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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

hough expiring heathenism is studiously thrown into the shade by the narrators, there breaks out at times a touching lament over the loss of the ancient gods, or an excusable protest against innovations imposed from without (see suppl. the missionaries did not disdain to work upon the senses of the heathen by anything that could impart a higher dignity to the christian cultus as compared with the pagan: l^y white rol)es for subjects of baptism, by curtains, peals of bells (see suppl, the lighting of tapers and the burning of incense- it was also a wise or politic measure to preserve many heathen sites and temples by simply turning them, when suitable, into christian ones, and assigning to them anotlier and equally sacred meaning. tlie heathen gods even, though represented as feeble in comp

but withdrawn from all regulating guidance by heathen priests, could not fail soon to become vulgarized, and to appear as the mere dregs of an older faith, which faith we have no right to measure by them. as we do not fail to recognise in the devils and witches of more modern times the higher purer fancies of antiquity disguised, just as little ought we to feel any scruple about tracing back the pagan practices in question to the untroubled fountainhead of the olden time. prohibitions and preachings kept strictly to the practical side of the matter, and their very purpose was to put down these last hateful remnants of the false religion. a sentence in cnut's as. laws (schmid 1, 50) shows, that fountain and tree worship does not exclude adoration of the gods themselves: hsegenscipe bis, jj

p. 23) means by his 'jupiter' the teutonic thor, the jupiter ardens above (p. 110; did that mean donar^ as for that thorr devouring his children, it seems [a mere importation, aggravated by] a downriglit confusion of jupiter with his fatlier saturn, just as the norse genealogy made thorr an ancestor of osinn. tlie' presbyter jovi 190 thunar. mactans/ and the' sacra' and' feriae jovis (in indicul. pagan) have been dealt with above, p. 121. letzner (hist. caroli magni, hildesh. 1g03, cap. 18 end) relates: the saturday after laetare, year by year, cometh to the little cathedral-close of hildesheim a farmer thereunto specially appointed, and bringeth hco logs of a fathom long, and therewith two lesser logs pointed in the manner of skittles. the two greater he planteth in the ground one against

the two names tir and ear, though tir had already been given to. it is evident then, that tir and ear zio and eo, ear were two names for one god, and both must have been current among the several races, both low german and high. evidence as regards low germany is found both in the rune ear occurring in anglo-saxon, and in the remarkable name of ereshurg, aereshurg being given to a notable seat of pagan worship in a district of westphalia, in the immediate neighbourhood of the irmansul (v. supra, p. 116. that it was strictly eresscr (as siegburg was originally sigberg, p. 198, follows both from the latin rendering vions martis, and from its later name mersberg^ whose initial m could be explained by the contraction of the words' in dem eresberge, aresberge^ or it may be an imitation of the l

(niurus; his german source must have had iringcs vec, in allusion to the' cutting his way' in widukind. so now the road is paved to the conclusions we desire to draw: german legend knew of an iringes ivcc on earth and in heaven, so did as. legend of a double wictlinga-stnet, and so was the road to eome and st. james set in the firmament as well. these fancies about tcays and vjains, we know, are pagan, and indicate god-myths. the thuringian inivrit, originally trmanfrit, it is reasonable to suppose, is the same as irman, irmi7i (conf. sigfrit, sigmunt, sigi, and the hcrmunduri= irman-duri are plainly connected with the durings (thuringians: so that irman assumes a peculiar significance in thuringian tradition. if this would but tell us of an irmines wee, all would come riglit. it does tel

inquit for inquiunt^ votum, what ah. individual offers, as opposed to the sacrificium presented publicly and jointly; coi^ supra, p. 57. ikmix. iring. 3g1 habere dcsideratis, et nos vobis non sulucimus, ericum, quondiuii repagan party, and the liikewarmness already prevailing towards their religion: the heathen priests thought of adding a fresh hero to their throng of gods.2 this seems to exclude all later erics from any claim to the eriksgata; probably there were mixed up even then, at least in himbert's mind, traditions of a divine erik. it can no longer remain doubtful now, what god or divine liero lies hidden in

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ppear on a boat or be seen in the water before it went through a dark tunnel. canal life has a whole mythology, much now lost as the old working boats have been replaced by weekend leisure traffic. you will find more on the details of these old superstitions in my book ghost encounters (blandford, 1998. wicca wicca, as it is performed today, is not modern witchcraft per se, but a contemporary neo-pagan religion. it is, however, one of the major forms of witchcraft. it began in its modern form with the teachings of gerald gardner after the repeal of the witchcraft act in 1951, though its descent can be traced to the ancient nature religions. this traditional method of wicca is quite formal, with covens using ritual tools and learned invocations emphasising the goddess and her representative

for you, usually for money. true wiccans are among the most tolerant of people and would never seek to impose their beliefs on others and are usually incredibly reticent with people they do not know. in the meantime, it is wise to follow an indirect route to find your coven, perhaps through 'green' organisations and reputable new age stores, or by attending workshops and celebrations arranged by pagan federations and healing organisations, and talking to people there. you can also visit healing festivals and buy established pagan magazines. take your time until everything feels right and you have answered all the questions you need to ask. no reputable coven will be in a hurry to sign you up- the reverse is usually the case. you certainly do not want to find yourself signing in blood, bei

to ask. no reputable coven will be in a hurry to sign you up- the reverse is usually the case. you certainly do not want to find yourself signing in blood, being initiated by having sex with the high priest or priestess or promising to fall on a sword should you leave the coven or betray their secrets. nor should you pay huge sums of money in advance for training; for membership of an established pagan organisation, yes, but these tend to ask for remarkably little. even a full druidic or goddess training, for example, costs no more than a few hundred pounds over several years. most covens and healing groups expect you only to pay for your expenses. i hope that, one day, joining a coven will be totally open, like joining any other organisation, and then the nasty elements who hide behind th

me groups have family celebrations and no responsible parent would introduce their children to any experiences before they were ready, least of all wiccans to whom life is sacred and children the blessing of the goddess. lisa, a wiccan from berkshire, describes how her daughter has grown up 'becoming a mother has touched me more deeply than i could ever have imagined. i am sure that every mother, pagan or otherwise, has felt and appreciated the magical connection between mother and child: eyes and hearts locked together during a breast feed; waking to silence in the middle of the night, only to hear the baby wake and cry out moments later; being able to recognise one's own child's cry in a room full of noisy babies 'being a pagan has brought all of these experiences into a spiritual focus

it, but even a two-year-old can dance around a maypole, pick berries, plant seeds and help bake bread or biscuits. it's exciting to think that the wheel of the year will have deep significance to her; that samhain and beltain will hold the same excitement that christmas held for me as a child 'i don't know if skye will ultimately choose wicca as her spiritual path, but i feel that growing up in a pagan home will give her the best tools for making choices in her life. she will learn to be aware of her environment and will feel a part of it, not above or outside it. hopefully, this will inspire her to care for it and for others around her, and to encourage others to do the same. wicca is self-governing, and i hope that skye will have integrity and confidence in herself 'having a goddess as w

emblematic shamrock. other forms of the horned god include herne the hunter, the greek pan, god of the woodlands, and dionysus, greek god of vegetation and the vine, whose ecstatic mystery cult involved ritual dismemberment and resurrection. cerunnos' importance has been in his continuing presence as the horned god, the male principle in witchcraft through the ages, in modern wicca and other neo-pagan faiths. he is also invoked for prosperity, fertility, instinctive power and knowledge of when it is necessary to hunt, whether to find employment or a home, and as protection against predators of all kinds. dionysus dionysus, sometimes depicted as a horned god, was a god of the grain, who died and was reborn every year as a child in a basket, representing the seed corn. he was the greek god

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op albert of magdeburg: and also some of the hussite leaders a roll of names celebrated in the history of that stirring time. considering the era in which our author lived, and the nation to which he belonged, he appears to have been somewhat broad in his religious views; for not only does he insist that this sacred system of magic may be attained by any one, whether jew, christian, mahometan, or pagan, but he also continually warns lamech against the error of changing the religion in which one has been brought up; and he alleges this circumstance as the reason of the occasional failures of the magician joseph of paris (the only other person he mentions besides himself and abra-melin who was acquainted with this particular system of magic, namely that having been brought up a christian, he

ds i myself have performed. and after him i found no one who worked these things truly; and although joseph at paris walked in the same path, nevertheless god, as a just judge, did not in any way wish to grant unto him the sacred magic in its of abramelin the mage 17 entirety, because he had despised the christian law. for it is an indubitable and evident thing that he who is born christian, jew, pagan, turk, infidel, or whatever religion it may be, can arrive at the perfection of this work or art and become a master, but he who hath abandoned his natural law, and embraced another religion opposed to his own, can never arrive at the summit of this sacred science.29 the sacred magic 18 the seventh chapter. od, the father of mercy, having granted unto me the grace to return safe and sound in

selled and prescribed unto me; following out also exactly that which abra-melin53 had taught me, the which is the same that i shall write in the two following books, and which i shall exemplify and explain more clearly; because the instructions which i received, although in very obscure words and hieroglyphics, have caused me to attain mine object, and have never permitted me to err and fall into pagan, strange, and superstitious idolatries; i being always kept in the way of the lord, who is the true, the only, the infallible end, for arriving at the possession of this sacred magic. of abramelin the mage 23 the ninth chapter. he infamous belial hath no other desire than that of obtaining the power of hiding and obscuring the true divine wisdom, so that he may have more means of blinding si

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magic. hoso should wish to recount all the arts and operations which in our times be reputed and preached abroad as wisdom and magical secrets; he should as well undertake to count the waves and the sands of the sea; seeing that the matter hath come to such a pass that every trick of a buffoon is believed to be magic, that all the abominations of impious enchanters, all diabolical illusions, all pagan idolatries, all superstitions, fascinations, diabolical pacts, and lastly all that the gross blindness of the world can touch with its bands and feet is reckoned as wisdom and magic! the physician, the astrologer, the enchanter, the sorceress, the idolater, and the sacrilegious, is called of the common people a magician! also he who draweth his magic whether from the sun, whether from the mo

of the feasts of easter, and this was ordained unto noah, being the most convenient time, and the end falleth just at the (feast of) tabernacles.20 our predecessors have thus observed it, and the angel21 also hath approved it; and also it is more advisable to follow good counsel and example, than to be obstinate and follow one s own caprice; and also to treat the election of a particular day as a pagan idea, paying no regard. whatever either to time nor to the elements; but only (having respect) unto him who granteth such a period. thus then will we be found men in the fittest condition of grace and reconciled with god, and purer than at another period; and this being an essential point ye ought well to consider the same. it is, however, quite true that the elements and the constellations

ing how powerful they are, and contrariwise, how weak and sinful you yourself are. they will reproach you with your sins, and will especially seek to dispute with you concerning your religion and your faith in god: if you be a jew they will tell you that your faith and your religion have been refuted by god himself, and that you observe not the true law as it should be (observed: also if you be a pagan they will say, what hath god to do with you or his creatures either, seeing that you know not god? if you be a christian they will say unto you, what business is it of yours to have to do with hebrew ceremonies which are tainted with idolatry, and the like? but let none of this disquiet you in the least; answer them in few words, and laughingly, that it is none of their business to discuss t

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fusion of ideas they could make thee prevaricate, and perhaps fall into irretrievable error. never make thyself to be greatly entreated in any matter wherein thou canst aid and succour thy neighbour, and do not wait until he demandeth assistance from thee, but seek to know to the full his need even though it be concealed, and give him prompt aid. also trouble not thyself as to whether he be turk, pagan, or idolater, but do good unto all those who believe in a god. be especially charitable towards those who are in extreme want, prisoners, or sick, and let thine heart be touched, and succour them generously; for god taketh pleasure in beholding the poor succoured. in the twenty-eighth chapter where it is treated of the way to have silver and gold sufficient to supply one s needs on occasion;

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

an, who is tailored or millinered on a garish pattern, with the eternal chorus girl as the ideal--an ideal which she always attains, though (heaven knows) in "society" there are few "front row" types. on the other side of me a splendid stalwart maid, modern in muscle, old only in the subtle and modest fascination of her manner, her face proud, cruel and amorous, shakes her wild tresses of gold in pagan laughter. her mood is universal as the wind. what can her cavalier be doing to keep her waiting? it is a little mystery which i will not solve for the reader; on the contrary- viii. yes, it was my own sweetheart (no! not all the magazines can vulgarize that loveliest of words) who was waiting for me to be done with my musings. she comes in silently and stealthily, preening and purring like a

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

has been able with assistance from the stone of the wise and certain of the formulae in this book, to go on about his business like unto a living man. with simon's manuscript, barnes' occult vision and aesthetic scruples, and wasserman's production experience and tireless labour, the abhorred necronomicon began to take shape and the first edition smote the stands on december 22, 1977- the ancient pagan feast of yule, the winter solstice. yet, not without a number of bizarre occurrences that more than once threatened the lives, the sanity, and the astral bodies of the three individuals most deeply involved. jim wasserman was subjected to what we may vaguely refer to as "poltergeist" activity during the time he worked on production and design aspects of the book. a room which, for certain lo

s the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is called the "summerland. sumer-land? another hallmark of the craft of the wise is evident within the necronomicon, as well as in general sumerian literature, and that is the arrangement of the cross-quarter days, which make up half of the craft's official pagan holidays. these occur on the eves of february 2nd, may 1st, august 1st, and november 1st, and are called candlemas, beltane, lammas and samhain (or hallows, respectively. the name lammas has a curious origin in the dunes at sumer. it is not less than the name of one of the four mythological beasts of the astrological fixed signs, lamas being the name of the half-lion, half-man guardian of le

ty in many cultures around the world, and were also thought to represent certain animals who were horned, and worshipped for their particular qualities, such as the goat and bull. they also represent sexual power. the fact that, in ancient sumeria and egypt, horns were solely representative of evil gods, but of many different deities, was used by the christian church in their attempt to eradicate pagan faiths. it was a simple enough symbol to identify with the author of evil, satan, which the church depicted as a half-animal, half-human creature with horns, claws, and sometimes a tail. the church's use of the horns as a sort of archetype of evil is quite similar to the feeling many people have today with regards to the swastika used by the nazis, a symbol which has become the archetype of

has been able with assistance from the stone of the wise and certain of the formulae in this book, to go on about his business like unto a living man. with simon's manuscript, barnes' occult vision and aesthetic scruples, and wasserman's production experience and tireless labour, the abhorred necronomicon began to take shape and the first edition smote the stands on december 22, 1977- the ancient pagan feast of yule, the winter solstice. yet, not without a number of bizarre occurrences that more than once threatened the lives, the sanity, and the astral bodies of the three individuals most deeply involved. jim wasserman was subjected to what we may vaguely refer to as "poltergeist" activity during the time he worked on production and design aspects of the book. a room which, for certain lo

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

tag-beetle is a reference the kheph-ra, the egyptian god of midnight, who bears the sun through the underworld; but it is called the stag-beetle to emphasise his horns. horns are the universal hieroglyph of energy, particularly of phallic energy. the 16th key of the tarot is "the blasted tower. in this chapter death is regarded as a form of marriage. modern greek peasants, in many cases, cling to pagan belief, and suppose that in death they are united to the deity which they have cultivated during life. this is "a consummation devoutly to be wished (shakespeare. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 41 in the last paragraph the master urges his pupils to practise samadhi every day [43] 17 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta iota-zeta the swan(11) there is a swan whose name is

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

eir divine madness, he is torn to pieces. it has already seemed impertinent to say so much when walter pater has told the story with such sympathy and insight. we will not further transgress by dwelling upon the identity of this legend with the course of nature, its madness, its prodigality, its intoxication, its joy, and above all its sublime persistence through the cycles of life and death. the pagan reader must labour to understand this in pater's "greek studies, and the christian reader will recognise it, incident for incident, in the story of christ. this legend is but the dramatization of spring. the magician who wishes to invoke bacchus by this method must therefore arrange a ceremony in which he takes the part of bacchus, undergoes all his trials, and emerges triumphant from beyond

was base and primitive, though "natural. after passing through various stages the "black dragon" appeared; but from this arose the pure and perfect gold. even in the legend of prometheus we find an identical formula concealed; and a similar remark applies to those of jesus christ, and of many other mythical godmen worshipped in different countries<golden bough" j.m.robertson "pagan christs" a. crowley "jesus" etc, etc> a magical ceremony constructed on this formula is thus in close essential harmony with the natural mystic process. we find it the 29 basis of many important initiations, notably the third degree in masonry, and the 5 degree= 6square ceremony of the g. d. described in equinox i, iii. a ceremonial selfinitiation may be constructed with advantage on this fo

symbolism corresponding to the forms of plastic presentation established by the minds of mankind. each such "plane" has its special appearances, inhabitants, and laws- special cases of the general proposition. notable among these are the "egyptian" plane, which conforms with the ideas and methods of magick once in vogue in the nile valley; the "celtic" plane, close akin to 249 "fairyland, with a pagan pantheism as its keynote, sometimes concealed by christian nomenclature: the "alchemical" plane, where the great work is often presented under the form of symbolically constructed landscapes occupied by quasi-heraldic animals and human types hieroglyphically distinguished, who carry on the mysterious operations of the hermetic art. there are also "planes" of parable, of fable, and of folk-lo

et: 29 :the moon :crimson (ultra violet: 30 :the sun :orange :31 :the angel or last judgment :glowing orange scarlet (wands) kings or knights: 32 :the universe :indigo :32 "bis :empresses (coins :citrine, olive, russet: and black(1 :31 "bis :all 22 trumps :white merging into grey (1) the pure earth known to the ancient egyptians, during that: equinox of the gods over which isis presided (i.e. the pagan era) was: taken as green: 309 table i: xix: xxii :key scale: selection of egyptian gods: small selection of: hindu deities: 0 :harpocrates, amoun, nuith :aum: 1 :ptah, asar un nefer, hadith :parabrahm (or any other whom: one wishes to please: 2 :amoun, thoth, nuith (zodiac.:shiva, vishnu (as buddha ava: tara).akasa(as matter).lingam: 3 :maut, isis, nephthys :bhavani (all forms of sakti: pran

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

r holy guardian angel from the womb of your subconsciousness. then "take your fill of love; that is, do your true will, whose mode of fulfilment is love, as explained later in this chapter. al i,12 "come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love" the old comment 12. the key of the worship of nu. the uniting of consciousness with infinite space by the exercise of love, pastoral or pagan love. but vide infra. the new comment the whole doctrine of 'love' is discussed in the book "aleph (wisdom or folly" and should be studied therein. but note further how this verse agrees with the comment above, how every star is to come forth from its veils, that it may revel with the whole world of stars. this is again also a call to unite or 'love, thus formulating the equation 1(-1= 0<
an indirect reference! unless one wants to wreck the neighbourhood, it is best to explode one's gunpowder in an unconfined space. there are very few cases of "perverted hunger-instinct" in moderately healthy communities. war restrictions on food created dishonest devices to procure dainties, and artificial attempts to appease the ache of appetite by chemical counterfeits. the south-sea islanders, pagan, amoral and naked, are temperate lovers, free from hysterical "crimes of passion, sex obsessions, and puritan persecution-mania; perversion is practically unknown, and monogamy is the general custom. even the civilized psychopaths of cities, forced into every kind of excess by the omnipresence of erotic suggestions and the contact of crazed crowds seething with suppressed sexuality, are not

th chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these old letters of my book are aright; but* is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise *in ms, a mark in this place is commonly read as the hebrew letter tzaddi. the old comment 57 "invoke me" etc. i take literally. see liber nv for this ritual. love under will- no casual pagan love; not love under fear, as the christians do. but love magically directed and used as a spiritual formula. the fools (not here implying aleph fools, for iii, 57, says, all fools despise) may mistake. this love, then, should be the serpent love, the awakening of the kundalini. the further mystery is of pe and unsuited to the grade in which this comment is written. the last paragraph confir

east shall mingle in the globed priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured to the hawk-headed mystical lord" the old comment 34. this prophecy, relating to centuries to come, does not concern the present writer at the moment. yet he must expound it. the hierarchy of the egyptians gives us this genealogy: isis, osiris, horus. now the 'pagan' period is that of isis; a pastoral, natural period of simple magic. next with buddha, christ, and others there came in the equinox of osiris; when sorrow and death ware the principal objects of man's thought, and his magical formula is that of sacrifice. now, with mohammed perhaps as its forerunner, comes in the equinox of horus, the young child who rises strong and conquering (with his twi

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,35 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol! ihvh, thora?36 why not take the sacred 'icquj of the christian who thought it meant ihsouj cristoj qeou 'uioj swthr37 and make him a pagan with 'isidoj xarij qhsauroj 'uiwn sofiaj ?38 why not argue that christ in cursing the fig, f.i.g, wished to attack kant s dogmas of freewill, immortality, god? 3. temurah. here again the multiplicity of our methods makes our method too pliable to be reliable. should we argue that lbb= kcc (620) by the method of athbash, and that therefore lbb symbolises kether (620? why, lbb is confusion, th

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ned, as if i had been dead indeed 695 all in christ s name! and i look back, and then and long time after lack courage or strength to hurl the creed down to the heaven it sprang from! no! not this inspires the indignant blow 700 ascension day 23 mystical meaning of ascension day. futility of whole discussion, in view of facts. at the whole fabric nor the seas filled with those innocent agonies of pagan martyrs that once bled, of christian martyrs damned and dead in inter-christian bickerings 705 where hate exults and torture springs, a lion an anguished flesh and blood, a vulture on ill-omen wings, a cannibal74 on human food. nor do i cry the scoffer s cry 710 that christians live and look the lie their faith has taught them: none of these inspire my life, disturb my peace. i go beneath th

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

ike fungi amongst the superb "d bris" of the religions of egypt, babylonia, and greece, it was not long before (on account of its warlike tenets and the deeply magical nature of its rites1) it forced its head and then its arms above the shoulders of its 1 primitive christianity had a greater adaptability than any other contemporary religion of assimilating to itself all that was more particularly pagan in polytheism; the result being that it won over the great masses of the people, who then were, as they are now, inherently conservative. weaker brothers; and when once in a position to strike, so thoroughly bullied all competitors that the few who inwardly stood outside the church, 144 to save the bruised skins of the faiths they still held dear, were, for self- preservation, bound to cloth

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t blaze of burnished gold imperishable, set with adamant and jet; and by the obscene head we hailed him baphomet. hail to the master, hail! lord of the sabbath! baal! i kiss thy feet, i kiss thy knees- and this- and this- till i am lifted up to the incorporeal byss. till here alone exalted i gaze beneath the vaulted forehead, within the eyes wherein such wonder lies, the incommensurable gain, the pagan prize. we are thy moons an suns, thy loyal knights and nuns, who tread the dance around thine altar, with the sound of death-sobs echoing through the immemorial ground. o glee! the price to pay! swear but our souls away! and we may gain the goal that all the wise extol- the world, the flesh, the devil, weighed against a soul. 62 the wind blows from the south! crushed to that burning mouth, l

my, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol- ihvh, thora? why not take the sacred 'iota chi theta upsilon sigma of the christian who thought it meant 'iota eta sigma omicron upsilon sigma chi rho iota sigma tau omicron sigma theta epsilon omicron upsilon 'upsilon iota omicron sigma sigma omega tau eta rho and make him a pagan with"'iota sigma kappa delta omicron sigma chi alpha rho iota sigma theta eta sigma alpha upsilon rho omicron sigma 'upsilon iota omega nu sigma omicron phi iota alpha sigma? why not argue that christ in cursing the fig, f.i.g, wished to attack kant's dogmas of freewill, immortality, god? 3. temurah. here again the multiplicity of our methods makes our method too pliable to be reliable. shou

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on sense, we should have another st. john the divine, an incarnation of the eagle kerub, no longer as now merely the subtlety of the serpent and the sharpness of the scorpion. leo [we regret that urgency forbids detailed criticism of this admirable volume. we should in particular have liked to argue the "rite" theory of the crucifixion. as it is, we can only refer the author to j. m. robertson's "pagan christs- ed] abnormal psychology. by isador h. coriat, m.d "stage fright is also a condition of pathological fear" to such a degree of absurdity can specialization bring an unbalanced mind. fear is only pathological when it has no reasonable basis. this is enough to show the worthlessness of this ill-written book. it is amusing to find the author quoting mrs. verral as conclusive proof again

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

ith them a book of religious poetry more sublimely credulous and ecstatic than anything that has come down to us from the ages of faith. we are all, as sainte-beuve said,'children of a sensual literature, and perhaps for that reason we should expect from our singers fervent religious hymns."there is one of london's favourites almost unrivalled to express by her art the delights of the body with a pagan simplicity and directness. now she sends us a book,'amphora, a volume of religious verse: it contains song after song in praise of mary, etc. etc. etc. the "scotsman" says:"outside the latin church conflicting views are held about the worship of the virgin, but there can be no doubt that this motive of religion has given birth to many beautiful pieces of literature, and the poets have never

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 3

ith them a book of religious poetry more sublimely credulous and ecstatic than anything that has come down to us from the ages of faith. we are all, as sainte-beuve said 'children of a sensual literature' and perhaps for that reason we should expect from our singers fervent religious hymns "there is one of london's favourites almost unrivalled to express by her art the delights of the body with a pagan simplicity and directness. now she sends us a book 'amphora' a volume of religious verse: it contains song after song in praise of mary" etc. etc. etc. the "scotsman" says "outside the latin church conflicting views are held about the worship of the virgin, but there can be no doubt that this motive of religion has given birth to many beautiful pieces of literature, and the poets have never

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t thy heart with thee" and much i marvelled, and won a song, and so the day passed by. vii i was a shepherd in other days, ere ever the earth was old; i wandered far into the northern ways to bring back my sheep to the fold. heyday! but the time was drear and long, for i lost my pipe and my mountain-song, and all the others of my sweet lays lost all their wonted gold. viii greece and rome and the pagan lands i knew ere the christ was born; i whistled songs between my hands, and blew through an old ram's horn. i was wise indeed! for i lost my way over the hills one summer's day, and near where venus' stature stands i lingered all forlorn. 133 ix laughing eyes and clear brown skin, and dark locks ripping wide, where the sunbeams play and the eddies spin i saw my face in the tide. but i knew

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paper, or from rebman ltd, 129 shaftesbury avenue. and through all booksellers "see review on page 314" mr. george raffalovich's charm- ing volume of essays and sketches entitled on the loose: planetary journeys and earthly sketches (a new popular edition. price one shilling net, crown 8vo, pp. 164, may be obtained through "the equinox" from mr. elkin mathews' list the canon: an exposition of the pagan mystery perpetuated in the cabala as the rule of all the arts. with a preface by r. b. cunninghame graham. finely printed at the chiswick press. over 400 pp. with numerous illustrations. demy 8vo, 12s. net. mr. h.g. wells, writing at length in the "saturday "review" says "these chapters are really admirable exposi- tions of a method of inquiry that i had thought vanished from the earth. a th

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these very special cases. are they by any chance those in which the fathers are reputable and pious persons, highly esteemed for their evangelicalism and philanthropy. there have been some ill-disposed persons who were not ashamed to assert that some of the methods of vigilance societies remind them of blackmail. is there another side to the medal? a. quiller, jr. the cannon. an exposition of the pagan mysteries perpetuated in the cabala as the rule of all the arts. elkin mathews. this is a very extraordinary book, and it should be a fair "eye-opener" to such as consider the qabalah a fanciful concatenation of numbers, words, and names. also it may come as rather a rude shock to some of our "fancied" knowalls, our "cocksureites" who are under the delusion that knowledge was born with their

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cud before him, winking eyes of red and snapping jaws of white: but then what cared for living or for dead sir palamede the saracen? 32 xii sir palamede the saracen follows the head to gloomy halls of sterile hate, with icy walls. a woman clucking like a hen answers his lordly bugle-calls. she rees him in ungainly rede of ghosts and virgins, doves and wombs, of roods and prophecies and tombs- old pagan fables run to seed! sir palamede with fury fumes. so doth the head that jabbers fast against that woman's tangled tale (god's patience at the end must fail) out sweeps the sword- the blade hath passed through all her scraggy farthingale "this chatter lends to thought a zest (quod he "but i am all for act. sit here, until your talk hath cracked the addled egg in nature's nest" with that he fl

ns stride after stride with little pains upon the lumbering, flapping thing. he stabs the lamb, and splits the brains of that majestic-seeming king. he clips the wing and pares the claw- what turns to laughter all his joy, to wondering ribaldry his awe? the beast's a mere mechanic toy, fit to amuse an idle boy! 39 xv sir palamede the saracen hath come to an umbrageous land where nymphs abide, and pagan men. the gods are nigh, say they, at hand. how warm a throb from venus stirs the pulses of her worshippers! nor shall the tuscan god be found reluctant from the altar-stone: his perfume shall delight the ground, his presence to his hold be known in darkling grove and glimmering shrine- o ply the kiss and pour the wine! sir palamede is fairly come into a place of glowing bowers, where all the

led by stalwart south sea men. they cleave the oily breasts of blue, straining toward the westering disk of the tall sun; they battle through those weary days; the wind is brisk; the stars are clear; the moon is high. now, even as a white basilisk that slayeth all men with his eye, stands up before them tapering the cone of speechless sanctity. up, up its slopes the pilgrims swing, chanting their pagan gramarye unto the dread volcano-king "now, then, by goddes reed" quod he "behold the secret of my quest in this far-famed stability! 69 for all these paynim knights may rest in the black bliss they struggle to" but from the earth's full-flowered breast brake the blind roar of earthquake through, tearing the belly of its mother, engulphing all that heathen crew, that cried and cursed on one a

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ub-sensible sense, eloquent and musical..distinctly wagnerian in their effects "scotsman "it is full of 'the murmurous monotones of whispering lust 'the song of young desire' and that kind of poppycock "london opinion "a competent master of words and rhythms. his esoteric style is unreasonably obscure from an intelligent plain poetry-lover's standpoint "morning leader "a charming volume of poems. pagan glamour. passion and vigour 'sigurd's songs' are commendable for dealing with the all too largely neglected scandinavian theology. a scholarly disciple. the entire volume is eminently recommendable "jewish chronicle "a gorgeous rhapsody. fortunately, there are the police. on the whole, we cannot help regretting that such splendid powers of imagination and expression are flung away in such li

ll hieroglyphs of a god's commands beyond the rimes that a poet knits with fruitless travail, sterile care! marvellous! marvellous, marvellous! and again a marvel, a lotus-bud dropt from the brows of a goddess unknown on the ivory steps of the golden throne, virginal brows and luminous with the star-stream flowing therein for blood. ah, but electric thrills the host of the esoteric eucharist! the pagan power of the corn and wine mystical, magical, hers and mine, the dove-plumed snake of the holy ghost that wings and writhes in the wounds unkissed! lie there, love- if i love you indeed who adore and wonder and faint for drouth of the passion-flower fallen from the other side of time and space the tedious tide. lie there, lie there, and let me bleed to death in the breath of the murderous mo

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

100 b.c. women and officers of the harem of rameses iii were brought to trial for making wax images of the pharaoh to the accompaniment of magic incantations. these images were fith-faths, still used by witches today against their enemies. history shows that, as a new religion succeeds the old, the i gods of the latter are invariably condemned as the devils of the former, and it was thus that the pagan god became the christian devil. ill spite of this, christianity and witchcraft co-existed peaceably for centuries. in britain, for instance, london was still heathen six hundred years after the birth of christ, and although augustine managed to convert the king of kent to christianity, the rest of the country preferred pagan rites of witchcraft. but as the 'establishment' became christian, t

ate her fiance, alex began to found a full coven. the secret witch ring, given him by his grandmother at his own initiation, was brought out of its hiding-place and altered to fit him. now he wore it in public and.often people queried the significance of its cabalistic symbols. alex took the opportunity of spreading the word. it waseasier than he had thought, for although many -shied at the word 'pagan, they were intrigued by the promise of clairvoyance and the ability to influence the future. when the first coven reached full strength, another was formed, then another, and because so many outsiders were keen to learn about witchcraft, alex found himself being engaged as a lecturer and invited to speak on television. he used the fees he earned to take a flat in chorlton where he could hold

a witchson who would be called michael. alex confirmed that he had seen the boy in his crystal and he looked forward to his appearance in the. flesh. at the ante-natal clinic of the hospital where the baby was to be delivered, maxine disconcerted the sister when she gave her religion as 'wicca 'don't you mean church of england' the sister asked. it was with great reluctance that she nally wrote 'pagan. on 3 december j967 maxine's baby was born. as she lay in the delivery room, relieved that it was over, she asked if she could hold her son 'it's a. beautiful little girl' she was told. maxine was certain there had been some mistake, but one look at the infant assured her that it was hers. instead of michael, it was called maya a witch name meaning 'mother goddess. maya is not being trained

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

at life be won, and by the moon that change be done; if ye would clear the path to will, make certain the mind be still; what good be tools without inner light? what good be magic without wisdom-sight? eight words the wiccan rede fulfill- an it harm none, do what ye will. notes very well known (public domain. wcc has it. published in rhuddlwm gawr's the way. published in an pamphlet called ottawa pagan resources; the pamphlet was organized/written by our very own artos. doubtless many other published sources. l no reason to believe it's part of a "standard" alexandrian or gardnerian bos, but it has been copied by a lot of people. l various aphorisms for witches this be law- where ye enter in, from there withdraw. an ye will secure the spell, cast some silver in the well. enhance thy trance

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

r sun-child as the celestial virgo remains unchanged and unsullied when the sun comes forth from her in the heavens. weak, feeble as an infant is he, born when the days are shortest and the nights are longest."43 it is also interesting to remember that "the venerable bede,44 writing in the early part of the eighth century, says that `the ancient people of the anglian nation, by which he means the pagan english before their settlement in britain about a.d. 500 `began the year on december 25th, when we now celebrate the birthday of our lord; and he tells us that the night of december 24th-25th `which is the very night now so holy to us was called in their tongue modranecht, that is to say "mother's night" by reason of the ceremonies which in that night-long vigil they performed' he does not

s were, but it is clear that they were connected with the birth of the sun-god. at the time when the english were converted to christianity in the sixth and seventh centuries the festival of the nativity on december 25th had been already long established in rome as a solemn- 41- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust celebration; but in england its identification with the joyous old pagan yule a word apparently meaning a `jollification' gave it a merry character which it did not possess in the south. this character has survived, and is in marked contrast to its nature amongst the latin races, with whom the northern custom of feasting and giving christmas presents was unknown until recent years."45 at the time of the birth of christ, sirius, the star in the east, was on the me

t of a great continuity of revelation. god has never "left himself without witness."1 and the salvation of mankind has always been close to the heart of the father. to quote one writer who seeks to prove this continuity "at the time of the life or recorded appearance of jesus of nazareth and for some centuries before, the mediterranean and neighbouring world had been the scene of a vast number of pagan- 109- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust creeds and rituals. there were temples without end dedicated to gods like apollo or dionysus among the greeks, hercules among the romans, mithra among the persians, adonis and arris in syria and phrygia, osiris and isis and horus in egypt, baal and astarte among the babylonians and carthaginians, and so forth. societies, large or sma

he heavenly world. 9. they founded communions of saints and churches into which disciples were received by baptism. 10. and they were commemorated by eucharistic meals. 2 these facts can be checked by anyone who cares to do so and who is sufficiently interested to trace the growth of the doctrine of world saviours in world idealism. edward carpenter goes on to say, in the same book "the number of pagan deities (mostly virgin-born and done to death in some way or other in their efforts to save mankind) is so great as to be difficult to keep account of. the god krishna in- 110- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust india, the god indra in nepal and tibet spilt their blood for the salvation of men; buddha said, according to max m ller `let all the sins that were in the world fa

have seen that christ must be recognised, first of all, in the cosmic sense. the cosmic christ has existed from all eternity. this cosmic christ is divinity, or spirit, crucified in space. he personifies the immolation or sacrifice of spirit upon the cross of matter, of form or substance, in order that all divine forms, including the human, may live. this has ever been recognised by the so-called pagan faiths. if the symbolism of the cross is traced far back, it will be found that it antedates christianity by thousands of years, and that finally, the four arms of the cross will be seen to drop away, leaving only the picture of the living heavenly man, with his arms outspread- 112- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust in space. north, south, east and west stands the cosmic c

tian times were no more free from the thraldom of ancient beliefs than are we from the interpretations given to christianity during the past two thousand years. christ did give us the teaching that we must die in order to live as gods, and therefore he died. he did sum up in himself all the traditions of the past for he "not only fulfilled the judaic scriptures, but he also fulfilled those of the pagan world, and therein lay the great appeal of early christianity. in him a dozen shadowy gods were condensed into a proximate reality; and in his crucifixion the old stories of their ghastly atoning sufferings and sacrificial deaths were made actual and given a direct meaning."25 but his death was also the consummating act of a life of sacrifice and service, and the logical outcome of his teach

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

beast: for all is vanity. all go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. wherefore i perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him" who, indeed, except his own ego, soul or higher self. but perhaps this book is from the pen of some obscure jew, or half pagan chaldee or babylonian. not at all: jewish critics have all assigned it to solomon, who was the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, solomon could not have so grossly denied it. go back, however, to the narrative of creation in genesis, and the same story is found; the animals are made from

ANTINOMIANISM

n documented and categorized as that of the left hand path (lhp. the path of harmonious acceptance of man as he is and the giving over of self responsibility to a higher force has most often been represented by the right hand path (rhp. the right-hand path vs. left-hand path the distinction between the rhp and the lhp is one of the most misunderstood dichotomies i have personally encountered. the pagan community misunderstands it, most contemporary satanists misunderstand it, certainly mainstream religion hasn't got a clue. so, let me fill you in. the true distinction between the lhp and the rhp is one of intention: the lhp seeks a separation from god or nature for the purpose of self deification and the inherent personal responsibilities that implies. the rhp seeks to merge with god, to j

BALANONES TEMPLE OF SET FAQ

ize in pursuit of the specialized tools for their personal achievement- the fifth wears a purple medallion. the sixth wears a gold medallion. the distinctions between these grades of initiation are very meaningful within the temple of set, but for most purposes you can consider them as variations upon the fourth degree. why do you turn the pentagram upside down? or as flagg@tiac.net stated on alt.pagan on jan 10, 1996, and i responded: ft> i know some satanists would like to think they are pagan, but if this is the case, why the need to desacrate the pentagram as they did the cross? i know the pentagram is not central to all pagan beliefs, but there is still no need for this. all pagan faiths that i know of respect the symbols of other religions. agreed. so why do you turn the holy and glo

document for some discussion why i consider the temple of set to be a religion* fr. ignatius asked on the xepera-l mailing list, may 22, 1999> if tos is a "legally recognized" entity, is it then tax-exempt? and are> tos priests able to perform legally binding marriage ceremonies? i was> wondering because i know that gov't recognition of one's path as a *real> religion has been an issue in the neo-pagan community for quite a while. yes, from its initial incorporation, the temple of set is a legal religious corporation within the state of california, and it is fully tax exempt (i believe most of us would gladly do away with the tax exemption of all religious organizations, losing our own if it meant that all christian, jewish, hindu, scientologist, and other religions also paid their fair ta

: 1) an adept ii* of the temple of set cannot also be a member of another religious organization, and 2) no setian may be a member of an organization which condones or takes part in the violation of society's laws to the detriment of society. that first limitation has often been a subject for discussion by people who don't understand it or who want clarification. one clarification i posted to alt.pagan in 1996 was "the temple of set wouldn't care if a setian chooses to participate in a buddhist retreat, an indian sweat lodge, a thelemic gnostic mass, a passover seder, a pagan circle, or whatever. part of being an adept magician is being able to see and mesh with whatever magic is taking place, understanding the causes of the ceremony and participating in those causes as appropriate to our

s name. as stated in april, 1993 on the base of set echo and many other times "that's as close as i can get with this keyboard to the egyptian hieroglyph for shuti (the double maat feather, symbolizing my personal dedication to balance- a few others are mentioned in the ref document. 6.2.2 questions about setians are setians pagans? that's a question which depends heavily upon your definition of "pagan" see the ref document for this discussion. 6.2.3 imposters if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then how should you look at people who claim to be members of the temple of set and aren't? if you encounter someone online (or offline) who claims to be setian, how do you know if they really are? our high priest, magus don webb, offers an excellent answer in his essay "how to spot a s

philosophy of xeper and/or the being or idea of set. 2. action, statement, or belief compatible with inspiration by the philosophy of xeper and/or the being or idea of set 6.3 why are we here? here" may be any digital forum- you may be reading this on a web site, a newsgroup, or ftp archive. i've tried to generalize the answer to apply to most situations. for that matter "here" may also apply to pagan gatherings, meetings in hotels, new age fairs, etc. these questions are examined in the ref document. 6.4 miscellaneous there isn't much in this section, and it all resides in the ref document at this time> 7.0 contact and information 7.1 formal and official contact- postal address: temple of set, p. o. box 470307, san francisco, ca 94147- electronic mail: at this time, you may send email to

etians. visit its informational web page for subscription information- internet newsgroups- alt.satanism alt.satanism is a newsgroup for discussions of satanic philosophy, religion, organizations, activities, etc. most setians avoid the newsgroup because of the high level of juvenile behavior that we run into there. however, there are a few setians who can be contacted through that newsgroup- alt.pagan alt.pagan attracts several setians who belong to that community. we prefer to avoid discussing simply setian philosophy and religion or satanism in alt.pagan, since those are more appropriate to alt.satanism, but the relationships between setian philosophy and religion and other pagan philosophies and religions are on-topic and suitable for that newsgroup- soc.religion.paganism soc.religion

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

lomeration of various magical traditions, the term witchcraft is as universal as its language. in the past, witchcraft and wicca was originally intended to be a shadow unto light way of living, from which the essence of the self is propagated in ones own will, desire and belief. as time moved forward, a watered down version of the craft from which was passed down from hermetic occultism and other pagan practices, brought much of the public essence of witchcraft to be a watered-down, sometimes spiritually impotent off shoot of christianity, which seemed to plague much of all western culture. in our primal selves, the forgotten areas deep within the mind, from which christianity could not pervert, leviathan guarded the gateway, and soon lilith and samael again emerged from the light of azaze

BLACK SERPENT1

what you seek is to find people whose beliefs match yours, to grow spiritually, and to gather with others in worship these are the right reasons to seek sect membership. the first step is to find a sect in your area or one that offers potential membership to those who live far away. this is often the hardest part because few sects advertise unless they are newly forming. you can visit your local pagan shop and view their bulletin boards or seek a group out on the internet. once you find a group you are interested in you should find out as much as you can before deciding to schedule an interview. i will go over the interview process later. for now let s discuss the important things about a sect that you should consider before even making initial contact. nothing is more frustrating than to

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

al circle and fallen into physical male and female generation. this sign, from the end of the third race, has the same phallic significance as the "tree[[footnote(s* in the esoteric philosophy it is male and female, or hermaphrodite; hence the bearded venus in mythology* therefore, putting aside its religio-metaphysical aspect, the cross of the christians is symbolically far more phallic than the pagan svastica[[vol. 2, page] 31 the horses of sukra's car. of life" in eden anouki, a form of isis, is the goddess of life; and ank was taken by the hebrews from the egyptians and introduced by moses, one learned in the wisdom of the priests of egypt, with many other mystical words. the word ank in hebrew, with the personal suffix, means "my life" my being, which "is the personal pronoun anochi"

prepared to understand the real, the esoteric significance of what follows. moreover there is an important point to be cleared up. christian theology having arbitrarily settled and agreed that satan with his fallen angels belonged to the earliest creation, satan being the first-created, the wisest and most beautiful of god's archangels, the word was given, the key-note struck. henceforth all the pagan scriptures were made to yield the same meaning, and all were shown to be demoniacal, and it was and is claimed that truth and fact belong to, and commence only with, christianity. even the orientalists and mythologists, some of them no christians at all but "infidels" or men of science, entered unconsciously to themselves, and by the mere force of association of ideas and habit, into the the

calls him the "pseudo-berosus" yet accepts the information in order to register one proof more that the pagans have borrowed all their gods from the jews, by transforming patriarchal material. according to our humble opinion, this is one of the best proofs possible of exactly the reverse. it shows as clearly as facts can show, that it is the biblical pseudo-personages which are all borrowed from pagan myths, if myths they must be. it shows, at any rate, that berosus was well aware of the source of genesis, and that it bore the same cosmic astronomical character as the allegories of isis-osiris, and the ark, and other older "arkite" symbols. for, berosus says that "titea magna" was afterwards called aretia* and worshipped with the earth; and this[[footnote(s* aretia is the female form of a

are now concerned with the "fallen angels" of enoch, rather than with enoch himself. in indian exotericism, these angels (asuras) are also denounced as "the enemies of the gods" those who oppose sacrificial worship offered to the latter. in christian theology they are broadly referred to as the "fallen spirits" the heroes of various conflicting and contradictory legends about them, gathered from pagan sources. the coluber tortuosus "the tortuous snake" a qualification said to have originated with the jews, had quite another meaning before the roman church distorted it- among others, a purely astronomical meaning. the "serpent" fallen from on high "deorsum fluens" was credited with the possession of the keys of the empire of the dead[[tou thanatus arche] to that day, when jesus saw it "fal

ed by ancient writers, we need not stop at that of tertullian, who assures us that in his day a number of giants were found at carthage- for, before his testimony can be accepted, his own identity* and actual existence would have to be proven. but we may turn to the scientific journals of 1858, which spoke of a sarcophagus of giants found that year on the site of that same city. as to the ancient pagan writers- we have the evidence of philostratus, who speaks of a giant skeleton twenty-two cubits long, as well as of another of twelve cubits, seen by himself at sigeus. this skeleton may perhaps not have belonged, as believed by protesilaus, to the giant killed by apollo at the siege of troy; nevertheless, it was that of a giant, as well as that other one discovered by messecrates of stire

olatry in the "original sin "ye shall be as gods" says the serpent of genesis to eve, thus laying the first germ of the worship of false divinities. hence, he thinks, came idolatry, or the cult and adoration of images, of anthropomorphized or human figures. but, if it is the latter that idolatry is made to rest upon, then the two churches, the greek and the latin especially, are as idolatrous and pagan as any other religion* it is only in the fourth race that men, who had lost all right to be considered divine, resorted to body worship, in other words to phallicism. till then, they had been truly gods, as pure and as divine as their progenitors, and the expression of the allegorical serpent does not, as sufficiently shown in the preceding pages, refer at all to the physiological fall of me

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426 the logos or verbum. 429 the factors of creation. 432 identity of the hierarchies in all religions. 438 difference between the aryan and semitic systems. 444[[vol. 1, page] xiv contents. page. xiii. the seven creations. 445 the gnostic and the hindu versions. 449 the seven puranic "creations. 450- xiv. the four elements. 460 the "gods" and the "elements. 463 the language of the elements. 464 pagan and christian worship of the elements. 467- xv. on kwan-shi-yin and kwan-yin. 470 kwan-shi-yin and phallicism. 471 the real meaning. 472- book i- part iii. science and the secret doctrine contrasted. i. reasons for these addenda. 477 occultism versus materialism. 479 the sabbath of the mystic. 481- ii. modern physicists are playing at blind man's buff. 482- iii. an lumen sit corpus nec non

a also "the value of the jehovah name is that of the diameter of a circle" add to this the fact that jehovah is the third sephiroth, binah, a feminine word, and you have the key to the mystery. by certain kabalistic transformations this name, androgynous in the first chapters of genesis, becomes in its transformations entirely masculine, cainite and phallic. the fact of choosing a deity among the pagan gods and making of it a special national god, to call upon it as the "one living god" the "god of gods" and then proclaim this worship monotheistic, does not change it into the one principle whose "unity admits not of multiplication, change, or form" especially in the case of a priapic deity, as jehovah now demonstrated to be[[vol. 1, page] 7 proem. philosophy? parabrahm is, in short, the co

vii "though st. augustine has said that every visible thing in this world had an angelic virtue as an overseer near it, it is not individuals but entire species of things that must be understood, each such species having indeed its particular angel to watch it. he is at one in this with all the philosophers. for us these angels are spirits separated from the objects. whereas for the philosophers (pagan) they were gods" considering the ritual established by the roman catholic church for "spirits of the stars" the latter look suspiciously like "gods" and were no more honoured and prayed to by the ancient and modern pagan rabble than they are now at rome by the highly cultured catholic christians[[vol. 1, page] 124 the secret doctrine. angels and the devils. for the kabalist and occultist the

with the higher planetary angels and the saptarishis (the seven rishis of the stars) of the hindus- as subordinate angels (messengers) to these "rishis" the emanations, on the descending scale, of the former. such, in the opinion of the philosophical gnostics, were the god and the archangels now worshipped by the christians! the "fallen angels" and the legend of the "war in heaven" is thus purely pagan in its origin and comes from india via persia and chaldea. the only reference to it in the christian canon is found in revelations xii, as quoted a few pages back. thus "satan" once he ceases to be viewed in the superstitious, dogmatic, unphilosophical spirit of the churches, grows into the grandiose image of one who made of terrestrial a divine man; who gave him, throughout the long cycle o

all such public worship was exoteric, and the great universal symbols were distorted universally, as those of krishna are now by the vallabacharyas of bombay, the followers of the infant god. but are these popular gods the true deity? are they the apex and synthesis of the sevenfold creation, man included? never! each and all are one of the rungs of that septenary ladder of divine consciousness, pagan as christian. for ain-soph also is said to manifest through the seven letters of jehovah's name who, having usurped the place of the unknown limitless, was given by his devotees his seven angels of the presence- his seven principles. yet they are mentioned in almost every school. in the pure sankhya philosophy mahat, ahamkara and the five tanmatras are called the seven prakritis (or natures

future to servant-girls in search of husbands, by means of the white of an egg in a glass. nevertheless, even christians have to this day their sacred birds; for instance, the dove, the symbol of the holy ghost. nor have they neglected the sacred animals. the evangelical zoolatry- the bull, the eagle, the lion, and the angel (in reality the cherub, or seraph, the fiery-winged serpent, is as much pagan as that of the egyptians or the chaldeans. these four animals are, in reality, the symbols of the four elements, and of the four lower principles in man. nevertheless, they correspond physically and materially to the four constellations that form, so to speak, the suite or cortege of the solar god, and occupy during the winter solstice the four cardinal points of the zodiacal circle. these f

BLUE EQUINOX

e up to greet the ray that thrilled through elm and chestnut, lit the grass, made diamonds of it, and bade the weir.s long smile of spray leap with laughter for the day. the birds woke over all the weald the sullen peasants slouched afield; the lilies swayed before the breeze that murmured matins in the trees; the trout leapt in the shingly shallows soared skyward the great sun, that hallows. the pagan shrines of labour and light as the moon consecrates the night. labour is corn and love is wine, and both are bless d in the shrine; nor is he for priest designed who partakes only in one kind. the equinox 194 thus musing joyous, twice across under the weir i swam, to toss the spray back; then the meadows claim the foot.s fleet ecstasy aflame. and having uttered my thanksgiving thus for the s

ree from the worst of the disfigurements to which psychical researchers have acclimatized us, confound them. the mention of psychical researchers has ruined my temper again. i am going to be nasty even to my dear mrs. hutchings. it is very easy to spoil a case by claiming too much. jesus preferred would stand higher in the market to-day if some would-be clever press agent had not added ridiculous pagan stories of the virgin birth, and so on, to the earlier and more plausible legend. and the most serious criticism of patience worth is the existence of that ridiculous novel by .mark twain. patience worth is not impossible, or even improbable. she makes mistakes. she commits anachronisms. but any difficulties are fairly easy to explain away. when it comes to mark twain, the reviews 301 case i

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aster (zarathustra, in persia in the seventh century bce. the idea later spread westward and was picked up in mithraism and, later, in christianity. as christianity gradually grew in strength, so the old religion was slowly pushed back. back until, about the time of the reformation, it only existed in the outlying country districts. non-christians at that time became known as pagans and heathens "pagan" comes from the latin there were other more definite adoptions from the old religions, especially in the early formative years of christianity. the idea of the trinity, for instance, was taken from the old egyptian triad. osiris, isis and horus became god, mary and jesus. december 25th, as the birthdate of]esus, was borrowed from mithraism which also believed in a second coming and indulged

carpet and so much easier to store. figure 4.1a figure 4.1b "now is the temple erected. i shall not leave it but with good reason. so be it" sit or kneel before the altar, head bowed, and meditate for a few minutes on the god and the goddess, the craft and what the old religion means to you. then stand and lift both hands high above the altar and say "lord and lady hear me now! i am here a simple pagan holding thee in honor. far have i journeyed and long have i searched, seeking that which i desire above all things. i am of the trees and of the fields. i am of the woods and of the springs; the streams and the hills. i am of thee and thee of me" lower your arms "grant me that which i desire. permit me to worship the gods and all that the gods represent, make me a lover of life in all things

ats: spring and autumn equinox and summer and winter solstice. margaret murray, in god of the witches 'depending on the time of year. tyou will find much disagreement on the subject of pronunciation. don't worry too much about it. lesson five: covens and rituals/ 61 points out that the two most important samhain and beltane coincide with the breeding seasons of both wild and domestic animals. the pagan festivals were later exploited by the christian church. for example imbolc became candlemas and lughnasadh became lammas. on each of the eight sabbats a different ceremony is performed, appropriate for the time of year. once or twice in the year the sabbat date may coincide with a full or new moon. when that happens the esbat normally done on that date gives way to the sabbat. essentially sa

is much feasting and merriment. in the old days, before the persecutions, many different covens would come together to celebrate. there might be as many as several hundred witches, from widely scattered covens, all congregating in one place to give thanks to the gods and to celebrate the sabbat. in these modern times i have seen similar gatherings though not for a specific sabbat such as the "pan pagan festival" held in michigan in 1981, where nearly eight hundred witches and pagans were in attendance. but whether you can join forces with others or you celebrate as a single coven or even as a solitary witch (more on this later) the keyword is "celebration. as the goddess is honored with the phases of the moon, so is the god at certain of the phases of the sun. these are the "lesser sabbats

or a bodhran (scottish/irish hand-drum. the old name for a witch's drum, incidentally, was tabor (pronounced "tay-ber. a drum can actually be made fairly simply. just beating out a rhythm is sufficient, especially for power-raising. guitars, dulcimers, recorders, flutes, harmonicas, pan-pipes, even rattles such as maracas, are all good coven instruments. there are several good books of craft and pagan music available these days. in appendix d i include some for you to try. sabbat games after the religious part of the sabbat comes the fun and merriment. along with singing and dancing there are, traditionally, games. some can be played before the circle is opened up and others need more room. a few are detailed here. you probably know many more yourself. the candle game all witches but one

oven is a family. it is a small unit of people acting together in perfect love and perfect trust. that sort of relationship does not come easily. there are basically two approaches you can make, depending on your circumstances. one is the obviously preferred route through other known pagans. the other is the longer route of weeding out merely potential pagans. let's examine them. through the many pagan and craft festivals and seminars held across the country these days (see listings in the many and various pagan publications, such as circle network news, you can get to meet and know other people from your area who are, at least to some extent, knowledgeable about wicca. you can also seek out those who are from your area through contact listings in these various publications. you might even

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ppear on a boat or be seen in the water before it went through a dark tunnel. canal life has a whole mythology, much now lost as the old working boats have been replaced by weekend leisure traffic. you will find more on the details of these old superstitions in my book ghost encounters (blandford, 1998. wicca wicca, as it is performed today, is not modern witchcraft per se, but a contemporary neo-pagan religion. it is, however, one of the major forms of witchcraft. it began in its modern form with the teachings of gerald gardner after the repeal of the witchcraft act in 1951, though its descent can be traced to the ancient nature religions. this traditional method of wicca is quite formal, with seite 9 wicca01.txt covens using ritual tools and learned invocations emphasising the goddess an

money. true wiccans are among the most tolerant of people and would never seek to impose their beliefs on others seite 14 wicca01.txt and are usually incredibly reticent with people they do not know. in the meantime, it is wise to follow an indirect route to find your coven, perhaps through 'green' organisations and reputable new age stores, or by attending workshops and celebrations arranged by pagan federations and healing organisations, and talking to people there. you can also visit healing festivals and buy established pagan magazines. take your time until everything feels right and you have answered all the questions you need to ask. no reputable coven will be in a hurry to sign you up- the reverse is usually the case. you certainly do not want to find yourself signing in blood, bei

to ask. no reputable coven will be in a hurry to sign you up- the reverse is usually the case. you certainly do not want to find yourself signing in blood, being initiated by having sex with the high priest or priestess or promising to fall on a sword should you leave the coven or betray their secrets. nor should you pay huge sums of money in advance for training; for membership of an established pagan organisation, yes, but these tend to ask for remarkably little. even a full druidic or goddess training, for example, costs no more than a few hundred pounds over several years. most covens and healing groups expect you only to pay for your expenses. i hope that, one day, joining a coven will be totally open, like joining any other organisation, and then the nasty elements who hide behind th

me groups have family celebrations and no responsible parent would introduce their children to any experiences before they were ready, least of all wiccans to whom life is sacred and children the blessing of the goddess. lisa, a wiccan from berkshire, describes how her daughter has grown up 'becoming a mother has touched me more deeply than i could ever have imagined. i am sure that every mother, pagan or otherwise, has felt and appreciated the magical connection between mother and child: eyes and hearts locked together during a breast feed; waking to silence in the middle of the night, only to hear the baby wake and cry out moments later; being able to recognise one's own child's cry in a room full of noisy babies 'being a pagan has brought all of these experiences into a spiritual focus

it, but even a two-year-old can dance around a maypole, pick berries, plant seeds and help bake bread or biscuits. it's exciting to think that the wheel of the year will have deep significance to her; that samhain and beltain will hold the same excitement that christmas held for me as a child 'i don't know if skye will ultimately choose wicca as her spiritual path, but i feel that growing up in a pagan home will give her the best tools for making choices in her life. she will learn to be aware of her environment and will feel a part of it, not above or outside it. hopefully, this will inspire her to care for it and for others around her, and to encourage others to do the same. wicca is self-governing, and i hope that skye will have integrity and confidence in herself 'having a goddess as w

other forms of the horned god include herne the hunter, the greek pan, god of the woodlands, and dionysus, greek god of vegetation and the vine, whose ecstatic mystery cult involved ritual dismemberment and resurrection. seite 41 wicca01.txt cerunnos' importance has been in his continuing presence as the horned god, the male principle in witchcraft through the ages, in modern wicca and other neo-pagan faiths. he is also invoked for prosperity, fertility, instinctive power and knowledge of when it is necessary to hunt, whether to find employment or a home, and as protection against predators of all kinds [insert pic p075- dionysus dionysus, sometimes depicted as a horned god, was a god of the grain, who died and was reborn every year as a child in a basket, representing the seed corn. he w

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l in foreign parts, wrote to his superiors of the spiritual disposition of slaves in south carolina, observing that "some of our negro-pagans have a notion of god and a devil, and dismal apprehensions of apparitions" other comments by white clergy in the eighteenth century provide an indeterminate picture of black spiritual life, vaguely characterizing african slave practices as "heathenish" and "pagan" with little elaboration or detail. evidence does indicate, however, that despite severe challenges and prohibitions, african slaves in the anglo-american colonies retained their spiritual perspectives [13] by the end of the 1700s, for example, some african forms of supernaturalism were already viable in black american communities. in new england, enslaved and free "afro-yankees" black magic

e the fluctuating boundaries between magic and religion that characterized the preindustrial worldviews of both groups. the unstructured and fluid nature of supernaturalism may have permitted an admixture of black and white beliefs. the spiritual traditions to which africans were exposed in early america were by no means pure or orthodox; the religious lives of anglo-americans sometimes disclosed pagan, pre-christian influences. although formally condemned by ecclesiastical authority, even the most stalwart christian strongholds were\ 44\ besieged by dissident spiritual challenges from within and without. as european americans struggled to resituate themselves in the wake of their own transatlantic displacement, their religious institutions came under the assault of sectarian reformers, he

ginia, shared their opinion of conjure as barbarous.the antithesis of all that the new generation of uplifted black americans were striving for. davis called the conjure practices of southern blacks "a relic, no doubt, of barbarism brought from their native african home [15] concerning african american supernatural practices, members of both races reserved their most uncharitable remarks for the "pagan rites" and demonstrations of "voodooism" that they witnessed during their sojourn in the southern states. in a letter to the hampton institute's southern workman, one reader detailed the widespread practice of "conjuring" and "tricks" among freedpersons as one of the "horrible features" of african american life "it is not only the vile who practice this misdemeanor and believe in the same" h

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pe" monastery at tabennis near denderah, egypt. 325 council of nicea, can. of christian bible (to 13th cent) puranas. iamblichus: on nicomachus's introduction to arithmetic- first mention of casting out nines. ca.340-420 jerome studied hebrew with jewish instructors in bethlehem. 346 st. pachomius dies. 350-407 john chrysostom 350? abbaye jewish babylonian teacher expounds on the decans. 363 last pagan emperor julian stopped at harran at the beginning of his persian campaign. he consulted the oracles at the temple of the moon. 380 hephaestio of thebes. compendium, delineations of the decans and contains a very long excerpt from nechepso/petosiris on detailed eclipse delineation. preserves an ancient egyptian method of prediction using the dog-star alone. c.380 sepher ha-razim (the book of

nature. indeed at the moment of conception there spurts from the seven planets a whole complex of rays that bear on each part of the man. and the same thing happens at the birth-hour, according to the position of the twelve signs" c. 420 "de nuptiis philologi et mercurii" martianus capella 475-525 boethius c. 475 horapollo of nilous hieroglyphica. suda refers to him as a leader of one of the last pagan philosophical schools in menouthis near alexandria, under the reign of emperor zeno (474-491. 500 ce (circa) pseudo-dionysius the areopagite flourished, probably a native of syria. 507: the frankish leader clovis defeats the visigoths at the battle of vouille. the visigoths retreat into spain c. 529: benedict of nursia (d. 543) establishes a monastery at monte cassino and writes an extremely

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eil upon veil: the use of demonological terms should not be misconstrued as advocacy for vulgar 'satanism 'black magic' or such like; neither should our positive use of judaeo-christian terms imply religious adherence in any conventional sense. the sabbatic craft uses sorcerous teachings of a specialised gnostic character, an outer part of which combines a coded use of both luciferic and christo -pagan terms. one must be careful to interpret this; it is a test! few pass beyond it. a defining feature of the cultus is its specialised use of the mythos of the medieval and early modern european witches' sabbath as the basis and idiom for its rituals and practices. this is not simply an indwelling of the past or human contrivance, but rather a spirit-taught reification of the sabbath's potent o

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followers would emerge. one of the pre-hitler 'prophets' was the composer, richard wagner, in the nineteenth century. his composition, the ride of the valkyries, captures his obsession with the invading powers of evil. wagner declared the imminent arrival of the master race. his work, the ring, was the musical expression of his belief in german supermen bestriding the world stage like the ancient pagan gods wotan and thor. hitler would later say that to understand nazi germany, one had to know wagner. one of the students of master race fanatic wagner was gustav mahler, whose studies with wagner were funded by baron albert de rothschild. adolf hitler was officially born at braunau-am-inn, on the border of germany and the austria-hungary empire, but the amazing story of who he really was wil

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of god called attis who was worshipped by the phrygians, one of the oldest races in asia minor, now turkey, well over a thousand years before the manufacture of "jesus. it is just one of countless symbolic deities of whom the same story was told millennia before christianity. others are accepted to have been myths and not to have literally existed. but not jesus. while christians laugh at those "pagan" tales and condemn them as evil, they ask the rest of the world to believe, indeed have insisted on pain of torture and death, that their version of the same story is somehow literally true while all the others are not. yeah, right. to understand how the repeat of an ancient, endlessly recurring story could be transformed into the prison-religion called christianity, and to see the source of

i, comes from the same source and the horned headgear worn by the kings and leaders of european tribes and kingdoms: but these symbols, styles, and customs, go much further back to atlantis and lemuria. the name "catti" for the ruling clan of the ancient britons on pre-roman coins is a dialectic form of goti or "goth".7 when the illuminati built the great "christian" cathedrals of europe, full of pagan symbolism on ancient pagan sacred sites, they used the "gothic" style of architecture. the symbolism of the "eye of gopta" may relate to the widely used illuminati symbol, the all-seeing eye or eye: horus, which you will find at the top of the pyramid on the us dollar bill and on the reverse of the great seal of the united states. the same symbols used by this ancient sumerian dynasty are st

their words. they knew that the sites of magnetic "faults" act as doorways to these other dimensions or densities, and allow both interdimensional communication and travel to happen more easily. satanists use these same locations around the world in their rituals designed to manifest other-dimensional demonic entities. the roman church insisted that its churches and cathedrals be built on former pagan sites because these were the interdimensional doorways, gateways, or portals. again, this is why satanists seek to use christian churches for their rituals: they want to access the energy in the vortexes on which the churches were placed. freemasonic and other secret society temples are located on these points. the ancient atlantean- lemurian-sumerian knowledge has been passed on through thi

n and then killed them" find out what they know and then make sure they can tell no one else. this is the reason why credo's information about the reptilian chitauri has been out of public circulation for so long. it was vital for the anunnaki-illuminati to destroy or marginalize the cultures of the native americans, central and south americans, black africans, the australian aborigines, and the "pagan" religion in general. this is what they did, of course, as even conventional history records, but it never tells you the real reason why or who was really behind it. by replacing these native cultures with imposed christianity, judaism, islam, hinduism, and all the rest, they could either crush the true knowledge with rigid dogma, or imprison it in a gruesome hierarchical structure of geneti

began to appoint its own monarchs, including charlemagne, in what 150 children of the matrix later became france. gardner says that the church also suppressed the female and worship of the "goddess (dragon queen) with its male-dominated religion.11 i beg to differ. we shall see that while the roman church and christianity in general is an outwardly male religion, it is secretly a continuation of pagan goddess worship. also, the reptilian bloodlines constantly fight with each other for power, and the roman church, charlemagne, and the merovingians were different expressions of the same reptilian bloodlines battling with each other to be top dog- as usual. the british edda the story of a battle between the nordics and a reptilian force for control of the planet is told in some considerable

lesh of cattle as wolves before regaining their human shape. this could all be symbolic or it could be connected to the phenomena of the "werewolf" which, according to some former satanists, do exist. the legends of the "troll" or "trulli" demons also appear to be associated with the amazons or valkeries. this is the root of the word, trull, which means loose woman and the troll could have been a pagan "hag" or earth-priestess. norse myth says that the trolls waited under bridges waiting to eat those who crossed without making an offering. the valkeries were said to guard the bridge to heaven or the "bifrost. angels of death were said to attend a ritual called the trolla-thing. woden's day wodan was the consort of the dragon queen, el, according to the edda, and he is a major figure in anc

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demonstrablyfigure 13: the ancient symbol forthe annual cycle of the sun fromwhich so many symbols andsymbolic stories haveoriginated. you can see thissymbol in the depictions ofbarati and britannia infigure 12. 80begun its symbolic journey back to the summer and the peak of its power. the ancients,therefore, said that the sun was born on december 25th. the christian christmas ismerely a renamed pagan festival, as indeed are all christian festivals. easter is another.about march 25th, the old fixed date for easter, the sun enters the astrological sign ofaries the ram or the lamb. at this time the ancients used to sacrifice lambs because theybelieved this would appease the gods, most notably the sun god, and ensure abundantharvests. in other words they believed that the blood of the lamb w

cult had completed the ritual, the members had a meal of bread and winein which they believed they were eating the flesh of mithra and drinking his blood.mithra, like a long list of pre-christian gods, was said to have been visited by wise menat his birth who brought him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. the same was saidby plato of his teacher, socrates, in ancient greece. christianity is a pagan sun religion,the worship of which is condemned by christianity! it is also an astrology religion, theevil of which is condemned by christianity, not least by the pope! beam me up scotty,its mad down here. the church hierarchy, of course, know all this. they just dont wantyou to know. the mystery cult of mithra spread from persia to the roman empire andat one point this doctrine could be foun

s are build east-west with the altar to the east. this means that the congregationface east- the direction of the rising sun. even easter eggs, like hot cross buns, are nota christian tradition. dyed eggs were sacred easter offerings in egypt and persia,among other places. how ironic that the authorities at westminster abbey havequestioned whether they should have a christmas tree because it is a pagan symbol.the whole flippin religion is pagan!figure 16: the last supper by leonardo da vinci. look how he symbolises jesus as the sun and breaks upthe twelve disciples into four sets of three- the signs of the zodiac. it is a pictodal version of the sun circle andthe cross we saw earlier. 94along with the sun symbolism, the jesus story and its countless predecessors alsoinclude initiation symb

atl is said to have come out of the sea carrying a cross and he has beenrepresented as being nailed to a cross. in mystery school symbolism, a cross of gold =illumination; a cross of silver= purification; a cross of base metals= humiliation; and across of wood= aspiration. the latter relates to the constant symbolism of the tree andsaviour god figures dying on trees or wooden crosses. some of the pagan mysteryceremonies involved the student hanging from a cross or lying on an altar in the shape ofa cross.29 it symbolised the death of the body, the world of physical domination anddesire, and opening to the spiritual self. the driving in of nails and the flow of blood isyet more mystery school symbolism. the crucifixion of jesus was an allegory, asymbolic event written to carry a hidden mean

closed space, like the sweatlodges of native america. even the story of the spearwhich pierced the side of jesus after he was taken from the cross is mystery schoolsymbolism. the christian legend says that this was done by a blind roman centurioncalled longinus and some of the blood of jesus fell on his eyes and cured his blindness.longinus was converted and spent the rest of his life breaking up pagan idols. yeah,sure he did. centurions were not blind and could not have done their job if they were,and once again we find this story is a repeat from earlier versions. the scandinaviansaviour, balder, son of odin, had a spear of mistletoe thrust into him by hod, a god whowas blind. march 15th, the ides of march, was when many pagan saviours also died.this day was devoted to hod and later beca

. we arenow entering another new age, the age of aquarius, according to the laws of the earthwobble precession. when the bible talks of the end of the world, this is anothermistranslation. they translate world from the greek, aeon, but aeon does not meanworld, it means age.31 we are not facing the end of the world, but the end of the age,the 2,160 years of pisces. christianity did not replace the pagan religions, it is a paganreligion. the persians, who inherited their beliefs from sumer, egypt and babylon, hadbaptism, confirmation, paradise and hell, angels of light and darkness, and a fallenangel. all of these were absorbed by christianity and claimed for their own.during the alleged life time of jesus, the essene brotherhood, was based atqumran at the northern end of the dead sea, or at

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e physical realm which is moving in time toward the desired direction of the new world order. mason headquarters (mt. vernon square) this square also contains one more piece of occultic meaning. in this goathead pentagram, mt. vernon square is the eastern point. in occultic doctrine, east is the direction from which a person receives spiritual knowledge and guidance. this belief originated in the pagan worship of the sun, and it is very much alive in freemasonry today. now, let us look at the symbol contained in the lower right hand portion of your washington, d.c, city street map. this combination of symbols runs south and east from the white house to the united states capitol. these are the symbols which clearly stamp freemasonry upon this city, and which unmistakably reveal that the bra

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e case, centuries will pass between new aeonic words. in another two-thousand year, the cycle of expansion will have ended and humanity will experience another cycle of restriction. aleister crowley made reference to the aeon of isis, a time when man lived in harmony with the natural world and the dominant religions involved the worship of nature. he was referring, of course, to the pre-christian pagan world. this was followed, he said, by the aeon of osirus, a time of restriction in which man rejected the natural world and in its place chose denial of the ego and mortification of the flesh. he believed that a new aeon, the aeon of horus, had begun. in egyptian mythology, isis was the goddess of fertility, osirus was the god of death, and horus was the god of rebirth. the period of restric

ch man rejected the natural world and in its place chose denial of the ego and mortification of the flesh. he believed that a new aeon, the aeon of horus, had begun. in egyptian mythology, isis was the goddess of fertility, osirus was the god of death, and horus was the god of rebirth. the period of restriction, he said, had ended and the life-energies had returned to the world. the pre-christian pagan world was more, however, than simply a time of nature worship. men lived in greater harmony with the natural world than they did during the cycle of restriction which followed, but they also celebrated the carnal, exalted the ego, and explored deep philosophical thought. this was the time of the mystery schools and the philosophers of greece. this was the time of the great empires of babylon

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r in heaven between god and satan was carried into europe by the early christians. in christian mythology, lucifer became the highest of the angels, created in the perfect image of god, who fell from grace because of his pride. during the spread of christianity in europe the devil began to take on the form most often associated with him today. christians gave him the attributes of many of the old pagan gods: horns, tail, and cloven hooves. he became the god of fertility, the god of lust, the god of the dead, and the god of magic. devil worshippers and luciferans to facilitate conversion, pagan holy days became christian holy days. pagan temples were destroyed and became the sites of christian churches. the less demonic looking gods were converted into angels in god s armies as pagans were

communicated. a beast of revelation on april 4, 1904, aleister crowley, declared the start of a new aeon the aeon of horus. in crowley s philosophy each aeon represents a stage in the non-natural evolution of man. the aeon of isis was a time when man lived in close harmony with the natural world and the dominant religions involved the worship of nature. this was characterized by the pre-christian pagan world. the aeon of osiris, which followed the aeon of isis, was a time when man rejected the natural world, accepting self-denial and sacrifice of the flesh and body as the ideal. christianity rose as the dominant religion in the west during the aeon of osiris. crowley, who came to believe that he was the beast described in the book of the revelation of jesus to st. john the apostle, wrote t

d promote the law of deitus( will to come into being as a god) secondly, to unite satanists throughout the world and thereby become a more powerful force to affect change. thirdly, work with other satanic groups and organizations to promote unity and diversity within the satanic community. fourthly, to establish an independent and sovereign state modeled after the city-states of the pre-christian pagan world with a system of government and law based upon satanic ethics rather than the outdated moral code of christianity. and fifthly, serve as a diplomatic embassy of this future satanic state. these goals fall into two broad roles which may be summarized as the role of the eol as a magical and philosophical temple and the role of the eol as a political and diplomatic organization. as a magi

one might think that they would have more important things to do than appear before a "magic circle" and serve the whims of mere mortals. one might also think that there would then be one "correct" tradition of magic and one "true" pantheon of deities. this is not at all the case. all systems of magic use similar techniques and work relatively the same. the fact that magic based on the worship of pagan gods has the same efficiency as magic based on the hebrew cabala and christian gnosticism, shows that it is the techniques used (and their effect upon the practitioner's mind) which accounts for magical powers and not the particular deities or spirits called upon. many spirits are accredited with giving knowledge of "arts and sciences. the "lesser key of solomon, a book of goetic sorcery, li

en it shall be known that the aeon of lucifer has begun. concerning christianity the earliest christians approached christianity as a philosophy compatible with other philosophical beliefs. the gnostic christians saw no conflict between the christian religion and the mystery schools of greece and rome. among the celts, christianity was adopted by the druids and was practiced alongside the earlier pagan religion. the greeks and romans approached christianity from an intellectual perspective. the scriptures were accepted within the context in which they had been written and were not interpreted as the literal word of god. the acceptance of christianity as the official religion of rome (and creation of the roman catholic church) signaled the end of this intellectual christianity and the start

. the scriptures were accepted within the context in which they had been written and were not interpreted as the literal word of god. the acceptance of christianity as the official religion of rome (and creation of the roman catholic church) signaled the end of this intellectual christianity and the start of a new authoritarian christianity. in its rise to dominance, the church proclaimed earlier pagan religions to be forms of devil-worship and condemned millions of innocent men, women and children to death. various gnostic sects were among those executed. intellectual freedom was suppressed and obedience to the church was demanded. with the age of enlightenment and the eventual separation of church and state, a new emotional christianity took the place of the authoritarian christianity. t

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aal zebuth was known as the prince of demons in the time of christ, when the pharisees took against christ. they associated christ having been possessed by beelzebub and referred to his power as being able to drive the demons from one by the power of demons. it is suggested that the name of beelzebub, being the god of ekron which was a philistine city. the canaanite name baal which is an early 39 pagan god is the root of this demon. king solomon had dealings with this demon and learned much about his nature. he is considered the lord of flies and a powerful force. an interesting text concerning him is the following "then hell, receiving satan the prince, with sore reproach said unto him: o prince of perdition and chief of destruction, beelzebub, the scorn of the angels and spitting of the

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ne or a person of no psychic ability is termed "hazard level" in practice, this is twenty percent (20, or five (5) correct answers in twenty-five (25) attempts. both higher than hazard and lower than hazard overages are significant. hcoma: pronounced "hay-coh-mah" it is the enochian (q.v) name for the spirit of water. heathen: a person who comes from the heaths. this word has a similar history as pagan (q.v. a word used to indicate a person who is a social but non-religious pagan. hegemon/ hegemone: from the greek word "hegemononios" meaning "a leader "a guide "one who has authority over others, and "one who shows the way "a person who does something first "a commander "to train "to educate" and "to weigh in the balance. more generally, an assistant of the mysteries who reconciles opposing

ply evil. ogham: a magickal alphabet of the celts composed of twenty (20) letters called fews, each standing for a different kind of tree. it is very simple in appearance, being made up of short vertical or diagonal strokes set against or across a horizontal line. old horny: an affectionate name for the horned male consort of the goddess of the witches. early christian priests either mistook this pagan god for satan (q.v) or deliberately misidentified this pagan god for satan for political reasons. old religion: a modern day reference for wicca (q.v) or witchcraft (q.v, which many occultists believe to be the descendant of an ancient pagan goddess religion. order of the argentium astrum, the [a.a: the great white brotherhood. the order of the silver star. founded by aleister crowley (q.v)

achings of aleister crowley (q.v, who at one time was the head of that international order. kenneth grant was also a one time past frater superior of that order. today, hymneas beta is frater superior of the o.t.o. orgone: a name used for pra a, ruach, or chi, the universal life force, by dr. wilhelm reich. outer alchemy: making use of the magically charged sexual fluids for magickal purposes- p- pagan: from paganus "those of the earth" originally it described people of the land and their simplicity. later, it focused on their choice of pre-christian deities and was used as a type of insult. today, may witches consider themselves to be pagans or neo-pagans. for the most part, non-magick using wiccans (q.v. paganism: although most people today use this as a derogatory term, occultists simpl

ith of witchcraft (q.v. see wicca. witchcraft: popularized by gerald gardner (q.v) and many others, it is a peaceful religion based on the worship of the generative forces in nature. witches generally worship the horned god of the hunt and primarily the three-fold goddess of life. witches venerate the life force in nature and seek to be in tune with natural cycles. all witches come from different pagan (q.v) religious traditions. witches are not satanists (q.v. in fact, they do not believe that an entity called "satan" even exists. wizard: literally, a skillful or clever person. a wizard is a male magician who uses theurgy (q.v) or goety (see goetia. word of power: a word or name, often unintelligible, that is supposed to carry an occult potency. many of the so called barbarous names menti

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of venus in whatever traditional system he may be using. having attained a grade in one system, he has access to the equivalent grades of all the other systems of his tradition. 11. but although he may use these other systems as occasion serves, experience proves that the qabalah supplies the best groundwork and the best system upon which to train a student before he begins to experiment with the pagan systems. rhe qabalah is essentially monotheistic; the potencies it classifies are always regarded as the messengers of god and not his fellow-workers. this principle enforces the concept of a centralised government of the cosmos and of the grip of the divine law upon the whole of manifestation-a very necessary principle with which to imbue any student of the arcane forces. it is the purity

a unit, we must know the meaning of its component sephiroth. chesed means mercy or love; it is also called gedulah, greatness or magnificence, and to it is assigned the sphere of the planet jupiter. geburah means strength; it is ako called pachad, fear; to it is assigned the sphere of th planet mars. tiphareth means beauty, and to it is assigned the sphere of the sun. when the gods of the various pagan pantheons are being correlated with the spheres on the tree, it will be found that the sacrificed gods invariably come on to tiphareth, and for this reason it has been called the christcentre in the christian qahalah. mystical qabala page 34 23. we now have sufficient material to make a survey of the second triangle. jupiter, the beneficent ruler and lawgiver, is balanced by mars the warrior

ectual processes, he read more and more significance into the first simple classifications. nevertheless, he did not discard his original classifications, because they were fundamentally sound and represented actualities. he mystical qabala page 58 simply elaborated and extended them, and finally, when he fell on evil times, overlaid them with superstition. 7. we should not, therefore, regard the pagan pantheons as so many aberrations of the human mind; nor should we try to understand them from the viewpoint of the uninstructed and uninitiated; we should try to find out what they must have meant to the highly intelligent and cultured high-priests of the cults in their heyday. compare mme david neel and w. b. seabrook on the subject of heathen rites with the reports of the average missionar

ant worshippers. 8. in judging these things let us consider the form christianity would present if approached in the same way. unsympathetic observers would probably conclude that we worshipped a sheep, and the holy ghost would yield some spectacular interpretations. let us credit other people with using metaphors if we do not expect to be taken literally our-selves. the outer form of the ancient pagan faiths is no cruder than christianity in backward latin countries, where jesus christ is represented in topper and tails and the virgin mary in lace-edged pantaloons. the inner form of the ancient faiths can compare very favourably with the best of our modern metaphysicians. after all, they produced plato and plotinus. the human mind does not change, and what is true of ourselves is probably

s autres mours. 9. if we approach those whom we elect to call pagans, both ancient and modern, in a reverent and sympathetic spirit, knowing that allah and brahma and amen ra are but other [page 88] names for that which we worship as god, we shall learn a very great deal that was forgotten in europe when the gnosis was stamped out and its literature destroyed. 10. we shall find, however, that the pagan faiths present their teaching in a form that is not readily assimilable by the european mind, and that if we are to arrive at its significance we must re-state it in our own terms. we must correlate the metaphysical concept with the pagan symbol; then we shall be able to apply to the former the vast mass of mystical experience which generations of contemplatives and expen. mental psychologis

psychologists, though their art has been lost, like many other of the ancient arts, and is only being laboriously recovered piecemeal in the more advanced circles of scientific thought. 11. the method used by the modern initiate for interpreting the language spoken by the ancient myths is a very simple and effectual one. he finds in the qabalistic tree of life a link between the highly stylistic pagan systems and his own more rational methods; the jew, asiatic by blood and monotheistic by religion, has a foot in both worlds. upon the tree of life with its ten holy sephiroth the modern occultist bases both a metaphysic and a magic. he uses a philosophical conception of the tree to interpret what it represents to his conscious mind, and he uses a magical and ceremonial application of its sy

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ter, picks them up one by one voluntarily and by means of the appropriate rituals, and synthesises them within his own nature. he knows too that each aspect has its obverse. the virgin mary is reflected in lilith. the older faiths knew this, but popular christianity, which has no roots in tradition, has forgotten it. protestant christianity threw away its occult aspect at the reformation. all the pagan pantheons have gross aspects of divinities as well as etherial ones. we need to search the refuse-heap of history for the lost parts of our own tradition if our faith is to be complete, and the most profitable line of search is in the qabalah and the gnostic literature. the literature of the gnosis has been largely destroyed by systematic persecution, but in the qabalah there is still left u

h is to be complete, and the most profitable line of search is in the qabalah and the gnostic literature. the literature of the gnosis has been largely destroyed by systematic persecution, but in the qabalah there is still left us a complete system. the jews, being strictly monotheistic, did not speak of gods, but they recognised a hierarchy of angels and archangels which is the equivalent of the pagan pantheons. it is through these etherial messengers that the all-father formed the worlds. let us consider once more the qabalistic doctrine of the qlippoth, for it has an intimate bearing upon the problem of insanity. the doctrine of the ten holy sephiroth, arranged in their correct pattern to form the tree of life, is invaluable in enabling us to conceive the invisible. the first sephira is

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ult, who in films always seem to be teenagers guilty of drinking beer and necking in the back seat of cars, can save themselves from the talons of the demons if they burn the board and give themselves in the service of christ through fervent prayers. in christian writings demons in the strictest sense- those fallen angels who remained loyal to lucifer in hell- were continually being confused with pagan deities and with nature spirits. thus we find mention of the demon satyr who incites men and women to lust, and the demon theutus, who induces the urge to gamble for money with cards or dice. the satyr is a nature spirit of greek mythology, and theutus is a degenerate variation on the name of the egyptian god thoth, who was associated by the greeks with numbers, and by extension with money

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in the early 1970s, she encountered witchcraft through a study group founded by the new york coven of welsh traditional witches. in 1973 she became associated with gardnerian witchcraft. in 1976 she became the priestess of iargalon, a gardnerian coven. during her years as an active priestess, she researched and wrote drawing down the moon, a sympathetic history and survey of the modern wiccan and pagan community. over the years since, the book, now in its second edition, has introduced many people to witchcraft. since 1982 adler has practiced as a solitary, but remains one of the most visible leaders of the pagan community in north america. in 1988 her handfasting to john gliedman was the first pagan marriage covered in the new york times society pages. sources: adler, margot. drawing down

et secretly. the inquisition so terrorized the district in which they lived that the very name of albigenses was practically blotted out, and by the year 1330, the records of the holy office show no further writs issued against the heretics. it seems possible that such heresies as the albigenses and the cathari, with their belief in lucifer as lord of the world, may have sometimes merged with the pagan folklore that went to form the witchcraft heresy, which was also ruthlessly persecuted by the inquisition (see also gnostics; arthur guirdham) sources: holmes, e. g. a. albigensian or catharist heresy. london: william& norgate, 1925. lea, henry c. a history of the inquisition of the middle ages. 3 vols. london: sampson low, 1888. warner, h. j. the albigensian heresy. 2 vols. london: spck, 19

he alister hardy research centre see religious experience research centre alford, alan f. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 28 allat (or ellat) goddess of the ancient arabs of pre-islamic times, associated with the god dhu-shara, known as allah (supreme god, worshiped in the form of a rectangular stone, reminiscent of the later kaaba of mecca. allat is mentioned in the koran as a pagan goddess. she is said to have been joint ruler with allah and judge of the afterlife. allegro, john (marco (1923.1988) british scholar who assisted in the deciphering of the dead sea scrolls, and created a sensation with his book the sacred mushroom and the cross (1970, which suggested that the new testament was written in a secret code for the use of a sect built around the hallucinatory pro

s of halloween with demons and the souls of the dead. today almost totally secularized, it has become a society-wide costume party. the practice of trick or treat has lost all conscious associations with the older practice, when fruit or candies were gained from neighbors, a relic of the custom of food offerings for the dead. modern wiccans and neo-pagans have revived the eve of november 1 as the pagan new year, which they term samhein (pronounced sav-en. it is the beginning of winter, and during the evening hours, the spirits of the departed seek the warmth of the samhein fire. the day is a time of communing with the dead, but also a time of feasting and drinking in defiance of the approaching days of increasing darkness and cold. sources: farrar, janet, and stewart farrar. eight sabbats

nd stewart farrar. eight sabbats for witches. london: robert hale, 1981. halloween and other festivals of death and life. knoxville: university of tennessee press, 1994. alli allahis a continuation of the old sect of the magi, priests of ancient persia. alliance of solitary practitioners during the 1990s, especially in the wake of several books calling attention to the situation within the larger pagan community, various people began to address the problem of the solitary practitioner. the contemporary wicca/pagan community had developed around small groups generally called covens or groves. most practitioners have been members of such groups, for many years the only place where knowledge of the religion was available. however, with the publication of numerous books on pagan practice begin

where knowledge of the religion was available. however, with the publication of numerous books on pagan practice beginning in the 1970s, the solitary practitioner who was self-initiated and practiced alone began to emerge and the number steadily and rapidly grew through the rest of the twentieth century. such solitary practitioners generally made themselves known by their attendance at the large pagan gatherings. initial attempts to provide networking for solitary pagans began in the early 1990s, but the spread of the internet has provided a means for solitary pagans to relate to the larger pagan world that both protects their anonymity while providing a source for information and contact. the alliance of solitary practitioners (asp) was formed in january of 1998 to provide such a means o

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an old and powerful secret society of italy whose members worshiped and idealized nature. it seems to have been founded by members of the ancient italian priesthood. it had a tradition that one of the popes became a member of the fraternity, and there appears to be some documentary evidence for this claim. the society accepted the allegorical interpretation that the neoplatonists placed upon the pagan creeds during the first ages of christianity. maeterlinck, maurice (1862.1949) famous belgian writer and poet and winner of the nobel prize in literature in 1911. he was born in ghent, belgium, on august 29, 1862, and educated at the college sainte-barbe and the university of ghent. for a time he lived in paris, where he became associated with the symbolist school of french poetry. his first

nct magic systems that were integrated into their religious practice and thus, like the egyptian and babylonian rituals, were preserves of the priesthood. magic in early europe was integral to the various religious systems that prevailed throughout that continent and survived into the middle ages as witchcraft. christians regarded the practice of magic, at least the popular forms practiced in the pagan culture competing with their religion, as foreign to the spirit of their faith. thus the thirty-sixth canon of the ecumenical council held at laodicea in 364 c.e. forbade clerks and priests to become magicians, enchanters, mathematicians, or astrologers. it ordered, moreover, that the church should expel those who employed ligatures or phylacteries, because, it said, phylacteries were the pr

the origin of all kinds of signs and wonders but inextricably bound up with the destinies of human beings. inhabitants of magonia traveled in aerial ships and were believed to destroy crops and kidnap human beings. the emperor charlemagne issued edicts to prohibit the magonians from troubling the air and provoking storms. issues of magonia have covered such subjects as glossolalia, ouija boards, pagan occultism, coincidences, spiricom, earth lights, psychic research, bigfoot, and other fortean topics. address: john rimmer, john dee cottage, 5 james terrace, mortlake churchyard, london, sw14 8hb england. website: http//www.magonia.demon.co.uk. sources: magonia. http//www.magonia.demon.co.uk. march 8,2000. magpie the chattering of a magpie was formerly considered a sure omen of evil. anothe

ions from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. it was written by heinrich kramer, leading inquisitors of the dominican order; jacob sprenger merely attached his name to the sourcebook. the book brought folklore and speculation about witchcraft and magic together with the new view identifying witchcraft with devil-worship. that identification turned witchcraft into heresy (rather than a pagan faith) and thus the proper concern of the inquisition. that change of perspective led to the fierce and relentless persecution that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of individuals accused of practicing the religion of witchcraft, as opposed to merely practicing malevolent magic (i.e, sorcery, which had long been illegal. this work is in three parts. part i fulminates against the evil of wi

as written by his ardent disciple, sulpicius severus, and it is more a hagiography than a biography, filled with accounts of the miracles and marvels worked by the quondam bishop. martin was canonized a saint by the church. he is commemorated on november 11, but the feast of martinmas, which occurs on that date, and which of course derives its name from him, is, nevertheless, a survival of an old pagan festival. it inherited certain pagan usages, which accounts for the fact that martin is regarded as the patron saint of drinking, joviality, and reformed drunkards. certain miracles and other incidents in his life were depicted by noted painters. perhaps the finest picture of him is one by the flemish master hugo van der goes, which is now in the municipal museum at glasgow. it should be sai

opedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1072 museum of magic and witchcraft founded in 1951 by cecil h. williamson as the folklore center of superstition and witchcraft at the witches mill, castletown, isle of man, great britain. it contained witchcraft relics, as well as reconstructed scenes of occult rituals and instruments. gerald b. gardner (1884.1964, who developed modern wicca, the neo-pagan form of witchcraft, presided at the opening ceremony. in 1952 gardner purchased the museum from williamson. in the late 1950s as gardner s health failed, scottish witch monique wilson (witch name lady olwyn) and her husband campbell wilson, both gardner initiates, began to administer the museum s affairs. they inherited the museum and gardner s papers after gardner s death in 1964. in 1971 r

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

l qabalah, you will find a wealth of clear, albeit compact, information. it will both familiarize you with the arcane ideas and obscure terminology of the qabalistic worldview, as well as, give you detailed instructions on qabalistic meditation and ancillary practices that you can immediately start to use. if you already have some familiarity with the subject, or come from an occult, thelemic, or pagan background, you will likely discover information and diagrams in this book that you have never seen. the explanations of core ideas may lead you to think about what you do know in new ways$ this book is composed of seven chapters, an epilogue, a glossary, and two appendices. the first chapter focuses on how the mystical qabalah of the children of abraham developed and took shape through succ

tice of mystical ideas as a threat to their authority. at the same time, in order to cull new members from older, often indigenous populations, they have on numerous occasions absorbed and assimilated mystical ideas and holy observances that posed no serious threat, and with which the newcomers could identify and feel comfortable. to see a clear example of this, consider how many of the so-called pagan traditions (ignorantly labeled as satanic witchcraft by fundamentalists) were assimilated into orthodox western christianity.16 8- f e the rabbinate responded in a similar manner to diffuse the powerful influence and popularity of the karaite movement, which originated in persia. the karaites arose in reaction to and as a revolt against rabbinical judaism in the eighth century ce, and were n

ts, for instance, regarded it as the birthday of mithra. the romans celebrated the date as dies natalis solis invictus, day of birth of the undefeated sun. the christian observance of the pentecost replaced the tradition of whitsunday, the holy day of the goddess frigg, the norse queen of heaven and consort of odin. easter absorbed the pesach of the jews, and was named after eostre or ostara, the pagan goddess of spring. 17 dimont, max. jews, god, and history, simon and schuster, new york p. 205, 1962. 18 peshitta, matthew 5:17-18. 19 eisenman, robert. james the brother of jesus, penguin, new york 1997. 20 gospel of thomas, translated by thomas hickey, esoterica, iowa city, 1992. the gospel of thomas was discovered in the coptic gnostic library found at nag hammadi in upper egypt. 21 among

ree in general, and the gate of the gimel in particular. organ of the tongue: a term for the alef of unity, and the root of small face in the throat center of the sefirah knowledge/ first in the sefer yetzirah. organ of nakedness: a term for the ayin of vast face in the sefer yetzirah. o.t.o: order templis orientis, a school of the practical qabalah that was a breakout group from the golden dawn. pagan: latin-based appellation given to the indigenous spiritual traditions of western europe that preceded the colonization by christianity. paniel (hebrew: face of el: name of vast face; the angel with whom ya aqov wrestled in the torah. partzufim (hebrew: veils, curtains, faces: a term prominent in lurianic teachings for vast face, ancient father, ancient mother, small face, and the shekhinah

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he believed to be of profound antiquity, were really written in the second to the third centuries a.d. he was not returning to an egyptian wisdom, not much later than the wisdom of the hebrew patriarchs and prophets, and much earlier than plato and the other philosophers of greek antiquity, who had all so the renaissance magus firmly believed drunk from its sacred fountain. he is returning to the pagan background of early christianity, to that religion of the world, strongly tinged with magic and oriental influences, which was the gnostic version of greek philosophy, and the refuge of weary pagans seeking an answer to life's problems other than that offered by their contemporaries, the early christians. the egyptian god, thoth, the scribe of the gods and the divinity of wisdom, was identif

us.1 the very early date at which lactantius would place hermes trismegistus and his books may be inferred from a remark in his de ira dei where he says that trismegistus is much more ancient than plato andpythagoras.3 there are many other quotations from, and references to hermes trismegistus in lactantius' institutes. he evidently thought that hermes was a valuable ally in his campaign of using pagan wisdom in support of the truth of christianity. in the quotation just made, he has pointed out that hermes, like the christians, speaks of god as "father; and in fact the word father is not infrequently used of the supreme being in the hermetic writings. still more telling, however, was hermes' use of the expression "son of god" for the demiurge. to demonstrate this remarkable confirmation o

tises of his pimander) and the book "on the divine will (the asclepius. it is, i believe, necessary for the understanding of the renaissance attitude to the magic in the asclepius to read that work in the context of the extraordinary piety and knowledge of divine things which the pimander seemed to reveal. the reader whose interest may be aroused in the true nature of these works as documents for pagan gnosticism in the early centuries a.d. may be referred to festugicre's massive volumes on la revelation d'hermes trismegiste in which he treats exhaustively of their philosophical sources and brilliantly reconstructs the social 20 ficino's "pimander" and the "asclepius" and religious atmosphere of their period.1 the writers could have used some hebrew sources,2 as well as the current graeco

d the teachings of the divine plato. lactantius wrote his divine institutes in the context of the rather superficially christianised empire of constantine, and his apologetics in that work are directed towards persuading pagans to become christians by emphasising how much in paganism is close to christianity, or prophetic of christianity. between lactantius and augustine there had taken place the pagan reaction under the 1 e. garin, medioevo e rinascimento, p. 155, mentions salutati and manetti as writers influenced by the asdepius before ficino's revival of hermetism. 58 hermes trismegistus and magic apostate emperor julian, with its attempt to drive out the new upstart religion by a return to the philosophical "religion of the world" and to the mystery cults. in his "hymn to helios, juli

ultitude of other gods. for as he (the sun) divides the three spheres by four through the zodiac. so he divides the zodiac also into twelve divine powers; and again he divides every one of these twelve by three, so as to make thirty-six gods in all.1 throughout origen's reply to celsus it is evident how large a part egyptianism had played in the type of neoplatonic religion which came back in the pagan reaction. celsus argues about how much "one may learn from the egyptians, and origen quotes the following passage from his lost work: they (the egyptians) say that the body of man has been put under the charge of thirty-six daemons, or ethereal gods of some sort. each daemon is in charge of a different part. and they know the names of the daemons in the local dialect, such as chnoumen, chnac

d by true believers, it has healed not a few people from diseases and demonic possession and other distresses. according to celsus we might practise magic and 1 julian, works, loeb edition, i, pp. 405, 407. 3* 59 hermes trismegistus and magic sorcery rather than christianity, and believe in an unlimited number of daemons rather than in the self-evident, and manifest supreme god' writing after the pagan reaction, augustine cannot accept lactantius' hopeful view of hermes trismegistus as the holy prophet of christianity, and utters his warning against the demon-worship of the asclepius. yet even augustine lent his support to the colossal misdating of that work, by which hermes appears as prophesying the coming of christianity, though he had this knowledge through the demons. believing in the

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orship of nyarlathotep to pre-dynastic egypt, in the eponymously titled prose poem. the elemental aspect of nyarlathotep is aether, the communicating medium of interstellar space (or in lovecraft s terminology, the audient void. shub-niggurath is the black goat of the woods with a thousand young a title inferring the geometric proliferation of creatures upon the earth. he is the horned god of the pagan agricultural societies of the ancient world, representing fertility and sexual energy. in greek mythology his archetype is pan, half-man and half-goat. as christianity began to replace paganism, the pan-image became the prototype for the christian devil, and was associated with the practise of satanism, though the worship of the horned god had pre-dated christianity by at least a thousand ye

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meaning and find another; under it, if you dig deep enough, you may find a third, a fourth- who shall say how many teachings" many who are in masonry are not aware that they are lied to. finally, remember albert pike's bold assertion in morals& dogma, that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries [p. 624, teachings of the 28th degree] of course these top 5% call jesus christ an "inferior god" they never, ever mention him in their teachings or their rituals. this shouldn't surprise you since the pope carries a bent satanic cross as seen on another page which shames christ on the cross. freemasons used luciferic symbols within the layout of government center washingt

publication links the hexagram with the infamous chinese yang and yin symbol["the significant numbers, short talk bulletin, september, 1956, vol. 34, no. 9, p. 5] in summary, the hexagram is the most wicked, and one of the most powerful, of all symbols in witchcraft. it is used to call forth demons into this dimension, to communicate with the dead, to describe sex acts, and to represent false and pagan gods such as brahma, vishnu, and shiva [masonic and occult symbols illustrated, dr. cathy burns, p. 39] educate yourself so that you can recognize their "plan" for the new world order- kingdom of antichrist- in the daily news. freemasonry proven to worship lucifer part 3 of 5 once you understand what is going on in the world you can then recognize evidences of satanism in so many, many place

or named george s coy teinmetz [freemasonry: its hidden meaning, new york, mapublishing and masonic supply company, 1948, p. 63, repeated on p. 67] as any person familiar with scripture will tell you, the gospel of jesus christ tells man boldly and clearly that no person can work themselves up to being "divine" indeed, all our effort is as "filthy rags" to jesus christ. yet, freemasonry joins all pagan groups in saying that man can become "divine" or "perfect" in another book, george returns to this theme once again, this time blaspheming an important and familiar scripture, god's own words, to be exact. listen "be still- and know- that i am god. that i am god- the final recognition of the all in all, the unity of the self with the cosmos- the cognition of the divinity of the self [emphasi

r what propaganda freemasonry is trying to put forth to deceive you! freemasonry proven to worship satan, as it adores and worships the serpent part 4 of 5 serpent worship in freemasonry the serpent is a very important symbol within both freemasonry and christianity. it was also important in ancient civilizations. it shouldn't be a shock to you to learn that freemasonry worships the serpent. most pagan groups have done this for the past 5,000 years. remember the serpent in eden? albert pike speaks greatly about the importance of the worship of the serpent in morals& dogma in the various pagan mysteries' religions of antiquity. you will recall that on another page pike was quoted saying that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their bo

000 years. remember the serpent in eden? albert pike speaks greatly about the importance of the worship of the serpent in morals& dogma in the various pagan mysteries' religions of antiquity. you will recall that on another page pike was quoted saying that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries "the serpent entwined around the egg, was a symbol common to the indians, the egyptians, and the druids. it referred to the creation of the universe [p. 496; teaching of the 25 degree, knight of the brazen serpent] freemasonry does not believe that the universe was created by the god of the bible. this statement really supports that concept, as it dogmatically states that

ircles the two symbols of the extremes of created life- the child and the death-symbol of the skull. between them, the child and skull are intended to symbolize the 'beginning and then end' as a whole, the emblem may be interpreted as meaning 'in the end, is my beginning, or 'the end is found in the beginning, which is approximately what the latin around the circle means[ magic symbols, ibid] the pagan belief in reincarnation is spoken of within these statements. this second ouroboros depicts the whole world being surrounded and controlled by the serpent. this is the way the satanist views the entire created world. the bible states that satan is the "lord of this world" is the "prince of the power of the air" and is clearly in control of this wicked world until jesus christ returns. more a

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have her best birthday yet of this turn upon the wheel" he simply states. with a grand genuflect, deer moves towards boudi and- still grinning mischievously- applies a mighty bear hug before presenting her with, circa 1950, a pair of black editor's garters and matching visor "wear these in good health, and for a modicum of fun. and keep up the grand work you and imajicka undertook with the wiccan pagan times, no matter in what venue it occurs. from my heart to yours, a thousand thank you's for three wonderful years of information" another hug, with a whispered one for imajicka as well, and deer returns to his place in the circle. he waits until. boudica laughs at red deer as she puts the garters in a pouch. she thinks to herself "what an odd way to get your garter" she approaches the altar

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the churches of home and geneva. concerning the universality of certain religious beliefs and opinions, faber, commenting upon the above statement of wilford, observes that, immense as is this territorial range, it is by far too limited to include the entire phenomenon, that the observation "applies with equal propriety to the entire habitable globe; for the arbitrary rites and opinions of every pagan nation bear so close a resemblance to each other, that such a coincidence can only have been produced by their having had a common origin. barbarism itself has not been able to efface the strong primeval impression. vestiges of the ancient general system may be traced in the recently discovered islands in the pacific ocean; and, when the american world was first opened to the hardy adventure

e strong primeval impression. vestiges of the ancient general system may be traced in the recently discovered islands in the pacific ocean; and, when the american world was first opened to the hardy adventurers of europe, its inhabitants from north to south venerated, with kindred ceremonies and kindred notions, the gods of egypt and hindostan, of greece and italy, of phoenicia and britain"[1 [1] pagan idolatry, book i, ch. i "though each religion has its own peculiar growth, the seed from which they spring is everywhere the same"[2 [2] max muller, origin and growth of religion, p. 48. the question as to whether the identity of conception and the similarity in detail observed in religious rites, ceremonies, and symbols in the various countries of the globe are due to the universal law of u

f life. the jambu tree, the buddhist god-tree, is in the shape of a cross.[14 [13] essays on symbolism, p. 74 [14] wilford, asiatic researches. among the kelti a tall oak was not only a symbol of the deity, but it was jupiter himself, while the earth from which it sprang was the great mother. throughout europe, in all ages, the oak has received divine honors. the fact that under its branches jew, pagan, and christian alike swore their most solemn oaths, shows that its veneration was not confined to any particular nation or locality. the sacredness of the oak among the druids is well attested by all writers who have dealt with this interesting people. in rome its branches formed the badge of victory worn by conquering heroes, this emblem being the highest mark of distinction which could be

with three steps across the sky, etc. inman, whose etymological researches have given him considerable prominence as a sanskrit and hebrew scholar, says that ra, ilos, helos, bil, baal, al, allah, and elohim were names given to the sun as representative of the creator. we are assured by godfrey higgins that brahme is the sun the same as surya. brahma sprang from the navel of brahme. faber in his pagan idolatry says that all the gods of the ancients "melt insensibly into one, they are all equally the sun" the word apollo signifies the author or generator of light. in the rig veda, surya, the sun, is called aditya "truly, surya, thou art great; truly aditya, thou art great" selden observes that whether the gods be called osiris, or omphis, or nilus, or any other name, they all center in the

say that the sun had created the world, they replied "we do not mean the visible chandro, but an invisible one" not only did dionysos, and all the rest of the gods who in later ages came to be regarded as men, represent the sun, but after the separation of the male and female elements in the originally indivisible god, maut or minerva, demeter, ceres, isis, juno, and others less important in the pagan world were also the sun, or, in other words, they represented the female power throughout the universe which was supposed to reside in the sun. in most groups of babylonian and assyrian divine emblems, there occur two distinct representations of the sun "one being figured with four rays or divisions within the orb, and the other, with eight" according to george rawlinson, these figures repre

sis was the same as neith or minerva; hence the inscription at sais was likewise applied to that goddess. athenagoras informs us that neith or the athene of the greeks was supposed to be wisdom passing and diffusing itself through all things. hence it is manifest that she was thought to be the soul of the world; for such is precisely the character sustained by that mythological personage"[34 [34] pagan idolatry, book i, p. 170. the same writer says further "ovid gives a similar character to venus. he represents her as moderating the whole world; as giving laws to heaven, earth, and ocean, as the common parent both of gods and men, and as the productive cause both of corn and trees. she is celebrated in the same manner by lucretius, who ascribes to her that identical attribute of universali

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ecratedthesalvator mundi templeofthe fellowshipoftherosy cross, in a room atdekeyser's hotel on victoria embankment. nine others,whowerenotpresent,broughtthe neworder'sstrength up to twenty.withina year waite had produced new rituals for all theoutergrades; the structureoftheorderwas still based upon the kabbalistic tree of lifebutthe new rituals were very different from the old: all egyptian and pagan references were gone, the symbolism was wholly rosicrucian and christian, and magic was utterly eschewed.thehierarchy of the fellowship was also different; there was one head of theorderonly: the imperator,whowas waite; and none of the offices calledfor a masonic qualification.thedaysof a 'triple masonic headship' were over. in future waite's masonic activities would be confined to their pro

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. rosicrucian thoughts on the ever-burning lamps of the ancients 54 6. man, miracle, magic, from the ancient rosicrucian dogmata 66 7. courage versus obsession 71 8. chess shatranji and chaturanga 75 part two: kabalistic 9. the kabalah 3110.a further glance at the kabalah 95 11. the ten sephiroth 110 12. the religion of freemasonry illuminated by the kabbalah 114 13. angels: jewish, christian and pagan 124 14. the devil, and evil spirits according to the bible and ancient hebrew rabbis 131 15. some anomalies in the biblical views of the constitution of man 139 16. the vestiges of tetragrammaton 154 17. the number four in relation with the world and man 1576themagicalmasonpartthree:divination18.thehistory of astrology169 19.dreams18120.divination and its history19221.the star lore of the bi

d it is to be observed that thefamaissued alone in 1610, was, when issued in 1614 in a revised form, bound up with a second tract, theconfessiofraternitatis.this is important, because the two works vary exceedingly as to matter and manner. the former treatsofthe 1450-80 period of europe, when roman catholicism was unchallenged except by mohammed255 anism, and by a few remaining descendants of the pagan philosophers, and by hermetic pupils: while theconfessio,issued in 1614, and no doubt then written -butit is anonymous- appeared after the throes of the reformation, and it is tinctured deeply with the notions of luther, and with protestant crudities: and so differs widely from the purely hermetico255 philosophic or gnostic-christian form of the earlier work. i have no objection to urge agai

eeminence above a beast; for all is vanity. all go unto one place; all areofthedust, and all turn to dust again..wherefore i perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for thatishis portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him' who, indeed, except his own higher self. but perhaps this book is from the pen of some obscure jew, or half pagan chaldee or babylonian. not at all; jewish critics have all assigned it to solomon, the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, he could not have so grossly denied it.a further glance atthekabalah101goback, however to the narrative of creation and the same story is found; the animals are made f

s been a growing one, and has of late been too important to be crushed by threats of death, and in a parallel mode we now find, as i pointed out at first, we have even arrived at the stage of having forgotten why our obligations were designed. such, my brethren, is the suggestion of my theme; our present system of allegorical morality is the lineal descendant of true veiled monotheism, which in a pagan and persecuting world had need in every clime and in every age of some scheme of self-defence. we may not be able to trace in definite order every step in the vast procession of forms through which the monotheistic secret has been shrouded, veiled, and preserved, or eventotrace a distinct groove in the wheel of time inanyonenation or century,buthistory is at no time free from the survival of

pure theocracy, to preserve a religion of monotheism, pure and free from idolatry. and although at times we find, superficially speaking, the whole jewish nation gone astray, yet there is collateral evidence that there were at every epoch some true believers. as the jewish power declined, and at length fell, pure monotheism trembled, and had to shroud its head for a long period from the dominant pagan conquerors. hence arose one series of secret associations which has extended down to our own times and whose development is now in our midst as freemasonry, to me the lineal descendant of the early schemes and associations designed to perpetuate a pure religion and a corresponding system of moral ethics.oursecret brotherhood, note, has a specially judaic basis, our main legend is connected w

onstel255 lation orion, as kesib, are found mentioned in jobix.9. orion appears to have been also a name applied to nimrod the mighty hunter ruler. amos v. 8 speaks of the seven stars, and orion.thename arcturus, called ash and aish, is believed by some to be stars of ursa major, and not the star now so called. in job xxxviii. 32, arcturus and his sons are referred to. jupiter, as zeus, either as pagan god, or as a planet, is referred to in acts xiv. 12; and in 2 maccabee vi. 2, we read that antiochus senttothe jews a message that the holy temple was to be dedicated to jupiter olympus.176themagical masonin judges v. 20 we read:'thestars in their courses fought against sisera; which seems to imply an astrologic ideal of stellar influence over the fates of men. lucifer, the morning star or p

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phenomena of the tides, and we should probably set down anybody who spoke of the moon as influencing them as a superstitious ass. in fact, i have seen old books of the goody goody type that have set down as a gross superstition the idea that the moon had anything to do with the waters of the earth. of course you know that has been a tradition from the very earliest times, and in all the so-called pagan mythologies: the moon, as the origin of the waters of the earth, has always been a prominent fact,buta fact which apparently was absolutely sterile until the principles of gravitation were thoroughly established. that is one example of the periodicity of earthly phenomena under the influence of supra mundane causes. then, of course, the growth of plants and trees in spring is another. we say

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t indicate the personality of the speaker, and in the main all the stories tally.6 anyhow, the trial of the templars ended with the termination of the order. but, although the order "officially" ceased to exist, it did not actually disappear. during the sudden arrest in 1307, some templars escaped, managing to cover their tracks. according to a thesis based on various his- di templars developed a pagan faith in christian guise. global freemasonry torical documents, a significant number of them took refuge in the only kingdom in europe that did not recognize the authority of the catholic church in the fourteenth century, scotland. there, they reorganized under the protection of the scottish king, robert the bruce. some time later, they found a convenient method of disguise by which to conti

f the templars. though, in addition to this, the authors also examined the origins of the templars. dl the magazine mimar sinan, a private turkish masonic publication intended for its own members. from the templars to ancient egypt global freemasonry ec a templar-mason temple: rosslyn chapel the church known as "rosslyn chapel" near edinburgh in scotland is recognized as a symbol of the heretical pagan beliefs of the templars. in the course of the construction of this edifice, masons and rosicrucians, the successors of the templars, were employed, and decorated the whole chapel with symbols representative of their pagan philosophy. in a publication of turkish masonry, the magazine mimar sinan, the masonic origins and the pagan elements of the chapel are described in these words: the most c

to ancient egypt scotland or even europe. it captured the atmosphere of herod's temple very well and every part of it was decorated with masonic symbols. among the symbols were reliefs on the walls and arches depicting the heads of hiram and his murderer, a relief of an initiation ceremony, the keystones of the arches, and compasses. apart from the fact that the chapel was constructed in a marked pagan style with egyptian, hebrew, gothic, norman, celtic, scandinavian, templar and masonic architectural elements, and that it contains very rich examples of stone work, one of the most interesting aspects of it is that the tops of the columns are decorated with cactus and corn motifs, besides various other plants figures. there are so many pagan decorative elements inside the chapel that a prie

contains very rich examples of stone work, one of the most interesting aspects of it is that the tops of the columns are decorated with cactus and corn motifs, besides various other plants figures. there are so many pagan decorative elements inside the chapel that a priest, writing an account of the baptism he performed of the baron of rosslyn in 1589 complained "because the chapel is filled with pagan idols, there is no place appropriate to administer the sacrament. in august 31, 1592, as a result of pressure exerted on baron oliver st.claire of rosslyn, the chapel's pagan-style altar was destroyed (tamer ayan "the oldest known masonic institution-the scottish royal order" mimar sinan, 1998, no.110, pp.18-19) rosslyn chapel at the present time and an example of its pagan symbols. accordin

ion" encyclopedias and dictionaries define it as an esoteric, mystical branch of jewish religion. according to this definition, the kabbalah investigates the hidden meaning of the torah and other jewish religious writings. but, when we examine the matter more closely, we discover that the facts are quite something else. these facts lead us to the conclusion that the kabbalah is a system rooted in pagan idolatry; that it existed before the torah, and became widespread within judaism after the torah was revealed. this interesting fact about the kabbalah, is explained by just as interesting a source. murat ozgen, a turkish freemason, maintains the following in his book, masonluk nedir ve nasildir (what is freemasonry and what is it like: we don't know clearly where the kabbalah came from or h

sh mysticism, but some of the elements it contains show that it was composed much earlier than the torah.15 the french historian, gougenot des mousseaux, explains that the kabbalah is actually much older than judaism.16 ef from the templars to ancient egypt eg global freemasonry although the kabbalah developed within judaism, it depends on sources from outside of it. the kabbalah arose out of the pagan beliefs of ancient egypt and mesopotamia. the jewish historian, theodore reinach, says that the kabbalah is "a subtle poison which enters into the veins of judaism and wholly infests it."17 salomon reinach defines the kabbalah as "one of the worst aberrations of the human mind."18 the reason for reinach's contention that the kabbalah is "one of the worst aberrations of the human mind" is tha

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sible misconceptions, we would end up with the gnostic handbook never being written. accordingly, we believe that within this handbook is a comprehensive summary of the basic principles of the gnostic tradition. we realize that what we outline in this text is unusual and rightly so, gnosticism is a unique form of perception and hence offers a very different worldview from that found in christian, pagan or esoteric and occult traditions. gnosticism is the essence behind such outer forms and hence offers the framework from which religion, occultism and mythology create the form. in recent times with the advent of fundamentalism of all forms, a clear and precise explanation of the ideals of gnosticism is not only useful, but mandatory. at the onset it should be made clear that gnosticism is a

is too is the vision of the gnosis, the arabic meaning of algebra is pregnant with meaning the reunion of broken parts. the sources of our tradition the gnostic tradition is one that has spanned millenniums, it represents the height of the religious traditions of humanity. its primary points of focus are found within vedic philosophy, zoroastrianism, greek mystery traditions, old world religions (pagan and heathen) and gnosticism. the gnostic tradition is not culturally locked within the christian tradition as many modern exponents seem to profess. it is a pan-gnostic tradition, which spans many traditions and cultural milieus. the primary assumption of the gnostic tradition is that at some point in the dim reaches of time there was a primal universal religion, this religion diversified as

judaism played a small part but was insignificant in comparison to, for example, the greek mystery cult tradition. to understand this nexus of the gnosis we really need to jettison the old model which sees gnosticism as a jewish or christian heresy. as has been documented in such texts as the jesus mystery and jesus christ, sun of god+ it is more likely that rabbinic judaism and christianity are pagan and gnostic heresies! while there may be vigorous complaints and denials it is now even well known that so-called jewish kabbalah primarily derived from a reworking of neo platonic mysticism which into jewish religious language. these teachings, however, did not remain available forever. as society changed and a new regime came to power the teachings of jesus were suppressed and replaced wit

ous movements are not the original forms of judaism and christianity, but apostate faiths masquerading in their place. the bible itself has been tampered with to the gnostic handbook page 8 such an extent that only through much critical study can we restore just some of its inner meaning. the institute upholds the original inner teachings of jesus as part of a continuum of wisdom which spans from pagan to so-called christian sources. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings here, however, fragmentary and incomplete belong neither to the hindu's, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, nor to buddhism, islam, judaism or christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. the secret doctrine, madame blavaskty. behind the v

oving pivot, the world pole. in all traditional systems of religion this image has provided the dominant symbol" at the center of the world john michell, thames and hudson 1994 working from this model, we can go further and delineate the characteristic of the axis mundi or cosmic tree. the cosmic tree can be imaged in two different manners organic and emanation. the organic model is found in most pagan and heathen traditions, it emphasizes the change some nature of the worlds and planes. the emanation model is more formal and while it infer the ever changing landscape of spirit it has more clearly delineated worlds, planes and inhabitants. whichever we use, both have certain general motifs which are the basis for the great chain of being. the gnostic handbook page 18 characteristics of the

es imaged as the world of the gods but in a gnostic system we prefer a more impersonal description. this world includes any number of original principles, it is the higher reaches of plato s world of ideals. in the general gnostic- theosophic tradition it has a triune principle. within the triune principle is the power of polarity, this is important as it gives rise to the sexual polarity of most pagan traditions and the balance between mind and intuition in others. the third is the other world, it is an intermediate reality and is comprised of any number of planes, worlds or locales. these can be described in semi-analytic terms as planes or dimensions or in more organic terms as worlds, halls or localities. the fourth is the earth or the physical world. the fifth is the underworld, the r

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at esoteric systems that have existed throughout time, the essenes daily greeted the sun at dawn, their calendar, in opposition to the prevailing calendar of the pharisees, was solar rather than lunar based. the ancient hindus had an evolved system of surya yoga, the mayans and aztecs believed that the sun was a great source of power that had to be honoured and supplicated, and in most of the old pagan traditions the sun had an honoured place. probably one of the most outstanding examples is found in akhenaton, the sun pharoah of ancient egypt. for the gnostic the physical sun is a window through which the solar sphere shines, it emanates x and y factors which influence and control the development of humanity. by using solar meditations it is possible to increase our receipt of x factors

ow of the spiritual worlds, and by aligning with them slowly transform our essence from dialectic to static. while an extensive study will be made of the festivals, in both theory and practice, in later volumes, it is useful to appreciate their juxtaposition with festivals of the world. the feasts of light celebrate the liberation of man from matter, while traditional earth festivals used in most pagan traditions focus on the worship of the earth itself. earth systems focus on the death and resurrection of the earth and by default make the celebrator subservient to the earth. gnostic festivals focus on the death of the dialectic and resurrection of the static, and by default make the celebrant triumphant over earth and a partaker of the powers of light. life on the path life on the path is

transfiguration. in the gnostic apostolic tradition these two cults are reconciled in the paths of the dove and of the serpent. historically speaking, there are many examples of these cults as opposing traditions, as reconciled in esoteric brotherhoods, or as corrupted by the demiurgic forces. it should be clearly stated that the earth cult can only be of value in connection with that of the sky, pagan movements (ancient and modern) which worship the earth are simply sustaining the dominion of the demiurge. as we head towards the omega day the value of the earth cult becomes less, anti-traditions and false earth cults take precedence, and reproduction and family becomes less and less justifiable. at the same time the need for transcendence becomes paramount. egypt we are sorely in need of

rds and animals. certainly the native religion of the celts and many other indo-europeans betray a strong similarity to the israelite traditions. one interesting fact to note is that according to experts in the field of linguistics welsh has borrowed more words from hebrew than any other language. this and many historical facts suggest that the traditions of early england rather than being darkly pagan were actually gnostic, and embodied more truth than what was being taught in the churches that were attacking them for heresy! a later tradition regarding the relationship of jesus to the druids sheds even further light on these connections. the essene link when some of the people of judah returned to palestine after the captivity, not all accepted the roman rule and integrated into the secu

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parcelled out among them like so many offices and lines of business, so that almost every disease and its remedy are called by the name of their saint; this division of tasks has the strongest analogy to the directions given in norse and lithuanian mythology for the invocation of the several deities (p. 335. the victorious hero who had slain the dragon made room for michael or george; and the too pagan siegberg (p. 198, which may have meant the same as eresberg (p. 201, was handed over to michael, as the mons martis in france was turned into a mons martyrum, montmartre. it is remarkable that the ossets have converted the dies martis into georgeday, and dies veneris into mary's day (pott 1, 105. 2, 802. the places of osinn and of freyja in minni-drinking are taken by john and by gertrude, a

f sif's hair, of freyja^s tears; earth and heaven reflect each other. but as even the ancient cosmogonies are inversions of each other (pp. 568. 570, man made of world, world made of man, we have no right to refer the heathen gods exclusively either to astrology and the calendar, or to elemental forces, or to moral considerations, but rather to a perpetual and unceasing interaction of them all. a pagan religion never dropt out of the clouds, it was carried on through countless ages by the tradition of nations, but in the end it must rest on a mysterious revelation which accords with the marvellous language and the creation and propagation of mankind. our native heathenism seems not to have been oppressed by gloomy fancies about the misery of a fallen existence (like the indian doctrine of

less one would trace them to the garb of a nun (mone 3, 259. even the white man's occasionally displacing the white dame (6, 69) is like berhtolt by the side of berhta. allegoric females like those in chap. xxix evidently have in their manner of appearing much in common with white women. now the pervading thought in all this of being banned and longing for release i take to be just this, that the pagan deities are represented as still beautiful, rich, powerful and benevolent, but as outcast aud unblest, and only on the hardest terms can they be released from the doom pronounced upon them. the folktale still betrays a fellow feeling for the white woman's grief at the attempted deliverance being always interrupted and put off to some indefinitely distant date. the traditional mode of express

comprehensive sense^ in the cursing formulas' troll hafi >ik' or' troll hafi j^ina vini' nial. cap. 38' troll hafi ]nk allan' kormakss^ troll ok ovcettr, fornald. sog. 2, 2-18; troll ok eigi maifr, finnbogas pp. 264. 292. 340. mixed up with old gods. 1005 188' troll taki liann' orvarrodss. cap. 9' fara i trolla liendr' laxd. p. 230, it answers exactly to our devil, yet also to the older and more pagan one' eigi j'ik gramir' or* iotnar (p. 990-1. in seem. 39 we read' farj^u nu 7ar smyl hafi j;ic! it seems that scandinavian sorceresses call the devil urdar mdni (luna saxeti, biorn sub v, which i know of nothing to compare with. and as loki is next of kin to hel (p. 312, we find the devil in close contact with death (p. 854' den tiuvel and den tot viirhten' frid. g7, 9. so far our survey of

is next of kin to hel (p. 312, we find the devil in close contact with death (p. 854' den tiuvel and den tot viirhten' frid. g7, 9. so far our survey of a great variety of names (from which however all merely jewish ones, like beelzebub, asmodi, belial etc, had to be excluded) has already shewn an admixture of heathen ingredients, or betrayed a still older identity or similarity of christian and pagan beliefs. apparently words like gram, unhold, and perhaps scado, can only have been applied to the newly adopted devil because they already signified to the heathens a hostile hateful spirit. old was already said of giants, and could the more readily be used of the devil. wolf, raven, goat called to mind the animals that escorted heathen gods or were sacrificed to them. the designations hamme

he devil mentioned, though the' footless one' may remind us of the horse-footed. this norse frdlla-jying is more like the meetings of our night-women, whom i take to have sprung out of wise-women and volvas; and this is fully borne out by the nightly excursion of heisr with her party of 30 persons, and that of skuld with elves and norns. thorgers, skuld and hei^ are, like hulda and berhta, purely pagan halfgoddesses, round whom gathers the magic ring-dance; they stir up storm and tempest, they make invulnerable, they prophesy. their seid'-liiallr with four i?roi)s or 'prongs (stulpar, stiklar, fornald. sog, 12. 3, 319 (see suppl, finds nothing to match it in the german witch-world; it does remind us of the delphian pythia's trijwd, and possibly further inquiry may allot a threelegged stool

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aturgic uses, and it remained fresh and uncorrupted. 2 superstitious christians then believed two things, a hallowing of the water at midnight of the day of baptism, and a turning of it into wine at the time of the bethphania: such water the germans called heilawac? and ascribed to it a wonderful power of healing diseases and wounds, and of never spoiling (see suppl. possibly even in syria an old pagan drawing of water became veiled under new christian meanings. in germany other cir cumstances point undisguisedly to a heathen consecration of water: it was not to be drawn at midnight, but in the morn ing before sunrise, down stream and silently (superst. 89. 775, usually on easter sunday (775-6) to which the above explana tions do not so well apply; this water does not spoil, it restores yo

g sacrificial flame. oar weisthiimer (2, 615-6. 693-7) have another remarkable custom to tell of. at the great yearly assize a cartwheel, that had lain six weeks and three days soaking in water (or a cesspool, was placed in a fire kindled before the judges, and the banquet lasts till the nave, which must on no account be turned or poked, be consumed to ashes. this i take to be a last relic of the pagan sacrificial feast, and the wheel to have been the means of generating the fire, of which it is true there is nothing said. in any case we have here the use of a cartwheel to feed a festal flame. if the majority of the accounts quoted limit the use of needfire to an outbreak of murrain, yet some of them expressly inform us that it was resorted to at stated times of the year, especially midsum

ullo mortali opere contacti, quos presses sacro curru sacerdos ac rex vel princeps civitatis comitantur, hinnitusque ac fremitus observant. nee. ulli auspicio major fides, non solum apud plebem, sed apud proceres, apud sacerdotes: se enim ministros deorum, illos conscios putant; these sacred beasts are in the secrets of the gods, and can reveal their counsels. and in christian times the indiculus pagan, cap. xiii. speaks de auguriis equorum, without describing them further. a horse s neigh is an omen of good (sup. i, 239. 3 to warriors victory was fore tokened by their chargers neighing (ohgr. hueion, mhgr. weien, m. neth. neien, on. hneggja, swed. gnagga, and defeat by their withholding the cheerful spirit-stirring strain: see an in stance in the flem. rhyming chron, ed. kausler 7152. we

tly bring out the essential fea tures. i extract the passage (from j. p. schmidt s fastelab. p. 132, because it illustrates the far from ineffectual zeal of the clergy against popular amusements, almost as strikingly as the diatribe, 560 years older, quoted on pp. 259 seq: the last year, on dominica quinquag (4 weeks bef. laetare, i again publicly prayed every man to put away, once for all, these pagan doings. alas, i was doomed to see the wicked worldlings do it worse than before. not alone did children carrying long sticks wrapt in green leaves go about within doors, and sing all manner of lewd jests, but specially the men-servants, one of them having a green petticoat tied about him, went in two parties through the village from house to house with a bag-pipe, singing, swilling, rioting

i set the sum mer-goddess wiosna, boh. wesna. the konigenhof ms. p. 72 has a remarkable declaration: i iedinu druzu nam imiev po puti z wesny po moranu one wife (only) may we have on our way from wesna to morana, from spring to winter, i.e. ever. yet the throwing or dipping of the divine image in a stream need not have been done by the christians in mere contempt, it may have formed a part of the pagan rite itself; for an antithesis between summer and winter, and an exalting of the former, necessarily implied a lowering of the latter.3 the day for carrying death out was the quarta dominica quadragesimae, i.e. laetare sunday or midlent, on which very day it also falls in poland (w nieziele srodopostna, bohemia, silesia and lausitz. the bohemians call it smrtedlna, samrtna nedele, the sorbs

. hath shodde them, dismisseth them to go through thick and thin, without scratch or scalle/ the land to be traversed by the soul is also called whinny moor, i.e. furzy bog (thorns 89. in. henneberg, and perhaps other places, the last honours paid to the dead are still named todtenschuh (reinwald 1, 165, though the practice itself is discontinued; even the funeral feast is so denominated. utterly pagan in character, and suited to the warlike temper of old times, is what burkard of worms reports p. 195c: quod quidam faciunt homini occiso, cum sepelitur: dant ei in manum^ unguentum quoddam, quasi illo unguento post mortem vulnus sanari possit, et sic cum unguento sepeliunt. 1 for a similar purpose, slaves, horses, dogs were burnt with a dead man, that he might use them in the next world. kin

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

second-century ce bishop clement of alexandria, are useful though hostile witnesses on egyptian religion. during the fourth century ce, christianity became the dominant religion of the roman empire. the date usually given for the end of pharaonic culture is 395 ce. this was the year when the roman empire was divided into two. egypt became part of the eastern, or byzantine, empire, and most of its pagan temples were closed down by order of the emperor. the isis temple at philae on egypt s southern border stayed open until the sixth century ce because it was protected by nubian tribes who still revered the goddess. the latest known hieroglyphic texts are from philae. when there was no longer anyone left who could read the ancient texts, knowledge of the egyptian gods and their myths graduall

the most famous of these caliphs was haroun al-rashid, who features in the arabian nights entertainment, a vast collection of stories compiled in medieval egypt. egypt s greatest medieval leader was saladin (1169 1193 ce, who defended egypt and palestine against the christian crusaders. arabic literature flourished in egypt, and one of its themes was the lost treasures and secrets of the ancient pagan sites.110 medieval christian pilgrims who visited egypt because it was a bible land brought back descriptions of the pyramids, which they generally identified with the granaries of joseph. a crucial part of the renaissance, which began in fourteenth- century ce italy, was the rediscovery of classical texts. during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ce, hermetica from egypt were wrongly th

a tourist attraction. 96. for most of egyptian history there were about 750 hieroglyphic signs in use. by the roman period the number of signs had risen to around 7,000, and the old signs were often used in new ways. see figurative hieroglyphs, or cryptography, in parkinson, cracking codes, 80 87. 97. see manetho and chaeremon, in g. fowden, the egyptian hermes: an historical approach to the late pagan mind (princeton, 1986, 52 95. other accounts of egyptian priests make them venal and quarrelsome. 98. translation by j. g. griffiths, from his plutarch s de iside et osiride (swansea, wales, 1970, 223. 99. for these two books, see m. smith, the liturgy of the opening of the mouth for breathing (oxford, 1993; and f. t. herbin, le livre de parcourir l ternit (leuven, belgium, 1994. 100. other

rveys of the background to these difficult texts, see fowden, the egyptian hermes; and the introduction to b. p. copenhaver, hermetica (cambridge, 1992. 109. for a fascinating account of the long, slow decline of egyptian paganism, see d. frankfurter, religion in roman egypt: assimilation and resistance (princeton, 1998. 110. the arabic literature also referred to the terrifying guardians of such pagan sites for example, the great sphinx. see u. haarmann, medieval muslim perceptions of pharaonic egypt, in loprieno, ancient egyptian literature, 605 628. 111. all these attempts were fruitless because of their reliance on misleading information in classical authors such as plutarch and horapollo. see e. iversen, the myth of egypt and its hieroglyphs in european tradition (princeton, 1993. 112

HEKAS

ay and in antiquity; but it is here of use to merely give these few examples and thus infer the wealth of interconnection which the seeker may avail himself of. the manner in which terms are spread like the 'scattering' of seeds and the etymology of certain code-words indicates that aspects of the sabbatic tradition are to be found in the middle east, most notably within the tribes which preserve pagan forms of ancient gnostic beliefs and practices. within this concurrence there is a secret design of teaching which will in time unfold, revealing here but a fragment of it's effect in disseminating knowledge- techniques of specific form and function- through the identification between correspondent symbols that transcends cultural division and permits the timely vessel of environment to serv

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

the muses, throughcalliope and orpheus, he was interested but little in the matters of this sublunary world. all his aspirationsmounted, like incense, with the wave of the heavenly harmony that he drew from his instrument, to a higherand a nobler sphere. he dreamed awake, and lived a real though an enchanted life only during those hourswhen his magic bow carried him along the wave of sound to the pagan olympus, to the feet of euterpe. astrange child he had ever been in his own home, where tales of magic and witchcraft grow out of every inchof the soil; a still stranger boy he had become, until finally he had blossomed into manhood, without onesingle characteristic of youth. never had a fair face attracted his attention; not for one moment had histhoughts turned from his solitary studies to

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

uld have grown without some intelligent powers to bring about the extraordinarily wise arrangement of all its parts. nature may err, and often does, in its details and the external manifestations of its materials, never in its inner causes and results. ancient pagans held on this question far more philosophical views than modern philosophers, whether agnostics, materialists, or christians; and no pagan writer has ever yet advanced the proposition that cruelty and mercy are not finite feelings, and can therefore be made the attributes of an infinite god. their gods, therefore, were all finite. the siamese author of the wheel of the law, expresses the same idea about your personal god as we do; he says: a buddhist might believe in the existence of a god, sublime above all human qualities and

ific justice, and which is more reasonable, even on simple human evidence and logic. q. yet millions believe in the christian dogma and are happy. a. pure sentimentalism overpowering their thinking faculties, which no true philanthropist or altruist will ever accept. it is not even a dream of selfishness, but a nightmare of the human intellect. look where it leads to, and tell me the name of that pagan country where crimes are more easily committed or more numerous than in christian lands. look at the long and ghastly annual records of crimes committed in european countries; and behold protestant and biblical america. there, conversions effected in prisons are more numerous than those made by public revivals and preaching. see how the ledger-balance of christian justice) stands: red-handed

cally unselfish acts. be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous; not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing -was practically carried out by the followers of buddha, several centuries before peter. the ethics of christianity are grand, no doubt; but as undeniably they are not new, and have originated as "pagan" duties. q. and how would you define these duties, or "duty" in general, as you understand the term? a. duty is that which is due to humanity, to our fellowmen, neighbors, family, and especially that which we owe to all those who are poorer and more helpless than we are ourselves. this is a debt which, if left unpaid during life, leaves us spiritually insolvent and morally bankrupt in our pa

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

nstructions. 19 gohu servitor this short essay is an account of one of my most successful servitors to date. the twin spirits of gossip and rumour have followed me about ever since i started .doing things. on the uk magical scene. rumours ranging from allegations of affiliation to .dark. satanic groups to upheavals in my sex-life have whirled around and in some instances, ended up in the pages of pagan .zines. back in the late 80.s, pagan at the heart magazine announced to their readers that i had become .celibate, and followed this up with the announcement that they could name the .lady. who overcame my will- unfortunately, they got not only the name but also the gender of the person concerned wrong, but i suppose it.s the thought that counts! at times i have become both paranoid and piss

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

ts on either side. many occult textbooks contain elements of the spirit, energy, and psychological models quite happily. it is also worth noting that should you ever find yourself in the position of having to explain all this weird stuff to an non-afficiando or skeptic, then the psychological model is probably your best bet. these days, people who ascribe to the spirit model, if they are not of a pagan or occult persuasion themselves, tend to think that they have an exclusive copyright over the use of spirits! if the person is a computer buff or fractal phreak, then by all means go for the cyberpunk paradigm. scientists only tend to accept something if a scientific rationale can be wheeled up to slot it into. a good example is acupuncture, which up until recently 22 phil hine was explained

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

her own attitude toward shadowed innsmouth- which she never seen- was one of disgust at a community slipping far down the cultural scale, and she assured me that the rumours of devil-worship were partly justified by a peculiar secret cult which had gained force there and engulfed all the orthodox churches. it was called, she said 'the esoteric order of dagon, and was undoubtedly a debased, quasi-pagan thing imported from the east a century before, at a time when the innsmouth fisheries seemed to be going barren. its persistence among a simple people was quite natural in view of the sudden and permanent return of abundantly fine fishing, and it soon came to be the greatest influence in the town, replacing freemasonry altogether and taking up headquarters in the old masonic hall on new chur

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

her own attitude toward shadowed innsmouth- which she never seen- was one of disgust at a community slipping far down the cultural scale, and she assured me that the rumours of devil-worship were partly justified by a peculiar secret cult which had gained force there and engulfed all the orthodox churches. it was called, she said 'the esoteric order of dagon, and was undoubtedly a debased, quasi-pagan thing imported from the east a century before, at a time when the innsmouth fisheries seemed to be going barren. its persistence among a simple people was quite natural in view of the sudden and permanent return of abundantly fine fishing, and it soon came to be the greatest influence in the town, replacing freemasonry altogether and taking up headquarters in the old masonic hall on new chur

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

ould come in through the window, come to the table and sit on her hand. she spoke to it in yugoslavian or english or italian, or she'd sing and hum; she'd say "c'mon, c'mon, i love you" and she'd charm it in. i lived with my grandmother most of my life from the time i was six until i was twenty. she taught me astrology, palmistry and how to read cards and tea leaves. she told me stories about the pagan gods and the symbolism involved and how to apply it to everyday living. she taught me to be a witch. it was a crazy way to grow up, but it was fun. i always knew about fortune telling. my grandmother and i established such a good rapport, that we could each project into the other one's house and know what was needed- as though we had shown up to ask. things like that make you know very early

ISIS UNVEILED

i the chtrch: where is it? church stattftici 1 catholic 'miradn' and spiritualutic 'phedomeiu' 4 christian and pa^an beliefs compared 10 .jblagic and mcer^ practiaed by chriitian dergy 20 o^muatitc theology a new idcdce 2s eafteni traditioii* as to alexandrian library 27 rotnan pontiffs imitatoia of the sndq brakm^tna 30 christimi dogmm derived from heathm philom^y 33 doctrine trf the l^inity of pagan gnostics and church fathers 51 bloody leooids of oiriitimiity 63 chapter n christian crimes and heathen virtues so t eeiies tt catherine of medida 5s occult aria practised by the clemt 69 tntijcbumintp and auto-tuhfi ocutot children 62 lgring cathdic saints 74 n t^iboii* of missionaries in india and china 79 sacrilqpou* tricks of catholic clergy 82 fuii k kabalist

bloody leooids of oiriitimiity 63 chapter n christian crimes and heathen virtues so t eeiies tt catherine of medida 5s occult aria practised by the clemt 69 tntijcbumintp and auto-tuhfi ocutot children 62 lgring cathdic saints 74 n t^iboii* of missionaries in india and china 79 sacrilqpou* tricks of catholic clergy 82 fuii k kabalist 91 peter not the founder of the roman dinrdi 91 strict lives of pagan hierophants 98 hl^ dwntctct of ancient 'mysteries' 101 jacouiot's account ol hiudd faldrs 103 christian symbolism derived from fbauic worship 109 hindu doctrine of the pitns, 114 "brahmanic spirit-dinununion dangers of u digitizecoy google contents chapter m ditisioi^ amongst the early christiai>k beaemblance between eariy chrotianity and boddhiun 12 iwer oeyex la rome 12 meanibg ot 'naiw' a

ndu doctrine of the pitns, 114 "brahmanic spirit-dinununion dangers of u digitizecoy google contents chapter m ditisioi^ amongst the early christiai>k beaemblance between eariy chrotianity and boddhiun 12 iwer oeyex la rome 12 meanibg ot 'naiw' and 'naiarene' 12' b denved right 13 a generic name, islhagorean teacbin^ of jenu. ine apocalyps e apocalypse kabalistk. jesui coniidcied an adept by some pagan philoiopbaa and early chrituani 150 doctiiae of permatation 152 the meaning irf god-incarnate 153 dogmas ol tbe gnostics 155 idraa of marcion, the 'bereaiardi' 159 precepts of mann 163 jebovab, identical with baccbos 165 chafteb jv oriental cosmogonies and bible bbcords discrepancies in the pentateoch 167 indian, chaldaean and ophite systems conqwred 170 who were the firat christians? j78 ch

hennelic brotben egypt 307 ivue meaning ol nirvlna 319 ite jaina aect 321 christuuuandchnbtibiii 323 itie gnoatka and their detracts* 325 buddha, jeaiu, and aptdloniua of tr>iui 341 section ii chapter viii jesuitry and masonry the zoaar and rabbi shimon the order of jesuita and iti r^tioo to aome of the muonic ordera, crimes permitted to its memben principles of jesuitry compared with tboae of pagan morallits. trinity erf man in egyptian soak rf iht dtad penecution of templan by the cburch 381 secfet maaonic dpben 3s5 jehovah not the "ineffable nanw' 398 chapter ix -the vedas and the bible ne*rly evwy myth baaed on some gnat truth 405 whence the christian sabbath 406 antiquity of the ved s 410 ^rthasoran doctrine of the potentialities of number* 417 'd*ys of (bnetu and 'days' of brahmi

w. b. guditonc (reriewed in hit boma and ou n tetm fodumw m sdigion: london, 1875. the latt t qnotet from the work nuned tfa ft^wins len- tcdm pronounced by the pcqie "my wiih is thkt all govemmentj ifaouid kdow that 1 am speaking in this itrain. and i have ikt right to speak, nii man &m nathan tiu prophet tn datid the kaig^ and a great deal more tton ambroea had la th odotiiu\ digitizecoy google pagan phallicish in chbistian 5yub0i5 s phallic worship, tfaaumaturgical wondos wrought by satan, human sacri- fices, incantations, witchcraft, magic, and sorcery are recalled; and dehonisu is confronted with rpiritwuitm for mutual recognition and identification. our modem demonolo^ta conveniently overlook a few insignificant details, among which is the undeniable presence of heathen phauicism in

woraip ef pnaput, p. 3, g; uid ouio' worlu. 7. da moiumtiiiz: lti kauu jmn. it la mogie, p. 24- ij 3rd ed. digitizecoy google 6 isis unveiled of human blood shed by this chrishan institution, and the number of its human sacrifices, are unparalleled in the annals of paganism. another still more prominent feature in which the clergy surpassed their mastois, the 'heathen' is tarcery. certainly in no pagan temple was black magic, in its real and true sense, more practised than in the vatican. while strongly supporting exorcism as an important source of revenue, they neglected magic as little as the ancient heathen. it is easy to prove that the toriilegium, or sorcery, was widely practised among the clergy and monks so late as the ust century, and is pmctised occasional^ even now. anathematizin

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

from sea inland, and from the interior of the country to broad river-side and to the seashore, rising from woods, a universal telegraph, and a picturesque landmark, the tower, in its meaning, spoke the identical, unconscious tradition with the blazing baal, bael, or beltane fires: those universal votive torches, which are lost sight of in the mists of antiquity, and which were so continual in the pagan countries, so reiterated through the early ages, and which still remain so frequent in the feudal and monastic periods, these were all connected* it was also something else to which we make reference in other parts of our book. 104 the rosicrucians. closely with religion. the stone tower was only, as it were, a stationary flame, the origin of beacons may be traced to the highest antiquity. a

own native bodily corruptions. these singular philosophers ventured the assertion that god did not, in the beginning, intend that man s life should be terminated by diseases, nor that he should be made subject to accidental, violent it is suspension in repose it is as the twilight of the soul before and after the day of full life, or complete consciousness. these ideas are as equally christian as pagan. how little is all this supposed in the ignorance of the moderns! the art of the gold-makers. 193 means of end. in the abstract sense, and apart from our knowledge of man as man, the rosicrucians contended that diseases are not necessarily incidental to the body, and that death may be said to have become an imported accident into the scheme of things: our ideas being erroneous as to the orig

ods, animated (at certain times) by the heavenly power. thence the name bowing stones amongst the welsh not as stones to be bowed-to, but bowing of themselves, like the modern tipping-discs or other supposed enchanted idols or consultative tables or objects. indeed, it would seem not improbable that the erection of the pillar of jacob actually gave rise to the worship of phallus among some of the pagan peoples. for, says lewis, the learned bochart asserts that the phoenicians (at least as the jews think) first worshipped this very stone which jacob set up, and afterwards consecrated others in imitation and in reminder of it. it is to little purpose that we are reminded that the jews were forbidden by their law to make unto themselves any graven image; for, as lewis shows in the following p

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

uld not be your primary reason for studying it. magick and witchcraft a number of other occult disciplines are prevalent today besides magick. there are many cults and sects which profess their own views, but there are really few differences between them. one popular area in the occult today is witchcraft. this is far removed from the cliche of devil worship. real witchcraft is a nature religion (pagan. witchcraft has much in common with magick. alchemy also has much in common with magick. it's heritage comes from the middle ages. alchemy fathered chemistry and the physical sciences. but the avowed purpose of alchemy, turning lead into gold, is too limiting to be called magick. sometimes the goal of alchemy is interpreted in another way, as the transformation of man into a spiritual being

ot do things you think it cannot do. as in any magick, results relate to effort and belief. another way of looking at an artificial elemental is as an aspect of your personality (sub personality) which has been detached from you. invocation formal ritual usually involves the invocation (ritually calling up) of a god or goddess, spirit, or other entity. in this sense, magick is somewhat similar to pagan religion and witchcraft. however, we consider magick ritual a technique, not a religion. worship need not be involved. sometimes the invocation of an entity creates an artificial elemental. crowley says there are three different kinds of the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 26 invocation- 1) devotion to the entity (as in the bhakti yoga of the hare krishna sect; the f

KETAB E SIYAH

nd will. my truth will never cease and my reality cannot be denied. i am the fire which burns all, the flame eternal. none can resist me. 386 livri luciferius the book of lucifer forward within this tome is libri luciferius, the book of lucifer. it is said to have been originally written in human blood, upon the parchment of human skin. the oldest known form of this book, is the ancient vulgar of pagan rome from about the 4th century. you will find the 4th century latin preceding the english translations in this remarkable work throughout all of its chapters. beware of the curse of lucifer that precedes the chapters of this manuscript. for you will indeed suffer the plagues contained within the book of lucifer if you add even one word to it! luciferius et tu dominus! lucifer is your lord!

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

137. in connection with this degree it may be of interest to mention that in the temple of philae the body of osiris is represented with stalks of corn springing from it which a priest waters from a vessel which he holds in his hand. an inscription sets forth that this is the form of him whom we may not name, osiris of the mysteries, who sprang from the returning waters(*cheetham, the mysteries, pagan and christian, p. 53- this symbolism referring among other things to the quickening of the inner life in response to the power poured down from on high. the s n of the degree is often found in egyptian paintings, and is exactly the same as is in use among craftsmen to-day. as in the first degree, an average of seven years was also spent in the mysteries of serapis, at the end of which candid

reality had a hidden meaning when they said long ago, that whoever goes uninitiated and unsanctified to the other world will lie in the mire, but he who arrives there initiated and purified will dwell with the gods(*plato. phaedo. loeb. edition, p. 241) 316. cicero was initiated into them and held them in the highest reverence(*cic. de. leg, ii, 14) while proclus tells us in the last days of the pagan faith: 317. the most holy rites of eleusis vouchsafe to the initiates enjoyment of the good offices of kore when they shall be delivered from their bodies(*proclus. comment. in plat. rem pub. quoted foucart, loc. cit, p. 364) 318. it is true that in the time of the decadence of rome there were degenerate ceremonies connected with the mysteries of bacchus, which involved orgies of a very unpl

kept secret. apart from the strong pressure of public opinion, which treated the slightest violation of secrecy as an act of terrible impiety, we hear of the death-penalty being inflicted in a case of the accidental intrusion of two non-initiates into the sacred enclosure at eleusis during the celebration of the mysteries(*livy, xxxi, 14) very little, therefore of direct fact has reached us from pagan sources; the greater part of our information comes from the christian writers, hippolytus, clement of alexandria, origen, arnobius and others, who were engaged upon destroying as much as possible of the pagan religion, and therefore always spoke of the mysteries in the worst possible light. something is known of a few of the exterior tests that were applied to candidates, and of the teaching

in charge of the religious side of the work. the members of the college consisted of three grades corresponding closely to apprentices, fellows and masters; and records point to the fact that they possessed semi-religious rites which were kept rigidly secret, and also that they attached symbolic interpretations to their tools, such as the square and compasses, the plumb-rule and level. they took pagan gods as their patrons in much the same way as the guilds which succeeded them adopted christian patron saints. the four crowned martyrs, the patron saints of masonry, were christian members of a college who were tortured to death by the emperor diocletian for refusing to make a statue of aesculapius(*j. s. m. ward: freemasonry and the ancient gods, pp. 144, 145) they were later confused with

he introduction of the jewish form of the masonic ceremonies was intentionally arranged by the powers who stand behind freemasonry about the time when christianity was gaining ascendancy in the roman empire. it would have been almost impossible to continue the mysteries of bacchus or those of mithra in their original form, while there was so much opposition between the christian faith and the old pagan religion. no such opposition was in roman days felt towards the jews, among whom the christian faith arose and had its early nurture; and the jewish form of the mysteries was therefore adopted by the white lodge as the best means of transmitting the ancient rites through the dark ages, when the church rigorously persecuted all who were not in agreement with her doctrines. the chief agent in

463. those who maintain the above-mentioned opinion about christianity are unacquainted with the history of the church. though many of the early christian writers are bitterly hostile to the mysteries, they indignantly deny the suggestion that in their church they have nothing worthy of that name, and claim that their mysteries are in every way as good and deep and far-reaching as those of their pagan opponents. s. clement says: he who has been purified in baptism and then initiated into the little mysteries (has acquired, that is to say, the habits of self-control and reflection, becomes ripe for the greater mysteries, for epopteia or gnosis, the scientific knowledge of god(*quoted in some glimpses of occultism, ch. ii) the same writer also said: it is not lawful to reveal to profane per

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

no one else has verified the book s extraordinary claims, but the book helped direct the alberta investigations in the direction of possible satanist involvement. meanwhile, in montana, a wave of alleged cattle mutilations in the mid- to late 1970s sparked statewide speculation about cultists. on a wooded mountainside near butte, in august 1976, authorities found a cult ritual site, with names of pagan deities isis, ariel, and others painted on rocks but, their suspicions notwithstanding, they failed to prove any link with animal deaths elsewhere. in blain county, idaho, a u.s. forest service employee watching forest service land to be sure that cattle did not graze there illegally observed two figures in black robes with hoods over their heads. they had their backs to the witness. they se

d nature. in the early stages of judaism, demons were not a major aspect of the religious belief system. during the first diaspora, when the jews were in demons 65 contact with the dualist vision of zoroastrianism, a more defined role for demons was developed within the tradition, in particular in the aggadah that reflected popular rabbinic beliefs. these mythological figures drew from indigenous pagan beliefs (such as the shedim) and were believed to be either creations of god or offspring of lilith, the first wife of adam. in the cabala during the middle ages, the evil forces of the jewish tradition took definite forms, names, and roles, although they were never really fully accepted into orthodox judaism. the greek word daimon was used in the roman and hellenistic world to indicate evil

hing falsehoods: the spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, through the pretensions of liars.(1 tim. 4:1 2. in addition to their assault on christians, another strategy in the guerrilla war against heaven is for demons to assume the forms of gods and goddesses of other religions. the people who worship pagan deities cannot be saved: what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to god. i do not want you to be partners with demons. you cannot drink the cup of the lord and the cup of demons. you cannot partake of the table of the lord and the table of demons (1 cor. 10:20 21. in the united states, survey research indicates that about a third of all americans accept the idea that satan is a co

. although contemporary satanists and neopagan witches both draw from a number of the same intellectual currents and are similar on many points, there is animosity between the two movements. thus while some contemporary satanist groups that utilize elements from pre-christian religions are also technically neopagan, they would most likely reject this label. modern neopaganism aims to recreate the pagan religions of antiquity usually not as they actually were, but as they have been idealized by romantics ever since the renaissance. there were a number of attempts at recreating pagan religions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most of which left only literary remains. one of the few groups to make a lasting contribution to the religious landscape was wicca, founded in gre

s even go so far as to assert that, while adopting a diabolical part of a wiccan initiation: presenting the athame (ritual dagger (raymond buckland/fortean pcture library) nergal 187 veneer, wicca s core values are christian, making wicca little more than a form of christianity. vera does not, however, go so far as to assert either that wicca is watered-down satanism or that it is christianity in pagan clothing. wicca is clearly a religion in its own right. her overarching point is, rather, that both satanism and wicca draw selectively from the same body of traditional writings about the devil and witchcraft, but only satanists explicitly acknowledge these particular source documents. wiccans should also, vera writes, stop repeating inaccurate, prejudiced stereotypes about satanists and sa

s committed in their sleep, any more than they would receive crowns in heaven for imaginary acts of martyrdom. macrobius was a fourth century christian writer whose commentary on the dream of scipio became the most influential dream book of medieval europe. compared with his contemporaries, macrobius was negative and superstitious. clearly indebted to the oneirocritica, the dreambook of the great pagan dream interpreter artemidorus, macrobius added material on apparitions and nightmares topics not explicitly covered by artemidorus. macrobius also included a discussion of incubi and succubi, the sexual demons who seduced virtuous men and women in their sleep, and who became highly popular creatures in medieval european demonological lore. although these beings are rooted in earlier jewish f

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

cud before him, winking eyes of red and snapping jaws of white: but then what cared for living or for dead sir palamede the saracen? 28 xii sir palamede the saracen follows the head to gloomy halls of sterile hate, with icy walls. a woman clucking like a hen answers his lordly bugle-calls. she rees him in ungainly rede of ghosts and virgins, doves and wombs, of roods and prophecies and tombs. old pagan fables run to seed! sir palamede with fury fumes. so doth the head that jabbers fast against that woman fs tangled tale (god.s patience at the end must fail) out sweeps the sword.the blade hath passed through all her scraggy farthingale .this chatter lends to thought a zest (quod he .but i am all for act. sit here, until your talk hath cracked the addled egg in nature.s nest. with that he fl

ns stride after stride with little pains upon the lumbering, flapping thing. he stabs the lamb, and splits the brains of that majestic-seeming king. he clips the wing and pares the claw. what turns to laughter all his joy, to wondering ribaldry his awe? the beast.s a mere mechanic toy, fit to amuse an idle boy! 33 xv sir palamede the saracen hath come to an umbrageous land where nymphs abide, and pagan men. the gods are nigh, say they, at hand. how warm a throb from venus stirs the pulses of her worshippers! nor shall the tuscan god be found reluctant from the altar-stone: his perfume shall delight the ground, his presence to his hold be known in darkling grove and glimmering shrine. o ply the kiss and pour the wine! sir palamede is fairly come into a place of glowing bowers, where all the

led by stalwart south sea men. they cleave the oily breasts of blue, straining toward the westering disk of the tall sun; they battle through those weary days; the wind is brisk; the stars are clear; the moon is high. now, even as a white basilisk that slayeth all men with his eye, stands up before them tapering the cone of speechless sanctity. up, up its slopes the pilgrims swing, chanting their pagan gramarye unto the dread volcano-king .now, then, by goddes reed. quod he .behold the secret of my quest in this far-famed stability! for all these paynim knights may rest in the black bliss they struggle to. but from the earth fs full-flowered breast liber cxcvii 62 brake the blind roar of earthquake through, tearing the belly of its mother, engulphing all that heathen crew, that cried and c

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

lenesses that protestantism has 1 in recent years, some schools, notably tonbridge, have adopted ritualistic marriage between boys, the passive partner being generally known (and respected) as a wife, whose normal social duties he is expected to fulfil [note added by ac in his copy of equinox i (9] energized enthusiasm 11 made of it. the catholic church did, i believe, to some extent preserve the pagan tradition. marriage is a sacrament.1 but in the attempt to deprive the act of all accretions which would profane it, the fathers of the church added in spite of themselves other accretions which profaned it more. they tied it to property and inheritance. they wished it to serve both god and mammon. rightly restraining the priest, who should employ his whole energy in the miracle of the mass

LIBER LVII

showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,36 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol!.ihvh, thora?37 why not take the sacred 'icquj of the christian who thought it meant 'ihsouj cristoj qeou 'uioj swthr38 and make him a pagan with 'isidoj carij qhsauroj 'uiwn sofiaj.?39 why not argue that christ in cursing the fig, f.i.g, wished to attack kant.s dogmas of freewill, immortality, god? 3. temurah. here again the multiplicity of our methods makes our method too pliable to be reliable. should we argue that lbb= kcc (620) by the method of athbash* and that therefore lbb symbolises kether (620? why, lbb is confusion, th

ro. also \lc= peace. 400. the letter t .the universe. it is the square of 20 .the wheel of fortune. and shows the universe as the sphere of fortune.the samsara-cakkram, where karma, which fools call chance, rules. 400 is the total number of the sephiroth, each of the 10 containing 10 in itself and being repeated in the 4 worlds of atziluth, briah, yetzirah, and 55 [the canon: an exposition of the pagan mystery perpetuated in the cabala as the rule of all the arts; by william stirling. first published anonymously, london: elkin matthews, 1897] 38 liber lviii assiah. these four worlds are themselves attributed to hwhy, which is therefore not the name of a tribal fetish, but the formula of a system. 401. ta .the. emphatic, meaning .essence of. for a and t are first and last letters of the heb

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

back, and then and long time after lack courage or strength to hurl the creed down to the heaven it sprang from! no! not this inspires the indignant blow 660 666 670 675 680 685 690 695 700 poem does not treat of pal- ontology: nor of poet.s youth: nor of christian infamies. poet forced to mystic position. 20 the sword of song at the whole fabric.nor the seas filled with those innocent agonies of pagan martyrs that once bled, of christian martyrs damned and dead in inter-christian bickerings where hate exults and torture springs, a lion an anguished flesh and blood, a vulture on ill-omen wings, a cannibal74 on human food. nor do i cry the scoffer.s cry that christians live and look the lie their faith has taught them: none of these inspire my life, disturb my peace. i go beneath the outwar

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

il and chaos, it is difficult to reconcile these texts with any one of the narrow definitions of myth suggested above. certainly they had some truth value to the people who composed them and those who wrote them down, but these were not always the same people.usually they were not.and it is obvious that what was true, sacred, and an account of how the world got to be the way it is to a viking age pagan poet can have been none of the above to a christian scribe copying the story in a manuscript hundreds of years after the viking age. it is therefore easier and more enlightening to talk of formal criteria and content. in form, then, myth in general, and the texts that comprise scandinavian mythology in particular, are narrative, although this narrative is couched in both verse and prose. in

before the autumn of 793, in that year vikings sacked the rich monastery at lindisfarne off the east coast of northern england, and for nearly three centuries vikings, and later, the scandinavian kingdoms, would play a major role in european history. what the word gviking h originally meant is not known; the european writers, mostly clergymen, who made it famous painted a fairly clear picture of pagan marauders who destroyed and despoiled wherever they went. certainly there is some truth to such a picture, especially in the early part of the viking age, when the scandinavian sailors do seem to have had military advantages, with their light, swift, maneuverable ships. but it is important to consider that there were individual forays, larger expeditions, armies wintering in england and on t

finition a period when scandinavians and europeans interacted, and without that interaction and the written documents it gave rise to in europe, archaeologists might have called the period from 800 to circa 1000 the gscandinavian iron age. h the beginning of the period, as we have seen, is portrayed by those who wrote the history, the literate members of the christian church, as a meeting between pagan and christian, and it was only natural that as time passed attempts would be made to convert the scandinavians, as charlemagne had converted the saxons. indeed, those scandinavians who traded or settled in christian lands had ample contact with christianity, and many of them either converted or had themselves gprime-signed, h that is, they accepted the sign of the cross, the first step towar

iking age onward, most famously by ansgar, the gapostle of the north, h who worked with both danish and swedish kings in the first half of the ninth century. the process was to bear fruit first in denmark in the later tenth century, when king harald bluetooth witnessed the priest poppo carrying a red-hot piece of iron, with no harm to his hands, as a demonstration that christ was greater than the pagan gods. at jelling in jutland, king harald bluetooth erected an elaborate rune stone celebrating his parents and himself, the person who gmade the danes christian, h as the jelling rune stone says. in norway there is evidence of christian burial from around this time, and hakon the good was a christian king whose reign ended around 960, when harald converted. but hakon was buried in a mound an

elling in jutland, king harald bluetooth erected an elaborate rune stone celebrating his parents and himself, the person who gmade the danes christian, h as the jelling rune stone says. in norway there is evidence of christian burial from around this time, and hakon the good was a christian king whose reign ended around 960, when harald converted. but hakon was buried in a mound and celebrated in pagan poetry. olaf tryggvason, who ruled norway from 995 to 1001, had been baptized in england, and he undertook a program of forcible conversions throughout the country. he was of a family from the oslo fjord, and the most obdurate pagans were allegedly in the other power center in the country, the area near modern trondheim. credit for the final conversion is given to olaf haraldsson. when he wa

w signs of his sanctity, and he became the most important saint of northern europe. we are less well informed about the conversion in sweden. although the kings of sweden were christian from the beginning of the eleventh century, the monk adam of bremen, in his history (ca. 1070) of the archbishopric of hamburg- bremen in northern germany, which had responsibility for scandinavia, reported a vast pagan temple at uppsala, with idols of the pagan gods and gruesome sacri- introduction 7 rune stones depicting thor fs hammer like this one in sweden are fairly easy to find. compare this to the rune stone on page 10; both are from the late viking age (statens historika museum, stockholm) fices. but eleventh-century rune stones from that very same part of sweden are openly christian: ggod rest his

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

areas of bestial exploration, such as lycanthropy and spiritual transformations of mind above flesh. the union of both brings the announcement of our becoming in the world of manes and shades of the dead. the daemonic aspects of the witches sabbat path are quite real, however once one evokes and invokes the spirit of these dark lords shall they be revealed as positive. the christian inversion of pagan gods is only visible on the surface, thus beyond separation from god to daemon is one in the same. we are both the garden of pleasure and the catacombs of the dead and their necromantical desire. 16 the grand circle of magickal awakening is the triple hermetic circle, developed from hamara t. this circle, traced by each initiate and give the proper names from which shall manifest the power t

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

nk, are seen by the religious right as a left-leaning, arrogant elite responsible for america s moral and social decay. thus, they believe, this haughty elite which endorses evolution is the enemy of the plain people who truly represent american ideals and the american way. in other words, republican fundamentalists have started a culture war against evolution, which, for them, is equivalent to a pagan religion that lures young people into unbridled sex, the use of drugs, abortion, violence, and suicide. in short, as frank reports, evolution, one of them [the christian conservatives] claims, is nothing less than a part of a sinister war against god (p. 168. but frank thinks that christian conservative politicians cannot ultimately prevail scientifically in the evolution controversy, and th

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

yal arches--the dionysiac architects--the roman collegia--solomon, the personification of universal wisdom- freemasonry's priceless heritage. 173 mystic christianity st. iran us on the life of christ--the original name of jesus--the christened man--the essenes--the arthurian cycle--merlin the mage. 177 the cross and the crucifixion the aurea legenda--the lost libraries of alexandria--the cross in pagan symbolism- the crucifixion, a cosmic allegory--the crucifixion of quetzalcoatl--the nails of the passion. 181 the mystery of the apocalypse the sacred city of ephesus--the authorship of the apocalypse--the alpha and omega- the lamb of god-the four horsemen-the number of the beast. 185 the faith of islam the life of mohammed--the revelation of the koran--the valedictory pilgrimage--the tomb o

f any school or individual. from this practice, however, arose a pseudo-broadmindedness devoid of the element of preciseness found in true logic and philosophy. the neo-pythagorean school flourished in alexandria during the first century of the christian era. only two names stand out in connection with it--apollonius of tyana and moderatus of gades. neo- pythagoreanism is a link between the older pagan philosophies and neo-platonism. like the former, it contained many exact elements of thought derived from pythagoras and plato; like the latter, it emphasized metaphysical speculation and ascetic habits. a striking similarity has been observed by several authors between neo-pythagoreanism and the doctrines of the essenes. special emphasis was laid upon the mystery of numbers, and it is possi

igions and philosophies. to the mind unacquainted with its fundamental tenets, neo-platonism may appear to be a mass of speculations interspersed with extravagant flights of fancy. such a viewpoint, however, ignores the institutions of the mysteries--those secret schools into whose profundities of idealism nearly all of the first philosophers of antiquity were initiated. when the physical body of pagan thought collapsed, an attempt was made to resurrect the form by instilling new life into it by the unveiling of its mystical truths. this effort apparently was barren of results. despite the antagonism, however, between pristine christianity and neo-platonism many basic tenets of the latter were accepted by the former and woven into the fabric of patristic philosophy. briefly described, neo

lue. likewise, no emphasis was placed upon the material sciences. the term patristic is employed to designate the philosophy of the fathers of the early christian church. patristic philosophy is divided into two general epochs: ante-nicene and post-nicene. the ante-nicene period in the main was devoted to attacks upon paganism and to apologies and defenses of christianity. the entire structure of pagan philosophy was assailed and the dictates of faith elevated above those of reason. in some instances efforts were made to reconcile the evident truths of paganism with christian revelation. eminent among the ante-nicene fathers were st. iren us, clement of alexandria, and justin martyr. in the post-nicene period more emphasis was placed upon the unfoldment of christian philosophy along platon

s performed at stated periods. the most celebrated were those of isis, sabazius, cybele, and eleusis" after being admitted, the initiates were instructed in the secret wisdom which had been preserved for ages. plato, an initiate of one of these sacred orders, was severely criticized because in his writings he revealed to the public many of the secret philosophic principles of the mysteries. every pagan nation had (and has) not only its state religion, but another into which the philosophic elect alone have gained entrance. many of these ancient cults vanished from the earth without revealing their secrets, but a few have survived the test of ages and their mysterious symbols are still preserved. much of the ritualism of freemasonry is based on the trials to which candidates were subjected

blivion. in some cases they succeeded, but more often the arcanum was lost and only the empty shell of the mysteries remained. thomas taylor has written "man is naturally a religious animal" from the earliest dawning of his consciousness, man has worshiped and revered things as symbolic of the invisible, omnipresent, indescribable thing, concerning which he could discover practically nothing. the pagan mysteries opposed the christians during the early centuries of their church, declaring that the new faith (christianity) did not demand virtue and integrity as requisites for salvation. celsus expressed himself on the subject in the following caustic terms "that i do not, however, accuse the christians more bitterly than truth compels, may be conjectured from hence, that the cryers who call

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

s of the notorious reiving family that for centuries cut a bloody swathe through the borders. the halls passed on a tradition of folk worship and witchcraft to myself and my cousins, and during the early 1980 s i learned a form of spae from my aunt (my mothers elder sister. who had learned it from her grandfather tom hall of winton a westmorland horsebreaker (on stainmoor where eric bloodaxe last pagan king of york died in battle in 954. tom halls ancestor anthony hall of ellershaw was hung with 100 of his men at berwick assizes in 1598 by lord henry scope warden of the west march after the redesdale hunting incident. the families survivors were driven out of redesdale but were granted land and sanctuary in westmorland by sir richard lowther sheriff of cumberland who had no love for scrope

l gods, since like all soldiers they needed as much luck as they could get. so they took on the local cult but gave it a roman gloss. my private worship has for some years been reserved for the roman/etruscan trinity of laran (mars, turan (venus) and lupercus (faunus sometimes called silvanus. this came about as the result of a strange chain of events. i had already made a study of roman domestic pagan worship (the cult of the lars familiaris or familiar spirits) and the survival in northern britain of the folk veneration of the spirits of the hearth and the ancestors. particularly house familiars brownies, boggarts and redcaps. this convinced me that romano-british forms of domestic worship had persisted into modern times in a modified form. where the beneficial lars familiaris (which rep

c dialects (in which g s& c s at the beginning of words are commonly exchanged for by p s or b s. such a similarity in the name, appearance and function of the two deities would not have gone unnoticed by the romans for whom portents were very significant. this may go some way to explain the enthusiasm with which the roman soldiers appear to adopted mars cocidius s cult. i come from a traditional pagan family, from a district whose tutelary deity was mars cocidius (mars the red) and where the familiar spirits and the redcaps are still left offerings. as a warden& ranger i was for many years responsible for the breeding and conservation of swans and geese many thousands of which winter in the district. for this reason i have a number of crooks including a good swanhook i commissioned more t

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

of mercury's traditional forms and attributes. sample of rune divination showing placement on a horoscope chart when you reach the number 64, finish by "sealing" the talisman with the words "so mote it be" and drawing three crosses in the air with your right forefinger above the paper (this is a very old method of sealing, or benediction, which was appropriated by the christian church from their pagan forebears) now your square of mercury will be charged and your deep mind fully attuned to the correct range of vibrations for the divination, which must be performed with the square kept either on your person or prominently displayed in your place of work. once you have made a square, whenever you wish to perform a divination, all that is necessary to do is to hold the square in your hands

alpha and omega, the first and last letters of the greek alphabet. pater noster is the latin for "our father" the first words of the so-called lord's prayer "alpha and omega" is one of the many titles bestowed upon jesus by the early christians, meaning the "first and the last" a reference to his attributed divinity. these words were sometimes formed into an equal-armed cross, which symbol though pagan in origin, as has been already mentioned, became a suitable stock on which to graft the newly arrived cult symbol, the latin or cross of crucifixion. this emblem was then used as a code sign among early converts. however, prior to the formation of the holy roman empire, the early christians themselves were subject to great persecution, and someone hit on an ingenious method of continuing the

MEANING OF MASONRY

ready? it is to answering such questions as these that the present paper is directed. now one of the first things to strike any student of masonic literature and comparative religion is the remarkable presence of common factors, common beliefs, doctrines, practices and symbols, in the religions of all races alike, whether ancient or modern, eastern or western, civilized or barbarian, christian or pagan. however separated from others by time or distance, however intellectualized or primitive, however elaborated or simple their religion or morals, and however wide their differences in important respects, each people is found to have employed and still to be employing certain ideas, symbols and practices in common with every other; perhaps with or without some slight modification of form. mas

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

easily understood in an initiatory sense from the sufic phrase, dar tariki, tariqat (in the darkness, the path and reflects the ideal of the light or wisdom coming from the darkness. the arabic root fhm is symbolic of baphomet, meaning head of wisdom. in the knights templar, hugues de payns (which translates of 16 the sufis by idries shah and a history of secret societies by akron daraul. 10 the pagan) held a coat of arms which had three saracen heads, which resembled severed heads, indicating wisdom. it is also the sufis who move against the sun17 which brought such practice to the west. in the yatus cult, the darkness must be observed, absorbed and the initiate must be made to move against the path of the natural order. this by means within itself, brings experience from a vague concept

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

ovide to our fellow human kind. lilith the mother of the succubus and of night, lilith is a symbol of night and magickal power, sorcery and witchcraft. her essence is that of feminine strength and individual focus. the connection of lilith with the cult of vampirism has been noted by many, for through the astral plane this goddess manifests on the day side as her fleshing ground. just as with any pagan goddess or god, lilith is not entirely of dark nature, being known as a protectress of mothers and children. the sacred bird of lilith was the owl, one may 60 60 seek to invoke, or identify with the goddess lilith through the dream assumption of the owl form. such experiments should prove insightful. liliths name was suspected to have derived from the sumerian babylonian belitilli. one rathe

stice is the time that marks the death and rebirth of the sun god. it is a time of contemplation, of self-examination and natural rebirth. yule also is the birthday of mithras (13, the sun god of persia. the birth data of the christian savior was not accurately known from their historic texts per se, however around ad 273 that the church and its officials aligned the birth of christ to absorb the pagan gods of old (mithras, etc. the moon of december is known as the wolf moon, oak moon which refers to the birthing of new life, to which the balance of nature grows strong. the great oak tree reaches high into the material world while having it's roots deeply planted within the earth. the purest rite consists of a clear and awakened mind, in which a new birth shall arise. the witches' sabbath

h spirit associated with each element are given below: notes categorized by chapter chapter one 1. lucem fero, the light bringer known as lucifer. christian symbolism has battened a more sinister view upon this figure. a skillful presentation of lucifer is given in aleister crowley s poem, hymn to lucifer and kenneth anger s lucifer rising, a film based upon the torch bearer. 2. hel is the norse- pagan goddess of the underworld. 3. see the book of pleasure by austin osman spare. 4. dracula was a woman by raymond macnalley. 5. lord of the forest is a symbol of the devil, the horned god of beasts. lord of life, fertility and strength, who is often connected to capricornus, or pan. 6. the wolf skin holds reference to shaman cultures of germany and scandinavia. man seeking the spirit of a cert

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

weapon that he fired at the enemy airships from his own.theodosius ithe new christian teachings were given a great boost at the end of the fourth century a.d. by eastroman emperor theodosius i. theodosius issued at least eighteen laws aimed at punishing those peo-ple who rejected the doctrines established by the nicene council. he made christianity the official statereligion and closed down many pagan temples by force. he ordered armies to burn down the famousalexandrian library(p. 148)justinianby the middle of the sixth century a.d, the death penalty came into use against the heretics and pagans.a campaign of genocide was ordered by east roman emperor, justinian, to more quickly establish thechristian orthodoxy. in byzantine alone, an estimated 10,000 people were murdered (p. 148)blood r

and wereto be approached only with difficulty, mystery and the most servile homage (p. 81)revenues from the deludedin the reign of augustus some dying persons provided by will that an offering should be made to thechurch in gratitude for the signal favor that the son of god, as they esteemed their emperor, hadappeared on earth during their lifetime. from these and other superstitious sources the pagan churchatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation249 appendix b: book abstracts acquired immense landed estates in every part of the empire. these estates were worked by slaves(p. 83)all these estates eventually became the possession of the catholic church.hierarchies of controlthe exclusive relations thus established between the sacred monarch and the nobles or priests who sur-roun

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

the details of the sabbat. the earthly sabbat tends to be held in secluded places such fields, abandoned buildings, atop mountains, and mostly at midnight. the area is littered with demons and humans having sex in the most lascivious ways. in the center of the festivities, a large fire and a presiding devil. this devil, called the black man of the sabbat, is usually described as looking like the pagan god baphomet; modern day satanists have further solidified this connection to such the extent that i ve become certain that they are one in the same. their description was that of a large, stinking goat figure with 3 horns where the center horn was lit with a flame, like a torch. this flaming center horn was often used to ignite other things at the festivities, such as candles and torches. a

MORALS AND DOGMA

him revengeful, malignant, cruel, or unjust. a man's faith is as much his own as his reason is. his freedom consists as much in his faith being free as in his will being uncontrolled by power. all the priests and augurs of rome or greece had not the right to require cicero or socrates to believe in the absurd mythology of the vulgar. all the imaums of mohammedanism have not the right to require a pagan to believe that gabriel dictated the koran to the prophet. all the brahmins that ever lived, if assembled in one conclave like the cardinals, could not gain a right to compel a single human being to believe in the hindu cosmogony. no man or body of men _can_ be infallible, and authorized to decide what other men shall believe, as to any tenet of faith. except to those who first receive it, e

wherefore the term "initiation" is used with good reason; and they not only teach us to live more happily and agreeably, but they soften the pains of death by the hope of a better life hereafter. the mysteries were a sacred drama, exhibiting some legend significant of nature's changes, of the visible universe in which the divinity is revealed, and whose import was in many respects as open to the pagan as to the christian. nature is the great teacher of man; for it is the revelation of god. it neither dogmatizes nor attempts to tyrannize by compelling to a particular creed or special interpretation. it presents its symbols to us, and adds nothing by way of explanation. it is the text without the commentary; and, as we well know, it is chiefly the commentary and gloss that lead to error and

on still practised in the name of religion--men shot in a christian jail in christian italy for reading the christian bible; in almost every christian state, laws forbidding freedom of speech on matters relating to christianity; and the gallows reaching its arm over the pulpit. the fires of moloch in syria, the harsh mutilations in the name of astarte, cybele, jehovah; the barbarities of imperial pagan torturers; the still grosser torments which roman-gothic christians in italy and spain heaped on their brother-men; the fiendish cruelties to which switzerland, france, the netherlands, england, scotland, ireland, america, have been witnesses, are none too powerful to warn man of the unspeakable evils which follow from mistakes and errors in the matter of religion, and especially from invest

hy grateful prayers to the lord, the most just and pure ormuzd, the supreme and adorable god, who thus declared to his prophet zerdusht 'hold it not meet to do unto others what thou wouldst not desire done unto thyself; do that unto the people, which, when done to thyself, is not disagreeable unto thee" the same doctrine had been long taught in the schools of babylon, alexandria, and jerusalem. a pagan declared to the pharisee hillel, that he was ready to embrace the jewish religion, if he could make known to him in a few words a summary of the whole law of moses "that which thou likest not done to thyself" said hillel "do it not unto thy neighbor. therein is all the law: the rest is nothing but the commentary upon it "nothing is more natural" said confucius "nothing more simple, than the

like the laws of egypt, enunciated the principle of exclusion, borrowed, at every period of its existence, from all the creeds with which it came in contact. while, by the studies of the learned and wise, it enriched itself with the most admirable principles of the religions of egypt and asia, it was changed, in the wanderings of the people, by everything that was most impure or seductive in the pagan manners and superstitions. it was one thing in the times of moses and aaron, another in those of david and solomon, and still another in those of daniel and philo. at the time when john the baptist made his appearance in the desert, near the shores of the dead sea, all the old philosophical and religious systems were approximating toward each other. a general lassitude inclined the minds of

borers with the horse and the ox. profoundly ignorant, even in "civilized" lands, they think and reason like the animals by the side of which they toil. for them, god, soul, spirit, immortality, are mere words, without any real meaning. the god of nineteen-twentieths of the christian world is only bel, moloch, zeus, or at best osiris, mithras, or adona, under another name, worshipped with the old pagan ceremonies and ritualistic formulas. it is the statue of olympian jove, worshipped as the father, in the christian church that was a pagan temple; it is the statue of venus, become the virgin mary. for the most part, men do not in their hearts believe that god is either just or merciful. they fear and shrink from his lightnings and dread his wrath. for the most part, they only _think_ they b

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

an indirect reference! unless one wants to wreck the neighbourhood, it is best to explode one's gunpowder in an unconfined space. there are very few cases of "perverted hunger-instinct" in moderately healthy communities. war restrictions on food created dishonest devices to procure dainties, and artificial attempts to appease the ache of appetite by chemical counterfeits. the south-sea islanders, pagan, amoral and naked, are temperate lovers, free from hysterical "crimes of passion, sex obsessions, and puritan persecution-mania; perversion is practically unknown, and monogamy is the general custom. even the civilized psychopaths of cities, forced into every kind of excess by the omnipresence of erotic suggestions and the contact of crazed crowds seething with suppressed sexuality, are not

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

. in studying the peculiar characteristics which hecate assumes when she usurps the place of persephone, the rightful mistress of page 94 the lower world, we are reminded of the various superstitions with regard to spectres, witchcraft &c, which have, even down to our own times, exerted so powerful an influence over the minds of the ignorant, and which would appear to owe their origin to a remote pagan source. selene (luna. just as helios personified the sun, so his sister selene represented the moon, and was supposed to drive her [87]chariot across the sky whilst her brother was reposing after the toils of the day. when the shades of evening began to enfold the earth, the two milk-white steeds of selene rose out of the mysterious depths of oceanus. seated in a silvery chariot, and accompa

as evil spirits, appearing at night under awful forms and hideous shapes, greatly to the alarm of their friends and relatives. they were so feared that a festival, called the lemuralia, was celebrated in order to propitiate them. it appears extremely probable that the superstitions with regard to ghosts, haunted houses &c, which exist even at the present day, owe their origin to this very ancient pagan source. the lares familiares were a much more pleasing conception. they were the spirits of the ancestors of each family, who exercised after death a protecting power over the well-being and prosperity of the family to which they had in life belonged. the place of honour beside the hearth was occupied by the statue of the lar of the house, who was supposed to have been the founder of the fam

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

ven, and is quickly stilled. and so begins a typical witchcraft ceremony. or perhaps i should say hollywood's idea of a typical witchcraft ceremony. truth is, most witches are involved in rather mundane things like ceremonies to ensure that the sun comes up every morning. you can't help feeling that there must be more to it than this. the gray man there are two sides, or faces, to witchcraft: the pagan worship of nature, and the manipulative side, i.e. that of deliberately influencing chance and coincidence for one s own end. this book is about the second, hidden face. but before i continue let me tell you something about myself. i first became involved with the occult arts as such through the now defunct psychic research society of australia. thinking it involved actual research, you can

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

christianity and its transformation into the state religion. with their initiatory and sacred value adapted to the new spirit of the age, these rites had in their favor the strength of popular custom and the people's interest in retaining them as signs of identification and professional secrets. it is generally thought that it was for reasons of this nature that early christianity readily adopted pagan rituals, symbols, and even gods, whom it made into legendary saints. by giving these deities souls, they assured the perpetuation of the values the gods symbolically represented* baronius, annates (xxxvi "it was permissible for the holy church to appropriate rituals and ceremonies used by the pagans in their idolatrous worship because it regenerated them with its consecration" saint gregory

ect of the origin of guilds. for some, the guild owes its origin to the influence of christian ideas and fraternity. for others, the guild was once the roman collegia, specifically the kind imported by the apostles of the christian faith into southern lands, where it was subsequently transformed. it is quite possible that these two hypotheses can be reconciled by the acceptance of a third factor: pagan traditions. the coincidence of the first manifestations of the guild and the conquests of christianity are especially notable in england. christianity, which had been preached anew by saint augustine of canterbury starting in 596, triumphed definitively in 655 with the victory of bretwada oswin, king of northumbria, over the last pagan king of mercia. by the beginning of the eighth century a

ges' practices, all the more so as they gave shelter to artists and scholars as well as simple craftsmen, and as study gradually turned on a philosophy that was identical to theology. though it would seem that the religion of the builders was roman catholicism, it is still frequently claimed by freemasons and their adversaries alike that this was and is not so. cited as evidence of this are their pagan traditions, their skeptical attitude that grew from constant travel and contact with diverse peoples, and the sculptures they used to adorn the portals of the churches they built. the most extreme theory that has been presented in this regard claims that freemasonry was the supplier of manichean and cathar propaganda. this theory was triggered early on by abbe barruel in his memoires pour se

within his own person as well as in those who emulated him, is a reflection of the passion in the fullness of its lesson. it is also a continuation and the christianized spiritual finality of the ancient mysteries: the attainment of immortality and understanding through by incorporating the divine substance within oneself and through this, becoming a god. in simpler terms, the legend, without its pagan overtones defiling its harmony, is the glorification of christianity: finding the road to salvation and eternal life by building within the ideal and undying dwelling of the lord. a final observation may prove helpful in explaining the symbolic meaning of these narratives. the majority of ancient bibles provide a lexicon that interprets hebrew names. in franciscus de hailbrun's bible (venise

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

t or innocence could be decided in single combat by knightly champions is commonplace in medieval romance. such a duel is not a mere trial of strength or skill for, as here, divine powers may aid the righteous. henry the fowler the emperor henry the fowler was a real historical figure, the first non- carolingian ruler of the german reich (916-36. his wife matilda was a descendant of widekund, the pagan ruler who led the saxon resistance to charlemagne, and although after her death she was venerated as a christian saint, she was also feared for her supposed supernatural powers. friedrich here, elsa s challenger, friedrich, is shown humbled at the hands of lohengrin. in keeping with his knightly courtesy, lohengrin did not take his life; instead the emperor condemns friedrich to be beheaded

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

nd developed into the mentality of z feir anpin, precisely because of the struggle that is to ensue once yesod of abba proceeds beyond its realm. that struggle is the struggle between jacob and esau; esau does not seek to attack jacob until he has completed his developmental stage of intellectualization of the insight and has emerged from it read to enter the land of israel, the land of the seven pagan nations or native, unrectified emotions, in order to conquer it for holiness. when jacob left the land of israel originally he went to study torah in the yeshivah of shem and eber, and our sages also tell us that jacob studied torah while tending laban fs flock as well. thus, his entire sojourn outside the land of israel until this point can be envisioned as the process of the maturation of

r. this process involves awakening our deep, innate desire and will to relate to g-d and accomplish his will, which, as we said, is synonymous with the skull. cheshvan and kislev are associated with the two ears [of z feir anpin. cheshvan possesses no festivals; this reflects the male abstraction of chochmah. the festival of kislev is chanukah, in which the intellect of the torah vanquished greek pagan philosophy. tevet and shevat are associated with the two eyes [of z feir anpin. adar is associated with the nose [of z feir anpin. here, too, the mouth[ fs place in this array] is hidden [the fact that the mouth is hidden] is the mystical reason behind the commandment of sanctifying the new month, in which the judges [of the rabbinical court] are required to verbally sanctify the month. astr

therefore the heifer must be red, to signify the state of severe judgment [to which malchut is subject. red is the color of gevurah, severity. someone who has been defiled by means of contact with death is in a state of extreme, severely limited divine consciousness. the stark confrontation with the reality of death carries with it the seeds of abject depression born of a nihilistic, fatalistic, pagan, or absurd attitude toward life. the individual must therefore gpurify h himself from this defilement. the retrogressive spelling of the 72-name, i.e, tet-hei-gimel dalet-tet hei-tethei dalet-tet, which is similar to tet-dalet-hei-dalet [being produced out of] yudhei- vav-hei, the numerical value [of this spelling] is 62. the loss of optimistic, forward-looking divine consciousness is reflec

egypt. about this time it is written, gas in the days when you went out of egypt i will show him wonders. h12 all this enables us to understand the subject of the beautiful woman. as is known, all those who engaged in this type of war.an optional war.were absolutely righteous, and had not even [committed the sin] of talking during prayer. the torah commands the jewish people to wipe out the seven pagan nations that occupied canaan, in order to possess the land of israel and fill it with holiness. in this obligatory war, we are commanded, gyou shall let no soul live. h the war we are discussing here, however, is not of this type, but a voluntary war we are allowed to wage in order to expand the borders of israel. before going out to fight this war, all those who were afraid to fight because

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

he work epilogue in 1903 the golden dawn was disbanded in a flurry of scandal and its sundry adepts left to form their own tribes leaving the order to die. but did it? like an oak, shattered by the storm, which scatters wide its acorns, the hermetic order of the golden dawn bequeathed a body of knowledge, teachings and information to the ensuing generations. this became the root of the modem neo- pagan movement, which is the fastest growing religion in this country, according to the institute for the study of american religion in the last twenty years we have seen a vast and varied resurgence in the study of the occult and magicmarts. whole new realms of thought and consciousness have been opened, new arts and veins of creativity have been tapped. many of these we can trace back to that no

tree of life. the value of this last to the aspirant is incalculable. by means of reference to the phases of consciousness and the symbols attributed to them the mage could always determine "where she is" and thus never be lost, a most horrible fate. today, however, this system functions exponentially, and it provides a baseline of information and technique for reference. all too often at the neo-pagan festivals one overhears hushed whispers 'well, in the g.d. they 'not "demonology" in the common usage of evil spirits; rather duemonology concerns supernatural beings (including even the holy guardian angel) intermediate between humanity and god. c.lw. 69 7 698 the golden dawn we hear in the opening of the neophytes "by names and images are all powers awakened and reawakened" dion fortune ri

lication of the essences invoked. today, the task of the practitioner is to induce, through the rites and formulae, the trancendental spirit of the order into the re-created forms, thereby reincarnating the "soul of the mysteries" essentiarto the reflowering of the order. the study of magick leads one into harmony with nature and the universe at large. a major factor in the development of the neo-pagan movement was a growing concern with the environment and its abuse. magick in the form of wicca or the craft formed the spiritual link whereby this awareness could express itself. the g.d. provided much of the technology. it is interesting to note that an adept of the g.d, j.w. brodie-innes, traveled extensively in the british isles to study witchcraft. now the witches stud his order in the l

e their roots in the g.d. the very concept of the circle and the guardians at the four quarters was not extant in the older family traditions at least until after the demise of the g.d. the g.d. has been a fountain head of inspiration for the new pagans. one beautiful example of use of g.d. technology in a new and creative manner is a variant on the lotus wand seen at an east coast festival. that pagan had formed a staff topped by a crystal ball. the shaft was painted in the traditional rainbow attributed by the golden dawn to the zodiac and the sigils of the signs were painted in their flashing colors. there is at least one group that, bein unable to decide u on a pantheon from any specific culture, chose to use the d sys.tem of nocftianat o found their tradition upon. the g.d. practice w

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

some other close by. we crossed this mountain on our return from the shrine, and found its surface covered with these piles, which frequently consisted of eight or ten stones raised one above the other. the same practice is observed by the heathen in india, fn. 1. nineveh and its remains, vol. i. p. 293. p. 117 and i have frequently seen an idol temple or pagoda surrounded with similar tokens of pagan adoration. mr. layard mentions a building and a herd of white oxen at sheikh adi, dedicated to "sheikh shems" which he supposes to be the sun. it is clear, however, that the yezeedees so designate the place for the sake of brevity, as the entablature over the doorway records the names in full, namely "sheikh shems ali beg and faris" for two persons are mentioned in the inscription, which has

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

ay so, the don quixote of roman chivalry; but what most people do not know is that he was one of the illuminated and an initiate of the first order: that he believed in the unity of god and in the 4 the doctrine of transcendental magic universal doctrine of the trinity; that, in a word, he regretted nothing of the old world but its magnificent symbols and its too gracious images. julian was not a pagan; he was a gnostic allured by the allegories of greek polytheism, who had the misfortune to find the name of jesus christ less sonorous than that of orpheus. the emperor paid in his person for the academical tastes of the philosopher and rhetorician, and after affording himself the spectacle and satisfaction of expiring like epaminondas with the periods of cato, he had in public opinion, by t

nterconnection of all effects with all causes. moreover, true astrology, that which derives from the unique and universal dogma of the kabalah, became profaned among the greeks and romans of the decline. the doctrine of the seven spheres and the three mobiles, drawn primitively from the sephirotic decade; the character of the planets governed by angels, whose names have been changed into those of pagan divinities; the influence of the spheres on one another; the destiny attached to numbers; the scale of proportion between the celestial hierarchies corresponding to the human hierarchies all this has been materialized and degraded into superstition by genethliacal soothsayers and erectors of horoscopes during the decline and the middle ages. the restoration of astrology to its primitive puri

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

hich the mystagogues of the middle ages represented in their nocturnal assemblies by the exhibition of a symbolical goat, carrying a lighted torch between its two horns. in the fifteenth chapter of this gritual h we shall describe the allegorical forms and strange cultus of this monstrous animal, which represented nature doomed to anathema but ransomed by the sign of light. the gnostic agapae and pagan priapic orgies which followed in its honour sufficiently revealed the moral consequence which the adepts drew from the exhibition. all this will be explained, together with the rites, decried and now regarded as fabulous, of the great sabbath and of black magic. within the grand circle of evocations a triangle was usually traced, and the side towards which the upper point should be directed

e six-pointed star, known in magic as the pantacle or seal of solomon, must be worn upon the forehead and the breast, and graven 24 the ritual of transcendental magic in the right hand. independently of these signs, the ancients, in their evocations, made use of those mystical combinations of divine names which we have reproduced in our gdoctrine h from the hebrew kabalists. the magic triangle of pagan theosophists was the celebrated abracadabra, to which they attributed extraordinary virtues and represented as follows: abracadabra abracadabr abracadab abracada abracad abraca abrac abra abr ab a this combination of letters is a key of the pentagram. the initial a is repeated five and reproduced thirty times, thus giving the elements and numbers of the two following figures: the isolated a

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

ht though kirk wrote this short book not as a 'folklore' collection but as a general survey of the relationship between seership, second sight, and multifold worlds or dimensions- a survey which he held to contain truth, enduring tradition, and fragments of ancient wisdom. for the modern reader or student of magical traditions there are many clear connections to what we now think of as shamanism, pagan celtic religion, and to elements of native american tradition in kirk's short book. there seems to be a close connection between many of the techniques of vision and magic, and the literal nature of otherworlds described in the seventeenth century by robert kirk, and the vastly popular twentieth-century works of carlos castaneda, who claims to be writing from an indian tradition of sorcery

ditions bring with them images, techniques, communications and philosophical or metaphysical concepts, even if in a confused or corrupted form, that are of a different order and quality from those of spiritualism. the simplest way to put this is that the concept of bland reassuring messages from entities claiming to be our dead relatives in fantastical heavenly realms is not present in any of the pagan or pagan-christian traditions of seership: they operate in a quite different set of metaphysical dimensions with different symbolic language. furthermore, the ancestral contacts that form an important part of such ancient lore (and may seem superficially to resemble spiritualist contacts, are not described as ethereal but contemporary stereotypes of daily life, as they are in spiritualism. t

foregoing will unfold as we progress through kirk's text, as will other strands of magical tradition, for like all collective lore, there are several traditions interwoven almost inseparably, and coexisting quite comfortably with one another and with christianity. the christianity is often, as kirk describes, and as is well known from the work of other collectors [9] of a very unorthodox and semi-pagan nature. the purpose of kirk's book http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_1.htm (6 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:33:52 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 1-9) it is easy to confuse robert kirk's aims in writing his book with a number of quite different attitudes to fairy lore taken by modern scholars. we may, of course, dispose entirely of the victorian and subsequent notions of pretty little f

al figures, some of our illustrations are drawn literally from his words, item by item. introduction 18 where he has indicated general models, such as the rotation of the seasons, the quarters, and the relationships between daemones, fairies, angels, and humans, the relevant illustrations show typical models employed through the centuries, with emphasis on the basic attributes known to be used in pagan and early christian celtic culture. where he has described metaphysical models, such as the formation of the septenary from the four elements and the trinity, we have used simple mathematical or geometric patterns, in the time-hallowed method of magical and spiritual tuition worldwide. overall the illustrations are intended to help the reader not only with kirk's text itself but with my comm

in, the debased practices lead to dangerous allies, while the ethical or spiritual ones lead to beneficial allies, though no less potentially dangerous. kirk deals in various places with this reflex quality or polarized mirroring between human and fairy beings, so we shall return to it later. the realm of fairy in folklore actually holds a range of beings directly comparable to the range found in pagan religion, from early celtic sources, to examples in classical and medieval cosmology and spiritual description. the celtic deities are mainly preserved in early literature, and in some romano-celtic evidence from archaeology: their relationship to one another is defined by various interconnected worlds and by the concept of sacred space, sacred directions, and cyclical marriages.12 some of t

le, context (page 22: when we have plenty, they have scarcity at their homes. in terms of mythology and folklore we have two possible sources of derivation for these lower orders of fairy described by kirk: the first is that of the range or hierarchy of fairy entities and helpers, of which he gives further examples in more exalted circumstances. a parallel is found in the simple household gods of pagan cultures: small shrines and offerings were kept in roman households, for example, to very basic deities. these were at the 'lower' end of the scale of divinities, just as the brownies are at the lower end of the scale of fairy beings. page 22 their bodies of congealed air are sometimes carried aloft, while [at] others [they] grovel in different shapes, and enter into any cranny or cleft of t

RUBY TABLET OF SET

and maintain a strong central government. machiavelli pro forma accepted christian cosmology as revealed in the bible. since this source claims to be divinely revealed, he went on to say, it is beyond or above reason. hence unaided human reason cannot discern a difference between political authority based on divine revelation and that which is not based on divine revelation (such as pre-christian pagan rulers. thus machiavelli follows the lead of william of occam [of "occam's razor" fame, who stressed belief in god as a function of pure faith rather than reason. the study of politics, machiavelli concludes, belongs wholly to the world of reason and may ignore theological values. machiavelli sees all political history as an interplay between fortuna (chance) and virtu (will, courage, and sk

the pioneers of the field of ethnopsychopharmacology- a mouthful of a word, roughly "study of the relationship between mind-altering plant drugs and preindustrial cultures" he is best known for his study of the hallucinogenic mushroom cult in mexico, which had been so thoroughly suppressed that many anthropologists had began to question spanish missionary reports of a "diabolical fungus" used in pagan ritual (a small army of hippies descended on mexico after this work was published, to wasson's regret) before that, he had studied use of the fly agaric mushroom by siberian shamans. on the basis of various clues, he suggested that this mushroom was the real-world source of the divine "soma" elixir mentioned in a few of the hymns of the rg veda. later, he made the controversial suggestion th

ssed earlier. here we find evidence of a form discussed virtually identically by first the egyptians, then pythagoras, then plato. it is something higher than law, higher than human reason or learned wisdom. it is a "god" itself. the chimaera: the actual characteristics of what are generally known as the "egyptian gods" are far closer to the notion of forms than they are to the later pantheons of pagan cultures such as greece, rome, and scandinavia. a reading of egyptian texts translated directly from the hieroglyphic will substantiate this. in only a very few legends [such as that of the death and rebirth of osiris] do the gods assume human behavioral characteristics. in the vast bulk of the existing texts they are far more abstract, having "personalities" that seem to overlap one another

magick. worship of the male-female aspects of nature usually is expressed as allegiance to the horned god and the great mother goddess. ritual follows the movement of the sun and moon. neo-pagans see themselves as reviving the pre-christian religion of europe and the mediterranean basin, and manifest as norse, druid, or egyptian in format. by far the wiccans compose the largest segment of the neo-pagan community. wicca or witchcraft is derived from the ancient paganism practiced in western europe, especially the british isles. magick, an essential element in modern wicca, seeks mastery of all the cosmic forces believed to control the world. witches believe in the ancient principal of "as above, so below" and in their worship seek to create a microcosm, a magical image of the whole. the uni

revival. however, most wiccans now follow an eclectic practice which values creativity and is constantly changing and altering ritual while remaining within the basic nature goddess orientation. during the 1980s many neo-pagans and wiccans joined the armed forces. recently they have formed a network to assist in their relating to the military. the network may be contacted through its newsletter, pagan military newsletter, 829 lynnhaven parkway, virginia beach, va 23452. secrecy is a major element of the existence of both witchcraft and satanism (discussed below. secrecy is protective (known members often lose their jobs, friends or status, and serves to guard the sacred mysteries of the group. satanism often confused with neo-paganism and wicca, satanism is the worship of satan (also know

cussion among setians, a question from one of the interviewers "how does the temple of set as a religion differ from neo-paganism, or does it" it would have been difficult for anyone to have given a lucid response on the spot, as the matter goes beyond the question of worshipping something in the natural order or not, without a discussion of the factors that characterize a religious effort as neo-pagan. classification: v2- 290.p- 1 author: ruth nielsen ii date: october, xxv publication: trail of the serpent html revision: sept. 14, 1998 ce subject: neo-paganism reading list: 3c the original discussion derived from comments in an article from gnosis, which in brief stated that pagan organizations were now having to use the same arguments for freedom of religious expression in this country a

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

and matrices for occult purposes. the ecos of spare are strong in this cell. also the magical utterance of spare are found here. thanateros. the coffin and the marriage-bed are set forth as the true twins of inward initiation. these workings and their procedures are with eloquence set forth, but should remain only mentioned in this essay. the secret is hidden in-between the words and reflects the pagan influence of the masonic traditions where the coffin carries many symbols of the rose and the cross of the great lord of the dawning light. this is the eroticism of thanathos. the secrets of the black god are explained. the cell is to a certain degree a revelation of the black light. the light sought by the many, but understood by the few. a process of deconstruction is set forth and is in t

SATANGEL

eve themselves to be christ, or speaking to mary, or receiving transmissions from the antichrist, than they have pan, or daughters of hecate. i m sure they do pop up in such places occasionally. living as i do in norwich city, norfolk, england, i cannot help but be aware of the extent and majesty of power that the church once held over england s populace. yet also, i cannot avoid awareness of the pagan mysteries and their survival under christian masks. in the cathedrals here there are some of england s most famous green men, often identified as cain, who hide amongst the cloisters and grin at us from beneath the misericord. all around are the gargoyles, fear inspiring and atavistic. east anglia generally is often referred to as the witchcraft country. the memory of mathew hopkins has help

itchcraft country. the memory of mathew hopkins has helped to keep witchcraft alive, and provided those that possess such tendency with more determination in its passing. the events that took place there, with especial reference to the trials of bury st.edmunds, essex, were a direct inspiration to the trials of salem, essex, new england. and so the trail leads onwards. the merging of catholic and pagan beliefs in witchcraft and magick generally may also be observed in vodu, macumba, the sorceries of malysia, in the secrets of the princes of little egypt, in the observances of the bonesmen, horse whisperers and blacksmiths, the toad witches, in the satanic cults of russia and teutonia, the luciferian traditions, brujeria, stregeria, rosicrucianism, the golden dawn, thelema, and (according t

ayed lovers. the classical grimoire of tradition may be composed and copied by cultured and educated hands, yet they give form and expression to desires and beliefs that might otherwise be described not merely as primitive, but even atavistic. its seemingly anti-christian theological and ceremonial expressions may be sophisticated and obscure, yet in essence it is the same as those ante-christian pagan practices of witchcraft as have condemned the souls of many an assumed illiterate and simple peasant. the evils are entirely and in every sense identical. what must also be understood is the reputation of the books themselves as objects of the arte; consecrated and embued with a spiritual power in their own right. their mere presence in a place could thus bring good or bad luck. in the circl

lso entirely modern and unique to myself. these personal rituals and procedure combine what i believe to be the most powerful elements from almost every school i have had contact with. like all the most successful witches and magicians that have gone before me, i have developed my own system. i have no name for what i do other than witchcraft, which might cause some confusion with the more modern pagan religion, but is otherwise a fair description that will be understood anywhere in the world. indeed, the belief that the average rural cunning men and witches of old were unable to read or write is now considered to be largely error. that these operations of black magick are otherwise known as goetia, meaning witchcraft or the howling of the witches, goety being an obsolete english word deri

ere unable to read or write is now considered to be largely error. that these operations of black magick are otherwise known as goetia, meaning witchcraft or the howling of the witches, goety being an obsolete english word derived from the above latin employed to mean the performing of magick by summoning spirits, should be clue enough to their origins. indeed, before conversion a huge portion of pagan gods could easily have been described as devils anyway- however benevolent they were to those who appeased them. it matters not if the spirits employed be in truth forces beyond the nature and rule of either god or science, or flights of imagination and the product of the deeper strata of subconscious mind. the ancient kabalists and magicians were not unaware of these ideas we now call the s

ormance of rituals of incantation, might be self hypnotic psychodrama or actual gateways through which travellers between the dimensions may pass. it matters little. the procedures and results are the same. through the study of the angelic and demonic forms, we can begin to see the traces of a strange evolution of belief. what began on the whole as spirits of nature grew to become the gods of the pagan age. these in turn were reinterpreted and demonised as one culture dominated another. the most ancient gods become the giants and titans, whilst younger conquering religions build new temples. these in turn became subjugated to monothiesm, and their nature is reinterpreted yet again. in our modern day we no longer like to speak of god or the devil, and perhaps even feel a slight embarrassmen

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od excuse for sunday gluttony; and everyone knows that lots more than bible reading goes on in the bushes. the fund-raising adjunct to many church bazaars is commonly known as a carnival, which used to mean the celebration of the flesh; now a carnival is okay because the money goes to the church so that it can preach against the temptations of the devil! it will be said that these things are only pagan devices and ceremonies- that the christians borrowed them. true, but the pagans revelled in the delights of the flesh, and were condemned by the very same people who celebrate their rituals, but call them by different names. priests and ministers are in the front lines of peace demonstrations, and lying on railroad tracks in front of trains carrying war materials, with as much dedication as

on. you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but if your courtesy is not returned, they should be treated with the wrath they deserve. white witchcraft groups say that if you curse a person, it will return to you three-fold, come home to roost, or in some way boomerang back to the sender. this is yet another indication of the guilt-ridden philosophy which is held by these neo-pagan, pseudo-christian groups. white witches want to delve into witchcraft, but cannot divorce themselves from the stigma attached to it. therefore, they call themselves white magicians, and base seventy-five per cent of their philosophy on the trite and hackneyed tenets of christianity. anyone who pretends to be interested in magic or the occult for reasons other that gaining personal power is t

er, etc, the carnal side of man's nature was governed by the god which was then called dionysus, or pan, depicted as a satyr or faun, by the greeks. pan was originally the "good guy, and symbolized fertility and fecundity. whenever a nation comes under a new form of government, the heroes of the past become villains of the present. so it is with religion. the earliest christians believed that the pagan deities were devils, and to employ them was to use "black magic. miraculous heavenly events they termed "white magic; this was the sole distinction between the two. the old gods did not die, they fell into hell and became devils. the bogey, goblin, or bugaboo used to frighten children is derived from the slavonic "bog" which means "god, as does bhaga in hindu. many pleasures revered before t

ciful, why do people have to fear him? are we to believe there is nowhere we can 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 moloc

er relics were translated to eichstadt, where she was laid in a hollow rock, from which exuded a kind of bituminous oil, afterwards known as walpurgis oil, regarded as having miraculous efficacy against disease. the cave became a place of pilgrimage, and a great church was built over the spot. she is commemorated at various times, but principally on may 1st, her day taking the place of an earlier pagan festival. amazingly enough, all of this rigmarole was found necessary simply to condone the continuance of the most important pagan festival of the year- the grand climax of the spring equinox! the eve of may has been memorialized as the night that all of the demons, specters, afreets, and banshees would come forth and hold their wild revels, symbolizing the fruition of the spring equinox. h

igious service of the roman catholic church, but can be loosely applied to a satire on any religious ceremony. to the satanist, the black mass, in its blaspheming of orthodox rites, is nothing more than a redundancy. the services of all established religions are actually parodies of old rituals performed by the worshippers of the earth and the flesh. in attempts to de-sexualize and dehumanize the pagan beliefs, later men of spiritual faith whitewashed the honest meanings behind the rituals into the bland euphemisms now considered to be the "true mass. even if the satanist were to spend each night performing a black mass, he would no more be performing a travesty than the devout churchgoer who unwittingly attends his own "black mass- his spoof on the honest and emotionally-sound rites of pa

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ot exist before sectarian propaganda invented satan. historically, the word satan did not have a villainous meaning before christianity. the "safe" schools of witchcraft, with their strict adherence to their horned-god-fertility-symbol syndrome, consider the words devil and satan anathema. they disclaim any association. they wish no comparisons to be drawn linking their murrayite- gardnerian-"neo-pagan-"traditional" beliefs with diabolism. they have expunged devil arid satan from their vocabulary, and have waged a tireless campaign to give dignity to the word witch, though that has always been synonymous with nefarious activity, whether as witch, or hexe, or venifica, or other. they wholeheartedly accept the christian evaluation of the word satan at face value, and ignore the fact that the

rege satanas! celebrant: heil, satan! participants: hail, satan! a night on bald mountain homage to tchort how much more precious to man is a small piece of bread than a large ship! but how much money is required for a ship! he that can understand, let him understand -grigory yefimovitch rasputin few scholars have explored the existence of devil worship in russia during the hundreds of years its pagan spirit was in thrall to the orthodox church. if questions were asked, the answer was invariably that russian black magic was either nonexistent or a discipline cloaked in christian euphemism. the latter assumption is, of course, the most accurate. there is no culture more steeped in dark forces and deities than the slavonic in general and the russian in particular. the proportion of satanic

ve him a mill wheel to drag about. his last remaining altar was torn down and thrown into the dnieper in 988, when prince vladimir of kiev decided to convert to byzantine orthodoxy. volos suffered the indignity of being turned into a barnyard watchman and simple shepherd, and was assigned the new name of st vlas. volkh, the werewolf king, was the personification of sorcery, and was called upon by pagan russians to defend their land in times of need. the cult of kupala worshipped the magical powers of water. the fern, sacred to the followers of kupala, like the peacock of the yezidis, possessed power over riches, beautiful women and wisdom. the cult of larilo refused to die out even as late as the eighteenth century, when the bishop of voronezh abolished its practices, which included organi

ey who walk amongst us who bear deceit: verily they shall perish in blindness. turn thy back on the vile and despise them: follow the black flame to unending beauty in mind and body [priest removes some earth from container and, while pressing the soil back and forth against the initiate's soles and palms, speaks] priest: now, as before, when the mother of us all cushioned out paths with the pure pagan silt of ages, she offers herself anew. as thy true role of earth-child emerges and pervades thy being, return for this and all time thy feet to her bosom. revel in the shimmering glow from the hearth of thy heart, and make thy pact of devotion with all her children whose paws have tracked and learned the way of belial. seek and be glad, for infinity speaks only to those of self-realization

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

some groups such as the order of nine angles oppose a cabalistic interpretation of satanic magic, the o.t.o. uses what is described as 'the esoteric doctrines of the 'black' magick of the left hand path'(21) opposition to left hand path cabalism is largely due to an aeonic approach to magic in general which views the judeo-christian esoteric and mystical traditions as being a distortion upon the pagan ethos which lacked any absolute duality. this is indicated by the dual nature of the pagan gods, satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 8 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 possessing both light and dark sides, rather than being either solely good or evil. working with the energies of the abyss there are obviously in

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

agnosticism to describe his own skepticism (doubt) regarding the existence of god. 1893 the paper what is hinduism? by swami vivekananda, presented at the world parliament of religions in chicago, exposes many westerners to hinduism for the first time. 1933 45 some six million european jews are killed during the holocaust. 1948 the jewish nation of israel is established in palestine. 1972 the neo-pagan norse religion of asatru is officially recognized as a religion by the government of iceland. 1974 a number of wiccans gather in minneapolis, minnesota, where they draft a statement containing the principles of wiccan belief. world religions: almanac xiii timeline of events 1978 2005 reign of poland s john paul ii as pope of the roman catholic church, the first non-italian pope since the six

l. apeiron: anaximander s term for the first principle, an undefined and unlimited substance. arche: the beginning or ultimate principle; the stuff of all matter, or the building block of creation. arihant: an enlightened person. ark of the covenant: a cabinet in which the ten commandments were kept in the first temple of jerusalem. artha: prosperity and success in material affairs. asatru: a neo-pagan religion based on worship of the norse (scandanavian) gods. ascetic: a person who practices rigid self-denial, giving up all comforts and pleasures, as an act of religious devotion. jain monks and nuns are ascetics. asha: righteousness that derives from natural law. ashkenazic: term used to refer to jews of france, germany, and eastern europe. astrology: the study of the movement of the plan

rianism. xvi world religions: almanac words to know baptism: a religious ceremony in which a person is dipped in or sprinkled with water as a sign of being cleansed of sin. bar mitzvah: the jewish coming-of-age ceremony for boys. bat mitzvah: the jewish coming-of-age ceremony for girls. belief: a conviction of the truth of a proposition either by close examination or trust. beltane (beltaine: neo-pagan holiday on april 30. benevolence: the tendency to do good and to be kind to others. bhagavad gita: a sanskrit poem regarded as a hindu scripture; part of the epic mahabharata, which means great epic of the bharata dynasty; examines the nature of god and how mortals can know him. bhakti: devotion. blasphemy: disrespectful comments or actions concerning a religion or its god. bodhisattva: a pe

ors as leader of the faith. candomble: a south american religion with many similarities to santer a, often used synonymously with santer a. canon: the official, sacred texts of a religion. caste: social classes in hinduism, the dominant religion in india. celtic: a term referring to an ethnic group that spread throughout europe, particularly the british isles, and is the source of many modern neo-pagan movements. world religions: almanac xvii words to know church: from the greek, this word refers to the community of all christians. it is also the place where christians go to worship. consciousness: the condition of being aware of one s thoughts, feelings, and existence. conservative: a movement in modern judaism that tries to strike a balance between orthodox and reform judaism. conversion

deity: a god or goddess. dharma: righteousness in one s religious and personal life. diaspora: the scattering of the jews throughout the world. digambara: literally sky-clad; one of the two major sects of jainism. disciple: a person who accepts and assists in spreading the teachings of a leader. in the bible, a follower of jesus. doctrine: a set of ideas held by a religious group. druidism: a neo-pagan religion based in the celtic region of the british isles. dynasty: a sequence of rulers from the same family. xviii world religions: almanac words to know eightfold path: the path of the buddha s teachings that can lead to the end of suffering. ek onkar: the true god of sikhism. emanation: that which inevitably flows outward from the transcendental (spiritual, beyond human experience) centra

ire causes suffering, that suffering can end, and that ending suffering happens by following the path of the buddha s teachings. gahambars: seasonal festivals. gathas: a portion of the zend-avesta that contains holy songs; believed to be the words of zarathushtra himself. god: the supreme or ultimate being or reality; creator of the universe. goddess worship: term that refers generally to any neo-pagan practice that elevates the status of goddesses over that of gods. golden temple: the chief sikh temple, located in the city of amritsar in india; more formally, the sri harmandir sahib. gurdwara: a sikh temple or place of worship. guru: a religious teacher. ha-ne-go-ate-geh: the evil-minded, the evil spirit of the iroquois nation. ha-wen-ne-yu: the great spirit of the iroquois nation. hadith

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will be dissipated, if we look for, in it, not mysteries of ineffable wisdom, but an attempt at a reasonable doctrine, made when reason arose, an effort to grasp the plan of the universe, and to secure the link which binds to one common principle, all the elements which are around us "the last word of this system is the substitution of the absolute divine unity for every idea of dualism, for that pagan philosophy which saw in matter an eternal substance whose laws were not in accord with divine will; and for the biblical doctrine, which by its idea of creation, postulates two things, the universe and god, as two substances absolutely distinct one from the other "in fact, in the 'sepher yetzirah' god considered as the infinite and consequently the indefinable being, extended throughout all

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

permanent good or evil that he works to others lies rather in the sentiments he can diffuse. his acts are limited and momentary; his sentiments may pervade the universe, and inspire generations till the day of doom. all our virtues, all our laws, are drawn from books and maxims, which are sentiments, not from deeds. in conduct, julian had the virtues of a christian, and constantine the vices of a pagan. the sentiments of julian reconverted thousands to paganism; those of constantine helped, under heaven's will, to bow to christianity the nations of the earth. in conduct, the humblest fisherman on yonder sea, who believes in the miracles of san gennaro, may be a better man than luther; to the sentiments of luther the mind of modern europe is indebted for the noblest revolution it has known

the road brought before him one of those long, desolate, gloomy villages which are found in the interior of the neapolitan dominions: and now he came upon a small chapel on one side the road, with a gaudily painted image of the virgin in the open shrine. around this spot, which, in the heart of a christian land, retained the vestige of the old idolatry (for just such were the chapels that in the pagan age were dedicated to the demon-saints of mythology, gathered six or seven miserable and squalid wretches, whom the curse of the leper had cut off from mankind. they set up a shrill cry as they turned their ghastly visages towards the horseman; and, without stirring from the spot, stretched out their gaunt arms, and implored charity in the name of the merciful mother! glyndon hastily threw t

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

at it is based on an unbroken oral tradition handed down from an ancient priesthood in egypt. the cult projects a minimum belief in a god which totally excludes god, the divine redeemer, and which rejects jesus christ, the son of god. its leaders tell its initiates that the doctrine of the cull is based on a hidden master religion in which all men can agree because it is founded on pre-christian, pagan models that appear not to be in conflict with reputable faiths. this offspring of the ancient idolatrous mystery cults has existed in america for centuries, but its leaders have never dared to admit that they hope to replace christianity with the cult. however, in recent years, they have dared to establish small, public temples in the united states: namely, the meditation rooms in the united

.n. to have entered the room from october 11, 1952 to june 1963. over 750,000 of these visitors have signed 108 of these books, each containing 7.000 names. what purpose is served by the accumulation of these thousands of names of individuals, with their religious affiliations, who visit the room and who. by the act of signing their names. indicate that they do not object to the existence of this pagan temple? the friends are a product of the'"non-sectarian" laymen's movement for a christian world, inc. the international headquarters of which is located at wainwright house, milton point, rye, new york. warren r. austin, a past permanent u.s. delegate to the u.n, headed a friend's committee which presented s12,600 to hammarskjold on april 24, 1957, as first payment on $25,000 needed to remo

epresents a full triangle (pyramid) with an invisible apex (capstone) which contains the all-seeing eye of the mural. conclusion the ultramundane symbolism and atmosphere of the meditation room of the united nations may bemuse the unwary and the lukewarm in faith; their delusion need not be shared by christians or members of other faiths who do not accept ancient paganism clothed in modern dress "pagan" had at one time an antonym: milites christi or "enrolled soldiers of christ. men and women who fought paganism with every iota of strength and faith and knowledge at their command. milites christi are needed now to combat the influence and supporters of this temple of abomination, with its crude, occult-evoking simulacra of deity. st. paul said (acts 17, verse 29 "if therefore we are the of

st age of cumaen song now comes (novus ordo seclorum altered from magnus soeclorum ordo, a mighty order of ages is born anew. both the prophetic virgin and saturnian kingdoms now return. now a new progeny is let down from the lofty heavens. favor, chaste lucina, the boy soon io be born in whom the iron age shall come to an end, and the golden one shall arise again in the whole earth" virgil was a pagan philosopher of rome.16 the literalure on the mystic meaning of the seal is extensive and amazing. it appears that almost every secret fraternity, society and movement in the country has claimed the seal's reverse side as its own. celestia root lang wrote:17 "the reverse side must have been designed by a mystic, one versed in symbolism. all true theosophists ought to be able to see. the conne

the number of stones in the pyramid totals 72, the 72 arrangements of the tetragrammaton, the cabalistic name of jehovah.59 the stones are counted as follows (from the top 13th level down to the base: 3; 4; 4(3 plus 2 1/2's; 4; 5; 5(4 plus 2 1/2's; 5; 6; 6(5 plus 2 1/2's; 7(6 plus 2 1/2's; 7; 8; 8(7 plus 2 1/2's. total: 72. the meaning of the tetragrammaton was explained at length in part i. the pagan origin of the two mottos on the reverse seal has already been attested to. the entire quotation cited earlier containing the phrase novus ordo seclorum provides the ciue as to the nature of the "new order of the -34- ages" referred to. i( is a "golden" age during which the "saturnian" kingdom shall return. saturn was the father of osiris. the other motto, annuit coeptis "favor my daring unde

source 9, part i, p. 889 "the connection of material light with. mental illumination was prominently exhibited in all the ancient systems of religion and esoteric mysteries. among the egyptians. the symbol of moral illumination. was also the symbol of osiris [ibid, pp. 469-470) these root-symbols are met with over and over again in all of the temples and designs used by the devotees of the "new" pagan cult [persons involved in the establishment and decoration of the prayer room, in addition to those already named, were: the senate chaplain, rev. frederick brown harris; the house chaplain, rev. bernard braskamp; the asst. chancellor of the archdiocese of washington. father edward j. herrmann; the minister of the washington hebrew congregation, rabbi norman gerstenfeld; representative edgar

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them, desperate special pleading has frequently been the introduction xi response today also. this reflects a desire to keep treasured items of belief safe from the restless questioning of the modern world, even at the cost of a debilitating split between head and heart. if early christian texts present jesus in cosmic terms, relating stories that are less history than myths like those about the pagan savior-gods, or like the apocalyptic figures anticipated by the essenes, these must be seen as unfortunate vestiges in the christian message of former superstitious and unrealistic times. the response of christian theologians must be to demythologize christianity a program relentlessly pursued by bultmann and his many followers in particular, but tacitly followed by many more.2 and what has

hasis on an iranian-zoroastrian thread in the mysteries and, indeed in christianity, is more subtle and restrained) but the arguments against showed, in turn, a failure to exorcise the specter that had been raised. hugo rahner s fascinating greek myth and christian mystery tried to limit the influence of the mysteries to later phases, to the fourth century and after, when the church took over the pagan establishment. looking back on another classic study, samuel angus mystery religions and christianity, theodore gaster protested that many of the things claimed to have come from the mysteries might really xviii christianity as mystical fact have been transmitted from judaism. the situation has only really been clarified by the notable discoveries of new texts in 1945 and 1947. the gnostic t

ho nevertheless found it hard to relinquish the ways of the mysteries. christianity emerged only slowly out of the mysteries. christian convictions might be expressed in the form of mystery-truths. christian language might clothe the wisdom belonging to the mysteries. the essence of christianity 147 one example is clement of alexandria (died a.d. 217, a christian author who had been educated as a pagan. he wrote: thus the lord did not hinder from doing good on the sabbath, but allowed us to communicate those divine mysteries and that holy light to those who are able to receive them. he certainly did not disclose to the many what did not belong to the many, but to the few to whom he knew that they belonged, and who were capable of receiving and being molded according to them. but secret thi

ht of the sun, and the christian initiate tells us that one ascends in one s own inner nature to the vision of god, but the light by which one sees is the light of christmade- manifest. it is through him that the mystic ascends to the highest point within. so does the mysticism of medieval christianity differ from the experiences of the mystai in the ancient mysteries.169 chapter 11 christian and pagan wisdom philo judaeus: the mystery of the logos at the time of christian origins we also find the development within the ancient pagan culture of certain world conceptions that constitute a continuation of platonic thought, but which also have roots in a mysteriosophy that has been refined, made inward and spiritual. they appear first with philo of alexandria (c. 25 b.c. a.d. 50. the path to

is to link them in one. the spirit we encounter in our own inner nature is at the same time the spirit of the cosmos. much in this way of thinking is reminiscent of the pythagoreans that the heart of reality must be looked for in the inner life. at the same time, the inner life includes an awareness of cosmic significance. augustine speaks in essentially philonic terms when he says: christian and pagan wisdom 155 we therefore behold these things which you [god] have created, because they are; but they are, because you see them. and his further comment on what and how we see them is also striking: and we see externally that they are; but inwardly that they are good.171 all this has its origins in plato. like plato, philo interprets the destiny of the human soul as the denouement in a cosmic

father, looking upon the archetypes and shaping forms in accordance with them.173 thus it is not of 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

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been documented and categorized as that of the left hand path (lhp. the path of harmonious acceptance of man as he is, and the giving over of self responsibility to a higher force, has most often been characterized and represented by the right hand path (rhp. the rhp vs. lhp the distinction between the rhp and the lhp is one of the most misunderstood dichotomies i have personally encountered. the pagan community misunderstands it, most contemporary satanists misunderstand it, certainly mainstream religion hasn't got a clue. so, let me fill you in. the true distinction between the lhp and the rhp is one of intention: the lhp seeks a separation from god or nature for the purpose of self deification and the inherent personal responsibilities *that* implies. the rhp seeks to merge with god, to

esopotamia, first as a potter mark, and in later egyptian dynasties as a mason s mark. symbolically, it was connected to the souls separate journey through the universe. gerald gardner (considered the founding father of modern wicca) utilized the inverted pentagram as representive of the second degree of wicca. the gnostics called the pentagram the blazing star and related it to night time magic. pagan, druids, celts, pythagoreans, greeks and romans all used the pentagram- with one point or two points upward as various symbols of perfection, truth and magic. within the paradigm presented in this book, the pentagram in its inverted (two points up) position is restored to its original purity as a symbol of the separate soul journeying through the universe- experiencing that which extends bey

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ld leader in the last days as a "he goat" this he goat, say the scriptures, becomes very strong and his power is symbolized by a horn that arises from his forehead. this strange and evil creature makes war on the host of god and stamps upon them. is this not an image of the beast, baphomet, worshipped in secret by the llluminati? baphles me! 101 the baptism of a satanic witch in the ceremonies of pagan religions, baptisms counterfeits of the christian sacrament were conducted as rites of initiation. below is the modern-day account of one such dark baptism, exactly as it is recorded in the book, the satanic witch, by anton lavey, head of the church of satan. lavey has declared that the goal of his unholy church is to usher in a "new age (the person being baptized is lavey's daughter, zeena

e, who admits: the right hand has in all ages been deemed an emblem of fidelity, and our ancient brethren worshipped deity under the name of fides or fidelity, which was sometimes represented by two right hands joined. numa was the first who erected an altar to fides under which name the goddess of oaths and honesty was worshipped.1 burns points out that this reference to the worship of the roman pagan goddess is literally repeated by the initiate in the very first degree of the masonic ritual. yet the holy bible commands "thou shalt have no other gods before me (exodus 20:3) and goes on to emphatically state "make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth (exodus 23:23) in volume 1 of albert mackey's encyclopedia of freemasonry, a large section is dev

e sign of their silly, fanciful god, all the while cursing the darkness rather than lighting a candle. men blinded for all eternity by their rejection of the true light. 210 codex magica the arm patch on the military uniform of pakistan's president, general pervez musharraf, tells a number of tales. against a black, circle background we find the familiar crescent moon and star of islam (actually, pagan origin, being representative of diana, the witchcraft "star" and "moon" goddess) as well as the two crossed swords (in the pagan era, a sign of mars, god of war. it is doubtful musharraf has any idea of the actual meaning of these symbols. the "x" team? in time magazine (july 14, 2003, p. 79, it was reported that marvel comics intended to publish a comic book that featured a resurrected prin

aint andrew's cross. this is far from certain. the confederacy was secretly supported by jesuits, masons, and jews (rothschild interests) all of whom were aware of its true, occultic origins. moreover, the degree of the scottish rite of freemasonry emphasizes the x- shaped cross of saint andrew. cross my heart and hope to die" 235 236 codex magica illuminism in space: nasa patches are loaded with pagan, occultic, and masonic meanings, including the x of osiris, the egyptian sun god. an x is formed as america's top four politicians met at the white house to decide the fate of the federal budget. obviously, this was a staged "photo op" event, but for vice president al gore and house speaker newt gingrich to reach over the clasped hands of president bill clinton and senate majority leader bob

onjunction of opposites is part of the science of alchemy, or hermeticism, and is especially beloved by occult magicians. in witchcraft, it is known as the joining of sun and moon, and sacred sex rituals are common. janus, roman two-faced "god of the sun" was said to be the "keeper of the keys" to the invisible spirit world. hislop (the two babylons) called him "the source and fountain of all the pagan gods" is the masonic doubleheaded eagle symbolic of his predecessor, janus? thirteen the riddle of the great seal of the united states, and the all-seeing eye of the illuminati's serpent of wisdom and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world -revelation 12:9 the great serpent of the garden of eden and the lord god are ident

tened man is in a rude, natural state. having little or no "light" and without the spiritual illumination offered by the mystery religions he is likened to an imperfect or rough ashlar stone. but once enlightened and illuminated, he is crafted into a man of education, sophistication, discipline, and culture. he reaches upward toward spiritual perfection. he is then a perfect ashlar stone. in many pagan religions this concept of the rough vs. perfect ashlar was taught. in freemasonry, it is heavily emphasized. the pyramid's structure is fitted only with perfect ashlar stones, it is said, meticulously chosen by "the builders" who watch for flaws and reject the rough, or imperfect ashlar. likewise, the higher level masons discover that the pyramid reflects, or parallels, the new world order (

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comes responsibility for ones own actions (more on this in the next section. your first responsibility should be to find a path that is suited to your needs. do you need the structure and discipline of a coven or order? do you need to belong to something with a history and a set of (never changing) traditions? or do you need the freedom that an eclectic solitaire path would provide? i am a simple pagan and i walk an eclectic solitaire path. i have, and do work with small groups from time to time, and i have had some formal training. my reasons for this path are simple, i spent twenty years of my life in the navy at a time when there were very few pagans in the military. it fit my needs. page 4 grimoire of eclectic magick) reality and responsibility( it is better to rush upon this blade tha

bliminal messages hidden in them, and regardless of how dysfunctional your childhood was, you, and only you are responsible for your own actions! if you like being a victim, if you need an escape goat to go through life with, then the last thing you need to do is learn magick. magick is about responsibility, and respect. responsibility for yourself, and respect for all living creatures. it is one pagan view point that the great mother gave birth to all things, meaning that we are all part of each other, as well as every living creature and rock. do you respect yourself? do you respect the environment around you? if you don t respect yourself, how do you expect to be responsible with the art of magick, and respect its use. never practice magick from the space of fear or anger. these emotion

sections of this book, i will be employing the basic celtic deities for simplicity and reference. amun (amun-re) anubis amam aten atum bastet bes geb hap hathor heket page 7 monon is the fictitious name used in the craft for the spirit (the force, or tao. it is of interest to note that it sounds similar to mananan the celtic-gaelic god of the sea. grimoire of eclectic magick dark or bright, most pagan traditions arrange the gods and goddesses into a standard pattern. the first of these is the three fold goddess. regardless if you call the lady gaia, frigga or dana. underlaying her power, are the three aspects of maiden, mother& crone (lunar archetypes. in some traditions these are three distinctively different goddesses. in other traditions, they are the same goddess at different stages o

watch towers( archetype gods and goddesses( all cultures have within their belief systems the concept of the four corners of the world. the idea of guardians dwelling in watch towers, is not something from the far distant past. it is, more a creation of the medieval magician, coming to us from a time when the lords of the land dwelt and ruled from their castles. even more perplexing, is that many pagan and wiccan systems name, and call upon the hebrew archangels as the watchers who dwell within these towers at the edge of the world. the singer, song writer, kate bush, on her album the red shoes, has within the lyrics of the song lily, incorporated the traditional words to summon the archangels from their watch towers gabriel before me raphael behind me michael on my right urial on my left

spells. called a book of shadows, because magick is not black or white. this is a journal, a collection of rituals, and a personal collection of spell recipes. tradition, states that it must be hand written, with magical inks using a special consecrated pen of art. more often then not, the modern practitioner will have computer scans and printouts taped or glued within its pages. the truly techno-pagan might even have the whole thing stored on their computer s hard drive. regardless of what medium your book of shadows takes, it should be arranged (in a minimum of) three sections, and certain things should be included within its pages. the first section should have some general information and personal notes. among this information should be your magical, or craft name. this is a holdover f

the spirit, the tao, and everyone s favorite, the force. magick can be practiced as a means of self advancement along a spiritual path (theurgy. it can also be practiced for material goals (thaumaturgy. magick is not good or evil, black or white, magick just is! like air, water or even gravity, it works the same no matter what is in the heart of the user. now for a little fresh information: most pagan belief systems are environmentally friendly, with the underlaying theme of living in harmony with others. if you are seeking power and the ability to control others by fear, you re in the wrong place! page 12 conscious sub-conscious super-conscious ba id nirvana ka super ego nama body/mind ego rupa egypt: freud: buddha: this page was assembled, in part based upon the fundamental teachings of

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n. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society s reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. wiccans, calling themselves practitioners of the craft of the wise, would resurrect many of the old ways and infuse them with modern thoughts and practices. whatever its origin, the occult seems to be an object of permanent fascination to the human race. are we alone? is the earth the only inhabited planet? imagine the excitement if contact is made

bout me. anyone who isn t against us is for us. neither jesus nor those who cast out demons in his name is called an exorcist in the new testament, and the word exorcise is never used anywhere in the bible in the context of banishing demons. by contrast to shamanic exorcisms of evil spirits in tribal cultures, which can last for hours or days; the rituals of demonic banishment in ancient egypt or pagan europe, which were dramatic ordeals of lengthy duration; or the rites of exorcism of the roman catholic church, which can go on for many days, months, even years, jesus exorcisms consisted of his/her simple and direct command to the demon to leave its unwilling host body. when jesus triumphs easily and immediately over the evil beings that have infested a human body and soul in the many enco

eks. once the mysteries were accepted by the greek initiates, the passion plays of demeter and dionysus became popular in the sixth century b.c.e. and again in the hellenistic age in the fourth century b.c.e. this was when individualism was encouraged and the old gods of olympus fell into disregard. perhaps the time of greatest popularity for the mysteries occurred during the closing centuries of pagan worship practices and the advent of the christian era. the early christian fathers regarded the rites in the sacred groves as strong rivals for their faith, and in the middle ages (500 1500 c.e, the christian clergy would declare such mysteries as satanic. m delving deeper brandon, s. g. f. religion in ancient history. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1969. cotterell, arthur, ed. encyclope

ey. origins of the sacred. new york: st. martins, 1991. christian mystery schools, cults, heresies the christian mystery schools were largely condemned by the early church fathers because of the fear that their 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 mystery religions and cults 269 practitioners were consciously or unconsciously continuing the old pagan ways. as it was, nearly all of the christian holy days coincided with pagan holidays, from christmas and the roman feast of saturnalia to easter and the fertility rites of the goddess eastre. the church patriarchs were not at all willing to encourage any additional blendings of christianity with the old religions. christianity was a young religion when compared to the worship of the greek, r

ted to such gods as osiris, isis, and dionysus, together with the magical formulas discovered by hermes trimegistus and other masters of the art of theurgy, compelled the gods to manifest and share their powers. the myths of the old gods and the holy scriptures of the christians, the secret experiences of the ancients and the revelations of the apostles, the personal sense of god developed by the pagan cults, and the promise of the church fathers that one could know god through his son all seemed to some individuals to be harmonious. the rich inheritance of the pagan world seemed too valuable to abandon when such mysteries could be so easily adapted and kept alive in the new rituals. the church fathers disagreed sharply with the devotees of the christian mystery schools who sought their ap

god through his son all seemed to some individuals to be harmonious. the rich inheritance of the pagan world seemed too valuable to abandon when such mysteries could be so easily adapted and kept alive in the new rituals. the church fathers disagreed sharply with the devotees of the christian mystery schools who sought their approval. in their unanimous opinion, those who sought to blend the old pagan rituals with the new revelation of christ were members of secret cults who were to be condemned as heretics. in response to the rejection of the church establishment, the heretical members of the christian mystery schools simply became less open and more secretive in the expression of their religious practices. originally, the word heresy was an unemotional term that meant to engage in the a

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n. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society s reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. wiccans, calling themselves practitioners of the craft of the wise, would resurrect many of the old ways and infuse them with modern thoughts and practices. whatever its origin, the occult seems to be an object of permanent fascination to the human race. are we alone? is the earth the only inhabited planet? imagine the excitement if contact is made

rriage. london: souvenir press, 1961. frazer, sir james george. the golden bough. new york: collier/macmillan, 1950. grant, michael. the world of rome. cleveland, ohio: world publishing, 1960. grimal, nicolas. a history of ancient egypt. cambridge, mass: blackwell, 1994. hazlitt, w. c. dictionary of faiths and folklore. london: bracken books, 1995. jones, prudence, and nigel pennick. a history of pagan europe. london and new york: routledge, 1995. power, eileen. medieval people. garden city, n.y: doubleday anchor books, 1955. rees, nigel. best behavior. london: bloomsbury, 1992. walker, barbara g. the woman s encyclopedia of myths and secrets. san francisco: harper& row, 1983. burials and funerals no one can possibly derive an exact date when early humans first began to bury their dead. co

phcott. new york: random house, 1982. frazer, sir james george. the golden bough. new york: collier/macmillan, 1950. grant, michael. the world of rome. cleveland, ohio: world publishing, 1960. grimal, nicolas. a history of ancient egypt. cambridge, mass: blackwell, 1994. hazlitt, w. c. dictionary of faiths and folklore. london: bracken books, 1995. jones, prudence, and nigel pennick. a history of pagan europe. london and new york: routledge, 1995. opie, iona, and moira tatem, eds. a dictionary of superstitions. oxford, uk: oxford university press, 1989; new york: barnes& noble books, 1999. quigley, christine, and christ wuigley. the corpse: a history. jefferson, n.c: mcfarland, 1996. walker, barbara a. the woman s encyclopedia of myths and secrets. new york: harper& row, 1983. waring, phil

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. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society fs reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. wiccans, calling themselves gpractitioners of the craft of the wise, h would resurrect many of the old ways and infuse them with modern thoughts and practices. whatever its origin, the occult seems to be an object of permanent fascination to the human race. are we alone? is the earth the only inhabited planet? imagine the excitement if contact is m

ntee slavery for the masses the freemasons there are those who claim that the freemasons constitute a powerful secret brotherhood of darkness that is planning to take over the world. according to some scholars of the occult, the masons f gsupreme architect of the universe h is none other than lucifer, who cloaks himself in masonic literature under such names as zoraster, shiva, abaddon, and other pagan-god disguises. the so-called gholy writings h of freemasonry, as well as their secret rites, passwords, initiations, and handshakes have their origins in the roman mystery religions, egyptian rituals, and babylonian paganism. often linked to the illuminati, freemasonry is said to have exerted its influence on every aspect of american society. including its currency. of all of the above alarm

t magical practices were ineffective methods by which to guarantee the health of humans and animals and were not to be employed as a means of bettering one fs lot in life. with each subsequent church council issuing stronger canons and edicts against magic and sorcery, those who dared to continue practicing the occult arts were forced to go underground. european magic remained a pastiche of older pagan practices and ancient rituals until the crusades of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. warrior knights, nobles, and clerics returned from their encounters with the muslim armies with a great appreciation of their science and their sophisticated levels of magic. other crusaders remained after battles had been won or lost to explore the arts of the eastern sorcerers and to learn

oot for the words gmagic, h gmagician, h and so forth. such men were the councilors of the eastern empires, the possessors of occult secrets that guided royalty. in europe during the middle ages, those who bore the title of magi were more likely to be men who had devoted their lives to the accumulation of occult wisdom and knowledge from the kabbalah, the ancient egyptians, the arabs, and various pagan sources, and had thereby come under the scrutiny of the church and suspected of communicating with demons. although these individuals valiantly clung to precious fragments of ancient lore and insisted that they were practitioners of good magic, the clergy saw few distinctions between the magi and the witches that the inquisition sought to bring to trial for demonolatry and devil worship. it

translating the hebrew into latin. when he was 24, mirandola became confident that he could prove the divinity of christ through certain doctrines of the kabbalah and esoteric magic, and armed with 900 theses for public debate on the matter, he set out for rome. the young magician fs proofs were not accepted warmly by the church, however, relying as they did upon such elements as nature spirits, pagan gods, and jewish mysticism. pope innocent viii (1432.1492, ever on the alert for the presence of witches in whatever disguise they may present themselves, appointed a commission to examine count mirandola fs theses for any taint of heresy. although his percentage of acceptable theses was quite high, the papal commission managed to discover four of mirandola fs arguments to be greatly heretic

e from the 8,000 reported in 1990 to 134,000 self-proclaimed witches in 2001. a study released in november 2001 by the graduate center of the city university of new york found that the number of adults 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 72 magic and sorcery manyoccult groups claim count saint- germain as their spirit guide. who subscribe to a pagan religion was more than 140,000. since the middle ages, witchcraft, the gold religion, h or wicca, the gancient craft of the wise, h have been used interchangeably to name the followers of the same nature religion. while the interchangeability of the names remains true today, even those men and women who practice wicca or witchcraft have difficulty reaching a consensus regarding what it is ex

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ly two generations before the norman conquest; in his zeal for his new religion he triedto suppress heathenism by legal enactments.no religion dies out with the dramatic suddenness claimed by the upholders of the complete-conversiontheory. the constant influx of pagans through several centuries more than counterbalanced the small numberof immigrant christians. the country must therefore have been pagan with christian rulers and a christianaristocracy. a parallel case is that of spain under the moslems. there the rulers were of one religion, thepeople of another, the popular religion receiving continual reinforcements from abroad. in the case of spainthe popular religion organised by the civil power drove out the superimposed cult. in england, however, thefinal conquest was by the normans

eated; but the norman people, like the english, were largely of the old faith, and the conquest made littledifference to the relative position of the two religions. therefore though the rulers professed christianity thegreat mass of the people followed the old gods, and even in the highest offices of the church the priests oftenserved the heathen deities as well as the christian god and practised pagan rites. thus in 1282 the priest ofinverkeithing led the fertility dance round the churchyard;[2] in 1303 the bishop of coventry, like othermembers of his diocese, paid homage to a deity in the form of an animal;[3] in 1453, two years before therehabilitation of joan of arc, the prior of saint-germain-en-laye performed the same rites as the bishop ofcoventry.[4] as late as 1613 de lancre can s

had onegypt. the moslems found christianity established in the towns of the nile valley while a debased paganismstill existed among the agricultural population. the religion of islam swept through the country like a flame,the converts being chiefly from the pagans, not from the christians. in great britain the appeal of thereformation, like the appeal of the even more fanatical islam, was to the pagan population; but with thisdifference, that in england political conditions brought in the higher classes as well. it was then that thedividing line between christianity and heathenism became more marked, for the old religion was graduallyrelegated to the lowest classes of the community and to those who lived in remote parts at a distance fromany centre of civilisation.the records of the middl

erve two masters. thus, according to bede, king redwaldhad "in the same temple an altar to sacrifice to christ, and another smaller one to offer victims to devils. atthe end o f the ninth century the whole of the powerful kingdom of mercia was under the sway of the heathendanes; and penda, one of the greatest of the mercian rulers, refused to change his religion and died, as he hadlived, a devout pagan.the same difficulties occurred elsewhere. in normandy rollo, after his conversion, gave great gifts tochristian churches, but at the same time sacrificed his christian captives to his old gods. scandinavia, alwaysin touch with great britain (norway held the hebrides till 1263, successfully resisted christianity till theeleventh century. sweyn, the son of harold bluetooth, was baptised in inf

her he was hergod, and that she should serve and worship him".such a mass of evidence shows that till the end of the seventeenth century the old religion still counted largenumbers of members. the issue has been confused, perhaps purposely, by the use of the word devil in itschristian connotation, for the name of the god, and by stigmatising the worshippers as witches. theconsequence is that the pagan people are now regarded as having worshipped the principle of evil, though inreality they were merely following the cult of a non-christian deity.the first recorded instance of the continuance of the worship of the horned god in britain is in 1303, whenthe bishop of coventry was accused before the pope of doing homage to the devil in the form of a sheep.[19]the fact that a man in so high a p

s of painted wood, and, like the egyptian example, was worn over the head,the wearer being at the same time wrapped in an oxskin. the combination of the horned mask and theanimal's skin show too close a resemblance to the palaeolithic prototype to be accidental. in the ooser wehave the last remains of that most ancient of all recorded religions, the worship of the horned god.the name of the great pagan deity varied according to the country in which the cult was followed. in the neareast the names were recorded from very early times; the name of the indian deity cannot yet be read, but thetraditional name still survives; in greece and in crete the record is later than in egypt and babylonia. inwestern europe, however, it was not till the roman domination that any written records were made;t

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d light on the immensity of what it conceals and soundlessly communicates. awareness, after all, is needed to reap the full benefit of the mysteries; as we will soon see, it is awareness that is the center and the very point of the entire system, both the human system of craft, and the entire divine world and universe itself. the housle rite is the very sum of all craft mysteries, and all western pagan mystery religions besides, including primal christianity. the holy meal, or the sacrament of bread and wine was absorbed into the primal christian stream at a very early date, from the pagan tradition. this does not change the power of this ancient ritual consumption of bread and drink; the flaw in christianity is that the christians do not understand the depth of symbolism behind and within

and within the sacred meal. their lack of awareness, as we shall see, prevents the loop from being complete, as it was intended to be; the mysteries are a matter of deep awareness and realization, not dogma or empty ritual performance. awareness, as it is focused through the housle, is in fact the key to the highest workingthe working of immortality, the immortalization of the individual. modern pagan authors normally do not discuss such topics, but they were secret doctrines of the ancient mysteries. the secret workings of the true life without beginning or end are summed up in the housle, perfectly. before we begin our conversation, i would like to state that the explanation for the inner meanings of the housle given here is relatively deep; if you perform the housle, and have read my o

towards crops or animals, and the necessity of their fertility and renewal after hunts or long winters; and perhaps it was thought that humans too were reborn or renewed in some manner at the transformation of death. the basic notion that all things come into being, exist, pass away finally, and experience regeneration or renewal, is the basic and central concept that is behind all indo-european pagan mythology (the same mythological tradition that is the true ancestor of the old faith or witchcraft. primal christianity, influenced mainly by the primal tradition of ancestral veneration and regeneration of pagan europe, likewise embraced (in their own peculiar way) a central theme of life, sacrifice, and regeneration, with their ultimate eschatological concept of resurrection and a new hea

g, and it is present in all events, forms, and beings that will come forth in turn from those original forms. at the culmination of fate, the culmination of all events and consequences, this substance will be distilled out of this chain of forms into its pure stateit will be all that remains, just as it was in the beginning. this goes a long way towards esoterically explaining why practically all pagan (and many non-pagan) mythologies believed that in the end, fire would consume the universe, leaving behind the purified world of renewal. this cunning fire/substance is the common element that runs through all things, from beginning to end, and which at the end, returns to the source or the beginning, making a great circle, completing the universal cycle, and leading to a new, regenerated an

e of this fact, our awareness acts as a bridge by which we bring the ongoing reality of regeneration into the here and now, and experience it as our state. there will be a time in the universe s life, when it ends, and this renewal reality at its heart will regenerate it; but we mortals can experience that event now, because it is as much a part of now as it will be a part of that distant future. pagan faiths, from the ground level of community rites, to the highest and most secret mysteries, were all based around this very idea and this practise. in most historical and well-known cases, it was usually expressed in lower harmonics- crop renewal festivals and rites, for instance. these were local harmonics of the greater reality, as were the local dying and resurrected sacrificial king cult

areness of it- could return it (and us) to the source, and complete the loop, allowing us to recognize the truth, thus renewing us from a limited state and re-generating us into to an unlimited one. craft mythology now, we must begin to study craft mythology, which will in turn lead into a deep dissection of the housle, and show how the housle completely sums up the central message of all ancient pagan mysteries, and even the originally intended message of the primal christian mysteries- that of the world-renewal, and the rege neration of time and all things, including us. craft mythology is by no means a cohesive subject; it is a composite subject, drawn from many places and locales- some from the actual pagan mythologies of the past, and others (the larger portion) from the local legends

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d plato, it recognizes in him the infinite trinity of its own regeneration; 78 it reconciles the living numbers of pythagoras with the monadic word of st. john<gospel legend itself is a macedoine of those of bacchus, adonis, osiris, and a hundred others, and that the mass, and christian ceremonies generally, have similarly pagan sources- o. m> so much, science and reason will agree. it is then in the eyes of reason and of science themselves the most perfect, that is to say the most complete, dogma which has ever been produced in the world. let science and reason grant us so much; we shall ask nothing more of them "god exists; there is only one god, and he punishes those who do evil" said moses "god is everywhere; he

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rabic root fehm (charcoal) is fhm, meaning black or wise. this is recognizable and easily understood in an initiatory sense from the sufic phrase, dar tariki, tariqat (in the darkness, the path and reflects the ideal of the light or wisdom coming from the darkness. the arabic root fhm is symbolic of baphomet, meaning head of wisdom. in the knights templar, hugues de payns (which translates of the pagan) held a coat of arms which had three saracen heads, which resembled severed heads, indicating wisdom. 8 the sufis by idries shah and a history of secret societies by akron daraul. 17 it is also the sufis who move against the sun9 which brought such practice to the west. in the yatus cult, the darkness must be observed, absorbed and the initiate must be made to move against the path of the na

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s the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is called the "summerland. sumer-land? another hallmark of the craft of the wise is evident within the necronomicon, as well as in general sumerian literature, and that is the arrangement of the cross-quarter days, which make up half of the craft's official pagan holidays. these occur on the eves of february 2nd, may 1st, august 1st, and november 1st, and are called candlemas, beltane, lammas and samhain (or hallows, respectively. the name lammas has a curious origin in the dunes at sumer. it is not less than the name of one of the four mythological beasts of the astrological fixed signs, lamas being the name of the half-lion, half-man guardian of le

ty in many cultures around the world, and were also thought to represent certain animals who were horned, and worshipped for their particular qualities, such as the goat and bull. they also represent sexual power. the fact that, in ancient sumeria and egypt, horns were solely representative of evil gods, but of many different deities, was used by the christian church in their attempt to eradicate pagan faiths. it was a simple enough symbol to identify with the author of evil, satan, which the church depicted as a half-animal, half-human creature with horns, claws, and sometimes a tail. the church's use of the horns as a sort of archetype of evil is quite similar to the feeling many people have today with regards to the swastika used by the nazis, a symbol which has become the archetype of

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ced by saints, virgins, martyrs, or angels, often of the same name, always of the same character. thus on the altar the solar-phallic crucifix is surrounded by six lights for the planets, to use one example only of a hundred at our disposal; and christmas is at the winter solstice, the birth of christ put for the birth of the sun. all these points may be studied in: la messe et ses mysteres rome, pagan and papal the two babylons rivers of life file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c1.html (4 of 7 [12/28/2001 2:05:17 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. two essays on the worship of priapus and many other books which may be studied in the library of the o.t.o. and elsewhere. but in pure free masonry and especially in the o.t.o. this synthesis has

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

find dr. gardner himself, in 1954, stating unambiguously that some witches are descendants. of a line of priests and priestesses of an old and probably stone age religion, who have been initiated in a certain way (received into the circle) and become the recipients of certain ancient learning (gardner, witchcraft today, pp 33-34) stated in its most extreme form, wicca may be defined as an ancient pagan religious system of beliefs and practices, with a form of apostolic succession (that is, with knowledge and ordination handed on lineally from generation to generation, a more or less consistent set of rites and myths, and even a secret holy book of considerable antiquity (the book of shadows. more recent writers, as we have noted, have hedged a good deal on these claims, particularly the la

of the night to ride upon certain beasts with diana, the goddess of pagans, or with herodias, and an innumerable multitude of women, and in the silence of the dead of night to traverse great spaces of earth, and to obey her commands as of their mistress, and to be summoned to her service on certain nights (quoted in valiente, witchcraft for tomorrow, hale, 1978, p 32) i do not doubt that bits of pagan folklore survived on the continent through the first millenium- northern europe remained overtly pagan until the high middle ages. but what has this to do with wicca? farrar, for his part, explains the lack of references to a goddess in the testimony at the infamous witch trials by asserting that "the judges ignored the goddess, being preoccupied with the satan-image of the god (what witches

ry before you. it comes from yet another priest, father cornelius loos, who observed, in 1592 that "wretched creatures are compelled by the severity of the torture to confess things they have never done, and so by cruel butchery innocent lives are taken (ibid, p 16. the "evidence" of the witch trials indicates, on the whole, neither the satanism the church and state would have us believe, nor the pagan survivals now claimed by modern wicca; rather, they suggest only fear, greed, human brutality carried out to bizarre extremes that have few parallels in all of history. but, the brutality is not that of `witches' nor even of `satanists' but rather that of the christian church, and the government. a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 7 what, then, are we to mak

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robin goodfellow. 153 liberalia and floralia festivities. 154 easter, and hot-cross-buns. 158 heaving and lifting customs at easter. 160 may-day festivities. 162 bonfires. 163 st. john s, or midsummer-eve. 164 mother bunch s instruction to maidens. 166 plants and flowers connected with phallic worship. 167 the mandrake. 169 lady godiva, the shrewsbury show, and the guild festival at preston. 170 pagan rites of the early christians. 171 gnostics, manich ans, nicolait, followers of florian &c. 173 the bulgarians, and their practices. 176 walter mape s account of the patarini, and their secret rites. 176 the waldenses and cathari. 178 popular oaths and phallic worship. 181 secret society in orleans for celebrating obscene rites. 182 the stedingers of germany, and their secret ceremonies. 184

hamilton, etc. naples, dec. 30, 1781. sir, aving last year made a curious discovery, that in a province of this kingdom, and not fifty miles from its capital, a sort of devotion is still paid to priapus, the obscene divinity of the ancients (though under another denomination, i thought it a circumstance worth recording; particularly, as it offers a fresh proof of the similitude of the popish and pagan religion, so well observed by dr. middleton, in his celebrated letter from rome: and therefore i mean to deposit the authentic1 proofs of this assertion in the british museum, when a proper opportunity shall offer. in the meantime i send you the following account, which, i flatter myself, will amuse you for the present, and may in future serve to illustrate those proofs. i had long ago disco

lem. there are traces of the existence of this practice in the middle ages. in the case of some of the priapic saints mentioned above, women sought a remedy for barrenness by kissing the end of the phallus; sometimes they appear to have placed a part of their body naked against the image of the saint, or to have sat upon it. this latter trait was perhaps too bold an adoption of the indecencies of pagan worship to last long, or to be practiced openly; but it appears to have been more innocently represented by lying upon the body of the saint, or sitting upon a stone, understood to represent him without the presence of the energetic member. in a corner in the church of the village of st. fiacre, near mouceaux in france, there is a stone called the chair of st. fiacre, which confers fecundity

rginity on the altar of st. foutin. 2 from this form of superstition is said to have arisen a vice which is understood to prevail especially in nunneries the use by women of artificial phalli, which appears in its origin to have been a religious ceremony. it certainly existed at a very remote period, for it is distinctly alluded to in the scriptures,3 where it is evidently considered as a part of pagan worship. it is found at an early period of the middle ages, described in the ecclesiastical penitentials, with its appropriate amount of penitence. one of these penitential canons of the eighth century speaks of a woman who, by herself or with the help of another woman, commits uncleanness, for which she was to do penance for three years, one on bread and water; and if this uncleanness was c

158 on the worship of the have been a very important one, and deeply implanted in the popular feelings, or the church would not have sought to identify it with one of the greatest christian festivals of the year. it is understood that the romans considered this month as dedicated to venus, no doubt because it was that in which the productive power of nature began to be visibly developed. when the pagan festival was adopted by the church, it became a moveable feast instead of being fixed to the month of april. among other objects offered to the goddess at this time were cakes, made no doubt of fine flour, but of their form we are ignorant. the christians, when they seized upon the easter festival, gave them the form of a bun, which, indeed, was at that time the ordinary form of bread; and t

and deprecatory remarks in the ecclesiastical councils and writings of a later period of the middle ages, shows that the existence of the evil had continued unabated. there was an african council in the year 381, from which burchardus, who compiled his condensation of ecclesiastical decrees for the use of his own time, professes to derive his provisions against the festivals which were held with pagan ceremonies. we are there told that, even on the most sacred of the christian commemoration days, these rites derived from the pagans were introduced, and that dancing was practiced in the open street of so infamous a character, and accompanied with such lascivious language and gestures, that the modesty of respectable females was shocked to a degree that prevented their attendance at the ser

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

uring the 20th century, and their influence continues unabated into the new millennium. most prominent among them were aleister crowley, dion for- tune and arthur edward waite. each of these three not only founded new occult orders, but wrote innumerable teaching texts on golden dawn magic. their writ- ings formed the basis for the ritual techniques and many of the occult beliefs cur- rent in the pagan religion of wicca, or witchcraft, as well as those used by most practitioners of ceremonial magic and enochian magic. there is no attempt made here to discredit the magic of the golden dawn, which has exerted such a powerful influence on the modern west. new millenni- um magic is an attempt to understand the essential principles of magic through which golden dawn magic, and all other types o

n move them an equal amount in the opposite direction lest the temerity of the magus be punished. whenever something is gained that is not his or hers by right, the magus must lose something equally precious. t he spiral is perhaps the most common of primitive symbols. it finds expression in the art of such diverse cultures as the native american, the pre-buddhist tibetan, the african tribal, and pagan norse. usually it is assumed to represent the emanating power of the sun. this is true in a limited sense, but it should be understood that the sun is only a material expression of manifesting energy and that the spiral refers the mind back to the original princi- ple, even as does the physical sun. both spiral and sun are symbols of the underly- ing reality. sometimes the spiral is drawn wi

o the primal lightning and is always the male principle. the horizontal ray sug- gests the surface of the primal sea and is always female. also, the intersection point of the christian cross is near the top, indicating a movement toward the light. for these reasons it emphasizes triumph and victory. not surprisingly, the history of christianity has been one of male rule and military conquest. the pagan and christian views of the cross find an interesting union in this lyric of cynewulf, an anglo-saxon poet who lived around a.d. 750. this descrip- tion is taken from the dream of the rood: methought on a sudden i saw a cross upreared in the sky, and radiant with light. brightest of trees, that beauteous beacon was dipped in gold, and bedight with jewels: four at the base, and five on the bea

he cross of glory, aglow with light. layers of gold, and glittering jewels covered its bark, and buried the wood. still through the gold that garnished its side, i was 'ware of wounds where once it had bled, scars of a battle old. i was bowed with sorrow; but the vision filled me with fear when i saw that it changed its hue-now chased with gold, now stained with blood and streaming wet!6 here the pagan notion of the cross of trial is blended with the christian emphasis on the cross of glory, and this is very much the understanding of this ancient symbol that has come down to the modern west. the cross was often linked with the circle in ancient times. this form of glyph occurs in prehistoric carvings such as the hallristningar) and is a letter of the phoenician and older greek alphabets (q

lding of more aggressive neighbors. cults of female gods, existing away from the center of societies, can still be observed. remnants of goddess worship are evident in the adoration of the virgin mary among christians, the veneration of the matronit and shekhinah among jews, the worship of shakti among hindus. the women's movement has sparked a revival of interest in the goddess. the contemporary pagan religion of wicca wor- ships the earth mother in her many guises. as for the worship of god as a child, christianity is the most obvious example. in the middle ages, jesus was often depicted as a babe in arms with a wise adult head, or as a slender effeminate figure with a narrow waist and broad hips. child- god cultures are characterized by an ambivalence between the active and passive impu

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

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

by the serpent. due to this imagined vulnerability of women, theologians believed that more women than men became witches. however, many men were also accused of witchcraft and executed for it. an examination of the long lists of witch names in appendix 111 of margaret a. murray's witch-cult in western europe shows a ratio or roughly one man for every ten women. since the practice of shamanism in pagan times was divided between men and women, it may be wondered why witchcraft, its descendent, came to be associated predominantly with women. a possible answer lies in tracing what became of the role in society that had been filled by male shamans. it is apparent that their functions of intermediaries with the spirit world and healers of the sick were assumed, respectively, by priests and phys

dium maleficarum, 34. 16. scot, bk. 111, chap. 16, p. 37. 17. leland, aradia, 4. 22 soul flight consciousness. there is also an echo here of the gnostic myth of sophia, goddess of wisdom, who incarnated as a mortal woman in order to aid human souls mired in ignorance to regain their divine birthright to dwell among the stars. witch's power of flight witchcraft is ancient in italy, and even in its pagan beginnings involved soul flight. the second-century roman writer lucius apuleius, in his novel the golden ass, described the flight of the witch pamphile, who smeared her body with a magic ointment and transformed herself into the form of an owl: and when midnight came, she led me softly into a high chamber and bid me look thorow the chink of a doore: where first i saw how shee put of all he

largely by the investigators and judges connected with the inq isition."w i tc hes were solitary practitioners of their shamanic traditions, or at most family practitioners, and never met in large groups. however, it is possible that the story of the blocula as an astral place was derived by the inquisitors from some traditional belief among swedish witches, perhaps a belief that descended from a pagan myth of paradise. methods of flight an interesting aspect of the soul flight of traditional european witches is the methods supposed to have been used to carry them through the air. citing nicolas remy's demonolatry as his source, guazzo mentions numerous forms of transportation- 23. robbins, 288. 24. hansen, witch's garden, 87. 25. robbins, 414-5. 26 soulflight but it must be known that bef

oat or a dog, and so are carried to their feast. and yet again they go on foot when the place is not far distant.26 in earliest times, it was by transformation into birds, as the quotation from the novel of apuleius demonstrates. by the tenth century, the prevailing belief was that witches flew on the backs of beasts sacred to the lunar goddess diana. in the fanatical eyes of the medieval church, pagan diana was only one step away from satan, so it was maintained that witches flew on beasts controlled by the devil, or sometimes were carried through the air by the devil or by his demons. a later evolution gives the witch a stick to ride upon. this stick takes several forms. it can be a simple forked twig-forked to indicate duality and thus duplicity, after the manner of the forked tongue of

lden dawn was a rosicrucian society that admitted both men and women. its purpose was the revival of the occult wisdom of the past-not merely the teaching of the esoteric philosophies of greece, rome, persia, egypt, and judea, but also the revival of the practice of ritual magic both for the perfection of the individual and the advancement of the human species. even though it made use of numerous pagan gods and goddesses in its rituals, it was fundamentally christian, as all rosicrucian societies must be. the primary symbol of the golden dawn was the rosy-cross-a cross with a red rose at its intersection. many of the early members of the golden dawn were also theosophists. at first this troubled blavatsky, who prohibited theosophists from joining the golden dawn or other occult societies

of the house. he is always willing to talk to travelers who stop in for a meal or to rest the night in the spare bedroom upstairs, and is full of homely advice and wisdom. chapter fourteen: runes 257 23. dagaz literal meaning: daylight general sense: clarity, understanding, perception, openness, harmony, wholeness, enlightenment the land of dagaz is a windswept open plateau on which is situated a pagan temple consisting of a single standing stone surrounded by a ring of numerous smaller stones. twelve ridges of earth, like low walls, extend away from the standing stone in twelve spokes, so that the construction has the form of a great wheel. the sun never sets in this strange world, but moves around the horizon in a complete circle each day, just as it does in the high arctic during summer

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e power of god. in sacrifices, blood was smeared over these horns. altars in those degenerate times began to be made of cut stones, or a single cut stone, wood, and even brass. the rationale for the use of natural stone is that it is 72 tetragrammaton a product of god, who is perfect, and not the result of the craft of imperfect men. probably the same reasoning 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 fam

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w creed and to devote himself..to the promulgation of that creed."xvi -141- the details of crowley's life are fairly well-known, based on his own autobiography and numerous popular biographies, so i won't reiterate all of them here. i will simply provide a brief sketch of his background and context. educated at trinity college in cambridge, crowley was from an early age fascinated with poetry and pagan religion and was a prolific author of both verse and prose. while still a student at cambridge he had published his first collection of poetry, aceldama, and his notorious erotic collection, white stains (1898. having inherited a large amount of money while still young, he was financially independent for many years and spent much of his time pursuing his passions of writing and mountain clim

rror of secular thought (albany: suny, 1998) makes only brief passing reference to crowley. among the few serious treatments of crowley are martin booth, aleister crowley: selected poems (london: crucible, 1986, stoddard martin, orthodox heresy: the rise of "magic" as religion and its relation to literature (hampshire: macmillan press, 1989, ronald hutton, triumph of the moon: a history of modern pagan witchcraft (oxford: oxford university prsss, 2000, chapter 10; and more recently lawrence sutin, do what thou wilt: a life of aleister crowley (new york: st. martin s press, 2000. ivcrowley uses the spelling "magick" to distinguish his art- the art of changing nature in accordance with one's will- from most vulgar understandings of the term. see the law is for all: the authorized popular com

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

t, by john a. keel (1968. fawcett publications, greenwich, conn..the parahuman serpent people of the past are still among us. they were probably worshipped by the builders of stonehenge and the forgotten ridge-making cultures of south america..in some parts of the world the serpent people successfully posed as gods and imitated the techniques of the superintelligence. this led to the formation of pagan religions centered around human sacrifices. the conflict, so far as man himself was concerned, became one of religions and races. whole civilizations based upon the worship of these false gods rose and fell in asia, africa, and south america. the battleground had been chosen, and the mode of conflict had been decided upon "the human race would supply the pawns. the mode of control was compli

mired the narrow valley and the looming snow-capped mountain ridges on both sides "the sadhu was still there. i thought 'a place called naggar, a devotee of the nagas with the cobra staff, if he does not know something about the nagas, then who does" after andrew tomas asked this man, apparently a misguided member of a serpent cult, if he knew anything about the "nagas" or the serpent beings, the pagan devotee responded"'i am a poor sadhu, i know nothing, sahib. but about twenty years ago my yogi teacher went into the mountain kingdom of the nagas. bright lights everywhere, big halls like taj mahal. the nagas have many, many things and machines. they are clever, like cambridge men, may be more clever, sahib' the sadhu said with an apologetic smile"'your yogi must have been a rishi. don't t

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

ed as a lantern by people who traveled the road this night, the scary face to frighten away spirits or faeries who might otherwise lead one astray. set on porches and in windows, they cast the same spell of protection over the household (the american pumpkin seems to have forever superseded the european gourd as the jack-o-lantern of choice) bobbing for apples may well represent the remnants of a pagan 'baptism' rite called a 'seining, according to some writers. the water-filled tub is a latter-day cauldron of regeneration, into which the novice's head is immersed. the fact that the participant in this folk game was usually blindfolded with hands tied behind the back also puts one in mind of a traditional craft initiation ceremony. the custom of dressing in costume and 'trick-or-treating'

only one that still boasts anything near to popular celebration. even though it is typically relegated to children (and the young-at-heart) and observed as an evening affair only, many of its traditions are firmly rooted in paganism. interestingly, some schools have recently attempted to abolish halloween parties on the grounds that it violates the separation of state and religion. speaking as a pagan, i would be saddened by the success of this move, but as a supporter of the concept of religion-free public education, i fear i must concede the point. nonetheless, it seems only right that there should be one night of the year when our minds are turned toward thoughts of the supernatural. a night when both pagans and non-pagans may ponder the mysteries of the otherworld and its inhabitants

s putting up a 'nativity set, though for us the three central eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 7 characters are likely to be interpreted as mother nature, father time, and the baby sun-god. none of this will come as a surprise to anyone who knows the true history of the holiday, of course. in fact, if truth be known, the holiday of christmas has always been more pagan than christian, with it's associations of nordic divination, celtic fertility rites, and roman mithraism. that is why both martin luther and john calvin abhorred it, why the puritans refused to acknowledge it, much less celebrate it (to them, no day of the year could be more holy than the sabbath, and why it was even made illegal in boston! the holiday was already too closely associated with

, with it's associations of nordic divination, celtic fertility rites, and roman mithraism. that is why both martin luther and john calvin abhorred it, why the puritans refused to acknowledge it, much less celebrate it (to them, no day of the year could be more holy than the sabbath, and why it was even made illegal in boston! the holiday was already too closely associated with the birth of older pagan gods and heroes. and many of them (like oedipus, theseus, hercules, perseus, jason, dionysus, apollo, mithra, horus and even arthur) possessed a narrative of birth, death, and resurrection that was uncomfortably close to that of jesus. and to make matters worse, many of them pre-dated the christian savior. ultimately, of course, the holiday is rooted deeply in the cycle of the year. it is th

t year's log. riddles were posed and answered, magic and rituals were practiced, wild boars were sacrificed and consumed along with large quantities of liquor, corn dollies were carried from house to house while carolling, fertility rites were practiced (girls standing under a sprig of mistletoe were subject to a bit more than a kiss, and divinations were cast for the coming spring. many of these pagan customs, in an appropriately watered-down form, have entered the mainstream of christian celebration, though most celebrants do not realize (or do not mention it, if they do) their origins. for modern witches, yule (from the anglo-saxon 'yula, meaning 'wheel' of the year) is usually celebrated on the actual winter solstice, which may vary by a few days, though it usually occurs on or around

he mainstream of christian celebration, though most celebrants do not realize (or do not mention it, if they do) their origins. for modern witches, yule (from the anglo-saxon 'yula, meaning 'wheel' of the year) is usually celebrated on the actual winter solstice, which may vary by a few days, though it usually occurs on or around december 21st. it is a lesser sabbat or lower holiday in the modern pagan calendar, one of the four quarter-days of the year, but a very important one. this year (1988) it occurs on december 21st at 9:28 am cst. pagan customs are still enthusiastically followed. once, the yule log had been the center of the celebration. it was lighted on the eve of the solstice (it should light on the first try) and must be kept burning for twelve hours, for good luck. it should e

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eg, saying 'honi soit qui mal y pense' the mid-victorians, to whom a garter was slightly naughty, made pretty christmas cards of the 'blushing countess; but ladies of those times, and this lady in particular, were hard-boiled; it took more than a garter to make them blush. the king's quickness saved the situation and placed him almost in the position of their incarnate god in the eyes of his more pagan subjects. this was followed by the foundation of an order of twelve knights for the king and twelve for the prince of wales, i.e. twenty-six members in all, or two covens. froissart's words imply that edward perfectly understood the underlying meaning of the garter, for he says 'the king told them it should prove an excellent expedient for uniting not only his subjects one with another but a

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s world; ardibehest, fire producer; shahrivar, the former of metals; spandarmat, queen of the earth (the gnostic sophia; khordad, the ruler of times and seasons; and amerdad, ruling over the vegetable world. below there are the 27 izeds, ruled over by mithras. in opposition to these were powers of darkness, the 7 arch devs and the 27 devs, or devils as we call them. 84. the historic city of rome, pagan before it was christian, was built upon seven hills. the palatine, coelian, aventine, viminal, quirinal, esquiline, and the capitol. in latin times it was called urbs septicollis. some old authors speak of valentia as a secret name for rome. the bijou notes and queries, vol. xiv, p. 235, says that the 7 days of the week have all been used as sacred days. sunday by christians; monday by the g

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huanians proper converted 1387, the samogits 1413. introduction. slavish subjection to distant eome, could not fail in many ways to offend the national feeling. not only the rude bloody sacrifices, but the sensuous pleasure-loving side of heathenism was to them an abomination (see suppl. and what their words or their wonder-working gifts could not effect, was often to be executed against obdurate pagans by placing fire and sword in the hands of christian proselytes. the triumph of christianity was that of a mild, simple, spiritual doctrine over sensuous, cruel, barbarizing paganism. in exchange for peace of spirit and the promise of heaven, a man gave liis earthly joys and the memory of his ancestors. many followed the inner prompting of their spirit, others the example of the crowd, and n

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

er in 1712, it was not until 1951 that the witchcraft act of 1736 was repealed and replaced with the fraudulent mediums act. those who continued to practise the 'old ways' were usually families who could be trusted not to betray the secrets, although the fires of the lughnassadh (the first corn harvest) continued in remote areas until well into the late nineteenth century and are being revived by pagans as community celebrations, especially in the usa. the secret family covens would pass the traditions down through the matriarchal line, usually by word of mouth. those who could write, recorded their spells and rituals in 'books of shadows- so-called partly because of the secrecy required to write and protect them. these were usually buried or burned with the witch on her death, or on rare

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whether in actual practice i found them true or false. i have already before told you that my first master had been the rabbin moses at mayence, who was indeed a good man, but entirely ignorant of the true mystery and of the veritable magic. he only devoted himself to certain superstitious secrets which he had collected from various infidels, and which were full of the nonsense and foolishness of pagans and idolaters; to such an extent that the good angels and holy spirits judged him unworthy of their visits and conversation; and the evil spirits mocked him to a ridiculous extent. at times, indeed, they spake to him voluntarily and by caprice, and obeyed him in matters vile, profane, and of no account, in order the better to entrap, deceive and hinder him from searching further for the tru

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editor in assuming a proper perspective towards this work. fourth, to mr. j. birnbaum who aided in some of the preliminary practical research concerning the powers of the book, and its dangers. fifth, to mr. l. k. barnes, who dared to tempt the awesome wrath of the ancient ones, rising unspeakable eldritch horrors, in supporting the publication of this arcane treatise. sixth, to all those patient pagans and friends of the craft who waited, and waited for the eventual publication of this tome with baited breath. and something on the stove. seventh, and perhaps most importantly, to herman slater of the magickal childe (nee warlock shop, whose constant encouragement and eternal kvetching was material to the completion of this work. and, finally, to the demon perdurabo, without whose help the

editor in assuming a proper perspective towards this work. fourth, to mr. j. birnbaum who aided in some of the preliminary practical research concerning the powers of the book, and its dangers. fifth, to mr. l. k. barnes, who dared to tempt the awesome wrath of the ancient ones, rising unspeakable eldritch horrors, in supporting the publication of this arcane treatise. sixth, to all those patient pagans and friends of the craft who waited, and waited for the eventual publication of this tome with baited breath. and something on the stove. seventh, and perhaps most importantly, to herman slater of the magickal childe (nee warlock shop, whose constant encouragement and eternal kvetching was material to the completion of this work. and, finally, to the demon perdurabo, without whose help the

ist seems to think that it does, indeed, mean "burning; especially so as the incantations to be found therein invariably entail burning something, usually a doll made in the likeness of a witch or evil sorcerer that the magician wished to dispose of. hence, we have here probably the archetype of the great burning times of the inquisition, when people were condemned to a fiery death as witches and pagans. the chant "burn, witch! burn" can be found in the maklu text, in all its pristine glory. indeed, cthulhu calls. the conjuration "the binding of the evil sorcerers" alsi ku nushi ilani mushiti itti kunu alsi mushitum kallatum kuttumtum alsi bararitum qablitum u namaritum ashshu kashshaptu u kashshipanni eli nitum ubbiraanni ili-ia u ishtari-ia ushis-su-u-eli-ia eli ameri-ia amru-usanaku imd

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eoricus frogs 10 a young woman crowned and veiled 1 =108 zelator 0 =08 neophyte 1st order water turned to blood cxxiii. english of col. viii, lines 1-10 cxxiv. the heavenly hexagram. cxxv* seven hells of the arabs. cxxvi. their inhabitants. cxxvii* seven heavens of the arabs. 0. 1 dual contending forces& 2 hinderers# 3 concealers' daath] h wiyah hypocrites dar al-jalai 4 breakers in pieces% jahim pagans or idolaters dar as-salam 5 burners$ sakar guebres jannat al-maawa 6 disputers! sa ir sabians jannat al-khuld 7 dispersing ravens hutamah jews jannat al-naim 8 deceivers laza christians jannat al-firdaus 9 obscene ones 10 the evil woman or (simply) the woman jehannum moslems jannat al- adn or al-karar table of correspondences 25 cxxviii. meaning of col. cxxvii. cxxix. pairs of angels ruling

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r a change? this power- if it be one- is very curious indeed. it connects more directly with magnetism than almost any other. the first thing we think of when someone says "magnet" is picking up iron filings as a child. age before honesty! let father poulain s.j. speak first! he is obliged to admit the phenomenon, because the church has done so. but precisely similar accounts of the levitation of pagans and heretics must be according to him, lies, or works of the devil. as for the method "god employs the angels to raise the saint, so as to avoid the necessity of intervening himself" lazy old parishioner! now for a douche of common sense. hatha-yoga is quite clear and simple, even logical, about it. the method is plain pranayama. didn't i tell magic without tears get any book for free on: w

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million men, in the flower of their age, picked men at that, in four years, but a pestilence which killed six million in six months. are we going to repeat the insanity? should we not rather breed humanity for quality by killing off any tainted stock, as we do with other cattle? and exterminating the vermin which infect it, especially jews and protestant christians? catholic christians are really pagans at heart; there is usually good stuff in them, particularly in latin countries. they only need to be instructed in the true meaning of their faith to reflect the false veils. an xxi sol in cancer after some years spent in catholic countries, i wish to modify the above. catholics are dead alike to spirituality and to reason, as bad as protestants. and the jew is far from hopeless outside ame

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gesture of weariness and impatience" the clerk. secondly, that you have in these twenty years past gathered a band of lawless ruffians, and constantly assailed the defenders of the sepulchre, with malice and deadly hatred. prosecutor. we say that no woman could do thus, unless aided by satan. laylah. dido, queen of carthage, was renowned as a warrior, and semiramis, queen of nineveh. bishop. both pagans. on the second count, guilty [judges "echo "guilty" clerk. thirdly, that you did discard the modesty of womanhood and put on armour enchanted. prosecutor. we say that, forasmuch as many good knights have ridden against it with sword and lance and not availed to pierce it, this was by magic and forbidden art. laylah["contemptuously. it was good armour. bishop. the prisoner mocks us. on the t

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s through her window. newspapers printed reports of the 'persecution, and the following week maxine wasdismissed 90 from the garage where she worked. the manager apologized; if it had been left to him, he would have let maxine wqrship as she liked, but hew-as being 'pressed' by some clients; alex knew that the time had come to make her his wife. there could be no church ceremony, their both being pagans, nor any civil ceremony, for maxine was only nineteen and her guardians had continued .her mother's fight against witchcraft and refused to give their consent to the marriage. it would have to be a handfasting, such as. had not been per. formed in england for centuries. maxine was ecstatic-i-no cathedral wedding could have thrilled her more. the ceremony began with the couple jumping over a

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defend those who call themselves "satanists" against the christian majority? i've never understood why wiccans, druids, and others might think we want their defending. there are ethical and social reasons to do it, and that's why setians generally defend other pagans against discrimination and other forms of attack, but satanists don't need others to defend them- satanists would be happy if other pagans would simply stop buying christianity's lies and attacking the satanists as if allied with christianity's blind bigots. there's a little more discussion of this in the ref document "are you witches" that depends upon your definition of a "witch" we do explore activities which many people would call "magic" such as telepathy, divination, and methods of strengthening our souls and spirits thr

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standing the jealousy of all the gods. the early atlanto-lemurians are charged with taking unto themselves (divine incarnations) wives of a lower race, namely, the race of the hitherto mindless men. every ancient scripture has the same, more or less disfigured legend. primarily, the angelic fall, which has transformed the "first-born" of god into the asuras, or into the ahriman and typhon of the "pagans (i.e, if the accounts given in the book of enoch* and in hermes, in puranas and bible are taken literally, when read esoterically means simply this- sentences such as "in his (satan's) ambition he raises his hand against the sanctuary of the god of heaven" etc, ought to read "prompted by the law of eternal evolution and karma, the angel incarnated on earth in man; and as his wisdom and know

h the famous giants, anakim (numbers xiii. 33. moses speaks of og, a king who was nine cubits high (15 ft. 4 in) and four wide (deut. iii. 11, and goliath was "six cubits and a span in height (or 10 ft. 7 in. the only difference found between the "revealed scripture" and the evidence furnished to us by herodotus, diodorus siculus, homer, pliny, plutarch, philostratus, etc, etc, is this: while the pagans mention only the skeletons of giants, dead untold ages before, relics that some of them had personally seen, the bible interpreters unblushingly demand that geology and archaeology should believe, that several countries were inhabited by such giants in the day of moses; giants before whom the jews were as grasshoppers, and who still existed in the days of joshua and david. unfortunately the

y witnesses to oracular and speaking stones. in the achaica (p. 81) we find pausanias confessing that, in beginning his work, he had regarded the greeks as mighty stupid "for worshipping stones" but, having reached arcadia, he adds "i have changed my way of thinking" therefore, without worshipping stones or stone idols and statues, which is the same- a crime roman catholics are unwise to reproach pagans with, as they do likewise- one may be allowed to believe in what so many great philosophers and holy men have believed in, without deserving to be called an "idiot" by modern pausaniases. the reader is referred to volume vi. of the academie des inscriptions (memoires, p. 518, et seq) if he would study the various properties of flints and pebbles from the standpoint of magic and psychic powe

tic spirit of the church; which, loathing independent spirit, uninfluenced by the external form (hence by dogma, forthwith made of samael-satan (the most wise and spiritual spirit of all- the adversary of its anthropomorphic god and sensual physical man, the devil- the origin of the satanic myth. let us then fathom this creation of the patristic fancy still deeper, and find its prototype with the pagans. the origin of the new satanic myth is easy to trace. the tradition of the dragon and the sun is echoed in every part of the world, both in its civilized and semi-savage regions. it took rise in the whisperings about secret initiations among the profane, and was established universally through the once universal heliolatrous religion. there was a time when the four parts of the world were c

s" its degradation. the sanctum sanctorum of the ancients, i.e, that recess on the western side of the temple which was enclosed on three sides by blank walls and had its only aperture or door hung over with a curtain- also called the adytum- was common to all ancient nations. nevertheless, a great difference is found between the secret meanings of this symbolical place, in the esotericism of the pagans and that of later jews; though the symbology of it was originally identical throughout the ancient races and nations. the gentiles, by placing in the adytum a sarcophagus, or a tomb (taphos, and the solar-god to whom the temple was consecrated, held it, as pantheists, in the greatest veneration. they regarded it- in its esoteric meaning- as the symbol of resurrection, cosmic, solar (or diur

n which the germ of all nature was supposed to float or brood on the great abyss during the interval which took place after every mundane cycle" quite so; and the jewish ark of the covenant had precisely the same significance; with the supplementary addition that, instead of a beautiful and chaste sarcophagus (the symbol of the matrix of nature and resurrection) as in the sanctum sanctorum of the pagans, they had the ark made still more realistic in its construction by the two cherubs set up on the coffer or ark of the covenant, facing each other, with their wings spread in such a manner as to form a perfect yoni (as now seen in india. besides which, this generative symbol had its significance enforced by the four mystic letters of jehovah's name, namely[[hebrew; or[[hebrew] meaning jod (m

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able but frequently misleading name of hermetic philosophy. as real occultism had been prevalent among the mystics during the centuries that preceded our era, so magic, or rather sorcery, with its occult arts, followed the beginning of christianity. however great and zealous the fanatical efforts, during those early centuries, to obliterate every trace of the mental and intellectual labour of the pagans, it was a failure; but the same spirit of the dark demon of bigotry and intolerance has perverted systematically and ever since, every bright page written in the pre-christian periods. even in her uncertain records, history has preserved enough of that which has survived to throw an impartial light upon the whole. let, then, the reader tarry a little while with the writer, on the spot of ob

was left with the early and ignorant christian fathers to degrade the philosophical and highly scientific idea of this emblem (the dragon) into the absurd superstition called the "devil" they took it from the later zoroastrians, who saw devils or the evil in the hindu devas, and the word evil thus became by a double transmutation d'evil in every tongue (diabolos, diable, diavolo, teufel. but the pagans have always shown a philosophical discrimination in their symbols. the primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine wisdom and perfection, and had always stood for psychical regeneration and immortality. hence- hermes, calling the serpent the most spiritual of all beings; moses, initiated in the wisdom of hermes, following suit in genesis; the gnostic's serpent with the seven vowels ov

, i am the nous (the mind or manu, i am thy god, and i am far older than the human principle which escapes from the shadow("darkness" or the concealed deity. i am the germ of thought, the resplendent word, the son of god. all that thus sees and hears in thee is the verbum of the master, it is the thought (mahat) which is god, the father[[footnote(s* the astral light, or the aether, of the ancient pagans (for the name of astral light is quite modern) is spirit-matter. beginning with the pure spiritual plane, it becomes grosser as it descends until it becomes the maya or the tempting and deceitful serpent on our plane* by "god, the father" the seventh principle in man and kosmos are here unmistakeably meant, this principle being inseparable in its esse and nature from the seventh cosmic prin

during the ceremony of baptism we begin by turning towards the west (sidereal, to renounce the better him who inhabits it; after which we turn to the east" belief in the "four maharajahs- the regents of the four cardinal points- was universal and is now that of christians* who call them, after st. augustine "angelic virtues" and "spirits" when enumerated by themselves, and "devils" when named by pagans. but where is the difference between the pagans and the christians in this cause? following plato, aristotle explained that the term[[stoicheia] was understood only as meaning the incorporeal principles placed at each of the four great divisions of our cosmical world to supervise them. thus, no more than the christians did, do they adore and worship the elements and the cardinal (imaginary)

ces esoterically, while the four colours of the curtain represented the four cardinal points and the four terrestrial elements. the whole was an allegorical symbol. it is through the four high rulers over the four points and elements that our five senses may become cognisant of the hidden truths of nature; and not at all, as clemens would have it, that it is the elements per se that furnished the pagans with divine knowledge or the knowledge of god* while the egyptian emblem was spiritual, that of the jews was purely materialistic, and, indeed, honoured only the blind elements and the imaginary "points" for what was the meaning of the square tabernacle raised by moses in the wilderness, if it had not the same cosmical significance "thou shalt make an hanging. of blue, purple, and scarlet"

f seven other gods "stellar spirits (or the lunar ancestors, for they are all the same* they are all in his own image (the "spirits of the face, and the reflections one of the other, and have become darker and more material as they successively receded from their originator. they also inhabit seven regions disposed like a ladder, as its rungs slope up and down the scale of spirit and matter* with pagans and christians, with hindus and chaldeans, with the greek as with the roman catholics- with a slight variation of the texts in their interpretations- they all were the genii of the seven planets, as of the seven planetary spheres of our septenary chain, of which earth is the lowest (see isis, vol. ii. p. 186) this connects the "stellar" and "lunar" spirits with the higher planetary angels a

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mash any "idols" and to sprinkle the temples with holy water and rededicate them. to a large extent wicca (m; wicce (f. also sometimes spelled wica or wita. 4/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft gregory was successful. yet the people were not quite as gullible as he thought. when the first christian churches were being constructed, the only artisans available to build them were from among the pagans themselves. in decorating the churches these stonemasons and woodcarvers very cleverly incorporated figures of their own deities. in this way, even if they were forced to attend the churches the people could still worship their own gods there. there are many of these figures still in existence today. the goddess is usually depicted as very much a fertility deity, with legs spread wide and w

"foliate mask, and also sometimes referred to as "jack of the green" or "robin o' the woods. incidentally, these carvings of the old god should not be confused with gargoyles. the latter are the hideous faces and figures carved on the four corners of church towers to frighten away demons. in those early days, when christianity was slowly growing in strength, the old religion the wiccans and other pagans was one of its rivals. it is only natural to want to get rid of a rival and the church pulled no punches to do just that. it has frequently been said that the gods of an old religion become the devils of a new. this was certainly the case here. the god of the old religion was a horned god. so, apparently, was the christian's devil. obviously then, reasoned the church, the pagans were devil

demonstration with physical force if necessary. can witches do less? i am not advocating violence. i am saying that we should start young wiccans lesson fourteen: getting set up/ 211 looking out for ourselves and fighting ignorance of the craft wherever we find it. let the world know that the various forms of paganism, including witchcraft, are legitimate forms of religion; that witches and other pagans are practitioners of a religion older than christianity and that we desire and expect the same respect shown to other religious groups. the respect will be forthcoming. the voys heartily applauds stan madrzyk's actions and richard's follow-up. the seminary* has already been instrumental in establishing religious rights for a number of individual students. let's all work for the religion we

t music traditional dance in the circle words ray buckland 2. they all go running, leaping high over the bonfire, to the sky. happy laughter; give and take. they'll be there till daybreak. never slowing; puffing, blowing; deosil circle, round and round. moving slow; moving fast; spin, jump and hit the ground. hark to the sounds of witchcraft joy! watch as the girl spins with her boy. happy, happy pagans they, dancing in the wiccan way. 3. after the dancing there will be plenty of happy memories. there is ritual; there are rites; ceremony all night "we love the god! we love goddess" all of the witches cry out loud "we are one! we share love" wiccans they all are proud. prayers to the lady and her lord. thanks to them both with blessings stored. priest and priestess; witches all; proudly the

ou on the subject of love and gypsies. 0-87542-053-2,176 pgs, mass market, illus $3.95 witchcraft: yesterday& today by raymond buckland this is a new video by recognized witchcraft authority raymond buckland, whose purpose is to straighten out the popular misconceptions about the wiccan religion. for the approximately 70,000 to 75,000 people in the united states who consider themselves wiccans or pagans, this is the only completely factual "how-to" depiction of the rites and practices of their religion in the world* this video details the origins and history of witchcraft, and discusses the resurgence of wicca in our own day. wiccan priests and priestesses dramatize the ancient rites and rituals. for the merely curious, there is no better way to experience the inner beauty and strength of

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er in 1712, it was not until 1951 that the witchcraft act of 1736 was repealed and replaced with the fraudulent mediums act. those who continued to practise the 'old ways' were usually families who could be trusted not to betray the secrets, although the fires of the lughnassadh (the first corn harvest) continued in remote areas until well into the late nineteenth century and are being revived by pagans as community celebrations, especially in the usa. the secret family covens would pass the traditions down through the matriarchal line, usually by word of mouth. those who could write, recorded their spells and rituals in 'books of shadows- so-called partly because of the secrecy required to write and protect them. these were usually buried or burned with the witch on her death, or on rare

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ts, displayed in stuttgart library. wrote the 2000 p. naometria(measure of the temple) joachite chiliasm and key of david. 1543-1620 chaim vital 1544-1616 helisaeus roeslin 1544-1607 john pistorius, qabalist 1544 postel in rome- he published his work de orbis terrae concordia (concerning the harmony of the earth) advocated universal religious peace, to be achieved by convincing jews, moslems, and pagans of the truth of christianity. 1545-1608 joseph duchesne (quercetanus) 1546 "absconditorum a constitutione mundi clavis" gillaume postel. the "key of hidden things" is david's key. 1548 postel translates the zohar. 1548-1600 giordano bruno 1549-1550 postel journeys to the orient(he claimed to have walked all the way to china) 1550 rosarium philosophorum published. de subtilitate- girolamo ca

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ancient light with our more ancient fraters and sorors as well as our rosicrucian link. the third adept is asked "what does the mystic name of our founder signify" he replies "the rose and cross of christ" this connects us to a strong christian symbol. let us, however, remember that one does not need to be christian to realize the invoking power of the word christ. is not christ within all of us? pagans and christians find a common ground in that osiris and christ are interchanged as symbolical archetypes of self sacrifice unto the higher. the next main point to highlight is the meaning, in mystical terms, of the one hundred and twenty years. the chief adept, second adept and the third adept then form the three sided triangle above and below with their ankhs. this alludes to the emerald ta

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cret society. their rituals were taken from others such as the jesuits and the knights templar. the highest 212. and the truth shall set you free ranking initiates were the thirteen members of the grand council of knights (led by their grand master, heinrich himmler, and the black rituals were performed at the ancient castle of wewelsberg in westphalia. they celebrated the festivals of the nordic pagans and the summer solstice. here they worshiped satan, lucifer, set, whichever name you prefer, the consciousness which was the nazis and is the elite today. prince bernhard, one of the founders of the bilderberg group, was in the ss. esoteric knowledge and black magic pervaded all that hitler and the nazis did, even down to the use of pendulums on maps to identify the positions of enemy troop

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fore christianity and it is just one of so many versions of the "jesus" story that were told long before "jesus" was supposed to have lived. oh yes, in the spring rituals to mark the death and resurrection of tammuz/ninus, they offered buns inscribed with a solar cross- the hot cross buns of the much later "christian" festival called easter. christianity is just recycled "paganism" that condemns "pagans" as evil. what hypocrisy. even the term "testament" is the entomological confirmation that it is literally all a load of balls. lauren savage, the webmaster at davidicke.com and a long-time researcher of ancient history, tells me that the root of testament is "testes. apparently, tradition says that the ancient hebrews used to hold the other guy's balls, sorry "testes, while hearing an oath

sun gods with a "halo" around their heads. this is an image of the sun god bel or bil on a british standing stone god save us from religion 211 symbol. it was used as a religious symbol for thousands of years before christianity, and jesus told his disciples to "pick up thy cross and walk" before the crucifixion cross even entered the story. indeed, the man on the cross was so widely used by the pagans that the early christians rejected it. the central american god quetzalcoatl was depicted nailed to a cross. the cross is symbolic of the equinox when day and night are equal and the sun is about to win its victory over the darkness. at the moment jesus died on the cross, according to the gospel narrative, the land became dark. so it would if the sun had died, as it was symbolically doing

as run and governed as a black magic secret society. their rituals were taken from others, such as the jesuits and the knights templar. the highest-ranking initiates were the 12 members of the grand council of knights led by the 13th, their grand master heinrich himmler. their black rituals were performed at the ancient castle of wewelsberg in westphalia. they celebrated the rituals of the nordic pagans and the summer solstice. here they worshipped satan/lucifer/set, whichever name you prefer. prince bernhard of the netherlands, a reptilian habsburg and merovingian bloodline, was a member of the ss. bernhard was one of the founders of the illuminati front, the bilderberg group, and is an extremely close friend of prince philip. the esoteric arts pervaded all that hitler and the nazis did

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and governed as a black magicsecret society. their rituals were taken from others such as the jesuits and the knightstemplar. the highest ranking initiates were the 13 (here we go again) members of thegrand council of knights led by their grand master, heinrich himmler, and the blackrituals were performed at the ancient castle of wewelsberg in westphalia. they celebratedthe rituals of the nordic pagans and the summer solstice. here they worshipped satan,lucifer, set, whichever name you prefer. prince bernhard, one of founders of thebrotherhood front, the bilderberg group, and an extremely close friend of prince philip,was in the ss. black magic and the esoteric arts pervaded all that hitler and the nazis did,even down to the use of pendulums on maps to identify the positions of enemy troo

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representing the 33 of freemasonry. the tail feathers number 9, the number of degrees in the york rite. the eagle itself is a prominent icon of masonry, being used extensively in the scottish rite. looking just above the eagles head you will see 13 pentagrams within a cloud. the pentagrams are arranged in the shape of a hexagram- or greater seal of solomon. the hexagram is a powerful tool used by pagans to invoke satan. it is also the sign of anti christ with 6 points, 6 angles and 6 planes (666. to the sorcerer, the hexagram is a powerful tool to invoke satan, and is a sign of antichrist (6 points, 6 angles, 6 planes- 666) the 5 pointed pentagrams multiplied by the 13 stars equals 65, the same cabalistic number as mentioned above. this makes one wonder with whom or what, we are to dwell i

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ern sky in the hours before dawn. lucifer, the light-bearer, the morning star, personified enlightenment, wisdom, and beauty. the cult of lucifer was associated with the worship of venus or aphrodite, the goddess of love and passion, and involved sexual acts of which the early christians did not approve. the acceptance of christianity as the official religion of rome, and subsequent conversion of pagans to the new faith, resulted in the name lucifer becoming associated with the devil satan. if jesus is the light and truth, reasoned the christian, then lucifer must be a false light, a deceiver, even a fallen angel. christianity condemned paganism, goddess-worship, and sexuality as evil; and the cult of lucifer could be associated with all of these. lucifer became the latin name for the devi

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ion of the ultimate unknowable deity, beginning with ain, or no-thing understandable, then the ain soph (q.v, or the quality of limitlessness. the third veil is the ain soph aur, or limitless light. nemyss: a simple ritual headgear of egyptian origin used by members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v, consisting of little more than a piece of folded cloth. neo-paganism: modern day pagans (q.v "those of the earth" who are attempting to reconstruct an ancient non-christian religion from the original source material of a particular mythos. neophyte: a beginner. literally a new plant. in most magickal orders, students in the first or earliest degree are known as neophytes. in the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v, a neophyte is numbered the second degree; zero or ought degre

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is no cruder than christianity in backward latin countries, where jesus christ is represented in topper and tails and the virgin mary in lace-edged pantaloons. the inner form of the ancient faiths can compare very favourably with the best of our modern metaphysicians. after all, they produced plato and plotinus. the human mind does not change, and what is true of ourselves is probably true of the pagans. the lamb of god which taketh away the sins of the world is only another version of the bull of mithra which does the same thing, the only difference being that the ancient initiate was literally "washed in blood" and the modern one takes it metaphorically. autres temps autres mours. 9. if we approach those whom we elect to call pagans, both ancient and modern, in a reverent and sympathetic

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riting of yhwh, or yahweh, the ineffable name of god. the jews entertained the deepest awe for this incommunicable and mysterious name, and this feeling led them to avoid pronouncing it and to substitute the word adonai for jehovah in their sacred text. the ancients attributed great power to names; to know and pronounce someone s name was to have power over them. obviously one could not, like the pagans, suggest that mere creatures had power over god. this custom in jewish prayers still prevails, especially among hasidic jews, who follow the kabala and believe that the holy name of god, associated with miraculous powers, should not be profaned. yahweh is their invisible protector and king, and no image of him is made. he is worshiped according to his commandments, with an observance of the

ure, believe that life should be joyous, pleasurable, and loving, and refrain from harming others. the pagan path is seen as leading to growth, evolution, and balance. the church maintains a retreat house in the cascade mountains and a nearby moonstone circle constructed by menhirs where some of the annual major festivals (sabbats) are held for those members who reside in the northwest. like most pagans, the church follows a cycle of worship including eight major gatherings evenly spaced through the year and anchored in the solstices and equinoxes, and lesser biweekly gatherings (called esbats) at the new and full moon. the church has been in the forefront of claiming a place for contemporary paganism in the larger religious community. the church joined the interfaith council of washington

hilos assist the sisterhood by protecting their sacred ways. only females may become initiates. males may become part of the order, but only as gargareans and philos. the artemisian order may be contacted through oriethyia at p.o. box 7184, capitol station, albany, ny 12224. website: http//www.artemisian.org/sanct.html. sources: hopman, ellen evert, and lawrence bond. people of the earth: the new pagans speak out. rochester, vt: destiny books, 1996. artephius (d. ca. 1119) a well-known exponent of hermetic philosophy who died in the twelfth century, and is said to have lived more than one thousand years by means of alchemical secrets. francois pic mentions the opinion of certain savants who affirmed that artephius was identical with apollonius of tyana, who was born in the first century un

mbers. also, interest groups were formed as guilds to develop skills in activities from sewing to brewing. the assembly reached a crisis in 1987, when mcnallen felt unable to continue as the primary leader and disbanded the organization. in the meantime, a number of mostly small local norse groups had arisen, some falling victim to racial ideologies that alienated them from the larger body of neo-pagans. among his last productions was the publication of a book of norse rituals. the fall of the asatru free assembly also left a vacuum just as norse paganism appeared to be in a growth phase. former members began to form new associations such as the asatru alliance and the ring of thoth. in 1992 mcnallen returned to active leadership as an asatru, founding the asatru folk assembly and reissuin

4 c.e. he had a close connection with the supernatural according to legend. very often in the pages of french romance, the emperor was visited by angels who were considered to be the direct messengers of the heavenly power. these visitations, of course, were meant to symbolize his position as the head of christendom in the world. he was its upholder, with the moors on his southern borders and the pagans (prussians and saxons) to the north and west. charles was regarded by the christians of europe as the direct representative of heaven, whose mission it was to christianize europe and to defend its true faith in every way. charlemagne and his court were also connected with the realm of fairies. encounters with the fairy folk by his paladins were not so numerous in the original french romance

they published their first tape of wiccan music and an accompanying songbook and organized the circle network, an international fellowship of wiccans. the expanding organization was incorporated as the church of circle wicca in 1978; the following year it issued the first edition of the circle resource guide (which now exists in several volumes. circle became the largest active fellowship of neo-pagans in north america. in 1979 circle moved to a farm near middleton, wisconsin, and in 1983 a farm was purchased near barneveld, wisconsin. there the circle sanctuary was created as an all-weather nature preserve, ritual site, and gathering place for wiccans and neopagans. circle sanctuary has the support of neo-pagans far beyond the membership of circle. meetings are held at the sanctuary year

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d. mcnallen completed his degree in political science and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the army. he did his basic training at fort benning (georgia) and was assigned to a unit in germany, where he served for the remainder of his term. the viking brotherhood continued at a minimal level until he returned to the states in 1976. he settled in california and began to meet with norse neo-pagans in the san francisco area. mcnallen actively developed his understanding of the asatru (or loyalty to the germanic deities) and shortly after his assuming active leadership in the brotherhood, he reformed it as asatru free assembly. his efforts received a significant boost when the first edition of margot adler s survey of the contemporary community, drawing down the moon, appeared in 1979

between the living and the dead is thin and communication with spirits is facilitated. it is a time to remember the dead and complete relationships with them. seven other sabbats follow: yule (december 21) imbolc or candlemas (feb 1) spring equinox beltane (may 1) summer solstice lamas (august 1) fall equinox these festivals marked important events in agricultural communities, though most modern pagans are urban dwellers. in the rituals, while some recognition of their past significance is still noted, the sabbats have been reinterpreted as occasions for personal magic and reformation and the veneration of the deities. as distinct from the eight major sabbats, witchcraft covens also hold a bi-monthly esbat at each new and full moon. these are the coven s regular meetings for its ongoing m

nd greatly valued. this water possesses other occult powers, and it is a necessary ingredient of the preparations for those about to die. the departing hindu holds it in his hand and, believing in its powers, has hope for the future and dies peacefully. salamander s feather another name for asbestos. it is an incombustible mineral that resembles flax, being of fine fibrous texture. it was used by pagans in their temples. saleh, wadih (1910) attorney and parapsychologist born on october 31, 1910, at mansura, egypt. he was educated in egypt, lebanon, and at the university of lyon in france. he served for two years as a research associate of the parapsychology laboratory at duke university (1958.60. he became a charter associate of the parapsychological association and has taken special inter

stroying growing crops. heroes who fought against them required the assistance of a witch who was called the wise woman, from whom they obtained magic wands. the witch of scottish folk tales is the friend of man and her profession was evidently regarded in ancient times as a highly honorable one. wizards also enjoyed high repute; they were the witch-doctors, priests, and magicians of the scottish pagans, and it was not until the sixteenth century that legal steps were taken to suppress them in the highland districts. there seems to have been no sun-worship or moon-worship in scotland, for neither sun nor moon was individualized in the gaelic language; these bodies, however, were reputed to exercise a magical influence. the moon especially was a magic tank, from which supplies of power were

dern times, as paganism has been revived, the summer solstice has become a major occasion for ritual gatherings, among the oldest and certainly the most famous being the gatherings of the druids at stonehenge. until quite recently, the summer solstice was celebrated in germany with a picnic and bonfire. couples would attempt to jump the bonfire as a sign of the strength of their relationship. neo-pagans mark the solstices as two of the major festival occasions (called sabbats. the ancient winter solstice, called yule, has survived in a radically altered form as the christian s christmas, but is now being celebrated in its own right. sources: cunningham, scott. wicca: a guide for the solitary practitioner. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1988. farrar, stewart. what witches do. new y

ements of that awareness have been differentiated as the deities. the number of deities is unknown. awareness is genderless and individual deities may be either male or female. there is also an ordering among the deities and it is proper to speak of the greater and lesser deities. the wiccan church follows primarily a european format with worship centered upon the eight annual festivals common to pagans and also the small coven gatherings at the new and full moon (esbats. the church also has its own rituals to designate important moments in the life cycle, from the naming ceremony for the new born (wiccaning) to the passing from this incarnation (funeral. it performs both weddings and handpartings (for couples that are separating. all of the priests and priestesses of the church constitute

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

and record of his teachings. rabbi nachman was the great grandson of the baal shem tov, and is the source of the bretzlaver tradition of chabad chasidism. 15 zalman, rabbi schneur. ma'amorim ketzarim inyonim, p.133, published in 1986. e "h 0 16 christianity assimilated december 25 as the birthday of master yeshuvah. before that, the indigenous peoples of western europe, whom the christians called pagans, had celebrated it as yule, and a number of other traditions as the birthday of solar saviors. the mithraists, for instance, regarded it as the birthday of mithra. the romans celebrated the date as dies natalis solis invictus, day of birth of the undefeated sun. the christian observance of the pentecost replaced the tradition of whitsunday, the holy day of the goddess frigg, the norse queen

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

representation of hermes trismegistus on the siena pavement. his view of the third person as the anima mundi or the virgilian "spiritus intus alit" was an interpretation frequently made in the renaissance. to give only one example, it was expounded at length by bishop (later cardinal) jacques davy du perron in a whit sunday sermon.2 1 documenti, pp. 93-8. 2 "he (the holy spirit) it is of whom the pagans themselves said, speaking of the constitution of the world, spiritus intus alit" jacques 350 giordano bruno:return to italy bruno's faith as he emphasises later to the inquisitors, he considers to be cathohc and orthodox as concerning the father or the mens; he confesses that he is unorthodox as regards the son1; his view of the third person as the anima mundi would have been orthodox to ma

onounce of the three forementioned, at least the poemander properly so called, and the sermon in the mount, that they were either wholly forged and counterfeited by some pretended christians, or else had many spurious passages inserted into them. wherefore it cannot be solidly proved from the trismegistick books after this manner, as supposed to be all alike genuine and sincere, that the egyptian pagans acknowledged one universal numen.1 it is curious to observe in all this how deeply influenced casaubon and cudworth have been by the christian hermetist tradition. modern scholars who, naturally, have not been brought up in that tradition and are not reacting from it, though they are convinced of the post-christian dating of the hermetica, do not regard them as christian forgeries, as some

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

n please take note that hall makes reference to tubal-cain, above. we need to review this sentence because it too reveals satanism. the mason must "follow in the footsteps of his forefather, tubal-cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a plowshare" in the masonic quiz book, the candidate is asked this question "who was tubal cain" answer "he is the vulcan of the pagans [william p. peterson, editor, masonic quiz book "ask me brother, chicago, illinois, charles t. power company, 1950, p. 18, 88, 131, 213; also found in john yarker, the arcane schools: a review of their origin and antiquity: with a general history of freemasonry and its relation to the theosophic scientific and philosophic mysteries, belfast, ireland, william tait, 1909, p. 30; also found in

iam tait, 1909, p. 30; also found in a. r. chambers, editor, questions and answers, 1972, p. 237; also found in malcom duncan, duncan's ritual of freemasonry, new york, david mckay company, inc, n.d. 3rd edition, p. 94] tubal-cain is the password given in the third degree of master mason. you can identify freemasonry with paganism within this sentence. but what is the meaning of the vulcan of the pagans? a very important question because manly p. hall advises the mason that, once he has the seething energies of lucifer in his hands, he is to walk in tubal-cain's footsteps. hall makes it sound like tubal-cain is one of the greek gods, does he not? and, we know conclusively that tubal-cain is vulcan of the pagans. let us review who vulcan of the pagans is, by looking within occult sources "v

emphasis added] manly p. hall tells the mason that he can have the seething energies of lucifer in his hands, and then tells him to follow in the footsteps of the "christian devil" to whom "human sacrifices" are offered. the infernal names there may be some people who have read up to this point and still might be skeptical. masonry cleverly masks its references to satan. there are 77 names which pagans have used to refer to satan over the centuries and they are in the satanic bible. we'll review some of these "infernal names" of satanism found within masonry [satanic bible, anton lavey, p. 144-46] we shall list the freemason teaching on each of these names, and then the explanation. baphomet "the gnostics held that it [universal agent] composed the igneous [pertaining to fire] body of the

spiritual light without damaging his vision" 6 "all the buddhist crosses in ireland had serpents carved upon them. wreaths of snakes are on the columns of the ancient hindu temple at burwah-sangor "among the egyptians, it was a symbol of divine wisdom, when extended at length; and with its tail in its mouth, of eternity [again, pike capitalized divine wisdom and eternity, denoting deity] all the pagans in every era have used the serpent to worship and to consider as symbolic of wisdom. a satanic book of symbols, entitled, magic symbols, says. we shall see the deeper implications of the serpent as a symbol of wisdom" this figure (left, is identified as being one used in the practice of alchemy, an art normally thought of as attempting to turn base metals into gold, but which also has a spi

scorpio, rises immediately behind her; and as honey, the emblem of purity and salvation, was thought to be an antidote to the serpent's bite, so the bees of aristaeus, the emblems of nature's abundance, are destroyed through the agency of the serpent, and regenerated within the entrails of the vernal bull. the sun-god is finally victorious [ibid] note that masonry also identifies itself with the pagans who divine the future by studying the entrails of a bull. you consistently see the symbol of the bees and their beehive throughout freemasonry. christianity does not use this symbol "purity" and "salvation" are depicted by the honey. purity is depicted within the bible as either jesus himself or as white wool or as a white garment. salvation is depicted as the cross or jesus arising from th

the future by studying the entrails of a bull. you consistently see the symbol of the bees and their beehive throughout freemasonry. christianity does not use this symbol "purity" and "salvation" are depicted by the honey. purity is depicted within the bible as either jesus himself or as white wool or as a white garment. salvation is depicted as the cross or jesus arising from the grave. but, the pagans are surely true to the biblical description of them as "worshipping the creature rather than the creator [romans 1:25] the july, 1998, issue of the scottish rite journal states that the eagle was also a symbol of regeneration and rebirth [jim tresner, 33 degree "wings of the eagle, wings on our feet" scottish rite journal, july, 1998, p. 7. but, another masonic writer returned back to the s

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

rawn from heaven. by holy fire, however, was meant not so much the natural visible element which was kindled, as that subtle substance contained in fire or heat which was supposed to contain the life principle, and which was sent in response to the cravings of pious devotees for procreative energy, which blessing, among various peoples, notably the jews, was indicative of special divine favor. by pagans, jews, and christians, the pomegranate has long been regarded as a sacred emblem. it is a symbol of reproductive energy. representations of it were embroidered on the ephod, and solomon's temple is reported as having been literally covered with decorations, in which, among the devices noticed, this particular fruit appears the most conspicuous. its significance, as revealed by inman and oth

gged out through the natural channel. as a statue of pure gold and of proper dimensions would be too expensive, it is sufficient to make an image of the sacred yoni, through which the person to be regenerated is to pass" thus at the time nicodemus is said to have queried concerning the mysteries of the new birth, it is observed that the outward forms of regeneration had long been in use among the pagans. in passing themselves through these apertures, the applicant for regeneration was supposed to represent the condition of one "issuing from the womb to a new scope of life" according to the testimony of various writers upon this subject, there are still extant, not alone in oriental countries, but in ireland and scotland as well, numerous excavations or apertures in the rocks which by an ea

e nile and the ganges. by the fathers in the church jesus christ was named the new sun, and in the early days of christianity the egyptians struck a coin representing o. b. or the holy basilisk, with rays of light darting from his head, on the reverse side of which was figured "jesus christ as the new solar deity" the similarity if not the actual identity of the religion of christ and that of the pagans in the second century is shown by various writers. the emperor hadrian writing to his friend servianus says "those who worship serapis are also christians; even those who style themselves the bishops of christ are devoted to serapis. there is but one god for them all; him do the christians, him do the jews, him do all the gentiles also worship" it has been said that the head of serapis supp

e to say "the sun is the fruit of my womb" the 15th of august, assumption day, the time when mary, the mother of jesus, ascends to heaven is the day when the zodiacal constellation virgo "the greek astrea, leaves the european horizon" and the "8th of september, when virgo emerges from the sun's rays, is held sacred as the nativity of the queen of heaven" of the mid-winter festival, bede says "the pagans of these isles began their year on the eighth of the kalends of january, which is now our christmas day. the night before that (24th dec. eve) was called by them the medre-nak, or night of mothers, because of the ceremonies which were performed on that night"[132 [132] rivers of life, vol. i, p. 430. among christians as among pagans the christmas season was in honor of "returning light" the

he mistletoe wreaths which formed the principal decorations of venus' temple were at first proscribed by the christian preachers, but, in process of time they not only found their way into the sanctuary, but were given a place over the altars, their final signification being "good will to men"[135 [135] rivers of life, vol. i, p. 81. although the tokens of friendship which were distributed by the pagans at the season of the mid- winter festival differed somewhat from those which at the present time are exchanged among christians at the same season of the year, still, there can be no doubt that the christmas tree, loaded with gifts, is a remnant of that worship under which the sun was recognized as the source whence all blessings flow. down to a late date, fire was a conspicuous element at

aturea, a lamp is kept constantly burning in remembrance of this event. although the story of this banishment is doubtless borrowed from the life of the hindoo god crishna, the fact is evident that those who appropriated it, and used it in furbishing the mythical history of christ, had no scruples against fire worship--a religion which we have been taught to regard as belonging exclusively to the pagans. in the ecclesiastical processions of the church of rome is frequently to be observed the figure of a dragon, in the mouth of which "holy and everlasting fire" is observed to be burning. a boy follows the procession with a lighted taper, so that in case the fire is extinguished it may be relighted. in referring to this subject the rev. j. b. deane says "the whole ceremony may be considered

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ns of mass indoctrination. the purpose is for people to forget god, the real creator, turning instead to paganism, in which "nature" is regarded as the creator. masonry strives to give shape to this creed, strengthen and disseminate it, and supports all social forces that it regards as being its allies. an article in mimar sinan, entitled "thoughts about the concept and the global freemasonry ddi pagans of bygone ages worshipped idols made of stone. today's pagans idolize matter. evolution of solidarity from the scientific point of view" speaks of the "mysterious harmony that mother nature has ordered" and states that this is the basis of masonry's humanist philosophy. it further states that masonry will support those movements that espouse this philosophy: when it considers from the point

rom the facts that science has discovered. essentially, what has led masons into such error, or indeed spellbound them, is their blind attachment to their traditions. this shows that the teaching of masonry is deceptive. it alienated dhg global freemasonry people from their belief in god, making them fall into superstition by following empty laws, myths and legends. what the qur'an says about the pagans of saba, who abandoned god to prostrate themselves before the sun, is valid also for masonry "satan has made their actions seem good to them and debarred them from the way so they are not guided (qur'an, 27: 24. masons reject the religion of god in favor of an outmoded doctrine that they elaborate upon with gilt symbols and mystical elements. moreover, not content with rejecting god, they f

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a wide swd wcgas to lagon enta cergeweorc innan burgum, strode stein/age, andr. 2466. stapulas storme bedrifene, eald enta geweorc, 3 2986. our annolied 151 of semiramis: die alten babilonie stiphti si van cigelin den alten, die die gigandi branten/ of bricks that giants burnt. and karlmeinet 35: f we dise burg stichte? ein rise in den alten ziden. in 0. french poems it is either gaiant or paian (pagans) that build walls and towers, e.g. in gerars de viane 1745: les/ors tors, ke sont dantiquitey, ke paian firent par lor grant poestey. conf. money unters. 242-4-7. 250. whatever was put together of enormous blocks the hellenes named cydopean walls, while the modern greeks regard the hellenes themselves as giants of the old world, and give them the credit of those massive structures.2 then, a

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

annihilated. but even then the ego remains a distinct being. it (the spiritual ego) only loses one devachanic state-after that special, and in that case indeed useless, life-as that idealized personality, and is reincarnated, after enjoying for a short time its freedom as a planetary spirit almost immediately. q. it is stated in isis unveiled that such planetary spirits or angels "the gods of the pagans or the archangels of the christians" will never be men on our planet. a. quite right. not "such" but some classes of higher planetary spirits. they will never be men on this planet, because they are liberated spirits from a previous, earlier world, and as such they cannot rebecome men on this one. yet all these will live again in the next and far higher maha-manvantara, after this "great ag

and soothsayer" and chr sterios, one who serves an oracle or a god. the earliest christian writer, justin martyr, in his first apology, calls his coreligionists chr stians "it is only through ignorance that men call themselves christians, instead of chr stians" says lactantius the terms christ and christians, spelt originally chr st and chr stians, were borrowed from the temple vocabulary of the pagans. chr stos meant, in that vocabulary "a disciple on probation" a candidate for hierophantship; who, when he had attained it, through initiation, long trials and suffering, and had been anointed (i.e "rubbed with oil" as initiates and even idols of the gods were, as the last touch of ritualistic observance, was changed into christos-the "purified" in esoteric or mystery language. in mystic sy

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d sacrifice to demons, thought otherwise of p. 49 the sacrament of the body of christ than the catholic church teaches, saying that the same venerable sacrament is by no means to be worshipped; and also asserting that they are not bound to obey or believe the decrees, decretals, and apostolic mandates; in the meantime, consulting demons according to the rites of those sects among the gentiles and pagans, they despise the sacraments of the catholic church, and draw the faithful of christ after them by their superstitions" as no inquisitors of heresy have been appointed in ireland, he begs the king to give prompt assistance to the bishop and other prelates in their efforts to punish the aforesaid heretics. 1 if the above refer to the kyteler case it came rather late in the day; but it is qui

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

ad hardly outlined its contradictory dogmas; when the diampiods of the bloodthirsty cyril knew not thetoselves whether mary was to become' the mother of god' or rank as a 'demon' ia company with isis; when the memory of the meek and lowly jesus still lingered lovingly in every christian heart, and his words of mercy and charity still vibrated in the air, even then the christians were outdoing the pagans in every kind of ferocity and religious intolerance. and if we look still farther back, and seek for examples of true chrimtum, in ages when buddhism had hardly superseded brfthmanism in india, and the name of jesus was only to he pronounced three centuries later, what do we find? which of the holy pillars of the church has ever elevated himself to the level of religious tolerance and noble

o is identified by more than one critic with nimiod "the mighty hunter" manetho makes the oracle rebuke the king, when the latter asks" tell me, o thou strong in fire, who before me could subjugate all things? and who shall after mef" and the oracle saith thus "first god, then the word, and then 'the spirit" in the foregoing lies the fotmdation of the fierce hatred of the chris- tians toward the 'pagans' and the theurgists. too much had been borrowed; the ancient religions and the neo-platonists had been laid by them under contribution sufficiently to perplex the world (or several thousand years. had not the ancient creeds been speedily obliterated, it would have been found impossible to preach the christian religion as a new dispensation, or the direct bevelation from god the father, thro

we remain friends' and so, with a hearty shake of the hands, these two opposites parted" there is scarcely a report sent by the missionaries from india, tibet, and china, but laments the diabolical 'obscenity' of the heathen rites, their lamentable impudicity; all of which "are so strongly suggestive of devil-worship" as des mousseaux tells us. we can scarcely be assured that the morality of the pagans would be in the least improved were they allowed a free inquiry into the life of, say, the psalmist-king, the author of those sweet psalms which are so rapturously repeated by christians. the difference between david performing a phallic dance before the holy ark emblem of the female principle and a hindfl vishnavite bearing the same emblem on his forehead, favors the former only in the eye

, when i endeavor to destroy the current heathenism, which haa assumed the garb of christianity, i do not attack real rehgion" few would accuse a workman of malignancy who cleanses from filth the sur- face of a noble statue. there may he some who are too nice to touch a nasty subject, yet even they will rejoice when some one else removes the dirt. such a scavenger is much wanted* but is it merely pagans and heathen that the catholics persecute, and about whom, like augustine, uiey cry to the deity "oh, my godi mo do i wiah thy entmiea to be tlain? oh, no! their aspirations are more mosaic and cain-like than that. it is against their next of kin in faith, against their schismatic brothers that they are now intriguing with- in the walls which sheltered the murderous borgias. the larvae of th

stigmatized as pro- fane; the transcendently glorious achievements of the museum of alex- andria were hidden from sight by a cloud of ignorance, mysticism, and unintelligible jargon, out of which there too often flashed the destroying lightnings of ecclesiastical vengeance* augustine* and cyprian> admit that hermes and osth&a believed in one true god; the 6rst two maintaining, as well as thcl two pagans, that he is invisible and incomprehensible, except spiritually. moreover we invite any man of intelligence provided he be not a religious fanatic 171. ventura de ruilica: ctmftrmca, ii, put i, p. ivi, preface. 172. ct. thecityofgod,vin.ix;x,u;elc 173. co^id beta. rd. and 3eiau ,p.e2. 174. dt bartumo omfra onurfutm, lib. vi, c. xliv. 175. sonefi c. cypriatti open 'de idoloram vauiute' p. 14:

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

sacred things, or by whatsoever name they may be designated, are to be abolished henceforth, and let them not think that they are protected by a granted privilege when their religious confession is known to have been condemned by the law. 472. by a.d. 423 the penalties against those who clung to the old beliefs had become severe, for in a later edict of the same emperor we find: 473. although the pagans that remain ought to be subjected to capital punishment if at any time they are detected in the abominable sacrifices of demons, let exile and confiscation of goods be their punishment(*codex theodosianus xvi, 10, 14, 23, quoted in a source book for ancient church history. ayer, p. 371) 474. wherever possible the temples of the gods were destroyed, the ancient libraries were burnt, the stat

LETTER FROM A LUCIFEREAN

o draw on the power of the personal- or interpersonal- erotic impulse. since i have mentioned christianity in passing, i will now deal with the question of the relationship between christianity and satanism. i make no bones of the fact that i was a christian before i became a satanist, as were, to varying degrees i suppose, my colleagues. i have seen, time and time again, the charge by modern neo-pagans that satanists are merely inverted christians. to some extent, this charge is fell-founded. the relationship between christianity and satanism is very much like the relationship between the various schools of tantrism and orthodox vedanta. after all, the tantric s use of meat, wine, and sexual intercourse are only shocking within the context of orthodox belief. in the west, we think nothing

of meat, wine, and sexual intercourse are only shocking within the context of orthodox belief. in the west, we think nothing of wining and dining as a prelude to sexual intercourse- providing of course that the lady pays! in the same way, satanism rejects the christian values of chastity, meekness, denial of pleasure and the flesh, and bending the knee to a god who is all-pervasive. what the neo-pagans miss of course, is that they themselves are as influenced by christian values as anyone else. it is too easy by far to simply embrace something which seems to be the antithesis of normality, without examining how one is bound by those values which, on the surface, one is seemingly rejecting. christian values have infected modern satanic groups in much the same way. this can be seen in the w

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

eans of travel for witches.witches were reported to be able to fly brooms up chimneys. while a broom could be turned to a witch s purpose by means of flying ointment, a broomstick placed across the threshold of a house was supposed to keep witches out. the notion of demons and witches riding farming implements through the air to diabolical gatherings may derive from the practice of pre- christian pagans who mounted brooms and pitchforks and rode them like hobbyhorses in the fields, dancing and leaping, as part of fertility rites meant to help the crops grow. before witches were recorded as riding on brooms, they were said to have danced with them, sometimes holding the brooms up high in the air and sometimes dancing astride them. in addition to riding brooms and shovels, sixteenth-century

fortean picture library) 186 neopagan witchcraft derive from pre-christian paganism. the assertion that these terms were so derived may have been plausible in the midtwentieth century when gardner founded the wiccan movement, but it is now clear that there is no historical connection between modern wiccans and the witches executed by the inquisition both because the inquisition s victims were not pagans and because gardner s claims to have inherited an ancient lineage were false. rather, these terms were derived from the diabolical fantasies of medieval witchhunters who believed they were rooting out and destroying the prince of darkness s minions in other words, witch, coven, and sabbat derive from the literary satanism created by officials of the church. vera further argues that the god

LIBER 777

ricus frogs 1010 a young woman crowned and veiled 1 =108 zelator 0 =08 neophyte 1st order water turned to blood cxxiii. english of col. viii, lines 1-10 cxxiv. the heavenly hexagram. cxxv* seven hells of the arabs. cxxvi. their inhabitants. cxxvii* seven heavens of the arabs. 0. 1 dual contending forces& 2 hinderers# 3 concealers' daath] h wiyah hypocrites dar al-jalai 4 breakers in pieces% jahim pagans or idolaters dar as-salam 5 burners$ sakar guebres jannat al-maawa 6 disputers! sa ir sabians jannat al-khuld 7 dispersing ravens. hutamah jews jannat al-naim 8 deceivers. laza christians jannat al-firdaus 9 obscene ones. 1010 the evil woman or (simply) the woman. jehannum moslems jannat al- adn or al-karar table i (continued) 25 cxxviii. meaning of col. cxxvii. cxxix. pairs of angels rulin

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

ace their genealogies from earth. and seeing the importance of the heavenly bodies for time reckoning, they assumed that some being had ordered the course of these bodies and probably existed before they did and might rule all things. this knowledge they possessed was worldly knowledge, for they lacked spiritual knowledge. this is medieval speculation on the origin of paganism, and it ascribes to pagans a kind of natural religion, one based on unenlightened observation of the environment. it was especially attractive to icelanders like snorri, who traced their genealogies from pagans and for whom the conversion of their land to christianity was a relatively recent event. the first extant work of icelandic history writing is a little treatise called islendingabok (book of icelanders, by the

ries earlier. adam of bremen fs account of the pagan temple at uppsala, mentioned above, is difficult to discount, but it must be remembered that the end of the eleventh century, when adam was writing, was a time of enormous christian influence in sweden, and it is quite conceivable that the notion of a building reserved for religious purposes could have resulted from such influence. scandinavian pagans had probably much earlier come in out of the rain for their religious ceremonies: scholars now agree that large homesteads were the sites of cult activities as well as of other social activities. the sources mention something called a horgr, which i have translated galtar h in this book. the eddic poems suggest the horgr was something that could be reddened, and they make it appear to be so

materials concerning frey and the ynglingar cannot be used to advance a notion of sacral kingship. ingunar-frey name for frey. this form of frey fs name is found in lokasenna, stanza 43, where byggvir uses it of his master, and in the so-called great saga of st. olaf, where it is said that thjodolf of hvin fs ynglinga tal traces the ancestors of king rognvald of vestfold gback to ingunar-frey, as pagans called their god. h thjodolf fs poem is retained in snorri sturluson fs ynglinga saga, where snorri refers to yngvi-frey. clearly the two forms of the name are related, and on a purely linguistic basis one would say gyngvi-frey h has a scandinavian form and gingunar-frey h a west germanic form; beowulf 1319 refers to the king of the danes as frea ingwina (lord of the friends of ing, and a f

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

. they depend almost entirely upon the ministrations of the shepherd. the apostle paul said that these little ones must be fed with milk, but that meat is the food of strong men. thoughtlessness is almost synonymous with childishness, while thoughtfulness is symbolic of maturity. there are, however, but few mature minds in the world; and thus it was that the philosophic-religious doctrines of the pagans were divided to meet the needs of these two fundamental groups of human intellect--one philosophic, the other incapable of appreciating the deeper mysteries of life. to the discerning few were revealed the esoteric, or spiritual, teachings, while the unqualified many received only the literal, or exoteric, interpretations. in order to make simple the great truths of nature and the abstract

ret rituals it becomes evident that the mystery of the dying god was universal among the illumined and venerated colleges of the sacred teaching. this mystery has been perpetuated in christianity in the crucifixion and death of the god-man-jesus the christ. the secret import of this world tragedy and the universal martyr must be rediscovered if christianity is to reach the heights attained by the pagans in the days of their philosophic supremacy. the myth of the dying god is the key to both universal and individual redemption and regeneration, and those who do not comprehend the true nature of this supreme allegory are not privileged to consider themselves either wise or truly religious. next: the life and teachings of thoth hermes trismegistus sacred texts esoteric index previous next p

d" the supreme benefactor, who raised all things from the dead, who fed the hungry multitudes, who stilled the tempest, who after dying rose again and restored all things to life- this supreme spirit of humanitarianism and philanthropy is known to christendom as christ, the redeemer of worlds, the only begotten of the father, the word made flesh, and the hope of glory. the birthday of the sun the pagans set aside the 25th of december as the birthday of the solar man. they rejoiced, feasted, gathered in processions, and made offerings in the temples. the darkness of winter was over and the glorious son of light was returning to the northern hemisphere. with his last effort the old sun god had torn down the house of the philistines (the spirits of darkness) and had cleared the way for the ne

nd romans fix the assumption of astraea, who is also this same virgin, on that day" this virgin mother, giving birth to the sun god which christianity has so faithfully preserved, is a reminder of the inscription concerning her egyptian prototype, isis, which appeared on the temple of sais "the fruit which i have brought forth is the sun" while the virgin was associated with the moon by the early pagans, there is no doubt that they also understood her position as a constellation in the heavens, for nearly all the peoples of antiquity credit her as being the mother of the sun, and they realized that although the moon could not occupy that position, the sign of virgo could, and did, give birth to the sun out of her side on the 25th day of december. albertus magnus states "we know that the si

ed from sheets of brass and cop per. in india such instruments are still in use, and they posses a high degree of accuracy. in jaipur, rajputana, india, an observatory consisting largely of immense stone sundials is still in operation. the famous chinese observatory on the wall of peking consists of immense bronze instruments, including a telescope in the form of a hollow tube without lenses. the pagans looked upon the stars as living things, capable of influencing the destinies of individuals, nations, and races. that the early jewish patriarchs believed that the celestial bodies participated in the affairs of men is evident to any student of biblical literature, as, for example, in the book of judges "they fought from heaven, even the stars in their courses fought against sisera" the cha

ient constellations to which they were assigned, and from which they secured their names, they are accepted by modern astronomers as a basis of calculation. the vernal equinox is therefore said to occur in the constellation of aries (the ram. it is fitting that of all beasts a ram should be placed at the head of the heavenly flock forming the zodiacal band. centuries before the christian era, the pagans revered this constellation. godfrey higgins states "this constellation was called the 'lamb of god' he was also called the 'savior' and was said to save mankind from their sins. he was always honored with the appellation of 'dominus' or 'lord' he was called the 'lamb of god which taketh away the sins of the world' the devotees addressing him in their litany, constantly repeated the words 'o

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

uding a good swanhook i commissioned more than ten years ago from a local stick-maker and a small fowlhook (or chickenhook) which is in fact my favourite. this was used daily for many years in my work, for catching ducks and as a means of protection on dark nights. i am also a practitioner of spae (a form of augury) and have always used these crooks in place of the more familiar stang, as do many pagans locally. so like the romans before me i took cognizance of the portents and have adopted laran as my personal lar and pay appropriate reverences not only to my own ancestors, but also to those of my benefactor the bronze s former owner, on his behalf. copyright rw parkinson september 2004 my traditional craft tools. branwen my pet carrion crow what follows below is un-edited material from o

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ts indigenous inhabitants. these adjusted ones must bewhat planet are you from?122atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation those who align with their alien dna and who police those who have a problem withthe present conditions of the planet. it is the fallen ones who seek to encourage their human slaves to think that they toohave descended from the depths of space. the fact is, as the pagans have understood,that this earth is our one and only garden of eden. how is it that from this paradiseone can look out to the nether and fantasize that home is somewhere out there? onlysatan and his hordes and those they have deluded the world would do such a bizarrething. these ancient stories are extremely pertinent to the condition of the present.genesis means the genes of isis. isis is t

rsity of london. a friend of mill, george grote, would give theuniversity of london 6000 to study mental health, which began the worldwide mental healthmovement. 1444 men taken from lagos, africa, to seville, spain, and sold into slavery to work the sugar canefields. 1454 pope induced to extend his blessing to the slave trade and his authority to attack, subject andreduce to slavery the saracens, pagans, and other enemies of christ. portugal becomes a prime userof slavery to promote its trade in sugar, to which people were becoming addicted. 1493 columbus transports sugar cane to the new world on the advice of queen isabela. members of hiscrew acquire syphilis in haiti. 1495 syphilis epidemic spreads to europe from naples, italy, where the troops of charles viii werequartered. 1495 syphili

MORALS AND DOGMA

serpent, and the light-bearer or _phosphor, of which the poets have made the false lucifer of the legend. gold, to the eyes of the initiates, is light condensed. they style the sacred numbers of the kabalah "golden numbers" and the moral teachings of pythagoras his "golden verses" for the same reason, a mysterious book of apuleius, in which an ass figures largely, was called "the golden ass" the pagans accused the christians of worshipping an ass, and they did not invent this reproach, but it came from the samaritan jews, who, figuring the data of the kabalah in regard to the divinity by egyptian symbols, also represented the intelligence by the figure of the magical star adored under the name of _remphan, science under the emblem of anubis, whose name they changed to _nibbas, and the vul

hasty to utter anything before god: for god is in heaven, and thou art upon earth; therefore let thy words be few. weigh well what it is you promise; but once the promise and pledge are given remember that he who is false to his obligation will be false to his family, his friends, his country, and his god _fides servanda est: faith plighted is ever to be kept, was a maxim and an axiom even among pagans. the virtuous roman said, either let not that which seems expedient be base, or if it _be_ base, let it not seem expedient. what is there which that so-called expediency can bring, so valuable as that which it takes away, if it deprives you of the name of a good man and robs you of your integrity and honor? in all ages, he who violates his plighted word has been held unspeakably base. the w

tian and alva, the miserable covenanters, the non-conformists, servetus burned, and the unoffending quaker hung. it sees cranmer hold his arm, now no longer erring, in the flame until the hand drops off in the consuming heat. it sees the persecutions of peter and paul, the martyrdom of stephen, the trials of ignatius, polycarp, justin, and irenaeus; and then in turn the sufferings of the wretched pagans under the christian emperors, as of the papists in ireland and under elizabeth and the bloated henry. the roman virgin naked before the hungry lions; young margaret graham tied to a stake at low-water mark, and there left to drown, singing hymns to god until the savage waters broke over her head; and all that in all ages have suffered by hunger and nakedness, peril and prison, the rack, the

rpret all according to the light he possesses. again we see the symbolism of masonry, and the search of the candidate for light "let men of narrow minds withdraw" he says "with closed ears. we transmit the divine mysteries to those who have received the sacred initiation, to those who practise true piety, and who are not enslaved by the empty trappings of words or the preconceived opinions of the pagans" to philo, the supreme being was the primitive light, or the archetype of light, source whence the rays emanate that illuminate souls. he was also the soul of the universe, and as such acted in all its parts. he himself fills and limits his whole being. his powers and virtues fill and penetrate all. these powers [greek? e, dunameis] are spirits distinct from god, the "ideas" of plato person

more than a feeble and secondary light, which gives it, not the understanding of things, but that of words only, as in this baser world. let the narrow-souled withdraw, having their ears sealed up! we communicate the divine mysteries to those only who have received the sacred initiation, to those who practise true piety, and who are not enslaved by the empty pomp of words, or the doctrines of the pagans. o, ye initiates, ye whose ears are purified, receive this in your souls, as a mystery never to be lost! reveal it to no profane! keep and contain it within yourselves, as an incorruptible treasure, not like gold or silver, but more precious than everything besides; for it is the knowledge of the great cause, of nature, and of that which is born of both. and if you meet an initiate, besiege

ad groaned for ages. this, in its purity, as taught by christ himself, was the true primitive religion, as communicated by god to the patriarchs. it was no new religion, but the reproduction of the oldest of all; and its true and perfect morality is the morality of masonry, as is the morality of every creed of antiquity. in the early days of christianity, there was an initiation like those of the pagans. persons were admitted on special conditions only. to arrive at a complete knowledge of the doctrine, they had to pass three degrees of instruction. the initiates were consequently divided into three classes; the first _auditors, the second _catechumens, and the third _the faithful. the auditors were a sort of novices, who were prepared by certain ceremonies and certain instruction to recei

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

at that, in four years, but a pestilence which killed six million in six months (the first world war and the epidemic that followed) are we going to repeat the insanity? should we not rather breed humanity for quality by killing off any tainted stock, as we do with other cattle? and exterminating the vermin which infect it, especially jews and protestant christians? catholic christians are really pagans at heart; there is usually good stuff in them, particularly in latin countries. they only need to be instructed in the true meaning of their faith to reject the false veils. an xxi: after some years spent in catholic countries, i wish to modify the above. catholics are dead alike to spirituality and to reason, as bad as protestants. and the jew is far from hopeless outside america, where th

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

cording to the chronicles, these workers held free status, rather than that of serfs, and enjoyed consideration beyond that accorded the simple manual laborers. bernard the treasurer, the continuer of guillaume de tyr, recounts how in 1198 when the christians laid siege to beirut, the saracens "emptied the castle of women, children, and weakened individuals and sent as hostages to the land of the pagans the wives and children of all the slaves and a carpenter they held therein, so that these would not commit any treachery" thanks to a ruse, this carpenter made it possible for the crusaders to successfully capture the castle. amaury, king of jerusalem "honored him greatly, giving to him and his heirs a large private income inside the castle and ensuring that his wife and children, who had b

n of all the slaves and a carpenter they held therein, so that these would not commit any treachery" thanks to a ruse, this carpenter made it possible for the crusaders to successfully capture the castle. amaury, king of jerusalem "honored him greatly, giving to him and his heirs a large private income inside the castle and ensuring that his wife and children, who had been sent to the land of the pagans, were freed."14 the useless precautions of the saracens and the honors bestowed by king amaury on this "carpenter" show that this title must have concerned a man of a certain high social standing, most likely a master builder. hugues plagon, the second continuer of guillaume de tyr, writes that in 1253 the saracens of damascus came to acre, destroyed doc and ricordane and captured sidon "an

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

eaching as brought to light by the researches of ra. schwaller de lubicz connecting consciousness and matter in hieroglyphic expression. we may find the eternal wisdom of the ancient sages etched in stone and built into their architecture helpful in understanding humanity as part and not separate from nature. things have changed a great deal from the days of mathers, crowley and regardie. the new pagans have sprung into bein& and after two decades are beginning to mature. as we approach the 100th anniversary of the founding of the golden dawn, it is being reexamined by young thinkers with an eye to revamping it in light of the discoveries of the last 80 years since it "collapsed. or did it collapse? perhaps it is better to remember that the golden dawn system of magick is not a book but is

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

h god all things are possible; but humanly speaking there seems little hope of the conversion of these heathen until the native churches shall have risen from sleep, and again trimmed their lamps with a zeal and love such as were exhibited in the early nestorian missionaries, who earned the glad tidings of the gospel into the wilds of tartary, and planted the banner of the cross among the refined pagans of chiwia rite of the opposer by andrew chumbley the intent of this rite is solely that given unto it by its practitioner in reciprocation to the intent of the current summoned through its practice. the functions and applications are revealed solely through its practice and subsequent adaptation by the practitioner in accordance with such secret and unique directions as are revealed unto hi

RUBY TABLET OF SET

eligions which exist in the modern western world, but did not exist prior to 1900 in their present form, and religions which are disavowed by the judeo-christian orthodoxies. when compared against the elements listed above for paganism, some differences and similarities are apparent. 1. the deities are more or less similar to what is known of the ancient ones, but within the various groups of neo-pagans, the deities seem to be selected in an eclectic manner. the conceptual framework is tempered by the adherent's education and cultural origin. a current example is santeria, originating from african roots, but diverse in its practice in this country. white, middle class santeria practitioners of catholic background view santeria differently from the hispanic catholics who grew up with the cu

f god. it is based on two assumptions: that there is an inner life in god, and that the existence of man ought to revolve in a spiritual dynamic course around the life of god" once again the preoccupation is with pleasing the deity. one can find examples of similar material in some of the ancient dialogues, quoted in modern reprints of the greek poets who transcribed the words of the oracles. see pagans and christians, the chapter entitled language of the gods, pp. 234& 235, and ancient mysteries, which has numerous examples throughout the book. 3. initiatory states are designed to help the individual deal with the "here and now" though strictly limited to the male members of the communities, the roles available have thousands of years of tradition to reinforce their importance upon the je

e versatile and less difficult of the two. it is also less of a strain upon the consciousness. per the above definitions, all of the rituals contained in the satanic bible and satanic rituals are examples of white magic. by its very definition, black magic may not be standardized or even described as a consistent routine. white magic is practiced today on a fairly widespread basis by monotheists, pagans, spiritualists, rosicrucians, thelemites, and satanists/setians. only satanists/ setians, according to my experience, actually know the "machinery" of the technique they are using and why it works. an understanding of and proficiency in white magic is one prerequisite for recognition of a setian as an adept ii. an understanding of and proficiency in black magic is an identifying characteris

for joy and a time for sharing. the richness of the soil accepts the seed; and now is the time that seeds should be spilled. togetherness brings joy and abundance fills the earth (buckland's complete book of witchcraft) i would like to point out however, that not all seed is spilled optimally at this time of year. goats breed best in fall, as do numerous other species of things. so don't let any pagans try to persuade you that this is the best time of the year to "do it" unless of course you want to. my focus for this working was on clear thinking (the air element, and in willing some control over the ponderous effects that were going on in my life that i could identify as related to earth, fire and water, from an astrological viewpoint. work issues (earth) had been overwhelming, with emo

SATANGEL

ducting souls to the other world. such a pedigree dates from when the tribes of israel were in captivity in egypt. thus he may be equated here with anubis, the dog star, whose name in persian is tistar, chief, and in akkadian kasista, prince. the equation of micha-el and the god of the underworld also continues after the arrival of roman catholicism. the church, anxious to attract and convert the pagans of roman gaul, endowed micha-el with many of the attributes of the god mercury, and thus also of the greek hermes. chapels dedicated to micha-el thus sprang up throughout europe and britain over earlier temples which had been built on hills and mounds, michael s mounts. these were previously the focal points in earlier times of the dragon power running through the earth. gabri-el jibril, an

SATANIC BIBLE

n 1967, i drove crosstown in san fransisco to hear anton szandor lavey lecture at an open meeting of the sexual freedom league. i was attracted by newspaper articles describing him as "the black pope" of a satanic church in which baptism, wedding, and funeral ceremonies were dedicated to the devil. i was a free-lance magazine writer, and i felt there might be a story in lavey and his contemporary pagans; for the devil has always made "good copy, as they say on the city desk. it was not the practice of the black arts itself that i considered to be the story, because that is nothing new in the world. there were devil-worshipping sects and voodoo cults before there were christians. in eighteenth-century england a hell-fire club, with connections to the american colonies through benjamin frank

is the favorite sport of the satanist! if this sounds repugnant, then the success of the reports of the black mass, in keeping the devout in church, is easy to understand. no "decent" person could fail to side with the inquisitors when told of these blasphemies. the propagandists of the church did their job well, informing the public at one time or another of the heresies and heinous acts of the pagans, cathars, bogomils, templars and others who, because of their dualistic philosophies and sometimes satanic logic, had to be eradicated. the stories of unbaptized babies being stolen by satanists for use in the mass were not only effective propoganda measures, but also provided a constant source of revenue for the church, in the form of baptism fees. no christian mother would, upon hearing o

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

word refers to the community of all christians. it is also the place where christians go to worship. consciousness: the condition of being aware of one s thoughts, feelings, and existence. conservative: a movement in modern judaism that tries to strike a balance between orthodox and reform judaism. conversion: a change in which a person adopts a new set of religious beliefs. coven: a group of neo-pagans, such as wiccans. alternately referred to as circles, groves, kindreds, garths, hearths, and other terms. covenant: in religion, a covenant refers to an agreement between god or a messenger of god and his followers. creed: a statement of belief or basic principles. crucifixion: the suffering and death by nailing or binding a person to a cross. cuneiform: sumerian writing, so-called because

r legitimacy( legal right to rule. atheism was a charge brought against any person who differed from the beliefs of the state religions of greece and rome. the famous philosopher socrates (c. 470 399 bce) was tried and executed in athens for being atheos. however, socrates was not an atheist. he believed in certain gods, just not the right ones to save him from such a charge. early christians and pagans (followers of the greek and roman state religions) also accused each other of being atheists because they each believed the other had denied the existence of their gods. the greek philosopher democritus suggested that all matter in the universe was made of an eternal element he called an atom. because atoms were eternal, democritus reasoned, there was no need for a creatorgod. bettmann/corb

e who have lost faith in mainstream western religions. these people see western religions as part of a broader set of western beliefs that have led to exploitation of the natural world and damage to the environment. neo-paganism, for many, is a way to embrace a simpler, more natural way of life that does not depend on the tools of modern technology and that respects the natural world. because neo-pagans feel close to the cycles of nature, holy days tend to include the first day of each of the four seasons: the summer and winter solstices and the spring and autumn equinoxes (the solstices are the points in the year when the day is the longest and shortest; the equinoxes are the points of the year when the hours of day and night are equal) this emphasis on seasonal changes reflects the geogr

ously referred to as covens, circles, groves, kindreds, garths, hearths, and other terms. neo-pagans groups have little, if any, hierarchical structure. that is, no ruling body has authority over members. there is no class of priests that enforce uniformity of belief. there is no officially authorized text, sacred scripture, or body of teachings. 374 world religions: almanac neo-paganism most neo-pagans prefer to practice their rituals outdoors when they can, consistent with their emphasis on nature. in the past many practiced in secret, largely because many people associated neopaganism with satan worship and accordingly persecuted or discriminated against them. as of the early twenty-first century this situation has improved, and neo-pagans feel somewhat freer to openly acknowledge their

ractice their rituals outdoors when they can, consistent with their emphasis on nature. in the past many practiced in secret, largely because many people associated neopaganism with satan worship and accordingly persecuted or discriminated against them. as of the early twenty-first century this situation has improved, and neo-pagans feel somewhat freer to openly acknowledge their beliefs. all neo-pagans follow a code of behavior based on not doing harm to others. neo-pagans do not practice black arts, blood sacrifices, or about neo-paganism belief. most neo-pagans trace their religious views back to traditions used by celts and other european peoples before missionaries brought christianity into the area. in general, they are polytheistic, believing in more than one god and/or goddess. the

e goddess s symbols include the moon and many other objects representing the feminine: the cup, flowers, mirrors, seashells, and jewels. the god s symbols include the hunt, the sun, the sword, horns, the spear, the knife, the magic wand, the arrow, the sickle (a curved blade, and precious metals. worship. in general, forms of worship are left to the individual believer or practitioner. dress. neo-pagans have no standard costume or form of dress, although some dress in robes and others worship naked. texts. asatruars honor the sagas that relate ancient norse myths, but neo-pagans as a whole have no defined texts or scriptures. sites. neo-pagans have no particular sites sacred to their religion. alternatively, because many celebrate the divine in nature, all sites may be considered holy. obs

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

aware of the character of the mysteries, and if they wished to become christians they had somehow to come to terms with their former outlook. that could lead to severe psychic struggles. in all sorts of ways they sought to find an accommodation between the two divergent ways of looking at the world. the writings of the first christian centuries mirror this struggle not least the writings of those pagans attracted by the exalted nature of christianity, as well as those of christians who nevertheless found it hard to relinquish the ways of the mysteries. christianity emerged only slowly out of the mysteries. christian convictions might be expressed in the form of mystery-truths. christian language might clothe the wisdom belonging to the mysteries. the essence of christianity 147 one example

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

the first symbol would be that of the cross. this symbol is upheld very highly by modern christianity. a cross is a figure made by two lines bisecting each other. when at right angles, it is the calvary cross or also called, the crux simplex. unknown to many modern christians, the symbol of the cross in its various shapes is far older than that of the christian era. for it was in use amongst the pagans of western asia and europe many centuries before the death of christ. as such, to many ancient cultures, it is not a symbol of sacrifice, but still remains as a solar symbol. this also includes the ankh, which many attribute to the planet c, but because the planet is so close to the a it contains many of its qualities. the oldest example of such usage can be found during the kassite period

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

what is being taught. he heard confessions of pope paul vi. 8-15-59 "bifra" bicarella, mario. prelate of vicenza, italy. 9-23-64# 21-014 "bima" bonicelli, gaetano. bishop of albano, italy. 5-12-59# 63-1428 "boga" boretti, giancarlo. 3-21-65# 0-241 "borgi" bovone, alberto. substitute secretary of the sacred office. 3-30-67# 254-3 "albo" brini, mario. archbishop. secretary of chinese, oriental, and pagans. member of pontifical commission to russia. has control of rewriting canon law. 7-7-68# 15670 "mabri" bugnini, annibale. archbishop.wrote novus ordo mass. envoy to iran, 4-23-63# 1365-75 "buan" buro, michele. bishop. prelate of pontifical commission to latin america, 3-21-69# 140-2 "bumi" cacciavillan, agostino. secretariat of state. 11-6-60# 13-154. cameli, umberto. director in office of t

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

ge masonic secrets. he goes on to demand that if he does divulge secrets, may all the sins of the dead person whose skull he is drinking from be heaped upon his, the candidate's, head.6 so we see that the mason's newfound "god" jahbuhlun (jah-baal-on, is a rigid taskmaster who does not look kindly on traitors and blabbers. it was the canaanite god baal, of course, to whom the backslidden jews and pagans sacrificed their children in the fire. you'll recall that the prophet elijah brought the message of god's judgement against those who worshipped bloodthirsty baal, who, in reality, is merely an idolatrous representation of satan. yes, baal is the devil. to attempt in vain to combine the name of the true god with that of false gods like baal and on is particularly evil and grievous to the tr

nal calligraphic motto on its breast (from the book, a history of secret societies, by arkon daraul, citadel press, secaucus, new jersey, 1961) the eagle is the sun the herder dictionary of symbols notes that the eagle has long been a symbol of power, endurance, and heavenward flight. it also symbolizes the sun (and the sun god) and spiritual majesty. coil's masonic encyclopedia says that "to the pagans, the eagle was an emblem of jupiter, and with the druids it was a symbol of their supreme god" the eagle appears in the insignia of many nations, including ancient rome, nazi and modern-day germany, czarist russia, and the united states of america. the rothschilds adopted the double-headed eagle as the logo of the rothschild family dynasty. the eagle is also represented in the great seal of

he mystery religions of the romans and other peoples especially needed the utmost secrecy because, during the higher initiations, the unspoken names of the hidden or unknown god, or gods, was often revealed. as the christians gained in numbers and influence, they began to properly understand that these names were actually synonyms for satan, lucifer, the devil. great effort was therefore taken by pagans to obscure or prevent the unmasking of this satanic connection.10 an interesting sidenote: as a child watching tv in the early days (1950s, one of the most popular programs was a game show hosted by jewish comedian groucho marx. groucho had a brother, harpo marx, who was also a comedian and starred in numerous tv programs and in movies. harpo always played the cherubic character of a mute y

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d respect its use. never practice magick from the space of fear or anger. these emotions, both tend to sour the desired results. in group work, you are only as strong, as your weakest link. that is why fear is the last thing you need in any group or circle. page 5 grimoire of eclectic magick) the wheel of the year( ha m in as ule y bolg mi tar s a o ta l i e n b tha il as n s h ad g h ul bo a n m pagans celebrate eight festivals, or sabbats in the cycle of a year. while all eight of these times reflect agricultural aspects of the year, four are of a celtic nature, while the other four are drawn from the mediterranean area of europe. each full moon is also a holy day, and is called an esbat. samhain celtic fire festival october 31 yule winter solstice december 21 imbolg celtic fire festival

ave (babd, badhbh) belen blathnat blodeuwedd boann brigid cerridwen cernunnos danu donn daghda (dagda, sucellus) emain goivniu grannus green man hern lugh (llew, lugus) macha mabon (maponos, oenghus) mananaan (manawydan) modron morrigan nevain (nemain, nemhain) oghma taranis teutates (tiw) basic celtic the lady dana the lord cerrunnos over the years, i have read a number of explanations as to why pagans worship multiply deities. to be honest i have felt that most of these were more the various author trying to justify their personal beliefs. with that said, i will now attempt to answer the question as to why pagans worship multiply deities. to barrow from a popular movie series, everything that exists has within it the force. there is only one force, and it is within all things! now this i

ything that exists has within it the force. there is only one force, and it is within all things! now this idea is nothing new, and before star wars it was more commonly known as the tao. the tao is a beautiful concept, but is has only one major flaw, it has no face. humans, being the creatures that we are, like to have faces and personalities attached to our divine beings. let me also state that pagans do not really worship these gods and goddesses. what we do is honor the aspect of the divine that they reflect. by employing a name of a god or goddess our human psyche connects with the archetype symbol that they represent for us. common examples: diana the huntress for many brings to mind a maiden who is wild and free. frigga the mother is evoked often by both pagans and non-pagans with t

iccan rede and the three fold law in mind, when you do. thaumaturgy the art of magick theory overview( your ability to practice magick is as much an intuitive understanding of the theory, as it is the ability to read words from a book. magick is governed by the three fold law of return. the magician, or witch should also temper their actions with the wiccan rede (or some other ethical philosophy. pagans don t worship multiple gods, so much as they do honor the lord& lady as aspects of the divine (known by such names as the spirit, the tao, and everyone s favorite, the force. magick can be practiced as a means of self advancement along a spiritual path (theurgy. it can also be practiced for material goals (thaumaturgy. magick is not good or evil, black or white, magick just is! like air, wa

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world mythology. london: dempsey parr, 1999. ferm, vergilius, ed. ancient religions. new york: the philosophical library, 1950. 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 32 afterlife mysteries the rites of dionysus often featured animal sacrifice. this was meant to symbolize the incarnation, death, and resurrection of the divinity. fox, robin lane. pagans and christians. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1989. gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline book publishing, 1994. walker, barbara g. the woman s encyclopedia of myths and secrets. san francisco, harper& row, 1983. dionysian mysteries next to the eleusinian mysteries in importance and popularity were the dionysian, which were centered around dionysus (bacchus, a

a heavenly resurrection of the body for the righteous. reincarnation, the great wheel of return set in motion by one s karma, is accepted as a reality in the hindu and buddhist religions, as well as certain mystical sects in judaism and islam. in the early days of christianity, however, even the church s greatest leaders, such as st. clement of alexandria (150 215 c.e) in his exhortations to the pagans, stated their beliefs in the soul s preexistence: we were in being long before the foundation of the world. we existed in the eye of god, for it is our destiny to live in him. we are the reasonable creatures of the divine word; therefore, we have existed from the beginning, for in the beginning was the word. not for the first time does he show pity on us in our wanderings; he pitied us from

incorporated certain aspects of reincarnation in their teachings. certain scholars have also speculated that jesus may have studied various mystical traditions in egypt, india, and tibet, all of which would have introduced him to the teachings of reincarnation. m delving deeper eerdman s handbook to the world s religions. grand rapids, mich: william b. eerdman s publishing, 1994. fox, robin lane. pagans and christians. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1989. head, joseph, and s. l. cranston. reincarnation: an east-west anthology. wheaton, ill: quest books, 1968. mcdannell, colleen, and bernard lang. heaven: a history. new york: vintage books, 1990. hinduism the bhagavad-gita, the holy text of the hindus, observes that as the dweller in the body experiences childhood, youth, old age, so passes he

hey returned to their customary occupations as mystics, ones who had been endowed with the ability to open their inner eyes to perceive a world of light beyond the darkness of their ordinary lives. m delving deeper cotterell, arthur, ed. encyclopedia of world mythology. london: dempsey parr book, 1999. ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: philosophical library, 1950. fox, robin lane.pagans and christians. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1989. gaskell, g. a. dictionary of all scriptures& myths. avenel, n.j: gramercy books, 1981. young, dudley. origins of the sacred. new york: st. martins, 1991. christian mystery schools, cults, heresies the christian mystery schools were largely condemned by the early church fathers because of the fear that their t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i

example and converted to the teachings of jesus of nazareth (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) and the christian church. mithraism gradually faded into obscurity by the end of the fourth century, retaining only small pockets of followers scattered throughout what had once been the persian empire. sources: clifton, chas s. encyclopedia of heresies and heretics. new york: barnes& noble, 1998. fox, robin lane. pagans and christians. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1989. spence, lewis. encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park: n.y: university books, 1960. mithras in the roman legions of the orgnization s members become dissatisfied with the religious routine and yearn for a more passionate expression of faith, they break off into a splinter group of the church and become a sect. as the sect becomes more organ

s of manichaeism have survived in minor ways in various secret societies, most frequently in its symbolism. m delving deeper brandon, s. g. f. religion in ancient history. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1969. clifton, charles s. encyclopedia of heresies and heretics. new york: barnes& noble, 1992. ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: philosophical library, 1950. fox, robin lane. pagans and christians. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1989. o grady, joan. early christian heresies. new york: barnes& noble, 1985. tribal mysteries the tribal cults that have emerged in the past 500 years offer a blend of christianity the majority religion of the conqueror and the slave owner and the aboriginal belief structures of the native american or african tribes that were subjugated or t h e g

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nked with the sun. the sun was considered to be the lowest manifestation of the spiritual world and therefore provided the intermediary between god and humankind. the science of alchemy was introduced to the western world at the beginning of the second century of the common era. it was, however, 200 years before the practice of the craft reached its zenith, concurrent with the persecutions of the pagans by the christians. zosimus of panapolis, self-appointed apologist of alchemy, cited a passage in genesis as the origin of the arcane art: gthe sons of god saw that the daughters of men were fair. h to this scriptural reference, zosimus added the tradition that in reward for their favors, the gsons of god, h who were believed to be fallen angels, endowed these women with the knowledge of how

n trial for witchcraft by the inquisition. zell fs analogy makes the point that today fs wiccans may no longer be tortured or burned alive at the stake, but they still suffer from persecution of character at the hands of unknowing, indifferent, or biased journalists, clergypersons, and educators. m delving deeper adler, margot. drawing down the moon: witches, druids, goddess-worshippers and other pagans in america today. boston: beacon press, 1986. buckland, raymond. buckland fs complete book of witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1987, 1997. cunningham, scott. wicca: a guide for the solitary practitioner. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1987. grimassi, raven. encyclopedia of wicca& witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 2000. lewis, james r. magical re

o personalities, law enforcement officers, television stars, politicians, and the complete spectrum of active and productive men and women. there are associations, centers, festivals, gatherings, and hundreds of websites to satisfy both the serious and the curious regarding the practice of wicca. m delving deeper adler, margot. drawing down the moon: witches, druids, goddess-worshippers and other pagans in america today boston: beacon press, 1986. buckland, raymond. buckland fs complete book of witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1987, 1997. gardner, gerald b. the meaning of witchcraft. new york: samuel weiser, 1959. leland, charles g. aradia: the gospel of the witches. reprint, new york: buckland museum of witchcraft and magick, 1968. murray, margaret alice. the witch-cult

, gerald b. the meaning of witchcraft. new york: samuel weiser, 1959. leland, charles g. aradia: the gospel of the witches. reprint, new york: buckland museum of witchcraft and magick, 1968. murray, margaret alice. the witch-cult in western europe. oxford: clarendon press, 1962. margot adler (1946) margot adler is the author of drawing down the moon: witches, druids, goddess-worshippers and other pagans in america today (1986) and heretic fs heart: a journey through spirit and revolution (1997. she received her b.a. from the university of california at berkeley in 1968, has a master fs degree from columbia fs graduate school of journalism, and was a nieman fellow at harvard in 1982. in the early 1970s, adler hosted three free-form radio shows on pacifica radio.hour of the wolf, unstuck in

, and god- 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 magic and sorcery 77 margot adler is the granddaughter of reknown psychiatrist alfred adler. dess spirituality. many of her workshops involve ecstatic singing, chanting, and seasonal celebrations. m delving deeper adler, margot. drawing down the moon: witches, druids, goddess-worshippers and other pagans in america today. boston: beacon press, 1986..heretic fs heart: a journey through spirit and revolution. boston: beacon press, 1997. ga time for truth. h beliefnet [online] http//www. beliefnet. com/story/40/story_4007.html. grimassi, raven. encyclopedia of wicca& witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 2000. philip emmons (isaac) bonewits (1949) philip emmons (isaac) bonewits

y elliot, and where he assumed the editorship of gnostica, a neopagan journal published by carl weschcke of llewellyn publications. the job lasted less than two years, but bonewits remained in the minneapolis/st. paul area for about another year and established a druid grove called the schismatic druids of north america. during this same period, bonewits combined interests with a number of jewish pagans and created the hasidic druids of north america. in 1973 he stated publicly that the alleged antiquity of wicca could not be supported by historical data. bonewits asserted that the craft as it was practiced in the twentieth century did not go back beyond gerald b. gardner and doreen valiente.no earlier than the 1920s. although such views were controversial at the time, by 1983 many scholar

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pers" by their moslemfellow-countrymen. as late as the nineteenth century christian missionaries of every denomination, whowent out to convert the heathen in any part of the world, were apt to speak of the people among whom theylaboured as worshippers of devils, and many even believed that those to whom they preached were doomedto hell-fire unless they turned to the christian god. the gods of the pagans were often accredited with evilmagical powers, which could be mysteriously communicated to the priests. against such powers of hell thechristian missionaries felt themselves strengthened by the powers of heaven; and the belief that the devil hadbeen defeated by the archangel michael backed by the whole power of the almighty gave them courage inthe contest.the study of anthropology has chang

me of the norman conquest the legal enactments show that though the rulers might benominally christian the people were openly heathen.it is possible that the church's prohibition against representing the crucifixion as a lamb on a cross was dueto the desire to differentiate the christian from the heathen god. the lamb, being a horned animal, was liableto be confounded with the horned deity of the pagans.the desolation of the country by the conqueror would not increase the estimation of christianity in the eyesof the unhappy population, and the old religion must have survived if only as a protest against the horrorsinflicted by the worshipper of the new god, the number of times that the "devil" is said to have appeared inthe reign of rufus is very suggestive of this.in the thirteenth centur

nst gilles de rais the god of the witchesintroduction5and his coven in 1440, against the witches of brescia in 1457. towards the end of the century the christianpower was so well established that the church felt that the time had come for an organised attack, and in1484 pope innocent viii published his bull against "witches" all through the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies the battle raged. the pagans fought a gallant, though losing, fight against a remorseless andunscrupulous enemy; every inch of the field was disputed. at first victory occasionally inclined to thepagans, but the christian policy of obtaining influence over the rulers and law-givers was irresistible. vaevictis was also the policy of the christians, and we see the priests of the papacy gloating over the thousandswhom the

e devil) waswont to appear in france.in the entire history of rufus, more particularly in the stories of his death, it is clear that the whole truth is notgiven; something is kept back. if, however, rufus was in the eyes of his subjects the god incarnate, mandivine, who died for his people, the christian chroniclers would naturally not record a fact which to themwould savour of blasphemy, and the pagans, being illiterate, made no records.the date of rufus's death, august 2nd, seems significant; it is always emphatically called "the morrow oflammas. lammas, the 1st of august, was one of the four great festivals of the old religion and there isevidence to show that it was on the great sabbaths only that the human sacrifice was offered. if then mytheory is correct rufus died as the divine vic

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ist seems to think that it does, indeed, mean "burning; especially so as the incantations to be found therein invariably entail burning something, usually a doll made in the likeness of a witch or evil sorcerer that the magician wished to dispose of. hence, we have here probably the archetype of the great burning times of the inquisition, when people were condemned to a fiery death as witches and pagans. the chant "burn, witch! burn" can be found in the maklu text, in all its pristine glory. indeed, cthulhu calls. the conjuration "the binding of the evil sorcerers" alsi ku nushi ilani mushiti itti kunu alsi mushitum kallatum kuttumtum alsi bararitum qablitum u namaritum ashshu kashshaptu u kashshipanni eli nitum ubbiraanni ili-ia u ishtari-ia ushis-su-u-eli-ia eli ameri-ia amru-usanaku imd

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destroy mysticism, within the circle of azothoz, you banish mysticism by obtaining knowledge of the self. during pathworkings, camping away from anyone for a period of time, joining the military, doing something which captivates and awakens the senses, you destroy mysticism. the process and interaction may be overpowering and leave you in awe however it is no mystery. mysticism is the act of neo-pagans who are trying to recapture the awe of your parents reading that first fantasy story to you that left your imagination with endless possibilities "the more mediocre, the weaker, the more submissive and cowardly a man is, the more he will posit as evil: it is with him that the realm of evil is most comprehensive. the basest (most dishonourable) man will see the realm of evil that is, of that

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owley and the` wicked' pansexualism of crowley's law of thelema. that such roots would be not just uncomfortable, but intolerable to the orthodox traditionalists among the wiccans, but even more so among the hybrid feminist "wiccans" may indeed be an understatement. neopaganism, in a now archaic "hippie" misreading of ecology, mistakes responsible stewardship of nature for nature worship. ancient pagans did not `worship' nature; to a large extent they were afraid of it, as has been pointed out to me by folk practioners. their "nature rites" were to propitiate the caprice of the gods, not necessarily to honor them. the first neopagan revivalists, gardner, crowley and dr. murray, well understood this. neopagan wiccans usually do not. in introducing a "goddess element" into their theology, cr

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ver willing the romish clergy were to make profit out of the popular phallic wor- 1 see before, p. 146, and plate xxxiii. generative powers 171 ship, they were equally ready to use the belief in it as a means of exciting prejudice against any sects which the church chose to regard as religious or political heretics. it is very evident that, in the earlier ages of the church, the conversion of the pagans to christianity was in a vast number of cases less than a half-conversion, and that the preachers of the gospel were satisfied by people assuming the name of christians, without inquiring too closely into the sincerity of their change, or into their practice. we can trace in the expressions of disapproval in the writings of some of the more zealous of the ecclesiastical writers, and in the

nd, following the ball of thread, was carried into the air nobody knew where; and the archbishop s officers 1 bonacursus, vita h reticorum, in d achery, spicilegium, tom. i, p. 209. this book is considered to have been written about the year 1190. 180 on the worship of the burnt the young woman in her place.1 it was the belief of most of the old sects of this class, as well as of the more ancient pagans from whom they were derived, that those who were fully initiated into their most secret mysteries became endowed with powers and faculties above those possessed by ordinary individuals. a list of the errors of the waldenses, printed in the reliqui antiqu, from an english manuscript, enumerates among them that they met to indulge in promiscuous sexual intercourse, and held perverse doctrines

amps, and each man took the first female he put his hand upon, and had sexual intercourse with her, without regard if she were his mother, or his sister, or a consecrated nun; and this intercourse, we are told, was looked upon by them as an act of holiness and religion. the child which was the fruit of this intercourse was taken on the eighth day and purified by fire, in the manner of the ancient pagans, so says the contemporary writer of this document, it was burnt to ashes in a large fire made for that purpose. the ashes were collected with great reverence, and preserved, to be administered to members of the society who were dying, just as good christians received the viaticum. it is added that there was such a virtue in these ashes, that an individual who had once tasted them would hard

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t toes the rationalistic line. to their eternal dishonor, the clergy have participated in gutting from religion all supernatural elements. priests and ministers are now little more than social workers. magic, which has no perceived social value, and which has blithely come down through the centuries unchanged, receives savage smear attacks in the printed press and electronic media. theurgists and pagans are accused of everything from eating feces to killing babies. despite the relaxation of the laws against magic, avowed magicians continue to be excluded from positions of social authority. there is no quicker way to lose a government or scientific post than to admit to practicing ritual occultism. art of transformation the persecution of magic for opposite reasons can be explained by the n

to revive the deification of nature) shows a regression to the nomadic type of magical worship, where the temple is formed by convening a group of worshippers, often but not necessarily thirteen in number, on the eight major feast days of the year, called sabbats. wor- ship takes place (ideally) out-of-doors with only the magic circle to act as the walls of the psychically erected temple. modern pagans, because they welcome uncritically the forces of magic and because they are fiercely devoted to their beliefs, usually succeed in filling their tem- ples of the imagination with light, which they personify as the great goddess, the soul of the world. however, it can happen that wiccan covens become mere social clubs or, what is worse, sexual theaters of the absurd. when this occurs, their m

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guazzo substituted the ubiquitous devil in place of the lunar goddess diana, as referred to in the much older ninth-century decree of the council of ancyra, recorded in the canon episcopi, which mentions that "certeine wicked women following sathans provocations, being seduced by the illusion of divels, beleeve and professe that in the night times they ride abroad with diana, the goddesse of the pagans, or else with herodias, with an innumerable multitude, upon certeine beasts, and passe over manie countries and nations, in the silence of the night, and doo whatsoever those fairies or ladies command."16 herodias is the daughter of diana, the moon, by her brother lucifer, the sun, according to the italian witches' gospel published in 1897 under the title aradia by the folklorist charles g

ross of christianity, the star of david of judaism, and the lunar crescent of islam are all forceful amulets of defense on the astral level, but only for those who have a firm faith in their power. christians can also form the sign of the cross upon the air with their right hand, to act as a barrier. it should be visualized as floating upon the air, burning brightly with white flames. wiccans and pagans may prefer to employ the pentagram. the golden dawn pentagram known as the banishing pentagram of earth makes an effective barrier, and can repel hostile spirits who try to approach too closely "the banishing pentagram of earth will also serve thee for a protection if thou trace it in the air between thee and any opposing astral it is formed by drawing a pentagram upon the air with the righ

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o not agree with every aspect of golden dawn symbolism. these disagreements are described and justified at length in my book new millennium magzc, where my personal system of magic is presented. to avoid confusing beginners, all of the exercises in the present work adhere to the golden dawn system of occult correspondences. golden dawn associations are used by the majority of ritual magicians and pagans practicing magic today, even though many of them have no idea where these symbolic relationships originated. the most important of these correspondences is the assignment of the four philosophical elements, spirits, angels and names of power to the four points of the compass. also important is the relationship between the twenty-two tarot trumps and the twelve zodiac signs, seven astrologic

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it is the birthday of the new sun king, the son of god- by whatever name you choose to call him. on this darkest of nights, the goddess becomes the great mother and once again gives birth. and it makes perfect poetic sense that on the longest night of the winter 'the dark night of our souls, there springs the new spark of hope, the sacred fire, the light of the world, the coel coeth. that is why pagans have as much right to claim this holiday as christians. perhaps even more so, as the christians were rather late in laying claim to it, and tried more than once to reject it. there had been a tradition in the west that mary bore the child jesus on the twenty-fifth day, but no one could seem to decide on the month. finally, in 320 c.e, the catholic fathers in rome decided to make it december

d to manycountries no faster than christianity itself, which means that 'christmas' wasn't celebrated in ireland until the late fifth century; in england, switzerland, and austria until the seventh; in germany until the eighth; and in the slavic lands until the ninth and tenth. not that these countries lacked their own mid-winter celebrations of yuletide. long before the world had heard of jesus, pagans had been observing the season by bringing in the yule log, wishing on it, and lighting it from the remains of last year's log. riddles were posed and answered, magic and rituals were practiced, wild boars were sacrificed and consumed along with large quantities of liquor, corn dollies were carried from house to house while carolling, fertility rites were practiced (girls standing under a sp

ady day' for beltane, which left no good folk name for the equinox. thus, eostara eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 15 was misappropriated for it, completing a chain-reaction of displacement. needless to say, the old and accepted folk name for the vernal equinox is 'lady day. christians sometimes insist that the title is in honor of mary and her annunciation, but pagans will smile knowingly. another mythological motif which must surely arrest our attention at this time of year is that of the descent of the god or goddess into the underworld. perhaps we see this most clearly in the christian tradition. beginning with his death on the cross on good friday, it is said that jesus 'descended into hell' for the three days that his body lay entombed. but on the t

. the nontraditional use of 'lady day' for may 1st is quite recent (within the last 15 years, and seems to be confined to america, where it has gained widespread acceptance among certain segments of the craft population. this rather startling departure from tradition would seem to indicate an unfamiliarity with european calendar customs, as well as a lax attitude toward scholarship among too many pagans. a simple glance at a dictionary('webster's 3rd' or o.e.d, encyclopedia('benet's, or standard mythology reference (jobe's 'dictionary of mythology, folklore& symbols) would confirm the correct date for lady day as the vernal equinox. by celtic reckoning, the actual beltane celebration begins on sundown of the preceding day, april 30, because the celts always figured their days from sundown

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inmates of the castles and great houses. not by any means did all these people 'belong, as the witches phrase it- they speak merely of 'belonging, never adding to what- but these were the classes of folk who chiefly attended the sab-bats of the men of the heaths; and some of them at least were initiated into the mysteries. the persecution was first directed against the heathens, then against the pagans, and then it turned to their associates in the larger towns and villages. they were a fairly easy mark because they were mostly people who were better off than their neighbours, eating better food and living more reasonable lives. if they got drunk and beat their wives, they were free from suspicion. anyone who led what we should call a reasonable life and was rather intelligent was suspect

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