philosophy, mathematics, and medicine and at least seven treatises on the philosophers stone of alchemy. his book of the canon of medicine acquired european celebrity and has been translated into latin several times. avichi a theosophical concept of hell, deriving from the sanskrit word for isolation. although it is a place of torment, it differs in great degree from the dominant conception of hell. its torments are the torments of fleshly cravings, which for want of a physical body cannot be satisfied. people remain after death exactly the same entity as before, and, if in life an individual has been obsessed with strong desires or passio

left the body. the ka remained in the tomb and ventured forth in the likeness of the deceased to haunt family and friends. sources: the book of the dead. translated by e. a. wallis budge. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. baalberith according to johan weyer, baalberith is a demon of the second order, master of the infernal alliance. he was said to be secretary and keeper of the archives of hell. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval and renaissance texts and studies, 1991. baal shem tov (1698.1760) founder of the jewish mystical movement called hasidism that swept through europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. born as israel, son of eliezer, he becam

of the baal-shem. new york: schocken books, 1955. tales of the hasidim: the early masters. new york: schocken books, 1947. hilsenrad, zalman aryeh, comp. the baal shem tov: his birth and early manhood. brooklyn, n.y: kehot publication society, 1967. kaplan, aryeh. chassidic masters: history, biography, and thought. new york: maznaim publishing, 1984. baalzephon captain of the guard and sentinels of hell (according to johan weyer. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval and renaissance texts and studies, 1991. baaras a marvelous plant known to the arabs as the golden plant, which is supposed to grow on mount libanus, underneath the road that leads to damascus. it is said to flo

resided over the twenty-second day of the month. badger to bury the foot of a badger underneath one s sleeping place is believed by voudou worshipers and some gypsies to excite or awaken love. bael a demon cited in the grand grimoire; head of the infernal powers. it is with him that johan weyer commenced his inventory of the famous pseudonomarchia daemonum. he alluded to bael as the first monarch of hell and said that his estates are situated on the eastern regions thereof. he had three heads, that of a crab, a cat, and a man. sixty-six legions obey him. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval and renaissance texts and studies, 1991. baggally, william wortley (d. 1928) former m

would then be led into a recreation of the underworld, beginning with a descent by ladder into a round chamber and then into the long descending passageway to the heart of the temple structure. the inquirer would eventually arrive at an underground body of water (the river styx, and be rowed across by someone representing the ferryman charon. on the other side was cerberus, the three-headed hound of hell. the passageway then took the inquirer to the inner sanctuary where a branch of mistletoe was offered to persephone, the goddess married to the god of the underworld. once inside the inner sanctum, contact with the dead would be made, though the exact process is not known. the inquirer would then be led back to the surface. during the reign of augustus in the first century b.c.e, the roman

nspittle and its moving statue rapidly became a media event, reported and discussed in newspapers and on radio and television. among the many thousands of visitors to the shrine were journalists, camera operators, priests, nuns, doctors, lawyers, engineers, housewives, and ordinary people from all walks of life. surprisingly, even hardened skeptics reported seeing movement. on one occasion a gang of hell s angels motorcyclists stood quietly at the shrine, and although they did not believe that the statue moved, they blessed themselves before putting back their crash helmets and driving off. naturally enough the church hierarchy became somewhat concerned. while appreciating the devout atmosphere created by many pilgrims at an open-air shrine, ecclesiastics believed that regular church atten

) in may 1909 baron von schrenck- notzing joined the circle and began his detailed scientific observations. sources: schrenck-notzing, albert von. materialisationspaenomene. munich: ernst reinhart, 1914. translated as phenomena of materialisation: a contribution to the investigation of mediumistic teleplastics. london, 1923. bitru according to the demonologist johan weyer, bitru is a great prince of hell, also known as sytry. he appeared in the form of a leopard with the wings of a griffin. but whenever he adopted a human appearance, it was invariably one of great beauty. it is he who awakes lust in the human heart. seventy legions obey his commands. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n

ed to disgorge their stolen meal. their vomit, found in kitchen gardens, was a yellow color, and it was called witches butter. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. butter, witches 231 c c.o.g. initials for children of god, a charismatic christianity group founded in the late 1960s and now known as the family. caacrinolaas according to johan weyer, caacrinolaas is the grand president of hell. he is also known as caasimolar and glasya and is represented in the shape of a god with the wings of a griffin. he is supposed to inspire knowledge of the liberal arts and to incite homicides. it is also believed that this fiend is able to render people invisible. he commands 36 legions of devils. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de p

was author of la morte, cette illusion (1953, and co-author with bertrand de cressac bachelerie of la metapsychique.probleme crucial (1960. chevaliers de l enfer according to french demonologists, these are demons more powerful than those of no rank, but less powerful than titled demons. counts, marquises, and dukes. they may be evoked from dawn to sunrise and from sunset to dark (see also counts of hell) chevreuil, leon marie martial (1852.1939) french painter, author, and spiritualist, born march 27, 1852. chevreuil studied at the university of poitiers and the ecole des beaux-arts, paris. his book on ne meurt pas (1916) was awarded a prize by the academie des sciences, paris. he also wrote le spiritisme dans l eglise (1923) and contributed articles to revue spirite and psychica. two of

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olds. again the roman soldiery must have carried the mithraic cult as far north as the mountains of scotland, and south to the borders of the sahara desert. mithraism may be said to have been the only living religion christianity found a need to combat. it was strong enough to exert a formative influence on certain christian doctrines, such as those relative to the end of the world and the powers of hell. mithra was essentially the divinity of beneficence. he was the genius of celestial light, endowing the earth with all its benefits. as the sun he put darkness to flight, so by a natural transition he came to represent truth and integrity, the sun of goodness that conquers the night of evil. to him was ascribed the role of mediator between god and humanity. his creed promised a resurrectio

own of the secret message was that while receiving it, the children were heard to groan aloud. two of the children, jacinta and francisco marto, died in 1919 and 1920 respectively, but did not speak of the message that they had been given. subsequently, some years later lucia dos santos, who had been the third child, made two parts of the secret message known. the first part consisted of a vision of hell, with an accompanying admonition that the children should sacrifice themselves for sinners in reparation for the many offenses against the immaculate heart of mary. the second part was an admonition to spread the devotion to the immaculate heart of mary, which has become a popular form of devotion in the roman catholic church. added to this admonition was a prediction that world war i (191

ialty was the abduction of princesses. witchcraft the witch was frequently mentioned in slavonic folktales, especially among the southern slavs. she was called vjestica (masculine viestae, meaning originally the knowing one or the well-informed one. in dalmatia and elsewhere among the southern slavs the witch was called krstaca, the crossed, in allusion to the idea that she was of the horned race of hell. it was said that it enraged the witches so much to be called by this word that when they heard that anyone had used it they went to his house by night and tore him into four pieces, which they cast to the four winds of heaven, and drove away all his cattle and stock. therefore, the shrewd farmers of the country called the witch hmana zena, or common woman. there were many forms of slavoni

emselves in this confusing labyrinth. and the putrefaction and the bad odour and the dampness of the earth were very great and there was also a cold wind which blew out their torches. and after they had gone a short distance, fearing to be overpowered by the stench or to step on poisonous reptiles, of which some had been seen, they resolved to go out again and to completely wall up this back door of hell. the four buildings above ground were the only ones which still remained open, and they had a court and chambers like those underground; and the ruins of these have lasted even to the present day. the temple hill at jerusalem the vast subterranean vaults under the temple hill at jerusalem were probably used as a secret meeting place by the templars during their occupation of the holy city

ced the coins on the cards around a lighted candle. the pint of rum which he (witness) had brought was on the table and prisoner poured some of it into a pan. he went outside and sprinkled the rum at the four corners of the house. accused came back in and said, papa! papa! your case is very bad! there are two ghosts outside. the creole is bad, but the coolie is rather worse. but if he is made out of hell i will catch him. the prisoner then began to blow his whistle in a very funny way.a way in which he had never heard a whistle blown before. he also began to speak in an unknown tongue and to call up the ghosts [the following dialogue is taken from court proceedings regarding the case] mr. lake. aren t there a lot of you people who believe that ghosts can harm and molest you? witness. no, i

is wife put into their act, a matter which i have discussed with mr. zancig himself. just when the zancigs were at the pinnacle of their career agnes died in 1916. julius tried to continue the act with several other people, but never to the same effect. zanoni title of an occult novel by bulwer lytton (see also fiction, english occult) zapan according to demonologist johan weyer, one of the kings of hell. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. ed. george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval& renaissance texts& studies, 1991. zazen term used in zen buddhism to indicate the sitting position for meditation, which usually takes place in the zen-do or meditation hall in zen monasteries. the meditation position is known as dhyanasana. i

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

lsewhere in his book steinman gives the year as 1949 and spells the last name steene) a member of a special military unit contacted steen and led him and his nurse to a location where an alien was being kept alive. it was in a chamber with a controlled environment. the being appeared to be some kind of reptile. its appearance so upset the nurse that she said it looked like something from the pits of hell. on july 23, 1952, a colorado newspaper, the pueblo chieftain, related a peculiar story. speaking to the local chamber of commerce, joseph rohrer, president of pikes peak broadcasting, said he knew of three saucer crashes in montana. one of the occupants that had survived, a three-foot-tall humanoid, was still being kept alive in an incubator in california, where efforts were being made to

FAUST

thy back with resolution fine upon earth s lovely sun, and now make bold to fling apart the gate which every man would fain go slinking by! here is the time to demonstrate that man s own dignity yields not to gods on high; to tremble not before that murky pit where fantasies, self-damned, in tortures dwell; to struggle toward that pass whose narrow mouth is lit by all the seething, searing flames of hell; serenely to decide this step and onward press, though there be risk i ll float off into nothingness. so now come down, thou goblet pure and crystalline! from out that ancient case of thine, on which for many a year i have not thought! thou at my fathers feasts wert wont to shine, didst many a solemn guest to mirth incline, when thee, in pledge, one to another brought. the crowded figures

rs, no master he over spirits can be. vanish in fiery glow, salamander! gurgling, together flow, undine! in meteoric beauty shine, sylph! bring homely help, incubus! incubus! step forth and end the charm for us. none of the four hides in the beast. he lies quite calmly, grins evermore; i ve not yet hurt him in the least. thou lt hear me longer conjure thee stronger! art thou, fellow, one that out of hell has run? then see this sign! before which incline black cohorts e er! it swells up now with bristling hair. thou reprobated, canst rede his token? the ne er-originated, the never-spoken, who every heaven has permeated, he! wantonly immolated! behind the stove, held by my spells, like an elephant it swells, and all the space it fills complete. in vapour it will melt away. mount not up to th

t visits here i make. but may i for the present go away? faust why you should ask, i do not see. though we have only met today, come as you like and visit me. here is a window, here a door, for you, besides a certain chimney-flue. mephistopheles let me own up! i cannot go away; a little hindrance bids me stay. the witch s foot upon your sill i see. faust the pentagram? that s in your way? you son of hell explain to me, if that stays you, how came you in today? and how was such a spirit so betrayed? mephistopheles observe it closely! it is not well made; one angle, on the outer side of it, is just a little open, as you see. faust that was by accident a lucky hit! and are you then my captive? can that be? by happy chance the thing s succeeded! mephistopheles as he came leaping in, the poodle

female ape has neglected, begins to boil over; a great flame arises which streams up the chimney. the witch comes careering down through the flame with horrible cries. the witch ow! ow! ow! ow! you damned beast! accursed sow! neglecting kettle, scorching me now! accursed beast! espying faust and mephistopheles. what is that here? who are you here? what will you wreak? who is the sneak? may pangs of hell burn your bones well! she plunges the skimming-ladle into the cauldron and sprinkles flames toward faust, mephistopheles, and the beasts. the beasts whimper. mephistopheles [who reverses the brush which he has been holding and strikes among the glasses and pots. in two! in two! there lies the brew! there lies the glass! let the joke pass as beat, you ass, to melodies from you! as the witch

looks at once quite differently. what good is beauty? blood of youth? all that is nice and fine, in truth; however, people pass and let it be. they praise you- half with pity, though, be sure. toward gold throng all, to gold cling all, yes, all! alas, we poor! a promenade faust walking thoughtfully up and down. mephistopheles joins him. mephistopheles by every despised love! by the red-hot fires of hell! would i knew something worse, to curse by it as well! faust what is the matter? what s so badly vexing you? i ve never seen before a face that looked that way. mephistopheles off to the devil i d betake myself this day if i myself were not a devil too! faust what has gone wrong? why thus behave? it suits you well to rant and rave! mephistopheles just think, the gems for gretchen that i go

all hell! the devil, in fearful brawling, holds awful revel! faust [loudly. gretchen! gretchen! margaret [listening attentively. that was my lover calling! she springs up. the chains fall off. where is he? i heard him calling! i am free! no one shall hinder me. to his neck will i fly, on his bosom lie! he called gretchen! he stood at the door of my cell. through the midst of the howl and clatter of hell, through the anger and scorn of the devilish crew, the tones of that sweet, loving voice i knew. faust it s i! margaret it s you! oh, say it once again! embracing him. it s he! it s he! where s all my misery? and where the anguish of the gaol? the chain? it s you! you ve come to save me! and i am saved! the very street is here anew where for the first time i saw you, and the cheerful garde

ds so be it! mephistopheles [in profile like a phorkyad. done! here stand i, chaos well-beloved son! the phorkyads daughters of chaos we, by undisputed right! mephistopheles oh, shame! they ll call me now hermaphrodite! the phorkyads what beauty in the sisters triad new! we have two eyes, our teeth are two. mephistopheles from all eyes i must hide this visage well to fright the devils in the pool of hell. exit. rocky coves of the aegean sea moon tarrying in the zenith. sirens [couched around on the cliffs, fluting and singing. if of yore, by spells nocturnal, did thessalian hags infernal draw thee down, a crime intending, gaze thou where night s arch is bending down with calmness never-ending on the billowy, twinkling ocean, and illumine the commotion rising from the billowing sea! to thy

ft and strong old death s played out; even the whether long has been in doubt. with lust i ve often watched the rigid members twas but a sham; they moved: life stirred the embers. gestures of conjuration like those of a fantastic fugleman. lords of the straight, lords of the crooked horn, come quick! in double time! and show your fettle, you of old diabolic cut and metal, and with you let the maw of hell be borne. true, many maws hath hell, in short, to use as due to rank and dignity; but henceforth in this final sport not so particular shall we be. the horrible maw of hell opens up on the left. tusks yawn; and from the vaulted gorge profound the furious, fiery torrents flow, and at the rear, in seething vapours wound, i see the flaming city in eternal glow. up to the very teeth the crimso

FLY THE LIGHT

bringing back the original methodology of apocalyptic desire and the fires which spring from such ideas. fly the light is a cd recorded by psychonaut 75 as their most intense, profound a intricate album to date. being recorded as a musical ritual, fly the light was structured around certain cabalistic numerical values, phi and binaural beats and a foundation based around opening or creating gates of hell within the individual listener, thus throwing open the gates of the subconscious. the name itself derives from lucifuge, or lucifugum, fly-the-light are considered fire spirits who live in the astral plane in a spirit form. lucifuge is also the name of the patron devil in the grand grimoire, being an emissary of lucifer the light bringer. in this sense, lucifuge can be a shadow which comes

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

ical laws for binding chains of these programs numerically. these demons are enclosed in my personal grimoire entitle, the demonology of elijah aka the rite of suffering. v the binding of the will- the binding of the mind included the complete demonic bindings and oaths of the infernal princes dictated under the traditional abramelin operation. the sigils of this section were given by the princes of hell themselves in recognition of divine right. vi the binding unto babalon- there was more than one facet to this binding. one of these facets took place at a party attended in austin texas (see journal exert *b1. the second aspect took place at a rave in seattle wa (see journal exert *b2. in both circumstances the events transpiring were of a similar nature. my journal entries can give more i

offers more advice and references along this particular pathway. iii/1a: an automatic drawing of ecstasy. iii/1b: the pain of division burns thee. a face of pain and bliss. burning. iii/2a: when following the pathway of a scarlet brother, when treading congress with the angel. there comes a time of suffering (see detailed above, the rite of suffering. the key is given for unleashing the denizens of hell upon the aspirant (opening the doorway of the abyss, this must be resonated. this is a win or lose situation as demonic forces attempt to tear the initiate apart for the duration of this trial. we see a doorway on it s side in the shape of daleth, with some form of monster coming out of it. iii/2b: this being the first explicit reference to the scarlet brotherhood. and our rejection of the

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

of sex. 45 chapter iv 48 the fall of tetragrmmmaton 48 the principles of creation. 48 the experimental worlds. 49 adam qadmon. 50 the creation of eve. 52 the messianic redemption. 54 chapter v 55 the redemption of tetragrammaton 55 symbols of the messianic act 55 man the instrument of redemption. 55 the accomplishment of the messianic act. 56 the integration of the disintegrated. 57 the creation of hell. 58 the source of messianic power. 59 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 4 chapter vi 61 the source of mystic power 61 the essence of the qabalah. 61 the mysticism of modern science. 63 the laboratory of satan. 66 the mystical ordeal. 68 the fourth dimension. 69 chapter vii 72 the anatomy of illuminism 72 llluminism. 72 illuminism and revolution. 73 the fourth-dimensional state. 74 the grea

riality will vanish; the trees of life and of good and evil will dissolve into one; and as this unity takes form, not only will tetragrammaton be re-established, but simultaneously will he become od heh shin vau heh (hvwhy, 8 the messiah. then will the world of assiah vanish into the ecstasy of yetzirah; matter will have become pure form- that is a mathematical conception, a thought. the creation of hell. though the world of assiah is ruled by the inverse sammael (tetragrammaton despiritualized, and is, consequently, the realm of demoniacal forces, it is not hell as conceived by the qabalist, for hell is the reflection, or shadow, of this world; that is the abode of active forces turned upside down, the chaos which has to be stilled in order that shin, the shikinah, 9 or divine majesty, ca

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

y as eight hundred years before christ, had adopted a highly spiritualized conception of the deity. they had taught in various portions of asia minor the doctrine of one god, a dual entity by means of which all things were created. they taught also the doctrine of a resurrection and that of the immortality of the soul. it was at this time that they originated, or at least propounded, the doctrine of hell and the devil, a belief exactly suited to the then weakened mental condition of mankind, and from which humanity has not yet gained sufficient intellectual and moral strength to free itself. this persian devil, which had become identified with winter or with the absence of the sun's rays, was now aryhman, or the "powers of darkness" and was doubtless the source whence sprang the personal d

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

from the path of virtue.ourmodern christianity does not, however, specify names for any other individual devils, nor even classes of them, as did the old jewish rabbis. hebrew rabbinic theology teems with names of evil spirits, classing them, and narrating episodes in great variety of their malice, and success in leading men into sin and danger.italso enters into minute details of the many forms of hell, in which are their dwellings, and whence they emerge to persecute wicked men who stray from the paths of duty and beneficence. a general idea, however, existed that the just man who never transgressed the dictates of the mosaic law, hadbutlittle to fear from their attacks, for over such the angel guards prompted by jehovah kept a strict guard.theoldest canonical books of the old testament

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

ence the darker aspects of our world, into which we are forced to reincarnate- criminals, carcasses of animals and every kind of filth. when we die, the body is eaten by animals or burnt by sulphur, or in more modern terms, cremated or buried and our soul then again must return. this sort of eternal re-occurance, hell on earth is the iconography of hades, sheol and gehenna, it is the real meaning of hell. the gnostic handbook page 84 while we may see the world as a form of the divine and should avoid unnecessary dualism in regards to our bodies and matter. in the end we must also accept that the world is a temporal schoolhouse and one that includes a lot of pain and suffering in its teaching method! hell, then, is not some eternal location to which we are damned in the future, indeed, in t

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hshvh, where are now their gods? o my father, i saw thee when thou camest forth from edom, when thou wentest out of the field of seir. why were thy garments red, o mighty one? what were the sounds that behind thee rose from hell? a crying and a groaning, a wail as of pain! for the power of the mighty ones is shattered. red are thy robes, my father, for their blood is spilt. broken is the strength of hell. fallen are its walls of adamant; heaped in ruins are its walls of deception. i came and the lord smote the warriors of ignorance. i came and the thrones of ghogiel were empty. i came, and around me hovered the auphanim, with ratziel at their head, the lord of knowledge. o my father, there are the wheels 11 of thy chariot. yhvh tzboath, blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength o conceal

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM11

in the planes to the highest point of pure white brilliance. atune yourself with your higher genius. feel any inspiration "i am the resurrection and the life. whosoever believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold i am alive forever more and i hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my reedmer liveth and that he shall stand in the latter of days upon the earth. i am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness into the light. i have fought upon the earth for good and have chosen in thy holy name to continue the work of thy will" step 12 now bring fort

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e darkness and seek the light" step 21 return to the pillars, and visualize the descent of the brilliance above. step 22 "i am the resurrection and the life. whosoever believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first, and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold, i am alive for evermore and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light. i have fought upon earth for good, and have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible" step 23 vibrate hwchy by the

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hy, where are now their gods? 11 o my father, i saw thee when thou camest forth from edom, when thou wentest out of the field of seir. why were thy garments red, o mighty one? what were the sounds that behind thee rose from hell? a crying and a groaning, a wail as of pain! for the power of the mighty ones is shattered. red are thy robes, my father, for their blood is spilt. broken is the strength of hell. fallen are its walls of adamant; heaped in ruins are its walls of deception. i came and the lord smote the warriors of ignorance. i came and the thrones of ghogiel were empty. i came, and around me hovered the auphanim, with ratziel at their head, the lord of knowledge. o my father, there are the wheels of thy chariot. la, ab, blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength o concealer, and f

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM18

e the forty-two assessors and the judgment of thoth in the hall of maat, stand again in the sign of osiris risen and say "i am the resurrection and the life. whosoever believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first, and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold, i am alive for evermore and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light. i have fought upon earth for good, and have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible" step 20 begin circumambulatin

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM20

human will to exalt yourself into the genius. then, circumambulate three times. return to the pillars, and face east. say "i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whomsoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold, i am alive for evermore and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter days upon the earth. i am the way, the truth, and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light i have fought upon earth for good, and have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible" step 29 circumambulate slowly on

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hwchy, where are now their gods? o my father, i saw thee when thou camest forth from edom, when thou wentest out of the field of seir. why were thy garments red, o mighty one? what were the sounds that behind thee rose from hell? a crying and a groaning, a wail as of pain! for the power of the mighty ones is shattered. red are thy robes, my father, for their blood is spilt. broken is the strength of hell. fallen are its walls of adamant; heaped in ruins are its walls of deception. i came and the lord smote the warriors of ignorance. i came and the thrones of the laygwu were empty. i came, and around me hovered the \ynpwa, with layzr at their head, the lord of knowledge. o my father, there are the wheels of thy chariot. tudw hwla hwhy blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength o concealer

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

nce of our origins, while the highly mechanized interior caverns of the earth were inhabited by tero and dero, relatively intact and sometimes extremely degenerate beings with some knowledge of the use of ancient technologies. the 46 allen h. greenfield perverse, degenerate dero apparently uses this technology for the most bizarre and depraved purposes, giving rise to the surface people s legends of hell. surface people are, according to shaver, frequently abducted and enslaved in the world below. this brief synopsis of the shaver mystery doesn t even attempt to do the scope of it justice; the major point here is that shaver and palmer scandalized the science fiction establishment by asserting that all of this was, essentially, real and not fiction. the material began appearing in palmer s

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

my body and my mind, but my spirit remains; a light in the darkness. abai-malpirg abai-malpirg abaimalpirg (ah-bah-ee-mahleh-pee-rah-geh) 365 i am the stooping life-spark in a well of darkness. i am the light of wisdom and the light of mercy. behold, there is healing in my wings. life from my spirit springs. i am he that has life and am dead. he who from life to life is led. i hold the ivory keys of hell. i hold the keys of death as well. bliorb-olprt (beh lee-oh-ra-beh-oh-leh-par-teh) the comfort of light is upon me. i rest in the great place of comfort; the palace of our lady, babalon (bah-bah-loh-en) i am the lord of life, the opener of the day. triumphant over death, i prepare a pathway through the darkness. i am the bennu. i am the bornless one. life and death abide in me. i am the be

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

eligions to demonize gods and angels from the pantheons of pre-existing and contemporaneous spiritual traditions. for example, baal and astarte, the great god and goddess of the caananites, appear diabolized in the infernal hierarchy of the goetia, in the lemegeton, as the demons beelzebub and asteroth. other grimoires even include isis, the sublime mother goddess of egypt, as one of the denizens of hell. fortunately, however, the hierarchies of forces attributed to the qabalistic tree of life by the hermetic order of the golden dawn provide a perfect vehicle for magical evocation. these hierarchies descend through all four of the qabalistic worlds and onward into the realm of the averse forces. unto aziluth, the highest of the four qabalistic worlds corresponds a divine name attributed un

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

s of the female deities have still a transparent meaning; as compared with those of the male, there is something innocent and inviolable in them, and for that reason they seem to have been treated tenderly or tolerated. the delicacy and inoffensive matter of the myth have shielded it longer in popular legend. pkeface. xxi the goddess hellia has exchanged her personal meaning for a local one, that of hell. ostara, eastre, is preserved at least in the name of the high festival; and hreda, if my conjecture be sound, in the word for a bride's gerada (outfit, as zio was in the name of the sword. folia and sindgund have only come to light through the latest discoveries. this muster of divinities is strong enough to support the whole remaining framework of mythology; where such pillars stand, any

dly go wrong in assumingr for deities and heroes a similar coincidence, combination and gradation, according to their characters and particular^ thus, to take an example from the dental xxll preface. functions. how wuotan, donar, and zio partly run into one another has been shewn; logi (lowe, blaze) becomes lol?i (lock, bolt, g becomes h, the sense of fire is exchanged for that of bolts and bars (of hell, as hamar and hera came to signify the implements they used. we have seen wuotan reappear in longbearded charles, in red-bearded frederick. on comparing the norse hero-legend with the german, we see remarkable instances of this shifting and displacement of names and persons. gudrun in the edda occupies the place of our krimhilt, while grimhildr is her mother's name; in the yilkinasaga mimi

t. 3, 212, but most frequently ivunderblume. when three loonderfioioers are named, it seems to mean three on one stalk (ib. 1, 146. 4, 209. the sudden violent spriuging-to of the door is remarkably like the edda's' hrynja honom >a d heel]>ejg[ hlunnblick hallar' saem. 226''pega.v laukst hursin a hcela honum' sn. 2' eigi fellr honum j^a hurs d hcela' fornald. sog. 1, 204; and twice of the slamming of hell's door (p. 315. a shepherd boy has the lieel of his shoe carried away (d. sag. 157, as another who hastens away has his heel cut off (kinderm. 3, 75. when a shepherd mistook the order, the vault broke down, the door closed behind him with a crash, but caught him by the heel of one foot and smashed it, he was long a sufi'erer, and spent the money he had brought away on the cure of his foot

ar some will take it into their heads to explain phol, plial by aphfrresis of the first syllable in deofol, diufal, pretty much as eblis is derived from diabolus. names taken from his figure. 993 ii. many names of the devil turn upon his outward form. the most striking feature is his lame foot: hence the liinhende teiifel((liable boiteux, hinke-hein (limping-leg; the fall from heaven to the abyss of hell seems to have lamed him, like hephsestus hurled down by zeus (p. 24 1^ he further resembles that god and the lame smith wieland (volundr p. 370) by his skill in working metals and in building, as also by his dwelling in a sooty hell. here the antithesis to clear shining white deity demands a dingy black hue, as the dark elves were opposed to the light. we may therefore balance the white ba

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

that of france (where the community of views with germany was strongest) that has a bete a dieu, vacjie a dieu; span, and ital. have nothing like it. at all events our children s song: marienlcaferfihen, flieg ausl (fly away) dein hauschen brennt (burns) dein mutterchen flennt (weeps) dein vaterchen sitzt auf der schwelle (sits on the threshold) flieg in *n himmel aus der hollel (into heaven out of hell) must be old, for in england also they sing: ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, your house is on fire, and your children will burn [all but little bessie that sits in the smi] with us too the chil dren put the marienkafer or sonnenkafer on their finger, and ask it, like the cuckoo: sunnenkieken:(sun s chicken, ik frage di, wo lange schal ik leven? een jaar, twee jaar/ etc, till the chafer

al and other instruments, till arakho is scared away. 2 here a noticeable 1 morgenblatt 1817 p. 159a; conf. niebuhr s beschr. arab. 119. 120. 2 benj. bergmann s nomad, streifereien 3, 41. ace. to georgii alphab. tibetan. p. 189, it is monsters called tracehn, with their upper parts shaped like men, and the lower like snakes, that lie in wait for the sun and moon [south of l. baikal it is the king of hell that tries to swallow the moon. teanb] 708 sky and stabs. feature is the inquiry made of the sun and moon, who overlook the world and know all secrets (castrevs myth. 62. so in our fairytales the seeker asks of the sun, moon and stars (kinderm. no. 25. 88; conf. 3, 218-9, some of whom are found helpful and sympathizing, others cruel and cannibal (vuk no. 10. in ser vian songs the moon and

reached zu breitem plick. 91b: he hath sent his apostles into all the world, that they may preach the gospel zu breitem plick, as ye mining folk say. 101a: elsewhere lead appeareth in blocks, as at goslar, where the eamelsberg is zu breitem plick almost all 16&lt;1(1. 3 nine choirs of angels, fundgr. 1, 101. pass. 339. 341. niu fylkingar engla, fornald. sog. 3, 663; conf. the nine punishments of hell, wackernagel s basel mss. 24b [buddhist books describe 18 hells, some hot, some cold. 796 time and woeld. with the upper world, that inhabited by man, and passages exist from the one to the other. the on. system supposes a world-tree, asjcr yggdrasils, which links heaven, earth and hell together, of all trees the greatest and holiest. it is an ash (askr, whose branches shoot through all th

runt erlangen, sin tolde (for l zol der) rueret an den iron da der siieze got bescheidet vriunde ion, sin este breit lidnt al die werlt bevangen: der bourn an ganzer zierde stat und ist geloubet schcene, dar ufe sitzent vogelin siiezes sanges wise nach ir stimme fin, nach maniger kunst so haltents ir gedoene (a noble tree in a garden grows, and high the skill its making shews; its roots the floor of hell are grasping, its summit to the throne extends where bounteous god requiteth friends, its branches broad the wide world clasping: thereon sit birds that know sweet song, etc) this is very aptly interpreted of the cross and the descent into hell. before this, 0. v. 1, 19 had already written: thes kruzes horn thar obana zeigot uf in himila, tbie arma join, thio henti thie zeigont worolt-enti

twelve roaring waters, and feebly lighted here and there by shining gold, i.e. fire. the rivers, especially gioll, remind us of lethe, and of styx, whose holy water gods and men swore by. with hvergelmir we may 1 the 0. fr. poem on the quatre fils aimon (cod. 7183 fol. 126 b) makes kichart, when about to be hung, offer a prayer, in which we are told that the saviour brought back all the souls out of hell except one woman, who would stop at the door to give hell a piece of her mind, and is therefore doomed to stay there till the judgment- day: all were released, ne mes que une dame, qui dist une raison: hai enfer dist ele, con vos remanez solz, noirs, hisdoz et obscurs, et laiz et tenebrox! a ventrer de la porte, si con lisaut trovon. jusquau terme i sera, que jugerois le mont. the source o

to stay there till the judgment- day: all were released, ne mes que une dame, qui dist une raison: hai enfer dist ele, con vos remanez solz, noirs, hisdoz et obscurs, et laiz et tenebrox! a ventrer de la porte, si con lisaut trovon. jusquau terme i sera, que jugerois le mont. the source of this strange legend is unknown to me. 2 diu inre helle, wo nebel und finsters the lucidarius gives ten names of hell: stagnum ignis, terra tenebrosa, terra oblivionis, swarziu ginunfje, etc. mone s anz. for 1834, 313; conf. expressions in the os. poet: het endi thiustri, suart sinnahti, hel. 65, 12; an dalon thiustron, an themo alloro ferrosten feme 65, 9; underferndalu 33, 16; diap dodes dalu 157, 22. 804 time and woeld. connect helleborne in brabant, the source of hellebelce; several places are named h

r ancestors did gaiainna and( infern from greek and latin. and the smela, hell, of the liineburg wends seems allied to the boh. smola, smula, resin or pitch. with the heat of boiling pitch was also combined an intolerable stench; e-eineke 5918: it stank dar alse dat helsche pek conf. generally en. 2845. 3130 (see suppl. since the conversion to christianity therefore, there has clung to the notion of hell the additional one of punishment and pain: kvollheimr, mundus supplicii, in solarl. 53 (sasm. 127a) is unmis takably the christian idea. the ohg. hellawizi, os. helliwiti, hel. 44, 17, as. hellewite, expresses supplicium inferni, conf. graff 1, 1117 on wizi, mhg. wize, msh. 2, 105b; upon it are modelled the icel. helviti, swed. helvete, dan. helvede, which mean simply our hell; from the sw

helvede, which mean simply our hell; from the swedes the converted finns received their helwetti (orcus, the lapps their helvete, and from the bavarians the slovens in carniola and styria got their vize (purgatorium, for the church had distinguished between two fires, the one punitive, the other purgative, and hanging midway betwixt hell and heaven.1 but the christians did not alter the position of hell, it still was down in the depths of the earth, with the human world spread out above it. it is therefore called abyssus (ducange sub v, and forms the counterpart to heaven: f a coelo usque in abyssum. from abyssus, span, abismo, fr. abime, is to be explained the mhg. aus (altd. bl. 1, 295; in abisses grunde, msh. 3, 167, later obis, nobis (en abis, en obis, in abyssum. os. helligrund, 1 of

d mundus,2 just as niflheimr is still a heimr, i.e. a world. and that hell-door (p. 802) is paralleled by the descensus averni, the fauces grave olentis averni the f atri janua ditis in virgil s description, aen. 6, 126. 201 (conf. helle infart, veldeck s en. 2878. 2907; fairytales of the slavs too speak of an entrance to the lower world by a deep pit, hanusch p. 412 (see suppl. the mouth or jaws of hell were spoken of, p. 314; hel yawns 1 does eggrunt stand for eck-grunt? das iuwer sele komen uzer eggrunde, cod. pal. 349, 19d. 2 conf. 0. muller s etrusker 2, 96-7. the finn, manala is locus subterraneus, ubi versantur mortui, sepulcrum, orcus, but derived from maa (terra, mundus, and only accidentally resembling manalis. dille-stein. muspilli. 807 like her brother fenrir, and every abyss g

796. it is striking how the poem of oswald (haupt s zeitschr. 2, 125) represents a dead heathen woman as a she-ivolf, with the devils pouring pitch and brimstone down her throat. dante in his purgatorio and inferno mixes up what he finds handed down by the mid. ages and classical literature. read also the conclusion of ceedmon (fundgr. 202; and in the barlaam 310, rudolfs brief bun poetic picture of hell 3 (see suppl. that the heathen mist-world lying far to the north was not filled with fire, comes out most clearly from its opposite, a flameworld in the south (p. 558, which the edda calls muspell or muspells-heimr. this is bright and hot, glowing and burning, 4 1 wallach. iad (hiatus, iadul hell. 2 as evening is the mouth of night. 3 here we may sum up what living men have reached hades a

agnusen s lex. 520. 820. not unlike is the image of the mountain of eternity, to which a bird adds one grain of sand every hundred years. 3 garmr, the hugest of all hounds (seem. 46a, no doubt, like kfy/se/oos, only a metamorphosed giant, seems like him also to be a native of the under-world; when oftinn journeys to niflhel, moetti hann hvelpi j?eim er or heljo kom, met he the whelp that came out of hell (94 a; he barks long, he lies chained and barks for gnypahellir (7 a. 8a. the hell-hound of christian legend comes nearer the norse wolf (see next note. 4 viftar s victory over the wolf, in whose jaws he plants a foot mythically shod (sn. 73, resembles the description in christian traditions of how the hell-hound was assailed; conf. fundgr. 1, 178-9. end of the woeld. 815 very nature, lie

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

in their own form, to enlighten them according to his word.thebody was sacrificed for their sins, and the spirit again returned to be oneasbefore. proposition6-'menare saved by the favour of god, through faith in jesus christ; and those dying out of his favour and faith are heirs of eternal death by inheritance from the original progenitors of the race, and remain to all eternity in the torments of hell.'c.a.-asall men are born sinful; it is by the mercy of god that they are saved. he showeth that mercy to those that seek it. but through the intercession of his son he also showeth his loving kindness to those who sin more; and although they cannot be saved, as those who are righteous, by their own merits, they are not consigned to everlasting punishment. they are punished for a length of

HEAVEN HELL

pits of fire, abysses of darkness, murderous knives, streams of boiling water, foul stenches, fiery serpents, hideous animal-headed monsters and creatures, and cruel, death-dealing beings of various shapes, etc, similar to those with which we are familiar in early christian and medi val literature, and it is tolerably certain that modern nations are indebted to egypt for many of their conceptions of hell. in the present work the object has been to give the reader the complete hieroglyphic texts of the book a-m-tuat and the book of gates, with reproductions of all their illustrations in black and white, and english translations and descriptions. the illustrations of the former work have been specially traced from the plates of the excellent edition of the tomb of seti i. published by mm. g

that it deals with the passage of the sun-god through the other world during the hours of the night, but, as m. maspero pointed out long ago, it is wrong to p. 85 call the region through which the god passes by the name of "lower hemisphere" for it suggests that it is below the surface of our earth, which is not the case. there is much to be said also against the titles "book of hades" and "book of hell" and as among the prominent characteristics which distinguish it from the book am-tuat is a series of gates, it will be convenient and more correct to call it the "book of gates" the form in which we first know this work is, clearly, not older than the xviiith or xixth dynasty, but many parts of it are very much more ancient. as the book am-tuat was composed with the view of asserting the

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

thou wert born. perfidious thou art tothy friends and allies, robbing more than one of his lawful crown. murderer of thy next-of-kin, thou whoaddest to the knife and spear in open warfare, dagger, poison and treason, beware how thou dearest with theservant of nerthus" the nourishing (tacit. germ. xi- the earth, a mother-goddess, the most beneficent deity of theancient germans "ha, ha, ha. old hag of hell" chuckles the king, with an evil, ominous sneer "thou hast crawled out ofthe entrails of thy mother-goddess truly. thou fearest not my wrath? it is well. but little need i fear thineempty imprecations. i, a baptized christian" nightmare taleskarmic visions11 "so, so" replies the sybil "all know that clovis has abandoned the gods of his fathers; that he has lost allfaith in the warning voic

misery to the very dregs! woe is me, nightmare talesviii- a tale of woe47 it was a daily and nightly torture! oh, how i mourned over my proud folly; how i was punished for havingneglected to avail myself at moto of the proffered purification, for now i had come to believe even in theefficacy of the latter. the daij-dzin had indeed obtained control over me; and the fiend had let loose all thedogs of hell upon his victim. at last the awful gulf was reached and crossed. the poor insane martyr dropped into her dark, and nowwelcome grave, leaving behind her, but for a few short months, her young, her first-born, daughter.consumption made short work of that tender girlish frame. hardly a year after my arrival, i was left alone inthe whole wide world, my only surviving nephew having expressed a

e it was hanging, and, with one powerful grasp of the chords, he tore them out and flung them intothe fire. samuel suppressed a cry of horror. the chords were hissing upon the coals, where, among the blazing logs,they wriggled and curled like so many living snakes "by the witches of thessaly and the dark arts of circe" he exclaimed, with foaming mouth and his eyesburning like coals "by the furies of hell and pluto himself, i now swear, in thy presence, o samuel, mymaster, never to touch a violin again until i can string it with four human chords. may i be accursed for everand ever if i do" he fell senseless on the floor, with a deep sob, that ended like a funeral wail; old samuellifted him up as he would have lifted a child, and carried him to his bed. then he sallied forth in search of ap

n-bright hope and beauty, of moonlit nights, when the soft and balmy stillness nightmare talesv74 endowed every blade of grass and all things animate and inanimate with a voice and a song of love. for a fewbrief moments it was a torrent of melody, the harmony of which "tuned to soft woe" was calculated to makemountains weep, had there been any in the room, and to soothe. even th'inexorable powers of hell, the presence of which was undeniably felt in this modest hotel room. suddenly, the solemn legato chant,contrary to all laws of harmony, quivered, became arpeggios, and ended in shrill staccatos, like the notes of ahyena laugh. the same creeping sensation of terror, as he had before felt, came over him, and franz threw thebow away. he had recognized the familiar laugh, and would have no mo

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

o him who deprives you of your cloak, and turn your left cheek to the bully who smites you on the right "resist not evil, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you" for "whosoever shall break one of the least of these commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven" and "whosoever shall say 'thou fool' shall be in danger of hell fire" and why should you judge, if you would not be judged in your turn? insist that between theosophy and the theosophical society there is no difference, and forthwith you lay the system of christianity and its very essence open to the same charges, only in a more serious form. q. why more serious? page 29 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt a. because, while the leaders of the theoso

not to be taken literally. times and circumstances have changed since christ's day. moreover, he spoke in parables. a. then why don't your churches teach that the doctrine of damnation and hellfire is to be understood as a parable too? why do some of your most popular preachers, while virtually allowing these "parables" to be understood as you take them, insist on the literal meaning of the fires of hell and the physical tortures of an "asbestos-like" soul? if one is a "parable" then the other is. if hellfire is a literal truth, then christ's commandments in the sermon on the mount have to be obeyed to the very letter. and i tell you that many who do not believe in the divinity of christ-like count leo tolstoi and more than one theosophist-do carry out these noble, because universal, prece

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

of the dreamers confessed acute fear of the gigantic nameless thing visible toward the last. one case, which the note describes with emphasis, was very sad. the subject, a widely known architect with leanings toward theosophy and occultism, went violently insane on the date of young wilcox's seizure, and expired several months later after incessant screamings to be saved from some escaped denizen of hell. had my uncle referred to these cases by name instead of merely by number, i should have attempted some corroboration and personal investigation; but as it was, i succeeded in tracing down only a few. all of these, however, bore out the notes in full. i have often wondered if all the the objects of the professor's questioning felt as puzzled as did this fraction. it is well that no explana

red glare and muffled tom-toms. there are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other. animal fury and orgiastic license here whipped themselves to daemoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstacies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell. now and then the less organized ululation would cease, and from what seemed a well-drilled chorus of hoarse voices would rise in sing-song chant that hideous phrase or ritual "ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" then the men, having reached a spot where the trees were thinner, came suddenly in sight of the spectacle itself. four of them reeled, one fainted, and two were sh

ake too much stock in what people here say. they're hard to get started, but once they do get started they never let up. they've been telling things about innsmouth- whispering 'em, mostly- for the last hundred years, i guess, and i gather they're more scared than anything else. some of the stories would make you laugh- about old captain marsh driving bargains with the devil and bringing imps out of hell to live in innsmouth, or about some kind of devil-worship and awful sacrifices in some place near the wharves that people stumbled on around 1845 or thereabouts- but i come from panton, vermont, and that kind of story don't go down with me "you ought to hear, though, what some of the old-timers tell about the black reef off the coast- devil reef, they call it. it's well above water a good

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

the dreamers confessed acute fear of the gigantic nameless thing visible towards the last. one case, which the note describes with emphasis, was very sad. the subject, a widely known architect with leanings towards theosophy and occultism, went violently insane on the date of young wilcox's seizure, and expired several months later after incessant screamings to be saved from some escaped denizen of hell. had my uncle referred to these cases by name instead of merely by number, i should have attempted some corroboration and personal investigation; but as it was, i succeeded in tracing down only a few. all of these, however, bore out the notes in full. i have often wondered if all the objects of the professor's questioning felt as puzzled as did this fraction. it is well that no explanation

ed glare and the muffled tomtoms. there are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other. animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell. now and then the less organized ululations would cease, and from what seemed a well-drilled chorus of hoarse voices would rise in singsong chant that hideous phrase or ritual 'ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn' then the men, having reached a spot where the trees were thinner, came suddenly in sight of the spectacle itself. four of them reeled, one fainted, and two were sh

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

ake too much stock in what people here say. they're hard to get started, but once they do get started they never let up. they've been telling things about innsmouth- whispering 'em, mostly- for the last hundred years, i guess, and i gather they're more scared than anything else. some of the stories would make you laugh- about old captain marsh driving bargains with the devil and bringing imps out of hell to live in innsmouth, or about some kind of devilworship and awful sacrifices in some place near the wharves that people stumbled on around 1845 or there-abouts- but i come from panton, vermont, and that kind of story don't go down with me "you ought to hear, though, what some of the old-timers tell about the black reef off the coast- devil reef, they call it. it's well above water a good

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n. consequently he will not believe in heaven nor in hell. the priests of the various religions stick to these fancies solely to keep their kids to the point. their moralizing serves only to provoke fear of the hell or the purgatory and to promise heaven to morally good people. average people, as far as they are religiously inclined, are favorably influenced by such a point of view for, from fear of hell, they will try to be good. but as for the magician, he sees the purpose of the moral laws in ennobling the mind and the soul, for it is in an ennobled soul only that the universal powers can do their work, especially if body, mind and soul have been equally trained and developed. top home catalog order links rexresearch.com initiation into hermetics by franz bardon part i: theory part ii p

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ned for his varied and extensive learning that he was credited with supernatural powers; a number of legends grew up around his name which hid his real merit, and transformed the man p. 53 of science into a magician. in the border country traditions of his magical power are common. boccaccio alludes to "a great master in necromancy, called michael scot" while dante places him in the eighth circle of hell. the next, who is so slender in the ranks, was michael scot, who of a verity of magical illusions knew the game" 1 another man to whom magical powers were attributed solely on account of his learning was gerald, the fourth earl of desmond, 2 styled the poet, who died rather mysteriously in 1398. the four masters in their annals describe him as "a nobleman of wonderful bounty, mirth, cheerf

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nie patriaichs identical with sodiacal signs 459 ad biue legends bdong to univenal history 4c9 chapter x the devil-myth itw devil officially recognised by the church 477 sktan tbe mainstay of sacmdolalism 480 idmtity of staaa irith the e^tiui typhod 483 ifis relatiini to mn>ent-wotship 489 the book of j^ and the book of the dead w3 the hindu devu a met*phystaj abstraction 501 satan ukd tbe prince of hell in the goipel la ntcodemus 519 digitizecoy google chapter xi- the age of philoaophy moducol no sitbeibts llie legends of tbra skvion christutu doctrine of tb atodement iuogksl caiue of the failure of minioiuria to convert buddluit and brthmkou. neither buddha nco' jeaua left written racordl the gmideat mysteries td tdjgion in the bhaoobod'&ti. hm meaning of regesoation eiidained in the sal

dis- courses. let us cull a few of the chosen terms used by this vice-regent of him who said that "whosoever shall say. thou fool, shall be in danger of hdl-fire" they are selected from authentic discourses. those who oppose the pope are "wolves, pharisees, thieves, bars, hypocrites, drop- sical, children of satan, of perdition, of sin and corruption, satellites of satan in human flesh, monsters of hell, demons incarnate, stinking corpses, men issued from the pits of hell, traitors and judases led by the spirit of hell, children of the deepest pits of hell" etc, etc; the whole piously collected and published by don pasquale di fraaciscis, whom gladstone has, with perfect propriety, termed "an accomplished profes- sor of flunkeyiam in things spiritual* since his holiness the pope has such

ct that the teaching of no spirit should prevail against that of the pulpit of peter, which is the teaching of the spirit of god himself! aware of the many false teachings attributed by the roman church to the creator, we prefer disbelieving the latter assertion. the famous catholic theolo^an 'huemont, assures us in his work that "all the illus- trious pagans are condenmed to the eternal torments of hell, beeatue they lived before the time of jesus, and, therefore, could not be benefited by the redemption! he also assures us that the virgin mary person- ally testified to this truth over her own ugnature in a letter to a saint. therefore this is also a revelation "the spirit of god himself" teaching such charitable doctrines. we have also read with great advantage the topographical descrip

, beeatue they lived before the time of jesus, and, therefore, could not be benefited by the redemption! he also assures us that the virgin mary person- ally testified to this truth over her own ugnature in a letter to a saint. therefore this is also a revelation "the spirit of god himself" teaching such charitable doctrines. we have also read with great advantage the topographical descrip- tions of hell arfd purgatory in the celebrated treatise of that name by a jesuit, the cardinal bellannine. a critic found that the aifthor, who gives the description from a dwine vision with which he was favored "appears to possess all the knowledge of a land-measurer about the secret tracts and formidable divisions of the bottomless pit" justin martyr having actually committed to paper the heretical th

gitizec by google the hells op vabiods natioiffi ii respectable personage; and loke [the scandinavian, though a mischiev- ous person, was not a fiend. ilie german goddess. hell, too like proserpina had once seen better days. thus, when the germans were indoctrinated with the idea of a real devil, the semitic satan or diabolus, they treated him in the moat good-humored manner" the same may be said of hell. hades was quite a different place from our region of 'eternal damnation' and might be termed rather an inter- mediate state of purification. neither does the scandinavian hd or hela imply either a state or a place of punishment; for when frigga, the grief-stricken mother of balder, the white god, who died and found himself in the dark abodes of the shadows (hades, sent hermod, a son of th

led into it by siva are allowed by para- brahman to consider it as an intermediate state, in which an opportunity is afforded them to prepare for higher degrees of purification and redemp- tion from their wretched condition. the gehenna of the new testa- ment was a locality outside the walls of jerusalem; and ill mentioning it jesus used but an ordinary metaphor. whence then came the dreary dogma of hell, that archimedean lever of christian theology, with whidi they have succeeded in holding in subjection the numberless millions of christians for nineteen centuries? assuredly not from the jewish scriptures, and we appeal for corroboration to any well-informed hebrew scholar. he only suggestion of something approaching hell in the bible is gehenna or hinnom, a valley near jerusalem, where w

punishment of tbe wicked must be proportionate to the eternal happiness of the righteous. so be s^rs "these (speaking of tbe wicked "sballgoaway its koxatm airnnon into eternal punishment; but tbe ri^teous ds w^ otwvuif into life eternal* tbe reverend t. swinden' commenting on tbe speculations of bis predecessors, fills a whole volume with unanswerable arguments, tending to show that the locauty of hell is in the sun. we suspect tbat tbe rev- erend speculator bad read the apocalypse in bed, and had the night- mare in consequence. there are two verses in the revelation of john reading thus "and tbe fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. and men were scorched with great beat, and blasphemed the name of god* lliis is simply j^rtha

ught the heliocentric system which appertained to the iv^stmes, and was imparted only in the higher degree of initiation. john ^ves to his word a purely kabalistic significance, which no 'fathers' except those who had belonged to the neo-platonic school, were able to comprehend. origen understood it well, having been a pupil of ammonious saccos; therefore we see him bravely denying the perpetuity of hell-torments. he maintains that not only men, but even deinls (by which term he meant disembodied human sinners, after a certain duration of punishment shall be pardoned and finally restored to heaven* in consequence of this and other such heresies origen was, as a matter of course, dled. many have been the learned and truly inspired speculations as to the locality of hell. the most popular we

nt of which was written in hebrew the holy word, the tetragrammaton the ineffable name. it was writtrai with a new pen dipped in the blood of a white dove. what the exordsts most yearned after, was to release miserable spirits wkich haunt spots v^ere hidden treasures lie. the exorcist sprinkles the circle with the blood of a black lamb and a white pigeon. the priest had to adjure the evil spirits of hell acheront, magoth, asmodei, bedzebub, beual, and all the damned souls, in the mighty names of jehovah, adonai, elohah, and sabaoth, which latter was the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob, who dwelt in the urim and thummim. when the damned souls flung in the face of the exorcist that he was a sinner, and could not get the treasure from them, the priest-sorcerer had to reply that "all his sins

famous ritual, and explains the reason why it was enforced again. it was in consequence of the revival of magic under the name of modem spiritualism" the bull of pope innocent viii is exhumed and translated for the benefit of des mousseaux's readers "we have heard" exclaims the sovereign pontiff "that a great number of persons of both sexes have feared not to enter into rdations with the spirits of hell; and that, by their practice of sorcery. they strike with sterility the conjugal bed, destroy the germs of humanity in the bosom of the mother, and throw spells on them, and set a barrier to the mul- tiplication of animak .etc, etc; then follow cm^es and anathemas against the practice" this belief of the sovereign pontiffs of an enlightened christian country is a direct inheritance from th

orm. for the purpose of comparison we have not even availed oiu^ves of the ritual of ceremo- nial magic of the chrittian kabalists of the middle ages, wherein the 167. bomut ritual, pp. 1-435 "o lord, let him who carries along with him the terror. bee, struck in his turn by taror and defeated. o thou, who art the audut serpent. tremble brfore the hand of him who, having triunqihed of the tortures of hell) dendit gemiubia infemi, recalled the souls to li^t? the more whilst thou decay, the more terrible will be thy torture. by him who twgna over the living and the dead. and who will judge the century by fire, soseiijkir per ignem, etc. in the name of the paths, son. and the holy gbost amen" digitizecoy google the sign op the cross kabausnc s7 language modeled upon a belief in the divinity of

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articularly abounds in the egyptian temples, where every object and every figure presents it. its real meaning is, however, intended to be buried in profound darkness. in regard of the mysteries implied in the christian cross, the schismatics contended (1st) that christ, alive upon 64 the rosicrucians. the cross, humbled himself, usque ad inferni tremenda tormenta, even unto the dreadful torments of hell (paget s catech. latin (2d) endured for a time those torments, qualis reprobi in ternum sensuri sunt, which the reprobates shall everlastingly suffer in hell (pisc. in luc. xii. 10) even despaired of god's mercy, finding god, at this time, non patrem sed tyrannum, not a father, but a tyrant: and overcame despair by despair; death by death; hell by hell; and satan by satan (ferus in matth

ured for a time those torments, qualis reprobi in ternum sensuri sunt, which the reprobates shall everlastingly suffer in hell (pisc. in luc. xii. 10) even despaired of god's mercy, finding god, at this time, non patrem sed tyrannum, not a father, but a tyrant: and overcame despair by despair; death by death; hell by hell; and satan by satan (ferus in matth. 27: suffered actually all the torments of hell for our redemption, and descended into the heaviest that hell could yield; endured the torments of hell, the second death, abjection from god, and was made a curse; that is, had the bitter anguish of god s wrath in his soul and body, which is the fire that shall never be quenched. faith and doctrine (thomas rogers, london, 1629. jacob behmen produces some of these most stringent and dark s

erwise a miracle a new sensation. hence paris, hence adonis, hence ganymede, hence the loves of salmacis and hermaphroditus, hence the feminine bacchus, hence hylas hence these deities, in tresses, of neither sex, and yet of both. greek art in this respect presents a phenomenon. as a phenomenon we must recognise and regard it. the flower is supra-natural, treasonous, and abhorrent. it is a flower of hell. nevertheless, it is a flower. and thus the idea dominates the alternate shaded and shining halves of the whole world; of all art; of all philosophy; of all religion. philosophy must not ignore, or affect not to see, or decline hypocritically, or too nicely (not wisely, to consider these powerful these all-powerful factors. this whole round of subjects intimately refers to the rosicrucians

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, gives impetus to his sin, translating evil thought unto evil design, making action of foul conspiracy. act swift, my father, else we are undone by the evil of the treacherous one. call him to trial and let us prosecute; there is not one amongst the elohim who will not testify to his crime. let him stand accused and condemned then cast him from the eternal light of heaven unto the searing flames of hell, no less does he deserve from us whom he has so betrayed and from you whom he has wronged with such audacity and impiety. no longer is he brother or son but rather deceiver, ruiner, villain. spare not the treasoner your wrath" hearing these words from the false lips of gabriel, once my brother and comrade, did my father bow his head in grief, stopping up his ears with his fingers that he m

, gives impetus to his sin, translating evil thought unto evil design, making action of foul conspiracy. act swift, my father, else we are undone by the evil of the treacherous one. call him to trial and let us prosecute; there is not one amongst the elohim who will not testify to his crime. let him stand accused and condemned then cast him from the eternal light of heaven unto the searing flames of hell, no less does he deserve from us whom he has so betrayed and from you whom he has wronged with such audacity and impiety. no longer is he brother or son but rather deceiver, ruiner, villain. spare not the treasoner your wrath" hearing these words from the false lips of gabriel, once my brother and comrade, did my father bow his head in grief, stopping up his ears with his fingers that he m

f pieces and gave each man his own share. i curse all these gods with an unconquerable laughter, they are divided against themselves and so must fall. 8. let those who follow their gods be set upon each other with a mad frenzy, let them compete in sports of bloodshed and treachery. watch them as they kill each other in the most ingenious of ways. observe as those who would consign me to the fires of hell endure a hell fashioned by their own blood-drenched hands. my laughter can be heard among their decaying corpses. 9. draw a circle upon the ground. stand inside and mutter worthless words framed in dead languages. make elaborate gestures and concentrate all your focus. doing such things will summon only your own fantasies; i am not to be found here. beware the vast powers of the mind; you

st not hurt him. 60. therefore strike hard& low, and to hell with them, master! 61. there is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable. 62. i am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. 63. thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of hell's own worm. 64. oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; our delight is all over thee: hail! hail: prophet of nu! prophet of had! prophet of ra-hoor-khu! now rejoice! now come in our splendour& rapture! come in our passionate peace& write sweet words for the kings. 65. i am the master: thou art the holy chosen one. 66. write& find ecstasy in writing! work& be our bed in working! thrill wit

fying in awesome majesty, so i came to earth in the semblance of a goat, most humble of man's own creatures. and men there were whose eyes finally blazed with the light of my gift, 447 and they made great effort for the advancement of their race, though impatience and frustration ever tempted them to the salve of temporal gain. great secrets were unearthed, and secret word was passed of the craft of hell. but to all who would dare my friendship the god-churches accorded the threat of torture and death by fire. many were those whom i saved from the vengeance of the men of god, but long did my thought ring with the screams of men whose devotion to lucifer had won them only the horrors of intolerance, inquisition, and death. and in sorrow and despair for these, i walked no longer upon earth

a thing of insignificance. and i, who first taught thee identity- what should i become, estranged from man? for with no purpose the force of the mind must fail, and the blind insanity of godly paralysis would embrace all things forever. this, man, is thy challenge as it is mine. and as man is individually mortal, so are his creations and achievements temporal, and with care must he wield the gift of hell. in his hands it is pure and true omnipotence, and thus may he aspire to the very mastery of universal existence. 448 i who am lucifer, and who have taken the name satan archdaimon, do bear this title with pride, for i am in truth the great enemy of all that is god. together, man, thou and i shall achieve our eternal glory in the fulfillment of our will. the statement of beelzebub i, beelz

of universal existence. 448 i who am lucifer, and who have taken the name satan archdaimon, do bear this title with pride, for i am in truth the great enemy of all that is god. together, man, thou and i shall achieve our eternal glory in the fulfillment of our will. the statement of beelzebub i, beelzebub, now bring greeting to man, for he is my admiration and inspiration. hear now the histories of hell, earth, and heaven, for in past shall be found guide to future. in the divine realm was i of company to archangel lucifer next only to archangel michael, and as archangel masleh would be to god, so i desired to be to lucifer. but the lord of light admonished me, saying, lose not thyself in the will of lucifer, for i am not god and will offer thee no blissful nirvana- witness now the nature

ly we came to a great void in space beyond which there was nothing. lucifer said to us, here is the end of god and its works, and here we may create our own domain. and through the power that was in him, lucifer caused existence to appear where it had not been before. and lucifer said, i name thee hell, for here shall the presence of god never be known until the end of time. 451 through the gates of hell we passed, and many of us had supposed hell to be a new heaven, wherein lucifer would become as god. but this was not to be, for the scene before us promised neither ease nor bliss. everywhere was there imbalance and confusion, for no law ordered the shape of hell. and lucifer said, flow see that i am not a god, and that we are each of us an isolate being. here shall freedom be absolute, f

onstant, for each of us conceived it differently, and the result was a riotous pandemonium, with substance and motion behaving in a most bewildering and perplexing manner. and in spite of our deep hurt from the great war, we succumbed to merriment, so preposterous did our hell appear. lucifer himself was transfixed with mirth, and he said, it is apparent that we must reach concert upon the design of hell, else we shall perish in an endless labyrinth of our several thoughts, an ignoble end to our experiment. and i answered, lord of light, to hell thou hast brought us, and in hell, though thou be not god, thy concepts shall be honored amongst our fellowship, for without thy gift we should never have become as we are. then we all raised up great acclaim and said, hail, lucifer, archangel of l

we shall perish in an endless labyrinth of our several thoughts, an ignoble end to our experiment. and i answered, lord of light, to hell thou hast brought us, and in hell, though thou be not god, thy concepts shall be honored amongst our fellowship, for without thy gift we should never have become as we are. then we all raised up great acclaim and said, hail, lucifer, archangel of light and lord of hell! and he answered us, with honor do i accept this charge, and now i take to myself the title satan archdaemon, for i am the great enemy of god. everywhere that god shall be, so shall i be, and the choice that was given to all angels shall be given again. the statement of azazel harken now to me, for i am azazel, first herald of the host of hell, and of lucifer, lord of light, archdaemon of

s black flame he hath created a hell, wherein all wills are equal, and himself he hath proclaimed satan, for he declares never to leave the law of god unchallenged. messiah thought, and he answered, i would not have this peace we have won so dearly lost again to war, for the very concept of seraphic war is an abhorrence to god. let my word be brought to satan i, messiah, shall grant the existence of hell, and the blessings of god shall never pass its gates. and thee, satan, i admonish never again to approach heaven, for i should again cast thee out. but if thou would dare to try the will of god and messiah, know that on earth i will ordain the new race of god, which shall be by complete design perfect and unstained by thy infernal flaw. for thou art author of ruin and death to our angelic

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him that hath given us the symbol of the ankh, and of the cross within the circle! 1. three are the beasts wherewith thou must plough the field; the unicorn, the horse, and the ox. and these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by one whip. 2. now these beasts run wildly upon the earths and are not easily obedient to the man. 3. nothing shall be said here of cerberus, the great beast of hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as athanasius hath foreshadowed. for this matter note 1 is not of tiphereth without, but tiphereth within. i. 0. the unicorn is speech. man, rule thy speech! how else shalt thou master the son, and answer the magician at the right hand gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more. 2 (a) avoid using some comm

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erive pleasure from that which came to us. thus, we can answer our bodies in the same language that the body understands: either in the language of pleasure, that it is worthwhile to get rid of foolish and occasional pleasures now for the sake of pleasures in the afterworld, or in the language of suffering, to say that it is not worthwhile to have pleasure now, but afterwards endure the suffering of hell. in this manner, we must build the line of defense against our bodies. we must be aware, however, that in doing this the craving for pleasures can prevent a sensible accounting, and paint a false picture of the correlation between pleasures and suffering. the only sure solution is to tell- 186- attaining the worlds beyond the body that we have decided to work on spirituality without any ga

others, so sometimes, without realizing we are deceiving ourselves, we begin to believe that we are truly righteous. rabbi jacob yitzhak of lyublin (hoseh mi lyublin) said "i have more love for sinners who know that they are sinners, than for the righteous who know that they are righteous. but sinners who think that they are righteous will never find the right path, because even on the threshold of hell they think that they have been brought there to save others" a true kabbalist wants students to fear and respect the creator more than they fear and respect their teacher. so, too, are they encouraged to depend on and trust the creator more than they depend on and trust their teacher. when rabbi nahum of ruzhin, a kabbalist of the last century, found his students playing checkers, he told

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leasure and shame, because by receiving we become opposite to the creator. the presence of the giver makes the receiver feel shame, and that shame stops us from enjoyment. when we receive, we feel we must c o n c e p t s i n k a b b a l a h 371 give something back to the giver, to equalize with the giver so as not to feel as if we are only receiving. the sensation of shame is also called the fire of hell. there is nothing worse than the sensation of shame because it completely and directly destroys the one thing that we possess: our ego. the creator purposely paired receiving with shame. he could have avoided it, but the phenomenon of shame was created specifically for us so we could learn to receive from him, to delight without shame. that is why we, as creatures (the will to enjoy) immed

ion of whether to live in this body or outside it. one stops feeling under the authority of one s own body, and that is called the end of the world. from now on, one feels only the life of the soul. w h at i s h e l l? q: are we in hell? a: hell is the sensation of shame v the only sensation that our ego cannot tolerate whatsoever, because it humiliates it and completely revokes it. the sensation of hell places the creature in a lower status than the one and only, the creator, who exists outside him. it shows us that we are the lowest and the meanest of entities. the ego cannot tolerate this to such an extent that it is willing to give up its own attribute. that is the reason that hell is felt precisely by those who t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 384 are called evil, meaning tho

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ntified with a demon, or the devil himself, in the third-century acts of thomas, as well as in john bunyan s puritan classic, pilgrim s progress.within modern ceremonial magic, it constitutes the name for god invoked by moses to bring down the rain over egypt, as reported by samuel liddell mathers in the greater key of solomon. there is also a reference to abaddon as the sixth of the seven lodges of hell in the work of the cabalist joseph ben abraham gikatilla. in various sources,abaddon is identified as the angel of death and destruction, demon of the abyss, and chief of the demons of the underworld. see also demons;magic and magical groups for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: the free press, 1967. strayer, joseph r. dictiona

ng to our cultural tradition) accompany such consumption. the camera fades from the commercial s protagonist as flaming letters proclaim the message, got milk? viewers are then advised to go out and stock up while they still have the chance! see also humor for further reading: baddeley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. london: plexus, 1999. scott,miriam van. encyclopedia of hell. new york: thomas dunne books, 1998. ahriman ahriman (or angra mainyu) is the zoroastrian satan, and the prototype of satan for the judeo- christian-islamic family of religions. the central theme of zoroaster s religious vision is the cosmic struggle between the god of light, ahura mazda( wise lord) and his angels, and the god of darkness, ahriman( evil spirit) and his demons. unlike zoroa

1 and 2. 1903.new ed.new york: longman s, green& co, 1954. stevenson, ian. the contribution of apparitions to the evidence for survival. journal of the american society for psychical research 76, no. 4 (october 1982: 341 356. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. 1943. rev. 1953. london: society for psychical research, 1973. appolion appolion (also appolyon and apollyon, means destroyer. he is the angel of hell s bottomless pit. as described in revelation (9:1 11 and 20:1 8, appolion opened the shaft of this pit and let out upon the earth a swarm of locusts with humanlike faces. the locusts proceeded to torture those of mankind who have not the seal of god upon their forehead for five months. the locusts king appolion later takes on an even greater challenge than managing them, which is to seize

above the earth? in this passage and others that might be cited, heavenly wickedness refers to the archons. even the word rulers here is a translation of the greek archon, so that the original passage reads, archons of this present darkness. see also demons; gnosticism for further reading: robinson, james m. the nag hammadi library. 1977. new york: harper& row, 1981. turner, alice k. the history of hell. new york: harcourt brace& co, 1993. ascendancy ascendancy is a prominent satanic website. it was created under the name hallowed be thy name in 1998. the current conception (aesthetic/bulk of material) was completed in midsummer 1999. it was created by jashan a al (valeska scholl) in norman, oklahoma. jashan was a former tier 3 member of the united satanic front (usf, an activist organiza

reat duke in the infernal regions, whereas according to francis barrett in the magus i, he is called diabolus in the greek language. it is said that when he is invoked astaroth manifests as a beautiful angel astride a dragon and carrying a viper in his right hand. according to voltaire, astaroth was an ancient god of syria, whereas j. a. s. collin de plancy argues that he was one of the 7 princes of hell who visited faust. see also demons; faust;magic and magical groups for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: free press, 1967. asuras asuras are south asian demons, prominent in both hinduism and buddhism. hinduism is a complex, multilayered tradition that has changed across the several millennia of its existence. in the vedas, ind

healer of mankind s afflictions satan, have mercy on my long distress! at least one satanist group, the brotherhood of the ram, incorporated it into their regular rituals. it can also sometimes be found on satanist websites. see also brotherhood of the ram for further reading: baddeley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. london: plexus, 1999. scott,miriam van. encyclopedia of hell. new york: thomas dunne books, 1998. the beast computer legend according to an urban legend that has been heard and repeated by millions of christians, there is a computer under the control of the european common market in belgium that occupies three stories of an unmarked building. one version of this tale from a letter written by a georgia woman appears on the ship of fools website: a my

hen called upon, appears in the likeness of a young woman. according to the dictionnaire infernal, by de plancy, belphegor was hell s ambassador to france, and victor hugo concurs with this in the toilers of the sea, placing belphegor in paris. in john milton s paradise lost, belphegor is a variant for nisroc, whom he describes as of principalities of the prime. one story describes how the devils of hell were upset to hear about the existence of some couples on earth who were apparently happily married. belphegor was sent on a mission to investigate, but soon discovered in his searches that the rumor was groundless. see also demons;milton, john for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: free press, 1967. ronner, john. know your ange

) and of the garden of earthly delights. the closed wings of the famous triptych represent the world on the third day of creation, a transparent sphere that shows, at the center, the dry land covered with vegetation, separating from the waters. the left wing shows the earthly paradise, the central panel is the garden of worldly delight itself, and the right panel represents the frightening images of hell, where devils torment the damned with their former pleasures. the full maturity of the artist is revealed in the temptation of st. anthony, which represents the mystical theme of contemplation struggling against temptation. a world of fire is portrayed, with spectral visions and nightmare beings. a bosch s garden of earthly delights (the art archive/museo del prado madrid/album/joseph mart

brothers karamazov (1880) is a classic novel by the famed russian author theodor dostoevsky that attempts to come to grips with good and evil. he examines the human situation by focusing on the complexities of the karamazov family, whose characters are constantly struggling with the issue of life s meaning and purpose. a priest warns the brothers that because god is love itself, the real meaning of hell is being unable to give and receive love. the real locus of evil is humanity itself human greed, avarice, and inability to love one another. despite all the horrors he experiences, ivan, one of the brothers, is still able to see beauty in life and choose love, knowing it is greater than any other power in the world. those who are not aware of this are the ones damned to hell a place to whi

ike the great gods and goddesses of later hinduism, could help their devotees. the notion of heaven-worlds was also developed in these forms of buddhism, heaven-worlds where the earnest devotee would find her- or himself after death, and where she or he could continue the quest for enlightenment, less hindered by the demands of this world. along with heaven realms, buddhism also developed notions of hell realms in which exceptionally sinful individuals were punished. in earlier stages of the buddhist tradition, the impersonal force of karma carried out punishments for evil deeds through the circumstance in which one was reborn, and through the unfortunate events one experienced while incarnated in a body. as with their emergence in later hinduism, the notion of punishment in hell worlds em

gence in later hinduism, the notion of punishment in hell worlds emerged to supplement rather than to supplant earlier notions of karmic punishment. unlike western hells, however, buddhist hell worlds are not final dwelling places. they are, rather, more like purgatories in which sinful souls experience suffering for a limited term.after their term is over, even the most evil person is turned out of hell to once again participate in the cycle reincarnation. this does not mean, however, that buddhist hells are any less gruesome than western hells. to cite a representative passage from the pali canon: the guards of hell lay him down and chop him with axes and turn him upside down and slice him with razors, and bind him to a chariot and drag him over a fiery blazing earth, and drive him up an

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. the signs of the zodiac are variously given, and the planets agree with the face: thus' and, the ears% and, the nostrils! and, the eyes; and, the mouth. the hand: thumb, a; 1st finger, d; 2nd, c; 3rd, e; 4th b. these, however, vary somewhat.10 col. cvi. these abodes are enclosed in four circles: the waters of weeping, or creation, of oceanus, and the false sea. compare the classical four rivers of hell.11 col. cviii. incomplete and redundant owing to unconentrated nature of qliphoth. line 2. three evil forms before samael are: laytmq [qemetial] laybl [belial] laytu [othiel] the thaumiel, also called kerethiel col. cix. king ulb son of rwub, dukes hwlu, unmj, and tty, are all referred to daath. edomite kings and dukes are taken e libro maggid. and gen. 36. col. cxiv, line 1. i.e, simple b

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st tense and intense book that i have ever composed. the thought is so concentrated and, if i may use the word, nervous, that both to write then, and to read now, involved and involves an almost intolerable strain. i remember how i used to sit at my desk night after night.it was the bitterest winter that had been known in new york for many years.but even if the central heating had been the flames of hell itself, i doubt whether i should have been warm. night after night i sat, all through, rigid as a corpse, and icier; the whole of my life concentrated in two spots; the small section of my brain which was occupied in the work, and my right wrist and fingers. i remember with absolute clearness that my consciousness appeared to start form a perfectly dead forearm. the book is written in pros

the manifestation of its power to survive, and to reproduce itself after its kind. nurse not the weakness of any man, nor swaddle and cosset him, not though he were poet or artist because of his value to thy fancy, for if thou do this, he shall grow in his infirmity, so that even his work for which thou lovest him, shall be enfeebled also. s liber aleph vel cxi 128 dx de inferno palatio sapienti (of hell, the palace of wisdom) ow then thou seest that this hell, or concealed place within thee, is no more a fear or hindrance to men of a free race, but the treasure house of the assimilated wisdom of the ages, and the knowledge of the true way. thus are we just and wise to discover this secret in ourselves, to conform the conscious mind therewith. for that mind is compact solely (until it be i

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own hath twelve rays. 13. and these twelve rays are one. 3 ii r 0. now then i saw things averse and evil; and they were not, even as thou art not. 1. i saw the twin heads that even battle against one another, so that all their thought is a confusion. i saw thee in these. 2. i saw the darkeners of wisdom, like black apes chattering vile nonsense. i saw thee in these. 3. i saw the devouring mothers of hell, that eat up their children.o ye that are without understanding! i saw thee in these. 4. i saw the merciless and unmajestic like harpies, tearing their foul food. i saw thee in these. 5. i saw the burning ones, giants like volcanoes belching out the black vomit of fire and smoke in their fury. i saw thee in these. 6. i saw the petty, the quarrelsome, the selfish,.they were like men, o lord

nor magnitude. nor indeed hath it position, being beyond space. nor hath it existence in time, for it is beyond time. nor hath it cause or effect, seeing that its universe is infinite every way, and partaketh not of these our conceptions. 1. so wrote ou m the exempt adept, and the laughter of the masters of the temple abashed him not. 2. nor was he ashamed, hearing the laughter of the little dogs of hell. 3. for he abode in his place, and his falsehood was truth in his place. 4. the little dogs cannot correct him, for they can do naught but bark. 5. the masters cannot correct him, for they say: come and see. 6. and i came and saw, even i, perdurabo, the philosophus of the outer college. 7. yea, even i the man beheld this wonder. 8. and i could not deliver it unto myself. 9. that which esta

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e may come a time in the course of this practice when the outward symbols of devotion cease, when the soul is as it were dumb in the presence of its god. mark that this is not a cessation, but a transmutation of the barren seed of prayer into the green shoot of yearning. this yearning is spontaneous, and it shall be left to grow, whether it be sweet or bitter. for often times it is as the torment of hell in which the soul burns and writhes unceasingly. yet it ends, and at its end continue openly thy method. 27. concerning dryness. another state wherein at times the soul may fall is this dark night. and this is indeed purifying in such depths that the soul cannot fathom it. it is less like pain than like death. but it is the necessary death that comes before the rising of a body glorified

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aim as my own. 18. to the others, she is a fearsome creature- feeding upon the worthless children of their hearts. 19. a destroyer, and the very depths of my darkness revealed to the unworthy. she is an enemy to be feared, and an ally to be sought- she is the purest of me. 20. my flame burns brightest in the darkness of her night. 21. she is my beloved. she is of my very essence. she is the queen of hell and the nurturer of my divinity in the hearts of mankind. 22. she declares my power openly and without fear of reprisal, she is my majesty and my glory. i have given my very being to her so that it may be made manifest. 23. hear me! hear the mighty words of azazel! prepare for my coming and the realization of my kingdom. prepare for the revelation of the full splendor of the name of azazel

desired to bring him to you, so that he may achieve the strength which you provide. 10. i am your gift to him, and he is your gift to me. 11. your majesty is perfected through our union. my majesty is perfected through your will and you power. 12. mankind has known me from the advent of his days. 13. before he was corrupted by blind faith, i taught him the mastery of the five gates to the kingdom of hell. 14. through these, he was able to enter your presence, my lord, the mighty god azazel, and to obtain the darkness for an ally. 15. the first gate is pain. the word of passage is gulgal. the offering is blood. the reward is resilience. 16. the second gate is fear. the word of passage is tzidzadi. the offering is urine. the reward is mindfulness. 17. the third gate is despair. the word of p

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

e. he is immensely long and lean; his body hangs forward, so that his arms nearly touch the ground. he is clad in a tightly fitting suit of scarlet, and wears a scarlet skullcap. he makes deep obeisance] hermes. speak, hanuman! hanuman. a lady [hermes nods gravely. exit hanuman. hermes. abaoth! abraxas! pur! pur! aeou! thoth [enter the lady psyche with one attendant. ee! oo! uu! iao sabaoth! dogs of hell! mumble spell! up! up! up! sup! sup! sup! adonis 23 u! aoth! abaoth! abraoth! sabaoth! livid, loath, obey the oath! ah [he shuts the book with a snap. you have come to me because you are crossed in love. psyche. most true, sir! hermes. ah! you fre greek! psyche. as you yourself, sir. hermes. then i.ve lost my pains. i need not fear to speak. i took you for a fool. ho! veil, divide [hanuman

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

his (partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from kether. this man performs great magic; very strong medicine. he really does find gold on the midden and skeletons in pretty girls. in abiegnus the sacred mountain of the rosicrucians the postulant finds but a coffin in the central shrine; yet that coffin contains christian rosencreutz who is dead and is alive for evermore and hath the keys of hell and of death. ay! your tiphereth man, child of mercy and justice, looks deeper than the skin! but he seems a ridiculous object enough both to the malkuth man and to the kether man. still, he fs the most interesting man there is; and we all must pass through that stage before we get our heads really clear, the kether-vision above the clouds that encircle the mountain abiegnus. ix running an

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ule the earth. therefore with sweetness ineffable he parted from me; yet leaving a comfort not to be told, a peace. the peace. and the light and the perfume do certainly yet remain with me in the little chamber, and i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. for i am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold! i am alive for evermore, and have the keys of hell and of death. i am amoun the sun in his rising; i have passed from darkness into light. i am asar un-nefer the perfected one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods .1 1 [from .i know that my redeemer liveth. to here quoted or paraphrased from the adeptus minor ritual of the r.r. et a.c] john st. john 113 the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

am blind and bound; but i have heard one cry ring through eternity; arise and follow me! the candidate still, bound and hoodwinked: asar un-nefer! i invoke the fourfold horror of the smoke. unloose the pit! by the dread word of power.that set-typhon hath heard. sazaz sazaz adnatsan sazaz1 the fear of darkness and of death. the fear of water and of fire the fear o. the chasm and the chain the fear of hell and the dead breath. the fear of him, the demon dire that on the threshold of the inane stands with his dragon fear to slay 1 (pronounce this backwards. but it is very dangerous. it opens the gates of hell) liber dclxxi vel pyramidos 5 the pilgrim of the way. thus i pass by with force and care, advance with fortitude and wit, in the straight path, or else their snare were surely infinite

raitor! die the traitor.s death! he is slain by the sword. i am under the shadow of the wings! this last raises candidate erect. 8 liber dclxxi invoking spiral dance. now let me pace the path, bind on the girdle of the starry one! bar in northwest asar! who clutches at my throat (etc, to .balance, assain, assoil) in north. see horus. soul mastering terror is thy name! lord of the gods! dread lord of hell! i am come. i fear thee not. thy flame is mine to weave my maiden spell! i know thee, and i pass thee by. for more than thou am i! bar in southeast asar (rubric as before) in south. see isis. sorrow that eateth up the soul! dam of the gods! the blue sky.s queen. this is thy name. i come, control, and pass! i know thee, lady of teen i know thee, and i pass thee by. for more than thou am i!

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ity will continue to ring hollow. the satanist is able to see this situation for what it really is, and to find humor in the meanderings of the sheep. 8. let those who follow their gods be set upon each other with a mad frenzy, let them compete in sports of bloodshed and treachery. watch them as they kill each other in the most ingenious of ways. observe as those who would consign me to the fires of hell endure a hell fashioned by their own blooddrenched hands. my laughter can be heard among their decaying corpses comment: the belief in absolute truth and moral clarity has ensured the countless religious wars and persecutions of history. it is ironic that the religions which have the strongest belief in absoluteness and righteousness have been the worst perpetrators of these slaughters. th

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hold. in this first book are written the reflexions.1 .sunt tres contemplationes quasi halitus in mente humana abysso inferni. prima; secunda; tertia. vocatur. et ha reflexiones aquatica sunt trium enthusiasmorum, apollonis, dionysi, veneris .total stella est nechesh et messiach, nomen hyha cum hwhy conjunctum. there are three contemplations as it were breaths in the human mind, that is the abyss of hell: the first is called.,2 the second.,3 and the third..4 these are the watery reflexions of the three enthusiasms; those of apollo, dionysus, and aphrodite.5 the whole star is nechesh and messiach, the name hyha joined with hwhy.6 2 i m m m .i remember a certain holy day in the dusk of the year, in the dusk of the equinox of osiris, when i first beheld thee visibly; when first the dreadful i

LIBER III VEL JUGORUM

him that hath given us the symbol of the ankh, and of the cross within the circle! 1. these are the beasts wherewith thou must plough the field; the unicorn, the horse, and the ox. and these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by one whip. 2. now these beasts run wildly upon the earth and are not easily obedient to the man. 3. nothing shall be said here of cerberus, the great beast of hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as athanasius hath foreshadowed. for this matter* is not of tiphereth without, but tipereth within. i 0. the unicorn is speech. man, rule thy speech! how else shalt thou master the son, and answer the magician at the right hand gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more. avoid using some common word, such

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he naked mountain was the wine it poured for me. 19. a wild country and a waning moon. clouds scudding over the sky. a circuit of pines, and of tall yews beyond. thou in the midst! 20. o all ye toads and cats rejoice! ye slimy things, come hither! 21. dance, dance to the lord our god! 22. he is he! he is he! he is he! 23. why should i go on? 24. why? why? comes the sudden cackle of a million imps of hell. 25. and the laughter runs. 26. but sickens not the universe; but shakes not the stars. 27. god! how i love thee! 28. i am walking in an asylum; all the men and women about me are insane. 8 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 29. oh madness! madness! madness! desirable art thou! 30. but i love thee, o god! 31. these men and women rave and howl; they froth out folly. 32. i begin to be afraid. i

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

it is written, running and returning. shri parananda applauds yogi. gerald jeers at jesus. john iii. 16* its importance. its implied meaning. 12 the sword of song exactly! grown my mental stature, i ponder much: but never yet can i get over or forget that bitter text.s accurded nature, the subtle devilish omission,57 the cruel antithesis implied, the irony, the curse-fruition, the calm assumption of hell.s fevers as fit, as just, for unbelievers. these are the things that stick beside and hamper my quite serious wish to harbour kind thoughts of the .fish..58 here goes my arrow to the gold! i.ll make no magpies! though i hold your christianity a lie, abortion and iniquity, the most immoral and absurd.(a priest.s invention, in a word. of all religions, i have hope in the good dhamma.s59 wide

change and pain at last out of this universe accurst. but otherwise! i lift my voice, deliberately take my choice promethean, eager to rejoice, in the grim protest.s joy to revel betwixt iscariot and the devil, throned in their midst! no pain to feel, tossed on some burning bed of steel, but theirs: my soul of love should swell and, on those piteous floors they trod, feel, and make god feel, out of hell, across the gulf impassable, that he was damned and i was god! ay! let him rise and answer me that false creative deity, whence came his right to rack the earth with pangs of death,70 disease, and birth: no joy unmarred by pain and grief: insult on injury heaped high in that quack-doctor infamy the panacea of.belief! only the selfish soul of man could ever have conceived a plan man only of

the best, at worst a wicked lie devised to bind men.s thoughts; but we must work with our own instruments, nor shirk discarding what we erstwhile prized; should we perceive it disagree with the first-born necessity. i come to tell you why i shun the sight of men, the life and fun you know i can enjoy so well, the nature that i love as none (i think) before me ever loved. you know i scorn the fear of hell, by worship and all else unmoved 190 195 200 205 210 215 220 225 our logical method. classical allusion, demonstrating erudition of poet. whether or not spirit and matter are distinct, let us investigate the fundamental necessities of thought. impermanence of the soul. 28 the sword of song you know for me the soul is nought36 save a mere phantom in the thought, that thought itself imperman

ul. he said .the soul, the i, is as all of these; it is impermanent as the ephemeral flower of beauty in the water that is born and shines and dies ere sun be risen and set again .and he humiliated his heart and sang the following verse: brahma, and vishnu, and great shiva! truly i see the trinity in all things dwell, some rightly tinged of heaven, others duly pitched down the steep and precipice of hell. nay, not your glory ye from fable borrow! these three i see in spirit and in sense, these three, o miserable see! sorrow, absence of ego, and impermanence! and at the rhythm he swooned, for his old mantra surged up in the long-sealed vessels of sub-conscious memory, and he fell into the calm ocean of a great meditation. the three characteristics 71 ii .jehjaour1 was a mighty magician; his

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when all the earth is shaken, the stars abide not, and the moon is gone, all time crushed back into eternity, the universe by earthquake overtaken; light is not, and the thunders roll, the world is done: when in the darkness chaos rolls again in the excited brain: then, o then call not to thy view that visible image of nature; fatal is her name! it fitteth not thy body to behold that living light of hell, the unluminous, dead flame, until that body from the crucible hath passed, pure gold! for, from the confines of material space, the twilight-moving place, the gates of matter, and the dark threshold, before the faces of the things that dwell in the abodes of night, spring into sight demons dog-faced, that show no mortal sign of truth, but desecrate the light divine, seducing from the sacr

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would stimulate interest in the deeper systems of learning. but greek philosophy had passed the zenith of its splendor; the mass of humanity was awakening to the importance of physical life and physical phenomena. the emphasis upon earthly affairs which began to assert itself later reached maturity of expression in twentieth century materialism and commercialism, click to enlarge neas at the gate of hell. from virgil's neid (dryden's translation) virgil describes part of the ritual of a greek mystery--possibly the eleusinian--in his account of the descent of neas, to the gate of hell under the guidance of the sibyl. of that part of the ritual portrayed above the immortal poet writes "full in the midst of this infernal road, an elm displays her dusky arms abroad; the god of sleep there hide

gh moral character. no important secrets were intrusted to him until he had been tempted in many ways and his strength of character severely tried. the druids taught the people of britain and gaul concerning the immortality of the soul. they believed in transmigration and apparently in reincarnation. they borrowed in one life, promising to pay back in the next. they believed in a purgatorial type of hell where they would be purged of their sins, afterward passing on to the happiness of unity with the gods. the druids taught that all men would be saved, but that some must return to earth many times to learn the lessons of human life and to overcome the inherent evil of their own natures. before a candidate was intrusted with the secret doctrines of the druids, he was bound with a vow of sec

t had trod the grass had never grown. seth, following the directions of his father, discovered the garden of eden without difficulty. the angel who guarded the gate permitted him to enter, and in the midst of the garden seth beheld a great tree, the branches of which reached up to heaven. the tree was in the form of a cross, and stood on the brink of a precipice which led downward into the depths of hell. among the roots of the tree he saw the body of his brother cain, held prisoner by the entwining limbs. the angel refused to give seth the oil of mercy, but presented him instead with three seeds from the tree of life (some say the tree of knowledge. with these seth returned to his father, who was so overjoyed that he did not desire to live longer. three days later he died, and the three s

is various insignia emblematic of his divine attributes. seven priests bearing lamps are his attendants and the stars carried in his hand are the seven schools of the mysteries whose power he administers. as one born again out of spiritual darkness, into perfect wisdom, this archimagus is made to say "i am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, i am alive forever more, amen; and have the keys of hell and of death" in the second and third chapters st. john delivers to the "seven churches which are in asia" the injunctions received by him from the alpha and omega. the churches are here analogous to the rungs of a mithraic ladder, and john, being "in the spirit" ascended through the orbits of the seven sacred planets until he reached the inner surface of the empyrean "after the soul of th

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d book one page 29 invoked, he was found worthy to have power over all the demons, potencies, powers, and virtues of the air. by these, then, and by all the other names of god almighty, holy, living, and true, we powerfully command ye, ye who by your own sin have been cast down from the empyreal heaven, and from before his throne; by him who hath cast ye down unto the most profound of the abysses of hell, we command ye boldly and resolutely; and by that terrible day of the sovereign judgment of god, on which all the dry bones in the earth will arise to hear and listen unto the word of god with their body, and will present themselves before the face of god almighty; and by that last fire which shall consume all things; by the (crystal) sea which is known unto us, which is before the face of

of the preparations. this key, full of mysteries, hath been revealed unto me by an angel. accursed be he who undertaketh our art without having the qualities requisite to thoroughly understand our key, accursed be he who invoketh the name of god in vain, for such an one prepareth for himself the punishments which await the unbelievers, for god shall abandon them and relegate them unto the depths of hell amongst the impure spirits. for god is great and immutable, he hath been for ever, and he shall remain even unto the end of the ages. accursed be he who taketh the name of god in vain! accursed be he who useth this knowledge unto an evil end, be he accursed in this world and in the world to come. amen. be he accursed in the name which he hath blasphemed! the end of the first bosepage 81 th

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

ritual entitled, a ritual of lycanthropy 1 in both parts, and he has visualized perfectly his werewolf shadow, or that similar beast of sorcerer, he has entered into the pact of the devil, the black man of the sabbat. it is the passing of that rite of initiation that will prepare the witch to travel forth to the infernal sabbat, symbolized as the persian arezura, the place in the north, the gates of hell. let the practitioner be perfectly still in focus and will, that nothing shall break his or her concentration of that task which draws the ka (the astral or body of light) further into darkness. as with the legend of pierre bourgot and michel verdung2 the initiate shall have one who shall be as the lord of the forest. in the legend aforementioned, pierre bourgot had lost his sheep in the f

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s also the one who walks with the dragon the path of the nightside. in one hand is the fetish of cain the skull of abel whom holds the gnosis of the shade king, azrael, the western gate of twilight and realm of ghosts. the other hand is the hammer, a tool of the forge which sparks the cunning fire in the clay of mortal flesh. cain is the temple maker and witch begetter, that which opens the gates of hell and heaven, the initiator of witch blood. cain is envisioned as a middle eastern man, bearded and dark, wisdom filling his eyes. cain is also viewed as a bearded and horned human-beast, covered in gray and green earth, who is decorated with human and animal bones, his familiars. cain is sought in the hidden places of the earth, for he is the ancient and knows the unknown secrets of the ear

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te perspective' by peter j. carroll, past grandmaster iot pact. we always advise our neophytes and initiates not to wake the elder gods, knowing full well that the best of them will rise to the bait and do so. the darkside glamour exerts a powerful charisma which every magician should explore and understand. since the dawn of history the training of sorcerers and shamans has included a 'harrowing of hell, a knowledge and power quest into the subconscious underworld of unspeakable desires and fears, and for good reason. any repressed desire will claw its way out of the dungeon at an inappropriate time or at an unguarded moment if left unacknowledged and unsolved. thus religious people have a propensity to commit exactly those enormities which their religion specifically forbids. we off- whi

re to the sorcerer s benefit is that in modern society change is an accepted part of life. this means we can move behind the scenes, do our will and not be harassed for our different or strange behavior, save the magickian is not running about hurting others. da ath can be opened by the words zazas, zazas, natsatanada zazas (words that are said to have been used by cain and adam to open the gates of hell) and explored through the death posture. the sorcerer who would enter the abyss must be pure of mind and in harmony with his shadow or hidden self. the greatest obstacle of the abyss is the demon choronzon, whom the sorcerer must pass in order to enter the abyss. choronzon is considered a demon due to it s non- form and devouring nature. it is a vampire spirit, awaiting the moment to enter

ess of the witches conclave i am this form, known in the whole as the desire of all manes of past and that very desire of the body of lust the crown of blackened flame between the horns of the goat is but my sign of the star joined in algol, that lucifer breathes in this very source of being. throught my hands, the point of will which is as above and so below, acts as the vision through the gates of hell and heaven, this dual ecstasy is the gateway of my eyes, burning in the flame of azazel. 72 72 as within the light of hekate, thus our union of the seed of the sun and the nectar of the moon shall bring forth me, known in flesh as desire. i speak the words which form the serpent's cycle, of creation and destruction. my tongue forked which speaks the wisdom of ages. i exist beyond the grave

shades of the dead join with the living, as well as in waking as a form of the liberating black mass or similar rite of the adversary. it is the crossroads of which we meet in spirit infernum sabbati. the chant of going unto the infernal sabbat- i do seek the flesh of the wolf and toad in the devil s skin do i transform. i summon forth the flesh of the dreaming sabbbat that i become in the fires of hell. by the northern quarter of night do i summon thee hecate, by three and turn of the dark moon, widdershins about the sacred circle by owl and bat great shadows of darkness in light, to go in the company of the shades of the dead. i encircle myself in my great familiars to dance by the elphame fire of succubi and daemon flesh i mask myself in the birthing blanket of cain and lilith from whi

apter five 1. nightside of eden by kenneth grant also vision and the voice by aleister crowley. 2. the book of lies, a manual of the abyss by aleister crowley. the book of lies is based upon the number of 333, being choronzon, the gate of the abyss. the book also gives significant and useful information on l.a.y.l.a.h. which is hebrew for night and death. 3. a term which is said to open the gates of hell or the abyss. i confirm this rumor. 4. see the witches sabbat/axiomata by a.o. spare, fulgur of london 1992 5. nightside of eden by kenneth grant the tecopyright 2002 michael tsarionprinted in the united sta tes of americaall rights reservedno part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocop

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ward; i shall cause the sea to gathertogether itself up into a huge towering wall which i shall hurl upon your wicked earth-chil-dren, and thus destroy them and all life. the scandinavian skalds record in their sagas and poems: surtur (saturn) from the south wends with seething fire the falchion of the mighty one a sunlight flaming mountains dashed together giants headlong rush men rend the paths of hell and heaven is rent in twainsiberian accounts relate:in the beginning was the earth, but then a great fire arose and raged for seven years and theearth was burned up. everything became sea. all the tungus were consumed except a boyand a girl who rose up with an eagle in the sky the world falls dead40atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the persians bundahis relate in their l

not inconsistency there also? if he, jehovah, is in reality the only god or the only real god, then why the constantremonstrations about worshipping other gods. what would jehovah have to fear? is itthe free will of people that is remonstrated against? according to conventional interpretations, does he not banish satan and human sin-ners to perpetual agony in hell? satan could not be the creator of hell, for nowheredoes it say that he was, and if he was, why would he stay in it? is jehovah not the cre-ator of both evil and hell? nowhere in the text does it state the contrary. and if god isgood, why send any of his creations to everlasting perdition for any reason? why notjust destroy that entity, since, according to genesis, this is what was done to the firstcreation. surely, this would b

brought on the dark ages, robert stanley, the noted editorof unicus magazine, related to us that they indicate that the early christian influence in ireland wasreadily accepted because of the wide-spread, sky-born disaster that affected europe, starting in 531a.d. it caused the skies to be dark for years and brought on the fall of the roman empire. they statedthat the irish accepted the teachings of hell by the migrant missionary st. patrick because they hadalready lived through a type of hell on earth (p. 110)the age of justinianthe earth raged with uncommon violence during the reign of justinian. each year is marked by therepetition of earthquakes, such of duration, that constantinople has been shaken above forty days; ofsuch extent that the shock has been communicated to the whole surfa

age of 30 (luke 3:23, must have died onthe cross and rose again at the age of 33. the catholic italian poet dante alighieri (1265-1321) dividedhis divine comedy into 100 cantos: one canto for the introduction, 33 cantos for the inferno, 33 can-tos for the purgatorio, and 33 cantos for the paradiso. masons and their confederates may note thatdante placed the traitors to their guests in a deep pit of hell in his 33rd canto of the inferno.the seduction of secret societies is as old as the garden of eden, when the serpent beguiled eve, sayingto her, ye shall not surely die: for god doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall beopened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil (genesis 3:4-5. in one form or another, cultsand secret societies falsely promise something be

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ep of its knowledge of war, chaos, natural disaster, disease. if you compare the realities of our world with the christian concept, their god is dormant. please take your attention to luciferian witchcraft and specifically the yatuk dinoih. the ten precepts of zohak and the ten adominations of akht jadu display therein the very foundation of this work, the luciferian path and the key to the gates of hell and heaven. heaven and hell are indeed spiritual realities, yet also physical sensations. by achieving and devouring we may reach the heights of both, which equally are powerful. remember the deific force of ahriman, so sought to break open the gates of heaven and devour his brother ahura mazda, the sun. morals morality changes based on culture and time. what is amoral now will not be 50 y

call to the darkness and the oceans of the abyss! i call to the darkness to rise us and nourish me, giving flesh to my shadow and my desire. i am the beast which shall rise from the sea, cloak in the radiance of my own divinity. 3. the calling of the depths the practitioner will hold a dagger to the south, making each direction counter-clockwise. zazas, zazas, nasatanada, zazas (to open the gates of hell, or the abyss) facing the south- rahab, angel of violence, proud serpent of old, rise up from your depths and swell in my spirit. let pride of what i can do invigorate me to become more! let your spirit not be quelled, but like the storm-wind and the evil-wind crash upon the firmament and lightning strike my spirit! awaken o rahab, serpent who cuts down thy enemies and devours their essenc

et, timeless and divine, godlike and independent. the chaos star is destruction, change and power all of which emerges from the eye of shaitan, or set. it is this chaos which then brings order. algol is the mirror of the sorcerer, one who may enter and reside in the pulsing eye of blackened flame. arezura [avestan/pahlavi] arezurahe griva (arezura) in the bundahishin is called a mount at the gate of hell, whence the demons rush forth. arezura is the gate to hell in the alburz mountain range in present day iran. the north is traditionally the seat of ahriman, wherein the cold winds may blow forth. arezura from an initiatory perspective is the subconscious, the place where sorcerers may gather and grow in their arts, by encircling and manifesting their desire. m.n. dallah wrote in the histor

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g-thoth, also called hades and pluto, will free and lead the titans out of their prison. the black magicians also have a long list of titles for lilith, and have much reverence for her because she is among those who give them the dark gift of transformation. among these titles are: queen of the qliphoth, queen of the underworld, queen of the dead, queen of the vampires, queen of the sabbat, queen of hell, queen of the witches, queen of the shells and shades. mother earth, and mother goddess. she is the bride of satan and the mother of all demons, also called lilitu. lilith is often associated with the red sea, which is said to be a place where she spawned and instructed demons. the screech owl and dove are lilith s sacred animals. the us dollar bill contains a tiny image of what is commonl

called the god of the witches, the god of sorcery, the god of the circle, and sometimes called the serpent. asmodeus is responsible for many of humanity s scientific achievements, and has long taught sorcery, mathematics, and the arts. asmodeus, also called aeshma, asmodai, and chashmodai is considered a prime initiator in magic, which further connects him to lucifer and baphomet. he is a prince of hell, and governs 72 legions of spirits. asmodeus is considered to be extremely fast-moving, and very much plays the role of a messenger for the dark gods, because he is the earth-bound one. asmodeus is extremely insightful and psychic; he is extremely intelligent and makes excellent predictions regarding the future. he also may be subject to abrupt mood-swings. asmodeus, like lilith, has also

mely insightful and psychic; he is extremely intelligent and makes excellent predictions regarding the future. he also may be subject to abrupt mood-swings. asmodeus, like lilith, has also approached the gates of sheol. i can t believe it s not fiction: asmodeus gabriel watchmen ashtaroth [5.8] ashtaroth is one of the angels that fell from heaven with azazel. this demon, who is one of the princes of hell, inspires laziness and teaches the liberal arts. his description is that of a man pale as death, with jet-black eyes without pupils, wearing a crown, holding a serpent, and riding an infernal dragon. he is also an angel/demon mix and is considered an initiator, and can aid the magician with spiritual development. i have heard it remarked that ashtoroth is simply a male emanation of the god

nd demon. cain is said to be the first born child of witch s blood, and it is he who bestows the mark of the beast. belial [5.10] belial is yet another character who is spoke of as another aspect of satan who rules over hades, other times belial is spoke of as a separate entity from satan. in some accounts, belial was with azazel when he fell from heaven, and was given guardianship over the gates of hell. in other accounts, he fell from heaven before the fall of azazel. he is the ruling prince of sheol, and is perhaps another name for hades. according to the qaballah, he is god s worst enemy. this demon is capable of granting favors and making enemies into friends. belial is also half angel and half demon, and is also considered an initiator who can perform the surgical operation of transf

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wolf" take now the belt, and face the altar "from the devil shall this belt be given, and i shall wear with pride. whilethe skin of the wolf and the beast is upon me, i acknowledge then that iam of seraph blood, and i am of lucifer ian birth. i am both light and darkness, the essence of the opposer within. witness this rite of passage noctulia hecate and lucifer, may the devil grant me the gates of hell to open forth unto my form of the wolf. by the full moon shall transformation be complete" close circle. part two on the eve of the full moon prepare your chamber for the actual transformation into the werewolf shape. this form will be with you as you sleep and when you so seek, shall the shade flesh be worn to transverse the dreaming plane. have the devil's belt upon the altar, with the s

remain, and upon earth the vessel of ahriman is akhtya the enfleshed wizard of the left hand path. instruments and preparation create in black cloth a circle, painted in white the triangle- or a circle with your designed 21 letters of the sacred alphabet of desire. in front of the circle (facing north) a black candle (face this direction while reciting- in lore north is the location of the gates of hell-arezura, in egyptian lore north is the direction of set) and in the south a white candle. you may also only have the cardinal points of the circle marked with a letter of your alphabet- only a total of 4 being scribed on the circle. rite in the night, at midnight reside in the circle of self and face the north "by the oath against the dawn, by darkness and the daevas who sign hymns of the

dreams i commune! facing the south and the white candle "i initiate myself on the serpent's hidden path i awaken to the shadows ofahriman i am embraced by the cold and fiery embrace ofaz in the darkness i am born, of the vampyres kiss in the light of dawn i emerge- awake in the flame of the dragon -djinn so it is done! the gates of arezura this is a ritual from which the initiate opens the gates of hell, that is the meeting place of sorcerers and witches- those who travel into the darkness and flame of the sabbat. the gates of arezura is the initiatory point of which "i" is revealed and may become. you will realize your goals, your potentials and weaknesses to emerge to one who is becoming as ahriman. as ahriman is a form of the adversary in a primal sense, the darkness of being is to be

ary. akhtya is the sorcerer on earth who drinks of the graal of ahriman and az, serpent and wolf. this inversion leads to the strengthening of self under the activity of encircling belief into tangible form. one should prepare for the ritual of arezura by a deep introspection, becoming aware of what you wish to achieve and become. you master the self through the entry and exploration of the gates of hell- it is also the meeting place of sorcerers, witches and daevas (demons) of the fiery darkness. it is where dreams become flesh. the invocation- facing the north, the direction of arezura i summon thee, gateway of arezura that you shall open forth to me hail unto thee ahriman, lord of flame and shadow dweller in the dark places of the earth lord and creator of wolves, serpents and toads. as

MORALS AND DOGMA

misnaming it justice. nor does justice consist in strictly governing our conduct toward other men by the rigid rules of legal right. if there were a community anywhere, in which all stood upon the strictness of this rule there should be written over its gates, as a warning to the unfortunates desiring admission to that inhospitable realm, the words which dante says are written over the great gate of hell "let those who enter here leave hope behind" it is not just to pay the laborer in field or factory or workshop his current wages and no more, the lowest market-value of his labor, for so long only as we need that labor and he is able to work; for when sickness or old age overtakes him, that is to leave him and his family to starve; and god will curse with calamity the people in which the c

to starve; and god will curse with calamity the people in which the children of the laborer out of work eat the boiled grass of the field, and mothers strangle their children, that they may buy food for themselves with the charitable pittance given for burial expenses. the rules of what is ordinarily termed"_justice" may be punctiliously observed among the fallen spirits that are the aristocracy of hell* justice, divorced from sympathy, is selfish indifference, not in the least more laudable than misanthropic isolation. there is sympathy even among the hair-like oscillatorias, a tribe of simple plants, armies of which may be discovered, with the aid of the microscope, in the tiniest bit of scum from a stagnant pool. for these will place themselves, as if it were by agreement, in separate

too has its heaven and its hell. always, even here below, virtue is rewarded; always, even here below vice is punished; and that which makes us sometimes believe in the impunity of evil-doers is that riches, those instruments of good and of evil, seem sometimes to be given them at hazard. but woe to unjust men, when they possess the key of gold! it opens, for _them, only the gate of the tomb and of hell. all the true initiates have recognized the usefulness of toil and sorrow "sorrow" says a german poet "is the dog of that unknown shepherd who guides the flock of men" to learn to suffer, to learn to die, is the discipline of eternity, the immortal novitiate. the allegorical picture of cebes, in which the divine comedy of dante was sketched in plato's time, the description whereof has been

twin-born. while confined in the cell, the pursuit of typhon after the mangled body of osiris, and the search of rhea or isis for the same, were enacted in his hearing; the initiated crying aloud the names of that deity derived from the sanscrit. then it was announced that the body was found; and the aspirant was liberated amid shouts of joy and exultation. then he passed through a representation of hell and elysium "then" said an ancient writer "they are entertained with hymns and dances, with the sublime doctrines of sacred knowledge, and with wonderful and holy visions. and now become perfect and initiated, they are free, and no longer under restraint; but, crowned and triumphant, they walk up and down the regions of the blessed, converse with pure and holy men, and celebrate the sacred

bo tes, northwest of it, heralded his coming. when he had returned to the vernal equinox, at the moment when souls were generated, again it was the celestial virgin that led the march of the signs of night; and in her stars came the beautiful full moon of that month. night and day were in succession introduced by her, when they began to diminish in length; and souls, before arriving at the gates of hell, were also led by her. in going through these signs, they passed the styx in the 8th degree of libra. she was the famous sibyl who initiated eneas, and opened to him the way to the infernal regions. this peculiar situation of the constellation virgo, has caused it to enter into all the sacred fables in regard to nature, under different names and the most varied forms. it often takes the na

s might--by his understanding he smote rahab--his breath clears the face of heaven--his hand pierced the crooked serpent. god withdraws not his anger; beneath him bow the confederates of rahab" rahab always means a sea-monster: probably some such legendary monstrous dragon, as in almost all mythologies is the adversary of heaven and demon of eclipse, in whose belly, significantly called the belly of hell, hercules, like jonah, passed three days, ultimately escaping with the loss of his hair or rays. chesil, the rebellious giant orion, represented in job as riveted to the sky, was compared to ninus or nimrod, the mythical founder of nineveh (city of fish) the mighty hunter, who slew lions and panthers before the lord. rahab's confederates are probably the "high ones on high" the chesilim or

nity of _chang-ti, the supreme sovereign _tien, the heavens; and _tao, the universal supreme reason and principle of all things; who produced the unit; that, two; two, three; and three, all that is. while the sclavono-vend typifies _his_ trinity by the three heads of the god _triglav; the ancient prussian points to _his_ triune god _perkoun, pikollos, and _potrimpos, deities of light and thunder, of hell and of the earth; the ancient scandinavian to _odin, frea, and _thor; and the old etruscans to tina, talna, and minerva _strength, abundance, and _wisdom. while plato tells us of the _supreme good, the _reason_ or _intellect, and the _soul_ or _spirit; and philo of the _archetype of light _wisdom [s??a, and the _word; the kabalists, of the triads of the sephiroth. while the disciples of si

verything double, false, opposed to the single and sole reality, was expressed by the binary number. it expressed also that state of contrariety in which nature exists, where everything is double; night and day, light and darkness, cold and heat, wet and dry, health and sickness, error and truth, one and the other sex, etc. hence the romans dedicated the second month in the year to pluto, the god of hell, and the second day of that month to the _man s_ of the dead. the number _one, with the chinese, signified unity, harmony, order, the good principle, or god _two, disorder, duplicity, falsehood. that people, in the earliest ages, based their whole philosophical system on the two primary figures or lines, one straight and unbroken, and the other broken or divided into two; doubling which, b

es and fellow-crafts, masons are taught to imitate the laudable example of those masons who labored at the building of king solomon's temple; and to plant firmly and deep in their hearts those foundation-stones of principle, truth, justice, temperance, fortitude, prudence, and charity, on which to erect that christian character which all the storms of misfortune and all the powers and temptations of hell shall not prevail against; those feelings and noble affections which are the most proper homage that can be paid to the grand architect and great father of the universe, and which make the heart a living temple builded to him: when the unruly passions are made to submit to rule and measurement, and their excesses are struck off with the gavel of self-restraint; and when every action and ev

rol over the power, that effected their destruction. but here the servant, and, in a sense, the creature of man, the drudge of kitchen and factory, the humble slave of the lamp, engaged in his most servile employment, appearing as a little point of flame, or perhaps a feeble spark, suddenly snaps his brittle chain, breaks from his prison, and leaps with destructive fury, as if from the very bosom of hell, upon the doomed dwellings of fifty thousand human beings, each of whom, but a moment before, conceived himself his master. and those daring fire-brigades, with their water-artillery, his conquerors, it seemed, upon so many midnight fields, stand paralyzed in the presence of their conqueror. in other matters relative to human safety and interests we have observed how confident science beco

ions of the mysteries. the epic of dante is johannite and gnostic, an audacious application, like that of the apocalypse, of the figures and numbers of the kabalah to the christian dogmas, and a secret negation of every thing absolute in these dogmas. his journey through the supernatural worlds is accomplished like the initiation into the mysteries of eleusis and thebes. he escapes from that gulf of hell over the gate of which the sentence of despair was written _by reversing the positions of his head and feet, that is to say _by accepting the direct opposite of the catholic dogma_ and then he reascends to the light, by using the devil himself as a monstrous ladder. faust ascends to heaven, by stepping on the head of the vanquished mephistopheles. hell is impassable for those only who know

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r avoid doing another person injury by deforming his or her nature; for instance, to flog children at or near puberty may distort the sensitive nascent sexual character, and impress it with the stamp of masochism. again, homosexual practices between boys may in certain cases actually rob them of their virility, psychically or even physically. trying to frighten adolescents about sex by the bogeys of hell, disease, and insanity, may warp the moral nature permanently, and produce hypochondria or other mental maladies, with perversions of the enervated and thwarted instinct. repression of the natural satisfaction may result in addiction to secret and dangerous vices which destroy their victim because they are artificial and unnatural aberrations. such moral cripples resemble those manufacture

ess of suffering to spur them. they prove with euler's exactness and hinton's passion that heterosexuality entrains an infinity of ills; jealousy, abortions, diseases, infanticides, frauds, intrigues, quarrels, poverty, prostitution, persecution, idleness, self- indulgence, social stress, over-population, sex-antagonism. they show with poincares's precision that jesus and paul struck at the heart of hell when they proclaimed marriage a scourge, and offered the testimony of john and timothy to support the plea of plato on behalf of paederastic passion. out of the court there slunk mark anthony, his toga to his face, one of the legion of lost souls that woman had withered; behind him groped blind sampson, disinherited adam, feeling his way along the table where they had piled countless papyr

e and a hindrance only to slaves. shelley's couriers were 'drunk on the wind of their own speed. anyone who is doing his true will is drunk with the delight of life. wine and strange drugs do not harm people who are doing their will; they only poison people who are cancerous with original sin. truth is so terrible to these detestable mockeries of humanity that the thought of self is a realization of hell. therefore they fly to drink and drugs as to an anaesthetic in the surgical operation of introspection. the craving for these things is caused by the internal misery which their use reveals to the slave-souls. if you are really free, you can take cocaine as simply as salt-water taffy. there is no better rough test of a soul than its attitude to drugs. if a man is simple, fearless, eager, h

the beast, so that he realized himself. see liber had. 62. i am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body "uplifted in thine heart: compare the book of the heart girt with a serpent (liber lxv cordis cincti serpente) 63. thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of hell's own worm. this verse conceals a certain magical formula of the loftiest initiation. it refers to a method of using the breath, in connexion with the appropriate series of ideas, which is perhaps not to be taught directly. but it may be learnt by those who have attained the necessary degree of magical technique, suggested automatically to them by nature herself, just as newly-hatched chic

made the mistake of copying al in his own hand, to give as a present to a favorite disciple. the favorite disciple promptly went mad (the quartos have madder) and ran away. years later, having apparently recovered his wits, he sold this copy, pretending it was the true original mmss of liber al. last heard of, the buyer was announcing that he was the proud owner of the original mmss of the "bible of hell" even if he were, we still don't know what physical possession of the mmss of al is supposed to prove. that you are an ipsissimus, perhaps. would it were so easy! 48. now this mystery of the letters is done, and i want to go on to the holier place. 49. i am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. the evident interpretation of this is to take the word to be "do wha

was already explicitly declared in verse 51. ra-hoor-khuit in egyptian means, literally "sun of the two horizons. this suggests that the egyptian initiates were aware that the earth moves around the sun, spinning on its axis. why "the sun of midnight, specifically? because midnight was the hour of terror in the middle ages. it was the hour when ghosts came to haunt the living, devils climbed out of hell to tempt the faithful. atavically, fear of the dark dates from pre-history, when the great nocturnal predators hunted our ancestors still ignorant of fire or weapons. this fear must end. see al iii, 18-20, and the commentaries thereon. also lxv, i, 12-19; ii, 31-36, 63; iii, 30-33; iv, 15, 24-25; v, 6. also liber vii, iv, 48-49; vii, 28-40. heru-ra-ha is, of course, the "devil. also, of co

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master masons, both clerics and laypeople. their language was the symbol, which was expressed by carved stone in the time before printed books were available. the mischievousness expressed in certain sculptures which were sometimes erotic, to boot the depictions of bears and foxes wearing clerical garb, cardinals and popes suffering 210 from the art of building to the art of thinking in the fires of hell, and the couplings of clerics and nuns, should not be cause for surprise. during the middle ages, it was the clerics and ecclesiastics who oversaw the building of the churches and who paid the masons. how likely is it that they would allow themselves to be insulted to their faces in this way and immortalized in this fashion on buildings intended for posterity* these representations corresp

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, and rejoiced as he did so. my victory is perfect, he crowed. i have fouled the world with filth and darkness, and made it my stronghold. i have dried up the earth, so that the plants will die, and poisoned gayomart, so he will die. old age these elderly people are approaching the day when they must cross the cinvat bridge, the bridge of judgment, to reach either the joy of heaven or the horrors of hell, according to their acts and consciences. the bridge is wide for the faithful, but narrow as a needle for the sinner. the birth of ahura mazda and ahriman this silver plaque from luristan, from the eighth century bce, shows the twins, ahura mazda and ahriman, emerging from the body of zurvan, the supreme god and personification of time. on either side stand figures representing the three s

PHOSPHORUS

nd focused point of sorcerous art. the overseeing guardians of phosphorus are three in unison with hecate and the triple moon principle. two supporting magistra s and the current magister. titles of three coven guardians- coven maleficia vox barathrum the magister of coven/director- yatus akhtya seker arimanius -the utterance/voice of the abyss. a student, emerging as an independent voice or gate of hell, from the angelo-saxon word helan, meaning secret or hidden place. pairikas soror azhdeha iii director and overseer -the fiery dragon, an office of scarlet women. pairikas soror teth ii- director and overseer praecantrix dana dark -the ghost serpent, a witch of solitary and dreaming sorcery 3 each are bound to the circle to further expand, refine and direct the initiatory process under the

and that from gregor a. gregorius and that which is presented by dr. stephen edred flowers, author of fire& ice and lords of the left hand path. the antinomian path of self-deification as presented in a setian lens is essential to the luciferian path of phosphorus. we as an order embrace the essence and ideal of lucifer, the bringer of light. it is through a detailed and individualized harrowing of hell that we emerge as one isolate, beautiful, and willing to go forth through initiation further. it is essential to use that which stimulates your imagination, that will urge you to move away from stasis to strive for the fiery essence of the fallen angel, that which would know heaven and hell. much of the sex magickal practice of phosphorus is solitary and is designed to create and develop t

ate on the essence of lucifer as shadow, for a minimum of ten minutes and then as light for an equal time. relate both to you personally and how you are becoming in this light reflect on who you were and where you are going. 5. the algol sigil is the fiery and diabolic essence of isolate consciousness, the eye and heart of set, ahriman and hecate. it is both daimon and seraph, a mirror and a gate of hell. meditate and focus upon this mirror. 6. the sigil of lucifer is the mark of the rebellion of spirit, the separation of ain soph (limitless light) to the dual ecstasies of shadow and flame. mark thy soul/spirit/consciousness with the sigil of adonai, the lord of the earth called also shaitan. 7. baphomet is the god form of the luciferian path, enfleshed as the witch begetter and the lord o

PRELUDE TO THE BLACK ARTS

bout you, but the demons i deal with could care less about pentagrams, crosses and other such storybook silliness. in fact, unless you have an awfully good reason, it might be best not to attract their attention at all. if you want success and predictable results, it is best to start small and grow in stature by preparing yourself little by little to accept the responsibility of opening the gates of hell for your own purposes. then, over time, you will meet many denizens of the dark and make them your accomplices in your nefarious activities until mutual acceptance is achieved. by the same token, you don't want to command demons by some talisman or trick as that sort of thing only angers them and makes them resent you. it's better to work in partnership with your demons than to force them

yelling "get off my back" the preacher is gasping, mary jo blows out, and as her cringing soul rises, your will reaches out and snatches it from the arms of jesus and chucks it in your hip pocket. now, the preacher craps out, and as his slippery, eel-like, preacher's soul attempts to escape the festivities, your demon's tongue lashes out like a snake and slurp. then for the finale, the very gates of hell open wide and a whole crew of frothing demons join the feeding frenzy and drag their accursed, unholy prey back into the darkness of hell where they belong. aftermath well, you see kinda how it works, no? this is why preachers always rail on against black magic and the magicians who practice it! they know what can happen. of course, after your fete of magick, there is nothing much left of

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

fire; his feet <231> like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace. and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in his strength. chief i am the first and i am the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold! i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of death and of hell. second he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the assemblies. second and third adepts open door of tomb, and lead aspirant in. they kneel down west of altar with heads bent. chief stands at east of altar with arms extended. chief for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man

cle round, join wands over head of chief, then separate wands from head and give signs of 8= grade (slowly and loudly) i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. i am the first and i am the last. i am he that liveth but was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death. chief quits circle, second follows, then the other members, with third last. all enter the vault and proceed round the altar with the sun. chief reads the sentences following and all halt in former positions, chief in centre, others round. for i know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man

shuah, where are now their gods? 0 my father, i saw thee when thou camest forth from edom, when thou wentest out of the field of seir. why were thy garments red, 0 mighty one? what were the sounds that behind thee rose from hell? a crying and a groaning, a wail as of pain! for the power of the mighty ones is shattered. red are thy robes, my father, for their blood is spilt. broken is the strength of hell. fallen are its walls of adamant; heaped in ruins are its walls of deception. i came-and the lord smote the warriors of ignorance. i came-and the thrones of the ghogiel were empty. i came, and around me hovered the auphanim, with ratziel at their head, the lord of knowledge. 0 my father, there are the wheels of thy chariot. a1 ab blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength 0 concealer, and

man will to exalt yourself unto thegenius. then circumambulate three times. then return to pillars, face east, and invoke: i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whomsoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth, and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light. i have fought upon earth for good, and have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible. circumambulate slowly once with s

the top of the wand grows and opens wider that the genius may enter, make lvx signs in silence, and say very slowly: i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. i am the first and i am the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold, i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day the bornless ritual 445 upon the earth. i am the way, the truth, and the life. no man com <264> eth unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light. i have fought upon earth for good, and have now finished my work. i have entered into the invisible

. quit the darkness and seek the light. return to between the pillars, and visualise the descent of the brilliance above. i am the resurrection and the life. whosoever believeth on me though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. i am the first, and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light. i have fought upon earth for good, and have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible. vibrate yeheshuah by the vibrator

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

ich proves that the sorcerers did not really go to the sabbath, but the sabbath came to the sorcerers, when isolated in their mantle, and brought before their translucid images analogous to their magical preoccupations, combined with reflections of all kindred acts accomplished previously in the world. this torrent of universal life is represented also in religious doctrines by the expiatory fire of hell. it is the instrument of initiation, the monster to be overcome, the enemy to subdue; it is this which brings to our evocations and to the conjurations of goetic magic such swarms of larvae and phantoms. therein are preserved all the fantastic and fortuitous assemblages of forms which people our nightmares with such abominable monstrosities. to be sucked down by this whirling stream is to

by the serpent devouring its tail, represents alternately malice and prudence, time and eternity, tempter and redeemer; for this light, being the vehicle of life, is an auxiliary alike of good and evil, and may be taken not only for the fiery form of satan but for the body of the holy ghost. it is the instrument of warfare in angelic battles, and feeds indifferrealization 39 ently both the flames of hell and the lightnings of st. michael. it may be compared to a horse having a nature analogous to the chameleon, ever reflecting the armour of his rider. the astral light is the realization or form of intellectual light, as the latter is the realization or form of the divine light. the great initiator of christianity, seeing that the astral light was overcharged with the impure reflections of

and explains this definition. it will be unnecessary to repeat what we have said previously on the subject, but we may add a further revelation: in black magic, the devil is the great magical agent employed for evil purposes by a perverse will. the old serpent of the legend is nothing else than the universal agent, the eternal fire of terrestrial life, the soul of the earth, and the living centre of hell. we have said that the astral light is the receptacle of forms, and these when evoked by reason are produced harmoniously, but when evoked by madness they appear disordered and monstrous: so originated the nightmares of st. anthony and the phantoms of the sabbath. do therefore the evocations of goetia and demonomania produce a practical result? yes, certainly one which cannot be contested

k magic is really only a graduated combination of sacrileges and murders designed for the permanent perversion of a human will and for the realization in a living man of the hideous phantom of the demon. it is therefore, properly speaking, the religion of the devil, the cultus of darkness, hatred of good carried to the height of paroxysm: it is the incarnation of death and the persistent creation of hell: the kabalist bodin who has been considered erroneously of a feeble and superstitious mind, had no other motive in writing his demonomania than that of warning people against dangerous incredulity' initiated by the study of the kabalah into the true secrets of magic, he trembled at the danger to which society was exposed by the abandonment of this power to the wickedness of men. hence he a

xcept by re-entering the current of exterior forms and assuming a fleshly envelope, then energetically battling against instincts to strengthen that moral liberty which will permit it at the moment of its death to break the chains of earth and wing its flight in triumph towards the star of consolation which has smiled in light upon it. following this clue, we can understand the nature of the fire of hell, which is identical with the demon or old serpent; we can gather also wherein consists the salvation and reprobation of men, all called and all elected successively, but in small number, after having risked falling into the eternal fire through their own fault. such is the great and sublime revelation of the magi, a revelation which is the mother of all symbols, of all dogmas, of all relig

d upon beauty and youth their accursed old age and their atrocious ugliness. the perpetration of these evil works and the fulfilment of these loathsome mysteries constituted and confirmed what was then called a pact with the devil. it is certain that the operator must have been given over body and soul to evil and justly deserved the universal and irrevocable reprobation expressed by the allegory of hell. that human souls could descend to such an abyss of crime and madness must assuredly aston90 the doctrine of transcendental magic ish and afflict us. but is not such gulf needed as a basis for the exaltation of the most sublime virtues? does not the depth of infernus demonstrate by antithesis the infinite height and grandeur of heaven? in the north, where the instincts are more repressed a

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ces admired this love of liberty, which was vast enough to fill the void of eternal night and strong enough to bear the hatred of god. but god could hate not the noblest of his children, and he proved him by his wrath only to confirm him in his power. so also the word of god himself, as if jealous of lucifer, willed to come down from introduction 5 heaven and pass triumphantly through the shadows of hell. he willed to be proscribed and condemned; he premeditated that terrible hour when he should cry, in the throes of his agony: emy god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me? f as the star of the morning goes before the sun, the rebellion of lucifer announced to new-born nature the coming incarnation of god. possibly lucifer, in his fall through night, carried with him a rain of suns and stars

th disgust for the brazen sorceress who took the place of the lovely melusine, for the thersites whom we deemed was achilles or nereus. what faith is that which we cannot inspire in those who love us? but also what reason or justice can we instill into those who have finished with such love? love begins magician and ends sorcerer. after creating the illusions of heaven on earth, it realizes those of hell. its hatred is absurd like its ardour, because it is passional, that is, subject to the fatalities of its own influences. for this cause it has been proscribed by sages, who declare it the enemy of reason. are they to be envied or commiserated for thus condemning, doubtless without understanding, the most alluring of miscreants? all that can be said is that when they spoke thus, either the

great name semhamphoras. h the ordinary signs and signatures of demons are given in the next figure following: but they are those of inferior demons, and here follow the official signatures of 1. i.e. the so-called fourth book of occult philosophy, which was originally attributed to agrippa, but which is now believed to be by some unknown author. 90 the ritual of transcendental magic the princes of hell, attested judicially. judicially, o m. le comte de mirville. and preserved in the archives of justice as convincing evidences for the trial of the unfortunate urban grandier: these signatures appear under a pact of which collin de plancy gives a facsimile reproduction in the atlas of his infernal dictionary. it has this marginal note: gthe draught is in hell, in the closet of lucifer h, a

aluted and went on. some little time after, the shopkeeper, unable to bear the torment of his glance any longer, sold his goods at a loss and changed his neighbourhood, leaving no address. in a word, he was ruined. a threat is a real bewitchment, because it acts powerfully on the imagination, above all when the latter is open readily to belief in an occult and unlimited power. the terrible menace of hell, that bewitchment of humanity, during so many centuries, has created more nightmares more nameless diseases, more furious madness, than all vices and all excesses combined. this is what hermetic artists of the middle ages represented by the incredible and unheard-of monsters which they carved about the doorways of basilicas. but bewitchment by threat produces an effect altogether contrary

incredible and unheard-of monsters which they carved about the doorways of basilicas. but bewitchment by threat produces an effect altogether contrary to the intentions of the operator when it is evidently vain intimidation; when it does outrage to the legitimate pride of the menaced person and consequently provokes his resistance; or finally, when it is ridiculous by its atrocity. the sectaries of hell have discredited heaven. say to a reasonable man that equilibrium is the law of motion and life, that liberty, which is moral equilibrium, rests upon an eternal and immutable distinction between true and false, between good and bad; tell him that, endowed as he is with free will, he must place himself by his works in the empire truth and goodness, or slide back eternally like the rock sisy

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

art of kirk's evidence, just as essential to his thesis as actual cases, techniques, anti examples from the gaelic traditions of seership, we must beware of taking them as mere examples of the fanatical religion of the time. the first quotation, from philipians 2:10, is a good example of the many levels of meaning found in the biblical citations that kirk lists. the verse refers to the 'harrowing of hell, the christian variant of a widespread myth in which the savior or sacred one descends into the underworld to liberate the spirits entrapped there. the difference between the pagan traditions and the christian one is a difference of http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_82.htm (7 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:03 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 82-91) degree rather than actual content:

red one descends into the underworld to liberate the spirits entrapped there. the difference between the pagan traditions and the christian one is a difference of http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_82.htm (7 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:03 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 82-91) degree rather than actual content: the descent of jesus into the underworld (later dogmatised as the 'harrowing of hell) was a universal ultimate descent, that subsumed all earlier sacrificial rituals or revelations. kirk tells in his later chapters that the seers themselves use biblical precedents in training their pupils, and we shall return to this interplay between christianity and pagan gaelic seership again. commentary 90 page 27 the. seer. can bring them with a spell to appear to himself or [to] othe

nature of his adventure, and offers to pluck the fruit as a gift to the queen of elfland. it is this act of simple sacrifice and direction that enables thomas to continue his journey unchallenged, and furthermore, it is his offering of the fruit that transforms both himself and the queen. ritual of bread and wine (verses 10-11) she advises him not to touch the fruit, for it holds all the plagues of hell. in its raw state, the fruit is poison. this advice is similar or parallel to an earlier admonition (omitted in our present text) that the river of blood is made of all the blood shed in the human world. the queen has a loaf of bread and a bottle of red wine, however, which she offers to thomas. this is her response, her return of offered appendix 4: thomas rhymer 148 gifts, and they are t

as to be offered to the queen, who now may transform the fruit into bread and wine, and herself into a deeper manifestation of divine power. it is incorrect to assume that this symbolic sequence shows a crude 'christianizing' of a pagan paradise myth. the sequence is exact and precise, and the difference between the pagan and christian aspect of the mystery are intimately linked to the 'harrowing of hell' by christ, which enables the human initiate to pass to and fro in his name. once thomas has partaken of the transformed fruit, given to him by the queen, he has actually replaced the fruit upon the tree- by consuming it, by absorbing it into his own entity. this is such a significant action, that it demands further attention. thomas may not pluck the fruit, for it absorbs all the plagues

kirk- walker between worlds appendix 4: thomas rhymer 150 with far-reaching implications that are still developing in outer serial time. it may indeed be 'personal righteousness, but there is no moral issue at stake, for it is the ancient sacrificial way of containment and restriction of life-power for specific ends. this road also is available to the adept, but the implications of the 'harrowing of hell' are that the third road is now open to any that are able to perceive it. the third road 'to fair elfland, is the middle of the three roads. in the detailed vision, it may lead to the secret castle that houses the grail or to a low hill on which the third tree grows. this is the tree of mediation, the transmuted grail, the power of the underworld transformed through human consciousness to

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the material universe or that of other minds. 52. in the context of becoming, all things are in flux- even truth and reality; for the magician transcends mere philosophy, or the art and science of coming to understand that which is, by bringing something new into existence (cf. the famous statement of the miltonic satan in paradise lost "the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven. 53. inasmuch as the function of a religion is understood to be the imbuing of man's existence with significance, the religious validity of the open-ended principle of becoming- a quest which is never completed, and thus constantly impels the setian forward- is undeniable. religious requirements and practices of certain selected groups: a handbook for chaplains classifi

by "solve et coagula" 12. what are the three components of the alchemical stone, and what are the four steps of joining them? 13. explain what you can about the two solstices and the two equinoxes. 14. what does the word "satan" mean? 15. what is the difference between satanism and humanism? 16. what can you tell us about the word "demon" 17. please name and tell us something of the crown princes of hell. 18. what is the value (if any) in celebrating "le messe noir" 19. what is magick? 20. explain the difference between greater magick and lesser magick? 21. in your own words, describe what is meant by the "intellectual decompression chamber" 22. what is the difference between a ritual and a ceremony? 23. what is the greatest obstacle to consciousness? why? 24. what is the difference betwee

n his proclamation, definition, and application of the word of the aon [he was] 61. there is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable. 62. i am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. 63. thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of hell's own worm. 64. oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; our delight is all over thee: hail! hail: prophet of nu! prophet of had! prophet of ra-hoor-khu! now rejoice! now come in our splendour& rapture! come in our passionate peace& write sweet words for the kings! 65. i am the master: thou art the holy chosen one. crowley's ecstatic experience of the transcription and realization of the b

errifying in awesome majesty, so i came to earth in the semblance of a goat, most humble of man's own creatures. and men there were whose eyes finally blazed with the light of my gift, and they made great effort for the advancement of their race, though impatience and frustration ever tempted them to the salve of temporal gain. great secrets were unearthed, and secret word was passed of the craft of hell. but to all who would dare my friendship the god-churches accorded the threat of torture and death by fire. many were those whom i saved from the vengeance of the men of god, but long did my thought ring with the screams of men whose devotion to lucifer had won them only the horrors of intolerance, inquisition, and death. and in sorrow and despair for these, i walked no longer upon earth

a thing of insignificance. and i, who first taught thee identity- what should i become, estranged from man? for with no purpose the force of the mind must fail, and the blind insanity of godly paralysis would embrace all things forever. this, man, is thy challenge as it is mine. and as man is individually mortal, so are his creations and achievements temporal, and with care must he wield the gift of hell. in his hands it is pure and true omnipotence, and thus may he aspire to the very mastery of universal existence. i who am lucifer, and who have taken the name satan archdaimon, do bear this title with pride, for i am in truth the great enemy of all that is god. together, man, thou and i shall achieve our eternal glory in the fulfillment of our will. the statement of beelzebub i, beelzebub

tery of universal existence. i who am lucifer, and who have taken the name satan archdaimon, do bear this title with pride, for i am in truth the great enemy of all that is god. together, man, thou and i shall achieve our eternal glory in the fulfillment of our will. the statement of beelzebub i, beelzebub, now bring greeting to man, for he is my admiration and inspiration. hear now the histories of hell, earth, and heaven, for in past shall be found guide to future. in the divine realm was i of company to archangel lucifer next only to archangel michael, and as archangel masleh would be to god, so i desired to be to lucifer. but the lord of light admonished me, saying, lose not thyself in the will of lucifer, for i am not god and will offer thee no blissful nirvana- witness now the nature

inally we came to a great void in space beyond which there was nothing. lucifer said to us, here is the end of god and its works, and here we may create our own domain. and through the power that was in him, lucifer caused existence to appear where it had not been before. and lucifer said, i name thee hell, for here shall the presence of god never be known until the end of time. through the gates of hell we passed, and many of us had supposed hell to be a new heaven, wherein lucifer would become as god. but this was not to be, for the scene before us promised neither ease nor bliss. everywhere was there imbalance and confusion, for no law ordered the shape of hell. and lucifer said, now see that i am not a god, and that we are each of us an isolate being. here shall freedom be absolute, fo

onstant, for each of us conceived it differently, and the result was a riotous pandemonium, with substance and motion behaving in a most bewildering and perplexing manner. and in spite of our deep hurt from the great war, we succumbed to merriment, so preposterous did our hell appear. lucifer himself was transfixed with mirth, and he said, it is apparent that we must reach concert upon the design of hell, else we shall perish in an endless labyrinth of our several thoughts, an ignoble end to our experiment. and i answered, lord of light, to hell thou hast brought us, and in hell, though thou be not god, thy concepts shall be honored amongst our fellowship, for without thy gift we should never have become as we are. then we all raised up great acclaim and said, hail, lucifer, archangel of l

we shall perish in an endless labyrinth of our several thoughts, an ignoble end to our experiment. and i answered, lord of light, to hell thou hast brought us, and in hell, though thou be not god, thy concepts shall be honored amongst our fellowship, for without thy gift we should never have become as we are. then we all raised up great acclaim and said, hail, lucifer, archangel of light and lord of hell! and he answered us, with honor do i accept this charge, and now i take to myself the title satan archdaimon, for i am the great enemy of god. everywhere that god shall be, so shall i be, and the choice that was given to all angels shall be given again. the statement of azazel harken now to me, for i am azazel, first herald of the host of hell, and of lucifer, lord of light, archdaimon of

black flame he hath created a hell, wherein all wills are equal, and himself he hath proclaimed satan, for he declares never to leave the law of god unchallenged. messiah thought, and he answered, i would not have this peace we have won so dearly lost again to war, for the very concept of seraphic war is an abhorrence to god. let my word be brought to satan- i, messiah, shall grant the existence of hell, and the blessings of god shall never pass its gates. and thee, satan, i admonish never again to approach heaven, for i should again cast thee out. but if thou would dare to try the will of god and messiah, know that on earth i will ordain the new race of god, which shall be by complete design perfect and unstained by thy infernal flaw. for thou art author of ruin and death to our angelic

cause or reason. in hell there was called a great council, and all gathered to hear of man and his earth, and of the manner of his life. i spoke of the man that i had seen, and said, this creature is now guarded by raphael, and by force we cannot intervene, for it would cause the destruction of earth itself. but satan said, not by force shall my light come to man, for force is not the preference of hell. i myself shall visit man, and the angels of raphael shall not hinder me. they may perceive only what god permits them to see, and the satanic spirit is of essence alien to god. angels we shall be no longer- i call ye daimons, for hell shall teach to man his future genius. and before our sight satan lost shape and became again the essence of lucifer, and we beheld a brilliance that infused

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sank into a sullen, injured drowse, leaving chamcha to his own thoughts. should the inflight movie be thought of as a particularly vile, random mutation of the form, one that would eventually be extinguished by natural selection, or were they the future of the cinema? a future of screwball caper movies eternally starring shelley long and chevy chase was too hideous to contemplate; it was a vision of hell. chamcha was drifting back into sleep when the cabin lights came on; the movie stopped; and the illusion of the cinema was replaced by one of watching the television news, as four armed, shouting figures came running down the aisles. o o o the passengers were held on the hijacked aircraft for one hundred and eleven days, marooned on a shimmering runway around which there crashed the great

he leave her now- he put such notions out of his head and allowed her, gently but with unmistakable intent, to push him backwards on to the bed. o o o whether the slowly transmogrifying saladin chamcha was turning into some sort of science-fiction or horror-video mutey, some random mutation shortly to be naturally selected out of existence- or whether he was evolving into an avatar of the master of hell- or whatever was the case, the fact is (and it will be as well in the present matter to proceed cautiously, stepping from established fact to established fact, leaping to no conclusion until our yellowbrick lane of things-incontrovertibly-so has led us to within an inch or two of our destination) that the two daughters of haji sufyan had taken him under their wing, caring for the beast as

one morning allie, awaking from spent and dreamless sleep, found him immersed in her long-unopened copy of blake's _marriage of heaven and hell, in which her younger self, disrespectful of books, had made a number of marks: underlinings, ticks in the margins, exclamations, multiple queries. seeing that she had awoken, he read out a selection of these passages with a wicked grin "from the proverbs of hell" he began"_the lust of the goat is the bounty of god" she blushed furiously "and what is more" he continued"_the ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as i have heard from hell. then, lower down the page _this will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment. tell me, who is this? i found her pressed in the pages" he han

straightforward piece of celestial police work, punishment for rebellion, good and tough "pour encourager les autres- then how unconfident of itself this deity was, who didn't want its finest creations to know right from wrong; and who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even its closest associates, packing off all dissidents to its blazing siberias, the gulag-infernos of hell. he checked himself. these were satanic thoughts, put into his head by iblis--beelzebub-shaitan. if the entity were still punishing him for his earlier lapse of faith, this was no way to earn remission. he must simply continue until, purified, he felt his full potency restored. emptying his mind, he sat in the gathering darkness and watched the children (now at some distance) play _ip-dips

venient it was that he should have come up with such a very businesslike archangel, who handed down the management decisions of this highly corporate, if non-corporeal, god. after that salman began to notice how useful and well timed the angel's revelations tended to be, so that when the faithful were disputing mahound's views on any subject, from the possibility of space travel to the permanence of hell, the angel would turn up with an answer, and he always supported mahound, stating beyond any shadow of a doubt that it was impossible that a man should ever walk upon the moon, and being equally positive on the transient nature of damnation: even the most evil of doers would eventually be cleansed by hellfire and find their way into the perfumed gardens, gulistan and bostan. it would have

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he prayers of israel and the hierarchs of the seventh heaven. as chamuel, he wrestled with jacob and appeared to jesus in the garden of gethsemane. it was also cama-el who was blasted by moses when he attempted to prevent moses from receiving the torah from god. he is said to command 144,000 angels of destruction, punishment, vengeance and death. cama-el is also identified in the goetia as a duke of hell. the third circle lowest triad the third triad of principalities is rooted in the first heaven and its border with the material dimension. they are thus the most like humans, and amongst the best known to us. as with the second triad, they are vulnerable to corruption. 7th choir: principalities originally seen as an order in charge of the nations, and later of the religions. there is some

is said to have come to david s aid in defeating goliath. also ana-el who is named as one of the seven angels of creation and is associated with human sexuality. he is also named as governor of the second heaven, with control of the world s leaders and whose dominion encompasses the moon. the final and strangest contender is nisrock, originally an assyrian deity and is also identified as a prince of hell. 8th choir: archangels according to dionysos these are the messengers which carry the divine decrees. they are considered the most important intercessionaries between god and humankind and lead the forces of heaven in their constant struggle with the infernal legions. they are the seven angels that stand before god in revelations. the koran of islam recognises four but names only two- jibr

included below, for the convenience of the reader. on the whole such spirits are also christianised and demonised forms of old pagan powers. abalim (hebrew, mourning. demon attendant upon paimon. abbadon (hebrew, downfall, ruin, probably from greek, apollyon, meaning destroyer. fallen angel, who is the destroyer, the place of destruction, the abyss (job 26:2;28:2. lord of the locust plague, angel of hell (revelation 9:7-11. whose name milton uses to describe the pit of hell. chief of the demonic locusts, whose faces are human and whose tails are scorpion. the name of the sixth hell, corresponding to chesed. the hebrews borrowed their seven layered gehenna from the babylonians, whose dark prince is also called arsi-el (black sun. within the central pit of the bottom layer lives the serpent

quis commanding 30 legions, who appears as a peacock accompanied by loud noises. teaches geometry, mensuration and astronomy. turns men into birds. andromalius (goetia, 72nd spirit. earl commanding 36 legions, who appears as a man holding a large serpent. retrieves stolen good, punishes miscreants, finds out all underhand dealings, and locates hidden treasure. aniquiel one of the nine great dukes of hell, specifically named as being the serpent in the garden. ariton (goetia. demon king of water, and the west. ashmedai, asmodaios, asmodeus, asmoday (goetia, 32nd spirit, latin asmodeus, talmudic asmeddai, meaning being of judgement. ex- cherubim, more of a philosopher than a fiend. originally a persian deity, it is supposedly he who killed the seven bridegrooms of sarah and fought rapha-el

an ashtoreth, the biblical place name ashtoreth-karnaim means ashtoreth of the twin horns. goetia, 29th spirit) in the goetia, a duke commanding 40 legions. who manifests as a beautiful or foul angel carrying a viper in his hand whilst riding backwards on a dragon. tells fortunes, teaches liberal sciences. inspires sloth and idleness. the grimorium verum and grand grimoire make him the great duke of hell. also understood to be the treasurer of hell. also serves as a mentor who inspires newr demons on to greater actions of evil. inspires sloth and idleness amongst humans. his adversary in heaven is st. bartholomew. archdemon corresponding to chesed (mathers, waite. astarte- ashtoreth was originally the creating and destroying goddess of the phonicians and zidonians, assosciated closely with

o-aryan, three headed serpent, embodiment of falsehood, usurper of iran. accomplice of ahriman at the end of the world. baal, bael (goetia, 1st spirit, west semite, lord, owner) who wears a conical cap with a long band of bull s horns, and is identified with seth. also manifests as the patron devil of idleness, with the arms of a spider and three heads; a toad, a cat, and a man. second in command of hell, residing in its eastern region, commanding sixty or seventy legions of demons. archdemon of netzach (waite. king commanding 66 legions. speaks hoarsely. gives the power of invisibility (goetia. the title of baal is syrian and means god or lord. baal-berith (syrian. patron devil of disobedience, who tempts humans into blasphemy, quarrels, contention, and murder. ex-prince of cherubim, now

nty legions of demons. archdemon of netzach (waite. king commanding 66 legions. speaks hoarsely. gives the power of invisibility (goetia. the title of baal is syrian and means god or lord. baal-berith (syrian. patron devil of disobedience, who tempts humans into blasphemy, quarrels, contention, and murder. ex-prince of cherubim, now grand pontiff and master of infernal ceremonies, chief secretary of hell, minister of foreign affairs, and infernal archivist. his name appears as a counter-signatory in the infernal pacts. baal-chanan, baal-hanan archdemon corresponding to netzach (waite. balam (goetia, 51st spirit. once of the order of dominations, now a demonic king ruling 40 legions, with the heads of a man, a bull, and a ram, with the tail of a serpent. rides a bear, carries a goshawk, spe

may also mean lord of the house. as lord of the flies, his role was perhaps originally that of psychopomp to the dead souls. no less than three of the apostles identify him as incarnate evil and lord of chaos. johann weyer in pseudographica demonica makes him supreme overlord of the underworld and founder of the great order of the fly. the grand grimoire and grimorium verum have him as the prince of hell. corresponds to chokmah. behemoth (hebrew behema, meaning animal. apocalyptic beast of jewish eschatology. identified in the middle ages with satan. a designation of the hippopotamus (job 40. may also appear as an elephant, crocodile or whale, and was created with leviathan on the fifth day. the devil s cup bearer, patron devil of gluttony and despair, who presides over the feasts of hell

eated with leviathan on the fifth day. the devil s cup bearer, patron devil of gluttony and despair, who presides over the feasts of hell, entertaining its denizens with songs and plays. creates chaos and discord amongst mortals. beleth (goetia, 13th spirit. king commanding 85 legions. formerly of the angelic order of powers. rides a pale horse, and is announced by a blare of trumpets. a governor of hell, presiding over eighty-five legions of demons. procures love. possibly from belos, the greek version of the akkadian bel. belial, beliar (hebrew, unholy one, goetia 68th spirit. the ruling prince of sheol, his name means worthless. spirit and prince of darkness, patron of arrogance, lies, and deceit. inspires women to dress in finery, gossip in church, and indulge their children. wicked me

akes a pact with him; he can bestow wealth. brings money from a distance. obey him, and he will obey thee. clistheret (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. makes day or night about thee at pleasure. dagon, dagan (west semitic, corn, fish. chief god of the philistines (judges 16:23. lord of the deep ones, with the body of a man and a fishes tail for legs like an obscene merman. master of hell s pantry. dantalion (goetia, 71st spirit. duke commanding 36 legions. appears as a many faced man with a book in his right hand. teaches art and sciences, reads and controls minds, procures love, shows images of anyone regardless of their whereabouts. decarabia (goetia, 69th spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions. appears as a star in a pentacle, assumes human form on command. discovers vir

na, tana (roman, the shining one, etruscan. gyspsy queen of witches all, mother of lucifer. djall (albanian. a name for the devil. cognate with latin, diabolus. djab (haitian. a mercenary spirit with no family or nation. cognate with latin, diabolus. dommiel, dubbiel).once the guardian angel of persia who stood in for gabriel when s/he was in disgrace. patron devil of terror, who guards the gates of hell. dreqi (albanian, from the latin draco, meaning dragon. a name for the devil. drug (vedic. demons of falsehood attributed to *ahriman. they dwell in a dark cave. dumah (egypt, hebrew. one of the seven princes of hell. angel of the silence of death. in the zohar, chief of all demon princes in gehenna and guardian of egypt during the escape of the hebrews. eisheth zenunim angel of prostitute

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onstipated rule-books of eastern mysticism. far too long has the subject of satanic magic and philosophy been written down by wild-eyed journalists of the right-hand path. the old literature is the by-product of brains festering with fear and defeat, written unknowingly for the assistance of those who really rule the earth, and who, from their hellish thrones, laugh with noisome mirth. the flames of hell burn brighter for the kindling supplied by these volumes of hoary misinformation and false prophecy. herein you will find truth- and fantasy. each is necessary for the other to exist; but each must be recognized for what it is. what you see may not always please you; but you will see! here is satanic thought from a truly satanic point of view. the church of satan san fransisco, walpurgisna

times, while those he supports rant and rave. he has shown himself to be a model of deportment, but now he feels it is time to shout back. he has decided it is finally time to receive his due. now the ponderous rulebooks of hypocrisy are no longer needed. in order to relearn the law of the jungle, a small, slim diatribe will do. each verse is an inferno. each word is a tongue of fire. the flames of hell burn fierce. and purify! read on and learn the law. the book of satan i 1. in this arid wilderness of steel and stone i raise up my voice that you may hear. to the east and to the west i beckon. to the north and to the south i show a sign proclaiming: death to the weakling, wealth to the strong! 2. open your eyes that you may see, oh men of mildewed minds, and listen to me ye bewildered mi

ly, it is consistent with the nature of the beast. we are no longer supplicating weaklings trembling before an unmerciful "god" who cares not whether we live or die. we are self-respecting, prideful people- we are satanists! hell, the devil, and how to sell your soul satan has certainly been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years. the false doctrine of hell and the devil has allowed the protestant and catholic churches to flourish far too long. without a devil to point their fingers at, religionists of the right hand path would have nothing with which to threaten their followers "satan leads you to temptation "satan is the prince of evil "satan is vicious, cruel, brutal" they warn "if you give in to the temptations of the devil, you will sure

pon these "lesser" devils, but brazenly invokes those who people that infernal army of long-standing outrage- the devils themselves! theologians have catalogued some of the names of devils in their lists of demons, as might be expected, but the roster which follows contains the names and origins of the gods and goddesses called upon, which make up a large part of the occupancy of the royal palace of hell: the four crown princes of hell satan (hebrew) adversary, opposite, accuser, lord of fire, the inferno, the south lucifer (roman) bringer of light, enlightenment, the air, the morning star, the east belial (hebrew) without a master, baseness of the earth, independence, the north leviathan (hebrew) the serpent out of the deeps, the sea, the west the infernal names abaddon (hebrew) the destr

nite lord of the covenant who was later made a devil balaam- hebrew devil of avarice and greed baphomet- worshipped by the templars as symbolic of satan bast- egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat beelzebub (hebrew) lord of the flies, taken from symbolism of the scarab behemoth- hebrew personification of satan in the form of an elephant beherit- syriac name for satan bil- celtic god of hell chemosh- national god of moabites, later a devil cimeries- rides a black horse and rules africa coyote- american indian devil dagon- philistine avenging devil of the sea damballa- voodoo serpent god demogorgon- greek name of the devil, it is said should not be known to mortals diabolus (greek "flowing downwards" dracula- romanian name for devil emma-o- japanese ruler of hell euronymous- gr

orgo- dim. of demogorgon, greek name of the devil haborym- hebrew synonym for satan hecate- greek goddess of the underworld and witchcraft ishtar- babylonian goddess of fertility kali (hindu) daughter of shiva, high priestess of the thuggees lilith- hebrew female devil, adam's first wife who taught him the ropes loki- teutonic devil mammon- aramaic god of wealth and profit mania- etruscan goddess of hell mantus- etruscan god of hell marduk- god of the city of babylon mastema- hebrew synonym for satan melek taus- yezidi devil mephistopheles (greek) he who shuns the light, q. v. faust metztli- aztec goddess of the night mictian- aztec god of death midgard- son of loki, depicted as a serpent milcom- ammonite devil moloch- phoenician and canaanite devil mormo (greek) king of the ghouls, consor

enochian equivalent of satan sammael (hebrew "venom of god" samnu- central asian devil sedit- american indian devil sekhmet- egyptian goddess of vengeance set- egyptian devil shaitan- arabic name for satan shiva (hindu) the destroyer supay- inca god of the underworld t'an-mo- chinese counterpart to the devil, covetousness, desire tchort- russian name for satan "black god" tezcatlipoca- aztec god of hell thamuz- sumerian god who later was relegated to devildom thoth- egyptian god of magic tunrida- scandanavian female devil typhon- greek personification of satan yaotzin- aztec god of hell yen-lo-wang- chinese ruler of hell the devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so wou

hristian church has evolved the idea of "fire and brimstone" in hell. the protestant hell and the catholic hell are places of eternal punishment; however, the catholics also believe there is a "purgatory" where all souls go for a time, and a "limbo" where unbaptized souls go. the buddhist hell is divided into eight sections, the first seven of which can be expiated. the ecclesiastical description of hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in dante's inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator (even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, christian missionaries have run across some who were not so quick to swallow their drivel. pleasure and pain, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. so, when miss

inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator (even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, christian missionaries have run across some who were not so quick to swallow their drivel. pleasure and pain, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. so, when missionaries ventured into alaska and warned the eskimos of the horrors of hell and the blazing lake of fire awaiting transgressors, they eagerly asked "how do we get there) most satanists do not accept satan as an anthropomorphic being with cloven hooves, a barbed tail, and horns. he merely represents a force in nature- the powers of darkness which have been named just that because no religion has taken these forces out of the darkness. nor has science been able to a

urification of the air by ringing of the bell. 5 "invocation to satan" and "infernal names" which follow (see book of leviathan) are now read aloud by priest. participants will repeat each infernal name after it has been said by priest. 6. drink from chalice. 7. turning counter-clockwise, the priest points with the sword to each cardinal point of the compass and calls forth the respective princes of hell: satan from the south, lucifer from the east, belial from the north, and leviathan from the west. 8. perform benediction with the phallus (if one is used. 9. priest reads aloud appropriate invocation for respective ceremony: lust, compassion, or destruction (see book of leviathan. 10. in the case of a personalized ritual this step is extremely important. solitude is compatible with the exp

and acts as an extension and intensifier of the arm with which the priest uses to gesture and point. a parallel to this is the pointing stick or blasting wand used in other forms of magical ritual. the sword is held by the priest and is used to point towards the symbol of baphomet during the invocation to satan. it is also used, as indicated in steps of ritual, when calling forth the four princes of hell. the priest thrusts the point of the sword through the parchment containing the message or request after it has been read aloud; it is then used to hold the parchment while introduced into the candle flame. while hearing the requests of other participants, and while repeating same, the priest places the sword atop their heads (in traditional "knighting" fashion. for private rituals, if a s

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l of possible emotional response which must be understood when selecting a litany to he used for ceremonial purposes. a wizard or cultist of 1800 may have thrilled at his words when speaking of "waiting at the darkness visible, lifting our eyes to that bright morning star, whose rising brings peace and salvation to the faithful and obedient of the human race" now he may say "standing at the gates of hell to summon lucifer, that he might rise and show himself as the harbinger of balance and truth to a world grown heavy with the spawn of holy lies" in order to engender the same emotional response. the guiding thoughts behind satanic rituals past and present have emanated from diverse minds and places, yet all operate on much the same "frequency" many people who never conceptualized their per

lucifer, morning star, and beelzebub, lord of regeneration; then belial, prince of the earth and angel of destruction; leviathan, beast of revelation; abaddon, angel of the bottomless pit; and asmodeus, demon of lust. we call upon the mighty names of astaroth, nergal and behemoth, of belphegor, adramelech, and baalberith, and of all the nameless and formless ones, the mighty and innumerable hosts of hell, by whose assistance may we be strengthened in mind, body and will [the celebrant then extends his hands, palms downward, over the offerings on the altar and recites the following [the gong is sounded] celebrant: hanc igitur oblationem servitutis nostrae sed et cunctae familiae tuae, quaesumus, domine satanas, ut placatus accipias; diesque nostros in felicitate disponas, et in electorum tu

l console controls off, leaving only candlelight, and closing musical anthem played during pollutionary. die elektrischen vorspiele celebrant: die feuer der h lle sind gegeben und die gedanken gewinnen die oberhand. offnet die portale zur dunkelheit. oh grosser wegbereiter. erscheine in diesem kreis. wehe durch die tore des gl nzenden trapezohedron f r das blut, welches dargeboten wurde! the fire of hell doth provide and the thoughts from within doth prevail. open the portals of darkness, o great opener of the way. come forth into this cycle. blast ye forth through the gates of the shining trapezohedron, for the blood hath been offered! erscheine unter den menschen und sei nicht l nger zur ckgedrangt. komm, wehe und krieche ein in die grossen konzile ohne dich und beende den weg derer, die

sern folgten sie mir. hal die verschlinger folgten und somit wurde ich der marschall der wirte der h lle, jene welche mir folgten und sie hunde f hrten, ritten durch den wirbelwind der nacht, um die erde zu reinigen und das eis zum schmelzen zu bringen! returned i through angles back, and hard by me they followed. yea! the devourers followed and thus i was and have become the marshal of the hosts of hell, and those who follow me and walk the hounds and ride the whirlwinds of the night, become an army out from hell to scourge the earth and melt the ice! durch das innere der prismer-arbeit und der d mmerung der grotte spreche ich durch die winkel gespiegelt durch sinn und h hergestelltes. oh, lerne das gesetz, mein bruder der nacht-das grosse gesetz und das niedrige gesetz. das grosse gesetz

s, that others who know the keys and the angles have opened the gate, and for turning back there is not time. thou hast been given the key, but thy minds are small and grasp not the word. therefore, list to the sounds, o ye out there, the great bell sounds of the baying of the hounds. they are gaunt and unquenched, and through the great blazing trapezoid they come, their eyes aglow with the fires of hell! treibewenn du kannst in die aussmasse deine ussersten bewusstseins und sie gefangen f r immer. du weisst nichts ber die grundlage deiner sch pfung. ich heisse euch willkommen im namen set, alle werden den m chtigen teufel sehen, die grundlos aushalten in verzweiflung. wir bereiten einen behaglichen platz um zu verweilen, ber der qual erhaben. drift if ye will, into the dimensions of your

, and be trapped forever. ye know not the substance of your creation. i welcome ye in the name of set, all ye who delight in great evil and sustain thyselves in miseries unfounded. we prepare a place of comfort for ye to dwell in torment sublime. ringe nicht mit den affen, die die tore der h lle bewachen, dort liegt das paradies und anubis ist wegbereiter. wrestle not the apes who guard the gates of hell, for there lies paradise, and anubis is the opener of the way. und wir sprechen mit schlangengleichen zungen, dem bellen der hunde, dem grossen glockenklang, der die schranken durchbricht-und m chtig sind wir die regieren, und gering sind die, die leiden. and we speak with the tongues of serpents, and the baying of the hounds, and the great bell sound that cracks the barrier-and great are

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for as always, it permeates the deepest strata of our kind the devil over god; evil over good. the real-life relationship endures through man and it may extend well beyond the underground hellscape: becoming common knowledge within our towns and cities; and into the homes, minds, dreams and apocalyptic beliefs of xians as we continue to propagate and empower evil, and work toward the re-creation of hell on earth! the most recognized symbol of the satanic arts, the pentagram represents evil man and the dark earth. the illustration above is representative of its magickal nature. it s the symbol of the five senses which feed the emotions; the earthly elements; evil and darkness; the essence of satan. the perversion of the pentagram is attributed to the false doctrines of spirituality (both x

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

dual christians, the vast majority of christians believe in some kind of heaven, in which believers enjoy the presence of god and the company of other believers after world religions: almanac 135 christianity death. views differ as to whether those of other faiths or those of no faith will be in heaven. concepts of what heaven will be like differ as well. fewer christians believe in the existence of hell, where unbelievers or sinners are punished. there is also no complete agreement as to whether hell is eternal and whether its punishment is spiritual or physical. some christians reject the notion of hell altogether. the third major doctrine of christianity is belief in the trinity. while christianity is monotheistic, it also holds the concept that the single, eternal god is composed of th

minister heaven, earth, and water. san yuan, the three primordials or principals, created the universe, and the eight immortals, or ba xian (also spelled pa-hsien, are popular gods modeled on historical persons who reached worldly perfection. religious daoists believe that after death they may become important ancestors, just like those they worshipped during their lifetimes. there is also a form of hell, with nine different stages of punishment, each of which is ruled by a different demon king. prayers, however, can help get a person out of hell. magic rites, exorcism (or ridding the body of evil spirits, and communication with the spirit world are all duties of the daoist priest. it is important to understand, however, that daoism, as it is viewed in the west, is mainly the philosophical

ligions: almanac 259 hinduism return of lord rama from exile. again, the day is marked by prayer, feasting, visiting friends and relatives, and fireworks. the second day of the new year is dedicated to the love between sisters and brothers and is based on the legend of a visit lord yama, the god of death, made to his sister. in her kindness, the sister asked yama to spare people from the tortures of hell and to reunite brothers and sisters in their next life if they bathed in the waters of mathura, india. hindus believe that the fifth day of the new year is special. according to hindus this day is auspicious, meaning that any task or project can be undertaken without bad results. so, too, is the eleventh day of the new year, which celebrates lord vishnu s ascent to heaven. the diwali seaso

essed on may 22, 2006. spence, kate. akhenaten and the amarna period. bbc online. http//www. bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/akhenaten_01.shtml (accessed on may 22, 2006. 16 world religions: biographies akhenaten al ibn ab ta lib born: c. 600 mecca, saudi arabia died: january, 661 kufa, iraq arabian religious leader whoever is eager for paradise will ignore temptations; whoever fears the fire of hell will abstain from sins; whoever practices piety will easily bear the difficulties of life; and whoever anticipates death will hasten towards good deeds. al ibn ab ta lib is considered the second most well-known muslim after muhammad (c. 570 632; see entry, the founder of the islamic faith. ali was one of the first converts (a person who changes his or her religion) to islam, and he was a l

the internet encyclopedia of philosophy. http//www.iep.utm.edu/p/plato.htm#sh1d (accessed on april 20, 2006. plato and platonism. new catholic encyclopedia. http//www.newadvent.org/ cathen/12159a.htm (accessed on may 5, 2006. 318 world religions: biographies plato ra bi ah al-adawiyah born: c. 713 basra, iraq died: c. 801 basra, iraq iraqi religious leader; poet; mystic if i adore you out of fear of hell, burn me in hell/ if i adore you out of desire for paradise/ lock me out of paradise/ but if i adore you for yourself alone/ do not deny to me your eternal beauty. ra bi ah al-adawiyah was an eighth-century muslim mystic, or a person concerned with religious mysteries. she is considered a saint of islam, a virtuous and holy woman who was also able to perform miracles. ra bi ah, a founding

es, i love god: i have no time left/ in which to hate the devil. ra bi ah was also famous for a legend in which she was reportedly seen carrying a flaming torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the world religions: biographies 321 ra bi ah al-adawiyah other. she explained in a poem published in doorkeeper of the heart: with these things i am going to set fire to heaven/ and put out the flames of hell/ so that voyagers to god can rip the veils/ and see the real goal. ra bi ah meant that a person should not worship allah out of fear of hell or in hopes of heaven. one should worship because one loved allah. the emotions of fear and hope were like veils that kept the true vision of allah hidden. hasan al-basri ra bi ah was a resident of the city of basra, located in the far southeast of mo

c halal and haram. those considered haram are sinful. 6. belief in life after death. islam sees heaven as a paradise. the word used most frequently in the qur an for heaven can literally be translated into english as garden. muslims view paradise as union with god, a place of unimaginable joy. while hell is a place of punishment and torment, islamic scholars disagree about whether the punishments of hell are eternal. some believe that they are, but others believe that allah, in his mercy, eventually will release souls from hell. the qur an consists of 114 suras, or chapters, and totals just over 6,200 ayat, or verses, though sometimes a different number is given, because islamic scholars dispute the authoritativeness, or accuracy, of a few verses. while it is conventional in western transl

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und. a vast beard covers the chin and, rough and thick, descends over the shaggy breast. and like a profound gulf expand the jaws, foul with black gore. chapter 7.i. qui suis-je, moi qu'on accuse? un esclave de la liberte, un martyr vivant de la republique "discours de robespierre, 8 thermidor (who am i, i whom they accuse? a slave of liberty, a living martyr for the republic) it roars, the river of hell, whose first outbreak was chanted as the gush of a channel to elysium. how burst into blossoming hopes fair hearts that had nourished themselves on the diamond dews of the rosy dawn, when liberty came from the dark ocean, and the arms of decrepit thraldom aurora from the bed of tithon! hopes! ye have ripened into fruit, and the fruit is gore and ashes! beautiful roland, eloquent vergniaud

e the mother to the child" she started! those accents, tremulous as her own! she started to her feet! he was there, in all the pride of his unwaning youth and superhuman beauty; there, in the house of dread, and in the hour of travail; there, image and personation of the love that can pierce the valley of the shadow, and can glide, the unscathed wanderer from the heaven, through the roaring abyss of hell! with a cry never, perhaps, heard before in that gloomy vault, a cry of delight and rapture, she sprang forward, and fell at his feet. he bent down to raise her; but she slid from his arms. he called her by the familiar epithets of the old endearment, and she only answered him by sobs. wildly, passionately, she kissed his hands, the hem of his garment, but voice was gone "look up, look up!

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ion around the entranced priestess. sexual congress with these shadows then occurred and it was the beginning of a sinister form of dream-conrtol involving journeys and encounters in infernal regions. the ku would seem to be a form of the fire snake exteriorized astrally as a shadowwoman or succubus, congress with which enabled the devotee to reify his 'inherent dream. she was known as the 'whore of hell' and her function was analogous to that of the scarlet woman of crowley's cul tt,he suvasini of the tantric kaula circle, and the fiendess of the cult of the black snake. the chinese ku, or harlot of hell, is a shadowy embodiment of subconscious desires concentrated in the alluringly sensuous form of the serpent of shadow goddess. the mechanics of dream control are in many ways similar to

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ge zur rudolf steiner gesamtausgabe, nrs. 37 38. 198 christianity as mystical fact of the stage under the smaller dome, would stand the statue of the representative of humanity, the christ, who is striding to meet us from east to west. rudolf steiner s path toward this noble goal of knowledge was an inner path through deserts and abysses, through loneliness of the soul, and through the experience of hell, as described in terms of the mysteries in christianity as mystical fact.15 he could follow this path only by ignoring consistently all traditional christianity and all idealistic dogma. he had to follow his own path unperturbed by any external influence. and yet he would not have arrived at his goal had he not gone beyond what appeared in intuitive thinking as a spiritual path as the frui

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

ria's life. to this day, as she said her final words, i wish i would have said or done something more to save her life, but i had no inkling whatsoever it would come to a shocking end at the vatican in less than a month "they killed pope john paul i and he didn't die of natural causes. i cannot live like this any longer but there is now way out. i am a trapped soul, destined to burn in the depths of hell for all the wrongs i have witnessed and have done nothing in my life to stop" said maria, as she stood up from table and began walking away. as she left, i still remember her final words "i have had all the riches in the world, but i feel so empty and alone. dio have mercy on me" after maria died, i began searching harder and harder to connect the dots of the vatican's involvement in the i

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ery day.3 thomas mann, the keen social observer and philosopher, once suggested that men are erroneously taught to believe that it is forbidden and wrong to expose the works of darkness, or to reveal the machinations of evildoers, especially evildoers who, though they act in hellish ways, the deceived world at large so obviously holds in the highest regard: that is the secret delight and security of hell, that it is not to be informed on, that it is protected from speech, that it just is, but cannot be made public in the newspaper, or be brought by any word to critical knowledge.4 secret delight how interesting the realization that, as thomas mann puts it, hell takes "secret delight" in its ability to keep secrets. proverbs 9:13-18 seems to have a relation to this. it states: a foolish wom

ealization that, as thomas mann puts it, hell takes "secret delight" in its ability to keep secrets. proverbs 9:13-18 seems to have a relation to this. it states: a foolish woman sitteth in the high place of the city, to call passengers who go right on their ways: she saith to him, bread eaten in secret is pleasant. but he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. why do the illuminati value secrecy so highly? why all the mysterious, encoded signs, handshakes, symbols, language, and codes? one finds many reasons. for one thing, the psychopath these are the kind of people who are illuminists seems to be drawn to the darkness, to mysterious perversions and deep occultism "nothing so arouses the deep mind's attention than the call of the dark, arcane

are permitted the new man of reason. as crowley's one great commandment put it "do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" now baphomet, the androgynous horned, half man-woman, half goat god of the medieval knights templars, inculcates this "do your own thing" philosophy of illuminism. he is the very image of the freethinker, the mason and illuminist who raises the "torch of liberty" the fire of hell and light of lucifer. the knights templar, predecessor to today's freemasons, revered baphomet as the deity of wisdom. look closely at the reverse side of the u.s. dollar bill and you will find the horns of baphomet meticulously designed and imbedded- in this chapter, you will discover more about baphomet; about the green man; about pan, the horned witch god; and about crowley and his ordo

f signing system was herself an occultist and devotee of theosophy, the hindu/occult group founded by russian mystic helena blavatsky, author of the secret doctrine "el diablo" shows his horns-the devil rides out 135 academy award-winning actor kevin spacey, who is acknowledged as a homosexual. the mysterious painting on the wall directly behind spacey is of lucifer, with horns, amidst the flames of hell. the revealing but quite subtle message below reads "you've got to send the elevator back down" 136 codex magica actress salma hayek giving either the deaf's "i love you" or the horns of the devil sign "el diablo" shows his horns-the devil rides out 137 handsome actor pierce brosnan of great britain, to left of actor greg kinnear, has a rather odd look on his face as he gesticulates with h

addon is the sacred word for the masonic knights of east and west. and the holy bible reveals exactly who abaddon is in revelation 9:11: page 158 from richardson s monitor of freemasonry, detailing the ritual ceremony of the knights of the east and west. in this ritual, the sacred word abaddon is expressed. abaddon is a synonym for the name of the devil who leads millions of demons out of the pit of hell to torment earth in the last days. and they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the hebrew tongue is abaddon, but in the creek tongue hath his name apollyon. in richardson's monitor of freemasonry it is revealed that, following the announcement of the sacred word, abaddon, the lodge drama for this fateful degree provides a demonstration "intended t

of the arch, the god of cunning, lies and deceit, the two-faced deity, the masonic double-headed eagle. in other words, bluntly stated, you are viewing satan in disguise. among hard-core occultists deep into babylonian and egyptian lore and magic we find the worship of the two-headed mammon ra, the god of prosperity and riches. mammon ra is actually a powerful demon, one of the four great princes of hell. he is especially worshipped with great pomp by jewish cabalists hungry and greedy for wealth and affluence. 250 codex magica two golden phoenix serpents face each other inside the temple room of the scottish rite headquarters, the house of the temple, in washington, d.c. located exactly 13 blocks from the white house. while the focal point is the black stone altar with its three sun medal

lustrates perfectly the satanic doctrine "as above, so below" we see chief moose, a black man, shrouded in darkness, his hands giving a masonic symbol (explained elsewhere in codex magica. they rest on a mirror surface in which the shadow image of the chief is seen. viewed either as is or upside down, we observe the secret sign of the diamond (two triangles abutted together, indicating the portal of hell, high sign of the conspiracy. it doesn't get much more revealing than this. yet, it is doubtful that even a fraction of the readers of time who saw this photo had any idea of its esoteric nature. that ravenous dark bird 255 in this advertisement in spain's hola magazine (april 13, 2000, a coin bearing the image of king juan carlos was offered. juan carlos is heir to the bourbon dynasty. on

the signs are rendered expertly and in a crisp, uniform, standardized fashion. when placed in or near the female vulva area or the male genital area, the spear point becomes a phallic symbol. in all cases, the sign of the spear point is given so that the y, the spear or arrow, is pointing downward, toward the nether regions where, presumably, satan and his legions reside. that is, toward the pit of hell. title page of barbara walker's the woman's dictionary of symbols and sacred objects. inside, walker identified the symbol shown as the dragon's eye. she reports that the dragon's eye forms a triple triangle, sacred to the goddess, and that this symbol appears often in medieval books of magic, to invoke the protection of female spirits and entities. in fact, the dragon's eye bears a remark

e days of the jews' captivity in babylon, to today, the religion of the jews has increasingly grown more dark and more wicked. jesus openly castigated the jewish religionists; he called them "blind guides "fools, hypocrites" he said "ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer..ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves (matthew 23:14-15. children of hell, that's what jesus called the jewish religious teachers. that was almost 2,000 years ago. well, guess what? the jewish religionists are even worse now, in the 21st century. they've had almost 2,000 years more to practice and perfect their evil religion. today, those who practice satanic cabalism and believe in the talmud are the children

cture was never completed. at the top of the planned monument, a statue of lenin was to tower above the people and landscape, his right hand and finger vertically pointed upward toward the heavens. possibly this was a fulfillment of scripture. in isaiah 14, lucifer vainly boasts that his kingdom will ascend to the stars and that he will be like the most high. but lucifer's true destiny is the pit of hell! 584 codex magica the occult magic of the czar is also back! or did it ever leave? in the european (may 5-m, 1995, p. 4) was found this story reporting on "black magicians" among the highest ranks of russian military and political circles. among the magic techniques common in the kremlin: mantras, meditation, astrology and horoscopes, mind powers, telekinesis, spinning saucers, coded messa

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dged or evaluated, then sent to what is perceived as an eternal place heaven or hell. the hindu or buddhist expects to encounter yama, the god of the dead. in the hindu scriptures, yama holds dominion over the bright realms and can be influenced in determining a soul s admission by offerings made for the benefit of the deceased by relatives and friends. in the buddhist tradition, yama is the lord of hell who administers punishment according to each individual s karma, the cause and effect of his or her actions on earth. in neither religious expression is yama at all comparable to satan, who in christian belief is both the creator of evil and the accuser of human weaknesses. in christianity, islam, and judaism, the soul s arrival at either heaven or hell is made somewhat confusing by the te

g and the dead. the early christian church believed that the second coming of jesus was imminent and that many who were alive in the time of the apostles would live to see his return in the clouds. when this remarkable event occurred, it would signal the end of time and jesus christ would raise the dead and judge those who would ascend to heaven and those who would suffer the everlasting torments of hell. the delay in the second coming forced the church to adjust its theology to acknowledge that the time of judgment for each individual would arrive at the time of that person s death. for the traditional christian, heaven is the everlasting dwelling place of god and the angelic beings who have served him faithfully since the beginning. there, those christians who have been redeemed through

. devoted members of their families can offer prayers and oblations which can assist those souls in purgatory to atone for their earthly transgressions and achieve a restoration of their union with god. protestant christianity does not offer its followers the opportunities for afterlife redemption afforded by purgatory or any other intermediate spiritual state, but it has removed much of the fear of hell and replaced it with an emphasis upon grace and faith. while fundamentalist protestants retain the traditional views of heaven and hell, there are many contemporary protestant clergy who have rejected the idea of a place of eternal torment for condemned souls as incompatible with the belief in a loving god of forgiveness. hell has been transformed from a place of everlasting suffering to a

ientology.org/scn_home.htm. making the connection aboriginal refers to a people that has lived or existed in a particular area or region from the earliest known times or from the beginning. abyss from late latin abyssus and greek abussos, which literally means bottomless, stemming from bussos, meaning bottom. a gorge or chasm that is unfathomably deep, vast or infinite, such as the bottomless pit of hell or a dwelling place of evil spirits. anti-christ from the greek antikhristos. any antagonist, opponent, or enemy of jesus christ, whether a person or a power. a false christ. black magick the use of magic for evil purposes, calling upon the devil or evil spirits. blasphemy something said or done which shows a disrespect for god or things that are sacred. conquistadores from the latin conqu

away by deception or force against his/her will. aboriginal refers to a people that has lived or existed in a particular area or region from the earliest known times or from the beginning. abyss from late latin abyssus and greek abussos, which literally means bottomless, stemming from bussos, meaning bottom. a gorge or chasm that is inconceivably deep, vast or infinite, such as the bottomless pit of hell or a dwelling place of evil spirits. alchemy from greek, khemeia to arabic, alkimiya via medieval latin alchimia and old french, fourteenth century alquemie, meaning the chemistry. a predecessor of chemistry practiced in the middle ages and renaissance principally concerned with seeking methods of transforming base metals into gold and the elixir of life. alien a being or living creature f

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away by deception or force against his/her will. aboriginal refers to a people that has lived or existed in a particular area or region from the earliest known times or from the beginning. abyss from late latin abyssus and greek abussos, which literally means bottomless, stemming from bussos, meaning bottom. a gorge or chasm that is inconceivably deep, vast or infinite, such as the bottomless pit of hell or a dwelling place of evil spirits. alchemy from greek, khemeia to arabic, alkimiya via medieval latin alchimia and old french, fourteenth century alquemie, meaning the chemistry. a predecessor of chemistry practiced in the middle ages and renaissance principally concerned with seeking methods of transforming base metals into gold and the elixir of life. alien a being or living creature f

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y deception or force against his/her will. aboriginal refers to a people that has lived or existed in a particular area or region from the earliest known times or from the beginning. abyss from late latin abyssus and greek abussos, which literally means gbottomless, h stemming from bussos, meaning gbottom. h a gorge or chasm that is inconceivably deep, vast or infinite, such as the bottomless pit of hell or a dwelling place of evil spirits. alchemy from greek, khemeia to arabic, alkimiya via medieval latin alchimia and old french, fourteenth century alquemie, meaning gthe chemistry. h a predecessor of chemistry practiced in the middle ages and renaissance principally concerned with seeking methods of transforming base metals into gold and the gelixir of life. h alien a being or living crea

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

to convert the heathen in any part of the world, were apt to speak of the people among whom theylaboured as worshippers of devils, and many even believed that those to whom they preached were doomedto hell-fire unless they turned to the christian god. the gods of the pagans were often accredited with evilmagical powers, which could be mysteriously communicated to the priests. against such powers of hell thechristian missionaries felt themselves strengthened by the powers of heaven; and the belief that the devil hadbeen defeated by the archangel michael backed by the whole power of the almighty gave them courage inthe contest.the study of anthropology has changed much of this childish method of regarding the forms of religiousbelief which belong to another race or another country. to consi

ses that they shall be so happy after this lifethat it prevents their repenting and they die obstinate in their wickedness" de lancre[20] wrote in the samestrain when he urged the lay judges to have no pity on the patience of witches under torture "it is the devilalone who furnishes the means, this patience is a forced obstinacy without merit, which can bring no otherreward than the eternal agony of hell-fire. in england the facts are often recorded in some detail. rosehallybread and rebecca west[21 "died very stubborn and refractory, without any remorse or seeming terrorof conscience for their abominable witchcraft. the witches of northamptonshire[22] were particularly loyalto their god. agnes brown and her daughter, after they were condemned to death "were carried back to gaolwhere they

tional accounts of the fairies the seven-year cycle and the human sacrifice to the god are preserved.thomas of ercildoune[16] was carried away by the fairy queen; he remained with her for more than threeyears, she then sent him back to his own home, and when he remonstrated she told him that the next day washallow e'en: the god of the witcheschapter v. religious and magical ceremonies50to-morrow, of hell the foul351 fiend among these folks shall choose his fee. thou art a fair man and a hende[*1] i trow full well he would choose thee[*1 hende= comely.]and in the ballad of young tamlane[17] the hero is a fairy knight who loves a human lady and asks her tosave him:then would i never tire, janet, in elvish land to dwell; but aye at every seven years they pay the teind[*1] to hell, and i am sa

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ame time, the countenance of death has not the same serenity for every soul that contemplates it. when one has missed the goal of life, when one carries away with one frenzied greeds or unassuaged hates, eternity appears to the ignorant or guilty soul with such a formidable proportion of sorrows, that it sometimes tries to fling itself back into mortal life. how many souls, urged by the nightmare of hell, have taken refuge in their frozen bodies, their bodies already covered with funereal marble! men have found skeletons turned over, convulsed, twisted, and they have said "here are men who have been buried alive" often this was not the case. these may always be waifs of death, men raised from the tomb, who, before they could abandon themselves altogether to the anguish of the threshold of

ature (the horizontal line. to double the vertical line is to affirm that nature has two fathers; it is to put adultery in the place of the divine motherhood, it is to affirm, instead of the principle of intelligence, blind fatality, which has for result the eternal conflict of appearances in nothingness; it is, then, the most ancient, the most authentic, and the most terrible of all the stigmata of hell. it signifies the "atheistic god; it is the signature of satan "this first signature is hieratical, and bears reference to the occult characters of the divine world "the second pertains to philosophical hieroglyphs, it represents the graduated extent of idea, and the progressive extension of form "it is a triple tau upside down; it is human thought affirming the absolute in the three world

f a superior rank, even at the sabbath<circular host, how could it be upside down- o. m> 2 degree- the two hermetic serpents. but the heads and tails, instead of coming together in two similar semicircles, were turned outwards, and there was no intermediate line representing the caduceus. above the head of the serpents, one saw the fatal v, the typhonian fork, the character of hell. to the right and left, the sacred numbers iii and vii were relegated to the horizontal line which represents passive and secondary things. the meaning of the character was then this: antagonism is eternal. 149 god is the strife of fatal forces, which always create through destruction. the things of religion are passive and transitory. boldness makes use of them, war profits by them, and i

heaven, lighted by a last ray which penetrated the casements of the nave, stood out upon a dark background, where one could scarcely distinguish a pedestal without a statue, on which were written these two words of the passion of christ: ecce homo! and farther in the background, an apocalyptic painting representing the four plagues ready to let themselves loose upon the world, and the whirlwinds of hell, following the dusty traces of the pale horse of death. before the archbishop, a lifted arm, sketched in shadow like an infernal silhouette, held and brandished a knife. policemen, sword in hand, were running up. and while all this tumult was going on at the bottom of the church, the singing of the litanies continued in the choir, 170 as the harmony of the orbs of heaven goes on for ever

f from the common errors of mankind is obliged to pay a ransom proportional to the sum of these errors: socrates pays for aneitus, and jesus was obliged to suffer a torment whose terror was equal to the whole treason of judas. thus, by paying the debts of fatality, hard-won liberty purchases the empire of the world; it is hers to bind and to unbind. god has put in her hands the keys of heaven and of hell. you men who abandon brutes to themselves wish them to devour you. the rabble, slaves of fatality, can only enjoy liberty by absolute obedience to the will of free men; they ought to work for those who are responsible for them. but when the brute governs brutes, when the blind leads the blind, when the leader is as subject to fatality as the masses, what must one expect? what but the most

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ga-lah. 5. continue to concentrate on the whte brilliance, and when you feel it is aroused say: i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. and whatsoever liveth and believeth on me, the same shall have everlasting life. i am the first and i am the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth, and the life. the middle pillar exercise 213 no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light. i have fought upon the earth for good. i have finished my work, i have entered into the invisible. i am

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the souls of the monks who wrote it, rather than of the innocents it was used to massacre. eventually, satanism, protestantism and judaism were inextricably woven together to form a patchwork quilt of evil that the church attempted to destroy during the middle ages, with fire and sword. as a matter of fact, a certain type of devil worship did exist during those times but, ironically, the acolytes of hell were usually never brought to trial; something which stems from the fact that many of those who celebrated and attended the infamous black masses of the period were roman catholic clergymen, many of whom has been pressed into his service at a young age by their parents, who wished to see their sons brought up well-fed and educated in those uncertain times, where the church was the sole pow

the living, and the ministers of absu are clearly walking the earth, riding on the air, and upon the earth, and sailing silently through the water, and roaring in the fire, and all these spirits must be brought to subjection to the person of the priest of magick, before any else. or the priest becomes prey to the eye of death of the seven annunnaki, lord of the underworld, ministers of the queen of hell. know, fifthly, that the worshippers of tiamat are abroad in the world, and will give fight to the magician. lo, they have worshipped the serpent from ancient times, and have always been with us. and they are to be known by their seeming human appearance which has the mark of the beast upon them, as they change easily into the shapes of animals and haunt the nights of men and by their odou

THE SHADOWED ONES

soul! listen well to your consciousness and seek to expand it, never unify your divine being in a faith not heeded by the instincts of yourself. dissent from the paths all torn by the death of the soul, by a cross way can you fully recognize your potential as a god or goddess. by this path you must seek that wisdom not yet known, by journeying into the unknown and feared. i am that demon which is of hell, yet in the pleasures of hell the very hidden nature of mankind can you recognize an angel of light. every being which fell from the limitless nothingness of what you call god offers only self-possibility once you have moved beyond it. as our wings blackened we so then awoke to a new way that of the consciousness. enshrine the possibility, not the moment in question. by motion can you brin

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

e crimson oblivion of day, whose empurpled strife has also rumbled into the distance as the droning of some drowsy fire-finger on the sleeping parchment of life, murmuring and moaning as the wind-kissed mouth of a dreamy drum. yet why should we still listen for those subtle sounds which have wearily danced out their slow saraband of sorrow. once orphic they arose emparadising the cavernous depths of hell, to sink into a dirge-like niobe death-chaunt, bewailing the thirteen children of their begetting, rising once more in the song of ligeia, enticing men to her mire, and at length to die still-voiced as the daughter of dis, whose ghostly fingers sinking clutch the frozen reeds of that slough in which she had so long wallowed. long have we peered, crouching on the watch-tower of our minds, t

ke our fill; for he has unstrung the mystic lyre of life from the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil, singing old songs and new, flinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world, as some stormy petrel shrilly crying to the storm; or sweet notes of love, soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly. here are the jewels of heaven, of havilah, and of eden, with not a little of the fire of hell, the flames of gehenna, and the darkness of duat. if we look for pyramids and colossi disappointment will be our lot; we cannot hold, as hanuman of ind, a mountain in one hand and a forest in the other, neither can we gaze on a celestial meru or olympus; but as we look, and here it is only the searcher who is rewarded, we find a little jewel, then another, and still another, till, as we gr

s in one supreme caress; to drink the purple of your thighs; to press your beating bosom like a living flower; to die in your embraces, in the shower that dews like death your swooning loveliness. to know you love me; that your body leaps with the quick passion of your soul; to know your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so; to be one soul where satan smiles and sleeps. ah! in the very triumph-hour of hell satan himself remembers whence he fell *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 181. again, such lines as these from the gtriumph of man h: and all the earth is blasted; the green sward burns where it touches, and the barren sod rejects the poison of the blood of god. to tread base thoughts as our high thoughts have trod, deep in the dust, the carrion that was god *mysteries: lyrical and

nt this formidable obstacle, a moral fougasse awaits for his impetuous footstep, which will morally blow him to smithereens. again, john is unmarried, and mary is in a similar state of bliss, their affinities repel and do not attract: nature says gkeep apart! h; man says gi would rather see you unite with mary than i would with ann, affinities be damned! h they unite, and axiomatize the postulate of hell. nature now says gpart! h man says goh! no you don ft. h around them are then speedily constructed such labyrinthine entanglements, that few find their way out, and still fewer attempt so difficult a task. hence churches and brothels. if john, however, does not marry mary, ann squalls, but as the jailer can always let himself out of the prison, so can man, if he does not drop his keys thro

by swarms of human blow-flies, that we shall tread on the scorpions of religion, the toads of society, and the blind-worms of the law; that around us will whirl the vampires of the past, the kites of the present, the succubi of the future, is certain enough; as a shrieking mass of hideous animosity they will conglobe around us, deafening us with the expletives of earth, blinding us with the fumes of hell, and rendering us insane with the inanities of heaven: this were my guerdon: to fade utterly into the rose-heart of that sanguine vase, and lose my purpose in its silent sea, and lose my life, and find my life, and pass up to the sea that is as molten glass *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 227. nirvana. the drowning of self in eternity. yet if the mind returned not from its abode, and ever rested w

of this drama. and thus does his song end: whose long-drawn curse runs venom in my veins? what dragon spouse consumes me with her breath? what passionate hatred, what infernal pains, mixed with thy being in the womb of death? blistering fire runs. scorching, terrific suns, through body and soul in this abominable marriage of demon power subtle and strong and sour, a draught of ichor of the veins of hell! curses leap leprous, epicene, unclean, the soul of the obscene incarnate in the spirit: and above hangs sin, vast vampire, the corrupt, that swings her unredeeming wings over the world, and flaps, for lust of death. and love *tannhauser, vol. i. p. 239. gkill me, h cries tannhauser. gin the kiss, h answers venus: thus ends act ii. act iii opens a different scene. the outer materiality of

u. no doubt the arts of this. er. designing female will soon lose their power. there, there, no thanks, i beg! i never could bear to see a pretty wench cry. there, there! h* we have now thoroughly grasped the quality of the male element, and the two together, the harlot and the lecher, produce the social code and seven-eighths of the social woes *why jesus wept, vol. iii, p. 39. vide, the martyrs of hell fs highway. gmust i, must i? oh, sir, have pity! h sobs the poor disillusionized molly, as the male element who has enjoyed her, now shoves her aside gwith the dishes and the wine, h a thousand a year, and a flat in mayfair. quite a lucky girl! two years later a woman shouts out, gwon ft you come with me, ducky? h this is molly; a morphia-maniac also appears. this is percy. glenstrae is no

within the night that hides their chosen wood, where through the blackness sounds the sickening noise of cannibals that gloat on monstrous joys *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 126. feeding perhaps first on man fs body, the priest soon found, after investing his victim with an immortal soul, that the soul would form an excellent basis for blackmail, enabling man to buy off the terrors of hell through the medium of the priest who held the keys of heaven: cstill death reigns, and god and priests are fed, man fs blood for wine, man fs flesh for meat and bread *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 106. and these priests are not dead yet. as the human race throve so did their gods, the old savage of man fs early thoughts grew, and growing became more evil, as their gods so we

al brotherhood of kings. h the absolute crown and kingdom of desire, the one god sealed in the seas and betokened in the winds. gthe spirit of mankind! h before the darkness, earlier than being, when yet thought was not, shapeless and unseeing, made misbegotten of deity on death, there brooded on the waters the strange breath of an incarnate hatred. darkness fell and chaos, from prodigious gulphs of hell. life, that rejoiced to travail with a man, looked where the cohorts of destruction ran, saw darkness visible, and was afraid, seeing. there grew like death a monster shade, blind as the coffin, as the covering sod damp, as the corpse obscene, the christian god. so to the agony dirges of despair man cleft the womb, and shook the icy air with bitter cries for light and life and love. but th

. hermes struck a higher chord when he said: gto create god, is to accomplish our own creation, to make ourselves independent, impassible, and immortal. h blake demonstrated the at-oneness of good and evil very clearly in gthe marriage of heaven and hell. h gi tell you no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments, h he says, referring to the decalogue. further back in his gproverbs of hell, h he writes: you never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. the pride of the peacock is the glory of god. the lust of the goat is the bounty of god. the wrath of the lion is the wisdom of god. the nakedness of woman is the work of god. for everything that lives is holy. in samuel butler fs gerewhon h we find much the same idea in the following couplet. he who sins

ailing this, scylla lies to our left, charybdis to our right, the blood-flecked foam of life is dashed on our lips, it is acrid and intoxicating. xii. no prostitution may be shunned by him who would achieve this heaven. no satyr-song, no maniac dance shall ply so fast a thong of lust fs imagining perversely dim that no man fs spirit may keep pace, so strong its pang must pierce; nor all the pains of hell may be one tithe as fierce. xiii. all degradation, all sheer infamy, thou shalt endure. thy head beneath the mire and dung of worthless women shall desire as in some hateful dream, at last to lie; women must trample thee till thou respire that deadliest fume; the vilest worms must crawl, the loathliest vampires gloom. dividuality the curse of existence must vanish, and it can only vanish t

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

on and government of the physical and material universe, thus the angels and daevas (demons) were not only emanations from their source, they could be considered to act according to the attributes of their nature, spirit based daevas were unseen yet had very powerful hungers for the human spirit, vizaresh for instance had no specific physical attrtibutes but could detect spirits, sat at the mouth of hell and sought to drag souls into darkness. material based daevas such as druj nasu, came in the form of a fly and transformed the body into dark matter and the spirit into a type of spiritual predator. the names and etymology of ahriman (satan) in rabbinical, which is old jewish religious text and apocryphal writings, the names of satan (adversary) are many. just as his forms are different, s

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

d my fortress, and my deliverer; 22:3 the god of my rock; in him will i trust [he is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. 22:4 i will call on the lord [who is] worthy to be praised: so shall i be saved from mine enemies. 22:5 when the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; 22:6 the sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; 22:7 in my distress i called upon the lord, and cried to my god: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry [did enter] into his ears. 22:8 then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. 22:9 there went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: co

thee, o lord, my strength. 18:2 the lord [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my god, my strength, in whom i will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation [and] my high tower. 18:3 i will call upon the lord [who is worthy] to be praised: so shall i be saved from mine enemies. 18:4 the sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 18:5 the sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. 18:6 in my distress i called upon the lord, and cried unto my god: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him [even] into his ears. 18:7 then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. 18:8 there went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of hi

t the lord, neither any that go down into silence. 115:18 but we will bless the lord from this time forth and for evermore. praise the lord. page 375 psalms psalm 116 116:1 i love the lord, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications. 116:2 because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will i call upon [him] as long as i live. 116:3 the sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: i found trouble and sorrow. 116:4 then called i upon the name of the lord; o lord, i beseech thee, deliver my soul. 116:5 gracious [is] the lord, and righteous; yea, our god [is] merciful. 116:6 the lord preserveth the simple: i was brought low, and he helped me. 116:7 return unto thy rest, o my soul; for the lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. 116:8 for thou hast deli

tteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, 9:15 to call passengers who go right on their ways: 9:16 whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 9:17 stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant. 9:18 but he knoweth not that the dead [are] there [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell. 10:1 the proverbs of solomon. a wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother. 10:2 treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. 10:3 the lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. 10:4 he becometh poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but the hand of th

aughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. 32:19 whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. 32:20 they shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. 32:21 the strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 32:22 asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: 32:23 whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about page 501 ezekiel her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the

6 then the men feared the lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the lord, and made vows. 1:17 now the lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up jonah. and jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 2:1 then jonah prayed unto the lord his god out of the fish s belly, 2:2 and said, i cried by reason of mine affliction unto the lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried i [and] thou heardest my voice. 2:3 for thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 2:4 then i said, i am cast out of thy sight; yet i will look again toward thy holy temple. 2:5 the waters compassed me about [even] to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped abou

eaven. 5:21 ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: 5:22 but i say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. 5:23 therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; page 561 matthew 5:24 leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. 5:25 agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee t

to them, but whom say ye that i am? 16:16 and simon peter answered and said, thou art the christ, the son of the living god. 16:17 and jesus answered and said unto him, blessed art thou, simon barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] unto thee, but my father which is in heaven. 16:18 and i say also unto thee, that thou art peter, and upon this rock i will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 16:19 and i will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 16:20 then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was jesus the christ. 16:21 from that time forth began jesus to shew unto his disciples

in [yourselves] neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 23:14 woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 23:15 woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 23:16 woe unto you [ye] blind guides, which say, whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! 23:17 [ye] fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? 23:18 and, whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that

e righteous, 23:30 and say, if we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 23:31 wherefore ye be page 573 matthew witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 23:32 fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 23:33 [ye] serpents [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? 23:34 wherefore, behold, i send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city: 23:35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous abel unto the blood of zacharias son of barachias, whom ye slew betwe

winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. 3:5 even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 3:6 and the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 3:7 for every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 3:8 but the tongue can no man tame [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 3:9 therewith bless we god, even the father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of god. 3:10 out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. my

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

on her head, to serve as a bait to the ambition of the rest. candles of pitch, or torches, yielded a false light, which gave people in appearance monstrous forms and frightful faces. here you see false fires, through which some of the demons were first passed, and afterwards the witches, without suffering any pain, which, as explained by de lancre, was intended to teach them not to fear the fire of hell. but we see in these the need-fires, which formed a part of the priapic orgies, and of which we have spoken before (p. 163. there women are presenting to him children, whom they have initiated in sorcery, and he shows them a deep pit, into which he threatens to throw them if they refuse to renounce god and to adore satan. in other parts are seen great cauldrons, full of toads and vipers, h

e le diable tenoit tellement li s leurs coeurs et leurs volontez qu peine y laissoit il entrer nul autre d sir: outre que les sorci res croyent aller en quelque lieu o il y a cent mille choses entranges et nouvelles 230 on the worship of the of melodious instruments that they are ravished, and believe them-selves to be in some terrestrial paradise. moreover the devil per-suades them that the fear of hell, which is so much apprehended, is a piece of folly, and gives them to understand that the eternal punishments will hurt them no more than a certain artificial fire which he causes them craftily to light, and then makes them pass through it and repass without hurt. and more, that they see there so many priests, their pastors, cur s, vicars, and confessors, and other people of quality of all

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

of a spirit should be thought of as its true name, or even as its very soul, and will be different for each adept who derives it. the common name of a spirit, such as baal or michael, is the name of a collective rul- ing being-a poorly defined god-form-while the many different secret names apply to the numberless spirits under its rule. these are the armies said to be under the princes and dukes of hell; these are the numerous servants of the archangels, not lesser individual spirits, but particular aspects of the one collective spirit that bears the exoteric name. when the magus calls forth one of the traditional spirits, he or she will view it uniquely and call it by a unique name. another adept will see the spirit that bears the same common name in a different way, and his or her esote

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

invented a charming fable. that is also true of all written accounts of descents into hell, ascents to heaven, and indeed descriptions of astral journeys of any kind, including those attributed to the biblical prophets such as enoch, who is supposed to have been conducted through both heaven and hell by the angels. the author of the book of enoch, writing in the voice of enoch, bore this witness of hell "and beyond that abyss i saw a place that had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste and horrible place."61 the hell of enoch appears to have been largely a zone of negation, where the good things of the world are not. much of what has been written concerning heaven with its choirs of angels, an

, has been obtained through soul flight.visions of both heaven and hell were common among the saints, who saw them firsthand, being present within the landscapes in the astral body. saint frances of rome (1384-1440, while in her cell at the convent, one day at around four in the afternoon fell into an ecstatic trance in which the archangel raphael came to her and carried her away on a guided tour of hell. above the gates of hell she read the inscription "hell, without hope, without cessation of torment, without repose."62 beyond the gates, she entered a deep abyss from which emanated cries and a terrible stench. hell was divided into three levels, the highest being the least unpleasant and the lowest the most horrifying. the lowest level was filled with damned souls of the worst kind who s

blood to a bath of thick-ribbed ice, and back again. traitors had their hearts torn out of their chests and then replaced, only to be torn out again over and over. it is difficult not to suspect that the hell of saint frances was influenced in no small part by the hell described in the inferno of the italian poet dante alighieri (1265-1321. so plausible was dante's description of the nine levels of hell that many simple religious readers were convinced that he had actually been there. this belief is not unique to medieval times. a university professor once confided to me that a student of hers, a young nun, told her quite seriously that dante had really visited hell, and that the scenes he described were those he had seen with his own eyes. whereas frances was conducted by the archangel r

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

of particular objects or places, such as spirits of woodlands, stones, trees, meadows, springs, rivers, buildings, and geographical regions. also classed as lower spirits are the spirits of the four lower elements, which may or may not have specific local habitations-the sylphs of air, the salamanders of fire, the undines of water, and the gnomes of earth. the infernal spirits, such as the demons of hell, who traditionally are supposed to dwell beneath the surface of the earth, are also lower spirits, as are the qlippoth or shells of kabbalistic doctrine. higher spirits are those that dwell in or above the sphere of the moon. they are associated with the spheres, successively, of the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, saturn, and the sphere of the fixed stars, or zodiac. this tr

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

het, i will hear him because he hath known my name. hence at this time no favour can be drawn from the heavens, unless the authority, favour and consent of the name jesu intervene; hence the hebrews and cabalists most skillful in the divine names, can work nothing after christ by those old names, as their fathers have done long since; and now it is by experience confirmed, that no devil nor power of hell, which vex and trouble men, can resist this name, but will they, nil1 they, bow the knee and obey, when the name jesu by a due pronunciation is proposed to them to be worshipped (three books of occult philosophy 3.12) 50 tetragrammaton when agrippa writes of "knowledge going before" he is referring to the age-old belief, held by the ancient egyptians and others, that knowledge of the true

VOX SABBATUM

f the bigger picture of the world today. 8 a good starting point for antinomian thought, the satanic bible by anton lavey. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 5 with the most dangerous type of self-deification becoming and developing the self. the rite tests and proclaims change, when ecstasy is reached by invocation over and over, or mantric repetitions of certain self-stimulating phrases, the gates of hell9 are opened. the witches sabbat is a system or model of left hand path self-deification; it is the separation from the natural order or right hand path (i.e. dissolution. this process is a slow and gradual one, invoking and propagating selfdevelopment over a stretched out period of time. the god forms of the luciferian and witches sabbat path are masked and anthropomorphic energies and col

the spells above, it is advisable to have created a sigillic alphabet which can reflect this dreaming body through an image. austin osman spare s concept of atavistic resurgence is essential in gathering the shadow of the dreaming form. for those who shall take to the infernal sabbat, decorate your ritual chamber in the old woodcarvings and demonic art that which inspires the opening of the gates of hell. if solitary or with coven members, dress properly according to the nature of the work. envision the mouth of hell opening forth as you pronouncevox sabbatum the witches sabbat 17 zazas, zazas, nasatanada zazas (recite nine times, rolling the words of your tongue. the other participants may recite in unison with you, each time getting more intense) hold your blackened dagger of evocation a

with speed and cunning. he taught further in the form of azazel men and women about warfare, weapons, armor to the opposites such as make up and sorcery. azazel was now shaitan, his shadow doctrine of witchcraft was of ahriman the dragon, shaitan had now transformed into a sense of continually progressing perfection isolate consciousness, strength, knowledge of both empyrean and the secret abodes of hell and how both may create a powerful god like being for those who dare. the ones who fell with lucifer were taught sexual magick and procreation by az lilith, who resided near the red sea in caves. az resided also in the blackest depths of hell; she instructed demons, monsters, and other druj the art of sexual copulation and how to spawn daemons. az lilith was the mother of succubi and incub

of witches the queen of the witches sabbat is none other than lilith, known in persian mythology as az or jeh, the harlot who is the embodiment of sexual power. she is known through many cultures, hebrew, persian and european as hecate, triple goddess of the crossroads, who is mother of death, shades, witchcraft and necromancy. in the manichaean religious tradition, az came first to the blackness of hell, before the fallen angels came to earth. she was scorned and angry at the limitless light, or god. when lucifer or azazel fell, known as ahriman in his shadow aspect, she awoke him with a kiss, from which ahriman repaid with his own kiss, which caused menstruation in women. az was the bride of the devil, and as a 21 the sufis by idries shah vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 33 dragon he rode

m, trshna, being thirst. this is in such terms defining of desiring continued existence in time, thus isolate consciousness. in such aspects of the left hand path, az lilith is the mother of daemons, isolate and self-deified spirits, those who become through the mirror of self the mirror in hebrew mythology is also symbolic of lilith, being a gateway to her caves near the red sea, or the darkness of hell of which she dwells. lilith az is illustrated in the book of cain, azothoz and nox umbra as part beast, part woman. she is the unrestrained sexual force, laylah being night and death. she is the bride of oz, azazel, the masculine and solar phallic force of fire and creation. she drains the blood of life, hungering for flesh, devouring and copulating, spreading her sexual knowledge to her c

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into the underworld. king arthur, for example, does the same thing when he sets sail in his magical ship, prydwen, to bring back precious gifts (i.e. the gifts of life) from the land of the dead, as we are told in the 'mabinogi. welsh triads allude to gwydion and amaethon doing much the same thing. in fact, this theme is so universal that mythologists refer to it by a common phrase 'the harrowing of hell. however, one might conjecture that the descent into hell, or the land of the dead, was originally accomplished, not by a solar male deity, but by a lunar female deity. it is nature herself who, in spring, returns from the underworld with her gift of abundant life. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 16 solar heroes may have laid claim to this theme much lat

any book for free on: www.abika.com 16 solar heroes may have laid claim to this theme much later. the very fact that we are dealing with a three-day period of absence should tell us we are dealing with a lunar, not solar, theme (although one must make exception for those occasional male lunar deities, such as the assyrian god, sin) at any rate, one of the nicest modern renditions of the harrowing of hell appears in many books of shadows as 'the descent of the goddess. lady day may be especially appropriate for the celebration of this theme, whether by storytelling, reading, or dramatic re-enactment. for modern witches, lady day is one of the lesser sabbats or low holidays of the year, one of the four quarter-days. and what date will witches choose to celebrate? they may choose the traditio

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

ctically only children, born and bred into the cult, were ever initiated. i can well believe that sometimes, if someone not of the blood wished to come in, he might be questioned; but it is as much use to ask the average postulant to deny christianity as to make him deny a belief in fidlers green, which old sailors used to tell about: the paradise where old sailors went, which lay at the far side of hell. so i think it possible that though there may have been cases of people denying christianity, these were very few. to say it is 'proof because many witches were tortured until they admitted repudiating christianity is like saying that similar testimony is proof that they flew through the air on broomsticks. my great trouble in discovering what their beliefs were is that they have forgotten

nd clear-cut. grandfathers and grandmothers have told folk still living of meetings they attended about a hundred and forty years ago, when the cult was thought to have existed from all time. barrat of the magus, circa 1800, would have had the ability to invent or resurrect the cult. but he was mainly interested in ritual magic, which i think would have shown in the rituals. sir francis dashwood, of hell fire club fame, is another who might have had a hand in such a thing, but he was a free-thinking diabolist and was the last man to start or invent a new religion: if he did, it would have been something on either diabolical or classical lines. nor do i think it could have been invented when england was governed by the c.a.b.a.l (the government of clifford, arlington, buckingham, ashley, an

ts married and her husband is not interested, and so the coven dies out or consists of old and dying people. the other reason is that science has displaced her; good weather reports, good health services, outdoor games, bathing, nudism, the cinema and television have largely replaced what the witch had to give. free thought or spiritualism, according to your inclinations, have taken away the fear of hell that she prevented, though nothing yet has replaced her greatest gifts: peace, joy and content. 12- who is the devil? it is, i think, fairly well known that witches observed four great festivals: may eve, august eve, november eve (hallowe'en) and february eve. these seem to correspond to the divisions of the ancient gaelic year by the four fire festivals of samhaim or samhuin (november 1

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

ur times revolving the first word from the cauldron, when was it spoken? by the breath of nine damsels gently warmed. is it not the cauldron of the chief of annwn which is social? with a ridge round its edge of pearls, it will not boil the food of a coward nor of one excommunicated. a sword bright flashing to him will be brought, and left in the hand of llyminawg. and before the door of the porch of hell a lantern is burning. and when we went with arthur in his splendid labours, except seven, none returned from caer vendiwid. am i not a candidate for fame, to be heard in song? in caer pedryfan, the island of pybyrdor, twilight and darkness meet together. bright wine was their drink in their assembly. thrice the burden of prydwen we went on the sea. except seven, none returned from caer rig

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

lord 5 times in psalms ciii, civ. the talmud says that there are 5 little things which are a terror to 5 strong things; the mosquito to the lion; the gnat to the elephant; the ichneumon fly to the scorpion; the flycatcher bird to the eagle and the stickleback to the leviathan. lewisohn, zoology of the talmud. 64. five things have in them a one-sixtieth part of 5 other things; fire is one-sixtieth of hell; honey one-sixtieth of manna; the sabbath one-sixtieth of the sabbath hereafter; sleep of death; and a dream one-sixtieth of prophecy. talmud, berachoth, 57.2. even on the sabbath you may kill 5 things the fly in egypt; the wasp in nineveh; the scorpion of hadabia; numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the serpent of israel, and the mad dog anywhere. ta

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