ine consciousness, obtained from his indwelling principle (the manasa, or the incarnated deva, became the glaring flames of the infernal region; and our globe that hell itself. pippala, haoma, the fruit of the tree of knowledge, were denounced as the forbidden fruit, and the "serpent of wisdom" the voice of reason and consciousness, remained identified for ages with the fallenangel, which is the old dragon, the devil (vide part ii "the evilspirit, who, or what) the same for the other high symbols. the svastica, the most sacred and mysticsymbol in india, the "jaina-cross" as it is now called by the masons, notwithstanding its direct connection, and even identity with the christiancross, has become dishonoured in the same manner. it is the "devil's sign" we are told by the indian mission
ground walls. humanity and the stars are bound together indissolubly, because of the intelligences that rule the latter. modern symbologists may scoff at this and call it "fancy" but "it is unquestionable that the deluge has (ever) been associated in the legends of some eastern peoples not only with the pyramids, but also with the constellations" writes mr. staniland wake("the great pyramid. the "old dragon" is identical with the "great flood" says mr. proctor (in "knowledge" vol. i, p. 243 "we know that in the past the constellation of the dragon was at the pole, or boss, of the celestialsphere. in stellar temples. the dragon would be the[[vol. 2, page] 353 the astronomicaldragon. uppermost or ruling constellation. it is singular how closely the constellations. correspond in sequence an
a is referred to as the demon of drought, the terrible hot wind. indra is shown to be constantly at war with him; and with the help of his thunder and lightning the god compels ahi-vritra to pour down in rain on earth, and then slays him. hence, indra is called the vritra-han or "the slayer of vritra" as michael is called the conqueror and "slayer of the dragon" both these "enemies" are then the "old dragon" precipitated into the depths of the earth, in this one sense. the zend-avestic amshaspends are a host with a leader like st. michael over them, and seem identical with the legions of heaven, when one reads the vendidad. thus in fargard xix, ii. 13 (42, zarathustra is told by ahura mazda to "invoke the amesha spenta who rule over the seven karshvares* of the earth; which karshvares in t
connection with some mystic, then it must have been through some one who had obtained access to the secret works of the vatican. among these there is a tradition of the "beni shamash- the "children of the sun- concerning the eastern allegory, with far more minute details in its triple version, than one can get either from the book of enoch, or the far more recent revelation of st. john about the "old dragon" and his various slayers, as just shown. it seems inexplicable to find, to this day, authors belonging to mysticalsocieties who yet continue in their preconceived doubts as to the "alleged" antiquity of the "book of enoch" thus, while the author of the "sacredmysteries among the mayas and quiches" is inclined to see in enoch an initiate converted to christianity (vide p. 16, the engli
p has been guilty of worse errors than this one. it seems but yesterday that the greatest literary critics in europe denied the very authenticity of that work, together with the orphic hymns, and even the book of hermes or thot, until whole verses from the latter were discovered on egyptian monuments and tombs of the earliest dynasties. the opinion of archbishop laurence is quoted elsewhere. the "old dragon" and satan, now become singly and collectively the symbol of, and the theological term for, the "fallenangel" is not so described either in the original kabala (the chaldean "book of numbers) or in the modern. for the most learned, if not the greatest of modernkabalists, namely eliphas levi, describes satan in the following glowing terms "it is that angel who was proud enough to belie
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lining of god or good: demon est deus inversus, being a very old adage. indeed, evil is but an antagonizing blind force in nature; it is reaction, opposition, and contrast- evil for some, good for others. there is no malum in se: only the shadow of light, without which light could have no existence, even in our perceptions. if evil disappeared, good would disappear along with it from earth. the "old dragon" was pure spirit before he became matter, passive before he became active. in the syro-chaldeanmagic both ophis and ophiomorphos are joined in the zodiac, at the sign of the androgynevirgo-scorpio. before its fall on earth the "serpent" was ophis-christos, and after its fall it became ophiomorphos-chrestos. everywhere the speculations of the kabalists treat of evil as a force, which i
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of the sorrowing alder, and walks with the aid of a blackthorn stick. letters from robert cochrane cain in this perspective represents a process of movement and transformation. the luciferian path as practiced in some covens and sorcerers describes and understands cain being the devil who is the self, thus by our work being done, thus cain manifests further. he is the son of satan, the son of the old dragon and bringer of light. as mentioned earlier with regard to alexander sanders, the triangle of darkness from the south lands of neph-kam we joined with the northern ascendingtriangle of light, thus six sides utilizing the power of the sun and the moonmagick itself. robert cochrane described the hexagram as the following- 31 book of cain by michael w. ford, succubus publishing 2003 32 by