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rc. in romance poems of the 12- 13th centuries, monjoie is the french battle-cry, generally with the addition of st denis, e.g. monjoya, monjoya sant denis! ferabras 365. monjoie errseigne s. denis! garin 108. ducange in his 11th dissertation on joinville declares monjoie inadmissible as a mere diminutive of mont, since in other passages (roquefort 2, 207) it denotes any place of joy and bliss, a paradise, so that we can fairly keep to the literal sense; and there must have been mountains of this name in more than one region. it is quite possible that monjoie itself came from an earlier monjove (mons jovis, that with the god's hill there associated itself the idea of a mansion of bliss (see suppi. thunar. 171 bach and oberhof, at the 'rennsteig' is a donershauk (see suppl. a donarcs eih, a

calls him, i know not why' heimskastr allra asa' heimskr usually signifying ignorant, a greenhorn, what the mhg. poets mean by tump. 234 other gods. ilesse (kuclienb. anal. 11, 137) near ibaand waldkappel (niederh. wochenbl. 1834 pp. 106, 2183; a himmelsherg in vestgotlaud, and one, alleged to be heimdall's, in halland. at the same time, himinvdnrjar, stem. 150% tlie os. hebanwang, hebeneswang, a paradise (v. ch. xxv, tlie as. heofcnfcld coelestis campus, beda p. 158, and tbe like names, some individual, some general, deserve to be studied, but yield as yet no safe conclusion about the god. other points about him savour almost of the fairy-tale: he is made out to be the son of nine mothers, giantesses, seem. 118^ sn. 106. laxd. p. 392; he wants less sleep than a bird, sees a hundred miles

f their spittle (hraki; the refining of his blood into a drink for gods seems a very ancient and farreaching myth. but beside this drink, we have also notices of a special food for gods: isunn has in her keeping certain apjyles, by eating of which the aging gods make themselves young again (er go'sin skulo abita, j^a er ?au eldaz, oc versa]?a allir ungir, sn. 30. this reminds one of the apples of paradise and the hesperides, of the guarded golden apples in the kindcrmiirchen no. 57, of the apples in the stories of fortunatus and of merlin, on the eating or biting of which depend life, death and metamorphosis, as elsewhere on a draught of holy water. according to the eddie view, the gods have a means, it is true, of preserving perpetual freshness and youth, 1 as homer too makes ganymede olv

th heros i, p. 341. 24 370 heroes. from the circumstance, that when a boy he was conveyed to the country he was destined to succour, while aslecjy^ on a sheaf of corn in the boat. the poetry of the lower ehine and netherlands in the mid. ages is full of a similar story of the sleeinng youth whom a swan conducts in his ship to the afflicted land; and this swanknight, is pictured approaching out of paradise, from the grave, as itg^msjwhose divine, origin is beyond question. helias, gerhart or loherangrin of the thirteenth century is identical then with a scof or scoup of the seventh and eighth, different as the surroundings may have, been, for the song of beowulf appears to have transferred to scild what belonged of right to his father scedf. the beautiful story of the swan is founded on the

n, nornhurn, and its spring is said to flow only when there is war. but i should like to see the name authenticated by an old document. the as. gen. pi. neorxena, which only occurs in' neorxena wong= paradisus, has been proposed, but the abbreviation would be something unheard of, and even the nom. sing, neorxe or neorxu at variance with norn i besides, the parcac are nowhere found connected with paradise. may we trace norn to niosan (sternutare, whose past part, is in ohg. noran, mhg. norn, because of the prophetic virtue there is in sneezing (ch. xxxv] but the special meaning in this verb [con;i. with nose] seems older than any such general meaning, and its on. form hniosa stands opposed' fatinih dicunt esse quicciuid dii effantur. fatum igitur dictum a faudo, i.e, loquendo. tria autem f

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

a glyph of the powers of fire. the angel encircled by a rainbow whence leap coruscation s of fire, and crowned with the sun, represents michael, the great archangel, the ruler of solar fire. the serpents which leap in the rainbow are symbols of the fiery seraphim. the trumpet represents the influence of the spirit descending from binah, while the banner with the cross refers to the four rivers of paradise and the letters of the holy name. he also is axieros, the first of the samothracian kabiri, as well as zeus and osiris. the left hand figure below, rising from the earth is samael, the ruler of volcanic fire. he is also axiokersos, the 2nd kabir, pluto and typhon. the right hand figure below is anadl, the ruler of the astral light. she is also axiokersa, the third kabir, ceres and proserp

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glory, made of pearls hycjh hymmu lahar hymby layrh hymqh 4 house of rest or peace, made of rubies and jacinths laann latyn layyh hymwm hywal laylk 5 garden of mansions, made of yellow copper yawhw layly hywwl hylhp layna hymuj 6 garden of eternity, made of yellow coral lafys hymlu lakln layyy lauhr lazyy 7 garden of delights, made of white diamond hychm lahll lshlm hywhj lahhh lakym 8 garden of paradise, made of red gold hyhtn hyaah hylww hyhly labmw lahhy 9 latry hyhac hylas layru lawnu layjm 10 garden of eden, or everlasting abode, made of red pearls or pure musk layyr lamwa hylcu lahym hybmd laqnm cxxxii. pairs of angels ruling coins. cxxxiii* titles and attributions of the wand suit [clubs] cxxxiv. titles and attributions of the cup or chalice suit [hearts] 0. 1. the root of the powe

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phus vii. the serpent should be his at last. none for the fool, they laughed back nay, even his maiden queen. for she would not any should know thereof. yet all were right, both he and they. but truth ran quickly about; for that was the house of truth; and mercury stood far from the sun. yet the suggler was ever in the sign of sorrow, and the fig tree was not far. so went our father to the fool s paradise of air. but it is not lawful that i should write to you, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written. for alway doth this arcanum differ from itself on this wise, that the not and the amen,1 passing, are void either on the one side or the other, and who shall tell their ways? so our father, having won the serpent crown, the ur us o

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ields of knowledge. now all is rational, virtuous, smug, and oily. those who wrestled with the suns and the moons, and trapped the stars of heaven, and sought god on the summits of the mountains, and drove satan into the bowels of the earth, have swum the black waters of styx, and are now in the halls of asgard and the groves of olympus, amongst the jewels of havilah and the soft-limbed houris of paradise. they have left us, and in their stead have come the carrion kites, who have usurped the white thrones of their understanding, and the golden palaces of their wisdom. let us hie back to the cradle of art and the swaddling bands of knowledge, and watch the shepherds, among the lonely hills where the myrtle grows and the blue-bells ring out the innocence of spring, learning from their flock

miner to rob the yellow gold from the bowels of the earth. everywhere will you find her dancing down empires, and weaving the destiny of nations. she never sleeps, she never slumbers, she never rests; ever wakeful, day and night, her eyes glisten like diamonds as she danceth on, the dust of her feet burying the past, disturbing the present, and clouding the future. she was in eden, she will be in paradise! i followed her, i abandoned all for her; and now i lie, as a fevered man, raving in the subtle web of her beauty. lo! there she stands swaying between the gates of light and darkness under the shadow of the three of the knowledge of good and evil, whose fruits are death; yet none that have not tasted thereof can tell whether they be sweet or bitter to the tongue. therefore all must pluck

st out from thy presence and sit alone as one lost in a desert of sand, and cry unto thee, thirsting for thee, and then deny thee and curse thee in my madness, until death stop the blasphemies of my lips with the worm and the dust of corruption, and i am set free from the horror of this slavery of sorrow. i am alone, yea! alone, sole habitant of this kingdom of desolation and misery. hell were as paradise to this solitude. o would that dragons came from out the deep and devoured me, or that lions tore me asunder for their food; for their fury would be as milk and honey unto the bitterness of this torture. o cast unto me a worm, that i may no longer be alone, and that in its writhings on the sand i read thine answer to my prayer! would i were in prison that i might hear the groans of the ca

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ess of stale and stagnant water, and the black fire of hatred, and the udders of the cat of slime; not one thing, but many things. yet, with all that, his torment 95 is eternal. the sun burns him as he writhes naked upon the sands of hell, and the wind cuts him bitterly to the bone, a harsh dry wind, so that he is sore athirst. give unto me, i pray thee, one drop of water from the pure springs of paradise, that i may quench my thirst (the scribe refused) sprinkle water upon my head. i can hardly go on (this last was spoken from the triangle in the natural voice of the frater, which choronzon again simulated. but he did not succeed in taking the frater's form- which was absurd! the scribe resisted the appeal to his pity, and conjured the demon to proceed by the names of the most high. choro

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h in the 3= 8 ritual. he then explains to the theoricus the twentieth key of the tarot. it is a glyph of the powers of fire. the angel crowned with the sun is michael, the ruler of solar fire. the serpents which leap in the rainbow are symbols of the fiery seraphim. the trumpet represents the influence of the spirit descending upon binah; and the banner with the cross refers to the four rivers of paradise. michael is also axieros; the left-hand 271 figure samael, the ruler of volcanic fire- he is also axiokersos; the right-hand figure is axiokersa "these three principal figures form the triangle of fire; and they further represent fire operating in the other three elements of earth, water and air" the central lower figure is erd, the ruler of latent heat, he is the candidate in the samothr

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e childe roland and his peers, who have come to that dark tower! one young, one brave, one pure- lost! lost! penned in the hells of matter, swept away in the whirling waters of insane vision, true victims of the hashish of the soul. what poignant agony, what moaning abjectness, what self-disgust! what vain folly (of all true hope forlorn) to seek in drugs, in drink, in the pistol or the cord, the paradise they have forfeited by a moment's weakness or a moment's wavering! this "two-handed engine at the door stands ready to smite" each one of us who has not attained to arahatship, admission to the great white brotherhood. is it not enough to make us throw away our atheism and exclaim "o god be merciful to me a sinner, and keep me in the way of truth" nay, for those of us who know what triple

not for your sake alone. dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. the progression of the stars was not generated for your sake. the wide aerial flight of birds gives not true knowledge, nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud; flee from these if you would enter the sacred paradise of piety, where virtue, wisdom, and equity are assembled "stoop not down unto the darkly splendid world; wherein continually lieth a faithless depth, and hades wrapped in clouds, delighting in unintelligible images, precipitous, winding, a black ever-rolling abyss; ever espousing a body unluminous, formless and void "stoop not down, for a precipice lieth beneath the earth, reached by a de

hold fast that which is good! madrid "august 1908" o.s. 89 annie besant: an autobiography. t. fisher unwin, third impression, 5s. it is a splendid oasis in the desert of silly memoirs, this sturdy and valiant record of a very noble life. how surely and steadily has mrs. besant moved, urged by the one unselfish thought, high-minded love for humanity, from her eden through the hell of revolt to the paradise that so few earn! and she is still fighting in the flesh, though her spirit has its peace. priceless and unenvied reward of suffering! true it is, that the chosen of the masters must leave all. the lightest breeze can stir the feather of our lady maat; there must be no breath of passion or of thought, if we would live in those halls of hers "elysian, windless, fortunate abodes beyond heav

nd not for your sake alone. dismiss from your mind the impetuous course of the moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. the progression of the stars was not generated for your sake. the wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge, nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud: flee from these if you would enter the sacred paradise of piety where virtue, wisdom, and equity are assembled" zoroaster 138: m a c a n e h: a r o l u s e: d i r u c u n: a l u h u l a: s e r u r o c: u n e l i r a: l u s a d a m. illustration goes here. this is a drawing by austin osmond spare of an anthropomorphic figure with a leaping wolf inside. there is a distorted face beneath the wolf, at about the position of the hip or genitalia. 1

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apture. 6. o my god, thou mighty one, thou creator of all things, i renounce unto thee the sorrow of my mother, and the threshold of my home, and all the labour of my father's hands; so that i may be led unto the mansion of thy light, and be consumed in the unutterable joy of thine everlasting rapture. 7. o my god, thou mighty one, thou creator of all things, i renounce unto thee the yearning for paradise, and the dark fear of hell, and the feast of the corruption of the grave; so that as a child i may be led unto thy kingdom, and be consumed in the unutterable joy of thine everlasting rapture. 8. o my god, thou mighty one, thou creator of all things, i renounce unto thee the moonlit peaks of the mountains, and the arrow-shapen kiss of the firs, and all the travail of the winds; so that i

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ountain? light and love are life therein, and they are his? marsyas. even so. and one supreme there is whom i have known, being he. withdrawn 26 within the curtains of the dawn dwells that concealed. behold! he is a blush, a breeze, a song, a kiss, a rosy flame like love, his eyes blue, the quintessence of all skies, his hair a foam of gossamer pale gold as jasmine, lovelier than all the wheat of paradise. o the dim water-wells his eyes! there is such depth of love in them that the adept is rapt away, dies on that mouth, a gleaming gem of dew caught in the boughs of day! olympas. the hearing of it is so sweet i swoon to silence at thy feet. marsyas. rise! let me tell thee, knowing him, the path grows never wholly dim. lose him, and thou indeed wert lost! but he will not lose thee! olympas

sidering nothing but the immediate pleasure he has, without worrying himself as to whether he were violating the laws of his constitution, he has sought, in physical science, in pharmacy, in the grossest liquors, in the subtlest perfumes, in every climate and in every age, the means of fleeing, were it but for some hours only, his habitaculum of mire, and, as the author of "lazare" says "to carry paradise at the first assault" alas! the vices of man, full of horror as one must suppose them, contain the proof, even though it were nothing but their infinite expansion, of his hunger for the infinite; only, it is a taste which often loses its way. one might take a proverbial metaphor "all roads lead to rome" and apply it to the moral world: all roads lead to reward or punishment; two forms of

oses the overflow of this overmastering passion. he never imagines that he is selling himself wholesale: he forgets, in his infatuation, that he is matched against a player more cunning and more strong than 59 he; and that the spirit of evil, though one give him but a hair, will not delay to carry off the whole head. this visible lord of visible nature_ i speak of man_ has, then, wished to create paradise by chemistry, by fermented drinks; like a maniac who should replace solid furniture and real gardens by decorations painted on canvas and mounted on frames. it is in this degradation of the sense of the infinite that lies, according to me, the reason of all guilty excesses; from the solitary and concentrated drunkenness of the man of letters, who, obliged to seek in opium and anodyne for

polo, which have been so unjustly laughed at, as in the case of some other old travellers, have been verified by men of science, and deserve or belief. i shall not repeat his story of how, after having intoxicated them with hashish (whence the word "assassin) the old man of the mountains shut up in a garden filled with delights those of his youngest disciples to whom he wished to give an idea of paradise as an earnest of the reward, so to speak, of a passive and unreflecting obedience. the reader may consult, concerning the secret society of hashishins, the work of von hammer- purgstall, and the note of m. sylvestre de sacy contained in vol. 16 of "m mories de l'acad mie des inscriptions et belles-lettres; and, with regard to the etymology of the word "assassin" his letter to the editor o

which the spirit of man sometimes finds itself thrown as if by a special favour. i have said that, ceaselessly aspiring to rekindle his hopes and raise himself towards the infinite, he showed (in every country and in every time) a frenzied appetite for every substance, even those which are dangerous, which, by exalting his personality, are able to bring in an instant before his eyes this bargain paradise, object of all his desires; and at last that this daring spirit, driving without knowing it his chariot through the gates of hell, by this very fact bore witness to his original greatness. but man is not so god-forsaken, so barren of straightforward means of reaching heaven, that he need invoke pharmacy and witchcraft. he has no need to sell his soul to buy intoxicating caresses and the f

d at last that this daring spirit, driving without knowing it his chariot through the gates of hell, by this very fact bore witness to his original greatness. but man is not so god-forsaken, so barren of straightforward means of reaching heaven, that he need invoke pharmacy and witchcraft. he has no need to sell his soul to buy intoxicating caresses and the friendship of the hur al'ain. what is a paradise which must be bought at the price of eternal salvation? i imagine a man (shall i 111 say a brahmin, a poet, or a christian philosopher) seated upon the steep olympus of spirituality; around him the muses of raphael or of mategna, to console him for his long fasts and his assiduous prayers, weave the noblest dances, gaze on him with their softest glances and their most dazzling smiles; the

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ere is such a fact" we try to imitate eastern narrative, but in vain. our minds can find no clew to its strange untrodden by-ways of speculation; our highest soarings are still in an atmosphere which feels heavy with the reek and damp of ordinary life. we fail to account for those storm-wrapped peaks of sublimity which hover over the path of oriental story, or those beauties which, like rivers of paradise, make music beside it. we are all of us taught to say "the children of the east live under a sunnier sky than their western brethren: they are the "repositors" of centuries of tradition; their semi-civilised imagination is unbound by the fetters of logic and the schools" but the ionians once answered all these conditions, yet homer sang no eblis, no superhuman journey on the wings of geni

gression for the purpose of introducing two laws of the hasheesh operation, which, as explicatory, deserve a place here. first, after the completion of any one fantasia has arrived, there almost invariably succeeds a shifting of the action to some other stage entirely different in its surroundings. in this transition the general character of the emotion 248 may remain unchanged. i may be happy in paradise and happy at the sources of the nile, but seldom, either in paradise or on the nile, twice in succession. i may writhe in etna and burn unquenchably in gehenna, but almost never, in the course of the same delirium, shall etna or gehenna witness my torture a second time. second, after the full storm of a vision of intense sublimity has blown past the hasheesh-eater, his next vision is gene

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they met an eager hungry expression, a longing infinite for all things human, which tickled their desires. he seemed to be ever staring at an invisible goal. the goal was the tree of the 30 full knowledge. lionel felt within himself a tenacious longing, a perpetual desire. his lack of physical courage as counterbalanced by his intellectual daring; he meant to collar the angel, and to re-enter the paradise of that first victim of womanhood, adam of the bent shoulders, adam of the foolish resignation to the self-preserving decree of the frightened divinities. his errors of tactics were caused by the fact that he hoped to test the apple without the help of woman. often enough, lionel tabard unwittingly repelled the advances of many a feminine would-be initiator. vi1 the lover but he was not p

and swift, warning me with a viper's hiss- and was not death upon us then, no bastard of thy maiden kiss? god's grace, the all-surpassing gift! el arabi! el arabi! yea, death is man's elixir when life's pale wine foams and splashes over his imagination's rim! el arabi! el arabi! el arabi! witch-amber and obsidian thine eyes are, to ensorcell me, and leonine thy male caress. will not god grant us paradise to end the music earth began? we play with loaded dice! he cannot choose but raise right hand to bless. el arabi! el arabi! great is the love of god and man while i am trembling in thine arms, wild wanderer of the wilderness! el arabi! hilda norfolk. 38 lambda iota nu omicron sigma iota sigma iota delta omicron sigma lo! i lament. fallen is the sixfold star: slain is asar. o twinned with

of comfort; and there on that self-same tree shall he hand himself, and others shall crucify him; so that in that winter which draweth nigh, he who is to come may find yet another garment to cover the hideous nakedness of man, the robe that hath no seam. and those who shall receive, though they cast lots for it, yet shall they not rend it, for it is woven from the top throughout. for unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is bilded, the rest is allowed, yea, perfect goodness and wisdom. the root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness and the moth is hid from you, and corruption is fled unto hell to be forgotten: sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immortality.1 yea! the treasure

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n thy brow; i am thy queen, enraptured and possessed. hide thee, sweet river; welcome to the sea, ocean of love that shall encompass thee! life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me- to me [pisces "performs a sleepy sinuous dance by herself, and returns to venus' throne lapsed into herself, and as if exhausted] rise, rise, my knight! my king! my love, arise! see the grave avenues of paradise, the dewy larches bending at my breath, portentous cedars prophesying death! 88["she is interrupted by the violin of the throned" luna "who plays her unutterable melody<pisces "manifests distress" venus. brother libra, what is this song? libra my soul is an enchanted boat, which, like a sleeping swan, doth float upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing; and thi

" pisces "manifests distress" venus. brother libra, what is this song? libra my soul is an enchanted boat, which, like a sleeping swan, doth float upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing; and thine doth like an angel sit beside a helm conducting it, whilst all the winds with melody are ringing. it seems to float ever, for ever, upon that many-winding river, between mountains, woods, abysses, a paradise of wildernesses! till, like one in slumber bound, borne to the ocean, i float down, around, into a sea profound, of ever-spreading sound. meanwhile thy spirit lifts its pinions in music's most serene dominions; catching the winds that fan that happy heaven. and we sail on, away, afar, without a course, without a star, but by the instinct of sweet music driven; till through elysian garden

e glided, the boat of my desire is guided; realms where the air we breathe is love, which in the winds and on the waves doth move, harmonising this earth with what we feel above. we have past age's icy caves, and manhood's dark and tossing waves, and youth's smooth ocean, smiling to betray: beyond the glassy gulphs we flee 89 of shadow-peopled infancy, through death and birth, to a diviner day; a paradise of vaulted bowers, lit by downward-gazing flowers, and watery paths that wind between wildernesses calm and green, peopled by shapes too bright to see, and rest, having beheld; somewhat like thee; which walk upon the sea, and chant melodiously [venus "manifests distress" pisces "slips away to the throne of" luna [luna "plays her conquering melody<venus. oh! oh

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ay, victory is sweet. we shall feast to-night["she shudders" said omar["seeing that all is not well. what is it? what is it? laylah. i have had evil dreams. said omar["to his men. on to the houses! we must feast; we must sleep["he takes" laylah "on his saddlebow] you must sleep, whisper of the west wind! laylah. i shall have evil dreams. said omar. no! you shall not sleep to-night, white fairy of paradise, black-eyed gazelle of the wilderness! laylah. be gentle with me. i ache. i have been stung by a scorpion. said omar. there are no scorpions in the winter. where is the wound [laylah "puts her hand to her heart, and falls fainting limp across the saddlebow] call ibrahim, the wise physician! on to the houses["exeunt. the voice of the nymph of the well, faintly from below "truth comes bubbl

or rejoicing in the fat black loam. now the manner of the miracle was this. in the beginning is given to a youth the vision of his mate. this one must he henceforth seek blindly; and many are the enchantments and disenchantments. through this his vision fades; even his hunger dies away unless he be indeed elect. but in the end it may be that god shall send him the other half of that token 108 of paradise. then, if he have kept the holy fire alight, perhaps with much false fuel, that fire shall instant blaze and fill the temple of his soul. by its insistent energy it shall destroy even the memory of all those marsh-lights that came to greet it; and the priest shall bow down in the glory, and grasp the altar with his hands, and strike it with his forehead seven times. now this altar is the

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wn plane, the real discarnate thinker. st. paul, as has been pointed out by several thinkers, had a touch of this state of being. he referred to it in these words "i knew a man in christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body i cannot tell, or whether out of the body i cannot tell; god knoweth; such an one caught up to the third heaven. and i knew such a man. how that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter (i cor. xii) this "third heaven" can be understood in two ways: first, as standing for the mental plane on which is the true home of the spiritual man, the thinker, or a more specific state to be understood as that found on the third or highest of the three abstract levels of the mental plane. 44. one-pointed meditati

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not as a symbol that he does it. in so far as we with one another and with him are of one will, to place the kingdom of god above all, and to serve in behalf of this faith and hope, so far is there fellowship between him and us and the men of all generations who lived and live in the same thought."43 4 1 "father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."44 2 "to day thou shalt be with me in paradise."45- 132- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust 3 "woman, behold thy son! then saith he to the disciple, behold thy mother!"46 4 "my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?"47 5 "i thirst."48 6 "it is finished."49 7 "father, into thy hands i commend my spirit."50 the thought of the kingdom coloured all that he said upon the cross. the word of power which emanated from the c

wrong-doing in the eyes of the world and who himself recognised the correctness of the judgment and of his punishment. he stated that he received the due reward of his sins, but at the same time there was something in the quality of jesus which arrested his attention and forced from him the admission that this third malefactor had "done nothing amiss" the factor which accorded him admission into paradise was a two-fold one. he recognised the divinity of christ "lord" he said. and he also had a realisation of what christ's mission was to found a kingdom "remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom" the significance of his words is eternal and universal, for the man who recognises divinity, and who at the same time is sensible of the kingdom, is ready to take advantage of the words "to da

he recognised the divinity of christ "lord" he said. and he also had a realisation of what christ's mission was to found a kingdom "remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom" the significance of his words is eternal and universal, for the man who recognises divinity, and who at the same time is sensible of the kingdom, is ready to take advantage of the words "to day, thou shalt be with me in paradise" in the first word from the cross, jesus considered the ignorance and the feebleness of man. he was as helpless as a little child, and in his words he testified to the reality of the first initiation and to the time when he was a "babe in christ" the parallels between the two episodes are- 134- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust significant. the ignorance, helplessness a

john's baptism released from the thraldom of the personality life. but the baptism to which christ was subjected through the power of his own life, and to which we are also subjected through the life of christ within us, was the baptism of fire and of suffering, which finds its climax of pain upon the cross. that climax of suffering, for the man who could endure unto the end, was his entrance to "paradise" a name connoting bliss. three words are used to express this power to enjoy happiness, joy and bliss. happiness has a purely physical connotation, and concerns our physical life and its relationships; joy is of the nature of the soul and reflects itself in happiness. but bliss, which is of the nature of god himself, is an expression of divinity and of the spirit. happiness might be regar

with sorrow" he knew joy in its essence, for the "joy of the lord is our strength" and it is the soul, the christ in every human being, which is strength and joy and love. he knew also bliss, for at the crucifixion the bliss which is the reward of the soul's triumph was his. thus in these two words of power "father, forgive them for they know not what they do" and "to day thou shalt be with me in paradise" we have the significances of the first two initiations summarised for us. now we come to the extraordinary and much debated episode between christ and his mother, summed up in the words "woman, behold thy son" and followed by the words spoken to the beloved apostle "behold thy mother" what did these words mean? below christ stood the two people who meant the most to him, and from the ago

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

decisions which mark his progress upon the path. it is the demonstration of the first ray quality (a subray influence of the second ray, for it should be remembered that to repulse a form, a situation or a condition may be the evidence of spiritual love in the agent of repulsion. this is well pictured for us in the ancient symbol of the angel with the flaming sword, who stands before the gate of paradise to turn away those who seek the fancied security of that shelter and condition. this angel acts in love, and has so acted down the ages, for that state of realisation which we call paradise is a place of essential danger for all, save those who have earned the right to sojourn there. the angel protects the unready aspirant (not the place which he seeks to enter) and safeguards him from th

e, and has so acted down the ages, for that state of realisation which we call paradise is a place of essential danger for all, save those who have earned the right to sojourn there. the angel protects the unready aspirant (not the place which he seeks to enter) and safeguards him from the risks and perils of that initiation which must be undergone before he can pass through the five divisions of paradise to the place where light dwells and the masters of the wisdom live and work. this is the thought which lies behind the masonic procedure whereby the tyler stands outside the door of the lodge with a drawn sword to protect the secrets of the craft from the unready. i would remind you also that as this law is an aspect of the fundamental law of love, it concerns the psyche or soul, and ther

man so that the anglo-saxon emphasis on joy and bliss eventually became descriptive of many so-called dreams. we have then the emergence of the utopias, the fantasies, the idealistic presentations of future beauty and joy which distinguishes the thought life of the advanced human being, and which find their expression in such presented (and as yet unfulfilled) hopes as plato's republic, milton's paradise regained and the best utopian, idealistic creative productions of our western poets and writers. thus occident and orient together present a theory of dreams of a lower astral or higher intuitional nature which are a complete picture of the wish life of the race. these range all the way from the dirty ideas and the bestial filth, drawn forth at times from their patients by psychologists (

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

na, the theosophical headquarters, were delightful. krotona was a community of about five hundred people, some living on the grounds and some elsewhere in hollywood or los angeles. there were lecture halls, class rooms, a shrine room where members of the esoteric section met and a cafeteria which fed the people. the place was beautifully run and, when i got there at first, it seemed to me to be a paradise on earth. everybody there appeared to me to be deeply spiritual. i thought the leaders and teachers were at least initiates of high degree. i attended meetings and classes and learnt a great deal for which i am very grateful. after i had been there a short time i was asked to run the cafeteria and ignorance being bliss i joyously accepted the responsibility. it was, of course, strictly ve

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

e-born in another form, but at death, as all religions agree, great changes occur. according to the kabalah, the visible material body, the guph, decays, and the animal aspect of the soul, the nephesh, only gradually fades away from it: the ruach, the human aspect, passes away from the assiatic plane, and the neshamah, the spiritual soul, returns to the treasury of heaven, to the gan oidin, or of paradise, perfected to a spiritual world beyond the plain of rebirths. the "sepher jareh chattaim" says that a man is judged in the same hour in which he dies; for the shekinah, a presence of the divine one, comes near him, with three angels, of whom the chief is dumah, the angel of silence: if the soul is condemned, dumah takes it to gai-hinnom, or hell, for a period of punishment before the next

divine one, comes near him, with three angels, of whom the chief is dumah, the angel of silence: if the soul is condemned, dumah takes it to gai-hinnom, or hell, for a period of punishment before the next incarnation; if approved, the soul passes to an oidin or heaven. in the end of the present manifestation of the universe, all souls will have become perfected by suffering, have been blessed in paradise, and will be in reunion with the god from whom they came forth. the kabalistic theory of man's constitution, origin and destiny is very different from the modern christian view, but differs from the indian schemes more in manner of presentation than in principle, and these two may be fitly studied side by side and each will illuminate the other. there is, indeed, no sharp line of cleavage

APOCALYPSE MOSES

c version which was then published in the forgotten books of eden in 1927 by the world publishing company. apocalypses moses part of the "forgotten" books of eden from-the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the old testament r.h. charles oxford: the clarendon press, 1913 scanned and edited by joshua williams northwest nazarene college,1995 this is the story of adam and eve after they had gone out of paradise. chapter 1. 1 and adam knew his wife eve and went upwards to the sun-rising and abode there eighteen years and two months. 2 and eve conceived and bare two sons; adiaphotos, who is called cain and amilabes who is called abel. chapter 2. 1 and after this, adam and eve were with one another and while they were sleeping, eve said to adam her lord 'my lord, adam, behold, 2 i have seen in a dr

d 'let all my sons come to me that i may see them before i die' 2 and all assembled, for the earth was divided into three parts. 3 and seth his son said to him 'father adam, what is thy complaint' 4 and he saith 'my children, i am crushed by the burden of trouble' 5 and they say to him 'what is trouble' chapter 6. 1 and seth answered and said to him 'hast thou called to mind, father, the fruit of paradise of which thou usedst to eat, and hast been grieved in yearning for it 'if this be so, tell me (and) i will go and bring thee fruit from paradise. 2 for i will set dung upon my head and will weep and pray that the lord will hearken to me and send his angel (and bring me a plant from paradise, and i will bring it thee that thy trouble may cease from thee' 3 adam saith to him 'nay, my son se

and send his angel (and bring me a plant from paradise, and i will bring it thee that thy trouble may cease from thee' 3 adam saith to him 'nay, my son seth, but i have (much) sickness and trouble' seth saith to him 'and how hath this come upon thee' chapter 7. 1 and adam said to him 'when god made us, me and your mother, through whom also i die, he gave us power to eat of every tree which is in paradise, but, concerning that one only, he charged us not to eat of it, and through this one we are to die. 2 and the hour drew nigh for the angels who were guarding your mother to go up and worship the lord, and i was far from her, and the enemy knew that she was alone and gave to her, and she ate of the tree of which she had been told not to eat. 3 then she gave also to me to eat. chapter 8. 1

us not to eat of it, and through this one we are to die. 2 and the hour drew nigh for the angels who were guarding your mother to go up and worship the lord, and i was far from her, and the enemy knew that she was alone and gave to her, and she ate of the tree of which she had been told not to eat. 3 then she gave also to me to eat. chapter 8. 1 'and god was wroth with us, and the lord came into paradise and called me in a terrible voice and said "adam, where art thou? and why hidest thou from my face? shall the house be able to hide itself from its builder" and he saith to me "since thou hast abandoned my covenant, i have brought upon thy body seventy-two strokes; the trouble of the first stroke is a pain of the eyes, the second stroke an affection of the hearing, and likewise in turn al

l befall thee' chapter 9. 1 as he said this to his sons, adam groaned sore and said 'what shall i do? i am in great distress' 2 and eve wept and said 'my lord adam, rise up and give me half of thy trouble and i will endure it; for it is on my account that this hath happened to thee, on my account thou art beset with toils and troubles' 3 but adam said to eve 'arise and go with my son seth near to paradise, and put earth upon your heads and weep and pray god to have mercy upon me and send his angel to paradise, and give me of the tree out of which the oil floweth, and bring it me, and i shall anoint myself and shall have rest from my complaint' chapter 10. 1 then seth and eve went towards paradise, and eve saw her son, and a wild beast assailing him, and eve wept and said' 2 woe is me; if i

account, our nature also hath been transformed. 3 now therefore thou canst not endure it, if i begin to reprove thee' chapter 12. 1 then seth speaketh to the beast 'close thy mouth and be silent and stand off from the image of god until the day of judgment' 2 then saith the beast to seth 'behold, i stand off from the image of god' and he went to his lair. chapter 13. 1 and seth went with eve near paradise, and i they wept there, and prayed god to send his angel and give them the oil of mercy. 2 and god sent the archangel michael and he spake to seth 'seth, man of god, weary not thyself with prayers and entreaties concerning the tree which floweth with oil to anoint thy father adam. for it shall not be thine now, but in the end of the times. 3 then shall all flesh be raised up from adam til

oil of mercy. 2 and god sent the archangel michael and he spake to seth 'seth, man of god, weary not thyself with prayers and entreaties concerning the tree which floweth with oil to anoint thy father adam. for it shall not be thine now, but in the end of the times. 3 then shall all flesh be raised up from adam till that great day,-all that shall be of the holy people. then shall the delights of paradise be given to them and god shall be in their midst. 4 and they shall no longer sin before his face, for the evil heart shall be taken from them and there shall be given them a heart understanding the good and to serve god only. 5 but do thou go back to thy father. for the term of his life hath been fulfilled and he will live three days from to-day and will die. 6 but when his soul is depart

t hast thou wrought in us? thou hast brought upon us great wrath which is death (lording it over all our race' 3 and he saith to her 'call all our children and our children's children and tell them the manner of our transgression' chapter 15. 1 then saith eve to them 'hear all my children and children's children and i will relate to you how the enemy deceived us. 2 it befell that we were guarding paradise, each of us the portion allotted to us from god. 3 now i guarded in my lot, the west and the south. but the devil went to adam's lot, where the male creatures were (for god divided the creatures; all the males he gave to your father and all the females he gave to me) chapter 16. 1 and the devil spake to the serpent saying, rise up, come to me and i will tell thee a word whereby thou mayst

s; all the males he gave to your father and all the females he gave to me) chapter 16. 1 and the devil spake to the serpent saying, rise up, come to me and i will tell thee a word whereby thou mayst have profit" 2 and he arose and came to him. and the devil saith to him "i hear that thou art wiser than all the beasts, and i have come to counsel thee. 3 why dost thou eat of adam's tares and not of paradise? rise up and we will cause him to be cast out of paradise, even as we were cast out through him" 4 the serpent saith to him "i fear lest the lord be wroth with me" 5 the devil saith to him "fear not, only be my vessel and i will speak through thy mouth words to deceive him" chapter 17. 1 and instantly he hung himself from the wall of paradise, and when the angels ascended to worship god

my vessel and i will speak through thy mouth words to deceive him" chapter 17. 1 and instantly he hung himself from the wall of paradise, and when the angels ascended to worship god, then satan appeared in the form of an angel and sang hymns like the angels. 2 and i bent over the wall and saw him, like an angel. but he saith to me "art thou eve" and i said to him "i am" 3 'what art thou doing in paradise" and i said to him "god set us to guard and to eat of it" 4 the devil answered through the mouth of the serpent 'ye do well but ye do not eat of every plant" 5 and i said "yea, we eat of all. save one only, which is in the midst of paradise, concerning which, god charged us not to eat of it: for, he said to us, on the day on which ye eat of it, ye shall die the death" chapter 18. 1 then t

nd evil" 5 and speedily i persuaded him, and he ate and straightway his eyes were opened and he too knew his nakedness. 6 and to me he saith "o wicked woman! what have i done to thee that thou hast deprived me of the glory of god" chapter 22. 1 and in that same hour, we heard the archangel michael blowing with his trumpet and calling to the angels and saying:2 thus saith the lord, come with me to paradise and hear the judgment with which i shall judge adam" 3 and when god appeared in paradise, mounted on the chariot of his cherubim with the angels proceeding before him and singing hymns of praises, all the plants of paradise, both of your father's lot and mine, broke out into flowers. 4 and the throne of god was fixed where the tree of life was. chapter 23. 1 and god called adam saying "ad

e innocent hearts, accursed art thou among all beasts. 2 thou shalt be deprived of the victual of which thou didst eat and shalt feed on dust all the days of thy life: on thy breast and thy belly shalt thou walk and be robbed of hands and feet. 3 there shall not be left thee ear nor wing, nor one limb of all that with which thou didst ensnare them in thy malice and causedst them to be cast out of paradise; 4 and i will put enmity between thee and his seed: he shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel until the day of judgment" chapter 27. 1 thus he spake and bade the angels have us cast out of paradise: and as we were being driven out amid our loud lamentations, your father adam besought the angels and said: 2 "leave me a little (space) that i may entreat the lord that he have c

s we were being driven out amid our loud lamentations, your father adam besought the angels and said: 2 "leave me a little (space) that i may entreat the lord that he have compassion on me and pity me, for i only have sinned" 3 and they left off driving him and adam cried aloud and wept saying "pardon me o lord, my deed" then the lord saith to the angels "why have ye ceased from driving adam from paradise? why do ye not cast him out? is it i who have done wrong? or is my judgment badly judged" 5 then the angels fell down on the ground and worshipped the lord saying "thou art just, o lord, and thou judges righteous judgment" chapter 28. 1 but the lord turned to adam and said 'i will not suffer thee henceforward to be in paradise" 2 and adam answered and said,grant me, o lord, of the tree of

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

ance of darkness and desire, and their counterfeit spirit. this is the tomb of the newly-formed body with which the robbers had clothed the man, the bond of forgetfulness; and he became a mortal man. this is the first one who came down, and the first separation. but the epinoia of the light which was in him, she is the one who was to awaken his thinking "and the archons took him and placed him in paradise. and they said to him 'eat, that is at leisure' for their luxury is bitter and their beauty is depraved. and their luxury is deception and their trees are godlessness and their fruit is deadly poison and their promise is death. and the tree of their life they had placed in the midst of paradise "and i shall teach you (pl) what is the mystery of their life, which is the plan which they mad

light; she awakened their thinking "and when yaltabaoth noticed that they withdrew from him, he cursed his earth. he found the woman as she was preparing herself for her husband. he was lord over her, though he did not know the mystery which had come to pass through the holy decree. and they were afraid to blame him. and he showed his angels his ignorance which is in him. and he cast them out of paradise and he clothed them in gloomy darkness. and the chief archon saw the virgin who stood by adam, and that the luminous epinoia of life had appeared in her. and yaltabaoth was full of ignorance. and when the foreknowledge of the all noticed (it, she sent some and they snatched life out of eve "and the chief archon seduced her and he begot in her two sons; the first and the second (are) eloim

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

witcheschapter i.how diana gave birth to aradia (herodias).it is diana! lo!she rises crescented. keats endymion.make more brightthe star queens crescent on her marriage night. ibid.this is the gospel (vangelo) of the witches:diana greatly loved her brother lucifer, the god of the sun and of the moon, the god of light(splendor, who was so proud of his beauty, and who for his pride was driven from paradise.diana had by her brother a daughter, to whom they gave the name of aradia (i.e.herodias).in those days there were on earth many rich and many poor.the rich made slaves of all the poor.in those days were many slaves who were cruelly treated; in every palace tortures, in every castleprisoners.many slaves escaped. they fled to the country: thus they became thieves and evil folk. instead ofsl

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

the only species, among the animals, which has gradually and with every generation and variety tended more and more to return to the original type of its male forefather- the dark gigantic lemurian and atlantean[[vol. 2, page] 202 the secret doctrine. edens, serpents, and dragons. whence the idea, and the true meaning of the term "eden? christians will maintain that the garden of eden is the holy paradise, the place desecrated by the sin of adam and eve; the occultist will deny this dead-letter interpretation, and show the reverse. one need not believe and see in the bible divine revelation in order to say that this ancient book, if read esoterically, is based upon the same universal traditions. what eden was is partially shown in isis unveiled* it was said that "the garden of eden as a lo

of the astrologers and magi, the aleim. but this "college" and this eden belong to the fifth race, and are simply a faint reminiscence of the adi-varsha, of the primeval third race. what is the etymological meaning of the word eden? in greek it is [hedone, signifying voluptuousness. in this aspect it is no better than the olympus of the greeks, indra's heaven (swarga) on mount meru, and even the paradise full of houris, promised by mahomet to the faithful. the garden of eden was never the property of the jews; for china, which can hardly be suspected of having known anything of the jews 2,000 b.c, has such a primitive garden in central asia inhabited by the "dragons of wisdom" the initiates. and according to klaproth[[vol. 2, page] 204 the secret doctrine. the hieroglyphical chart copied

eau of pamir between the highest peaks of the himalayan ranges; and describing it as the culminating point of central asia, shows the four rivers- oxus, indus, ganges, and silo- flowing from a common source, the "lake of the dragons" but this is not the genetic eden; nor is it the kabalistical garden of eden. for the former- eden illa-ah- means in one sense wisdom, a state like that of nirvana, a paradise of bliss; while in another sense it refers to intellectual man himself, the container of the eden in which grows the tree of knowledge of good and evil: man being the knower thereof. renan and barthelemy st. hilaire, basing themselves "on the most solid inductions" think it impossible to doubt any longer, and both place the cradle of humanity "on the region of the timaus" finally, the asi

doctrine. his weak body as the means of procreation, that body will pay the penalty for this wisdom, carried from heaven down to the earth; hence the corruption of physical purity will become a temporary curse. the mediaeval kabalists knew this well, since one of them did not fear to write "the kabala was first taught by god himself to a select company of angels who formed a theosophic school in paradise. after the fall the angels most graciously communicated this heavenly doctrine to the disobedient child of earth, to furnish the protoplasts with the means of returning to their pristine nobility and felicity (quoted by christian ginsburg from the kabala. this shows how the event- of the sons of god, marrying and imparting the divine secrets of heaven to the daughters of men- allegoricall

untry beyond the ocean, a proof of which had been given him in india, by a learned chaldean (cosmas indicopleustes in collect. nova patrum, t. ii, p. 188; also see journ. des savants, suppl. 1707, p. 20) he says "the lands we live in are surrounded by the ocean, but beyond that ocean there is another land which touches the walls of the sky; and it is in this land that man was created and lived in paradise. during the deluge, noah was carried in his ark into the land his posterity now inhabits (ibid) the twelve-legged horse of huschenk was found on that continent named the dry island (supra, p. 154) the "christian topography" of cosmas indicopleustes and its merits are well known; but here the good father repeats a universal tradition, now, moreover, corroborated by facts. every arctic trav

a passionate, inherent, and instinctive desire for freedom and self-guidance, pertains to psychology and cannot be touched on now. to show the feeling in higher intelligences, to analyse and give a natural reason for it, would necessitate, moreover, an endless philosophical explanation for which there is no room here. perhaps, the best synthesis of this feeling is found in three lines of milton's paradise lost. says the "fallen one "here we may reign secure; and in my choice, to reign is worth ambition, though in hell! better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" better be man, the crown of terrestrial production and king over its opus operatum, than be lost among the will-less spiritual hosts in heaven. we have said elsewhere that the dogma of the first fall rested on a few verses in rev

ness. visvakarma, remember again, is the son of yoga-siddha, i.e, the holy power of yoga, and the fabricator of the "fiery weapon" the magic agneyastra. the narrative is given more fully elsewhere. the author of the kabalistic work so often quoted from, asks "the theoretical use of crucifixion must have been somehow connected with the personification of this symbol (the structure of the garden of paradise symbolized by a crucified man. but how? and as showing what? the symbol was of the origin of measures, shadowing forth creative law or design. what practically, as regards humanity[[vol. 2, page] 560 the secret doctrine. could actual crucifixion betoken? yet, that it was held as the effigy of some mysterious working of the same system, is shown from the very fact of the use. there seems t

d, as shown elsewhere, to the pythagorean and hermetic scales. one initiated into the mysteries of the meaning of the swastica, say the commentaries "can trace on it, with mathematical precision, the evolution of kosmos and the whole period of sandhya" also "the relation of the seen to the unseen" and "the first procreation of man and species" to the eastern occultist the tree of knowledge in the paradise of man's own heart, becomes the tree of life eternal, and has nought to do with man's animal senses. it is an absolute mystery that reveals itself only through the efforts of the imprisoned manas and the ego to liberate themselves from the thraldom of sensuous perception and see, in the light of the one eternal present reality. to the western kabalist, and now far more to the superficial

orn there, i.e, the divine dynasties of the kings of atlantis proceeded from that place. let geographers and geologists seek for it among that group of islands discovered by nordenskiold on his vega voyage in the arctic regions* the secret books inform us that the climate has changed in those regions more than once since the first men inhabited those now almost inaccessible latitudes. they were a paradise before they became hell[[footnote(s* these islands were "found strewn with fossils of horses, sheep, oxen, etc, among gigantic bones of elephants, mammoths, rhinoceroses" etc. if there was no man on earth at that period "how came horses and sheep to be found in company with the huge antediluvians" asks a master in a letter("esoteric buddhism" 67. the reply is given above in the text[[vol

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iple- the past, present, and even future[[vol. 1, page] 266 the secret doctrine. humanities, like all things, will be one and the same. everything will have re-entered the great breath. in other words, everything will be "merged in brahma" or the divine unity. is this annihilation, as some think? or atheism, as other critics- the worshippers of a personal deity and believers in an unphilosophical paradise- are inclined to suppose? neither. it is worse than useless to return to the question of implied atheism in that which is spirituality of a most refined character. to see in nirvana annihilation amounts to saying of a man plunged in a sound dreamless sleep- one that leaves no impression on the physical memory and brain, because the sleeper's higher self is in its original state of absolut

hers in the present as in the past- men who certainly have not worked in the laboratory- have reached the same view from another side" thus mr. herbert spencer records his conviction that 'the chemical atoms are produced from the true or physical atoms by processes of evolution under conditions which chemistry has not yet been able to produce "and the poet has forestalled the philosopher. milton('paradise lost' book v) makes the archangel raphael say to adam, instinct with the evolutionary idea, that the almighty had created 'one first matter, all indued with various forms, various degrees of substance" nevertheless, the idea would have remained crystallized "in the air of science" and never have descended into the thick atmosphere of materialism and profane mortals for years to come, perh

BLUE EQUINOX

e a pleasant book. there was plenty of comic relief-e.g, powys duodenum. in a chaste man the author moves stately and terrible from peak to peak of tragedy. the book reminds us a little of james thomson, the city of dreadful night, in this respect. with infinite art the climax is set off by an adventure of the hero s sister with a man dying of consumption at st. moritz, and this single glimpse of paradise makes the surrounding gloom more visible and shameful. it is unfortunately the case that stories of this kind are only too true to life. few of us, indeed, but have some experience of the classes in which such abominations are not only possible but actual. it is true that the war has done a great deal to destroy the morality of the middle classes. from all hands comes the wail of the puri

with the key of charity, of love and tender mercy, thou art secure before the gate of dana, the gate that standeth at the entrance of the path. 27. behold, o happy pilgrim! the portal that faceth thee is high and wide, seems easy of access. the road that heads therethrough is straight and smooth and green .tis hike a sunny glade in the dark forest depths, a spot on earth mirrored from amitabha.s paradise. there, nightingales of hope and birds of radiant plumage sing perched in green bowers, chanting success to fearless pilgrims. they sing of bodhisattva.s virtues five, the fivefold source of bodhi power, and of the seven steps in knowledge. 28. pass on! for thou hast brought the key; thou art secure. the row of dots in the text (after verse 25) appears to imply complete change of subject

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

ealing the one in the cloud of the many. of that darkness the serpent is a sign, that great serpent, the royal snake of egypt [91] t h e b o o k of t o k e n s 2 this is the serpent of temptation, yet from it cometh forth redemption. for the serpent is the first appearance of the anointed one, and that which casteth adam out from the garden of the east, even that shall bring him back once more to paradise. thus in teth is shown the secret of the going forth and the return, for teth is the serpent coiled around the tau. this is the sign of the name of names, which none may utter. again, it is the symbol of the tree of divine perfections, encircled by the power of the letters wherewith is formed the whole creation. 3 and because the tally referreth to counting, and so to all the works of num

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

hiopian magical texts) postel leaves paris in may due to henry ii putting a halt to his public preaching. he journeys to dijon, besancon and basel in the summer returning to venice in august; in the autumn he is preaching in padua. by december he is in vienna where he is appointed to a university chair by emperor ferdinand. publishes: wonders of the world. and there the monster of the terrestrial paradise< 1553, paris; sibyllinorum versuum virgilio in quarta bucolicorum versuum ecloga transcriptorum ecfrasis commentarii instar phoenix superis stellas qui viuidus aequat "bring forth the superior phoenix, which vigorously reaches as high as the star> 1554 january, postel gives address on phoenician and hebrew languages. by may, postel leaves vienna for venice t

r and albert d'orville travelled from china through eastern tibet to lhasa proceeding on to india. 1665-1723 johann conrad barchusen 1666 helvetius' account of the transmutation in the hague. crassellame lux obnubilata 1667 eirenaeus philalethes an open entrance to the closed palace of the king 1672 francois chosson tarot de marseilles 1674 knorr von rosenroth's kabbala denudata 1677 mutus liber; paradise lost/regained by j. milton. 1680 6 hebrew editions of "sefer yetzirah" collected and printed at lemberg. oldest contains the recensions of sa'adya gaon. 1682 gichtel's edition of the collected works of boehme. 1683-1764 rameau,jean philippe. ballet: la naissance d'osiris (1751. 1684 knorr von rosenroth publishes zohar at sulzbach 1686 semiphoras and schemhamphoras salomonis regis 1688 ema

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with very little water, and it will grow as much as four inches per day. this hardy plant saved people from starvation during china s many wars and is also a valuable source of iron for the people of india, vietnam, brazil, central america, and africa.2 64 china was once thought to be surrounded by four seas. to the east was a vast ocean. beyond the ocean, magnificent plants bloomed on an island paradise. the most glorious specimen of all the plant life was the fusang tree, whose wondrous branches stretched up toward the heavens and out across the island for hundreds of miles. scattered among its masses of dark green foliage, fragrant hibiscus flowers burst into flaming shades of magenta, crimson, and violet. among the glossy leaves of the fusang tree lived ten naughty suns. they were lef

glorious specimen of all the plant life was the fusang tree, whose wondrous branches stretched up toward the heavens and out across the island for hundreds of miles. scattered among its masses of dark green foliage, fragrant hibiscus flowers burst into flaming shades of magenta, crimson, and violet. among the glossy leaves of the fusang tree lived ten naughty suns. they were left alone to play in paradise, neglected by their parents, the sun god dijun and the sun goddess shiho. each day, shiho left heaven in a pearl-shell chariot drawn by six fiery young dragons and passed by the fusang tree. the suns took turns clambering to the treetop to leap into the chariot and make the rounds with their mother as she roared by. it was the job of each working sun, as the goddess shiho wheeled her char

ister goddesses and missed the luxuries of heaven. chang-o was also angry at her husband for jeopardizing her social status. therefore, although the archer and his wife loved each other deeply, they often quarreled. in order to keep their bodies in perfect condition, every three thousand years, gods must eat the peach of long life and drink the elixir of immortality from the garden of the western paradise. this garden is tended by the queen mother hsi wang mu [she wong muh, an old woman who has the fangs of a tiger and the tail of a panther. she lives alone and is protected by birds of prey and fearsome beasts. she also controls plagues and evil spirits. however frightful her appearance and her powers, hsi wang mu is a motherly figure to all the gods in heaven. in her enchanted garden grow

he plucks and serves at a sumptuous banquet for the gods. she is an alchemist, or a person who practices the art of combining substances that will transform. hsi wang mu can mix many elixirs, or magic potions, including the one that will insure immortality for the gods. in more 74 recent versions of the story, the queen mother is shown as a graceful elderly woman. the fabled garden of the western paradise is thought to reside in a remote section of the kunlun mountains. these spectacular peaks are located in western china between tibet and xijiang and soar as high as twenty-five thousand feet. in mythology the mountains are the home of the chinese gods, as well as the site of life-restoring herbs. historically, the kunlun range was part of the silk road, a caravan route between china and p

the site of life-restoring herbs. historically, the kunlun range was part of the silk road, a caravan route between china and persia used for trading silks, spices, and gold. the moon goddess 75 because he loved his wife very much, the grand archer yi reluctantly set out on a journey to the kunlun mountains where the peaches of long life were grown by hsi wang mu, the queen mother of the western paradise. the archer was unsure of the road, and even less sure of how much strength he had left. when he lived in heaven, yi had always ridden in the empress s chariot or straddled the tails of sky dragons to reach the western paradise, but now that he lived on earth, he had to walk. he crossed burning deserts, forded cold streams, and trekked over high mountains for thousands of miles. finally

inking hers. furthermore, they might never even reach heaven. with these fears in mind, the goddess developed a plan. she would drink both of their portions so that she could return to heaven first, and beg the sun god to forgive her husband for his brashness in having shot down the nine suns. then she and her sister goddesses could borrow some sky dragons to visit the queen mother of the western paradise. there, they would persuade her to mix up another dose of the elixir solely for the archer so he could join his wife in heaven. as she swallowed the elixir, chang-o felt its bitterness burn her throat. immediately, her body became lighter, and she felt dizzy. as she ran out into the night, her body floated upward to the stars. unfortunately, the night was not clear. chang-o wandered among

grand archer yi banished from heaven to live on earth? a: the sun god dijun was angry at him for shooting down and killing the nine suns. q: why did chang-o want to return to the stars? a: she missed her goddess sisters and the luxurious life of heaven. she did not like to feel her body dying on earth, and wanted to regain her youth and beauty. q: what warning did the queen mother of the western paradise give to yi? a: she warned the archer yi to drink the elixir on a night that was clear, or the drinker would be trapped halfway between the earth and heaven. q: what was chang-o s plan upon her return to heaven? a: chang-o wanted to ask the sun god to forgive her husband. then she would travel with her sister goddesses to obtain another dose of the elixir for yi so that he could rejoin her

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scus. he also talked about being 'taken up' into heaven, or a number of different heavens (dimensions. speaking of himself, he wrote "i know a man in christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. whether he was in the body or out of the body, i do not know- god knows. and i know that this man- whether in the body or out of the body i do not know, but god knows- was caught up in paradise. he heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to tell" 2 corinthians 12: 2-4 again, this is paralleled by many of today's accounts of extraterrestrial abductees who have told of being taken into other dimensions of reality by ets, sometimes in their body, sometimes out of it. st paul and the prophet called enoch speak of seeing many heavens when they were 'taken up; thi

nd most of the major national and global decision-makers in politics, banking, industry, commerce, the media, the military, etc. the prison warders manipulate the elite, the elite manipulate the brotherhood network, and the brotherhood network manipulates the world. each lower level doesn't know what the level above knows, and none of them knows what the prison warders know. it is a manipulators' paradise, with most people within it not knowing what they are part of or what the final goal will be. you could describe it symbolically as the clear-sighted (ets) manipulating the partially-sighted (global elite/brotherhood, who then manipulate the blind (the mass of humanity. with the united states now created and in brotherhood hands, the control of the world could be advanced even more quickl

gated at the time of jonestown by a house select committee. one attorney, mark lane, had connections with both jonestown and the assassination hearings. he was the attorney for the people's temple and for the 'patsy' james earl ray, the alleged 'lone assassin' of dr king. mark lane, who has also worked for the liberty lobby, the publishers of the spotlight newspaper, called the people's temple a "paradise or. earth. this so discredited him after jonestown that his contention that james earl ray was innocent was subsequently met with disdain by many. there were rumours that the people's temple included a death squad which disposed of anyone who threatened or spoke badly about the sect. the government has always denied that, but jim jones was known to have a hit list and the leading names on

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the taurus mountains in turkey, the baleric islands, and syria (sirius) were 42 children of the matrix among other danaan settlements and they travelled from atlantis to britain where they became known as tuatha de danaan or the "people of the sea. these carried the anunnaki reptilian bloodlines. the female amazons were another branch of the atlanteans and lemurians and myths say they came from a paradise called hesperides or hespera, a name for atlantis.56 they, too, followed the goddess athene or nieth and venerated her symbol, the double-headed axe. they founded shrines to the serpent goddess in many places, including the famous centre for diana worship at ephesus and other locations along the turkish coast. the "canaanites" also descended from atlantis/lemuria.57 mark amaru pinkham des

pope leo x eligion is the greatest form of mass mind control yet invented and it has been the most important weapon in the reptilian agenda for thousands of years. it has imprisoned the minds of the masses and kept them in perpetual fear and servitude. they accept their, often grotesque, plight on the word of men in long frocks who tell them it is "god's plan. take the shit today and you'll have paradise tomorrow. it's always tomorrow. babylon to rome the blueprint for control by religion was honed and polished in babylon, in the lands of sumer in mesopotamia. babylon is also the location from where the global financial scam was foisted on the world. this scam involves lending people money that doesn't exist and charging interest on it. it just so happens that babylon became the new headq

l powerless, insignificant, and in awe of invented religious deities. by being the "middlemen" to the gods (later "god) and interpreters of the "law" laid down by these make-believe "deities, they could control the people for their masters, the reptilian and other demonic entities. to stop the people rebelling against this suppression, control, and poverty, the priesthood stories had to promise a paradise in the afterlife for all those who obeyed "god's law. in other words, their law, the law of the anunnaki. and for those who did not obey this "law? eternal hell and damnation. even the term "sin, as i have pointed out, comes from the name of an anunnaki "god. out of babylon (1: judaism the texts that formed the old testament of the bible, a foundation of judaism and christianity, were wri

believing. the whole thrust is that if you don't believe their "truth" you will end up in hell. however, to avoid the problem of everyone being nice to each other (the last thing the anunnaki want) they emphasise that you do not get to "heaven" through good works, but only by belief in jesus as your saviour. you could cause untold death and suffering during your life and still book your place in paradise, as long as you believed in jesus. also, jesus was the only one born without original sin and there was no way we could be "perfect" like him. you are born a flawed, soiled piece of shit before you breathe your first, so know your place. the priesthood parked their backsides between "god" and the people and made themselves the middlemen for messages between the two. what the priesthood to

ons, not least the jehovah's witnesses and the church of jesus christ of latter days saints (lds, better known as the mormons. a lady called diana huston told me of her experiences in the jehovah's witnesses, which is officially titled the watchtower bible and tract society.8 she joined them in 1969 because, after going through the vietnam war with her husband, she was attracted by the message of paradise on earth. she was ok for a few years, but then they became more demanding and controlling. in 1987 she said that subliminal drawings began to appear in the artwork of their books and magazines depicting bizarre faces and strange messages. some of these are detailed in the symbolism archives on my website (www.davidicke.com. at a small convention in september 1988, she spoke privately to o

of all bottom lines of the llluminati agenda is the manipulation of humanity's imagination of itself. without that, the rest of their agenda becomes impossible. i will make some suggestions in the final two chapters about how we can get the hell out of here, but our choice is very clear: to exist in the great illusion or to live in the great infinity. put another way: do we want the prison or the paradise? if it's the paradise, we have some work to do. the matrix sources 1 giuliana conforto, man's cosmic game (edizioni noesis, 1998, pp 11 and 12 2 ibid, p 44 3 dr. douglas baker, the opening of the third eye (aquarian press, wellingborough, england, 1977, p 13 4 quoted in our haunted planet, p 179 5 bill used this line in many of his stage performances and videos 6 see http//www.angelfire.c

lieve in freedom and all except a tiny minority will say "yes. its not something that people like to be seen to be against. not good street cred. so we all believe in freedom by reflex action, but do we live it by everyday action? you have got to be kidding. if we did, this book, and all my others, would have no reason to be published. we would already be free and reconnected to multi-dimensional paradise. who are the gatekeepers of the matrix? who are the prison warders, the border guards of the great illusion? we are. the gatekeeper parents, partners, and priests we want our children to live in a free world, right? then why don't we even allow them to live in a free home? intergenerational conditioning by parents of their children is one of the greatest of all gatekeeping activities. if

jor chain and it would have been pulled like so many before and since. warman sat through my talk and in those more than six hours, he saw at first hand that i do not speak about a jewish plot at all and never even mention the word "jewish" because there is no need, except to emphasise what a travesty of the truth warman is seeking to purvey. this talk can be seen on a video called from prison to paradise and you can see for yourself that what i am saying here is true. if warman had simply been stupid and mis-guided, this is where it would have ended. but it didn't. that was the point when richard warman's true motives became clear in my opinion. this guy had an agenda and, given what small fry he is in canada, it must, i believe, be someone else's agenda. to this very day he and farber ha

when we do that we cease to be a sheepdog keeping the herd in line. 3 no one seeks to impose their beliefs or reality on anyone else, so always respecting the freedom of others to make different choices. this is the balance point that stops one person's free will imposing itself on another. these three steps would trigger a transformation of such magnitude that they would turn this prison into a paradise. and all three, as they relate to us, we have the power to introduce right now. this book may have said much about bloodlines and the history and techniques of human servitude. it may have highlighted at some length the reptilian genetic connection to all this. that's important because people need to know what is going on at that level of reality. but what this book has really been about

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even days between the prediction of thedeluge and the rain and seven days between the sending of the doves. the ark comes torest on the 17th day of the seventh month, noah leaves the ark on the 27th day, and afterthe flood he begins his seventh century. many of the names for the symbolic deities, suchas abraxas of the gnostics and serapis of greece have seven letters. then there is 40.adam enters paradise when he is 40 years old; eve follows 40 years later; during the greatflood it rains for 40 days and 40 nights; seth is carried away by angels when he is 40 andis not seen for 40 days; moses is 40 when he goes to midian and he stays for 40 years;joseph is 40 years old when jacob arrives in egypt; jesus goes into the wilderness for 40days. the bible is the word of god? no. it is written in

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 least that is what we are told.brian desboroughs research indicates that this site was a leper colony at the timeand that the essenes live

d in negotiations between them and theirislamic version, the secret society called the assassins. this word is now used todescribe a killer and it derives from the assassins particular method of ruling by fearand terrorism. assassin is said to mean user of hashish because they used the drug totrick and manipulate young men into killing for god in the belief that this would140secure their place in paradise. the name could also originate from the words hass (todestroy) and asana (to lay snares. they waged an international terrorist war from theirmountain headquarters at alamut or eagles nest in persia (asia minor/turkey. potterydecorated with pentagrams and the symbol of the female vulva have been found at thissite and the assassins wore white tunics with a red sash. the assassins, who still

s. he called himself a roman catholic all his life and yet his books were placedon the catholic index of forbidden books. his views would later be expounded by isaacnewton. both of them were fascinated by the esoteric and alchemy. here we can see thatthe same force which created the religions of the ancient world, also designed the newscience. who created and sold the idea of a judgmental god and paradise only forbelievers? the very people who knew it wasnt true. who created the materialist andcosmic accident version of science that denies the eternal soul? the very people whoknew it wasnt true. this tradition is continued today by the movement known ashumanism. its manifesto, published in 1953, says that the universe is self existing andnot created; modern science offers the only acceptab

ticle in that ill-fatededition. i think he could have been right and the ancient indian epic, ramayana,describes rama as an emissary from agharta arriving in a flying vehicle.the legends of inner earth peoples and blond-haired, blue-eyed master races, can befound in countless ancient cultures including china, tibet, egypt, india, europe, theamericas, and scandinavia. william e warren in his work, paradise found, or thecradle of the human race, suggests that humans originated on a tropical continent inthe arctic, a land of sunshine where a race of gods lived for more than a thousand yearswithout growing old. warren connects this northern paradise with the ancient greekconcept of hyperborea. the eskimos, who may originate from inner earth peoples,have legends which tell of a paradise island

we find the line: thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through thefire to moloch. the prophet jeremiah talks of the people: burning their sons in the fireas burnt offerings unto baal and also in the book of jeremiah we are told that: theyhave built the high places of tophet, which is in the v alley of hinnon, to burn their sonsand daughters in the fire. john milton also wrote of moloch in his paradise lost:294first moloch, horrid king, besmirched with blood,of human sacrifice, and parents tears,though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud,their childrens cries unheard, that passed through fire,t o his grim idol.the old testament abounds with stories of animal and human sacrifice. the samesymbolism can be seen in a stream of ancient texts about the sacrifice of the first born oryoun

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ies. 3.9 bibliography 1. crop circles: harbingers of world change. alick bartholomeu, gateway, bathe, uk, 1991. 2. feng-shui the science of sacred landscape in old china. ernest j. eitel, synergetic press, tucson, arizona, 1984. 4. interior design with feng-shui. sarah rossbach, e.p. dutton, a division of nal penguin inc, 2 park avenue, new york, n.y. 5. dawn behind the dawn: a search for earthly paradise geoffrey ashe, new york: a john macrae book, henry holt and company, 1992 6. a quest for the beginning and the end. graham hancock, gerald hawkins, new york: a delta book, 1965. 7. divining, the primary sense. herbert weaver, routledge& kegan paul ltd, 39 store street, london wc1e 7dd, 1978. c h a p t e r 4 pyramid energy 4.1 introduction to the pyramid the pyramids in egypt are one of th

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conquered, the ancient ones rule once more the meaning of this is as follows. lucifer is a metaphor for man. the rise of lucifer represents the rise of man to the status of a god. heaven is an archetypal sphere which man has defined as the abode of the gods. since man has become a god, the heavens have been conquered. man is now a resident of the archetypal heavens and the earth will become man s paradise. the ancient ones are an allegory to the ancient primordial power which exists within man. for it was said by the sumerians, the blood of kingu, leader of the armies of chaos, flows within the veins of man, and also, the ancient ones (man) will once more rule. all of these statements are therefore symbolic and refer to the rise of man as a god. the realization of deitus is the recognition

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power which can reside in each human being who can recognize what azazel is. 25 iblis, the the black light satanism in islam, published in gnosis magazine 23 then the lord descended to the holy land and commanded gabriel to take earth from the four corners of the world: earth, air, fire and water. he made it man, and endowed it with a soul by his power. then he commanded gabriel to place adam in paradise, where he might eat of the fruit of every green herb, only of wheat should he not eat. after a hundred years ta'us melek said to god "how shall adam increase and multiply, and where is his offspring" god said to him "into thy hand have i surrendered authority and administration. then he came and said to adam "hast thou eaten of the wheat" he answered "no, for god hath forbidden me so to d

pring" god said to him "into thy hand have i surrendered authority and administration. then he came and said to adam "hast thou eaten of the wheat" he answered "no, for god hath forbidden me so to do, and hath said 'thou shalt not eat of it. melek ta'us said to him "if you eat of it, all shall go better with thee. but, after he had eaten, his belly swelled up, and ta'us melek drove him forth from paradise, and left him, and ascended into heaven. then adam suffered from the distention of his belly, because it had no outlet. but god sent a bird, which came and helped him, and made an outlet for it, and he was relieved. the black book this section provides a powerful symbolism which stretches beyond the predicament of constipation. while god created mankind, he only held limited facilities. m

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

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ave set and besz and typhon; in the grecian pantheon there are pluto and hecate. all the other faiths, also, have their angelic choirs, their archons, or builders, and all the hierarchy of heaven. protestant christianity alone has forgotten its angiology, the creator has to be both architect of the universe and bricklayer, forming man from the dust of the ground without assistance. if we refer to paradise lost, however, we shall find that milton was familiar with both divine and infernal hierarchies, and that these were graded and charted according to a definite system. anyone who is acquainted with the qabalah will recognise that in milton he meets a fellow qabalist. in the qabalah we find the esotericism of the old testament. i propose to use the qabalistic terminology to explain the eso

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ssness of stale and stagnant water, and the black fire of hatred, and the udders of the cat of slime; not one thing, but many things. yet, with all that, his torment is eternal. the sun burns him as he writhes naked upon the sands of hell, and the wind cuts him bitterly to the bone, a harsh dry wind, so that he is sore athirst. give unto me, i pray thee, one drop of water from the pure springs of paradise, that i may quench my thirst (the scribe refused) sprinkle water upon my head. i can hardly go on (this last was spoken from the triangle in the natural voice of the frater, which choronzon again simulated. but he did not succeed in taking the frater's form- which was absurd! the scribe resisted the appeal to his pity, and conjured the demon to proceed by the names of the most high. choro

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in the monastery of fulda. adam, book of the penitence of a manuscript in the library of the arsenal at paris that deals with kabalistic tradition. it recounts how the first two sons of adam, cain and abel, respectively typifying brute force and intelligence, slew each other, and that adam s inheritance passed to his third son, seth. seth was permitted to advance as far as the gate of the earthly paradise without being threatened by the guardian angel with his flaming sword, which is to say that he was an initiate of occult science. he beheld the tree of life and the tree of knowledge, which had become grafted upon each other so that they formed one tree. some commentators believe this to symbolize the harmony of science and religion in the kabala. the guardian angel presented seth with th

states, michael, one of the holy angels who, presiding over human virtue, commands the nations. the same volume notes that raphael, presides over the spirits of men. and other angels who will become integral to western angelic and magical lore appear: uriel, who angel of north america encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 52 reigns over clamor and terror; and gabriel, who reigns over paradise, and over the cherubims. as the roman catholic mass evolved, michael, now a saint, was invoked as a most glorious and warlike prince, the receiver of souls, and the vanquisher of evil spirits. his symbol is a banner hanging on a cross; he is armed and represents victory, with a dart in one hand and a cross on his forehead. it may be noted that god himself is called the angel of the covena

www.aspr.com. ass many superstitions concern this familiar animal. the egyptians traced his image on the cakes they offered to typhon, god of evil. the romans regarded the meeting of an ass as an evil omen, but the animal was honored in arabia and judea, and it was in arabia that the ass of silenus spoke to his master. other talking asses were balaam s ass (numbers 22, which mahomet placed in his paradise with alborack; the ass of aasis, queen of sheba; and the ass on which jesus christ rode into jerusalem. some people have found something sacred and mysterious in the innocent beast, and a species of divination employed the head of an ass. at one time a special festival was held for the ass, during which he was led into the church while mass was sung. this reverence in which he was held by

ish user. the niziriyah again moved their headquarters, to the alamut valley in northern persia, and here built a mountain fortress. the men who resided in the fortress smoked hashish and learned the fine art of killing. they were masters of the sword and proficient with poisons. they became the terror of muslim lands for the next two centuries. alamat was designed as an earthly representation of paradise and those sent out on killing missions were assured that if they died during their mission they would go straight to the heavenly paradise. alamut was fi- assagioli, roberto encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 96 nally captured in 1256, but assassin fortresses in syria survived until the sixteenth century. the assassins gradually dropped their distinctive ways, including mu

le effects of hypnotism can be achieved through conscious suggestion employed by the subject. coue s methods have since become the basis for many popular systems of healing, self-improvement, and mysticism and an integral part of new thought metaphysics. autoscope encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 132 avalon (or avillion) the enchanted island of arthurian legend. this terrestrial paradise was known in welsh mythology as ynys avallach (isle of apples) or possibly related to the celtic king of the dead named avalloc or afallach. in geofrey of manmouth s twelfthcentury chronicle of king arthur, historia regum britanniae, it was noted that arthur s sword was forged in avalon, and he was returned to avalon after his last battle so his wounds could heal. in 1191 the monks at gla

heir clothing. the gods derived power from the skins of animals in a similar way, with which they were associated from the earliest time. thus ea was clad in the skin of the fish.probably the fish totem of the ea tribe. the dead were not admitted to the heavens of the gods. when a favored human being, like utnapishtim, the babylonian noah, joined the company of the gods, he was assigned an island paradise where gilgamesh visited him. he lived there with his wife. gilgamesh was not permitted to land, and conversed with his immortal ancestor while sitting in his boat. the deities secured immortality by eating the food of life and drinking the water of life. astrology the ancient babylonians were credited with some of the first correct astronomical observations. they were also pioneers of ast

, during which time he achieved and issued the book of thel, the marriage of heaven and hell, and the first book of the french revolution. in 1792 he moved to the hercules buildings in lambeth, where dire poverty forced him to do much of his commercial work, notably a series of illustrations to young s night thoughts, yet he also found time for original drawing and writing, including the gates of paradise and songs of experience. eventually he tired of london, however, and moved to felpham, near bognor in sussex, taking a cottage close to where aubrey beardsley would live at a later date. here blake composed milton, jerusalem, and a large part of the prophetic books, and made a new friend, william hayley, who repeatedly aided him monetarily. the sussex scenery.afterward to inspire whistler

d to the seventh heaven. the name means the lightning and al borak had the face of a man but the cheeks of a horse; its eyes were like jacinths, but as bright as stars; it had eagle s wings that glistened with radiant light; and it spoke with a human voice. it traveled at each step as far as the keenest sight could see, and it was one of the only ten animals (not of the race of men) received into paradise. borderieux, carita (mrs. pierre borderieux (1874.1953) secretary to gabriel delanne, editor of la revue scientifique et morale spiritisme and founder and editor of the review psychica from 1921 until it ceased in 1940. she organized regular weekly meetings in paris with speakers on spiritualism and parapsychology. such famous individuals as camille flammarion, gabriel delanne, juliette b

y release from the physical body, death is the final release. through the 1960s crookall drew attention to many accounts from individuals who nearly died, or who were briefly dead but revived. their accounts of another sphere of existence may have been colored by their religious background or expectations, but still demand careful consideration. in particular crookall drew attention to reports of paradise and hell-like conditions in the accounts. since world war ii a number of specialists in studies of death and dying (thanatology) have arisen. while most of these studies have been rather mundane, the work of pioneering thanatologist elisabeth kubler-ross has caught the popular imagination. kubler-ross is a psychiatrist who has spent many years dealing with dying patients and studying rela

le devils was likewise determined. as the centuries progressed, theologians began to inquire, how many fallen angels were engaged in the contest? this was a question of vital importance, and it gave rise to the most strenuous research and to a variety of discordant opinions. others asked, where was the battle fought.in the inferior heaven, in the highest region of the air, in the firmament, or in paradise? and how long did it last? these were difficult questions, but the notion that ultimately prevailed was that the engagement was concluded in exactly three seconds, and that while lucifer, with a number of his followers, fell into hell, the rest were left in the air to tempt man. a newer question rose out of these investigations: whether a greater number of angels fell with lucifer or rema

htened feelings as the by-product of its intense sensory and emotional stimuli. a remnant of the psychedelic culture remains in such groups as the neo-american church and the peyote church of god, and in the continued popularity of the writings of carlos castaneda (even though his original writings have been demonstrated to have been fraudulently produced) sources: baudelaire, charles. artificial paradise: on hashish& wine as means of expanding individuality. new york: mcgraw-hill, 1971. leary, timothy. flashbacks: an autobiography. los angeles: j. p. tarcher, 1983. politics of ecstasy. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1968. masters, robert e, and jean houston. varieties of psychedelic experience. new york: holt, rinehart& winston, 1966. reprint, new york: dell, 1967. osmond, humphry, and b

revealed anew by jesus. subsequently three other volumes, the last published in 1972, appeared. these four volumes are believed by church members to constitute christ s second coming. the message of the padgett channelings flows from spiritualism and affirms the continuity of the soul after death, and its life and continued growth in the spirit realm. the soul progresses through various realms to paradise (the sixth realm. should it seek to be filled with the divine love of the creator, it may then progress to the celestial heavens. in heaven it is conscious of its immortality and continues to receive inflowings of the divine essence of the father. jesus mission on earth was to make known the possibilities of divine love to all persons. it has several hundred members in the united states

f christ, absolutely denied the idea of vicarious atonement, and represented man as his own saviour or destroyer. they spoke of arts, sciences, and continued activities, as if the life beyond was but an extension of the present on a greatly improved scale. descriptions of the radiant beauty, supernal happiness, and ecstatic sublimity manifested by the blest spirits who had risen to the spheres of paradise, heaven, and the glory of angelic companionships melts the heart, and fills the soul with irresistible yearning, to lay down life s weary burdens and be at rest with them (the reference to the correspondence between deleuze and billot is probably to g. p. billot s recherches psychologiques sur la cause de phenomenes extraordinaires, published in two volumes in 1839, and the correspondence

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issus, lily, herb mercury, fumitory, and marjoram the flowers; while the perfumes must be benzoin, mace, and storax. for operations connected with religious and political matters, the magician must don a robe of scarlet and bind on his brow a brass tablet inscribed with various characters. his ring must be studded with an emerald or sapphire, and he must burn for incense balm, ambergris, grain of paradise, and saffron. for garlands and wreaths, oak, poplar, fig, and pomegranate leaves should be entwined. if the ceremonial dealt with amatory affairs, the vestment must be of sky blue, the ornaments of copper, and the crown of violets. the magic ring must be set with a turquoise, while the tiara and clasps were wrought of lapis lazuli and beryl. roses, myrtle, and olive were the symbolic flow

ath-el-kharman and taught every major art and science, including occultism. early in this century, hanish settled in chicago, where he founded mazdaznan. in 1916 he moved to los angeles. a european headquarters was established as a colony called aryana (admitting only white-skinned aryans) at herliberg, lake zurich. the mazdaznans believe that their task is to reclaim the earth and turn it into a paradise, a place suitable for even god to dwell. the process of reclaimation begins with the human body. hanish taught a series of spiritual exercises centering on breathing and regular prayers and chants. a vegetarian diet is recommended and daily exercise prescribed. in the 1980s the group moved its headquarters to california. members are scattered across north america and a number of foreign c

nd musician residing in sedona, arizona, who during the 1980s found the answer to much of his searching in new age metaphysics. then in 1987, he began to channel music. the term channeling has frequently been applied to the inspiration to which gifted musicians have attributed as the source of their musical innovations. the product of these channelings was released as a series of albums including paradise view, magical spheres, celestial bridge, and from the heart, each of which reached a popular audience in the post-new age community. then on january 23, 1991, shortly before miller and his family moved to sedona, an unembodied entity named jonathon manifested early in the morning immediately after an intense dream in which miller felt he was being taught about the future direction of his

the thirteenth century in eastern france. he was also known as jonathon in that incarnation. he had led a contemplative life and had an awakening in his 46th year. he died three years later. in returning to speak through miller, jonathon explained he is taking part in a coordinated effort from the spiritual realm to push humanity toward enlightenment. as a result, earth will be transformed into a paradise. the awakening of humanity at this time is the fulfillment of the promise of the second coming of christ. in 1993 miller published the initial messages from jonathon as talks with jonathon, the first of five proposed volumes. sources: miller, robin. talks with jonathon, book i: a guide to transformation. needham, mass: channel one communications, 1993. millesimo castle located in italy in

dy lying on the bed and sometimes the semiphysical vehicle of vitality is observed by other people. crookall also cited instances of the condition of consciousness in which one sees a double of oneself (see also vardo. gr. again, while much astral travel is supposedly in the world of everyday life, one sometimes moves into regions of otherworldly beauty or depression, characterized by crookall as paradise condition (the finer area of earth) or hades condition (a kind of purgatorial area. here one sometimes encounters friends and relatives who have died, or even angelic or demonic beings. return to the physical body is often accompanied by violent loud repercussion effects. sometimes the transition to ouspensky, p(eter) d(emianovitch) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1160

s. from paracelsus to newton: magic and the making of modern science. cambridge, mass: cambridge university press, 1982. para committee popular term for the committee for the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal, established april 30, 1976, at a meeting of the american humanist association in buffalo, new york. para committee encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1178 paradise a word derived from the old persian (zeud) pairedaeza, an enclosure, a walled-in place; old persian pairi, around, dig, to mould, form, shape (hence to form a wall of earth. the word moved into greek (paradeisos, latin (paradisus, and hebrew (pardes. it literally denotes an enclosure or park planted with fruit trees and abounding with various animals, i.e, a pleasure garden or park. josep

around, dig, to mould, form, shape (hence to form a wall of earth. the word moved into greek (paradeisos, latin (paradisus, and hebrew (pardes. it literally denotes an enclosure or park planted with fruit trees and abounding with various animals, i.e, a pleasure garden or park. josephus referred to solomon s garden at etham and to the hanging gardens of babylon as paradises. eden is not termed a paradise in the hebrew text of gen. 2:8, but a place where god planted a garden. the term, however, was inserted in the text in the greek septuigant translation, which read that god planted a paradise in eden. while the biblical paradise is located in reference to several well-known geographic reference points such as the euphrates and hiddekrl (tigris) rivers, the failure to find such a paradisic

en. the term, however, was inserted in the text in the greek septuigant translation, which read that god planted a paradise in eden. while the biblical paradise is located in reference to several well-known geographic reference points such as the euphrates and hiddekrl (tigris) rivers, the failure to find such a paradisical place in that area in modern times has suggested the possibility that the paradise of eden might be found elsewhere. paradise has been sought for or located in many regions of the earth: on the banks of the euphrates and of the ganges, in tartary, armenia, india, china, mesopotamia, syria, persia, arabia, palestine, ethiopia, and near the mountains of libanus and anti-libanus. some place it in judea, what is now the sea of galilee; others in armenia or syria, near mount

es, the chrysorrhoas, and the barrady. in the early nineteenth century the island of ceylon (now known as sri lanka, which was the serendib of the ancient persians and the taprobane of the greek geographers, was cited as a possibility. robert percival, in his book an account of the island of ceylon (1803, suggested: it is from the summit of hamalleel or adam s peak that adam took his last view of paradise before he quitted it never to return. the spot on which his feet stood at the moment is still supposed to be found in an impression on the summit of the mountain, resembling the print of a man s foot, but more than double the ordinary size. after taking this farewell view, the father of mankind is said to have gone over to the continent of judea, which was at that time joined to the islan

ieved eden represented the whole earth, which was of surprising beauty and fertility before the fall. a curious notion prevailed to a great extent among the various nations that the old world was under a curse and the earth became very barren. this view is reflected in the apostle paul s letter to the romans (8:22) where he refers to the whole of creation groaning in pain. eastern philosophies of paradise some eastern philosophies shared the idea that nature had been contaminated, and that the earth labored under some defilement. a sentiment that might have resulted from obscure traditions connected with the first human pair. the hebrew historian josephus stated that the sacred garden was watered by one river, which ran round the whole earth and was divided into four parts, but he appeared

ome eastern philosophies shared the idea that nature had been contaminated, and that the earth labored under some defilement. a sentiment that might have resulted from obscure traditions connected with the first human pair. the hebrew historian josephus stated that the sacred garden was watered by one river, which ran round the whole earth and was divided into four parts, but he appeared to think paradise was merely a figurative or allegorical locality. some of the peoples of hindustan had traditions of a place resembling paradise on the banks of the river ganges; their accounts were completely blended with mythology and legends respecting the deluge and the second peopling of the world. one writer who had diligently studied the indian puranas (religious and mythological works) placed eden

t table with the sacred mountain of meru rising in the middle. it became at length their decided conviction that meru was the north pole, from their notion that the north pole was the highest part of the world. some hindu writers admitted that mount meru must be situated in the central part of asia. rather than relinquish their notion of and predilection for the north pole as the real locality of paradise, they actually forced the sun out of the ecliptic and placed the pole on the elevated plains of lesser bokhara. however, the hindu description of this paradise seems to be analogous to the mosaic account. the traditions of kashmir represented that country as the original site of paradise and the abode of the first human pair, while the buddhists of tibet held opinions respecting the mount

count. the traditions of kashmir represented that country as the original site of paradise and the abode of the first human pair, while the buddhists of tibet held opinions respecting the mountain meru similar to those of the hindus. they located the sacred garden, however, at the foot of the mountain near the source of the ganges. the muslims inhabiting adjacent countries adopted the belief that paradise was situated in kashmir. they believed the first man was driven from it, he and his wife wandered separately for some time, then meeting at a place called bahlaka, or balk. two gigantic statues, which the moslems said were yet to be seen between bahlaka and bamiyan, represented adam and eve. a third statue was that of their son seish or seth, whose tomb, or its site, was pointed out near

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pilgrimage. amherst, wi: amherst press. 106 fry, daniel william a ufo supposedly photographed by daniel fry at merlin, oregon, may 1964 (fortean picture library) gabriel in christian and islamic tradition, gabriel is one of the two mightiest angels. he is the only angel mentioned in the old testament, as the destroyer of sodom and gomorrah. he is said to sit on god s left hand and to preside over paradise. mohammed credits gabriel with dictating the koran to him. in more recent times, an entity named gabriel, identifying himself as an archangel, channels through a new york city man named robert baker. gabriel has spoken through baker since 1990. his principal platform is the weekly meeting of the communion of souls meditation group. baker has a cable-access show, gabriel speaks, on a new y

tic birth. even when they think they are worshipping god, they are worshipping satan. only those human beings who abstain from sex, meat, caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco can hope to restore moral and intellectual order to their existence. flying saucers will rescue them at the last moment. on their arrival on mars, men and women will be separated and will live chaste, segregated lives. in this new paradise, they will go beyond vegetarianism and learn to subsist on air and the perfume of certain flowers. in his book, bernard urged readers to come to san francisco island, off the coast of brazil, where he had gone to establish a utopian colony. coincidentally or otherwise, mayita was preaching a doctrine bernard had advocated for the previous two decades. in it, sexual intercourse is vile and

w brunswick, nj: inner light publications. bernard, raymond [pseud. of walter siegmeister, 1964. the hollow earth: the greatest geographi- cal discovery in history. new york: fieldcrest publishing. cox, norma, 1985. kingdoms within earth. marshall, ar: self-published. crabb, riley, 1960. the reality of the underground. vista, ca: borderland sciences research associates. fitch, theodore, 1960. our paradise inside the earth. council bluffs, ia: self-published. friedrich, christof [pseud. of ernest zundel, 1976. ufos nazi secret weapons? toronto, ontario: samisdat, 1978. secret nazi polar expeditions. toronto, ontario: samisdat. kafton-minkel, walter, 1989. subterranean worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarfs, the dead, lost races and ufos from inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics

er lewis (writing as wishar s. cerve, when lemuria broke up, a california-sized part of it crashed into north america s west coast and attached itself. in 1936, robert stelle of chicago founded the lemurian fellowship, based on his channeled messages from lemurians living inside mount shasta. in two books published between 1940 and 1952, stelle depicted lemuria as an enormous land mass and a lost paradise. in the mid-1940s, the ziff-davis sciencefiction magazines amazing stories and fantas- tic adventures ran a series of stories and allegedly factual articles based in part on richard s. shaver s memories of life in lemuria, some of whose inhabitants still reside under the earth. most have gone mad and use the advanced technology available to them to torment surface-dwellers. lemuria was in

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come forward. raphael the sun intones, in ancient tourney with brother-spheres, a rival song, fulfilling its predestined journey, with march of thunder moves along. its aspect gives the angels power, though none can ever solve its ways; the lofty works beyond us tower, sublime as on the first of days. gabriel and swift beyond where knowledge ranges, earth s splendour whirls in circling flight; a paradise of brightness changes to awful shuddering depths of night. the sea foams up, widespread and surging against the rocks deep-sunken base, and rock and sea sweep onward, merging in rushing spheres eternal race. michael and rival tempests roar and shatter, from sea to land, from land to sea, and, raging, form a circling fetter of deep, effective energy. there flames destruction, flashing, sea

erable night, they are all brought out into light. see, only see, how quickly the masses scatter through gardens and fields remote; how down and across the river passes so many a merry pleasure-boat. and over-laden, almost sinking, the last full wherry moves away. from yonder hill s far pathways blinking, flash to us colours of garments gay. hark! sounds of village joy arise; here is the people s paradise, contented, great and small shout joyfully: here i am man, here dare it to be! wagner doctor, to walk with you is ever an honour and a profit, though i d here not care to stray aloneno, neverbecause to all that s vulgar i m a foe. this fiddling, shrieking, bowling- all this revel to me s a sound detested long; they riot as if driven by the devil, and call it a pleasure, call it a song. pe

young thing. they have already done some right good capering. mephistopheles there is no rest today for young or old. a new dance starts; come now let us take hold! faust [dancing with the young witch. once came a lovely dream to me. i saw therein an apple tree; two lovely apples on it shone, they charmed me so, i climbed thereon. the beauty. the little apples man entice since first they were in paradise. i feel myself with pleasure glow that such within my garden grow. mephistopheles [with the old witch. once came a wanton dream to me. i saw therein a riven tree; it had a monstrous hole; twas huge, yet i was pleased with it. the old witch. i proffer now my best salute to you, the knight with horse s foot! let me a proper cork prepare, if him a big hole does not scare. proctophantasmist

es the world revealed in twilight glimmer, the wood resounds, a thousand voices trilling; the vales where mist flows in and out lie dimmer, but in the gorges sinks a light from heaven, and boughs and twigs, refreshed, lift up their shimmer from fragrant chasms where they slept at even; tint upon tint again emerges, clearing where trembling pearls from flower and leaf drip riven: all round me is a paradise appearing. look up- the peaks, gigantic and supernal, proclaim the hour most solemn now is nearing. they early may enjoy the light eternal that later to us here below is wended. now on the alpine meadows, sloping, vernal, a clear and lavish glory has descended and step by step fulfils its journey s ending. the sun steps forth- alas, already blinded, i turn away, the pain my vision rending

nts like these there s scarcely any trace. i m curious to know and would inquire wherewith they feed hell s torments and hell s fire. a dryad at home be wise as it befits you there; abroad you have no cleverness to spare. homeward you should not turn your thoughts while here; you should the sacred oaks high worth revere. mephistopheles we think of what behind us lies; what we were used to seems a paradise. but say: what cowers in the cavern there, threefold in form and dimly lighted? a dryad the phorkyads! approach them if you dare and speak to them if you are not affrighted. mephistopheles why not- i see a something and i wonder. i must confess although it hurts my pride: the like of them i ve never yet espied. why, worse mandrakes, they look yonder. how can the deadly sins then ever be c

s sea; let me kneel and let me pray there, sore my heart oppresses me. he strides forward on the dune. philemon [to baucis] hasten, pray, and set the table where the garden blooms serene. let him run, be dazed, unable to believe what he ll have seen. standing beside the wanderer. where fierce billows did maltreat you, where waves, wildly foaming, rolled, there a garden now doth greet you, fair as paradise of old. older grown, i was not able to give help as once of yore; as my limbs grew more unstable, far the waves drew from the shore. wise lords menials, bold and daring, dug the trenches, dammed the sea, ocean s ancient rights not sparing, lords, instead of it, to be. see green meadows far extending, garden, woodland, field, and town.come, enjoy the meal attending, for the sun will soon g

ve been achieving; were i that noisome pool to drain, twould be the highest, last achieving. thus space to many millions i will give where, though not safe, yet free and active they may live. green fertile fields where straightway from their birth both men and beast live happy on the newest earth, settled forthwith along the mighty hill raised by a daring, busy people s will. within, a land like paradise; outside, up to the brink may rage the mighty tide, and where it gnaws and would burst through or sap, a common impulse hastes to close the gap. yes, to this thought i hold unswerving, to wisdom s final fruit, profoundly true: of freedom and of life he only is deserving who every day must conquer them anew. thus here, by danger girt, the active day of childhood, manhood, age will pass awa

own weapons are they giving battle; they re devils too, though in disguise. if you lose here, in endless shame you ll sink; on to the grave and hold fast by the brink! chorus of angels [strewing roses. roses, ye glowing ones, balsam-bestowing ones, fluttering and soaring, sweet life restoring, branchlets revealing, fresh buds unsealing, blooming be seen! springtime, awake him in purple and green; paradise take him, the sleeper serene. mephistopheles [to the satans. why duck and jerk? is that hell s wonted rule? do stand your ground and let them scatter. back to his place, each gawky fool! they think perhaps that with such flowery matter they ll snow hot devils in and make them cool. your breath will melt and shrivel it- now puff, you puffers- hold! it is enough, enough! your foul breath bl

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eir tradition of the hidden maghdi, and the messianic beliefs of some sufis),35 have an ambiguous respect for master mosheh and the people of the book. they regard master yeshuvah (called isa in the qur an) as an immaculately conceived master of the highest rung. they are waiting for the last to take action on the day of judgment (yom ah-din, when allah will resurrect the souls of the faithful in paradise. 2" 2' 8: 2 f# acharit wielding a sword riding a white horse many details found in the torah, peshitta (gospels, and apocrypha regarding the nature, lives, experiences, powers, and teachings of master mosheh and master yeshuvah find parallels in those of messiahs in other traditions. messianic appearances are called avatara in sanskrit. the hindu tradition contains beautiful and profound

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rediscovered in the renaissance, the return to the occult this time stimulates the genuine science. the emerging modern science is still clothed in what might be described as a hermetic atmosphere. francis bacon's new atlantis is perhaps not a very good example to take since bacon's former position as father of experimental science is now weakened. nevertheless, the new atlantis is a scientist's paradise where every kind of discovery and invention is put to the service of the happy people. it is ruled by an order or society called "salomon's house" dedicated to the study of the works and creatures of god. the father of salomon's house rides in the great procession on a chariot on which there is "a sun of gold, radiant upon the top, in the midst".1 whether or not there is any real connecti

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be divulged. h the fountain-head of this doctrine is the zohar, or book of splendour, a vast jumbled commentary on the pentateuch, written partly in aramaic and partly in hebrew. tradition asserts that its author was rabbi simeon ben yohai, who lived in the second century a.d; of it ginsburg says: it was first taught by god himself to a select company of angels, who formed a theosophic school in paradise. after the fall the angels most graciously communicated this heavenly doctrine to the disobedient child of earth, to furnish the protoplasts with the means of returning to their pristine nobility and felicity. from adam it passed secret wisdom of the qabalah page 10 over to noah, and then to abraham, the friend of god, who emigrated with it to egypt, where the patriarch allowed a portion

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rkness, mist, and tempest" these elements subsequently became identified with the evil principle, or the devil. the cold of winter, the darkness of night, and water, were finally set forth as the trinity. regarding cold, darkness, and water, or darkness, mist, and tempest, hippolytus observes "these the sethian says are the three principles of our system; or when he states that three were born in paradise- adam, eve, the serpent; or when he speaks of three persons, namely, cain, abel, seth, and again of three others, shem, ham, japheth; or when he mentions three patriarchs--abraham, isaac, jacob; or when he speaks of three days before the sun, etc" the same writer says that their entire system is derived from the ancients; that, antecedent to the eleusinian mysteries, were enacted by them

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and bright as to be notable objects which all must see and wonder at.itis certain that in ancient jewish times notable comets must also have been visible228themagical masonand would be regarded as wonders and signs by an ignorant populace, and yet the bible contains no words which can with any definiteness be said to refer to comets, unless indeed the incident of the flaming sword at the gate of paradise be so considered (genesisiii,24, or the appearance of an angel with his wings stretched out over jerusalem seen by david at the threshing floor of araunah the [ebusite, after the sacrificeofintercession, ii samuel, 24, 16. the comet of donati in 1858, which i well remember, certainly looked like a flaming sword at one period, although its shape varied considerably from time to time.meteor

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ption tends to represent the scriptures as a collection of acrostics, anagrams, and riddles.rees'cyclopaediahas also an article of fair length on the subject,butit is generally adverse to the claims advanced by the cabbalists. rees gives the following account of the origin of the cabbala 'the jews derive the mysteries contained in the cabbala from adam; and assert that whilst the first man was in paradise the angel rasiel brought him a book from heaven, which contained the doctrines of heavenly wisdom; and that when adam received this book, angels came down from heaven to learn its contents, but that he refused to admit them to the knowledge of sacred things entrusted to himself alone; that, after the fall, this book was taken back into heaven; that after many prayers and tears god restore

using the symbols to which the letters correspond in the yetziratic attribution. 35. this is the symbol of sulphur on the tree of life.kbg 225h 225t225y.mch225 chs225 n36. this is the symbol ofsalton the tree of life.ky .m36 the sorcererand his apprentice37. the calvary cross of 12 squares refers to the zodiac and to the eternal rivers of eden divided into four heads.naharn38. the four rivers of paradise issuing from the one river are: the spiritnaharthe one river.6pison6hiddekel'i'"1my'phrath\jgmox39. the square pyramid is attributed to the four elements: on the apex is the word ethmnmeaning essence: on the base is olamho'w,meaning world. 40. the calvary cross oftensquares refers to the ten sephiroth in balanced disposition. it is also the opened out form of the double cube and the altar

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world of our little friends: the ants, honeybees that build perfect combs, skillful dam builders: beavers. the author's other works on quranic topics include: the basic concepts in the qur'an, the moral values of the qur'an, quick grasp of faith 1-2-3, ever thought about the truth, crude understanding of disbelief, devoted to allah, abandoning the society of ignorance, the real home of believers: paradise, knowledge of the qur'an, qur'an index, emigrating for the cause of allah, the character of the hypocrite in the qur'an, the secrets of the hypocrite, the names of allah, communicating the message and disputing in the qur'an, answers from the qur'an, death resurrection hell, the struggle of the messengers, the avowed enemy of man: satan, the greatest slander: idolatry, the religion of the

k in this way are totally opposed to a person believing in god and performing acts of charity to gain his approval. for them, everything must be done only for the sake of humanity. we can clearly discern this way of thinking in a book published by the turkish lodges: masonic morality is based on love for humanity. it totally rejects being good through hope for the future, a benefit, a reward, and paradise, out of fear of another person, a religious or political institution, unknown supernatural powers it only espouses and exalts being good in relation to the love for family, country, human beings and humanity. this is one of the most significant aims of freemasonic evolution. to love people and to be good without expect- global freemasonry jc the masonic theory of "humanist morality" is ex

nerations that follow them, to make people happy and to ensure for them a more humane world. their aim is to exalt the humane impulses that influence the lives of living people human beings who have sought immortality throughout the centuries can achieve it through the work they do, the services they perform and the ideas they produce, and this will give their lives meaning. as tolstoy explained "paradise will then have been established here on earth and people will attain the highest possible good."84 on the same topic, master mason isindag writes: the substance of everything: masonry understands this as energy and matter. they say that everything changes stage by stage and will return again to matter. scientifically, this is defined as death. mysticism on this matter, that is, the belief

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ucture of the bible is artificial, it was only added in for ease of reading with modern translations, hence, many of the stops, passage divisions and paragraph forms, which we take for granted, are simply arbitrary. to give you a classic example- what did the criminal on the cross actually say to jesus in luke 23:43? and jesus said unto him, verily i say unto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in paradise or and jesus said unto him, verily i say unto thee to day, shalt thou be with me in paradise. there were no comma's in the original edition, so did jesus say that the criminal would be in paradise today (ie. ascend to heaven on his death) or did jesus simply say the criminal would be in paradise sometime and simply use a turn of phrase to intimate how he was speaking" i say unto thee toda

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peratae israel was the soul and the trek outlined (in allegory and myth) the process of returning to the treasury of light. it begins with leaving egypt (the fallen world, the soul then travels through the waters of corruption, into the deserts of asceticism, facing the attacks of the serpents (temptations and false gnosis, until at last, the soul is purified enough that it can reach jordan (the paradise of light, peratos. the peratae had a complex technology of transfiguration including forms of meditation, tantrick practise, mantras, postures, rites and celebrations. basilides basilides (85- 145 ce) claimed to be a disciple of glaucias, the interpreter of peter, and hence represented his teachings as having apostolic authority. he was a copious writer, though little of his work survives

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epresentative of the spiritual being, no lesser entity of any kind dare make its way. it is necessary that the magician make certain that he does not lower the elemental weapon after formulating a pentagram in mid-air. the circle must be complete, continuing in an unbroken line from pentagram to pentagram. the blazing five-pointed star is like the flaming sword which debarred adam from the edenic paradise. the four archangels, the spiritual regents of the four elements, are then invoked to give legitimacy to the working, and spiritual power and protection to both the surrounding pentagrams and the circle wherein the magician is enclosed. the last phrase of the ritual declares the pentagrams aflame about him, and invokes once again the holy guardian angel so that the operation is sealed wit

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r treasures shall remain untouched, till the lion shall arise and exact them as his right, receive and employ them for the establishment of his kingdom. chapter vii one thing should here, o mortals, be established by us, that god hath decreed to the world before her end, which presently thereupon shall ensue, an influx of truth, light, and grandeur, such as he commanded should accompany adam from paradise, and sweeten the misery of man. wherefore there shall cease all falsehood, darkness, and bondage, which little by little, with the great globe's revolution, hath crept into the arts, works, and governments of men, darkening the greater part of them. thence hath proceeded that innumerable diversity of persuasions, falsehoods, and heresies, which make choice difficult to the wisest men, see

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by the olmecs and for reasons unknown they collected these objects and placed them in positions of importance in their own temples.2 looking at my map, i could see the blue line of the coatzecoalcos river running into the gulf of mexico more or less at the midpoint of the legendary olmec homeland. the oil industry proliferates here now, where rubber trees once flourished, transforming a tropical paradise into something resembling the lowest circle of dante s inferno. since the oil boom of 1973 the town of coatzecoalcos, once easy-going but not very prosperous, had mushroomed into a transport and refining centre with air-conditioned hotels and a population of half a million. it lay close to the black heart of an industrial wasteland in which virtually everything of archaeological interest

of the world, evil triumphed at the outset and has maintained its supremacy ever since.1 the end of the fourth epoch is predicted soon, but it is the cataclysm at the end of the first epoch that interests us here. it is not a flood, and yet it converges in so many ways with so many global flood traditions that some connection is strongly suggested. the avestic scriptures take us back to a time of paradise on earth, when the remote ancestors of the ancient iranian people lived in the fabled airyana vaejo, the first good and happy creation of ahura mazda that flourished in the first age of the world: the mythical birthplace and original home of the aryan race. in those days airyana vaejo enjoyed a mild and productive climate with seven months of summer and five of winter. rich in wildlife an

tic change in the climate of airyana vaejo is indicated. the avestic scriptures leave us in no doubt about this. earlier they describe a meeting of the celestial gods called by ahura mazda, and tell us that the fair yima, the good shepherd of high renown in the airyana vaejo, attended this meeting with all his excellent mortals. 1 the bundahish chapters i, xxxi, xxxiv, cited in william f. warren, paradise found: the cradle of the human race at the north pole, houghton, mifflin and co, boston, 1885, p. 282. 2 vendidad, fargard i, cited in lokamanya bal gangadhar tilak, the arctic home in the vedas, tilak publishers, poona, 1956, pp. 340-1. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 198 it is at this point that the strange parallels with the traditions of the biblical flood begin to crop up, fo

he flood, particularly in the americas. the araucanians 14 see chapter twenty-four. 15 ibid. 16 national geographic magazine, june 1962, p. 87. 17 the mythology of mexico and central america, p. 79. 18 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 481. 19 the mythology of all races, cooper square publishers inc, new york, 1964, volume x, p. 222. 20 see particularly the writings of hyginus, cited in paradise found, p. 195. see also the gods of the greeks, p. 195. 21 the illustrated guide to classical mythology, p. 15-17. 22 the iranian bundahish tells us that the planets ran against the sky and created confusion in the entire cosmos. 23 the illustrated guide to classical mythology, p. 17. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 201 of chile say quite explicitly that the flood was the result o

eteriorated, in their mouths and stomachs. 22 needless to say, such flora does not grow anywhere in siberia today. its presence there in the eleventh millennium bc compels us to accept that the region had a pleasant and productive climate one that was temperate or even warm.23 why the end of the last ice age in other parts of the world should have been the beginning of fatal winter in this former paradise is a question we shall postpone until part viii. what is certain, 17 a. p. okladnikov, yakutia before its incorporation into the russian state, mcgill- queens university press, montreal, 1970. 18 the path of the pole, p. 250. 19 the biblical flood and the ice epoch, p. 107. wragnell, the explorer, observed on bear island (medvizhi ostrova) that the soil consisted of only sand, ice and suc

efinite earthly location a very long way south of ancient egypt seas and oceans away farther even than the spice country of punt (which probably lay along east africa s somali coast).19 to confuse matters, however, punt was also spoken of sometimes as the divine land, or god s land, and was the source of the sweet-smelling frankincense and myrrh especially favoured by the gods.20 another mythical paradise was also linked to the neteru an abode of the blessed, where the best of humans were sometimes taken which was believed to be situated away beyond a large expanse of water. as wallis budge observed in his important study, osiris and the egyptian resurrection, the egyptians believed that this land could only be reached by means of a boat, or by the personal help of the gods who were though

the indian ocean looked more promising because it was located relatively close to the middle east s fertile crescent, where several of the earliest known historical civilizations had emerged with extreme suddenness at around 3000 bc. i had plans to go chasing rumours of ancient pyramids in the maldive islands and along the somali coast of east africa to see if i could pick up any clues of a lost paradise of antiquity. i thought i might even work in a trip to the seychelles. the problem was the oceanographers again. the floor of the indian ocean, too, had been mapped and it didn t conceal any lost continents. ditto every other ocean and every other sea. there seemed to be nowhere now under water into which a landmass big enough to have nurtured a high civilization could have vanished. yet

and of the gods: at meru the sun and moon go round from left to right every day, and so do all the stars. the mountain by its lusture, so overcomes the darkness of night, that the night can hardly be distinguished from the day. the day and night are together equal to a year to the residents of the place..32 similarly, as the reader will recall from chapter twenty-five, airyana vaejo, the mythical paradise and former homeland of the avestic aryans of iran, seems to have been rendered uninhabitable by the sudden onset of glaciation. in later years it was spoken of as a place in which: the stars, the moon and the sun are only once a year seen to rise and set, and a year seems only as a day. 33 in the surya siddhanta, an ancient indian text, we read, the gods behold the sun, after it has once

he rigveda contains a number of dawn hymns. one of these (vii, 76) says that the dawn has raised its banner on the horizon with its usual splendour and reports in verse 3 that a period of several days elapsed between the first appearance of the dawn and the rising of 30 ibid, p. 58. 31 see part iv. 32 the mahabaratha, cited in the arctic home in the vedas, pp. 64-5. 33 ibid, pp. 66-7. 34 cited in paradise found: the cradle of the human race at the north pole, p. 199. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 462 the sun that followed it.35 another passage states, many were the days between the first beams of the dawn and actual sunrise .36 are these eyewitness accounts of polar conditions? although we can never be sure, it may be relevant that in indian tradition the vedas are believed to be

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ination of the natural landscapes of this region. step 10. this square lies under the domination of the kerubic taurus which directly affects its physical conditions. the astrological influence here is saturn. the tarot influence is the universe. these influences, acting harmoniously together under the conscious direction of horus, have resulted in a scenic fairyland of natural beauty, a woodland paradise. step 11. after observingthis square siufficiently, return to your physical body and employ the banishing pentagram and hexagram of earth. record your experiences in your magical diary. 138 the thirty aethyrs andan angel cometh forth, and. he taketh me aside into a little chamber in one of the nine towers. this chamber is furnished with maps of many mystical sities. there is a table, and

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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 emanation, it favoured a cheerful fatalism (p. 860-1, and believed in a paradise, a renovated world, deified heroes; its gods resemble more those of greece, its superstition more that of rome' tanta gentium in rebus frivolis plerumque religio est' the question has been gravely asked, whether the heathen pkeface. iv gods really existed; and i feel disgust at answering it. those who believe in a veritable devil and a hell, who would burn a witch with a will, may feel in

ppeared to homer \ijovac si rife /cat^ here, as elsewhere, the on. dialect becomes unsafe for comparisou, because it confouuds middle and final d with 's- the difficulty noticed in the preceding note forbids my inquiring whether this 05r be related to osinn; the as. woden and wod (rabies) stand apart from w6'5 (poesis, conf. supra p. 131-2. 2 anc. laws of wales 1, 739: boos draw their origin from paradise, which they left through man's transgression, but god gave them his blessing; therefore mass cannot be sung without wax. leoprechting's lechrain, p. 80. 906 poetry. tcov '0/x7]pis(bi' co? ettknaaa (exevij) tf; vukt0^'0/j,r]p(p trpoo-ira^e ttoletv tvepl t(hv (ttpareuaa/jbivwv iirl tpotav ^ovxopbevrj rov ekeivwv odvatov ^rfxcototepov i) rov ^iov twv awwv kataatrjaai. kal fji,epo; fiev ri 8c

s to be freijr, or some shining god, struggling with surtr the black, and striving to delay the approaching end of the world by lopping off the sprout. heathen gods the two champions are for certain, even if they be not these. the king, whose horse stands tied up under the tree, is the same as he whose shield is hung upon the tree, a future judge of the world. as the past and the future, the lost paradise and the expected, do in the people's imagination melt into one- they come to believe in a re-awahing of their loved kings and heroes out of their mountain-sleej: of frederick and charles, of siegfried and doubtless dietrich too. this is the true hall-mark of the epos, to endow its leading characters with a lasting inextinguishable life. but siegfried is also wuotan (pp. 26n. 134, dietrich

kera. lesebuch 788, 21. fundgr. 2, 320. 998 devil. whose figure is assumed is the coch: chanticleer and swine build together at the devil^s dike (p. 1023, and from under the cloak of the human-shaped devil peep out cock's claws in the same way as the cloven hoof. incomparably older and more widely diffused is the manifestation of the devil as a snake, worm, or dragon. the serpent that beguiled in paradise was taken for the devil himself. beside antiquus hostis, he is antiqims anguis, anguifer hostis, letifer unguis, serpens (greg. m. opp. 1, 111. jonas bobb. pp. 5. 15. yita burguudofarae p. 427. vita s. romani p. 743, serpens antiqims, caes. heisterb. 7, 35, the old dragon, as. draca, el. 765. the belief is founded chiefly on rev. 20, 2, and on the interpretations the fathers gave of levia

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ke the snake, is offered milk and crumbs and a silver spoon thereto/ in olden times he must have been regarded as the god s messenger and confidant (see suppl. lastly the bee, the one insect that is tamable and will live among men, and whose wise ways are such a lesson to them, may be expected to have old mythic associations. the bee is believed to have survived from the golden age, from the lost paradise (chap. xxx; nowhere is her worth and purity more prettily expressed than in the servian lay of the rich gavan, where god selects three holy angels to prove mankind, and bids them descend from heaven to earth, as the bee upon the flower/ kako pchela po tsvetu (vuk 1, 128 ed. 2. the clear sweet honey, vol. ii. s 696 teees and animals. which bees suck out of every blossom, is a chief ingredi

nce. when world or heimr is merely used in the general sense of dwelling place, we can think of several worlds. the yoluspa, ssern. l a, supposes nine worlds and nine firmaments (ivrsir, conf. ssem. 36b. 49a, just as sn. 222b speaks of nine heavens (see suppl. 3 of these worlds, not abodes of the living human race, those that demand a close investigation are: the flame-world, the dead- world, and paradise; but all are connected more or less 1 as we often use world and earth indifferently, so did the mho. poets. the beginning of time is expressed at option either thus: von anegenges zit, daz sich diuwerlt erhuop (up-hove, und muoter ir kint getruoc (bore, eol. 285, 12. sit (since) diu werlt erste wart, ulr. trist. 3699; or thus: sit dhiu erde geleget wart, rol. 187, 7. sit diu erde alrerst

rr, freyr, and tyr, unite their powers to do battle with the sons of fire and their confederates, yet they are beaten like enoch and elias: elias bears a marked resemblance to thorr (or donar, michael to the queller of garmr or fenris-ulfr; i do not say that enoch is equally to be identified with any particular god, but he might. surtr with the flaming sword may remind us of the angel that guards paradise, but he also finds his counterpart in the story of enoch and elias, for these two, at least in the legend of brandan (in bruns p. 187, have an angel with a fiery sword standing by their side.1 an as. homily de temporibus antichristi quoted by wheloc on beda p. 495 (supra p. 161n) contains remarkable statements. arrogant antecrist, it says, not only strives against god and his servants, bu

ittst in de hollequal. this is not mere railing, but the sober earnest of heroes who mean to drink and hunt with wuotan; conf. lisch s mekl. jahrb. 9, 447. 1 such a land of bliss is part of celtic legend too, the fay morgan (p. 412 n) conducts to it; i read in parz. 56, 18: den fuort ein feie, hiez murgan, in ter de la schoye (joie; see suppl. remember also the norse glerhiminn (coelum vitreum, a paradise to which old heroes ride (larlmagus saga p.m. 320-2; legends and lays have glass-bergs and glass-burgs as abodes of heroes and wise women, e.g. brynild s smooth unscalable glarbjerg (dan. v. 1, 132, and the four glassberys in wolfdiet (cod. dresd. 289, conf. the lith. and pol. glass-mountain of the underworld, p 836 n. a glass-house in the air (chateau en pair) occurs as early as tristan

(larlmagus saga p.m. 320-2; legends and lays have glass-bergs and glass-burgs as abodes of heroes and wise women, e.g. brynild s smooth unscalable glarbjerg (dan. v. 1, 132, and the four glassberys in wolfdiet (cod. dresd. 289, conf. the lith. and pol. glass-mountain of the underworld, p 836 n. a glass-house in the air (chateau en pair) occurs as early as tristan, ed. michel 2, 103, conf. 1, 222 paradise. 821 joy is christian too. also: f stigen ze himel uf der scelden berc, climb tlie mount of bliss, wackern. basle mss. p. 5. the christian faith tells of two places of bliss, a past and a future. one is where the departed dwell with god; the other, forfeited by our first parents sin, is represented as a garden, eden. both are translated trapasetcro? in the lxx, whence paradisus in the vul

eben-ivang, hel. 28, 21. 176, 1; the norns are out of the question, especially as heaven is never called norna-vangr in on. poems. beside hebenwang, the os. poet uses odas-hem 96, 20 and up-odas-liem 28, 20. 85, 21, domus beatitudinis, the hem reminding us of heimr in gla^sheimr, as the( garto in wunnigarto does of asgarsr. upodashem is formed like uphimil, and equally heathen. all the slavs call paradise rai, serv. raj, pol. ray, boh. rag, to which add lith. rojus, sometimes called rojaus sodas (garden of par, or simply darzas (garden. kai as a contraction of paradise (span, parayso) is almost too violent; anton (essay on slavs 1, 35) says the arabic arai means paradise. 2 like valholl, the greek elysium too, rj\va-iov trestov (plutarch 4, 1156. lucian de luctu 7) was not a general abode

ells pass through green meadows to the house of friendly holla. flore 24, 22: swer im selber den tot tuot, den geriuwet diu vart, und ist im ouch verspart diu wise, dar du komen wilt, an der blancheflur spilt (plays) mit andern genuogen (enow, die sich niht ersluogen; who slays himself will rue such journey, to him is eke denied that mead, etc. floris 1107: int gliebloide velt (flowery field, ten paradise/ 1248 &lt; waenstu dan comen int ghebloide velt, daer int paradis? 1205: ic sal varen int gliebloide velt, daer blancefloeren siele jeghen die mine gadert, ende leset bloemekine. the french flores in the corresponding passages has camp flori (altd. bl. 1, 373, 1 in bekker s ed. of flore 786. 931. 1026. but our older poets, pro bably even those of heathen times, imagined heaven, like t

se gelic 96, 15. the groneo wang 23, 4 is said of egypt. caedm. 32, 29: brade sind on worulde grene geardas. hakonarmal 13: rifta ver nu sculom groena heima go sa/ i.e. to heaven. in many parts of germany paradis and goldne aue are names of places to this day. so viretum in virgil has the sense of para dise, aen. 6, 638: devenere locos laetos et amoena vireta fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatas. paradise then is twofold, a lost one, and a future one of the earth emerging newly green out of the wave: to i&avollr, in whose grass the gods pick up plates of gold (for play, ssem. 9b 10a, corresponds that older iffavollr where the ases founded as- 1 the m. nethl. poem beatris 1037 places the last judgment int soete dal, daer god die werelt doemen sal. elysium. 823 gar&lt, to the renovated r

light, are sons of 0$inn, while m63i and magni appear as sons of thorr by a g^gr, and from that time they bear the emblem of his might, the all-crushing miolnir. unquestionably this means, that 0$inn and thorr, the arch-gods of old asgars, come into sight no more, but are only renewed in their sons. baldr signifies the beginning of a mild spring time, p. 614 (see suppl. 1 it is natural that this paradise, past or to come, should have given birth to various tales of an earthly paradise, lying in regions far away, which has been reached by here and there a traveller: thus alexander in his indian campaign is said to have arrived at paradise. not the eddas themselves, but later icel. sagas tell of oddins-akr (immortalitatis ager; a land where no one sickens or dies, conf. dainn mortuus, morti

tenows whither, beow. 5o 105. sigmundr bears the body of^his beloved son smnotli to the seashore, where a stranger waits with a skiff, and offers 1 those who are neither saved nor damned come into the green meadoiv, heinse s ardinghello 1, 96. 2 conf. helbl. 1, 354: vrou sele, tretet uf ein rippe. eenart in his bucket at the bottom of the well (p. 807, to humbug ysengrin, pretends he is living in paradise there, and that every soul, on parting from the body, has to sit on the bucket-pole till it is penitent, then it may climb down, and leave all its ills behind, eenart 6804-13. 3 what deep root this custom hadjakmijrljhe north, may be gathered from. the fact that bodies were also buriedtn a boat [on land, doubtless so that on liheir journey to the underworld, when they came to a water, the

ge of dread, no brader than a thread, over which the soul has to pass in the under world (j. thorns anecd. and trad. pp. 89. 90. the same bridge is mentioned in the legend of tundalus (hahn s ed. pp. 49. 50: the soul must drive a stolen cow over it. 3 the same meaning as in the voyage of souls over the gulf or 1 owen s diet. 2, 214. villemarque 1, 135. 2 the narrow bridge is between purgatory and paradise, even owain the hero had to cross it (scott s minstr. 2, 360-1. in striking harmony with it (as supra p. 574) is a mahom. tradition given in sale s koran (ed. 1801, introd. 120: in the middle of hell all souls must walk over a bridge thinner than a hair, sharper than the edge of a sword, and bordered on both sides by thorns and prickly shrubs. the jews also speak of the hell-bridge narrow

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ass the time between death and judgment in a state of unconsciousness. but it is not so. a man does not enter the presence of his maker *as they leave the earth. they are there to receive [udgment; but they have all been progressing towards good since their death. by that time a great part of the punishments awarded to the wicked areoverj-s-mostof them, indeed, are entirely happy.thenthe gates of paradise are unfolded, and they are eternally and supremely blest. even- the best who die, do not have the most perfect bliss until that day. although they cannot imagine a state happier than their own, they look forward to it with great pleasure.thereare no torments that are everlasting. can any christians imagine thatgod,-and,when i say that, i mean the highest of all angels, the disposer of bei

ving-ihave heardofnothing to suit me but must do so beforemichaelmas-mybooks are a horrid nuisance and i must get rid of a lot (not occult) they get so horrid dusty in the london smoke if they are not kept in a bookcase, and even there they are bad enough, but i am always in pain and have no heart to move about or do any thing after business is over.letme know where to address you when you get to'paradise'-andwith kind regards believe me, yours faithfully and fraternally. now act like a philosopher and take care of yourselfliwalter moseley of buijduas park. he had been initiated into freemasonry in apollo university lodge no. 357, oxford, when a student at trinity college, but although remaining a member for the remainder of his life he was not an active freemason. he appears to have been

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nd by land) through a sinister divine realm beyond the horizon and to provide the deceased with the spells they would need to get past the monstrous guardians they would meet on the way. the deceased had to pass through the mysterious region of rosetau, where the body of osiris lay surrounded by walls of flame. if the deceased man or woman proved worthy, he or she might be granted a new life in a paradise called the field of offerings. the book of two ways has been described by erik hornung as representing the results of government- funded research into the hereafter, 27 but research may be too academic a word. the extraordinary visual detail in which the afterlife is presented has a hallucinatory quality similar to that of the spirit voyages induced by shamans in many cultures. 28 althoug

rmed into a cow, and ra rides away on her back. as the earth darkens, some of humanity beg ra to stay, and they shoot at his enemies. this, says the text, was how death came into being. from this point on, humanity has to fight and die to maintain the divine order. nut carries ra up into the heavens, and the single creator god transforms himself into many heavenly bodies. he creates the fields of paradise for the spirits of the dead. nut began to tremble because of the height, so ra creates the heh gods who live in twilight. shu and the heh gods support the body of nut. then ra tells geb to warn the powerful serpents that live under the earth not to abuse their magic because he will still look down on them. ra puts osiris in charge of humanity and calls the moon of thoth into being, so tha

nters between people and deities are described in stories that use mythological themes, but these usually take place beyond the nile valley. in the story of the two brothers, it is only after the hero, bata, leaves egypt for the remote valley of the pine that he meets the ennead. in the tale known as the shipwrecked sailor, an egyptian survives a shipwreck in the red sea and is washed ashore on a paradise island. when he makes an offering to the gods to thank them for the food he finds on the island, a giant humanheaded serpent appears. the sailor is terrified, but the serpent promises that no harm will come to him and that he will be reunited with his family. the serpent reveals that there were once seventy-five snakes on the island, suggesting that he may be the creator sun god who tradi

akh, an effective or transfigured spirit. those who failed to justify their existence in the divine court faced a second death in the jaws of the eater of souls. the fortunate spirits could take their place among the stars or among the followers of osiris, ra, thoth, or hathor, but they could not escape the cycles of destruction and renewal. the soul might experience life in the field of reeds, a paradise similar to egypt, but this was not a permanent state. when the night sun passed on, darkness and death returned. the star-spirits were destroyed at dawn and reborn mythical time lines 93 each night. even the evil dead, the enemies of ra, continuously came back to life like apophis so that they could be tortured and killed again. as the western souls, the justified dead formed part of the

m onward, the solar cycle was depicted in royal tombs and in temple halls with giant figures of nut stretching across the ceilings. in funerary religion nut was regarded as one of the most helpful goddesses. she was sometimes carved or painted on the underside of coffin lids, so that she could embrace the deceased for all eternity. in the book of the dead and in decorated tombs she was shown in a paradise garden as the goddess of the 174 handbook of egyptian mythology sycamore-fig tree. in this role, nut gave water and food to refresh the newly dead and strengthen them for their journey through the underworld. see also cattle; geb; hippopotamus goddesses; mehet-weret; ra; shu and tefnut references and further reading: b. s. lesko. the sky goddess nut. in the great goddesses of egypt. norma

gdom prayer states that osiris is the greatest of the gods because all egyptians have to come to him in the end. the idea of osiris as a just judge and savior of the dead was prominent during the last stages of pharaonic culture. in a story of the roman period, a prince is shown that after death, rich and poor are treated equally and only the good will survive the judgment of osiris and enter his paradise. deities, themes, and concepts 179 see also anubis; banebdjedet; benu bird; djed pillar; eyes of horus; heryshef; horus; isis; moon; nephthys; primeval mound; ra; seth; sokar; stars and planets; wepwawet references and further reading: r. t. rundle clarke. myth and symbol in ancient egypt. london: 1959, chaps. 3 to 5. j. g. griffiths. the origins of osiris and his cult. leiden: 1980. e. o

e dead to breathe again as part of the process of rebirth. to indicate that serqet was a benevolent goddess, she was sometimes represented by a harmless type of water scorpion rather than the poisonous type. she was shown on the east side of coffins and canopic chests as a guardian goddess. in the book of two ways, serqet is one of the deities who guards a bend in the river on the watery route to paradise. scorpions and snakes were classed together as enemies of humanity and the divine order, and many spells were devised to repel them. the egyptians hoped that by honoring the scorpion goddess, they could save themselves from all poisonous creatures. serqet defended the sun god from the great snake apophis, and she appears in some narrative spells as the helper of her sister isis. one spell

. like anubis, wepwawet was lord of the sacred land. this meant that he was a supernatural guardian of the desert cemeteries. in the book of the dead, wepwawet is one of the council of seven gods who guard the twenty-first and fi- deities, themes, and concepts 213 nal gate on the road to the throne room of osiris. opener of the ways is also said to be a name of thoth, who makes the good things of paradise accessible to those who obey the laws of maat. see also anubis; osiris; thoth references and further reading: h. frankfort. kingship and the gods. chicago: 1948, 92 97, 204 205. t. a. h. wilkinson. early dynastic egypt. london and new york: 1999, 198 199, 297 298. primary sources: pt 21, 482, 734; ct 345, 845, 953; ikhernofret stela; bd 145, 182 weret-hekau weret-hekau (the great of magic

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was only natural that departed spirits should flock from all parts of egypt to his kingdom, wherein the beatified enjoyed a life very much like that which they had lived upon earth. the celestial kingdom of osiris, that is to say, sekhet-hetepet or sekhet-aaru, was originally a copy of some very fertile region in the delta, and, to the very end of the period of native egyptian rule, the egyptian paradise consisted of green fields intersected by streams of living, i.e, running water, with abundant crops of wheat and barley, and its appearance represented a typical middle-delta landscape. so long as osiris had his kingdom in the delta, probably near the ancient city of mendes, the souls of the dead travelled from south to north, but at a later period, when osiris had absorbed the position a

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

ekly pleaded "but rather think and reflect on this. one who has nevertaught himself to live in spirit during his conscious and responsible life on earth, can hardly hope to enjoy asentient existence after death, when, deprived of his body, he is limited to that spirit alone "what can you mean by life in spirit- i enquired "life on a spiritual plane; that which the buddhists call tushita devaloka (paradise. man can create such ablissful existence for himself between two births, by the gradual transference on to that plane of all thefaculties which during his sojourn on earth manifest through his organic body and, as you call it, animalbrain "how absurd! and how can man do this "contemplation and a strong desire to assimilate the blessed gods, will enable him to do so "and if man refuses thi

her days passed in prayer and lamentations. in hermaternal anxiety for the salvation of her beloved son's soul, and for his post mortem welfare, she made aseries of rash vows. finding that neither the latin petition to the mother of god written for her by herspiritual adviser, nor yet the humble supplications in german, addressed by herself to every saint she hadreason to believe was residing in paradise, worked the desired effect, she took to pilgrimages to distantshrines. during one of these journeys to a holy chapel situated high up in the mountains, she caught cold,amidst the glaciers of the tyrol, and redescended only to take to a sick bed, from which she arose no more.frau stenio's vow had led her, in one sense, to the desired result. the poor woman was now given anopportunity of se

ations, seemed to form pictures of shameless orgies, of thevoluptuous hymens of a real witches' sabbat. a collective hallucination took hold of the public. pantingfor breath, ghastly, and trickling with the icy perspiration of an inexpressible horror, they sat spell-bound,and unable to break the spell of the music by the slightest motion. they experienced all the illicit enervatingdelights of the paradise of mahommed, that come into the disordered fancy of an opium-eating mussulman,and felt at the same time the abject terror, the agony of one who struggles against an attack of delirium nightmare talesvi75 tremens. many ladies shrieked aloud, others fainted, and strong men gnashed their teeth, in a state ofutter helplessness. then came the finale. thundering uninterrupted applause delayed i

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ted derivation from the latin natura (becoming, from nasci, to be born. when we speak of the deity and make it identical, hence coeval, with nature, the eternal and uncreate nature is meant, and not your aggregate of flitting shadows and finite unrealities. we leave it to the hymn-makers to call the visible sky or heaven, god's throne, and our earth of mud his footstool. our deity is neither in a paradise, nor in a particular tree, building, or mountain: it is everywhere, in every atom of the visible as of the invisible cosmos, in, over, and around every invisible atom and divisible molecule; for it is the mysterious power of evolution and involution, the omnipresent, omnipotent, and even omniscient creative potentiality. q. stop! omniscience is the prerogative of something that thinks, an

ey were returning from a wandering pilgrimage or long exile into their country, they have a taste of joy, such as they principally receive who are initiated into sacred mysteries, mixed with trouble, admiration, and each one's proper and peculiar hope. this is nirvanic bliss, and no theosophist could describe in plainer though esoteric language the mental joys of devachan, where every man has his paradise around him, erected by his consciousness. but you must beware of the general error into which too many even of our theosophists fall. do not imagine that because man is called septenary, then quintuple and a triad, he is a compound of seven, five, or three entities; or, as well expressed by a theosophical writer, of skins to be peeled off like the skins of an onion. the principles, as alr

hat which we refer to as absolute consciousness or deity forever invisible and unknowable, be not that which, though it eludes forever our human finite conception, is still universal spirit-matter or matter-spirit in its absolute infinitude? it is then one of the lowest, and in its manvantaric manifestations fractioned-aspects of this spirit-matter, which is the conscious ego that creates its own paradise, a fool's paradise, it may be, still a state of bliss. q. but what is devachan? a. the "land of gods" literally; a condition, a state of mental bliss. philosophically a mental condition analogous to, but far more vivid and real than, the most vivid dream. it is the state after death of most mortals. on the various postmortem states the physical and the spiritual man q. i am glad to hear y

n kill that which is immortal? and this explains also why the sadducees denied the immortality of the soul, as it also affords another proof that very probably the mosaic jews-the uninitiated at any rate-never believed in the soul's survival at all -ooo- on eternal reward and punishment, and on nirvana q. it is hardly necessary, i suppose, to ask you whether you believe in the christian dogmas of paradise and hell, or in future rewards and punishments as taught by the orthodox churches? a. as described in your catechisms, we reject them absolutely; least of all page 53 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt would we accept their eternity. but we believe firmly in what we call the law of retribution, and in the absolute justice and wisdom guiding this law, or karma. hence we positively refu

which have alienated themselves in heaven from the holy one-blessed be his name-have thrown themselves into an abyss at their very existence, and have anticipated the time when they are to descend once more on earth "the holy one" means here, esoterically, the atma, or atma-buddhi. q. moreover, it is very strange to find nirvana spoken of as something synonymous with the kingdom of heaven, or the paradise, since according to every orientalist of note nirvana is a synonym of annihilation! a. taken literally, with regard to the personality and differentiated matter, not otherwise. these ideas on reincarnation and the trinity of man were held by many of the early christian fathers. it is the jumble made by the translators of the new testament and ancient philosophical treatises between soul a

re, or when disincarnated. a. and so it is. if we do not admit of any punishment outside of this earth, it is because the only state the spiritual self knows of, hereafter, is that of unalloyed bliss. q. what do you mean? a. simply this: crimes and sins committed on a plane of objectivity and in a world of matter, cannot receive punishment in a world of pure subjectivity. we believe in no hell or paradise as localities; in no objective hellfires and worms that never die, nor in any jerusalem with streets paved with sapphires and diamonds. what we believe in is a postmortem state or mental condition, such as we are in during a vivid dream. we believe in an immutable law of absolute love, justice, and mercy. and believing in it, we say: whatever the sin and dire results of the original karmi

ey forced to, unless they happen to prefer truth to fiction, however "consoling" uncongenial our doctrines may be to spiritualists; yet, nothing of what we believe in and teach is half as selfish and cruel as what they preach. q. i do not understand you. what is selfish? a. their doctrine of the return of spirits, the real "personalities" as they say; and i will tell you why. if devachan-call it "paradise" if you like, a "place of bliss and of supreme felicity" if it is anything-is such a place (or say state, logic tells us that no sorrow or even a shade of pain can be experienced therein "god shall wipe away all the tears from the eyes" of those in paradise, we read in the book of many promises. and if the "spirits of the dead" are enabled to return and see all that is happening on earth

spanned only by events of still greater felicity in degree. q. but this is more than simple delusion, it is an existence of insane hallucinations! page 70 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt a. from your standpoint it may be, not so from that of philosophy. besides which, is not our whole terrestrial life filled with such delusions? have you never met men and women living for years in a fool's paradise? and because you should happen to learn that the husband of a wife, whom she adores and believes herself as beloved by him, is untrue to her, would you go and break her heart and beautiful dream by rudely awakening her to the reality? i think not. i say it again, such oblivion and hallucination-if you call it so-are only a merciful law of nature and strict justice. at any rate, it is a fa

postmortem dreams? i repeat it: death is sleep. after death, before the spiritual eyes of the soul, begins a performance according to a program learnt and very often unconsciously composed by ourselves: the practical carrying out of correct beliefs or of illusions which have been created by ourselves. the methodist will be methodist, the muslim a muslim, at least for some time-in a perfect fool's paradise of each man's creation and making. these are the postmortem fruits of the tree of life. naturally, our belief or unbelief in the fact of conscious immortality is unable to influence the unconditioned reality of the fact itself, once that it exists; but the belief or unbelief in that immortality as the property of independent or separate entities, cannot fail to give color to that fact in

hemselves are too confused to present a distinct picture of it, it is just because your western ideas of life and death have finally become so narrow, that on the one hand they have led to crass materialism, and on the other, to the still more material conception of the other life, which the spiritualists have formulated in their summerland. there the souls of men eat, drink, marry, and live in a paradise quite as sensual as that of mohammed, but even less philosophical. nor are the average conceptions of the uneducated christians any better, being if possible still more material. what between truncated angels, brass trumpets, golden harps, and material hellfires, the christian heaven seems like a fairy scene at a christmas pantomime. page 80 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt it is be

unfathomable. it is impossible to conceive of a human sin so damnable that the price paid in advance for the redemption of the sinner would not wipe it out if a thousandfold worse. and furthermore, it is never too late to repent. though the offender wait until the last minute of the last hour of the last day of his mortal life, before his blanched lips utter the confession of faith, he may go to paradise; the dying thief did it, and so may all others as vile. these are the assumptions of the church, and of the clergy; assumptions banged at the heads of your countrymen by england's favorite preachers, right in the "light of the nineteenth century -this most paradoxical age of all. now to what does it lead? q. does it not make the christian happier than the buddhist or brahmin? a. no; not t

money, they allure the best teachers from their natural pupils to mechanicalize their naturally unfit progeny into professions which they uselessly overcrowd. q. and you attribute all this to what? a. all this is owing to the perniciousness of a system which turns out goods to order, irrespective of the natural proclivities and talents of the youth. the poor little candidate for this progressive paradise of learning, comes almost straight from the nursery to the treadmill of a preparatory school for sons of gentlemen. here he is immediately seized upon by the workmen of the materio-intellectual factory, and crammed with latin, french, and greek accidence, dates, and tables, so that if he have any natural genius it is rapidly squeezed out of him by the rollers of what carlyle has so well c

present and the medium who create the peculiar apparition. independent "apparitions" belong to another kind of psychic phenomena. materialist not necessarily only one who believes in neither god nor soul, nor the survival of the latter, but also any person who materializes the purely spiritual; such as believe in an anthropomorphic deity, in a soul capable of burning in hell fire, and a hell and paradise as localities instead of states of consciousness. american "substantialists" a christian sect, are materialists, as also the so-called spiritualists. maya (sans) illusion; the cosmic power which renders phenomenal existence and the perceptions thereof possible. in hindu philosophy that alone which is changeless and eternal is called reality: all that which is subject to change through dec

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was a source of vague horror to me; but i think my horror was greater when i gained the summit of the mound and looked down the other side into an immeasurable pit or canyon, whose black recesses the moon had not yet soared high enough to illumine. i felt myself on the edge of the world, peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night. through my terror ran curious reminiscences of paradise lost, and satan's hideous climb through the unfashioned realms of darkness. as the moon climbed higher in the sky, i began to see that the slopes of the valley were not quite so perpendicular as i had imagined. ledges and outcroppings of rock afforded fairly easy footholds for a descent, whilst after a drop of a few hundred feet, the declivity became very gradual. urged on by an impulse w

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

were related to wars, violence, and plagues; and i wondered at the reticence shown concerning natural death. it was as though an ideal of immortality had been fostered as a cheering illusion. still nearer the end of the passage was painted scenes of the utmost picturesqueness and extravagance: contrasted views of the nameless city in its desertion and growing ruin, and of the strange new realm of paradise to which the race had hewed its way through the stone. in these views the city and the desert valley were shewn always by moonlight, golden nimbus hovering over the fallen walls, and half-revealing the splendid perfection of former times, shown spectrally and elusively by the artist. the paradisal scenes were almost too extravagant to be believed, portraying a hidden world of eternal day

HP LOVECRAFT THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE

rn the titles. what interested me was the uniform air of archaism as displayed in every visible detail. most of the houses in this region i had found rich in relics of the past, but here the antiquity was curiously complete; for in all the room i could not discover a single article of definitely post-revolutionary date. had the furnishings been less humble, the place would have been a collector's paradise. as i surveyed this quaint apartment, i felt an increase in that aversion first excited by the bleak exterior of the house. just what it was that i feared or loathed, i could by no means define; but something in the whole atmosphere seemed redolent of unhallowed age, of unpleasant crudeness, and of secrets which should be forgotten. i felt disinclined to sit down, and wandered about exami

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sired cause together with its effect has been begotten. here the lower as well as the upper double pole are coming into operation, the tetrapolar magnet, the yod-he-vau-he is working the highest mystery of love here, the creation. how easy it would be to degrade this act, the highest thing existent on earth, to mere carnal appetites that would lead to damnation. the expulsion of adam and eve from paradise finds it s highest symbolism here. the magician who dares to approach the highest of all practices has to master the upper as well as the lower streams in order to transfer the loading eventually into his talisman. to dishonor this sacred act by carnal desires would mean to repeat the fate of adam and eve who were no longer allowed to enjoy the fruits of paradise. the intuitive magician w

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

he year and the day. in all cursing we adore thee as the boneherder, who dwelleth in the invisable ossuary at the centre of every charnel-ground. exalted art thou as the emperor in the northern gateway of power! all-hail to thee as the leader of the eight gods in the retinue of bha! we revere thee as our protector, our consort and our brother eternal guide to all who stray, self-abandoned to seek paradise in exile! hail to thee as the eight-armed giant, magister of the dragon s brood! we summon thee to the blood-acre by the lych-light of the dying sun. we call to thee with word and deed, above the sign of the open grave. be thou before us as the bone-white man, the skeletal lord of light! let space be thy flesh and bone be thy form: thy stature eclipsing the sky. for lighting-bolts do ador

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tch. horse and owner were both indicted by the sacred oflice fdevil, and both were burned, with a great ceremony of auto-da-fi at lisbon in 1601, as wizards^ this immortal institution of christianity did not remain without its dante to sing its praise "macedo, a portuguese jesuit" says the author of demonologia "has discovered the ori^ of the inquisition in the terres- trial paradise, and presumes to allege that god was the first who began the functions of an inquisitor over cain and the workmen of babel? nowhere during the middle ages were the arts of magic and sorcery 123. demenoutgia, p. 3 digitizecoy google 00 isis unveiled more pracused by the dergy than in spun and portugal. the moon were profoundly versed in the occult sciences, and at ttdedo, seville, and sala

to shut one's eyes to the truth. the narrative of the apostle paul, in his second epitue to the cor- wikians (zii, 3, 4, has struck several scholars, well versed in the de- scriptions of the mystical rites of the initiation given by some dossics, as alluding most undoubtedly to the final ejtojiteia "i knew a coiain man v^iether in body or outtide of body, i know not: god knoweth who was rapt into paradise, and heard things ineffable i^f^ft^ fnuioto, whu^ hit not lawful for a man to repeat" theae words have ruely, so far as we know, been regarded by commentators as an allusion to the beatific visions of an 'initiated' seer. but the phraseology is unequivocal. these things "which it it not lawful to repeat" are hinted at in the same words, and the reason for it asngned is the same as that wh

which we find repeatedly expressed by i^to. ivoclus, lamuichus, bax>dotus and other dassics "we speak wisdom [only] among them that are pebpbct" says paul; the plain and undeniable translation of the sentence being "we speak of the profounder (or final) esoteric doctrines of the mystmea (which were denominated wiedom) on^ among them that are initiated" so in relation to the" man who was rapt into paradise" and who was evidently paul himself* the christian word paradise having replaced that of elysium. to com- plete the proof, we might recall the words of plato, given elsewbov. which show that before an initiate could see the gods in thor puie^ light, he had to become liberated from his bo; t. e, to separate bis astral soul from it" apuleius also describes his initiation into the mysteries

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

tion: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 2 divine nutrition the madonna frequency the food of gods produced by jasmuheen& the self empowerment academy p.o. box 1975, noosa heads, 4567, australia fax+ 61 7 5447 2540 first edition. april 2003 second edition. august 2003 isbn: 978-1-876341-97-8 http//www.jasmuheen.com/ instigating, recording& summarizing humanity s co-creation of paradise e-book produced 01-04-2003 please respect the work of the author& help s.e.a. promote planetary peace. for more copies go to www.jasmuheen.com/shop/e-books divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 3 introduction as i began to collate the data for this book i realized that everyone is hungry for something and that it is our lack of fulfilling nutrition that

redible to experience, grace is the oil that smoothes the way in life. divine communication. communion with the god within and the inner plane holy ones divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 17. divine manifestation. the ability to recognize the will of the creator and to manifest according to the divine plan s current agenda which is our conscious cocreation of paradise on earth. divine bliss. true emotional, mental and spiritual nourishment. divine nutrition as in pranic feeding and the freedom it brings and. divine revelation. the zone of true knowing beyond limited perceptions and realities. the above are some of the benefits that come from accessing the divine nutrition channel and we will elaborate on these later. i call these gifts that we receive

seem to be random and time spent here attracts events filled with symbolism and deep, meaningful possibilities for it is a field of infinitely creative potential, a field of grace, true nourishment and love. this is the field through which all holiness and true messengers come. this is the zone from which all the holy books were born. and the delta fields bring it all, for from its field springs paradise and the garden of eden of the bible s god. the delta zone is also the home of the elohim and the archangels and pure lore. the opening of the inner doors and the heart and crown chakra plug in meditations, allows for our inner fields to be tuned constantly to the delta and theta fields on an energetic level, thus providing a very strong foundation for the elements to gather around us and

onal and global emotional, mental and spiritual states of anorexia. as already mentioned, i have come to call this level 1 of the divine nutrition program. providing the tools and research to do this is my real focus in the world and just part of my life s work for i know that when we learn to nourish our selves enough. and from free and purer sources. then our planet will blossom into a state of paradise for all. committing my life just to the issue of to eat or not to eat is too limiting an agenda for me particularly since i have seen what really can be achieved when we access the food of gods divine nutrition channel. once we have increased the intensity of this flow and directed it in a manner that will give us a pure and never-ending source of emotional, mental and spiritual nutrition

plan. the luscious lifestyles program or l.l.p. promotes fitness on all levels and keeps our personal field tuned to the divine love, divine wisdom channel and in time, anchors our brainwave patterns in the theta. delta field. this in turn affects our personal keynote and frequency and attracts more grace into our life allowing us to make a more joyous and easy transition into personal and global paradise, which is the true gift of being nourished by the food of gods. this lifestyle plan is a key requirement for both level 2 and level 3 nourishment. creating a fit bio-system is a necessary step to accessing the divine nutrition channel and we can begin with creating physical fitness through diet and exercise and drinking water which we all know are good for us. so much has been written abo

e i am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how i react to it. and so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes. although we will hear more from dr shah later and also discuss the benefits of accessing the food of gods, divine nutrition channel; providing the perfect nourishment for humanity to create health and happiness and peace and prosperity for all, will result in a paradise planet as we discuss in the following excerpt from the biofields& bliss book 2. co-creating paradise: according to metaphysics, there is only one force that has the capability of creating paradise on earth. there is only one force that can unite us in a way that reveals our higher nature and common bond. there is only one force that is incorruptible. there is only one force that drives ou

intains us in the perfect alignment for perfect action and perfect outcome game is in itself an art. in other words, the ideal environment for those wanting to experience health and happiness and peace and prosperity, is a loving and supportive one that runs a stress free, win-win-win game. the win for me, win for others and win for the planet agenda that is so necessary now in the co-creation of paradise. so we invite you to look at the i am pleased with everything and today is a good day to die ideas and give yourself an honest answer. if you get a yes to both, then relax and enjoy it all. if you get a no then keep refining your life until you can say yes to both. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 92 remember, wherever you go you will take yourself

le as it always has the best interests of all at heart. many are receiving dow guidance now to create and utilize incorruptible networks. the first incorruptible network is c.n.n. the cosmic nirvana network, which can only be accessed telepathically through mind mastery and prayer. this is an inner plane good news network designed to release empowering information to co-create personal and global paradise. access to c.n.n. comes naturally as we activate our 6th and 7th senses and our pituitary and pineal glands. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 110 d) someone tuned to the madonna frequency divine love-wisdom channel will attract the river of divine grace to support their peace work as we also fulfill our contractual tune-ups. while the innernet is ou

hem all standing to attention and saluting you waiting for your clear command. then say: i now instruct/ask that from this moment on you unify all aspects of my being to support my transition into pranic nourishment with joy and grace and ease. i ask also that you harmonize perfectly to fully manifest my divine presence, as the god i am, in form, in a manner that supports the divine blueprint for paradise on earth. now. the above program is self-explanatory but also allows for the natural elimination of any internal sabotage programs from previous lives and it is particularly powerful when reinforced by the daily use of the perfect health, perfect balance, perfect weight and perfect image program. then act as if the above is occurring naturally and begin to prepare your bio-system responsi

nic nourishment as it can fill the bio-system with all the love, wisdom and power that it needs to be self-sustaining. how does this relate to the 3 fold flame of saint germain and also the maltese cross? answer q9: saint germain has long been known as a master of the highest alchemy for his focus, like mine, is on freedom. the freedom of humanity to expresses their divine nature and hence create paradise again on this earth. one of his tools was the violet flame of freedom and yes this is the same light that we use for our nourishment. it is said that this divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 167 flame resides in everyone s heart chakra and feeds us the love, wisdom and power we need to grow in alignment with our divine nature. the more we focus on it

r home) field can have as many extensions as it wishes as long as it is generating enough power to maintain its own strength divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 180 while it helps to support and feed the other fields. one way to ensure this is to also work with nature spirit bridges as in step 14. step 13. next, we need to use the dow power, the dow match, and paradise code tools of receipt 2000> as outlined and elaborated on in the book four body fitness: biofields and bliss. book 1 (we also provided appropriate community and social field turning techniques in co-creating paradise: biofields and bliss book 2. while it is not imperative that you read these books, it will help in your understanding of dimensional biofield dynamics) briefly, the dow match

a member of an order of angelic beings who serve the elemental forces of nature. they hold the matrix for the christ consciousness on earth among the nature and human kingdoms. step 16. personally i feel that also connecting our bio-shield to the cosmic nirvana network. c.n.n. is imperative, as like our dow, it truly provides us with an incorruptible network and focus on the common goal which is paradise for all. this is as simple as imaging this inner plane network and asking our dow to connect us in a mutually beneficial way. step 17. additional field programming: next, i feel that a field needs to be set to the success and harmonious abundance program, if that is required, so that resources such as wisdom, love, clarity, discipline, faith, finance, earth and cosmic team power, plus str

ger be maintained for we know better. nor can we remain oblivious to the suffering of others for the role of a true leader. as an individual or as a nation. is to act always with an awareness and compassion that considers and fulfills our needs, and respects the greater good of all. consequently, i believe that the true service of the light eaters is to support the cocreation and manifestation of paradise via a mass ascension and a mass demonstration that we are all masters in form. obviously, an individual can be restricted by how much we can access, hold and radiate of the theta. delta fields. for the one to have power over the many and to be able to rebalance or over-ride negative field imprinting by the less aware (i.e. political leaders whose motives are questionable, our bio-system n

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ight that the sun even should see, and therefore stirring the blood, and reddening the face, and confusing the speech, and causing man to hang down his head, and to hide himself, as if guilty of something: even as our guilty first parents, having lost the unconsciousness of their childlike, innocent first state that of sinless virginity hid themselves and shunned their own light in the umbrage of paradise, all at once convicted to the certainty that they must hide, because they were exposed, and that they had themselves broken that original intention regarding them. suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. that is, the innocent children should come up for salvation, who, though suffering under the mortal liability incurred by al

e this superior diapason, or heavenly concord or chord, is divided-by the spiritual sun, or centre of sentience. every man has a little spark (sun) in his own bosom. time is only protracted consciousness, because there is no world out of the mind conceiving it. earthly music is the faintest tradition of the angelic state; it remains in the mind of man as the dream of, and the sorrow for, the lost paradise. music is yet master of the man's emotions, and therefore of the man. heavenly music is produced from impact upon the paths of the planets, which stand as chords or strings, by the cross-travel of the sun from note to note, as from planet to planet; and earthly music is microscopically an imitation of the same, and a relic of heaven; the faculty of recognition arising from the same supern

ch waved and straight rays alternately imply a deep mystery. they are constant symbols in the sacred nimbi, and are found upon sacramental cups; they are set as the symbolical radii around reliquaries, and they appear as the mystic fiery circle of the pyx. the straight spires and the brandished waved flames, or cherubic (or rather 248 the rosicrucians. seraphic) gladii, or crooked swords guarding paradise, imply two of the chief christian mysteries. in the curved spires of flame alternating with the aureole or ring of glory, there is possibly a remote hint of, or the reconciler of the worlds visible and invisible, or s.s. to account for the universal deification of horns in architecture all over the world, as its symbolic keynote, as it were, which sigma has been transmitted into modern em

y (the knowledge of good and evil, that is, into nature and creature, which is man s inexpressible happiness, as not being left destitute of hope or the regenerating seed of the woman. for there does centrally dwell in the human nature that which the wise man calls the voice of wisdom, or conscience-recal; which in the suggestion of the immortal sorrow planted deep in the soul of man for his lost paradise (of which the very air and hint and proof to him, is music man s music with its shadow of discords. and this immortal sorrow languishes to redemption in repentance. thus the pathetic languishment of the saviour (and sufferer, jesus christ my soul is sad, even unto death! hence the garden of agony. this is the genius optimus, the soul of the soul and the eye of the mind that part incapable

qu elles avaient de plus cher. mais leur virginit tait un sacrifice qu elles offraient chastenient dieu en change de la couronne du martyie. une vierge, disait saint- ambroise, peut etre prostitute et non souill e. les vierges, dit saint-cyprien, sont comme les fleurs du jardin de ciel. pierre dufour. and when forced, the author might have added, become still more glorious flowers (or lights) of paradise. mary magdalen was the first at the tomb of the redeemer, and was the first to whom our* the reason for this lies very deep, and is very refined and very true. it will be seen, on adequate reflection, that the heathen executioners, in exercising their supposed human right of death-giving in law, did not dare touch the property of the gods in death, owing to their superstition; and they th

ng releasing great spirit death. to rise is to cast off the chains of mortality. to become glorified is to discover in one s own identity the glorious, godlike gifts or magic which are the wings upon which to rise. those men who have passed (as through a door) in their lifetime from the hither side (or world) to the thither side (or the world invisiblefollowing into the light the divine beckon to paradise of the angels of light, are the brothers of the rosy cross, or the rosicrucians, as they have been called; who know everything, can do anything, and have even arrogated to themselves, when in them should be set-up the same angelical-magical spirit which was in the christ-jesus, to be of the council of god. though, in the world, they were the humblest of the servants of the almighty. in th

ures so far as in hint or parable submitted to unenlightened comprehension will be found pre-stated at page 208, and elsewhere. the rosicrucians contend that music, or melody which is enchantment pervades all nature in its prosperous or intended progress, although it is only the wail, or plaint, of the instinctive soul on its wounded, or sacrificed, or ruined side. it mourns for its original lost paradise. the music of the spheres is no unreal thing, but real as is the atmosphere of the spirits; for music is the atmosphere of the spirits, and discords (though the necessity, support, and balance of creation) are a medium for the coarse and low spirits, who inundate, as it were, the lees and the settlings of nature. in discords, or in the inharmonious strife amidst the sounds, the rabble of

any more than the glass is the seer* object subject result: or the three persons of the trinity. 344 the rosicrucians. against the best efforts of the angels of light. the cabalists whisper that god made the world by the means of music; that music, as man knows music, is essentially a power; that it is the faint, much-changed, much-enfeebled, sole relic, and tradition, and reminder of man's lost paradise; that (through it originally) everything was possible, as the gift of god; which explains the classic fables of orpheus, amphion, and. the mythological wonder-workers in music; that music is modulated in the movements of the planets according to the re-arrangement of the postdiluvian world, and in conformity with the re-adjustment of the solar-system after mysterious aberration or catacly

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zel, to wit of ta'us melek, which is the yezidi people. then i shall send sheikh 'adi b.musafir from the land of syria, and he shall come and dwell in lalesh. then the lord descended to the holy land and commanded gabriel to take earth from the four corners of the world: earth, air, fire and water. he made it man, and endowed it with a soul by his power. then he commanded gabriel to place adam in paradise, where he might eat of the fruit of every green herb, only of wheat should he not eat. after a hundred years ta'us melek said to god "how shall adam increase and multiply, and where is his offspring" god said to him, 403 "into thy hand have i surrendered authority and administration. then he came and said to adam "hast thou eaten of the wheat" he answered "no, for god hath forbidden me so

" god said to him, 403 "into thy hand have i surrendered authority and administration. then he came and said to adam "hast thou eaten of the wheat" he answered "no, for god hath forbidden me so to do, and hath said 'thou shalt not eat of it. melek ta'us said to him "if you eat of it, all shall go better with thee. but, after he had eaten, his belly swelled up, and ta'us melek drove him forth from paradise, and left him, and ascended into heaven. then adam suffered from the distention of his belly, because it had no outlet. but god sent a bird, which came and helped him, and made an outlet for it, and he was relieved. and gabriel continued absent from him for a hundred years, and he was sad, and wept. then god commanded gabriel, and he came and created eve from under adam's left arm-pit. th

whom came the book of glad tidings, 411 from my lord who burneth the mountains. and i am he to whom all created men come, in obedience to kiss my feet. i bring forth fruit from the first juice of early youth, by my presence; and turn towards me my disciples. and before his light the darkness of the morning cleared away. i guide him who asketh for guidance. and i am he that caused adam to dwell in paradise, and nimrod to inhabit a hot burning fire. and i am he who guided ahmed the just, and let him into my path and way. and i am he unto whom all creatures come unto for my good purposes and gifts. and i am he who visited all the heights, and goodness and charity proceed from my mercy. and i am he who made all hearts to fear my purpose, and they magnified the power and majesty of my awfulness

ily the all-merciful has assigned unto me names, 412 the heavenly throne, and the seat, and the seven and the earth. in the secret of my knowledge there is no god but me. these things are subservient to my power. and for which state do you deny my guidance. oh men! deny me not, but submit; in the day of judgement you will be happy in meeting me. who dies in my love i will cast him in the midst of paradise by my will and pleasure; but he who dies unmindful of me, will be thrown into torture in misery and affliction. i say that i am the only one and the exalted; i create and make rich those whom i will. praise be to myself, and all things are by my will. and the universe is lighted by some of my gifts. i am the king who magnifies himself; and all the riches of creation are at my bidding. i h

scorn, doom for doom- with compound interest liberally added thereunto! eye for eye, tooth for tooth- aye, four-fold, a hundred-fold! make yourself the terror to your adversary; and when he goeth his way, he will possess much additional wisdom to ruminate over. thus shall you make yourself respected in all the walks of life, and your spirit- your immortal spirit- shall live: not in an intangible paradise, but in the brains and thews of your aggressive and unconquerable sons. after all, the true proof of manhood is a splendid progeny; and it is a scientific axiom that the timid animal transmits timidity to its descendants. if men lived "like brothers" and had no powerful enemies to contend with and surpass, they would rapidly lose all their best qualities- like certain oceanic birds that l

atastrophe of armageddon, we also have visited him. and while we cannot undo thy infernal gift, we shall ever act to censor its effect. we shall walk among men and guide them. they shall be told of thy interest in them, but the name of lucifer shall be dark with curses. for they shall love not the challenge thou host placed before them, and we will offer them instead the blissful refuge of divine paradise. then shall man, thy ultimate experiment, become thy ultimate failure, and the stasis of god shall prevail upon earth. many there were among us who felt anger at this ruthless mutilation of our gift, and beelzebub brought to question whether we also should 446 not descend among man and contest this usurpation of his will. but i said, were we to lead man in this venture, we ourselves would

on for sake of harmony alone. and then i knew myself to be of a mind with lucifer in this, and that i as well as he should never again tolerate the eternal idiocy of our divine station. i came after michael, and i saw them together, the lord of force and the lord of light, and there was a fierce tension between them. for michael said to lucifer, thou who art our heavenly radiance and spark of our paradise, why seek to break that universal peace which is everywhere ordained by the will of god? we know not antagonism amongst us, for we are all of one being within god- but there is in god neither malice nor cause for contest. and lucifer answered, michael, to me it was not given to order my nature, and as our very comprehension differs, so are we of substance alien. for thou art of god essent

of an angel, and the powers that satan hath promised him lie dormant in the dim reaches of his future. consider this not our defeat, for the contest is but begun. the earth of man shall be remade as microcosmos, and many things shall man see, both good and ill. and the choice shall be placed before him, to wield the power and the pain and the terror of the gift of satan, or to return again to the paradise of heavenly peace. for what would satan himself think were man to reject his gift? it would tremble the very foundations of hell even as did the great war the bastions of heaven. and messiah called to him uriel, archangel of terror, to whom he said, the earth must change, and every sense of man must teach him repugnance and fear. he shall know this the price of his new identity- that all

st change, and every sense of man must teach him repugnance and fear. he shall know this the price of his new identity- that all apart from god is evil- and in fear shall he abandon the gift of satan and become once more the lamb of god. to which uriel answered, it shall be done, but how will man learn of such things as heaven and hell, for as yet he knows no sight that may perceive our celestial paradise? messiah answered, the laws of god shall be made known to man, for i shall teach him. among men will be some to whom i shall reveal myself, and great powers will i give these prophets, that their words may carry across the entire earth. so uriel came to earth, and the history of man was writ with blood, suffering, war, and hatred. but to chosen men came messiah, saying, through god shall

of hell unleashed. for many have called upon me in their agony and fear, and i have not answered them, but if messiah dare to walk upon earth, so also shall the vengeance of satan. and those who called upon satan for aid were answered by me, and i struck down the messengers of god and brought their temples to ruin. for entire nations forwent the strength of their will to the lure of otherworldly paradise, and i blasted them from among the mighty of earth. and great empires arose among men, and as they nurtured their power of will and desire for achievement, i guarded them, but as they sank into the morass of superstition, slothfulness, and fear of the god who had never raised ghostly hand for them, so i abandoned them to their disease, and of some not even a memory survived on earth. and

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he ego cannot tolerate this to such an extent that it is willing to give up its own attribute. that is the reason that hell is felt precisely by those who t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 384 are called evil, meaning those who call themselves evil, because they want to become righteous, they want to justify the actions of the creator on them. w h at i s pa r a d i s e? q: please describe paradise. a: paradise is a perfect state, one that man attains after having finished correcting his will to receive and attaining complete adhesion with the creator. adhesion means equivalence of all man s attributes with those of the creator, the attainment of complete awareness and the sensation of eternity and perfection. we are compelled to attain it, and we can do it in this very life. the co

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f things. if we try to understand one another with our attributes or our will to receive, we only grow farther from each other. we can understand each other only through the attributes of the creator that we will attain in spiritual degrees. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 22 the first man was created with nothing but altruistic desires, meaning vessels of bestowal. he tended to all the trees in paradise because he could use all his altruistic desires. if so, then how could he have corrected his egoistic desires (vessels of reception, if he didn t have them, or to be more accurate, if he didn t feel them within? the sin of the first man was premeditated. he had to sin, to taste of the tree of knowledge, and mingle with the egoistic desires (vessels of reception) in order to create a compl

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ent sources speak of abaddon, such as the thanksgiving hymns (a dead sea scroll document, which mentions the sheol of abaddon, and the torrents of belial that burst into abaddon, as well as the first-century the biblical antiquities of philo, in which abaddon is used as a place name for hell rather than as the name of a demon or an angel. abaddon is also referred to as a place the pit in milton s paradise regained (iv, 624. alternately, abaddon is identified with a demon, or the devil himself, in the third-century acts of thomas, as well as in john bunyan s puritan classic, pilgrim s progress.within modern ceremonial magic, it constitutes the name for god invoked by moses to bring down the rain over egypt, as reported by samuel liddell mathers in the greater key of solomon. there is also a

ed he manifests himself in the form of a mule or a peacock. adramelechk, who has also been equated with the babylonian anu and with the ammonite moloch, is mentioned in various sources, such as in the history ofmagic, where seligmann pictures him in the shape of a horse; in 2 kings, where he is regarded as a god of the sepharvite colony in samaria to whom children were sacrificed; and in milton s paradise lost, where he is referred to as both an idol of the assyrians, and a fallen angel overthrown by uriel and raphael in combat. see also demons;milton, john for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: the free press, 1967. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: pantheon, 1948. advertising although at first blush infernal ima

ed from the body. as soon as the individual expires, a white cloth is thrown over his or her face, and no one is allowed to touch the corpse. all doors and windows are sealed, and the extractor of consciousness-principle lama takes up his vigil by the corpse s head.no grieving is permitted. the lama takes up a mystical chant that provides directions for the deceased to find its way to the western paradise of amitabha. if the person s karma is good enough, this will enable the dead to escape the ordeal of the intermediate period of the bardo. the lama examines the top of the head to determine if the spirit has exited as it should through the aperture of brahma; if so, he pulls out three hairs, if the head is not bald. if circumstances are such that there is no corpse, the lama visualizes th

r friends and gone on my own, and when the empty forms of my own projections appear, may the buddhas grant me the strength of their compassion so that the terrors of the bardo will not come. most escape the second stage through the third stage, rebirth; the circumstances of rebirth are determined by past karma. the most enlightened of yogis are said to bypass all of the bardo, going directly to a paradise realm or else directly into another body in rebirth without any loss of consciousness. yoga during life prepares one for the after-death experiences. see also buddhism; demons for further reading: bromage, bernard. tibetan yoga. 1952. wellingborough, northamptonshire, uk: aquarian press, 1979. evans-wentz,w. y, ed. the tibetan book of the dead. 3rd ed. london: oxford university press, 196

iel beliel was a demon who presented himself to king solomon and danced before him in das buch beliel, by jacobus de teramo. in 2 corinthians, beliel is portrayed as satan when paul of tarsus asks how christ and beliel can agree.victor hugo, deriving his description of beliel from occult mythology, refers to beliel as hell s ambassador to turkey. a fuller account of beliel occurs in john milton s paradise lost. when beliel first appears, milton declares, a fairer person lost not heav n: for dignity compos d and high exploit. but later the truth is seen that all was false and hollow, and that a spirit more lewd/fell not from heav n, and that beliel was indeed vice itself. see also demons;milton, john for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels

order of principalities, but later became a god of licentiousness in ancient moab. in hell, belphegor is the demon of inventiveness, and when called upon, appears in the likeness of a young woman. according to the dictionnaire infernal, by de plancy, belphegor was hell s ambassador to france, and victor hugo concurs with this in the toilers of the sea, placing belphegor in paris. in john milton s paradise lost, belphegor is a variant for nisroc, whom he describes as of principalities of the prime. one story describes how the devils of hell were upset to hear about the existence of some couples on earth who were apparently happily married. belphegor was sent on a mission to investigate, but soon discovered in his searches that the rumor was groundless. see also demons;milton, john for furth

human, animal, and vegetable forms, gives a fictitious value to the goods and pleasures of life on the earth and leads the procession of humanity from the garden of heaven, situated on the left wing, toward hell, on the right wing. 32 bosch, hieronymus the visions of eden and hell are also the theme of the last judgement, of four panels in the doges palace in venice (the fall of the damned, hell, paradise, and the ascent into the empyrean, which is rendered as a great cylinder seen in perspective in a blue light) and of the garden of earthly delights. the closed wings of the famous triptych represent the world on the third day of creation, a transparent sphere that shows, at the center, the dry land covered with vegetation, separating from the waters. the left wing shows the earthly paradi

hell and damnation are never dealt with overtly, though they are alluded to in song and dance. there is also a happy ending: the devoted love of his wife is enough to protect him from the fate of being condemned to hell. dante alighieri devils and angels are included in dante s great epic, the divine comedy: satan at the core of the earth and apex of hell, and multitudes of the good angels in his paradise. the italian poet, philosopher and theologian dante alighieri (florence 1265 ravenna 1321) was born of a guelf middleclass family. he played an important role in florentine civic and political life. after writing his first work, the vita nuova, about his youthful idealistic love for beatrice portinari, he took an active part in the administration of the commune and was on the imperial sid

the dark wood of his own moral confusion. the latin poet virgil, representing secular learning, is his guide through the depths of hell and up the mountain of purgatory, and beatrice, representing the higher divine inspiration, leads him to heaven and to the inexpressible divine source of all love. dante adopted a punitive inferno, and added a purgatory, for those who were not cut off from hope. paradise follows in one continuous line of ascent. hell, in dante s scheme corresponding to the general medieval view of the world, is placed in the interior of the earth, and is portrayed as the place of eternal isolation of the souls. it consists of nine concentric circles that, from the hemisphere of the earth and across the river acheron, progressively diminish in circumference, forming an inv

e. after the antepurgatory, where are placed the excommunicated and the belatedly repentant, and the passage through peter s gate, come seven encircling terraces, which rise in succession with diminished circuit as they approach the summit. each of the cornices corresponds to the seven deadly sins, from which the soul is purged through the expiatory labor of climbing the mountain. the terrestrial paradise is reached through a final wall of flames and comprehends two streams that wash away the remembrance of sin and strengthen the remembrance of good deeds. dante s paradise, according to the ptolemaic system of cosmography, consists of nine moving heavens, which are concentric with the earth, the fixed center of the universe, and around which they revolve at a velocity proportional to their

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 forces, and thus entered early christian writings with the negative connotation of impure spirits. the judeo-christian tradition elaborated the concept of the devil as the fallen angel who tempted adam and eve and was forever banished from paradise. christian literature also drew upon the belief systems of their neighbors in the depiction of the apocalypse, wherein appear demons that recall jewish, persian, and mesopotamian myths. in the transmission of the texts of the scriptures the devil (in hellenistic greek, diabolos) came to be identified with satan (the name used in the hebrew bible to indicate an adversary. the belief in evi

a great deal of trouble finding three replacements,max has a change of heart and does not want to harm the innocent persons. as a surprise result he gets out of hell because of his goodness. max devlin is played by elliot gould and the devil by bill cosby. devil s advocate in the 1997 film devil s advocate, al pacino brilliantly portrays john milton (named after the puritan author of the classic paradise lost, the human incarnation of lucifer. the film begins with the devil hiring hotshot criminal attorney, kevin lomax (keanu reeves) to work for his satanic law firm in new york (though kevin does not suspect a diabolical connection. satan wants to bring together his family, but can only do so by destroying kevin s loving wife and seductively manipulating him into uniting with his gorgeous

y of resurrection, which occurs at the end of time when human possibilities and potential have been exhausted. the day of resurrection (referred to as qiyama, the return, or ba th, awakening, which constitutes one of the essential beliefs of the islamic faith, is believed by some to last thousands of years. on this day the souls, rejoined with their bodies, will be assigned eternal life either in paradise (literally the garden) or in hell (the fire, depending on their merits. although the figure of the madhi is more central to shiite islam, it is a popular belief among many sunni muslims that a righteous leader (a madhi or rightly guided one) will reign for a brief period in the last days.he will be followed by an imposter messiah (parallel to the christian notion of an antichrist) who wil

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glory, made of pearls hycjh hymmu lahar hymby layrh hymqh 4 house of rest or peace, made of rubies and jacinths laann latyn layyh hymwm hywal laylk 5 garden of mansions, made of yellow copper yawhw layly hywwl hylhp layna hymuj 6 garden of eternity, made of yellow coral lafys hymlu lakln layyy lauhr lazyy 7 garden of delights, made of white diamond hychm lahll lshlm hywhj lahhh lakym 8 garden of paradise, made of red gold hyhtn hyaah hylww hyhly labmw lahhy 9 latry hyhac hylas layru lawnu layjm 1010 garden of eden, or everlasting abode, made of red pearls or pure musk layyr lamwa hylcu lahym hybmd laqnm cxxxii. pairs of angels ruling coins. cxxxiii* titles and attributions of the wand suit [clubs] cxxxiv. titles and attributions of the cup or chalice suit [hearts] 0. 1. the root of the po

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their utterance is holy and beautiful, glorious with banners. this would indeed be the case, an we could discern their thought from their words; but because they have no technical skill to express hemselves, the do not enable others to reproduce or recreate he original passion which inspired them, or even any memory hereof. understand then what is the agony of the great soul who hath every key of paradise at his girdle, when he would open the gate of holiness, or of beauty, or any virtue soever, o the men of his age! s liber aleph vel cxi 116 dl de stultitia humana (of human folly) now that a mind can only apprehend those things with which it is already familiar, at least in part. moreover, it will ever interpret according to the distortion of its own lenses. thus, in a great war, all spee

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hrown by petty mortals, my throne will not be occupied by any creature of flesh and blood. 9. my will is inscrutable. my desires are my own affair. concern yourselves not with these, lest you desire a labyrinth of madness and confusion as your reward. 10. make your own path on this earth, and live the life you were granted, your pleasure is to be had in the here and the now, not in some fantastic paradise you will never see. 11. deal equitably with those you encounter on your journey, give as you are given, but trust no one, lest you open a path to those who would take advantage of you. 12. prostrate yourself before neither god nor man. stand upright and declare openly the gifts you have received from me- i am your lord, there is no other. 13. who can stand in my path? who can oppose me? t

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othing.ash of the universe burnt through! astarte. and i the flame! esarhaddon. wreathing and roaring for an ageless aon, wrapping the world, spurning the empyrean, drowning with dark despotic imminence all life and light, annihilating sense. i have been sealed and silent in the womb of nothingness to burst, a babe fs bold bloom, into the upper aethyr of thine eyes. oh! one grave glance enkindles paradise, one sparkle sets me on the throne above, mine orb the world. astarte. nay, stir not yet. let love breathe like the zephyr on the unmoved deep, sigh to awakening from its rosy sleep; let the stars fade, and all the east grow grey and tender, ere the first faint rose of day flush it. awhile! awhile! there fs crimson bars enough to blot the noblest of the stars, and bow for adoration ere th

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t and love are life therein, and they are his? marsyas. even so. and one supreme there is whom i have known, being he. withdrawn within the curtains of the dawn dwells that concealed. behold! he is liber ccxlii 12 a blush, a breeze, a song, a kiss, a rosy flame like love, his eyes blue, the quintessence of all skies, his hair a foam of gossamer pale gold as jasmine, lovelier than all the wheat of paradise. o the dim water-wells his eyes! there is such depth of love in them that the adept is rapt away, dies on that mouth, a gleaming gem of dew caught in the boughs of day! olympas. the hearing of it is so sweet i swoon to silence at thy feet. marsyas. rise! let me tell thee, knowing him, the path grows never wholly dim. lose him, and thou indeed wert lost! but he will not lose thee! olympas

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d not for your sake alone. dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. the progression of the stars was not generated for your sake. the wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud, flee from these if you would enter the sacred paradise of piety, where virtue, wisdom, and equity are assembled. and fragment 170 .having put on the completely armed-vigour of resounding light, with triple strength fortifying the soul and the mind, he must put into the mind the various symbols, and not walk dispersedly on the empyraan path, but with concentration] 3.52- 4.14 4.15- 4.30 john st. john 13 5.10. i should explain first that i writ

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osarum 83 the serpent should be his at last .none for the fool. they laughed back.nay, even his maiden queen. for she would not any should know thereof. yet all were right, both he and they. but truth ran quickly about; for that was the house of truth; and mercury stood far from the sun. yet the suggler was ever in the sign of sorrow, and the fig tree was not far. so went our father to the fool.s paradise of air. but it is not lawful that i should write to you, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written. for alway doth this arcanum differ from itself on this wise, that the not and the amen,1 passing, are void either on the one side or the other, and who shall tell their ways? so our father, having won the serpent crown, the ur us o

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, the period after ragnarok when the second-generation gods vidar and vali, magni and modi, and, perhaps most important, baldr and hod, victim and killer, will inhabit the renewed earth. they will possess the cultural property of their ancestors in the form of oral traditions about them as well as in the concrete form of the gaming pieces voluspa, stanza 61, says they will find in the grass. this paradise will be fertile and devoid of jotnar. as i have thus outlined it, the overall chronology of scandinavian mythology is neatly symmetrical. the early present looks back to the near past, just as the later present looks forward directly to the near future. the creative work of the near past is undone in the near future, but the vicious relationship between gods and jotnar, which enabled the

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utes to great earthly rulers is one deeply implanted in human nature (see atlantis) the same author sustains his views by noting that the deities of the greek pantheon were nor looked upon as creators of the universe but rather as regents set over it by its more ancient original fabricators. the garden of eden from which humanity was driven by a flaming sword is perhaps an allusion to the earthly paradise supposedly located west of the pillars of hercules and destroyed by volcanic cataclysms. the deluge legend may be traced also to the atlantean inundation, during which a "world" was destroyed by water, was the religious, philosophic, and scientific knowledge possessed by the priestcrafts of antiquity secured from atlantis, whose submergence obliterated every vestige of its part in the dra

lectual, and the invisible i. made manifest by its works. for this reason the egyptians made images of substances existing in the inferior sensible world to serve as visible exemplars of superior and invisible powers. to the corruptible images they assigned the virtues of the incorruptible divinities, thus demonstrating arcanely that this world is but the shadow of god, the outward picture of the paradise within. all that is in the invisible archetypal sphere is revealed in the sensible corporeal world by the light of nature. the archetypal and creative mind--first through its paternal foundation and afterwards through secondary gods called intelligences--poured our the whole infinity of its powers by continuous exchange from highest to lowest. in their phallic symbolism the egyptians used

ffer widely as to the size and substance of the inferior tables. some describe them as being so small that they could be held in the hollow of a man's hand; others declare that each table was ten or twelve cubits in length and of enormous weight. a few even deny that the tables were of stone, maintaining that they were of a wood called sedr, which, according to the mohammedans, grows profusely in paradise. the two tables signify respectively the superior and the inferior worlds--the paternal and the maternal formative principles. in their undivided state they represent the cosmic androgyne. the breaking of the tables signifies obscurely the separation of the superior and the inferior spheres and also the division of the sexes. in the religious processionals of the greeks and egyptians an a

re more generally known, demonstrated a rather interesting aspect of the drug problem. in the eleventh century this order, by capturing the fortress of mount alamont, established itself at irak. hassan sabbah, the founder of the order, known as the "old man of the mountain" is suspected of having controlled his followers by the use of narcotics. hassan made his followers believe that they were in paradise, where they would be forever if they implicitly obeyed him while they were alive. de quincey, in his confessions of an opium eater, describes the peculiar psychological effects produced by this product of the poppy, and the use of a similar drug may have given rise to the idea of paradise which filled the minds of the yezidees. the philosophers of all ages have taught that the visible uni

hend (and hence left nameless) the mystery of its own nature. adam was also likened to the pythagorean monad which by virtue of its state of perfect unity could dwell in the edenic sphere. when through a process akin to fission the monad became the duad--the proper symbol of discord and delusion--the creature thus formed was exiled from its celestial home. thus the twofold man was driven from the paradise belonging to the undivided creation and cherubim and a flaming sword were placed on guard at the gates of the causal world. consequently, only after the reestablishment of unity within himself can man regain his primal spiritual state. according to the isarim, the secret doctrine of israel taught the existence of four adams, each dwelling in one of the four qabbalistic worlds. the first

presentative of the inferior part of the individual, eve is the temptress who, conspiring with the serpent of mortal knowledge, caused adam to sink into a trancelike condition in which he was unconscious of his own higher self. when adam seemingly awoke, he actually sank into sleep, for he no longer was in the spirit but in the body; division having taken place within him, the true adam rested in paradise while his lesser part incarnated in a material organism (eve) and wandered in the darkness of mortal existence. the followers of mohammed apparently sensed more accurately than the uninitiated of other sects the true mystic import of paradise, for they realized that prior to his fall the dwelling place of man was not in a physical garden in any particular part of the earth but rather in a

mortal existence. the followers of mohammed apparently sensed more accurately than the uninitiated of other sects the true mystic import of paradise, for they realized that prior to his fall the dwelling place of man was not in a physical garden in any particular part of the earth but rather in a higher sphere (the angelic world) watered by four mystical streams of life. after his banishment from paradise, adam alighted on the island of ceylon, and this spot is sacred to certain hindu sects who recognize the old island of lanka- once presumably connected with the mainland by a bridge--as the actual site of the garden of eden from which the human race migrated. according to the arabian nights (sir richard burton's translation, adam's footprint may still be seen on the top of a ceylonese mou

rund means the abyss. table ix, figure 9. figure 9 is a synthesis of the old and new testaments and represents the interblending planes of being. in the right margin the seven outer circles contain the names of the planetary angels. the words in the graduated circles from the top triangle downward read (1) abyss of compassion (2) zion (3) the new heaven and the new earth (4) the new jerusalem (5) paradise (6) the bosom of abraham (7) the outer courts of the lord. from below the circles of darkness reach upward, each divine principle being opposed by an infernal opposite. the small circle on the left containing a triangle and cross is named the tree of life, and that on the right the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. in the center of the diagram is the trinity, joined with the superio

a cross. at the left is a small triangle containing the words the secrets of elohim, and at the right is another inscribed the secrets of nature. on the horizontal arms of the cross are the words the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. the plate explains the interblending of the spiritual and infernal powers in the creation of the universe. figure 7 is called the road to paradise. it probably indicates the positions of the sun, moon, and planets at the moment of their genesis. figure 8 is the earth before the flood, when it was watered by a mist or vapor. the words at the left are the tree of life; those at the right, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. the diagram with the symbol of mars is devoted to a consideration of the rainbow. table xv, figures 6, 9

iction, b hme became ever more intense in his search for truth. at last his labors were reworded. for seven days he remained in a mysterious condition during which time the mysteries of the invisible world were revealed to him. it has been said of jakob b hme that he revealed to all mankind the deepest secrets of alchemy. he died surrounded by his family, his last words being "now i go hence into paradise" p. 180 but brief mention. these were nicodemus and joseph of arimathea, both devout men who, though not listed among the disciples or apostles of the christos, were of all men chosen to be custodians of his sacred remains. joseph of arimathea was one of the initiated brethren and is called by a. e. waite, in his a new encyclop dia of freemasonry "the first bishop of christendom" just as

this perfect abnegation of self, connected with this apparent heartfelt piety, running throughout the various phases of his fortune, which perplex one in forming a just estimate of mahomet's character* when he hung over the death-bed of his infant son ibrahim, resignation to the will of god was exhibited in his conduct under this keenest of afflictions; and the hope of soon rejoining his child in paradise was his consolation (see mahomet and his successors) a'isha, questioned after the death of the prophet concerning his habits, replied that he mended his own clothes, cobbled his own shoes, and helped her in the household duties. how far removed from western concepts of mohammed's sanguinary character is a isha's simple admission that he loved most of all to sew! he also accepted the invit

god of peace, from their chief centre in the cordilleras, once ruled both americas. all the red men who have remained true to the ancient religion are still under their sway. one of their strong centres was in guatemala, and of their order was the author of the book called popol vuh. in the quich tongue gucumatz is the exact equivalent of quetzalcoatl in the nahuatl language; quetzal, the bird of paradise; coatl, serpent-'the serpent veiled in plumes of the paradise-bird" the popol vuh was discovered by father ximinez in the seventeenth century. it was translated into french by brasseur de bourbourg and published in 1861. the only complete english translation is that by kenneth sylvan guthrie, which ran through the early files of the word magazine and which is used as the basis of this art

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d from any shop which handles the sale of botanicals. substances like the gums and essences, such as camphor and cinnamon, can be obtained at the pharmacy. vassago conjuration incense this is a jupiter-type incense, for though he is mercurial in function, vassago is primarily jupiteroriented in nature. his incense should be composed of: 6 parts frankincense 6 parts balm of gilead 6 parts grain of paradise 1/2 part saffron touch of ambergris (an artificial tincture is quite sufficient) if you cannot obtain these ingredients, a good substitute can be compounded of frankincense, saffron, and cedarwood oil. necromancy incense 3 parts wormwood herb (finely reduced) 2 parts good-quality, resinous church incense 2 parts gum mastic 3 parts dittany of crete (finely reduced) 1/2 part pure olive oil

some of these, including the herbs already mentioned, to experiment carefully with along the lines we have laid out in the preceding chapter. useful philter components fennel sea holly root, or eryngo (eryngium maritimum) cardamom dill or anet ginger cumin marjoram cowslip flowers (primula veris) endive (when used as a sachet, potency lasts seven days) linden or lime tree flowers mullein grain of paradise, also known as egyptian paradise seed motherwort (leonurus cardiaca] ginseng root (much favoured by our eastern copractitioners) violet petals sweet sedge (sweet flag, acorus calamus) verbena thyme anise basil rose petals (can be used in form of rose hip syrup) apple (either blossom or fruit itself) lovage (levisticum officinale "loving herbs" of old lore) rosemary honey juniper berries v

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

conjure ye by him who hath made the heavens and the earth, and who hath measured those heavens in the hollow of his hand, and enclosed the earth with three of his fingers, who is seated upon the kerubim and upon the seraphim; and by the kerubim, which is called the kerub, which god constituted and placed to guard the tree of life, armed with a flaming sword, after that man had been driven out of paradise. i conjure ye anew, apostates from god, by him who alone hath performed great wonders; by the heavenly jerusalem; and by the most holy name of god in four letters, and by him who enlighteneth all things and shineth upon all things by his venerable and ineffable name, eheieh asher eheieh; that ye come immediately to execute our desire, whatever it may be. i conjure ye, and i command ye abs

erefore, and by all the other holy names, we conjure ye and we exorcise ye; by the angel zechiel; by the angel duchiel; by the angel donachiel; and by the great angel metatron, who is the prince of the angels, and introduceth the souls before the face of god; and by the angel sangariel, by whom the portals of heaven are guarded; and by the angel kerub, who was made the guardian of the terrestrial paradise, with a sword of flame, after the expulsion of adam our forefather; and by the angel michael by whom ye were hurled down from the height of the throne into the depth of the lake and of the abyss, the same name meaning, who is like god upon earth; and by the angel aniel; and by the angel ophiel; and by the angel bedaliel; wherefore, by these and by all the other holy names of the angels, w

igh places, whereunto human understanding cannot penetrate; thou who hast created all things by thine agency, in whose presence are the living creatures, of which four are marvellously volatile, which have six wings, and who incessantly cry aloud: qadosch, qadosch, qadosch, adonai elohim tzabaoth, heaven and earth are full of thy glory; o lord god, thou who hast expelled adam from the terrestrial paradise, and who hast placed the kerubim to guard the tree of life, thou art the lord who alone doest wonders; show forth i pray thee thy great mercy, by the holy city of jerusalem, by thy wonderful name of four letters which are yod, he, vau, he, and by thy holy and admirable name, give unto me the power and virtue to enable me to accomplish this experiment, and to come unto the desired end of t

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as a whole has fallen away from its original parent source and place; that from being imbedded in the eternal centre of life man has become projected to the circumference; and that in this present world of ours he is undergoing a period of restriction, of ignorance, of discipline and experience, that shall ultimately fit him to return to the centre whence he came and to which he properly belongs" paradise lost" is the real theme of masonry no less than of milton, as it is also of all the ancient systems of the mysteries. the masonic doctrine focuses and emphasizes the fact and the sense of this loss. beneath a veil of allegory describing the intention to build a certain temple that could not be finished because of an untimely disaster, masonry implies that humanity is the real temple whose

e in the world" i.e, known only in the counsels of the divine trinity, but it is knowledge that with patience and perseverance every mason, every child of the creator" may in due time become entitled to a participation in" but just as adam and eve's attempt to obtain illicit knowledge caused their expulsion from eden and defeated the divine purpose until they and their posterity should regain the paradise they had lost, so also the completion of the great mystical temple was prevented for the time being by the conspirators' attempt to extort from hiram the master's secrets, and its construction is delayed until time and circumstances- god's time, and the circumstances we create for ourselves--restore to us the lost and genuine secrets of our nature and of the divine purpose in us. the trag

ar as it can reach to right or left of the middle of your person--i.e, 3 feet between w. and e--and 5 feet or more perpendicular--the height of the human body -these are the indications by which our cryptic ritual describes the tomb of hiram abiff at the centre of ourselves. he is buried" outside the holy city" in the same sense that the posterity of adam have all been placed outside the walls of paradise, for" nothing unclean can enter into the holy place" which elsewhere in our scriptures is called the kingdom of heaven. what then is this" centre" by reviving and using which we may hope to regain the secrets of our lost nature? we may reason from analogies. as the divine life and will is the centre of the whole universe and controls it; as the sun is the centre and life-giver of our sola

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

hildress) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation15 chapter 3old world disorderafter atlantis was constructed, the alien-visitors sought to establish the new orderover their minions, the erstwhile natural and nature loving inhabitants of the earth.their common rationale was the same as john miltons fictional archangelic renegade,lucifer: better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven (paradise lost)one of the ways in which they sought to accomplish their goal involved biogeneticinterference with and alteration of the indigenous earth inhabitants. such a practicewas known to be a cardinal sin, and so, originally, normal sexual intercourse wasattempted with unsatisfactory results: and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughterswere born unt

they were being kept in a state ofinduced ignorance and servitude, but that it waswithin them to become gods themselves, and thatif they left the garden and came to lemuria (oce-ania, they would be shown all that had been hid-den from them and be awakened to their truenatures. finally, because of this intercession, agreat multitude of the adamic race did follow theirwise visitors to their island paradise. they weretaken to lemuria by spacecraft. eden by william blake atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation33 the race of adam due to the relocation of the adamic race, we find a compulsion in the psychology of humansto seek for some lost paradise or far away shore where life is sublime and untroubled. thisinstinct appears especially strong in members of the female sex.because of

n religions all over the globe, constantlydepicted and referred to god as male? they do this even when, in the case of hebrew,the name for deity is of feminine gender. we are told that man was not originally evil. he became that way after the disobedi-ence of eve in the garden. why would god create something born in his image andthen deny him some aspect of knowledge and then even banish him from paradise afterit had been received? we must also ask why god would condemn his creations for something that was not aconscious transgression? why the tests imposed on those who must already be inno-cent in nature? then we are told that the parents sinned, only after they fell under the influence of theevil one, satan. so we ask, why would god allow his newly created beings to be in theproximity of

isson, a pure soul, into the so-called vale of death to rise again from that state back to thegodhead that he already once enjoyed? was this necessary for the simple transmissionwhat goes on in the bible?70atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation of a spiritual message? what would be the purpose of such an exercise? what does itsay about the omnipotence of the god of the testaments?if paradise could be lost once and then regained, what is to prevent the scenario repeat-ing ad infinitum?and what of the character of y ahweh (jehovah? is there not inconsistency there also? if he, jehovah, is in reality the only god or the only real god, then why the constantremonstrations about worshipping other gods. what would jehovah have to fear? is itthe free will of people that is remonstrat

of american scottish rite freema-sonry)in spite of the efforts of science fiction and fantasy writers, it appears that humansare very far from a complete understanding of the forces that have shaped history orthe evolution of terrestrial societies. because they are in charge of the worlds media,the alien masters have been industrious and successful in putting atlantis in front of usas a long lost paradise, where wise priests presided over semi-enlightened, sublimelycontented people, at one with their environment. if ones discrimination is, however,still operating and if one has read through the masterpieces of tolkien, macdonald, leguin, and c. s. lewis, it will be realized that these tales of atlantis are pernicious fic-tion. they are part of an ongoing propaganda campaign, accepted by th

and predictable given the number of films produced thatfeature and promote this theme. but is there anything rational in it? now, it so happens that the pages of the ancient scriptures and myths also mention thesame aspiration, only it is not that of the human race, of any patriarch, or prophet. inthe bible and the ancient myths, one hears of lucifer, or the dark angels, despisingtheir sojourn in paradise or eden and consumed with mania and false aspiration, even-tually leaving or being cast out of their home into the abyss and banished as defilersand ingrates. perhaps the reality is that today the ones who are spiritually despondentand filled with the sense of futility are actually the true children of the earth, whilethose who appear content and adjusted are from out there, transplanted

ned with the persona drives, and histhinking became atomistic and linear rather than holotropic and synergistic. this artifi-cial life commenced in a relatively short period of time. with the advent of post-dilu-vian monotheistic religions, the rise of the anthrocentric philosophies and the declineof the primordial egalitarian and ecocentric stellar and lunar cults, homo atlantiswas thrown out of paradise, out of eden. deprived of his umbilical connection to theearth mother, man took his first step on the road to oblivion.perhaps we will never fully understand the mystery of that original mutation from egalitar-ian to state society. certainly no standard explanations are adequate (david watson, thepathology of civilization. there is no evidence either from ethnographic accounts or archaeol

the tripods trilogy emmanuel velikovsky worlds in collision/ ages in chaos/ earth in upheaval rudolf steiner the archangel michael/ atlantis helena petrova blavatsky isis unveiled/ the secret doctrine ignatius donnelly atlantis- the ante-deluvian continent/ ragnarok charles berlitz atlantis the eighth continent barry fell america bc augustus le plongeon queen moo& the egyptian sphinx john milton paradise lost eliphas levi- enochian magic, transcendental magic david allen hulse the key of it all (2 volumes also called the western mysteries) cornelius agrippa- three books of occult philosophy (translated by donald tyson) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation153 epilogue: time to change the road youre on mark pinkham return of the serpents of wisdom charles faulkner the book o

d is that there were two races, the children of the feather who came from the skies, andthe children of the reptile who came from under the earth. the children of the reptile chased the hopiindians out of the earth. these evil under-grounders were also called two hearts. the hopi indian legend of creation tells of three different beginnings. one story says that hopi havearisen from an underground paradise through an opening called sipapu. the underground paradise waswondrous with beautiful clear skies and plentiful food sources [cf bila-svarga. it was because of theexistence of those called two hearts, the bad ones, that refuge was sought in the upper world by thehopi, the peaceful ones. the underworld was not destroyed but was only sealed up to prevent the twohearts from rising upon to th

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. i am the serpent. urvan ameretat me nemah'ya i (i worship my immortal soul) vangh da va uz-d i (i shall raise up the daemon within) we drink from the sun at midnight, the blood congealed under a pale moon. we drink from the 14 ecstasies of the qlippoth, and leave strengthened and whole. we seek to go forth in the night in the form of the beast, drinking from the waters under the moon. we devour paradise and bath in the blood of the moon. our brothers are yatus, sorcerers of ahrimanic witchcraft; our sisters are pairikas, daughters of az. we are the people of the lie (druj, we are the those of demon-flesh awakened and ancient, forever seeking to further illuminate the black flame. our religion is sorcery, that which is ensorcelled by our practice of yatuk-dinoih (witchcraft. life is the g

wake! let me shed my skin, changing forms as needed sharpen my instincts eternally. coiling darkness, who haunts the abyss eternally it is my will to see with your eyes blackened flame in the night to consume and drain is to live to coil and strike when the time is right sharpen my instinct in the dream and flesh o eternal dragon born of falling insight whose kingdom is called hell to some let my paradise be found spacious darkness mastered! so it shall be! 71 the mirror of arashk the ritual of arashk should be a focus on transformation. the druj are indeed dragons of becoming and ever changing. it is no doubt that the serpent is a symbol of chaos but also encircled, controlled order and wisdom. as will be seen, the druj is a symbol of selftransformation. use the false speech which is writ

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

n po, including workings and descriptions of kali and her various mythological guises. adamu features numerous discipline-building excercises which will set the focus for serious initiatory practionthe soul travelers: by michael wynn@ hollywoodinsiders.net chapter 1- the great name game--pg 3 the collective hallucination [1.1--pg 3 the story of the serpent [1.2--pg 5 story of the flood [1.3--pg 6 paradise lost, the tower of babel, and the savior [1.4--pg 9 the great name game [1.5--pg 12 hidden history [1.6--pg 16 the stargates [1.7--pg 18 chapter 2- universe.com--pg 19 quantum confusion [2.1--pg 19 the onion of reality [2.2--pg 22 dreamscape [2.3--pg 25 on the inside looking out [2.4--pg 30 meet the neighbors [2.5--pg 32 the jinn [2.6--pg 35 meet the neighbors (revisited [2.7--pg 36 chapt

serpent s claim was that the fruit god so adamantly forbade was capable of remaking eve as the gods. after biting into the forbidden fruit, eve s eyes were opened and she came to know good and evil. eve then convinces her husband, adam, to also eat of the fruit, thereby opening his eyes as well. when god discovered what the primal couple( and the serpent) had done, adam and eve were banished from paradise. adam and eve leave the garden, and begin having children to the east. as human kind began to multiply, the serpent, also called the sons of god [angels] began to lust after human women and soon began to procreate with our race. the offspring of this union, beings who were half human and half angel, would be called the nephilim. these nephilim, often referred to as giants, had super-human

e (whew, a popularity contest requires contest, and there is none, or none who do; even occultists speak about the flood that wiped out the noble nephilim. bottom line: a wicked race of both humans and non-humans--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 8 an angry creator, a small family warned by a god, 2 of every creature on a boat, a big damn flood, and humanity reborn. that s one hell of a dream. paradise lost, the tower of babel, and the savior [1.4] another reoccurring theme through out the mythologies is man s loss of paradise. this story, whose most popular variation occurs in the bible, details man s plight from a worry-free life to an existence of suffering and hardship. but as usual, the bible is not alone in describing humanity s fall from grace. just as the christians have the gar

s of paradise. this story, whose most popular variation occurs in the bible, details man s plight from a worry-free life to an existence of suffering and hardship. but as usual, the bible is not alone in describing humanity s fall from grace. just as the christians have the garden of eden, the persians have heden. heden was, according to persian tradition, the first habitation of humans. it was a paradise, where suffering and toil were unknown. it wasn t until the primal couple was seduced by an evil spirit in the form of a serpent were they expelled from heden. in greek mythology, the garden of hesperides was a land to the far west of the globe, where golden apples of immortality grew. in the mayan popol vu, the first men lived in a paradise and were able to see far. this meant that human

18 years of his life that completely unaccounted for in the bible (as if he disappears, then, at age around age 30, he pops back up with magical abilities and, instead of an all-consuming curiosity, has all the answers. jesus time among man may not have been fun, but he should have been honored to jump-start a religion of benevolence with those 33 years; a mere 33 years, between two eternities in paradise, is but infinitely small sliver of time. he sacrificed himself for my sins? what does that even mean? now, under normal circumstances, all i could do is relate to you this chosen one s reappearance--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 11 in mythology, and perhaps a bit of philosophical commentary. luckily a few occultists have given me some insight on this subject (in a most annoyingly hu

MORALS AND DOGMA

he gates of the city, and laid open before the army the testament of christ. the christian general, thomas, laid his hand on the book, and said_"oh god! if our faith be true, aid us, and deliver us not into the hands of its enemies_ but khaled_"the sword of god_ who had marched from victory to victory, exclaimed to his wearied soldiers_"let no man sleep! there will be rest enough in the bowers of paradise; sweet will be the repose never more to be followed by labor_ the faith of the arab had become stronger than that of the christian, and he conquered. the sword is also, in the bible, an emblem of speech, or of the utterance of thought. thus, in that vision or apocalypse of the sublime exile of patmos, a protest in the name of the ideal, overwhelming the real world, a tremendous satire utt

an the _bosom_ of abraham, as a home for the _spirits_ of the just dead; the gulf of actual fire, for the eternal torture of _spirits; and the city of the new jerusalem, with its walls of jasper and its edifices of pure gold like clear glass, its foundations of precious stones, and its gates each of a single pearl "i knew a man" says paul "caught up to the third heaven. that he was caught up into paradise, and heard ineffable words, which it is not possible for a man to utter" and nowhere is the antagonism and conflict between the spirit and body more frequently and forcibly insisted on than in the writings of this apostle, nowhere the divine nature of the soul more strongly asserted "with the mind" he says "i serve the law of god; but with the flesh the law of sin. as many as are led by t

church of rome claimed despotism over the soul, and over the whole life from the cradle to the grave. it gave and sold absolutions for past and future sins. it claimed to be infallible in matters of faith. it decimated europe to purge it of heretics. it decimated america to convert the mexicans and peruvians. it gave and took away thrones; and by excommunication and interdict closed the gates of paradise against nations. spain, haughty with its dominion over the indies, endeavored to crush out protestantism in the netherlands, while philip the second married the queen of england, and the pair sought to win that kingdom back to its allegiance to the papal throne. afterward spain attempted to conquer it with her "invincible" armada. napoleon set his relatives and captains on thrones, and pa

within him; and his mind finds an adequate foundation for its hopes, its worship, its principles of action, in the far-stretching universe, in the glorious firmament, in the deep, full soul, bursting with unutterable thoughts. these are truths which every reflecting mind will unhesitatingly receive, as not to be surpassed, nor capable of improvement; and fitted, if obeyed, to make earth indeed a paradise, and man only a little lower than the angels. the worthlessness of ceremonial observances, and the necessity of active virtue; the enforcement of purity of heart as the security for purity of life, and of the government of the thoughts, as the originators and forerunners of action; universal philanthropy, requiring us to love all men, and to do unto others that and that only which we shou

huge steps taken by vishnu in that avatar; and hence the three steps in the master's degree ending at right angles. the nine avatars finished, he was taught the necessity of faith, as superior to sacrifices, acts of charity, or mortifications of the flesh. then he was admonished against five crimes, and took a solemn obligation never to commit them. he was then introduced into a representation of paradise; the company of the members of the order, magnificently arrayed, and the altar with a fire blazing upon it, as an emblem of the deity. then a new name was given him, and he was invested in a white robe and tiara, and received the signs, tokens, and lectures. a cross was marked on his forehead, and an inverted level, or the tau cross, on his breast. he received the sacred cord, and divers

and bloodshed, the earth for many a century has rolled round the sun, a charnel-house, steaming and reeking with human gore, the blood of brother slain by brother for opinion's sake, that has soaked into and polluted all her veins, and made her a horror to her sisters of the universe. and if men were all masons, and obeyed with all their heart her mild and gentle teachings, that world would be a paradise; while intolerance and persecution make of it a hell. for this is the masonic creed: believe, in god's infinite benevolence, wisdom, and justice: hope, for the final triumph of good over evil, and for perfect harmony as the final result of all the concords and discords of the universe: and be charitable as god is, toward the unfaith, the errors, the follies, and the faults of men: for all

urch[[greek] and [greek: s??e? a] and [greek??e?a] and [greek??p] and [greek??s?a. buthos and sige; pneuma and aletheia; logos and zoe; anthropos and ekklesia. bardesanes, whose doctrines the syrian christians long embraced, taught that the unknown father, happy in the plenitude of his life and perfections, first produced a companion for himself[[greek: s. suzugos, whom he placed in the celestial paradise and who became, by him, the mother of christos, son of the living god _i.e (laying aside the allegory, that the eternal conceived, in the silence of his decrees, the thought of revealing himself by a being who should be his image or his son: that to the son succeeded his sister and spouse, the holy spirit, and they produced four spirits of the elements, male and female, maio and jabseho

wicked. then, by degrees all will be pardoned, even _ahriman_ and the _devs, and admitted to the regions of bliss, and thus there will be a new heaven and a new earth" in the doctrines of lamaism also, we find, obscured, and partly concealed in fiction, fragments of the primitive truth. for according to that faith "there is to be a final judgment before eslik khan: the good are to be admitted to paradise, the bad to be banished to hell, where there are eight regions burning hot and eight freezing cold" in the mysteries, wherever they were practised, was taught that truth of the primitive revelation, the existence of one great being, infinite and pervading the universe, who was there worshipped without superstition; and his marvellous nature, essence, and attributes taught to the initiates

ce, said the crowd, nothing is impossible; it commands the elements, knows the language of the planets, and controls the movements of the stars; the moon, at its voice, falls, reeking with blood, from heaven; the dead rise upright on their graves, and shape into fatal words the wind that breathes through their skulls. controller of love or hate, this science can at pleasure confer on human hearts paradise or hell: it disposes at will of all forms, and distributes beauty or deformity as it pleases: it changes in turn, with the rod of circe, men into brutes and animals into men: it even disposes of life or of death, and can bestow on its adepts riches by the transmutation of metals, and immortality by its quintessence and elixir, compounded of gold and light. this is what magic had been, fro

the work is perfected in seventeen philosophical months, according to the mixture of ingredients. the benefits reaped from it are of two kinds--one affecting the soul, and the other the body _the former consist in knowing god, nature, and ourself; and those to the body are wealth and health "the initiate traverses heaven and earth. heaven is the world manifest to the intelligence, subdivided into paradise and hell; earth is the world manifest to the senses, also subdivided into the celestial and that of the elements "there are sciences specially connected with each of these _the one is ordinary and common; the other, mystic and secret. the world cognizable by the intellect has the hermetic theology and the kabalah; the celestial astrology; and that of the elements, chemistry, which by its

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

zeus, shown here in his chariot, did not trust prometheus and kept a watchful eye on his activities, suspecting that the titan s loyalties lay with mortals rather than immortals. jar of sorrows when the world first came into being, it was a happy place, all the sorrows and ills having been shut tightly into a jar (or box) never to be opened. but the enmity between zeus and prometheus jeopardized paradise. when zeus created pandora (see p. 25, she opened the jar and paradise was destroyed. the myth of prometheus by piero di cosimo (1461/62 1521) this painting depicts several stories from the myth of prometheus; the creation of man (assisted by epimetheus; the theft of fire from heaven, helped by athena (minerva; and there are references to the later story of pandora s box. humankind the fi

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

acter as ehecatl, the wind god. he wears a pectoral of shaped conch shell, known as the wind jewel, and a red bird-beaked mask (based on a duck s beak) with fierce incisors. the aztecs believed that the sun only moved because it was blown by quetzalcoatl s breath. quetzalcoatl is known as the feathered or plumed serpent, because he was half rattlesnake and half quetzal bird. quetzal means bird of paradise and coatl means serpent. quetzalcoatl was also associated with the sun. god and king in some documents quetzalcoatl is described solely as a god, but others refer to a human incarnation as king of the legendary city of tollan. all of the aztec kings modeled themselves on him. god of death mictlantecuhtli, shown as a skeleton, is covered in blood and wears an eyeball-necklace. every 260 da

m 91 years of life rather than 19. auspicious deer the deer is a symbol of longevity and good fortune. hsien is the chinese word for immortal. the chinese character for hsien juxtaposes the characters for man and mountain, signifying a man who lives on a mountain. the eight immortals are the most famous of the hsien. immortality is not just long life on earth, but eternal life in heaven. mountain paradise the gods and immortals live on the kun lun mountains, the taoist paradise sometimes called shou shan( the hills of longevity. ho hsiang-ku ho hsiang-ku is the only female among the eight immortals. she was a taoist ascetic in the reign of the empress wu. sworn to virginity, she lived alone in the mountains, where the secrets of immortality were revealed to her in a dream. she is shown hol

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

covers and conceals it. so too, the desire and pleasure of the animal soul (when properly aligned with g-dliness through the above mentioned five levels) is a "garment" for the desire and pleasure of the divine soul (however, the difference between them is like the difference between the physical pleasure of comprehending a physical phenomenon and the pleasure of the souls in gan eden (spiritual paradise. of course, there is no comparison between the two. the main reason for this is that the source of the divine soul is in the "lights (orot, whereas the source of the animal soul is in the external shells (kelipot. therefore, the animal soul can only access divinity through a mashach (a screen) as explained in part one. in contrast, the divine soul accesses g-dliness directly. nonetheless

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

job was the offspring of a leviratic marriage.2 now [g-d had previously told] abraham: gbut you will come to your fathers in peace. h3 what sort of tiding was this? rather, as our sages state [g-d hereby] informed him that terah, his father, who was then an idol-worshipper, would repent.4 the expression gcome to your fathers in peace h means that when the individual dies, his soul will repose in paradise with those of his forebears f. since terah was an idol-worshipper, what sort of reassurance was g-d offering abraham here? we must therefore conclude that g-d was telling abraham that terah would repent and that his soul would rest in paradise. the words gin the heat of the day h allude to the statement of our sages that on that day g-d removed the sun from its sheath,5 this being the equ

t, and the accusing angel (satan) are all one [14:9] he overtook them while they were camping by the sea c the sea refers to purgatory [gehinom, known as gthe river of fire. h when the soul leaves the body it must first be purged of the existential crust of materialism and negativity it acquired during its stay in the physical world. only then can it proceed to experience the pure spirituality of paradise [14:10] as pharaoh drew near .to give the soul over to the agents of damage and inflictors of pain to torture them. the children of israel raised their eyes and caught sight of the egyptians advancing at their rear, and they became very frightened. so the children of israel cried out to g-d. in order for the soul to be purified of its worldly, material crust it must be made to experience

walked for three days in the desert without finding any water. they came to marah, but they could not drink water at marah, for the water was bitter; that was why the place was named marah[ gbitter h. after the soul departs purgatory, it starves for three days, since it spends three days without learning torah. torah is the nourishment of the soul, enabling it to endure purgatory before entering paradise [15:24] the people complained against moses, saying, gwhat shall we drink? h i.e, gsince we have not learned any torah. the torah is a tree of life to those who hold fast to it. h g-d showed [moses] a tree; he threw it into the water and the water became sweet. it was there that he gave [the people] a statute and a law, and there he tested them. i.e [the good inclination] shows the soul t

ose who hold fast to it. h g-d showed [moses] a tree; he threw it into the water and the water became sweet. it was there that he gave [the people] a statute and a law, and there he tested them. i.e [the good inclination] shows the soul the reward awaiting it in the world to come. the idiom gstatute h also means gprovision h; the word for gtested h also means glifted up. h as it is about to enter paradise, g-d prepares the soul by telling that it is about to experience the true value of the mitzvot it performed while in the body. this sweetens the water of torah, which it may have experienced as bitter deprivation in the physical world [15:26] he said, gif you diligently heed the voice of the l-rd your g-d and do what is upright in his eyes, carefully listening to all his commandments and

rience any of the negativity and depression of evil, for it has been cured of all these. in other words, the future tense of the verse should be read as the past: gsince you diligently heeded the voice c h etc [15:27] then they came to elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they encamped by the water. there are twelve rivers of pure, spiritual water surrounding paradise, corresponding to the twelve tribes of israel. every [soul of each] tribe immerses in its respective river in order to be cooled from the fire of purgatory and healed of its wounds [16:1-2] they moved on from elim, and the entire community of israel came to the desert of sinn, which is between elim and sinai, on the fifteenth of the second month after they had left egypt. there, in the de

rgatory and healed of its wounds [16:1-2] they moved on from elim, and the entire community of israel came to the desert of sinn, which is between elim and sinai, on the fifteenth of the second month after they had left egypt. there, in the desert, the entire community of the children of israel complained against moses and aaron. i.e, after all this [there is one more stage before the soul enters paradise. it immerses again to be judged in gthe flame of the revolving sword, h referred to here as the desert of sinn. when adam and eve were banished from paradise, g-d placed the flame of the revolving sword at the entrance to guard it. this purifying fire is a much more subtle one than that of purgatory, and is necessary in order to remove the subtle materialism that still remains after the p

o stages as well [16:3] the children of israel said to them, gif only we had died by the hand of g-d in the land of egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread! but you have taken us out to this desert, to starve this entire congregation to death! h the soul complains about this more subtle punishment as well. but it undergoes it, and when it passes this stage and wants to enter paradise, g-d tells it [16:4] gi am going to rain down bread for you from the sky. h i.e, here in paradise you will eat a lot of the bread of the torah that you studied while you were in that world; this torah is the nourishment of the soul. it is the 248 limbs and 365 sinews [of the soul, which are the 613 mitzvot that form the soul fs garment. the torah itself[.as distinct from the mitzvot] is t

nt. the torah itself[.as distinct from the mitzvot] is the soul fs nourishment. if someone did not occupy himself with the study of torah day and night in the physical world, he has nothing to eat in the world of the souls, even though he may have something to wear, formed by the mitzvot he performed. the arizal on parashat beshalach 5 gthe people will go out and gather each day fs portion c h in paradise, the soul collects its daily reward and nourishment c [17:1] the entire community of the children of israel moved on from the desert of sinn on their journeys, according to the word of g-d. i.e, after receiving its reward in the lower level of paradise, the soul goes on to the upper level of paradise, referred to as sinai, in order to receive [new levels of] the torah from the mouth of g

the lower level of paradise, the soul goes on to the upper level of paradise, referred to as sinai, in order to receive [new levels of] the torah from the mouth of g-d. the letter yud is added to sinn to give sinai. they encamped at rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink c [17:8] amalek then came and fought against israel in rephidim. but before it ascends to the upper level of paradise, there is another type of purgatory, more subtle than the river of fire, that it must traverse, in order to burn away those gsins h of the righteous that are as tenuous as a thread of hair. the gross sins had already been rectified by the lower purgatory. the higher one ascends in spirituality, the more the previous levels he was on appear to be gross and crass. thus, at a higher level, a

cation of the name rephidim is that there the jews gloosened their handgrip on the study of the torah, h for the word rephidim is derived from the root rafeh (reish-pei-hei, which means gloose h or gweak. h this means that [in rephidim] the jews did not perform g-d fs commandments properly, but in laziness and unwillingly. similarly here, the soul has already gained entrance to the lower level of paradise, but in order to enter the upper paradise it must have performed mitzvot [in the physical world] in love, with great desire and will. it receives its punishment for not having done this in this upper purgatory, which is synonymous with amalek, the highest level of impurity, the subtle fire that is perennially at war with israel. thus, gamalek then came and fought against israel in rephidi

that it committed in this world. in contrast, the fire of purgatory does not singe the souls of the righteous and torah scholars c. therefore, they must be reincarnated into this world in order to scour them from whatever sins they may have done, for there is no one that has not committed some sin. thus, for the righteous, reincarnation is the lighter purification process, after which they enter paradise directly. for the wicked, however, reincarnation entails more suffering, and only after finishing the reincarnation process can he proceed to gehinom. when a righteous person dies, he is thus ready to ascend the ladder of sublime levels of paradise, but this does not happen all at once. rather, immediately after his death he is subjected to suffering in order to cleanse him of his more se

more suffering, and only after finishing the reincarnation process can he proceed to gehinom. when a righteous person dies, he is thus ready to ascend the ladder of sublime levels of paradise, but this does not happen all at once. rather, immediately after his death he is subjected to suffering in order to cleanse him of his more serious sins. only after this is he brought into his first level of paradise. when his turn comes to ascend to a higher, more sublime level, he is again subjected to suffering in order to cleanse him of his more subtle sins. he can then enter his second, higher level of paradise. after this, he is again subjected to suffering [in order to cleanse him of the sin of transgressing] the minor details of mitzvah-performance c. then he is ushered into his true, fitting

e spark animating him at that moment and brought it down to the level of the cake. he the arizal on parashat bechukotai 552 becomes, in effect, not a human-person but a cake-person. moreover, he has to a certain extent brought the whole level of creation down to this level. so long as this cakeness and cake-identity remains with him, this individual cannot expect to be admitted to the chambers of paradise, where the delights of this world are insignificant and the soul basks in the glow of the divine presence. he has, on the contrary, demonstrated that he is ginto h much coarser delights. he must therefore be cleansed of this cake-mentality. this is accomplished by being reincarnated into the vegetable kingdom, where he can experience the pain of his soul.which is used to the freedom of ex

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

sential state of enlightenment, this interior self, osiris glorified through trial and perfected by suffering, which is represented by the hierophant on the dais. he is seated in the place of the rising sun, on the throne of the east, and-with but two or three exceptions never moves from that station in the temple. as the qabalah teaches, the everlasting abode of the higher self is in the eden of paradise, the supernal sanctuary which is ever guarded from chaos by the flaming sword of the kerubirn whirling every way on the borders of the abyss. from that aloof spiritual str6nghold it gazes down upon its vehicle, the lower man, evolved for the purpose of providing it with experience- involved in neither its struggles or tribulations, yet, from another point of view, suffering acutely thereb

, victory, to venus and the element of fire, while the ladder are principally of a watery nature. identical nature with those of the preceding reversed. previously the water was predominant. lurid storm, with water only as the complementary and in order that due equilibrium may elohim moved upon the face of the waters" elements which, intelligently controlled <55> eventually to the restoration of paradise may be re-created from it had fallen. for the light may not legitimately within him, until chaos has been turned enlightenment. not until order has been kingdom, neither peace nor inner security the symbols depicted while traversing of fire and water, indicate the results as tarot card shown demonstrates the destruction holes blasted in the walls syrnbolise the divine through and followin

yetsirah. the course of the hebrew letters, as placed on the paths, forms as you see, the symbol of the serpent of wisdom, while the natural <85> succession of the sephiroth forms the flaming sword, and the course of the lightning flash, as shown in the drawing below. the cross within the triangle, apex downwards, placed upon the altar at the base of the tree of life, refers to the four rivers of paradise, while the angles of the triangles refer to the three sephiroth, netzach, hod, and yesod. the two pillars, right and left of the tree are the symbols of active and passive, male and female, adam and eve. they also allude to the pillars of fire and cloud which guided the israelites in the wilderness, and the hot and moist natures are further marked by the red lamp and the cup of water. l l

lyph of the powers of fire. the angel encircled by the rainbow, whence leap corruscations of fire, and crowned with the sun, represents michael, the great archangel, the ruler of solar fire. the serpents which leap in the rainbow are symbols of the fiery seraphim. the trumpet represents the influence of the spirit descending from binah, while the banner with the cross refers to the four rivers of paradise and the letters of the holy name. he is also axieros, the first of the samothracian kabiri, as well as zeus and osiris. the left hand figure below, rising from the earth is samael, the ruler of volcanic fire. he is also axiokersos, the second kabir, pluto and typhon. the right hand figure below is anael, the ruler of astral light. she is also axiokersa, the third kabir, ceres and persepho

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

nd i am he to whom the book of glad tidings came down from my lord who cleaveth the mountains. and i am he to whom all men came, obedient to me they kissed my feet. i am the mouth, the moisture of whose spittle is as honey, wherewith i constitute my confidents. fr. 1 and by his light he hath lighted the lamp of the morning. i guide him that seeketh my direction. and i am he that placed adam in my paradise/ fn. 1. derwishes among the mohammedans are inducted into office by drinking a bowl of milk into which a sheikh has spat, which ceremony is called h l by the arabs. the original word which i have translated "confidents" designates literally those learned men whom eastern monarchs used to entertain at their courts. the term as above applied seems to indicate the kaww ls who are the sacred

erpent, as may be seen from the sketch already referred to. fn. 2. the original word is esh-sh mi, which the ignorant yezeedees think to mean "the damascene" and hence they frequently say that sheikh adi came from damascus. the spirit of the passage has guided me in the rendering above given, which is supported by the context. p. 115 he who dies enraptured with me, i will cast him in the midst of paradise, after my pleasure, and by my will; but he who dies neglectful of me shall be punished with my contempt and rod. and i declare that i am the essential one: i create and provide for thou who do my will. fraise he to mine essence; for all things are by my will, and the world is lighted with some of my gifts. i am the great and majestic king; it is i who provide for the wants of men. i have

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

.conductor and companions proceed to 1st ancient, whose six lights have just been lit. the tapers ofmedallist and 2nd herald are extinguished.1st ancient,6th sign: now, all created things move in harmony toward the fulfilment of their destiny; theheavens are studded with brilliants, and the earth swarms with life, and teams with apparentfruitfulness. the terrestrial surface bears the impress of a paradise, and all nature rejoices in fullnessas doth man in his growing strength. nature wells forth. no herb, no flower, no tree is wanting forornament or use, for sight, scent or taste. the bounty of god supplies man222s necessities, comfort andrecreation.the loving month of june displays its gorgeous constellation of minor stars, and is represented by thezodiacal sign cancer, the crab. as man h

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

ither by curiosity or by fear. for this science, said the crowd, there is nothing impossible, it commands the elements, knows the language of the stars and directs the planetary courses; when it speaks, the moon falls blood-red from heaven; the dead rise in their graves and mutter ominous words, as the night wind blows through their skulls. mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men; it disposes even of life and death, can confer wealth on its adepts by the transmutation of metals and immortality by its quintessence or elixir, compounded of gold and light. such was magic from zoroaster to

is indeed a formidable secret, the revelation of which has once already transformed the world, as testified in egyptian religious tradition, summarized symbolically by moses at the beginning of genesis. this secret constitutes the fatal science of good and evil, and the consequence of its revelation is death. moses depicts it under the figure of a tree which stands in the midst of the terrestrial paradise, is in proximity to the tree of life and is joined at the root thereto. at the foot of this tree is the source of the four mysterious rivers; it is guarded by the sword of fire and by the four symbolical forms of the biblical sphinx, the cherubim of ezekiel. here i must pause, and i fear that already i have said too much. i testify in fine that there is one sole, universal and imperishabl

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

nd storax; the flowers, narcissus, lily, herb-mercury, fumitory, and marjoram; the jewel should be the agate. on thursday, a day of great religious and political operations, the vestment should be scarlet and on the forehead should be worn a brass tablet, with the character of the spirit of jupiter and the three words: giarar, bethor, samgabiel; the perfumes are incense, ambergris, balm, grain of paradise, macis and saffron; the ring must be enriched with an emerald or sapphire; the wreaths and crowns should be oak, poplar, g and pomegranate leaves. on friday, the day for amorous operations, the vestment should be of sky-blue, the hangings of green and rose, the ornaments of polished copper, the crowns of the septenary of talismans 45 violets, the wreaths of roses, myrtle and olive; the ri

l ancient arch-heretics and of many modern idealists. the simultaneous emancipation and absolute equality of all men involve the arrest of progress and consequently of life; in a world where all are equal there could no longer be infants or the aged; birth and death could not be therefore admitted. this is sufficient to demonstrate that the new jerusalem is no more of this world than the primeval paradise, wherein there was no knowledge of good or evil, of liberty, of generation or of death. the cycle of our religious symbolism begins and ends therefore in eternity. dupuis and volney lavished their great erudition to discover this relative identity of all symbols and arrived at the negation of every religion. we attain by the same path to an affirmation diametrically opposed; we recognize

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

rational polity of their own with great contentment, which government and mutual converse of theirs, they all pride and plume themselves [on, because it is as unknown to mankind as mankind's is to them. much more that the son of the highest spirit should assume a body like ours, convinces all the world that no other thing that is possible need be much wondered at. 9,2: the manucodiata or bird of paradise, living in the highest region of the air; common birds in the second region; flies and insects in the lowest; men and beasts on earth's surface; worms, otters, badgers, and fishes under the earth and waters. likewise hell is inhabited at the centre [of the earth] and heaven in the circumference; can we then think the middle cavities of the earth to be empty? i have seen in wemyss, a place

s: such techniques result in the learning of skills, verses, or in subtle gifts such as magical powers. kirk now repeats his main theory concerning the under-world realms, and the possibility of bodies or vehicles lighter and less visible than our own. he returns to the concept of commentary 116 universal and terrestrial holism, with a subterranean counter-part. page 51 the manucodiata or bird of paradise, living in the highest region of the air; common birds in the second region [and so downwards through various orders of being] can we then think the middle cavities of the earth to be empty? kirk's cosmology is (see figure 7) similar to that of renaissance adepts, drawing upon various traditional and neoplatonic sources. similar sets of harmonic or hierarchical relationships are found in

n. her second challenge, however, is on an inner or magical level whereby she moves against the current of the unseen powers, and seeks to suspend their cycle of operations also. she is stealing tam lin from the fairies- operating the magic known as 'the path of the thief. 1o. the nature of fairyland and the fine to hell tam lin's description of fairyland is heavily colored by those of the celtic paradise. in many versions of the ballad, the pleasures of the land are described, and one wonders why the hero might wish to leave 'at the end of seven years/ they pay a fine to hell' tam lin is aware that his time in fairyland is limited- and the implications of this are far beyond the nursery level or guiltridden perversion of truth offered by a superficially christian interpretation of the seq

the hawthorn and the rose as symbolically identical and may further equate them with the crown of thorns of the crucifixion. oak is the tree of the guardian, and of the sacrificed ones, or sacred kings. in traditional magical visions, the way to the underworld or to the grail castle is often marked by a small oaken door with a symbol carved above it. in some versions of the vision, the orchard of paradise, or the apple tree upon the hill, is surrounded by a ring of oaks. those who meet the male guardian may encounter him at an oak tree (see the trump of the guardian in the merlin tarot, while those who are blessed like thomas of ercledoune, are guided by the queen of elfland direct to the fruit. ash, traditionally used for thrones, spears and sea-going vessels, may be equated with the thir

the raw fruit, he would have been poisoned, and it is for this reason that the guardian is placed at the approach to the tree. once past the guardian, the fruit has to be offered to the queen, who now may transform the fruit into bread and wine, and herself into a deeper manifestation of divine power. it is incorrect to assume that this symbolic sequence shows a crude 'christianizing' of a pagan paradise myth. the sequence is exact and precise, and the difference between the pagan and christian aspect of the mystery are intimately linked to the 'harrowing of hell' by christ, which enables the human initiate to pass to and fro in his name. once thomas has partaken of the transformed fruit, given to him by the queen, he has actually replaced the fruit upon the tree- by consuming it, by abso

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aven and hell. crowley, aleister, liber legis (the book of the law. lavey, anton s, the satanic bible. new york: avon books, 1969 c.e. lavey, the satanic rituals. new york: avon books, 1972 c.e. lavey, the compleat witch. new york: dodd, mead and company, 1970 c.e. lubicz, isha schwaller de, her-bak: egyptian initiate. new york: inner traditions, 1967 c.e [ronald fraser, translator. milton, john, paradise lost. spinoza, benedict de, works of spinoza, volume ii. new york: dover, 1955 c.e. symonds, john, the great beast. london: macdonald, 1971 c.e. wilson, robert anton, prometheus rising. phoenix: falcon press 1983 c.e. footnotes 1. this paper was originally read before a philosophy of religion class at brock university in st. catharines, ontario, in december of xxi a.s. it has undergone so

unmarried, and yet not be able to argue successfully for the existence of the material universe or that of other minds. 52. in the context of becoming, all things are in flux- even truth and reality; for the magician transcends mere philosophy, or the art and science of coming to understand that which is, by bringing something new into existence (cf. the famous statement of the miltonic satan in paradise lost "the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven. 53. inasmuch as the function of a religion is understood to be the imbuing of man's existence with significance, the religious validity of the open-ended principle of becoming- a quest which is never completed, and thus constantly impels the setian forward- is undeniable. religious requirements a

is, when did this rule become effective? perhaps, as the prophets of old, we are the prophets of late. should such be so inclined, should we not be bold enough to proclaim the aeon of our age? now, is the infancy of our age. thusly we should proclaim. the names of satan i trust you will enjoy the names of satan as much as i. at one time satan, according to christianity, was known as the prince of paradise. we will soon come to understand why christians are so confused about satan. for one reason, they assign him twenty-two (22) names, and frequently mix reference terms when they attempt to describe him. let's examine the names: satan: the most common name used, but the bible only mentions the name satan 52 times (that's once a week for a year) the devil: less common than satan, the term de

atastrophe of armageddon, we also have visited him. and while we cannot undo thy infernal gift, we shall ever act to censor its effect. we shall walk among men and guide them- they shall be told of thy interest in them, but the name of lucifer shall be dark with curses. for they shall love not the challenge thou hast placed before them, and we will offer them instead the blissful refuge of divine paradise. then shall man, thy ultimate experiment, become thy ultimate failure, and the stasis of god shall prevail upon earth. many there were among us who felt anger at this ruthless mutilation of our gift, and beelzebub brought to question whether we also should not descend among man and contest this usurpation of his will. but i said, were we to lead man in this venture, we ourselves would dec

on for sake of harmony alone. and then i knew myself to be of a mind with lucifer in this, and that i as well as he should never again tolerate the eternal idiocy of our divine station. i came after michael, and i saw them together, the lord of force and the lord of light, and there was a fierce tension between them. for michael said to lucifer, thou who art our heavenly radiance and spark of our paradise, why seek to break that universal peace which is everywhere ordained by the will of god? we know not antagonism amongst us, for we are all of one being within god- but there is in god neither malice nor cause for contest. and lucifer answered, michael, to me it was not given to order my nature, and as our very comprehension differs, so are we of substance alien. for thou art of god essent

of an angel, and the powers that satan hath promised him lie dormant in the dim reaches of his future. consider this not our defeat, for the contest is but begun. the earth of man shall be remade as microcosmos, and many things shall man see, both good and ill. and the choice shall be placed before him, to wield the power and the pain and the terror of the gift of satan, or to return again to the paradise of heavenly peace. for what would satan himself think were man to reject his gift? it would tremble the very foundations of hell even as did the great war the bastions of heaven. and messiah called to him uriel, archangel of terror, to whom he said, the earth must change, and every sense of man must teach him repugnance and fear. he shall know this the price of his new identity- that all

st change, and every sense of man must teach him repugnance and fear. he shall know this the price of his new identity- that all apart from god is evil- and in fear shall he abandon the gift of satan and become once more the lamb of god. to which uriel answered, it shall be done, but how will man learn of such things as heaven and hell, for as yet he knows no sight that may perceive our celestial paradise? messiah answered, the laws of god shall be made known to man, for i shall teach him. among men will be some to whom i shall reveal myself, and great powers will i give these prophets, that their words may carry across the entire earth. so uriel came to earth, and the history of man was writ with blood, suffering, war, and hatred. but to chosen men came messiah, saying, through god shall

of hell unleashed. for many have called upon me in their agony and fear, and i have not answered them, but if messiah dare to walk upon earth, so also shall the vengeance of satan. and those who called upon satan for aid were answered by me, and i struck down the messengers of god and brought their temples to ruin. for entire nations forwent the strength of their will to the lure of otherworldly paradise, and i blasted them from among the mighty of earth. and great empires arose among men, and as they nurtured their power of will and desire for achievement, i guarded them, but as they sank into the morass of superstition, slothfulness, and fear of the god who had never raised ghostly hand for them, so i abandoned them to their disease, and of some not even a memory survived on earth. and

that i had fashioned a magus knew, and he thought often of the diabolicon as he guided the church of satan. in january-march of the year v, i was a satanist i of the church of satan. i was also a first lieutenant in the army, stationed in lai khe/ben cat, south vietnam. wishing to make a contribution to the lore of the church, i decided to write a restatement of certain themes from john milton's paradise lost. but what flowed from my pen began to assume a dignity beyond what i had anticipated. unlike the later book of coming forth by night, it was not written in final draft in one sitting; rather the entire project occupied the better part of three months. i revised the diabolicon extensively until i thought it "sounded right, and then i recopied the final text in calligraphic letters bec

ty only by becoming what the cosmic order was not. by harwer i cancelled the imbalance, leaving a void in which true creation could take form as set. here is recounted the phenomenon of the separation of the set-entity from the universal order. it is interesting to compare this statement with the "revolt" of lucifer and his subsequent metamorphosis into satan [see in particular book i of milton's paradise lost and the statement of satan archdaimon in the diabolicon] but, as i have said, i cannot destroy the cosmic inertia without having to assume its place. and so harwer must exist while set exists. ostensibly this is a restatement of the previously-discussed "satanic paradox" contained here, however, is the comment that the preservation of the harwer entity is necessary for the continued

ter crowley according to his personal tastes. 15. brandon, s.g.f, religion in ancient history. new york: charles scribner's sons, 1969, pages #102-132. 16. budge, sir e.a. wallis, the mummy. new york: the macmillan company, 1973, page #276. 17. plutarch, isis and osiris, volume v in moralia (14 volumes, f.c. babbitt (ed& trans. london: loeb classical library, 1936. 18. cf. book i of john milton's paradise lost. some interesting comments are contained in asimov's annotated paradise lost by john milton/isaac asimov (garden city: doubleday& co, 1974. asimov discusses both the role of satan and the nature of evil itself at some length, and not always to the credit of god. 19. cf. the statement of satan archdaimon, the diabolicon. 20. for aleister crowley's interpretation of the role of a magus

"astral travel" as it is misunderstood by the "bungled and botched" set: it is, but with a difference. most non-elect sources believe that there exists another realm of existence which they call either the "astral plane" or "astral dimension" in this "dimension" there is allegedly their other body waiting for them to be conscious of the "fact" a variation on this theme is the idea of an "eternal paradise" and "souls" the truth is, that my realm is empty of all else save myself unless you will yourself to be here as you have done, ptah. ptah: does this mean then, that i am not in reality here within your house? set: no, it merely means that your strength of will is such that you are able to visit my realm, create a body for the purpose of locomotion with which you are familiar, and be. rem

orted that i always achieve. i acknowledge and delight in my vices, for they are a part of me and often my greatest pleasures. the twenty-ninth aethyr- rii friday 27th november xxvii aes, 9:31 p.m. i arrived in a bright, luxurious region of palatial grandeur, where kindly, dignified old men debated philosophy and took their ease in the garden, the heaven of religion. wandering into my own private paradise, i saw beautiful, naked youths reclining, one of them running to me, embracing and kissing me. the realm of daydream and fantasy, wish fulfillment. accepting this region, i passed on. i strode across bare, bleak, barren rocks, windswept and utterly devoid of growth. grey, weary old men sat still and desolate on chairs of cold stone, their egos long since snuffed out, empty zombies without

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t his belief it didn't mean he couldn't do his job, and in spite of the scandal of the ham-eating photographs, the first scandal ever to attach itself to his name, he signed movie contracts and went back to work. and then, one morning, a wheelchair stood empty and he had gone. a bearded passenger, one ismail najmuddin, boarded flight ai-420 to london. the 747 was named after one of the gardens of paradise, not gulistan but _bostan "to be born again" gibrecl farishta said to saladin chamcha much later "first you have to die. me, i only half-expired, but i did it on two occasions, hospital and plane, so it adds up, it counts. and now, spoono my friend, here i stand before you in proper london, vilayet, regenerated, a new man with a new life. spoono, is this not a bloody fine thing" why did h

erely aspects, avatars, one might say, or angels, then what would we have but the oldest thing of all, a supreme entity controlling all creation "you see, what our friend says is, if you have to choose between some type of disembodied force-field and the actual living god, which one would you go for? good point, na? you can't pray to an electric current. no point asking a wave-form for the key to paradise" he closed his eyes, then snapped them open again "all bloody bunk" he said fiercely "makes me sick" after the first days chamcha no longer noticed gibreel's bad breath, because nobody in that world of sweat and apprehension was smelling any better. but his face was impossible to ignore, as the great purple welts of his wakefulness spread outwards like oil--slicks from his eyes. then at l

hen the messenger is nowhere to be found; is heading, once again, slowly towards mount cone. o o o gibreel, when he's tired, wants to murder his mother for giving him such a damn fool nickname _angel, what a word, he begs _what? whom_ to be spared the dream--city of crumbling sandcastles and lions with three-tiered teeth, no more heart--washing of prophets or instructions to recite or promises of paradise, let there be an end to revelations, finito, khattam-shud. what he longs for: black, dreamless sleep. mother-fucking dreams, cause of all the trouble in the human race, movies, too, if i was god i'd cut the imagination right out of people and then maybe poor bastards like me could get a good night's rest. fighting against sleep, he forces his eyes to stay open, unblinking, until the visua

carnivores; you can see it in the pictures. during the long nights of their insomnia she told him about the heat-haze that would come over the pampa so that the few trees stood out like islands and a rider looked like a mythological being, galloping across the surface of the ocean _it was like the ghost of the sea. she told him campfire stories, for example about the atheist gaucho who disproved paradise, when his mother died, by calling upon her spirit to return, every night for seven nights. on the eighth night he announced that she had obviously not heard him, or she would certainly have come to console her beloved son; therefore, death must be the end. she snared him in descriptisns of the days when the per n people came in their white suits and slicked down hair and the peons chased

he devil, of the great shaitan, the greatest of the lies- progress, science, rights- against which the imam has set his face. history is a deviation from the path, knowledge is a delusion, because the sum of knowledge was complete on the day allah finished his revelation to mahound "we will unmake the veil of history" bilal declaims into the listening night "and when it is unravelled, we will see paradise standing there, in all its glory and light" the imam chose bilal for this task on account of the beauty of his voice, which in its previous incarnation succeeded in climbing the everest of the hit parade, not once but a dozen times, to the very top. the voice is rich and authoritative, a voice in the habit of being listened to; well--nourished, highly trained, the voice of american confid

ong beard and angels with wings? heaven and hell, mishal? the devil with a pointy tail and cloven hoofs? how far are you going with this? do women have souls, what do you say? or the other way: do souls have gender? is god black or white? when the waters of the ocean part, where will the extra water go? will it stand up sideways like walls? mishal? answer me. are there miracles? do you believe in paradise? will i be forgiven my sins" he began to cry, and fell on to his knees, with his forehead still pressed against the wall. his dying wife came up and embraced him from behind "go with the pilgrimage, then" he said, dully "but at least take the mercedes station wagon. it's got air-conditioning and you can take the icebox full of cokes "no" she said, gently "we'll go like everybody else. we'

s vindictiveness? what? his book learning? his _gitanjali _eclogues, or that play _othello_ that he explained was really attallah or attaullah except the writer couldn't spell, what sort of writer was that, anyway? it was: her cooking "shaandaar" it was praised "outstanding, brilliant, delicious" people came from all over london to eat her samosas, her bombay chaat, her gulab jamans straight from paradise. what was there for sufyan to do? take the money, serve the tea, run from here to there, behave like a servant for all his education. o, yes, of course the customers liked his personality, he always had an appealing character, but when you're running an eatery it isn't the conversation they pay for on the bill. jalebis, barfi, special of the day. how life had turned out! she was the mistr

ng, a terrace with stone urns, a view down a wooded hill. valance complaining about a new development that would louse up the scenery. lunch was predictably jingoistic _rosbif, boudin yorkshire, choux de bruxelles. baby, the nymphet wife, didn't join them, but ate hot pastrami on rye while shooting pool in a nearby room. servants, a thunderous burgundy, more armagnac, cigars. the self--made man's paradise, chamcha reflected, and recognized the envy in the thought. after lunch, a surprise. valance led him into a room in which there stood two clavichords of great delicacy and lightness "i make "em" his host confessed "to relax. baby wants me to make her a fucking guitar" hal valance's talent as a cabinet--maker was undeniable, and somehow at odds with the rest of the man "my father was in th

to a winner, especially as the devil he offered was so democratically responsive to the dictates of the almighty dollar. what billy offered the west side matrons in return for their fat cheques was verification: yes, there is a devil; i've seen him with my own eyes- god, it was frightful- and if lucifer existed, so must gabriel; if hellfire had been seen to burn, then somewhere, over the rainbow, paradise must surely shine. mimi mamoulian had, it was alleged, played a full part in the deceptions, weeping and pleading for all she was worth. they were undone by overconfidence, spotted at takesushi (whooping it up and cracking jokes with the chef) by a mrs. aileen struwelpeter who had, only the previous afternoon, handed the then-distraught and terrified couple a five-thousand-dollar cheque

ut what women mustn't do, he starts forcing them back into the docile attitudes the prophet prefers, docile or maternal, walking three steps behind or sitting at home being wise and waxing their chins. how the women of yathrib laughed at the faithful, i swear, but that man is a magician, nobody could resist his charm; the faithful women did as he ordered them. they submitted: he was offering them paradise, after all "anyway" salman said near the bottom of the bottle "finally i decided to test him" one night the persian scribe had a dream in which he was hovering above the figure of mahound at the prophet's cave on mount cone. at first salman took this to be no more than a nostalgic reverie of the old days in jahilia, but then it struck him that his point of view, in the dream, had been tha

ughed in his face. when the servants began to weep she dismissed them, too, and sat in solitary rejoicing while candles sent strange shadows across her absolute, uncompromising face. gibreel dreamed the death of mahound: for when the head of the messenger began to ache as never before, he knew the time had come when he would be offered the choice: since no prophet may die before he has been shown paradise, and afterward asked to choose between this world and the next: so that as he lay with his head in his beloved ayesha's lap, he closed his eyes, and life seemed to depart from him; but after a time he returned: and he said unto ayesha "i have been offered and made my choice, and i have chosen the kingdom of god" then she wept, knowing that he was speaking of his death; whereupon his eyes

y back to the station wagon the sarpanch came over and said "we were poor people. we knew we could never hope to go to mecca sharif, until she persuaded. she persuaded, and now see the outcome of her deeds" ayesha the kahin asked to speak to the sarpanch, but gave him not a single word of consolation "harden your faith" she scolded him "she who dies on the great pilgrimage is assured of a home in paradise. your wife is sitting now among the angels and the flowers; what is there for you to regret" that evening the sarpanch muhammad din approached mirza saeed as he sat by a small campfire "excuse, sethji" he said "but is it possible that i ride, as you once offered, in your motor--car" unwilling wholly to abandon the project for which his wife had died, unable to maintain any longer the abso

how to whip up an audience's feelings, saeed conceded; then she sauntered back up to them across the dust--clouded landscape, and this time her silver hair was streaked with gold, and her eyebrows, too, were golden. she summoned the villagers to her and told them that the archangel was displeased that the people of titlipur had been filled up with doubts just because of the ascent of a martyr to paradise. she warned that he was seriously thinking of withdrawing his offer to part the waters "so that all you'll get at the arabian sea is a salt--water bath, and then it's back to your deserted potato fields on which no rain will ever fall again" the villagers were appalled "no, it can't be" they pleaded "bibiji, forgive us" it was the first time they had used the name of the longago saint to

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kemu-el, nathana-el, and gabri-el. 2nd choir: cherubim the hebrew kerub is commonly translated as knowledge, or one who intercedes. they are the first angels mentioned in the bible, stationed by god east of eden the cherubim and the ever turning sword to guard the way to the tree of life. they are described by theodorus, bishop of heraclea, as beasts which might terrify adam from the entrance of paradise. in the hebrew tradition they are described as having four faces and four wings, or alternatively by john of patmos in revelations as having six wings and six eyes. they are considered the bearers of god s throne and his charioteers. see psalm 18. they also appear as golden sculptures covering the ark of the covenant. the origins of the term lie in babylon, where they are monstrous winged

is gabriel who places the child within the womb of mary. the ruler of the cherubim and the governor of eden, said to sit on the left side of god, some theologians have made a case for gabri-el being female. if such is so she is the only female angel of the higher echelons known by name. in occult lore she is often associated with childbirth, and with escorting the invariably complaining soul from paradise to its reincarnation in the womb of an earthly mother. she/he appears to zacharias to announce the coming of john the baptist, and again in daniel to tell him of the coming of a messiah, a message she repeats to mary in the annunciation. gabri-el lead the second war in heaven and was thus expelled like lucifer, but later forgiven and reinstated. during this time gabriel was replaced by th

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ave bickered and quarreled for an entire age of earth. each of these deities and their respective priests and ministers have attempted to find wisdom in their own lies. the ice age of religious thought can last but a limited time in this great scheme of human existence. the gods of wisdom-defiled have had their saga, and their millennium hath become as reality. each, with his own "divine" path to paradise, hath accused the other of heresies and spiritual indiscretions. the ring of the nibelungen doth carry an everlasting curse, but only because those who seek it think in terms of "good" and "evil- themselves being at all times "good. the gods of the past have become as their own devils in order to live. feebly, their ministers play the devil's game to fill their tabernacles and pay the mor

for scorn, doom for doom- with compound interest liberally added thereunto! eye for eye, tooth for tooth, aye four-fold, a hundred-fold! make yourself a terror to your adversary, and when he goeth his way, he will possess much additional wisdom to ruminate over. thus shall you make yourself respected in all the walks of life, and your spirit- your immortal spirit- shall live, not in an intangible paradise, but in the brains and sinews of those whose respect you have gained. the book of satan iv 1. life is the great indulgence- death, the great abstinence. therefore, make the most of life- here and now! 2. there is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. here and now is our day of torment! here and now is our day of joy! here and now is our opportunity! choose ye this da

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it with three swings of the thurible. the chalice is then replaced, and the following is recited] celebrant: to us, thy faithful children, o infernal lord, who glory in our iniquity and trust in your boundless power and might, grant that we may be numbered among thy chosen. it is ever through you that all gifts come to us; knowledge, power and wealth are yours to bestow. renouncing the spiritual paradise of the weak and lowly, we place our trust in thee, the god of the flesh, looking to the satisfaction of all our desires, and petitioning all fulfillment in the land of the living. deacon and subdeacon: shemhamforash! celebrant: prompted by the precepts of the earth and the inclinations of the flesh, we make bold to say: our father which art in hell, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom is co

and fill their living mouths with dust of death, and make their habitations in the tombs, and breathe eternal sighs with mortal breath, and pierce life's pleasant veil of various error to reach that void of darkness and old terror wherein expire the lamps of hope and faith? they have much wisdom yet they are not wise, they have much goodness yet they do not well (the fools we know have their own paradise, the wicked also have their proper hell; they have much strength but still their doom is stronger, much patience but their time endureth longer, much valor but life mocks it with some spell. they are most rational and yet insane: an outward madness not to be controlled; a perfect reason in the central brain, which has no power, but sitteth wan and cold, and sees the madness, and foresees

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

things, verily the all-merciful has assigned unto me names, the heavenly-throne, and the seat, and the heavens, and the earth. in the secret of my knowledge there is no god but me. these things are subservient to my power. o mine enemies, why do you deny me? o men, deny me not, but submit. in the day of judgment you will be happy in meeting me. who dies in my love, i will cast him in the midst of paradise, by my will and pleasure; but he that dies unmindful of me will be thrown into torture in misery and affliction. i say i am the only one and the exalted; i create and make rich those whom i will. praise it to myself, for all things are by my will, and the universe is lighted by some of my gifts. i am the king that magnifies himself, and all the riches of creation are at my bidding. i have

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rn as we will; where we indulge in whatever vice desired. hell is where our imaginations enjoy the ultimate freedoms; the ultimate expression creation; and we may well become devils. hell is where we scheme and write blasphemies; hateful verse against adversaries. hell is where we may be out-of-our minds; devilish outs, indulging in all that is foolish, perverse and forbidden. hell is the satanic paradise of the noble man above god; the elevated world of fantasy, imagination and creation. no restrictions, no accuser, no worthy opponents all stand defenseless. hell the sanctuary against the real horrors of the world! my brethren go there often -iv- dedicated to satan who has shown me the value of evil and who has been my guide; my personal source of inspiration. to the devil s own: anton sz

as such. fiction becomes perverted deceit when he learns about the truth, sees the evidence of the truth, and then denies it; when far-fetched fiction becomes reality through belief. such believers often choose to embrace falsehoods which promise the world, and beyond, but never delivers as they are devoid of substance; they have no basis-in-fact. such people exist under a false belief of coming paradise and ever-lasting life after death as a reward for being a slave to a belief. these aforementioned, unperverted characteristics of satan which are collectively considered sin by the word of god (the xian bible) aren t sins at all in this context; nor are they sins against god because there s no actual god (outside of man) to sin against! if anything, they re sins (offenses) against our fel

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orance and aggression. zhang guolao: he lived during the tang dynasty. zhang is a living form of ancient chaos. zhongli quan: a military leader during the han dynasty, zhongli quan fled to the mountains. daoist saints there instructed him on how to gain immortality. together, xi wang-mu and mu gong represent the balance of yin and yang. xi wang-mu is the goddess of immortality. she rules over the paradise of the immortals, where she keeps a ninestoried jade palace that is surrounded by a wall of gold. she is often referred to as the royal mother of the west. xi wang-mu is married to mu gong, the god of immortality. he is often called the royal god of the east. zao-jun is more popularly known as the kitchen god. he is protector of the family. zao-jun s story originates in chinese folk belie

and morality. sunni: one of the main sects of islam. sura: any chapter in the qur an. tawba: repentance. zakat: annual charitable giving. world religions: almanac 293 islam muhammad made a startling announcement to his followers. he told them that the archangel jabra il had transported him to the city of jerusalem. from there, he had been miraculously taken to heaven, where he was given a tour of paradise. the dome of the rock marks the spot in jerusalem from which muslims believe that muhammad made his ascent to heaven. it still exists and is regarded as a holy site for muslims. after thirteen years of hostility from meccans, muhammad discovered a plot to assassinate him. he and his followers left mecca for the city of yathrib to the north. the residents of yathrib gave muhammad a warm we

inder islam and christianity islam and christianity are the two largest religions in the world. both trace their roots back to the jewish patriarch, abraham. both recognize one god. they each identify sites in the city of jerusalem as holy. for muslims, jerusalem is the site of the haram al-sharif, or the dome of the rock, the location from which the prophet muhammad ascended to heaven and toured paradise. christians believe that the church of the holy sepulcher in jerusalem is the site where its founder, jesus christ, died on the cross. both religions teach messages of love, compassion, and charity. islam recognizes christianity s founder as a messenger of allah. some scholars believe that the christian holy book, the bible, references muhammad. in one instance, from the book of isaiah, c

o god, so sikhs are famously tolerant of other religious beliefs. the granth sahib is likely the only major sacred scripture in the world that actually tries to teach members of other religions, including christians and muslims. it states, some read the vedas, and some the koran. some wear blue robes, and some wear white. some call themselves muslim, and some call themselves hindu. some yearn for paradise, and others long for heaven. says nanak, one who knows. god s will, knows the secrets of his lord and master. another passage states, 428 world religions: almanac sikhism by his power the vedas and the puraanas exist, and the holy scriptures of the jewish, christian and islamic religions. by his power all deliberations exist. a final basic belief of sikhism has to do with how a person liv

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

nouncement to his followers. he said that the previous night, jabra il had appeared to him with a winged horse called the buraq and had escorted him on a miraculous journey. the first part of his journey, the isra, took him to the holy city of jerusalem and to the dome of the rock on the city s temple mount. during the second part of the journey, the miraj, he was taken to heaven, where he toured paradise and spoke with allah and some previous well-known prophets. tradition holds that allah instructed muhammad to tell his followers to pray fifty times each day. the prophet moses, however, told muhammad that no one would agree to pray that often and that he should go back to allah and ask if the number could be lessened. muhammad persuaded allah to reduce the requirement to five times each

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

prepare for the coming of the mahdi, which translates to he who is guided aright. muslims believe the mahdi is the expected messiah, or divine spiritual and political ruler, who will appear on earth and establish a reign of righteousness over the world. they believe that this rule will last for one thousand years, until the day of judgment (the end of the world, when believers in allah will go to paradise, the islamic heaven. many men throughout islamic history have claimed to be the mahdi. one of the bestknown was muhammad ahmad (1844 1885, a muslim leader in the region then known as the anglo-egyptian sudan, in northeastern africa. after declaring himself the mahdi, muhammad ahmad raised an army to fight the egyptian occupiers of his land. he captured the city of khartoum and for a time

have free will, so they can choose to follow allah or not. daily activities in islam are classified according to whether they are sinful or not. the term halal refers to permitted activities, while haram refers to activities that are prohibited. all actions are judged according to the islamic halal and haram. those considered haram are sinful. 6. belief in life after death. islam sees heaven as a paradise. the word used most frequently in the qur an for heaven can literally be translated into english as garden. muslims view paradise as union with god, a place of unimaginable joy. while hell is a place of punishment and torment, islamic scholars disagree about whether the punishments of hell are eternal. some believe that they are, but others believe that allah, in his mercy, eventually wil

ha u lla h created thee, have engraved on thee mine image and revealed to thee my beauty. 4: o son of man! i loved thy creation, hence i created thee. wherefore, do thou love me, that i may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life. 5: o son of being! love me, that i may love thee. if thou lovest me not, my love can in no wise reach thee. know this, o servant. 6: o son of being! thy paradise is my love; thy heavenly home, reunion with me. enter therein and tarry not. this is that which hath been destined for thee in our kingdom above and our exalted dominion. 7: o son of man! if thou lovest me, turn away from thyself; and if thou seekest my pleasure, regard not thine own; that thou mayest die in me and i may eternally live in thee. 8: o son of spirit! there is no peace for th

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t go astray. figurative image of how within this world three worlds in each other, namely this earth sun-world, and also the heavenly and the hellish world have their effects. and the darkness cannot conquer the light. it also shows that the land of the dead, the entrance to hell or superficial darkness, where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth, as well as the land of the living, the heavenly paradise or third heaven are from this world. and that the human being has all these things in his heart; heaven and hell, light and darkness, life and death. the outer and inner mind without god's light you cannot find only the spirit alone knows reason in flesh is blind. i. god god is free everywhere within and without all creature time measure of nature the angel with six wings. ii. father. god

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ed because it constitutes the substance of creation in pure darkness, and men have spoken of these contemplations; it is that darkness spoken of in scripture, job xxxviii. 9 "and thick darkness a swaddling band for it" the sixteenth path is the triumphal or eternal intelligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the glory, beyond which is no other glory like to it, and it is called also the paradise prepared for the righteous. the seventeenth path is the disposing intelligence, which provides faith to the righteous, and they are clothed with the holy spirit by it, and it is called the foundation of excellence in the state of higher things. the eighteenth path is called the intelligence or house of influence (by the greatness of whose abundance the influx of good things upon created b

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ash. they bask in the warm air, surrounded by a multitude of friendly animals who come to visit, bearing gifts of fruits, nuts and berries. some just live in the open, some choose a simple tent to sleep in, while others roam the halls of vast castles placed there for their pleasure. it isn't long until they begin planting their own vegetable and herb gardens, setting up housekeeping in their own paradise. each adept's "safe harbor, heaven or special place is just right, according to their own desires and needs. each has a place of comfort of their very own, and through the years, they furnish it with anything that makes them happy. of course, lucifer takes great pleasure in anticipating the needs of his children, so often, a new gift appears to surprise and delight his offspring. oh there

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couth forms at rest on the crags below, and dwarfed by the giant size of the matter that reigned around them, impressed him with the might of nature and the littleness of man. as in genius of the more spiritual cast, the living man, and the soul that lives in him, are studiously made the prominent image; and the mere accessories of scene kept down, and cast back, as if to show that the exile from paradise is yet the monarch of the outward world, so, in the landscapes of salvator, the tree, the mountain, the waterfall, become the principal, and man himself dwindles to the accessory. the matter seems to reign supreme, and its true lord to creep beneath its stupendous shadow. inert matter giving interest to the immortal man, not the immortal man to the inert matter. a terrible philosophy in a

volves almost an angel's duty, when he has a life to guide from the cradle, and a soul to nurture for the heaven, what to me must be the rapture to welcome an inheritor of all the gifts which double themselves in being shared! how sweet the power to watch, and to guard, to instil the knowledge, to avert the evil, and to guide back the river of life in a richer and broader and deeper stream to the paradise from which it flows! and beside that river our souls shall meet, sweet mother. our child shall supply the sympathy that fails as yet; and what shape shall haunt thee, what terror shall dismay, when thy initiation is beside the cradle of thy child! chapter 4.xi. they thus beguile the way untill the blustring storme is overblowne, when weening to returne whence they did stray, they cannot f

u wilt possess thyself of the passports and the plan "and they "shall, before then, find their asylum in the conciergerie. the guillotine shall requite thy wrongs "do this, and i am satisfied" said fillide, firmly. and they spoke no more till they regained the house. but when she there, looking up to the dull building, saw the windows of the room which the belief of glyndon's love had once made a paradise, the tiger relented at the heart; something of the woman gushed back upon her nature, dark and savage as it was. she pressed the arm on which she leaned convulsively, and exclaimed "no, no! not him! denounce her, let her perish; but i have slept on his bosom, not him "it shall be as thou wilt" said nicot, with a devil's sneer "but he must be arrested for the moment. no harm shall happen t

once more to the wholesome air of this common life. something, however, will i tell thee, not to vindicate myself, but the heaven and the nature that thy doubts malign" zanoni paused a moment, and resumed with a slight smile "in thy younger days thou hast doubtless read with delight the great christian poet, whose muse, like the morning it celebrated, came to earth 'crowned with flowers culled in paradise('l'aurea testa di rose colte in paradiso infiora' tasso "ger. lib" iv. l "no spirit was more imbued with the knightly superstitions of the time; and surely the poet of jerusalem hath sufficiently, to satisfy even the inquisitor he consulted, execrated all the practitioners of the unlawful spells invoked 'per isforzar cocito o flegetonte (to constrain cocytus or phlegethon "but in his sorr

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is words. they cried: old man, what have you done? would that you had been silent! you think that you can sail the boundless ocean without sail or mast. what are you attempting? to ascend upward? you cannot. to descend into the depths? an immeasurable abyss opens before you!104 this comes from the kabbala (mystical tradition. we also hear of the four rabbis who sought the way to the divine realm (paradise. the first died, the second went mad, the third caused great destruction; only the fourth, rabbi akiba, entered in peace and returned.105 jesus and the preaching of the kingdom thus we see that within judaism there was a foundation for the emergence of a uniquely initiated figure. it was 108 christianity as mystical fact only necessary for such a one to say that salvation should not be li

your way of thinking, and achieve the highest deeds. otherwise, i will come to you and remove your light from its place unless you change your way of thinking. but this you have, that you despise the ways of the nicolaitans, which i too despise. he who has ears to hear what the spirit says to the communities, let him hear: to the victor i will give food from the tree of life, which stands in the paradise of god. 125 such is the message to the angel of the first community. the angel is to be understood as the spirit of the community. the angel has entered in the direction indicated by christianity, and is able to distinguish between the true and false professors of christian belief. the angel wishes to work in a christian way, founded upon the name of christ. but the angel is urged not to

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matter, sensation, perception, predisposition, and consciousness and has no permanent soul. of the major world religions, only buddhism does not perceive an eternal metaphysical aspect of the human personality in the same way that the others do. however, all the major faiths believe that after the spirit has left the body, it moves on to another existence. some faiths contend that it ascends to a paradise or descends into a hell. others believe it may achieve a rebirth into another physical body, or may merge with the divine in an eternal unity. traditional christianity, islam, and judaism envision a resurrection of a spiritual body at a time of final judgment, but generally speaking, the soul is of greater value and purpose than the physical body it inhabited while on earth. the material

. it is quite sufficient for you to know that these apparitions are your own thoughtforms. recognize this to be the bardo [the intermediate state after death. if there is to be no rebirth for the soul, it appears before yama, the god of the dead, to be judged. in tibetan buddhism, there is a direct link between one s earthly lifetimes and intermediate stages of existence in the various spheres of paradise, extending to the appearance of the soul remaining the same as the one it assumed when living as a human on earth. both buddhism and hinduism place yama, god of the dead, in the position of judge in the afterlife, and these passages from the rig-veda depict the special reverence with which he was held: yama was the first to find us our abode, a place that can never be taken away, a place

r in meaning to the greek psyche, and the word for the aspect of the soul that gives humans their dignity and elevates them above the animals is ruh, equivalent to the greek word nous. these two aspects of the soul combine the lower and the higher, the human and the divine. as in the other major religions, how one lives on earth will prepare the soul for the afterlife, and there are promises of a paradise or the warnings of a place of torment. the qur an 57:20 contains an admonition concerning the transient nature of life on earth and a reminder of the two possible destinations that await the soul after death: know that the present life is but a sport and a diversion, an adornment and a cause of boasting among you, and a rivalry in wealth and children. it is as a rain whose vegetation plea

or family member, he warns; no soul will be able to give satisfaction or to make intercession for another. while the doctrine of the resurrection of the body has never been abandoned in islam, later students of the qur an sought to define the soul in more metaphysical terms, and a belief in the preexistence of souls was generally established. in this view, allah kept a treasure house of souls in paradise available for their respective incarnations on earth. 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 afterlife mysteries 13 muslims pray in the direction of mecca during an islamic holiday at coney island, new york (ap/wide world photos) the islamic paradise is in many ways an extension of the legendary garden of eden in the bible. it is a beauti

teach, the sincere lovers of truth, the witnesses [martyrs] who testify, and the righteous who do good: ah! what a beautiful fellowship (qur an 4:69) hell is a place of torment, and, like the image held by many christians, a place of fire and burning. in the islamic teachings, neither heaven nor hell last throughout eternity. infinity belongs to allah alone, and there may exist various stages of paradise and hell for those souls who dwell there. m delving deeper ali, ahmed, trans. the qur an. new york: akrash publishing karachi for the book of the month club, 1992. crim, keith, ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harper collins, 1989. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. sullivan, lawrence e, ed. death, afterlife, and the soul

t by the blowing of the great shofar (ram s horn) to awaken the people from their spiritual slumber. elijah the prophet will return and set about the task of reconciling families who have become estranged. the day when the lord judges will be dark, very dark, without a ray of light (amos 5:20. those who have maintained righteous lives and kept their covenant with god will be taken to the heavenly paradise. those who have been judged as deserving of punishment for their misdeeds will be sent to gehenna, to stay there for a length of time commensurate with the seriousness of their transgressions. m delving deeper jewish publication society translation. the tanakh. new york, 1992. sullivan, lawrence e, ed. death, afterlife, and the soul. new york: macmillan, 1989. unterman, alan. dictionary o

al presence. the sensation of moving down a tunnel toward a bright light is frequently mentioned. a great number of those who have undergone nde state that they encountered an angelic being, a spirit guardian, or the spirit of someone known by them to have been deceased, such as a friend or a relative. many report having witnessed a kind of life review of their earth-plane existence. a glimpse of paradise or even a guided tour of heaven conducted by an angelic host is recalled by many. an extreme reluctance to leave this beautiful state of existence and return to their physical bodies is commonly expressed. upon their return to their bodies, many near-death experiencers discover that their awareness has been expanded far beyond what it was before the nde. some report heightened extrasensor

d and make a little doll of it, which they call the doll of sorrow. this doll takes the place of the deceased child, and the mother carries it with her everywhere for a year. they believe that during this period of time, the soul of the child is transferred through the hair from the dead body to the doll. the ghost land or spirit land of tribal people is equivalent to the concept of a heaven or a paradise: it is a place free from worry, illness, war, and the fear of death. it seems a general belief among many different tribal cultures that the afterlife of the soul is concerned with the same kind of pursuits that the entity followed as a living person. the spirit land would feature good hunting and fishing, beautiful new lands to explore, and no warfare or tribal rivalries. because the dec

orld of spirit, the land of the grandparents, was similar to the physical world in its tasks and pursuits, hence the common reference to the happy hunting ground, a place where all needs would be easily met. in this respect, the ghost land, the land of the grandparents, is equivalent to the elysian fields of the ancient greeks, the valhalla of the vikings, and the general concept of a heaven or a paradise that awaits the virtuous soul after death. some tribes believed that their eternal abode would be in the stars. to these people, the milky way was known as the pathway of the dead; and it was their custom to light fires upon the graves of the dead for four days to give the spirits ample time to arrive safely on the glorious path in the sky. for other tribes, the land of the grandparents

satisfactions, the stone canoe would sink at once and leave only the soul s head above the water. this imagery is reminiscent of the greek belief that after death the soul must have ready its fee for charon, ferryman of the styx, to transport it to the afterlife. among many of the eastern tribes, there was a tendency to believe that the spirit stayed near the body for a time before it went to the paradise of the happy hunting grounds. the iroquois left small holes in the grave so that the spirit could go in and out as it pleased until it left for the land of the grandparents. the tribes of the ohio followed a similar custom of boring holes in the burial casket to allow the spirit to leave at a time of its own choosing. for the native american tribes, the color black was the symbol of death

the devil. some observers of the contemporary scene attribute this great spiritual questing to the advent of the millennium and the concerns of certain christians about an approaching apocalypse, when people will be called to account for their misdeeds. others say that large masses of people have become disillusioned with the tenets of science and the tools of technology that promised an earthly paradise, but cannot answer the basic questions of why humans are here and what they are to do with themselves in their allotted time on the planet. in why religion matters: the future of faith in an age of disbelief (2001, huston smith states that a people with only science to guide them are morally lost. smith readily grants that the scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the phys

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r would rather be on holiday than at work. the origin of the superstition concerning friday is traced by most authorities to the crucifixion of jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) on that day. but some writers advance the theory that friday is regarded as an unlucky day because, according to ancient tradition, it was on friday that adam and eve partook of the forbidden fruit and were cast out of paradise. followers of islam try to avoid beginning any new enterprise on wednesdays. for reasons long forgotten, wednesday is seen as a bad day. even today, many muslims avoid even getting their hair cut on that day. and such important occasions as weddings are never scheduled for a wednesday. a familiar old rhyme preserves the old superstitions concerning the personalities of various children on

ild will quickly prompt the exclamation, mashallah (by the grace of god) from the wary mother. four-leaf clover the superstition that the finding of a four-leaf clover can bring good luck is so old that its origin is lost in antiquity. one of the oldest legends has it that eve, upon being ejected from the garden of eden, took a four-leaf clover with her. because the clover was a bit of green from paradise, its presence in one s own garden came to be looked upon as an omen of good luck. according to some traditions, a young woman seeking a husband should go in search of a four-leaf clover. if she is fortunate enough to find one, she is to eat it. the first unmarried man she encounters after eating the clover will be the one she will wed. another tradition of gaining a husband or wife is to

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ing them step by step to higher levels of combat proficiency. at the same time that he was shaping his men into fierce warriors, he also indoctrinated them spiritually, convincing them that as they advanced under his tutelage they would come closer to the sacred and ultimate mystery that only he could reveal. hasan told them confidentially that the conventional teachings of islam had misled them. paradise could not be attained by following the preachings of muhammad (c. 570.632, but only by complete obedience to hasan ibn sabah, who was the true incarnation of god on earth. most sources citing the history of the assassins state that in order to be certain that no doubts remained among the initiates that he was deity made flesh, hasan supplied them with generous amounts of the drug hashish

that no doubts remained among the initiates that he was deity made flesh, hasan supplied them with generous amounts of the drug hashish, then hypnotically guided them to the lavish gardens of heaven where they were allowed to witness the beauty of the afterlife. when the youths regained full consciousness, they were convinced that they had been allowed a glimpse of their future dwelling place in paradise. although such stories have been widely circulated since the crusades in the eleventh century, other sources have recently stated that such accusations of heavy drug use among the assassins only reflected the fact that their contemporaries despised them as members of a minority and unfairly associated the sect with one of the more detestable vices of the time. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o

nd placed his head upon a tray. to make the illusion all the more convincing, he poured fresh blood around the supposed detached head of his assistant. when an aide brought the potential recruits before his throne, hasan informed them sternly that as god on earth he had many fearful and wondrous powers. he would cause the decapitated head on the tray before them to speak to them of the glories in paradise that awaited those warriors who died in battle. at this point, the loyal fedayeen with his head on the tray opened his eyes and testified to the marvels that his soul had witnessed in the hereafter. after the new men had been duly impressed and had sworn their allegiance to hasan, they walked away speaking in hushed tones of the glory of serving god on earth. and once the illusion had acc

d his head stuck on a pole so that all could see that he was truly quite dead. although the hashashin came to be feared by christian crusaders, kings, princes, sheikhs, and sultans, their membership probably never numbered more than 2,000 fedayeen at any one time. because hasan had indoctrinated his warriors to the belief that death in the pursuit of orders guaranteed an immediate transference to paradise, they fought with a fury untouched by the normal fear of dying in combat. masters of disguise and of many languages and dialects, the assassins might one day appear as simple peasants working around a castle wall and the next emerge as highly capable warriors springing on their victims from the shadows. the assassins inveigled themselves into the services of all the surrounding rulers, po

antis and that the united states is the new atlantis foretold by the great master mason sir francis bacon (1561.1626. the pyramid with the all-seeing eye represents the great architect of the universe that guided the founding fathers of the united states to establish a nation that might one day reveal itself as the heir of the ancient mysteries of atlantis and restore all humankind to the earthly paradise that existed in that golden age of old. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d secret societies 9 masonic temple in alexandria, virginia (corbis corporation) georgewashington was an avowed mason. the central mythos of freemasonry centers around the building of the great temple of king solomon (tenth century b.c.e) and solomon fs securing

hich remains the emblem of lutheranism. could luther also have sought to reform the whole societal structure of europe, as well as the roman catholic church? unlikely, for luther would not have used the language of the alchemist and the magus. another member, according to some, is the great francis bacon (1561.1626, whose unfinished manuscript, the new atlantis (1627, describes an earthly utopian paradise, a secret brotherhood who wear the rose cross on their turbans, who heal people without charge, and who meet yearly in their temple. the philosopher rene descartes 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 secret societies 31 (1596.1650) was once nearly arrested on the accusation that he was a member of the secret society, but he convinced h

lford, a leading authority on ancient mythology, spent five years investigating plato fs account of atlantis, and, in december 2001, announced his conclusion that the myth of the lost continent took place only in plato fs mind. in alford fs theory, the greek philosopher invented atlantis as a metaphor for the ancient version of the contemporary gbig bang theory. h atlantis, as a symbol for a lost paradise, represented a kind of cataclysm of all cataclysms that brought about the beginning of all time. 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 222 places of mystery and power floorbed of atlantis (archives of brad steiger) the discouraging theories of the skeptical do little to diminish the enthusiasm of those who earnestly believe in the physic

ding to which of the many arthurian tales is being read. some sources suggest avalon lies off the coast of great britain, or gacross the sea, h a term some have interpreted as the atlantic ocean, with avalon possibly being the island of greenland or a location in north america. geoffrey likely took the name from gavallon, h a celtic term equivalent to gapple place. h celtic myths had identified a paradise in terms that translate to an gisland of apples. h the old welsh language, where the word gavallach h referred to a mythical island, is another possible source. arran, an island off the coast of scotland, has been considered a possible model for avalon. the name arran derived from gemhain of the apple trees. h another popular claim for the site of avalon is glastonbury, a longtime apple-g

nancial straits fell on great britain did the king allow raleigh a second chance. raleigh fs 1618 expedition battled the spanish, and raleigh fs son died in battle. when raleigh returned to england empty-handed, he was jailed again, tried in secret, and executed on the 1603 treason charge. the term gel dorado h became part of renaissance-era english culture; john milton (1608.1674) wrote of it in paradise lost, and william shakespeare (1564.1616) mentioned the headless warriors in othello. el dorado has become synonymous with a place of fabulous wealth or inordinately great opportunity. accepted theory holds that el dorado existed only in the minds of the europeans who were eager to discover the quickest path to riches. m delving deeper gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends

tion writers. jules verne (1828. 1905) published journey to the center of the earth (1864, in which characters enter the earth fs interior through the chimney of an inactive volcano in iceland. in 1873, the coming race, a novel by the occultist edward bulwer-lytton (1831.1891, was set in the earth fs interior, where an advanced civilization of giants thrived. in this story, the giants had built a paradise and discovered a form of energy so powerful that they outlawed its use as a potential weapon. the paradise is threatened, nevertheless; not by weapons, but by a lack of conflict that has resulted in general boredom. one of the more interesting variations on the hollow earth theory during the late nineteenth century was expounded by cyrus read teed (1830.1908. in the cellular cosmogony, or

israel, a holy city to three of the world fs great religions.judaism, christianity, and islam. before muslims underwent pilgrimages to mecca, the most venerated holy place in all of islam was the dome of the rock, a magnificent mosque built over the sacred rock where abraham prepared to sacrifice his son isaac to the lord and where the prophet muhammad (c. 570.632) is believed to have ascended to paradise. for the jews, jerusalem is the site of king david fs (d. 932 b.c.e) ancient capital of judea and a massive wall, called the gwailing wall, h which is all that remains of the great temple that was destroyed by the romans in 70 c.e. christian pilgrims revere the city as the place where jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) was crucified and is believed to have risen from the dead, and for more tha

r religions. he ordered that the church of the holy sepulchre be respected as a christian place of worship and forbade it to be converted into a mosque. when he was taken to the temple mount, he was shocked to discover that the holy rock where abraham had taken isaac to be sacrificed, the place that had held the ark of the covenant in solomon fs temple, and the spot where muhammad had ascended to paradise, lay exposed to the elements. after the area had 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 244 places of mystery and power jerusalem is the holy city to three of the world fs great religions.judaism, christianity, and islam. been purified by prayers and a rainfall, the caliph ordered the dome of the rock to be built to shelter the sacred roc

ce, but its renown spread and has been sustained through mysticism. science has since discounted the land bridge and lost continent theories, and evidence of early humans was found during the twentieth century in africa. james churchward (1832.1936) was among the first mystics to promote lemuria as the lost continent of an advanced human race. beginning in the 1870s, churchward said lemuria was a paradise of 64 million people, and that it was destroyed around 10,000 b.c.e. according to churchward, lemurians developed homes with transparent roofs, lived to be hundreds of years old, and were capable of telepathy, astral travel, and teleportation. lemuria, according to churchward, was about 5,000 miles long and 3,000 miles wide and stretched to the pacific ocean, where islands of the present

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

regard which the members of the old religion had for the sabbath is set forth by de lancre, the frenchinquisitor, who was sent to exterminate the cult in the pays de labourd. like all christians he called thesepeople "witches, but at least he gives the very words they used. he examined two young women, one agedtwenty-nine, the other twenty-eight. the former[42] said that "the sabbath was the true paradise, wherethere was more joy than could be expressed. those who went there found the time too short because of thepleasure and happiness they enjoyed, so that they left with infinite regret and longed for the time when theycould go again" the other young woman,[41] whom de lancre appreciated as being very beautiful,"deposed that she had a singular pleasure in going to the sabbath, because the

argaret. in the god of the witcheschapter iv. the rites38sweden[26] the converts had to make an oath of fidelity on the occasion of the baptism "he caused them tobe baptised by such priests as he had there, and made them confirm their baptism with dreadful oaths andimprecations. the "oaths and imprecations" are recorded by boguet[27] in a more reasonable manner "hemakes them give up their part in paradise [i.e. the christian heaven "and makes them promise that they willhold him as their sole master for ever, and that they will always be faithful to him. above all, he makes themswear very solemnly that they will never accuse one another, nor report anything which has passed amongthem. in new england[28] baptism is recorded as being practised regularly. mary osgood said that "she wasbaptised

evidence in terms which show that there was collusion.when the examination was over and prelati was about to depart, gilles turned to him and said with tears,"farewell, fran347ois, my friend, nevermore shall we meet in this world. i pray god that he will give us goodpatience and knowledge, and we may be certain that if you have good patience and trust in god we shall meetagain in the great joy of paradise. and i will pray for you".at the end of the trial gilles was excommunicated for the second time as a heretic and apostate, and wasrelinquished to the secular court presided over by pierre de l'hospital. as gilles merely repeated the bogusconfession which he had already made before the ecclesiastical court, there was nothing for the secular courtto do but pronounce sentence of death. his t

telling them that they should not fear the death of this world, which was but a littlepassing over without which one could not see god in his glory; that they ought greatly to desire to be out ofthis world, where there was nothing but misery, in order to go into everlasting glory; and that so doing, assoon as their souls were separated from their bodies, they would meet again in glory with god in paradise.henriet and poitou thanked gilles, saying that the death of this world was very pleasant because of the greatdesire and confidence that they had in the mercy of god and of going to paradise with their master. gillesthen knelt and prayed, commending. himself to st. james and st. michael, especially imploring st. michaelto receive and present his soul to god. then true to his promise to set

is own condemnation he confessed to aseries of child-murders which, to anyone who knows the conditions of the country and the period, are absurdand impossible. the evidence offered in proof of the murders was puerile in the extreme, but his bogusconfession answered its purpose; gilles wished to die and he attained his end. his undoubting faith that hewould go straight to heaven and the promise of paradise and everlasting glory which he made to hisfellow-sufferers are not the mental attitude of an inhuman murderer, but are entirely in keeping with hischaracter as god incarnate.viewed in the light of a pagan religion the characters and deaths of rufus, becket, joan and gilles arereasonable and consistent. in each of them the dying god was incarnate; rufus died as the actual king, theother th

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

imitated by human genius, divining the forms of nature. every day has furnished a new revelation, every new king of the world has been for a day the image and the incarnation of god! sublime dream which explains the mysteries of india, and justifies all symbolisms! the lofty conception of the man-god corresponds to the creation of adam, and christianity, like the first days of man in the earthly paradise, has been only an aspiration and a widowhood. we wait for the worship of the bride and of the mother; we shall aspire to the wedding of the new covenant. then the poor, the blind, the outlaws of the old world will be invited to the feast, and will receive a wedding garment. they will gaze the one upon the other with inexpressible tenderness and a smile that is ineffable because they have

he prophet of god, when he causes us to believe in god. the old testament, the qur'an, and the gospel are three different translations of the same book. as god is one, so also is the law. o ideal woman! o reward of the elect! art thou more beautiful than mary? o mary, daughter of the east! caste as pure love, great as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the children of islam the mysteries of paradise, and the secrets of beauty! invite them to the festival of the new alliance! there, upon three thrones glittering with precious stones, three prophets will be seated. 54 the tuba tree will make, with its back-curving branches, a dais for the celestial table. the bride will be white as the moon, and scarlet as the smile of morning. all nations shall press forward to see her, and they will

ns her eyes, her pupils expand; she is terrifying "what do you see "i should not know how to say it. oh for pity's sake awaken me" 124 "no, look, and say what you see "i see a black night in which whirl sparks of every colour around two great ever-rolling eyes. from these eyes leap rays whose spiral whorls fill space. ho, it hurts me! wake me "no, look "where do you wish me to look now "look into paradise "no, i cannot climb there; the great night pushes me back, i always fall back "very well then, look into hell" here the sleep-waker became convulsively agitated "no, no" she cried sobbing "i will not! i shall be giddy; i should fall! oh, hold me back! hold me back "no, descend "where do you want me to descend "into hell "but it is horrible! no! no! i will not go there "go there "mercy "go

you have not yet lived. what you have been taking for life is but the hallucinations and the dreams of the first slumber of death! all great criminals have hallucinated themselves on purpose; and those who hallucinate themselves on purpose may be fatally led to become great criminals. our personal light specialized, brought forth, determined by our own overmastering affection, is the germ of our paradise or of our hell. each one of us (in a sense) conceives, bears, and nourishes his good or evil angel. the conception of truth gives birth in us to the good genius; intentional untruth hatches and brings up nightmares and phantoms. everyone must nourish his children; and our life consumes itself for the sake of our thoughts. happy are those who find again immortality in the creations of thei

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

gh we agree about the appearance of things. we are unable to understand one another with our attributes or our will to receive, because we only grow farther from each other. we can understand each other only by the attributes of the creator that we attain in spiritual degrees. the first man was created with nothing but altruistic desires, meaning vessels of bestowal. he tended to all the trees in paradise because he could use all his altruistic desires. if so, then how could he have corrected his egoistic desires (vessels of reception, if he didn t have them, or to be more accurate, if he didn t feel them inside him? the sin of the first man was premeditated. he had to sin, to taste off the tree of knowledge and mingle with the egoistic desires (vessels of reception) in order to 16 of 273

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

e, who will ask them for his use, and employ them for the confirmation and establishment of his kingdom. we ought therefore here to observe well, and make it known unto everyone, that god hath certainly and most assuredly concluded to send and grant to the world before her end, which presently thereupon shall ensue, such a truth, light, life, and glory, as the first man adam had, which he lost in paradise, after which his successors were put and driven, with him, to misery. wherefore there shall cease all servitude, falsehood, lies, and darkness, which by little and little, with the great world s revolution, was crept into all arts, works, and governments of men, and have darkened the most part of them. for form thence are proceeded an innumerable sort of all manner of false opinions and h

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

loed fowl strumming dithyrambs on a harp, or the mere doppelganger of the living; but that inner power of good and evil which lies latent in self, controlled by that intuitive consciousness within us, and manifested in our appetites and desires; this intangible soul aspiring upwards is called virtue, sinking downwards vice; finding infinity in the conceptions of nether and upper, heaven and hell, paradise and gehenna; and finality on earth. its sporting ground. further poe states: that an epic was of itself a nullity, and that a poem of great length, commencing as it might in exaltation, ended in nine cases out of ten in somnolence. poetry must stimulate, it must irritate the soul in some definite manner, or else it ceases to be poetry. for when once poetry exerts a soporific power its who

when i am dead remember me for this that i bade workers work, and lovers kiss; laughed with the stoic at the dream of pain, and preached with jesus the evangel.bliss *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, pp. 109-112 (the metre though not the cadence is that of glaus veneris. h) whilst such lines as the following in the second poem also remind us of the astronomer poet: o thou, zelator of this paradise, tell thou the secret of f the pillar! none can hear thee, of the souls beneath the sun. speak! or the very godhead in thee dies. for we are many, and thy name is one *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 191. before we leave the glowing east, one more curious similarity still strikes us, it is that though in so many ways the ideas of aleister crowley are akin to those of omar khayyam

end my clothing for the temple veil; my heart fs black night must act the sun fs eclipse; my groans must play the earthquake c*2. still as i journey through the waste, i see a silver figure more divine arise; the christ usurps the horizon for me, and he requickens the forgotten skies; his golden locks are burning on my eyes, and he with rosy finger points the way, the blood-wrought mystic path of paradise, that leads at last through yonder icy spray of death to the blue vault of the undying day.*3 *1. aceldama, vol. i, p. 6 *2. songs of the spirit, vol. i, p. 30 *3. ibid. vol. i, p. 40. in the last verse of ga spring snow storm in wastdale, h*1. there grows a wavering doubt, which leaps out furiously in the gpreliminary invocation h in gjephthah, h addressed to a.c.s, breaking the shackles

lements of war; the former ever as some leprous brach licking at her heels; the latter a halo of sainthood to be cast o fer the skull of the timecleansed skeleton, which was once a spongy mass of wriggling larvae. during his life the thief stole, he lied, and he cheated; pursued, he was caught, judged, and nailed to a cross, and in death alone was he promised the subconscious longing of his life. paradise. this duality of virtue and vice has rent the world, as with a sword, and her garment has been torn asunder. some say hthis is mine! h others hthat is mine! h and so the quarrel rages. yet will they not unite? for the blending of virtue and vice means the loss of some supposed comfort, and comfort is the god of man fs heart, the vampire which sucks its life from his shrivelling soul. in l

g not of its subtle machinery. for a man becoming as a child, may, like that child which he has become, play with that loaded weapon, nurse that loaded weapon, go to bed with that loaded weapon, expecting nothing of so innocent a toy; and then one day as he presses his fetish fondly to his heart, there is a deafening crash; and that child who was once a man, flashes up through the golden gates of paradise, or is hurled headlong down to hell. he may become spontaneously, in the twinkling of an eye, a st. francis preaching to his little sisters the birds, or egg-nogg who persists in a state of abnormal flatulency, because he considers himself identical with a bottle of ginger-beer. the state of illumination above mentioned is by no means an easy one to attain to, and the study of philosophy

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

ot less than nine brethren been utterly cast out thereby. there are also vain loves, as that of ixion for hera, of actaeon for artemis. consider of this. vii of certain greek rites among the peoples of the balkan peninsula and especially the greeks, beneath the bush of their false christianity, is hidden the wheat of demeter. and even as the muslim trust to be united by death to the hur al ayn of paradise, so do these others yet think that earthly marriage is but fornication, for that death is a nuptial wherein the soul is united to that god or goddess to whom on earth his lust aspired. thus, even in the embraces of their lovers, their hearts were fixed on artemis or on aphrodite or on ares or on apollo, as the inner tendency urges and the intuition thereof proclaims. consider of this. vii

66. there are no rituals for these grades. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael/my..20secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/note66.html [12/28/2001 2:05:27 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part three the secret instructions of the seventh, eight and ninth degrees66* weave the circle round him thrice and close your eyes with holy dread; for he on honey-dew hath fed. and drunk the milk of paradise. agape vel liber c vel azoth sal philosophorum the book of the unveiling of the sangraal wherein it is spoken of the wine of the sabbath of the adepts being the secret instruction of the ninth degree* the sun is the wine and the moon is the cup. pour the sun into the moon. hafiz* preliminary prayer from thine hand, o lord, cometh all good; from thee flow down all grace and blessing. the c

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

s. 23:40 but the other answering rebuked him, saying, dost not thou fear god, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? 23:41 and we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. 23:42 and he said unto jesus, lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 23:43 and jesus said unto him, verily i say unto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in paradise. 23:44 and it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. 23:45 and the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. 23:46 and when jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, father, into thy hands i commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. 23:47 now when the centurion saw what was done, he glori

or me doubtless to glory. i will come to visions and revelations of the lord. 12:2 i knew a man in christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, i cannot tell; or whether out of the body, i cannot tell: god knoweth) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 12:3 and i knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, i cannot tell: god knoweth) 12:4 how that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 12:5 of such an one will i glory: yet of myself i will not glory, but in mine infirmities. 12:6 for though i would desire to glory, i shall not be a fool; for i will say the truth: but [now] i forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me [to be] or [that] he heareth of me. 12:7 and lest i sho

ent, and do the first works; or else i will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. 2:6 but this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the nicolaitanes, which i also hate. 2:7 he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches; to him that overcometh will i give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of god. 2:8 and unto the angel of the church in smyrna write; these things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; 2:9 i know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty (but thou art rich) and [i know] the blasphemy of them which say they are jews, and are not, but [are] the synagogue of satan. 2:10 fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shal

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

le each to other, wrought by a wise man, to the bringing forth of such effects as are wonderful to those that know not their causes. 3 in all these, zoroaster was well learned, especially in the first and highest: for in his oracles he confesseth god to be the first and the highest; he believeth of the trinity, which he would not investigate by any natural knowledge: he speaketh of angels, and of paradise; approveth the immortality of the soul; teacheth truth, faith, hope, and love, discoursing of the abstinence and charity of the magi. of this zoroaster, eusebius in the theology of the phoenicians, using zoroaster s own words: h c ad verbum scribit (saith eusebius) deus primus, incorruptibilium, sempiternus, ingenitus, expers partium sibi ipsi simillimus, bonorum omnium auriga, munera non

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

reat cat attached to the tail of his or her shirt, and that afterwards they danced naked; that this master leonard, taking the form of a black fox, hummed at the beginning a word ill articulated, after which they were all silent. some of the witches examined spoke of the delight with which they attended the sabbath. jeanne dibasson, a woman twentynine years old, said that the sabbath was the true paradise, where there was far more pleasure than can be expressed; that those who went there found the time so short by reason of the pleasure and enjoyment, that they never left it without marvelous regret, so that they looked forward with infinite impatience to the next meeting. marie de la ralde, a very handsome woman twenty-eight years of age, who had then abandoned her connection with the dev

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

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

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 before they go to

cended into hell to free all the souls who had been imprisoned there since the fall from grace of adam. after shattering the gate of brass and bars of iron that closed the entrance to hell, jesus caused the chains to fall off those languishing in hell and led them up to heaven, where they encountered two others who had ascended in the flesh. chapter four: religious bilocation 53 thus he went into paradise holding our forefather adam by the hand, and he handed him over and all the righteous to michael the archangel. and as they were entering the gate of paradise, two old men met them. the holy fathers asked them "who are you, who have not seen death nor gone down into hades, but dwell in paradise with your bodies and souls" one of them answered "i am enoch, who pleased god and was removed h

hese contemplations; it is that darkness spoken of in scripture, job xxviii. 9 'and thick darkness a swaddling band for it" 16. chokmah to chesed hebrew letter: vau tarot trump: v the hierophant correspondence: taurus "the sixteenth path is the triumphal or eternal intelligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the glory, beyond which is no other glory like to it, and it is called also the paradise prepared for the righteous" 17. binah to tiphareth hebrew letter: zayin tarot trump: vi the lovers correspondence: gemini chapter thirteen: pathworking 235 "the seventeenth path is the disposing intelligence, which provides faith to the righteous, and they are clothed with the holy spirit by it, and it is called the foundation of excellence in the state of higher things" 18. binah to gebu

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

le plane-the fourth may or may not occupy that plane. into the divine realm of certainty, the fourth factor introduces doubt, thereby contaminating it and rendering it profane. yet it is precisely this element of uncertainty that permits choice and human free will. four is the number of the real world of human misery, and human potential, into which the human race fell when it was cast forth from paradise. the dynamic interrelationship of three and four was a central puzzle of medieval alchemy. one of the foremost authorities on this subject, the psychiatrist carl jung, writes "the number three is not a natural expression of wholeness, since four represents the minimum number of determinants in a whole judgement. it must nevertheless be stressed that side by side with the distinct leanings

the hebrew tetragrammaton, and that the worship of the decade has simply been invented in honour of the ten sephiroth. the four letters composing this name represent the four fundamental constituents of the body (i.e, heat, cold, dryness and humidity, the four geometrical principal points (i.e, the point, the line, flat and body, the four notes of the musical scale, the four rivers in the earthly paradise, the four symbolical figures in the vision of ezekiel &c &c &c. moreover if we look at these four letters separately we shall find that each of them has equally a recondite meaning. the first letter, which also stands for the number ten, and which by its form reminds us of the mathematical point, teaches us that god is the beginning and end of all things. the number five, expressed by 7 t

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

n the event which is called the fall of man, though the particular expression is unknown in scripture. by the hypothesis, the "fatal consequences" which followed would have reached their time on mount sinai, but the israelites, when left to themselves in the wilderness "sat down to eat and rose up to play" that which is concealed in the evasion of the last words corresponds to the state of eve in paradise, when, she had become infected by the serpent. to sum up as regards the sources, the lost word in masonry is derived from a kabalistic thesis of imperfection in the divine name jehovah, by which the true pronunciation- that is to say, the true meaning- is lost. it was the life of the house of doctrine, represented by the temple planned of old in israel. the master-builder is the spirit, s

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

reincarnations and of karma. upon the wheel appears the mystery of the sphinx grasping the flaming sword between its lion s paws. this is the wheel of antithesis. the serpent of brass that healed the israelites in the wilderness and the terrible tempting serpent of eden are mutually combating each other. the entire secret of the tree of knowledge is enclosed within this wheel; the four rivers of paradise flow from this unique fountain, one of them runs through the thick jungle of the sun watering the philosophical earth of gold and light and the other circulates tenebrously and turbulently into the kingdom of the abyss. light and darkness, white magic and black magic are mutually combating each other. eros and anteros, cain and abel live within us in an intense battle, until by discoverin

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

er. six hundred seventy-one is also the number of the gate (throa) which is an aramaic title of malkuth. daath is also a gate, the true threshold to higher consciousness. actually, as william gray notes, there is not really a difference between malkuth and daath, since daath was malkuth before the fall. thus, daath continues to be malkuth after it has been perfected through experience. then it is paradise regained, and we can see a numerical equivalent here because paradise in the greek also has a value of 671. another interesting association in this regard is that 121, the number of cells in this kamea, also is the value "of whirling motions (crowley, which refers to kether. this is the qabalistic term for the sum-total of the manifestation of the cosmic forces, which have their beginning

o not 121: chzqv, chezka: be strong 671: sum of any line 671: thora, the law 671: throa, the gate 671: rota("for our rota takes her beginning from that day when god spake fiat" fama fraternatis) 671: taro 671: asthir: i will hide 671: gbvrthkm, geburathekem: intelligence 671: vbabnim, vo-baehbanim: spirits 671: artz mtzrim, eretz mizraim: land of egypt 671: ovshh pri, osh periy: fruitbearing 671: paradise in greek. 7381: theosophic extension of kamea 7381: 7381=9=10=the one chapter 13 personal talismans of the name there is an alternate method of talisman-making utilizing the tattwa elements and some symbolism from the tarot that we have touched upon.here i would like to explain it in more detail. it is a very simple but powerful technique that can lend itself to an almost infinite variety

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

those who attended these meetings he dismisses in the following way (page 131 'some were perhaps dissipated perverts and had shame or guilty pride; some were just members of a primitive stock, already disappearing, but still following the ways of their fathers, knowing the church disapproved yet finding physical and psychological satisfaction. some were ecstatic "the sabbat" said one "is the true paradise' mr. hughes does not say why he thinks they should have given up their own rites, which were made for a definite purpose and which produced definite results simply to parody those of an alien faith. i have attended many of these cult rites, and i declare that most of what he says is simply not true. there may be a fertility dance, but the other rites are simple, and with a purpose, and in

the church disapproves of their practices, but finding physical and psychological satisfaction. and cannot the same be said of the buddhists or shintoists? they have ancient, and to them good rites, and they are not in the least concerned if others disapprove. all that matters to them is, are they on the path? i have learnt tolerance in the many years i spent in the east and if anyone finds true paradise in the buddhist rites, the sabbat, or the mass, i am well content. if i were permitted to disclose all their rituals, i think it would be easy to prove that witches are not diabolists; but the oaths are solemn and the witches are my friends. i would not hurt their feelings. they have secrets which to them are sacred. they have good reason for this secrecy. i am, however, permitted to give

start in the east when forming the circle, and the representative of the god or goddess usually stands in the east. this may simply be because the sun and moon rise in the east, because of the position of the altar, or for some unknown reason, since actually the main invocations are towards the north. i have been given no reason for this; but i have an idea that in the old days they thought their paradise lay in the north, as they hold that the northern lights are the lights of their paradise, though this is usually thought of as being underground, or in a hollow hill. it is worth noting, too, that scandinavian mythology makes the north the dwelling-place of the gods, and that in gaelic myth the south, often camouflaged as 'spain, is evil or hell. presumably, therefore, its opposite, the n

lay in the north, as they hold that the northern lights are the lights of their paradise, though this is usually thought of as being underground, or in a hollow hill. it is worth noting, too, that scandinavian mythology makes the north the dwelling-place of the gods, and that in gaelic myth the south, often camouflaged as 'spain, is evil or hell. presumably, therefore, its opposite, the north, is paradise. i have seen one very interesting ceremony: the cauldron of regeneration and the dance of the wheel, or yule, to cause the sun to be reborn, or summer to return. this in theory should be on december 22, but nowadays it is held on the nearest day to that date that is convenient for the members. the ceremony starts in the usual way. the circle is cast and purified, the celebrants also being

he moon and stars all seem to have been reverenced as female emblems. so the myth of the great mother came into existence and woman was her priestess. probably at the same time the men had a hunter's god, who presided over the animals. later, perhaps, came the idea of a future life and thoughts of the next world as being an unhappy place unless you could attain to the abode of the gods, a sort of paradise. this was thought of as a place cf rest and refreshment where one would grow young again ready for reincarnation on earth. primitive man feared to be born again outside his own tribe, so his ritual prayers to his god were that he might be born again in the same place and at the same time as his loved ones, and that he might remember and love them again. the god who rules this paradise mus

nd: by this they not only mean the life in the next world but resurrection (or reincarnation. he rules a sort of happy hunting ground, where ordinary folk go and forgather with like-minded people; it may be pleasant or unpleasant according to your nature. according to your merits you may be reincarnated in time, and take your chance where and among whom this takes place; but the god has a special paradise for his worshippers, who have conditioned their bodies and natures on earth, who enjoy special advantages and are prepared more swiftly for reincarnation which is done by the power of the goddess in such circumstances as to ensure that you will be reborn into your own tribe again. this is taken nowadays to mean into witch circles. it would seem to involve an unending series of reincarnati

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

would turn protestant' i can very well imagine that perhaps in king john's time, when all england was under interdict- when, as the immortal smith minor said 'the pope made a law that no one might be born, get married or die, for the space of ten years- then many moderately good christians, deprived of religious consolation, might easily have turned to the rival religion. after all, the witches' paradise is very attractive to the ordinary man. similar causes on the continent may have brought numerous converts to the cult and these may have brought in new ideas. possibly the great god, the protector, the giver of rest and peace, slowly came to be thought of only in his function as god of death and so became more or less identified with the devil. it is difficult to know exactly what happen

s; we have always done these things so as to reap a good harvest' in many cases it was the parish priest who had led the fertility rites, and the people said they had not been told it was wrong; in fact the priest said it was right. at first only penances and fines were imposed, but as the church grew stronger torture and fire were used. the old religion made one great mistake. it had stated that paradise was reserved for the initiates; that the ordinary folk when they died went to a kind of spiritualist heaven, a happy hunting-ground: but it was one where they had to work, as only initiates could obtain the required learning which took them to a paradise where they were rested and refreshed, till they were ready to be reincarnated on earth again. christianity at first promised what has be

letters of the following sentence written backwards: templi omnium hominum pacis abbas: the father of the temple of universal peace among men. now could this word have been coined to represent the consoler, the the comforter, the giver of peace, death and what lies beyond? many writers say that the journey to the grail castle really depicted the journey of the soul through the underworld to reach paradise, and that this is made very clear by various exhibitions which are given to the hero whenever he cannot understand certain incidents (see the high history of the holy grail; also j.s.m. ward, the hung society, for full details) now this secret castle was said to be in a far land and to belong to the templars. to reach it you had to undergo trials or to ask certain questions, know certain

this head is your god and your mahomet' and said that he worshipped it by kissing its feet. there seems to have been no questions asked as to how you can kiss a skull's feet. can it perhaps be explained by some rite resembling the following witch practice: in the old days it was said that 'when the god was not present, he was represented by a skull and crossbones('death and what lies beyond, or 'paradise and regeneration. nowadays this is symbolised by the high priestess, standing with her arms crossed to represent the skull and crossbones. the worshipper kisses her feet, saying a sort of prayer beginning 'blessed be" and the intention following is that indicated by jaffet and the others, the words not being exactly the same, as it is very unlikely that they would be: probably he spoke in

lp us to higher things. thus the gods teach us to look forward to the time when we be not men any more, when we become one with the mighty ones 'ours is a religion of love, pleasure and excitement. frail human nature needs a little warmth and comfort, to relieve us from the hardness and misery of life and from the cold austerity of the church's preaching- comfort on earth, not in some far-distant paradise beyond the grave 'we worship the divine spirit of creation, which is the life-spring of the world and without which the world would perish. to us it is the most sacred and holy mystery, proof that god is within us whose command is "go forth and multiply" such rites are done in a holy and reverent way' another said "we ever pick out those who have a little inherent power and teach them, an

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egyptian better a neighbor over the wall than a brother over the sea. albanian choose the neighbor before the house and the companion before the road. moorish argument is the worst sort of conversation. jonathan swift without conversation there is no agreement. montenegrin yes and no make a long quarrel. icelandic faults are thick where love is thin. welsh the faultfinder will find faults even in paradise. henry thoreau real progress is made not by the loud, ostentatious, push majorities, but always by small and obstinate minorities. henryk skolimowski nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor s noisy party than being there. franklin jones whether women are better than men i cannot say but i can say they are certainly no worse. golda meir love does not consist in gazing at each other b

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h eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it is not every man who deserves to have two tables. this meant that very few deserve to have the best of the next life, as well as the good things to come. there are two important things. first, that one s bed should be placed north to south and that one should pray in front of his bed. there are two ways before a man, one leads to paradise and one to gai-hinnom, the place of punishment. there are only two jewish laws, the written law of moses, and the oral law of the qabalah. every jew who goes from the synagogue to his house on the eve of the sabbath is accompanied by two angels, one good and one bad, and if the house is all in order the good angel confirms a blessing, but if it be in disorder, the good angel has to say am

oncerning the triad and many are very curious. the ancient hebrews said there are three night watches, in the first the ass brays, in the second the dog barks, in the third the mother suckles her infant and converses with her husband. he who three times daily repeats the 114th psalm is sure of future happiness. three precious gifts were given to the jews; the law of moses, the land of israel, and paradise. in three sorts of dream there is truth. the last dream of the morning, the dream which is also dreamed by a neighbor and a dream twice repeated. 45. three things calm a man; melody, scenery and sweet scent. and three things improve a man; a fine house, a handsome wife and good furniture. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott he who is born on the thir

referred to in psalm cvii. four men have died from original sin, the work of the serpent, for they themselves did no ill; benjamin, amram, the father of moses, jesse, the father of david, and chilah the son of david. sabbat 55. 2. at the end of the passion fast every hebrew should drink 4 glasses of wine, even if the price robs him of other necessaries. the talmud says that only 4 men had entered paradise (pardes, the garden of holiness; this meant the state of supernal communion with god, the beatific vision, by profound abstraction of mind. these were the rabbis ben azai, ben zoma, asher and akiba. 56. the tractate yoma says god will pardon a man three times for a sin, but the fourth occasion is fatal. the jewish sanhedrin had power to order 4 sorts of death penalty; by stoning, beheadin

seven classes of angels and are as follows: numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 1. ishim. 2. arelim. 3. chashmalim. 4. melakim. 5. auphanim. 6. serpahim. 7. kerubim. the judaic hell was seven names by the kabalists. they are sheol, abaddon, tihahion, bar shacheth, tzelmuth, shaari muth and gehinnom. seven things were formed before the world. law, repentance, paradise, gehenna (that is gai hinnom, the throne of glory, and the messiah. the targum yerushalmi says these were formed 2000 years before the world s creation. talmud, pesachim, 54. i. seven things were hidden from man. the day of death, the time of the resurrection, the final judgment, the opinion of his fellow-man, the time of jewish restoration and the fall of persia (whatever that may mean

s of the jews were both destroyed on the 9th day of the jewish month ab. on the 9th day of ab, modern jews do not wear the talith and phylacteries until evening. the day should be spent in tears, and no good comes of work done on that day. the talmud in soteh, 20. i, says that a woman prefers one measure of fun to 9 of pharisaic professional goodness. nine persons have entered alive into the jews paradise; enoch, elijah, messiah, eliezer the servant of abraham, hiram, king of tyre, ebed melek the ethiop, jabez the son of jehuda the prince, bathia daughter of pharaoh, and sarah the daughter of asher. some rabbis add rabbi yoshua son of levi, but he entered not at the door, but climbed over the wall. see kethuboth, 7. 2. in the 145th psalm, we find 9 reasons for praising god. numbers--th eir

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