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carniola represent that saint by two little mice nibbling at the thread on a spindle (vreteno, as a sign that there ought to be no sjnnning on her dav. the same holds good of the russian piatnitsa, friday (kopitars rec. von strahls gel. eussland^ ra. 163-8. 470. women are c^alled in as. frisowebban, peace-weavers. holua, holle. 271 one might be tempted to derive dame holda from a character in the old testament. in 2 kings 22, u and 2 chron. 34, 22 we read of a prophetess rt^sn iluleddali, huldah, for which luther puts hulda; tlie septuagint has 'oxbd, the vulgate olda, but the lat. bible viteb. 1529 (and probably others since) hulda, following luther, who, with the german holda in his mind, thus domesticated the jewish prophetess among his countrymen. several times in liis writings he brin

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

m tablets that recorded an age, that the first creation epic is found, the first exorcism, the first ritual invocations of planetary deities, the first dark summonings of evil powers, and ironically, the first "burnings" of people the anthropologists call "witches. lovecraft's mythos deals with what are known chthonic deities, that is, underworld gods and goddesses, much like the leviathan of the old testament. the pronunciation of chthonic is 'katonic, which explains lovecraft's famous miskatonic river and miskatonic university, not to mention the chief deity of his pantheon, cthulhu, a sea monster who lies "not dead, but dreaming" below the world; an ancient one and supposed enemy of mankind and the intelligent race. cthulhu is accompanied by an assortment of other grotesqueries, such as

me way that later st. george and st. michael would defeat the serpent again- the cosmos was created from the body of the slain serpent, and man was created from the blood of the slain commander of the ancient army, kingu, thereby making man a descendent of the blood of the enemy, as well as the "breath" of the elder gods; a close parallel to the "sons of god and daughters of men" reference in the old testament. yet, though the identity of the victor is clear, there were- and are- certain persons and organisations that dared side with the vanquished, believing the ancient ones to be a source of tremendous, and most unbelievable, power. worship of the ancient ones in history "let them curse it that curse the day, who are skilful to rouse leviathan- job 3:8 s.h. hooke, in his excellent middle

rtain persons and organisations that dared side with the vanquished, believing the ancient ones to be a source of tremendous, and most unbelievable, power. worship of the ancient ones in history "let them curse it that curse the day, who are skilful to rouse leviathan- job 3:8 s.h. hooke, in his excellent middle eastern mythology, tells us that the leviathan mentioned in job, and elsewhere in the old testament, is the hebrew name given to the serpent tiamat, and reveals that there was in existence either a cult, or scattered individuals, who worshipped or called up the serpent of the sea, or abyss. indeed, the hebrew word for abyss that is found in genesis 1:2 is, hooke tells us, tehom, which the majority of scholars take to be a survival of the name of the chaos-dragon tiamat or leviathan

hold you in check! may the mountain subject you! may the mountain cover you! may the mighty mountain fall on you, may you be held back from my body (note: the original translator had noted the resemblance between the greek word for lors, kurios, and the sumerian word for mountain, kur, and for a type of underworld, chthoic, monster which is also called kur and which refers to the leviathan of the old testament. also, in this particular conjuration, the word for mountain is shadu- shaddai? the old serpent kur is, of course, invoked every day by the christians: kyrie eleison) common sumerian words and phrases in english sumerian english akhkharu vampire alal destroyer alla xul evil god barra! begone! dingir xul evil god edin na zu! go to the desert (a form of exorcism) gelal incubus gigim xu

occult; la magie chez les chaldeens paris, 1874 lovecraft, h.p. tales of the cthulhu mythos new york, 1973 at the mountains of madness new york, 1973 the dunwich horror new york, 1963 the lurker at the threshold (with august derleth) new york, 1971 mason, h. gilgamesh (ed) new york, 1972 neugebauer, o. the exact sciences in antiquity new york, 1969 pritchard, j. near eastern texts relating to the old testament princeton, 1958 the chaldean oracles of zoroaster "sapere aude" new york seignobos, s. the world of babylon new york, 1975 seligmann, k. magic, supernaturalism, and religion new york, 1968 shah, i. oriental magic new york, 1973 the secret lore of magic new york, 1972 the sufis new york, 1973 tallqvist, k.l "die assyrische beschworungsserie maqlu nach dem originalem im british museum

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d or blind god. lams= 131= pan. line 3. isheth zanunim (woman of whoredom, said to be the wife of samael \ynwnz tca= 864 \ycdq cwdq, qadosh qadeshim, holy of holies. doubtless there is an arcanum concealed here, possibly along the lines of you can prove anything with gematria if you try hard enough. line 5. ashteroth. historically a middle eastern goddess (a.k.a. ishtar, astart, etc, denounced by old testament writers and given an inexplicable sex change by medieval demonologists. table of correspondences 55 line 6. chiva, the beast; said to be the offspring of samael and isheth zanunim (see mathers introduction to kaballah unveiled, para 61. only a hideous fudge (to wit (a) mis-spelling the name as ahija (b) writing each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the

e usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the latinised form asmodeus. the name is possibly a modification of aeshma deva, an evil spirit from persian mythology. line 8. belial. said to be the chief of the evil spirits in some late jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g. the testament of the 12 patriarchs, but in the old testament the name was a mere term of abuse meaning masterless or worthless. line 9. lilith. she gets everywhere. line 10. naamah. the sister of tubal-cain (see masonic symbolism; but in the zohar she gets turned into another version of lilith. col. cix. rather than use planetary symbols to distinguish the kings and dukes as in the printed edition, i have split this column. for daath add king

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

s! here we are back in the pestilent purlieus of walham green, and the frowsty atmosphere of the frowsy "medium" and the squalid s ance "look! but do not speak to them" as virgil warned dante. so let us look. no! let us first congratulate ourselves that this subject of necromancy is so admirably documented. as to the real art, we have not only eliphas l vi, but the sublimely simple account in the old testament of the witch of endor, her conjuring up of the apparition of samuel to king saul. a third classic must not be neglected: i have heard or read the story elsewhere- for the moment i cannot place it. but it is so brilliantly told in i write as i please by walter duranty that nothing could be happier than to quote him verbatim. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com

um be immune to self-deception spurred by the wish-fiend? while there are people walking about outside the bug-house who can find mrs. simpson and generals de gaulle, franco, allenby, montgomery and who else in the "centuries" of nostradamus, we should be stupid to assign everything to conscious fraud. 28 in that case what about poor tiny aleister? do please allow me the happy young eagles of the old testament; what clearer prophecy of psychoanalysis, it's only the english for freud and jung and adler! no, by no means always fraud. yet at any s ance the "investigators" take no magical precautions soever- against, say, the impersonation of iophiel by hismael, or the doves of venus by the a'arab zareq. all they attempt especially at "demonstrations" and "materializations" is to guard with gr

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hood, and said "gabriel appeared to me" but in spite of his ignorance, his total misconception of the truth, the power of the vision was such that he was enabled to persist through the usual persecution, and founded a religion to which even to-day one man in every eight belongs. the history of christianity shows precisely the same remarkable fact. jesus christ was brought up on the fables of the "old testament" and so was compelled to ascribe his experiences to "jehovah" although his gentle spirit could have had nothing in common with the monster who was always commanding the rape of virgins and the murder of little children, and whose rites were then, and still are, celebrated by human sacrifice<jews in eastern europe which surprise the ignorant, are almost inv

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

let us consider the esoteric idea-mongers of christianity, swedenborg, anna kingsford, deussen and the like, of whom i have taken caird as my example. i wish to unmask these people: i perfectly agree with nearly everything they say, but their claim to be christians is utterly confusing, and lends a lustre to christianity which is quite foreign. deussen, for example, coolly discards nearly all the old testament, and, picking a few new testament passages, often out of their context, claims his system as christianity. luther discards james. kingsford calls paul the arch heretic. my friend the christian clergyman accepted mark and acts until pushed. yet deussen is honest enough to admit that vedanta teaching is identical, but clearer! and he quite clearly and sensibly defines faith surely the

will my idol punish you! no earnest student of religion or draw poker should fail to commit this anecdote to memory. 767. mr chesterton.80 i must take this opportunity to protest against the charge brought by mr. chesterton against the englishmen who write philosophical essays on the splendour of eastern thought. if he confines his strictures to the translators of that well-known eastern work the old testament i am with him; any modern biblical critic will tell him what i mean. it took a long time, too, for the missionaries (and tommy atkins) to discover that budd was not a great gawd. but then they did not want to, and in any case sympath and intelligence are not precisely the most salient qualities in either soldiers or missionaries. but nothing is more absurd than to compare men like si

l you that i come, however unworthy, to take up the sword that huxley wielded; i tell you that the oppressor of science in her girlhood is already at work to ravish her virginity; that a moment s hesitation, idleness, security may force us back from the positions so hardly won. are we never to go forward, moreover? are our children still to be taught as facts the stupid and indecent fables of the old testament, fables that the archbishop of canterbury himself would indignantly repudiate? are minds to be warped early, the scientific method and imagination checked, the logical faculty thwarted thousands of workers lost each year to science? and the way to do this is not only through the negative common-sense of indifference; organise, organise, organise! for a flag we offer you the stainless

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t, you do not smoke, in fact you do nothing which is pleasant; you spend your whole lives in looking for the devil in the most unlikely places, and declare that the only remedy against his craft and his cunning is total immersion in tonic-water and pine-apple syrup. f. an interpretation of genesis. by theodore powys. this is a most mystical interpretation of the most beautiful of the books of the old testament. it consists of a dialogue between the lawgiver of israel and zetetes, who is not exactly the disciple, but rather the interpreter of the master's words. thus it commences "the law-giver of israel "in the beginning the truth created the heaven and the earth "zetetes "the life that is within and the life that is without, are not these the heaven and the earth that the truth created" w

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ter" and "a spring meeting" and we look forward to any future work of the author. there is more in his work that is met at first glance. let him forget that he writes for english readers and subscribers to libraries! george raffalovich. history of chemistry. by sir edward thorpe. watts and co. vol. ii. as excellent as vol. i. what is sir edward doing amongst this brainy goody lot? h2s. history of old testament criticism. by archibald duff, d.d. watts and co. 1"s" net. an interesting little volume, as complete as can be expected for 146 pages. duff, d. d, does not understand qabalah. we can assure him it is not a "fancied philosophy wherein everything was in reality brand new" as zunz 335 says. he does not understand it, but he is not alone in this. few understand the qabalah; and therefore

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

tchcraft, which regard homosexuality as a denial of the basic tenet of fertility, insist on man always being paired with woman, especiallyin a ceremony as personal asinitiation. a few days later the young man returned and asked if alex would accompany him to the home of some friends who might be able to help 'they are devout christians, evangelists, but they are eager to obey the teachings of the old testament and talk with angels, and they might be prepared to use witchcraft to do so' bill and eunice turned out to be crusaders in revivalist christianity and while bill was quite willing to invoke alien gods, his wife wasreluctant. she felt it disobeyed.the teachings of christ 'but the apostles themselves said "seek ye good gifts, alex told her 'and one ofthe gifts they listed was to speak

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

tion that in these two aspects of the central divine life you have the third person of the logoic trinity co-operating with the second; you have the intelligent activity of divinity, or the holy spirit aspect, working in connection with the second aspect, or the son, who is the builder of forms. this is brought out in an interesting manner in proverbs viii. where wisdom cries aloud (wisdom in the old testament representing the christ aspect, and after pointing out that he was with god before ever there was creation, goes on to say that when "he appointed the foundations of the earth, then i was by him as the master worker or builder" students would do well to study this chapter in connection with the ideas that we are here formulating, being careful to ascertain the exact translation. we n

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

ature of those obstacles, 4. determination to eliminate them, 5. a sudden flash or vision of the soul reality, 6. fresh aspiration and a strong determination to make that fleeting vision a permanent reality in the lower plane experience, 7. the battle of kurukshetra, with krishna, the soul, heartening arjuna, the aspirant, on to steady and continuous effort. the same thought is to be found in the old testament, in the case of joshua before the walls of jericho. it might be well here to conclude this comment with sutras 31, 32, 33 and 34, of book iv: 31. when, through the removal of the hindrances and the purification of all the sheaths, the totality of knowledge becomes available, naught further remains for the man to do. 32. the modifications of the mind-stuff (or qualities of matter) thr

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

nction with true unanimity; hence (and herein lies a hint) our earth is not one of the seven sacred planets. there is, as we know, the ancient legend of the lost pleiade, and there are many such stories. again, in the council chamber of the most high, there has not always been peace and understanding, but at times, war and disruption; this is made abundantly clear by several of the stories in the old testament. symbolically speaking, some of the sons of god fell from their high estate, led, at one time, by "lucifer, son of the morning. this "fall of the angels" was a tremendous event in the history of our planet, but was nevertheless only a passing and interesting phenomenon in the history of the solar system, and a trifling incident in the affairs of the seven constellations, of which our

as preserved intact more of the original characteristics. it is the realisation of this common origin which has led the british-israelites into their travesty of the truth, and caused them to trace our modern western history to the jews of the dispersion. it is a far more ancient relation than that, and dates back into a period that antedates the history of the jews as it is related for us in the old testament. the original three disciples and their family groups were the ancestors of three major racial groupings, which can be generalised as follows: 1. the semitic race or races of biblical and modern times; the arabs, the afghans, the moors and the offshoots and affiliations of those peoples, including the modern egyptians. these are all descended from the eldest of the three disciples. 2

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

comes between the previous jewish dispensation (the two thousand years wherein the sun was passing through the sign aries, the ram) and the aquarian age into which our sun is now in process of transiting. these are astronomical facts, for i am not here speaking of astrological conclusions. in the period when the sun was in aries, we find the frequent appearance of the ram or the scapegoat in the old testament teaching, and the keeping of the passover feast. in the christian age we use the fish symbology, even to eating fish on good friday. the symbol of the aquarian age, as it appears in all the ancient zodiacs, is that of a man bearing a jar of water. the message of that age is one of unity, communion and our relationship as brothers, because we are all the children of the one father. to

ons it is called by a terminology suited to the time and temperament of the aspirant. where the christian disciple speaks of "christ in you, the hope of glory,"11 the oriental disciple may speak of the self or the atman. the modern schools of thought speak of- 27- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the ego, or the higher self, the real man, or the spiritual entity, whilst in the old testament reference is made to the "angel of the presence" a long list of these synonyms could be compiled, but for our purpose we shall confine ourselves to the word "soul" because of its wide use in the west. the immortal soul in man prepares him for the first initiation, for it is this soul which manifests upon earth as the "infant christ" and appears in man. this is the new birth. that whi

he gates of new life to thee! see the christ stand" after the third initiation, the transfiguration, when the personality has been subordinated to the soul, or the indwelling christ, and the glory of the lord can shine forth through the medium of the flesh, we are faced with the supreme achievement of the crucifixion and the resurrection. then, we are told, that mysterious being, spoken of in the old testament as melchizedek, and as the ancient of days, will play his part and initiate us into the still higher mysteries. of him we are told that "this melchizedek, king of salem, priest of the most high god. was, in the first place, as his name means, king of righteousness, and besides that, king of salem (that is king of peace. being without father or mother or ancestry, having neither begin

f twelve years signifies a full period of evolution when an initiation was undergone by the christ soul. this took place in the inner mind (the temple) and corresponded to an awakening of the logical and intuition sides of the soul. these are the father-mother principle, indicated by the presence of the parents."61 and again "this number (of the twelve disciples) is typified by many things in the old testament; by the 12 sons of jacob, by the 12 princes of the children of israel; by the 12 running springs in helim; by the 12 stones in aaron's breastplate; by the 12 loaves of the shew-bred; by the 12 spies sent by moses; by the 12 stones of which the altar was made; by the 12 stones taken out of jordan; by the 12 oxen which bare the brazen sea. also in the new testament, by the 12 stars in

easons it was the chosen sign at this initiation. water, as we have seen, is the symbol of the emotional nature, which nature when purified through initiation, becomes a peaceful limpid pool, capable of reflecting the divine nature in its purity. thus, in the form of a dove, the peace of god descended upon jesus. secondly, the essential dualities of existence are typified for us in the bible. the old testament stands for the natural lower man, the virgin mary aspect, carrying within itself the promise of the messiah, of him who shall come. the new testament stands for the spiritual man, for god made flesh, and for the birth of that which the material nature carried and veiled for so long. the old testament opens with the appearance of the raven at the time of the founding of the ancient wo

be lived continuously except in a fellowship, within which mutual challenge, mutual encouragement and mutual confession of failure are easy"(4) entrance into such a life and such a fellowship involves some measure of suffering, sacrifice, or humiliation `whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple (luke xiv.27. it is perhaps not an accident that already in the old testament the promise `thine eyes shall hear a word behind thee, saying this is the way, walk ye in it' is preceded by the words `and though the lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction'"6 it takes courage to face the fact of death, and to formulate with definiteness one's beliefs upon the subject. it is a statistical fact that about fifty million people die every year

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latins, teutons, nordics, and anglo-saxons, and their various offshoots. 3. a group which bridges between the oriental races and the aryan race which we call the semitic. this race is neither purely oriental nor is it aryan. the jews are a group of people in whom the principle of separation is pronouncedly present. for ages they have, with determination and in obedience to the injunctions in the old testament, insisted on regarding themselves as a people set apart. for ages they have held themselves separated off from all other peoples in the world. the result is that they are now evoking from the races among whom they are scattered a corresponding desire to force that very separation upon them. under the law, we draw forth from others what is actually present within ourselves, and to thi

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

e i copyright 1998 lucis trust 4. gradually the antahkarana is built and in this way the "greater light and the lesser light" are consciously related. a path of light and energy is established or created between these two divine aspects. as time goes on, there appears in the egoic group what is technically known as the "linking light" or the "bridging radiance" this is the path referred to in the old testament as "the path of the just is as a shining light which shineth more and more until the day be with us" in the esoteric books it is referred to in the following terms "before a man can tread the path, he must become that path himself" these four stages have been described in the old commentary in the following terms "the point of light shines forth. it waxes and it wanes. the point beco

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

ine requirements they have, as a people, been obedient and hence their plight in a modern world. the word "love" as it concerns relation to other people is lacking in their religious presentation, though love of jehovah is taught with due threats; the concept of a future life, dependent upon conduct and behaviour to others and on right action in the world of men, is almost entirely lacking in the old testament and teaching on immortality is nowhere emphasized; salvation is apparently dependent upon the keeping of numerous physical laws and rules related to physical cleanliness; they go so far as to establish retail shops where these rules are kept in a modern world where scientific methods are applied to purity in food. all these and other factors of less importance set the jew apart, and

jew was not the first to claim and love him. he remembers far more acutely jewish business methods, the fact that the jew, if orthodox, regards gentile food as impure for him and that the jew considers his citizenship as secondary to his racial obligations. he regards the jew as a follower of an obsolete religion; he intensely dislikes the cruel and jealous jehovah of the jews and looks upon the old testament as the history of a cruel and aggressive people apart from the psalms of david, which all men love. these are points to which the jew at no time seems to pay attention and yet it is these things in their aggregate which have set the jew apart from the world in which he wants to live and be happy and in which he is the victim of an inheritance which could with profit be modernized- 58

ntiles among whom he lives. the need of the jew at this time is for a solution of this ancient problem which has disturbed the peace of countries down the centuries. the responsibility of the non-jews, in the light of humanitarian demand, is vital; the record of the persecution of the jews is a grievous and ghastly story, only paralleled by the jewish treatment of their enemies, as related in the old testament. the fate of the jews in the world war is a terrible tale of cruelty, torture and wholesale murder and the treatment of the jews down the ages is one of the blackest chapters in human history. for it there is no excuse or condonation, and right thinking people everywhere are aware of this and are eagerly demanding that these persecutions end. the spiritual forces of the world and the

loves those who interpret him in terms of some particular school of theological thought, the symbolism of the blood sacrifice, the appropriation of the cross as a christian symbol, the teaching about the virgin birth and the picture of an angry deity only appeased by death are the unhappy results of man's own thinking, of his own lower nature, of his sectarian isolationism (fostered by the jewish old testament, but not generally found in the oriental faiths) and of his sense of fear, inherited from the animal side of his nature all these are fostered and inculcated by theology but not by christ, or the buddha or shri krishna. the little minds of men at their past and present stages of evolution cannot today and never have comprehended the mind and the purposes of the one in whom we live an

fe and its processes, based on continuously renewed opportunity, controls the people. christianity has emphasized immortality but has made eternal happiness dependent upon the acceptance of a theological dogma: be a true professing christian and live eternally in a somewhat fatuous heaven or refuse to be an accepting christian and go to an impossible hell a hell growing out of the theology of the old testament and its presentation of a god full of hate and jealousy. both concepts are today repudiated by all sane, sincere, thinking people. no one of any true reasoning power or with any true belief in a god of love accepts the heaven of the churchmen or has any desire to go there. still less do they accept the "lake that burneth with fire and brimstone" or the everlasting torture to which a

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

tual hierarchy of our planet; it is dependent also upon the steadfastness of the christ's disciples in the world at this time and his initiate-workers all working in the many groups, religious, political and economic. to the above must be added what christians like to call "the inscrutable will of god" that unrecognised purpose of the lord of the world, the ancient of days (as he is called in the old testament) who "knows his own mind, radiates the highest quality of love and focusses his will in his own high place within the centre where the will of god is known" when the christ, the avatar of love, makes his reappearance then will the "sons of men who are now the sons of god withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are

vered, therefore, nine years (a- 36- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust relatively brief time; it resulted in the decision arrived at by the christ to re-appear or return to visible presence on earth as soon as possible, and considerably earlier than had been planned. this decision was necessarily made in consultation with the lord of the world, the "ancient of days" of the old testament, and the "one in whom we live and move and have our being" of the new testament. he is the custodian of the will of god. it was also made with the full understanding and cooperation of the masters and the senior initiates. this was inevitably so, because their participation and help were imperative. they also necessarily had to be with him in thought, and cooperating mentally, becaus

under influence of solar progression. the at present dubious science of astrology has sidetracked the legitimate interest of humanity in the astronomical teaching and its spiritual interpretation of the passage of the sun through the signs of the zodiac. yet, in the new testament, that recognition is clearly revealed and colours the presentation of the entire gospel story. it is found also in the old testament. what was the sin of the children of israel in the desert but a reversion to the old mithraic worship which distinguished the time when the sun was "in the sign of taurus, the bull" as it is technically called. they fell down and worshipped the golden calf and forgot the new teaching of the age of aries, the ram, into which they were entering, the teaching of the scapegoat which colo

n continuously renewed opportunity, controls the people. christianity has emphasised immortality but has made eternal happiness dependent upon the acceptance of a theological dogma: be a true professing christian and live in a somewhat fatuous heaven or refuse to be an accepting christian, or a negative professional christian, and go to an impossible hell a hell growing out of the theology of the old testament and its presentation of a god, full of hate and jealousy. both concepts are today repudiated by all sane, sincere, thinking people. no one of any true reasoning power or with any true belief in a god of love accepts the heaven of the churchmen or has any desire to go there. still less do they accept the "lake that burneth with fire and brimstone (rev. xix.20) or the everlasting tortu

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

and heart; he will think in terms of the whole and not in terms of the part. that is the thing which he will endeavour to impress upon the racial consciousness. this may lead at times to ruthlessness and cruelty if the personality of the individual is not yet controlled by soul impulse. such cases can frequently be seen. an instance of this can be noted in the history of the jews as found in the old testament. when the first ray was in control and passing through one of its rare cycles of activity we read that they butchered and slaughtered all their enemies men, women and children, putting them to the sword. the sword is ever the symbol of the first ray force just as the pen is of the second ray influence. i wish to remind you that i use the word "energy" in reference to the spiritual ex

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

ld here do well to remember that the subjective eastern student is far more prone to telepathic receptivity than is his western brother; this has a definite bearing on all the above classifications, which is somewhat humiliating for the western mystic and occult student. the world scriptures emanate from another department of the second ray teaching faculty. in this statement i do not include the old testament except such passages as the twenty-third psalm and certain passages out of the prophets, particularly the prophet isaiah. the world scriptures were written for mystics, occupied with beauty, comfort, and encouragement, and were not written for occultists. i would call this to your attention. in this section of the teaching i am dealing with the nature and results of contact, of recep

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

e after the many voices of nature and within myself were stilled. i knew that behind all that i could see and touch there was a something that could not be seen but which could be felt and which was more real and more truly essential than the tangible. i had been brought up to believe in a god transcendent, outside his created world, inscrutable, unpredictable, often cruel (to judge from what the old testament reports, loving only those who recognised him and accepted him, and slaying his only son so that people like me could be saved and not perish everlastingly. innately i criticised this presentation of a loving god, but automatically accepted it. but he was far away, distant and unapproachable. yet all the time, something within me, inchoate and indefinable, was reaching out after god

st out of life along material lines? let us eat and drink and get worldly goods for tomorrow we die. all this is understandable but does not make for good relations. as i have studied and thought and asked questions, certain things have clarified in my mind and are for me part of the answer. the jews hang on to a religion which is basically obsolete. i asked myself a few days ago what part of the old testament was worth preserving. much of it is dreadful, cruel and only because the literature is found in the bible does it pass the post-office regulations. i decided that the ten commandments must be preserved, one or two of the bible stories such as the love of david and jonathan, the 23rd psalm and the 91st psalm with a few others and about four chapters in the book of isaiah. all the rest

he trite statement that "god said" but perhaps he didn't; perhaps the translation was wrong; perhaps the phrase under consideration was an interpolation there are many such in the bible. then came the question in my mind: why did god speak only to jews? i knew nothing of the other scriptures in the world and if i had known them i would not have regarded them as scriptures. there were parts of the old testament that shocked me and parts that made me often wonder how they ever got through the mails. in an ordinary book they would have been regarded as obscene, but in the bible they were all right. i began to wonder if my interpretations were not as good as somebody else's. i remember pondering one day on the verse in the bible "the very hairs of your head are all numbered" it seemed to me th

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

ly handled. 2. the problem of the right relation of a particular centre to its related gland, permitting the free play of the force pouring through the centre to the allied glandular correspondence, thus conditioning its peculiar hormone and eventually conditioning the blood stream. if you grasp this sequence of contact, you will understand more clearly the occult significance of the words in the old testament that "the blood is the life" it is the vitality coming from the etheric body which works through into the blood stream, via the centre which is responsive to one of the seven peculiar types of force, and its allied gland. it will be apparent, therefore, that there is a close relation between: a. the etheric body as a transmitter of a vast aggregate of energies and forces. b. the endo

ory is so well known and their future and their destiny are subjects of worldwide, universal concern. the jews have- 156- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust always had a symbolic significance; they sum up in themselves as a nation, down the ages the depths of human evil and the heights of human divinity. their aggressive history as narrated in the old testament is on a par with present-day german accomplishment; yet christ was a jew and it was the hebrew race which produced him. let this never be forgotten. the jews were great aggressors; they despoiled the egyptians and they took the promised land at the point of the sword, sparing neither man, woman nor child. their religious history has been built around a materialistic jehovah, possessi

is will mean concession and compromise on the part of the orthodox jews not the concession of expediency but the concession of conviction. let me point out also that just as the kabbalah and the talmud are secondary lines of esoteric approach to truth, and materialistic in their technique (embodying much of the magical work of relating one grade of matter to the substance of another grade, so the old testament is emphatically a secondary scripture, and spiritually does not rank with the bhagavad-gita, the ancient scriptures of the east and the new testament. its emphasis is material and its effect is to impress a purely materialistic jehovah upon world consciousness. the general theme of the old testament is the recovery of the highest expression of the divine wisdom in the first solar sys

s the recovery of the highest expression of the divine wisdom in the first solar system; that system embodied the creative work of the third aspect of divinity that of active intelligence, expressing itself through matter. in this solar system, the created world is intended to be the expression of the second aspect, of the love of god. this the jew has never grasped, for the love expressed in the old testament is the separative, possessive love of jehovah for a distinct unit within the fourth or human kingdom. st. paul summed up the attitude which humanity should assume in the words "there is neither jew nor gentile" the evil karma of the jew today is intended to end his isolation, to bring him to the point of relinquishing material goals, of renouncing a nationality that has a tendency to

nd the only hell is the earth itself, where we learn to work out our own salvation, actuated by the principle of love and light, and incited thereto by the example of the christ and the inner 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 o

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

a powerful repository of energies gathered out of a wide range of contacts, though conditioned by the ray type in its three aspects. the etheric body exists and is today functioning powerfully. the soul body is in process of being slowly constructed, and is that "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" to which the new testament refers (ii cor. 5: l. it is interesting to note that the old testament refers to the etheric body (ecc. 12:6-7) and its construction, and the new testament deals with the building of the spiritual body. 3. the science of the antahkarana must be studied in three ways: a. concretely and in relation to the etheric body, which is a substantial, tangible form, and is being so considered (though not as yet universally admitted) by modern science. b. egoically

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

problem as a humanitarian problem but also when the jew does his share of understanding, love and right action. this he does not yet do, speaking racially. he must let go of his own separative tendencies and of his deep sense of persecution. he will do this latter with great facility, when he grasps, as a race, the significance and inevitability of the law of karma, and from a close study of the old testament and of the acts and deeds there claimed by him as his racial acts and deeds (conquest, terrorism and cruelty, realises that the law is working out and incidentally releasing him for a greater future. there must, at the same time, be a realisation by the jew and gentile of equal responsibility and equal liability for the present world difficulty. the two forces to which i have been re

vine interference and intervention; this succeeded in salvaging an ethically sound minority (the word "spiritual" would not yet apply, except relatively) and in destroying those who were wrongly focussed or oriented and, therefore, dedicated to the life of material aspiration and perception. this nucleus which was saved, formed the basis of our present root race, the aryan. the whole theme of the old testament is built around the development and growth of this nucleus. symbolically speaking, the inhabitants of the ark and their descendants and the jewish race stand for the salvaged remnant of humanity salvaged in spite of themselves and in face of stupendous difficulties by the great white lodge- 81- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust two points warrant attenti

ed us how we too could learn to tread the lighted way. the buddha, whose festival is held ever at the full moon of may (or of taurus, falling this year during the last week in april, acts today as the agent of that great life in whom we live and move and have our being, who is himself the true light of the world and the planetary enlightener. i refer to the ancient of days (as he is called in the old testament, to the god of love, to sanat kumara, the eternal youth, the one who holds all men in life and who is carrying his whole creation along the path of evolution to its consummation a consummation of which we have not as yet the faintest idea. year after year, ever since the buddha achieved his goal of illumination, an effort has been made to increase the flow of enlightenment into the w

vibration is a necessary aspect of your normal expression little as you may like to realise this. you need to realise that there is nothing in the masters or higher initiates which can respond to any vibration of this nature. though they cannot absorb it or react to it or redevelop it again, it can cause them the acutest discomfort and pain; that is the reason why the son of god was called in the old testament a "man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. this did not in reality refer to his sufferings for poor miserable humanity (as orthodox theology so selfishly interprets it) but to the fact that he had to submit himself to contact with humanity. the hierarchy is therefore, along all lines (many of which i may not indicate or upon which i may not enlarge- 347- the externalisation of the

ngs of the loving, simple son of god have been largely 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

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

s of the wisdom is to let in the light, utilising those rents which already exist within the veils of maya. three major rents within these veils might here be noted. they are symbolically referred to in the bible, though their essential meaning has not been noted or comprehended. the first major rent was made by the establishment of the law of god, and this is portrayed for us symbolically in the old testament in the story of moses. he went up into the mount of god and there received the ten commandments. this is the expression of divine law as adapted for humanity and as needed in the projection of those forces which will destroy, purify and reorganise. moses, the lawgiver, penetrated to one of the halls within the veils of maya, and there encountered the glory of the lord. this was of su

s is one of the factors which disciples have to learn and grasp whilst preparing for an initiation, because it involves success in handling and manipulating certain types of divine energy. each of the initiations brings one or other of the seven centres into full functioning activity, not from the angle of awakening or of stimulation, but from the angle of a "wheel turning upon itself" this is an old testament expression and is wholly inadequate, but i can find none other to substitute. the wording is totally blind and inadequate and will prove to you somewhat meaningless, except to the initiate who has experienced that turning. as esoteric astrologers know well, there comes a life cycle wherein the disciple reverses himself upon the wheel of life (the zodiacal wheel) and from going clockw

re clearly seen because of their activities. very few lands today are in the possession of their original inhabitants, and if restoration is made to all original inhabitants (which is not possible) an impossible situation would be brought about just as legitimate as the zionist position. if the zionist claims are to be considered (and they have been) they in their turn should realise that (if the old testament is to be believed) they originally took the land of palestine away from its original owners nearly three thousand years ago, at the point of the sword and through an unprovoked aggression. this conflict which the zionists have precipitated is basic and useful. it constitutes a test case, being based upon physical plane aggression, being fought with the most violent emotional disturba

for the jews have forfeited that privilege. the messiah for whom they wait will be one of christ's senior disciples, but it will not be, as originally intended, the christ. symbolically, the jews represent (from the point of view of the hierarchy) that from which all masters of the wisdom and lords of compassion emerge: materialism, cruelty and a spiritual conservatism, so that today they live in old testament times and are under the domination of the separative, selfish, lower concrete mind. but their opportunity will come again, and they may change all this when the fires of suffering at last succeed in purifying them and burning away their ancient crystallisation, thus liberating them to the extent that they can recognise their messiah, who will not, however, be the world messiah. the j

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

of obligation certain of the ancient masonic rituals, and symbolizes the drinking of that which we have ourselves brewed. in other words, the same truth can be expressed in the words of christian bible "as a man soweth, so shall he also reap [107] then we have, thirdly, corvus, the raven, that stands upon hydra, the serpent, and pecks at it. it has nine stars, again the number of initiation. the old testament started with a raven, the new testament starts with a dove. experience starts with the bird of matter and ends with the bird of spirit. it is interesting to note that in aquarius, the consummating sign to leo, we find cygnus, the swan, the symbol of the bird of spirit. in the voice of the silence we read "and then thou canst repose between the wings of the great bird. aye, sweet to r

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

n the form of lectures to a society of hermetic students in 1888. since that date a french translation of "the zohar" by jean de pauly, and a work entitled "the literature and history of the kabalah" by arthur e. waite, have been published, yet i think that this little treatise will be found of interest to those who have not sufficient leisure to master the more complete works on the kabalah. the old testament has been of necessity referred to, but i have by intention made no references to the new testament, or to the faith and doctrines taught by jesus the christ, as the saviour of the world: if any desire to refer to the alleged reference in the kabalah to the trinity, it will be found in the zohar ii, 43, b: and an english version of the same in "the kabbalah" by c. d. ginsburg. wm. wyn

id up in some of the old manuscript works. the dogmatic or theoretical kabalah indicates philosophical conceptions respecting the deity, angels and beings more spiritual than man; the human soul and its several aspects or parts; concerning pre-existence and re-incarnation and the several worlds or planes of existence. the practical kabalah attempts a mystical and allegorical interpretation of the old testament, studying each phrase, word and letter; it teaches the connection between letters and numbers and the modes of their inter-relation; the principles of gematria, notaricon, and temura; the formation and uses of the divine and angelic names as amulets; the formation of magic squares; and a vast fund of allied curious lore, which subsequently formed the basis of mediaeval magic. for tho

e, at the time of the second temple when cyrus, sovereign of all asia, 536 b.c, holding the jews in captivity, permitted certain of them to return to jerusalem for the express purpose of reestablishing the hebrew mode of worship which had been forcibly interfered with by nebuchadnezzar in 587 b.c. after this return to jerusalem it was that ezra and nehemiah, circa 450 b.c, edited and compiled the old testament of the hebrews, or according to those who deny the mosaic authorship and the solomonic r gime, it was then that they wrote the pentateuch. the renewed worship maintained until 320 b.c, when jerusalem was captured by ptolemy soter, who, however, did not destroy the foundations of the jewish religion; indeed his successor, ptolemy philadelphus, caused the hebrew scriptures to be revise

e the pentateuch. the renewed worship maintained until 320 b.c, when jerusalem was captured by ptolemy soter, who, however, did not destroy the foundations of the jewish religion; indeed his successor, ptolemy philadelphus, caused the hebrew scriptures to be revised and translated into greek by seventy-two scholars, about 277 b.c; this has been known for centuries as the septuagint version of the old testament. further jewish troubles followed, however, and jerusalem was again taken and pillaged by antiochus in 170 b.c. then followed the long wars of the maccabees; subsequently the romans dominated judea, then quarrelling with the jews the city was taken by pompey, and not long after was again plundered by the roman general crassus in 54 b.c. yet the jewish religion was preserved, and we f

taken by pompey, and not long after was again plundered by the roman general crassus in 54 b.c. yet the jewish religion was preserved, and we find the religious feasts and festivals all in progress at the time of jesus; yet once more in a.d. 70, was the holy city taken, plundered and burnt, and that by titus, who became emperor of the romans in a.d. 79. through all these vicissitudes, the hebrew old testament survived, yet must almost unavoidably have had many alterations and additions made to its several treatises; the more esoteric doctrines which were handed down along the line of the priestly caste, and not incorporated with the torah offered to the people, may no doubt have been repeatedly varied by the influences of contending teachers. soon after this period was framed the first se

unavoidably have had many alterations and additions made to its several treatises; the more esoteric doctrines which were handed down along the line of the priestly caste, and not incorporated with the torah offered to the people, may no doubt have been repeatedly varied by the influences of contending teachers. soon after this period was framed the first series of glosses and commentaries on the old testament books, which have come down to our times. of these the earliest are the volume called the "targum of onkelos" on "the law" written about a.d. 100, and that of jonathan ben uzziel on "the prophets" about a.d 141 there first came into note the now famous treatise written by the rabbis of judah, called "mishna" and this formed the basis of those vast compilations of hebrew doctrine call

babylon-the most notable, and the other associated with jerusalem. to the original "mishna" the rabbis added further commentaries named "gemara" from this time the literature of judaism grew apace, and there was a constant succession of notable hebrew rabbis who published religious treatises, until at least a.d. 1500. the two talmuds were first printed at venice in 1520 and 1523 respectively. the old testament books were the guiding light through the ages of the jews, but the learned rabbis were not satisfied with them alone, and they supplemented them by two parallel series of works of literature; the one, talmudic, being commentaries based upon thirteen rules of argument delivered by moses to illustrate the old testament, and supply material for teaching the populace; and the other a lon

ary elements, the seven planets, and the twelve zodiacal influences of the heavens, which tincture human concerns through the path of our sun in its annual course. i have given the names and definitions of the thirty-two paths at the end of my edition of the" sepher yetzirah" now to show the close connection between the kabalah and orthodox judaism, we find the rabbis cataloguing the books of the old testament into a series of twenty-two (the letters) works to be read for the culture of spiritual life; this twenty-two they obtained from the thirty-nine books of the o.t. canon, by collecting the twelve minor prophets into one treatise; ruth they added to judges; ezra to nehemiah; while the two books each of samuel, kings, and chronicles, they called one each. the canon of thirty-nine works

sophy of clear design, deep intuition and far-reaching cosmologic suggestions; that are well worthy of the honour of receiving a special name and of founding a theological body of doctrine--the kabalah. the bulwark and main foundation of the public hebrew religion has always been the pentateuch, five treatises attributed to moses, which proclaim the laws of jehovah given to his chosen people. the old testament beginning with these five books is further continued by historic books, by poetical teachings and by prophetic works, but many portions are marked by materialistic characteristics and a lack of spiritual rectitude which the books of a great religion might be expected to display, and they even offend our present standard of moral life. the mosaic law, eminently valuable for many purpo

ws of what might have emanated from god the personal creator of this universe with its million worlds; and the almost entire absence of any reference to a life after death for human beings shows a materialism which needed a new revelation by jesus, whose life has earned the title of "christ" yet the orthodox of england hear this statement with incredulity, and if asked to show the passages in the old testament which insist on a life after death, or on a succession of lives for purposes of retribution, or the passages demonstrating the immortality of the soul, they could not produce them, and are content to refer you to the clergy, whose answer generally is "if not plainly laid down, these dogmas are implied" but are they? if they are, how is it that notably clear passages can be quoted whi

fter death, or on a succession of lives for purposes of retribution, or the passages demonstrating the immortality of the soul, they could not produce them, and are content to refer you to the clergy, whose answer generally is "if not plainly laid down, these dogmas are implied" but are they? if they are, how is it that notably clear passages can be quoted which show that important authors in the old testament make statements in direct opposition to these doctrines? and how is it, again, that a great author of modern times has said "prosperity was the blessing of the old testament for good works, but adversity that of the new? this could only be true if there were no future life or lives, or no coming period of reward and punishment contemplated by the old testament doctrine. but the comme

statements in direct opposition to these doctrines? and how is it, again, that a great author of modern times has said "prosperity was the blessing of the old testament for good works, but adversity that of the new? this could only be true if there were no future life or lives, or no coming period of reward and punishment contemplated by the old testament doctrine. but the comment is true and the old testament does teach that man is no more immortal than the beast, as witness ecclesiastes, iii. 19-"for that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea they have all one breath; so that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. all go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again

m received a ray of the supernal mind, which was to dwell there for a time, to gain experience, to receive retribution, and then enter another stage of progress, and achieve a final return to its divine source. and yet the authors of these volumes, whoever they were, could hardly have been without the conception of the higher part of man, of his spiritual soul. the critical contention is that the old testament was deprived at some period of its religious philosophy, which was set apart for a privileged class; while the husk of strict law and tradition was alone offered for the acceptance of the people. the kernel of spiritual philosophy which is lacking in the old testament as a religious book may be the essential core of the kabalah; for these kabalistic dogmas are hebraic, and they are s

APOCALYPSE MOSES

spiritual disse sthe forgotten books of eden translated in the late 1800's by dr. s. c. malan and dr. e. trumpp. translated into king james english from both the arabic version and the ethiopic version which was then published in the forgotten books of eden in 1927 by the world publishing company. apocalypses moses part of the "forgotten" books of eden from-the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the old testament r.h. charles oxford: the clarendon press, 1913 scanned and edited by joshua williams northwest nazarene college,1995 this is the story of adam and eve after they had gone out of paradise. chapter 1. 1 and adam knew his wife eve and went upwards to the sun-rising and abode there eighteen years and two months. 2 and eve conceived and bare two sons; adiaphotos, who is called cain and am

BLACK SERPENT1

eir religious beliefs- is apparently becoming more and more problematic to some. a new trend within the american christian spiritual experience is a movement that is being called "dominionism" it is sometimes called "christian reconstructionism" and appears to have grown out of conservative presbyterianism during the early 1970's. dominionist beliefs are evidently derived from genesis 1:26 of the old testament "then god said 'let us make man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground (niv) 12 dominionist theologians believe that it is their responsibility, as christians, to bring the entire world- all countries, societies, and governments- und

eaders are probably sweating at the brow by now. however, let's keep a good head on our shoulders. there are certain things we need to keep in mind about these dominionists and their relations to the rest of christianity. for one thing, it is important to acknowledge that, unlike most other forms of fundamentalist christianity, dominionists stress the importance of the hebrew scriptures (i.e, the old testament) over the christian scriptures (i.e, the new testament. this is a highly unusual position for fundamentalist christians to take. usually it is believed among the more conservative christians that the old testament is not nearly as important as the new testament. so this right here is an example of how unusual dominionists actually are. another thing is that dominionists openly claim

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

power of exact expression of proportion" by this kabalistic speculation we are taught that the sephiroth "were the numbers or emanations of the heavenly light (figures 20612 to 6561, they were the 10 'words' dbrim, 41224, the light, of which they were the flux, was the heavenly man, the adam kdm (the 144- 144; and the light, by the new testament or covenant (or 41224) created god; just as, by the old testament god (alhim, 31415) creates light (20612 to 6561" now there are three kinds of light in occultism, as in the kabala (1) the abstract and absolute light, which is darkness (2) the light of the manifested-unmanifested, called by some the logos; and (3) the latter light reflected in the dhyan chohans, the minor logoi (the elohim, collectively, who, in their turn, shed it on the objective

rishis, the patriarchs are all convertible in their numbers, as well as interchangeable. according to the subject to which they relate they become ten, twelve, seven or five, and even fourteen, and they have the same esoteric meaning as the manus or rishis. moreover, jehovah, as may be shown, has a variety of etymologies, but only those are true which are found in the kabala[[hebrew (ieve) is the old testament term, and was pronounced ya-va. inman suggests that it is contracted from the two words[[hebrew] yaho-iah, jaho-jah, or jaho is jah. punctuated it is[[hebrew] which is, however, a rabbinical caprice to associate it with the name adoni or[[hebrew, which has the same points. it is curious, and indeed hardly conceivable, that the jews anciently read the name[[hebrew (adoni, when they ha

, therefore, their great arts of meteorography and meteorology. it is from them, again, that the aryans inherited their most valuable science of the hidden virtues of precious and other stones, of chemistry, or rather alchemy, of mineralogy, geology, physics and astronomy. several times the writer has put to herself the question "is the story of exodus- in its details at least- as narrated in the old testament, original? or is it, like the story of moses himself and many others, simply another version of the legends told of the atlanteans" for who, upon hearing the story told of the latter, will fail to perceive the great similarity of the fundamental features? the anger of "god" at the obduracy of pharaoh, his command to the "chosen" ones, to spoil the egyptians, before departing, of thei

f the ark of the covenant" the biblical jews of to-day do not date from moses but from david- even admitting the identity of the old genuine with the later and remodelled mosaic scrolls. before that time their nationality is lost in the mists of prehistoric darkness, the veil from which is now withdrawn as much as we have space to do so. it is only to the days of the babylonian captivity that the old testament may be referred by the most lenient criticism, as the approximately correct views that were current about the days of moses. even such fanatical christians and worshippers of jehovah as the rev. mr. horne, have to admit the numerous changes and alterations made by the later compilers of the "book of god" since it was found by hilkiah (see "introduction to the old testament" and also

me* in the work of marangone "delle grandezze del archangelo sancto mikaele" the author exclaims "o star, the greatest of those that follow the sun who is christ[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 479 god and devil, both metatrons. the church accepts positively the tenet that christ has his ferouer as any other god or mortal has. writes de mirville "here we have the two heroes of the old testament, the verbum, or the second jehovah, and his face('presence' as the protestants translate) forming both but one, and yet being two, a mystery which seemed to us unsolvable before we had studied the doctrine of the mazdean ferouers, and learnt that the ferouer was the spiritual potency, at once image, face, and the guardian of the soul which finally assimilates the ferouer (memoires a

he other (sic) as, according to the zohar, the term signifies equally "the master and the ambassador" both are the angel of the face, because, as we are informed, if, on the one hand, the "word" is called "the face (or the presence) and the image of the substance of god" on the other "when[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] o living image of divinity! o great thaumaturgist of the old testament! o invisible vicar of christ within his church" etc, etc. the work is in great honour in the latin church[[vol. 2, page] 480 the secret doctrine. speaking of the saviour to the israelites, isaiah) tells them that "the angel of his presence saved them in their affliction "so he was their saviour* elsewhere he (michael) is called very plainly "the prince of the faces of the lord, the g

braham, and while saying "i am the almighty god" yet adds "i will establish my covenant to be a god unto thee (abraham, and unto his seed after him (gen. xvii. 7- not unto aryan europeans. but then, there was the grandiose and ideal figure of jesus of nazareth to be set off against a dark background, to gain in radiance by the contrast; and a darker one the church could hardly invent. lacking the old testament symbology, ignorant of the real connotation of the name of jehovah- the rabbinical secret substitute for the ineffable and unpronounceable name- the church mistook the cunningly fabricated shadow for the reality, the anthropomorphized generative symbol for the one secondless reality, the ever unknowable cause of all. as a logical sequence the church, for purposes of duality, had to i

t the mechanical and physiological secrets of "creation" shall we, then, regard the evolution of the universe as simply a prototype, on a gigantic scale, of the act of procreation? as "divine" phallicism, and rhapsodize on it as the evilly-inspired author of a late work of this name has done? the writer does not think so. and she feels justified in saying so, since the most careful reading of the old testament- esoterically, as well as exoterically- seems to have carried the most enthusiastic enquirers no further than a certainty on mathematical grounds that from the first to the last chapter of the pentateuch every scene, every character or event are shown connected, directly or indirectly, with the origin of birth in its crudest and most[[vol. 2, page] 545 a plagiarism by pascal. brutal

fied" in space belongs certainly to the ancient hindus, and muir shows it in his "hindu pantheon" in the engraving that represents wittoba. plato adopted it in his decussated cross in space, the[[diagram "the second god who impressed himself on the universe in the form of the cross; krishna is likewise shown "crucified (see dr. lundy's monumental christianity, fig. 72) again it is repeated in the old testament in the queer injunction to crucify men before the lord, the sun- which is no prophecy at all, but has a direct phallic significance. in ii. of that same most suggestive work on the kabalistic meanings "the hebrew-egyptian mystery" we read again "in symbol, the nails of the cross have for the shape of the heads thereof a solid pyramid, and a tapering square obeliscal shaft, or phallic

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ed by the brahmins from the bible! but the facts cited by the oxford professor in his lectures on the "science of religion" concerning the now famous interpolations, for the benefit, and later on to the sorrow, of col. wilford, do not at all interfere with the conclusions to which one who studies the secret doctrine must unavoidably come. for, if the results show that neither the new nor even the old testament borrowed anything from the more ancient religion of the brahmans and buddhists, it does not follow that the jews have not borrowed all they knew from the chaldean records, the latter being mutilated later on by eusebius. as to the chaldeans, they assuredly got their primitive learning from the brahmans, for rawlinson shows an undeniably vedic influence in the early mythology of babyl

f the infinite space. and this spirit is nara-yana, or vishnu[[footnote(s* see "the holy of holies* the word "eternity" by which christian theologians interpret the term "for ever and ever" does not exist in the hebrew tongue- either as a word or meaning. oulam, says le clerc, only imports a time when beginning or end is not known. it does not mean "infinite duration" and the word for ever in the old testament, only signifies a "long time" nor is the term "eternity" used in the christian sense in the puranas. for in vishnu purana, it is clearly stated that by eternity and immortality only "existence to the end of the kalpa" is meant (book ii. chap. viii* orphic theogony is purely oriental and indian in its spirit. the successive transformations it has undergone, have now separated it widel

sonality. therefore, no pantheistic philosopher would fail to find the remarks that follow the above and which represent the anthropomorphism of judean symbology, other than dangerous for the sacredness of true religion, and fitting only our materialistic age, which is the direct outcome and result of that anthropomorphic character. for this is the key-note to the entire spirit and essence of the old testament "therefore" goes on the mss, treating of the symbolism of art-speech of the bible "the locality of the womb is to be taken as the most holy place, the sanctum sanctorum, and the veritable temple of the living god* with man the possession of the woman has always been considered as an essential part of himself, to make one out of two, and jealously guarded as sacred. even the part of t

t-vedic woman was as free as man; and no impure terrestrial thought was ever mixed with the religious symbo[[footnote(s* surely the words of the old initiate into the primitive mysteries of christianity "know ye not ye are the temple of god (i corinth. iii. 16) could not be applied in this sense to men? the meaning may have been, and was so, undeniably, in the minds of the hebrew compilers of the old testament. and here is the abyss that lies between the symbolism of the new testament and the jewish canon. this gulf would have remained and ever widened, had not christianity- especially and most glaringly the latin church- thrown a bridge over it? modern popery has now spanned it entirely, by its dogma of the two immaculate conceptions, and the anthropomorphic and at the same time idolatrou

rch, without being in any wise ashamed of the proof, portrays the virgin mary arrayed with the sun, and the horned moon at her feet, holding the lunar infant in her arms- as child and consort of the mother moon. the mother, child, and adult male, are fundamental "in this way it can be proved that our christology is mummified mythology, and legendary lore, which have been palmed off upon us in the old testament and the new, as divine revelation uttered by the very voice of god" a charming allegory is found in the zohar, one which unveils better than anything ever did the true character of jehovah or yhvh in the primitive conception of the hebrew kabalists. it is now found in the philosophy of i'bn gebirol's kabbalah, translated by isaac myer "in the introduction written by r'hez'quee-yah, w

ovah and cain one- that cain who is referred to in theology as the "murderer" and the liar to god! jehovah tempts the king of israel to number the people, and satan tempts him to do the same in another place. jehovah turns into the fiery serpents to bite those he is displeased with; and jehovah informs the brazen serpent that heals them. these short, and seemingly contradictory, statements in the old testament (contradictory because the two powers are separated instead of being regarded as the two faces of one and the same thing) are the[[vol. 1, page] 415 theological etymologies. echoes- distorted out of recognition by exotericism and theology- of the universal and philosophical dogmas in nature, so well understood by the primitive sages. we find the same groundwork in several personifica

ilibrium must be preserved. the operations of the two contraries produce harmony, like the centripetal and centrifugal forces, which are necessary to each other- mutually inter-dependent "in order that both should live" if one is arrested, the action of the other will become immediately self-destructive. since the personification called satan has been amply analyzed from its triple aspect- in the old testament, christian theology and the ancient gentile attitude of thought- those who would learn more of it are referred to vol. ii. of isis unveiled, chap. x. see also several sections in book ii, part ii. of this work. the present subject is touched upon and fresh explanations attempted for a very good reason. before we can approach the evolution of physical and divine man, we have first to

hipped, why should the same elohim be called devils, when appearing under the names of other gods* the choice is curious, and shows how paradoxical were the first christians in their selections. for why should they have chosen these symbols of egyptian paganism, when the eagle is never mentioned in the new testament save once, when jesus refers to it as a carrion eater (matt. xxiv. 28; and in the old testament it is called unclean; that the lion is made a point of comparison with satan, both roaring for men to devour; and the oxen are driven out of the temple. on the other hand the serpent, brought as an exemplar of wisdom to follow, is now regarded as the symbol of the devil. the esoteric pearl of christ's religion degraded into christian theology, may indeed be said to have chosen a stra

n and moon, since the "priests, whom the kings of judah had ordained to burn incense. unto baal, to the sun, moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven" or the twelve signs or constellations, as the marginal note in the english bible explains (see ii. kings xxiii. 5, had followed the injunction for centuries. they were stopped in their idolatry only by king josiah, 624 years b.c. the old testament is full of allusions to the twelve zodiacal signs, and the whole scheme is built upon it- heroes, personages, and events. thus in the dream of joseph, who saw eleven "stars" bowing to the twelfth, which was his "star" the zodiac is meant. the roman catholics have discovered in it, moreover, a prophecy of christ, who is that twelfth star, they say, and the eleven apostles; the absence

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better living than the vast majority of christians. they had to be converted! the charge of devil-worship, so often leveled at witches, is ridiculous. the devil is a purely christian invention; there being no mention of him, as such, before the new testament. in fact it is interesting to note that the whole concept of evil associated with the devil is due to an error in translation. the original old testament hebrew ha-satan and the new testament greek diabolos simply mean "opponent" or "adversary. it should be remembered that the idea of dividing the supreme power into two good and evil is the idea of an advanced and complex civilization. the old gods, through their gradual development, were very much "human" in that they would have their good side and their bad side. it was the idea of

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his sympathizers, vesey provided the charleston uprising with a spiritual impetus that secular ideology did not supply. religion became both a tool and a motivating force. but while christianity gave justification to the noble but dangerous cause of freedom fighting, ritual action was the catalyst. combining biblical rhetoric and antislavery discourse to inspire his followers, vesey utilized the old testament trope that identified the slaves with the israelites, portraying blacks as freedom fighters in a decisive struggle that had already\ 66\ been foretold in sacred history. as described in the confessions of rolla bennett, a slave of the former governor, vesey held secret gatherings in which he planned strategy and shared his revolutionary ideas. in a meeting at his home, vesey gave a m

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ica, milano, 1973, p.142. 1150 turba philosophorum translated from arabic. c. 1150: abbess hildegard of bingen (1078-1179, hailed as the "sibyl of the rhine" writes the scivias and a series of important letters; she also composes music and verse, including the ordo virtutum. c.1150 "the ysagoge in theologiam" text from the school of abelard (christian knowledge of jewish speculation)held that the old testament evidenced in hebrew the incarnation of the word and trinity in the unity of divine essence more than the latin or greek. c.1150 geoffrey of monmouth's "life of merlin" 1150 fl. ya aqob nazir (the nazirian) underwent in jerusalem initiation into mystical and angelogical traditions one of the handfull of jews from provence who were alledged daily access to the revelations of the prophe

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n passed a sealed message from their communicator to the pope, with instructions that it was only to be opened and made public in 1960. the pope did open it in 1960, but we are still waiting for all of it to be made public! one thing is for sure: if it had confirmed the basis of the roman catholic religion, it would have hit the airwaves within minutes. so what did it say? i am convinced that the old testament 'god' known as yhwh (yahweh) is also based on an extraterrestrial, or more likely, a series of them. interestingly, while the jewish religion is perceived as a 'one god' faith, the original hebrew texts do not support this. while the english translation refers to a 'god, the hebrew talks of elohim, the plural meaning 'gods. similarly, while we read the word 'lord' in the english, the

, the original hebrew texts do not support this. while the english translation refers to a 'god, the hebrew talks of elohim, the plural meaning 'gods. similarly, while we read the word 'lord' in the english, the hebrew refers to adonai, the plural 'lords. jehovah, who is often interchanged with yahweh, would seem to have a different origin. another extraterrestrial, most probably. if you read the old testament and other ancient texts and replace every reference to 'god' or 'the gods' with 'extraterrestrial, the whole thing begins to make sense and becomes so obvious. it is important to remember that in evolutionary terms, the time span between the period when these accounts were written and today is nothing, hardly the blink of an eye. modern ufo phenomena as reported by thousands of peopl

a. the bible story of the garden of eden is mirrored in the much earlier sumerian story of the garden of edinnu, and even the idea of the sabbath can be found in the sumerian day of rest, the sabattu. the jewish peoples were held in captivity in babylon and, when they were freed by the persians, they took many of the babylonian stories and beliefs back to palestine. these found their way into the old testament of the bible and through that into the new testament. today's religions are the recycling of ancient beliefs and symbolic stories which have been added to and twisted under the guidance of the prison warder consciousness, until the original meaning has been lost under an avalanche of myth and invention. so often when you investigate the origin of the foundation stories of the religio

house..worship me with fire and blood; worship me with swords and with spears. let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow in my name. trample down the heathen; be upon them, o warrior, i will give you their flesh to eat..sacrifice cattle, little and big; after a child..kill and torture; spare not; be upon them!"5 if that sounds remarkably like some of the angry god stuff in the old testament, that's because it was almost certainly the same force on the fourth dimension which communicated to the ancients, to crowley, and to anyone else on that vibration who would help to stimulate the conflict and the energy of human misery, on which the prison warders feed. this is the force that controls the consciousness of those which control the global elite-illuminati-brotherhood, a

e stories of the melchedekans, i was interested to come across an organisation called the raelian foundation. it is based in 216 .and the truth shall set you free geneva, switzerland, with branches around the world. this is the creation of a former french motor racing journalist called claude vorilhon rael (rail) who claims to have met an extraterrestrial group which he says are the elohim of the old testament. rael says he was taken to their planet and he was told that the elohim genetically engineered the human race. according to the stories told in the secret 1960s survey of contactees, the ones known as elohim were the melchedekans. rael claims to be the "messiah" of the elohim, the "guide of guides, and they instructed him, he says, to tell people that they must do everything he says

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ty of the reptilian species on the earth alone, it would be more amazing if there were not reptilians of a humanoid and intelligent variety. these "gods" interbred with each other and the more primitive earth people and these unions are recorded in endless ancient accounts. these were the sons of god who interbred with the daughters of men to seed the hybrid race, the nefilim, as described in the old testament book of genesis. the most important interbreeding was between the reptilians and the blond-haired, blue-eyed, nordic peoples, both of extraterrestrial origin, as an alliance was formed between factions of these races. the union produced what has been called the aryan or "noble" race- the "master race" of the nazis. this is the fusion of the nordic and reptilian dna (the genetic m xxi

tlantean goat god called pan. they first landed on the peloponnese in greece and settled in arcadia, according to ancient greek records. arcadia has always been a sacred place to the illuminati bloodlines and was apparently a name for atlantis. the danaans left atlantis to settle in asia minor (now turkey, greece, and the islands of the aegean. they are claimed by some authors to descend from the old testament tribe of dan, but so much in the bible is symbolic rather than literal or downright untrue. the name danaans derived from their serpent moon goddess, dana or diana. the danaans made the headquarters of their serpent-worshipping culture on the island of rhodes, a name that originates from a syrian word for serpent.51 rhodes was the home of the danaan brotherhood of initiates and magic

story of king sargon is a classic case. they said that his mother floated him in a basket of rushes on the river and he was found by a member of the sumerian royal family who brought him up as their own.8 the hebrews, or rather their manipulating priests, the levites, later stole this ancient story from the sumerian accounts and used it in the fable of their invented character known as moses. the old testament is founded on sumerian accounts, edited and rewritten as required, to create a manufactured history and religion called judaism. the new testament is based on symbolic stories repeated over and over in the thousands of years before its creation and based on the sumerian (and golden age) religion of sun worship. the new testament texts, in turn, created a manufactured religion and his

mu. in more recent times, many books have been written translating their content. but although these accounts of sumer, and far ancient history before the earth's upheavals, demolish the official version of events, once again the same old story goes on being told to children and students by official academia. you do not have to delve into the translations for long to see that much of the biblical old testament is simply an edited rewrite of these sumerian stories. the tablets talk of how king sargon was floated on a river in a basket of rushes, as i mentioned earlier. the bible tells this same story of "moses. the tablets describe a place called e.din("the abode of the righteous ones. the bible speaks of eden the garden of "god. the story of genesis is a summary of the same basic story tha

a basket of rushes, as i mentioned earlier. the bible tells this same story of "moses. the tablets describe a place called e.din("the abode of the righteous ones. the bible speaks of eden the garden of "god. the story of genesis is a summary of the same basic story that is told in the sumerian tablets in far more detail. interestingly, many of the terms translated into the english version of the old testament as "god" come from words that actually mean gods, plural, and the sumerians said the founders of their civilisation were a race of beings that came to this planet from elsewhere in the 68 t blood brothers 69 heavens bringing great knowledge and technology. as i have already indicated, the sumerians called these beings the anunna and their later semitic name was an.unnak.ki("those who

this was especially the offspring of the earlier leaders, enlil and enki. they demanded that human nations fight for them against other peoples committed to a different anunnaki "god. thus the sumer empire, although a wonder for its time, did not reach the heights of the golden age and eventually collapsed, breaking up into warring factions. many of these wars are described in the stories of the old testament when it seems everyone was fighting everyone else in that heart centre of the anunnaki, the middle and near east, from where the major religions have all emerged, including what is now hinduism. this could also be the reason for the theme in the old testament of "worship no other god than me" some researchers have even presented evidence that high-tech weaponry was used in the anunna

the sumerian clay tablets are the detailed descriptions of how the anunnaki interbred with human women to create a hybrid race, a fusion of the genes of humans of the time and the "gods. included in the term "human" are the white or nordic race, which are also, originally, of extraterrestrial origin. yet again, this is a constantly repeated theme in every part of the world and can be seen in the old testament narrative, taken from the sumerian, of the sons of god (properly translated, the sons of the gods) who interbred with humanity and created a hybrid bloodline. genesis recounts "when men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of god [the gods] saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose..the nefilim

s younger halfbrother enlil was made commander of the mission because his mother was considered more genetically pure than the female with whom anu conceived enki. this, the accounts reveal, was to be the cause of ongoing conflicts between the halfbrothers, which were to erupt in the wars within the anunnaki that stimulated enormous conflict between their factions within humanity, as described in old testament texts. it is well known by researchers that, although the illuminati agree on the overall agenda of global control, they, too, are constantly at war within themselves as different groups and families seek to be at the top of their greasy pole. this is no surprise when you consider that the illuminati is a front for the anunnaki and the secret society network is their means of covertl

an (anunnaki) bloodline. this theme of reptilian-human hybrids can be seen in the story of adam and eve in the garden of eden (edin to the earlier sumerians "the abode of the righteous ones) in jewish lore, eve, who was tempted by the serpent, of course, was the ancestral mother of the nefilim and associated with the hebrew words meaning life and snake.20 satan("the adversary) is described in the old testament and the hebrew torah as the "old serpent" or "dragon" and he was said to be the ruler of the nefilim who fled within the earth after losing a cosmic battle for supremacy. the hebrew name for eve's tempter is nahash, which besides its translation as serpent also reads "he who knows secrets, another theme of the reptilian gods.21 enoch, like noah, was said to "walk with the gods, and t

n a place of enormous forests, and his capital was beth-shamash("house of shamash, which we know better as baalbek. this is where a fantastic structure can be found to this day with its giant stones weighing more than three jumbo jets. enlil's younger son was given control of anatolia, now turkey. this was ishkur or "he of the mountain land" and he became the god of the nordic-aryan hittites. the old testament calls him adad and the hadad. r.a. boulay believes this is also the hebrew god, yahweh/yahveh or jehovah. the daughter of sin, known as inanna or ishtar (semitic, was a warrior goddess deity of many lands under different titles. ishtar's symbol was the lion and also the pleiades and venus. together with sin (shamash) and ishkur (adad, she became part of another ancient trinity of god

sus with a spaceship. other front-line figures in this next generation of anunnaki leaders after the deluge included marduk, son of enki, the tablets say. marduk was the god of babylon. the ancient texts, tablets, and legends describe how these gods embarked on a battle for power that brought the world to its knees. some of these conflicts, with humanity used as battle-fodder, are featured in the old testament. one defining event described in the tablets involved the anunnaki "god" known as sin. the name comes from the sumerian sw-en or zu-en, as boulay reveals in flying serpents and dragons, and sin clearly appears to be the "villain" of the sumerian story called "the myth of zu. in this, zu (sin, the "evil dragon, tries to seize control of the earth and the anunnaki leadership by stealin

. scientists agree that egypt, now part of the sahara desert, was once a green and pleasant land. this could explain the water erosion found on the sphinx. to divide and rule the people, credo continues, the chitauri scattered them across the earth and gave them different languages so they could not communicate with each other. this is another story repeated all over the world and not just in the old testament version of the tower of babel. that was a steal from many more ancient accounts. the hopi say that when they came to the surface on the orders of "spider woman, a "mocking bird" arrived to confuse their language and make the tribes talk in different tongues. credo, repeating the information passed on to him in a lifetime of initiations into this underground knowledge, said that the c

comes increasingly significant. the underground "hell" is supposed to be the place of judgement and eternal punishment where the "devil" and evil spirits dwell beneath the earth. the longer we go on, the more you will see how relevant this is to the races and bloodlines that manipulate this world. el is the hebrew name for "god" and she was also known as heidi and ida. the elohim, the gods of the old testament, were the race of el, a dragon queen. the greeks knew el as artemis, the cruel mother-goddess who demanded human sacrifice. artemis (also known as diana) was the major deity of the merovingians. artemis was symbolised with bees, as is the merovingian bloodline. it is the same with other versions of the goddess like demeter, the "pure mother bee, and a symbol of aphrodite was a golden

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and birds. some of them are solarge they can only be seen in their entirety from 1,000 feet in the air! the knowledgewhich allowed wonders like nazca, baalbek, the great pyramid at giza and otheramazing creations to be built with such precision and scale, came from an advancedrace who, in ancient times, lived among a far more primitive general population. thisrace is described as the gods in the old testament texts and other works and in oraltraditions of antiquity. i can hear followers of the bible denying that their book speaksof the gods. but it does. when the word god is used in the old testament it is oftentranslated from a word that means gods, plural- elohim and adonai are two examples.you can easily understand that a race performing technological feats of such magnitudeshould be s

en of eden.this was a centre for the gods, the anunnaki. the sumerian tablets speak of king8sargon the elder being found as a baby floating in a basket on the river and brought upby a royal family. exodus speaks of moses being found as a baby floating in a basketon the river by a royal princess and how he was brought up by the egyptian royalfamily. the list of such coincidences goes on and on.the old testament is a classic example of the religious recycling which has spawnedall the religions. so when you are looking for the original meaning of genesis and thestory of adam you have to go back to the sumerian accounts to see how the story hasbeen doctored. genesis says that god (the gods) created the first man, adam, out ofdust from the ground and then used a rib of adam to create eve, the f

rds are descendants of the dinosaurs. and while the bodiesof most dinosaurs might have been destroyed, their consciousness would have survivedbecause consciousness is energy and energy is indestructible. it can only be transmutedinto a different form. what happened to that dinosaur consciousness that dominated theearth for 150 million years? as weve seen, the earliest accounts of assyria, babylon,old testament history, china, rome, america, africa, india and elsewhere, featurestories of the dragons. the serpent symbol has also been found in ancient britain,greece, malta, egypt, new mexico, peru and all over the pacific islands. there is anunmistakable resemblance between some dinosaurs and ancient depictions of dragons.several species of small indo-malayan lizards with webbed wings look so

erate a pincer movement onthe human race. their physical expression lives under the ground and interacts in theunderground bases with human and human-reptile crossbreed scientists and militaryleaders. they also emerge to engage in some human abductions. but the main controlcomes by outright possession. the crossbreeding programme (via sex and test tube) isdescribed in the sumerian tablets and the old testament (the sons of god whointerbred with the daughters of men. these hybrid human-reptile lines carry thereptilian genetic code and thus can be far more easily possessed by the reptilians ofthe lower fourth dimension. as we shall see, these bloodlines became the british andeuropean aristocracy and royal families and, thanks to the great british empire,they were exported across the world to

in 1010ad by the arab poet, firdowsi, he describes the birth of a baby called zal, the son of aking called sam. again the king is horrified by the unearthly appearance of his child whohas a very large body as clean as silver, hair as white as an old mans and like snow,and a face compared with the sun. sam calls his son a demon child, a child of the daevas- the watchers. like the patriarchs of the old testament, the iranians appeared to have anaversion to children born with extremely white features. and who is said to be extremelywhite, albino white? the royal hierarchy of the draco.the text of the shahnemeh says of zal:no human being of this earthcould give such a monster birth,he must be of the demon race,though human still in form and face,if not a demon, he at least,appears a party-colo

acting with humans. from what i hearfrom brotherhood insiders who have seen some of these extraterrestrials, the orions (acruel, but beautiful race according to my contacts) have some kind of alliance with thereptilians. i am sure that the biblical angels were the watchers, the reptilians, winged andotherwise. the very term sons of the gods is translated in the septuagint, the greekversion of the old testament, as angelos- angels. it appears from my research that thereare different reptilian factions: those who are more positive in their attitude to humanityand those who wish to dominate and control. they both became known as watchers orangels, the latter as fallen angels. it could well be that the legends of st michael castingthe dragon onto the earth for the final battle and st george de

ribed as awwimwhich means devastators or serpents. in the dead sea scrolls, noah is described aslooking like the children of the (fallen) angels of heaven whose conception was (due)to the watchers. and to the nefilim. in jewish lore, eve is seen as the ancestral motherof the nefilim and associated with the hebrew words meaning life and snake. eve was,of course, tempted by the serpent according to old testament myth and other sources. inchapter 69 of the book of enoch we find that among the watchers who revealed thesecrets to humans was gadreel, the fallen angel who has been identified with temptingeve. the book of enoch was banned by the roman church which sought to deny theearlier christian belief in the existence of flesh and blood angels and fallen angelsoccupying physical bodies and in

fter the ancient goddess of hunting.the early british kings called themselves and their race the catti and this appearson their coins. the aryan hittites of asia minor and syria-phoenicia called themselvesthe catti or khatti. the race of aryans who left the caucasus to rule india were knownas the khattiyo. the term khatti evolved through the hebrew and english translationsinto the hittites of the old testament. kassi or cassi was the title used by the firstphoenician dynasty about 3,000 bc and was adopted by the babylonian dynasty. notsurprising because these were different branches of the same people. the ancient indianepic king lists name some of the same people named in the mesopotamian king listsand the predynastic civilisers of early egypt also turn out to be of the aryan race. weare

ised the sun as a baby in december, a youthat easter, a strapping, immensely strong, man in the summer, an ageing man losing hispower in the autumn, and an old man by the winter solstice. the modern depiction ofold father time is a version of this. they also symbolised the sun as having long goldenhair (sun rays) which got shorter as he lost his power in the months of autumn. now lookagain at the old testament story of samson -sam-sun. he was incredibly strong and hadlong hair, but he lost his power when his hair was cut. the problems started when heentered the house of delilah- the astrological house of virgo, the virgin, through whichthe sun passes as autumn approaches. summoning his last burst of power, sam-the-sun,pushes down the two pillars, which are classic brotherhood symbolism goi

truction of ancient knowledge and libraries all over the world going to writedown the true history in their texts or are they going to produce the version they wantthe people to believe? during and after their stay in babylon, with its wealth ofinherited knowledge and stories from sumer, the levites mixed truth, often symbolictruth, with fantasies and this concoction became the foundations of the old testament.the so-called israelites did not write these texts or agree with what they said. even ifyou accept they even existed, the israelites had long dispersed by the time the levitesinked their pens. genesis, exodus, leviticus and numbers, which together make up thejewish torah, were all written by the levites or under their supervision during or aftertheir period in babylon. this bunch of

been changed or doubled.azrel: the name of esdras/ezra, the suffix el meaning the work of ezra.3these five names for scribes therefore read as one phrase to an initiate: marks ofwarning- of the words- figured in an obscure manner- which have been changed ordoubled- which is the work of ezra.4 there is a book called the bible code5 which claimsto have identified a code in the hebrew version of the old testament which predicts thefuture. as one of these codes predicted that lee harvey oswald would kill presidentkennedy, youll excuse me if i remain extremely unconvinced about its credibility. is thereanyone left who still believes that oswald killed kennedy? but while i question claims inthe bible code, there is a code in the bible, an esoteric code for initiates. they either madeup character

vasion of the hyksos orshepherd kings. the egyptian historian, manetho, reported that a strange and barbaricrace invaded and took control of egypt. when they were eventually driven out, he said,they journeyed through syria and built a city called jerusalem.14 the hyksos could wellbe a group of similar description called the habiru who came out of the former lands ofsumer, as did, according to the old testament, the one called abraham.king solomon and his temple are more symbolism. there is, again, no independentevidence for a person called king solomon. not once has his name appeared in anyinscriptions. before the levites wrote their texts, the greek historian herodotus (c. 485-425 bc, travelled and researched the lands and history of egypt and the near east. heheard nothing of the empire

by arthur dynott thomson, would havebeen 6,900 million. and thomson was writing in 1872! what would it be today? suchfigures are ludicrous and yet further examples of the make-believe behind these tales.they are symbolic, not literal. another point. if solomon didnt exist, why should webelieve that his father, king david, did? i keep reading accounts of his life and the onlysources quoted are the old testament texts written by the levites! there is no otherevidence. its a con. so is the idea of the king david-jesus bloodline being taken tofrance by mary magdalene to become the merovingians as suggested in many booksover recent years. as the scholar and researcher, l. a. waddell, points out:there is absolutely no inscriptional evidence whatsoever, nor any ancient greek orroman reference, fo

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sdom to be found in the writings of the many philosophers throughout history. only by accepting the bible for what it is, a book written by men and not the "living" word of god, can one approach a true understanding of these scriptures. read from a "satanic" perspective, the bible reveals itself as a history of hebrew magicians and sorcerers. in a careful reading of the bible, the prophets of the old testament are shown to be practitioners of the black arts and jesus christ, in his stance against hypocrisy and self-righteousness, is revealed as a great satanic priest and black magician. to the inquiring mind it is clear why the magi of persia (the wise men, were the first to acknowledge the birth of christ, for through their magical art and the practice of astrology, they recognized him as

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om the body. occasionally these altered shapes are seen by other people, who mistake them for bodies of flesh. shechinah: pronounced "sheh-kehn-ah" it is the hebrew for the personification of the energy known as ruach eloheem (q.v. it is seen as feminine in nature. similar to the tantrik notion of shakti (q.v. sheeol: pronounced "shee-ool" it is the hebrew for "place of the earth" a word from the old testament meaning ground or earth. in some instances it was translated as "hell" probably for political reasons. according to donald michael kraig, there is no hell in the kabalah because he maintains that reincarnation is a part of the tradition. shin: pronounced "sheen" it is a letter of the hebrew alphabet. the letter shin "a" is used to indicate the ruach eloheem (q.v. when added to the te

recognized channels of sense. the original term that was later to be replaced with the term, extra sensory perception, or esp (q.v) 3) in modern uses the term telepathy refers to the psionic discipline known as "thought transference" called mind speech or mind reading for short. temurah: a system of the literal kabalah (q.v) which transposes letters of the hebrew alphabet, especially words of the old testament. the new words thus formed are said to be important. tephillin: small boxes containing scrolls with prayers written on them. they are worn by male jews during certain prayers. tetragrammaton: from the greek, literally "the name of the four letters" the four-letter name of divinity of the hebrew god, yhvh (q.v) in english. in hebrew "viv. it is a formula that indicates that the suprem

nets in the heavens when working a ritual. even the hours of the day and night were assigned the seven ancient planets. a magician who takes astrology into account when working magick is said to observe the times. see hours, magickal. tipheret: hebrew for "beauty" pronounced "tih-fehr-eht" it is the sixth sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. torah: hebrew for "law" the first five books of the old testament, commonly called the pentateuch. mystics believe that much of it is in kabalistic codes. trance: an altered state of consciousness (q.v, especially the more withdrawn degrees resembling sleep or sleepwalking. a "waking dream" transmigration (of souls: one doctrine of reincarnation. the idea that when souls reincarnate, they move up and down the evolutionary ladder or scale. i.e, peop

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temple we know that the famous tyrian mysteries must have profoundly influenced the hebrew esotericism. when we read of daniel being educated in the palaces of babylon we know that the wisdom of the magi must have been accessible to hebrew illuminati. 11. this ancient mystical tradition of the hebrews possessed three literatures: the books of the law and the prophets, which are known to us as the old testament; the talmud, or [page 4] collection of learned commentaries thereon; and the qabalah, or mystical interpretation thereof. of these three the ancient rabbis say that the first is the body of the tradition, the second its rational soul, and the third its immortal spirit. ignorant men may with profit read the first; learned men study the second; but the wise meditate upon the third. it

ereon; and the qabalah, or mystical interpretation thereof. of these three the ancient rabbis say that the first is the body of the tradition, the second its rational soul, and the third its immortal spirit. ignorant men may with profit read the first; learned men study the second; but the wise meditate upon the third. it is a strange thing that christian exegesis has never sought the keys to the old testament in the qabalah. 12. in our lord's day there were three schools of religious thought in palestine: the pharisees and the sadducees, of whom we read so frequently in the gospels; and the essenes, who are never referred to. esoteric tradition avers that the boy jesus ben joseph, when his calibre was recognised by the learned doctors of the law who heard him speak in the temple at the ag

e 19 three negative veils of existence which hang behind the crown, declares itself in manifestation as ten different aspects which are represented by the different names used to denote deity in the hebrew scriptures. these are variously rendered in the authorised version, and a knowledge of their true significance and the spheres to which they belong enables us to read many of the riddles of the old testament. 16. in the briatic world the divine emanations are held to manifest through the ten mighty archangels, whose names play such an important part in ceremonial magic; it is the worn and effaced remnants of these words of power that are the "barbarous names of evocation" of mediaeval magic, not one letter of which may be changed" why this is so may readily be seen when we remember that

putting the finished product in its place in the world. this concept kept science back for hundreds of years in western europe, and in the end men of science had to break with religion and endure mystical qabala page 28 persecution as heretics in order to arrive at that conception of evolution which was explicitly taught in the mystic tradition of israel, a tradition with which the writers of the old testament were unquestionably familiar, for their works are full of qabalistic references and implications [page 40] 12. the qabalah does not conceive of god as fabricating creation stage by stage, but thinks of the different phases of manifestation as evolving one from another, as if each sephirah were a pool which, being filled, overflowed into a lower pool. to borrow again from macgregor ma

ay that which is effete and outworn, would be certain to occur during the period prior to the emanation of tiphareth, the redeemer. as soon as emanated, the redeemer would compensate the seventies of geburah, even as our lord said "a new law give i unto you. ye shall no longer say, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" now this uncompensated severity of geburah gave us the jealous god of the old testament and all the religious mystical qabala page 207 persecutions that have ever been done in his unbalanced name. it forms the qliphah of geburah, and every cruel and oppressive nature is in sympathy with it. to its sphere goes all the overplus of the force thev emanate that is not absorbed by the opposing force in the universe-all the unslaked revenge, all the unsatisfied lust of cruelty

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, forming man from the dust of the ground without assistance. if we refer to paradise lost, however, we shall find that milton was familiar with both divine and infernal hierarchies, and that these were graded and charted according to a definite system. anyone who is acquainted with the qabalah will recognise that in milton he meets a fellow qabalist. in the qabalah we find the esotericism of the old testament. i propose to use the qabalistic terminology to explain the esoteric theory of evil because, firstly, it is the one i am most familiar with; secondly, it forms the basis of western occult thought and all medieval magic is based upon it, together with much modern magic; thirdly, it is, in my opinion, singularly lucid, coherent and comprehensive; and being a system consecrated by antiq

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have been commanded to accept in scripture and by the leaders of religion. but if we are hermetics or gnostics, or even more open-minded kabbalists, we may suspect that the gnostic opinion has virtue, and that the serpent initiated the reformation and salvation of mankind that will ultimately result in the ascent of humanity to the status of gods (the elohim, a status that the jealous god of the old testament concealed from mankind at our time of origin. once we understand that the enochian angels viewed coronzon as equivalent to lucifer or satan, we can learn something about the nature of coronzon by studying the references to the devil or the old serpent that occur in the bible. a very interesting reference is found in the book of revelation "and there was war in heaven: michael and his

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as lilith, the demon who strangles children in their cribs and visits solitary men in their beds to provoke nocturnal emissions. lilith began her life as a class of babylonian demon known as the lilitu. in addition to the direct personification of the forces of nature, demons were formed by the vilification of the gods and goddesses of other cultures. many of the medieval 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

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source of miracles is the ultimate source that lies beyond being, either of substance or of form. it is purposeless, knowing neither good nor evil, and for this reason may be used for either good or evil purposes. the god of the bible is not this ultimate source. this much is obvious, since this god has both form and purpose, and manifests to human beings in various ways. however, the god of the old testament was able to channel this primal source of divine energy for his own intentions, and was able to facilitate the use of this divine energy by his worshippers. skilled magicians can bypass the gods, the angels and the saints, and can access this primal creative and destructive power directly through their magic. so the priests of egypt intimated when they wrote in the hermetic books tha

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authors of dictionaries often lump sigil, seal, emblem, token, and sign together as possessing some vague and more or less equivalent occult significance. this is not the case. each has its own specific connotation. all spirits may possess their own sigils. using traditional kabbalistic methods, sigils have been constructed from the various hebrew names of god and the names of angels found in the old testament. for example, the letters of a name denoting some active power or authority of god may be located upon the aiq beker grid, also known as the kabbalah of nine chambers. by drawing a connecting line from letter to letter, a sigil of the name is created. it is one of the mysteries of magic, often commented upon by the ptolemaic greeks, that mankind can summon and control the forces of t

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stated that his poem jerusalem was dictated to him. the grandest poem that this world contains; i may praise it, since i dare not pretend to be other than the secretary; the authors are in eternity. again: i have written this poem from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time without premeditation and even against my will. parts of the jewish bible (the christian old testament) were received through automatic writing, for example 2 chronicles 21:12 says, and there came a writing to him from elijah the prophet saying. in 1833, the book of the german augustinian nun catherine emmerich, the lowly life and bitter passion of our lord jesus christ and his blessed mother, was accepted by catholics as divinely inspired. the remarkable contents of the book came to

erged from the courtroom triumphantly proclaiming that he was going to demolish other images in wayside shrines. he is since reported to have smashed two more statues, one in ballyfermot and another in clondalkin. he appeared with his fellow iconoclasts on the popular late late show, hosted by gay byrne on rte television on march 7. draper arrogantly cited the fourth and fifth commandments of the old testament and exod. 23:24 as giving him divine sanction to smash all religious statues in ireland, regardless of the rights and views of other people. as reporter eoghan corry stated in an article in the sunday press (march 9, 1986, there isn t a safe statue in the country. meanwhile from los angeles evangelist scott indignantly disassociated himself from the activities of the irish statue sma

and, in response to its appearance, a new science, psychical research, emerged and a new language developed to understand the phenomena. spiritualism presented a broad challenge to the church. present within the movement were all of the biblical gifts of the spirit but in a non-church setting. church leaders responded that spiritualism merely reproduced the pagan phenomena forbidden in the jewish old testament and cited the story of the woman of endor as a clear prohibition of spirit contact. this interpretation still dominates the more conservative segments of christianity. spiritualists countered with a biblical exposition centered upon the new testament, the encounter of the apostles with the long-dead moses and elijah at the mount of transfiguration (matt. 17, and the appearances of th

ess, justice, mercy and truth. it contained the original and essential principle that is displayed throughout immensity of space, controlling worlds and systems of worlds, and producing motion, life, sensation and intelligence, to be impartially disseminated upon their surfaces as ultimates. the first part of the book is the exposition of a mystical philosophy, the second reviews the books of the old testament, contests their infallibility, and describes christ as a great moral reformer but not divine. the third advances a system of socialism. the originality of the book as a whole was never contested. bush, however, pointed out a strange coincidence. the revelations, for the most part, express views similar to emanuel swedenborg s; the language is in several cases all but absolutely verba

oncept of satan. such is the hindu serpent ahi, the hebrew leviathan, and the principle of chaos. teutonic mythology has the menacing loki, originally a god of fire, but afterward the personification of evil. the concept of satan, too, appears to have some deeply rooted connection with ancient serpent worship, which seems to have penetrated most oriental countries. thus we find the tempter in the old testament (gen. 3) in the guise of a serpent. the serpent or dragon is generally regarded as the personification of night, who swallows the sun and envelops the world in darkness. it is generally thought that the hebrew concept of satan really developed in the postexilic period, though satan is a major character in the book of job, one of the earliest hebrew writings, and exhibits traces of ba

riod, though satan is a major character in the book of job, one of the earliest hebrew writings, and exhibits traces of babylonian or assyrian influence. it is unlikely that before the captivity any specific doctrine respecting evil spirits was held by the hebrews. writing on this subject, f. t. hall in his book the pedigree of the devil (1883) states: the term satan and satans which occur in the old testament, are certainly not applicable to the modern conception of satan as a spirit of evil; although it is not difficult to detect in the old hebrew mind a fruitful soil, in which the idea, afterwards evolved, would readily take root. the original idea of a satan is that of an adversary, or agent of opposition. the angel which is said to have withstood balaam is in the same breath spoken of

speaks of his enemies as his satans and prays that the object of his anathema may have satan standing at his right hand. the psalmist himself, in the sequel, fairly assumes the office of his enemy s satan, by enumerating his crimes and failings, and exposing them in their worst light. in the 71st psalm, enemies (v. 10) are identified with satans or adversaries (v. 13. the only other places in the old testament where the word occurs, are in the book of job, and the prophecy of zechariah. in the book of job, satan appears with a distinct personality, and is associated with the sons of god, and in attendance with them before the throne of jehovah. he is the cynical critic of job s actions, and in that character he accuses him of insincerity and instability; and receives permission from jehova

as worshiped as a god, while in occult history it is the manifestation of hell. the dragon, however, is best known in legendary history as the monster whose duty it is to provide the hero with opportunities of valor. there is a legend of st. george and the dragon and also the dragon that was slain by sir lancelot, one of the knights of king arthur s round table. in the hebrew bible (the christian old testament) the word tannin, commonly rendered dragon in older english translations, generally refers to a variety of animals such as crocodiles, jackals, and serpents, but occasionally to the dragon (ezek. 29:3; 32:3. in chapter 12 of the biblical book of revelation, the dragon, a representation of the evil one, is overcome by the archangel michael. the dragon became a symbol of great strength

om 1915 until his retirement in 1952 he served as curate, vicar, or rector of various parishes. through his religious studies, elliott became interested in the psychical as a tool for interpreting the bible and understanding what is commonly understood to be the supernatural element in christianity, about which he wrote several important books: the psychic life of jesus (1938, spiritualism in the old testament (1940, in search of faith (1948, and the bible as psychic history (1959. he participated in the founding of the churches fellowship for spiritual and psychical studies and beginning in 1954 served as its secretary for many years. he was also a cofounder of the confraternity, an association of laity and clergy concerned with spiritualism, and a member of the directorate of the order o

oncerned with spiritualism, and a member of the directorate of the order of the preparation of communion of soul (a psychical research body. from 1954 to 1959 he served on the commission on divine healing set up by the archbishop of canterbury. he died june 8, 1959, in london. sources: elliott, g. maurice. the psychic life of jesus. 1938. reprint, new york: london press, 1974. spiritualism in the old testament. london: the psychic book club, 1940. elm tree the elm tree (genus ulmus) is prominent in teutonic mythology, where it was said to have been given a soul by the god odin, senses by hoenir, and blood and warmth by lodur, becoming embla, the first woman. in finno-ugric mythology the elms were believed to be the mothers of the fire goddess ut. in england the tree was associated with elv

ic form of eschatology is apocalypticism. the apocalyptic vision views the world as essentially on a downward path. it will soon reach such a negative state that divine powers will intervene and bring the present order to an end. only the faithful will be saved from destruction. there are a number of biblical passages representative of the apocalyptic viewpoint. in the hebrew bible (the christian old testament) passages in isaiah, jeremiah, ezekiel, joel, zechariah, and especially daniel speak in apocalyptic terminology. in the christian new testament, passages in mark and thessalonians have strong apocalyptic overtones, while the apocalypse or book of revelation is an entire apocalyptic tract, demonstrably the most influential apocalyptic text in western culture. apocalyptic reflections a

he midnight cry. washington, d.c: review& herald publishing association, 1944. robinson, douglas. american apocalypses: the image of the end of the world in american literature. baltimore, md: johns hopkins university press, 1985. endor, witch of the witch of endor, one of the most important characters in western occult history, was a figure who briefly appeared in the jewish bible (the christian old testament) in 1 samuel 28. she was what in hebrew was called an ob. according to the story, saul was about to fight his climactic battle with his traditional enemies, the philistines. it was common prior to battle for him, the first king of the jewish tribes, to seek supernatural guidance. previously, he had several sources available to him, the most important being the seer samuel. he could a

netism and compiled an encyclopedic work titled the history of magic (1854. sources: ennemoser, joseph. the history of magic. translated by william howitt. 1854. reprint (2 vols, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. enoch, book of a hebrew apocryphal book. it was originally written in aramaic rather than hebrew and hence was not included in the canon of the hebrew bible or in the christian old testament. it was included in the collection of other materials generally called pseudepigrapha (various pseudonymous or anonymous jewish religious writings of the period 200 b.c.e. to 200 c.e. the original version was lost about the end of the fourth century, and only fragments remained, but james bruce, the scottish explorer, brought back a copy in ethiopian from abyssinia in 1773, which was

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ph i. st. catherine laboure of the miraculous medal. garden city, n.y: doubleday echo book, 1965. englebert, omer. catherine laboure and the modern apparitions of our lady. new york: p. j. kennedy& sons, 1958. sharkey, don. the woman shall conquer. kenosha, wis: franciscan marytown press, 1976. the mishna a compilation of jewish oral traditions containing the religious legal decisions relating to old testament laws, gathered together at about the end of the second century by rabbi judah, grandson of gamaliel ii. its doctrines are said to be of great antiquity. it forms the framework of the talmud. the miss lucy westenra society of the undead vampire interest organization named for one of the characters in the novel dracula, the first person dracula turned into a vampire upon his arrival in

a, and k. s. murty. current trends in indian thought. new delhi, 1972. rao, k. ramakrishna, and p. sailaja. experimental studies of the differential effect in life setting. n.p, 1972. raphael an angel whose name means god has healed. he first appeared in the apocrypha, those honored but uncanonical books of the hebrew people that were considered but not included in their bible (i.e, the christian old testament. the book of tobit, written in the second century b.c.e, concerns a man who was blind. raphael was the angel sent to heal him. in the pseudepigraphical (falsely ascribed) book of enoch it was said that: raphael presides over the spirits of men. in jewish rabbinical legend of the angelic hierarchies, raphael was the medium through which the power of tsebaoth, or the lord of hosts, pas

made perfect. human beings are the literal offspring of the heavenly parents and have come into earthly existence to experience the mystery of mortality. redemption for humans comes only through surrendering their life to yeshu-maria the christ and subsequently developing a relationship with the heavenly hierarchy in the holy temple ordinances and ritualistic ceremonies. the sai also follows the old testament feasts and holy days. the sai is headed by a presiding patriarch and matriarch under whom function (when the organization is at full strength) a first presidency, twelve apostles, seven arch seventies, and twelve stake princes. each stake is headed by twelve high counselmen, a quorum of seventy, and twelve bishops. the church endorses the practice of polygamy, but also believes in pe

followed up by john m. allegro in his book the sacred mushroom and the cross (1970, which suggested the crucifixion story of jesus was a myth, symbolic of the ecstasy of a drug cult. more recently it has been revived approvingly in the journal revision (vol. 10, no. 4, spring 1988, together with the suggestion that amaita muscaria was the forbidden fruit from the tree in the garden of eden in the old testament story. wasson s research found little approval in the scholarly world. he died december 23, 1986. sources: wasson, r. gordon. persephone s quest: entheogens and the origins of religion. new haven: yale university press, 1986. soma: divine mushrooms of immortality. the hague: mouton, 1968. reprint, new york: harcourt brace, 1971. the wondrous mushroom: mycolatry in mesoamerica. new yo

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7. information sheet on daniel fry. washington, dc, august. reeve, bryant, and helen reeve, 1957. flying saucer pilgrimage. amherst, wi: amherst press. 106 fry, daniel william a ufo supposedly photographed by daniel fry at merlin, oregon, may 1964 (fortean picture library) gabriel in christian and islamic tradition, gabriel is one of the two mightiest angels. he is the only angel mentioned in the old testament, as the destroyer of sodom and gomorrah. he is said to sit on god s left hand and to preside over paradise. mohammed credits gabriel with dictating the koran to him. in more recent times, an entity named gabriel, identifying himself as an archangel, channels through a new york city man named robert baker. gabriel has spoken through baker since 1990. his principal platform is the week

en prophecy fails. minneapolis: university of minnesota press. ibn aharon, y. n [pseud. of yonah fortner, 1957. diagnosis: a case of chronic fright. saucer news 4, 5 (august/september: 3 6. sky people brinsley le poer trench, author of a series of books proposing esoteric theories about everything from space visitors to the earth s hidden history, held that the sky people called the elohim in the old testament created animal or adamic man, otherwise known as the present human race. the creation occurred via what would now be called genetic engineering, and it was done by a renegade band of elohim called the jehovah. the jehovah, knowing that their experiment was an unauthorized one, removed their creation to an obscure location what the bible calls the garden of eden on mars. in due course

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d by me this morning and said in this deranged voice, you can t see him, but he loves you. 8/16/99 this initiation period is pure suffering. every facet of my life has changed. i see communications all around me all the time and reminders of the cipher of az. 8/27/99 there are so many traps of the magus! it is safe to assume that one must never believe, although belief is useful. even all of this old testament flare that has been called forth from my upbringing is a trap. every action must be waged against it s opposite, i must not falter along this way. did i forget to mention that everything both inside and outside of existence is insane? just thought i would clear that up. 10/1/99 the main occurrence of the binding of the necessary was recognized this past friday, in the early afternoon

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th where men become "wise as serpents" it is from this class that mystic masonry is recruited with men who have the indomitable courage to dare, the unflagging energy to do and the diplomatic discrimination to be silent. part ii the masonic legend every mystic movement has its legend, which tells in symbolic language its status in the cosmic order and the ideal which it tries to realize. from the old testament, containing the atlantean mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another as is the case with some plants today. later on, we are informed, jehovah removed one pole of the creative force from adam, the early humanity, and that there were henceforth two sexes. the e

he goal. there was within it a golden pot with "manna (man "fallen from heaven" together with a statement of the divine laws which man must learn in his pilgrimage through the wilderness of matter. this symbolic ark contained also a magic wand, an emblem of the spiritual powers, called aaron's rod, which are now latent in everyone on his way to the haven of rest--the mystic temple of solomon. the old testament also tells how humanity was miraculously led and provided for, how after the warfare with the world it was given peace and prosperity by the before mentioned king solomon; in short, stripped of all embellishments the story relates the salient facts of man's descent from heaven, his principal metamorphoses, his transgression of the laws of the god jehovah would wish to guide him in th

, and until sex generation be abolished. in this connection it is significant that the bible narrative begins in the garden of eden, where mankind were male-female and innocent; then in the next chapter we are told of the division of sexes, the transgression of the command not to eat of the tree of knowledge, and the infliction of the penalty--painful parturition and swift death. from then on the old testament tells of war, struggle and strife and in the last chapter makes the prophecy that there shall a sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. then the new testament opens with an account of the birth of christ, who proclaimed a kingdom of heaven which is to be established. he is later called king and priest after the order of melchisedec, uniting within himself the dual offic

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y held the highest place in the chaldean mythology. under these were the seven planets in their seven orbits, or spheres; the probable germ of the idea of the sephiroth, or media between the highest and lowest worlds. 12 historically interesting as these general origins are, philosophically the most important correspondences are those connected with the sephirah 'hokmah; for in many places in the old testament and in the new, especially in the works of st. paul and st. john, is wisdom described as the creative power. the book of genesis opens with the words gin the beginning h, which in hebrew are rendered by the word b'raishith, which by many qabalists is spelt be'raishith, which means gthrough wisdom h, or through the word or principle which expresses wisdom- namely the logos of philo an

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tings of the hindoos there is an account of the moon, soma, having been changed into a female called chandra "the white or silvery one" while speaking of the moon, kalisch says "the whole ritual of the phoenician goddess astarte with whom that queen of heaven is identical, and who was the goddess of fertility seems to have been transferred to her"[36 [36] historical and critical commentary of the old testament. to such an extent, in the earlier ages of the world had the female been regarded as the creator, that in many countries where her worship subsequently became identified with that of the moon, luna was adored as the producer of the sun. according to the babylonian creation tablets, the moon was the most important heavenly body. in later ages, the gender of the sun and the moon seems

llegories and convenient symbols, but names also had a religious significance. we are given to understand that in chaldea and assyria every child was named by the oracle or priest, and that no one thought of changing the appellation which had come to him through this heavenly source.[79 [79] inman, ancient faiths, vol. i, p. 3. inman, in his ancient faiths, calls attention to the fact that in the old testament kings, priests, captains, and other great men have had names bestowed upon them, each of which has some religious signification; that this name was given the individual "at circumcision, or soon after birth" in the ancient names of what are designated as the shemitic races, children were called after the god alone, and sometimes in connection with an attribute. especially were these

lowest order. hence, the laws written on the two tables of stone, and which it is claimed were elaborated during their wanderings in the wilderness of sinai for the guidance of these unlettered slaves, show the desire of the priests of later times to invest the "chosen people" with the insignia of enlightenment. regarding the character of the god which they worshipped, we have ample proof in the old testament. it is plain that at the time of their bondage in egypt the jews had become the grossest phallic worshippers, adoring the emblems of generation, with no thought of their earlier significance as pure symbols of creative force in mortals. the fact will doubtless be remembered that, among the jews, to be barren was the greatest curse, and that the principal reward promised to the faithf

: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the philistines "then the children of israel did put away baalim and ashtaroth and served the lord only"[83 [83] i samuel vii, 3,4. the extreme hatred of the schismatic faction for the opposite worship, and the punishments which were meted out to those who should dare to rebel against the chosen faith, are indicated by the language which throughout the old testament is put into the mouth of their lord--a deity which rejoices in the title of a jealous god "if thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known thou nor thy fathers "namely, of the gods of the people which are roun

ction and regeneration. the simoom of the desert and the cold of winter were seth, as were also the genial powers of spring. we are informed by various writers that typhon seth was feminine. she was the early god of the jews. in other words, the jews were formerly worshippers of a female deity. jehovah, iav, was originally female. although the secret meaning of all the allegories contained in the old testament is not fully understood, still the belief that cain, abel, and seth represented the self-triplicated deity at a time when the idea of man as a creator had been accepted, or when his power to reproduce was becoming the highest idea of a creative force, is consistent with what is known of the cabala of the jews, or of the esoteric meaning of the jewish scriptures formerly known only to

appears noah, another self-triplicated saviour or preserver of man, with his ark or seed vessel, beneath which is veiled the female element. afterward abraham becomes the great father or saviour, and later moses. that, in the time of the latter, the more ancient worship of a creative force in nature represented by the aleim, had, by the masses of the people, been wholly lost, is evident from the old testament writings. the worship of the father, the male power, in opposition to that of the mother, or the female power, constituted the religion of moses. in the religion of the jews, jehovah came to be regarded as wholly male and as spirit, while edam (translated "downward tending, the female principle, was matter, or woman, which finally became identified with the devil. the philosophical d

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had a wholesome fear of the magical arts, which, as tradition had informed them, flourished in the nile valley; which same tradition is also familiar to english people through our acquaintance with the book of genesis, whose reputed author was taught in egypt all the science and arts he possessed, even as the bible itself tells us, although the orthodox are apt to slur over this assertion of the old testament narrative.ourpresent world has taken almost no notice of the rosicrucian philosophy, nor until the last twenty years of any mysticism, and when it does condescend to stoop from its utilitarian and money-makingoccupations,itis only to condemn all such studies, root and branch, as waste of time and loss of energy.thevery name of 'christian rosenkreuz, the founder of rosicrucianism, wou

nintroduction.this philosophy, although at first sight barbarous and crude, yet will be found, when one has grown familiar with the nomenclature, to be a concrete, coherent and far-reaching scheme of theology, cosmology, ethics and metaphysics, serving to throw light on many obscure biblical passages and to suggest original views of the meaning of most of the allegorical descriptions found in the old testament. a copy of a very curious old kabalistic picture from a syriac gospel with a descriptive essay by dr carnegie dickson, a notable scotch rosicrucian adept, has just been given to our library.theworks of the great rosicrucian kabalist, eliphaz levi, are, to those who read french with ease, a mine of mystic lore, full of fine imagery, and replete with magical formulas. hishistoiredela m

heckethorn'ssecretsocietiesshould be read as an introduction to deeper personal research.thework of franz hartmann, namedmagic, white and black,i can recommend to serious enquirers, for it elucidates the real aims of the higher magic, with which alone we are concerned, and it clears away many misconceptions which exist in the minds of the uninitiated. to such as desire to follow more closely the old testament religious element, i should advise a perusal of the commen255 taries ofdrallen barnes on daniel andthebook of revelation, and the symbolical descriptions of the book of46themagicalmasonezekiel. on the christian aspect i recommendthe perfect way,orthe findingofchrist,by the latedra. kingsford; in this volume will be found worked out the broader scheme of christian teaching which is so

stribution. a glance at the doctrines of the kabalah may be most suitably commenced with the consideration of the ideas of the divine. i must premise that although these kabalists were hebrews- teachers of the pentateuchallaws and dogmas to the people as an exoteric religion- yet their esoteric conception of godhead has nothing, or next to nothing, in common with the god of genesis or part of the old testament.thesupreme being of the kabalah is found to be demonstrated after two manners; at one time the inconceivable eternal power proce255 eding by successive emanations into a more and more conceiv255 able existence; formulating his attributes into conceptions of wisdom, beauty, power, mercy and governance; exhibiting these attributes first in a supernal universality beyond the ken of all

te, and a coherent doctrine, at the time of the second temple, when cyrus, sovereign of all asia, holding the jews in captivity, permitted certain of them to return to jerusalem for the express purposetoreestablishing the hebrew cultus which had been forcibly interfered with by nebuchadnezzar, 587b.c.after this return to jerusalem it was that ezra and nehamiah.circa450b.c.,edited and compiled the old testament of the hebrews, or, according to those who deny the mosaic author255 ship and the solomonicregime,it was then that theywrotethe pentateuch.thenewregimewas maintained until 320b.c.,when jerusalem was captured by ptolemy soter, who, however, did not destroy the foundations of the jewish religion; indeed his successor, ptolemy philadephus, caused the hebrew scriptures to be revised and

not long after again plundered by the roman general crassus (54b.c).yet the jewish religion was preserved, and we find the religious feasts and festivals allinprogress at the time of jesus; yet once more, ina.d.70, is the holy city taken, plundered, and burnt, and that by titus, who became emperor of the romans ina.d.79.a further glance at the kabalah 97through all these vicissitudes, the hebrew old testament survived, yet must have had almost unavoidable alterations and additions made to its several treatises, and the more esoteric doctrines which were handed down along the line of the priestly caste, and not incorporated with the bible of the masses, may, no doubt, have been repeatedly varied by the influences of contending teachers. soon after this period were framed the first series o

ave had almost unavoidable alterations and additions made to its several treatises, and the more esoteric doctrines which were handed down along the line of the priestly caste, and not incorporated with the bible of the masses, may, no doubt, have been repeatedly varied by the influences of contending teachers. soon after this period were framed the first series of glosses and commentaries on the old testament books, which have come down to our times. of these, one of the earliest is the volume called thetargumof ankelos,written abouta.d.100. abouta.d.141 there first come into note the now famous treatise written by the rabbis of judah, calledmischna,and this formed the basis of those vast compilations of hebrew doctrine called thetalmud,of which there are two extant forms, one compiled at

tises, until, at least.a.d.1500. the twotalmudswere first printed at venice in 1520 and 1523 respectively.theold testament may be looked upon as the guiding light through the ages of the jews, but the learned of them were never satisfied with it alone, and they, at all times, supple255 mented it by two parallel series of works of literature: the one, talmudic, being commentaries to illustrate the old testament, and supply material for teaching the populace and supple255 menting their material volume, and the other a long series of treatises of a more abstruse character, designed to teach the secret doctrines and esoteric views of the priesthood, the rabbis, the teachers of israel. foremost among these latter works were thesepheryetzirah,orbookofformation,ascribed to the patriarch abraham

reat sea, the mothersupernal-binah: and of the twenty-two occult forces of the nature of the universe symbolized by the three primary elements, the planets, and the zodiacal influences of the heavens which tincture human concerns through the path of our sun in annual course. now, to show the close connection between the kabalah and orthodox judaism, we find the rabbis cataloguing the books of the old testament into a series of twenty-two (the letters) works to be read for spiritual life; this twenty-two they obtained from the thirty-nine books of the canon, by collecting the twelve minor prophets into one treatise, ruth they added to judges, ezra to nehemiah, while the two books each of samuel, kings and chronicles, they called one each.thecanon of thirty-nine works was fixed in the time o

bsence of any reference to a life after death for human beings shows a materialism of a type so gross as indeed to need a secret doctrine, or a new revelation by a jesus, whose life has earned the title of christ. yet the orthodox of england pay so little real attention to their religion that they would hear this statement with incredulity and with denial: but if asked to show the passages in the old testament which insist on a life after death, or on a succession of lives for purposes of retribution, or the passages demonstrating the immortality of the soul, they could not produce them, and are content to refer you to the revd mr-,who could do so. the answer of the reverend gentleman generally is,'oh,well, if not plainly laid down, these dogmas are implied. but are they?ifthey are, how is

of retribution, or the passages demonstrating the immortality of the soul, they could not produce them, and are content to refer you to the revd mr-,who could do so. the answer of the reverend gentleman generally is,'oh,well, if not plainly laid down, these dogmas are implied. but are they?ifthey are, how is it that notably clear passages can be quoted which show that import255 ant authors in the old testament make statements in direct opposition to these doctrines? and how is it, again, that a great author of modern times has said 'prosperity was the blessing of the old testament for good works, but adversity that of the new? this could only be true if there were no future life or lives, or no coming period of reward and punishment contem255 plated by the old testament doctrine. but the c

ments in direct opposition to these doctrines? and how is it, again, that a great author of modern times has said 'prosperity was the blessing of the old testament for good works, but adversity that of the new? this could only be true if there were no future life or lives, or no coming period of reward and punishment contem255 plated by the old testament doctrine. but the comment is true, and the old testament does teach that man is no more immortal that the beast, as witness ecclesiastes, iii, 19:'forthat which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man hathnopreeminence above a beast; for all is vanity. all go unto one place; all areofthedust, and all turn to dust again..where

here is no hint that adam received a ray of the supernal mind, which was to dwell there for a time, to gain experience, to receive retribution, and then another stage of progress, and a final return to its divine source. and yet the authors of these volumes, whoever they were, could hardly have been without the conception of the higher part of man, of his spiritual soul. my contention is that the old testament is emasculated, was deprived at some period by designing men of its religious philosophy, which was set apart for a privileged class, while the husk of strict law and tradition wascast forth for vulgar acceptance.thekernel of spiritual philosophy, which is lacking in the old testament as a religious book is, i deem, the essential core of the kabalah; for these kabalistic dogmas are h

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al bearings ascribed to them in royal arch. freemasonry.[a 'lecture for members of the g.d' preserved among the papers of.the revd w.a. ayton. it also has a longer title: on the connection between the twelve tribes of israel and. the twelve zodiacalsigns]"note: elisions in mathers' text have beenrestoredbetween brackets.numerousother individualwordsare at variance from the authorized versionofthe old testament, which he used for thislecture.6.address onthe.pillarsto explain their symbolism briefly and concisely is the object of the present address. in the explanation ofthesymbols of theo=0 degree of neophyte, your attention has been directed to the general mystical meaning of the iuxtaposition.of the two pillars, and therefore i will only beg of you to notice that the hieroglyphics of one

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principal dogmatic work, published at amsterdam in 1771. all of his works have been translated into english. the most noticeable differences between swedenborg s system and most other expositions of christian theology are over the doctrines of the trinity and vicarious atonement. swedenborg also denied the divine inspiration of all of the canonical scriptures, rejecting the poetical books in the old testament and the epistles in the new. avignon he moved to berlin where he became librarian to frederick the great and began to translate the works of swedenborg into french3[3. here he met a polish count, thaddeus leszczy grabianka (1740 1807, who was equally enthused with swedenborgian doctrines. when pernety returned to avignon in 1784 grabianka followed (after a visit to the swedenborgians

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and those believing jews who obeyed them, and on the other hand, those perverse jews who rebelled against god's commandments, imitated the pagan culture of the peoples around them, and followed their cultural practices rather than the law of god. pagan doctrines added to the torah it is important to note that the sins of the corrupt jews are often reported in the holy book of the jews itself the old testament. in the book of nehemiah, a kind of history book within the old testament, the jews confess their sins and repent: then those of israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. and they stood up in their place and read from the book of the law of the lord their god [for one-fourth] of the day; an

ore them; nor did they turn from their wicked works (nehemiah 9: 2-4, 26-29, 31-35) this passage expresses the desire that a number of jews had in returning to their faith in god, but in the course of jewish history a different segment gradually gained strength, and came to dominate the jews and later thoroughly altered the religion itself. for this reason, in the torah and the other books of the old testament, there are elements that derive from heretical pagan doctrines, as well as those mentioned above which urge a return to the true religion. for example: in the first book of the torah, it is said that god created the entire universe in six days from nothing. this is correct and derives from the original revelation. but, then it maintains that god rested on the seventh day, though it i

s that pagans applied to their own fictitious gods. one such blasphemous assertion is another that claims that jacob, ancestor of the israelites, wrestled with god, and won. this is clearly a story invented to confer the israelites with racial superiority, in emulation of the racial feelings widespread among pagan peoples (or, in the words of the qur'an "fanatical rage) there is a tendency in the old testament to present god as a national deity that he is god of the isrealites only. however, god is the lord and god of the universe and of all human beings. this notion of national religion, in the old testament, corresponds to tendencies of paganism, in which every tribe worships its own god. in some books of the old testament (for example, joshua) commandments are given to commit horrible v

ourse of the plot. throughout the novel, he relates, through the mouths of its protagonists, that the templars were influenced by the kabbalah and that the kabbalists possessed a secret that could be traced back to the ancient egyptian pharaohs. according to eco, some prominent jews learned certain secrets taken from the ancient egyptians, and later inserted these into the first five books of the old testament (pentateuch. but, this secret, which was transmitted secretly, could be understood only by the kabbalists (the zohar, written later in spain, and forming the fundamental book of the kabbalah, deals with the secrets of these five books) after stating that the kabbalists read this ancient egyptian secret also in the geometric measurements of the temple of solomon, eco writes that the t

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areness, first steps:study, conviction and emotion, faith and education, baptism, initiation, the anointing and living the life of a gnostic:overcoming the dialectic system and life on the path 11 the secret way celestial transfiguration, going beyond the law, the parfait, wisdom from india, the secret of the qadesh and the bridal chamber 12 restoring the bible restoring the bible, what about the old testament? bible narratives, multiple levels of truth and continuing revelation, 13 the gnostic apostolic church churches and temples, the use of ritualism, the monastic life, the gnostic tradition: a brief history of the church, the role and purpose of the gnostic apostolic church, membership and priesthood, sacraments of the church and conclusion. table of contents continued the gnostic hand

is largely mythical tale is that the kabbalah was not developed til at least the 6th century ad and incorporated greek and gnostic images, forms and traditions. indeed it has been suggested by both barbara thiering and gershom scholem that the very image of the tree of life was derived from greek rather than archaic jewish mystical sources. while the kabbalah is of course overlaid with imagery of old testament, jewish, christian (and sometimes gnostic) layers, it is primarily a greek neo platonic model. the tree starts with nothing, the great void or emptiness behind all things, this is known as ain (1st c) ain at various cycles moves through transformative stages and manifests three principles (2nd c) kether the divine will chokmah the logos binah sophia (saturn) we have deliberately chos

y onto divinity, this tendency towards anthropomorphism is a dangerous one. too often man in his suffering desires to bring the gods down to a more physical level, when this happens the currency of divine imagery is debased. while certainly images, legends, myths and godnames have their place, their value is in what they represent rather than in themselves. in regards to the name(s) of god in the old testament there is a real quandary, there are many names for god, though translated under the one title in english. what makes it more difficult is that each name has a different meaning, the name elohim, for example, means mighty ones (note it is plural) and can be applied to any form of demi-god, destructive or constructive, of the light or of darkness. the same applies to the formula of yhv

s that each name has a different meaning, the name elohim, for example, means mighty ones (note it is plural) and can be applied to any form of demi-god, destructive or constructive, of the light or of darkness. the same applies to the formula of yhvh, while it has a esoteric meaning, it too, has been twisted to reflect the barbaric and violent storm god that is falsely represented throughout the old testament as the creator. for gnostics there are literally two gods within the old testament period, the original i am, the transcendent one of the light and the barbaric thought form which became the nationalistic warlord of later fundamentalist judaism. for these reasons gnostics tend to avoid the old testament names of god altogether and use the more common terms of the mystery tradition. t

commandment: when he appointed the the gnostic handbook page 31 foundations of the earth: then i was by him, as one brought up with him: and i was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him. proverbs 1:20-33, 8:22,27-30. this great being, both royal and feminine, who being neither god nor the eternal son of god, neither angel nor saint, receives the veneration of the one who accomplishes the old testament, as well of the one who is the begetter of the new testament; who is she, then, but the truest humanity, the purest and most whole of beings, the macrocosmic whole, the living soul of nature and of the universe eternally united and uniting in the process of time with the divine and uniting all that is. the pillar and foundation of the truth, pavel florensky. the importance of sophia

texts) that satan meant something very different at various times. these differences have been overlooked within contemporary christianity due to its desire to frighten the sinner into salvation. for the esotericist it is imperative to decode these perennial motifs are they solve once and for all the mystery of evil. the image of satan has three primary motifs within it, these can be found in the old testament, apocryphal sources (with some ot/nt references) and within the new testament. these are mirrored in other esoteric traditions, for example, the old testament view of satan as tester is also found in hinduism. these three motifs can be summarised as follows: 1. the satan-saturn complex the illusion of cosmological evil (perceptional dualism) 2. the watchers evil as ignorance (fallen

as tester is also found in hinduism. these three motifs can be summarised as follows: 1. the satan-saturn complex the illusion of cosmological evil (perceptional dualism) 2. the watchers evil as ignorance (fallen astral forms (temporary dualism) 3. evil as ignorance (ethical dualism) these three models are found quite clearly in different forms of scripture. the satan as tester image is primarily old testament, the watchers are found primarily in the book of enoch (but also referenced subtlety in the ot& nt, the image of satan as bad mind is primarily new testament. these three motifs are found in all aspects of gnostic, essene and christian literature. for example, the demiurge. the demiurge as saturn is not evil but only the harsh school teacher, yet within the watchers the demiurge is d

istorted, gave birth to destructive and twisted forces (klippoth, which in turn created the material world. even among the gnostics there are many variations in interpretations of the fall. some traditions see the creator as the divine will or sophia, others see the creator as the demiurge and hence evil. some have two yahwehs, a true light lord and a false substitute. some sects refute the whole old testament saying it is the work of the false yahweh, while others even see the serpent in genesis as a premonition of the savior. for a more modern twist, one science fiction writer (with a penchant for occultism and a strange adaptation of psychology) outlined the gnostic myth in a more technological form. millions of years ago in the spiritual dimensions, a spirit entity decided he wanted mo

ved. on a cosmological level evil cannot exist, if the great chain of being unfolded from a single principle then everything must have its place and role and to suggest a separate ontologically evil force destroys this balance. so how does evil exist? this paradox is symbolized in the gnostic astrological traditions as the planet saturn. saturn is both sophia, wisdom and satan, the tester. in the old testament satan was not a rival to god but worked within gods court to test and trial the faithful. saturn is hence a dual image and it is to saturn that the title demiurge is usually applied. saturn is also sophia and through ialdaboath matter is created and yet we may ask why was it a sin for sophia to want to know or understand the divine will? it seems clear that this supposed error was ac

tc, there is a time when they reach a certain saturation point and then become part of the collective unconscious. this is exceptionally dangerous as negative and violent forms can control groups and crowds creating mob violence and aggression. these groups minds are really thoughtforms out of control. if we return to the image of satan for a moment, we may remember that the image of satan in the old testament is primarily that of the tester, the devils advocate rather than one of an evil being. in the new testament, however, things are different. the term satan is used to describe people (jesus calls peter satan and says get behind me, groups (jesus says the father of the jews is the devil) and is described as plural (legion. if we consider this model carefully we start to realize that th

the devils advocate rather than one of an evil being. in the new testament, however, things are different. the term satan is used to describe people (jesus calls peter satan and says get behind me, groups (jesus says the father of the jews is the devil) and is described as plural (legion. if we consider this model carefully we start to realize that the new testament satan is not the tester of the old testament, but is bad mind. that is satan is negative thoughtforms. these forms exist in an individual (peter s weakness) or collectively (the idea of ownership and control which tempted jesus as he looked over the cities all this can be yours. it is legion as there are multitudes of archons both dwelling within our minds and within the collective unconscious. the question of the devil being t

between mountains, here they will gather honey, vegetables, roots, fruits, birds, flowers and so forth. suffering from cold, wind, heat and rain, they will put on clothes made of tree bark and leaves. and no one will live as long as twenty-three years. thus in the kali age humankind will be utterly destroyed" the hindu purana the four ages correlate remarkably well with the image described in the old testament book of daniel. central to daniel chapter two is the description of an unusual figure, a figure that is used to express a prophetic outline of history. the interesting thing is that inherent with this figure is a pattern and design which is far older than the text of daniel in which it appears. the image is comprised of gold, silver, bronze and iron (with clay feet) and partakes of t

onnection developing from the theory above we have the fascinating studies by ahmed osman and others. these suggest clearly a direct link between what was supposed to be judaism and egypt. this evidence proves, fairly conclusively in many peoples minds, that moses and arkenaten were the same people and that the israelites were his followers escaping from egypt. this model certainly re-visions the old testament as we start to realize that judaism in this earlier phase had little to do with what we see as rabbinic judaism today. the evidence is then they developed a large desert culture with an emphasis on a god and a goddess and that most old testament stories were written at a much late date and were distorted by the then fundamentalist and nationalist priesthood. to appreciate this, we sh

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tions on this theme. in some gnostic traditions the force of the universe expands and it s final manifestation is sophia or wisdom. out of a yearning to know the original creator she gives birth to a demi-god, ialdabaoth who in turn creates the material world. he becomes conceited and arrogant, and his creation (matter) becomes fallen and trapped within his dominion. in this legend the god of the old testament is seen as evil and christ is the only emissary of the light world. in another tradition satanel (the fallen one) creates the physical world, but his creation is sterile and marred. yahweh as the emissary of light rectifies this false creation by breathing life into shells satanel has formed. however, the fallen world cannot be fully rectified and a mixed system of light and darkness

on, it can be readily translated into terms of light and relations between objects. when we undertake such an interpolation we find we have all the elements for the creation of a hologram (fig 7. while i agree our religious imagery may only reveal the holographic elements in fig 6 source michael satanel cosmic battle creates matter the alpha event or cosmic battle in the mythological terms of the old testament and related gnostic traditions. gnostic theurgy page 33 a very simplistic and elementary form, it is nevertheless certainly present. if we go further and re-consider the early religious mythologies about the fall and the creation of matter in the light of holography it becomes even more obvious. holograms are made by exposing a piece of film to laser light, which is scattered by the

ntres are central to the process of transforming the electromagnetic field of the gnostic from the dialectic to the static. the kundalini or serpent power based in the lowest centre is energised in such a way that the serpent seed (the taint of the archons) is replaced by the serpent of wisdom (the gnostic theurgy page 77 messiah. it is interesting to find that this transition is reflected in the old testament tale of moses holding up the cross interwined with the serpent to heal the people of israel. the serpent mentioned is numerically equilvant to three hundred and fifty eight, which is also the number of the messiah or christos- the self awakened saviour, the true self of every awakened being. the four attributes of each church as given in the book of revelation are: 1. characteristics

. earth. malkuth. atziluth: the world of fire this is the world of the treasury of light, it is the pleroma, the source of initiative energy forces. in this realm each sephira reflects a facet or the divine energy of the invisible spirit. in this system of attribution malkuth represents the particles of light held captive within matter, rather than the physical shell of earth. the names below are old testament titles which when used in the old testament context relate to the gnostic theurgy page 96 demiurge and the archons, however, when they are removed from their distorted application, a more transcendent interpretation of them can be made. this is an example of how information found in the old testament can transmit esoteric data, while in its outer form transmitting the exact opposite

m used for sulphur, a superb illustration of how notariqon can be used. the notariqon of the tenach is used more within the gnostic and religious communities than within practical esoteric science. it can be seen primarily as an extension of the notariqon technique where parts of a larger word are then used to create other words. for example, the term tenach is the title given to the books of the old testament, it is composed of three letters tau, nun and kaph (final. these are seen as abbreviations for a further three words. tau. torah. the five books of moses. nun. n vee-im. the prophets. kaph. k soovim. rest of the old testament. v visita visit i interiora the interior t terrae of the earth r recificando find i invenies and rectify o occultum the secret l lapidem stone. fig 26 gnostic t

another formulae of great importance in the esoteric tradition. while many religious groups have translated this formula as jehovah and interpreted it as the personal name of god. it is actually a formula, rather than a name or designation (fig 30) the original ancient israelites understood this and hence avoided pronouncing this divine name using substitute terms such as lord and king. while the old testament accounts have corrupted the name and used it to designate a warrior like archon, the original formulae is still valid and of value. this again illustrates how the origjnal gnosis has unwittingly been passed down inside and behind a text which teaches the exact opposite. y yod atziluth initial force fire h he briah divine pattern water v vau tiphareth activity air h he malkuth result

probability becomes a certainty. sharon turner, anglo-saxon historian. the ancient traditions of israel hence became the building blocks of the druids, celts and anglo-saxons, while the tribes of judah who returned to palestine, became the people we know as the essenes. there are two major problems that arise when we discuss the people of israel- the question of modern jews and the nature of the old testament. the biggest bone of contention is the identity of modern jewry. the answer according to the gnostic tradition is explosive. the people of israel were of the same racial stock as the first dynasties of egypt and sumer- they were white. the modern jews who claim the old testament have no racial link to israel whatsoever, according to arthur koestler (author of the thirteenth tribe) th

ditions of modern jewry were evolved by the edomite tribes while in babylon, here gained precedence while the real people of israel migrated to the west. the migration of isreal created a void and substitute israelites stepped in. accordingly, we need to totally review our interpretation of judaism. when we consider the great fraud that has been perpetuated, we need to run a critical eye over the old testament as well. when we do, we find some interesting anomalies. the old testament actually includes many different streams which seem to have be written by many different authors, many of which had conflicting religious views (for example, isaiah is said to have been written by at least three different people. accordingly, the old testament represents myths and legends adapted and modified

c plane so that an opportunity; a gateway for redemption from the archons could become possible. prior to the advent of jesus no escape from the world of the archons was available! even the astral/etheric worlds were under the influence of the fallen system. jesus therefore came to demonstrate that the death system of the dialectic could be overcome and this is exactly what he did! throughout the old testament the messiah is foretold in both type and in prophecy. the whole body of law, sacrifice and ceremony foreshadowed the death and resurrection of jesus; the furniture, fabrics, structure..all aspects of the tabernacle, hinted at what was to come and the sacrifice of the lamb was to foretell this future role. in the cosmology of the bogomils, as the fall was caused by an immortal, satane

given a bishropic, which would have certainly changed the face of the church, alas this did not occur and he seceded from the church. valentinus taught what he claimed were the secret teachings of st.paul, these included a complex cosmology based on dualism and emanations. his teachings mixed greek philosognostic theurgy page 204 phy, mysticism and magic with an allegorical interpretation of the old testament, they are probably the most intellectual of all the gnostic traditions. mysticism, tantra and esoteric practise were part of the valentianian system and this led to claims of sexual excess against his followers by many church fathers. the same fathers, however, admit that valentinus lead a faultless life and that his erudition and education was superior to many of the supposed church

e world. historia, peter of sicily. the major emphasis in the teachings of the paulicians was extreme dualism. they believed that the creator of this world is evil and that matter is a prison. the heavenly father is way beyond the present scheme of things and exists separately in a dimension of perfection, he can only be experienced through knowledge or gnosis. the paulicians totally rejected the old testament identifying its god with the demiurge, they saw jesus as the emissary of the light world and the only chance of experiencing the divine. their response to the world was unique in the gnostic world, they were militaristic in emphasis and battled, both intellectually and physically, against the prevailing ecclesiastical authorities. it is rumoured that some of the descendants of the pa

n isolated areas, but were continually pursued by the inquisition. while beliefs varied from movement to movement (there were some 50 distinct cathar sects, they generally held certain gnostic doctrines in common. these included strict dualism and a belief that the material world was the creation of satan, this false creator they called rex mundi or the king of the world. they rejected all of the old testament and opposed the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the gnostic theurgy page 206 church as well as its liturgy and sacraments. the central rite of the cathar faith was the consolamentum, a special baptism which initiated those who have moved from being credentes (believers) to parfait (perfect ones. this rite was preceded by fasting and was considered such an important initiation that to bre

ed his role and function. jesus moved from being a priest in the outer temple, to being the high priest in the holy of holies. for the adventists (now seventh day adventists) there was a tabernacle, like that of israel, in the heavens and starting in 1844 jesus began to officiate at the judgement of the dead. this doctrine was evolved in association with complex systems of prophecy taken from the old testament which clearly suggested some esoteric event was to occur around this time. the doctrine of investigative judgement places the seventh day adventists outside the general doctrinal position of many other christian denominations. the theology of the adventists actually offers a fascinating perception of the equinox of the gods. ellen.j.white and the other visionaries of the adventist mo

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS A

invocation the adept must now pass an examination on [h. the adept must now pass an examination on assigned ritual work [h1. reading list for z.a.m *1. astral projection, ritual magick and alchemy by francis king *2. fama fraternitas (provided *3. confessio (provided) 4. the middle pillar by israel regardie 5. the gospel of john- new testament 6. the book of revelations- new testament 7. genesis- old testament 8. ezekiel- old testament 9. the philosopher's stone- by israel regardie 10. catenea- by homeri 11. lexicon of alchemy- by rulandus 12. philosophy of natural magic- by agrippa 13. egyptian magic- by florence farr 14. the kabbalah unveiled- by s.l. mathers 8 15. zanoni- bulwer lytton 16. history- sword of wisdom- by ithell colquhon it is not required that the z.a.m. read each book, bu

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

e in it, carving great stone figures of giants which he brought to life. at first all went well but after a time the giants began to fight among themselves and refused to work. viracocha decided that he must destroy them. some he turned back into stone. the rest he overwhelmed with a great flood.3 very similar notions were, of course, found in other, quite unconnected, sources, such as the jewish old testament. in chapter six of the book of genesis, for example, which describes the hebrew god s displeasure with his creation and his decision to destroy it, i had long been intrigued by one of the few descriptive statements made about the forgotten era before the flood. according to the enigmatic language of that statement, there were giants in the earth in those days .4 could the giants buri

ght reach only to that which is near; let them see only a little of the face of the earth. then the heart of heaven blew mist into their eyes which clouded their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close, only that was clear to them. in this way the wisdom and all the knowledge of the first men were destroyed.4 anyone familiar with the old testament will remember that the reason for the expulsion of adam and eve from the garden of eden had to do with similar divine concerns. after the first man had eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the lord god said, behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live fo

and had begun to renew itself, and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off; so noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. and noah went forth. and builded an altar unto the lord, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. and the lord smelled the sweet savour. 8 maya history and religion, p. 332. 9 sir j. g. frazer, folklore in the old testament: studies in comparative religion, legend and law (abridged edition, macmillan, london, 1923, p. 107. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 188 tezpi and his family went forth from their ark, multiplied and repopulated the earth. 10 memories of a terrible flood resulting from divine displeasure are also preserved in the popol vuh. according to this archaic text, the great god decide

ver. 18 another tierra del fuegan tribe, the pehuenche, associate the flood with a prolonged period of darkness: the sun and the moon fell from the sky and the world stayed that way, without light, until finally two giant condors carried both the sun and the moon back up to the sky. 19 13 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 440; atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 105. 14 folklore in the old testament, p. 104. 15 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 445. 16 folklore in the old testament, p. 105. 17 ibid, p. 101. 18 john bierhorst, the mythology of south america, william morrow& co, new york, 1988, p. 165. 19 ibid, pp. 165-6. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 190 north america meanwhile, at the other end of the americas, among the inuit of alaska, there existed the tra

d? very widely indeed. more than 500 deluge legends are known around the world and, in a survey of 86 of these (20 asiatic, 3 european, 7 african, 46 american and 10 from australia and the pacific, the specialist researcher dr richard andree concluded that 62 were entirely independent of the mesopotamian and hebrew accounts.25 20 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 426. 21 folklore in the old testament, pp. 111-12. 22 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 431. 23 ibid, pp. 428-9; folklore in the old testament, p. 115. in this version the character of michabo is called messou. 24 from lynd s history of the dakotas, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 117. 25 frederick a. filby, the flood reconsidered: a review of the evidences of geology, archaeology, ancient literat

history of the dakotas, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 117. 25 frederick a. filby, the flood reconsidered: a review of the evidences of geology, archaeology, ancient literature and the bible, pickering and inglis ltd, london, 1970, p. 58. andree was an eminent german geographer and anthropologist. his monograph on diluvial traditions is described by j. g. frazer (in folklore in the old testament, pp. 46-7) as a model of sound learning and good sense set forth with the utmost clearness and conciseness. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 191 for example, early jesuit scholars who were among the first europeans to visit china had the opportunity in the imperial library to study a vast work, consisting of 4320 volumes, said to have been handed down from ancient times and to

ponsible for the deluge.31 there are japanese traditions according to which the pacific islands of oceania were formed after the waters of a great deluge had receded.32 in oceania itself a myth of the native inhabitants of hawaii tells how the 26 reported in charles berlitz, the lost ship of noah, w. h. allen, london, 1989, p. 126. 27 world mythology, pp. 26-7. 28 ibid, p. 305. 29 folklore in the old testament, p. 81. 30 ibid. 31 world mythology, p. 280. 32 e. sykes, dictionary of non-classical mythology, london, 1961, p. 119. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 192 world was destroyed by a flood and later recreated by a god named tangaloa. the samoans believe that there was once an inundation that wiped out almost all mankind. it was survived only by two human beings who put to sea in

ed from the waters a woman who announced herself as the daughter of manu. the couple married and produced children, thus becoming the ancestors of 37 the gods of the greeks, pp. 226-9. 38 world mythology, pp. 130-1. 39 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 362. 40 ibid, satapatha brahmana (trans. max muller, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 87. 41 ibid. see also folklore in the old testament, pp. 78-9. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 194 the present race of mankind.42 last but by no means least, ancient egyptian traditions also refer to a great flood. a funerary text discovered in the tomb of pharaoh seti i, for example, tells of the destruction of sinful humanity by a deluge.43 the reasons for this catastrophe are set out in chapter clxxv of the book of the dead

m their hearths and the human race was swept from the surface of the earth. the earth itself was beginning to lose its shape. already the stars were coming adrift from the sky and falling into the gaping void. they were like swallows, weary from too long a voyage, who drop and sink into the waves. the giant surt set the entire earth on fire; the universe was no longer more than 24 folklore in the old testament, p. 101. 25 maya history and religion, p. 336. 26 the mythology of south america, pp. 140-2. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 202 an immense furnace. flames spurted from fissures in the rocks; everywhere there was the hissing of steam. all living things, all plant life, were blotted out. only the naked soil remained, but like the sky itself the earth was no more than cracks an

he fish.17 during the preceding age, which broadly-speaking encompassed the first and second millennia bc, it was the constellation of aries the ram which had the honour of carrying the sun on the vernal equinox. again, readers must judge whether it is a coincidence that the religious iconography of that epoch was predominantly ram-oriented.18 is it a coincidence, for example, that yahweh, god of old testament israel, provided a ram as a substitute for abraham s offered sacrifice of his son isaac?19 (abraham and isaac are assumed by biblical scholars and archaeologists to have lived during the early second millennium bc20. is it likewise coincidental that rams, in one context or another, are referred to in almost every book of the old testament (entirely composed during the age of aries) b

des with the last time (or highest point) in the great upwards cycle of the belt stars of the orion constellation, just as the epoch of the eleventh millennium bc coincided with the first time (or lowest point) of that cycle. and curiously, also, as we saw in chapter twenty-eight: a conjunction of five planets that can be expected to have profound gravitational 25 1 enoch, lxv, in the apockryphal old testament (ed. h.f.d. sparks, clarendon press, oxford, 1989, p. 247. 26 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, p. 24. 27 breaking the maya code, p. 275. 28 will the world survive? watch tower bible and tract society, 1992. 29 circulating file, earth changes, extracts from the edgar cayce readings, edgar cayce foundation, virginia beach, 1994, p. 36. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 478 effects wi

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

late dr. john j. robinson in the consultants committee on semitic philology. a satirist of some talent, ibn aaron collaborated on the i go to see series, which took a wickedly mirthful look at various ufo personalities, cults and groups. rabbi ibn aaron s key contribution, however, was his extraterrestrialism series published in saucer news, which postulated that ancient documents, including the old testament, were really specific accounts of extraterrestrial visitations. a linguist of great talent, he postulated that many biblical passages had been mistranslated, especially when aramaic texts were mistaken for hebrew. for example, the phrase ruach elohim usually translated spirit of god or wind of god may actually refer to a specific form of energy used by a race of extraterrestrial bein

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

ust giving way to christianity, though to us it has sunk into such utter darkness: such expressions as frauja, halja, sibja, unhul ?o, skohsl, anz, fairguni, sauil (as well as sunna, vaihts, alhs, gudja, hunsl, dulj^s, jiuleis, midjun-gards, aiihns, a]7n, blotan, inveitan, must have heathen notions lying at their base, and these would offer themselves far more abundantly if portions of the gothic old testament had reached us. after the lapse of a few centuries we find the other dialects all more or less corrupted when compared with the gothic, and as a long xll preface. interval had then passed since the conversion of most of the races, heathenism must have retreated farther from the language also and the poetry. nevertheless the fragment of muspilli, the abrenuntiatio, the merseburg lay a

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

ng they may prove the germ of a more full and able essay by one of your learned correspondents. it would trespass too much upon your space to attempt to elucidate the origin and various modes of divination by the crystal, of the antiquity and wide-spread belief in which there exist innumerable testimonies, sacred and profane; from the divine responses by the urim and thummim, men255 tioned in the old testament" to josephus, who in his history declares it to be more than200years since the stones of the ephod hadgivenan answer by their extraordinary lustre; and from porphyry, iamblichus, and psellus, to the magiciansofcairo and the peepers and speculators in england at the present day. with respect to the 'superstitious rites, the long fastings, themysticalwords, the concentric""itwould seem

orthodox, is not among these, but cheerfully admits the force of sir g. wilkinson's observations: just as other orthodox divines cheerfully allow ustoadmit the fact of the existence of the countless worlds for millions of years, and of the sun not going round the earth but the earth round the sun, and to agree with the chevalier bunsen and others that the current views of history derived from the old testament areuntenable.255zoist.therosicrucianseerivcontributionstothezoist[thezoistwas a periodical published in thirteen volumes between 1844 and 1856.itconsisted principally of correspondence and book reviews mainly concerned with mesmerism, natural medicine, and, in later volumes, spiritualism. hockley stated that he had made four contributions but only the following three have been traced

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

nts. when yam comes to collect the treasure, he is challenged by seth. in the ugaritic myth, baal kills the sea monster, scatters the pieces of its body, and declares himself king. the damaged egyptian version probably ended with seth defeating yam and claiming astarte as his prize. see also anat; eye of ra; renenutet; seth references and further reading: a. l. perlman. asherah and astarte in the old testament and in ugaritic literature. berkeley: 1978. j. b. pritchard. palestinian figurines in relation to certain goddesses known through literature. new haven: 1943. primary sources: h&s; astarte and the sea; p. leiden i 343 345.4; hmp aten (aton) aten was a form of the sun god promoted by king amenhotep iv in the fourteenth century bce. this king changed his name to akhenaten, which probab

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

love you, what reward (or merit) have ye? do not even the publicans the same? and if you salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even publicans so? these are christ's words. but genesis says "cursed be canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren" and, therefore, christian but biblical people prefer the law of moses to christ's law of love. they base upon the old testament, which panders to all their passions, their laws of conquest, annexation, and tyranny over races which they call inferior. what crimes have been committed on the strength of this infernal (if taken in its dead letter) passage in genesis, history alone gives us an idea, however inadequate. at the close of the middle ages slavery, under the power of moral forces, had mainly disappeared

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

ned, headaches and pre-flulike symptoms for a couple of days following. in view of this, we constructed a permanent circle and triangle, according to the .rules. in the lesser key, and all workings were conducted in the fashion outlined in the lesser key. using the long conjurations and constraints to the spirit given in the lesser key itself is exhilarating. the long sentences, punctuated by the old testament names of god and biblical quotations, quickly raises excitement to a fever pitch, and once the spirit can be discerned, it must then be abjured to remain within the triangle of art. the shapes which the spirits assumed were rarely exactly that described within the lesser key (hereafter lk, but generally similar. we found that once a spirit had appeared to us in a particular form, the

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

of the otherworld- to know the short-cuts, and make a few friends (or contact relatives) over there. having done this, they have to interact with these spirits in a given way, to get them to execute your will. so clergymen pray, shamans stuff sacred mushrooms into their orifices in order to meet their ancestors, whilst demonologists threaten entities into submission by thundering out bits of the old testament. by the eighteenth century, and the rise of science, the idea of animal magnetism arose in the west, being the first manifestation of the energy model of magick. this model places emphasis on the presence of subtle energies which can be manipulated via a number of techniques. along came bulwer lytton and his idea of vril energy, eliphas levi and the astral light, mediums& ectoplasm

ISIS UNVEILED

ereal elements" tbe word 'eternal' by which our theologians interpret the words 'for ever and ever' does not exist in tbe hebrew language, either as a word or meaning. there is no' hebrew word which propeiiy expresses eternity; chvf, tnilam, according to le clerc, only imports a time whose beginning or end is not known* while showing that this word does not mean infinite duration, and tbat in the old testament the word forever only signifies a long time. arch- bishop tillotson has completely perverted its sense with respect to tbe idea of bell-torments. according to bis doctrine, when sodom and gomorrah aie said to be su fering 'eternal fire' we must understand it (xdy in tbe sense of tbat fire "not being extinguished till both cities were entirdy consumed" but, as to hell-fire the words m

later by jesus, practised by a few christian ascetics, and gradually abandoned and even entirely forgotten by the christian church. the iniiiaud nazars had ever held to this rule, which had to be fol- lowed before their time by the adepts of every age; and the disciples of john were but a dissenting branch of the essenes. therefore we cannot well confound them with all the juaart spoken of in the old testament, and who are accused by hosea with having separated or consecrated themselves to boaketh, nif3 (see hebrew text; which word implied the greatest possible abomination. to infer, as some critics and theo- logians do, ihat it means to separate one's self to duutxty or continence, is either advisedly to pervert the true meaning, or to be totally ignorant of the hebrew language. the eleve

ry fact that each class of men was issued from a more or less noble limb of brahma. gautama- buddha's philosophy was that taught from the beginning of time in the impenetrable secresy erf the inner sanctuaries of the pagodas. we need not be surprised ther^ore to find again, in all the fundamental dogmas of the gnostics, the metaphysical tenets of both brfthntanism and buddhism. they held that the old testament was the revelation of an inferior being, a subordinate divinity, and did not contain a ungle sen- tence of their sophia, the diviue wisdom. as to the new testament, it had lost its purity when the compilers became guilty of interpolations. the revelation of divine truth was sacrificed by them to promote selfish ends and maintain quarrels. the accusation does not seem so very improbab

om it; until by the contact of matter itself she pro- duces the creator of the material world. he is the demiurge, called by the ophites dda-baoth, and, as we shall directly show, the parent of the jewish god in the opinion of some sects, and held by others to be the 'lord god' himself. it is at this point of the kabalistic-goostic cosmogony that the mosaic bibu begins. having accepted the jewish old testament as their standard, no wonder that the christians were forced by the exceptional position in which they were placed through their own ignorance, to make the best of it. the first groups of christians, whom renan shows numbering but trom seven to twelve men in each church, belonged unquestionably to the poorest and most ignorant classes. they had and could have no idea of the highly ph

, had it even emanated from the apostle himself, instead of being a "religious romance" as the author of supemtdural religion calls it, would prove nothing whatever in favor of the identity of the god of the jews with the 'father' of jesus. at best it would only demonstrate that peter had remained from first to last 'an apostle of circumcision' a jew faithful to his old law, and a defender of the old testament. this conversation proves, moreover, the weak- ness of the cause he defends, for we see in the apostle a man who, al- though in most intimate relations with jesus, can furnish us nothing in the way of direct proof that he ever thought of teaching that the all-wise and all-good paternity he preached was the morose and revengeful thun- ders of mount sinai. but what the bomiliet do prov

f baptism in the jordan. can we doubt nork's assertion that" the bereshlth rabba, the oldest part of the midrash rabboth, vxis known to the chvrch fathere in a greek u'andahon" but if on the one hand they were sufficiently acquainted with the different religious systems of their neighbors to have enabled them to build a new religion alleged to be distinct from all others, their ignor- ance of the old testament itself, let alone the more complicated ques- tions of grecian metaphysics, is now found to have been deplorable "for instance, in maitkew, xxvii, 9 f, the passage from zechariah, a, 12, 13, is attributed to jeremiah" says the author of supernatural reliffum "in mark, i, 2, a quotation from malaehi, iii, 1, is as- 632. firtl apot. iiiu. 633. idmh rabbah. viii, 107-109. 034. codex naia

daeans, and relates as the very name indicates to the babylonian dagon, the man-fish, who was the instructor and interpreter of the people to whom he appeared. abarbanel explains the name, by stating that the sign of his (messiah's) coming "is the con- junction of saturn and jupiter in the sign puces* therefore, as the christians were intent upon identifying their christos with the messiah of the old testament, they adopted it so readily as to forget that its true origin mi^t be traced still farther back than the babylonian dagon. how eagerly and closely the ideal of jesus was united, by the early christians, with every imaginable kabahstic and pagan tenet, may be inferred from the language of clement of alexandria, addressed to his brother co-religionists. when they were debating upon the

chapter viii we will attempt to show the esoteric meaning of genesis, and its complete agreement with the ideas of other nations. the nx days of creation will be found to have a meaning little suspected by the multitude of commentators, who have exercised their abilities to the full extent in attempting to reconcile them by turns with christian theology and un-christian geology. disfigured as the old testament is, yet in its symbolism is preserved enough of the original in its principal features to show the family likeness to the cosmogonies of older nations than the jews. we here give the diagrams of the hindfi and the chaldaeo-jewish cos- mogonies, llie antiquity of the diagram of the former may be inferred from the fact that many of the brfthmanical pagodas are designed and built on thi

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

e truth, but only apparent truth. secondly. so long as nature must have a farther or a whereto beyond the present apparent whole (and forward to which, in the necessity of things, it must pass) it may be reasonable that is, all of truth apparent* but not beyond. the cabalists (rosicrucians, the brothers of the crucififd rose) say that man is unintelligible, that nature is unintelligible, that the old testament, with its genesis, its pentateuch; that the new testament, with christianity and the scheme of redemption, that all is unintelligible without their secret to the world wholly forbidden interpretation. buddhist ideality. 321 but it cannot be true truth; or abstract, positive truth. man is made. man is not a maker. in other words, man gets nothing that is outside of him. he only obtain

follows (judges viii. 22 &c) the worship of gideon s ephod. the ephod made by gideon with the spoil of the midianites became after his death an object of idolatry (ibid. p. 41. we have also micah s images and the teraphim. we learn from st. jerome (who received it by tradition from the ancient jews, and indeed it is so stated in numbers xxv. 1, 2 &c, xxiii. 28, and numerous other passages of the old testament) that the jews adored baal phegor (baal-pheor, the priapus of the greeks and romans. it was, he says, principally worshipped by women; colentibitus maxime feminis (baal-phegor. maimonides observes that the adoration offered to this idol, called pehor, consisted in discovering. chemosh, probably the same as baal-pheor, also received the homage of the jews, as also did milcom, molech

KARR DON NOTES ON THE STUDY OF EARLY KABBALAH JEWISH MYSTICISM IN ENGLISH

on, elliot. gnegative theology and positive assertion, h in daat, nos. 32-33 (1994. through a speculum that shines. vision and imagination in medieval judaism. princeton: princeton university press, 1994: chapter six. gvisionary gnosis and the role of the imagination in theosophic kabbalah. h 20081 14 addendum: pre-kabbalistic streams of jewish mysticism* to fill the span between the close of the old testament and early kabbalah, a muchsimplified selection of streams representative of.or having influence upon.jewish mysticism can be outlined thus: 1. early beginnings a. pseudepigrapha (ca. 200 bce onward) b. philo (ca. 20 bce to 50 ce) c. qumran= dead sea scrolls: 100 bce onward) d. rabbinic and synagogue traditions (100 ce onward) e. miscellaneous magic texts and other goccult h works 2

cclesiasticus, through the pseudepigrapha, and on into the talmudic sayings of the fathers (pirqe aboth. an enduring treatment of all this is o. s. rankin fs israel fs wisdom literature (edinburgh: t&t clark ltd, 1936; rpt 1954 and 1964; rpt new york: schocken books, 1969) a generous compendium of pseudepigrapha (which includes some material which does not really belong under this heading) is the old testament pseudepigrapha, edited by james h. charlesworth: volume 1: apocalyptic and testaments; volume 2: expansions c legends, wisdom c prayers, odes, psalms, fragments (garden city: doubleday and company, 1983 and 1985. it is a collection of utmost value, far more inclusive than the previous standard, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the old testament, edited by r. h. charles (2 vols, oxford

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

e over to some extent some of the more obvious gaps between the sections of it which are already well known. the origins of masonry the actual origins of freemasonry, as i have said in a previous book, are lost in the mists of antiquity. masonic writers of the eighteenth century speculated uncritically upon its history, basing their views upon a literal belief in the history and chronology of the old testament, and upon the curious legends of the craft handed down from operative times in the old charges. thus it was put forward in all seriousness by dr. anderson in his first book of constitutions that adam, our first parent, created after the image of god, the great architect of the universe, must have had the liberal sciences, particularly geometry, written on his heart, while others, les

ed from egypt, as has been shown in the hidden life in freemasonry, they have reached us for the most part through the jews. the tradition which has most influenced our modern masonry is that of the jewish mysteries, so the greater part of our ceremonies and s s are now cast in a jewish form. 265. in the hidden life in freemasonry it has been explained that many of the traditions preserved in the old testament have a basis in fact, although the actual events of jewish history were magnified and distorted through the lens of an almost fanatical patriotism by the later compilers of the records. the jewish scriptures as we have them today were almost entirely rewritten after the return from the captivity; and the priestly writers who did this work transfigured in a glow of enthusiastic romanc

had the idea of personifying the children of israel as one being who might shed blessing over all nations; and they attempted to arouse among them the sense of unity necessary for this purpose partly by means of ritual. there were also the schools of the prophets, who were trained in the mysteries and studied the deeper teaching enshrined in the ancient rites. one such school is mentioned in the old testament as existing at naioth under the direction of the prophet samuel(*sam, xix, 20) and there were others later at bethel and jericho(*ii kings, ii, 2, 5) 272. these schools were not so much concerned with prophecy in our modern sense of foretelling the future, as with endeavouring to instruct the people by preaching; they seem to have resembled in many ways the preaching friars sent out

LEFT HAND PATH AND RIGHT HAND PATH

s evil. this tendency can be seen in the dual meaning of the word right, in the etymology of words such as sinister, which in latin means both left and unlucky, and in taboos such as the islamic prohibition against touching holy texts with one's left hand. consequently, the left hand has often been used as a symbol for the rejection of traditional religion. the word right as used with hand in the old testament is generally the hebrew word yamin meaning stronger, more dextrous. the word for left is smowl meaning dark. god gives and creates with his right hand, it is his wonderful ability to do all things. with his left hand he punishes. this hints at the obic nature of the lhp. it should be noted that the terms "left" and "right" as applied to politics, meaning "liberal" and "conservative"

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

e devil as a beautiful woman (elizabeth hurley) who searches for a simple soul to grant seven wishes. fast-paced action with elliot s every wish consistently being sabotaged by the devil, who wants him to regret his superficial, soulless desires. evil doings are replaced by magical happenings. the narrative concludes with the moral intervention of a wise angel. beelzebub beelzebub appeared in the old testament only once, never in the apocalyptic literature, and a number of times in the new testament. although the origin of his name is uncertain, beelzebub shared the destiny of many heathen gods of beelzebub (dover pictorial archive) bells 25 canaan who were turned into demons when the jews began to filter in and developed what eventually became monotheistic judaism. baal was mocked by the

2, in robinson 1981, 9f. this evil deity, who is alternately designated the demiurge (a term originally utilized by plato to refer to a demigod who creates the world in the timaeus, also creates the human body for the purpose of trapping human spirits in the physical world. our true home is the absolute spirit, the pleroma. a standard tenet of gnostic christianity was that yahweh, the god of the old testament, was one and the same as this evil demiurge. pointing to the discrepancy between the jealous, vengeful god of the old testament and the teachings of the gentle jesus, these gnostics asserted that jesus was a teacher sent from the pleroma to guide us back to our true home, and that the father to which he referred was different from yahweh. see also archon; gnosticism for further readi

ore worldwide. although in oriental mythologies the dragon is seen as a beneficent animal and is often a symbol or a portent of prosperity, in most european mythologies it is viewed as a demonic beast hostile to humanity. in christian symbolism, for instance, the dragon represents the chief of the fallen angels, the devil. one of the inspirations for the christian devil via hebrew scriptures (the old testament) is derived from the babylonian female dragon monster, tiamat. in early christian thought, the dragon represents the devil or the devil s servant, and has the allegorical role of representing the antichrist, or more generally, evil passions, paganism, or the oppressive powers of this world. in chapter 12 of book of revelation, it is described as large and red, with seven heads and te

embodies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostility toward pharaoh is reported by the prophet ezekiel, who speaks of pharaoh as the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams (ezek. 29:3, into whose jaws he will put hooks and whom he will have thrown into the wilderness. elsewhere in the old testament, the dragon is represented also as a symbol of mourning and desolation. one of the most discussed chapters of the old testament is daniel 7, which reports a dream, alleged to have occurred in the first year of belshazzar, king of babylon, in which daniel sees the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. out of the sea emerge, one after the other, a series of beasts, four in nu

argued that the story of st. george and the dragon owe much to the greek myth of perseus and andromeda. see also leviathan; satan for further reading: cavendish, richard, ed.man,myth& magic. the illustrated encyclopedia of mythology, religion and the unknown. 1983. reprint, new york: marshall cavendish, 1995. day, john. god s conflict with the dragon and the sea. echoes of a canaanite myth in the old testament. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1985. mercatante, anthony s. the facts on file encyclopedia ofworld mythology and legend. new york: facts on file, 1988. 74 dungeons and dragons dungeons and dragons dungeons and dragons (d&d) is the most successful and most well known of a wide variety of a fantasy role-playing games. d&d has been condemned as inspiring young people to commit

ptualized as being below rather than 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. a standard tenet of gnostic christianity was g 95 96 the gnostic order and temple of satanas that yahweh, the god of the old testament, was one and the same as the evil demiurge. pointing to the discrepancy between the jealous, vengeful god of the old testament and the teachings of the gentle jesus, the gnostics asserted that jesus was a teacher sent from the pleroma to guide us back to our true home, and that the father to which he referred was different from yahweh. some gnostics carried this inversion even furthe

efers to the widely accepted doctrine that christ invaded hell during the period between his death and resurrection. as recounted in the gospel of nicodemus, a document accepted on par with the other gospels until after the new testament was canonized, satan arranged to take jesus to hell following his execution, only to have the plan backfire. technically, christ harrows the limbo containing the old testament patriarchs, rather than hell, as the patriarchs are merely being held as prisoners rather than being tortured in a realm of fire and sulfur. rather than being imprisoned, jesus does battle with satan and his minions, defeats them, and frees everyone in hell, from adam and eve to moses. the gospel of nicodemus was popular long before the full development of the notion of purgatory, wh

o moses. the gospel of nicodemus was popular long before the full development of the notion of purgatory, which eventually supplanted the idea of limbo. limbo had been necessary because christians of the first few centuries of the common era imagined that only christian souls could go to heaven. this, however, creates the problem of what happened to such righteous and deserving individuals as the old testament patriarchs (e.g, abraham, moses, etc) who died before the christian gospel was preached? placing them in a limbo realm, from which christ later rescued them and conducted them to heaven, solved this problem. the story of the messiah s harrowing of hell and rescue of infernal prisoners is actually older than christianity. in the pre-christian testament of the twelve patriarchs, for ex

a synthesis of influences from different cultural traditions. the two most significant sources for this diabolical mythology are judaism and zoroastrianism, though it should be noted that even the zoroastrian influence was mediated to christianity by judaism. judaism s history exhibits many different layers of religious development, some of which are reflected in hebrew scriptures (the christian old testament. as many scholars have pointed out, there are often ambiguities with respect to notions about demons and the demonic in early jewish scriptures. in particular, it is sometimes difficult to tell when terms associated with demonic entities are being used literally, figuratively, or some combination of the two. the nature of this problem might best be understood via examples of certain

as an actual hell and more as a pale shadow of earthly life, much like the greek hades. also like the greek hades, the hebrews originally made no distinction between the treatment of the just and the unjust after death. instead, rewards and punishments were meted out in the present life, and in the covenant contract yahweh promised to do just that. one of the few stories in hebrew scriptures (the old testament) that mentions sheol is the tale of the so-called witch of endor. king saul had banished, under threat of death, all who trafficked with ghosts and spirits (1 sam. 28:3. however, faced with a superior army and feeling himself in a desperate situation, saul, in disguise, consults a woman who today we would refer to as a medium. this woman, who lived at endor, summoned the spirit of th

m. 28:19 (i.e, tomorrow they will be dead. by asserting that saul s soul will soon be residing in the same resting place, the clear implication is that moral distinctions do not influence one s afterlife fate the spirits of the good (e.g, samuel) and the spirits of morally bad people (e.g, saul) both end up in the same place, presumably under much the same conditions. although this is the general old testament view, reflection on the inequalities of this life and on the apparent failure of yahweh to make good on his covenant promises led serious religious thinkers to consider the option of resurrection. the resurrection of ordinary human beings seems to have originated in zoroastrianism.as a result of several centuries of persian control of the middle east, jews were brought into contact w

, robert. bound up in the bond of life: death and afterlife in the jewish tradition. in hiroshi obayashi, ed. death and afterlife: perspectives ofworld religions. westport, ct: greenwood press, 1992, 97 108. margolies,morris b. a gathering of angels: angels in jewish life and literature. new york: ballantine books, 1994. mendenhall, george e. from witchcraft to justice: death and afterlife in the old testament. in hiroshi obayashi, ed. death and afterlife: perspectives ofworld religions.westport, ct: greenwood press, 1992. nielsen, niels c, jr, et al. religions of the world. new york: st.martin s press, 1983. pagels, elaine. the origin of satan. new york: vintage books, 1995. west, james king. introduction to the old testament. new york:macmillan, 1981. judgment of the dead the notion of t

jonah, where the prophet is swallowed by and eventually regurgitated from a whale. jonah then travels to ninevah to preach an apocalyptic message. see also dragons; judaism;war in heaven for further reading: davidson,gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. 1967.new york: free press, 1971. day, john. god s conflict with the dragon and the sea. echoes of a canaanite myth in the old testament. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1985. sykes, egerton. who s who: non-classical mythology. new york: oxford university press, 1993. lilith the night goddess lilith of jewish folklore appears to have originally been a mesopotamian night demoness with a penchant for destroying children. lilith is the archetypal seductress, and the personification of the dangerous feminine glamou

LIBER 777

of whoredom, said to be the wife of samael \ynwnz tca= 864 \ycdq cwdq, qadosh qadeshim, holy of holies. doubtless there is an arcanum concealed here, possibly along the lines of you can prove anything with gematria if you try hard enough. transcriber s endnotes 55 line 5. ashteroth. historically a middle eastern goddess (a.k.a. ishtar, astart, asherah, etc, denounced and maliciously mis-spelt by old testament writers and given an inexplicable sex change by medieval demonologists. line 6. chiva, the beast; said to be the offspring of samael and isheth zanunim (see mathers introduction to kaballah unveiled, para 61. only a hideous fudge (to wit (a) mis-spelling the name as ahija (b) writing each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this

e usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the latinised form asmodeus. the name is possibly a modification of aeshma deva, an evil spirit from persian mythology. line 8. belial. said to be the chief of the evil spirits in some late jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g. the testament of the 12 patriarchs, but in the old testament the name was a mere term of abuse meaning masterless or worthless. line 9. lilith. she gets everywhere. line 10. naamah. the sister of tubal-cain (see masonic symbolism; but in the zohar she gets turned into another version of lilith. col. cix. rather than use planetary symbols to distinguish the kings and dukes as in the printed edition, i have split this column. for daath add king

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

let us consider the esoteric idea-mongers of christianity, swedenborg, anna kingsford, deussen and the like, of whom i have taken caird as my example. i wish to unmask these people: i perfectly agree with nearly everything they say, but their claim to be christians is utterly confusing, and lends a lustre to christianity which is quite foreign. deussen, for example, coolly discards nearly all the old testament, and, picking a few new testament passages, often out of their context, claims his system as christianity. luther discards james. kingsford calls paul the arch heretic. my friend the .christian clergyman. accepted mark and acts.until pushed. yet deussen is honest enough to admit that vedanta teaching is identical, but clearer! and he quite clearly and sensibly defines faith.surely th

ll my idol punish you. no earnest student of religion or draw poker should fail to commit this anecdote to memory. 767. mr chesterton.80.i must take this opportunity to protest against the charge brought by mr. chesterton against the englishmen .who write philosophical essays on the splendour of eastern thought. if he confines his strictures to the translators of that well-known eastern work the .old testament. i am with him; any modern biblical critic will tell him what i mean. it took a long time, too, for the missionaries (and tommy atkins) to discover that .budd. was not a .great gawd. but then they did not want to, and in any case sympath and intelligence are not precisely the most salient qualities in either soldiers or missionaries. but nothing is more absurd than to compare men lik

l you that i come, however unworthy, to take up the sword that huxley wielded; i tell you that the oppressor of science in her girlhood is already at work to ravish her virginity; that a moment.s hesitation, idleness, security may force us back from the positions so hardly won. are we never to go forward, moreover? are our children still to be taught as facts the stupid and indecent fables of the old testament, fables that the archbishop of canterbury himself would indignantly repudiate? are minds to be warped early, the scientific method and imagination checked, the logical faculty thwarted.thousands of workers lost each year to science? and the way to do this is not only through the negative common-sense of indifference; organise, organise, organise! for a flag we offer you the stainless

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

t be of medieval origin, for a society that actually engaged in slaveholding, it is argued, would hardly derive slaves and the rest of the population from a single progenitor, and more important, the division into three groups is typical of medieval social thinking, even if the three groups would ordinarily be laborers, warriors, and priests. thomas hill argued for an ultimate connection with the old testament story of the sons of noah. although rigsthula offers a social-foundation myth, it had little effect on the mythology as it is understood for the purposes of this book. snorri never recounts any aspect of it, and there are no kennings based on it or references to it elsewhere, with the possible exception of the reference to all the holy families as the kin of heimdall in voluspa, stan

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

nstilled with the fear of god, a fear supposedly diminished by pernicious and godless darwinism. judaism judaism is the oldest monotheistic religion still in existence today. like islam, but unlike christianity, it rejects any pictorial representation of god. but unlike both christianity and islam, judaism does not affirm that satan is the inventor of evil. jews and christians alike recognize the old testament, in particular, its first five books, called the torah in hebrew. thus, there exists in judaismalso the potential for a literal interpretation of the genesis creation myth. on the other hand, jews do not recognize jesus christ as the messiah, and the christian view of the new testament is not shared by them. nonetheless, jews, muslims, and christians alike are people of the book; tha

e that as it may, many orthodox rabbis see the theory of evolution as being compatible with the jewish faith. some, however, do not. on the other hand, expectedly, all agree that god played and plays a role in the events that unfold in the universe. one can say that observant jews believe in the spirit of the torah but do not necessarily equate it with actual fact. further, jews consider that the old testament should be read and understood in conjunction with jewish scholarly texts such as the talmud, for example. interestingly, many jewish people understand that science, too, evolves and that, for some jews, current scientific knowledge simply represents our best understanding of what ultimately god did. concerning the teaching of id in public schools in the united states, several orthodo

or survival and proliferation. this is exactly how darwin envisioned evolution by natural selection. and as we showed, his vision was confirmed in the above case well over six decades ago. what all creationists and neocreationists reject, however, is the notion of macroevolution, the appearance of new species from old ones. this concept, unlike microevolution, clearly violates the precepts of the old testament that stipulate that kinds were fixed by god once and for all. in other words, species cannot evolve into other species, such as amphibians evolving from fishes and h. sapiens evolving from australopithecus. they claim, with some degree of justification, that no one has ever seen a mouse sprouting wings in order to become a bat. but evolutionary biology never claimed that such deep tr

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

with the candidate in the role of the victim.71 it is something of a puzzle that such a thing should appear at so high a level on the tree, almost in the presence of the deity. even more puzzling is the fact that the principal officers play a significant role in this drama. let us back off from the symbolism for a moment, and seek a broader perspective. the point is often made that the god of the old testament is a god of vengeance and destruction, while the god of the new testament is a god of love and forgiveness. many of the people who make this point seem to be seeking to advance some ideas of their own about which is better, but i think it would be a mistake to dismiss the god of vengeance. after all, such a deity is found in many places. the hindu deity, for example, has the qualitie

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

(abracadabra) disappears in eleven decreasing stages; as in the figure. and what is very remarkable, a body with three heads is folded up by a serpent with eleven coils, and placed by sorapis: and the eleven volves of the serpent form a triangle similar to that formed by the eleven diminishing lines of the abracadabra" nearly every religion of the world shows traces of astrological influence. the old testament of the jews, its writings overshadowed by egyptian culture, is a mass of astrological and astronomical allegories. nearly all the mythology of greece and rome may be traced in star groups. some writers are of the opinion that the original twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet were derived from groups of stars, and that the starry handwriting on the wall of the heavens referred to

reserved by disciples of pythagoras and others who have since contacted his philosophy. method of securing the numerical power of words the first step in obtaining the numerical value of a word is to resolve it back into its original tongue. only words of greek or hebrew derivation can be successfully analyzed by this method, and all words must be spelled in their most ancient and complete forms. old testament words and names, therefore, must be translated back into the early hebrew characters and new testament words into the greek. two examples will help to clarify this principle. the demiurgus of the jews is called in english jehovah, but when seeking the numerical value of the name jehovah it is necessary to resolve the name into its hebrew letters. it becomes, and is read from right to

the number of days in the year. this number furnishes the key to the mystery of abraxas, who is symbolic of the 365 ons, or spirits of the days, gathered together in one composite personality. abraxas is symbolic of five creatures, and as the circle of the year actually consists of 360 degrees, each of the emanating deities is one-fifth of this power, or 72, one of the most sacred numbers in the old testament of the jews and in their qabbalistic system. this same method is used in finding the numerical value of the names of the gods and goddesses of the greeks and jews. all higher numbers can be reduced to one of the original ten numerals, and the 10 itself to 1. therefore, all groups of numbers resulting from the translation of names of deities into their numerical equivalents have a bas

ted has resulted in the most atrocious misconceptions of spiritual truths. concepts well-nigh as preposterous as these, however, still stand as adamantine barriers to a true understanding of old and new testament symbolism; for, until man disentangles his reasoning powers from the web of venerated absurdities in which his mind has lain ensnared for centuries, how can truth ever be discovered? the old testament--especially the pentateuch--contains not only the traditional account of the creation of the world and of man, but also, locked within it, the secrets of the egyptian initiators of the moses concerning the genesis of the god-man (the initiate) and the mystery of his rebirth through philosophy. while the lawgiver of israel is known to have compiled several works other than those gener

has the christian world been in possession of those hidden scrolls which contain the secret doctrine of israel, and if the qabbalists were correct in their assumption that the lost books of the mosaic mysteries have been woven into the fabric of the torah, then the scriptures are veritably books within books. in rabbinical circles the opinion is prevalent that christendom never has understood the old testament and probably never will. in fact, the feeling exists--in some quarters, at least--that the old testament is the exclusive possession of the jewish faith; also that christianity, after its unrelenting persecution of the jew, takes unwarranted liberties when it includes strictly jewish writings in its sacred canon. but, as noted by one rabbi, if christianity must use the jewish scriptu

astle (the body) moves on the square; the bishop (the emotions) moves on the slant; the king, being the spirit, cannot be captured, but loses the battle when so surrounded that it cannot escape. next: the tabernacle in the wilderness sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 133 the tabernacle in the wilderness there is no doubt that much of the material recorded in the first five books of the old testament is derived from the initiatory rituals of the egyptian mysteries. the priests of isis were deeply versed in occult lore, and the israelites during their captivity in egypt learned from them many things concerning the significance of divinity and the manner of worshiping it. the authorship of the first five books of the old testament is generally attributed to moses, but whether or no

with the legend of hermes and his emerald tablet see in the two hundred angels who descended upon the mountains, as described by the prophet: enoch, the first instructors in the alchemical art. regardless of its originator, it was left to the egyptian priests to preserve alchemy for the modern world. egypt, because of the color of its earth, was called "the black empire" and is referred to in the old testament as "the land of darkness" by reason of its possible origin there, alchemy has long been known as "the black art" not in the sense of evil but in the sense of that darkness which has always enshrouded its secret processes. during the middle ages, alchemy was not only a philosophy and a science but also a religion. those who rebelled against the religious limitations of their day conce

tiate the claims of medi val philosophers that king solomon was a master of alchemy, dr. franz hartmann has noted that the muchabused and misunderstood song of solomon is in reality an alchemical formula. the student of natural philosophy will immediately recognize the "dark maid of jerusalem" not as a person but as a material sacred to the sages. dr. hartmann writes "the 'song of solomon' in the old testament, is a description of the processes of alchemy. in this song the subjectum is described in cant. i, 5; the lilium artis in c. ii, 1; the preparation and purification in c. ii, 4; the fire in c. ii, 7, and c. iv, 16, the putrefaction in c. iii, 1; sublimation and distillation in c. iii, 6, coagulation and change of colors, c. v, 9 to 14; fixation, c. ii, 12, and c. viii, 4; multiplicat

plate are devoted to a detailed amplification of the principles here outlined. p. 172 4. the numerical cipher. many cryptograms have been produced in which numbers in various sequences are substituted for letters, words, or even complete thoughts. the reading of numerical ciphers usually depends upon the possession of specially arranged tables of correspondences. the numerical cryptograms of the old testament are so complicated that only a few scholars versed in rabbinical lore have ever sought to unravel their mysteries. in his oedipus gyptiacus, athanasius kircher describes several arabian qabbalistic theorems, and a great part of the pythagorean mystery was concealed in a secret method in vogue among greek mystics of substituting letters for numbers. the most simple numerical cipher is

ay we not refer to the seventy-third page of the borgian ms, which represents quexalcoatl both crucified, and as it were cut in pieces for the cauldron, and with equal reason demand, whether anyone can help thinking that the jews of the new world (lord kingsborough sought to prove that the mexicans were descendants of the jews] applied to their messiah not only all the prophecies contained in the old testament relating to christ, but likewise many of the incidents recorded of him in the gospels" click to enlarge the crucifixion in space. from higgins' anacalypsis. of this remarkable oriental drawing, j. p. lundy has written--it looks like a christian crucifix in many respects, and in some others it does not. the drawing, attitude, and the nail-marks in hands and feet, indicate a christian

MEANING OF MASONRY

etic, hieroglyphics and the whole circle of arts and sciences" in other words he became in a real sense a master mason and, as such, qualified himself for his subsequent great task of leadership of the hebrew people and the formulating of their religious system and rule of life as laid down in the pentateuch. the mosaic system continued, as we know, along the channel indicated in the books of the old testament, and then, after many centuries and vicissitudes, effloresced in the greatest of all expressions of the mysteries, as disclosed in the gospels of the new testament (or new witness, involving the supersession of all previous systems under the supreme grand mastership of him who is call ed the light of the world and its saviour. concurrently with the existence of the hebrew mysteries u

is giving affirmation and ocular testimony to precisely the same fact as the churchman affirms when he recites in his creed the words" he came down from heaven, and was incarnate and was made man" by a tacit and quite unwarranted convention the members of the craft avoid mention in their lodges of the christian master and confine their scriptural readings and references almost exclusively to the old testament, the motive being no doubt due to a desire to observe the injunction as to refraining from religious discussion and to prevent offence on the part of brethren who may not be of the christian faith. the motive is an entirely misguided one and is negated by the fact that the" greater light" upon which every member is obligated, and to which his earnest attention is recommended from the

e to observe the injunction as to refraining from religious discussion and to prevent offence on the part of brethren who may not be of the christian faith. the motive is an entirely misguided one and is negated by the fact that the" greater light" upon which every member is obligated, and to which his earnest attention is recommended from the moment of his admission to the order, is not only the old testament, but the volume of the sacred law in its entirety. the new testament is as essential to his instruction as the old, not merely because of its moral teaching, but in virtue of its constituting the record of the mysteries in their supreme form and historic culmination. the gospels themselves, like the masonic degrees, are a record of p reparation and illumination, leading up to the ord

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

le when we realize that it refers to a face inside a space helmet, which appearedto our ancestors as two faces or heads. the men of brass or bronze was also a title used for the visitors possibly due tothe metallic suits they wore. they also seem to have communicated in strange voices(many-tongues. can this not also be explained in practical terms? can the referencesabout the fallen angels in the old testament, book of enoch, and the dead seascrolls, for example, not be based on actual fact? the nephilim had to begin calibrations of the earth in relation to the neighboring plan-ets and stars almost immediately after ascent from their subterranean havens.although they were in no immediate hurry, they believed they could leave the planetwhenever they desired. earth was certainly not their ho

ve? can the same set of facts beapproached from another angle?atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation25 chapter 4lemuria and homo atlantisas we continue to review even more coherent and provocative hypotheses and theo-ries concerning atlantis, pre-diluvian history, and the coming of evil, we note howscriptures, especially the bible, contain references to key events:the history of the old testament is the history of atlantis (comyns beaumont)some key modern writers, such as brinsley la pour trench, barbara marciniak, andwilliam bramley have espoused other important theories that seek to account for thepresence of evil in the world. these accounts relate to the same idea of alien visitationand colonization. in this case, the alien invaders are referred to either as the serpentpe

the eves and their curiosity toward the high mysteries, thematriarchal cults of the priestess began. these cults of power women existed down tomedieval times, when the brotherhood of the snake, under the guise of catholicism,rose up to destroy them, en masse. the eves have never been forgiven for their aban-donment of the alien hegemony. their decision sealed their fate. that the compilers ofthe old testament and the creators of the anthrocentric, monotheistic religions pro-pound the subservience of woman should be enough proof of whom they serve. thefollowing passage reveals the wrath of the atlanteans, not only toward their firstborn, but also toward the eves:because thou hast done this, though art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of thefield; upon thy belly shalt thou go

cruelestadversary of all other gods jehovah, not in the serpent which spoke only words of sym-pathy and wisdom. under the evil insinuations of their demon thevetat, the atlantis race became a nation ofevil magiciansthe giants and magicians and all flesh died and every man.and author jack barranger also expresses the travesty of mans perplexity:we have been lead to believe that the entity that the old testament describes as a mass mur-derer and heinous leader is the god of the universe. we have been lead to think that theslaughter of human beings in the name of god is a divine act. and all through these passages is the reference to more than one god. a perfect exam-ple follows:thou shalt not revile the gods (exodus 22:28) scholar and genius, ignatius donnelly wrote of the tribulations: it s

any modern scientist isgoing to publicly espouse. and azazel taught men to make swords, and knives and shields and breastplates and madeknown to them the metals of the earth and the art of working with themand they were leadastray, and became corrupt in all their ways.the war of the gods is recorded in the bible. v eiled references to it include the term,first born. this euphemism turns up in the old testament. we read of jehovah, forinstance, striking down the first born of the pharaoh for moses. later, in the newtestament, herod goes after the first born of the so-called israelites in his search forthe christ child. few ask what is productive in attacking those without any sin, whenthe resources would be better used striking at the actual enemy. little in theologicalatlantis, alien visit

lied. and this was comprehendedby the american master of the pre-diluvian epochs, ignatius donnelly, who demon-strated his discernment, concerning the terrestrial tribulations, when he wrote:it sounds like the cry not of a man but of a race, a great, religious, civilized race, who couldnot understand how god could so cruelly visit the world. this fact can be corroborated by a close reading of the old testament. in it, we hear ofthe strange meeting moses had at the burning bush. this has long been a point ofconjecture, but can easily be explained when the imagery is replaced by fact. jehovahannounces to mosess question, i am the god of thy fathers. scholars have pointedout that mosess doubt as to the nature and pre-eminence of jehovah is strange, to saythe least, and that jehovah should nee

gas, with the contestbetween the red and white dragons, which is the dream of uther pendragon, father ofking arthur. the very name pendragon means head of the dragons, that is, the raceof good serpents, from which the celts and gaels descended. other cultures havesimilar leitmotifs expressing the same story. the saxon tale of st. george and thedragon is a perfect fictional rendition of it. in the old testament, passages relating tothe twins, jacob and esau, may well refer obliquely to the pre-diluvian bipartisanismand their ongoing antagonism.in your limbs lie nations twain,rival races from their birth;one the mastery shall gain,the younger oer the elder reign.the meaning behind the euphemisms of the combating serpents or dragons has todo with the antagonism within the biology of the homo

of archangels and familiars,we must realize that this has to do with very physical phenomena. let us look now beyondthe masque to see what lies at the origin of these specific occult sciences and why the profu-sion of occultism among the european aristocratic intelligentsia at this time. the living macroscope86atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation enochian magic is named after the old testament prophet, enoch. but the name actuallygoes further back to the sumerian enki, one of the original annunaki. it is more than signif-icant that dee chose this name for his divination.sir john dee was actually successful in his enterprise. he succeeded in opening hisportal and entering into dialogue with oversouls from another dimension. this was notthe first time in earth history that t

l, refers to the serpent. in the book of revelation, chapter 13,the dragon and its destructive power are introduced.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation209 appendix b: book abstracts past shock by jack barrangerin one of the most tragic ironies, the majority of humans continue to worship those gods who abusedthem the most (p. 9)we have been lead to believe that the entity that the old testament describes as a mass-murderer andheinous leader is the god of the universe. we have been lead to think that the slaughter of humanbeings in the name of god is a divine act (p. 11)religion was created to insure that humans would never experience the true god (p. 12)the atra hasisthis is the sumerian text that contains the content that was rewritten as the story of genesis, one thou-san

estigiousthe most intriguing factor is not that this influential line was recorded from early times, but that it wasdesignated prestigious in the first place some 6,000 years ago, long before the israelites wrote up thestory (p. 27)nebuchadnezzar ii sacked jerusalem and judah and captured the israelites, destroying the temple of solomon. it was inbabylon about 600 b.c. that the first books of the old testament were compiled. but even as late as thetime of jesus there was no complete book in circulation or existence (see p. 28)first compilationthe first set of amalgamated books to be generally approved as the hebrew bible appeared after the fallof jerusalem to the roman general titus in ad 70, and it was compiled in an endeavor to restore faith injudaism at a time of social turmoil (p. 28)e

naki was, henceforth, confined to an underworld darkness, and all the tablets of sumerian andakkadian record that had been available to the hostage jews of the sixth century b.c, were destined tobe forgotten beneath the wasteland (p. 119)appendix b: book abstracts218atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation gardner continuesand so it has been for the better part of 2,000 years that the old testament was the sole record of themesopotamian patriarchal era. there was no way for anyone to know if it was fact or fictionit wastaken on board for history.in the light of these latter day discoveries, we are now far wiser than our parents and forbearers, for wenow know and have at hand the sumerian and akkadian documentation which enabled the captivityjews to compile their ancestral story

were not voyages of discovery but of commerce (see p. 31)book of jobplaced in arabia, the tale is one of a believer in the solar cult being contested by satan, the representa-tive of the serpent cult (see p. 33.)levitesservants of the els, later of the temple of solomon (p. 33)when the israelites did not correctly server their masters, they were sold to other masters. such is thetestimony of the old testament. in ii chronicles jehovah states, you have forsaken me, i will in turn forsake you, and deliver you into the hands of shishack.kings wishing to be godsa king could only become so great, if he attempted to go further he was checkmated. win, lose or draw,the temple always wonthe gold was always in the temple. should a king desire to break the shroudof their mysteries and desire to beco

ement of continents, the reallocation of atlantis and the reason why the centers of world history were artificially displaced to asiaminor. beaumont reveals that the ancients manufactured and utilized powerful weapons in their warsand power politics.and on earth shall be monsters, a generation of dragons of men, and likewise of serpents (clement, apocalyptic fragment)above all, the history of the old testament is the history of atlantis (comyns beaumont)investigations into the beginnings of religion have accumulated steadily throughout the past half-century. it is only by great efforts of censorship, by sectarian education of an elaborately pro-tected sort, and the like, that ignorance about them is maintained (h. g. wells, the fate of homo sapiens)ancient britonsbritains remotest ancestor

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

th osiris, jesus christ is often spoke of a demon hunter and civilizer. with the story of osiris predating the story of jesus christ by more than a 1,000 years, how does one reconcile the timelines? it is, for me, easy; i suspect that most of the events described in the bible refer to a far earlier date than commonly thought. i am absolutely certain that this is the case in regards to the bible s old testament, whose pre-diluvian accounts are probably that of atlantis. proof of this fact lies in the many unoriginal stories contained in the bible, stories which appear to be nothing more than retellings of earlier mythological accounts. although christians claim that jesus is the son of god and made a noble sacrifice for mankind, they often have trouble in describing the nature of said sacri

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

ilizations, cultures, and eras- the bible in our society the bible is the most widely read and discussed book dealing with matters relating to the nature of the spiritual aspect of man and to life after death. on the whole, however, the bible has relatively little to say about the events that transpire upon death, or about the precise nature of the after-death world this is especially -rue of the old testament. according to some biblical scholars, only two passages in all of the old testament speak unequivocally of life after death: isaiah 26:19: thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust for. the earth shall cast out the dead' daniel 12:2: and many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting

MORALS AND DOGMA

posed god to be. they lived in continence and abstinence, and had establishments similar to the monasteries of the early christians. the writings of the essenes were full of mysticism, parables, enigmas, and allegories. they believed in the esoteric and exoteric meanings of the scriptures; and, as we have already said, they had a warrant for that in the scriptures themselves. they found it in the old testament, as the gnostics found it in the new. the christian writers, and even christ himself, recognized it as a truth, that all scripture had an inner and an outer meaning. thus we find it said as follows, in one of the gospels "unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of god; but unto men _that are without, all these things are done in parables; that seeing, they may see and

, they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand. and the disciples came and said unto him 'why speakest thou the truth in parables--he answered and said unto them 'because it is given unto _you_ to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to _them_ it is not given" paul, in the 4th chapter of his epistle to the galatians, speaking of the simplest facts of the old testament, asserts that they are _an allegory. in the 3d chapter of the second letter to the corinthians, he declares himself a minister of the new testament, appointed by god "not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth" origen and st. gregory held that the gospels were not to be taken in their literal sense; and athanasius admonishes us that "should we understand sacred writ

he anthropopathism of the jewish scriptures, the alexandrian jews endeavored to purify the idea of god from all admixture of the human. by the exclusion of every human passion, it was sublimated to a something devoid of all attributes, and wholly transcendental; and the mere being [greek, the good, in and by itself, the absolute of platonism, was substituted for the personal deity[[hebrew] of the old testament. by soaring upward, beyond all created existence, the mind, disengaging itself from the sensible, attains to the intellectual intuition of this absolute being; of whom, however, it can predicate nothing but existence, and sets aside all other determinations as not answering to the exalted nature of the supreme essence. thus philo makes a distinction between those who are in the prope

s limited essence; he cannot understand them; he is merely their unconscious organ; and therefore is unable himself to comprehend the whole scope and meaning of the work which he performs. as an organ under the guidance of a higher inspiration, he reveals higher truths than he himself can comprehend. the mass of the jews, they held, recognized not the angel, by whom, in all the theophanies of the old testament, god _revealed_ himself; they knew not the demiurge in his true relation to the hidden supreme god _who never reveals himself_ in the sensible world. they confounded the type and the archetype, the symbol and the idea. they rose no higher than the demiurge; they took him to be the supreme god himself. but the spiritual men among them, on the contrary, clearly perceived, or at least

s of this world. accordingly, in the system of these sab ans, the seven planet-spirits, and the twelve star-spirits of the zodiac, who sprang from an irregular connection between the cheated fetahil and the spirit of darkness, play an important part in everything that is bad. the demiurge is a limited and limiting being, proud, jealous, and revengeful; and this his character betrays itself in the old testament, which, the gnostics held, came from him. they transferred to the demiurge himself, whatever in the idea of god, as presented by the old testament, appeared to then defective. against his will and rule the [greek] was continually rebelling, revolting without control against the dominion which he, the fashioner, would exercise over it, casting off the yoke imposed on it, and destroyin

hing improbable in the supposition that the primitive idea was that there was but one god. a vague sense of nature's unity, blended with a dim perception of an all-pervading spiritual essence, has been remarked among the earliest manifestations of the human mind. everywhere it was the dim remembrance, uncertain and indefinite, of the original truth taught by god to the first men. the deity of the old testament is everywhere represented as the direct author of evil, commissioning evil and lying spirits to men, hardening the heart of pharaoh, and visiting the iniquity of the individual sinner on the whole people. the rude conception of sternness predominating over mercy in the deity, can alone account for the human sacrifices, purposed, if not executed, by abraham and jephthah. it has not be

. no dawn is hopeless; and disaster is only the threshold of delight. beautifully, above the great wide chaos of human errors, shines the calm, clear light of natural human religion, revealing to us god as the infinite parent of all, perfectly powerful, wise, just, loving, and perfectly holy too. beautiful around stretches off every way the universe, the great bible of god. material nature is its old testament, millions of years old, thick with eternal truths under our feet, glittering with everlasting glories over our heads; and human nature is the new testament from the infinite god, every day revealing a new page as time turns over the leaves. immortality stands waiting to give a recompense for every virtue not rewarded, for every tear not wiped away, for every sorrow undeserved, for ev

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

t. to establish sexual abstinence as a religious rule for all, indiscriminately, is insensate "yet there are those who have dared and achieved thereby (see liber 175. certainly: but others have achieved without it, and anyway, once you achieve, why not outgrow the old toys and go on to other things? we take judaism as an example only because the sexual morality preached in the west is essentially old testament stuff it is useless that christians should pretend they are christians when they persist in interpreting their 'jesus' in the same terms that orthodox jews ascribe to a 'good 'rabbi! were we to believe for one moment that the gospels are the biography of an actual, historical, person, we would have to remember that 'jesus' was hated by the jewish priesthood, and was tortured to death

riginators of the nazi party. the fact that the nazis destroyed all copies of the book of the law in germany, and seized all translations of a. c.'s works, and put the outer head of the 0. t. 0 (who, incidentally, was married to a jewess) in a concentration camp is not mentioned. equally, these people seem not to realize that the nazis treated them exactly as the jews treated the "heathen" in the old testament. hitler was a personification of all of jehovah's attributes only, this time, turned against "his people .even the concept of the superiority of the aryan race' and the inferiority of the 'semites' mirrors the ineffable presumption of the people elect and its attitude towards its fellowmen. all karma has to be paid, and the jews paid theirs. as compensation, through two thousand year

as compensation, through two thousand years of persecution they had to sharpen their wits until today they compose one of the most intelligent and efficient cultural groups on the surface of the planet. if the nazis had been half as intelligent, they would have married jewish women and sterilized only the men. germany might have won the war, then. but the nazis were stupid. they were as stupid as old testament jews. when a book is the only book that by chance is preserved and by design transmitted throughout fifteen centuries, it may well become the book. the bible is one of the most brutish, most cruel, most fanatic cultural records extant. its religious fables are either naive or fatuous. it has neither the loftiness of the pyramid texts nor the human compassion of the sumerian. ft has n

s enormous. the great bursts of economic, scientific and moral progress following the two world wars are here for anyone to see. what the nazis did in the matter of torture during thirty years, and for which they were universally condemned, was done for a thousand years by the roman catholic church, with general approval of the learned; and was even boasted of as an achievement by the jews of the old testament. social conscience has progressed. we live in the most enlightened times of known history; the loud cries of denunciation of social injustice are denouncing things that in our times affect only minorities; two hundred years ago they affected practically everybody, and were denounced by just a handful of honest men who were persecuted, put to death, or if they were lucky ignored as cr

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

tion surrounding the cabala is that magic spells and rituals based upon its system possesses an extremely potent effect over all forms of matter. such magical formulae are naturally much sought after and books containing them are hard to come by. the tree of life the cabala is the secret teaching of the ancient hebrews concerning the inner meaning to the simplistic doctrines and philosophy of the old testament, and forms the basis of modern occult thought. it is immensely complex, and it takes many years of earnest study and practice to master the merest fraction of it. the central symbol in cabalism is the tree of life, giving the path to perfection. the idea is that you follow a complex path of spiritual enlightenment up the tree passing through each sepher (divine emanation) until you a

hrodisiac is derived from aphrodite, the love goddess of the ancient greeks whom the romans called venus. sex backed by a definite thought or desire is a powerful magical force. you can make the irresistible combination of sex and magic work real wonders for you< the cabala is the secret teaching of the ancient hebrews concerning the inner meaning to the simplistic doctrines and philosophy of the old testament, and forms the basis of modern occult thought. one tradition surrounding the cabala is that magic spells and rituals based upon its system possess an extremely potent effect over all forms of matter. spirits communicate with us through dreams, visions and omens, and can see the future with their unseeing eyes. the signs and omens most people receive are simple everyday occurrences, b

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ux du iiiieme stecle en france, vol. 1, 23 ff. speculative freemasonry 227 historical foundations of the scripture should not be disregarded; abraham, david, solomon, and all other biblical characters truly existed. but god made these men the heralds of his son yet to come upon the earth. therefore, it is necessary to search through all they said and did, and in doing so, we will find christ "the old testament" saint augustine said "is nothing other than the new testament covered with a veil and the new testament is merely the old one unveiled" the divine plan transposed into the tangible figure of christ helps us to move from the macrocosmic symbolism of the temple to its microcosmic symbolism. even more, in giving resonance to the millenary symbolism of this point, christianity gave it n

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

f sheikh adi, but many other streams and ponds are held sacred by the yezeedees, and are frequented by them on particular occasions for the same purpose. mr. layard is mistaken when he states that the "yezeedee year begins with that of the eastern christians" it began this year (1850) on the 17th of april, and the inscriptions on fn. 1. the cosmogony of the yezeedees is different from that of the old testament scriptures. they sometimes speak as though they agreed with us on this subject; but i am persuaded that they believe the world to have existed long before adam. from several remarks which dropped from their sheikhs, i am inclined to think that they hold the eternity of matter. p. 129 all their monuments are dated from the hegira. the festival of the new year must always be kept on we

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

it remained green, and with great strength and endurance. as kirk has added in parentheses that the hair of the tedder should be that which bound a corpse to a bier, there is an additional symbolic binding or connecting to the powers of the dead, those ancestors living in the fairy hills. the bowing of the head to look between the legs has many connections, not the least of which are found in the old testament, from jewish mystical practices. the prophets adopted a meditative pose, just as jewish mystics do to this day, whereby the head and feet were joined together, with the head between the legs, like a deep bow. this united the crown, or seat of divine consciousness in the head, with the kingdom, or expression of divinity in matter, the feet. thus the seer could foretell the future, for

RUBY TABLET OF SET

lex talionis("an eye for an eye, semi-private administration of justice, inequality before the law (higher classes were more protected, but when found guilty were subject to more severe punishments, and the drawing of little distinction between deliberate and accidental crime. sumerian science was comparable to egyptian, but significantly inferior in medicine, geometry, and architecture. in the "old testament" of the bible a distinction between religion and politics is drawn, with the former assuming the right to criticize the latter. the hebraic kingship is notable as being primarily secular in responsibility; interaction with and representation of yahweh was the responsibility of a separate priesthood. ancient hebrew religion progressed through four stages (1) pre-mosaic animism and mag

h four stages (1) pre-mosaic animism and magic (2) national monolatry (one god but toleration of others (3) monotheism, and (4) dualism [adapted from persian zoroastrianism (after zaratustra, ca. 600 bce. dualism involves a conflict between two opposing forces of the cosmos in persia ahura mazda vs. ahriman, and later in israel yahweh vs. satan. the hebraic ten commandments are now dated by most "old testament" scholars to ca. 600 bce, some 700 years later than the exodus. in the hebraic system, yahweh is not intelligible through reason or logic, but rather through prophesy and the history of events, whether or not the events' outcomes seem appropriate("theodicy. hence the hebrews adopted a linear concept of time, as well as the notion of a "covenant" between mankind and yahweh; mankind is

europe. frederick ii("the great) reigned in prussia from 1740 to 1786. his domestic policies were progressive, although his foreign policy was as warlike as those of his neighbors. culturally the 16th and 17th centuries were a time of transition between medieval/renaissance knowledge and the new, scientific climate of the enlightenment. in hobbes' time ancient history was still known only by the "old testament" other histories being considered later and inferior to it. while scripture put creation at 4004 bce, histories began ca. 400 bce, with large episodes of later history being unknown. the universe was generally thought to be earth-centric, and the non-christian/european world was considered to be "savage" it was difficult for intellectuals to know just what to believe! even the noted

"savage" it was difficult for intellectuals to know just what to believe! even the noted galileo published his authority of scripture in 1614, and isaac newton devoted many years to biblical studies. he wrote "if any question at any time arise concerning christ's interpretations, we are to beware of philosophy and vain deceit and oppositions of science falsely so-called, and have recourse to the old testament" a generation after he published his famous principia, newton was still trying to discover the exact plan of solomon's temple, which he considered the best guide to the topography of heaven. thomas hobbes (1588-1679) took a scientific, materialistic approach to the objective universe, asserting that the supernatural or subjective universe was beyond rational understanding. politics b

of christ, but equally from the greeks, egyptians, indians, israelites, and persians. theories as to their origins abound, but the most cogent one is that they derived from the heretical jewish sects, like the essenes. this is based in part on the geographical evidence of early gnostic writings, and on the teachings themselves. one of the prominent themes in their writings is their hatred of the old testament, it's god, and it's laws, which was in accord with many radical jewish offshoots of that time. within this generally anarchistic philosophy, however, there arose specific groups that were so irreverent that the others seem the embodiment of submissiveness in comparison. they have been labeled many different ways; libertine, antinomian, licentious, and so on. i have chosen the term "a

er to them as "antiarchal. antiarchy means simply "against rule, or "against rulers. it refers to groups of people who actively oppose any kind of ruling authority, usually governmental but also religious. the antiarchal gnostics were against the biggest ruler of all, god not the beingness that they saw as the source of all real life, but the god who directly rules over this world, the god of the old testament. gnostics differentiated between the two gods by proposing that they are of two different realities. the reality of this world was seen as a place of suffering and spiritual darkness. the reality of a purely transcendent world which was seen as the realm of the pure spark of life, knowledge, love and light. this alien realm was seen as the true reality. the world of the dark lord, ou

contaminate them, and make it more difficult to transcend to the highest reality after death. they claimed that the body was of this "dark" world, and therefore should be disdained. they represented the majority of gnostic groups, though the degree of asceticism varied greatly from one group to another. the other group, the antiarchists, determined which "acts" were specifically forbidden by the old testament (the book of the dark god, and pursued them with tenacity. by doing this they hoped to undermine to authority of the dark lord, and free themselves and others from the slavery of his laws. they claimed that christ sanctified this activity when he said "do not resist evil (mat. 5:39) this view was often promoted by the most prominent gnostics. simon magus is often considered to be the

n 'what is thy neighbor's. for he who gave desire to sustain the race now orders its suppression, though he takes it away from no other living creature. and with the words 'thy neighbor's wife, he says something still more absurd, since he now transforms common property by compulsion into private possession" in his book, epiphanes contends that the laws of the demiurge (the dark, false god of the old testament) conflict with the true intent of the real god, and should be ignored. the cainites, who derived their name from cain and some of their teachings from carpocrates, believed that the soul must pass through all experiences over the course of many lifetimes. this was based on jesus saying "while you are on the road with your adversary, try to get rid of him so that he does not hand you

bible, from both the satanic and from the christian viewpoint. meanwhile, it can serve as a starting point for biblical study for those of us who need one] the existence of satan most of the world views satan as a stereotype. they perceive satan as a two-horned, redcolored, pointy-tailed devil. satan's existence is declared in the bible. satan, or some variation of his name, is mentioned in seven old testament books. these books are: genesis, 1 chronicles, job, psalms, isaiah, ezekiel, and zechariah. every new testament author refers to satan, and he is mentioned in 19 new testament books. looking at the numbers here, we find that 82% of the old testament books mention nothing about satan. and we discover that 30% of the new testament books mention nothing about satan. though this percent

gnorant of his devices. christians strive for child-like minds. what kind of christian adult would forsake adulthood? yet: 2 corinthians 11:3. so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in jesus. satan possesses great memory. biblical christianity bears this out. according to the bible, satan tempted jesus several times (matthew 4:1-11. satan did this through a knowledge of the old testament. when jesus refuted satan's biblical charges, he referred to the old testament. as we will learn later, the satanic authority of modern man makes up two parts of the diabolical trinity. this diabolical trinity can absorb strength via the new testament. as satanists, we have biblical authority to explain the satanic truths, for the purpose of self advancement. satan possesses great wi

revelation 12:7 (above, we find two forces going into battle. this is where 1/3 of the angels in heaven join the departed angels (demons) to defend themselves from jehovah's forces. it seems the christian destiny is to loose the heavenly realm by attack on a stronger, better prepared entity. it is the nature of the r.h.p. to do battle. satan desireth not the shedding of blood. blood letting is an old testament principle that the christians of this time would like to reinstate and be in control of. satan explains the bible from his perspective: 1) satan puts the bible in his context. 2) satan interprets the bible to benefit his will. 3) satan stresses his side of his doctrine. 4) satan understresses unimportant doctrines. contrary to popular opinions, satan has no fear of the word of jehova

havior, is similar to the hasidic jews of today. they are characterized by intense emotionalism and drama in even ordinary events, with an extraordinary devotion in religious matters. it is only in this century that jewish women have once again begun to search for more meaningful and obvious roles within the synagogue, though they have always had the images of the prophetesses and heroines of the old testament. this is in part due to the cultural milieu in which the jews must live, wherein the women of the western world generally have equal access to the same educational, political, and economic roles as men. some of the discussion in the source text dealt with the shift from a spiritual focus to a much more materialistic and secular judaism. this was seen as the only way the modern jew co

or key dee provided an english translation, also communicated by the angels to kelley. in 1659 the dee diaries containing the keys were published by meric. casaubon as a true and faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between dr. john dee and some spirits.3 the attribution of the keys or language to enoch is interesting insofar as he is a remarkable individual in legend. described in the old testament as the seventh master of the world after adam, enoch is the hebrew equivalent of the phoenician cadmus, the greek hermes, and the egyptian thoth. as such he is the reputed author of the tarot, the cabala, the emerald tablet of thoth, and the apocryphal book of enoch. he receives only a brief mention in "genesis, where the fifth chapter recounts "and enoch lived sixty and five years

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of the shekinah, who is the female aspect of the metatron. the shekinah was exiled after the fall of adam and eve, and according to rabbinical lore the entire purpose of the torah is to lead the shekinah back to god and unite her with him. micha-el originally a chaldean deity, the name micha-el translates as who is as god. along with gabriel he is one of the only two angels actually named in the old testament. it was he who vanquished satan from heaven in single combat. it is also he who will descend from heaven with the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand and will bind the beast for 1000 years (revelations: 20:1. according to jewish lore it is micha-el who appeared to moses in the midst of the burning bush. he appears again in the burial scene where he disputes with satan the

the concept of the devil was a fairly late development in the monothiestic legacy. the early hebrews attributed all events, whether good or bad, to the one god. he encapsulated both darkness and light, destruction and creation, corruption and purity. such is clearly stated in isaiah 45:7; i form the light, and create darkness: i make peace, and create evil: i the lord do all these things. in the old testament it is god himself who slays the first born of egypt, sends plagues and famine, strikes down with lightning, and demands of abraham that he sacrifice his first born son. the idea of a separate evil only gradually arrives from the 2nd century b.c. the dilemma of evil created a paradoxical tension between the essentially monist concept of a single divinity underlying existence and the d

ence and the dualistic principle of a lord of light and a lord of darkness. whilst the rabbis have extricated judaism from these early conflicts, the modern christian church remains befuddled by the confusion arising from these two essentially contradictory concepts. standing in the centre of the ensuing maelstrom is none other than the dark one himself. the idea of a devil does not appear in the old testament. rather, we find ha-satan, the opposer. yet this title was a common term for an opponent of any kind, and this was most probably a title of office as in a modern prosecution. it is thus morally neither good nor evil, but rather an agent of neutrality. in enoch i the scribe describes his first meeting with the lord (en xl:6) where he also witnesses uriel arguing against the satans and

gion evolved, so did this shadow, until it broke away from god and became a separate power having its own free will. however, with this separation came the natural dualistic attribution of god s other characteristics, so that the shadow also becomes his destructive and malign aspect, whilst the light becomes everything good. in the book of jubilee, compiled approximately a hundred years after the old testament, this shadow has acquired the title of mastema, a hebrew word meaning adversity. from this moment it is this accusing angel that becomes responsible for all the darker things previously imputed to god. it was the mastema who hardened the pharoah s heart and assisted the egyptian sorcerers against israel. this is reflected in the book of job. satan has been speaking ill of job, and go

ts seem to actually believe in him anymore- such is as he has commanded. as with all liars his story is inconsistent, and there are many conflicting versions of how he and his fellows came to exist. later christianity adopted the legend of the fall, a theme most popular throughout the middle east. the following canaanite scripture was recorded five centuries before the hebrew scribes produced the old testament, and concerns the legend of shaher, who was born of the pit, helel, which is the womb of the mother goddess. compare with isaiah 14:12-14 as we know it now; how hast thou fallen from heaven, helel s son shaher! thou didst say in thy heart, i will ascend to heaven. above the circumpolar stars i will raise my throne and i will dwell on the mount of council in the back of the north. i w

suous of satan s brides. arch-demoness corresponding to the qulippoth of malkuth. naberius (goetia, 24th spirit. marquis commanding 19 legions. appears as a black crane fluttering about the circle. makes men cunning in arts and sciences, especially rhetoric. restores lost dignities and honours. possibly from the ancient babylonian god of writing, logic, and history nabium, who is mentioned in the old testament as nabu. naphula, vapula (goetia, 60th spirit. duke commanding 36 legions. appears as a winged lion. teaches handicrafts, philosophy, and other sciences. ningiszida (sumerian, lord of the tree. horned serpent who, according to akkadian incantations, watches over the demons exiled to the underworld. olam ha-qlippoth (aramaic, world of shells. the other side of the qabballa. olivier. o

once again god destroyed him. nevertheless, christian theologians say he is alive and well as the demon of insolence and pride. raum (goetia, 40th spirit. formerly of the order of thrones, now an earl commanding 30 legions. appears as a crow. steals treasure from king s palaces, destroys cities and men, tells fortunes, brings love between friends and foes. rephaim (syrrian, hebrew. giants of the old testament. originally ancient cthonian spirits. rimmon (babylonian, roarer. originally a god of thunderstorms, later identified as an archangel commanding the same, now hell s only doctor. rofocale (hebrew. the second name of lucifer, also a specific devil with control of the world s treasury. according to the grand grimoire, lucifer rofocale is the prime minister of hell. ronove (goetia, 27th

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turn to escape fear? if you have to fear god, why not be "satan fearing" and at least have the fun that being god fearing denies you? without such a wholesale fear religionists would have had nothing with which to wield power over their followers. the teutonic goddess of the dead and daughter of loki was named hel, a pagan god of torture and punishment. another "l" was added when the books of the old testament were formulated. the prophets who wrote the bible did not know the word "hell; they used the hebrew sheol and the greek hades, which meant the grave; also the greek tartaros, which was the abode of fallen angels, the underworld (inside the earth, and gehenna, which was a valley near jerusalem where moloch reigned and garbage was dumped and burned. it is from this that the christian c

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ose of mind, are the result of material interactions. matsuri: festival. mecca: a city in present-day saudi arabia, the holiest site of islam, where the religion was founded. meditation: quiet reflection on spiritual matters. menorah: a seven-branched candelabrum; at hanukkah, a ninebranched candelabrum is used. messiah: the expected deliverer and king of the jews, foretold by the prophets of the old testament; used by christians to refer to jesus christ. metaphysical: having to do with the philosophical study of the nature of reality and existence. metaphysics: the branch of philosophy that deals with explanations for the most general questions of being, such as what brought the world into being, and the nature of space, time, god, and the afterlife. world religions: almanac xxiii words t

tion: in christianity, the belief that god took on bodily form through jesus christ, making jesus at once fully human and fully divine. indulgence: in the roman catholic church, the belief that paying money to the church would allow a person to get into heaven or be forgiven for sins that were not yet committed. messiah: the expected deliverer and king of the jews, foretold by the prophets of the old testament; used by christians to refer to jesus christ. original sin: the sin that fell upon humankind when adam and eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden; this act, in turn, led to the separation of humans from god. resurrection: the rising of jesus christ from the dead three days after his crucifixion, or death on a cross. sacrament: a sacred rite, or ceremony. saint: in chris

he trinity makes god a combination of god the father, the son, and the holy spirit. symbols. the cross and the simplified sketch of a fish are two dominant christian symbols. worship. religious services are held in churches. most christians pray and observe the sacraments, or rites, of baptism and holy communion. dress. there is no special dress for christians. texts. the bible, consisting of the old testament, of jewish origin, and the new testament, written after the time of jesus, is the sacred text of christianity. sites. the holy land (the places in israel, jordan, and the west bank connected with the birth, life, and death of jesus) contains sites sacred to all christians. observances. christmas and easter are the two major holy days in the christian calendar. christmas observes the

s the first to begin preaching to the gentiles (those who were not jewish. through the writings and teachings of paul, christianity slowly began to separate itself from judaism. the new religion adapted many of the forms of worship of the older judaism, even incorporating its holy book, the tanakh, into its teachings. christians refer to the world religions: almanac 123 christianity tanakh as the old testament. at the same time christianity was developing its own texts. the four gospels, written in the first and second centuries, detail the life of jesus. christians soon also developed two primary sacraments, or sacred ceremonies: baptism and the lord s supper. baptism is a religious ceremony in which a person is dipped in or sprinkled with water as a sign of being cleansed of sin. in the

r as a sign of being cleansed of sin. in the christian religion baptism also signifies that a person has been admitted to church membership. the last supper, also referred to as the eucharist, is a remembrance of christ s last meal with his disciples before he died. the faithful met on sundays, for it was on a sunday that jesus had risen from the dead. they said prayers together, reading from the old testament and from paul s letters. christianity has 2.1 billion followers around the world. the largest number of followers are in europe and north and south america. reproduced by permission of thomson gale. christianity more than 25% of population, including andorra, antigua and barbuda, barbados, cape verde, dominica, grenada, kiribati, liechtenstein, malta, marshall islands, mauritius, mic

the so-called second coming and will judge all humans and receive, or allow into salvation, those who are faithful. many believe that the bible was inspired by god but written by humans and is the first and last word of authority for christianity. christians believe more or less strongly in each of these doctrines, depending on their denominations. sacred writings the bible, composed of both the old testament and the new testament, is the sacred book of christianity. the word bible is from the greek word meaning the books. christians largely believe that the bible is the word of god as written down by men. the old testament is made up of parts of the jewish bible, the twenty-four books of the jewish tanakh. the roman catholic church also includes parts of what is known as the septuagint

le is the word of god as written down by men. the old testament is made up of parts of the jewish bible, the twenty-four books of the jewish tanakh. the roman catholic church also includes parts of what is known as the septuagint, or the apocrypha, while the eastern orthodox church includes still other jewish texts. protestants generally accept that the twenty-four books of the tanakh make up the old testament. the new testament, concerned wholly with the development of christianity, comprises twenty-seven books, originally written in greek. these books come from the early christian period, the earliest being the seven epistles, or letters, written by paul between about 50 136 world religions: almanac christianity and 60 ce. much of the rest of the new testament was written in the succeedi

ngs of the halo represents the trinity. the image of a lamb similarly symbolizes jesus, the lamb of god (agnus dei in latin. worship the form of worship for christians was established in the early days of the church. at first some of the worship service was borrowed from jewish forms, so that the faithful said prayers together, sang from psalms( biblical hymns, and read scripture, mostly from the old testament at first and later from paul s letters. as christianity developed more of its own writings in the new testament, the readings tended to come more and more from that section. worship services were held on sunday, considered the day of jesus s resurrection. in addition, the early church had two main sacraments: baptism and the lord s supper, also known as holy communion or the eucharis

than two million people gather in mecca, making it among the largest gatherings of people in the world. each muslim is expected to make the pilgrimage to mecca at least once during his or her lifetime. the most important site in mecca is the ka aba, or cube, the focal point of the week s activities, which include prayer and other events that teach lessons or commemorate (remember) the life of the old testament prophet abraham. the history of this site reaches back to abraham, along with his wife, hagar, and their son, ishmael, who traveled to the site from palestine. there, abraham and his son built a shrine dedicated to god. in later centuries, when mecca was an important stop on the international caravan route from the east to europe, the ka aba became a place where many idols and statue

ried his half sister, sarai. tereh took his family, including abram, sarai, and haran s son, lot, with him. they settled in the city of haran (later part of turkey. after terah died, abram received his first message from god, telling him to leave his homeland behind and to go to the land that god would show him. abram was seventy-five at the time, and, according to the account in genesis from the old testament, or the hebrew bible, he had not demonstrated any specific religious beliefs or devotion. the tales of his destruction of the idols were a much later addition to the abraham legend. according to the passages in genesis numbered chapter 12, verse 2 (12:2) and 12:3, god told abram: i will make you into a great nation and i will bless you; will make your name great, and you will be a bl

ater addition to the abraham legend. according to the passages in genesis numbered chapter 12, verse 2 (12:2) and 12:3, god told abram: i will make you into a great nation and i will bless you; will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. i will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you i will curse; and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you. this passage from the old testament became an important part of a later christian argument from the apostle paul (c. 3 bce c. 67 ce; see entry. an apostle was one of a group of people in the new testament of the bible who were sent out to preach the words of jesus christ. paul believed that these words showed that abraham passed on god s blessing to all humankind, not just to jews, paving the way for the rise of christ

. abram became wealthy as a result of this, acquiring sheep, cattle, and servants from the pharaoh. such payments were compensation from the pharaoh for taking sarai into the harem. when god learned of this, however, it displeased him and he punished the pharaoh with a plague. as a result, the the first page from the book of abraham, written in hebrew. details of abraham s life are relayed in the old testament, a holy text of the jewish and christian faiths, and in the islamic holy book, the qur an. christel gerstenberg/ corbis. 4 world religions: biographies abraham pharaoh became angry with abram, returned sarai, and ordered abram and his people to leave egypt with their carts of wealth. they returned to canaan. there, lot and abram decided to part company because of arguments between th

m that god promised the lands between the nile and the euphrates rivers. such a promise is important even in the modern-day state of israel, as many israelis believe it gives authority to their claim to the lands in this region. jews trace their ancestry back to abraham, his son isaac, and grandson jacob. many jews also see abraham as a role model of faith, obedience, and success. abraham and the old testament story of abraham s blessing also figures prominently in christianity. christians claim that god blessed all nations on earth through abraham, therefore showing that judaism is not the one and true religion. in the orthodox, or conservative, christian view, this interpretation is taken even further. conservative christians believe that jesus christ was the fulfillment of god s blessin

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"the terrible crystal (job xxxviii, 4-7) he believed that "when at last it shall actually crown the pyramid of human institutions, then indeed shall all men dwell beneath the shadow of "the rock."46 (deut. xxxii, 4; psalms xci, 1: isa. xxvi, 4 and xxxii, 2) totlen insisted that the symbolism had a scriptural basis. his "cap" on the pyramid is the biblical cornerstone; his "rock" is jehovah in the old testament. yet his own research and documentation on the meaning of the seal proved the contrary. he was always the optimist, even when he wrote that he could not "but feel. the certainty that a hidden hand blazoned the heraldry of this great people."47 george rawlinson;s massive three-volume history of the seven great monarchies o/ the ancient eastern world48 provides us with vital and pertin

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merely personal significance for someone to give expression to these forms; rather they are the eternal wisdom the life of the world. his view accords with the mysteryattitude toward the familiar myths. the mystai looked for the deeper reality behind the myths, and what they did in the case of the pagan mythology, philo does with the tale of origins contained in the books attributed to moses. the old testament narratives he treats as images of internal, psychic processes. take the creation of the world recounted in the bible. to read it as expressing things that happened in an external way is to grasp only one half of its meaning. it does indeed say: 156 christianity as mystical fact in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth. now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was

approach to the ancient scriptures among the therapeutae: they have also writings of men of old, who were the founders of their sect, and had left behind many memorials of the type of treatment employed in allegory. their interpretations of the holy scriptures are made in accordance with the deeper meanings conveyed in allegory. philo s aim was likewise to uncover the deeper meaning hidden in the old testament allegories. it is worth considering where such exegesis could lead. reading the creation story, one comes upon something that refers not merely to outer events but furnishes an image for the path of the soul toward divinization. the soul, then, must undertake on the microcosmic level to follow in the footsteps of god; that is the only way of describing its mystery-striving after wisd

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power of the cross. now, in taking a look at the banners, notice the use of two forms of the cross. the most visible is the calvary cross. in the womb of the hexagram, we notice the appearance of a three-armed cross, the t cross, or the crux commissa. the t cross was found in history in the catacombs of rome and was given many names like "anticipatory cross" or "type cross" and the "cross of the old testament" it represents in its shape a cross-headed yoke or gibbet, and by others, the hammer of thor. in looking at its origin, it could be said that it is phoenician or egyptian. for the 3 bottom of the ankh, the egyptian symbol of life, is a t cross. it could be said to be the male part of the ankh symbol. in contemplating the christian origin of the t cross, we need to look in ezekiel (ix

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emoires historiques et secrets de l'lmperatrice josephine, paris, 1827. at right: the sabazios hand. bronze symbol of the syncretic jewish mystery cult of sabazios in asia minor. circa first century, c.e (collection of the british museum) rejected truth and was consigned to hell. in heaven, jesus, of course, is believed to sit at the right hand of god, not the left. in ecclesiastes, a book of the old testament in the bible, it is said that "a wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart is at his left (eccles. 10:2) witches throughout history have danced in ritual circles to the left, that is, counterclockwise. druid priests do likewise as they dance and march around the holy stone at tara, shrine of mother earth. to blaspheme god, some satanists and witches derive pleasure in

tory of the world, written between 1607 and 1614, during his years of confinement in the tower of london under a death sentence. although raleigh's name did not appear on the elaborately engraved frontispiece to the first edition (above, there was no secret about the authorship. the book was immediately banned by king james i. raleigh set out to write a universal chronicle that would parallel the old testament chronology in its initial chapters but bring the story up to his own times, in which the history of england would be related to that of the rest of the world. he got only as far as the fall of macedonia in 130 b.c. james's displeasure was caused by raleigh's portrayals of assyrian queen semiramis, which was seen as a tribute to elizabeth i, and of her effeminate successor, ninus, whi

s pendant keeps our higher power's eye on our recovery and spiritual growth" the same catalog ad says "this five-thousand-year-old symbol of continual movement and spirituality. has become a popular icon in the recovery community" black magic, masonic witchcraft, and triangle powers 389 a rosicrucian symbol described as "the eternal madonna" in the encyclopedic work, new age bible interpretation (old testament, volume iii, editor corinne heline a friend sent the author this photograph she took of one of the student art exhibits on display at a local high school. many of the exhibits were on occult subjects. the meaning of the triangle within the circle superimposed over the body of the person, lying in a fetal position on a surface of red, most likely symbolizes man's servitude and enslave

t god himself, in revelation 11:8, declares that in the last days just prior to christ's return, one of the most wicked places on earth will be jerusalem and israel. in revelation god calls jerusalem "sodom and egypt" the question is, why? why is jerusalem and the nation of israel spiritually "sodom and egypt" i believe it is because of the jewish religion, a religion diametrically opposed to the old testament faith of moses, isaac, jacob, and the prophets. from the 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 on

e horrific nature of the jews' religion lie in its man-made traditions. in reality, these traditions are satanic in origin. i refer especially to the jewish talmud, the legalistic law traditions of the rabbis, and to the jewish cabala (also kabbalah or quaballah, which are the mystical teachings and traditions of the rabbis and sages. 422 codex magica if the jews had stuck to the teachings of the old testament, satan would not have had such terrible inroads. indeed, if moses and the prophets had been heeded, or if their writings were honored today, the jews would believe in jesus christ as messiah and be saved by faith in his promises. instead, the jews departed from the prophets, and over the centuries the rabbis steadily developed a body of man-made literature (the talmud and the cabala)

lains that the blazing star, or pentagram, has many meanings germane to the doctrines of illuminism and the occult.5 esoterically, the star symbolizes man as deity, as the universe embodied. it also stands for sirius, the "dog star" or planet where satan dwells. it stands for "thor" the ancient nordic god, and it stands for baal, or bel, the demonic god so often mentioned in derisive terms in the old testament. every man and woman is a star 539 this same star god was worshipped in egypt, and the children of israel, while wandering in the desert, fell under his hypnotic powers. they called him moloch, chiun, and remphan. the prophet amos castigated the jewish idolaters for this unholy sacrilege: but ye have borne the tabernacle of your moloch and chiun your images, the star of your god, whi

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authors and compilers, is now known as the book of the dead; its creators called it the chapters of coming forth by day. although many known copies of this ancient work exist, no one copy contains all the chapters, which are thought to number around 200. the subject matter of each chapter is the beatification of the dead, but the chapters are as independent of one another as are the psalms in the old testament. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 16 afterlife mysteries mankind s history of burial practices timeline 70,000 b.c.e. earliest discovered burial sites of neanderthal man. 3600 b.c.e. earliest known attempts to mummify bodies in egypt. 3000 b.c.e. ancient chileans mummify bodies. 1000 b.c.e. ancient greeks cremate their dead. 62

t the enemy of christ has manifested and that many false teachers have infiltrated the christian ranks. in verse 22, john names as the antichrist anyone who would deny jesus as the christ and the father and the son, and in 2 john verse 7 he declares that there are many deceivers already at work among the faithful. the concept of an earthly opponent or antagonist of the messiah also appears in the old testament. the earliest form of the antichrist is probably the warrior king gog, who appears in the book of ezekiel and who reappears in revelation along with his kingdom of magog, representing those earthly minions of satan who will attack the people of god in a final great battle of good versus evil. in jewish eschatology, writings about the end of days state that the armies of gog and magog

o receive baptism, and of people believed to be possessed by demons. in various parts of europe, the priest conducting the exorcism might also use the rites to banish such pre-christian deities as thor and odin. accounts of demonic possession were commonplace in ancient egypt, babylonia, and persia from the earliest times. although there are no accounts of demonic possession or of exorcism in the old testament, the casting out of demons is an integral part of jesus ministry and it is an important aspect of the earthly assignments that he gives to his followers( then he called together his twelve apostles and sent them out two by two with power over evil spirits [mark 6:7. finally, paul turned and said to the spirit, in the name of jesus christ, i order you to leave this girl alone [acts 16

spels, the possessing entities are always demons, never satan himself. although these are victories that diminish satan s earthly powers, it may be that the great showdown between jesus, the son of god, and satan, the lord of the earth, is building for the great final battle between good and evil at armageddon at the time of the apocalypse. although accounts of exorcism are not to be found in the old testament, later jewish tradition employs a ritual that involves the sounding of the shofar, the reciting of prayers, and the anointing of the afflicted person with oil and water over which passages from psalms have been read. as in christian exorcism, it is important that the true identity of the demon be learned so that it can be addressed by name and ordered out of the body of its victim. i

g phrases. there must be two rak as at dawn, four at noon, four in the afternoon, three at sunset, and four at night. jewish liturgy did not begin to achieve its fixed form until the centuries after the destruction of the second temple, and the prayer book did not appear in its classical form until the middle ages. but spontaneous prayers are found throughout the tanakh, the hebrew bible, and the old testament in the christian bible. to list only a few: the prayers of abraham (genesis 15:2 3, isaac (genesis 25:21 23, and hannah (1 samuel 1:9 13) petitioning god for an heir; moses prayers for plagues on the egyptians (exodus 8:12, for the red sea to part its waters (exodus 14:21, for a glimpse of god s glory (exodus 33:18, for aaron s forgiveness after his sin of making the gold calf (deute

phenomena the weeping statue of rosa mystica in maamechelen, belgium (fortean picture library) mesopotamia greek word, meaning between two rivers. an ancient region that was located between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is today, modern iraq and syria. some of the world s earliest and greatest ancient civilizations such as ur, sumer, assyria, and babylonia were developed in that region. old testament the first of the two main divisions of the christian bible that corresponds to the hebrew scriptures. omen a prophetic sign, phenomenon, or happening supposed to portend good or evil or indicate how someone or something will fare in the future. qur an (koran) the sacred text, or holy book, of islam. for muslims, it is the very word of allah, the absolute god of the islamic faith, as

ribal peoples, they established themselves in the parental role and widened the gap of understanding between religious traditions. on the north american continent, the christian missionaries were intrigued to discover that tribe after tribe across the length and width of the continent had legends and myths which closely paralleled so many of the accounts found in genesis and in other books of the old testament. the delaware, to cite only one example, told the story of the creation and the great deluge in pictographs. some missionaries dealt with the mystery in the same manner that the early spanish priests who accompanied the conquistadores had dealt with the aztec myths that told stories similiar to those found in the bible they declared that the native people had been told these stories

astrology, magic, sorcery, or the like. manitou a supernatural force, or spirit that suffuses various living things, as well as inanimate objects, according to the algonquian peoples. in the mythology of the ojibwa of the eastern united states, manitou is the name of the supreme deity, or god, and means great spirit. manna the food miraculously supplied to the israelites by god, according to the old testament, as they wandered in the wilderness during their flight from egypt. spiritual nourishment or something of value received of divine origin or unexpectedly. materialization something that appears suddenly, as if out of nowhere. in the paranormal it might be a ghost or spirit that suddenly appears to take on a physical form. medium in the paranormal, someone who is able to convey messag

rvous system a cell body that consists of an axon and dendrites and transmit nerve impulses. a neuron is also called a nerve cell. via german from greek neuron, meaning sinew, cord, or nerve. novena of masses in the roman catholic church, the recitation of prayers or devotions for a particular purpose, for nine consecutive days. from the latin nus, meaning nine each and from novern, meaning nine. old testament the first of the two main divisions of the christian bible that corresponds to the hebrew scriptures. omen a prophetic sign, phenomenon, or happening supposed to foreshadow good or evil or indicate how someone or something will fare in the future an indication of the course of future events. oracle either someone or something that is the source of wisdom, knowledge or prophecy. can a

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fice of men, women, and children was considered forbidden. and while in less civilized times the drinking of an animal s vital fluid had been deemed an appropriate way in which to absorb the strength or virility of the lion, the bear, or the boar, religious law now admonished against both the drinking of animal blood and the eating of meat from which the blood had not been thoroughly drained. the old testament book of leviticus (17:14) acknowledges that blood is the life of all flesh, the blood of it is the life thereof, but the children of israel are instructed that they shall not eat of the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. again, in deuteronomy 12:20 24, the lord warns, thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy

ss you, after the sneeze is universal, and each country has its own particular superstition concerning it. the romans believed that the sneeze expelled evil spirits; therefore, the act of sneezing was considered an effort on the part of the person to rid his or her system of evil spirits, and those present at the time would say, good luck to you. there is an old legend that before the time of the old testament patriarchs, people sneezed only once, and died. but the patriarch jacob interceded on behalf of humankind and obtained a cessation of this law on the condition that the benediction god bless you! follow every sneeze. in iceland, according to legend, there was once a dreadful epidemic in which many people died. in a certain household, a brother and sister observed that everyone around

ariation on marriage by purchase united the feudal kingdoms of europe. perhaps even more common than buying a bride was the ancient custom of gaining a wife by working for her father for a certain period of time. such an exchange of a prized daughter for an agreed-upon term of labor was practiced among many of the early societies and tribes of america, africa, and asia. many are familiar with the old testament story of how jacob worked 20 years for his uncle laban to gain leah, a bride whom he did not want, and rachel, whom he loved (genesis: 29, 30. among many early peoples, valuable presents were given to the parents by the bridegroom instead of a monetary payment. in japan, it was the custom of a suitor to send certain previously stipulated gifts to the parents of the young woman whom h

f biblical texts have found three types of cosmic conveyances employed as vehicles of transportation for celestial beings: 1. the wheel, or disc-shaped object described by ezekiel; 2. the chariot of fire mentioned in the second book of kings; 3. the cloudy chariot found in the writings of moses, daniel, david, matthew, paul, and john. in ii kings 2:11 12, 6:17; psalms 68:17; and habakkuk 3:8, the old testament writers describe cosmic craft identified as a chariot of fire powered by engines called horses of fire with charioteers (pilots. the chariot s liftoff is described as a whirlwind. in ii kings is written: and it came to pass, when the lord would take up elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that elijah went with elisha from gilgal and behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses

astrology, magic, sorcery, or the like. manitou a supernatural force, or spirit that suffuses various living things, as well as inanimate objects, according to the algonquian peoples. in the mythology of the ojibwa of the eastern united states, manitou is the name of the supreme deity, or god, and means great spirit. manna the food miraculously supplied to the israelites by god, according to the old testament, as they wandered in the wilderness during their flight from egypt. spiritual nourishment or something of value received of divine origin or unexpectedly. materialization something that appears suddenly, as if out of nowhere. in the paranormal it might be a ghost or spirit that suddenly appears to take on a physical form. medium in the paranormal, someone who is able to convey messag

rvous system a cell body that consists of an axon and dendrites and transmit nerve impulses. a neuron is also called a nerve cell. via german from greek neuron, meaning sinew, cord, or nerve. novena of masses in the roman catholic church, the recitation of prayers or devotions for a particular purpose, for nine consecutive days. from the latin nus, meaning nine each and from novern, meaning nine. old testament the first of the two main divisions of the christian bible that corresponds to the hebrew scriptures. omen a prophetic sign, phenomenon, or happening supposed to foreshadow good or evil or indicate how someone or something will fare in the future an indication of the course of future events. oracle either someone or something that is the source of wisdom, knowledge or prophecy. can a

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centered their faith in christ, they perceived him as pure spirit that had descended from heaven on the instructions of the god of good to liberate humankind from the world of matter. according to the cathars, because christ was pure spirit, he did not die on the cross and the teachings of the church were false. the cathars rejected all the catholic sacraments, and they taught that the god of the old testament was the lord of matter, the prince of this world.all terms which the catholic church reserved for satan. not only did the cathars believe that the god revered as the creator by the church was really the devil, the cathars instructed their followers that most of the patriarchs and prophets mentioned in the old testament were really demons. the cathars somehow managed to hold out again

seemed to originate in the skies above, it was most logical that they should come to regard the heavens as the seat of the great gods. from this conviction evolved a theory of complete accord between phenomena observed in the heavens and occurrences observed on earth. there is no doubt that the ancients held the celestial bodies in great regard, perhaps even in veneration. the book of job in the old testament affirms that gthe morning stars sang together h when the foundation of earth was laid. later, job was asked, gdo you know the ordinances of the heavens? can you establish their rule on earth? h (38:33. it is clear, also, that the ancients believed that the stars influenced the turn of events here on earth. in judges (5:9) it is recorded that barak, commander of the israelite army tha

the stars with every kind of terrestrial activity. their ability to predict future trends.even actual events.has been repeatedly demonstrated. h the gstar gospel, h outlined in the history of creation and origin of species (1967) by reuben luther katter, attaches religious interpretations to the 12 signs of the zodiac. katter stated that the star gospel, also called adamic theology, antedates the old testament by 2,500 years. the star gospel uses the same 12 zodiacal signs as does astrology, but begins with virgo and ends with leo. katter stated that, according to tradition, jacob and his 12 sons carried zodiacal tablets and banners into egypt and carried them out in the exodus. like astrology, the star gospel holds that the 12 signs stand for 12 positions of the sun in relation to earth

dy of mind. london: l. n. fowler& co. ltd, 1970. phrenology into a state of mind in which the voice of the holy spirit might be heard. all human cultures throughout history have given great attention to their prophets and seers. perhaps the quintessential prophet is nostradamus (1503.1566, whose name has become synonymous with prophecy and who is better known to the general public than any of the old testament prophets. the french seer has inspired numerous books, countless articles, and a number of television specials. although his visions of the future were written in poetic verse and read like gibberish to the skeptics, those who believe firmly in nostradamus fs gift of prophecy quote his predictions as if they were holy writ. the claim that nostradamus had predicted the tragedy of the

ossess mystical and religious powers. today, crystals are still worn for decorative purposes in the form of gems and jewels; those who believe in the mystical powers of crystals wear them as amulets. many amulets have religious significance. ancient jews wore amulets around their necks that contained slips of parchment on which the laws of god were written. the torah, comprising five books of the old testament of the bible, is among the copies of holy books including the bible (christians, vedas (hindu, the koran (muslims, and the avestar (zoroastrians) believed by the faithful to t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d objects of mystery and power 169 ancient amulets of the middle east ancient assyrians, egyptians, babylonians, arabs, and

usual feature at 14,000 feet on mt. ararat. it was reported to be the same size as the ark. in the 1980s, former nasa astronaut james irwin participated in expeditions up the mountain, but he found only the remnants of abandoned skis. with the breakup of the former soviet union, expeditions up the mountain intensified during the 1990s, and the search for noah fs ark continues. as described in the old testament book of exodus, the ark of the covenant, a wooden chest covered with gold, is said to contain such sacred relics as the tablets of law from god that moses (14th.13th century b.c.e) brought back from mt. sinai. the ark possessed supernatural powers and served as a means through which god could express his will to the israelites. it was last known to have rested in the temple of solomo

h, norma.the holy grail. new york: harper- collins publishers, 1992. hancock, graham. the sign and the seal. london: heinemann, 1992. weston, jessie l. from ritual to romance. mineola, n.y: dover publications, 1997. the ark of the covenant ever since the babylonian captivity of jerusalem in the sixth century b.c.e, the whereabouts of the ark of the covenant has been a mystery. as described in the old testament of the bible, the ark served as the visible sign of god fs presence to the israelites. the israelites would rally and vanquish their foes when the ark was brought to sites of battle, and death came to those in the presence of the ark who were enemies of god, betrayed their allegiance to god, or who simply forgot about the ark fs immense power. according to the bible, the ark was last

on of the ark. in contemporary times, interest in the ark was renewed with the 1981 film raiders of the lost ark, where it is the object of a search just prior to world war ii (1939.45) between nazi forces and an american archaeologist named indiana jones. the ark is found and, as in the bible, its power kills (literally melts) all of those who do not pay it proper respect. in the film, as in the old testament, the presence of the ark brings destruction to the wicked and to the vain. in raiders of the lost ark, the relic eventually ends up in an undistinguished crate in an overstocked u.s. government warehouse waiting to be archived. in december 2001, rev. john mcluckie found a wooden tablet representing the ark of the covenant in a cupboard in st. john fs episcopal church in edinburgh, sc

75. making the connection invocation the act of calling upon or appealing to a higher power such as a deity, spirit, or god for assistance. a form of prayer, inviting god fs presence, at the beginning of a ceremony or meeting. in black magic, can be the casting of a spell or formula to invite an evil spirit to appear. manna the food miraculously supplied to the israelites by god, according to the old testament, as they wandered in the wilderness during their flight from egypt. spiritual nourishment or something of value received of divine origin or unexpectedly. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 210 objects of mystery and power theearliest known swastikas date from 2500 or 3000 b.c.e. in india and central asia. sarcophagus from the gr

trology, magic, sorcery, or the like. manitou a supernatural force, or spirit that suffuses various living things, as well as inanimate objects, according to the algonquian peoples. in the mythology of the ojibwa of the eastern united states, manitou is the name of the supreme deity, or god, and means ggreat spirit. h manna the food miraculously supplied to the israelites by god, according to the old testament, as they wandered in the wilderness during their flight from egypt. spiritual nourishment or something of value received of divine origin or unexpectedly. materialization something that appears suddenly, as if out of nowhere. in the paranormal it might be a ghost or spirit that suddenly appears to take on a physical form. medium in the paranormal, someone who is able to convey messag

rvous system a cell body that consists of an axon and dendrites and transmit nerve impulses. a neuron is also called a nerve cell. via german from greek neuron, meaning sinew, cord, or nerve. novena of masses in the roman catholic church, the recitation of prayers or devotions for a particular purpose, for nine consecutive days. from the latin nus, meaning nine each and from novern, meaning nine. old testament the first of the two main divisions of the christian bible that corresponds to the hebrew scriptures. omen a prophetic sign, phenomenon, or happening supposed to foreshadow good or evil or indicate how someone or something will fare in the future.an indication of the course of future events. oracle either someone or something that is the source of wisdom, knowledge or prophecy. can a

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mmed is his prophet" say with the children of israel "there is no god but god, and moses is his prophet" say with the christians "there is no god but god, and jesus christ is his prophet" mohammed is the shadow of moses. moses is the forerunner of jesus. what is a prophet? a representative of humanity seeking god. god is god, and man is the prophet of god, when he causes us to believe in god. the old testament, the qur'an, and the gospel are three different translations of the same book. as god is one, so also is the law. o ideal woman! o reward of the elect! art thou more beautiful than mary? o mary, daughter of the east! caste as pure love, great as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the children of islam the mysteries of paradise, and the secrets of beauty! invite them to the fest

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as been deliberately simplified, but it draws, nevertheless, inspiration from a fundamentally traditional basis and is of a definite efficiency. 12. the tau's+ traced during the orisons: the sign+ or rather x has been the cursive hebrew tau used well before, and after, the beginning of our era (see jean danielou's "les symboles chretiens primitifs, paris 1961. it was the sign of the elect' of the old testament, even before it was mentioned in the revelation of st. john (the apocalypse) and also well prior to its adoption by the christians as a sign recalling the passion of christ. for example we read in ezekiel that it was supposed to have been traced upon the foreheads of the elect by the angel of yaveh. 11 the ancient egyptians, the eleusinian mysteries and those of dionysos, the gnostic

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metic order of the golden dawn. however, various portions of the ritual are found to have far more ancient sources. in the new testament, the lord's prayer (matthew 6:9-13) is obviously based upon qabalistic principles, showing that jesus of nazareth, who was called rabbi by his followers, knew his qabalah. this is because the lord's prayer is itself based on the hebrew "prayer of david" from the old testament, found in the first book of chronicles 29:l "the prayer of david at the foundation of the temple" reads as follows: unto thee, 0 tetragrammaton, are the greatness and the power and the beauty and the victo y and the glo y, for unto thee is everything in the heavens and the earth. unto thee, 0 tetragrammaton, is the kingdom. ths single verse mentions the names of several sephiroth, in

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m tablets that recorded an age, that the first creation epic is found, the first exorcism, the first ritual invocations of planetary deities, the first dark summonings of evil powers, and ironically, the first "burnings" of people the anthropologists call "witches. lovecraft's mythos deals with what are known chthonic deities, that is, underworld gods and goddesses, much like the leviathan of the old testament. the pronunciation of chthonic is 'katonic, which explains lovecraft's famous miskatonic river and miskatonic university, not to mention the chief deity of his pantheon, cthulhu, a sea monster who lies "not dead, but dreaming" below the world; an ancient one and supposed enemy of mankind and the intelligent race. cthulhu is accompanied by an assortment of other grotesqueries, such as

me way that later st. george and st. michael would defeat the serpent again- the cosmos was created from the body of the slain serpent, and man was created from the blood of the slain commander of the ancient army, kingu, thereby making man a descendent of the blood of the enemy, as well as the "breath" of the elder gods; a close parallel to the "sons of god and daughters of men" reference in the old testament. yet, though the identity of the victor is clear, there were- and are- certain persons and organisations that dared side with the vanquished, believing the ancient ones to be a source of tremendous, and most unbelievable, power. worship of the ancient ones in history "let them curse it that curse the day, who are skilful to rouse leviathan- job 3:8 s.h. hooke, in his excellent middle

rtain persons and organisations that dared side with the vanquished, believing the ancient ones to be a source of tremendous, and most unbelievable, power. worship of the ancient ones in history "let them curse it that curse the day, who are skilful to rouse leviathan- job 3:8 s.h. hooke, in his excellent middle eastern mythology, tells us that the leviathan mentioned in job, and elsewhere in the old testament, is the hebrew name given to the serpent tiamat, and reveals that there was in existence either a cult, or scattered individuals, who worshipped or called up the serpent of the sea, or abyss. indeed, the hebrew word for abyss that is found in genesis 1:2 is, hooke tells us, tehom, which the majority of scholars take to be a survival of the name of the chaos-dragon tiamat or leviathan

hold you in check! may the mountain subject you! may the mountain cover you! may the mighty mountain fall on you, may you be held back from my body (note: the original translator had noted the resemblance between the greek word for lors, kurios, and the sumerian word for mountain, kur, and for a type of underworld, chthoic, monster which is also called kur and which refers to the leviathan of the old testament. also, in this particular conjuration, the word for mountain is shadu- shaddai? the old serpent kur is, of course, invoked every day by the christians: kyrie eleison) common sumerian words and phrases in english sumerian english akhkharu vampire alal destroyer alla xul evil god barra! begone! dingir xul evil god edin na zu! go to the desert (a form of exorcism) gelal incubus gigim xu

t, f. science occult; la magie chez les chaldeens paris, 1874 tales of the cthulhu mythos new york, 1973 at the mountains of madness new york, 1973 lovecraft, h.p. the dunwich horror new york, 1963 the lurker at the threshold (with august derleth) new york, 1971 mason, h. gilgamesh (ed) new york, 1972 neugebauer, o. the exact sciences in antiquity new york, 1969 near eastern texts relating to the old testament princeton, 1958 pritchard, j. the chaldean oracles of zoroaster "sapere aude" new york seignobos, s. the world of babylon new york, 1975 seligmann, k. magic, supernaturalism, and religion new york, 1968 oriental magic new york, 1973 shah, i. the secret lore of magic new york, 1972 the sufis new york, 1973 tallqvist, k.l "die assyrische beschworungsserie maqlu nach dem originalem im b

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elial as the name of the adversary in recent times been considered different from satan, old grimoire texts mention belial was the angel created after lucifer. belial is considered by hebrew texts to be the father of idolatrous nations, which if you relate the context of the early rabbinical writings on cain, his founding of a city is related to founding a belief system. as belial appeared in the old testament, his name has been explained by numerous etymological studies as meaning wicked but also one who is the opposer of established authorities. belial was suggested as meaning in samuel as the rivers of the underworld, then as a force than a specific person. the orthography of the luciferian path as defined in michael w. ford s luciferian witchcraft and liber hvhi is based inpart on the

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file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael/my..20secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/note32.html [12/28/2001 2:03:23 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part two the rituals themselves* lodge of perfection and fourth degree35 (holy royal arch of enoch) prefatory note the symbolism of this degree is based on that of the holy royal arch degree of orthodox freemasonry. this is itself based on the old testament (haggai ii v. 1-9. the officers who operate the ritual (h, j. and z) are, then, haggai, joshua and zerrubbabel. the altar of this rite is a modified form of that of the holy royal arch, and without some description of it both the opening of the lodge of perfection and its mystical lecture are incomprehensible. the altar is in the form of a double cube (its top about sixteen inches sq

sanctification. for when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness. what fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. but now being made free from sin, and become servants to god, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life (romans vi, 12-13 and 19-22) consider also these passages of the old testament: and the lord said unto me, take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, for maher-shalal-hash-baz; and i will take upon me faithful witnesses to record, uriah the priest and zechariah the son of jeberechiah. and i went unto the prophetess and she conceived and bare a son. then said the lord unto me, call his name maher-shalalhash- baz (isaiah viii, 1-4) when th

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ote10.html [12/28/2001 2:09:30 pm] sroto_notes 11. for both a brief outline of tantrism and some details of kellner s possible indebtedness to the american occultist p. b. randolph see my sexuality, magic and perversion (london, spearman; new jersey, citadel press, 1972. file//c /documents%20as/ appearing of our lord jesus christ, to whom with the holy ghost, be all praise and thanksgiving. amen. old testament page 1 genesis the first book of moses, called genesis 1:1 in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth. 1:2 and the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. and the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters. 1:3 and god said, let there be light: and there was light. 1:4 and god saw the light, that [it was] good: and god divided t

[was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious. 3:12 seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 3:13 and not as moses [which] put a vail over his face, that the children of israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 3:14 but their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in christ. 3:15 but even unto this day, when moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 3:16 nevertheless when it shall turn to the lord, the vail shall be taken away. 3:17 now the lord is that spirit: and where the spirit of the lord 2 corinthians page 664 [is] there [is] liberty. 3:18 but we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the l

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ion of the symbol is of considerable antiquity, for it is mentioned as proverbial in the oneirocritics of artemidorus;1 and that it is not now confined to great britain, but prevails in most parts of christendom, as the ancient acceptation of it did formerly in most parts of the world, even among that people from whose religion christianity is derived; for it is a common mode of expression in the old testament, to say that the horns of any one shall be exalted, in order to signify that he shall be raised into power or pre-eminence; and when moses descended from the mount with the spirit of god still upon him, his head appeared horned.2 to the head of the bull was sometimes joined the organ of generation, which represented not only the strength of the creator, 1 lib. i. c. 12. 2 exod. c. xx

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ittle different from that of countless shamans around the world, who go alone into the wilderness and endure hunger and thirst to achieve what is called a "vision quest" success came in the form of the 59. murray, 239. chapter four: religious bilocation 51 astral vision of the laws inscribed by moses himself on the stone tables that he carried down from the mountain. all the great prophets of the old testament exhibit many of the characteristics of shamans. they lived alone, outside the customs of their society, and they went into the wilderness where they received detailed visions while traveling out of their bodies on the astral plane. they acted as intermediaries or mediums, carrying the messages of spiritual beings to humanity. the true nature of the spirits that inspired their prophec

t of a better term, that takes place under unusual and infrequent conditions. one person seeing a ufo can sometimes pass that conviction on to others present, so that others think they see it also, even when it does not physically exist. similarly, one person witnessing a miracle can convey to others by the strength of faith the ability to see the same miracle. perhaps as a deliberate echo of the old testament account of the hand of god reaching down to lift ezekiel up by the hair, the author of the new testament book of matthew told of jesus walking across the sea. the apostle peter wanted to imitate him and, encouraged by jesus, stepped from his boat onto the surface of the water, but became afraid and began to sink. jesus reached down his hand and drew him up, while still standing on to

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tter added in the middle, the hebrew shin (w, which stands for the element fire, or for the cardinal quality. the fivefold name, ihshvh (3lw3, which can be rendered into english as "yeheshuah" was held by the christian kabbalists of the renaissance to have deprived tetragrammaton of all its power, even as jesus christ had supplanted the jealous god of the hebrews and the gospels had displaced the old testament. this view was first explicitly set forth by giovanni pico della mirandola (1463-94) in his seminal seventy-two conclusions on the kabbalah, published in 1486. in the fourteenth conclusion, he argued that the insertion of the shin into tetragrammaton represents the descent of the fiery holy spirit into the fourfold realm of matter-the incarnation of god in human flesh. 48 tetragramma

r them pronounceable. the related twelve names of the severe angels of judgment are extracted by reading up the columns, adding the divine suffixes, and inserting vowels as before. it might be objected that revelation is a book of the new testament, was not originally written in hebrew, and has little connection with the kabbalah of the jews, which relies on verses extracted from the books of the old testament. this overlooks the strong reliance placed on the metaphors of the ancient hebrew prophets by the new testament writers. there is a direct link between revelation 4:s and isaiah 6:3. in both places the word "holy (qdvsh) is repeated three times in succession. this repetition was regarded by kabbalists as of supreme significance. they called the verse in which it appears in isaiah the

e words of the lord which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your god (josh. 24:27. to bring the twelve stones alive, so that they could "hear" the affairs of the israelites and dispense the curse or blessing appointed to each stone, it was necessary to make each stone a member of its particular tribe by a tie of blood. the most primitive form of altar in the old testament is that erected by piling unshaped stones together "and jacob said unto his brethren, gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap7'(gen. 31:46. it is worth noting that laban calls upon the heap of stones to "be witness* to his personal covenant with jacob. we are not told how many stones were in the heap, but when the prophet elijah ere

was used in the construction of the pagan stone circles of europe. human sacrifice was extremely uncommon, even in earliest times, among the ancient hebrews. however, there is evidence that it did take place, and it may have been deleted from the religious records at a later date by revisionists to bring the scriptures more in line with the religious practices contemporary with the editors of the old testament books. in the most famous incident, where abraham is tempted by god to sacrifice his first-born son, isaac, as a test of faith, it is said "and abraham built an altar there (gen. 22:9, presumably of unhewn stones in the prescribed manner. in demanding the sacrifice of isaac, god was only asking for what was rightfully his. by law, the first-born male of every mother, human or animal

the bottom rows would consist of three stones, the middle rows of two stones, and the top rows of one stone, so that each side of the altar would form a pyramid of six stones piled on top of each other. in this way, the structure of the altar would reflect the division of the tribes into groups of six and six, one group on the left and the other on the right, which occurs a number of times in the old testament, most notably in the onyx stones on the shoulders of the high priest, which are each inscribed with the names of six of the tribes. sacrifice involved the sprinkling of the blood of the sacrificed animal, or human, upon the stones of the altar; alternately, the blood was dashed down the twelve stones 73 at the base of the altar, but this was probably a later practice. it was magicall

connotation. purity is not virginity, nor it is sexual abstinence, although chastity has been found to aid in achieving a state of purity. it is a necessary condition to magical work and therefore it is vital that the term not be misunderstood. the following modified version of the ritual of the kabbalistic cross, which is used in golden dawn magic, relies on a prayer of purification found in the old testament that is extremely ancient and very powerful. it is an adaptation of psalm 51. the psalms have been used in ritual magic for thousands of years, particularly by kabbalists. the cross itself is based upon the structure of the tree of the sephiroth, which is symbolically invoked and taken into the body of the ritualist, so that the ritualist becomes the sacred tree. stand facing the sou

hich is an earthly version of the heavenly throne of god. those who feel uncomfortable about assuming the christ-form should realize that it is much more than a matter of pretending to be jesus. earthly jesus, the living prophet, and heavenly christ, the anointed one, or messiah, are really two separate beings. the messiah figure is the more ancient and more powerful of the two. he appears in the old testament under various guises-in the prophecies of jeremiah, ezekiel, and isaiah, in the figure of moses after his face is made to shine, and as the heavenly adam who is created before the earthly adam (see gen. 1:27 and 2:7. early christians identified their prophet jesus with this messiah myth. when we assume the christ-form, we must put on the identity of this heavenly being, who is the se

g blessings to those children of israel who abided by the holy law, and the other six tribes, symbolically under the moon and the thummim of the breastplate, who gave curses to those who violated the covenant. this rite of passage is treated in detail in chapter ix, but i mention it here to emphasize that the enochian keys did not germinate in isolation, but grew from the dark, occult soil of the old testament writings. the number of kingdoms, twelve, confirms that we are dealing with the twelve banners of tetragrammaton. in kelley's vision, these are borne out of each watchtower upon three banners, or ensigns. the enochian names of god upon these three flags are alternate titles for the three banners of appendix a: the keys 195 tetragrammaton associated with either the element of that wat

refore, the nests of woe upon the tree lament the destruction of the world, which in ancient times was not merely the physical earth, but the entire universe, just as the chapters of revelation lament its destruction. there are also twenty-two letters in the hebrew alphabet, so the lamentation of the nests may refer to the hebrew letters with which many apocalyptic prophecies are expressed in the old testament. in the kabbalah, the letters have a living, individual existence that is similar to the independence accorded the simple numbers by the pythagoreans. the hebrew letters themselves might almost be thought of as angels of god. in dee's time, the sephirothic tree of the kabbalah, a glyph that embodies the underlying structure of the world, was considered by some to have twenty-two chan

te and be incapable of returning to heaven. throughout the ages, the first thought has reincarnated in countless female forms, being compelled by the angels to pass from one to another like water poured fiom vessel to vessel. appendix a: the keys 235 this gnostic myth of the simonians contains many of the essential gnostic ideas. details differ greatly from sect to sect, but always the god of the old testament is not god the father but an abortion that arose from the first female principle, the great mother, without the consent of the father. man is physically created by yaldabaoth and the other archons, yet he is infused with a spark of true divinity by the will of the father, making man a higher creature than the archons who shaped him. however, man does not recognize his divinity, and t

peter simeon andrew issachar bartholomew benjamin philip naphtali james eld. gad thomas zebulun matthew ephraim james yng. t he order of the twelve apostles of jesus that appears in the table of the banners in appendix e and elsewhere should not be regarded as cast in bronze. the correct ordering of the apostles is in considerable dispute. as is true of the ordering of the tribes of israel in the old testament, they appear in different sequences in various places. the order i have given should be looked upon as a workable compromise. the only certain feature of the apostle sequence is its division into three groups of four apostles, which evidently is intended to reflect the fourfold division of tetragrammaton. the accompanying table illustrates the various orders of the apostles that appe

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what is the lost word? these things have a meaning, or our system is stultified. well, here are burning questions, and the only direction in which we can look for an answer is that which is their source. as to this, we must remember that the legend of the master degree is a legend of israel, under the aegis of the old covenant, and though it has no warrants in the holy writ which constitutes the old testament, it is not antecedently improbable that something to our purpose may be found elsewhere in the literature of jewry. the kabalah i do not of course mean that we shall meet with the legend itself; it would be interesting if we did but not per se helpful, apart from explanation. i believe in my heart that i have found what is much more important, and this is the root-matter of that whic

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

today "number is the measure of all things" later galileo was to say "the book of nature is written in mathematical language" in the ancient near east, numbers were associated with the planets, or even deified. god was thought of as number one.the prime mover.much like the modern qabalistic concept, where numbers are assigned to attributes of the god-energy on the tree of life. very early in the old testament writings the ancient-hebrews displayed a special fascination with certain numbers, and both gnosticism and medieval qabalism developed the themes of this mystical relationship with numbers. the bible is riddled with numerological meaning and augustine himself studied biblical numerology for much of his life. the pythagoreans imbued certain numbers with mystical properties and had spe

ility to act as a time-binder, uniting past to present to future. the serpent is the most frequent symbolic mythological image attributed to mercury. in astrology, the eighth sign is scorpio, which rules the area of the body connected to the reproductive organs, often referred to as the seat of the serpent energy. the number eight has many biblical references, but we will only touch on a few. the old testament mentions that eight persons were saved in the ark, to people the world anew. in christian hermeticism, this is taken as an allegory foreshadowing the resurrection, and the bible records eight other resurrections besides that of jesus. the references are: 1 kings 17: 22, 2 kings 4: 32, 2 kings 13: 2, luke 7: 14; mark 5: 35, john 11, acts 9: 40 and acts 20. figure 10-h figure 10-1 figu

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

on bhagavad gita: atman sri-ramakrishna sayings from the buddhists four noble truths questions not edification rain cloud mahayana ideal sayings from zen masters two mice miracles gutei s finger dialogue for lodging haiku sayings of the taoist sages thirty spokes block of wood water counting words traveling sayings of confucius confucius the man on learning reciprocity religion gentlemen from the old testament psalm 104 psalm 8 from the new testament sermon on the mount i corinthians 13 sayings from the zoroastrian prayer for guidance sayings of mohammed morning star overwhelming sayings of the unitarians out of the stars sayings of baha u llah on the soul sayings from the poets a faery song the prophet fergus and the druid sayings of the psychologists green book volume two celtic, native

copyrights were acquired. however, the task became too difficult and other concerns occupied the attention of the sheltons. as a result, the legality of publishing this collection is rather dubious and it probably will remain as an underground publication. for no particular reason, i have kept their selections in the order that they were presented to me (including a rebellious selection from the old testament that is mischievously hiding in the buddhist section of the green book. i have neither deleted nor added any new selections to the first volume, but you may feel free to add new selections or take out selections (especially the ones from the ancient druids, if you wish. as stated before, the green book, was near to the heart of druidism until the early 80 s when carleton druidism lap

y body s work that is good for thy fellows, perform it so that it may be conveyed to them. be thou jealous of thine own self when thou seest that it is at ease and thy fellow in distress, that it is in high estate and he is brought low, that it is at rest and he is at labour. selections from: edwin a. burtt. the teachings of the compassionate buddha. new york, mentor (mp380, 1955. p.140. from the old testament (ecclesiastes 1) the words of the preacher, the son of david, king in jerusalem. vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity. what profit hath a man of all his labour wherein he laboureth under the sun? one generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever. the sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its pla

ot help them in what is evil. the inferior man does the contrary (xii: 16) confucius said: the gentleman is broad-minded and not partisan; the inferior man is partisan and not broad-minded (ii:14) selections from: wm. theodore de bary, ed. sources of the chinese tradition, vol. i. new york, columbia university press, 1960. pp. 20-33. numbers in parentheses are references to the analects. from the old testament (psalm 104) bless the lord, o my soul. o lord my god, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty: who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers

d so many other experiences, not all joyful ones, offer the opportunity for the revelation and discovery of the all-encompassing power and presences of the one who is greater than we are, prior to us, transcending our ability to grasp, our bountiful host in the world of nature, the silent but welcoming backdrop to all our experiences of life. the hebrew scriptures (known to most christians as the old testament) are full of allusions to such experiences, suggesting them as starting points for our prayer that will lead us to deeper encounters with the transcendent, hidden but ever-present god. such allusions form a constant theme, for instance, in the psalms, jewish prayers which christians continued to pray from the earliest christian times, as indeed jesus himself did. elizabeth johnson wo

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

and the buddhists teach 10 paramitas of perfection. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott in the alchymico-kabalistic tract called aesch metzareph referred to by eliphas levi and collected from the zohar of knorr von rosenroth and translated into english, and forming volume iv of my collectanea hermetica, will be found 10 names for gold all extracted from the old testament; they are there related to the sephirah geburah. the hindu puranas tell us of the 10 avatars of the god vishnu, the preserver of the brahmanic religion; they are periodical incarnations of the god and are as follows. 1. first as the fish, matsya; 2. kurma, the tortoise. 3. varaha, the boar. 4. narasingha, the man-lion. 5. vamana, the dwarf. 6. parasu-rama. 7. rama chandra. 8. krishna

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

rdly passive or as what is hidden; second, the outstretching, self-communicating being that in clear contrast holds down the negating power in itself and does not let it come outwardly into effect. 239 significantly, schelling contends that the doctrine of the unity of the divine essence in duality shows itself as profoundly interwoven with what is innermost, even with the language itself, of the old testament. more specifically, the proof is elicited from the repeated use of the plural name elohim with verbs in the singular, and from the conjunction of the two names, yhwh and elohim. schelling relates this archaic pairing to a distinction between the hidden and manifest dimensions of god, an approach that resonates with kabbalists distinction between ein sof and the sefirot.240 yhwh, whos

late antiquity. leiden: e. j. brill, 1999. de vries, s. j. observations on quantitative and qualitative time in wisdom and apocalyptic. in israelite wisdom: theological and literary essays in honor of samuel terrien, edited by john g. gammie, walter a. brueggemann, w. lee humphreys, and james m. ward, 263 276. missoula: scholars press, 1978. yesterday, today and tomorrow: time and history in the old testament. grand rapids: eerdmans, 1975. dionysius the areopagite. the divine names. translated from the greek with an introductory study by john d. jones. milwaukee: marquette university press, 1980. dobsch tz, ernst von. zeit und raum im denken des urchristentums. journal of biblical literature 41 (1922: 212 223. drob, sanford l. kabbalistic metaphors: jewish mystical themes in ancient and m

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